skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I don't have any experience on the subject, I did recently see an article about using HTML5 to make an offline compatible iPhone game: http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/html5-iphone-app/

And here's another article from IBM about offline web/mobile apps in a more general sense: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-offlineweb/...

Hopefully these can help you out in some way!
@jjm... Most of the registrations are from US, Europe and Australia. We have roughly 50 students from India.

Course content was developed after we did a survey. You can see the survey here: http://chandoo.org/wp/2011/04/18/online-vba-classes-survey/
Well, if you used microdata, you have an easy migration path, and if you used some other syntax, you don't. You can call that whatever you like, but it doesn't change the facts.
Chad Orzel, an experimental physicist, has a pretty good explanation of this experiment (including the paper figures!) up on his blog: http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2011/06/watching_photons_...
I feel it can be very useful. How does it differentiate with MongoDB, CouchDB etc?
Why did you use port I/O instead of int 13h?
Ask HN: review my game, Tapper
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tapper/id425996103?mt=8&ls=1

Tapper is a very simple game, and i'd like a honest opinion from you, the game price is 0.99$ but for now it's free. I'd really like your opinion on how to make this better. If you have any question, just ask.

Thanks HN
Actually, the python version has about 328 lines of code, while the scala version has about 216 lines of code. You should visit the Google project page and use something like cloc to analyze the files:

http://code.google.com/p/multi-language-bench/

http://cloc.sourceforge.net/

I confess that I do not know a lot about Scala, but it looks like some of the functional aspects of the language allow for some savings in lines of code.

If I had the time right now, I doubt that it would be too difficult to shrink the python version a bit. Just taking a glance at it, I don't see a single list comprehension throughout their code. I am sure there are some other language features that could probably have been better leveraged as well.

Just out of curiosity, where did you get the 626 loc and the 297 loc from - I tried looking but I can't find it anywhere. Though that could just be a product of my lack of sleep right now.
Mind explaining why? I don't really need yet another account.
I'm no developer but I recently watched the ForPlay speech at Google I/O and it sounded promising:

http://code.google.com/p/forplay/

ForPlay is a cross-platform game abstraction library for writing games that compile to:

Desktop Java

HTML5 Browsers

Android

Flash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_sbusEUz5w
Bitcoin: Taleb’s Thanksgiving Turkey?
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It was debunked by some of the top minds in the world (e.g. Terry Tao), though the author's webpage states that it's under journal review.

Here's the "official" debunking summary on PolyMath:

http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=Deolalik...

If you want to read some of the discussions, a good place to start is RJ Lipton's blog and the comments there:

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/fatal-flaws-in-deol...

There were also a few HN posts, e.g.:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1600068
Actually MS directly addressed the horsepower aspect. Remember they're going to have this running on ARM. I've used Win7 for consumption scenarios on a $250 netbook - worked like a champ.
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These parts suggest the author doesn't understand it that well:

--
I can't speak to the economic implications of limiting # of bitcoins
to only 21 million -- it's probably based on the fixed rate of coin
generation and the desire to have it stop by 2016.
---

Bitcoins are generated until 2140.

---
Also, if you are serious about making a currency for the
whole internet, 21 million seems like a few order of magnitude too small due to number of participants.
--

Each coin is made up of 100,000,000 atomic units, so using the bitcoin denomination is arbitrary, and smaller denominations can be used as the value of a bitcoin increases.
Well, if this is the code that is in question:

http://code.google.com/p/multi-language-bench/source/browse/...

No, there are no ctype libraries in there.
Using int 13h is fine for floppies, but when you're using it with hard drives it gets messy -- you have to use the extended versions which are buggy as hell. Much easier to just do it directly, and it doesn't take up much more space (if at all).
If you're looking for a 3D development platform, give http://unity3d.com/ a look. Been developing a 3D web/smart phone game for the last year. I've also seen people do some creative 2D games on that platform as well.
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It would cool if you could style the whole UI with CSS.
I'm a little confused about why this is targeted specifically to mobile. I've been looking for a back-end only CMS for years now. Originally, I didn't mind just having my front-end share a database with my CMS, but it would be even better if it used a RESTful API like you've got here.

Maybe I'm missing something? The closest thing I've found to what I'm looking for is: http://www.pureedit.com/ and storageroomapp.com seems very similar (although much better) judging by the Introduction Video.
Pizza cutter handle? If you say so
Isn't that about survival of the fittest? Why use a browser that don't support shit when there is a few that does. Might work for now, but not in the future.
> IIRC, HP patented a similar device a couple years back.

It should be noted that The Man hasn't yet mandated compulsory licensing and implementation of this technology on all camera equipment. Then again, I don't know what the Trilateral Commission's been up to recently, so maybe this technology is already in place.

> "This recording prevention device cannot [be used for good]."

You are wrong. Maybe I can have one of these in my bedroom, so people can't take photographs of me while I'm walking around naked or making sweet love. Maybe abortion providers can have them outside their facilities so that people can't take pictures of people coming in for procedures and being publicly humiliated. I can think of all sorts of uses for this device that might be for the better.

Do I ever want to see such technology deployed? No, because I, like you, think the negatives outweigh the positives, but to suggest that the device has no positive use is to betray a lack of imagination.

Do you really want to suggest that atomic weapons have a moral justification while this technology does not?
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What is this InlinedVector<> they speak of in C++ tuning? Is that a Google specific container or is it in the std library (or some other library)?
OpenID is a PITA to support on the backend. It's another layer that doesn't need to exist. A bunch of providers are doing away with OpenID, like Slicehost, 37signals, etc.

From a UX perspective, I'm not convinced OpenID is any more convenient than a traditional u/p. I use 1Password to manage my logins, it works perfectly. For many other reasons, everyone should be using 1P or some password management program, as well.
Entrepreneurs Are Made, Not Born, Says New Survey
I thought the biggest expenses were the staff and rent. No?

EDIT: OK, maybe not, only estimate I was able to find: http://en.allexperts.com/q/Running-Restaurant-2285/Ideal-res...
Their submarine is homebuilt, so I doubt it will match any Russian Specs...
If you had a start-up in the world of the Simpsons, who would your boss be?
I'm actually reading Accelerando at the moment but somehow totally forgot about the crowd sourcing aspect of the new look CIA.

Investigating further Accelerando was published after Snow Crash by a fair margin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando_%28novel%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_crash
Patent Troll Threatens Twitter
I'm not really a mathematician yet, but I skimmed the paper and the approach seemed reasonable when taken at face value.

Then again, I said the same thing when Penny Smith published her paper on NSE.
So by voting with your wallet and not purchasing an Apple product, you are sending the message that you won't purchase products that don't incorporate technology from patents that you don't like?
We use MongoDB in the backend ourselves. But neither MongoDB nor CouchDB provide a nice interface for editors.

You cannot ask non-technical content editors to edit JSON manually and they don't want to edit content in a technical phpMyAdmin-like interface (believe me, we tried!).

We provide an easy way for an administrator/developer to set up collections for different content types. They can choose between many different basic (strings, integers, ...) and advanced (attachment, image, location) fields and configure how editors can enter the content into the fields (including validations, so that an URL field really contains a valid URL).

Developers can then query the content from their mobile applications on different platforms. In the future we will also provide open-source libraries for iOS/Android to make the integration even easier.
Whoa! So awesome! Congrats!

If i am not mistaken, you are the same Chandoo who started the "All I want to speak about CAT" (the profile pic is unforgettable :P) on pagalguy.com and what a great ritual you have started there.

I am very happy to hear again from you in this grand manner and i wish you the very best for your endeavor and congratulate you again for your success. :)
It would be interesting if you did the necessary optimization and posted your results for a better comparison.
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Create Content by Choosing a Specific Audience
I think the difference is that your clients/end-users don't know how to create/update documents in a database. This makes it easy for them to manage a database of which the developer will query.
China accuses the US of starting the "Internet World War"
Unity is great and possibly the only 3D solution right now, but there are better options for 2D out there for lower cost.
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I would wait for this to be peer-reviewed before getting excited. Especially since Paul Erdős said about the Collatz conjecture: "Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture )
Factor IIRC:

1) 10 [1,b] [ 2 * ] map
2) 1000 [1,b] sum
3) { "scala" "akka" "play framework" "sbt" "typesafe" }
"This is an example tweet talking about scala and sbt."
'[ _ subseq? ] map
4) "data.txt" utf8 file-lines
5) 4 [1,b] [ 3 = [ "you" print ] [ "dear" print ] if ] each
6) { 49 58 76 82 88 90 } [ 60 > ] partition
7) "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?&q=scala" http-get string>xml
8) 100000 sieve :)
HeatCanvas is a heat map for web browser, written with Canvas and WebWorker.
Google has the same thing. Larry, Sergey, Eric all have shares that carry 10x the votes of regular Class A shares so they can still exercise control if their holdings fall below 50%.
You should invest in profit machines, not revenue machines.
We currently focus our marketing efforts on mobile apps, as this is the most obvious use case for us currently.

But actually you can of course use the CMS from wherever you want to. We already have some websites that pull content via the RESTful API. You can even use JSON-P to load content in the browser dynamically from Javascript across domains (think of widgets).

I can also imagine that our system is useful for desktop apps or games.

Please give it a try and report back if it fulfills your requirements.
awesome! thanks for the detailed explanation as well, i wish you all the best
At least we agree this technology should never exist ;-)
From a desktop perspective, video streaming is still a marginally more pleasant experience in Flash than in HTML5 equivalents (random position seeking, full screen controls, quality, etc). It may full well be an individual site's deficient/immature HTML5 implementations, I've never been curious enough to investigate in-depth, but I also have yet to experience a better experience in HTML5 that would create an incentive to seek out those implementations over a Flash version if Flash is presented as the default choice.

Flash file uploaders also tend to be more mature and a little smoother to use in general. I'm sure HTML5 will surpass it soon enough, but at present, it's a use of Flash that I don't mind.

Additionally, I somewhat dread the day when annoying and/or malicious advertising makes the switch. At present, blocking Flash is a stupid simple task, a standards based annoyance has the potential to be much harder to avoid.
Theoretically it should be able to dive to 400 meters though. Pretty impressive for a few guys welding it together themsellves.
Adobe CEO has no beef with Apple,no answer 4 poor Flash perf on Android
It's sort of like COBOL. =)
Hacking GSM Tracking Devices
I've seen some compiled flash air apps that are useful, but we'll just have to disagree on the utility of it in the browser.
And looks like roughly $250k over a year? Not freaking bad! Congrats and thanks for the transparency! You must be feeling great right about now.
The one in the submitted link is the control room, this one is currently footage from the platform. Launch time keeps getting pushed back-- If you're not watching, you haven't missed it yet.

EDIT 10:28 Eastern
They're resuming the countdown in 6 minutes and they are go for launch.
My point was that consumer CCD cameras filter out short-wavelength IR to enhance the image, so how does the Apple patent expect to get around that without removing the filter and making the visible light camera worse?
Actually, Slicehost might not be getting rid of it. Not sure where I got that info.
Congratulations, that's very impressive! VBA seems like it will be around for many years to come, and there is probably good opportunity in and around financial centres (London's Canary Wharf/City, New York's Wall Street) for a financial orientated VBA course.

As far as I know, many mid-office support staff spend their lives writing VBA code to soup up spreadsheets for demanding traders. Sure plenty of them would pay for a head start (or the firms would)
Good book.
Adam from Mythbusters gives it thumbs up: http://ekstrabladet.dk/flash/filmogtv/tv/article1414320.ece (Danish language article)
There's a big difference between private trading of already-issued shares and purchasing newly-issued shares. With the former, you know it's not going back into the company. With the later, the presumption should be that the money is being used to grow the business.

Nearly every investment agreement has a "how will this money be used?" section, and I can't believe a fund would give hundreds of millions of dollars to a company that was explicitly going to be put it to founders' pockets, unless they too are in on the scheme and are hoping for a quick flip.
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We are looking to hire full-time software developers (we are language agnostic) to help us build out our product lines. Join us to help teachers have the tools they need to make sure their young students learn math and reading! If you can do anything, why not do something good?

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Understand regarding parenting. I do that myself. :-)

I do see your point about Sony, and they may in fact be an outlier here. I think I've been accustomed to the story of customer information breaches from large corporations though, and so maybe I'm overly pessimistic?
Moedular Synthesizer made in flash
Okay, that I will buy.
Well the story goes as, the customer didn't get the promised 3G service around his house so he got pissed and started calling Vodafone customer care and soon started leaking off personal details of the Vodafone employees he talked with.

Vodafone even compensated for it and provided him with complementary 2G plan which should have solved the problem. But he kept posting and abusing. He was told to delete all that but he ignored those requests so the case.

Thats all i have read, am not biased or supporting Vodafone just replied to shred some light.

But seems ridiculous to sue a customer over this, eventually this would end up losing a few many customers for Vodafone.
US Dept of Education releases weakened 'gainful employment' rules
If you are using Chrome this extension does the same thing without signing up for anything:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipkfnchcgalnafehpg...

I have been using it for weeks. It does an excellent job and costs nothing.
The 297 loc for scala pro is from the paper that also includes 13 lines of Apache license stuff on the top and 14 lines of comments. The author used "wc -l" to count the LOC, that's not very scientific anyway. The 626 loc for python is also from "wc -l". I looked at the code again and found out it contains a lot of detailed comments and even test cases, so it's not fair to say the python version has 626 loc.

I suspect the author gives it out as a reference implementation.
Can you use this microdata with your own CSS/HTML markup or you can't include your own classes ? i.e. your formats must look identical to these ?
I absolutely 2nd this suggestion! It was really fascinating. There were some dry parts, but mostly I couldn't stop reading (actually, I did the audiobook).
Should I write commit messages - first?
this is what happens when you rely on software
someone else controls

True, but you invariably depend on somebody else to write the software you want.

For the web, you depend on the industry to evolve towards your specific needs. Client-side, you depend on whichever company controls the operating-system of the devices you're trying to target.

I wanted to mention open-source platforms when writing that comment, but in this specific context it isn't really useful, since that's not what .NET developers seek. They want Windows, Visual Studio, commercial support and a unified platform for the web, client and mobile (the promise of .NET), which is insane as there can be no such thing.
This is one of the problems with a sealaunch. Its really hard to get internet connection, much less a broadband connection when youre 30 kilometers from the nearest land.
The idea of the video was to remove Earth rotation from the view. This removal was digitally made.

One of the original videos used in this compilation - with the traditional "sky is moving" feeling - is this one: http://vimeo.com/22439234. It's the best, in my opinion.
Very awesome! To say I'm jealous is an understatement. One small nitpick, I thought the title meant you made $100,000 your first month alone. Congratulations none the less.
How do you find trusted local businesses via your social network?
I think there is a "Are we are in a bubble?" bubble.
Whoops, you're right--I was thinking it was getting returned, rather than output.
First of all, there's no such thing as 18GHz. The GHz don't sum up. It's like saying that if a woman makes a child in 9 months, two women can make a child in 4.5 months. It doesn't work that way.

Moving forward to the actual issue. Something is really broken into your configuration. The first thing is the file AIO. But this is Linux's fault. The file AIO is broken by design. It bypasses the kernel file cache. Which is a pretty large performance hit per se. The second thing is the fact that I can easily get 55k req/s on a Q9400 with nginx, without even touching the sysctl parameters of a Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64. The only actual difference is nginx 1.0.x instead of the ancient 0.7.x you would actually find into the standard repos aka the production version I publish into my company's private repo.
This may be partially true, but it doesn't explain why Flash for Linux and Mac typically can't play back video without stuttering.
Audiobook:
I just finished Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. I highly recommend it if you're into fantasy type novels. It has a unique magic system and is very well written. I've been off and on with War and Peace for a while. Kind of dry so far.

Kindle:
The Law by Frederic Bastiat, extremely good book describing the fundamental purpose of law and government.

Dead Tree:
Essence of Discrete Mathematics by Neville Dean, seems to be pretty good book, just haven't devoted enough time to reading it.
What is Bandwidth
Bandwidth is referred to as the speed of the waves that at which speed the waves are carrying the signals and as well as the information travel speed also depends upon it as well. More precisely it
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The author outlines expenses as about 16% of revenue but I wonder how much the production of the new course material cost? How long did it take to produce? What does the author value their time at? What other previously incurred expenses are not accounted for (i.e. recording equipment or software).
Thinking that WPF/C# can be replaced by HTML/JS is foolish at best.

Why? MS has recently given talks on pretty much that topic: Giorgio Sardo: HTML 5 for Silverlight devs http://channel9.msdn.com/events/MIX/MIX11/HTM14

This is Ui layer only, sure. But that's probably what you meant by "WPF/C#"
Hey matdwyer - definitely works on non-magento based sites! Let me know if you're interested in setting it up and I'll give you a hand.
"With all that said and done... (and with this "good" blog now blocked by both Reddit AND Hacker News) i’m turning to the dark side."

I'm a little confused by that statement. It doesn't seem like it is blocked.
I don't know why you would expect more than shitty comments in response to GiantBatFart's shitty content and reddit spamming. GIGO
That might be the graphics card. We purchased ATI FireGL cards to speed up VS performance and it worked!
I like this plugin a lot better than readability. One major problem with Readability, is that it only works with the most liberal cookie policies, but "Send to Kindle" will show me a beautiful reading screen with my draconian cookie policies untouched.
I understand that's a problem but there's clearly a high-quality stream being broadcast to the people in the room - that we have to watch via a low-quality camera. Can we not just view it directly anywhere?

I mean, if these guys can build a submarine and (hopefully) launch a rocket, I'm pretty sure they can manage a link to a good quality broadcast ;)
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Try to digest the Groupon story
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Google will punish bad spam blogs eventually. But they're also have a tendency to punish good blogs accidentally as well. If the probability of being punished for being good was near zero, I bet there'd be less spammers
Google no longer ranks Google as top Search Engine
Those comments appear to be based on an older version of the page. The current page doesn't have most of those "optimizations."

Edit: And confirmed. See http://web.archive.org/web/20090628004019/http://code.google...
Secret video - what investment bankers think about Silicon Valley IPOs
There seems to have been some negotiation this year also, due to a conflict with a NATO training exercise. In the end they ended up getting permission for a five-day window, according to this Danish article (Google Translate link): http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h...
These guys' attention to detail makes every one else (myself included) look bad. Superb work.
I wonder if in any way Sony regrets suing those who created the PS3 hack after all of this. I know I would. These hacks have cost Sony more money and done more damage than the PS3 hack ever could have dreamed of doing.