skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where latest everything == OS version 3.1 and Flash version 10.3? In that case something else may be going on - can't get it to suck enough to bother me on my 3G Xoom.
I don't think that's true. Find an ordinary user who likes Flash intros on websites, or who likes attention-seeking Flash ads disturbing them while reading an article.

The only thing that Flash is used for that real people (as opposed to marketing twerps) actually like is cheesy little games, and they can be done perfectly well without Flash these days.
iCloud record label deals may cost Apple $150 million
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Read about [Adaptive Optics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_optics) -- The telescope watches the laser beam and corrects for atmospheric distortions.
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Who said that when you release a paper that it needs to look like it came from a text book. I couldn't get past the first page because I felt like I was back in high school.
Esper: a real time Java streaming event engine released GPL2
This is what we used to do with Rails. But the backends were never a priority and ended up being hackish and hard to use for editors, so in the end the devs were editing the content... urg.

Hosting and maintaining those backends hasn't been fun either, in our opinion mobile devs are better off using our service. They get a better solution faster.
I see two potential target groups here. One focuses on the developer and tries to solve the data storage and synchronization procedure. In that field, I'm not sure what the benefits of your solution are. Could you elaborate on how it is different to CouchDB[1] or even Amazon's storage service[2]?

The other market I'm seing targets users of the CMS system, i.e. the people who actually maintain the data. In most data centric projects I've been working on, you could be sure that the client will at some stage ask, how (not whether) he can change the existing data and add datasets after development has finished. This usually involved creating a CRUD user interface, which was tedious and in almost all cases, was never used.

Your front page focuses a lot on the former target group (create general datastructures, update and query them) whereas I think you might be offering more value in the latter group ("see how simple it is to add another recipe into your cooking app"). If you could combine the client's desire to control his money and time investment while making the solution easy to integrate for the developer, that might be good enough.

[1] CouchDB for iOS devices - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2310863

[2] Amazon S3 for iOS: http://aws.amazon.com/sdkforios/faqs/

[3] Earlier discussion on StorageRoom: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1847115
Google Apps Phases Out Support for Older IE, Firefox, Safari Versions
It's not like you won't be able to use .NET - they are just adding IE9 into the equation

Exactly. I write a lot of .net code for work and haven't written a UI in anything other than HTML/JS in a long time. Too many people seem to be reading HTML/JS and thinking entire apps will now have to be written in them, and I just don't that's true.
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Agreed. 9/10 posters are intent on disproving the article in one way or another, rather than actually learning something from it.

"Critiquing articles on HN" likely isn't something they'll look favorably upon years from now.
Google delays Android 3.1 until August. Halts Samsung Galaxy Tab shipments
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For me personally (sharing the sentiment), it's the fact that I'd never before heard of the guy, yet used to (it's gotten a lot better) see HN get bombarded with stories that mention his name in the title (much more often than any other name).

Normally, I'd think that he personally had all those stories posted for vanity, but most of them were not exactly flattering. My next best explanation is that it was intended to build brand recognition for his name. Well, it worked: I recognized the name when I recently saw him on in TV playing Poker...
Excellent new look that reminds us that the Stars are not spinning.

Yes they are.

A reminder that we need to get off this spinning rock asap.

Why?
"But the backends were never a priority and ended up being hackish and hard to use for editors"

This is our main problem, too. I don't have any data from our clients, but I have a feeling that being able to provide a clean, user-friendly, branded back-end would increase participation in content creation quite considerably.
Google Discontinues Support for Older Browsers (IE7, FF 3.5)
Anyone who has worked enterprise in the eastern half of the U.S. knows better than to be worried by this. There are so many mission-critical business applications written in C#, and even VB.net, that the idea of .NET jobs going away in the next 15 years, even if MS were to abandon the product today, is nil.

Where I live I would guess that at least 90% of job postings for programmers are .NET.
I just wanted you to clarify, how you feel about the methods used in the OP?
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Ask HN: Cross platform game development? 
I'm thinking of developing a game that would hopefully work on iPhone, Android, and from a web browser. What type of language or technology could be used? Is something like AppMobi (html5 development for web and mobile platforms) ready for production? What would you suggest? What good or bad experiences have you had with similar projects?
I love seeing installation instructions made simple by Quicklisp.
They're messing with the payload now, which appears to contain a dummy. Is this the platform they're going to send a man to space with?
If you follow their twitter, they are trying to be ironic. They took down some of the irc servers again to be funny the day before.
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And there appears to be a point-n-shoot camera mounted to its head.
Frankly, neither is most stuff we do on the internet...
There is definitely something weird with the performance of VS 2010 - running it side by side on two identical laptops on the same project one was unusable and the other was perfectly OK.
I use more sophisticated algorithms in "higher level" languages because I can implement them in about the same time it takes me to implement less sophisticated algorithms in "lower level" languages.

These are factors not related directly to the language, but level of understanding, time, and money. An experienced C++ programmer can probably implement the 'better' algorithm equally quick in C++.

There's some extra cost to the c version otherwise you'd always do c and never do python.

Not necessarily. In an existing project in a non-C language, the C implementation will require you to write and maintain a binding as well. That could be a good reason to use Python/Ruby/Prolog/whatever by default, unless it's not fast enough.
Thanks. I will check them out.
This is to make sure that everybody gets out on the streets to protest right?

That what seemed to happen in Egypt.
"Know Your Power Persona": a pretty insightful podcast on HBR
Was the title edited? It now says possibly solved, which certainly admits that the proof hasn't been reviewed, much less acclaimed.
Goodbye Animated GIFs, Say Hello to Cinemagraphs
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I'm not very sure that deathbed regrets are a good indication of how to live, or even of what was truly important in people's lives.

Vaguely related, I used to have days when right before falling asleep I had some regrets about the day, like having wasted time.

Nowadays I tell myself to STFU and just go to sleep, because I know that next morning I'll realize how ridiculous and sentimental these kinds of regrets are.

When you die, there is no next morning. I think and hope that when my time comes, the only regret I have will be that there is no next morning.
House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski. Not sure that I can recommend it, but it's very different from anything else I've read.
That would work, unless you're using a container-based VPS. OpenVZ is notorious for standing in the way of system tuning. Using nginx makes a lot of sense in this case, especially with the ey-balancer patch.
Speaking of which, was that NP≠P paper debunked? What came of that?
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Last year they ran into some problems when they called the danish navy and asked 'is it ok with you guys if we tow our 115000 horsepower rocket through danish territorial waters using the largest homebuilt submarine ever built?'

unsurprisingly, the initial answer was that it was not ok. They got it solved though.
I was surprised by the fact that the Python version has 626 lines of code, compared to 297 to the Scala Pro. As Python is supposed to be more expressive, I was expecting something like 150ish LOC for Python.

Edit:

The Python version can be found at http://code.google.com/p/multi-language-bench/source/browse/...
Our solution helps developers to quickly integrate managed content into their mobile applications. The managed content is created and edited by editors in our CMS, and the developers can then query the CMS with our RESTful JSON API.

CouchDB is useful for storing content like high scores into a central database from your mobile app, but you cannot use it to easily provide a nice interface for editors to manage news stories or points of interests (maybe you have a google map in your app that shows store locations). This is what we focus on, a flexible CMS for mobile apps with a nice interface for editors and not only a nice API for developers.

S3 on the other hand is useful to store files. You can also upload static JSON or XML files there, but how do your editors manage those? They cannot edit them manually and static files don't provide search capabilities from the app (e.g. only give me store locations around the user's current location).
For those of us without silverlight:
mms://itv02.digizuite.dk/tv2b

VLC can play it but the server is getting hammered right now. Received 503 the first few tries but then it loaded.
I truly do not understand the point of OpenID if the website is just going to ask you to provide sign up information that it could've just asked for from your OpenID provider.
Would you consider touching up the Go version again to make it more idiomatic and well written? I'd be interested in seeing good Go examples; I'm sure many others here would as well.
By 'untuned' I'm also including using the wrong algorithm

I believe this is a different definition of "tuned" than most people use.
Down voted because people think Quicksort always wins in Python vs. a Bubble sort in C++? Wish I had time to find a case where that's not true. I'll point out that in the worst case, Quicksort is O(n^2).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm#Quicksort
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Interesting aside: I'm pretty sure your intention was jest, but lolling isn't as modern a word as the internet generation would have you believe (and has an entirely different meaning).

From the etymology of loll (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=loll):

mid-14c., lollen "to lounge idly, hang loosely," perhaps related to M.Du. lollen "to doze, mumble," or somehow imitative of rocking or swinging. Specifically of the tongue from 1610s.
From my understanding, its not a md5 hash or equivalent. Its just encoding the 64 bits to a "hash" thus allowing a fuzzy comparison between hashes. Someone correct me if I am wrong.

Obviously, this isn't robust enough to find all matches. A simple cropping would throw it completely off.
I would imaging the expressiveness is overpowered by all the code necessary to make it performant. I'm thinking ctype libraries.
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That's a bit unfair towards node. With proper foresight clean code can be written in almost any language.
I think bank transfer is a requirement only for first-time private users, probably because credit cards are too easy to steal/fake and chargeback.
Congrats! Something has to be said of the demand for VBA in India however (or what percentages of classes were in US/India).

Edit, how about some more blog posts (or comments here, both?) on your current feedback loop that you used/developed the course material? (i.e End of class surveys, emails, in class choices, etc). I'm interested in hearing about it :-)
I had a play with Lightswitch and I liked it. It is like MS Access. I'm surprised they positioned this at the developers rather than power users though.

They are positioning at power users, but it does seem like more of a developer tool. I think it will appeal to less-skilled or time constrained developers more than to power users. I've turned down side projects, where Lightswitch would have been extremely helpful because of time constraints.

I have worked in consulting places where income is generated, especially during lulls, with the sort of apps that Lightswitch is supposed to generate. I expect, if Lightswitch works as advertised, to see less of those projects.

MS tech is not the easiest to learn. The reason MS got away with it for years is because Sun was even worse.

My personal hope is that Microsoft feels threatened enough to produce some silver bullets for business application development, or at least to try.
All this fear is coming from weak-knee programmers and people who love to bask in FUD.

You don't build applications with logic and complicated function out of HTML and JS. Not today, not tomorrow.

My (and your) 10k, 100k, 200k line C# applications are not writable in JS.

Sure, there is GMail and Node.JS as examples. But thats kind of a niche compared to everything else.

HTML and JS are just going to be another way do to UI, and nothing else. You'll still need to write the C# app and use .NET to do the backend.

HTML/JS will be another option right along with XAML/WPF and SilverLight.
Event MPM is still a large pile of fail. Unless you're unwilling to switch from Apache, the benefits over Worker are mostly theoretical from the performance point of view. Hopefully this will change with 2.4, but only for those who didn't kick Apache out of their production machines.
But that's part of the point, isn't it? The very fact that Drupal folks prefer to live in their own isolated code community could indicate a degree of provincialism.
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For a large amount of code, like a whole program, maybe. But I think you can still get big gains in small loops or algorithms written and optimized in assembly. Even more so if you optimize for a specific processor and cache. Write the rest of the program in a high level language.
Exactly.. In fact, I'd go even further and say that everyone who is not an economist or a nerd likes having just a little bit of inflation.

"Normal" people like going into their year-end review at work and getting that 2% cost of living increase. Or maybe they'll bitch that they didn't get it. Or they might even picket and protest if their union hasn't gotten this bonus in a few years. But they will absolutely not accept a situation where ever year their salary has to float around because it's tied to a fixed money supply that they don't understand.

Could you imagine this? "Hey great job this year, but the economy is really taking off, so we need to cut your salary a bit to make up for that! Trust us, you come out ahead because the cost of goods has gone down and you can buy more with less."

Gentle inflation means gentle rising salaries, spending money, and happy people. ANY deflation means decreasing salaries, hoarding money, and people freaking out.
In terms of out-optimizing a modern compiler, it really depends on what you're optimizing for. For performance, a modern compiler is going to destroy you 99% of the time -- I've been writing x86 assembly for many years and in the vast majority of cases, I can't write faster code than MSVC. However, if code size is what's important, it's easy to beat any compiler. You can often get your code down an order of magnitudes, sometimes even two. Sizecoding has become my passion in recent years, and it's amazing how much you can do that the compiler can't if you really care; for instance, this is a bootsector I wrote that reads a kernel from NTFS: http://demoseen.com/ColorblindBoot.s.txt As far as I know, this is the only NTFS reader that actually fits into the boot sector (510 bytes, of which it uses every one), which is kinda neat.
It is interesting to see that Apple positions their retail employees more as an extension of their support and brand marketing operations, and less of a simple direct sales channel. Their employees seem to know a lot more about the products than places like Best Buy. That may due to the relatively few things they sell- I notice AT&T store employees are very knowledgeable about the products that they sell, but when you talk to them about service plans, then you start to get the obfuscation and snake-oil sales.
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How serious a problem is non-rotational invariance given the purposes for which Tineye may be using perceptual hashing?

In Tineye's data set, wouldn't rotational issues tend to be edge cases since the vast majority of images on the web are already properly oriented? And given that most of the edge cases are likely to involve 90, 180 or 270 degrees of rotation, the additional computational requirements to cover those would appear to be significantly less than required for true non-translational calculation - i.e. wouldn't rotating the low frequency image 90 degrees and generating a second hash + creating reverse order hashes of the original and second hash work?

It seems to me that for applications such as cryptography where the costs of false positives are high, a SIFT algorithm makes sense. But for a free consumer oriented search tool, might it be considered overkill?

Link to SIFT:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transfo...
The study also left out Bitbucket, which I'm sure still attracts a decent amount of Python projects (Mercurial is written in Python and was blessed by Guido as the preferred SCM). Yet that doesn't seem to have prevented Python from coming out strong in the comparison.
The Instructions by Adam Levin. Best book I've read since Infinite Jest (by David Foster Wallace, of course, also highly recommended). The characters, the story, the language, my god the language... It's all utterly fantastic. The last 300 pages had me so thoroughly gripped, I read them in one sitting.
Simply not true. Gmail calling is not possibly in HTML/js.

There are a lot of cool websites that use Flash for more than games and video these days. Qwiki won TechCrunch Disrupt last year. Beatlab is a super cool music creation app.

And Flash will likely always be the standard for DRM Video on the web. Being an open standard, HTML5 can never include DRM.

I see Flash's place is as a stopgap for features that haven't been standardized/implemented yet. It does those very well.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by
Jared M. Diamond (courtesy of a HN recommendation on this kind of thread)

In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy (courtesy PG's tweet and retweets of that tweet).

I am now loving my kindle because I can switch between books easily without the accompanying load
Please donate, or become a member of the support organization (it,s 20 dollars a month) if you think this is a cool project.

this is a private noncommercial opensource project, and the whole thing is built on donations and people working in their freetime.
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If I remember correctly it was a work in progress paper and he never really finished it and he didn't intend for it to go public.

But someone else should probably correct/confirm me.
Easiest way to turn Bitcoin into real currency:

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That's because it's not a "kludge of a technology". It works most of the time, doesn't some times, and has bad problems (locking up your browser, crashing, etc.) on the minority of times. A lot of anti-Flash people, for whatever reason, translate the bad occurrences as "blows" or some other hyperbole.
Does anyone know if this can be used for free? All I'm getting is a $5/mo subscription minimum when trying to configure it.

EDIT: Never mind, it looks like you can just add a username. Oddly, it tried to get me to log in/sign up when I tried it earlier, I have no idea why.
The issue I found with microformats when I was evaluating it was is that there was no way to automatically transform a microformatted file into a native data structure without first knowing the schema. Writing a microformat-to-JSON parser is hard because you have no way of knowing which classes are significant and which are just there for styling.
This is a bit of a digression, but it's something important that needs to be said. Most of the Bitcoin fanatics are drawn to Bitcoin in part because of a bizarrely deep anger at the notion that units of their functional currency -- usually dollars -- are being inflated.

(Ignore for the moment that, though the dollar did decline in value from 2002 to 2008, it's actually not clear what it's currently doing; it may be experiencing deflation itself.)

The irritating and incorrect thing about this anger is that nobody's forced to hold the currency that they're upset at. Even for "fiat currency" that needs to be used to pay taxes or offset debts, nothing requires that it be held long-term and thus subject any individual to inflation. Choosing to experience inflation in a government's currency is thus, in all modern governments, an investment choice like any other investment choice. Many people hedge against inflation, and it's very easy for any even moderately aware investor to do this. The argument that Bitcoin's needed even partly because people have no way to avoid the oppressive inflation of a corrupt regime is, basically, economic, financial, and political nonsense.
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Yep, all started by cool guys from Something Awful: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=327...
If IE10 supports hardware acceleration, CSS timelines, and a strong JS engine there is no reason why this couldn't work. JS owes some of its process problems to lower priority in the typical OS. What if JS had higher priority and it's own dedicated thread of CPU?

.NET developers shouldn't fear the future. They should be happy that, for once, their ecosystem may see a growth that actually works for them.
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Yeah -- there was a great example of this yesterday, too:

http://nklein.com/2011/06/quicklisp-win-weblocks/
"Algorithm" misspelled at National Spelling Bee
But congratulations to Tyler Reese and all the other finalists on their accomplishments.

http://www.spellingbee.com/
Out of all the hacking going on lately, this one is actually funny
The tour page is not usable on an iPhone. Love the concept but since you're targeting mobile it would be good to present your site well on mobile.

http://storageroomapp.com/tour