skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After watching the demo, I kind of wondered if they expected this initial reaction. Or rather, wanted to see the community's reaction. From there, they could have taken a pure HTML5+JS path if there was nobody upset about dropping .NET. Alternatively, having an upset community shows how much passion and investment there is for XAML.

Good writeup though, it is interesting that XAML has exactly the same mindset as HTML5+JS. Only under MS's control.
It's fascinating how our legal system, and patent law, have apparently created what is little more than an (apparently) legal extortion scheme.

IV Purchases all these (typically low-quality, frequently obvious, very seldom "Advancing the Arts" class) patents, and then approaches companies to license their various patent portfolios.

The brilliant part of all this, is that if you don't license directly from IV, instead of IV suing you for patent infringement, they _sell_ the patent to a third party, who then attempts to license them to you, or, if they are unsuccessful, sues you.

It feels an awful lot like "Buy some of my insurance, or something bad might happen to your warehouse." And it's all totally legal!

What's strange here, is that Apple (A "Mall") purchased the License (some "Insurance") - and now the people who sold that insurance are going around burning down stores inside that mall, after the little storekeepers didn't buy "insurance."

Apple is going to make the claim that because they bought the "Insurance" that all of the store inside should be protected as well.

And, at no part in this conversation, is Apple even really challenging whether it should be having to purchase "Insurance" - because they do the same thing to other companies, so they have some interest in protecting the status quo.

Now, yes, I realize that there are useful patents, particularly in the drug industry, where it may take 100s of millions of dollars and many years to invent something, and it's almost certain that most of those drugs would never, could never have been invented without patent protection (or massive government subsidies).

In my view of the world, I thought that Patents were supposed to be about "Advancing the arts" - not lining the pockets of the already very rich, to make them even richer.

I have to wonder when the this system will (finally) be overthrown and replaced with something half sane.
You don't really need a "standing desk" to try this out. Here's where I work from during most of the day now:

http://i.imgur.com/oQTGQ.jpg

I'm using a laptop stand (from rain design) under some textbooks to lift my laptop up to normal working height. When I get tired or my feet start hurting I can quickly unplug my laptop and move the stand over to my desk and continue right where I left off.

I have really gotten to like it. Once I got used to being on my feet everything about my posture, well-being, and productivity have improved. I can't recommend it enough.
You can spin almost anything into a positive light. Like, "hey I know I killed you, but you know what, this is just a horrible world that you are better off death". I wonder if Hitler was a psychopath, he may have been. <sarcasm> He certainly made the world go round, fighting him lit a fire under all the western nations which in turn allowed us to make great advances in rocketry, nuclear power, and god knows what. Sure, he killed millions of innocent people but you know what, at least he did make the world go round. Even Germany benefited immensely, it emerged as a world economic power. Thank god for psychopaths, what would we do without them. </sarcasm>
Thanks for the info. I was actually referring to the AskHN and the main HN page. In both instances, they were there for just an instance (1 page refresh long). I thought maybe my submission hadn't made it thru. I'd really appreciate it if you'd post a link to the page you were talking about. I looked thru the "Guidelines" page and I wasn't really violating any of the rules/guidelines there. Thanks!
Send a file to your Dropbox from its URL.
A possible wireless solution could be based on having tons of fiber laid out so that you can put antennas and base stations basically anywhere.

4G and LTE are okay but nothing close to 1 gbps. We need a new wireless standard to saturate that connection.
This guy is a joke, I don't care if he was next to linus codding the kernel, Linux is not only about usability, and I'm not quoting rms here, you have problems of course, but you have a price to live free of DRM, spyware and lock-in, KDE trinity is a example that no matter what the main devs of a project does, it can be undone by motivated community.
Ryan - Really enjoyed these, looking forward to more. Inspirational.
If a state enacts a law that will make a business lose money without changing polices, it's not the company's fault if they change policies. Amazon's pullout was a completely known outcome of the law well before it was put into place.
That's the problem with secrets. Who knows what is best kept from the public and what is being hidden at a cost to them?
Why would you use apache for static sites? Did you even read the article? It uses lighttpd.
I've used this on several android apps. It's a nice lib and keeps your code clean.
Amazon is (obviously).

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/agreement

> In addition, if at any time following your enrollment in the Program you become a resident of Colorado, Illinois, North Carolina, Rhode Island, or Connecticut, you will become ineligible to participate in the Program, and this Operating Agreement will automatically terminate, on the date you establish residency in that state.
The other thing to keep in mind, it really doesn't matter what you do decide to call it, people are going to like or not what you're doing and in either case the name isn't going to be the reason.

No and yes. Long term it will be the value of a site that keeps people coming back. Short term, if a name is confusing or, maybe worse, strongly suggests something that the site isn't, you'll attract the wrong people.

This is why if I can't get clear, descriptive name I'd prefer a completely made-up word.
Hashtables, a new Haskell library for fast mutable hash tables
This article is more aimed to the type of user who would use a command line interface. If they require cpanel, they should look elsewhere. Negating this article because of a potential user deficiency is ludicrous.
I've been using this hacked-together standing desk for a week and love it:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/410195/standing%20desk.jpg

My feet are definitely tired around 4pm, though.
Just a note: Francisco didn't release this. He just pushed it to Github and others have posted it here. I don't think he mentioned it on twitter even, it's a glimpse of something he's hacking on.
Have a look at BuyVM.net - $15/year for 128MB.
Can Ticketmaster’s Builder Now Unseat It?
There's an inherent problem with releases and the range of bug-tolerance in the Linux community. It's hard to know when something is "ready," unless you are a bleeding edge nightly builds kind of person.

For example, KDE4 caught a lot of flak for shoddiness and flakiness before its first release. That happens to a lot of software, and it's completely unfair. I criticized people for expecting KDE4 to be polished enough for a general audience before the point-0 release. However, when it actually was released, it was still in terrible shape. I first installed 4.1 and gave up on it pretty quickly. Not only was it woefully incomplete, but the aspects where 4.1 caused me the most grief (cosmetic glitches, unpolished UI elements, non-intuitive and non-discoverable customization) were supposed to be major focuses of the KDE4 effort.

Then it was my turn to be criticized: KDE 4.0 and 4.1 were intended for early adopters, and it wasn't until KDE 4.2 that KDE4 was deemed a good replacement for KDE3. Well, I admit I didn't read the release announcements, but what the hell is a major release supposed to mean, then? What does it mean to go from beta or RC to point-zero if the point-zero release isn't ready for most users? There's a rule of thumb that conservative users who absolutely need stability are wise to sit out an x.0 release, but there sure as hell isn't any convention that most users should wait for an x.2 release. And why did my distro suggest 4.1 as the default KDE to install?

Clearly the open-source world needs a more explicit and widely-followed convention for labeling releases. Projects are willing to cheat and release x.0 versions that aren't ready for general consumption, just so they can make an artificial deadline, keep up with their competition, or even just to ensure plenty of users for testing a new version. And they have no shame about it. If a project as high-profile as KDE does it, anyone can defend it based on their example. There needs to be an explicit convention for labeling releases so each user knows which release they should wait for.
I'll answer this: fuck, no.

Psychopaths are good at taking credit for others' accomplishments but rarely produce anything of value. They're generally quite lazy, in fact. They're politically effective and do well in many social environments in the short run, but their long-term contributions are almost always disastrous.

You don't need to be a psychopath to make tough decisions: firing bad employees, for example. You just need experience, vision, and the willingness to take responsibility for difficult decisions.

I think a slight narcissism can be beneficial as a motivator for some people, but that's a different discussion.
The title at the top was because (if you read the article) the blog post spurred from a post on WebHostingTalk asking the community if it was possible to host 18 static sites on a 64MB VPS. A lot of people said no, so this post was made to disprove them.
Standing problem
http://www.hazards.org/standing/

Millions of UK workers spend most of the working day on their feet. Hazards editor Rory O’Neill warns there are serious health reasons why they shouldn’t stand for it.
I think his concern is not about a bug tweeting private contents, but any kind of exploitable bug that might give access to his account in any way, form or duration.

There's probably no way around this, since any addition is a possible attack vector.
Check http://www.system76.com/index.php?cPath=28
But is it necessarily impossible?

Yes, because of time dilation. In particular, suppose that, in some reference frame, you can send a message from location A to location B faster than light. In that reference frame, it arrives at B after it leaves A. Then, in some other reference frame (moving at less than the speed of light relative to the first), it arrives at B before it leaves A.

So, we can reverse that: Let's say I (in Boston) want to send you (in Toronto) a message that you'll receive before I send it. Then I simply figure out a reference frame where the message would travel forward in time but faster than light. Then I use the faster-than-light communication in that reference frame to send it to you.

If you now do the same -- choose a 3rd reference frame, where the message from Toronto to Boston travels forward in time but faster than light, but where on the Earth's surface it travels backward in time -- you can now send your reply before I send my message.

Then I can arrange a simple grandmother paradox. e.g. I plan to send a message to you at 2pm, but if I get your reply before 2pm, I don't actually send it.

EDIT:

In particular, if one observer measures an event as happening at position-time (x, y, z, t), and another observer is moving at speed u along the x axis, that observer will see:

x' = (x - ut) / sqrt(1 - u^2/c^2)

y' = y

z' = z

t' = (t - ux/c^2) / sqrt(1 - u^2/c^2)

(This is the Lorentz transformation.)

Suppose the first observer can send info faster than light. Suppose she sends it along the x axis at a speed of 2c. You can repeat the derivation with any kc where k > 1. If the sending event is at position-time (0, 0, 0, 0), and it takes one time unit to get there, then the receiving event in her frame is (2c, 0, 0, 1).

What does the other observer see? Let's suppose they're moving more than half the speed of light, say 3/4 the speed of light. The sending event is the origin, and the origin maps to the origin, so that's easy. For the receiving event:

x' = (x - ut) / sqrt(1 - u^2/c^2) = (2c - (3/4 c) * 1) / sqrt(1 - (3/4 c)^2/c^2)

y' = y = 0

z' = z = 0

t' = (t - ux/c^2) / sqrt(1 - u^2/c^2) = (1 - (3/4 c) * 2 * c/c^2) / sqrt(1 - (3/4 c)^2 / c^2) = (1 - 3/4 * 2) / sqrt(1 - (3/4)^2).

In the formula for t', note that the first term, 1 - 3/4 * 2, is negative.

So, if I can send messages at a speed of k * c, then an observer moving with a speed greater than c/k in the same direction sees the message arrive before it leaves. That description is very easy to reverse.
Agreed. Using apache on a lowendbox is not a smart idea. Lighttpd serving static sites takes ~5MB in practise. That's also including a SSHd and other services.
Nintendo does not Understand why Stock Fell after Wii U unveiling
"Maybe spies, lawyers and bosses need a dash of the unhinged if they’re to betray, scrutinize, and fire those around them. Sure, they make sucky friends and sucky spouses, but the rest of the time they’re making the trains run on time."

betrayal, unreasonable scrutiny, and the ability to fire people is not what the world needs. People who think so are often incredible softies intrigued by their own cruelty. There are better alternative approaches that involve more than predator instinct and egomania.
Everything old is new again. :)
I bought an Inspiron 1420n from http://www.dell.com/ubuntu in 2007. That link used to take you to a page that described the benefits of Ubuntu and linked to a half-dozen desktops and laptops for sale at different price points, all slightly cheaper than their Windows counterparts. Now it goes to a single desktop system.

The laptop has worked well with Ubuntu 7.04 through 8.10 and Fedora 11 through 15. The main problem is that sometimes my keyboard and trackpad do not work after I resume from suspend.
How do I learn to be creative?
"Kinda." The article says it might be possible to take it one step further to run a low volume wordpress/basic PHP install.
If the daily deal model is so bad for small businesses I would think more would speak up about it.

I've only come across a few "horror" stories so far.
The issue is collecting sales tax for items bought outside of their state. Interstate commerce is a federal jurisdiction. If they collect sales tax in Washington state, it's because they have an office there.
It annoys me as well. Only interested people will bother to have a look at it and telling them nothing about you application won't get you their email id for sure. Either share more information or wait until your are ready to share it.
Sure, companies can do whatever they wish (within the law) in response to any factors they choose to take into account. But I think it's still Amazon making the decision here; from the headline, I had thought that Connecticut banned affiliate programs or something. I'd similarly say that Boeing's move from Seattle to Chicago, partly due to tax policies, was a decision made by Boeing, not by Seattle.
Papertrail: Hosted log management for servers, apps, and cloud services
So google doesn't tell me...but who or what is Les Paul?
Obligatory XKCD reference: http://xkcd.com/552/

The problem is that causation does result in correlation, and sometimes we need/ought to take action before things can be proven conclusively.
I'm glad to hear that. Most of the Accenture people I've engaged with on a personal level share that skepticism and pragmatism.
My $3/month VPS has 500gb transfer, and it's not the cheapest around.
That's a nice temp solution, but it'd be much better ergonomically if you have the monitor separated from the keyboard and raised closer to eye level (or if it already is at a nice height for viewing, the keyboard is too high).
How is this different from the myriad of other text extraction services, APIs and libraries out there?
How Steve Jobs' Pixar experience helped lead to Apple's iCloud
Deals - What's the deal with them?
The rise of the concept of group discounts, and how it seems to be going all wrong. starting with Groupon.
Has Sony been hacked this week?
I definitely didn't mean it in a pejorative way.
I guess my question was, even though the whole concept of Lean Start-ups has gathered pace, why aren't UX folks recruited? Because essentially, both are working towards the same goal - Customer Centric iterative development.

I definitely don't think the role of a UX Researcher is a "non-essential specialization", but it is being overlooked.

This blog post emphasizes my point even more
(http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/02/24/designing-appropr...)
TechCrunch Turns 6
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Paul
?
Clicking on the logo takes you to the results page for the query "Les Paul", the 1st result is Wikipedia, which, if you read it, should answer your question..
No, no, no. Psychopathy in a leader has a net effect toward organizational mediocrity, at best. Start observing in the real world and this becomes obvious.
Psychopaths make terrible spies and soldiers, for what should be obvious reasons. They have no sense of honor and they're individualistic in some very dangerous ways. The military tries to filter them out, not bring them in. Since lawyers and business leaders have to make much easier decisions than people in the military, I'd argue the same for those jobs.

There is one job at which psychopaths are, in all aspects, better performers (more effective, less likely to quit) than anyone else: torturing-- an act that produces no value (as an interrogation technique, it's nearly useless) and something that people shouldn't be doing in the first place.
I am not sure that I can fully answer what the root cause is, but most of the delays are due to the various levels of approval that take forever. In addition, they are very concerned with patient information security, and have various process to work through in regards to that.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Everything in moderation, I guess. Also, nice username.
I think the article is kinda wonky, but Rep. Pelosi pretty much is the poster child for the American political / corporation corruption. She owns quite a bit of "clean energy" stock and pushed the legislation to stuff she has stock in. We make the President put his money in trust, and I am starting to think it wouldn't be a bad idea to do the same with Representatives and Senators.

This is a problem that both political parties fall into. I sometimes wonder if a no donations from any group are allowed (corporation or union).

It probably didn't help that she gave here opponents the perfect soundbite for the 2010 election ("But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.").
FaceTime + iMessage = Skype?
Democratizing Big Data - Is Hadoop Our Only Hope?
Its simple math:

Groupon wants you to give them your product for 75% off, they sell that product for 50% off and keep 50% of the revenue.

Its fucking retarded. My friends in SF that own lots of businesses refuse to work with groupon - its a horrible deal.
2-day project of mine. Hope someone finds it useful!
I'm not a physicist, I'm just repeating something I read
somewhere (I cant even remember where).

As far as I know, general relativity relies on the existence of a finite speed upper bound. It appears that this bound is equal to the speed of light, but any higher speed would do.
I almost always wait until I get a working prototype.

I'm looking to avoid writing much, if any, code until I know if there's even a viable market. I'm thinking of an MVP site that initially would help me measure interest. So, in a way, the name would signal prospective features.

OTOH there's value in first figuring out what paying customer would actually want and then crafting a name around that. Which sort of argues for an abstract name (e.g. "Loptrz") , at least to start with, since the feature set isn't defined.
Programmers are so sad sometimes — this is like asking "how can I learn to be romantic?" or better yet "how can I give myself heart surgery?" If the programmer is really asking "how can I be a graphic designer?" then the answer is simple: Spend the thousands of hours that any other designer spends to become a graphic designer — that may start by playing with Photoshop, but to be good at it requires everything from art history courses, hours of the critique of your peers and teachers who are professionals, the other courses to get your degree, an internship and a few slightly disappointed first clients who were your guinea pigs (hopefully they knew they were guinea pigs by the way).

There are no silver bullets, yes someone can make something slick — but that's a decorator not a designer.
1. it's open sourced
2. it's embeddable
3. it extracts images
4. it's one of the most accurate (http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/06/head-to-head-compar...)
5. it's named after the best top gun character
Per application volume is the feature of PA most people wanted. Windows 7 has this and it works great. In PA however... not so much. Linux does need something like pulseaudio, but pulseaudio does indeed suck :(
You know that's not what I'm saying. You're just trying to assert nerd dominance.
Groupon seems like a better solution for small businesses than advertising in a newspaper (pre-craigslist).
This setup is more ergonomic than I thought it would be. A monitor does not have to be at eye level -- that's just what you're used to with a sitting desk. I look downward at about 45 degrees to the monitor and my hands are at a slight incline. It's basically the way you would read a book while standing.
For small files (less than a few dozen kb or so), it's important to keep in mind the per-request cost as well - $0.01 per 10,000 GET requests.
Rumor has it, leaking info coming at BUILD is insta-termination. And while that's old hat for Apple employees, devs targeting the Microsoft platform aren't used to surprises or secrets.

Of course, who else is expecting to just hear that Silverlight is HTML5? Code targeting it and any HTML5 browser will be able to run the apps, with a better ("native") experience on Windows, but supported on those other platforms... :-)
I understand that, although my own explanation is more along the lines that c represents a fundamental constant describing the geometry of space, and that the reason no physical object can travel faster than light is that the speed of light represents the shortest distance in space-time between any two points.
Grooveshark (http://grooveshark.com) does this very well... I started using their service and added a handful of favorites (which worked well enough for me at the time) before ultimately deciding to register.
[Android Word Game] Le God of Words Update 1.6
"number of sites" isn't a metric you can design against - you know nothing about the app requirements.

"number of static sites" is marginally better - the "number of sites" in that case is meaningless - the limiting factor will be the request rate and desired response time.
No; I don't much like URL shorteners myself. I will avoid his products because he's a dink. There's no reason to mock somebody because they work for a company you don't like.
Quantum entanglement seems to allow instantaneous info transfer over any distance. Any Quantum Physicists on here?
There is nothing Microsoft could say to appease .NET developers. Obviously .NET and Silverlight aren't going away, everybody must know that. The only reason people are so mad, is because now they are not the only courted workforce anymore.
Hey, what's a good laptop to use, now that the Dell Mini 9 is so old?
By that logic, the state can never be to blamed when making decisions that affect businesses. This wasn't an unintended consequence--every time a similar law has passed Amazon has acted identically on the exact day that it begins.
!Oregon - there is no sales tax there.
You get Loctite as a brand in the UK more commonly known as superglue, the other thing you can use is thread lock - somewhere like Halfords will stock it.