skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use twitter for work/startup stuff and facebook for friends/non-work
I'm still watching and waiting to see if Samsung will provide support for a single one of their products as long as Apple has. So far, they keep flooding the market with new gadgets, but as a last-gen Samsung Moment user who's been officially abandoned by Samsung and Sprint, left with a half-baked device[1], I've got a fairly bad impression of their offerings, even if the initial hype is positive. Call my cynical, but I can't fawn over any of their products until a single one of them has made it through a full contract cycle without being abandoned.

[1] Boring details: The RIL driver in the Moment will randomly crash causing data lockups and/or full radio failure, requiring a restart to re-enable the phone part of...the phone, it's been a persistent problem through their 1.5 to 2.1 official releases of Android, and the phone which was released in Nov 2009, was fully abandoned around May 2010, it will never get officially updated again. Sprint would trade me for a downgrade refurbed phone of a different model (HTC Hero is all that really came close) but would not allow for free contract termination, or a free upgrade without renewing the contract. After my experience, I'm switching to Apple and Verizon when my contract ends since I feel neither Samsung or Sprint deserve any further business. Google 'moment data lockup' for more info.
Taking into account the brain drain that ex-USSR countries suffered in the 90's and lack of any interest in fresh ideas in architecture, music, movies and business, I think the comparison is pretty apt.
One reason is that reference counting, without some other backup reclamation mechanism, isn't guaranteed to collect all the garbage. For example: let's say you have two DOM nodes, A and B, where B is A's firstChild and A is B's parentNode, with both attributes implemented as references in the obvious way. Even if all other references to these objects disappear, making them both inaccessible, the reference from child to parentNode will keep the parent's reference count from going to zero until the child node gets reclaimed --- but the child node can't be reclaimed until the parent is gone, because the firstChild reference in the parent keeps _its_ reference count from going to zero. So neither object can be reclaimed first (or at all), and the storage for both leaks.

(The same logic applies to longer "cycles" of references --- if A refers to B refers to C refers to D refers to A, then none of the objects in the cycle can be collected first, and they all stick around.)

In CPython, by the way, there is a separate garbage collector, which runs periodically to detect and mop up cyclic structures. Other implementations --- Jython and PyPy --- don't use reference counting to begin with.
Cash has always been more secure than plastic.
Those PHP "features" are the real WTF.
This is just a guess, but I think this is a commercial implementation of the loom grid.

With dwolla being the people who hold your actual cash that you use their system to trade around with.

Just a guess though.
Pure speculation on my part, but some of the reasons that come to mind.

White collar crime is punished less severely then homicide.
The parties involved don't want to get into an arms race that isn't already started.
There is plenty of ways to make a problem go away, including the FEC and IRS.
No single party has complete control over the government and legal system.

While I generally disagree with lobbyist, I think (at least in the United States) the extreme business interest pressed on the government tends to keep some things in check by each business demanding counter-acting changes.

The ones winning are the politicians, the ones loosing are the under-represented (the individual)

Edit: For certain values of winning
Not perfect but kb activated w/aloha. Could only get bold to work.
right. the only buggy piece is gears. it has been deprecated for html5 localstore. still buggy but is getting better
Hour Long SproutCore Training Video on SC MVC
I agree. Watching this, I start thinking of all the exciting shit I could do with it. But I'm not a company with a contract with Ninty. So i won't. Hopefully the protocol is easy enough to decipher, and I can start using it as a remote control for the PC hooked up to my TV.
Facebook Unveils Facial Recognition To the World, Remains Opt-Out
There is a difference between happy and comfortable. Most people using Windows are just comfortable enough not to make the effort to move to another platform. A lot of tech people are just like that (the ones that are not passionate about new Apple machines). On the other hand, these are the people that have less weight on the decisions of new users...
Hm. Interesting point. So, I guess what you're saying is that the question itself is not from a "Post-PC" perspective?

It's interesting, but seems like conflating a desire for archive with a desire for PC-level control. They seem like parallel but distinct issues to me.

Even FB stores those photos in perpetuity, doesn't it? I really don't know, I'm not on FB.

Is the idea of permanence or permanent record fading with the PC?
I thought it was junk but then found a vibrant community of users online. Now I use it for word processing, great for focusing, like WriteRoom on Mac. Also get some interesting looks. "Retro all the way baby" :-)
Online Listening Rooms Spring Music Fans From Their Cocoons
Final Fantasy XIII 2 Trailer
Final Fantasy XIII 2 Trailer will be released in December 2011 to 2012. This game will be released into the game software Xbox 360, PlayStation 3. Final Fantasy is played with an extra 2 characters, namely Serah Farron and Noel Kreiss. on the game movie """ released in december 2011>
People seem to forget that not all innovation is disruptive. There's room for incremental innovation, too. A lot of room.
One big issue for me is that I only have one name. I think it's asking too much of people trying to connect with me to have to choose between four Twitter accounts or 2-3 Facebook profiles.
Jon Stewart's Epic Tribute to Pizza
Most Websites Exclude ‘Home’ from Navigation [STUDY]
interestingly iAds have been a huge disapointment. they could not reach critical mass of advertisers. And by Job's comment yesterday against ads on iCloud, it looks like they gave up on it
Design Poison: Gradients and Noise
I've read the FT for years in print.

Still one of the only publications I would subscribe to (cf the economist, nyt). They were also a client of mine about 10 years ago and at that point I remember complaining specifically and at length in meetings with them about the poor state of their website. Amazingly, the design of the actual content pages has remained unchanged since then. The plastered on content homepages are like wallpaper over crumbling drywall.

Doing an end run around a popular platform can absolutely be done, but get your house in order first. Right now this just smells like a company that couldn't figure out the web for a decade, wants in on mobile, but hasn't figured out that you have to execute on the table-stakes of the web first. Otherwise you are the daily.

I still like the sloppy, porous, crazy paywall of the NYT and the mobile/web stuff they are doing. Best in show so far.
The key differentiating factor is that the iCloud heralds an era wherein all of your data is decentralized, all of the time, and that this is the default for all users, on all Apple devices, all of the time.
Recruiting tool for start-ups: free beer. Lots of free beer.
yes, but the pictures I have on my laptop tend to be a superset of those I have on my iphone, and AFAIU those will not be backed up in iCloud, please correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm sorry, but that's so stupid I don't even know where to start. Radiation isn't a magical malevolent force. Your fears are so disconnected from the real world, you might as well be worried about aliens eating you for breakfast.
Google Instant's previews show the +1 button, so I see no reason why Googlebot wouldn't too. I guess Google wait until window.onload fires instead of just timing the server sending the 1 HTML file. Google could also use data from Google Toolbar users but I doubt they do.

As the article says, even with a primed cache, the +1 code slows down page load. It also said the overhead can be 2 seconds. If you're aiming for fast then that could double your page load time. External assets are very likely to be calculated into a sites speed as they generally take up quite a bit of the page load time.

Of course, no one knows how much of an effect page speed plays in Google's algorithms. My bet, however, is that adding +1 to a fast site could easily make it drop a few places in the SERPs. If your site is already quite slow then an extra 2 seconds may only be a few % slower.
What would you have this "someone" do? Are there people you can go to and say, here's a couple of grand, build me a site with traction?
Two great research oriented books on the topic of persuasion and behavior modification are "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" and "White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts". Highly recommend them for people looking for more than opinions over overviews.

http://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Busine...

http://www.amazon.com/White-Bears-Other-Unwanted-Thoughts/dp...
Reference counting is very definitely a form of automatic memory management, aka GC. Every GC expert will disagree with your colloquial definition. There are two sides to every reference - the guy who has the pointer and the thing pointed to - and the most efficient GCs use a combination of both. The difference is that the "logical ref count" is distributed for mark-sweep etc, but centralized in object for refcounting.
Someone got a tatoo of all their Facebook friends
Nonsense. Either bitcoins are illegal now, based on already existing law, or they are not.

If they are not already illegal, than the paranoid among us can say they will be made so later. However, such an action does not happen in a vacuum. That law must be written in some way so as to continue to allow other forms of digital commerce.

The discussion I would like to have is whether such a law could be written, which would disallow commerce in a particular digital commodity which harms nobody (not stolen cc numbers, not child porn, etc) while allowing other forms of digital goods to continue unhindered.

The thing that jumps immediately to mind, of course, is child porn, which is a digital commodity that is illegal to buy/sell/own/ or even possess. I question whether they would have as much success in the court of public opinion with bitcoins.
New York, NY -- BestVendor.com is hiring a front-end developer. We're well-funded by investors like Peter Thiel (founder of PayPal, first investor in Facebook), but are still on the early side of product development. The right person could have a huge impact on a major product.

Also looking for interns (paid). Email ben at bestvendor.com for more info.
Tron: Legacy (HTML5 demo)
How daily deal companies could improve the merchant experience
Which for KVO reasons is a really bad way of releasing objects when 'self' is being deallocated.
Introducing MetaCPAN
The comments on this post are worth reading. It's impossible to construct a meaningful synthetic benchmark without more rigor about what client is being used, how it's configured, how the OS is tuned, testing against actual files (rather than a "Hello World" 100 byte file), details on default tuning for each webserver, and finally what exactly is intended to be tested and what is in fact being tested.

A great post on the subject from mnot:

http://www.mnot.net/blog/2011/05/18/http_benchmark_rules
It's not to help me identify who's in a picture, but rather to make it simpler to find pictures of a person.

Example: I want to photoshop a picture of my friend onto a dog; I could either load all pictures with him tagged in it, or laboriously go through all of my pictures from a given weekend, hoping that the picture I'm looking for is there.

Result: http://i.imgur.com/C6mrd.jpg
I don't remember that. I use it at work and I've only noticed that there have been a lot more instability problems over the last month. Previous to that it's felt rock-solid to me...
I think we can all envisage a future where we are exclusively using web-based office suites on post-PC devices. A lot of people are already doing this.

What I can't imagine is a world where we are developing those web-based office suites on the same post-PC devices that they are deployed to.

Try and imagine using XCode on a tablet under iOS all day. Doesn't sound very appealing does it? Or autocad, or solidworks or arcGIS, or any number of other industrial applications.

For the PC to disappear, somebody is going to need to define a whole new category of much more powerful post-PC devices. I can envisage a superpowered tablet with a bluetooth keyboard that wirelessly links to any nearby display, but that doesn't sound very post-PC to me. And it doesn't answer the question of how to develop UIs for tasks of irreducible complexity without violating iOS's mandatory UX simplicity.
So where do you think an oil platform gets its electric power? Solar panels? Or do you think they string a power line from the shore?

Where do you think Saudi Arabia gets the gigawatts needed to run its oil fields? How much of their electricity comes from oil and nat gas? I'll give you a hint; it rhymes with "all of it".

How do you think Suncor extracts oil from oil sands? Lots of squeezing?

Where do you think Pemex gets the electricity for the giant pumps that pressurize their gulf fields (and the nitrogen that they pump)?

Observe that natural gas is subject to the same economics as oil. Where the two are substitutable, low project EROEI can be flirted with. However, also observe that extraction of nat gas is largely coincident with that of oil, both geographically and industrially. They usually come from the same fields, often the same wells.

>"I don't see anything than couldn't be done with electricity, coal, natural gas or whatever else."

There is a difference between possibility and feasibility. Ask Transocean when they'll start selling coal-powered semi-subs.
> then it hit me that this picture is likely to end up on Flickr, Facebook or some other online service. And even if it’s not visible where the picture was taken, it is probably geo-tagged, and it definitely has a time stamp. Which means that there is now proof of my whereabouts yesterday, available on the internet.

One solution is to spam photos of yourself with false timestamps and geodata.
>You've got to see it in terms of how the ex-communist oligarchy sees it. [...] It was the workers, the citizens of the Russian federation who made the upgrades to the airport with their hard work. They [... ] concentrate on who actually did the physical work to do the upgrade.

you've got to be kidding if you seriously think that "ex-communist oligarchy sees it" that way. They may _sound_ that way. No problem. The law and community/society/people interests are eagerly applied whenever it is in the real interests of the power top and easily brushed away whenever it isn't.
Considering how hard it is to get people to agree on interoperability standards even if they want to agree, I think lock-in is simply inevitable.
Only problem with this phone is that android 2.3.4 isn't available for it yet, and 2.3.3 has a bug where suspend and events/0 will randomly start maxing out a core and kill your battery. I contacted Samsung and they said the release of 2.3.4 is "waiting on google", whatever that means.
At least I have the option to not carry the keyboard (and usually, I don't.)
I recommend the first link, it was really enlightening to read and after I read it it illuminating a lot of marketing/sales techniques I didn't even see operating.
It's all about ubiquitous computing versus desktop computing. Microsoft's manifest destiny was having a [Microsoft] computer on every desk. Its whole existence is built around achieving and capitalizing on that vision.

We are entering the age of ubiquitous computing. Computers everywhere. Not just for every person or every pocket. But multiple computers for every person for every function that can be augmented.

Apple gets it. Google gets it. Microsoft merely looks like it understands because it is desperately copying everyone else. But really Microsoft is lost. So utterly lost now that we're no longer in the age of desktop computing.
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A possibility and a fair one! I might write something to scan through looking for jumps that jump inside opcodes (added to list of projects which I will do one day).
I would think "bad eyesight" would be more commonplace than people with disabilities that require an alternative input method.

I deal with real clients (read older people) every day and they can barely read the actual text on the screen, let alone text that is skewed and mangled in an attempt to foil machines.
Area 51 uncovered as some information is declassified
Based on their prior interactions with 37Signals, I have somewhat of a bias against Get Satisfaction, FWIW.
It's not the first time JB apps are implemented on new iOS releases.

I.e.: MobileNotifier, CameraButtons.

I think Apple actually needs jailbreakers.
IIS lost marketshare to Apache (and to nginx and Google) and returned to 1998 levels. That has nothing to do with Apache gaining all of IIS losses. Anyway, Apache is growing fast at about the same click IIS is shrinking.
Yes, rly. Of course I have actually used it -- I use it daily. I wouldn't recommend it otherwise.

I find the small bugs in IdeaVIM well worth the added bonus of using IntelliJ over using vim alone or using netbeans or eclipse. I fiddled with eclim and jbvi and other vim-ish things, but IntelliJ really is the best Java IDE IMHO.
I'm not sure I agree. The Microsoft Kin showed this kind of forethought, but it was perhaps a bit too early, with a bit too lean-featured a phone.

If they had continued the kin-like ubiquity with the Windows 7 phone, and merged that ubiquity with Windows 7 itself, I think it would be a much stronger competitor than it is now; perhaps even pushing Apple and Google on the defensive.
I'm interested in how much they will charge for the WiiU controller. The Wii had controller-itis with the wiimote + nunchuck + motion plus. At least the WiiU will re-use the Wii's controllers.

Also, how does the 3DS fit in the equation? If the WiiU controller works for standalone gaming, it could compete against the 3DS.
Apple is on a 3 year product cycle, so I wouldn't count on it, but you never know:

1998- iMac; 2001- OSX/iPod; 2003/4- iTunes; 2007- iPhone; 2010- iPad; 2013 ?????
If you're looking to hire a logo or icon designer, Dribble is the place to be. However, crafting the perfect 300x400 teaser has little to do with web design.

Do you want to hire a window decorator, or someone who will help you solve the hard problem of making your app easier to use? Think carefully. You might not want a real web designer. A graphic designer is certainly a safer hire--they won't futz with your codebase, anyway!
Yeah, that iPad thing was no big deal. Never mind the 25M units sold. Never mind that everyone is furiously trying to imitate it.

Syncing everything to the cloud and back to all your devices and actually making that work, and signing deals with all the record companies so you can do this with your music collection without it being a prohibitive pain, also no big deal.

Some people are awfully demanding. :)
Interesting perspective. Ironically I have had a pile of recent Macs (I think it's 8 now from G5 iMac to a mid-2010 MacBook Pro) and always end up back on Windows on an old ThinkPad for some reason or another. Comfort may just be that reason (other than the slight enlightenment recently that a user can be productive on the simplest of tools).
Meltdown is pointing out the fact that there are many, many good games available for the mac. To run good games on the mac, one simply has to install them, with steam being one of the best ways. It was a stupid question.

Anyway, a more technically accurate answer would've been "cider," but I am loathe to promote such an unsatisfactory compromise ;)
Why do women lag men in geosocial media?
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And if the values being garbage collected have no pointers in them, or the language makes cycles impossible (think functional immutable) the refcounting is all you need. It's still bona fide GC.

(This is a point of definition independent of the subject at hand. Refcounting simply is a form of GC. Imperfect for most languages and many datatypes but GC all the same.)
I think most people these days tend to just play suppliers off against each other until the price is right if the volume is enough. Farnell bend 10% instantly if you mention RS for example choke innocent whistle.
Ask HN: Funding, Secrets & Disclosure
My question requires a little background, so please bear with me:
This is a story of 2 startups S1 & S2. They have both spent some time building their products and have been trying to get funding for their respective companies. But the founders of S1 & S2 are buddies and before their funding they had been brainstorming and spending time on a side project. They have been thinking that if this side project gets any traction, they will spawn it as a separate company and work on it in parallel. But until then they are committed to their primary startups and this will remain a side project. Now that both the startups are getting funded by different guys, they are debating whether they should disclose their side project or keep it a secret.

So, I have 2 questions:

1. What could be the consequences of a disclosure before taking investment money?

2. What is the fair and sensible thing to do?
I use Windows 7 and I am happy with it. There are a lot of people in tech who are happy with it. I have switched platforms several times over the years but I always end up back at Windows. People who use Windows are only using it because they are "comfortable" is a very big assumption.
Taking great features from others should be nothing to be ashamed of. It’s what made Android great (among other things, obviously).

I always hate it when companies are unwilling to copy great ideas because of, well, I don’t know, maybe pride? It’s bad for the user. Mobile OS A has great feature X, mobile OS B has great feature Y, but no OS has features X and Y – and that just plain sucks for the user.

It goes without saying that sometimes it’s good to copy a little less and do things your own way a bit more. That was the situation in 2007. Recently, Microsoft also went that route (and they should be admired for that). But sometimes it’s not. Polishing iOS seems like the right thing to do right now – and that includes looking elsewhere for inspiration.
I'd argue that the only true innovation Apple made with the iPhone was with the App Store, which didn't even happen until a bit after the launch. Apple gathered what they thought were best technologies, honed them, and made them work together.
Coaching a winning team
http://akzhan.github.com/jwysiwyg/help/examples/01-basic.htm...

Works completely on ipad. Finally!
Does it prevent click fraud? I wonder if you could place +1 inside a div with style="opacity:0" and position it on top of a link saying "Free cheese" or similar.

Edit: you can. This example [1] has opacity:0.3 so you can still see it. It seems as though it would be trivial for an attacker to put the +1 button over every link on a page. You may even be able to have one tracking the mouse cursor.

[1] http://jsfiddle.net/prJG8/1/
Yes. Rather than having a table of methods in a class or prototype, each process has an event loop with a set of messages it can pattern match on.

The rough equivalent of a process changing from one class to another would be tail-calling into a different recieve { (set of pattern-matching expressions) } function. Instead of changing classes, it looks more like a state machine.
French ban Twitter and Facebook: Broadcasters told not to use the words
Designers live and die by their portfolio.