skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it sold in Japan?

I have a Sharp camera-phone, and in manner mode it does make a sound when taking any picture - except for the OCR and business card reading modes, in which it's impossible to save the image anyway. I found it inconvenient when I was at university and wanted to take the blackboard...

I've seen silent regular cameras, though.
The Age of Empires/Age of Mythology series (and Halo Wars) work in an analogous fashion. By the time we were working on AoM, we had a more sophisticated hashing system that allowed the actual program flow to be hashed to some extent (via lots of manual insertion of sync statements in relevant spots). This allowed you to have some insight about how a given client got into a certain state compared to the others. If you just hash the final state, it can be quite mysterious how it ended up wrong. For example there might be hundreds of actions that can change the hitpoints of a unit. If you see hitpoints go out of sync, it helps narrow the search space for the bug a lot to know something like "it was catapult 123's AOE curve calculation for archer 456" that diverged.
The housing here isn't cheap, either, but neither is it outrageous. 100m2 goes for 2500-4000RMB/月. Coming from NYC and SF, though, it's a steal. :)

Ping me if you're in town.
That's a great bit of technical expectation management.

"We'll accept up to 25MB!" And then when you send something 26 or 27MB because you don't notice that it's so close to the limit, the system forgives you.
So many little thing in life cause so much unnecessary stress. Oxford comma, one or two spaces after a period, and three or four space indentation in code.
"Our plan was to allow users to upload an image file, and display the uploaded image in the browser. Back in the 90's this would have qualified as a business model for an IPO."

Tru dat!
http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html

All or most of the packages are written in C and a great example to learn from. They might be a bit advanced for you but it's a great resource to see effective C code.
I've designed such a system a couple of years ago, too. When users complain about Excel, now that sounds to me:

They're really saying,
"I love Excel".

Don't forget it's only a tip of iceberg. Users will complain more about missing features after you built something users have cared about.
Hi, I'm the author. I would like to add much more relevant content to the book, but I need to be realistic about how much time I can spare for this currently. We will see how it works out.
I've been back and forth about how to respond to your comment. My initial reaction was "'func()' is a call and therefore returns an expression." Having thought about it, I don't really remember what my neophyte reaction would have been.
The methodology offered in the comments, of googling for http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&biw=1366&bih=653&#... and taking the number of results returned for the number of users, seems more direct. Currently that returns about 6.5 million users, which is in the same ballpark.
GM didn't fail because of product, that failed because of lack of management talent. GM had vastly higher costs than it competitors due to a heavily unionized workforce, long term dealership contracts that were losing them money, and a huge pension deficit (roughly $1500 from every GM car sold goes to paying pensions). It didn't matter how great their products were, they'd never be able to compete with new or foreign car manufacturers.
How record labels organize laptop hackathons to code and assemble hit songs
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Sookie feel free to meet this demand Eric
While Bill has become the new King of Louisiana on True Blood Season 3 Episode 4 Sookie tries to accept the suggestion to immediately resolve the problem with Eric, but Bill tells Sookie that he can not stop the action Eric.
Exactly; it's been around for two weeks and people who want to believe in what they know are testing out the waters with their theories on how Plus crystalizes the social networking landscape. Truth be told, it's an immature platform with no API, nobody is really using it for more than posting their thoughts about it and the developers at Google don't even know how it will turn out.

I would strongly suggest to tech journos that they hold back on making predictions until normals start using it.
Somewhat miss-labeled title..

1. No antitrust officials are probing the sale as of yet..one just got a letter of protest..

2. No discussion of the details of split of the 'rewards'...other better articles have detailed what the split might be as far as what patents go to which group in the consortium ..

3. Bankruptcy court was in Canada which means any anti-trust action is by the EU and yet no details..and yet better other articles have detailed that the EU is in fact reviewing the sale.

So what does this article offer? Lazy
At first I thought this was a copy of lineofthought.com, but it has been created in a way it can stand for it's own.
IANAL, but I think the Marching Cubes patent has expired now since it's been 20+ years since both filing and issuance: http://www.google.com/patents?vid=4710876
In context, this is referring to sound:

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a research report last year that hybrid vehicles are twice as likely to be involved in pedestrian crashes at low speeds compared with conventional vehicles. The study looked at circumstances in which vehicles were slowing down or stopping, backing up or entering or departing a parking space.

And for sheer quantities:

Nearly 4,100 pedestrians were killed and 59,000 were injured in 2009, according to the most recent data available.

And for how the blind themselves feel, rather than our guesses:

Blind pedestrians have pushed for the changes, saying the quiet purr of hybrids can pose risks for them because they use sound cues to travel safely.

http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/stories/hybrid-...
I thought the pattern was fake profiles.
Also at http://probe.ep.io/
The US has the empty housing, we just need the high GDP.
There's no reason those numbers need to sum to 100. E.g. 90% of X could be contolled by 30% of the people using X.
Hitler may have had Moroccan roots
You're a good writer, I think you should take it all the way to a full-size book, get O'Reilly to publish or self-publish on Amazon.
> can't always afford to act nobly

No, they cannot in all cases. But they can afford to not steal from their customers or direct them into a trap where they'll be stolen from on a recurring basis. It's not about the quality of the apps as the majority will be shite anyways, it's about the ethics of the people involved.
Next needed is cheap glasses sold separately in half pairs. Bye two halves, each fitting corresponding eye, then snap them together at the nose bridge.
Marriage stats would suggest that not even married folks are serious about marriage.
Browser extensions: hide g+ notifications on www.google.com
Hi Manuel! I didnt mean for it to sound the wrong way, as if I'm ungrateful for the work you have done. As I've mentioned, it really is good, and it got me up and running and experimenting with Node.js quickly (for which I'm thankful for!).

Maybe other people from HN can pick up the glove? Maybe a book deal with Manning/O'Reilly/Wrox (unless you're not interested in pursuing writing)?

I was just reading the Google+ public "How-to" collaborative doc the internet community has been building (http://bit.ly/qg0Yf6). Maybe the Node.js guide should take this format and make it into a living manual?
One good reason that it tickled Gates' bullshit detector is that up until Outlook 2002, the Outlook .PST file format was limited to 2GB; Microsoft had a recovery tool (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296088) to fix the problem. I knew someone who banged up against that limit as early as 2000, but only after saving every email they received (including many with huge attachments) for more than four years.
Vic Gundotra said that the APIs are coming but they are still deciding on features while in closed beta
I see about 2.8 million results from that query, but I'm not surprised the number changes a lot. The result counts are a very rough approximation calculated on the fly, and shouldn't be relied on for more than order-of-magnitude estimates.

The last name method is precise, but of questionable accuracy; the result count is probably more accurate, but very imprecise. Take your pick :).
https://github.com/languages/C
On dialing they might be cosmetic, but the tones are still used to communicate with remote services. When the machine says "Press 1 for English," it's relying on getting the right tones (1209 Hz and 697 Hz in DTMF). Sure, they could be sent in the background without letting the consumer hear them, but they're still being generated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-tone_multi-frequency_signa...
Very true; if I look at my Stream right now, it's probably 95% the equivalent of people saying "tap! tap! is this thing on?"

Obviously the point of a social network is the network effect, but there are some pretty basic capabilities missing from G+ that would limit its usefulness even if it had the critical mass of users already: no events and no photo tagging. And no poking ;-)
If I knew how easy it was to develop browser extensions that behave well I would have started much sooner. All I have to do is make sure the CSS gets injected before the DOM is loaded, and there won't be any flickering. Chrome and Safari both provide a mechanism for injecting CSS before the DOM is loaded with metadata.
Every time I see a grammatical argument like this, my first thought is that parentheses, or another way to precisely denote grouping and logical association, would instantly obviate the practice being discussed.
Oh, God, Starbucks. The only company where you drive to the boonies where their Corporate Headquarters is located, walk in and order a latte, and they tell you this story about, "to get coffee, you need to go to a starbucks store, not our cube farm".

P.S. Never ship anything with any FedEx service other than Express. Otherwise, use the postal service or UPS.
All cool, didn't sound the wrong way at all!

I think "Hands-on Node.js" by Pedro Teixeira is the perfect "next read" when you're finished with NodeBeginner. Pedro and I have bundled our eBooks at Leanbundle.com, maybe that's interesting for you: http://leanbundle.com/bundles/node
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Although I believe that Google+ is still a walled garden (there is no comprehensive protocol I can implement in Appleseed to let Appleseed users connect with Google+ users), I do agree that it isn't a silo (since you can move your data in and out).

I'm very optimistic for three reasons:

1. Google has a much better track record in the open web than Facebook. I don't think Google, due to it's market position, is nearly as threatened by the idea of being the one of the biggest fishes in a distributed pond than Facebook, whose bread and butter is social networking dominance. I don't see Google fighting an established social networking protocol, whereas I think Facebook would til the bitter end.

2. The world still needs a solid open source social networking package, and decentralization is icing on the cake. The current options are pretty awful, and software that can be used to start a niche social networking site is going to be a big deal, no matter how popular Google+ gets.

3. If Google+ pulls a plurality of users away from Facebook, it proves an important point that I've been fighting against for years: That nobody is ever #1 forever. Ever since Facebook got big, nobody could fathom that anyone could knock them down, even Google. And that's something that, as a free software developer, I have to push against. No hegemony is eternal, every empire falls.

Personally, I think this also releases some pressure on open source projects. Now, instead of an adversary in the form of Facebook, we have a potential ally. We may need to clang some pots and pans in the street for a while to get their attention, but that's a much better situation to be in than dealing with an entity like Facebook, whose relationship with the open web has been cynical and superficial at best.

In that regard, I'm more optimistic now than I was 6 months ago.
If it's a continuous function, they need to sum at some point.

A lot of real world things are close enough to continuous for all practical purposes, though I'll concede that we aren't actually sending and receiving email infinitesimals.
I predict Google+ will die out in 1.5 years. It's inevitable. Too many tech people are saying it's the next big thing.. that's scary... I don't think a lotta tech geeks predicted Facebook would succeed.. Tech ppl don't know social.
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Access Facebook from Google+
Oh, good riddance. It always seemed like such an obvious patent.
> How does every other freaking kids' site do this?

They generally get fined.

Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pro...

This is the law.
This service is very clean, Brings me back to the days when I would just listen to the tracks posted on ravelinks.com
I do agree with the comment about not being able to copy an artists name or song, and two features I would love to see are
1. a random/shuffle button, one that goes beyond the genre you are currently in.
2. the ability to click on a song and bring up more songs from that artists page.
Facebook has an API that lets you read & write to it. If having an API is what makes a social network Open then Facebook is more Open than Google+.
There is photo tagging: http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=130670...
My surname is so rare that by United States government policy it does not show up on federal lists of surnames by frequency.

http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/dist.all.last

I am on Google+.

A New York Times article

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/us/17surnames.html

establishes some context on the frequency of various surnames in the United States. English surnames are predominant, but Spanish surnames are gaining relative frequency.

P.S. Responding to another comment here, surely as more companies get into social networking, and social networking becomes a growing share of all Internet activity, third-party organizations will have to agree on standardized methodologies for estimating users of each service, to guide advertisers and investors, and to answer the questions of journalists. For the moment, I notice that Google+ has already achieved a status previously achieved for me by HN and by Facebook--I tend to keep a tab open to it at all times while I am browsing the Web.
How is this different from say, every third Hacker News article?
I read it to say "I don't use anything unless my friends think it's cool and I'll rapidly abandon something if they don't because I don't want to be an outlier."

That's a very narrow view of the world and it's my opinion as both a vim user and a software developer that one actually needs to use and tinker with applications before developing an informed opinion with research data that validates. Otherwise you're just bloviating.
I disagree. To actually know if greenhouse gases have an impact on Earth's average temperature, do we need a control Earth? In both cases the evidence is pretty clear.

On the other hand, doing a controlled experiment wouldn't be a bad thing, either, so if we just shut down the business schools for the next 50-100 years, perhaps we can find the answer at the end of the study and decide whether or not to open them back up again. :)
Just so people are clear - this isn't THE Paul Allen. This Paul Allen is a Utah-based entrepreneur.

I'm sure that's obvious to most here, but I thought it was worth pointing out.
Bill Gates' question made some sense. If mails are 3k each, and you have 1 GB of space, how many mails do you need to receive per day to get out of space in 6 months?

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%281+gigabyte+%2F+3kilo...

the answer is 1826 mails per day. I assume what happened here is that they didn't have good stats of the mail sizes in the conversation and Bill tried to estimate something like this and as a result, he thought it was ridiculous.
TED used to be awesome. 5 years ago when its talks page was dominated by scientists, philosophers, futurists and entrepreneurs, it was the best source of videos on the net.

Now the front page has some woman and her cello, some guy who survived cancer and someone talking about "a circle of caring". TED no longer represents people like me. It represents the politically correct and the boring.
I have seen this practice refered to as "Yoda conditionals" but never knew the reason for it. Although it reads wrongly (to me), I can now see the logic.

A lot of the code I write is JavaScript in Aptana, which has a real-time JSLint checker that warns against assignments in conditionals.
C&C series, at least the older pre-Generals ones, work the same way - hashing the full state in each frame and sending it over. When a desync is detected, it dumps checksums of the last 256 frames along with current frame's checksums of each object into a log file, these can be compared. The logs also contain brief printouts of most objects on the map, and we actually found an uninitialized field and a few more serious bugs thanks to these printouts.

The cheaters also found a small loophole in the hashing, because only specific fields are hashed and not entire objects, one important field was missed that gave cheaters an unfair advantage of seeing the current targets of their opponents' units. It is easy enough to fix when you know about it, fortunately.
How to Delete a Google+ Account

http://forkbombr.net/delete-google-plus-account/
Honestly, it looks like they made a list of current Facebook/LinkedIn functionality, dropped the childish annoyances, implemented groupings and are in the process of tying together their other services to fill the gaps that they need not build into this first version of the platform. Like ahh points out, Picasa will have tagging, I'd assume your Google calendar will provide event coordinating at some point in the future and Zynga will provide entertainment to those whose streams don't get a lot of traffic.
> "anchored in the old paradigm of storage being a commodity that must be conserved"

The author seems to think that Google's innovation was to simply ignore the storage problem and then it went away.

What they did was work immensely hard at the storage problem, until their innovations in data compression and retrieval made it possible to store larger amounts of data. http://highscalability.com/google-architecture
Looks useful, but why make smoke.confirm work differently from plain confirm? It uglifies the API for no gain, IMHO.
Thanks!

If I ever do a second edition, I feel like I should add a bunch of recipes to the "cooking for one" section. There's a book out, something like "What we eat when we eat alone," that looks at just how different our diets our when eating solo.

Best metaphor I can give for easy, cooking-for-one meals: Flip books, as in those spiral-bound children's books where you can flip different sections of the page, you know, show this hair with those eyes and that nose and this mouth. Same thing for easy meals: a protein with a veggie with a grain/starch with some seasoning. Not all combos work, of course, but it's amazing at how much does.

Grains/starches take the longest to cook, so I've just taken to cooking an entire (small) bag of beans or lentils or whatever and storing it in a container in my fridge. This'll last half a week, easily. When it comes to cooking, I'll pan-cook a piece of fish, or maybe tofu; occasionally ground turkey or chicken, and when it's mostly done cooking, toss in a handful of beans/lentils to heat them up, along with a handful of pre-washed veggies (the bagged kind from Trader Joe's) and then some seasoning -- maybe cayenne pepper or curry powder or oregano.

Start to finish, it's ~5 to 10 minutes (I've had some practice, admittedly); during which time I wash any lingering dishes and clean up other stuff. You can cook a double or triple batch and stash the leftovers for taking to work for lunch.

Fast, easy, cheap, healthy... and delicious, too.

P.S. If you don't have a container of pre-cooked stuff, microwaves are great for yams/potatoes... ~4 to 5 minutes and you're good to go.
Someone's already made glasses whose lenses are membranes filled with mineral oil or something similar. They can be "focused" with a screwdriver (adjusting circumference, ergo pressure and convexity, or some such) -- and, of course, each lens can be adjusted separately.

They are also, per the articles I saw, cheap to make. Not necessarily a fashion statement, but supposedly quite functional. If they are for read and exist in production -- some of these "good idea" articles are just that.
I trust the Motley Fool more because of that. Their columnists are free to argue with each other, and to be honest I've loved their 4-part "dueling fuels" series. Excluding the content just for newbies, I've found it some of the most educational reading on any finance site.
I feel like the alert and confirm modals should not be allowed to be dismissed by clicking outside. Especially confirm: "Destroy all. Yes, No?" -> click outside...nothing.
Pretty much everything has been ported to Java. Almost no one programming in Java uses native libraries at all. I cant think of libraries that were not ported; the Java ecosystem is now very self comtained relying on innovation within its own community.

Essentially Java replaced C++ in most of the enterprise programming market.
Didn't sign in, because I couldn't get any information about it without signing in with twitter. And I'm not going to sign into a site with my twitter account unless I know what the hell it is.
Doesn't work on ipad
How would you make it return true/false immediately when the user has to click OK or Cancel?
Electronic music charts that you can listen to, the twitter sign in is for the chat feature. It's meant to be music to work to all day. Sorry for the confusion.
3k is a bit small...

consider, those are newspaper people. they send HTML emails, PDFs, scans, photos, all that stuff. wouldn't surprise me if they collected a few megs a day. busy people.
Those are great links - thanks for the info :)
I'm thinking of looking into accountants after I start to make money; up 'til then I'll just keep records, since I'm assuming that I won't be making enough to cover the costs of accountants for a long time during my experimental phase.
Thanks again,
JB
I have never heard it called "Yoda conditionals" before. That is awesome.
That's interesting; if I anonymize by searching through Google Sharing, I also get 2.8 million results. Searching from my own IP address (though without being logged in) still gives 6.5 million.
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Oh, good point. I clearly need more caffeine in my system.
nope, i don't do that... maybe i will someday