skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey there, fair point and we're workin on a tour! For now you can see screen shots on SwissMiss's website. Should be enough to convince :-)
They trademarked "280".
Of course. But in this case Dropbox's statement tracks clause by clause, and there's quite a bit of lexical overlap.
MIT Develops Electronic Glasses That Can Read Emotions
AdMob sucks. IMO they do this on purpose to discourage small publishers. I've also heard, from a reliable source, that they also send you worse traffic until your account is more "established", and if your early CTR sucks, you may never get the bump. I've heard of people having to start new accounts after their first few campaigns do poorly.

I suggest you try InMobi and AdModa. (Not affiliated with either except that I've been happy with the traffic I bought there)
A Disloyalty Program Dismisses Competition in Favor of Collaboration
Hacking the Earth, a Technical Debt Horror Story
Software Patents are Becoming a Tax on Innovation
Fixing When Windows Media Player Library Won’t Let You Add Files
Sometimes we can get some problem with our Windows Media Player. We can’t add files to Windows Media Player’s library no matter what we do. Then the problem may be that your database is corrupted and
Antimosquito iPhone App
Yes, when you pour money down the money hole, you do tend to get a few things in return. My real question, which we'll see answered hopefully over the next few years, isn't "Were the capabilities we got with the shuttle cool?" but "Was the shuttle a cost-effective way to obtain those capabilities?"

And it's really hard to look at the Shuttle program and say yes.

In general, we really need to get over whining about what we could have if only we could spend money we don't have.
Thanks hackermom, we <3 u
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Because you might have a $500 testing budget and want to test how your campaign does over the course of the week. You lose out on valuable data even if your $500 in a few minutes converts well.
I just replaced most of our bulbs with CFLs a couple years ago. I don't think I'll be jumping to Switch lights (or any other LEDs) for a while. There doesn't seem to be that much of lifetime savings between CFL and LED, but maybe when the CFLs need replacing, LEDs will be more cost competitive.
Well, this is about misalignment of incentives. If you are a search user, you are not Google's customer. You are their product. They sell you to people who buy adwords - whoever they may be.
Did you not read my post? I said they could easily (relatively) solve the issue of these guys turning up in search results.

The problem they can't solve, I argue, is to ensure that people violating copyright law (of some arbitrary country) can't advertise with Adwords.

Edit: Look, I can do retrospective edits too!
LED light bulbs have gotten bad reviews in the past, which is why they aren't some magic alternative to CFLs. The author kind of glosses over that part.

For instance: http://a.wholelottanothing.org/led-bulbs/
Which fake software is this? If it's already taken control of the client side, too, couldn't it just be altering the root certificate set rather than exploiting some weakness of the union of all of the existing roots (which no doubt have many such weaknesses regardless)?
Back? That's assuming the pirate would have otherwise bough the game. This is only partially true. Without piracy, most pirates would play fewer games.

And by the way, it appears some did: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2738447
This is a bit off-topic, but I've been working on a little framework for two-triangles-and-a-shader WebGL demos for a couple days and figure that some people might find it useful. I still have stuff to do to wrap it up for v1 (e.g. allowing multiple shaders and render-to-texture, write docs, etc) but it's available at https://github.com/daeken/windowpane . I've been using it to build my entries for the Mozilla Demoparty competitions, and you can see examples here: http://demoseen.com/windowpane/conc.html http://demoseen.com/windowpane/plasma.html
Isn't Brazil a large government? From a neighbour country, trust me that it is.
Are there any good guides or tutorials for DIY bioinformatics? Targeted for people who are interested to learn about bioinformatics in practice in addition to theory.
"Can jailbreaking make my device less secure?

By itself, jailbreaking does not make you vulnerable.
However, a common mistake for jailbreakers is to install OpenSSH but forget to change the passwords for root and mobile; this lets anyone log into your device over the Internet. If you install OpenSSH, remember to change the password!"

-- http://www.jailbreakme.com/#moreinfo
Which domain registrar is best?
I am completely uninterested in Facebook, twitter and all that came before. And I am old.

But recently almost everyone around my age and younger has joined Facebook/twitter/etc. And I keep waiting for this to end, for people to become bored with it, but it seems the world is moving away from face to face and voice communication.

It seems everyone is moving to web based social interaction. I remember when only the biggest geeks at my university preferred on-line chat over face to face interaction. But that time, our old timer's time, seems to be passing. And social networking is now how people keep in touch, how they maintain a key element of their social sphere.

And I've noticed it when even friends my age have organized things on facebook and then apologized to me since because I'm not on facebook, they briefly forgot I exist.

Or I'd like to believe them, that's what really happened ;)

I'm in no rush to join G+ (I keep typing "++"!) And if/when I do, I'll probably keep my circles very tight. But speaking as an old guy, the more time goes by the more I accept the reality that social networking is becoming part of our culture, just like the telephone once did.

But I could do with a bit fewer news items about G+ per day.

P.S.

(I also get a lot of crap from my friends for not carrying a cell phone.)
I was thinking Google Hangouts may be the thing that prevents Turntable.fm from gaining more traction, you can essentially already "ghetto dj" in a hangout by playing YouTube videos of music.
Unfortunately, I get almost no opportunities to actually test with our zero-experience users.

Seems like you just have to hit the mall. What kind of software are you guys making?
It seems like random packages like to install OpenSSH as a dependency though.
One of the problems with the rest of Florida is that Orlando seems to attract all of the talent in the area. So it leaves the other areas such as Miami, Jacksonville and to a lesser extent Tampa at a loss for talent (not saying there are not talented people, just that many head for other areas) due to the fact that many developers that stay in Florida eventually wind up in Orlando and to a lesser extent Tampa.

On a personal level, I had the choice of going to Miami or Orlando when I started my career. I opted for Orlando due to less crime and a generally friendlier community. Miami has been voted the worst city to drive in for several years for a reason. Given the option of Orlando or Tampa if one wants to be on the water, many opt to forgo Miami. I did, and I know many others that do for the same reasons.
Some, with limitations to most of the retained capabilities. The X-37B is substantially smaller and is not manned. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37

1. Gentle delivery of large modules for attachment to existing complexes. - Probably lost, the main reason the shuttle is gentle is because it carries fragile humans.

2. Bringing cargo down gently. - Partially lost: the cargo bay is much smaller.

3. Safe "proximity operations." - Lost or at least made much more challenging.

4. Temporary deployment of a workbench in orbit for experiments, repairs, and other assembly. - Lost.

5. High-precision research orbits with specialized instrumentation. - Likely not lost.

6. Flexibility of crew composition. - Lost.
You know, I think I'd rather have an extra $19.50 right now than a light bulb that maybe pays off 4 or 5 years from now.
It is surprisingly challenging. The mouse doesn't input position, it inputs movement, and not all movement, but movement of a specific point on a plane aligned to itself (not the screen, not the hand) and only if you slide it against a surface, and not your exact movement, due to acceleration and stopping at screen edges. And then it has buttons! And a wheel! And an ominous red light!

A good start is to just put their hand on the mouse, put your hand over theirs, and tell them to watch the cursor.
"First, let's be clear: I am speaking to anyone but console/mobile/AAA developers here."

Well, if you're targeting mobile, and by 'mobile' you include Android, you already have to use Java. You could use Clojure in this case as well, but Clojure in my experience is too inconvenient on Android to be worth it (yet.)
If you haven't checked out three.js yet, you should. Mr. Doob really knows his 3D and makes it really easy to draw cool stuff. http://github.com/mrdoob/three.js -- there's examples there.
foreigners are not welcome in berlin? your investigation about berlin seems to lack many relevant aspects and isn't objective at all. do you care more about the people who complain about tourists than all the other really relevant points that are meaningful for a tech startup (young talented people, universities, cheap rent, infrastructure etc.)? berlin is THE city in germany where most foreigners live. i think this speaks for itself. you have talked to leftists who always in general don't like change in their environment and who would always prefer to live in the past than in the future. Come back to berlin again and talk to people from the districts in zehlendorf, steglitz, charlottenberg, mitte, etc.! i bet you will get the opposite answer there, especially if you mention that you would like to come here to setup a company that will create wealth for the berliner society & environment.

BTW: in nearly every other place on this planet locals who live at tourist places complain about them, e.g.: mallorca, thailand (phuket), italy...
Well its practically an advertisement for Switch Lightning. (I sense PRs at work). There are LED bulbs in the market already and they are not new, but the legislation limiting incandescent lightning is new.
In retrospect, yeah, I feel like an idiot for bidding the suggested bid. I've run pretty substantial campaigns on both facebook and google adwords though, and always had good experience bidding somewhere within 20% of the bid.

I also maybe was slightly duped by this statement after setting moderately restricted targeting:

"You have selected market area or demographic targeting options. As a result, you will receive significantly fewer impressions."

But thanks, and for anyone reading this, don't advertise paid apps on Admob, and don't bid anything higher than $0.10 if you have a small campaign.
I fail to see where the article implies Brazilan government would try to control either office suite. What I read was they would work together and support. If they hire a dozen developers (and, from my experience with FLOSS within the Brazilian government, they would be very clever people) we should be happy, right?

I also see this commitment would go a long way in creating and documenting the means to support OOo an LO in very large installations, helping develop the technologies companies would use to deploy them.
Heh. I saw switch at LightFair - and I asked the guy whether the envelope was made of glass, and what the liquid was made of. Both questions he skirted around.

Me personally, I'd rather have broken glass and a microscopic amount of mercury vapor, than broken glass and a huge "liquid" stain. Switch isn't over the hump yet.
why don't you submit the original than this reprint? (besides the comments on the new one)

http://altdevblogaday.com/2011/07/06/why-you-might-want-to-c...
I'm thinking they don't need a separate "events" feature, but just tight integration with Google Calendar. When I can create an event in GCal and invite by Circles, etc., then they'll have a pretty slick "events" setup.
td;lr version:

A bunch of corporate lawyers have created a set of proposed license agreements for use with free software that they named Project Harmony. The main effect of these agreements is to provide a lot of protection to corporations, while giving the corporations subtle outs to let them violate the free software licenses that you thought everyone was bound by.

Here is my personal opinion on the arguments given.

- If you believe in strong copyleft, the arguments are likely to be persuasive.

- If you're more in the "let me write code, I don't care what people do with it" BSD school, the agreements are going to seem much weaker.

- If you're a company, the agreements will seem like a good thing, IF you can get developers to agree to it.

- If you're a company who wants to pursue a dual licensing strategy (available for all under the GPL, but you can license to other people under a commercial license), the agreements would be an excellent thing.

As for me, personally? I understand what they are for, but don't want to bother with them if I don't have to. There is too little value added for me, personally.
In case anyone is considering this and wants an additional level of simplicity added to LWJGL, Slick is a great library for easy 2D graphics. http://slick.cokeandcode.com/
Going outside was a bad idea and dangerous from the start. Bring on the pizza delivery and cable TV!

See, that ain't no way to run a civilization. Without taking (calculated) risks, we're nothing.
These exist - but the $20 price tag is only possible using subsidization from investment funding. There are at least $20 worth of LEDs in the Switch bulbs - meaning they will be making negative dollars on each sale at $20. But that's how they make the stats look so appealing.

That, and they're made of glass filled with an unknown liquid, is the reason I'm not very convinced by Switch.
I think you missed my point. But, let's refute anyway:

30.2% of the world have internet access, so it's fair to assume many have not used a computer and will not know anyone who has when they start

Just like many "technically literate" westerners 15 years ago.

The car analogy is poor because you are required by law to take lessons in most (all?) countries.

Please, learn to understand metaphors - I was illustrating a point, not making a mathematical proof. Also, I think you mean you are required by law to pass a test, not take lessons. Certainly when I did my driver's test, they didn't grill me on the amount of time spent learning, but on how I actually drove.

The search engine was the default page in the Firefox screenshot so it's safe to assume some will see it.

Yes, Firefox's default homepage is a custom page that is a front-end for Google. It is not Google.

UI should be constructed for a userbase, however, technically literate, westerners who have spent most of their adult life with easy access to technology, are not the only userbase or even the majority in the world.

If you're honestly suggesting for a single, globally accessible webpage, you're going to run into i18n trouble long before you have to worry about alienating unmotivated users. I find this point of yours weird given that I thought I was fairly clearly indicating that I was talking about current search engine userbases, not 'all possible userbases that might ever be'

And if most of the world is not technically literate, so? They're not going to become any more so because of a simple friendly sentence on a search engine that they can't get to by themselves anyway. The same thing will happen in the developing world as it did here in the west: the motivated and eager blaze the way, and the knowledge filters down to everyone else through them.

Twenty years ago we didn't even have Mosaic. Everything the laypeople of the west have learned about using the internet has been learned in a mere 15 or so years. Pretty amazing especially considering that the internet itself was still figuring out what it was useful for during that time.

Before the 90s, laypeople in the west had access to technology in the form of tvs, remote controls, microwaves. Anywhere there is electricity, people have access to the same kind of technology - physical buttons control functions. If there's electricity, folks will have at least a similar level of understanding as pre-internet westerners (no point in providing electricity to people who don't have lights or appliances, after all). If there's no electricity... well... computers are going to have a hard time running.
Facebook doesn't even have an iPad experience, it's just the normal page with a lot of bugs not appearing on desktop browsers. You can't create mulitple paragraphs in comments because shift-enter is not possible etc.
> is Google meant to run a background check on each and every report?

Yes. They get money from advertisement, they should check reports.

> does this not put Google at risk of being sued by the removed advertiser?

No. If Google ToS banishes copyright infrigement, they can remove advertisers without questionning.

> or, if Google wrongfully removes a legitimate advertiser, does this not put them at risk of being sued?

Sued? This is inside Google system, respecting Google ToS. They have the right to banish accounts and have done repeatedly in the past.

> which broken laws - of which country - should justify removal?

CA, USA, of course.

> how should they solve the potential problem of scammers flooding the report system?

How do they solve spam on gmail?

> I don't think it's their job to police copyright.

I disagree on Adsense, but agree on Search. Making money from illegal activities is illegal in most (if not all ) countries.
"Nuclear mishaps tend to come in big events—Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima—so it’s more visible. Coal and natural gas have much lower capital costs, and they tend to kill only a few at a time, which is highly preferred by politicians."
Well that is a really good question. I have had the same thoughts about consolidation to one, but it's hard since none really offer all domain extenstions I own.

I have been with Godaddy for a long time (before I moved away and got on the train again). It's ugly and a shitty organisation but it just works and is rather cheap.

I have some domains hosted with mediatemple since they had a great 5£/com offer not long ago.

There are a few others out there that I hear often like

namecheap

gandi

hover

On this topic it's really interesting to read http://www.marco.org/2011/04/14/why-is-it-so-hard-to-be-a-go...

I guess I could go on and on with the list, but the only thing I can not do so far: give a surefire, perfect and reliable solution. I guess it also comes down to personal preference in the end.
Can you always control what you can measure? As much as I liked the idea, I don't think this is really true. I do however think the opposite is true: "You can't control what you can't measure" as the maxim goes.
TeamLab celebrates first anniversary with new version
Nodetuts in CoffeeScript
One of the complaints about "Beautiful Code" was that chapters were all over the map. We therefore decided at the outset of this project to focus on architecture, not on the sociodynamics of open source projects. If you'd like to organize a book on the latter, I'd be happy to help you round up contributors.
- Greg Wilson
Gemcutter Maintainership Call to Arms
I'm not surprised. Even my no-name state university did not teach source control or any editor/IDE skills. I picked all of that up from the other students and learned even more by coding myself into a corner, fun!

But that's all because I knew I wanted to be a practicing programmer, not just a computer scientists.

A lot of university cs programs have this attitude that practical knowledge (and I'd argue that source control is beyond practical, it's essential) is yucky and should be left to the technical and vocational schools.

But things like iterating and heavy editing and re-writing are in no way programming specific, the exact same principles apply to writing plain old English. Does anyone know if English departments teach these things?
interesting, I don't remember them ever being very prominent. maybe that's just me not paying attention to the software I use :)

I'm not sure if Google will experience the same thing with Circles. I think what will happen (enter speculative mode) is there will be a large group that LOVES classifying their friends like this, and they will stick with G+. Another large group will HATE it, find it extremely annoying/pointless (possibly because of only using one or two circles, like you mentioned), and maybe stick with FB. Either way, people will most likely end up with an account on both, using one actively and one passively.
My fiancee knits a ton and loves Ravelry, so naturally I had to read through the dev blog a while back. Has anyone seen anything fun done with the API?
The gender gap argument never held much weight for me... there are a number of studies saying that if you adjust for a certain number of factors, the gap is pretty narrow (IE women who didn't take time off to have kids, etc)

While women now make up a majority of college students, there is also a factor of what they study. They make up just a third of top-tier b-schools, for one thing, and a smaller number at engineering schools.

Here's an interesting study: Women don't negotiate...
http://neweconomist.blogs.com/new_economist/2006/07/menstrua...
The power supply is definitely the critical limiting factor in LED light bulbs. The thing is that to make it rugged for uneven power situations - as you say - you have to use large electrolytic capacitors, which then have a reduced lifetime of their own (and sometimes contain Polychlorinated biphenyls). These limit the lifespan to ~25000 or so hours and burn out while the LED array is still in good shape.

Compared to CFL's, the circuitry is less extreme - LEDs are low voltage devices unlike mercury arcs - and so the driver can definitely last much longer and be more reliable than a comparable CFL ballast.
We speak here about US law, not arbitrary country, because that where Google is based.

They can solve the problem of checking reports on US copyright violations with Adwords.
Google doesn't have a history of successful product dev in the social space, so I don't know why everyone assumes this time will be different.
Except those risks must be evaluated against the reward. In this present day and age, what exactly do we gain from using humans instead of robots in space that justifies their expense?
Scala seems to be a little better to work with in this case.

I think he is just referring to iOS. However I have to disagree the author that it's suitable for desktop GUI applications. I hate running Java programs on desktops (may be except Eclipse), as they always take much more resources than they actually needs, while still maintaining ugly interfaces all over different platforms, or would require much more work for the developers to solve issues with incompatibilities over different configurations of Java installs. For GUIs, Java is _still_ (for since Swing was available) not the choice.
I have seen more than one Sharepoint intall crash so badly that the company was crippled for hours because they couldn't access their documents nor be sure they were working with the most recent versions. Having a regularly (as frequently as needed) exported mirror is a top priority for any SP-like application.

And, of couse, when you do realize SP is utterly awful when compared to its competitors, it makes the migration a lot easier.

I can easily imagine a migration from SP a couple years down the road would cost a lot more than the US$250K they are being offered to leave Notes (which is every bit as awful as SP)
http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/06/apple-obtains-u-s-trademark...