skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My impression is that the majority of global trade is either in the form of services, which involve only transporting bits (e.g., a US hospital emailing X-rays to an Australian radiologist); capital, which involves even fewer bits; and physical goods that can be transported cheaply by ocean freight and rail. (Shipping a standard cargo container from Asia to the US costs less than US$2000; think of how many iPhones can fit into a box that size.)
> there is no way to interpret it in such a way that the regular google.com shouldn't be blocked. I don't know if the newspapers asked for too much

I think theoretically it would be possible if and only if they specialized Google's crawler and rendering to only render a link (no preview, no cache link) for these sites and these sites only.

Why they'd bother doing that is anyone's guess.
I think his point is that it's just a tool that makes it a little easier for startups to incorporate machine learning into their products - like he said, it may be appropriate for some types of problems, but not all. But I'm sure we'll start to see more tools like that become more widely used.

When AJAX first came out, not everyone knew how to do it - but now, everyone can drop in jQuery and do all sorts of complex things relatively easily.
It should definitely tell you something that he had to check file sizes to determine if the song was 320 kbps.

Spotify knows most users just don't care - so they don't really care either.
Goals aren't results. Ruxum has the goal of bringing "Wall Street-level" security to BitCoin trading. We won't have a good idea of whether they've succeeded until they've come under sustained attack by intelligent hackers for long periods of time, and stood up. (And note I said "good idea" even so, not "proof".)

I also read the security policy at https://x.ruxum.com/security . It's nice and all, and does sound to be off on a better track, but being really, really secure is hard. I'm not saying they haven't succeeded, I really don't know (or much care). I'm just commenting on how phrasing it as if it's a done deal, rather than a goal, is cognitively hazardous.
FSF: Microsoft's Empty Promise (http://www.fsf.org/news/2009-07-mscp-mono)
The bubble is clearly in social networking marketing rather than actual technology. The value that VC's are putting on unmonetizable audiences is completely absurd.

However the story is different for legitmate tech companies. There is a genuine boom occuring in the mobile/cloud technology space. It is a paradigm shift on a scale probably 100 times larger than the shift to personal computers.
First, I am reacting to the original commenter, and pointing out that your post does not answer my question to the original commenter.

Second, I do know the difference between concurrency and parallelism (since I use the latter a lot, and the former in the rare occasion of writing GUI programs). Anyway, your ad hominems do not serve the discussion.

Third, mentioning 'actors' and OpenMP is one sentence was poking a bit of fun at the overly broad statements often made by fans of Scala (and Erlang) about what Actors will do. But the next time I will leave my sardonicism at the door.
This article could have been titled;
"Novell gets rid of Mono Customers" or "Xamarin now Mono-alone" but instead it's spun as "Novell/Xamarin Partnership around Mono". Don't you love good PR?

Surely both "partners" are supposed to do something? I don't see Novell lifting a finger here except to abandon their existing Mono customers, get rid of all Mono IP (Mono has IP?) and in every way shape and form wash their hands of the whole thing.

That's good for Xamarin I guess - and kudo's to them if they can make it all work. I'm not sure this is a "win" for Mono - but I guess it's the best of a bad situation.
I'm not feeling as good about it. What I see is Novell washing their hands of Mono and giving it to a company that has existed for a few months. Now more than ever Mono exists as long as Miguel de Icaza wants to keep working on it. At least with Novell there was some cushion from that.
After reading this thread (more than once, now... it about doubled while I was asleep), I just have to say thank you to Panos. Obviously you've hit on a topic that everyone finds relevant and of merit to discuss. Unfortunately, you're encountering a lot of unconstructive negative feedback and emotional responses. In reality, I think very few of the responders truly understand what being a professor is like mentally and emotionally, and (understandably) only equate it to the three hours a week they saw their professors back in college.

You've identified a very real and very serious problem, and come up with some ways to beat it. You tried doing things the 'normal' and 'right' way (e.g. to pursue cheaters) and found the system to be a total failure in this regard. People read your title, however, and think you're giving up. They started skimming and didn't make it to the end where you explain that you aren't pursuing cheating because you are going to change your assignments to prevent it entirely. This isn't a matter of criticism - it's a matter of applause.

Simply by reading a lot of the comments here, I'm particularly bothered by people's attitudes and understanding (or lack thereof) for your situation. Your capacity thus far to proceed with calm conversation has been impressive, and I hope all the negative feedback doesn't get under your skin. I know that having thick skin is part of being a teacher (though should it, really?), but we're all human on the inside - something most people never think about the teachers they've met.
It may not be since it leaves interpretation of intention of the visit up to you. With the webcam, although the feed may be muted, you could still find out more.
I giggled when I realized that the author of this piece was in a hurry, and almost certainly thinks that Heroku is a Japanese company.

"Marc Benioff, the boss of Salesforce.com, a large 'cloud computing' firm in Silicon Valley, sees opportunities everywhere in Japan. Over the past year the company paid $212m for Heroku, which develops web services based on Ruby, and acquired stakes in Synergy Marketing, Uhuru and Netyear, three business-software firms."

With a name like Heroku, news that Matz is joining Heroku, and Heroku doing Ruby in the cloud, it is an easy mistake on deadline to conclude that Heroku is a Japanese company. The other three companies mentioned are all actually Japanese companies.
well I found cofounder thru HN. Finding someone who interested in- could happen someday, but I think getting meaningful feedbacks about it and improving idea by building prototype is the right way I think. And if you already shared it but no response, then you should practice how to describe your idea looks interesting.

I read many HN posts to share ideas and trying to get response, but most of them are too long and too detailed. Of course some ideas require long descriptions, but most of them, No. I spent so many times to describe my project sounds cool and interesting. 2 sentences that just describe what will happen next with idea > 50 sentences with description of all features you're thinking.
The hacker culture is all about doing what you can, and saying "screw you" to anyone who tries to tell us what is principled or not. If you want to talk principles go to church.
Show HN: Our startup - Etherpad meets Wiki: Metaboard, the Real-time Wiki
Their security claim appears to revolve around signing up with "Trust Guard":

http://www.trust-guard.com/

I can sum up my take on this by saying I've never heard of "Trust Guard".
I guess that a good point. I wonder what kinds of bad implementations of the api we'll see. What a great revenue stream for google - what startup won't use the api in some way? I know i'm setting it up tonight and using it on at least one project.
Startup VlogTree and Timetravel communication
C# has copy/paste or zip files from http://www.codeproject.com/

Edit: this is a joke
It's perfectly fitted to make your own widget or add new one. Almost all our widgets are subclassed from another one, and we believe that the simplicity to make your own widget speed up the testing process. We even think that if you don't have a perfect widget that fit to your need, it sometimes simpler to subclass and changes or add new behavior / graphics.
Check: http://kivy.org/docs/guide/firstwidget.html#your-first-widge... for a complicated widget that tracing all the touches + trails

What's make Kivy specific to NUI is we have an approach that combine every possible input into one event. That's unlikely because most of times, you have event for specific device (on_mouse_down/move.., on_object_down/move..., on_touch_... )
Here, we have uniq event dispatch, and extensible motion event that deliver all the data he can deliver (position, angle, acceleration, image...). It's called profile, and a motion event can deliver information according to one or more profile. For example, the mouse will fill properties of the "pos" profile, instead of Wacom tablet that will fill "pos", "pressure", or even TUIO with fiducials object that will fill "markerid" and "angle".
Then you can do specific interaction or filter specific motion event according the profiles delivered in the current touch.

All the widgets are made using that approach, make it possible multiple interactions at the same time.

Not sure if it'm 100% clear, best is to read & try :)
You commit a fallacy here because your comment (as well as the one it's in reply to) assumes that work is rewarded proportionally to its value.

No, I nor my comment don't assume any such thing. You commit a fallacy by assuming that because I do not think people should expect work to be rewarded in proportion to how hard it is that therefore I think work is rewarded in proportion to how valuable it is. If only.

Work is perhaps more likely to be rewarded based on greater value, but one has to make the case for the reward. Most of the time claiming "It's hard" as the reason will not get you much reward.

If you have the bargaining power to get paid more, you get paid more regardless of your contributions.

No kidding; this is part of my point.

Unfortunately there are cultural tropes that keep people from learning this sooner rather than later.
I probably did the calculations[1] wrong but the value I'm getting for the apparent magnitude of 55 Cancri B at 1000 AU with an absolute magnitude of 12.66[2] is about -3.9121 which, if located in our Solar system, would be bright enough to see in daylight, despite being almost 35 times as distant as Pluto is to the Sun.

[1] http://ceres.hsc.edu/homepages/classes/astronomy/spring99/Ma...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55_Cancri
Closer to a smaller, cooler star.
Search Kivy on the market: https://market.android.com/search?q=kivy&so=1&c=apps
> they want one hand to feed them, and the other to keep away.

They dont seem to be in a negotiating position to express "wishes" which then somehow have to be granted in the exact way they want them.
There's nothing useful you can do against that kind of stuff, so I'd recommend you just document your API correctly and if people want to be stupid, them's the break.

I mean nothing stops a java developer from implementing a List throwing some kind of NotImplementedException everywhere (in fact, using `java.util.Collections.unmodifiableList` would be sufficient as that's exactly what it does: throw UnsupportedOperationException on every access to a mutation method, so it's going to blow up any time it's passed to an API which wants to modify the list it's given)
It's all about easy to use. Easy to use saves time (and money).

Gimp can do what Photoshop can do but it will take you twice the amount of time. If time is not an issue it's not a problem.

Some things slowing you down in Gimp:

Working with text.
A layer has a size.
Out of focus problems of your tools and working area.
ok I am done with the could ;)
That's an explanation for some of the examples, but I think a lot of the times it's actually really simple, along the lines of, "we sift through some data and correlate it". The odd thing is, that often works, especially for user-facing perceptual stuff where there's a strong placebo effect, even more especially if you salt liberally with some hand-tuned biasing. Sort of how The Sims is able to use some super-simple algorithms to give the impression of interesting characters.

However, if you do need some real magic to be done, and your product really won't work without it, then things get trickier; bad statistics, or at least statistics not really used correctly, is really common in the innards of these kinds of products.
Anti-cheating lectures aren't similar. The thing that caused problems here was a mass of effort spent going against specific students. Was that also the case with your professors?
So... You are suggesting me to write this entire report based on "from what I heard, about 70% of the 100 tracks I auditioned are probably not at 320 kbps"?...
I've been directed to drive through a river to get to a village on the other side. At some point there must have been a ford, but last year it really was just a river. When using navigation software outside of cities I'm extremely careful and try to look up the route before I leave due to these problems in mountainous, barely-habited environments.
I usually go outside and taking some photos(I mean not a snap camera. DSLR). Looks so basic, but it's kinda helpful to achieve work-life balance to me :D I think if you have to invest to you a little bit for balance, that's meaningful.
OT: Google says it is 8:15pm in India, but still people working there.
So we're talking about a free market, yes? Ideally, if folks didn't like the pricing scheme that ICANN has presented, they'd go to a competitor. Then you could "fight with your wallet", to quote the article. Where is ICANN's competition?
False analyogy. Playboy is a pornography magazine. But reddit is not playboy. Just look at the front page of reddit if you're logged in, no pornography. Create an account, no porn, etc.

If reddit is a pornography site, then so is google.
Still, it won't look like 'two suns in the sky', but more like Venus.
I've found serious problems with those tools. Often there are visible quality differences in the output vs the commercial alternatives.
Weeds Season 7 Episode 4: A Hole in Her Niqab
Probably, if you guys happened to watch Weeds Season 7 Episode 4 online this coming Monday night, you’re going to witness another spectacular show from the series.
From M2M to The Internet of Things: Viewpoints From Europe
Sony Supports B.TWEEN3D, which will Debate the Future of 3D July 21st
IPhone 4 survives fall from skydiver's pocket
Quoting the quote: "At the heart of common carriage is the idea that certain businesses are either so intimately connected, even essential, to the public good, or so inherently powerful—imagine the water or electric utilities—that they must be compelled to conduct their affairs in a nondiscriminatory way."
Since the author apparently supports the above view, the proper questions are: what is the public good, and does it justify the use of force ("must be compelled") against any individual or business who produces something deemed to be of public importance. A person who "compels" non-criminals to do anything they do not choose to do cannot claim to be an honest protector of the public good.
/r/spacedicks.

Given the diversity of there subreddits, I don't think you can claim reddit "is" anything. Reddit is a hardcore pornography site if you want it to be.
Do you notice this difference on a music track if you don't know the bitrate? If you know that something is 128, then many people think it's worse.
I might as well point out that whether because of "fuck" or in spite of it, this website has made it to the front page.

I'd wager the commenters lobbing posts at this page in defense of their dainty sensibilities are representatives of the vocal minority. Also, they are probably advocates of profanity filters and, given free reign in a community, will murder natural discourse.
See also

http://lwn.net/Articles/451971/#Comments

and

https://github.com/ewust/telex/blob/master/telex-client/ISSU...

for why it's not real-world-ready yet.
> The worst part about these issues is that they aren't consistent, and fail completely silently. Global variables cause heisenbugs - you'll only notice when there's a collision

Firefox has had the ability to warn about implicit globals for quite some time now, and strict mode will error out when encountering an implicit global being created.
There's a reason Adobe is so entrenched in this market -- The products are actually good. They include new features that take the OSS alternatives years to implement, if they ever do.
Definitely. It would look like a pretty damn bright star, but not like a second Sun.
Ah but now you're bringing up so many more profound issues, such as centralized versus decentralized DNS, what a decentralized DNS even means, whether there should be a DNS, the SSL certificate authority man-in-the-middle fiasco, etc.

In the current situation, a domain name is property, which means it can only have one owner, which means that someone must maintain a title registry, somewhere.

Given the current situation, it's hard to think outside that box. But the newer ideas I've heard, such as including a hash digest of a public key inside the URL itself, and even the methods employed by TOR with no central registries, are promising. With those methods, I don't think you'll end up with domain names that are universally unique and universally recognized and easily typed (see Zooko's Triangle), but maybe that's not such a bad thing, given the use of search engines and bookmarks.

To answer your question directly, there are alternative top-level domain registries. But most computers and browsers are not configured to query them.
Sslh accepts HTTPS, SSH and OpenVPN connections on the same port
Telex.cc: a new ISP-based anti-censorship network
Google Code gains native Git support
I usually prefer native UI toolkits, but this looks decent framework for Android apps. well, Android default UI apis/frameworks are frustrating me. Supporting wide variety of input modalities is nice.
Amazon, sales tax: Amazon has a lot of nerve
Amazon Launches Kindle Textbook Rental Service
No, he doesn't argue that he's going to effectively combat the problem. He lists a few categories of assignments in which he thinks the incentive to cheat will be reduced, only one of which actually makes it harder. And he says he doesn't think he can teach everything effectively that way.

I am all for embracing structurally cheat-proof methods, but his focus is on personal efficiency first.
Assuming that their claim is true it wouldn't protect the value of bitcoins in the event of a similar incident to Mt. Gox occurring in a different exchange, would it? The value would still crash dramatically.
Pacific Ocean Tsunami Alerter for Android
Derailed_cuke ~ repo to Ruby App running cucumber tests without Rails, just Rake
Stories like this make me wish for a button that says 'Go Viral'---so that I could push it and take the information to everyone. Idiots who create laws without regard to consequence and those 'who just follow orders' are a part of the problem in the Eldridge Cleaver/Charles Rosner sense.
S# :)
Hands on course turns you in to a Ruby programmer in ten steps [Appsumo deal]
finally! :)
I think now they should structure some more socializing stuffs into that (if they want to compete with github)
Intro to Logic Programming with Clojure
Emerging languages show off programming's experimental side
Why the US needs a data privacy law—and why it might finally get one
Why use Google+ when you can use LinkedIn which is designed to help you find professionals on the web? I like Google+ too but I just feel like each Social Network has its own purpose.
its not the cloud graphic but how you implemented it..I think what yo u meant was to use CSS to float the cloud and left middle of screen..which would have been perfect.
I agree, but:

"I know you’re already with me. The next step is to fight the leeches. Fight with your wallet and your words."

How do you fight with your wallet against ICANN--a monopoly?
They're going to contribute some kind of
intellectual content whether its Wikipedia
entries, lolcats, Quora, or Minecraft designs.

The OP doesn't disagree with that. Quora's problem right now is that it's a data sink. People will turn away if their witticisms go unnoticed.
if we look at the sheer number of internet users and the over all demand for web driven devices and solutions it's clearly not a bubble.
I disagree, and I think Mono is stronger now with a startup behind it. With Novell you only had the perception of some cushion. Novell laid off the entire engineering staff behind Mono, including Miguel. If he had simply walked away from the project after that, do you think it would have continued regardless of whether Novell held onto it?

With Xamarin the Mono folks have some skin in the game beyond a paycheck and their own passion. Even if Miguel were to walk away -- something I find unlikely -- there is a business now that depends upon its success and not some neglected division within a rudderless company.
the trends are not "searches" trends, they are "web sites" trends, which gives you an idea about daily uniques visitors to the site.
Bubble. Things are a little over-the-top right now. Demand for programmers is outstripping the supply by quite a bit. (Not that I'm complaining... Right now.) Things are over-valued.

However, I don't think the bubble is so big yet that bursting it would cause devastation. Just a lot of pain and tears.
Attachmate has no obligation to do anything. They could just discontinue MonoTouch, Mono for Android, etc, and all existing customers would be left up shit creek without a paddle.

So the fact that they have signed an agreement that gives Xamarin a perpetual license to all the intellectual property of Mono, MonoTouch, Mono for Android, Mono for Visual Studio, etc, is fantastic for any existing customers which use these products.

This outcome is the best possible outcome given the circumstances.
Probably Kuka: http://drstienecker.com/tech-332/11-the-kuka-robot-programmi...
You're right, this is "semantics" of the statistical type.

There is no "understanding" involved. Just unsupervised number crunching.
Well, for non-office hours I can always say to the student that they cannot come in, as I have other things to do. There is a legitimate excuse not to even start the conversation.

However, during office hours, any student can come in and discuss class-related topics. I cannot prevent students from entering my office, just because I believe that they will want to discuss their cheating penalty.
thanks for the idea - I guess, my design and creativity get under a lot of pressure when you get 2000 visits - I'll keep that idea in mind since i also like the idea of smooth animated background
Terrible article, in my opinion. The thesis is not supported in the slightest. This was just an unfocused rant about the new TLDs and a quick upvote grab by putting a trendy jab at free markets in the title.

What are free markets making worse here? He agrees that participants should be allowed to buy and sell TLDs at whatever they are willing to pay. How is that not free market? He suggest we fight this buy not paying for it. How is that not free market? His only complaint seems to be that the price is ridiculous, and ICANN should be "better than that".

The price of something is what someone will pay for it. If you don't have a problem with people choosing what they will pay for, then you don't have a problem with free markets.

Complaining about confusion for users, cell phone towers dotting the landscape (?), and that some other people would spend their money on something else (free market), do not help your claim that free markets make it worse either.
The public good is the opportunity to speak and compete. Those who control the channels of distribution on the web control both.
Apple iOS 4.3.4 jailbroken hours after update