skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people I follow Twitter style post a lot (almost too much). I find myself rarely checking twitter now.

About 1/2 my friends that have moved stopped posting on FB and have let everyone know they have moved. They still check FB, but only post to G+.

I've definitely seen a swing towards G+.
What's wrong with this?

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I'm familiar with these techniques from RVM, but for Python I've been content explicitly calling python2.5, python2.7, or python3.

What else does this tool offer?
After years putting it off I finally drove up in the wee hours from Miami for the last launch and caught it on the same bridge (Max Brewer Bridge) mentioned earlier. Small world! It only took 3 hours to make it up which just led me to regret not making more trips up for it. It was truly spectacular, and the nerd in me nearly jumped out of my skin!
We have known this was coming for many months now - why is anyone surprised?
The support will revert to JVM vendors where it belongs.
Personally I think it is a good thing - we will get JVM versions much faster than Apple supplied them.
OS X Lion: 1 million downloads on the first day
Why Myspace Tom's Article on Building an Audience is Mostly Irrelevant.
Top 9 Startup Acquisitions Of The Week
Nice to see such a great game receiving some well deserved exposure.
Ask HN: Are you knowledgeable in the arena of spam and spambots?
Hello!

I'm a first time entrepreneur trying to get a startup up and running and have been kicking a few ideas around. I've got one in the area of security but I don't think I can do it (I do have a decent amount of coding experience) without someone who's got some first-hand knowledge on the subject matter.

I'm currently based in Singapore (I'm from the U.S.), but I'm flexible in making it work time-wise.

If you're interested in this (legit) opportunity or know someone who might fit the bill, please give me a shout out!
This is a great idea and executed very well, however it looks like you are using the marketing resources from Apple for the iPhone graphic and the Available in the App Store graphic. You should be aware that the use of these graphics requires compliance with the App Marketing and Identity Guidelines for Developers:
https://developer.apple.com/appstore/AppStoreMarketingGuidel...

Relevant Sections:
For the App Store badge:
"The App Store badge can be placed on a black or white background, on a solid color
background, or on a background image, as long as legibility is not diminished.
Do not place the badge on a visually cluttered or patterned background. If the badge
is placed on a photograph or other image, it must be positioned in an area that is
uncluttered and provides strong contrast and clear legibility."

For the iPhone graphic:
"The Apple-provided product image can be displayed only on a white background.
Never place the image on a black background or on any color or pattern."

I know these guidelines may seem ridiculous, and I often wonder what consequences may come from not complying with them, however given this is the core of your app, I think it deserves special consideration from you.
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We're looking for users to test our new fantasy football startup. If you would be willing, please email drc617 [at] gmail [dot] com. I'll reply with the link to the working demo.

We're looking to get a bit more feedback than a two sentence comment. Maybe a few short emails back and forth or a few minutes on chat or Skype.

Thanks in advance!
Wasn't this announced in October of 2010?

http://www.cultofmac.com/steve-jobs-explains-was-java-was-de...

"Java runtime at the same level, and it may even be removed from future versions of Mac OS X."
Did he receive his PTO? Inquiring minds want to know.
Like I said, we've had this discussion many times before on HN. The short of it is, I don't want HN to devolve into a"current events" type of site either, but without the now-deleted article "Blast in Oslo," I wouldn't even know something happened (because I wouldn't have checked the news sites otherwise).

I accept HN just won't be my one-stop solution for major news (I may not like it, but that's a different story). My comment was just a probable explanation as to why the headline sounded insensitive.
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These days are the prices going up, and as income in your pocket seems to disappear. Going to the movies every week is simply not complete real plus for most people
How is this different from the other services out there?
Here's the game's homepage - http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

This looks very cool, and there are versions for Linux/OSX/Win
Yes, I think it matters -- some extra megs here, some extra bandwidth there, some ugliness that few people notice -- and pretty soon you end up with Adobe Acrobat.

There's a reason people felt in love with everything Apple does: they took attention to details at heights nobody in this industry did.

But I also think a couple hundred megs of data is not the only reason -- but more to do with wanting to cut dependencies to other companies (Apple does that frequently). Once upon a time Java was one of the preferred methods for writing Mac OS apps: Apple clearly doesn't want that anymore.
Pixelmator works well on Lion:

"Ready for OS X Lion
Wednesday, 20 July 2011. Posted by Saulius.

I’m very happy to let you know that while working extremely intensively on Pixelmator 2.0—codenamed Chameleon—we still managed to improve the currently available version’s compatibility with OS X Lion. Pixelmator 1.6.6 adds fixes and improvements that will help the app run smoothly on OS X Lion.

Lion is a must-have upgrade of Mac OS X. Believe me, we spent a lot of time using it, and everyone at the Pixelmator Team absolutely loves the OS X Lion.

To easily update to Pixelmator 1.6.6, simply use your Mac App Store app. For non-Mac App Store users, it is highly recommended to transition to the Mac App Store at this time. However, if not ready to transition yet, users can run the Software Update feature in Pixelmator.

High-end support for OS X Lion is coming along for Pixelmator 2.0 Chameleon. With Lion-specific features, the new version is going to totally rock on OS X Lion. If you haven’t yet noticed, we have a sneak preview website for more info about what’s coming in Pixelmator 2.0.

And finally, we thought you might be happy to take a look at the new Smudge Tool in Pixelmator 2.0. Enjoy the video!"

(from http://www.pixelmator.com/weblog/)
I believe it just uses it under the hood, but I'm not familiar enough with relational algebra (or ARel) to know for sure. Here's a blog post from the author:

http://magicscalingsprinkles.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/why-i-...
Hack: 10,000's of LED-lighted "Iceflies" airdropped over Bonnaroo
It matters on the 64 GB Air. Between compression and removing components, OS X has gotten a lot smaller.
Report Cloud Computing's Environmental Benefits Report is Flawed
That puts the onus on the visually impaired and safety-conscious to protect themselves, and I don't think thats something you want to do.
All languages have patterns. Case analysis is a common pattern in Lisp code I've seen. Another one is map-reduce. Tags are another one.

They're just not called design patterns. But note that the things in GOF weren't called design patterns in C++ until 1995 either (the GOF book largely predates real use of Java). They were called techniques, or just things you might see in multiple projects.
It isn't about being surprised. Apple is still supplying the JVM. At my company, some IT guy sends out an email saying 'don't install Lion cause Java isn't installed and it breaks Network Connect'. It is this kind of unnecessary confusion which doesn't help anyone. My blog post is simply telling people how they can fix their stuff after Apple decides to make things difficult and confusing for people.
Great question. The templates for the actual app sites are built by @nickmjones.

Before I started working with Nick, I looked at some of those template options. They were really expensive for the type of licensing we would need and more importantly, I didn't find enough of them that really clicked with me.
Usually I would second that opinion. However, in this case I believe in the face of tragedy and/or very important events a community should disregard those restrictions and come together to exchange personal experiences and other information.
There will be four variants of the GSII in the US, one for each of the big carriers. "Attain" (AT&T), "Within" (Sprint), "Function" (Verizon), and "Hercules" (T-Mobile). This article (http://www.infosyncworld.com/reviews/cell-phones/samsung-gal...) has a bit more info.
It's fixed. :) Thanks for the heads up!
Unless I missed a subsequent announcement, this was a silent change of policy — my understanding from their earlier announcement had been that you'd have to get a JRE from Oracle directly. Which gave me a bit of a scare when I realized my VPN software relied on Java and I hadn't seen any announcement from Oracle of a downloadable JRE. Happily, the first time I tried to connect, Lion popped up a window asking if I wanted to install Java; I said yes, and a few minutes later, everything worked as it always had.
What about Flash?
Ah, fantastic stuff, really pleased that you have that covered :-D

I really like the concept and execution... now I just need to write a phone app ;)
Amazon's Next Billion-Dollar Business Eyed
The current system (the $40 photos) is almost certainly using a person to identify bib numbers, since I remember running a race (and about 48 hours later - the time to post-process the images and identify the runner's bib numbers) and seeing an 'unknown' section where bib numbers were pretty much not visible.

License plate identification is easy because it is reflective and flat. Bibs made out of Tyvek or similar material can be crumpled up.

The scary part is where you composite forms of recognition - that might be the secret sauce - partial photo recognition + partial historical race performance (e.g. a 4-hr marathoner would not be passing the 20-mile mark at the 2:30 mark)) + partial body type recognition + etc.
Well this is the hackers news website, if we want regular news on mundane stuff then we can go to msn yahoo google aol (hell twitter evidently) etc etc.

As far as it being insensitive, it's only like that if you feel everyone should mourn all the time for the thousands of tragic incidents that occur. Personally I would find life much less satisfying if I was busy being sad all the time.

And as for the article, it raises a highly valid point, google forsook a better system for one that isn't fully featured and as robust. I tend to think they did this so they can implement their own system, whether greed or control being the reason it stands to say that users will want the best, someone therefore should be pointing out stuff like this.
https://github.com/franckcuny/pythonbrew-mini.el to manage your pythonbrew from emacs (and make it works with flymake)
Multi-select could use some work. Drag-highlighting, shift, ctrl, etc.
Not included anymore; you have to install it from adobe.com. They'd already switched to that on their hardware (at least on the storage-constrained MacBook Air… others too, though, I think) a few months back.
As a strategy it reminds me a lot of trench warfare in the first world war. They've been trying it for years and years without success so it's hard to see what's going to change.
Show HN: Weekend Project - FollowTrial
http://www.followtrial.com

Over the past couple of weeks I've been working on a little Twitter app. FollowTrial takes the hassle of tasting what Twitter users have to offer.

Every few months I was going thru my following list and culling dead weight, but it was a painful and laborious process. So I came up with idea for FollowTrial.

On FollowTrial you follow a twitter user for a trial period, 7 to 30 days, close to the end of the trial period, you get a reminder that your trial is coming to an end, with a instructions how to keep following the user, or FollowTrial will automatically unfollow the user and you can carry on as normal.
But a company on the scale of Microsoft have the resources to systematically dismantle their patents, track down prior art, produce material demonstrating that the patent in question is demonstrably 'obvious to anyone skilled in the art' and so on.

Lodsys's product range is their patents which they license and / or sue on. They lose by their patents being demonstrated as the worthless nonsense they truly should be, at which point they're gone completely - it's a bigger loss than having to pay a license for a product or rewrite a component.
Android App Player for PlayBook Leaked, Runs Email and Some Apps
You never made a copy of the MP3 yourself — you just received one and stored it. Ditto for people who receive copies from MegaUpload.
But cobblestone, wood, and even charcoal and water are infinite resources in the game. The problem isn't the supply of resources, it's the short-sightedness of the players in the game that figure it's easier for them to mine cobblestone from beneath or clear-cut a natural forest in the game with no intention of replenishing the supplies because they don't imagine they'll be playing long enough for it to matter.
This is an interesting cryptocurrency article given that it precedes Bitcoin... (Perhaps one of the author is Satoshi Nakamoto :-D)

However the technologies and mechanisms it describes are significantly inferior to Bitcoin. Notably it is centralized (relies on a bank to create digital coins), and fails to solve the double spending problem (see section 5.1).

Other aspects of it are more similar to Bitcoin (eg. it signs and verifies transactions with asymmetric crypto key pairs).
Neat idea, but two significant problems.

1. Blind folks generally rely on directional sound. Knowing a car's nearby is better than nothing, but you can't tell how fast it's approaching you, from what direction.

2. In a city, it'd never stop beeping at you.
Today is Pi Approximation Day
If you upgrade from a Snow Leopard install with Flash, it seems to carry over to Lion with the upgrade.
Having never been really involved with the Dwarf Fortress community/cult, but having played the game quite a bit, this exposé on the creator is extremely interesting. I always thought it must have taken a certain level of cleverness to build such an impressive simulation, but I honestly didn't think he'd be a Stanford Ph.D. Also, I'm honestly surprised they get that much in donations. It's very well deserved indeed and I'm happy to hear that they do.
>> a form of mental torture (Struts, anyone?)

If I had to name the single biggest class of make-work in my life in the last 10 years, that would be it: maintaining legacy Struts crap.

The creator of struts should be in Gitmo for a year or two, perhaps with access to a functional programming environment a few hours a week if he behaves himself :-)

Java: providing a job with benefits. Like the episode of "The Simpsons" where Homer has to go back to the nuclear power plant to work, to pay for his daughter -- "Do it for her."
I agree it's not ideal, but I think the majority of users have seen less friendly versions of this. The concept is Token Input. Facebook uses it in places, and they don't have the placeholder text that says "Choose..." when nothing is selected. I think the placeholder text ought to help quite a bit.
Clicky: http://www.followtrial.com
Read the article. The news (for people who weren't in the Lion beta program) is that if you open up a Terminal prompt and type 'java', it will automatically install Java for you.

So, it's not really deprecated anymore. In fact, Java was updated a few times during the beta process.
It's also far worse than a standard dropdown for mobile.
Retracted: Study on Genetics that Extends Human Longevity to 100
And Congress give up half-way through Level 1, not because it's too hard, just because they don't care enough to win?
How much of that is type 1?

Because I doubt type 2 diabetics would have much benefit from this.
Especially considering the difference in injury for a rear-end accident versus mowing down a pedestrian. Even if we assume that 100% of the time the car behind you will hit, the death toll is still likely much reduced.
In Google+'s case, would you say that a single blog post on the day it launched was anything beyond "minimal fanfare"?
Stuff like this needs to be called out. These days, some blogger speculates on a reason for something and every technology news site is reporting it as fact.
Ars reviews the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook
Yeah, and new Facebook features probably get 10 million users overnight. So what?
This is seriously scary, the buildings here shook and the blast was huge. I work like 4-500 meters away from the area (as the crow flies), still a bit shaken but luckily everyone at work are okay. Not so much those for those closer as you can see there are no windows left on that building.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-BUq73ENhYFk/Til_cwxIJeI/A...

Live streaming from BBC/NRK http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14254705
60 Billion
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Industry, the fastest growing industry on the web because of you.

Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and the other Social sites keep all of the money for themselves and never give any to their members.

Why not get a piece of the pie while you are "chatting with your friends", playing games,

visiting forums, searching google, watching a video or window shopping.

PEOPLE STRING is the "NEW WAVE" in relationship building, business and group Networking it

has the creativity, culture, expressive forums and places to meet new people you want and it

combines all that with giving you 70% of the Advertising revenues. Add People String to

your favorites and begin to collect a monthly check for your Networking. These are tough

times we can all use a few extra dollars in our pocket.
Very. :) We used a template for our marketing site (and backend) for the same reason we think some app developers will use our service: A well designed template will get you 80% of the benefit for 20% of the effort.
Very good points! I mean, we know that Google Image Search can find similar images online (and sometimes they are really good!), so it's definitely feasible. If the system was in place, I'd send them a few sample photos of myself just so they could have a reference point. Of course it's not easy, it's not just the matter of building websites, but c'mon, with so much money they should be able to hire a couple people who would figure it out. Right?
So then why not remove ruby and distribute that separately? How about the multi-gig translation language packs that I'll never use?
A few things can change:

1) They can the Yahoo partnership working well. In which case they may actually be able to break even with current marketshare. Only MS and Yahoo really know what is broken right now.

2) If Bing continue to grow at this rate they'll be break even in 3 years. Is it worth $7.5B more to have a breakeven search business?

3) Competing on search means that Google has to continue to throw resources at search. MS and Google are both playing the game that they're attacking their competitors strength, so their competitor has to spend a lot resources playing tower defense.

4) Mobile is still largely up for grabs. MS probably realizes that Bing is in a good position to get 30-50% marketshare, especially if WP ever gets 20% marketshare.

While a lot of people like to say, "look at the money they're losing, they should just quit". I honestly don't think they can.
No, it's just not installed fully by default.

I Spotlighted for Java Preferences and when I started it I was told that Java will be downloaded. After Lion downloaded and installed Java the Java Preferences started.

IntelliJ et al works as expected.

You don't need to do these manual step the article suggests(for running Java apps). (See comment below when you need to do these steps)
Critical regression in new iTerm2 update
Ask HN: What's the best hosting service provider that supports the following?
.net 4.0, MVC3, Entity Framework, Silverlight 4, and "Full" trust
Windows Phone Mango -- released to manufacturing (RTM)
It was previously included and is no longer included... It has been removed.
Every so often an article like this comes up, and I think to myself, "Maybe I should export my emails from Gmail and start using a personal domain for emails" and otherwise secure my data just in case this happens to me. But what are the chances, right? And Gmail is so convenient!

I think this time I'm going to actually do something. Probably not ditch Google entirely, but ensure I'm not entirely dependent on them.
You're better off with your first experience being the mayday set that uses tiled graphics:

http://mayday.w.staszic.waw.pl/df.php

Here's the wiki, which has some quickstart guides:

http://df.magmawiki.com/
Will it monitor my twitter activity and automatically add all my new follows to the FollowTrial activity? or do I have to go to the site and manually do it each time?
Mike Swingler (Apple JVM developer) said: http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2011/Jul/msg00041.h...

After a decade of shipping Java on the Mac and tricking old apps that hardcode paths to the 1.3.1 JVM, or putting in class loader hacks to fake out Xerces XML classes that were moved in 1.5.0, we are ready to try something different.

In http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2011/Jul/msg00044.h...

What you loose in a per-app embedded model is shared memory mapping of the native libraries and .jar files, but this is the same problem as a half dozen apps embedding (often different) versions of the Sparkle.framework to do app self-updates. The cost of the JVM heap is still the same, and class-sharing was never ported to 64-bit by Sun, so that optimization hasn't been around for a long time on Macs.

In http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2011/Jul/msg00038.h...

Long-term, we recommend that app developers who use the JavaApplicationStub should transition to embedding the Java runtime within their own app. We are working with Oracle on the OpenJDK project to provide an open source version of JDK7 that can be embedded, and several developers have already started deploying their apps with an embedded JDK7 (but it requires many manual steps right now).

We are tracking the progress of creating an embeddable JRE in http://java.net/jira/browse/MACOSX_PORT-105

Conclusion: Apple's JVM team think this model is better for solving end users problem with JVM compatibility.
Two special startup types: the Twitter and the Hoverboard
Bad Browser, No Donut
Writing good widgets from scratch is an endless task. It's missing ARIA roles: http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#combobox
The steps for symlink'ing are totally necessary in order to get click through JDK source code in Eclipse. Of course, it could be argued that Eclipse needs to be fixed to automatically look in the new location, but that location changes for every update and isn't technically 'JAVA_HOME'.
Not in the MVP release, but that's a great feature to include in the next version!
Dwarf Fortress is an outstanding game with features not available anywhere else, and I would highly recommend it. The background music, which the creator also composed and performed, is very soothing, as well.