skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in Japan. That's the wrong example. Cell phones came with a music player, rfid (your train pass, membership cards, and TVs long before the iphone). These electronic dictionaries come bundled with several different types like English/Japanese, Oxford, etc. that would cost you a small fortune separately and most are needed for college prep and college. Using a cell phone might work but for most adults but at school it's unacceptable for exams and studying.
Please please remove the clouds, they detract from the reading experience.

What I'd really like to see from the Open Source Community is a Fireworks alternative. It has just the right blend between bitmap and vector editing in a speedy lightweight package.
A red dwarf from 1000 au would only look like a moderately bright star, won't it?

Indeed. The absolute magnitude of 55 Cancri B is 12.66, and the distance between the companions is 1065 AU [1]. Plugging these values to the magnitude equation yields a visual magnitude of about -3.78 [2], a little fainter than Venus at its minimum brightness [3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55_Cancri
[2] http://orbitsimulator.com/formulas/vmag9.html
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_magnitude#Table_of_not...
Thank you for a very intereting bit of information.
>>> Is driving a car better than eating a banana?

>> They serve completely different goals.

> Show us numbers.

That makes sense, doesn't it?

> That was the main request of my comment, and you come with a list of libraries?

Well, after you failed to even tell concurrent and parallel computing apart, I assumed giving you an overview first would be beneficial.

Maybe you could use the links I already gave you or use Google.
For instance, here is an additional link I found pretty easily: http://www.azavea.com/blogs/labs/2011/06/scalas-numeric-type...
It looks like the planet actually slides closer in to the star, thus the issue would be keeping the environment cool enough.
Interesting that you should mention that. I've been thinking about ways lately to make software developers more famous - as I think the work that we do is as creative and difficult as the work done by actors, musicians, etc.

Most of my thinking has focused on how to get the general public to actually think about the developers behind all of the software they already use. This may not work for something massive like Google search, but for applications developed by small teams (mobile ones especially), I believe there's a lot of opportunity to grant the individual some notoriety (if they want it, of course).

I would want to start with influencers - existing celebrities. Celebrities often tweet when they love (or don't love) an app that they just started using on their mobile phones. I wonder how hard it would be to enable them (and more importantly incentivize them) to shout out to the individual developers of the app in these tweets.

Note that all this takes place in an optimistic framework where Hollywood is meritocratic and fame is earned. I know it's not so in a lot of cases, but I still think an opportunity exists for developers who create compelling, popular apps to receive some personal recognition.
It is very distracting to me. It usually is jerky causing me to look at it each time I scroll. It also takes a second for me to realize where I jumped to if I used page down, because I can not tell as easily where I am relative to where I was, visually. This is partly due to loss of relative distances but also because my eyes have momentarily followed the jerk.

The only fixed that I can handle is a fixed background if there is a large difference in contrast between the page background and main content background.

I hope this does not become a norm.
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And it's not that unreasonable that she's more interested in a peaceful home than becoming a convenience store.
Codebrawl's contestants created some great Ruby testing libraries
Last.fm Blog: Library and streaming services outage
"Without facts I wouldn't claim that Scala is slower than Java/C++/C#."

If I may be so bold, without facts I wouldn't claim the C# VM is unreliable or that features are added without thought.
Content Vectoring Protocol - What is Content Vectoring Protocol
Content Vectoring Protocol is also known by the name of CVP in the networking world. It is basically a protocol that is used to filter the data that is crossing a firewall in to an external scanning d
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Especially taking the office after overthrowing the freaking communists.
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Ruling (in French): http://www.ie-forum.nl/backoffice/uploads/file/IEF%20Hof%20v...

Can't copy and paste from there; relevant passage:

"...orders Google to removing the sites google.be and google.com, more precisely the links (in cache) visible through Google Web and the service Google News (...) of Belgian Francophone and German-language publishers represented by Copiepresse."

So yes, Google is interpreting the ruling correctly, 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 or if the judge didn't understand what he was doing; I didn't read the whole ruling.
I believe you are referring to lossy formats, as re-encoding one lossless format to another will not degrade quality. Re-encoding the lossless format to 320kbit Vorbis is what he's requesting which will ensure minimum quality degradation while still reducing the file size.
There's one thing about it: growing up global does make you see the world different. I'm a Caucasian, English-speaking American, but have lived in Thailand since I was 11. My parents were missionaries, and while we were far from wealthy, we did get to see many of the countries around Thailand due to travels for visas and more. And, of course, we grew up bilingual, never thinking it was odd for others to speak a different language, have different customs or ideas, or eat different foods. Perhaps best of all, we weren't in an elite part of the country full of foreigners, but we lived right in a neighborhood of normal Thais.

And it does make you see the world different. I'm always amazed how much most other Americans see the world as American-centric, and even seeing logos with a globe with the US front and center seem odd to me now. Economics and business classes have been much easier, since the ideas of foreign exchange, international law, and more were a part of everyday life. And speaking a second language as close to fluent as you can is a huge asset, and makes you analyze why you think what you do and why language and society work the way they do in a huge way.

Perhaps sadly, experiencing prejudice from others while being the minority in another country also helps you see the evils of disliking someone because of their language, the way they were educated or raised, their skin color, nationality, or anything else. That in itself can make you a much better person. This won't be the same everywhere, but I've experience enough of it to make my blood boil when I hear racist remarks against others in the US.

Living abroad is not for everyone, but I do think more people growing up with a global perspective would be a very good thing. You can do it right where you live, though. There are ethnic communities all around the world, and the internet brings content of every language to your living room. Raise your children to see diversity as normal, and make sure they know that they're not any different than someone from any other part of the world just because of where they were born, the language they speak, and the color of their hair. Help them see that they can make a difference in the world, and are not limited to jobs or lifestyles in their own community.

If more people were raised like that, the world would definitely be a better place.
There's also the so-called "MP3 effect", where people start to think that compressed crap is better than the lossless option.
I think you are forgetting about board-level analog and RF electronics. FPGAs and digital ICs are mostly designed with hardware descriptor languages which one might call software, but analog and RF electronics remain very much in the hardware realm.
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I agree but you'll pardon me if I still think Novell's new owners are a bunch of jerks. Just less so.

That said I think this goes beyond IP for Xamarin. As you said they get the existing customers but they're also available to new customers a few months earlier. Mobile development is growing blazingly fast right now and even a months delay can mean someone decides to go with another product.

With the major financing that companies like Appcelerator have gotten Xamarin needs all the advantages it can get.
>“I am worried that in this interconnected world, our country risks being disconnected from the contributions of other countries and cultures.”

Now there's a non-sequitur.

>“I’m doing what parents have done for many years,” Jim Rogers says. “I’m trying to prepare my children for the future, for the 21st century. I’m trying to prepare them as best I can for the world as I see it.”

Setting aside the fact that the future is unpredictable, and more unpredictable today than it's ever been, this demonstrates the fundamental error of human relationships: trying to get somebody to live out your vision of what their life should be.

In the case of parenting, imo, it's better to try to be a better person generally than to treat your children as products.
A picture of a kitten doesn't exactly scream "enterprise support" to me
Use Addi for more complex stuff:
https://code.google.com/p/addi/

It is a matlab/octave emulator. It works great, even on my 2.1 android phone.
Very collective message, great read
Just my impression from listening. Most of the time you can hear it with cymbals. But I agree it's very hard to hear and I just heard it a couple of times. So I think 160kbps is enough to enjoy music.

But (this is going to get a little of-topic) I also think you are not only using your ears to listen to music. People can't hear frequencies below lets say 30Hz. But you can feel it. So yeah, maybe vinyl does feel better than an Ogg or Mp3 file.
To get things done, be "reasonably unreasonable"
The Power of Open
Yes. Building something has a ton of benifits. But to build a lot of ideas (say 1 idea a week) will take ton of time too. What I want to do is to use the collective brain power of hn'ers to improve my thinking process in short time. I am currently working on one of the ideas myself and trying to learn from others at other ideas. And please note that I had shared a prototype in one of the post. But didn't get any response.
"A clever teacher would figure out a way for students to police each other. I've seen it work to great effect. No one grades harder than a peer."

I could not agree with you more. This assignment, in which students get to teach "emerging technologies" to each other, and grade each other, is the highlight of my class. The whole point that I wanted to make with this post is that cheating is something that needs to be structurally avoided, not something to be detected and penalized.

Btw, touché on the libertarian point.
And see my detailed report of a reddit ad campaign directed at a specific subreddit.

http://impromptudo.tumblr.com/post/3984362470/my-impromptudo...
When a startup you love becomes your customer
If it makes you feel any better, I outsourced my java homework in college because I didn't think I'd need to learn programming.

Come to find out, I did need to learn it, but I also needed to learn how to manage freelancers, which I do now on a daily basis. So maybe cheating/taking shortcuts paid off a bit, just not how you would expect it to.
Who Wins and Who Loses in the Cloud?
This Startup is doing 'Berry' good
So is it that you don't buy the Community Promise, or that you don't know about it? http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Jul-06.html
Clickable link http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2011/07/mcluhan_at_100.php
You are suffering from the belief that people will actually read. Te best she can hope for is the brain will pattern-match the "No Trespassing" sign and bring it to drivers' attention.

Now, below that, the other sign might help, but, given the instructions came from an authoritative source (Google), I doubt people would believe the sign.
Language-aware git interface, allowing you to view diffs of methods (etc)
He's not saying he would frame students - he's acknowledging that he would respond to the incentive by following it aggressively. This is how humans act. You're just reading into this because you have a negative opinion of the guy.
I need to apologise. I just RTFA. I really like your "future" section, the public projects, the peer reviews, the competitions. Exactly right. You are several steps ahead of me.
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Care to explain what's wrong with China? ,
It is indeed a decent service, and I guess it was worth the money I've paid for it, but there certainly are a bunch of flaws. I miss a lot of my personal music library in it, for example, (and yes, while you can add them, but I pretty much only use/used spotify at work). To be honest, I didn't even remember to enable the HQ option when I had a paid subscription. I also use it on gnu/linux, where the windows client under wine for me is very sluggish (but only at work, not at home), and the native client still has ways to go.

Anyway, I seem to have gotten quite sidetracked, the point I was trying to make is that at least OP is giving them direct feedback and thus an opportunity to improve. While you think it's a great service, surely you can find some ways to improve it? I could, for example, live with a larger cache on the android app so that I can enter a store under ground without the music stopping when the cell service does...
More precisely it is "economic opportunity". I've yet to see more than a handful of people search out places of opportunity targeted at raising flourishing children, as opposed to seeking out economic opportunity. Raising flourishing children requires a community with good social capital, amongst other things --- money is only one, small contribution, and it is possible to make flourishing communities and children without much money. When I saw the headline about a global kid, I at first thought along these lines, since American society sucks at the pursuit of happiness and human flourishing (despite the propaganda to the contrary) --- and so it makes sense to move to another country/culture for a better social fabric.
> this is only a problem for a very small percentage of the user-base with tiny screens

No, it's not. http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/
I remember someone from Google saying about Microsoft-Skype acquisition that "Google is not interested in peer to peer solutions".
So I'd say it's unlikely to be true
It's not just hedging risk, but also subsidizing costs. Education is similiar in that you can't create a school for 100 different schools, each of 10 students across multiple grade levels within a single school district. And furthermore it's very cost ineffective when they share 75% of the infrastructure that other children would use.

So you have one school with 1,000 students that has all the finances to have a building, janitorial staff, gym, new textbooks, have music teachers, etc... The schools with 10 students can barely afford lease for a single room office -- much less one general purpose teacher.

The healthy subsidize the unhealthy. This is why for healthcare reform insurance is mandatory.

I'm not against private schools per se, but I am against the public funding them. The implicit goal of private schools is to oppress those not in them, as much as to educate those in them. It's an anti-public good to fund them. With that said I do think private schools are consistent with the goals of capitalism, part of which is exploit others as best possible.
Maybe I just don't get it, but why do they want to be included in web search but not in Google News? Their actions seem bizarre.

Both are noindex-able separately, correct?
This article was more nuanced than I first thought. I figured it would be yet another screed against "too much choice", as if the fifteen brands of mustard in the grocery store throws shoppers into a fetal position, sobbing.

Thankfully, the author does not advocate the use of force to prevent this. As he says:

So should it be legal? Of course, they can do what they want. And that’s better than the other extreme; I’d rather live with too many products and companies making money off other company’s ignorance than the reverse, where regulation stifles progress, controlled by the only entity capable of more waste and more ignorance than even the largest company: government.

With the threat of force off the table, I am far more likely to hear him out and be amenable to his suggestions. I for one will not be buying a new top-level domain, but anyone who wants to shell out $185,000 is free to do so. It makes no difference to me which account number holds that $185,000, since it's not my money to begin with.
ActionScript 2 & 3 have a bunch of features being proposed for future versions of JavaScript: constants, parameter defaults, rest params, proxies, weak maps, binary data, private/protected/internal access modifiers. Also has an optional type annotation system (types are an actual part of the language in AS3), automatically-bound functions (AS3), and a Class system. Prototypes and closures are still present in the language (I still use them a lot, but many AS3 programmers do not). (It sounds like parent is familiar with AS (and the question may have been rhetorical), but I included the above list for those who are interested in the differences.)

Having said all that, I don't believe those features are what the author prefers about the Flash environment. It seems Mr. Eckel is:
* lamenting the loss of `packages` (AS3; AS2 had namespaces for Classes) as I surmised from the closures section (closures as a way of creating private members)
* in need of a good framework for building GUIs (he stated he liked Flex [a framework for AS]; though many good GUI frameworks exist for JS)
* has bought into the popular opinion that JavaScript is a broken and bad language (though many of the same issues plague AS; in fact, despite what the article may imply, AS and JS share the same way of creating a scope [via functions, not by blocks])

I agree that Mr. Eckel did not succeed in making any clear points. Writing this comment was especially difficult because the article was unfocused. It was not the usual quality I expect from a front page HN post.
and Singapore is the hub of Southeast Asia.
From the syllabus and the assignment description: "Students may not work together on graded assignment unless the instructor gives express permission. Collaborating on graded assignments with students from other sections, is a violation of the Stern Honor Code. Similarly, getting help to complete the graded assignments from students that attended the class in the past is also a violation of the Stern Honor Code."

I explicitly prohibited students from working together on individual assignments. There were plenty of group projects for doing so, but for the individual assignments I wanted the students to work alone.

The student clearly violated the Stern Honor Code, and he is openly admitting that.
I'm Polish, and this is very true. People here, especially old one, feel like victims of history, and are holding grudge.

Young people just go on, catching the chances we eventually have, not thinking too much about history. For the generations that had bad luck to live under German or Soviet occupation during WW2, and then in communism, they still holds grudge (and I understand them).

We even have great poetry about this:
Czesław Miłosz "The Envoy of Mr. Cogito"

"...and do not forgive truly it is not in your power
to forgive in the name of those betrayed at dawn
beware however of unnecessary pride ..."

It's easy to forgive, when you're the winner. For people that had to live as victims for long time, when they see nobody cares anymore, it's hard.

This subject is currently highly dividing point of public debat here - two greatests parlament parties are defining their difference using this division.
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See also

http://lwn.net/Articles/451971/#Comments
I've had a very different experience with this. One of my friends from the US was made fun of for carrying around a FlipCam there because all their phones (pre Android/Apple) could already do that and in addition, they could edit their videos right from the phone. They would constantly ask "it JUST takes video?" They saw us Americans as the ones with oversimplified one button gadgets.

The Japanese phone mfrs have had complete control of the entire platform (network, hardware and software) for too long. More than likely the dictionary mfrs and the phone mfrs were just staying out of each others' verticals. Now software (Apple,Android) is finally disrupting that and changing the market but I wouldn't agree that the Japanese thinking is around single function products. There's just a better solution now that didn't exist in the market before. Even then, I feel like culturally it's ok to use a dictionary in class but not a cell phone...

This article (http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/kenya-hara-on-japanes...) does a good job describing how "less is more" is interpreted differently in Japanese design.
Props to the guy I'm replying to, for cultivating a community that was receptive to crazy ideas like this.
(I didn't see the video yet.)

> "Each one of us is a creator, but together we are The Creator."

Taken out of contest, it looks like it comes from an atheist. I like the way it recognize the power of our cognition[1]. But now I wonder if Mr Gilliam really[2] believes in something like God. Now I'm curious.

[1]: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ve/mundane_magic/

[2]: http://lesswrong.com/lw/i4/belief_in_belief/
Boom since the 1970s. Bubble since 2009. They don't have to be mutually exclusive.
"Give us the snakeoil you advertised no matter if it is actually 'better'"
The awful, distracting design (especially the weird cloud thing) almost got me to quit your article, but i ended up stopping here:

Free software – meaning you don’t pay for it (you still can donate what you want!)
Right; most people with "normal" or worse vocabularies are emphatically not going to see a "test your vocabulary" link and say "Hey, instead of doing something fun, let's see how poor my vocabulary really is! Then I'll tell all my friends!"

And when they see some egghead friend on Facebook has posted their vocabulary score and is challenging them to respond... they'll roll their eyes, and move on to their Farmville updates.

Don't get me wrong -- I love these things, and it came back with 37K for me -- but there's no way I'm posting that score, or even the link, to Facebook. I know how to maintain friendships, and saying "look how smart I am; I'm probably smarter than you" does not figure into it.
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Tap to copy –click to paste.
When you write things like "bankruptcy trustee will be bound by these terms", it becomes hard to argue that other people are unfairly interpreting it "to the letter".
One of the reasons. In general, I can see a low rate of acceptance of .NET among the crowd which has a high rate of interest in Clojure. I guess it is a case of avoiding Microsoft-dominated technologies by the open-source crowd.
I've submitted a few over the years - they are fixed much more quickly now.