skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Noted. At the moment I am just happy if anyone even visits the page though. But I realise that there is no clear direction to the new visitor. Another thing to add to the never-ending list.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2373870,00.asp

"I think the holdup on GOOG/Groupon deal is size of break-up fee if Gov't blocks deal," wrote Venrock venture capitalist David Pakman in a Twitter message early December 3.
Zawinski's Law? http://catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html
In all honesty, what's the point of this? I understand the point of compiling to JavaScript simply because that's the only language that runs on the most ubiquitous platform in the world. Why compile to any other high-level language?

Are there so many similar places where users are forced to use Lua, to warrant an extra layer? (with all the complexities such as debugging, a compile step, tracing errors back to MoonScript code, etc)

Note, I'm not commenting about the language's choices. Maybe coding in MoonScript rocks big time. I just don't get why it compiles to Lua.
Apple also Files Case Against Motorola Xoom in Europe [Report]
Looks pretty.What tools you used to develop it?
I think it is more about removing "bad" growth. People moving to suburbs and so consuming more oil is such a bad growth. People buying high quality expensive bio food is (or at least shouldn't) be bad growth. Making processes more efficient is good, but in your case growth is a byproduct, not an end to a mean.

The US searched growth in the 2000 at every price, even at the price of over-lending. That is where growth dominates everything at the price of well being, society consistency and eventually economy - see the 2008 crash.
HaXe mostly.
Applescript is Not dead
I find it a little strange that you say I should buy "at my own risk" the experimental linux version. Just a little demo, so I can check it at least works, would add some confidence.
LinkedIn pulls a Facebook-like swifty on ‘social advertising’
Ask HN: Examples of interesting robots.txt
I'm sitting here going through some of our competitors robots.txt files wondering if they were doing anything interesting or innovative but they all seem pretty run of the mill. HN can you share some robots.txts that do something unusual or innovative?
I'm not going to defend this particular set of code or analysis (it's not how I would have done it, and it's a bit silly to use R to wrap a bunch of python code), but the notion that you shouldn't use R for this out of hand is off to me, and just as religious as saying you should always use R.

Use whatever programming language YOU are most productive in. For me, that's often R, even if there's a language that's "better" for a specific task -- it's not necessarily better when it's in my hands. FWIW, there's a much easier way to do this in R as well (libcurl 7.20.0 and later includes smtp, imap, and pop3 protocols, letting you do this without calling out to jython).

There are lots of Turing complete languages. They all can do anything. There's no need for religion about language in any case. Hell, write your killer web app in LOLCODE for all I care.
DirectWrite Text Rendering in Firefox 6
Most common of all is writing an article claiming that MLM Company is a scam
Qnet is a fraud, it's an online scam, Qnet is a cheater, etc. these are nothing but baseless claims from many done through various ways. The most common of all is writing an article claiming that MLM Company is a scam, but reality is different Qnet is a giant size conglomerate operating across the globe with the MLM business model.
I don't fully understand. Is your app written in AppleScript?
Georgia or if you feel adventures (phun intended) you could try and use some of the fonts at typekit.com to get a more dungeony feel.
I that really civil disobedience? I though the point of civil disobedience is you try to take the blame, proving how brutal and unfair the system is.

If you mean "activism, without being an idiot who breaks stuff" then I'm cool though.
Imagine this scenario:

Once upon a time the total money in a country was $1. Then the guy with the $1 put it in the bank. The bank lent the money to another guy, and that guy then owed $1.10 to the bank after interest. That guy happened to be a car dealer, and the bank owner bought a $0.10 car from him for the interest he earned. Everyone is happy.

Now imagine this scenario:

Once upon a time the total money in a country was $1. Then the guy with the $1 put it in the bank. The bank lent the money to another guy, and that guy then owed $1.10 to the bank after interest. That guy happened to be a car dealer, and some other guy bought a car from him for $0.10. That guy got the money by lending it from the bank. After a couple of years of this stuff, through interest, the total money owed to the bank was $2. So the interest these people have to pay in total is $0.20 that year. There is no way that all money can ever be paid back to the bank, unless the bank owner spends a lot of money. If the bank owner spends say $0.10/year, the total money owed to the bank is bound to increase. Everyone is now a debt slave to the bank. People are going to have to default on their debts, there is no other possibility, because there simply isn't enough money in the world to pay back the bank.

Is it possible that we are in scenario #2?
Wow, that was extremely annoying to disable.

- I didn't remember my password offhand, so each of my 5 attempts required me to fill out a captcha.

- On the settings page, the "Account" link is... less than visible. The word "Account" appears ~4 times on the page. One of them was a link entitled "Manage Account Settings", which you'd think would be it, but no --- that led to a FAQ.

This was done without my knowledge or consent. Not that I can do anything but post an HN comment, though...
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How "innovative" do you expect robots.txt to be?
Entertainment's Tech Boom: The Internet Has Been Assimilated
Often times customer service == the development team == the marketing team == the executives == you

When you're a small shop, dealing with this kind of stuff day in, day out can get very taxing.
Ha, that immediately started me thinking - what if you remove the human, and fill the space with 70kg of battery, and then hook the think up to a mirror suit back at base worn by a real human receiving force feedback - instant Robocop.
Better tell IBM we don't have mainframes anymore.
Wikipedia traffic statistics for Hacker News (or any other article)
maybe just a smaller font size would suffice ... it looks tacky because it's the same size as the headings
I'd sooner get bitcoins than gold. =P No risk since there's no government involved.~ Doubled multiple times in the last several months. (Recently halved a time or two though. :( ) No middle-men or scammy "buy all your gold here and then we'll go out of business and you'll never get it back!" businesses if you just want to mine everything.
London riots affect Smash & Grab release of new Android app
I like the fact that the visual and musical aesthetic forced on early game designers by hardware limitations is now a desirable attribute in a new game. From the video the game looks and sounds great... In fact, I just bought it! Will report on my experience with the Linux version.

I don't know anyone under that age of 30, do the kids like the "8-bit" thing as well? :)

edit The Linux version is an Adobe Air package. Will try it out later.
Celebs come out in support of science, geeks and nerds (video)
Congrats!

I don't know exactly how it works, but maybe you might want to contact the Humble Bundle people and see if you could get in on that somehow?
The first sentence of the article also mentions that Microsoft has been forced to do the same thing.
17 years old and I can confirm this is indeed 'the business'[1], the retro aesthetic appeals to a lot of the younger demographic simply as a stylistic choice rather than a throwback to our youths. Limitation breeds innovation and as a result many games utilising 8-bit inspired graphics tend to have really unique art direction.

[1]: A phrase I may have just invented but plan to use frequently from this point on.
> And with a CEO coming straight from Microsoft, going the WP7-route instead of doing Android, seems like a pretty obvious and "safe" decision.

I always tell my friends who work for Microsoft to never, ever drink their Kool Aid.
OK, so set up a filtration system. If you're good enough to build a system capable of running at that level you should be able to set up some basic mail filters or even a more complex bayesian filter to knock out at least bounces and probably a good percentage of autoreplies too.

Removing noise from a system isn't a job where it's perfect or useless; a substantial reduction is often quite good enough.
I'm also dubious about how Fannie and Freddie failed. There was a bubble (caused by what, low rates? guarantees? demographics? the credit bubble?), and it deflated. But the US government is not the only entity to screw up in this way. The UK housing bubble also burst. Japan had the same problem. And while the government was certainly involved, so was private industry and the general public. It doesn't prove "government = bad", that's just confirmation bias.

What it does prove is that you (the government, industry, or general population) shouldn't pour too much money into areas that show all the signs of a credit bubble.
Do a version in Flash! Flash games can spread all over the internet and do insane traffic which you can use to promote the full/paid version.
Bonferroni correction
Corporations based and operating in the US are subject to the PATRIOT Act, it's a shitty law but it's still the law. At least they are transparent about it.

Edit: here is the article in question: http://www.wiwo.de/politik-weltwirtschaft/google-server-in-e...

They asked if their EU based dataceters are also subject to US warrants and they answered that they are.
True, but once you plant an oak, there is little you have to do for it to mature. With developing and building a starship, there is a lot to do.
Yes, but doubtful for an LCD. An LCD should lose at least 66% of its energy in the best case by virtue of how it works. It essentially works by sending out white light and blocking selective spectra of light for each pixel. So even if a pixel is lit up, it should still be blocking or filtering most of the light that hits it and only letting through its particular color.

The better solution is to use LEDs or OLEDs. These do not require a backlight or any blocking but just generate the necessary color of light (and only the necessary color of light) from scratch.
:-)

I understood he wanted to know what the women he had been with were like - what were their interests, their social circle, etc.
It is only hitting the U.S. now because, like many companies, they built a following in a smaller area first. They then used that to get record companies hooked as a small start up. The more they grew the more back catalogues and even indie artists got on board with them.

So now they have a proven platform, architecture and refined client and importantly a tested price model (like I said it has changed frequently to find the right form). So they felt ready to move to the US where there is a much larger audience. I believe they also secured a big investment to help too.

Add into that, the EU and UK do not have software patents, so it is much easier to make software over here than in the US. So of course as soon as Spotify go to the US they are under litigation from the software patent trolls.

As for unlimited music streaming, it used to be Naptsters legal business model a few years ago, but the internet just wasn't fast enough back then and they were blocked as there was only iPod and it had no apps.

Oh and what separates it from Grooveshark, Pandora or We7 you ask? It is their software client, it caches music, for fast access and less streaming, it can be used offline, and they have mobile versions for the $10 subs. HTH
Its a shame the tools in charge of this mess have adopted the tea party mindset no doubt acquired through addiction to Faux News and the Faux News echo chamber.

Take note, Hacker News seems to be turning into teaparty News, and all it takes is for a few more teaparty articles to show up in the first page, and i am out of here.

Odious debt, morons, look it up.
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I can't know but, after reading the comment, it ocurred to me that identifying "idiots" with bad spellers is fallacious.
The headline is a little more downbeat than the story, no?

As I read it, they say that private VC investment is moving from research to development. This is consistent with the nature of VC funds - they usually have to pay back investor money within 7-10 years. The research cycle in physical sciences is frequently long enough that adding development pushes the idea beyond 10 years. As such, VCs are more interested in bringing already researched ideas (or incremental ideas) to market.

There are 2.5 antidotes to this:

1) The government can fund more basic research, similar to biology.

2) The government can put a revenue neutral tax on unclear energy. (Carbon taxing) They can use to revenue to fund #1, or give it back in the form of lower taxes. Even the latter will create financial incentives to fund alternatives.

2.5) Fund longer term (10-15 year time horizon?) VC style investments with public funds, either through pensions or other dedicated funds. This would be similar to Singapore.

I am fairly confident that #1 will help, as it benefits other areas in science. There is potential for waste, but lots of residual benefits. I am very confident that #2 will work, as it lines up everyone's incentives to solve the problems. I am only slightly confident that #2.5 will work, as it is not a business model that has worked in many other places.
Convenient "bug" on the new YouTube player ads
HotOrNot - Deanonymising by thermal clock skew (2008,pdf)
Way ahead of you ;)

Currently in negotiations with a large portal.
"European Union legislation requires companies to protect the personal information of EU citizens"

It's the law. What's more, it's a good law. I am concerned that they broke it, and seem to have tried to hide this.
You are right - will be adding a demo in the next few weeks.

Still so much to do!
Except that RoboCop was an actual cyborg, i.e. human brain (and various other organic parts) inside a largely artificial body.

I think what you're describing is more along the lines of a drone, as used in the aerial sense (UAV:s).
Wait, so can you now generate JS, Flash and C++ versiond of the game automatically (or, at least, easily?).
Nintendo's investors want iOS games
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"Do no evil" -- What do you think? Does this qualify as a breach of their motto? Or is it only a clear message to those who may have thought their Google data is private?
'Being transparent' about it is not what comes to my mind if we're including these gag orders.

I won't comment on the law in general for the discussion's sake, but not being allowed (or: required) to be transparent about the disclosure of data is just evil in my world.
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One solution might be for Google to spin off its EU datacenter operations into a company incorporated outside of US jurisdiction. The Patriot Act would then no longer apply and Google would not be force to break EU law.
Call me jaded, but this doesn't seem so bad to me.

If I like something, I am putting that out in the public. I expect it to be on my feed. Why wouldn't it be used more efficiently to tell others what I like? My view is that both Facebook and LinkedIn are services where everything defaults to public. What is strange is I don't feel this way about Amazon - I view my reviews to be public, but my personal ratings should not be. Same with Netflix. It is a very subtle distinction, and apparently not everyone thinks this way.

I think abusing private personal information is a much worse crime.
I should have said get "scientists" involved and they make it more complicated. As usual they don't know what they are talking about. This earth can support 10x the current population with a vegeterian agrarian lifestyle. Our current system is exploitative and selfish. As Gandhi said, there is enough for everyone's need, not everyone's greed.
I've noticed that the YC funded startups this year are particularly derivative. I guess the safe(r) money in this glum economy is in iterative also rans.

It's depressing though. There is no vision, courage or leadership from investor groups like YC. There's no "art" in these startups.
Do you know from what country does the respondents come from?
And corporations based and operating in Europe are subject to our data protection laws. Microsoft and Google (and plenty others) have fully fledged companies in Europe. This raises an interesting question - what should companies do when they are subject to mutually exclusive laws like that?

My opinion is that they need to comply with the laws, which might require not having overseas companies in this case. Could they operate without them? Do they only exist for dodging huge amounts of taxes? (If yes, then this means that Google decided to "do evil" in return for a 20% boost in earnings)
The Patriot Act seems to trump EU law in many cases, as security fears oft trump privacy concerns. It's a good discussion to be had for sure, am I'm sure EU parliament members will debate it in length:

They don't seem to have tried to hide anything. From another report: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Google-also-passe...

The previous Microsoft admission that sparked this line of questioning: http://www.h-online.com/news/item/US-authorities-have-access...

Relevant: the Google Transparency Report:
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/
HaXe seems to be a fine idea indeed. What is your experience working with it in practice?
Kinda easily...It requires some extra code.
No it doesn't:

> Gordon Frazer, Microsoft UK's managing director, made news headlines some weeks ago when he admitted that Microsoft can be compelled to share data with the US government regardless of where it is hosted in the world.
Well, I've been using Python for ten years, so I'm not the best example there. But, yeah, I'd be a better C# programmer than the vast majority of C# programmers with four years of experience, within two weeks. Of course my lack of knowledge of C# would get in my way all the time and slow me down, and I wouldn't be nearly as good as I would be after a few years of experience.

So why do I think I'd be a better C# programmer than most C# programmers in only two weeks? Because I'm a better programmer than most of them, and that's a more significant factor than language and library knowledge. A mediocre programmer can be mediocre in any language, and many of them continue to be mediocre for many years. Also, when you join an existing team with experience in a language, you can draw on their expertise.

There are a lot of programmers who are better than I am, thousands if not tens of thousands of them. I've had the privilege of collaborating with some of them. If someone had to choose between me and someone else at about my level, they'd be entirely justified in making the decision based on language knowledge. But the vast majority of experienced programmers are worse than I am --- much worse.
Still, very nice! How did you like the language?
They almost certainly have local operating companies that are wholly owned subsidiaries of the US parent company - just having a separate company isn't enough I suspect that separate ownership would also be requried.
Why are not user outraged?
My nephews (9, 12 & 13) love it, but maybe they're just being nice :)
I went to a talk years ago by Microsoft just after they had opened some new data centres. The MS presenter showed a government data centre dab smack in-between MS, Google, and Yahoo!. I can't remember the complex name, it was near a hydro dam, sure it had Rose in the name. Basically the data centres where they for access to the higher quality grid and cheaper rates.

He was pitching Singapore data centres and made the joke that US could just tap into any of the data centres with a warrant just like that. Then his laugh died in dry painful way leading more or less everyone in the audience to assume that the warrants had already been issued.
How does the "The Patriot Act seem to trump the EU law" ? In what sense?

I reject the idea that a US law is more important in Europe than an European one. If that is what has happened, then it is wrong.

If nothing was hidden, why is this policy only coming to light after the fact? There seems to be some degree of not wanting people to know.
Really, really good.

I've made the prototype in js and it was a ton easier and worked better with haxe.