skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unacceptable? Well you are paying for it so clearly it is acceptable to you. They could have designed their service in another way but then you would have to 1) wait longer for songs to buffer before playing 2) pay more as their costs would be higher.
I understood much of this! :)

So then my next question is, relative to the whole of linear algebra, how advanced/deep/engaged-with-the-field is the LLL algorithm? Is this first-course-in-linear-algebra stuff? Is this "barely linear algebra" stuff?
Articles like this make me sympathize with Aaron Swartz a little more. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2813870
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I believe there is a really simple solution to this. Spotify is only using your network bandwidth to serve your music files that other people want to play. If you don't want to participate move your music folders to another location that Spotify cannot find.
Infrastructure Compromise Put Fraudulent SSL Cert in Hands of Attackers
Damian Conway. He did a great series on Vim at IBM Developerworks. The first one is at:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script...
Goliath has a websockets branch and also supports eventsource and streaming pretty easily. If it's something you need, definitely look into Goliath as well.

http://www.igvita.com/2011/08/26/server-sent-event-notificat...
https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliath/tree/websockets
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PhotoLive, a browser bookmarklet that saves Facebook Photos instantly.
Came here to say this, only I don't work for Microsoft. He takes you guys' research that says most people use it from the context menu and uses that to say that it should continue to be that way. It's like, since when are companies not allowed to try to improve their UI? Just because most people use it there doesn't make it the best option.
Check this out http://37signals.com/bootstrapped .
There are people running companies without outside funding and are probably pretty happy doing so. Applying to YC is time consuming: making videos, writing bios etc.
That button is called the "Recycle Bin". I believe it has been on the default desktop since at least Windows 95.
Thanks for the info. This sounds like a really interesting product.
ORMs dont kill databases. SQL does !
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Relevant: http://pair.io

Couple that with a mailing list and a mumble server and you'd be set, I think.
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> I love tech, but if I went to a restaurant and they had that, I honestly wouldn't go back.

Why?

Personally, I'd love to see this. I particularly liked the bit about filtering and sorting the menu. And I could often use an option to randomly choose between a few options that sound appealing.
Wacom Inkling May Become My Favorite Gadget of All Time
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=skype+p2p+architecture
I might be wrong here as I'm relatively new to vim and haven't used VS, but I'm pretty sure omnicompletion is the equivalent of intellisense in vim, http://vnfiles.ign.com/ects/css-tricks/VideoCast-101.mov
I wonder if anyone making that claim actually owns a Kindle. After buying a Kindle, I am reading a lot of older texts that are out of copyright and are far superior to most of today's crap.
whats the sustainable number our planet can theoretically deal with? (though i know this is a loaded question).
This was my question exactly.

What about layering designer-specific functionality on top of dropbox? Use the Dropbox API, people sign up and tell you where in their Dropbox folder they store designs, and you provide specific functionality, like the ability to compare versions of a design in an intuitive way.
Open source and money why paying R developers might not help the project
It looks like a Festo bird see http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/11369_11439.htm#id_11439
Spot on. A well written summary of my reaction to the article too.

Separating "legal" and "ethical" is a problem with many people. Several years ago when I worked for state government there was an ethics controversy. The politician involved kept arguing his actions were legal, but, I think, missed the broader point of whether they were ethical. An ethics board of his peers—also elected officials—eventually "cleared" him while saying he acted inappropriately, so perhaps they too missed the difference.
You don't suck at GitHub, you suck at Git. And that's not out of the ordinary. It takes time to grok Git.
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There are a number of resources that can be found via Google (i.e. "app design") but Smashing Magazine has some good articles relating to app design and layout in general.
You can also try searching for "beautiful apps" which brings up links to collections of different apps that might provide an idea.
As far as color goes, I like searching for web site templates or 'best web design of 2011' collections and finding a color scheme that I like or think would work well with the general feel of what my product does. Remember, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"
> and in all probability that birth will take place in China or India

While they are the most population-dense areas and are growing faster than other places in the world, I'm pretty sure it's more likely that the 7 billionth person won't be born in India or China.
I'll say it: I (currently) prefer Windows Phone Mango over iOS and Android. I think it's more stable, more responsive, and more elegant (yes, more elegant than iOS).

But my opinion is subjective, and if I were to blurt it out to the masses, it would only serve to stir the pot of fanbois for each camp.

My hope is that iOS, Android, and Windows Phone are all wildly successful and that we enjoy healthy competition in the mobile space for years to come.
Interesting, I assumed that Spotify just distributes data that originated on its own servers. If distributes music I've ripped myself, I could screw up its service for other listeners. Does anyone know what the behavior is?
I guess the point is that these are parts of a field that is significantly larger and deeper than just these parts.

Vector Geometry is a part of Linear Algebra, it's just not a very big part, just as arithmetic is not a very big part of calculus.

Matrix theory is a much bigger chunk, but the article submitted doesn't go into matrix theory, it just uses a piddling bit of a small amount of using matrices.

And these are valid questions - I don't know why someone down-voted you, and I've upvoted you for asking.
No, it supports both 3 finger swipe (fwd/back in browsers), and 4 finger swipe (change Space), as well as, iirc 3 finger touch & click (although I haven't got this working since I installed Lion)
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Good for you! Well funded means they will have to pay for rent and employees and stuff. Go and do less, better.
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Apple II Reference Manual (January 1978)
Reminded me of the Hans Rosling Ted talk on global population: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/hans_rosling_on_global_pop...

"The world's population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years -- and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth. This is the paradoxical answer that Hans Rosling unveils at TED@Cannes using colorful new data display technology (you'll see)."
Postmortem: Magicka, what went right, and what went wrong
I am now leading the creation of a business around our open source unified distributed storage solution called Ceph. www.ceph.com. The start-up is only in its 4th week but the technology has been developed over the past 7 years.
The ironic thing about this problem is that more tech startups will see this as an opportunity. And they should.
Edward Ocampo-Goodin is the real man.
They did it to protect jobs. Sun claimed to have to cut 3000 jobs because of the EU approval delay. The US probably was trying to rush them so the merger could go through and Sun would not go bankrupt.

It's all in the cable. Read it for yourself, and then decide if this government intervention was a good or bad thing.

Note: Above, I have not given my opinion on this. I have not said, "this is good." I have only given my speculation as to the reasons the US gov would do this based on the cable.
Google DNS and OpenDNS Users Are Getting a Web Speed Boost
Why must you laugh at my back end?
See also: http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20110613232554data_trunc_sy... . More broadly, the piece has a crude understanding of the complex issues around energy and cost.
Personally, I think Cramp's interface is a lot better than Goliath when it comes to streaming, because everything is streaming in Cramp. YMMV. https://github.com/lifo/cramp/blob/master/examples/sse/serve... in case you want to compare. Also, goliath websockets branch looks outdated.

FWIW, I do like Goliath. More async solutions in Ruby the better!
Nutanix launches and a new era for data center computing is born
The obvious negative this has on folks outside of research-level academia is a significant contribution to tuition prices, which seem to be rising at about 5% per year.

But a less obvious - and personally very painful - consequence of greedy publishers is the inability to do serious academic research outside of academia/industry. I have the ability (math PhD) and the will (have published a few papers post grad school, though it's hard to find time), but I have all but given up due to lacking access to books and articles behind these paywalls. Yes, you can find a decent chunk of articles online -- but very often there are one or two (or more!) key papers you _need_ to read to be at the front of a field, and one of those will be behind a paywall. The worst part is that I never know how truly useful an article will be before reading it, so in the few cases where I've payed I find that only a small percentage of the time was it worthwhile.

In short, this system essentially kills research outside of academia / industry.
Why Minimalist Web Design Is Dead
I am definitely not the authority here, so someone correct me. This is giving all combination of values that evaluate to True.

[edit]

More info here: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AmbInPython
Done. I'll PM you a link to the site and an overview in a few weeks when we launch.
Beware -- you're missing the point. Education is being drastically reduced because fools think It's about what they want and have forgotten what is good. Greedy fools are the problem and how it gets pointed out is irrelevant. You defend greedy fools. The discussion needs to be in the abstract, because fools hide behind concrete.
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Well, the funny thing about cosmetic bugs is that they tend to cluster with other, more subtle bugs (in my experience, at least, I'm more likely to find substantive errors by concentrating on sections of code near the obvious cosmetic bugs).
Calvin Hass has several articles on JPEG, including lossless transformations. http://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/

Better JPEG sells a library, Photoshop plugin, and (relatively simple) standalone program that allow lossless editing (only changed blocks are recompressed). http://www.betterjpeg.com/
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5 Reasons to Use Video Backgrounds in Marketing
Not sure if this is the book but Confessions of an Economic Hitman details how this process evolved since the 70s into the full-blow economic warfare we (our reps, leaders, and big corps) practice today.
How do you set spotify to offline mode (without completely disabling wifi)?
Developers wanted to build the next generation of toys - Launchpad Toys (YC S11)
I assume you mean teach him how to use git? If so, why don't you make a video to do that?
Academic publishing seems to be messed up but I'm not sure this is a good demonstration of that.

Of the three links that you cite to online copies two no longer link to the article. So while your $32 doesn't buy you anything you can't already get elsewhere the availability (at a price) from Nature does at least supply a degree of permanence to the article. That may be more important with less prominent items.
Steve introduces Enterprise Objects Framework (EOF) at about 25 minutes in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j02b8Fuz73A

EOF was one of the key components of making NeXT such a powerful OS, and why it was so heavily used on Wall Street. When they created WebObjects, they, of course, put EOF behind it, and yes, it is by far the most impressive ORM I have ever used. Thankfully, a well known WO developer, Andrus Adamchik, has developed Cayanne using the same principals behind EOF: http://cayenne.apache.org/
OK, I'll ask; What does "NFC" stand for?
Shame. The story of Bletchley Park is what got me interested in computers as a kid, and I followed both the preservation efforts and the rebuilding of Colossus closely. I wish I had made it there before now so I could've had a chance to speak to him.
Verizon Kills Its Easy Free Option For File Hosting For Your Personal Website
Near Field Communications - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication
Was the book See No Evil by Robert Baer?

http://www.amazon.com/See-No-Evil-Soldier-Terrorism/dp/14000...

The movie Syriana was loosely based on this book.
My job at the moment is working full time on the startup. I have been working full-time on it for the past month or so, so I wouldn't be "quitting" my job.

Thanks for your different perspective on the question.
I was surprised to see the latest E la Carte job ad (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2935090) claim an investment from an unnamed Greplin founder. The company's only 1.5 years old and the founders already have 4.7MM in funding (per CrunchBase) and are doing angel investments. Neat.
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But such anecdotal observations are often subject to "survivorship bias": you see only those who have survived and not the 30-to-70 year olds who tried and died:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
The new Windows 8 tile-based interface will be the default way to interact with your files and applications, Explorer will be only for when you need to do some advanced file management. Your parents will most likely never have to use it.
This is the same basic problem self-published novels face. There are probably some very good self-published novels, but without someone whose opinion I should trust verifying that they're good, I'm unlikely to a) find out about them and b) if I do find out, read them and decide for myself.

A lot of novels that I turn out to like enormously don't have first chapters that immediately speak to their greatness. But most of the novels I read, I read because an interesting review caught my attention, I've read the writer before, or the book has been recommended by someone who I trust. The first two in my preceding list roughly map to author fame and journal respect.
Your final statement only holds if (a) all environments in which people live are equally rich in opportunity/resources or (b) there are sufficient environments with adequate opportunity/resources to which people can move cheaply. That is not the world we currently occupy.
The sentence "All while working full time at the company" seems to be unclear to some. What I meant here is that I'm working full-time at the game company that I started and mentioned in the first sentence. I am not working for another company at the moment, running thestartup is my full-time job.
It's just about stealing. All they're doing is is old fashioned theivery. Just because they are allowed to, nobody can stop them. This country celebrates theivery, and is willing to sacrifice the minds of generations to honor and protect theives.
Honestly after iTunes, it should have been demonstrated that pirates will buy if

1) They have what they want (ie, just the one song they want, not the entire compiled musical history).

2) It is more convenient than getting it for free.

And honestly from what I read, it does appear that does sites are pretty damn convenient.
So you have an app idea...
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I have cable internet in Quebec and the cap is really low. 120gb a month is to me quite low. I watch most of my tv,news,sports online now and I have to actively monitor it. Does nothing to reduce my total bw rate usage while I'm streaming. I guess my usage drops at the end of the month. It still doesn't help their claimed problem of congestion.
To get a better understanding of how DigiNotar operated, have a look at the Mozilla bug for their CA inclusion: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369357
I understand the point you're making, they should say explicitly on their website. But to source my comment: http://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify-p2p10/
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I just compiled a list of reading (and watching) materials for this yesterday. Here you go:

http://blip.tv/djangocon-europe-2010/idan-gazit-design-for-d...
(great overview of the major design aspects - nearly 1hr)

http://media1.kadavy.net/allthefontsyoulleverneed-kadavy.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X4f83C8ANg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkJ6fPPRA5Q

18min http://vimeo.com/1542721

http://journal.drawar.com/d/we-do-not-need-you-to-design-any...

http://designingfortheweb.co.uk/book/ (free)
Graph Paper Press: Know When Not To Go Freemium - with Thad Allender
http://www.diginotar.nl/Actueel/tabid/264/articleType/Articl...

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&...

Incompetence doesn't begin to describe this statement. They say: Your browser might throw some warnings when communicating with government services. In 99.9% of the cases this is a false alarm and you can safely ignore it.

By own accord 1 in a 1000 (of 9 million users) can get MitM'ed and yet you teach people that it is safe to ignore it... They appear to use the same audit company from last time.

The Consumentbond already tells people to expect warnings and ignore them, for they have not been hacked, but merely experience a temporary "browser issue". Reports of DigiD helpdesk telling people to ignore warnings, lower security settings or place the site in "trusted sites".
This could be seen as an improved Automat[1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat
So are you suggesting that because we can't draw a perfect line on your continuum that we should not try to find a better line to draw? Or perhaps that because it can't be perfect, we should abolish it completely? Perhaps we can't fix every single thing, but perhaps we should try. The blind man you mention may or may not be fixable, but we should give him the options we can within the constraints of what is possible. (again back to your continuum -- we can't fix some forms of blindness, so we shouldn't fix the sweatshops either). You are arguing a strawman still.

As for different priorities and values, why do you think I talk of the option to make a choice for yourself? That allows each person to actually follow their priorities and values.

As for choosing house over cancer cure, this is again a fallacy, this time the false dilemma. Not everyone needs a cure for cancer -- those who don't have cancer. Not everyone needs a house: those who have houses. Some need both, some need neither.

Please note: I'm not actually for abdicating money per se, just for some sort of change to the system -- where perhaps random chance plays less of a factor (don't idiot up this statement with your absolutism... less not none) in a person's well being. Where perhaps the energy channeled into greed could in fact be channeled into something far more productive to everyone's existence.
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Hire a professional designer and spend your time programming. I personally don't think skill of "designing" can be learnt, it's something you already have, adjusting and refining all the way.
There is No Evidence Supporting Auditory and Visual Learning, Psychologists Say
The ArXiv includes a link to the actual (usually gated) journal article. And the text of that link is the journal name and citation.

My question isn't "why do people submit to journals?" it's "why post the actual PDF from the journal on your webpage (thereby taking a slight risk of getting in trouble) rather than just linking to the ArXiv version?".
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SPB Shell 3D for Symbian^3 users is launched
But its business relies on selling your bandwidth.
It's not the reverence for physical objects I'm getting at. It's that digital content is ethereal, easily lost amid the terabytes ... while physical books bring a substantial reality to the content. Ideas can be lost in the deluge of limitless content; physical manifestation thereof requires choosing and limiting which content will persist.

I think nothing of adding hundreds or thousands of books to my digital reader, and think nothing of forgetting any of them therein. I select and prune with care which ideas and content will fill the limited capacity of my hard-earned hand-made physical bookcase, keeping only the greatest ideas and making that concentration of what matters accessible to the young minds who are growing to peruse them.
Have you ever gone through some days when you encounter many people, whether it's in a commute, or whatever and ask why people are so useless in your life?

No, never. They all fascinate me, instead.

Try this: next time you're in a rush somewhere stop for a minute and look at the people around you. Try to figure out their stories: who are their families or friends, why are they out right now and where are they going, what do they do for a living or in their spare time? You'll rarely, if ever, guess correctly, but it really helps to remind you of the human factor of everyone around you.

We RUSH and STRESS to go to places for 40 hours we hate, to work on stuff we don't like, with people we don't care about.

This seems to be the case with far too many people, but it doesn't have to be.
And http://www.baywords.com/ and http://www.pastebay.com/ .
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Which countries are currently birthing more people/day?

If none, then it could be said that China or India are more likely than any other particular country.

Is the birth rate of China and India combined more than that of the rest of the world? If so, then it's more likely that it will occur there than anywhere else.
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I started a video blog on startup growth.

Interviewing successful founders on what they did for user-traction, startup marketing, customer acquisition, viral growth, guerilla marketing etc.

Goal being to learn how they got their first users, customers, downloads etc.
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I've had the subtitles turned on for about a year now and it wouldn't take more than 2 hours of watching broadcast TV with subtitles to realize this isn't a good solution. I've noticed the following.

1. Audio track is censored, Subtitles are not or Vice/Versa.
2. Actors Improvise the audio, the Subtitles are based on the script.
3. English Translations were done by the cheapest person possible so lots of partial words because they weren't clear and the transcriber didn't understand the context.
4. A recent show (2011) seemed to have a symbol every other character, I'm not sure if this is a Double-Byte Character issue, or just a bad translation.
5. Several shows such as American Idol and America's Got Talent display song lyrics and I'm not sure but I would think singing would require changes to the Algorithm.

I wish you well with the idea, but now you have a little more information.
I think after founders go through the fundraising process, a lot of them think it'd be fun to do angel investments in other companies. I guess the best reason NOT to do that is because it can dilute your focus from your own company.
There's also http://www.reddit.com/r/mlclass and http://www.reddit.com/r/dbclass now