skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks nice, and even authentic.

The one thing I noticed with it is that it seems to 'stall' between when the animation occurs and the full color image is swapped in.

For a first-time load, this wouldn't be surprising, but it seems to do it even after I've already +1d something else on the page, and seen the animation, which should be cached already.
An Adobe Flash developer on why the iPad can’t use Flash [2010]
I think there are very few who would say that globals shouldn't be allowed altogether. The problem is that JS relies a bit too much on globals all being crammed into one namespace.

I'm an advocate of the python model (although I should maybe call it the Modula-3 model): only allow module-level globals. You get globals if you need them, but no worries about code mangling your variables.
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Startup School 2011 Industry Meetups
Startup school is a great opportunity to meet fellow hackers. However, I would find it most useful to meet fellow hackers interested in solving problems in the same industry as me. At the very least, this could foster thoughtful discussion about a specific industry. At the very best, this could introduce future co-founders. If you're interested, add your name, email and industry of interest to this spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Au5vcdmvYxSrdEk0eEdaNFNzYUVfclVhelhjY3JrNkE&hl=en_US

I propose that on Wednesday evening, each interest group starts an email thread to coordinate a time and place to meet up during Startup School weekend.
Amazed to see the author of hping2 here .. ah that was a different era ;-)
Great point! I hereby endorse illegalizing second girlfriends as well.
Is it just me, or is every dart criticism follow the pattern:

1) I have a hobby horse
2) Dart gets released
3) Flog hobby horse

Go had a bunch of similar criticisms, mostly for not being "innovative" enough and favoring a small, solid feature set.
<evil>The defendant could use their patent bank to sue the troll's licensees, thereby starving the troll.</evil>
it only worked in IE and Windows.
Except it doesn't appear to work robustly, which makes it poor design. "Automating boring and time consuming stuff," is all well and good if it actually produces a functional system, but that concern is secondary to robustness.
I was so comfortable and felt connected with both of them and their suggestions were very very useful.
What a great effort from betabeat to support NYC startups.
Great article. I've gone back to that thought "Everything we do is to alter our consciousness" since my first highs.

I went to a church for a concert recently and I was struck with the lengths these people went to in order to alter their consciousness without "drugs". Highly emotionally charged speakers work everyone up. Food and coffee are practically fetishized. There's a nice (albeit kind of unnatural/forced) sense of community that hits certain primal emotional triggers. So yeah, everyone's trying to altering their consciousness.
Diamond giant DeBeers sets up VC office in Silicon Valley
Android peer-to-peer developer settles privacy flap with FTC
Awesome opportunity--Thx BetaBeat and LV. And trust me, the butterflies are real. ha
Responsive Web Design in Sass (Part 1): Fluid Layouts and Fluid Images
I'm getting this error when using the login link right now!

EDIT: The only way I was able to login was to use the 'add comment' button on this post.
HSBC has a somewhat-premium Advance service that specifically claims to help opening accounts when you move countries and move money and banking history. Was that what you were using in the UK? (That being said, apparently HSBC in the USA isn't all that great in general.) Perhaps their commercial/merchant banking can do similar things?
I mostly stick to the top 30, although I occasionally skim the first 100 for stuff that interests me, because even the interesting ones that are submitted at non-peak times don't often go lower than that.
Generally any blog written a day after the spec released is going to be pretty superficial. It isn't like they have time to be able to construct any real criticisms. Personally, if not being able to say if(a) is the worst criticism of the v.1 spec you can find, then it must be a pretty decent spec.
An Eye-Opening Look at How Many Conflict Photos Are Staged
India unveils draft National Telecom Policy 2011
TechStars reality show entrepreneur steals $2K from own company
It's not really fair of me to doubt people's anecdotes, but for ALL of the stoners I know, this has never been descriptive of them. Two of the biggest pot heads I know are starting a company and already have a dozen clients, and the others have 6 figure salaries waiting for them on the West coast.
So there must be some really enormous cartels engaged in alcohol bootlegging, and "legally partnering up with companies in the US" in the process. Right?
That's still language design... Personally, I would make NaN == NaN in a language I would design, and provide a Float.equals function that would follow the IEEE standard.
Android set to overtake iPhone in app downloads by summer
Citibank branches around the world really go out of their way to help you when you appear on their doorstep with a Citibank account from another country.

My Citibank UK account absolutely helped in opening a Citibank US account. I also seem to recall it was quicker and/or cheaper to transfer money internationally between Citibank accounts.
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I have organic listings ranked in the top 1-3 spots for my niche and I'm still buying Adwords for the same keywords, because PPC really does drive different traffic compared to organic. A few months ago Google suspended my account (apparently by mistake) and I noticed a significant drop-off in traffic. When my account was reinstated, I was happy to be paying for traffic again.
How to create a machine-based persona
Run Android apps full screen on Windows
Understanding constructors, destructors and RAII is a prerequisite for any real C++ programming. Avoiding shared_ptr for performance reasons before you know it's a bottleneck (it probably isn't) is a premature optimization.
RUMOUR: Apple to start selling iLSD.
While your "pissed-off"-ness may be overstated for HN, I very much appreciate your comment. Thanks.

My (Jewish) great-grandmother left the USSR in the late 1910's hidden in a hay cart at the bottom of a freight ship. I wouldn't be here today if not for that feat.
You don't want to execute code from URLs. (Yes, you can use cryptography to "sign" URLs you create. Don't try that at home unless you know the difference between MACs and hashes, and how to avoid timing attacks.)
Facebook Platform extended on mobile
Open Source = Open + Source
I will not use dart because it comes from google. Wont let them own everything about the web.
But then it appears to just turn off type checking. This would be the cakiest cake ever for even a shoddy type inference engine.
How about an ITIN? Same length as an SSN, let's stripe find a blank credit history. I would ask the stripe guys about it.

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/international/article/0,...
In case it helps, although it's not on Chargify: I'm going to launch a SAAS product (https://www.wisecashhq.com) and will use Recurly. They advised to join WireCard, which we did.

Basically, WireCard does the acquisition, payment gateway and provide a merchant account as well, as part of a single pack; which means I "only" subscribe to Recurly + WireCard.

I can acquire money in $ (we will only use $ first) despite being a french company, and my merchant account there will be in €.

Be sure to check out the way Recurly handles VAT too: blog.recurly.com/2010/09/recurly-now-features-vat-support/

Hope this helps!
Practice and understanding for when you've got to work on something that comes with 4k of RAM in total, if you're lucky.
I don't think he's attempting to give a formal proof, he's just saying that TheDroids argument doesn't pass a basic sniff test.
Taiwan doesn't recognize itself as a separate country. It recognizes itself as the legitimate government of China.
Nice article, I guess, but overly complex; it really is a very simple set of reasons. Here goes:

1. There is a large startup community in the US
2. Many people interested in startups already went to
the US because of (1)
3. The barrier to moving to the US because of (1) is far
lower than trying to recreate the environment locally
4. This is a strongly self-reinforcing phenomenon

Wash, rinse, repeat. You can say the exact same thing for films and music.

Spoken as an Australian who is likely moving to NYC in the coming months. The startup environment just does not exist in AU. I have the petri dish, I have the bacteria, what I need now is agar, and there is precious little to be found down under.
I think you need to include the size of the php executable...
Facebook Redesign: 10 Different Layout Design Possibilities
>Sadly just having an official company behind it will be enough to get approval to use Nginx in a lot of enterprises--sign a fat support contract so you can cover your ass and not think about it again.

I foresee that plugin writers and source contributors will slowly creep towards the consulting and support model, while the
'community' or 'core' version users will get scarcer documentation. That's fine by me, but signing that support contract will probably mean paying 2 grand for getting a tailored nginx.conf and an SOW document.

That's a good business opportunity overall, but at what cost to the community ?
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Topsy Launches Realtime Search Engine For Public Google+ Posts
This is browser dependent (although many modern browsers do keep form content in the history).
"Look, I CAME HERE FOR AN ARGUMENT, I'm not going to just stand..."

"OH, oh I'm sorry, but this is abuse."

"Oh, I see, well, that explains it."

"Ah yes, you want room 12A, Just along the corridor."
Box.net Just Scored $81 Million
What do you mean by "The "One More Thing..." fund? Steve probably would not approve,"?
It'll stick better if each of you are consistent with the language you use when speaking to her. Even if it's not your native language, one of you make the leap and talk to her only in German

(My wife and I are raising our daughter English/Mandarin bilingual.)
Why would "lsof +L1" possibly signify "a cracker trying to hide something"? I'm wondering becuase I have lots(!) of results for this command.
Occupy Twitter: Data Reveals Passion
What was it like to be at Apple headquarters on the day Steve Jobs died?
Slashdot link? You couldn't bother to link to the news article

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1...

or the original release?

http://www.innenministerium.bayern.de/presse/archiv/2011/385...

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&...
Indeed, I gave it a go with a blind deconvolution product for the consumer market. In the end, I decided to kill it. Here's my blog post describing why I pulled the plug: http://www.keacher.com/?p=872
The world of classical music is even more complicated. The same orchestra and performers may record the same piece of music multiple times in different locations or years or with different conductors. All of these things make the identification of a particular piece of music even more difficult.
Would someone please remind me when Wikileaks was convicted or even accused of a crime?

That's right: Neither ever happened.

What is going on in this country?
Is the desire to operate in the dark, to work behind the backs of the very people that this government represents so strong, that any organization shining light on this must be squashed?
Japanese & Korean.
Google Just Likes Java
Indeed, that became a habit for me a while ago after certain social discussion sites and on-line tools I use frequently went all Web 2.0 and broke the back button when a form submission failed, typically because the form fields were only added dynamically using JS so when you go back they simple aren't there any more according to your browser. Mercifully, HN has yet to introduce that particular "improvement".

That's not really the point, though, is it? The important thing is whether posters who want to offer a useful comment and/or mitigate a poor comment can do so. Once HN gets into unknown/expired mode at the moment, it seems common that even basic things like "More" links and logging in can fail as soon as you load/refresh a page, at which point the site is effectively unusable: you can't contribute even if you have something worthwhile to add saved away in your clipboard from the previous failed attempt.
As a young man, I took psychedelics several times under the pretense of mind expansion. Looking back, I think the things I've read (and internalized), relationships I've had, and just generally "getting out of my comfort zone" had a more formative effect on my outlook than any chemicals.

If you want to use them, that's fine. But I would hate to think a young hacker reading this stuff felt like he needed to use psychedelics.

The notion that dropping acid was one of the two or three most important things Steve Jobs had done in his life seems a bit...reality distorting.
German government admits to using potentially illegal spyware
You probably have a point. Not a relevant one for what I wrote but still, a point. :-)
Box.net raises $81m from Salesforce, SAP at $600m plus valuation
Is anyone really surprised that the iPad is crushing all these things-that-are-obviously-trying-to-be-just-like-the-iPad? Customers aren't actually as stupid as birds: You can put a newborn cuckoo in a bird's nest and the bird will feed it -- it doesn't actually know what its own offspring are supposed to look like -- but you can't just build a thing with a screen that looks superficially like an iPad and expect folks to mindlessly buy it. Especially when you're selling to the early-adopter crowd that buys devices from two-year-old categories.

But, really, the lesson of articles like this one is that tech business analysts are prisoners of their own categories. The iPod Touch is not a "tablet" because it is too small; obviously all those smartphones are not "tablets" because they can make phone calls, which clearly makes them completely different, because... hey, when analysts were growing up the telephone was a completely different thing than the computer, instead of just one application that runs on your computer and that gets less use with each passing year.

And the Kindle is somehow not a tablet, because... uh, it doesn't have pretty colors? And the B&N Nook is not a tablet, because... uh, I guess you can't view animations on it? (Okay, seriously, it's probably the absence of touch that defines a non-"tablet". But does anyone want to bet that the new touch-enabled Kindle will get to be called a "tablet"? I somehow doubt it. It's just not iPad enough.)

Obviously, netbooks -- the hot category of yesteryear -- are not "tablets" and therefore don't appear on these charts, even though the most obvious reason I can see to buy an iPad alternative is to get a keyboard and/or the ability to run PC apps. And, of course, the eleven-inch Macbook Air isn't a tablet either.

If you allow the iPad to define a category and then draw the boundaries so narrowly that only the iPad fits, surprise! It dominates the category!

What would be more interesting to look at is the iPad's share of "things with similar screen size and weight", or "things that can play portable games", or "things that can read Kindle books", or "things with half-decent web browsers and 3G support".
RSA say single nation behind SecurID breach in March
http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/security/3310032/rsa-nation-state-responsible-for-securid-breach/
The author's logic isn't "Steve Jobs took LSD, you should too", it's "Steve Jobs took LSD and credits it as a crucially important intellectual experience in his life, so maybe you should too." I'm pretty sure Jobs didn't say the same thing about being adopted.
I edited out the words "apart from on an embedded device with a tiny memory" as I had hoped that the mention of the modern computer and virtual memory would suffice.

But this was a genuine question rather than a put-down. I was hoping to have my assumption debunked.

EDIT: I have no idea why you're being down-voted seems unfair
> It may be true that psychopathic traits enable certain individuals to game the system, as it were, and succeed wildly in modern society.
That's precisely why natural selection will encourage it, isn't it?
>probably for the worse.
I'm not sure I agree with that, a society where everybody can read each other accurately and perceptively..that may be a tougher society to live in, but it'll have its share of benefits (like perfect understanding), so it's not necessarily worse.
Rewarded for failure: RIM share price up as BlackBerry service crashes
Steve Jobs = Keith Richards
Perhaps you weren't the target marget. Look at the 4S compared to the 3GS. iPhone 4 owners are still under contract while 3GS owners are at the end of their contract.

As a business strategy, the goal would be to encourage 3GS owners to upgrade. Similarly the iPhone 5 will be positioned to entice iPhone 4 owners to upgrade.
The Seven Ages of Man or - Reading the Runes
Occupy Wall Street - and the top 1 percent of high-income workers
Bone - pick:

Please, if you are going to upload a presentation online after giving it, have a version tailored for Slideshare or Speakerdeck.

Please for the love of all that is holy in the world: stop with the meme's, stock photo + funny/ironic text. Getty Images et al have some funny stuff, and if you type "guy frustrated with the world with frizzy hair" you'll likely find something, but it's over-played.

For the most part, presentations work better online as a visual accompaniment to a really well thought out and concise blog post.

With no info graphics please.
I really enjoyed the presentation. It's designed more like a paper that's spread across 60 "pages" than a keynote speech, but there's quite a bit of good advice there.
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http://webhostingtalk.com is a pretty huge forum for everything hosting (vps, cloud, dedicated, colo..) related. Used to participate pretty heavy. It's actually a really good hacker resource.
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If Microsoft had suggested this, they would be persecuted and beat into submission.
Good find! Thanks, I'll take a look. If you see anything else wrong - feel free to send me a note: matt@a9.com
Meyers book has been the book I'd recommend to anybody moving beyond the beginner stage in C++, but there's so much critical stuff in the new standard that the last edition of his book doesn't cover that I'd hesitate to recommend it now. I think you're better off studying some of the resources available online, like the videos at http://channel9.msdn.com/

That is, of course, only until a new edition of Meyers' book comes out.
Activist RIM investor stokes shareholder uprising
Whoa, whoa. Putting the state from the closure in the url is not the same as putting the closure in the url.
Yes it is unreasonable to expect LTE. The current chips wouldn't fit in the iPhone 4 form factor and would use more power (i.e. less battery life). And of course LTE coverage is a lot less than 3G coverage.

So the tradeoff doesn't seem reasonable to me at this point in time. Next summer there will be different chips, a redesigned form factor (probably) and better LTE coverage and so the tradeoff will go the other way.
Yeah, United States calls Pakistan an alley (and offers billions of dollars to it) who gave refuge to Osama Bin Laden, responsible for a number of terrorist attacks worldwide, supplying nuclear weapons to other country etc. etc.

Well we haven't seen any Buddhist monk teid up with a sucide bomb kill women and children in China.
I was firmly in the "there's nothing disappointing in this release" camp before reading this. But I have to say this sounds a LOT like what people used to say about the Mac pre-Jobs' return. As Windows was slowly catching up you'd hear about the elegance of the Mac and how features weren't as important as usability. And it was true but it was also true that Windows was gaining on the Mac far faster than the Mac was improving.

I do think there are some neat things in the 4S but there's no doubt that Android phones have made a leap in the next year while the iPhone just made a step. So while I'd still put the iPhone in the lead I think there's an argument to be made for the 4S being a disappointment.

(and for the record I bought one for full price because I've needed a 64G iPhone to fit all my music for years now so I'm not an Android fanboy)
The point is that it was possible for him to make enough money at his trade to move beyond the amateur stage. It's not clear that many people will be able to do this now, at least not those that can't cultivate a healthy live following for whatever reason.
Steve Jobs Asked Aaron Sorkin To Write a Pixar Movie
I wish I could get away with a standing desk at work.

Once I commit myself full time to my business, which will hopefully be soon, I will go with a standing desk.

I HATE sitting down all day. It bothers my back so much. I don't get how people do it.

I'd even consider a treadmill desk, ha. So you can walk and work at the same time. Good exercise.
It was an awesome experience. They were cool and made us feel very comfortable. Thanks betabeat and LV. Our confidence has taken a boost...It is very inspiring to see all the other pitches. I hope this is just the start!!
I'm not sure I have the patience to be here feeding discussions that turn into cheap immediate offenses as soon as one mentions a sensitive subject.
If the subject s to sensitive for you, maybe you should refrain from commenting it?

What I said is a fact, if you don't believe it go and make a survey yourself or something. Honestly your reply is just childish.

Have it occurred to you guys that you may be talking to a muslim?
This is why ISRC exists. It's like ISBN for recordings, and it's in active use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isrc

A few years back I worked for a startup that was cataloging recorded music. I recall that the major labels would provide us with ISRC, among other things, for all of their recordings. I don't recall whether independent labels and artists used it though. I would guess that it varied.

(See also ISWC, which is for the composition, not the recorded performance of it. ISWC/ISRC is a bit like class/instance.)
Yes, and it seems that their algorithm needs hints for natural image verses text
The ISP Sonic fought against having to hand over the data and lost.

Both Sonic and Google fought over the right to inform Mr. Appelbaum of the request for his data and won (afaik).

The article says it is not known whether Google fought against having to hand over the data, like the ISP Sonic did.

Which makes me assume the writers asked Google, they didn't answer, neither did they issue a press report one way or the other. Which leads me to believe that, no, Google did not fight the actual request and unlike the small ISP Sonic did just comply in order to make their lives easier.

Of course it's just speculation but why else would we know about the other case Google did fight in this matter?

Additionally, why would Google go through that trouble, they have no interest either way, and are not in the business of protecting their users from surveillance state governments. Apparently.
Why Steve is dead?
Cancer is the new terrorism.

http://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/l3yw7/ten_years_later_calamities_of_nature/
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Almost no cost to the community, this option is far better than MySQL route.
Actually _right_now_ I cannot click "more"(on the first page) without hitting the "Unknown or expired link" page ... so I cannot go past the first page :/ -- Someone should submit a patch :)