skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To get permission to use the music from Zelda, Edgar Wright wrote to Shigeru Miyamoto saying “This music is like nursery rhymes to a generation.”

Absolutely true, and it's very effective for that reason. I also believe it's the reason why Scott Pilgrim resonates so much with a certain generation and then holds little to no appeal outside of it.

This article (in which Michael Cera interviews Edgar Wright) has a bit more detail. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/06/ff_cerawright/all/1
The problem is that in this case the database can only apply some ad-hoc heuristic. In the case of the pocket watch, this will be: the first user to buy it gets the watch, and the second user gets annoyed by an email saying that "the watch we said you bought was actually bought by someone else". There's no magic bullet here - this may be acceptable for some use cases but will not be for others.
I see it being a long while before everyone has iCloud up and running. We installed it last night on a relatively new MBP, to learn it doesn't work without Lion, so now we are upgrading to Lion. It will only work on certain phones, I believe 3GS and above.

Maybe Apple will release iCloud for Snow Leopard, but as it is now, instapaper works all the way down to the terrible version 2 iPhone I have had to resort to using in order to not sign into a new contract waiting on the release of the 4s.

Instapaper would hurt too many current users who are just fine with how things work without the cloud.
I updated the front page with a large "SUBMIT YOUR K&R STORY HERE" button. My contact info is on the /submit page. Thanks for the feedback.
Cool concept, clean interface but extremely buggy. Uploaded 3 images under 1mb and upload was broken. (I assume this as it went from 2%, 5%, 10%, 14%, 16% to download link). Downloading the attachments gives me a corrupted picture with only part of the photo showing.(another reason for the assumption that the uploading was broken). I don't like the fact that I couldn't copy and paste the link the normal way. Selecting the download link forces me to drag that link (While it's a neat feature to have, the original should be available as well.) Other than that, it's pretty awesome and I can't wait to use it!
It sounds like what Marco is looking for is something equivalent to Windows's AppData\Local, machine local, doesn't get nuked, but doesn't sync over roaming profiles either
BUSTED: Groupon Caught Inflating Regular Prices To Make Deals Look Better
I don't think Google+ will ever be a Facebook killer (Is Bing a Google killer?). Google's strengths are search and advertising, but not social networking. Given that Google+ is integrated to many google products, its not going to die soon IMHO, but it will be just there for sometime (Yahoo/excite never closed after google success).

Contrary example is gmail which caused a dent in Yahoo mail and still gaining momentum. But gmail was re-inventing email access (gtalk integration), but Google+ is no way close to revolutionizing social networking.
And yet, without all the efforts that went into alchemy (including Newton) we might have been delayed getting chemistry among other fields.

(I've been reading Gleick's bio on Newton, and it makes a point about the impact that the 'fruitless' alchemy had on modern science.. the real mistake of the alchemists was being secretive about methods and results)
Cell phone services vs residential phone services
> (Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft.)

It's OK. It's not your fault.
And if that means losing some history on a crash, is the fact that a user has visited one web site, but not another, really that important?

Yes, it is. Imagine you're typing a long comment, you've copied it into the clipboard just to be safe, and just before you submit, your OS crashes or you lose power.

Or, imagine you're looking for reference information on an obscure API, and you've finally found a useful page after 9 minutes of searching. Just before the 10 minute sync occurs, you lose power, and for the life of you, you can't remember how you got to that all-important page or what keywords to use. Having an up-to-date history would have let you continue working.
I have had articles in my list that have become unavailable. No amount of trying to re-download them works. What you say makes sense but I am unfamiliar with the exact way that it works.
This isn't really relevant to the pocket watch problem. This only works because the bank doesn't care about over-committing a finite resource (mostly because they can charge you that fee). My company processes transactions for prepaid credit cards, so any money that is overdrawn is essentially lost - it's important to understand the characteristics of the problem and that there really is no magic anti-CAP bullet.
I didn't get a lot of debug data (only Camera position written to console) but I did get a `Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'update' of undefined` every frame. Can I ask what I was meant to see?
Peter Gadwa once said, "I'd rather be lucky than skilled" in a way expressing that luck is most important.

It is God who decides everything.

God says...
C:\TEXT\DARWIN.TXT

its life will generally be changed
in an essential manner, although the climate may be exactly the same as in
its former home. If its average numbers are to increase in its new home,
we should have to modify it in a different way to what we should have had
to do in its native country; for we should have to give it some advantage
over a different set of competitors or enemies.

It is good thus to try in imagination to give any one species an advantage
over another. Probably in no single instance
For the quarter, which would be over 3% for the year. Which doesn't seem to bad if your not putting your money into overly risky things. Treasury bonds may be yielding less?
IKEA Descuentos 20% off
Una vez más IKEA ofrece descuentos del 20% para cada cliente como cada temporada del año. En esta oportunidad IKEA lanza una oferta imperdible para estos días ante la proximidad del frío, ofreciendo fundas nórdicas con un 20% de descuento.
I recently piped just the audio from a bunch of classic games to a group of people: every game was recognised quickly and spurred distinct memories of the games, though no-one had played any of them for years.
Thank you for trying it out! First, we haven't experienced such problems before so thank you for pointing it out... we'll start looking into it. Would you mind posting on the JustBeamIt Google Group outlining your problem (steps to reproduce)? http://groups.google.com/group/beamit?hl=en

Second, the download link is automatically highlighted when you hover over, so you can just press Ctrl+C (or Cmd+C) to copy it. You do not need to drag it :)
Oops, you're right. That's what I meant :P
Retosexy
Cada vez mas gente recurre a los sistemas online para crear nuevos contactos y conocer gente o buscar pareja por medio de internet. En este segmento a surgido retosexy. com facilitando las relaciones de amor y amistad.
So, people (developers) are going to have to put their stuff in Documents, and instruct users to disable the iCloud sync for their particular app, unless the user really wants to have it eat into their iCloud storage.

Would that work?
It's amazing. Great build.

For the lazy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imixg3jrJS8
Does smoking pot give you the blues? It may be in the genes
The first time that one of my several hundred megabyte foreign language dictionary files isn't available and needs to be re-downloaded when I need it in say, a meeting will trigger a severe re-evaluation of my use of the phone.
Oh, and I forgot that I had to disable powersave for the iwlagn driver in order to get any kind of performance out of it. I'm using the Intel 6300AGN; I tried to buy a 6200AGN from Amazon to try it out but Lenovo locks their BIOS to specific PCI product IDs.

If by any chance anyone else needs this, I just put a small shell script that runs "iwconfig wlan0 power off" in /etc/pm/power.d/wireless . The name is important because it overrides another script elsewhere with the same name.

There are probably other things I configured or changed that I can't recall right now. I need Linux to get my job done, but I'd be using VMware under Windows if I could get away with it. (For various hardware-development reasons I can't.) It really wasn't worth my time to figure all this out.
I'm sure timing counts as well. Lunch breaks and all.
Exactly right. The bank example just demonstrates an alternative approach to full consistency.
Joe from Periscopic here (the company that developed this visualization). Thank you for submitting this, you beat me to it! We used HTML5, CSS3, SVG for this visualization. All of our previous work was made with Flash.

Insider tip: Make sure you check out the trending keywords stream-graph with the tab on the left side. You can see and compare spam words to non spam words for different parts of the world.

We love hearing any feedback (positive or negative) about our work. Comment here or find us on twitter (@Periscopic).
title is misleading, it doesn't say that GROUPON raised the price, it just said prices of offers on groupon occasionally did not reflect the cost quoted by the establishment. The fault most likely lies with the business owner.
I do the same thing. Apple is unclear about this, however. ApplicationSupport is at /Library/Application Support, and /Library definitely does get backed up to iTunes.

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/FileMa...

That said, I think we're in the clear with respect to iCloud backups:

"Devices with an active iCloud account have their app data backed up to iCloud at appropriate times. And for devices that are plugged into a computer, iTunes performs an incremental backup of the app’s data files."

It's ambiguous. But "app data" sounds like documents, whereas "app's data files" sounds like big data files in /Library to me.
Facebook Permissions Done Right
I think the point here is that nodes don't accept these random writes; any error that's introduced into a system with this structure is fixed on recompute.
This is great news! I have tried to wean myself from the Google teat several times over the past couple of years without success. DDG has been the one that has gotten me closest and with the latest Google focus stealing madness I'm giving it another go.

I just performed a search on DDG and I can use my keyboard arrow keys in a sane manor again. So far, so good!
Show HN: View your Google Analytics visits in an intuitive heatmap
Real time World War 2 on Twitter
I'm sorry. I don't understand the point of the exercise.

First, what kind of data are you talking about? Are you talking about data value? Data record? Data object with identity?

Second, are you saying database records being mutable cannot model Bush was a president once Obama has become president?

I don't know the reason for the aversion to mutable data record/object. Both mutable and immutable data record/objects have their places in modeling real world objects.
Great write up. You really nail the essence of a true data driven approach (DDA) to solving problems. Simplification of the data world view can lead to great things. The key to your batch computation example is proper data modeling IMO. This leads to flexibility which is crucial for a design to be successful. I feel people will stumble with the content of this post because of the lack of proper understanding of DDA.
The problem faced by Ubuntu and other open source projects is that they can't afford to do that.
Unfortunately not. The people who have that spreadsheet would find it very hard to hire if employees knew how the game was rigged.
iCloud to Rain on Chrome Store’s Parade?
Could you use NSUserDefaults? I don't think there is a limit on the data stored there.
Perhaps a more informative link: http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/whats-new
But the documentation is completely lacking. Debian outlines exactly what can go wrong with upgrades between major versions, what assumptions are made, and so forth. Ubuntu has basically no documentation at all.

Ubuntu is basically Debian with a bunch of extra stuff you neither want or need on a server. Such as X11.
To throw around comments like "but the gestalt of Firefox is of a development process that values press and feature creep over performance and correctness" - that's textbook flamebait. It's a direct insult to Firefox developers and fans, and its only result will be to start an argument. So it's a natural suspicion that he might be trolling.

In any case, I gave a reasoned response, giving him the benefit of the doubt that he isn't trolling. But if he was, I guess I was wasting my time.

I do agree with you: Internet discussions would be much better if we did not use "troll", "FUD", "flamebait", etc., but also if people did not act in those ways.
I am unable to load the article. Is there a mirror?
Use the workaround that's in that thread. It works today.
Yup, the main guy behind it is Carlos Alloa. He was also the guy behind Papervision, which did 3D in Flash years ago. And is also just a lovely guy.
It's fitting that his site is timing out.
Thanks for linking to them. They make for a great code reference. Makes me wish I was more motivated about learning Processing.
Note that there are other fully compatible laptops - but aren't listed due to not taking the Ubuntu certification.

For example, there is only one HP laptop there, and It's more than obvious that there are lot more HP laptops which run the default Ubuntu installation without problems.
In case anyone is wondering: In Internet Explorer (IE9 is the only desktop browser to not support WebGL, or will be once Opera 12 ships [1]), you get an error message that WebGL was not detected [2].

[1]: Source – http://caniuse.com/#feat=webgl

[2]: Screenshot – http://cl.ly/0b3W0p251C0A2t2X2934
So I can finally create that web-based sim city mmorpg I've always dreamed about?

All seriousness aside, however -- what in the world would you do with this thing?
How to get publicity for a startup?
I don't have a startup but am thinking of trying something out. What is the process of getting publicity for a startup without any connections or investors to help? Not "word of mouth", users are needed first. (and don't write "Post on HN" :P)
It depends on what you're interested in.

Do you love web development? Build a web app that makes your life a little easier.

Wanna learn mobile? Make a simple iPhone or Android app and put it in an app store.

Maybe that's not what you're looking to do. Try submitting patches to Firefox or a different open source project.

Not only will you learn a TON by following through on something like an iPhone app or fixing a bug in Firefox, but it'll show potential employers your ability to get shit done.

Just try and think about what will make you a unique hire. If you were looking at your resume next to someone else's, come up with something that you would put on yours that would make you hire yourself.

Remember, the people working the jobs you want to do are your peers.
http://soundcloud.com/bassnectar/ellie-goulding-lights-bassn...
Orkut appears to decline steadily on that graph since 2007. Any variable which goes up over time would look like it was stealing mindshare from orkut.

Negative correlation is also not causation.
that is a huge gain....but how many of the 40 million users are still using Google+???
The author of that (badly timed, btw) post probably does not know that Python is implemented in C.
I thought I was slowly going insane trying to find the "All Documents in My Company" feature of Google Docs. Glad to know I'm not the only one desperately missing it.
Are there any stats out there on ubuntu receiving faster security updates as compared to debian?
In most artist websites you control the play/pause button.
I'm in the impressed camp.
Isn't this what innovation is about? Finding ways of solving problems? Is forcing apps to make more efficient of their use of space such a bad thing?

From what I see, your users have 3 choices: They can use your app and use up their iCloud allotment, they can use your app and not upgrade, or they can upgrade and find a mapping app that is more efficient in its use of space.
Do people use Bookmarklets?
A very simple question with a lot of answers I'm sure. But what I'm wondering do people in general use Bookmarklets, or continue using them?

Here are a few examples:

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/20-useful-bookmarklets.html
This objection is a hyperbolic response to an imprecisely phrased blog post.

The author points out that C is gradually being superseded by languages like Python. The author is right. Every year, less new C is being written, and for good reason.

You point out that there are obviously environments (like your life support valve driver, as Julio Capote says) where C is going to be the most appropriate choice for years to come.

We can be reasonable people and accept that there's truth to both of these sentiments, or we can synthesize a phony controversy in which we compete to defend extremes and get nowhere.

If we're reasonable, I think the author's point is well taken. Less C/C++ is written every year. In part that's due to the web and the increasing power of (what we used to think of as) "embedded" environments. But in part, it's because people who would have reached for C as their go-to language for some cases are (properly) going to stop doing that.

As someone who spends most of his working days looking at other people's projects for flaws like the stuff this guy is alluding to, particularly for Python and Ruby projects --- when you want to find something particularly fun and gruesome, you go straight for the C extensions.
I'm undecided about "visualizing the movie they make about you." I think every startuper who has seen "The Social Network" or "Pirates of the Silicon Valley" has done this.

However, I'm leaning on considering it an anti pattern because it borders on a pathological amount of ego.

A better rubric in my mind is, "Can I picture this person in my daily life, for the next decade?" as a slightly more sane variant of this test.
Start a blog, start slagging your competitors, back it up with actually being better than your competitors. The tech blogs love a good mud fight.
The author of that post is a C programmer. This isn't just snark; it's dumb snark.
Announcing the data.nasa.gov API
Or Apple can provide a persistent store that isn't uploaded into the iCloud.
It shows x120e right under the x1, no?
The nice thing about an article like this is that anyone who is receptive to it truly shouldn't be writing C code, and anyone who should be writing C code is (in almost all likelihood) not receptive to it.
Autocompletion is _the_ primary reason I switched to Chrome. It Just Works, even going so far as to learn it should switch from maps.google.com to maps.google.com.au when I type "maps". It wasn't too long before the AU site went from the second suggestion to the first. This saves me tons of typing every single day.
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Not to much to say about, just playing with appharbor https://appharbor.com/

Hope somebody find it useful
> To throw around comments like "but the gestalt of Firefox is of a development process that values press and feature creep over performance and correctness" - that's textbook flamebait.

Sure, but it can also be his honest opinion, that he came to by comparing, say, the minimal changes between Chrome versions and the more evolved FF updates. What I'm saying is, the entirety of his comment matters to see if it's "trolling" or not, not just a juicy quote.
I wonder if there is a correlation between the increase of traffic and the launching of their link shortener http://su.pr?
As regards quality and reliability in consumer software, C has a godawful track record.

The heart valve code inherits constraints that make C a lot safer: it has an extraordinarily limited feature set, its functional interfaces are simple, it changes rarely, and the time - to - market pressures it faces are dwarfed by other factors like certification and manufacturing.

Consumer software is richly functional, has complex interfaces, changes constantly, and is written under ridiculous scheduling pressure. In that environment, C does indeed give you software that is as likely to enable someone to install a trojan on your system as it is to properly render an image.
this does not support ff7
Nitpicking, but the URL posted is to a comment in the blog-post. Here is the actual url

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/10/one-line-of-code-into-...
Ubuntu Server does not contain a GUI. There's no X11 unless you ask to install it.
I really wanted to try it out, but unfortunately a facebook account is required to even see the demo, and I don't have one. I know developers these days hate writing any code they don't have to, but facebook only?
Out the door to hang out in the gutter with spotify. Ah well.
You're suggesting that Varnish is what one would normally think of as a "web application"? Not Twitter?
A C programmer posting that kind of nonsense is even more stupid than a non-C programmer doing it.
You forgot professional photographers...
Toshiba Satellite P755
Are you sending out resumes and interviewing?
Dangerously Seductive Ideas
Haven't tried them(yet), but http://www.system76.com looks promissing for fully Linux compatible computers, including laptops.
No, it's like saying the invention of the paintbrush is more important - and frankly, it is.
Search doesn't correlate to usage. I don't search for Facebook, but use it a lot.
Well seems to be a good choice for casual facebook social games such as Farmville.
always be aware that each of you have complimenting skill sets...its pointless having two cofounders who can do the same thing..

Also, be aware of your target market and understand the necessary government rules and regulations so that they don't derail your startup.
He even said he annihilated the CAP theorem. You can't weasel out of it, the title and intro is linkbait.
If defects are at best constant over number of lines of code, then just the extra situps C makes you do are inevitably going to create reliability issues. But we all know that it's not that simple, and that some languages are more defect-prone than others; that leaves you to make the case that C is more resilient than most high level languages.

Amusingly (just in this context), when Joe Damato makes fun of Ruby reliability, what he's actually making fun of is the terrible C code MRI is built out of.

It's interesting to look at how Apple has dealt with this problem. iOS developers write a dialect of C --- in fact, a dialect that is nominally less safe than C++. But idiom in iOS keeps most iOS programs away from unsafe code patterns. You can try to tokenize a string in an iPhone program by taking it's char* (even that is a pain to get because of character encoding) and then strsepping it, but the whole rest of the programming environment works against you when you do.
So CAP is still a problem, not beaten.