skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NYT article is link bait. Things that can play/receive in HD don't always necessarily display in HD. Nook is not the first or last manufacturer to do this. If only "true" HD devices were allowed to decode HD video, that would eliminate virtually all mobile video devices, including the iPhone 4S which records in 1080, but only has a 960 display.
Things Every Photographer/Creative Person Must Learn
Jon here.

First: I'm fine with this email. Didn't love it, responded to it in a way that raised my own issues, worked them out with Seb on the phone, moved on.

Second: I'm fine with him posting this email. He posts a lot of very candid material about his somewhat unique approach to life and business, which I respect and have benefited from, so am happy to contribute back in the form of a character in one of his stories.

Third: Y'all need to spend a lot less time speculating on other people's approach to situations that you have very little context on. He posted this, I can only imagine, because it was a very unique thing that he tried and (I can attest to) ultimately found success in. As some in here have commented, "Why are people positively responding to this, is that some kind of cult?" Just shut it. No, seriously. Stop contributing that garbage. People on his blog benefit from his advice, that's why they come back. The question is, why are you over here talking about it? More specifically, why are you talking about it and Sebastian as if you know what's going on, as opposed to using it as a starting point for when something like this might or might not (or is always or never) appropriate?

Forth: To the many civil comments in here, no offense!

Fifth: Ok back to work, HN is for jokers. ;)
This would actually solve one of Physics' most important unsolved mysteries about the beginning of our Universe, Baryogenesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryogenesis. Less of a crack and more bridging a huge gap in our understanding, I would say.
Downvoters, educate me! What's the issue here?
Dancing cubes in rhythm (html5 audio BPM + three.js experiment)
@patio11, minor editorial note I thought I should point out: the link to the Rails 2.3.10 source is broken (it links to back to the blog post itself).
Green Matcha Tea Powder
“Low information voters” and the political press
Isn't everything HD these days? /sarcasm

I had just assumed that it was capable of HD playback without having to pre-convert the content, not that it had a HD display.
That's correct. In these cases however, I think it's not unreasonable to side with them, if only temporary. The enemy of your enemy is your friend, after all. Sometimes it doesn't matter why someone fights, it matters who he/she fights.

That doesn't mean you should abandon all reason and blindly trust them. Actually, you should be wary and watch your back - if their interests change, as you say, a company won't think twice and back-stab you without batting an eye.
Employee Stock Options: The Fundamentals
No Script + RequestPolicy + AdBlock ftw.

This combo makes your browsing a little frustrating, but very educational. Try it, even for a day and be amazed at how many sites load content and scripts from 8, 10, or more unrelated domains.

I gave up trying to keep an up-to-date host file for all the web beacon/scam urls. I just vet requests now as they occur. You wanna believe it has changed my surfing habits.
Right and this also explains other behavior. Take patents, for example. Microsoft took advantage of the laws pertaining to software patents and now that they have a massive patent portfolio, they use them to generate revenue and hurt competitors. And they try to influence the law to protect or enhance this revenue stream and competitive advantage. So Microsoft is somewhat a product of the legal terrain and the legal terrain is to some extent a reflection of Microsoft (and other companies).

And our congresspeople could be imagined as mini corporations. Instead of selling goods and services they sell political influence. Instead of shareholders they have constituents. And they often act according to their best financial interests.
Automobile Title Loans and How to use them Responsibly
A quick experiment I did today while on the train - I wanted to sync some 3D with beats in a music and found that html5 audio is good enough for this.
This is an interesting question... I would say yes it is possible, there can surely be other motivators why you might work very hard.

In this case, I just got the feeling from reading his posts that OP has a very VERY strong bias towards comparing and measuring up to other people; and he is extremely focused on success and achievements in what feels to me like an unnaturally extreme way. Quite a few of his posts focus on nothing but that and all together just feels unhealthy and un-natural to me. That's the distinction I see to "just" being VERY motivated vs. being "driven". Being a work-a-holic by definition is an unhealthy behavior and there could be a whole bunch of reasons why people slip into that.

Like I said, it is nothing but armchair psychology - but the possibility that certain psychological issues could actually end up benefitting your career or success (or even success with women) is pretty much undisputed. Not all flight mechanisms or addictions have to be to very obvious substances. Work and success and being praised can be very powerful and toxic.
I like the content and I like all of their aesthetic decisions but I’m always a bit overwhelmed by their layout. There’s just too much screaming for attention for my taste.

The site is obviously great despite that (and certainly also impressive).
Ah, thanks for the clarification. That makes a lot more sense. (I should have RTFA more carefully.)
You're absolutely right. There's not even a gray area between the companies supporting vs. opposing SOPA. Black and white. SOPA would be a huge backstep for anyone trying to innovate or sustain on the web
What exactly makes a mobile worker?
Doesn't sound very scientific to me
You conveniently left out the first part of the quoted sentence, "allow programmers to actually program infrastructure". Almost everything you wrote can be programmed these days without a "traditional" sysadmin.
And a link to the paper which this article draws from:
http://masket.net/Theory_of_Parties.pdf
Quantum theorem shakes foundations
A Disciplined Approach to Talking About Security
Goodzer Goes National and Social-Mobile
I think that manufacturers that try to overly massage the specs in their favor should be raked over the coals. The specifications are there for a reason.

In the end though it rarely matters. Mom and dad will most likely buy whatever looks nicer (as well as what the neighbor has).
single area where the 4S beats out the nexus

The review doesn't mention it but the GN has a rather weak GPU. Quite a lot slower than the iPhone 4S and actually slower than some of Samsung's other recent Android phones. If you plan to play any 3D games, especially at 720P, the GN is probably not the best choice. We'll have to wait and see what the benchmarks and real world performance are like though.
The quantum state cannot be interpreted statistically
> Actually, it is feasible.

I never said otherwise.

> It is definitely a lot of work (dont get me wrong).

We agree.

My point is that the models are brittle because every entity (govt, unions, etc) has different definitions for every one of the "common" terms, can change their definitions, and the scope is very context and usage dependent.
Dotfiles for insane productivity in bash, git, and vim
Map-of-a-tweet: 35 fields of metadata and counting
The failure with fsync is not that the system call will fail but that it will succeed but be wrong about writing to durable storage.
Show HN: Doodle with strangers 1 on 1 in real-time
Hey guys,

I'm re-releasing PaintAcquaint and I wanna know what you guys think about my site!
I'll be doing a live-stream at 8 o'clock buuut here are the updates:

Updates from Beta:

-Cleaner UI w/ new icons courtesy of #tehkseven

-Updated Java Server

-Bitmapping so no more layering for each brush stroke for a
drastically improved performance

-Full Screen Mode

-Hard Link for your saved photos

=]
If they take the actual data from the Fermilab results, could they get a quantitatively higher accuracy?
I am reminded of Pigdog's 2002 open letter/rant to the Sony engineers who wrote the CD DRM code that would brick iMacs.

WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE! ;)

"d00d, Quit being a FUCKING ASS":
http://www.pigdog.org/auto/software_jihad/link/2581.html
IPhone sales more than Blackberry for professionals.
If Everyone Knew
Does anyone know how this compares to the Motorola Razr? Is there a good site comparing different Android hardware?
Apparently much of the "other" data are non-browser tools. E.g., curl and wget.

https://twitter.com/#!/rbowen/status/137305778875936771
Visualizing the Sourceforge Download Data
link in article is broken. Should be https://github.com/skwp/dotfiles
Oh heavens no, I don't even aspire to match half of the social and manipulative skills women seem to be so born with. One thing I think I have figured out is weighing actions vs. words. And the real gold-diggers usually reveal themselves rather quickly because it is only efficient for them to get things to "being paid" mode as soon as possible. But it will take (lots of) reflective thinking to see it for what it is, that is true.
I downvoted you...

First, that list of companies has deep pockets, and it is WAY harder to undue legislation than prevent it in the first place. So, suggesting in any way that we let it be and take some other tactic is bad advice, IMO.

Second the "niche webapp" bit is way too cliche. What "webapp" is going to threaten Dell, Intel or Apple? Even some of the software companies on that list focus on things that are not going to fall prey to "niche webapps" for any foreseeable time.

So, to me, your comment was a strawman that added no value.
> In this case I'm increasingly of the opinion that all campaign contributions of any kind should be banned.

Unfortunately the only real effect of this is that only the independently wealthy would be able to successfully run for office.
What would Jesus hack?
I didn't downvote, but possibly it's because you're suggesting people build webapps to compete with anti-virus firms, CAD/CAM vendors and a couple of hardware manufacturers.
Words of a Euro Doomsayer Have New Resonance
nexus s - mid december

a few other devices have announce 1Q11 or 2Q11 (mostly the latter)
Multidisciplinary team of researchers develop world’s lightest material
While technically true, it is extremely misleading to your average potential purchaser. At the very least a difference like that should be spelled out clearly in terms the target audiance would understand.
Rather.

It took me a while to figure out the dates were MM/DD/YY. Even then, why is the day included? Are these per-day, and if so, why are they making sweeping generalisations about all of April? If they're just point markers why aren't they in line, and why are the bars separated?

It's great they managed to provide the full stats - in a completely uncopyable format. Let me break out tessaract. http://i.imgur.com/VDtUp.png http://i.imgur.com/nuKxl.png for (only marginally) more helpful visualisations

EDIT: warpdude's ones four hours ago and two comments down look nicer
I guess, but ideally, you can describe yourself with actual verbs, and leave the pat generalizations to HN commenters.
That's not been true since the 1970/80s really.

The Parliament must approve the EU's budget (and has rejected it for political reasons before), approve the Commission's staff, the Parliament has even taken the Council to court about its failure to propose a budget on-time, 80% of all laws must be passed by the Parliament to come into force, has made plenty of amendments to directives, and it most famously had its forthcoming vote of no confidence force the Commission to quit in the 1980s. [1]

In this case, it can use its influence over the Commission to get it to propose legislature. Has done very similar things in the past. And don't forget, these MEPs can influence the direction of Council, especially via countries like Italy who are really keen for the European Parliament to have more power and influence.

This obviously doesn't mean a directive will appear tomorrow, but such resolutions are an essential and powerful step towards change in European Politics.

[1] http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EOSDFfmFJZYC&pg=PA68&...
> I started putting Facebook in another browser

In theory, using a separate browser is not adequate protection from tracking. The Flash Player's "Shared Objects" (aka Flash cookies) are stored in a common directory, so the same Flash data is accessible from any browser running as the same user. I do not believe Facebook's tracking is this nefarious, but the method would be quite easy to implement.
No Bloatware except Google (many apps), Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter apps.
It's maybe worth noting that the Nobel prize in 2008 was given to three Japanese (two actual-Japanese and one Tokyo-born American) scientists for the prediction and inclusion of CP-violating broken symmetries in QCD: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/200...
"We've got early traction" = Our investors has made sure their other portfolio companies use our product.

Would you rather work for a company where the investors can't even convince their portfolio companies to use the product? Sure I get the humor. Maybe a solution would be to actually name one of the (hopefully big/famous) companies that use the product, instead of being vague. "Some great places have employed our solution! But we can't reveal any of their names!" Um. Yeah.
> I think what this highlights, however, is that legislation should stem from principles and the interest of the people (individuals only, please)

Exactly. No bill should be longer than a couple of pages. The Constitution is less than 15 pages, no bill should be longer than that. (Or you can pick another arbitrary number as long as it is low).

Special interests are unintentionally creating a worse world for all of us (and not just IP proponents, I mean all special interests from banking lobbyists to teacher unions), and the way they are doing it is because bills are impossible to understand (even if that's your job!), and so everyone tries to get their short term benefit while making the whole system worse in the long run.

Make a constitutional amendment saying no bill can be more than 15 pages and I guarantee you countless problems will go away.
Which is why people are uncomfortable with these stopgap solutions existing. I can't speak for anyone else, but I would much rather that this option didn't exist at all, because all it allows is those companies on crutches to keep hobbling.

It's no big loss to the world of technology if some stubborn backwards company can't have its cake and eat it too. They have to either suck it up or lose enough money to realize that it's important. Flex and similar projects draw out that process. Frankly its a negative for everyone in the long run.
The dividing line can be neatly seen as whether a company derives its value from server-hosted software or not. Companies which derive their value from server-hosted software have no reason to support IP-protecting legislation because their IP is already protected by the server/client architecture.

Companies like Microsoft, Apple, most game companies, and of course content companies transmit their entire IP to each customer. It is impossible to technologically prevent the copying of this IP--we all know the failings of DRM. Thus they must depend on the law for protection.

I hypothesize that Google might be less sanguine about IP protections if a new technology became available which allowed anyone to easily view and copy the Google search algorithm code at any time.
> Microsoft and Apple, on the other hand, make money by restricting users' freedom

Umm, actually I think they make their money buy selling products. Consumers are rarely (ever?) driven by a "restrict my freedom" motive...
I've had problems with Ghostery blocking cookies and web bugs that prevent some Flash videos on YouTube, Hulu, and the New York Times from playing.
What sort of applications does game theory have in software engineering? not that it wouldn't be interesting otherwise..
> I could have tell Apple, Blackberry, and Google to stop the app listing, but that's a long process and during the process, money are going to the developer ways.

If this is a key point of worry, get the ball rolling for your registered trademark for the exact name that you will appear in the app stores, and confirm that name isn't already taken in the stores, and ideally you can get that name .com/twitterID/facebookID to own your brand.

You can use registered trademark to deny others the app listing by way of your registered trademark status, its straightforward for Apple/Google/Microsoft/et. al. to make a call on app store removal based on trademark infringement.

Regarding development, I've done the same with a startup as you are thinking of with a similar product background, it can be done but the challenges are maybe not what you expect - code theft is not a top concern if you screen correctly. Send me an email, or we can grab a coffee sometime, I'm also in Silicon Valley.
I wasn't defending antipiracy law, I was pointing out that the argument as written was completely wrong and pointless. You then say "BUT NO IT'S ACTUALLY DIFFERENT BECAUSE OF X" where reason X is completely not mentioned in the original post.

I guess I should have been more explicit; I agree with your conclusion but the argument was not the right and wouldn't convince anyone. It's like someone saying that Leprechauns aren't real because they know Lucky Charms commercials are CG; sure, but that's not why Leprechauns aren't real.

> To pick your analogy

Actually if you are going to say that, the analogy is that a competitor is building cheaper tvs that are otherwise exactly the same as your tvs, and they are already breaking the law to do so, but the law isn't really effective at stopping them from doing so. If you put it that way, it actually sounds awful.
JQuery's best friends
RAW is good, but you can still get some benefit in crappy cellphone JPGs.

I've had to make batches of personnel photos taken with an iPhone look presentable for a web page on several occasions. A few seconds to set the white balance and normalize the orientation and scale makes a significant difference. It doesn't make it into a great photo, but nothing short of going back with an SLR is going to do that.

Also part of why I think claims about the awesomeness of the iPhone camera should be taken with a pound of salt. It's a fairly nice cell camera, but it's still a cell camera.
Here you go: http://www.theverge.com/products/compare/2946/3581
The recorded stream is also up on the house.gov[1] page. I am listening to it now but its slow. Any serious analysis is going to come from reading the transcripts.

[1] http://judiciary.edgeboss.net/wmedia/judiciary/full/full1116...
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Public funding.

If getting information to the public about candidates costs money, then that's just another tragedy of the commons - an external cost of government that is simply ignored so that the rich and powerful can have government to themselves. It is very easy to argue that informing the public about their options in an election is essential and should therefore be covered by public funds.
It's close enough that it can be swapped for jQuery in Backbone.js, and many jQuery plugins work.

(Disclaimer: haven't use it myself)
I understand, I wasn't trying to personally insult your intelligence. I'm assuming you've put some effort into it. But even with your ample evidence I still don't think that's enough to qualify it as bad software. How many people out there have absolutely no problems with it at all?

If that's all it takes to label a piece of software as bad then all software with a large install base can be labelled as bad.

Just to be clear, I'm not a Flash developer. I deal more with HTML/CSS/Javascript all day so Flash going away is not a bad thing for me. I just don't agree with generic statements that Flash is bad overall based on personal experience.

The point I'm trying to make is that it isn't exactly fair to say that Flash is bad software just because you, and people you know, have had problems with it. I also disagree that it is common knowledge. It may be common knowledge among people who think like you do but again; what about the millions of people who use it constantly who never have a problem with it and therefore you never hear about their experience?
I implemented this yesterday into a project I had been working on. Admittedly, only one page and a pretty simple layout so far, but it's very quick to get benefits from it (especially grid layouts).
Anti-poaching sentiment is an attempt by executives to drive down the status, pay, and perks of talent.

Programmers' and technicians' status and benefits are already artificially low due to lack of a professional licensing or guild system (thank goodness) and poor negotiating skills rampent in the profession (bad). Execs who pretend to value programmers and participate in anti-poaching schemes are stabbing their workers in the back.

Anti-poaching agreements, formal or implicit, are also illegal everywhere in the USA and most developed countries. They violate the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and its successors. These interviewees who brag on about how they're respecting their investors, partners, and friends by not poaching are admitting to a federal crime. The US Attorney from New York should be investigating.

Of course, the execs and our culture have succeeded in driving down the status of programmers enough that nobody much cares about crimes committed against them. Maybe they do need a guild.
I think the point is that the hardest, yet most important sell is a paying customer.

There are a number of ways to convince an investor to use a freebee. They aren't losing anything they haven't already lost when they gave you money.

A customer will not (well, most at least) pay for a product that offers nothing in return.
From the screenshots I've seen, there is one Verizon app on this phone.
However, ICS now has a feature to DISABLE system apps. More about it here: http://www.theverge.com/2011/10/20/2502299/bloatware-kill-sw...
You're correct about alternative titles for the blog post. However, the assumption is that on a technical blog, readers would expect technical answers--at least I did. You're not going to tell your boss that the next product should be developed in Java because you like Java. They want concrete reasons.
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Don't you mean official relaunch?
I don't see how that is any different from the current situation. Surely everyone who has run for office and seen even the slightest level of success in the US in the last century have been independently wealthy before-hand?
Yeah, how about that. In short, Microsoft
is using a front group to throw its support
behind SOPA, while publicly saying and doing
nothing, thus avoiding our rancor and displeasure.
Well, no, that won’t do at all.

Note that the article provides no support whatsoever for the claim that BSA is a Microsoft front group, or that Microsoft is using it to intentionally support SOPA.

I'm surprised this hasn't been flagged to death. Are people not actually reading the article?
I doubt they would pay people to review, unless it's a well kept secret. What they do have are Community Managers. They are located in each major city prompting Yelp, providing support for the yelpers in that city and so on. They probably spend a lot on their sales team as well.
Arms and Armor—Common Misconceptions and Frequently Asked Questions