skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, as i said, further down, there is a clear "invite friends" section, right underneath the friend suggestions. this pretty much indicates that one thing will suggest friends who are on the network and the other allows me to invite them by e-mail. this is where my confusion came from... and that's where google decided it's cool to show me full names and no (not on the network) indications so i get the impression i can easily move them to a circle and friend them, when in fact, this just helps to spam more people who didn't want to be on the network (and I obviously can't know about this). think business contacts.
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the question is: is a licence that only requires attribution more or less restrictive?
I'd recommend Racket with SICP, actually (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html). While Racket is probably the best Scheme implementation around right now, the authors have a somewhat misguided (in my opinion) idea of what is important to teach first. SICP deals with more fundamental issues, and is much more worth your time. Although I should point out that I have only read a bit of HTDP, and looked at the table of contents.
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I agree with this, but whenever I use my MBP I'm forced to use the trackpad because the mouse acceleration in OS X is so bad.

I've tried things like Decelerate and had no joy - the movement of the cursor just seems not to match up with my hand.
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Show HN: Release of Google+ Widget for People and Pages
Dear HN community,

I'm delighted to announce the release of Google+ widget (http://gplusapi.appspot.com/), a fully customizable widget that allows integrating your Google+ Profile/Page with your website/blog.

Google+ Widget is written in JavaScript and jQuery, using the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data-interchange format, the Yahoo! Query Language (YQL), the HTML5 postMessage method and the new Google+ API.

Google+ Widget is served from Google App Engine, Google's infrastructure, to ensure good performance and reliability of service.

The widget features:

• language auto-detection;

• iframe auto-height computation (cross-domain)

• CSS customizable (background/border/radius/text/links/width)

• rel="publisher" compatible

• favicons displayed for links/videos/images

• and a lot more

Try it and please share your feedback and suggestions...

The current API limit attached to the widget 10'000 requests/day, soon to be 100'000. Please create your own API if you plan to use it on your own website (by default 1000 requests/day. Can be extended depending on your traffic.
Link: http://gplusapi.appspot.com/
I've been thinking about exactly this problem. I'm now re-organizing my unit and integration tests into some coherent order, which I hope will help refactor to a better code base.

Any thoughts out there on how to organizing tests to support "confident code"?
This was linked several hours earlier; http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3219240
I'm British too. Went to Queens' college too, like Mr Fry. Don't have a problem with it and can't think of any of my friends or peers that would.

Yes, there's a whole ream of uptight wankers who make it their business to be proper. There are even TV comedies about such awful people. [1] Don't think you speak for all of us.

it makes it sound like you don't understand the social conventions of the position you're in

LOL. Yes, we're all for knowing our place in the world here at HN!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_Up_Appearances
Link to original press release (http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO...)

Quick summary:-

- The existing laws date back to 1995
- They need updating
- Recommendations are going to be made before Jan 2012
- EU law is needed because data travels so easily across borders
- Companies wishing to deliver services to Europeans should obey EU law, or be prevented from supplying those services

-- Customers must be in charge of their data
-- Customers must give explicit consent before their data is used
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The two examples i've seen is pretty good. But I find it extremly annoying when I have to look at two things. You kind of have to pause..

Good to have. But for me not very practical. I think I have to rewatch the video to look at the comments/infos most of the time.
> There isn't now, but there well could be.

Or not.

On touch touchscreen it feels natural to just touch the part of the screen you want to interact with. I hate the word, but it's intuitive. It doesn't feel like something you need to learn and become familiar with. My daughter understood how to use my iPad when she was less that one year old. She just touched the screen and something happened, she was happy. Even my mother-in-law understand how to use a touchscreen.

Neither my daughter nor my mother-in-law can use a mouse: it requires too much dexterity. I've seen people hovering a mouse in front of the screen hoping that something will happen. It's less intuitive, but it's familiar to all of us on hackernews.

What I'm trying to say is that there is something intrinsically natural and easy with a touchscreen: touch - interact. We won't go back from that.

I might be proven wrong, and tomorrow everybody will do on hover with its phone/tablet with the process you describe, or the one described by grovulent, or another one. But my guess is that it will remain mostly unused, except for a few "power users".
I know a few people who turn their Facebook profile on and off. (Depending on how mentally stable and well they feel at the time.)

So long as Facebook offers two options and makes it really clear - [this is our normal 'hide your profile'][This will really delete everything. No, really, are you sure?]
If other companies take the same reference designs as Apple and make such lame devices from them, that's an even worse world than the "fanboy fantasy" where they make lame devices from scratch.
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Was it erroneous? I used a small portion of a clip from the Beatles (among other sounds), and it was flagged.

(I'm not sure if it's fair use or not).
Gosh, they're awful. They reflect the new G+ favicon, which I really dislike. I'd hoped (even though I will not use them) something in style with the iOS G+ icon.

Edit: a 'd' too much after dislike.
This is a well known technique to capture a market: release a free (as in gratis) version and when there the market share is sufficient or the competition killed, make a non-free/gratis release with most-wanted features.

Maybe some day people will stop being stupid and understand that Apple is here to make money. If you want reliable software, use free (as in "free speech") software. Or at least OpenSource sofware, you'll always be able to use the latest release!
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Agreed. Like Google+ and gTalk etc? This is clearly the UX standard ahead yes?
I agree with the seizure point. I think this is a bit too "nuts." I showed it to my friend who has frequent seizures and she agreed. I would not recommend CSS moving this quickly for general use.
Adobe abandoning Flash Player for TVs as well
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I think we're conflating two things.

There's "blogging" -- writing on the web for marketing purposes, and "blogging" using the web as a daily journal.

My personal blog is my journal. Whether you care or not about the topics I write about does not concern me in the least. I've been blogging for several years and get 10-50K visits a month and rank on all kinds of weird and odd keywords. Yes, it's totally awesome when I am passionate about something that lots of HNers will find interesting. There's nothing like seeing 20K visits. But if I'm just journaling for eyeballs, I am not doing anything but trying to make a more and more popular noise.

On the flip side, I love writing targeted material: I have several sites where I post niche pieces. Want to see my funny picture collection? I'm posting them all on http://caption-of-the-day.com But I don't think of these in the same way as my blog. The things you describe are all about blog/marketing, not blog/journaling.

I would say that I admire people who can write tons of tightly-focused material every day. But it strikes me as being a bit unnatural, at least to me, like writing an encyclopedia by starting with "A" and writing straight through. My brain doesn't work that way. Sure, visiting the site it's great to have it all and nicely on-topic, with a little email sign-up, an ebook, landing page and the rest of it. But that's not journaling, that's marketing.

If my goal is to write something people want, I'm marketing. If my goal is to write something that helps me think, I'm journaling. Marketing is great -- lots of awesome things to share. In my mind journaling is better -- helps me be a better person so that I can help folks better. So when I read "blog", I'm not thinking of the web-personality who is the expert and writes everything you wanted to know about underwater basket weaving.

I don't want folks to think the primary purpose of writing is to market something. That's bad. Very bad.
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"Stopping the AdWords payments seems to have affected unpaid traffic as well."

Confused. Is this true? Any other experiments have drawn same conclusion like this?
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Pathetic google.

"Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful."

My arse.

With source code becoming increasingly available and important, and already in a structured format, this
goes completely against the above statement.
I use the first generation Transformer and i can recommend it to everyone as a netbook replacement. If you invest in a few good productivity apps you can do everything as well as on a netbook, but with a whooping 16hours of battery life...

Even rdp works, but its not perfect because right click with a mouse doesn't get send over, atleast with the built in solution.
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Does anyone know of a few good examples of using Racket's GUI and drawing/canvas library? I took a look at it a few weeks ago, in the hopes of coming up with a portable way to do simple graphics examples, such as turtles and life and drawing character, but it felt like it would take a lot of study to get anything working. (I've done more curses than Tk, and more Tk than Swing, and not much else.)
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If the recent ICO cookie rule is any indication on where the legislative proposals are heading then the concluding statement in the article "Expect sparks to fly when these proposals come out in January" is an understatement.

For those that are unaware the "EU Cookie Law" requires explicit user consent before setting a cookie that can be used for tracking[1]. That's a pretty high bar for sites that just want to use something like Google Analytics. Now if you consider extending out the intent of that law to all data collected from EU citizens it will make doing business in Europe via the internet much more cumbersome for those that want to do any sort of marketing.

Personally, I like the idea that the EU is forcing companies to be transparent about what information they are collecting and what purpose they are collecting for, but publicly listed policies, such as a privacy policy or terms of use, should be enough. To force users to have to read a legal statement and check a box to agree to start doing business makes that step much more difficult and I'm betting that is exactly where they are heading.

http://www.privsecblog.com/2011/07/articles/main-topics/mark...
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I think it just requires a different state of mind from people who develop software and services. At school, data protection was drummed into us from the beginning and it stuck with me all those years later.

It's just one of those issues you have to think about before building something - trying to avoid storing sensitive material wherever possible. This goes against modern trends where the retention of as much data as possible is favoured.

I think the problem we see here, is a lot of start-ups and individuals are starting to think about it too far down the line. Whereas big, established companies have been dealing with this for decades, with departments dedicated to compliance - a bit like how everyone is building websites for accessibility to comply with disability laws.
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>I'm not sure. Try calling the Internet's head office -- it's in the book.

:)
As entry size grows different parts of the engine are under pressure, allocation-wise and i/o-wise.

AFAIK memcached isn't advised entries above 1 MiB.

We can maintain performance for entries as large as 200 MiB (provided that you have enough memory) but it cost us a lot of sweat!

We haven't benchmarked for larger entries as we weren't sure it would make much sense.
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In defense of Warner Bros., I've had a few iOS apps receive takedown letters, and WB was the only company to actually work with me and let me make the app non-infringing.

The other companies went along the lines of "you can try changing your app, and you'll know if it wasn't good enough when we file the lawsuit."
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"one man's vulgarity is another's lyric"

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohen_v._California
This is completely false; thousands of people are still making loads of money from blogging. It's just not novel anymore, so you don't see any articles about it.

And yes, they've also realized that all those subscribers are good for more than just ads, so they're upselling them books and videos and seminars and whatever else.
Totally fair, and I agree with you. But I think a lot of people market their journals and market their subject-matter-blogs in the same fashion. They "journal for eyeballs," as you very eloquently put it. Which is sort of a hollow activity for both the journaler and the marketed-to audience.

I see a ton of blogs that are conflations of journal and subject-matter-blog: neither fish nor fowl. And that's where things go wrong, IMO. In many cases it's a fine line to toe, but the blogs I've stopped following are the blogs that don't seem to have a consistent leaning in either direction.

"I don't want folks to think the primary purpose of writing is to market something. That's bad. Very bad."

It doesn't have to be bad, so long as the author of the blog is forthright with his intentions. A lot of company blogs fall into this category. Many of them are trying to sell product, albeit indirectly. I know that's what they're doing, and I'm fine with it.

To your point, I wouldn't be fine with someone who's ostensibly journaling but keeps trying to sell goods or services. Or with someone who's simply content-farming in an attempt to capture eyeballs and monetize them via ads. There needs to be an honesty and transparency of intentions, one way or the other.
For some reason I can't check out the demos. I keep getting this error http://d.pr/vCk1
And still API's are stuck in the stone age. AFAIK these devices are SM5 OpenCL compatible and you have to use a 3 generations old API - OpenGLES 2 (no MRT means not even SM3 level). And WebGL, once (if) it gets supported will be stuck on this, upgrade will probably take another x years. OpenGL has extensions but I don't see those implementing basic things as MRT let alone SM5.

Also AFAIK there is no OpenCL implementation in iOS and Android (haven't heard of any plans/announcements about implementing it), I've about Renderscript but haven't looked at it yet.

Sad that it's the software lagging behind hardware, and because of the most banal part of software - drivers and device API's.
Our primary ISP (BSNL NIB) at work is entirely blocked as well. Bharti Airtel is able to get access.
Apple's smoothing algorithm for mouse movement is something that mad PCs unpleasant to work on for me for years. Those ads I think Microsoft has got it good enough that while it's different it's no longer actively unpleasant, bu it's oe of many, many tiny things Apple sweated over back in 1984 and Microsoft didn't notice at the time. (let's not get into text edit field behavior.)
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>We were running another bubble then.

Doesn't follow - if the banks were forced, as you say, to make loans, the bubble should have started then.

>The posted link wasn't the CRA, but a policy that applied to every company that made/makes home loans.

That's fine, but there is no indication, in the actual mortgage data, that banks were being forced to issue subprime mortgages. The data shows that it was mainly mortgage companies were issuing subprimes, then offloading them for packaging into CDOs by Wall Street. If you want to make that argument, it isn't enough to produce a document - the data has to support the argument and it doesn't.

>Also, you're ignoring the role of Fannie/Freddie. A large fraction of loans are made to be sold. As the largest buyer, Fannie/Freddie have a huge effect.

Not true - Fannie/Freddie were late to the subprime game and had lost marketshare. In 2006, they got started buying subprimes. Bottom line, Fannie/Freddie had an impact, but they were not the driving force behind the housing bubble.

"Between 2004 and 2006, when subprime lending was exploding, Fannie and Freddie went from holding a high of 48 percent of the subprime loans that were sold into the secondary market to holding about 24 percent, according to data from Inside Mortgage Finance, a specialty publication. One reason is that Fannie and Freddie were subject to tougher standards than many of the unregulated players in the private sector who weakened lending standards, most of whom have gone bankrupt or are now in deep trouble.

During those same explosive three years, private investment banks — not Fannie and Freddie — dominated the mortgage loans that were packaged and sold into the secondary mortgage market. In 2005 and 2006, the private sector securitized almost two thirds of all U.S. mortgages, supplanting Fannie and Freddie, according to a number of specialty publications that track this data."

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2008/10/12/53802/private-sector-l...
"We both believe that companies who direct their services to European consumers should be subject to EU data protection laws. Otherwise, they should not be able to do business on our internal market. This also applies to social networks with users in the EU."

EU law will be enforced even if the company is based in a third country and has its data centres outside the EU, the statement reaffirmed.

I'm reading this as suggesting they'll set up a firewall to block non-EU websites that don't adhere to EU data protection law. That would be a cure worse than the disease.

(But yes, the Register's tabloid-speak grates.)
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The same issues with locking and memory barriers while multithreading will appear regardless of language.

That said, I agree that it is strange to see that they keep using Java for the main loop if they don't allow for garbage collection during operation. If they had used C for the main loop, the worker threads for the business logic could have been restarted on the fly.
What HPC products use 0mq?

Would it be applicable to large-scale optimization problems, e.g. in context of machine learning?
I love that you link to a wiki article that basically says "it's a theory" - and that's exactly my point. You can't prove that we would have been fine if the banks had failed because we didn't let it happen. Ask yourself this - what if the theory is wrong?
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[h].flatten on the other hand of course breaks horribly when someone decides that one of the values is meant to hold an array.
ZeroMQ is amazing. The last few months I have been using it for all kinds of things -- from creating multiprocessing Python apps to replacing an HTTP REST backend with a high-performance ZeroMQ server.
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Funnily enough, I started my blog as a marketing tool. I read up some of those "how to blog" books that came out when blogging first took off.

I found I couldn't do it. I could either tightly focus -- and lose interest in writing -- or write what I wanted -- and write solely for me.

My old job is consulting, so I have a fair amount of consulting material on my blog. I'm wrapping up some of it into an ebook. But I wouldn't use the blog to promote the ebook, at least not directly. It's just not targeted for that. Instead, I'll probably set up a micro-site for ebook and crank out a couple of dozen high-quality resource articles.

I actually love writing targeted articles as well, but I just can't maintain the energy level for more than a few weeks. What can I say? Stuff bores me easily.
It's funny that we get this kind of response after that rant about the future of UI earlier this week

If we think about the future of touch and gesture interfaces, I absolutely think we'll see a hover state be implemented, but it won't be connected to a mouse cursor. That's moving backwards.

There will likely come a point where a touch or gesture interface will be able to tell if your hand or finger is quite literally -hovering- over a touch-enabled element, and will be able to give you context.

It's seems completely intuitive. If you're hovering over an element, you're likely hesitating, so give more context. Preview the next screen, provide info in a tooltip. Why wouldn't you take advantage of this?
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I also recommend playing a game like lemonade tycoon, it pretty much explains stuff like this.
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Facebook famously stores all its data forever, though that data isn't available to users.

This isn't true. If a company keeps data on you, then you may request a copy of that data. It's illegal, under existing EU data law for them to store data (regardless if the 'delete flag' is set) and not tell you.

Facebook does and has given users copies of the 'deleted data' when people have made requests under this law. In fact learning that, on Facebook, "when you press delete, it doesn't really delete it", was a big deal and potentially in breech of Data Protection law. (cf. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/20/facebook-fi... )
No: he says it was for his first interview at Apple. If he was employed at Apple before the first iPod announcement then that would be well before Jobs fell ill.
This reminds me. Haven't we seen a post about Asus doing nothing but shamelessly copying Apple on top of the first page some time earlier today?