skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always been very impressed with the Spotify client - instant streaming, quick searching, responsive UI, never crashes, near-seamless version updates, automatic syncing. And cross-platform too! The guys that wrote it know their stuff.
Where's my jetpack?
Italian Job: UbuBox SalentOS
A Freelance Writer's Point of View on Unfair Publishing and Payment Practices -
0.4.12 in Debian unstable.

The npm package has been outdated at 0.2.19 for ages, so this merge will hopefully bring back a usable npm.
Don't have an hour to watch this, but I always watch SPJ (and Rich Hickey's) talks. I'm guessing "hot topics" for ghc 7.4-ish are some permutation of

- (polymorphic kinds)[http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/dimitris/fc-kind-...]

- (superclass instances)[http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/lexwc/if_you_want_s...
] and

- (Pedro's generics)[http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/msg9448...]

(hazy recollection of lots other things that might make 7.4 but can't seem to google.. anybody?)
App-Specific Vocabulary and Occam's Razor
I question your assertion that he means well. I suspect he knows exactly what he's doing: exploiting the fear of the Internet (after all, it's a part of the uncontrolled world that is right in your house) among the less educated - by which I mean that 80% of the public that doesn't really have time to think about the Internet much - in order to make himself look like a protector.

It rings incredibly false to you and to me because, after all, we're not the target audience. But he knows exactly what he's doing. He does not care if terrorists are caught - in fact, it's all the better for him if they aren't! All he cares about is that voters see him as an island of strength in a chaotic world of dimly perceived threats. He's actually pretty good at it, which is why he's been voted back to Congress again and again for years, even when his own party threw up its collective hands and ran against him.
UK Government Wants to Ban All Bullies from the Internet
What will rise up out of the advertising ashes
This looks great! It has all the essentials and compiles to readable JavaScript, should be a real productivity booster.

Looking at the JavaScript, though, all those anonymous functions can't be very fast.. I wonder if the compiler could try to defunctionalize the output..
I thought this was open source why do I have to buy Doom 3 to get the assets? If not where are they?
Or spread artists amongst competitive services, forcing us users to subscribe to multiple services.

I'd rather take a copy of the music, and own the copy the rest of my life, thank you.
No, you cannot do that easily the way you described:

$ git fetch d3mac
warning: no common commits
$ git merge d3mac/master
[ many many conflicts ... ]
CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in neo/ui/Winvar.h
Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.
Tim Tebow’s greatest contribution to society has nothing to do with football
> The bubble was in the news the whole time.

Not from 2002-2005. By that point, it had already surpassed bubble prices of 1989 in real dollars.
I am not aware of a single family that hasn't suffered casualties due to rooftop solar power.
That's pretty close to a minimal viable format Particularly key to the success is the clear invitation to build obvious tools and extensions without relying on magic limitations. There's no version number embedded in the format, but it's easy to flag tags your tool doesn't understand.
It's more of what works in the game but doesn't work in real life. In Madden an old glitch that has since been fixed is that whenever the Quarterback would break the pocket, the receivers would break their route. And when they broke their route the receivers would go to the same spot every single time (towards the sideline). But at the same time, the DB's would get confuse which would then leave the receiver wide open. This would happen EVERY SINGLE TIME. So you would have wide open receivers no matter if the defense was in zone or in man.

Every football player knows that the db's would be looking for this in real life and would step up and stop the play after one or two times of this happening. But in the old versions of Madden the corner back would not learn and you had an open man every time. The only way to stop this was to have a team with a good blitzing line backer or defensive end and hope he gets to the QB in time. (This glitch made McNabb almost unstoppable in several versions of Madden.)

Another problem in the old Maddens was that if you had the tight end lined up on the left and had him go up five yards and then had him cut left quickly then if the defense was in man he would get the ball every time. And when the defense was in zone he would probably get the ball 70% of the time. In real life a highly skilled LB would be able to stop a sub par TE on this play. Just by being faster. But in the world of Madden the worst TE would get a completion against anyone.

These and the other tricks I would use were effective in Madden versions 97-03. The AI is much better now but there are still glitches. I just don't play it enough anymore to have figured them out. Others have though.
I choose Rdio over Spotify because it has a web client which probably means they couldn't leverage p2p even if they wanted to (without using a browser plugin).
I'm confused because you seem to be insinuating that fully native applications are bad thing, and much rarer than they actually are.

This meme thing is obviously daft, but I'll be very sad if I'm forced in to using compromised cross-platform apps or web-apps for everything.
Business answer: With everything, including this, there needs to be a balance. The ROI on documenting every single inch of progress as accurately possible is extremely low in most cases. Additionally every case (industry, business, project) is different and one size doesn't fit all.

Personal answer: Because we are lazy.
From the README:

"DBGo" is a light-weight relational database engine implemented in Go programming language.
It is a programming exercise I gave to myself when I began to learn Go.

That's one epic programming exercise ;). Did anyone try how it performs, compared to SQLite?
"brew install doom3" would be sweet.
Which brings to mind....

Five monkeys are caged together and there are some bananas hanging from the top of the cage. Some scientists attach an automated device for sensing if the bananas are moved; once a monkey tries to get any, an electric shock travels through the cage so that all monkeys get shocked. In the beginning, a single monkey climbs up to the bananas, touches them and every monkey gets shocked. So he doesn’t try anymore, but the other four monkeys try the same thing and the result comes to be the same. Therefore, the monkeys learn something in common: that is, do not get the bananas! You’ll get a painful electric shock! The scientists then replace one of the original monkeys with a new one. This new monkey sees the bananas and wants to get them right away, but the other four monkeys beat it when they see its actions. Since these original four monkeys think the new monkey will make them get shocked, they stop the new monkey from getting the bananas. This monkey tries a few times and the others beat it every time without it ever getting the bananas. Of course, all five monkeys don’t get shocked. The scientists then replace another of the original monkeys with a new one. This second new monkey sees the bananas and you bet it wants to get them immediately. But, sadly, the others beat it and the first new monkey beats the newest one even harder then the others (for the newest one is the rookie and has the lowest social status). Just like before, the newest monkey tries several times to get the bananas and is stopped by the others when they attack him. The scientists continue to replace all the original monkeys until no monkeys who actually felt the electric shock remain. Now none of the five new monkeys dare to touch the bananas yet none of them know why. They only know whomever wants to get the bananas will be beaten.

An interesting thought; has anyone else tried to implement it fully rather than piecemeal? Certainly it sounds a good idea and one to try on my next project.
Galaxy Nexus Growing Closer As Ads Leaked
>even if IT don't like it

Fuck cooperate security, I want my iPhone cake and to eat it too!
I don't personally believe you can "become" creative, but putting on good music and drawing for awhile makes things "flow" better for me. I suck at drawing tho...
Great and accurate summary.
From their [Twitter stream](http://twitter.com/iodoom3/), esp from [here](http://twitter.com/#!/iodoom3/status/139501602737356800) and [here](http://twitter.com/#!/iodoom3/status/139501636744773633):

> for now, we'll use github.

> https://github.com/TimeDoctor/iodoom3
Do it. Easily the easiest $7k I ever made was the result of a (carefully crafted but not difficultly formulated) 60 second email requesting more money in response to the engineering job offer that I accepted out of college.

Remember to include some examples of why you deserve it--this way, the hiring agent can use the same reasons to make an easy decision.
No, not really.

And it just broke backward compatibility, one thing all these Scala critics get so worked up about.
See the power of HTML5 with campaigns from Desperados
Probably inspired by my comment earlier [1] about how Linus comitted the first version of git in git [2].

I find it fascinating that systems can be bootstrapped upon their own foundations.

[1] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3277079

[2] - http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=commit;h=e83c5163316f...
``If only 50,000 people buy the game then it’s not worth it.''

``Perhaps it will only take 12 guys three months to port the game to PC''

well there's your problem. 12-peson team can release an entirely new game in three months. Deliver MVP early and iterate some more if the market responds favorably. Heck, make it two 6-person teams and two games; if only one game gains tractions you can still make the ends meet.
Nepali Model Photo Gallery ~ Photosite
Oh yeah, the Maddenization of the modern football game is everywhere. I especially love when on (I think ESPN Sunday Morning Countdown) they use Madden players to illustrate the play but they are scaled to real proportions. The first time I saw that I giggled like a school girl. I started playing Madden in 92 after years of Tecmo Bowl and I never thought I would see it blow up as big as it is now.

Any football player who was in college after 95 has been exposed to Madden in a big way. So even though I am surprised how big it has gotten when it comes to integration in the NFL, I really shouldn't be.
this also good, by Dr. Ralf Lämmel

http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/C9-Lectures-Dr-Ral...
Tech Videos and Interviews
Voyager au Quebec
FaceBook Marketing BootCamp Videos and Questions
Symfony2 FOSUserBundle roles - a simple solution
The only gratuitous functions I saw were the "case" statement and the "with" statement. The with statement can really only be implemented with that function (though there is something to be said of only defining it once instead of n times). The "case" statement may be gratuitous but it feels like the compiler has a reason for wrapping it in a leakless function wrapper.
One drug that definitely doesn't help is cannabis. As a habitual smoker for over ten years I know this all too well. As of late I've started wondering whether the real damage of cannabis is not in it's health consequences but in it's ability to completely demotivate. As a complete coincidence I actually started writing a poem about this last night:

Procrastination was higher on my to-do list,
Than achieving all the things that I otherwise wished.
Aspiration blew motivation a farewell kiss,
And said a sad goodbye, "you will be missed"
Debian (unstable) - 4.12-1

http://packages.debian.org/sid/nodejs

Ubuntu (11.10) - 0.4.9-1ubuntu3

http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/nodejs

Mint - none

Fedora - none

Arch - 0.6.2-1

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/nodejs/

Gentoo (unstable) - 0.6.2

http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-libs/nodejs

OpenSuSE - ??? (couldn't find package database)

FreeBSD - 0.4.12

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/www/node/
What compromises do you have in mind? I could think of some, but I don't remember (as I could forget) any product that would lack something only because of its "multiplatformity".
Reverse Engineered Chuckie Egg - with ascii and 3D renderers
FWIW, the Kinect SDK includes both C++ and C#/VB.NET versions, not just C#.

Regarding the the upcoming commercial release, the FAQ implies that those commercial restrictions will be lifted, but of couse, the exact details aren't yet known: "Under the terms of the [current] SDK license, remember you cannot receive payment for your application, use your application for advertising, use your application to solicit donations, or use your application in your internal business operations. The commercial release, which is coming in early 2012, will remove these constraints."

http://www.kinectforwindows.org/resources/faq.aspx
I genuinely agree with you on all points.

However, I do have one small note; the early 90s internet was also unusable for all but the most technical people. It was also fantastic, and I'd largely be happy to have access to an internet community of that size and quality today -- especially since I wouldn't have to also give up today's consumer internet.
Anybody know how much of this is already covered with SPDY?
Python Facts
I worked for a large internet company that would not consider anyone with too much experience. It was part of their business model to hire new grads or interns still in school and train them in-house. Sure veterans make great senior devs or architects, but I assume the OP is looking for an entry level job in which case the new grad is the better choice for many reasons.
Most popular Python web frameworks for GAE - Tipfy and Django Non-rel is closed.
Let's not have this discussion. I predict lots of heat and very little light.
I agree that there has to be a balance to how much an organization documents. But I'm more concerned with how little organizations read than how little they write. If they wrote a little less, they might read more.

Maybe instead of voluminous meeting minutes, organizations should have a little notebook labeled "Why we decided what we did."
To me this seems to be much faster and easier to use than quickmeme.com
We tried beating new developers when they went for the documentation. It didn't work out too well.
To target a niche app on a niche native platform because you like Xcode is not a compromise?
Thanks. It was dead within 1 minute.

Could have been flagged, but the flaggers would have to be very quick.

I'm okay with flagging when I submit things on the border. I understood submitting it that it was questionable. What gets me pissed is folks flagging stuff that is on-topic because they don't like the slant of the article, the author, or the submitter. Too much of that going on any more.
Unless the point is to say "Wow, Coal is a very dangerous energy source on a global basis." or "Wow, China is really bad at operating coal power plants", this isn't very informative.

Obviously, the coal figures are reflecting the health issues created or exacerbated by using the product. So miner deaths, cancers, respiratory illnesses, etc are probably all factored in there.

Just as Chinese coal sticks out as outlier, nuclear sticks out as well.

How can you make an argument based on deaths without accounting for future risks? Some waste products of many nuclear energy generation are dangerous for 10,000 years -- longer than recorded history. And as the article states, one of the issues with nuclear accidents is the difficulty of attributing deaths:

"4000 people may eventually die earlier as a result of Chernobyl, but those deaths would be more than 20 years after the fact and the cause and effect becomes more tenuous."

It just seems bizarre to me that someone would discuss at length the hazards of working on a roof, while the US has hundreds of nuclear power plants with adjacent waste ponds that will require active cooling for an indefinite period of time.
Not just this, but your GCSEs and A-Levels too.

I was actually turned down from a graduate job because my GCSEs were not all straight A, despite my A-Levels being so.

Although this might seem a bit ridiculous from a graduate point of view, the market has become so saturated with graduates. So much so that these companies can be VERY selective, for no other reason than to get the number of people's CVs they have to look at down to a manageable amount.

Additionally, just because you did a History degree, doesn't mean you have to do something USING that degree. University is an academic and educational pursuit, it isn't an apprenticeship.
What's most interesting to me is that with respect to hardware, all of the parts have existed for years, but we're just beginning to see products that target tech-savvy consumers who are want to build something that suits their needs.

I've been working on a more modular, open source system like this for the last year or so: http://rascalmicro.com. The Rascal has powerful hardware and a real web interface, but it works with Arduino shields.

Twine looks pretty good, and I'm heartened to see that the web interface has some polish to it.

(Supermechanical, if you're reading this, let's get together some time. I'm one town over in Somerville-- email is in my profile. I don't think we're competitors. My customers use soldering irons; I bet yours don't.)
[askHN] Did Hacker News lose its #1 ranking on Google Search?
Every morning, I check HN by typing 'Hacker News' into Chrome's address bar and usually find it sitting on #1 spot. Today, it completely vanished from the first page and the #1 spot is occupied by www.thehackernews.com.

Any idea why?
Blocked holes can enhance rather than stop light going through
WebGL and E-commerce – Visuals for tomorrow?
I'm more worried that Wikipedia would feel compelled to ensure their content is not too critical to their big donors, than that wikipedia would become corrupted by advertisers.

I can understand how advertising could be a corrupting force, but Wikipedia needs to explain why attracting donors doesn't have the same problem if not bigger.
I expect a short squeeze has extra risk till the end of lockup in May.

Why risk your money only to have to others take the profits of your labor?
Stay in Touch with the Cloud's Perspective
The NFL likes to focus on the skill positions (QB, HB, WR, LB, and DB's) more than the entire game so their camera angles reflect that. Most fans do not understand what is going on with the linemen because for the most part it is the most complex action on the field. But when the average fan watches it all they see is 300lb men running into each other.
It should get amusing when the crowd of folks who claimed that Fukushima was no big deal show up. Oh wait, they're here already.
No idea what brew is but be aware that the game media is not free.
I have to admit these statistics are beautiful. Arguing that Nuclear is more save than Solar because of more people dieing from falling down their roof instead of dying by Nuclear catastrophes is just supreme quantitative logic. It demonstrates so beautifully how numbers are excellent for focusing on a narrow feature (i.e. "correlatable" action-death relations) while totally blending out aspects such as long-term effects of nuclear waste and so on.
should be (>>=) in the title.
Damn I'm glad I learned passion for a craft first, and the importance of social signaling later.
Isn't it obvious that a GUI application that has to bend to the conventions of multiple platforms will be, at best, on par, but likely worse, than had it been designed for a specific platform?

(Again, I'm not talking about this daft meme thing :))
What you do is your choice. Not everyone measures wealth in dollars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfaction_with_Life_Index
MIT discovery could lead to all-optical chips
The really "ground breaking" developments may require greater isolation.

I'd guess that this pattern is there in the historical details, though I don't know the relevant history well enough.

(i don't just mean individuals in isolation, but also where groups can exist in a degree of isolation from others).
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Beneficial Bacteria (AKA Microflora/Probiotics) Severely Lacking in Food Supply
Drop a WiFi chip there and it's a hacker's dream router.

Model C? :)
It looks very nice! I'm digging the simple Haskell-ish syntax.

The example on Types is not compiling as it is. The last line should be something like:

console.log (getName {firstName: "John", lastName: "Doe"})
While I never think one could reach the levels of enlightenment of Michelangelo or Jonathan Ive :) I do believe one can exceed his creative potential. As with any other endeavor, like software development or sports, you can be better just by doing it repeatedly, getting out of your comfort zone, pushing your limits and all that crap other people keep saying.

Another thing I'm contemplating, besides drawing, is learning how to play an instrument, like the violin. A mere mortal like myself will never be a virtuoso, but I could be good enough for my own and my family's gratification.
Anecdote: I see these popups and immediately leave the site

But are you the target audience? People who work in technical fields generally have a way lower tolerance for things like this than the general public.
Yesterday's technology tomorrow (2004)
Find an Exact Dog Feeding Chart 
An excellent dog feeding chart can be revealed under and it can make certain that your pet isn't at an unhealthy weight and also malnourished.
http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
There's been a number of articles along this vein recently about checklists for doctors; specifically surgeons, and how incredibly effective they've been proven to be. And how violently against them a large # of surgeons are.
Too fast. Concentrate on your marketing plan first; it's a crying shame if you let your talent go to waste on a failed project.
I feel like to be creative you just need to enjoy what you're doing.

It's like the idea of a to-do list: it's a list of things you don't really want to do, because the things you want to do are done already.

If you're doing something you love, you'll be too busy doing it and being creative that you won't have time to go, "am I being creative?"

Creativity doesn't require isolation. It requires happiness and motivation.
The long-term effects of nuclear waste tend to get blown out of all proportion. The total amount of nuclear waste produced so far is so tiny that even if you were to spread it in the atmosphere you're unlikely to cause worse damage than what coal or oil does. Not least given the amount of radioactive material that gets spread by coal power plants. When you take into account the number of reactor designs that would allow using current nuclear waste again as input to other types of reactors, and the problem diminishes further.
A compromised "business plan", maybe. Not a compromised artifact.

I'm sure this guy is gutted that his growth in the global meme application space will be stunted.
Rob Walling (http://www.softwarebyrob.com/) has a book called 'Start Small, Stay Small' that sounds like what you are looking for. He talks about finding a problem to solve, and has lots of practical tips and advice on how to determine if there is a market for the solution.
Cheap USB Wifi dongle supported by Linux I think :-)

Surely there's one or two that are tiny and will work?

Maybe this one?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/7dayshop-Wireless-150Mbps-802-11n-Ad...
I'll probably have to check out the Color book by Betty Edwards. Any other recommendations for color-centric books?

I took a "color and design" course my first year of college, hoping for a lecture on color theory, but instead ended up pasting cardboard paper on poster board for four months.