skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've reached the point where I refuse to enable such people, even if it means short term sacrifice for myself.

They need to die off, in a career sense. Any help I give them, even when well qualified and executed on my part (i.e. despite them / their attitude) is just adding to the problem.

Seriously. There are a lot of "morons" and "jerks" out there who need, simply if painfully, to be "disenabled".

(And, to some extent, if their/the customers suffer, well, those people voted with their feet in becoming customers. In our "free market" society (this is a U.S./"Western" perspective), it's somewhat akin to our politics: You can bitch all you want about the politicians and how they are screwing you over, but YOU elected them.)
Nokia has Raspberry Pi vouchers for 400 Qt developers
That is true, understanding what makes Wikipedia susceptible to biased thinking, scamming, or propaganda widens your view to understand that newspaper articles, government press releases, and technology journalism (to name only a few) are also to be taken with a grain of salt.
No RSS? :(
Collar de adiestramiento y tienda de animales
Steve Jobs and NeXT: Rare PBS Documentary circa 1986
I agree with you 100% - my comment was mostly wishful thinking, a description of how Dell could make me change my mind.

This kind of marketing is one I can't quite understand. I mean, what is he after? Buzz? Funding? What's his endgame? Why & how is he paying people to work on it? Is his marketing strategy to troll the profession & the audience, and he really has something big up his sleeve?

Why is he using the Vaporware approach?
Because the title is sensationalist. Why is displaying a small non-invasive ad on the start page some great evil? How is it a "classic bait and switch from Google"? What other bait and switches have they pulled in the past? Do you think they owe you a 100% free browser on your terms?
As with Android, it's not about how well something works, it's about having a big long bulleted list of features.

Look, I want to like the iXXX alternatives. But I can't get behind half-baked alternatives. "We have voice recognition (that's barely adequate)" "We have USB PORTS!!! (that don't support anything but USB disks") "We have wireless support (that's STILL only 802.11g)"

I would like to see an honest competitor to Apple's products, not products that a geek or fanboy will drool over and blindly think are better.

Windows phone is a really good start. But I still think there's a lot of work to do there before the average person will pick one up.
The fact they are financially backed by the Australian Government (which has an approximately 0% track record as a VC) seals their doom. If they were in the US they'd have to figure out a way to produce something commercial or at least potentially commercial, now they can burn through $2M while fading into irrelevance (if not there already).
15 year old discussion, unfortunately. Makes it pretty likely this didn't stand up to scrutiny.
See also https://github.com/j2labs/dictshield
Cararena | Cararena Best Large Family Cars
Show HN: Turn your iPhone into a steering wheel for racing games.
I'm French and this is honestly the very first time I ever heard of this service. I'm not in the target audience, but 8 million users in France? Riiiiiight, that's more than 13% of our total population, roughly 20% of all French internet users, or one Facebook user in three. It's roughly equal to sum of the population of the top 3 to 10 most populated cities in the country along with their whole urban surroundings, or 2/3rd of the population of Paris.

This figure makes no sense to me. Even assuming it's targetting a very specific population that I share no connection to, it's still a ridiculous figure. The biggest (in revenue) dating website in France (and apparently, in Europe, too) is Meetic. It had less than a million registered users in december 2010 in total, including other companies in the group.

After a quick search on independent consumer satisfaction services, turns out there are a lot of people whose accounts were created through fishing or the likes, or even without consent. Just by reading the tons of user comments, this really looks like a major scammy, fishy, spammy and illegal service (illegal at least in France, since it refuses to comply to our Privacy & Freedom directives).

There are some satisfied comments, too, so this service probably works well enough in some ways, I just can't take these figures at face value.
Thank you for your valuable and insightful comment.
I haven't tried it, but sounds like I should :)
Do you love dog? More some tips how to train dog
Thanks for providing the link.

Having seen it, I can't help but say: lol! You took that one sentance to mean pg was upset that you were arguing with trolls? It looks to me like he thought you were trolling! All kinds of other people were still talking to the person you accuse of being a troll but only you got singled out and asked to stop. None of them and not even the alleged troll.

And again it was about perl. I think you seriously need to ask yourself why you're so incredibly sensitive about this subject. No one is criticizing you nor your family. Just a tool that has no feelings or emotions.
Sorry, by 'preprocessing' I meant things still done on each frame, but anything that is not raw pushing-vertices-into-the-gpu-pipeline, i.e. all polygon culling, LoD simplification etc.

But yeah, the amount of data you'd have to work on would be much greater, but the way I interpret all of this is that he's found algos to do that very fast, regardless of whether it's a lot of data.
I do not believe there is an AWS-compatible version of the iPhone, which would be a more fundamental issue than MMS protocols.
You can install an extension to skip the default Google tab page: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=2666...

Actually, people have been complaining the lack of flexibility to set the default tab page for a long time.
I've been working on a HTML5 animation app called Radi. It supports both <canvas> and <video>. It's available as a free beta:

http://www.radiapp.com

(The app is Mac-only for the moment, sorry.)
Myths About Overpopulation
The Dwindling Power of a College Degree
I think Google could be testing the waters for in-browser ads..
You can browse Scala code here:

https://github.com/languages/Scala
Selling your content for peanuts at predictable intervals isn't a viable long run business model? Who would have guessed.
I've toyed with the idea of creating a service that aggregates the game reviews of several years ago. Then I would only read those and get the "brand new" games for five bucks.
Try separating yourself from the content for a moment and you'll see he isn't insulting you, but finding holes in your work.

One thing you'll notice here is that the community is very blunt, and often comes across as rude, but as a new hacker myself I've grown to appreciate the honesty.
I think the "loading" animated icons you see in all those AJAX applications are just GIFs. It makes sense.
Of course management have a poor eye for programming talent. It's not their field.

Would you know a good mechanical engineer if you could only interview them for two hours and maybe see some of their past work? A good massage therapist? A good financial planner?
What are functional foods?
I have Samsung Omnia 7 and I'm quite happy with it.
Belly dance costumes
Stephen Colebourne's original post on Scala was discussed at length on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3264849

There were a lot of interesting perspectives, both for and against Scala's design decisions, and I learned a lot.

1. Scala is a complex language, with many tools aimed at library authors. There are drawbacks to this approach (witness the headaches of C++), but also advantages (witness the massive commercial success of C++).

2. Plenty of Scala developers are happy to use it as a "better Java." A small but vocal minority are engaged in hard-core functional programming, which can occasionally lead to both cool libraries and minor conflict within the community.

3. Some of Colebourne's original criticisms were acknowledged by Scala developers, especially those pertaining to module systems. However, opinions on whether Scala should limit mutability (as Clojure and Haskell do) were divided.

This followup post is less interesting. He goes out of his way to quote people who made insightful comments that agreed with his views, but only quotes snark and mockery from those who disagreed.
Perhaps you should start from a goal and work backwards? Is there something in particular that you'd like to build, create, or work on?
Ah fair enough, I didn't see that. I wonder though, where would they disclose it that people would see it before they saw the advert?
Jeremy Tregunna - "Has nothing to do with the fact it's a free browser, and has everything to do with the lack of choice. Also, what kind of data is google tracking in this ad? My screen resolution, how many tabs I have open, where those point at, maybe my OS & version, ... Without notice, it's just not cool. Shame Google, Shame."
lol
Oh, boo hoo. It's not like it's a popup for a hair-loss product or whatever, it's a notice in Chrome for a Chrome like product and there is an "x" beside it.
Click Hot Deals
why is that of professional interest?
US President Urges Yemen To Create History || thenewsjockey
How turkey (the bird) got its name
I'm not sure if it makes sense to call them "fringe". Orkut is mainstream in Brazil (though Facebook is about as popular now), just as Facebook in the US and Mixi in Japan.

Also note that Brazil has a large number of internet users, around 40 million. So Brazil is also a big target for auction sites, e-commerce, games, phone apps, etc. It just so happens that people don't hear much about those sites outside Brazil.

I'm quite skeptical that Badoo has 14 million Brazilian members. That would be around 1/3 of the internet-using population. That said, I suppose their success in Brazil (and elsewhere) is due to the fact they aren't really a regular social network, but rather a site for "hooking-up".
The Future Of Foxconn: Ten Thousand Horses Galloping
Interesting. Make the site where you only review games once they get below a certain price threshold. Pull prices from amazon and reviews from the normal places. Let the user use slider(s) and order highest rated in a price range.
Find Your Cheap Car From Reputable Online Car Auctions
Automated UI Testing for Web and Native Apps on iOS and Android
The problem that we have is that the EU has a culture that is not at all federalistic or democratic. France is the main influence of the EU and the are very into centraliced bureaucracy. I don't see away out of this culture without rebuilding the EU from ground up.

I think the EU was "forced" on everybody its not at all a natural grown thing. If we want to walk towards one europe we should open the borders and just let it happen. Why put all the countries in one big systems. A stable System needs to grow and iterate. The countries with diffrent cultures should start by working closer together (for example all german speaking countries). This way we can build a stable europe in the long run. A one size fits all solution will always break down because its imo impossible to let people vote on it (they would recect it).
I personally know multiple, sad people who maintain 10+ fake facebook acoounts in order to create fake images of themselves. I can easily imagine really high rates of those people in such a network. Especially if there is nobody trying to avoid this kind of accounts.

I don't know if there is any benefit you could get by having many accounts, but if there is, I'm really sure it is used a lot.
In the Comanche series, "voxels" were a selling point on the box.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku-ICQvQJGI&sns=em

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

No story I've seen on this engine seems to mention that series.
More insider data breaches in Canadian government
Could the OP please add [1996] to the title?
Facebook ads come with an "X" too.

Would it be okay to see an ad for a new iPod in the System Prefers of OSX?
You know it is a ridiculous headline when the article refutes itself in the third paragraph:

But the discrepancy is in large part due to the $24.75 billion loss within the securities industry during the financial crisis of 2008 -- the last year of Bush's Presidency -- followed by a gain of $49.53 billion during the country's first year under Obama.
If knowing the fairly simple rules of the site you are participating in counts as fanatic dedication, I weep for the internet.

Do you feel one has to be fanatically dedicated to HN to know why "reply" links don't always appear right away?
I think his point still stands - and this plays into the "systemic bias" point that other posters here have made. The issue here is not that citations are required (they ought to be, otherwise how can we ascertain truthfulness?), but rather it's heavily biased towards certain types of citations.

A poster mentioned elsewhere in this thread that Wikipedia's articles on animal husbandry are laughably incorrect, to the point where children can spot the errors. If someone knowledgeable in the field were to come in and try to correct this nonsense, what exactly would they cite?

Academic journals? Because information on animal husbandry is a frequent subject of academic debate. Newspapers and magazines? Surely a smash hit topic there.

This is why Wikipedia's quality is highly correlated to how well this subject is documented online. Physics, math, and computer science? These articles are top notch - because information is widely available online already, just begging for a Wikipedia editor to cite it.

Anything that isn't common online? Fuggetaboutit. Worse, anything that isn't the regular subject of newspapers and magazines?
Maybe I just don't know enough, but so far I haven't heard of judges ever being elected by the people. AFAIK, they are nominated by the representatives elected by the people.
Why not just use a recursive default dict?

http://kentsjohnson.com/kk/00013.html
Nokia applies for delisting from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
The French 3-strikes law does not mandate anything like that. It only says that you should make sure your access is not used for downloading illegaly, but does not specify how. (And no decree was published, afaik).
Colebourne's attitude reminds me of an attitude I encountered a lot when I used Perl. Some people would spend a lot of time complaining about how bad Perl is. Meanwhile, lots of people would be happily producing clean and maintainable code with Perl. People who like Perl will probably nod acknowledgingly, and people who don't like it will think I'm an idiot for thinking that Perl isn't so bad.

It's best not to get caught up in the language wars and just focus on getting things done. Which reminds me, I should be getting back to work.
Here is a simple implementation that I swear by,

https://github.com/tantalor/megaera/blob/master/megaera/recu...
I'd really like to know how much memory is being used per unique model. Until we see more than a couple different models being re-used everywhere, I'm going to stay skeptical. Also his reasoning for the lack of variety of '3 weeks before Gamescom' sounds a bit BS to me, as this video has been around for much longer than Euclideon's last media-spree: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSvptZCJGyI. You would think they would have created at least one demo with a larger variety of objects by this point.

I'm also very suspicious of all this recent positive coverage of Euclideon. There was a pretty suspect feature on Euclideon on an Australian game review show called Good Game a couple weeks back, talking with this same guy, and not really making much mention of the skepticism involved (or at all if I remember correctly), and as far as I know no outspoken skeptics have been able to get their hands on it. The clip from Good Game can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_ndZ8ETbqU
Yale's 'Nightlife' Class Brings Students to the Boom Boom Room for Field Trip
Yea, along with prolog, it's one of the hidden pearls of programming
> This is an unelected body making sweeping decisions without any accountability

I won't argue if the EU Court of Justice is a relevant institution to judge this case, or if it is an independent enough body as it should be, but the fact that it was not elected does not invalidate it.

Sometimes, we vote for people who put other people in charge, or make laws which determine how certain power positions can be reached. We do not have to vote for every individual. Certainly, I don't think I'm qualified enough to make a decision on who is a good judge or not.

The doctor who attends me at the hospital was not elected neither, but I don't think that this is worrying at all in terms of democracy.
I know a lot of people that have multiple Facebook accounts, some are kids that want to push different updates to different people for example, or a "games" account.

Others are men with a "dating" account and a "family" account.

I guess the same happens in Badoo. Also, they must have a lot of dead accounts and count them (much like Microsoft does).

Their numbers do seem inflated, I don't know how much (50%? 100%?). I'm their active users must be at least an order of magnitude lower (my own account is inactive at the moment).
FreeIndex (pcit4)
FreeIndex is the UK's fastest growing business directory with photos, reviews, jobs, special offers and more. Create your free business profile page today.
http://www.freeindex.co.uk
[URL]http://www.freeindex.co.uk[/URL]
Live Telia Internet Dashboard for Gaming
How Can I Clean White Fringe on Drapes?
The problem with paid content is that you only know whether it's worthy for you in hindsight. On top of that you have to compete with gratis (and often surprisingly good quality).

You have all the problems of an asymmetrical information market and you also have to break a cultural gap.

Honestly, I don't subscribe to magazines anymore. I just can't get consistently satisfied with any single source. The only subscription I pay is the broadband contract itself. I don't consistently watch TV or follow any sports for me to consider paying. I know there is a market for that, but it's a really difficult one.
Why not move on to using ocaml (or shudder haskell) if you need types, adding types python seems like a pretty big undertaking
Irish-Based Pricing Intelligence Startup Profitero wins IBM SmartCamp London
There is some more info from David Swenson:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?s=b06561cd9...

key quote:

> I think the best explanation has to do with the film being at or vaery near the theoretical charge density limit and just the right combination of resistance between the person and floor. With the electric field at its maximum at the center of the tent formed by the film, the conductive body (person) approaching the center was actually pinned to the floor. Had the floor been more conductive, the person would have been closer to ground and probably would have received a massive shock from a propagating brush discharge. But being isolated from ground, no charge separation occured resulting in the electrostatic "pinning" effect.
JS Crap Browser Notifier
What about Trippy.com or Virtual Tourist?

If you log into Trippy using your facebook login it finds people in your social graph that have been, stayed, lived in the place you are visiting. It allows you to ask for their recommendations.

You'd probably be more inclined to trust friends comments than those from strangers.

The only advice I can provide re: NYC is that Penn Station is the stop for Madison Square Garden and is only 2 stops down from Times Square - 42nd Street station.

So really that area doesn't really fit into being quiet or sane! Good fun though.

You could cut out Subway travel altogether and stay close to where you're giving your talk. Least then if you have any free time after you're in the heart of it.
It goes the other way too..
If we truly have lots of software companies that prefer to employ and exploit juniors and put the quality and safety of their products on the last place for some bucks, companies that don't distinguish the capable from the wannabe's or simply don't want very capable people because of the fear that they will ask for better conditions, payments or promotions, companies that pay ridiculous wages while the enthusiastic geeks build platforms that will bring hundreds of thousands of $ to millions of $, then I think you will agree the programmers have to protect themselves somehow too.But they don't.Perhaps in US the demand for programmers is still high and u didn't experience the predatory software industry yet.But never mind.
Mozilla | FIGHT SOPA (The Internet we know and love is at risk. Help save it.)
Personal anecdote, FWIW. Not intended as "advice" (and please don't read in any assumptions about you):

I'm not really a hacker, though along the way I learned a little (x)html and css. I had a serious, lengthy health crisis of my own. During that time, I ended up starting some websites though I knew absolutely nothing about such things when it all began. Some of those sites still persist, others fell by the wayside. Natural selection kind of determined what got developed more and what got abandoned. I got a certificate in GIS in something like 2002 (IIRC). I was still very ill and on a lot of medication. After completing my certificate, my resume had a high call back rate but I kept tanking the interview. (I was basically higher than a kite from all my meds and it showed.) I even interviewed for an internship with a national lab but didn't get that either. I didn't manage to get a job until 2006, in an unrelated field having nothing to do with any of my training or career goals. I just needed a job because I was going through a divorce and still needed to eat.

Recovering my health took me a very long time, longer than I really expected so I was often frustrated by that. I was also frustrated at feeling underemployed but also proud that I managed to keep working while getting well. My health has made a dramatic leap forward recently and I am now doing more with some of my own projects. I learn what is relevant to the needs of my personal projects and whatever gets support, organically, from people who are genuinely interested in furthering the things I do. I believe someday my side projects will become more than mere side projects. Over the years, I've learned more than I sometimes realize. I still feel like I know nothing. My side projects have given me personal satisfaction under difficult circumstances but have not really paid-off, career-wise. I expect big changes in the not too distant future in terms of being able to pursue a career more seriously rather than just stay afloat with a day-job. In the mean time, what I learned while getting well was how to really live. It keeps my priorities straight and keeps me from making myself too crazy about what I feel is a relatively low level of accomplishment career-wise.

Peace and good journey. Best of luck in everything.
Number one tip for getting acquired: do well enough that you don't need to be acquired.
Except for the inclusion of "let", it is looking like Python with braces.
Rock The Post
Rock The Post is powered as a business social network. Rock The Post has the primary goal of creating a tool and meeting ground for likeminded individuals to connect with each other in order to pursue and develop all types of projects and business ideas.
So I totally thought this was going to be something like "cat /dev/random >> /dev/input/event1" causes a kernel panic. ;)

Much funnier that it's an actual fuzzy beast doing the fuzzing!
Ah Ok, why isn't anybody trying to replicate and sell this ? it would be worth more than gold, and it's sitting there in an old maillist ? come on...
One of the better HTML5 walkthroughs. I like that he emphasizes almost seamless transition from XHTML. That's the key point, not all the new features!

I did not know about the Javascript shiv to make old browsers support HTML5. Very neat! Will play around with it right away.