skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Under the hood most (Chrome and Firefox) WebGL implementations use D3D9 on Windows through Angle (http://code.google.com/p/angleproject/) anyway. There is of course additional overhead in WebGL implementations, Javascript and using Angle as a translation layer, but this is a fair comparison, eventually those sprites are getting rendered by the same drivers and same D3D runtime.
When you plug the Cotton Candy into a Mac or PC, the Windows or OS X operating system recognizes it as a USB drive. You can then launch the software and run the Cotton Candy’s Android environment in a secure window...

Wouldn't this still be vulnerable to key loggers and screen capturing spyware?
[EDIT: could those downvoting this please reply and tell me why? I wouldn't have thought this would be controversial, but I'm looking at this post sitting at -4 just minutes after posting and am genuinely confused as to what the issue is.]

Hrm. Obviously this is a good thing, but...

Wikipedia tells me that Brin's net worth is $16.7B. Very roughly, my "net worth" (in the sense of assets required to duplicate my income) is $2M. So that's the equivalent of my dropping $59 on them.

Obviously all gifts are good (as long as you, like me, value wikipedia). And this is a big one. But it hardly qualifies as earth-shaking philanthropy. It's the gift amount Brin would be expected to give, I'd say. Obviously there's a lot of apples and oranges here; both of the numbers above represent "tied down" assets and not disposable cash, etc...

But shouldn't the extremely wealthy be held to higher standards about what they're expected to do with their charity? Why must it be news when someone like Brin does the equivalent of clicking on "Donate via PayPal".

I guess one good thing came of this though: lest I feel like a hypocrite, I went to Wikipedia and clicked on "Donate $100". So that makes me a better person than Brin, I guess?
"Finally it's a shame no mobiles support WebGL yet. iOS actually supports WebGL, but they've disabled it! I'm not sure why they've done this, because enabling WebGL is crucial to high performance HTML5 games on mobiles."

The cynic says: App store! App store! Money money money!
The author's attribute the effect of sibling spacing in part on the attention the older sibling receives in its youngest years. This, at least, would not be changed by skipping grades.
Krazy Math is live in App Store.
Yes. Bear in mind that each individual photons carries very little energy - the energy required to generate the described 'mirror' is enormous by comparison.

The main value of this is further experimental verification of certain aspects of quantum physics, as mentioned at the bottom of the article.
I too would like to see a 'bad options contract' or at least highlights of what would make one.
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Another option is to use Amazon Mechanical Turk:
http://codyaray.com/2010/10/dropbox-referrals-using-mechanic...

Also, here's the Dropbox page to get additional space by connecting your social networking accounts:
https://www.dropbox.com/free
I've been criticizing Gruber more often than not, but I found this one to be a to the point, fairly balanced piece - especially around the visionary vs. tweaker vs. inventor part.

But his gripe about the Jobs' biography still doesn't make enough sense to me, particularly this part -

What it was that Jobs actually did is much of the mystery of his life and his work, and Isaacson, frustratingly, had seemingly little interest in that, or any recognition that there even was any sort of mystery as to just what Jobs’s gifts really were.

I attribute that to personality traits, intuition, timing, persistence, character and may be some other intangibles that we don't yet fathom. It's not one single tangible thing that you can point to and say - hey this is it, if you do it this way you can be another Steve Jobs, another Einstein, another Picasso etc. It's more like art than science - you can't really nail it down, pin point it, list it - it's certain basic elements of the art mostly covered with the artist's expression ability, personality, imagination, composition et.al and that's not really something that a biographer can resolve in a biography. Biographer's job is to lay out the life and work of the person and let people make their own inferences of the subtleties, of where it worked, why and why not. Some will "get" it, many won't. Some will be able to apply it in many nondescript ways and many won't have any use of it.
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Your major problem is (anti)anti-framebusting. I'm not sure that can ever be fixed. The solution is for a local desktop manager to have the same programability as a browser but separate the top level browser DOM from the local desktop DOM. Many of these FreeDesktop specs would already be usable: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications
Big data: Drowning in numbers
Like an encyclopedia? Unless it's the book from the diamond age I'm not sure I'm comfortable anymore showing my kids printed encyclopedias.
Pretty much all I say applies to iOS and Android.

It's just that Android has a lot of other hidden "gems"
This is going to sound ignorant, but can somebody tell me the reason for TLDs in the first place? I understand they originally were supposed to segregate the internet into governmental, commercial, organizational, etc spaces. But no restrictions were placed at all on who got what, so we ended up with whitehouse.com being porn.

So who benefits from yahoo having to buy yahoo.com, yahoo.net, yahoo.org, etc, instead of buying one domain called "yahoo"? It all just seems like a price gouging scheme at this point.
Although direct database update isn't recommended in SAP, still for some strange reasons it was needed in one of the projects to modify a wrong entry done by functional consultant. One of my fellow programmer was assigned this task and this is what she did -

Update <table> set <field>=<value>

instead of

Update <table> set <field>=<value> where <condition>

The code was executed on development server(thankfully) and it created a big mess. Full day work of 5 guys was lost. Project Manager banned her from developing any critical program and told her she will only write abap/4 reports from then onwards.
Wow, this is so useful. Will get everyone to read it!
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Have you seen http://pediapress.com/? It seems to do exactly that, although you need to compile the book yourself.
They do have a partnership with a print-on-demand company that donates 10% of the revenues, but it just concatenates articles you choose into a book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PediaPress

There is also a user-driven project to organize Wikipedia articles into books, although they currently just use the articles verbatim as chapters, which doesn't address things like redundancy between articles that makes sense when they're articles, but should ideally be removed if they were going to be printed as book chapters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikipedia...

Here's an example one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Compiler_construction
Happy to hear that you had backups and not too much data was lost because you caught it quickly.

But besides the obvious takeaway of always having recent, tested backups, I think it's also important to get out of the habit of ever using a REPL (or SSH for that matter) to connect to production servers. Write a one-off script, document when and why you made it, check it into your VCS of choice, and run it against the target server(s). Of course within the script itself feel free to make any connections you need; my point is to never do it "manually" from the command-line. This also prepares you for when you move past having a single live server for web or db. If you're in Python-land, Fabric is the go-to tool these days for automating this.
When selecting materials for building aircraft weight is only one of many concerns. Durability, flexibility, strength, cost, etc are all major issues. Considering the design goals for this material seem to primarily just be weight I would be surprised if it's strength to weight ratio was impressive enough to overcome cost issues.

Also compared to a modern blimp the Hindenburg an ancient design that's been far surpassed. A modern Zeppelin is much closer to 20% lift to weight ratio than 5 for the Hindenburg despite using less efficient helium gas. Their maximum permitted takeoff weight is 10,690 kg, with a payload of 1,900 kg.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin_NT)
And you could do the same thing using another open source OS other than Linux, and without an installer or unetbootin.

The cost is the stick and the time to learn about some simple low level concepts.

Why wait for some company to deliver a solution to you? DIY.
It's kind of interesting to look at it this way, and it also presents something of a way out: if all of these companies followed the same procedures (patent-clueless engineers), and all of these engineers STILL came up with the same method, it stands to reason that the method is obvious.
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I dunno, I think the Python interface is adequate. Not great, but gets the job done. I write almost all my Vim scripts in Python.
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GBScripts?

Now we know where to go to get more then we pay for!
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So, it seems as though there are some errors in the article, but it seems the most interesting piece is roughly true.

To write the new constitution, the people of Iceland elected twenty-five citizens from among 522 adults not belonging to any political party but recommended by at least thirty citizens. This document was not the work of a handful of politicians, but was written on the internet.

I'd love to see more about this process. I'd worry that there would be too much time and text spent on specifics rather than general ideas, writing a constitution isn't easy, IMO.
This is an awesome idea which now, due to the HN effect, will take another 60 days before it will work again, if ever.

But I plan on remembering. Very cool idea.
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Anti-particles.
I guess it could be useful in a business environnement
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Eagerly awaiting dismissive "human" commentary from A-list Apple bloggers.
JavaScript. Not because of the language, but because its API's will take the language where no others can go. Between HTML5, NodeJS, and WebGL there is an awful wide range of things that can be created.
Sounds like a poor manager to me.
Sergey's net worth is in large part held as stock (in Google). His liquid is probably <$1B.
Be careful with terms like "irresponsible parents" and "family planning". Some people plan to have kids close together in age.

For what it's worth, however, I have this to offer:

* My oldest son (age 5) can read at a second grade level and can do addition.

* My next son (age 4) can read at a first grade level and can also do addition.

* My next son (just turned 3) knows all of his shapes (including the difference between octagons and hexagons), recognize and count all numbers from 1-20, and knows all his letters and their sounds.

* My next son (almost 2) knows all his colors, can count to ten, sing his ABCs, and knows all his animal sounds.

* My last son (7 months old) just figured out sitting up unsupported, and can babble on his level.

Now keep in mind that my little guys also love Pixar movies, playing LEGO games on their Wii, dressing up as superheros, and hiking so they have managed to learn all these things while having a well-rounded and balanced childhood.

The reason these boys know as much as they do and are so well behaved is because my wife and I have taken the time to know their hearts and minds and have invested countless precious hours teaching and training them to be men.

So I want to make sure you understand that just because a family may have children close in age, it is no way has any bearing on their intelligence. My experience has shown me that the complete well-being of children directly correlates to the amount of time and love their parents invest in them, no matter how many siblings they have or far apart their ages may be.

Irresponsible parenting does not mean having many kids close in age. Irresponsible parenting simply means that you aren't willing to offer the time and love your kids need to thrive.

(edit for formatting)
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I usually write my scripts in a temporary file and run them through Django with something like:

$ python manage.py shell <~/tmp-script.py

In this instance, I didn't even consider that what I was doing could be catastrophic. But you're right, you want to avoid doing things manually. In the future, I'll track all the scripts I run. And thanks for the tip about Fabric, I'll check it out.
Yes. He was a poor manager. He was actually a hard core marketing/sales guy with limited people(developer) management skills.
very cool. was thinking about messing around with something like this a while back. i may shoot you a pm on github to checkout the source
Yeh, something similar except beautiful, not just printing the content. Beautiful cover, font, design, maybe even vintage looking. It might not be "scalable" tho but I think people would dig it and willing to pay $100 for something like that. I would buy a vintage looking book about cars.
This is an example of pedantry going to the absolute extreme.
Of all, Apple only supported because steve jobs is not there.
With SpiderOak, all you have to do is refer 14 friends. Just throwing it out there as an alternative: https://spideroak.com
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Show HN: Django-Chartit a Django app for plotting charts effortlessly
I also have a huge vim configuration:
https://github.com/sashahart/.vim

I highly recommend putting your vim configuration on github or similar, you don't have to worry about losing your config and it gets easier for everyone to learn the new tricks
ie The rumors about the rumors-of-the-death-of-Google+-being-greatly-exaggerated are greatly exaggerated.
read for a few minutes and then go buy their stuff on Amazon.

BN.com has made its prices competitive with Amazon (finally!). I got an offer for a BN credit card, similar to the Amazon Visa, in the mail a few days ago. BN might finally be making a real play against Amazon. It might be too late, but it's nice to finally find them in the game.

I wonder of BN's stores will evolve in an Apple Store-like direction, with physical book sales that happen to match online prices.
I agree with you. Generosity is not appropriately measured in absolute terms, it has to do with what one sacrificed to be generous. It's nice that he donated, but it's no more a sign of his good character than if a typical person gave a few dollars.
No, the underlying sentiment is that copyright holders (especially the big conglomerates) have gone significantly too far with the rights granted to them by the people.
But as you can tell from the down votes, there are lots of HN readers who do think people are rightfully entitled to content they had no hand in producing (without paying for it). I've got no idea how they come to this conclusion.
I created this Django app for making it really easy to create charts directly from database (Django models). This is my first django project and would really appreciate any feedback from everyone. Thanks!
There's been a steady stream of naysayers. After a quick search:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2767495 (Why Google+ is poised to fail)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2887848 (A Eulogy for Google+)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2891470 (48% of Google+ users haven't posted yet)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2936809 (Google+ traffic down 27% in the last two weeks)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2999449 (New Data: Google+ Public Posts Decrease by 41% Over Past Two Months)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3213382 (Google+ Is Dead )

To be fair, this is balanced by lots of positive articles, so I think people really just tend to project their own bias.
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Right. And my liquid fraction of that $2M number is far less still. My "assets" are held up in my employment and dolled out every two weeks in a paycheck. So by that analysis he should be donating even more, no?
>So that's the equivalent of my dropping $59 on them.

i'd be happy to upvote you as soon as you drop this $59 on them.
Not that it matters, at all. It's a gift, an endorsement.
A book that I also find interesting, and give great insights in venture capital, is the book wrote by Chris Dixon, http://amzn.to/uQSXnb.
It's only 2,99 and give good and insightful advices for startups and venture capital.
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It would be interesting to see a NaCl implementation.
Customers Are Like Unicorns; Elusive Yet Loyal Once You Win Them Over
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There's actually a couple of errors on the first two pages. Where can I submit errata?
> "If I uploaded my music to Amazon Cloud I'd expect the recommendations could be better"

On the contrary, I think it gets far worse. Think about your entire music library. How much of it do you actively listen to? How much of it do you still care about? Or is it left over from those 6 months when you just can't get enough hiphop, and now you can't stand it anymore?

Tracking recent purchases will make for strong recommendations, since that's a good measure of where your tastes lie right now. Using your entire library (which is the only recommendation the Kindle can do) will inject a lot of noise, which is what happened to me (my entire library is on Cloud Player).

The whole thing desperately needs a Genius-like recommendation system. We know Amazon has the tech to do this, so why isn't there anything even remotely like it? Why is it that when I listen to music the UI is sparse and empty, and I'm not being upsold on relevant music?

Genius suffers from the same library-wide problem, but the difference is if you select a song, it will give you recommendations based solely on it. I've used this to discover new music a lot, and it works really well. Amazon desperately needs the same thing.

> "I think they're still working on recommendations, the app is still quite basic."

That really describes the entire device. You can see what they're getting at, but it's fallen so far short of the goal that it's sometimes infuriating how big the squandered opportunity is. Everything is "quite basic", and considering this is supposed to be the electronic gateway to all video, audio, periodical, and textual content... it does a really poor job everywhere of pushing content to you.
He's claiming that spacing is the dependent variable, not the independent variable.

Parents who are not considering these issues at all are arguably more likely to cluster towards shorter spacings, but shorter spacings alone do not provide enough information to classify the cause.
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I did this last week. It was my first time using google adwords, and I learnt a couple things.

Your ads: A ton of people will sign up for dropbox but not install the app, gaining you no benefit. This is probably people looking for cloud storage without the computer rights to install apps I'm guessing. My suggestion is to write in the ad copy itself that you have to download an app. When I did this I got less clicks and a higher conversion rate.

Your bids: keep your bid low. My first day, I kept bumping my bid and my daily budget, and ended up spending $50 of my credit and only getting a few completed referrals. I was spending about $.80 CPC. I reduced my budget to $20/day maxand reset the CPC bid to "auto" and adwords began bidding around $.08 max per click. It took longer, but I only spent about $10/day and got a similar number of hits. Even though when I browsed the adword campaign page it generally said it was not displaying any of my ads because my bid was low, I still accumulated ~80k views/day for around $10.

Your keywords: I got decent results using things like "send large file free", "share large file free", etc. When I used keywords like "dropbox" I was usually outbid by someone else who had a higher CPC set up.

In the end I now have a 10GB dropbox account. Aside from my wasting $50 the first day it cost me about $10/day for 3 days to accumulate enough referrals.
A buddy of mine showed me a cool trick to avoid this
type of problem. What you do is first use SELECT to see
the records in question:

SELECT * from some_table where idx >= 5

Then, once you are staring at the records that came back
(and are sure they are the ones you want to delete),
change SELECT * to DELETE (and change nothing else) and
rerun.

DELETE from some_table where idx >= 5

Pretty hard to get it wrong with this approach ;-)
Here is my blog post on same topic -

http://blog.anujkumar.com/post/10513302814/online-dating-pas...

My idea is to not make a "dating site" but make a "hangout" site that focus on real world hangouts with real friends and fof. Recreate the atmosphere of college online.
As a side note, if GPUs and CPUs are both that awesome these days, why do side-scrollers still not look perfect? I've been playing Braid on OS X and while it's a pretty game, scrolling is just noticeably blurry (and this is on a pimped-out MacBook Pro Core i5, NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M).

I've just always held out hope that once the hardware is fast enough, side-scrollers would look just as crisp scrolling as they do standing still.
Keep reading. I know it's light gray and difficult to see. :)
shouldn't the extremely wealthy be held to higher standards about what they're expected to do with their charity?

Well, no, nobody should be held to any "standards" about what they do with their charity. It's his money, he earned it, and if he chooses to give it to charity or build a giant gold statue of himself it's his business. If there's anything he's obliged to pay out to others, it's already been taken care of, many times over, in the millions or billions of dollars in taxes which he has already paid, so as far as I'm concerned, let him do what he likes.

Now, of course, if he chooses to give any money at all to charity then that's very kind of him. And I'm sure he already has, and will continue to do so over the course of his life. But there's many good uses for philanthropic dollars, and while Sergey Brin could give fifty million bucks to wikipedia if he felt like it, I don't think it'd be a good use of money.
The reason you're being downvoted is because you're disagreeing with an opinion that isn't held.

They aren't getting press for this donation to say "holy shit he's a wonderful man", they're doing it to encourage others to donate. As the quote in the article says, "This grant is an important endorsement of the Wikimedia Foundation and its work, and I hope it will send a signal".

To people who know who he is, it's a personal endorsement, to people who don't, then a $500k donation looks huge and acts as an endorsement in itself.

Additionally, it acts as a human interests piece to remind people that they too should donate - i.e. this story gives sites like VB the chance to write about it.
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He wrote "for about 20 bucks", so I suspect he spent around $20. And "maxed out my Dropbox referrals" seems to imply that he did it up to the maximum for Dropbox referrals, which is 8 GB.
"could those downvoting this please reply and tell me why?"

You're looking a gift horse in the mouth.
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