skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed this yesterday as well. I have photos uploaded from a Canon camera from 2007. There is simply not enough information to determine the location, but they correction identified the bar that the photos were taken at. I have no idea how they did it, but it really does bother me.
"To implement the next step you are going to have to go back and dig up all that perfect code you have just finished writing..."

"This sounds nice, but nothing has really changed - we have just shifted the problem from the coding to the design stage."

Things have indeed changed.

- If I spend 4 hours designing something and then have to throw it away due to realizing the next piece of functionality doesn't fit in with the design, then I have to throw away 4 hours work.

- If I spend 2 weeks programming something, and the then have to throw it away due to realizing the next piece of functionality doesn't fit in with it, then I have wasted 2 weeks.
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Eric Ries claims to have had "shocking" results when having recruiters remove all demographics from resumes. His suggestion for YC:

I suggest the following experiment: for your next batch of admissions, have half of your reviewers use a blind screening technique and the other half use your standard technique, on your first screen (before you’ve met any applicants). Compare the outputs of both selection processes. I predict they will show different demographics.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/19/racism-and-meritocracy/

Obviously YC needs to interview applicants, but as it already cuts people before the first interview, it might be an interesting experiment.
How is gmail.com missing from this list? Before gmail you could hardly notice any email provider using XMLHTTP requests to load their mail, search, etc.

It just my opinion, but to me it's always gmail which made it a normal-everyday-thing for sites to use Javascript so tightly across browsers. And they keep adding a ton of features like automatic email update (remember the check email buttons?), dragging/sorting contacts, inline chat, etc which may appear seamless but definitely push Javascript to the limit.
Does it? It looks like an utterly generic smartphone to me.
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Nice to see companies giving back to open source, although I don't think Colin is "in the red" on that account. ;-)

One question: do you donate money when I fund my account, or when I use it?

[EDIT in response to cperciva: glad to see you chose the sensible option. I'll donate my own money.]
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Three.js demos and baroque.me are amazing!
But will it have a fan? :)

Kidding aside, this is good news. Competition is good for mobile.
I think you've wrongly inferred motives in both cases.

MS, as always, is about the money. There have been many articles recently suggesting that MS might be making more money off of Android than Google itself. As proof, see willingness to license.

Apple, as always, is about the art. Right or wrong, they are offended that anyone would use their creation. They will litigate out of principle. As proof, see (general) unwillingness to license.

To be clear, I'm not at all addressing the issue of whether or not the patents are valid, or whether patents in general are good; I'm just ascribing motivations.
Our company (3 people, I'm the only dev) will start giving back to open source too. But we won't be giving money, my boss just agreed to grant me 4 hours a week to participate in any open source project I want. It's not much I know, but I'm super excited about this and can't wait to get started!
Why does FB need to make guesses about this stuff? People are supplying all this information in form fields in triplicate.

Also they are a fortune telling machine. That's a good pun actually. They are hoping to make a fortune by telling you what ads you'll click.
> base desire for revenge and take a more thoughtful approach?

> desire for vengeance and instead express forgiveness.

Forgiveness for someone who gets people tortured and killed, which includes your wife and children, isn't thoughtful, let alone "more thoughtful."
Thanks - you make good points here. Weighing up the importance of our name / brand is definitely worth thinking about. Unlike the company approaching us, luckily we haven't spent all our efforts on branding, registering trademarks etc!.... since we believe in working in a lean, agile and speedy way up until launch (having learnt from previous failures!) we are open to change things when necessary. We need to establish how much of a case there is here, as you've mentioned.
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Awesome idea! I'm very interested to see how this plays out, as my shop (along with quite a few others that I'm aware of) are combating the shortage through apprenticeship programs. This looks like to be a super-structured version of just that.

Congrats to Chad Fowler, Jeff Casimir, and everyone else involved.
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When you deposit money into your account it counts as "unearned revenue" (i.e., a liability). So it's your usage which contributes to the amount I end up giving to the FreeBSD Foundation, not the amount you send me via paypal.

[EDIT in response to EDIT: It's not a matter of "chose", except to the extent that I used the word "profit". Canadian tax law is quite clear about the accounting rules I have to follow.]
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Guessing from that data might still be using machine learning (e.g Collaborative filtering). I guess you meant it is not computer vision related. At this point I don't think it matters too much, they are using a combination of techniques (including the famous social graph) and that is giving good results.
On the contrary, the research studies done in the mid 80s showed conclusively that amber text on black was superior, though those monitors cost far more. They also showed that though green was cheap, it performed better than black on white, which performed about the same as white on blue (think WordPerfect for DOS).

Yes, the "technology of the day" was one factor -- part of the problem with the light backgrounds was the flicker of CRTs, which was extremely fatiguing to those of us who can see fluorescent bulbs flicker.

However, amber also performed better for a key reason that remains true today for driving glasses or ski goggles -- amber offers the human visual system better contrast discernment, so much so that amber is used correctively for human visual system contrast loss from brain injury or diabetic vision[1]. It's used indoors, and notably, for reading.

Wired magazine is a poor example. Paper and ink work by indirect lighting, while with monitors, the information itself is lit. Your brain processes these differently. Furthermore, as a subscriber to wired, I know their dark backgrounds are shiny, dramatically reducing contrast.

As my grandparent comment remarked, technology has changed. Today's LCDs have high enough contrast they can offer a less fatiguing contrast. For reading the web, I prefer Safari's Reader button (black on white) or the Readability bookmarklet (set to black on ivory). With the high contrast screen, I can run at 30% brightness backlighting and get a brightness and contrast very similar to well lit ink and paper.

Moderate brightness black on white crisp text does give the fastest reading and most retention, as studies in the mid 00s have found. It's not been shown if this is natural, or the result of, as you noted, our upbringing with traditional books.

For terminal windows, IM, and coding, I prefer syntax colored text on black. In IM I use greens, sky blues, and ambers for others, self, and group text; code is white on black with colored syntax, terminals are amber on black for glance-able contrast even with very small print. That it is easier to pick up text colors on black than on full spectrum white is noted by the overwhelming majority of coders here.

Significantly, when you're creating terminal commands, IM messages, or code, you don't need the fast reading and high retention of ink and paper, because you are generating the information structure in your own mind. This frees you to deploy your color use for the visual contrast and syntax clarity of colors on black instead.

1. http://www.hemianopsia.net/contrast-sensitivity-loss/
That's probably because so many phones have copied the iPhone "slab" shape, they're starting to look generic.
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I don't think this is an ideal design process. Start with what you want to say, and how you want to make what is essentially a persuasive argument. Maybe that most effectively takes the form of bullet-points or paragraphs. Maybe the best set of testimonials is actually 3 rather than 6.

In my opinion, it's better to figure out exactly what you need to say/show to meet your goals, and then figure out the best way to display that content. Right now, we're critiquing an abstraction that will eventually have a very focused purpose, so the feedback isn't likely to be but so relevant to that purpose.
I prefer the green version but some of the elements are hard to read. If you could tone it down a little I think it would really stand out at first glance better than the white. The white, while it looks professional and beautifully done, seems generic to me.
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What's the market? The way people look at things. ....
There is one more reason not mentioned in the article: creating a bytecode VM would mean giving up Dart's biggest competitive advantage to Coffeescript, the language currently sucking up Dart's oxygen in the memesphere. With a viable bytecode spec to compile to, Coffeescript would be on an equal footing with Dart as a 'real' language.
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- Bootstrap and launch http://bugmuncher.com, which was profitable almost instantly.

- Quit my job, and now I live off freelancing/contracting and BugMuncher.

- Turn to the dark side and switch to a Mac Book from a PC (it's a big deal for me :)

Plans for 2012:

- Take advantage of my new found freedom and travel lots

- Have enough BugMuncher users to mean I no longer need to freelance

- Become a rock star
Please argue for one as an example.
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via http://www.diginfo.tv/2011/12/15/11-0251-r-en.php

Try to submit the original source.
Nice to read something constructive and informative besides all the hate PHP has been getting lately.
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well, they have exactly copied the antenna design and the rounded sim card slot, as well as the speaker outlet (only slightly larger holes for the speaker grille), and the buttons look exactly like the switch on my iphone 4. Power on switch exactly same.
This explains a lot. If my thumbs were 1/3 their present size, moving the blocks around on my iPhone probably would have been a lot easier. I recommend increasing the area you can touch to "grab" a block by at least 50%, and adding some sort of visual indicator of the position and orientation of the block outside the thumb-occlusion. Other than that, it's a great game.
Sounds like a great opportunity. Is it open to non-US citizens? :)
I doubt there would be one.

On modern graphics hardware, backface culling is done by the hardware itself. It would help if this demo were anywhere close to the limits of the hardware, which it isn't.

Instead, it's likely to be limited by the JavaScript code that runs it. Backface culling wouldn't help here.

riyela is probably referring to the way Minecraft itself draws the world. If you have a solid block floating in free space, Minecraft draws all six faces of that block. However, if you have two solid blocks touching, Minecraft doesn't bother drawing the faces between them. It only draws the faces that are exposed to air (and are, therefore, visible), so it doesn't need to draw nearly as many faces.

That should get a decent performance improvement.
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Is it just me, or is it just the cultural difference (I am from germany, where we - god be blessed - have laws against these kind of hours)- but if I am expected to work 70h+/week in this thing, I belive, the same would be expected if anyone gets that job.

Well done. slavery seems back at last.
...and someone made a statue of Jobs in Hungary.

Enough, please.
>Doesn't seem like the author really thought some of this through

Yeah, he says the same thing at the bottom:

>Poul-Henning

I guess it would be nice if he warned you up front, but at least he does include the warning.
They did not sell their SSD business. They sold their Hard Drive business.
Can I tell the robot car to run over a pedestrian if he has an ak-47 pointed at me and he is on the curb? A self defense situational awareness algorithm that understands kill or be killed?
I agree. Implementing the Miller-Rabin algorithm is one of the homework assignments in the Computer Algebra course we give here. In fact, once you've got the necessary concepts from group theory and modular arithmetic down, the algorithm itself is actually quite simple (it's the correctness proof that has a subtle and clever idea).

When the author was talking about the "Project Triangle" in the context of primality testing, I thought he was going to bring up AKS!
Seems like a simpler alternative here is to disable Spotlight indexing on everything but Applications and System Preferences. First thing I do on a new Mac.
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They're being paid. I think the slavery charge is a bit much.

Plus, you don't know the program structure. That may include homework/group sort of stuff in addition to work and instruction. It'll be like 5 months of college with a job. It's no different if you actually calculate the time investment.
I googled Zooey Deschanel several hours ago. I was logged into facebook at that time. I log into facebook again and Zooey Deschanel in now on my 'People to Subscribe To' list. I came to hacker news to post an ask hn thread about if fb tracks my browsing history..and bummer I find this thread.
Sweden signed the Berne Convention [1] in 1904 [2], and has automatic copyright since at least then

They also signed the WIPO Copyright Treaty [3] in 2002, which expclitly says that computer programs are to be treated as literary works, and receive the same protection (that has been implemented by the DMCA in the US).

According to Directive 2006/116/EC [4] the copyright term in the EU for literary works up to 70 years after the author died.
If life expectancy continues to increase, they will probably extend the term again to cover the intended 2 generations.

Have fun playing your copy on vintage hardware then :)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Prote...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_internation...
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIPO_Copyright_Treaty
[4]: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:...:
"Sweden wasn’t a very hospitable place to do this. “Most early stage investors were not interested in investing in a Swedish company, due to local law, structure, and communication,” Sullivan says."

I would imagine high taxes and government regulation had something to do with this.
yeah but in practice you can't just design without at least writing test program to gather intelligence. I mean you can but it would be like living in a fiction world.
From the link - "Did you login with the facebook app on a smartphone while you were at the hospital? If so, they would have your GPS location at a certain time, when you later upload the photos from your camera, it would have a timestamp, and they could just look check where you had logged in from at that time."

If you are a home owner and this is true, you could possibly be identified -- say for instance posting from home 75% of the time and cross-referencing with certain demographic statistics collected from your browsing history and property records. Would that be legal?
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I'm not a C expert by any means, but is there a need for another new version? Last time I checked, some compilers hadn't even got round to implementing C99 (e.g. Visual C++ doesn't support variable length arrays). Even gcc hasn't got everything:

http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html
i can't manage fb to share location information from friend accounts. if 2 accounts upload an (similar) image including one active check-in fb only suggests locations based on the check-ins of that active account. this is even true for public images.

until someone provides a POC that states the opposite it's just YOUR data that YOU freely give to fb. no magic behind, just FUD.

responded to top post for karmawhoring.
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How 'bout with 3 rotating rings below it, orthogonally oriented, with a PID controller or something to change their speeds as appropriate?
Statistical analysis can give you a lot more than just what I like to read. The power of statistics never ceases to amaze:
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Interesting read, though approaches like this (attempting to blur gender definitions) often seem questionable as they begin to blur the lines between taught and inborn gender definitions, ie it seems that the typical response that this article demonstrates is to teach/encourage nontraditional gender definitions. While in the author's situation, it is obvious that some of the students entered the class with "blured" gender viewpoints, it becomes difficult to discern how much our educational system etc is contributing to and/or propogating these viewpoints simply by teaching them as "OK"
What I really miss is a good tiling windows manager. I tried many apps out there, OptimanlLayout been the latest, and I still can't find a nice productive experience (a la xmonad, scrotwm or awesome).

(I know I can use x11.app but It's freaking unusable)
I'v been thinking about using Php lately. I come from a C# background, so I was poking around to see what I would be missing or gaining from Php. Why haven't they added a compiled option yet? I know you can use http://phpcompiler.org compiler to do it but why hasn't it just been added to the project? The speed increase is well worth it. Also I noticed Php doesn't have generics or Template classes. I use these a lot in my C# libraries. Anyone know if thats going to be added anytime soon? I do like that its used everywhere. Also looking for a good MVC framework for Php like Asp.net MVC.

UPDATE
Can you please stop down voting. I'm not hating on Php, read my other comments below.
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That's fair. We wanted to make sure people know this isn't just "show up at 9, leave at 5." There are significant outside of the workday tasks like hacking on projects, reading books, meeting with colleagues, and teaching Ruby to kids.

But I'm not chaining anyone to a desk for 70 hours because _I_ don't want to live that way, either.
This is precisely what makes Seagate drives a dubious purchase for me. I usually go with other brands. Now, there's one less.