skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now with HD and home digital projectors, I've lost all interest in going to the theater.

Watching a 2 hour movie at home takes, 2 hours. Watching one in a theater is 4 hours (getting ready to go, going there, waiting in line, waiting for it to start, sitting through the ads, going home), and going there with a group cost $$$$.

Besides, having "movie night" with friends at home is so much more fun. You can drink beer and make loud, snarky remarks about the movie, pause if someone needs a potty break, replay the naughty bits, fast forward to see if the piece of crap movie gets any better, adjust the volume so if you aren't already deaf the movie won't make you deaf, etc.

The movie theater is going the way of the drive-in.
> Keeping silent is a form of a white lie.

I grant that people may believe this, but I disagree that it is true. If you ask me now my social security number, and I silently refuse to answer, or I ignore you, am I a liar? Of course not. I am not submitting a "white lie"; I am saying nothing.

If my silence is crafted to deceive you, that is another story entirely. There is a difference between "silence intended to deceive" and "silence intended to not answer". Usually there are other cues to aid in the deception, too, such that the response is not entirely silent (wagging eyebrows or whatever).
The "dumbass" you're talking about co-founded MySpace, and I don't think he's ever had any professional link to Google.
But, and I'm just throwing this out there so hold off on that downvote for a second, if a website has a comments section, doesn't such a feature act as something similar to a "town square"?

In which case, if a website has a comments section or other area where users can interact with one another, should that area be a "public" place, and allow free speech etc.?

Addition: since the purpose of free speech law is to allow anyone to say things that may well not be liked by an authority figure, companies being censors could act as a surprisingly effective loophole to free speech law. Just make all methods of communication between citizens pass through a company, who handles the censorship, leaving the tyrant free to go about their day.
Shortsighted mix of tech and politics
Really? Puppet over Chef? Mongo over Redis? No Ruby, no Erlang, no EC2? I am skeptical of these choices.

I suppose if that is what the data says...
> The CG has not aged well at all.

Really? I look to Jurassic Park as what CG should look like in movies. The opening reveal of the brontosauruses is still amazing, especially when you think of when the movie was made. What hasn't aged well?

Other movies from the mid-to-late 90s, on the other hand, have not aged well. Many of these used CG for the sake of having CG and did not take any care of ensuring it integrated into the rest of the shot.
Not to mention MG Siegler's long history of calling out Google. Always skeptical.

But totally loving the elder statesman analogy. Best part about Tom"s reply is his own humility--Myspace having "decent" technology.
Please design a logo for me. With pie charts.  For free.
When this sort of tech pundit makes himself the center of a non-story I do my best to ignore it, I recommend that everyone do the same. Tech blogging has deteriorated to parroting PR releases and slobbering over iStuff, I draw the line at appeasing the attention whores.
Tom Anderson gets it the wrong way round, and completely misses Siegler's point.

The question is not is why does Siegler care. He can reasonably expect to care: it's his photo attached to his personal profile and his photo is part of how he chooses to portray himself online. Siegler now knows that he cannot be himself on Google+, and now thousands of others know that they cannot be themselves on Google+ either.

The question is: why does Google care so much that about the minutae of how individuals choose to portray themselves while they face much greater problems related to the success or otherwise of their new social network?

Putting aside the spam problems that render Google+ at best noisy and at worse useless, if Google is so intolerant that it silently censors a hand gesture considered impolite in where their HQ is based, how else will they behave? Will they censor every gesture that might be considered offensive somewhere in the world (there are many)? Or will they remain purely focused on the North American hand gestures, and, by extension, North American culture and the limited audience that it brings?
If something 'happens to match':

Assuming only lengths, the packet length won't match - you'll reach the end of the structure before the end of the data. The point of all this is to validate before interpreting, so it fails validation, and no harm is done.

Assuming a \0 termination, which requires that it does not exist in the data (an escaping problem): there won't be a \0 after the should-be-last piece of metadata, so it fails validation, and no harm is done.

And all of this assumes you have a correctly-transmitted packet to begin with. What if you don't? If your spec+validator can't detect it, then you are introducing possible attack vectors - your tests must test wholly-invalid structures, which your validator must fail, to be 'safe'. I don't see how delimiters protect this any more than lengths, and they add complexity due to escaping (which I do think can be done safely + correctly, but we're also assuming they cannot be because that was essentially a claim in the video), and you must escape if you use delimiters and allow arbitrary data.
How are you measuring dominance?
Smart startup founder: bangs out a prototype with Rails or Django in a few hours / couple of days, sticks it on a $20/month VPS somewhere, sees what happens.
wow, they charge you a fee for buying the tickets online? Ridiculous...
The movie industry is being ran by idiots, that's why. They are ready to kill the internet and free speech because they think this will save them a buck.

Anyway, french movies seem more interesting lately. And you can always vote for (with your money) alternative forms of art.
Everything you just said about books was once said about music. The difference is that the addressable market for books is much smaller and there is no alternative revenue stream like live events or related merchandise to prop up the revenue decimation that is rolling downhill towards authors. If I were to make a prediction it would be that decreased production/distribution costs will increase the amount of mediocre crap cluttering up the marketplace by an order of magnitude (leaving an opening for good filter/recommendation services) and the better authors will retreat to essays and short-form works that are kept behind a paywall.
How is such a small amount of money even a concern for most tech companies and people? This is an honest question.
The prices he lists are “…adjusted to 2010 dollars…” based on the linked calculator.

EDIT: Please ignore this comment. See reply below. Sorry for missing the point here.
About the only problem I can think of here is that it makes
it harder to filter/sanitize for XSS. But I don't think the problem here is Javascript. Look at SQL injection - trying to escape user input is just an endless game of whack-a-mole. The proper way to deal with it is parameterized queries. HTML doesn't have anything similar AFAIK.
Sure, I watched the video. Thanks - it was a nice, instructive video.

All I am saying is that your statement is a "bit of hyperbole". Things are never black and white when we are talking about such complicated topics.
As an example, according to your statement, it would not have mattered if someone else had been elected instead of Bush. Whereas I think it is highly likely that Iraq war (for better or worse) would not have happened if Bush had not been elected.
Two reasons I don't hit the theaters as much:

1. Quality

Very rarely do they release a movie I feel is a must see. MI:4 was probably the most recent, but it's still not Batman or Avatar.

2. People

As others have said, the amount of texting, talking, and overall noise/distraction is unreal. People kicking my chair, non-stop talking, laughing, etc.
"student performance"

In practice, this means "standardized test scores." Does anyone actually think that's a good metric? I'll bet you most teachers don't think so.

And then I see stuff like this: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/teachers/new-s.... This links to an EPI study that casts a substantial amount of doubt on VAM: http://epi.3cdn.net/724cd9a1eb91c40ff0_hwm6iij90.pdf.

Among other things, it turns out there's a lot of fluctuation of how much "value" a teacher adds from year to year. Teachers in a very high percentile one year end up in the bottom 40% in another year, for example.

Actually, downthread you provided a link (http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2004/RAND_MG158.pdf), which says among other things:

"At the current time, VAM may show promise for lower-stakes,
diagnostic purposes. Examples include identifying teachers who might be low or high performing so that follow-ups can be done to verify the VAM findings. Inferences would need to be circumspect because of possible bias or sensitivity to the measure, but they could be a starting point for administrators (such as principals or superintendents) to target teachers for more thorough review."

There's this, too:

"The research base is currently insufficient to support the use of VAM for high-stakes decisions. We have identified numerous possible sources of error in teacher effects and any attempt to use VAM estimates for high-stakes decisions must be informed by an understanding of these potential error."

This is far more circumspect than "it works well!" Nevertheless it sounds to me like teachers' VA scores are effectively treated as grades, which is not consistent with the report you linked, nor the EPI report.
considering that the custom rom crowd has figured out how to get around the security already, i find it hard to believe that HTC can't do it.
No support for HTC Wildfire yet :(
Hitting a paywall
Excuses. It doesn't address the misguided idea of targeting representatives rather than the companies that deserve to be targeted.

If they want they can target TWO companies and focus their resources. My suspicion is, however, that Reddit and the internet as a whole does not have enough of a collective reach into the pockets of Comcast and other media giants, so they're focusing on some representative who probably makes half of what a programmer does in a year. It's poor. It's misguided.
How about when your kid/elderly relative does a search on google and sees it?

Google can choose to allow or disallow what they want.
I don't think you'd actually get in trouble for an "I hate White People" t-shirt. It would probably be seen as a political statement. We have whole college majors devoted to elucidating the evils of white people. It's hip to hate them.
North Korea not the only offender: 6 official photo fudgings
MongoDB is killing it in the NoSQL space. 10Gen proves it. Cassandra is still in the game but Apple and others are on a steep adoption curve for MongoDB.

Results for this list came from Indeed.Pretty reliable source.
For those interested, here is a pretty good discussion on HN comparing different NoSQL DBs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2052852
That's not a valid argument. At the end of the day, if Google wants G+ to succeed they have to draw the line on offensive profile pics somewhere. Regardless of where the line falls, there will always be people who think it should be moved in one direction or another. To just say "I'm not offended by this content, Google must be doing it wrong" is ignoring the reality of the situation and failing to contribute to the discussion on how the issue could be handled better.
"And so's their treatment of farmers who do choose to use their seeds"

I grow some RR crops and am not sure what you are referring to here. For the most part, farmers weren't reusing their seeds to begin with. The people in the business of genetics do a much better job, which helps keep the farm profitable.

On my farm, in the last couple of years, we have moved to growing entirely RR-free soybeans because a market has opened for soybeans free of the gene, but it limited to few Asian markets that our local distribution network has been able to capture.

With all the complaints about Monsanto in America, I find it interesting that the North American market by and large still demands RR-present commodities. Farmers are left to fill that demand, whether they like Monsanto or not.
Good Luck Occupiers, But Here’s Why “Facebook For Protesters” Won’t Work
Yep, I believe the majority of films I have ever watched has this plot:

The protagonist is put into a situation where he is drawn from a position of security and is force to embark on a journey to resolve the situation.

The journey exposes the protagonist to a foreign environment and they must learn how to deal with the new situation. Often given tools to master their destiny.

After some time the new situation goes bad to due to the protagonist failing to understand the exact nature of the new environment, mistakes are made and the protagonist is put at some level of emotional or physical danger.

Some miraculous event occurs which breaks the protagonist out spiralling chaos.

Turns out people don't like stories that which fail to follow that pattern :)
DVCS-autosync, a free Dropbox alternative
Yeah, my immediate reaction was that it looked like a practically uncorrelated scatter plot with most of the correlation signal coming from a few outliers on the high/low pay ends. At $35k, the outcomes scatter from 100% to 35%, which would be the same magnitude as raising pay from $15k to $55k according to their fit.

There are so many systemic differences between those countries that could correlate with pay that interpreting it is pointless without controls. Not to mention that there's a difference between test performance and learning, there could be "optimization by proxy" effects in play.
I complain about this all the time and I've seen zero of those movies. Some of them I haven't even heard of.
I'm suprised nobody has mentioned Clay Johnson's new book, "The Information Diet." Pretty interesting read that goes with everything in this article. Side effect to overconsumption is increased personalization of information which makes us more ignornant to new/foreign ideas.

Also, I feel so ashamed listening to podcasts on my way to work now.
Rather, there was no widespread knowledge and/or consensus on how a social network should be at the time. Models were a plenty. For example, Lunarstorm started out some 3 years (2000) before MySpace and in a year (2001) reached 600k users (it would plateau at 1.2m in 2007) but it had none of the Geocities stylings of MySpace. Instead it had a feed of your friends' activities, private messaging, notes (called diary), and message boards. It's just that the Internet back then was not the sharing ground it has grown into today, and people in other countries than Sweden were probably not aware of this particular site.
I live in Auckland, NZ and am from Wellington, NZ. Auckland has a few decent theatres but Peter Jackson has just opened up the most beautiful theatre in one. Of Wellington's suburbs http://www.roxycinema.co.nz/ the best part is, it's cheaper, AND more civilized. This is what going to the movies needs to be these days as my ps3 and 40" Bravia do a damn fine job day to day.
Censored Godadday article
Microsoft's monopoly power originated from their success with Windows, and was used to abuse competitors later on. Without the initial success of Windows, they wouldn't have had that power. Make no mistakes, Microsoft was evil (and probably would be if it wasn't such a shell of its former self), but the initial success of Windows was (more or less) legitimately won.
I keep what is essentially a lab logbook next my work desk. The natural chronological order works mostly well: (1) notes on related topics are often close in time (the temporal locality, in a way) and (2) it helps to find "stuff I was working on two months ago", or "right after I finished that project in May".

Also, I noticed I prefer writing on separate sheets better than a notebook. This way I can take several sheets from different time periods and work with them as a single group. When I am done, sorting them back is easy as long as each sheet is marked with the day it was originally worked on.
I'm not sure what your question is, but this seems to be the SOFA q-and-a plugin for wordpress.

http://themeforest.net/item/sofa-qanda-knowledge-base-wp-the...
Kickstarter project creates fashionable 3D glasses
Try: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=trying-to-f...
The average Ruby salary is about 3% higher than the average Python salary.

Not a big difference.
I suspect that a bunch of the numbers quoted there are dramatically on the low side, though.
Fair enough but targeting elected officials, whose job it is to cast votes on all manner of controversial issues, not just this one, is a ridiculous expenditure of resources. Pointing the gun in the wrong direction here, let's focus on the companies who supported SOPA and let them feel the sting. It just feels like Reddit is drunk on their own power and have stopped thinking about what the point of all this was. Perhaps the point wasn't to diminish our system of representation in this way.
Add a kill window applet to the Ubuntu Unity launcher
If only they were doing this a few days ago when I transfered a handfull...
Okay, I see your point, but the article seemed to imply that the topic was web development.

I'm glad that you found that most ASP.NET developers can configure IIS, but that's not my experience. Getting a site running is something that most can do, but there's a large cap between: "Hey it runs" and "I trust that this will perform and be secure in production and should any issue arise I can debug it and solve the problem".

But yes, I should have written that I was talking about ASP.NET developers.
"If you had a T-shirt that said "I hate White People" and you walked into a mall wearing it, the security would probably ask you to leave, or ask you to cover up your shirt."

And that's the problem with Google+ here. They didn't ask anything. They did the t-shirt in a mall equivalent of stealing his t-shirt while he wasn't looking.

It seems pretty obvious how this should work:

(1) Google enables a flag for offensive photos (some automated system might work in tandem with this).

(2) Someone who's offended by a photo (or automated system) flags it.

(3) The user sees that someone has flagged it, might change it himself.

(4) Google sees the flag and reviews the image for possible action. Some sort of adjudication record is created and available for both the user the image belongs to and anyone who reported it.

(5) The user has some recourse to appeal if Google takes action to remove the user's picture.

Google, having a terrible customer service background, just went with the big brother approach.
The Diamond Age is about molecular nanotechnology and, while that will change the world, this ain't that.
This page reliably crashes safari on my iPad 1. Does anyone else have this problem or am I going insane?
I think ChuckMcM made the best comment[1] on this issue that I've seen yet, after Scoble alleged that reliance on .Net is what caused MySpace to stagnate. Basically he argued that having control of your entire stack gives you the ability to iterate faster at scale. When you've got a vendor like Microsoft supplying large parts of the stack you can't do that.

When I read this, my first reaction was to think, "yeah, but how often do you really do any kernel hacking?" But actually, I've been on teams that have done all of the following:

* run a patched version of PHP in production

* run a patched version of the Squeak VM in production

* run a custom-built Apache in production (no patches, but highly-tuned build configuration)

* run a patched version of the OS X automounter daemon for office infrastructure

Ok, it's not the kernel, but it's fixing problems and implementing features at the right place in the stack instead of working around them and waiting for a vendor to ship a new version. I'm not the right guy to do kernel-hacking, but I know that those people are out there and I can hire them to do what I need, if it should come to that.

So, sure, it's cultural. But part of that culture involves not being enthused by the idea of waiting for Microsoft or IBM or Oracle to fix a problem that's affecting my customers now.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2369462
Suppressing racist speech is also censorship, so it seems like you're actually affirming the parallel. Since you seem to think it's self-evident that racist content should be banned and equally self-evident that this content should not be, why don't you tell us where the line is? This is very fine line to walk — you will anger somebody no matter what you do — so if you have any insights, I'm sure the people faced with the decision will appreciate them.
It's G+, not PG13+!
There is a good photo book called The Commissar Vanishes, that covers the topic of early Soviet era photo manipulation. It's a great book that covers some of the history of photo manipulation in propaganda.
Yes, but how do you decide which tribe to join initially?

This argument bothers me because it implies that somehow people are not being objective. Well, the truth is you'll never get anything done unless you form opinions and move forward, but that doesn't mean they don't have good reasons besides peer influence.

Personally I have never programmed on a Microsoft stack because I don't want to be hostage to the whims and resource allocation of one company. With open source frameworks I know that the project quality is a goal unto itself, whereas a Microsoft project lives or dies by its ability to contribute to their larger strategy. With open source the worst case scenario is that the community dies and I have to fix problems myself. Unless there's a compelling reason to go with a proprietary stack (eg. access to the iOS App Store or Windows) then I'll go open source every time, and not just because my friends do.
I don't understand the reference to "Hello, World." Do you mean that that a Lorem Ipsum generator is the new equivalent to a "Hello, World" program, or that Lorem Ipsum text is the new equivalent to the string "Hello, World," or something else?
Answering AVC: 2012 is definitely the year that movements go mainstream.
http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/Rapid_Assembler
Gandi might not have a US number for support but they are incorporated in the US.

The owner and publisher of this website is Gandi SAS, a simplified joint-stock company registered under French law with a capital of 37,000 Euros.

Registered with the Paris RCS – French Trade Registry - under number 423 093 459.
Intracommunal VAT number FR81423093459

Headquarters:
63-65 boulevard Massena, Paris (75013), France
Telephone: +33.(1)70.37.76.61
Fax: +33.(1)43.73.18.51

US office:
Gandi US Inc.
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Hunt Valley, MD 21030
Fax: +1.410-449-4499
I mean, I didn't read it, but I'm sure somewhere along the way of my signing up for Google+ I agreed to their terms of service stating that they could remove whatever content they deemed unacceptable that I post or create.

As for your addition, to make all methods of communications pass through a company would either require a law, which would be unconstitutional, or would require more insidious methods. The government already has plenty of insidious methods of dealing with people.
2010 was last year (Ok, it will be the year before last in a couple of days, but...), inflation is not sufficient to effect it that much when compared with this year.

Like the grand-parent, this does not fit with my experience. When I got to a new release I usually pay around $13 per person at a decent theater in Las Vegas, and up to $18 per person for Imax 3D.

But the other thing that may skew the results is budget or "dollar" theaters that show older releases. I frequently take my kids to those for around $2 per ticket.