skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you can keep designers and developers in sync for mobile platforms.

I work with some amazing designers and some amazing iphone hackers, and it still takes a team of four programmers a whole month to implement something that a designer comes up with in a week.

Maybe eventually the tools will improve, but iPhone and Android are not web enough to be so rapid.
The Network Protocol Battle: A tale of hubris and zealotry
In a way, putting off getting to know your hosting stack is a very real form of technical debt.
Wouldn't this work? I can't test it at the moment.

print_function = lambda c: getattr(colored, c)
printred = colored.print_function("red")
printred("This prints in red")
I went to the site expecting it to be an open-source library providing one convenient API into all the things you mention. In fact it wasn't until I went to the top menu looking for a Github or download link that I realized it was a hosted for-pay service. I think a library bringing all those things together (maybe without the geolocation part) would be useful, and I don't personally know of one.
If you did not have a family, would you still find value in the library? Not trying to put words in your mouth, but it seems it's biggest value is for parents with children.
Saying kanban is a task board with WIP limits is a bit like saying Lean Startup is about releasing buggy first version MVPs. It's cargo culting at best. Kanban is about keeping focus, creating quality gates, pull vs. push and so much more than just WIP limits. You can always limit WIP manually. How hard is it to simply choose to limit the WIP on a board column?
actually you can personalize a session.. you would need to parse the __utmz and other cookies set by GA.
but this one provides a simple set and an easier way to do it.
The lack of proper multithreading has bit me many times when I try to use Emacs as an email client--start talking to the IMAP server, and your whole Emacs process takes a break. Can't edit anything, we're stuck until it either finishes or you hit C-g.
Great article. I do have one question about foresight.

Someone who runs an organization and writes the past events up also often gets the sense what will happen.
Should you communicate this to the investors as well despite it might be not turn out that way?
> Trello doesn't support WIP (Work-In-Progress) limits

To be fair, bulletin boards with index cards don't have WIP limits either.

It is unlikely a system light enough for frictionless kanban will have an accurate understanding of the work-width (units of work / units of time) of a given task. For example, in your tour, "58% complete" of "Custom CSS for homepage" is suspiciously precise.
Sure, Hadoop is cheaper than Oracle, but the article seems to completely ignore that mysql and postgres exist.
It's Lego, not Legos.
One thing that I'm trying to figure out: if you block all potential "timewasting sites" and only get your information from 1-2 hard news sources, where do you learn about the existence of the tools listed? If you rely on being around "sharp colleagues" don't you have a tragedy of the commons problem when everyone starts doing this?
IMO that presents an opportunity: If 1:1 throughput isn't possible given the platform, what are the different ways we could approximate it? If we have to do design in advance, how much should we do, and which parts? All of these become useful challenges that can increase the role of feedback in your design when you take them on as such.
Introducing TouchPlay - shelby.tv
The problem is that you can't tell that you're doing a posture wrong by looking at yourself (even in a mirror) or by how it feels. Beginners really need the guidance of someone with experience who can look at their postures and help them get them right.
And with Google Ads Google has a mechanism to very efficiently injecting the message into a plethora of websites.
I really want to know where they got that lorem ipsum text...

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The article starts out with a potentially sound assertion on considering whether patrons of libraries walk or travel to them (though I cringe at anecdotal evidence being used to assault a study).

It then argues that libraries serve their purpose as public e-cafes
Valid points except "people getting wrongly incentivized." People were rightly incentizivized to optimize their apps under Google's pricing guideline. It was Google who got it wrong to misalign its infrastructure cost and pricing, and unable to bring down their cost over the years.

I don't think your gas example are relevant but if you want to stretch it, it just means Google like OPEC is not a trusted platform vendor.
Sandisk micro sd
Sandisk micro SD is a kind of removable flash memory card that comes with advance technology and it is specially made for the ultra small mobile phones, gaming consoles and other devices.
Track — Realtime route tracking & sharing for iPhone
The future (of Apache CouchDB)
If you'd like to see this sort of news in your inbox once a week, subscribe to http://rubyweekly.com/
Seems the website has gone over quota. Shame, because the content is absolutely fantastic. Had it opened and had begun reading it on my computer at home.
Any process that's much harder in one direction than the other is effective for this purpose. It helps that multiplication is very easy and factorization is very hard, but that's not the only way to hide a key in plain sight.
Twitter Ordered To Turn Over Data On WikiLeaks Backers
Man convicted of murder gets retrial after virus eats transcripts
The same goes for Ron Paul. Google for "Ron Paul ignored by media". US does the exact same thing the China, N.Korea does to brainwash their civilians, and yet, they accuse the others for doing so.
A fix for the iOS orientationchange zoom bug
Though even the best result, 650 req/sec is around 100x slower than compiled, current webservers in e.g. Scala or Haskell.
I have a Vye S18 that I was very happy with at the time, but have hardly touched since I got an asus transformer. It's beautiful, powerful and the battery life is worth far more than you would imagine. Might be more expensive than you're looking for though.
I really, really like this approach.

It beats the whiteboard quiz in every aspect.

It is not only a far more pleasant experience for the interviewee,
but it also represents the candidates real world programming skills more accurately.
This seems most useful for broadcast. You could just broadcast the fountain code of a file out as long as you have listening receivers; the only feedback needed would be "send to me" and "done"
I didn't mean to imply they weren't.

But I guarantee that the issue wouldn't be making such a splash on tech-savvy sites if everyone knew that only foreign sites (whose primary purpose is infringement) were affected and that the only effects to those sites are that they are removed from US DNS systems and US advertising funding.
Pretty cool, my issues:

- The code box can't be resized.
- You have to read the 'tip' every time. It contains core api and not just tips.
- Some characters aren't in the map key (archer)
- It's a little shy on instructions.

What would be awesome:

- To see it run through your code in realtime with the healths and points displayed.

But honestly it's a really awesome concept and was fun to play even for someone who already knows ruby.
Bingo. So much of what people are doing these days is throwing together APIs and frameworks, and reading documentation on the same. If the candidate has experience with the technologies you're using, and can show that they've completed some real projects with them, they may actually be of more use than the guy who can perform mental acrobatics with brainteasers.
Step 1: Sue Grooveshark. Make it serious, hit them with everything.

Step 2: Send them a settlement offer. Make it huge. Billions. Make it something they'd never consider.

Step 3: Offer number 2 - Acquisition agreement. We'll drop the lawsuit and on-board your product/talent (letting the leadership duck out with a small token) if you agree to a non-compete contract.

Everyone wins.
"Western interest in Eastern religion (as well as supposedly non-religious practices like yoga and meditation) has everything to do with the reaction against Western religion"

I think this is only true among people who don't actually understand what religion is, which admittedly is probably the vast majority of Americans. There definitely are though a lot of people in the west who are interested in yoga, meditation, psychedelics, etc. specifically because of their religious nature. Even among most of these people there is a lot of orientalism, but this isn't the same as a reaction against religion per se. If you watch the documentary about Ram Dass or else that new movie Crazy Wisdom that just came out, you'll see though that these movements definitely did start because people were seeking primary religious experience rather than fleeing from it.
Syze: media queries powered by Javascript
Web design is package design
Try Divvy - http://mizage.com/#windivvy

It may not qualify as a "tiling window manager" depending on what you think that should include, but it's excellent for arranging windows.
Encrypting Pictures Using Chaotic Cellular Automata
Correct me if I am wrong, but they currently don't have enough money to staff that library so it is closed.
Lt. Gov. Tim Murray was driving 100 mph at time of Nov. crash
The article argues that libraries serve their purpose as public e-cafes. Given that this is not the original intent of libraries, it would call for re-considering how they have been transformed by modern technology, i.e. the very thing the author mocks the council for having considered.

I would argue for a cloud model to libraries - as centralised a super-library as possible to house the electronic literature and then a series of "thin" libraries that have terminals to access that media.

This article offers personal anecdotes against a corpus of literature on falling library user bases, etc. A NYT author can do better than inducing the state of British libraries from a personal example.
That Wikipedia article blurs research libraries (like you'd find in a university) with public libraries. Almost all the hard numbers they quote are about research libraries, but the libraries that most of us care about (the ones that act as a democratic backstop for access to information) are public libraries.

The real thing to watch is the countercyclical nature of public libraries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_library_usage#Econom... in that article). As the economy worsens, public library use increases. Not just for reading material, but for the public services the libraries provide: free law clinics, resume-writing help, etc.

I'm not sure what your local public library is like, but in our small town library is busy all the time. People are borrowing paper books, using the Internet-connected computers, and getting help from librarians. Doomed? Only if we let them; only if we think it's okay to reinstate barriers around lifelong learning.
Looks nice! The code looks easy enough to get started. And I love the setup(); update(); draw(); game state methods. That's how I used to do it in ActionScript3 before.

I'm actually now diving into HTML5 game development as well and I was wondering what's the advantage of Jaws.js over Easel.js?
//Sub/Corpus Blog: Facebook Groups: Seriously ... WTF??
Wanted: Technical Women
My takeaway from the article is that yoga, like any other physical activity, can be dangerous when one does not know how to do it properly, but more importantly, has too large an ego to know when to quit/pause.

I've been doing yoga for only a little over a month, but I go at my own pace at home. I'm not in a class where I force myself to "keep up" or whatnot.
This article focuses on injuries sustained by experienced yoga practitioners (even instructors). It's not about beginners moving too quickly.
its a useful service for targeting and can actually be used to personalize the site more than gimmicky g'day..

like offering deals, suggesting content (based on keywords), optimizely and reedge do offer this sort of thing in its package, but this looks easier to integrate and utilize. but a bit expensive for the service offering
I'm also not an expert, but in the classes I've taken (gentle yoga and basic yoga), the instructors almost always guide us in poses that involve "spinal rotation."
Thanks, ruby ones should come in handy.
Meanwhile, the person quoted in the article argues that everyone has computers and e-readers now.

Right, so close the libraries and make sure e-books are free for everyone like library books used to be.
> I also wonder whether this would help solve the problem of lack of multi-threading in current Emacs.

Or perhaps it's the other way around: adding multithreading to Emacs Lisp would make performance no longer a problem.
Project Euler is good fun and great for improving your algorithm design and understanding of basic programming constructs, but I think its a poor way to improve software engineering skills in general. Being able to write clever efficient algorithms is good but not nearly as critical as grasping important design patterns, OOP, methodologies like TDD, frameworks and databases you're using, etc.
Traversing a Graph with the Gremlin language
The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming is a good place to start.
If you have the interpreter live and the code loaded, you're circumventing the parent's "point" that GAE is inefficient because it keeps your application running in a process vis-a-vis the standard way appservers work in java, python, ruby, node, etc.
I'll plug mine into a Kill-A-Watt and let you know tomorrow.
I'm just going to add a shout-out to a friend's project which uses Mongrel2 (Zed Shaw's new awesome application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server).

https://github.com/ArtemTitoulenko/Angstrom
2012 to be year of Linux domination
Fun with Reddit Image Data
WAHA- Treating obstretric fistula in Somaliland.
this isn't the same as a reaction against religion per se

I'm saying it's fundamentally a reaction against Christianity on the part of Christians and Judaism on the part of Jews.

But I see that my comment was ambiguous because I also said "we prefer to get our religion unconsciously". I suppose what I think is that some people who engage in these practices believe that they've transcended religion altogether while others believe they've found a better religion. In both cases, though, it's a reaction against the traditional (Christianity and Judaism) - it's our reaction against our traditions, so it's really about us and the contradictions in our own society.
Apparently the solution is

(1) correct an error in the question which renders it unsolvable (a_3 should be 9, not 7)

(2) guess that the invented term "convolution series" doesn't have anything to do with the mathematical concept of convolution[1]

(3) a_n = nth square number minus nth prime minus nth Fibonacci number.

Staring you right in the face!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution#Definition
I usually anti-label, but in this case, I don't see the problem. It isn't like the labels are against all you can eat streaming services. They even support "free" ones, like Spotify and Mog. They just want a cut/ownership of the services. The only difference between Grooveshark and Spotify/Mog is a slightly larger library (due to Grooveshark's grey legality), international availability (annoying for the other services, but a weird state the current web has to deal with if they want to stay legal that Grooveshark can ignore), and worse cataloging. Grooveshark doesn't play ball with companies that are willing to play ball, so they get sued for copyright violations. Seems fair to me. Now we test the precedents of DMCA.
> a bill introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa

A reminder not to view anyone in Congress with less than a wholely critical eye.
Why Zynga isn't offering real-money poker
I've never met a programmer who can't sum 10 numbers without using Google. I have however met plenty who go blank when asked a question they weren't prepared for in front of an intimidating person in a small quiet room during an interview.

Not everyone has performance anxiety, but I've met plenty of programmers who do. Unless you spend the first 15 minutes of your interview calming them down and warming them up with simple technical questions that put them in the mode of programming, you might as well be asking them to sing the star spangled banner naked in front of an audience.
Corning Gorilla Glass 2 On Tap For CES
Wouldn't it be relatively easy for them to provide a server hosted by a client, on a corporate internet?

They may think such cases don't support "get big fast". But they might be wrong about that. A lot of software (Excel) is first propagated through work usages, and workplace availability might provide important vectors to 100mm users.

Now, users on a client-dedicated server won't help scale their data operations. But they will help spread the word and introduce use cases. And provide a target for developers / consultants to build out applications.

Even if some corporate solution doesn't seem a priority, they might want to dedicate some time to serving a few such edge cases. Just to keep an eye on that niche and keep themselves somewhat adapted to the requirements.
thanks for the feedback! we're working on adding a reference section on our site with the API.

the realtime thing would be awesome, hadn't thought of that.
1000XKCD
> What we need is a proper compiler, one that can compile Emacs Lisp to either native code

This has actually been done (possibly badly?) and turned out to be a wash in terms of performance.
NASA Open Government Plan
The problem with pitching social software
Apple Prepares Bid For EPL TV Rights
Is Hadoop really approachable for most businesses who don't have a some sort of large-scale need for analytics?

Last time I looked there were things like Pig (http://pig.apache.org/) but the use case was "big data". Many businesses use RDBMs exclusively and can easily use analytics tools like Business Objects. Companies may be dealing with what they consider to be a lot of data but it pales in comparison to what many web startups are dealing with.
Stack Overflow calculates entropy of a thread as a signifier of low quality.
Code for America opens 'civic accelerator' in S.F.
"The others don’t cost much to support."

BWAHAHHAHHAHHA. Ha. heh. whee! It's a good product but good luck on that part, Joel. Support costs for massive free products are probably more expensive than you imagine.
The startup I work for, Bizo, has had some clients doing similar things with our API:

http://developer.bizo.com/documentation/bizaudience-api

E.g. customizing their home/landing pages based on the business demographics of users (is this a small business user, Fortune 500 user, etc.).

(Don't mean this as a gratuitous plug, it's just cool to see the same client-specific customization technique used elsewhere.)
Other than sites with child-porn, no pages are blocked. However, more or less upon request from the US, we have the FRA who can monitor telephone-conversations, Internet-traffic etc for people they suspect for various reasons. Sadly, it probably can't be done without some peoples privacy being breached.
Sudoku measures how creative you are at finding the best logical solution, so that may actually be a good idea :)

I suggest this with tongue-in-cheek, of course, but it's about as effective as any other method.
Probably not. Is your product near "complete"? If you have not started, work on it in your free time. You should stay in school not because it's a safe decision but because you will learn much more important CS concepts(unless you're a genius genius) and get to network with others. You may get to connect with others like you or any talent coders.

Ask this question once your service is gaining huge audience or attention.
A while back I, ahem, saw a torrent for over 10G of Math books/textbooks on TPB along with numerous other collections that one would never find outside of exclusive university libraries. The internet has changed everything regarding access to certain classes of information.
This is an interesting article about how non-programmers see it.

What the author fails to understand is the difference between having a steeper learning curve versus less verbosity. When you read and write code all day long, you don't really pay much attention to syntax, it's just there to shape the logic.

In order to learn, it's okay to have a more familiar pseudo-code to get a feel of what programming is like. But I wouldn't want to write that code all the time.

An english-like syntax has already been introduced: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL#Verbose_syntax
Good point. Adding multi-threading while keeping the existing elisp compiler would definitely improve responsiveness, maybe enough so to turn the issues I mentioned into non-issues. That said, the proposed approach has the potential to kill two birds with one stone: add multi-threading AND improve raw performance.
LOL is a great book.

I've been through it a few times and I'll probably read it again.

If you have any questions I'll try to answer them for you.
I guess Grooveshark strategy of it being "easier to ask for forgiveness later than it is to ask for permission now" has failed. (http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/grooveshark-emails-on-l...)
> But they are back at it. A new AAP backed bill -- the
> "Research Works Act" -- was just introduced by Reps Carolyn
> Maloney (D-NY) and Darrell Issa (R-CA).

Again, do not count any Congressman as being "on your side" simply because of single actions on their part. Issa, Franken, et al. -- beware of offering any of them a "free pass" in your mind/thinking/consideration.
Not saying this isn't awesome... but don't there seem to be more HTML5/Javascript engines/libraries/toolkits than there are actual decent products or games?
A Behavioral Analysis Unit assessment of a APT unsub
don't forget Greg Avola, founder of untappd, the beer check in network. and not just speakers from Joyent and PhoneGap - the technical founders.
Offtopic: I like how he ends his post "I’m also the co-founder of Stack Overflow." I didn't know the guy, and that line made a lot of sense to me.
(if the original point is contained within a line that is also known. For example, if the original/desired point is on the x-axis)
An IQ Test Maker Who Goes Beyond IQ