skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HTML is a living standard and was last updated yesterday:

http://whatwg.org/html

The W3C Recommendation process is obsolete.
thanks for the comment! glad the post was valuable for you.

good pt. re: comments from prospective users. you may be right about it being out of scope for me, but if companies were willing to share the videos and data they get from sites like usertesting.com, then i'd be happy to put it together with my ux posts and make it available for everyone to learn from.
he probably sells E-books on how to do it ;)
"There’s quite a bit of low hanging fruit in terms of (a) improved image processing that can be done on modern computers that wasn’t possible when Photoshop’s core features were designed 20 years ago,"

That's an interesting area of thought. What things today are the way they are, merely because things were the way they were when the canonical instance was produced?
Joy - Manfred Von Thun http://www.latrobe.edu.au/phimvt/joy.html

Cat - Christopher Diggins http://www.cat-language.com/
However, if it's debit you lose cash and it can take up to several weeks for it to be refunded.

I know this is true in theory, but is it true in practice? I've had two debit cards used for fraudulent transactions (one a Visa debit issued by a local bank, the other a MasterCard debit issued by PayPal) and in both cases the money was returned within hours of my reporting the missing cash.
I hadn't realized that Tesla had anything to do with logic gates, so I looked it up and found this patent: http://www.google.com/patents?vid=613809

However, I'll admit that the prose is too Victorian and patent-y for me to decipher where he actually describes an AND gate.
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Just 500 customers, from anywhere in the world, from the whole damn internet
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2000 lbs? Holy crap.

Where was all the weight? Did they use a 1/4 in steel case or something?
The "they" that "gave up" is a different group of people than the "they" who thought it was evil, by the way.

The current group working on the contemporary HTML living standard just describes reality, by and large, so there was never really any doubt that "embed" would be part of the standard when we started back in 2004.
Apple’s VP accept Steve Job’s Grammy award
I use google extensively, gmail for years, google docs, etc. I must have clicked the right things in the privacy checkboxes since when I go to that "what does google think of you" page, it just says it "does not have enough data".
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Thank you... I can't believe I wasn't seeing that!

I'm surely not the only one to do this sort of thing. Maybe there should be some kind of feedback instead of nothing happening when I click the run button.
What about the opposite: I need to use Facebook for my job, but I would prefer to not even have an account. I hate Facebook, but am forced to use it, or switch jobs :(
You probably meant, protecting animals from human cruelty.
Really fun, but it seems like it provides JS input even if you use python. This causes all of the input cases to be marked as incorrect. For the Arith Geo question, here was my code: https://gist.github.com/1809940 and here was the result: https://gist.github.com/1809944 . So for example it said 'new Array(1,2,3,4)' yielded incorrect output. But I tried running [1,2,3,4] and it worked fine.

I know I selected python because it let me test my code by running it both before and after I submitted.

Anyway it's still really fun - keep up the good work!
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My concern extends to the increasing mining of social graphs. For example, the concern that having "undesirable" friends may turn you in turn into an "outcast": For loans, insurance, job applications, and who knows what else. (The No Fly List? I wouldn't put it past them...)

This could have a rather corrosive effect on the very "networking" nature and commonality of the Internet. I don't particularly want to be shepherded into a class, or caste, based hierarchy of online connectivity.

I mean, people will cluster and groups will form, on their own. But enabling third parties to so aggressively and thoroughly use that to classify and segregate? No, thanks.

Maybe I'm just naive, and this will inevitably happen. Well, I have control over my own actions and participation in same.
Low-level UNIX system utilities, Exploits/RevEngineering/VXing and a homebrew CPU!
This is awesome. One point would be to change the spec of Panlindrome to say print 'false' when it's not a palindrome. (It just says print 'true' when it is :))
Thats pretty standard with most web services.
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In other words, employees should just accept lower pay for the good of the company?
The body does not deliver on the promise of the title, but does raise the question.

The answer seems to be that concatenative languages give you the power of functional languages using a low-level nearly absent syntax (like Lisp). I guess that's useful as way to demystify the compilation process (like how assembler and CS demystify how the CPU actually gets work done, as contrasted against magic like Ruby), and matters if you want to understand or write a VM, or reason about a program in a completely unbiased way that (for better or for worse) has no cognate to human language (but may be an elegant non-linguistic mechanical language).

For general purpose programming, I prefer a little syntactic sugar. Humans seem to have an instinct for language, and it is helpful to leverage that instinct when writing and ituitively grokking programs, if not for constructing formal proofs.
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It doesn't seem to like the map function either. List comprehensions, which seem to work, could be used instead but it would be nice to know which features are disabled/not supported before starting to code.
Some film CGI (which renders much less than realtime) is getting pretty close to realism, to the extent that for certain snippets you can probably fool a large proportion of people, especially people who aren't computer graphics experts, and therefore don't know what specifically to look for. Most work seems to be focusing on very specific tough cases, like cloth animation. It'd be interesting to see an actual survey of what people can tell apart, though.
Except for the few large ones, subreddits are extremely small, compared to their forum counterparts.
Thanks for the video link. While definitely an improvement over what we currently have, it's an empty environment with literally 3 patterns and 1 object. Color me unimpressed.
For my ssh proxy needs (primarily, routing around geo-IP locating me in the UK, and instead appearing from a US IP), 600MB is overkill. As a result, I pay 36 USD a year for a Xen virtualized box with 128MB ram and allegedly 300GB data a month (though I never get anywhere near that). That's 3 USD a month. And if I was buying a new similar server today, I could probably get something better and cheaper.

If you don't need much, http://www.lowendbox.com/ is a good site to see what's out there.
What nonsense. SMS gateways are so 2000. This would be more interesting if their mission was to integrate all the various kinds of notification systems, including SMS, into one unified solution.
What exactly is an integrety violation? Cheating on you spouse?
learning math
Might hold the occasional workshop too.
You'll never get an absolute number for this as humans don't see in 'frames'.

I would assume his numbers would include motion blur as that effect is not only important for 'smoothness' but also for giving a realistic feeling of movement and rotation when translated to a stationary display. If the 'player' spins around quickly you've got to blur it regardless of framerate or it just doesn't look right.
Winners Make Their Own Good Luck
Grooveshark is not Free Anymore - subscription start at $4/month
Today, when I tried to play some music on grooveshark.com I've got the following message:

Screenshot Proof: http://i.imgur.com/XUA7Z.png

<quote>

Our vision for Grooveshark never included charging users for basic access, but rising costs may force us to shut down in your country as we recently did in Germany.

We need your support. In order to stay open, we're asking every user to pay $4/month (USD) for access to Grooveshark.

With your help, we can continue to operate in your country--providing you with millions of songs, playlists, favorites, featured artists, and everything else you love about us.

Thanks for your support and understanding,

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Edit:

I'm using Grooveshark from Romania.
I also added a screenshot of the page as a proof.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that at the time, most of the outside world wasn't noticing? (or at least pretending not to notice?)
You're right that its a McGizmo, and one of the more coveted Titanium models. I believe that light retails for about $699. On the CPF secondary market it could easily go for more than that. There are also a couple other business that sell parts and accessories for custom flashlights who survive almost solely from the patronage of CPF members. See The Sandwich Shoppe: http://theledguy.chainreactionweb.com/index.php [Warning: Truly terrible design]

The more I think about it people will dump tons of money into their very niche hobbies. And the internet has only recently given people with niche interests a place to gather and hawk their projects and products. Look at how successful Kickstarter has been, doing something similar. I don't have any idea how much money Kickstarter itself is making, but they have certainly enabled people to make a decent profit on their projects that may otherwise never see the light of day.

I agree there is certainly money to be made in these extremely narrow niche markets, but is it really a sustainable living? I ran a couple projects selling flashlights or flashlight pieces on CPF, and I always broke even or made money, but I certainly couldn't have made a living doing it.

I've never seen McGizmo's financials, but I assume he makes a good chuck of change. However, I think he is the exception. He has set himself apart from everyone else and can charge whatever he wants. Maybe thats an answer to the original question in its own way too. But I really think people like McGizmo and PhotonFanatic make flashlights because they love flashlights, so its ok if they aren't making a ton of money doing it, but if they do, even better. I guess you can just lump this argument in with the do what you love crowd. but heh
The medium obscures the message: why programming languages matter
Real cool interactive real-time whiteboard for drawing, pasting images and more
The article has been mentioned few times before and you have probably come up with similar numbers (50*300) by yourself, but it's so damn motivational to read a real life example like this.
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My first thoughts about monetization:
1) allow people to sign up for catalogs too. I know that sounds insane to you, but I think a lot of people woul like a place to go to get stuff from stores and categories they like. That's easily monetized with the vendors themselves as part of their customer acquisition cost.

2) Even if you just stuck to removing from lists, you're actually providing value to the the direct mailers. They have one less printing and postage item cost that would have either been useless or pissed someone off. That could be over a dollar per household saved with each mailing.
I don't mean to be snarky, but I think this is what's called a "minimum viable product" or MVP around here. It's the smallest thing that does something you can explain. In this example it's "on android, download this app, and anything that has a barcode, you can scan and give 1-5 stars." Other times it's "email us a URL and when the contents there change -- for example someone replied to a comment you left on that page -- we'll email you back". Actually brb this is gold!!!

basically, the way to think about mvp's, is it's the "done is better than perfect" equivalent of a proof of concept. Whereas in the old days, someone would innovate and then put out a proof of concept, these days we skip the innovation stage and put out a proof of...ability to put a database app together? I dunno exactly. Sorry about the snarkiness here, I just think there is life outside of this particular bubble.
2012 Toyota Corolla VS 2012 Toyota Matrix
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What country are you in? I've heard this happening in Ireland.
Fair enough.

My employer uses Exchange (for some reason still running Exchange 2003!!!) and I have always struggled getting mail clients to play properly with exchange. I have finally given up and am running Outlook virtually.
I have a similar (but longer) way of getting into the zone and obviously my own way of getting out of it. However, none of it is about what you actually do. It's about the "ritual", the only time you do it is in preparation for the work and after enough repetitions it snaps you straight in. For snapping out, any time I spend a significant (or feels like it) amount of time trying to solve an issue and can't, I save everything, hit compile and get up from my desk. I prefer to step outside, relax for like 10-15 minutes not doing anything work related except maybe chatting about work with folks, and then go back. Getting up, away from the computer and letting the brain relax is what I consider the most important part. Sitting in the same place where you had the problem never let me relax enough to get through it without lots of effort/time. Getting away from it, up out of the weeds and when I sit down next time the problem becomes trivial.
yeah, minimum viable product, just to see if i'm on the right path
With film CGI one also has to take into account that it's highly polished by humans. To be able to reproduce that quality in an automated fashion will likely be much more taxing.
So this is like jot.ly, but with barcodes, correct?
Italy's Balsamiq Pours Up New Wireframing Tools
We know the rough bounds of the technical parameters of a GPU good enough to fool a human. We don't yet know, for a large variety of cases, how to generate artwork that good in any better way than taking a snapshot of something real.

That being said:

> somebody should have made a prerendered animation that looks real by now, but I've never seen one

How do you know? A friend of mine works on visual effects, and his show-reel has quite a few shots where, if you didn't have before and after shots side by side, you wouldn't know that a computer had been involved at all.
North Korea Upgrades Systems to Windows 95, Citizens Not Allowed to Hit Escape
Surely you can then use it _only_ for your job, and post only work information, no personal information?
I remember 15 years ago when plenty of graphics programmers thought the industry was within reach of all the polygons you'd ever need on the screen at one time. These are always a bit like the '640k should be enough memory for anyone' declarations.

When Quake1 models were a couple hundred polygons, it was sometimes predicted games would never need more than 5,000 to 10,000 poly models. There was a PC game (name escapes me, had a cherub in it as the main character) from the late 1990s that talked up using "real time polygon tessellation" to deliver models with thousands of polygons on the screen, derived from models built in Maya that had tens of thousands of polygons in the original spec model. According to the developers, it was almost photo realistic! Such is the braggadocio in the gaming industry.

Now we're up to 15,000 to 50,000 in-game depending, and that's not nearly enough.
Actually, a jigger is 1.5 ounces. A shot is 1 ounce.
Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery
It's almost funny to see the screwed up founder and his family desperately defend themselves, against the whole world. Learn from your mistakes! You ruined the lives of 20 ex-employees!
They've come up with an economic way to homogenize the behaviour of community, this makes it really easy for people to fit in and feel at home. more here: http://jeffdechambeau.com/redditing-to-the-mean.html
Google TV 'big announcements' coming on Monday
fastmail.fm has a free account, but it's nowhere near the space that gmail provides. But it's good enough.

I originally used fastmail's free account just to have a backup smtp server for when gmail or whoever I was with at the time went down. gmail does go down, happened more than once to me.

fastmail has a $5/year account, which is probably where you want to start if you're concerned about "free."

I think their next level up is about $20/year.
As was Vannevar Bush in 1945, whose paper As We May Think directly influenced both Nelson and Engelbart.
I'd be interested in this too. Also what forums are high quality for seo?
I know this may sound like a dumb question...

But is it true that people still make money in porn online?

When is that business going to dry up? Aren't there 50 bazillion porn sites already? They can't all make money.

I know this is a sample size of one...but I don't pay for porn.
The shadiness comes in whenever a product is sold to government or generally when the person authorizing the payment isn't spending their "own" money, and when it is hard to measure the delivered value of the product. This is common for education and other government-contract work, and also happens in the private sector (for example, corporate bulk IT services shopping)
The problem with stack languages for me has always been in typing. I find it difficult to track the exact stack effects of each word (function), particularly if these functions are pushing, popping and applying functions that themselves modify the stack. Even when dealing with something as simple as optimized x87 code, I would annotate all the FXCH etc. to keep track of the bits of the arithmetic expression on the stack, as I tried to keep multiple operations in flight.

Yes, I know Christopher Diggins' Cat is statically typed. The problem isn't in compiler diagnostics, it's in readability.

In a stack language, an expression as simple as 'a b c d' is cryptic. If c consumes two arguments, in applicative terms it would be d(c(b, a)); if b consumes one argument and c only one, then it would be d(c(b(a))); if d consumes two arguments, b one, and c none, then it would be d(c, b(a)). And this ambiguity makes it very hard for me to read the code unless I'm intimate with all the individual words. You have to understand everything to understand anything.

Unfortunately, I suspect that concatenative languages tend to derive their power from this ambiguity, because the lack of specificity leaves considerable flexibility for what the words can do with the stack.

So my considered opinion for now - and this article doesn't really change that, it is mostly a tutorial - is that stack languages are best as a compiler target rather than a human source form.
But it takes more than one result to tell whether the methodology is good or if it was just lucky - otherwise it's just a guy tossing a coin once and saying "see, I predicted heads!"
How To Schedule Happy Birthday Posts To Facebook Friends
Nobody likes the person who forgetting a friend’s birthday .
Pinterest and Copyright
On their website http://grooveshark.com/ there are no info/details on the subscriptions. But the fact is that I cannot listen my playlists anymore.
My current pet project is a Boilerplate OpenGL-ES 2.0 Android project in java. I don't want to go all the way and build an engine, I'm far from being experienced enough, but at least it's a great way to sort the good and the bad in all the things I've done already.

Loading of textures, creation and loading of materials, loading of shaders, linking of programs, creation and buffering of VBOs... there's a ton of things to be done before you can even see anything on your screen. I'd love to speed this up for the first launch, and then let the code be overhauled according to each and everyone's specific needs - OpenGL is too low-level to be wrapped in a full-fledged library (that would be an engine...), and I'm a bit fed up with copy-pasting my own bugs from previous projects, so a boilerplate with very few features (and errors!) will do.
I've definitely found diminishing returns as a player, though that's a somewhat different, more gameplay-oriented question. I'm personally more interested, when it comes to graphics, in things more gameplay-related than strictly graphical fidelity; things like destructible terrain, for example. I'd even take a decrease in strict fidelity of the graphics for an increase in gameplay-interactivity (Minecraft showing an extreme example of that tradeoff). This seems to require deeper modeling of things other than strictly surface meshes and lighting, like the interior of objects, their physics, etc.
I am surprised I don't see the geographic distribution of AWS as a huge appealing aspect of the service.

If you are trying to deploy a global solution, I don't know any way as cost effective as rolling out images to all the regions you need and rolling out the same scripts, knowledge, strategies to each region to get your service up and running.

Opening accounts with dedicated providers in each country as an alternative sounds infinitely more painful.
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C++ with good coding conventions can encode pretty much all the information you need in the type. If a parameter is read-only, pass by const reference. If it's writable but ownership is not transferred, pass by pointer. If ownership is transferred, pass by unique_ptr. If it's owned within an object or function lifetime, use a scoped_ptr. If it can't be copied, inherit from boost::noncopyable.
Yes and No. Basically it is ANY kind of lie.

Saying you didn't do drugs when you did. Etc, etc.
Thanks I actually just shot off an email to someone I met there. Totally forgot I had an active username on GFY.
Hivelocity is cheap: http://hivelocity.net.

We've been with them since 2010.
Selling unlimited messaging to users for a fixed fee while paying Twilio $0.01 per message sent is pretty ballsy. Further, paying $0.01 per message while offering a free plan is extremely ballsy.

In their defense, though, my understanding is that once you reach a certain volume of messages, the cost to send quickly heads to zero, especially if you deal with the carriers directly. The phone carriers want you to be sending the messages since they can charge people to receive them (at least in the USA).

I'll definitely be curious to see where this goes.
That sounds like a lot of work. If I really am set on going after you, I can mug you in front of your house, or burn your house, or do another number of things. Setting your Facebook privacy to maximum won't protect against that.

I'd like to hear an example where you don't have to assume an aggressor with supernatural motivation to go after me, the random stranger.
I can't believe this guy gets to decide whether people get funded.
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Microsoft Store India hacked, username and password database leaked
I 100% agree. The labyrinth of laws surrounding car sales and dealerships is decades beyond being useful, it if ever was. It's an egregious insult to capitalism how it works now.