skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, there is a difference between read and write latency, but at least that is consistent and therefore easy to plan for. Large variance makes things far more difficult, in my opinion.
BGV is tackling an interesting niche- its the time when social start-ups shift from becoming a hobbby project to a serious full-time undertaking and the way I see it is that that 15k would be the start of someone going full-time on their venture.
In terms of knowledge of social needs, and of social ventures, the team at BGV and the Young Foundation are doing some of the most interesting work in the UK. This programme could have a big impact on a small social venture, and a working relationship and ongoing support from them would be well worth the 6% in many cases.
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I don't think there is anything insidious when you are targeting the potential phone owner. However a 4 and a half year old playing my phone feels differently about in app purchasing and has little concept of money and value.
But they learned iOS and Android, no?

The question at hand seems less about how quickly or readily people can adopt Metro than how often they need to leave it. It seems the context switch is actually the hard bit. Metro Office will go a long way to fixing this.
I'm a rank amateur when it comes to game development, however I've written a few games, and have been working on one in HTML5 (in addition to having made a few 'test games', which were really just proofs of concept). I've found that the HTML5 Canvas has been great for my needs. It's certainly not at the point where it can compete with desktop games, but trying to make it do that seems absurd (is the browser really the right place for games like Mass Effect?)

That said, writing games in HTML5 is much harder than on other platforms, for example:

A) As the post mentions, the Audio APIs are embarrassingly bad. There is, as far as I can tell, no way which you can cause a sound to play (programmatically, I've never really tried to use the actual <audio> element) in a cross-browser compatible way without having to manually code for the different APIs. One would think that Audio, one of the poster children for HTML5 would have some standardization.

B) Chrome/Safari (and probably IE too) refuse to rescale anything without interpolating it (e.g. no pixelated effects without manually resizing the imagedata). Firefox offers a mozImageSmoothingEnabled property on the canvas element which allows for effects like this, but unless you're developing solely for Firefox, you're out of luck.

C) If you have a large enough canvas and you get the imagedata for it, Firefox can throw an exception because it's bigger than the largest allowed array. This can be solved by manipulating the image data on a smaller canvas and drawing that canvas on a bigger one, but it's still an annoying inconsistency.

Those last two, while minor quibbles, are indicative of the kinds of problems I've run into several times while working with HTML5. Each browser handles everything in a different way, and as far as I can tell, none of them care how the others work. This means that you must test every piece of code you write on every browser you wish to support. Obviously, this has a significant negative impact on development time, and can make some games prohibitively difficult.

On the other hand, there are platforms like Java or Flash (or Unity, so I've heard), where you can write once and expect it to work identically everywhere (even on out of date browsers). That must be nice.
Totally sympathize. It can indeed be frustrating. The top lists aren't exactly structured to facilitate finding the best apps for a kid given their current developmental stage. You can google some resources and lists online, find some curated marketplaces that are making lists of apps appropriate for building certain skills, and appropriate for certain ages, but it's all an extra step outside the extreme convenience of the on-device app store.
Points 2, 3 and 4 are irrelevant here. Do not use IDs in CSS. Use them in markup and JS and tests, sure, just not in CSS.

Point 1: The speed difference between a class and an ID is so, so slight that it's almost non-existent. The specificity difference between a class and an ID is massive.
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What I mean more specifically is that a group like MPEG-LA could be lobbied more effectively by Firefox to produce some kind of acceptable licensing model for open-source software and end-users if Firefox had stayed in the game instead of taking their ball and going home.
I think you are speaking from the position of a person who understands metaphors such as the task bar. Most users do not.

Users only understand the most primitive of abstractions; they understand that a button is a button, but what the button does is only learned from experience (good labels help, of course). The change to the grouping-based icons on the taskbar absolutely forced users to relearn.

See to you the fact that the buttons are in the same place as the old ones is an indicator that they have similar functionality; the typical user does not make these connections at all. They only know that the old task buttons are gone, and replaced with something they don't know how to use (yet).

Now the level of change for this is much smaller than some other changes. Most users figured it out, many on their own (but many did not). I only used this example to demonstrate how things that are obvious and simple to you are massive barriers to common consumers.
Oh, I was actually talking about rearranging, not deleting. The scenario that the storage page supports is actually much different from the ones that the "wiggly icons" supports. Wiggly icons are for deleting apps the user doesn't want and rearranging the icons according to preference. The storage page is for reclaiming storage. The behavior is similar, but the root user desire is somewhat different, which is why it's in a separate place with different information provided.
Four things the next iOS update must have
[1] "Guest Mode": Today there is no way to hand your iPad to someone else and not expose absolutely everything you have on the device, from email to purchasing and more.

[2] "Child Mode": Probably an extension of the above. Allow me to setup a sandbox of apps that my child has access to. This sandbox should also allow for disabling such things as in-app purchases, app store access, multi-touch gestures and more.

[3] Fax Mode: My phone should be able to receive and display faxes. I want my phone to recognize a fax signal, receive the fax and turn it into a PDF. It should email me that PDF or store it locally. I should be able to pick-up the phone and, if I hear a fax warble touch a "Receive Fax" button.

I'd write an app to do this except that Apple does not give developers access to the phone in any meaningful way. Lots of interesting apps could surface if developers had access to phone call events.

[4] Provide access to the serial port on the 30 pin connector without the restriction of having to be a MFi member and all that comes with it. Sell an approved 30-pin to RS232/422 cable that will work with any app written using the relevant API.

I understand the desire to control the sandbox, but I think that this has gone too far in some areas. Not providing access to a basic I/O port for serial communications is a little over the top.

Of course, the list could be much longer.
Ok, so what does that mean?

MU had large numbers of people who used it legitimately and illegitimately. Did those large numbers of DOJ/Senators belong to the former or latter camp? From the article itself, while not conclusive, seems to hint that those might have been legitimate users (MU's justification for existing). The reason for their takedown was the illegitimate use. I don't see a contradiction. I see irony.

It seems more like a "gotcha"/linkbait headline than incriminating, as the "oh, snap" might suggest.
I really like using HTML5 Storage since it's so easy to implement.

There's one thing you forgot to mention. You can also add arrays and objects to HTML5 Storage using JSON.parse and JSON.stingify as listed below.

var testObject = { 'one': 1, 'two': 2, 'three': 3 };

// Put the object into storage
localStorage.setItem('testObject', JSON.stringify(testObject));

// Retrieve the object from storage
var retrievedObject = localStorage.getItem('testObject');

console.log('retrievedObject: ', JSON.parse(retrievedObject));

I literally got this from stackoverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2010892/storing-objects-i...)

Coincidentally I was building a small javascript bookmarklet for myself this weekend using localStorage. The bookmarklet allows you to make playlists on the fly. Check it out on http://www.jefvlamings.com/projects/Youtube/
you lost me when you banned IDs. learn how to use specificity properly before claiming you have best practices.
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Frankly if it's important to you you two should have already talked about this to make sure your spouse supports the hours and the craziness of it. If you haven't you need to start talking about that now. And you need to be sure you're serious about it and not just messing around.
I'm willing to believe, for the sake of argument, that touchscreens will take over. Regardless, those days haven't ended yet, and will be here for years to come.

With that in mind, I submit that it's prudent to wait for the baby to stop moving before you throw it out with the bathwater.
There is content. Youtube has started pushing html5+webm videos to modern webrowsers without flash installed. This includes Android 4.0+.
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Good article.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: we need to stop thinking of "Hollywood" as a monolothic, homogenous organization bent on a single agenda. We do ourselves a great disservice to view the entertainment and media industries in those terms. In truth, "Hollywood" comprises thousands of companies, millions of individuals, and just as many agendas, business models, goals, and products. We can no more speak of "Hollywood" as having a single org structure or driving agenda than we can speak of "America" as a unified political and cultural mass. Just as not all Americans wanted to invade Iraq, not everyone in Los Angeles and New York wanted to push SOPA and PIPA legislation. (In fact, I'd bet that a majority in the entertainment business are personally opposed to SOPA and PIPA; I know I am).

Within Hollywood, there is a large and growing segment of content creators, producers, actors, writers, and directors who'd just as soon develop for technology ecosystems as they would for major movie studios and TV networks. And I believe technology firms are leading the way. Netflix is attempting to develop original programming. Microsoft is rumored to be doing the same. Apple's iTunes and App Stores represent entertainment ecosystems just waiting to be filled with direct-to-consumer content from Hollywood's best creators and production companies. Kickstarter offers an appealing platform for marketing and funding independent content. A major shift in production and consumption of entertainment isn't going to happen overnight; nor will it progress in linear fashion. More likely than not, a few big breakthroughs will inspire others. I am very optimistic that, sometime within the next two years, we'll be speaking of the first "Hollywood" series released directly -- and successfully -- to a tech platform. Once that happens, the floodgates will open in earnest. And, perhaps selfishly speaking, I am crossing my fingers that the new season of direct-to-Netflix "Arrested Development" finds a bigger audience than it did on TV.
OK, judgemental yes, fair enough, but not being a dick? Saying "you can't use my software because your code is evil" is not going to win anybody points for diplomacy.

Also, the vagueness of it is actually quite passive-aggressive. In functional terms, putting that in a legal document means "you can use this for anything you want, unless I decide that I don't like it after the fact." It's not an important passive-aggressive action to Crockford, I'm sure, because for him it's just a formality he's turned into a joke, but it does actually set him up with ridiculous power to disrupt a business's operations should he so choose.
Argument which apparently led to the post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2082965

I love how oslic describes a dev who maintains their right to say how their work is used as a "protestor". Surely putting in the hard work, and being entitled to do with it as you please, is a cornerstone of free enterprise?

In a funny way, the Open Source and related movements are rocket fuel for idealised capitalism.

The first money I made on the web after college was made using Notepad++ to build sites on a LAMP stack. I'd guess most of us have similar stories. I'm happy to give away my knowledge for free, because it's not 1% of what I've received. And it doesn't mean I do everything for free either.

I don't think anyone can seriously claim that people making free software haven't changed EVERYTHING in software, especially on the web.
iOS and Android wasn't replacing something they were already using to get things done. Users hate change (even when it turns out to be for the better).
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Recent HN discussion:
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I feel like this site would be a lot better if it didn't purport to be an infographic creation tool at all.

The core concept of infographic templates is completely flawed. Infographics are supposed to be designed around the data which they wish to represent, so how could one design work for various sets of data? Sure you can categorize and make themes for say food or finance, but what about the scale of data? Wouldn't that be completely unique to every case?

"Create free custom infographics in seconds" should be a huge red flag for anyone wanting to actually represent data accurately.

This would be a lot more useful if it were just a showcase and maybe a place for businesses to go to find the best infographic artists and hire them for contract work.
The coffee analogy breaks down though because there are plenty of options for refillable pods for the "senseo" style pod machines. And Kurig (and others) sell a refillable K-cup for those style machines. Where there is a demand for something, someone will fill it.
Ah I see your point. Norvig uses a positive exponent on the prior whereas I have written it in the form where there is a negative exponent on the conditional. According to Bayes, we predict class 1 when

P(C_1) P(words | C_1) > P(C_2) P(words | C_2)

The positive exponent on P(C_i) and a negative exponent on P(Words |C_i) are equivalent as far as classification is concerned, one needs to take a suitable (negative power) on both sides so that the exponent on the conditional becomes one and you end up with a positive exponent on P(C_i).

Thanks for catching this.

The constant c can and do vary with the class label. As a result the Bayes classifier will use conditional distributions that have a fixed exponents. Typically however these will depend per word and per class. The model that Norvig is using a very simple variant where he is fixing the exponent. As I said its not the exact expression that one would have obtained by assuming a power law, but is very similar.
The "insightfulness" of these points is overblown, especially if you've worked at Google, where the solution to "our bloated application server takes 20 minutes to recompile" is "then use our distributed compiler that runs on 100 machines," and the solution to "sometimes a worker machine takes a long time to come up or doesn't come up at all" is "then use redundant workers and fire up 200 machines."

I wouldn't be surprised if Google does pull off some snazzy new real-time architecture to use internally, but so far I think their strategy of farming out execution to huge numbers of crappy machines, while innovative and very successful, has pretty much exactly the problems you'd expect it to have.
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I'll make a prediction that Fax Mode is something that will never happen. Faxes are an outdated technology, and Apple has shown in the past that they are more than willing to drop support for legacy technologies to push their products forward. Remember when they dropped the floppy drive?

Same argument for RS232.
One thing to add to the list: Alltuition (Mint for Financial Aid) has enormous disruptive potential and a very polished UI.

https://www.alltuition.com/
"Is the hippie actually going to leave the world better than it was before?"

According to who's principles? (and isn't that the point of the OP?)
Well look at this way: if you don't like the scanner then you're getting a very intimate patdown, which depending how you take it could end with a surprise cavity search.

Now the rat doesn't sounds that bad does it?
Same story with my former employer, a large (old) media conglomerate. In order to solve the problem I set up a small file hosting script for our department because the only option for sending large-files offered by the internal IT department was through FTP accounts - and people were way to lazy setting them up accounts, remembering passwords, or explain others how to use FTPs. I am quite sure those file sharing services were/are popular especially among smaller media/tv/audio production companies.
While the technology is very impressive, as a native Chinese/English speaker, I can tell you that the mixture of Chinese and English demonstrated is only useful for bilingual speaker like myself.

Also watching the demo of this presentation in contrast with Apple's keynote I can really see a world of difference on how two companies communicate with their customers.
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Thanks. That particular example is about children under two years. Do you have anything for older children? Under two years falls in my category of being neurologically unprepared to deal with the stimuli from TV. But what about at 4, or 6? The children are in a very different development stage, and (from my current, but always adapting, perspective) it becomes a balance of negatives and positives. For example, I have seen how TV accelerates understanding of social situations --- it is like having exercises at the end of a calculus chapter, but for preparing for the variety of social situations one will encounter, and learning to account for someone else's perspective.
I thought the hippie's goal was to sleep at night, now we have to compute the global utility function of his whole existence based on what Starbucks is doing? How does this apply to what raganwald is talking about? Perhaps this extension of the analogy has gone off the rails a bit.
Perhaps a not so subtle, "Take it easy with us, who knows what we know..."
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"So what's in common with these two games? They're both originally mobile games." (Emphasis mine.)

The sad part is that once converted to HTML5 these games won't be able to run on many (most?) mobile devices. Current mobile browsers are too slow or non-standard to run HTML5 based games. The exception is iOS 5 powered devices (iPhone/iPad) since the browser now includes hardware acceleration for both HTML5 canvas and CSS3 animation transforms.

For more details, see Spaceport.io's recent HTML5 animation performance tests:
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First of all, Microsoft screwed up in removing the start button. It was completely unnecessary to remove it, and they added no value in doing so. They could have just as easily had the start button pop out the appropriate side navigation, and then let users optionally decide which approach to keep.

Second, I'm sure there will be tutorials built into Windows 8 for people that want to learn how to use Metro and any of the other changes. Some of the comments here seem to ignore that. It doesn't excuse the stupidity of removing the start button of course.
The article mentions using Ctrl-O for navigating backwards in your jumps, but much more useful for going through tags (Ctrl-]) is Ctrl-T. This way, you can dive into a tag, go anywhere in that file (or subsequent files), and Ctrl-T will pop you back to where you followed the tag from.

If you have ambiguous tags (such as an open() method that is found across several different classes and files), you can use :ts to pick the right method to go to, and not lose your tag navigation stack.

Ctrl-] and Ctrl-T, once you set up tags for your project, are indispensable when traversing through code.
I wonder if this article is a really an unconscious railing or secret diatribe against the cost of renewing a UK passport these days :)

* Minimum cost to renew a UK passport in 1997: GBP 18 ($28).

* Minimum cost to renew a UK passport in 2011/2012: GBP 77.50 ($121).

That's 431% in 14 years or 11% per year! This does not include Post Office handling charges.

This is more than twice the highest single data point inflation (even including housing) and almost four times the annual average over that period.

Oh, and if you were tempted to fast track it for the 1-day service renewal, that's GBP 129 ($202).
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Occasionally? I get over 100 empty emails a day with nothing in them. I guess people get confused about the discard button, because my apps are not targeted at kids. Over 70% of my emails are empty. Maybe a small puzzle before you can send me a message is in order.