skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even China Daily used to call micro-blogging "Twitter" before they were rebuked by government censors. The simple fact is that Weibo is and always has been a clone of Twitter with Chinese characteristics.

The government's move to enforce Real IDs will probably basically lock out all foreigners or anyone without Chinese ID numbers (including even citizen overseas Chinese), making Weibo even more obscure outside of China.
Weibo is not a competitor to Twitter since Twitter does not work inside China without jumping the wall. Weibo is completely protected by the Chinese government from competition with Twitter.
The problem with Google+ (API Edition)
Indiana Jones goes geek: Laser-mapping LiDAR revolutionizes archaeology
"This is it—the paradigm shift," archaeologist Chris Fisher told Ars. "Just like the advent of radiocarbon dating, LiDAR will have the same impact."
Reminds me of ChromaHash, which I think is a fantastic idea. http://mattt.me/2009/11/chroma-hash-revisited

The neat thing about ChromaHash is that it never compares the user-entered password to the real hash, that is done by the users memory.

The unfortunate part is that it doesn't help if you don't use a website frequently.
Living in China for almost 5 years now, I am beginning to wonder if this is actually true. China was much more open before 2008 Olympics than after, its basically been downhill for the last 3 years. Engagement alone doesn't bring results, there also needs to be an explicit push for progress.
Gowalla closed down?
Seems to have been coming for a while (http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/05/gowalla-acqhire/), but I think they just pulled the trigger judging by this tweet https://twitter.com/maxvoltar/status/178658732950040576.
The R language (http://www.r-project.org/) might lend itself well to your more intense mathematical demands. There are packages with specific to some of your concerns (e.g. Nonlinear Dynamics: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tsDyn/).

That said, R is sort of a quirky language in some respects and does not tend to encourage as disciplined approach to software engineering as a language like Python.
As the name implies, this is an NES emulator written in dart, running on app engine. The source can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/super-dartendo/
sittingaround.com is babysitter co-op site, but it just added a paid babysitter function! and you can pay with your credit card! how amazing is that, I never have the cash for sitters. [disclaimer: I am friends with the founder.]
Neither temporary insanity nor psychosis nor a horror trip are potential adverse side-effects of your first few pints... when kept under control and those adverse effects aside, recreational use of acid would probably not do more harm than controlled recreational alcohol consumption - but acid is far more potent and each use poses these threats.
Definitely also watch the making-of video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QReuUcQ_c9U
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By definition, introducing a weaker currency (or printing more of the same) will lead to inflation. However, it might be necessary to endure a period of hyperinflation for the economy to recover.
Welp, it's an addon that has to interface with every tab in order to do its job, i.e. tell you if SPDY is in use. What exactly are you asking for?
Western medicine is nothing more than medicine being tested scientifically before being accepted. If you know anything better than the scientific method to test medicine than please do tell.

There is no such thing as the scientific method. What you're thinking of (presumably something Popperian) is not how science is really done. A lot of science is pig-headedly ignoring evidence which tells you a theory is wrong. Sometimes that works itself out and you get a better theory (see Einstein). Other times it doesn't.

Look, the purpose of medicine is to make people healthy. Definitions of 'healthy' are different for different cultures and social groups at different times. Western scientific medicine is only one approach for one kind of culture, and it often does more harm than good.

Furthermore, western scientific medicine often ignores procedures and knowledge coming from non-western sources which, when translated into scientific language, turn out to be correct within the WSM framework.

edit: formatting
One only has to walk down Via dei Fori Imperiali in Rome (a 6 lane boulevard right through Ancient Rome) to understand to what extent Italian Governments (in that case, Mussolini) are willing to pave over their rich heritage in the name of progress.

It's a little understandable even, given that any big construction project in Rome is held up by years every time a ruin is uncovered, so that archeologists can study it.
Yeah. Sold to FB I believe.
It's a nice idea, but I wonder about the use cases. How often would a Java webserver serve a file from disk without modifying it along the way? If performance is an issue then you'd serve the really static files with nginx (or a similar alternative), and every other file (jsp templates etc.) would be read in memory before being sent on.

(Note that I'm not questioning the technique, I just don't entirely agree on the way the article portrays the benefit of this method in webservers.)
The History Of Wireless Phone Technology – 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G
Welcome to the world of 4G cell phones. If you’re lucky enough to live in an area where 4G works, then you’ll know how great it is. You get internet connectivity that works as well as a home broadband link up
Or by trying to use measures like student evaluations, avg. grade, etc. as a measure of professor quality. It's always awkward to apply a bureaucracy to something as 'pure' as education and research.
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>It just makes sense. I have more in common with the average person in Germany than I do with the average person in Kansas or Alabama

Unless you socialize, talk to your family and take your entertainment in German, I struggle to imagine what you mean.
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The problem with invasive is upgrading.
So my brain uses base64 encoding? Didn't see that coming.
It was pretty smart of the person that made this to use roms that you upload. Nintendo is pretty serious about rom sites.
From the article:

> We are lucky to live in a world where most of the really great opportunities involve delivering growth for many people at the same time. I'm not suggesting that we should focus only on personal growth - just that every decision should be optimised so that personal growth is part of the deal, and self-sacrifice is not.
The keyboard is not very good at determining which words I'm internally vocalizing either, still seems to work.
The point I'm trying to convey is that maybe we can learn to transmit words using some form of brain reader, but that measures something else than vocalizing.
Often you're serving big chunks of static content with a little bit of dynamic content sprinkled in.

You can effectively concatenate stuff by just writing both to the same channel - which means you can get the zero-copy performance benefits for the static parts of your data if you know exactly how much static data there is before you need to write out something dynamic.
> but I don't see many disadvantages to just letting your family/partner/loved ones that you're cool with your organs being donated, rather than carrying a card.

Paradoxical as it may sound, loved ones are not always the most reliable individuals to carry out your wishes in these circumstances. They often, understandably, have trouble letting letting go and can't always be counted on to prioritize your wishes over their own.
Why is reading lines from stdin much slower in C++ than Python?
A good way to get started with the kernel source code is to look at version 0.0.1, which can be found here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/
Fantastic--I've been looking for the videos for the past few days. Looking forward to checking out the tutorials and talks on data analysis tools like pandas, scikit-learn, matplotlib, etc.
The reason I personally found it interesting & put it together was that it actually broke my assumptions about HN vs TC.

All the times I've had articles on TC in the past, there have been tons of window shoppers, and very few people even dove past the landing page, let alone signed up. Compared to my own behavior on HN, I was initially expecting far more signups and usage off of HN as compared to TechCrunch.

One other thing that I'm noticing is that the HN traffic's dropped hard already, but the TC traffic is still going strong (~1500 this morning alone).
Will PG's keynote be posted?
Disagree. I don't want to see a title like "Don't Negotiate Piecemeal Most of the Time". Using a little bit of hyperbole is a valid writing technique.

Remember that language is not the same as formal logic. "Never" can easily mean "just about all the time except for these odd circumstances". And that's fine. It makes language more compact and conveys enough useful information. In the case of a headline, its job is to hook you and make you want to read it. The less wordy and the less your brain has to parse, the easier it is for that to happen.

A good plan is not one that magically pops up in your head, but one that you refined many thousand times through sweat and experience.

Certainly true. And articles like these take the result of all that refinement and try to distill it down to some best practices and tips so others don't have to expend the same amount of sweat.

If people want to negotiate piecemeal, they SHOULD! If they do that often and work out how to act in different occuring situations (good and bad ones will come with EVERY strategy), then their plan will gradually improve.

Unlikely. Negotiating piecemeal is sub-optimal. I think the article did an excellent job explaining why. It would be better to focus on the reverse: apply the best strategy in all cases, and try to figure out the (likely few) situations where it may not work out best, and learn from that.

I claim that the worst strategy, but with very well worked out details and executed by a practitioner with a lot of experience and who is well shaped for that strategy, will beat most people applying the best strategy.

This doesn't really make sense to me. A bad idea with great execution is still a bad idea. Wouldn't you rather focus your energy on developing good strategies instead of wasting time and effort on a flawed model? You're also assuming that most people will apply a good strategy poorly, or at least below average. I don't buy that. At this point it feels like you're disagreeing with the article just for the sake of disagreeing...
Be sure to read the TSA's official response on their blog. [1] The comments there are priceless.

[1]http://blog.tsa.gov/2012/03/viral-video-about-body-scanners....
It's also why systems like law, economics, and international relations fail. People don't care about issues which only marginally effect them, so they don't bother.

Take pork barrelling (edit - I used a different example, but it would derail the thread). Nobody (at least, nobody who's notable for anything except being anti-pork) fights to limit it, because no-one loses a huge amount. But a small minority of wealthy vested interests do stand to gain a lot.

But your point is basically correct - the systems mostly work, because people's big issues get dealt with.
Was going to say something like this. There's a significant difference between:

(researcher) points at a junkie on the street: This person is in ecstasy. How would you like to feel like that forever?

(researcher) gets you comfortable and injects you professionally and painlessly with a controlled dose of heroin, leaves and returns in a few hours: How would you like to feel like that forever?

Outward appearance counts for a lot.
Wonder if retention differs.
Strangely enough, the repo appears to have some ROMs. Smart that he doesn't expose them to the casual user and that he doesn't advertise them, however.
It looks neat at first but I'm not sure what it is supposed to do? Maybe it does not function well with Firefox. Respectfully I am more comfortable with just using lxr myself...if not plain old tree, ack-grep, etc.
Maybe Stuart told him how his parents felt.
Google holds the elite back, holds science back, holds are collective knowledge back. Even if it is a minority of queries, these queries are more important than your typical query.
It's not a talent shortage, it's a hiring problem
Easter Egg - The source code of barackobama.com
Just noticed this. Check out the source code for a neat easter egg.
Right. It just seems like it would be very helpful, as long as we're standardizing tests.
Very good advice! I like it.
will exec do babysitting?
Why should we incentivise people to work if nothing needs to be done?
How in the world does someone begin to write something like this? It's one thing to understand the language, but how does one gain insight into the underlying mechanics of a device like this, and given this insight, understand how to instrument a replacement?

I've been a developer for over a decade, and reading code like this still leaves me in awe...
Regarding your point about life being unpredictable, I think this article actually provides some relief in that area. If you focus on bettering yourself constantly, adapting to circumstances, rather than sacrificing other things for a particular pie in the sky goal (aka trying to predict that it will work out in the future), you will have a better chance of achieving something big later, perhaps something you can't predict today.

That's what I took from this, anyway. I definitely am a self-sacrifice sort, so it's a relief to think that maybe I can try to gain small "boring" successes, enjoy my life along the way, and it'll help me on my way to more interesting stuff.
I agreed with the post until I got to the self sacrifice portion. Life isn't a zero sum game. When you help others, you're helping yourself at the same time.

I've always followed a pay it forward even with people I've met for the first time and it has paid for itself time and time again. Watch how fast someone comes running when they hear you need a favor when they've received one from you...]

The other point I'd like to make is that I believe happiness and success go hand and hand. I know a lot more selfless happy people than selfish ones. Of course, success isn't one dimensional and if monetary measurements are the only indicator then....
It's open source so you don't have to trust his word: https://github.com/guille/chrome-spdy-indicator
Individuals (10 billion/1 million) do not evolve - populations evolve. Evolution takes a long time, and even the spectacularly obvious gross phenotypic changes you see between various breeds of dog, occuring over the last 10,000 years or so, has not produced any actual speciation yet. And really, unless the amount of interbreeding between two "separate" populations is infinitesimally small (or actually zero, because they are truly separate, e.g. on different sides of an impassable mountain range or sea), speciation simply doesn't happen.

I can't forsee any situation in at least the next 100,000 years which could produce two viable populations of humans which would remain separate enough for long enough for them to be considered two distinct species, and for one of them to become extinct. Evolution doesn't happen that way, or quickly enough.
With arrests, HBGary hack saga ends. Reddit mod "laurelai" named as informant.
It isn't just the labor cost but the whole supply chain costs. If the vendors that make the parts are in the same country and close to the assembly plant it costs less to ship from the vendor and there is less red tape around importation of the parts for assembly. This is one of the big reasons Apple makes almost everything in China.
If it does make his exploit obsolete, then it also has a side effect of the TSA admitting that the backscatter machines have been ineffective for 2 (3?) years now. That is something they will never admit.
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I just went through a long job search process in San Francisco, and I actually feel exactly the same way.

I told several companies "no thank you" after going through their interview processes, where the only thing they did was asking one whiteboard coding question after another. None of which had anything to do with the real-world domain of their business. The company that I ended up joining didn't ask any - their questions were no less technical, but they were experience-based, rather than quiz-based.
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What's your goal with that?

Eliminating regulatory agencies and regulations? The repeal of Glass-Stengal had some repercussions, after all.

Or are you looking to lodge blame with one or the other of the political parties? (There's more than enough muck to rake, of course.)

Or might you be interested in looking at the data, and at details such as the "robo-signing" mess and the questionable legality of the MERS assignments underneath the mortgage securitization (with various mortgage transfers which don't look to have been legally registered) and at the data around the melt-down?

And with the recent proposed banking settlement that's underway between various Attorneys General and financial entities, the behaviors probably would have landed any individual in the dock on fraud charges could well turn into a reasonable investment and a write-off for some entities, too.

There's more than enough of a mess here. Look at the data. And look at what folks are telling you, and at their motivations for telling you want they're positing. (And while you're at it, have a look at the wealth distribution in the US, too, and what the trends look like for that.)

Follow the money, in simplest terms. And that doesn't point to CRA.

Some reading:

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/05/rewriting-the-causes-of...

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/05/dear-gop-fannie-mae-fred...
> But blowing up a diesel truck is hard to do remotely

It really isn't. Rebels/terrorists/freedom fighters† the world over could tell you how to detonate an explosive using an off-the-shelf prepaid cell phone.

† pick your preference
Nobody will deny that it's full of security holes, a resource hog, and woefully undersupported on Linux. But I also think it's pissing into the wind to claim that we have equivalent solutions and it's just a matter of waiting for Flash to die now.

We're making progress in that direction, but it's going to be years before there's a significant dent made.
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Well that's that. Gowalla shuts down.
If your legacy code has no tests, how do you know it works correctly?
This has been posted here before. It is an ambitious project. Honduras did a great job of protecting their constitution a couple of years ago but seems to be helpless against the gangs that are taking over the country. I hope this works for them.
I'm also super curious about that - I'll try and bundle that up & share in a few weeks/months when we actually have trustable numbers.
I thought yeast only produces ethanol if it's respiring anaerobically, which is not a normal state for it to be in and is a short-term emergency alternative to dying immediately.

Kind of like lactic acid production in humans. We normally don't make much of it, certainly less than the rate that we can flush it through our system. We can produce more than we can handle for short periods of time if needed, but it's not sustainable. Put us in a situation where we have to keep producing lactic acid beyond sustainable levels for more than a few minutes, and we won't last long either. That doesn't make lactic acid proof that human bodies are self-limiting. I mean, we don't keep going forever, but lactic acid is not the reason for that.
Because "without it, you will die" is an amazingly effective motivator.

Someone I know recently had a double lung transplant. Even with insurance, employer support, and many donations from a large community supporting, he was told that a) the procedure would cost approximately $1-1.1M, and b) that a downpayment in the order of $400,000 would have to be received PRIOR to approval being given for the procedure to go ahead. His insurance? Would only cover $350,000, after the procedure.

His illness? Cystic Fibrosis. His age? 32.
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Hmmm ... the "guy" could be a self-aware AI as well?
This guy was an amazing artist. I collected and read his books and enjoyed his stories in Heavy Metal magazine. I hope he finds the ultimate art studio in heaven.
What morons, they use the word "interwebs" in the first sentence to make themselves look hip to the internet.

The whole tone of this blog post though really rubs me the wrong way. it comes across as a post from defensive asshole teen who was caught looking like a fool, as opposed to a federal agency funded with BILLIONS of free money they take from the citizens which they spend in ways which are completely unaccountable to said citizens, and the results of which inconvenience, for no reason, the same citizens -- with methods which are proven to be lacking to say the least.

I am so tired of security theater. These people are fucking dolts, amateurs themselves and are skimming billions of dollars from programs we actually need; like science, research, education and health.

FUCK the TSA.
And a rudder. Together with the keel it determines where your boat goes, if you want even against the wind.

All the wind really does is provide power, it's up to you to decide how you want to use that power.
Autopager set up an infinite scroll for me, while I was reading the first one...
This can be offset by the reaction time of computers (assuming braking distance being equal between cars) as the gap is really for reaction time. Or driverless vehicles could take it even further where a lead car could communicate with a following vehicle so when the lead cars brakes are applied simultaneously the cars behind do also reducing the delay even further.
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Review: Team Fortress 2
Google works on Kinect-like interface for Android
Most of his work is out of print. I read most from a collection of a friend and always failed to buy any.
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But how could we use this in a servlet container environment? Perhaps we'd wrap the response with a special wrapper to take advantage of this? I'm not sure.

I can see the use if one would recreate a server from the ground up. But that would be a rather large task.
I agree to a certain extent. If static content is a big issue, you should be using CDNs running barebone server applications anyways.

At the same time, I can imagine plenty of companies dont have the resources or expertise to do these kinds of things.In that case this looks pretty helpful.
Seems to be based on vNes and JSNES (the repo in google code contains copies of both projects).
I've got one of the ball vacuums[1]. It is good (not great) and the value isn't very good considering the price. The vacuum feels cheap and the attachments are all a pain to use. It does work reasonably well for everyday vacuuming on a low carpet, though. Suction is good, bag-less is convenient, pivot ball thingy works well enough, etc. That being said, next time I think I'll hit up consumer reports first.

A good vacuum marketed as the greatest vacuum ever isn't really that bad. The Dyson bladeless fan[2], however, appears to be just a big gimmick and kind of a shitty fan.

1: www.amazon.com/Dyson-DC25-All-Floors-Upright-Cleaner/dp/B0014E3GM0/

2: http://www.amazon.com/Dyson-Multiplier-Table-10-Inches/dp/B0...