skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But, weren't we expecting this though?, I mean we're raising the bar to a better standard looking web. I think it's a good thing, now more developers get to push more projects because it cuts time in the prototyping process. We still need to get chops on skinning to differentiate our projects, and stand out of the bunch. But in my opinion this is moving forward.
A friend of mine just became a registered carpenter which involves hours of study and exams to learn the technical specs. He's now allowed to work on more demanding and interesting projects and gets a pay rise, because his houses won't fall down because of using the wrong materials. My grandfather can build a hell of a woodshed but I wouldn't trust him to put together a 3-story townhouse.
Its probably because the game itself was designed for single-processor machines and was never adapted to SMP systems. The graphics glitches are likely because the game depended on certain features of older GPUs
Add one to the list of "people who should never pay for another beer in their lifetime":

In order to extract these programs from most of the DSPs, we had to decap the chips, scan them in with an electron microscope, and 'tweak' the processors to allow us to dump their protected program ROMs.

As you can imagine, this kind of work costs a substantial amount of money. Professional firms that do this can charge upwards of $100,000 per processor for this kind of work.

Thankfully, Lord Nightmare from the MAME/MESS project was in contact with a savant named Dr. Decapitator, with the necessary knowledge and hardware to make this possible. Even better, he was willing to do it just for the cost of the donor cartridges and supplies. This worked out to $250 per coprocessor.
New iPad Finally Unveiled : All Details
Same issue on Chromium. I checked the console:

Application Cache Error event: Cache creation was blocked by the content policy
c2runtime.js:228 Uncaught Error: QUOTA_EXCEEDED_ERR: DOM Exception 22
In the context of speech recognition at least, those are indeed very different languages.
Obviously I'm kidding.
What do you mean, 'infinite in dimension'? The universe has only 4 dimensions, 3 spatial, 1 in time.

I'm was not asking how many dimensions the universe has. I was asking if the universe is infinitely tall, infinitely wide and infinitely long.

Why do you need to invoke infinite speeds and times?

Simply for matters of scale. I was trying to avoid considerations like "it's so big, it would take so long ...".

If 2 particles stay in the same place [...]

Actually, it's one particle that moves, and other is stationary, thus providing two points of reference for determining a displacement. Specifically the intention was to indicate a path through space such that you always are moving further from where you started and will never arrive back at your starting point (as opposed to the spherical theory of space such that you can only go half way around the sphere until you start getting closer to the point at which you started.

If you pick a random direction and travel really fast for a really long time, the chances of you running into any other matter is extremely remote.

I didn't mean physically collide with other matter, I simply meant to pass by it in the "vicinity". Similar to how traveling along a highway you pass by or through towns, you don't physically collide with them though. If matter in the universe was finite, then regardless of how sparse that matter is, there's an imaginary bounding box you could draw around all matter in the universe. A particle moving really fast for a long time would eventually end up outside of that bounding box. At which point its distance not just from the stationary particle at it's original, but all particles of matter would forever be increasing. However, if matter is in fact infinite, then such a scenario can not occur.

Luckily, despite my questions barely making any sense, you've managed to provide in your reference [1] a comment that answers exactly my questions so thank you for that.
"Requirement: Java Engineer" when I don't know Java, etc.
Speaking as someone who is absolutely terrible at design (I work almost entirely on backend stuff), I really like the idea of Bootstrap. It would allow me to focus on doing the work I enjoy, and not have to worry about design details that I don't care about.

I haven't used Bootstrap yet, but I plan to use it when I finally get around to making my personal website.
We use some modified Bootstrap CSS at Blueprint (ss: http://d.pr/pqCT) for things like horizontal forms. You need to customize it, and new rules sometimes conflict with existing CSS, but it's working pretty well. I've used it in a more primary role on another serious web app and it's great because 2.0 has responsive CSS and has had lots of work done on it to make it stable across platform.
A live Ustream channel, for this, with questions being accepted from twitters would be appreciable.
But, to make life more exciting, the regular expressions you'll see in actual CS/math are strictly less powerful than the Perl-style regexes you see in Python. E.g. the language accepted by /(a+b+)\1/ is clearly not regular.
I wholeheartedly disagree. While power-users might "want UIs that are in-tune with their goals and mental models" I have helped my parents navigate computers enough to know that a great number of users have no mental model at all. All they know is that the button that gets to their email is third from the left on the bottom -- heaven forbid you change that.

It absolutely is beneficial to a newbie to say "Oh! This site looks a lot like xyz.com, maybe I can log in with this button."
'New iPad' key details: 4G LTE, Retina Display, March 16th release
Not all MMOs die off so quickly, so I would attribute developer carelessness as contributing to a game's decline.

Take Gemstone, it's still around after 24 years and still earning money. http://www.play.net/gs4/
It's amusing that even in universes built specifically to fulfill people's power fantasies, the biggest power is usually achieved by people who do shady business :-)
Nope, you're not missing anything. Startup teams are so small that everyone on the team has to be able to add value by creating something tangible. There's no room for middle-management.
You're pushing the idea of the discount rate beyond its underlying assumptions. Short-term temporal discounting is premised on two concepts:
1) A pseudo-psychological principle that people value things more in the present than in the future;
2) An economic principle rooted in the assumption that there are alternative investments available for any given expenditure.

(1) is problematic because: a) it's not true at the scales we're talking about; and b) it's intrinsically tied to how someone existing in the present values future benefits. It takes a very narrow view of "utility" to argue that only the value to those in the present is relevant.

(2) is problematic because the assumption isn't necessarily true. Imagine a world where there are no investments that yield a consistent return such that an investment at time T0 yields exponentially increasing wealth at time T0+T. In such a world the second principle provides no reason to engage in temporal discounting. At the scales we're talking about, this second principle starts to break down. You can't assume that an investment in the present will continue to yield returns indefinitely into the future if your actions result in their being no future humans.

I think a more apropos basis for a guiding principle in this area is the observation that, in absolute terms, the productivity of society grows exponentially. A single person 1,000 years from now will produce much more, in absolute terms, than a single person today. If we define our metric more objectively, something as the sum of all production over the existence of humanity, then the proper course of action is the one that preserves as many future lives as possible, even at the expense of present lives, because most production will happen in the future.
There's no reason to believe our universe is uncomputable. It may require vast resources, in excess of what our universe possesses (by definition, in some sense), but we have no ability to say that there can exist no other possible universe that may not only possess these resources, but consider our entire universe the moral equivalent of a homework problem running on a toy computer.

Even if our universe is in some sense based on real numbers (in the math sense), there's no apparent reason to believe that arbitrarily accurate simulations couldn't be run of it. (Or, alternatively, our host universe may also have real numbers and be able to use them for simulation purposes.)
Interesting thought. I just heard a rumor that Apple was buying up 7" displays, so this makes a lot of sense.
A 1-star, unfiltered user review of Yelp
Sure you aren't confusing the fingerprint with the actual key contents?
I wish someone would write a good book focused on more advanced aspects of the Python language: generators, metaclasses, descriptors, etc. From what I could tell from the reviews and TOC, some books such as Pro Python or Expert Python Programming seem to introduce those techniques, but it doesn't seem to be very in depth, and I don't need a book for the other topics they cover. There are a lot of blog posts about this but it's always based on toy examples, so while it's not hard to grasp how those techniques work by themselves, I fail to see how to use them in real-world projects. I'd love to read an in-depth guide on those techniques, with several examples of progressive complexity that solve real-world problems. I don't think it needs to be very long, but it probably needs to be well thought.
This. In fact, it creates an even more dangerous situation, as users could go to the site, see their keys, and say "I dunno. Looks fine?" and approve all of the keys, without actually confirming that the keys are legitimate.

Not giving instructions on the page on how to verify the info was weak. Github people, if you're reading this, please update that page.
We've always been able to travel to the future, in fact we can't help but do that. Pausing time or going back in it is where the problem-space is.
Ah, makes sense. I would still tell this story in terms of a first-mover advantage, as well as one of innovation. The point is, in a market economy, it is nearly impossible to maintain a monopoly (or oligarchy) over time. Your margins will get squeezed by new competition enticed by your margins. It seems like you got lucky in discouraging your competition, but I don't think that's a reliable tactic. A determined competitor could severely damage you and open up the market by forcing you to overbid.
JavaScript is also a cross-platform scripting language.

Coincidentally, it's nice to see JavaScript being used for a much larger variety of tasks. I think it's a very underrated language.
I really like that nothings.org article, for what it's worth: worth reading.

It is unfortunately not improved by the new update tacked to the beginning of the article. You're probably better off skipping that.
You can cut off sound in the "menu" when you hover the mouse over the game.
Speaking of gandi, a while ago, I ran into some problems logging in to their site, and I—finally—got this response from them by e-mail:

Hello again pessimism,

Our password field supports only passwords up to 16
characters at this time. All longer passwords
are truncated.

If you have any further questions, please let me know.

Sincerely,

[redacted]
Tier 1 Tech Support
Gandi US

I checked in with @theharmonyguy who says this is a pretty bad thing, and I originally intended to do an Ask/Tell HN post about it, but life got in the way.

What are your thoughts on this and its implications for using gandi?
Streets were basically pure downside in most iterations of SimCity. There was almost no point to making them. The second you laid down some road, you were incurring more problems than you were solving. As one of the posters mentioned here, it was entirely possible -- and maybe even optimal -- to design cities entirely devoid of roads.

I distinctly recall more than a few rail-only cities that flourished a lot better than any of my road-based or mixed-transportation cities ever did. Seemed vaguely unrealistic, until I realized what SimCity is actually about. At its heart, SimCity is about two things: 1) Acquiring residents; and 2) keeping the lives of those residents as comfortable and stress-free as possible. (Seriously -- the game would require you to take this to almost Wall-E levels of extremity).
A new, high-definition iPad from Apple
I agree that it is symbiotic, but they are still a parasite :)
Here's what Spirits will look like on the new iPad
The API token is still there, in the "plain": https://github.com/settings/admin

Fetching it via XSS should be fairly trivial. Via a simple script in that page is straight forward. Still have to see if I can get it via XHR :).
I've used them too, for years .. its my 'go-to' for sparse arrays on any internal/utility projects I'm using. I'm a bit hesitant to ship anything using them to end-users, though, due to the HP patent issue .. but thats just a gut feeling. Technically, there's not much out there that gives me the ease-of-use and performance of the Judy API for large, sparse or dense, datasets. I didn't find the API too challenging .. well, the fact is that once you get Judy integrated into your own datatype classes, its a dead cinch.

Sure would be nice to see Judy in modern architectures like Android/iOS, though ..
Hi haberman, I'm one of the developers of Pangool. Let me try to clarify why we stated that. I understand it may sound aggresive.

Pangool is based on an extension of the MapReduce model we suggest and call "Tuple MapReduce". This is explained in detail in this post: http://www.datasalt.com/2012/02/tuple-mapreduce-beyond-the-c...

What this means is that in Pangool, if you worked with 2-sized Tuples, you would be able to do exactly the same that you do now with Java MapReduce - That includes custom RawComparators and arbitrary business logic in any place of the MapReduce chain (Mapper, Combiner, Reducer). Using n-sized Tuples together with Pangool's group & sort by, reduce-side join API will only mean less code, easier code at no loss of performance or flexibility.

Realize that Pangool is still a MapReduce API so it doesn't add any level of abstraction.

We designed Pangool with the aim of offering it as a replacement of the current MapReduce API. Therefore we are not labelling it as a "higher-level API" but as comparable low-level API.

On the other hand we are also benchmarking Pangool to show it doesn't impose a performance overhead: http://pangool.net/benchmark.html
The "new" iPad is here
> With Android, vendors are still shipping devices with 2.3.

How is this bad? Do you realize that 4 months ago, 2.3 was the very latest Android version available for phones? Its successor, 4.0, was barely released in Nov 2011 (3.0 was for tablets only). A few months delay is perfectly understandable because vendors need time to customize, build, test, ship, and clear inventory levels of devices running the previous Android version.

> You could, in 2002, run the latest version of Office on all of their operating systems.

This statement does not prove that forward/backward compatibility is easy in Windows. How much time did Microsoft waste into making Office run flawlessly across a wide range of Windows versions? With an application the size of Office (30M lines of code), it is almost certain that it has hundreds, if not thousands, of workarounds for limitations or bugs affecting the oldest Windows versions that Office needed to support.
They are annoying. In my personal experience, this is the only firm whose recruiters don't even bother reading your resume as opposed to just making sure it was key words.
New iPad first hands-on, detailed pictures, and more
I'm confused by your comment: ">" only has special meaning in the context of a tag, or after "]]"; "<" has special meaning meaning anywhere in a document you are not inside of a tag.
How Do Entrepreneurs who "Make something for yourself" fare?
Apple Special Event March 2012 [video]
I'm hoping we'll make it to 80,000,000,000 but your general point is correct. There's only so many computational cycles that can be extracted from the universe before you run out of places to sink entropy.
There's a disclaimer to this effect, but just to reiterate: there are real companies on this list. Good and Lumos Labs are two that I recognize off the bat.
But for a lot of things, I really don't care if it leaves an impression or not. I just want the thing to work well for my users. Bootstrap provides me with (almost) everything I need to do that. I'm not saying custom design isn't important or doesn't add value, I'm just saying it doesn't always do.
Stable release Wine 1.4 is now available for linux
This change is orthogonal to @homakov's attack. Silently changing the user id on a key wouldn't generate an email.
Hi rjurney. I would say "Hive, Pig, Cascading" are on the higher level API side and "Pangool, MapReduce" on the low-level side. Pangool is a MapReduce API that aims to make MapReduce simpler. We explain this better in our FAQ: http://pangool.net/faq.html
I would disagree and say the author is making a very sound argument. The web is becoming more like an application and so it makes a lot of sense to have a standardized UI, for all the reasons you mention.
IPad 3 Announced - Quad Core A5 Chip, Retina Display, 4G LTE
That is a great article that even gives you a formula for calculating it, which by the way was featured on one of apples slides during the presentation. Retina is a function of "normal" distance from face and "normal" eyesight. Those are the only two degrees of freedom.

I am not sure why the author chose to guess his own numbers to see if they compare with Apples, I would instead take the formula and the fact that iPhone 4 is definitely Retina and figure out the appropriate Retina value.
A lot of those bases break down completely when you're talking about these time scales. Consider opportunity cost. It is not sensible to spend $50 to save $100 20 years in the future, because even at a fairly low rate of return the opportunity cost of that $50 now is over $100 in 20 years. Note that such thinking is unavoidably rooted in the idea that there will be a consistent rate of return over the period in question. That assumption isn't necessarily true if you're talking about the possibility of present decisions increasing the risk of wiping out humanity in the future.

23% of all goods and services made since 1AD were made between 2001 and 2010: http://www.economist.com/node/21522912

If a similar pattern holds true, then the opportunity cost, in absolute terms, of a decision that results in fewer future humans is absolutely staggering.
It most certainly is a vulnerability in rails, by encouraging bad practice by design. Mass assignment should work by defaulting attributes to protected, if it should exist at all.
Siri’s big brother from Google
The tradeoff, then, is that if someone's current problem maps exactly to the current API, then your API is more complex than needed.
not obvious...
Interesting assertion -- explain?
Backup your Linux remotely using rsync command
It isn't subjective. Apple precisely defined it.
W-2 v. 1099, SuperDuperMegaGuide
I believe they are being editorial with games already, via the Staff Picks on the Android Market. They certainly are openly editorial with Google Music. So now that they're unifying all that, I guess we can only expect more of it.
Linsanity on Zaarly - A 263% spike in Knicks Tickets Requests...
Martin Fowler on Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS)
Perhaps the "real" civilization could run the simulation slower than real-time. For instance, while a whole hour elapses in the real world, only a half hour might elapse in the simulation. To the person observing the simulation, everyone inside the simulation appears to be going slowly, while time flows normally for the people inside the simulation.

I think that this would reduce the computational intensity by a factor of 2.
He was a job creator. Or something...
I think it's interesting that they dropped the version designator. It's just "iPad" now, with the generation being noted separately, like it is for Macs.
French has the same error, "Google n'est pas stupide".

Funny: "ist doof" translates to english as "sucks", not "is stupid".
I'm still somewhat amazed they haven't found a better way to handle updating the store. I understand that there is a marketing aspect to taking it offline, but it should be back online and updated immediately after the event is over.
We recruit directly. Our ads are clearly marked at top and bottom with 'We do not use, and never have used, a recruitment agency. Please do not contact us if you are a recruitment agent'

Despite this, we receive multiple calls a day from agencies.

Exasperating!
PEP8 recommends 4 spaces for indentation. At least you should try to make it consistent.
Although the HN title (currently) says "Ipad 3", Apple seems to actually be calling it the new "iPad" (edit: "new iPad", not "New iPad"). It's a bit confusing: next year, is it then the "old iPad"?

But, we don't really have that issue with many other Apple products (iPod nano, all Macs, etc) that use the same naming scheme. So we'll see how bad it actually ends up.
Apparently it's just "iPad". Not 3, not HD. Maybe people will always call it the iPad 3 or maybe we'll end up calling it the 2012 iPad or the 3rd gen or something.
Many people see technology as one of the biggest threats but don't forget about our growing stupidity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMkrJOOTjj4

It may be what will kill our civilization after all, if not mankind itself.
The worrying thing about that limit isn't the limit itself, but whatever process they are using to process passwords that imposes that limit.

I mean, if they're hashing the password as they should, why the limit? It's stored as fixed length string anyway...
"Who would work in paradise anyway?"

It depends on what you mean by "work".

I would write code without pay. In fact, I'd very much enjoy being able to just write whatever I wanted, with no economic consideration involved.

Now, if you're talking about cleaning toilets...
Isn't @good.com just an email service like gmail but used by BlackBerry or corporate users?
Bootstrap is about usability, not design. It helps you set up sensible defaults for usability. Yes, you still need a designer to make your site look professional and stand out, but with the right tools you can at least make your site usable with less effort than it took last year.
Has the Facebook Friend Bubble Burst?
You can also use 'ssh-add -l' to see all the keys you've added to ssh-agent.
I'd love to see a RateMyProfessor-style site for recruiters. Among other things, it might provide some reward for the few who try to behave well towards developers and employers.
In USA, Verizon has implemented pretty good LTE coverage in major cities. For their standard cell data plans, they do not charge a different rate for 3G and 4G LTE. Unfortunately, they do try to charge 30$ / month for each device plus an additional 30$ / month if you want to do wifi tether/hotspot, so if you had a smartphone, a tablet and tethering enabled, you'd be paying 90$ per month just for cell data (not including calls, SMS etc.)
Why Proprietary Source Is Worse Than Open Source
The change is good and was quite clearly precipitated by Homakov. Thus it seems entirely reasonable to thank him. So I don't see what your point is beyond irrelevant pedantry.
Is tere any plans to have vagrant support LXC (obv on Linux) it has been much more efficient for me to use LXC lately.
Adobe Shadow – a new way to debug mobile web sites and apps
Okay, so I seriously enjoy this game, even though I was upset about getting the We Suck At Loading screen in Firefox 10. (i.e. "This game should be played in Google Chrome").

Cheers for creating a fun game!