skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two reasons:

1. It's bloody slow. Well it is here in the UK. Even Bing is orders of magnitude faster.

2. It's now expensive.
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Exactly my thoughts, I can't think of any scenario where JEE is a better choice than Play.
I thought the official Apple-community view on competition was that it was a "race to the bottom" and only lead to bad things for consumers.
Hey everyone. I've been working on and off on this for the last 9 months or so (god has it been that long). I wanted to learn backbone.js, improve my javascript skills, and build a tool that I felt had been missing. So I build ThetaBoard--a (very) simple tool for managing lists and projects.

Unfortunately, Trello came out in September and was fairly similar to my original vision. I thought about stopping development but my vision for ThetaBoard is a bit different than Trello so decided to atleast get an MVP out there and see what people thought. Would love to hear your suggestions and ideas. Especially any areas where tools like Trello aren't really scratching your itch.
I used Java EE 6 a lot last year when I was helping a friend's company. Yes, it is a major improvement over JavaEE, especially JPA 2. I agree with the author of the article that Java EE 6 has a place for large mission critical applications. That said, I have had a good experience with two (admittedly small, and medium sized) Clojure + Compojure + Noir web apps: very stable, no apparent memory leaks so far, "just runs forever", etc.

Java EE 6 is a great skill to have, job wise, but it is more fun using agile platforms.
The policy that keeps prostitutes from carrying condoms
Government-subsidized green light bulb carries costly price tag - $50
Last week someone did a major fix to flash export, I haven't tested yet since it's not in the maven central repo yet, but if you use source code in google code, maybe you could test the state of flash now.
In normal policing they do, it is a daily part of their job and is known as 'police discretion'.

http://rynardlaw.com/Article6.aspx
As far as I can tell all data is encrypted before it is sent out on the network and the decryption key is only stored locally. Nothing is perfectly secure but SpaceMonkey seems to do a good job.
Official announcement: http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.4
Hi fellas, sorry I'm late. Is this the way to the witch hunt?
"In the worst case your LinkedIn account may be compromised. You will have to weigh this against the convenience of not having to log in to LinkedIn."
This doesn't convince me.
The compared solutions are #arduino #openpicus #nanode #libelium #netduino
If you were a heavy user, it's likely the costs were pretty clear early on, even if they weren't public.
We got costings sent to us in the middle of 2011. However we chose to reduce our map impressions as the prices quoted were nowhere near what we could afford.
Sellfy found way how to sell files
"A Time Bomb For Civil Liberties": France Adopts a New Biometric ID Card
People are overestimating what it costs to actually print and ship a book by a huge amount.

Printing is pretty much the most efficient manufacturing process in the world. You make thousands and thousands at a time on a dedicated machine that runs 24/7. You can put hundreds of thousands of them into a container, and ship that container across an ocean for $4,000. Or you can truck it around the country for that price too. And there are plenty of distributors that can drop ship them for you. Or you can just dump a couple containers at an Amazon distribution center and let them handle it all.

I would guess that $1-2 of a $7 paperback is paper, printing, and transport.

Remember, we print free newspapers everyday by the millions. And we flush paper down the toilet. And we wipe our hands with a big piece of paper with printing and texture on them and throw it away without a second thought. Paper is basically the cheapest 'thing' we have in the world today.
Yes, we have been using PlayN for a few months right now, it is true that it is not as complete as other cross-platform tools, but it is starting to get a really good shape, someone just made a C-ish backend last month and got a working example on iOS, but this backend could help us with ports to WP7 and consoles.
Perhaps if they posted more examples.. I could see it being useful to put the "data" before the vtable in certain types so that one could simply cast the type to get the value instead of having to call an accessor function. A string type could have the char* as the first member. A linked list could have the data void* as the first member. If they posted a complete list of all the types they have found and which ones had non-standard vtables, it might be easier to make a call on whether it was done by hand or not.
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Absolutely agree. I work with a very large "enterprise" (investment bank) and they deploy every one to two weeks. We wouldn't touch Spring or JEE with a barge pole. I don't know what world the author lives in.
http://pastebin.com/FmhF2zue
How is that worthy of downvotes? Seriously - it's not attacking anyone, it's an attempt to explain the difference in Microsoft's behavior towards two competitors, and it helps to clarify Marco's position.
CSS Social Buttons
are you using java at all, or something else entirely?
Bazaar 2.5
I suppose this might have some utility to some, but you are trusting a hacked over a weekend site with your Linkedin password?

The trend to give out passwords to 3rd party sites needs to stop, because security risks eventually become too great.
Of course, this also means some of the content may be…questionable.

This makes it sound like there are pictures of dicks in the maps. "Of poorer quality" would be better.
I have high hopes that Play will become the defacto "pragmatic" java/scala(/kotlin, when it's finally ready) framework. Play rocks.
We don't matter.

Think about the pricing of HDMI cables. You and I both know you can pick them up on Amazon for $7. But Best Buy charges $50. There is no real difference.

Why doesn't Best Buy charge $10 or something like that? They are literally ripping people off.

Let's say that the cost to Best Buy is $5. If they charge $10, they make $5 each. If they sell it for $50, they make $45 each.

Obviously a lot of people will just order it online. But when you are making 9x the profit for each one, you can lose 80% of the people and still come out ahead.

So they can make albums cost $2 and hopefully capture 100% of all people, or they continue charge $10 and lose some people. Again, as long as they're not losing 80% of people, they are coming out ahead. And I'm not convinced that at $2 you would get 100% of people.
Here's a link to the actual message referenced by the submission http://markmail.org/message/d4dfw53uqwhdj24i
My sentiments exactly, especially when I see people like Joshua Schachter, a brilliant entrepreneur creating stack overflow clones (jig) and companies like Instagram being valued at 1/2 billion dollars.

Surly I'm jealous of their success, but I still question the 'real' value they are creating.
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Be Where Competitors Aren’t with Link Building
His own story is interesting, but I think he vastly overstates the explanatory value of "being defensive vs. learning from your competition" IRT international, goliath corporations. It's almost sports fan-level projection/myth-making.

When introducing new versions of OSX, Steve Jobs used to joke about how quickly Microsoft would copy them, so the image of an arrogant MS that paid Apple no notice is off. The new prominence of design in Google products (including Android) exhibits at least a little bit of competitive influence from Apple, so it's strange to refer to them as arrogant and unresponsive competitors.
Should Your Blog Be on a Separate Domain?
Just had a play. Looks good. A few comments:

- SUGGESTIONS
- Switch the screenshot and demo button around (button on right)
- Improve the quality of the screenshot
- Pre-fill the blank slate with some demo items
- Allow users to download data (json/xml etc.)

- BUGS
- When using the demo, press save, then [browser back]. I get a JSON representation

- QUESTIONS
- Does it allow multi-user access?

Keep it up.
I wish they'd split the "search" and "discovery" and the "download" and (rather novel) "play immediately" concerns. I'd prefer to keep using uTorrent for downloads, and there's not point in Tribler spending their efforts re-solving a problem that's been solved very well.

Also, there's a certain irony in the Tribler download not being available on BitTorrent - to the extend they had to take the site offline a few weeks ago due to excessive download traffic.
Scala or Java SE the way to go IMHO.
Well sure there's no silver bullet here. But still doesn't make me like Java more. C# works well for Unity and it's a better language than Java. Another alternative would maybe me Lua and go the Corona SDK route. Corona SDK looks quite nice and supports iOS & Android. I'd find it more exciting with something else besides Java, even Dart would make me more excited about it.
I don't like it because it seems to have no threaded view. I really like gmane much more for mailing list discussions - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1245999/focus=126...
massive reduction in entropy.
Can you explain how that is?
I'm from England and took part in YCS11 - I'd be happy to answer any questions you have.
The site has been slow to respond. They are probably getting overwhelmed. Here are the direct AWS PDF Links:

- Tech: http://s3.amazonaws.com/DBM/M3/2011/Downloads/RHT_SalaryGuid...

- Cretive Group: http://s3.amazonaws.com/DBM/M3/2011/Downloads/TCG_SalaryGuid...

- Legal: http://s3.amazonaws.com/DBM/M3/2011/Downloads/RHL_SalaryGuid...

- Financial: http://s3.amazonaws.com/DBM/M3/2011/Downloads/RHI_SalaryGuid...

- Office Team: http://s3.amazonaws.com/DBM/M3/2011/Downloads/OT_SalaryGuide...
[video] Algorithms and Software for Peta and Exascale Computing
I would say that this 9 month period was important because it probably trained you to intuitively know how much to eat. I went through a similar process 5 years ago: I had to monitor my vitamin K intake so I grabbed the USDA nutritional database, wrote up a simple little web app for my own use (made public at cookingspace.com) and after using my little app for about 6 months, I had trained myself to intuitively know how much vitamin K I was consuming every day.
Isn't a tl;dr meant to sum up the article?

What it actually says is that whilst the cost is an issue, the primary reason is that these companies don't want Google ads seeping into their products.
I'm hearing echoes of my liberal arts education in that first paragraph. For what it's worth, if you otherize the VC but understand what 2 and 20 means, you will successfully predict the behavior of a VC much, much, much more often than someone who has a deep personal relationship on a human level with his VC but who does not understand the math in this post.

This is not a hypothetical. Many entrepreneurs have become friends with entrepreneurs-specializing-in-money-management before. Then their friend e.g. blocks a sale (want to hear a story about that? Find any five experienced people in the Valley -- I think you'll hear about three) and the entrepreneur is dumbfounded. This was not dumbfounding behavior -- it is predictable like the sun rising in the east.
so, if i face the scanner frontally, and the object is on my side, the object can be lost in my contour.
then the TSA guy says, "rotate to right". now that object hidden on my side might as well have been taped to my forehead - what was lost in contour is now nicely in silhouette.
or, i go through metal detector first, then get scanned.

no big deal?
Thanks a ton. I put the landing page together last night and I'm not much of a designer (tho was pretty happy with how it turned out). Definitely needs better screenshots (and it doesn't work on the ipad right now so should probably drop it!)

Data export coming! and yeah, I prepopulate the initial board with some default columns but should throw a couple stories in there.

It doesn't currently allow multi-user access but it's (fairly) useless without it long term. The free/personal plan isn't collaborative (that's my initial plan). When/if I add some premium plans it will obviously have to have multi-user and realtime updates.

Thanks.
That does still leave Puerto Rico as a bit of an anomoly, though!
I think he/she meant that birds can't survive in space. The pigs at least seem to have some sort of bowl around their head.
Surely they can't touch them - did't Sweden recently recognize file-sharing as a religion? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16424659
No need to worry about whack a mole domain seizures, these are getting negative press in the US, plus they don't work at getting people in other countries to suddenly see the light that American censorship law is global international censorship law.

The peoples of other countries probably view the enforcemt of American law in their countries as we view terrorist cells operating in America. If I was living in another country with this happening, I would say something like George bush said after 9/11: we don't negotiate with terrorists.

Then again maybe im looking at this backwards, maybe a one world American Government would get our species to the stars faster. Imagine a unified world, America could still take over the world. Maybe we should stop fiddling about and go whole hog. The surface of earth and all above and below it is America. Cooperate or die by a million cuts. We could bring all those inferior cultures from chaos to order.
C#/Mono with Unity, or just plain Mono/.NET. Unlike this it's actually cross platform (ie. you can use it on iOS, Android, all desktops, browsers via plugin, and the consoles), it's been used/tested by many companies, it comes with development tools, etc.

If I want a HTML5 game I'll write JavaScript or CoffeeScript, it's going to have wildly different performance characteristics over other platforms anyway. Java sucks for game development, eg. no operator overloading or value types, it's insanely verbose, and this uses GWT to compile down to JS anyway so it's not going to get any performance benefits from being written in Java over JS.
Anyone who is considering making the switch should take a look at http://switch2osm.org

Also, if you want to use Google (or any other provider) but not get locked in I can recommend writing your code using Mapstraction - as the name tries to suggest it's a mapping provider abstraction layer http://mapstraction.com/
Startup Loopt Lands with Green Dot - Wall Street Journal (Loopt gets acquired))
How spacemonkey is different from TonidoPlug (www.tonidoplug.com)? They also provide dropbox like sync that can host yourselves.
Also there are open source alternatives such as cartodb. In scientific GIS applications, open source that can be essential.
Can't I just not have a linkedin account? Seems to work for Facebook.
The Three Kinds of Startup CEOs
But clearly, there are a lot of people in the marketing still paying $x. If there weren't, the music industry would be out of business.

The pirates are actually inflating the prices. If piracy weren't an option, there would be a group of people who would pay $3 but not $4, and some that would pay $5 but not $10. The industry would figure out where they could get the most profit with the standard profit * volume equation. The price would settle lower on the spectrum.

Instead, all of the price sensitive people have turned to piracy. So again, going to profit * volume, you find the sweet spot among the people who are less price sensitive. Clearly the albums end up being more expensive. Why compete for the people who want to pay $3 if they probably will just continue to pirate? You are cannablizing your sales among less price sensitive customers.
Open Source as a Continuum
I don't think Tribler will solve all the problems and creates more issues for those less technically oriented. Until someone comes up with a novel bootstrap method that is truely decentralized and robust there will always be a single point of failure for peer networks.
That was fun, but he missed InterLisp D. I got an Xerox 1108 Lips Machine in 1982, and InterLisp D was amazing!
Agreed. I listened to an article recently about a study that purported to show that wearing a 'lab coat' increased performance. Similarly, I believe that the tDCS results could be explained by a form of mental 'priming'.
Not bad.

Since LinkedIn is 90% recruiters this is what I'd really like to see from an app: Fill in a few of your skills and it autogenerates a profile with keywords that recruiters search for.
I like this. I do have some comments:

- When dragging from one board to another, unless I drag to the right location, I can't drop. It would be nice if I could drop anywhere in the board
- Keyboard shortcuts?
- A way to save a story without using the mouse
- If I drag from the To Do board, I can drag (forever) to the right. This isn't a problem, per se, but is definitely unexpected behavior.
>everyone coming from Windows, where you have a reliable, stable base system which doesnt change for a decade

Now, you are being plain funny. Haven't you heard of 'DLL Hell' in Windows platform?.

You never had 'windows update' break your software for no reason?
LSD trips are usually intensely emotional experiences. Any intensely emotional experience can trigger psychotic symptoms in people predisposed to them.

If you advise people predisposed to psychosis to stay away from LSD, you should also advise them to stay away from sex and any and all other intensely emotional experiences.

That said, there's always a risk to doing anything. People choose to engage in risky behaviors every day. You take a risk by moving your butt out of your chair. You certainly take a pretty big risk to your mental and physical well-being by riding in or driving a car (it risks your mental well-being due to the possibility of brain injury in an accident). Yet people do it all the time. Often without giving it a second thought -- and if you point out the risk they're taking, they'll usually shrug it off.

Some people like to risk their lives by smoking tobacco, others by drinking alcohol, yet others by stuffing their face with junk food. For some the fun is in risking their lives skydiving, or scubadiving, or hang-gliding, or paragliding, or surfing, or spelunking, or swimming.

But you don't have to go to extremes to risk your life. Just hanging out at the local pub is risky (you could get injured or killed in a brawl). Climbing a ladder is risky. Crossing a street is risky.

But once the subject turns to drugs people start freaking out about the fact that you're taking a risk by doing them, as if taking risks was something only crazy homeless people and stunt-car drivers did, and not something they themselves did every day of their lives.
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@mgkimsal - yes java, moving towards scala on newer projects. We use simple, fast & testable solutions, such as a main class or servlet listener which constructs an application programmatically, rather than a monolithic spring or JEE configuration.
How The Beauty Industry is Using Social Media? (INFOGRAPHICS)
Lenovo ThinkPad X301: Dealing With Error Code Problems
Lenovo Think Pad X301 is packed with 1.40GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SU9400. It comprises the Windows Vista operating system. It is essential to find out the possible cause behind this error code occurrence prior to starting the troubleshooting process.

A power of self test is conducted by the system itself and this happens as soon as you boot it. These tests are important as it thoroughly screens the essential components which include RAM, VGA and processor. These are tested during the start up phase of the system. If the system has successfully started up then there is no issue in these components. If after starting up, you encounter any issue then you will see an error code message being displayed on the screen.
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> my growth

Honest question because the "growth" and "waking up" aspect very often comes up: how do you know you have "grown" and not just got lost in meaningless meandering and your drug-induced perception made you think you reached a "higher level"?
Now you know why I do not write articles for javacodegeeks..

This article is devoid of any dev value
Nintendo's Biggest Blunders
So, some electrodes (easily available for TENS machines, or you could go more high-tech); conductive gel; one 9v battery; one 4500 ohm resistor; (or probably two batteries and a current regulator).

Does anyone have a map of cathode / anode electrode positions?
* I think I just need to add some padding into the jquery.ui.sortable to make them more "accomodating"
* Thanks. I had some simple keyboard shortcuts in place (ctrl+n, ctrl+s) but found a couple of bugs in the library so temporarily removed them.
* Saving without a mouse: hitting tab currently should do it but keyboard shortcuts coming soon.
* Yep, hadn't noticed that it flies off to the right. Thanks!
Songkick: We can be the public company for music fans
Nobody gets this outraged when companies that violate the GNU license get taken to court and you can use the exact same reasoning as the pirates (When you use open source in a proprietary app, the original is still in tact. The only thing we don't get are the changes, so nobody really gets hurt).
"...and creates more issues for those less technically oriented."

I haven't used it much since I want a native client for my platform, but from what I've seen it's almost like an "App Store" with search-functionality and a one-click procedure to download. What makes you think it's harder to use than normal bittorrent-clients and sites?
The Dark Side of Big Data: Fooled By Randomness
> LSD isn't addictive.

You could just as much try to claim that WoW, gambling or food aren't "addictive".
Sure, but how many people are using it? You would need to verify the password on each request (since you can't use browser cookies).
New Cisco System Helps Customers Build Clouds,Deploy Business Apps Faster
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The Web Never Forgets. Should It?
Google Cloud Storage Cuts Prices, Integrates With Tech Providers
Google Cloud Storage Cuts Prices, Integrates With Tech Providers
> quite a safe drug

With drug-induced chronic psychosis a possibility (as with pretty much ALL more potent drugs), I am not sure "quite safe" is exactly the right word, despite the odds...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD#Potential_adverse_effects
The Quick Course in Online Marketing: Big Picture
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More likely HURD
Python already has tools for this. IF I were interested in my working environment becoming more like a Ruby working environment, why wouldn't I just use Ruby?
Sorry, i oversaw your reply. That paragraph is about what a provider may store, and it is pretty rigid. As far as i know, in practice they save more (that law is not fully followed).

>(4) Der Diensteanbieter darf Nutzungsdaten über das Ende des Nutzungsvorgangs hinaus verwenden, soweit sie für Zwecke der Abrechnung mit dem Nutzer erforderlich sind (Abrechnungsdaten). Zur Erfüllung bestehender gesetzlicher, satzungsmäßiger oder vertraglicher Aufbewahrungsfristen darf der Diensteanbieter die Daten sperren.

This informally translates to:
"The provider may use data about the usage after the usage, if those data are necessary to calculate the billings. He may save those data to fulfill existing deadlines, coming from law or contract"

There don't seem to exist an english translation of that law.
I am very curious how YC makes out in a deal like this - when there is 17M of capital invested after them in A and B rounds if there was any sort of liquidity preference you can pretty much guarantee YC didn't see a dime. (especially since 9M of this was retention for employees which makes me think that the employees weren't going to make anything from their equity/shares)