skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All these claims of W8 being "unusable"... I don't understand the use of this word.

Once in a blue moon, there comes an event that makes the Internet completely unbearable to me, no matter where I go. New, high profile product launches are typically this way. The outrage on the Internet when the iPod was announced, the iPhone, the iPad. When WP7 came out. A new update to Ubuntu. Any change in Google or Facebook. All labeled by the Internet as horrible failures. The last version is always the best (until you get used to the newest one).

There exists a set of loudmouths with nothing better to than rile up the hivemind, and rile they do. A potentially good product is dead before it even goes live, based on misconceptions, "viral" videos, and preconceived notions based on misreported facts and wild, irresponsible speculation. Imagine if the Internet culture was around when DOS was replaced by Windows.

Microsoft knows what they're doing. And if they don't, they'll figure it out pretty quick, or they'll die. Guess what? This is a beta "preview" release. No Windows has launched without a tutorial since at least Windows 95. If Windows 8 is a failure, it'll be because of wild, speculative bullshit, not because it's a bad product. Using a computer is not intuitive by itself. All your complaints would be equally valid going from Windows 8 to Windows 7.
Using Backgrounds in CSS3
With CSS3, developers and designers can utilize an enhanced range of options for Web page backgrounds. New options include the ability to use multiple background images, to specify size properties for background images, and to define background origin and clipping in terms of the CSS box model. In this tutorial we will work through various options using these new techniques, demonstrating the CSS syntax for each one.
Indeed I can only hear the first 3 minutes as those 'um's starts to drive me crazy, hope he watches his own speech and improves his speech skill soon.
Not to diminish your accomplishments, because it's a lovely looking app, but why not target the desktop first? Are you planning to?

Nice work!
The only reason for taking such decision is the money.We have noticed the same thing in the past.
Google I/O registration is "very soon"
This. While reading the article, I couldn't help but imagine the legions of extremely bright Russian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Hungarian, etc hackers, most likely orders of magnitude more sophisticated than Sabu, looking at the LulzSec shenanigans with disdain and comparing our western hacking scene with Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight.

That being said, LulzSec et. al. were more about social activism than about accomplished hacking. For a mission like that you really need some mainstream appeal, and for that purpose the newage digital messiah fit the bill.
I bought UMJAM.com - lets put a page up :)
The interesting thing is going back and looking at the posts (linked in TFA) of people who knew at the time who he was, and that he got flipped. Those are the people who actually know what they're doing and probably won't ever get caught, or at least will be much harder to catch. Those people are probably fine with Sabu being used as an example of what a "hacker" is.

Here's an interesting one. https://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/if-i-am-wrong-ill...
Photo Image Manipulation: Beautiful Collections of Digital Manipulation
Amazon Under Siege
Could this method also be used to create ultra-thin wafers for microprocessors?
Yes, but "smooth" also has a well defined meaning in everyday language. The word "smooth" is commonly used when talking about splines and interpolation.
Buying oil from nations we don't like is acceptable because everyone wants to own their own car, it's very selfish motivation and massively profitable for the middlemen.

Trading cheap electric power with little profit requires governments to make forward thinking, progressive decisions because no business will bother unless they could make millions from their effort.

Also, I often ponder what will happen one day when power is cheap and easily available - you'd want to hope it means less war but I fear it means the opposite. The war machine will LOVE cheap power and then attacking power feeds or cutting off the other side of the globe as an act of war or terrorism will be too easy of a target. So we'd need peace first which is unlikely to happen given most governments.
I think you might be missing a profitable niche. Github already has a great website and a github:issues iPhone app. Github customers are overserved.

On the other hand, companies that use FogBugz, are underserved. All iPhone FogBugz apps are crappy. FogBugz mobile website is barely usable. If you created a FogBugz client, you'd face no competition to speak of, and an (admiteddly smaller) market of customers who pay $25/mo for each developer account. Which means you could price your app higher and people would still buy (I would have no problem with paying $40 for a FogBugz client — a good one).
Mysterious hog farm explosions stump scientists
Aha! I will do the same except I will poach the homeless workers from you by offering them $2.50 an hour.
The SeatGeek Platform
No it should not. It's as if you said, if Yahoo has a gun, it should fire at Facebook.

Tech companies do not make their living by exploiting their patents directly (as e.g. pharma companies do). They make living from advertising to their userbase. They do patent some things they use to keep and monetize that usebase, but there is no direct relation.

So: Of course they should not sue "by default". It just isn't a winning strategy for them.
Stanford has a set of awesome podcasts called Entrepreneurial thought leaders (http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html).

One of the more recent ones was from a serial entrepreneur in the medial space.

He said the reason that drugs take so long to produce is the FDA process. Now the FDA is housed by smart people but you have to look at it from their prespective.

They can accept or reject drugs. If they reject a drug then there is no serious problem that can come back and bite them.

If they accept a drug, there is no real upside to them.

They get no bonus for accepting the drug, however if the drug turns out to actually harm people then they are squarely in the cross hairs.

This leads to the question of why would the FDA accept any drug without being 100% sure, and with medicine there is no such thing as 100% sure.
Jailbreakers Game
Emacs has a pdf viewer, a terminal, and a pretty good editor (holy wars aside)
Jerkson works really well. Can convert JSON into case-classes really nicely and handles snake-types.
S.E.C. Close to Bringing Cases on 2 Brokerage Firms (re: private co shares)
Sony Xperia with floating touch technology
Interesting that they only make comparisons with PIC and 8051. AVR still blows them away on many angles; particularly energy efficiency, community, ease of use on not-windows, and price. (MSP430 too, for efficiency and price.)

I'm fooling around with the lower power ARM chips on weekends, and they seem like a great option when you really want to shoehorn in a full operating system somewhere.
what profit of giving the definition of property so well.We all know what is property.The thing that you can discuss that the distribution of property equally to all and the possible way to utilize it.
imgur.

They are not stagnant, improving all the time. Not as big as flickr, but big enough and reliable.

I used both imgur pro and flickr but now I only use flickr because I am too lazy to switch.
The majority of the money goes into Phase III clinical trials. Don't bash the FDA - they're the most evidence based, scientifically minded regulatory body in our government.

Preclinical and Phase I - II trials aren't too expensive, in the order of millions of dollars.

But also remember, for every ~10,000 candidates that enter preclinical trials, about 1-2 will actually pass FDA approval.

The billion number isn't just for one drug, it's also for the 10,000 failures that you had to weed through to find that one drug.

Phase I is safety trials in healthy humans (young males generally). Phase II starts using it in the target population (the sick) and begins looking at dosing requirements and preliminary efficacy data.

But the big one, Phase III, that's the big group, expensive, efficacy trial. This is the trial that has to prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt scientifically, that the drug does what they say it does. A good Phase III trial can cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars easy. I've heard of $250,000,000 Phase III trials before.

If "the most rigorous evidence requirement in the world" is your example of "inefficient and corrupt", than I guess we'll just disagree.

But the FDA is the most strict drug regulatory body in the world, and the amount of evidence for efficacy that they require from the industry is truly impressive and truly does warrant the billions price tag.
The Go-Elsewhere Generation
In the past I have also heard that McD's business is not fast food (nor real estate) but food arbitrage. I suspect this says more about the person doing the analysis at the time than it does about McD's business. They sell hamburgers.
Yeah, there are a lot of safety-related things because we keep getting a vioxx every so often that's killing people.

I'm not willing to increase my chance of getting killed by medicine on behalf of someone else's profit margin. They have a big, powerful lobby, they should suggest process improvements. And make some on their end, as well, nobody's charging them billions in fees, they spend that money on the typical big-company waste in the process of complying with those regs.
I'm not sure you understand the context -- for that matter, your terse replies make it hard to know what you think you're saying. But to respond anyways: there is a legal definition of the idea of copyright and the question is pretty well-settled whether that definition applies to digital works. There is no philosophical definition of copyright, for the reasons that I said above -- it's hard to regard it as an issue in philosophy.
They seem to be oversimplifying "US Patent 7406501 System and method for instant messaging using an e-mail protocol". It's not "just" instant messaging: the actual useful bit is the "reply to email to send instant message internally" functionality that FB notification emails have.

Still not patent-worthy, of course, since any coder will instantly come up with same implementation (unique tracking token) the moment they hear that problem description.

Their write-up just irks me because it's misrepresenting the patent (silly as it may still be).
The Rigel Project
The Rigel project is a simulator + tool chain for a machine with 1000+ cores. The aim is to develop the chip as well as a low level software stack that would make it suitable for development.

I am not currently associated with the project but i did do some research on it when i was at UIUC. I was trying to make a small cooperative scheduler run on it and evaluate different scheduling strategies
Exactly. It's very similar to how content companies try to control the release of content and pricing around the world (region codes ugh). If any pharm company sells drug A in the US for $100 and sells the same drug in Africa for $1 then it's an obvious arbitration opportunity. They are trying to prevent the 'flat world' from eating sales by simply pricing it the same everywhere.
I'm pretty sure most Java developers moved to Joda Time long ago to solve this issue. It's pretty much standard.

Well, maybe not enterprise developers (like me) who rarely get to use "untrusted" third party libs.
> On the other hand we know that, since most people will pay whatever they able to for healthcare

"we" don't know that. In fact, we know that it's wrong.

When people are spending their own resources, they plan their non-emergency spending.

For example, I'll bet that you don't take the vitamins that you should. You probably also don't exercise as you should. It's money and time that you could easily afford, yet ....
On Utah's 'Silicon Slopes,' Tech Jobs Get A Lift
I don't think a lot of people are still slicing up photoshop mockups? At least I hope not as the need for it should be fairly limited with CSS3.
Unboxing The New iPad With 4G LTE In Vietnam
>I receive emails from customers that they get Google Licensing Errors and I get one star reviews for my app due to this.
They don't understand that this is Google's fault, not mine.

This is a danger in the market, and I see it in reviews all the time. Every limitation of the system is the fault of the developer of the app, and the reason the app is slow is because the developer is bad (not because the customer picked a phone with a 700mhz CPU).

The app markets really need a way to protect developers from abusive customers. Amazon lets other customers respond to a review, and Newegg lets the maker of the product respond. Maybe the Android Market needs this, too.
S.Korean, Russian scientists bid to clone mammoth
> And privately designed/built/owned particle accelerators? It's definitely a new era.

It's not that new.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Television_set_from_the_ea...
Porn for Ladies: The Sexism of Assessing Female-Friendly Smut
You'd think that, but I've met some very good designers that can work that full stack. The world is changing and people need to upskill or get left behind.

HTML/CSS is not that difficult. Even jQuery is pretty simple. Good jQuery is hard. Good Javascript harder still.
You might want to check out lift-json again. It can easily serialize and deserialize case classes. https://github.com/lift/lift/tree/master/framework/lift-base...

Also, Play 2.0 includes Jerkson, so whatever Jerkson can do, Play 2.0 can do. They just happened to add some helper utilities that made it very similar to lift-json. So I think the community is settling on something good and simple.
Introducing 35 Pentesting Tools Used for Web Vulnerability Assessment
That's the One.

Makes you think, if these guys can fill an entire book with great content about pricing strategies, we should probably put a little more effort in our price strategy than pulling a number out our heads based on our own preconceived notions of what our customers would pay based on the competitors pricing, etc...

After all, if price is a numeric representation of value exchanged, if your prices aren't at the top of the market, you are probably not serving your end-users as well as possible with the best value possible.

More importantly, the more you charge and the wider your margins, the more room you have to create and deliver a superior product and customer experience.

If Dan Kennedy is to be believed, only about 20% of consumers shop by price. There are two reasons they do so...
1. They can't afford to spend more and have NO CHOICE.
2. They are too lazy to think about what they are buying and actually research the product, and determine what product serves their needs best.

Question: Do Your Really Want These Customers Anyway?

Bottom Line: If you are price competitive, it might just be because you are too lazy to put real effort into creating, communicating and delivering value, or have a lack of confidence in your offering.

End Result: you end up attracting the wrong type of customer that doesn't appreciate you or the value you provide, or just doesn't have the money to pay you. (from experience, these customers are the biggest headache and rarely worth the time and effort)
Anti-griefing is important on any semi-serious server that is publically available or doesn't use a strict white list.

Believe me, people will find your server. They find servers that aren't listed, and these servers are publically listed.

And they come and they grief. The kids, the 4chan trolls and whatever you want to call them. I've dealt with it on a number of occasions. Someone places a few thousand blocks of water everywhere, which must be removed by hand. (Unless you're using anti-griefing tools, which prevent TNT abuse, lava abuse, allow turning off certain elements, and give you the ability to rollback a players changes by time).

Anti-griefing in minecraft is like backing up your data. You don't think you need it until all your stuff is irrevocably screwed up.
"Microsoft knows what they're doing." D-oh! And remember: under no circumstances mention Windows Vista.
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> For instance, I would be sad if my phone only gave me one way to turn up the volume. Instead, I like that it gives me 3-4-5 different ways, all useful for different contexts.

Huh? What are these "different contexts" for volume on a phone? (There are different things with volume, such as a call vs the ringer, but that's different.)
Talent acquisitions hurt everyone
Alas, then it has started again. But it says "Upgrade to Chrome" instead of "...to IE 4"; worst of all, the Chrome-pushing sites work equally well in recent Opera, or Firefox, or Safari (yes, I know that uses the same core), once you get past the browser-sniffer - but noooo, damn any capability checking, there's gotta be "CHROME" in the User-Agent string.
If current trends[1] continue, it will take about 15-25 years for solar energy to become cheaper than fossil fuels, which seems like a reasonable length of time for a trend to continue.

To get the installation cost down from an estimated $1.40 in 2020 to $0.10 and $0.01 with the same trend would take 30-50 and 60-100 years, respectively. 70-110 years is definitely further in the future than I am comfortable peering; 40-60, also a little shaky.

But given current trends, it looks like 2050-2070 is roughly what you need to shoot for to live to see $0.10 / Watt solar energy. If you were born in America after 1976, I'd aim for 2076; it'd be nice to see the Tricentennial.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-05/solar-energy-costs-...
Amen, brother. If somebody can't do anything but rant, I won't bother with 'em. It's lazy; they're making me do all the work of evaluating when their limbic eruptions are legitimate.
I was far from a fan of the lulzsec or antisec activities, but it's impossible to claim that the HB Gary hack didn't have a major impact on the security world. It's tempting for those in the business to dismiss hacks if they're not done with cutting edge techniques, but what really matters is the result not if a sql injection was used.
Hacking is Important
I absolutely love your sidebar. Permission to mooch? :)
Mediums and Messages in Link Building
The winning team is the one that pays the government, not the other way round.
I suppose we all knew this day would come from Yahoo. The start of where lawyers take over the company and product make a steady march to complete crap. Pretty common pattern for companies that can no longer compete (SCO anyone). It is sad Yahoo still have a great brand and could reinvent itself. This entire thing is nonsense but I guess to try and squeeze some more revenue for the share holders is what they are obligated to do. I miss the old Yahoo.
Here is the difference between what you want to do and what TypeSafe is doing: You want to create the language and then profit. TypeSafe takes an open source language and bundles it with other open source technology and then offers support.

I think it would be hard to keep working on your language while trying to make a profit. If you want to try to make money, write a book about your language. Put it on http://leanpub.com/ and go from there. Maybe a publisher will be willing to work with you. But it is a way to earn money in the short term while you wait for the language to grow in popularity.
> lets get the emotional word "steal" out of the picture. Instead lets call it what it is, and make a note of why these are different and why the rights granted and defended are perhaps outmoded and out-dated.

I totally agree. That's the real conversation to have.

The only thing I would add is to be careful not to adopt the indefensible position that infringement is nothing like stealing. Some of the reasons we protect physical property do apply to copyright. We frequently defend physical property not because stealing deprives the owner of anything or even costs them money, but because stealing interferes with the economic model where you invest in creating something and charge for transferring your rights over it.

For example, consider stealing a newspaper from one of those coin-op machines. The paper was going to be pulped anyway, and you weren't going to buy it anyway. So you actually saved the publisher money. But it would sound absurd to most people to suggest that laws against stealing from newspaper vending machines should be abolished. Because the point isn't that you're depriving the publisher of the ability to read that particular copy of the paper themselves. The point is that our economic model depends on their ability to meter access to copies of the stuff they produce.

I hate these metaphors cause there's always a hundred reasons they don't line up. So don't look for the distinctions, just take it for the point that sometimes theft laws and copyright are protecting approximately similar interests. That doesn't mean copyright laws are a good idea -- it can be totally rational to protect papers in vending machines without protecting their online equivalent. It just means that you have to not trip yourself up at the start of the debate by suggesting that infringement and theft are nothing alike, or that copyright serves no purpose. It serves a purpose. It accomplishes useful stuff. It also costs our society a lot. The burden's on us to convince people we have a better plan to accomplish useful stuff with less cost.
>The more drugs we know, the harder it is to prove that the new drug you propose is better than current therapy.

No it's not. Example:

1980: Drug A is invented to treat illness X, proves to be the most effective

1990: Drug B is invented for illness X, effectiveness is tested against Drug A

2000: Drug C is invented for illness X, effectiveness is tested against Drug B

2010: Drug D is invented for illness X, effectiveness is tested against Drug C

In other words, always compare effectiveness to the current few best treatments. Nothing spirals, nothing becomes harder to prove.
Haskell's division operator (/) does not do floating point conversion. It may seem that way to you since evaluating 3/4 gives 0.75, for example. What actually happens is that every integer literal get the function fromInteger applied to it automatically, this function converts integers to whatever other type is necessary. So if you evaluate 3/4 at the REPL you're really computing (fromInteger 3) / (fromInteger 4), giving, by default[^1] a floating point number.

The key point in this is that only integer literals get fromInteger applied automatically, so for example

let n=6 :: Integer in n/3

gives a type error since n is not a literal and thus not automatically coerced. (Of course, doing this without the type declaration,

let n=6 in n/3

does give 2.0 as result, but it declares n to be a Fractional number, not an Integer.)

[^1]: only by default, if you load the rational number library, you can ask for / to compute rational numbers by simply saying the type of result you want: 3/4 :: Ratio Int evaluates to the rational number 3 % 4 (% is Haskell's odd choice of notation for rationals).
OK, you (and other commenters) are right. It was an overstatement. I agree with your last paragraph.
TIOBE also says Delphi/Object Pascal is more popular than Ruby. Also where do you get the "Rise of new languages like clojure" from? Certainly not from TIOBE, it's not even in the top 50, which sounds about right (btw it's not that hard to have 1000% rise if your starting point is like 0.0001%)
Precious Snowflakes
Great idea - although PDF supports search, having a real text version seems like it would be useful for authors to provide also. Thanks for the tip...
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