skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For comparison's sake, look how Coda Hale handles this problem:

https://twitter.com/#!/coda/status/182858775382851585

140 characters. Note the advanced trick he employs of explaining himself while simultaneously owning the problem. The fundamental technique there: demonstrate (somehow) that you understand the concern and that the concern is valid.

(Your annotation is more cynical than mine would be; the interesting discussion though as far as I'm concerned is "the mechanics of how to apologize effectively in an open letter").
Encryption and the Fifth Amendment (Video, 4:53)
It isn't showing you what it thinks you will like at all.

It is showing you the most amount of pertinent advertising that it thinks you will tolerate while promoting sites containing similar advertising as high up the page rank as it thinks you will tolerate.

All those links to your G+ friends are promoted to keep you on Google's properties where they can make the most money when you click on an advertising link - think of Google like a DisneyWorld's Magic Kingdom and G+ like Downtown Disney.
It's not wrong. If you have only a few slices, they will load in parallel in most browsers.
I can't find the exact listing anymore but Blizzard job postings was searching explicitly for people to develop a new MMO in a completely new settings (no star/warcraft, diablo). This was a few months ago

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/careers/directory.html#...
Ah, a post I can comment on with authority. I'm a local reporter with a heart for tech. Perhaps I should blog a little more about getting media coverage for young (and not-so-young) entrepreneurs.

At least for local papers (and probably TV too), if you're not local, don't bother with emailing them. They'll pretty much disregard your email altogether (You probably WOULDNT be surprised by how many emails we get in a day begging for coverage for this or that. But it is a lot. Probably a few dozen for a midsized paper).

Find some way the product is really cool. And I'm talking, COOL. You might get a business reporter to give you a brief mention or a two paragraph something or another, but if you want a full shebang write up, you have to paint a picture as to WHY your product is the bomb. And don't give us your pre-written media shpeal. That might get you an article, but being organic is going to be a much better bet. Personally, I like to HEAR the enthusiasm for your product come through in your email. People who are extremely passionate about their product usually make for good stories regardless of the product. The folks at mashable write on tech for a living. So if you have a novel idea there, they're probably going to write about it. They may not be excited about writing the story, but they'll still do it; it's their job (kind of like whether the education reporter LIKES any given story they're writing about, they still have to do it because it's their job).

I guess if i could sum it up, I'd say talk to a reporter in an email or a phone call like you would tell your best bud about this awesome new thing you've got going on. In short, why are our READERS going to give a crap about your product? Keep in mind, we write stories. So we like to hear interesting stories. Maybe how you and yoru cofounders found each other or how you came up with the idea (a big maybe). yes you're trying to sell us on covering your product, but don't approach it that way.

(And as a PS, if you have journalist friends, DON'T beg us to write about your product whenever you see us. Just forget we're reporters. If you have something going on that we know about and think our readers might be interested in, We'll ask you about it) ;)

Maybe that will help some of yall out a little :)
Does anyone have more information on Tems? I read about this yesterday on the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/16/greece-on-breadl...).

I'm wondering how inflation would play out in Tems.
Bandwidth is not the bottleneck.
Let me add some more. People here being called "african-american", "asian-american", "japanese-american", "indian-american" (different from the "Indians" who are the original (native) Americans) and so on. This shows the inherent racist bigotry prevalent and the sense of entitlement felt by the WASPy americans. Why not call all Americans (whether by birth or naturalized) as Americans instead of differentiating? On the same lines, I'd suggest calling white americans from Europe as "white caucasian americans", "italian-americans", "irish-americans", "british-americans" etc. Oh, and one more, China != Asia. Asia consists of a LOT many countries, not just China. A very relevant editorial cartoon last year by Steve Kelly of the Times-Picayune on the immigrant issue, too.
Exactly. We fucked up. We are sorry. We have taken down the video. It won't happen again. Done. That's all you need to say. Anything more and you're just making it worse.
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We took a local Classifieds site and combined it with an online Auction. Its easy, fun and best of all free. First local site, http://NewYork.HasToOffer.com, just went live.
I reject anything from fox news. If any other news source says it I'd even read it. Sorry fox is dead to me.
Tornado early warnings using crowd-sourced data
I have recently started using Instapaper with its iOS application. This setup is working for me very well. I do read a lot but I also find that a lot of times I find something (on the desktop/laptop/phone) that I'd like to read but do not have the time to do so immediately. Queuing such things under Instapaper (and letting it clear out all the clutter), helps me pick it up later regardless of where and when. I'd highly recommend it.
It's the threatening of her job that made this unforgivable for me - I can understand someone, at night, reacting overly defensively about their startup. It's something hugely important to them and they identify with it strongly, so they react without thinking too much instead of walking away from the keyboard like they should've.

But their reaction-without-thinking is so telling here that I'm kinda glad they did it. Their first reaction when threatened is to look for the strongest way to lash out and hurt the other person - in this case by threatening their job, by repeatedly trying to drag their employer into the fight (even after Basho did the decent thing and said 'not our concern').

How could you trust a company founded by someone who has an instinctive reaction like that?
Experiences of Using Git-Svn on a Large Project
Same here. A lot of hype thanks to it being associated with YC and hackers.
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What a close-minded person you are. This is essentially an ad-hominem attack, as HN loves to point out--because it comes from a certain source, you dismiss it immediately and attempt to discredit it.
There are a lot of problems with C++, but I've hardly heard syntax referred to as one of them.
>"in order for it to place ads it needs to serve relevant results;"

or Google could serve ads by developing a suite of web apps, or a mobile operating system, or a even a social networking site.

Google could even serve ads on other people's websites when people visit those websites without going through their search service.
Solid advice. I launched http://blisscontrol.com a few days ago and it's been covered by Lifehacker, TechCrunch, Cnet and plenty more blogs. Most of the tactics mentioned in this post were ones that I used so definitely recommend using these tips.
Watch a series of seven brilliant lectures by Richard Feynman
There is no country which allows completely unrestricted speech. In America, the common example is "shouting fire in a crowded theatre".

All countries define a subset of speech to be harmful in certain contexts. Some countries are more or less restrictive in defining that subset, but there is absolutely a continuum.
I really like this. It's pretty damn fast. M sharing it everywhere.
Tweeting Breakfast
But those 5-year-old ThinkPads are the next best thing, in terms of high-DPI IPS panels. No current laptop can compete with those old ThinkPads, let alone the iPad 3.
True. In some countries, specially in the developing countries, going to the goverment for money is actually a common course of action for relatively risky but promising tech ideas.
Believe it or not, I would dare speak up, even to my boss, if I thought she would appreciate the comment.
But, shouldn't less data decrease the time it takes for the HTML to reach a browser - fewer packets?
Crowd-funding bill passes Senate
I worked in a near-ideal development culture once.

Thank you very much for this description. I find it gratifying and inspiring.

Everyone was quick to assume that if other people thought their code was confusing, then it probably was...There's unspoken machismo, which put into words would sound like this: "Nasty opaque codebase? What's wrong, can't take the complexity, little man?"

Also, I find this to be key. There is room for raw talent and huge, inspiring amounts of clever -- but it needs to be focused exactly where it does the most good. Let's just assume that one's competitors are in the same league when it comes to intellectual horsepower. Then it behooves one to make sure one's resources are focused where they do the most good. Let the competition dissipate their intellectual powers in developer pissing matches while you quietly outperform them.

Of late, I've come around to a radical stance on this. Modulo DRY, one should almost always target one's code to the lowest common denominator programmer on the team -- the newbie. This should probably follow an 80/20 or 90/10 rule. If a bog-standard well informed and competent programmer can't come in and start fixing 80% of your code within an hour, and it's not due to lack of non-programming specialized domain knowledge, then you're doing it wrong. There's room for elegant abstractions and the odd clever hack -- but you only get to have at most 7 of these in any given subsystem, and the code involved should be the minority of your codebase.

Clever is a valuable resource. Use it wisely.
Yeah, I really want to start seeing bitcoin/password cracking benchmarks. It's something ATI/AMD has been far better at, which is not what you'd expect after seeing an anandtech or tomshardware review.
According to http://jeffwhelpley.com/2012/03/14/just-in-time-expertise-my... it seems that AnyFu has had the first customer, and I've read on g+ (and heard on the podcast) that some experts are adding their profiles in these weeks
The global interpreter lock is a large one IMO. One of the huge advantages of type safety is that you can use types to help enforce thread safety rules, but if the interpreter itself can't handle it, that's a huge problem!
Also, the United States went through a period of scrip currency during the Great Depression (though it wasn't quite a 'Miracle Experiment'). See the second image down for an example: http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/small_exhibition.c...
Actually, it's an evidence-based attack.

http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/11/21/fairleigh_dickinso...
Not sure how many are unaware, but Google Analytics has had this same feature for at least a few months (I think) with a different, slightly more fancy, UI. From the new Analytics dashboard, if you go to Standard Reporting => Audience => Visitors Flow, you'll see it.

http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
They've been working on a new MMO for a while now, the only information that has really come out is that the internal name for the project is 'Titan'.

There's a Wikipedia page with about all the non-speculation that is currently available:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_%28Blizzard_Entertainment...
This is very intuitive! Graphical representations are always better than data in such use cases, IMHO.
Those listings have been around for a long time (or at least, listings with talk of a new MMO for a new franchise) for some 5 years now, iirc.
Overall the visual design is nice but this doesn't seem very practical.

Issues:

1) Requires too much effort (rolling over hover states) to dig out information.

2) Pairing circles and rectangles as a node make it hard to parse when your eyes are scanning the page. These shapes don't naturally go together.

3) URL's are truncated too short. On the bottom left of the live demo, you see "/account/listi..." twice, and they're actually different URL's. For some websites I can see this becoming a major issue.

4) The rounded circular graphs with the blue and red look nice, but doesn't convey the information very well. Any type of circular chart (pie chart, tachometer graphs, etc.) is not recommended.

Suggestions: I would consolidate the information for each node and show all of the visible and rollover data into a single box. Use varying font sizes, colors, and weights for necessary emphasis. Instead of the circular graphs, use a horizontal bullet graph[1] along the top of each node. Use the bullet graph to display the historical high and low as the bar, and the daily range as the background (or vice versa). This way, the user can scan the page looking at the bullet graphs along the top, and then if something strikes there eye as unusual look below and examine the data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_graph
Along the way I've learned a lot of new tricks, but my core practices are largely similar to what they've always been. I struggle to think of any other tool or skill that's changed less over that length of time - for me, the new useful bits are largely codifying and refining old manual processes.

Well, the "codifying and refining old manual processes" is what software like Photoshop is all about. Where do you draw the line?

A lot of stuff introduced AFTER version 5 is used everyday by almost anyone. In fact, Layer Styles (version 6) is the number one requested feature for Pixelmator.

Other stuff:

fully vector text, camera RAW (7),

Shadow/Highlight, Match Color, Lens Blur, Hierarchical layer groups, 16 bit per channel, support for files over 2 Gigabytes, type on a path (8),

Smart Objects, Smart Sharpen (9),

Smart (non-destructive) Filters (10)

And other stuff, maybe not visible, but that we couldn't live without AT ALL, like Intel Mac support, and 64-bit support, plus the "how did we work before" GPU support, all introduced in later versions than 10.
> I thought down-votes were only for things that didn't contribute to the conversation.

yeah, well.. you need to see my posts on Apple threads.
seems cool. i'm waiting for it
That's brilliant, particularly given that this post wasn't even written by Fox: http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2260-human-bird-wings-vi...
It's really difficult to get a good sense of how a user moves throughout your site. So, I think this could be amazing.

As a next step, they should allow you to click on one of the nodes and turn that page into a cohort. Then, we could analyze the impact of our improvements. That'd be sick.
Project Mayhem: Dual boot Android and Windows Phone
What realistic scanario has the following characteristic:

We are fighting against an enemy for which fourth generation fight planes are inadequate and said enemy does not have nuclear armed ICBMs?

Meanwhile the Air Force is bent on taking out of service the one type of aircraft that is most useful to actual, likely war-fighting - the CAS planes. The AC-130 was originally designed in the 60s and troops still cheer when it arrives over the battlefield.

The boys that run the fighter jet mafia consider such "bus driving" planes beneath them, so we instead of upgrading the A, C and perhaps B lines we have to spend hundreds of billions of dollars buying the kind of F line toys they prefer to play with.
The trend started shortly after AT&T changed the license to a more commercial license.

It also overlaps with the time that AT&T tried to sue the Berkeley university.

If I recall correctly, for HP-UX, Aix, Irix and Solaris, the vendor compilers have always been extra.

And in other OS at the time, the don't include the compiler, was the trend, if I am not mistaken.
The Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory [pdf]
I can respect a woman by not "gazing" at her. A woman can respect me by not wearing slutty clothing. Elementary, Dr. Watson.
I just started playing 4.3 after leaving in 3.3 and the blatant brokenness of the game amazes me. I expected the human racial to no longer be unreasonably powerful, but 2x PVE trinkets is now an even larger advantage than it was in WotLK. I expected at least some effort at QA for the content patches, but instead we have blood DKs in blood presence being critically hit by bosses, carrying winds letting players fall to their deaths, and Deathwing occasionally deciding he would rather remain impossible to attack until his hard enrage than participate in the last phase of the encounter.

Blizzard has said they want to fix the PvE vs PvP issues at least with respect to gear, so that wearing PvP gear in PvE is bad but not terrible and wearing PvE gear in PvP (even trinkets!) is bad but not terrible. It seems odd that they did not think this was an issue from TBC until now.
Edit: I don't work with such things, but posting the first version of this felt unwise so I cut a few things.

Stinger's cost ~38k and are not guaranteed to work so multiply that by the probability of failure.

You can buy drone control system can cost below 1,500$ ex: http://www.micropilot.com/products-mp1028g.htm, granted there are good reasons to buy / build something far more expensive but we are looking at low cost baseline. After that it's a question of range and payload for 10,000$ you can get an RC jet that can do 200 mph and carry a camcorder for surveillance. Call it 15k for a fairly respectable surveillance aircraft. As to being able to fight back just add a spike.

PS: Now figure out what you can do with say 10 billion$ aka 600,000 of these things. Worse yet that's just an opening, they are cheap enough that you have plenty of budget for other things.
Why do you disagree? You are describing EXACTLY what I said.

Did you typo and mean to write agree?

When you hit terminal velocity you are no longer in free fall, I would expect it to feel like pressing lightly on something - which is what you describe.

To be in free fall you have to be accelerating (that's why it's called free fall and not zero gravity), and again that's what you describe.

This is not a correct sentence: "When acceleration is involved, weightlessness is not." In fact it's exactly the oppose of that.

You can't have zero gravity near the earth - the earth has gravity, and you can't get away from it. Instead you accelerate at exactly the same speed as the acceleration from gravity. In order not to hit the ground due to your acceleration you move in a big circle and keep missing the ground.

The reason you don't keep getting faster and faster is that you keep accelerating in a different direction, your average is zero, but you are always accelerating, just in different directions (and you make sure to always put the earth in the right place to match your acceleration).

People on the space station feel like they are falling the entire time. Presumably they get used to it after a while, but that's what it feels like.
How do you know your code works if you don't test it?

If writing tests takes longer than manual testing, you need more practice writing tests.
I read it as an exercise in science fiction, and imagining what will be possible with stuff that's not far beyond the current state of the art. Yes all of these ideas are unworkable right now.

The shocking thing, when I stopped to think about it, is how much closer they are to being realistic than my gut instinct felt like they were.

Sufficiently powerful computation, storage, and solar power are cheap and miniaturized. Hobbyists have used cameras tied to balloons to take video of the edge of space. Research projects have produced robots that can power themselves from biomass and sugars. All science fact.

Ten years ago these ideas would have been obvious science fiction. Now it takes a bit longer to establish what parts are outlandish because so much of it is so much more plausible. It makes me think about how things will look in 2022. I don't have a strong expectation that any of these ideas in particular will come true. The future will likely be stranger still.
I came to post this exact same thing. The whole project is a joke.
This is true, though I don't have high expectations for Isis. Boku has advantage here in that they're offering much more of an open ecosystem with their "Accounts" product, and plus they already have the carrier relationships with their legacy carrier micropayment service.

That said, it's ridiculous that carriers even have a say in this stuff anymore. When did carriers get the authority to approve apps?
Hey guys, please take a look at the following app: http://editgrid.com/untitled

It's the coolest web-based spreadsheets application built 6 years ago using no library, no framework. I'm a fan of it. It was looking just like this current version 6 years ago and was pretty fast at even IE6. And its 6 years old JavaScript code follows the rules of coding good JavaScript code way more than Ember itself.

Here is another story: I was working for a competitor of EditGrid and built a Microsoft Excel clone with dozens of features in 6 months, using no framework, no library, 5 years ago. We were two guys at frontend and two other guys in at backend. And our source code was almost pure object orient, mixable, reusable and relying on MVC, event-driven programming.

I've been shipping rich web apps for more than 6 years and recently had the chance of working with both Backbone and Ember. Here is my feedback:

The size of Ember library is bigger than total source code (including an AI library) of the last multiplayer game I built.

And both of them solve no problem, simplify nothing. They just force beginners to not code crappy code and that's all. Good JavaScript code should benefit of functional programming very well, like some NodeJS apps and libraries. They got no understanding of FP. Especially Ember relies on a horrible idea that increases the cost of development very huge. Very ironically, ember code is not reusable, not mixable with other web apps. It's not even unobtrusive, pollutes Object prototypes. When you finish your app, you got a huge garbage that has not even one piece of reusable code.

To summarize, there is nothing Ember does right. It tries to solve already solved problems in a very absurd way and is very irrelevant with the new problems JavaScript community tries to solve (such as code-reuse with NodeJS apps, it's partly solved)

It's the new, communist North Korea of JavaScript world.
Feature request: Please let me have multiple simultaneous URL Groups (or if this is already possible, I can't figure out how to do it). It also wasn't very clear that the URL Groups aren't stored, so I have to re-enter them each time depending on what data I'm viewing? Or am I mixed up there, too?
An error in your table lists AGPL 3 as not applying to the web.
Logged in, and in Texas, my search for 'dmv' returns the California DMV.

Then New York.

Then Virginia.

The only results for Texas DMV are two ads at the top of the result listing for sketchy drivers-license.org type "businesses".
"""From the perspective of "what can I do with this code", if you modify a BSD-licensed file, and include GPL code, the entire file will be essentially under the GPL license."""

That's not true. If I have some BSD-licensed code, and Bob copies a GPL'd function into it somewhere, Alice can still copy out BSD'd code from it and use it in her proprietary project.

It is very important to distinguish between "must comply with the GPL" and "must relicense to the GPL".

"""The Weak versus Strong notions come from the FSF- That's not my terminology. I do think my descriptions are accurate, and don't disagree with you. What am I missing?"""

You describe weak-vs-strong as being about whether proprietary software can use some library. The actual distinction is how proprietary software can use that library. Weaker licenses provide authors of proprietary software with more options (such as static linking).