skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there not some kind of IP issue arising from copying the fundamental part of an existing game e.g. pictionary - "guessing a word from a picture".

I'm only asking, just seems a bit like shooting fish in a barrel releasing these kind of games and sooner or later one of the people who came up with these ideas is going to start noticing and want a piece of the action.
The all or nothing distribution for iOS and Android is something that has bugged me for a long time. It bugged me enough that I developed an "in-app" distribution platform for Android. In a nutshell I wrote an SDK that turns your entire apk into a plugin. A "shell" apk is installed on the phone that can run and update the plugin apk(s). This allows you to change almost anything about the app (not including permissions) and target a single phone, class of phones or all phones for the updates. I licensed the software to a company that needed to tightly manage phones but they have since pivoted away from their previous model.

I am trying to figure out if there is enough of a demand to create a service based on this technology. It seems like web companies have embraced lean startup, A/B testing, etc but I don't see a ton of mobile companies going this direction. This article gives me hope that these ideas are catching on in the mobile world.

If anyone is interested in "in-app" distribution to enable lean style iteration and A/B testing on Android please let me know.
The article on Arxiv makes no sense, it uses ill-defined notions, methods used there are contradictory, and most of the references it gives are from "Chaos, solitons and fractals" journal, which many professional mathematicians consider to be a joke.

Mathematicians are great at handling infinities -- it just turns out that Lebesgue's measure is not usefyl when studying fractals. That's why other notions were introduced, like for instance Hausdorff dimension.
Alt-shift-7 on a Finnish Mac keyboard. Took me a while to find it the first time.
Some arguments from this guy are:

1) Do not use a class if it doesnt have state

Agreed

2) Keep it simple and do not think about the future, fix it later if needed

He probably never wrote API code in libraries needed for other people. Once you choose something you are bound to it. In this case classes and interfaces are very helpfull. For example the API class example in the beginning (no state) is a good example. In the future the api might be extended with more functionality. The last thing you want is have 3rd parties rewrite their code cause you changed the API. So a class is good to provide a Facade (yes Facade Pattern).

3) package names are not for taxonomy but for preventing nameclashes

True. However in Java the editor is so powerfull that you never ever have to lookup package names. This goes automatically (IDE parses the code on the fly). Java package names also use URI patterns like: com.google.android.hardware.vibrator. Which can only be used by somebody who has the google.com domain name. This prevents name clashes ALL the time. In python you sometimes have to rename a whole project.
And the taxonomy gives you an indication what the code actually does.

4) Dont overuse exceptions and keep shorts names.

Agreed. However i am not sure what the best granularity is. In a public Library API, i would be very carefull about this.

Otherwise I agree with him.
Newspapers probably gather data for $10 Dollars in Print for Every $1 Gained digitally
http://code.google.com/p/goclipse/
Eugene Kaspersky's twitter comment seemed a lot more speculative than anything I heard Costin Raiu say. Exact quote:

"The mystery of #Duqu framework http://bit.ly/w5BrzP <- seems the state behind #Duqu sponsored the development of a new progr language"

I don't even do much programming and I was immediately wondering "wtf?" at that statement. The idea of developing a new programming language just to create a worm seemed far fetched, to say the least. He also mentions, as if it were fact despite that I've seen no hard evidence supporting it, that DuQu was created by a nation state. The whole thing just reeked of alarmist cyberwar nonsense.
My problem is that interpersonal conflicts are strongly effected by wealth. Someone who can afford lots of lawyers have a much greater chance of winning than someone who can barely afford one. Often people settle just to avoid crippling legal costs. Also people with greater wealth can use that money to promote their ideas and persuade other to their positions. They can afford their children much better opportunities. Not to mention that greater wealth disparities encourage keeping-up-with-the-Joneses arms races and other social ills.

I honestly suspect that shrinking the pie but making it more evenly distributed would be best for all for the increased social harmony and stability.
I heard from a friend that used to work there that they were oddly averse to making mobile games- until recently all their games were Facebook-based. Draw Something is one of the few they actually prioritised as a mobile app, and it paid off.
BIOS Disassembly Ninjutsu Uncovered (1st Edition) [Unedited] PDF released
Zane is legit. Download streamified.
it is sort of responsive? what's that delay when the page first loads?
Trolls - patent trolls - are sort of the central concern here, aren't they?
On my device (android with bar code scanner device), the experience is that I scan a QR code with a URL, it tells me that the QR code has a URL & shows me what the URL is, then gives me the option to visit the link.

Depending on if the URL is a shortened URL, it is just as safe or moreso than regular browsing.

Is your experience different from this?
He apparently heard about cardinal and ordinal number -- in his paper he states that his grossone is not the same as aleph 0 or omega. What it actually is, he does not say.
I'm not convinced that the top 10% sell things to the bottom 90%. We may have a situation where the different wealth brackets operate their own economies that really don't have much to do with each other. (I do agree with your main point that wealth creation isn't a zero sum game, which should be obvious to anyone by now).
If you are employed by an establishment that;

1) Does not pay you a wage for your work
2) Beats you for whatever they want to
3) Murders and often rape your children
4) Trades you for livestock
5) Offers you as gifts to their friends
6) Forces you to live under the mercy of the elements
7) Denies you the right to education
8) Brainwashes you into thinking all of the above are 'normal' and fair

...then I suggest you quit and consult a lawyer in your jursiction. Otherwise, what you describe has nothing to do with SLAVERY.
Ok, not better than C++ and I haven't used D. I should've said "other mid-to-high-level langauge". But using C++ doesn't solve my complaints about the clunkiness of the non-critical path stuff. Still have wacky string handling and I'd rather write my own bintree or hashmap than have to use STL.
Getting a call from a headhunter doesn't really mean that much. They are just trying to get someone with a decent resume into the interview pipeline where they will actually be evaluated. I get contacted somewhat frequently by people looking for machine learning devs (including facebook in the past and google quite recently) but there's never any specifics about position, salary, or project. After taking a few calls with headhunters just to see what it was like, I can't imagine someone who is not looking for a job anyway giving them serious attention. It's not a job offer; it's an offer to trudge through their interview process.
The current weekly release has (and Go v1 will have) runtime.NumCPU() so you can do runtime.GOMAXPROCS(runtime.NumCPU())
Should I quit my job and go freelance?
I am fed up with the constant bullshit that goes hand in hand with being an employee and am thinking about going freelance. I usually have a job or two on the side, so I am used to dealing with clients.

I am 30 now and have been developing professionally for nearly 10 years. I am experienced in PHP, Python, Javascript and a load of other things. I know I have the skills needed to make this happen.
The only thing that holds me back is the fear of being able to pull in a steady stream of clients.
Ideally I would like to pair up with someone who has a solid idea but needs a tech guy to make it a reality.

Does anyone here have advice? Should I maintain a full time job while building clients on the side, or quit and put myself into a sink or swim situation? Am I making a poor decision by going freelance?
Automating in Agile Environment
One of the smartest moves from this game is that after you see what someone has drawn for you, it automatically forces you to draw back to them.

1. Check drawing

2. See drawing

3. Get forced to pick word (no options to reply later)

4. Draw for them

5. Repeat

So if you ever want to see what anyone drew for you, you're pretty much forced to draw back thus a neverending cycle.
Maybe I'm not understanding correctly, but isn't that how they're presenting their findings(W/cm³)?

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/energy...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_density
I think it's fine to compare Go and Python. They're both general-purpose programming languages. When choosing to write a new program, you can often pick either of them. I can imagine problems where either might be a reasonable choice. In fact, there are programs that I've written in both. (Granted, those were Project Euler exercises, not code that someone was paying me to write.)

Don't get too caught up in the marketing.
It makes sense - this isn't a dividend to lure investors, it's an effort to reduce their cash reserves to a more sane level. There's nothing out there right now that Apple has use for that they can't buy, so why not reduce their reserves a bit?
Hyperbole. OK, I agree, Apple has move humanity forward. But by mere millimeters compared to Alexander Flemming's mile.
Or you can open 50 checkout lanes and generate the same profit on the same staff a manual checkout, and have happier customers who have more time to exercise and increase caloric needs and thus buy more food, or have more time to earn money to spend on fancier food...
Sex is great, but the internet is even better!
The Start-up of You [Review]
I don't know if this is exactly like aleph-null.

> Because it is governed by the other axioms of real numbers, grossone behaves much like one too. So it's possible to multiply grossone, divide it, add to it and subtract from it, just as is possible with other real numbers

How much is aleph-null minus aleph-null? How much elements have set that is difference of two sets with aleph-null size? Can be anything.

If they solved this somehow, it's huge. But I can't imagine how they did it, and article had not explained it.
But this is a problem society is going to have to deal with head on. Trying to protect your DNA is futile. Maybe you shouldn't post the results, but it doesn't exactly take a lot of serious interaction with the medical system before they're drawing blood for something or other. And in the very near future, they'll probably want to start sequencing your genes almost as often, as we enter the era of being able to tell from your genes whether a given drug will be effective or not, etc.

I don't deny there's a problem, but this is at best a several-year stopgap, not a solution. You will want them to sequence your DNA to determine which cancer drugs will work best when you are sitting in an office with cancer.

The problem is that medical insurance is currently uncomfortably between actual "insurance", coverage for unknown and expensive catastrophic events, and "health care", a program for spreading the costs of health care between many people to equalize the burdens and also sort of cover the insurance use cases. Expanding our knowledge of what you might get starts breaking down the premises the insurance system is based on.
Sky Gamblers Shows You The Future Of Gaming On The iPad
I agree and yet I eagerly anticipate automated freight tubes which will deliver my order within an hour. (Groceries aside, think what that will do for manufacturing!)
They have a phrase for this in the newspaper industry, "replacing print dollars with digital dimes".

If you're interested in a lot more facts & figures plus a graph this post has them: http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2012/03/newspaper-sales-slid-t...
Newspapers existed before advertising was invented, and they did just fine. The problem they're facing right now has everything to do with the tragedy of the commons and nothing to do with technology or the Internet.
The Future of Games with David Braben
Different wealth brackets operating in their own economies, what? The guy who picks your oranges drives a lexus?

Yeah, you're working for rich people, but somewhere along the line those people are making money by selling to people who work from a living. Personally, my software buys advertising on exchanges to sell to agencies who are acting for large companies who have subsidiaries who sell things to people who work for a living. It's just a question of how many degrees.
I don't think you can blame Yahoo for this. Almost every big company in technology these days is in the patent Mexican standoff.

You could argue that Yahoo has a duty to its shareholders to enforce its patents. I'm not sure how far you'd get with that argument on the Internet, though.
So, will there be a European/free-world build for Linux/XP Firefox?
Well, it's not really the same.

On Twitter if I'm viewing an individual tweet page, and then click onto the authors profile page, and then click "back" in my browser, I will not be redirected to a different page altogether like in the OP's demo.
How much runway do you have? If you have enough savings to survive without bringing a dime in for, say, 3 months, give it a shot. If things don't work out, you can always find another job.
Blue Sky Thinking: The TED Conferences....
This is what happens when supply goes up. It's really hard to feel bad for them.
Easy fix (logically, that is. Politically, nothing is easy). Have a US style "earned income tax credit" or "civilian conservation corps" where for folks get paid to work, and the government creates (productive, civil engineering and janitorial type) work if there is not enough private sector work,
On the Anglophone Internet for sure, dominated as it is by the US and UK. But what ever Scandinavian or Dutch written parts of the Internet there might be, small as they are, should be refreshingly free of Victorian baggage.
They could use a commercial space transport service to send the payload into orbit. A company was offering suborbital space launches for a mere $250/kg in 2006: http://blog.makezine.com/2006/04/13/send-some-stuff-to-space...
1. I use dribbble.com in most instances.
2. Find the style you like and approach them either using the Hire Me feature, or if you click the designer's name, they often have a personal site with contact details on.
3. A good tip is to word search a design similar to what you are looking for, e.g. for a photo app, search "photo".
4. Make sure you have a clear design brief when you contact the designer. This should include examples of URLs that you like.
5. Shoot me an email if you want an example (username @ gmail.com).
Save even more on EC2 after Amazon price drop
> I believe religion in general does aid in providing some sense of moral compass.

Here's the problem I have with that. Let's say that I am a member of the SS
and being a member provides me with a *moral compass*. OK, wait...those are
the *wrong* morals. Right. The attack shouldn't be against people's belief
or spirituality – but of the idea that you shouldn't borrow ideas without
evaluation or due diligence.

> Religion played a crutial part in Slavery, but it was also crucial in the abolishment of the same

The rosy picture of religion from the western perspective.

> There is no way this is possible without educating the enslaved.

I agree. This is why people need to know *why* religion is being utilized and
the implications of it from the very foundation.

> Can you please source that?

Atheist nations are more peaceful [1]
Predominantly Atheist Countries Have Lowest Crime Rate According To Study [2]
Atheist vs. Non-atheist Country Crime Statistics [3]
Investigating Atheism, Demographics by University of Cambridge [4]

[1] http://epiphenom.fieldofscience.com/2009/06/atheist-nations-...

[2] http://www.nairaland.com/121066/predominantly-atheist-countr...

[3] http://www.nationmaster.com/compare/Czech-Republic/United-St...

[4] http://www.investigatingatheism.info/demographics.html
Anyone knows why these "60 minutes" shows are actually just 15-20 minute shows? Is it 60 mins on TV and just 15-20 on the internet?
Top UX Myths
I understand and recognize as valid all of the author's concerns. I am personally using Go for things that I used to do in Java. I recognize that this may not be realistic for people heavily invested in the JVM, but I'm finding development with Go to be much more enjoyable than Java.
The 5 Most Spectacular Landscapes on Earth (That Murder You)
There's probably a good argument to made that it could be higher. Their P/E is somewhere around 16, compare to around 20 for Microsoft. Does anyone really think Microsoft is going to grow faster than Apple in the near future? I think the recent stock bump has basically been the market realizing that despite growing very fast, Apple's stock price still hasn't kept up with real revenue growth.
Why CSS3 HSL Colors are Awesome [video]
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al...
Helium stocks run low – and party balloons are to blame
> I can imagine problems where either might be a reasonable choice.

Yes, I can imagine that too. But there are also a very large number of problems where either one is a (much) better fit, and it would seem to me that that is the majority of problems, not of the 'toy' variety.

The biggest factor in picking a language for a specific project is (in my opinion) availability of libraries and familiarity with the language by the team. Python scores very high for a large number of people in both those categories but it has been around for a while.

Go is backed by one of the largest software companies on the planet so it stands a chance but google has a bad rep when it comes to cutting off projects in mid stride.

The devil is always in the details with choices like these and without knowing more about a specific problem and the people that you intend to do the work with it is hard to say which one is the better fit beforehand.
Whooooa. They raised $17M in VC to develop this game and were in danger of running dry? I mean my God... something's not right about that. It's hard to imagine an iOS game that couldn't be developed, tested and deployed for well under $1M. To put this in perspective, Halo 3 employed about 300 devs and artists, and cost around $30M. I get that VCs need to put in a lot of money to fill their quotas, but what was all of that spent on? Marketing?

[EDIT]Sorry. My mistake. I misread the article as meaning that $17M was raised for this game. I didn't know they'd put out 42 games. I retract my criticism.[/EDIT]
The news aggregators use this ambiguity to their advantage -- plenty of times I've seen a innocuous headline shown with a bikini girl thumbnail because that image was a sidebar gallery preview on the source page (or sometimes even an ad!). Any guesses what effect this has on click-thrus?
13,370 things to consider when using PayPal
http://jelastic.com/team? Is this a Russian company?
Simple with Firebug: <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Source</title>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<script type="text/javascript">
history.replaceState(null, null, 'source.html' + String.fromCharCode(8237));
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>Can you view my source from Chrome?</p>
</body>
</html>
It's the opposite, actually. It's illegal right now to fly any drone above 400 feet. Drones under 400 feet must be within line of sight of the operator. The FAA will now be forced to allow civilian drone flights, mostly for photography, law enforcement, search and rescue, industrial/commercial things like movie filming and power line maintenance. I hope there will be expedited shipping personally :)
The History of PowerPoint (2001)
Many serious psychological issues manifest in the late teens and early twenties. I was in an honors program in college, and I saw several students develop psychological disorders of varying degrees - it may not be because you are in college that you're having these issues. Schizophrenia and schizo-effective disorders , specifically, are known to develop in this age range.
Going freelance isn't in itself a poor decision. Quitting a paying job without a steady stream of work already lined up is.

Start trying to build a customer base on the side. Once they're bringing in enough to cover your expenses with a reasonably healthy percentage over that, then consider quitting your regular job.

Freelance work is not steady work, so you have to be sure that you can cover your expenses with regular work before you should be thinking about dropping a regular income for it.

You will need to build up a steady base of regular clients, and build up word of mouth. If you're not a designer, then it becomes really hard for people to discover you in any way other than word of mouth.

tl;dr: Don't quit your day job. Work extra hours until you're earning enough regularly and reliably to cover your expenses, then consider dropping your full-time job.
42Floors (YC W12) Launches Commercial Real Estate Search Tool
Inside a function, the := short assignment statement can be used in place of the short var declaration.

(Outside a function, every construct begins with a keyword and the := construct is not available.)

===

Why is that? I would find that frustrating and inconsistent.
I think you are looking at this from the wrong perspective. The idea is that you only pay for what you use. 2 dedicated servers means you always pay for the whole thing, plus you have to be the sys admin and a few other things. Jelastic eliminates that layer and it only charges you for what you actually use. I doubt you need to dedicated servers full time to run an app. The idea behind automated scaling is that you eliminate the costs associated with hosting. I come from a hosting background and this is a HUGE cost saving measure. Even if you get a sys admin for super cheap (Eastern EU or a BRIC country), it would still be cheaper to use Jelastic. All that said, another issue with mirrored, dedicated servers would be the issue of one going down: with Jelastic you won't have that issue.
We are something of an international company. We have offices in the US and Ukraine. Our funding comes from Runa Capital, which is Russian. I am based in Houston, TX. :)
Glad you like it. Thanks for the bug, it's still work in progress.
https://github.com/southworksinc/markdownR/issues/13
This is really nice, but I wish there was a way I could add more locations to explore. I'd love to do this to my own city. I've tried exploring and hacking in my own links, but it's pretty obvious that the data was only preprocessed for the cities shown in the list.

Just want a text box to let me tell it where to go essentially. I realize I could just download the source and run it myself.
Talk to them, ask what they'd do if they got an offer, and then trust them. A good developer will get headhunted fairly commonly, so it's nothing to worry about.
42Floors (YC W12): There has got to be a better way to search for office space.
In light of C++11, I see Go as something rather obsolete. I see absolutely no reason why I should spend my time on a language that's different just for the sake of it, instead of studying new features of C++.
At the end of this month, we will have the pricing on the site. Our blog post on pricing was about us launching commercially at the end of this month. At that time, we will publish pricing on our page.
The hacker, the hustler and the hipster. A modern day startup fable