skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://developer.amd.com/sdks/amdappsdk/assets/AMD_Evergreen...

http://developer.amd.com/sdks/amdappsdk/assets/amd_hd_6900_s...

These don't seem to be linked on AMD's site so you have to do some searching.
Palo Alto apparently has a seed library
If you boil down a UI element's description to a set of lines, colours and gradients, you can easily apply that to other elements at all scale factors, without having to ship piles of images (possibly in four different sizes, if you have iPad-specific assets) and deal with the horrible "stretchable images" system.

That aside, the ease of prototyping makes development that much faster.
People need to stop harping about the damn bezel. It's there for a very good reason. The iPad would basically be useless without it.
It seems unlikely that products with limited audiences, high associated value, and high price points are going to end up "pay-what-you-want" models. I'm sure lots of people will end up releasing typefaces this way, but it'll mostly be as a means to audition for foundries.
Its now Illegal In Arizona to be Offensive on the Internet.
If the algo is killing good content we want on HN, then pg either has to fix the bug (I'm going to go ahead and assume this is very hard) or just manually fix the individual stories.
I was in an accident that left me unable to walk for 6 months. I was in a bad shape mentally (since this had nuked my high-school performance). Picking up a machine and being able to build something was my release.
Like I said, I'm a libertarian. One of the reasons why is that we live in a society where there are so many laws that the police can and do arrest people for whatever they feel like. It's been this way probably forever, but recently it has gotten much, much worse.

Having said that, the question in front of the court begins with the man arriving at jail, not with the arrest. Perhaps there's another case that could be made about using arrests in a harassing manner, but I doubt it.

So the justices have to ask themselves a question: which is more important, keeping the system consistent or having compassion for this poor guy?

I'm an analytical person. My money is on keeping the system consistent, even if it's broken and this case is a bad example of what we aspire to be.

The system is screwed up enough as it is without SCOTUS running off and chasing every sob story that comes their way. If the courts start leading with their hearts, then the entire criminal justice system becomes a matter of who can make the best emotional case instead of what the law is. The chaos and harm just moves up to another level of dysfunction. A mostly self-consistent bad system is still better than a mostly inconsistent bad system.

I'm saddened the guy got treated like this. I wish there was some recourse. But in my unlearned, guesswork opinion the outcome is the only one the court had available, no matter how much you and I are disappointed with the larger state of society.
I have to disagree there - there are other approaches to market-based funding of the creation of cultural communications that are not advertising based. For a very successful current example, see Kickstarter.
On the other hand, I wish more Android phones would return to using real physical buttons instead of unreliable haptic soft keys, or the new on-screen buttons like in ICS.
I am highly disappointed that the domain name failed to be relevant.
Hi,

I respect you point of view but... it won't hold for high level education. Let me explain why:

* I just wish people could forget the idea that Math is fun. It is not. It's interesting, but it's not fun and can be totally counter intuitive, thus there is no "fun" way to demonstrate it. You are mentioning about Geometry but the geometry you are talking about is a very very very tiny subset of what geometry is at a higher level. It's not an topic from Geometry but for example how do you demonstrate that the ensemble of invertible matrix is dense in the set of R(n,n) matrix in a visual manner? These concepts are so abstract that they become too hard to demonstrate. Achilles tendon of most american students I have known and I have worked with is that they are extremely dependent of a representation of what they are dealing with and they struggle with very abstract concept while in the Russian/ French/ Chinese education teachers teach very early to student to manipulate abstract objects (4-D vectors, advanced algebra etc... are often seen in high school).

* The "get less point if you hand back the report late" is actually a good thing for your students. Read one of the Dan Ariely book that showed that this pace helps students study and in the end they end up having better marks. That's the sad human psychology.

* For the theorem you need to learn to be a programmer I agree, you don't need them to be a decent coder. However... there's a say among lawyers: "A good lawyer knows the law, an excellent lawyer knows the judge". If you want to be a great programmer sometimes tools at your disposal fall short and... it's your turn to create. This is the moment where theorems become really important and a great programmer will know how to leverage them whereas a decent programmer will fall short. "A good programmer knows the tools, an excellent programmer knows the theorems" !
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>do we really think its fair/appropriate/considerate to "petition" pg every time someone's submission is flummoxed //

As it appears this is the only way to appeal against what appears to be a bad algorithmic story rejection then IMO yes this is fair and appropriate.

If there were moderators or a user moderation process then these sorts of issues would get picked up there.

Of course PG is perfectly within his rights to ignore any such submission, depends on the purpose of the site really.
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"Clearly unreviewed job ads"?

I don't doubt that yc.starups can post job ads without a middleman. But what about the content makes it clear they were not reviewed? Profanity? Nudity? Ugly kitten clip art?

What are the tell tale refinements that demonstrate a job ads has been reviewed?
Have they actually saved anything when you take into account nearly a decade (so far) spent on doing this migration?

The Munich migration is pretty much the canonical example of how to botch a Linux migration.
Mac Flashback trojan exploits unpatched Java vulnerability, no password needed
Set the default price to $15, $20 or $30 instead of the $1 that it's at now. You'll increase the perceived value of the font while making a ton more money. There's no point in having the initial price "anchored in" at the ridiculously low price of one dollar.
Why not focus on a general purpose language like
Python? Oh well, this is still great progress and I'm sure they'll add more languages soon.
I'm using Windows 7 for CAD. I now use Solid Edge, I used to do AUTOCad and I think I'm headed for Pro/E.

I'd like to use anything but Windows, but guess how plentiful are my options to use CAD on other systems? Nonexistent.

The economic niche of CAD systems would have room for good CAD running on Linux. The bounty is good. At the moment it's practically impossible to get a serious CAD legally for no less than 2000$/copy.

I'm guessing that the 3D printing scene is held back by modeling prices. It's actually more expensive to model than to actually get that model printed.

I feel like I'm saying "Carthago delenda est", but I strongly feel that this should be addressed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_design

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est
People are currently using PNGs

So you're hardcoding either way.

Additionally, paintcode has the flexibility of making say, a button that shrinks/grows based on the shape of another view, say, as is caused when you rotate an ipad, etc.

I've been very happy with the product so far.
Above all racing requires situational awareness, which computers are very bad at. For ordinary driving scenarios the bar on situational awareness is fairly low, but that bar goes way up in racing.
Stop thinking and launch. There has been enough thinking on this project already it seems!
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I would say the best entrepreneurs should be out doing whatever it is they wish to do. If they want to work on creating the next fad app in the hopes of making money then that's their business. If the market wants a crap app that does something incredibly silly for no real benefit to society then there will be someone to make it for them.

This isn't always a bad thing. James Cameron makes millions from movies that adds little to society and then uses it to build a submersible that takes him to the deepest spot in the oceans. Maybe the world's mysteries/problems can be solved with money made from useless entertainment?

As for the hardware innovations coming out of China and the area; I would think part of the reason is they don't have a government with increasingly tough regulations to deal with. Take for instance the recent policies of the US government towards internet-based companies or its tough stances on pollution-creating energy production which could provide power issues for manufacturing. Granted the tough regulations could be considered good in some cases (look at the beating Apple is getting on labor treatment) but if it's possible to leave for easier/cheaper areas, companies will leave. Griping about the lack of hardware innovation in one area when it's easier/cheaper to innovate in another seems kind of missing the point territory.
To further clarify this point, if you look at the reports here, you'll find that RedHat is the largest corporate contributor to both the kernel and to gnome:

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/linux-foundation
http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2010/07/28/gnome-census/
Seems amateurish and affectedly geometric to my eye. Good effort, but not really suitable for serious use.
In other news: Fishermen love lakes stocked to the brim with fish.
This 'getting used to' phase also applies to the Microsoft ribbon[1]. And all the differences from NT-XP-Vista-7.

Moreover, it's more likely that the GUI can be forced to be stable on Linux, while the underlying system receives security updates, because of the separation of components.

[1] Right now, the keystrokes I know for Microsoft Excel still work, but they bear no relationship to the UI at all.
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YUI was released the same year as jQuery. Care to qualify that a bit?

Edit: Had my dates wrong.
"So what is your proposed solution?"

My real proposed solution? Wait for Facebook to collapse under its own weight like all previous attempts to massively centralize the web under one roof have failed, then wait for the more decentralized solutions to pop up and potentially join many of them for my various personae, each of which possibly with its own thresholds for sharing and different communities in them. The human instinct that the answer to every problem is centralization is a leftover vestige of our tribal past that is particularly maladaptive in the 21st century, though I'll admit to being impressed how far along that road Facebook has gotten. It's only a matter of time; the contradictions between Facebook's desires and the user's desires are only going to grow.
You can't imagine why Eve would want to trick Alice and Bob into upvoting one of her submissions she had an interest in?

Or you can not imagine why Eve would want to trick Alice and Bob into upvoting other submissions so that they got killed and her submission received more attention?
I'm waiting for someone to tell me what's horribly wrong with this before I click the "Buy" button, but it's taking effort to resist the urge. This looks extremely excellent.
Apache Sqoop (data exchange between Hadoop and rDBMS)
Nah, not really. You can consider the term “programming language” to refer only to those languages capable of computation, but then you’d have to include LaTeX and CSS3, because they’re both Turing-complete. Where do you draw the line?

Probably the most reasonable way to cut it up is to treat programming, markup, and styling languages as subsets of computer languages. They all overlap to varying degrees, and Turing-completeness is entirely separate—Magic: The Gathering is Turing-complete, and nobody is calling that a computer language of any kind.
I don't think it is much different. The definition of "toxic" is "poisonous", which is really anything that (chemically) damages an organism. Anything that interferes with a biological process is toxic, no matter if it's by dehydration or some other more complex mechanism.
Python is coming real soon as well as Ruby :)
CodeSchool already has something like this and it's great: http://www.codeschool.com/courses/css-cross-country

I took a quick look at the Codecademy one and it seems a bit dry. I think they should pick something other than Codecademy to talk about. http://www.codecademy.com/courses/week-3-html-project/0#!/ex...
It also could be simply a function of the demographics of HN readers.
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That's not the point I made; I didn't say anything about it "working out". I observed that if people wanted a lower of threshold of privacy in the past, they could have already have had it even without technological intervention. Window blinds were not invented in response to Facebook. It's not about "working out", it's about desires.

Technology changes, but the base stock of humanity doesn't on any usefully observable timespan. (Yet.)
PG can't roll back, because he isn't using a database backend.

As for being hellbanned, well I have 3 after my name for a reason.
I don't really think we need to go and petition anybody to resubmit this.

There was probably a bug in the algo. When the bug is fixed, just append some garbage CGI parms to the end of the url, and submit it again.

http://www.leandomainsearch.com/2000?resubmit=1
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That's what I gleaned too; maybe "alternative" would have been a better choice than "counterpart".

In one of my recent projects I used EJS and DNode to fairly easily implement a system for determining where the rendering takes place. I don't have anything to monitor connection quality & client capabilities though, so Mojito may prove useful when it matures.
>PG can't roll back, because he isn't using a database backend.

I was afraid of that...

May I ask why? Too much resource usage? Arc doesn't have a DB API?
I think you've made an error here. Florence's arrest was reasonable as far as it went. He had pled guilty 2 years earlier to obstruction of justice and use of a deadly weapon, and been fined, the fine being payable in installments. One of his payments was late, and an arrest warrant was issued. He made the payment soon afterwards, but the warrant was never cancelled. So the arresting officer checked his identity, found priors involving deadly weapons and an outstanding arrest warrant, and enforced the warrant.

My issues with this are that a) someone gets thrown into general population while an administrative issue is being resolved, and b) the nature of his apparent offense (unpaid fine, rather than an act of commission).
There's something inviting about turning on your computer and being greeted with a BASIC interpreter prompt, the cursor blinking at you expectantly.
It's thermodynamics. Living takes energy, and that energy needs to come from somewhere. We can't photosynthesize energy, and we can't get it from air or water. So if there's not enough energy in food to sustain our body's processes, then it must come from stores in the body (fat).

I don't think there's any other possibility.
That is a good start, but you should also take responsibility for the rest of your life.

In fact, everybody should do this.

It is called being an adult.
If I find this law offensive, can I have the people who wrote it put in prison?
I've had an ipad since 2007

The first iPad was released in 2010 and these gestures are only for iPad2 and up (unless you jailbreak).
Yep talking about sizes (OpenStack calls them flavors, or at least did last year when I was looking into it.)

I realize it creates fragmentation, but it's one of the key features customers want -- and should be able to get -- out of a cloud system. And other platforms provide it.
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Wow. Maybe he needs a blog or linkblog. I think one day I did 5 and I felt bad but I thought all were germane to hacker interests. Generally I am not submitting everyday.
It affects our industry and a number of people care about such issues. Would you say that SOPA articles should be killed because politics are boring (or a waste of time)?
There is a trial version so try away.
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On the other hand, it seems most of the new public pastes are source code or configuration.

I assume that anybody sharing code snippets via pastebin is using it in a disposable way, since we have other places like github to share code in a more robust way. Thus they never end up on the "Trending" page.
The last point is pretty contrary to most macroeconomic theory (from a pretty wide range of political perspectives that otherwise disagree). Pro-cyclical fiscal policy is a pretty bad idea; increasing government spending during booming economies and decreasing it during recessions is just about the exact opposite of what you want to be doing (but is indeed what most states tend to do, because politicians are short-sighted). Even if you don't believe in strong counter-cyclical fiscal policy, at least a flat fiscal policy is preferable to an actively pro-cyclical one.

In any case, taxpayer funding for higher education has been shrinking since prior to the 2008 crisis. In the UC system, for example, the per-student state subsidy amounted to the following, inflation-adjusted:

1985: $30,000
1990: $28,000
1995: $22,000
2000: $28,000
2005: $19,000
2010: $17,000

That at least suggests why there might be a ~$10k tuition increase over the same period.
This IS clear to everyone; it's simply irrelevant. Life's not fair. We all have to deal with unfair problems. Emphasizing the unfairness of your problems only makes the FSF look less "idealistic as in principled" and more "idealistic as in naive."

Relatedly, your most critical problem is not external, it's that the FSF is now associated more closely with non-issues like "GNU/Linux" nomenclature than solving serious problems.

Suck it up, grit your teeth, and press on. That's what it takes to be successful in just about any field of life. Anything else ends with you sitting on the sidelines, impotently complaining about how unfair it all is and how bad all the successful organizations are.
uff. complete brain meltdown. I meant 2010.
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Pretty much 30 years to the day. (So I'll claim 30+, thankyouverymuch! ;)

It was in BASIC, on a Data General Nova Eclipse. Upgraded to assembly about 6 weeks later, just because it was insanely fascinating. (Hey, I was in 8th grade or so. Nobody breathing down my neck to actually produce useful things)

First program? Simulate rolling the dice 200 times. We had to do that for homework, and like every self-respecting programmer, I'd rather spend 2 hours automating a task than 30 minutes doing it by hand. (Followed by 10 hours of tinkering so it makes nice output ;)
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The author doesn't know enough to know what they don't know.

A high school student doesn't have enough knowledge nor experience to be writing essays on educational theories. This entire post reads as a "I didn't get taught the way I thought I should, so I'm mad about it" rant.

Get your diploma, get a degree and come back in 5 years when you've got some solid education and life experience. You might be able to figure out why the education system is setup the way it is after that (hint: it isn't setup to promote effective education).
A couple of things here, I'd say:

- EC2/AWS may be the de facto standard but it's not an actual standard the way SQL/HTTP/DNS are so I don't think the comparison is totally accurate. I think there's plenty of room to supplant AWS by offering a better system.

- There's plenty of room to compete with Amazon. Despite what you might think their prices are actually pretty high with plenty of room for even small hosts to undercut them. There's a reason that it's been so successful for Amazon; they are making a mint on it.

The big problem for smaller hosts wanting to compete with Amazon is that there's currently no ready made cloud solution that's 100% end user ready. Every single solution on the market requires some amount of custom coding in order to bring it up to end user quality. Which is frustrating.
The process for getting accepted sounds brutal.

I don't know..if I'm starting my own company I feel it's a little demeaning to go through this process.

It feels like you have a manager or a boss again and you somehow have to convince them that you are worthy. I left this mentality back at my corporate job.

If we can't discuss is at equals, I'm not even interested.
Thanks Jacques for the mention.

I'm not too worried about my post; as others have pointed out this seems to be happening to a lot of legitimate submissions and that's the bigger problem.

We can only speculate as to what actually happened without some sort of analysis from pg, but hopefully it's something that's not too difficult to fix. We'll see what happens.
YUI was more extensible, followed (mostly) good JavaScript patterns (making heavy use of the module pattern), had relatively good cross-platform support and an easy to understand interface.

To top it off, the documentation was top notch.
The only real downsides I can find are that:

1) You need to design the selected/deselected states for buttons separately and merge the code.

2) It'll give you drawing code, but you have to maintain those chunks of code directly in your source files. Any modifications you make to the code need to be reflected in the original PaintCode data, and vice-versa. This could be solved with clever comment guards and the ability to rebuild internal structure from the code it generated.

Neither of these really detract from the product. I've only used the demo, but it's honestly pretty amazing.
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I haven't had my DNA sequenced (yet!) so I can't answer if I'm human or not. I suspect I am, though, and simply had the good fortune to be given parents willing to foster an interest in scientific and mathematical subjects.
Plenty of sketching and writing apps already have really good wrist-detection. It shouldn't take much effort to extend that to assume a pseudo-bezel if you enable it in Settings.
I didn't start using Linux (and therefore LibreOffice) until after I stopped using Office 2003 on any computers, so I don't know about its support for ODT.

2007 did do fairly poorly from what I remember as well. 2010 though is much better; I go back and forth between those fairly regularly. Fonts are obviously an issue, and complex formatting isn't quite right all of the time, but each suite seems to open most of the other's file types fairly well.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3707421
I agree financing can be a factor, and is probably the driving one for private universities. But the fact that tuition at public universities has been increasing at a rate very close to the rate at which state funding has been decreasing is at least pretty suggestive that it's a compensatory increase--- lower per-student state funding being replaced almost $1-for-$1 by higher per-student fees. For example, the UC system has had its per-student funding over the past 20 years cut by a little over $10k, and has raised per-student tuition by just about the same amount.