skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it has very little to do with the design of the CPU itself but rather the unprecedented introduction of a functional CPU being emulated and usable/programmable within a game itself.
Tomorrow’s Privacy Struggles, On Display Today
How many people actually bother to turn their WiFi off? I don't know of any who do it manually (although I do have Juice Defender to do it for me, based on location).
Self-Published
It's interesting that the game is called Darwin and the 'unbeatable' program was one that took on evolutionary properties.
A bubble is the overvaluation of an asset class, or merely...inflation. "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon."

And another way: The value of any asset as evinced by its price is merely the willingness and ability of someone to pay for it.

If you accept the EMH, then you understand we are incapable of seeing the big picture. Something can be valuable to your neighbor without being valuable to you. At the same time, if you do not know when to sell an asset, or know whom to sell it to, then you are a fool to buy it just because the price has risen for the last three weeks.

Economics is not accounting. It does not prescribe value.
Indeed. Why not just ditch user-facing TLDs in the next DNS overhaul altogether?

People don't recognize the difference between pepsi.com and pepsi.org and pepsi.com.hackers-taking-your-credit-card.tt

.org is interesting meta-data, but why not transport that data as part of a meta-data record and let browsers display it to users in a consistent way they recognize and understand?

The point of DNS is to map a human-knowable name to a network or provider. We not only don't need new TLDs, we frankly don't much need the ones we have. dot-com/net/country codes/etc and even 'www' and 'mail' are of dubious benefit to the average user these days.

Sure, it's useful for engineers. And we can keep that in a diagnostic window. But for user-facing concerns, simplifying DNS is the only conversation worth having.
Chasing an iPhone Through the Big City
So then it's not so simple. Some commerce wins, some lose.
Software Professional Code of Ethics
Yeah, eh? What's that extra m for anyway?
If the idea is that BigCo's who desperately need programmers are throwing cash at people in an attempt to get them, then what the OP is describing as a bubble is just a massively inefficient fad recruiting technique.

There is absolutely no reason why so many non-programmers should be getting so rich helping programmers find jobs at BigCo's. Strictly speaking the economy might demand this sort of money with this recruitment technique so economically it might be sound, but it seems to me there is a good deal of room here for disruption....
Not that I can tell, unfortunately.
How It All Went Wrong For Sony
Just got an email that GOG preorders are getting Machinarium, the soundtrack, art book, and a full copy of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director’s Cut.

No complaints here.
"A bubble is the overvaluation of an asset class, or merely...inflation."

Merely inflation? It's much more than that. It's dis-coordination within an economy.
Could you explain what the "fake sales page" was, and how it helped motivate you? How long did your book end up being, by the way?
Those are really great articles. The classic Camels and Rubber Duckies is still relevant as well though with less practical advice: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
IPad POS Solution (Updated #2)
"With Kickstarter [Joss Whedon]'d have to give them $500,000 of that, and it's not at all apparent that he would actually need them."

I'm not sure it was possible to pick a worse example. Dr. Horrible is quite possibly the Hollywood project most desperately calling out for fan funding that has ever actually been made, and it was still only made because he just put up the money and hoped for the best. Concrete evidence would suggest that he's not capable of raising millions of dollars from fans without some assistance, because if he could have, he would have then.

Using the Wasteland 2 average donation of call-it-$50 ($47.86), is $500,000 that excessive for coordinating and aggregating the donations of 200,000 people? That's not free. Joss can't avoid paying something for that service. Perhaps someday they'll move to taking a flat fee per donation, though that would also require Amazon and the other payment processors Kickstarter uses to go to flat fees too, which seems unlikely.
Headers do seem the best place for a non vendor specific standard to be set. I'd love to see something like

viewport-dpi - the dpi
viewport-max - the maximum possible pixel dimension
and possibly viewport-current - the pixel dimensions at the time of the request

Decent responsive design should deal with the differing viewport sizes, but it might be nice to get a hint before delivering your page what direction to weight that response in.
Joss Whedon might be able to raise the money on his own due to his exceptional internat fame, but for most indie producers, the incumbent system takes a way bigger slice of the pie than 5%.
Assuming that "name", "firstName", and "lastName" are KVC compliant properties, you could do this in MacRuby:

person = Person.new
person.name = "Joe"
person.lastName = "Blogs"
> and had been dealing with a group of partygoers who had been throwing missiles at them

Is it the journalist poorly choosing is words or the police carefully choosing theirs?

Or me not knowing that "missile" is synonym for "projectile".
> it is highly unlikely that priority for any formal action

In other words, don't piss us off or we'll use this to screw you.

You may trust the current administration to leave you alone on this but they won't be in office forever.
As Germany seems to be more strict than anywhere else, does someone know if these actions there had effect on the industry revenues ?
Aye, the fact that no official announcement has been made is telling, I think. I suspect it's more likely that MS simply doesn't _know_ if it's going to provide a WP7>WP8 upgrade path.

FWIW, WP8 is really quite different from WP7 -- as far as we know, it's based on the Windows 8 kernel, and will presumably have the same/similar Metro/WinRT app stack.

It might just be that the WP7 hardware spec (which is now 2-3 years old) just won't reliably run WP8.
I think the OP misses that it's like this not only in the tech sector, but many others. With the fed more than doubling the monetary base in the last couple years, that new money has to go somewhere... It goes into blowing bubbles.
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Agree, I think the correct solution is to actually have a request filter on the server that correctly maps the img tag source to a high DPI version. Obviously, this would be a framework or server specific implementation, but this is the only correct way.
The main disadvantage of extending the TLD space is that it is a tax on existing domain owners.

If you register a .com, you have to be safe and pick up the .net, .org, .info, .biz, etc.
While I agree there's a bubble and that the recent JOBS act has the potential to turn things into a frenzy (see Taibbi: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/why-obam... ), I'm not sure I agree it's near the scale of the mortgage derivative bubble. The mortgage mess involved trillions of dollars across the entire global economy, and set back the entire middle class when it popped (along with destroying and pushing to the brink of destruction some of the biggest financial institutions in the world).
Derby v0.3.1 Released (NodeJS/Javascript Web Framework)
Mostly Gmail via Chrome on Snow Leopard, supplemented with Sparrow to clear out the inbox from time to time.
An increase in the money supply in an economy.
With Autonomy tech, HP could add Augmented Reality tech to printed images
Only if you bring it with you.
Drafts: A Great App That I'll Probably Never Use
How Sony Fell Behind in the Tech Parade
I don't turn WiFi on. It wastes battery life, and I don't download enough to worry about caps etc.

PS: I also tend to go a few days between charges so my usage patterns are far from the norm.
That's all the difference in the world. One is a finite project where you act as a patron and get something in return no matter what (assuming the creator doesn't fall off the face of the earth). If you fund a startup, most of the time your money doesn't have any sort of return.
Am I missing something or is this approach downloading both high dpi and non high-dpi images for high-dpi displays?
Quick question and I'm prepared to be shot down here, don't patents show that ideas are actually worth something?

Have a great idea? Patent it. Not all ideas are patentable but I'm sure some are.

If you get the patent you have something you can sell and once you do you've effectively made money from your idea.
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Congrats and thanks for sharing! Fantastic result.

In terms if your starting point, how many followers/readers/subscribers did you have? How much of a reputation did you have in your field of knowledge?

Your test sales page is a great method of testing your concept. What was on this page? Where was it hosted? How many people fed back?

Did you pay for your twitter advertising? Or was it simply related tweets?
> Translation: we don't want to sue you, this law is to go after Facebook and Google.

Actually, it's to go after anyone they don't like. I suspect that Facebook and Google are better equiped to handle "go after" than you are.

No, they may not want to go after you today, mostly because they probably don't know that you exist but get their attention and things may change.
Battle Over a Chinese Company Turns Physical
How the Fairlight pirate group from Malmö, Sweden, conquered the world
You Can Buy Stocks on Facebook Soon
This brings back distant memories for me: ages ago, just for fun, I wrote a quick-and-dirty PacMan clone for the TRS-80 Color Computer, which was powered by a lousy-by-present-standards Motorola 6809 processor.

I have to agree with some of the other comments here, 0x10c looks to be some sort of milestone: a fully programmable, Turing-complete game!
they didn't have problems with "go to our facebook page" so it shouldn't be a problem to promote "win a ticket to justin timberlake concert - go to our website - justin dot pepsi"
I do. I believe it saves battery, and it's really quick. In Touchwiz, the WiFi/GPS/4G controls are built into the notification pulldown. I believe the same is true of cyanogenmod.

Having it automated might be better, but it's never bothered me enough to look into that.
I've been finding all of these programs incredibly refreshing and easy to read. Each instruction does exactly one strictly-defined thing before moving to the next instruction - so simple!

It will be interesting to see if my level of refreshment remains intact as the level of complexity inevitably explodes. Even this pacman game, which is the most complex I've seen yet, is much simpler than whatever space ship or armada management programs people will eventually start writing.
There is more than music videos on YouTube.

I hope this will give a boost to free music.
Oh man. You have GOT to have something more than an idea! Twitter is actually a great idea, but if they didn't have any skills in executing it then it never would have gotten big.

You have an idea. Great. There's nothing stopping someone else from having that idea. Execute the darn thing, even in a prototype form. Don't expect someone else to do the hard yards for you!
A lo of that improvement must also be from chips consuming less and more RAM resulting in no need for paging.
A bubble is the overvaluation of something. Overvaluation can only occur if there is surplus value in the market that's not needed in other places. Surplus value means there's more money in circulation than the market needs - That's inflation.
Is a home overvalued just because the bank determines it is not safe to offer a mortgage on it? Only to the bank. If I have cash and am willing to pay that amount, the home is reasonably valued/priced.
Redefining the Gift Registry, Digitally.
But you don't have to write your callbacks in reverse order in python:

>>> def fight(batman_wins):
... def t(): return "pow"
... def f(): return "oof"
... def b(msg): print msg
... # if_but not defined at this point
... if_but(lambda: batman_wins, t, f, b)
...
>>> def if_but(cond, true, false, but):
... if cond():
... v = true()
... else:
... v = false()
... but(v)
...
>>> fight(True)
pow
>>> fight(False)
oof

Sure, if you want to call if_but outside a function, it has to be defined, but inside a function (as in your example, and in 99% of python development that doesn't occur in a REPL) x() is effectively globals()['x'](). Have I totally misunderstood your point?
Drupal will become More MongoDB Friendly
Because of non local returns. People abuse them when instead they should be using an exception, or preprocessing their data better.
It's very rare that I see the "my idea alone is worth money" thing from people who have built actual businesses.

I know that I would never pay for an idea alone. That's partly because it's not like we have a dearth of them. If we didn't have a new idea for the next year, that wouldn't be a problem; we have a giant backlog of excellent ideas. But we'll keep having new ideas. We're constantly looking at user experience and usage data, and ideas keep happening.

More than that, though, I don't think an idea from an inexperienced person generally has a lot of merit. With a surface understanding, I think their ideas can have only surface appeal. Once you get into the nitty-gritty of implementation, you need a lot more depth than an amateur can provide.

Imagine somebody going to a well-known chef and saying, "Hey, I don't know how to cook and I've never run a restaurant, but I go to them sometimes and I have this great idea. You should pay me 10% forever!" The would-be genius knows nothing about food costs or good staff or marketing or how to shmooze a critic. Nothing about relative real estate costs or buildouts or decorating or who to pay off to get a permit expedited. Nothing about balance sheets or seasonality of demand or tax regulations. Nothing about nothing, basically, except that they think it would be fun to go to a tiki bar/restaurant. They would be lucky if the chef doesn't answer with knife in hand.

Having ideas is easy when you don't know anything.
Reminds me of the delbert comic: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/
Usability is the entire focus of what they are doing. They aim to make it possible for non-programmers/non-sysadmins/non-security geeks to set up their own whistleblowing framework. Think journalists, volunteer orgs, activists, dissenters...
No one is going to want to pay a percentage just for an idea, but an "idea person" can also easily become a business cofounder.

Sales, marketing, and raising capital are things that perhaps require less expertise than motivation and persistence, and they are things that most programmers HATE to do.
I wonder how chrome will handle it. Type in "Pepsi" and you get taken to search results that make google money. What if it becomes a valid URI?
How about regularly changing one's wireless MAC? I'd be surprised if this is extremely difficult, even on an iPhone.
Its funny because in retrospect anyone can see how this game should be a success due to how folks were using Minecraft to build complex machines. And yet it came from Notch again (ok, he has a massive fanbase which will probably determine his success, but anyway...)
Quick question and I'm prepared to be shot down here, don't patents show that ideas are actually worth something?
Have a great idea? Patent it. Not all ideas are patentable but I'm sure some are.

I don't believe it's possible to patent an idea alone; you have to show some form of how the idea should work, and it is that which is patented. Which kinda takes us back to the central point - an idea on its own really isn't worth much unless you know what you're going to do with it :)
Even if that argument holds, and I want to analyze which sections of my shop or store are frequently visited, how often users buy goods, and effects of various changes that I make, I don't see why that should be illegal except in cases where I actually ask permission from every customer who walks into my shop.
Absolutely agreed.

If you concede that it's all in the execution and can't make an argument for why you're the right person to see it executed -- then you've already admitted that you have nothing to offer.

Further, the idea of not trying because you're afraid the entrenched interest would crush you if they tried isn't compelling. As said before: it's all in the execution. And what they're executing is as-important as how well they do it. Entrenched interests have resources, but they also have their own overarching business strategies and goals. And those don't always align with "what people really want".

Consider: everyone assumed Dropbox had to worry about iCloud and gDrive. But if neither Apple nor Google are particularly worried about supporting the platform-agnostic, arbitrary folder sync'ing bit that Dropbox does wonderfully, they're not even true competitors. [1]

[1] Google would rather you not use your local storage at all. Apple couldn't care less about clients or API access for Linux/Windows/Android/etc. As it turns out: Dropbox has little to worry about from them.
Good for you, though as we can see the no-tampering-with-the-original-headline rule definitely comes with tradeoffs.
That is true.
But if a company like Google takes a stand against those ridiculous court orders, we get one step closer to freeing the internet from the oppression of the copyright industry.
Thanks for reading.

I had < 250 twitter followers when I started, < 50 blog subscribers. I had some reputation as a Ruby developer from open source work and participating in different things but I would say I had a very small network to start from.

I kept the 'fake' sales page as simple as possible. It was static HTML (written with slim-lang) and pushed to heroku (free hosting). I spent $100 on Adwords to get traffic. That bought ~300 visits which led to ~15 people clicking my 'Buy' button. The page wasn't all that different from what I have now, list the benefits of the product, what buyers can expect, etc.

I didn't pay for Twitter ads. In the beginning people retweeted my announcement. Later on readers of the book would share the link to their followers.
Patents are supposed to be worth something, though many are for things that would never work and could never have worked- many of Thomas Edison's patents would have never worked by his own admission.

You can sell your widget whether you have it patented or not; all the patent does is ensure other people can't sell a knockoff widget without incurring some legal liability.

Likewise, selling widgets based on your idea and making money from your idea aren't causally related.
There are ready to go solutions for that identifying specific applications (VoIP would be one of them) down to the provider of the solution (e.g Facebook, Skype). And yes this is done via DPI plus patterns etc. So it would not really matter (on the long run) if you would e.g. tunnel that on port 80.

Most providers of such solutions by now fully integrate with the Telco's management platforms similar to "plug-ins". Current market estimates for these platforms (policy servers) and DPI are expected to grow to more than $5B over the next years.

In Telco environments these things are generally covered under traffic management and the acronyms PCC or PCRF.

I think TeliaSonera is using OpeNet in some of their countries since quite some time for that at least with 4G.
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Articles like these are such a waste of writing. This is pure speculation as jinushaun has said. I would assume Microsoft has learned their lesson now that they are trying to force updates on IE. Why would they take a polished product like WP7, and abandon it creating a ton of technical problems... My wife absolutely loves her HTC Titan, and I hope she isn't forced to be stuck with an old OS forever.
I think it has its roots in Roman numerals. i.e. MM = 1000*1000, or 1 million.

And regardless of whether you like it or not, it is the standard abbreviation in the financial world.
This is all well and good, but it doesn't appear to add support for the one thing I've often wanted in Python: proper closure support for functions within functions.
Main takeaway should be this sentence:

"[In addition to the idea, bring to the table] something about how you are the best person in the world to lead its execution"

Also love the reference to the Aiken quote in the comments: “Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.”
This becomes about semantics, then. If somebody writes an article about "retina displays", I immediately assume it's about this particular way of implementing resolution independence in the browser and in the OS (by doubling/quadrupling the physical resolution while keeping the virtual resolution the same). So as such it serves me better than a generic term that requires additional explanation.
Congrats! Since the article indirectly mentions me, I wanted to say I also published a similar post about selling my own eBook yesterday: http://sachagreif.com/lessons-learned-from-an-ebook-launch/
thank you very much -- I'm still dreaming of somehow combining work and travel
It's an increase in the price level.

Most of the "printed money" that has been generated by the Fed since 2008 has gone to the financial sector shrinking their balance sheets by something like $3.5 TRILLION (as opposed to the Fed expanding the balance sheet by $1.5TT). That's deflationary. The Fed has been on the gas since 2008 to maintain the price level.

As far as the bubble in "tech", it's a misallocation of resources. This is what happens in all the hot sectors (Tech in 1999, Housing in 2005, Tulips in 1700). There's a lot of money chasing returns that are no longer availabe. So they look for riskier assets. It's not that there are no valuable tech companies, just that there aren't enough valuable tech companies. But everyone thinks they've got a winner.

Bubbles are hard to predict, hard to stop and hard not to participate in. But one thing I learned from the real estate crash: you don't take advice about the bubble from realtors.
Yeah, pricing on the Kindle store is a bit of a nightmare. From what I've read the only folks making money on there are selling books for $0.99 and selling tens of thousands of copies (or more).

The royalty from the edition on the Kindle store is like 1/4 of the royalty from selling it on the website. I published it to the Kindle store more as an experiment than anything else to see if I could reach a wider audience there. I still make more sales on the book website than with Amazon.
Saw that just after I finished writing last night. Thanks for sharing!
Timetravel as well, apparently:
By MARK ANDERSON / MAY 2012
DPI i just incorrect. Use PPI if you really insist on that name.

That said, there is nothing gimmicky about the retina name. It's a device where distance to the display, resolution and screen size are such that someone with normal vision cannot distinguish between pixels.

High-PPI does not in any way pack the same information. It’s ambiguous and unclear.

The only thing that’s bad about retina is that Apple uses it like a trademark. I would love it if any company could call their HD TVs retina displays (because they are), but that’s not possible. Luckily everyone else is busy taking away that name from Apple (for example by naming their software like that).
That's how science works. If you keep asking why & digging deeper, you eventually reach something that hasn't been "explained" in terms of something else.