skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For drawing Inkscape is a better tool, yes, but I did the drawing, both pencils and inks, on paper and then scanned the result for further processing which was mostly removing smudges and correcting mistakes: pixel based operations.
Then presumably you use Skype over your WiFi-connection, not Telias cellular network? That's skipping the middleman, although not the in the sense of the GP.
LEDs are generally fed with DC, as current only flows in one direction, but they flicker as the power coming into them fluctuates -- the more ripple, the more flicker.

Cheap LED holiday lights don't even bother rectifying the AC voltage across the lights, so they are only on for half the cycle, giving them a very noticeable flicker. It's especially apparent as you scan your eyes past them.

In contrast, incandescents allow current to flow both directions, and will glow for a little while after current stops flowing, so they don't appear to flicker on 60/50hz mains current.
This is notabene part of the model that universities are build on: Students learn from those who know (arguably) the most about a subject matter; those who do research in that area. However that relationship is mutually beneficial.
It's definitely a bubble
But the answer is yes, they try to say an api is subject to coypright (in the article is a list of challenged points, including apis).
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While I agree that these business skills are VERY necessary in life (sometimes unfoutrunately so), you can learn them up to certain degree during school. You need a good teacher with relevant exerience in these skills, he / she will give you the basics and some anecdotes. when finally are in a position you need these skills, then you have the necessary basis to built upon.

And that really is something you hardly learn at university, no matter which major you have.
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The addicts are in the Borg cubes.
Not in 4G networks. Everything's data in 4G, and voice traffic is just another data stream (with a special use case).

The only reason they're doing this is that they're terrified of becoming a dumb pipe provider.
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The fact you understand what the page is even about, means that you are not in anyway a stupid person.
I am a swedish Telia customer, and have been one since '08. Their service has always been top notch so I had every intention of signing on for another two years with them.

And just like that, I lost all my confidence in them and will go where else from now on.
Image 28 is broken: http://www.cattell.net/talk/Image28.gif
As others have said, it is small, fast and flexible with a very permissive licence so it is the scripting language of choice for embedded and gaming applications.
Don't worry about economies in EU, we've done a really good job in hamstringing with "social" policies. Compared with other countries law enforcement in US is pretty decent.
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I crossed out all the sections that pertained to ownership of my inventions in the last one of these documents that was handed to me. Then a couple years later someone tried to pull the "You can't open source that! It's our property". To which I responded "I already did open source it, and if you want my continued work on the project you will let me do as I please with what is MY code. Go check that contract again and look at the parts I crossed out very carefully" ;-)
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And it's entirely reasonable for cowkingdeluxe to be critical of a country where "you go to jail for a month for kissing in public". You can validly hold a negative opinion about some "attitudes about what is appropriate public behavior".

You can take political correctness and cultural relativism too far: this attitude about what is appropriate public behavior, taking into consideration the other behaviors that are considered (in)appropriate in concordance with it, is just awful and can't change soon enough.
I thought every blogger was doing this for the last 5 years.
There are many of us. PHP powers the Internet, period. Facebook, Wikipedia, Wordpress, Drupal, etc. etc.

There is a difference between the web and the internet. The Internet is powered by computer networking hardware, on the on the other hand, the web is powered by utter crap like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and of course PHP.
Im curious how they will actually implement this. Block everything not going over port 80 or 443 and also block many other types of services? Deep packet inspection? New voice services and apps turn up all the time.

There is no way they can block "voice data" (their double speak not mine) without also bloking lots of other services, as collateral damage.
Gr8 post apart from... "cars".
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Firebase is nothing like a real-time [1] system! That's precisely the kind of stupid dilution my comment was complaining about.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing
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Brilliant. There should be a webpage of these.
Well, also they're not 4G yet. What's the story on 3G?
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I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Where can one get an app developed? I am slightly techie, at least out of my friends, and a friend ask me this very question. I have not worked with apps yet so I don't know where to point them. Can anyone point me in the direction of how to find a good-value app developer? I am based in London, England, but I does not necessarily have to be based here.

Any help or advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks
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One comment on the amount of time you've looked at the new redesign over. A pattern I've noticed with A/B testing more radical redesigns is that there's often a dip/level track for the first week or two - followed by another more radical jump (in either direction :-) in the following month.

I'd be interested if you see something similar as the month progresses.

Also - a question not directly related to the new design - but I'm curious :-)

On either home page design there's no social proof info (testimonials, number of users, total #bingo cards made, etc.). Which intrigues me since it's something that pretty much always has a positive affect in my experience (which, I admit, is largely in sites fairly different from BCC). In once case we got a twenty-something% increase in conversion in the checkout process by adding in some targeted quotes on value-received/money-saved on the final "give me your money" pages.

This seems like such an obvious thing that you've probably tried it already. Is there a reason you didn't go for it?
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Please link to the original source, BB doesn't add any value here.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/19/metropolitan-police...
I take that to be a coy way of saying "not very much at all". If the person responding is making even $20/hr, then $4/mo of support is 12 minutes/month of support. :)

That said I've had no complaints with support from them when needed. It just has to clearly be about things on their end; they aren't going to help with sysadmin issues on your box.
I suspect that people hire you not to do "a successful experiment" - but so that they can learn how to experiment in productive ways.

It's a skill that seems sadly lacking with many of the folk that I talk to :-)
I just checked the iTunes AU store. Yes, the season pass is available but it's only SD quality. Thanks, but I'll pass.
The problem is evaluating social networks on a per-user basis without considering Metcalfe's law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law

I.e. it is not a linear relationship between the number of users a the value of the network.
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That mainly refers to units of time, amounts, etc. "Less than 5 users", I can maybe accept. "Less users", no.
He also delivers the talk in some videos accessible from http://www.cattell.net/book.htm .

Edit: except the second link he provides doesn't seem to refer properly anymore and the first link has a very long load time, if it loads at all -- an HN-type slashdot effect?

So I guess the slides are your best option.
Also free as in freedom (GPL)
Might be preemptive then, they're aggressively building out LTE in Sweden (or at least here in Stockholm)
I'm assuming that you will wrap this all up in ruby objects and expose a cleaner syntax? As orta said the Objective-C syntax is currently cleaner.

From an engineering point of view i have to say that this is impressive, very keen to see what tools you come up with to aid the development process, a TextMate bundle to compile and deploy to the sim would be super sweet ;-)
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When at Home, yes, but since i am allready running skype at Home it is easier just continuing to use it when I am out and about. So I am also using it on their cell network.
> I don't care if a user says they like a feature; I care if they actually use it

That's a mildly dangerous position for a product owner to take (though I accept in the particular scenario described it makes sense). In a customer's mind, having a facility available - even if never used - may be a key feature of the service.
I love obj-c, especially after the blocks. Sorry, you guys are too late.
"Also, the main purpose of a mobile network is to be able to make calls."

That is debatable, and up to your customers :-)
The pypy is faster than cpython (the default, official implementation of Python) despite being written in Python. It is not running in cpython or pypy enviroment though. It can, but it is really slow then. It's translated to C I think, using Python again, then compiled. I might be wrong. It is a very confusing project.

PS: Some "Python" in above sentences might actually be rpython. But as it is subset of python it probably doesn't matter.
Because not everyone runs Windows, nor are they listening on something that isn't a portable music player in their pocket. Software or hardware accelerated conversion eats battery life.
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For code that's just gluing bits of the API together I agree you're not going to do much better than Objective-C and really that kind of code makes up the bulk of most apps.

Obj-C really falls down for more complex algorithms, data structures, and text handling. You can do this kind of thing in Obj-C, of course, but the verbosity really gets in the way. A higher-level language like Ruby would be great for this but maybe the new object literals coming in Obj-C will help close the gap.
Oh, definitely. That's how I learnt Japanese. Not sure my students got that much out of it, though.
source for the silent degradation model?
Given the obscene data rates that mobile operators charge across Europe (specifically when roaming) one can always only hope that there is a WiFi network near.

The degrading / delaying of VoIP traffic (and other rt data traffic) does even happen with some fixed line operators in Europe - though not with Skype - they then call it P2P traffic and tell stories about file sharing etc. Had that with a provider in South-France ... if you pay us 10-times the rate we stop the fiddling with your traffic...

I guess this move from TeliaSonera again shows that like with other industries self-regulatory approaches do not work at least with industries where you have regional monopolies / oligopolies, high barriers for entry and a mindset of used car salesmen (no offence) across the industry.

We need to regulate this as well as the fixed line market or we're soon back at $200+ p.m. for (usable) fixed lines and similar increases for usable mobile access - they advertise fiber access here in the UK for $40 per month but give you a 5-20GB p.m. data volume (how many minutes is that good for). They call that fair use - but all those rules do of course not apply to the costly extra services they sell themselves.

It's high time to regulate the mobile providers with regards to data / IP services - earlier regulations regarding roaming in Europe have shown that they otherwise do not see any limits in ripping off their customers.

And someone should explain to those in charge of oversight of this industry that Cisco's promotional material (that showed exponential growth in mobile traffic and would turn all mobile provider latest next year unprofitable and is so happily cited in that industry when it comes down to regulations) is just that - promotional material to sell their network equipment and not facts.
Go resample 48khz to 44.1khz using any resampling algorithm you choose. Go ahead. Thats all the proof I will ever need.
More interestingly is this "piracy" or simply lost revenue?

There's a difference?

That you see them as separate shows you aren't on board with the large groups focused on trying to force people to pay as often and as much as possible to access the content they control.
The reason why Turkish is in the same group as Japanese is probably because of the subject-object-verb [1] order they have in common (vs SVO in English). This is why even spoken Japanese is difficult to master for English speaking people.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject–object–verb
Why aren't you a fan of lua? From what I've seen, it looks great.
Wow.. looks really clean
One example that comes up now and then in the offline world is late-night public transit. If you go by measured ridership, it's a no-brainer to cut most trips, because empirically people rarely actually ride late at night (in most U.S. cities, anyway). But when you do, in most cases ridership at other times of day falls also, because people suddenly are worried about the possibility of getting stranded. Even if 98% of the time they never actually use the 2am bus, they like knowing that it's available just in case.
140 quid is an insane amount of money to pay, when at that price there are plenty of stronger boards available, just take the BeagleBoard-Xm which has a much stronger chipset, or even stand alone Ainol A10 boxes for around $100. The nonhackers could grab a A10 based tablet, for $120 or so.

About the only thing RPi has going for it is the slightly smaller size factor (at >$100 prices).

In theory, the first Raspberries should have been sold for $70-$100 by the foundation and only when mass production was assured, then the price should have been dropped to the target $35 for B.

The only catch in this dream scenario is: how do you convince the early adopters to pay higher prices, if you are committed to lower prices later on. You do not want to lie to your customers. Maybe some sort numbered certificate system should have been made something like OLPC program, buy one Raspberry for $70 and school or your choice gets one for free when mass production is ready.
Lou Montulli says in a Slashdot comment[1] that the tag played a sound clip of Marca saying "What is Global Hypermedia?" (Now who is Marca? I'm guessing Marc Andreesen? I assume he intended this to be clear from context but I'm not familiar with these people.)

[1] http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=507112&cid=2293...
Ok, fair enough.

But I still don't get the point being made - which now I re-read it seems to be that complaining to grouper is making a big thing of it.

It seems perfectly logical to me; if you're in a business relationship with someone and they send you a people who go and have sex in the toilet (something you wouldn't necessarily expect to happen) why wouldn't you pass on that they had to be thrown out?

What if the group had gotten drunk and smashed a table?

I spoke to some friends who work in bars about this, out of interest, and their thoughts were that, as an individual, if they caught someone having sex in the toilet they would be quite thrown by it. One guy had actually had it happen to him about 18 months ago and he said that he still tells that story with some regularity.

I think there is quite a margin between complaining "up the chain" and calling the cops (which certainly would be too big a deal).
I've lived through the previous tech bubble, but was only an employee. It didn't really require a lot of cash back then to start up, depending on what you are doing. A shared server at an ISP or university and some perl scripts could get you going. Racks of modems in your garage to start a small ISP. What really drove the bubble was that larger companies would buy these small operations, often including shares in the bigger company, and package them together into a group which then in turns gets sold to even bigger companies like Cisco etc. Things also got crazy because a company's turnover could mostly be based on paying Cisco, Microsoft and Compaq money for equipment and software. I know some people who didn't sell, they remained small in comparison but are still in business today and doing very well.

My advice is that if you sell, make sure you get some cash for it to park somewhere to use during the bad times when raising cash will become impossible and skills will be cheap when you actually do have cash. Parking might mean an asset you can borrow against when it's hard to get funding based on a promise. Don't sell with any deal like shares in the parent, making an assumption that tries to time the market. Most experts can't even time the market right. Apart from that, keep making stuff people outside of the technology industry use and give them value that is worth paying money for, and try not to make it depend on things you get during a bubble: easy funding and clients with easy funding. Trust me those things are hard to determine, you only realise how much of your client base also depended on the bubble after it's over. Most importantly the effects of bursting bubbles take several years to unravel, so don't think that if you're still fine a year after it's obviously burst that you are in the clear.

That said, I think you are already at an advantage. During a bubble salaries are very good and it takes some guts not to get lured in by an easy salary and doing a startup instead. When the music stops and you are still turning some profit you will be glad.
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http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=507112&cid=2293...

> The tag played a sound clip of Marca saying "What is Global Hypermedia?"
Google App Engine performance tuning
Some interesting real world performance tuning examples.
Cool. Although since GC needs to be supported by all code in a process, it's not enough to just fork the GC and ship that. I'd worry that if Apple stop building the system frameworks (which you definitely can't fork...) with GC support, any GC application will fail at launch. Is there a way round that? I hope there is, because other than that, MacRuby is pretty awesome.
Actually its uncommon that I call/text on the mobile network, however, I'm always online and use the services I have there - e.g. iMessage or email.

I think mobile carriers should realize this and start creating subscriptions for it - they can try to make obscure rules for using their network, but in the end people will use it in the way they find it convenient.
Yeah, I think this is the way to go - if they experience a major loss in customers, maybe they realize that this is a stupid idea.
With completely being not so complete. Sometimes they change the code flow.
Some interesting real world performance tuning examples.

Basically use db.get() over queries and pre-warm the cache at every opportunity.
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True. On the other hand most people are somewhere in the spectrum between bad and almost-good writers.

And even the best writers, when writing quickly in an immediate medium like the internet, can get it wrong.

I think that is the key; when interacting socially there is no need to make sure your writing is top notch and expresses your emotions adequately. You just stick a smilie on :)

Consider a real-life conversation. You wouldn't pause for several minutes to make sure the next sentence properly conveyed what you wanted to say. But you might smile and wink at the end of a put-down to show it was a joke.
Aye, while reading the epic Eevee's epic PHP rant recently it struck me how much it heightened my appreciation for all the things better-designed languages managed to get right, and all the things they managed to avoid.

The amount of sheer genericity, that is consistent reuse of concepts and freedom of expression stemming from wide application of simple rules, in something like Python is staggering compared to the myriad problems he lists with things like PHP's object model, built-in types, assignment mechanics, etc.

I started out doing web development in PHP in the 90s and then eventually graduated to desktop application work in C++ and finally added Python (on the desktop and also again for the web) to the mix in the last half-decade, and while I realized quickly that these were better languages and that they were much more fun to use due to the features they offer and the way things just click into place, Eevee's post was a fun tour of all the little whys.

Then again, Python 2.x's ordering rules - falling back to alphabetical collation of the type names when objects can't be ordered otherwise - almost smells of PHP-style implicitness :). Good thing that was made more strict in Python 3.
Not to mention the idiotic mapping blogspot.com to blogspot.co.uk (in my part of the world). Way to proliferate dup URLs!
Apologies if I missed a nuance but it would be more helpful if you explained why...? Are you saying the OP is spending too much time pontificating when they should be handing the work to a trained professional? Or are you disagreeing with what they said?