skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, in the language of the most of the readers here: just like knowing all C++ keywords and class names in the libraries doesn't make you fluent in C++ to the level of "can produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices" (that is a C1 definition).
Nokia reports $1.7 billion loss, "challenging" market for new Windows Phone 7
It is however possibly the only obviously 'Java' experience that most non-techinal people have had.

If you're trying to prove to them that Java is everywhere, this is what's going to make them think "Oh yeah, it's on my computer too"
The process is really simple; and they explain it with a nice graphical flow if you click the "how does it work" link (prior to signing in).

Did you see/click that and still have the same concern? And if you did see it, what sort of assurances/explanations would you want to see?

(I'm not being facetious, I'm genuinely curious :)).
Why PyCharm rox.
They've got this MBA dude who's calling himself a hustler so they'll be alright :D
I think the relevant wikipedia terms here are "Aliasing" and "Nyquist Frequency"
> but I think the applications overlap a lot.

No doubt. But I feel that I'm in a different mindset when I'm looking to read and looking to deal with email. It just reminds me of where iTunes has taken us, from being a music player to become a media and DRM management system. I was happy that didn't try and shove the Mac App Store in there as well.
Looks great, good job Thomas & team
Being selected as a Summer of Code student
Hoping that someone from Grouper happens to be reading this: The unsubscribe link in your emails is broken. I got so tired of unsubscribing unsuccessfully that I've now been marking you as spam every time I get an email.

Obviously, this is bad for your deliverability. You should fix your unsub links.
I'm your target audience. I've built this exact function into client apps (upload from various sources and edit with Aviary). Its a PITA.

I'd consider yours, but there's a couple big problems right now:

1) Doesn't support IE.
2) Doesn't work on mobile

There's other issues, but those are the show-stoppers.

FWIW, Chute (http://getchute.com) has a better implementation of this concept. That said, I still haven't seen enough of a value add here (with Filepicker or with Chute) to depend on yet another black box service that may shut down tomorrow.
Mad Men 2.0? Umbel Nabs $3.6M To Update Audience Measurement With Social Data
The Brass Rat messes with those guys' minds.
Thats an amazing observation mjn!!!
I knew a little about the Nyquist frequency, but I didn't really hear much aliasing during development. Surely that is a good point to improve!
Thanks.
Improving Window Resolutions
Circa: variable browser and live C++ coding
>It's not really Best Buy's fault if a company makes two >different products with the same name.

It sure is in Texas, and probably most other jurisdictions. Under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices/Consumer Protection Act, it is considered a "false, misleading, or deceptive act or practice" to

(3) causing confusion or misunderstanding as to affiliation, connection, or association with, or certification by, another;

(5) represent that goods or services have sponsorship, approval, characteristics, ingredients, uses, benefits, or quantities which they do not have or that a person has a sponsorship, approval, status, affiliation, or connection which he does not;

and others from the "laundry list" covered by the DTPA. The days of caveat emptor are over in Texas, and if they don't give you your money back and make you go to small claims, and you prove your case, you are automatically awarded treble (triple) damages up to the first $1,000 of damages, plus costs and attorney fees. Sadly, most people have never heard of this law.

http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/SOTWDocs/BC/htm/BC.17....
http://www.jtexconsumerlaw.com/V8N2pdf/V8N2deceptive.pdf
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>"The only results I omitted were single letter prefixes and suffixes because they’re not something you would generally add to generate quality domain names."

Adding "i" to any word seems to be all the rage these days. And "e" would be another popular single letter prefix, I think. I can't think of any single letter suffixes though, except maybe "y".
I really dislike how the term "real-time" has been distorted into something entirely different. Just call it "live" apps or something.
At some point in the past someone said "the encroachment of IRCspeak into everyday English is a bad moon rising" :)

I kinda agree. But then again I do find it has utility; people can use it to express emotion, which previously has been a sticking point for purely textual communications. Consider:

And then they all died! #upset #crying

versus:

And then they call died! #hellyeah

I quite like this sort of hacking.
I'm in QA for a software company in SF and not a developer by trade, would I still be useful in being apart of the teams or would this be a developer only situation?
Like many other static site generators it doesn't separate content from the layout, which is a trouble when it comes to maintenance.
I find this product to be really weak. I've been disappointed with all of the clients (do I seriously have to hit an "edit" button to make any change?) and can't think of any use case that couldn't be handled far more elegantly with my go-to tools - Google Docs, Workflowy and Dropbox. I've lost audionotes and changes to notes in the iPhone app. Worse, they seem focused on fluff (wallpapers, ancillary apps) when the core product feels unpolished. I just tried their web client and simple things like undo/redo are glaringly buggy.

The charm, at the moment, is that they're one of the few one stop shops for files and note management that has a passable mobile client. It's something glaringly simple that a lot of people want (especially the %90 of the population intimidated at the idea of integrating a few services). If Google Docs ever get serious about their mobile client and/or if Dropbox cater more to this kind of crowd (I think a simple note editor on the web and their mobile clients would be well used), I expect Evernote to be in trouble.
Back in my day, plus signs preceded channel names. Take your newfangled octothorpe channel names and go have your so-called nineteen-nineties.
Getting the tone of a message board comment doesn't make you an asshole.

I hope.
MySQL is doomed?
It is an emulated one....
Indeed, but emacs isn't very close to world domination.
I would have said "Poincaré map", as that's basically what this is, in some respect.
I want to be able to send a text off a prepay phone that enables HBO content on a networked device.

This is technology that already exists for machines that sell packets of crisps, and last time I checked, running a tv company was at least as technical an endeavour as crisp manufacture, so it isn't as though they can claim not to have the skill to do this.
Pythonium, or why is there no javash?
@brettcvz, you guys need to validate your email input for empty strings when signing up for a dev key. On the project note, looks very promising, keep up the good work.
Space elevators, baby. I wonder where the material scientists are on nanotube length...
I can't really comment on the specific example you provided because I've not read anything about it. The example you describe doesn't sound like buyers remorse.

However, I do think consumers should take the time to educate themselves about the products they buy.
It's like Oprah for startups.

Everyone look under your seat.

You get a billion dollars! you get a billion dollars! you get a billion dollars!
Whatever you want to call it, it's a very cool effect.. (edit: but thank you for providing some educational context! Off to Wikipedia I go..)
AT&T Translator app hands-on: smashing the language barrier
The origins of the blink HTML element
Could Light Table get in trouble with Microsoft?
That looks awesome! Great work.
Nearly anything can be made to work, but in many cases it means jumping through a lot of hoops to get there.

Without a trusted party you have to be much more suspicious of everything coming in, as you say, and that means coding additional verification, everywhere.

For instance, with that model of friend requesting, there has to be some method of proving that A made the request to B. I can think of various ways of doing this (A signs their request, or A adds a duplicate outgoing request to a queue only they can write to, etc), but the point is that they're all much more overheard than doing it the traditional way. And that's just for a friend request.

The big concern is that all this overheard will mount up enough to offset any of the other gains Firebase brings.
Yes, that is so. GDP = Gross Domestic Product. It's gross. Not net. There is no saving, no subtraction of any kind. Just addition.
This is probably the only way Cisco can build a genuinely innovative team that is remunerated well and is not bogged down by Cisco corp-BS and actually ship something awesome. The downside for Cisco is that they will all leave once they max out their earn out.
I've been there, I've seen it.
If you're looking for a quick solution without all the fuss of applying through Verisign, I recommend checking out PremiumDrops, which provides a fairly accurate zone file for $24.95/month:

http://www.premiumdrops.com/
So if I'm a company, I can tell a store in Texas, "Here is my new product, the FSA-51", and they sell it as an FSA-51, and then a customer is confused because I sold another different product also called the FSA-51 to another store... the store is liable, and I'm not? That's fucked up.
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RAND terms - non-reasonable and discriminatory
Hi George,

Thanks for mentioning us. We definitely offer a very similar set of features with Slidechute.

I think the value add comes in many different ways, but we're just at the beginning of that process so it's not always all evident.

As for the black box, there's not a lot of Voodoo with us. Since launching we allow you to store media in your own S3 bucket and also to customize your app credentials so the authentication happens against your app.

Would love to know what features you thought would add the kind of value you need.
Nowadays there's many tools and SDKs to help you build games rapidly. I'd encourage you to register and try to learn some more about game development in the next few weeks. :)
you guys should join up with Chute and crush it together!
Awesome javascript based data grid (handles 500K+ rows)
WTF kind of experience is that?

I'd call that a "time to install an ad/scriptblocker" kind of experience. I (w/ NoScript) had no idea there was an ad overlay 'til I reached your post.
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Issues with Appengine
Why would you think development of fluxus "has stopped"? The mailing list [1] is active enough for such a minority project, and the git repo [2] shows a reasonable activity for a mature (i.e. "done") project, with functionality commits from October last year, and French localisation commits from April this year (last one on the 19th, so less than 24h ago).

[1] http://lists.pawfal.org/pipermail/fluxus-pawfal.org/
[2] https://savannah.nongnu.org/git/?group=fluxus
Doesn't even load in Firefox 11.0 on Windows 7 64bit, all I see is some spinning gears in the middle of the page.
Jaeggi 2010 http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ#jaeggi-2010 did not address the main criticism of Moody, and administered the tests speeded as in Jaeggi 2008.
> something you can't do with cvs/svn/git annotate.

Challenge accepted:

for i in $(git grep -l TODO); do git blame -f $i |grep TODO |grep "$NAME"; done

Granted, it can be long on a big codebase, but does the trick.
Not to mention the pressure to have different SKU/barcodes to prevent "showrooming".
Strictly speaking, it's not an "optical" illusion at all -- you must film the drops with the camera. You'll see the effect only on the screen.

Still, a clever idea to simply use a sub-woofer to kick the drops. I like it.
people consistently over-estimated my language abilities, and as a result said a ton of stuff I couldn't understand

The same thing happened to me in South America. I studied Spanish in high school, but when I asked someone a question there, they started talking at 100mph and I had no idea what they were saying.

I find it's a lot easier to understand Spanish speakers who grew up stateside. They use a more limited vocabulary, and they're Spanglish accent is a lot easier to understand.
For AdSense? (assuming, I'm surprised how high it is too)

Honestly AdSense eCPM is through the roof since they started doing retargeting. Its now much more about your demographics than your content.

For example, back in the day, a forum for a Warcraft Guild would have triggered "Buy Gold Now" ads which paid pennies per click. Now ads are targeted to the user and know the user's search history, so the ads can be much more relevant. Given that Warcraft players are often rich techies, suddenly the ads being shown have a much higher CPC.

In short: sites that 3 years ago would have paid pennies per click are paying dollars per click on AdSense. Its kind of insane. If you wrote them off before I'd consider taking another look.
Using # for both comments and colors does not sound like a good idea! Just stick to --, I think. It looks prettier anyhow :P.

Also, how do you do scoping without a var or val keyword? E.g. what if I want to have a variable local to a function (or method, I guess?). Or what if I want to reassign a variable outside of the current scope?
If you take money in exchange for a product, you should be responsible for that exchange.
I'll be more general for you. If you used to sell an A and now you sell a B with exactly the same name as A, but different characteristics, you should be sure that the consumer knows the differences exist. Yeah, that's really fucked up if you are dishonest or deceptive.
Okay, they've made their choice to not engage certain markets.

How does that make consuming their product at those markets morally wrong?
Do startups that aren't clones take money from this sleazeball?

The Samwers are bad enough.
Watch Battleship (2012) Full Movie Online
Humble Bundle - Botanicula debut, Machinarium, Samorost etc. (PC games only)
Maybe companies should spend some extra time and effort to hire people they can trust.
What did you do? I can't tell from that photo
Movies, too. When I was learning Russian in college, we'd be assigned a 5-10 ten minute segment of a movie and have to transcribe it for homework. It took forever at first, but it really helped my listening comprehension improve quickly.
This is ridiculously good. I would sign up for all of these courses if I had the time to. I have signed up for three courses from Udacity, so I guess I'll take a few Coursera courses once I'm done with them. I'll also have a lot more time in the summer.

MIT has been offering a lot of free material online with its OCW initiative, and there have been other such resources out there for quite a while. However, to live in such a time when courses from some of the best universities in the world are offered for free to millions of people in a format specifically tailored for this medium is nothing short of extraordinary.
> can tell you in half a second or less whether or not a number's even or odd.

Sure, but just because it takes half a second or less doesn't mean it's not reflecting mental performance. For example, testing reflexes takes even less time, down to tenths of a second, but yet, reflex time still correlates with IQ.
Recording my coding.
Adblockers on Chrome are terrible as a rule due to architecture.
That's hypothetical losses. Maybe losses. As in, Maybe they lose from piracy, maybe not.

But your win in wealth is real. You can't compare Maybe losses with real wealth gain. Real wins.

Secondary market brings the copyright holder nothing, so it's a bad example.
How Do You Turn Pixels Into A Full-Blown Brand Experience?
My question is would this be possible with a strobe light? Or even better, a florescent light? That would make some very impressive shows, if you could have a whole hallway with different streams, all synchronized to the frequency that the lights strobe at.
I'm not sure I'm your target market as I'm not much for photo sharing type stuff. That being said I think the app looks great and was pretty interesting for the brief time I browsed it.

I'm just a bit annoyed at all the, "We'll get a few million users and then worry about how to make money." When I see a service I like that doesn't have any way of making money I'm scared it will go away. Note this isn't how the masses think, but it is how software devs think.

http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/
http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ#android
Can you recommend a good Arabic TV show?
Http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/04/2012419143717917366.html
All sorts of weird sounds and glitching if you turn on without a ROM... is this a faithful emulation? Would the original Atari do that?
Ok, I freely admit that I know nothing about selling bingo cards.. But it "feels" to me like that number should be closer to 5. I was really surprised to see that you give away 15 cards for free. You could A/B test this too, right?
To be fair it's not really a show-stopper in the context of Atari emulation, just a "nice to have". Most of the Atari's sounds are so noisy to begin with (e.g. the famous Combat tank rumble) that the aliasing is much less noticeable than if you're digitally emulating simpler waveforms, like the ones from analog synthesizers.

The most-used 2600 emulator, Stella, doesn't do bandlimited synthesis either, without many complaints. I believe z26 is the only Atari emulator that does, so listening to differences between how things sound in z26 and other emulators might be a way to figure out if it really matters. Though as far as implementation, z26 is 100% asm, so not very easy to use as a reference.
This is ridiculously good. I would sign up for all of these courses if I had the time to. It's been a while since I've been this excited about learning.
Agreed. The consumer models just aren't quite at the inflection point yet. I've been watching the Roland IModela but it's just not at the right price yet thought it's slowly getting there. http://technabob.com/blog/2011/10/10/imodela-3d-milling-mach...
I notice you mentioned Oz, The Sopranos, and The Wire, but not Rome. If you haven't seen Rome... I highly recommend it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_(TV_series)

It was a big-budget affair, too.
... and write decent cmd+f functionality on OS X
The managers are probably assuming that this 'Grouper' may be a prostitution front, and naturally would prefer it not be using their premises.
Another trick is to take a rope and wiggle it at say 2 to 20 hz and take a strobe light to light up at 1 to 15 hz. In the dark the rope will show a perfectly formed sin wave which is spooky to look at.

Another one is putting clear plastic wrap over a subwoofer, making it face upward, and sprinkling salt on the surface. The patterns it creates look like alien symbols as you explore the spectrum.
here's the problem:

"numerous direct quotes from people at Sun and Oracle"

are not legally binding contracts.
I completely agree with you. The problem is the market hasn't found an adequate discount rate for startup success in the social network / web 2.0 reality. Nobody knows how much Evernote is worth because its business model is so Swiss generis. Evernote wants to establish itself as a knowledge repository and, in doing so, is competing with nearly every single company in the tech field: Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Bento, IBM, CMSs, Doc managers, Yammer, Apple, on and on and on.

Could Evernote beat them all or raise to a market share that warrants a 1 billion valuation. Absolutely. They can and they have. the product is fascinating: easy, fast, ever present, cloud integrated and intuitive.

However, can Evernote sustain this position for half a decade? Absolutely not. Here's why:

- the goal Evernote is chasing is to ambitious and is being chased by bigger dogs

- in this field integration with OS is key. Microsoft and Apple clearly have the upper hand

- viral he network effect of Evernote's biz model is not strong enough to keep people using the platform. The churn rate is very big. If you start using Apple notes is very hard to switch, for example.

I've been following this company for a while, and as much as I respect their execution I simply think this number is a reflection of current market conditions, nothing more. Hence cast my vote for a bubble.
Does anybody know how fast connecting to a WebSockets server is? How does it compare to connecting over http? I was interested in the ws:// uri scheme as I was unaware of that. Is there a future scenario where we could connect to a WebSockets server directly through the browser without first connecting over http and then with js?
You might be able to get a similar effect to the naked eye, if you used a sound wave at/near the same frequency as your local mains electricity, under incandescent mains lighting. A harmonic frequency might even work, too.

I recall seeing a tool for fine-tuning vinyl turntable speed that used that form of the trick - it was basically a cardboard "record" with spokes printed on it every (* grabs a calculator *) 4.02deg, so as to appear to be stationary when rotating at exactly 33.5rpm under light flickering at 50Hz. Thought that was ingenious.
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> Over 93% of 1st position domains are over a year old. This not only confirms the fact that Google favors older domains, but heavily stresses the importance of seeking aged domains for your projects if possible.

No, it doesn't. Correlation != Causality.
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Camera's are not the same as reality. They take images at a certain number of frames per second. 24, 30 or 60 are common frame rates for digital cameras. Thus, the camera is effectively its own strobe.

Since the frequency in the speaker is 24 hertz and camcorders can be set at 24 frames per second, it is likely that this is what is happening here-- the speaker frequency is causing pressure differentials in the water, the water's surface tension causes the succession of drops to form similar shapes, and the camera taking an image at the same frequency of as the speaker makes things look still because the drops are in exactly the same spot each frame.

You can notice on one of the lower bubbles further away from the spout the effect is less precise and the bubble seems to be changing shape or moving around.... this is because the effect of he speaker on the water decreases over time as the water gets further away and air turbulence causes the drops shape to pick up more randomness.
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I highly recommend the book Racing the Beam by Nick Montfort if you are interested in the development of early Ataris.

Also see http://www.bogost.com/games/a_television_simulator.shtml
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