skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my own implementation I've added a movement threshold, so it only starts moving the cursor after you've moved your finger a certain number of pixels (currently 44) from the point at which you originally put it down. I've found this avoids problems of accidental cursor movement.
I would rather see confirmation from Apple (doubtful) or developers who have successfully submitted apps to the App Store.
I would literally rather have an Android G1 than this phone. It baffles me that more people don't demand phones with full qwerty keyboards. They're so much easier and faster and more pleasant to type on than a touch screen. I've got an HTC Desire Z at the moment. I'll stick with that until a better Android phone with a qwerty keyboard comes along.
Its pretty, but it only handles one rule at a time. Being able to provide feedback on all errors will be considerably less graceful..
Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Gameplay
Upgrading usually means you pay some fee (around the 100e mark, maybe 150e if the device is highly desirable), and then you renew your contract with your carrier for another 12/18/24 months (again, depending on your own situation)

Adding up the total cost of the bill is, in my eyes, the wrong calculation to make.
A phone (particularly a smartphone), by itself, really isn't worth all that much. You need a data plan, and to a lesser extent, a call/text(sms) plan too.

If you pay the (say) 360e for the Nexus on Amazon, how will you use it to receive calls while walking through Dublin city centre? How will you check your emails on it while on the bus?

You'll need to take that 360e, and add the cost of a plan that will suit your needs. Lets say it's 20e per month (a common pre-pay plan in Ireland).
That's 20 * 12 (yes, I know, no obligation to stay for 12 months), which is 240e.

Added to the 360e, you're looking at 600e for 12 months usage.

Please, don't use the bill amount as the main part of an argument here - it really shouldn't be.
There's a massive draw to specifically not spending 5-600e up front on a device.
Looking for the best Home Contractors in South Milwaukee?
JW & Sons, LLC offer top quality home addition services in the Racine, Kenosha, Oak Creek, South Milwaukee, and surrounding southeastern Wisconsin area.
Cyber Weapons - Bits Instead of Bullets Damage Nonetheless
What I've got isn't general-purpose at all. I'm working on distributed learning algorithms, and right now I'm more concerned with having lots of nodes in the learning algorithms than I am in simulating real-world p2p...so I'm not modeling things like network delays, nodes dropping out and returning with different IPs, etc.

How about you?

If I get something that might possibly be useful for someone else, sure, I'll put it on github or something. (If I get a good design, the real network will be opensource too.)
What I'd like is a scrollbar absolute to the entire dataset, and some hint on how much of it is loaded.
Seems like everyone in discussion focuses on vacation, sick leave and salary in the US, and noone is talking why is the software engineer salary in Austria, and similarly in the rest of Europe less than in the US.

The reason is simple. Try to remember one software package developed in Austria? Can you name one software company based in Austria that is successful in selling software or services? Do you know of any, even moderate, company from Austria whose primary role is creating and selling software? That's right, you can't.

That's because software engineers there work for companies where spending money in producing software is a cost, not an investment. If software is not a primary line of business, than there are two things in place. One is that developers are an expense. Second is that you don't need that good or experienced developers working on glorified enterprise internal applications.

So, if you want money, either work for a company where software development is primary line of business and be paid accordingly, or work on your own. You can't make good bucks working for cost center.
I don’t know about must-read ones, but here are a few No Starch and O’Reilly titles that stand out from a quick look at my library:

No Starch, Eloquent JavaScript. A Modern Introduction to Programming: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781593272821.do

No Starch, The Book of CSS3: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781593272869.do

O’Reilly, bash Cookbook: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596526788.do

O’Reilly, CSS: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596802455.do

O’Reilly, JavaScript: The Good Parts: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596517748.do

O’Reilly, Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596528126.do

O’Reilly, The Art of SEO, 2nd Edition: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920019091.do
http://example.com/cgi/mything?stuff

Results in apache calling:

/home/ajf/cgi/mything stuff
A nice variation would be to practice the words for each chapter until you learn them then read it. You'd highlight the words you've learned. Words start to get repetitive from chapter to chapter so you'll only add the new words. I created a spreadsheet of words for Harry Potter and Around the World in 80 Days in Spanish. I'd like to do something like this in my iOS app.

I'll have to look for some of the classics that are in the public domain. Of course, the translations need to be in the public domain too.
How We Learned to Cheat at Online Poker: A Study in Software Security
Concatenate Large PDF, Identify Corrupted PDFs & Add Image Field Type
The latest version of Aspose.Pdf for .NET (6.9.0) has been released. This release includes the ability to check if the source PDF file is correct or corrupted. This feature has been in great demand by many customers that have faced problems during PDF concatenation. If any of the source files are corrupted the whole process gets disturbed and interrupted. We also have introduced a feature that lets you add an image field type to an existing PDF document. Some customers wanted to be able to apply justified alignment to a multiline text field, so we have made it possible with the help of FormFieldFacade.AlignJustified value. CheckBoxes can have the values Check, Circle, Diamond, Square and Cross when selected inside the PDF form. Our development team has worked hard to stabilize and improve the HTML to PDF, PDF to image, PDF to HTML, and PDF to XPS conversions as well as filling form fields, merging PDF files, extracting text and many other features. This release has also been tested in a multi-threaded environment and works great.
Having attended several conferences and paid for the tickets, I can only conclude that they aren't worth the price. It's a good excuse if you want to travel far or if your employer is paying though.

Those that benefit most are the speakers, often well paid, free travel and accommodation, other freebies, usually a VIP event beforehand, they pimp their book for little effort, are often employed to do so, repeat same talk at other venues etc.
Not if you're storing lots of references to the same object, which is what I'm often doing. And my objects are really small anyway.
I'm pretty sure I'll be able to solve this by testing that both fingers are moving in the same direction (you have to move them apart to split the keyboard), and filtering some of the touch events before they reach the application if necessary.

And yes this will be in the next beta. I still have to finish off the styles and table stuff but will hopefully have it ready in a few days.
also look at http://ringojs.org
I think it's important to separate the question of whether _this_ conference was badly run, and too expensive, from whether all conferences are.

This conference sounds like it was terrible. A well run conference, though, costs a lot more to stage than you might expect. Andy Budd wrote an illuminating article on the subject last year: http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2011/09/theres_a_lot_of_non...
The other problem with these conferences is their size. Most of them are very small. If you only have a few hundred people, the cost of the venue and such isn't divided by a large enough number. This is because these developer conferences are often so specific in their subject matter that the audience is small, and also because of the high price.

I would like to see a convention, not a conference, that is for programmers, period. It should be gigantic like the big geek conventions PAX, Comic-Con, etc. Price could be $50 for three days. Thousands of us would be there. Lots of money to be made selling space to exhibitors. I would go every year.
I grew up in a Mandarin speaking household failing to learn Chinese when my parents tried forcing me to. I forced myself to learn in college for personal reasons. Oftentimes, this was hard, really hard.

Having said all that, this page was quite a joy to read. I know all those characters, and the page has one big flaw for learning these characters--the pronunciation. Nevertheless, it was a fantastic way to express the meaning of these characters.

If anything, I'd say that it captures the essence of Chinese characters--building up new meaning blocks by compounding basic pictographs together. This is the premise of the Chinese 'radical' system--radicals are the subcomponents of characters like the "child" and "female" characters that comprise "good".

Developer aside: the majority of written Chinese is comprised of about 1000 or so radicals. This may seem like a lot, but having learned enough to recognize them has helped me even in development--I feel like I learn hotkeys, plugins and VIM commands a lot faster than my coworkers because I forced myself to learn how to memorize.
> To say that they have a monopoly over their products is not a cogent statement as every manufacturer has such a 'monopoly'.

Well, I don't know what you mean by 'cogent', as that's generally taken to be a property of arguments and not statements (there may be loser notions, but as I say you'd need to spell out what one you intended). However, the statement that 'Apple have a monopoly over Apple products' is a true statement, which is all that matters to establish the semantic point. It might be trivial, but it's trivially true.

If I might try a helpful suggestion, it seems to me your confusion is arising because you're thinking something like 'if x is a market segment, then x isn't a market'. But of course that doesn't follow, as one can individuate markets at different levels (more or less fine grained).
Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School
What is unclear to me is what YC will do with these "no idea people" ? Does YC intend to throw ideas at them and see what happens ? Will these people be invited to join YC funded startups ?

Without this information it is difficult to check if Dustin's critic make any sense.
Don't forget wifi :)

I wish conferences offered two rates: one for just the talks, and one for talks + (coffee,wifi,lunch).
I bet there are a great deal of people like me that don't use / purchase tables because of the poor keyboard experience. With a real keyboard I can type fast, faster than I can speak, faster than I can write using a pen. My interaction with a computer always was this way: my ideas can flow fast to the form of text, code, emails, and so forth. With the iPad I feel dumb, because I'm no longer fast enough, and I refuse this kind of interaction. However the new text editing proposed on this story fixes part of the problem, but not all unfortunately, still it's a great step forward.
Photo Booth Rentals For Weddings
Photo booth rentals for weddings and events from Photobooth.co.uk will make your parties fun and memorable. Book your photo booth rental today!
LUMS MBA, EMBA Admission 2012
I noticed mine all the time with grays and whites with a low brightness. Very annoying.
it's good - Chinese has an extremely steep initial learning curve, and this would be a good start. I also think the methods are sound (ie. mixing the word in, substitution, the way the actual tool tests you).

<pedantry>
It does feel very limited. I think you'd outgrow this in a couple of weeks TBH.

For example, this article gives 子 as one of the first characters, and says it means "child". It does, but it also doesn't. On its own it is purely conceptual, and only has meaning combined with other characters. If you said "my 子 is 4" then that makes no sense. It can mean bullet (子弹), atom (原子), son (儿子), or a generic "thing" measure word (eg. 骗子, conman).

An early learner doesn't need to know the word for 'bullet' or 'atom', but it's not good either to tell them that "子" means child and then they think they can say "child" in Chinese. What's the parallel in English? It's like teaching you "pre-" and saying that means "early", and then you run around saying "He arrived pre-". Why not just teach the word for child (孩子) and then substitute that? Then you learn to recognise meaningful words and not conceptual characters, which is actually the key skill in reading Chinese.

You have to start somewhere, but I wish that more Chinese learning tools/books used modern learning methods like these, but with better linguistic accuracy.
</pedantry>
how is this possibly a bug? this is done for SEO reasons, many sites do this.. also, this has nothing to do with hashes, very misleading title/traffic trap.
I went to a conference a few weeks back that was £300 a ticket. Factoring in accommodation + travel. The cost was well over £500.

Was it worth it? Not really.

The talks were put on YouTube and the 'goody' bags weren't that great.

Some of the speakers were ok but I guess I would of rather put that money elsewhere.

It wont stop me from attending conferences but lesson learnt.
Trying to install this on Ubuntu. Is it me or is the "binary" download link [1] not really a binary download link?

[1] https://github.com/purplefox/vert.x/downloads
Your kind of begging the question here. When media was mostly physical, you did have many if those rights you describe. The problem is networked digital devices make large scale (unauthorized) copying and distribution cheap, trivial, and unavoidable. Selling popular (and expensive to make) media content without DRM and legal (and enforceable ) anti-pirating laws is simply not viable IMO.

At least I've never heard a scheme floated that seemed remotely plausible as in industry business structure to do this. I'm music producer and in arguments where I've explained how expensive it is to produce music and how hard it is to recoup an investment, when people have understood my argument, they've thrown up their hands, saying if the music industry is that bad why would anyone even do it?
And I think it points to a general devaluing of creative work afoot in the culture. That might not seem like a big deal to some, I think a lot of really don't care about what kinds of media get made or how: it's just hard tu take the same peoples cries of injustice on the part of the MPAA as a serious threat to human progress because they can't watch what they want, whenever they want, for a super low price (or free).
It might be that some awesome new business model exists to support an industry that creates digital IP products that doesn't rely on artificial scarcity and IP but I haven't heard any proposed
IMHO

For SEO and UX the current scheme is good. So they should keep using it.

But the problem is thinking that "we use REST so every darn resource on the site has to follow this pattern even though it makes no sense to use it"

I don't think twitter is going to filter by user to see if it matches the url. The key for the tweet is the tweet_id and that's the key to their (hugely cached) DB
Ooh, I hadn't seen that one - sorely tempted to go to France for that now :D
That is well known by now, here [1] is an article explaining the advantages of the so called chiclet keyboard (given that this is no marketing idea)

Here probably a picture of the X230 [2]

[1] http://blog.lenovo.com/design/thinkpad-x1-designing-the-ulti...

[2] http://images.tweaktown.com/news/2/3/23890_09_spotted_lenovo...
Breitling avenger skyland
Ignoring the details of this particular conference, I think its mostly wrong to say 'conferences should be priced to cover X'

There are conferences that go all the way from free to > $5000, I am constantly hearing about the amazing experiences at certain very expensive small conferences, as well as people enjoying the cheaper events (I recently helped out organising a conference that charged £50 full price).

Obviously we dont want anyone to be ripped off, but generally if you have an expensive conference the organisers and the speakers have to justify that cost, and if they do so great. We also dont want to alienate new people from attending conferences, but as long as their continue to be free meetups and cheaper conferences as an alternative, I dont see the problem
Good for them but do you really think that people on HackerNews need help with computer repair?
I don't know what it's like in Ireland, but in Sweden you generally pay a lot less pr month for the same plan if you bring your own phone, compared to if you accept their 'free' phone. So a 30 euro plan with a free phone, might only cost 8-10 euros if you bring your own phone.
Please post a list of conferences where the speakers are well paid, I'd like to get on that gravy train ;-)

So far, the conferences where I've spoken have done no kore than take care of travel and accomodation. CUSEC, which is a tremendously valuable conference for attendees, did give me a USB stick in the form of a lego block, I will cherish that long after people have forgotten USB technology.

Anyhow, I'm not arguing with travel and accomodation, but as a Dad it can be lonely leaving my family even if it's a real pleasure to meet people at a conference. I personally find speaking to be a net financial loss by a large margin, at the end of the day I'd make much more money staying at home and consulting by the hour.

Other speakers' mileage may vary :-)
Total Lawn Care, LLC
Total Lawn Care, LLC is a full service landscape contractor “specializing in satisfied clients”. TLC was established in 2003 and currently serves the property management, commercial, multi-family and residential fields throughout the Puget Sound region. http://tlclawns.net/
Can social media make you famous?
Luckily, our universe has exploitable structure. The No Free lunch theorem is as much a headache to Searching as the Halting problem is to programming - not really one.
You assume usernames are kept along with tweets.
... or, instead of (ab)using a ternary, the same idea in CoffeeScript:

return if not username
error: "No Username Given.", field: 'name'
else if not password
error: "No Password Given.", field: 'pass'
else if username.length < 3
error: "Username is less than 3 Characters.", field: 'name'
else if password.length < 4
error: "Password is less than 4 Characters.", field: 'pass'
else if not (/^([a-z0-9-_]+)$/i).test(username)
error: "Username contains invalid characters.", field: 'name'
else
false

Hopefully a bit more readable. Link to see the compiled JS output: http://goo.gl/QhR9c
Google’s New Proposed Metrics For Ads – A Giant Leap For Online Advertising?
MI6 codebreaker attended U.S. security conference just before his death
Missouri Senate hearing on HB1258 April 24, 2012
CSK vs DC Live Streaming Video & Live Scorecard CSK vs DC
I think this will interest some HN readers: Zachary Kessin's Building Web Applications with Erlang[1] is available as an early-release ebook. As an early release, the ebook price is already cheap, but combined with the 50% discount, today it's $6.49. Definitely seems worth a look.

[1]: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920021452.do
The username is on the page so it is retrieved one way or an other.
Started losing me at: 学 字 - creative teaching & boring teaching, I don't understand how those two stack and what they mean in unison. The last paragraph lost me completely.
I was at a conference that did that. The end result was that there was no way to prevent people who hadn't paid for lunch and coffee from just walking up to the buffet table and taking lunch and coffee, and the food being gone before everybody who had paid for lunch had eaten.
Sales | Artsoft Solutions
An Outsourcing Company founded in the Philippines last 2011. It is focus solely on virtual marketing strategies and I.T. solutions.
The install pre-requisites recommends that Windows users install a linux VM - but I found the beta 11 version works directly.
I'd rather use the very good scikits.learn and have full control over what I'm doing.
I prefer this http://livevalidation.com/
I completely agree. PandoDaily is not a serious tech news source. Never has been, never will be.
In theory yes, but how many references do you need to claim random access.
Interactive Facebook Valuation Calculator
Let's make it happen. We can use the Javits Center in NYC.
I've run a conference for freelance web devs 2 years in a row, both times at a loss (though the loss is shrinking each year) but have tried to keep the ticket prices down, but also try to cover some expenses for speakers (hotel or travel for speakers from out of the area, primarily).

Tried to keep tickets at a max of $99 the first year. Bumped up to $149 second year (with cheaper 'early bird' tickets both years). Bigger issue was trying to get sponsors to help defray costs. Given the nature of our conference - freelance web professionals (devs, designers, etc) - surprisingly a lot of companies weren't interested because we weren't 'targeted' enough. I may have just been getting polite brush offs, but I'd contacted 45 companies - many of whom sponsor other tech conferences - and had 3 sponsors the first year. A few only want to send a speaker and schwag, but no money. Conference venues and catering staff don't like to be paid in bobbleheads and cup holders, unfortunately.

A note on schwag - I basically hate it. I think it's wasteful, and going to conferences where I've paid hundreds of dollars, then given a bag with a bunch of plastic crap made in and shipped from China just gets my goat. So we don't do 'bags of crap' at my conference. I don't think too many people have missed it so far.

gentle plug - http://indieconf.com is setting dates for this fall in North Carolina. I remember inviting Amber to come speak at our first conference two years ago, but the timing didn't work out - perhaps we can get her to come this year. :)
Ubuntu Studio - its Ubuntu without the crap.
I've already bought one in my head :)
There are a lot more alternatives on Windows though, Paint.net and Photoshop being obvious choices. With Linux and similar Gimp is really the only image editor. That I know of anyway.
> a cheap room with a beamer

A tip for you, and maybe other German speakers here: "beamer" is one of those German words that seems like English, but it's not (like handy). In English, the word is "projector", whether it's analog or digital.
While you are in your prime "coding years", it doesn't matter. The problem with dropping out won't hit you until you hit the middle age inflection point: Go into management or career change or jump to a start up. Your competition that started with a B.S. at the same age or even a few years later probably didn't stand still and now have Master's degrees or MBAs. That's what you'd be up against. With the slow job market, not only are many 20-somethings hanging out in graduate school but many (if not most) immigrants enter the market with offshore B.S. and U.S. Master degrees. So, my advice to drop-outs is: Build your experience and bankroll for a couple of years then settle into a job where you can finish your degree part-time. Then, when you hit the middle-age transition, you can go for the 2-year MBA to stay competitive.
So kamaal's response wasn't totally on point but I don't see why s/he has been downvoted to oblivion

Prefixing "Indians have a reputation of being sloppy programmers" with "let's say" doesn't totally take the sting out.

I'm not Indian but I still winced when I read it