skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess would be, because you don't need to.

First, you can do "local branching" by cloning your repository. On a local filesystem, `darcs get` is fast (uses hard links). And instead of `darcs branch`, you use `cd` (personally, I don't see how `cd` is worse, do you have some pointers about that?).

Second, the Darcs way of managing patches gets you "spontaneous branches". http://wiki.darcs.net/SpontaneousBranches The main advantage lies in that you can select the patches you push to other repositories. Say you work on some feature. Suddenly you need to fix a bug. The way to do it is, fix the bug right away then send the relevant patches (easy if you name your patches sensibly). Your unfinished feature simply won't get send (unless of course there's an actual conflict).
But an extra 0 is not a safe indicator of a durable product. Only a service contract or law can guarantee this.

Conversely, the durable Nokia phones that half my friends and family still happily use never had an extra "0" on their price tag. They probably incurred losses to Nokia by being well-crafted.
How about buying a laptop with eye-catchy looks?
The rapid technology growth has made the laptop a need of majority of the people. It has distinctive features and people buy them according to the shape, design and features that a laptop provides.
I'm not sure why this lists GE as having Comcast as a notable property. They only co-own NBC Universal with Comcast.
Twitter Debunks Reports of 55,000 Hacked Accounts
Ask HN: Can I create an online verson of a trademarked card game? (UNO)
I've created a few javascript card games [1] over the last few months. For my next project I'd like to create the game UNO. Mattel apparently owns the trademark and copyright for UNO, but I'm not exactly sure what that means. If I create an UNO game can they sue me, or send me a cease-and-desist, or something like that? I'm outside the US if that makes any difference.

I also know that there are dozens of UNO games out there already, I have a hard time believing that all of them cleared it with Mattel first. Are they just hoping that Mattel doesn't notice? Or is it enough to have a disclaimer saying something about "UNO is a registered trademark of Mattel, no affiliation etc."?

I have actually sent an email to Mattel, they have a special email address where people can request permission, but they say it might take 4-8 weeks for an answer, so I thought I'd ask here first :)

EDIT: UNO is played with a special deck of cards, just to be clear, so there is something there more than just the gameplay.

[1] http://www.spades-cardgame.com , there are links on there to all the others.
Absolutely not as it would be too expensive. It looks like the Arduino is used to drive a couple motors. You could do the same thing with any inexpensive micro-controller. It's a pretty cool, self contained design though.
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Great. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. I'm nearby at Northeastern.
The Conflict Between Continuous Delivery and Traditional Agile
In tough times, compliance efforts may seem optional
This made me to the sky and back to hell in one second.

I need to do exactly this in a google maps infobox, BUT with the dawn shadow... :( back to images I guess.
I bought a clothes steamer a while back (Jiffy Steamer), and I was pleasantly surprised that it had a full circuit diagram and component list included in the instruction book. I can take that sucker apart, fix things, and put it back together.

(well, maybe not me, but somebody could).

I am willing to buy more products like that. Where do I find them?
"I thought one of the characteristics of a bubble -- almost a pre-requisite -- was for the money of the general public to be flowing in."

The recent US "JOBS" bill included "Loosening regulations on small businesses that wish to raise capital, including through crowdfunding, while retaining investor protections." aimed at getting more of the general public's money flowing into early-stage ventures.

Given its timing, it likely hasn't played a role in the bubble to date, but it's clear that those behind that language in the bill want to inflate a bubble.
You're right about the Canadian housing market; There are those predicting it is in a bubble, the most vocal of whom is a former government MP blogging at http://greaterfool.ca .

The funny thing is that even after watching the carnage in the US housing market, people here don't believe it. I hear countless homeowners talking about housing is the best investment you can make, prices won't fall, it is different here, etc, etc.
it will be hours of fun

somebody should create a online shop where we can get these gadgets built and shipped
If you have code for an Arudino, you can make a board that uses an AVR microcontroller (made by Atmel[0]) with that same code. It may be possible to use a cheaper AVR if you don't need the same functionality (eg, if you aren't using hardware pulse width modulation, there are cheaper chips) with only slight code modifications.

[0] http://www.atmel.com
I have a couple of problems with their analysis of C.

There's no typed macros

There are inlined functions...

While the type system of C is basically size based, a lot of types have an ambiguous size (int for example)

Use stdint.h definitions.

Having said that, I would like namespaces in C!
Now get Flipboard for Android, Unofficially
They were also the most vocal in disagreeing with it.

Harsh really, they get lumped with a bill that they don't want and will cost them money to maintain, and annoy their customers... and they get DDOS'd
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> "that gained some traction in open source projects."

Therefore, proprietary tools don't count.
If only I wasn't at work...
> We wouldn't have an iPhone 4S if Apple was still spending time and money repairing Gen 1 iPods.

You are right that this makes the transition harder. If there was a rental model, Apple would just replace and recycle Gen 1 iPods.

> It's not a broken economic system.

We can disagree about Apple, but Planned Obsolescence is a fact for some products and I can't see how it is not broken, unless you leave natural resources completely out of the picture. (Then our current model is awesome.)
Thanks for making that a bit clearer to me.

I'm still confused why/if an ISP shouldn't be able to go further with offering me a "Non-You-Tube/Grooveshark-Plan" if it would be cheaper. I guess one critical point is that my data packages should not be looked into for privacy issues. But considering your mentioned plan: You could be rewarded for not using the 5mbs bandwith constantly.

So instead of looking into the data packages, using the "length of a data stream" to penalize heavy-users shouldn't be at odds with net neutrality. Right?
Done. Here, have my money! :)
Thanks for the feedback, we will try to clarify this in the future.

There are two ways to use the Joshfire Factory:
- no development, using the available applications templates.
- import your own application code

Most templates help you to generate content-based applications. Which means, adding existing online data into an application well designed for the object it will be deployed on. They may be "Look at my feed" apps, but there is a need from professionals for this kind of app today. They have online content, and they want to reach more devices.

If you import your own code via git, you are able to build any kind of application you want. You may want to use the debugger add-on to debug it on a built native application.
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Java jury finds Google guilty of infringement: Now what?
Cohort analysis using Hadoop, Hive and Snowplow
I think that languages that are a just thin shell on top of C (as opposed to languages that merely target C, e.g. Chicken Scheme) might have some potential. I'll call this coffeescriptification--still eagerly awaiting the first transpiled language that does nothing but remove C's braces and semicolons. If someone doesn't do it by next April Fools, I certainly will (I already have the name in mind: Glee (the italics are part of the name, and mandatory)).
I just checked and it is up, you can retry!
As the Uno card game is played using a specially designed pack of cards then it is fairly clear that the game is covered by copyright as well as a Trademark. Copying without permission would definitely be a no-no.

Stick to games using the standard 52 card pack and you should be fine.
Definitely agree. To give a ballpark figure, Compute Canada, the governing HPC body in Canada provided a cost estimate to researchers who applied and received dedicated computer allocation. Although, all this computer time is actually "free" to the scientist:

"The average RAC award in 2012 was 500 core years and 50 TB years. From Penguin Computing's website [list pricing from Feb 10th, 2012] the cost to purchase a similar amount of computational time and ability would be $450,000. ($600 / server month where each server provides 8 cores) To purchase 50 TB from SDSC [again, list pricing from Feb 10th, 2012] it would cost $30,000. ($600 / TB Year) Making the total value of the average RAC award nearly $500,000. The cost to Compute Canada to provide this level of award is $178,000 and that includes all aspects of user support, training and other aspects not covered by commercial clouds." (https://computecanada.ca/index.php/en/component/content/arti...)

As a side-note, my groups award was above the average, The email to our research group stated: "Providing these resources to your research group costs Compute Canada roughly $4,669,960." I don't even want to calculate how much that would cost on EC2!
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KODAK Gallery to Shutterfly
The BPA problem (and hence the Nalgene problem) was discovered because it was interrupting people's research on other things due to BPA leeching out of polycarbonate lab ware, causing differences between cell cultures grown in the plastic and those grown in traditional glass petri dishes when they were supposed to be behaving in an identical manner. http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/132/the-real-story-on-bp... http://suss.stanford.edu/blog/?p=4119 That's Real Science.

If you'd like to dig it out for yourself, the search terms are: Stanford cancer bpa

(Yes, I'm well-aware that studies sponsored by chemical companies find no problem whatsoever. Quelle surprise.)
Not sure if you mean purely software, but generally CNC machines are instructed in a language called G-Code which is basically 3D LOGO (move absolute/relative on a number of axis and some extra instructions to start/stop spindle, etc)
How does it know how not to bend the wire so it doesn't interfere with its own operation? And if it doesn't know, are there are set of heuristics used to know when the design you make isn't possible?
An Entrepreneur Has to Learn the Art of Saying No
"is somewhat less likely to generate a lot of value for customers" - based on what exactly? This sounds very arbitrary and you don't cite any reasons for this belief.

"success...is much more sensitive to engineering talent" - again, is that a fact? what is that assertion based on?
I doubt there's a strong demand for Linux laptops[1], but there's a fair bit of demand for cheap laptops, so a free OS should have an advantage there.

[1] I'm using one now, but even most of my nerdy friends just use Apple laptops.
Orangutans at Miami zoo use iPads to communicate
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Firefox and the release channels
Resolving Conflict in the Construction Project Environment (18 PDUs)
TextOnly for Twitter - A Chrome Extension
Rackspace makes node-elementree (JS XML API) open-source
Here's a method I use for getting box-shadows on the arrow
http://tinkerbin.com/cRhPGwmh
Open Radar is great, but it doesn't even attempt to solve the problem of lack of feedback from Apple.
Interpol says organised gangs behind Internet crime boom
I don't disbelieve you, but the way you phrased your original post gave me pause. You wrote 5-6 sentences comparing the different submissions, making special mention that yours didn't gain much traction, then you added a perfunctory-seeming Sendak tribute in the last sentence.
You are right, we will work on this very soon.
(replying to both comments)

> But a lot of those factors apply to Chile

That's BS. Argentina has some of the best hackers in the world. I've yet to hear about chilean talent of that level.

And Buenos Aires has a booming IT industry.

Both national and local governments are terrible, sure. But you are way off stating we are close to a dictatorship.

You sound like a Fox News "expert".
As far as i can see, this is all done without the canvas tag or webGL, just lots of divs and CSS. Impressive :)

For those who just want to play directly:

http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/game/wolf3d.html
What happened to spending quality time offline with your partner? And if they're away, what happened to spending time on your own, without resorting to gimmicks like thumb kissing?
I crash Xcode many times a day. Go on, tell me I'm not a professional, or that I'm doing something wrong. I dare you.
Because the shadow seems to be setup so that the light source is at the top, when you move the arrow to any other position, the lack of shadow under the arrow becomes noticeable.

If the light source moved along with the triangle, no shadow under the arrow would be required (imo).
But is Copyright/Trademarks international? I live in Denmark, would that make any difference?
That video is the first thing I thought of while reading the article. I wasn't sure if it would get up voted or not, but I'm glad it did, since it does highlight how far you can go when determining the root cause of something.

"... but Why?" "Because some things are and some things are not!"
I'm not going to go look for the actual contract, but there has been controversy about the American Idol contract for years. Out of all the shows you could have picked, why would you pick one involving recording companies? :)

Here's a excerpt from the American Idol Wikipedia page, talking about the contract:

"The contract the contestants are required to sign gives Simon Fuller's company the right to oversee not just the recording deal for "American Idol" stars, but also control any merchandising, touring, sponsorship and movie deals."
What could be more tedious than another low-level language based on subtle complaints about C?
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The obvious example of this philosophy in action is the iPhone. Remember the first time you played with one? You start out knowing just a few basic facts like that you can touch things and pinch to zoom, then you find yourself poking around looking for other nifty interactions you've never tried before (because you're actually curious), and before long the entire interface is second-nature.
It's an interesting take but I don't buy the relationship between Portal and Photoshop. Portal has a defined end point to each level, the routes you take are often limited as well. Photoshop has no predetermined end, it's in the mind of the user sat in front of it. I am guessing (haven't played it) that Minecraft may be a better example in that is offers creative freedom.
Net neutrality may be a solution in the U.S. where monopolies are a bigger issue and where you don't have much choice in regards to your net provider depending on location.

Actually, 98% of US zipcodes have 2+ broadband providers, and 88% of US zipcodes have 4+ broadband providers. This is from the FCC's own data and excludes 4G providers, which are popping up like crazy (I'm posting this via a Clear mifi device for example).

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-292191...
No z key / y key distinction built-in. This game sucks on German keyboards.
But they've identified this as for systems based programming where you don't have any guarantee of stdint.h holding true (POSIX compliance).
Their implementation is much more flexible. Albeit slightly reinventing the wheel.
BBC Future (international version)

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Vert.x 1.0.final released. Polyglot async apps for the JVM.
I quoted that part from the documentation - the way I understand it is that I can't detect if I have data (so I cannot "wait on the socket") in any other way than by polling via that function. Is that not correct?
With legal questions, you should ask a lawyer (based in your jurisdiction).
They also need websockets support over ELBs.
CoDel: wireless-friendly adaptive queue management
Yeah, that'd be awesome! Or at least make some IKEA-like instructions on how to assemble them - as a programmer I have no idea how to put these things together. I would totally pay for that, like an arduino device, packed IKEA style.
Vert.x (JVM async) vs Node.js Http benchmarks results
The greatest gaming system of all time
Dont kids already do this and most annoyed parents eventually answer "because the sky is so high" ....
Yes - the Berne Convention is an international "we'll respect everyone else's copyrights" agreement.
Did anyone else click on the link hoping for a nice juicy technical article about RADAR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar) and not some whining about a piece of software that would have been fixed by now if it was open source?
I'd like to see Micro instances available in Virtual Private Cloud.

In the forums, an Amazon rep promised it'd be available within 2011. No luck, though.
I agree wholeheartedly and would point people towards Chris Dixon's article on the topic.[0]

Specifically, I think we're witnessing early-stage overinvestment. This has been anecdotally validated by Dixon and Fred Wilson, who state that companies are struggling to follow up blowout seed rounds. "Anecdotes" and all that, but this fits with Neil's idea above (not the one on a Chinese Oppression Bubble, though :P).

[0] http://cdixon.org/2012/04/29/is-it-a-tech-bubble/
Startups are settlements on the frontier
How about a few more default data structures, like resizable arrays or hashes? I find the biggest bump in my productivity in most other languages is that those two things are there already.
This and other utility and howto sites are very helpful, agreed.

BTW, to hone your CSS skills, try dropping into Firebug or Chrome's developer tools and just playing around -- very easy way to learn and get CSS stuff done. The CSS panel lets you change rules and values and see the effects immediately. I know in Chrome I use the up/down arrows on a value to slide objects and spacing around on the screen regularly. The panel also helps greatly in understanding cascading; see also the "computed styles" section.
Watch someone else code and learn
Wait, you want me to let someone take a photo of my card? There's definite potential there for a exploit, I don't even like handing people my card to use a chip and pin reader.
And Poetry Magazine is running on a $200 million bequest from an heir to the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical company fortune.
A few months ago I learned d3.js and made myself an interactive site logo for myself with it. It's an awesome library.

Check out the logo (try clicking it and dragging the letters) and tutorial at http://tullo.ch/2012/making-the-site-logo/.
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I can see what you mean, but stdint.h is just a bunch of typedefs stardardising the naming scheme. It doesn't take much work to sort it out.
The financiers are, in general, folks that lived through the dotcom bust. That's the perplexing part right now. You'd think they would know better.
Cool, thanks. I just noticed they allude to these machines in their blog post: http://blog.pensanyc.com/tagged/DIWire
Not necessarily. I haven't played since before the Adventuring update, but back then I had to keep the minecraft wiki open on my other monitor to get anywhere with redstone.
Well, I'm starting by just asking Mattel if it's OK. If they just say no I'll find some other game to do. But I'm hoping they'll say it's fine with some disclaimer or something, because I'd really like to create the game :/
> First of all, my proposed solutions can be followed _now_, regardless of the pursuit of yours.

That may be, but if Linus had thought this way there would be no Git. We'd still be trying to shoehorn CVS into doing what we want. Personally I think it's extremely gratifying to help make the future happen.

> Second, what you're describing sounds to me exactly like submodules

What? Not at all. Take five minutes and watch the video I linked to.
This + ifttt would = awesome.

Imagine being able to take my data sources and, in response to a particular piece of information on Twitter, get an alert on my phone. I push a button, and a news report is pushed to my TV, while accompanying text goes to my iPad. A monitor shows the stock price of the company involved in the story. Instantly, I'm informed! Then I close the report, marking the story as read and sending a message to another source to keep it on file. All without any programming.

To put it another way: mail-style rules for data and devices would make this killer.
Not too long ago, Linux did enter the market. In a fairly big way. When the netbook craze was really ramping up, around about 25% of units sold were running Linux. That wouldn't have been possible if what the study says is true.

But the Linux units saw a depressingly high return rate. MSI was reporting it was four times that of the Windows netbooks.

So retailers and manufacturers dropped Linux like a hot potato. Not because of some perverse supply chain structure, but because consumers had clearly and emphatically indicated that they were dissatisfied with the product.
Not for me. It's quite possible that the problem is on your end. Run `host twitter.com` and see what the output is. I get:

twitter.com has address 199.59.150.39
twitter.com has address 199.59.148.10
twitter.com has address 199.59.149.230
(and then some mail records)
Indeed, however this first blog post doesn't tell us much about the language itself. The couple examples seem a bit... anecdotal.

I'd also like to point out that setting individual bits in an integer is not usually atomic. So the "syntactic sugar" here could be pretty error-prone (and I can't say it was very high on my list of "features I wish C had").
This is exactly why I bought a preconfigured Linux laptop. I ended up paying a few hundred bucks over retail to Emperor Linux for a Thinkpad x220 tablet because I didn't have time to screw around with drivers and didn't want to take the risk of having the machine not work at all due to some issue with unsupported hardware.

Sadly, they didn't live up to the promises; their support has been terrible. But I think the idea has a lot of merit, and I hope your business goes well!
Thanks for the clarification. Perhaps I should have said "This was submitted ..." rather than "I submitted ..." but that just sounds ingenuous, especially if someone then follows the link and sees it was me.

And to some extent it wasn't just the lack of traction. My interests don't exactly align with the majority here, so many of my submissions don't get traction. That I really don't care about. It was the flags, coupled with the obvious "success" of this item that makes me think the voting, karma, and ranking system(s) on HN is/are broken.

In this case I mostly noticed because it was my submission and I was paying attention. How much else is there that I care about but never get to see because of these things.
Yeah I realized I totally missed the point
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This is a new algorithm to fight bufferbloat by Kathleen Nichols and Van Jacobson. It has no tunables, and is able to adapt to bandwidth changes of two orders on magnitude, making it suitable for radio links (3G, WiFi).

Patches for the CeroWrt home router are being tested: https://gettys.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/fundamental-progress...
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