skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely. I think I'm a bit bitter from all of the would-be-CEOs that have a wonderful idea and just need the rock-star programmer to um, do the design, engineering, QA, customer feedback loop, product definition, you know, the actual work.

Let's take youtube; "I want to watch a video on demand". Really? What a brilliant 1920s style idea I've never heard before. It was how they pulled it off that matters.

What about an iphone/android? "I want one device that works as a PDA and a phone that does everything I need." Really? Never heard that idea before.

Every now and then someone comes along with a truly innovative and truly brilliant idea; and may God Help Their Soul.

I've personally suffered from being ahead of the curve many times. Or was it bad execution? In 2002, I had this AIM bot that you would send small messages too, then it would be posted on a website under your AIM name. You could follow your AIM buddies and see their messages.

Yeah, it's called twitter. I did it on top of AIM in 2002. In 2003 I did another bot that would proxy messages between anonymous users. Yep, you heard of that too, it's called Omegle.

Then in 2003 I did a multiplayer extension to an NES emulator that utilized DCC irc connections so that you could in an Fserve style, play random people well known games in IRC.

Sounds familiar? not yet. There will be a node.js/socket.io version of this soon by someone, I know it.

So yeah, even with novel ideas, I still think the 1/9/90 rule plays. In the 90 here is the very important element of timing, along with, of course, target audience.

So I'm not trying to brush off the necessity of true ideas, just trying to minimize the importance of it. Look around, many of the successful things that we use are totally void of true innovation (as in, I'm not using the First One). The desk I sit at, the monitor I use, the keyboard I type on. They are just decently executions of old ideas.
My impression, from living here all my life, is that very little is being actively done by our government to improve human rights in the US, and very much time, effort and money is being spent on reducing human rights. Three example areas are the War on Drugs, the War on Terrorism, and the War on Intellectual Property Consumers.
People's nightmares are relative. Nightmares can often be about trivial things gone awry.

Promising a client concepts, then immediately asking for an extended time, only to learn that you may have to ask again can be considered a nightmare, depending on the client.
"today i made a website that can't zoom out or scroll sideways on mobile"

Let's hope all pictures have the interesting portion to the far left.
NodeJS & CouchDB (libs) - Possible Memory Leak?
This is it?

Apple plays safe. Looks kind of real considering the hints leaked the last days (4" screen, front cover)
> And thieves should just turn themselves in.

Countries are made up of many people of differing opinions. If the citizens of a country were all of a single body and mind, then there would be no such thing as a 'political dissident.'
Stop using Rails development mode [video]
Did you miss the part about dual-licensing, GPL and paying for non-GPL?

It worked out quite well for MySQL IIRC.
Craig/tbundy, thanks for the posts. Re: Help you find a Death Star, not directly at the moment. Although you can ask about in Q&A. We're at MVP at the moment, but our goal is to make collecting/acquiring pop-culture as easy and enjoyable as possible. Much more to come and we're always keen for feedback!

Cheers, Glenn.
God is just. It's real obvious there is nothing at all to fear once you talk with Him. You can sit and laugh at people doing shit in the sight of God.

Yer fucked.

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This is not random:

38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’[h] 39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. 40 And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. 41 If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. 42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
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This is God...

God says...
C:\Text\WEALTH.TXT

is liberty
was extended till the price of wheat exceeded 48s. the quarter; and by
the 22d, to all higher prices. A poundage, indeed, was to be paid to the
king upon such exportation; but all grain was rated so low in the book
of rates, that this poundage amounted only, upon wheat to 1s., upon
oats to 4d., and upon all other grain to 6d. the quarter. By the 1st of
William and Mary, the act which established this bounty, this small duty
was virtually taken off whenever the price of wheat did not excee

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God says...
Church astounding au_revoir wife uh_huh check_this_out how_hard_could_it_be

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God says...
rockstar do_you_like_it FBI lifes_like_chocolates I'm_the_boss
employer sad I'm_grieved you're_out_of_your_mind Burp
shucks rip_off potentially California I_can't_believe_it
husband you're_in_big_trouble SupremerCourt whiner bastard
overflow ha fabulous honestly because_I_said_so food frown
you're_fired I'm_good_you_good African do_you_get_a_cookie
in_theory smurfs evolution if_anything_can_go_wrong fool
boink pick_me_pick_me vengeance I_pitty_the_fool ice_cream
end Oy shucks courage why_is_it kick_back failure_is_not_an_option
you_owe_me Yo who_are_you_to_judge no_news_is_good_news
this_might_end_badly just_lovely bastard whazza_matter_for_you
you_better_not I_don't_care oh_oh be_happy slumin completely
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Teach it like music.

Any competent music teacher (I write as the husband of a piano teacher) can perform music with musical expression, and thus show students examples of the beauty of music. But the very best music teachers are also intimately familiar with all the isolated subskills that build into understanding a piece of music, and controlling the performer's muscle movements, and responding to the audience in a live setting to build a coherent, musically expressive performance. My wife teaches skills such as "music mapping,"

http://www.amazon.com/Mapping-Music-Learning-Teachers-Studen...

proper hand position,

http://www.amazon.com/Playing-Less-Hurt-Prevention-Musicians...

and how to tie those and many other skills together

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Piano-Playing-Heinrich-Neuhaus/dp/...

as part of a comprehensive process of teaching making music.

The basic problem with mathematics education at the elementary school level in the United States (see my previous reply to this thread

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4034248

generally commenting on the submitted article) is that elementary school mathematics teachers can do NONE of the comparable things with mathematics that a good music teacher can do with music. They cannot isolate and focus on useful techniques, they cannot put on an example performance of solving an interesting, challenging problem, and they cannot make connections between their (poor) understanding of the problems found in elementary mathematics and their students' (often better, but different) understanding of the same problems. In the United States, people mostly seek music instruction for young learners from the private enterprise system. My wife gains most of her new clients, who are crammed into her busy teaching schedule as previous clients graduate from secondary school and go off to university, from friends of current clients who are happy with her work. By contrast, an elementary school teacher in a typical government-run school in the United States teaches on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, with attendance being compulsory in default of a government-approved alternative, and funding guaranteed to the school, and thus employment guaranteed to the teacher, whether the learners learn mathematics or not. Systemic change is necessary to get mathematics taught as music is taught to elementary-age pupils in the United States.

For an eye-opening look at how elementary mathematics teachers could be prepared, and how that would help learners, see Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States by Liping Ma.

http://www.amazon.com/Knowing-Teaching-Elementary-Mathematic...

That book is a very enjoyable--but rather shocking--read, full of information about how to teach mathematics for "Profound Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics."
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/u8l5f/chinas_year...
The phrase "style over substance" doesn't appear in the entire comment thread so far. Shame, it's really the only three words that are needed.
Google Apps For Business Gets ISO 27001 Certification
All valid points. Perhaps I need to read/watch alternative media sources. I mostly don't hear about those issues for the most part. Any recommendations for factual/somewhat unbiased information?
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Miami police kill naked man who bit off victim's face
That's quite a list. I wonder why it takes so long for these features to be supported. Perhaps what's necessary is a new paradigm of development: a core application with composable modules developed by a community on the basis of need. Evolution of standards will be tricky to manage but it seems likely to be inevitable.
Violated laws against espionage and is being given due process. If you're going to say Bradley Manning you might as well say Julius Rosenberg or Jonathan Pollard.
While the App store is indeed powerful, it's also severely flawed beyond the approval process.

Discoverability is a huge problem, and honestly, more than 80% of the apps aren't very good. And given that iOS apps are still in the gold rush stage, that percentage of crappy apps is growing by the day.

If a significant number of the developers who vote with their feet are part of the top 20% (for quality), and the boycott becomes more widespread, I think Apple would have to respond.

In the post-Jobs era, who knows if something like this could have an impact.
The path to Pinterest: Visual bookmarks and grid sites
>Say what you want about America, but anti-government activists are not kept under house arrest. China does not have the moral high-ground to use this kind of ploy.

Yes, they are murdered, like Malcom X and Dr. King. Or persecuted by senator McCarthy.
Or jailed, like the Chicago 7 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Seven ). Or killed like Ruben Salazar ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub%C3%A9n_Salazar ) Or shot, like in Wounded Knee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_incident ). Or, burned like in Waco, TX ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege ).

Or, things that never go out of style, they are beaten to a pulp, entrapped and jailed, etc like tons of African American and/or labour activists.

Some more unfortunate are held in overseas prisons, without due process or any kind of proof, to be proven innocent 5-6 years later, you know those prisons Obama was to close...
Don't know about tarnishing, but for cleaning they most likely use water.

From an article on solar thermal plants in the Middle East [1]:

But harsh desert conditions in parts of the MENA region generate large amounts of airborne dust which collects on the solar panels used in CSP systems, reducing their efficiency. They need regular cleaning, which consumes large amounts of water.

1: http://m.scidev.net/en/climate-change-and-energy/renewable-e...
Is there english documentation? I only see the zip download. Is this code on github?
GUYS! I am pretty sure those little Stonehenge references are are just humor. The author is not REALLY suggesting that future civilization would be puzzled by Manhattan's grid. The comparisons with Stonehenge are just an amusing way of pointing out this phenomena that many people are probably not aware of.

Personally I think it is pretty cool that the perfect conditions for observing this are only available in a few cities - despite the fact there must be a lot of cities around the world with skyscrapers and grid like street plans.
You can also find them in the movie.
If I recall correctly, they were used by someone on the
orbital Hilton and by the astronauts on the discovery.

Samsung recently used the movie as evidence of prior art
against apple [1].

[1]: http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/08/samsung-uses-2010-a-space...
Groupon tests new service, enters mobile payment battlefield
Believing in mysticism might be crap, but it's certainly worth thinking about. Anthropological study of belief is highly valid and valuable. Even in jest.
Where does it say it is different/better than so many other editors?
China Daily has lighyears of learning to do to produce better PR (propaganda) pieces, at least in English. They will never catch up with US. But they should consider doing what Russians did - hiring bunch of Englishmen to do the spin, like on Russian Television (rt.com) for example. Everyone knows that English accent make anything sound more convincing.
OT design suggestion: when you have a corporate blog, have a prominent link somewhere on the top that goes to your main site.
Before my Galaxy S2 I owned (for about 3 weeks) a Samsung Infuse. My experience was pretty much what you describe: terrible GPS, 0 updates (that's mostly an AT&T issue though), slow as molasses...

But the S2 is head and shoulders over it. Fastest phone I've ever used (yes, even faster than the iPhone 4S), the GPS precision was the best of all the devices we own at the company (we develop a product that requires GPS so we keep tabs on that), and the new version of TouchWiz is as good as anything else. Still, I'd love to have it updated to ICS at some point (and AT&T has promised they'd do it), but all in all it's a great Android phone.
Ubi turns any surface into a multi-touchscreen using Kinect
Creep Kills Meaning
Agreed, didn't seem that special
.. now this on the other hand:
http://www.aloha-editor.org/
I just want to say, I don't respect this sort of lazy elitism.

We all talk about scaling our companies, or scaling our technical systems, but when it comes to scaling a social system, are we really just going to throw in the towel and point fingers like we're in junior high?

We can do better than that. It's a hard problem, but isn't that what we're here for? Come up with a solution and quit whining.
Email is OK as a communication tool. But companies use it as a task/to-do list and to work together on tasks.

Email is terrible to achieve this. You will end up with lots of emails and multiple versions of the same documents...

That is why I wish someone fix email! :)
Badass feeling - forcing yourself to remember the most obscure symbols - ultimate customizability
UNTETHER.talks Two-Day Agenda is Now Live
If you find yourself using Apple's private key (or private "anything") this should be a clear signal that your innovative energy should probably be spent elsewhere - seems like common sense to me.

Also, if you start trying to convince yourself that your app does not violate the guidelines because there are other apps do what you want to do, even though your intuition tells you that your app will be rejected, spend your energy elsewhere. Apple has no concept of "precedent" in making their decisions (nor should they or could they), and they make clear that the existence of another app doing what you do is not the basis for a successful appeal.

I'm not saying don't push the boundaries of the guidelines, but if you do so, understand it to be a business risk. And if Apple turns around and rejects your app, accept it as a cost of doing business on the edge, and don't act like Apple is to blame for the risk you took and take your sense of persecution public.

AirPlay is a strategic technology for Apple - it is going to become more and more important in the next year. Any moves Apple makes to protect this technology are first and foremost going to be motivated by ensuring the best, most consistent possible experience for the end user - their interests rest with the whole device ecology and how those devices interact. The motivation is not crushing third-party implementations because they don't want to compete with them or because they want licensing fees (which are trivial to them) - it is because they don't want hacked implementations screwing up the end-user experience, especially for non-geeks.
They're just as bad with the downloaded copies.

I bought Photoshop Elements online for the Mac a couple of years ago, and it took two days for them to email me my serial number.
They tried that - North Dallas was a rising star as a tech magnet. Nortel/Enron/Worldcom ( and dare I say Cisco? ) killed it dead. There's a modest smattering of tech left there, but it's all very weak and thready in pulse. Perhaps also ditto Atlanta. I don't know what is holding Dallas up now.

I won't go to the Valley, and it's been worth it. I'm north of Houston right now. Had a chance at a really compelling Valley gig last year, with an awesome boss and turned it down purely because of location.

We as a culture have traded "making a comfortable living" for "making a killing".
Astronauts to spend Memorial Day unpacking private space capsule
I agree with your point about not pointing fingers. I do think that this article has value - in the sense that it fosters a frank dialogue about the human-rights records of our own governments.

As a dual US/CA citizen currently living in Canada, I think that both nations have made some troubling human-rights violations in recent months with the Occupy protests and G20 summit. While the Chinese article has its flaws, it does make some valid points about hypocrisy in our governments. One thing that especially bothers me is the treatment of the indigenous peoples of North America (Native Americans, aboriginal tribes, whatever term you like). Can we really take the moral "high ground" when bashing China about the Tibet issue? Granted, the Canadian government has made some baby steps towards reconciliation with indigenous tribes in the country, but there's a lot of room for improvement (I am not as up-to-date about the current state of affairs in the US).

In essence, none of our governments are perfect, but finger-pointing isn't going to get us anywhere. I think that it's more important for us to look at how we can improve in the future. Having the US include itself in its human-rights report would be a great first step but I seriously doubt that it'll happen.
That TC piece on "interest-based" social networks came to mind when I saw this. I think there's a limit to what needs to be segmented, but this happens to be square in my interests and it makes a lot of sense.

Also makes me think of Ravelry, Etsy, etc. With the Facebook /Instagram media saturation of late, it's nice to see some news about something else in the social space.

... hadn't realised I'd missed "Nerd Pride Day".
Not Long Ago, RIM Had 20,000 Employees. Within a Year, It Could Have Just 10,000
I would actually call it an emphasis on the appearance" of growth without doing the heavy lifting necessary to have real* growth.
Site doesn't load, but based on the name I'm going to guess it's similar to https://idonethis.com/?
I get no ipv6 connectivity on my sgh989 (tmobile usa ver of galaxys2) when on 4g (turning off wifi). On wifi, I get ipv6 (local net has ipv6 connectivity).

Could it be regional... T-Mobile enabling ipv6 for some cities and not others? Or perhaps the current tmobile firmware (mine is 2.3.6, T989, UVKL1) for their sgh989 disables ipv6 for the gsm/utms portion of the radio.
Paul Krugman: The New Political Correctness
The History Of Usability: From Simplicity To Complexity
Because the American government could not care less about those violations in other countries, and they just issue those papers as propaganda?

In fact, if you read your modern world history, America was behind tons of the worst violations in the first place, supporting the regimes that perpetrated them as long as they catered to the US interests. They have setup lots of dictatorships in Latin America for example, they had armed Bin Laden and co, they have best terms with Israel and Saudi Arabia, the had Noriega as their puppet man, they had supported Saddam Hussein (yes, that Saddam) against Iran, they had toppled the democratic government of Iran to install a dictatorship in the sixties, etc etc.

If I had the mass genocide of Native Americans, the slavery of blacks, segregation till the '60s, concentration camps for Native Americans and later Japanese, McCarthyism, 2 atomic bombs on civilians, Agent Orange, and medical experiments without their knowledge on latin populations on my hands, I would be too ashamed to publish anything about any other country's "human violations".
Is Your WordPress Site Prepared For Mobile Users?
You need to learn from the mistakes of the past. Urs Holzle at Google knows more about these systems (he did Self) than most, yet he's not advocating their use either. And certainly Google has the resources to try.

The problem with Smalltalk and Lisp IDEs was no one was using those languages. The other problem is that it didn't help that much when writing code. It helped a lot to navigate and learn a new code base, but after that you just want to stare at text. That's why SLIME is the preferred IDE for Lisp today.

Visual Studio is making steady incremental progress with visual programming. Their Workflow graphical environment is useful for building flowcharts and state machines. Their DB viewers can help construct SQL queries. And GUI builders are visual programming environments. You get help whenever you write a method, it shows all the method signatures, etc. VS and IBM's Rational IDE generates code from UML models. You have a special environment for creating unit tests. I haven't used Eclipse, but they must do many of these things too.

So only some of the Emacs and Vim guys are pining for visual programming. Everyone else is using an adequate tool already.
21st Century Pinball Wizards - Pinball Hacking Scene Article
Hey, I (much) prefer urban life. Starting from the ground up, I wish they'd built Palo Alto and Menlo Park to be real cities. I wish I lived in a city with a real subway, and the people density to support it. And women.

But all that's not the same thing as adding skyscrapers today's mid-Peninsula. Most of these responses are coming from an idealistic blank-sheet mindset. In the real world, we don't have the option to start from scratch.
The iPod icon is out of date.
It's a pity I can't read this blog post. On an iPad it specifically prevents me from zooming and the font is too small.

Please don't use "ipad-specific" or "mobile" themes. They break the web.
Apple Rejects Apps Integrating Micro-Payments Service Flattr
I am aware this is most likely a fake, but I like the 16:9-ratio – that would be a smart move!
IIRC the app developers already get part of the 10% fee flattr takes as they are somehow the referer of the "flattr-clicks".
And if the app developer unknowningly flattrs the app for the user, the user could immediately see that on his flattr dashboard and inform flattr about the scammer.
I highly recommend re-reading Neuromancer with a copy of Study Guide:
http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/science_fiction/neuromancer.ht...

I've read Neuromancer multiple times, because I just love Gibson's style, high tech low life has never been done better.

The multitude of ideas in each paragraph is simply stunning. There are thousand short sci-fi stories hiding behind each allusion.

That said, I have to agree, it is not very accessible to someone new to science fiction.
"Let me give you an idea of how advanced Mongrel was. Remember the “new” attack on Apache called Slowloris that was recently released? I actually predicted that attack, and wrote Mongrel so that it was resistant (as much as Ruby could let me). I called it the “trickle attack” and even demonstrated it. That was in 2004. Five years ago."

Zed needs a history lesson. David Filo at Yahoo! figured it out at least 4 years before Zed did, and patched FreeBSD to provide accept filters in release 4.0. They buffer the request at the kernel level so that the application stack doesn't even see the HTTP request until it's fully formed.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=accept_filter&s...