skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't agree -- among a younger demographic in coastal regions (speaking in terms of the US here), sure, maybe. You need to know what a QR code is, you need to know what app can read them, you have to download that app, and if you're not the type of person that these things come naturally too, you have to learn how to use that app.

That process just isn't biddable for wider demographics. Outside of my tech-savvy group of friends and co-workers, I'm not sure I know anyone with either the understanding or the patience to use them. Until it's far more common for this to be a built-in and automatic feature in mobile devices, I'd be blown away if it ever caught on.

http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
Thing is, sound support (WebAudio or HTML5 <audio> alone) is not a priority for most browsers, Firefox included. I like that Google is so aggressive - maybe some of the other browser vendors will begin to care.

I ranted about the <audio> element quite a while ago[1] and many points are still valid. Also, <audio> can't be used for "dynamic" sound at all. Chrome's/Safari's WebAudio is the way to and Mozilla agrees, but hasn't done anything implementation wise.

[1] http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2011/03/the-state-of-html5-audi...
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Software Reuse Overuse
i am extremely sorry regarding what happened. we were just moving today and upgrading things. should be all fixed now!
Reminds me of the Hugh Laurie joke "I used to be Princess Anne's assistant but I quit because I realised that however hard I worked they were never going to make me Princess Anne".

The difference between how it works in theory and how it works in practice is everything. British law is largely unwritten - until the EU gave us them we had no written bill of rights and most of our laws are based on precedent rather than anything parliament has decreed. If you do the immigration test one of the things you might be asked is what sort of constitution Britain has (correct answer "an unwritten one"). To try and understand Britain based on what is theoretically true is an exercise in futility that will rapidly lead you away from anything resembling reality.

I don't know if you have to live here to really understand it but what you imply simply doesn't tally with the way the Royal family are viewed. It's a strange combination of soap opera, duty, alien otherness and sentimental fondness. For most people there's more of a feeling of pity for them than any idea that they're better than us. They are an anachronistic anomaly but that's how they're viewed - so different, so outside that the comparisons you make really aren't there, any more than you'd compare yourself to something in a museum.

Now that's obviously not true of everything to do with the class system which at it's top levels embodies almost everything you say (the Prime Minister for instance is to me far worse, an elitist fop with none of the Royal family's sense of duty or propriety) but to pick on the Royal family is a little like protesting against BP by not buying sweets in their garages when you're filling up your car with petrol - it's really not the problem.
I believe unless you are officially a sponsor for the games, or have recieved permission to use branding, you may not use the phrases "2012 Olympics", "Olympic Games" or "London 2012". There was a hotel had to change it's advertising to "Need rooms for the big event this summer" or something allong the lines because they weren't an official sponsor. And a Cafe had to change it's name from "Cafe Olympic" to "Cafe Lympic" [1]

From the 2012 Olympics "Using The Brand FAQ" [2]

>4. Who is allowed to use the Games' Marks?
Official commercial partners, sponsors, suppliers and licensees are allowed to use the Games' Marks in accordance with the terms of their agreements with LOCOG or the IOC. See our current partners.
>
>We have also granted a number of non-commercial partners helping to deliver the Games the right to use our brand. This includes central government departments, the Greater London Authority and boroughs hosting various events for the Games.

So it's more likely than anything they were taken down just for using the Olympic name and modified logo

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-05/D9UTL52G0.htm
[2] http://www.london2012.com/about-us/our-brand/using-the-brand...
I'm curious; what's to prevent a casino from saying that prizes were actually technical errors whenever it was convenient to them?
Mba's are not all worthless
Well that's an easy fix: If you're clamoring for this kind of customization freedom, go get yourself an Android device.
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It's not been massively uncommon for knighthoods to be refused. Notable individuals include: Dirac, Faraday, Hawking, Henry Moore, GB Shaw, David Bowie and Huxley.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declining_a_British_honour#Knig...
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The RFP covers the design (UI/UX/IA) of the Python.org site and back end workflows. PyPI is a separate application in the whole site, and so it's back end code will not change, but it will probably adopt the new CSS/Style
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Well, I'm just hoping they arrest Lisa Simpson for 'acting like a logo' lol
I wonder how it will tie in with Torquebox. I understand torquebox from red hat's point of view, it's a natural extension of JBoss. I guess it's part of Redhat's work on extending the JVM support for JBoss to be a more powerful application server.
In our case (NS Basic/App Studio) we wrote a translator for VB style BASIC to JavaScript.

We wanted to create a cross platform development that could target iOS, Android and other mobile platforms. We started the project about 2 years ago, and saw a few key developments in the JavaScript space.

1. HTML5: the extensions did a lot to move it from a web scripting language to something that could be used for real applications. The Cache Manifest allowed the developer to specify a list of files to be stored on the device, so the app could run offline, with no access to a server.

2. Home Screen: The mobile platforms added the ability to pin web apps to the Home screen with their own icon, making it possible to start them much like native apps.

3. Performance: Work by the browser folks on the internals of the JavaScript engine resulted in huge boosts in performance. The results are in this table: http://www.nsbasic.com/speedtest.htm. You can see the transition from early BlackBerrys being able to run a few hundred JS loops per second to the Motorola Xoom at 718,000. The benchmark is simplistic, but the message is clear: JavaScript on mobile device is 1000 times faster than a few years ago.

It turned out that it was fairly straight forward to write the Translator. Yes, there were enough weird edge cases to question anyone's sanity to do this again, but the result works well. All the control structures translated one to one, so there was little or no drop in performance.

We then built a Visual Studio style IDE around it, with support for frameworks like jQuery Mobile, jqWidgets and Sencha to build a complete dev environment. It's been a lot of fun.

(and yes, you can use JavaScript instead of BASIC if you want!)
Medical devices A ticking time-bomb
They just have to correlate: people who browse cat photos at 3 am and "like" these specific ones tend to buy canned beans within the next 3 days. It doesn't have to make sense as long as they can derive correlations from it.
Pinception
Never been to earbits site before.
I just grokked its for listening to the music. Listening and then paying attention to who made the music, liking and sharing.

Its designed that way, so I get it that I need to press the button for genre and actually listen for something longer than 30 seconds (thus media player feel). Its what people really into discovering music probably are doing - spending their time feeding those sounds into their brains (and selecting newly discovered artist AND buying their music).

As per changing the music industry ("I just want to thank you for everything you do for independent artists."), it must be that artist do get discovered via the service (See prev. paragraph, I guess [my comment, not the article]). This 'function' is just not readily visible on the site. If this works that way, I would add I really like this 'magical', invisible twist in the service.
but Chrome is the no.1 browser :D
It's server side JavaScript with an option to proxy to the browser if needed.
Reading Excel file with Java
You could also get an "industrial grade" SD card; they claim a lifetime of years instead of months. They're usually using SLC Flash and (possibly) more advanced wear leveling compared to consumer cards.
Lua.js
we actually put a lot of thought into the target audiences: http://pythonorg-redesign.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#audienc... - and I concur, a frontpage without a language example, or slide show of examples is almost a non starter for me
Ironically on my shitty HP Windows XP machine at work it is working better (but not perfect, especially multitrack playing) on Firefox than Chrome (sound stuttering).
Ask HN: What bank service are you using?
I'm an EU resident, but I welcome everybody to share their good and bad experiences that will surely be helpful for all of us.
I'm in the UK, and I think our Royal family is a peculiar and rotten anachronism.

Although they don't in practice have political power, they're part of a system which gives some wealthy and privileged peers a hereditary right to make our laws[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords
Responsive Design: The New Whipping Boy
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg sued by shareholders over IPO
> Maybe all the time I spend looking for better ways to do things is keeping me from, well, doing things.

Eureka!

People are complicating their lives just to decomplicate later. It's a vicious cycle designed to keep the market flowing. Needs are created in real time, we don't even know why we need certain things any more. We live under the anxiety created by the excess of excess.

With 99% of the so called "life hacks", we're just trying to eliminate a problem that we created by another "life hack". Oh a nice trick to keep the iPhone doing X? Cool! Why did I need X in the first place again??? I don't remember. And the iPhone...why did I buy it? I just play a silly game and use the contacts list most of the time.

There is a:

99% chance you don't need your email available 24x7

99% chance you don't need a new car

99% chance you don't need a cell phone turned on 24x7

99% chance that 99% of the shit ton of information you gather daily will be thrown out of your brain in just a few weeks

99% chance you don't need a stupid GPS guiding what you do, where you drive

99.99% chance you don't really need a new iPad, iThis, iThat, HTC that, whatever

99% chance you don't need the extra U$ 1000 on your sallary

99% chance you didn't need to be tweeting or checking your email while there was a nice person sitting next to you while you waited at the airport

99% chance you don't need to be all you can be better richer faster more

This is why the world is turning into a bunch of control freaky, unhappy, lonely, greedy and unhealthy bunch of individuals.

I discovered this one day. I said fuck it and went for a walk at the park. Since then, I've done the same thing daily and I don't miss the other 1567 things I used to do on the Internet instead of having a silly walk at the park.
Then why did ketchup companies start putting the opening on the bottom of the bottle?

Consumer convenience is a competitive advantage. Once people get used to slippery-coated bottles, they'll avoid products without it.
Airships were impractical anyway.
No idea sorry... the user who uploaded it to emacswiki didn't leave any contact details. And it's not part of the paredit source repo: http://mumble.net/~campbell/emacs/paredit/

:-(
Better algorithm resolves 30 percent of gender wage gap
How low can Facebook stock go? And what route will it take to get there?
Open Source Modular Coil Gun
A friend of mine has designed and built a coil gun. The design is open source. You can download and (3D) print the modules yourself. Pretty cool, eh?
Software testing classes Bangalore
We conducted software testing classes for students. We believe in offering simple and helpful training to our students that help them to recognize the concepts in a much better fashion.
Referencing "models" is weird to me to start. Now I'm thinking of a designer who has a bunch of "hot chicks" directories on his computer. The intention should be that "high quality photography" will make most designs look a lot better, not the "high quality" of the looks of the human subject, right? When you make it about "models", you've made it content-specific, and this is compounded by making it gender-specific with "hot/nice girls". How about:

Any design mock-ups look fantastic with high quality stock art, but can it pass the Trial by Co-Founder™? Replace your professionally photographed imagery with a random photo of your co-founder and see if the design still "works".
This is why we had a Web Dev summit at PyCon US 2012: https://us.pycon.org/2012/community/WebDevSummit/ - to discuss what we can do as a language and community to make it more "attractive" and ease the on-ramp for the web community as a whole.

So, other efforts are under way for this, and orthogonal to the current RFP
Please do, and a website. Otherwise you're just hooking up people who happen to own an iPhone.
I just thought we learned years ago that the ago model really wasn't a good one.
What Could Mark Zuckerberg Buy if He Sold Facebook?
Bow to the O-word overlords or we'll chunk you in jail.

I live in London and the city has turned to shit since it was announced. Everything is literally broken and being fixed up and convered in turd polish.

The last 5 times I've bothered to commute in rather than sitting on my arse at home, the public transport is screwed.
WILS: Virtualization, Clustering, and Disaster Recovery
The hell? I can get this to work in Firefox, but not Chrome.
The first thing I do when learning any piece of technology is putting all the docs into a mindmap, e.g. here is one I made the other day for Jinja2:

http://www.alexkrupp.com/Jinja%20docs.html

FreeMind .mm file: http://www.alexkrupp.com/Jinja%20docs.mm

Ideally the HTML of the Python docs should be structured in such a way that the all the built-in functions, string functions, regex functions, etc. can be dumped into a mindmap automatically each time the documentation is changed.
It's pretty well known that Google uses doodles and other quirky things to showcase cool features of new web technologies (eg. pacman). This is showcasing the new(ish) web audio API. I think it's a neat way to get some eyes on what's happening on the web these days. It promotes the open web and I'm glad there are a few big companies out there who are pushing these things forward.

If you don't like the post, downvote, but there's a reason why most techies like these sort of tech demos and we especially like it when we see a big company using them.
IBM Faces the Perils of "Bring Your Own Device"
Modular gauss gun with optical trigger. The design can be downloaded from Thingiverse http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:23539
Yeah. I've been on the waiting list for months :(
Interesting project. It'll be good to have coffeescript support.
The current python.org homepage is a mess geared towards developers that already know Python. Compare that with ruby-lang.org and nodejs.org, which both seem geared towards promoting adoption of the language by newbs. They're organised with a clear information hierarchy that makes it easy to find the download button, get started on tutorials and find docs.

Python.org, on the other hand is a jumble of text. The download section is hard to find. The boxes in the right column are more prominent than the boxes in the left column, even though the content of the left column is arguably more important. The middle section is dominated by news that is, for all intents and purposes, worthless to me. There is no visual separation between when the description stops and the news section starts. Unlike nodejs.org, there is no shout-out to companies that are using Python or popular Python libraries, etc. The homepage needs to answer the 5 W's: who is using Python, what is Python, where can I download it, when is the next release, and why should I learn Python? And don't forgot how: How can I get started?

This is basic information design.
"a bubble doesn't imply that there's no opportunity, or even that there's no revolution"

I don't disagree.

"So when I say we seem to be in an advertising bubble, it's not a statement that there isn't a revolution in advertising coming that somebody is going to profit from, it's a statement that it isn't coming at the pace people like Facebook are promising, nor can it sustain that level of investment profitably."

Again, I think we're in complete agreement here.

"If the bubble pops they'll get hit, but I have every confidence they'll survive and thrive, because they definitely have real value, just as Amazon has survived and thrived after the last bubble."

True, which may actually make Google a fantastically cheap buy if the ad bubble pops and they take a momentary hit. Their fundamentals are solid and aren't going away anytime soon -- unless, of course, Facebook gets its act together and cannibalizes Google's ad dollars. While I think that's distinctly possible -- and Google has been anxious about it for years -- it seems that the threat isn't as immiment as once expected. The threat still exists, however. And maybe, in a weird way, the recent fiasco with Facebook's IPO will actually buy Facebook some "air cover" for awhile -- allowing it to develop killer ad products under the radar, surprising everyone with their rollout. (I think this must be the thesis of anyone still holding onto Facebook stock right now).
Startups: Observe don't Obsess
Do functions behave the same as variables? Can I also use a variable before I've defined it (the same logic of the "thesis" would seem to apply; I might want to write pay() {return regular_salary + bonus; regular_salary = ...}). If so, how do you handle changes to the value of a variable without hopelessly confusing a reader of the code?
Where the tech is she?
My $.02: The problem is a really great art project meant to push the web forward. I think we need more things like popcorn to make broadcast data driven, but I don't think popcorn is the thing that makes it all happen.
I guess I missed that when viewing on my phone. I went straight to the meat and potatoes. Touche to that. From my first and second hand experiences, I still feel that it is not accurate.
"it isn't like that however in practice this has all kinds of real effects and these will remain as long as Royalty is not formally abolished."

Yeah, because countries following "the modern theory" are doing so much better than countries with a Royalty.

In practice, it makes no significant difference, governments can and do have lavish expenses and luxury. So it's not like not having a monarchy is saving them any significant amount of money

"another is the fact that people of 'royal blood' are to some extent above the law. And are protected in ways that no commoner would ever be protected."

Oh you mean like diplomats or a president? I'm sure the POTUS is the most protected human being on the planet way more than any king or queen

"On top of that it is still hereditary rule, you may be Knighted but your children will never accidentally be born King or Queen"

Knighthood is not hereditary and even you're "royal blood" tough chance being born King or Queen (if not altogether impossible, but I'm not sure about that)
I gave it some thought, and I do think the genre radio and the curated artist profiles were interesting. Though it did't help that the genre's are great fits for the tracks I listened to, that does tend to happen with amateur music.

I guess the kind thing you want to see as an artist is a whole bunch of listens for an artist you think you can do better than. Or money.
I don't understand what is confusing people. As sp332 pointed out, it says plenty about the goal on the front page. Yes, Mozilla does seem to have a sprawling, amorphous, and somewhat bewildering product catalog, but that doesn't mean the this project is bewildering.

For those who still can't make heads or tails of the home page, I've created an enhanced version that will hopefully aid understanding: http://screencast.com/t/pnIFbr2sDRn

tl;dr: they are encouraging people to put together local web-hacker-learner-etc. events this summer on a particular date, and providing some resources to support those events.
Croppola - automatic cropping of pictures
Where can I read a more detailed technical explanation? I'm particularly interested in how they generate the sound.
So do smaller containers for the same price. When you shop do you pay attention to how much usable product you're buying?
And yet again, trying to make it! Hopefully it works out the third time...
Why disable the account rather than just notifying them and asking them to change the logo?

I had a parody twitter account which was accused of trademark infringement last year. Twitter just asked me to change the logo to make it more clear that it wasn't the official one (I changed the shape of it rather than just one of the words), and everything carried on as normal.
The whole thing was over in a couple of days and my account stayed online the whole time.
Mother Needs Part Time Work! Solution...
Agree that 3D graphs are terrible, but it's a canard that y-axes always need to start at 0 and that doing anything else is somehow misleading.

On this point, see http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/axes-of-evil/
‘Xbox 720′ slated for November 2013 release, report claims
From the article, the House of Lords doesn't "make our laws".

Also "Membership was once a right of birth to hereditary peers but, following a series of reforms, only 92 members (as of 1 July 2011) sitting by virtue of a hereditary peerage remain."

Further reforms are in the pipeline as regards the house of lords.

Unfortunately what we saw under the Labour government was "cash for honours", and politicians making their cronies lords. Which IMHO is far worse than hereditary peerages.

The vast majority in the UK are very favorable toward the Royal family (As you'll see later in the year).
One other thing they should improve is the search function in the documentation:

http://docs.python.org/

The first relevant result for searching "string concatenation" is around the 20th place.

http://docs.python.org/search.html?q=string+concatenation
I'm torn on the Lords.

In theory they are completely wrong, in practice I only see them doing good things.
I'm just saying they are overpriced. The value that they bring in a very small team is minimal compared to the effect a 120k developer can.
The best code is no code at all [2007]
This really made my morning. I can finally stop re-reading GTD!
People are complicating their lives just to decomplicate later.

Well, it's something to do 'til the undertaker comes.

http://www.sourcetext.com/grammarian/the-booklets/7.htm
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Nasdaq's Facebook Glitch Came From Race Conditions
It's OK to show some personality. It's even OK to offend some people sometimes.

Correction: he learned something about writing copy for idan today.