skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a world with GPS, no.

But when you have that specialized need, it is easy enough to remember an offset. And less work for the handful of people who want that to look up the offset (which only changes every few years) than it is to expect every clock in every computer to change every so often.

The only people who really benefit from this are a handful of astronomers. But they are already used to keeping multiple clocks, and having them adjust their software programs is less work than having everyone else's computers reset.
Are you building a product in a Blue Ocean?
Seems to work, just need to rename the .part extension to .png or something. I was able to open the saved file with firefox fine anyways.

Edit: I'm on firefox btw.
>Great, so now the documentation for the function will promise to return a motorcycle, but instead return either a bunny or a toaster.

Not if you follow the second part of my above advice.

>There are lies, damn lies, and boilerplate code comments.

Since when is a comment that explains what a function does "boilerplate"? I think you are confused.
Ben Horowitz is a great entrepreneur and a great investor. But it's pretty hilarious how he quotes the Geto Boys and Snoop Dogg while being assiduously politically correct in his writing style ("the women from the girls"?).

You can understand this if you realize that he's actually an ultramasculine guy, and rap lyrics (caricatured though they be) are the only acceptable way today to express unbridled, unchecked, dominant masculinity.

But in addition to being ultramasculine, he also loves to win. And you don't win if you say that stuff outright. No white collar white male can get away with even 1/1000 the stuff that DMX says on a daily basis. So thus his formal writing has "hers" and "shes" all over the place, while his true self is channeled through a rap star messenger than no gender egalitarian can successfully attack for fear of being dubbed racist.

It is 3D chess after all.
Aren't they demo-ing Windows Phone 8 next week?
List of Useful yet Free CSS Menu Builders
It's Bloomsday on Saturday - the last two sentences in Ulysses are 11,282 and 12,931 words long, respectively.
Yay. Thanks Max. Can't wait to have you guys in it more :)
I'm working on an app using Angular and we test via Jasmine.

Angular adds some sugar on top for end to end UI testing.
Is that a good idea or not, I wonder? Wouldn't people with Photoshop be using it instead of this? Seems like it might be a good idea to target it at non-PS owners.
They can, but it's gone out of fashion since Mark Twain's times. If you really want to, I recommend Kant.
To be clear- does this generate HTML, or just images that are accurate in terms of what is possible with a browser?
Unlike Steve Job's statement about ActionScript, Adobe's statement about JavaScript will not change the web landscape. Look at Google Docs for example!
The Windows Phone event is on Wednesday, 20 June (http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/4/3063346/microsoft-promises-...). This post is for an event on Monday, 18 June.
JavaScript is not suitable for large web apps because Adobe can't charge developers hundreds of dollars selling buggy tools for it.
Obie, that is a very cool idea! It also sounds like you are out of the consulting services business.
Things Microsoft Doesn't Want You to Know
Wow.

Just, wow.
How well does that work if you're using some thirdparty libraries? Just curious - I haven't used Go yet so don't know what happens there.
We are getting very close to the Lawgiver gun from Judge Dredd. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawgiver_%28Judge_Dredd%29

I wonder what other 2000AD technologies might start cropping up soon. We already have riot foam, however from what I read it didn't work very well when first used. http://discovermagazine.com/1999/apr/warwithoutdeath1610
Hear hear. He does have a point about that well known low level language 'javaScript'. Must be similar to the high level one of the same name. Also he makes the valid point that bad developers make for a bad project, what a genius. judging by the comments on the actual blog he must be the second coming of Christ.
Interesting... until I have an injury or someone with disabilities has to use it and are not consistent typists anymore.
Allow a shell variable to control output record and field separators. Default to space and newline if nothing is specified.

ORS=: OFS=, ls -l # rw-r--r--:1:uname:gname:1025:Jun 1:somefile.txt,...,...

Add a specifier for dates, usernames, groupnames, etc.
DSF="%Y-%m-%d" ls -l
Nothing Can Be Fixed Anymore
Great by whose measure? As far as I'm concerned he is an embarrassment (as a President).

I do think these letters are of historical interest though, glad to see them available.
Don't write programs in assembly. Use a high level language that translates down to assembly.

Yknow, most every language ever.

If you had read the article, you'd see that the author made this comparison.
But surely the main non-scribd link works?
It's impossible to use in Chrome 19 on Win 7 because the scrollbars are missing.
apple-shift-e shows an export lightbox with html.
I think the point is that this is intentional. I love super high-level languages, but they're experimental for a reason -- things haven't 'settled down yet' and until they do, it will be difficult for the average person to reason about what is going on.

No, sorry, I should have been even more explicit: it looks like the designers were not even aware of new advances in PLT. As far as I can see, defer/panic/recover is objectively worse than an exception system for all of the goals which they lay out in their paper.

You like return values--ok, I can see that. I prefer that the type checker actually enforce error checking when using error return values, but fine.

Adding defer/panic/recover is an attempt to add a simpler and more constrained exception-like system to the language, but I think it is objectively (both from a PLT perspective and compiler-design perspective) worse than a more traditional exception system. Breaking beta-reduction is very unfortunate and I can't see a good reason to do it in this case.
Nobody relies on Apple software or hardware to power their business. (I'm thinking POS applications, machine control etc, see the car electronics example).

The closest I can think of is a graphics outfit. You know, the same people that went berserk when Adobe announced the only way to get bugfixes was to upgrade. I wonder why.

Outside the reality distortion field people do not rely on Apple.
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From my own experience, once you have purchased/downloaded an app you can install/re-install it on devices without any restriction, but you would be wise to keep a copy of the .ipa somewhere. I downloaded the VLC app on my iPhone before it was pulled and have since been able to install it onto an iPad I bought last month no problem. Obviously it won't be updated so the problem of future compatibility is still an issue.
Prettyprint JSON in Terminal
Microsoft TV, beating Apple to the punch. With integrated Xbox functionality.
When combined with the assertion that "JS is the browser's assembly language", one can't quite say it's identical, because C isn't the OS's assembly language. Assembly language is.
This strikes me as a good mix of Balsalmiq (www.balsalmiq.com) and Photoshop.

One of my pet peeves is getting mockups from designers that clearly fail to take the actual abilities of browsers into account. Hopefully, this can change that, while still giving them the design freedom they want!
Based on early Windows 8 feedback, Microsoft announce the upcoming release of Windows 9! /s
Reagan was married to Jane Wyman (1940–1949) and to Nancy Davis (1952–2004).

That letter was sent in 1971, well into his marriage with Nancy Davis, which would last for another 33 years, until his death.

Interpret this however you want :)
Then I'm a little dubious about that- given that everything appears to be absolutely positioned. Reminds me of the Adobe web design tool before they bought Macromedia (anyone remember the name of it?)

As a mock-up tool, it's great.
Congresso LiderA 2012
Props to you for that man, especially since considering how smooth this demo was working I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have problems selling it.
It generates chunks of html. Select one of the buttons, right click, 'export to html/css'. We figured this is the way people work -- they only want small pieces exported, not the whole page.
Is this Really News Or Is Business Insider Getting For Page Views Using ‘Sex’
It actually does a lot to explain why I hate the AWS management console so much.
Something I haven't been able to understand: why does almost every Backbone project generate and update views by applying templates to generate new HTML strings, and then new DOM fragments?

Wouldn't it be much more efficient to create a view just once by setting innerHTML, and then update it using the DOM (setting attributes, classes, innerText, etc.)? Surely this would reduce GC pressure, reflow events, and so on.

I'm seeing "use templates for everything" in most Backbone tutorials and projects, and I can't help but think that this is an anti-pattern.
Did you just repeat exactly what I said?
As with everything else in UI and interface design.

What is learned is what is intuitive. There are no silver bullets, no objective meaning of things. Only an acquired understanding.

All attempts to use metaphors to make understanding of functionality easier are basically in a war for acceptance and adoption.

It is perfectly reasonable to us it to mean those things if that becomes the standard.
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"find" is a poor man's "structured-grep." It provides a bunch of functionality for filtering a result set, but is totally specific to lists of files. You can't use find with ps, netstat, iptables, ifconfig, or any other command-line program that produces a list of records.

> And if you really need that complexity, it's usually worth whipping up a parser for.

No work is worth doing if it could just as easily have been avoided.

The vision in my head has less complexity than the status quo, not more. How many flags does "find" have? One for every field name you can filter/sort by. Done right, a "structured-grep" that can grep on any field sent to it is much, much simpler.
Has the author never heard of context sensitivity before? Somehow I've never had this problem understanding what that button would do in a given context.
How many marriages did he have? 2. First one 8 years and the last one was with Nancy for more than 40 years. But who are we to cast stones at him especially when he is advising his son privately. I mean, it's not like he is trying to advise the whole nation on marriage.

Here is something I pulled out of Wikipedia regarding his relationship with Nancy Reagan. Might give some perspective on his letter to his son.

"During his presidency they were reported to frequently display their affection for one another; one press secretary said, "They never took each other for granted. They never stopped courting." He often called her "Mommy" she called him "Ronnie". He once wrote to her, "Whatever I treasure and enjoy ... all would be without meaning if I didn't have you." When he was in the hospital in 1981, she slept with one of his shirts to be comforted by his scent. In a letter to U.S. citizens written in 1994, Reagan wrote "I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's disease.... I only wish there was some way I could spare Nancy from this painful experience," and in 1998, while Reagan was stricken by Alzheimer's, Nancy told Vanity Fair, "Our relationship is very special. We were very much in love and still are. When I say my life began with Ronnie, well, it's true. It did. I can't imagine life without him."
The price for human-solving 1000 captchas is $2. You get ~98% accuracy. There is no secure captcha library.

Captchas as a concept are flawed and should be replaced by something that $works. (Don't ask me what that could be - I have no idea.)
I kind of agree for the "drag to reorder" in the stocks apps, but this doesn't work for Facebook and Bootstrap.

For Facebook, it doesn't work because the grip is not the in the correct direction. The grip is a skeuomorphism for real grips that go perpendicular to the movement you want to stop. Here you move your finger horizontally and the lines are horizontal too.

For Bootstrap, it doesn't work either because the button stays where it is, whereas the grip should follow your finger or mouse. (see for example, the grip on the notification center on iOS: http://iphoneism.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/notification...)

That being said, I think in both Bootstrap and Facebook, the icon represents a list: the list of things in the menu and the list of settings (or views) in Facebook. Even in the iOS stock app, I think it's probably a list too. It can be interpreted as a grip, but only in the Android version do the graphics imply it more strongly.
You cannot level such a stark criticism against a man who dared to be great - when you do so you embarrass only yourself.

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Read the letter, specifically this bit:

Mike, you know better than many what an unhappy home is and what it can do to others.

Seems to me he's saying "I've made mistakes and learned from them".
Bad guys using unpatched Internet Explorer flaw to hack Gmail accounts
Does anyone know if the public-facing site is supposed to be using Angular? There are no references to the library anywhere in the source of http://www.google.com/doubleclick/.
Then there's also the potential confusion with 三 (the Chinese character for "three").
He means "scale the number of people working on the project at one time."

He's basically saying that if you have 10 files and 2 developers the chances of collision (or merging issues) is small, but having 20 developers working from 10 files makes things more sticky.

To some degree, he's not incorrect, in that over time, you'll spend more time managing the merging and conflict process than you will writing code.

Obviously, there are modern tools that will help alleviate this problem, but the deeper you go, the worse it is. This was the reason that "old" VCS had exclusive locks.
Very cool. Is there "snap to grid" functionality?
re: absolutely positioning, definitely not ideal. We're toying around with different code generation techniques. We feel at this point, that generating layout html isn't really a good idea. So we're focusing on getting the colors, shadows, text, etc out out the tool.

We'd love to know what you might need as far as code generation.
Very nice. What's next for Easel?
Just a drawing tool in the browser. This doesn't do anything different than Photoshop or Omnigraffle, if the web designer is smart enough to reuse layers / components.

It could be a really useful though if it had support for more than absolute-positioned, fixed-sized elements, and used the browser's layout engine instead.

Today's biggest problem is that web designers use Photoshop for coming up with mockups and then they just expect content to fit on their fixed-sized design, when the web exactly the other around - content is king.
Kind of like The Truman Show? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truman_Show#Plot

(oh and Solar System != Universe :-) )
What does "minute" mean, anyway?

Somehow it all works out.
How Internet Explorer 10's "Do Not Track" Option Affects Your Marketing
Misogyny: The hatred or dislike of women or girls

I know it exists, but I don't see it here.
Regardless of the fact that this was written by a former US president, what’s truly amazing is that somebody could take a subject old as the world – love and marriage and write such a simple, genuine, straight to the point message, without a hint of bullshit that happens to reads like a novel.
Well, and I gave you my explanation of why as an answer, which you then dismissed and provided your own explanation instead. Since you were the one wondering why, I’m now left to wonder what made you ask the question in the first place.
It is easier to implement forgiveness than permission.
As a web designer that primarily uses Photoshop, I'd say it's a great idea. Photoshop is horrible for web design. So horrible that I design purely in the browser now. This is going to be a nice addition to my workflow for when I want to include something shiny.
I do not have an example handy, so hopefully an explanation is enough.

The CAPTCHA example has two parts: generating the CAPTCHA values and presenting them in a way that is easy for humans to solve, but difficult for computers.

This example only implements part one, but gives some methods of how one could implement part two. This is why it is so easy for you to write a script to solve it.

Using mouse cursor hovering, one could change the background color behind the image based on an event (such as a mouseover of an input field) that is probable for a human to make, but less so for a computer. This is difficult for a computer to solve, but not impossible to break.

G-WAN applications are persistent, meaning it is trivial to record stateless actions the client has made in the past for use in the future. The client would have to provide a known good value from the past in order to solve the CAPTCHA. This is what is meant by "previous state or shared secret".
Yes but Photoshop has the tools and buttons to accomplish the same thing. Generally you learn those first, and the hotkeys second. Jumping directly to the hotkeys, especially without any sort of hotkey chart, I find off-putting.
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Has meant lots of things for a very long time.

乾 (qián),
creative force,
heaven & sky,
northwest,
father,
head,
strong,
creative,
horse
Does it actually do video processing? My impression was it was a screen, touchpad, and camera (for taking pictures) you stuck on the side of your head.
Don't get our hopes up :(
Then you need to get a designer that knows how the web works! It shocks me when I see fellow designers make things that's not feasible on the web.
Yes, there is a snappable, customizable grid. Under the grid menu, you can show the grid and grid system.
It would be the new dance routine of Steve Ballmer.
Chrome 19 on Win 7 for me.

Also the Element window gets stuck on my cursor when I try to scroll through it.

Really looks great though.
New, very light material developed by HRL labs.
Traditional MBP are upgradeable still. For example, the older MBP (latest) have always max out at 8gb of ram with Apple but you could have gotten up to 16gb with 3rd party ram
While I get your point, this surely isn't true though, right?

Absolutely no concern was given to the prospect of a collision.

Doesn't NASA have to constantly deal with and prepare for one-in-a-million chance scenarios? It seems reasonable to have a collision detector and "auto-route-arounder" that help here (among many other scenarios).
Well, I'm not a linguist or anything like that, but I'm not sure it would work so well, if it was useful at all.

1/ Homophony. Knowing how to write a word you hear often needs contextualisation. Giving two whole sentence for the user to hear is too long and takes too much time for the user.
'Right, but no need for a whole sentence, a few words suffice' Right, but if the computer knows where to cut these sentences, it can also transcribe it itself.
2/ You have to assume good spelling from user.
3/ Is it useful ? I mean, 100M recaptcha are done everyday, what part of these 100M are audio recaptcha ? 0.0005% ? Less ? Transcribing 2 sentences every week makes no sense. Keep in mind that homophony+bad spelling are two factors increasing hugely the number of times the same 'unknown clip' will have to go through 'human validation' until we can assume with a certain level of confidence that it has been transcribed.

Funny 4/, take a look at the [cc] button on some youtube videos : on the fly transcription. Thanks Google. :)
Oh, and also on the fly translation of on the fly transcription, btw.
Google even said they were working on Voice to voice translation for Google Voice : English speaker calls Chinese speaker, english voice transcribed, then translated, then synthesized, same the other way. :)
Trust at speakerconf
You can use the hand tool to pan around. You can press the space bar to enable it. Then just drag the canvas around.
Nicely-formatted SICP pdf
This phone has a much more restricted installation experience. There is only one installer, and Apple knows who to blame if any of the software it installs turns out to be malware.

I think the idea was that that tractability would deter people from trying to put malware on the App Store.

And that has worked reasonably well. Yes, there were several cases of apps that did not inform users that they uploaded data to implement features they advertised, but I am not aware of downright malware (say a fart app that uploads you address book to some server), and yes, Charlie Miller got a nefarious app on the App Store, but that malware was traceable back to him.

The thing Apple did not think through well enough is the privacy issue. Users can feel uncomfortable about apps uploading their data, even if that is necessary to implement app functionality, because they may not trust the app writer to do nothing else with the data.
Microsoft is finally buying Hulu folks! Also, announcing 'special' partnership with Comcast.
I personally thought the illustration was in very poor taste, and I can't comprehend someone finding it entertaining. (If anyone wants to talk about how Americans don't get humor, please just spare me.)
Looks like this webpage is drawn in Canvas. Can this tool translate the entire Canvas content to a HTML doc that I can then publish?
When I talk about a "representation," I mean an in-memory format. For example, the "representation" of an HTML tree is the DOM.

Yes, you have to agree on a serialization format (JSON, Protocol Buffers, etc), but that's not the same thing. From a serialization format you can represent the data however you see fit in your process. For example, a C++ user might represent a string as a std::string object whereas a Python user would represent it as a native Python string.

The VM-based approach (like PowerShell) defines an in-memory tree representation, namely .NET objects. This means that you can't really interoperate with this stack unless you use .NET too, since you don't have an easy way of converting .NET objects to your own objects.
Here's Who Owns How Much of Square
Sorry, it wasn't HN it was reddit that I saw the article. A woman had an AMA about it:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/uj3ym/iama_former_peac...

The most shocking aspect of this was how the Peace Corps did nothing to help her afterwards, and even basically blamed her.

There was a more broad news article on this problem, here's one from last year:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/peace-corps-gang-rape-voluntee...
“... Well, we’re not doing that. We’re just doing this game. It’s an RPG.”

My favorite quote from E3 this year.
I notice you're ignoring most of the other explanations of this behavior, and instead picking on this one. Why?
Looks a lot like getmarquee.com, only not as impressive.
Java, C#, Python, Lisp, and Erlang would all criticize Go for an unqualified new exception system which has not proven that it can handle itself in the context of large systems applications, unlike all the previous languages.
"Full proof"?