skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me this is a 100% deal breaker. I can understand the desire to dress up checkboxes which doesn't work great as native controls but a lot should be doable just by wrapping it in some custom stuff.
Without form elements it has not compatibility with existing solutions, you can't use this to add some interactive components to an existing form and expect to native-submit that form.
Some large scale projects that come to mind include Panama Canal, USA Highway system, Alaskan pipeline although you could argue they did destroy some things.
The actual presentation video shows a real device in use. I found that much more compelling than the strange video on the site.
Microsoft? 2011 Crowdsourced Magnetic Stylus for iPad
I don't think it's reasonable to discount all the subproducts from such an investment just because many would have been developed eventually anyway.

In this vein, it's just as easy to discount the people who did the inventions/discoveries because someone else would have eventually made the discovery/invention anyway.

Of course that the main project has to be sound, and cannot be justified only due to the subproducts, but "would have happened anyway" is not a solid argument to discount the subproducts, mainly because you cannot know if it would, nor when it would.
Watch the launch event.[0] They demoed the device and it was available to the press afterwards.

[0]: http://cdn-smooth.ms-studiosmedia.com/news/mp4_mq/06182012_S...
Said taxes can just as easily destroy the capital holders you claim will go looking for other investments. It's a fluid pool, you can't suck a billion out of the private economy without impacting all other private capital.

And that is all premised on getting the taxes right. If you miss in the guess work, you'll cause massive damage and dislocation of capital. The US has done that on numerous occasions (eg ethanol 1970s).

Energy is politics. There's really no other industry on the entire planet that is more defined by politics due to its importance and nature (from land for solar to drilling in Nigeria, to tar sands in Canada, to windmills killing birds and on and on).

If you don't know and don't care about politics when it comes to energy, then you're going to get nowhere.
Stuxnet cyberattack by US a 'destabilizing and dangerous' action, Schneier says
Theere's a basic role of government that's widely agreed upon - that it keeps us from hurting one another and clarity on the use of roads and telecommunications channels and the like. And I realise that opinions diverge above that, but I'll put mine.

Generally government is poor at picking winners, and inefficient, and seems like a bad place to look for inspiration in engineering. When governments set up things like NASA they become political institutions themselves. It's easy for them to grow into organisations that seek self-preservation and always more money to support the glamour of their leadership.

When government gets involved in a field, you get a cross-polination between field-experts and government people. Often the government people end up on the side of workers in the field rather than the public that they're meant to be serving.

Given all these problems, I don't think we should be attracted to the idea of governments taxing us to spend the money on difficult-to-quantify never-never projects. They could just not tax us, and then we could pursue our own projects.
All of these points are great and should be taken to heart. I'd like to add that once you take all of them into consideration, you realize you have a codebase which isn't really dependent on the cloud anymore. What you've just implemented is redundant, distributed, fault-tolerant services.

There's no reason you couldn't use both AWS and Linode for the same website at the same time. You're just stretching your data out a little farther. Of course it's also different underlying technology, but at the end of the day they're just service providers. Abstract your code and data away from the provider-specific APIs and you can expand to whatever platform you like in the future with minimal glue.
- Microsoft was in the phone business long before the iPhone and their allegiance to Windows was one of the big reasons they sucked.

- Massive Windows 8 sales numbers are far from guaranteed.

- They've diverged pretty radically from the iPad UI. I'm happy to see this, but this also means they can't count on similarities to the iPad to drive sales.

This may in fact turn out to be a hit but I'm not persuaded by your arguments.
DAEDALUS: Cyber-attack alert system from Japan
Sorry, but that's nonsense, you cannot underestimate the impact of military technologies like jet engines, radar, communications satellites, GPS, the internet, superglue... The whole of the modern world is based on military tech. Plus you gainfully employ lots of people (e.g. teaching trades to people who haven't done well in mainstream education) and as a free bonus you get the defence of the realm.
Yes, it is terribly convenient because if Type.hashCode() has problems with copies of objects, this will help:

int computeHash(byte[] serializedBytes) {
return serializeBytes.hashCode();
}

Now you've gone from a hashCode() method that won't work if the programmer screwed the pooch, to a hashCode() method that won't work period. ;-)

[Yes, it won't be screwed up if also you use your own hash.]

The problem with serialization is you lose the semantics of the object. The "same values to the same sequence of bytes" is a tighter constraint than you might think. The same "values" might have multiple representations which are logically identical but might still be relevant in any number of ways (for example, additional information that has nothing to do with identity).
value = idea x execution
thus
your_value = value_of_idea * 0
thus
your_value = 0
Co-Founder Music Startup
My name is Abhishek and I run a 360 degrees music company by the name of Talent Roof.

Using my industry experience and knowledge, I am currently ideating an internet startup focused on solving music industry pain points for artists and managers (not related to fan analytics where you guys are doing phenomenal job). The market is surprisingly empty and there is a huge demand for this product. North America and Europe are the targeted primary markets.

I am looking for a tech co-founder. Would you be please recommend someone who would be interested to co-found with me.

abhishek@talentroof.com
And where is it now?
The press were limited to 90-second-long guided sessions with the device though.
1% Wives Are Helping Kill Feminism and Make the War on Women Possible
While I don't disagree that the video is style over substance, it would be wrong to say that the hardware is vapour. MS gave out 5000 windows 8 tablets last year: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/BUILD-Tablets-Developers-Wi... I assume that they've learned from those devices in the nine months since they shipped hardware.

Yes, those devices were "Samsung" branded and these will be "Microsoft" branded. The components inside, or the factory in China where they may be assembled probably won't be changed by that.
Hacking Autism: App Ideas
The whole concept looks super-slick!
Wrong statistic. That's takedown requests. This is about requesting user's private data.
> There is no ecosystem

That's taking shape already. There is an app store, there is an SDK. And there are loads of programmers who know one or more of the supported languages on the metro API for Arm and Intel - C++, C# or Javascript
Two issues:

Firstly most corporations are just finishing up their multi-year Windows 7 rollouts so will probably be sitting out Windows 8. Given that corporate IT likes to do evaluations, certifications and such you are probably looking at least 12-18 months from now before any of these tablets are deployed on a large scale.

Secondly a lot of corporations are scaling back from providing anything more than the basic desktop or laptop and embracing BYOD for everything else. Even if its a knock out product its going to be difficult to justify spending money to roll it out especially given the other potential upgrades required (new monitors etc).

If they had announced and launched this 2 years ago I think a lot of corporations would have sat up and taken note. Announcing it now and with it not shipping for up to six months it's too little too late.
C preprocessor tricks
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4126210

As I said there, I'm always deeply disappointed (less deeply as time goes by, I'm coming to expect it) when something like this in Lego is actually just a peripheral for a program running in silicon somewhere.

I no longer have any of my Lego, but I remember building most of a completely mechanical Turing Machine way back in the early 1970s. So satisfying seeing it work purely mechanically, and I'm sure someone with more creativity and skill than I had, or indeed have, could do it.

Please?
>I find the criticism torwards the Energiewende quite hard to understand, sure it is a very difficult problem but unless we find a fundamentally new energy source or nuclear fusion becomes viable the path Germany is on is without alternative.

There's one obvious alternative: Build and run nuclear power plants. We have enough uranium to supply our energy needs for centuries, and the overall environmental impact is better than that of renewables.
> They could just not tax us, and then we could pursue our own projects.

Or, if you agree that a low-carbon future would be a good thing: Tax carbon usage, and, since you don't like the government spending money, just distribute the proceeds equally among the population. This works out to a net impact, modulo transactions costs, on the average carbon-emitting person of zero, but rewards and punishes the outliers.
Azure account disabled 2.5 days into 90 day free trial
GIFLIB 5.0.0 is released
Also the US Space Shuttle had a cost 1000-fold cost overrun, if measured by cost to orbit per unit of mass.
Load Board brings efficiency in freight marketplace
Internet based load board is just like a website intended to provide information on open market freight loads. The Load Board facilitates the freight brokers to have a better change to distribute information on their loads which they are attempting to cover through the world wide web. Previously carriers would have to sign some contracts for freight to be headed for other states where no customers were available, will now be able to easily seek out accessible freight in those states returning to their base state.
8 Amazingly detailed and beautiful photographs of the Milky Way taken from Earth
It's not absurd. It's premature on their behalf. What was preventing them from waiting until they had a physical prototype to show off? Nothing. In this light, it looks like an idea that may exist, not something consumers can actually get their hands on. Further, no, it should be judged on more than just the pictures. I fully agree with all of the others comments that elicit disappointment for a lack of feature/spec lists and pricing. The whole thing is botched.
Please read again. Energy demand was lower because it was a holiday, nothing to do with air conditioners.
Much of YAPC NA 2012 available on YouTube
It's weird because when I compare the pricing of cloud compared to our current setup, the cloud always comes out cheaper. I think this is the main thing I am looking at currently.

We pay around £1400 a month for our hosting at the minute. This entails 1 DB server, 2 Web servers, 1 mail server, a load balancer and some other tricks like a SAN and a NAS. Comparing that to the likes of Azure where I would only need 2 web servers (for redundancy) and SQL azure, the cost comes in at around 1/2 of what I am paying now.

I always feel like there is going to be a stinger somewhere in that when we move it all over, we get some stupid high bill for something that I didn't take into account or was not obvious.
Introduction to BTrace for Java applications
There is Never Enough Time To Get Everything Done: So... What's Your Plan?
A lot of the reason why there is no natural incentive to develop new sources of energy is that the government works hand in hand with energy companies to prevent it for example, via drilling rights, subsidized prices making it uneconomical to research better sources because the companies can guarantee their profits.
The theory behind covariance and contravariance in C# 4
>I don't understand the "OMG MICROSOFT MADE A TABLET IT IS CLEARLY COPYING THE IPAD" reaction Microsoft's getting here.

No, it's merely another try to bite into its market. Microsoft had tablets before the iPad too, but not like that.

Yes, it's very similar to the iPad in many ways. But other than some of the marketing, it doesn't seem to fall any closer to Apple than any of the Android tablets we've been seeing for the last year.

That's because those are already too close.

They're absolutely ahead of the curve with the blending of mobile and desktop operating systems, something which I am extremely happy they are doing, and this is absolutely the logical design choices someone in that position would make.

Ahead of what curve?

They FINALLY have a me-too mobile phone platform, but with horrible market reach, and they are updating their OS into an old (Windows)/new(Metro) mixed UI monstrosity, generally met with "Metro is kinda nice, but what where they thinking?" reviews.
Rude VC: Before I hire you, tell me about your problems
'It was gambling money': Mark Cuban unloads all his Facebook shares
So you wanna be a Wall Street techie? Or anyway, get paid a lot
How to convert from Subversion to Git
You are comparing the benefits of war to the wrong base. The civilians wouldn't have just burned all the riches (like war literally does to some extent), but would have used it to develop new products, too.

Nowadays the military actually uses consumer electronics.
I think some Sony Vaio Laptops circa 1998-1999 used Mg for part of the casing.
I like StackOverflow, and contribute heavily to one of the "other" Stack Exchange sites that is busy, but not enough to get out of perpetual beta.

The problem that they have is that SO grew very quickly and developed a Usenet-style culture. That's good in that there is alot of good information out there, but bad in the sense that you get all of the assholish behavior that came with Usenet.

The other problem that they have is the network of other sites, some of which are very good. The problem there is that they're scaling a model meant for 1,000,000 SO users down to 5,000 users, and it just isn't the same. On a smaller SE site, you cannot wrangle the 5 votes to close some nonsense question written in pidgin english. On SO, a question will be closed in seconds by the vigilantes who roam the site.
Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like "Napster is a peer-to-peer service for downloading music" and ignore everything but the architecture, thinking it's interesting because it's peer to peer, completely missing the point that it's interesting because you can type the name of a song and listen to it right away.

I feel a bit like StackOverflow has extrapolated from a huge pent-up demand for decent answers to programming questions, that the world is desperate for Q&A sites on every subject. That does not seem to have been the case.
While I agree that his jab at Drupal is off base, because I don't agree with this article in general. Drupal does make extensive use of classes in its templating system, so I can see why the author would have a problem with it.

I see the class functionality in the templating system as a benefit, and makes styling much easier, but for someone who dislikes classes, I can see why the author wouldn't like Drupal.
To be precise krasniy is 'red', krasiviy is 'pretty'.
Docebo sees a SaaS E-Learning business growth of 500% in 4 months
As paxswill said, it can, through dnsmasq. I've done it, it worked great.
I think just using a lot less classes, in combination with these selectors, would get most of the benefits without seeming so dogmatic and crazy. I guess most people "grew up" with half-finished CSS support (or if they're software like Drupal rather than people, they've not yet been refactored to reflect current browser capabilities) and so don't feel comfortable with the further reaches of CSS, but I find it quite liberating to use nth-child() instead of putting .odd or .even classes on things.
I had one of the first O2 XDA phones (released 2002) and also one of the first iphones. I'd say the biggest improvement was in the network speed and price of the data packages over the (5?) years or so between those two purchases. I'm not saying the iPhone doesn't roundly trounce it in general, just other things matter more.
I do barcode scanning on the Amazon app far more than I scan QRs. Handy to be able to check reviews and competing prices while I'm at the store.
Did they ship any new device this year or yesterday? I didn't see any surfaces in action so it is still vapourware.
This isn't r/technology ;)
New Website turns Quora into Hacker News
I like it, but my first concern with this would be privacy.

On the other hand, something like this seems to exist already: http://social.wakoopa.com/
I was disappointed by the answers to my last few questions so I'm back to asking on IRC. The answers come more quickly and the format makes clarification and follow up easier and faster.

It's also easier for me to look at someone's gist/paste on IRC and give a quick answer.
I think this is what you're looking for: http://www.geek-maps.com/
StackOverflow is awesome and nothing touches it for quality as far as I'm concerned. But the one thing that annoys me most is the seemingly arbitrary way that posts get deleted by Moderators after they have been closed (but still visible) for a significant period of time. Often they are extremely popular posts with 100k+ views that just disappear in a puff of smoke.

FYI: An SO user has recently setup an unofficial archive of deleted SO questions, ranked in order of votes ...
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/124850/unofficial-st...
Yep. The user chooses the organisations they wish to donate to, they are given an address to send there donation. When the donation is received it's distributed between the chosen organisations and sent. All done as simply as possible so you can donate to loads of worthy organisations in seconds.
> But, male or female, somebody shouldn't have to say "back off" to get some respect.

Is this really true? I've had it pounded into my head my whole childhood that you have to stand up for yourself to get any respect in this world. It's the theme of basically any coming-of-age movie. If that's what has to change for equality to work, then I think we're doomed.
see also the Williams talk linked to at http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/fall-schedule-20112012.h...
Bike generators are powered by people. People biking require time. What is the labor or opportunity cost of having all of these people sustaining 250W per hour or essentially a .25kW-hour? Just a thought but that doesn't sound cheap.
> You can see who is the opposition: the four
> huge electicity producers.

And responsible-budget people. Germany is running in defecit beyond it's European treaty obligations. A factor contributing to the bottom line is expensive energy and expensive energy projects.
It would also be good to extend the mentions beyond just codebreakers, including the Royal Navy personnel who boarded damaged U-boats in order to retrieve code books and other equipment, not knowing if the vessel would sink at any minute.
Building a startup: the beginnings (march – may 2012)
No one says that this has to be a GroupOn play. CVS (the drugstore) has a loyalty program in which they give money back (in coupons) for money you spend. That sort of thing is certainly possible, and probably works fairly well.
Automated porting from Qt 4 to Qt 5
It would be interesting to see empirical data on William Edwards's hypotheses, e.g. "Questions are getting fewer and fewer quality answers. Moderators and 'close this' clickers are getting increasingly narrow." An analysis like this might be feasible with Stack Exchange's API: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs.
Okay, I'm a little confused. What exactly is a Co-Prossessor? It looks like a graphics card. Will it replace the graphics cards or work alongside it? Does it only handle highly parallel tasks, with the processor handling serials tasks?
Fujitsu Cracks Next-Gen Cryptography Standard
Wow, this is awesome. How well does it work?
Not to mention that classes are very handy for attaching javascript event handlers.
One of the things that always surprises me when talking about lulls from wind and solar power, is that the assumption always is that we _have_ to provide continuous power. Would it not be possible to have industrial facilities that run in bursts when the energy is available (or more likely cheap), and then turn off again? Sure, this is not as easy as the old way to do things, but seriously, this is not impossible, nature essentially works in this way. Prime candidates would include extremely energy intensive industrial processes with short runtimes.
It's a Backbone plugin. It's name is accurate, just as any jQuery plugin should have "jQuery" in its name.
> I find the criticism torwards the Energiewende quite hard to understand

It's not that complicated. Making a solar panel costs more energy than it produces for decades. So all Germany is doing is making China foot the CO2 bill.

China makes the solar panel with all the associated CO2 costs, Germany installs it and claims no CO2.

Globally they are doing nothing useful, except maybe pushing the costs down.

I especially find shutting down the nuclear plants stupid. The one and only technology that actually would work, and they are spurning it.
SourceForge submits Allura to Apache's Incubator
They move from Q&A model to a Wikipedia model.
John Hockenbery: We are all designers.
6th April, actually.
Exactly - this is yet another contrarian article, and I hope I will not assign it too much meaning because it's anecdotal (anecdotal in the sense that it works for the author with his small blog).
Britain is a "nation of self-service shoplifters”
Vary Anchor Text to Avoid Penalties
Are You Siloing Your SEO?
Hello Paul,

Thanks for the tip in English.
I will be working with Web Development, and the agency is in Knightsbridge London.
Today i live in Brazil (non-EU country).
Why don't you just grab a MacBook Air 11" with you and have everything you have ever used in your "bag". Small, light, enough processing power and no sacrifices using your notebook. Why on earth would you want a tablet which you could transform into a half assed notebook?

Would you buy a motorcycle and try to drive it like a car?
Can you explain this further? How is using a temporary table faster? Explicit temporary tables are simply regular tables that only last your current session. Do you mean the MEMORY storage engine? What do you mean by "don't use keys, use indexes?" The term KEY and INDEX in MySQL are exact synonyms.
> Nuclear plants are not carbon free. Getting the uranium, transporting the nuclear waste, transporting the people who run the plant costs a lot of carbon emissions.

But shutting them down when you already paid all the costs is clearly stupid.

And he didn't say carbon free. He said "increase carbon emissions" (he probably meant carbon dioxide emissions), and it clearly will increase them.
I always find these physical Turing machines kind of silly. The Turing machines and UTM are theoretical devices used to solve a problem in mathematical logic.

Also, this particular machine isn't a UTM. It doesn't read its program from the tape, and therefore it's useless IMHO.

Now, if someone wants to build a UTM using the symbols and state transitions described in Turing's original paper then that would be worth looking at.
Or you could use the Stack Exchange Data Explorer, http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/queries
That's good to know, what i want is not really trick the immigration but to know what would be the most righteous and feasible choice.
A Better Way to Manage CSS and JS (+ source code)