skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's not gentlemanly towards anyone, particularly savers in your own country.

Suppose I'm a retired gentleman in Ruritania with one million Ruritanian rurs in the bank. The King of Ruritania has got himself into some deep debt problems with foreign creditors due to his addiction to racing and eating greyhounds. He can either say:

a) "Guess what? I'm only going to pay back 10% of my debts! Suck it, creditors!", or

b) "Ohhhh, suuure, I'll pay back all my debts. Oh, did I mention that a Ruritanian rur henceforth has one tenth the value it used to? Heh, cool."

In the latter case my savings are completely wiped out, as are the savings of everyone else in Ruritania [while mortgageholders suddenly become very rich]. In the former case, while there'll probably be some damage to the currency my savings aren't affected so badly.
Love the vim binding!
Agree. But we should then be saying "omg 1.5ghz full system in that form factor!" Not that such high spec system can run a sub average set of software intended for old 486

Btw, the pizza boxes were considered incredible small back in early 90s :)

The sgi Indy even had a "portable" version with attached lcd screen.
But you needed to click on the ad
My reaction exactly. Just installed it like always before and no fuss about anything.
Key phrase, there: "it's insecure." Dreadfully so, and by encouraging its use, we keep the Internet unsafe for everyone.

Still waiting for someone to tell me exactly which brand of "assistive technology" absolutely requires IE<8, and why Chrome Frame can't fix it.
There aren't any ads on SC though. They make their money from premium accounts, of which they apparently sell plenty. Their business model is excellent all round IMO.

(You probably knew that but I thought it should be pointed out.)
WordPress and Facebook are finally together, officially
The version I heard went something like this:

A man was tired of the local youths <doing negative behavior>, so he offered them a small amount of money ($2-3) when they'd <do negative behavior>.

The next week he came to them and told them "sorry, business was slow, all I can give you this week is $1/time." They weren't happy, but agreed.

The next week he went back and said "sorry, even slower, I can only afford $0.25/time now." The youths said "we're not doing this for $0.25!" and stopped <negative behavior> altogether.
Sounds like such a setup could be easily gamed to me.
Sorry, I'm still not clear what exactly you want from me.
A paper explaining why clutter is universally bad? Seriously?

You try so hard to come across as if you had a remote clue about the UX field, yet you want to debate one of the most basic premises?

May I suggest to review the standard works (you have them on your shelf, I know you do);

http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Me-Think-%20Usability/dp/032...

http://www.amazon.com/dp/156205810X/

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385267746/

Somehow you must have forgotten, well, everything, since you last read them.

That's okay, happens to the best of us. However, you might come across a little less unarmed if you could at least memorize the title of Krug's book.

Thanks for playing anyways.
Before You Send That Angry E-mail
Somebody tell Al Qaeda. I'm sure they'll listen to a reasoned debate.
I've thought about having user accounts on RubyFiddle. But don't we already have too many accounts all over the place? (coming at some point, maybe with github login)
No, the first company makes standalone devices. The (allegedly) infringing company, which I think was founded by former employees, makes an iPad app.
An interesting idea ... I hope they pack lots of dramamine and sea-bands since not everyone is designed to spend 100 days at sea.

To me, the exposure of 600 college students to 14 different countries' cultures could make the voyage worthwhile even if none of the 10 start-ups succeeds.

I love the "Proud to be based in Colorado" badge at the bottom of the page. It's perfectly unreasonable to do this from a state that has no access to the sea ;)
Also, who cares what his style is?

Me, because I found it unpleasant to read. Working on such code is beside the point.
Maybe techcrunch isn't doing this app justice, but I'm at a loss why we are re-doing bookmarks... again. Maybe its just me, maybe I'm so well organized that I only need a place to jot down notes on paper - but I honestly do not see that many people having so much pain for freaking bookmarks that we need another social X for Y start-up that ultimately won't be compelling enough to change users behavior.

I imagine there are users out there that would benefit from this, but is it enough to run a business? I agree with another commentor that this seems more like a talent acquisition play than an actually viable business.

As I said I'm probably not the target market, but the tech crunch article made me cringe a little bit. When I see stuff like this I wonder if there is a funding bubble.

Kudos definitely to the engineers that put this together. Clearly a lot of thought went into the product. For me though, it left a "why are they solving this problem, AGAIN" taste in my mouth.
So they gave the standard reply from page one of the playbook: Deny and smear. But this whole thing smells like retaliation and a hostile environment, probably done mostly subtly and in passive-aggressive and other roundabout and plausibly deniable ways that are designed to make her look bad if she says anything. Good for her for taking the fight and doing it publicly. If nobody stands up to bullies,they will keep bullying. That said, who the f*ck knows what really happened!
This has been discussed before, so many times.

In fact, in pretty much every thread go turns up in. sigh I'm just going to link to my favourite review now, again (pertinent, and mentioned here only because the author of the original shared a favourite with me):
http://www.math.bas.bg/bantchev/misc/on-go.html

Quote: "But I know I am not going to love Go. True beauty evades this language. Go may be practical, but is also eclectic, and has taken some unconvincing or downright ugly design choices. It definitely lacks that subtle but unmistakable touch of elegance that makes a language great."
Gmailzero - let me go
I signed up for the gmail0 beeminder goal yesterday to see how it works. Now I have 15 emails from beeminder in my inbox asking me to read 4 emails. And 10 of these beeminder emails arrived within a span of two hours (9-11 AM)!

Definitely not my cup of tea.

How does one drop a goal in beeminder? None of the questions in their FAQ seem to address this. I have modified the goal, so that my goal instead of 0 unread emails is now 100,000 unread emails!
Almost all our goods except food are foreign or made of foreign-made components, or are commodities traded on the world market.
They are not "togheter", there is an official FB plugin for WP.
Go is not a replacement for C. As many people have said, Go is not suitable for most purposes where C would currently be the best choice.

Go is a replacement for Python, Ruby, etc. Garbage collection, duck typing, an excellent library. Go is a language with the same level of abstraction of many other "scripting" languages, but is unique because it uses static typing and is compiled.
That isn't a shadowban. That's just the regular spam filter. A shadow ban is a slightly different approach. A shadowbanned user, when logged in can see his posts and comments as if they were there normally, but only he can see them. Other users don't even know about the existence of them. (Mods can see shadowbanned user comments and posts in their subreddits, but normally don't approve them because each post/comment has to be approved manually.)
"The kind of austerity that involves taking away allowances and tax credits for the poor and middle classes is idiotic"

No, the kind of profiligacy that allows the existence of allowances and tax credits for the poor and middle classes is idiotic.

The poor are a different argument, but there's no way the middle classes should be dependent upon government welfare. Let the middle classes earn their own money and pay a modest share in taxes, not become welfare recipients themselves.

Every European country has a lot of government spending and employees and programs that they need to eliminate, first, before they think about raising taxes.
I guess the user account has restricted access in what commands are available.
Hi Carlos,

It was definitely something we thought about, and even discussed with the devs from Twitter. Twitter has a very different use-case to SoundCloud. When you follow a link to Twitter, it's usually to read a single tweet (or maybe a handful), and that's it. SoundCloud is visited by someone who is already willing to invest at least a couple of minutes to listen to a tune, and is much more likely to explore the site. Therefore, the value of making further navigation of the site fast (via client-side rendering, etc) is weighted differently at SoundCloud than at Twitter.
Heroku provides a read-only file system on their Bamboo stack, and a "scratch-pad" file system on their Cedar stack where changes are thrown away after the web request finishes.
However, that's not the only convention for postal addresses. In Japan they write them the other way around, starting with the prefecture and working down through city, subarea, block/building number and finally the addressee's name. I don't think it's the only country using major-to-minor order, although minor-to-major is more common.
The scroll/codex analogy is cute but doesn't hold up.

Sure hope the page based css goes to the limbo.
مشاهدة مباراة ايطاليا وكرواتيا بث مباشر 14-6-2012
Note that Puppy Linux runs as root.

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Security
Why airlines are shrinking flight times
I've been using the feedback feature early and often (nice job putting it so front and center also!)

I think the new design and architecture is coming out great and I don't mean to discourage experience sharing. If anything, better way to have said would be:

I hope that you will post a few follow-ups to this as you get closer to release what/if anything has changed in your stack, approach, and gotchas found building this complex of a single page/backbone app.

Thanks!
I didn't know Harry Potter wrote about surveillance.
I guess a lot of the CAM pirates works in the cinema business. With watermarking the studios can find out exactly which auditorium it has been recorded in. I guess that will discourage a few pirates ...
For background, I write a lot of WebGL demos, I work for Mozilla on gfx optimizations (WebGL and otherwise) for the Boot2Gecko project. I also worked at Matasano Security previously, doing WebGL security research. As such, I tend to think that I'm pretty unbiased in this regard -- or perhaps biased towards WebGL, since I love it and want to see it everywhere. So with all that said, your characterization of MS's security claims as "FUD" are complete and utter bullshit. WebGL has a substantial attack surface in the browser (large API dealing with many issues from cross-origin restrictions to handling buffer locking and texture sharing, shader verification and translation, not to mention all the code required to actually make this stuff fast, which is what I work on), and it's only the tip of the iceberg that is the 3d stack.

Below the browser you have the userland driver components, which do things like further shader verification and initial stages of the compilation, validating index buffers, and simplifying the command stream. Below that you have the kernel components, which largely trust the userspace to have done their job properly, then do things like compile shaders for the specific hardware and put things into the proper form to send it off to the GPU, as well as handling synchronization and locking and all that. Then below that, you have a massively complex piece of hardware that under most circumstances is fully able to touch every single bit of your system memory (thanks, DMA), and that doesn't care one bit about security; it assumes that everything coming from the kernel is 100% safe and intentional. If you tell it to copy memory from point A to B, it will do it without complaining. Meaning if you wanted to, say, write over kernel memory from a buffer in the browser...

So let's look at what needs to happen to get ring0 (kernel mode) access from WebGL: 1) get your payload through/around validation in the browser, using available APIs, 2) get through/around userland validation OR attack the optimization/compilation steps that occur at that layer, 3) potentially attack optimization/compilation steps that happen in the kernel component -- optional, since this layer may not be your target, 4) GPU does your work for you.

At most, you're talking 3 layers to compromise. Compare to real-world vulnerabilities against other parts of the browser (see also: Pinkie Pie) where you're involving dozens of steps, and suddenly this doesn't look too difficult. The tough part is that it requires a significant amount of domain specific knowledge, but I'm certainly not the only one with it.

WebGL, as awesome as it is, is a security risk. It's one caused primarily by the fact that GPU vendors have never had to care about security along these lines before. It will be solved eventually, but it's damn sure not solved now.
> no little guy would ever be paid for his idea

That's always the rhetoric but in practice patents usually protect big companies at the expense of the little guy. This is especially true in software, where getting the patent is generally a lot more expensive than creating the invention. Only the big companies can afford to file patents for every little trick of coding they come up with.

And for all types of inventions, it's generally very expensive to litigate.

All sorts of inventive software was created before there were software patents, so empirically, it's clear that in this business at least we don't need patents.
In India, began selling smartphone Nokia 808 PureView
In India, began selling smartphone Nokia 808 PureView - When Nokia officially unveiled its 41-megapixel camera phone Nokia 808 PureView, said that the device will appear in May on a few selected markets.
Chrome OS management console becomes easier, but only for Google Apps customers.
You're absolutely right, but the typical retort to the above is: "macroeconomics isn't a morality play".

We're seeing the consequences of morality-driven economics today in Europe. Are we really worried that people that save and live in their means are going to start snorting cocaine off strippers' bellies because of devaluation?
Anyone else catch the irony that this is the same nation that passed an absurd "cookie law" in the name of protecting people's online privacy?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/26/eprivacy_cookie_comp...

As I understand it they backed away from the stronger restrictions at the last minute... but still, the very idea of a surveillance nation like the UK "protecting" people by blocking third party cookies would be hilarious if it wasn't also tragic. Very generously they've said they won't prosecute offenders... probably... unless they don't like you... or have a political axe to grind... or you're the wrong ethnicity...
Making a singular matrix non-singular
You can be a vocal zealot and with a small group of equally loud cohorts, give your language of choice the reputation described in this article. The other 95% of the population is quietly getting work done.
Definitely. There already have been some changes since I wrote the post this week, but they'll have to wait until the next exciting instalment. :)
I've got two kids. You discipline your kids when they misbehave. You don't reward them for doing what they should have done in the first place.
> According to ICANN they are not making money off of it. The money is spent on the reviewal process.

Most of which is probably ICANN salaries.

My health insurer does this. "We're non-profit, our profit margin was only 2% last year." Meanwhile, we see headlines about the CEO's $4 million bonus.
I key this back to all of the social akwardness of the Facebook CEO. Honestly, that guy is a little weird. Even weirder that a billion people have trusted a socially awkard guy with their full browsing histories and every aspect of their social life.

This latest move just proves to me that Zuckerberg really is there to take advantage of you and spy on you. At first with the open graph and the like buttons and all of that people were speculating that Facebook could easily follow and gather internet crumbs and store them for later. And now here is a press release openly saying they are going to be selling this data for profit. There is ZERO tact in this.

It will take a while, but I'm starting to get the feeling that Facebook will destroy itself in its never ending quest to justify its hype.
It's about converting one IE7 user at a time.

Either way, I bet the developers had fun with this feature.
> It makes writing a view with subviews very easy. You simply use the Handlebars helper exactly where you want that view and the rest is taken care of for you.

It does indeed look very simple and easy but what I would be concerned about is that you have logic in your views that perhaps shouldn't be there. Your views are now dependent on the template language/parser you are using. Have you tried any other approaches that didn't work so well/easy before coming to this solution?

> If a view can only work in a particular situation (eg: nested inside a list which handles its events), then that creates hard dependencies between those two views and you can quickly get into a mess.

Agree. But how about having per view instance dependency instead of per view constructor. For example,

<div class="listenNetwork__creator">
{{view "views/user/user-badge" resource_id=user.id parent_view=this }}
</div>

So your user-badge view can bind its events on the parent_view.el (if available), otherwise on itself. Backbone does this in a way on its delegateEvents method. If there is no selector specified in your event it uses bind on this.$el, otherwise it uses this.$el.delegate.

Thanks
> Spices are usually more or less nutritionally neutral.

Nutritionally neutral, but not gastrointestinally, as folks sensitive to spicy food can attest.
The source is in sanely separated and named modules in individual files which are concatentated into one for production. We actually concatenate into 4 different files according to how often the source changes (to work best with caching), but yeah, the concept is the same.
So really the original article for this thread and you are just saying, "Stop playing currency games to fight strong economic forces. Take your lumps and move on. You'll be better off in the long run."
Will there be a comment under the Ad saying:

"By clicking this advert you will be informing company x that you recently visited the URL y"

No? Then they're collecting and selling that information on without your knowledge and without your permission.

Will there also be a notice and button under the advert so you can permanently and fully delete your browser history and tell Facebook to not collect it in future? No?
I don't really understand the purpose of the complex Buildout configuration, when you can just run "pip install -r requirements.txt" in your virtualenv and list your packages in a simple text file? What do you win with Buildout?
This, but also Google does it a little differently.

Google: What can I do for you?

You: I need to do a search on hotels in Austin, TX.

Google: Great, here you go. We'll watch your behavior so we can serve better ads and give you better results in the future.

You: Thanks google!

-------

Facebook: IF you give me all of your information, then you can talk to your friends at my house and I'll record everything for you.

You: Uh, I guess thats OK. I need to talk to my friends.

Facebook: I'm following you everywhere now.
In-House Or Outsource – Your Data Center Infrastructure?
What should be considered when signing an infrastructure outsourcing agreement
JavaScript from scratch
And send you an invoice for use of the site that exactly equals it?
That's not a bad idea actually -- I might look into that. With only one subview, it ends up with the same amount of handlers, so the benefit would only be seen in list-like views with repeated subviews, right?
In systems that are less secured than Google, the audio catchpa seems trivial to break...I think I've seen one on court sites that read a combination of numbers from 1 to 9 with some variance in the vocal speed. I'm not an audio engineer but that seems fairly trivial to crack (though maybe their visual catchpa would be easier...I dunno, not an expert in OCR either).

It's a good lesson in a form of social engineering. Sites have to provide this alternative access for the visually impaired...yet I bet the resources/creativity put behind it is not at the same level as the kind put into the catchpa used by 99% of the userbase. Furthermore, the most important client -- your boss -- is likely to not be blind him/herself, which eliminates that extra critical layer of oversight.
Skype jumps the shark: Seven alternative VoIP services
I don't understand what makes this a "different kind of coloring book". Because it has flood fill?
Lot of negativity in the comments. Maybe power users don't use bookmarks as much. But I have seen people using browser auto-complete with a mouse. There is a lot that can be done when it comes to empowering the regular user to use web better.
Final Windows binaries will soon be available here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/files/windows-ho...
(Prerelease binaries already available)

I post this link because it took me a long time to find quality Windows builds of GCC. There are many places which offer GCC for Windows, but most of the builds have problems. These ones are the best IMHO.

Project Description from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/

Snapshots and releases builds of the MinGW compiler that
use CRT & WinAPI from the mingw-w64 project.

Builds support the following features:
- OpenMP
- LTO
- Graphite
- std Concurrency
- Native TLS Callbacks
- Wide-Character Startup (-municode)
- 32-bit and 64-bit Windows
- Multilib toolchains
- Cross-compiling from x86_64 for i686 and vice versa.
Anyone here know enough about UK politics to know how likely it is that this will pass?
Unglue.it Wants to Make a Creative Commons for Ebooks
I wish somebody would develop a browser which would let me use facebook but automatically hide data from it.

Now, let me think... who in the world is a major browser manufacturer who would have an incentive to prevent facebook from being able to serve well-matched advertisements?
It sounds like you have valid reasons for your rule-breaking, and that's a-okay by me. If we all followed the rules all the time, there wouldn't be any progress.

It also sounds like you're deeply passionate about what you're doing, which is great.

My only caveat to that is that it's hard to have both success at a grand scale and a dedicated group of users at the same time. If you're not looking to be successful, or aren't looking to strike it big (ala Facebook or Twitter), there is of course nothing wrong with that, but for the type of service you're operating, you'll have a harder time tracking statistical trends with a smaller audience I'd suspect, which could make the service overall less effective.
Car loans and mortgage offers, for some absurd reason. Probably targets my Google account. Consequence of the "monetize by throwing some ads at the user" insanity I guess.

Anyway, I was talking about apps in general. Any well-designed casual game is popular among kids.
why? facebook would benefit a ton from crowdsourcing their revenue. users could artificially drive up the value of their browsing history through various tricks that would develop.
Exactly, like when you are rendering a list of (sounds|users|comments|whatever).
College Students x Nanorobots