skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tearing up someone's documentation is never an "honest ignorant understanding by some worried people".

Dr Mann also says P1 "angrily grabbed my eyeglass, and tried to pull it off my head", which is also not consistent with an honest mistake.
I thought I was saying the same thing: that yes, tourists are expected to be everywhere at the McDonald's, taking pictures, but if they start to do it in a strange way (i.e., target the "boring" stuff in the kitchen), or have stuff that looks like a hidden camera, then management may freak out.
These screens are insanely expensive, and wouldn't make much sense. Nobody is looking at 27" monitors from such a small distance to distinguish between retina and simply good resolution.

Plus, I don't think there are affordable video cards to drive resolutions like 5120x2880.
That is a sweet spot: lots of people need a full service, but smaller PostgreSQL database.

Off topic, but what I would really like to see: I have several long term tiny web apps hosted for free at Heroku. I understand that their costs for hosting these is minimal because unpaid for web apps get swapped out, and thus there is a several second loading request time when they are 'woken up.'

I would love an inexpensive "1 dyno" paid for plan positioned between the 1 dyno free plan and the two dyno paid plan for $35. The 1 dyno paid plan, at about $15/month (or maybe it shoult be 1/2 of $35?) would I bet be popular. I would like all of my apps to be always on, even the little toy/side projects.
This looks really interesting. But I do have a few questions about things that are not apparent from your pricing page[1]:
* Does this integrate with google apps or just gmail?
* I think you should offer a plan in-between ingot and enterprise with around 20 open positions.

[1] http://www.foundryhiring.com/home/pricing
While I applaud what they're doing, it's a bit weird how that post keeps throwing around open-source rhetoric when neither Steam nor any of Valve's games are open source. The only regard in which this has anything to do with open source software at all is that the platform happens to be predominately GPL-licensed, and may conceivably become an indeterminate amount more popular if more games than L4D2 get ported.
There are so many UX problems with the current crop of Google core products, it's hard for me to agree that "usable and uncluttered" can refer to anything but the Google of the past.
Great to see that the original FutureSplash authors are doing well. Flash is a great example of how far software can diverge from its original audience and goals.

Regardless of Flash's future on the web, it is still excellent for animation and Adobe seems to be refocusing back on this market, which is much closer to Adobe's core competency. My most fond memories of Flash are back in the v3 and v4 days (you could barely write loops in Actionscript) but it was so much fun drawing and animating with a tablet and making cartoons. Then MXML and RIA's came along and we all know what happened next.
What will make this truly interesting is if 3rd party game developers follow in Valve's footsteps and start porting their games as well. Because that will hopefully then lead to more attention from graphics card driver makers, solving one of Linux's last remaining weaknesses compared to Windows.

With Microsoft following Apple into the post-PC era (or "PC Plus", as MS COO Kevin Turner likes to call it), Linux will be the last major OS with a traditional desktop metaphor as its dominant UI. Despite all the statements that the PC is dead, I think it will still have widespread uses, at least until brain-computer interfaces become a reality, because touchscreens simply cannot replace keyboards/mice in a large number of contexts.
New Microsoft Office 365 development tools include browser-based IDE
I read his book in college. Had a profound impact on me. The "Sharpen the Saw" habit convinced me to exercise regularly.
I'm going to show my lack of linux history here... why not Debian? Are they really building something that is native to ubuntu that you wouldn't work in <insert-debian-fork crunchbang or mint>?
What about YouTube? Or Zynga? Or Facebook for its photos?

I think when people hear the phrase "digital media", they think of it has traditional-media-delivered-digitally. But I think the internet enables entirely new variations of traditional media, tailor-made for our hypersocial, crowdsourced, and attentionless internet society.
Who Owns the Website, and Why
Go read 'Crossing the chasm' - many people on HN are early adopters that love the opportunity to try out cutting edge software.
If you run on the free 1 dyno plan, your web app is not always resident so you will get occasional multi-second loading request times.
Erica Kwan: How Square Stays Stable and Available
Well, did this Hong Kong McD's have a large aquarium?
"Mitigated" is not the same as solved.

Graphics drivers are inherently not designed to be exposed like that to hostile content.
> Oblig

Please spare us the silly abbreviations.
> It means the course wasn't about programming.

You've pretty much blown any credibility you had right there.
It would a dream if they adopted webkit for office. Outlook is keeping the email rendering in the 90's.

However it's to Microsoft's benefit to keep their file formats rendering in obscure ways, as it makes it difficult for competitors to edit them.
Like I said, "HTML5 still hasn't caught up". It is time for Flash to die; that doesn't mean it can yet.
In high school I worked in a McDonalds. There was actually a poster in the back that said cameras were not allowed on the property. This was around the time of 'Supersize Me'.

I don't remember exactly what the instructions said employees were supposed to do. I believe it was asking people to leave and refer them to McDonalds corporate PR for requests to take pictures. It definitely didn't say assault them.

Clearly these guys were acting way outside of what McDonalds intended for them to do, but I think McDonalds' silly 'no cameras' policy might have incited them.
4 Fine Linux ARM Distros
> Once again, there's nothing wrong with jvm output. It's "better" for the reasons you say.

So if my understanding, including that bytecode generation requires a comparable amount of effort, why didn't they do that? I don't intend to critique their decisions; I'm interested in why they made them. Their reasoning might well teach me something.

> providing source code in java/c++ is critical for ... various mobile app stores.

Really? I wasn't aware of that. Are we talking Apple's and Google's? What app store's catalog is predominately C++?
Yahoo is dying but it's not dead. All that remaining traffic has to go somewhere. Google has a clear incentive to take that traffic for themselves instead of letting fb or someone else have it.
First off, thank you.

We thought about licensing it, and we'd probably feel comfortable doing so. However, the infrastructure required to run this is pretty intense and customized. We're actually pushing a patent for the infrastructure/technology behind it.
Depending on your skill and demand, you could simply nudge them by asking if they are considering an offer because youll need to make a decision soon, as you don't want other companies to wait simply because they responded quickly.

This communicates you have options, and that they are going slower than you'd like. Clearly this only works in certain situations and can be dangerous if executed poorly.
VMs can have bugs and nuances that aren't captured in their specification - and a compiler has to evolve awareness of this in an iterative fashion. Rendering to source languages constitutes another way to sanity check by going through a compiler that has already dealt with those implementation concerns. So Haxe is taking on a lot of extra work, as you say, but it also gains more assurances that output is "as good as" target-native code.
For those interested just in hearing Obama sing, you can watch the sample in question from an ABC News broadcast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Qu8nThJ5w&t=15
That's because, like the majority of people, you are probably quite bad at understanding both randomness, and the normal behaviour of violent assholes.
Document rendering is much improved in general ...
Greystripe Founders Join Digitization Company YesVideo
I read the title as "Valve Linux Box" and was a fairly disappointed.
A nitpick, but this author is absolutely using bicubic wrong. The only case where bicubic filtering appears identical to nearest neighbor is if the entire image has constant color.

Author probably forgot to turn off color indexing or something trivial.
NYU EEX Demo Day Review: Summer of Startups
And don't wear your skirt so short, you're basically asking for it!
Outside the Quake series, I think Left 4 Dead 2 would be the most impressive game ported to Linux to date.
What is the reason behind IE6 usage still being so high in the PR of China?
cutting edge or bleeding edge? (Installing the update, but I have a dedicated iPhone to test it on)
What struck me about the experience wasn't the "Rich guy not made happy by wealth after all" part, but that he was so desperate for friends and just couldn't make them. That's why I thought it was relevant to the topic.
"Wrong: use Assembler Language."

I'd be interested to see more research on this. I would hope that modern compilers can generate better optimised code than hand assembly for most cases by now.

Does anyone have any pointers to research on this topic?
(assuming you're talking about safe writes opposed to normal writes) then you kill performance... which was one of the main reasons for switching to mongodb in the first place
I don't know. I can write an application in flash and it will run on IE, chrome, Firefox, whatever. A lot of companies still use IE. I can also compile that down to run on ios, android, or blackberry (not that I'd want to). I can do all that from basically the same codebase with an ecma script language (as3) that I find much better for large scale projects than html5 (by which people actually mean js)

Flash is dying I guess, but it will be a long time until it actually dies, and that's good by me because html5/js still has a lot of catching up to do.

As an aside, I'm curious how many flash haters out there have actually written flash applications. Its really a good tool for a lot of applications, but the haters never really provide any specifics on what their problem is besides referencing poorly written apps that crash your browser, of which you'll find plenty of those in any language.
I think it has to do with their familiarity with Ubuntu server and the popularity of the distro.

They wrote on that post that they do indeed want to support other distro's in the future. I suspect they just want to get some stability before committing to a wide range of distro's. Ubuntu is very popular, so it makes sense.

Distro's can take the .deb files and extract them through their package managers to fit their systems, probably without much hassle.
If I wanted to show that my technology wasn't "super freaky out there" (which he could easily be accused of by people who don't slurp up Google press releases every day), what better way than to show that it looks almost identical to something that the all-trusted Google is going to be selling in the near future?

It is possible I'm not cynical enough, but if I were trying to gain sympathy for my cyborg-prosthetic plight, the more I could relate it to things people are already comfortable with, the better.

I think the simplest answer is the most likely: That franchise has bumped prices up above what McD's corp allows for and/or has figured out a way to game the computers so they are underreporting their revenue and thus are paying much less in franchise fees than they should be. Given its prime tourism spot, people don't complain, but if pictures got back to corporate, there would be problems.
I expect it will eventually work on any recent distribution, and there would be community docs everywhere on how to install dependencies, configure and run their software on distribution X.

Saying that, Ubuntu is popular, there may be some commercial connections with Canonical, and picking one distribution to do the testing should streamline their efforts.
Exactly. With her connections, knowledge and wealth she might be able to build an amazing company from scratch.
Jeez man, anybody who has anything to do with wearable computing these days knows all about Mann's work. I'm sure the Google Glasses people know all about it too; I'd be shocked if they did not. He's just too well known. Stop tilting at windmills.

Here's some background reading: http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/26/2986317/google-project-gla...
>at least until brain-computer interfaces become a reality

A little late to the party.

Sent from my iBrain.
Best troll ever. Love your work man.
now it redirects to 4chan /b/
As with most things in life, you can't control what morons are doing.

However, you can control how it affects you. For instance:

- Chrome asks you if you want to ignore dialog boxes after a couple ones pop.
- There are excellent "Download managers" to let you start again if it crashes or to overall have a better control.
- Lots of hackers disable javascript by default, and only enable it on trusted websites.
Can you send the bit coin to yourself?
I was wondering if there are any public and published research reports/papers that were written by her? At least something from her time at Stanford? So far the only thing I could find were some Google patents where she appears as a co-inventor.

Edit: Oddly enough I can not reply to the comment below. My statement wasn't meant to be critical but more on the curious side. The "41 shades of blue" story sounded always intriguing, so I was wondering if there are any other traces of her research activities.
Drifitng off topic, but the Paralympics are already sponsored by ATOS, the company the UK government has put in charge of taking social security from the genuinely disabled.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/may/21/paralympic-games...
As someone who has been underwhelmed by Ms. Mayer since her early days at Google, I think this is just another desperate attempt to save the ailing Yahoo. It will fail, and she'll be out in less than a year.
Simple answer is that most of the differentiation between Ubunu and Debian is in the areas of audio and video. Specifically regarding drivers, which is a critically important component of game development.
Perl 6: Managing breakages across Rakudo versions
Patrick Michaud, Rakudo lead dev, wants to know what Perl 6 stability policy should be. Or at least, how would you like to see the Rakudo team manage breakages across versions in the near term?

Discuss on the perl6 compiler list (http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.compiler/2012/07/msg8279.html) or the #perl6 IRC channel on freenode.
> VMs can have bugs and nuances that aren't captured in their specification

So can compilers. Adding the additional translation layer of javac or equivalent increases the potential of being affected by bugs in third-party code. Let P be the probability of encountering a bug in the JVM, and Q be the probability of encountering a bug in javac. If we multiply the complements, (1-Q)x(1-P) we have the probability of final execution being in keeping with the HaXe implementation's intentions. Assuming all values are nonzero, (1-P)x(1-Q) < (1-P), therefore the additional translation layer increases the probability of being affected by a bug. Not to mention that the vastly more complex output format increases the possibility of introducing bugs into HaXe itself.

> output is "as good as" target-native code.

But it isn't. Translating code between languages is lossy. Unless HaXe is trivial, the HaXe implementation has information that could be used to generate better bytecode that is lost when bytecode generation is performed by a tool that knows nothing about HaXe, e.g. javac.
Freedom of Information Requests - BBerry PIN-to-PIN Not Qualified
The Daily News is reporting that if aides of New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo cannot speak in person or by telephone with the Governor, they are told to use BlackBerry's PIN-to-PIN messaging system - a function that leaves no lasting trail because it bypasses data-saving email servers. Consequently, a Freedom of Information request for all e-mails to and from Governor Cuomo's office resulted in an empty reply from the Records Access Officer -<p>"Please be advised that the New York State Executive Chamber has conducted a diligent search, but does not possess records responsive to your request."
Here is what she will do:

1. Cut. Cut as much as possible.
2. Refocus on mobile. May be partner with nokia or microsft or other falling company to provide default content to other platform
3. When yahoo is stable enough. Sell or merge the company.
In general, compiler-generated assembly is on par with naieve hand-written assembly. It's not going to beat something that anyone put any real time into, but if time to market matters at all, you're not going to be able to put large amounts of time into hand-coding assembly.

A good, clever human can generally beat a compiler.

There's a reason that the core of nearly any high performance multimedia, graphics, or encryption library is written in assembly, or compiler intrinsics (which are pretty much assembly instructions written in C syntax)
> What I don't understand why clearly things have been manually blacked out (or whited out in this case). Why not show their face?

In Europe it is illegal to publish photos of someone without their consent unless that someone is a public figure.

This is also why he might have gotten a rather negative reaction...
Here's the problem: either you have the decryption keys and can get to the content, or you don't and can't. If you can watch a movie on your computer, you already have everything you need to pirate the movie.
There's no reason to waste cycles trying to figure out all the company stuff. Laws in CA and the advice you will get about Delaware companies really smooth everything out.
argumentum ad verecundiam
hacked xp installs?
As someone who has actually done this (I was with my parents), I can tell you that the Parisian McDonald's is, in fact, different from the American one.

I think that the one in Beijing was different, too, but I didn't get to go into that one.
So if you 1) know that anything you put up on YouTube can be hit with a DMCA takedown and 2) you have music in your campaign video and 3) other candidates have been bitten by this in the past, why would you post on a site you don't control?
I was paraphrasing Archimedes.

I'm pretty please with the impact I'm having on the world.
No mention of the fact that a bunch of games on Steam already have Linux versions? Or do their blogs usually ignore non-Valve software?
That's always been my problem with Yahoo.

They are a company filled with brilliant engineers (who give us things like Hadoop), yet they only want to be a media company.
Well I will not put money where my mouth has been and buy Left for Dead 2. I have been wanting a lot of Valve games, but I swore off all non-native games after Minecraft ( if Notch can do it so can everyone else )
I'm genuinely surprised that no-one's discussing the possible acquisition of yahoo by google as a result of this. Or is that naive? Or cynical? Or perhaps just dumb...
This is almost exactly what our use case is. I slightly altered the implementation to be more GC friendly though: http://squishtech.posterous.com/addendum-to-the-opposite-of-...
Hershey Trademarks Shape of Chocolate Bar
If it's 1999 again, you know what's around the corner, right? pop
So glad you are here and hope you will apply to YC too!
They're working with Canonical to make sure that it's well supported, and they chose them because Ubuntu in particular is focusing on making Linux for the mainstream. In this context, "supported" on a particular platform doesn't mean "can run," it means "should work out of the box for absolutely everyone." I have no doubt that, come the release on Ubuntu, unofficial packages will come into being for nearly every distro--and on Debian you probably won't even need that.
He doesn't take the point about robot horses very far, but that's where the conversation will go in time.

Maybe flight is a better example. We always knew it was possible to fly because we saw birds doing it. Birds fly by flapping their wings. We tried to make flying machines that flap their wings. They didn't fly.

Birds evolved to flap their wings because it exploited the technology available to evolution. Birds are made out of the same stuff as other animals, just tweaked a bit to be lighter. Flapping is a lot like running or swimming physiologically -- swinging a limb back and forth in a certain pattern. Evolution can do a lot with warm-blooded animals with limbs.

When we figured out how to make artificial flying machines, the solution exploited the advantages of our technology. Planes are made out of the same stuff as cars, just tweaked a bit to be lighter. Spinning a propeller is a lot like spinning a wheel. We can do a lot with combustion engines that spin things.

The missing pieces were the principles of aerodynamics, some technology (IC engine, construction materials), and some engineering specific to the problem of flight. Since we figured it out, we're able to make machines that fly faster and higher than anything in nature. Vastly faster and higher.

Right now we're trying to build machines that think -- not just compute. We know that thinking is possible because we see brains doing it. Brains do it with neurons and synapses. We tried to make thinking machines out of neurons and synapses. They didn't think.

Brains are made of neurons because that's what evolution had available. Neurons are a lot like other cells in the body -- blood cells, skin cells, muscle cells. Evolution is good at specializing cells to do all kinds of jobs.

When we figure out how to make thinking machines, the solution will exploit the advantages of the technology of the day. It will look like something we already have, but tweaked. We're good with transistors and silicon. We're good at computer networks.

We definitely have missing pieces. We don't know much about the principles of intelligence. We understand logic, but how do you get intelligence from logic? And maybe we're still missing some key technology to make it work. (Memristors? Graphene?) And once we have the principles and the technology, it'll take some engineering to make it work, but we'll make it work. We'll building thinking machines that are vastly smarter, wiser, and more clever than nature ever did.

The point is that if we ever upload a brain, it will be like building a mechanical horse -- an over-engineered gimmick, a parlor trick. We'll already have done much better at AI by approaching the problem from a different direction.

It doesn't bode well for humanity though, in the long term. Just about the only jobs left are thinking jobs. What happens when it's a waste of time for a human to think, just like it's a waste of time for a horse to pull a plow? We didn't declare war on horses, Terminator-style. We just didn't keep very many around.
You couldn't be more right. The legal advice on incorporation etc. has been a huge help.
A brief interview with Klout founder Joe Fernandez
Why would a McDonald's have security people looking for cameras?

Never been to France. Been to several McDonald's with security guards. I'm pretty sure they had CCTV. Not a front for money laundering - it was that kind of a neighborhood. Eastern Market has gentrified a bit since then ...

Anyway. A no-camera policy could be put in place to deter snoops. Guys working for the other team (Burger King). Maybe they had a bad experience with guys taking pictures of other patrons.

Ah - you're just trolling, aren't you?
Facebook has blocked imgur.com
I hope the experience using it is nothing like the unboxing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3...