skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't feel comfortable personally adding other peoples companies without their permission, so I don't advocate it; but the "approval process" is just me clicking "Approve".

So, that being said, if you'd like to add companies of friends/contacts, and feel ok signing up "for" them, feel free!
A little more conversation a little less action
I think these illustrations hit closer to reality than the predictions from the sci-fi authors we just read about in the recent HN post "1987 Time Capsule Predictions by Sci-Fi Writers About 2012"
Or use incognito windows. But yeah I see how that makes it less convenient.
Squaresoft already has it running on Android (and Tegra 3, like in the Ouya), so I doubt it requires much effort on their part. Having Sq's name on board will definitely help PR on both sides though, making homebrew titles more likely.
Your brain peaks at 20, what to do
Twitter adds clickable stock symbols
I just picked a line out of the area to point to. I'll pose a few questions that go into more about why I believe this is code that isn't straightforward and in general a bad reference point for a beginner:

* Can you tell me why that entire block of code gets dispatched to one queue then right into the main queue?

* Can you tell me what queue the animation completion blocks run on and why it might matter?

* Can you tell me what queue the network request runs on?

* Do you think the animation completes before the network request finishes? Can you tell me why/why not?

* What happens if the network request fails?
The wording in this title has been changed to imply that it was an over-reaction. If you look at the actual title and what was said it wasn't 'criticising Olympic Athlete'
I started a weekly newsletter that provides design-related articles and tips: http://seriffed.com

Like you, I wanted to improve my design skills, so I coded this up over several weekends.
The problem is that the analysis can't measure logged out accounts. Instead, they measure activity. From the article:

...active in this sense means the number of accounts that were
modified over a three-month period, including changes of avatar,
subscribing to a new follower or tweeting, says Guyot.
“We believe this is close to a monthly login rate,” he tells me.

So they are assuming if you haven't done anything, you aren't logged in.
I rarely tweet and I don't think I've ever changed my avatar. I do follow or unfollow accounts, but I'm pretty sure I could find a few three months spans in my account history where I haven't.

I generally check Twitter a couple of times a day from a logged in account, but based on the above criteria I would be considered 'inactive'.
I have 6 accounts, and use just 1, and that too once every 2-3 months.

I'm guessing the active accounts follow a Zipfian distribution; and probably the most active ones are bots and corporate accounts (managed by teams of people).
For More Pianos, Last Note Is Thud in the Dump
One advantage of logic in the DB:  PHP classes for LedgerSMB under development.
And also in the "open source definition" that can be used to judge whether something is free software or not

It can not. The definition are very similar, but they're still distinct.

If you want to judge whether something is Free Software, you need to read the source: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
FF3 is going to be coming to Android, Ouya or no.
What is the editor / configuration used in the video ?
Crowdsourced photos coming from Aleppo, Syria.
I think OP was trying to remark that France now is nothing like the France the artist drew from in 1900. Which is true, but it's also true of every place on the planet. This speaks more to the resiliency of nations than anything else.
When committing long term to Windows Desktop development, why would one choose the learning curve of a framework outside the Microsoft toolchain? It seems to me that choosing a multiplatform tool chain for Windows development is somewhat likely to be premature optimization (most things be equal).

I'd add that unless there is a compelling set of legacy code, win32 and MFC are not really serious options to .NET.

On the other hand, forms is an option to WFC for a minimum viable product - but not once UX design rises in importance. Early on, I would say that WFC v. Forms is purely down to investment in the learning curve.
Holding someone else's encrypted data without it being anonymous doesn't sound like a problem that needs to be solved. Also, the UK has crazy encryption laws which could open any user to very bad incarcerations. Makes stealing music off of Pirate Bay or Napster look like Jay walking.
Unfortunately I haven't found any similar at http://vimcolorschemetest.googlecode.com/svn/html/index-html...
I feel like something similar could have been said about Xmonad. Yet, through its configuration and extension mechanisms, it's become a gateway for a lot of people wanting to learn Haskell. This niche isn't likely to fragment as long as it's made up people obsessively scratching their own itches.
Looks like tmux + vim, using the Solarized Dark theme.
I want to solve this problem.
Probably not.

The non-repudiable tracing of exchanges make it easy to trace consumers of a piece of data.

See their note:

In this regard the anonymity guarantees of the Cryptosphere are no different from a system like BitTorrent, aside from the plausible deniability defense that comes from the fact all content is encrpyted and peers automatically provide storage service to other peers.
Two Different Views On Potential
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This article isn't about bots. The 80% bot stuff was from a different article posted yesterday.
The title here is no reflection on what subsequently happened. This was no mere "criticism." After the initial tasteless and insensitive tweet there came an outpouring of vile, abusing, threatening, and downright nasty material.

This has been submitted here a couple of times[1][2], but the mainstream press haven't included anything but the most mild of the tweets. Copies exist elsewhere of some truly disgusting sentiments.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4316070

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4316294

I have more references if you want.

Edited for grammar and spelling.
Power outages hit 600 million in India for second day
I gathered the vim part. Is he pressing a separate key to run the stuff in the lower-right window or is there a vim hook to do that automatically?
they were client orders. their clients wanted to buy FB
An official partnership means they'll probably work together to make it go beyond "it works" to make it a great experience that brings out the best of Ouya platform, e.g. make use of hatever social features, game controller tweaks, settings are available to make it a proper showcase.
(1) It was smoked by Chinese railroad workers and used as an excuse for how "lazy immigrants" were taking American jobs

(2) Hemp fiber was a serious competitor to synthetic fibers being produced by chemical companies.

(3) Henry Ford had built a car entirely out of hemp, and then used hemp as the fuel for the car in order to demonstrate how viable the product could be for the automotive industry (which threatened big oil).

(4) Harry J. Anslinger & William Randolf Hearst and their support from dupont, big pharma, the timber industry, and their control of the media and representation in politics.

There's really so much to the story that it's nearly impossible to write it all down in one place, but it's a subject that's definitely worth researching.
I have no sympathy. Why didn't he complain when other companies died when Twitter/FB/Craigslist took away their business model?

It's not about Twitter killing the little guy, or stealing a feature from a startup. It's about you making less money. Cry me a river.
When I was learning iOS development I found it hard to find full, modern example applications out there in the wild like this to learn from. Does anybody know of any more?
As an ex-physicist, I think this is very good to keep young minds that would be lured away from physics by the higher salaries elsewhere.

However, having visited IAS, where 4/9 of those guys are faculty I believe they are probably the ones who least need it.

They already are at the top of their career, they've secured a position in one of the most prestigious institutions in the world and they have amazing material conditions. They don't need to take students (they are actually discouraged to do so) and they have access to the most amazing cafeteria!

I'm also pretty sure that the prestige of the institution lands them some pretty good speaking gigs and consulting jobs on top of all that.

I don't mean to sound sour-grapey, but please give this money to people for whom this might actually make a big difference.
I've thought about solving this problem too.

One idea I've had is a content-type-restricted network that permits only text. That would allow utterly un-censorable communications: chat, planning revolutions, whatever, but wouldn't be useful for CP. (Unless you like ASCII-art CP.)

It could support ANSI. That would be neato. It would feel like the old BBS world. Wonder if anyone would still care if a name like ViSiON-X were stolen for it. :)
My motorola atrix has a fingerprint reader to unlock it, and it is one of my favorite features. Very fast, relatively accurate, unlock my phone without looking at the screen.
NYSE only? Or does it also link to Tokyo / London / Frankfurt / Hong Kong / etc stocks as well?
http://www.defconpunjab.com/team.html it really feels like a bad movie cast
"It is one of the 2 choices of DE's for Linux Mint which is one of the most popular Linux distros out right now."

Thats not quite true, Mint was one of the most (independently & newly) downloaded distros on several distro watch lists in recent months. If you consider most popular to mean largest install/use base, then it isn't.
If he _actually_ cares about the children he'll do something about it, like acting against child abuse in his community, rather than caring if CP is somehow encrypted in data located on his computer.
If you could install a sudo plugin to my browser when I install your game would imply that I could have also installed a sudo plugin. If I (a non-root) user can do that, you already have a problem. (I am assuming you mean a sudo plugin that does not need a password to root)
The big problem here isn't detecting bots. Sure, in this one company's case bots may be the problem; but in general, it's detecting behavior that you are paying for that doesn't make you any money. There may be real users who click "like" a lot; they may do it because they're paid, or they may do it because they're bored and trying to see how many "likes" they can collect. It doesn't really matter; none of them are very valuable to an advertiser.

Rather than trying to explicitly filter bot traffic, they should try to quantify the value of particular "likes". For instance, a user who demonstrably clicked through and purchased something is much more valuable than one who "likes" 10,000 companies and has no friends, whether or not they're a bot.

And heck; a bot that has thousands of followers who all buy lots of things is valuable too. Maybe someone created a particularly effective meme-generator bot, and people who follow that bot are likely to buy ironic T-shirts. Whether or not a user is a bot isn't all that relevant; it's whether that user's activity correlates with you making sales.
...everyone knows child porn is bad. It's existence though, does not negate the usefulness of a system. Not that cryptosphere is going to be the open government revolution, but your comment is a useless vomit of emotional blather.
Skype and online privacy - Called out
couldn't you just encode the images into text?
Usenet was text only and it let to the widespread use of UUENCODED images and videos
“You are not Banksy” by Nick Stern
No place in Europe is now like it were in the 1900s, but France's Paris is pretty damn close ;)
But couldn't one always use some binary-to-ascii encoding to circumvent this?
His logic is perfectly valid for justifying is own feelings about it.

But his reason for getting up in arms about other people doing things differently seems to just be that he's a nosy noser who can't keep his nose out of what goes on among consenting adults in situations that don't really involve him.

(edit: Well, that and if he changed his tack his career would be over. Having chosen to make his living on the lecture circuit rather than getting paid to write software, he's essentially relinquished his freedom to re-examine or temper his own opinions. At least not publicly.)
Call me disenchanted, but Square ports to iOS have been little more than bald, lazy attempts to cash in on years-old, sometimes decade-old properties. And I'm not talking about the original games, I'm talking about the ports (usually for PS1/2/X and Nintendo handhelds) being 10+ years old. Virtually every Square iOS port so far has dismal controls and little thought given to adapting to touch-based conventions...Making Retina-optimized text is about the biggest adaptation they've managed.

For these properties, they charge premium-based prices. For iOS, they don't make them universal...which as a business decision is fine, if unpopular. But they delay the iPad versions for months for inexplicable reasons, but I guess there will be fans who'll pay another $10+ for the new version.

So I don't think the porting of FF3, widely considered one of the worst of the early Final Fantasies, to be much more than another cash-in by Square.

* as cdr noted, the language to market this Ouya port is a bit hyped and misleading: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4317397
It depends whether the bots are creating accounts or hijacking existing ones (via browser plugins or whatnot).

The bots will not be able to get accurate statistics without paying, but they might be able to get "good enough" statistics. For example, is the system moving in a direction we like.

If you do need to pay , a good bot herder probably has enough stolen credit cards to use.

Yes, there are certainly mitigation techniques. But like other spam/bot related problems it becomes an arms race.

You only need 1 good bot programmer to release his bot online for thousands of budding script kiddies to take advantage of.
No one commented on this, but I wanted to say thanks for posting this!
You can still encode any data as base64.

Usenet shows this kind of thing in action. It's now used for the most part for illegal file trading.
Okay, I'll re-state it technically:

How do we design a system that is anonymous and un-censorable where users can opt out of being relays for certain types of data?

Hard problem. Trying to solve it would be interesting. Not trying to solve it would make you identical to FreeNet and Tor and all the other efforts in this area, and thus less interesting.

I agree that there is no 100% solution to this problem, since all data can be converted to any format. There is also no 100% solution to pollution in a city, for example, or public health, or usability of a GUI. But there are 90% solutions that could make the problem marginal rather than severe.

BTW, on my "emotional vomit:"

Tell me. If these networks are for real human beings to engage in open communication, what happens when one of these real human beings comes across... say... a picture of a little girl being cooked over an open fire like a pig. (I didn't see this, but I was discussing the Tor .onion network on Reddit and someone claimed they came across this. I believe them.) Do you really think that person is going to return to this network to discuss... say... politics or economics or their local election?

It is a problem. To strip away the "emotional vomit," let's call it a usability problem. How do we make a freenet that is usable for non-psychopaths?

Edit: what I'm really saying is this:

Freenets have been done. It's a solved problem. Add some PK crypto and some hashing and some onion routing and shake.

What isn't a solved problem is: make a darknet/freenet that your mom would feel comfortable using. Make one that your average person -- maybe one with kids and thus really turned off by CP -- would want to one-click install from the Mac app store and browse.

THAT would make a serious political impact. Now you'd have hordes of average people using an utterly uncensorable chat system that was also hard to data-mine and tie to identity.

Right now, most people are going to start browsing the offerings that already exist (Tor is pretty easy to set up) and see stuff like "world's largest archive of hard-core lolita!", close the app, delete it, and never return. That's why these networks are not very popular, and it severely limits their political impact.
Ask HN: Can I get an internship while taking time off from school?
I spent 2 years studying computer science but I couldn't afford to attend my school anymore, so now I'm taking a year off. Honestly, I don't know whether I want to go back.<p>Can I find an internship in my situation or should I be looking for a full-time position?
For that I think he's using Guard (https://github.com/guard/guard/)
This is exciting to see. Updating the project on its previous Mercury setup on Google Code was never a pleasant experience, especially with the various branches going on.

GitHub will make it a lot easier for people to contribute to HTML5Rocks, whether it's full articles or typo fixes.

A nice touch is that this is hosted on a new https://github.com/html5rocks account, rather than https://github.com/GoogleChrome.
Classic linkbait title. Apple wants no such thing. They just acquired a biometrics company, and the rest is ITWorld speculation.
FF3? I thought FF7 was the one widely regarded as a classic?
How you use a CDN is site-specific. Some people still need to serve hundreds of thousands of requests via a caching frontend layer separate from their CDN origin. It's silly to assume you will never need a fast web server, because unless you aren't serving dynamic content, you will be serving content yourself and the rate will be consistent with the number of users, among other things.

Using a CDN does not actually simplify production deployment, it complicates it. It's an extra layer of complexity, and one you don't know very much about since it isn't your gear. You need an API hook (or a web interface) to invalidate old content when you publish new content. You need a contact with whom you can figure out why a tenth of your users can't route to the CDN all of a sudden, but can route to you. You need to get all your headers right so you don't accidentally push an invalidate to all content and kill your slow-ass origin with new traffic.

Finally, as someone else mentioned, using a framework webserver for production is A Bad Idea(TM). Only one of the reasons why is poor performance. Several others are security, compatibility, cache control, access control, privilege separation, stability, high-availability, virtual hosting, and about a billion other features that webservers have been designed to handle for decades that you will need to reinvent the wheel for with your application framework, which was never intended to be a webserver.

The reason your framework has a webserver is it's the simplest way to get the dynamic content from the app server to the frontend proxy. For example, AJP is such a huge pain in the ass that most Tomcat admins I know use http to communicate between app server and frontend (and it's more compatible). But would they use Tomcat as their production server? Not if they wanted to stay sane.
What makes you say that Adam Curtis is not widely respected? By whom?
Sony “Actively Investigating” Jelly Bean Update For Xperia 2011 Smartphones
The Final Fantasy III remake port (as in III by the japanese numbering, not american III which was VI) has been out for awhile already on Android. It really works pretty decently for being on a phone/tablet, I recommend checking it out if you can stomach $15.99:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.square_eni...

The game is a port of the DS remake to begin with, I doubt "coming to Ouya" is much more work than maybe adding controller support to the Android build.

It looks like SquareEnix just released FFI also.
There's a lot of flying in these pictures.
Sure, but I'm not talking about how effective his teaching is. I'm simply addressing the technical definition of slope.

I am perfectly fine with Khan teaching it as "rise/run". I thought criticizing this was silly on Karim's part. But then Khan was the one who came back to argue that his definition was correct and Karim's was wrong. I think Khan's wrong here and shouldn't have even engaged in such a trivial dispute...
Yep "including clients of our wealth management businesses."

The people running the UBS wealth management business need to be terminated. This is most likely the catalyst for why UBS is actually suing. Rest of the "clients" who did no research and just bought into the hype are just along in the lawsuit for the ride.
Planned vs. Random Leisure
Yes, which is why you keep humans in the loop: you design a system in which the will of humans who want the system to be used only for text prevails and which is resistant to attack by humans with contradictory agendas.
I am somewhat confused why you would trust tests for edge cases sufficiently strongly so as to distrust an implementation without any; edge cases should be proved from first principals, as you can't possible test all of them.
"The failure on Tuesday affected roughly twice as many people as the massive power outage the previous day, when the northern power grid failed and left more than 300 million people without power for several hours. No official reason for the Monday’s failure has been given, although some local news reports pointed fingers at state governments which were overdrawing power."

600 Million - compare this to the 1.5 million users in California that were impacted by controlled blackouts (that were also communicated in advance) of 2-3 hours during the California Electricity crisis (mostly driven by Enron's market manipulation) of 2000/2001.

This is history happening.
Not terribly surprising. Back when I worked at MSFT, I spent ~3 months (and had two other developers and a couple of build engineers working with me) taking our 3 _day_ build and getting it down to ~12 hours. But, that was several times larger than this system (even then), and it was about 7 years ago.

And it had to support all sorts of weird things such as "which compiler do you use to build the compiler; the compiler you just built, the compiler you last used, or the compiler we last shipped?" for a very large configuration of compilers, runtime platforms, etc.
Surely the first place to start is Jakob Nielsen's http://www.useit.com

Ignore the ugliness and you'll find practical advice in the reports and Alertbox articles although his opinions are sometimes controversial and shouldn't necessarily be followed to the letter. Nevertheless they'll undoubtedly increase your awareness of the variety of user types out there and encourage you to think from their perspective, which is ultimately what good UI design is all about.
Chris - can you elaborate a bit more on this newsletter? What sort of content it covers, how you source data, etc.? Just signed up and am interested to learn more.

Thanks!
The problem is thinking that there is a way. You can't. Data can easily be obfuscated. As long as bits are flowing through your machine from sources that you don't control, you could be middle man to anything.
Tried it with the Hong Kong exchange, didn't work. I'm guessing it's NYSE only right now.
Which differs from non-free software how?
Believe it or not the series contains more than one "classic" game. You're right that FF7 is the most popular though; presumably they went with FF3 for its lower performance requirements.
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