skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, I find myself a lot more focused and productive in Ramadan.

Knowing that I'm not supposed to eat or drink, I don't have to think every other hour what should I gulp down my stomach. This is a distraction which is a bit difficult to get rid of in normal days.

Also, meal timings become strict which automatically instills disciplines. In normal routine I would adjust the meals by few hours just to get some part of code done. Having such flexibility also allows some buffer to visit Social Media or Hacker News. However with empty stomach, one stays relatively bound to complete the work rather than procrastinating.
This is the best side of this story. There are thousands of young companies that could show appreciation for the Facebook Platform as a whole, and the things it has enabled for their business.
I use AT&T for my iPhone but have the unlimited plan in which tethering isn't allowed. Would this FCC mandate force AT&T to remove the tethering plan as Verizon did?
Cloture vote fails on Cybersecurity Act. CISPA/CSA stalled for now
I'd like to suggest another reason for large military expenditures that have nothing to do with corruption. The US has the only two-ocean navy, and a very extensive one at that. A lot of the burden of protecting shipping lanes for members of the "global system" is covered by the States. That's really, really expensive.

Of course, that means that countries that don't want to play by US rules (North Korea, Iran, Cuba) get shafted, but it's still a better explanation of the crazy military costs than either fear or corruption.
I don't suppose anyone can comment on whether Mountain Lion has done anything for the mouse lag issue[1]?

I can't upgrade yet because I disabled HFS+ journaling and nothing seems to be able to re-enable it (the installer requires journaling to be enabled).

[1] http://d43.me/blog/1205/the-cause-for-all-your-mac-os-x-mous...
Any HIPAA compliant Dropbox alternatives out there?
The US state of Montana is slightly larger than Germany. I can't name more than one city there and many airlines don't even fly to the state. The US is really big!
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WTH is "China Cord Blood Corp" - they collect cord blood for stem cells I suppose - id be very wary of any such product like that from china, both for quality and humanitarian reasons.

Take a look at the Vice documentary on Tiger part harvesting. China states that tigers are endangered, yet there are these secret farms that breed thousands of them and the make tiger dick wine, all sorts of things with their other parts as well.

I wouldn't think any biological products being produced in china on the level.
I was really hoping this would really gain traction. Can you think of any other reasons for the slow campaign?
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll see about putting some together. Wasn't really sure about including examples as to whether it would be helpful or not...
Good luck. That looks like a terrible idea, but good luck all the same.

Please share whatever lessons you learn in marketing and promoting, of course--I know we could always use another perspective on that side of the challenge.
Because we want it to do much more, and it can only do the limited things it was designed to do 30+ years ago.
I've never used the device. I'm just making guestimates based on past experience with head-mounted displays with and without my glasses.

My eyes are about -6. There is about 1 inch in which I can focus clearly without my glasses. Nearer or farther and things get blurry. Most HMDs that I've used are at the outside of this range and are slightly blurry, but barely usable.

They're saying this one has a lens that is closer, but they don't say how far the screen is. I'm guessing the screen will be about the same distance, but the lens will be stretching the screen to wrap around your vision. There's talk about a fish-eye effect that I believe they're using to have more of the pixels in your main vision, and fewer in your periphery, since that's where yours are most sensitive.

Edit: A choice quote I found:

We played without our prescription glasses, so our vision was blurry enough that it didn't affect our gameplay. However, one of our video production members with better vision noticed the low resolution and felt it took away from the experience.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/30/3052191/doom-3-bfg-edition...
My first job out of college was at a small HFT firm. The night before rolling out my first changes is forever imprinted in my memory. Lots of tossing and turning and images of exactly this kind of disaster.
$chadenfreude
I was a skeptic before, and the first time i went into the site I realize "Man, why pinterest cant be this fun?"
Pixate promises app UI production in pure CSS
Interesting, thank you! Now to wait for it to come to the Mac. :)
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Google Chrome has added an option lately to keep running after you close the browser window. The option is called "Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed." If you click the wrench icon, there would be an option to View Background Pages.
There is really no use for immediate mode anymore; I'm of the opinion that if you lament the loss of immediate mode, you simply don't want to learn the newer, more efficient ways of doing the same thing.

Ask yourself this, if immediate mode never existed, would you still say that the ES2.0 method is still "basically impossible to learn"? I assure you that it is very possible to learn.
What extension? I was just looking for something like this.
As pointed out in the comments on the article page - programmers are actually pretty good at estimating.
They are very bad at defending their estimates, though, and are often forced to adjust down unrealistically. Which raises the question - why ask for the estimate in the first place. And the answer is "to have a scapegoat"

The manager gets credit for success, and the developers get the blame for failure.
Regal - Cross-platform OpenGL
That's because Steam isn't a Windows 8 program. If you want to use Metro you have to go through the App Store.
> What if I start a new religion which says working more than 4 hours a day is against my gods?

Then they'll pay you for four hours work. I don't think any law will force your employer to make unreasonable accommodations for you.
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This is incredibly strange.

You get back an acknowledgement with each fill. There are risk checks in place that should check whether the order was a take or add liquidity fill (as per rule 15c3-5 amongst others)

This is a risk check that should have been handled by a component which appears not to exist. They could lose FINRA and SEC authorization if it is as bad as it sounds ...
Here is the post introducing it:

https://www.opengl.org/news/permalink/introducing-regala-por...
A heuristic like "do not lose more than $100m a day" would have saved the company.
I've also had issues getting the Cloudability blog through my feed reader in the past.
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What my son's disabilities taught me about 'Having it All'
Their iPhone app used to work really well. Then, they tried to do some crazy cross platform shenanigans to keep the mobile website, iPhone, and Android versions on the same general codebase. That's when things really suffered and I've read articles saying they're ditching the cross platform stuff and going back to native. We'll see.
Robots still need a launch vehicle.
Makr is more about self expression than Canv.as. We want create simple tools using the meme mechanic to help people feel like they are actually creating stuff. Canv.as is pretty awesome, but it is strong in helping people create more traditional memes. We want people to riff and play with topics they are in to, and other people who share their interests.
I am one of the "lucky" customers who has been able to hold on to my unlimited plan. So, I'm naturally annoyed that I don't get tethering now.

"It is not clear that Verizon can differentiate between limited and unlimited plans through this interface — it might just look for a tethering plan flag. This could mean a free for all with unlimited users, tethering as they please."

I'm not sure if they're being extremely optimistic here, or I simply don't understand what the author is saying. Free for all with unlimited users? There might be some sort of technical problem to solve to prevent unlimited users from tethering, but my guess is that Verizon will do whatever it takes to force us to pay, if they can.
Facebook says that they have got over 83 million fake accounts
great idea!
facebook should pay zombie users to click on Ads.
According to these numbers, 1436 companies were accelerated with $1,176,787,411, creating 3389 jobs. Doing some simple math, these numbers suggest that, on average, each of the small businesses created just about 2.36 jobs each at an initial investment of roughly 347 thousand dollars apiece ($347,237).

I know this is a case of lies, damn lies, and statistics, but I wonder how these numbers compare -- or if it's possible to compare them -- to other other growing industries, other "job creators". (I'm _very_ skeptical of that phrase.) Is this market value for a new job? The fact that 83% of the value of investments were recouped is significant, but how significant?
Just curious: why did you disable journaling?
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Sir, I respect your sportsmanship. Challenge accepted: whatever comes of this, I'll do a post on both the technical and marketing challenges.
What is still left to be done? Google has extremely detailed mapping and the self driving car works well in real traffic. (One advantage a car has over planes is that if things go horribly wrong it can just stop.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_driverless_car

There aren't any technical unknowns left. Obviously the algorithms will continue to be tweaked and improved. Importantly it can operate in the existing environment - there is no need for every car to switch to driverless at once.
I'm sure someone will be along to correct me quick enough if I'm wrong, but last year when I was upgrading to Lion I had the same issue (journaling turned off) and was able to turn it back on with minimal pain by doing it from the Snow Leopard boot disc (Disk Utility, of course).
Parsing expressions by precedence climbing
I don't know ruby and have learned Objective-C so this makes me unfairly unhappy. It's actually pretty cool.
I think I stole "dueling robots" from tptacek or yummyfajitas, but sweaty alpha males are totally mine.

Edit to add: The dueling robot at HNsearch says a) it was tptacek and b) I should trade with it because it remembers HN comments better than I could ever hope to.
HN is truly a community of many nations, cultures, religions, etc...

I changed my schedule for the past few days and it's working very well. I get home from work at 5 or so, sleep for 1.5 hours, get up and ready myself to break fast. Afterwards I am operational until 2AM. I eat several times during this period and I go to sleep, waking up again at 8-9. (Yes, you guessed it, I am still not able to make Fajr on time).

The above beats going to sleep at 11 or 12AM then waking up at 3:30 to eat before going back to sleep.
Sorry, my point was that they picked a benchmark that was too easy. I suspect if the machine was straining to hit 60fps their results could be vastly different. That's how most games run, so that'd be more interesting to see.
PAE would definitely enable them to use all 32GBs of physical memory.

Both Windows and Linux have PAE support, but non-server editions of Windows still limit the physical address space to 4GB (although this might seem to make PAE support pointless, there are other advantages of PAE, like the NX/XD bit used for DEP).

You are also correct that the per-process limit of 4GB of virtual memory is not affected by PAE. In case the advantages of PAE once again seem pointless, remember that a system can execute multiple 32-bit programs each with its own independent address space, so you can have, in theory, eight programs each using its own 4GB on a 32GB system without running out of memory.

In practice, the platform imposes a limit of <4GB for physical memory, with the remainder used for legacy support and hardware DMA. Also, the operating system imposes a limit of <4GB for virtual memory, with the remainder used by the kernel.
The single best immediate-gratification improvement you can make to your life
Redis-powered sha cracker using node.js and lua scripting.
Immediate mode is very useful for drawing a single triangle that fully covers the viewport, something that is quite common for any sort of image processing or post processing. In these cases your performance will entirely be limited by the complexity of your fragment shader or by raw fill rate and not by the method you used to submit the vertices to the GPU.
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That assumes that software development is infinitely scalable. If you knew going into it that you couldn't make the first deadline, just start off with more programmers, right? Just like 9 women working together can produce one baby in one month, right?

Provided you have the right software developers, the product takes as much time as it takes. Managers can't "speed it up" however much they hope, pray, and wring their hands.

"Finished in time" - if the requested product can't fit in that time window, then the only thing to do is cut features. Agile teaches us that if we start with the highest value features first, we can meet any deadline by cutting features as we get there.

Throwing intense estimation to see if you can hit that "finished in time" point with a giant list of features is simply waterfall - and studies have shown that (for most software projects) waterfall cannot predict a priori whether or not you will hit a deadline.

Thus, if you're working on a project where TIME and SCOPE are fixed, you're boned to begin with. Spending a few weeks waterfalling won't get you out of it. If anything, you burned precious developer time in the process.
I see a lot of people who try and hyperlink to files on their local machine, like: <img src="C:\website\myface.jpg" />.
Linux doesn't currently support writing to journaled HFS+ volumes.
The article starts with this...."Designing a REST API is not easy. No, really! If you want to design an API the right way, you have to think a lot about everything, and either to be pragmatic or to be an API terrorist. It’s not just about GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE. In real life, you have relations between resources, the need to move a resource somewhere else (think about a tree), or you may want to set a specific value to a resource."

It seems like developers are making this too hard. At some point you're just sending data over http, so why does this have to be dogmatic and needlessly complicated just to match some mystical HATEOS spec that doesn't need to exist to get the job done?
same here, the malls open at 9:30 pm and close at 3:00 am, and they are crowded till at least 2:30 am.
There was a private market before the IPO.
Up to two weeks at a time of a total (water only) fast? I've done this before, but it was quite difficult to maintain in the midst of work pressures and I'm curious to know how you manage it.
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>Also another little thing. This entire blog post was written using the dictation feature in Mountain Lion.

So that explains the mistakes in the post I was wondering about. For example:

>(not that I wouldn’t I love parks).
This is interesting, but let me give you the perspective of someone who is red-green colorblind (though, I just noticed I can't see anything in this image that's supposed to test for Deuteranopia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Colorblind4.png - but testing for colorblindness on a computer monitor is far from accurate).

It's not that big of a deal.

Really. On the list of things to worry about in your web or software development, I'd place "worrying about how colorblind people see my website" pretty darn near the bottom.

Here's a comprehensive list of the ways that my disability has caused me to suffer:

* I'm really awful at picking strawberries and cherries. Dark red fruit against green foliage does not stand out at all to me the way it seems to for other people. Before she knew I was colorblind, my mother just thought I was lazy and/or eating all the fruit I was supposed to be picking.

* Occasionally, I'll buy/wear clothes that don't match. Because I think they're brown, but really they're a subtle shade of green.

* Sometimes, I'll call something brown or grey or blue that's really red or green, and people will find it hilarious.

* When people learn that I'm colorblind, they spend several minutes pointing at things and saying, "Can you see that? What color is it?".

Really, that's about it.

I vary rarely come across things on my computer screen where the functionality is impeded by my inability to distinguish color. Though, I've got to admit, the BBC's football table example is a pretty great example: http://wearecolorblind.com/example/bbc-online-football-table...

I suspect that things are different for people with different levels of colorblindness, but then you're talking about ~1% or less of the population.
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Sharp Says It Will Begin Shipping New iPhone Display This Month
>They're fast enough for everything I do

Waay to slow for gaming (I tried HoN and NVN) also WebGL was really slow (software rendering kind slow), since this is a thread about games I think this use case is required - I didn't try the OSS drivers in ~6 months so it could have changed. But Gnome/desktop was really stable so if you only need desktop apps it does work.
Extremely many congratulations! Now get some sleep.
Buying high and selling low, several times per second for hours, seems like a glitch. That's not a "bad call" or even an insane call, that's a systematic, continuous destruction of value.
Fasting is a mental exercise rather than anything else.
Does the "wisdom of the crowds?" help in this case?

At the company I just did a project for, there were no requirements that weren't vague general statements, only "bugs" that are discovered after the fact. Discovery after playing with the app is fine, but calling it a bug is not. Also, all estimates were done on the spot or on short notice (as if they were "bugs.")

Even worse, it turns out that there is a lot of knowledge about requirements and use cases, but it only comes out in the form of "this is a bug because..."

You can think of this as "avoiding documentation through blame."
Bingo, and this is the main reason for the downfall of our world.
They're probably very close to hanging from a thick rope.
No HTTPS? Would that be difficult to add?
Unfortunately that just gets me a helpful "Journaling could not be enabled". I guess something got messed up when I was writing to the volume from Linux.
I think his point is that if the unread books are right in front of you for months at a time, they are a constant reminder that you mean to get around to reading them, but never do.

Which is something I definitely agree with. I used to have books lying around my room. Not only were they visual clutter, but I would get in the habit of picking one up, flipping through the pages, and then getting distracted with another book. Ever since I started keeping all my books in my bookshelf though, I've been much better at focusing on just one and finishing it before moving on to the next.
The size of your page file isn't a sign of a performance problem. What matters is how often your paging out and in between disk and memory. That will result in a huge slow down in human-perceived performance.

The OP (and others, including myself) have observed a noticeable drop in the delays caused by frequent paging in and out. I checked and my pagefile is the same size as on Lion. Perhaps ML is still paging frequently, but if so, they've found a way to do it so that I'm not noticing it. Everything just feels faster compared to Lion.
>The fact that you're saying that you're still having this problem now is not making me feel any happier.

TBH I also gave up about a month and a half ago it could have changed recently but I doubt it.
That would have to be something else. The effect of an extra cone on watching TV should be far less severe than a normal eye's view of black and white.
Another useless paper. The deep call stack problem exists in any kind of parallelism. And use multiple processes can be safer but the complexity is actually the same.
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Terminology quibble: you don't mean "immediate mode" in the sense it's been used in the community. OpenGL is still an immediate mode API under all circumstances. There is no scene graph. I probably should have said "streamed vertex" or "begin/end" to make things clearer.

Did you learn ES2 (i.e. create a buffer object, fill it, pass in attribute pointers, goof up the stride values, do it again, draw)? Or did your first triangle come out via begin/vertex/vertex/vertex/end?
Are you sure that's not your sleep image?
Yup, memory management seemed to be fixed as of 10.7.4 even.

I've found new bug in ML, whenever I switch users, Mountain Lion seems to think I've a desktop much smaller than what I actually have. And sometimes the "virtual" desktop isn't even positioned at 0,0 on my actual desktop. :-/
Nope. AT&T's spectrum is not subject to the open access restrictions (and the iPhone, not being LTE at present, would not be subject to it anyway).
"4 hours: This is probably the only realistic estimation. It is large enough to have some margin for unexpected problems, while the task is still small enough to grasp."

1. Estimate everything in 4 hour increments
2. 100% accurate estimates
3. Pizza party
He would not have sold it, nor would he have joined facebook 5 years ago.
13" MacBookPro - Power Nap is not supported. Though it is certainly behaving as though it's turned on (power-wise).
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