skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
App.net will be funded.
Although App.net still needs to raise 10.6% of their goal and 51 hours doesn't sound like much time, it makes up 6.9% of the total time they've had to raise their goal.

You may have already heard from folks familiar with Kickstarter that contributions on campaigns like this one tend to spike at the beginning and end. As a result, there has been significant momentum building up just in the last couple of days.

Specifically, App.net has added approximately $45,000 in backing in just the last 12 hours. With only $53,000 left to raise, it's hard to see how they won't do it in the next 51 hours.
Increasing the accessibility of Git isn't treason. Quite the opposite: Git is now used by far more developers. That's a win for the "Git way of life."

And the original, "expert" workflow is still available for those who want it.
Hah. Very nice :) But yeah, it's hard to talk about vim without coming across as some kind of religious fanatic joining a new cult.

Your link maybe does the best job I've ever seen. This is day 1:

*monday*
“eclipse sure is neat.”
“but that weird guy with the neckbeard at work looks really fast with vim,
I should try it!”
“alright! I got gvim. this doesn’t look bad. there are even menus!!!”
“wait what? where’d my text go? wait. undo. no.”
“:help”
“:q!!!!!”
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revels in the opiatic relief of autocompleting boilerplate
in eclipse for the rest of the day
sometimes there are prices that are set by the bosses for what can be bought without putting in for budget approval.

For instance they have a credit card that they are authorised for charges up to $4800, but anything over $4800 has to go through budget approval, that could take up to a year to get.

Ask questions why they need it and then you can negotiate. If this is the case then ask them if you can charge them $4800 for the device and invoice them $300 separately for delivery or something like that.
So, as Steve mentions in his post, Grok already exists. It's designed to work with all editors, including IDEs. IDEs exhibit ... how shall I say ... interesting failure modes ... on the Google codebase. Grok will benefit users of Eclipse and IntelliJ as much as it will benefit users of Emacs and Vim.

Also worth noting: he is pretty knowledgeable about IDEs too. Why do you think he isn't?

Finally, I wouldn't count on Grok being canceled.
I had forgotten just how much I hate java namespaces.

import edu.syr.pcpratts.rootbeer.testcases.rootbeertest.serialization.MMult;

This seems like a pretty amazing project if the claims are true, though - I wasn't aware that CUDA was able to express so many of the concepts used to implement Java applications. The performance data in the slides is certainly compelling!
Incidentally, check out how Java indexing is implemented in Grok :)
this P.S. is brilliant. If it's a bargain then you may think about increasing your prices?
Seems much nicer than coding directly for CUDA or OpenCL
My first ever programming job was a Tapestry 3 project. I had just finished computer school and had a strong understanding of Java but no field experience. We were using Tapestry and Cayenne (an ORM) and this whole, molasses-slow catastophe in the making, was my first introduction to the life of a professional coder. I still have strong paranoia and anxiety about any magical behaviour. But then the project went from v3 to v4 and everything broke. Zero backwards compatibility. Well - a bit dramatic. Nothing could be _trusted_ to work properly.

Tapestry is a reimagined WebObjects framework, and the company I worked for originally specialised in these systems, so it was natural for them to pick Tapestry. I also did a lot of translating/transplanting code from a WebObjects system to a Tapestry 4 system and everything the parent says was true for me. Work on a single component is spread across a minimum of three files, sometimes four, and there is a lot of magic which makes debugging (something you'll have to do a lot) a nightmare. I suspect Tap5 is incompatible and a wholly different beast to Tap4, but to this day I never want to work on a Java based web framework. Give me a pile of rotten php spaghetti any day of the week.

That said, I'm loving Clojure and might investigate Noir at some point in the future.
Hell, it's difficult enough to make happen on purpose.
I think it's possible that the above comment about the middleware had to do with the fact that afaik, most middleware implementations are chained so if one fails then the next is never called.
Most rules tend to break down if you take them to extremes. ;) If I really don't feel capable of working out I don't, but if I just feel really crummy I'll at least try to do a reduced workout. Quite often, once I get into it, I have no trouble finishing.
Not that I'm against compatibility or that I'm in love with Github, but what about having one place where you track most/all of your OSS project of interest? Integrated issue tracker? Ability to collaboratively work with people across the planet with line by line comments? The value of having entire communities completely familiar with a common platform to collaborate on?

Github can and should further improve its relevance while becoming increasingly compatible and just right. But I fail to see how whipping up a self operated server replaces all of that.

I don't even want to mention backups, security updates, power interruptions...
Google Testing Reader Subscriptions in Search Results
The endless legions of idiots are actually right. The sensor on Curiosity is of much power resolution than that of the iPhone. The way (as has been explained a million times now) that Curiosity gets a high resolution image is by splicing multiple images together. Just like a panoramic, or how professional photographers photograph artwork.

Obviously had the sensor been more modern the image would have had better dynamic range and less noise. However, as with the resolution issue, these problems are mitigated by the fact that what Curiosity is point it's lens at isn't moving, because resolution, noise and dynamic range can all be addressed by taking multiple images and joining them all together.

I hope this helps explain so we don't have to go through this again.
That's the thing, though -- nearly every app they release is fairly generic. Not bad in a vacuum, but the apps got a ton of competitors and they didn't differentiate themselves.

It also doesn't help that the exact functionality of their most famous app (EasyTether) has been baked into the OS since ICS (and similar functionality has been in since Froyo), and their second most famous app (WordFeud) relies somewhat on network effects and has been mostly supplanted by Words With Friends.
At first glance this seems very impressive.
If that is the thesis, then his example of gmail is strange. After all, he uses fetchmail, alpine, mutt and Thunderbird to use the service. I strongly doubt that gmail has every single feature of mutt in their web UI!
I wonder if this is as big a win as it sounds. Regardless of what language you're using, you have to "think GPU" to get any performance from GPUs. The additional overhead of using CUDA/OpenCL syntax seems pretty small in comparison.
>Found that men who ran two or more marathons per year were 41 percent less likely to suffer from high blood pressure, 32 percent less likely to have high cholesterol, and 87 percent less likely to be diabetic than non-marathoners.

Isn't it obvious selection bias? People with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and with diabets do not run marathones.

>Americans are more into protein and more into weightlifting than any other nation I've ever seen.

Same is true for refined sugars and completely unhealthy standart eating choices. If you walk into non high-end supermarket a-la Whole Foods or PPC it's just hard, and in some categories impossible, to buy healthy food.
I agree with you about the 5/10 year deal, but I think it needs to be said why Facebook will survive, and why Xanga, MySpace and Digg did not.

All of the latter three sites did multiple things wrong:

1. Fail to compete with competitors
3. Fail to build a community

Issue 1 manifested itself differently for each site. Xanga couldn't keep up with LiveJournal, which not only arrived on the scene after Xanga but out-innovated them as well. MySpace was a clusterfuck of design and functionality that got stale while Facebook was improving constantly. Digg ignored the hell out of its users and simply had nothing compelling vs Reddit.

Also, none of the sites pulled in people and kept them. The narrative for MySpace users was that people were becoming "friends" with hundreds of people who they did not know. It doesn't take a genius to realize that this essentially invalidates the whole point of a social network. Xanga never got a large audience and also suffered from the same problem of anonymous users. Digg? Digg never even really tried. Shouts were pathetic.

Facebook solved these problems. While MySpace appeared to do nothing after News Corp acquired them, Facebok kept changing the site in a very public way--and even when they got negative publicity (e.g. privacy settings), they made sure that people knew they were actively developing the site. Additionally, users on Facebook know the people in their network, and users are constantly given a reason to come back (communicate with your friends! apps! interact with companies!). Faceboook survived because they made it clear that they are the best game in town.
I agree. I ran a company with a name similar to ChicagoSpanishTutor and literally four out of five people remembered it incorrectly. No use fighting, just find a better name or make some change on your part that makes it easier to remember.
'Grok in fullness' doesn't make much sense with the current definition in use but is perhaps the critical usage in the book.
I see your point, but for many people they don't want to setup their own webserver. Not everyone has the same skillsets - and often they don't want the hassle of troubleshooting their server when it does go down.

Horses for courses really :-)
Yes, I buy into the "eat less, move more" idea. But then, I'm a physicist and I believe in the laws of thermodynamics.

I am in complete agreement with you that starvation diets, fad diets, and other cook-book regimens are likely to result in failure. The point I was trying to convey was that this failure comes from the fact that it takes willpower to follow these, while you're much more likely to succeed if you try to form habits that don't require willpower to follow. I was borderline obese once myself, but I never followed any specific diets or regimens. I just learned healthy habits.

Exercise is absolutely crucial for good health. Just being skinny doesn't necessarily make you healthy. Perhaps there was less focus on exercise in the past because people were, on average, much more active in their daily jobs. Today, paper-pushers really need to exercise to be healthy.
µTorrent actually does provide a paid version: http://www.utorrent.com/utorrent-plus/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_client...

If you feel the urge to switch. (I like Transmission -- clean, efficient, great as a daemon + web interface).
Starting Tuesday, (when my first Macbook arrives!) I will be going through this course and posting my daily results and thoughts on my blog, which I will also set up on Tuesday.

I currently am slightly comfortable with Python, I have gone through some C tutorials, and I will keep going through OOP tutorials until Tuesday.

I plan on spending 10+ hours a day on this until I finish the course and feel comfortable enough to create my first app, which will be the next step.
No surprise here, really.

uTorrent went downhill steadily after it got bought by BitTorrent. The original uT was beautiful in its well-thought minimalist design and lean code. The first thing BitTorrent did was they messed with the UI. Then started bundling some BS features like streaming, ratings and so on. And an elegant, simple, yet intricate piece of software started crumbling. I used to give uT as an example of really good software design and execution, but sadly it's no more... time for a rewrite it seems :)
Farmer arrested for asking questions in public
I am making a language learning HTML5 game using the Kinect through the Zigfu API.
You find similarly named namespaces, packages, modules in most languages that support modules.

Don't blame the language for what some guys do with them.
How is it derivative of Angry Birds? I don’t get that. Because there is a bird in it? That just makes no sense.
Winterton comes across as a big of a jerk if you ask me. Without the photographer taking the photo initially and then a year later returning to the same spot and capturing this insect there would have been no discovery. Fair enough Guek not some recognition and has his name published co-author in a scientific journal, but seems like the importance of Guek is lost here.

All the scientist did was go, "Compare to any other lacewings we have on record, if no match, new species. Presto, new species give me my accolades" - the bug should have been named after Guek not Winterton's daughter.
A comparison with AMD's Java offering, Arapi (http://developer.amd.com/zones/java/aparapi/pages/default.as...), would be interesting.
It does seem then that it will not currently target YouTube or Vimeo, good point.

However, what if in a year copyright holders decide that sending takedowns directly to google.com is better for some reason? (Due for example to some technical legal matter.) Do you honestly think that if that happened, Google would demote YouTube?

That's the conflict of interest, and it's the first big issue here.

The second big issue is that there are lots of takedowns for YouTube. They just go to YouTube currently and not to Google directly. But if the principle of the matter were valid - if a site that had a lot of actual takedown notices, i.e., evidence that infringing content goes up on them, were a site worthy of demotion - then in principle, it should not matter where the takedowns go. It is their existence that matters. But they are being ignored for the biggest content uploading site on the web, YouTube, owned by Google - making the demotion of any site that ends up demoted by this new policy highly ironic.
Server died. Here's the Google cache version:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-UXdDxO...
Lacking depth and loving it?
"When it comes to weight loss, creating a caloric deficit is the most important thing that matters; eating less, not moving more, is the most realistic way to do so."

What? Please read Gary Taubes "Good Calories, Bad Calories" or "Why we get fat". He is one of the leading thinkers in nutrition and is worshipped by other gurus like Tim Noakes (who wrote the runners bible Lore of Running). Taubes spends the first third of "Why we get fat" rebuking this "first law of thermodynamics" approach to dieting.

I'd also argue that nutrition today is evolving from an anecdotal approach to what works e.g. Dr Atkins discovering that if he eats meat-only he gets thin, to a science based approach where we are beginning to understand the profound effect insulin has on fat storage and why dietary fat does not make you fat.

Reddit is a great resource for new data, but not a source. It does however have some amazing pointers. Another case in point is the cult of Mark Rippetoe fans on Reddit and the AMA that Rip did on Reddit a while ago which was awesome. [Rippetoe is pretty much God in strength training circles and his book "Starting Strength" is the strength training bible.]
> Dietary cholesterol - probably not as bad as previously assumed, but having >6 eggs a week actually increases your risk of heart disease/events.

Do you have a reference? I've been unable to find one (or for that matter, anyone who's actually seen one). I have found examples to the contrary: e.g. http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f15/88-year-old-man-eats-25-eg... (anecdote aside, it has other references as well)
Though "Cold Fusion" has become such a negative "career killer" term, there is definitely something interesting going on in that space with Palladium, heavy-water and non-chemical reactions.
A few brave souls[1] have pretty much endangered their respectable careers to investigate further why there is anomalous production of heat and Neutrons in some cases and not in others.

Many people are quick to dismiss it and claim it as Quackery. However Fleischmann deserves at least some credit for bringing this phenomenon into the mainstream. Though his grandiose claims might have done irreparable harm to the cause of on-going experimentation.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McKubre
BTW, You don't have to use rizzoma source. We publish it just because people ask.

English version for our rich editor will be launched after supporting of most browsers be ready.
Perhaps, agree to their price if they commit to buying several units?
Great, now I'll expect entire search results to disappear completely when a company tells Google that they own something.
I'm not saying people have no need of knowledge, just that acquiring the knowledge you need is generally a lot easier than finding ways to actually make yourself put it into practice on a long-term basis.
JSNetworkX: NetworkX ported form Python to Javascript
Its pretty cool. Of course you are probably using that GPU in a desktop, but an on die GPU in a server class machine? Something to consider.
as a user its hard to disagree. so here i go looking for "new stuff" in the google play ... and its always the same tops. in searches or anywhere else.

So i go on the web making random searches for new games & apps but it's neither convenient neither all that successful either (its mostly spam sites as in sites made to rank high with crappy content)
Just a guess: The weaker gravity (around 1/3 of Earth's gravity) makes it much easier for wind to pick dust off the ground. Once a dust storm starts, it would also take a lot longer for the cloud of dust to dissipate.

Look at the videos of astronauts on the moon from the Apollo landings. Everything they do kicks up a significant amount of dust that takes quite a while to dissipate. Obviously it's not a perfect comparison because the moon has weaker gravity and a different composition.
Charismatic? Seems a bit generous. Panda bears are charismatic.
heh.. Yeah, That's what I meant. I typed that on my phone.. The autocorrect seems to have gotten the better of me.
It's really not a problem when IDEs like Eclipse and Netbeans automatically handle imports for you.
Chill out, listen to some rain
And Newton's dot notation could only represent differentiation with respect to time. Obviously what he was focused on, sure, but the more general notation was obviously also needed.

Frankly, what annoys me is how mathematicians grab natural language words to represent their concepts, and often pick the worst possible of such words to use. For example: "Imaginary" numbers are no more imaginary than the "real" numbers are. They're just as well-defined, just as practically useful, and at least as interesting. But that idiotic name hangs on them, a relic from a more ignorant era, and scares away who knows how many students.
Something about seeing another planet in high definition makes it feel so very close. One day, people will sit on those rocks and ponder that horizon in person.
I consider myself relatively tech savvy but I never heard of deluge. Thanks for that info.

Deluge would probably be helped by making it dead easier to download like uTorrent.

utorrent > Go to utorrent.com, site automatically figures out what OS I have > click download button to save it.

deluge > Go to deluge-torrent.org > click on download button > select operating system > go to a different subdomain/domain altogether to figure out which version to download.
> I was hoping [grok] would eventually lose favor among us geeks

Yet you do not seem to mind the word "geek".
> Can't use real git hooks. understandable in the shared environment, but an annoyance and it's worth mentioning.

It's also worth mentioning that the selection of hooks available pretty much trumps any standard git hooks that I've ever dealt with. And if you really need some custom functionality to fire, you can set up a custom webhook URL that points to your own server somewhere.
Yea. At the end of the day, it's still a git repo that you're dealing with. This post is a lot of hot air.
this sort of thing is why NVIDIA is supporting LLVM:

http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/Releases/NVIDIA-Contributes-CUD...

in other words, with that and the right frontend, you can take Language X, compile to LLVM IR, and run it through the PTX backend to get CUDA.

however, in the grand scheme of things, this probably doesn't make GPU programming significantly easier to your average developer (as you still have to deal with big complicated parallel machines); what it really does is ease integration into various codebases in those different languages.
> I'd much rather pay a couple dollars for ad-free
> software than use something with annoying ads in it.

It's a torrent client. If you're willing to pay money for a nicer experience, then you're not in the target audience.
Try qbittorrent. It's really nice.
Same with me. I recently made my first contribution to an open source project using Github. There is no way I would have done the same if I had to deal with patches, emails, arguing with other developers or some other process that wasn't as simple as a few clicks.

I honestly believe Github is the best thing to happen to OSS in a long time.
Can't wait for to refactor a library and have pull requests auto generated for all the code that depends on it.
Yeah I don't understand what you're arguing against either. The fact that you think domain squatting is a great, legitimate business is sort of irrelevant. Maybe you don't like the term "squatting" because you keep putting it in quotes, well even it is the best business in the whole wide world, it's still squatting. You don't like the word "speculation." You seem to not like to call things what they are ... Anyway, the parent did not make a case for why they're bad guys. Get over it. :)
>It is simpler and easier to set up a new git repository on a webserver than it is to do the same on github.

Is this a joke ?
I'm using it extensively on Xubuntu and I think it's awesome. I can only recommend it. When reading the title, my first thought was to pimp it here...
isn't that a bit of a generalization
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>Let's face it, most Android and iOS games are mediocre.

"mediocre" seems generous; I'd say most are complete crap.

My girlfriend finally made the jump into the smartphone world by getting an Android device. After excitedly poking through the app store, she disappointingly asked where people are remaking the same exact game over and over again. In the end, she downloaded Angry Birds, and Word Hero.

Finding great --or at the very least mediocre -- apps should be at least somewhat easy and fun.. but it's not. It feel like a chore because to get to one good items, you have to sift though hundreds of items that, honestly, shouldn't have been made in the first place. The last 4 apps I've downloaded, I've instantly uninstalled after the first run. There's rough around the edges, and then there's shouldn't have ever been released.
import edu.syr.pcpratts.<asterix>;

The only reason you see the fully qualified class names is because the IDE does this automatically for you. If there were no IDEs everyone would be using the *s;
"Citation needed" is a meme that derives from Wikipedia:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/citation-needed

Otherwise yes, strictly speaking you would only ask for a citation as evidence of some claim. But even then, people would still use it informally as a stand-in for "I disagree," "prove it," "says who?," and so on.
I'm pretty sure you can write rm -rf / in PHP just as easily as Go.

Also does your university not provide a C compiler to their students? I'd be shocked of that were the case.
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