skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most significant loss is the ability to keep your place. Google Reader is a good example. There's no way to bookmark how far back you've read so when I reload or close the tab I usually have give up and abandon unread items.

You could mitigate this but it would be useful to see what benefits people think infinite scrolling introduces and (if there are any) see if there is a solution that gives the same benefits with fewer costs.

Maybe some hybrid 'paged' infinite scrolling where you can keep going but clear pagebreaks are displayed which are mirrored in the browser history.
Are you still able to interact with the document whilst in 3d mode? e.g. test jQuery animations, etc (unfortunately can't try it myself)
I look forward to one day getting my hands on an Rpi. That is, if Allied ever ships the board I ordered ages ago (the page I ordered from no longer exists on their site).

Seriously, with all this RasPi news, does anybody in the US actually have one?
Well it's not like alternatives don't exist. Of all the popular social media services, twitter has got to be one of the easiest to reimplement, it's only social inertia that keeps Twitter going. (Which says a lot about the power of social inertia.)

As usual what is needed is a decentralized approach, but that always takes time to catch on even if it can be made to work.
The Paris Transit System Opens up (some of) its data to developers
To be honest, I think what we have here is a case of cognitive dissonance - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

People admire Assange for what he has done as part of wikileaks, whilst also simultaneously loathing rapists.

I felt the same when Mike Tyson was convicted of rape. As a follower of boxing, I was a huge fan of his power and skill. And then he got convicted of rape.

I tried to tell myself that it was a fix, the "victim" was after his money etc etc. But now I realise that both things are true. He was one of the best boxers ever, and he did rape that woman.

Steve Jobs could be a fantastic businessman and innovator, and a bit of an arsehole to work with.

Benjamin Britten could be a great composer and sexually attracted to youg boys.

Assange could be a brave "dissident" and sexually taken advantage of those two women.
Edit: As an example, I just compiled subversion 1.6.17. They actually have an --enable-all-static in the configure script which is a nice convenience as libtool can be a real PITA sometimes when trying to link statically.

Total size: 28M
It's configurable
GNOME - from abyss to common ground
> where's HURD, 20-something years later?

Here, http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdim...

Linux development only managed to get so far, because many companies saw it as a way to get a cheap UNIX clone, and allocated developers to it, specially due to the BSD litigation going on at the time.

If it wasn't for those companies, Linux would be toy kernel now.
I've got three and they are great. Using one for AirPlay and XBMC and the others for random stuff.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Top10RaspberryPiMythsAndTruths...
But aren't those "free ads" a result of their large userbase, not a cause? I think FB and Twitter were already very big and influential before those started popping up.
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell also goes a long way to make Ubuntu usable.
>Google should figure out how to get this for Google Plus.

Spoiler alert - the answer is 'be as popular as Twitter and Facebook'.

T & F didn't become so popular because of product placement. They got the product placement because they were so popular.
Hey Twitter, here's an idea
There is nothing efficient about HFT's. It's all leveraged money used to extract a profit from the market in ways that in their very nature is anti competetive. If there ever were a positive side to HFT is was passed a long time ago.
How big a security threat is this?
Interesting opened this site this morning to find it reveals the DB username, see here:

http://i46.tinypic.com/2nal2c4.jpg

When trying to contact the Co. via email I get this on the contact form:

"There was a problem capturing your contact details. Perhaps you would like to try again?"

No email addess is supplied in the contact details so gues this is the first report of this.
zBox.com solved the problem of not-home package delivery and pickup, with weather-resistant IR-wireless crypto-locked locking boxes in 1999-2000[1]. The USPS, UPS and Fedex driver's existing Palm-based scanners would communicate either by IRDA to the box front panel, or would display a secure unlock code to be typed into the keypad, encrypted based on current time of day, vendor, and customer. zBox had testing deals with the three top package co's, and had funding from USPS and Whirlpool. They went broke and shut down in 2001. I still have an electronics package, and a dev kit.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20010721122740/http://www.zbox.co...
Valve releasing DOTA documentary showing professional gamers
Hosted on sourceforge to complete the "remembering years gone by" full house.
Strange. It's the other way around for me (brand new Win7 box, Chrome, 16gb ram, fast everything, waited for all images to load before scrolling).

When I move the scrollbar on the "on" version, it flashes white and constantly drops images in and out until I let go or stop in one place. Then it whites out again next time I scroll. Quite distracting actually, like viewing the bottom part of a long page while it's still loading images.

The "off" version scrolls as one would expect, no flashes, no missing or reflowing content. Just like you'd expect.

PgUp/PgDown and arrow keys don't seem any different between the two.
> where's HURD, 20-something years later?

Please. HURD is now a low-priority hobby project that a few people are working on for the hell of it. The urgency of building HURD ended when Linux took off.
I just took one for the team... they give you the figure (mine was 1% fake) then give you the option to tweet your result (which I did). Nothing scary or nasty happened. Then I revoked access from Settings > Apps on Twitter.com.
Self-portraits done to a different Drug every day
> Remarkably, I've yet to meet one of these effortlessly self-educated men of the Internet age.

In my experience, pretty much anyone who can program well is self-educated. They might have also done a CS degree, but most of them were programming on their own beforehand.
Where should I go to? Status.net somehow didn't deliver, although I guess I could reevaluate. I think what was missing back then was mirroring Twitter - my tweets were sent to Twitter, but I didn't get the Tweets from the people I followed on Twitter.
And there's already a potentially better column oriented datastore used at Google: http://vldb.org/pvldb/vol5/p1436_alexanderhall_vldb2012.pdf
MindFile-UpLoaded-Into-Cyborg is Favored Future in Transhumanist Poll
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Télécharger les images iso de Microsoft Office 2010
I think it might work with other methods of selecting DOM elements. At least that's what the API suggests.
Oddly enough, I've actually used this exactly once. If you've got phantom elements sitting over something it can be quite useful to visualize them
How's that a sad fact? Non-GNU tools are horrible. Want sort -h? Want find -mmin? etc. etc.
How to Live a Surpassing Life with Brad Rex
"There is nothing preventing Twitter from becoming the next Myspace."

Is there anything preventing any social network from becoming the next MySpace? Seems to me it is all in the users, if the users leave you are the next MySpace. I don't see how you could force users not to leave?
what? no javascript?
I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but MySpace had the same exact thing for companies..."Check out our MySpace" was everywhere.
Whoa. I actually got a touch of national pride there! What a feeling! :D

Anyway, one reason Swedish coffee culture might be something that can be noticed in NY is that we're pretty good at drinking coffee.

See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_coffee_con...; to get a hint about how important coffee is in Scandinavia.

Sweden is down at #6 these days, but we still clock in at roughly twice the consumption per capita compared to the US.

And the word "fika" which the first place is named for has loads of connotations, it's simply deeply entrenched here.
I Have 50 Dollars
Why couldn't Microblogging work like email (or Macroblogging)? Some people email through some provider or host their blogs at wordpress.com, others host their own. Big bloggers pay a lot for their infrastructure, amateuer bloggers get free blogs supported by ads.

Still not sure if Twitter isn't just blogs that include a friends list and a reader (kind of like Tumblr, which seems to be taking off, too...). And the short messages.
Forecast for All Sun Signs with 2013 Horoscopes 
2013 is approaching fast and several of planning for upcoming year is running in everyone's mind. Everyone are just considering about new ideas and look for do something new, make new resolution etc.
It doesn't, really. Being acquired wouldn't ordinarily relieve them of a contractual obligation. (Bankruptcy would.)
UITableView was made for mobile devices not for infinite scrolling per se, but simply for large lists (such as address books) due to the memory limitations of iOS devices.

Those memory limitations are simply nonexistent for the web for almost all but the smallest number of cases (ie, infinite lists).

But lets pretend that this infinite scrolling is even a real problem (honestly it's probably not the best UI for large infinite lists of things on the web).

The current implementation clearly needs some work. It's trying to over-optimize for memory to the point of choking the scrolling.

This, however, can be fixed fairly trivially.

Allow the user to scroll anywhere (even past loaded content). If you can't eagerload elements to compensate for it, then lazyload after the user gets to that point. This gives users the illusion that the scrolling is truly smooth and responsive. The important thing is never allow scrolling to stop unless it's truly at a dead end and there is absolutely no more elements to load.

The above is how UITableView functions. Infinity.js is UITableView for loading elements, but does not function anything like UITableView from a user interaction standpoint.
I always had the impression that bands and musicians made myspace what it was. Seriously, they seemed to have every single band you could think of. That in combination with the Google Search results deal (which still seems to be running) was a winner.
The distinction you're making between private and public is hardly relevant. The gestapo, stasi and FBI are, for all intents and purposes, not very different from private companies trying to perpetuate their own success and maximize their power/profits.
The only major difference is that governments own a monopoly on the use of force, making them slightly more dangerous in a physical sense - but not more dangerous in a general 'can cause us a lot of harm' sense (especially since governments are easier to topple than private companies).
ok, sounds like a lot of boilerplate code to write, because "Its only dependency is on jQuery."
> A dollar at the margin for a person with a $600 phone on a $50/mo data contract is not an enormous gamble

It's not a big economic gamble, but there are good chances of getting screwed, which is more important than the money. I believe that's contributing to the prices being pushed down. I don't mind paying for the software I like, but I absolutely mind paying to try out 4 other apps that turned out that sucked. Indeed, because I had to give them money to find out, they will have the funds to keep on sucking. Effectively, I can't vote with my wallet.

Try shopping for an ssh client or a vnc client in the app store. I suspect you'll have that exact experience.
I don't mean to imply that stock prices are perfectly normal/lognormal/insert your favorite distro here. Nor do I mean to imply that future price action will match past price. It's just a simple model to illustrate that compared to historical price action you'd need a pretty big 2 day move for the stock to hit $17.

How would you evaluate the risk/reward profile of this option?
Ι'd јuѕt lіkе tο іntеrјесt fοr а mοmеnt. Wһаt уοu'rе rеfеrrіng tο аѕ Lіnux, іѕ іn fасt, GΝU/Lіnux, οr аѕ Ι'vе rесеntlу tаkеn tο саllіng іt, GΝU рluѕ Lіnux. Lіnux іѕ nοt аn οреrаtіng ѕуѕtеm untο іtѕеlf, but rаtһеr аnοtһеr frее сοmрοnеnt οf а fullу funсtіοnіng GΝU ѕуѕtеm mаdе uѕеful bу tһе GΝU сοrеlіbѕ, ѕһеll utіlіtіеѕ аnd vіtаl ѕуѕtеm сοmрοnеntѕ сοmрrіѕіng а full OS аѕ dеfіnеd bу ΡOSΙX.

Mаnу сοmрutеr uѕеrѕ run а mοdіfіеd vеrѕіοn οf tһе GΝU ѕуѕtеm еvеrу dау, wіtһοut rеаlіzіng іt. Τһrοugһ а ресulіаr turn οf еvеntѕ, tһе vеrѕіοn οf GΝU wһісһ іѕ wіdеlу uѕеd tοdау іѕ οftеn саllеd "Lіnux", аnd mаnу οf іtѕ uѕеrѕ аrе nοt аwаrе tһаt іt іѕ bаѕісаllу tһе GΝU ѕуѕtеm, dеvеlοреd bу tһе GΝU Ρrοјесt.

Τһеrе rеаllу іѕ а Lіnux, аnd tһеѕе реοрlе аrе uѕіng іt, but іt іѕ јuѕt а раrt οf tһе ѕуѕtеm tһеу uѕе. Lіnux іѕ tһе kеrnеl: tһе рrοgrаm іn tһе ѕуѕtеm tһаt аllοсаtеѕ tһе mасһіnе'ѕ rеѕοurсеѕ tο tһе οtһеr рrοgrаmѕ tһаt уοu run. Τһе kеrnеl іѕ аn еѕѕеntіаl раrt οf аn οреrаtіng ѕуѕtеm, but uѕеlеѕѕ bу іtѕеlf; іt саn οnlу funсtіοn іn tһе сοntеxt οf а сοmрlеtе οреrаtіng ѕуѕtеm. Lіnux іѕ nοrmаllу uѕеd іn сοmbіnаtіοn wіtһ tһе GΝU οреrаtіng ѕуѕtеm: tһе wһοlе ѕуѕtеm іѕ bаѕісаllу GΝU wіtһ Lіnux аddеd, οr GΝU/Lіnux. All tһе ѕο-саllеd "Lіnux" dіѕtrіbutіοnѕ аrе rеаllу dіѕtrіbutіοnѕ οf GΝU/Lіnux.
Status.js updated with graph plotting and sitemap.xml generation
The mechanics of programming are usually self-taught, but able to write code that compiles != educated. In my experience those with degrees in mathematics or physics tend to be much better at producing value through programming than those without.
You mean, you want a GNU-free distribution of the GNU GPL licensed kernel?
Trademarks apply to domains. Dremel have a trademark on the Dremel drill, not on anything in the whole world called Dremel.
Skype for Metro leaks, we go hands on
MS: Too big to fail.
Yes, it is probably the declaration order which confuses me.
The idea of what a human is, biologically speaking, is being turned inside out
there's also rstat.us :) ( https://rstat.us/about )
Derivatives like Knoppix or Ubuntu wouldn't be possible -- or at least couldn't sprout so easily -- if it weren't for that strict adherence to open source guidelines. The way it is, makers of derivatives need not worry about infringing IP rights, they can simply depend on the Debian community to sort that out and only include free software in the distribution (free as in freedom).

-- Debian user since April 1996 (0.93R6)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_7100#Codename_L...
Hi,

I am Eric Hunsader from Nanex and created this animation using our own custom software tools and our NxCore data feed.

Our position on HFT can be summed up in the first lines of text below the image: "It's not high frequency trading (HFT) that concerns us. It's high frequency quoting". Links are included for details. Our latest paper on HFT can be found here: http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/3532.html

Anyone who has taken the time to really look at the contents of the tsunami of data that some HFT creates will come to the conclusion that something very wrong and harmful going on. We've found this is nearly impossible to convey in text or graphics (with the possible exception of this animation), and sooner or later as more and more academics get up to speed, they will generally come to the same conclusions we have.

Our primary business is providing a real-time (and historic ) data service for U.S. Stocks, Options and Futures. In the course of monitoring our feed for our subscribers, we run across anomalies that we think need to be published for the public good or long term health of our markets. We have not received a dime from any of our analysis and not a week goes by that we don't regret opening that Pandora's box.

I will check back later today to answer any questions. If you don't receive a reply for a few hours, it's because we are working at our "day job".
I much prefer twitteraudit (http://twitteraudit.com)
FNO 2012: Chanel Makeup Collection
How I repaired my own heart
off version actually worked better for me
Terms of Service; Didn’t Read as Firefox extension
Why did MySpace fail? Users are known to be sticky - they tend to stay with the same newspaper, brand of chocolate, chewing gum, household cleaning products and so on. But they are only sticky up to a point. If something is better by a sufficiently significant margin, then they will switch (or some will). You can keep those customers just by just matching your competitor's improvements. For many things, the pace of change is reasonably slow. Also, many people just like that specific taste (even if they don't think it tastes as nice - like Coke and New Coke). There is some change (e.g. sugar-free gum), but it's easy for the leaders to keep pace. Perhaps in some cases, the scope for possible improvement is less than the margin needed for users to switch - so you ever fail.

MySpace had that huge advantage of many sticky users, but they stopped improving it, and a competitor (Facebook) made an improved experience.

Twitter is safe for as long as there isn't a sufficiently better competitor - "better" being in terms of the benefit to users, not any engineering quality in itself.
> if you look at all the packages in e.g. debian or fedora you'll find that the largest percentage by far is written by the GNU.

No: http://pedrocr.pt/text/how-much-gnu-in-gnu-linux.html
20+ Examples of Web Application Interface Designs
If you are also planning to build a new era web application interface design, make sure to perceive every single aspect of the development process.
<script src="zepto.js"></script>
<script> var jQuery = Zepto; </script>
<script src="infinity.js"></script>

There.
Uptodateapp: service to help stay on top of the rubygems your app depends on
Are you agreeing with the premise of the article? (It's not clear if you are or if you're just disagreeing with the GP).

If you are then...
"We'll keep you posted." "up-to-date view of the runway ahead."

Where do these things come from if you're not estimating effort?
can't say I blame them really. They have a product, they have the infrastructure to support it....why shouldn't they have right of first refusal on how to monetize the thing?

Seems to me that developers are getting all pissy because they can't have free reign to a platform that isn't even theirs. Perhaps, at the end of the day, Twitter doesn't care - they don't need the developers as early adopters anymore and it must be a fair old strain to keep the api infrastructure supporting them when the resources could be more profitably used building something else inside the company.
>+ GIT - the stupid content tracker

Hmm… I think Linus thought it was stupid.

>+"git" can mean anything, depending on your mood.

Or... He was just in the everything-is-stupid mood.

>+ - random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a mispronounciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.

I think everyone just goes with that. :)

>+ - stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.

Here! He said it again!

>+ - "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.

GitHub surely took it seriously and made it happen. Thank you!

>+ - "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks

Maybe I'll take it. Mainly because I don't want to learn how to think like Linus.

>+This is a stupid (but extremely fast) directory content manager. It doesn't do a whole lot, but what it _does_ do is track directory contents efficiently.

And here's Linus saying git is stupid, again. I think he really means it. Well, at least that day he did.

Anyway, thanks for fossil Dr. Hip! :)

edit: formatting.
Then he'll be fine in Sweden, the Swede's won't extradite anyone who will face the death penalty.

See here: http://www.sweden.gov.se/content/1/c6/01/54/35/77809ec6.pdf. Page 3, Section 12, Point 3.

Worth noting that this is the text of the "THE EXTRADITION FOR CRIMINAL OFFENCES ACT (1957:668)", rather than some statement of government position and therefore is binding in Swedish law. The government simply couldn't send him to the US without suitable assurances.
I keep my stuff in ~/, not in ~/Desktop.
Typefaces have personality
Headline should probably carry a warning that the article is in German
"As far as we know, stupid smoke internet spam journalism is dead, as social media driven machine learning algorithms would probably make up better articles than BA in Economics and Politics"
Not to mention it doesn't use the pronunciation of the existing word 'gnu', so there's additional friction as you explain to the newcomer why it's pronounced a stupid way.

I heard a talk by a gnome foundation lawyer, and even she had difficulty sticking to guh-nome. If these were nonsense words it'd be less of a problem.
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Yeah - a common test law for 'passing off' in trademark cases is exactly along those lines. It's referred to as "A moron in a hurry"[1] i.e. even a moron in a hurry wouldn't confuse the two brands.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_moron_in_a_hurry
http://www.sweden.gov.se/content/1/c6/01/54/35/77809ec6.pdf

This is the text if the actual Swedish extradition law from the government web site. It clearly states on Page 3, section 12, point 3 that someone can not be extradited if they are to face the death penalty. The Swedes would have to get assurances from the US that this wasn't the case to extradite him.
it's not new? that's why i'm using firefox as a developer. It is awesome!
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Remember AOL Keywords?
Ah, that is true, but if I recall, a "fanciful mark" that's entirely made up, like Kodak, Google, or Dremel; has to pass a higher bar. If Dremel produced and sold a power tool named "the Google", then there might be grounds.
old news

still, pretty cool
"Permission denied" - How I found and worked around an annoying quirk
Steed, FTP/Azure/S3 client for Windows
Hi!

I'd like to present you Steed, which started its public beta almost 2 monthes ago. I'm one of the developers of the application, and we've been working hard for months on this project.

It is an FTP, SFTP, Azure and S3 client, it allows you to browse and transfers file from each of these "protocols". We though Windows needed an file transfer client, that was visually appealing, easy to use, and up to date.

We know there is a lot of other FTP client on the market, but we though this one would bring something new to the Windows application ecosystem.

You can find it at : http://www.frenchfrysoftware.com/steed, it requires Windows XP SP3, Vista, 7, and it might also work on Windows 8, even if it is not officially supported for now.

Even if it is the third beta, keep in mind that it is still a beta!

In order to improve it, you can provide us feedback on our support page (http://www.frenchfrysoftware.com/steed/support.html), or you can contact us via twitter (@frenchfryapps)

I hop you'll enjoy it!
I'm going to be the first developer to build an app on the ihave50dollars API. It's going to be a dating app, because what chick wants to hook up with a guy who doesn't even have $50?
Well I haven't found a real Italian coffee shop in London yet so I can't say. The only Italian joints I've been in have been mom and pop cafe type places. Someone you go for a quick bite. The coffee has been middling at best, certainly no baristas behind the counter.
They can just use the rails tutorial, right? :-)
It would have to violate both Swedish law (which expressly forbids extradition if the person is to face the death penalty) and European law.

If they're willing to go that far I really don't know why they don't just let him go to Equador and have him assassinated there, it would be a whole load easier.