skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very clearly the end of Twitter as a "platform". Now that Twitter is huge, they don't want or need developers or 3rd party clients. They want to centralize everything into a monetizable service. That would've been fine if that was their plan from the get-go. The bait-n-switch they're doing disingenuous at the least.

So what now? Status.net hasn't gained traction, and it's obviously too early to say anything about tent.io, but I am very, very hopeful that eventually a new open, decentralized platform/protocol will emerge as the next-generation social communications platform to replace both Twitter and Facebook simultaneously.
Exactly; but CC has no pay-for-commercial license.
I think encryption is good to have and D* devs had it in some further plans. But it's probably not the first priority, until federation protocol is rock solid.
Seems like the delivery of content through wireless means can save the airline a lot of weight in cabling from head-end servers to each seat on long and medium haul flights
Yep, that's the case. You get a "Sorry! Music on Google Play is not available in your country yet." when you try to shop for music.

The rest of Google Music, however, appears to work well once the account is setup by US VPN. Even the Android app works without problems.
dramatic much? it's not like 3rd party clients stopped working
I would never say that to anyone. It's never true.
What? I USE diaspora. it's awesome.. I actually prefer it to Facebook because there's less noise (my interests are not the same as the 400 friends I made while living in college dorms.)
Browser extension to hide read links on HN?
I'm looking for a extension that will be able to know what I've read and remove it from the pages of hacker news. I think I've seen this extension before but couldn't find it.

If there is none, I'll do the pleasure myself.
I'd have to dig a little bit for a source to back this up, but I would guess that the odds of succeeding are much higher if you have funding than if you don't. I think the author is critiquing the fact that these companies get money at all, not just claiming that they are successful because of that fact.
How to implement full join on two files
Got a 4? You just got fired from Microsoft
They haven't failed. The project is alive and running-- I mean, I USE Diaspora. Check out the github page-- this isn't a period in Diaspora's story, it's a comma leading to better things and even more community control.
Java IDEs are leagues ahead of Xcode when it comes to refactoring and code generation.
Different groups of people will pay for different things.

Beiber followers might not spend money on Twitter, but they might on whatever tat it is teenage girls get their parents to buy for them.

The kind of people who will pay to opt-out of adverts are probably not the kind of people who will click on your adverts.
"Historically, in Michigan the number of species diagnosed at the Laboratory as dying from malnutrition and starvation are second only to those dying from traumatic injuries."

http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10370_12150_12220-2...
I agree. For example, atheism.about.com is a very well-curated section, run by an experienced and knowledgeable guide. It deserves more attention than it gets.
I know it is a lot to ask but I would love to do the same for Israel and I'd like to steal some of your design. Would you mind? I'd encourage you to put the code on github, and I'll happily contribute an upvote button that only allows Canadians / Israelis (by geoip) to vote.
Some of Ubisoft’s PC piracy is its own fault
Searched for one hour straight now and 5 seconds after posting this thread, voila: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/iehdghlmjofgenldgf...
Edit: don't mind this. The extension only greys out the links (like :visited does without the extension...) so the search is still on for a extension that removes the links.
What's more interesting is that each of these little drips is turning into front page news material. Every time the giant shifts in its sleep, the villagers run amuck.
Just like Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky”, its purpose was more to communicate something about the brand rather than to serve some useful functionality. In Google’s case, it communicates playfulness, in Twitter’s case, it was geeky openness. Clearly this is not true for Twitter anymore.
Guild Wars 2: Races Exhibit
My opinion: I don't think Apple really cares about Samsung and just used this trial to slide in these trivial UI patents in order to have leverage against anyone making smart phones. It is to early to really know if anything in this trial is valid and what exactly this means going forward. Good luck trying to find unbiased information about this topic as Apple has already given their users the battle cry ("Samsung steals") which of course dominates all these stupid conversations.
> smartphones in which the objects on the screen roll around and bounce back like you’re spinning the Wheel of Fortune.

What I don't understand about this 'bounce back' feature is that here in Australia we have software based poker machines (Vegas style slot machines to the yanks out there) and they have had this bounce feature for decades.

Edit: To help people visualise, what I mean is the reels of the poker machine spin in one direction and when they finally stop spinning they do a very short bounce back in the other direction.
Canadians are even more in debt than Americans:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finan...
Yeah we didn't touch any debuggers, I think to an extent they were more just worried about people learning some language basics. The downside of having a first year c/c++ course that didn't just have comp sci students.

The other thing our uni was bad for is that they encouraged us to use vim through the uni servers early on but never have us a proper overview or the resources to really learn it. As a result most saw it as a handicapped text editor that just made things harder.
Guild Wars 2: Professions Exhibit
Perhaps app.net could be the other city-state?
High Weirdness By Mail
In many cases the value of your business is based on a combination of your talent with the other business assets especially market share and revenue prospects. So many small businesses are acquired in a way that the founder(s) are retained and strongly incentivised to keep growing the business.

One way to understand what the offerer wants is to look at the deal structure on offer to infer what they want from you. If there is a lot of emphasis on future profits then they want you to keep growing your business, if there is shares in the parent business then thats where they'll want you to focus, etc.

Finally, as per Jacques article, consider other sale options - can you find other buyers and get a competitive process going, etc.
Please feel free (maybe just give me some attribution with a link back to cantada.ca). Its just a basic Wordpress installation using the Blaskan theme, so I don't think its necessary to put it on Github.
When the program makes legal statements under penalty of perjury on behalf of its operator, the program should not be permitted to have bugs.
I can't speak to every gym, but having done some IT contracting for a few I can speak to the ones around here.

Check your agreement. Around here if you call they'll give you the runaround, but every single one accepts a cancellation through signed, registered letter giving 30 days notice. A few of them won't even accept it through any other means (even if you drop off a signed letter, etc).
There's a lot of demand for a "surefire recipe for success", that may not be what Eric Ries is selling, but it's what a lot of people are buying when they purchase his books and attend his seminars.
Personally, I prefer the way it is being done. A majority of sites that would catering to non-javascript clients wouldn't be using SVG on top of that. Secondly, this prevents a majority of A grade browsers from double downloading.
And then.. wend to work on their business, built a product, and acquired customers. Of course, a book covering the period of time that wrapped up right after startups were raising their rounds wouldn't tell the whole story. But it is far more sensationalistic to portray "funding" as the goal.

Getting funded isn't the end, and you'll really, really be hard pressed to find anyone who will tell you that in SV, regardless of how much people want to tell you that's the case.
I used to build fraud models where we had insane amounts of negative data and precious positive data. Our performance metric was well-reasoned; as you mention, we cared about the happiness of our customer, and baked all sorts of useful information into our evaluation metrics.

The problem is there is not always a cheap way to encode a complex evaluation metric into a loss function for many machine learning algorithms. In fact most of the really popular algorithms are popular because they work well mathematically - for example, generalized linear models are convex on a simple quadratic loss function, and neural networks have gradients when their loss functions are differentiable.

Also, I found optimizing for simple but sensible loss functions often gave pretty good performance. From a practical perspective, most of the gains of understanding the performance metrics we cared about came in the data preparation, evaluation and calibration stages of modeling, not model selection or training.
Bill Nye on creationism
Do you still have the code?
Open Source Madness or People are stealing Mayan EDMS.
Also, K.
In many ways - I'm fine with what happened. It demonstrated that creating great projects/systems/code requires more than money, mindshare, and enthusiasm. While those are all useful, also important is skill and experience.

Think of it this way, if five, not particularly experienced programmers, could dive in and just create a fully functional distributed-replacement for Facebook, then wouldn't that make a mockery of the skills/experience of developers that spent a lifetime acquiring them?

If anything, this enhances the kickstarter ecosystem, putting an emphasis on how important it is to evaluate the experience/skill of the principals behind a project.

For the counter-example, look at Dalton Caldwell's App.net. Here is a guy with a heck-ton of experience, and, from what I've heard, a talented developer.

He had a mostly functional API/Alpha of the twitter-clone portion of app.net (and, long term, I think the twitter component may not be the most important element) before they had even reached their funding target. And, the UI/App continues to land new features, week after week. In less than a month, alpha.app.net is already more feature complete and functional compared to where it needs to be to replace Twitter, than Diaspora was after two years.

Talent and Experience are critical. A great developer can accomplish in a few weeks, what less talented developers can't accomplish in a couple years.

That's my takeaway from Diaspora, and it's kind of a positive message.
DNSMan.ly Interface Comparison
Actually, I think that many people value businesses based on how many jobs they create, not how much wealth they create. This is where you get misguided attempts to "create jobs" by the government by doing things analogous to employing people to dig holes and fill them in again.
well... what more could you do if you´d actively want to destroy the company?

- remove yourself from google search -> check

- annoy any 3rd party app makers -> check

- have a unreliable service -> check

- have little product innovation -> check
Haskell people are working on making idiomatic code fast. But even there, writing C in Haskell is often the way to go for pure performance.
Yep. I was joking.
Misrepresenting science: Time to look in the mirror
You have to turn off your phone when the plane door is shut while at the gate, but you can turn on your phone when the plane touches down during landing. I was told this is more to do with the FAA wanting to do everything possible to "encourage" you to pay attention to the safety briefing.

I can't find the link where I read that right now, still looking. But it means that I doubt much will change given that its not just electronic interference that is the reason for the ban of electronics during taxi'ing at least.
Scala: Sink or Swim?
Using raxmon to configure Rackspace Cloud Monitoring
You'd have to be silly to not expect what Twitters next move will be.
Here's the interesting thing I find about all this (and one that seems not to have been mentioned):

In Canada, we are more similar to America than anyone else (for the most part). Now, before you fellow hosers scream "Sacrilege", hear me out.

Beyond all of the licensing issues and stupid protectionism rules and laws we have here in Canada, services wishing to be in this country are doing so in probably the most similar country to the US than anywhere in the world. The dollar is almost at par, our language is the same (for most of us), culturally we're incredibly similar, we like the same kinds of entertainment and laugh at most of the same kinds of jokes. We share the worlds longest unprotected border, with billions and billions of goods travelling across in an entirely over-tariffed manner. We have very few barriers to entry into each other's country, causing a hell of a lot of cross-border whatever-you-wanted-to-do. Heck, we even have border cities named the same (Niagara Falls anyone?).

If fact, as a Canadian, if I were to simply just land in any US city and tell everyone I'm a US citizen they'd probably have no reason to disagree with me (at least until I ended a sentence in "Eh" or talked goofy).

In Canada, we're called a branch-plant economy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_plant_economy) and I'd hazard to say that many American operating companies could simply provide service with very little technical barriers.

I'm just amazed at how we're so accessible to each other in many ways and yet so many services are off limits and stuff like iPads are released here a month later. Perhaps it keeps us from being flooded by Americanism, who knows.
Update: I've had a lot of people ask about the difference between what I'm trying to do and existing tools. I've written a bit about it[1], but the thrust of it is that I want to make something that's usable by people who may not have any practical Linux experience, and I'm keeping the focus of the service targeted at single-user day-to-day machines.

[1] : http://jdodds.github.com/blog/2012/08/27/the-difference-betw...
I already have a frontend engineer considering switching to native iOS and Android apps just so he can get away from CSS.

I am not exaggerating, that is 99% the reason for his desire to abandon ship. He complains about CSS daily despite being one of the more knowledgeable people I know about CSS, save for the rare occasion he asks me a question.

Why should I react to this project by doing anything other than lighting a molotov cocktail?
Galbraith has an excellent explanation of why paying poor jobless to do anything is a good idea if unemployment is or threatens to run rampant -- basically, it is an inflation-proof way to keep money flowing into the economy by stimulating spending, because poor people don't hold on to their money, they spend it in their communities.. which helps to create jobs and keep demand up
What are block args?
"I started writing Lauren Ipsum by looking for ideas that I understood well enough to explain to a nine-year-old child."

Three decades ago I started a company that created a word processor. As part of our usability testing, we gave our little 100 page manual to an eight year-old boy and told him to write a letter. A couple of hours later he finished and we pronounced our endeavor a success. Even our customers were happy with how easy it was to use.

For our next release we produced a real manual -- 400 pages long. We were inundated with complaints about how difficult our product was to use now. Lesson: keep the story simple. Make the advanced features emergent and discoverable.
Don't you have to have closures to make monads work in practice? (I only really have experience with monads in Haskell, and something like (a >>= \x -> b >>= \y -> g x y) is a very basic thing to do with monads, there.)
Didn't they open source the code? It might make a great starting point.
These are probably low earth orbit satellites, still protected by the geomagnetic field and their orbits wouldn't spend much time in the Van Allen belt.

To be safe, I imagine they gave the phone a tinfoil hat.
It's great, but you need to make it more customizable. I had an SVG logo once that would fail to render correctly on most browsers, even though they supported `SVG#BasicStructure`.

Make it an option so we can decide what subset of SVG "each" image needs!
Great move, way to go CrowdTilt & Reddit.
What Reddit /really/ needs to do is fix their self-serve advertising platform. Their wasting their gold mine.
I'm cautiously optimistic about potential changes. It would be great to keep using my Kindle/iPad/etc during takeoff and landing, but I'd be surprised if the changes go that far. At least it's the FAA and not the TSA looking into this, otherwise I'm sure we'd never be able to turn anything on during a flight.
Looks like you can get it for $13.96 at Amazon, which would be less expensive than 40% off of $24.95 (depending upon shipping etc.).

http://www.amazon.com/Super-Scratch-Programming-Adventure-Pr...
...because if he hates CSS, wait 'till he gets a load of Core Graphics and Core Animation via Objective-C just to animate a custom shape. ;-)
Codececption PHP testing framework gets Memcached and AMQP support
IANAL, but isn't it perjury, or at least something subject to civil sanctions, to attest to facts in this manner without personally performing enough due diligence to ascertain the facts are at least probably correct? The Bar Association should be interested in its members signing-off on legal documents they have not properly vetted. Perhaps the best course of action is an education campaign directed at the States' Bar Associations.
The original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHbYJfwFgOU
That's your own fault for following spammy accounts.
Looks like I am mistaken. We're taller than we have been for the past few hundred years, but there is evidence of some earlier humans having similar heights as modern humans. There is no mention of the cooked/raw status of those particular ancestors' diets, though.

I don't have a particular reference, just piecing together the non-trash results of googling 'diet height' and 'history of human height'.
If the entry is malformed the parser skips it...no harm. Text encoding handled like any other text file. Attribute and content validity issue exists with XML, too.

txt: 1, XML: 0
I haven't used it, but Friendica seems to deliver on everything that Diaspora promised, and then some. http://friendica.com/ - anyone has experience with it?
Reddit Sync has been removed from Google Play
Most of the big problems I have with CSS (as a daily user) come from supporting multiple browsers, and dealing with their variable output from the same CSS files.

If the CSS syntax is used as a way of declaratively describing styles in a single controlled environment (iOS) then that's not the same thing, and I would think that it should address a lot of the headaches that browser-based CSS currently has?

Plus it would (hopefully) allow the use of existing tools like LESS or SASS to provide even more control and re-use in creating the resources that go into building your iOS app.
And by subset, I mean "I need #BasicStructure, #ContainerAttribute, #Font and #Filter", so it sould be an array with "#BasicStructure" as the default.

Edit: I'm beginning to like GitHub's issues, so I opened a ticket :) https://github.com/benhowdle89/svgeezy/issues/1
I haven't used K myself, but on Project Euler the K people usually come up with the shortest code.
In Java at least this has been tried before. There was something called the Jaxx Framework [1]. jaxxframework.org now seems to be defunct so I guess it died.

Personally I'm unenthused.

For one thing, the typical reason to write native apps these days is that it's a mobile app. Certainly on iOS you'd be better off staying on the reservation. There's only 2/3 resolutions to support anyway (plus two orientations for each). Android is of course more varied.

For desktop apps, you're getting increasingly specialized software (the rest going to Web apps) and your best bet is still to stick to the native libraries (Cocoa, WPF, etc).

[1]: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/enicholas/archive/2006/03/style...
I'd just like to say that my athletic performance, body composition and mental clarity have been far, far better on paleo than any other diet. I'd also recommend the two books gxs mentioned.

Of course, not all digestive systems are created equal and YMMV. For instance, wasn't until after eating paleo for a while I discovered I had a mild gluten and dairy intolerance (most people develop the latter).
And then there's Blossom[1], which does the opposite: remove CSS from web apps.

Blossom lets you build native-quality web apps for mobile browsers without every touching the DOM or CSS -- it's 100% JavaScript.

(Full disclosure: I developed Blossom earlier this year.)

[1] https://github.com/fohr/blossom
A graphing calculator may be expensive, but not as expensive as an iPhone...
I think the problem in this case is the jury just decided to ignored prior art.

Quoting from this link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57500358-37/exclusive-appl...

> "He had experience. He owned patents himself...so he took us through his experience. After that it was easier. After we debated that first patent -- what was prior art --because we had a hard time believing there was no prior art."
"In fact we skipped that one," Ilagan continued, "so we could go on faster. It was bogging us down."

I doubt that in the appeal Apple will be so lucky.
Sitting's killing you. App which notifies when you should take a break
Absolutely none of these are essential, some barely even useful, and good luck taking your phone with a graphing calculator app into an exam.
Aren't all of these companies based in the United States? I mean yeah it sucks Canada can't use some of these applications, but why doesn't Canada start their own similar services to run in their country?
That approach is almost exactly that of Deep Learning / stacked Restricted Boltzmann Machines.
Thanks for posting, I'm the creator of Mayan EDMS and while stealing Open Source software sounds like and oxymoron, it can and it does happen. In some cases is just avoidance of the terms set in the license in other cases, such in the case of Mayan EDMS they are just plain and blatantly selling the code under another name!
I believe that Objective-C is an outdated overly complex syntax.

I assume that you are correct in your implication that Core Graphics and Core Animation are overly complex.

However, that does not mean that the answer is CSS.

You should not need to hand-write code to lay out text on the screen or change a background color.

There is a reason that UI builders have been a standard part of desktop development frameworks/environments for many, many years.

CSS is the worst thing that ever happened to front end application development.
This added context really drives the OP point's home.

After all, it's relatively easy to be objective when the facts are overwhelming and communicated by a sensible and rational messenger. Under these circumstances, only the most pig headed caricature would cling to preconceived, faulty, notions.

However, it's much harder to take seriously criticism that originates from a volatile and unpopular source. Doubly so if their own theory or notion is flawed. Under this circumstance, it's extremely easy to avoid self-observation.

For instance, in this case it should not have mattered too much that Semmelweis's theory was demonstrably incorrect. What should have mattered was the clear causality linking disinfectant hand washing and a reduced rate of labor mortality. They had an easy out, and they took it. That reaction is all too common.
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