skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not talking about HL2 but instead Half-Life: Source which was a port of the original to the Source engine. Although they ported it to the Source engine, they didn't update graphics or gameplay (unlike, for example, CS: Source), so fans felt they could do better.
Seems that netgem has a history of GPL violations (http://roundup.libav.org/issue678). Not sure what came out of that.
‘The winds of change’ blow over Africa — again.
Here's the core problem with next generation languages. Languages that come out of academia focus too much on syntax and computer science level functionality

Is that really a problem, or do they simply have a different goal to the languages you want to use?

Plenty of language concepts that enter industrial programming were born in academia and went through the mill in so-called academic languages long before they found their way into mainstream tools. Just look at all the ideas from the functional programming world that have become almost universal in recent years.

That doesn’t necessarily mean that the academic languages where these ideas matured are themselves good tools for industrial applications. To be successful in industry, a language needs a lot more going for it: a good set of developer tools and a critical mass of users, for a start. This often creates a chicken-and-egg situation that can sink a new language regardless of its potential or technical merit, particularly if the approach to programming is very different to what most practitioners are used to at the time.

Anyway, I think you’re being rather unfair with the “ivory tower” characterisation. If you look up Simon Peyton-Jones’s comments on “programming language nirvana”, for example, it’s pretty obvious that he understands these issues and the roles of different kinds of language just fine.
> The basic issue in marketing is creating a category you can be first in.

This sounds good on paper, but is pretty much impossible to identify objectively in practice. Something can be "first" along many dimensions, so this depends entirely on how you categorize "first". First what? First productivity software, first document editor, or first document editor to offer WYSIWYG functionality? The only thing that really matters is being the first to offer a product that satisfies a customers needs on some dimension in a meaningful enough way for them to pay you money for it.
I have no problem with the accent, but you might want to write out your copy and repeatedly practice the delivery for maximum effect. The time tracker looks good... congrats.
That's the thing though, I don't want to add friends. This is a fake account, it has no real friends. Facebook says they value the social experience of connecting with real friends ...
Applying the finite element method to neural networks for supercomputer scale
By applying the finite element method to neural networks supercomputer scale machine learning can done.

In fact, supercomputer scale FULLY AUTOMATED machine learning.

The finite elements would be autoencoders and logistic regression. Bulk synchronous parallel graph database such as Pregel or Graphlab would be used for greatly simplify coding. Graph partitioning software Chaco would be used to partition the graph (as is often done in finite element on supercomputers).

It would allow for a larger scale version of this work done by Jeff Dean of Google.
http://techtalks.tv/talks/57639/
As shocked as I am at this, I'm shocked at the response to the poll!
Writing better is a worthwhile endeavour.

But: Please do not recommend Strunk & White. They don't know what they are talking about. (See your own link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style#Criticism) and the blog posts cited http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1485 and http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1369 .)
They extort via threat of violence, and they do follow-up if they're not paid.
Why would I want to use the proprietary Roslyn when I have a working solution with the open-source NRefactory and Cecil?
Here's a video of the game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n54ILGwO68c

Looks fantastic, especially considering that YouTube's compression apparently did some bad things to the visual appearance[1].

[1] http://forums.blackmesasource.com/showthread.php?t=12124: The compression YouTube applies has blurred and darkened everything, even at 720p settings...I've got the original video at 1080p, and everything looks fine.
Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective
of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly

--Duly noted. Thanks for posting.
They do care about their apps being broken.
> it'll be something that builds profiling and unit testing and better source control support right into the language, compiler, and tools.

I think Go does an excellent job at this. The go tool comes with an excellent profiler, is version control aware and works with the `testing` package to make unit testing and benchmarking pretty easy.
While this stuff is very interesting, websites and software can also be quite interesting feats. Although I would agree many that you see here really aren't.
Within a partition, yes.
he means write in your natural tone. many people write in a completely different manner than they speak.

When I wrote for my high-school paper, people would often comment that I wrote how I spoke. That it sounded as if they were speaking to me. Other writers, read like they were giving a speech or making a presentation, and it wasn't natural for the reader.
For those interested in the topic, there's a free version of the original edition of The Elements of Style for the Kindle.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Elements-of-Style-ebook/dp/B005IT0...

[The latest edition is not free, but this is a good start]
Java has been said to be a DSL to convert XML configuration into stack traces. But what does this have to do with compiling C# to Javascript?
How can you live with having to search everything? Gnome-shell gives you a nice list of all your applications and you can switch between categories. The biggest bug since the introduction of Unity besides trying hard to make you remember application names is that F1 no longer opens help. The question mark symbol has also disappeared from the top panel.

After grudgingly Googling how to use Unity, I found the steps to list applications and it's absolutely horrible. Here's how:

Right-click the Ubuntu logo*
Choose applications
Click "Filter results"

The buttons presented are individual toggle-buttons, not the usual switch buttons. Turn the next category on, turn the previous category off. Madness. And on top of everything that's badly designed, it's also unresponsive. A lot of clicks are missed and this is especially noticeable with the workspace switcher.

For now, there's the option of installing gnome-session-fallback. It introduces a "GNOME classic (no effects)" option in LightDM which works well and has the old, functional workspace switcher. Still no F1 for help, but it sits under Applications > Accessories so it's relatively discoverable. The panels can be customised by holding down ALT+Super while right-clicking them (thank you again, Google).

Sadly, Gnome is deprecating the fallback session in favor of a software rasteriser ("llvmpipe") to run Gnome-shell where a hardware rasteriser is unavailable. The next release will also see the lock screen moved into the shell so it'll look pretty, but it better be the most stable release they've ever had since the last 2.x. Sorry to be cynical, but I doubt it.

*: This doesn't work in Unity 2D. Tough.
Related: http://www.howtospotapsychopath.com/2012/08/31/a-frequently-...
Telemarketer Threatens To Blow Up Home
Cold calls rarely work -- unless you are as good at selling (yourself) as you are as a web designer. That's a rare combination.

Word of mouth is the most powerful way to get business, of course. So the first step is to let the people you know know that you're available. Tell the people who might need your skills that you have them; if they don't need you, they might know someone who does. (This is a good use for LinkedIn.)

Have an elevator pitch ready that summarizes your tech specialties (e.g. HTML5, Dojo), business expertise ("have created several websites for realtors"), and a sense of the best match that hints at your rate ("affordable for small businesses"). Have a web portfolio ready. Update your LinkedIn page.

Depending on how much "a bit of extra cash" you can get started with sites like elance.com but my sense is that the money isn't all that great. (That perception might be inaccurate.) If all you're looking for is "a little extra" and an opportunity to expand your skills, it might still be a good idea.
Unless you absolutely need high performance GPU/vector acceleration, I'd suggest going with Intel GPUs. I wouldn't, at this time, support companies that, to put it mildly, can't cooperate with the rest of the Linux ecosystem and that try to work against it when possible.

They make powerful GPUs, but, unless they can reliably perform their functions with the software I want to run, their products are worthless.
I know (well at least internet sources told me) he worked for a government agency in France similar to NSA in USA.

Probably still is, and netgem is his cover.
It does look great. I'm glad the project got out of vapourware hell. Any longer and the whole thing would have become completely dated itself. Also great that Valve is allowing projects like this that are using their assets without asking for royalties or suing everyone in sight.
In general I would like to hear what company/website/.. you started and how you got your clients/users.
Personally these drones are just scary all around as once one country uses this tech others will follow.

What's going to stop a more advanced drone from attacking other nations other then how the US uses them now?

Iran purportedly got their hands on one these drones...
There is no guy customizing emails, it's just a SEO CRM where they have metadata about your blog and it automatically e-mails you on the week if you don't respond.

Just hit the spam button and move along.
A humorous side note on the excellent linked paper. In the paper Daryl Bem is cited as an authority on clear, simple writing -- the same Daryl Bem responsible for a spectacular bouhaha surrounding his claim that psychological responses in the present are affected by events in the future. Well, we can take comfort that he composed his claim according to the highest literary standards:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/science/11esp.html
where do you find good freelance employees? Do you have many writers under your wing?
I think the reason they rejected it is that there is no utility to it. Just open the webpage. They very often reject applications that duplicate web functionality.
Remembering Nora Ephron
It's Apple's store I think they can decide to sell whatever they want and the consumer can decide to goto a different store (platform) if Apple isn't meeting their needs.
No, you don't get credit for additional items between when your item is added and checkout. However, if they come back to Amazon from someone else's affiliate link, and your item was already in the cart, you retain the credit.
Isn't this what helps feed the idea of attention having an affect on the object of intent?
What about ethical responsibility?
Not being phone verified, not adding new friends, IP address is definitely a consideration, but you used to be able to have up to 10-20 on the same IP...
Yes, this is in the USA. And yes, it is quite cheeky. It is exactly like charging someone to receive a letter, whether they want it or not, and do so based entirely on the fact that it made it to their mailbox. It's ridiculous.
Thermal output management is not new. If the chip overheats, you can always clock itself down or power down some cores. GPUs, being very parallel, should make it even easier than it is with CPUs.

Not being able do transparently do this should be considered an important design flaw.
The evolution of the library
I think this may be a case demonstrating the adage, "The perfect is the enemy of the good."
It has push notifications.
I'm sure that's true. But some content marketers have followed in those same footsteps thinking it's the 'correct' way to do things! It's sad when a human being can't do a better job - or be more creative - than the copy and paste button.
DON'T MOVE CERTIFICATES.

You need another way of authenticating someone as well, whether it by SMS, biometrics or passwords.

Client-side certificates can be used as one-part of two-factor authentication or on their own depending on the level of security needed.

Oh, and btw, DON'T MOVE CERTIFICATES!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolith_(Space_Odyssey)
Why are you shocked? I'm shocked (maybe disgusted is the better word, as I was expecting it) at the fact that Apple bans Apps that simply transport Information, just because the information is not pleasant enough.
It's huge because it lets me manage my plugins in source control much more easily than juggling submodules in git or whatnot. Instead I just have my plugins as lines in my vimrc.
This authentication method is implemented pretty well by https://nomopass.com/ (SaaS) and https://tiqr.org/ (Open Source)
Have you tried iftop?
The Touchfire Chronicles, Continued: Born In The USA
Emacs versions to check out:

Surround:
wrap-region (https://github.com/rejeep/wrap-region)

Command-T:
ido-mode with ido-find-file

snipMate:
YASnippet

Syntastic:
flymake

Buffer Explorer:
ibuffer
They all agree on HTTP...

We'll get one in time; it just won't be as quick as we would like.
What kind of backs do you have to scratch (or the more vulgar metaphor) to be able to flagrantly ignore the court system?

Wow, these people are really in deep. They should share their secrets so we can all become Too Big To Fail.
I noticed that too, I imagine there is a lot of pent up demand for support and for people looking for an avenue to voice their complaints.
Rumor: Bruce Willis Wants To Sue Apple Over iTunes Music Ownership
Just launched, $0/month . Breeze ( http://letsbreeze.com ), a simple agile project management tool.

It's kind a hybrid between Trello and Basecamp (yes, the interface design is influenced by Basecamp, but it kicks ass :) )

Basically it's a Kanban board with added time tracking and reports.
Indeed it does. My understanding of the standing of mobile carriers in the legal system leaves me to think this shake-up is not so easily accomplished. From texting to tethering, we're charged to use every feature our phones include if the carriers can delimit some kind of usage of it (even though the actual usage is not different from, say, merely using our data plans).
It definitely is the right thing to do. I applaud you guys for going out of your way to make it right.

I'm really surprised developers at Twitter and Facebook haven't made read-only permissions the default.
Tiqr: open source authentication solution for smart phones and web applications
Use vundle instead of pathogen - it installs the plugins for you, so managing them in source control is much easier. Lines in a vimrc are much less of a headache than git submodules etc.
Nomopass: safe, faster, and easier log in to websites
> TSA Defies Court

Which is basically moot, since they're both on the side of "national security".

Which more or less translates to "we can do what we like to protect you from terrorism, no we won't answer your questions at the risk of helping terrorists, and yes you absolutely must pay us billions to do it, or we will all die in a fiery ball of terrorism".

And if you doubt any of this, well, we have some questions we'd like to ask you about the nature of your trip, sir.
With 2ghz quad-core arm, this is (now) a very good idea.
The reason I'm looking for either C# / Scala JS compiler is that I'm a static typing fan, I am an old school developer who likes IDEs and like discovering API by pressing ctrl+space, instead of mentally knowing it or constantly checking the API docs, I know it's against the trend, and not considered cool, but this gets me working software out the door. I'm much more productive and have much less bugs while writing old school, unpopular Java, and using the IDE's (eclipse) sugar features. Scala is now my favorite language (I really hope it was a little more new dev friendly, it can become very syntax overwhelming sometimes) as I can many of the functional features in Ruby / Python / JavaScript / Clojure, but still stay in Static Java land.

Another thing static typing gives me that I really wish I had in JavaScript, is (almost) worry free refactoring.

In Java, I can extract methods, constants, delegates, change method signatures, rename members, fix typos in code, and never to worry I copy pasted something wrong.

I have yet to find such a way to do it safely in JavaScript / CoffeScript or any other dynamically typed language. (feel free to point if I'm missing something, I said I'm not that a great of a developer)

So maybe I'm just not good enough as a developer, but I like IDEs to protect me, perhaps I'm not smart enough to use VIM / Emacs / TextMate, and I can't memorize APIs. Static typing + functional features make me the most productive.
So C# / Scala / Java 8 javascript compilers are on the top of my wish list.
Users with the Clover app installed gets a push notification instead of a text message. Tapping it takes you to a screen which asks if you want to log in to the site. Tapping yes logs you in (the site long-polls in this case)
What's up with the dark color scheme?
Samsung “deeply apologizes” to Indian blogger: We put you through undue hardship
> poor server side security

You wouldn't use any secure websites if you truly believed this!
...and it already (sort of, through RIM's Dalvik VM) runs on QNX.
thanks, I'll take a look. I want to try and replace my freelance work with passive income products. I was thinking of ThemeForest to start but I might try this.
> Thermal output management is not new.

As someone who designed Space Shuttle electronics, of course I agree. But we're talking about a failure to deal with heat, not the heat itself.
To be fair email would do the job...
Not in its documentation, but atop requires root. If you're on a VM somewhere, you might be happier with htop or glances.
How Google and Apple's digital mapping is mapping us
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To be fair maybe people don't want to give out their email to everyone.
Show HN: Reading Packet suggests articles based on the time you'll be reading
I can't really imagine mongo coping well with reddit, given the global write lock situation.
I agree with a lot of the points here.

Also - I think you should work on your slide show content and the headlines. Title's such as "Golf Stats" and "Golf Handicap" will not inspire your users. Hit them with something more interesting and thought provoking.

Your main heading might be the first thing your potential customer reads so make it memorable.
I appreciated this, as I've heard the phrase "content marketing" but didn't quite grasp what it was, aside from another form of spam, of course (because, "marketing"). This is a good example of how opinionated writing can convey a more objective understanding of a subject; the "neutral" explanations of this spam technique that I'd encountered left me hazy about what it actually entailed.
at the moment I freelance and work from home. Sometimes I work while travelling. I kid myself that I'm free, but really I work evenings and weekends. Some of my white-collar-joe friends might feel trapped, but at the weekend they are drinking beer in a sunny pub garden while I'm in front of my mac! That's why I say "perceived".

My ultimate goal is to not rely on client work, that's when I'll feel free. i.e. take the afternoon to go kitesurfing or something without worrying about being available to freelance clients.
The terrorists have gotten what they wanted; massive expenditures and legislations against freedom in the name of security.
Georgia Tech: Startup Semester
These are beautiful maps, Eric. I'm a GIS/software developer living in your old haunt (Hyde Park), and I love stuff like this...especially with Chicago data. GIS folks love comparing old maps to new maps. Do you currently make any of your maps available in high-quality print format (e.g. http://store.axismaps.com/)?
My aim is actually not to spend very much time on investing. Investing is not my area of specialization and I want to enjoy a high quality of life. I take advantage of division of labor to monetize what I do best--software development.

In a past life, I read many books on investing, primarily Jack Schwager's Market Wizards and my personal favorite, Reminisces of a Stock Operator. There's a lot of interesting stuff about the markets--game theory, behavioral finance--but unless you're going to spend a lot of time on it, the markets can be approximated as casinos for which you do not have an edge. Best to put your money in small and mid-cap index funds.

Similarly, most consumer real estate investments take a lot of time to manage (rental properties), so I've focused on my home, something which I would have to maintain anyway. In this climate you can get a loan so cheap you're best off putting as little down as possible and investing the rest. But you may want to buy a house within the next year or so as a hedge against inflation and to take advantage of the unholy combination of low interest rates and a relatively cheap housing market. If the Euro cracks or the Fed ends up printing money, we may find ourselves in an inflationary environment. If you have a fixed rate loan, you're golden--your income will rise with inflation, but your monthly payments will not, cheapening your debts.

Overall, my advice is to focus on setting up some compounding investments very early in life. Many people dabble in all kinds of things, like entrepreneurship, as a youth because they're fun. It's important to have hobbies, but for things that really matter, you can't afford to fool around. For example, I could join Y Combinator straight out of school and spend two years at a startup eating Ramen, or I could join Google and eat Ramen. If I did the latter, I'd have $50K in my 401Ks and up to $150K in other investments. Invested wisely, proceeds from those two years will give you $4M of today's dollars at retirement, even if you don't invest another penny--a nice safety net which will allow you to do riskier things later on in life. Entrepreneurship is a lottery ticket which is likely to fail. There are only so many good businesses (born of confluences of macro trends) out there, and it's hard to be in the right place at the right time. You could try to get lucky and end up scratching a living out of hardscrabbble, or you could use your talent to rise within the few companies which are actually printing money, and then let your dollars work for you.
Well I guess is everyone is doing it we just shouldn't care.
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It's a censored walled garden where nary a controversial idea should be shared. Apple bans all kinds of things from its playground, always has, always will. Let Apple and its users reap what they sow.
I am a huge believer in the word of mouth method. I've been doing web design and programming for over 10 years and have not once cold called or advertised my services.

I think there are two important aspects of "word of mouth" however. First, is you have to get the word out. Don't be shy about telling family, friends, colleagues, people you meet in a bar, etc. about what you do. Depending on your audience, be prepared to "present" your skills in an appropriate way. For people who may not be your direct client but will be acting as the courrier of your message, keep it simple – you probably won't get the business because of what you say to them but because of how they know you out of context from business.

The second important part is to give your clients a great service experience. You don't have to be the best at what you do as long as you find a way to make your clients happy. Clients can then speak to both your product and your service. Client referrals are over 80% of my new business.