skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, I played - along with my father - LOTR II too, it was nice :) I still have some memory of the soundtrack and effects, maybe the best part of that title.

I still miss something like Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, that was a surprisingly great game.
Interview with Elon Musk
Some of the pictures would have been impossible if the camera wasn't automatically swapping the filters very quickly. You can actually see the distortion is things moved around in the images and the colors separated, and there's even a sense of how fast they were moving. It seems to me that the pictures were taken in rapid succession indeed.
A dev displays leadership by delivering great software. I'm not saying other types of leaders don't have to talk, but I just wish people could grasp that a developer ships software by sitting and working at a computer for a very long time, sometimes up to 12 hours a day. Doing social visits and meetings is time that a dev is not delivering. If a developer stops developing software so they can spend the majority of his or her time with face-to-face visits and meetings, that person is no longer working in a developer role.

No one seems to believe this, but developers have to develop software at some point. There is no way around it, no one else is going to write the code, make the tests, etc. In the business world unfortunately, people drop out development but keep calling themselves developers. A developer leader is someone who delivers software.
Two Possible Paths into the Future of Wearable Computing: Part 1 – VR
The HTML 5 spec refers to it simply as "the title element" (as opposed to a title attribute)

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/single-page.html#the-title-elem...

There is no such thing as "on page title". There may be a top level heading in the DOM outline.

Throwing "meta" in there is just going to confuse people.
Well, there's the cockiness, but there's also the fact that many times those words are code for "slave". My first job was like that. They advertised for "rockstar" .Net programmers. Only, in this case, "rockstar" apparently meant "willing to work 18 hour days for no extra pay or benefits save the manager telling you how awesome you are and how much money you're saving the company". Ever since that, I've looked at job postings looking for "rockstars" or "ninjas" with a jaundiced eye.
As someone who grew up in Hong Kong, please don't associate Hong Kong in 2012 with the phrase "Libertarian Utopia" at all.

The government has been trying to pass this bill:
http://www.ipd.gov.hk/eng/intellectual_property/copyright/co...

It means that satire of existing works are now illegal if done without the express permission of original copyright owner. And even more worryingly, the law allows the government to take action on the copyright owner's behalf, if the government can obtain permission from the owner. If you are a licensed television station and the government comes to you secretly threatening allow more television licenses, of course you will give the government permission.

Also, read about government's attempt to introduce "education" about the Chinese Communist Party in primary school. The textbook contains only praises of China's authoritarian regime with barely a mention of atrocities in the 50's, 60's and 70's.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19472918
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/04/world/asia/hong-kong-natio...

"The contents of the booklet inflamed longstanding fears of Beijing's encroachment into Hong Kong's affairs and freedoms by stating that China's ruling party is "progressive, selfless and united," and ignoring major events such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre."
Type-Safe Memory Reuse
Check Knowledge Modules
The CKM (Check Knowledge Modules )is in charge of checking that records of a data set are consistent with defined constraints. The CKM is used to maintain data integrity and participates in the overall data quality initiative. The CKM can be used in 2 ways:

1. To check the consistency of existing data. This can be done on any datastore or within interfaces, by setting the STATIC_CONTROL option to “Yes”. In the first case, the data checked is the data currently in the datastore. In the second case, data in the target datastore is checked after it is loaded.
A long time ago I made some silly music visualizations for Winamp that ended up shipping with the official download. Years later, a picture surfaced showing an astronaut on the ISS using Winamp on his laptop... which means my code made it out into space.

Best reward ever.
I had a partner at a VC ask me that too :-) The question you have to ask is "What is Flash?" which sounds really dumb when you ask it but let me explain.

So in the storage business everything used to be done on the highest performance, most reliable drives. Typically those were 15K RPM Fibre Channel drives which cost 8x the price of an equivalent SATA drive [1]. In 2003 NetApp created the 'NearStore' line which was filers that used SATA drives. The idea was that tape was way to slow, you could put stuff on SATA drives and for low duty cycles get to it a lot faster, SATA drives were 'nearline' storage which was defined to be "about 99.8% available." This was hugely better than tape but not as good as a "real" disk array. Of course what people discovered was that you could have some pretty huge data sets be reasonably accessible that way, the first folks were the oil and gas folks [2] but lots of people jumped onto the bandwagon, it was cheaper than a storage array, faster than tape.

Now lets look at flash. Most people think of flash as a disk replacement because it connects to the computer through a disk interface (even though it doesn't have disk mechanicals). So it seems like a really fast disk. My assertion though is that it isn't a fast disk, its slow memory. It is 'near line' memory. Which is to say it takes a lot longer to access something in flash than it does in memory, but its craploads faster than getting off of spinning rust.

Four years ago, I told a guy who claimed to be Intel's key flash architect that if Intel would put flash on the same side of the MMU as the processor we would completely change the way servers are built. Why? Can you imagine that you've got 200GB of address space that is already ready to go when you turn on the processor? Once you start loading page tables you read in the ones in non-volatile flash and blam all your data structures are ready to go, right now. You want to make some sort of logical computation based on the state of a 50GB data structure, and all you do is follow the pointers? The 'driver' for flash attached as memory is

var = *((var type *)(0xsome64bitaddress);

But we cannot do that because flash doesn't live on the front side bus, it lives, at best, in the PCI Express address space on the other side of the Southbridge. [3].

Bottom line Solid State drives are doomed, you can't make them much denser the physics doesn't work, you don't want to waste your time going through the disk driver and I/O subsystem to get to what is essentially more memory. But as flash moves closer to the CPU its impact will become pretty impressive.

[1] This lead people like IBM to propose 'bricks' which were 8 SATA drives in a RAID or Mirrored config pretending to be a single reliable drive.

[2] One of my favorite Dave Hitz quotes: "Oil and Gas companies have an awesome compression algorithm, they can take a 600TB data set and compress it to one bit, 'oil' or 'no oil.'"

[3] Yes the new Sandy Bridge DDIO architecture helps with this. (http://www.realworldtech.com/sandy-bridge-ep/2/)
This is ridiculous. I'm trying to think of a practical / smart use of this. Incredibly clever, and remarkable show of skill, I'm just questioning it.
Yes, they do. And the "Tute culture can be perversely proud of those, too.

But I don't want to give the impression I didn't like it there. Those were, in many ways, the best years of my life, and MIT culture contributed strongly to that.
I know there are a lot of libertarians around here, and I have some leanings that way myself. Plus, there's the whole startup culture which naturally embraces bold new ideas. So I thought the article was very interesting and understand why others would as well.

But your last paragraph ... Ouch. I had to rewrite this post three times to keep it civil. I guess your point is you think this idea is just that good, but if you take a step back and consider that on the one hand we have a very, simple, proven, and cheap way of saving huge numbers of lives and on the other we have something very ambitious but as yet unproven, you might conclude that they should not be competing for the same dollar.
The ones that had been shipping for a few years. Like many things they all start life the least stable, go through several firmware revisions, maybe a couple of hardware revisions, and then everyone hits about the same level of reliability if they don't change them further.
I agree with you in general. E-mail has a little more structural security though, there are never world-wide glitches where everyone can access other people's private photos mailed years ago. (Think of the imgur dump of Zuck's private photos.)
i feel the same way about stanford...but i went there so i don't know how open it really is.
Let me help you: Porto Alegre, Curitiba, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte and Recife, all cities in Brazil with boatloads of developers and entrepreneurs, healthy ecosystems, booming markets, great culture and nightlife.

We just held the largest Javascript conference on the planet in Porto Alegre, with 900+ attendees, while RubyConf was simultaneously happening in São Paulo.

We do have excess bureaucracy for business, but it's getting better.
There is a nice scene in the film Before Sunset where the two main characters are discussing the fact that the female lead, Celine, is working for an NGO. Speaking about what she sees around her:

I see it in the people that do the real work, and what's sad in a way is that the people that are the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better, usually don't have the ego and ambition to be a leader.
For what it's worth I'd take the #macintosh out of the URL as teh more important thing for me is seeing what this does / how it works. It's a neat utility but I had to do a double-take when the link opened installation instructions without an overview of what it actually does.
but the hard part is getting them to adopt it

That's true of most things that are new, though. It's a sales issue, and one that can be overcome.

but without the ease of understanding their problems.

I'd have to strongly disagree here. You can easily understand their problems like any other industry and company, dive in, talk to them, and/or get involved in the industry.

This generally filters the people with experience in manufacturing who are already set in their ways.

That is painting with broad strokes, I think.

With the rise of hardware startups though, we're seeing entrepreneurs get into the dirty parts of the system - maybe some will then go on to solve some of these problems that they personally run into.

This isn't a new phenomenon, though. Apple, IBM, Pitney Bowes, Ford, etc. etc. were all hardware startups at one time. Many manufacturing problems have been solved and hammered through for many decades. Many of those are transferring over into newer industries. Many Lean Software principles seem to be oddly similar to JIT, and Lean Manufacturing principles established decades earlier.

The opportunities that I think exist in manufacturing aren't for automation as mentioned in the OP, that has also been around for decades. I think the real opportunities are in truly empowering the workforce with technology that bridges the gap between the guy on the plant floor, the CFO, and the customer. It's simply massive, and it doesn't have to be.
I think you're spot on, but I definitely don't see anything wrong with it.
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
Yea, this would have been better. Will keep in mind for next time -- can't change it now.
Wow, thanks for that link, it looks amazing! This might be the first Kickstarter campaign I might contribute too...
reminds me of the story (not sure if it is true or not) of how the telephone revolutionised the world - prior to that, you had to be introduced to someone by a third party before you could speak to them; subsequent to the telephone the word 'hello' was invented.
Or so the story goes
Argentina's government has taken a hard left turn, and has gotten the nationalization bug. This isn't the first time, either. This is a contrast to Chile- the government in Chile has been rather stable since Pinochet was voted out.

Santiago is a great cosmopolitan urban city, and it has quite the concentration of startups-- Startup Chile brings in 100 new startups three times a year, and that's on top of the startups that were already here (though Chile is not as entrepreneurial as the government would like it to be, Chileans seem to be very attuned to world pop culture -- anime, american bands, etc. This includes a subculture of startups that was blown up by Startup Chile.)

And Startup Chile is just one of the government programs. There are many of them, of a wide variety of types.

One bonus about Chile- some big summer movies premier here first. For instance, I saw The Avengers a week before you guys did. And usually they are in english with spanish subtitles. (I suspect the Chileans would not like the cheap acting of the spanish voiceovers that many movies get.)

But this isn't a "live on $500 a month" situation- cost of living is about what it was on the west coast of the USA. But then, I suspect dubai isn't either (but I cant' comment on Dubai having not been there.)
Having gone to school in a small college town (UWaterloo), I always thought that 24hr open libraries and labs were the norm. I can't imagine not being able to work through the night on hard problems.

For MIT, such open policies must be more logistically challenging because they are close to a city. And my school never had the same culture of collaboration between departments and humble but famous professors.
Obviously emergencies are an exception, but for the meetings I've been in, the phone calls that I've seen my peers take have never been an emergency. They are people taking calls from their friends, their significant others, their mortgage broker, their mechanic, etc.

The worst is when they start talking on the phone even before they leave the meeting room, and disrupt the meeting.
Apple's iPhone tops JD Power satisfaction survey for 8th straight time
I did see that, in 2010. And the title misslead me to think of something new. Could we please tag titles appropriately? ie. (2010)
You're clearly not a foreigner. You can see and feel that opinion everyday all over western europe, specially the UK, even if you're just a tourist. Even Paris seems cosy and friendly after being in England.
I love the fact that these photos capture a landscape without cars. It is especially striking in the shots of cities. Imagine what it would look like if a photo of the same locations were taken now -- more pavement and cars, fewer trees.
Also, it's a simulator control room.
If this could be integrated to work with Alfred that would be amazing.
I still haven't gotten around to going to college, don't think I ever will, unless I get bored and someone wants to take a PhD candidate with no formal education. Currently, I build websites and educational software for WGBH.

My parents, step-mom, and godparents (all MIT grads) have each held a number of eclectic jobs, from comptational biologist, to technical writer, to human/machine interface in college admission offices, to webmaster, to landscaper, to politician, to managing large philanthropic organizations.

What strikes me, is that in each of those jobs all of them have excelled, and MIT played no small part in the matter.
Client-serving is very different, and I'm sure a good CEO would insist that you take the call rather than be in a meeting. I was thinking more about from the developer angle, so I guess I should have been clearer.

Like I said below, interrupting a meeting and leaving to take a call from your mechanic because your car is ready, or from a friend to plan your activity that night, is rude, and I've seen a lot of that.
Here are some game tech articles that I found interesting:

* Fixing Pathfinding Once and For All: http://www.ai-blog.net/archives/000152.html

* Scenegraphs: Past, Present, and Future: http://www.realityprime.com/articles/scenegraphs-past-presen...

* Evolve Your Hierarchy: Refactoring Game Entities with Components: http://cowboyprogramming.com/2007/01/05/evolve-your-heirachy...
I agree. This is needed. Many people are missing the point, which is that there is no real government in those places. The fact that the entrenched powers are warlords and oligarchs means the gating and exploitation angle people are worrying about already exists in an even worse and more dishonest form. Any such experiment could not possibly make things more broken than they are. That things have settled at such a dismal equilibrium is why so much aid is needed in the first place. Sending aid is attacking the symptom and not the disease.

Something like this would be like a culture attack in Civilization. It would show that something better was possible and not an ocean away, completely destabilizing the status quo. I am not surprised so many African leaders denied it - they would not try something that has such a high risk of eroding their power base and the iron hold hold they have over the path of revenue.

Will this work? Well it either will or it won't. If it doesn't then things are no worse beyond a few bitter people. And if it does? The implications extend beyond Poor countries if the richer ones all of a sudden have to start competing for the flow of talent. If they run slightly different versions in different areas they can even do some optimization on the best features of an economy and government. I can't see this as anything other than a good thing.
Amazon's Bezos Explains How It Makes Money While Keeping Prices Low
all other things aside, that $66K tag can send 95% to see a bankruptcy lawyer.
I'm not really a Mac guy so I haven't played with Alfred, but from what I understand it's a launcher of sorts. Will it run executables that are in PATH with supplied arguments? If so, then you should be good to go. Or is there potential for tighter integration? What do you have in mind?
In a time when I didn't really know what to study/learn, MIT OCW gave me a huge repository of credible and well-structured information. The SICP and intro to algorithms/data structures lectures were among the coolest introduction to computer science/programming, their physics class helped me study for the MCAT in college and I recall they had a very intuitive intro calculus class that made it click for me in a way my own university's class did not. I've gotten dozens, perhaps even over 100 hours of entertainment and enrichment from their FREE resources. A truly awesome institution.
How one game developer is making The Pirate Bay work for him
Very cool, my daughter was an operator on the Reed research reactor [1] and its control room is a lot simpler :-) Of course as an operations guy these days I see all those cool status panels and think it would be fun to pick some up for work. Then to find the gal who did the voice overs for Starcraft

"There is a packet anomaly in router one, there is a
packet anomaly in router one."

:-)

[1] http://reed.edu/reactor/
Another planet in our solar system? Sure. But even the nearest planet beyond our Solar system is about 11 light years away. And getting there anytime soon is an unfeasible goal according to Physics. Perhaps the Earth would be different 50 to 100 from now, but I wouldn't bet too much on any exciting activity going on outside of our planet.
Thanks for the countless hours of SC fun over the years. Amazing how far things have come, but really how little has actually changed when it comes to what makes the game fun and engrossing.

Did you guys have any idea what sort of an impact it would have in Asia (more specifically with the Korean players)?
Taken massively out of context:

From MIT, I’ve dated the […] wrong guys. […] I got to experience the fraternity life, being a “rush” girl, throwing rush week events, and taking childish jabs at other fraternities. I even lived at an MIT fraternity over a summer, as they [became] co-ed over the summer, and lived unofficially as a resident girlfriend [passed around???] during other times. You gave me the best times of my life at MIT. I got to party [what kind of parties???] with people […] and all the while had substance[s]. [I saw] your students […] from two o’clock a.m. to sunrise. [I] will be secretly thinking about all the people [I've] dated while [I'm] saying [my] wedding vows.
All the stuff that is mentioned here is applicable to most of the US universities. At least the one I attended to, had similar open access to everything and an environment that fosters collaboration and innovation.
Meta: the Inc.com mobile website offers an horrible experience on my Desire w/ ICS + Chrome. Slow, cluttered and buggy (wouldn't let me scroll to the bottom, kept bouncing back).

It's text content. Why not just a nice simple HTML page: instead of all the 'HTML app' cruft on top?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uipT-me_e1s
I have 40k likes on Facebook..all from India. How do I make money?
As a compliment to my future website, I made a simple facebook app in hopes it would go viral and help brand my company. I was right. Not only did the app go viral but at the highest, I was getting 12k hits a day and for 6 months have had a steady traffic stream. As a result, I have been getting like after like and now have 40k likes. Currently I get around 100 likes per day.

Sounds great right? Well here is the problem. 85% of the traffic is from India and Nigeria. How do I use these 40k fans to make more money? Currently we have ads all over our app and although very annoying, we make a nice 10$ per 1k hits. There has to be more ways to make money with all these users and all these likes. What can I do?
I think you're missing the point about laws and democracy. Libertarianism assumes you have the least possible government and preferably none at all. You don't really need democracy when you can vote instantly with your wallet and you don't need a centralized law-making body when everybody implements their own laws on their own property and various property owners are in competition with each other as to whose laws work better and generate more profit.
somebody needs to introduce a touch screen and some LCD displays to these people.
As a loose analogy, could you say:

People think that your calculator can only show 12 significant figures because it's only got a small screen. But, the actually numbers it works with are also limited, and you can get even weirder things happening due to its internal representation being inexact.

That's only an analogy for the sort of confusion people have, not an analogy for how quantum physics actually works.
so instead of addressing the points you talk about drama?

and <i>he</i> is the one to blame?
Oh look! Not constructive.
This does look pretty handy. I'd almost rather have my passwords stored in something like this, as opposed to LastPass where they are stored externally.

However, it would be great if this could work with Chrome as an extension. You'd probably want to avoid writing a native plugin for it, because that would require compiling and would be a headache for managing the extension (and gpg versions, etc). Instead, one thing you could do is setup a daemon that the extension could talk to, bound to localhost. But then you'd have to manage authenticating Chrome to the client, etc... perhaps I found something to tinker with over the weekend.
See the disqus comment on set_request_property as well.
Because he thinks government beating people over the head, robbing them, and then giving the money to him is "protecting human rights", and the idea that people should be allowed to live in peace, without being subjected to this violence, is a "violation of human rights".