skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1. Nowadays there are zillions of alternatives to Diaspora:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_social_network

I believe that to overcome Facebook we should not build just an equivalent, with similar features but free/open & distributed. "To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete" (R. B. Fuller) Personally I think we should eventually swift, in the social networks arena, from communication to collaboration... as they do in http://kune.cc
after moving from coding in drupal i moved in cakephp and i think its is easy to learn and get started.

where as i find yii to be a bit tricky to learn
Mini Ion Thrusters Could Propel Small Satellites in Space
Slight nitpick about HN title: This isn't the world's first bionic eye. The article was surprisingly good about not making this assertion: Australia's first bionic eye seeing shapes and recipient of the first bionic eye developed in Victoria. Sorry... it just always bothers me when people claim "firsts" without sufficient research or qualifications (ie hedging) -- it tends to marginalize others' groundwork... "shoulders of giants" and all that.
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Impressive. I have no idea how you could manage that.

Where did you learn your style? (Or why?)
I don't see how that is "better", it's just totally different. I think this VW version looks a total mess when scrolled. Nissan is much much simpler and smoother.
Intervalometers
Hacker Posts British police logins online
The author admits that Huskies can outrun humans, albeit in colder places. I wonder if this is not a co-incidence, since humans have directed the evolution of dogs for quite a while now.
Mailrox - a web app to quickly build bulletproof HTML emails
There was this dart. It somewhat failed, so what they did was, screw up a good systems language so that it sarted looking like dart..
How can it be Sustainable? Kiva's Social Lending Campaign
I am confused how Kiva's Social Media lending campaign can sustain itself if it goes viral.

Quick rundown on the campaign is that if you get a referral link, you post it on FB/Twitter etc. For every person that signs up you get $25 to lend and the referrer gets $25 more to lend. If my referral link gets a thousand sign ups, then Kiva is responsible for $50,000 worth of loans. Is this user acquisition strategy sustainable? Its not like they are giving out free software trials. I suppose the hope is that people signup and then throw their own money into the pot and continuously lend over time thus Kiva earns interest over time to make up for this. Yet it seems like the amount of money could balloon in this campaign really fast.

Here is my Kiva referral link via Facebook: http://bit.ly/PEtET3
Non-Referral: https://www.kiva.org/portfolio/invites

In case you don't know Kiva - its a Micro-financing platform - signup and choose a third-world person/cause to lend to. Maybe the loan is repayed, maybe not. If it is you can lend again.
FF 16 (aurora), Ubuntu 12.04, core i7, 4GB ram (no swap).

Memory usage jumped to about 2GB before the machine became totally unresponsive. I did something else for a few minutes while I waited for the kernel to kill anything using too much memory and get my machine back to a usable state.
Bethesda admits they can't get Skyrim Dawnguard running on PS3
<3. Wish I could come up with a short term use case for human.io now :(
Here is his full answer:

"Prior art was considered.

But the stipulation under the law is for the prior art to be sufficient to negate or invalidate Apple's patents in this case, it had to be sufficiently similar or, more importantly, it had to be interchangeable.

And in example after example, when we put it to the test, the older prior art was just that. Not that there's anything [wrong] with older prior art - but the key was that the hardware was different, the software was an entirely different methodology, and the more modern software could not be loaded onto the older example and be run without error.

So the point being, at [a bird's eye-view from] the 40,000 foot-level, even though the outcome of the two seemed similar, the internal methodology of how you got there was entirely different. One could not be exchanged for the other.

And that is the thing that most people at large do not understand about the legal system. And as a result of that you have heard a lot of hype in the media about did we turn our back on prior art."

It looks like this jury was a lot more informed than the internet lawyers give them credit for.
that is not true. i have been trying to get attention to a comment thread with Fred Wilson (usv) reg. AAPL and AirBnB, but in vain.
I've long thought that something like this, combined with something like twilio, would be killer for letting companies build ad-hoc customer support teams, and letting end users work their way up a customer support ladder (think small ecom sites that don't need a fulltime helpdesk but do need to handle inbound calls occasionally). You could build out a CSR script and route calls accordingly when people call your support line, and use human.io to put the data into your ticketing system / whatever.
Here's another gem:

"Just to make it clear, the phone that I have is a Motorola Droid X2 and the reason I'm mentioning that is because it is in the record, it was told to the judge and told to the court when asked that question.

And it is of a slider variety so it has a normal keyboard, and for that reason it's not among the 26 accused phones.
"

The Droid X2, of course, isn't a slider. The juror probably has a Droid 2.
I read the full quote and it's wrong. Period.

If "interchangeable code" was the standard then why apply it only to prior art? Why not apply it to future art as well? (Samsungs implementation.)

It looks like this jury just made stuff up. And I really hope the judgment gets completely tossed for this. The judge has yet to rule on that (although it's rare to toss a jury verdict since they actually are allowed to make stuff up to some degree - lookup Jury nullification, so I'm not really expecting it to be tossed).
512 here, ten minutes just about fits the bill. I have been reading all these comments but have no idea what it is because it wont load for me at all. i cant load 30 mb. It's bsnl and it wont even give complete 512. more like 400.
You need a deterministic memory management.
You do know we use your system to test code right? :)
Seems like it does a lot more than just log keys. Here's a list of features from wikileaks.org/spyfiles/files/0/289_GAMMA-201110-FinSpy.pdf

· Covert Communication with Headquarters

· Full Skype Monitoring (Calls, Chats, File Transfers,
Video, Contact List)

· Recording of common communication like Email, Chats
and Voice-over-IP

· Live Surveillance through Webcam and Microphone

· Country Tracing of Target

· Silent extracting of Files from Hard-Disk

· Process-based Key-logger for faster analysis

· Live Remote Forensics on Target System
It seems like a FB cookie bug, hard to figure out. Try incognito.
from http://support.google.com/adsense/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...

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If you ask me, loading different units through conditionals qualifies as altered. Good way to get hit with the No Explanation Ban Hammer.
Actually before you embark on such things, you should probably be "the scarred person who knows how to fix shit that goes wrong". Then you know which things are likely to hurt you and you can avoid them.

To be in control of your venture means knowing all the corner cases.

I'd trust dedicated hardware more than Heroku as when it does go wrong, you're at the mercy of yourself and not others (other than the colo facility).
If nothing else, it reinforces that people who think they are being hip when they make Apple-only or iOS-only or iOS/Retina-tailored solutions are working for the dark side(tm). Heck, even if you make mobile apps, also for Android, but do iOS first, you are part of the problem.

I think these people need to hear it again and again and again until they actually get it and stop supporting one of the least ethical companies in the tech industry today. You are giving the wicked emperor more power. Stop doing that! It wont make him any nicer.

I say keep them coming. Filtering news to ease the conciousness of people assisting "evil" makes no sense.

We should be the ones driving Apple. Apple should not be the one driving us. We've seen the result of that already.

Edit: specific industry-niche qualifier was needed.
The sort of technology you're talking about is in its very, very early infancy. We've no idea how the landscape is going to look 20 years from now. I don't think there's any reason to be pessimistic about the future. We have rapidly improving, free, desktop, tablet and phone operating systems and an open web.

I can't wait to see the impact that Mozillas new mobile OS they're releasing in the first quarter of next year has. It sounds like it is going to be "more free" than Android, and much easier to develop for. The Linux desktop is "not there" yet, but it is becoming more user friendly every year, and rapidly. Ubuntu is a god send.
Yes, that was what I was trying to get to.
Depression And Stress Shrink The Brain Improve Memory
According to Yale scientists, depression or chronic stress can cause the loss of brain volume, a condition that contributes to both emotional and cognitive impairment. This means that you will not be able to improve memory or increase brain power if you are under stress. Actually the opposite will happen.
I finally got the Nexus 7, to get a picture of Jelly Bean and the Android ecosystem.

What the Nexus 7 lacks is a certain intuitiveness. I gave it to my almost 4 years old and she had to play along more with it, to grasp how to start up and use it. While using it, she accidentally accesses functions which distract her from using an app and I have to intervene. Which means the always on software buttons are no help.

Ok, you're talking of school children, but I think an iPad Mini with its better ecosystem for educational apps and general much stronger apps especially for kids is a better fit. Especially because when an app is opened, you are focused only on this app and no buttons to accidentally throw you out of it.

Also the homescreen of iOS is more intuitive, the homescreen plus separate app drawer cause confusion.

Maybe the Play Store can get better at educational apps. At least software wise, I don't feel it. It's more like a new form of PC instead of a tablet device.

But the PlayStation emulator I got is awesome :p
It's the better OS for you. It's subjective, massively.
Decreasing the company's profit doesn't necessarily equate to a union taking its "cut" (of the profits). Think reduced hours, more vacation, sick leave, less hazardous environment. Here the union is a check against a corporation's motive to sacrifice work environment for profit.
I hate what 911 has done to people's thinking. We're talking about the future here but people can't stop with their fantasy bond villain nonsense.
You mention the use of Tor and TrueCrypt. But, how effective is a lock against the thief who is already in the house?

Besides, in my part of the world Internet speed is not like that of US (which I have not experienced) or of S Korea (which I experienced and couldn't believe it was that fast) and neither is it so good in the countries where oppressive regimes are still holding ground (albeit with the (in)direct support of many western powers including the USA) the speed is very slow. Use of sth like Tor reduces it to a mere trickle. Though a in particular case the pain can be endured but when it comes to an entire nation then it's not a solution at all.
I just found that it's oh-my-zsh's feature. It alias sl to ls.
Actually, If you have invested the 15+ years it takes to become a decent C++ programmer, then you won't want to throw that out just because some new language comes by.

Most of what happens in C++ is low level maintenance of data. There are certain programs where this is important, but for the largest chunk of programs, low level maintenance provides more buggy programs with considerably worse performance.

And this is the real crux of the problem. For some C++ programmers they wont or simply can't give up the low level ability to mangle data. I have a hunch though that certain lacking constructs, generics come to mind, are used as excuses for not even wanting to take a decent look at the language. I have a feeling that sometimes it ends up being a religious tirade because "then I can't do my own containers". But you really shouldn't.

Most dynamically typed languages do not really need a generic-primitive. Does that make them unsuitable for programming? Hardly. In Go you just have to work around the problem.
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Apple versus Samsung: Full interview with the jury foreman
Interesting thought, I'm of that era, I began programming after graduate school in 1983, and remember the beginning of GNU well, as well as the fork that is called "open source".

I find it interesting to hear arguments that open source has more or less shown that "free software" is no longer so relevant. I agree that the FSF has been somewhat marginalized but I don't think that bodes well for the future of programming.

Ebon Moglen also writes and speaks well on many of the political and economics aspects of software as it relates to property and law. Many American indian tribes, .eg., treated land and resources as common but treated things like a teepee painting and even a brave's name as property. It's complicated :)
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I type very similarly, although I also tend to keep my arms angled in with index fingers on v and n, and do use ring fingers to type some letters, and pinky for modifiers. The main reason is to keep my wrists at a more comfortable angle. There is some overall greater movement of the hands vs. normal technique. I don't really see a problem with this.

I pretty much learned to type at a reasonable speed from MUDs, IRC, and other online chat. I'm >80wpm even using this nonstandard technique on QWERTY.

I type like this mainly on apple mba13/mbp keyboards (low travel, small); on a full-sized Das Keyboard at my desk, it's closer to conventional typing, although I still never hit a or l with pinky.
The Machine That Changed The World
I don't think, all lawyers are on Apple side. Refer http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4458963
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I would guess you did this test on your own keyboard, which you're used to. I wonder if the results would have been different if you'd used an unfamiliar one.

(I also wonder if the number of trials you did was statistically significant--but never mind!)
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I have no idea if there were any bribes involved. But one should be careful to blame money where just nationalism and fanboyism could explain it. The head of the jury seems also to be a patent troll.
Touchwiz provides them with differentiation, but not in a positive way.
Nice one, giving it to the nordic countries first means that they can reduce the number of high-bandwidth seeders for their content on Bittorrent. At the same time profit from it.
It would be interesting to repeat the "Android vs. iOS" (device specific, I guess) experiment with device-naive users (kids or maybe old/poor/foreign people?) every few months.

Clearly the iOS/iPad/etc. was far superior at one point (especially when it was the only device!); it's likely it changes over time, but that for anyone familiar with one or the other, switching costs predominate.
Microsoft fails to pacify PC vendors about Surface tablets
>... one of the least ethical companies around today.

Are you serious? You believe a computer company is one of the least ethical companies?
So is http://beepl.com
I am going to be disillusioned with HN if this uninformed speculation isn't buried.
This works pretty well in IE9 with no noticeable performance problems on a 5 year old machine.

Rather scarily, it also works fine on a Lumia 710 as well!

I don't care what anyone says - IE is not a stinking heap of poop.
I agree, at the moment, HN is being dominated by Apple versus Samsung, a large amount of c and c++ and other general tech news.

Unfortunately for you I come here almost exclusively for tech news, so if I see something unrelated to technology, I tend to glance right past it. I think it is just a case of targeting the wrong audience in a way, or a mostly unsuited audience, in any case.
If you're a programmer/developer/hacker, you don't "throw out" what you already know.

Wouldn't learning a new language expand your toolset? Not replace it.

And I think most here agree that Go and C++ are solving different problem spaces. So knowing both would be a win.
I would assume that school provided devices would include some kind of management system, locked down configuration, and apps, so there wouldn't be as much software difference between the two. iOS might be better out of the box, but Android is more customizable, so I could see an "Android for Classrooms" built which worked really well in that environment. That would only make sense in huge volumes, but the K-12 market is really big.
It works very well in IE9 (both desktop and WP7.5). Perhaps you should try it before you slate it.
Sounds to me that the main issue was running out of RAM on workers. Would this not be soved by moving to another cloud provider (such as AWS) where you are not limited to the tiny RAM provided on Heroku?

Is this not similar in strategy to choosing hardware and spinning up your own stack?

EDIT: I getting at the rather sweeping statement against all cloud providers based on a specific Heroku problem
I had the exact same situation, click-fraud out of the blue. You can find many such cases reported. I strongly believe that AdSense for small, powerless publishers is a scam. Google can do whatever it likes with your ad space and cut you off whenever.
Instead of catching the flight next day you have a visit at the embassy

FYI, it would technically be a consulate which helps someone whose passport has been stolen; embassies deal with relations between governments, not with providing assistance to individuals.

(It's a common point of confusion, but one which might be useful to have straight if your passport ever gets stolen!)
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This panorama have enhanced colors to be corresponded with colors using by NASA.

138 source images (1200x1200px) from the 34-millimeter Mast Camera on NASA's Curiosity rover was used to stitch very hi-resolution panorama of 30000x15000 pixels.

P.S. Now we are working to add Curiosity rover to this panorama
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yeah, just kiddin.
So you conclude the patent system and the legal structure is fine as it is? Because, my conclusion is the opposite from all the points I make above.
It's because of the way iOS captures scroll events. These scrolling sites never look right on iOS.
There are no dumb users, just dumb products
If you really want a kid's tablet, you should check out the Nabi 2:

http://www.nabitablet.com

It's been designed from the ground up for children ("kid mode" and "parent mode", an included rubber bumper and other attention paid to durability, kid-friendly launcher in kid mode, kid-focused app store with apps broken down by age, ...). The only big downside is that you can't get the Play Store on it (easily at least), though the Amazon Appstore isn't a problem (and most of the kid-focused apps seem to be in both).

My wife and I got one for our preschooler and she absolutely loves it.

To me, this is the future of kid's tablets (at least in the Android world) - targeted devices that fit into the larger ecosystem.
I was thinking along the same line.

When you use the same finger to type the G and T and a different finger to type I, it seems really impossible for me to accidentally type G-T-I.

The more common mistake is when you have to type two consecutive letters with the same finger but end up typing the next one earlier because its on a different finger (usually on the opposing hand).

Ex: 'teh' instead of 'the'- T,H with left index finger. E with left middle finger.

I also almost never type 'sl' though I do often type 'qw' in the Vim command line instead of 'wq'
And what if you do it server side (using user-agent and other info get before with javascript)? The ad placement is not altered, and it is not adsense code that is changed in any way.

I understand you want to underline the risks. It is possible Google uses some automated site code screening which will flag this for a ban. Even than, doing it server site must be completely legit.
Fair enough. Let me make an edit and prepend "in the tech-industry" to that statement and I'll stand for it.

Apple has joined the rank of patent-trolls and turned what used to be a tech-industry into a litiagative minefield where you need more lawyers than engineers to do a business. They are the front-runners of software-patents and they deserve all the flack they get for it.

I don't think there's any debating that patent-trolls are evil and that supporting them are wrong.
To me, generic programming implies preserving all type information, which is something the above Go container does not do (when you get an element out of the container, you cannot tell statically what type it is).

Templates are generic, but so is, e.g. the type inference used in functional languages.
Java Pwns Everyone Again
According to this:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/30/oracle_knew_about_fl...

Oracle knew about this for quite some time..
Startups Shouldn't Follow Trends
Try this: http://www.newscientist.com/

Refreshingly content filled.
This is getting rediculous. This has been discussed as nauseum without either side agreeing. Picking over the bones of the trial while writing untold paragraphs about the whys and whatfores is wasting cycles. Wait until the appeal, of it is allowed, and see.

One thing to note though. There has been an awful lot of cogantive bias exhibited by both sides. It must stop. It just leads to flaming and even more wasted time.
Supposing he meant "least ethical computer companies" it's still very doubtful, assuming all of Apple's marketing about worker conditions improvement and recycling is true or near true.

Disclaimer: I do believe walled gardens are evil and software patents should die.
Well, who wouldve thought about? Absolutely astonishing news!
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In 2005 Creative beat Apple, whose side you took then?