skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is the video of the ceremony: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/24/100-year-old-packag...
Asphalt roads re-invented: Now made out of Solar Panels (Prototype video)
Do you pre-approve and scan every single new advertisement to make sure it doesn't contain malware?

Buying ads on large sites with lax controls is a very common and simple way to distribute trojans.
this is so useless
I think it is hard for me to explain, because actually -> I <- prefer the Postgres documentation. However, I realized that was because it is fundamentally a man page. For someone who is exploring Postgres, or for someone who comes from other databases, it is way too abridged.

A simple example is the getting started part http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/creating-database.htm... vs http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/tutorial-crea...
Notice that Postgres has switched to using system commands like "createdb" while mysql sticks to SQL - there is a perfectly viable way to do this in Postgres using SQL, but perhaps the author didnt want to go directly to explaining template databases (which is simpler IMHO).

Go and ask someone who is new to both Mysql and Postgres to read these sections. Based on the distro they are on, you have completely lost them between the complexities of the OS vs the database
Here is an example of the kind of confusions that result - http://superuser.com/questions/220771/how-can-i-create-a-dat...

Check this section out - http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/privilege-system.html. The reason why I am picking up client authentication example is that this where 90% of beginner postgres problems occur: they happened to me and they happen to every other first timer. Is postgres more complicated ? No, but you need to explain it better. I find this to be a much more useful tutorial to point first timers to, even if they are not on Ubuntu : https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/postgresql.html
Perhaps Mayer should have randomized distribution so that Yahoo's mobile offerings would be consumed by employees via all three platforms. Perhaps the downside is that loyalists to a particular platform would just use their personal phones instead if another platform was forced upon them.
A trick to transmit HD 1080P video to unlimited distance
Wallace Stegner's writing hut: http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Stegner-s-studio-won-t-b...
The obligatory TED Talk by Barry Schwartz - http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_ch...
Pledging allegiance to the flag/country encourage kids to support or fight in for-profit wars and other nefarious gov't activities that mainly benefit the rich. The "under God" part is advertising for religions, again profiting the wealthy few.
The Weight of Remembering
Can you edit goo.gl URLs?
ShmooCon CFP Opens with New BELAY IT Track
There not planning to replace the QX11Info() class the removed and independent had to start coding a replacement and apparently he needs help. The XCB docs/tutorials are almost non-existent and do to that I never bothered to pick it up so I cant help him. You don't remove a class like that and not tell any one or provide a replacement. Its rude.

They didn't bother to take consideration for those that were using those api's. Now all my codes broken and I have to hope that guy writing the XCB QX11Info() class for the xcb comes threw or I have to replace thousands of lines of code.
"The company made $100k in profit in six months. Yet they only asked for $150k. What could they do with $250k in capital that they couldn’t do with the $100k that they already had? And if they waited another six months"

What could they do? It's not the money.

I consulted for someone who was on Shark Tank and got funded.

The reason you go on Shark Tank is:

a) You get national publicity and that national publicity gets you sales as well as all sort of attention. In the particular case that I am familiar with, sales increased 3 to 5x iirc. And that national publicity opens doors with companies and individuals in the business world. (We aren't talking about being featured on Techcrunch here - big deal.)

b) The Sharks really do have contacts, real world contacts, and do and did seal deals and get the particular product in question national distribution. Just like that.

Of course you try to make the best deal you can it is almost a sure bet given the right product and fit with the right Shark (which is generally taken care of by the Shark since they don't put money into what they don't know about or can't help with.)

And when you get a shot at being on a TV show with a national audience, you don't wait 9 months and hope you get picked for the next season. You jump at the opportunity. Even if you don't get funded the publicity alone is a no brainer.
i don't see why people downvoted you.

I write AI perception systems for "realtime simulations", and you are exactly correct.

while on the surface it may seem like "if/else" will give you the solution you need, the sheer number of permutations will make it infeasable.

That said, there are "known solutions" and some novel solutions to this problem too. Perhaps if/else is really what this person needs, but there are other potentially better solutions documented.
So it's like Plenty of Fish, but for job hunting.
Since they have an Apple Store App that works better than the website, why would they do that?
Funny timing! I've been using CasperJS all weekend and came across this same example snippet in CoffeeScript.

I went ahead and did it in JavaScript and yep, like the author accurately points out, it's messier.

The example snippet is has way too much outright nesting for my tastes.

At the end of it, I ended up using a couple modules to handle the codeless function wrappers and used function references instead of anonymous functions.

That seems clearer to me in either syntax than function inception.
"I could show them that 48x12 was really just 48x10 plus 48x2, which are 480 plus 96, which just makes 576 just-like-that."

I learned this lesson on my own, and was chastised for it while young. "That's not how you learn multiplication!" And so forth.

It was only (much) later until I saw Feynman's infamous videos where he denounced how the subject of Algebra was taught, and it made me feel a lot better about how I went about learning - and how I will teach my son. Or rather, lack of teaching.
In your life you have just 2 options, 1) Just belive in God and accept him as your savior, and understand that the other things in this world are secondary...or 2) belive in the idea that a big explosion of nothing in the middle of nothing creates everything around you.
I selected option 1.
"It should be a sobering thought, however, to any triumphalist impulse that in 100 AD Latin looked set to dominate its slice of the world forever."

The winner of the "Top Language of 100 AD" should go to Chinese circa 100 A.D.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Xenic

The following languages are heavily influenced by written chinese:

Korean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja

Japanese http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji

Vietnamese http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_language

As well as a variety of other languages (though the regions where they are from are now considered part of China):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters#Other_langua...

Moderately influenced:

Mongolian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_language

Thai http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_language

Here is a picture of Han China and Roman Empire circa 100 A.D.

http://www.roman-empire.net/maps/empire/extent/rome-china-co...

Written Chinese still dominate its slice of the world.

While not all chinese are conversant with Standard Mandarin, (I am not), almost all of them can read and write chinese.
I wonder if there is a business idea in this?
There are a lot of writers in NYC. So you buy a warehouse, and divide the space up into really small, sound-proof rooms.
Charge customers $250 a month to rent the space.

Just have to make sure customers are not sleeping in the room.
This teaser really doesn't have quite enough info, or quite enough of a hook, to be really worth discussing.
No, the honor would go to Games for Windows.
The whitespace rule as stated there is as far as my understanding goes incorrect. Whitespace is allowed between quoted strings and word tokens, not between individual production rules (if that is the term). By that I mean "q = 0 . 1" is invalid, "q = 0.1" however is valid. That simplifies things a lot.

If you lex the headers in two phases (handle line continuations and header combination first, feed joined lines to parser) HTTP is reasonably simple to parse.
I wonder about the credibility of this article given that it talks about "Chinese" as if it were a single language. There are many spoken languages in China (most notably Mandarin and Cantonese). They share a common written form but if you're talking about the "most influential language" surely the spoken languages should count for something.
There could another simpler way. NoVnc + tightpng encoding. Create and record a high framerate VNC session to desired video. Tweak no vnc to receive data from local callbacks and replay the recorded data.
There is a natural monopoly in a lingua franca, or common tongue. The original lingua franca was a Mediterranean trading language that drew principally on Italian [1]; with modern communications and media linking the world, this monopoly is now global, and the monopolist is English. This became particularly clear to me last year as I traveled the world on a circumnavigation. In Thailand, the signs are in Thai and English. In Singapore, they are in Chinese and English. In the United Arab Emirates, they are in Arabic and English. In Ireland, they are in Irish and English.

English owes its status principally to the political dominance of English-speaking nations—roughly speaking, Britain ruled the world in the 19th century, and America ruled it in the 20th—but it's not a bad choice as languages go. It has a rich technical vocabulary, relatively simple grammar and syntax, and an alphabetic writing system based on the widely supported Roman alphabet. Its only plausible competition is Chinese, due mainly to the massive number of native Chinese speakers, but Chinese writing is so difficult [2] that it's hard to imagine it ever competing successfully with English: although the latter's idiosyncratic spelling is legendary [3], even a mediocre alphabetic system is still much easier than Chinese.

Some people worry that advocating the use of English is an act of cultural imperialism [4], but this issue arises only because for English speakers the native tongue and the lingua franca happen to coincide [5]. It's easy to see the fallacy if you consider the possibility of a different lingua franca; for example, if Swahili were the lingua franca, I would advocate its use, and would strive to master it myself. As luck would have it, I get to be lazy and coast on my native tongue, but if you haven't yet mastered English, it would be much to your benefit to do so.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Lingua_Franca

[2] http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti

[4] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

[5] In physics, we would call this a degeneracy.
Many of the states don't have official languages either and of those that do several are bi-lingual. I grew up in Maine which doesn't have an official language but has a de-facto standard of English and French. The northern parts of the state have a very heavy french canadian influence and several towns use French more than English in signage as well as orally.
Here's a PDF version on the author's site: http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Articles/StepwiseRefin...
After reading this article I still don't have a clear idea of how they did the animation. It seems pretty in-depth technically, but the overall execution is still a mystery.

For example, how does the _frames array of base64 data related to the two unlock_00X.jpg files? All it says is "The "unlock_manifest.json" file specifies how the updated parts are positioned."
Missed this comment.

I still don't agree. I think it's important to realize people can't always separate their work and personal lives -- especially things like taking a call from a mechanic at 11:00am. I wouldn't expect people to make all of their personal calls at 6:01 every day since it's generally not practical. I say this from a management perspective where I used to be pretty demanding about attention. After a while I realized that sometimes your team has to take that call from their vet. I think letting your team make that decision for themselves goes a long way in building a relationship.

I kind of see it like this:

You're either in an "all hands" type meeting or a small group or two-person meeting. If it's the former then I think participation is completely optional as you're likely to get a recap from a colleague afterwards or via email. If it's the latter then you're likely to be a relatively important part of that meeting and the others can wait for you if you need to interrupt. Of couse that doesn't mean that you should take every call whether business or personal but I don't think it's a case of either/or. There are plenty of company-related calls that could be temporarily ignored and vice-versa.
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I'd guess some type of BSP tree. I agree, it looks fun to work on, see how massive of a simulation you could run in real time.
I just made this move a couple days ago after DreamHost silently dropping emails, among their history of outages and server restarts. Comparing the two, I was surprised at how fully featured DreamHost really is, but aside from a few small things the migration has been smooth and I am hoping uptime will be better.
Ah, thank you very much. This is one of those things that is so obvious in hindsight: don't run performance tests using constant values, or the compiler may optimize the code away!
This is a serious problem and unfortunately there is no straight forward solution.

For transfer, You have to raise at-least 75k+ per founder so your start-up can demonstrate funds for your salary.
Living by principles
If you'd bothered to look into what Ginzametrics actually does, you wouldn't have left an uneducated comment like this. Next time, I'd suggest you do some homework on the company you are going to troll on. Just because it's in the SEO market doesn't mean it's doing anything unethical.
How do video games solve it?

Do you have any material one can read to learn more about this?
After looking at the film, I suspect that some more restoration work could get rid of the color smearing.
The image data is read from the JPEG files in order as a series of 8x8 pixel blocks (in left-to-right then top-to-bottom order). Each instruction is basically "draw the next {{length}} blocks from the JPEG files to location {{location}} on the canvas".

Surprisingly, there is no mechanism to explicitly state which blocks to get from the JPEG. Instead, it always just uses the next unused blocks. (This means that blocks from the JPEG cannot be reused.)
Hmm, the coffeescript version is certainly a bit shorter, but it seems less readable to me... at best the C.S. version save a few characters because of it's shorter lambda notation, and lack of explicit delimiters, but especially the latter reduces readability.
I spent a few minutes trying to figure out how to install the thing so for anyone that is equally as lost

$ pip install sh

or goto the github page https://github.com/amoffat/sh
What happens to the order of keyword arguments?
Often through physics engines. You express a bunch of constraints then let a physics engine solve them on each time step (and sometimes across multiple time steps).

Custom (non-physics) solutions involve declarative sets of constraints being solved by some sort of engine; such solutions often start to resemble physics engines even if the physical rules even if the constraints are not exactly physical.

Learning how to use a physics engine, first, then how those physics engines work, is a good start to understanding these kinds of problems.

Edit: I'm really surprised the stackexchange answers don't mention this.
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It was asked here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4512022
The answer was: "It's still too early to tell."
It involves multiple redirects. One goes to http://simonsarris.com/recurse, which surely can be modified at any time. So, goo.gl short link to a controlled resource that shortly afterward is made to point back to the tweet.
These ranking ignore the fact Spanish and Portuguese are much closer to each other than any other two languages in this top ten listing.

Although Spanish and Portuguese are now two separate unintelligible languages, they were virtually the same 800 years ago. Someone literate in one can easily learn the other; it's probably the same with fluency. Machine translation between them is probably very accurate because of their relative closeness and the huge volume of sample data for both languages. Also... Because of geopolitics, Brazil and the rest of Latin America can easily negotiate compromise agreements where they say "put the administrative center for this in Brazil and make Spanish the official language for it".

So perhaps there's more of a case to consider Spanish and Portuguese to be one language for these rankings, than there is to lump all the unintelligible Arabic dialects (Morrocan, Egyptian, Levantine, Iraqi, and Gulf) into one language, or the unintelligible Chinese dialects (Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu, Minbei, Minnan, Xiang, Gan) into one language.
Good point. I guess if order matters you can do everything as positional args, then order will be preserved.
You could tempt him with the thought of putting "Full HD color film from London, 1902" on youtube and mean it.
Why not commit your notes as comments in the file (or docs or wiki, etc.)?
Great analysis, very interesting.

Obviously this is absurd overengineering.

And, despite the assumed total cross-browser compatibility claimed, I found that the video wouldn't play in any browser available to me, despite pinning the CPUs on my computer while just sitting there doing nothing.
Man, I wish there was a library to help us normal folk do similar things. The ability to do small video on mobile would rock.
Love it. I wanted to do this in Singapore. There are lots of co-working spaces but they're all so damn social, and what I really want is solitude.

I thought it'd be great to make a co-working space called "Solitude" with lots of little 1-person rooms, and make it clear to any new customers that we're not here to chat and hang out.

But alas it seemed that not many people were into this idea, and Singapore is so insanely expensive that it makes more sense to just find a quiet place at the library or something.
Where do you draw the line? Is Latin American Spanish separate enough from Spain's Spanish? Is French different from Canadian French? American vs British English?

Even southern US English vs northern US English? Being from the north and visiting the south regularly I can attest that its very difficult to understand the 'deep locals', granted its sort of a French-English creole.

Northern German vs Southern German? I was in Munich for Oktoberfest 4 years ago and I was surprised to find Bavarians speaking to northern Germans in English most of the time. They told me they couldn't understand each other and hated each others accents so using English was easier.

It seems extremely difficult to determine and relatively arbitrary where the distinction between 'explicit' languages is made.
A good step in the right direction, but I'd love to see the FCC be more aggressive about spectrum sharing. More cellular spectrum is great, but we need more for WiFi/Bluetooth, etc, as well. The technology isn't perfect yet, but it's quite amazing what it can do already. A lot of the remaining roadblocks are low-value existing users that have usage patterns that made it hard for cognitive radios to share spectrum with them. E.g. the wireless mike fiasco that mucked up Microsoft's whitespace trials.
What sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York in the last six months and Liked? Or which of my friends or friends of friends work at a company that I’m interested in working at because I want to talk to them about what it’s going to be like to work there? These are questions that you could potentially do at Facebook if we built out this system

This is an interesting UI problem. Its a behaviour that people will already be using FB for. The questions is, through a new UI [1], can you help out the process? Because if so, you're now in a win-win: You can infer intent and you can shift hours on FB from "vanilla" FB time to FB time with intent that they can monetize. This is 30K feet view, but now its an engineering problem for his team. The logic seems worth trying.

So, +1 for Zuck.

___________

[1] I mean a new "FB interface" style. It would be a lot of work--not just surface, etc.-- all around.
Do the python3 print statements imply anything about whether it's compatible with python2?

And what's the best way to quickly look and see which versions a package is compatible with?
Or the Analects of Confucius, or some recently written novels, or the Quixote...
English not being the official language of the US means some certain other countries could more easily accept it as an expedient language for international discourse.
How many of them are planned to be sold? Are manufactures able to make 100 million of them for iPhone 5 in the next 12 months?
As pointed in his previous article (http://www.anandtech.com/show/6292/iphone-5-a6-not-a15-custo...), a comparison of iphone5(or its custom core) with Krait(QC custom core) using Geekbench would have been beneficial and insightful.
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Welcome to the Age of Surprise A start-up inside the Air Force.
Maybe we don't have the same definition for classics. To me the Bible is a classic, as are the Pensées de Pascal, or the Daodejing, or Shakespeare.
To the parent and anyone else who hasn't experienced the wonders of `pip`, check out the article "Tools of the Modern Python Hacker: Virtualenv, Fabric and Pip" [1]. All three of these tools are invaluable for even the most trivial of Python projects, and make developing in Python much more enjoyable.

[1]: http://www.clemesha.org/blog/modern-python-hacker-tools-virt...
Shouldn't it be the opposite? Sure, everyone appreciates some improvement but if you were being a fan of something or someone you need to hinge the liking on something tangible and quantifiable, much like Siri or Retina Display. The viral publicity and urge to buy is centered around that unique point that you will discuss with your friends. "Check out! it is faster!" doesn't seem to be as viral as "Siri, set an alarm for 5PM" to me. But again, my views are obviously biased as I am a techie.
also left that site because it wants you to login before i can see what it does...
I think that this is because non-replaceable batteries in laptops and non-replaceable radios in lights are not directly analogous.

For one thing (I assume) you could get the battery replaced/fixed at an Apple store if you needed; the real issue is doing it yourself. Retrofitting new radios into old bulbs seems less likely to be a service that will be offered.

Additionally, the lifespan of the computer is 20 years less than the lifespan of the bulb. With the computer, if you had to get a new one when the battery ran out, in most cases it wouldn't be too much of a tragedy since you would be looking forward to a bigger better machine anyway. For the bulb, though, the wifi component could be obsoleted within a few years, while the actual light source has the capacity to run for another 20. So for each object, the ratio of when one part fails to when the user would want to replace it anyway is quite different.

Plus the non-replaceable batteries have the theoretical up-sides of leading to better build quality and industrial design, which is less apparently true of the bulb.
It's confirmed compatible with python 2.6-3.2