skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this the same as Clipstream[1]? The company that developed it has filed for patent[2]. I wonder if Apple licensed the technology or came up with it themselves independently.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4419345

[2] http://www.dsny.com/HTML5
Hmm, not as long as I thought then!

Skulduggery Afoot!
http://cssdeck.com/labs/aqdw0l21/0

Container has fixed dimensions in my example, but it does not matter in this case.
Unfortunately, all shipped products already willingly violated RH's copyright. Doesn't look too good.
Linux on Clover Trail: Much Ado About Nothing
I completely agree - we need to disrupt traditional teaching methods. With the internet democratizing information, we've now evolved to what are being defined as the '21st Century Set of Literacies': how well we can find information, validate it, synthesize it, leverage it, communicate it, collaborate with it and problem solve with it. Our classrooms and curriculums should be geared towards these new literacies, and I challenge that our standard metrics of success - test results - are less relevant than ever in this new environment. Skills like entrepreneurism, high social connectivity, resilience, creativity and curiosity carry far more bearing on success. (http://thecreativefiles.com/revolutionising-education)
If you visit the site on iOS, it will prompt you to download the Apple Store app.
Warp Drive More Possible Than Previously Thought
I would seriously reconsider Kindle. It beats any kind of screen for reading, and beats any kind of paper materials in logistics. For me, personally, it's pure value; something I can't say about most of other electronics I own.
This is a pretty big deal. I wonder where they got their data from? Can people compete in this space without street view? It's the main reason I use google maps.
No, a patent troll is a non-practicing entity (NPE). The specific reason they're dangerous is because they aren't subject to counter claims. You can't come along and redefine a word simply because you don't understand it.
Just launched: 24-day funding campaign for the TL;DR of terms & privacy policies
Are they meant to be examples of complex tech that aren't allowed to fail and don't? Or examples of complex tech that does fail, but really shouldn't?

>but a customer doesn't and shouldn't need to understand that, and certainly shouldn't be offered the complexity as an excuse for it not working correctly

It's not an excuse - it's an explanation. These things are complex, and complex things sometimes fail. The average user can be forgiven for not really appreciating this, but lack of knowledge of the nature of complexity doesn't magically make it disappear.

Of couse companies could take the NASA approach of spending huge amounts of time and money on formal requirements/analysis methods, building massively fault-tolerant solutions etc etc, but I doubt there's a vast amount of users out there willing to buy tech that's 5 years behind cutting edge, and costing many times more, simply because it (almost) never fails.
For most of those people, it's simply the only software they're moderately competent with. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I wonder how much Excel has ended up shaping our world because of the point of view it implies.
On Android, the Google Maps API is part of "Google APIs", not "Android APIs". Since they have their own Android fork essentially, they get the latter, but not the former. So now they've built an equivalent for the former.
Instead of classes for each color (".red", ".blue", etc) you should use classes which indicate state or function (".primary", ".warning", ".success"). Otherwise you might find yourself editing a lot of code just to change the colors of your buttons.
Android FolderSync would help in your music syncing issues...it syncs folder pairs where the other end of the pair can be literally anything - ftp, http, nfs, samba, skydrive, gdrive, etc. If you aren't online - no biggie it can sync with your PC whenever you are in your home network or sync with your office workstation if you are at office or just about any combination you can think of.
Well this is unfortunate. Hope it gets fixed soon as it is a great resource.
So you're a luddite then?

All that minimalism but still using an iPod?

What is real value? Why is value important? Is fun a part of value?
Qt 5 based 3D Wayland compositor
Yes. See [1] and [2].

[1] http://www.fsf.org/news/android-termination-upgrade-gplv3
[2] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html#section8
I question the idea of having a meeting every day whether you need it or not.

I have used stand-ups in the past, but found there was a lot of information being shared that not everyone cared about or benefited from knowing.

I like the idea of keeping everyone up to date about what's going on, but I am not sure stand-up meetings are the solution.
Russian Soyuz capsule returns to Earth from the ISS
> The case for sacrificing flexibility for performance microptimizations gets weaker by the day, and it's certainly not worth the transitions cost

I'm at loss here -- how is micro-optimization not necessary anymore? Both the CPU, the FSB and the DRAM hit {G,M}Hz barrier. The /only/† advance in performace we are getting those days are `horizontal' scaling (more cores) and micro-optimizations like better branch prediction, prefetch etc. And yes, better compilers. Note how every other generation of various busses flip-flop between serial (for increased signaling speed) and parallel (for increased bandwith) transmission. In short: the silicone free lunch is over, probably until we get abundant memristors or something.

What we need is to help the CPU execute our code, which has a lot to do with reducing cache misses. Get rid of ELF shlib indirections like GPT, lessen amount of paging metadata to lessen amount of TLB misses, simplify run-time dynamic linking etc., etc.. I guess some will shift to static linking some libraries, to get rid of indirection and unused code. IIRC MPlayer already provides some ./configure option(s?) for statically linking some libs exactly to get better performance.

Besides, when you think at the scale of Google or FB, one microsecond optimization multiplied by the sheer number of the CPUs they burn adds up to significant money.

> another incompatible ABI change would kill linux dead.

a.out to ELF32 was handled just fine, and ELF32 to ELF64 is going pretty well. What is your point?

†aside of HDD -> SSD transition, which is of mechanical -> solid state nature.
can you see the map anywhere, I mean a sample of how it looks like? I couldn't find any previews or screenshots.
Clever stuff.
Why doesn't it get seen for 6 hours?

Many people don't check their email regularly. I only check my personal email once a day in the evening. If I'm busy or on vacation it can often go several days between me checking my email.

That being said, I agree that I don't see what this adds. I already have email, SMS and phone calls. If you need an answer within a couple of days, email me. If you need an answer within a couple hours, text me. If you need an answer within a couple of minutes, call me. I don't really see where something else can fit in.
If you want a quick way to get base64 patterns that you can use as textures, you can check out Patternify: http://www.patternify.com/

I haven't had time to update the app in a while, but it's still quite handy. Also works well for (very) small icons.
Beautiful buttons, but having the texture as base64 and repeating it for all vendor-prefixed CSS properties makes the whole CSS quite heavy: 75kb.

If you had used an image, that would have been 4.17kb for the image and only 6.75kb for the CSS, for a total of 10.92kb (instead of 75!)
Can I ask what mobile phone you currently use?

Companies like Nokia made some great phone products that did the one thing (well, two if you include SMS) remarkably well in small packages, that had fantastic battery life.

But then the iPhone, and Android, came out and virtually no-one was interested in the old, reliable phones anymore. They wanted the latest, shiniest gadget that they could get their hands on, regardless of how good/poor it was at doing the basic job of making calls.
Ah, gotcha. But still Google's map data, not some new source, yes?
Is this just a re-implementation of the Google Maps API? Does it have the same one-MapView-per-process restriction as the Google version?
I usually do not use my laptop in a restaurant.
This idea (weaving bits of multiple frames in a single image and using JS to decode it) sounds remarkably similar to what Apple did for the iPhone 5 page: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1GWTMLjqQsQS45FWwqNG...

I'm only saying this because it's interesting that the same problem has been solved by very similar methods at almost the same time (SublimeText HQ being the first by a couple of months).
The normal definition of scrapping something is to get rid of it, typically in such a way that it is not reused in its current form.

e.g. If I scrap my car, it means that I am no longer using it, nor have I sold it on to another driver to use it. It will likely be broken up for parts.

Whether I get a new car to replace it has no bearing on whether it has been scrapped.
The Scale of Programming Complexity
The saddest job at Apple is working on the tries-very-hard-to-look-and-feel-like-iOS-but-doesn’t-really-manage iPod nano OS. The website – especially these pages – is pretty exciting in comparison.
I've been hearing about this every five years since I was a kid.
I got inspired to finally write this up after seeing the discussion today about Apple's use of a similar technique.

Code is available at https://github.com/sublimehq/anim_encoder, although you'll undoubtedly need to do some wrangling to use it for your own projects.
Borland certainly did, but they also had plenty of bad luck.

Just as they were getting close to finishing Quattro Pro, their head offices were hit by the 1989 World Series Earthquake (they were very close to the epicenter).

Apparently, many of their computers survived the earthquake itself but were rained on by the damaged sprinkler system and covered in mushy ceiling tile debris. They commandeered a tennis court to try to dry off, clean and revive as many of the computers as they could

They did end up releasing Quattro Pro, but then were soon sued by Lotus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_v._Borland
> please use #!/usr/bin/env bash so that it is more compatible.

Presuming env is in /usr/bin, thus obviating the compatible argument somewhat.
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Nice post. I don't wear a wristwatch and aren't too obsessed with time but it's interesting how small things do matter. Like the clock in the menu bar - after removing it I realize I've been looking at it quite a lot without thinking about it and without doubt adding a bit of stressful thoughts.
The website looks nice (but Lobster is a little overused at the moment).

Your idea is good, but not great, not £1.99 great.

If it were free, it'd be awesome, if it was 69p I could see a very very very small niche for it but what you're asking is that me and my friends each pay you £1.99 so that we have another way of nagging each other to get tasks done.

Ask yourselves "what value does this bring to people?".

Would be cool to try it out though! Maybe you could find a way of selling 5 licences at a time or something for £1.99, so that I get one and get 4 to give to friends?
Would you Bungee jump for a free copy of Borderlands 2?
Ask HN: why can't I see the question I submitted???
I submitted a question about six hours ago. Although I can find the question under the 'submissions' in my account once I logged in, it doesn't show up on the public page. Does anyone know what might be causing this???

I think I need some sort of answer/reasoning to this.

Thanks for your help!
Definitely. Like the grandparent commenter, I don't use any technology that frustrates or annoys me, which means that I don't use a whole lot of technology. The Kindle, however, has been great and fairly frustration-free - definitely a net positive.

Related aside: The world seems to be making it more and more difficult not to have a smart phone (or, almost equivalently, to have a dumb phone). This sucks.
Oh haha, I didn't realize he was the author. Watched that video just a few weeks ago.
The point is Mr. DoYouKnowWhoIAm is getting old.
"The number of companies, people, administrations, tools, software dedicated to help or support startups is overwhelming. While insomuch a good news (especially for us), I’m worrying somewhat that more people and energy seem to be dedicated to help startups that to make startups."

That's where the money is. You can make a nice, steady living selling pick axes to gold miners on their way to disappearing into the mountains.
Yeah. That's how I read it. They're just making it easier to use on their own devices.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4532146
But is it discipline or ...

Let me put it like this. I have enough problems with being late as it is. (Mind you, I think probably in the median when it comes to lateness issues among my friends.) No doubt this is indeed a source of stress in my life.

I fail to see how eliminating clocks from my life could possibly make this situation better. If appointment reminders plus clocks don't get me there in time, appointment reminders alone aren't going to do it.

I suppose I could adopt a policy of not caring if I am late, but in general that seems incredibly rude.
Manchester is 'PIRATE CAPITAL of the UK'
I might be an arsehole, but at least I'm not wrong
It's a domain squatter. He's not getting it back without a ton of money, and if we're naive enough to kickstarter, then everyone's domain will get steal-squatted for the rest of time.

Sadly, the current nature of domain protection law means either one has to scare the squatter (doesn't work,) find a squatter with a heart of gold (doesn't exist,) or get a new domain. :(
I doubt that VTOL would save fuel. More likely it would consume more fuel than conventional landing.
Isn't that what companies like getsatisfaction provide? How are they doing on the Apple front?

Edit: to clarify, I was under the impression that there are already companies that provide "complaint forms" (bug trackers) for products of other companies. So I was wondering if they provide such a tracker for Apple and how much activity it provides. I thought getsatisfaction was such a company, but maybe it was another one.
Doesn't GIF already have a differential animation mode since you can set unchanged pixels in each frame to transparent? e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_opt/#opt_trans

With PNG24 you'd at least get better colour depth. In which case why not use the same Dispose None technique in APNG (https://wiki.mozilla.org/APNG_Specification#.60fcTL.60:_The_...) and a polyfill (https://github.com/davidmz/apng-canvas) to provide cross-browser support?

Actually it might be preferable to always use the polyfill if you want to do something like the Apple thing where you can scrub around the video. Still doesn't have I-Frames to do frame-skip during fast movements though.
Full disclosure: I used the calendar on my phone to notify me before an appointment.

Living without time... except notifications of impending appointments. That's a fairly significant exception!
You can also download the patterns from their github repo: https://github.com/subtlepatterns/SubtlePatterns

Edit: And here is their famous photoshop .pat file containing all the patterns: https://github.com/subtlepatterns/SubtlePatterns/blob/master...
I also would like to add that hygiene may become a problem, to see cockroaches on your desk isn't a pleasant sight.
I still do this all the time. It's a hard habit to break, and it seems to spread from one knowledge center outwards. I've gotten so used to knowing the answers to tech problems for people that it ripples out to things I've only skimmed. I catch myself once in a while, but you really need someone smacking you every time you do it to break the habit.
Kindle Fire HD Teardown
Two things in particular I'll attack here:

> - No Kindle

You're definitely not alone in this -- a lot of my friends still prefer hard copies over eBooks -- but as someone used to literally lugging three-four textbooks to class, plus periodicals, plus personal reading, there's a clear and definitive value add from the Kindle. (That being said, just because you don't have a Kindle doesn't mean you don't, say, read eBooks on your laptop.)

> - No Facebook

There's a huge meme of 'Facebook is worthless' both on HN and on Reddit and other tech-oriented communities that I fail to grasp. There's no other site where I can talk and keep up with my grandparents, my college roommate, and my girlfriend simultaneously.
Re: Microsoft and testing

Perhaps things have changed now, but previously MS had a setup with 2-4 testers per one developer whereby latter would churn out code as fast as he can (of a respective quality) and testers were expected to identify critical bugs so that the dev can plug them, in the same speedy manner as he'd code the original. I had few close friends work for Microsoft in the 90s and the impression I formed after chatting with them was that the MS products routinely were something that was hacked and hammered into a state of not crashing too frequently. So while Microsoft might have a strong focus on testing, it was used to be completely misplaced and misguided.
Did you do any size comparison with an x264 or vp8 encoded version?
Apple says iPhone 5 grabs 2 million pre-orders in 24 hours
Spotify is so much easier. Once you decide to only manage stuff you create rather than stuff you happen to own, then backup and management get so much easier as there is so much less of it.
$10 off when pre-ordering Java Tutorial eBook
Perhaps the author meant, that they can not be returned in kind because other whales sing at different frequencies? (I.e. they can hear, but not produce that.)
Oh yeah: You are so happy to be beaten with a baseball bat because you prefer it to being raped. 100% satisfaction guaranteed.

Great example of a Spin Doctor in action:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-september-10-2012/the-...
Nice. I've been making my own tasks in sublime for awhile.
It doesn't look like it expired, it just looks like someone stole it from his account. I think more appropriately the person should be called a domain thief
Not sure why is that, but I think it temporarily fills your stomach and makes it 'relax'. In my experience the same meal if hot makes me feel much more full.

I've heard that fast food joints intentionally try to serve the coldest possible drinks to make patrons feel they are hungry for another burger.
Cinemur.fr : a french HTML5 web app for movies
Thanks for the feedback. You actually landed on the most expensive price! There's a few different prices, displayed at random. We're trying to see what people will pay for the app.

69p is a little low, as we need to at least cover our costs and everything so far is pointing to the fact that it's a niche app, not widely adopted. If we could change that, 69p might work.
why should we care about these rarely happened bugs? They just happened in a complex scenario, which is hard to reproduce and those bugs really doesn't matter. I think it is not worth the effort to deal with these bugs.
first. world. problems.
The demo I wrote falls somewhere in between these two: http://billmill.org/bloomfilter-tutorial/

I like Jason's demo and graphic better, but I go into a bit more detail. The blog post under discussion goes into much more detail than me, and assumes a bit more knowledge of the reader.
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Why 2 laptops though? So you can bitch about crappy Skype or email clients twice? :-)

Your setup is quite radical in my opinion although I know that are even more extreme ones and this is not a way for most of us. Several years ago we used to memorize contacts and birthdays or keep them in a (paper) notebook but that's not an alternative for most of us nowadays.

I keep my setup as minimal as possible and I'm still frustrated by these bugs and limitations.
If you add the event like.. "Take train at 2PM EST" it will do the math for you
On the client side Excel is probably the best they've put out. Overall, I think that ActiveDirectory and the integration they achieved in Windows Server 2000 with the Windows 2000 desktop could be the best thing that Microsoft has ever produced.
Worth noting that in July Amazon bought UpNext, an NYC startup doing cool stuff with 3D maps: http://gigaom.com/2012/07/02/exclusive-amazon-buys-3d-mappin...
There's no form of explicit cleanup in JavaScript, and if you're able to clean up implicitly at that event, you already should have.

That's why it doesn't exist. There's nothing you could do there meaningfully.
In my experience, daily stand-up meetings work best when:

-The team is new, or starting on a new project.

-The product is approaching a big deadline.

With the former, it helps the team build momentum early-on if there is a chance to sync-up and trade knowledge every day. With the latter, it pays to do a daily triage of new issues and re-evaluate existing priorities, so that there are no last-minute surprises.

Generally, when the team is working in full swing, daily meetings become less productive. One way of mitigating this is to just be aware of this fact and keep the meetings as short as possible. Stand-up is not the time to evaluate each member's performance, so nobody should feel pressured to explain everything they are working on in detail. A general overview should suffice (one or two bullet points), with clarifications should anyone need to know more.
Funny enough in countries like Turkey there are plenty of washing machines, dish washers with literally one or two buttons that costs only 200$

Somehow I can't find this kind of machines in places like UK or Netherlands.
Now anyone can submit documents relevant to pending patent applications
As modern life becomes more complex -- and that's both complex in terms of both computers and social/government structures -- we are swimming in edge cases.

When you used to interact with 4 or 5 complex systems every day, it was a rare thing when one was whacked. System designers got things working 90-95% of the time and the rest of it wasn't worth chasing down. But now that we're interacting with hundreds of complex systems each day, we're constantly running into oddball situations where things frustrate us.

Worse still is what I call an "edge case tsunami" where multiple oddball situations combine to create a PITA or disaster much worse than any one of them would individually.

It's an interesting problem. We can't make everything perfect to a 99.999% accuracy. The economics simply don't work out.

To edw519's point, I think the way to go is to toss out the general purpose computer. Have a device for books, a device for music, a device for programming, a device for surfing, and so on. Not only does this decrease the possibility of a cascade, it also allows us to physically separate our technology habits.
That there are huge numbers of Spanish speakers in a number of states is not due to immigration. Most of these states spoke Spanish before they had an influx of English-speaking illegal immigrants. The English speakers (helped) split these states off from Mexico and made them join the USA. (Okay, the reason they spoke Spanish is due to the prior illegal immigration of Spanish conquistadors).

Which is why, in Silicon Valley, you have city names like San Jose, Santa Clara, Los Altos, Palo Alto, San Mateo, San Bruno, and San Francisco; and road names like Junipero Serra, San Antonio Road, and El Camino Real.
Smart phones add so much value. In fact, I think it would be hard for most who have lived through the iphone age to go back to the world before. Almost like going back to the times before electricity :-)
Skube - Tangible interface to last-fm, spotify-radio
Five things you should NOT DO in a Startup