skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since when do they do silent updates? I heard they were pushing out IE as a recommended update via windows update, but don't you still have to click through the massive IE installer to actually perform the upgrade?
If you want an OS written in a high-level language, pick up JNode <http://www.jnode.org>; or House <http://programatica.cs.pdx.edu/House/>; or HalVM <http://halvm.org/>.

Oh, look, here's a web page dedicated to operating systems built in Lisp:
http://linuxfinances.info/info/lisposes.html (Scroll down a bit.)
Sure, I am all for removing illegal content. But I am absolutely against per-emtive attempts to censor the incredible diversity that Reddit has to offer.
For a lot of kids, spelling competitions are fun, just like math competitions, sports competitions, and competition in general. And while spelling isn't the most important skill in the world, it's still useful. It's not like we spent all day in school on spelling, and outside of some fringe cases people don't spend much time studying it outside of school either.
How on earth did it take over 3 hours for someone at Color or Sequoia to confirm the company is in-fact not dead? You'd think employees/founders/investors would have been tweeting like crazy to deny the rumor.
From the tone of the article, it doesn't seem so. They did say the protest was placated with imaginary pizza though. Hmm, like that would work :P
That's a lot faster than 'never'
There's also a small R2-D2 standing next to him. Zoom in if you can't see it.
Wow, that actually sounds amazing.
Didn't know that about Toyata, makes you think twice before buying a new car now.

Just curious, is that still valid or has the company been overrun with "Samsungnitis".

You know, stay one step behind, clone and ship mass produced junk in different price ranges?
Twitter's static assets servers are down
IE10 doesn't support conditional comments, which is a good indicator of their confidence that it works now. In my experience so far, if IE10 supports something, it works fine - no additional testing required.
While I'm not one to normally say this... That little R2D2 beside the Storm Trooper looks so cute! :)
Of course, now Color has denied that it is shutting down. Let the good times commence.
Not according to Color themselves: http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/17/color-says-not-shutting-dow...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16214912 apparently from Jan 2012.
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Which editor would you recommend for writing code on an Android device?
Exactly, patents are like nukes. I can understand why few countries choose not to unilaterally disarm. But to use a nuke offensively is unthinkable. Yet that's exactly what apple has done, and now patent litigation is consuming the entire tech industry.
It's not that nobody uses it. I was meaning more that 3rd party vendors are the ones responsible for making sure it is safe if they put it in designs that Microsoft didn't officially support.

Unless the main author was intended it to be a PSA type thing to let consumers know that the more commonplace touchscreens will allow them to create ergonomic nightmares and that they should be as aware of it as they are of keyboard/mouse placement and chair height (In which case I agree whole heartedly.)
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Also, Vista usage is already hovering at around 10-12% of all users, so as Windows 8 is released we should see that number decrease gradually.
> I’ve seen young writers contort their prose
into incomprehensibly pretentious muddles, all in
a disastrous bid to sound more erudite than they are.

This seems somewhat self-referential. I'm not afraid of big words, but it seems like the article (especially making the point she's making) could have been written in simpler language.

Though, with a site name like "cognoscenti", I guess you have to maintain a certain proportion of multisyllabic vocabulary.
Who said something about extended durations? These would be very short durations.
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It's usually because it's tied to some sort of OS-level new feature. In the case of IE10, it's the rendering engine for (some kinds of) Metro style apps. If you're providing infrastructure for some new features, it's easy to rely on other new infrastructure, and pretty soon you can only run on the new OS. It probably was a serious effort to back-port it like this, although it's also possible IE10 represents a new model that changes things.
Re: 1

It was an "interesting idea" in that most people really didn't know what the heck they were doing, or what problem they were trying to solve.

All anyone really knew was that they got a boatload of money, and spent a lot of money to get color.com.
The traffic map most closely matches his active users map, which makes sense. If the number of new signups were still increasing, you should see a more exponential traffic graph.

Was there an error with the voting ring detector?
My question would be: Why not?
"Don’t clown people in front of their peers."

Okay, I gotta know: how did that strange typo-- down/clown-- get in there? That seems like a scanning error, not typing error.

Edit: Oops, I learned a new verb. Thanks!
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See also:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/17/color-says-not-shutting-dow...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4665928
It depends on the type of community. Reddit positions itself as a platform infrastructure for a rich diversity of communities. HN has a relatively narrow approach, trying to keep discussions as focused and as on topic as possible. It is more or less a traditional forum, only that the rules are relatively clear and moderators (i.e. PG) don't overplay their authority.
Being the Chief Tech at Conceivian (and having the best job of my life), I can tell you that working with startup founder's is a thoroughly enjoyable experience, and I'd do it again. There were tons of learnings, innovation and fun in the project Andrew mentioned and several others we have done. BUT nothing beats getting fully paid for the work done!!
I think you really nailed it - MS may have solved their benchmark/compatibility problem, but does 10 solve the UX problem?
Exactly the points I wanted to make. The article is vague at best and no statistical evidence is presented anywhere.
Theodore Dalrymple visits Pyongyang Department Store Number 1
Yes. We had systems running a custom build of windows 2000.
Yeah, and they should get rid of Office while their at it, I mean we already have Open Office, nor should they stop there they should get rid of their closed source operating system, I mean we already have open source Linux distros. They should get rid of Windows 8 and just contribute to Ubuntu!
Correct. And even if copyright disappeared completely, GoT would continue to be made: it costs $50M/series and I'm sure they could crowdfund it with 5 million people handing over $10 (or some other multiple).
Perhaps they're waiting for the CEO to come back from his long vacation.
Announcing API Hack Sunday: $500 cash prize, thousand of APIs
Savvy users in parts of Europe (Denmark, I believe) are already just adding an /etc/hosts entry to do exactly this.

That doesn't solve the problem of the IP address itself changing, but then you need some system of distributing the updated IP addresses whenever they change. Which would require inventing a distributed lookup system....hmm... this is starting to sound familiar....!
Unfortunately, not giving up and willing yourself to success isn't enough to overcome an nonexistent business model.
The article ends with

Mr Bezos would not be drawn on whether Amazon plans to
release a smartphone of its own.

Amazon's plans in the smartphone market may be influencing Jeff's argument.
The investor who saved Mugabe
The paradox of the second ace.
I agree -- it's definitely not innate. My kids -- and in my somewhat limited experience, other young children -- will ask "what's that?" when you start talking about something that they don't know. It takes a few years of school to dull the natural curiosity.
Two of those four do, more or less, via the Coalition for Patent Fairness — http://www.patentfairness.org/learn/who/supporters/

(Disclaimer: my employer is also a member, and I approve, but play no part.)
I have seen a drastic decrease in FF performance for canvas related operations too. Some time after FF12 it became about 4 times slower. Here is a little test page I made to see if it gets fixed:

http://www.gibney.de/firefox_canvas_performance

Until it gets fixed I use chrome.

Now its FF17 and its still slow.
I think more important than the level of protection at this point is public knowledge and awareness of just what patents are out there. One project that might galvanize federal action just launched and is seeking crowdfunding to shed light in this arena.

Specifically, IP Checkups aims to map out the patents and shell companies of Intellectual Ventures, and potentially other mass aggregators, to foster public knowledge and the original purposes of the patent system. For more information, see: news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57532492-38/patent-activists-lets-light-up-intellectual-ventures-ip-portfolio/
How Tunesia can provide Europe with all the Energy it needs
Advice straight from the movie "Disclosure" (1994)
It looks interesting, and might even be useful to some ppl. But what's your business model here? How are you going to make money?
Companies have already done this and it has done nothing to change the patent system, unsurprisingly. I'm sure Amazon will license the one-click patent for free if Apple releases the "slide to unlock" patent, despite the fact that placing orders safely with 1 click is a much more involved technical process than a simple GUI element.
I'm not sure why it should be, as there's no irony to be found. That sentence is neither contorted nor incomprehensible nor a muddle nor a disaster. One might argue on the issue of whether it's pretentious, but given the target audience of other academics I would lean towards saying it's not.
Dumping on Tim Cook Seems Easy, But It's Misguided
Because the last thing you want to do is have employees (even execs) shooting their mouths off in the heat of the moment and saying something stupid.

You want to regroup, figure out WTF is going on and how the rumor started, and figure out a sensible statement that is going to calm this down instead of rile it up some more.
Hey, my comment got used in his slides when he shows an example on hacker news.

Awesome!
NY-based sports aggregator FanFeedr shuts down
Zero data loss? All the data generated post snapshot will be gone.
Thats pretty low, but only reinforces the notions that IP is bad for consumers.
This is very true. But this stunt seems to be better for meeting people than getting work done.
I'm going to have to pick the other side on this one. It's an unfortunate result of capitalism that being what some people call "unethical" usually rewards businesses with success. You'll struggle to find any major successful business that didn't get to the position they're in by doing some unethical (and not always in a balsy but harmless way as was done here) things to their competitors. Look at Newscorp, spying on people to get news. Or Apple using unethical manufacturers. Or Microsoft, stealing software. It happens every day, and when it gets to such a corporate level, it's often labeled corporate greed, but honestly it's not. All it is is intelligent business leaders realizing that it's better for their company to do something unethical and take the heat for it than to do nothing at all.
When I play by a game, I use all the rules to my advantage even if I support a change to some of those rules.

That's the very definition of hypocrisy, which is what Bezos is being called of. One can be a hypocrite and still be right.
What makes you think it's a typo?

From (of all places) Urban Dictionary:

clown: To laugh, make fun of, or find joy in a
person or event. Almost always used in a derogatory
or degrading fashion.
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China Sees Increase in U.S. Hacker Attacks
Readability does a very good job of single-paging.
So public humiliation in the form of an online-pillory is OK?

Because that is exactly what this is. A platform for the public humiliation of women who walk in public.

If we don't tolerate it for the guilty, why should we tolerate it for the innocent?
Apple bullies EPEAT into greenwashing its impossible-to-repair MacBook Pro
Do you have a similar recommendation for German for native english speaking adults? Beyond terrible high school education in spanish, this would be my primary L2.
First of all, annotations are nothing new. They have been around in Java for years, and it was emulated because it had advantages that really don't need to be regurgitated by me. If they weren't a good idea, they wouldn't have lead to a formal adoption inside the language.

Secondly, in both Symfony2 and Doctrine2, annotations are an OPTION. You use them if you want to use them, and if you don't want to, you can use traditional configuration files. It doesn't seem that the author has done anything with either Symfony2 or Doctrine2, or he would have understood that. As someone who used Symfony1, ZF1, Propel and Doctrine, I would not go back to the old way of doing things, even if I was offered good money to do so (as happened just last week in fact).

Most people who actively use these components LOVE annotations, because they allow you to keep the configuration close to the code, and reduce verbosity.

They drive code generation, and reduce the amount of code that has to be written to get a specific job done. So if there's a problem debugging, is it really about annotations, or about code generation, and if we can't have code generation (facepalm) then I suppose we shouldn't have template systems like smarty or twig, simply because "debugging is harder" and editors have more work to do.

If it's not the author's cup of tea, nobody is forcing anyone to use these capabilities. Needless to say, I couldn't disagree with the premise of this article more. @jawngee already provided a simple salient example.
The most recent hospital I worked in IT at had insane security issues, and little to no access control. When faced with a constant bootkit problem, the solution was "restore from image server." Turns out the main image was infected itself. When I brought this up and offered solutions to fix the issue, it was hand-waved and nothing more was heard of it. It's scary how irresponsible people are with potentially sensitive systems.
I personally find these forms of witch hunts to censor free speech absolutely disgusting.

In my opinion people who support something like this, are in the same category as those who take up the forks and march against Google because of "certain" videos, that they feel offended by.

It is evidence of an absolutely intolerant, self-centered world view, that has in my view no place in a democratic society.
Well, gosh. If Linus Torvalds said it, it must be right.
> Yet the idea that hypocrisy is a good reason to ignore a man's arguments wholesale is broken either way.

That is true, but this fact also considerably reduces the weight of the argument coming from him. There are several people talking either against or in favor of patents. Why would I listen to someone that is (or that I suspect to be) biased?
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Jack Dorsey: Let's Reconsider Our "Users"
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I find it's best to describe what the argument are, as short names are rarely enough, and the return values or values supplied to callbacks under various conditions.

An example would be:

"Verify account takes an account ID, an optional enabled flag which, if specified, will only search for accounts that have a matching enabled status. The default is to search against all accounts. The return value is true if the account is valid, false otherwise."

These are extremely important in loosely typed languages where there is little indication as to what constitutes an acceptable argument. In a more rigid language like C++ there are usually a lot more hints in the language about what the input and output is.

Still, in programming "by contract" it is important to manage expectations and comments can communicate a lot of this.
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The first problem that a lot of people make when designing iOS interfaces is not testing them on the device. Those font sizes are so incredibly small.

You HAVE to look at it on a device (using something like Skala Preview[0]) and you'll realize that what you have right now is actually not an improvement at all. Rather it is harder to follow, appears cluttered, and probably doesn't get the business any closer to their goal of x, y, or z, regardless of what that may be.

I like to give the benefit of the doubt to most of these "redesigns" because usually there is some decent thought put into them and they're pretty and all ... but really it seems like you took a step backwards in this one. And after looking at the current UI [1], you indeed did take a step back.

Also, i'd have done some more exciting UI stuff here. for example, get rid of the quantity stuff. Instead, when I tap "add to cart", ask me that in a modal fashion with big fat juicy buttons.

With iOS/mobile you can get away with more taps if your UI is less complex and provides clearer choice.

Finally, in what way is your design more intuitive than the original? People throw that word around like a rag doll without really thinking about it.

[0]: http://bjango.com/mac/skalapreview/

[1]: http://www.instacart.com/assets/instacart-screenshot2.jpg
Weird. Trying your page, I get approx 46fps on Chrome 22, 85fps on Firefox 16. Perhaps graphics card/driver related? (This is on a 5 year old Core 2 Duo at 1.86GHz, with a GeForce GT8800 on Windows 7).
But that's not the point.

Let's say MS rolled V8 and Webkit into IE. They still get to build their own UI/ux and get to set the default search engine to Bing. They start contributing to webkit and everything gets faster.

There are plenty of things to implement in a browser beyond the rendering engine, so why create a whole new one that web devs need to support?

Removing the operating system tie-in alone would be worth it. Unfortunately MS still lives in a world where people should pay upfront for their web browser.
My friends and I used to LAN play the crap out of this game in the MacOS8/9 days. It was a lot of fun, but networking bugs would cause all connected computers to hard crash, needing restarts.
On the flipside, while not surprised at $20/hr, I read "First, she said Pathjoy is more affordable, charging only $20 an hour, compared to the $40 charged by most other cleaning services" and thought "Wow, where?", before realizing "Bay Area".

A quick look at maid services in Seattle - even from agencies showed typically $15-25/hr, certainly none charging $40/hr.

And in any case, do people really think the "value-add" of an agency for housecleaning amounts to $20/hr?

Edit: not to mention, Pathjoy's $20/hr doesn't include the $5-10 "supplies fee".
> Never, ever say that again. You should always try to relate the situation to something you do know.

This is the best possible way to get thoroughly idiotic ideas in your head. If you ever want to completely and utterly misunderstand a subject, I could not think of any better way to do that than to follow this advice.

> You were just feigning ignorance about that to get me to try to explain it so you could attack my explanation!

And this is a psychotic level of insecurity manifesting itself as delusions of persecution.
I found it very interesting that the contributing userbase has gone up but the vote count has not. I've certainly noticed the userbase expanding, but would have guessed that voting followed.
I wonder why he doesn't pave a way for the rest of the tech industry giants to start innovating?
> i wonder if this would becomes some sort of internet nuclear arms race which can only end poorly.

Thinking back to Napster... you mean it hasn't already?
unrelated to the content but kera means monkey in indonesian language :)
Presidential debate sponsors pull out to protest exclusion of Gary Johnson
Because people have work to do, rather than sitting around checking Twitter, HN, and TC all day long? It's not like something's going to happen if they don't respond ASAP. As long as they'd gotten something out by the end of they day, they'd've been fine.
I have been designing for startups (mostly from SF and Europe) from Buenos Aires (Argentina) for over two years now and I think that if you find a good and talented designer / developer you can get first world quality work at a third world price.

Just to make sure, ask the designer as many questions as you can about their design process and their communication process. Also, make them sign a contract.
They better.
In other news, Paris Hilton stated "I'm not quitting"
Working on a domain model framework called Dartling.
https://github.com/dzenanr/dartling
> saying something stupid

What kind of stupid thing could you say? The company is either dissolving or it is not. Seems pretty easy to figure out.
I have a Nexus S that shipped with 2.3 and did not have smooth scrolling. Then I got the OTA for 4.0 this summer and all scrolling was totally and completely smooth. I recently updated to 4.1, and scrolling is now significantly worse than it was when the phone shipped with 2.3.

> I'll believe it when I see it.

I saw it. Then I didn't. I don't know what to believe any more!
I feel like the distinction between formal and informal fallacies negates the assertion that "tu quoque" would be in an incorrect context here.

I may definitely be wrong but that's my current understanding.
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TaskUp on Chrome Web Store
Iran Running Out of Physical Currency, Satellite Broadcasts Dropped in Europe
Medical images are typically stored in DICOM files which transport the information used for taking the X-ray image (X-ray energy, pixel-size, patient name and birthday, type of exposure). DICOM is a huge standard that also includes 3D images, ECG or EEG waveforms, ...

While a PNG for sure is adequate for your doctor to see a fracture of your bone or joint, it might be completely unusable for someone who wants to do quantitative analysis: How big is a babies head in a ultrasound? How dense is some bone material for planning radiation therapy?

In these cases the correct metadata is very important. It might of course possible to add it to the PNG standard, but DICOM is already there, and it's established.

And: In theory your doctor would only need one compliant viewer program, but in practice the "export data" functionality of a certain device will burn a DVD that includes the vendor's recommended viewer program.
The problem is getting the heat from where it's generated to where it needs to go with any kind of efficiency.
No. Being a hypocrite would be telling other players not to take advantage of the rules while you take advantage of the rules. Advocating for change while still trying to win within the current rules is not.
Can I disable it? It seems like in most deployments that is exactly what happens to SELinux.
SBCL seems to be currently most popular, but if you're working on Windows, I'd encourage you to give Clozure CL a try.

Most of the stuff I did in CL was related to 3D graphics and computer games, and while SBCL has the required performance, it tends to crash on Windowses, and every other CL I tried except Clozure CL is not fast enough to even run SDL examples in real-time.
Rap Genius: Impish Ivy Leaguers Raise Millions for Internet Decoder Ring
Yeah, it sounds like fun.
A $5 M. eco-hacker colony in a busy Brooklyn district
Nuuton is being developed using a lot of Python. The new crawling system and atoms (APIs) are all Python. Are you interested in knowing more about it? We can share some insight into the inner workings on the search sub-system if you'd like. Send me an email if you are interested (in profile). :)