skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apart from the aesthetics it also reads like a gauge so it's fairly easy to spot progress or high values.

To be honest, I think gauge like controls/graphs have become so popular on dashboard because their physical world counterparts all featured gauges. Check the dashboards of an airplane or nuclear facility for example.

You could call it skeuomorphism if you want. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph)
"gitx (l)" is much nicer and more complete than the old unmaintained gitx, but it has a number of bugs and casually, awful memory leaks.
Good Collection of Big Data Feeds
I read somewhere that the human brain is better wired to see changes in angles rather than in heights: this is why speedometers are circular. So having in circles some stat that changes in real time or very frequently (I think there should also be a mark for the previous measurement if it is not real time) makes sense.
It is indeed David Braben :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20165344
You include the css and make sure you render the appropriate HTML with your serverside scripts. It's fairly easy, you just need to make sure you output the right HTML and include all static assets like css, js and icons.
I guess http://asetniop.com/ has the original video.
I find both of your arguments to be convincing. I have two criticisms / edge cases for you:
- What if the taxed money is not really taken out of an active economy: In other words; what if that portion of the money would otherwise not be "invested" or spent in the US economy. What if it'd just go towards the $1.5 trillion cash pile.
- Public goods are in fact a large chunk of the economy, and many things people consider 'useful spending' fall under this category. Private goods; while satisfying want, might actually not serve needs very well. Perhaps having less money to spend on coke so government can waste it on healthcare welfare is overall better?
An aside: I work between Hollywood and tech companies in Cambridge, MA.

But many of our videos get predictable traffic like this Gates vs. Jobs rap battle at 33 million views (and climbing) or my favorite Mr. T vs. Mr. Rogers at 36 million.

He lost me at "predictable." If an audience's taste is so predictable, go get funding for a multi-million dollar blockbuster. I think all he has shown is that he is lucky: that anyone can bruteforce various kinds of cheap content cheaply, but his bruteforcing just happened to hit the right tone.

You can A/B test your videos, your copy, your thumbnail images.

Nevermind that A/B testing is hilariously inefficient (ANOVA anyone?) and virtually impossible for creative content (what, are you going to permute individual lines in a ninety page script?). Hollywood has statisticians. Focus groups and audience testing has been going on for decades. Web distribution expands your population size, but it also greatly increases the variables to control. If it were as easy as he says, then of course there would be truly data-driven content by now.

And video views now produced and managed by these 5 companies totals more than 4 BILLION per month. With a B.

But who's paying for that content?

Hollywood looks at YouTube and says, "Ok, what does content funded by Google's auction adwords ads look like? Oh, it looks like those link farm websites, which is precisely exactly content paid entirely by auctioned ads."

Don't we want something cooler than literally spam?

One could point to Hulu and say, perfect platform. But there is no original Hulu content. It is still largely funded by cable ads. And Hulu's profitability depends entirely on how an owner like Disney values the free broadcast licenses Disney gives Hulu. If Hulu had to pay for its shows, it would be deep in the hole.

But I digress. Data-driven content works for Wikipedia one-line banner ads. It isn't going to work for video longer than 30 seconds for a very, very long time.
If you're of a certain age, then Neither Elite nor David Braben need any introduction. As soon as I saw the HN headline my response was 'shut up and take my money.' 30 years after its release I still consider it one of the best computer games ever made.

This what it looked like in its original form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIuOjEqY8Hk
I know. Because only 7-8% of mobile generated Internet traffic accounts for Android.
All videos from RealtimeConf 2012 now posted.
Desperation builds character and drives innovation, I've learned more in my desperate times than I ever have in my stable times... in fact often those are the times I miss the most. Do what's smart for you of course, but if you don't have any dependents going into a situation beyond your current capacity is a great way to expand that capacity. Also if you've starved due to lack of money to buy food then food tastes sweeter for the rest of your life.
Reducing the working set is a big win. Mongo's behaviour when the working set is larger than RAM is really bad- https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-574

Compression could have drawbacks on documents that get updated frequently. But it will be extremely useful on documents that get created and rarely/never change, coincidentally what I mostly have.

It would also greatly help if keys are compressed or indexed in some way since it could be done transparently.

You may recall the Mongo team being reluctant to make the database function well in single server setups, but they did address that with journalling.
Help a .NET developer understand: Why Python? Use cases?
Testing Complex Systems
I guess what Silicon Valley doesn't get about Hollywood is that you can't program a good TV show. Period, full stop.
Video of Eran Hammer's awesome "F*ck oAuth" talk from RealtimeConf 2012
Carbon Wheels From China
Codiqa is for product managers when they want to bust UI guys. I'd rather ask Codiqa to remove visual editor feature.
John Nack replied to this 3 years ago on his blog.

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/05/some_thoughts_about_the...
You already have that on phone vs desktop.

It's the nature of things, and should not be an issue if the responsive design is done properly
This is actually really interesting, but odd at the same time. This isn't for xbox imo, but for the desktop
Awesome job from awesome guys. Really liked it but I don't get why you haven't reused Bootstrap resources. Really small and neat toy. Really good to see all the stuff packed in 50 KB stuff!
Bullet point 2 means this girl must be single. She's using some weird character for a single quote. Probably copied from Word or something.
I'd agree that there is a large opportunity in direct-to-online distribution of original video content.

But I think the article is somewhat overselling the content aspect. The article gives two examples of "hits" from Maker Studios: both are funny rap videos that clock in at less then 3 minutes. These are great videos - viral, easily digestible, and they've gotten tens of millions of views. But ultimately they're just a quick diversion for me; there isn't the sort of deep engagement that you would see with a 60 minute TV show (45 minutes with commercials).
I prefer Morphia as ORM for MongoDB. Actively developed and maintained, less seems like enterprise http://code.google.com/p/morphia/
I don't think that that's what the OP was asking.

lousy_sysadmin: it really depends on what data you ar trying to display. You'll probably have to roll your own code that will collect the data you want, from the services that collect it. And then display it in the correct way, as risratorn said above.
try beat Indonesia. cost of starting a company: 4x fresh grad monthly salary. how long? can be 6 months,
thank you

will need to dig up the latest report as that one is almost 1 year old
Ahh novelties... Not sure why I am reading about one on HN.
We are so addicted to the net, even though we just started in the last 10-15 years, that Hollywood will have to content with the breadcrumbs. The argument that people still enjoy passive content consumption is weak - for example, I personally spend more time on reddit and ycombinator than watching video. It's more fun to be connected in the social web than just to ingest content alone. We can cope with the social net, we don't "need" the content Hollywood produces. Moreover, there are alternatives - Japanese TV, Korean, Indian, African - they are all fresh and interesting for a person accustomed to the American productions.

On the other hand, the Internet eats everything that stands in its way. There is no way to stop it. Every time a paradigm shift in communication happened to the human society (speech, writing, printing press), a 1 million fold increase in content followed. The old establishment can't do anything about it.

Society itself changes - with speech came superior hunting, oral culture. With writing came much more extended repositories of knowledge and the evolution of cities. With the printing press came humanism and the scientific-industrial revolution. Now we are in the making of the 4th revolution in communication (TV and radio are just like the press - one to many, so they are not part of the information age, they are part of the mass media age).

So, in a contest between Hollywood and Silicon Valley, the latter will win.
This is the latest one. It takes time to compile these reports.
On the other hand, the trap of always "doing" something or "going" somewhere is equally harmful. You can trick yourself into thinking you are achieving something when you are just spinning your wheels. Like anything, balance is the key.

"If you can wait and not be tired by waiting" - Kippling
Geisel also did propaganda cartoons during WWII http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dswenttowar/
Mary Meeker's Internet Trends: Android Adoption Ramping Up 6X Faster Than iPhone
Marc Webb Talks Jamie Foxx, Electro and  The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Announcing 2,000 IOPS per Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS Volume
"Show HN: Made Personal Site Last Night (For YC App)"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4676920

"Hacker News Postmortem (Personal YC app site)"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4686050

and if you're super interested in what's happened YC-app wise since then:

"Takeaways From Firing A Startup Cofounder"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4744655

The original post was to get my personal site reviewed by Hacker News for my YC application. This worked well and I ended up going with a simpler design (and different content) for the final version. Unfortunately either the day after my submission or the next day, I had to fire my cofounder at the time for reliability issues. I submitted my application as a single founder and reflected on what would make a good cofounder. I called up the one person that ended up fitting the criteria and ~36 hours later we were filling out an update to the YC application.
So the application is in, with many changes over time. Tomorrow is the first day I'm actually going to try to make sales (I currently have been physically going to talk to the targeted customers and get feedback) as we have an MVP.
Indeed it would be much more accurate to call it a Turtle, since it's Turtles all the way down.

(Under absolutely no circumstances should anyone actually do this)
Ex-NSA Official Heads New Global Consortium Issuing Security Controls
I've been thinking about a similar hack for awhile, but my idea was to measure/compare code cleanliness (in the agile sense of the word) and expressiveness between two chunks of code written by two different developers, in the same programming language and with the same number of SLOC.

I believe something like this to be a much more reliable metric of code quality than commits per day and what have you.

If someone else has already done this, I'd be fascinated to take a look at how you measure those things. The problem would require a non-trivial amount of AI.
When a file uses both little-endian and big-endian serialization, at times within the same logical structure, employs several different ways to store an array, and does other things of similar nature, then it is a genuine clusterfuck regardless of whether it is reflective of "Photoshop particular editing model."
Word dates back to 1983, while OLE was only introduced in 1990 (but otherwise I think you are correct)
Thanks for a thorough answer! I provisionally withdraw my objections... I'll need to think this through when I am sober.
Centralized vs Decentralized Version Control: 2010 vs 2012
Interesting indeed, and thanks for the reply. I almost understand it, unfortunately I just returned from our Melbourne Cup party, where lots of wine was consumed. For now, I concede that your concept seems theoretically possible, best of luck!
Gezonde voeding houd veertig plussers jong en gezond |
http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?page_id=1217 is a good starting point.
Reminds me of this: http://youtu.be/Humfsis-QLI
I would love to understand more about the concepts of threejs. I went through the source of this example and identified this code as responsible for drawing the texture onto the sphere: http://pastebin.com/FLPaKppr .

I have problems however to understand the details of the API. Let us see an excerpt of the code as an example.

this.geometry = new THREE.SphereGeometry(this.planet_radius, this.planet_geom_segments, this.planet_geom_rings);

this.geometry.computeTangents();

I have no clue why for example he calls "computeTangents" right after he builds this "Sphere"-object. What are "Tangents" and why do they need to be computed now?

The entire script is like that to me. Statements that make the library do the right thing, but the intention on why they are necessary at this step of the way are left out. I have no idea how I can get a hold of that knowledge.

Does anybody know where I can learn that? Because if you look at the code, you have no idea WHY it is done that way, which is a barrier to creating things like that myself.

TL;DR: What theoretical background knowledge is necessary to build apps like that?
Elite was such a popular game that its still being implemented on the old 8-bit systems by dedicated fans, just for the love of doing it (and also for the love of old hardware):

http://1337.defence-force.org/
"Malaysia, where have all your talent gone?"
Seen the recent new implementation for the Oric-1/Atmos machines?

http://1337.defence-force.org/
Those arrows are indeed pesky. In my fixed-width fonts (at least at the font size I'm using), → (->) and ⇒ (=>) look the same.
> You made a blanket statement that multiple-basis currencies cannot and haven't existed

No, I said that there's no such thing as competing currencies. Having a single currency with more than one base has obviously been tried, but it didn't work.

> it's not that alternate payment methods cannot be considered. It's that a payment in the legal tender for a debt cannot be refused (without prior arrangement) without voiding the debt

Right. It just so happens that this provides enough of a nudge for the entire currency base to switch over to the legal tender currency.

> e.g.: property seizures to pay back taxes

I never thought of that as an alternative form of payment. Heh. It's clearly a bit of a corner case, and at any rate, if I own a house, that's not really a commodity I can use as a medium of exchange, even if the IRS can seize it or my bank can foreclose on it.
Awesome app. Sorry if I am asking some basic question. I have one observation about storms here, why Equatorial regions seems to have massive storms and that too above equator but not below.
Native, but different. Kind of like how Americans say all kind of weird things that wouldn't be ok in England.
Oolite is an open-source Elite clone written in Objective-C: http://www.oolite.org/

Space Rangers 2 sounds cool.
One of my companies is incorporated in Singapore. IIRC, it cost us between US$ 5-6,000 to register the company. Yearly maintenance cost is US$ 2,000+ (that includes a local business address, the services of a local director, bookkeeping staff etc.).

We're using services of a firm called Rikvin assoc. They're kind of expensive. If you're physically present in SG, you may find cheaper alternatives.
OpenGL experience.
Is it enough to build?
It could be possible that the format was first very reasonable, but the surrounding platform has changed completely during the development. Then the new layers of specification have been added in a form that seemed to be the best possible solution on that platform and on that time. Wasn't Photoshop at the beginning an app for the original m68k Macintosh? Surely different kind of field sizes made more sense in that world than ours - also the tradeoffs in the sake of performance could have had some say.
Then just find a way to kill javascript, and the world will finally be sane again.
Translation: how to creatively stalk celebrities.
> I am thereby having a difficult time fathoming why anyone would think that a PSD file is thereby going to be some well-organized file format that they should easily be able to parse from their own application is just naively wishful thinking

I like how you embodied your point in the unsyntax of that very sentence. ;)
20 Gps fibre speeds demonstrated
Well, to your first point, I would say that even if the money is sitting in someone's bank account, it is still part of the US economy--it is leant out by banks to small businesses, it is invested in pension funds, bonds, etc...unless the money is under a mattress it is being useful. But should we decide to tax "non-useful" money, I certainly wouldn't want to be the person who had to figure out which money was being useful and which wasn't for each individual, would you? Mind you, a lot of people save money for retirement, or to pass on to children, and that's not money I would call non-useful; I would consider it quite immoral to tax that money. Yet tax it we do, since our tax code considers all taxable income to be fairly fungible. The so-called "cash pile" exists because of a credit crisis--people with money are hesitant to invest it or lend it or spend it because they are unsure what the future of the economy will be. Certainly, the government stepping in and starting to tax the cash pile will not make investors more confident to start spending again; more likely, people will start stashing the money overseas.

I'm afraid I don't understand your second point--"private goods, while satisfying want, might actually not serve needs very well." The fundamental concept of economics, that of scarcity, takes as a supposition that society doesn't have the resources to meet our wants and needs; in other words, our wants and needs are unlimited. For example, it is hard to see a refrigerator as anything less than an absolute necessity today, yet it did not exist for most of human history. The brilliance of the free market is it allows individuals to maximize their own utility, to trade for the things that they want and need the most, trading off with the things they don't need as much. By your last point, I take you to mean that healthcare welfare is a better use of money than cocaine (par exemple). Certainly that may be true for each individual on his own level, but when you make it a collective action problem, you have to decide which trade-offs each individual must make between what they want and what you think they need. Cocaine is probably a bad example, but if someone is addicted, they harm only themselves if they are unable to make the tradeoff between drugs and health. But if healthcare becomes a collective action problem, then every person in society has to bear the cost of that one person's addiction. It doesn't seem fair that if I live a perfectly healthy life, I should have to pay more to subsidize someone else's cocaine habit. But fairness aside, there is also a principal agent problem in that the cocaine addict doesn't bear the full cost of his habit, and thus doesn't fully appreciate the trade-off that needs to be made for his health, likely resulting in more cocaine usage, not less.
Brocade Gets Virtual Networking with Vyatta Acquisition
Please change the "Wanna" - it just grates. There is nothing wrong with "Want to ....." maybe even just "Have" and "Want" buttons.
Making sure there's at least some legible text in the page if it's not on the last couple lines sounds like a start...
Google catches up to Apple with 700K apps for Android
on the consumer side? I agree with you. But the server side, when you are paying for power (and can consolidate a bunch of servers into one) the compute power available per watt makes a staggering difference. Yes, I can run my business off 100 servers from 5 years ago... or 25 modern servers, where the modern servers take about as much power one for one, as the 5 year old servers.

Considering that power/cooling/etc in a datacenter often goes for north of $250 per Kw per month, you can bet that we watch performance/watt very closely.
What do you think about the iPad Mini?
A lot of times I use "git add -p" to cleanup code, e.x. if I added some extra logging statements I don't want to commit I can go through adding everything except the log statements, then reset everything that hasn't been added to the index.
Low-power reflective LCD that does color and video
Have you benchmarked it on some standard IR collections (TREC-DUC comes to mind)?
Former Tech Recruiter with an agency, currently inhouse Tech Recruitment Manager for a large dev company.

If you know of someone with proven experience in the area you are hiring for and you know of organisations that have used them successfully then go for it. Otherwise, don't waste your money.

Recruiting is an incredibly difficult challenge that requires patience and persistence. If you are struggling to find people I can guarantee it's for one of the following reasons:

1. You aren't paying enough

2. The job description isn't appropriate to attract the right folk

3. You are looking in all the wrong places (highly doubt this is the reason)

4. There are no suitable candidates on the market.

I would be amazed if points 3 or 4 were the crux of the issue. If you want you can send me the job description along with the details of the package and I'll happily give you my opinion.

In the mean time, some reading material:

1. Why you should avoid recruiters at all costs - http://hackerjobs.co.uk/blog/2012/6/15/all-that-is-wrong-wit...

2. Recruiting advice for start-ups - http://hackerjobs.co.uk/blog/2012/11/5/why-should-i-join-you...
L’acteur Benedict Cumberbatch va jouer le rôle du premier manager des Beatles
Le Britannique Benedict Cumberbatch va donc faire un bond dans les années 70 pour les besoins d’un film portant sur la carrière des Beatles. En effet, l’acteur va incarner leur premier manager.
This is really impressive. I'm tempted by the idea that combined with AngularJS directives[1], this can really work wonders for iphone development. So instead of all the divs and css, the code can be really boiled down to this:

<iphone-app>
<title-bar>
<button-prev />
</title-bar>
<slider>
<image src="1.jpg" />
</slider>
</iphone-app>

On the backend you can have something like:

angular.module(...).directive('titleBar', function(){
template: '<header class="bar-title"><h1 class="title">{{title}}</h1></header>'
});

Will make writing the code much easier and intuitive.

[1] http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/directive
Don’t Let E-mail Bring You Down Plugins To Boost Your Gmail Productivity
Software patents that are not that easy to side step as mdasen present it to be. the software patent is a patent over an idea, and as ideas goes, 3 button on a phone can mean anything from 3 physical buttons, 2 buttons + touch area, 3 areas on a touch screen marked by a button icon, to 3 vocal commands as "conceptual button".

Maybe bounce-back function for over-scrolling is easier to bypass, maybe its not. Reading the actually patent gives no clues however, as it easy could cover the highlight on over-scroll implementation that android has.