skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used JCrop pretty extensively, and my only issue with it is that it returns slightly different coordinates on different browsers. It's even possible to coax it into returning coordinates outside of an image.

Aside from that, it's pretty awesome, easy to use, and customizable.
I suspect that's because you haven't seen high enough DPI yet. The 200+ DPI that Linus calls for is really the bare minimum.
What if it was NASDAQ or Dow that moved because of Apple?

(I suppose Apple is not yet that big but it could happen someday. Maybe a popular stock having much more trades than others could have such impact?)
It's great to be reminded that productivity doesn't really depend as much on the tools you use as some might have you believe.

I keep thinking about buying a faster laptop, or I'm complaining that getting fiber is way to expensive where I live, and then I read about someone on an ancient tiny netbook on dialup who is probably way more productive than I am.
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Actually I have the exact same idea like a few weeks ago. The potential for this idea is big. It can be widely used by small web apps (Chrome App). Instead of hosting a server and a database, every thing can be done and stored in the client, isn't that neat?
I'm not sure whether GitHub is the right place to share ideas at such an early stage.

The things I found confusing is why it's a good idea, and what stage of development the idea is at.

The text at the bottom doesn't make much sense:
"Yes. it is not not there yet. But this is how it should be."

Double negative and ambiguous context to "this is how it should be". Is that, "it's not there and this is how it should be". Or, "If it were to be developed, this is how it should be".
there is a tweet/share on FB that is how i track the tunes im like 'holy smokes' too until the playlist feature is released
"an enormous decline"

On the same scale as the growth that Apple has seen over the last 2 years.
"Somehow it is assumed that people have an innate need for privacy."

It makes me sad that someone with your attitude will probably end up an employee of a Social site, if you aren't already.
Like most things you don't realize the difference until you use it. If you spent a week working on a retina MBP at 1920x1200 you'd never want to use 1280x800 again. 4 vim splits at useable width, 1000px+ browser viewport width with inspector open to the right, etc.
Fair enough :) Bad example with the Google share price and point taken with value / # of shares. You are correct with #3. I know Apple is worth is significantly higher than Google, I just think that gap will close (Google will raise, Apple will lower) over a long period of time - as in years. Could be totally wrong, it's just something I could see happening.
I love how the entrepreneurial community is growing in the Triangle. These companies are two great examples. Congrats guys!
And developping on slow hardware is like having a free continuous profiler.
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Looks interesting. You show street fighter as your first game, yet you're not using Happ nor Sanwa/Seimitsu parts? :-p

With most arcade sticks, swapping out the buttons for your own isn't too tough; will that be the case here?
Came for gory details, stayed for the warm and fuzzies.

For every startup that has a nice clear run at it I imagine there's a dozen swimming in poop. In some cases, like this one, going through the worst possible circumstances that can happen, and you either sink or swim.
“Six strikes” group answers charges of IP industry bias with changes
Has Nexus 7 actually officially launched in Finland? It isn't mentioned in the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_7
On the flip-side, if your reason for going to SV is to look for riches, the composition of the top 1%, according to Gallup, is comprised of:

23% college graduates
27% college dropouts, or less
49% post-graduates

Unless you are willing to do post-graduate studies (which, I imagine, is primarily limited to professional degrees like MD and JD), you are statistically worse off by having a college degree.
woah, we got ourselves a hipster here...
man, if the devs were to put the undergound music here then it wouldn't be undergound anymore and you would probably boycott or ddos the site so no one else could listen to your precious dublectrance rahouse mixes ...
Mac Fusion Drive: pro users beware
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Please read my comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4723333

I am not arguing that Android in-particular is superior, just that the ability to choose the vendor of your device is a significant freedom that can be lost.

I appreciate that Android always has Google as a vendor somewhere in the chain, and I'd like to see variety there too. It's possible to use App based ecosystems and respect everyone's rights at the same time.

I favour an independent app store where the majority of the computing and bandwidth infrastructure is taken up by the developer. This reduces the cost of the app store so they can operate without mandatory contributions and as a result permits unlimited flexibility.
Google App Engine is ready for primetime says Reddit/Hipmunk co-founder
Yep, like http://www.snopes.com/risque/school/bracelet.asp or "rainbow parties". Kids also enjoy pranking the media.
Exactly. I am amazed that so few people get this. It's not about speed or accuracy, but rather about being tightly integrated with other apps on the phone.
Have you considered having all the traffic routing through a proxy?
Dave McClure’s 500 Startups Chooses 33 Companies; Bets Big On International
Yep, Ads in Google search, ads in Google Maps. Honestly, I consider Google Play to be full of ads now as well since I only ever open it for apps and it shows a bunch of music, movies, and hardware I don't want instead until I drill down/search.

Someone else in the thread is complaining you can avoid these things if you try, install alternatives, but it is still true Google makes money after the sale, and that they pay Mozilla a ton of money to be default search on that platform, so it is very valuable to them.
The new followup post [1] explains that Pareon indeed partly relies on good coverage:

"Regarding the way Pareon performs its analysis: it relies on instrumentation and therefore coverage is key. The parts of the code of interest should be sufficiently covered. Partly it is the user's responsibility to make sure the right data sets are used. However Pareon helps the user by showing the achieved coverage of the parts you want to parallelize."

[1] http://www.vectorfabrics.com/blog/item/accelerating_the_idte...
So because he's old and confused, he should win nonsense lawsuits?
I'm sure it isn't, but I am talking about concerns from a parental point of view.
Why was there no electricity? What about the crimes? Those sound darn interesting

I, too, would like to hear about this stuff!
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You're right it's not, and that's what makes it infuriating since both Google and the French government storytelling benefit from lumping these issues together ("look at ze seellee control-freaks French" vs. "we raise high the light of Justice and Equality for Humanity as a whole").
The only filters I have now are tracks larger than 10 minutes since I wanted to avoid including long mixes for now. Never thought about tracks possible being previews. I will look into that as well as thanks for the suggestions.
Interesting thoughts. And it felt like I am reading what I always felt. I have created ,sorry, started many side projects but none of them ended properly. Some left out in the middle, for some after starting I just had no vision what to do next with it.

Most of this is due to my day job(full time job). And so lack of motivation or loosing interest was because of the less time I could devote to it.But I still do not agree on :

"a lack of commitment to one thing is just as productive as doing nothing at all."

When you work on side projects you learn new things or you practice old things which makes you perfect. So keep doing something is always better than nothing. Because of these unfinished side projects I was able to learn python, machine learning, data mining, django and so many other tools and technologies which I would have never learned as these are not related to my day job(all java).

So I would still vote for keep doing side projects whether or not you finish it you have something learned in the process.
As a matter of fact, in my experience (as a teacher), the more you practice, the more you can "improvise". Improvisation is a side-effect of rote.
Windows Phone 8 Developer Platform Is Here
If you want to use this with Rails, here's a screencast showing how: http://railscasts.com/episodes/182-cropping-images-revised
Don't use homebrew or macports or anything like that. If you're installing Erlang for development purposes (you'd be using a release otherwise, right?) use Erlang's answer to `rvm' etc., kerl: https://github.com/spawngrid/kerl

Works fine on OSX.
From Dallas to California: How remote presence changed a person’s life forever
What happened to .NET?
500 startups 5th batch
The "real corporate tax rate" in France is lower than the so-called low Irish rate.

http://www.fixmytax.com/index.php/fix-my-tax-blog-2/27-frenc...
The UK equivalent would be Private Eye which also carries campaigning investigative journalism alongside the humour and satire.
You might as well say that the Bohm interpretation is "like religion" then, rather than saying that the MWI is.

I might except MWI clearly has more True Believers.

If your assertion is that we might never know which is true

My assertion is that since all interpretations lead to the same exact predictions for every imaginable experiment, it doesn't make sense to say that in any meaningful way one interpretation is true and the others aren't. You might as well be arguing whether the electromagnetic field is weaved by tiny angels out of their hair or not.

The Copenhagen interpretation is the closest to "no interpretation" in that it's the most direct way of translating the math into actual predictions.

Quoting the guy who said you shouldn't multiply entities without necessity, to justify the introduction of infinitely many parallel worlds, is an interesting rhetorical maneuver.
>>Security is just an excuse

Not when it comes to giving Google access to my personal data.
Thanks. Pardon me for my bad english (I'm from Asia)

>"it's not there and this is how it should be"

This seems okay for me. Will add it now.
At the end of the post he shows that "tail" data was moved to the SSD after being read repeatedly, and he does mention 10.8.2
Glad to know there's others out there with the same understanding on the subject as me.
It's one of the design proposed by Google, blame them :)
I think I wrote this badly, but you got exactly the point I was going for: for every Airbnb there's someone exactly as resilient that is NOT Airbnb.

However, not dying has its own merits and has huge upside, so I recommend adopting it as a philosophy and constantly doing everything you can to turn "not dying" into "living large".
Clear iPhone App Update To Add iCloud and Mac App
Agreed, I really wish they had revisited it. I wonder if it was the failure of the Cube that made the mid-tier Mac disappear? I suppose it could be the Mac Mini which replaced it ultimately, I seem to remember the Cube was pretty underpowered.

Anyway thanks for the YouTube tip, I have tried the HTML5 version a few times and it is certainly less taxing on resources (just H264 without the Flash wrapper I guess). Can't remember why I went back to Flash, think I just had a few weird glitches in playback, I'll try it again.
>Soundcloud is also ripe for disruption because their interface of overlaying comments on the waveform while playing tracks is at best distracting and at worst causes my web browser to crash all the time.

The beta of the new SC interface doesnt do that anymore.
Even more xkcd-style graphs, with SVG filters
Dubstep, DnB, house ... Why only these 3 genres, most of the top djs (http://www.djmag.com/top100) play trance, deep trance and electro. Seems like a weird choice to me.
What dedication!
Without wanting to get into genre wars, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. There's a brand of music at the moment calling itself 'tech house', but it's basically also pop-garbage like the stream from the OP.

Tech-house as a term has been bastardised in the same way as 'trance' in the mid-90s. There's still some amazing stuff out there though, but you need to dig for it. Unfortunately I don't think the OP site is going to help if it purely filters tags on Soundcloud (if you're really unlucky you'll hear some of my tracks, ha!).

Some real tech-house classics:

Callisto - Resistance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THPQP0-yK54

Inner City – Ahnongay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0rhmECo_Xc
James Shore's Lets Play TDD (http://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Lets-Play) is an excellent video series that has the perfect pace and level of depth for a beginner. James Shore is also doing a Javascript series (it was a kickstart project, http://www.letscodejavascript.com/)

Specifically regarding your question of knowing where to draw the line, there is never going to be definitive answer. That is one of those questions that changes frequently based on your specific project and codebase, but overtime you get a sense of where those lines generally are.

My advice would be to watch the first few videos, then start trying to do TDD on a small project.
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"I don't use a desk. I work in five or six different places and postures around the house. When the weather's good, I'm outside, or on the porch. My preferred "desktop background" is some interesting view in back of my netbook's rather small screen."

This is such a liberating setup. I'm rethinking my need for a home office now.
>>Until then, LTE is for those who have to have the latest thing

Um, no. There's a mountain of difference between HSPA+ and LTE. The former is like having medium-speed cable Internet, and the latter is like having FIOS. This has a direct impact on user experience.
I was a bit concerned about Gatekeeper but it's turned into a non-issue. Not sure what you mean about subfolders, unless you're talking about the issue with iCloud documents where you can only create one folder, no subs? I think I've saved one doc into iCloud as I only have one machine, I use Dropbox for everything basically.

I skipped Lion because I'd heard so much bad, I like ML though, it's pretty solid.
It's not just his name.
Squarespace is one of the companies in that data center. See here for their story (and some photos):

http://blog.squarespace.com/
http://status.squarespace.com/
I also tried doubling all sizes, to make it larger, but the animation lost its satisfying smoothness.
Zapier (YC S12) Raises $1.2M Seed Round
You might have missed his point. He's contrasting the Nexus 7 (7 inches) with the iPad Mini (7.9 inches). He's saying that the iPad mini is sufficiently larger that it doesn't feel like a "big phone" -- unlike the Nexus 7.
Actually, while I still very much like the idea of the site, I think I spoke too soon...it's very much focused on the hardware and software used, whereas I thought it was interviews with people in general from all walks of creative/hacker/writing/painting life about their workflow and how they get stuff done. More of these types of interviews would interest me.
CIROS, robot cooking a salad
Distributed filesystem in the GFS (assuming you mean RedHat's GFS2) sense, like GFS itself, SGI's CXFS, Apple's Xsan or even clustering support in almost all Enterprise DBMS's, does not mean that the data itself is distributed, only that the filesystem (or DB) logic is distributed and only shared component is single central (eg. FC or iSCSI attached) dumb block device without any special understanding of the filesystem, which is exact opposite of using local hard drives of the nodes.

Things like Lustre or GoogleFS use distributed storage nodes that are normally separate from client nodes.

While in both cases nothing prevents you from running both client applications and storage server process on same node there is little reason to do so, for both operational (disks are in one place) and economic reasons (attaching 20 disks to one node is cheaper than attaching 20 disks to 20 nodes).

In fact few years ago I've actively searched for filesystem with built-in redundancy and storage capacity distributed across client nodes and found almost nothing that was designed for such use case.

Only thing I'm aware of that was close to what you propose is/was essentially an wrapper for NFS in (open)MOSIX, that was able to redirect I/O from process to local disk when it found out that it was migrated to same node as NFS server runs on. With the important note that (open)MOSIX is not exactly meaningful HPC solution, but interesting nevertheless.
Nice job guys, this is going to be a big industry.
Do you think Retailers are stocking up on phones that aren't selling? That each month, fifty thousand electronic devices are stored in stockrooms, never to be seen again?

The units sold to consumers closely resembles the tail of current shipped units, just delayed a bit; the larger the number and the bigger ticket the item the closer those curves are.
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That does seem cool in concept but when I put my laptop to sleep, I do so to conserve battery not for it to suck up battery by doing all that.
No thanks.
I'll use D if I want a ton of features for free. This is not beautiful code. I could work around it I guess because I've seen much worse coming from C++ but it's really not my ideal of C++. But this is a small example, the source code of the STL offers much more madness.
Not to mention the compiler messages you get for using templates...
He's a hardcore Debian guy. I'm sure that if he needs a custom build he probably farms out the compilation to one of his remote servers, and just downloads the resultant .deb file.
Not at all. The impression given by the title is that it's going to be obscure electronic music, which I thought would be excellent. I was pretty shocked to hear what came out of the speakers when clicking through.

I didn't realise when I first posted that it was streamed from Soundcloud. So I understand what the "you've probably never heard of" bit was about now.
Yeah, the trick must be to run it regularly. Skip the upgrade and you're in for 900MB of upgrades (though deb-delta can help a lot).
"a lack of commitment to one thing is just as productive as doing nothing at all."

I'd agree with this statement completely. Everything I've built that I'm proud of has always been something where I took my time, had a clear vision, drafted out exactly what I wanted and then didn't just take it on as "just a side project" but when needed, forced myself to see it through to the end.

I think he has some really good points about side projects in general. I think we (or at least myself) can tend to view them as things like hey let me build a framework so I know how to do it, without any clear goals in mind (besides the vague one). Then you do it for a while and afterwards maybe you have learned maybe not, maybe you just give up because you never have the time, and then you wasted the 4 hours you spent starting the project. This is more for myself, but I think when I get an idea now or want to make a side project, I'm going to force myself to sit down, spend the half hour and write down a clear set of goals that I want to achieve, and only after this start.
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While we're on the topic, why are we still on 60hz displays?
I think you're being unnecessarily critical. The article begins with "I think that it is possible to write code in a style that is almost as painless as in a modern dynamic language like Python. I also think that is not so well known how much C++ has changed for the better, outside the C++-community. Hence this post."

The difference between make_tuple(...) and (...) is not significant compared to what it would have been before without list initializers at all and having to manually populate the map. That's something people who knew C++ of the past but not C++11 would be happy to see. The rest of the code is a great demonstration of these new features as well. That's the point: to demonstrate C++11, not undermine Python.

The article ends with some cogent criticism of C++. If this sets of your fanboy detector, you should turn it down a little.
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Why is web design so different here?
We are still talking about content that is consumed with your eyes.
I think these articles need to come with the caveat of "markets move and shift". I'm sure no one at Apple is panicking, it's easy to be lured into watching the share prices as a statistic of success but Apple has enough cash in stockpile that their share price isn't overly important, unless you're a shareholder.

If it dropped 20% in a day I think it'd be safe to say there was a loss of investor confidence.
This is a less forceful version of Charles Petzold's "Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?", http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/doesvisualstudiorotthemind..., but it's worth reading.
Can you explain how, or point me to a resource describing how to do it?
Wait, are they trying to retroactively extract taxes?
The NASDAQ does move because of Apple, it's weighted as 19.8% of the index.
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The production of news content -- like aid to the destitute or the military -- might be an obsolete business model but is still an essential social good worth protecting.
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List comprehensions are not deep magic. If you use SQL as your frame of reference, it's actually pretty easy to pick up. They also add a hell of a lot to readability once you know what it does.
>but sometimes weirdly implemented around the corners (WAT? The templating library also serves static files?).

No it doesn't. There's a similar high level API, but that's it. Serving static files is part of snap-core, and done with serveDirectory/serveFile. Templates are part of the higher level snap module, and can be served in a similar style using heistServe.

>I would love to use any of them, but they are still not fit to build ecosystems like Django, Rails or Spring.

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Not fit to build ecosystems as in, have 3rd parties contribute "components" or something of that nature that people can optionally use? Because snap has that, they are called snaplets, and despite snap being quite new, there's already a budding little ecosystem there.

>I am surprised by how much the Haskell community always says "type system" first, but seems to put all other practical considerations on the backseat. Also, it is common to just dismiss concerns without addressing them.

That is simply not true. The haskell community is very heavily focused on addressing practical concerns, cabal is under constant work and discussion, and the developers are seeking funding so they can focus on it full time. A new extensible record module was released just this week to address the issues people have with haskell records. It seems incredibly odd to keep seeing people claim that the community ignores feedback when so much of the community's goings-on are focused entirely on addressing that feedback.
Is that dangerous?
What about those startups that already have an account but not generating revenues since they just launched a week ago?
Occasionally yeah, retail stores will buy stock that may end up dead. Obviously not at the moment as they can't keep them in stock, I'm just curious whether either company is showing sales figures including the retail supply chain bought ones as well.