skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Look Into Scalable Vector Graphics(SVG) Animation
If you were fixing the roof of a $100,000,000 mansion and the owner comes out at lunch time and hands you a warm can of Wal-Mart Cola, what would you think? See dagw's comment above.
Linux isn't a UNIX distribution. It's Linux. Linux can be described as 'UNIX like'.
Very true :). Some interesting answers here so far!
I wrote this comment on a prior discussion about this:

> SD vs HD, is dependent upon who you ask. The CEA, which represents the TV makers, says that anything with at least 720 lines is HDTV, thus enabling 1024x768 to be called HDTV. ATSC, which develops broadcast standards, says that HDTV should be 720 or 1080 lines at 16:9 aspect ratio, which implies 1280x720 or 1920x1080.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4710875
Windows 8 modern-style UI applications are (largely) resolution independent, and they look pretty good.
You might actually want to put your memzero function into a shared library to be on the safe side.
You don't think the Jobs family gets a company discount on iPods? C'mon.
Spoiler.

Apply this recursively: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/388822/balloon.png

Works for any number of children.
Launching the world's first marketplace for predictive models
People are trying to say that criminalization of the possession of or trafficking in so-called circumvention tools is absurd.
Millennial version, circa 2055. "The Airfare-Is-Too-Expensive-When-You-Still-Have-Fucking-Student-Loans Retirement".
True, but, as the DPI increases, manually making the UI pixel-perfect becomes less important.
Analyze your own, it'll be much better when you're doing synchronous stuff like this. Our canonical audio is likely very different in bitrate or time to start.
I believe it is exactly the picture-hanging puzzle, upside-down.
Ah, you beat me to it - that's exactly the arrangement I posted on the site.
Because the CD thread is the only thing stopping the AB thread from pulling back through the loop.
This apparently worked. I've only heard about the new iMac from apple.com and until reading this post I had no idea that it wasn't as thin as it appeared. I was so amazed when I saw it.
Awaesome. I use Symbolset which is similar.

One issue:
in = Login icon
invert = Invert icon
vertical = Phone orientation

invertical = [invert icon]ical

Obviously this is an edge case issue to happen, but this is an example of a way this can seriously screw up.
I used to find these questions amusing and even stimulating but after a decade of getting refused jobs because I couldn't answer questions such as this or some question about pirates to the satisfaction of an interviewer has made me slightly embittered.

And remember, no matter what, there's only one correct answer: the one the interviewer wants to hear. Very rarely do I see a new and correct answer to these puzzle questions provoke a positive response.

I hit the back button and moved on with my life.
Amazon doth protest too much, methinks.
Predicting crime - a step towards a safer world?
but he never showed the thicker part of the iMac.

He did turn it full sideways to the camera and revealed its bulging back. You can't show off its full thickness any more than that.

It wasn't on screen that way for as long as the "ooo!" moment of the brightly lit knife edge, but it was there for all to see.

Unrelated random thoughts on iMac thickness:

It is really just an aesthetic. The foot print of the machine can't be thin because it would be too easy to knock it over backwards. You can't stick it to a wall because there would be no place for your legs. That leaves aesthetics.

Consider the angles from which you see an iMac. Generally you are mostly in front. As you move off axis beyond the screen perimeter, the edges become visible. These are indeed thin, and deliberately visible in their glorious thinness. If your desk is against a wall you will never see the bulge. If you are in an office with the desk facing the door (always my preference) the bulge is not readily apparent to people entering because of its gradual edges, it is only from about a 30 degree angle of view around the rear sides that you can really see it, and that is the region where you are walking around your desk to sit down, not one visitors inhabit.

You end up with a computer that looks thin. Does it really matter if it isn't?
In college I was all about being "ripped" and having a six pack (sexual selection and all that...) So I cut out the fat in my diet pretty well, which is surprisingly easy in an all you can eat food commons. I still ate heavy on the carbs though, as I was working out regularly, and with intensity. Then I got in the habit of drinking it like it's water, at which point it having no taste is almost a good thing for me.
Personally, I have mixed feelings about integrating the skeleton trackers into the hardware. While this might drive down cost for specific use cases, it limits the capabilities of these natural interface devices. The skeleton trackers are based on many assumptions, like approximate camera angle and position, proper clothing etc.
Once, any of these assumptions don't hold true any more, for instance a camera from the top, side or back, a object held by the user, uncommon clothing like baggy pants or skirts, you have to write your own skeleton tracker in software.
If the owner came out, I'd be pretty pleased that he was taking an interest. If his estate manager came out, I'd be pleased they were being considerate.

Clearly that's not what you would think, but that just denotes that you have a fuzzy idea of how being contracted to do a job works.
"Apple would never even show a competitor on their site, because they are the market leader.." - One thing that struck me from the iPad Mini announcement was just how much time they spent comparing it to the competition - a sure sign that they really do think there is competition now. Then they disappoint on the iPad numbers in their latest earnings - chalk that up to people waiting for iPad Mini's but that seems like only half the story - and I think we've got a real interesting battle on our hands.

I wonder if Google was brilliant or lucky pricing the Nexus 7 at $199. They created this dilemma for Apple. They can't have the Mini cannabalize the more profitable iPad (the % of which must increase measurably by every $20 price differential) so they can't get close to $199. Amazon and Google smell blood in the water. iOS and the ecosystem is clearly superior to its Android brethren right now. However, a 65% premium for a device many acknowledge is a web surfer/facebook/email checker feels too rich. These guys will get a solid toehold in the market and in 2 - 3 years from now there will be an S III equivalent to the larger iPad's.
The parent's post was quite civil IMO. Your language and last couple paragraphs though....

And just FYI, they never said iPhone 4, 4S or 5 were the fastest "phones", they said they're the "fastest iPhones yet", which is 100% true!
This explains your in-depth knowledge of what processors and their comparisons really mean.

Assuming that a quad-core processor would perform better a dual-core, without taking into account processor speed and how the underlying Os and apps exploit the extra cores shows the same "in-depth" knowledge of processors.
However, it's quite reasonable to prevent business import of goods from abroad.

Why is it reasonable? They aren't counterfeit. They weren't produced in violation of copyright. They aren't dangerous. They aren't stolen. The only reason to ban their import is to protect the copyright holder's business model.

Whether the business model is desirable or not is not the question. The question is whether it deserves explicit protection in law, and I believe it does not.
Except they only-sort-of match the text. Like using 'in' instead of login.

It all depends on usage. If you're using it next to text, then getting "Login Login" is annoying. If you're using icons only (which has debatable standards), then yes.
A cheap gift? These guys make yachts, not buy them.
"It says things that are strictly true and presents the Fire in the best possible light, while leaving off anything that might balance out the comparison."

Sounds like every advertisement ever made.
Some of this is valid but a lot of it seems like a reach, like you were trying to pad out your list.
As a consumer, it's a sad thing to see what Microsoft does with the "Surface Pro", in my view a product that would take the ultrabook segment by storm.

Microsoft obviously has struck some deals with pc producers and committed to hold the product back until after the holiday season. They probably even make more money that way.

It's just a matter of time, until Apple is going to counter the Surface with their own ios/macosx hybrid, which I think is the future. I would not be surprised to see the first hint for this "surface" sometime early next year, after the holidays, and before the actual Surface Pro hits the stores.

Microsoft is betting for Apple to not pull this off so quickly, but if they are wrong, the Windows market share will continue to shrink at an accelerated pace next year.

Microsoft had their shoot this Christmas season to do something bold and go big with Surface RT AND Surface Pro, but they choose to give in with the OEM's.
No, I still don't want to work for Google
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Around 7 years ago, I went on a vacation to Japan and Korea and I had made more money after I came back from Adsense income. Decided I could do my job from anywhere and moved to Korea and been here since.
How do you stop online students cheating?
Agreed, I thought the optimal ratios of calorie intake is 30% from fat, 30% from protein, and 40% from carbs. fat is 9 calories/gram, and 4 calories/gram for carbs and fat. At least that's what I try to go by when backpacking. but still, at the rate I drink milk, I'd be consuming way too much fat if I upped it to whole...
> You just need to be organized

Putting just inside of a sentence doesn't suddenly make it easier. "It's easy, you just have to learn linear algebra". "It's easy, you just have to sleep less."

People's ability to organize seems to be part learned and part innate. You should count yourself blessed that the organization is just that easy for you :)
Stop Micromanaging and Learn to Delegate
One of the possible ways is like http://erikdemaine.org/papers/PictureHanging_FUN2012/

"We show how to hang a picture by wrapping rope around n nails, making a polynomial number of twists, such that the picture falls whenever any k out of the n nails get removed, and the picture remains hanging when fewer than k nails get removed"
So the value of a gift, unlike the value of a product, depends on what the giver paid for it? I would expect the value of the gift to be what it would cost me to acquire it, surely?
I don't get why in the world he might want those 5 dollars back?
Icon(ic) Fonts have come along way recently. These resources may be of use to some.

http://icomoon.io/app/

http://fontello.com/

http://symbolset.com/

http://somerandomdude.com/work/iconic/

Benefits include:

- Consistent Interface Fonts across all modern browsers

- Variety (not the same old bootstrapped site)

- Loading Time (sometimes faster than using images for headlines)

- SEO Friendly (it's just text)

- Better rendering for high resolution devices like retina displays

Disadvantages:

- Loading Time (additional download resource for clients)
RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi released
As long as they're not losing money, I really don't see a problem with this. For Google, having a decent Android tablet available at that price clearly helps them in ways beyond immediate profit from hardware sales.
[SPOILER] If you're a visual person, the solution is expertly drawn out here: http://i.imgur.com/Jpn1k.png
Healthbox Europe Portfolio
The camera hack revealing the fourth dimension
> 1. Much More for Much Less. Much More is obviously the kindle fire HD, and Much Less is the iPad Mini

I guess they actually mean you can get much more benefits for much less money
There is a lot of momentum in the FuelUX project -- definitely worth taking a look at this!
I've done yard work and demolition for a few very rich people and I was always appreciative when they came down with drinks--most didn't do anything other than hide out upstairs and wait for us to leave. If someone had come down with WalMart Cola, I probably would have thought, "I can't believe this guy owns a chain of restaurants and still goes to Wal-Mart to buy soda."
One of the rules in the weekend event I run - the MathsJam - is that you are not allowed to stop people from enjoying themselves. This is not rigorously enforced, people just buy into it. A consequence is that if people are enjoying a puzzle, and you get the answer, you don't share it immediately.

If it really matters to you then you can write down the solution so others will know you got it first, but most people don't care about the credit, they just love the sharing of puzzles and other fun stuff.

It doesn't seem to work online - there are always those who insist on "sharing" just how clever they are.
HealthConnect – Final Thoughts
I spent several years holding down a regular job and doing the freelance work at night. Eventually, as I successfully completed those jobs/tasks, the word spread and I had enough coming in from the night work that I was able to shed the full time job and go on my own. Yes, it means spending a few years of working two jobs, which isn't a luxury everyone has or even wants to exercise. It's definitely paid off for me though, as I've now been 100% freelance for about 5 years.

My other suggestion is to see if you can convert a portion your existing full time job to freelance (i.e., convert from an employee to a contractor for your existing job). I did that as well, which helped fill in my client gap for a bit.
One thing that really sticks out - there's a LOT of MySQL on here. and very little Mongo and Riak. That's not to say those are not useful technologies but it's clear SQL Scales.
Microsoft Surface Teardown
Isn't it what Google does? Try hovering over a search result, and then try copying the URL. It's annoying like hell, btw., especially when you want to copy-paste a link somewhere.
I think it probably says something about my eye for design that I prefer the megayachts which look more like cross-channel ferries (Le Grand Bleu and Octopus) than the god awful fibreglass gin palaces.
One more reason to only allow scripts on sites you trust.
Elastislide: A Responsive Image Carousel
3 Most Common Ruby Editors And How To Choose
I was thinking the same thing, even when right clicking and using "Copy link address..." you end up with Google's redirect URL.
In the long run I am in complete agreement with Bezos on this. Content is what matters. Devices come and go but my relationship with an album or a book means something to me.
Your next computer/gadget is a no-brainer
I for one appreciate your candid response.
I know it's not a sort of points, I'm just surprised how a post with only 5 upvotes through over 2 hours can land so high on the homepage.
It's probably not necessary to ban DRM - just to legalize circumvention.
If you mean there are sometimes reasons for import tariffs, then that might be true (it's a large debate in economics). I don't see why copyrighted goods should be treated specially, though. If a country wants an import tariff on books, just like on sugar or on steel, in order to maintain price differences, it should institute it directly, rather than via this roundabout copyright route.
Quote: "The problem with Windows "apps" is that they are made inefficient and un-optimized by default"

As a WIN32 developer for the last ten years I would have to agree that a good bit of software today for Windows lacks performance. Why ? IMO a lot has to do with mindset of not only developers, but also those who produce the programming languages developers use. I would venture to say that most programmers would admit that the computer they develop on is likely a more advanced computer than most mass market PC's. They like i5 or i7 CPU's, 8,16 or more gigs of memory, SSD's, etc. The mass market PC though, to be affordable comes far less equipped. This is why when I write software, my development PC is closer to a more mass market PC. I need to feel the problems with performance the moment I compile and run. Now if you write apps which run fast on a slow PC, imagine how they will run on the higher end devices.
Because it's Apple.

People know Apple, they know how it will perform, they know it will run the Apps their friends talk about, they know the Apple stores are there if they need service, etc.

The iPad Mini, instead of being a bold play to kill the 7" tablet competitors is (unsurprisingly, perhaps) merely a smaller iPad. Maybe a somewhat cheaper iPad, but not an appreciably cheaper tablet at it's size.

And instead of shooting to further lower the price as advances roll down, it will almost certainly remain a smaller iPad, rather than a cheaper tablet; picking up the "retina" display and increasingly faster internals, rather than further cutting price. [1]

[1] Except maybe that odd $29 'bulge'. Apple doesn't seem to keep those around. e.g. IIRC the last-gen iPod Touch rocked a $229 price on entry, but as soon as they could they knocked it down to $199 and intro'd the new model at $299.
When using middle click (i.e. open in new tab) the link still leads to the google.com.
"Indeed, there is even a saying among painters: "A painting is never finished, you just stop working on it." This idea will be familiar to anyone who has worked on software."

http://www.paulgraham.com/desres.html
Agreed, but that's not what happens to the code in this article -- if you copy+paste it appears as though you are going to www.google.com

So it seems... Google could learn a thing or two; or maybe they decided not to be evil.
Sorry, only eink kindles are being sold to Canada, and if I bring one in, software portion of device de-activates after 30+ days of being outside of the US, So thus no comparison unfortunately.
Interesting graph technique, wherein the first 100% appears to have been elided from the X axis.
You can achieve exactly the same effect by setting "window.location.href" on click event, so I don't see how preventing "href" from change will help.
SQL on MongoDB: A Look at Performance
I don't know... in practical terms, replacing copy-pasted URLs by redirect links is more evil than leaving them be, IMO.
ipad/iphone has never been the best device hardware-wise. but they deliver a good experience despite having inferior hardware with better OS, apps, content etc.
I prefer powerboats, but the Abramovich's megayacht was awesome. afair aside of heli landings it had a powerboat inside and anti-missile protection. this Jobs' one looks like an ugly office building.
You are probably joking but people have been bared from just entering the USA for lesser reasons, it's sad.

In the USA you can be put on the no-fly list just for demonstrating at an anti-war protest.
That is quite the eyesore, with a complete lack of any emotion or inspiration and it has what looks like an Apple store inside.
I think this is related to Borromean ring system - three inseparable rings, yet no two are directly linked to each other. Cut any one ring, and the other two fall apart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borromean_rings
Most of the time though the issue is we don't trust links in comments/posts on websites we otherwise trust. Those websites don't allow people to inject javascript code in their comments (but they often do allow people to change the link text).

Of course, once you're willing to run arbitrary javascript code you can't trust any mouse click anymore. Doesn't matter if the click is on a link or a button or anywhere else. Disallowing href attribute modification doesn't help one bit.

So the "hover" hint you get for links is still highly useful, especially on sites you trust.
Don't most smartphone users have an Android phone? And wouldn't they therefore want to reuse the apps they've already paid for when they switch to a tablet?
I think it highlights why resolution dependence doesn't matter - just wait a year for the price to come down. What could be easier?
No, for three reasons:

1. Nobody expects someone your age to have many years of continuous employment at one company on your CV. You're young. Capitalize on it.

2. Programming jobs have a fairly high turnover rate anyway. There is the tacit assumption that if you want better terms you'll find another job.

3. Nobody will ever think less of you for leaving an unfair employer. If they see many short stays on your CV they may start to wonder if you're the problem, but one or two aren't enough to be an indicator. Also, as your CV gets larger, you can omit 3 month jobs that didn't work out, and simply not talk about them while searching for a job.
That's actually a slightly convoluted way around - you can also use JS to cancel the browser's "normal" action for an element and have it do something else - see jQuery example http://api.jquery.com/event.preventDefault/
Middle-clicking doesn't execute the `onclick` event in some browsers. Likewise, right-clicking and hitting open link in new tab opened Google, but middle clicking executed the `onclick` event.
Yes -- the onclick event can be triggered by all the mouse buttons.
I've been a Mac user going back to a Lombard Macbook and I remember when Apple used to really go on the attack against PC's before they switched to Intel. Examples are:
Toasting the Pentium II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE6aKeK61A4 and Pentium II Snail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ExNQ3iFhXc

During the Keynotes when Steve Jobs would show off the computers they'd run their Photoshop or really large Excel file tests to show just powerful their chips were. If I remember right, all of those tests were highly selective. For most regular computing tasks, I felt like PC's were faster.

In marketing, if you're in second place it doesn't hurt many times to attack first place. In the consumers minds, you're putting yourself on similar footing to the first place contender and then getting to highlight specific differences that make whatever case you want.

It many not be elegant but Amazon's promotions and Samsung's recent phone ads do illustrate differences between the products. They may not be the most important differences to a lot of people but the burden is on Apple to show that, not on competitors to follow a vague sense of fairness.
From my viewpoint, he very carefully moved it between pre-determined camera angles.
> It's strange that they can't continue to compete in this category, especially given the high price of their device.

Given that Amazon posted a net loss this past quarter in part due to manufacturing expenses, I wouldn't call their strategy "effectively competing".
> The case deals only with the "gray market" importation question

This is incorrect. Did you read Omega? Did you read earlier Kirtsaeng or the Petition for Certiorari or even Wiley's response?

The core question is basically "what does 'made lawfully under this title' mean in relation to first sale?" The petitioner (the book importer) tried to apply first sale as a defense to the limitations on unauthorized importation. If first sale is invalid because "under this title" mean solely within the territory of the US, then the first sale is likely invalid in all such situations.

The court could rule that anything purchased in the US also gets 'first sale' protection as a matter of interpretation, or it might figure out how to rule so narrowly that the decision only applies to one scenario, but that's exactly the same "could" and "might" that you called FUD earlier.
Interview: Cloudera CEO on Real-Time Hadoop, Future of Big Data
Ecuador's one is close to me :)) I dig a tunnel already :)
I'd like to say: I appreciate the hard work you all put into Firefox :-)
Windows 8 and why it's a desktop disaster
As a side note, how the hell has Google not fixed youtube and the "see this movie early at this link -> http://lol-th1s-url-is-craxxy.com

I'd think writing a cheap algorithm to track those posts and who upvotes them would be easy. Maybe they are doing a honeypot?