skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I've never used multicasting in a real-world application but will be keeping my eyes open for an opportunity". Don't. Seriously, just don't do it. I personally know of outages directly attributed to multicast that have cost more than your $widget will ever make.

But, you say, I've got the textbook case of media broadcast! Yeah, still probably not worth it. Check out UDP broadcast, or tiered distribution, or service and peer discovery. There's another way to do what you want.

No way! I know all about multicast forwarding, and every node really does need all of these packets Really? You're going to build reliable delivery at the application layer? And deliver yet more mcast to every node. And you won't have contention problems, across your entire domain, for the limited byte & namespace resources? And it won't be a problem when every packet must be routed to every TOR? Because you will have heterogenous hosts in each rack subscribed to every available group.

So, really, don't do it. It looks cool. It looks efficient. It looks simple. It's not. In grown up land it's just not worth it.
Q: how many MIT scientists does it take to pour Ketchup out of a bottle?

A: !+!+!+!+!+!=6
Thank you for so enlightening comment.
To anyone else wondering: this submission only seems relevant to google.com and not the more country-specific domains (e.g. google.co.uk). Unfortunately for many people that's where they'll be redirected to when clicking the link above.

This URL might be better: http://www.google.com/ncr - it suppresses that redirect.
Of course, yes, it's a histogram, the point is that the time is labelled on the wrong axis, it should be on the horizontal one, along with the mean (the line should point down to intercept the mean time along the horizontal axis). The vertical axis should be frequency of occurrence, i.e. number of sites observed to take that amount of load time.

The plot as-is makes no sense, and is visibly nonsense at a glance, so why trust the numbers?
Such marketing strategies feel like they deserve a boycott as a matter of principle, instead of blogging about them.

I saw your site already twice, the first being the "exclusivity" message, where you told nothing about what you want to offer to those who join, and what do you want from those who join.

Asking anyone to join before telling anything is unacceptable. If you have something to say, say it. On the first page. In text.

Your 'prezi' looks exactly like those fullscreen-clickthrough ads that many news sites are using - so it gets skipped by users instinctively even if they don't use plugins like flashblock. Nobody wants to view a flash-demo if they weren't expecting it, people in that situation just look for a way to get through it, and do not look at the content.
Writing a complete json parser would have taken less time than writing this rant...
What makes you think skin colour is the worst possible method? Surely flipping a coin is much worse? Or requiring that applications are written in joined-up-writing/cursive?

There are plenty of worse methods.
When Math(s) Turns Out To Be Useful
> Before the jokers in the room claim that this kind of problem is deserved by Mono

Sizzle.
...or just get a normal gym membership, save yourself money and not get injured by bizarre exercise selection.
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You're right, only the piece you've already kept, which by itself is not enough to prove which way you voted is kept. I was confused because it said that it showed you something which could prove that a vote was 'counted as cast', and I don't see how you can prove that without the system proving to you that it knew how you cast your vote.
Seems like this could be avoided by simply approaching the author and offering to pay for a version of the software with the license you want. If I'm not mistaken, the author in question has in fact given companies in the past permission to use this particular library for "evil purposes".

Most importantly though, one should refrain from making demands on people who are offering you things for free.

If you like the code and are willing to use it under the terms provided, use it. Otherwise you're no worse off than you were before. Write your own version and get on with life.
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The saddest part of Other M might be that its development was lead by the surviving co-creator of the original Metroid games, who does not appear to understand why people liked Metroid in the first place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshio_Sakamoto
My wife looked at this and said "shampoo bottles, conditioner bottles..."
Patrick, isn't this like saying that since steak knives are potentially dangerous, they should be illegal to use at the dinner table?

You have to admit that the upside of this is greater than the downside. Lets focus on that.
You burn bridges pretty fast doing that sort of thing.
The opposite is also true: "Absent significant study, it is absolutely not the place of someone who is a member of the racial minority to declare the extent or impact of racism."

People of marginalized groups are often much more familiar with racism and what is and isn't racist than people of privileged groups. It's like talking about sports with a sports fanatic and someone not that into sports. One person is going to know a lot more than the other.
Forgive my naivete but can't this by achieved by using opaque teflon-coated insides? Teflon is already used as non-stick coating for pans. It might not lower friction as much as the video suggests but it should be better than glass.
Oh please no, we barely got rid of the target attribute /:
Why does Google ignore Android bug reports from users?
The one thing, and to my mind, the most important point that is not addressed in the FAQ is "How does this work"? Presumably Google must have some arangement with the mobile carriers?
The camel video barely plays in Chrome 23, froze my Firefox 16.0.2
11 Steps Towards Deliberate Practice
Actually, while the silent crash happened to me too on my Nexus 7 with Crayon Physics Deluxe (I have cyanogenmod 10 rom), I tried restarting the device, then the game loaded fine.
Tom it's no so common otherwise most of the problems would have solved by now. Not everyone gets a "personal itch" and those who even get, there's no guarantee other share the pain. One just can't "get out of the building" and ask people,"What's your problem? I am your Genie!" Most of the time you can't solve a problem because it's out of your domain.
Err..what I understood from this article is that the PR firms were getting paid to get their clients into TC. They probably did this by cultivating relationships with the writers. It doesn't say that any of the writers were bribed.
Current operators don't have voice working on LTE, phone vendors need to keep both 3G and LTE radios on to kludge around this.

When the operators/LTE network vendors get their voice act together, phone vendors can start selling proper LTE phones.
I accept it's not specifically because it's PC, but that's not advancement of the story, that's just him applying his own perceptions and prejudices.

A girl walking a particular way isn't more significant than a boy walking in a particular way, he just sees it as such.

Generally in these situations it's best not to worry too much about the intentions the person had and just look at the end result. After all, intentions will often be unclear, lied about, recollection of why something was may change over time and so on.

It's interesting to hear what someone says, but what they actually produce is more important.
You chose that word carefully (and even underlined it). Are you sure, eleven minutes later, that you really mean that?

You would hate a person who took the time and effort to build a piece of software, then clean up and release the source code for anybody to use? A person who is doing a selflessly good thing that possibly benefits others and at the very least does no harm? You'd hate this person? Not just disagree with or be annoyed by, but hate?

Is that really the sort of person you want to be?
I can guarantee, with a near 100% confidence rating, that I am not Sam Wang. Merely coincidental that we have the same last name and first initial. I mean there has to be at least 100 million people in the world with the surname Wang so the odds that we are the same person are pretty slim!
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Or you could take a look at the long history of anti-Asian racism in America (Chinese massacre of 1871, imported Asian slave labors for building the transcontinental railroads, Chinese Exclusion Act, Asiatic Barred Zone Act, etc). Just because you want to claim they are not comparable doesn't mean they are not.
Jews invented racial discrimination. Let a gentile apply to a Jewish school, even if his father is Jewish and he practices Judaism they will turn him down if his mother is not ethnically Jewish.
The opportunities and challenges of responsive design
n August 2011 7.12% of all website hits worldwide came from a handheld mobile device. By August 2012, that figure had risen to 11.78%. We can literally watch as tablets and smartphones become our default choice for connecting to the internet. People have long gotten used to the web as an essential part of their lives, not willing to live another day, even another moment without being constantly connected.
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Here is the quote the post refers to from "The JSON Saga":

When I put the reference implementation onto the website, I needed to put a software license on it. I looked up all the licenses that are available, and there were a lot of them. I decided the one I liked the best was the MIT license, which was a notice that you would put on your source, and it would say: "you're allowed to use this for any purpose you want, just leave the notice in the source, and don't sue me." I love that license, it's really good.

But this was late in 2002, we'd just started the War On Terror, and we were going after the evil-doers with the President, and the Vice-President, and I felt like I need to do my part.

[laughter]

So I added one more line to my license, which was: "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." I thought I'd done my job. About once a year I'll get a letter from a crank who says: "I should have a right to use it for evil!"

[laughter]

"I'm not going to use it until you change your license!" Or they'll write to me and say: "How do I know if it's evil or not? I don't think it's evil, but someone else might think it's evil, so I'm not going to use it." Great, it's working. My license works, I'm stopping the evil doers!

Audience member: If you ask for a separate license, can you use it for evil?

Douglas: That's an interesting point. Also about once a year, I get a letter from a lawyer, every year a different lawyer, at a company--I don't want to embarrass the company by saying their name, so I'll just say their initials--IBM...

[laughter]

...saying that they want to use something I wrote. Because I put this on everything I write, now. They want to use something that I wrote in something that they wrote, and they were pretty sure they weren't going to use it for evil, but they couldn't say for sure about their customers. So could I give them a special license for that?

Of course. So I wrote back--this happened literally two weeks ago--"I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil."

[laughter and applause]

And the attorney wrote back and said: "Thanks very much, Douglas!"

Good talk, worth a watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C-JoyNuQJs
I have a friend whose children were literally furious with her when they worked out that she'd been lying about Santa (which they immediately extrapolated to the tooth fairy, Easter bunny and so on).

Having young children myself I've thought a bunch about it. I'm not wild about the lying but when you see the enjoyment they get out of it, look back at how you felt about it when you were young (where deception doesn't rank highly amongst my recollections) and think about some of the other consequences (them being the only child in the playground who doesn't believe) generally you come down on the side of the lie.

My compromise (if you can call it that) is that I won't be one of those parents who strings it out when they seriously start questioning it. Aside form anything else at that point it seems like a great opportunity to ask them to exercise their reasoning skills to talk through why they're questioning it.
"Good" and "evil" are relative concepts, not absolutes.
They also should upgrade Apache as there's a known vulnerability with pre-2.2.20 versions that leaves Apache open to an easy DoS attack.
I agree with one of those top contributors...they should start accepting bitcoins.
Smith says. "I can’t say what they are, but we’ve patented the hell out of it."

I'm curious as to whether anyone knows what's in the patents that means the coating is patented but still secret?
I imagine that the one week is development time.
If you add the time it takes to submit into Google App market etc, how long did it take?
Lessons learned from being the first data scientist at a startup
I think that this has probably been taken a little too literally. It would be interesting to get the original author’s opinion..
I agree completely with Sehe’s comment about the terms of the statement not being clearly defined and thus no judge could reasonably use it in court against any uses of the software.
Good and Evil are subjective opinions to which each individual has their own beliefs.
Well, if the banks can have moral hazard, why can't we?
> Seems like this could be avoided by simply approaching the author and offering to pay for a version of the software with the license you want.

or taking the JSON grammar and implementing it from scratch. It's not exactly complex, the most complex part is strings and even those are rather simple.
Where we can get it?
I don't understand. The guy complain that json license is not "Free" in the FSF sense of "Free". So what? Not all licenses has to be FSF or FSF compatible. How is it harmful to FSF is the license of some piece of code is not compatible with GPL?

Guess what, I can't use GPL in my projects, because it's not compatible with the kind of license I release my programs. You can't use this software because it's not comapatible with GPL. Feel the pain. FSF would advice people not to use GPL software if they can't stand the license. The same applies to you, if you really want to use your software for evil purpose, just license it that way. Otherwise, use something else. It's that simple.
What do you think of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptical_trainer to stay fit and avoid this thing of problems?

I don't like losing time going to the gym and this machine seems to train a large number of muscle groups and could be a good gym substitute to maintain health.
Simple Dropdown Menu Using CSS
dropout paper: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/dropout.pdf

acoustics modeling:
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/speechDBN_jrnl.pdf
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/DNN-2012-proof.pdf
> "Imagine somebody doing this to The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times."

You mean like every major PR agency ever?
Indeed - gnome 2.6 was probably around the time when it was just about useable in the 2.x series ... 2.16 was probably about the 'peak' of 2.x (before features started getting removed).

There's a lot more uphill to go; it is actually quite nice to use as a day to day frontend already though.

Some of the things the api changes that have caused pain now will actually make things better over the longer term; take theming - it's all moving towards a CSS driven style.

Hopefully cooler heads will prevail over stuff like 'branding' and we can keep our extensions (note - part of the whole point of gnome shell being javascript is to make it easy to change or customise).
A few years back, when the credit crisis happened, several investment companies bought up debt, and then offered people to pay it off, with half or less, compared to what they owed before that.

I don't know if they actually earned anything from that type of investment, but it went on for a while. It was in Denmark.
My software is for those who put their mugs at the right side of the desks. Wait, which side is right?
Pope Benedict could join Twitter next month
Sadly this is exactly the reason why the patent system is broken in the US.

You appear to have prior art that is in the public domain, two things that alone would mean that the patent should never have been granted in the first place.

As you have said lawyers are expensive, but in the interim all correspondence you have should refer time and again to your prior art and the fact that it was in the public domain. The main reason for this is that you are framing the argument should it ever get to court, not them.

One other thing you could add now is a counter-claim, as in, "if they wish to continue along this line of C&D you will apply for invalidation on the basis of existing evidence widely available on the internet".

Finally you should offer a resolution to the dispute, based on the evidence of prior art you will be happy to accept an on-going licence fee paid to you as a settlement and that youy would be happy to meet with them to discuss the details. The sum should not be outrageous, but something "reasonable" and affordable.

In this way you demonstrate that you are making an effort to be reasonable.
The HTML5 Debate is DEAD
Super Retina display
This is not a unique feature of Japanese. You can do exactly the same in Russian using a dash (which translates to a short pause in speech): "я — гамбургер" (I — hamburger). In general "X — Y" means "X is Y" or another relationship between X and Y as indicated by preceding context.
Poll: I'm a noob programmer - What should I focus on to become better?
Following ScotterC thread about what makes one a good programmer (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4759510) it got me thinking.

I am a starting programer, programming mostly for iPhone and Web. When I work as a freelance with customers they'd say I'm the best. When I work with fellow programmers on the other hand they'd say I am the worse.Trying to get better, It would be great if you could help me understand what makes one a good web or mobile developer?

Could you please help me rank these?

1. Simplicity

2. Readability

3. Abstracting a problem

4. Encapsulation

5. Code efficiency

6. Speed \ Quantity

Am I missing any other parameter?

Thanks!
Pretty sure nautilus scripts still work; I'm on gnome 3.6 and have a bunch.

~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts
Too see that this doesn't work, pour ketchup in a teflon pan and try to get it out again.
Niantic Project: Google's (enigmatic) new project
You see : we clearly have enough stuff to fill a museum.
The Chrome App Launcher
There are lots of small version of Arduino around such as:

Pro Mini: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11113

Pro Micro: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11098?

Arduino Nano: http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardNano
Never mind I've figures it out from a patent covering the subject:

From https://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=pts&hl=en&q=EP19...

Surface 12 (Figure 1) comprises at least one material selected from the group consisting of a ceramic, an intermetallic, and a polymer. Suitable ceramic materials include inorganic oxides, carbides, nitrides, borides, and combinations thereof. Non-limiting examples of such ceramic materials include aluminum nitride, boron nitride, chromium nitride, silicon carbide, tin oxide, titania, titanium carbonitride, titanium nitride, titanium oxynitride, stibinite (SbS2), zirconia, hafnia, and combinations thereof. In certain embodiments, the surface comprises an intermetallic. Examples of suitable intermetallic materials include, but are not limited to, nickel aluminide, titanium aluminide, and combinations thereof. Polymer materials that may be used in surface 12 include, but are not limited to polytetrafluoroethylene, fluoroacrylate, fluoroeurathane, fluorosilicone, modified carbonate, silicones and combinations thereof. The material is selected based on the desired contact angle, the fabrication technique used, and the end-use application of the article.
This reminds me of the Teensy: http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/
I'm pretty sure there's a gconf/dconf key somewhere to enable the customisable keys.

You can see how customisable keys could confuse a normal user if they did it by accident though.

At least improvements are happening to gtk (if slowly for lack of manpower) .. for instance gtk3 makes drawing a lot simpler (a lot more based around cairo) - changes like this are important as it should be quicker to make apps.

Toolkits etc do need to refreshed from time to time or they become unmanageable, 10 years or so was pretty good for gtk2, gtk3 is only just getting started.
We need to do something about Captchas
This looks like spam, I would have ignored it if it wasn't for the comments
I had to look this up, and it appears in this context, "fallback mode" refers to "sort of a failsafe mode, which should kick in on machines with unsupported graphics cards".

I guess it turns of compositing and such modernities.

http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/3.3/fallback-mode....
The article is in bad taste. The title even more.

If you don't like Crockford's license you are at liberty to write that code yourself. Please don't call people who contribute a great deal to advancing computing (Free Software or not) names like 'harmful to Free Software'.

Even if there is genuine concern in the license and its usage in Free Software, it should be raised by pointing to the code and the license, not by making a personal attack.

Articles like this are harmful to Free Software because it discourages people from contributing. Not Douglas Crockford's license written in good humour and with nice intentions.
Inaccurate?

You can't access the mouse settings without creating an account. Whether it's a cryptographic DRM or not is irrelevant - it's ridiculous you need an activation server for a mouse.
Happened to me as well with starting Opera. I felt as if my most loved uncle slammed the door in front of my face.

I only loaded so many pages because I love HN. :)

The ban was lifted a few days later, not sure if automatically or thanks to my (unresponded) email request.
Forgetting the law but looking at this from the governments tax collecting point of view the bank has incurred a loss which they deduct from their taxes and this needs to be offset by income from the person who has their loan forgiven. If this doesn't happen then the government loses revenue and it also opens up the possibility of people using loan forgiveness to dodge taxes.
Good and evil are arbitrary concepts that are not formally recognized by courts (am I wrong?) so the phrase in the licence is meaningless. How can anyone be so lawyerised to care about that?

Lawyers, licences, copyrights, patents are modern though police. So many people consider every creative action (and unfortunately often abandon it) afraid of what laws they might be potentially braking by executing this action.
Using mod_spdy With Apache2 On Ubuntu 12.10
it looks like you've been killed from the front page anyway, but for what it's worth, my reaction after clicking my way through was "oh, isn't that those those spammy guys again?"

i can't remember any details, so i may be wrong, but i don't think that's a good sign, is it?
But they still didn't allow an opt-out, which is just idiotic.
I guess on Linux (or any POSIX OS) it's not really necessary, since everything should still be fixable from the terminal. However it reinforces the notion that someone who can't use the terminal (= 99% of users probably) should stick to Windows or Mac - or maybe Ubuntu.