skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I thought they were switching to ARM or has that not happened yet?

This seems to have actually already happened (I didn't actually get any of the new hardware released after this year's Google I/O; I was mostly interested in this the prior year, when it seemed like it might be popular). You probably then actually can just run it on another device, but it would involve stealing the software off of an existing unit.
This blogs design is "ripe for disruption".
YouView faces legal challenge to the use of its brand from YourView
We managed to transition from horsepower to cars without economy breaking down and I'm sure some people investing in horses lost some money on that. If some people investing in taxi business being shielded from competition will lose some money - sucks for them, but definite benefit for everybody else. And also would teach people not to invest in schemes that rely on government coercion and anti-competitiveness. It'd be no more "unfair" to them than their rent-extraction based on excluding competition is unfair to consumers.
Isn't GNU Make adding support for Guile scripting?

edit: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2012-01/msg0006...
MacBook Pro8, 13-inch, Late 2011
2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB

As surmised below, this appears to be a OpenGL driver issue with NVidia and Intel GPUs.
Not to troll, but this seems quite close to Codecademy and HackerRank, without much of those sites' additional benefits.
I was waiting for this comment to show up. I agree completely and am choosing to spend my time on other projects.
> How many companies out there are widely successful?

Obviously most companies mix successes and failures, but in recent years Sony has been pushing out an unreasonable number of failures with no successes to show for it.

I don't see any innovations coming out of Sony. I don't see them leading the way in any particular sector when it comes to consumer electronics. In audio products they're nobodies, in computing they make so-so non-descript equipment, in photography they've lost almost all the ground they once had to Canon and Nikon, in video they are being trounced by the likes of Samsung, LG, and Panasonic, and in cell phones they've just about been wiped off the face of the planet by Apple and Android handset manufacturers.

About the only sector they seem to be doing okay in is consoles, which from what I understand are not massively profitable, and are on the way out.
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-- Justin
I want more points. WHY???
Shows how much I know about JS, then. :x
I wasn't passing judgement on either group, simply stating the facts as I know them to be.
Pins and needles
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They have notoriously bad breath and bad teeth. Travel guides for Japanese tourists even suggest they brush their teeth regularly and use mouthwash in America so as not to offend people.
I was under the impression that they have in fact shipped consumer hardware (nothing especially elaborate -- I think they do bluetooth speakers for iPod/iPhone).
Show HN: Bonfire, iPhone app makes it easy to buy/sell unique items
Does he really?

I was under the impression he worked in a relatively small team working on code thats used by lots and lots of people, but only written by a few people.

The OP's point is that when you have people you dont trust working on your code (and does he really?) there need to be controls somewhere to keep everything from getting screwed up.

OO is one way of doing that; a good set of unit tests + CI is another.
Russian Civil Satellite Links Lost After Cable Cut
It's in tune with most of the other startup blogs that hit the front page. HN is a great place for entrepreneurs to lobby for their co's.
Glitch Is Closing
I am not inclined to discuss this publicly but would be more than happy to follow-up privately with details.
As iPad Continues To Flourish, PC Accelerates Its March Towards Death
FP had its little Joe-programmer renaissance ca. 2007 slowing in 2009. It's been a while since anything approaching a majority thought OO-or-bust for all purposes, perhaps 2004-ish.
Exactly. At first I was all "I'll like every FB page of things I like in RL". But then I was getting annoyed at some of the crap that these pages were putting into my feed so I "unliked" pretty much everything. I wish there was a way to "like" something so that it is reflected in your interests and what not, but NOT get their updates. Maybe there is and I haven't seen it.
I think Blue Bottle has more ambitious plans. Have you been to any of the coffee shops in SF (maybe more in the Outerlands) that serve Blue Bottle? They usually have it decal'ed into their front window and the brand displayed prominently. With their precise brewing process and recognizable brand, I think they want to franchise "store-within-a-store"s and get people selling their coffee sourced from their beans made with their equipment without having to pay rents or any of the costs of operating locations.
Ideas will be stolen. I know this is a hotly debated topic, and I agree with the raw idea != actionable idea, yadda^3.

I cannot emphasize enough to developers and to startups: all war is about money, all business is about money. When you get to the point that you are making money, you are in business... and all business is war (imo). If you go in thinking like that (not freaked paranoia, but strategic defensive development), you will avoid a lot of this trauma.

I feel for you guys, I've been there.
"I've yet to find one that actually uses R-Trees."

That's because R-Trees don't scale well with random write loads.

R-tree insertion performance is extremely dependent on insertion order (search for "sort tile recursive"). They're best used for problems where the data can be bulk-loaded and left alone. If random writes are an important part of the problem (as they are for most web-based tools), R-Trees are a bad idea.
Try your data carrier, rather than Apple.
Amazon prepares users for the zombie apocalypse with essential gear
See, I am the exact opposite. I will never eat at a chain restaurant unless I have no other choice. I will spend an hour looking for a new place to try rather than settle on a chain that I know will be mediocre at best. This has annoyed my brother on more than one occasion when I decided to drive across town to try a new burger place.
If you like Python, Flask is good. This article is useful:

https://nicolas.perriault.net/code/2012/dead-easy-yet-powerf...
Lenovos S2110 Android tablet delivers the goods
Very interesting model. I hope it works out.
Is Streaming Video Killing Filesharing?
There are other advantages to NoSQL, like flexible data structure, and not having to squish your data into two incompatible data models.
It means that it's covered in filth, but he wants to pretend he's superior to Americans so he's telling you it's better and that we're in the dark ages of toiletry.
Nice, I had fun doing the intro questions, good luck with this. Keep it simple, don't try and pack to much into the app.
How to make a stop-motion video in Ubuntu Linux
Interesting that he shifted from Pascal to C# in 2005. Anyone know if these contests allow you to use any language you want?
Apple vs. Samsung: Battle of the innovation strategies
Would also like to hear about any better and/or different ways of doing this.
Give up on the idea of an apolitical, independent bureaucracy and move to the patronage ("spoils") system. The government becomes incapable of credibly promising rents beyond the horizon of the next election and the value of monopoly rights gets priced more appropriately as a wasting asset.

You could give existing civil servants tenure both to be fair to them and ensure a gradual transition.
> our “gamification” methods focus more on rewarding/ quantifying good work...

Great, but if I understand correctly these are still result-based. Is that correct?

Might I suggest that a better system would focus on rewarding effort rather than results? Results are out of my control, but my effort is something that I can repeat. There's some good research showing performance improves if you praise effort rather than result. I can't say whether this applies to gamification.
This essentially seems like you're ticked off at one feature and everything else is beside the point. If you follow one of the links in this thread:

http://feedback.unity3d.com/unity/all-categories/1/hot/activ...

You'll find that the Unity folk disabled symlinks to avoid thorny edge-cases and are trying to figure out a way to give you what you want, including simply allowing sym links but generating a warning message (and Windows devs are suggesting using a junction link -- no clue what that is).

It seems to me that the best option would be for Unity to expressly support the inclusion of folders outside the project tree in projects.

The engine being "six years old" is somewhat beside the point. Major changes and improvements have been made to the engine have taken place, and in some cases these have been as dramatic as "from scratch" rewrites.
"I feel Sony never made the transition to software."

Actually it might be more accurate to say Sony has yet to make the transition to 'systems' away from 'solutions'.

I also found it kind of funny a person talks about Game Consoles when talking about Sony, that is a small part of Sony, historically Sony has sold products where they manufactured all of the key technologies. They were one of the first vertically integrated companies that I encountered. It can be very powerful to be integrated in that way because you control your own destiny, you make your own screens, you make your own electronics, you make your own machines to make your products.

They got disrupted by the Koreans and the Chinese who started picking out 'parts' of the things that Sony made and making those so that others could build 'Sony like' products without having to be vertically integrated. Samsung, Quanta, LG, Hyundai, Etc. All willing to sell the part you want against the others selling the same part, defacto standards emerge, change happens at the feature level not the function level. Everyone starts selling a 'flat screen' TV and while we argue over Plasma vs LCD we get motion compensation, viewing angle improvements, contrast tweaks, Etc.

So many things Sony did, and then tried to 'lock in' control. Their e-readers, their computers, their TVs, their media players, their game consoles. Lock in gave them control but people generally start rejecting external controls at about age 13 and rarely get more complacent as they get older :-).

It will be very interesting to see how they evolve (or don't). But their asset ratios aren't a problem it is their execution that is a problem.
The thing that continually annoys, and occasionally infuriates me, is the f'ing no-button trackpad on the MBP: a dozen times a day my finger or thumb slips on the thing, just as I'm clicking, and it misses, or hits the wrong link.
This is great. Location search is a bit flaky (can't find anything around New York under Chrome), but it looks very solid, and it looks like something I wish I had a year ago.
Thanks! From his note about Scheme not surviving his retirement, I thought he was gone.
I had a similar experience. I normally consume 750-800 GB a month and on my first full month of iOS 6, Verizon said I consumed 8.89 GB. Luckily i'm grandfathered into an unlimited plan.
Two approaches to running Java with In-Memory Data Grids
Good question. Top Coder is more of a crowd-sourced approach to solving a problem, where as we're focused on building an interactive community.
Disagree.

Simply "doing something better" is not disruption - that's just business as usual. Disruption is radical change through technological innovation. The author seems to think that all industries are equality ready for that sort of shift.

I'd argue that Facebook didn't disrupt social media: it just overhauled MySpace/Bebo and expanded the online advertising "disruption" instigated by Google. eBay and Amazon disrupted the retail shopping industry, but building a better eCommerce site isn't more disruption.

There is also the question of how easily radical change can disrupt an industry. Weapons manufacturing could, for all I know, be swathed in unnecessary beaurocracy and be mired in ancient technology, outdated processes and unnecessary overheads. But it's fair to say that the industry is unlikely to be 'ripe' for anything without some sort of monumental policy changes at government levels. The exception that proves the point is the space industry: a shift of government policy lead to actual disruption by SpaceX.
Tucker Max is writing for the Huffington Post now?

Edit: Good article actually...
Ron Paul: Internet is the alternative to ‘government media complex’ [video]
Hmmm... but what about intelligent life? Or technologically sophisticated (relatively speaking) intelligent life. Still feeling small here.
Yeah I don't think so, buddy. I won't be shooting a stream of water onto my asshole that originates from a nozzle that spends 24x7 inside a toilet. Who the hell knows who pissed, shit or bled onto that nozzle before it's spraying its bacterial frappe up my poopshoot? No thank you.
James Fallows on Steven Sinofsky
Hard to hear the message over all the brogrammin' going down.
Yes there is, just hover over the "Liked" button and uncheck "Show in news feed" on the Facebook page itself.
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Sounds like your hairy ass is the real problem. Ever considered trimming down there? Dry paper might afford you the illusion of cleanliness, but I guarantee you your bum remains dirty without a thorough washing.
Awesome! The only issue is that the visualization makes it look like we are in a cluster of stars. That is not correct. We're part of the diffuse field star population in the Milky Way.
Why Smart People are Particularly Vulnerable to Propaganda
What Is Airport Security?
Nice app and nice article.
You mean money talks right ... so if you can afford it, can you can get a good education? If so, that's ironic, given that free education was one of the success stories of the USSR.
In DSLRs, maybe. In mirrorless, they're one of the most innovative companies and second only to the Olympus/Panasonic MFT alliance.
for my S3, I use an app on my (rooted) phone called EasyUMS to enable Mass Storage mode.

The other option is to try and find a better app that supports MTP.
When you click to remove a post from your newsfeed, facebook prompts you with "unsubscribe from this page's updates" — there's also a tab in the top right of these stories (and of people's updates) that allows you to set the frequency you receive news from them.
Yep, as I mentioned in the article this is the AV Foundation framework - presumably used in all Apple apps since it's the official API they recommend. Doesn't surprise me that the browser would be affected.

The weird thing is that, when we first started doing the tests, it would happen immediately on pressing play. After some period of time running the tests, it started happening later and later in the process, indicating - what? No clue.
Open Source Could Clean Up US Elections
Replication: How Psychology Can Become Science
How would have they distributed the keys? I can easily upload a key with an arbitrary id and username to any public keyserver. You have to actually check that you trust the key by utilizing the web of trust.

Alternatively, you could use SSL certificates, but since the attacker controlled cyanogenmod.com, he probably could have social-engineered the CA to issue him an email certificate.

Trust is hard.
I don't have a good recommendation for your needs. However, there are a few books that might be close:

1. Programming Pearls by Jon Benley.
2. Programming Challenges by Steven Skiena.
3. Algorithmic puzzles by Levitin.

The first two are mostly programming focus. I have not read the 3rd book, but I have a good idea what it is about (based on other books by Levitin); it should be good.
Uh, no it isn't. Every, and I mean EVERY train ride I take from Chiba to Tokyo is a mixture of fish-and-garlic-for-breakfast and cigarette breath.

If only what you said were true.
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The playback stuff definitely makes use of many range requests, but what we found was that they were being used in a way that vaguely made sense in other versions (i.e. downloading a few hundred kb to continue buffering, pausing the download, and picking up again). With 6.0.0, we're seeing actual storms of these requests happening many times per second.
Your Sony: is it an NEX-7? There's a firmware update just out which fixes the video button problem: http://blog.sony.com/alphafirmwareupdates
I guess I'm in the minority here, but I fail to see how online courses are anything innovative - they seem to me like the logical extension of those 1000 student intro classes from 1000 to 1,000,000. I've done an entire master's degree program online and I feel like the quality of instruction was pretty much unchanged.
Thank you from the bottom of my battery. I have wanted usb tethering to work on my mac for a long time.
My first thought was that this would be a real test of what happens to newer consoles where electronic downloads from a (closed) central source (DLC, patches, games) are no longer available.

But after reading the article and comments here, I'm not too worried about Sony vanishing quite yet.
I agree that the nav interface is a bit wonky, but it is a good start!
Oh goody. I love to rip on the social network.

AOL, Friendster, Myspace, now FB.. They never monetize because the model can't support itself properly or at least it won't make a trillion dollars like one might expect to with a billion users. If they really wanted to monetize they should just go the linkedin route and charge $1/month for it. If you're not willing to pay that much for FB then what's the service really worth to you?

$38 -> $22 - Need I say more? Zuckerberg reminds me of that guy Steve (Edward Norton) in the Italian job. Clever as he might be - he's just got no imagination.
I never understood the point of those things...
CyanogenMod domain situation has been resolved
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How is this crap front page?
"OpenGL" is a trademark of the Khronos Group, and there are implementations, like Mesa3D, that do not have permission to use that trademark. Mesa's implementation is (somewhat jokingly) known as "MesaGL" but is definitely a reasonable and performant GL implementation. "GL" works well for referring to the graphics language without invoking the trademark.
My approach is a bit different probably because I've done a lot of work across a range of disciplines while using different tools. I have yet to run into a problem that was unsolvable due to the tools or language selection made. I don't think the tools or languages have ever caused undue delays, bugs or unreliability in any projects I've had part on. From robotics and low-level real-time embedded to image processing, DBMS and even hardware development (Verilog, VHDL). Not once have the tools and languages been brought up as an issue.

In my experience most problems come from bad design, bad programmers, terrible data representation, incomplete specs, bad management and a myriad of other issues.

Don't get me wrong, I am first in line for a good-solid discussion on how to properly split a bit in two. However, when it comes to the business of making money by creating products that involve some kind of software, well, pick a tool based on experience and focus on delivering a solid product. No excuses.
I simply don't get why brands view Facebook subscribers as being opted in to 100% of their constant barrage of spam. Facebook pages have never worked like an email subscription list, and that fact should be obvious to anyone with any knowledge of the platform.

Someone might follow your brand on Twitter, but if he doesn't check his feed for a while, he doesn't see your marketing-speak unless he goes looking for it. Unlike Twitter, Facebook actually tries to be intelligent and show you the stories you care about instead of defaulting to chronological order only. Since, shocker of shockers, people generally prefer to engage with their fellow human beings as compared to these quirky entities we call "brands," the stories you care about are more likely to involve an old friend getting married or your buddy's weekend pics than whatever inspirational message your social medial engagement intern shat out this hour.

Basically, Facebook is treating brands a lot like people: not all their friends see all their content in their newsfeeds, but some do, and higher engagement and closer connections make it more likely that someone will see your stuff. Brands, naturally, don't want to play by the same rules as us mere mortals and want all of their "content" displayed prominently in their subscribers' newsfeeds. In other words, it's Citizens United v. FEC all over again, except no one is actually limiting corporate speech here, just asking brands to pay rather small amounts if they want more reach and distribution than the rules allow.

To sum it all up for Mark Cuban: the mere fact that someone has liked the Mavs on Facebook does not mean that she wants to hear whatever your marketing interns come up with every couple of hours. The obnoxious guy who talks about himself all the time doesn't automatically get a free megaphone to beam his messages into the minds of everybody he's engaged with. I realize that you, Mr. Cuban, have made a career out of being precisely that guy, and that people do walk around hanging on your every word, but us normal people and normal brands have to pay for our promotion, and it's unreasonable to think otherwise.
Hold control on your MBP and scroll up. It zooms in.

This is a rare interaction, which is arguably backwards.

command and '+' zooms text. Scrolling down generally scrolls to the end of a page. Scrolling down here scrolls to the end of the galaxy.

Those are all logical, not physical mappings. They are not relevant here.

Hold out your hand and make the "unpinch" gesture, which enlarges photos in iOS and Android. Which direction do your scrolling fingers move?

Left and right? You're seriously stretching to make your argument. People pull things towards them to get a better view. They push them away to see the bigger picture. Done.
The biggest problem with MOOCs I find is the lack of real engagement with other students. Yes, students are encouraged to socialize together, work together and make it a social effort to complete the course - together with the study group etc. However, one of the big things I have with university education is that people make contacts and connections with people - when you attend a highly graded university you can be fairly certain that the people around you are very motivated and ambitious. They are people who want and will get things done. They aren't just some fat strangers sitting in their basement and trolling on the forums such as in MOOCs.

If only it was the skills you have that matters. It's not, it really is not. It's the fact that you're somebody who attended a highly graded University and actually got out with a degree. That's something! Not what skills you learned.
A bidet attachment is less than $50. It's also a one-time cost. Having to purchase wet wipes will eventually cost you more. Also, you're still just smearing poop allover your bum with a wipe. The bidet's jet of water effectively blasts your area clean. Think about it like this: if you cook a spaghetti dinner with meatballs and tomato sauce, would you wet wipe the plates and put them back in the cupboard? Of course not, you'd give the dishes a proper rinsing under a stream of water. I will never understand the aversion to bidets. Anything less is uncivilized, and quite frankly, disgusting.
Hi!

I work for DuckDuckGo and happened to catch your article here. I noticed that despite your praise, a few of the engines you mentioned were missing bangs. We've just added !gigablast (!giga), !procog (!pc), and !verticalset (!vs). The rest already have !bangs (note that MSN/Live/Bing are the same, as are Altavista/Yahoo).

We also accept new !bangs at https://duckduckgo.com/newbang.html

Thanks!