skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's an apt comparison.

Apple has some proprietary stuff, but it's not that crazy. Apple used SCSI, standard floppy disks, cd drives, etc. Their floppy drives had extra features (like the eject motor), but the drives worked with bog standard floppy disks. Mini display port is a standard, so it's not that bad. When they ditched all the legacy stuff, they went with USB instead of inventing their own. Firewire was a standard too. They moved to Ethernet with the rest of the world, and used/promoted WiFi (even thought they had their own term for it).

Apple did how their custom ADC for a few years though.

But Sony is... in another world. They pushed SACD (technically a standard but no one cared), MiniDisc, Beta, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick blah, the custom PSP discs, their proprietary music format, all sorts of stuff. They didn't use VHS-C mini video tapes, they used their own competing format. I believe they used their own MiniDV type format for a while. They had their own interconnect to connect their receivers to TVs for controlling things (not video, but turning on/off, volume, etc).

Firewire 400 had a standard connector, and it worked very well. Sony decided the connector was too big for their tiny camcorders, so they made their own. It was the little 4 pin FireWire connector that didn't pass power. That's the one most PC laptops later adopted, making it useless for external drives. Sony's connector, which they invented their own name for (i.Link 1394), had to be adopted into the standard because it became so common from Sony pushing it so much.

Sony and Apple have both lived in their own worlds (to a degree). What Sony is learning now is that when you're not on top that becomes a huge liability. Apple learned that when they nearly bankrupted themselves in the mid 90s.
If anyone doubts that Facebook has become a synonym form the Web, this should settle the argument.
Penthouse with secure direct lift access - Holland Park, London
About a year ago I somehow got an invite to the beta and played maybe 20 or 30 hours, on and off, over several weeks. The whimsy and quirkiness of the design elements were always impressive. And it was commendable that they were building a family-friendly, kid-safe game that could still be appreciated by adults. But somehow it just didn't hook me and I stopped going back.

In hindsight it reminds me of my experience with Second Life: once you've got the basic ideas, and toured some of the more creative or amusing islands, what is there to do? At least in 2L you could build something that would remain in the world. In Glitch there were endless skill-building exercises that had meaning only in the game world. The only payoff for building a skill was to be able to learn some more skills.

Meanwhile millions are obsessively playing Minecraft, whose design could not be farther from Glitch in every way.
Just a quick note that one of the easiest ways to get a legitimate license key is to join BizSpark. If you are a startup (which I imagine a lot of people here have some sort of startup) there is no reason not to be a part of it.
This is the best recent video I can find: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHX9PZpKjgI
I know that this practice is outlawed for doctors and Pharma companies, the most they can give doctors these days are some free pens and drug samples :P
You're waiting for an apology? Last I heard, the President of that division said he didn't understand why everyone was so mad. "Nobody knows what a rootkit is anyway, why should they care?" I don't think we're ever going to get an apology from them. If we did, it sure wouldn't make up for anything or change my mind about them. They're evil bloodsucking monsters bent on the destruction of quality technology.

I've been boycotting them since '05 due to that scandal. Fuck Sony.
MMOs are difficult. It's a pretty daring endeavor, considering that Tiny Speck raised $5m in 2009 for just this one game.
You mean to give you a scheme REPL?

Because I'm skeptical of the use of transforming SICP into a "tutorial" style. It's the kind of book that you need to read and think about.

Having said that, finding a REPL that's compatible with it can take a little bit of time. Personally I quite like GambitC which I seem to recall is fairly compatible.
Serious question...not trying to be snarky...

Why would anyone use anything but FoxFi?

http://foxfi.com/

EDIT: I suppose FoxFi doesn't work on some phones + using both radios at the same time might run down the battery quicker.
David Simon (Creator of The Wire) - Stray Penises and Politicos
Don't forget achievement and rare item grinding. There's always more grinding to do (which is why I left).
Seems to be the trend, all the cool kids are doing it ;)

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/14/iphone-5-pre-order-sells-ou...
http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/11/13/googles-nexus-4-smar...
Minimalist President
You're right, Japan has a long and very interesting obsession with poop, primarily due to their geography.

Japan is a series of volcanic islands with, historically, a very limited indigenous supply of large poop producing creatures like like cows, horses, and pigs. The result is that there was a great scarcity of fertile soil. To supplement their soil they instead relied on human feces. So valuable was it that back in the day you could sell your poop to professional manure collectors who walked around town with large pots.

The cultural legacy extends well beyond toilets. You may have seen recent articles about people creating meat from poop, and poop powered motorcycles. It's no coincide that those are Japanese inventions. Funny how a thing like geography affects things.
Try this! Haven't been here in ages, but it looks like it still works: http://wla.berkeley.edu/
proprietary solutions and licensing issues are the first things that come to mind, followed by being haunted by the existence of the project in the wild (unwanted questions, judgment, publicity). I guess they decided it's just best to rip off the band-aid and move on.
ievms was written for convenience, not out of necessity.
> I wonder why did Google decide to implement mtp as the protocol of choice

They presumably had iTunes in mind as the competition, MTP is a "standard" and many apps already implemented it. Of course it turned out to be 4 steps forward and one step back.
The code editor could use some work. It was very awkward to use, especially in my phone's browser. Otherwise, MORE PUZZLES!
There is an unseen sload amount of hard work placed in Glitch

Maybe someone could buy the IP cheap, add in some Zynga-style dark gamification and massive marketing and have themselves the next Farmville. Wait, forget I said that. Giants forbid.

Does this mean hard work != successful?

On the Web, hard work never guaranteed success.
Virtual PC isn't supported in Windows 8 and I couldn't get these images working in Hyper-V. They are truly almost an afterthought from Microsoft.
MONCLER
On thing that helps mitigate the problem quite a bit is that courses on Coursera are usually taught by professors of world famous schools such as Berkeley or Stanford, and sometimes the teachers themselves are famous. E.g. their functional programming in Scala course is taught by the creator of Scala.
> Not really... Not from what I already perceived it.

What did/do you perceive his role to be? He manages and he doesn't read code, exactly what the headline says.

> Um, I am not suggesting that he is?

Then I have no idea what you mean when you said "or that he was suggesting something somewhat outlandish".

> What are you trying to get at here? Do you think I am lying when I say I felt deceived? I don't doubt you when you say you didn't feel deceived.. both are legitimate experiences.

I'm just trying to understand what you felt deceived about. If you felt deceived, then you felt deceived, and I'm not disputing that. I just don't understand why you felt deceived.
love seeing intial sketches alongside finished products. I should use my notebook or dot grid book or whatever more often but alot of my designs have their very first iteration on POST-ITS. Could start a tumblr for initial post-it sketches hehe.
I really wanted to use this, but I had major problems with the search like others did. Looked for Virginia Beach and it refused to let me search there. Kept forcing Colonial Beach, VA
As a Sony fan I remember watching their MP3 stumbling and being amazed. Even after MP3s got large traction, Sony continued to push MiniDiscs (which were a nice format in their day). As flash cards got bigger and you could start to put multiple albums on a single card, MiniDiscs still only held one (unless you really sacrificed sound quality).

Eventually Sony bended to the MP3 trend by releasing a new MiniDisc player with MP3 compatibility. Remember CD players that would play burned CDs of MP3 files? Sony's worked by hooking the device up to your computer where it would transcode the MP3s into a proprietary Sony format and then put those on the disc. It was one step above setting the thing up next to your speakers and pressing "record".

They did the same kind of nonsense with flash based MP3 players, where they never made any kind of dent for the same reasons. Their devices wouldn't play MP3s natively until (I believe) years after the iPod came out.

They said what they have so often: "damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead". What they keep finding out is that no one is following them, and the torpedoes are really doing damage to their ship.

BluRay is the only thing I can remember them winning on. It was technically superior, but it also got a huge boost from the PS3 (which, remember, they were selling at a $250-$300 loss at first). Even then, as people shift to BluRay the market is crumbling to streaming video.
Here's their original trailer, which made me fall in love with the idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6O5QXj6n18 Alas, it turns out falling in love with the idea of the game wasn't the same as falling in love with actually playing the game. It still makes me sad to hear they didn't figure out what was missing from making the game really engaging.
Been on the CM10 nightlies ever since they started coming out for the SGS. If you are upgrading from CM9, be warned that you will wind up with a new partition layout and new user data by the time you're done with the upgrade.

Till recently, it was pretty stable and a brilliant release. There was some issue that led to awful battery drain as I kept progressing through the daily builds in the past few weeks. Resolved it by going through a full wipe than just cache wipes.

My phone is 2-years-old now and it has been a good run. For its ruggedness (multiple and frequent drops, couple of dunks in water, clumsy usage), I just don't want to give it up, but it seems like they may have trouble doing CM11 on it.

Do turn off zRAM in the performance options for better stability.
We need to start discussing about OO in general. We have a generation (or two,three in internet time) that think that OO is the epitomy of software engineering. We have Haskell, Ocaml, and others that can do better
I recall an old Dave Barry article about laws around water usage in toilets... Turns out it is super-regulated.

What I found fascinating was this site claiming that,"it takes 635 gallons of water to make a hamburger, but only one to flush it." http://www.map-testing.com/
<P>we are company, main products Wigs,False Eyelashes,Remy Hair Extensions,Indian Remy Hair Extensions,Stock Hair http://www.allbeautybox.com Piece,Print Hair Extensions,Fashion Jewelry..... they are 100% original and brand new with cheap price.</P>
<P></P>
<P>the our company have different kinds, there have males, females also girls needing, products are suit for different groups of people, maybe there is something you are just waiting for.</P>
<P></P>
<P>To some people love jewelrys, sure this is the good news for you, our company because our company http://www.allbeautybox.com is a manufactures, so our company can be http://www.allbeautybox.com sure you are the only one to be focus on the world, the most http://www.allbeautybox.com important, these are the jewelrys and fashion and design.</P>
<P></P>
<P>our company also have the Do you feeling amazing, then go and action, our company will take best services waiting for http://www.allbeautybox.com you !</P>
<P></P>
<P>Important!!: our company accept safe payment, like Paypal.... do fast shipping , sure we protect our clients privacy, make order to our company, you get the safe business and privacy !!!!!</P>
Bummer. I was always impressed with both the UI of Glitch as well as the game art. For those that don't know, their original designer was Daniel Burka (ex Digg and later Milk and Google). Here's a great talk that references Glitch and building the experience for an app:

http://www.frontend2010.com/video/rob-goodlatte-and-daniel-b...

Best of luck to the TinySpeck team. Brilliant stuff.
we are company, main products Wigs,False Eyelashes,Remy Hair Extensions,Indian Remy Hair Extensions,Stock Hair http://www.allbeautybox.com Piece,Print Hair Extensions,Fashion Jewelry..... they are 100% original and brand new with cheap price.

the our company have different kinds, there have males, females also girls needing, products are suit for different groups of people, maybe there is something you are just waiting for.

To some people love jewelrys, sure this is the good news for you, our company because our company Remy Hair Extensions is a manufactures, so our company can be lace front wigs sure you are the only one to be focus on the world, the most False Eyelashes important, these are the jewelrys and fashion and design.

our company also have the Do you feeling amazing, then go and action, our company will take best services waiting for Fashion Jewelrys you !

Important!!: our company accept safe payment, like Paypal.... do fast shipping , sure we protect our clients privacy, make order to our company, you get the safe business and privacy !!!!!
Installing a whole OS just to test a site on IE seems a bit excessive. Wouldn't it be easier to just test one's site on the cloud? (E.g. see http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/SuperPreview_Ov..., though its for Windows.)
It's easier to pirate Windows than use these images.
Static typing is one way of accomplishing something similar but it's neither necessary nor sufficient. Sure you can define an RGB value as three 8-bit bytes and get something that's valid all of the time. But that's a contrived example because RGB color is defined in terms of bytes! What about every other piece of data in your application?

In simplest terms, OOP combines opaque data structures with the operations performed on them. This should, if done correctly, prevent a whole lot of different kinds of easy to make mistakes. It also helps simplify and organize code.
Except that's not how public safety works. Part of why this regulation exists is because having unregulated taxi drivers (at least to the judgement of lawmakers) poses a danger to everyone else on roads etc.
Hmm! Yes, please post this as a GitHub issue. It seems like it might be something phone-side, given that the phone says 'tethering error'...

Post it to GitHub and I'll take a look there.

Thanks!
Starbucks currently boils their tea, maybe this ignorant act will stop now??? It is why I try and not go to Starbucks for tea.
Actually, he says quite a bit more than that. That article is a very effective rebuttable of OP's position.
T-Mobile to sell Nexus 4 for $499 off-contract
What I don't get is that the article says 9 were killed and 40 injured, but from watching the video, it looks like a targeted attack at one vehicle that could have had collateral damage, but I don't see anyone near the vehicle in the image.

Assuming the vehicle was full, that's ~5 dead. What about the 4 other deaths and the 40 injuries?
It was fun! Seems that higher priced items should bid more than $1 per click, or last longer.
These images work directly on vmware fusion btw.

the converter is built into the application.
There are always exceptions of course - I believe both The Kingdom of Loathing (www.kingdomofloathing.com) and Love (www.quelsolaar.com/love) are products of individuals. Neither are typical MMOs, and both embrace different sorts of simplicity. KoL uses rudimentary (yet charming!) graphics and a rather clunky web interface, and Love's world is generated procedurally.

I think it is possible to bootstrap _certain_ types of "massively multiplayer" games, but with the necessity of making significant compromises in design.
https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/ - That should get you going. Download that and take a look at all the examples and how they are made. Here is a good book on webgl too - http://www.amazon.com/WebGL-Up-Running-Tony-Parisi/dp/144932...
To Get an Edge, NFL Teams Meddle With Player Sleep Patterns
I've been using these since ~2007 or so and this is a frequent issue. When new versions of IE or Windows come out they have been very, very slow to update these.
Sony was famous because they made cool eccentric gadgets. Stuff like the Walkman. They still do it, except that that coolness has moved else where(read Apple). Its not that Sony is out. They have a very strong brand.

With Steve Jobs gone, Sony is one of those companies which will eat Apple's share of pie. Of course if Apple doesn't innovate hard enough, and just keeps pushing out incremental changes.

Want a television? Sony is still the go to brand.
For Americans that use Teavana, are you drinking this tea the English way with milk, or iced?

I remember when I first went to America as a 21 year old (I had a job door-to-door selling) and Americans, being the hospitable souls that they are, would frequently offer me tea. Unfortunately, it was the cold variety :-(
The comments on that post are horrible.
“Basically, we're the Apple Computers of toilets”
- Toto spokesperson

Clearly not true. The Apple Computer of toilets would only allow you to download via iPoop.
>Were there ever "the days" when people would say "I'm sorry" without caveats or excuses and mean it 100%?

Nope. The one thing I remember from How to Win Friends and Influence People is that nobody ever believes they are at fault. Pointing fingers is rarely productive. It's best just to accept it & learn from it & move on.
Your foul language appeared unnecessary. Combine that with a short rant lacking depth. Not trying to criticize - you're free to write whatever you want - but it is what it is.

The bro connection had nothing to do with your photo. I didn't even look at your photo until you asked.
<P>we are company, main products Wigs,False Eyelashes,Remy Hair Extensions,Indian Remy Hair Extensions,Stock Hair <a href="http://www.allbeautybox.com>http://www.allbeautybox.com&...; Piece,Print Hair Extensions,Fashion Jewelry..... they are 100% original and brand new with cheap price.</P>
<P></P>
<P>the our company have different kinds, there have males, females also girls needing, products are suit for different groups of people, maybe there is something you are just waiting for.</P>
<P></P>
<P>To some people love jewelrys, sure this is the good news for you, our company because our company <a href="http://www.allbeautybox.com>Remy Hair Extensions</a> is a manufactures, so our company can be <a href="http://www.allbeautybox.com>lace front wigs</a> sure you are the only one to be focus on the world, the most <a href="http://www.allbeautybox.com>False Eyelashes</a> important, these are the jewelrys and fashion and design.</P>
<P></P>
<P>our company also have the Do you feeling amazing, then go and action, our company will take best services waiting for <a href="http://www.allbeautybox.com>Fashion Jewelrys</a> you !</P>
<P></P>
<P>Important!!: our company accept safe payment, like Paypal.... do fast shipping , sure we protect our clients privacy, make order to our company, you get the safe business and privacy !!!!!</P>
You really believe that Steve Jobs, who was known for his ability to foresee what others in the industry couldn't, didn't plan one year ahead for one of his flagship products? No, the iPhone 5 almost certainly was a Jobs product.
am i wrong in thinking in the Common Lisp thinking that data and methods don't belong together? In production environments we at least have extensions methods in c#, but man i still love generic functions in CL style. Why am i wrong?
I agree. I'm a bizspark member with my side-business. It's actually been quite useful since I develop the application in C#, I can get Visual Studio Professional and every version of Windows to test against.
Huh, I'm more interested in the website itself (bountify). Posting little coding challenges for a payment is an awesome idea. My concern is that the payments offered on most of these projects is way too low. You could make more money serving fries for the same amount of time.

But I think the idea has a lot of potential.
I doubt there are too many, but from memory these guys pretty much did exactly that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_in_the_Desert

I am just talking out of my ass here, but I could see an argument for the "build big and go live" strategy being more an affectation of the single player focused studio system than a mmo best practice. at least for the traditional pc/3d style mmos it is much easier to find gross examples of pre-launch implosion, launching years late, launching alpha quality etc. than it is to find the opposite. Yet almost all of those games seem to enjoy a core fanbase often for years before they launch that would be all over an mvp. i can certainly see how launching with a small amount of content could be a big risk, but there are clearly a lot of problems with aaa title dev that a launch and iterate approach might be helpful for.
I think talents of the team that build Glitch will be released to build something better. Now they have more experience and better feel for what people are looking for.
Probably this one:

"Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in
Online Learning

A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies"

http://www.geteducated.com/images/pdfs/doe_online_education_...

That's a paper from the DOE from 2009 on online learning, probably that one, as your quote is in there as well - here's the revised edition from 2010 (no clue about the differences), same title but more trustworthy URL:

http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practic...
How does 10Gen make money besides support services?

The valuation and money raised so far appear awfully rich for a pure support services play or are support services really that profitable and scalable?
That's always bothered my about Internet Explorer. I can download Firefox, Chrome, and Opera all for under 20MB but I need to download 4GB to test Internet Explorer 8?
Call me easy to engage, but I really liked all the +100's next to the buttons.
Intelligentsia is all over the place. In addition to their retail presence in LA and Chicago, they run barista training labs in their NYC and Atlanta sales offices. In NYC, you can readily find their coffee in grocery stores and coffee shops. Their 2009 acquisition, Ecco Caffe, co-branded their beans with a popular eight location chain in Manhattan, and now is being absorbed into the main brand. Everything I see points to them having a solid but cautious national strategy.

If I were SBUX I would be drooling over the prospect of buying Intelligentsia, even if just to leverage their reputation for award winning baristas or gain intelligence on their wholesale customers. I'm just not sure that Intelligentsia is particularly inclined to sell at a reasonable price.

If SBUX just wanted to acquire a quality craft roaster, there are a myriad of options to choose from-- Ritual, to be sure, or any of a number of worthy candidates we've probably barely heard of.
Also Battlemaster (http://battlemaster.org) (Text based MMORPG)
Just Write, Dammit
I've never personally used a Japanese toilet, so I'm genuinely interested: if you say your feet are to either side of the bowl, where do your lowered pants end up? Won't they be in the way?
I looked into some cloud solutions, but they are rather costly. If you could pay by the hour rather than month it might be more of an option.