skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time to issue stock buyback to return money to shareholders and shut the company down.
Android malware mimics Play, performs DDoS attacks, sends text spam
Arch, running Compiz + xfce4-panel.
> .. and just like I read the Arabian Nights for pleasure, I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever ...

Gold.
I think an important distinction is that he was not completely idle, as in playing cards, but solving a problem, albeit one with no clear relevance to anything.
They plan on being an active service past the singularity and perfect AI.
I wasn't replying to you... I quite agree with the points you made in this thread.
Laser printers are everywhere now. There's one in every office. But there are still printing presses.

Everyone expects that the "killer app" will be replacing injection molding or something. It will be something much more unexpected.
This all rings true, but it's a little cynical to elide the fact that these marketing stories were real.
Ever since the iPhone weather app, I get really annoyed when weather apps display the weather to be 'sunny' at night.

Its not sunny.

PS: Yes, its not a huge deal. If there was a 'feature' list, it wouldn't be listed. But trying to tell me San Diego will be 'sunny' at midnight is just wrong.
</rant>
Apple v. Samsung: An 88% Of Value Bond On All Imports?
I'm surprised Google act like this, on the one hand they want us to use Google for everything, apps, email, cloud storage. And on the other hand all we get is the algorithm treatment. Unless they change this I can see blog post after blog post slowly eating away at Google's reputation.
Guitar Hero 3 and on were Neversoft/Beenox titles. Harmonix went on from GH1/GH2/80s to the Rock Band series, also a personal favourite of mine.
Changing the values of tiles will change the game, so you'll have a new mismatch. I think that a simpler fix would be to ban plays of fewer than three or four tiles are placed (I'd say four since three is still too easy). You can still score off the stupid two letter gotchas, but you have to place a three or four letter word down to score anything.

The game would end when all players had two few tiles to play.
An honest question. Is there any technical reason this is limited to iOS?
Looking at the bigger picture, it's fun to see the Hype Curve in action. 3D Printing is just passing the peak of the first hill of the curve. So we should expect the hype/expectations to drop quickly for a while, bottom out and stay low for a couple of years, then recover to a useful level where it will stay.

All part of the cycle.
Health - I've never been particularly careful in terms of looking after my body (smoking, eating, etc. etc.) but don't want to do anything that could have a shorter term risk, which is why I've never, and will never, touch anything stronger than coke.

To be honest I've never really thought about legal issues. Had a couple of occasions where I had weed in my pocket and was a little scared by proximity of cops, but never enough that they would have really cared had they noticed. And never been close to any issues with police and cocaine, so never stopped to worry about it.
What I Did on My Christmas Vacation
2012 Taught Apple How To Say Sorry
The real solution is to use DirectWrite API in Chrome (both FF and IE use it for a long time now).

For some reason, Chrome devs are not in a hurry to implement it.
Windows 7 Chrome 23, blog looks great, font included, and provides insightful information. Thanks OP.
I've done them as an introduction to the Clojure language and it's been great.

Now I'm into 4clojure to keep on practising the syntax and to get my mind to think _the functional way_

Any other resource to be suggested?
Bind is not supported in IE8 and older versions. You could use the underscore library or another one that haves a cross-browser bind method.
Time, practice.
My frontender intuition says something else is wrong and forcing the use of the SVG version might cause trouble in other browsers. Last I checked Chrome on Windows uses Skia, a different graphics library than Safari, which is usually the culprit behind its rendering issues. It may be that Skia renders SVG nicely, but other rendering engines may have issues with SVG in small sizes. And how about Chrome on OSX or Linux? This may need a little more research to figure out what's going on.
I'm running FreeBSD-CURRENT on a Thinkpad X220 and have no issues with any of the built-in peripherals. This laptop has an i5-2540M. The e1000 Ethernet is supported by the em(4) driver and I have a "Centrino Ultimate-N 6300" supported by iwn(4). The Intel GPU support was merged back to stable/9 in time for 9.1.
Native screenshotting plus imgur app for sharing to a URL quickly.
It's called expanding the pie when a change in the terms of the negotiation generates an even greater win for all parties involved.

The actual example in the podcast was over pumpkins. There was only one person selling pumpkins in the village the negotiator was in during her time in the Peace Corps. She wanted to buy all four of them but the farmer would only sell her two. She even tried offering double but the farmer wouldn't budge.

The customer took the position of buying all four pumpkins because she needed them in order to make enough pumpkin pies.

The farmer took the position of keeping two pumpkins because she needed the seeds to plant for next year's crop.

Once they got out of positional bargaining and discovered the root of the problem, the solution became clear: The customer gets all 4 pumpkins at the original price, but first the farmer opens them all and takes the seeds, which the customer would have thrown out anyway. Thus, both got more than they would have if they'd stuck to their original positions.
There is not a single good comment about this, yet it is on front-page. WhyHN?
Mark Zuckerberg's sister brings shame to the Facebook name:..
2012 passer sur Google
I don't agree, I'd advise not to try Leiningen until you're comfortable enough with the parenthesis, the REPL and finish the koans themselves. This is 'getting your feet wet on Clojure', koans style. No need to introduce yet another tool when you're not dealing with the issues which Leinengen solves: managing library dependencies and configuration.

I remember I did: the koans first, then tried several exercises on the 4clojure website, then learned about Leinengen and only then I moved into 'projects'.
> There is a huge difference between ten million negligible and ten million absent, which is highly relevant to this discussion. If the benefit is negligible per person, and the cost is negligible, the social good is difficult to evaluate. If the benefit is negligible and the cost is nothing, then the social good is clear.

This makes no sense. If you're just weighing the cost/benefit with respect to one particular incident, it's quite clear that the benefit one person gets from sneaking into a concert far outweighs the very marginal cost to the owner of any potential liability, trampling on grass, whatever. The latter can probably be measured in cents.

> Now, a business that doesn't make any profit is a difficult business to operate, but I'm not sure that it's morally wrong to pay for the marginal cost of production.

So you're saying that there is nothing morally questionable about taking a Coach bag and leaving an amount of money equal to the marginal production cost + restocking cost of that bag? Basically, you disagree with how the law protects the producer's right to profit from the transaction. Because that's exactly what happens when you illegally download media.
I started playing farmville over a year ago to learn about what made Zynga so successful. Farmville is the lowest quality game I have ever seen. For a while, every time you loaded the game there was a php array of what looked like debug information echoed to the page just before the game loaded. There were numerous times where I would queue up a bunch of work in the game, only to get a message saying that "Farmville has been enhanced, please refresh to continue". Refreshing the page would mean I have to click on all those trees again. Every time you load the game you need to close about 5 promotional offers attempting to get you to buy farm cash, or invite your friends to play the game. The game employs emotionally manipulative tactics to get people to use farm cash (in game currency you pay for). Every once in a while you will get a pop up with a picture of a sad horse which needs shelter. It will run away if you don't feed him now! There are also a lot of annoying promotions that pop up and you are not given the option dismiss them. The only button provided is "Start now" or "Tell me more...". The game if full of bugs, and occasionally has pop up windows that have no text and empty buttons. I attempted to log in for the first time in 4 months today, and I could not play the game because it lags so bad despite my having a new computer. To be fair my map has all possible spaces filled with lime trees, so that is where the lag comes from.
For valuing Scrabble tiles, Valett also needs to include the representation of the letter in common prefixes and suffixes that can be prepended or appended to existing words. I believe that one reason that G is so playable is the common -ING suffix.
I'm just trying to say that a company relying on "traditional" manufacturing methods can still offer almost half a million different, and mostly obscure, parts. I'm pretty sure they don't have half a million different production lines for that, and most of their stuff is CNC machined. So, if the demand for even more obscure or even completely custom parts ever becomes economically significant, they can probably adapt to supply that need as well, without using any 3D printing whatsoever.
Ask HN: Two days before 2013, is Google Calendar still misparsing 2013 dates?
Go to Google Calendar's create an appointment screen:

https://www.google.com/calendar/render?pli=1

In the date field, type "1/1/13". Does it change this to "1/13/2001" for you? Does it change "2/8/13" to "2/13/2008" for you?

If others are experiencing this, to whose attention can this be brought, given that we're talking about a date as near as Tuesday, now?

If it's just me, can any friendly soul suggest where I might start fixing this?
Nerd moment.

This reminds me of the part in The Hobbit (the book, not the movie) where Gandalf takes the dwarves to meet Beorn, the skin-changer. Before entering his house, Gandalf warns the dwarves that Beorn is tempermental, and that in order to get him to help them, they should stagger their entrances.

Gandalf initially only enters with Bilbo, but as he tells Beorn about the adventures they have had so far, he repeatedly references an increasingly large number of dwarves. e.g. "You have mentioned a dozen, yet there are only ten dwarves here!", to which Gandalf replies by having two more dwarves enter.

In the end, master businessman Gandalf gets Beorn to house all 16 in their party, by means of exactly this "nibbles"-like negotiation strategy.

I really do think Gandalf has a lot to offer the business community as an astute and personable negotiator.
I'm sorry but your warning is just depressing to read. "Tread with logic here" should not be something I read at the topic of the ycombinator comments... but I guess at this point I can't act surprised.
I agree, it's a bit confusing how it's written, and I'm not even really sure what using lein would buy you when doing the koans. If anyone is interested in using lein, here's what you need to look at: https://github.com/functional-koans/lein-koan

Specifically:

git clone git@github.com:functional-koans/clojure-koans.git
cd clojure-koans
lein deps
lein koan run
You nailed it other than the bit about robot arms adding parts. 3D printing and reductive fabrication methods both make parts, it's not about assembly.

Still, 3D printing is in its infancy, already the food industry is getting more and more of them, they're being used in different parts of the process (for instance: mould making, which is a very delicate art) and they're getting more precise, faster and cheaper. Let's give it a few years before we declare it a failure, the camera obscura wasn't a very good DSLR either.
Oh yes, because before modern days we were so much more empathetic and loving of our fellow man. Fiefdoms are an excellent example of this...
This is what I was wondering, too. It's basically the critical step in being able to make TV a viable product for any* company (cable companies included).

The only thing I noticed the writer saying along these lines was that Intel offered billions in long-term commitment to the industry while Apple/Google only offered tens/hundreds of millions. I am not sure I buy it; both Google and Apple know what that market would be worth if tapped (20-30% * enormous number) so I don't think it was a lack of money at the negotiating table.

Rather I think the TV is going to be stuck in neutral for a long time due to the complexity of making that work. In music and mobile phones, the N in the N-party negotiations for acquiring a critical mass was much smaller than in the TV business. Unlike the music and mobile industries, there are many more exclusive and long-term contracts that make it hard to maneuver around. The TV problem is certainly not a technology, bandwidth, or market-size (available devices) problem as of the last 2-3 years.

Is it possible Intel cracked this nut? Yes. Likely? No.
I have a copy of the book too. It carefully discussed the tradeoffs of both record-playback and CNC technologies. A dry, scholarly read. No such book is "objective" (those claiming to be objective generally don't analyze the dominant ideologies they promote), but at least Noble is clear about his perspective.

I think you can see some of the struggles even in programming. I've spoken with managers who are honest about wanting replaceable coders, and won't willingly choose a technology which swings the balance of power away from them. (Which means they'll likely prefer Java over certain other contenders, even if they actually happen to believe this replaceable-cog strategy costs them more time and money, thereby lowering profits.)

(That's why many are attracted to startups; some of these counterproductive constraints are relaxed, due to the sheer difficulty of success.)
"how large (in $) do you think transaction costs of changing jobs actually is?"

I am unable to calculate that, nor provide a good estimate. People do strange things for love. Does it always make economic sense? No.

What is the transaction cost of forcing your kids to leave school and boy/girlfriends if the job change requires moving? What is the transaction cost of asking your husband to quit his job and leave the church where he's been a deacon for the last 10 years? I once talked with someone who loves the sea, and couldn't think of leaving away from it. What's the transaction cost, were she your wife, to move her to a better paying job in Oklahoma? Does that include the costs of divorce, should she find that she loves the sea more than you?

What is the economic cost of being considered a "failure" and a "quitter", or "not a team player" by your neighbors and ex-coworkers? Of being disowned by your family for switching from Jehovah's Witness to Southern Baptist? Of being the sole outspoken atheist in a small Bible Belt town?

These can be estimated, certainly, but those estimates feel like post hoc parameter fitting. "If person X won't switch to another job which pays $3k more, then the price on staying is worth at least $3k." With enough parameters you can fit anything.

Can you tell how the various economic models include these factors into the cost model? How do they estimate these various costs I've outlined?

Going into semi-obscure New Mexico history, in the 1950s the 82-year-old John Prather was offered $200,000 for his mule ranch in southern NM, so that White Sands Missile Range could be expanded. The price was well above the going rate for the land, but he was the last hold-out. He was one of the last of the US pioneers to the American West, and he wasn't going to leave. Period. He would rather die in a gunfight than move.

Americans liked the romantic idea of one of the last pioneers still living the old ways, which put pressure on the Army and the police to not force the issue. They gave up, and Prather stayed there until he died.

What would you say is the transaction cost for him to move? Obviously staying there was worth more than $200,000 to him. Was it $5,000,000? Was there any amount of sum which would have gotten him to move? If no such number exists, then can you even use an economic model for this event?

BTW, in our other thread I asked this of you: do monopolies (or cartels, for that matter) ever abuse their monopoly (or oligopoly) powers? If so, do you use moral guidelines to determine what constitutes abuse?
"the only people that get rich by these schemes are the people that are selling them"

Counter point: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4986168

My company is making money with Brennan's Consultancy Class and it paid for itself literally within a week. Brennan's advice has significantly impacted my company's revenue in 2012, and will continue to do so in 2013.
It's been 1.5 years. How much slower can they get, especially with being so far behind the curve in launch time?

The write API is necessary for blogs to auto-post new articles to G+. Auto-posting blog entries are standard operating procedure for Facebook and Twitter and greatly assist in seeding social networks with content (which users can then comment on and like/+1/favorite).

They way I see it is that G+ is either going for something special in that they would rather see it a ghost town with no spam, than have to deal with lots of content and combat some spam.

I personally love the G+ system, but there is no way that I am going to manually post a blog article to a G+ page every time I publish something.
The most amazing feature of this, that I have seen NONE other app do, is the changing icon.

Install the app, and change the colors. Then, close the app. Its icon's colors have changed to reflect the color theme change.
I'd love to read a post on your mold making and injection molding adventures.
With these kinds of games I really surprised Zynga didn't provide a more graceful wind down. As the article suggests, there must be HUGE numbers of people with real emotional attachment to their characters/pets, who almost by definition are Zynga's most loyal customers. SURELY a business decision which exclusively hurts those who are stakeholders in the games you produce is, from a long term perspective, just a horrible move for customer loyalty and reputation.

If I'd put 4 years into a pet on Petville, only to have the game basically deleted from under my nose, there is no way I'd ever become involved in anything Zynga does again.

[Disclaimer, I've never actually played any Zynga games, so this is based on second hand conversions/observations]
The article was amazingly sympathetic to Zynga's management. Almost as if... Hmmm... Almost as if... Someone sent them a press release and they reprinted it verbatim in exchange for an exclusive interview or an advertising buy.
I'm on both side of the fence there. I'm more than aware that most doctors don't have the training or background for serious data analysis, but all the doctors I know who are doing research or trials that rely on serious data analysis aren't doing the analysis themselves anyway.

For example, my father is an oncologist who does a lot of clinical trials. When it comes to the number crunching side of the trials, he won't be doing any of it himself but relying on data analysts who work for him (who have statistics backgrounds) and statisticians who work for the MRC (Medical Research Council), CRUK (Cancer Research UK) and the academic institutions which his department is affiliated with.

My experience is anecdotal as well, but it largely can be summed up as 'doctors who are doing serious research and/or trials ensure that the stats are solid, however most doctors aren't doing research at that level'.
Better a little dangerous 'self' than a lot of dangerous 'this.'
Programming for all, part 2: From concept to code
Of course there are exceptions to the rule, but the rule should still be - avoid 'this.'
I've seen this approach backfire, because the dealer says he has the exact make/model as-quoted, but doesn't. Tries to pass it off as a simple misunderstanding, then says "But we have this other one over here which is close to what you asked for..."

IOW, only works if dealer is honest.
Exactly, and this is the example I use most frequently. Home printing let us make flyers for lost cats and party invitations. You could feasibly print out your own book, but no one with a brain would do it.

3D printing (which should realistically be called what is has been for years-additive prototyping) doesn't replace any part of the major manufacturing industry, it compliments it and makes it available to do a few things at home.
The only thing I can think of is that they're going to sell TV below cost to get people to switch, then try to renegotiate later.
object.bind doesn't look very clean compared to using self.
Openness seems to be a guiding principle for Google. It seems inconceivable that they want to keep it closed to the web forever, so we can probably take their statements about protecting it until they understand how to protect it's unique attributes at face value.
Adam Steltzner: 'I could not imagine the Curiosity landing working'
And Apple can afford to buy content creators outright. Without any mention of deals having been made with movie studios etc. the whole article is nothing more than a pipe-dream.
Creating a magazine in the digital age
The problem is the number of parts you're going to be able to produce is limited by the materials properties of whatever you're accreting.

Sure, you'll be able to produce anything that's mostly cosmetic, but how about something like the bearing housing for an old washing machine? I have to believe that will still get milled because it has to have certain mechanical properties a 3D printing process can't guarantee.
Wonderful! I love these beautiful minimalist UX experiments. Especially when using open technology such as HTML5. Any info on how you built all the really nifty animations? Used any tool to get it just right?
Here is the part 1 of this series: http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/12/programming-for-all-p...
...it's not a Google app, it's a random app in the Android store.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.makemeasia...

Flagged. Even if the title is corrected, there's nothing interesting about this story if the app has nothing to do with Google, and even if that weren't so, this article is bad.
I don't think it's _that_ weid considering JS is a language where functions are perfectly normal values. Someone unfamiliar with the semantics of "this" in JS might expect that:

player[playing ? "play" : "pause"]()

(a not-so-weird JS pattern) would be the same as:

(playing ? player.play : player.pause)()
Humour those of us who were busy doing Christmas-related things and missed this one. I found it interesting.

I expect the next move from those beholden to the major studios will be to lobby for tougher legislation - SOPA-style. It is important to maintain awareness and vigilance so that all efforts can be made to stymie such legislation.
article claims to be written 1 year from now: "30 DEC 2013 - JOSHUA LEWIS"
Maybe 10) You can't directly change the value of 'this'

this = {};
ReferenceError: Invalid left-hand side in assignment;

But of course you can make sure 'this' is something you expect it to be.

if(!this.tagName){
throw new Error("Only DOM objects can used as 'this'")
}
The title obviously isn't your fault, but this is nothing but click bait. Not really related to Google other than existing in their store.