skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
POCO = Plain Old (CLR) Object

The distinction I'm drawing here is what is meant by 'natively supports' and 'supported via a 3rd party library'
That hasn't been my experience, I'm glad to say. And given the amount of c# code I've worked on already, it's unlikely to ever be.
BBC shuts down Lonely Planet's Thorn Tree travel forum
Actually, IBM walks a tightrope. They want research to be free to do research and there is a certain amount of freedom you have to give them but they also have quite a record of saying the best research results in products. They also, when the research falls in to a greyer area, have let a lot of it go and many times other companies have started up around some of their stuff. The thinking being that a healthy industry is good for all companies, including IBM and research is part of that. Never mind the stuff they've documented in journals over the years... Some of the materials work IBM does is closer to pure research and starts to look like long-term investment type stuff but make no mistake, there are problems they are looking at which the company plans to profit from the solutions.

MS seems to have some other problems, productizing their research is part of their problem, in which case they are likely spending way too much on it. Another, I'm gonna go ahead and say it since it keeps coming up here in different capacities re: IE10 and Windows 8 and other things, they have negative brand equity with the real early adopters and leading edge geek folks due to their years of treachery and just not being nice. While kinnect is cool (very very cool, my 2 year old can play games!) I think I'll wait for Google and Apple to solve the wearable ultra personal computer problems before I'd let MS in to my personal space with some of those phone gadgets. Their final problem, IMO, they still sort of don't get it. Take JPEG-XR, it's a nice piece of work, they even played nice with ISO and it's a standard of sorts; good on them for it but why no BSD or Apache licensed free implementation with a written down patent promise? They planning on drawing funds off that patent? Or would they like digital cameras to start using that stuff? Mono is nearly 8 years old and it's sort of used but largely ignored due to MS and potential patent problems, I think they are very solvable problems. They just don't play well with a lot of others and that kind of undermines the research, it doesn't matter how cool the invention is if you have to eat the rest of their shit with it.
In addition to benefits that others have pointed out, the ability to do easy snapshots/rollbacks/clones of your VM is pretty handy for any number of purposes.
At least the alarm still works.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/01/01/apple_admits_new_y...
You also should have at least 10 employees. That should help eliminate the shell companies that like to troll.
And here we have empirical (zeal) evidence that should make you reconsider calling someone a "dumb jock". Rugland calculated in his head what a PhD in Physics worked out on paper. We call it coordination. I look at it as another facet of intelligence.
Python: The Dictionary Playbook
I don't know anything about open source per se but have done a lot of volunteer work in the past. Generally speaking: If you show up with a solution, odds are high people will be happy to engage you. Find something that interests you, come up with a solution, and show up with work in hand not just pie in the sky promises of future solutions. If you provide good solutions, people become willing to listen to your grand plans and not just blow you off. Volunteers are notoriously unreliable so if you just Bring It, sooner or later, you become Someone in that circle.
Democratizing App Creation with Corporate Central
For Immediate Release: January 2, 2013: Democratizing App Creation with Corporate Central

Corporate Central is revolutionary technology with tremendous value to consumers and businesses alike. It is a new SaaS platform that allows the average person to develop and deliver apps on all major mobile devices and desktop browsers.

Prior to being available via SaaS, the suite has been used by large corporations costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now it is also offered as a free ad supported SaaS. There are hardly (if any) enterprise grade solutions that are applicable to the general public and to business at the same time, let alone being offered as free SaaS.

Corporate Central is aimed at “Democratizing app Development”. It is applicable to both consumers and businesses because the technical requirements for producing and delivering apps are taken care of for the app creator, and this creates tremendous opportunities with the proliferation of mobile devices.

Apps produced on Corporate Central immediately run on all major mobile devices including iOS and Andorid and all major desktop browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE, and they also run as integrated Facebook apps.

Corporate Central allows the average person to:

create elaborate custom apps graphically - requires no code and generates no code;

create an app once and it runs on all major mobile devices and web browsers (vs. creating and maintaining an app for each platform);

integrate the app with data from back office systems without making any firewall changes.

Corporate Central Web Site:
http://corporatecentral.com

Use cases at:
http://www.softwareprogressions.com/spcnews01112010.html

Contact Information:
Shauri Levy
slevy@softwareprogressions.com
Oh for sure ;)

For v4.0 of the book, I am thinking of making it customizable. Before you order the book, you will be able to adjust the level of "attitude" with a slider.
Just a note for the author of this piece - FM-2030 played in the Olympics in 1948, not 1984.
The factoid I learnt in my childhood of an inch being 2.539954cm is now wrong?
Obama's deficits are caused by the depression bush brought us (decreased tax revenues -> deficit) and the continued unfunded wars, tax cuts and Medicare D program.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonoberholtzer/2012/02/01/obam...
The alternative is making

a = t.attr = 5

different from

t.attr = 5
a = 5

which is most often what someone means when they write a chained assignment. It's all part of the "principle of least surprise" that Rubyists used to tout so much — but unfortunately, different people find different things surprising.
That's not how depreciation works. If the rule of thumb is 15% per year, then it is 15% off of the remaining value, meaning a new-ish Honda Accord would be worth about $9,400 after six years (about $216/mo).

Whereas if you take 15% of $25k off every year, the car would be worth nothing after about six and a half years. We know that's not true.
As far as security is concerned, you probably don't want user authentication like a username/password combo to be passed with the requests, but rather acquire an oauth token that expires after a certain period of time and have specific rights within a scope to read-only vs write based on that token.

One question with concurrent API queries is how would you handle the race condition? Say I query 3 APIs at the same time, will I have to wait until the slowest one returns the results to get all results? Will it instead push results to a pre-determined results URL?

What are some cases when you would query multiple APIs and want the results at the same time? Why not just wait for each result, parse it myself, then pass some piece of that computed result to the next query, and so on? What would be amazing would be a universal API processor that can do some of this API to API call parsing and processing in the backend, store all credentials, and just get the final results of a long chain of API calls. Now that's something that would make developers' lives easier and I'd pay money for..
There's a pretty weird combination of liters and ounces in soft drinks. 2 L and 20 oz are very (most?) common for bottled soda. 1 gal is common for bottled water, but for individual bottles, 0.5 L (16.9 oz) is common. 1 L and 1.5 L bottles of various beverages are not unheard of. Cans of soda are generally 12 oz, though 16 oz and 24 oz are not uncommon among beers. Wine, as mentioned below, is often 750 mL, but liquor is often sold by the quart.

So I wouldn't say the 2 L bottle is the sole anomaly, but metric is definitely not the prevalent system for beverages.
You might also want to check out Wingo [1], which was specifically built with this feature in mind. It's a hybrid floating/tiling window manager with simple configuration.

[1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/wingo
When I look through MSR's papers, I see a pretty massive level of output, across many of the domains you say get most of the money. Of course there's going to be information that isn't published. There's lots of information not worth publishing.

As a matter of defense against patents, though, MSFT has a strong interest in insuring that its basic research is thoroughly documented in public, establishing prior art.
Not everything from Android is in the mainline kernels. There are still a few bits that are Android specific that would need to be reworked to even be accepted into staging.

There has been a lot of great ARM work lately in mainline too but there are still quite a few drivers missing that you can't even get docs for (even with signing NDAs) so the drivers for mainline get written based on the BSP-ish kernel drivers which aren't always written the best.
The phone could have a supercomputer inside it. It's common use-case would like be according to the quote. A small screen and limited keyboard take its toll regardless of computing power.

The big business part is true but tablets also are big and could make some sense as an Ubuntu platform.
This project certainly involved some heavy lifting! Great to see Javascript show up in the MIDI-control arena inside a DAW (at last!!!). With generative and listening features, Jnana's sure to spark considerable interest. It'd be great if the JS integration opens up Live/MAX for other programmers. Salud!
How Priorities Make Things Happen
Only way to retrain is to either have the young generation abandon the old way, or to have the old guard exercise flexibility and neuroplasticity. You can change habits, but it takes effort and commitment.

I say that, and I still stick to my Vim and won't use Emacs keybindings :-D
The Web browser wars continue, and #1 is… well, that depends on whom you ask
Do you really need stronger integration with local storage when you've got HTML5 localstorage?

I don't believe there is anything stopping us from caching all the JS in localstorage already, though I haven't done it yet.

Apparently, you can even store images in localstorage
http://robnyman.github.com/html5demos/localstorage/
>So if your employer says to you "you're getting a raise of $1000 for this year, but only for one year"

That's called a bonus and there's quite a difference. There's also a difference between a one year contract and getting laid off unexpectedly after one year.

You really don't get the practical difference?
I played a few words of scrabble on some version of the surface a few years ago (i think spring 2011), and it could handle 4 people using all ten fingers at once. when did you use the surface?
The site looks good but is this a scam? I don't know so I'm asking. How would you show that this site is serious vs the hundreds of other payday loan sites that look very scammy and fishy?
Can you elaborate on the decision engine at work behind the scenes? I'd be curious to know.
BTW the site looks great!
Positive Technologies WinCC Security Hardening Guide
Immediately thought of this cartoon: http://xkcd.com/927/ ;)
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This could be a relevant resource: http://www.programmableweb.com/
> The idea that some current implementations (chair, gas) are better than firing squad (or hanging/beheading for that matter) seems nuts.

As far as I can tell from my hasty research, all states in the USA claim lethal injection as their primary method (note: 17 states do not practice capital punishment). A few still have electrocution, firing squad, hanging, and gas chamber on the books, but they seem to be vestigial laws or "backups" in the event that lethal injection is deemed unconstitutional.

That said, according to this site [0] there have been recent executions by firing squad (2010), electrocution (2010), hanging (1999), and gas chamber (1999).
if it runs on android compatible phones it will also run on android compatible tablets.
IBM: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Se...
The author is talking about concurrency, and so am I. Why the downvote? That quote comes from his paragraph headed "Concurrency". It also refers directly to concurrent HTTP requests. Well, a single Tornado or Node.js process can generally handle many thousands of concurrent HTTP requests if they are implemented correctly without blocking on I/O.
FWIW, this is the third time in seven months that Rails had to issue a patch related to how ActiveRecord handles method parameters.

3.2.6 (June 2012)
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/rubyonra...

3.2.4 (May 2012)
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/rubyonra...
This affects all versions of Rails, not just 3.x.

This is a really, really bad hole, and you should patch or upgrade ASAP.
Seems like it might touch on aspects of http://zapier.com which is a bit more of a mashup mentality but definitely allows you to combine multiple APIs to do interesting things.
I also had a similar weekend project, but specific to Java, http://javasnips.com/
Ideally it would be nice to have something that caches stuff in local storage and can make offline copies of HTML pages and JS by default.
Anything similar for windows?
Part of my current work involves designing & implementing pretty intricate & complex algorithms. Earlier I did research & published in a range of ML related sub-fields, primarily NLP & recommender systems. I also read CS papers for pleasure and code in multiple languages.

Yet, if I gave engineering interviews impromptu I am pretty sure I will fail many of them. It's a weird situation in the industry when an experienced person has to go through a bootcamp to revisit/ memorize rather trivial stuff to get a job for which he may well be overqualified.
Submitter is one of at least 6 accounts Ziff Davis (geek.com / extremetech.com / pcmag.com) has/had for spamming HN.

- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=memoryfailure

- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mrsebastian

- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ukdm

- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=11031a

- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=russellholly

- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adeelarshad82
When Nokia started working on Meego, and Microsoft had plans for WP7, I was hoping Nokia would be smart enough to hurry up and form alliances with other manufacturers to become the defacto alternative to Android for all companies who either didn't want to use Android (RIM, HP, themselves) and companies who wanted a second OS for leverage against Google (Samsung, LG, HTC, etc).

I think they could've done it if they didn't slack off so much with Meego, and were serious about it, but in the same time I also knew Nokia was way too arrogant for their own good back then, and even if they made Meego on time, they probably wouldn't have shared it with others. But that would've been a mistake, because as we can see no OS that depends on one company alone can succeed anymore. Heck, even the ones that depend on several companies are having a very hard time already (WP7/8).

And the reason I would've preferred Meego to become the Android alternative, was because it was also an open source OS, and I would've liked more competition between open source OS's, rather than have just an open source one fight against multiple proprietary ones (iOS, WP, WebOS - at the time).

So I think there may still be time left for Ubuntu to become that alternative to Android, especially if manufacturers stop relying on WP8 and even Windows 8, and start to focus more on Ubuntu phones and Ubuntu laptops instead. But it's very hard to see if it will actually happen, right now, and if it does happen, we won't see it until 2014-2015.
This is true. However, this is not insurmountable:

http://xkcd.com/526/

The key is, I think, start with the measurements you use in your daily life and start estimating in those terms. Use it in the office. It might be accelerated if there's a metrics app for the Google Glasses, automatically converting signs into metric. You start saying, "dude, that bouncer must be two meters tall!" and getting everyone around you to convert.
I am looking into how to bundle the two, but it isn't obvious since I use lulu.com for the print version and gumroad for the PDF.

If you send me a proof of purchase of the print version (screenshot of lulu receipt that shows your email), I would be glad to send you the PDF.
As a data point my newest phone (Nexus 4) is a 1.5 GHz quad-core with 2 GB of RAM and a GPU good for OpenGL ES 3.0 and OpenCL 1.2.

Except for hard drive size and bandwidth, it's the same or better than the dual core laptop I had 5 years ago.
Thanks, fixed the headline. All versions are affected, only 3.1, 3.2 have official support
I agree with you. But I'm probably not teaching you anything by saying that mastering important frameworks like :

- Win32 API

- Write device drivers WDM or other

- .NET / ASP.NET

- Java standard library

- Sockets, UNICODE

- DOM, HTML, CSS, Javascript

These things take a lot of time to learn properly. You have to read for a long time and know a lot of things. It's not true to say that anyone with algorithm smarts can do this.
good points, especially the last one. i guess if you're already invested in the apple ecosystem ios development seems like a natural extension to mobile.

i was surprised to see you list the screening process as a plus though - that alone would be enough to make sure i never go anywhere near apple mobile dev. i can sees users being (justifiably!) nervous about malware, but as a developer the process looks onerous and capricious. (though again i suppose i mostly hear about it from disgruntled people)
I think this is an iPod limitation implemented by Apple. I have the iPhone 5, loaded a large non-mobile site, and did the same thing. Upon lifting my finger, the rest of the page loads instantly.
looks like quora to me. not too original.
Small jQuery inline graph toolkit
What do you imagine this API would look like if it existed?

What use case do you believe it serves (who would use it, what existing behavior would it replace)?

If you're going to call this a "startup" then what is the business plan beyond some set of technical features which may or may not be feasible?
They have managed to raise a nice sum of money. I wonder if AAA titles will become possible kickstarter targets in the future.
The same behavior that I observed happens on my first-gen iPad, FWIW. I don't have an iPhone to test with.
No, I think what the parent is expressing is the same thing that happens when someone gets the flu. They often say "Get rest and drink plenty of fluids." and my thoughts were always "Really? I was going to go dehydrate myself and lift weights. Thank goodness I ran into you..."

It is so common at this point, I"m not sure it needs repeated by yet another blog. I can kinda see the parent's point in that regard.
Rails 3.2.10, 3.1.9, and 3.0.18 have been released
That it's an abstraction that can do anything isn't sufficient (and I'm not even convinced it's necessary): Turing machines can compute anything too, that doesn't mean they're practical.
Reminds me of YQL by Yahoo.
with more than 48 hours left, reaching the first stretch goal of 1.4m for the Mac version being developed seems very plausable
Early Evidence Is Often Too Early And Not Really Evidence
How's that new? What about Seal, Madonna and Louis C.K.? Programmers should already handle that. Handling 1 name instead of 2 is a lot easier than let say change your system because instead 2 now you need 5 because people decided to have 3 middle names. Running out of IPs and upgrading Internet to 2.0 version sounds more complex than shrinking names from 2 to 1 IMHO. is it enough for a specific situation (security, verification, banking, etc.)? Probably not. But I am sure there will be plenty fo ways to do so. Every other man in China is Li or Lee and they somehow managed to deal with it :)
Rebellious Tweens Subreddit for Cursing & Posting Porn, Okay? God.
BTW, using this regex to validate email is a bad idea. For one thing, it doesn't cover RFC5322. The only right way to do it, as far as I am concerned, is state machine code that evaluates the address character by character as well as DNS.
Region-aware scrolling triggers
Sweet, let me write that down.
> A Facebook friend with a scientific education recently told me about the saying "A pint's a pound, the whole world round." If the United States begins using metric-standard units more for selling foods and the like, then perhaps a half-kilogram (500g) package will be considered to be one new "pound," just as a half-liter (500ml) package will be considered to be one new "pint."

That's what happens in Colombia. We ask for a pound of meat, and we actually expect 500 grams.

Also we measure fuel in gallons, while the milk is in liters.
Eurostar terminating in North London is because they wanted the high speed line to run to the East of London so it would be easier to connect it to the North of the UK for further possible direct links from Manchester/Liverpool/etc.

Also, it would have cost vastly more to put full high speed lines required in most of the way to London Waterloo.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_1

"
The next plan for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link involved a tunnel reaching London from the south-east, and an underground terminus in the vicinity of Kings Cross station. However a late change in the plans, principally driven by the then Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine's desire for urban regeneration in east London, led to a change of route, with the new line approaching London from the east. This opened the possibility of reusing the underused St Pancras station as the terminus, with access via the North London Line that crosses the throat of the station.[26]
"
Observations on Errors, Corrections, and Trust of Dependent Systems
http://open.spotify.com/user/undrwd/playlist/0MWGdPlHcAQE6EK...

http://open.spotify.com/user/undrwd/playlist/11kkK4YChXm2AYz...

One was going to be a shorter playlist initially . . . so expect duplicate tracks in each playlist
"One thing I haven't found, however, is one API that lets the skilled developer manipulate and search multiple APIs at once."

There is one, it is called "the internet"
I'm feeling lazy after the holidays.

Does anyone have a good argument for why any smartphone manufacturer (or carrier) would choose Ubuntu Phone over official or opensource Android?

EDIT: OK, I've broken down and watched the video.

Sounds like an important featre is the unified enterprise management with existing Ubuntu servers and desktops.

I wonder if this will prove attractive to the remaining Blackberry holdouts?
I doubt a resident can accurately answer this question.
> We actually buy products that are divided into round imperial measurements ... Imperial units are absolute muck and I cannot wait for a entirely metric world.

Ah sorry, I misread your grandparent post, I thought you wanted to keep the Imperial names & sizes.
I have seen people store dates in string form, in memory, converting to and from string form as they are updated. It hurts to read code like that.
I agree this is the dream. Just one small device with a super-CPU that you carry around and it interfaces with displays all around you. Perhaps with Miracast and Airplay this future is not that far off.

I also can't wait until the day we don't have to charge our mobile devices (solar + kinetic charging in every phone)
Microsoft Is Fast Turning Into A Sideshow