skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lanier has long since "lost the plot" in that he kind of seemed to have grown to dislike the commodification of "thought leadership". Even before this I was wary of a certain preciousness that went into his thinking; a kind of "we can make VR so cool..." but it always seemed less open and free wheeling. In a way you could say he's Apple and the web is Linux.
Tech giant Microsoft faces fragile period
Is this[1] the problem in Japan that you are talking about? Seems like the main idea is we had to find a way to get the banks to start lending again. The government can't open a shop and lend to small businesses themselves. What other option did we have other than to bail out the banks? Honest question. I don't know very much about these things.

[1]: http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/bailout.html
you need an "up" key to repeat the last api call.
How Linux reads your fingerprints, helps national security
That, my friend, is called spin. I don't believe for one moment that the response "I've done this for years" doesn't smack of eye rolling and dismissiveness.

The right answer would have been "DM me", but that was done by the other side.
For me three features are missing in Google Flights:
1. International flights
2. Flexible dates (simple +-3 or the whole month overview)
3. Ability to specify connecting airport
"And what will this money be used for? MS licensing fees for using "Metro" (or whatever they call it now)."

At the very least, creating a product--especially on a new platform--costs money. People need to be paid. I am surprised someone in this community would hold your attitude, but your post is so trollish that I can't see any value in it.
Technically, it is still a continuation, even if it does not match the behavior of Haskell's continuation monad.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SingleUseContinuation
great execution.
I wish there was a way to add more twiiter\fb profiles so I can share with personal or business profiles from the same account.
League Play Skilled Players CTF - Fast Cast - Mynyslay3r 
Peace out girl scout
you might be a genius! usually with me, there is an afternoon of "oh, okay, that's the idea I get it" followed by a day of happy implementation. then, a sad day of "wait, what's going on, what's wrong with my intuition" followed by perhaps a month of slog.

sort of like when I'm learning from a textbook. you read a section, say "oh huh cool okay", do one or two of the sample problems at the end of the section and say "neat". then, you flip to the chapter exercises and spend the next few days asking "oh god why".
Letter to the President from Major CEOs on the Fiscal Cliff
So at some point, you can just put the whole FOSS environment (Firefox, Gnome, Gimp, LibreOffice, etc) on top of your kernel. Porting all those programs is much more work than writing a POSIX compatibility layer.
Machine Learning in laymans terms
The bank bailout had nothing to do with anything. This is a longer term trend.
This is a much better comparison.

Most programmers code to a "spec" - what they were asked to do. Only a small minority would voice their opinion if the spec is badly written or the product is not a good business idea.
US majority says ‘Do Not Mail’
China has enough outsourced development teams that blocking SSH would be, I'd think, a measurable drag on that economy. We SSH over 443 as a "just-in-case" since it looks alot like HTTPS.
A bunch of the assumptions - you need younger people to slave off to contribute taxes towards the retirement of the elderly - are a bit shaky to say the least.

The assumption that they will be able to supply that revenue is indeed shaky, but the assumption that one needs them to do so is well-founded. Traditionally immigration has been the safety valve for demographic mismatches, as ably documented here: http://www.ssab.gov/documents/immig_issue_brief_final_versio...
One interesting thing is that this seems a bit self-correcting.

Assuming there is any genetic component to the desire for having children and religiosity (and I believe there is), that means that non-religious people, and people who are not interested in having children are breeding themself out of existence.

It'll probably be many generations before the results are large, but it should cause a dramatic shift eventually. (Which will probably eventually get too large, causing yet another shift in the other direction.)
Metro already is completely optional. The only difference you'll notice is the start screen which replaces the start menu. There's even third party software (like Classic Shell or Start8) that disables the start screen and replaces it with a menu.

Don't let the start screen be the only thing stopping you from upgrading to Windows 8. Give it a shot, and if you don't like it, use third party software to replace it.
I really like your executive summary there, these functional concepts really help with solution composition and abstraction. I really am pleased the penny has dropped with myself too. I am trying daily to encourage my colleagues to spend some time learning these functional fundamentals!
Github is used by large enterprises.
The point isn't "pea shooter" as a description of state of the art, but of its effectiveness. There's nothing we have available to us in technology that would be able to divert a mass-extinction class meteor (or even just a really-bad-day meteor) on short notice. Given a decade or more we might be able to launch a mission to moderately divert an orbit, but at very high expense.

It's the cost-to-effectiveness ratio I believe TSA is being compared.
It's less about having a class of youth, as having a group of people up-and-coming to replace the old guard.
I wonder if this is one of the major ways (other than conversion) that the major religions of the modern world spread in the first place. After all, they all seem to emphasize having children to a great degree, something that I don't think existed in many other religions.
I use the $8 automated car wash machines because I'm often quite antisocial, and because I don't want to have to take all my stuff, items, and things out of the interior of the car.

When I go through all the trouble of stripping the car, I can just drop it off at a detailing place near the office and get them to pick me up again when it's done.

The sustainable solution to this is to have children and then train/force them to wash your car for you.
Every game basically has to trust the scores submitted by users. That doesn't mean it should trust users to mess with other users' scores, and it certainly doesn't mean it should trust users to mess with levels that other users have designed.
I would be surprised if the results of this project eventually creep into industry.

It sounds great to write vector and font rendering in a few hundred or thousand lines of code. On the other hand, others have been writing orders of magnitude more code in orders of magnitude more time. I cannot believe that has been due to a wrong choice of language or approach. I much more believe it comes from supporting real-world standards and requirements. Loading fonts from various formats, lots of configuration, supporting more and more of Unicode, doing all that optionally with hardware support. That is the tedious part. It is not about how to implement Bresenham's line algorithm most elegantly.
All the math is accurate, we just distilled the parts we like from the parts we don't like.

Regarding accuracy let me try again, it is accurate because it is internally consistent. However notion of two apples being 'same' (e.g. completely interchangeable, satisfying the identity) is silly in absolute terms since laws of nature are much more complex.
The start menu has been essentially remapped to a metro layout. It still behaves just like the old start menu, it's just metro in layout and appearance.

(Yes, it does take over the screen when you call it, but it disappears once you launch something)
Tangentially related - there was a conspiracy theory making rounds in early 90s that not only Windows Minesweeper was allocating mines as you played, it also rigged the game in its favor. That is, if you were opening a tile that may or may not have a mine, it'd be more likely to see a mine there than not see it. Allegedly, this was backed by a statistics research that some people did. I've never seen that research, but the game did feel unfair when it came to random poking around the mine field.
Ask HN: How can I implement a gift card for payment like iTunes does?
I am creating an online record shop for the African market but since most people in Africa don't have debit cards to use for payments online, I'll need to implemement some sort of gift card system that people can buy on the high street and use it to top up their account online and use that to buy music, like the way you can buy iTunes gift cards in shops.

I have no clue how to set this up as I have only been programming for about a month, hence I have very little experience.

Can someone please point me in the right direction.

Thank you
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4955639
They failed to mention that any entrepreneur must also be born with the gift of flight or at least levitation.
I've never read so much bullshit in one place.
So if I wanted to change my cellphone company because a new company offered me a better deal, and I wanted (or had) to change my cellphone number because the new one is so much better and too much advertising companies had my previous one any ways. Plus I didn't want to go on my family's "family plan" because it doesn't make sense when I talk to my friends on the cellhone most of the time and with my family on Skype, it means I'm not stable? maybe not. But it means I'm smart.

What a stupid ass "algorithm".
You really think it's too much? Look at the typical 17-18 year old out of High School and see if you're satisfied with their knowledge/understanding of things.

You know, I don't think that's an issue with how much time they are or aren't spending studying, at least from a nationwide perspective.
Pipe and joint system JYJ-8 cnszylsmf
Not sure if you care, but your user account is in the top right corner of that shot.
I know what an 80386 is. I just didn't know IBM licensed the design from Intel and made their own IBM-branded parts.
This is true for agrarian societies where if you had 20 people of current generation working the land, you'd very likely need 20 or more in the next generation.

Rise of automation and increase in average employment spans removes that urgency. Rise of health care standards slowly eradicates the image of a feeble senile 70-year-old who is threatening kids to get off his lawn and needs constant medical attention 24/7.

You still need the next generation, but it doesn't have to be 1x-2x of the current one.
> traffic from places like Southeast Asia, South America, Africa, and even remote regions of Siberia

...and now someone will figure out that this traffic isn't generating any revenue and you'll be back to catering the folks with high bandwidth and deep pockets.
I think Jaron Lanier is terribly, hopelessly wrong about MIDI and music, but I'm inclined to agree with his broader critiques of the web. Twitter and newspaper comments have soured me on social technology to a large extent. I'll get over this when semantic AI has improved to the point that my computer and/or the net can filter out rhetorical fallacies before I encounter them and start blowing steam out of my ears.
What does hardware stability have to do with it?
Why I don’t buy the hype about ‘big data’
I'm pro free market, and against unions, just as I am against fascist political parties. One could analogously say 'the choice to vote oneself into serfdom is the ultimate freedom' - this is the age old 'problem' with freedom, and while I acknowledge that it's a paradox in the ideology of freedom, I also find it hardly ever a problem in practice. Just as with unions, since they invariably turn into choice- and freedom-restricting guild-like entities.
In that case, wouldn't you always be stupid?
edmund's statement is a bit curious. HIB didn't merely "give all the linux builds to Ubuntu during the promotion", they advertised that all the HIB5 games including Super Meat Boy would be available from the Ubuntu Software Center: http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/24981005928/humble-indie-b...

So Ubuntu was meant to allow HIB users to "buy" the games for no money and download it, just not to allow non-HIB customers to pay money for them. Which leaves a much more understandable avenue for them to screw up. Also, he says he's really pissed off with Ubuntu prior to HIB7 but they're the ones who refused to allow The Binding Of Isaac. Does that really seem terribly plausible?
Check out the Stanford University iOS classes on iTunes University - very good video resources stepping through all the basic building blocks. Also finding decent open source components on GitHub and alike then manually copying the code is helpful to build up a muscle memory of the API's used
For context, this is the Humble Indie Bundle's announcement that all HIB5 games, including Super Meat Boy, would be available for download from the Ubuntu Software Center for HIB owners: http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/24981005928/humble-indie-b...
Good point, I'll give you one for this.
‘Make something people want’ vs ‘Do what you love’
Plan to assassinate OWS leaders via sniper fire, uncovered by FBI
SocialSafe, Raises $400K To Out-Archive Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn
OT: why did you post the url with the "m=1" parameter in the end?
How To Get Organized and Set Lasting Goals For 2013
Ask anyone who truly knows me, and they will tell you that I’m the most organized person they know. Throw sticks and stones at me, tell me I smell funny, but if you steal my day planner, there will be hell to pay!
They are most likely just preparing for ARMv8 servers, just like everyone else in the server world. I don't think they intend any competition to Android.
I've read somewhere before that the religious compulsion towards having many children is to keep the meme of religion going through multiple generations. It's certainly highly prevalent through the Catholic Church, especially given that the priesthood is essentially a non-replenishing rank based off the old tradition of following in your fathers footsteps for work.
Anyone who got it in the Humble Bundle got a copy in the Ubuntu Software Center too.
China owns at least one CA.

Cert pinning should prevent some of this, but I suspect a lot of Chinese use web browsers downloaded locally (which could compromise pinning; rather than pinning fake certs, I'd just pull the pinning entirely), or browsers which don't support pinning.

I don't think the GFW routinely MITMs HTTPS, but I would be amazed if they didn't do it on a targeted basis against specific sites and users.

And of course if you're using a phone from a state-controlled carrier or a webcafe from someone who complies with pressure, you can be attacked even easier.
Spelling it out does not disambiguate it, as there is a country named that as well.

GA is oddly enough likely more specific, even if harder to decode, than Georgia. The country is abbreviated GE.
Agreed. Young people and single mothers are both very unlikely to be married and already known to hugely favor Democrats.
As the one running this KickStarter, (and also main VLC dev + VideoLAN president) I have to say that I am happy.

Running a fundraiser through KickStarter for an Free and Open Source software that was always 100% developed by volunteers was a risky bet, and we were unsure... The good thing is that our community accepted that quite well and enough users understood the need and funded it.

If you wonder why we need money for VLC on WinRT, you can read here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4902508

And now, back to work, we got something to deliver :)

PS: before you ask for iOS, you might have a surprise soon.
Connection Pooling and other Tips for CUBRID Node.js Driver users
The article actually advises clients what questions to ask, and this advice is appropriate, because a client that is reading this kind of article in the first place is probably tech savvy enough to be involved in the development process. I've once even worked with a client with more actual technical and programming experience than we had, but they simply outsourced the work to us because they had too many concurrent projects and they also just moved up the food chain. Just dont try to do things by the "one-size-fits-all" mindset. Even having a legal guy to make very personalized and very different contracts for different clients is good if you can have it this way.
>This is not alarming.

It's certainly alarming if you have pay-go pension schemes like Social Security and Medicare. The way things are going either the young will live under a crushing tax burden or people who paid into social welfare programs for fifty years won't see any benefit. That's not a recipe for a stable society.
Apple: The Biggest Stock Market Tragedy of 2012
FYI Here's the FTC advice page listing opt-out information:
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0262-stopping-unsolicit...

As part of the Christmas present for my folks I helped them add their names to the various opt-out lists. The gift of less spam keeps giving.
> > boo :: Map Integer String -> String -> Integer

> This syntax is clean but it doesn't tell me anything that

> def boo(map: Map[Integer, String], key: String) : Integer

> doesn't tell me.

OP's point was not so much that the Haskell syntax is clean, but more that there is a huge difference between

Map Integer String -> String -> Integer

and

Map Integer String -> String -> IO Integer

The latter is allowed to do IO, while the former is not. There are very few languages that allow you to express this difference and have the compiler enforce it (Haskell being one of them). So "Map Integer String -> String -> Integer" tells you a lot more than "def boo(map: Map[Integer, String], key: String) : Integer" does.

For more information about what exactly types tell you, look up parametricity or read Philip Wadler's "Theorems for free".
That's still not quite right. Edmund's full comment was:

"they are just trying to save face. they rejected isaac a while ago because its content "wasnt a good fit for the Ubuntu store" then changed their tune once they found out how popular it was and that it was a part of the HIB."

Ubuntu have had some kind of arrangement with the HIB for a while where they offer as many of the HIB games for download as possible through the Ubuntu Software Center, and HIB purchasers don't have to pay again for them. What presumably changed wasn't the popularity of the game but the fact that it was part of HIB7. I can't imagine Ubuntu expected it to be a massive seller for them, given that the unauthorized SMB apparently sold all of 77 copies.
...its not your connection. its the 10mb pageload.
The standard work is The Bell Curve. They studied many thousands of Americans of every race and subculture. They found that the only significant predictor of earned income was IQ. Race, location, parental income, and so forth did not matter (on average). College attendance in particular had little affect on income, it just determined whether the career was in an intellectual-style field.

The school bussing and integration programs were tried starting in the 1960s. No benefits ever materialized, such as improved test scores, imprisonment rates, cumulative earned income by age 30, or any other standard psychology metric.

Yet the programs were continued. Clearly the purpose in continuing them had nothing to do with "disadvantaged" students, because nothing changed for them. The only explanation remaining is that the real purpose was what was being done to the non-disadvantaged students. Their schools were being filled with yahoos to knock down their potential for achievement.

You could dismiss my claim as raving racism except for one thing: you know that at the same time they also introduced word-shape memorization reading instead of phonetics, New Math, eliminated practice drills, and so forth. They really did want to knock down intellectual achievement. School integration fits very nicely into those plans.
If you are working with C# these functions are available in linq:
map is Select,
filter is Where,
and reduce/inject/fold is Aggregate in Microsoft speak.

I use those methods all the time when I have to do C# code.

I do wonder why these operations lack a standard name.
Still, I think map-reduce sounds a lot better than map-inject or Select-Aggregate or map-fold.
Demonstrate it then.
The hibernate is only for ring 0: user space still gets wiped out.
On logic in a Rails app
Centurion - A SASS & CSS3 Responsive Web Framework That Scales With Your Device
I'm not so sure that it's ridiculously outdated. Sure, it could use a brush-up but it acknowledges the basic fact that your employer often spends time educating you and allows access to ressources in your line of work that form the basis of your inventions - hence the requirement that the invention be related to your work. Fact is that inventions are rarely a stroke of genius that happens instantly in vacuum. They're often refinements and improvements of readily known things. Quite often they're obvious and simple in hindsight.
It's a hard balance to strike, but just giving the option of moving all "inventions" to after-hours so that the employee gets all benefits won't cut it either, especially with modern work-time models such as flex-time or home office. I don't have a perfect solution, but giving the employer first-buy rights seems like a reasonable starting point for a compromise. The law stipulates a reasonable and fair compensation for the work provided.
Google to scan Chrome extensions, bans auto-install
via: http://www.functionn.in/2012/12/centurion-sass-css3-responsi... [Check out www.functionn.in for more web resources].

It's a new responsive framework with the latest bells & whistles, worth taking a look at if you're into SASS and RWD.

Licensed under GPL.
Is this post confusing Java the language/runtime with an Operating System (OS) like Android's?

Is that not like suggesting that C# and .NET compete with Windows in some way?
To back up your point:

Two years before Cody's talk, an unknown entity (assumed by local police to be Mossad), used a third party device to reprogram VingCard hotel door locks in the field as part of the assassination of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai.
Wow that might be a little premature. The US do not have anything close to the problems the European countries are facing.
I always liked this way of working since first touching Mathematica; does it exist for other languages? (I think there already was one for Python before, not browser based?)
Overly broad applications are rare in germany. If you look at an engineering or research context it's easier to nail down: If you're a researcher the employer pays you for your thought and provides the lab, access to related research, to peers to discuss stuff with etc. Now you've been working on a particularly hard problem and the stroke of genius strikes you at midnight, you get up, work straight for two days and write down the formula you've been working on for years. It's worth a billion dollars. Technically it's during off-hours, so is it yours?
To kill junk mail would be to kill the US Postal Service, I think. I'm not sure if it's worth the price.
I believe making everything simple, accessible and easy to understand can enable this. As opposed to knowledge enclosed in arcane tomes in the library only accessible to those in the inner circle.
Great idea!

Currently I use "Get Work Done Music" as a background music service, having something effortless to stream music that would also let me discover local music would be just the right thing for me.

I signed up for your beta, would love to experience it.
I'm game with extracting reasonable rent under reasonable terms.

When we're talking about designed-obsolete college texts selling for hundreds of dollars for century-old wisdom .... Several lines have been crossed.
PhantomJS 1.8 Blue Winter Rose released