skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't there a patent by apple related to the touch events that makes it unsafe and risky to implement them?

http://blog.jquery.com/2012/04/10/getting-touchy-about-paten...
You mean, why didn't he write a simple compression algorithm which actually shrunk the data?

The short answer is, it was (almost certainly) impossible. You cannot compress random data. The only reason files you compress normally seem to compress is almost every file you come across normally contains some structure and therefore some redundancy.
I'm investing time into Meteor because I think it has a smart model for concurrent user updates.
It's because of fire safety codes. When doors open outwards it is easier to evacuate the building of panicking people
I wish this was available when I took calculus in the previous semester. Looks pretty good, the instructor looks motivated as well.
Terrible.

There's a good idea buried somewhere in this, but they managed to completely miss the mark.

1. It needs an off-switch (globally and per repo). How did this feature get out the door without that switch? Does Zuckerberg manage product at github now?

2. The data is useless. What does it tell me that ednapiranha "contributed" to X during the last month, without any quantification? Nothing.

3. The data is useless. For most people the "popular repositories"-box shows 5 popular projects that they have forked...

4. The data is useless. When I want to see what a user (or myself) has contributed to then I want to see all of it, not the last 1 month.

Github appeals to the self-improvement, tomato-timer, fitbit crowd here. Those people will start blogging in no time about how "commit-streak tracking changed my life", from their barefoot standing desks. For everyone else these vanity-stats are worse than wasted space; they are visual noise that pretends to convey useful information but doesn't.
You would enjoy rural Uganda then (and, I presume, other similar areas). It's a little uncomfortable being watched by 15 kids when called by nature. Some of them have never seen a mzungu go to the toilet, I guess.

The hand-washing bit is a problem, though. You'll notice that no-one eats using their left hand in such areas. :-O
Some extra references:

- Black Perl updated for Perl 5 - http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=237465

- Black Perl Revisited - http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=578707

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl
How do I get started programming games?
Could this be the next thing to solve all our travel planning headaches?
It tries to relieve congestion by reducing the number of cars on the road, not by improving road capacity.
Hey, it's Open Source, right? LICENSE seems to confirm this.
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See the Perl Poetry page on Perlmonks for regular contributions:

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=Perl%20Poetry
Nope. I know about their existence but reasoned that if you need third party libraries for something as simple as sane control, flow then Node probably isn't ready. :) I'm planning to investigate them when I get time because they seem very interesting from a technical standpoint.
If you read the article, it doesn't ignore those facts. Those benefits are the point of corporations, and the "personhood" a side effect.

Sure there are strings attached, but speech goes directly to the rights of the collective. Would you support a law banning corporations from printing newspapers or newsletters? You have to be careful when you start taking away the most basic rights.
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"Insight Boxes" into mobile app performance
Exactly what I thought. If you're designing backbone of your application then being sloppy can be very expensive in the long run. Of course you still need to see the difference between essential elements and those that can be tackled later (usually parts of functionality that have nothing depending on them).

Personally I find it very hard to do software design on initial stages of a project. It is similar to deciding on the laws of chemistry when building a tree, if you chose wisely it will grow naturally, if you make a mistake project completion may become impossible.
> design your bathroom so that you have to round a corner to move bathroom users out of the line of sight

At my workplace the bathrooms are designed liked this. Works absolutely wonderfully, impossible to see into the bathroom, convenient, no touching the same door handle that-guy-with-suspect-hygiene-practices-just-touched etc.

... and then about 6 months ago, they installed doors on these same bathrooms (without changing anything else). Even worse, they're sort of cheap-n-nasty sliding doors, which have a tendency to bind and get stuck closed!

I have no idea what prompted this, it's rather mystifying, that they do it now, given that it's an old building which has lasted like 60 years without the doors...
Of Grammatology is probably one of the most impenetrable books ever written. I'm not sure I'd recommend any of these as starting points.
Really good for showing customers/bosses/coworkers why a site need those extra hours of love after the proof-of-concept stage.
I guess you could check them into a new repo and delete the old one to lose the watchers... Or even create an archive account.
I have a template project in Basecamp that contains a similar kind of list of tasks that I use to launch all projects.

Just have to create a new project with the template for each launch and then work your way down.
You might have a look at Consize, a concatenative language I implemented in Clojure in 140 LOC. Consize is very much inspired by Factor, however Consize is a functional language like Joy or Cat is.

http://code.google.com/p/consize/

It is extensively documented in German — I plan to add some documentation in English as well. But you might enjoy reading the source code anyhow ;-) After reading consize.clj, I recommend to continue with prelude-plain.txt.

BTW: Adding object-orientation (i.e. polymorphism via generic words & multiple inheritance much like Clojure does) is possible in about 30 LOC.

Dominikus
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The european building codes (Euro Code) recommend public areas have doors opening outwards. This is not a (european) binding law, it's a recommendation.

National building codes can make this law.

In Belgium, your building-permit contains a clause you need approval from the city fire-department. They send a fireman that has to check the safety of your building. If it's a public building, your main exit doors must be opening outwards, for evacuation purposes. But they don't care about the toilet door ...

Interesting fact in the same context: in the case of an emergency, your elevator would not be available and you should use the staircase. It is required by the same set of laws that if you follow the staircase all the way down, you have to end up at the ground floor, not in the basement. This is accomplished most of the time by adding another corner or a door to get to the basement level. Additionally, this door MUST open towards the staircase, so confused, scared people don't accidentally go through this door and end up in the basement.

(The fireman check emergency-sings & lightning, exit-routes, if there are fire extinguisher available in accessible places, ... If they find any violations, you get a grace period to fix things. Your building permit is actually revoked if you don't resolve the issues. I'm not sure what the consequences are actually ?)
A no-www domain might not be the best solution if you ever want a 'Cookie-free Domain' (static.) for images etc. which speeds up your site. If you start with a no-www domain you have to setup a different domain (no subdomain) for it: like sstatic.net for SO, ytimg.com for YT and yimg.com for Yahoo.

When the browser makes a request for a static image and sends cookies together with the request, the server doesn't have any use for those cookies. So they only create network traffic for no good reason. You should make sure static components are requested with cookie-free requests. Create a subdomain and host all your static components there.

If your domain is www.example.org, you can host your static components on static.example.org. However, if you've already set cookies on the top-level domain example.org as opposed to www.example.org, then all the requests to static.example.org will include those cookies. In this case, you can buy a whole new domain, host your static components there, and keep this domain cookie-free.

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#cookie_fre...
Here's a shorter version of love.rb:

class Augusta; end

def a_letter(*args, &blk)
puts 'Augusta, we <3 you!'
end
Does it work on OS X?
Mentor’s Thoughts Week 39: Branding Yourself
I've used Aurora for some time, extensions often get borked or don't work, so I went back to Beta.

btw one tip for people who switch to beta/aurora - disable extensions compatibility check.
It is not random, input file is constant. Surely you can write an algorithm to compress a specific file.
A demo with a full game unlock is a solid move, but don't be stingy with the games features in the demo. You want to show it off after all! A complete game with optional small purchases sounds risky to me if you don't already have an audience, or a team to create the side purchases. Besides you can 'fall-back' to this method if it's not initially successful.
"Yep. But then the question is how will they shut it down?"

They don't need to stop the internet underground using it to have a severe impact. Simply declare that any business accepting payment in bitcoins is liable to prosecution and punitive damages. This makes it very unlikely that any IRL store will accept it, and puts a severe limit on the economy as a result.

In some ways I'm surprised that they haven't already gone after people running BTC gambling sites.
Facebook and Twitter have become part of the fabric of the web because if their open APIs, which have greatly helped their widespread adoption. There are many non-write use cases, for example auth. Seen "Sign-in via Google+" implemented anywhere?
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Security checklist:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Application_S...

Lowest level 1a has 22 things to verify, highest level 4 has 121 things to verify. That's a lot of checkboxes.
Rolling Stone has a huge anti-bank bias. The material they present is usually misleading, out of context and often plain wrong or mis-informed. This is absolutely not a credible source on the financial crisis. Indeed Matt Taibbi
is basically just a troll.
Does anyone know the state of a Modern UI (what used to be called Metro) version of Firefox. I've recently switched to Windows 8 and love it apart from the lack of a native Firefox, obviously I can run the desktop version but I'd rather use the new UI where possible.

The last release/mention I found was a preview [1] in October last year and then nothing but tumbleweed ...

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2012/10/04/firefox-m...
But the sum of your decompression program and compressed file would then be larger than the original data file.
A little more flippant but I wrote this version of Goldilocks in JavaScript a little while back: https://gist.github.com/3755270
Approaches to minimizing user-related faults in IS security
I looked it up, here is the link https://aseba.wikidot.com/en:thymiophilosophy

This robot seems to be the right price as well €100 with shipping. At this price and with the amount of sensors, lights and switches built in they must be building them at cost. I'm trying to do something similar with sparkfun and dfrobot and its just killing me that 2 sensors alone cost a plumb.

This is awesome!
Why would he do it if he can just ebay/cgl it for $200?
Actions in an MLS Active Database System
When the rule is triggered and its condition evaluates to true, the action of the rule must be executed. Possible actions in an MLS active database include,

Data modification/retrieval operation – the action of the rule causes a data operation (insert, update, delete, access).
Transaction operation – the action of the rule causes a transaction operation (e.g. abort).
Application-defined operation – the action causes some procedure in an application to be executed.
External operation – the action causes some external operations (e.g. informing the user).
Previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4616704
System Monitoring for Developers
Perhaps I should have said that it was a constraint that is not necessary on an actual Mars mission.
I never considered this before. A great tip, thanks
Lenovo’s 27″ tablet. Apparently a "smart" idea.
You could just as easily soend that time refactoring for code clarity.
In Finland it's usually red/white. I'm sure I'm speaking on behalf of all the red-green colorblind people when I say I'm very pleased by this.
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and you got divorce papers from your wife written in Objective-C ? (Or maybe Go?)
Mike's contest didn't limit the total size of the (input, random) data file, so you could make it arbitrarily large to make the cost of the decompression program arbitrarily small.
Mike Goldman does not need to ever issue a challenge again.

It is WIDELY agreed upon by people who engage in this activity regularly (known as "prop betting") that the spirit of the law does not matter one bit.

He was way out of his element here and Patrick was well within his rights to do what he did.
I'm not sure I like this.

It's generally considered that there's no effective way to measure productivity[0]. Whenever you introduce metrics, programmers end up gaming it: pay them by lines of code, they write too many lines of code; pay them by commit, and they're going to start committing too much.

These graphs are going to just cause programmers to both commit in too small chunks (or splitting up a commit into several), or delaying some overnight so that they have a longer streak. I know that the data was there already, but now it's made visible, people are going to start commenting on how much I'm coding.

[0]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/324399/what-is-a-fair-pro...
I inherited my Rolodex from the writer I replaced. Then you just add to it over time. Meet new PR guy for WhizCo at an unrelated story? Another card for the Rolodex. The savvy PR people will reach out to you without prompt, as well, which can be a good sign for a working relationship. Press releases are a 50/50 shot for a good number; depends on the source.

Other commenter's right, too, there is a lot of institutional knowledge at journalism shops. A casual newsroom "who do we know at Acme?" or "who likes us at the Department of Labor?" almost never goes unanswered.

A wise reporter once told me half of reporting is who will answer the phone, the other is deadlines.

Tech people have this stuff, too, particularly in the backbone transit game. White courtesy phone, that sort of thing; BGP flaps don't go through technical support. Those numbers are guarded closely, though, because they usually ring 3-4 feet from a NOC on-duty engineer.
Why even bother with file concatenation? Just use 3M chars long filename for an empty file to "compress" 3Mb of data.
I'd like to know more about the OS and price.

At the moment it's just "There will be a small PC you can plug into your TV and play games on" and I can do that for myself. What advantage will this box have over that?
Does this apply in the EU?
Same as the need for gurus and rockstars in modern times...

Provide silly monikers to the trendy web-coding crowd?
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I don't know, the form factor is interesting. Even aside from the modularity, the size is very small, and not sure how you could really do that for yourself. Look at the size of the ethernet port on the back compared to the whole unit.

Edit: And yeah, you can build your own PC that could work for your living room just as well, but that's looking at a very small piece of the market who are comfortable with doing that. You are going to need more products like these to get Steam into more living rooms.
I personally just don't want to invest my time in it. Either way, if I'm going to push something, its going to be over HTTP and not platform tied.
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I think that's probably a waste of time. We've only had one visitor on windows 8 and after doing a reverse lookup on the IP, it turned out to be coming from us and was a member of our QA team.
> [...] the contestant will send me a decompressor and a compressed file, which will together total in size less than the original data file, and which will be able to restore the compressed file to the original state.
The Grime Behind the Crime
If the data file is truly random, then there is no decompression program + compressed file that would be smaller than the original random file. That's the entire point.
From what I've heard Microsoft's PointerEvents offer a better complete model, without creating a web-standard which involves risks of getting sued by Apple should you ever dare to implement it.

For once, it seems Microsoft has a better option.

And no, just because it's in WebKit doesn't make it better, much less an official standard. WebKit is the new IE and it's destructive for the web. People design for "Webkit" as if it was the standard, and expect everyone else "to eventually come along". We did see how well that plays out not that many years ago, but then we did it for MSIE.

As a 5 minute user of Firefox mobile, I can attest to this happening right now. The mobile web is at this point not even usuable on a non-webkit browser.

This is bad for the web. You are doing it. Please stop doing it.

The only thing good for the web is following web-standards. If you're not complying to them, you are doing something wrong, and I don't care what your reason is: You are doing something wrong.
There is a critical difference between most corporations and people, which makes them far more dangerous - for a corporation the "only" goal is profit. In colloquial terms, corporations are "psychopaths".

Corporations being psychopathic can be very useful for a number of applications (such as efficient resource allocation and rapid economic growth), especially given a regulatory system that ensures that the pursuit of profit provides utility to the commons. It's so useful, that we even require corporations by law to single-mindedly pursue profit - if they didn't, and e.g. your social security benefits were invested in those corporations, there would be no recourse if they spent their money negligently.

Unfortunately, when corporations amass enough power to control the regulatory system you have major issues, as there is nothing to control their "psycopathic" tendencies. This is a crucial reason why "corporate personhood" and other forms of corporate power should have limits - in order to keep our checks and balances functioning. If we fail to do this, profit maximizing entities will gain more and more control over the resources available to human beings.

So, while many aspects of corporate personhood are wonderful and convenient, we need to be very careful what powers corporations are granted.

[yes, I gloss over some details to keep this short: fiduciary duty conditions, clinical definition of psychopathy,..; but these don't critically affect the main thesis as far as I am aware]
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Android totally breaks the relative graph for all others.
The main problem seems to be that litigation in court is lucrative in the American system. It's not just righting something wrong, to cover ones damages, it's about making money you couldn't make otherwise. And that's when suing becomes a business model.

It's amazing to me how the USA is still so innovative despite that legal insecurity.
Brilliant, all that's left is to install the device on the door before entering the bathroom, then remove it when leaving. Just make sure you bring a drill and some screws when going to the bathroom.
Drug dealers aren't bartering for Tide to use themselves, they're selling the stolen bottles back to stores. So it's not that.
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Solving the Hanoi Tower Problem Statistically
The pigeonhole principle only applies to a specific compression algorithm.

If you get to custom write the algorithm for the data you can arrange things so that for this datafile it will be smaller, yet larger for any other file, and still meet the principle.

i.e. this is not actually impossible. If you can find ANY redundancy in the data, and you can code a very small decompresser specifically for that, you can probably win.

And due to the nature of randomness, there are always numeric streaks, and other patterns in the data. The larger the datafile the better the chance of finding some sort of pattern or streak.

The decompresser does not have to be large either - it would be perfectly legal to use a perl script for example. (i.e. so you don't have to use space writing IO handling code).

Edit: I suspect I may be wrong here.
Poetic justice. I love this quotation from Mike:

"I think that I did not make a mistake except to believe that you truly intended to attempt to compress the data I was sending you."

Mike is happily preying upon people by taking their money to enter what he believes is an impossible contest, but the moment he is outsmarted he appeals to morals and calls into question whether Patrick was acting honestly.

I'm guessing there is some backstory on this newsgroup involving people who would claim to invent compression algorithms that do the impossible. I'm imagining that one day Mike thought "time to get these people to put their money where their mouth is."

Still, it's pretty low to pose the challenge without saying "I'm taking this bet because it's highly unlikely that you can actually succeed. This is explained in the FAQ. Are you sure you want to give me $100?"
Then how would you find redundancy in arbitrarily large random data?
What I have always wondered is why USA toilet stalls are so lacking in privacy with massive gaps round the doors where you can see the occupants.

In the UK you usually can't be observed without someone sticking their head over/under the partition.
Yes, it's pretty great, although it's not fast enough in my experience, WebStorm will be my choice if I don't make my own. But the project (called LIVEditor) I'm working on is different - imagine a smart code editor is seamlessly integrated into Chrome browser (with the html inspector enabled) :)
Would it kill them to put a f-ing link to Xi3 in that article?
Black perl is a real art, without hidden setup&definitions.

Perlay?
I've looked at the other sites mentioned here and yours is the best. Please keep going. I'll tell my friends about it.

Good job!
Makes me wonder if a "decompressor" adding generating hundreds of decompressed files by brute force (of which the original file is one) would be a valid solution. You could store a certain section of the original as the "compressed file"
Yes, ST 2 is great! And I've seen several ideas I got (inspired when using other IDE) are implemented in it. However, while it's not designed specified for html/css/js.
Latest rumor I read was that it was going to ship with Linux (if you google steam box linux you'll find some sources). Price, I haven't heard anything about.

As for advantages, it's probably the same as any other console, which means it comes with the same disadvantages. There will probably be steam box approved games on steam, which you will be sure will work in it, and you may also see some developers targeting it specifically.

But yes, if you know what you're doing, there probably wont be any advantage on choosing this over your own custom built PC. I don't see many developers restricting their games to steam box.
If AIG was in a situation where their creditors might have been willing to structure a deal, then it is on AIG that they did not pursue that option.