skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asymco has a good posting on this, also comparing to prior US growth and Microsoft's comparable performance: http://www.asymco.com/2013/01/11/when-will-apples-china-reve...
I'm a pretty big fan of data...but this is too extremist. There are plenty of things for which data does nothing and more data does more of nothing. Data only improves your decisions if the past can be helpful in predicting the future, and it only improves your knowledge to the extent that truth is immutable and the data is completely unbiased. And this is all before we get into practical problems where data is messy, unstructured, inaccurate, and still requires intelligent brains to interpret and understand in all of its dimensionality.

Sometimes you are just better of with a solid theoretical abstraction, or a good intuition. If you are smart, you will understand that they make great priors that can get better with data. If you take the dogmatic route and only trust data, you will constantly feel like someone else had a head start on you.
Exactly, why is this content available to US users for free (via Youtube) but I have to pay because I'm outside of the US ? I guess it's to do with youtube ad revenues for US impressions but as a customer it makes me feel a bit shafted considering that you will, in no way, make $3.99 from a single US user watching this on youtube.

However, I appreciate that you're doing this course for 'free' and I do think it's a great idea. Just wish I didn't have to pay for the very first video that I want to watch. Why not provide a TPB magnet link ?
I'm not sure i agree with your over-all point, but I have to say Microsoft bundling a browser probably helped move the Internet rather than hinder it.
Should I switch from iOS to Android?
Just recently was the news floating around of an Apple fanboy switching over to an Android Nexus4 device. I do start to get the same feeling maybe time to try out.

I love my iPhone for years, works great, but I start to feel it gets outdated and the missing file structure is something I really would like to have.

On the other side all of my hardware (home/office) is based on Apple (MBP, iPad, iPhone) and overall it works pretty well. Switching to Android would mean losing some software service Messages, iCloud, iPhoto, etc.

There are many other elements to consider as well e.g. malware, hardware stability, but overall Android really came a long way and I see it accelerating more and more.

Anybody switched lately from iOS to Android?
What is your experience?
On January 9th 2012, Fusion Garage confirmed that the company had gone into liquidation owing creditors $40 million.

Seems like a fitting conclusion given everything else that has happened
I think most Asian countries invaded and occupied by the Japanese Military would have to disagree with that. Probably none of us are old enough to recall what it was like during that time, but from historical research and documentaries of accounts of civilians at the time, there's many good reasons Japan's military was crippled severely, just as Germany's military was. Also, it was not like either were left defenseless. The United States was bound to defend Japan by treaty and West Germany became part of NATO.

Crippling their militaries, each country took to dominating economically instead and benefited the world much more than any of their previous military actions did.

Semi related, but anyone interested a good World War II series and has not seen it, I reccomend the BBC's World at War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_at_War). Lots of first hand accounts and interviews of leaders and their staff at the time of WWII.
It's my perception that Java is plagued with more frequent security problems than Flash, and Flash moreso than Javascript.

Is this perception accurate?

If so, what's the reasoning? I would think Javascript would be the most-breached browser-based code execution sandbox for the same reason Windows is the most-breached OS: It's the most popular.
How exactly does that work for people that are red/green colour-blind? Perhaps gray for off might work better?
and javascript ...
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dude, is this really the best place you could think of to ask this question? If you can't figure it out for yourself ask reddit.com/r/android
Quick fix: http://jsfiddle.net/Q4HQg/
I would say the experience is what matters. The user doesn't care what technology the developer used. If you can make gorgeous, fluid and speedy native apps with Mono and C# (which is very much possible) while at the same time making it easier to do cross platform development and deployment then why not.
You can actually enable this scrolling behavior in Windows through a per-mouse registry setting[0].

[0]: http://www.bisql.net/2011/12/natural-scroll-win-7/
How is that any different, or any more clear than existing toggles? At the end of the video, are they all off, or will clicking them turn them off? I can never tell with these toggle buttons if the text is describing a state or an action.

The worst offender was the HDR button in the iOS 5 Camera app. It just had an "HDR On" label at the top, which left me absolutely no way of knowing if that meant HDR was on right now or if touching that would turn HDR on.
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What developpers dont understand is that it hurts the brand. if Java is associated with malwares and exploits , it doesnt matter how you use it , your potiental clients already heard java is bad , Oracle should either drop the plugin or get serious at fixing it.
The "Shawcross Option" might have been for the best for all we know. The shuttle was designed to be expensive, doing things that it never really needed to do. If NASA had ended the shuttle program sooner we might very well have a better space-exploration-only vehicle out on the tarmac right now instead of... what do we have now? Oh, right, nothing.
I would add that the emphasis on non-human exploration seems to be about the best possible PR and science move for NASA, it has been cheap and generated positive buzz in the media as mission after mission has exceeded expectations.
I always wonder why people with this attitude live in cities. If you want peace and quiet, shouldn't you go get a few acres in the country? Living in the city means you're living right next to a bunch of other people. Living in the city and having the expectation of peace and tranquility and total control over your home just seems like expectations out of whack.

Maybe it's just that I get peeved when people get all "landed gentry" and start thinking that somehow because they are privileged to have been able to buy a piece of property that they have a moral right to control the lives of their neighbors.

That said, I support regulations "within reason" and I suppose it all comes down to a quantitative difference in where we draw that line.
Chrome on iPhone has an incognito mode, btw.
Why do people like to comment here instead of the original post?
I know there are more people here. But it seems weird to me.
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Article 9, along with Japan's reduced military spending and lack of a local Military Industrial Complex, or one that was substantially reduced in scope after the Second World War with focus redirected to consumer goods, is a significant reason why Japan was able to recover quickly after the war and to develop into the modern nation it has become.

What's missing from that news article, is the announcement on Friday of the ten naval patrol boats Japan will supply or lend to the Philippines to help protect against Chinese naval and fishing fleet incursions in local waters.
the DOM doesnt allow most of the things an applet can do , furthermore security lies in browser , not a third party plugin. A plugin is a native extension running directly in the user machine , javascript and the DOM api run only in the browser ( in the client context ). Doesnt mean javascript is secure , it means the browser vendors directly are responsible for its security.That's not the case with a plugin.
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>>>even if it stole all the customers of a current one

Many taxi companies are required to serve anyone at any time(24/7/365) for fixed prices, regardless of the cost of the trip. It is unlikely that the new transit service will steal all the unprofitable customers.

Many of the regulations around transportation are very utilitarian. There are people who can not drive and are unserved by public transportation, but will die if they do not have access to transportation. We the people(you too) have decided to contract out their transportation to cab companies. In exchange for this incredibly unprofitable mandate, cab companies get price fixing which is essentially a monopoly on many routes.
I should have made this clear, but I was using my Android phone, and I don't really get much of a choice. Either way, still sucks.

Why cant I read the web without a public profile that includes my real-world first and last names?
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http://www.chrisnorstrom.com/2012/11/invention-multiple-choi... posted on HN a while ago as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4742535 explained a solution to this (or a very similar problem). But a simpler solution is just to use proper shading to make the selected button look depressed, by analogy with physical buttons.
I do this in my app: http://i.imgur.com/lR9eB.png

I think it's a fairly common UI pattern.
Isn't the 30-50% only applicable to doing object recognition? I.e. multi-classification.

In this case, you have to tell it which object you're looking for.
But it did find one potted plant for that image. I could not see it (bottom left hand corner).
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It seems like one should say "that's how scholarly research progresses". To be science as such it seems like one has to do some verification as well as some speculation.
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All of the sites with Applets I go to do this in Chrome on OSX (unless I've explicitly said the site is trusted after the first time I run it) (Can't recall a site off the top of my head, else I'd post a screenshot)
You made a good point. But it makes more sense to divide by the number of tweets (within the given time interval) from the state instead of the user count which would not normalize it.
That's capitalist democracy. You could have a democracy where the government does control (or has significant influence over) industry.
yes, a hot thread here might only generate few comments on the original post.
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3) People greatly overestimate their own ability to remember and subsequently modify their behavior so as to punish the offending advertiser in a way that matters.
We mainly want to filter this keyword to see how the discussion of "gun" is affected by the events following Sandy Hook tragedy. The opinions classification is not done over the same dataset.
It really sucks. In fact, I wholly believe that many people will turn away from Hack Design because there's essentially a paywall right out of the gate. I don't regret my choice to start with this film, though.

Objectified had a profound impact on me as a designer. I first watched it in a slump of disenchantment that my "web design" skills would never amount to anything valuable or earth-shattering. This film gave me perspective. It showed me that, in extreme cases, design can make the world a better place.

There are moments in this film that give me the shakes. It resonates so deeply with what I believe, and what I want to achieve during my career. I can't think of any better way to help put hackers into the mindset that I believe is most conducive to learning the basics of design.

I hope you figure out a way around paying an exorbitant amount of money to watch the film, and hopefully see you next week for Lesson 1.
For one thing, there's no code base called "JavaScript." There's V8, SpiderMonkey, JavaScriptCore, Chakra, and more, and an exploit in one is unlikely to work in others. Flash and Java each have a larger market share than any given JavaScript implementation.

Java is an interesting case in that the same platform needs to support sandboxed browser applets and desktop/server software. Unlike JavaScript, the designers of Java don't have the ability to simply leave the capability of OS access out of the platform entirely. They rely on a sandbox to keep untrusted code from calling unsafe procedures, and it's the sandbox that failed here.
Yeah, that's my point. China can't modernize so quickly because it has a large hinterland that SK and Taiwan don't.
Totally, it looks as if the nation is breathing (i kinda like that for aesthetic reasons). If we bin the counts by day, a lot of the temporal resolution will be lost. What do you suggest?
That also affects sensor resolution, if your processor is counting the clock cycles while photons are flying through the air. Like radar.
Link to the actual journal article for anyone interested: http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/01/07/mnr...

What the heck is this thing?
We will get the necessary data (tweet flow) to normalize the counts. Thanks for your comment.
Great collection! It'd be interesting to see more posts on the techniques behind the demos.
I don't see how anything but the most limited war there wouldn't turn into ww3. It may not go nuclear, but it would be a bigger deal than Vietnam, Korea, or anyof the Gulf/Oil wars.
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Its amazing how much knowledge and skill was needed to do even simple computer graphics in the 90ties.

Even today if you create a game, you will need to work alot more with Math and complicated algorithms than in your typical web/mobile app where its much more about architecture/design, getting data from X to Y and presenting it in a good way instead of the complex algorithms needed in game development.

Its fascinating, but sadly doesnt pay the bills for most people.
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The problem with this solution is that

page breaks tend to occur in awkward places,

which makes you jump back and forth between pages.
With Ouya, GameStick, Steam Box... will 2013 be the year of the 'microconsole'?
I am having problem trying to figure out what is he referring to, anyone have a screenshot of an example?
> Best advice ever.

I am not sure how you can construed that as THE best advice given the nature of the vulnerability being independent of the browser or the o/s in use. It maybe a good advice but not the best. Something closer to best would be disabling or uninstalling Java plugin regardless of what operating system or browser you use.
Thanks for sharing . I liked it ,its brilliant.
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Sure, here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-vcErOPofQ
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I'm still dying for animated screens that look good (i.e. don't hurt my eyes) in ambient light. I don't think that eink is dead if it improves a lot.
I'm certainly not defending their war atrocities by any means. I just think that our military spending is responsible for a majority of our technological improvements, and it's sad japan never had a say really after their crash.
Just to take a decision on copying the idea, creating the team, how many people, degrees of independance, internal politic on who is on charge of tha team....
Only with that it is going to take at least 6 months in a big company. If not a year...
then when they have created the product, all the departments will want to have a part of the pie. So te dance begins again.
And this is not nearly the only conflict in the area, though maybe the most historically loaded one. The US is also bound by treaty to defend Vietnam, on which the PRC has opened fire a few times already...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spratly_Islands#Military_confli...
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I am not sure which part you are referring to, but here i see mostly black text on white background.

but that is the landing page, the email itself is indeed hard to read (all the problems you mentioned).. I waited several seconds after opening the email because I thought the CSS haven't finished rendering.
This is some kind of satire. Right? Right? Forgive me if there's something obvious and visual that indicates the "Hah Hah" just kidding factor and I'm just being redundant. But. Satire...? Please? We also walk dogs?
Actually, that brings up a great business plan! One of you fine upstanding entrepreneurs should totally go execute "We Also Walk Dogs" with modern technology. And now I am only half unserious.
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Which is sometimes funny because in the west it feels like everyone who wants an iphone has one, yet they keep judging status on it.

This reminds me of how everyone on reddit still think they are part of a small and secret elite community.
Tibet was as provincial as the rest of china was before the communists, no doubt. The only reason the Han are hated so now is that the gov is so god-damned paternal about it to the Uighurs and Tibetans, that and a Han manifest destiny.

Hu Jintao was in charge of Tibet during the troubles of 1989, his protege was then in charge of Tibet and took a harder line (confiscating Dalai Lama pictures), and then got promoted to xinjiang where he promptly started a get tough on islam campaign.

Tell me how the national government isn't involved again?
I see black text on white background as well, but since multiple people are mentioning this problem, I'm suspecting that the landing page is being A/B tested as we speak.
True, I agree that many innovations come out of research done by (or for) the military (microwaves, jet engines, computers, etc). It would be interesting to see the outcome of lifting the restrictions sooner and Japan's Economy, but it would have probably stirred up much in the way of negativity and distrust from other countries as well. It could have easily hurt trade, foreign relations and backfired as well.

On the other hand, neither Germany or Japan in WWII had to suffer through the terms and conditions placed on Germany after The Great War (WWI). That was if anything, the worse possible way to help a country recover.
It's probably a browser feature, not a Java feature. Firefox also does this.
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I used LZW to compress my files.

I wrote a compiler/assembler and a kernel (ring 0 only).

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Fuck-it. It's not fun anymore and that's your goal.

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I am an employer, not employee. I hired an artist for $20/hour. I'll get some more work out of him in a couple months when I save some money.

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I think Zavers would see a whole lot success than they hope.

The whole automation thing would reduce the effect of coupons in the first place - they're forgetting the human psychology.

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The thing is, if the idea is obvious, there's no point in hiding it. If it's not obvious, nobody will figure it out even if you explicitly try to explain it to them.
Pretty neat, although I have a nitpick with your choice of a block labeled "None of:" in for example this regex: /foo(.*)[^0-9]+bar/

It ends up saying "none of [0-9]" when that's not actually a good english description of what should go there. It should say something equivalent to "one or more things that are not [0-9]". The empty string fits the description "none of [0-9]" but does not match that part of the regex.
I take it you just search for the word Perl and reply whether or not you actually have anything relevant to say.
I don't think this is what he's talking about. Well, kind of, but from how I understand, he's talking more about the buttons used like they are in iOS's calendar: http://patrickmd.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/iphone_... (the 3 buttons at the bottom center)

Here you have 3 buttons, so it's easy to know which one is selected, but he's talking about when this is used for two different views ("often the choice is not between turning a specific feature on or off, but between two different view, modes or whatever"), and when the styling makes it hard to know which one is "pressed".

Actually, the styling in the linked screenshot is not fantastic in that regard. If it had only two buttons, you would have to assume that the one that doesn't match the surrounding bar is the one that is not selected, but if you remove the bar, or change its color, you're out of luck.
Well duh. With 4x the population of the US why wouldn't Chinese sales overtake the US's?
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Pardon me for the non-sequitur.

I just wrote a fairly lengthy comment about the possible merits of an expanded Japanese military industrial complex (in helping Japan's languishing economy) given the industrial strengths of Japan that suit arms manufacturing well and potential interest in SE and South Asian nations of non-US non-Russian weaponry, but couldn't get myself to post the comment for fear that because my user ID clearly indicates that I am ethnically Japanese, I could be taken as an imperialist nationalist; a strange psychological phenomenon to say the least. I wonder if there is a name for such a double take?
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I'll actually be visiting there early February for an experiment. I believe I'm supposed to do some training first. Do you work there?
So many things one could say... I actually just watched a movie called "Happy" earlier today, watch that (it's on Netflix) and report back. You have a tremendous opportunity to make a positive impact in this world, heck I'm sure you already have in many ways. Cheer up : ) "I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be."