skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those are the specs of a high-end phone in 2012

No, not really. Eg. Galaxy Nexus from 2011 has significantly higher specs than this. Quickly looking, Galaxy S (from 2010, 2.5 years ago) has similar specs.

edit: Nexus One (also from 2010) has almost identical specs. But even in 2010 high-end seemed to have transitioned to 800x480.
AOL shares surge - Yamato Global.
When I started thinking about my forever project, http://automicrofarm.com, it certainly seemed almost impossible. But as I started implementing a subset of it, it got less and less impossible, and now is even feasible enough that we've got a product (vs. a proof-of-concept) prototype (of the subset, not the grand vision).

I think the author is spot-on with the speed-of-light analogy, but missing an insight: you can declare a huge victory if you attain 90% (or 99%, or 50%) of your goal.
Seriously? I don't understand. The PPI is more than adequate ,and 4.3" is the sweet spot in size for me personally. What would you prefer?
Indeed. I did not know it at the time but it's called The Salami Technique'. Works best if you've got an inexperienced or scared Project Manager.
Would be great to be able to variate the audio speed.
You don't know what technology is, do you?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology
I'd understand the headline if it was a pop-up for those using the Steam Client on Windows.
As it is, it looks like they're just using their website to advertise. Not really targeting Windows users specifically.
"start urging Windows users to make the switch" "Proof of that comes from the screenshot you see above."

Really? This is at least slightly exaggerated. First thing I see is a big green button with a download link to the Windows installer. Then a invite to join a Beta program. That's not exactly urging anything. More like letting people now it's available.
For personal projects or for learning the principles of FP, there is nothing wrong with using Haskell.

From personal experience however, I will not be using Haskell again for a larger professional project, because our team ran into too many time consuming issues and problems that have been solved successfully in other languages/environments (especially the JVM) like dependency management or reasoning over runtime characteristics before deploying the application on production systems. Especially memory consumption is very hard to predict.

Of course, the language also has its benefits and even after some years it tickles your brain just the right way.

I like programming in Haskell very much, but in real world projects (you know - when you work in a team not only consisting of PhDs) I prefer Scala or Java, because getting a war file deployed or profiling an application is just so much easier.

YMMV, of course.
Maybe one shouldn't make general comments about a piece one hasn't read in its entirety.

Especially for an 11 small paragraphs piece.
Show HN: A faster, minimal YouTube interface built on Angular.js and Foundation
Hi Pete, I'm the author and defining the market straight away is a way for both customers and/or investors to empathise as early as possible.Of course you can leave that part out if you feel it's superfluous.

I'm glad you feel the footer does a better job of describing the product, that was written after this blog post :-)
Obviously I don't mean both Koreas - North Korea is significantly worse than Haiti. And yes more than one commenter referred to Koreans as being warlike (speeder, etc).

And the piece is cited in the Unification Church alumni website - not the Guardian, so i do not know what you are talking about.

Reread this whole discussion and tell me that is is an accurate portrayal of Korea or the current state of relation s. It is not.

There are a few intelligent comments about East Germany but then a bunch of drivel about North Korea as a buffer for China against an imperialistic Korea.

There is not really one comment to attack here for factual wrongheadedness. Start from a Unification church review and spirals off from there. The discussion is completely off the rails.
Sworn Virgins: Men by Choice in the Balkans
They should have at least had a a announcement mailing list for me to enter....

While i am a Mozilla Fans, i hate to admit it is just not a well run company.
In addition, it's on the "About" page.

I can't remember the last time I opened it.
Code is on GitHub here: https://github.com/mikecrittenden/toogles

If you like it, there's a Chrome extension to redirect YouTube video pages to Toogles here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/toogles/kljfdbkcac...
There's quite a difference between the "normal" voices in OSX, and the high-quality ones. If you have a few spare gigabytes, try out the French, Spanish, and Swedish versions.

For my kids, it's at least a few minutes entertainment to make the computer speak high-quality foreign curse words.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20082143-263/how-to-ins...
Nice choice! Learn You a Haskell for great good is an excellent book, I learned a lot reading it.
Business Intelligence Project Governance
It's a loser's game to bitch about inexperienced bankers or laugh about celebrities.

Winners do whatever necessary to engage their business idea. That may or may not include taking money from anyone in that list.
I'm currently using a very simple bookmarklet scheme, one for upvote and one for downvote. It works very well for collecting data, I'll train it later tonight, I think.

Thank you for the link, it looks very extensive, I'll peruse it later on.
I appreciate you illustrating my point.
Maybe you don't care about mentoring young people

I carefully crafted my reply and for you to mistakenly read that into it made me go back and re-read my reply. I don't see where you get that I say that I "don't care about mentoring young people". Please take the time to point out where/what part I seem to imply that I don't care about mentoring young people. Actually, hell, I'll make it easier for you: point out where I state my opinion about what I prefer at all.

Please - before you misquote, misunderstand, and then slag someone, take the time to re-read what they've written. Maybe it's your reading comprehension that was the problem rather than their post.

And besides, "there are certainly many, many people who care a lot about" (insert anything ever here). There always has been and always will be. Stating the obvious doesn't really help here.
I think the important point is that consumers don't care about Firefox OS today, and likely won't in the future, even if it ever becomes widely available.

Right now, Firefox OS is extremely far back in line. It's behind Android, iOS, various mobile versions of Windows, BlackBerry OS, Symbian, MeeGo, and several others.

If it offered something special, then there's the remote possibility that it could succeed. But it really doesn't. It's quite unremarkable, and the emphasis on using HTML5 and JavaScript for app development will likely repulse many good developers who'd prefer to use a language like C, C++, Java or Objective-C.

It just keeps looking more and more like a dead end, even as they make progress.
Quick! Everybody ask him for 1-3 hours per week of time! Surely he has unlimited time.
It's not particularly efficient but that's not a design goal of the system. The tradeoff is robustness–can't lose or corrupt data as long as the master data set is safe–and flexibility–generate whatever views you like on the data whenever you choose. The design is Twitter's analytics system which was running this sort of thing over a 27TB raw dataset using Hadoop so apparently it scales if you throw more hardware at it.

There's a second layer using Storm (not written up in the book yet, so I don't know the details) that handles all data newer than the most recent batch run and you somehow merge that new data with the old data (also not written up yet). I don't need to have this sort of system implemented immediately so I'm content to sit around and wait for new book chapters rather than try to muddle through.
Capistrano, Puppet, and Chef
The feeling is mutual. :)
The infographics of xkcd
I don't consider tightly coupling Nokia with Microsoft a particularly wise decision.
I'm french and I still don't understand why google should pay them, but meh ...
How is giving him a free dyno (albeit one that spins down when it's idle) "screwing him over"? Be specific.

The cheapest Linode is $19.95/month, and that's just a bare VM. You have to do all the sysadmin stuff yourself. For $15/month more, Heroku takes care of all that for you. If your time is worth anything at all, maintaining your Linode is going to burn up more than $15/month.

Now, granted, for some use cases the Linode makes more sense (I have one of those, too, and have been happy with it and the company overall), but I don't think either company is screwing anybody over. Both are offering good value on their products, but those products are different. Linode gives maximum flexibility, but at the cost of full responsibility. Heroku gives maximum convenience, but at the cost of less flexibility.
Linux gamers are extremely sensitive to any news that isn't negative.
Although I agree with most of the "groups" mentioned, most of the time, beggars can’t be choosers.

It's a shame so many investors talk about which types of people not to take money from but never give names. It's high school all over again.
its not a loophole, they have very low corporation tax compared with anywhere else
This was hilarious and good look. Are you looking for work only in SF?
I might underestimate what it takes to run a server, and what Heroku brings to the table, I'll grant you that.

Taking another of my hats, the CTO of a million-user business hat, I still don't know what TCO wise the cloud/Heroku brings to the table. I know about the fast scale up and scale down benefits, no 12 months contract, OPEX vs. CAPEX etc. but have not found any TCO cost calculation based on real tasks people need to do on rented servers vs. cloud.
Looks like you could use some VC money to keep your blog online :)
Finally. Resque is such a PITA with Gitlab. Hopefully the upgrade script will work properly now. I have to fix quite a few bits and pieces every upgrade. Top piece of software, though.
I'm not saying AT&T was in the clear. Obviously just requiring a reasonably easy to guess number to secure an email address is amateur hour. But, at the same time, just because web security is easy to break into, doesn't give people free reign to go traipsing through and pull out what they can.

Keep in mind - 99% of the population wouldn't have been able to figure out how to spoof the user-agent to get into the AT&T site, and most of those that could, wouldn't have gone beyond extracting a couple IDs, and then notifying AT&T.

Weev's sin (if not felony behavior) was extracting 100,000+ personal email addresses, and the exposing them for the sheer purpose of embarrassing people he despised. Do I believe he engaged in illegal behavior? Yes. Do I believe it merits years in Jail? No.

With regards to legal obligations - In California, the closest I can find is Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 22575-22578 [1]. It is a requirement for site collecting personal information to "conspicuously post its privacy policy on its Web site"

I can't find any laws in California that require the securing of this information beyond that, though.

[1] http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc...
Well duh. Find one CEO of any Fortune 500 company who does not.
We investigated this. Unfortunately HTML5 audio (especially mobile devices) doesn't offer a lot of capability in that regards.
> to accept non existence?

Absolutely, I can't think of anything worse than living forever. Enjoy this brief period of time you have being alive, and accept that it is finite. The only thing you need to worry about with death is that it doesn't come too early, and to try and avoid it being in absolute agony (if you can).
This is How Wrong Kurzweil Is
Well, go on.

Unless you know something everyone else doesn't then what is published about the Schwarz case is on the record and in the books. So you're saying that the prosecutors were correct in the charges they brought?
Colin Percival (cperciva) already has FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE running on these!

http://pastebin.com/SCMUJNDt
Watch out. Each vendor / website has processes you may want to follow. You could also get in touch with http://www.us-cert.gov/. They are helpful in providing advice and guidance.
PixelPin replaces passwords with pictures
Note that this is from 2002.

Among other things, Bret has written an excellent paper on visualization in UIs. http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/
Very cool. Now our eyes can get some rest by letting this app read the top posts.
Can we also get to hear the top 2 or 3 comments from the corresponding discussion page ?
ShowHN: Random, human readable, timestamps
I reinstalled Steam yesterday, and the about page is what you get when you click the "Install Steam" button on the homepage. So everybody visits it at least once.
Hmm weird - I'll look into it now, but thanks.

Probably still a month or two off - just working on fixing up all the bugs & styling issues that we have.
I don't think this is urging users to switch to Linux, but at least the huge penguin is the most obvious thing on the page: it's the biggest, it's visually distinctive, and it's smack in the middle of the page. So they are definitely trying to raise awareness of Steam for Linux to the larger audience.

I just rebuilt my desktop yesterday, and downloaded Steam for it. The above is what you get when you click the "Install Steam" button on their homepage, and it definitely caught my eye.
Elop: It's pretty common for a manager who made a splash at X with A to move to Y and impose A.
Perhaps he was using a wider net to see if there were any other problems which, given the level of (in)competence displayed by the techs working for the college, was a distinct possibility.
Some context: http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/01/21/tags/

(thanks for the +ve response btw).

And no, I have no idea how or whether anyone will use it. Also, it's an experiment in using free Cloudflare plus a very simple, single-threaded, Python server, so we'll see how that works out...
Maybe some forever projects are just huge time sinks with a plainly delusional background.

But how to tell?

I've been working on and off on my forever project for about 4 years now. It's cursed. I pulled the plug repeatedly for different reasons:

First time I started developing it, after a few months, a high-profile/highly-funded Open Source project with exactly the same features announced itself. I didn't want to spend time on something with so famous a competitor, it just didn't seem reasonable to duplicate/waste effort like that. If I'm honest, I was also kind of pissed that I was having such a hard time convincing people my thing was worthwhile, and then those guys come along and suddenly everyone acts like it's the most groundbreaking thing ever!

Second time, I started up again when the famous Open Source project kept drifting aimlessly somewhere between success and failure with no clear vision. I even enrolled in nReduce, mostly to keep me on schedule and make contact with like-minded developers. Then my mother got sick and died last year, that was the end of the project right then and there as I wasn't able to continue at that time. Maybe her death should have driven me even harder to develop this project, but the sad fact is that I just disintegrated unproductively.

Now I have to ask myself if I should ever continue this project. On the one hand it's not that ambitious, so it won't really take forever. On the other hand, there is mounting evidence that I won't be able to pull this off (considering the two attempts before). Wouldn't my time be better spent to start something completely new? Difficult to say because that one project is still on my mind.
Wal-Mart has over two million employees. What would you propose to do about this? Given that it didn't get to that point overnight, one might suspect that it grew because of its success, rather than it being any kind of threat (it is a threat to its competitors, to be sure).
I'm on my way to being a MASTER OF SCIENCE for my computer degree... Doctor Strange better look out...
You are saying the 5 day 8.30-6 expected working availability is not a logical thing in the modern world for skilled jobs where goals are more important than presence?
Ask HN: how does adtrap work?
As an experienced developer I have no idea how adtrap would work. Sure, they could just block ad-domains via DNS - but with 256 MB RAM and a 720 MHz CPU they would really use a LOT of hardware for just rerouting DNS queries. And then there is DNSSEC looming on the horizon. To filter ads from in-request content: how can this work with HTTPS traffic?

Anyone having any ideas? How would you build such a device?
Microsoft Back in Education: Learning Designers
Nice!

Please fix a spelling on your frontpage:
s/excecrise/exercise
Forgot protip: you can also use up/down arrows and spacebar for play/pause.
I don't think the banks got bailed out because of the impact of their employees suddenly being out of work, but because of the huge impact of not having a functioning banking sector would have on the wider economy and society in general.
How many Linux games they have so far: ~62

How many games I have in my steam library: 100+

How many games in my steam library that has already been ported to Linux (as of yesterday): 6

I will make the switch when they have at least 1/3 of my steam library ported over to Linux.
A lot of people didn't know who Aaron was until he died, or at least couldn't put his name to his actions.

Maybe you should explain who Andrew Auernheimer is?

What if someone

This is part of the problem, suggesting that someone else do something.
Love it. You guys are AWESOME!
Collecting Tax On ‘Offshore Assets’ Enough To End World Poverty Three Times Over
Your entitlement to pay and superannuation during maternity leave depends on the terms of your contract of employment. Employers are not obliged to pay women on maternity leave. You may qualify for Maternity Benefit which is a Department of Social Protection payment you have sufficient PRSI

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/employment_r...
It kind of boggles my mind that there are companies that don't treat their employees like kings/queens. For knowledge workers this should be an absolute no brainer.

Keep them as happy as possible and good things will follow. They will be pretty loyal (non-monetary perks build way more loyalty) and very motivated. I really don't get how anything else is a viable long term strategy.
Agreed. It was also eating a lot of memory.

Upgrade (4.0 -> 4.1) ran smoothly. Only thing that was missing in the upgrade guide was installing a new version of the post-receive hook, but since gitlab:check mentioned that and even provided the command to fix this, it wasn't a problem.
The difference there is that Haskell actually does offer some functionality and concepts that aren't really present in most other programming languages.

Ruby, on the other hand, is pretty unremarkable. It doesn't really offer anything beyond what older languages like Perl and Python, for example, offer.
I did read it fully. Then I commented that I found it unconvincing, which in my book is one step below misleading.
It's a clear reflection of the market. Both creative producers and creative-minded consumers will flock to a platform that inspires grass roots design. Android is neither from a production or consumption point of view. And there's nothing wrong with that. RIM survived for a very long time living off of soulless business users interested in nothing more than reading an email.
A really cool idea, I'm going to used this extensively I think.
One thing though: you need to put in audio clues as to when one article ends and another begins. I'm not looking at the player and sometimes the same voice gets selected for two consecutive articles, and I have no idea a new article just began!
I am using Firefox on Ubuntu, and when I disable Noscript for this site, it keeps crashing my browser. Viewing it with scripts disabled.
Other than that, site looks good.
Whose vs Who's: http://grammarist.com/usage/whos-whose/
When did you use Haskell?

The dependency hell situation has vastly improved (and there are plans to make it much better still).

I agree that a downside of Haskell's very high level nature is difficulty to predict some runtime characteristics. This is just an instance of the general trade-off between low-level and high-level languages. Everyone is already comfortable with the loss of easily predictable performance incurred by GC, but people are still not comfortable with the same w.r.t laziness.

I use Haskell for real world projects, and I find it more practical and more suitable than any other language I've ever used. Laziness rarely bites me, and has incredible real-world benefits such as easy refactoring and simpler code.

I think the silliness about PhD's is very very silly. Of the Haskell programmers I know, the majority don't have a first degree...

About profiling -- I have never profiled a Scala/Java application, but how much easier is it compared with: "cabal configure --enable-executable-profiling", and then running the program with "+RTS -p"? It may not be point-and-click, but it really is not hard at all.
This reminds me (I'm in Canada) of the tax that we have on blank media, like CDs. Anyone who purchases the blank media (doesn't matter why they bought it) is made to pay this tax, which is then distributed to whoever is deemed worthy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
longzheng, is there any way to be able to change articles? I'm on ff19, and clicking on a new article just continues the original article. Hovering over the left side of the article shows the "play" symbol, but clicking anywhere there just continues the original article. Not sure if this is a bug or not.
Can be, often is, yup.
try this :

http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/text/http-tut.html
Anyone know whether the public mode is just a list of URLs that you can clone from, or does it allow public users to browse the full gitlab UI? Thanks!
I found the crucial ssd video on that site far more fascinating: http://www.geek.com/articles/games/how-its-made-crucial-ssds...
You're not just taking on money, you're taking on a partner in your venture. Just because they sign a check doesn't mean they can't harm you in some way.

There's a term for someone who will take on a partner no questions asked, as long as they have enough money ....
I think early on I investigated getting comments for posts but couldn't do it reliably or "say it" in a consistent way that made sense. May add it as a future feature.
I haven't seen much functional code in elisp, which is the Lisp I most commonly read.

Some Common Lisp code I saw was also very imperative.

Scheme seems to be a more functional language, but I don't really see why people consider other Lisps any more functional than say, Python.
This is how wrong Kurzweil is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near#Predict...
I personally find the "universe of knowledge" to attain an attraction, not a repellent.