skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Linux installation got easier, but from a Desktop user's point of view features did not change much since '98 as far as I remember. Sure there is now (serious) support for all the new fancy Hardware like Webcam or SMP Processors. (I'm having doubts whether it's correct to say that Audio improved^^) But OpenGL was always there. Actually SDL was very popular during that time (SDL = OpenGL + X ~ Direct X) Interesting, I just read that it was actually Loki who developed it in '99 -- all their games were SDL based.

Otherwise you're right, setting up Linux Gaming computers with working OpenGL Hardware Acceleration was painful, especially for us poor people who could not afford the most expensive OpenGL Hardware. ;) On the other hand I think audio was easier to setup :P
The R Inferno:
http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf

Abstract: If you are using R and you think you're in hell, this is a map for you.
Interesting, but ow my eyes, everything is so big.I'm on 1920x1080 and even so, I have trouble getting a global 'view' to properly navigate around.
I like the fact that the tooltips are theme-able.
This is fantastic. As a college instructor, I have flexible schedule options, but I can't afford to pay too much. I also hate trying to pen-test the normal airline reservation system for the cheapest flight days/times/etc.
Since we are already talking about legislation, how good/bad of a climate does New Zealand's law present for entrepreneurs? Asking because I have been fascinated with the country ever since (and also with it being almost the opposite part of earth when you're from Germany it's the farthest you can possibly get away from home for a change ;-).

So, any Kiwis around to give some insights?
Looks more like they're picking up where they have left, rather than shorting progress in place of recent advancements of which there aren't any.
Egghead IO: 26 AngularJS Tutorial Videos
You are the worst kind of apologist for San Francisco's colossal dysfunction.
My blog is about Prague, the capital of Czech Republic. It started as a hobby a few years back and now it's morphing into something more than that. Here's the link for you http://cometoprague.com/blog
Something similar happens every time a patent is granted: One patent examiner makes industrial policy that is very difficult to overturn.
Userprofile in JSON: What Delta (Airline) knows about you
BitTorrent Launches Private and Secure Dropbox Alternative
Me too, and HaxSync does a very good job at synchronising my Facebook contacts, calendar, etc.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mots.haxsy...
Zami - WHO'S NEXT
Nethack!
Your statement is wrong is so many levels that's quite easy to tear it apart. Let's start by the meaning of the word progress. The second definition of the Ofxford Dictionary states: advance or development toward better, more complete, or more modern condition. According to that, in order to have progress made you've got to start somewhere. Another word for that would be engineering.

Anyway, I'd say researching a F1 engine is a great start point to progress towards the development of a newer rocket engine. Kudos to these guys!
I hope pbs eventually covers the zero prosecution for HSBC bank money laundering.

Only penalty was a month's worth of profit. Not one person will serve a day in prison.

But hey, don't unlock your phone, it's a felony. Or download and free journal articles.
Why bother selling it for less if people buy it for more, too? Apple's customers don't really compare prices and features between different options. They won't even consider an Android tablet and why would they? They probably own three generations of iPhones and two generations of iPads already. They'll happily pay Apple's price.
Purely anecdotal. I'm just highly suspicious of individuals who feel the need to slut-shame anonymous people on the Internet rather than actually make things.
like a startup(!)
Nothing will change until it's much too late because the financial industry and monied interests has completely captured the federal government and main stream press.
Actually, if you have had a labor certification application filed for at least a year (and still active), then you can renew an H1b indefinitely. Similarly, if you have an approved I140 and you are awaiting adjustment in status, you can renew your h1b on an annual basis indefinitely.
I would have said that I can't imagine the day when searching my Ubuntu machine would return Amazon.com results, but that day has come, too. So yes, for now, it's a Java-on-Windows problem exclusively.
Unfortunately no Steam uses its own package format, so it must run the installer the first time to get steam to unpack it. Steam provides DRM but it is up to the author of the game to use it, their own, or none as they see fit. And no Steam doesn't provide any clues as to what DRM is used by a game.
Hacking on both sides of the law
Tablet Computers To Outsell Laptops This Year
Stop using proper grammar, its making your passwords weak
Star Trek style 'tractor beam' created by scientists
You do realize that most of the things on your list can be found in much more abundance in space, right? So getting us there is the first step.
It's worth noting that carrier subsidy system in the USA seem to be much sillier than you get elsewhere. It's a fair hypothesis that this is part of the reason Apple does better there. (Though of course, historically they were always much bigger in the US on desktop as well)
Another important part of the New Town of Edinburgh (i.e. the 150-250 year old bit) are shared gardens, which are effectively private parks where locals pay a small amount per year. For example, here is the website for the gardens we use:

http://www.belgravecrescentgardens.co.uk/
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Streamline LaTeX collaboration using Dropbox with SpanDeX « LaTeX Matters
Please add a [pdf] tag in the title!
Can it handle say 1 million rows, by lazily creating the DOM elements when the scroll into view (like, say, SlickGrid)
It's a good thing there aren't a lot of patents in the space industry, or aren't enforced as heavily as they could be.
The complexity required to write and read this article is the reason Java failed as a desktop framework.
As a side note, the main engine generated around 1,500,000lb of thrust!
So, let's say you're interested in playing with R, where's the best place to start? I've got basic statistics background and some datasets I could play with.
Ah, Oracle - it was only a matter of time before Oracle was seen as so untrustworthy that people now won't even install Java. Oracle are still strong, but reputation does matter. You kill off your reputation, you weaken your company.

There are a lot of companies who would love to take out Oracle.
I remember that the wife of a former collegue of mine managed to get a job as a school teacher while he was still under h1b. I can't remember what kind of authorization she received, though; maybe she was granted her own h1b? Have you spoken to an attorney about this?
Change How Software Developers Are Hired?
This would suggest that "R is not" http://lang-index.sourceforge.net/#grid
Programming class featuring the Commodore PET. 1983.
One project has the power to change an entire class
Agreed. Ideally, a new language/api will emerge that learns from the successes and failures of R. Something that is designed to be used as it is used presently, that incorporates Hadley Wickham's ideas, that has a less quirky OOP system, and that is more readable.

Perhaps currying/function compositions could be encouraged to avoid(hard, to(read(nested, functions))). However, being unexperienced with currying/function compositions, I have no idea if that would complicate the language...
Well I wouldn't to see in Nokia's devices anymore anytime. Also these have all been just experiments. Even Apple has implemented part of WebGl in the iOS browser I think. But if Chrome beta has it, then the next stable version should have it, too.
Are you fucked up? Websites arent copyright protected.

And As far as I can see his websites diffrent from thiers and he seems a pretty legit guy - he seems to have more clout than thesearethings.com - for god sakes he gave a TED Talk.

Either you are trying to get attention to thesearethings and get some sales or you were offended by evan and are trying to get back.

Not HN worthy.

Flagged.
just did put in pdf to the title
LibreOffice 4.0: An Existential Release
"If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done." - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Regrettable Science Resumes
>This documentary didn't reveal anything that wasn't already known.

I really, really hate this sentiment. "Oh look, it's yesterday's news!". It doesn't matter. It should be repeated every day on every station until something is done about this. How can we claim our "society" is anything more than an illusion when people can be arrested for tampering with devices they purchase, but people who steal billions get a small fine for it.

The only thing Madoff did wrong was he didn't steal enough.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: science funding can “guarantee your economic future”
That is largely what Frontline does. They sometimes break original stories, but a lot of what they do is building on other people's reporting and compiling the information in a clear and organized fashion. Then they add interviews for depth and insight. They don't try to be breaking news. They try to be comprehensive.

I'm a big fan. They aren't perfect (who is), but they take reporting and informing very seriously, and they dive deep. I've always gotten a lot whenever I've actually sat down to watch. I really need to watch more.
It all reminds me a lot of the Nazi regime. We might not have a single person like Hitler to put the blame on, but everyone knowingly perpetuated the bad behavior.
however you managed to skip past the auto-scribd-autodetection, congratulations! scribd is a mistake.
I like R, it's more fun to write in than, say, Matlab. But it is unbelievably slow and has very little support for web-based projects. I'm reading "Python for Data Analysis" right now, and I'm pretty sure the book is converting me. Pandas' DataFrame includes R's data.frame's functionality as a strict subset, and that's enough for me to switch. I still might need to use rpy2 for awhile for certain packages though.
He admitted he was nasty in his blog, but he was proud of it. Enough said.
Agreed. If I get stuck on something and nothing I try makes it work properly I'll go shower or take a bath. 90% of the time just relaxing and getting away from it will be enough to make something click.
We use a software (ChannelAdvisor) that lets us list on other marketplaces fairly easily. Nothing else comes close to Amazon for volume.
No, because even if we got more of those (and fossil fuels, the most crucial component of our "prosperous" Western societies aren't available from the skies) we wouldn't solve the most conspicuous problem: growth. Billions will die in this century, world pop will plummet to ~ 0.5 billion and the Internet, cars and all such trivialities will vanish.

The first step? Stopping the senseless notion we will ever get off this rock and implement a "reduce, reuse, recycle and do without" paradigm akin to world war 2 rationing, will be the first step.
If I was a blackhat malware developer, I would be drooling at the scale of Oracle's incorporation of third party affiliate software into a typical Java install. It massively expands the threat surface available for attackers.

Rather than targeting the JRE itself, I would be looking for vulnerabilities in the shovelware -- which is subject to less scrutiny by developers than the language runtime itself, and which is only installed by users whose security practices are less than perfect.
The sensationalism isn't helping. It's perfectly legal to download free articles.
I thought the big gains for NYC were 1970s to end-of-Koch, not 1993 to 2012.

I still am confused how NYC became "escape from NY" in the 1970s and early 1980s.
If we're getting right down to the dirty politics of maintaining monopolies then I think something that would give you more pause was that Microsoft did work to get someone dismissed for not choosing MSFT products (they eventually resigned after, amongst other things, newspaper stories suggested that an IT director going to open source conferences was a misuse of public funds):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_J._Quinn
I think R is just as terrible as Matlab. Personally I prefer Mathematica, but I even stopped using that, it's just so painful to use with everything being lists.
No one seems to be bothered by the call for dictators. I'm shaking my head.

Perhaps it's a problem with city governments trying to do everything under the moon. Cities that keep to the basics are usually well run and effective.
It's a bit of a straw man there. The NYC street grid system was meant "to unite regularity and order with the public convenience and benefit and in particular to promote the health of the City ... [by allowing] a free and abundant circulation of air". ("Foul air" was thought to cause disease.)

Salt Lake City grid system was also not designed for tourists. It was designed for travelers, yes, and I believe it was part of the vision that SLC would be looked at as a model city, with a strong Cartesian/classical influence. According to Wikipedia, "In these western cities the streets were numbered even more carefully than in the east to suggest future prosperity and metropolitan status."

Also, a grid system made it easier to subdivide the land which was newly part of the US.

So to say that the grid system is influenced by tourists is a bit of an exaggeration.
Having created and sold several Windows desktop apps over the last 10 years...the worst thing about them is getting updates out to users. I regularly get bug reports sent from my apps, mostly from eastern European countries, that are several YEARS worth of updates behind. I assume they are cracked versions, so I usually pay no attention.
http://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-r

Codeschool recently launched a free tutorial class for R thats interactive. They do a great job with intro level learning.
Apple’s 2013 Supplier Responsibility: Bumps In Audits For 2012, Training
Describing this as "for bitcoiners" is misleading.

The suspicious activity that this user's account was suspended for was a payment (in USD) from one individual to another, that Dwolla suspected was an "unlicensed BTC exchange" (not necessarily on a commercial scale.)

Using a network like bitcoin-otc is a solution only if the USD side is paid in cash.
This won't last for long. The influx of "tech transients" will force changes on the landscape and the machinery.

http://www.missionmission.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/fuc...

http://www.missionmission.org/2012/08/22/fuck-off-yuppies-sa...

So I'd say, count your days. They're numbered. Your anti-gentrification rage is pointless.
Show HN: dragToIncDec - change input value by dragging label
Oh ok. Well, that's what I would expect but when I left the US for good one-way tickets were about double two-way.
A great place to start learning the basics of R - coursera has a couple of classes using R - Computing for data analysis https://www.coursera.org/course/compdata
and Data analysis https://www.coursera.org/course/dataanalysis

go to the R website - http://cran.r-project.org/
As someone on Twitter said: "Justice Dept said they'd never speak to @FrontlinePBS again after this Wall Street doc. So naturally it's a must-watch" via https://twitter.com/trevortimm/status/294337455321133056

I found the programme to be very interesting and raise important points but as always, it IS very hard to prove criminal actions in cases like these and while some might be greedy they might not actually be criminal.

That said; it seems that some knew about these unsavory dealings and hopefully they will face justice.
But are there any examples of one of these issues getting to Parliament and successfully voted on? (as in voted in support of the motion)
I guess a big difference is that your data isn't stored at a 3rd party somewhere. That's one of the things that are good about Dropbox - if you delete your stuff, you can go back and fetch it.
I hope this happens (the brain redesigning part, not the blow up ourselves part).
I was innocently reading this article, hearing my own internal voice in my head, when all of a sudden Serj Tankian screamed "mandatory minimum sentences" at me...
That's an approach some women use successfully (including many of the techie women I know), but in aggregate it seems that either most women aren't trying it, or it doesn't work for them. One entirely speculative guess is that men and women might, on average, have different enough interaction patterns in asking/answer questions that an environment dominated by one gender feels like it, even if the participants' genders aren't disclosed. That doesn't even require any kind of hard biological differences; could be entirely a cultural effect. Thinking about my own online participation, lots of subtle cues go into whether a particular venue, even an anonymous one, feels like my kind of place.
just did, didn't realize the confusion it was causing
The best whistle blowing before the bubble popped had to be Peter Schiff telling a huge crowd of mortgage bankers they were about to lose their jobs in Nov 2006:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj8rMwdQf6k
It's also from 2010 (according to the copyright statement in the PDF).
I started out with a Dragon 32 at around age 14, typing in programs from computer magazines. When I went to university (in 1989), I studied Aeronautical Engineering, which had no computer science or programming at all. I chose a final year project to write a propeller performance tool in Pascal. When I look back at it, I realise what an awful program it was. I was just learning as I went along.

After the engineering degree, I did a "conversion" Masters degree in computer science, though it was rather theoretical and placed great emphasis on formal methods, the management of software projects and being able to write essays comparing OO with non-OO programming. Most of the practical IT/CS skills I got from that time were through my part-time job on the university's computer services help desk.

My current skill set is almost entirely unrelated to my CS degree - I taught myself Python, learned C and my way around Linux through pair-programming with a colleague.

I'm still teaching myself - functional programming in Haskell, using web frameworks to do some nice webapps, and dipping into new languages and technologies that get mentioned on HN and other places.

So I guess that I'm a programmer in spite of my CS degree rather than because of it. I love what I do, so much that it rarely feels like a real job. I'm very lucky.
It's all about Microsoft's rule that you can't put anything on the "Metro" launch screen unless it's installed from the Microsoft App Store.

Which means Steam and all its titles would have to be launched by explicitly navigating to the classic desktop. Which is beyond Apple's simply providing a parallel way to get software onto OSX.

If Apple didn't allow icons in the Dock, unless the app came from the Mac App Store, I'm sure you'd see a similar reaction from third-party platform creators like Valve.
Check this out
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-comput...
Could you elaborate your dislike for mathematica and matlab?
In my university departement a lot of people are using matlab while I somehow prefer C/C++ as I still cannot get my head around it.
Our system is strictly based on confidence at this point. Fiat currency, fractional reserve banking, massive leverage, and more systemic debt than the world has ever seen all rely on the fact that big banks are essentially untouchable. We'll never see prosecutions of big banks or their principles. It would break the entire system.
I removed the Facebook app from my iPhone when I heard about the Facebook email scandal in the iOS 6 beta. I realized that they will just keep doing this sort of thing so having their app on my phone was basically like having a latent iPhone virus.
The article mentions to install the 32-bit offline installer but what if you are 64? I know 32-bit will work but are there disadvantages to using it over 64-bit? Or can you just download the 64-bit and uncheck the shovelware?
Most low cost carriers aren't willing to pay to be listed in Global Distribution Systems. Kayak is linked to Amadeus and Matrix to ITA, so unless extra development is done, they will only list flights from GDS-listed companies
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Best summation of this issue I've read so far. Hear, hear.
With launch screen, you mean the new Start screen? All Start menu shortcuts automatically appear there (except if they appear to be uninstallers and such, but those are still searchable and can be added manually). So if you tell Steam to create Start menu shortcuts for a game, they automatically appear on the Start screen.
I'm pretty sure we should just ignore my code for the purposes of this discussion - my math(s) may be fuzzy, but my code has never been a strong point.

I was mobile when I wrote the original question - perhaps a better way of phrasing it would have been something like:

Don't many (most? all?) of these theoretical approaches assume that the sequence of results for each page (call them a_i and b_i for i=1,2,3... where each x_n is 0 [no conversion] or 1 [conversion]) are sequences of iid random variables with underlying conversion probabilities p_a and p_b? In reality, these sequences are much more complex and, if the scale of the variation in conversion probability within the sequence is greater than the difference between p_a and p_b won't the test be much weaker than we originally thought?

To use an example that is simplified vs. reality but hopefully indicates what I mean, imagine that we have two traffic sources - one with a conversion probability twice that of the other (on each page variant - so p_1_a = 2p_2_a and p_1_b = 2p_2_b). We randomly send traffic from both sources (1 and 2) to each variant (a and b). Do the standard tests work even though our sequence of conversions are not iid?
How about investing all this time in trying to develop alternative propulsion system? This will not be categorize as a progress from the traditional rocket propulsion ?
True, but remember that you can't apt-get the JVM anymore since Oracle changed the license for the newer versions, so I could very well imagine this happening to me on my Linux box unless my company switches over to OpenJDK.
Oh come on. The US would never nuke someone over something like this. If they did then every nation on earth would have to consider the US the worst kind of hostile and react accordingly.
aha did that too, jquery style :

$('img').trigger('mouseenter')
It's worth mentioning that it was not the UK governmnent that ordered the block; It was a judge (not as bad IMO.)
Two-Factor Authorization Is Awesome - Until You Lose the Damn Token
Enterprise Software Lessons: Fighting IT Paralysis with Innovation
Passwords, SSH keys exposed on GitHub
Convenience. If they give me the proper rip with all the subtitles and everything, and it's a direct download instead of a slow-spin-up torrent then I'd pay for it.
Chameleon Star Baffles Astronomers
Github Kills Search After Hundreds of Private Keys Exposed
"Github has killed its search function to safeguard users who were caught out storing keys and passwords in public repositories. 'Users found that quite a large number of users who had added private keys to their repositories and then pushed the files up to GitHub. Searching on id_rsa, a file which contains the private key for SSH logins, returned over 600 results