skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no way man. i don't like how patents are applied to the specific cases i care about, and coming up with nuanced, balanced solutions requires way too much thinking. i say we ban all patents.
Regarding Live's dominance, Microsoft cant afford to rest on that for much longer. Sony were playing catch-up for a long time but Playstation Plus is VERY competitive.

Live is based around mainly exclusionary practices - delaying demos, preventing you from playing multiplayer or using Netflix. PS+ on the other hand offers discounts and even free games (while you subscribe).
It isn't as simple, as a perennial paper in mathematics does not have to be even famous. It may have even not cites (yet). And I'm speaking of my experience (theoretical physics). Moreover, then you can hardly expect that one of a bunch of guys at your department has the paper.

Sure, for applied (or even - experimental) sciences it is different.
piano hero, on the web, here we come!
We spent an absolutely ridiculous amount of time making drag-and-drop work across browsers in the pure-website version of Inky (http://inky.com). Its absurd difficultly was one of the reasons we migrated to an installed app model for our first release.

Making a "real" mail client that runs in a web browser is incredibly difficult. Basic things you take for granted when writing a desktop app, such as being able to copy text to the clipboard, or -- seriously -- being able to position the cursor in the editor window below the quoted text for "bottom posting", are a huge, grinding pain in browsers. And don't get me started on key bindings. Keyboard handling in browsers is still a comedy of errors.

It's gotten a lot better over the last few years, but it's still really hard to mimic some standard desktop app functionality using pure HTML/CSS/JS.
It seems like most of the speedup is from running everything from RAM. If you're serious about never touching disk, adding something like "BOOT=casper toram" to a stock Ubuntu kernel line might do it easily.

Edit: OK for something practical this should work http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as... Just decline to give it any "persistent" storage, and point it at your hard drive (or a smallish <10GB boot partition) instead of a thumb drive. Does anyone know of a tool like this that will run on Linux?

Edit2: unetbootin seems to be a similar tool that is cross-platform.
After reading some comments here I come to the conclusion that (too) many web developers are just a bunch of opportunistic ignorant hypocrites. On the one hand they repeatedly state that constantly expanding variety of HTML9 technologies[1] is THE best thing that could have ever happen to the Internet and that there is nothing worse than mono culture. On the other hand they do not seem to be willing to even consider testing their webapps with a browser with a market share below 10%, because it's just not that important, and embrace the overall greatness of Chrome/Webkit and that it should be the only browser we should develop for/with.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5206211
There's a "vote to move" feature when you nominate a question for closing (or at least, there was when there was just StackOverflow and ServerFault)
Booklet - Display content on the web in a flipbook layout
Is there anything like this for Go (golang)? Does anyone else think that would be extremely useful?
They do run ChromeOS very fast. My XE303 Recovers from sleep in an unnoticeable amount of time, and boots from cold in mere seconds. The browser starts pretty much instantaneously.

If you want to use an in-memory linux offline you might look at things like Puppy and the various other old-school live distros. Several of them pioneered in this space though they didn't stick to lightweight stuff in quite the same way as chromeOS
"Note: There are various ways to estimate value. The commercial value of alternative goods, which we used above, is only one approach. But it is the same approach used when estimating revenue lost to software piracy, when they assume that if users did not use software illegally they would pay for commercial licenses at the prevailing rate. So there is some justification for using the same approach here."
Great idea but not sure who is going to use this. I can't see enterprises installing this on their desktops and as someone already pointed out the larger enterprises have been using http://www.clusterseven.com or http://www.prodiance.com for years to control their spreadsheets
I now have something new to link to whenever someone posts something suggesting that a "pipe curl to shell" command isn't insane!

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/42921614369/omg-r...
Valve fires Jeri Ellsworth
I've been using Bombfell since the summer and absolutely love it. If you have any questions on how it works, I'll try my best to answer them.
But, again, those that can ask on the mailing list, also have the university subscription to go through pay walls. People outside investigation groups are left outside the party.

You are not making a convincing argument that papers are already "free enough". Unless you assume all interested parties are from the academic world, that is...
When life gives you racks
Sure. Now what's the evidence - hand-picked or otherwise - that suggests that increased support for cars enables growth and development? It seems like it would be an easy study to carry out, if it were the common case.

In any case, my question was 'Where do you get that the author wants to completely remove the option of driving?'
He says it in the end. It helps people edit iPhone apps collaboratively from a website.
Great points. Nice read.
Stop being a judgemental ass. He expected the pull request to be read and ignored, not blindly (or maliciously) merged.

If anything is sickening, it's this readiness to assign blame and exaggerate guilt.
Fascinating post, and very interesting, but I have to wonder... 45 seconds to restart Firefox? And just to clear the cache? Assuming he does that "hundreds" of times a day (say, 200), that's 2.5 hours a day just waiting for Firefox to spin up and down.

What could possibly cause it to take that long? Was there no a to clear the cache without restarting the whole browser?

Unless I'm missing something, this seems very strange to me.
"Not every company is willing to spend this much on marketing."

You are overestimating the size of Google's (internal) marketing, and don't know how marketing is structured for companies like Google, also you seem to not understand how multinational tax structures work, so I won't explain any further.

"If you get through you will be moved to Mountain View, CA"

That's not what happened to several people that work or have worked at Google that I have personal knowledge of.

Some will go to MV of course, depending on area of work.

Lars Bak? "In 2004, Bak joined Google to work on the Chrome browser. He did not return to the United States"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bak_(computer_programmer)
Indeed, most papers have an electronic copy available from the authors bio page, at least in CS.
You seem to blame the office decoration for people wanting to spend most of their day in the office rather than the person making the decision to spend most of their day in the office.
I wonder if there are more Pokemon, or zero-day vulnerabilities for Adobe products... "Gotta catch 'em all!"
I was initially a bit worried about adopting Django REST Framework due to it being the new kid on the block, but tomchristie's dedication to the project has really put me at ease. Adding the deprecation policy is great for long term stability. He's making all the right moves to build a lasting ecosystem of contributors and setting a collaborative tone on the project.

So yeah, thanks Tom!
You probably wouldn't be able to use ModelResources (the ones that get fields automatically from the Model, similar to ModelForms) but apart from that I don't see anything that ties Django Rest Framework to Django's ORM
I think ChromeOS is significantly faster than Chrome on Windows 7, on the same hardware. But of course you can't compare a $1000 Windows machine with a $250 Chromebook, because obviously the $1000 machine has much faster hardware to make up for the difference. In the same time I don't think a $1000 Chromebook would be worth it, as the bottleneck at that point is not the CPU, but network connection.

And do you really expect to run "web apps" 100% offline all the time? Then you're missing the point. Chromebooks are for an all-connected world, not for one where you still do most stuff online.
Nope, it'll still rain
No, this gives the control of the cloud to the people using it. Security conscious people or people that want to keep their data as their own data (rather than in the nebulous state of being on someone else's hardware, thus ownership is murky) are (mostly) the ones who would want to use something like this.
The end of relationship banking
Personally I would recommend Guru.com instead of Freelancer; I've worked with a few of those sites and Guru seemed to be the most professional. Also, if you're worried about being paid, use the site's escrow system (Guru has one, I believe Freelancer does as well). Your employer pays into the escrow, you complete the project, you request that they release the escrow to you, you get paid. If they don't release the escrow, you can get (usually free) dispute resolution services through the site. This has saved me from a shady employer at least once.

Your hourly rate very much depends upon your skills. Start bidding high, and see if you get any catches. There are people on these sites making $100 / hr., but these people have a lot of history and are well-known. Don't expect to make the higher rates when you're just starting out, and remember you're often bidding against people in third-world countries. At the same time, remember that you'll be taxed as self-employed, so make sure your rate includes the amount you're likely to pay in taxes in your country, and make sure you save that percentage back since you're likely going to owe big time when you file your income tax.

Getting projects is a challenge; mostly it's about projecting a professional appearance through your proposals. Make sure your English and grammar are top notch. Justify why you are the best person for the job. Tell the employer what you'll do to build their project. Split the project into milestones (each with payment attached). Essentially you should be writing a highly customized cover letter in every proposal.
TPB -_-
Its the government that gives out copyright protections. It is the state that grant monopoly power to Adobe. The Australian government could have any rules, laws and consumer protection in place in return for this granted monopoly, and thus limit how companies like Adobe abuses this granted monopoly in Australia.
Perhaps because it's all caps? I can see no other justification :)
You're a really good guy, jacques.

And I had no idea about Mark Williams C.
I'm interested in why you think this comment you made contributed anything to the discussion here. I'd encourage someone who _can_ downvote, to downvote you, since I can't.
At this point to consumers cloud just means internet accessible storage.
Australian law explicitly allows for consumers to circumvent region locking. Of course, this doesn't mean this can't change, but at least there's explicit precedent allowing it.

Quote from the Attorney General's department:

“An access control TPM specifically excludes TPMs which control geographic market segmentation. This means that consumers will be able to circumvent the region coding TPMs on legitimate DVDs purchased overseas. It also allows for the continued availability of region-free DVD players.”

TPM is a term from the US/Australian Free-Trade Agreement.

More information: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/blogs/gadgets-o...
"Ripped off" is really the wrong term for the pricing discrepancy created by having different places to buy the software within one market. The better term is "price discrimination".

Business users of everything are less price sensitive so intelligent sellers of services, software, hardware etc. attempt to capitalize on them through price discrimination.

In this case, Adobe (or distributors) are aware that businesses would rather not have someone shopping around for software when they could be doing something else more productive so they would pay more. The seller is able to capture the surplus. This is a good article that at least early on focuses on inconvenience as the mechanism for price discrimination: https://www.rca.org/page.aspx?pid=2995

Because of the comment before your's, I am not sure whether Adobe is using price discrimination against Australian customers but pharmaceutical companies do price discriminate based on geographic location. (There is also a mention of this in the article above).

Effective price discrimination is a way to extract the correct price from various customers and ignores costs.

If a customer nets value by purchasing a product, the product is priced fairly to them. Different users of the same product get different values, so every seller should try to figure out a way to get price as close to the value gained for each purchase for each customer.

The effect of price discrimination is higher profits for the seller, but it also spreads the cost of R&D more fairly based on value received by buyers. Theoretically PD should drive increased innovation long term.
This reminds me of a story[1] around 8 years ago of the eye-watering costs of ADSL in South Africa. Whereby it was cheaper to fly to Hong Kong and download 100GB of data in an internet cafe than it was from home using the incumbent telco provider, Telkom.

[1] http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/cheaper-to-fly-than-u...
cow patty shrooms: wash, boil water, make tea, take a walk, sit.
My advice would be do something seriously FUN as a first project. Do you have a hobby that could be a springboard? For example, I love Radio-Controlled stuff. So a project could be arduino controlled R/C car/drone. A little coding and a little wiring with real results. It's not trivial, but it's not over the top difficult either. That's my example, but try to get a concrete project to tackle. You will learn what you need to learn in the journey to finish it.
Using Scala to handle exponential growth at a startup (part 2)
Considering this is from Adobe it will cost a fortune, have unfixed bugs for years, and break with every OS update.
When designing the OS, he "took off the table the largest performance bottlenecks in the operating system: File I/O" by moving the entire OS to RAM, so the new OS couldn't really run large (i.e., powerful) desktop applications, which in turn meant that the new OS would have to use "webapps to replace any and all functionality normally found on a desktop." So, in the end, for powerful desktop applications that need a lot of I/O, he ended up replacing file I/O with... over-the-Web I/O that is slower by orders of magnitude.

I like Chrome OS, and want it to be successful, but for powerful desktop functionality with heavy I/O, a traditional desktop OS is faster.

There's always a trade-off.
We consume not because we're told to, but because we want to.

This isn't the theme of "Brave New World" that I picked up on, and I don't think the book featured a world with profit-seeking corporations.

Seems to me like "consuming because we want to" is the better choice of the two, no?
Just got divorced for the 2nd time last week (what can I say? It's a gift), and what I'd really like to see is a web app that does the following:

Give parents and extended family tools to better manage their split parenting work, from parenting schedules, to birthday wish lists, to the child’s clothing sizes, favorite foods, etc.

- Enable the family on one side to be engaged with the life of the child when the child is with the other parent.

- Help the child avoid feeling as if they have “two separate lives”.

- Function as an intermediary between both sides, with focus solely on the child, thus allowing them to cooperate with each other without danger of confrontation. Seeing Nana on Dad’s side communicating and cooperating with Mommy benefits the child greatly.

- Ideally, this technology-assisted “virtual” cooperation in time will serve as a bridge to real-life cooperation and engagement, healing, forgiveness, and understanding.

Features

- Each parent and child can post their work/holiday/event/school/sports schedule

- Track parenting time

- Keep a diary of the child’s activities (food, health, etc) to share with the other parent

- Track shopping lists and assign who buys what (Christmas, bday, etc)

- Track contact info (school, coaches, etc), clothing sizes, etc.

- Share important documents (report cards, etc)

- Share videos, pictures, audio messages, text messages with parents and extended family

- Q&A and community support for parents

- Allow for indirect phone calls between parties who don’t want to share their phone numbers, or chat video the web site.

- Allow for translations to be added to videos and messages.
Hey Thanks for your comment,

If you have a look a the code, there is a whitelist of controls that you can allow to be edited.

This is just the start really, I think being able to change images/CALayers etc can be added in quite easily.
To a Future Woman In Tech
Thank you for stating clearly what was bothering me.
As an Australian (now an NYC resident), I am no stranger to the price gouging that Australians have had to suffer although I must say that how it is now is much, much better than it was 10-20 years ago.

First, it's worth noting that US prices don't include sales tax. Australian prices include a 10% GST.

Second, international companies will end up doing their accounting in one currency. For tech companies unsurprisingly this is US dollars. Transactions in foreign currencies get converted to USD. Companies hedge themselves against FX risk by locking in exchange rates and giving themselves a buffer so they don't need to change prices every day. Ergo, things in foreign currencies will always cost a little bit more.

So if a Macbook Air costs US$999 and A$1099 (hypothetical, the Apple store is down so I can't check what the actual price is) then that's about right (given A$1 = ~US$1.04).

That all being said, high prices in Australia largely come from it being a small market and, more importantly, consumers putting up with it.

Books are the worst example of this. UK companies get the distribution rights for Australia. Australian copyright law largely protects them from imports (although this was relaxed by the previous Howard government in a 1am Senate vote). Yet what costs $10 in the US will cost $25 in Australia.

The Dell E6x00 laptops routinely cost <$!000 in the US but cost ~$2.5k in Australia for no readily apparent reason (it's been a year or two since I looked at this so it may have changed).

The "waterbed effect" seems to play a part too. The US is a large single market so has a lot of purchasing power compared to pretty much any other market. I've thought that cameras are cheaper in the US (than Europe or Australia) for this reason more than anything else.

To give an Australian corollary to this: Dan Murphy, the largest alcohol retailer owned by one of the two supermarket conglomerates (Woolworths), is killing smaller competitors because their purchasing power is so large they can often sell things (at a profit) for less than non-chain stores can buy them wholesale.

For software in the era of digital distribution there's no justification for Adobe's prices here. It's the same software in the same language. Perhaps they needed different TOS/EULAs for Australia (or at least have them reviewed to make sure they are compliant with Australian law). That's about it.

One thing to be thankful for is the ACCC in Australia actually has teeth and through the Trade Practices Act and Corporations Act has a lot of power. The FTC in comparison seems to be a partisan paper tiger in comparison.
"- It shows that he has a very distorted view of the gaming landscape, if the truly thinks that the XBox is the dominant platform, or that mobile games are a genuine threat to console gaming (they most certainly are not)."

The threat of mobile gaming on the PC/Console gaming landscape has been recognized by some of the largest stars in the industry, eg: Gabe Newell states Valve wants the PC in the living room but the biggest competitor is Apple.

[1] Dice 2013 Keynote with Gabe Newell at 7:30 minutes in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeYxKIDGh8I
Puppy Linux is another distro that does the same. It's one I've used before and is actually rather pleasant, and seems to "just work" for most anything. (including an awkward Windows-only USB wireless network interface) The interface can be a bit awkward though, admittedly, and it doesn't have everything available in its repositories, but it still works blazing fast.
Usability Vs. Aesthetics: The Right Mix
Well, there's a lot of good anime. I know it's cliche or whatever, but a lot of it is very entertaining and sometimes mature and thought provoking.
800 Giga Hash per second user just started mining at BTCGuild
It was rebooted (is that the right word) a few years ago. Lauren Faust had to quit the project, unfortunately, and the show isn't very interesting now, but you definitely should check out the first season. It is unironically one of the best cartoons out there.
Facts:
For $40 Dollar you get a 4GB Droplet from DO, not 2GB, So you actually get 4x the memory.

And yes their Networking isn't that great.
>I don't think the DOS port of gcc, the Allegro system, was yet born

It might interest you to know that according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJGPP, there's been a DOS port of gcc since 1989.
This is a great point here. I got pretty sick in January, I assume it was the flu ... but I didn't go to the doctor because I know there's nothing they can really do. I just got my rest, kept hydrated, and tried to stay as comfortable as possible with mucinex, advil cold & flu, etc. and in the end, got better.
http://www.btcguild.com/halloffame.php

Now at 1,211.06 GH/s... Wow. That's about $130,000 per month in the current market.
its actually pretty "short" me thinks.
It is a "review" of a modern petrol car, hence 80 years of development. They aren't going to pretend to review a Model T, for example.
The monkey stare test for startups
EU and US announce trade deal talks
You forgot to sign your post: "Senior Front End Developer at Sprout Social"
Alternatives ?
Feds Urge Supreme Court in Landmark File-Sharing Verdict
Hi,

I live and work in the UK, my designer friend lives on the other side of the world.

Whenever he has a new design for an app I'm making, he sends me the PSD files, I cut them up, export the images, add them into the app, compile and send him a new version of the app. Rinse & Repeat.

This is a crazy way of working. By allowing my designer friend to login to itheme.com, he can create different layouts of my app and test them in realtime.

I can then look at, and try out the different themes.

Thanks

Chris
This seems a bit FUD, but to be fair, not much more so than the hype given to projects that claim to find insights via Tweet sentiment or your Facebook friend network.

I think traditional researchers should scrutinize new-tech methods applied by Google and others, as their domain expertise is valuable in finding mistakes/discounting assumptions by an algorithm.

But -- and I don't speak from expertise -- I'm thinking that the data that traditional researchers use for these kinds of assessments, has usually been very structured and dependent on the reliability and frequency of official reports. Google and machine learning brings a whole new capability of interpreting unstructured, seemingly unrelated data, that may consist of a lot of noise, but also contains insights that were otherwise impossible to get through the traditional research and data collecting process.
It'll be years before webapps can supplant "native" PC/Mac apps. If Google really wants ChromeOS to be a third PC option, there needs to be a way to run "native" apps, and I'm not sure NaCl is the way to go.