skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tzs's comments boil down to "she could have settled for less, it's the court's fault the fines are so high".

AS tzs points out, the fines were created with no intention of punishing individuals without a commercial incentive. Applying the law as-is isn't justice, as obviously a lot of people feel.

The fact she could have gotten off with less doesn't change the feeling people have that it's wrong, regardless of the legal standing.
It's simple conceptually: I just draw a quad with non-zero exposure time.

For each pixel, I calculate how much exposure it receives during the last 1/60th of a second (assuming it runs at 60 FPS). So, if a pixel is backed by the triangle for 100%, it gets the full colour. If it's only 24% of the time, then it's 24% of the full colour, etc.

That's what happens conceptually. In order for it to run faster, I have to optimize the solution and basically calculate the same result, but by drawing some triangles and calculating some distances... It's hard to explain, but it's nothing more than an optimization.
Could be, I'll admit I don't have much experience in this arena. I used the word perturb deliberately though, because it does not necessarily have to make you come closer to reality.
I tend to agree - particularly on interactivity/performance - Is there something else that you're missing though?

That said, every time I use Google Spreadsheets I'm surprised at much it's rapidly improving.
This is the goal we had in mind when designing coderbits, we realized there are a lot of employers who are/should be looking at real metrics for employee quality like source code quality, knowledge, etc - the simplified idea is that your work should speak for itself. So your stack overflow score and your github repos are just a part of who you are as a developer, and although two fantastic sources of information, not a complete profile or portfolio. Our direct competition is the traditional resume.
Spot on. Being able to sell things through copy is one of my most powerful skills.
Twitter signup fails on redirect with a "sorry that page doesn't exist".

Url is https://api.twitter.com/oauth/mrklt.herokuapp.com/session?oa...;
Yeah, we should, like, you know, like, be able to listen to music without paying for it. Artists should make, like, music for free and I can go to my job and work for free and it would be ok because food and cars would be free and we could all live out in the fields and dance to free music every night, you know?
Relevant blog? http://guscost.com/2012/06/18/content/
Cheating == business
India close to TRIAD deterrence with successful test launch of SLBM
To me, the hardest part of using GitHub was using Git.

Once I wrapped my head around Git HEAD, remotes, branching, merging and all that jazz, using GitHub was fairly trivial.
Day 43: Organizational Structure
When interviewing someone, I ask about their side projects. If they don't have any, they aren't getting hired. In order to be a productive member of my team, you have to be passionate about technology - and that means having side projects.
It would be really nice if there was a way to configure a key command in ST2 to run a specific script depending on the language you're writing.

I don't usually write C unless I'm writing stuff for Arduinos. The Arduino IDE isn't very nice, but they have the magical commands "Control+U" and "Control+Shift+U" that upload code either through the FTDI board or a programmer. If I had that in ST2, I would be in heaven (right now I write in ST2, copy, paste into Arduino IDE, then upload).
8 lessons learned working with big brands
Thanks. :)

It's likely because I don't fake the motion blur effect as it is most commonly done (nothing wrong with that, I'm just describing it). Instead, I calculate what your eyes would realistically see. I render the triangle with a non-zero exposure time (the exposure time is equal to the duration of 1 frame).

There are definitely some shortcuts and approximations taken (I don't compensate for how CRT/LCD displays display images, no colour correction, etc.), but the "big picture" is 100% based on real physics.

The motion blur is calculated with the assumption you keep your eyes still. If you track the moving square, then by definition there should be zero motion blur (if your display were perfect). However, it still looks okay with motion blur even if you track the square.
The author says ...

"If you could go back in time 15 years and tell your younger self that you would one day be able to run Windows NT in an innovative, interconnected, and thoroughly integrated handheld device that could make phone calls and was more powerful than the workstation you were then using, I mean, wow. That younger self would have done cartwheels."

Turns out that the same logic applies to the Free Software Linux, the kernel for Android ...

If you could go back in time 15 years and tell your younger self that you would one day be able to run [Linux] in an innovative, interconnected, and thoroughly integrated handheld device that could make phone calls and was more powerful than the workstation you were then using, [and was expected to have over a billion users]. I mean, wow. That younger self would have done cartwheels [!!!]
Jeff Brown on Grails 2 and Groovy
Hadoop documentation is gone
Zhongdian and ducktales, those are two things I'd never thought would be put together in a hackernews post. Awesome mountains though, we stayed up there for a couple of nights in '06.
Why Interaction Degrades on Dev Teams
Gives an alert as soon as I run it: 0:15(87): error: Arrays cannot be out or inout parameters in GLSL 1.10

Firefox 18 on Linux, with WebGL otherwise supported.
Will do that! If it works I will buy you a beer!
His comment is based upon a misconception of what civil law is supposed to accomplish. It's not intended to be a disincentive, rather a plaintiff is only supposed to be able to recover actual damages. The guiding principle is "make whole" -- a plaintiff can go to court to recover actual losses, and no more. Punitive damages are assessed where the defendant is shown to have willfully and intentionally harmed the plaintiff, but only in extreme circumstances should those damages exceed the actual damages incurred from the act itself.

The statutory minimums don't really adhere to that principle which is unfortunate.
Ah. That's a reasonable way to calculate it.
MULE is one of my favorite video games of all time. It has been years since I last played (via emulation) but it's one of those games like Warcraft II and Starcraft where I find it's all to easy to say, "How about one more round?"

The music is burned into my mind.

I haven't done a search, but I assume there are some modern homages to MULE?

Edit: Only 30,000 copies were ever sold? Just goes to show how uncommon it was to own a computer back then. I think I still have my disk and cardboard flip-case somewhere... I should dig that up.
Slick 1.0 – Type-safe Database Queries for Scala
I like the idea, and I'd like to use it, but...

• How can I have it play chords instead of just intervals?

• Bug: suppose I select A and Unison, press Play, then answer Unison. When I play again, two apparently separate instances of the sound are played. This is extensible for multiple notes/intervals
do I need a SWAT team to secure my staff at Mexico? how safe is it in Mexico these days?
I dont understand how to register. I try and make an account and it says I have the wrong details?

Maybe (definitely) the login and register should be should be separate?
I'm not bashing them as a whole, just some of their technology decisions. To be honest, I've always felt that MS gets a bad rap. As much as it was anti-competitive, bundling IE in Windows enabled users to download alternative browsers. Obviously, there are other ways to do it but I doubt many users would have gone down that road with higher technical obstacles.

As for Oracle, not much can redeem them. Flash had it's day, but I wish Adobe would let it die already.
Contrast definitely matters. The highest fps experiment that I've heard of was a researcher who had people dart their eyes left and right while looking at a strobing LED. They saw separate dots instead of a continuous line at strobe rates of up to 1500-2000Hz. That's probably the top-end of visual detection for a high-contrast, high-motion video.
Heh, that's not entirely untrue - the majority of people on lowendbox and lowendtalk seem to have some sort of strange fetish for running things on as little resources as possible. I've seen some people there that actually use the LEBs for things like cheaper redundant hosting, etc., but they're the exception.
Sorry about that. I wrote the web code quite sloppily, and it was my first time. I just wanted to port my native C++/OpenGL code to the web.
Well, of course you need to give the markdown extension to files which should be rendered as such. How else is Github supposed to know which files are markdown?

Github Pages is strictly for hosting static files. Thus, it's not meant for discussion between users. You're better of renting a VPS and hosting your project's website on it.
on the to do list!

https://github.com/kevinburke/tecate/issues/10
Doesn't this only work because the square is a uniform color?
Maybe, but China is just better suited for production work than Mexico if you look at the following factors:

1. Food, water, shelter. Lack of these means infrastructure will be tough to setup and you are making it harder on imported human resources.

2. Culture, infrastructure and security. These go hand-in-hand. If you don't understand and play by the rules of the culture, security is compromised, and without security, infrastructure is at risk. Without infrastructure things are much more costly. A less liberal government (one that enforces conviction of drug lords that make security a nightmare) may result in better security and therefore better infrastructure.

3. Resources. Access to labor, materials, etc.

4. Heat. In hotter climates, humans are rewarded physically by not working as hard by the fact that they don't get overheated. This is engrained in almost all of us, but even more so when evolution and natural selection also have rewarded lazy behavior. I will probably get downvoted multiple times for saying this, and it isn't true everywhere, but I believe that it happens and can become a cultural phenomenon. Ever heard of a siesta? I know it is just a "break", right...
What I like about Duck Tales is its morality and ethics. Sure Scrooge is a greedy miser, but like the unquoted part of Nixon's "I'm not a crook" speech he earned every cent of it. Unlike his arch-enemy Flintheart Glomgold, Scrooge doesn't cheat or steal he got rich by "working smarter, not harder".

This show really teaches fairness, honesty, and empathy and it's simply a cut above other kids cartoons. Several cuts above.
I remember this same type of question coming up before Windows XP came out. I wonder if it'd be something similar to this:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-...
I think I'm missing something, but I'm sure I have used plenty of hotkeys that are not in this list (ie; insert line before current).

Can someone explain?
Except that's not what's being done, as far as I can see.
If you liked the article, then you should read Chris Anderson's book Makers: The New Industrial Revolution. Lots of interesting stuff about the "Maker" revolution, with 3d printing, etc. He also tells about 3d robotics got going. I really enjoyed it.
https://help.github.com/

Am I missing something? All of those things are covered in one of the articles on help.github, especially under "Setup" and "Bootcamp".
Yes you can and there are other tricks too. However, since its not the default behavior and given that most people don't realize it when setting up forwarding, it can be considered a bug.
Security audit your Gemfile with the bundler-audit gem
Ask HN: what linux log file analytics to use
Linux servers generate something like 20 different log files. Are there any tools that gives complete system level alerts & overview analysis by taking these log files as input? I am looking for easy setup & go, with something as simple as setup, tail & pipe the log files to a remote server.

Most tools I am aware of like Google analytics seem focused on customer/end user analysis. Does any startup, use splunk to track single-system/multi-system management dashboard and provide insights?

It'll be great if such a software was available as service.
I've had experienced with sites like Freelancer. 99% of the time it becomes a bidding war. I was not happy with any leads and I ended up with $0 profit and a wasted day.
Well, I agree that we abuse the heck of out the "cyberspace" metaphor, and say a lot of stupid things because of that metaphor. But aside from that, there's a lot to sneer at in this article.

First, on government and the internet. It's true that "most Internet activity takes place in particular territories governed by states ... [as are] users, ... servers, ...", but so what? States are not only trying to govern what is done within their borders, they are trying to govern what is done outside their borders. If I start a server in China, and serve pirated software to users in the UK, a country I have never visited, the UK government will still try to prosecute me. But all the things within the UK are things that do not belong to me and that I do not control! I'm not taking a position here on whether they should or should not.... I'm pointing out that Micheal Lind is encouraging an even dumber mental model than "cyberspace".

And it makes _perfect_ sense to say that California or the US is "extending their jurisdiction “into” cyberspace". It is _not_ the case that they have jurisdiction over everything within their borders. For an extreme and unambiguous example, the US refuses to take -- and forbids California from taking -- jurisdiction over my religious belief. More relevantly, as I understand it, in 1900 the US took no jurisdiction over the movement of gold, and then later they extended their jurisdiction. States (both the kind that the US is, and the kind that California is) do extend their jurisdiction from time to time (and very rarely contract it). Again, Lind is talking nonsense.

As others have pointed out, people complain all the time about corporations invading abstract things. Public spaces, the classroom/academy/etc, your living room, the national news agenda... those are all "spaces" that people have complained about corporations invading, and they're not all literal spaces (and of the ones that are, at most one involves a literal physical presence). Metaphorical invasions, including of non-spatial things. Welcome to the English language, Michael Lind, are you new here? Or just disingenuous and demagogic?

All in all, the bulk of this article is worse than the thing it denounces.

That said, props for the mention of “A Declaration of the Interdependence of Cyberspace”, which I hadn't heard of or read, and which I think is a pretty great rant (even if I think casting aside Article 27.2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights just might be a good idea).

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9236603/A_Decla...
Doh. Broke a Heroku environment variable. It works now. Thank's for catching it.
Anyone out there feel this might be a matter of unintentional discrimination?
Neul releases the first white space chip for the Internet of things
Don't Be a Pigeon When You Argue
Raygun.io - cloud error logging
Your site will probably be banned. Instead of submitting, just check HN or one of the unofficial APIs programmatically and append the discussion link to a URL if that article is submitted.
Y'know, it always seemed intuitively obvious to me that Japanese consumers would not be very receptive to any non-Japan-designed console unless it absolutely smashed the domestic offerings. One needn't chalk this up to xenophobia, but consider the advantage enjoyed by US domestic pickup truck manufacturers...
> No surfing the net, no testing out new ideas, no chatting with coworkers, no personal calls and EXACTLY 30 minutes during lunch: you are hired to sit, do work, punch out and fuck off.

That's the hourly-employee version of this. The salaried-employee version, epitomized by Japanese office culture, is something more like:

> We expect you to show up at 9AM on the dot, but to 'enjoy your job' enough to not clock out until 9 or 10PM every night. Of course, you'll probably only be actually working for about three hours of that, but it doesn't matter. Butt-in-seat, long as possible. Play some video games on your computer or something. Just don't let it look like you're enjoying yourself.
I used this when it was ScalaQuery but ended up switching to Squeryl(for favor over case classes being verbose in declaring tables). I may have to take another look into this on my next scala project.
Its more like cars are unsustainable. Sure, some don't like dense urban living, but they'll have to pay for that eventually. We are lucky in the states that we have so much land and resources that we really have a lot of choices; this isn't as true for the rest of the world.
It seems obvious to me that the next Xbox will support small developers via some form of the Windows App Store. No point having a unified App Store if that wasn't to be the case. I feel there's a strong chance that many existing apps will Just Work on the next Xbox.
> No one believes there is a mystical Narnia of 1s and 0s "somewhere out there" - no one reasonable, whose opinion matters at least.

I think a lot of people do believe that "cyberspace" really exists and that it's a place where we should be conducting war.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare
Microsoft does well when it starts with an advantage and the main issue is avoiding making huge mistakes.

In phones MS has been ahead, then utterly disrupted, then made valiant come-from-behind efforts. But the problems they are faced with are different than they're used to. With phones they're fighting against the network effect of competitors. They need to not just be a little better than the competition, they need to be a lot better. Also, look at how much money both MS and Sony spent buying up game studios and exclusive content for their consoles and compare that to the relatively weak outlays in the same vein for mobile content.
Yes, the author here is blind to the fact that they are getting worse, and assuming its part of the normal trend.

Perhaps if the original article said that even the best students are now coming in with great test taking skills but little practical knowledge, then maybe it would be clearer.

Anyway, this is Hi from India, where we have been choking on the fruits of this system.

If you wanted to divorce understanding from proficiency, there is no better way than what you'll have implemented.

What's more terrifying is that this system mutates and evolves, and as older teachers drop out of the system you are left with a new crop who know of no other way to teach.

Finally you'll start getting guide books and coaching classes, massive money spinners,where students are trained on potential test questions relentlessly, so that they can get perfect scores.

A few years down the line some bright spark will argue that "we need to improve the system, our kids are getting through without knowing the rules of the grammar"

Cue fractional mark losses for bad grammar.

This kind of machinery is blind to its faults, and since it produces numbers and measurables, its hard to argue with.

But from experience with tests and human behavior, people always find the shortest path to getting stuff done. Be it video games, taxes or testing.

This is a sacrifice of your best for the mediocre.
Thanks Egor!
This is where I stand now.
1. Working knowledge of CSS and HTML
2. Aptitude for programming.

This is what I am going to do

1. Learn JavaScript and then jQuery. I am aiming at becoming comfortable with JS and jQuery in 3 months.
2. After 2 months I will start creating and selling simple templates (like e-mail templates and HTML website templates) on Themeforest.com. In 3 months I will start developing templates based on Twitter BootStrap
3. I will continue to polish my front end web dev skills from month # 4 to month # 6.
4. If my templates start generating a revenue of $600+ from month # 6 onwards I will be a very happy man. 600 bucks will take care of my family's monthly expenses.

5. If this financial goal is met I will learn Python. At this stage I will also start spending more time programming 7-8 hours a day and will gradually come out of my freelance writing (pays a measly $3-$10 and hour) and Internet marketing gigs.

Thanks for sharing your contact.
HTML5 adds MAIN element
Wit? Intelligence? The phrase you're searching for is "shameless pandering".
Mainly speed, usability, etc. If you have a large spreadsheet with tens of thousands of rows, trying to scroll back and forth makes it unusable.
I appreciate what you are saying. I have seen great programmers who can learn and start serious programming in a new language within a month.
Chris Anderson: The New Sensationalist. IMO, this is a weak sensationalist comparison to compare Mexico, to a emerging superpower of China. The title should be "Mexico: Learning from China's Success"
In the same argument he says MS should compete with FB and spin off the Xbox which is a "crummy product"? At any given time millions of people are on Xbox Live, they stay on it for hours at a time, and unlike FB people are paid subscribers to Xbox Live. If anything FB should be jealous of Xbox and Xbox Live. How many FB users would pay $7/month just for the service?
Yes and no. There's a clear divide in this case between corporate and personal interests. America wasn't originally all about defending corporate rights more vigorously than personal ones.
Revel doesn't run on the JVM. Golang compiles to a static binary that you can just deploy with the cp command. As for security, it seems a little unfair to criticize them for stuff that a different, unrelated framework did.

As for J2EE, it's solid, but Java's security reputation may have been tarnished by the latest web-client exploits.

As for .NET... do you really want to share your profits with Microsoft? I do agree that Microsoft's security has improved lately though.

The other thing about both .NET and J2EE is that they don't strike me as terribly productive languages for programmers. This may ignite a flamewar, but I don't think anything can claim to replace rails unless it also replicates the productivity of rails. You may find that hard to do if you use a pointy-hair-approved solution.
Actually Invented Here
There's a sense in which this is true, but it's a really facile argument that doesn't get to the heart of the relationship between Google and the people who use it. "You're the product" implies that they're just using you, man, and that if people were more sophisticated they wouldn't put up with this treatment.

In practice I find that the most sophisticated internet users are among the heaviest users of Google products, which implies that the value proposition that Google provides is good even if you understand how their business works. The product doesn't generally extract value from the producer when it's sold to the consumer, but I get an enormous amount of value from using Google.
I agree.

When I have a side project I will fly through my work so that I can get back to what I really care about.
It seems like he still wants to make awesome, and is at least well aware of the challenges he faces in selling people on buying into what may be a limited (albeit super dedicated audience)

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/10l1an/i_am_genndy_tar...
I've gotten as far as creating repos, branching, merging and pushing them to github. Oh, and not publishing my livejournal passwords in my repo. Anymore.

But yeah, not the most beginner-friendly thing in the world, and most of what's on github i'll probably never even touch. I forked a repository but i still don't know how to submit a pull request. I don't even know how to delete it. Feh.
I'm reminded of the "Mattel and Mars Bar Quick Energy Chocobot Hour"

http://simpsonswiki.net/wiki/Mattel_and_Mars_Bar_Quick_Energ...