skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They just sent this out: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rtcweb/current/msg06631... "Google intends to license the techniques under terms that are in line with the W3C’s definition of a Royalty Free License."

(I also see they're playing a bit of the martyr by saying "This agreement is not an acknowledgment that the licensed techniques read on VP8." As if the truth has anything to do with patents.)
When I look at /newest, I don't see a lot of high-quality technical posts falling through the cracks. Do you have examples?
hi physcab

Please see my thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5339639 i will appropriate your your input.

I have a similar problem i guess :) , although i am in the thouht that we did a very good game but the game is not climbing...maybe i am just asking too much :)

if you dont want to look at the thread i will just say that my game name is Atlantis Breaker HD, link: https://itunes.apple.com/app/atlantis-breaker-hd/id576385319...

What do you say?
In addition to height adjustable desks, there is some interesting tech chasing this need. Lumoback has developed a bluetooth enabled device to track and help maintain good posture: www.lumoback.com [disclaimer: the founders are friends]
I would bet someone has tried this, but I've thought that it would be interesting to create a website that simply gives out money, and to see whether the amount of poor design a user would put up with is quantifiable in any useful way.
It is brilliant to see a move forward to recognising that there are women in technology and they provide as good a contribution as everybody else,

BUT,

Is creating a specific, segregated, event/group really the way forward or is it just creating a greater divide in the tech community along gender lines? What would really need to be done is look properly into why there is a disproportionate number of men versus women who go into technology, rather than introduce yet more segregation.

I do not believe that there is an event/group out there currently that would place any sort of restriction, intentional or otherwise, on female entry.
I loved how the public went crazy over a technology "invented" in 1873 and how people where like "finally holograms".
Something About Functions (IBM - 1961)
Best letter to Marissa Mayer of Yahoo EVER
There's also a post on the webm project blog about it: http://blog.webmproject.org/2013/03/vp8-and-mpeg-la.html

> we may sublicense those techniques to any VP8 user on a royalty-free basis

What did Google put in their drinks?
For cases where one zip code covers parts of two or three cities, it would also be possible to present some kind of drop-down to select the city. This should still be much faster and less error prone than typing, and it only applies to a tiny fraction of zip codes.
to note carefully some data here, joonix said in his last post on HN: "G+, Android, and the Note II. A beautiful combination. Unfortunately, nobody I know uses G+ so I don't check much."
You mean all the crap I don't care about is now organized into categories of crap I don't care about?
This was my first thought as well...though its been 3 years since I actually signed into Facebook...I get the same experience though email:

"You you know (some random person) and (some other random person)?" -- NO
"If it turns out that we actually can communicate data via quantum entanglement, we now know that it’ll be much faster than the speed of light."

No, no, no, no, no. No. No. No. Quantum entanglement can not be used to communicate in that manner, on its own. This is well-established, and given the how mathematical the establishment is, it's not going to change anytime soon.

No. No. No. Stop that. No.
Yes, that's actually more or less what NullString does. It's a struct that contains two fields: String and Valid (a boolean). It also implements a couple of other interfaces, but at its core, it's what you describe.

Functionally, they're basically the same thing - it's only a syntactic difference whether you check whether a pointer is nil vs. checking whether a boolean is false. At some point, you either have to do a check or coerce a null value into a reasonable value. (Or, I guess, just risk it!).

Functional programming purists may cringe at the analogy, but this is is all more or less the same functionality as Scala's 'Option' monad - it just depends on how you want to express it. The only difference is that the Go compiler doesn't force you to check against nil before dereferencing, but if you want to ensure the safety before converting the database value to a String and forgetting about it, then the struct will do that.
Agree with you on this point. Website content and inbound marketing efforts certainly outweigh any advantage one would get with a mere .co/.com name.

Depending on the kind of business and website visitors the TLD designation may not matter in some cases. Trying to see what others have experienced with different businesses; whether it be b2b or b2c.
I'd rather have a day off with my surfboard on a day with waves than $400 to spend on a Friday night. Easily.
The advantages to Java:
* Lots of programmers know it.
* Execution speed is very fast.
* Static typing can help you find some bugs.
* The tooling (The IDEs) are spectacular! IntelliJ!!! Refactoring!!!!

The Disadvantages of Java:
* It's wordy. List<Integer> l = new ArrayList<Integer>();
* Static typing is constraining.
* The data representation is clumsy. Can't say: [1,2,3]
* Minimal meta-programming, limited to reflection.

The Advantages of Ruby:
* Terse and elegant. You can say a lot in a few words.
* Very flexible.
* Simple to learn (not counting Rails).
* Very convenient data representations.
* Powerful meta-programming capability.
* REPL!
* You can write really lovely DSLs.
* Rails can get you going on a web app in a jiffy. It's very slick.
* Development speed can be _much_ faster than Java, at least at first. Carelessness is the great equalizer!

Disadvantages of Ruby.
* Slow. Damned slow. Really damned slow.
* Did I say it was slow? It is. Really.
* It's really slow.
* Jruby is faster, but still really slow.
* There aren't as many programmers.
* Rails has a steep learning curve once you get past the basics.
* People use meta-programming too much. This is a people problem, not a language problem; but it's real.
* The tooling is nowhere near as good as for Java. Refactoring tools are pretty weak.
* It's really easy to make a mess if your are careless.

The speed of Ruby is not really a huge concern in most cases since processors are cheap. But the language is really, awfully, slow.

If I were starting a new website project, and had to choose bewteen Ruby and Java, I'd pick Ruby and Rails, and then I'd be _very_ careful with programming disciplines.

If I was starting a new enterprise project for a large company, I'd write the backend servers in Java, and I'd consider writing the frontend in Ruby, especially if the frontend was web based.

For thick client apps, I'd likely write them in Ruby using LimeLight on the front end.
I wasn't talking about shipping stuff outside of the US.

Amazon UK has nothing to do with the transaction. It is all through Amazon (US/.Com).
Go for it! If there's nothing holding you in the Midwest, take the offer, learn, grow, and come back later if you want.

Such a small percentage of the industry rocks like most hot SF startups rock. Take the opportunity.
Big thanks! Wish there were a favourites list on here
Thoughts on .io domain names?
I'm not going to lie: I will buy this game as soon as someone cracks the DRM and allows single, offline play.
Moon mining race under way [video]
It doesn't demonstrate that VP8 wasn't patent-free - just that Google felt signing a license with MPEG-LA was the best route to clearing up the issue.

IMHO, MPEG-LA probably just scored some free cash. However, by avoiding a legal battle, and getting a 'clean bill of health' for VP8 from their main detractor, Google's VP8 is now ready for much wider adoption. After all, the principle patent-free niggle issue has now been dealt with cleanly.
Hack With Sails, MVC For Node.JS Done Right
I also had a time out. Perhaps they host their blog on some external service
By the self-centered logic of the OP, even if a minority group has only 0.1% representation, they should have no events targeting specifically them and their causes -- the 99.9% majority should be able to attend, and presumably contribute to the conversation with no ability of the event's organizers to moderate the dialog or direct the focus to the minority's experiences. Anything less than that is segregation.

It doesn't occur to the OP, apparently, that they are trying to create something that is decidedly different from the ordinary tech experience -- a conversation dominated by awkward-to-arrogant, entitled males who think that their very important opinions need to be heard everywhere and at all times.

I wonder if the OP (presumably male) insists on attending (female) rape survivor meetups, or if he could understand why attendees thereof would not feel totally comfortable with his attendance.
Yes, those remaining 10% would be the other 90%.
The 'Fellowship Plan' was designed by committee, parties with vested interests, etc., what other outcome could be expected?
I'll let everyone make their own determinations about milk -- I would be a skim-only person, and then only sparingly. But if asked for a recommendation, I would say limit milk intake to much less than water.

Sugarfree soda = the devil.

Sugarfree juice -- the real stuff -- is probably ok in moderation. However, a good chunk of the health value in fruits comes with the pulps and skins and pithes and the like. Fruit juice is really just a portion of the healthy nutrients one can get from fruit. Moderation is the key, as the glycemic load of fruit juice, even just the squeezed stuff, can really be high.

Never mind what all this stuff does to one's dental health, which is harsh (even milk is a culprit.) I simply can't encourage those of us who sit at desks in this job to drink enough water. 64 oz is the recommended minimum a day, but I think it should be higher.

Caveat: this works for me, so your mileage may vary.
I love that they're trying this, and it seems to be executed well.

My friends and I already use Venmo for bill splitting though, and it works pretty well.

Generally I subscribe to the school of thought that each app should do one thing and do it well, and this is sort of unfortunately getting away from that.
Not the author, but I'd say he's referring to two Clojure features that make programming with concurrency so nice, specifically STM (Software Transactional Memory) and immutability by default. STM is much better (IMO) approach to concurrency than locking, but it's really only viable (as far as I know) in a language like Clojure where values are immutable by default.

The great thing about STM is that it's easily composable, while locking isn't.
Too bad - it could have saved a few telecommuters at Yahoo!.
Guess they had their minds made up on this one already.
"It turns out this isn’t just a fleeting alliance. For some time now, Wyden and Paul—along with two other senators, Republican Mike Lee of Utah and Democrat Mark Udall of Colorado—have been working together to try to curb the broad authorities the Obama administration has asserted in the war on terror. The advent of this group, which calls itself the Checks and Balances Caucus, is certainly not the first time in political history that the libertarian right has allied with the civil-liberties-minded left. Yet at a moment when inter-party cooperation is almost nonexistent in Washington, any bipartisan alliance—especially one that includes some of DC’s most committed ideological opposites—is both unusual and noteworthy."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/26/rand-paul-a...
How is the performance of OVH's network by the way? Anyone had any issues with it? I'm paying ~80/mo right now for VPSs, and this offers way more horsepower than what I have now. Any downsides to going this route? Also is there anything comparable that's located on the west coast?
>As carbon monoxide is lighter than air

Yes, but distance from chimney and lower atmospheric pressure on high altitude matters too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollutant_concentrations#Co...
Eric Holder's Letter to Rand Paul on Authority to Target U.S. Citizens w/ Drones
And what did the complimentary Google Glasses actually show?
Maybe I'm just not as social as other people, but bill splitting and chipping in has never been a problem for me. Ever. On a handful of occasions I've had someone in a group I was in say they were strapped, and I've covered their portion of something. Others have done the same for me. Someone buys lunch for me if I have no cash, I get their lunch next week.

Buying a gift in an office for someone? Well, I've not worked in an office for a while, but cash used to work well (and didn't leave a digital trail of who you're giving money to).

Maybe there's some bigger play going on in this market, but it's always felt to me like a solution looking for a problem.

EDIT - on the few occasions where I've 'split a bill' with someone out at a bar/club/restaurant, I always feel I get stiffed, because I don't drink alcohol - so getting a $100 bill split 5 ways... well... I just had a $3 pepsi - why the hell do we "split" this equally?
Not a fan of Holder's original letter on the topic, and had to give Paul credit, but from an entertainment standpoint, the terse response and answer are pretty funny. "You have now asked an additional question" -- yes, a 12-hour long question.

Either way, happy to have a solid "no" on this answer and annoyed that it took a 12-hour filibuster to bring that about.

---

One follow-up point now that I've thought about it: a lot of that statement depends on the definition of "engaged in combat." If I wasn't mistaken, wasn't part of the problem that the definition of this was so loose?
What do you do if there are multiple options for the city/state? What if your city happens to not be one of the options you provide? That's why we needed to add an option for the user to fill it in.
I think this functionality (mobile first, crowd funding / group payments) could quickly become a more important feature than the group texting.

Great work.
One of my new favorites-- use ctrl-r autocompletion to grab a command close to what I want from history, tack on a character that breaks it if necessary and run that.

Then use fc to get that command back in a vi editing context, change what I want and :wq

The resulting command is immediately executed. This process can be really fast compared to manually constructing long piped commands.
Interesting theory, however, is there any example where the eagles come to the last minute rescue of Sauron's forces in order to maintain the balance of power?
Looks fine. Has very little information.

Since you just asked "how does my landing page look": it looks like a landing page.

I'd like it to have more information about what it is you're trying to accomplish, and how, on the page...

I had no incentive to join the wait list - as I am likely not your target - but you should push people over the edge with more info.
That doesn't take network outages into account, which they may or may not had.
You mean, when someone reverse engineers their massively multiplayer server scheme and rewrites an entire server wrapper for a game that follows the client/server paradigm?

This isn't a case where a client-only software package is locked by a remote server.

This is a case where core game logic is stored on servers and will have to be reverse engineered or emulated on some level to play truly offline.
Ask HN: Looking for beta testers for Cupcake, a color code editor for mac
This is my first Mac app as an indie developer. I have a small network and I need help finding beta testers.

http://colorcupcake.com

Who might find this useful:

- Designers who write code (HTML, CSS, and Cocoa)

- Developers who work with colors

Features:

- Works practically anywhere you can select text (Use your favorite editor).

- Very fast workflow for manipulating color codes. Much simpler than switching between your editor and Photoshop, using copy and paste, or writing down color codes.

- Save your favorite colors, e.g. “website link color.”

- Keeps a history of your recently used colors.

- Quick Adjust picker for making small changes to saturation and brightness using only the keyboard.

- Supports common color code formats used in web design and Cocoa (Hex, CSS RGB, CSS HSL, NSColor, UIColor, and CGColor).
Truly Ergonomic Computer Keyboard Review
Earlier on, the article says:

"As of our current understanding of quantum mechanics, though, it is impossible to send data using quantum entanglement, preserving the theory of relativity. A lot of work is being done in this area, though, and some physicists believe that faster-than-light communication might be possible with some clever manipulation of entangled particles."

Shame it's so vague about those some physicists!
AFAIK no Visa or MasterCard uses names, so almost certainly not.
Completely agree. Cost of RAM (as disk cache for Postgres) is the one thing that's made me wonder about leaving Linode lately. They're otherwise utterly great.
I took a semester off to live with some ski bums in Colorado. Them: "Why do you work so hard?"
Me: "So I can get rich" (young and stupid response)
Them: "Well, what are you going to do when you are rich?"
Me: "Ski all the time"
Them: "Dude, you don't have to be rich to ski all the time. We freaking clean toilets, but I ski 100+ days a year".

That conversation changed my life. I realized that getting rich was a stupid goal, because everything I wanted to get by being rich I could get without being rich. There are broke people traveling the world, skiing everyday, surfing everyday, etc.

I also realized that although a random day skiing is undoubtedly more fun than a random day working, I would be unsatisfied by just doing that all the time.

I think the ideal is a job you believe in with good work/life balance. 3 day weekends every weekend. Even working 40 hours a week with a short commute and quick access to a mountain or an ocean is great.

Meanwhile, working 80 hours a week for really any amount of money isn't worth it.
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Thank you very much for your feedback. It is very appreciated!
Hidden Google IO Easter Egg Modes
I found a few hidden modes in the new Google IO's easter egg website https://developers.google.com/events/io/ . Plenty of people have already found out the KNOWN codes, here's my attempt to show you the ones no one knows about yet :)
I'll just leave this here: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/03/friends-of-friends-q...

It's a shame that this was totally and completely unpredictable.
I was wrong... it's 10% down according the source I was remembering: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18921784 and the 6 was from the power ratio of the top riders now down to around 6W/Kg.

Read more of the in-depth articles about Sky. Their training methods are hugely different, and came from the GB track cycling programme which has taken the world championships and Olympics by storm over the past decade. They're open about what it is, and unlike with others, it's only the performance which makes anyone wonder. Look at the figures, and remember, they're still 10% slower than Armstrong!
What they are using is demonstrable physiological science and feedback: a manifestation of the benefits of the Quantified Self approach!
The easiest explanation is that Tolkein had crafted a very complex work -- with a chapter on the elvish language IIRC -- that while being uber-geek, was bound to have holes.

Now, for a truly interesting question, how was it that the First Foundation was completely unable to figure out that the Second Foundation's home was on Trantor -- because no one on Terminus was able to recall the phrase, "All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end."?
Yeah and this is why I don't think it will ever become semi-main stream. I personally use Express with Node and it seems a good amount of people use Sinatra/Flask as well.

It's much more than just that though. If you scanned Express feature by feature you could implement most of them in Go. I would imagine someone experienced in JS and Go could port the entire thing over in a day.

It's just then what? Now you have:

1. Similar / worse performance.

2. Way less useful libs to leverage.

3. Have to write 2 languages instead of 1 (if you happen to already use Node).

4. Dealing with way less mature libs for crucial components that you definitely don't want to be writing yourself.

There's basically no gains. Deploying single binaries is great but a "write once, use nearly forever" build script makes deployment a snap with any non-compiled language.

Testing support is amazing in JS too and debugging is leap years ahead of Go. Using gdb is just archaic compared to using node-inspector. I'm sure Ruby and Python have equally as amazing testing/debugging support too.
Infographic: Retain your female users with social games
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought Einstein coined 'spooky action' sarcastically, to try and point out that it was absurd and violated his theories. I guess there aren't any better, sexy physicist names to put in the headline to attract clicks.
Looks useful - I might use it.

The key point is: you run Selenium test cases on a schedule. It might be better to make this more prominent. It's currently below the fold and a title, slogan and two headings.
I think you'd need to reconnect everything. Sounds painful.
Alternative titles:

Working at the DMV is bad for your health

Being a lawyer is bad for your health

Working in management is bad for your health

Driving for a living is (really) bad for your health

etc
Maybe it's just me, but I feel like because iOS is such a hot platform right now everyone is trying to hop on the bandwagon without learning anything new. Write iOS apps in ObjC. It's not hard, it's not that different, it's just something you don't know yet.
Except now rackspace is even more expensive than linode for certain uses as the 2TB of bandwidth free would cost you an extra $240 on rackspace cloud and because bandwidth is shared between all linodes this extra bandwidth can make a big difference.
From the blog post, this is just part 1 out of 3 new features they're touting. So it's quite possible memory might get an upgrade. I personally wouldn't bet on it though, the host machines are likely maxed out on total RAM and upgrading would mean more hardware than just sticks.
Review: Chromebook Pixel is too expensive (and too good) for Chrome OS
The first thing that popped into my mind is how is this different to shopify? What's your point of difference?
It's sad that this will be cluttered with sponsored stories.
Juicing the pyramid: is Herbalife an $8 billion house of cards?
The title of the 5-star review Amazon highlighted as the helpful is delightful: "Got me off my video game addiction!"

If there isn't some kind of anti-DRM movement surrounding these review this game might break some kind of record for worst reviews. As of now there are 737 1-star reviews.
Trojan Horse Photoshop Action Reverts Women's Bodies to Un-retouched State
Really cool idea, and well executed. Good job!

Too bad I only have an Android.
I only work with clients that know what my value is. They never have a problem paying me to make their business a lot more money. In fact they love paying me for that because I'm very business goal oriented. I am obsessed with making businesses money.

These clients would never want me to do something for free. They always want to compensate me appropriately. It works our great for everyone.
It looks like an improvement to me. I joined the wait list. Hopefully there are not to many "I like the old design better" groups.
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