skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends if the band is trying to get a circle pit going it seems to be semi realistic. But in general yes I think people are generally either trying to get closer or fighting off others who are trying to get closer.
I agree with you that this is certainly going to happen soon-ish, but 3-5 years is wildly optimistic, particularly when it comes to the Leapmotion/Kinect (which are cool, but a long way away from resulting in realistic 3D interaction) and Google Fiber (only applies if we all move to Kansas City -- I know Google plans to roll this out to other markets, but in 3-5 years I wouldn't expect significant progress, maybe 1 or 2 other metro areas max).
I wonder if they properly controlled for the type of concert. In my experience, moshing will vary by genre with hardcore moshers tending to be more independent (see: windmills and kung-fu kicks). I also recently swapped coasts and noticed that West Coast pits seem to seek out the torodial "circle pit", while East Coast pits a more chaotic.

It is a neat idea for a paper, but it seems like it needs a bit more thought to be useful for real-world applications.
If the success of Webkit is analogous to the success of Linux, does that mean we can expect a "Webkit Standard Base" in a few years?
Device manufacturers' lawyers are very paranoid. That's (part of) the reason Android has its own BSD-licensed libc, "bionic", instead of glibc.

When Google ported Chrome to GoogleTV, which runs Android, they ported glibc, too. Apparently, it was easier for them to port glibc to Android than port Chrome to more limited bionic.
I loved SupporterWall service. I can't take it, as I am busy right now. But that one definetly has a market (i have been working in the non-profit sector for about 6 years now...)
You make a good point - quite often we can get lost in the complexity of our own brilliance and feel above the simpler ways of explaining things. We seem to have a double standard, in that we want people to be like us, but we also hide it behind esoteric language and ideas.

I think the world would be a much simpler place, if we could just say what we mean without having to articulate it with unnecessary padding.
> Both of your examples clearly show that it takes huge resources to overcome a single implementation in a field. That is far from optimal, it means the barrier is so high that innovation is being stifled.

I think it's more optimal than the alternatives tried so far. You're ignoring the "period of peace" between upheavals during which (almost) the whole world is working together to make something better for everyone. That more than makes up for the difficulty of dethroning (or forking) the king when needed.

Office is a closed-source product controlled by a single company, not analogous at all to WebKit.
Apple is the biggest tech company in the world. Canonical is a company, that focuses on Linux User experience.
I'm pretty sure who voted for the DMCA and/or specific anticircumvention provisions is a matter of public record. We don't need any help from the president to identify those legislators and vote for their opponents.
Yet, he didn't write a scientific paper about what he considered "just playing around". Same as i wouldn't write a paper about writing "hello world" in visual basic. Yet, i could become a world famous programmer, scientist and then write a paper about whatever started with learning how to program. There is a big difference here.

Feynman worked on the plates problem just for his own, he didn't intent to publish a paper on "how does a sign on a plate look when the plate wobbles" and certainly he didn't expect people to tell him how important his scientific research on plates could be for the world :P

Or, to put it another way: I wouldn't find the paper ridiculous if it would just be a Javascript on github by a guy who finds it interesting how people move in a rock concert.

In fact, it's not even a realistic simulation. I think you may agree when you have ever been at a heavy metal concert.
Just the opposite. What I'm suggesting is that it's better to recognize the lack of agency we have than to reproduce processes which give us a false sense of agency.
Is it only me or the first paragraph is meant to be referencing someone well-known at Yahoo?
Pages are loading more slowly, you can notice lagging of some actions. As a developer I am used to going fast through things, so when things are slow, it is noticable. Maybe it is due to pluggins, I don't know, I just know it is surprisingly slower.

Under every other circumstance, I would prefer linux/ubuntu to any other machine. I was using linux for several years as primary dev machine. At the moment I am on a mac, even though I have both linux and win machines as well.
I agree with the skeptics that the petition was not a sufficient condition to affect change. However, I do not believe the petition starter ever claimed that the petition would be sufficient.

I also agree with the petition starter that the petition might prove to be a necessary condition to affect the change. It is too early to tell, but this is a good start.

I don't agree with anyone that claims that since a petition is not sufficient, it's a waste of time. That's just lazy fatalism.

Heck, even lobbyists start with conversations that don't go anywhere. The trick is what happens next, that might not have happened if not for the initial conversation.

The other day I downloaded a new programming framework and spent 30 minutes learning it, but it didn't turn into an award-winning website product. So clearly those 30 minutes were a waste of time I guess.
Can't edit anymore, so I'll just reply to myself.

Important Update: Just pushed out a 1.6.1 release which patches some bugs that snuck in this morning. Give it a spin.

It also makes it possible to generate source maps in the browser itself -- so if you're doing anything fancy with eval-ing CoffeeScript on the client side, you're in luck...

... now, time to hit the road.
Source? I haven't heard anything about this.
There's not much that I can say which will be more useful than this, simply examine the reasons you left, where you want your life to be better and do it.

P.S. To the poster above, congratulations on your first post :)
The wrong part is thinking that imposing criminal penalties for what amounts to breach of contract is at all a reasonable outcome.
Amazon Mobile Ads API
It is, but apparently the upstream provider doesn't filter the ICMP reply packets (with SRC IP of the Korean ISP), which are sent by thepiratebay servers.
This seems like it can be used to simulate a liquid well. If gravity acceleration is added, then the whole thing is blurred and a threshold applied, you can get something like this: http://www.patrickmatte.com/stuff/physicsLiquid/
BASIC's GOSUB/GRETURN with gcc
I've just pushed out a 1.6.1 update, trying to address these. If you're having any trouble with it, give 1.6.1 a try -- and if you're still having trouble, let me know.
I don't disagree that there is a benefit as well, to a monoculture. It does avoid redundant effort.

But the cost is quite high.

10 implementations might be a lot of overhead. But a monoculture of 1 is too little. 2 or 3 might be an optimal number.
The openings also aren't very visible (or I'm not looking in the right places, which is entirely possible). I'm surveying the job market after shutting down my own business, and I've seen very few openings from companies that are working on what I would call "big problems." It's a bit disappointing.
A statement of policy by the White House is something tangible and beneficial. It might not seem like much, but it is. During the SOPA fight the White House did nothing more, but it went a long way toward changing the tone of that conversation in Washington.
| LLVM is still fighting GCCisms

And yet this doesn't affect everything. Didn't Apple switch from gcc to the Intel C compiler? Does the Intel C compiler implement all of gcc's quirks?
Normal game: You pick up an unknown potion. Do you drink it? You save the game and drink the potion. The potion kills you. You reload the game, dont drink the potion, and move on to the next level.

Roguelike: You pick up the potion. Do you drink it? Hmmm...too risky, it could kill you. You decide to visit a wizard who can identify it for you. Oh no! A monster. You fight! The monster is strong...You're down to 1 health..the potion is your last chance...AHHHHGH OMG IT WAS POISON. <or> OMG ITS A HEALTH POTION I LIVE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY!

People play roguelikes because the specter of permanent death (no save games* ) creates tension and suspense you rarely see in other games. This tension has a dramatic influence on gameplay choices and the emotional response elicited by those choices.

If, however, it's the oldskool text graphics and complex control schemes that you dont 'get', you'd be forgiven for thinking that 'ascii graphics = roguelike'. This is not the case, its just that the many famous roguelikes are dungeon crawlers with this graphical style. And yes, the controls are complex and the learning curves are steep. They are not for everybody. ADOM is my favourite roguelike dungeon crawler.

The best (IMHO) recent roguelike is FTL: Faster Than Light. Its a spaceship combat/strategy game designed to be played so a session lasts about 30-90 minutes. The graphics are nice and the gameplay is simple to understand but difficult to master. Its brilliant.

FTL: http://www.ftlgame.com/

ADOM: http://www.ancardia.com/download.html

*Generally you can have one save game. So you can save and quit but then have to resume that same game.
I actually have access to such a printer - but it's massive and can't really print objects smaller than a few inches. We've tried scaling the extruder down, but it seems that pellet/flake extruders just don't have the control and homogeneity required for high-resolution printing at small scales.

Here's some media coverage of our device: http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2156557...
I don't do much admin outside my hobby boxes. One guess would be, excluding the ability to enter a root shell, each sudo command is logged so you know who ran it. If the user is root, then it's harder to know what they did while they were root.

Disabling root also means you now have to guess the username and the password instead of just the password.
Complexity in software development is not entirely subjective
See my reply elsewhere in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5320849
That is not what users expect. It is called a timeline for a reason. Twitter works that way and nobody thinks it's broken. If someone spams your timeline it's really easy to unfollow and solve the problem.
You have to look know futher than to the likes of Jack Abramoff to know US government is controlled by money:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff

Just one example from the link:

> Abramoff and his law firm were paid at least $6.7 million by the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) from 1995 to 2001,
which made manufacture goods with the "Made in the USA" label but is not
subject to U.S. labor and minimum wage laws.

What’s good about that one is it went on for years and all the politicians knew about it.
I hope you do not get too dizzy by the swings on the cradle of democracy and peace that you moved to. How would someone compare democracy in the States with that in Germany is beyond me. People tend to forget very easily.
I wonder if we'll see an influx of startups to the Oakland area?

We chose to locate the Bay Area office of our NY-based product design/dev studio Cainkade in Oakland for a variety of reasons.

1. Value. As a bootstrapped services business I couldn't fathom paying 2-5x more to have 2-5x less space in SF.

2. Commute. Bay Area principles are happily living in the east bay and sought reasonable commutes.

3. Location as differentiation. I had a theory that the thousands of people on the BART platforms each morning might be interested in a shorter commute. As we've started hiring, this theory has been proven out. There's a large pool of professional, mature tech workers out there who would love to shorten their commute. Location for us has been an asset, helping us stand out from other companies.

There are lots of empty storefronts and spaces here. For those that are complaining about Oakland's gentrification, I would say it is still very, very early.

Some other experiences from working/running a business here.

Like -

- Going to a cafe and seeing diverse group of people. Not everyone in there pitching or wearing company issued hoodie. Although at times it seems that everyone is wearing a Kaiser badge.
- Our gorgeous, large space.
- Stag's Lunchette has insane sandwiches.
- Less homeless, feces, drug paraphernalia.
- 15 min. to downtown SF from our office. Quicker for me to get downtown from here than it was living in Noe Valley years ago.

Miss -

- More friends and work-friends in SF. No sidewalk serendipity here.
- Peninsula/Valley access. With traffic it can be even more of a nightmare to get to Palo Alto- San Mateo area.
It appears that any sufficiently widely adopted Unix becomes a OS of its own. Examples include OSX, Android and increasingly Ubuntu.

( I have a wonderful proof for this, unfortunately HN does not allow to write into the margins.)
I would say that "forcing" interaction is not a correct way of attempting socialization because if a child is forced to do something that they do not wish to participate in, then the outcome is often less than optimum.

I went to high school in the Deep South, it was more or less evenly balanced between black and white. Tribalism was in effect in this "forced" environment, granted this is going to be different from area to area. The black friends that I had were because we shared a common interest/background.

But again, if a parent wants to "force" such an interaction upon their child that is homeschooled, then chances are there would be ways of achieving that with after school programs. My local YMCA didn't turn away black children at the door for example.
> I disagree.

You didn't disagree. Your reply distinguishes the behaviors based on whose explanation you're listening to, not the behavior itself.

> One of them is about long-term passion for a goal.

> One of them is about social inability.

Yes -- that's the why, not the what. The behavior is the same, but the explanation is different, and it differs based on who is talking.

Two groups of psychologists have identified the same behavior. One of them celebrates it, says it's how we accomplish great things. The other condemns it, says it's a mental illness. And both of them identify the same people -- Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson, and Bill Gates, among others -- as being terrific examples of grit, or mentally ill, based on the same behavior.
Thanks. Very helpful.
Ideal for a small percentage of users, horrible in general. Facebook already has to many ever changing options related to privacy that people don't get. It already has things like lists and close friends people can use to control their feed further but don't get.
You write bad code. If you are using anything other than a single letter for a simple for loop iteration, then you are making your code less readable, not more. Adding cognitive load to a trivial process is bad, not good.

You summarize your argument by saying descriptive names are important, but your examples do not support that at all. Descriptive names are important for things that need to be described. If I write a function "reverse_string" with a single string argument, that argument had damn well better be named "s". There is no longer name that can convey any useful additional information. Many longer names will be distracting, and make the code harder to read.
Certainly a bit easier than dungeon crawl or adom.
It's not a new, modern crime

Everything related to copyright law is brand new and modern. It is not a natural right. It was created by consensus. That consensus can and will change.
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I'm a student/hacker in the DC area but haven't hit up any of the coworking spaces in the area yet. There are many so google to the rescue!

I've started attending Meetups (meetup.com) specific to my interests (health data and analytics) and find the networking opportunities and talks quite good.

Hardest part is getting yourself to go the first time!

Mark S. / @Skram
Although I agree an AppleTV API is a given, I wouldn't assume this existing private "BackRoom" API represents anything interesting. The current slate of apps have to be developed in something and thus the existence of a private API for doing so shouldn't be surprising.

After all, if Apple wants to dominate in this space (and I believe they do) then I have to believe the actual public API will be much, much more powerful then a bunch of lightweight UIKit inspired layout classes.
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Source? I wasn't aware that was happening.
They lighting effects make every move a visual treat.

I'm wondering how much of it was randomly generated? Does story ending have a random outcome?
Ha, that was the plot line of Paycheck [1], but seeing the future, not the past.

[1]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338337/
The LA Times quoted a post from Hacker News:
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-pirate-b...
I think the point was that you could write it with no io redirections, since grep lets you pass a filename as an argument:

grep pattern file
oh! and IMHO Malaria pills are a scam, so don't fall for it. I carried a mosquito net in my backpack and slept in it whenever I was in a "high risk" area. Malaria mosquitoes come out at night.
You're annoyed that a company wanted to try to not spam you?

I am reminded of xkcd... http://xkcd.com/1172/
I am fine swimming upstream. I browse with Javascript disabled, I am not on any social networking sites, I do not have a smartphone, etc. I do not get too stressed about these things as long as I can keep doing things my way.

Ultimately, I think filtering is going to win. The problems with HTML mail are going to become more severe, not less. Phishing attacks are becoming more and more of a problem, and HTML mail makes phishing attacks much easier to carry out. The sort of tracking that Fab used to detect who was actually reading their mail could just as easily be used to identify potential targets for scams, or in a coordinated attack of some kind. We cannot continue to leave ourselves open to such attacks -- eventually we are going to have to start blocking HTML mail or at least blocking external images/etc. Filters that are good enough to reduce clutter are already starting to be deployed e.g. GMail's Priority Inbox, and GMail already blocks external images by default.
The math behind it, from "Collective Motion of Moshers at Heavy Metal Concerts"

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.1886v1.pdf
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Competition is good when there is choice, i.e. when there is actual competition. When this plays out as an edge case (i.e. monopoly like situation) i.e. stuff like "SurfaceFlinger only" or "Mir only" - it's not good.

Canonical draws its success on the community (Debian and others). With that, being selfish and isolationist, while at the same time claiming to be "the Linux" is not considered respectful. I personally avoid Canonical/Ubuntu because of that.
I remember when this first was news. I also remember that facebook made it possible for a user to subscribe to ALL posts from a page that they "like."

A facebook like is not the same as a follower on twitter and I'm not sure why people expect it to be.
Well, he would have stopped the bongos and asked the stripper to get him another drink and then read the "paper", asked a question or two that made the authors realise just how much stuff they'd missed, and a few days later he'd have solved the unseen hidden deep really interesting problem that the authors weren't even aware of.
Apple shares fall; market cap tumbles below $400B
A better title might be "visualizing the object-reference graph in Ruby;" debugging memory leaks is a neat side effect. That being said, it's an interesting little project.
For C, Rust (and perhaps Go) is not too far off.
Of course it doesn't affect everything, nor does it make anything 100% impossible. It just makes it potentially much harder.

A huge corporation like Apple will typically be able to overcome the additional effort.
BGP has almost no security. Anyone can hijack any IP address, especially if you can find an unused /24 so that the owner isn't inconvenienced.
Fantastic! Finally my 16 core Xeon dev laptop with 32 gb's of RAM is finally doing some useful computing.
Apple switched to LLVM from GCC. Chris Lattner, LLVM primary author works for Apple.
That's because nobody who uses Twitter meaningfully follows 1150 people. Or at least it's not the norm.
Unfortunately the internet is not USA. I'm sorry for the confusion that my choice of words might have caused you.
I found these:

* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MirSpec#Mir_on_the_Free_Graphics_Dri...

* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MirSpec#Mir_on_HW_Supported_By_Close...

we are in contact with GPU vendors and are working closely together with them to support Mir and to distill a reusable and unified EGL-centric driver model that further eases display server development in general and keeps cross-platform use-cases in mind.

I hope the later means Wayland compatible drivers, because if not - it's going to be bad.
Not unless they click a link.
In six months they will be reimplementing parts of Qt that dont fit what they are trying to do effectively driving a wedge between that community.
Access to socialized healthcare is a similar factor. If a potential entrepreneur in the US relies on health insurance from their current employer, they may be reluctant to start their own business without a "social safety net".
And it is. You can set all sorts of defaults. Facebook has just chosen the default default that tends to maximize engagement, THEN built a monetization platform on top of it.
Anyone care to discuss this in relation to a product like AutoCAD?

(It's beyond my ken, but I'd like to hear)
No one has made the obvious comparison in the comments to ipv4 vs ipv6? The main issue with "yet another graphics protocol" is islanding. Right now all my "linux" boxes are more or less intercompatible. I can ssh -X whatever mythtv-setup and get the config GUI from a server that doesn't even have a monitor (not even sure if it has a graphics card?)

Now I / we will inevitably have three little not too compatible islands of X, wayland, mir, who knows.

My primary interest as an end user, because the machines "I do stuff on" are multiple huge headless servers and virtual images running on them, is network transparency. As long as a Mir keyboard/mouse/monitor can connect to a "real" system and give my my X when necessary, in a VNC like window or whatever if necessary, I'll be OK.

Connectivity demands go both ways. If my refrigerator ends up running Ubuntu for its user interface, I'd really like to be able to remotely connect to it to mess with it.
> HTML mail is a terrible thing that should be stopped,

Yes. Really, yes.

Please, if you offer email please also offer plain text email.
Because they want you to think they're doing something more than running a bunch of leased servers from dedicated server providers.