skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the trading happens electronically anyways, though the humans on the floor are there to promote liquidity (but the hedge funds are now doing that) and act as a buffer to prevent things like flash crashes.
Calling the language assembler might be considered potentially confusing and ambiguous, since this is also the name of the utility program that translates assembly language statements into machine code. However, this usage has been common among professionals and in the literature for decades.:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembler_(computing)#Assembler
Mozilla wouldn't be creating a nice experience for its users though, the experience would be as nice as Apple makes it. Any problems with Safaris WebKit though will indeed be blamed on Firefox for the very same reason that they don't care or know if it's WebKit or Gecko, all they'll see and complain about is 'Firefox fucked up.'
Another political article with no possible worthwhile discussion makes it to the front page.

Flagged, and I encourage other readers with appropriate karma to do the same.
Aaand the Efficient Market Hypothesis takes another kick to the head. This is getting brutal, folks.
Yes I am still waiting for that answer. Maybe I am being dense but to me this is not a victory? If anything seems like a loss? In other words suspicions now are founded that VP8 was never free of patent infringement.
Apple's tablet market share is big enough to qualify.
> something to blame Western problems on.

That sounds really ignorant. DDoS is not a situation of east versus west.
Office for Mac 2011 defaults to Calibri. It's a nice font.
This agreement covers VP9 as well.
Stack Overflow technology makes me write bad answers
A fun novelty but not an effective CAPTCHA if it ever caught on. It would be trivial to crack
Thats true, Apple isnt, but they wish they were!
Studies show kids prefer Comic Sans for screen reading vs. common serif and sans-serif fonts (namely, Arial, Times, Courier). They prefer it for both appearance and readability: http://t.co/P3ebZjUi

So, if you're designing for kids, these things seem to matter less. Perhaps there's a better alternative not explored (marker felt, etc.) but there are use cases for these typefaces that adults disagree with for technical reasons.
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>Solution: Increase the price of .com and .net and other tlds to approximately $X.

I don't like it. Makes things more expensive for normal people.

How about this: Impose a fixed $20,000 fee on the sale of an existing domain name. You can transfer for free if you like, but if you sell the domain then $20,000 is due immediately. Maybe make an exception if the sale is part of the sale of an entire business or other such things that normal people might do but squatters couldn't easily craft sham transactions around.
I wrote this two years ago:

http://myownstream.com/blog#2011-05-21
Oh, I thought it was gravity alone that did the work :)
Thanks for explaining it.
We are lucky indeed to have www, tcp, etc. The open ethos of the internet works, but needs defending.

Sometimes a good offense is the best defense. IMHO we need more internet-inspired disruptions that bring an open ethos to energy, transportation, and health.
Ah! Wonderful :) This is, in fact, a hard science fiction!

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

"Unlike many other anime and science fiction productions, special care was given in Planetes for a very realistic depiction of space and space travel."

"The Japanese space agency JAXA served as a technical consultant to the series. The US version of the DVDs featured interviews with two scientists from NASA's Orbital Debris Section."
Writing about not having an opinion on technology
Researchers Discover Workings of Brain's 'GPS System'
Think of the TSA as kinder, gentler war profiteering vs the contractors of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Think of how much money they've completely sucked from the economy that can never be returned.
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Only to the extent that it uses the same techniques as VP8. Anything new (read: anything which might infringe on H.265 related patents) is still subject to threats from MPEG-LA.
Free alternative to Chrome extensions like Boomerang...
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Additionally many people share links (funny and otherwise) through Facebook. You can break out of Facebook by clicking on a link someone posts/

Part of the benefit of Facebook is that it's on the WWW.
somewhere in the 2005 period with the rise of social media giants and the dominance of online advertising ala Google

And the rise of AJAX and client side javascript web applications and made the web much better. Gmail was one of the first "ajax" applications that got big./
Don't forget to set a good user-agent header and follow the rules set forth by robots.txt!
Doubt it, Google will add another section like they do for News, Images, Products etc.
Looks like something from a Cronenberg movie!
There's still good action on IRC, for those of you tired with Stack Overflow.
Yes, but this applies to any and all software - including H.26{5,6,7,8,9}.

Sadly.
My grandma used to work as a TSA screener in Southern California, both before 9/11 (when they were ran by a private organization IIRC) and after. She would regularly have to go take classes because she would miss the dummy guns and grenades they would send through in bags. From what she told me, she was far from the only one who couldn't quite cut it, but she felt bad enough about the repeated failures she requested a transfer into one of the offices instead. The thing that always seemed the most alarming is that they acted like TSA was this new, more secure way to handle security, yet, at least at the airport my grandma worked at, they just moved the same people over to TSA, gave them new uniforms, a raise and then let business continue as usual.
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>see how all of your peers are enjoying this

I do see how my peers are "enjoying" this, which is why I'm staying far, far away.
TSA is proposing new rules that allow small knives, ski poles, hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks and pool cues aboard in carry-on luggage. They call this a risk-based approach...

But still they hound you to turn off your ipad on takeoff and landing. If the government is using a risk-based approach, this would be the most useful rule to change.
I have so much more important things to worry about than the withertos and whyfors of fonts.
Yes and no :)

The tree is built up automatically but you can weight the paths and also which is the start node of the tree. There are also a lot of settings that may or may not completely fuck you over or fix a problem.

Also you really want to disable STP on ports going to servers as this will 1) speed up recovery 2) prevent any malicious packets going out from them.
There are 14,000 TSA screeners at Newark Airport alone. (It's in the text in the image of the patdown.)
... music, movies, and pizza delivery?
None of that is hard evidence, though. We could play the anecdote game endlessly.
This is pretty silly. ICANN is only opening these domains so they can collect $100k application fees from big companies so of course big companies are taking them over.
Oddly enough everytime I read about minimalism I get enthusiastic and start thinking about what minimalistic stuff I should buy. I fear I may be a desperate case.
I think you're paying 30% for someone else to handle all the payment processing and delivery crud that you'd otherwise have to handle yourself. That stuff isn't necessarily easy or cheap especially when you get fraud + chargebacks involved.

So I do certainly think Apple and the other app stores are doing something for their money.
Of course DRM-enabled goods can be digitally resold. It depends on the type of DRM being used. That would be one reason to have DRM. As I said, Apple is working on this now.
Nothing else offered Codd's relational model of:

0. simple user commands

1. data independence (from hardware and software implementation)

2. automatic navigation (instead of single record access).

The rest was competitive history with the giant of the time, IBM, who created and used SQL in their relational System R product. SQL variants rapidly became commercial successes, with the earliest external adoption and most notable being that by Oracle.

In time, SQL became a standard and, as a relatively simple declarative language (the HTML of data if you will), it is easy to learn and widespread.
How much of a factor were the client limit and the API changes? I'd like to better understand if this is just you moving on or if twitter has made it impossible to continue your app.
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Google admits WebM infringes H.264 patents
> Hopefully, having a free (as in, non corporate controlled) internet will come to be seen as an important economic differentiator

Sorry to break it to you, but the internet is very corporate controlled. Its bits flow over the private networks of Verizon, Comcast, AT&T, etc. It's just that so far, these companies have not exercised the extent of their control.
The Earth's most powerful telescope goes online next week
The is not from 1998, it's satire of all the we got bought blogs in this latest round of angel consolidation...
"Just to be safe, be sure to print out all of your favorite pages before the end of the month."

Oh, yeah... Back then websites were pretty much only text, images, and links.
I never believed official statements on 9/11. No body explained how a skyscraper fell on its footprint even though there was no attack on the building. I'm talking about WTC7. Then they said they had to take down that building. Correct me if I'm wrong but it takes weeks to prepare for such demolition. You can't decide in one day and plant explosive and all these happen while you are dealing with a major crisis like 2 commercial airliners hitting towers.

All this has been a farce. They wanted to paralyze people scaring with stories. TSA is just another tool to do that.

Edit after down votes: What this TSA guys says is correct, it is very difficult to stop any seriously thought security breach. The reason behind existence of TSA as we know it is not what we expect it to do. It is not designed in sprit to do that. That is the reason it renders itself ineffective.
Screen readers have already been mentioned. But also, how about people from cultures that don't play chess? How about people from cultures that do play chess that just haven't ever given time to the game?

I learned to play chess when I was a kid, but never had anyone to play with. The internet wasn't any help, either, because when you're a kid it's just not that much fun to constantly have your ass handed to you in a game. I gravitated to other games as a result. And now this thing just gives me that same sense of dread, of "I have no idea what the hell I'm doing", even though I know all of the rules of the game, because I'm so not involved in the culture of the game at all.

Congrats, you've alienated several classes of users.
I think that the 6502 decode ROM which matches opcode bits and sequence numbers to internal CPU functions is a very good example. It can be seen as either just a rather complex demultiplexer or, with keeping the sequencing nature in mind as a minimal, hard coded, computer program.

Does microcode have to execute like traditional software to be called microcode?
Going to go out on a limb here and say that status.github.com is probably hosted somewhere other than github.com
Perhaps 'feeling a tiny bit safer' is the whole point. Maybe the intended product of 'security theater' is an emotional response by the flying public - sort of a marketing campaign that generates a increased sense of confidence and well being for air travelers.
Thank you Capt'n Obvious. You save the day again.
The web was far better before AJAX and client-side javascript. Pages were actually in HTML, fonts were adjustable, and ads were tiny and unobtrusive.
Interestingly enough, it looks like it has a specific checkmate in mind. It generated a board for me in which black could be mated in two different ways, but one didn't count.
Obvious troll post.
I await the unfortunate but inevitable news that this employee was terminated. If EA bans customers for speaking out, there is no hope for employees...
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Isn't option 3 the same as option 1? Just requires slightly another sort of reverse engineering.

So, Twitter has only two options: a) play all sorts of cat-and-mouse games until either users give up or Twitter gets exhausted, or b) give up on pseudo-exclusivity and open up.
Most research papers look pretty shitty. So you dismiss the argument because it isn't a fancy infographic? What exactly do you want, or what would be a credible source for you? The book provides more citations, in case you don't want to take the author for his word.

In any case I take it you didn't read it (the free Kindle intro).

I found another link today that could be relevant to you: http://lesswrong.com/lw/72d/strategic_ignorance_and_plausibl... (Less Wrong on Strategic Ignorance). I guess it's easier to just cling to feminist ideology than to check facts...
the CAPTCHA is for posting in a chess forum :)
"I just caught a terrorist before he got on a plane", said no TSA agent ever. The times this has happened since 9/11 were all local police, FBI, or CIA
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They did pay. Google spent over $100 million on On2 Technologies, the company behind the VP codecs. Did you expect more than buying a company and employing their developers?
Do they ban cell phones with cameras as well?
Do you know what approach the go template package actually uses to do the escaping? The original article is pretty comprehensive as to what alternatives people tend to use and lists pros and cons for most of them. However, when I searched to source code I found a link[1] back to the original article so now I'm just more confused!

[1] http://golang.org/src/pkg/html/template/doc.go#L169
Good point. That would make sense
"That's fine, that's capitalism - and these incremental improvements lead to slow productivity gains that at least quicken the pulse of economists. But maybe let's drop the pretense that we're curing cancer unless, you know, we're curing cancer."

Reasonable and astute point.

"An Economist article this year exploring the state of innovation noted that centuries of scientific progress means it takes ever longer for people to reach to the frontier of any field, much less push past it. It also stressed that much of the technological low-hanging fruit is long gone."

Also true, and oft-overlooked.

"Thiel is at least putting his money where his mouth is at Founders Fund, his venture capital firm making investments into robotics, artificial intelligence and biotechnology (alongside a lineup of dot-coms)."

Ironically, AI was jump-started by DOD dollars,[1] and biotechnology by NIH dollars. Robotics had substantial manufacturing implications and got money from that area, but has also benefited heavily from defense money (think UAV's, etc).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter#DARPA.27s_funding_cut...
Uh, if it's a CAPTCHA intended to be usable by those who know chess as opposed to those who actually play chess then yes, they should probably ask for what they actually want instead of saying something that will lead the user to the right assumption.

Of course if it's really "CHESS player CAPTCHA" then I could be way off...
A lot of the early, nasty spyware / adware / crapware toolbars are to blame also.

I recall Bonzi Buddy by name, but I know there were lots of others ... redirects for ecommerce affiliate fees and other obnoxious rent seeking.
Kind of old problem. The world has changed. Newer math now, like how much does Spotify actually pay people. Apparently Lady Gaga got $167 from one million plays of 'Poker Face'.
Pretty cutting criticism. It will be interesting to see how this pans out. Unlike noname I think some of the C level types may in fact wish those values were the values they embodied. Now, the reality of making that happen? A lot harder.

However, given the history of the company and the choices it has made. And the fact that they seem to make the same bad choices in the same situation, suggests that those values have never been internalized.
At EA, this is almost certainly true. At some companies it's better. Values in particular often form a concrete axis for things like performance reviews, and offer a more useful version of the elusive "culture fit" than the usual startup bullshit of "let's hire a bunch of 20-something single white guys who have nothing better to do than hang out in the office playing ping pong after work, followed by more work".
Maybe I came from a different era, but the party that pays is generally considered the loser. Strategically, Google and MPEG-LA one. Google got the indemnification they swear they didn't need, and MPEG-LA got money and further proof that their patents were that strong that not even the mighty Google could ignore it.

This is the same strategy patent troll, rent seekers use. It doesn't matter if they get $1 or $1mm from Microsoft or Apple. To everyone outside the negotiations they are clearly the winner no matter how flimsy the evidence looks.
Sure, but when you depend on synthesis compatibility is a big deal. History seems to support that, with respect to other novel electronic instruments. I was just now responding to a claim that this will work with existing synthesizers.

While I would like to have this kind of control, I would much rather have the flexibility that a standard MIDI keyboard with aftertouch affords with respect to synthesis.
> Doesn't it depend on how much they paid? If the person paid for much less than the restaurant was asking and/or for less than a court case would cost, I'd say they won.

I guess that's a matter of opinion then.

Because if the person really didn't order (or receive) any meal, and they still had to pay anything to clear up matters, I wouldn't say they won. At most I'd say they got off relatively well, considering circumstances. The restaurant, however, getting any money for a meal they didn't make, is a clear winner.

On the other hand (and I'm not sure how/if this holds up in the analogy because I'm not entirely clear about what's going on with the Google/MPEG-LA thing) if the restaurant did prepare the meal they claim the person ordered (but who didn't), assuming they got less than the costs of the meal, both are losers. Which figures because miscommunication often lead to waste.
No need. Given the demographic targeted, the current text is sufficient (possibly overly wordy at that) and regards the question of how to move, they are used to interfaces far worse than this---they will figure it out. I suppose that you could claim that as part of the puzzle :)
Someone should write a plugin for datatables: http://datatables.net using this. It would be a perfect fit
Evgeny Morozov wrote a must-read book review that deals with this bloviating mentality: http://bookforum.com/inprint/019_05/10825.

Can't wait to read his upcoming book on the subject.
"RISC architecture eliminates microcode routines and turns low-level control of the machine over to software. The RISC approach is not new, but its application has become more prevalent in recent years, due to the increasing use of high-level languages, the development of compilers that are able to optimize at the microcode level, and dramatic advances in semiconductor memory and packaging. It is now feasible to replace relatively slow microcode ROM with faster RAM that is organized as an instruction cache. Machine control resides in this instruction cache that is, in effect, customized on-the-fly: the instruction stream generated by system- and compiler-generated code provides a precise fit between the requirements of high-level software and the low-level capabilities of the hardware."[1]

-- MIPS R4000 Microprocessor User’s Manual, Chapter 1, Page 2

[1] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cag/raw/documents/R4400_Uman_boo...
an then the conversion rate skyrockets :)
What would you suggest they use? Why does your happiness depend on this?
Considering that modern chess software can defeat grandmasters, the Chess CAPTCHA seems more designed to admit bots instead of humans.

"It was my luck (perhaps my bad luck) to be the world chess champion during the critical years in which computers challenged, then surpassed, human chess players"

From Garry Karparov: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-che...
I agree with everything you say. That said, it's also true that there are an awful lot of fonts out there but a relatively small number are used for most day to day screen and print use. I know that when I have a project such as a book, I tend to end up spending a bunch of time fussing around--and, at the end of the day, I usually go back to some variant of the standby fonts I routinely use.
This is interesting, but the article was posted two days ago. Why is it just now making its way to the top of HN?

I was thinking it just happened, until I get to the update at the bottom stating EA now gifting a free game to SimCity customers, which also happened two days ago.

Therefore, I'm less hopeful about the impact this will have, as it seems to have gone mostly unnoticed until now.

Or am I missing something?
Government controlled actually, as AT&T and Verizon are government protected monopolies. Much like the largest banks, they're merely an arm of the US Government pretending to be private.

And then when you examine eg China (arguably the largest Internet market), it too is completely government controlled.
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Those are samplers, not synthesizers. (Yes, technically they are synths, but not what's usually meant by the term.) They're just many many GB of samples of real musicians playing real instruments.
I disagree. Use the clearer set of instructions. Do not leave confusing instructions in place just because the target demographic can decipher them while others are left in confusion.
Full house of programmers, can't handle simple task, guess who? :)
the download link is broken
Disruptions: It is rude to send a "Thank You" e-mail.
Some people are so rude. Really, who sends an e-mail or text message that just says “Thank you”?
Not everyone is a HTML/CSS hacker. It's a really valuable front-end framework. My app wouldn't look nearly as professional without it.
Red Hat take OpenJDK 6 reins from Oracle
Living With Less. A Lot Less.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/opinion/sunday/living-with-less-a-lot-less.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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Can we make the flat UI optional?
LatAm is Landing at SXSW on Monday
Update: EA is giving a free gift for their troubles.

"Hey guys, thanks for buying our singleplayer game. Sorry that 100% of our multiplayer portion is unplayable. While we work on fixing these issues by removing game features so only some of you can play at a time, you can play the singleplayer portion we talked about earlier. It's where you sit there and watch a 30 minute timer go by and if you win, you get to play the multiplayer portion of the game. But since we made this issue and won't give you a refund for a broken game, we'll give you one free game that'd cost us barely anything. Thanks again for your understanding."
And your car is powered by corporate gasoline. And Tim Berners-Lee was using a corporate NeXT box. There is still a degree of freedom that Internet provides, and it's our duty to keep it at the same level or greater.
Out of curiosity: are there any known blind chess players? I guess it would be quite hardcore.
The other solution would be to be to have an adjustable underwriting fee that declines depending on how much the stock is up using the ~5 day average closing price after the IPO. [...] You failed (purposefully or not) to price the offering correctly and needlessly transferred hundred of million in wealth from the company to trading clients? Fine, you dont get paid.

Except they still get kickbacks from their double dealing.