skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even full speed GPUs will be nearly worthless for bitcoin mining within weeks.

EDIT:
"Difficulty" determines the amount of computation required to create a bitcoin block. Hash rates have greatly increased lately and the difficulty automatically increases to maintain a constant block generation rate. Check out the charts here:
http://bitcoindifficulty.com/
Well, as I'm more attached to the EU than the UK it seems perfectly logical to me.
well, i organize viennajs.org, but well you should be into JS (or we will convince you, last wednesday of every month), there is the web performance meetup http://web-performance.meetup.com/members/at/vienna/ it's about pretty much any language & performance, there is http://www.meetup.com/Vienna-Perl-Mongers/ well perl. gdg http://www.gdg-vienna.at/ has some new organizes, so i don't know what they have in mind, also python, symphony and ux are meeting at meetalab https://metalab.at/calendar/

from your blog i see you are into php and flash, well, come by to the viennajs meetup and lets talk about html5.
He's saying that he's Australian, and he's heard from other of his countrymen that Vienna is kind of alright. :)

(Don't we, we get equally worried when people mix it up.)
Off topic I think.
I forget, are companies with invasive and arbitrary software content requirements on their app store a good thing or a bad thing? I get so confused about which one I'm supposed to despise nowadays.
There are two issues with e-readers which need to be considered. One is obvious, the other is not.

1. e-readers like the Kobo, Kindle, Nook etc (ones tied to a store) phone home and report reading progress and are DRM encumbered. The Kobo even gamifies reading which is just insane if you ask me.

2. The second issue applies to all e-readers and that is that they promote distribution of epub files. The source of epub files is usually illegitimate (as everyone pushes stuff through stores) and the hosts are about as dodgy as can be as well.

Books can also change hands easily.

If you're going to get an e-reader, your approach is the best.
Maybe the domain is being rented from an individual who lives in Canada?
> I strongly suspect that the people who can't adapt are having difficulty because they are not programming with the new syntax full time.

That is very interesting. It took me indeed may months of night-time programming in Clojure and elisp to get at a point where I could feel confortable with the syntax. I had a series of small "enlightenment" during that journey: the last one was not long ago, when I realized how I could "carry" state through a high-order function.

But to stay focused I kept reading and re-reading great writing about Lisp by Paul Graham and kept viewing and re-viewing amazing videos by Rich Hickey.

It's as with everything: keep your eyes on the goal, not on the obstacles.

And at one point things are going to click in.
Teacher subjects third-graders to lie detector test with bogus smartphone app
It's the first version! Let us complete it and help me with your suggestions. Thanks buddy.
Host appears to be down:

Github of the project: https://github.com/GoodBoyDigital/pixi.js

Text from the article:

We are extremely proud and excited to announce that pixi.js is now available on github along with examples and documentation! That means that the whole world and thier dog can start tinkering and making fun javascript, cross browser, webGL, canvas, mobile, speedy 2D applications!

First things first, if you don’t know what a pixi.js is then heres the rub:

Pixi.js is a 2D webGL renderer with a seamless canvas fallback that enables it to work across all modern browsers both desktop and mobile. Helping Goodboy and hopefully you achieve the big fat goal of “Build once, play everywhere”

If you would like to know a little more then why not have a little read of our previous blog post

What’s next?

The current build of pixi.js available on github is now very stable. All that we need to do next is grow it!

We have a rich list of features that we plan on implementing and building into pixi.js as time progresses. Many exist already but require a little more testing before uploading and sharing with you all. Some new features will be obvious, like interaction. Others less so, but I promise they will allow you to create some seriously cool stuff. I could tell you more but then I would have to kill you, and I really don’t have time for that right now ;)

Tell us what you think!

Of course if you do get stuck in we would absolutely love to hear your feedback on the project. The good the bad and the ugly! It will help us to improve pixi.js for you and for us. Think something needs adding? BAM! Give us a shout! Think something needs changing? BOOM! Give us a shout. hmm.. Actually, instead of shouting at us maybe you could email or submit an issue to github ;P

Contribute your brain codes

If you feel inclined to add a neat feature to pixi.js or contribute some source code that we can share with the world then that would be fantastic (obviously with full props to you!). Dont be afraid to get in touch if you have any questions, we are Goodboys (and Girls) after all!

Not much left to say now apart from why are you still reading this? You should be over on github downloading all that juicy pixi.js src code, planning to make some kind of awesome internuts creation! :)

Oh and once you have made something, we would love to see it :D Especially as we will be looking to create a nice shiny showcase section on our site!

We hope you have fun!
Qt 5.1 will support Android apps
>Piping subresults between functions really doesn't get much better in any language

Piping operations like this can also be found in OCaml, F# and Perl6.

For eg. in Perl6 this is called a Feed Operator (http://perlcabal.org/syn/S03.html#Feed_operators) and your example would look like this:

a ==> h ==> g ==> f;
I'm using tt-rss for four years now, often through the Tiny Tiny RSS Reader app on my phone. I blogged about it some time ago: http://tinyurl.com/axlpm7z
Many android phones have a thermometer. It precisely measures the weighted average of the ambient temperature and the waste heat from the processor. In other words, just this side of useless, because the thermometer is next to a heater.
Sure yeah. I'll add it so. Thanks.
Noodle acquires Lore
Yep. We're primarily built using the Closure library so it's nice to not have to bundle jQuery for third-party libs.
There still seem to be a lot more listed on the map. http://i.imgur.com/T9GxbPV.jpg

Even for a city as cool as Vienna, that many universities looks unrealistic.
Parsing is actually a big issue for people who have to read and write programs; that's why most languages need complex rules for operator precedence and programmers have to memorize these rules or risk introducing subtle bugs.

In Lisp, you never, ever have to worry about operator precedence because the order of operations is explicit in the syntax; you just start from the most deeply nested parentheses and work outward. I'd say that's a worthy reward for learning to read code in prefix notation.
Fantastic work, I love it. The results I get are sometimes surprising. I play mostly folk, country and blues so it's always surprising how irreverent a lot of pop music is when it comes to progressions. Also, I don't see the "big II" hardly at all. Playing the major II instead of the minor ii is fairly common at jams I've been to but maybe it's because a lot of people don't know minor chords, throw in the major instead and think it sounds good.
Microsoft Security Essentials does so much right. When they put their mind into it, Microsoft really does great software.
Tried this a few weeks ago - as a relative beginner, thought it was a fantastic introduction. (Pretty effective promotion for Code School, too.)
How Google Ventures instills design into the heart of its portfolio companies
Q: addition, multiplication, exponentiation, then??
Congrats! I wish you good luck and prosperity. :-)

I am in a similar position. Starting in April, I'm dropping my full-time employment down to 3 days/week to give myself time to start building my business. It's exciting to put things in motion and stop dreaming, hoping, wishing, and other effectively useless activities.
Agreed. That, or put a small reminder on the first step (or on each step) that lets users know they can use the arrow keys. Seeing the arrow in 'Next→' was not intuitive for me (if that was intended to convey that you can change steps with →).
What happens if a telco doesn't want Skype in the version of the Apple App Store or Google Play Store their customers see? It's simple and straightforward. They make a phone call and it's done. Maybe some grumbling if the other store doesn't have the same restriction.

Now what happens if they want to call Microsoft about Skype in the Windows Phone store? I don't know, but I do know that the conversation wouldn't be straightforward or simple.
Games for Windows Live is basically abandonware by Microsoft at this point. Nobody's going to get promoted if they work on it, so . . . .
The issue is experience and whether or not the company doing the outsourcing knows how to follow up the projects to verify that they are getting sufficiently experienced developers.

The problem is that markets like India is seeing such a crazy growth that the market is full of inexperienced developers being passed off by outsourcing companies as far more experienced than they are.

Actually identify sufficiently experienced developers, and you don't have bigger problems with Indian dev teams than UK team teams.

You see exactly the same in the UK, but I suspect on a much smaller scale simply because we don't have the same growth and so the supply of inexperienced newbies makes up a substantially smaller part of the overall pool of developers available.
Celery Targeting Kickstarter Alumni In Need Of Preorders
Right, but other oauth2 providers than facebook aren't vulnerable to the redirect_uri hack you are describing, are they?
There are different cultures in different cities for sure.

That said I, like a growing number of people I know, do everything "online" from a very rural place of France (both doing consulting for heavily technical startups or regular companies, and launching a SaaS product), and meet entrepreneurs and technical people once per year at conferences etc.

Then again I don't have employees (we're 2 cofounders as a couple), so being remote is probably easier!
Darn, reminds me of the drill in the movie "Pi" :/
Is it just me, or can you complete every step with writing 'help' in command area and pressing Enter?
I have to agree. Full of a lot of conjecture and giant leaps without much positive evidence. Unfortunately, stuff like this is all the rage even in scientific literature these days, especially in the realm of evolutionary biology. Many similar articles work like: "see, monkeys do it, therefore humans did it", assuming the premise to be true when there not a whole lot of evidence either way to support it.
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2013
This is quite interesting, though keep in mind that the RPi is talking to another machine to do its GPU computations. There are actually combination Nvidia GPU & ARM board like SECO's CARMA DevKit (http://shop.seco.com/carma-devkit.html) Which will actually run CUDA locally with out virtualization
End DST - SignOn/MoveOn
Something, perhaps, we can agree on. If you like more "evening light" feel free to get up an hour early and go to work an hour early on your own.
Lore has been acquired by Noodle Launch, announced via email by Joseph Cohen
Here is a screenshot of the email Lore CEO, Joseph Cohen, sent to all of its users this morning announcing the Noodle Launch acquisition.
Indeed, since I posted that comment I've been looking into it further. I read on wikipedia [0] that:

The DCT based form cannot guarantee that encoder input would exactly match decoder output since the Inverse DCT is not rigorously defined

I don't get that - I thought the inverse of the DCT was just the linear combination of the components.

So...I've been playing around with it myself to see what happens (using graphicsmagick).

I converted an image to jpg (quality 70) and then bmp -> jpg again. There are definitely some minor artefacts.

I then iterated that step jpg -> bmp -> jpg (quality 70) a dozen times. These further iterations don't add any additional artefacts. So it sort of gets into a stable state.

EDIT: reading that quote from wikipedia again it looks as though it's just saying that jpeg is lossless (ie, we apply quantisation).

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_JPEG
>'<>', '>>=', '=<<', '>>>' off the top of my head.

None of those have anything to do with the type system though. That's why I called your statement nonsense. They are just ordinary operators like + and -. The habit of claiming everything you dislike about haskell is somehow related to the type system is quite common and rather bizarre.

>The reasons this stuff makes code hard to read (for me) are

The reason is because you haven't learned haskell. If you had never learned arithmetic then 5 + 3 * 7 would make no sense too. That doesn't mean math is hard to understand, it just means you need to take the time to learn it.

>They're all infix and I don't know the precedence.

Use :info in ghci, or look it up on hoogle. Just like you would with a function you aren't familiar with.

:info (<*>)
infixl 4 <*>

Left associative, precedence 4. Addition is 6, multiplication is 7.

>It's not restricted to standard-library code.

Lots of languages let you write new operators. If a library creates tons of operators that reflects on the library, not the language.
I like how the journalists are going crazy because the update requests a new permission "download files without notification". The articles I read interpret that as "Facebook can update their app and change permissions without telling me!!!!" I wasn't familiar with this permission so I did a quick Google search (something maybe the journalists should have done?) and it is related to the Android download manager added in 4.0 (4.1?). (http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/950273) Way to scare everyone "journalists", I hope you enjoy your pageviews.
1-2 Punch to Marketing: Commitment and Consistency
Spot on, though these days the teenage years extend past 25 for many...
Or worse, they use Clearcase

And before you ask me what's the big deal, I will teach you, for the price of the CC license
It bothers me a bit when people link this to 'explain away' pop music.

It's my belief this is an oversimplification - many of these songs are written in different keys, which can create different sounds and feelings of songs. Sure, you can transpose them to a common key (as they've done here), but at that point, it's not really the same song anymore.
Also, I've found that chord progressions can be quite flexible if only 'snip-its' of certain songs are being used, namely the standard chorus or verse. Much of the genius of songwriting comes in transitions or bridges.

I'm not denying this is not entertaining, and it works to an extent, but I would say that there is a degree to which this hinges on the widespread renown of these songs. It's not so easy to say they would have become so popular if they were all written in the same key, and not the one of the original artist.

Pop music is frequently spoken down upon, that it's 'talent-less' or 'garbage', but it really is like any other expert discipline - if it were so easy, there wouldn't be such a saturation of experts dominating the field. My opinion most of the talent is in production - Dr. Luke, Red One, Max Martin, etc.
How CEOs Can Be Great Marketers
Reuters Editor Indicted for Helping Anonymous Hack Fox
How big smartphones need to be? (iPhone 4 looks mini)
I'm not against sharing. What I hate is when sharing turns into blasting everything I do out to the world without my consent each time. I don't want people to know every song I listen to, every news article I read, or every HN post I open. If this makes me introverted, then I don't want to be cool and hip.

See the recent stories about LinkedIn blasting out stuff to every contact in an address book or the historical fubars of Facebook changing defaults on the fly.
Yes, the S3 has one too.
I did not downvote you, nor do I think that you should have been downvoted. Sure, perhaps plumbers and lawyers get unreasonable price requests as much as programmers. Sadly, getting panties in a wad over this — in one way or another — is the only way to keep wages up. If we are not for ourselves, then who will be?
I send this in because I've had a hunch about this my entire life. Math is fascinating.
You have to take into account that Microsoft can modify their own OS and implement what needs to be done in a proper way. On the other hand, third-party vendors can only use the public interfaces exposed by the OS, or resort to unreliable and/or undocumented methods that may break at any time.

There probably is no solution to that, any third-party software that needs tights integration with the OS is going to have that problem.
Free trade agreements do not create common markets. (Well, they can, but if they do they include some sort of harmonization of relevant laws).

Plus, the UK already excludes itself from practically all non-common-market activities of the EU. They aren't participating there anyway.

I also think you are confused about what creating a common market entails. It necessitates common political decisions. The common sticking point of freedom of movement is not some nice to have thing. Without it there can be no common market. Likewise, the harmonization of (relevant) laws is not some nice to have thing. That's hard political work that has to be done to reach the goal and doing it without a political structure on the EU level is unrealistic. (You can't have consensus-based negotiations about the minutiae of safety regulations for wine harvesters between heads of state.)

If that's too much for the UK to deal with then that's fine with me. The rest of the EU will do fine withput them. If the UK wants free trade agreements they can have that. They can't, however, have parts of the common market they like but not those they don't like.
What are you thoughts, or maybe anyone else's on South America?

Argentina, Chile, or Brazil?
Yeah yeah. I didn't find better way for doing that.
>Pirates pirate to avoid money

Often, pirates pirate a thing, not to avoid paying for it, but rather to view it on their continent of residence, to avoid region coding. There are several other good/quasi-legitimate reasons for piracy/ripping as well. I like having backup copies of things, or a media server. I don't really like having a wall of DVD's. I also hate the forced FBI warning, Interpol warning, and Stupid anti-piracy commercial. I also hate all of the other commercials too.

>companies use DRM to punish pirates

This is no punishment to pirates, the only party who is punished by DRM is the paying customer.

>DRM isn't a stupid idea, it's a stupid execution of a reasonable idea.

DRM is a misguided idea, favored by people who don't really grok the recent changes to and limitations of technology.

>Steam's DRM is reasonable. The damage to the name however, is already done. Now I avoid DRM like the plague.

Not really, it flakes out fairly often, initiating a 10-20 min process of restarting Steam and the game, which is pretty annoying for me because I try to allow myself a specific and limited amount of time for playing games. It sucks to waste that time waiting for [thing which adds no value] to align itself.
>"You’re exactly right. This is a risk, an experiment. "

But that is not what you claimed. You didn't say "this carries some risk", you said he is out of his depth, doesn't know what he is doing, and will pay the price. You are the arrogant one.

>You act like it's perfectly reasonable to dismiss studies

You are the one doing that, not me.
That was my first thought too: a domain + Roundcube + Mailgun
Author here. This piece of software only runs on the Open Pandora Linux Handheld for now, but the developer says it's very portable and it is likely to spread to other platforms in the very near future.
It's just a way of identifying that a document is 'officially' from the company.

Ideally you just lock up the stamp in a drawer. You can probably forge it just as easily as others, but at least with the stamp multiple people can "sign" for the company. In my experience it was more useful than anything.

also: it's not euro-only. Go to Japan for a laugh if you want.
But it's too expensive.
And as far as I know, the GPU virtualization breaks the barrier of the number of GPU cards inserted on the board. That is, if the library allows, we can dispatch the workload to as many as GPUs as possible.
>Project Will Given to who post complete structure details + resume

I don't know what 'complete structure details' even means but I assume it means something they could toss to another developer for the excuse of paying them less and the schmucks who apply nothing at all. I've already made the mistake of completing a "test" of putting together a couple of email templates for a job that then magically never materialized after I was "awarded" it.

I will point you to my github and linkedin profile, but you're not getting free work.
I felt the same about the numbers appearing. It reminded me of the numbers that appear on my Facebook notifications/messages, and it made me feel like I needed to click/take some action with the number itself. It didn't really add anything to the experience though.

Other than that, I liked it. I especially appreciated the animated transition to the next step, where the "spotlight" flowed & resized forcing my eyes to follow.
Alternatives for Google Reader
Hash function for a collection of integers that has good theoretical guarantees?
Protectionist is exactly right. But things are quickly changing, at least when it comes to local retail. The incumbent bloated chains like Meyer are being disrupted rapidly by overseas online retailers as well as shrewd foreign retailers like Zara setting up in Australia. It's a good thing, too, because the duopolies in Australian retail deserve to be disrupted. They have coasted for far too long providing mediocre value to the customer.
Most professional sportsmen have a very limited career timeline anyway. There are SC2 pros who played SC1, who have now been earning a living from playing starcraft for 10 - 15 years.

There are many ex-top level players who do indeed get paid to coach for SC2 teams.

Many of the top players get 5000 to 7000 viewers every time they stream their games (which is often daily).

Top level earnings for a handful of sports are much higher, yes. But there are any number of sports where the best of the best earn far less than the top SC2 pros: http://sc2earnings.com/

If you want to invest 8mins into getting a real insight, I'd suggest watching the extended trailer of StarNation, a kickstarter funded doco about the SC2 pro scene which is coming out soon: http://blip.tv/day9tv/001-scii-community-launch-p1-starnatio...
Oh I see, the FDA has magic powers that make all food products perfectly safe, which is why we never have problems with food born illness right? But that magically doesn't apply to a certain class of food products you want to pretend are different even though the FDA says they are not different and applies the exact same standards to them.
What does that even mean? Clouds don't need bridges.
The AIA expands the "prior user rights" defense. It only affects that original inventor if he subsequently tries to patent the invention, not if he just keeps using it.
Brian Krebs tells Ars about 911 call that sent SWAT to his house
You left, great for you. But don't bother coming back to vote, leave that decision to people who live in France and are impacted by it. Sarkozy did nothing good for France and we don't need another president like him.