skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're starting to see a flurry of innovative user interface devices. Touch was just the beginning, we now have finger tracking, muscle flex detection, Kinect, Google Glass etc - some convergence of these technologies could result in an über-interface.

Another big area to consider is how we're going to deal with the avalanche of information that we're slowly all coming under. I use Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, HN, Instagram etc and I want ways to bring all of the relevant news to the surface. Technology that understands my interests and can help me to find not just what has become popular but also to discover interesting things that others haven't yet and share it with them whilst still respecting my privacy.

These are just what I'm personally excited about, but I think what we're really starting to see now is compartmentalisation and niche areas with high-specificity each getting their focus groups, not simply a case of "lowest-hanging fruit" - although there is a lot of that as more and more people get involved in trying to be a part of 'the next big thing'. It's more likely to be YOUR next big thing as opposed to THE next big thing.

So there is no longer that one overarching emergent technology anymore simply because the democratisation of all the previous technologies is enabling more and more people to focus on the finer details, improving their little corner of the sandbox.

To get involved, pick a niche that you're interested in and see if the skills you already have can be adapted in any way to mesh with any new technologies. Or look for problems that may not yet have been found and work to solve them. One of these could become your next big thing.
You probably want to update http://docs.dotcloud.com/guides/flavors/#sandbox too so that it doesn't give the impression that this is a service you still intend to offer.
Nice example :) I tend to think state machines are underused, they give you wonderfully predictable behavior.
Er, what? Every single site I can think of 'leaks' this information through their registration page.

Try and sign up for a new Scribd account with an existing email:

"That email address is already taken; please choose another one"

Try to sign up for a Facebook account with an existing email:

"Sorry, it looks like somebody@somewhere.com belongs to an existing account"
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That is pretty fast. Obviously not like infiniband or what you use for message passing, but pretty considerable. It would be difficult to scale to thousands of nodes that need to communicate, but it is definitely good for most applications. When they mentioned the biostatistics group, I thought they might have been making a pass at scientific HPC type applications, but I guess this is more specialized. Prices are really reasonable, too.
Either consider treating your interviewer as "Google".

Or just write down the prototype of the function you need, tell the interviewer what you expect it to do, offer to code it up later if necessary, and use it
flexbox is great, but it only solves a narrow set of layout issues. There's so much more that a constraint based system brings to the table. A layout system should make it extremely simple to anchor edges between arbitrary containers regardless of their position in the DOM.

While we're at it lets scrap the DOM too. It's really painful to see how much it is being contorted to suit the application paradigm.
sounds like real life.
You should be able to run Rails apps on AppEngine through JRuby.
Ebert was a great film critic, but oddly, no one here seems to be talking about his one gigantic blind spot, which is his enduring and impenetrable belief that video games are not art, could never be art, and have no artistic merit whatsoever. His half-hearted apology - "I still believe this, but I should never have said so." - is in no way a retraction or backdown from that belief.

This is totally wrong. Movies are a subset of video games. Eventually, Ebert's remarks on video games will stand as a laughable monument to a by-gone era.

So. Ebert had the potential to be the first great video game critic, ever. His massive background in movies would have served him well. But he didn't have the fortitude to make the jump.

Who's going to be the first great video game critic ever?
Antibiotic resistance is very, very metabolically expensive. Bugs which are resistant die out pretty rapidly when you take antibiotics out of the environment.

In Sweden, they went on a very serious campaign to cut antibiotic use to give the genes time to die out and preserve the effectiveness of their antibiotics, and it has proven highly effective over a couple of decades.

In the US, pervasive use of antibiotics in livestock and pathological incentives to prescribe in the medical system mean that antibiotic resistance hard to get a handle on, but that's a system pathology, not a biological menace from the stars.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18545950 is pretty comprehensive if you want the detail.
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> It is much more fun to see McDonalds on your little digital street than it is to see "Generic Burger House 10101."

I beg to differ.

I loved SC2000. I would have purchased this SimCity right away had it not required DRM or constant online connection.

But after seeing the first McDonalds or other licensed or paid-placement crap show up in the game I would have never played it again.
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What do you ask a snowman inhabited by your father? After all, Dad's been dead a year. What's it like on the other side? Is there a heaven? Big Bang or steady state? When will the NBA lockout end? Elvis--dead? What's it like standing out on the lawn in the cold all night? Ever meet any angels? Has anybody else ever come back as a snowman? Do you have to eat? If you do, then what? Any good reporter could talk to that snowman for five minutes and come back with some great quotes.

But Charlie, self-centered little movie child, is more concerned with how Jack Frost (his father's real name) can help him. His dad has been dead for a year and comes back as a snowman and all he can think of is using the snowman to defeat the school bully in a snowball fight. Also, the kid tries to keep Dad from melting. (What kind of a half-track miracle is it if a snowman can talk, but it can't keep from melting?) Does the snowman have any advice for his son? Here is a typical conversation: Jack Frost: "You da man!" Charlie: "No, YOU da man!" Jack: "No, I da SNOWMAN!"
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> But after seeing the first McDonalds or other licensed or paid-placement crap show up in the game I would have never played it again.

You mean the optional "paid-placement crap" that you have to purposely go download and then purposely build within your city?

That isn't at all rational. Tons of games have had sponsored promotional items, World of Warcraft's Mountain Dew thing for one very large scale example.

But just like WoW's Mountain Dew thing this too is entirely optional.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-25/tesla-fires-...
You can switch to this mode at any time with either the ^x-a shortcut or the command "layout src" on the gdb prompt.
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http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-25/tesla-fires-...

> The stations will generate more power than the cars need, which means Tesla will sell power back to the grid.
I like the use of "duck test" in this. Just like the notorious Interplay manager decreed for the queen animations in Battle Chess... we should get rid of the duck.
And either there is excellent power storage or there is no charging at night.
It's interesting to consider if it's really your or my job to call on the government to "protect" other people that don't think about the implications. My answer would be sorry, but no.
Looking at Bitcoin as a tech startup not a phenomena
Hacker News is owned by YCombintor which is a startup fund.. I think that answers your question.
Seems to be a (sort of) Flipboard(like) OS(like) app
I also hold the opinion that it's much easier to learn programming if you can get feedback from the compiler in a few seconds or minutes as opposed to waiting two weeks between each compile.
Not a compiler, but more or less the same idea: Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity/In Words of Four Letters or Less: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/al.html
My very favorite Python sandboxing method is the one used by repl.it:

http://repl.it/languages/Python

They compiled CPython with Emscripten, and it gets run on your browser.
I dislike this not for what it is by itself, but for the door I fear it opens in the industry.

When Activision thinly disguised their DRM by calling Diablo 3 an MMO, it was a notable and large step for the industry in the direction of removing value rather than adding it in order to accomplish an objective. If anything, I wish the backlash was much harsher, enough to convince EA not to do the same thing with SimCity.

It may be disproportionate to the case at hand, real brands may be actually appropriate in a game of this type. I prefer that door remain firmly closed, rather than opened with some cause and later reopened with none at all. EA has a very bad track record. Having brands in SimCity would only add to the immersion of the experience if they were all over place, which EA couldn't do if they wanted to.
There is very little traffic at night.
Those are connected to the grid though and will send excess power to the grid, and I assume when there is on solar power they will get their power from the grid. Having them connected to the grid makes way more sense since then you can sell excess power and use the grid to fuel the few cars arriving at night.
Oh sure, I agree totally with you on that.
Who said anything about the government??
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Even if this isn't true, your friends with unlocked phones could be leaking your otherwise private posts to anyone who sees their phone.
I do that too. Take the 1st part of the 1st name and glom it onto the last part of the last name.
Ask HN: Pilot jobs in San Fran?
I realize this is a strange question for HN, however, the reasons behind it may elicit more help from the dev community than those my own industry. Plus, you guys are just plain smart and well connected.

I'm a pilot and flight instructor who has been learning to code. I want to move to the Bay Area to continue my education. Eventually, I'd like to find a junior developer position, or reach a level where I can offer my services as a freelancer. As I grow as a developer, I want to continue working in my current trade, which can offer a lot of down time - perfect fit for someone with a side project.

Any leads? I know all the airlines/big fleets. What you can help me with is individuals/companies/flight schools who need pilots, part-time included.
A majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana
I found it much easier to never sign up for Facebook. Never got past it nagging for my gmail password.
It's worth noting that it's very very close to the same tactic Microsoft pursued in targeting Android OEMs. Basically forcing them to sign non-disclosure agreements before letting them even know which patents they violated. Then when Barnes and Noble finally refused and forced (some of) the patents into the open something like 90% of them were found to be bogus. But this was after dozens of OEMs were extorted into licensing these dodgy patents based on the up front NDA.

This one act of Microsoft's has made it very hard for me to buy any of their products. I feel like I'm funding a patent extortionist (I would call them a "troll" but I know many people would nitpick the definition of that).
Nobody really cares about that. He never really got video games but he was old and nobody expected him to. Also, only pretentious fools spend anytime arguing about what is or isn't art.

I think we will have to look for great video game critics from our generation.
You get a lot more results if you search for the service/ port directly! http://www.shodanhq.com/search?q=port%3A3306
technical answer: [backbone] models is the new DOM

non-technical: app networks formed by much smaller, more open apps loosely connected into swarming alliances

people: as software eats the world, there will emerge a class of blue collar coders, see http://dashes.com/anil/2012/10/the-blue-collar-coder.html
Any site which serves dynamic content without a caching layer is exposed to DDoS.
Unlike a bar fight, getting the jump on someone with your pint glass doesn't really count for much in court.

Don't get me wrong, if someone came to me with a mystery case and that dumbass agreement, I'd be sorely tempted to officially respond via certified letter with a single piece of paper stating "LOL."

But as is, it looks like they get a little mileage out of the idiots forgetting about the 30 day agreement. So their approach did help a bit.
The huge problem here is not just that there's a blatant ad in a SimCity game. Product placements and tie-ins are actually pretty common in Facebook games. Advergames date back to the '80s.

The deeper problem is that SimCity is being presented as a relatively serious simulation. The mechanics of the game are intended to represent an approximation of the real world. People will learn about how the world works through playing the game--I know that I learned about zoning and traffic engineering and a whole host of urban problems through the original SimCity. And so did a lot of other people.

In fact, a lot of people recognized early on that SimCity had the potential to educate and influence a lot of people. It's even been criticized on the ground that it limits the ways that the various problems can be approached, for example disallowing alternate methods of taxation to completely replace property tax. (Ian Bogost has argued that the best way to deal with this is procedural literacy, that is, learning to critically read a game system like we would a book or a film.)

Introducing a magic electric car recharging station isn't just a tasteless ad. It's deliberate propaganda. Even if you support the cause (more electric cars) the way the system works subverts the basic mechanics of the game. This isn't like Maxis adding the recycling centers to SimCity 3000, or the way that nuclear power has always been risky since the first SimCity. Don't forget, this isn't just any electric car, this is a "Nissan LEAF(R)". Players who play the game with this DLC will be subjected to the continual message that adding a Nissan(TM) charging station to their city makes everything better, with no downsides. That may be an agreeable message if it gets us more electric cars, but it subverts the basic urban simulation model in service of propaganda. Imagine if it was, say, Shell or BP doing this with a regular filling station. Or McDonalds. And you'll note that Tesla doesn't have a SimCity recharging station...

Even players who see through the transparent propaganda will be influenced by it, in the same way that advertizing always influences our behavior, even when we realize that it is having an effect on us.

And for the subset of the player who might be skeptical about electric cars, this building also won't help. Because the building has no downsides, what happens when the player learns more about the real world and realizes that there are, in fact, problems that such a building would create (like drawing down a lot more power than just the solar panels can provide). Disillusionment is bad for advocacy. The resulting cynicism won't just sour them on Nissan, it'll sour them on electric cars in general.

If they had created a more balanced building (or even a whole system of electric cars and public transportation) supported by Nissan as an in-game ad it would be less disturbing, because it would fit with the system and be a less transparent cash-in. (On the other hand, there's something to be said for the blatant transparency, since at least it's blindingly obvious propaganda.)
reminds me of the buddhist quote:

"If while we are washing dishes, we think only of the cup of tea that awaits us, thus hurrying to get the dishes out of the way as they were a nuisance, then we are not 'washing the dishes to wash to wash the dishes.' What's more we are not alive during the time we are washing the dishes....If we can't washes the dishes, chances are we won't be able to drink our tea either."

i remember going to a gdc after party where they had a burlesque show for entertainment. 75% of the crowd had their phones out recording the event while watching the dancers through their phones. so sad.

there is little more fulfilling than enjoying the present moment. its fun looking into the past and sharing but it comes nowhere near living in the now. weather that is during the act of eating or washing the dishes...
I host at Rackspace. I'm glad (sincerely) that they are using some of my money for things like this. This makes me happy.
Congrats on the release.
Randome side-question... when I visit meteor.com with cookies disabled, there is no content displayed (just the background image) -- is this indicative of meteor.js not functioning without cookies enabled, or is this just specific to how you've built your site?
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Not entirely sure what you wanted to use Express for but I've found server-side JS with meteor very intuitive. REST APIs are really easy to roll with the Collections-API Meteorite Smart Package too.
Your "argument" doesn't really do anything to address the fact that there is advertising in the game that I (hypothetically) paid for. This is just as obtrusive as all the other anti-features that are included. It doesn't matter that it's optional, the fact is I (didn't) pay for a game to be a advertising platform. Those resources could have been spent on making the game more stable. That is true whether I choose to use the feature or not.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, Ebert wasn't trying to impress anyone. He told the truth as he saw it. Keep doing that while being a good writer, and people will recognize you for it.
1) The answer wasn't "we'd like to do this but we're super busy right now, how about later" or "that's super complicated, will you guys put in a lot of the effort". It was a pretty direct no. We would have been willing to do much of the work.

2) My recollection is that we talked about it around a year after Chrome was released.
Chrome Beta release date: September 2, 2008
Date of WebKit2 announcement: Thu Apr 8, 2010 (after <1 year of development)
I don't have records of the meetings where we walked though.

3) Does the reason for saying no affect whether our choice to make our own thing was reasonable?
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> This is totally wrong.

That's your opinion, just as he had his. I find it interesting that you question his fortitude mere hours after his death, simply because he doesn't have the same opinion that you do on a topic that resonates with you and that you are passionate about. He probably didn't give two shits until the video game community ate him alive for saying it, then he had to pretend to give one shit.

You're also assuming he would have wanted to review video games, even if he saw them as art. He chose to review film and rarely wandered, with the rest of his writing being mostly commentary on things not related to film or the arts; who are you to question his courage based on his choices and preferences? That's like me demanding that you write software for Windows Phone, with the caveat that I'll question your technical chops if you don't.

I work with a lot of people that don't like video games. I don't like Brussels sprouts, and some people do. Who cares? Move on.
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wow, you guys just don't have a clue ;P

It's 3 space tabbing or go home.

(I am actually serious, about the space part, not the clue part. 2 spaces looks like a typo and 4 wastes space once you indent a couple of times. Got to be 3, although if I had to choose, 2 or 4, then definitely 4.)
Not in the winters in Stockholm where I am from. But then again such solar powered stations would be pretty much useless in the winters here anyway.
1) The constant refrain from many in the tech community of "I would pay to use service X and therefore having a paywall is a legitimate business model" frustrates me to no end, because it's such a "moderately wealthy tech person from the West" point of view held by those with the disposable income to spend on these services. If Facebook's mission is to "make the world more open and connected," it would be impossible to accomplish that if you're charging some rando in Uganda who is accessing Facebook on a 'feature' phone, or worse, the equivalent of their monthly or yearly income. Further, if you look at the political discourse in the middle east that is occurring predominantly on FB and Twitter, it would be ass-backward (and truly "evil") to charge these people to have that discourse.

2) Indeed the point you make about non-techie friends is relevant but you miss the point -- most people don't care about these issues if the result is an amazingly useful tool. So what if ads are correlated with usage: god-forbid you see something interesting that you may want to buy or is relevant to your tastes. And honestly it's no more true that FB 'gives' your data away any more than Google 'gives' away your Gmail/Gdrive/Picassa/etc. data.
How do dual-engine browsers work? Do you manually switch between engines? Is there some sort of automatic "this page looks better in this engine" determination that happens?
We have two Ubuntu 11.10 servers (decommissioning soon!) that previously contained 9.1.3 and have just had this 9.1.9 version updated from the repos.
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I just think that people miss out on a lot when they concern themselves more with posting about their experiences than they do with enjoying them.

Maybe they don't. Maybe unlike you and I (and others), most or at least many people are perfectly able to fully enjoy the experience while sharing it.