skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the risk of sounding cavalier :) see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5659447 -- which is a better summary of the point I was trying to make. It seems he likes the Mac native platform, which is great, but don't try to sell me on the idea that all other platforms and the web, in particular fall short.
There should a trial
Shoe stores sock it to online buyers
Piq: a jukebox for social spaces
See also: http://timescapes.org/
On emotional availability
For many applications, Java is simply the best programming language we have available. Alas.
We are experiencing slow motion Armageddon. I'm serious.
What should we be worried about?

Peak Oil.
While still alpha, BitTorrent Sync looks really promising for this use case.
I do this with Vagrant and the vagrant-hostmaster gem.
Back in 1985, Ron Fricke, the same director of Baraka (1992) and Samsara (2011), created the most impressive time-lapse film ever made till then. It was called Chronos and it's available online [1]. It's very interesting to watch how the moving pictures match the soundtrack to capture the essence of Time [2].

[1] http://youtu.be/1K9N9flhOx4

[2] http://youtu.be/1K9N9flhOx4?t=25m24s
Note: If you're using puppet to manage machines running Debian squeeze, make sure that your puppetmaster is running (at least) v2.7.

See also: "Issues to be aware of for wheezy" (http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/amd64/release-notes/ch...).
"We can't search for anything if this is empty :-("

It's not empty though... it says "chad fowler". I understand this is just a placeholder, but for those who aren't developers and may not appreciate the difference, clicking search when the input field is empty should perform a search for the placeholder text.
>In layman’s terms… he used a camera. Not a camcorder. A DSLR camera. And he put each individual picture together on a computer to make it into a video.

That's... exactly how time-lapses are usually done. Not sure where the amazement comes from exactly.
So I have to pay to even see this article?
The distinction between Dvorak and QWERTY when it comes to wrist movements isn't remotely subtle. "This is a test sentence" leaves the home row once on Dvorak and 13 times on QWERTY. That doesn't strike me as atypical. The "flow" of Dvorak is so noticeable that certain words become slightly annoying to type. If we could somehow chart the motion of tendons through your wrist I'm sure I could convince you that the difference is like night and day.

> For what is worth I've been finger typing on Qwerty for the last 11 years and I've never had wrist pain. My average is about 90 WPM when doing relaxed typing and over 120 when I stretch myself, and I never felt the need for going faster.

It's not about the speed (well, I was a hunt-and-peck typist on QWERTY and I switched in order to break the habit, so it was about the speed, just not in that way). It's nice that you don't have any wrist pain, but are you sure that will always be the case? Even a little tiny bit is enough to put me off writing code and both of us will due the bulk of our typing in the future.

> Maybe Qwerty needs a replacement, but Dvorak ain't it.

I agree, but only because the barrier to learning Dvorak is rather large and would apply to any Qwerty replacement. It took concentrated effort over the course of months just in order to reach my speed on QWERTY and I'm not sure it was worth as much effort as it took. Still, I'm fairly certain that if you could snap your fingers and use Dvorak/Colemack/Whatever you would.
I'm guessing because it's not our fight. I don't know your location, but guessing US? American film makers may churn out documentaries about the Third Reich, but many Germans don't really dwell on what happened (and why would they?)

In the same way that in Europe, we get a lot more objective news about the wars the US is waging in other countries around the world which probably don't get on Fox News or CNN.

I don't know if it's a good thing, but there seems to be an apathy towards human rights in Asia from the West. It's like child-labour-sweatshops are almost a joke.
What are four uses of categories and what other construct can you replace each of them with (bonus: when should you replace them with those constructs)?

Explain the interior pointer problem, when it applies, and what you can do about it.

Describe what happens in objc_msgSend, and give two reasons why it's implemented in assembly rather than C.

How would you implement NSMutableSet?

Explain the proper uses of (__bridge), (__bridge_retained) and (__bridge_transfer) casts.

Explain all the important differences between direct ivar access and access through a property, under MRC and under ARC.

When should you use +/-conformsToProtocol: instead of +/-respondsToSelector:?

How would you implement toll-free bridging?
Predictive Analytics: What is it good for?
I didn't mean for that to come across as the government as an "enemy" (I didn't mention an enemy of any sort).

>So the use the government has for "highly intelligent people" is to strengthen the country.

You wouldn't call that work (the effort applied to produce a deliverable or accomplish a task, which in this case is whatever it takes to "strengthen the country")?
Less profitable is not unprofitable.
It's simple really, Germany was at our doorstep, for many of us it was inside our house. My great grandmother was in a work camp, my friend's father fought in WW2 and was later imprisoned in Germany for a time.

Germany was real. China ... well China is over there, they make cheap things for us and in return we don't poke at their internal policies. Imagine a Chinese embargo on the Western world, we'd die.
Someone develops for the Mac because thinking about cross platform and making it work in the browser is too hard, so we'll just bet the farm on letting Apple handle the hard stuff, and hope that performance doesn't later drop off, and then clients ask why it is no longer so good, and I say "but, I develop on this closed platform, and it should be good..." etc.
It bugs me when someone uses software in a singular form:
"Norton Ghost is a software which makes life easier"
it reminds me of:
"Kettle is a cookware for boiling water"

It just seems strange to me.
Why do the Chinese get a pass in the respect that the Germans didn't?

it might have something to do with starting WW2. just maybe.
How long did each take to compile?
I think it would have been more interesting and more scary if there was a trend amongst people in completely different fields.
One of the excuse of those who support corruption is that they are helping their friends. But there can be artificial friendship. On a survey or poll some years ago in India, those who supported corruption said it is way of introduction of businessman to a bureaucrat. Mario Puzo said mafia is friend of friends.
>Conversely a lot of production code still uses Cobol and Pascal.

These arguments have always struck me as subject to the availability heuristic. Is there any scientific data on this?
My Hero, the Garbage Man.
GitHub Repository Collaboration Network
This is comedy, of course they exaggerate things so you can't take it literally. But they are spot on looking weird and talking to 'yourself.'

This is a great niche product, IMO, other than that it will suffer an embarrassing death. Most people do not need up to the second information while out and even those that do (say drivers) will probably be distracted by them.

Brin did make a fool of himself when he said that phones are emasculating, essentially saying that using Glass is cool. I guess that's an opinion, but I disagree. Unless it's part of your job, you'll look like a pretentious, know-it-all @sshole. And unless you're careful you can subject yourself to physical harm, like if used in bathrooms, bars, getting in people's faces with it etc.

This got a lot of press because tech bloggers, professional "early adopters" and wannabe cool techies are bored, they needed a new product to hype to death and to show how hip they are. It's been a while since a new gadget came out.
"When an insurance company goes banktrupt, the owners don't suffer. The customers suffer."

Not necessarily. Often another company will gladly buy the bankrupt company in order to take over the accounts. Also, for many types of insurance it's not that big a deal, customers might switch to another company and from the first payment they'd be able to make use of the new insurance policy.
Everyone would be much better off watching Koyaanisqatsi for time-lapse pan with good music and less self-importance:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/27800
Indeed, the first thought after seeing that stone arc was "Baraka".
Here's the other thing: the college is obsolete folks are targeting the wrong people. Thiel encourages smart kids not to go to college, then asks why we have twitter rather than flying cars. But we've yet to devise an alternative to the educational military industrial complex for capital intensive innovation (flying cars). Elon Musk isn't hiring a bunch of people without college educations to work at Tesla or Space X. Thiel fellows aren't going to perfect nuclear fusion or carbon capture.

The people who shouldn't be going to college are the non elite. We need Thiel fellowships for people who would be going to Perimeter State, not Stanford.
> What's wrong in this case with the very good performance across many platforms (even tablets) of the SVG-backed RaphaelJS?

So I attempted to determine the accuracy of this claim. I ran a benchmark from Kevin Roast [1] who seems to author a lot of Canvas demos. For each of the 8 tests in his benchmark, I recorded the FPS reading that I saw that was the lowest (e.g., framerate dropped to X at some point during the 5-second test).

Mac iPad

20fps 16fps

29fps 18fps

30fps 21fps

30fps 30fps

28fps 6fps

29fps 18fps

29fps 7fps

12fps 30fps

mean_mac = 25.875, median_mac = 29 mean_ipad = 18.25, median_ipad = 18

On the Mac side, I can see both sides of the issue. Arguably 26-29fps in a wide variety of situations is good enough for a wide variety of applications. At the same time, I can understand the author really wanting to blow past 29fps.

On the iPad side, the issue is more clear. I think most people would say that 18fps is unacceptable for a drawing application.

(If these numbers are contributing to the "pseudo-myth" of slow Canvas performance, please point me to a reasonable benchmark. This one is just the most comprehensive one that I found.)

> At the risk of being a bit rude, it's worth noting that he doesn't bother with all Desktops, just Mac, which causes further suspicion that this is really just a rationalization piece and not about performance.

He addresses the choice of the Mac platform in some detail in the "Drawbacks" and "Conclusions" section of the post. At the risk of being a bit rude, it's poor form to dismiss someone's reasoning as a "rationalization" without addressing the reasoning on the merits. To the extent that his choice of Mac over Windows et al is specious, it is not a claim that is supported by your comment.

[1] http://www.kevs3d.co.uk/dev/canvasmark/
BitTorrent Sync would be a good fit for you http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html
I was just thinking it would be cool to turn your desktop into a slow moving time lapse (extends throughout the day), many of the shots in the film would make a nice wallpaper.

I have too many side projects ATM, someone go build this!
> But I think Paul might be surprised at how many people today would choose the '73 Caddy over the '73 911.

If that were true then why would cadillac let that model/style die out unlike porsche with the 911?
I agree about Reddit, Twitter, etc, but the fact that these apps even exist and they're so popular tells a lot about the capabilities of web apps. It's so bad that websites create apps to access websites and on HN people applaud the huge progresses in web design...
One of the reasons it's slow is because CG bitmap contexts are pre-multiplied, but the Canvas spec requires things to be not-premultiplied, so there's a bit of extra math that needs to happen w/ Canvas vs. straight CG/Quartz.
As to why there is no outcry from the intellectuals it's probably because they are sympathetic. Eugenics and the intellectual left have a long history together.
It's still a shitty thing to say. Why do you think he's set to accomplish nothing but get PR for Google? Because he's old?

The guy isn't an idiot, and has managed technical teams his entire life.
You should use this as an opportunity to learn. It's a good beginner project.
Cool idea and agreed with needing the word "country" in the title. I didn't know what the site was for when I first came in. I had to click on a book in your "Try these" list to understand. Maybe include a sub-title that says "Not all books are priced the same on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, etc. Search to find which Amazon country-specific website has the cheapest price to buy your books."
Ask HN: How to run anonymous services?
Recently we've built anonymous service for tracking and reporting petty bribery around the world [Web http://bribespot.com , Android http://bit.ly/11dCsIh ].

Our contributors mostly come from developing countries, and since law-enforcement agencies in some of those countries are corrupt, we designed our service to provide maximum anonymity for our contributors, e.g. no personal details are collected and no open IP logging taking place (IP addresses associated with submissions are stored in the DB in an encrypted format).

The problem is that anonymity opens the door to all sorts of nasty surprises - from spam and abuse to fake reports and blackmail campaigns.

How are you guys coping with problems that arise from running anonymous services? Anyone wants to share their experience?
>Keyboard configurations are newly important as we think about how we should type on tablets and other devices. The calling card of the personal computer was the keyboard, and now, we are carrying around pieces of glass on which we simulate the old QWERTY design. Are we going to keep that layout going?

I vote yes. A majority of people have already invested a ton of time learning propper typing style on physical QWERTY keyboards. Translating that existing muscle memory to use a similar style on virtual keyboards is a lot easier than people would guess. After about 30 minutes of practice on a virtual keyboard people normally get their typing speeds to a slower, but adequate level in order to be productive.

An entirely new input system offers very little opportunity for re-use of existing skills.
Stay with that decision.

It also costs $100/yr to keep updated. I believe HipByte has no plans to introduce a better business model or different tiers of pricing. For contrast Appcelerator & Xamarin both include free tiers and updates for free, only support is paid. RubyMotion is more accurately cloning the iOS dev payment model with annual subscriptions. And they know, you'll want updates as iOS is updated. So they push this over the entire community rather then getting enterprise costumers to pay for a scaling support model.

Wait for mRuby, or just develop in an alternate product.
>>It's built to sell well to IT managers, not be productive and fun to use, because the people who will actually work with the product don't get a vote.

I work as a Sales Engineer in an enterprise software company, and my experiences have been the exact opposite. We win many deals because our competitors' products are nowhere as user-friendly as ours. When I give demos or do consultation calls, more often than not the audience contains at least one person who will use the software in their day-to-day job. And if that person is a department head, then they will have the ability to veto the sale regardless of how much the IT Manager or even the CIO/CTO loves it.

I've also seen situations where the customer bought a competitor's software, only to replace it with ours a short while later because user adoption with the other software turned out to be so atrocious. Those customers end up learning valuable lessons on why end-users should get votes in software purchasing decisions.
To me, these types of videos feel artificial, like a Thomas Kinkade painting[1]. I have been in the high Sierras and the Himalayas at night and the sky never looks that way.

Same goes for the use of HDR with dawn or dusk clouds.

[1] http://s831.us/17Gp81H
The article doesn't mention which version of gc and which version of gccgo was used. Why do people post benchmarks without such basic information?
If we get to a point in time when most people don't have to work, because of automation and such, and they start instituting a basic income (as opposed to it all going to the elite), then I think that the difference between people when it comes to money is going to become incredibly noticeable. The people that actually dedicate themselves to some kind of structured work - especially the ones that have to invest time into learning the trade, and are held responsible if they screw up, for example doctors - are probably going to be paid much more than the people on basic income. Of course, the people on basic income can do productive things, too, but they aren't held to the same standard as the people that are officially employed - so the people that are in official employment are going to be depending much more than the basic income for having less freedom then all the people on basic income. Then there is going to be an incredible competition for the jobs and the people that miss out is going to suffer socially because they have less affluence to flaunt, and thus less status.

There are going to be people that don't care about prestige, of course. The artistic types in particular could have it great.
Is there something like this in the Silicon Valley, or SF ?
the concept of "home row" is part of touch typing, which was invented 15 years after the QWERTY layout
What do you think is hardest to obtain element with a relatively low atomic number?
I've heard of this cozy relationship before, sporadically at best.

Could you elaborate on this?

Links to definitive works on this subject by respected scholars and experts would be great.
Fine. Why would a normal person need this, especially since this is in addition to his/her smartphone?

Instead of looking like a dork all the time with G glasses on, why not look at the phone for a restaurant or directions and then put it in your pocket /purse? How hard is to pull the phone again 5 minutes later if you aren't sure?
I had the same feeling about IPython, and I rather liked bpython — and then I discovered DreamPie, which offers a number of features I have found useful in exploratory programming. Yes, it moves me out of both Emacs and my terminal, but it's almost worth it.
I haven't seen this, so I appreciate it.
You have a combination of very long time between shots (eg the people walking on the beach), and very long shots (eg the flowing river, where each individual shot probably is ~20-30 seconds). Most of this is impossible to shoot as regular video.
Why is it fallacious to question the motives of a company that has used tactics like these many time previously? Its simply boiling the frog, overcome the initial opposition by offering a workaround, then when many linux distros support secureboot (solely via their authorization channels) they can begin applying more restrictions. This is the first item in the Microsoft playbook for stifling competition.

Even if you don't believe that is what they are going to do, why are they in a position to make it possible at all?

As for distro users being restricted, read the referenced blog post, stuff like no non-fedora signed kernel modules, no custom kernels.

Not to mention the cluster fuck with CAP_COMPROMISE_KERNEL currently brewing in kernel land:

http://lwn.net/Articles/542327/

The real problem being, that now kernel functionality is beholden on wither it can comprise an existing windows boot somehow when booting with secure boot.
That is the excuse in India to fight corruption. Everybody is fighting corruption, Indians are not. But if you think further, Spying is also cheating and corruption which is glorified everywhere.
The common-letters-spread-far-apart myth never made sense anyways. E, T, S, and A are almost right next to each other, and they're pretty darn common.
If there ever came out studies that suggested that women can't be trusted with money, especially compared to men, then well... those studies wouldn't be existing for long.
Interesting paper. It pretty much applies to MMORPGs as well, them being the natural evolution of MUDs.
Mac users typically don't like non-native UI apps
What about subdomains? Does it support them?
In the past, I used several different strategies - it all depends on what type of client you have.

For greedy clients - give them a discount that is only valid if they pay up to a certain date.

For corporate clients - threaten to go online with a blog post/ social media story about how they screw freelancers.

For callous clients - yeah, delete the code or switch on a few unexpected "extras". The funnier extras, the better.

It's a good thing that you have a contract, though, should come in handy if things turn out nasty and you'll need a lawyer.
The cadillac evokes a sailing sloop. The porsche evokes a stallion. Cadillac has long deliberately referenced maritime traditions for style elements. They're just stylistically different and I don't see how one can easily see superiority in either.
Can you provide sources which discuss your claims on Chinese eugenics?
Ask HN: Ideas for network where members pay?
I have recently been inspired by SitterCity.com which parents and babysitters both used to pay a monthly fee.<p>If you could create any network to connect people (who pay for the service) what would it be?<p>- Bicyclist looking for riding partners?
- Crossfit buddy finder?
- Any kind of niche-dating network?<p>... ideastorm!
Not in all of them. MMORPGs like PlaneShift have tons of obscure information which is intentionally not published, so players could discover it through roleplaying and interactions within the game. In the end it depends on the game design and approach.
This guy made Tetris with the D3.js Library
There would be no practical need for human presence on Earth too. If we accept this idea, we can deduce that the physical location of humans would be irrelevant.

Consequently, we can assume that space exploration for the sake of enjoyment would be plausible.
It saddens me how few of the people I meet have this attitude. I learned pretty early how rewarding hard work is, but the opinion I hear most is "life is for living, not working". "Life is for living" is a justifiable claim, but why don't people see living well and working hard can go hand-in-hand just fine?
Yii 2 - Public Preview Available
Makes no sense. Obj-C is compileable, and arguably faster to develop with auto-completion, code checking. There's no cross platform benefits, and it's not free.
This is not specific to Mac users. Most prefer applications which integrate with their desktop environment well. It's a tradeoff. Using something like Qt will try to mimic the native UI close enough, even if not 100%. But saves you the time on learning each native toolkit. I'd say it usually pays off, and that small percent doesn't worth the effort (especially if the project is supposed to be cross platform).
It is the canonical list of sports.
NNT calls them nerds. IQ tests invented by nerds so they could call each other intelligent.
As a Dad myself, probably about the age of your Dad, with a son about your age, I can tell you that as impressive as what he has accomplished in his career is -- I bet he'd say that having a son like you, and what you wrote, the way you feel, and your determination to follow his lead is his greatest accomplishment.
For DIY, I'd guess helium.
YouTube, Dropbox, Facebook are nationwide blocks. Imgur, tinypic, media wiki etc...seem to be blocked by some ISPs.

I'm obviously careful about this, there are good alternatives that work (for now) in china, e.g. Skydive rather than Dropbox. But even I have to we YouTube for video uploads.
Show HN: SocialTV app redesigned – download TV shows free
I wonder if he bothered to license the music.