skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to ask about off-screen rendering. What kind of speeds are achievable? 30fps? Could I use this to stream a web texture into a game?
Using Firefox on Windows.

Hit the back button to try to get back to HN... No luck. Try again... still no luck. Try hitting it twice really fast... No luck. Try hitting it twice really fast again... Frustrated. Right click the back button. Click Hacker News.

I hate webpages that get you stuck on their site like that.
Firefox Developer Tool Features for Firefox 23
Yes this seems like one of the anti-feminist 'men's rights activists' type subreddits.
You probably know more about economics than me (I'm just a mathematician), so I won't argue against you, but if I understand your two posts correctly, it seems like what you're describing is completely useless. If a model doesn't have predictive power then what is it good for?

I understand from your other post that the justification of Austrian "models"/"explanations" comes from their simplicity. Which I guess is some application of Occam's razor? But that makes no sense - the simplicity of a model on it's own is no indication of correctness. You always need some notion of the likelihood of the observed evidence under that given model. Otherwise, you can just say "all people make all decisions completely randomly" and that's the simplest model of all.

A completely non-predictive model has no real-world meaning, because it can't be used to effect reality. I suspect that Austrian models do effectively have some small predictive power - there is an implicit causal analysis that comes from the small element of qualitative evaluation of uncertainty, no doubt used instinctively by practitioners to decide whether an argument sounds plausible.

Anyway, it all sounds completely ridiculous. How is their method of choosing explanations any better than a witchdoctor deciding that thunder is a sign of the gods being angry?
How to Supercharge Your App Revenues Using Decoy Offers
Learn the concept of "Irrelevant Alternatives" to make a killing. :)
I agree. I would prefer to have to ring up a support line and provide ID or something. However, that opens up two problems:

* What if it's a non-critical service?
* How do they link an ID to an account without requiring it at launch?
My vertical photos do look oddly small in the new layout.
Running JavaScript unit tests headlessly in CI.
Webhooks, upload notifications and background image processing
This blog post details how you can use Cloudinary to perform asynchronous background image processing in the cloud and receive web notifications when uploading and image manipulation are completed. Sample code in PHP, Python & Django and Ruby on Rails is included.
That's actually pretty good, although if it had looked further in the past, it would have found more languages for me.
I use phantomjs to login to my bank's website and grab my balance for me.

Unfortunately my bank decided to outsource their web operation to the cheapest bidder from India and as a result their web application is beyond shit. It requires javascript to work, and therefore I needed a headless broswer engine to scrape it.
This is a more recent occurrence in schools. From my experience, the best place to be to be stimulated was school. But with budget cuts it's getting harder to keep students interested, period. When I started middle school we had a fully equipped science lab, week long camping trips to the everglades, snorkelling, scuba, sailing and computer camps at various universities. All paid for by the taxpayers. By the time I graduated highschool the money had dried up through budget cuts and those programs were shuttered.

My old, college roommate worked in the admissions office told me exactly why they don't bother with GED applicants. If you are that smart you are supposed to be doing college prep courses. Getting a GED means you might be smart but probably lazy. And they have no shortage of smart, college ready students applying. If you didn't immediately enrole into community college after getting your GED you're cooked. It also means you don't have any of the minimum requirements (4 years english, 4 years math, physics, chemistry, 2 years language, etc.) to enrole to even the lowest ranked state school.

> Unfortunately I wasted any potential gain by spending a few years not doing much of anything

This is the type of the student universities tend to avoid.

Have you gotten treated for the depression? Are you working towards an AA? Full-time or part-time student? Colleges will allocate some spaces for non-traditional students but the good ones prefer FT students.
Not that it matters, GMail has slowly become worse and worse, so I'll gladly settle for pine or mutt these days (or Thunderbird as a start). Google Calendar will likely be the only application I will miss.[1]

But Google is slowly giving me more and more reason to jump ship.

[1] Application I will miss that Google has not already killed (or is going to).
Scala 2013 Workshop Program
What do you mean by 'sustainable'/and your argument for that is?

An argument why this would be a working solution: the entire design went for fuel efficiency. Apparently, they were overconfident in the reliability of some parts. This fix adds some weight to diminish the impact of the unreliability of those parts.

On the other hand, give that these planes probably will fly for half a century or more, it would be very unlikely if they never modified this design in the future. For example, further testing might show that this new steel container is stronger than needed, or materials might improve, or new battery technology will half the volume of these batteries, etc.
> Nintendo parodies the Kickstarter (nintendo.com)

Do you have a link to the specific Kickstarter they're mocking? Or is that an errant 'the' in the title?

Also, does anyone know the backstory?
Nice to peak behind the curtains - thank you.

Edit: deleted unnecessary commentary
AI Algorithms, Data Structures, and Idioms in Prolog, Lisp, and Java: http://wps.aw.com/wps/media/objects/5771/5909832/PDF/Luger_0...
Cool you can take screenshots with it, see the test_capture_page example.
Most hiring managers delegate dealing with recruiters cold calls to their personal assistants. Anyone who's not in the preferred supplier list does not get through.
Wario really is the godfather of trolls.
How do I upload - or more to the point - sync my local folders with Flickr? Is a web-based uploader really the only official current option?
I use gibberish answers to security questions. This way I don't need to worry who all know my mother's maiden name or my first pet's name. Staying safe is easy, if you know how to game the system.
Ariya Hidayat & co have put a monumental amount of effort into exposing the inner workings of webkit in phantomjs - I'm not sure I see the necessity for a python rewrite. Taking a quick look at the code, most everything I use phantomjs for outside of screenshotting is not available. A great start for sure, but unless there are some fundamental shortcomings with phantomjs that I'm unaware of, I agree with boothead that python bindings are probably the way to go.
I absolutely love programming in Prolog. I've never needed to write anything large in it at all (which is where most prolog interpreters fail), but when it comes together so beautifully at the end, its quite amazing.

I thoroughly recommend "The Art of Prolog" which is an engaging and fun read.
This is hacker news isn't it? Re-purposing things in ways that the original designers did not envision is one of the cornerstones of hacking.
Yay. The only reason I still tested for opera support was their rather popular mobile browser. Good to see them move to chromium. One less testcase
Maybe we should re-brand the service we're posting this on to 'ConsumerNews' then?
That may work with larger companies but most CTO's and the like don't have that luxury.
This is Nintendo... getting personality. At least in the Western world.
I've pushed this to my Galaxy Nexus, but my Asus Transformer TF101 (Tegra2-based) running latest 4.2.2 from source is listed as not compatible.

Anyone from the Opera team able to provide a reason for this?

Edit: What ewams said. As stated in the article, Opera has restricted tablet-support so far.
Beyond Money: What Startups Need From Investors
20 GB Of Free Cloud Storage From Copy
Karp went to Bronx HS of Science. This is the 2nd most competitive school, after Stuysvesant, in NYC. I would be impressed if they didn't cover any of those subjects. By graduation, 100% of their students are college ready.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy#Leaping
Why do we square the differences in standard deviation?
I use G Finance for at least an hour a day and have for several years. Y Finance I only use for news (which they do quite well).

Can you share some examples of this bad data you speak of? I've never seen it. My quotes are always accurate and very close to real time - much faster than Y.
mogrify -strip imagename.jpg

But it won't help. You could just make your data a real image.
It's not the first article on HighScalability named in the form of 'The service_name Architecture company_name Bought for a Cool some_amount Dollars'

Nevertheless, it's really good to get an insight in these stuff and I like these articles from them.
Everything is goind flat: new splash screen for mpaa
Study: Free Computers Don’t Close The Rich-Poor Education Gap
Lightroom integration is something I'm keen on. In regards to RAW storage; would that be for backups?
Despite the wrong execution on the process of rolling out the changes, the 1TB free is real.

So, can Flickr be considered as a reliable backup solution for my photographs?
Teen Develops Computer Algorthim to Diagnose Leukemia
>> This is also why in the real world the fed can triple the size of the money supply without causing inflation. Of course the austrians predict, over and over again, that runaway inflation is going to happen Any Time Now. But it doesn't and it won't.

What makes you so sure no runaway inflation will occur? Just because you haven't seen it yourself yet, it's unimaginable?

You're right about two things: inflation happens when more money is competing for the same goods, and increasing the money supply does not by definition cause inflation. The conclusion you are drawing ('the fed can triple the money supply without triggering inflation, and runaway inflation will never happen') doesn't follow from that though. Yes, all the money pumped in the economy is sitting on bank accounts right now, interest rate is near-zero and nobody is investing (throwing easy money at Wall Street for short time profits, jacking up the DJIA doesn't count as 'investing'). That's the sentiment right now. What do you think will happen when the economy picks up some steam, people get more confidence, and investments and consumption goes up?

The tricky bit about 'runaway inflation' is the 'runaway' part. You can only control inflation by very careful monetary policy, because economies are like oil tankers: they change direction very slowly, but if they start moving you can't stop them anymore. Runaway inflation doesn't occur when you increase the money supply, because when you are increasing the money supply, it's because the oil tanker has almost stopped, and you want to get it going. The question is what happens if it picks up too much speed further down the line.

Maybe you don't believe in dollar hyperinflation, but the observation that 'austrians predict runaway inflation over and over and it never happens' is simply wrong. It didn't happen for dollar, euro or yen, but it happened in Weimar, Zimbabwe, Urugay, Argentina, all within 100 years time.
Life can be better (part 2 of 3)
Passwords can't be safe. We have a fundamental problem with passwords that somebody got to fix by replacing passwords with something safe.
Is mathematics discovered or invented?
For most normal users taking a normal amount of photos, that's absolutely fine.
Like pooping in urinals?
Checking for IE9 in JS
After Hiatus, Chinese Hackers Take Aim at U.S. Targets
Reading this article, I'd say that the weakest link isn't "you" (or "myself"), but "others", to which the account providers tailor their (in-)security practices, and thus allow easy access to any account.
Feels slower on my Galaxy S Plus. I'll try it a bit more, but the first impession ain't good...
I like the look of that set up. Tabs allow you to keep buffers open at a lower mental priority, right?

I think I'll try switching to "one tab per project", but stick with splits for individual files within a project.
Doesn't your other contributions mess with the pattern ?
Depends. Branding works when you actually manage to maintain quality across a lineup.
If ads are good I actually love looking at them. Occasionally I click too and if they actually catch my fancy, I buy. But this (the last part) is extremely rare.
this!

I'm a premium user, have been for the past 5 years, I don't see what being pro gives me any more and I'm paid up until may 2014! I feel like I'm being screwed over!

is there still a 200 photo limit on free accounts?

are they secretly pushing people back into free accounts so they can kill flickr more easily because there aren't so many poeple paying?

new design is good though, horay for FINALLY being able to middle click the nav now! can't wait till they fix the organizr!
Because Flickr TOS say you can't have a business account. http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157626812125880/

I've seen nothing that says that's changed.
Ask HN: What are the best tornado resistant home technologies?
Also what of those technologies are echo friendlier and easier to insulate?
Hardly, this is only true if you believe that high school is the most effective way to gain the knowledge that high school teaches and/or that we are still stuck in a credentials orientated world that won't let someone without a high school completion (that basically says nothing about their ability) should be given any kind of good job.
Coworking spaces help you to find someone local. Letspair helps you to find someone remote and work on their or your own projects.
Tumblr’s Loss Is WordPress’ Gain As Thousands Of Users Jump Ship
Avoiding places with tornadoes in the first place is likely the best long-term solution.
It makes sense if you read it with an Italian accent (Wario is supposed to be Italian).

As for background: Nintendo is crapping on crowdfunded games in general. Apparently, they feel threatened.
Same behavior with Firefox on Ubuntu.

The only other places I get this are nsfw sites and broken-as-hell asian pages.
We used appengine at a major european car rental company I was working for back then. We deployed a one instance mirror/backup of our booking app which basically cost us nothing. In case our servers, which we kept inhouse, were somehow unreachable we would forward all traffic to appengine and scale up accordingly. After the issue was resolved we would use various mapreduce jobs to migrate new bookings, cancellations etc. back to our servers. The app was written in python with flask on top. To store data we used the NDB Api which was a blast to work with. Overall a really nice experience.
Yahoo to Move Into Old 'New York Times' Building
Are you saying that he isn't at it above the level of the average high school graduate?

I would argue that he has made more serious progress and impact that most of us ever will. Of course no doubt some will say that Tumblr is worthless to society, pretty much the same thing that crops up every time there is a thread about Mark Zuckerburgs achievements.
Nintendo has a thing for these sorts of cute mini sites and widgets.

I was referred to a random Pokemon flash game (I know right??) once and found that it was really good!! (tetris-like puzzle game). I wish they would make a smartphone app out of it; it is perfect for the touch interface.

edit: found it! http://www.pokemon.jp/#/contents/enjoy/play_pass/2.html (it has great music too)
From the article: "Note that we don't have an Opera 14 build ready for tablets yet: we're still working on various tablet-specific UI optimizations, and this will be released later on."
In defense of digital freedom
As an engineer with no background in economics, do you have any sources that discuss the pitfalls of Austrian economics from a layman’s perspective?

It seems nowadays that the internet is so rife with neo-Libertarians that it’s very difficult to find content discussing Austrian economics that is not biased towards it. I’d like to see a more balanced perspective, or at least a rundown of reasons why Austrian economics has failed to correspond with reality.
A very good article, and that's coming from a recruiter!
List of startup product ideas split by industry, role, problem?
This could be very important for entrepreneurs looking to discover a new product idea. In a way, it is another step in making early stage innovation more transparent.<p>Even if some of the issues expressed are more obvious, it'd be helpful to expose entrepreneurs to different kinds of problems.
"Give it time."

Flickr was in need of a facelift, but not a complete overhaul. This just seems to me like a rehash of Delicious (the difference being that Flickr is still a part of Yahoo): redesign the whole thing to make it more "social" and "hip" and lose what made it a great service in the process. Delicious is still awful compared to what it was even under Yahoo's governance and I don't think Flickr is going to recover from this either.

And what's this about dropping their Pro accounts in favor of some 1TB free space nonsense? Yeah, that's going to work...
This would be a useful reference:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/01/weekinreview/0...
Looks like an open market without hardly a player other than Google and the elk. There's a market specially for paying customers.
Funny thing is they are using their two decade old character Wario. About time they come up with something new after milking the overused Mario and Zelda franchises for so long.
Dark Google Docs userstyle
‘broken-as-hell asian pages’

It’s Nintendo, so that sounds about right.
Ouya E3 conference open to public
It has been revealed that the Ouya E3 conference will be held in the conventions centre car park, outside, and will be open to the public. Typically only pass holders gain access to E3, but this year Ouya are giving the public a chance to see their demo.
Entrepreneurs Should Forget ROI And Focus On Return On Life
On the subject of why amazingly-powerful, ahead-of-their-time languages don't catch on.. I'd be interested to know if a study has ever been done on the "accessibility" of a language and its popularity.

By which I mean: A total novice, even a non-programmer, can be given a simple bit of PHP/Javascript, and work out what it does and how to make minor changes to it. But something like Lisp & Haskell, you just can't do that - you need to spend some time learning the syntax before you can do anything with them.

I'd be surprised if the ramp-up time to be able to do useful things with a language didn't have more of an effect than how powerful and useful it is.
s/here's are/here are/

You can see the join where I changed the sentence :(
Lets make it a real life situation: delete all the accounts (in 14 days) and shut down the site forever. Plenty of companies do this.

Do you still feel the same way?

Human nature is weird in a way, we feel better about someone telling us they will note sell a service, even if untrue, than someone coming out and being honest about it.
Virtual personal assistants are quite affordable these days, it's not really a luxury.
At the time of their key-exchange meeting, they don't know what messages they will want to exchange later.
Chinese Hackers Found U.S. Government Data on Google Servers
There were a set of Python bindings for phantom.js named PyPhantomjs, and it was included in actual phantom releases, but the maintainer moved away from the project, no-one stepped forward and it was ultimately removed from the project (https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/10344).

So this project is really useful.
I do the same thing. What good does it do me to have a secure password, if the answers to security questions are well known?

Of course, I learned this the hard way. I had an ex that was able to breach my email because she knew personal details to answer my security questions (of course this was back in Hotmail days circa 2001).
Sounds interesting. Any possibility that you could anonymize the script and paste a link to a gist of it? would be interesting to see some real-world Ansible examples.
It looks really cool but I'm on my phone and found it mostly unusable. (iPhone5,Chrome)
I've got on the mailing list of a London recruiter who have been spamming me for over two years. They run under at least two company names, and haven't stopped e-mailing me though they've told me they would do so twice.

They have a REC (UK trade body for recruiters) logo on their website but when I complained to REC, I was told they weren't a member, so there was nothing they can do (other than ask them to take the logo down).

I've taken to replying "Hello [name]" to each message but I only got one reply before that stopped getting results.

Still nothing I can do. What do you do when you are on the mailing list of a cowboy?
Everything by "Lorenzo", an Australian blogger:

http://skepticlawyer.com.au/author/lorenzo/

http://lorenzo-thinkingoutaloud.blogspot.com.au/

is a good starting point.
Nice post! Good to see how the making & debugging processes translate to meat space.

One other thing I'd like to see: how did you find your customers? Was it just F&F or did you do any wider marketing?
Sell first, build later
Google still support XMPP, it's just that it's not federated (edit: according to 0x006A, it still is so they may just be blocking Microsoft). It's been federated for years though but what was the effect of that? Has Microsoft made MSN messenger interoperable, have they done so with Skype? Have Yahoo? How about Facebook?

Thing is, as Larry said, they support open messaging but why should they do so with companies that don't reciprocate? Last week, Microsoft decided to take advantage of gtalk federated XMPP to make it usable inside Outlook, this is awesome. However, did they make skype usable inside of gmail? No. So Microsoft is happy to use google's messaging federated openness but refuses to share their messaging with Google which gives Microsoft an unfair advantage. As Larry said, they support openness but not to the point of shooting themselves in the foot by giving Microsoft a commercial advantage by integrating gtalk in Outlook while there's no way for Google to do so with Microsoft's Skype.

I think this is pretty fair from Google to defend themselves. And it really takes nerves from Microsoft for complaining about someone blocking them on their messaging network when they have been the king of blocking messaging network with MSN and Skype. Come on.
And funnily enough, gold has almost never been the metal of value. For most of history, it's been silver:

http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2013/04/29/selenium-silk-spices-...
A very interesting problem about history of go and mercurial
When I first learned about Prolog in AI class, the first thing that struct me was how beautiful Prolog/logic programming solutions are.

In non-declarative languages like Java, you have to build up the different pieces of computations, while you keep maintaining a mental picture of how the various pieces fit together.

In Prolog, you declare the entities and the relationships/constraints between them, and the system will build the solution for you through inference.

David Nolen has done some awesome work writing the core.logic[1] library, which makes those Prolog gooodies accessible to Clojure programmers.

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[1] https://github.com/clojure/core.logic