skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I think Africa is mostly a business opportunity, sans a few places which have structural political problems which could be best addressed through high-velocity physics demonstrations. But it's undeniable that the US v. USSR caused a lot of problems during the cold war (Angola, etc), including propping up a lot of bad leaders or supporting revolutions.

I don't think it will be "plundered", though -- the foreigners (white and Asian) doing business going to Africa are making life better for everyone.

There are a lot of NGOs and UN organizations still operating in Africa which don't help (and never really helped). But there are small, usually religious, charities who are also doing good, just like they do in Asia, Europe, and the US.
I think this is actually is a very good thing. Before the next big thing can be standardized, it should be created. Google tried to create a next big thing, by moving in several directions, among them are both Dart and PNaCl (which IMO, is the way to go, it provides good browser integration and 95% of the native code with both multithreading and other stuff). Mozilla, IMO, is more interest in keeping the status quo and resisting any significant innovation.
The shapely library - https://github.com/lukehaas/Shapely - makes working with the canvas much simpler
This observation brings some potential context to the rationale for the Dart language.
The Dollar Shave Club of Home Improvement
ASM.js is inherently cross-platform and its performance is becoming quite impressive.
It is pretty nice but navigation between photos still feels a little clunky. I'd have expected the 'next' and 'previous' arrows to slide/load in the pre-loaded image rather than generating a full page refresh.

Still very nice all in all though and a terabyte of free space makes it an easy choice for the default place to store all your photos. Goodbye iCloud for me.
Ain't Nobody Got Time for That
Good presentations do not put every single thing in the slides. They are there to support the speaker. The better the presentation, the more worthless it is to click through on a web page, and therefore I generally avoid them in favor of something I can actually read.
Incredibly flickery, and the camera and player character frequently clip through the terrain. Nice animations and music though.
I didn't use a single addon.
Not sure if this is valid but:

User Bapabooiee:

Well, you guys are in luck (BTW, great work-around, Xenofon), since Chrome now has two startup switches that you can use:

--disk-cache-dir
and
--disk-cache-size

Simply close Chrome, right-click your Chrome shortcut, click Properties, and then in the field labeled "Target:", make it look something like this:

"...chrome.exe" --disk-cache-dir="CACHE_DIR" --disk-cache-size=N

Where 'CACHE_DIR' is the new cache location, and 'N' is the cache size limit, in bytes.

Use whichever switch you need, or both. Keep in mind, however, that these features may not be completely stable yet. But you probably shouldn't have any problem with using them.

And to anyone who's interested, I caught gander of the existence of these switches directly from a source code file for Chrome. See here:

http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/chrome/common/chrome_s...

Hope this helps!
Those certainly help port it to the PC, but they don't guarantee it will work well on every combination of components.
Nope, I ran no addons.
When possible, make it a web app. Otherwise, I'd love to know more about Sublime Text and Light Table approaches, as they work well enough.
"Don't Starve" uses webGL, but is packaged as a native app.
I get lots of emails from Elance with jobs paying 10 USD/hour - should I take those initially?
What's it like on Chrome? Sometimes these things can be an issue with the GC.
The article states that "the resulting whey is roughly as acidic as orange juice", so the industrial process probably creates more acidic waste than what you make at home (because they're using a different process that results in less dilution, I would assume).

The article specifically explains why acid whey is harmful to the environment - it's decomposition robs streams and rivers of oxygen and kills fish.

The point is that your personal experience making a small amount of yoghurt at home does not make you an expert when it comes to large scale production and the problems resulting from the waste produced.
This is a good thread. Thanks for asking this question. I'm curious to see more answers.

I simply have no imagination when it comes to things like this. I really wish i did. I could probably make my life much easier if i did.
Here's an honest question: how do the unluckier 90 percent, who face calibration scores and Perf and closed allocation, not find themselves in revolt when they learn that others work in a blue-sky environment on challenging problems that will build their careers?

How is the fact that most people at Google won't get to work on stuff like this not a gigantic HR issue?
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I (and I'm sure many other internet users) don't even take account of that stuff - I automatically hone into the content (typically, in a column somewhere near the left of the page) and ignore the ads to the sides.

Still, ads everywhere and a very busy content layout detracts from the usability of the site.

Clearly ( http://evernote.com/clearly/ ) does a really good job at scrubbing the page and changing the text to be more readable.
If you truly understand the OpenGL programmable pipeline you understand graphics programming in general and should have to spend little time picking up a new API. Just like how you should be able to learn a new programming language with ease if you have enough experience.

From Eurogamer.net:

Low-level access and the "wrapper" graphics API

In terms of rendering, there was some interesting news.

Norden pointed out one of the principal weaknesses of DirectX 11 and OpenGL - they need to service a vast array of different hardware. The advantage of PlayStation 4 is that it's a fixed hardware platform, meaning that the specifics of the tech can be addressed directly. (It's worth pointing out at this point that the next-gen Xbox has hardware-specific extensions on top of the standard DX11 API.)

"We can significantly enhance performance by bypassing a lot of the artificial DirectX limitations and bottlenecks that are imposed so DirectX can work across a wide range of hardware," he revealed.

The development environment is designed to be flexible enough to get code up and running quickly, but offering the option for the more adventurous developers to get more out of the platform. To that end, PlayStation 4 has two rendering APIs.

"One of them is the absolute low-level API, you're talking directly to the hardware. It's used to draw the static RAM buffers and feed them directly to the GPU," Norden shared. "It's much, much lower level than you're used to with DirectX or OpenGL but it's not quite at the driver level. It's very similar if you've programmed PS3 or PS Vita, very similar to those graphics libraries."

But on top of that Sony is also providing what it terms a "wrapper API" that more closely resembles the standard PC rendering APIs.

"The key is that it doesn't sacrifice the efficiency of the low-level API. It's actually a wrapper on top of the low-level API that does a lot of the mundane tasks that you don't want to have to do over and over."

The cool thing about the wrapper API is that while its task is to simplify development, Sony actually provides the source code for it so if there's anything that developers don't get on with, they can adapt it themselves to better suit their project.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-inside-play...
No, I believe most of these "Lets Play" videos contain commentary voice-overs by the players, but neither they nor Google care about this with the Content ID system.
I'm writing a book on Flask, the Python web framework
That they can follow? Yes. I think Gwern's got a fairly simple rundown on her silk road article on her website. That they can make practical use of for day to day? Not really, no.
Not all of us are in entrepreneurial places, unfortunately. For example, in Brazil, everyone I know personally dreams of having a higher paying 9-5 job, and working for government agencies means you're high status and set for life. (I want to have a business to make people happy though).
For me it's the function expansion syntax.

fun main(args : Array<String>) {
val a = calculate(1) { x -> 10 + x } //11
val b = calculate(2) { x -> 20 * x } //40

println("a = $a, b = $b")
}

fun calculate(a : Int, calc : (Int) -> Int) : Int{
return calc(a)
}
I find it interesting that there are still people out there who think Chrome is ugly.

Firefox and Internet Explorer have all bad tab and/or adressbar placement.

Or do you just find any browser ugly by definition?
Some people develop blogs with needless layers of scripting that crash browsers when readers try to view their posts. Now they have two problems.
I switched to Chrome right around Firefox v3.6. I've tried it a few times since, but I don't remember which version Firefox was at at the time.
From what I have read (still not made my attempt to move to the Valley) it is very interesting mix of people that are liberal in social sense and libertarian in economic one with some general anarchism just for the fun of it. It is a bit tough for a non hacker to grok the culture.
You are having a better experience than me. To me, what I see is a
blank page... A pity, I was really interested in the content. :-(
Parse.com was down
A lot of businesses tend to be very file/folder focused. There are difficulties in creating browser based line of business apps that interact with the file system. They need servers and sysadmin support which is against the whole ethos of a user driven ecosystem.

An OAuth secured http api that wrapped basic file system commands and gave some kind of indexing and file level hashing would make a whole set of apps much easier to develop.
I didn't quit my job with you. I just stopped providing my time.
I'm as quick to dismiss re-skinning as any self-righteous dev, but this really hit the spot for Flickr. Flickr has always had a trove of useful photo archiving and categorizing features...sometimes I upload photos just because their geocoding editor is so convenient to use. Many of the other major photo services lack even simple group creation of photos (I.e. having a single photo endpoint both be in your "Family memories" and "Summer Vcation" albums)...and Flickr is by far the best in terms of making it easy to discover old, but significant photos.

This is not to say that this means Flickr will survive against Facebook, anymore than quality point and shoot pocket cameras have a chance of revival in our camera phone era. But Flickr, for now, definitely has the edge in quality and variety of photos. Even if you think Instagram filters are the best thing ever, the laws of physics (I.e. optics) limits the vast majority of their photos to a narrow range limit.

It's worth pointing out that Google Plus has had a better photo album design than Flickr for awhile now...I just tried them out (again) and saw that they, for the most part, have most of what makes Flickr useful. However, Gplus is decidedly focused on social sharing...it's hard to describe how this drastically impacts its use as a photo service...but using GPlus's photo feature was, for the first time in a long while, that I've just given up in frustration in the first five minutes. But this may be just a sign that I've finally hit old age.
I'm not a copyright lawyer, but that sounds like an unauthorized derivative work. For fair use to apply, the work has to be transformative, changing the original work in a substantial way. Since I'm not a lawyer I don't know if recording your own voice over the video would be considered significantly transformative or not.
Yup, with noscript on, that page is just blank. What is the equivalent to TL;DR for page full of scripts, nothing shown so pointless waste of time ?
The HN meetups in tokyo might not be as you imagine. :-) Japan is not as startup-friendly as you might suppose based on the amount of technology that comes out of the country, but things are changing here. In the past few years we've seen a lot more interest in entrepreneurship and startups, VC's, and incubators.

We run a casual, low-pressure mixer kind of event about once a month. If you come to Japan, you can follow our blog (http://www.makeleaps.jp/blog/en/) or signup on Doorkeeper to get notified of events. We get lots of visitors from abroad swinging through and we're always looking to help support other startups in Japan or small businesses trying to enter the market here. It's a really good crowd of people.

There's also a meetup for HN readers in the kansai area of Japan if you're visiting there.
That's not a blog, but "Diaspora", the decentralized social network that got massively hyped some years ago http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mbs348/diaspora-the-pers...
To the complainers and criticizers here: shut up, this is great.
Crashing a user's browser isn't a problem, it's an opportunity to take control of their system.
The college ‘preparation gap’ in a single graphic
If you're not motivated to achieve your goals, maybe they're the wrong goals. I'm not saying never work hard for anything, but all the things I'm best at are things that I actually enjoy.
If IFTTT even goes down, you can circle back to http://umbrellatoday.com/. Enter a location, and you can register an e-mail address (of mobile phone) where a message should be send to.
Original, in case the site doesn't load for you: http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201204/two_problems.html
Lazy languages don't have equivalent call stacks as strict languages. However, GHC lets you get a stack trace via profiling. E.g. +RTS -xc flag gives a stack trace.
I've had a really good experience with the Doxie. I may upgrade my SD card to the wireless one, but other than that I'm super happy.
AMD’s last and only hope: Low-power Kabini, Temash are ready for action
Benchmarking Cloud Server Performance and Comparing IaaS Providers
Google engineer publicises Windows 0-day - Microsoft "difficult to work with"
I use it to post to Google Calendar when I take an Instagram photo. Not sure how clever that is, but it might be useful in the future
The Quiet Death Of Desktop Messaging
Why Twitter's Two-Step Authentication Won't Stop Big Twitter Hacks
There's your one. Now stay off until tomorrow.
My gut tells me that SaaS is the wrong play here. Offering a hosted option is nice, but half of my projects will flat-out not use any third-party service as part of the dev environment, it all has to be self-hosted, and many of the other half are reluctant to do so. I think you might find more opportunities by offering it as a self-hosted app/appliance.
Why Star Trek Made San Fran the Center of Its Futuristic Utopia
Sorry but calling this a tutorial is clearly giving it too much credit when there are real and comprehensive tutorials like https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Canvas/Tut...
FWIW, yesterday I saw a "fail whale" page on Flickr for the first time ever (though it was of a baby panda). I don't know if that's a consequence of infrastructure changes or increased traffic...I don't think it's the latter but perhaps the increase number of fetches on each normal page load is causing a burden.

Also, the simple prev/nav between single photos has always been unacceptably slow...hopefully that gets fixed, as that's also kind of key to the viewing experience
Nintendo is allowing sharing just not profiting.
CCC frees German Constitution from Print Media [Google translation]
I agree that ChromeOS as a base operating system is difficult to imagine but I think that the new rich GUI is moving towards HTML (beyond its use for browsing). Flash, Silverlight, and WPF will be replaceable very soon. Metro has a similar goal but less "standard".

I also prefer to have the opportunity to use the browser engine as a rich GUI but develop in any programming language (like Python or C#). It seems like this is not the Google vision because there is not an official Google's WebKit COM bindings for Windows while Apple has a good Javascript/Objective-C integration.
Identity theft lawsuit against Prenda Law abruptly ends
And you get a real FIPS-compliant hardened device manufactured by someone that actually knows (and tries) how to handle security/crypto vs Square that doesn't really offer anything as such and that handles your track data in the non-protected memory of the phone...
> You'll save a lot of time by starting with Ti tubing rather than turning the hole into chips.

If we speak of finger rings it's not that much extra work, normally you can drill in with 12mm HSS bit even on a bench lathe. Solid stock also allows you to make eccentric rings.
With this new move, it seems that Flickr has made a turn towards the domain of 500px.com, also known as providing a stylish way of showcasing your photos. 500px actually used to have a design that was almost an exact match to what Flickr has now, and still looks remarkably similar.
> Meanwhile, a good old-fashioned lobbying effort continues in Washington; the New York Times reports a push to ease regulatory oversight of the hiring of foreigners and the firing of Americans.

I thought we were past the corn-laws way of thinking, or anyway I was expecting better from The Economist. Plus, and most important, it's economically disadvantageous in the long term.
I think one of the interesting bits of info to bubble up since the redesign was launched was they said mid-March was when they geared up and went for it. Even if they had bits of it done they did a great deal in a small time frame and made massive improvements, and it's a great sign for Flickr because they've got room to get better.

I was a paid up Flickr Pro user for a while, and I actually let it expire this year as I'd decided it wasn't going anywhere but this has really got me interested again. Seems like Yahoo understands the potential value of Flickr, it might not compete against Facebook in terms of raw numbers and standard phone camera photos but there's potential to get the serious enthusiasts back.
What versions? No problems for me. Firefox v24 and Chrome 29.0.1514.0 canary.
Scientists identify molecular trigger for Alzheimer’s disease
This is the first WebGL demo I've seen on HN (or anywhere else, but I don't exactly go looking for them) that not only works, but works very well, in Chromium on Ubuntu.

Granted, I'm on 11.10, so perhaps my browser is a bit out of date... still, though, it's kind of nice to see what all the fuss is about. The game played very smoothly for me.
Can you connect to AWS (us-east) from Europe?
I have connectivity problems with AWS. Web management console, my ec2 instance (in us-east region) and https://status.aws.amazon.com is unavailable. Heroku seems to work fine. Do you also experience any such issues?
Gmail for domains has been down for an hour
Is anyone tracking this?

I cannot send email on any of my "google apps for domains" accounts, or whatever they're called this week.
Windows 7 and 8 zero-day
How android app solve your problem
The problem pointed out in the article is a commonly accepted truth in India. Some hard truth - even though there have been many efforts to bring the economically and socially under developed class into the mainstream, it has not happened yet. Most of the students who even come to UG especially college's like St. Stephens are from middle class or upper middle class families. They have very little incentive to fight the system. The brand comes with privilege which is the only thing they are after. In short, people do not fight the system but have learned to make it work for them. The poor and downtrodden are the unfortunate majority who are not able to do it.
I'm Chromium 25 on Ubuntu, and I get "Your browser doesn't seem to support HTML5 and WebGL. The best thing to do is upgrade to a modern browser that supports all the awesome things the web has to offer"
I swear I'm never going to catch up to the fact that Square no longer means the folks who created Final Fantasy.
I like the new Flickr. Its made me want to use it again. Both for the large amount of storage, the new Android app and the website. I've not had time to fully try everything out yet.

Facebook's dominance may mean its too little too late except for the crowd who detest using Facebook (myself included).
There is almost nothing about multi-hour coding interviews that does anything to filter out the malicious, unless they happen to be incompetent as well. Screening out malicious people is a very hard task.
HR can derive valuable insights from big data
Digital paper-wireframing
Smooth as silk, Firefox v24 (Nightly). I'm seeing approx 60FPS with no visible CPU/GPU load. Wonderful! :D
Le geste le plus Fair-play au football
Everyday there seem to be a couple posts about Google/Gmail being down for domains/that country/whatever. Unless these posts link to an article explaining hows, whys or anything relevant, I think these posts are utterly uninteresting. To keep polite.
I wouldn't go so far as to say the Economist rarely knows what it is talking about. I'm a subscriber, and I thought I don't support all of its views, I think it is still a very intelligent and thoughtful publication. If you're not a subscriber, maybe you try it out for a while in earnest before making an assessment.
I really think those LAMP stuff is a bit old. Most of the startups rely on ruby / nodejs for the scalability issues and much easier Ajax/API implementations. Although if the team is best at php, there's nothing wrong with working with it.
The left and right cursor keys generally work.
I was a subscriber and avid reader for around 15 years. I'm speaking from experience.

Edit: I stopped my subscription because the once challenging publication has become, IMO, far too populist.
That's an odd way to count. So fruits are bad pseudo health foods too? 8oz of pure, fresh squeezed orange juice has 22 grams of sugar. It wouldn't make sense to say that is "~5 tsp of sugar".
The government is not any smarter, they would let people starve to death if food could be easily transformed into fire weapons.
You're pointing out the advantages of development as a field and assigning them to Silicon Valley as if the two were identical. Not only that, you're pointing out Detroit et al as though industry were totally location-dependent, without any consideration to one of tech's greatest strengths (for many of us), that you can work in the field from just about anywhere.

Accusing Silicon Valley detractors of jealousy and envy contributes absolutely nothing to the discussion, particularly when they are talking about the culture of a place and you are conflating it with an industry.
Some people use Diaspora, now their two readers have a problem.

Not that G+ is any better, come to think of it.
Me too. I assume this is the inverse fourier transform transform transform.
They'll do the job for the next 5 years or more. In 2005 a 360 was significantly cheaper than an equivalent PC and I'm sure the same will be true this time around.

If you look at how the extra power on PC is used you'll see it's the same type of games, prettier. Almost universally. I can't think of a PC game that uses performance to do something significantly new or interesting, or even do some gameplay better.

It's going to be the same this new generation too. What can we so with this extra raw power? Not much more except make the game games, prettier. Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo know this, which is why they're all pushing for second screen integration, social features, online connectivity and (especially in MS's case) motion input.
Short addendum, since this is probably the term from that page that is mangled the most by the automatic translation: The "Basic Law" is in fact the "Grundgesetz", the German constitution.

(Aside note: Some people from outside the law studies often claim that it isn't a "constitution" because the "Grundgesetz" refers to a "constitution" as a different entity, but this opinion is not shared by any reputable law scientist. Functionally, it's the constitution.)