skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't you missing the point a little? The context were incentives in social events; (s)he's saying that unlike in places were reading the Economist might be valued (or even expected) by peers, SV isn't one of them. (Not that I would know)
>Dealing with Duplicated Code

Anyone notice the duplicate topic under Tutorials and Talks "Offline Processing in PHP with Advanced Queuing," just gave me a little chuckle when one of the articles is dealing with duplicated code.

Aside from this, I LOVE PHP. A prospective employer was asking if I would be open to learning RoR. Anyone who is experienced on Rails, could you let me know if it's a similar structure as PHP (which I'm great at)? Thanks.
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Chromebooks are amazing for business, in my experience.

- Collaborating on shared documents in Google Docs is awesome.

- Walk up to a Chromebook that's plugged in to the projector, sign in, and show my Presentation.

- Hangouts for video conferences.

- Chrome Remote Desktop to log in to my desktop when I want to do heavy lifting.

- Two-factor Authentication to protect everything.
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Sounds like you're trying to rush things. First you need to find something that excites you and aligns with your values. To do this I guess you've just got to expose yourself to new groups / causes.

If you're looking for somewhere to start and something worthwhile to be involved in; let me recommend: www.cleanweb.co

ps.

You don't need 100s of millions of dollars to become a figure who helps propel the world somewhere better.
Yesterday HN told me I was less beautiful than I think I am. Is this an attempt to soothe my wounded vanity?

Edit: Pity if so, since I'm not on Facebook.
Who also happen to be the people putting the most time and effort into producing entertaining, watchable Let's Plays, and generally are the people who have the biggest audience.

I've seen the chilling effects of this sort of thing before, in the Machinima world, and you'd be amazed how much damage removing or limiting the top creators in the chain can do.
What drove me to flickr as opposed to other places years ago was the detailed access control it offers.

I can have public photos, photos of family events and pictures from drunken escapades on the same account and I can reliably and easily have just certain people have access to them via guest passes.
Dear pg

I am beginning to see what you mean by the easy-negative-up-vote effect.

I hit that presentation and saw the first two pages - Mark Hibberd, and REST API documentation with Haskell. You could slideshow the phone directory at half speed and I would still be doing exactly what I did - go look up more info.

On the other hand, the responsiveness of that deck did feel like a phone book at half speed. So no downvoting from me.
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The url might have given you a hint.
http://mth.io/talks/haskell-in-production/#/

I agree about the near-uselessness of this form of communication. But we should blame the submitter for that.
I just want to IFTTT to detect changes on this one web page's one div. Can it do that somehow ?
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You spotted the deliberate mistake - erm. Whoops. Thanks for pointing that out!
I launched the beta of my own photo sharing site a few weeks back and the new Flickr design is somewhat similar in parts (flexible width/tiling photos). It seemed logical to me to adopt a Pinterest style grid for varying size images, rather than cropping them all to squares, though I notice that Flickr's design works more in terms of rows (https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=nature) than columns (https://photographer.io/categories/nature/photographs).

I'm very curious as to which style people find the easiest to browse.
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I think you are overstating the problems writing multithreaded code a little here. Yes, it's a lot harder than single-threaded code, yes you need to know what you are doing, yes you need to carefully design your code to enable efficient and safe multithreading, and no you don't get speed for free. All true, but you are making it sound as if writing multithreaded code is rocket science, some kind of mad skill only the top 0.5% programmers can handle. It's not that bad you know... If you're a half-way decent programmer and don't litter your single-threaded code with globals, shared memory and functions with side-effects, like you shouldn't anyway, parallelizing it after the fact to at least is usually pretty straightforward even. Maybe not optimal, but safe, and faster than single-core on multi-core hardware.
But legally mashups aren't okay. Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films was a sucessful suit over a two-second sample. The court decided that unlicensed use of even this brief riff was infringement. Mashups are tolerated because of their place in musical culture, but if a copyright owner decided to sue they'd have an easy case. (Though maybe not from a PR perspective.) (I'm also not a lawyer.)
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I understand that some people view this as a bad thing, but if you want Nintendo to keep making games and consoles, some revenue would do them good.
Didn't quite get the distinction between threads and multi threading...
I am not sure in which part you disagree with me. Yes most of the present youth in India - who are in a position to make an impact, are not doing it. A very simple case - they would rather pay the bribe to get LPG connection rather than fight. But the poor, they cannot do that and they are not in a position to make an impact and are trapped. This is a vicious circle. The effect of reservation based on caste is debatable but that would be a topic of its own.
However, there is an old saying of "you can't polish a turd", and I think that makes his example a poor one. It is notorious that you can sink a lot of money into cars that you won't ever get back out of it. That is why people that restore cars drive all around the country trying to find "solid" cars to start with. On the other hand, if you can fix it up yourself and not have to put much money into it then that does make sense.

A better example would be houses. Although even with them, if you spend money on things that you can't get money back out of (like a hot tub) when you sell it you end up in the same situation.
That's what the signers of the Declaration of Independence thought as well.

However, my point wasn't about whether the government could be changed, how it could be changed, or what it could be changed to; but that its monopoly on the use of force doesn't make the actions people take based on its rules voluntary.
Can't you hop on the Baltimore craigslist and find your $150 XP machine and your 17" monitor? Do these things cost much less in Silicon Valley? I don't see how anything in your last paragraph ties specifically into the Valley. Tapping into a digital economy != Silicon Valley. Would Tumblr have looked different in SV?
> I have June and July to write, edit, market, and launch
> the book. It may be slightly ambitious, but I plan to
> have a lot of time on my hands.

That'd be an absurdly demanding schedule for an experienced author and seasoned web programmer. Good luck; regardless of what comes out of it, it's a decent exercise.
Don't write beautiful code - write for your users
Ad revenue won't help them if they die as a videogame company. This is a long-term strategic mistake.
Love your job. Olark is hiring frontend leaning engineers (Anywhere, USA)
Sure. I've uploaded all the videos I had on iPhoto/iPhone. All of the videos are the same format, but when any given video is 10 seconds or longer (I haven't stopped to measure, but that's roughly the length), I get the following message on the video's Flickr url:

Bonk!
For some reason we were unable to process this video.

There may have been a temporary problem with our servers,
or we may not be able to work with this video file

i.e. video playback for +10 second videos isn't working for me, and video format between playable and non-playable videos is the same. Any ideas what this might be?
It's a national holiday on which incompetent execs are flown into high levels of existing companies.
Sure, you can write the code if you're a half-way decent programmer. But getting it to work correctly and bug free in presence of nondeterministic behaviour and races is in the domain of the very small minority, when you're talking about large code bases.

I'm betting the minority is less than 0.5%. Half way decent C++ programmers aren't many % of programmers, and people who can make a reliably working parallelized do-over for a nontrivial code base are maybe 1% of that. I'll say 0.05% max.
I don't think YouTube ad revenues are going to keep Nintendo from circling the drain. Seems like classic corporate overreach and shooting themselves in the foot.
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Yeah, nuts. Also, did nobody there work out how much they would have to PAY for this much coverage?
But if you create charter schools and DON'T allow them to choose their students (but let students choose them - the MN system), and you DON'T fund them over and above the mainstream schools (the MN system)... well, then your "social injustice" argument comes up kind of thin. The schools can't select, and the schools don't get extra resources, so any bias is entirely due to the will of parents/students to pursue alternatives, and the extra flexibility of the charters.

What this DOES result in is at best marginal increases in test scores, but significantly happier parents, students, and teachers.
Damn, corrected.
Another awesome thing about Flickr is how good its API is. If you look around for web apps and mobile apps that do something interesting with photos, they're almost always built using Flickr's API, for good reason: it's likely the most open, easy-to-use, well-designed API for photos out there.
I think this is funny:

A wife asks her husband, a computer programmer; "Could you please go to the store for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get 6!"

A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk.

The wife asks him, "Why the hell did you buy 6 cartons of milk?"

He replied, "They had eggs."
I must be the only one who doesn't like Flickr's redesign. Sure, there's some good benefits from it, but...

- The lines and colors are harsh

- The grids on the single image view separate the page in non-equal thirds which feels awkward

- A lot of the data elements just run together without labels or any indication that they're links: http://i.imgur.com/Szy3Y7Z.png

- In 2013, I'm a bit shocked that the site isn't responsive, even if they do have a good mobile app: http://i.imgur.com/OMiqoZs.png

Everything else is okay, but only because they didn't actually redesign the majority of the site. Go to your groups, stats, etc. and you still see the nicely organized old Flickr. I'm a fairly active user and usually a big fan of redesigns and changes, but I don't see myself using it much now.
A good analogy is buying a car. If I buy a car and make a video at the beach that happens to include the car, what right does the car manufacturer have to say, "The video incorporates my IP, so therefore we're going to force you to show ads for our car"?

You could argue that videogames are somehow different. But they're not. If someone makes a video about having fun with their friends, then the game they're doing it in is almost incidental. For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD5J5LEBVCk

Videos such as that one take a lot of work to make. It takes many hours to record the content, many hours to edit it, and a way to promote it once it's made. The game maker probably doesn't deserve any slice of revenue generated from that. The game is incidental.
Good point. So Nintendo would be getting a cut not take the whole amount?
Great infographic
On Linux, there is a photo app named shotwell. shotwell has a flickr plugin that works like a charm
If an app that had no sustainable future as a native app becomes possible as a web app, don't users also benefit? The fact is that many people are willing to pay for a service they continue to get value from month after month. And the recurring revenue also usually comes with recurring support because companies have to keep winning customer loyalty in a way they never have to with a one time sale. I think it is a net win for both customers and the companies selling the services.

And developers win because there are more viable businesses which need their skills over the long term.

Should it be possible to sell a native app as a service? Maybe, but supporting a native app professionally is much more difficult than you seem to be acknowledging. Have you ever supported a native app in the wild across a wide variety of generic PC hardware for novice users?
You're assuming studies were done as opposed to just some exec hearing about it in a meeting and going "We need to get a handle on this thing"?
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A few weeks ago, when _why the lucky stiff's website was updating, I had a realization:

His site was hosted on GitHub pages, so I could get the RSS from his commits, feed it through IFTTT, and have it text me whenever he pushed new content.

While his site is 'gone,' the repository still exists, so I still have the trigger active.
Thanks, I must have missed it last week. Looks like a much more readable alternative to phpdeveloper.org (which has too many automated posts imo).
PlayStation 4 packs 50% more graphics firepower than the Xbox One
I said looks like because as a developer I haven't used Checkout vs Wallet APIs, but people I've spoken with have told me Wallet is a lot easier to work with. Also Wallet is already on millions of consumer devices and likely has far more users already in their system. This doesn't mean it wouldn't have been better to merge the two products, but seeing as they are disparate systems Wallet looks like the superior of the two.
> If I were able to touch only a single thing outside the technology "bubble"; the Economist would be my #1 choice.

You're absolutely right, but that's not the point. The point is (and I'm referencing the New Yorker article) that you don't have to leave the bubble. You can change the world, help people, etc... satisfy all your goals and dreams by pushing forward with the neo-solutionist ignore-all-that-old-crap attitude that Valley companies thrive on. The Economist isn't bad, it just focuses (very well) on the issues of today, which is as good as yesterday when you've got tunnel vision for a brand new future.
Huh. I've never seen that message, and I upload 5 or 6 videos a day, all generally around 70-80 seconds long, and in the last few days close to 3 minutes long. Almost all of them made with my iPhone 5.
Good news, I want no such thing.
Initially caste based quota was chosen because they were discriminated against by the society for a really long time. The profession one would go in was based on the caste they were born into. A barber's son would be barber, a cleaner's son would be cleaner. Here is one example : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devadasi . People from certain caste are still socially backward while other caste have managed to come out. The problem is the reservation system is not reformed based on that. This is a topic of hot contention.
Yep, getting TypeError: document.body is null in console in Firefox 21.0
* Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use IEEE 754!"

FTFY.
We have been contacting webmasters and putting the spreadsheet together for 2+ months and just wanted to post if there was an easier way to explain our story to Google along with the spreadsheet and/or if anyone had been through the same scenario, what can we expect.

We have gone though the links and are close to being finished. We hope this doesn't happen again as we have had to cut back staff due to our traffic loss resulting in revenue loss. Thoughts or experiences with resubmitting.

Thx -M
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My favorite:

An ASCII character walks into a bar. The bartender says, "What's the problem?" The ASCII character says, "I have a parity error." The bartender nods and says, "Yeah, I thought you looked a bit off."
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All these articles are assuming Nintendo will get the whole profits from the videos, but I'm not seeing that in any sources. Does any one have more info on that? As far as I understand it, Nintendo will only get a cut from the profits, YouTube another cut, and the rest will go to the creator of the video. Not that it makes the move much better, but I think it's important to note if people can still make money from Nintendo Let's Plays.

The other thing I would like to know if anyone has more info, is if this in fact, affects Let's Plays. Maybe they were only going after machinima, or videos that show trailers or cutscenes. Is there any source where I can read more of that? I think this could be the crux of the issue: if they aren't trying to get money from Let's Plays, the move isn't so bad. EDIT: NVM, read the original source and they are claiming LP videos... that's sad, really.

What I find weird about this whole thing is that neither Nintendo or YouTube have issued an explanation of how things are going to work, and why they think the move is a good one. With all the backslash that this has created in the last week, I would think those companies would like to offer their side of the argument.
Given that the Government has already back-doors in nearly all of your communication. How would they utilize it? What would their benefit be?

That's nothing but Psychopathic behavior!! Someone wanting to know everything about you, just because there could something be that could harm you, or there could something be that you could use to profit from. That's sick!

You put 99,9% of the population into quarantine, because 0,01% is infected, thus harming all.

Then there is this obsession of some even more psychopathic citizens that act as a voluntary traitor, just to get attention. Remember the volunteers who helped to reveal the identities of demonstrators in the UK.

When I see an IT-Expert, I won't ask him to fix my computer just because he can, but people do. They don't care about the time and effort someone has to offer for you for free. They require it, because they believe they can require it. IT-Experts usually don't have high self-esteem which allows many people to put knives into the backs of those IT-Experts. That's the same egoism that the Government has, it believes to stand above the human rights.

Well it's sad, but in the US you've given up on privacy more or less, because everybody thinks about his own profit and not being willing to share a dime of your profit, even in theory, allows politicians to reform the law into something stinky. But politicians profit from doing that, because the suggest stinky compromises. Someone has to break this cycle. If I said that in an uneducated channel, people would say: "stupid communist" or something. But in reality I believe that people should just be friendlier to each other. Why is that so hard to understand. :( This makes me truly sad.

I live in a world where I have to use simpler and simples words, just because my surrounding doesn't understand common words anymore. The overall IQ is getting lower and lower, so low that I cannot use metaphors, sarcasm, irony and even folk wisdom anymore, because people are completely unaware of them. Knowing that these people would accept this law, because they don't care, don't read, don't think on their own is sad. People don't start thinking on their own, they agree on others or more popular people say, as if this was fully acceptable and logical. I am so happy when I hear about services like http://udacity.com because I hope the next generation won't dumb down like this generation. Way too many children fail at school, way too many pupil don't get higher education. The gap is becoming greater, your heritage becomes your identity.

Orwell laid it out dangerously obvious in his novel. Most of it got real. Let's hope that the day "Lies" become "Truth" never arrives.

We blame China, while we export the technology for it. We blame China while we implement that censoring infrastructure into our own Governments.

Hypocrites.
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It's in webmaster tools. I thought you might want to see the site to judge if we are a real site or not or run any external diagnostics to possible help.

Sorry did not mean to insert a link for a quick click.
That was never our intent.
> There is not yet a way to build a messaging service that has both features [content-aware features like URL detection, spell-checkers, web browsing for dumb clients, targeted ads to fund free services, etc] AND [pure] privacy [in the US].

If you did it on the client, and not on the server, you could provide those features without reading messages, or breaking end-to-end encryption.
Warning: potential productivity damage :)

My favourite of the ones I've seen so far from there was

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use some mod_rewrite voodoo." Now they have a two problems and a dead chicken.
They could have given it as one of the reasons to entice Nintendo into the partnership program.
I think it's simpler than that. Most people don't have a clue about DRM. What they know is if they want to listen to music they go buy an iPod and buy music on iTunes. It's more about brand recognition IMO.
As a newcomer to web dev and Dart, all I can say is Dart rocks! It actually makes sense as a language (versus js). But that's just my opinion. I highly recommend checking it out if you're tired of Javascript's idiosyncrasies.
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I would much rather Nintendo monetise things they've made.

Someone posted this link here the other day. It's a good game. Nintendo could easily sell this on various platforms and app-stores.

(http://www.pokemon.jp/#/contents/enjoy/play_pass/2.html)
Why wouldn't the landing page say "use arrows to navigate?" I spent a good little while trying to figure out what I was missing.
/almost off topic/
I love the history Flick'r! Back in 04, made for gamers... A brillant turn over induced by users misusing the website uploading their holidays photos... A lesson to keep in mind, always listen to your customers!
My point was that the rational version of what fhd2 suggested is very unlikely, leaving only irrational possibilities. If Nintendo is doing this on an executive's whim, then that's pretty stupid, which was my point.
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Sorry, I failed to add that in: http://rangerx52.weebly.com/
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I'm excited about the recent integration with Hue. I used to have a little mechanical timer that would turn a lamp on when it was time to get up in the morning. I don't have much use for it this time of year since the sun is up before I am. But if I could set IFTTT to set a lamp indicating the weather forecast for the day right when I wake up, that would be cool :)