skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was talking about HTML5 demos posted on HN. Like this one that DOES use CSS:
http://www.keithclark.co.uk/labs/css3-fps-new/

Granted, it's a terrible abuse of a CSS, but it's also a perfect example of how I'm supposed to be wowed by a buggy HTML5 demo my PC could render better in every way 15 years ago.

And no one has answered my question yet. What benefit does HTML5 bring me as a gamer? Why are HTML5 games better than native games in my steam library, especially considering DSL is my only option for Internet here?
No Obligation for the 1% to Give Because Nothing Was Taken
Brad Feld: Misconceptions About VCs, Startup Death and the Rise of the Machines
I guess the issue for me is that there is a cachet in our society for successful artists- That's why so many people want to try art, because art is "cool".

But the reason art is cool is PRECISELY BECAUSE artists have to take risks and stick their necks out and have to be able to take the heat if their art gets a bad reception.

It seems to me OP wanted the cachet of doing art, but doesn't want to accept the risk that is an integral part of being an artist.
Published on the Journal of Cosmology: http://journalofcosmology.com/

Wikipedia lists no less than 6 references questioning the credibility of this journal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Cosmology#Reliabili...).

I think this discovery should be taken with a very large grain of salt.
Although I agree with you on that the story isn't about changing the fundamental problems that affect American society, Its still a good story. Come on, you can't change everything at once! Its not like the girl got through solely by influence/connections alone...she really worked hard and took initiative.

I'm of the opinion that a lot of people would find the determination to work themselves out of poverty if they realized just how much was possible with a little bit of effort. Sometimes, that inspiration is all that is needed to make a change....
How does the writing a whole program at a time play option work with multiple players? Is it just whoever figures it out wins?
Quality and consistency of practice is better than quantity.

A) It's better to give 100% for 30 minutes then 70% for 60 minutes. 30 minutes a day is a small commitment even for those with lack of motivation.

B) Don't judge your practice by how much you've accomplished that day but by how successful you were at "practicing perfectly" for your allotted time.
That's true, although I guess it's mostly listening as opposed to sending, which is possibly better? Although I realise there's probably some kind of "are you still there?" message from the cell tower.
Square opening permanent office in Waterloo, Canada
You take turns running their programs. There's typically a lot of debugging, although in theory you might just do it once. You can see a video example of 'write program' in the most recent update I posted.

The rules say that everyone who gets a jewel wins. In practice, my kids very much compete to see who finishes first. :)
Would you be interested in helping to plan a livestream viewing party or other type of gathering in the Atlanta area? We're trying to figure out what a 21st century online-offline rally should look like, very open to suggestions!
He did in fact mention it.

It's also interesting to see how many times Reddit (and other communities) fly into a rage-fest because of lack of context,
Food expired? Don't be so quick to toss it
Immutable data structures let you use compare-and-swap to guarantee all updates to a shared reference are atomic. This can be a win if the amount of contention is low enough such that optimistically generating and setting the modified version usually succeeds, particularly if that modified version can be created in log or amortized constant time.

Another benefit is that since the data structures are immutable you can easily operate over snapshots of them with no worries as to what other threads are doing. This can make them easier to code against and can sometimes be much easier to deal with than locks since you avoid most deadlock/livelock problems that you usually have to worry about with locking, though if you're using straight-up CAS you do have to be mindful of the A-B-A problem.
i guess with a game it doesn't have to be all or nothing when it comes to returns - i bought a game with missing cards once and the company had a woman who's job was dealing with this scenario - basically asked me what was missing and sent those cards out, plus a few more which may have screwed the game slightly but much easier & cheaper than returning to a store or mailing to amazon etc, i guess you've thought about this already :)
Damn. I remember feeling frustrated with resource constraints when programming for the Gameboy. Now I feel lucky ;).
Think about why we build browser apps instead of native apps today. All those reasons apply.
Nirvanix's failure explained: cloud storage vs. solutions
Then they'd shake their head and tell me that the idea and the execution were “genius.”

Modest, too!
I think the question was more of how oddly this goes with the "multiple workers placing data on a queue" or the "multiple workers taking data off of a queue." In either of those cases, there will still have to be synchronization over the queue/dequeue logic such that a workers contribution is accounted for correctly.

The only use case for the persistent container I can think of is specifically when the container is being passed around by multiple threads. That is, if your concern is what is going into the container, then a mutable version likely has you covered rather well. If your concern is, instead, on passing around the collection, the persistent ones have an advantage in reasoning. (Though, again, the common case of a queue is to be manipulated...)
Google Makes Its New Flat Logo And "App Launcher" Style Nav Menu Official
Really? It happened a year ago and I figured I'd share it eventually. I met him through my mom, I didn't think it was bragging, kind of uncool imo. I could have said "personal connections", but then I'd be trying to brag...guess you can't please everyone.
>Apple is really defined by superior design. Google is defined generally by superior engineering.

Wait what? When did that happen? When did Google get "superior engineering"? For search, web etc, perhaps. But as far as iOS vs Android is concerned that was never the case.

For starters, Apple design and engineered the iPhone first. Google's Android FIRST came out a whole year later. Early Android prototypes, shown by Google just before the iPhone was announced had half-size screens and physical keyboards, just like the rest of the smartphones of the day.

Since then Apple has consistenly beat Google on hardware features, from the retina display (with much better color rendition to boot) to camera innovations, the motion co-processor, a working fingerprint sensor (for a change), and 64 bit ARM (which means far more than "being able to see more memory which isn't even installed") etc. Consistently better battery life.

Well, maybe it's not a fair comparison, because Google is not a hardware engineering company. They had to buy Motorola, which wasn't the best in the business itself, anyway. But the above are still true for Samsung offerings too.

On the industrial engineering side, Apple's designs, machining, fit and polish is unsurpassed on the Android side. Including materials used.

In the software side it's the same story. The iOS Cocoa API is leaps and bounds ahead of the Android API. It was never plagued with issues with scroll lag and display latency (and also audio latency, which is why 90% of Audio/MIDI apps are for iOS). Doesn't have a nightmarish GC experience to tend to for more involved apps. More fit and polish overall. Heck, Android even gets 80%+ of all the mobile malware around.

The major points for Android devices were not better engineering per se, but stuff like bigger screens, different configurations etc. And extra features that got marginal use, like face unlock and near field communication, stuff that Apple could have if that's how they rolled.

Some good stuff Android had first was because Apple went conservative to implement them when battery life better permitted them (like background apps -- Android just unleashed them and the hell with it, Apple trying to get the juice, and hence experience, right first).

There's one genuine thing Android had going for it, and that's the Intents system in my opinion. The "quick settings change panel" was also another good one. I don't think we can go much further.
After Apple began offering its office suite for free with all new iOS devices, Google's decision makes sense. However I now have both Google Drive and Quickoffice on my Android smart phone and tablet. These two products overlap a bit too much. They really ought to be a single app.
Google Chrome is the browser I am using right now, and I used to use the Google Toolbar (only stopped when browsers introduced built-in search boxes).
> But note that "poor fashion decisions" does not mean "disgusting, reprehensible goblin," despite the usual fashionista hyperbole.

You're reading their casual implication in the wrong direction. What they usually mean is that disgusting, reprehensible goblin implies poor fashion decisions. Thus, by Bayesian inference, poor fashion decisions are evidence which increases the likelihood that you are a disgusting, reprehensible goblin.

And fashion is entirely about Bayesian inference--or "judging a book by its cover," as it is sometimes known. ;)
Will it think our brains taste better with mustard or ketchup?
Noted. I'll be looking out for it!
One of the two founders of Costco. :-)
IMHO, if you are walking, and only 15-45 minutes a day, you aren't getting anywhere near enough exercise. And, if you can talk while you are doing it, then you are verging on lip-service.
Republic Wireless offers Moto X for $299 off-contract
So their answer to Android eating their lunch in market share is, "we weren't hungry anyway"?
JS port of Box2D is dead since 2008.
> "You could dress up like a 1980s goth kid, which is retro and relatively obscure these days, but I don't think many people would consider that hipster."

You might be surprised. There used to be a Tumblr blog called LookAtThatFuckingHipster, and it was kind of funny the insane range of people that get submitted there. Part of the silliness of hipster-hating is that it would seem we can't even agree what constitutes a hipster! I remember seeing more than a few emos and goths in the bunch.
The same benefit the web apps generally bring:

* The ability to play the game without installing anything

* The ability to play the game on other peoples computers

* Cross-platform accessibility (Windows, OSX, Linux? Doesn't matter.)
It is now also home to a bunch of (already) leaky, radioactive, coolant water containers. Earthquakes are not going to improve their situation.
To be fair, it's not like Japan has much of a choice. Nuclear really is their best option. Japan has only a couple of coal mines, and they've deliberately tried to avoid being entirely dependent on China for coal imports. This limits the use of coal power plants (not to mention environmental consequences). They have limited area, which limits hydropower options (though the steep topography partly makes up for that). Wind and solar are limited in their utility for "baseline" power.

The US has nuclear power plants on the "ring of fire" as well, for whatever it's worth (e.g. Diablo Canyon in CA, and I think there's one in Washington, as well).
The main problem with Russian and Chinese startups
Antioxidants dispel static electricity
They look interesting, thanks! Any experience using them over GB or TB datasets?
Because it's easier, so the programmers to build those apps are cheaper?

Not a really good rationale when it comes to game development.
Why is that relevant? It is still a valid example of non-trivial game code.
Can you comment about your experience using CoffeeScript? Personally, I'd love to see a whole blog post about that. :-)
Ah, I see, you were talking about Gluster (the company) rather than GlusterFS (the project). Got it. Yeah, some of the stuff about Red Hat Storage and commercial support and "recommended configurations" is not my cup of tea either, and I'm on the GlusterFS development team at Red Hat. The upstream community project has a lot of potential that can be hard to reconcile with a cautious "what can we support with minimal training" mindset.
Every social media site is turning into a customized personal advertising machine.

Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter...now Pinterest.
No human should ever be root. But we might just trust a Friendly AI. Well, provided we manage to make the AI actually Friendly (as in, does exactly what's good for us instead of whatever imperfect idea of what's good for us we might be tempted to program).
If you like algorithmic-type stuff, give opencl/cuda a shot. It's amazing to be able to really feel the kind of power locked away in a standard desktop gpu. Writing gpu code is also much different than writing standard synchronous code, especially for algorithms that aren't embarrassingly parallel.

I wouldn't call gpu computing a "hot" rising technology, but it's certainly hardcore and is used widely in research, games, and many other computationally intensive applications.
Obiously this was going to happen sooner or later... can they make it work or will they flounder? TBD
Probably better than 2 hours once a week. However, if the author is going to make a list of 'ways to be a more effective entrepreneur' and then pay no more than lip service to daily physical activity, then it's reasonable to question their authority on the subject.
At least on iOS you can indeed. It's available from UIDevice.

And if you're doing something that sucks up battery, you should know about it and act accordingly.

If you're not doing heavy lifting, It's just not something you should have to think about as an app developer, there are so many other areas to focus on to keep users happy.

Apple has a few WWDC sessions that talk about it I think.

Here's what they have to say in their "performance tuning" section:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/iphone...
Show HN: My personal project, a innovative Pokémon search engine
> "Some of these obvious bugs should have never made it past QA/testing, but somehow they did"

Perhaps they made it past QA/testing because what is an obvious bug in a screenshot isn't necessarily obvious to generate or replicate.

I haven't seen any of those bugs in the time I've spent in iOS7.
Enuque/deque create new queues, so you can for example send them as messages or swap some mutable reference.
"It was a hatred of people that need to stand out for standing-out's sake. That realization was at once positive and negative—people didn't hate me because I was a hipster, they hated me because I looked like I was nakedly desperate for attention, and had gone about that attention-grabbing by glomming on to marginalized trends"

But that is (one) definition of hipster.

Casual speculation: Would the situation have been different if the sign advertising the service weren't hidden? I think yes.

Would the situation have been different if he weren't wearing stereotypical "hipster attire", and instead were in say a pinstripe suit? I think yes.
Don't be so sure. This appears to be a legal gray area [1]

[1] http://business.financialpost.com/2012/09/04/when-two-weeks-...
Progressive Enhancement: It Depends
iOS 7 Lock Screen Vulnerability Discovered
>Now the cast and crew are contractors, producers, studios, and theaters are separate entities with each one having to grow 10% annually. The last movie I watched had 10 minutes of end credits. Movies have gotten far more complex in production and there are a lot of hands in the pot now.

Still much worse cinematography and script-wise than older stuff, from Hitchcock and Capra to Pekinpah and Copolla.

With a few exceptions, like Tarantino, 90% of the stuff coming out are aimed at teenagers with ADD (including 20 somethings that still play GTA). And the more "serious" stuff is usually some bad formulaic (as opposed to good formulaic) melodrama BS.
Well, I agree. But they're demonstrating testing. There's going to be a plethora of tests.
I am not so sure. I would say there is a market for both. There are things that LXC based solutions cannot do yet. Solutions around VMs are very mature and offer features like live migration of apps for e.g. by which I mean they even do monitoring of apps running on the data center.
Look really great, I like how the search is pretty fast and how you can put multiple filters.
Way better than most of the searches where you have old school forms with dozen of field to fill!

Great job!
That is quite a list of organizations from Mozilla to EFF to FreedomWorks (big Tea Party group). Some of them have run some big protests so it should be well attended.
The article mentions Reddit being the place where C.D. Hermelin was textually abused for being a hipster; or more accurately, accused of being a hipster solely because he was using a typewriter. Reddit is the only place where the internet nerds in discussion come from.

Reddit however is not made up of internet nerds. Reddit is made up of average joes who know enough about computers to register at facebook and reddit. The average reddit user is no more advanced than the average 13-year-old nowadays - can browse the internet, turn of a computer and install some games on their smartphone and tablet. They were never made fun of for being internet nerds, because they're not nerds nor geeks. They're just average joes; because as you say, everybody is on the internet nowadays, and those who are the truly advanced users who MAY have been made fun of more because of it generally do not spend their time raging about a hipster. I say may because honestly, geeks are not the object of ridicule as they once were.
He linked another post that covers those http://www.gregreda.com/2013/07/15/unix-commands-for-data-sc...
You're right, but I didn't care about the lunatics he met with crazy proposals or famous interesting people. I was trying to find out how he became so successful and his philosophies on business. The whole luck vs. skill question for example, I didn't know he'd say luck. I also didn't know he'd give vague answers, but that is a common mistake I'll never make again. Also there was personal stuff, but I figured this is what people would like to hear less about me personally. What else would you like to know? I'll be happy to answer if I can.
If passwords were not masked, I would now know most of the passwords of everyone in the office, and all of my family.

I always look away when someone else is typing in a password, as my eyes are drawn to the keyboard and I can pretty well read what they type just from the keys. So out of respect, I turn my head. If the password were actually on screen, it would be many times harder not to see it.

I don't think I'm unusual. I'm at computers with other people usually once or twice a day when they enter a password. I don't want to know their passwords!

And as the system admin, I don't want them seeing the password when I have to type it in to fix stuff for them.

It's not malicious people who might be installing keyloggers and all that that masked passwords help against, it's simply day to day privacy and permissions.

I don't have a problem popping round to a team-mate's office to enter a password to let them install some basic software package, or a hardware driver update, or whatever. But if they saw the password, then soon they would know it, and for sure would use it once or twice, and more and more random crap would get installed, and soon malware, and so on.

On the other hand, being able to turn on visibility occasionally is useful. (Ah! No wonder it's not working... your keyboard is still in Korean mode... Oh, right, British mode, the double-quote doesn't live there...)
Oh it most certainly does, which is why I use this site less and less over time, and referred to "internet communities" in general, Reddit being only one of many.
Each container will have a "fixed-size filesystem", but:

- it will be thinly provisioned (i.e. it can be 10G or 100G but still use only a few MB on disk if it's essentially empty, like a sparse file),
- it can be grown easily.

On the one hand, it's a bit less convenient because you have to care about the disk usage.

On the other hand, it's great because a single container can't eat up all your precious disk space (and if you want to run some public/semi-public stuff that's quasi mandatory).

If you want to check the current code, you can look here:
https://github.com/alexlarsson/docker/tree/device-mapper3
Get Joe Celkos books

http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Celko/e/B000ARBFVQ/?_encoding=UTF8...

Especially these one :

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0123820227/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
Hey thank you!
I'm glad you like my work and I appreciate your support!
IOS 7 Bug Lets Anyone Bypass iPhone's Lockscreen
The last thing I'd want is for my apps to each be downloading several MB of data they think I might need in the next few minutes. I can easily control how much battery life is remaining on my phone by plugging it in. I can't control how much of my data plan an app is using, except by uninstalling the app.

Besides, in my experience the biggest drains on battery life aren't data transfers, they're (a) having the screen on, especially when bright, and (b) being slightly out of range of a cell tower, and constantly dropping and reacquiring a 3G connection. The latter turns my phone into a hand-warmer and chews up my power.
We aren't even save from this:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/papers/Keyboard_Acoustic_E...

but then we should just show the passwords on the screen we enter? That's just insane. Linux command line doesn't even show a * when entering a password. That's how it should be.

We should be paranoid about passwords and not display them.
"Above all other things, internet communities is what makes me cynical about humanity."

The internet is like alcohol: it doesn't put ideas into people's heads. It just lowers their inhibitions. If people are being dicks on the internet, it's because they are dicks, and the internet gives them a relatively consequence-free forum for expressing their dickitude.

If we're "cynical about humanity" because of "internet communities," we should be "cynical about humanity" because of humanity, full stop.
> It seems to me OP wanted the cachet of doing art, but doesn't want to accept the risk that is an integral part of being an artist.

yeah, many celebs behave that way. they don't mind seeking irrational popularity that makes them sign multi-million contracts, but get extremely butthurt when popular opinion shifts against their favor when something goes wrong. the same medium and communities that made them famous and rich suddently get called a bunch of abusive haters that need to get exterminated.
> Google has resisted efforts to block cookies on its Chrome browser.

This doesn't seem quite right to me. I've been using Chrome's built-in third party cookie blocking for at least a couple years now. Coming from Firefox, that was one of the biggest things I missed at first in Chrome, so it remember being relieved when it was added relatively quickly.
I'm not sure about that. I was raised with the opportunity to do stuff outside with other kids and all that but it felt boring to me. Particularly it bugged me how they seemed to not stay on one thing for long or not stick to the structure of whatever we were doing. If it was up to me what to do I came up blank and just walked around until I was allowed to go back in - I couldn't think of anything interesting to do besides sometimes try to imitate stuff from the video games. In contrast at that age I found video games like Spyro the Dragon or Crash Bandicoot much more interesting and fulfilling due to how they were consistent and had more tangible rewards. I was also greatly interested in computers but didn't get one until third grade. I have doubts random physical meandering is better than technology for kids.
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