skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AT&T did a similar idea for the NCAA tournament:
http://titletweets.com/

They've dropped it for some reason, but the idea has legs.

Regarding your site:

- The graphic design needs a lot of work, but the functionality is there

- The title, live sports streaming on Twitter, isn't really accurate. People will expect video

- You've got to get tweetthegame.com or choose a new URL. Can't use an URL that requires an explanation, e.g. "There's only one t between 'tweet' and 'the', so t-w-e-e-t-h-e-g-a-m-e-.com"

Rule of thumb: if you can't say it on the radio without explaining it, get a new URL.
"For internal development you have a wide variety of options. Java is quite good and very popular among those who consider the option of not running their wares under Windows. The only way Mono can appeal to Windows-only houses is by making it possible to run unmodified (and proprietary) products that run under Windows on other platforms."

I'm working at a Windows-only house with internally built .NET apps. Mono is definitely part of our long term plans to run these apps on other platforms.
Sounds crazy but I've used this in action. How do you think I got such high karma here? ;-)

Thing is - it works. Both online and in-person. I'd much rather be honest about how little I know (and often am when I'm working long-term with someone), but I've found it's a losing strategy in most situations. If you do know your stuff, you'll just get shouted down by idiots. Better to shout the idiots down first and then do the research to make sure you're not wrong. If you screw up everything, you'll probably get another chance simply by virtue of confidence (look at John Meriweather, who nearly brought down the global financial system three times and is still managing money), but if you appear timid and then screw up, people are all like "I knew he didn't really know what he was talking about..."
It's always going to be extra work to provide a 100% solution. My original suggestion would work 95%+ of the time.
Love the subtle self-referential joke at the end.
Ask HN: Digital Image Stabilization Techniques
I'm currently using processing to mess around with motion tracking and pattern recognition and I would like to use image stabilization of my live video stream to improve on my current results.

The only problem is that some extensive googling hasn't turned up any practical info on implementing this. I understand the basic principles of determining a global motion vector and offsetting the current frame in relation to the last to compensate for camera motion, but elegant ways to implement this are escaping me.

Does anyone have any suggestions or sources that could help light the way?
Sounds like we're doing similar stuff. The code I'd like to run under Mono is neither ASP.NET nor WinForms. It's plain vanilla string processing and HttpRequesting with some minor crypto and SSL thrown in to use AWS.

That's the stuff I'd expect to be there and it's not.
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> hijacking

Uh, people are giving their time to create what they need / want. Welcome to open source, right? I don't think it's possible to "hijack" an open source project. As said above: patches are probably welcome.

In the end it just sounds like you want free support from a company like Microsoft/Novell without paying a dollar.
Thinkpad T Series

I can swear by them, their powerful, built very sturdy and feels like a beast, not a plastic toy. Also their quite strong, I've dropped mine countless times, twice down the stairs without any problems. And their keyboards are quite nice for long hours of work. I am on my 3rd T series, T61p at the moment and looking to buy another in a few months.

Also Google around for coupons/deals they always have them, you can stack them very nicely.

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/notebooks/thinkpad/t-series

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki
There are up to 7 Stanley Cup Final games (using the NHL's terminology, as you'll note from its logo http://www.motherpucker.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/stanle...). It's still the Final round. In the NBA, there are 7 Finals games (which you'll note from one of their logos http://www.sportslogos.net/images/logos/6/981/full/2986.gif) which is improper grammar.

Not that it really matters, I just find it humorous.
Feynman wrote about this in The Meaning of it All - he thought one of the major problems with American society today (1960s) was that people could no longer distinguish confidence and expertise. The media has to have an answer for everything, even if that answer was a total guess. He thought that people ought to look much more favorably upon someone who says "I don't know, but I know how to find out" over someone who says "This is the answer, but I can't tell you how I got it."
+1 for ballsiness
A more interesting look at the planning fallacy
I don't see what most people commenting here do?

The "guessers" here were not given an option to see the "advisers" previous track record / experience - how can they prefer one to the other if they are only given the "advisers" confidence level?
I'm going to disagree. Based on experience, this is still the root of the problem: "Secondly, support for Microsoft.NET is a secondary goal for Mono"

Maybe Mono is great for smaller agile shops who can somehow work around that (most likely since they don't have a lot of legacy code - or they can start from scratch), but at the big corp I work for it just doesn't work. Many of our teams couldnt get our major projects running without major issues on mono without significant work (which wasn't undertaken).
Thanks for contacting us, "the code's in the mail..."

If there is anything else we can do please let us know.
If that's what you think, you missed the point.
Why the downmods? It seems to me valid that some people prefer traditional roles. As long as they are happy with it.
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Carakan, their new Javascript engine, will probably included in this release. They have been working on it for at least the last six months. But I doubt that would qualify as reinventing the web. They might come out with the fastest browser and javascript engine yet. Will be interesting to see what they are actually upto.
Wow, after about 10 seconds I'd vote time.com to be the world's 2nd most annoying website. For some bizarre reason it kept forcing my scroll back to the top of the page (safari 4), making it impossible to read the article.
A Short History of Programming Languages
Programming languages are often spoken of in terms of their level of abstraction. To this end there is a somewhat official classification system. In said system, each generation in the hierarchy represents another level of abstraction away from the machine hardware.
I implemented this idea with a fellow HN reader, derwiki, for the 2009 superbowl: http://twitterbowl2009.com/
Interesting, I will try this out.

But what I'm really looking for in search is the ability to sort results by date (I know you can filter by 'past 24 hours' in google, but the results are not sorted) and simultaneously view in real-time.
Looks interesting. But shouldn't a library like celery work outside the context of a web framework? I don't see a reason to call this a distributed task queue 'for Django' specifically, except for the dependencies on Django's ORM and settings definitions. Swapping out Django's ORM with SQLAlchemy (or DB-API) would make this project much more useful.

See pp (http://www.parallelpython.com/) for something similar, without the django dependency. More parallel processing goodies at http://wiki.python.org/moin/ParallelProcessing.
Well, usually what happens is that there's some cataclysmic event where reality intervenes and says "Uh, no, you actually don't know what you're talking about." Then all the arrogant folks die off (or permanently lose credibility) and get replaced by folks who were right all along but were more quiet about it.

We're seeing this in the newspaper industry (all the sensationalist, content-free papers are dying off because we can get sensationalist, content-free news free off the Internet) and the financial industry (all the folks who thought unlimited leverage and perpetual debt spending was a good thing are getting squeezed mighty hard by deflation, even though the government is doing its best to bail them out). Meanwhile, geekdom is becoming increasingly sexier, as women realize that geeks have the goods and the suits just have the sparkle.
Is the camera in motion or steady?

It's somewhat easy to do if it's steady (pick a couple of reference points). Harder to do in-motion if you did not capture accelerometer data with the video feed.
thanks. I didn't know about the AT&T site. it's very similar, and agreed- it could definitely use some design help.
I think it's not that games are becoming more realistic, it's just that the range of possibilities for art in games is getting closer to realistic.

There are still many games that have a distinct art style that is not at all realistic (off-hand, Castle Crashers and Braid on XBLA come to mind).

Will we have non-realistic FPS games? Maybe, but unlikely, as one of the points of FPS games is to immerse people in a world, and making that world look as real as possible is part of that goal. Right now, I'm having a hard time thinking of an FPS game that is non-realistic (Madworld on Wii?)
One of the things we noticed was that just the name (#lakers for example) misses a lot of tweets. You can look at the source JS for Twitter Bowl, but we ended up using "pittsburgh", "steelers", "roethlisberger", "tomlin", "polamalu", etc. We were able to catch a lot more relevant tweets at the time.
Palm is only waiting two weeks, so it seems a little excessive to worry just yet (especially since finishing anything in 2 weeks seems incredibly efficient by some corporate standards). But it is okay to ask the question, and remind them in public of their obligations.

Keep in mind that the "preparation" they're doing could be as simple as scrubbing everything to make sure they don't accidentally release anything proprietary. For example, even for open-source packages, it's conceivable that they have developed some of their own internal tests that use proprietary data, and so their internal copy of the packages would contain more than they intend to release to the public.
What about world of goo or portal?
That's sad, but also a bit black & white. People can be cocky and have expertise.
It's a shame the author didn't make a more general warning not to give your email password to a site you didn't know about 30 seconds earlier. Until people start protecting their passwords, they are bound to get taken advantage of like this.
It's generally fairly steady at the moment, but I would like it to be able to handle motion in the future. I'm using the built-in iSight on my macbook as the camera, so theoretically I should be able to get some data from the macbook's built-in accelerometers, but I'm not sure that they would be accurate enough for this purpose.

Do you know of any sources for example code dealing with image stabilization?
DVI can carry HDCP just fine. In fact, if you have a recent desktop display with a DVI port, there's a good chance it has HDCP. And if you're running a recent version of Windows with a recent graphics card, there's a good chance you're actually using it without realizing it.
Well no, I don't think it's worth spending all that much time on either. But if you could do it in a weekend, and bring in a few thousand dollars a year because of it, so be it.
Witness the GOP and followers.
Have you ever seen Ann Coulter in action?

It's amazing how far you get on fervent belief + debate skills.
This resonates strongly with me:

"People write a lot of comments on my blog, and I actually read and manually approve every comment before it gets posted. I think the broken-windows theory -- that a broken window or graffiti in a neighborhood begets more of the same -- applies online. One bad comment engenders 10 more. I'll happily approve a comment from someone who completely disagrees with everything I believe in, but if I get a positive comment with a curse word in it, I'll edit it out. My blog is like my living room. If someone was acting out in my house, I'd ask that person to leave."
That's true -- but only so far as absolute statements are usually wrong at the fringes. But the simple-minded retort that "other people will provide content for free, so you will too" is laughable.

Pay models are clearly going to become much more important, if only because the cost of good content isn't going down, while ad rates are dropping like a rock. Consider the fact that it's effectively impossible to make someone look at your ad on the internet (it's only a matter of time before ad-blockers become common), and it's pretty clear that the ad-supported internet model is on the wane.
The big problem that people that make this prediction don't realize is that people are already paying for the Internet. Overlooking the capital costs of the hardware to use it, most people are paying a monthly fee to either a phone company or cable provider for access. In many end users' minds, they are already paying, so why should they pay "again?" As a couple of the more savvy people interviewed in the article point out, what content can be charged for on top is already being paid for by now. (Just like a few people are willing to pay for premium channels on cable, but most just watch the basic package.)
Understood. I was responding to a guy that is sitting on a domain though. That means it's a net loser for him unless he does something with it.

Now, you can approach that by dedicating a lot of time and effort into building something unique, as you would like to do, or you can just realize that the market is pretty bare and launch something that will make some pocket change at worst.

Given that he's considering giving the domain away for free, I simply suggested he do the latter.
"The author doesn't mention the concept of anchoring."

Maybe the article has changed since you read it, but:

"The second puzzle is, Why don't any stores stock cheap HDMI cable? I knew cables were a ripoff yet I could not find reasonably priced cables at Best Buy, Radio Shack, Target or even Wal-Mart. Ordinarily, we would expect competition to push prices down but in this case it seem as if the mere existence of Monster is anchoring high prices everywhere but online."
The T400s is due out very soon

http://jkontherun.com/2009/06/11/thinkpad-t400s-arrives-thin...

Its sub 4 pounds as well.
Microsoft appeals to poverty to get people download Internet Explorer 8
I have never programmed with .NET (been coding exclusively in linux for years), but the framework looks interesting and the WPF has caught my eye. I will probably be one of those who will be exclusively learning the mono version of the .NET story and C#/F#. Though I guess there are very few people in my boat.
You make a good point. I wish all exams/quizzes were composed of carefully thought out questions.

In my experience most such questions are simply intended to verify a cursory familiarity with the subject -- or to be easily graded. Easy grading is another aspect of laziness that ought to be done away with.

Why must an exam be multiple choice rather than essay answers? Only so it can be chugged through a machine so nobody has to think while grading it.
Small adjustment: Humans definitely have a problem because they can't recognize nuanced, tentative conclusions as a sign of expertise.
I flagged this article because it is a non-article. If Opera actually does announce something interesting, we can talk about it then.
> a neat trick is to go to your friendly low margin neighbourhood computer store; they tend to have every cable you could possibly imagine for $10 or less.

Wow, I wish I had a friendly low margin computer store in my area. Other than Best Buy and the recently-defunct CompUSA, the only computer stores around are mom'n'pop stores that charge more markup on everything than NewEgg, MonoPrice, and even Walmart...
Here is the link to the original:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/jg/planning_fallacy/

This HN item links there directly: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=654950
Rule of thumb: if you can't say it on the radio without explaining it, get a new URL.

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I bought an HP dv9000 about 18 months ago and, aside from a few problems, the laptop itself is pure awesome. What I like most is the dual hard drives.
In practice I've found that the quality from component cables is just as good as HDMI, even if it is analog.
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> I've related before one observational study of men picking up women in bars. When the men were prompted to act "confident," they had limited luck in getting dates. When they were told to act "arrogant" they had much better success. That's rather dismaying to me in what it says about women.

I think that it says something about what many men think "acting confident" means. It also says that you have to boost the signal in a noisy environment.
Arguments aren't intended to find out who is correct.
Well I found it a problem when I tried to program a Sieve Of Eratosthenes for project Euler. Also when I considered a grid based alife simulation. I guess the only way would be to use a process per cell?
ah i didnt know about this. very slick. and you got ESPN involved?
Video games have reached a technological milestone/inflection point similar to those reached in other mediums in the past-- the transition from painting to photography, or from expensive digital photography to inexpensive digital photography, or CGI in movies:

Past a certain point of fidelity, the art direction/production design (what you actually choose to put in the frame) becomes much more important than raw technique.

(related: amidst a flood of crap, curation becomes essential)
> Ms. Geha wrote, "Here’s hoping you start enjoying a much richer, sharper view from your TV screen."

My experience is that digital television is slower to respond, and the pictures are worse. I've had two sets running side-by-side and the picture is clearly better on the analog, and degrades gracefully. Switching between channels is painfully slow on the digital version - it's extremely frustrating.

In the UK the switchover is happening, and there have been a huge number of adverts to try to make people prepare. no doubt there will be the same chaos. I'm wondering whether to bother at all - use it as an excuse to give up television entirely.
(look at John Meriweather, who nearly brought down the global financial system three times and is still managing money)

An important example. Chutzpah beats expertise in that domain.
Each service listed in these comments listed in me in a different city. Not one of those is the city I am actually in.

Not to mention at my house I use satellite internet, so any geolocation service thinks I'm 10 states away from where I really am.
Linus Torvalds on some good git development practices
The corollary to this is that if you actually _do_ know better than the people around you, you should act like an arrogant SOB or you're just going to get ignored. Having learned this I've seen an improvement in all areas of life, except that people don't like me on internet forums much:)
Do they mean access to internet or FREE access to internet?

If they only mean paid access, anyone who can afford to pay already can access internet. If they mean free access, how can I have a right that would involve some ISP to provide their services for me free? How can one have a right that requires someone else to buy a server, provide connectivity, install cables and what not for free?
a 4chan competitor, obviously.
The hairy ball theorem
"Potential Customers Reached: Based on this Harris survey which states that 89% of people in the United States have cell phones, Verizon Wireless is reaching at least 4.3 million potential customers. However, this number is most likely higher since NHL fans are younger and more tech savvy (and therefore more likely to use cellphones)."

It's most likely lower because:

1. Many people are locked into cell phone plans with other providers.
2. V-Cast is not a compelling service due to poor price-performance.
New Scientist has a picture: http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn17299/dn172...

Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17299-unique-roots-let...
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Well researched article. I love the corresponding and very appropriate quotations for each generation of programming language.
I seem to have missed all the previous times it was posted :-(

I am surprised that the browser try to be smart about loading images defined in the CSS.
New version of swfobject released after an year of development
In many cases, folks have no basis for judging expertise. However, they often need to make decisions.

When someone says "I know", there are three possibilities. They do know, they don't and they're lying, and they don't know but don't know that they don't know. Many people think that they can pick out liars, so they're only tricked by folks who don't know what they don't know.

When someone says that they don't know, there are also three possibilities. They actually don't know, they actually do know and are lying, and they actually do know but don't know that they know. However, there's a big "why bother" here. Lying doesn't make any sense and if they're wrong about what they know, how are they going to help you decide when to believe them?
I think they mean to say trendy things to thoughtless people; we are not the intended audience.
Flash raises the bar on Rails: more presentation nonsense.
Team Fortress 2 is cartoony and not realistic at all.
"If they only mean paid access, anyone who can afford to pay already can access internet."

The French were going to set up a federal commission to turn off people's Internet connections if they were accused by the media companies of piracy.
Install GUI in Ubuntu Server
But before this change, I believe every PLT Scheme implementation was a superset of standard Scheme. (Which every Scheme implementation is.) Now it's actually incompatible.
Should be a compulsory upgrade, at least from IE6, not exactly like anyones using FF1 anymore, and the only usage I seen of 2 is from some machines at Uni that have had a serious lack of IT staff attention.
I think we'll see that the "traditional roles" label will fade away with time. To the people that are labelled that way it's not so much "traditional" as it is "natural" (to them). Women who grow up wanting nothing more than to raise a family (without being indoctrinated) do exist, and it's quite a value judgement to say that they are somehow less of a woman or wrong for following their desires.
"One of those alternatives would be a full-blown library, perhaps something like Bouncy Castle, or Keyczar, or cryptlib."

.. none of which are (easily) usable from Ruby. Would anyone have any recommendations for the gem of programming languages?
The Webzzle technology takes the date into account to rank results. However, we don't provide a filter to select a date range. The 'Relative Energy' levels (used to give a score to a Web resource and a Web user) are time variable.
You are correct. Quake was before mainstream 3d accelerators and only had a 256 color palette.

Original quake palette: http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/images/quakepal.gif
The guy down the road might not have convinced anyone directly but he did contribute to your cause by making the need for discussing GWB ever so slightly stronger in your community enabling you to do what you did.
Originally we used Scheme48. I forget exactly why we switched. I vaguely recall some problem with threads. I think we chose PLT Scheme because it seemed like the default Scheme implementation.
Yeah, but the "anchoring" argument falls apart when a Blu-ray player is $300 and Monster's top-end 16' cable is $225, both at Best Buy.
You know, over on the less puritanical continent, actual nude models have been elected to high offices.

Hell, I seem to remember seeing Arnold naked in the Terminator movies and he still got himself elected Governor of California.