skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, keep moving goal posts. The upgrade path from a crappy Android phone is likely to be to a better Android phone in most of the world where Android is absolutely dominant. As those areas move up the socioeconomic ladders, Apple has to fight an uphill battle to enter those markets and then gain market share, instead of the consumers bringing the brand up with them.
Sorry I didn't see this until now, but Travelers Rest is about 15 minutes from downtown. I would look into a house in the North Main or West End area if you want close to downtown. Send me an email if you need any more help!
He hadn't mentioned Microsoft project spark, a game creation platform , which at least according to the demo , lets
people build amazing stuff with little effort or experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m37sVEgJrOA

If it's promise is true, maybe this is where we should look for the future of gaming, and the future of platforms.
I know. Why didn't he just write a movement recognition algorithm and run his videos through it. It only has to be one frame really.
Beautiful thanks!
I saw this project [https://github.com/tuhinc/rethink-livedata] for using rethinkdb instead of mongodb, but doesn't look like it is picking up...
The video of Virgin's founder Richard Branson is never the less interesting.
+1 for this book. Super straightforward and easy to follow.
>the currently advantaged part of society does not feel like sharing much.

There is no country on Earth that has unfettered access, and unconditional citizenship - rich or poor.
There are at least a dozen people in each photo.

And the photos themselves are not wideangle, you can only see a narrow angle, unlike in the submission.

How is this "virtually empty"?
I'm more upset by the way they are handling it, it looks like they aren't going to replace them, but try to fix them. Anyone who's sent an RROD xbox (I haven't) knows the pain that will come with that. You'll see your PS4 again in a few weeks.
No means not now. If they really didn't want to take no for an answer, they could just merge the accounts without asking the user. Instead, they keep reminding the user with gradually increasing frequency to make sure that the user has all their shit in order before the merge actually happens.
As I recall, RROD complaints were quite strident after the Xbox 360 came out, on blogs, gaming sites, comment sections of news articles, and the early social sites (Facebook was big among the college crowd at that time, and Friendster, MySpace, Friendfeed, etc. were active discussion areas as well). Most gamers were aware of the issue. Microsoft's return policy and eventual fixes helped change public perception.
I got sick of being logged in when I was searching or using youtube, so two weeks ago I started running my gmail account in a separate profile in Chromium (using the "app" command line option to hide the URL bar that it uses when you use the "Create Application Shortcuts" menu option, but set to use a new profile directory).

It's slightly annoying and I may migrate off of gmail in the future, but for now it prevents this problem.
Kotaku documented it, push down the HDMI pin with something.
Looks like the A7 gpu is coming in at 115.2 glops... so yeah... getting close. That's pretty awesome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_(system_on_chip)
> Something might be moving, as Google added "App Ops" [1] (hidden by default, but it's there) in Android 4.3, which allow you to revoke permissions from applications.

AppOps has been removed [1] in Android 4.4. Maybe it'll come back in a later version, but it's disappointing that it's no longer just hidden.

[1] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Sett...
If your goal is to work with an interpreted language, I would leave reading about compilation until later. This is often how it is taught in university courses, the first being learning language theory and implementing interpreted languages, and the second on theory and implementation issues of compiled languages. Others have already suggested SICP and PLAI, and these are great. PLAI is in the manner of what the first course would cover, and SICP does a bit of both. Two more I know of are

Scheme from Scratch http://michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-introduction

Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_...

There was a good video at PyCon US 2013 this year

So you want to write an interpreter? http://pyvideo.org/video/1694/so-you-want-to-write-an-interp...

It gives a forty minute, high level overview of what is done to implement an interpreted language.
Rude not to follow back ? Is it rude to be honest ?
I just give them my Google Voice number. Then I don't have an "additional number to track."

Not that phone numbers need to change any more anyway. With universal portability, unless you move outside of the country, you can keep your phone # with you.
Timemachine + dropbox.
I noticed a malfunctioning display on the CTA here in Chicago and it was running on chrome. Still on Windows but at least they had the foresight to make it portable.
Lets see it released and what it has and how hackable it is - if we could reasonably run all the stuff on current linux distros if packaged correctly it could be my main OS.

But vaporware is always revolutionary (I treat every unreleased software as vaporware). My predictions for steam OS - really rocky start that will settle few months in when the enthusiast community would have ironed most of the kinks and then the heavy gaming hitters will appear.
Poll: Do italics render well in your Android Chrome browser?
I.e., can you tell italic text from normal text? A comment made by klausa [1] 16 days ago made me feel better, as I was not alone in not being able to see italics properly rendered in my Android Chrome browser. (I own a Samsung Note 2.) I'm puzzled that, given all the resources at Google, this hasn't been solved by now (over a year!). Any thoughts on the reason behind this neglect?

Thanks!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6648765
Because a common tactic kids are using ATM is a simple snatch and grab, right out of peoples hands. Heaps easier than taking a laptop as you might be standing in a crowd, they can approach you with speed, shunt you off balance and are gone.

Phone doesn't lock while they run with it as they are touching the screen, they get away from the user and disable the security features. You are compromised, phone is compromised, thief's win.

Or so the papers say, and several female friends who have had this happen to them at evening events (not identity theft, but the snatch and grab).
> ... C and Fortran interaction (which I thought the JVM can't do efficiently, since it doesn't like giving C/Fortran raw memory access to its internals).

As of 2002 (JDK 1.4) Java has excellent integration with native memory (you can freely pass pointers from C/FORTRAN to Java and vice versa[1]).

There are numerous Java math libraries that use BLAS/LAPACK already[2]. In fact, AFAIK, most Java matrix math libraries use FORTRAN code (at least as an option).

[1]: Java side: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/ByteBuffer... C side: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jni/sp...

[2]: For example, https://github.com/fommil/matrix-toolkits-java, http://mikiobraun.github.io/jblas/
Searching "yegge memo" on google gives a plethora of relevant results.

A copy of the full text can be found here: https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
For me the best thing to come out of SteamOS is the potential for some really powerful game development tools on Linux.
This is precisely about alienating them. They know they're alienating people and they've done the numbers and don't give a shit.
> I didn't want to cheat and use Photoshop

I was actually hoping he did something clever like take multiple shots and stitch them all together.

Ah well, I suppose this is more noble.
What do you think you'd be accomplishing with this? Google knows all of those accounts are associated with the same person already. Otherwise they wouldn't be asking you to merge them. They just want your official stamp on it so you feel like they asked your permission first.
True, it's not optimal. But, it's important to keep in mind that this is not a zero-sum game. The $7500 is not being diverted or even distracted from more efficient uses. It's money that in all likelihood would have never been donated to other uses.

We need a lot more of both ends of this spectrum. More warm fuzzies to get people's attention -at all. And, more awareness of the wildly different efficiencies of different philanthropic strategies. Achieving both attention and efficiency is really hard. If you figure out how to do that, let me know. In the mean time, we should be happy for whatever wins we can get.
Even better is that some people just use the password as the password hint.
This can be solved on a torus, no?
Black page when scripts are disabled. And the photos popping up in random places as you're scrolling? Sigh.
During the nymwars, I saw techies moving to Bing for search. Bing for search! That's when you know your brand is going toxic.
In order to for people to really understand C and be proficient in it very clearly, I always recommend that they learn the basics of programming (memory, basic types, looping structures and array manipulation) in a simple assembly language such as 6502. This helps immensely with understanding pointers and deciphering the many cryptic C compiler messages.
Definitely reaching there - you can't assume a large majority of people who ordered from Amazon are leaving reviews. You already know that people without a working console will no doubt go leave a review, so the sample is significantly skewed.

We won't know if this is a real problem until Sony says something.

Disclosure: I ordered my PS4 from Amazon in June, received it yesterday, it works fine...and I have no reason to write a review about it.
I've played with meteor a bit and and also hacked on drorm's mysql back-end:

https://github.com/drorm/meteor-sql

It works for some cases, but it quite limited in the type of database tables it will support. And in the end it's polling mysql for changes to feed to meteor clients.

I also added meteor support to a leaflet-draw package to allow users to share drawing on a map:

http://leafletdraw.meteor.com/

Powerful and fun!
> I have no idea why people talk about huge corporations like they have hive mind and are in total unity ?

Because despite being a mega-corp, comprised of thousands [...], it's still called and named `Google`, singular. They naturally map it to one entity ; not because they are stupid but because the entity is interacting with them solely through that one identity and they don't have incentives to care for the inner workings of that entity.

> It is also data driven hence they look at metrics that are considered success like registers over abandonments. Brand tarnish is a long term outcome, therefore it can not be seen in typical a/b testing cycles. Hence it is ignored, or even gamed upon for short term metric gain. This is true for all corps that equate success with short cycle data driven metrics.

Like: "we don't care about those abandonments because we got these phone numbers which are more valuable and show we are a trusty brand" ? Makes sens (no sarcasm).
I don't use any Yahoo device anymore (not because spy, I ended up with Yahoo much before) but what are Yahoo doing with user's data?
You can only grow a user base that is engaged with your product organically, not by forcing them.
I think you're wrong there. I remember using the web back then. Search sucked before Google. Altavista was a bit better than what came before it, but Google really was the first search engine that was any bloody good at all. The PageRank algorithm basically cracked the search problem.

Making money actually came years later. Google used the method of "get a zillion users and we'll figure out money later."
Dear Hacker: Stop signing up at Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter and all the other personal data collection services, if you care about your privacy. I'm living a happy life without such accounts, and so can you.
This is true of all partner+ or close to partner level management due to that they are there for the long haul. They do not have metrics only ideology.
In the long haul, brand collapse will be seen; see MS where it has trickled from the bottom to the top, hence the exiting CEO and exec shedding.

But who is implementing and setting all the short term 'features', lower mgmt and ICs. The issue is that ideology is not enough for measuring success in mega corps, data has to used. The translation form ideology to metrics is where they fail.
Investigating the Chisel high-level HDL
1) Lag is mostly a thing of the past now, but depends a lot on the hardware. My Nexus 4 rarely lags, whereas my Nexus 7 (2012) lags all the time. Some poorly made apps can also cause lag (Facebook used to be pretty bad).

2) It works fine with Exchange, but is lacking in features. It has, however, received a major overhaul in KitKat, so perhaps it's better now (haven't tried it yet).
Wow, guess so. I've been using my script for years but I'm not surprised someone else has done this right.
Sure its a mega-corp but some person or persons are in charge. And this individuals either agree with this path or are getting ready to fire some folks.
Also, a memory hungry monster, while it's forwarding them.
Finally, related videos that are related to the video!

For some reason google decided to show videos 'relevant' to me. But all I want is videos related to what i'm watching.

Thanks, I really like it.
Re: 'Industry standard' error rate.

I admittedly haven't worked in manufacturing at anything even resembling that scale, but I did spend a summer working for a company that assembled, sold, and installed PCs to local small businesses and (particularly) school districts. A 4-5% failure rate, at the point of installation, would have been absolutely inconceivable in that job.

Sure, there were lots of failures, most caused by assembly errors, some caused by damage during assembly, some due to component failures, but the vast majority were caught before the trucks were loaded. One guy with a rolling swivel chair and several industrial-sized KVM switches can verify that 500 (what you might expect for several computer labs across a single school district, for school districts the size we were dealing with) or so PCs will more or less work in really just a few minutes. I would assert that this sort of manual sanity checking is the sort of operation that is embarrassingly parallelizable too. Two people can check a batch of 1000 just as fast as one person can check 500. 20 people should be able to do 10,000.

And this was a small operation. Were we larger, it may have made sense to look into more automation.

Between those checks, and when they were hauled into schools and plugged in? Nothing much about a tractor trailer ride is going to make a PC go DOA.

So I guess my question is, what sort of QA are they doing at the factory to get a 4-5% DOA rate? Or if the QA is fine, what the hell is happening during the shipping? Are the devices overly fragile? If they are being damaged during shipping, could the same damage occur in the home?
The MPAA wants schools to teach first-graders the dangers of digital piracy
Mostly because I was waiting for people to come into the frame? And because it was around midnightish, a time when people are still leaving Broadway theaters (yes, even during snow) It's "virtually" empty compared to what Times Square is like on a stereotypical day (or night). I think if I waited till around 2-3am, or 5-6 am on a weekday
A reputable host for all those "curl <url> | sh" commands you see these days? Basically, verified to not do something like rm -rf /.
You're also assuming everyone with a dead unit bothered to post a review
What about mail.com as your new mail service?
The zombie film 28 Days set up a few shots like this in downtown London ... but with a movie budget and some official clearances they were able to get some sunlit shots, which appeared to be taken very early in the morning. It was a great Danny Boyle movie, incidentally.

Within the past 10 years, I remember seeing another another film set in NYC which showed a scene in Times Square, completely devoid of people or traffic. It was quite striking. Anyone remember what it was?

EDIT: I see from the other comments it was Vanilla Sky
Vimeo is where YouTube's original content creators are talking about moving (I'm not sure to what degree seriously).
Cutomer Validation (Survey) for EdTech Startup
Yes, and I am surprised that this didn't up as answer #1 in response to the original question. This problem is an absolute showstopper if you need to manage binary assets (which for something like video games, you absolutely do -- you want to know that your data is the right data for the current version of the code, because the data is changing all the time too).

In The Witness (http://the-witness.net/news) we have 20GB of data checked into svn. Try that with git.
I don't run noscript, but I find it's just as helpful to hit ctrl-shift-P to open a private browsing window in Firefox whenever I'm about to visit a site I don't want to see future ads from.
> I don't understand this one at all.

I suspect it had something to do with driving a "company vehicle" to Louisiana from Florida, without telling the actual owner of the vehicle. There are some details missing obviously.

His prior convictions were armed robbery, negligent homicide, and issuing worthless checks. According to the ACLU, the docket number for the LA court of appeals is supposedly: 2000-KA-2117. I couldn't find anything on it though.
In the most meaningful way, it could be Android for consoles. It's "freely licensable" for hardware manufacturers, so companies will be able to build new consoles without building their own OS -- the same innovation that led HTC and Samsung to become two of the world's leading phone manufacturers.
Also, no way that 100% of bad orders came in and have a review. The old rubric was that for every vocal complaining customer (forums, reviews, etc) there are 7-10 in the wings not complaining. So I would say that you can't really draw conclusions simply based on the reviews, unless you want to inflate them by an order of magnitude.
And why the hell should intent matter? It's the outcome that is relevant. My grandfather was killed by a perpetual drunk driver. I don't give a shit what his intent was, he obviously had no regard for the safety of the innocents he was putting at risk. He deserves to rot in prison.
Yes. K_{3,3} can be embedded on a torus.
I use Apple Time Capsule and iDrive for off-site backups (https://www.idrive.com/). Both use encryption to protect my data.
Google Plus - as in, the actual plus.google.com website and app, the Facebook competitor - has basically failed in this regard. The people on it love it! I've been on it since it started. But the people on Buzz loved that too, before Google unceremoniously shot it through the head.

Basically, the existing user base doesn't matter. So they might as well go straight to forcing people onto it, since they failed to lure them onto it.
Even if you run YouTube, Gmail and search in different incognito windows so that they don't share cookies, they could still figure out that all these requests were coming from the same browser (via browser fingerprinting) at the same IP address.
For some reason I think that Gabe et. al. are smart enough to know that partnering with ubuntu right now would not be met with enthusiasm by the community, on the other hand maybe pressure from Valve could get Mark to pull his head out of his ass and work with the community instead of continually disrupting it.
Think its his TERM env most likely being straight xterm (no color ansi escapes in the termcap iirc).

http://i.imgur.com/0Hzze9G.png

Thats me on osx running tmux with TERM=xterm-256color.
Given the problems with Java's floating-point implementation [1], would this be reliable for statistical analysis?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6585828
Dropbox. (Google Drive is not stable enough, and I have too many things on Google already)

One mistake I made with Dropbox is installing it on one of my linux servers, on my server I moved Dropbox folder, and it made Dropbox believe that I have deleted everything on my server. So it deleted most of my files, and recovering it was a mess. Even talking after talking with Dropbox support, I couldn't recover everything :(.

Looking for a better solution, but I need the cloud as I want to be able to access some of the files from my phone.
While the outcome is a tragedy in either case, there is a significant difference in whether it was truly an accident, or if one of the parties involved in the accident willfully and knowingly significantly increased the chances of an accident by, say, being drunk or texting while driving.

As a society we realize that certain risks will always remain, and due to bad luck accidents will always happen: We accept that and live with that. What we do not accept is behavior which unnecessarily endangers a person's life.
It's perfectly reasonable from a moral point of view to hold people accountable in proportion to how reckless they are acting.
...and reading code.
thanks, funny I am being downvoted for not being up to date.
Wouldn't `git reset --hard <sha-commit>` do that ?
Part 2 has been posted http://akaptur.github.io/blog/2013/11/15/introduction-to-the...

But I still feel like both part 1 and part 2 are far too short; even if read together they provide very little information to digest.
Compassion begets compassion. For this reason alone this event was beyond price.
The Kindles are extremely low bars to cross. The HW isn't very good (other than the screen which is okay), and the OS customizations make them one of the most confusing tablets to use. The N7 was a tablet more my size, but it wasn't perfect either. All of the iPads pre-mini were to big and heavy for my tastes. The first iPad mini was waste of a good size with it's poor screen and iPad 2 internals. I haven't seen one yet in person, but I think the new iPad mini with a retina display is going to become the iPad to have.
If you only deploy on a single node, there is no obvious advantage (beside not fearing an update of a shared library might break your code). But if you deploy on a cluster, you might have an advantage, especially if that cluster is somewhat heterogenous (not the same version of OS, not the same libraries, etc.).
I don't see the connection though. Yegge was lamenting Google's unwillingness to be serious about being a platform company for third-party app developers (, developers, developers, developers ...) The latest changes don't seem to have much to do with progress on that front.
Yeah this is the link http://kotaku.com/good-news-about-our-once-broken-ps4-146481...
To some extent, that's the point. People go "Oh! Three utilities - nice problem - excellent mug."

It's sometimes only much later that people go "Hang on! It can be solved on the mug!"

It's a cool mug.
I'm quite surprised you came to that number given this announcement by sony.

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/PS4-Failure-Rate-0-4-Says-S...
French newspaper removes all images in support of photographers
Gretchen: That is so fetch.

Regina: Gretchen, stop trying to make 'fetch' happen. It's not going to happen
Adding Linux or other OS support to a Windows IT shop requires more than a trivial amount of work and added overhead, especially if security is regulated. It's always cost/benefit.