skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's very interesting. I never understood why more people haven't made the connection between objects in the front end and PHP objects in the backend, and how it's only natural to unify those into one language instead of messing with seperate html, css, js etc. Anyhow good luck to you guys, it's the way to go, i want to keep working on more features and then maybe i'll give you a shout if i feel i've got something new worth contributing :)
<address> is what people should have been using all along - I remember it was common in academic websites in the early-mid 90s, but it fell out of fashion. Similarly <em> for emphasis, the semantic meaning was lost when people switched to <b> and <i> instead.
Turn it up! Turn it up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3_HHZFi0As

On a more serious note, I'm really a fan of SuperCollider (especially for it's smalltalk-like dynamic language). It's incredibly good for sound design and real-time experimentation.

But for the best quality output, Csound (http://www.csounds.com/) is hard to beat. Here are some people who tried to recreate the same effect in Csound:

http://csound.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/the-thx™-sound-from-c...

http://joesprojectblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/thx-deep-note-ch...
Winner takes all contests seem to be zero sum games to me, in a certain sense. The pie is a fixed size, and one guy gets all of it. I think I'd rather sink my time into business or open source stuff.
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The Japanese are desperate for robots that are capable of assisting in the care of their aging population. That's their main motivation - it can't possibly be economic to develop robots like this just as animated shop window manikins.
CPU emulators using FPGA and data warehouse appliances
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Jan Chipchase (resident anthropologist @Nokia) calls them Informal repair culture. Neither Nokia nor it's competitors publish an official hacking manual. This has evolved from a need to have a cellphone 24x7 & where the market is highly sensitive to price. Read, Informal repair culture: http://www.janchipchase.com/repaircultures.

Quoting verbatim: "The informal repair services that are offered are quite simply driven by necessity - highly price sensitive customers cannot afford to go through more expensive official customer care centers and even if they could their phones are unlikely to be covered by warrantee - having been bought through grey market channels, been sent as gifts from friends and relatives abroad, or were locally bought used, second or third+ ownership. In many cases these users cannot afford to be without their mobile phone, not in the social sense of being out of touch (which is valid enough), but in many instances because their livelihoods depend on it. On the supply side there is a ready pool of sufficiently skilled labour, ready access to tools, comp"

The chance that a small business can take advantage of scale is next to nil, as the supply chain would have peaked before small business can source at the same price levels.
I think we've hit local maximum in civilisation (perhaps we're just beyond the cusp). If the last century was defined by technological innovation, this one unfortunately I think will be defined by over-population crises.

If we haven't solved the over-population issues by 2100 then I think the 22nd Century will be defined by ecological disaster.

I'm not sure if I'm being too pessimistic or not!
Nobody said they are equivalent; taxation is a subset of theft, theft that is approved by the government. That is all taxation is theft (coercive appropriation) but not all theft is taxation (legal coercive appropriation).
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I think it's just down to the popularity of make. People who are starting new projects use make because "everybody's using it, it must be the best!" Then, when make becomes a pain in the butt, they write their own because they've already decided that there's nothing better out there.
I find the note at the end about SCTwitting the most fascinating. Music represented as code confined to a character limit of a broadcast medium...just wow.

I know a few digital poets who will have a field day with this. Thanks for sharing!
Could this be the end of electric power cords?
Apple engineer: Gee, boss, what are we going to do with all of these "air" parts we spent so much time developing?

Boss (Scanning macrumors to issue the days takedown notices): Well, I guess we'll just have to.... waa-hay-hayta minute! I've got a brilliant idea!
Check out the Titanium Developer platform. It's exactly what you want. http://www.appcelerator.com
Email to SMS
Easy to follow project on how to convert email to SMS i.e. an email to sms gateway using Skype
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Spotify iPhone App Imminent: Europeans Get It First
Nothing worse than an unresolved cliffhanger.
Seems like the Symbian version of Spotify is not far away, either http://twitter.com/s_constantine/status/2868529762.

IF they keep their pace of innovation, music industry in europe is bound for a shakeup.
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Email: Will we ever get over it? Even Social Media worships there.
And to be clear: The winner of the contest is not determined by the number that you see listed on the leaderboard. The number on the leaderboard [1] is on the Quiz dataset, the winner is determined by running against the Test dataset (which is kept private by Netflix). As stated by Yehuda on team BellKor: "our team is top contender for winning the Grand Prize, as we have a better Test score than The Ensemble."

This turnaround does not surprise me. BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos took their sweet time getting to 10%+ - and in doing so they were very sure not to overfit [2] the data (making their solution a much more generic and viable solution to the dataset). It's my guess that The Ensemble rushed quickly to 10%+ and overfit their data like mad (which yielded high numbers on the public dataset, but evidently does not translate to a generic solution).

I'm looking forward to seeing the final papers published by BellKor, et. al. - they're going to be a fascinating read, regardless.

1: http://www.netflixprize.com/leaderboard
2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfitting
Well, free municipal wifi network of Praha 9 blocks 4chan too (so I can't see the page either). :-)
Pessimism IMO. Generally brought about through age (older people are generally more negative about the future) or fears of immigration. I'd bet we can sustain WAY more people then we have at the moment.
A free app to act as a remote control for Spotify would be nice. The built in Apple one is pretty great for iTunes.
So, in other words, it runs the program interpreted the first time, with profiling and other execution path tracing on, then does code generation in a batch once the initial run is done. It arguably shares the advantages of JIT compilation (access to loads of data from actual execution), without its constraints (code generation no longer needs to be imperceptible, so complex rewriting is possible). The results from LuaJIT are already quite impressive; I wonder how far a JIT-style compiler could go if it actually had time to do deeper analysis.

OTOH, it's probably hard to guarantee that the first run is representative. Not sure if running e.g. a test suite with high code coverage would be close enough, for sake of the analysis. Either way, interesting idea (though, I bet the name will short circuit good discussion). It might be simpler than analyzing for potential partial evaluation.
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"""For a start, fabricate won't say "* missing separator" if you use spaces instead of tabs.""" - No, but it will say "IndentationError: unindent does not match any outer indentation level" if you mess up Python's indentation :-)
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I wish someone would pick up http://a-a-p.sourceforge.net/ again. It is a great build tool written by the Vim author. I've used it to build complex projects in the past with a minimal amount of aap configuration. It is much less verbose than fabricate.
HTC – Over Half of Phones Will Be Android in 2010
Skilled Immigrants on Why They're Leaving the U.S.
All Carbon is Not Created Equal
The means, or medium, in which carbon is stored in the environment matters greatly - important differences exist between fossil and biomass sinks, and that may make quantifying carbon offsets difficult in certain situations.
I hate these fallacious argument articles, mainly because I think they miss the point.

Sure, if you're on a collegiate debate team it's great to be able to categorize the faults in your opponent's argument. But in the real world, we have discussions -- sometimes heated ones -- in order to advance some common cause. That means we should be working on each other's teams here. When somebody uses one of these, they're not "cheating" -- it's more like they slipped up into a simple response when a more well-thought out response was called for. Lists like this lead us to think we just point our finger and shout "ad hominem!" instead of actually engaging somebody.

Somebody can commit every logical fallacy there is and still have valuable and important information that you need to have. Heck -- they can actually have a better case than you do. If somebody runs in the room and shouts "you're such an idiot you probably don't even realize the building is on fire", the proper response is not to critique their argumentation skills.

I have the same problem with these lists as I do with design pattern books. The purpose shouldn't be to memorize the label and pattern, the purpose should be to develop enough critical thinking skills that you don't need the list, don't need the patterns book. Then the labels are just nice after-thoughts.
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Let's just hope something so expensive will at least give our species some control over the world we live in. Oh, wait...
You could use XUL for the GUI. The German car rental company Sixt did that in 2005 for their corporate apps. I don't know what became of it, though.
Well, I'm by no means a heavy email user. I get maybe one email a day that I care about... and that's on a good day. I don't bother with notifications and aggregations and all that mess (or social networking for that matter). But in any event, the advantage email has is that your inbox is an aggregator and that email is ubiquitous. Email is already preconfigured, preprogrammed to work with anyone. Sure, you may be able to make a nicer way to get notifications and updates from certain sites (though I still can't for the life of me figure out why you'd want to), but will it work with every single site in existence and with every single person in existence and with every single other technology in existence? No? Ok, I'll stick with email then.
Interesting, though ultimately I would prefer to spend resources on cross platform stuff.
I love the idea of a visual IDE for web apps, but Tersus seems so heavy, with so many dependencies.

This may be a stupid question, but is there a good OS X-based visual IDE out there for creating web apps?

I don't care if it's for PHP or Python or anything else - I want to learn to create web apps, and I have to start somewhere. I'm trying out both Django and RoR, but it would be awesome if there were a visual way to start putting the pieces of an app together, and then building up the code from within.
A lot of people have been tripped up by this, and it's a VERY important distinction. I hope Netflix posts more about the final (Test) results from each when they officially announce the winner.
Richard Branson celebrates risk takers.

Two Dutch students got a lift on Sir Richard's private jet because they had the balls to ask him for a ride.

"As it was a cross-media congress, it was possible to text-message questions for Sir Branson to a massive screen. And so, thinking ahead a bit, we figured Sir Branson was traveling in a private jet..."

http://kbiri.blogspot.com/2009/01/lens-story-about-yesterday...
I have had a lucid dream where I am flying above a farmland. I fall many times but still manage to fly for a few moments. I was showing it to somebody I don't remember. As for the "recursive dream", I did have it after watching Waking Life http://us.vdc.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/
How two students got a ride from Sir Richard Branson on his private jet
I don't get it. Does it intercept file accesses to determine the dependencies? Looks like magic.
If Apple were ever to release a tablet they would probably do so when it makes strategic sense. The iPhone is still a work in progress. Copy and paste was just added and the app store is still being refined.

When iPhone sales start to curb like iPod sales did after 5/6 years then you will see a new "pardigm shifting" gadget. The iPhone has been out for what, 2 years now?
What’s the key feature ?
It looks like they hardcoded gcc as the compiler in the example. What about trying to port a program to a platform without it (or that calls it differently), that needs extra compilation flags, etc.?

A lot of the seemingly esoteric stuff in Makefiles is there to make porting feasible (and the rest is autogenerated by autoconf, automake, etc.). Not just which files an operation depends on, but e.g. the options used for building shared libraries correctly on this platform, paths for libraries, etc. While the build system will remember what it found as dependencies, it still needs to know what to find the first time. (It will note header files as dependencies, though.)
looks a lot like SCube only way more verbose for the simple case. http://code.google.com/p/scube/wiki/Example1

The problem with this and other Python build tools is They are a huge pain to use on older systems that either don't have a recent enough version of Python installed or don't have Python installed at all. It's just not as portable as Make is in that respect.
Computing.
Yes, via access times and strace: "When this build stage ran, it checked these files, so remember them as dependencies." Not magic at all, and should automatically work for languages that haven't even been invented yet.
This is a very typical story and a good lesson. I've worked on many "specialty" software packages and all the good ones started the same way, as a one-off package designed and developed by the users for one specific business.

The best 911 software I ever saw was designed by paramedics, the best distribution software by people who bought and sold stuff all day long, the best medical software by doctors and nurses, you get the idea. These were all designed with the intent to use.

Some of the worst packaged software I ever saw, OTOH, was designed by programmers with the intent to sell.
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I love Javascript, but I think people who want to develop server-side or desktop apps with it might be better served by Lua. Lua has functions as first-class values like Javascript does, which allows you to approach problems similarly in both languages.

Lua has also already been in use as a server-side and desktop language for some time, and while the available toolkits pale in comparison to what's available, say, for Java, Python or Ruby, there are still more options than there are for Javascript right now. Lua is very fast; for most benchmarks at http://shootout.alioth.debian.org it's the fastest interpreted language.

Sorry this is doesn't exactly answer the question you're asking but I thought it might be worth mentioning as another possibility to consider.
The pressure for another stimulus (and greater deficits) would be intense

I guess the newspapers would want some of that money? Only recently on telly here in the UK they were saying that only 20% of the stimulus had been spent, so there is time to either spend that 80% on something else or more efficiently, or just wait for it to be spend first before asking for another stimulus.

This is after all the tax payers money and I think most tax payers would rather have that money back and decide themselves what to spend it on.
Writing a synthesis tool is like writing a high-level language compiler, fairly difficult. On top of that, synthesis (by definition) targets a specific technology. This is like targeting different CPU architectures and platforms with said compiler except that the targets are not publicly documented.

Even with so many OSS developers in this world, we only have one decent compiler that targets multiple platforms - GCC, and even that has lots of issues. The number of FPGA developers is far smaller and most of us would rather focus on the hardware design, than write software tools.

So, if you want to see a good FPGA tool chain, you would need to convince enough FPGA developers with software skills and enough software developers with hardware skills, to put an effort behind actually making it work.
Non hacker here - I could definitely use something like this for a drupal directory site. Suggestions for implementing for people like me?
I thought that individuals from the western world, i.e EU, America, Australia, etc, can go anywhere they like. It is the rest of the world which is restricted on travel, say India, the balkans, brazil, africa of course.
Also, because of their antics, they have the ability to generate a large amount of press. This is probably more important than any actual damage they could do.
If you were referring to Firefox / sqlite3.. I wouldnt consider sqlite3 a server at all. Nonetheless, I agree with what you are saying
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Maybe Obama will be smart enough to start handing out green cards to anybody with an H1B who can hold a permanent position for two years. I'd much rather employ somebody who's motivated enough to leave their home country in search of opportunity.
What about a million and one?
I don't know. I find this "competition" a bit weird for several reasons. First off, from looking over the site it's not clear whether wikiaudio is a commercial venture or not. If it is a business, then populating your site with content by offering a $200 prize to the winner seems a bit pathetic. If it's a community site, offering prizes for creating the most content seems to go against the whole idea of "community" where people are contributing content based on shared interest rather than a monetary reward. And finally, most audio geeks I know have a fairly high disposable income. A chance to win $200 wouldn't seem to be a big motivator.
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After wasting three months and several thousand dollars on inexperienced programmers, I realized you get what you pay for.

Tell my boss.
You could use the LGPL Qt4.5 (cross-platform), which includes an ECMAScript scripting engine (with debugger).
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Yeah and missing the age of immortality by just a century or so would be a bit of a bummer.
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4chan has always been under a DDoS.
Well, the first argument is that it would not work. When the ten new EU states joined, only the UK and Ireland opened its borders and we were flooded with Polish people, about 500k which is roughly about 1% of the UK population. There was this report I read which stated that unlike the fears of UK citizens, these polish wave of migration has contributed to the economy more than they have taken in benefits, housing, nhs, schooling.

Now it has quietened a bit, I suppose who wanted to go went in that first wave.

Now, suppose we opened the borders to India, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Pakistan, etc. The Mexican and Brazilians will probably go to the US rather than UK, the Indians and Russians will probably want to come to the UK rather than US. India is 1 billion however, Russia 300 million. If a fraction of these people came to the UK the country would be flooded and go into a period of complete transformation and utter confusion and most probably civil unrest as the primitive territorial instincts take hold. The Indians will then demand that their culture is respected and therefore push for laws rather than integrate and do what they do in Rome.

In principle it is a noble idea. That is why although the EU project has its downsides, most people think it unthinkable to leave the EU. We like being able to travel freely in this continent, to allow trade to be completely unrestricted, but we did not sit one day and say, hey let us open our borders to all the EU. It has instead taken about 60 years for this project to evolve to what it has and still not all of the geographical europe is within the EU. So perhaps we should gradually have an EU style project in a world scale. That is, I suppose, what the UN was meant to be, but it has effectively failed. Maybe now we should try and set up institutions and a judiciary for a United Western World, whereby people are able to move freely within Europe, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and then gradually incorporate Russia, India, Brazil, etc.
Strictly speaking it's not a server, true.
Since you:

hardly seem to read my comments

completely misinterpret what you do read

respond by calling everything fiction or ridiculous

and throw around equally baseless claims of your own.

Yes, this is discussion is over.
For those who want to know, they changed the sales tax on restaurant meals from 19.6% to something much lower like 5.5%.
I see they went with ole' "glowing marble set in Copperplate eclipsing some kind of quasar." For the client looking for the random Gimp filter.
Yeah, but I use Safari. There's GreaseKit, which I have installed, but I've had little success getting it to work with regular GreaseMonkey scripts.
I have a small one that looks like it'll bring in about enough to buy a new laptop this year. It's taking maybe 60 hours so the rate sucks but those are mostly otherwise wasted hours where I'm already watching TV or other crap.

This is a direct result of doing Ed Dale's 30 Day Challenge last year. That's a free online course on internet marketing, especially on market testing, that often gets confused with a "make money fast" scheme. I went into it last year with what I thought was a decent product but soon realized that the online market (search hits) for it is tiny. Almost a year later and I still only get 20 hits a week on that one.

In the last week of the challenge I stumbled upon a market niche that works and now generates up to a thousand hits for me a week. It's not a market looking to spend money so my conversion rate has sucked, but I'm slowly finding what sells to them.

If I hadn't done this testing, I would have wasted some money and a lot of time trying to get the first idea off the ground. If you've got a product or service (or even just an idea for one), I'd recommend the 30 Day Challenge as a free/cheap way to get rolling.
I don't know how many TechCrunch lovers there are, but it is common knowledge that Apple fans are willing to spend more on a first gen product (just look at what happened with the iPhone). My guess is that if Apple delivers, TechCrunch will not see as many sales as it would have.