skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s sub pixel in the respect that it independently uses every controllable dot on your display (three for every pixel, red, green and blue) to create the illusion of black lines. Zoom in on the font and you will see that no pixel is actually black or grey. It uses the underlying hardware structure of the pixel display. It basically doesn’t manipulate the abstract and perfect pixel (throw three colors at a small square and get the combination of the three perfectly distributed across the surface of the square) but the underlying hardware structure of pixels. That’s the reason why it breaks on different or rotated hardware.
My vote is for rock climbing. A lot of tech people do it, and it takes serious problem-solving skills. Figuring out how to contort your body to be able to extend your reach that last inch towards the next hold, and how to position yourself to move after that, takes a lot of thinking.

Plus, it's an amazing whole-body workout.
Does this mean, that if recaptcha for some reason thinks you are suspicious, you won't be able to login to your google account, etc?
Indeed, you're right. He helped us kick the can further down the road.
hello web 2.0 bubble. 1 billion dollars?!?! What is twitter doing that is remotely close to them generating any sort of revenue? The site stability is a joke among the engineers there (a fail whale monitor) , see their presentation at this years velocity, http://velocityconference.blip.tv/ . I understand that twitter is what's hot right now, but if facebook is just reporting cashflow positive and they have an ad model quite some time. How long will it take twitter to get cash flow positive when they seem to not have a game plan yet (atleast a public one)?
Well, there's the fact that most people don't like Arrington. He's apparently enough of a pain that I think he would have trouble putting on as good of a conference by himself.

But the specific phrases bug me - "This is the last TechCrunch50". That sounds like a pro-wrestling setup for TC60 next year.
I was actually about 30 feet away but I don't want to fuel more rumors. At end of the day, even if it was genuine, it is still a year off and a few broken feelings can be mended by wild profits and time. Speculating on this kind of thing is a waste of time.
Until you are asked what color you see.
Except that deleterious mutations will be selected against. So only adaptations which make some sense will be passed on. That includes things like anemia which provides protection from malaria.

And the title does very much imply some kind of answer or elaboration or something that's not simply look at these freaky pics An honest title would have been upvoted a lot less here, but probably more over at reddit.
Interesting view. I'm pretty sure that their reCAPTCHA purchase has more to do with scanning their books than it does with captcha.
Wait, just by chance it looks like there was a 4/5 chance that the Stradivarius would loose/be outdone.
Details matter, and ultimately the code needs to run on a machine. Hence the implementation matters.
It is not a matter of software, but a matter of usability. Think of a Windows user only perspective. When installing a distro, you are confronted with the choice between X, KDE, Gnome, Compix, or whatever else Windows Manager is out there now, just to SHOW the Desktop. You haven't even started to use the OS and you must already make decisions about what to Window Manager to use. Most people don't even know what a Window Manager is. Now Google about them and all you will find are people that love their choice and diss all others and all of them seem wonderful in their eyes.
A quote from the NYT article regarding the lawsuit:

( http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/05/technology/companies/05noc... )

"But it also acknowledges that an “adverse result” could mean that the continued operation of Skype’s business as currently conducted would likely not be possible."

That's quite a statement.

And if the amounts are what they are claiming then it might make continued operation of ebay impossible, after all, ebay is selling skype in order to recover some of the money they sunk in the project.

Skype has been putting a serious damper ebays balance sheet the last couple of years, 1.9 B$ in their cash drawer is roughly 18 months profits.
Google has approached Facebook to be bought out...
I would agree, and add to this comment. If I can't figure out what the sensible name is then what exactly is it that I am writing? I have found that writing the wrong name even for a local private variable will often get me at least a little confused about what I am doing because it doesn't read correctly.
I'd put it at the boundary between art and craft...

... and I don't understand that you got down-modded for your constructive comment.
I think it's too early to summize (ha!) who is going to make money in which way.

But, I would point out that hypertargeted == local advertising. 74% of FB's ad revenues are from local businesses.*

*Source: http://mashable.com/2009/07/20/facebook-local-ads/
I never used kindle but if it had a tagging or commenting feature this would solve his problem.

The paper version of books, I agree, is sometimes better than reading the same content online, but for newspapers I don't agree. I was looking at paper versions of WSJ and Financial Times, and I realized that I skipped most of the content that looked like fillers between ads.
'emacs', please!
Data.Binary: performance improvments for Haskell binary parsing
I discovered some awesome in Netcat while playing with BashReduce (http://github.com/erikfrey/bashreduce/).

That said BashReduce uses the Debian version of Netcat which is different from every other version I could find. I ended up running Debian in VMWare to get BashReduce up and running on my Mac.
Facebook wants to aggregate status between friends. Twitter wants to aggregate status between topics. This fundamental difference drives extremely different models for using micro-updates and subsequently renders Facebook and Twitter as non-competitors.
Positive Effects of Grand Central and Open CL
I do agree it should have been worked out in advance. And when it was Arrington shouldn't have allowed Calacanis to feel like he was a partner in it. If he did that then he does bare responsibility for the hurt feelings.

When starting from scratch I do think it's unfair to later argue over contributions. In this case it's not starting from scratch. TechCrunch provided all of the rare/important ingredients, namely brand and promotion. Calacanis is fairly compensated if he made some cash and reputation, he doesn't deserve to own a stake in the conference in perpetuity.
I'm sure he'll have plenty of data without you...

If you take an inkblot test, do you say: "a blob of ink, a dab of ink, a splash of ink..."?
What company could Twitter acquire that would make them money a couple quarters down the road?

Consider that if Twitter has a huge valuation edge over (say) Yelp, they're in a position to finance an acquisition at favorable terms. Twitter's ability to execute those acquisitions could in turn feed back into its valuation.
I suspect that that's the point of the survey, though. Even though the questions can't be answered definitively, and even though they may really be the wrong questions to ask, we're faced with them on a daily basis.

Shakesville (http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/) has a regular series where they point out how regularly various media outlets write stories about domestic abuse where the story is framed so that the victims (overwhelmingly women) are blamed for their assaults. This is an extreme case, but it's illustrative of how society at large (and each of us at small) doesn't approach blame in a reasoned and careful way that considers all the angles and second- or third-order causes.

I doubt the point of the survey is to actually determine blame for specific events, but to investigate how our faulty meat-brains tend to lay blame when we have limited information.
Lots. Of the "old school" ones Electronic Arts, Sun Microsystems, Extreme Networks, Macromedia, 3Com, Genentech, Fast Company, Handspring.

From the web generation Akami, Geocities, Salesforce.com, Keyhole, E-Trade, MySpace, aSmallWorld, Doostang.
You can play it online for free, not exactly the same as a face-to-face game, but close enough.

The communities are generally pretty small.

My experience in playdiplomacy.com is that it doesn't feel like a bunch of strangers after a couple of games, especially if you go to the forums - since playing diplomacy (with good players) normally involves quite a lot of talking, you can make somewhat more significant ties than in other online games.
Heh. People used to spontaneously call me that when I was a kid (due to my name "Randall Randall" rather than my size, I expect), and it's way easier to google for. :)
Maybe not as good, but certainly as successful by most metrics (attendance/revenue/guest list). The TechCrunch site is a massive success despite Arrington's abrasiveness and so would his conference be.
Clearly there's no vital need for cheap asparagus. That's another problem. As the Irish say: God gave us the potato blight, the British gave us the famine.

That is to say, whith great income disparity, even when millions of people can't get enough calories, we can be throwing away moldy oranges.

Shortages of food will only make it more expensive for us, but people around the world will starve.

And a lot of people are not eating specialty foods from far off, they are barely getting enough calories from high yield starchy local crops like rice, corn, wheat etc. I am not sure how you could provide a population center like say Kinshasa with enough calories, never mind trace nutrients, without machines. Manually harvesting wheat or corn is not a way to feed the world.
In Twitter's case, realtime status, micro-blogging, and me-too viral spread were the hooks that drew in the masses. The business model looks to be about in creating link between local businesses and local customers. Pub-sub.

Ex: I (business/publisher) announce a special, you (customer/follower) receive the note and respond accordingly.

The problem is, I think, that Twitter has given away too much of the core value of the platform already (they had to in order to grow). I think it will be hard for them to create 'tools' to improve on this interaction and cause businesses to be willing to pay for it. I think this is why everyone is on the edge of their seats about this, because everyone thinks in the back of their minds that it can possibly happen but no one can easily connect the dots. From our perspective, if they do pull it off, it will seem somewhat miraculous.
When after a robbery you're asked which one of three innocents did it will you say 'none' or point at one of the innocents ?

On another note, the author specifically asked for feedback, so apparently I answered at least one of this questions.
It depends on whether you're using the chromium-daily PPA or you used Google's deb (the former looks for Firefox's libflashplayer.so, the latter needs you to install it).

If you're using the chromium-daily PPA (https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa), Chromium will look in a bunch of folders[1] for plugins, including ~/.mozilla/plugins. I suggest you get the tarball from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and put its libflashplayer.so in ~/.mozilla/plugins. Chromium will look here for it upon startup and you're set.

If you installed using Google's deb (http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel), it doesn't yet search the Mozilla plugin dirs, and thus you need to make an /opt/google/chrome/plugins dir and put the libflashplayer.so in there and it'll work.

Edit: if you're using Google's deb, you have to run google-chrome with the --enable-plugins switch. The deb adds their repo to sources.list.d, but I have no idea when they'll enable plugins by default in their repo. I'd ride the chromium-daily channel, since lots of shit is broken anyway.

[1]: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev/browse_thread/th...
“Except that deleterious mutations will be selected against. So only adaptations which make some sense will be passed on.“

Yeah, you are right, my second sentence is a little misleading. Evolution is certainly constrained. Not everything that is in some abstract sense possible (And what does that even mean?) will or even can form. But evolution is most certainly (most of the time) not constrained by human aesthetic judgments. There are strange things out there in nature.
It does matter because the assembler doesn't know that Laptop #14838 will become the CIO's. For the same reason that the White House procures food by going to a random store on a random day -- to have a chance at poisoning the president, you'd have to poison a bunch of people. If 100K new laptops were bugged, you'd bet at least one hacker would notice.
The store varieties are absolutely bred for yield and looks but not taste. The most common tomato is called "bulletproof" and that's because of how well it ships without bruising, not how tasty it is.
ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM
> then when a new postcode mapping product comes on the market, check for that postcode.

I realize that, but won't adding a 'bad' postal code possibly interfere with customers' usage of the data in the first place?
Traveling to the USA is not fun either:

Last month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you're entering the country. They can take your computer and download its entire contents, or keep it for several days.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/15/computing.s...
This Five-Letter Word Is Key to Marketing Success
You don't think the headline is a little accusatory and insulting?
I find it fascinating how much reputation and emotions carry over between games if you play with the same group regularly, and also at the house rules that develop.

For example, with my brothers and a few of their friends it is entirely expected that you will get stabbed in the back in a game if it helps the other guy win. There is a lot of guarding-our-flanks with that crowd. It's totally normal and expected, however some people have more of a reputation for it than others, which can lead to some players being unable to make any pacts without excessive bribery.

On the other hand, my current social peers are paragons of morality. If someone says something regarding the game, no matter how casually, they will be bound do that for a reasonable duration. Breaking this code creates a reputation which will carry over for the next few games and you'll find very few people willing to ally with you without stringent conditions.

Another odd example is playing multiplayer Magic: the Gathering. Throughout our time there have been a few decks that may not win often or quickly, but when they get going they become unstoppable, kill everyone in a single turn, or create a global effect that makes the game "unfun" for the other players such as destroying all their creatures and lands. Some of them have gotten such a reputation that certain players have only to play a certain spell on their first turn and the rest of the table will immediately focus on killing that one person first.
I'm currently doing research for Luis as part of Gwap, and as far as I can say, he's going to remain on the faculty at CMU but also work for Google out of the Google PGH offices. He's no longer teaching 251, however, which is what he's famous for around here (at least to students). What this means for me, however,...
If you really want to take down your socialising server...

take Junta http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/242
> ...as if that's a distinction that is unique to porn.

No, the argument was that like other media, porn is avidly pirated. However, it doesn't embrace DRM like other media. It is a compare/contrast.
There's no shortage of married folks on the site who aren't looking for any kind of relationship.
This reminds me of a comment I heard recently, I think from one of the presenters at TC50, where he said when referring to making money and what he wanted to do in 20 years, he said he'd still want to be working for the company, which was unlike what many of his peers would say (paraphrasing and possibly a quote of a quote from someone else). EDIT: I believe it was crowdfusion during their Q&A http://www.techcrunch50.com/2009/crowd-fusion/ - Video is at the bottom

Either way, it seems like the twitter guys are happy where they are and this valuation should allow them to do what they want for some time to come. It puts them out of the reach of most in terms of being bought, especially since their value will most likely only increase in the coming years.
But gamblers can't put a large bet out there on the sportsbook floor and just before an interception is caught declare "Whoops! That bet isn't valid anymore".
Java and JVM are different beasts, the later is a solid foundation for clojure. I'm not a Java guy at all, never used or learned it but still using clojure with great success and fun.
So reCaptcha's basis is a new field known as Human Computation that Luis invented himself. The term was coined in his Ph.D thesis. Google, however, has been the only company to really embrace Human Computation so it's not really a huge surprise that reCaptcha was sold to Google.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=826714
DataMasher - mash sets of government data together
I would be surprised if Arrington wants to continue with TechCrunch50...he seems to have no regard for entrepreneurs. Explains why he wasn't at the TC50 awards...

Case in point:
During this video (see link below) Arrington was extremely disrespectful and insulting during this interview with Garry Tan (posterous)... he interrupts Garry repeatedly and walks out at 24:01 w/o even acknowledging Garry is there.

http://thisweekinstartups.com/2009/09/twist-episode-14-with-...
That's why you nail things down between founders when the business is worth $1.

Its one of the major reasons why many start-ups fail.
Ask YC: Floating Heliox habitats
Apparently it is not uncommon in diving and possibly medical applications to provide a helium oxygen mixture rather than normal air for breathing. What about a bubble habitat with the residents living inside breathing heliox? The alternative would be helium balloons with a habitat balloon suspended below. Either way the idea would be to tether the things to high rises in NYC, Moscow, San Francisco, Tokyo or some other high cost of living locale and live relatively cheaply. Obviously weather is an issue, climate control, and for the heliox some kind of airlock although it seems a diving-bell like design might work, although that might require rigidity that would be unavailable. Obviously we don't see these things around, are the obstacles technical or regulatory? Which do you think are the most serious?
I hope this ushers an era of architecture diversity. Diversity is one of the most powerful tools in evolution's bag.

Besides that, this x86 world is utterly boring.
D--Differentiated: I think that this is an important concept to address because what I have often seen in companies which do not reach the level of creating a brand is that they play the game of forceful differentiation. Ideas need to be natural and authentic which in turn will enable them to be different than anything else that currently exists. It is also important to realize that contradictions lead to destruction and the size of the destruction is contingent on the magnitude of the contradiction. When developing a brand, this needs to be part of each individual within the organization. They need to become the brand and the CEO needs to be promoting this vision at all times. Contradictions in the workplace will lead to a company with a non-existent brand!
his harmless survey is more akin to another psychology test than wrongfully accusing someone you know to be innocent...no idea why you even threw that reply in there.
I am gonna dive in. You can be sure of that. But I disagree with you when you say that there isn't all that much noise.

The are currently hundreds of distros. All of them serve a purpose. There are ones meant for servers, meant for gaming, meant for low-level machines, meant for coding, ones that work only with strict F.O.S.S software, ones that work with software that is commercial, ones that are paid, that offer support, that don't offer support, but there is a community willing to help, others that let you on your own. There are even ones that mimic Windows XP. And NONE that are user-friendly.

Kurumin is a brazilian distro that gets CLOSE to it, but it is quite lacking. Ubuntu is the nearest possible choice, but it is still not there.

Obviously, once you pick your distro, you have to pick your window manager. Ubuntu, Kubuntu or Xubuntu? Or maybe there is only one window manager for your distro, but then that nice application you saw on your friend's house belongs to other and is not supported on yours. And how were you suposed to know?

Once you get past the initial trauma, you will eventually reach the point on when you can make your stuff work on any of them, but do you really expect someone that used Windows all his life and can barely install his printer whose drivers are already bult-in on Windows to really make this jump?

And don't even get me started on the different shells. Everyone likes to pretend that there is only Bash out there, but some distros still swear by the original Bourne. Or even CShell.

So, yes, there is a lot of noise.
Its interesting how differently people see things. I would consider We're more economically conservative than average, much more pro-motivation, to be positives.

I do agree that a genuine contempt for the arts is a bad thing, but I haven't seen a ton of that.
For those running Ubuntu AMD64, you can put both 32 and 64-bit versions of libflashplayer.so in ~/.mozilla/plugins (call them libflashplayer32.so and libflashplayer64.so if you like), and 32-bit Firefox will load the 32-bit plugin, and Chromium 64-bit will load the 64-bit plugin. You can get the 64-bit Flash plugin here:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

And if anyone's wondering why I'm not running 64-bit Firefox 3.5, it's because the Ubuntu (and possibly Debian, I've no idea) packagers still have it branded 'Shiretoko', which throws off every site searching for 'Firefox' in your UA. Hopefully by Karmic's release they'll have this sorted out.

Also, why does Mozilla not provide 64-bit builds?
It's worth noting that WebKit's "Web Inspector" is present in Chrome, which is roughly equivalent to Firebug...so you're not really having to live without that, even.
Let me help you out here then, if you are given a multiple choice question where 'all' or even 'more', or 'none' could be valid answers but the test does not allow that and you are asked for feedback on the test you can choose to ignore the test (not answer the question) and just provide feedback.

You used an analogy to make your point, I used an analogy to make mine.
Yes. See 21:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNjJTgXujno

Money quote: "Semantic web: The future of the web and always will be."
Naming isn't about what you'd rather type now, but what you'd rather read later.
I think a lot more people use twitter from 3rd party clients, than use facebook from 3rd party clients (As a %).

Facebook the website is a lock-in, and a place that can be easily monetized.

Twitter has the complication that for a ton of people, twitter is just the network and not the client. Monetization of a network seems pretty hard to me... far harder than monetizing a client.
That's a different lawsuit if you have access to paid WSJ (they had full article for free for few minutes since they broke the news, then pulled it off into premium. bummer).
Did this answer my question? I'm really open to the possibility that it's just me, but I still don't get it. I see that some kinds of arbitrage could be useful to a market.

I don't see how these microsecond-timing types of arbitrage can possibly help any market. Every last one of these trades will happen anyway. (*nitpicker's corner - of course some wouldn't happen, e.g. at the precise close of trading.)