skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making A Living (Barely) On The iPhone App Store (aka The Numbers Post)
Huh? Where's the results? Or are readers supposed to run the code and send their results or something? But there's no timing check in the code he posted anyway.
They don't render in IE (tested in 8); it cuts the article in half.
This is why you don't let news reporters write science policy, because they have no effing clue.

Developing the ability to send the ISS to Mars is significantly more difficult than building a purpose built spacecraft to send to Mars. The design of ISS is, to use programmer jargon, tightly coupled to its role in Earth orbit, sending it on a mission to Mars without significant modifications would cause its crew to suffer severe radiation exposure. Not to mention that we'd lose radio contact, the crew would run out of supplies and die, and the station would probably miss its target and fail to enter orbit around Mars (assuming it had the capability to do so, which it doesn't). Adding all those modifications would be more expensive than building a new vehicle that was actually designed for the journey.

Moreover, the most difficult aspect of all of this is propulsion. ISS is vastly heavier than other craft we would send to Mars, making it a more difficult task to move to Mars than any of the reference Mars missions on the table.
Ported this to scala (I know, I didn't do this functionally, this is a pretty straight port of the C example), ran in 4 seconds (of course, I've got about a bajillion other apps open right now, so take this with a grain of salt):

object Main {
def fib(n : int) : int = {
if(n < 2) n
else
fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
}

def main(args: Array[String]) = {
for (i <- 0 until 37) {
printf("n = " + i.toString + " => "+fib(i).toString)
}
}
}
I kept staring at this page, and yet despite its brevity, I could not find the results.

Apparently Firefox doesn't like the self-closing script tag?
There's no civilization on Mars, yet, getting to Mars isn't the end of the journey, it's just the start. The total journey to Mars, on Mars, and back to Earth will be multi-year.
It is 6 minutes to midnight | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
It is a bold claim by saying "influential to contemporary culture".
Or firefox mac. OK, now I looked at it through safari and I can see it.
Bite off your tongue and you will bleed to death. Especially valuable advice if you're tied up.
Is that valid? Also the script is missing the "type" attribute.
There are a large number of secret house churches in China. They are illegal though and hosting one or participating in one can land you in jail or worse.

Doesn't stop them though so the author may be one of those.
Hmm,

When I read this, it seemed like there was a disconnect between the out-sourcing trend and this desire for more computer geeks.

Interestingly, when I recently read BLS website on programmer jobs prospects, they projected a decrease. You can find a reference to this projection here:
http://education-portal.com/articles/Mastercam_Programmer_Jo...

But now, the very recently updated BLS website paints a rosy picture.

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos303.htm

Woo, spooky. Maybe the BLS is listening to darpa at least... WTF!
It is a more common occurrence in warmer climates (mexico and the siesta) and where the people undergo physical labor for work (such as farming).
Cloud Light Presents: Mr. Dump All Your Crap In the Cloud Guy
The Cloud Elasticity Myth
He will only get more influential, people are now starting to call him the new and better Lu Xun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Xun) which is significant enough.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%E9%9F%A9%E5%AF%92+%E9%B2%81%...

Don't listen to official propaganda judgement of Han Han. It's really just, well, propagandas.

Han Han is an incredible guy, he is one and only master troll against the government. Much of what the general public's idea were somehow properly expressed via his voice on blog, and somehow just right below the tolerance limit of the government so it gets published and spread very quickly in a timely fashion. His father is a C.C. Party ShangHai official working in the propaganda department and fortunately support what Han Han is doing.

There's no limit in Han Han's future, this guy has got so much potential.

I myself was not a HanHan fan, and I used to be against pro-Han Han during my school days. However I have to admit this guy knows exactly what he is talking about and is doing a damn good job with expert skills
Mostly killings in Somalia are for revenge.
Subvocalization?
A Simply Neat Example of Function Pointers in C
Weird, reading more carefully, the BLS projects more software engineers but fewer programmers. Fooled me since personnel directors are the only people I've heard distinguish the two job types.
Or you could say that it's simply no longer popular. All languages have a core group of implementers and enthusiasts that like to discuss the language's unique features and shortcomings and its implementation, but popular languages also have a much larger group of people who just use it.
> I love my profession . . . but the abuses and shortcomings in this field are enough to make one scream.

There, edited and I believe it likely applies to everyone who's held a job here on HN. I felt similarly working as a reviewer, similarly when I worked as an electrician. I've heard of an entire house's lighting been wired with speaker wire. I'm amazed the place didn't burn down, it's a testament to the quality of speaker wire and the ineptitude of some people. I didn't work the job personally, so I don't know if the wire had been "professionally" installed or not. However, I have many horror stories from jobs that I know have been wired by an alleged professional.

Abuses and shortcomings are rampant in any field. As long as you do the best job you can, as long as you're doing the best for your client, you're making your profession better.
Sniper scopes that work even when it's foggy are crucial to our advancement as a human race!
I never noticed this on the FT before:

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2010. You may share using our article tools. Please don't cut articles from FT.com and redistribute by email or post to the web.

It's nice of them to simply ask readers not to do it. It might make more sense if the "article tools" was a hyperlink.
Recursive/iterative Fibonacci number generation is an interesting programming exercise but it's a bad example because in practice you'd be best to use an explicit constant-time formula.
Misdirected cookies?
Yahoo Was Also Targeted in Hacker Attack
You all were quoting my court case, fox did argue that technically lying is not a violation of any law rule or regulation fo the FCC. And in order to file a whistleblower case in Florida, you have to violate a law, rule or regulation. see foxbghsuit.com As to the science question- it is possible journalists don't fully appreciate the language of science whicih is quite precise. Journalists are trying to speak to a wide audience, that may account for some of the disparity.
"... surprisingly terrible article ..."

And thats from the article comments :)
both valid HTML5
Fantastic. Maybe Firefox will finally fix HTTPS caching problems.
I fully endorse the term "wanklage". Brilliant!
Yahoo's Plan for the Social Web in 2010
Just cache your lookups, perform them only for IPs in that region. It is seriously not that hard, there aren't that many MSN bots running around.

It's weird that my comment above is getting downvoted when carbocation is agreeing with me and getting upvoted. This isn't downvoting by disagreement, so what did I say that was so wrong?
Oh, here's an idea: I was at a tech party here in Tokyo recently saw a device that was simply a wikipedia gadget. Just an LCD screen and a keyboard for searching. They said that as a user you were entitled to two updates a year.

As a someone who already has an iPhone with access to wikipedia I didn't see the point of it, but if you put the Chinese version of wikipedia and a satellite receiver into it…
Your over-analyzing makes your post seem very cold and callous. Yes it's getting a lot of media attention and people are pouring in money...so what..the alternative would be to simply ignore everything like the rest of the world suffering year-round.
Disclaimer: I'm not a real photographer and I don't have any real experience with SLRs, digital or otherwise; I may be completely clueless here.

The concept of a digital SLR has always seemed a bit silly to me. The purpose of an SLR, as I understand it is to show in the viewfinder the same image that will hit the film. The live preview in an electronic viewfinder or LCD screen serves the same purpose, but in theory at least can get closer to the image that will actually be captured. The digital SLR has always seemed like a stepping stone to me; something that would let a film photographer move to digital without having to relearn everything all at once.

What am I missing? I'm sure serious photographers aren't just slow to learn. What's the technological advantage of SLR over EVIL?
I think the problem with your stance is that you don't give the Chinese people credit for their own sovereignty.

Why is it not possible that Chinese leaders are not all-powerful despots who rule with an iron fist? They do not have absolute power, and regardless of whether they have official democracy, power is largely decentralized and influenced by populist needs (notably channeling some of the coastal wealth to the country's majority who are extremely poor)...

You are, I think, falling into what I call the "Saddam Trap". Saddam was a bad guy, most likely, but we were all told to hate him so that we'd support a war that killed hundreds of thousands of innocents.

I think a far more accurate and rational perspective is to realize that no ruler has fully centralized power and that by its nature decentralized power is essentially populist (if not somewhat democratic) in nature, even if there isn't an explicit constitution declaring it to be. The Tienanmen square uprising offers evidence of vibrant currents of dissent within China, and so change is inevitable over time. The question is why you think it must happen on your timetable or on the timetable of the Tienanmen protesters.

* * * *

Also, are you sure that the propaganda is not intended to make Americans view the Chinese people as broken saps held hostage by despots and worth sacrificing a few hundred thousand of should our leaders deem military action necessary? For all the concern about Saddam's despotism, the myriad innocent Iraqi dead from our oil war don't make US headlines.
Upvote appreciated. I find it sad how readily so many in the US jump on board criticizing foreign governments... it's as if we're all reading some sort of George W. Bush Patriotism manual.
Watching this in person, your eyes give you more depth information, so I would imagine the 3D illusion is weaker.
Yes, definitely, although it was Mandiant that Google brought in, McAfee was working for one of the other companies affected it appears.
No offense to the good people of the southern Mediterranean (I lived in Sicily for years), I'd like to accomplish more with my life than that. Not saying it's better or worse, just that it's my preference.
The label "Communist China" is exactly the right label though. The Government of china is unashamedly communist and have no intention of ever changing. Maybe the reason you can't come up with a better label is because there isn't one.
Or save having to say your whole comment and call it a wanklage.
Video of the exploit in action (as integrated into Metasploit):

http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/01/the-aurora-ie-...
I got attacked recently for bashing Perl and supporting Python in an HN comment. I was scolded for being a religious fanboy, but I've used both languages for real work, and I don't see any reason to start a new project in Perl, given the alternatives.

What would Perl be better for these days over modern scripting languages, besides maintaining a legacy system? I suppose if all you know is Perl, it might be the right choice for a new project as well.

Perl is for legacy people and legacy code.
I wouldn't be that worried on my home environment as I'm not that much of a target and am fairly wary of dodgy emails, but I'd prefer it if more major companies with expensive stuff that can be stolen take computer security a lot more seriously.

For example having white-listed software only able to run (of course engineers need to install stuff all the time so they might have to be a different case, but joe bloggs shouldn't need anything new - it can be assessed by security before installing).
What I've never understood is why the ISS wasn't designed in part as a construction platform. Wouldn't it make sense to build the vehicle needed for a Lunar or Martian mission in space and not worry so much about the weight needed to haul everything up in one go?

I mean, I'm not so hot at orbital mechanics, but I thought a really big chunk of the weight was in the rocket and fuel needed to boost the payload into orbit, then a much smaller amount of weight got spent on setting up the flight path to the destination orbit.

If I have the right of it, why spend time and money building the launch vehicles when we can use existing lifters to shove the stuff up and then push off from there. I mean, depending on the departure orbit, we're talking about a third of the velocity needed and most of the mass. You wouldn't even need to tug the return re-entry vehicle along for the ride.

Am I missing something that space experts know all about?
Thanks for sharing! How do you interpret those graphs? How do you know when the user experience is slow or when the server is maxxed out?
Google Go : A Primer
24Mb/s over 3G (or even 3.5G)? Impossible. Perhaps you meant 3Mb/s? That's doable, but the latency and reliability is terrible compared to DSL IMO.
What's MSF?
This has always been my favourite JavaScript resource. It has a good breadth of topics, the writing is to-the-point, and it has an interactive JavaScript area with a history-backed prompt and a code area with syntax highlighting and automatic indentation. The examples and exercises are both hands-on, e.g. the object-oriented programming chapter has you build a little terrarium simulation. Highly recommended.
Interesting, thanks. Looks like FF has some catching up to do.
Name an attempt at communism that isn't correlated with human rights violations. The fact is that despite the "ideals" of pure "communism" every time it's tried bad things happen.
Probably yes. Sea navigation. Mountaineers. Rescue missions. Not that I would much rather see manned mars missions in my lifetime than another desert liberated from its evil nomad dictators... but still!
> What would Perl be better for these days over modern scripting languages, besides maintaining a legacy system?

Job security.
That's a pretty design, but a rather typical function pointer demonstration. It's at least more unusual if you change main to this:

int main(void) {
char *sayings[] = {
"I know a secret!", "WHAT", "WHAT again", NULL
};
int i = 0;

for (i = 0; sayings[i]; i++) {
(i ? say_loud : say_soft)(sayings[i]);
}
return 0;
}
CES 2010 TV Trends - 3D, Ridiculously Thin and Connected
Someone from MS reached out to the OP in a comment:

"I am a Program Manager on the Bing team at Microsoft, thanks for bringing this issue to our attention."

Have to give them credit for that.
China, where U.S. Internet companies often fail
Why is #3 relevant? Voodoo was the name of (at the time) the hands down best quality graphics cards on the market. Was 3DFX some 'kid' because it decided to name its product after magic?

His product was a well made, top end PC and was aptly named. Compared to the rest of the market, his PC was literally magic. Why this makes him a kid, I have no fucking clue.

I hate seeing the word 'kid' used to describe anyone young and talented. It's derogatory. "Look someone young did something mentionable" it's as derogatory as "Look a woman's in technology gasp!"

This guy was obviously going to fund this project himself, so again I don't see what the relevance of #2. It's $1500, if he had it in his account he'd have likely used it. If he'd have taken out a loan, he'd have been charged almost an identical interest rate . . . but he's 17 so he'd have likely been denied for a loan anyway. How could he have got investors? It's $1500, the only people willing to give that would have been family and dealing with money with family tends to be a bad idea. Instead of going to family, like a child would, and simply asking for money that may well have never been paid back he took the debt onto himself.

How not being a leech on your family can be childish, I don't know. I still know people well into their 20's who still leech off of their families for cash, this guy at 17 acted maturely.

Mixergy links virtually always get a click from me because they're good. If I hadn't heard of VoodooPC before, I wouldn't have touched this link, the title is god awful. It tells nothing, and the article (at least the writing) is shit awful. No mention that this "kid" now works for HP!

This was very poor writing by Andrew. He's a good interviewer, but he seriously needs to work on his copy editing to sell his interview talents.
I think software engineers are generally jobs that require a B.S. Programmers might simply be someone with an A.S. or no college doing non-complex programming tasks. Much of this work is being outsourced.
"Médecins Sans Frontières [Doctors Without Borders] is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural or man-made disasters."

From the website: http://www.msf.org/
China isn't just 100 years behind they are going backwards. China has a civilization going back 1000's of years. It's the comparatively recent changes in government for their country that have caused the ruin you see now.

The conditions inside US prisons (daily, predictable rape, etc.) rival those in any labor camp anywhere in the world.

Those in US prisons for the most part all did something harmful to society that caused them to be put there. In China you get sent to prison for bad-mouthing the wrong person. I personally know people who have experienced this. And it's the norm not the exception. The comparison you make only demonstrates how truly different it is.

China's main social issue is rich coastal cities and extremely poor inland areas. This geographical accident is behind many economic policies. The US is lucky to have rivers that tend to lead to a far more even distribution of wealth across geographical areas.

The inland areas aren't poor because of geography. They are poor because it suits the government for them to be so.

Do we really deserve to feel such righteous indignation?

yes
Stifling Innovation
Here's a startup with a commercial version of the OLPC display:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/winner-pixel-qis...
China believes that it imprisons people who are doing things that are harmful to its society. How is selling someone Marijuana harming society?

I think your conspiracy theory about China's poor regions is fairly off the wall. Look at the mountains and rivers and see how there are not good shipping routes, etc.
80's Chinese.

That is, the generation born in the 80s.

I first hear of Han Han (韩寒) when he failed his college entrance exams and dropped out of school. Such talent! There was much hand wringing in the media.
I highly doubt this will cause any decline. The people who will hear about this news or care about it have mostly already switched (or can't because of an external reason or have some educated reason for sticking with IE). The rest will hear no more than "Google got attacked by China."
>The Pentagon’s far-out research arm Darpa is soliciting
>proposals for initiatives that would attract teens to
>careers in science, technology, engineering and math
>(STEM), with an emphasis on computing.

_Teaching_ these subjects to teens would probably be a good start.

I'm being serious. The junk that is taught in most schools (and I'm Canadian: our education system is supposedly better than the US) and absurdly labeled these subjects is a huge part of the problem.

Math is taught like magic. Experiments have been banned from the science classroom. Computer science classes teach typing.

I'm exaggerating a little: math occasionally gets explanations, science may occasionally have a very simple experiment, computer science students may learn some programing. But those are the exception, not the rule.

It's utterly broken.
LCD viewfinders have had some major disadvantages for demanding photographers including:

* low resolution

* low responsiveness

* poor colour and lighting

* drains battery

I've tried some high-end LCD viewfinder cameras a few years back, but none felt as snappy as a DSLR. I haven't tried out any of these EVIL cameras, but I would guess that there have been improvements in these areas in recent years.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/684076501.png

The fastest I can get from a decent geek-friendly ISP here in Ottawa.
The code worked for me, I grabbed the book for 27$ shipped.
Why all the hate?

Perl 6 and Perl 5 are two different languages. If you hate the second, you shouldn't automatically hate the first. The reverse is also true.

Partial function application is a nice feature. The quote from the article that prompted the application of this term describes a feature which is more like Haskell's "sections", which is a very useful feature. (Currying is what happens; a "section" is the syntax that curries the operators.)

It's nice to be able to write:

(neg, pos) = partition (< 0) numbers

instead of:

(neg, pos) = partition (λx -> x < 0) numbers

Right? It's also useful elsewhere.

Clearly, it's possible to write a computer program without this syntax sugar. But criticizing someone for their work in adding it to a language doesn't make much sense to me. It's available if you choose to use it. It doesn't seem like a very good reason for inventing a derogatory term and posting it to the front page of HN, anyway.

(BTW, I'm a total wanker! I like all of Perl, Haskell, and Lisp.)
I have a good SLR, and looking through an electronic viewfinder is so poor in comparison (even on an expensive pro-sumer model) it's hard to describe. Our visual system can cope with such a huge dynamic range that it makes little sense to neuter this ability while shooting.

An SLR is able to capture RAW data, which can be mapped to different jpeg/whatever images, so there's a big disadvantage in looking at a specific instance through the viewfinder.

In common situations the preview and default jpeg output is absolutely fine, but when you get to more challenging lighting you need to trust your eyes at the time, and the awesomeness of RAW later.
First off, "Wanklage" is a good pun.

But as someone who has made a decent living the last few years writing new Perl code, I'd have to disagree that it is dead, or that it somehow "only as" practical as Haskell. And while I shouldn't care what others think of something that works perfectly well for my (and my customers') needs, it kind of irks me to hear unkind words from the peanut gallery. No matter, I'll continue writing in a language that lets me express myself as I wish, and they can go back to hurling stones instead of actually doing anything.
> I don't see a future for purely electric vehicles, it seems like hybrids cover many more use cases.

It's a chicken and egg problem. Imagine that some restaurants and parking garages also had charging stations. You park and have dinner, while your car is charging. Or you park, go get your haircut, or go shopping and your car is charging.

There is a good business opportunity for "charge" stations as well. Gas stations would love to keep people around long enough for them to walk in and buy a candy bar. If they stay longer, perhaps they'll get thirsty and buy some soft drinks.
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