skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/ is the online alumni magazine whose, like every other alumni magazine on earth's, sole purpose is PR about the great things the school is doing.

It isn't exactly scientific american.
I was personally surprised how much of her music I'd heard simply passively listening to the radio; short car rides, coffee shops, stores, etc. I'm not exactly her target demographic, I generally hold a strong dislike for pop/dance music. However, she's a talented singer (doesn't lipsync), a great writer and she's a talented pianist, so I have to give her credit for that (or rather, she doesn't lose any credit for being talented, unlike the thousands of other craptastic musicians making millions). I'd even go as far as recommending her music.

She's certainly a prodigy, but the question is whether she'll burn out or not.
I know this post is about Parrilo but I would just like to point out that Jesus De Loera (co-author of linked paper) is awesome.

Favorite paper: minimal tetrahedralization of a convex polyhedron is NP-hard.
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/math/pdf/0012/0012177v1.pdf

http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~deloera/RECENT_WORK/recent.html
This just enforces that I'm going to wait for an "iPad Mini", (7"-ish screen possibly smaller when you factor in the border used on the iPad). Star Trek didn't really have to think about user interface, but they needed actors to be able comfortable holding and operating the devices.

Offtopic: Look at the rectangle shown here
http://tinyurl.com/yduybaf
The size shown is an iPod Touch; I wanted to add one of the smaller newtons and the iPad. When you add multiple sets of measurements it drops the rectangles and just compares areas. Anyone know how to fix this?
It's really amusingly clunky.
the once notoriously corrupt Haitian National Police have been doing their jobs and are keeping something approaching law and order in a capital of chaos.

Blah blah. http://eastdallasblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/01/dallas...
This statement has become a cliche of sorts. Does it really hold truth? I hear it so often that I just accept it, but what are they actually doing to make so many people say this?
You sound like you hold a grudge. Really. Your only contributions on HN are to attack one person. Are you really sure this is proper?
They're already doing this with streaming video for the iPhone, so, yes.

(Google the obvious keywords if you need a link.)
Even though this technique is primitive, how would you say it compares to the techniques used by run-of-the-mill comment spammers to identify and exploit outdated installations? Are most of them stopping at meta generator?
I think the innovation is in quick adoption as it is usually said that the porn market is always one of the first to adopt a new media, be it mobile devices or blue rays or a new touch screen computer.
I'm using Safari(Mac) 4.0.4 (with only non-standard being ClickToFlash FWIW) and they say:

"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 261,326 tested so far."

I think not.
I did that, and I am still totally unique.

Methinks it's time to uninstall fonts I don't need, like "Radios in Motion" and "Fake Receipt", or to just lie to the web page.
IIRC, Apple currently dominates the profit margin on computers even though it doesn't dominate volume, thanks to its ability to sell value.

The very nice thing about this (if true) is that it will allow Apple to continue to mercilessly drive prices down while continuing to invest in R&D. That's exactly what they did with iPods and laptops, and it must be insanely difficult to compete with them.

Can you imagine rolling out a product priced at $450 knowing Apple could put the iPad on sale for $400 and still make money? What are you going to do, break even at $400 only to watch them sell it for $350 and outsell you and still make money?
FTC complaint over iPad marketing cites Flash on New York Times app
> its haemorrhaging of cash

Could you cite your sources please.
Like all good ideas regarding electricity, Tesla already had it.

Tesla coils operate in reverse to turn high-voltage into high-current. This was the base of Tesla's idea for wireless electricity. One Tesla coil can deliver power through the air to another coil, however it typically only has a fraction of the power of the input. However Tesla coils are capable of receiving atmospheric electricity (lightning) and outputting current, however only Tesla appeared interested in this.

A large enough Tesla coil could survive a lightning strike and produce huge amounts of high voltage direct current, which is incidentally exactly what's required for producing hydrogen.

It would be nice to see a company build a large tesla coil capable of surviving lightning strikes to produce hydrogen for fuel cell vehicles.
Foam is easier to explain to security than a bag full of high-tension wires and masses of canvas, which all could be damaged by debris and be rendered useless where as foam still works. Plus, where's the fun?
There is a rumour that she was in a car accident, and did not survived.
t's okay to release a PC, then totally limit what software can even be installed on it. It's ours, you're just licensing it and that is fine

No, an iPad is NOT a PC, it's an iPad. Apple sells another product, a Mac pro, that's a PC. I'm typing this on a Macbook Pro, that's also a PC. And there's the Macbook Air, that's a PC as well. But the iPad is not a PC just as my car is not a PC, even though I'm sure it has RAM and ROm and various CPUs in it. I hear you can buy a fridge with a web browser. That isn't a PC with freon-cooled CPUs, it's a fridge.
Hmm, doesn't seem to be able to insert anything into the typical X11 middle-click-paste mechanism. It does insert the URL if I use Gnome's ctrl+c/ctrl+v, but I never use that.
I guess someone complained or someone feared that someone would complain or someone didn't like hearing that "the porn card" meant it was over. If you go to the actual blog post that the story is about, where the porn screenshot was it now says "Screenshot removed. My apologies if it offended anyone."
Don't people have better things to do? Apple could just as easily argue that they are displaying a version of the homepage that doesn't use flash — there are other plausible explanations for how interactive elements or video are displayed. For this to qualify as deceptive in any substantial way, Apple would need to be strongly implying that it is Flash in particular that is allowing the display of these particular features. Secondly the presence or absence of Flash needs to be demonstrated as a factor in the purchase of the iPad. That frankly is a load of bully. Most people don't care either way. _Most_ being the operative word.
Here's my Google doc on how to disable clipboard hijacking on certain sites: https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASuZYyoQwvDoZGdqYnY5cndfM... Accepting tips, suggestions, additions of other offending sites...
You have to keep paying the engineers even after you buy out the company, you know. Having to buy PA Semi just made it more expensive for Apple to develop the chip. This is definitely a long term payoff horizon.
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I grew up with an 8bit basic too, but to me it seems Garry's Mod would inspire a lot more tinkering than Apple II basic: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7D7FFF74CFCF1CC5

You can start without any programming at all, then extend with Lua scripting. Available on Steam.
Any thoughts on why it hasn't been done as yet?
One doesn't have to be a member of a porn site to look at porn on the internet. Most of it is completely free. Check out redtube.com, youporn.com, wide6.com, etc.
The point is to have the Prime Minister sit down and think about it and resolve to avoid such a situation. I thought Ira Glass missed this is as the most likely reason to have someone go through this exercise.
HTML5 already works on mobile Safari, Apple use it, Youtube use it, Vimeo use it.

Porn will start to use it too.

Adobe can call shit on Apple for games and applications (bleh! Flash apps) but not so much for video. HTML5 video is obviously way more open than Flash.
NoScript is a whitelisting system, not a "I never use JavaScript" system. You load a page and if it doesn't work, then you enable its JavaScript content through a convenient menu. (It even bolds the scripts that are likely to cause problems when not enabled.)

In this case, the site works fine without the clipboard-hacking JavaScript running, so it just stays disabled and the OP doesn't get random data from a website written to his clipboard. If he wants that functionality, though, it's one click away.

What's quaint is trusting websites to run arbitrary code on your machine, as your regular user.
Really? They could have dropped records with site and twitter URLs for starters.
Thiomersal contains ethyl mercury, not methyl mercury. There's a big difference between the two. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal
No, because he doesn't want random code running on his machine if it doesn't benefit him in any way.

Personally, I block Google Analytics, because fuck Google tracking me on every site I go to.
Anyone else think the Scamville companies paid for the TC hit?
Doesn't seem to work in w3m-el.
From the article:

The SEC filing provides the first clear look at the company’s finances. It notes that Tesla has lost "approximately $236.4 million from our inception through Sept. 30, 2009"
I can't even imagine what would happen for completely different scripts like Indian.

As far as I know, Ge'ez (for Ethiopian languages) sets the record with 70+ encodings [1] which took all sorts of different approaches.

The Unicode design process worked out quite happily for Latin and Cyrillic alphabet users because

1. There was widespread agreement about what is the smallest indivisible unit of the script (thanks to long history of literacy education, decades of typewriter usage, etc.). No one suggested brilliant schemes like encoding "O" as "C" plus a right-concave combining mark ")" or I as "T" plus an underline, for example.

2. Among the hundreds of millions of users of those scripts, there were enough countries which had a reasonable history not just of typewriter usage but also of computer usage, enough time for them to develop various competing encodings whose mistakes Unicode could learn from

Inner Mongolian script pretty much presented the worst-case scenario compared to the above criteria:

1. The actual users of the script were a small and poor population with high illiteracy rates and not many computer users; and unlike e.g. Cambodians or Ethiopians, they had no big diaspora population of refugees living in the US or other high-tech countries either (hence no one fluent in English to advocate for them and point out problems in the proposed encodings).

2. As a result of #1, disproportionate amount of discussion surrounding the encoding was generated by scholars whose main aim was digitising quirky classical texts, not everyday people who wanted to write everyday things without the computer making them think of extraneous details they don't think of when they're writing by hand.

3. These scholars can't even agree what is the basic unit of the script (in Russian grad schools, they teach it as an alphabet; in Japanese grad schools, they teach it as a syllabary)

[1] http://www.punchdown.org/rvb/papers/EriPaper3C.html
Enterprise programmer made me laugh. Especially after spending a few days buried in SAML.
Seconded. I've used my laptop in cramped space before and found typing to be almost impossible. Try it.
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What Scheme implementation is this?
What is browsing? Is flash included in your definition? Some users will suffer, but for most people flash is used for annoying advertisements.

Two things could happen here: the iPad eventually supports some form of flash due to user outcry or sites adopt h.264.
Summary: British submarines can launch missiles.

From the article:
"..nuclear bombs were armed by turning a bicycle lock key. There was no other security on the bomb itself."

By the way, it's a freaking submarine.

Perspective: I lock a gun's trigger with a bike lock, and then place it in a safe. The safe is inside a bank vault.

If I do manage to steal the gun, then I can pick the lock and use it.
If I do manage to steal the arming key, then I can convince the crew to launch the missile.

Would you like to play a game?

edit: Grammar
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PDF becomes a common document format for exchanging and transferring files nowadays. But PDF files are only expedient for viewing with a free PDF Reader. It is more skilled and expedient for most of us to edit or reuse PDF files in their original format. So an almighty PDF transformer may be our competent assistant.
Linux Journal (2010-02) did an overall positive review of the device, well, a least for the technical-savy geeks who like to tinker with their machine. The software part, still in beta, seems a little bugy.
How to backup hard disk timely?
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Except you can find out that the actual nytimes.com site does use Flash (it was even obvious in the real life demo by Jobs). You can probably even find a copy of the HTML from the time that Apple cut the video, proving that they faked it. Screen images in videos like that are usually simulated, this isn't a huge surprise. They should have just used a site that didn't use Flash.
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Yes, indeed. As an anecdotal example, a friend at an extremely large international law firm says every single lawyer there is using OmniFocus on their iPhone. At $20 a pop, that's a handy haul from just one app and one firm. I'm sure they'd absolutely love to have the rest of the apps in that suite (outliners? yeah, lawyers love those) available for iPads.
I worked for a few months using only a Toshiba Portege 3440 (or something). 12" screen with 1920x1200 rez. Had the trackpoint. Sweet machine, great for travel.

Now I still use a laptop as my main machine (Dell D830), but I've got some extra monitors (and other hardware as well). They're handy for glance-over peripheral stuff, but I work best with things right in front of me (mostly vim, bash, and a Web browser).

This topic got me wondering if alt-tabbing for window-switching, or ctrl-Fn'ing to a different desktop, was all that much of a distraction, or a worse interrupting, than moving my head and adjusting my focus. I just don't see it. Switching apps or desktops via the keyboard is no more of a "context switch" than moving my head and attention to a different device. Maybe even less so. Finger memory FTW.

Mostly I think I just adapt to what I have when I have it. Additional screen space, while nice, doesn't mean that much of a productivity gain.

What makes the biggest difference to productivity is how distracted/distractable I am. With no room for IM or IRC and such, they simply get turned off or moved to a desktop out of view. With the extra screen, I'm tempted to keep them running off to the side.

It seems a lot like closet space. They more you have, the more stuff you find to put in it. You acclimate.
SDK:

http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/DeveloperToolsPage
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IPhone OS 3.2 has support for video calling, file downloads, and SMS
That completely ignores R&D costs, basically. They designed the chip themselves, so there's R&D costs there. They also wrote the software, and may have had the touch screen custom-designed or something (correct me if I'm wrong on that, I just know it's supposed to be unusually pretty and precise.)

So yeah, if they sell an infinite number, there average profit margin should be $208. Realistically, a reasonable chunk of that (I'd guess well under half, but probably not negligible either) goes to designing the product and the components.
Have any non-default fonts installed or anything like that?
The best part of that page is definitely the appropriate advertisers. http://imgur.com/EdH8L.png
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I was discussing creating a website with my girlfriend today. I listed a few topics and possible keywords that would be easy to gain control over in our local area. After an hour of explaining page rank and how that google search button really works, she had one thing to say, "if you want people's attention, make a porn site!"

The internet has many roots, but the main source of nutrients is from porn.
Http://www.movshare.net/video/tq1kzqdmc8y3e
Now I'm totally sold HTML5 Video :) Wow
How iPhone or iPad are going to be the best web browser devises if Apple restrict content format from the Internet?
My guess would simply be because the applications are limited in the West. Europe would have no demand for the technology as yearly lightning strikes can be less than .1/KM^2, while parts of the US can easily get to >50/KM^2. Lots of Africa, and many parts of the southern hemisphere, can receive lightning strikes of >200/KM^2 yearly.

Aside from the US and Australia, quite literally no technologically advanced country gets lightning on the scale needed for this to have the great potential it has. Even though much of Asia has high lightning strikes, China and Japan have virtually none. Leaving just India who would have the means to research something like this.

Honestly I believe the major problem is the current produced. A positive lightning strike can hit at 300kA, and electrical discharged requires a voltage of 3 million volts/meter traveled (IIRC a lightning bolt averages 100 million volts). This means to get it down to 110V, you're likely dealing with ~300 gigaAmperes. >60 Amps will allow you to weld 16 gauge steel wire. So you would have to have enough conductive material to handle the flash-heating produced by a surge of 300gA. This flash heating may, however, be productive if use was intended for a power plant as it would provide massive amounts of flash-boiling.

Another problem, however, is that the receiver has to be high enough that no alternative route is provided to the lightning, or nothing will be received. However, creating an ionized path above the receiver (or multiple paths at 45 degrees away from the receiver) would enable it to 'catch' a lot of strikes, increasing strike rates.

I'd say it's certainly possible with present off the shelf technology, however I doubt its very practical and at worst, you could vaporize a lot of valuable copper.
They say Apple makes the most from the 3g models. But gottabemobile.com had a good article on that it maybe a reverse subsidy which Apple pays ATT a certain amount per 3g unit sold get the $15/30 no contract pricing. So if that's true, they aren't really making much extra on 3g vs. no 3g models.
I'm pretty sure that Lee Brimelow, even though an employee of Adobe, doesn't see himself as all of Adobe. He might just start thinking that way after Wired and Engadget both reported his evangelist blog as the official word of Adobe. Sure hope Adobe doesn't punish Lee Brimelow too harshly, he's done a good job with his sites like gotoandlearn.com
Hmm. It's very nice, but in Chrome I can't figure out how to make the video play in full-screen mode.
I actually like the lite version more than the regular one. Apps bug the hell out of me. They're all noise in my signal-to-noise ratio, and I try to keep that as high as possible. Facebook tends to hit the extreme-low side.

Heck, one of the first things I did when the news feed appeared on my home page was to hide it with CSS. I've been updating it every time I need to, and I'm ridiculously happy not seeing all that crap every time I need to check FB for messages (some people just don't comprehend email). Several of my friends use it too, and all have remarked how much nicer FB is without the feed.
Suppose you have a cluster of database servers in different datacenters, and somehow the connection between the datacenters go down. If you want to ensure high availability and allow your users to reach and modify the data while there is no connection, then you have to mark each modifications somehow so that later when the connection is up and the servers synchronize they are automatically able to merge most of the changes and find out conflicting cases.

That problem is solved by vector clocks and the most prominent application of them is Amazon's Dynamo system. See also eventual consistency for more information.
I hate things like this. They're extremely speculative, and take absolutely no account for research or advertising.

Without the highly successful and essential research & marketing that Apple has been doing, they wouldn't be Apple. How much money goes into that?

That said, where can I get that screen + multitouch capabilities for $100, 16gb good flash for $25, and that processor for $15? Show me to the nearest store, and I'll happily drop twice that if they'll sell.
Amazon Pulls All Macmillan Books Over E-Book Price Disagreement
Ask HN:  Does anybody remember the Joo Joo?
What was the price point? Same as the iPad, I think...
Porn comes in all shapes, sizes, colors and formats, just as about everything else on the internet. You're bound to be able to find most things on the internet not requiring flash, but many other sites do too. Flash enabled rich internet applications first, and was there to enable such functionality before our browsers could natively handle such things. Flash is an extension of the browser, an extension featuring functionality heralded now by HTML 5.

I don't get why people hate Flash. Sure it's proprietary, but it was there first, doing something we all wanted before anyone else came around. And frankly it's still serving that purpose because HTML 5 still isn't ubiquitous enough.

It probably contributed to YouTube's success, and the general flourishing of online video. It's enabled rich browser based games. I think it contributes greatly to the advancement of the internet, if not by any other means than by encouraging the proliferation of rich applications.
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Crash avoidance?
I believe Adobe should show that flash works on both the Iphone and the Ipad. I heard some people saying that apple reject their implementation because was draining all the battery in 30 minutes and suggested that they should "rewrite" it using gpu to make it faster.

Adobe show the flash player working!!!!!
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My impression is most iPhone users prefer using native apps or mobile optimized web sites. Who goes to cnn.com on an iPhone? They have a great app. I'd be surprised if FarmVille doesn't have an iPhone app -- probably coming soon if not. Porn? There's no m. porn sites? If not I just had a great idea for a new site...
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Innovatech Labs, a leading material analysis lab specializing in cleanliness testing, provides this tutorial in ion chromatography, IC, as a service to our customers.
Google Proposes to Extend DNS Protocol, Optimize Speed of Browsing
Yes, I understand a lot of the science behind hunger. For most failed dieters, it is not enough. Even reduced hunger is too much to overcome for most people that want to lose weight.

People still need some psychological willpower to overcome the urge the eat food, and how to increase that willpower is mostly never explained.
Your fridge is not in danger of replacing your PC.

Your argument makes sense if we were talking about the iPhone. What role is the iPad meant to play, if not a simplified PC replacement ?