skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dang laws for the benefit of human health and quality of life. Don't they mandating such things cuts into the holy bottom lines?
This is actually a great use for the iPad. A reconfigurable instrument backed by a soft synth of samples? Awesome.
One could register canihazhackerfuzz.com
IPhone, iPad, Security, and Privacy. Oh my
Putting aside the claims about IQ, did anybody else have the picture start acting really funny as you shifted between viewing it clockwise versus counterclockwise?

I had something that looked like a conflict with the figure trying to go both ways at the same time and jumping between the two.

I found it a fun little exercise.
Mathematics, eh? Reminds me of my personal favorite: http://downlode.org/Etext/power.html
It seems that no one has claimed not to be able to do this so I will. It's driving me mad. I spent at least 5 minutes on it. I cannot see how she could possibly appear to be moving counter-clockwise.
That's really evil but pretty clever.

Why don't you mail me your proposal ;) ?
This seems like just one particular case of:

<something> and Pornography: <people> Spent Hours on Porn Sites Instead of <something>
The earliest publication I can find is 1971. http://books.google.com/books?id=gzwrAQAAIAAJ&q=Isaac+As...

Edit: 1971 may be a typo for 1981.
all the links on the article that this link goes to are broken:( They all return 404s
"Given pre-condition #2 (traffic), Facebook Like buttons are going to be everywhere. All of the top sites will have them, and most of the medium-sized sites will too."

Wrong. All the medium-sized sites will have it, and all the >= 2nd place large sites (bing, retailers that aren't amazon) will have it. All the top large site will have their own systems to push.
He's using the Smule Magic Piano app http://magicpiano.smule.com

It's not really that impressive, you just mash your fingers anywhere on the iPad and the song comes out.
I code in bars all the time... Granted, this is usually on Sunday at 2:00 in the afternoon, on the patio, and with my dog laying at my feet. It's wonderful, very relaxing, very easy to concentrate.

If it's at night (I've done this too), the loud people act like a white noise generator and leave me alone in my thoughts.
From their privacy policy (https://www.23andme.com/legal/privacy/) it seems they destroy the sample after generating the SNP map (Personal Info section, Genetic Info subsection paragraph 1).
Thanks!! Already up & running: http://twitter.com/bunsen/status/12726052992
As someone who is hiring right now, I would look suspiciously at anyone who changed jobs every 12 - 24 months; it doesn't mean that I wouldn't interview you or hire you, but it means that I'm going to be digging pretty hard to understand why you've moved around so much.

There's a lot of good reasons for people moving around, but I have to make absolutely certain that it's not a personality flaw that is in the candidate.

Note that if you've spent time as a contractor and have indicated that you're working on 12 - 24 month contracts, that's entirely different. Moving on wasn't completely your choice.
Why is this on HN? (Not trying to criticize, I'm just not sure what I'm missing)
In terms of appearances, the DA pursuing criminal charges is the best possible outcome for Apple. They get the satisfaction of seeing Giz and/or the "thief" scrutinized for their actions without risking the fallout of aggressively pursuing them with a civil suit.

Substantively, I admit not understanding the legal intricacies.
That's just silly. Neither of those reports are threats to the SEC, and the SEC is not cohesive in the way a corporation is.

Now, you could make a case that the administration gave the SEC a nudge to file the Goldman case in the week before financial reform goes in front of Congress, in an election year. That would make a lot of sense.

This is your weekly episode of "examining basic incentives has much more deductive power than blindly applying ideological predispositions".
As he points out in the article, unlike .NET extension methods, this (clever) technique requires classes to inherit from a special superclass before you can add extension methods to them. If you're able to change a class' inheritance that way, why not add the methods directly to it?

This falls squarely into my "neat idea, no practical use" category, unless someone can enlighten me with a use case...
Why, it's a bizarre tale of sordid intrigue, of course!
Are you a thrill seeker? Are you comfortable in a chaotic environment where your future paycheck is not a guaranteed thing?

Working for a startup is possibly worse than actually starting your own company. You are there to watch and participate, and while your fate is unknown, much like the founders, at least they have more control of it. So you are catching a ride on their bus. It could go swimmingly well, or it could burn up in horrible flames in 1-X months.

If an amazing and chaotic experience is enough to make up for the guaranteed setback in your personal life, then yes, this could be for you.

Just don't complain when someone says 'we can't hit payroll' or 'we need to release no matter what'. You are voluntarily leaving a controlled environment and entering into a triage emergency room. If you don't release or ship, there is no income, and thus no company. This is a pressure cooker experience.

Your entering into a daily battle where the victories and defeats are real time, in your face, and govern your mood, sleep, and appetite. For every 'we can't hit payroll' line there is an equal and opposite amazing moment, a moment that you can't get in a typical job, a moment that could best be described as an 'epic win'.

If these moments of pure joy are missing from your current job, and you can hack the equal and opposite low moments, then yes, join the startup. Just know that your taking a gamble, and you will need to enjoy the experience no matter the outcome. All future jobs will seem trivial in comparison.
I found that for me I can easily change the direction depending on which foot I focus on in my peripheral vision. I don't know if that'll help. The initial shift from clockwise to counter-clockwise gave me a headache/weird feeling inside my head.
I'm not sure. I'm not even sure why it's wikpedia-worthy. I mean, I like burritos, and I did learn a few interesting facts, but the facts collected here are pretty fricking random.
You're right. I missed that, they contract out the sequencing though.

You seem to be pretty knowledgeable here, how much information is still present in those SNP maps (in terms of bits per person)? Would an SNP map still uniquely identify an individual ?
Or they—like my company—have complex code bases in complex languages (C++) that mean that you're not going to be an effective developer for anywhere from 3 - 6 months after hiring. It has nothing to do with training you for our specific needs, but everything to do with the fact that in a mature codebase there's lots of moving parts that can easily be broken, and there may be older choices that may not make sense because you weren't around when the choice was made.

Candidates with short-term employment backgrounds aren't a problem, per se. We want you to be a long-term employee because you like it at our company and want to contribute to something meaningfully. We don't want to be a short-term paycheque job.
Why is this a "computer crime"? What details would be different if this was a used box of condoms instead of an iPhone prototype?
Snaptic Developer Challenge - Encourage people to get in motion
Hey Ben, that sounds like a really useful product. I'm based in London, but I have my hands full with my own startup. I really hope someone will pick this up and look forward to use it someday!
It's perhaps the greatest meal hack of all time.
I guess both (no implementations, no users) were meant in relative terms, and in that light they describe reality pretty well.

Hands up, who has heard of ACL2 before?
Probably 2 hours of time in which they could edit the page and append a signature.
One practical use: you want the core files to be easily upgradable by overwriting over old files, without loosing the customizations.

EDIT: Which means it's useful technique for app developers to allow easy customizations by others.

EDIT2: By example: Magento's framework is able to add or CHANGE existing methods without updating core files, which was one of the strongest reasons for its great success despite various shortcomings.
Those who get fired up over "illegal immigrants" have obviously never seen the insides of the immigration process. With all of the minutiae and red tape it's incredibly easy to find oneself on the wrong side of the law, even with the best of intentions. The complex requirements have so many traps and pitfalls that even the most earnest applicant can make a mistake that renders himself illegal.
I can do it at will, waay below 160
From TFA:
REACT, which stands for Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team, and was established in 1997 with a goal of working closely with Bay Area technology companies.

I don't see anything about a "computer crime", only mention of a department established for working with Bay Area technology companies working with a Bay Area technology company.
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Feynman: favorite physicist ever
It's Gabbo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsnMGVJRE6g
By kids I mean people in their 20s. Now I feel old.
Another advantage to email: they can't be licked.
Their response is totally fine and in proportion to the actual harm done.
The problem with depending on one provider (facebook) for anything
Right now, Facebook's servers are intermittently loading and serving pages. This is causing some of the simple little tools they want everywhere on the web to not load properly--that like button is now just a white hole in the middle of your web page. Are we sure we want to depend on Facebook for this functionality?
You could always take a look at http://lambda-the-ultimate.org. It's probably isnt exactly what you're looking for, but there are a lot of interesting articles. This is not to say I don't agree with you, but I also remember the erlang/Haskell wave six months ago. Personally, I'm always a big fan of learning new coding techniques and paradigms, like functional snippets but also cool design systems like event-based I/O. I'm sure there's more stuff out there that I don't know of yet.
DRM in some PS3 games now requiring online connectivity
Testing is not a substitute for thinking
Until I upgraded my work room with a wall-length desk, I did most of my development on my eee pc 1000he. I got used to the small keyboard very quickly and the small screen was only somtimes a hinderance (in fact, the only time was when editing GUIs in Qt Creator - it got a bit cramped then).

The speed was also rarely an issue. Clojure starts a bit slow, but everything runs perfectly fine. Admittedly, I mainly use lightweight tools like vim (I did once fire up eclipse, but it was so painfully slow, I promptly (as promptly as it let me) uninstalled it again).

I actually bought the eee pc for development. I find it extremely useful to have a small and light laptop which i can throw into the bottom of a bag and bring with me wherever. I got it for the freedom of being able to work on the bus or in a cafe without the hassle of a heavy or bulky laptop.

I do use a decoration-free window manager though, so I don't have screen space wasted on window borders, title bars or taskbars.

I've mainly been using my dual monitor desktop machine since I "upgraded" my work room, because I now have a very spacious desk and it makes sense to me to have plenty of screen space too (and I've been doing more GUI development recently too), but I still ocasionally pick up the eee pc to hack something together, especially when I'm not near my desk.
Were they prototype condoms that are not publicly available? If so not much other than the condoms don't hold electronic data (assuming they aren't super revolutionary).

So things that could be illegal here:

1. The product may have been taken without permission off apple property.

2. The device could have sensitive "trade secret" data on it. The person who lost the device is certainly under NDA, therefore the information on the device did not lose this status.

3. The device being a prototype may actually constitute trade secret worthy status.

In both 2 and 3 paying for the device could constitute industrial espionage for commercial purposes, depending on the circumstances.

4. Just because the person who sold it to Gizmodo claims to have found it in a bar does not mean he did not steal it himself, with or without collusion from the apple guy.

There are many more potential crimes in this scenario.

As for what warrants it being investigated by the computer crimes folks: it is a high tech device and most of the players involved are high tech folks. It stands to reason they may have texted, emailed, twittered etc in the course of making the deal(s). The computer crimes folks are most likely to be able to trace that stuff down.
Indeed: http://cl.ly/aRl
I'd programmed in 5 languages by the time I read dive into python and learned enough python to write a decompiler in it (decompiling something else, not python). Even at that time, it was shooting right at me, and not at "person learning to code".

It is, and always has, been "Hey guy who knows how to code, here is how you code in x".
Those are epigenetics ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics ) differeces. DNA sequence is identical in identical twins.
Yep. I was just asking about this in an irc channel. One guy's connecting fine, the guy sitting next to him in his office is can't get to the site at all.

edit: 18:10 EST, seems to be back up.
Is there a sample of how the result looks like? I want to know what markers are sequenced.
edit: found here https://www.23andme.com/user/signup/
The train as left the station...
that's why people are laughing.
Here's the screenshot, for good measure: http://i.imgur.com/CMZgW.png
Ahh.. Thanks for the clarification. That makes a lot more sense to me now. I thought you were arguing a slightly different point. :-)
I see it both ways after 4 minutes. But I didn't get it initially. Can this be practiced? Just focus anywhere on her body (butt or straight foot), after 10 to 40 seconds, it just automatically switches.
While i dont believe that this is actual evidence of numbers, i must say that fusion garage are the perfect example of how not to run a company. One fuck-up after another, if they had stayed with Techcrunch i fully believe that Arrington would have kept them on the straight and narrow and been a success.
Using your hands to block part of the image -- try the top, bottom, or top and bottom (revealing only the middle) may help.
What's gonna happen after Gen Z?
Will counting wrap as in a spreadsheet?
Completely agree. The entire premise of Dive Into Python is to throw a bunch of idiomatic Python code at you and explain what it does. It's explicit in the text and implied by the title.

Personally, I found this refreshing. Instead of starting out with "This is an assignment, and this is an if statement..." he shows chunks of code - or whole programs - that accomplish some task. As an already experienced programmer, I would then inspect the code, try to figure out what it did, then read his descriptions for things that weren't obvious. For me, this is a much faster way to learn than for the author to assume I've never programmed before.

Didn't Zed declare a while ago that the aggressive, swearing persona was just an act to demonstrate how geeks gravitate to strong personalities? His current form doesn't have naked girls or guys wailing on guitars, but he's still doing the same thing.
I'm a little curious, when you say at will, do you mean at certain points of the perceived rotations, or literally at ANY point of the perceived rotation?
Apple vs. Recession
flippa.com, do your research on the site.
sedo.com (for domain buy-sell), buydomains (for domain buy), snapnames (for domain buy),
I’m guessing that this is where similar computer students with undergraduate degrees might wind up — essentially doing bricklaying in some corporate notion of architecture.

"Bricklaying in some corporate notion of architecture." That is an excellent description of what a lot of software developers actually do.
This story seems to suffer from Yoda Syndrome, the problem which occurs in all stories where a character is supposed to be wiser than the author.

The "wisdom" which they spout always comes across as kinda trite and sophomoric. I don't think there's any way around it.
hmm. I'm sure there's no particular reason they sent it to 64 people. Not like there's anything special about that number.
Getting the first job was the hard one. (911 with the post .com crash.) If you know what you are talking about, once you have a couple years programming experience, you can generally find something.

In this case, the J2EE, Hibernate and Seam (usually in place of Spring) experience has opened up a lot of interviews at places that wouldn't have looked at me before.
FWIW, I've had success running Steam under Wine. Have only tried CounterStrike:Source but it works reasonably well.
How do you know why an insurer denies you coverage?
When I read this article, I thought, I bet the comments will have a bunch of people saying, I can see it both ways with the "but I'm way below 160" added for humility.

Almost as if I had peaked ahead of time, that is exactly what I found.

Just a funny observation as I see it all the time. When there's an article about an especially bright young kid, you get a ton of "i was doing calculus at 5 years old" posts.
Meet Marty Cooper - the inventor of the mobile phone
Looks like Valve is definitely going towards multi-platform support. While the Linux version doesn't do anything as of yet, one commenter got the OS X version running after somebody pointed out that both http://store.steampowered.com/public/client/steam_client_osx and http://store.steampowered.com/public/client/steam_client_lin... are valid URLs. Both clients download updates, and the OS X version pops up the new, unreleased Steam application and everything. However, it appears to be in closed beta, since he was kicked off after trying to log in (see http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/butl8/steam_for_linux...)
IPad App Idea - You are free to take it
Am I the only one whose first thought was 'Look, someone else is sick of all the Erlang/Lisp/Scala/Node.js/Haskell articles on HN and has posted a sarcastic request for more of them'?

My second thought, fwiw, was 'He forgot clojure.'
It's seemed like it's anything with over ~100-120 comments, but I'll drop you a line the next time I encounter one.
"The battery lifetime was 20 minutes, but that wasn't really a big problem because you couldn't hold that phone up for that long."
The notes seem to come down from the top like Rock Band. I take it there's no way to mess up, only to miss notes?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r76MLCmAHOg&feature=playe...
I'd love to see how many of those addresses (if any) end in @techcrunch.com
When our kids were little and I was traveling on business a lot, my wife scolded me for not spending enough time with the kids: "If you want them to WANT to visit you in the nursing home, you have to invest the time NOW to build relationships with them -- if you wait till YOU have time, it'll be too late."
This is not brain evolution.

I somehow doubt that using or not using facebook has an effect on your reproductive success. (on second thought, does it?)

Even if it did, we wouldn't be seeing the effects on the current facebook-using population.

I don't doubt that our communication patterns are changed by using applications like facebook, but I think it's far fetched to call it evolution. This is where misnomers and miscommunication originate.

/rant
If all such tales were this normal, mundane, and boring, the world would be an impressively dull place.
hiding an app with the fb "hide" button only hides it from your feed, it doesnt stop that app getting your private info or sending you invitations to add the app.

blocking applications is the best way of halting the tidal wave of these annoying apps, Facebook Purity http://www.fbpurity.com adds a "block app" button which makes it a much quicker process to block the applications. ever wonder why facebook dont provide a "block app" button, because the application developers still want to access all your data and be able to send you invitations to add your app, and they and facebook dont want to give you the option because it helps the apps spread virally, and the constant updates/invites etc from apps are one factor that makes fb "sticky" or in other words keeps people on the site refreshing the page, and increasing ad impressions.
An e-mail sent off to 64 customers is hardly conclusive evidence that these are the only ones. There are a million reasons why they might have sent e-mails to only those 64.

Maybe these 64 people all complained about something specific and fusion garage wanted to look like they cared, maybe this e-mail is one in a batch of who knows how many, maybe they accidentally cc'ed 64 people and bcc'ed the rest, maybe it's just a sample of 64 to see how many would respond, maybe it's a list of only customers from the Phillipines, maybe maybe maybe.
I understand Jason's perspective though. Unfortunately his attempt to minimize morale tax backfired
Why not just ask the candidate what makes this job different from the previous ones?

If the answer is something along the lines of "I'll want to gain knowledge of and practical experience with C++, but the previous jobs wouldn't let me work in anything besides Java and scripting languages", it's good indication that are looking for a long-term home and not just a higher salary.
It's more like plumbing, actually.
All the free selected design reminds me of Microsoft clip arts.
The Story Behind Twitter's Acquisition of Cloudhopper
unrelated: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1213150
maybe they are planning to use a 64-bit processor in the next version?
Wow. Now I can see it turning both left and right at the same time. It's pretty weird.
'Wet' iPhones Spur Class-Action Suit Against Apple
I agree I've lurked around here for a while but I remember there being a lot less hullabaloo about facebook, google, and apple when I first started browsing and a good amount more about startups, python (and other language) tricks and cool geeky things. I understand that facebook, google, and apple are interesting with how "evil" or "great" they are on a day to day basis but I prefer more geeky articles that wouldn't make it to the front page on reddit.

Though people will just say I'm remembering wrong and saying that quality has dwindled is a figment of my imagination but just look what makes it to the front page on a day to day basis.
Somehow the parent post to which I replied looks strangely different now... ;)
vmware purchasing salesforce?
The unfortunate truth for tech people is that moving jobs is the most effective way to get a promotion. If you're hiring for a company that will quickly and effectively "promote" people who perform well, I wouldn't think you'd have any problems.

If employees are going to outgrow their positions with you, though, and don't have a position to grow into, then you should dig. :)
25 Busted Cops: Armed and Clueless
This doesn't mean anything, except maybe that they should use the BCC field.

Instead of being sensationalistic about it, how about emailing them to let them know about their mistake?
Anecdotally it seems like it can be pretty easily trained. It took me a few minutes to get it to switch at all but from there it was pretty easy to go from having to stare at the foot to having to look away to having a specific time in the rotation to be able to alternate (almost) at will.

Of course if it was an animation of the shadow of a turning teapot I probably wouldn't have bothered so there's that.
The Improbability Pump