skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is seriously weird, I hope Apple has a good reason for this that goes beyond 'we don't like this kind of apps anymore'. While Google also used it's kill-switch recently, it was against malicious software, while this App doesn't look particular harmful.
Your data center analogy would make sense if we were talking about treating the exhaust at the tailpipe. Once the NOx is out in the atmosphere, it's already too late. NOx disperses very rapidly.

Further, think about the ratio of boundary layer (or even at a lower height) air volume to the surface area of roads. Plus, there is no suction happening here. It's literally just the air touching the surface of the road. I would love to see some numbers on the efficiency of this process, but my gut tells me it's pretty poor.
I'm saying that "source -> executable by pressing a button in an IDE" might be nice for developers, but is utterly irrelevant overall, because you need to be able to build the project without that IDE for lots of different reasons. CI is one, another (most relevant to autoconf) is allowing people to build the project on multiple platforms where the IDE may not even exist.
One of the cited sources is Satoshi Kanazawa. I really like Satoshi and he has an excellent blog on Psychology Today.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundament...
Was Go really a Google project, as opposed to a project by an employee at Google that turned out kind of useful? Basically can one say Google did this and Google didn't do that as if those choices where dictated by company policy?
What I'm hearing is "It helps make things more stable, yes, but doesn't solve everything, so why bother?". The advantages Minix has to offer doesn't solve every problem, least of all the wetware problem that there will always be bugs. But if you're after a high reliability system, say a plane, you don't want a bug in the audio driver making the navigation systems crash. Who cares if the warning signals sound a little weird for a second, if the system is still running correctly, apart from the audio?

The less that is tied into the kernel, the less can crash the system easily. The disk driver could certainly overwrite the kernel on disk, and that could be... pretty bad, but no system that doesn't in some way verify that the code is correct can ever protect against this sort of programmer caused bug.

It should also be noted that Minix isn't exactly aimed as a replacement for linux, and I'm not one hundred percent sure that making such a comparison is that useful.
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This article is a perfect time to lament the poor quality of many of these 'news' sites. Nowhere in the story does it say that Slashgear made any attempt to contact Apple and ask about this situation. Apple has an entire media department that you can call and ask (http://www.apple.com/pr/).

The worst case is that Apple will give you a no comment, or we'll get back to you. That you can report. But here all we have is a sentence wasted burbling And considering that NDrive isn’t the only GPS application available on the iPhone, or within the App Store proper, we’re not sure why Apple would choose now, or this app, to pull that lever.

At the start of the article they claim That would mostly be because Apple hasn’t had any reason to use it. Is that true? Did they ask Apple?

If you follow the blog chain backwards you'll come to someone who did call Apple, and has a possible explanation for why the application was removed: it appears NDrive may not have fully licensed the map data used in the application.

The entire article would be much more interesting if they'd called Apple and asked them a few questions. And then called NDrive and asked them about the map licensing, or called Teledata and asked them. You know, actually done some work towards the article rather than 'reporting' rumors.

Also, they need someone to look over their copy.

Several customers are reporting that the application called NDrive, which was developed by a small team to be a GPS alternative.

What did the customers do? Also, I'm pretty sure this small team did not develop an alternative to GPS. That would have required launching and maintaining a large number of satellites.

And then subsequently pulled from customer’s iPhones as well.

One customer or many?

Some months ago I wrote a blog post about baggage tags used on airlines (http://blog.jgc.org/2009/08/whats-on-baggage-tag.html). In it you'll see documented the work it took (with a little help from a friend) to get the answers I wanted.

And the other day I was writing something that appeared on The Times' web site and needed information about the status of the BT site at Goonhilly (http://timesonline.typepad.com/science/2010/06/sea-sand-sun-...). I simply called BT's media relations and they were very, very helpful. They even got me an answer on a day when half their staff were off on a training course.
CNN editor fired after posting a tweet regretting Muslim leader death
Sure LoseThos http://www.losethos.com is nonstandard.

Why should I be bothered with Linux. I have Windows. Seriously. Piece of shit needs me to install fonts and shit and can't run videos on websites. Fuck that.
Here's her explanation of the tweet:

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/06/nasr-explains-controver...
As far as whether it is effective or not... well, it's probably more effective than not doing anything

That doesn't make sense. Resources are finite. If something is not effective, then you shouldn't be wasting time and money on it, definitely not public money.

The raw amount of paved area in the world...

Have you thought of the raw amount of air in the atmosphere?

... makes it an attractive target for any 'green' development

You hit on a good problem here. "Solutions" like this one end up being nothing but certificates for companies and governments to show that they are doing "sustainable green development (TM)".
We have seen many large companies fail who relied solely on ads: Veoh, Stage6, even Google video failed to make money from ads!

The problem with ads is the cpm is always so low on such content and the bandwidth so high, it was this problem which led me to develop the general concept for my own http://www.documentary-film.net which was always on the brink of closure until I implemented this concept.

It worked so well that sales increased over 90% and I was able to afford a proper CDN (highwinds) to deliver the content.

After this I didn't think more about it until Andrew Warner @ Mixergy mentioned about charging for his content and I told him that introducing a pay wall (as he planed) would result in viewings going to zero, instead I told him to develop something like I had with doc-film-net.

Of course his response was, where's the plug in for that?

That's when I had the aha moment and built it for him and anyone else who is in the same boat. There's a ton of tech involved to achieve this feature and its way out of depth for the average content producer.
>I have the personality of leader, and I'm going to develop myself into more of one

From your posts on here it appears you're confusing "leader" for "asshole". Part of actually having "the personality of leader" is charisma. Your posts make it sound like you have anti-charisma.
This is not true. People still have the app.

See: http://www.razorianfly.com/2010/07/08/did-apple-just-use-the...

[Update] – Multiple users are reporting to us via Twitter and in the comments section that NDrive is still present on both their iPhone and respective computers, therefore we’re filing this one under: “Apple has -not- used the iOS kill switch … yet”.
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So when Apple ganks an application like this, do people automatically receive a refund?
And of course there are deep sea divers, which still rely on mechanic (aut-windup) watches. Mostly Rolex.

There's a reason for that: If you dive in 60 metres depth, or deeper and your dive computer -, or watch battery conks out you're dead.
Demonstrating the ability to go four years without getting kicked out of school for discipline problems and/or getting incarcerated. The GED is sold heavily to inmates as a way to get back on their feet after they're released, so the people who end up taking the GED are preselected to have severe self-control issues. Learning HS material doesn't correct this: the reason nobody wants to hire them is because they were in jail, not because they don't know trigonometry.
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It's pretty common. For example:
http://www.science.psu.edu/premed/premedicinemajor.html
When we say "night owl", it is fair to assume we mean someone that would stay awake late into the night without any kind of social stimulation. Nobody will be tired if they're going to a party with tons of people and loud music, but most people will eventually get tired if they are alone. Night Owls usually enjoy the deep solitude and quietness of the night.
$150 is just too much for being sustainable. Let's see where it finally settles.
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Psychic octopus Paul life is in danger
> mixing still-too-cold blood from your extremities with the core blood and dropping your core temperature suddenly and fatally.

Unlikely. there will be very little of that cold blood to mix. Very little. Adding heat will cause your core temperature rise. What is more likely to happen is that the sudden vasodilation drops your blood pressure, and your heart, possibly still in it's stunned cold state, can't compensate with stroke rate or variability. Then you risk cerebral hypoperfusion in the face of increasing metabolic demand (warm cells run faster, burn more glucose, need more oxygen to burn that glucose)
Women ARE fairly homogenous. Date transsexuals, they're better.
That being said there is some strong evidence that the _Okinawa diet_ is extremely good for the health.

Actually, I tried to find out what the Okinawa diet is, but I found contradictory information. For example, some sources say that it is nearly vegetarian, some say that they eat significant amount of pork and cook on pork lard.
Also, I found some articles about research on Okinawa centenarians genetics and some genes were identified that correlate with longevity. So it might not be just about the diet.

I would appreciate any links on Okinawa diet, as long as they can be considered credible.
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Only the future will tell if there Non-Smart automatic filters have detected it, or their Smart-Non-automatic filters.
This is a very good way to describe the 'problem' or rather 'situation', very refreshing.
In maritime navigation class, we were taught that artificially heating a person who has been chilled down (that is, heating by giving them something warm to drink, putting them in a hot shower etc.) sometimes result in something very similar to a cold shock response, a sort of "hot shock response" known to cause severe after-effects and apparently even death.

Tests carried out by the Swedish Sea Rescue Society along with data from over one hundred years of recorded incidents, showed that the safest way to sustain a person suffering a cold shock or near hypothermia is to simply uncloth them (if soaked in water), blanket them lightly, and let their body heat itself up to normal temperature, utilizing the time in parallel to make sure heart rate and blood pressure stabilizes in calm tempo.
Being on time, and attendance, these seemed to get emphasized more than actual performance when I was in high school. This reflects how some of my worst jobs were, too.
That sounds like a great business model.
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Marc Benioff is wrong! Business software is not about real time communication
That's not a silver lining. That's textbook "Shock Doctrine" straight out of Naomi Klein's book.

Run over all resistance to right wing extremist ideas when the citizens are still reeling from a disaster and are too stunned about a child being dead or their house being gone to be thinking about advancing political agendas.

http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
There is certainly an amazing amount of adaptation going on when you start swimming in cold water. Swimming short amounts of time (10 mins) in cold water can be done safely with proper training & supervision. You can definitely learn to control or reduce the initial cold shock reflex (gasping for breath).
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Pirated book on Google Code project
Pragmatic Programmer book on Erlang is posted in the download section of erlang-cn Google Code project
wear a wetsuit
According to wikipedia, 13 states do. I wonder whether these marriages qualify for federal benefits?
Why not simply create another front-end that's seriously branded and with a secure sounding name?

If you're about it too you could create a serious but not privacy-targeted front-end too and do some A-B testing on take up, retention, et cetera.
Are you willing to campaign to remove government-sanctioned marriage? Do you think it is a feasible position?
Teachers unions hate segregated schools.

"School choice" is just the latest mask the right spin doctors have cooked up to dress up school segregation in.
It doesn't concern the kill-switch, but I still have the tethering application, NetShare, that was quickly banished from the App Store and still installs and works fine.
Google Apps, Basecamp, Dropbox, Google AppEngine, Nearlyfreespeech for cheap hosting
Tell HN: My 3D terrain in Flash just went online
Link to try it out: http://kosmosnimki.ru/3d/index.html?x=5123012&y=5207341

Flash Player 10 required. Allow for some delays in loading because our servers are in Russia.

Controls: drag to move, mousewheel to tilt. Secret tips for fellow hackers here: i toggles stats, m toggles mesh, t shows textures, s shows strips.

The location is Russian Caucasus, images are from IRS satellite, heightmaps are SRTM.

Actually we (my employer http://kosmosnimki.ru, a Russian online map) have covered the whole land area of the world below the 60th parallel. Changing the x and y parameters in the URL bar allows you to go elsewhere. Numbers are in meters, Mercator projection, WGS84 datum. I especially recommend the Himalayas, the Andes and Kilimanjaro, if you're smart enough to figure out the right numbers :-)

The code was written by me alone from scratch during this week. Two days of scribbling in a notebook until it got clear, then two days of frantic coding. No existing 3D engines like Papervision were used, it's all pure AS3 (well, haXe). About 1000 lines in total.

Any questions are welcome, especially questions about algorithms!
According to wikipedia, 13.
No hospital visitation rights, insurance benefits, etc. Just saying.
The largest toilet database ever - or: web2.0 is BS
drink coffee. create bugs faster. :)
China Renews Google’s License
Nice! But with a loading in progress bar would be even nicer ;)
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This still has nothing to do with using a Java app server. You could be using other tools to handle those tasks just as easily. Even if you have developers that love Maven and use it to build and package their applications, this certainly doesn't mean you need to use the tool for other tasks in which you find it to be a poor fit.
> I agree, and, indeed, I think the behaviour, once discovered, is perfectly sensible; I'm just talking about the initial discovery experience.

The initial discovery experience, for most people, is that you don't do anything and you iPod "magically" does the right thing in return.
http://kosmosnimki.ru/3d/index.html?x=235543&y=5030526

Barcelona, where I live :)
It appears to be fixed now and I'm starting to wonder if I hallucinated the whole thing, but yesterday I was definitely logged in as you, to the point where I opened up the control panel and could see and edit the e-mail addresses you'd registered with.

If it happens again I'll be sure to screenshot and document it properly.
Hint: To find any place in the world just browse the map in http://kosmosnimki.ru/ and then click 3D (I can't read cyrillic but fortunately 3D is in latin alphabet)
Because innovation comes with risk, and people by-and-large don't want to bank with a high-risk bank.
TLDR: I'm justifying my decision to start eating animals again.

Born again fundamentalists are the worst kind.
What if i wake up early but work in the dark all day?
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Ooh you're lucky. The inspiration for my previous "fun" project, openphotovr.org, came after I visited Barcelona and saw Sagrada Familia. Here it is: http://openphotovr.org/view.html#a57 :-)
Boy it's a bummer when people post code online without attaching a license to it.
Ask HN: How fun would be Browser Development?
I recently got a chance to work with a giant with their Browser Development Team. It sounds fascinating at first, but when i digged deeper it dint looked much interesting. Most of the browser things would be taken care by Webkit itself i guess (like loading, policies, rendering etc.). Is browser development all about providing a frame for WebKit, handling bookmarks and other extra stuffs?? Maybe i am missing something out here, browser-ninjas please help, i am confused on taking up this job now!
Have you tried speed dating?
While traditionally IE has lagged on web standards, the IE9 pre-releases are (I believe) the first browser to implement ECMAScript 5.

We might not need to wait for IE12.
Would you consider selling the audio transcript of the file?

We are working on a similar thing for podcasts. We plan to offer audio player and an option to buy the full transcript of the podcast. You are not however forced to buy the transcript; you can listen to it as usual. Transcript is just a convenience thing if you want to read it instead of listen to it.
It's all about using the right tool for the job.
Some portions of the Scheme community favor a much more dynamic semantics for macros, more in the Lisp tradition; others favor building macros on top of a more compilation-friendly semantics

Forgive my ignorance, but aren't Lisp's semantics very compilation-friendly? Doesn't macro expansion happen at read-time?

EDIT: I think that's the case for Common Lisp. By "the Lisp tradition" did you mean prior dialects?
I can't say I'm too impressed with this as a business model.

I think that it's a small set of cases where video is the most effective way to transmit valuable information, and the alleged advantage over e-books ("e-books actually take a long time to write and develop") completely underestimates the work involved in creating a professional video.

But even then, supposing that I were willing to pay £49 for a (professionally produced, high value content) video, I'd sure as hell want to be able to download it and watch it repeatedly.

So, at the end of the day, what you are offering is DRM-protected video-- and there are plenty of much bigger folks (i.e., Hollywood) trying to crack that nut, with little success so far.
Lars Bak managed to do it :-)
The best way to warm someone up with hypothermia is for someone to get into a sleeping bag with them.

I've done the sea survival training for offshore racecrew and it's the same: you're in your suit, wearing a lifejacket and harness, and attached to a jackstay. There are radio tags you can get now, about the size of a matchbox, you wear one and if it goes out of range of the basestation a MOB alarm goes off. Clever, but at night, in rough seas, making 10 kts, you're still in a LOT of trouble.
Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraprosdokian
The reporting and accuracy is wrong.

I clearly see Bing loading images AFTER the timer has stopped.

This is just timing the main html, it's wrong.
Mark Zuckerberg & UK Prime Minister partner to solve debt
Wrong question.

Better question: how is it that it now takes 12 years to educate someone to a minimally acceptable standard, when in the days of the one room schoolhouse it only took 8?
In the Winter 2010 session of the Stanford iTunes U - iPhone programming course someone came to talk to the class and said the expect 90 days. But I suppose YMMV

We had an excellent month and so far haven't heard anything.
Amusing how this guy seems to assume the US aren't in exactly the same kind of mess.
Turns out it isn't the case.
Stop consultancy work and focus on product building, move to Berlin (happening in a few weeks) and learn German upto A2 level.
Apparently he survived because he was fat.

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rYIJJP7audkC&pg=PA26...
For spam, don't bother downvoting. Click the "link" link at the top of the post, then you can flag it. (Not sure about karma requirements for flagging.)
Nice project, you can view different angles and zoom in to see de details :)
> The economy would go haywire if you could grab a knife or something and kill the inexhaustible supply of local wildlife for gold pieces.

Huh, you do know that is what happens in real life, right?
It's called hunting, and you can sell the items they "dropped" for gold pieces. :D
Ask HN: How do you find a Business Partner?
I am a graphic designer / programmer looking for a Business Partner and friend. I'm 20 and I live in New York City. I've had problem networking and I go to a crappy community college. I can't find any aspiring entrepreneurs, anyone who knows what a "startup" is or how they work. Why am I so alone?

Most rag tag groups of hacker / entrepreneurs meet in college, but what if thats not an option?

I'm interning now, and no one there is my age or has my mind set.

I'm just looking for someone my age and with basic computer / hacking / programming skills, why is that so hard to find?
I wonder if David Cameron knows what an API is?
I'm also very worried a) he thinks he could spend billions on a website which would simply duplicate email, and b) Facebook is the solution to UKs deficit!
What is your definition of cloud computing?
The funny thing about defining “cloud computing” is if you ask ten different “experts” to define it! you’ll get ten different answers. IMO, the problem lies in the fact that the term cloud computing (a wonderful marketing term) is more of a concept - like air travel or healthcare. Neither is one specific technology but rather a collection of many technologies and methodologies. Cloud Computing is the same way. There are many technologies and methods of delivering Cloud Computing. So, why are there so many definitions of Cloud Computing floating around? I think it's because people are trying to erroneously define an entire concept based a specific contributing technology or pool of technologies that they are familiar with, such as virtual servers, storage or networks.

http://blog.virtacore.com/blog/2010/7/8/cloud-computing-from-35000-ft.html
Lots of good news coming out of China lately: appreciation of the yuan, increase of worker wages & now a slow opening up in the Google case.
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I found this written in Ruby several years ago. My two favorites were, "INSERT COIN" and "ADD WATER".

Of course, this is only really effective when large groups use the same printer.

It was mentioned somewhere as an IT prank for April Fools day.