skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the article you linked to discusses the same study the OP acknowledges.

"These latest findings may initially seem to be at odds with a study published last Thursday in Science by researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution..."

"The Woods Hole team used an autonomous robot submarine and a mass spectrometer to detect the plume, but were forced to leave the area in late June...But that was before the well was capped in mid-July. Hazen said that within two weeks of the capping, the plume could not be detected"
This is a tangent, but does anybody else simply not read articles like this because all the blinky flashy ads are painful to look at?
I do this too, but I've found that I don't usually need to hit send, I just save it as a draft then go take a walk. The answer usually comes to me when I come back, but if it doesn't I'll send it.

The act of explaining it in enough detail so another person could understand the problem usually increases my understanding of the problem.
It was heard by a 3 judge panel. As I understand it the next step is an appeal to the full court, and then to the Supreme Court.

I hope it gets appealed and this ruling is overturned.
awesome feross!
Google: Android not yet ready for tablets
It means that the US is producing a lot of valuable stuff, but not much of it is durable consumer products like clothes or electronics. The US is, for instance, the world's number one aircraft producer by a significant margin, and one Boeing 747 is worth a lot of cheap Chinese t-shirts.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1680265

That submission doesn't have all the "feedburner" junk on the URL.
The problem is that I'm working with a sensor set that's way smaller, like 100x smaller. The peaks can be somewhere in the middle and the only way to locate those is by running an Nth order interpolation (or maybe doing something simpler like computing local averages)
Thanks. That's always something.

Seems the Beta version is already shut down, and all RSS updates and those Pinned are already gone. Appreciate the heads-up from Bloglines.
Actually, that's not the test from Wise. Wise says the opposite, that even a severely restricted license does not thereby preclude a transfer of ownership on a copy, and thus the first sale doctrine must apply.

The MAI trio, three later cases, says that anything called and treated as a license is a license.

The district court ruled that Wise contradicted the MAI trio, and thus the older precedent ruled. Now, the 9th circuit is claiming that they do NOT contradict, but that MAI can be reconciled with Wise. My opinion is that this is sophistry on the part of the 9th circuit, simply because their conclusion in this case itself directly contradicts Wise. Wise ruled that calling something a license, and restricting its use, and restricting the rite of transfer in said license, cannot abrogate first sale. This court ruled exactly the opposite.
Not sure of your exact requirements, but I recommend foodoro.com -- a yc startup that helps foodmakers set up online shops.
IMHO, Nokia has to give up on Maemo/Moblin, keep Symbian (but fix it, please) for low-end smartphones (because in a couple years that's the only kind of phone there will be) and adopt Android on the high-end smartphone line and differentiate on hardware (theirs has always been excellent). Maemo/Moblin is going nowhere fast and there is no space for more OSs in this space right now.

If they can fix Symbian and make cheap smartphones that are feature-competitive with Androids, they can also bypass telcos and sell direct to customers.

But that's just my advice. It's unlikely he will follow it.
No work? Get better.
I've been using RSS readers in some form for more than 10 years now, and used Bloglines intensively from 2003-2007. I ditched it when NetNewsWire went free with syncing and I realized I had Macs at both home and work. I ditched NNW for Google Reader 2 years ago when I switched back to Linux most of the time, since the web version was terrible.

I remember trying Google Reader periodically after it came out, and it was awful compared to Bloglines. It took them years to just duplicate the basic functionality. It's much better now on most fronts now after a couple more years of iteration, though their feed management stuff still sucks.
I suppose I should have been less sarcastic -- it's entirely possible that the study is correct, and that would be great news.

Science, like any other pursuit, is influenced by money and politics (see EPA under Bush). I don't think I'll ever believe anything BP says ever again, and I'm immediately skeptical of any organization who has a business or funding relationship with them.
I recently blogged my experience here:

http://callmeed.posterous.com/choosing-a-cmbb-stack-for-my-s...

A couple things to always check/ask:

- Is the data portable/exportable? If not, then you're in for a headache down the road should you want to move to a different provider (i.e. possibly forcing customers to re-enter their billing info). I almost made the mistake of choosing a merchant that doesn't allow this, and it's the main reason I ended up using BrainTree.

- Get the details on rates/fees. Some merchants will quote you a low rate but you have to be aware that rates can vary slightly depending on other factors. Just don't get too hung up on choosing the lowest transaction rate.
Two things:
1. Bob's personal debt rose over past years too.
2. Bob's parents are the money issuers. When they decide they can't return their debt they probably make this money worth zero.

Whatever, I'm done with that thread, as HNers don't seem to approve :)
Nice collection.
Unfortunately, I haven't found a better solution. Currently I am using pwsafe via ssh and it is kinda frustrating.
If you can't accept fixed bid contracts you won't be doing much work in quite a few places.

Fixed bid contracts are the way vast segments of the industry work.

Not being able to do fixed bid work basically says "I'm bad at estimating and don't know how to control scope creep".

Of course you can do fixed bid contracts. But you'll have to make an ironclad arrangement about what is to be done within the scope of the contract and what is not, you really have to know your stuff (no training on the job!), and how you'll deal with being compensated for stuff done 'out of scope'.

You may have to re-negotiate a new fixed price based on the increased scope of the project, or you might tack on a per-hour bill for work done out-of-scope, depending on the size of the additional work relative to the original.

Good luck bidding for a consultancy job when someone else is able to offer a fixed price bid, especially if they deliver, they'll be preferred supplier for a long time to come afterwards.

Case in point, the OP writes that he took on a contract for writing a package based on a platform he had no experience with. If you do that 'fixed price' you're going to get burned, if you do it on a per-hour rate then you're screwing the customer.
NYTimes: Reviving Ground Zero (Great interactive)
I'm not going to defend or support OpenSSL, but I find your tone extremely frustrating. For better or worse OpenSSL is an open library for you to use, and you should be thankful for that.

Also, insulting the people working on it is no way to improve the situation.
Why should anyone care? You would do more damage by pointing to a fake site like countless phishing sites already in existence.
Especially compared to their competitors Bloglines and the last couple years of Google Reader aren't very much like email at all — the only vestige is the unread count. One of the major points of difference is the 'river of news' UI, where disparate items are shown in a continuous stream. It's not really any faster to read than viewing them one at a time like email, but the psychological difference is huge.

What do you think used to be better about Google Reader? If anything it was much more like email before!
HSPA is GSM http://www.gsmworld.com/technology/hspa.htm
Dailybooth (S09) music video with Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher
The Game Center is about more than just 'games'
I made it while working there. It was originally for the twitter exporter http://twitter.com/search#search?q=fb.me

I don't know what else they're using it for now.
Imagine my surprise at discovering that someone who writes with a tone like that is a prominent OpenBSD developer. ;-)
don't you see any irony in writing that post and then posting it to a news aggregation site? it's very much a "do as i say, not as i do" post.
Good for him and all, even though the search results were:

1) Painfully slow compared to Instant's realtime.
2) Only one at at time.
3) Text. (People respond to visual cues, and for a vid site, better to have thumbnails display in the results with captions.)
everybody had the equivalent of a 4-year degree in liberal arts

nobody is saying spend 4 years in liberal arts. The point is that a 4-year degree that would give you a wide cultural background (and no, I'm not talking talking-to-trees, I mean things like classics, history, art, etc) and allow you to enjoy life more. Doesn't have to take any extra time. You can do it anytime you like. I just think that there is a great benefit to the things offered under the title "liberal arts" -- much more than we analytical people like to admit.

Yes, short-term, get something that works for you. These short-term, long-term value decisions is exactly why it's such a difficult conversation to have.

Sadly, we've created a system of higher education that I think has developed a system of courseware with a very high impedance mismatch with the criteria use to decide. That just makes figuring out the usefulness of college tougher on everybody.
And GPS. If I'm in France, I want my farts to sound French (you can't pass an American fart off as a European fart. I haven't tried, but it's a well respected opinion in my mind). If I'm in Antarctica, I want them to sound like the cheeks were shivering.
Citation needed =)
So..you're telling me their not holding onto his 600,000 euros and that the credit card companies are? At some point though, the money ends up in PayPayl's coffers and it's in their interest/profit motive to hold onto it for as long as possible and accrue interest.
The other side of this is having the company duplicate what you did and you are still out of a job.
How much is it if you take away the transportation and refining systems, though? All that goes into the cost.
I don't understand why he persisted in using OpenSSL. There may not have been a lot of alternatives ten years ago, but we developers are practically spoiled with choices now. I heartily recommend Botan, which is BSD licensed, written in C++, and has a clean API. I loved it so much I donated to the developer.
Minimum viable product, heard of it?
He made it in a day.
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Yes, we know, we know - the existing discussion is at #5 on the front page.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1679845
So my first consulting contract ended up taking 5 months (calendar time, not near 100% utilization) where I thought it would take about 1, due to a combination of "consulting learning curve", scheduling conflicts, and scope creep.

Both my client and I are pretty happy with how it worked out. I charged him an hourly rate and quoted my rough estimate for how long the work originally in scope would take. When I ended up spinning my wheels because of technical issues ("First production Heroku project") or wet-behind-the-ears consultant issues ("Invoices? Is that like an internal monologue?"), I charged off most of the time wasted to goodwill. The original scope of the project got done over-schedule but roughly on-budget, and when he asked to expand scope, I told him "No problem, but the meter is running."

Towards the end of the project, where a) the client was happy since I kept delivering incremental value and b) I had hit my stride, I was not charging nearly as much to goodwill. This is effectively the same as, hmm, roughly tripling my rates over a four month period, but it didn't compromise my client's sense of my worth or trustworthiness. Plus, I didn't get left holding the bag on the scope creep.
"Astronomically costly licenses. Geological run times."

Nice writing.
Not at all. 95% of references go unchecked, which allows people to just make crap up. [1]

1 - http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.1080
If there's one thing we don't hear enough in the programming world, it's "all this code I didn't write sucks!"

Oh wait, that's about all we ever hear. It makes for boring reading (and boring comments), so I'm flagging the article. When you write about how you've rewritten OpenSSL to be more flexible and featureful, I will enjoy reading about that. This? It just makes me mad.

(If you want to whine about a particular issue with a particular library, at least try to generalize it to something meaningful. The lesson here is "be careful writing a library that only one app uses and then calling it a library". A lot of C programs make this mistake; sure, they have a small app that calls libapp to do all the real work... but the functions that do the real work are things like read_config_file_and_then_handle_the_applications_foo_command, which is really unhelpful to everyone.)

Anyway... OpenBSD guy whining about code he didn't write? Big surprise. On HN, I want valuable articles that show me something cool or teach me how not to be uncool. This is just a rant that has no real value.
Try gnutls
and there ares BIOs to read from memory so your point is wrong.

The documentation is a mess though.
This, but in a more subtle way. People seem obsessed with the economics of having a university degree: how much money you make, the cost of it all. But we're putting an economic microscope on something which is inherently hard to value in dollars.

How much are your friendships worth? Your outlook on life? Your confidence and optimism in human nature? Your expectations of what is achievable?

These are all things that college will mold and shape, yet are impossible to value from raw dollars. Yeah, so maybe if you were just looking at pay, getting a Harvard degree isn't the best investment. But having a few years to indulge in the best faculty, stunning facilities, and intimidatingly intelligent peers changes things for a person at a very core level. Maybe it's worth the debt.

Degrees are not commodities, even in some instances they are treated as such. Your education is not a financial investment, even if some people people will treat it as such. If you're worried about the payback on schooling, you're doing it wrong. And that comes from a guy with a significant amount of it.
Seatdata.com has these photos for most major venues and licenses them to ticket sites. We need to explore partnering with them.
Functionality, heard of it?
Came in here to post that exact video, it made perfect sense to me.

I learned with the classic algorithms, and have kindof self-realized some of the newer methods after college when needing to solve some basic math in my head to "eyeball" whether something will work. It's convenient, but not exact.

You can't use it in areas where exact answers are required to make sure you're right, and the classical equations serve as "debug/trace information" to see where you went wrong.
Is YouTube exempt from Google's lengthy indirect hiring processes?
Interesting problem. The solution I would try is the following.

1. Apply a low pass filter, such as convolution with a 2D gaussian mask. This will give you a bunch of (probably, but not necessarily floating point) values.

2. Perform a 2D non-maximal suppression using the known approximate radius of each paw pad (or toe).

This should give you the maximal positions without having multiple candidates which are close together. Just to clarify, the radius of the mask in step 1 should also be similar to the radius used in step 2. This radius could be selectable, or the vet could explicitly measure it beforehand (it will vary with age/breed/etc).

Some of the solutions suggested (mean shift, neural nets, and so on) probably will work to some degree, but are overly complicated and probably not ideal.
Thanks for the bug report; we'll fix that shortly. And will also consider ways we can add more navigation options while still keeping the UI as sparse as possible...maybe we add those filters but hide them by default?
>Does anyone have a good reason why curation works better than search for mobile apps, but the opposite situation holds for web apps?

Web content is (relatively) static and indexable. It's essentially all "media".

Applications are not. Developing an algorithm that can deduce what an application does so it can be searched for is essentially a version of the halting problem, and even approximation pretty much requires "strong AI" to get even remotely close on all applications.

Thus, application directories must include a form for the developer to fill out to be searchable at all. Allowing the developers alone to control this means false information is too easy to spread, so curating steps in to weed out as much as possible.

As to ranking, yeah. A PageRank clone makes sense.
Errr ... I'm not sure where you came to that conclusion from what I said. I follow the cod situation because of "how it affects [my] dinner plate" and because I had a near front row seat to the whole mess for a dozen years, I don't follow the blue-fin? tuna one closely because I don't care all that much about them. And, yeah, I was raised by a fisher and very serious hunter and I often view animals through the lens of their ending up on my dinner plate.

None of that has anything to do with how much I might care about "possible extinction", which is something I'm mostly resigned to (e.g. see the passenger pigeon), except ... as far as I know, we're not talking about that with former apex predators. It 's just that their stocks are no longer commercially viable, the theory here being that they are now prey.

That might result in them going extinct, but I don't think that's the default assumption. I bet if you wanted to set up a cod fish farm it wouldn't be too difficult to get wild-type breeding stock to start with. No one's done that (as far as I know) since there are other areas with cod and similar fish that haven't seen a population collapse.
And I’m sure they'll give him time to work it out further, but is this the innovation YouTube is looking for? Hard to believe their UX people and dev teams haven’t already toyed with something like this.
a DAY!
I'm sick and tired of people putting arbitrary dollar valuations on abstract things. College is not a financial investment. You can not only look at your debt and your income to make this decision. It might make for a good, sensational news article, but it's almost immoral how backwards this viewpoint is.

The real value in college, like just about any other pursuit, is network building. Like several commenters have said, if all you wanted out of school was to learn something, you could go to the library. The fees for college are for the intangible aspects, and are worth far more than a direct dollars-to-dollars comparison will show.

Think of college as an IDE for personal development. It sets up a ready-made environment for you to explore new relationships, indulge in a variety of pursuits, and learn about the world. There are thousands of other people using the same IDE, creating a lively place for discussion of issues you'd never otherwise think of. People introduce you to new features or mechanics which you never considered before; you naturally begin to collaborate and contribute to large scale projects. You might even lead a few. Could you get all of these experience by piecing different activities together? Of course. Would it be nearly as productive, successful, and transformational? Of course not.

Like an IDE though, sometimes college can get a little bulky; you're naturally going to be paying for some features you don't want or use. But most of us keep paying anyway, because there's a few killer features which make it all worthwhile, ones that you wouldn't dare put a pricetag on. Attending university altered the entire trajectory of my life, starting from how I saw myself to what I want to accomplish. It redefined what I thought was possible for human endurance and achievement. It restored my faith in the ability of small groups to enact large positive change. It cost a pretty penny, but it has provided an unquantifiably large return on investment.
Um, it's not a serious product if you couldn't tell.
Wow, Fitbit just did a nearly $8MM round - unless Brad Feld was already an investor, I'm guessing led by Foundry?

Form Ds are traditionally a pain to go through - you could probably make this a subscription service for tech journalists.
>Personally, I prefer the safer route of skipping any tit for tat scenarios (e.g. "if you do X you might get Y at some point in the future").

Well, you can pretend that employment is not a tit for tat scenario... but it is. even with a flat salary, you do what I want, and I might give you a raise. You don't do what I want, and I might fire you. There is really no getting around that.

Now, the discussion here is "should we maximize or minimize those tit for tat aspects of the employee/employer relationship"

>With the semi-random schedule there is the additional risk that the employee completed something they thought was a big deal, but you didn't or didn't even know about it. Disappointment by not acting on something you weren't aware of.

This seems like a very important concern that any bonus system would have to account for in order to be successful.

One way to approach it is to tie the bonuses to company revenue, which is easily measured, and in a company this small, fairly easily moved by even one person. (now as we add more people, it might work less well, as one person might feel like they are carrying other less productive employees... but right now, it's me, the owner, and one full-time employee, so I don't think I'd have those problems.)

I think tying it to total company revenue performance (maybe with a random multiplier or on unpredictable dates? that would be the manipulative part that may or may not be insulting and bad.) would mitigate a lot of the problems you mention of feeling jilted... I mean, you can argue about how hard you worked, or about how brilliant you are, but you can't argue about how much money came in.
Have you ever actually talked with any of the OpenBSD developers?

Marco is a fantastic human being and absolutely hilarious. On top of all that, he's also an amazing programmer. Yes, I've met him in person, and we've traded emails and packages for years. In fact, there's a half a pallet of donated gear sitting behind me in need of being shipped out to him. --It should go without saying, but he's a friend and I have a strong bias.

Getting frustrated by widely deployed but poorly written software should be expected. Just voicing said frustrations solves nothing and wastes time, but voicing frustrations while providing an alternative is actually beneficial.
I think the title summarizes the bulk of the article quite accurately.

When you pair up people by age and relationship status, young women come out ahead. More than that, I'm quite sure that if you pair up women and men by the socio-economic background of their parents, and the neighborhoods they grew up in, more often than not the women are coming out ahead. That is a fair peer comparison. And will have interesting effects on, for instance, dating dynamics.

The fact that there is a different way to peer people with different results is interesting as well, and helps explain how this fits with the widely known observation that women make less than men in virtually every job.
I try to spend a half hour or so a day playing around with Bill Handley's Speed Mathematics book (http://amzn.to/cE5hDu)

The techniques aren't quite as homespun as chunking/gridding, but they're definitely fun.
Actually, I didn't know.
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Bug (?): In Opera, my mouse gesture to go back (right click + left) was captured by the canvas and dragged the stadium.