skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, so from looking at the code, only DrawNow needs to be on the UI thread (unless DrawNow is actually not drawing to the screen). That makes sense.

One thing to note though, the grad student may not be familiar with a model where UI is on a specific thread. I know some of the past systems I used had the rental model (even WPF had it early on), so maybe, giving him the benefit of the doubt... this is what he was thinking about (and assumed you had acquired all the correct locks in your code)?
Adding vector version of the icons are definitely next step content-wise.

The account for designers is a feature that is planned and coming within 2 months.
In study #2, they manipulated people's beliefs about willpower by administering a "push poll", and then tested willpower depletion.

How did they determine how well the push poll influenced that belief? How did they ensure it didn't work better on those who already had less willpower?
It'd be nice if your app had a video, demo, more than one screenshot I could play around with prior to signing up. jmockups had something to mess around in to see the value beforehand.
That's funny, I don't consider twiddling bits of some gizmo programming.
Appreciate it.

There are a lot of mockup tools and they each have their own strengths and weaknesses. If you like jMockups and see its potential please use it and give me feedback on how I can improve it. We'll see where the feedback takes it.
Interesting, but the meat seems to be buried in a 46-minute video. Not worth it for me.
Thank you for the feedback. The last row is always a bit of a headache. Google Images an iStockphoto solves the problem by having results from the next page shown to fill out the last row. So you'll get duplicate results in the search results - maybe that is the best solution.
I've never done "database" stuff either, but I've "read from persistent data sources" (Fortran formatted read ftw). But if I tried to claim this counted as "database experience" on a job application I don't think many people would agree.
Bah. Long division is a rather unenlightening algorithm that doesn't teach most people anything at all about how numbers interact.

That's assuming they even remember how the algorithm works. Which they don't, as a rule.

ROI-wise, there are far better places to spend time learning the relationships between numbers than long division.
Study breaks are not about replenishing willpower. They are about giving the brain some quiet time to organize the newly acquired information. Apparently, mental activity interferes with this organization process. I remember covering this 20 years ago in my psych classes. Researchers actually had one experimental group that reviewed an outline during their "break," another that took a nap, and another that was sedated. The sedated group actually retained the most information!

Now this is such common knowledge, it's hard to find the original research with a Google search. This makes me suspicious. Anyone have a reference?
Thanks for the tip. I see they are all single-color, but that's not really a problem since customizing them with colors or gradients is simple to do in Inkscape or Illustrator.
White House group takes aim at Internet privacy
Missed Opportunities at Microsoft and Ray Ozzie Departure
Since I can't edit my comment, I'll reply. I tested this and it only appears to work on unsecured wifi networks. I can't find any other usecase where my network adapter will receive packets not meant for me.
This is amazing:
Canada, America, Europe

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+is...
The Google Chrome engine looks great, but I imagine most of the people who understand why its important are already using one of the other browsers. Regardless, I'll check it out--thanks for the pointer.

Naming it was tricky. Originally I was going to use leandesigns.com, but the name was trademarked. The j jMockups is for JavaScript (think jQuery).

As far as price, jMockups is free for up to 5 mockups and $24/mo for up to 200.

If you have any questions you can contact me at matt@jmockups.com.
Good luck with connecting from a phone ;)
You mean fabulous, right?
Ask HN: How many of you guys smoke weed?
I doubt I will get a huge answer on this, but I am curious. I personally never got into the smoking scene and find the smell to be horrible. My brother on the other hand spent a good year or two smoking and what I felt to be acting dumb. His claim to fame was that many successful people he knew smoked. However, while he smoked he really didn't do much, wasn't productive and ultimately ended up having to "restart" school and his career.

When I find out that someone smokes I am usually surprised unless they fit the stereotypical hippie look, doesn't do much and spaces out in mid conversation. I just read through a different post where a couple people outlined their day to include pot and it got me thinking afterwards.

So HN:

Do you smoke? If you do, why and do you find it beneficial? If not, why and what do you think of those that do?
Do both! Each process informs the other.
Good feedback Chris. Thanks (and sorry if I bring too many newbies into the gene pool).

You're right - in many ways $1k is tiny, but I was hoping that there would be a bunch of annoying bugs / bugs in boring areas that cause people headaches that (other) people could fix in ~1 hour or so.

If others wanted to chip money into the pot, I'd happily give it a shot at administrating it for a bit and see if it gets traction. So far, we aren't seeing bugs submitted that would cost > $1k to fix either - if we do, perhaps we can persuade some people to chip in to help meet the cost...?
Thanks, man. I love your tool and I'm happy to provide you with icons.

Every week I add 10 new icon sets so the icon library is growing. I have chosen not to let the users upload icons directly to make sure the quality is high.
> Other than being one step away from total technological reliance

I rely on technology to cook my food for me. Personally, I think that should be a little more alarming than relying on a calculator. My point being: embrace technology, don't fear it.

> these kinds of exercises are way of teaching the relationships between numbers, which is INCREDIBLY important.

One could learn about relationships between numbers without knowing long division.

Honestly, the only time I do non-trivial division by hand is when I'm doing napkin math to entertain myself. If I didn't know how, I'd just rely on my phone. It's fairly unlikely that I'm going to be in a situation where I need to do long division and don't have access to a computer/phone/calculator.

Now, I'm not sure that I agree with not teaching long division but, at the same time, I'm not convinced that it's terrifically important.
Well, I initially thought it was a webapp where you upload images of your mockup (something you designed in photoshop) to share with your clients.

But then I realized you're supposed to use your arsenal of tools to edit the page, at which point I'm thinking "is this just loading an existing page and letting you edit it?"

But then I went back and watched the video and now I see that it's straddling this awkward middle ground. You use the term "mockup," rather than "wireframe" – and you're concerned with it being "pixel perfect." So if a design were going to integrate this into their workflow they wouldn't even touch photoshop? They'd go straight to jMockups and make their website there, after which point they can export a PNG to reconstruct in HTML & CSS? It just seems unintuitive, as most designers start by creating this png (or psd) in Photoshop.

Lemme know where I'm wrong.
Thanks. Categories are coming within a month.
Mark Shuttleworth announces Ubuntu 11.04 will use desktop version Unity
The Forgotten Soles of 1 Infinite Loop
"Similarly, I know self-made Internet millionaires who’ve bought old properties in transitional neighborhoods in San Francisco, only to give up on restoring them because they met so much neighborhood opposition to anyone “wealthy” coming in and rehabbing a historic property."

San Francisco can be too preservation minded, this is true, and neighborhood associations regularly go too far. For instance, I had to pay $150 for a permit to replace my windows with energy efficient windows, and the city turned down my initial plan because they wanted wood that was consistent with the historical look and feel of the house (irritating because 1) city leaders make a bit display of "going green" and then charge people for a permit to improve energy efficiency, and 2) city leaders rarely enforce the permits, since about half of my neighbors obviously didn't bother getting permits to do the same.

Still, I'd like to hear a bit more about this "restoration" before I'm completely ready to believe that the neighbors opposed as part of a knee jerk opposition to "anyone “wealthy” coming in and rehabbing a historic property". Preservationists would almost certainly welcome a true "restoration" of a dilapidated house. Something tells me there the different parties in this dispute have different interpretations of the word "restore", and the author's friends may be just as excessively loose in their use of this word as the neighbors are excessively restrictive...

I'm not saying it didn't happen, I'm just saying something seems a little off here.
Clojure-conj: Fighting for Clojure
HN cares that it's Django because it's a hot platform so people will upvote it because it has Django in the title. The general public will most likely will get confused thinking that there are Django Reinhardt guitar tabs on the site.

Right though, a demo page or video would be nice to see before making the decision whether or not to sign up.
China wants to be independent as far as computing goes. That is all.
No, I don't. But then again, I don't drink either, so I'm definitely not representative of HN.
Every average programmer with a passing knowledge of computer architecture should be able to pick up pointer "arithmetic" in a couple of hours.

It's not rocket science, really, it has more to do with the "I don't know what it is and I'm absolutely fine with that" kind of attitude.

As an electronic-engineer-turned-embedded-C-programmer I never had anything to do (and likely will in the immediate future) with things like closures, prototypal inheritance or web frameworks, but at least I should be able to know what they are and the concepts they are based upon.

By willingly limit your toolbox to one tool you limit your possibilities and usefulness. Maybe you'll come up with a problem that an other tool solves better than the one you are used to, and you'll never know.
great idea. I was looking for something as simple as that & I'd pay $5 or $10 to use it :)
Harry Potter's 'Quidditch' Game Grows Up
Instead, they said, the proposed class of Pennsylvania consumers was demanding only that manufacturers and sellers be ordered to provide a headset with every phone as a safety device.

? Every phone I've bought in the past 5-10 years came with a headset.
Why should I use this instead of php.net?
wasn't it Basecamp instead of Campfire?
It is actually all being done client side. I download a video list in json and create a client side document store. I figured searching 1500 items wasn't worth doing a server roundtrip. I then just search youtube for the title of the video they choose.

I use quicksilver.js to match items. I probably need to increase the score threshold to ensure more accurate results.
I took 737 mini (two day) ground school about 10 years ago. I believe the commercial jets' main electrical buses are 3-phase 110/200 volt 400Hz AC, created by the starter-generators on the turbines. It's relatively straightforward to tap across two of the terminals and get 110VAC, but it'll be at 400Hz, meaning not everything designed for 110VAC/60Hz will be able to handle it.

(Also, some older private aircraft, such as mine, use a 12VDC standard.)
The Amazing , Cool and Strange Swimming Illusion
The Complete WordPress-as-a-CMS Guide
WordPress started as a simple blogging platform back in 2003. Since its introduction only a few short years ago, WordPress (WP) has blossomed into a winning content management system (CMS).
This is pretty old. The interesting part is how they generated the tables. I can't find the talk slides, but in short, a really expensive FPGA box. An fpga box that could brute force a WPA2 password in a short matter of time.

http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-06/bh-usa-06-speakers.ht...
Thanks. That's not a bad idea.
Was there some thread that discussed drinking too? I don't find myself drinking much just because of my work out schedule. A glass of wine here and there, but nothing to get me drunk.
Why are (dogs|men|women) so ...

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=why+ar...
I Can't Find My Phone
I like this but personally it still doesn't do quite what I want. I want someone who understands colour schemes + fonts, what goes together and what doesn't to create a prepackaged template that I can plug into your app. Then I can shift the text around, put fields where I want em like I would if I were doing an iphone screen ui. Then hit export, export it as html/css so I can start plugging the code into it.

Oh and sell each template as a one off fee, I would pay $24 as a one off for access to template+tool I wouldn't pay it monthly because it's too big a commitment for a tool I know I wouldn't use that regularly.
This is actually how I use Chromium with a proxy right now, but it requires that I launch it from the command line and manually specify the http_proxy (and https_proxy) variables (/usr/bin/env http_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:8080 https_proxy="https://127.0.0.1:8080 /usr/bin/chromium). I suppose I could set up some kind of script to launch Chromium (and all other applications) that would check if I'm on my home network and launch all apps with that variable if not, but that seems like a really ugly hack.
This is not just a problem for iconfinder.com but for icons and free web design stuff in general.
they totally ripped your UI, did you attempt to contact them?
I wouldn't say so. In my eyes, databases (or a DBMS, if you will) are sufficiently more complex and incorporate sufficiently more and/or different functionality for me to separate them from a filesystem.
I haven't tried Unity yet because I heard to wasn't quite stable. But from what I saw of a friends laptop who had it installed, it looks PERFECT for netbooks, even tablets (now that we have multi-touch support built in). I think this makes sense seeing as the future of computers (desktops included) will probably be touchable interfaces that can use that kind of layout.

Sweet!
Tell HN: Talking Points Memo needs a Designer/Developer
TPM Media LLC, the company that owns Talkingpointsmemo.com, is looking for a developer with design chops. In this role, you'll be leading innovation at a site TIME Magazine called "the prototype of what a successful Web-based news organization is likely to be in the future." The developer will be responsible for maintaining the existing technology and devising new features for the site. Projects may include building sign-in systems, implementing internal analytics packages, or inventing news apps such as TPM PollTracker (http://polltracker.talkingpointsmemo.com).

The ideal candidate is comfortable in a Ruby environment (both plain old Ruby, and Rails/Sinatra), has expert front end skills (semantic HTML, CSS, JavaScript + jQuery, Photoshop), is competent in a *nix shell + Git, and has worked with databases (especially MySQL). Experience with PHP is a bonus. A deep understanding of template-based blogging platforms like Movable Type or WordPress is also a plus. We prefer candidates who are obsessive about latest web technologies, online news and social media. In our business things change rapidly, so the developer must be able and eager to to learn new languages and frameworks on the fly.

A good design sense is a must. A background in journalism is preferred.

If this sounds like you, drop a note to talk@talkingpointsmemo.com with subject line "Designer/Developer." Include a resume, cover letter and some work you are proud of (GitHub account too, if you've got one).
It's a shame i cannot decide these things in the place i work.
We receive next to no support from Google for Checkout, too. It's more of a pain than it's worth, IMHO.
Just because the thing you want isn't feasible doesn't mean people don't want it. (Example: bullshit diet fads. There's no healthy way to drop fifty pounds in 30 days, but people still google for it, and then try it.)

And regardless of whether it actually works or not, I think it demonstrates a familiarity with multiple skills necessary for web development - working with APIs, hosting a site without it coming crashing down, writing HTML, etc., etc., etc.
It's not just the power - it's the weight of the transformer, inverter, etc.
This is pretty cool. On a side-note, both technomancy and I attended Clojure Conj this weekend. I wonder where he found the time to do this. I know I was exhausted at the end of it and pretty much all of Sunday veg-ing on my couch.

Great work.
That seems like a lot of work. Not that I'm opposed to doing it if necessary, but an automated solution (even if it were graphical) would be wonderful. In fact, it would be great if Wicd could somehow handle all this.
Clojure-conj: Composable abstractions
Google Sets New Internet Traffic Record
Just as an aside (I watched your video and was quite impressed, but I haven't used it yet), it might be worth working with photoshop rather than against it. I could imagine your tool being used to rough something out, and being able to export to png/jpg (which you already have) or psd for some more serious editing or to be sent to a web designer. It's not anything I'd worry about in the short term, but it might be a nice differentiator.
You can search the different icon sets - just go to iconfinder.com/browse

When you have found a great icon set you can add a search term to the search query e.g. http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset:duesseldorf+star

It works like Google when using the filtype: or site: keywords.
On the other hand, if raising $15,000 for breast cancer (why is it always breast cancer and never bowel cancer btw?) is the biggest thing that has been accomplished by twitter after all the attention it has gotten, then its potential so far has been somewhat overstated.

For a sense of scale, I googled "raises $15000 for breast cancer" and found the following folks who had also raised $15000 for breast cancer sans worldwide brouhaha:

"Maquette Bank Employees Raise $15000 to Fight Breast Cancer"

"Buckley Senior Raises $15000 for Cancer Research through Cabaret"

"In conjunction with Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Special Effects Hair Salon raised over $15000 hosting a Cut-A-Thon fundraising event..."
Great ideas. If you're a designer and would like to help create great color palettes and templates for jMockups, you should email me: matt@jmockups.com.
Unless you're designing and manufacturing the CPU's yourself, a custom Cortex implementation would probably cost you quite a bit more than just buying Atom or someone else's Cortex implementation would. You'd have to pay for the custom design, fabrication, and validation yourself, but if you buy someone else's chip whether its Atom, Bobcat, or a Cortex, you'd be sharing the manufacturing, design, and validation costs with all of their customers.
Is there no support for SVG icons?
+1 same here.
He hasn't waited long enough to conclude this.

I don't need a WP host now but when I do I'll think of his site and try it.
I'm in college now, and had an internship with a company in California last summer where HR did the exact same thing.

Apparently, it's California law that hourly employees can only work 8 hours per day, and anything over 8 hours in a 24 hours period is "overtime."

I'm now at an internship with a software company in New York, where the rules are what I consider "normal": Anything over 40 hours in a week is considered overtime, no matter when it was worked. However, the company has a strict no-overtime policy without (hard-to-get) prior approval.

For me, this meant I spent more of my time working in CA, because I was rewarded, while in NY, I work 9 hour days four days a week, then take off after lunch on Friday for a 2.5 day weekend.
You might more correctly say that Rails "abstracts" HTML, JavaScript (on multiple levels) and SQL (via an ORM).
I tried it, unfortunately doesn't seem to work on my laptop :/

I'm not sure what's the deal with it, seems to have some special hardware requirements. I can't fathom what these are, seeing as I have an ATI Radeon video card.
Awesome... I don't even know who this "Snooki" is, but she must not be well liked:

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=How+X+...
Going to have more of a mess around with it tonight, but like what i see so far. Only thing I would change is to make it clear from the off that there is a free version/trial - just to get people in quickly.
The main problem will be with SaaS apps that allow custom domains names (i.e. mywebsite.com instead of mywebsite.mysaasprovider.com).

I made an early decision to enable SSL everywhere in Trafficspaces with the obvious downside being that I need to allocate a dedicated IP address each time someone requests a custom domain name.

I used to get worried that perhaps it would have been better to only provide SSL in specific stages (such as sign-in and payment) and only through a generic domain name. Not any more.

Firesheep clearly vindicates that decision.
Just so you know, that is a horrific idea security wise.
No narwhal icons either - sorry to let you down.
Interesting idea - it's like madlibs for call-me-every-few-days startups :)

You could take this meta: for a fee, allow visitors to fill in the name of their new site, a bit of explanatory text, and a caller profile, and have an outsourced recruiting agency find people fitting the profile (or even do it via Mech Turk). "Introducing ProgrammerWithAnIrishAccentAndPenchantForCookingCalls from TagMyPhone!"
http://blog.rapleaf.com/dev/

Some interesting blog entries by rapleaf.com
Not at the moment - but it's coming soon.
Your personal machine isn't going to be connected through "modern enterprise-grade switches like you would find in a data center," so ARP spoofing is a totally legitimate attack.
Other than ssh tunneling, I tried http://vyprvpn.com when it was offered together with giganews, and it was pretty fast, if a bit costly.
I tend to think that if she were that crafty she'd probably have found a way off the streets by now. The only people left on the streets are the worst of the worst.
I'm an embedded programmer, and I had to write an XML parser for work. I've also written operating system code, 3d graphics, whatever. And ECMAScript too. Having such a narrow view limits were you can go, and what you can do. I specialize in a few things, but there's no programming task I'm truly afraid of, with at least being given a little time to read some documentation. "Specialization is for Insects."

I know so many people who've just done basic CRUD business programming. Smart people, really smart people, but they limit themselves; don't try to do anything deep and interesting, and it's sad.
"Intrapreneurial"... I think the last time I heard that word was in the 90's at IBM (along with "rightsizing" and other business jargon that I forgot). Then came the Internet boom and brought along a new layer of lexical detritus.
Cloud Wars: Microsoft Office 365 Takes the Battle to Google — Datamation.com
Eliminate requests for the http://www.google.com/ and http://www.google.com/firefox for default home page loads, now what is it?
Actually, I'm not connected to the original 'technomancy'. I've never met the guy. I just liked the domain name (from reading Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon), and it's my personal domain name. I think 'technomancy' is on 'http://technomancy.us.
That it's not typically blocked by crappy Internet firewalls/filters is a big bonus. This is a big deal for me since plenty of the places I consult at tend to be a little overzealous in the "security" department.