skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. While I haven't checked up on any recent research or findings, as of the '70s/80s it was thought that though Nagasaki was hit by a slightly more powerful bomb than Hiroshima, it suffered less due to its hilly terrain. (The biggest difference, though, was due to the latter resulting in a firestorm, and outside of perhaps Somerville, MA there are very few US cities with enough fuel per area for one of those to develop).
thanks for the feedback, and glad to hear people are still using the app. :-)

I'll get this update shipped soon. If you have any other suggestions or bugs, please email me.
There has to be a blend between the command line and the GUI. Even keyboard shortcuts in applications are included in it, without which its impossible to work for power users.
I thought the guy is complimenting you. Anyway, relax dude.
Table Connect for iPhone – A Giant, HD Table-like iPhone
People would have been so miffed if they would have told them iOS 4 wasn't available for the 3G.

"OMG, they are forcing us to upgrade!"

What would they have them do? Send out free (better) hardware everytime they update iOS in a major way? That just doesn't seem right.
damn. anyone else try this? would be cool to get some links:D
I think it is just you noticing them as Java, not that more are in Java. For every Cassandra there is a Riak, etc.
Just curious what kind of damages is Ms Wofford is able to get from such lawsuit if she wins? an iPhone 4 or millions? The lawyer costs more than an iPhone 4 right?
my favorite line: "I question how closely education links with entrepreneurship."

it doesn't. i think competitive fields or sports (physical or mental) are the best test of an entrepreneur's DNA
Max Frisch, Homo Faber:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Faber_(novel)
Yup, 4.0 sucked for the 3G. Kind of appalling QA for a company like Apple to let that slip out. The 3G at that point was two generations behind, seemingly giving Apple no large incentive to fix the performance problems.

But you know what? They did anyway.. The 4.1 release made these phones (including mine) usable again. I still think they screwed up badly, but I give them props for fixing the problem reasonably quickly when there were clear incentives for not doing so.
I'd love to know more about how this works. Anyone with a Nature subscription want to give a summary with more technical details?

edit: here's a longer video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RuHEliwJnA
Oh? Do you have a source?
A Startup Focusing on Developer Needs
Twitter Chatbot Wears Down Proponents of Anti-Science Nonsense
New Vending Machine Dispenses Live Crabs
Your answer sounds a lot like "Because $language is better" and there are no winners of holy wars.
Taking DRY Further
You mean Tencent QQ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent_QQ
What corporate culture? All I know is that Southwest has pilot union, they get competitive salary and they love their airline. How come SW (or JBLU) don't have same issues as legacy carriers?
Apple had two choices: release iOS4 for 3G and let it run slowly, or require 3GS+ to run iOS4. They went with the first option. My bet is that if they'd gone with the second, she would have sued them for obsoleting her 3G too quickly.
> "1. At-will"
For the most part, this is true. However, it is and has been abused and has its existing exemptions for very good reason. Protecting an employer's right to punish people for lawful activity they engage in outside of the workplace, that has no impact on how they perform their job, does not seem like a very good reason.

> "2. harms from exceptions have overwhelmed the benefits"
You're conflating union contracts with legal protections. Also, we shouldn't overlook the ways in which employers would use their at-will rights to control employee voting, spending (company store) and living (company housing). Beneficial protections for employees from the at-will rights of employers go beyond the handful of explicit protected classes.

> "3. To these 5 protected classes we should add "pot smoker"?"
No more than we should add "alcohol drinker". But it absolutely shouldn't be a protected right to fire people for engaging in lawful behavior that occurs outside the workplace and has no impact on their job performance.

> "4. "protected class" is code for "excuse to get sued"."
Termination is pretty clean and easy so long as you document your decisions.

> "5. Existing policies unlawful"
I believe the correct interpretation there is the specific sections would be rendered invalid/unenforceable and would need to be amended. I don't see it as such a huge deal. The very organizations that would experience a large cost in this endeavor are overwhelmingly the ones who have annual updates anyway.

> "6. CA quirk."
But we're only talking about California. It's nonsensical to argue based on interstate applicability of a proposed State law.

> "7. That quirk isn't settled in case law and may only apply to cases where companies try to suppress political speech or invade privacy."
Or it may not. Or firing people based on lawfully smoking weed might be seen as an invasion of privacy.

> "8. It seems batshit crazy to me that I can, as a CA employer, fire someone for having a bad haircut, but I can't fire that person for being nationally televised for marching in support of Nazism."
You don't think freedom to political speech on your own time is a more important and sacred right than freedom of expression via appearance in the workplace?

> "Many of them are now going to remain imprisoned for a longer period of time because the advocates of this measure overreached and tried to pass a "marijuana anti-discrimination act" instead of a "marijuana decriminalization act"."
I think the jury's out on how much of the opposition to this bill had to do with marijuana anti-discrimination.

I'll absolutely agree that it was bad strategy, particularly as the right seems to already be protected. I'm just not convinced that a critical reading of the proposal would sway voters away from it for its inclusion.

Arguments against the anti-discrimination sections were overwhelmingly emotional arguments. Those arguments, and those swayed by them, have never needed a rational basis. If it wasn't "they'll drive high" it would've been "they'll babysit high" or "the welfare queen will be high on your dime" or some similar scare-scenario.
I can and do anyway, just because it's just more convenient and faster. Poor vision or not, I do so dearly love keyboard shortcuts.
I think there's too much romance in people's expectations of what real work looks like. It's genuinely great to pursue your passion, but it always has a cost. The "if it's not your passion, you're wasting your life" thing aggravates me to the point of distraction.

A lot of talented people are perpetually stuck because once the novelty wears off on something, they get antsy and move onto something else. It's nothing to do with their skill level, just the phobia of doing a long, long grind to get to a goal.

I'm a painter, and I've developed before, it all looks the same to me - once you have a brilliant idea and get over the fun bit, you need to work on the other 80% of it until it's done. Once an idea settles in your head and stops being exciting, the real work begins; after that point it takes actual sacrifice and dedication that isn't being fueled by anything other than your own decisions and time management.
Really? Have you read the piece (I believe it's in Surely You're Joking...) where Feynman gets evaluated by an Army psychologist? It reads very similarly to this.
I'd point out two general paths to becoming an angel or VC. The first would be to get an entry-level position at a VC firm; build expertise, and work your way up. That seems like the route you are more-or-less headed towards right now. There's no instant fix. You have to start researching, networking and seek opportunities.

The other path, which is probably more applicable for most of the HN readership, is to found a company (or several) and make a bunch of money. Then VCs will be asking you to join them; or at least very receptive to you.
In case anyone's looking for a startup idea: a cheap way of validating check-ins seems like a good bet to me.

(See: Shopkick)
Yes I am thoroughly enjoying it. Takes you through all his early entrepreneurship issues.
Are you really saying that you wouldn't work more than 40 hrs per week for < $150k.

If there were no other financial incentives, absolutely. I have no problem saying, "No" to work. I bust my butt doing 100 hour weeks so that you can ship Mario Halo World and make $500M opening weekend, I deserve to be compensated. Even if I love the work, I can spend that 60 hours per week that you're not paying me to work on something else I love.

It's one thing to be RMS and working on your lifes passion for free. It's another thing to, as an employer, expect to ask someone to forego tucking their son in for the next 6 months, because you need to make $200M, but will not compensate them at all. I don't doubt there's people that will volunteer to do it out of some sense of passion or loyalty, but it won't be me.

I know what I'm worth.
Anyone can still ask you whatever questions they want during an interview, but as a matter of policy and culture MS moved away from puzzles years ago. Notwithstanding there may still be hold outs.
Passive holographic displays are getting pretty awesome too:

http://landscapeandurbanism.blogspot.com/2010/02/next-step-h...
I had a lot of respect for GE until not that long ago, but I think that after things like these (http://accounting.smartpros.com/x67325.xml) we shouldn't take this company very seriously. They're just crooks like the rest of Wall Street.
Maybe the UK experience is different than US, but this sounds like 'no child left behind'. Let's make 50% of the students do inane coursework for a year so the other 50% don't feel bad about requiring an extra year to finish university. We'll call it 'personal improvement'. While it definitely takes a year to adjust to being on your own, the average US freshman experience calcifies the mind.

Example: I had 2 dorm friends with 1600 SAT scores that wasted their life away that first year because they already knew the material (like most of us). They got cocky and promptly got a 1.0 the next year when they finally had to work but didn't realize it, losing their scholarships. Freshman year is the best time to pump students with work because they are expecting/wanting a challenge. The first year should be about inspiring students to learn, not teaching them how to deal with insane amounts of free time.
Really, an airline with pre-checked opt ins?
I had a similar experience, asked to design a sudoku solver.

Coming from an AI background, I coded up an algorithm for state-space search.

They were expecting me to approach it as a person would, reasoning about how you rule out certain numbers (the constraint propagation), which is a second-order consideration for a game the size of sudoku.

I felt pretty smug when Peter Norvig shortly thereafter put up a blog post that essentially mirrored my solution.
Google Releases Impressive Documentation of OpenID Implementation
1) Are you suggesting to move elements from Job page or add background color or both?

2) Would you expect web site performance improvements if the changes you are suggesting would be implemented? If you expect improvements -- what kind of improvements and would it possible to measure them?

3) With posting date -- there could be more than one posting date. Recruiters re-post there jobs. The end of date range is not current date, it's the date when was this job was re-posted last time.

4) When users click on Google Map -- they not necessarily leave PostJobFree. Usually they just scroll the map.
Hm, if i recall correctly my first year had:
- A basic mathematics course, took us through some of the harder A-Level (pre-uni) stuff and a few more advanced things
- Discrete mathematics, set theory and all that jive.
- An introductory programming course, it covered basic Java programming and introduced OOP. Coursework was to write the algorithm for solving a maze
- A basic hardware and lower-level concepts course
- Data structures, ie what ones are available and their efficiencies
- A unix programming module, basically we made some dead simple command line programs
- Some functional programming (we used SML)

I hadn't really done any programming pre-university (other than some trivial Delphi apps that aren't really worth mentioning). So nearly all of this was new to me.

The second year was basically more of the same but harder. The 3rd and 4th years were where we got the bulk of the credit for the degrees, but we also got the most freedom over what modules we took. In the first two years, about 80% of the modules were considered 'core'.
Really now, a major part of dealing with "burnout" is to think of it as a necessary part of personal growth and self-discovery process -- more like a simple need to detach and "sleep" once in a while, rather than a kind of a crash or a breakdown as we are inculcated into thinking it as being.
Thiel himself has two degrees from Stanford. He appears to have liked higher education enough to keep going back for more!
Android Market adds Recent Changes
Good luck to her proving malice. Claiming that the product isn't fit for purpose would seem to be pretty straight forward but I'm not sure how she's going to prove that they did it intentionally to increase iPhone 4 sales.
Presumably they have filed to have Apple pay their legal fees, should they win.
Wow, it's almost right out of one of PG's essays:

"At one extreme is the sort of pork-barrel project where a town gets money from the state government to renovate a vacant building as a 'high-tech incubator'" -http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html

Seems like a local government committee was tasked with improving startup conditions and they fell back on the idea that every other local government has tried in order to make their own silicon valley.

I ask, not to be snarky, but out of actual curiosity, has any "incubator" or "tech park" kicked off a successful startup community, however small? Or do they all just end up being government subsidized office space?
How to guarantee your company will fail
My recent experience with Java code is that efficiency conscious Java code is ridiculously under-performing compared to efficiency conscious C code.

By virtue of Java's structure and culture (as codified in its libraries), you have to spend approximately twice as much physical memory as you would in C. E.g., I had a 100,000,000 record array that I needed to sort. That's great -- Java has an Array.Utils.sort() method; But I needed to know the _sorting permutation_ as well. That requires an array of Integers, each taking >=16 bytes (so, 1.6GB of ram). Which slows everything to a crawl. So I wrote my own heapsort routine which needed only 400MB of ram. But it's 10 times slower than the equivalent C -- I suspect because of array bounds that the compiler can't throw away.

Those infrastructure projects are "cool", but horribly done. I don't know about Cassandra, but Hadoop makes jobs take between twice and ten times the resources that they need. Sure, it scales to 4000 machines, but you'd only need 1000 if it were properly written. And if you only have a 10-node cluster, you could probably run it on one machine with comparable throughput.

Color me unimpressed with Java.
Check out Groupon Stores. Groupon just released a self-serve store for deals where you can get customers to follow your business and push out deals to them. They're not exactly the same, but Groupon's new offering is a very different beast than the daily deals it was offering before and much closer to Facebook Deals. Those two combined with the LBS's going to make it very interesting for businesses. Marketing is changing at an increasingly rapid pace and while there are themes, I don't think anyone can guess where it will be in a year or two.
Sort of OT, but does anyone remember a magazine called "The Gazette"? (IIRC) When I was 10 my dad would bring this magazine home for me each month with chocolate milk and powdered doughnuts and I would sit on our commodore 64 for the whole weekend working with the sample code them had in it. Good times for a 10 year old.
I don't have any experience with Rhino, but I did a similar thing with node.js as an experiment once.

I didn't go down the route of trying to restrict the user from creating functions and eval'ing etc.

It was easier to just run 'unsafe' scripts in a seperate sandboxed process with their own own (restricted) globals. I gave the scripts limited time to run before the process was forcibly killed. Doesn't matter about infinite loops and other things so much then.
Myself I guess I decide whether I want a new tab on a link by link basis, not site by site. Regardless, an account option on every site just seemed like epic logic bloat in aggregate. I do see the problem with touch screen browsers. Maybe a gesture like press and flick could open a link in a new tab.

So my take is: never force a new tab, browser implementers should make it quick & easy to decide for yourself for each link.
Zuckerberg is actually the only one I can think of, though I assume there must be at least one or two others. But if you look through Thiel's portfolio companies, they're stuffed to the gills with people with degrees, often multiple degrees, from top universities. PayPal was all people with degrees, LinkedIn is people with degrees, Palantir was founded by a PhD, etc.
Future of Eyewear: Augmented reality in your Eyes
I wonder why they didn't mention Aroldis Chapman, who recently was clocked at 105mph (and 25 consecutive pitches over 100). [http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=sh-redspadres092410]
Apple announcements through the ages
Ask HN: Posterous vs A Blog
Hello, I currently have a blog on my page but I am wondering has anyone found a better reason to use Posterous? I have done a bit of research but I would prefer if someone with a bit more experience in both could help me with the pros/cons of each.

Thanks
Landing is almost never done by autopilot. Approach is. When the runway is in sight Pilot Flying has to take over from the autopilot, and gently put the wheels on the ground. Computers are still not very good at it, especially not when there is slightest deviation from the norm (i.e. crosswind).

Autoland is very rare and is either used in ideal conditions or in terrible conditions (but then both aircraft and airport AND flight crew have to be rated to Cat IIIc standard - extremely rare occurrence).
I wonder how OSX's and WinNT's would look?
I have a Levenger "editor's desk", which is close to a mini-drafting table that sits on top of your desk. It gets a little iffy, though, at the start or end of a book, where the "thin side" of the open book doesn't have enough mass to hold itself down.

What I found that helped with that were the giant rubber bands you can get at art supply stores, that are typically used to hold things to a drawing board. Two of them around the editor's desk do a fine job of holding a book open, bands stretched across the top and bottom margins.
Data-mining techniques reveal fake Twitter accounts
not that I know of
Wonderful essay. I especially love this:

I remember a conversation we had a year or so before his death, walking in the hills above Pasadena. We were exploring an unfamiliar trail and Richard, recovering from a major operation for the cancer, was walking more slowly than usual. He was telling a long and funny story about how he had been reading up on his disease and surprising his doctors by predicting their diagnosis and his chances of survival. I was hearing for the first time how far his cancer had progressed, so the jokes did not seem so funny. He must have noticed my mood, because he suddenly stopped the story and asked, "Hey, what's the matter?"

I hesitated. "I'm sad because you're going to die."

"Yeah," he sighed, "that bugs me sometimes too. But not so much as you think." And after a few more steps, "When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway."

We walked along in silence for a few minutes. Then we came to a place where another trail crossed and Richard stopped to look around at the surroundings. Suddenly a grin lit up his face. "Hey," he said, all trace of sadness forgotten, "I bet I can show you a better way home."

And so he did.
For an overwhelming majority of applications out there, it really was just "recompile and it works" or even using Rosetta for the interim, until the developer got around to it. Apple even created a script that automatically converted scalar types into an architecture-safe equivalent (int -> NSInteger, for example).

Final Cut, Adobe CS and a few other major products are the exception to the migration, not the rule. I've spoken to people who used to work on Final Cut. It has one of the largest codebases that I've ever heard of. Plus, Final Cut wasn't done in Objective-C and Cocoa. It is a C++ application with a completely custom UI, done by Macromedia over a decade ago. Its not even a full 64-bit application yet.
The way I've done it, although I really don't think its optimal, is to do it on a very individual basis w/ no formal guidelines. What I've found useful is to make all roadmaps publicly available, except for sensitive inforamtion. And then calibrate it upwards. So you as a manager, review with your manager your directs roadmap. You don't have to do this sync up often, but just enough so they can say, "Hmm... Tim's level 3 is doing much more impressive stuff, we probably need to sync up on this". And of course, with everything public you can get feedback from anyone at anytime -- but this happens less often than you might think.

In a big company this will probably lead to discrepencies across orgs. But honestly that probably happens anyways.
A ficitonal interloculor to whom one attributes poor arguments in order to easily refute them?
Plus there is always the fact that when you drop out of Harvard, they usually give you the ability to come back later on.

Makes dropping out to pursue a startup a low risk / high uncertainty bet.
http://conference.scipy.org/scipy2010/tutorials.html

there was a mayavi tutorial, and the files are available at the link
You might find someone interesting here: http://cincinnatiinnovates.com/

Also, I know I met someone who was a VC at an event last year, but I lost his business card :( He probably worked for one of these groups: http://www.libraries.uc.edu/research/subject_resources/busin... - they would likely know of any funded startups in the area.

[edit] I wouldn't be surprised if some of the local 2600 guys read HN occasionally: http://cinci2600.com/
Show HN: Instant Movie/TV Search
We are making a visual search engine for movies and TV. Users can quickly navigate, sort, and filter titles along intuitive dimensions like rating, release date, genre, actors, directors and writers. Users can also rate and review movies, read and respond to their friends’ reviews, build a profile of their tastes, and maintain a list of titles they want to watch.

We are huge movie fans ourselves, and were frustrated with the fact that even a simple query like ‘show me the best films by Clint Eastwood’ is unanswerable by a site like IMDB.

We'd appreciate any feedback you all might have about it. Thanks.
As much as they're interviewing you, you're interviewing them as well. If you're a smart guy, you hopefully have enough prospects that if you don't want to work with pedantic nitwits, you don't have to.
Ah yeah, see I hadn't even consider that. I suppose for most it's probably not an all or nothing choice. It's an interesting yet deceptively simple usability 'problem' the more I think about this now.
Especially the high part!

This is the only time in life it's (borderline) socially acceptable to try those things. FFS, enjoy it while you can. You'll have plenty of time in front of a computer later.
Whoever happens to be on a ladder that has been weakened to the point of failure is already long dead.
http://mixergy.com/tobias-lutke-shopify-interview/