skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a popular phrase around here. It seems like people can barely contain the urge to play the "ad hominem" card. It's regurgitated all the time on HN. Same with:

-"Straw man"
-"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"
-"A bad workman blames his tools" (this one is on the rise)

I'm sure there are many others I'm missing. Even HN has memes.
Upvoted. I've been using Flux for several months. I absolutely love it. I am very familiar with the 'turn it off at night and feel your eyes start to burn' effect. But, for the love of god, PLEASE DO NOT clutter up the menubar with an attention-grabbing icon (i.e. one with color).

In addition to restoring a monochrome option, you should also allow users to turn off the menubar icon entirely, and simply rely on the System Preference pane for access on the (very rare) occasions when it's needed.

Thanks for your consideration.
The carcinogens and particulates emitted by coal do all their damage immediately? They don't build up in people's lungs and cause cancer and other diseases many years later?

Surface coal mining doesn't leave many square miles of more or less uninhabitable wasteland that remains uninhabitable for many years in the future? Underground coal mines don't catch fire and render entire towns completely uninhabitable?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania

Many other energy sources have risks which are spread over many years. They just don't have that "omfg, scary scientific stuff I don't understand" factor.
I can see real-time news being an interesting application.

On the other hand, cops and stalkers may also find it useful...
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If your knowledge of ASP stops at webforms, then you have nothing to say about anything recent in ASP. It's all gone MVC and jQuery. StackOverflow is a good example.
A missing or damaged filter on a coal plant is sufficient to contaminate the surrounding environment with uranium-235, uranium-238, and thorium-232 (not to mention arsenic). Your long term exposure to radionuclides is actually probably worse from coal plants allowed to continue operating negligently than your exposure would be if you lived 30km from Fukushima.
Fully mechanical, hand cranked turing machine
Title should be "Hidden Treasures of the Python Standard Library"
I didn't notice it, either. But, if I do a flicker test it's definitely there.
My bike was stolen. Curse of living in the city. Snarkiness ahead.
It depends on how many servers you are willing to run. When you have 500 million users, and a decent amount of them, accesses your site multiple times a day, CPU cycles per request starts to count.
If the automatic graphics card switch annoys you (it annoys me), you can disable it with this handy app: http://codykrieger.com/gfxCardStatus
Poll: Is Steve Jobs passion hardware or software?
Steve Jobs and Apple have led the mobile hardware and software revolution of the past few years with iPhone, iPad and iOS. Also, arguably Apple makes the best laptops and desktops, and to some the best desktop OS as well. So, what do you think... Is Steve Jobs passion more with hardware innovation and design or software innovation and design? Or both?
Both equally
Neither, explain below.
Are you looking for people on-site?
"... The fact that I am a programming novice sometimes makes me think I will never be able to achieve what I just said above. ..."

start here with "How To Become A Hacker" ~ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

To follow the path:
look to the master,
follow the master,
walk with the master,
see through the master,
become the master.

then continue here "The Art of Unix Programming" ~ http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/
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That assumes he sees a differentiation between the two in the grand scheme of things. To Jobs, there's one final product comprised of hardware and software.
Looking at the list, I bet they included Congo, Nigeria, etc. to hide the fact that most of the countries in that list are currently in some state of turmoil. It would have looked really ugly if they had done it just for those countries; so they threw in the Congolese and Nigerians too.

MSFT has 90,000 employees; surely some of them can speak up about this, and how it jeopardizes the people in those countries who are struggling for freedom?
The worst case scenario for global warming involves a change in climate so devastating that the earth may be able to feed little more than 100 million humans and may take hundreds of thousands of years to return to the point we are at now. It makes the dangers posed by nuclear energy seem fairly trivial.

I have yet to read any worst case scenarios for nuclear energy accidents which are anywhere comparable to this.
We stream video: you can use a Flash media server (costs a lot of money), Wowza media server (costs less money), or red5 (open source) to stream. For images you can actually extract a bitmap from a frame of the video, which I imagine you can pass to JS and reassemble in canvas.
Ideally they'd be working out of our office in Mountain View, but this is not a strict requirement.
"Hello computer?" - Towards useful natural language interfaces
programming: 1 wpm, copying text: 100 wpm
SICP: Enterprise Edition
I'm just glad everyone is 1-2 stars'ing this crappy app.
Oh nice point. People don't think of all the various costs.

Lots of people die in mining accidents and mining byproducts cause water pollution.

NO2 emissions are horrid for human health—I don't have death count numbers at hand.
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Odious creep factor aside, they deserve credit for securing both color.com and colour.com.

It's just amazing what you can do with $41mm, right?
And what color is bullshit?
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How does this relate to what Gaiman is talking about? How does the drawing of manga violate a child's privacy? There are no children involved, unless they're reading the manga, and the pictures aren't going to leap off the page and violate the child's physical privacy.
"Nice domain name, though."

I wonder how much that cost them...
We have a real dilemma...

If we spread enough plutonium dust around, it will make original sin look like a walk in the park. (Which it was I believe :-)

On the other hand, if we spew enough CO2 there might not be any sinners left in 50 generations.

People are standing around waiting for a techno fix. That won't happen without incentives. We need to tax the heck out of carbon. Fine to cut other taxes and pay Grandma's heating bill. But we must change relative prices to get the right focus. Economic forces are much more powerful than a few government research projects.

Is anyone driving less at $100 oil? We need about $50-$100 of tax per barrel to get the ball rolling. And a carbon equivalent tax on coal and gas.
... to say nothing of the stats for coal miners themselves; coal has killed tens of thousands of miners since 1950.
I am a .NET developer, and I am trying to hire excellent, well-rounded .NET developers (hint), and I can tell you that it is non-trivial, specifically because many .NET developers are not particularly well-rounded, nor have the vast majority of them much experience outside the .NET ecosystem, nor more than a basic understanding of the technologies which underly the very powerful abstractions MS has built on top of them.

So I can certainly sympathize that someone who is building something that requires more fundamental knowledge might find .NET to be an effective bunny-filter.

I did stop reading the article when I got to "I'm sure .NET is a dandy language."
I don't think Mozilla tried to protect the CA.

I think Mozilla tried to protect their own browser, by tacitly releasing updates for blacklisting those certificates, with the rationale being that this way Mozilla updates wouldn't also get blocked.

As the article says, those certificates have value in a tightly controlled network, because otherwise the browser would get a revocation status for that certificate using the OCSP protocol. In such a network it would also be feasible to also block Mozilla updates, and making the issue public wouldn't have helped (from this perspective).

Not saying that what they did was OK, but the issue is not so cut and dry.
This was, in fact, tested (to a limited extent) in court about a decade ago. See eBay v. Bidder's Edge, 100 F.Supp.2d 1058 (N.D. Cal. 2000).

Short story: Back in the days when there was actual competition in the online auction market (anyone remember Yahoo! Auctions?), Bidder's Edge was crawling eBay listings to index them for an auction search engine. (I worked for one of their competitors.) eBay sued on a trespass theory, and was granted a preliminary injunction because the judge held that eBay was likely to succeed on the merits of the claim.

Unfortunately, the trespass claim was never fully litigated; Bidder's Edge agreed to stop crawling after the PI was granted.
The ebook revenue is nearly 100% profit; the marginal cost of selling ebooks has got to be near zero. So if more people buy ebook "upgrades" by falsely claiming they bought the book, that's better for O'Reilly than making them prove it.
And so, if you live in an area of Subsaharan Africa with poor to nonexistent infrastructure, your answer is basically "die of dysentary"? You cannot look at this problem solely from the surroundings of your couch. I promise you, the dysentary entamoeba pathogen is many tens of thousands of times scarier than 100msv of radiation.

The prohibitively high cost of energy in the world is actually a bad thing.
I disagree. Everyday is a part-time collaboration by 4 people that hasn't taken on funding, let alone $41M worth. And Everyday has a business model that doesn't mine data about you: it's $1.99 on the app store.

So, I guess it's like Color in that it uses pictures, except that it's different in just about every other way.
How does one profit off of this data. Are there agencies which sell it, or is it marketed to companies in some sort of package?
Follow the link to the unabridged version, that official version cut a lot of interesting stuff.
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Plato had this theory that in drama, you had to show the bad guys being bad, so that they would be morally worthy of the hero killing them. Of course, they actually get killed by the unexpected combination of sword and internal organs.

A lot of the reporting about TEPCO seems to be "Aldight alright, we get it, your plant got physically hit by a thirty foot tall wave... but you were asking for it what with your shiftiness on that totally unrelated inspection years ago."
You are kidding me right? There are loads of Microsoft shops, who see open source as evil, and have severe problems in using anything that is not Microsoft. Scary, I know.
Google is pretty much dead and it doesn't even know it. They have produced nothing but high profile flops for some time now and all indications are that pangerank is no longer reliable, they have stemmed e tide a bit with blacklisting but I am pretty sure they are approaching search the wrong way. As the web matures they should focus on ferreting out quality sites, not just boiling the ocean and indexing everything there is to index. A "like button" based search is going to eat their lunch, the question is who is going to get there first.
It would be worth it just to watch Abelson and Sussman go all zed shaw on their ass.
Kodak Gets ITC Review in Apple, RIM Patent Spat
I'm looking to get rid of curvd.com, labld.com, velvt.com, boostd.com, and remoteli.com

Email: gs@bouncr.com
UIImagePickerController does indeed return EXIF data. In the delegate method:

- (void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)c
didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)info

you can retrieve a metadata dictionary from the 'info' dictionary. One of the keys in that dictionary is "{Exif}" which points to another dictionary that has all the EXIF data.
Keep in mind, log scaling makes 9.0 not just a wee bit bigger than 8.3 (and the plants were virtually unaffected by the quake, it was the tsunami that got them, because quakes were the events they spent most resources planning for).
I remember Velocity and articles on it initially. Thanks for the help. I am looking up AppFabric now.

See I prefer sticking with one flavor of tools because its easier for developers to adjust. TBH MS does supply almost everything from grounds up. I only had to look elsewhere for advanced distributed caching frameworks. In fact before switching to Amazon EC2 our old datacenter was running MS VMM and our stack still didn't have anything other than MS software.
$350,000

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/24/color-com-was-acquired-for-...
Deep Blue was "in the early days of AI"??? The OP needs to study the field before making such pronouncements. There were many breakthroughs in AI 30 years before Deep Blue. See, for example, Arthur Samuel's checker program from the early 1960s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Samuel
I've evolved a Perl/Tk app (forked from http://cscrape.sourceforge.net/, but there's practically nothing left of the original cscrape code except GUI bits) that sniffs Craigslist RSS feeds and applies additional filters (beyond the limited search capability offered by CL) before presenting the results. Compared to reading CL RSS feeds in Google Reader, I'm definitely suffering less information overload. Maybe there are other RSS readers that offer such custom filtering, but this way I can add whatever feature I need (with full access to Perl facilities), when I need it. Also, though I cannot prove it, I suspect that basing this tool on standard RSS feeds is less burdensome to CL's servers than scraping the site ad by ad.

P.S. The XML in CL feeds makes the Perl XML parsers I've tried barf, so I had to write my own. Again I'm speculating but I suspect that (replacing the XML parser) would have been challenging to do in a "RSS Reader".

Edit: less pejorative comment on CL's intrinsic search capabilities.
Personally I'm in the never on at all group. I was interested when it was college students only but I graduated in 2002. By the time it went wide spread I mostly didn't care, and by the time it got big they started having moments like Beacon that told me no way in hell did I trust them with my personal data/social graph/etc.
They can be friends and work together, bro!
You are right about candidates.

I had the same reaction to SEO at first. See SEO guy is partially right. It involved page load times. Larger viewstate means longer load time and that gets penalized by Google.
"The carcinogens and particulates emitted by coal do all their damage immediately? They don't build up in people's lungs and cause cancer and other diseases many years later?"

There are orders of magnitude differences between this time span and radioactive material, right? The same is true of all your points, right?

I'm not anti nuclear, it may be preferable to coal, but it doesn't make the logic of those stats any better.
I have a degree in Machine Learning. Recently I started working on a smartphone app involving CV. I am working closely with CV researcher.

And guess what? They use vectors, linear algebra, probability and classifiers too! They just go to different conferences to talk about them. If you learn enough math you can see through most of the terminology differences.

Those of us in the so-called real world must never forget the harsh industry structure of academia rewards fragmentation and obscurity, not unification and accessibility. It's the fault of the customers (grant makers) for rewarding this labor maximization behavior.
The people who are responding to the Fukushima situation by emphasizing how safe nukes are come across as so tone-deaf that they certainly seem rabid.
Actually, at least on an iDevice with iOS 4, they don't have access to your phone number. Unless the user types it in (or selects themselves from the address book).

Seems like it's easier on Android, but I'm not certain, just googled a bit.
My argument is that I don't find those stats compelling. Nothing more, nothing less.
The explanation in this seems plausible, but doesn't account for other ways to solve the perception problem - for example, google can do real open code and set up a "signed by google" program to indicate that not all of what's out there is to be associated with google.
You can try this stuff interactively here: http://www.wischik.com/lu/AsyncSilverlight/AsyncSamples.html (requires Silverlight)
Gotcha.. I do have all sorts of ideas for functionality, but I think I'll start with the basic app and add more functionality later.
The ebook reader allows you to dim much further, so it is possi le.
Total linkbait.
10 Fresh & Inspirational HTML5 One-Page Portfolios
It’s been a long time since we published an inspirational roundup on InspiredMag but here we go again – better later than never. Check out these amazing website that use HTML5 and sport a neat vertical scrolling system as well. Let me know what you think and feel free to contribute with more links in the comments area.
A pity if you have your great idea if you're nowhere near your sabbatical. Momentum lost.
Advanced Data Structures - Lecture Notes
The half life of some plutonium radionuclides is spectacularly long. But because of the nature of nuclear power (to wit: turning very big atoms into smaller ones), the stuff that actually contaminates the environment in the worst accidents is more boring. Cesium-137, one of the more obnoxious contaminants, has a half life of 30 years.

Coal will do more damage than nuclear on this metric, too.
The author joined Google in 2005 (i.e. post-IPO) yet knows what Google was like as a startup?
MongoDB 1.8 Improves Reliability with Journaling
Go back to the first day and read the comments on HN about how everything is perfectly fine, and nothing bad can possibly happen to these reactors. That was blind faith that turned out to be wrong. Those people, instead of becoming more reasoned after being wrong, continue to make bold claims about how all future reactors will be perfectly safe.

These are ideological thoughts, not reasoned thoughts. That's what I mean by 'rabid'
Sorry I haven't seen one. I only have an aluminum macbook
Yep, transcript will be posted on the URL early next week.
What is it that you don't like, the argument, or the politics of the argument?
So what is a good basis for polynomial regression? I have heard this statement a few times, but I never heard of a good alternative.
I can certainly see your point, and I am aware that I am playing a little fast and loose with some of the terminology around blocking vs non-blocking. To be precise, in node's case, it presents a consistent, callback based API to non-blocking IO. Given that that API is reflected exclusively in JavaScript the language, this has impacts the style and appearance of Node programs. The resultant style is imprecisely referred to as asynchronous, non-blocking, etc.

Using Erlang vs Node on my current project was a serious consideration. It is well thought out and its message passing and lightweight process based design is more evolved than anything node has or likely will have. It's also Erlang and I have found productively programming in it to be incomprehensible. Maybe its a personal problem, but it is what it is. Ditto for Haskell. I was surprised to find that my brain didn't bend that way.
The slides are embedded; transcript is coming.
From the IAEA: (http://www.iaea.org/cgi-bin/db.page.pl/pris.charts.htm)

442 active reactors
125 shutdown reactors
---
567 total

Destroyed reactors:

Unit 2 TMI
Units 1-4 Fukushima
Unit 4 Chernobyl

Percentage of reactors totally destroyed in accidents:

1.04% including Chernobyl
0.87% excluding Chernobyl

I defy you to find another power generation technology that has a total failure rate this severe.
I am not sure I totally agree with this, If the non-technical co founder is a business dev and sales guy he is just as important to the equation. And I would say there are a good deal of technical individuals who should not have controlling interest in the company. I say that as a 3 time CTO of start-ups and a very technical person. I was in no way qualified to be the controlling party of any of those organizations. I have a good business intuition, but my partners where way more qualified in what they do, if I held controlling interest, I may have forced issues that I was wrong about. I agree with 50-50, but if I where investing in a company I would be leery of a company where the technical and not business partner held controlling interest.
That's almost a list of the countries that US has present embargoes with – close enough anyway to make me think it's not a coincidence.

Perhaps they're using strong cryptography and those are the nations which are not approved to export crypto to (and hence, perhaps not supported in local versions of IE)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargoes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_in_the_U...
What you're describing sounds exactly like Amazon, except for the $2 million bonuses.
thanks - we've been debating flipping it back to black for the same reason. Probably will!
Wait, how is a coverup and botched inspection leading to an unsafe containment vessel unrelated to a situation decades later in which a sister vessel is compromised?

EDIT: clarified that the vessel from this story was not the exact one that just failed; it's simply another of the same design made by the same company during the same era, overseen by the same agency.
Can you please be specific about the things you believe have gone spectacularly wrong? I can see why you think people are getting "more rabid"; you might think, for instance, that they've been shown to be wrong by the events at Fukushima. What you're not taking into account is the notion that the people you're debating may have taken all of this into account --- in fact, like me, they may have been bracing for far worse outcomes, such as hundreds of casualties --- and still be capable of reasoning through a comparison with the damage caused by fossil fuels.

Documented casualties directly linked to the production of energy with fossil fuels simply dwarfs that of nuclear power, and probably will for as long as fossil fuel remains in common use.

And that is to say nothing of the indirect but fairly obvious casualties to the developing world of lack of electrical infrastructure. Simple diseases such as dysentary, which can be mitigated in part by electrical infrastructure, take HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF LIVES A YEAR.
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pre-edit: Okay, actually why is this story on the front page of hacker news? This just sounds like an overly-long twitter post. Who upvoted this? And why was it even submitted?

A masterlock that requires a key is actually very easy to open with a half diamond pick.

I've gotten locks that I was able to open <5 seconds after walking out of the store with them (Masterlock no. 5)

(I used to collect padlocks. I do [did] lock picking for fun, not for thievery)