skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which day are you talking about ;)
I think it's because the rectangles used for collision testing are too large.
API please.
HTTP 1.2 Released with Improved Support for Hierarchies
I was preparing my "this is bullshit" face, which involves aggressively linking to our rebuttal ( http://www.gazehawk.com/blog/eye-tracking-vs-mouse-tracking/ )

Then I looked at the calendar. Well played Paras!
AndEngine + Box2D = Android game development on steroids
Kind of ironic that this would happen on World Backup Day, perhaps?

http://worldbackupday.com/
Geeky computer pranks
Sorry, I was being a bit sarcastic and for that I apologise. Picking Linux kernel vulns is a bit like stealing candy from a baby at the moment due to the way the driver model works. There was an awesome talk about it at dc4420[1] a couple of months back and after some digging I pretty much lost the will to live.

Linux Kernel exploits tend to 'return' into root, the vulnerabilities allow them to execute in ring 0 (on x86) which gives them full direct access to the hardware. Think trojaned firmware updates and that's the kind of capability we're talking about, all because users can load and interact with drivers that haven't been maintained for years.
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I'm amused that geeks, to the extent hey notice this at all, think that the space program is science masquerading as military. Are people under the impression that Lockheed Martin makes microscopes and centrifuges when they're not building shuttle components? Or that it is coincidental that outgrowths of the billions spent on the space program include Tang, Velcro, and the ability to turn Moscow into glass?
If you're doing it right, then by the time you've decided to optimize, it's no longer premature.
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http://pinboard.in is now a Yahoo! product.

Before I realised, the "from Yahoo!" image (top left) stopped me in my tracks.
Check the DNF implementation:

Without DNF: http://img.ly/3ksI
Enable DNF: http://img.ly/3ksL
Presto! http://img.ly/3ksM

Also, we now rotate every element on the page instead of just the body. Shakes things up! :)
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Right now I'm employed. But I handed my resignation in yesterday to go freelance, and I aim to eventually build a company. I've wanted to do it for a long time, but HN played at least a part in giving me the confidence to try it.

http://www.simonpstevens.com/News/GoingFreelance
Looks like somebody already hacked it
IDG has a story about mozilla recalling firefox 4 because of serious bug. Every user should return their version using an online upload form or by sending a usb-stick by mail.

http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.377322/mozilla-aterkallar-firefox...
I've had good experiences with Hover.
omgubuntu has encountered an error or many :)
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk
Introducing Cleartrip Enamel - http://blog.cleartrip.com/journal/2011/4/1/introducing-clear...
Another porting it to Konsole.

https://github.com/phiggins/solarized/commit/b3c2170ec01fb7d...
Google motion
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Two man-years maybe?
The developer had hard links or symbolic links? It must have been a hard link to do that type of damage. I find that really dangerous and that's why I never use them. Unless you are using an obscure version of UNIX, rm -rf should delete the delete and not the content of the folder it is linked to.
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Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding admit that Erlang VM was just a dodgy clone of the JVM (video)

http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/04/erlang-copied-jvm-and-scal...
Go to Applications > Utilities, right-click on Terminal.app and set 32-bit mode. Hope that helps!
Nope, 4chan confirmed their involvement.
read the questions....
At the beginning the author says his experience is based in 1997 -- which triggered a bit of a WTF response from me. If the language hadn't been updated in that time the "review" might make sense, but as your details point out it's woefully out of date.

But really, in the realm of scripting languages 14 years is a huge amount of time. Why would anyone judge Perl, Python, or Lua, say, by the state of those languages in 1997. The mind boggles.
We've fixed it. Please try again (using the same download link sent to you). Let me know if it still doesn't work for you (sorry for the trouble).
This is the very misunderstanding that is being discussed.

Android's UI system does support tablets by 'upscaling'... but the API has been improved (with Fragments amongst other things) to provide flexibility to design one UI* that works well on any size of device.

I'm sure they felt it was necessary to do it that way because of the fact that you can get an Android device with just about any common screen resolution these days.

Sure, some people will be lazy, and won't bother to make their UI take advantage of all that space. But a lot of iPad apps (especially early ones) weren't exactly high quality either. But lazy developers are an issue on all platforms.

*One UI that might include components and layouts that only show up when viewing it on a phone, or a tablet, or a whatever.
There are many different kinds of humor spread over the world - starting from creative deviations from the (perceived) norm, up to classical jokes.

I'm pretty sure anyone will find some stuff he likes, and lots of other stuff he doesn't account to be funny.

With a little more tolerance, appreciating all those different types of humor will become a fun in itself, even when most of it doesn't suit your personal taste.

Creativity, not mere laughing, is the key ingredient for humor.
Enonic CMS is Now Open Source
Today, Enonic announces its entry into the Open Source market with the launch of Enonic CMS Community Edition. Enonic develops its Content Management System targeted for business critical web solutions. Enonic CMS will now be easily available for the international marketplace at no cost - one download away!

Download: http://www.enonic.com/en/downloads

Press release: http://www.enonic.com/en/home/company/press-releases/enonic-goes-open-source
Twingly and TV4+ Haunted House launches Blog Platform for Ghost Writers and Social Mediums

http://blog.twingly.com/2011/04/01/twingly-launches-blog-pla...
Soundcloud launches customization feature. rips off geocities
Why not discuss it in this thread? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2394349
2D Animation doesn't take up much space. Beyond a few painted high res background, most files are small and a lot of things are procedurally generated and take up almost no space at all. I worked on a 2D animated movie 10 years ago, and the data needed to render the final movie weighed in at less than 100 GB (and that was 2-3 years of work by 30-40 people). Also I understood from the story that they didn't loose everything, just enough to make it impossible to recreate the episodes without basically starting from scratch.
I love the effort put into this, but somehow the background is way too light for my taste, in vim the colorscheme is kind of bland.
We're having some reverse packet switching issues on Snapfinch, seems to be causing images to display upside down: http://snapfinch.com
Google Docs Motion Beta
Google Docs Motion Beta: http://www.google.com/google-d-s/promos/motion.html
Is the HN community the cream of the crop?: Try the FBI case
News about Pune's Tech Industry decline quotes Vivek Wadhwa:

http://punetech.com/punes-tech-industry-to-decline-40-by-202... .

Wadhwa on twitter confirms it is a prank: http://twitter.com/vwadhwa/status/53675195906531328
In my case I gave a months notice I was resigning and was locked out immediately. Imagine how much it sucks to come into work everyday with nothing to do except go to lunch. When I wasn't offering the other developers advice on the code I had worked on or APIs I was familiar with I was just shooting the breeze.

This was the hole in the policy. It was designed to keep disgruntled employees from damaging the system but the ones leaving on good terms were treated exactly the same.
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FB is still under SEC microscope hence the added insider trading second market rule as FB employee policy
Secret kernel.org redundant infrastructure
Twilio Launches Long Awaited Carrier Pigeon API
Read "Today's featured article", the "Did you know..." part, and "Today's featured picture".

Here is a screenshot of the page, in case you don't see the same / for future viewers:
http://i.imgur.com/nGHhQ.png
I heard Color was using this technology to determine whether people were angry, disappointed, or just waiting for something interesting to happen when using their app.
How to import MPEG to iMovie with MPEG to iMovie Converter for Mac?
The FDA gave them a monopoly on something with inelastic demand and then was surprised by a price increase? That takes a special kind of stupid...
I don't follow your point...?
Richard Branson buys Pluto, reinstates as planet
You are absolutely right, that's why we're in the process of creating new website there, with new design and better readability.
The problem doesn't end there. Once these drugs' exclusive rights expire and "generic brand" prescriptions are allowed to compete, most insured patients will still prefer the "name brand" as they are only charged co-pay. Some insurance providers may place restrictions on which drugs are eligible for treatment but this is not the case with traditional U.S. sponsored Medicare/Medicaid (patients are free to choose between "name brand" and "generic brand"). Medicare/Medicaid patients may also be eligible for limited co-pay exemption. ("Why wouldn't I take the 'name brand'? I'm not paying for it./I'm paying the same price anyways.") This further drives up the price of "name brand" medication, simply because the "name brand" can get away with it. "Name brand" suppliers will also cut discounted deals with various insurance companies...no such luck for the uninsured though.

One particularly frustrating example I heard from my sister was about a mother on Medicaid who refused to switch her 19-month old infant from formula to solid food (infants usually make the transition around 7 months), complaining that the child had digestion problems when she tried. (Digestion problems are normal and temporary during the transition.) Formula is more calorie rich than seal milk and nearly as expensive as printer ink, however the patient had to pay for food but didn't have to pay for formula. As a result the infant became obese and developed diabetes - the treatment for which, is also covered by Medicaid.

Meanwhile uninsured/ineligible patients are forced to go for the "generic brand" pills due to a huge price disparity. This wouldn't be so bad as generic brands are generally just as effective, except that suppliers of generic brands can sometimes change who they source their pills from, subtly changing the dosages with them so users must constantly stay on alert to see if their pill changes color or shape as this could be an indication of a shift in supplier and depending on how sensitive the drug is, have mild to severe repercussions.

The Obama health-care reform was seeking to fix this issue by providing a third party government insurance plan which would promote a more transparent market in this arena amongst other things...
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The ten test subjects is hardly a representative sample.
This guy seems to have done a pretty comprehensive analysis:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/9d801bc10df8b58...
There is already the C++ shell for root: http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint
I do believe that the best engineers of the world read HN. Perhaps this belief is fueled by my recent admiration for the way software engineers solve problems and the intellectual rigor and diversity of submissions and discussions here. Why then, one of us couldn't crack the code left by the victim? I would think that the FBI appeal to the public is more likely to be seen at HN by potential hero of the day than the general readership of NYT.

Here is what I would do:

1. Assign numbers to each symbol
2. Iterate through each word in dictionary and check whether the sequence of numbers or part of the sequence is encountered in the code.
3. If so, then assign the appropriate letters to the symbols in the code and run a regex check on each sequence. Unknown letters can be left as empty space (code doesn't have empty space so it works perfect)
4. Get the results and see if there are alternative sequence matching

Now, I am recently new to programming, but I look up to most of you out there are and if there is any possibility that this can be cracked by programming methodology, then it is one of you that can solve it.
Nokia publish Symbian source code but who cares now
Interesting how this happens on the same day of World Backup day. (http://blog.reddit.com/2011/03/better-have-backup-plan-world...)
The Streisand Effect should be part of every law student's education. This attorney has received this lesson far too late in his (now stunted) career.
Empirical software engineering is five years old
you understood i guess :)
Upgrade browser

Apologies, ifttt requires a spiffy new browser to work
all its magic correctly. Your current browser isn't
compatible.

I'm using Iceweasel 3.6.13 which is modern enough I think.

Someone has been using browser sniffing incorrectly. For the record my UserAgent is:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101210 Firefox/3.0.6 (like Firefox/3.6.13) FirePHP/0.5

If you notice I enabled the option to not send Iceweasel in the useragent since it was causing problems.
In the non-calendar related world, some of the cutting edge research on using cursor movements is done by the University of Washington and Microsoft Research:
http://jeffhuang.com/Final_CursorBehavior_CHI11.pdf

The article shows how movements and hesitations can be used to figure out which links are relevant to you. I believe this is the largest scale study to date (38 subjects on eye-tracking + cursor-tracking, thousands of subjects on cursor-tracking only).

Also, this article from Emory University: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.169... uses cursor movements to figure out if a user is browsing/researching a product or ready to buy.
No, they're against everyone:

The attack appears to be indiscriminate in its targets, with compromised machines running ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, JSP, and PHP, and no doubt others.

RTFA.

And linking to random n00bs chatting in the asp.net forums is not evidence. Obviously they're only going to be talking about MS.
A hardlink would be safer in this case. If there are two hardlinks to the same file and you rm one of the hardlinks, the other hardlink still works and the file itself isn't deleted.

A symlinked directory, though, being made victim of a recursive rm command, just might result in rm traversing through the directory and deleting everything inside of it.
Killing an elephant without power tools is really hard, too, yet they managed it easily.

Even if your arguments are correct that the villagers are so poor that they have no choice (which I doubt), it all crumbles down when the rich hunters come into play. Surely they have enough money and tools to erect a wall.
SEO practitioners are the digital equivalent of bankers
DoS for NetBSD-derived ip stacks processing nested IPComp payloads
Search for Helvetica on Google: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=helvetica
Perversely, these monopolies are often granted on the basis of 'natural monopoly theory'. If it's a natural monopoly, why does it need to be further enforced (preserved?) by a law?
A math problem on Glenn Beck - can you solve it?
Um, just installing eclipse and setting it up is probably another 20 steps. Very content free post really.
London Stock Exchange insists troubled Millennium IT migration was ‘successful’
Twilio releases long-awaited carrier pigeon API: http://www.twilio.com/pigeons
Sweet I can stream Sliders from Hulu! Though I'll probably have to download RealPlayer...
Sigh.  Yes.  It's April 1st.  Don't believe everything you read.
In particular though, don't tell anyone about anything truly interesting or "awesome" because lots of people will simply go "Ha Ha! April Fool!" It's like spending hundreds of hours carefully crafting an amazing effect, only to hear the cry "Photoshop!" when you try to show people.

Let me see if I understand April Fool's day.

You carefully develop a high-standing in a community of some description (even if it's just your family) as someone of integrity, and whose judgement can be trusted. Then, one day a year, you punish people for believing you.

Hmm. Not sure I get it.

In particular, there's a company I know (who shall remain nameless) that I worked with in a professional capacity for many years. We had a great working relationship. I delegated to them, they delegated to me, and work got done easily.

One day they played a perfectly innocent, very small practical joke. No harm, no foul, no problem.

Except, somehow, the deep and implicit trust was broken. I never did trust them totally after that, and lost that great feeling you get when totally in flow.

I know, people will say "Lighten up! It's a joke!"

Well, yes. Doesn't mean there are no long lasting effects.
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'Space flights from Scotland' bid
Google’s face-recognition app sounds great for stalkers
Hi Ravi,

You seem like a well-meaning guy, but this line of yours is total nonsense.

"Western colonization has destroyed traditional African life to such an extent that they are now living in-limbo where they are neither, westernized or Africanized and have lost their connections to their own environment and nature. These are some of the repercussions for the damage that has been done to them. Most of them live hand to mouth - only caring about their daily survival"

For the record, starvation simply wasn't an issue under colonial rule. There were plenty of other problems, to be sure, but getting enough food wasn't one of them. Nor was there any problem with farming in general. Indeed, Rhodesia (as it was then known) boasted some of the most productive farms in Africa, which was no small feat, given that the land itself is a high and rocky plateau, and not a lush, agricultural wonderland.

The rampant starvation is the singular product of Robert Mugabe, who has been in power since 1980. Unlike the white farmers, he's actually responsible for honest-to-god genocide (aimed at the Matabele tribe, who live in the southern part of the country.) And by 'genocide', I mean murdering 10,000 men and throwing the bodies down empty mineshafts. Also, all that hunger? Yeah, it wasn't just the product of gross incompetence. Some of that was a matter of policy - literally starving his political opponents into submission.

Seriously, Ravi, are you honestly not aware that this guy is one of the nastiest dictators alive today? Do you not understand that he's managed to turn one of the most prosperous sub-Saharan countries into one of the world's severest basket-cases. How can you talk at length about the situation in Zimbabwe without even MENTIONING Mugabe? That's like talking about The Great Leap Forward while ignoring Mao Tse-Tung.

It's just ridiculous.
Twilio's API now returns responses in morse code. Just append .morse to the end of any Twilio REST API URL to get the morse code representation.

If you find a legitimate use for this, please let us know.
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I haven't looked into how one can export gnome-terminal color palettes yet, but if anyone else is interested, I think these are the correct settings in gconf:

/apps/gnome-terminal/palette: #070736364242:#D3D336368282:#B5B589890000:#CBCB4B4B1616:#2A2AA1A19898:#6C6C7171C4C4:#858599990000:#EEEEE8E8D5D5:#00002B2B3636:#D3D301010202:#58586E6E7575:#65657B7B8383:#838394949696:#26268B8BD2D2:#9393A1A1A1A1:#FDFDF6F6E3E3
/apps/gnome-terminal/background_color: #00002B2B3636
/apps/gnome-terminal/foreground_color: #65657B7B8383

Edit: Ok, I pulled down the source for gnome-terminal since I couldn't find a way to export/import color schemes. The color palettes are all hard-coded, so that is unfortunate :(.
I'd distinguish between consulting and a product company. Product companies license software, sell physical goods, or off-the-shelf goods. Consulting companies sell time to their customer's requirements. They may do fixed-bid work, but the client writes the specs, possibly with help.
And that's the big unless.

You may be right for small point releases but when they revise the interface or introduce significant new features or something else which people will notice and want, it's going to put you at a disadvantage.

And because you don't have access to the new version you don't know whether it's going to be a significant release or not. You may be competitive, you may not, you simply don't know.

I honestly don't see how that doesn't put a company at a disadvantage - it's certainly not a level playing field and it's certainly not a situation I'd happily put myself in.
Already mentioned in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2394349
Debian, Gentoo, Grml, openSUSE and Arch Linux in One Distro [April Fools]
Message to late night HN users
I've noticed that many of the posts on HN between the hours of 2 and 7 in the morning are really crappy. I often find articles and notes pertaining to absolutely irrelevant topics in this time, which is when I check HN in the morning in Israel. Perhaps these kind of posts get through during the day but the system of karma points and comments filter them out, but I don't believe this is the case. In that case, I'd request of night users to post articles which are extra relevant because the filter system isn't around to regulate, but that wouldn't be a particularly practical or effective request. Perhaps there are not as many fresh tech articles and blog posts at this time, but that doesn't mean that hogwash should clutter up the site to compensate. All I ask is for late night users to be more careful as to what they post, and confirm that it fits the HN guidelines. I do not need to read about how you like 5 hour energy as an informative part of my morning tech fix. I'm sure many people agree, and I do not see why much of HN needs to dissolve into any other stupid online forum late at night. If I wanted to be on 4chan, I'd dress my cat like a fireman on photoshop and be a star there.

(Likely this post is riddled with nothing more than my personal frustrations, but please don't not take it as a venting session. Please take this as a request, user to user, for scrutiny while posting during my favorite time of day to check HN.)
Aprils fool?
This is how Labelbox got 1 million downloads in App Store within a month
This is how I am solving the information overload problem.
Just what is the point of this "tutorial" - it is actually less detailed and helpful than the pages available on the Android site.
What I find especially annoying about these April 1st articles everywhere, is the people who think that they're so uniquely clever that they've figured out that it's not real, that they need to post a comment saying 'April 1st!' Duh, no shit Sherlock?

(I realize the irony in that this post can very reasonably be interpreted as me announcing that I've figured out that this one isn't real...)