skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. On the other hand, Apple had dual display laptops, when many other brands still supported mirroring only.
A brief history of manned spaceflight
Thinking open source: How startups destroy a culture of fear
From the article:
"With the Trojan installed on a Mac"
Well, sure, but of course installing a trojan on a non-jailbroken iPad is pretty much impossible. And with the introduction of the Mac App Store it's going to be increasingly harder to convince Mac users to install non-App Store apps too.
Apps downloaded with a promo code can't be reviewed anymore
Thought about this too. IMO this can be handled better so many different ways by different apps and I wanted to keep the main part simple. Perhaps an add on?
How Osama Bin Laden's Low-Tech Compound Gave Him Away
Interesting idea there. Lets just hack the gas meters to report false data.
Google Maps has a slightly older picture. The whole neighbourhood has been under development in the last decade, with bin Laden's compound being built around 2005 and other houses coming up around it afterwards (you can notice the differences in the sequence of photos in the briefing, too). Considering the lay of the roads and the exact shape and orientation of the compound it can be said with virtual certainty that this is the correct location.
I'd rather someone was deterring Telstra from levying such exorbitant charges in the first place than wasting my tax dollars locking someone up for such a minor crime.
Actually theres soo much in common lisp besides macros that i miss in addition to them when i have to work with python, like CLOS, the condition system, format, the lisp reader/printer(using JSON is only half a solution), good performance, and with paredit mode for emacs i can edit code a lot easier than with python.

Also your summary, python and ruby's libraries are not free, because you have to use python or ruby instead of common lisp. That is a cost of some kind, a trade off, is it not?
No, the gp has a good point. These articles seem to come up every week on HN. The point is that it's super easy to write something that syncs a folder. You can start with rsync and a cronjob, and just go up from there. Dropbox is fantastic because they haven't solved the easy problem (sync a folder on a single platform when nothing goes wrong), they've solved a very different hard problem -- sync a folder across multiple platforms, deal with corner cases, handle errors gracefully, and wrap the whole thing up in a very easy-to-use GUI.

These things aren't dropbox replacements, they are reminders that dropbox is a unique product.
fwiw, Racket is byte-compiled and run on a VM with a JIT compiler for optimization.

Depending on the implementation, you can get machine-code from Lisp by way of an optimizing compiler or you can get just the interpreter.

There is a lot that Common Lisp has that is heads above Python in terms of features (CLOS, numerics, streams, macros). The implementations can offer even more (threading, optimized machine code, GUIs, etc).

Racket offers its own features and benefits. It has a great built in library, you can package languages as libraries, it has a great module system and public repository...

Python, Lisp, Ruby... they all have their features and trade offs.

Maybe you can do the same thing in Python with the correct setup.

You can with Emacs, pdb, iPython, virtualenvwrapper, and a few emacs-lisp scripts. It's nothing compared to CL+Slime, but it's pretty good. I use it in my day to day work.
I believe they are using SQL server, which keeps statistics on the most longest total runing, and longest per-run queries. It's a good idea to monitor this list and take a very close look at every execution plan that comes up. Many times you end up doing RID lookups due to non-clustered indexes that don't cover the requested data.
Could have been a sneakernet with the courrier system. He was able to move videos out, it would make sense data came in as well. When you're hiding out for years at a time, the increased latency of such a network probably isn't a pressing concern.
A critique: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/324/5934/1515.3.full
Do you mean from a security perspective, such as keeping software on the stack at the latest versions?

I am a linode user myself and I was interested in setting up a mail server of my own for personal use, but I will admit I don't know much about it.
Who lied? 23andme is a social network with a twist. They are not pretending to be your doctor. In fact, they make you read various disclosures that reinforce that self-obvious fact.
"Introduction to Algorithms" (http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Second-Thomas-...)

"The Art of Computer Programming" (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_6_31?url=search-alias...)

....to begin with.

Then there are theoretical computer science books.

I like the Computability, Complexity, and Languages, Second Edition: Fundamentals of Theoretical Computer Science (Computer Science and Scientific Computing)

http://www.amazon.com/Computability-Complexity-Languages-Sec...
For rapid development, there are a wealth of tools that will just work on SQL databases. No special query language to learn. Jeez, none at all if you use one of the nice ORMs and magic query writing they provide (which was the point of this article). You can even drag and drop your way to a semi-decent app if you know that toolset.

On top of that, you get well-known consistency, transactional updates, and so on. Stuff most developers are used to. So, there's plenty of reasons for picking a traditional SQL database, especially when starting.

Even more so, you don't need to throw SQL away (which is a nice declarative query language) in search of performance. For instance, look at VoltDB/HStore for an example of a SQL-based, table based RDBMS that provides ACID, high performance and linear scaleout. (Granted, with some tradeoffs - it's not for running reports off of, for instance.) On the non-OLTP side, look for massively parallel databases, which still allow SQL while providing amazing scaleout analysis performance. (Downside is that those analysis databases are very expensive; I'm unaware of any cheap or opensource alternative that still uses SQL, except perhaps Pig, but it doesn't really compare, performance-wise.)
I answered this on Quora: http://www.quora.com/WiFi/What-are-the-best-wifi-enabled-wor...
Now we should call this usability problem "Why [even] Osammy Can't Encrypt"

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/5/8/114540/8364
JQuery 1.6 released
Quicksort visualized through a Hungarian folk dance
Why wouldn't they?

Do power companies not have to pay rent for their corporate offices, either?
Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9 In India Next Month, Priced at 35K and 28K
The Internet isn't blatantly selling your data or giving it away to just anyone because. Believe it or not there are actually safe places/protocols in which your data can't/shouldn't ever be recovered. Assange was right to point out Facebook, because it's literally the best example of what he was trying to say about how everyone is quickly helping the Government build a database of everyone and everything about them..

Maybe we need less people trying to re-create social networks with lies about privacy, and more people helping users create their own safe/secure cloud. Hosting your own e-mail is an amazing place to start.
Heh, I remember when I used CVS. It was for a senior project. I didn't really get what CVS was, and it was such a pain-

I slammed all the files in the day before and handed them in all at rev 1. Cranky prof.
They still break down your door though.
Silly. The internet has plenty of potential for government abuse, but Facebook gives governments a single entity to talk to whose sole purpose is to centralize your personal information.

If you're paranoid, the Internet at large can be pretty anonymous: proxies, encrypted communications, etc. It's just a communications network and you can make it nearly as secure as you want.

It's a heck of a lot easier to be anonymous on the Internet than it is in the real world. Being anonymous on Facebook doesn't even compute, and any privacy options you select are at their discretion to provide and honor.
Show HN: Leafsnap - An electronic field guide with automatic identification
Leafsnap is a project I've been working on for about 2 years and we finally launched yesterday! It's a free app for the iPhone (with an iPad version coming next week and an Android version later in the summer) that contains very high-quality images and descriptions of the tree species of the Northeast US. It also has an automatic-recognition feature that uses computer vision to help users identify trees by taking a photo of a leaf.

This project is a joint collaboration between the computer science departments at Columbia University and the University of Maryland, and botanists at the Smithsonian Institution.

Please let me know what you think! Also, I'd be happy to answer any questions about the app or the recognition technology behind it.
"One of the choppers developed a mechanical problem that caused it to lose lift[...] When he couldn’t get the bird airborne again, the SEALs blew it up and left in one of the reserves."

What the hell? Is this Battlefield 2 or a multi-million dollar piece of hardware?
What you want is a CI server that does a build after every checkin and keeps a copy of the output file.
Baloney.

That's what branches are for. That's the whole point of committing often.

A disciplined approach to branching will deal with the problem.
> I don't think I would ever want to put myself in the sort of situation that trivializes the death of a child by making it equivalent to downing a pill.

I would have thought he meant it the other way around.
A first time iPhone developer's tea-filled journey.
Ask HN: Anyone else getting "expired request" on Facebook apps?
I use some Facebook applications with some sites I work on, and lately when you use the multi-inviter to invite people to something on Facebook, when they click the notification, they get the message "this request has expired" and are unable to accept the request. Supposedly it's quite a few people having the issue, as seen on the Facebook Developers platform http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=17113 . Wondering if anyone here has/had the issue and has solutions?

Thanks.
Here are clickable links for the project:

Website: http://leafsnap.com/

iPhone app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/leafsnap/id430649829?mt=8
this isnt exactly true. I just purchased the Optimus V for use on virgin mobile and all I need to download from the market was an app called quick settings. I was than able to tether w/o even needing to be rooted
Things like this remind me how little we still now about our own world. How their are still places on earth that can still be incredibly remote and unexplored. That for all we've accomplished, their is literally a world of unexplored and undiscovered wonders around us.
Dear Paul, I am German lawyer, facebook-Fan and I found a trademark "facebook" that is registerd by an Individual in the German Trademark-Register (DE 302010048481). The opposition deadline ends may, 18.th. If I can file the opossition let me know. I would love to do it. Best regards Georg Fechner (fechner@uvh.de)
Google Hotel Leaks
And today, as you will see in some leaked pictures below, it is likely Google has initially taken part in Hotel business market! Unbelievable!
> See, that's terrifying to me. I've never taken LSD but I don't think I would ever want to put myself in the sort of situation that trivializes the death of a child by making it equivalent to downing a pill.

Maybe we just read it differently (hopefully the OP will step in), but I don't think he meant LSD trivialized the death of his child in any way. I think he meant that looking back, LSD had a similarly profound impact on his life. Losing a child can make you re-evaluate some things (or so I've heard). So can LSD (that I know).
Yeah, Floxx.com is the new incarnation of FitFinder - without being glibb about LikeALittle's success, they seem to skirt the issue of how many users they actually have...

Not to mention that Floxx, as FitFinder did, does have a lot of female (well, or gay...) users - this will doubtless keep the guys interested for longer...
Mutations and known sequences are factual, unchanging pieces of knowledge that I could research and check against my own sequence information if I had the time and desire. So, why not allow me to pay someone else to do it automatically. There is no medical interpretation being made. Matching sequences is a completely objective process.
If I want a medical professional's interpretation of the results, I can go see my doctor with my sequencing.

Dispensing medical advice without a license is already a heavily policed offense. We don't need more redundant laws on the books.
"Hurray for death"
Ask HN: Rate my frist startup, DropShop.co.za
Please give me feedback on my first startup www.dropshop.co.za we are an online sporting goods store.
While it's great that the new iMac has Thunderbolt, it's really not that important right now. The reason is that there are not any devices in the market that support it. Will Thunderbolt be the next USB? Maybe. But until people actually make stuff for it, I'd advise against purchasing a new iMac based solely on that feature.(Disclaimer: I have a Thunderbolt MBP, but I bought it because my 6 year old laptop couldn't go more than a few hours without crashing.)
She is a clueless, poor person. I agree she should be punished somehow, but this is a life devastating sentence, especially the $193K. How can you be so draconian?

If we want to follow the law to the letter we don't need judges, something like Watson would be more than adequate (and cheaper).
While their analysis may or may not be valuable, it's completely useless to the public as long as they don't publish their data. I think the ranking is probably secondary to collating all the data and other information they've dug up in one place.
What makes the PSN hack any different than any previous data breach? The public has consistently shown itself to be unwilling or unable to act on data security issues.
"dozens of movies" for 193k? If she downloaded 199 movies (assuming they'd say "hundreds" if it were 200 or more) at 4GB each that's 796 GB or $242.46/GB. Sounds more like the power company was getting ripped off by their data provider.
Is calling Echo Nest an API something of a misnomer? Isn't more of a hosted service that has an API?
Imaginary friends are important to some people.
ACM Recommender Systems conference 2011 workshops announced
Our product supports GPRS based barcode scanners which send data to our application. To prevent precisely this thing from happening, we advise our customers to make a special deal with the mobile carrier to ensure that the SIM card can't be used in any other device than the barcode scanner.

Considering that there is such a simple technical solution (IMEI lock) to this problem and considering the amount the Telco charged for the data in this case, I really think that the punishment here was too harsh.

The power company should at least pay for some of the charges due to not using a simple technical precaution (which, according to the article, they implemented for later customers) and the carrier, well... where I live extortion is a crime in itself and charging 193K for data traffic is just crazy.
My apologies, mbreese, but I actually must go through your comment line by line. You seem like a good guy, but you are way off base about a lot of the facts here.

Your quote from the doctor was for an FDA regulated
diagnostic test, with a known error rate.

FDA validated diagnostics generally have much, much smaller sample sizes than 23andMe. For example, this FDA approved diagnostic only has a few hundred samples tested:

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/reviews/K083846.pdf

23andMe has done tens of thousands, on much more highly varied populations (including many South and East Asians in addition to Caucasians). Their confidence intervals are just much tighter.

The 23and me test is not a diagnostic and doesn't have a
known error rate for such purposes.

No. The error rate of iSelect custom assays is well known and can also be empirically estimated from the above data.

I know affymetrix (their vendor) has been working in
getting things approved for diagnostic uses, but I don
think that snp chip has been approved yet.

Affy's genotyping platform was approved many years ago. 23andMe does not use Affy, but rather Illumina.

So, even if you were cleared for the genetic condition by
23andme, could you trust the results to make a clinical
judgement? So far the FDA says no. And if I remember
correctly, I'm pretty sure 23andme would agree.

Several different issues are being confused here:

* whether the test is "diagnostic grade"

* whether 23andMe says the test should be used for medicine

* whether the FDA will permit 23andMe to sell the test at all

* whether all applications of genetics are medical

* whether there is even any point in distinguishing between medical and nonmedical interpretation when "interpretation" often just means "Googling the variant" or "looking up the Pubmed papers"

These techniques work for research because you always run
replicates, so any random error is taken care of.

The raw base accuracy of these platforms is not really at issue. The primary source of error is not genotype assessment, but the genotype/phenotype maps derived by researchers in the literature.

You can easily tell whether someone has an A/A at a position. You cannot easily tell whether that "A/A" means that they will come down with a complex condition like diabetes.

The key question is whether you believe 23andMe should be free to report what was openly published in Pubmed about that "A/A" variant's effect, or whether they need a $50 million government license to do this.
Theft of SIM cards from devices is going to get increasingly common, there was this case from traffic lights in South Africa a while back http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12135841

I imagine a lot of them are used by criminals who want to make anonymous calls, they probably get cut off more slowly than stolen handsets.
RIM to make Bing the default for search and maps
Can anyone explain why 3G data is this expensive? I'm not currently able to connect the dots here.
Actually while SMS messages are overcharged for, especially messages that pass between international boundaries, on pre 3G networks they are far more of a burden on the network than you would imagine which means the networks have a vested interesting in keeps the numbers being sent down a little. See http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/10/sms_denialofse... for some details on a theoretical DoS attack based on this limitation. While I believe this has been addressed with newer transmission protocols like UMTS there are still a lot of phones out there using the 2G infrastructure either because the phone is old or because they are being used in an area that has no good 3G availability.
You don't think the power company is actually paying for a full $30-$40 a month 3G data plan do you?

This is actually pretty standard for these kind of cellular data collection systems. The company negotiates a ridiculously monthly rate for a bulk volume of devices, on the premise that those devices will be using very a low and probably consistent monthly amount of data.

In return, they usually have a very low data allowance and high to very high overage charges. Basically, it puts the pressure on the company to ensure that their equipment is properly configured and really doesn't use a large amount of data.
Ever tried committing a 100meg file to a Git repository? It'll peg your CPU to 100% for 45 seconds. I like the idea, but Git isn't a great general blob-store for this kind of project.
I do not remember the last time when I saw something as beautiful as this one. It's amazing to know that it actually traps water with it's tongue instead of sipping it.
Apple doesn't publish the models (just the GHz)... Are these the Intel Sandy Bridge series of processors (the second generation ones)? If so, which ones?
A Japanese Roboticist's Account of 16 Days After the Earthquake
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This was a huge failure for the phone and energy company. There is no reason that kind of use should be allowed in the first place. Here in the US, a lot of GSM based alarm systems have SIM cards in them, but they are access controlled to prevent such theft and abuse. I'm not trying to excuse the woman's behavior, but Telstra needs to get their act together to prevent similar crimes in the future.
I've known a lot of people who've used drugs in different ways, and my observation is that people tend to attribute far too much, in terms of their own cognitive ability and potential, to the drugs. (Example: "Because of LSD, I was able to see past <psychological blockage X>." How does this person know he couldn't have seen past it without it?) People who use a lot of psychedelics (in my moderate amount of experience) tend to see reality through a drug-colored lens. To them, there's "reality" which is boring and gray and psychedelia which is interesting and profound. They lose the skill of intermingling these two aspects of life. This is what proper study of spirituality does and drugs do not: it gives you the ability to integrate your profound experiences with everyday life and to apply them to the real world.

If you are even a late beginner at meditation and go out into the woods for 4-5 hours, you'll probably have positive and beautiful experiences. No, you don't get the "trippy" visuals, but that's not the important part. Most people don't have the focus to achieve this until they start practicing, but drugs aren't a way out. I prefer meditation's failure mode, which is no experience, to that of drug use, which is negative experience.

I think psychedelics have great potential as medicines and, in ritual use, can bring lay people in contact with spiritual experiences that might not be accessible to them. The idea that these drugs are "evil" is a mixture of xenophobia, bigotry, and religious puritanism. They're not evil; they have great potential for good. On the other hand, I think the recreational use of drugs is seriously overrated.

Psychedelic dependence (of a psychological kind, because these drugs are not physically addictive) exists, but it's much more subtle than physical addiction. When you know someone has a real problem is when he starts attributing positive things (creativity, spirituality, insight) that should not rely on drugs to psychedelics. This leads into materialistic nihilism and a very unsettling style of ennui in which a person has to get further detached from reality to feel good.
The problem is that software usually needs a good architecture but solving this by creating a job for a software architect isn't always the best way of addressing this.