skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would have been a direct upload via FTP, no modifications.

Either way, presumably they haven't indexed every photo on the net?
Osama Bin Laden's Computer Files and Data Encryption
Thanks asr for the NYT overview...yes, they seem to be just in "talks" right now, but the prospect is pretty cool.
That is some amazing stuff. I never knew visual recondition technology has advanced so far!
I highly recommend talking to a wedding planner. They are design focused. In fact, that is your easiest target market. Ask them what they'd like to have and give it to them. You'll probably find one that could provide 2d design for the site as well.
do you run a cron job on your server scanning each price periodically for changes?
It's adorable :3

Don't have an Atari 400, but wish I had the circuitry know-how to pursue something like this for the Commodore disk drive.
Ask HN: Help with opensource soundcard startup?
Hi guys,

I need your advice. My DSP teacher has inspired me to start Open Soundcard project. He already built one of his own, wrote own drivers and he currently uses it as his primary one for recording singers (he studies vocal tract). I would like to push him, to make it all open source - beginning with the code and ending with the schematics of building of your own. I am just a beginner C coder, but I hope there is a lot of people which could be possibly interested in such thing. My question is - how to attract developers / engineers for such non-profit project? I mean, it can obviously become huge when it will be made right, especially amongst professional musicians (such as myself) wich require more than regular built-in stuff. So let me know if anything comes to your mind or you already want to participate maybe :)). Thanks, Jonas
Tips For Getting Started For The Non-Technical Web Entrepreneur
It doesn't seem to do anything.
Apparently this doesn't work in Firefox. Too bad.
What sort of entrepreneur are you anyway?
They should watch out anyway. This isn't anything that 4chan could theoretically do (although it now has become a lot easier)

4chan retains exif data afaik
New Stealthier Helicopter used for the Bin Laden Raid [pictures]
what about embedding in an iOS app? Any thoughts on this and if Apple will let is pass?
http://videolectures.net/
Just an update: GitMac is now out of beta and called Sprout on the Mac App Store http://gitmacapp.com/sprout
This is a big one. I threw out the "click the activation link email" process a long time ago, I now just set the session and push the new user straight into the panel.
It's obviously pretty unclear in the worst possible way, though, and pretty awkward, too. I disagree that the context makes it completely clear. There are any number of ways to write that sentence without the ambiguity.
I don't know about this. My father is a scientist, and while he signs his correspondence as Sasha, he publishes under Alexander. As for метмах vs. матмех - it could easily be Perelman having a dyslexic moment, or the journalist misquoting. All these "clues" are so nitpicky... not worth a conspiracy theory IMHO.

You are right about nicknames though. I used it in a colloquial sense but the correct term would be a familiar form.
Hmm, looks nice :-)

At a glance, I'd say it looks both more lightweight and more high-level than Lacewing (Lacewing won't host anything at all unless you add in a handler which calls SendFile or whatever, whereas Mongoose seems to have a concept of a document root and things like that).

Mongoose seems to use select() and nothing else (I only had a quick read through the source, mind), whereas Lacewing opts for things like epoll/kqueue/IOCP, which should mean that Lacewing might scale better to many clients.

Mongoose also appears to use multithreading, which Lacewing currently avoids in favour of the reactor-esque Lacewing::EventPump. Lacewing has, however, been designed with multithreading in mind, and it's something I'll be adding as an option for the Server and Webserver classes in the near future.

By the way - Lacewing does provide a C API too, despite being written in C++.
Google, Facebook: "do not track" bill a threat to California economy
Which is why it persists. If you look at the conspiracy theories that survive over the years they're always the ones where seemingly smart people acted dumb. I guess the logic is "people that smart couldn't have acted that dumb so they must have been acting dumb on purpose"

It's the common thread. From Coke to Kennedy (where people tend to think the Secret Service is way too smart to have been beaten by one idiot in a 6th floor window so there must have been a conspiracy)
Nice work! GPL I hope?
If you're driving alone from DC to Boston in a vehicle that only gets 20 mi/gal, you're doing something wrong.
Note to self: Do not Google "blond" on work laptop
http://igniteshow.com/
If nothing else, it's a chance to test the adage (mantra?) "There's no niche too small".
Just an FYI: http://www.gazaro.com/ does something similar to this, and gives users scores on how good the deal is.
Of course, however its the public image that counts, and if Anonymous don't defend themselves, people will just believe the lies
This video is a serious contender to Microsoft's Windows 7 House Party ad and their Songsmith ad.

add.: why does everyone hanging around here have a stick or two up their wazoo? Not a soul will fail to notice how truly ridiculous this video is in the same lovely way the Songsmith ad is, but why is one not allowed to mention this in jest without getting slammed over it? Breathtaking... :)
I'm curious about why the artificial limit? The cable cos have enough backbone bandwidth, right? So why can't they just add channels and sell 100mbps+ today?
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
http://longnow.org/seminars/

On average, better than TED, in my opinion, although quality is of course variable.
I thought it was great. The guy clearly stayed within his personality and explained things clearly. How sexy do you want 3d transistors to be?
" First, Zellner disengaged the “safe search” filter. He then typed “blonde” into the Google search box. The search produced 20 “thumbnail” images, all of them pornographic, with links to more images within and outside the Google website. He then clicked to display the next 20 images. Zellner then clicked a link entitled “more of these” adjacent to images from www.ardentes.free.frblonde.com. When Zellner did so, another 20 pornographic “thumbnail” images were displayed on his monitor for a total of 17 seconds. Zellner did not click on any of the photographs displayed in his search. The entire incident took 67 seconds.

The appeals court said that 67 seconds was all that was necessary to be fired. It was unrelated to him being a vocal opponent of the district and making comments in the local press, the court said."
The best lisp project is a lisp interpreter/compiler in Lisp.

Take a look to Lisp in Small Pieces[1] if you are interested in something beyond the metacircular evaluator from SICP.

Read the code of Racket, you will learn a lot from it.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Lisp-Small-Pieces-Christian-Queinnec/d...
Database Driven Combinatorial Testing
I found the information about the size of the 3d transistors interesting. Does this mean that Intel is currently able to develop and manufacture nanotechnology devices (1 to 100 nanometres)?

For example, in the video the red blood cell was much larger than the 3d transistors. If Intel is able to develop transistors which are on the same scale as small theoretic nanotechnology devices, why aren't we getting access to a lot of nanotechnology applications yet?

For example these nanotechnology applications:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nanotechnology_applicat...
Canadian researchers demo flexible phone made from e-paper
If this were possible wouldn't cameras already be taking advantage of this to eliminate the noise in the first place?
Wow. Your code is a joy to read. Really clean and well-laid-out.
At 1:31 it shows a far away shot of him, the hair and the chip. Before he's shrunk to his final size the chip is already about the size of a large building. Do you mean the transistor is about the size of a pool table?
I don't think that Apple see the world that way. If I'm reading the Steve Jobs tealeaves correctly, from Apple's perspective anyone that is happy with an Atom-based laptop today is tomorrow's iPad user, and Macs are going to be reserved for those cases where you really need some power under the hood.
Last time I checked, red5 was trying to reverse engineer the protocol. Not sure how far they are.
Managing Content Overload with Pinboard and Instapaper
Try emacs or vim, and stick with it for a month, learn a key combination each day. It's painful, but it pays off.

--
An emacs user.
KDE software compilation 4.6.3 released
Cool idea. I think I'll try it. Although, honestly, the prizes might be kinda lame. :) How about 10 tickets.. or a cabana instead :) haha.
I too doubt that they have any thing new with regard to parallelization of imperative programs. If the only way to utilize all cores is either by writing functionally or by manual parallelization then they don't really have a significant advantage over FPGA coprocessors. I do agree with them however when they say that this approach is better than creating lots of general purpose cores.
"A few thousand Ph.D. theses have been sunk into parallelizing imperative programs."

This waste of talent continues to piss me off to no end. Why would people willingly spend time on this problem?
What Does Having the #6 App in a Mac App Store Category Get You? $15.42
How often do you track changes? What software are you using to get the changes? Custom built?
Wow, I now know what what the hell a 'water bear' is. Cool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
Want to work for a startup in Silicon Valley?
In 3 hours after submission he didn't answer a single question. But he was confirmed by a mod/admin.
IOS revenue for EA Mobile is up 100% year over year
What went wrong at Atari? (1983)
It's little things like not having all my stuff taken from me by armed thugs and not getting murdered that are important to me.

In my country (the U.S.) neither the federal nor state governments have any obligation to protect me from criminals (1). In fact, if the statistics are accurate, my country has a higher murder rate (5 per 100K) than the "libertarian paradise" of Somalia (3.2 per 100K) (2) who have no central government (3).

1) See DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services

2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...

3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia
We collect videos of talks on Lanyrd, through crowdsourcing.

You can search through our full video collection here (1764 collected so far): http://lanyrd.com/video/

You can also browse by topic - for example, here are our videos about JavaScript:

http://lanyrd.com/topics/javascript/video/

And here's our collection of Ignite videos:

http://lanyrd.com/topics/ignite/video/

You can even view videos by particular speakers - for example, here's our page for John Resig:

http://lanyrd.com/people/jeresig/video/

Let us know what you think. We're plan to revamp our video listing pages pretty soon.
What no one has mentioned is that 4000 stacks is a lot of memory.
Show HN: Graphical programming environment for arduino
i was on the site and "bounced" into the backend developer. i was talking to him for a little. but whats even funnier is that "thenabster", the one who posted this link, posted this link 3 times in the past 3 days, the previous got no up votes. i wonder why.....reminded me of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2517822
555 is Dead - Clearing Phone Numbers for Movies (hint: Google Voice)
Ha ha ha, oh wow. So much for "WikiLeaks competitor".
They do. My Canon PowerShot G3 did this and I've had that since 2004. The way it works is this: the camera takes two photos of equal shutter speed length, except the second is done with the aperture completely closed. This gives you a noise profile on what should be a completely black screen equal to the noise generated during the real photo. The camera then automatically removes the noise from the first photo using the second. Of course, this means you have to wait for the camera to take and process the second shot, which could be up to several seconds long. This is naturally only done on low-light shots though, meaning things like dead pixels are still present on most photos.
Why are you calculating based on number of tanks of fuel used when you can instead calculate the exact number of gallons? Obviously you have some fuel left when you get home; that doesn't count as part of the cost of travel because you'll then use it in your normal course of affairs.

You've ignored the costs (both monetary and opportunity) of renting a vehicle or using public transit while in the destination city as opposed to having your own vehicle there. You've also ignored the potential harm of being confined to a cabin with scores of people who might be carrying airborne pathogens. You haven't considered the emotional cost of being subjected to an invasive search at the airport, or the stress of getting to your gate on-time.

To be clear, I am not anti-flying. I just think it's a sad state of affairs when it's more economically rational for a single individual to drive 450 miles each way than it is to fly. Get a more efficient car, add another person or two, require some bags, or plan an extended stay, and anywhere within a 12-to-24-hour driving radius becomes an economically irrational flight.
Thanks, that's really nice to hear! :-)

Some parts need improving, mainly because of how long I've been working on it - there were many gaps in my knowledge when I started. I don't think I've learnt so much from any project!
Mozilla just went up in my book.
If I buy a shitty game for the Xbox, do I sweat getting all the achievements I can? No. I return the game or toss it on a shelf and play a different one.

JIRA is that super shitty game that your girlfriend bought you, and you are going to get in trouble if you don't log a minimum number of hours of playtime. All the achievements in the world won't make it suck less.
intel provided the ability for someone else to create it. intel does chips, people take those chips, and make great things. intel doesnt do that. its up to us now, lol
That list should probably be linked to from the front page, instead of hidden 4 pages deep.
When app makers behave badly
What does Sony need to rebuild confidence after #sonyhack?
In the world of netflix and Youtube, We dont see those unused slots. Almost every other slot has user data (except DOCSIS maintenance messages). Only other option is SCDMA which is not widely supported on the CMTS platforms (cable routers) and has many other issues attached to it. So, right now A-TDMA is our best bet.
It would certainly be interesting to try - do you know if kqueue is available on iOS? If not, I guess the only thing to do would be writing a select() or poll() fallback for the EventPump class. I might have a look at it sometime.

Having said that, I'm not sure how much use the server stuff would be on iOS, and I haven't yet written the Unix implementation of the Client class (not that that will be very much work).
Richard Wiseman, interviewed for the submitted article, is a psychologist who studies human cognitive biases. His concern regarding Bem's purported studies on precognition is that if journals reject studies showing no effect, while accepting flawed studies appearing to show precognition, this results in a file drawer problem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_bias#The_file_drawe...

in which publication bias among the published studies will then skew any subsequent attempt at meta-analysis of the published studies. The file drawer effect is of particular concern in meta-analysis of purported extrasensory perception.

http://www.skepdic.com/filedrawer.html

By the way, Wiseman is perhaps best known online as the author of the Colour-changing Card Trick website, featuring videos of an experiment that demonstrates selective attention in human perception.

http://www.quirkology.com/USA/Video_ColourChangingTrick.shtm...

If you haven't seen the video before, it is well worth watching.

I hope the more responsible journals of psychology will step up their efforts to publish commentaries on the study design

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

of ESP studies and publish in general more studies showing failures of replication of earlier study findings.
ID Theft, Porn, and Profit: A 2AM Dumpster Dive.
Pro-tip: If you mail the documents to them you don't have to click an accept checkbox.
GEL Conference: http://www.gelconference.com/videos/

Talks by Sal Khan, the Gregory Brothers (they show off their a cappella chops) and others.
The current first answer is the best "Mayans won't know what day it is :)"

ha ha

More seriously I can't believe anyone thinks this has some currency and its particularly depressing to see it on HN
Ever wonder why management sometimes says 'No' when you're trying to protect their business? This is why.

It's all about money, and always will be.

This is not a surprise to anyone who considers the budget when recommending hardware and software purchases.
Glary Utilities V2.33.0.1158
Our idea is to make it the best tool to teach Arduino to kids and beginners. Any feedback will be appreciated.
I really wish I could find this interview, it was pretty good.

I'm positive it was on NPR, but I can't find it. I wasn't the recent This American Life coke recipe piece, it was more of a historical story of coke.

They talked about their strategy of making coke available to all GIs overseas during war time, etc.
CityPockets Keeps Track of All Your Online Coupons in One Place
Interesting how java is the only language included in the title, but the slides have the opinion that C#, Ruby and Python all suck as well.

Seems like a cheap way to get upvotes.
Apache license, v2, per the source at github: https://github.com/dethe/waterbear
10 Telerik JustCode Videos
You're doing their work for them!
Why on earth is the comment by Pooter dead?
Fervor Roils Markets as Companies Beat a Path to Go Public
I don't know what interview you're talking about but this is one of the best books I've ever read and it (obviously) covers the same territory: http://www.amazon.com/God-Country-Coca-Cola-Definitive-Ameri...
C++ Versus Objective-C
Kate Middleton: Como una mujer común, la duquesa de Cambridge va al supermercado
It is the same kind of "unethical" as deliberately buying and throwing away food; it's just a large difference of degree.

Incidentally, note that the same airline pricing quirk you'd be exploiting to save ~$100 is also costing other people on the plane; it's not quite a zero sum game, but has some of the same dynamics, as prices rise with occupancy on planes.
We're aiming for 5 minute updates on items, and we are using the Amazon API.
sweeeet!
How to think big when you're a small fish
To be fair, the author mentions that his is a Java school and (presumably, therefore) gives most attention to Java.
Been using camelcamelcamel.com for this. They have great FF and Chrome plugins that can display graphs of the price over time of products on amazon pages. Also can email alert you when price drops.
What if I want to record. Help please?
Scanning frequently for changes. We are aiming for 5 minute updates, but it depends on how many items are being tracked and if we saturate our Amazon API access.
The new marketplace for wordpress themes, website templates, vector icons.
Talk With Other Programmers
Might want to check MIT's OpenBlocks ( http://education.mit.edu/openblocks ), which is related to Scratch (listed as inspiration by Waterbear) and includes code from StarLogo (slcodeblocks) (also listed as inspiration) and is being refactored "to make the code more amenable to inclusion to other projects". One of the recent uses of OpenBlocks was Google's AppInventor.

Kudos to the Waterbear author! Loved to see it done with JS, HTML5 and CSS3. One less thing in my list of "things that I want to see in the world but may have to build it myself". Watching the repo already! :)
Sony Ericsson Announces Xperia Mini and Xperia Mini Pro
Sony Ericsson announced the new Xperia Mini and Xperia Mini Pro Android smartphone with QWERTY keyboard and Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
Ah, neat, Scratch in the browser.

About time. ;)

I'm very drunk and will edit this later. Props!
He essentially said, "don't check email yourself". Any friend/colleague/temp can do that and sort/categorize it for you. Only the developer can do fixes. More effective that way.
I'm pretty near certain that is the case. But this is probably more about lawyering than anything else: "Your Honor, to our knowledge the submitter of the document owns the copyright and any infringement is born entirely by them."
I installed it, but it isn't coming up after the restart. I'm using Firefox 4.
For those interested, this is a place where PyPy shines over the CPython implementation. With 2.7 the benchmark reports a 40x or 50x performance hit from the linear ("obviously fast but isn't") vs. the binary search, which does more object creation in order to push the comparison tests to C.

But with PyPy 1.5 I consistently find that the linear search is at least as fast as the binary search.

(The benchmark uses a random single character change in a large string, hence the variability of the answers.)
Sexting, your lack of privacy and the iPad: a perfect storm?
Ah cool, I didn't know about gazaro before.
How do you handle users coming through corporate proxies that hide their internal addresses?
Post from last year worth thinking about again in light of 7th circuit court decision that allowed firing of a guy for violating his employer's acceptable use policy even though he was doing it on his own time.
Ask HN: Is the charting capability down at Google spreadsheets?
I can't see or create charts in Google spreadsheets this morning. Anyone having similar problems?
Thank you for the submission. I found the writeup short, clear and very useful. Kudos on being a fast developer too.
Rumor: Apple plans to move laptops from Intel to ARM processors