skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intel is still in the mobile game? Sorry this is kind of news to me, I haven't been keeping up.

I wonder if they would use Android or MeeGo...
Germany are definitely on the right track. I just believe this policy has nothing to do with it, unless you can argue that nuclear is worse than coal, or that importing electricity from nuclear-powered countries achieves something that domestic production does not.
This seems pretty nice, but I am wondering why they charge $249 to translate an iPhone app description (at most 300 words) when the level normally cost 12c/word (it would cost $33 to have it translated at the normal price).
Its a cool place where, for a moment, ambition becomes reality. Then I actually have to build it!
Thanks for explanations; now it makes sense to me.

Another question: is there built-in support, or an idiom or standard practice for unwinding multiple levels of stack? Is it possible to have handler code is not directly in the function that called, but somewhere lower on the call stack -- and have it reached automatically like an exception does?

Btw., it seems the bolder statement I post to HN, the wronger it turns out to be... oh, boy XD
A fairly large chunk of people buy a computer for little more than email and web browsers, and occasional document editing.

Thus why Linux netbooks were tolerated by that segment of users.
Low variable cost? What?

The current experimental Asse II site already cost us BILLIONS of Euros. Plus it is fucked up and needs to been evacuated for a few additional billions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schacht_Asse_II
I am through to page 20 now of the 67 page report #1, and the more I read the more lack of novelty there seems to be. An example:

"We attempt to provide that evidence for the existence of the Marmer Stages intwo ways:1) The Marmer Stages correlate with traditional indicators of progress. 2) Startups that don't move through the stages consistently, show less progress."

How does that prove the existence of something new if it correlates with traditional progress indicators (which themselves are validated by #2)? This sounds like repackaging more than discovery.

There might be something here. Will continue reading.
Bootstrapping: Accumulating Wealth Instead of Winning it Like a Lottery
The thing is, we relegate these kinds of ideas to the subconscious for a reason: it's incredibly condescending to let them out. It's good to be aware of them, but it's a bad idea to embrace them (whether rationalized or not).

Granted, sometimes you have to let them out. Sometimes you run into a situation where someone is doing something wrong and you have no choice but to "pull a rank". But aside from that, it's generally a bad idea to give these thoughts too much weight.
Arrays in JavaScript are merely objects with some extra bits tacked on to make them appear "array-like". Underneath they are still a collection of key/values like all other JS objects.
The one he linked to still requires Django (look at requirements.txt for the pip requirements).
Taking Time For Me? Ha.
Memorial Day: RWW's Coverage of Military Tech
Cleaning Up Japan's Radioactive Mess with Blue Goo
Oh, the fear of 'leftist' newspapers.

For the US, pretty much every newspaper in Germany is leftist.
8? I'm running Chrome 11!
Build Better User Interfaces with Patternry
On making things suck
PhotoFloat - Gallery using static Javascript files
Don't take this the wrong way, but when the scientists or the government set an ambitious goal like this, that are 4 decades away. It usually means that currently we have no clue how to go about solving it and hopefully our successors will figure it out.

As Bill Gates explains the current renewable technology is not viable. This is because of various reasons, such as low ratio of energy invested vs energy returned, instability (eg. what you do when the wind is not blowing?), requirements for a possible site, et cetera.. I fully agree that it should be the long term goal to switch over to renewable energy, but with current technology it is out of reach. Therefore we a need a stepping stone that the nuclear energy can provide us with.

It is too early to go all in.
For a second I was imagining Helvetica in 4D+
Pixar: Getting over embarrassment
Show HN: courteous.ly shows people your current email load (Google mail only)
Thank you! Will do it fo sure!
Just for fun: Sample user names in Windows 7
From the guidelines:

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

and:

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also commnt that you did."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Oh, yeah?

Funky. The German regulation authorities then seem to have given permission to a project that nobody plans, nobody has heard of, does not exist? Please inform them of your findings.

Hamburg Abendblatt, November 2010:

>NETZAGENTUR GENEHMIGT STROMLEITUNG

>Deutschland und Norwegen vernetzen sich

>Das 600 Kilometer lange Unterseekabel soll Netztschwankungen der beiden Länder ausgeichen. Nur die EU-Kommisssion könnte widersprechen.

> Das 600 Kilometer lange Unterseekabel soll Netzschwankungen aus der norwegischen Wasser- und deutschen Windkraft ausgleichen.

>BONN/HANNOVER. Deutschland und Norwegen vernetzen sich: Die Bundesnetzagentur hat den Weg für eine direkte Stromverbindung zwischen Deutschland und Norwegen durch die Nordsee frei gemacht. Das Konsortium NorGer erhielt am Donnerstag eine Ausnahmegenehmigung der Bonner Behörde. Sie befreit das Projekt damit von bestimmten Vorschriften zur Regulierung des Energiemarkts. Agenturchef Matthias Kurth nannte die Entscheidung ein „positives Signal für die Integration erneuerbarer Energien“.

>Eine Funktion des 600 Kilometer langen Unterseekabels wird es sein, Netzschwankungen aus der norwegischen Wasser- und deutschen Windkraft auszugleichen. Niedersachsens Umweltminister Hans-Heinrich Sander (FDP) lobte den Beschluss: „Ich bin davon überzeugt, dass die Verbindungsleitung eine sinnvolle Ergänzung zum landseitigen Netzausbau darstellt.“ Das Kabel soll ab 2015 von Flekkefjord an der norwegischen Südküste über den Meeresgrund bis an die ostfriesische Küste führen. Für den deutschen Abschnitt wurde bereits im Mai ein Raumordnungsverfahren gestartet. Der innereuropäische Stromhandel wird nach Einschätzung Kurths von der deutsch-norwegischen Direktverbindung profitieren. Die Gleichstrom-Leitung leiste „einen wichtigen Beitrag für die Marktintegration“. Eine Voraussetzung für die Befreiung von den üblichen Bestimmungen zum Netzanschluss und -zugang sei gewesen, dass sich das Projekt insgesamt positiv auf den Stromwettbewerb auswirkt. Das Bundeskartellamt sprach sich ebenfalls für eine Genehmigung aus. Zwar könne die EU-Kommission als oberste europäische Wettbewerbsbehörde bis Ende Februar noch Einwände erheben, sagte Kurth. „Ich gehe aber davon aus, dass dieses grenzüberschreitende Projekt auch von ihr unterstützt wird.“ Norwegen ist kein EU- Mitglied, gehört jedoch zur Europäischen Freihandelszone EFTA. Das Konsortium NorGer umfasst die norwegischen Unternehmen Agder Energi AS, Lyse Produksjon AS und Statnett SF sowie die Schweizer Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft Laufenburg AG.
The ECMA standard supports your story. The `null' is the only instance of type `Null'. A Null instance does not have any properties; in particular, doesn't have the `constructor' property all actual object do.

What alert() does is an implicit conversion to string, and that is surprisingly defined to say "object" in ECMA standard. Could be matter of backward compatibility...
Debugging Mars Pathfinder (the real story)
So this is the winning task description incentive:

Bayesian Truth Serum or BTS (ﬁnancial) “For the following ﬁve questions, we will also ask you to predict the responses of other workers who complete this task. There
is no incentive to misreport what you truly believe to be
your answers as well as others’ answers. You will have
a higher probability of winning a lottery (bonus payment)
if you submit answers that are more surprisingly common
than collectively predicted.”
8

I would be interested on how to interpret this :)
The article is actually from USA Today in 2006, and you can access it by it's original link: http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2006-04-1...
In the early 2000 they planned to abandon nuclear power by 2016 [1]

[1] http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump...
the last form in question is a valid google form created by google for the purpose it stated. i have used that form. you have to be pretty naive to enter your password data into a google form. if you have ever used google forms, you will know that the data is stored in a spreadsheet.

any person could exploit forms created in salesforce or any other form creation applications on the web with similar results.
Name Me a Single War That Was Worth It?
"The only way to successfully switch to renewable energy is by making renewable energy cheaper than coal or nuclear."

I wouldn't be sure about that. Imho another way is to let the government offer incentives or just plain ban certain types of energy production. I live in Switzerland and our gov just did the same thing - Deciding not to let anyone build another nuclear plant in CH again. So we have Sweden, Germany, Switzerland and a lot of other countries reacting to Fukujima. But I think it will take quite some time until people realize nuclear power is potentially highly dangerous and that it might be a good idea to spend the extra money to produce renewable energy.
Well, pastebins are free, you can post anything there. If you don't want to see stuff like that, then DON'T CHECK OUT THE PUBLIC PASTES.

pastebin.com sucks. Use LodgeIt[] or Gist[].

[LodgeIt]: http://paste.pocoo.org/

[Gist]: http://gist.github.com/
You can't beat this with a manual gearbox:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuously_variable_transmiss...

They're an option on the more expensive Audis and a few other manufacturers have them.
But the "oddity" is that unlike many languages there are only string keys. Many languages implement the array type as a map but still distinguish between a[17] and a["17"].
Java and C# have inner exceptions built into the base classes and it's not at all hard to implement inner exceptions in other languages like PHP.

And you're right, this is a good compromise.

When it comes to exceptions (and many other things) you realize some boundaries are more important than others. If you're building, say, a database access library that has a well-defined API, you are better off defining a good set of meaningful exceptions.

Inside a particular module, however, creating new exception classes tends to create more problems than it is worth. I can't tell you how many times I've seen basically the same exception defined three or four times by different programmers in different parts of the same system.

Even when you look at the "better" examples of exception hierarchies the results are frequently depressingly bad. For instance, many database access APIs just give a SQLException or the equivalent thereof. Some of them will add a huge range of Exceptions that are pretty superfluous such as InvalidTableNameException, InvalidColumnNameException, YouViolatedTheTypingRulesOfDatabaseXException (all of which should be DontProgramaticallyGenerateSQLException) but they never seem to have a DuplicateKeyException which is the one case where you actually might want to do something different from all of the others.
Yes!

1. Steve Jobs studied calligraphy. At the Stanford commencement address he said:

"I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts."

(Reference http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html )

2. Paul Graham studied painting at RISD

(He writes about art here: http://www.paulgraham.com/goodart.html )

3. And, closer to home for me: my co-founder's first degree was in economics, but he still felt something missing, so he got a second degree which started in painting but ended up in design. He ended up with a completely unique ability to think in a both left- and right-brained way simultaneously.

So, if you feel that both programming and painting reside within you, then you are rare, and my evidence strongly suggests that you find some way to nurture these parts of yourself.
Exactly. Almost everything got better at least by factor of 2, while batteries haven't seen any major improvements.
I wonder about the comparison of a tablet to a phone sized device. Kal-el being a tablet, which is rather a lot larger than a phone, the heat dispersal allows for a lot more area, and also you can pack in fans and such..

So while both my laptop and my phone heat up, the laptop heats up a lot less than the phone, while burning far more power...and a lot of that just has to do with having more surface to diffuse off of. Will a tablet half the size of my laptop and four times the size of my phone have the phone's heat dispersal problem?
It's a feature in colder climates.
Those are fixed costs. The interesting question is what the marginal cost of adding another kg of nuclear waste is.
I don't like referring to this as "automatic semicolon insertion". The behavior you're referring to here is really about line termination/continuation.

var a =
42

is only parseable one way because assignment requires an argument.

Javascript just happens to make assumptions with certain kinds of ambiguities, but then, all programming languages do.
Formally Verifying Chess Endgames in HOL4 - solve chess for small values of n
According to a salesmen at a Nokia booth after being asked the question: How about battery life?

Battery life should increase. Because we have 4 cores, we can run them on lower voltages. So overall, our plans are, and we expect to have better battery life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhDmQCOyXrU

The power consumption and battery life should be akin to the Tegra 2.
Essay Competitions – Test Your Writing Skills
An essay competition is an ideal tool to test students’ writing skills. It is also a good way to receive some much needed financial aid. As there are different types of essay competitions, students need to be sure they take part in one which is most suitable to their skills.
sounds good to me too.
it does not have any meaning or soundalikes in german.
so good luck :)
Ah. I read 0.10 and thought 0.1. It's a logical mistake to make since 0.1 is a number and is the same as 0.10, I know a lot of other people count releases the same way, but skipping 0.10 might be a bit helpful, or keeping to a strict 0-9 policy. I saw Linus got tired of the 2.6.39 counting and just skipped ahead to 3.0.
You are aware that several of the nuclear power plants will be brought online again?

You are also aware that the phase out time is TEN years?

In the last ten years we have added ten percent renewable energy as a new source and jump started a new industry with several hundred thousand jobs.

I'm pretty sure that in ten years we can build new capacity to replace the remaining nuclear reactors.

Actually there are several reports from German Universities and research institutions which all agree that this is possible.

What you cite from Yahoo is old news. The Nuclear Industry was happily publishing this. But the case is that

a) some of the nuclear power plants will be brought back, so there is no power shortage. The phase out will be done in about ten years.

b) Germany always imports nuclear power, since there is a free energy market. Germany also exports all kinds of electricity (nuclear, coal, wind, ...).

c) the providers of Nuclear power fear their loss of market power. They are large monopolists which try to prevent competition. There are many smaller providers waiting with their investments, keen to replace them where and when possible.
Nuclear plants are a serious political issue here in Germany. Sound voices are not the ones to ride on those political waves.

Last poll on this issue: 22% of Germans are in huge fear of foreign nuclear plants, 29% are in great fear of it, 29% fear it, 20% don't care.

http://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/tsunami-in-japan/umfrage-m...
>« Even if nobody would die under normal conditions (nuclear and coal »

Except the point of what I was saying and of the link I gave is precisely that under "normal conditions", people die due to coal, whereas it is not the case with nuclear plant.

The reason is that all a nuclear plant releases in the air is water.

> « the consequenences of a (more or less probable) big catastrophe (height of fall) are the main counter argument against nuclear power. »

You must take into account the odds of a probable disaster, such as an earthquake in Japan, but not the consequences of any disaster.
It's just unreasonable to assume an improbable disaster will happen. You end up renouncing any technology by thinking that way.

Obviously, Nuclear power plant must be built with security as the main concern. Obviously, a nuclear reactor can be very dangerous.
But refusing to use nuclear plants, which are much more efficient than classic ones and a good long-term investment, is idiotic.

We're far more likely to die in a car accident than because of radio-activity, or any other disaster that's on television.
Yet, noone is suggesting that a country should be "car free".

Until a better, safer replacement is found, we'll use cars, and nuclear plants.
It would've been funny if the authors had agreed with you about lectures being unnecessary and had never taught the course they wrote the book for!
MooWheel: Visualize connections using JavaScript
you might need to add
#include <opencv2/legacy/legacy.hpp>
#include <opencv2/legacy/compat.hpp>
to get those
I haven't gotten around to porting it to opencv2.2 so the patch is very welcome!
Small guys find most breakthroughs (Letter to FT)
Ask HN: why are some user names green?
do you know what it means if a user's name is in green?
thanks!
UI Design Considerations for Web Apps
One thing that irks me about jerks creating stuff on Google is it is a slow and tedious process getting anything done about it.

I recently had some clown using AppEngine and proxying part of my site along with thousands of pages from other websites, shoving ads on it and scabbing traffic from Google search.

Google's DMCA team took their sweet time to tell me it was just a proxy so I could get bent, and the AppEngine guys were just as helpful.

Reporting AdSense violations and Blogger spam as well is just a black hole of nothingness. If we didn't have a bunch of Google guys here unofficially search results would probably be a lot poorer than they are now.
Not a bit at all. Let's say I bought a new Z06 - 505hp, etc - it'd likely be no more exciting on the street than the 01. You simply cannot drive these cars fast on the street, if you lose it you're going to kill someone. I do drive it rapidly, but I can't remember the last time I had the car giving the "feels like I'm on ice feeling" you get when you're hauling ass.

The next "fast car" I buy will be a new grand sport corvette, and it will be promptly turned into a race car (scca t1).
it's not a bold claim at all.

Look around at the planet. Humans are everywhere it is possible to be. Something drove us to do that. And given it is quite unlikely that there was a meeting 100,000 years a go in Africa where we as a species decided - "let's give overrunning the whole planet a go" I think that "instinct" for want of a better word is what drives that. Living in a sustainable way does not come naturally to humans - I'm betting you are well educated and have reasoned long and hard about it.

Yes there are people like you who chose to be sustainable. But unless you get everyone to do it then we are screwed. Because it's an all or nothing plan. And you may love making your own food but by the same token I am really glad someone else is doing it for me. I find it boring and a waste of my time - I want to just be able to get food when i need it without thinking about it. My interests lie elsewhere.

Likewise the global trend is too the city. Every bit of research points to massive urbanisation http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/aug/18/percenta...

We has a species do have the ability to overcome our animal urges but if you don't solve the power problems you are doing to need everyone to do it and the failure mode of that is massive suffering. There are various sustainable living and back to nature and even so called luddite movements and have been for quite a while but I still don't see them being a significant force.

There is nothing wrong with what you are doing at all but do you think you can convince everyone you know outside of your community to join in?
Site for community translations of the Japanese ruby-dev ML
Eagle view Road sprite sheet for Iphone,Ipad,Android games
wow this article is full of errors
Seth hit the nail on the head with this one. I didn't buy sandwiches, I cooked chicken from the mexican meat market.
I have found that they key is networking with and creating some key alliances. The most important people to create relationships with is your lawyer and accountant. Everyone uses these two professions and if you able to cultivate the right relationship with them they will push a lot of business your way. Also when networking target those who you think will need a service like yours, for example web designers, marketing agencies, etc.
They're new. http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com#s...
If the output of waste from a nuclear reactor is still that 'hot', they're doing it wrong. That waste then needs reprocessed for draining more energy out of it, furthering the transmutation to good 'ol lead. It'd be akin to burning gasoline with a 100% conversion output of CO. Guess what: that's incomplete combustion and you just lost a lot of energy. But that's what these reactors do all the time.

If you can't get lead out of it, at least get something that only has a half-life of a few billion years. Then its about as dangerous as lead.
Speaking of snobby and obnoxious airs..
That read like it was written by a Haskell programmer pretending to be an Enterprise-y Java coder™. Sort of condescending, but maybe I like it?
oh, thanks a lot!
Why not conditions and restarts as Lisp does it? Lisp bakes it into the language, but it's not impossible to implement in Java (or Blub X of choice..) according to Peter Siebel (see his google talk).

The one thing that makes working with exceptions is that when one is encountered the stack is unwound up to the first matching handler (and possibly just passed off to the next one, etc). You can lose a lot of state this way and it makes restarting computations difficult (or even deciding what to do in some cases).

Using exceptions just requires careful planning and I think conditions and restarts are a much more elegant way of solving the problem.