skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess Americans look at distances in a different way than us Europeans, but Moscow isn't `just shy of the Arctic Circle'.

There was also a major heat wave in Moscow last summer.
See e.g. "Heat probably killed thousands in Moscow" (http://in.reuters.com/article/2010/08/17/us-russia-heat-deat...).
ok added that too. the units is metres squared
Incredible photos from Volcano in Chile
It's in fact entertaining enough to appeal to non-StarCraft 2 players.
I spent two years living in a foreign country learning a new language (my first foreign language) immediately before I started learning to program and it's always struck me how similar the two experiences are.

All good communication comes first from good thinking. Whether or not we can communicate in a certain medium (speaking a language, writing, painting, music, programming) depends entirely on how fluently we can translate our thoughts into that medium.

So good thinking + good understanding of programming concepts = good code.
I think the point that OP is trying to make is about skill acquisition. He argues you can't learn to program well merely by learning programming concepts. Rather, you must immerse yourself in reading and writing real programs.
I would be curious to know if you have any ideas about why this convention doesn't hold in Europe? Is it less important to signal quality by working with a top bank? Are regulations different? As a finance outsider, it seems that European banks would be playing a very similar role to their American counterparts and financing a comparable range of companies. The difference in the spread is quite striking.
general hysteria-inducing article. How about some population control?
Monitoring World IPv6 Day
When my son was six we were walking around downtown and saw a Smart car and his first impression was that he could pick up the car and turn it over. He thought it was a "dumb."

The industrial food system can definitely be criticized in many ways: it produces so many calories that obesity is becoming a global problem, and fertilizer runoff has created a huge dead spot at the mouth of the Mississippi.

You certainly can't say it's stupid, though. People like Pimental will cherry pick numbers to make it look bad, but Vaclav Smil's energy analysis convincingly demonstrates the obvious: the industrial food system makes a huge amount of food at very low cost... In much of human history people have lived on the edge of famine and things are much better today than they've ever been.
Godly Powers: A Mystical US Patent Application
Sorry, but this is ridiculous. It's okay to appreciate helpful humanity, but to deify it is absurd.
That is what Amazon did last year, on a rolling basis as leases expired.
Currently working on my first startup (40-50 hours per week, along with a 9-5); One of the biggest takeaways Ive learned in the last 12 weeks is the importance of building an idea iteration framework. I made a conscience decision to develop an outline while building this product (from coding, to team development, communications, marketing etc) so that I can plug essentially any future idea into this framework quickly, and easily so I can have a "product" coded and ready for releae in about a month.

I dont have my notes with me but essentially, any current code can be modified to fit any new idea (login/billing/graphics/hosting/backups etc) with a few database table changes, any new code that needs to be written for a future idea will only pertain to the idea itself.

Any future ideas we may have, the only part I need to code up is the business logic to implement the idea, which depending on the complexity can be implemented in 3-6 weeks with little hassle. I would suggest getting a framework detailed out, keep good notes, and just plugin your ideas one by one.
If you use comcast they have enabled IPv6 support (I believe they give you an ip of some sort)
The only problem I see with this is when Bob, David, Mike and Steve have their own ideas about writing a story and take your love story then turn it into a science fiction novel about aliens, cowboys, race cars and heavy metal.
Steve acts like this is some sort of a personal ipiphany, this type of password has been recommended for some time, I have been using it for years....http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc264456.aspx
Dear Schema.org, what about RDFa?
MockupTiger ready
Going, Going, Gone: Who Killed the Internet Auction?
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Titling people editors, the ones that are senior in an organization and might be titled as architects or senior engineers, now, would be incredible. With their current titles they are involved much more at the beginning of the process than at the end, when 'editor' implies the opposite.

It would be nice to have the senior folk guide the developer as opposed to handing off a blueprint and getting out of the way. (Not that its like that everywhere, just some places I've been)
part of why you use caching servers or proxies is to avoid hitting the filesystem, since it's very costly compared to memory (or even network to an extent). the ramdisk in this case is performing the function of the caching server but at much increased speed and much reduced overhead.

afaik the only way you could get over a couple thousand RPS while reading from the filesystem is due to inherent caching of the VFS and disk buffers by the operating system.

and in an asynchronous web server, connections should not be held up by slow clients. if they use a model where one thread or process handles each client connection you could definitely get starvation of resources or connections, but asynchronous models should just process stuff as it comes in and not "wait" on a slow client.
FaceCash Wallet Now Supports Both NFC and Barcode
Emergency manuals for airplanes read like computer programs but are executed by humans.
Unimidi: Platform independent realtime MIDI IO in Ruby
The only tickybox that matters is the last one: if that is ticked, there's no hope for it but to put up Dilbert around your work space and sing sad songs while you work.
not yet, only in a few cities for a few customers that are in their test program.

http://comcast6.net/
Sorry to reply to myself, but...

It occurs to me that the real response is, "what is the law?". Is the law simply what the government (viz, the courts and the police) say it is? Or is the law something deeper, deriving from societal norms, the social contract, and a shared understanding of moral codes?
And a colossal cock up with red faces all round also doesn't equal a conspiracy, making it even less relevant.
I was always taught to capitalize names regardless of their branding. In other words, even though the logo is lowercase like Adidas, you don't spell it 'adidas' unless you're writing copy for the company and that's what it says to do in the branding guidelines. Similarly, you don't add an exclamation point to Yahoo when writing about the company.
""All I want is an apology for me and my kids and for them to get me a new door," Wright said."

Bzzt, wrong answer. Demand retribution. Make them pay for their idiocy so they'll think twice before doing it to someone else.

Locking someone (presumedly handcuffed) in a police car for 6 HOURS is not humane, no matter what's going on.

And let's not forget the lesson that the kids learned: The police are the enemy.
I've heard from several homesellers who were quite convinced either you couldn't negotiate down (or that you wouldn't want to), unless you were doing repeat business. There may be some more flexibility now because I think people are getting increasingly frustrated and looking to alternatives.

Oh, found an article from 2004, so things have been changing for a little longer than I thought, but I think it makes clear that 6% was not always a myth. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB109364276315603265.html
Please add tl;drs to these sorts of things. I don't want to have to seek randomly in the video to know what this is about.
Isn't this the same thing Bruce Eckel wrote a couple of years ago? http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=255898
I see someone whining about this in almost every post, of late, it seems. Usually it is in the form of a, "Oh another ____ thread, not another one of those."

Not every post will be on one of your pet subjects. Deal with it.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_nurse
One thing I picked up (luckily) early on was that when you are learning something the fastest way to actually learn it was try to help other people learn the same thing. For programming this meant helping out on assignments in the labs, reviewing code etc. Very quickly you find yourself seeing a wide variety of bad practices and can recognize common mistakes and good practices. As a bonus you have to actually know the answers to the questions, but it is ok because if you don't know at the start you will soon enough.

tl;dr Pretending to be an expert until you actually are seems to be one of the fastest way to learn something.
Convincing isn't every a matter of giving a silver-bullet presentation. It's always a long process. What you need is resilience, and an idea of what the ultimate goal is.

Nobody quit smoking because of a single ad. But governments still pay for anti-smoking ads, because they gradually shift people's opinions.
Photos, documents, contacts, email, music - just about everything that "normal" users have on their computers.
I've read the article. I am sure that when a new child is born he has, say, a 5% chance to have an ability to be a programmer. After the lucky one grown up he will get all required information and experience just because he has the ability and finally, say in 10 years, will be a good programmer. Other 95% may do everything they want, they can learn how to program, read a lot of books, do all their homework and hobby project, but they will grow up only to the certain level.

I want to believe in what I've just wrote cause that guarantee that I will not have a lot of competitors and I'll always have a job when I want
Indeed, I think the author needs to rephrase 'Java' as 'Java ME' for a lot of that.
We need to start using multiple threads in web apps
I've seen applications with fairly large scope that have clean code.

For the most part the Django codebase has clean code, and its rapidly understandable. Where that's not true is the original SQL db, and the Forms library. Elsewhere its a dream to hack with.

I'd also praise the codebase of SQLite, and Lighttpd---these two are very clean.
Ask HN:  Should CS depts. reject creative applicants?
Maybe CS depts should tell such applicants to apply instead to entrepreneurship or game design schools where they can better exercise their creativity?
The Dark Matter Data Bonanza
Some objections are questionable.
The writer regret ObjectiveC for the lack of a GC. Then blames Java for its size.
Then he exalts GO for the GC.
You can find disavantages in every programming language, but are the advantages which drive the choice.

You can also squeeze java a lot, running in less then 16MB.
So have I miss the point, or the writer is a GO-addicted?
I bought an Elantra in 2001 for less than what a Smart car costs now, and I'll bet that I've spent less on maintenance over the 160,000 miles I've put on that car than I'd end up spending on a Smart.

My wife and I were curious about the Smart until we drove one - it seems to pause for about a second while the transmission changes gears. It was such an absurd lurch that I felt a little bit worried about being on the road, even within my own neighborhood. Given that, and the unimpressive mileage, the prime advantage to driving a Smart car is that you have many more parking options, which can be really nice when you're in a city.

Having said all that, I get what this guy's saying in a way. We recently bought a Dodge Magnum (For a roadtrip across the US next year). All my life I've driven compact cars. The Elantra always seemed like plenty of car to me. I could sit four comfortably (five less so), I can fit a drum kit, a guitar amp and cab, and still have someone in the passenger seat, and it was still larger on the inside than a Civic or a Jetta.

After driving the Magnum for a month or two, I had to switch it up and drive the Elantra, and I was struck by how claustrophobic the car felt. It never seemed like a compact car to me, but after driving around in a car whose title is Latin for "big", the Elantra definitely felt compact now. My idea of what 'normal' was very definitely shifted. (It's still a great car, ten years on.)
We also value polite discourse. Let's keep dissent civil, please. We have guidelines. Multiple posts about a subject within the guidelines is a different issue than a post outside of the guidelines.

In this case, I claim that the subject is outside of the guidelines:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Isn't it great that it's IPv6 day already and most consumer ISPs haven't even tried to offer IPv6 support.
I never knew that police could get involved in student loan matters.

If the woman had been there, I wonder what her fate would have been?
Jurassic Park alternative: dinosaur via chicken atavism
At present wispy ignores all 3 letter words, apart from a small list considered "non boring", it also ignores plenty of longer words that are considered generally meaningless, The hashtag idea is good, ill look into that, consider it on my todo list :)

Click detection is something I have been thinking about, its not as hard as you think as the general coordinates of each word are stored when building the cloud in the first place.
This is one of the toughest things I've learned in the last year or so while interning (in IT) for a fairly large insurance company. It's especially hard to affect UX when developers are typically given requirments from someone who has a specific (bad) design in mind.

Anecdote:
Just the other day we had a request come through to have a flash video (with music) automatically play on the splash page for one of our bigger applications. We ended up taking it down the very next morning after the original requestor was getting bombarded with emails and phone calls about it. I hoped they might have learned from it, but their initial response was to just move the video to another page and continue to let it play automatically. We didn't let them make the same mistake twice, though.
Python does foo if bar else baz, which is a little more verbose but still okay. JS and Perl, however, rock with their boolean operators AND and OR not just evaluating to true and false, but to the actual value that was considered true.

Python does that as well:

0 or False or 'Python rocks' or [] == 'Python rocks'
Apple Wants A Spaceship In Cupertino
Ok, so I was reading about that in the FAQs, that website owners are supposed to turn off IPv6 after today in order to measure the "impact". Not sure what they mean by that.
> To move your data you will need to sync to a mac and then manually move your data.

Which is exactly what a lot of users will be unable to do. They'll rather avoid the hassle by buying a new Apple device yet again.

I'm not pointing my finger at Apple per se. If they provide a reasonably user-friendly way of moving your data then it's hard to blame them. But the fact is that most people will want to avoid the hassle, which means the iCloud becomes a lock-in mechanism.
I think the conventional "educators" are feeling threatened because concise education in tolerable chunks is looking more attractive than toiling in lectures and massive tomes for hours over minor details. The Internet age has destroyed verbose teaching finally.

Facts are important. Details are for the interested.
The reason why Jared Spool and the other UX peeps can't convince people to invest in UX is because clients don't invest in abstractions. And UX is an abstract term.

It's a descriptor not a skill.

Clients invest in IA, Wireframes, visual design, animation, illustration, photography, front-end development, back-end development, php, java, RoR, Flash, Servers, copywriting, SEO, project management (and the supporting process, whatever you might call that)

All those things make up the UX field and those are what clients buy. If you know how to do any of them then you are in the business of UX.

Only UX people invest in UX.
Tracking Talent Flows in Silicon Valley
They were down in suburban Philadelphia, too.
the extra load incurred is the same across each test (same client, same args, same tuning) thus the extra load is the same across all tests, so the results are still valid, just not the highest performance possible.
How to Get Windows' Best Features on Mac OS X
Why the downvotes? He was just RTFM-ing me, which is fine as he's got a point.

"A woman can only act as a wet-nurse if she is lactating. It was once believed that a wet-nurse must have recently undergone childbirth. This is not necessarily true, as regular breast suckling can elicit lactation via a neural reflex of prolactin production and secretion. Some adoptive mothers have been able to establish lactation using a breast pump so that they could feed an adopted infant."
Public transport plus a bike covers you pretty well there, if you live in a city.
So every Facebook user deserves to have their privacy invaded because they have an account on that site?

Facebook should have been clear about what the feature did, what it didn't do, and how it used their account. They also should have sent emails out warning users of the feature's activation.

Facebook does this all the time, but they'll get off the hook yet again just because they're Facebook. Sigh...
What is Netbook
Netbook is the sort of book which contains different amount of data in it and it also contains some categories in it as well which had been developed for the purpose of using it with laptops.
Do you know why FB isn't asking for permission? Because it can get away with this patronizing and self serving behavior.
But the reason why smoking ads work is because they are supported by data.

There are plenty of examples of campaigns that the government is running that will never work because there is no data to support the ads.
The Forthcoming Democratization of the VC Industry
Tutorial Ruby on Rails 3 and Faye
I'm perfectly aware of that. I use OS X as my primary OS. My point is that who ever is saying that iCloud is all about killing Windows is missing the point completely, first because the technology not that new or amazing, and second if it does anything to Windows user base it's doing it indirectly and not as some planned consequence.
Nice piece. The title is an instance of the more general case, "Why nobody can convince anybody to invest in anything."

Good executives are primarily concerned about the performance of their organization (whatever that means).

Bad executives are primarily concerned about protecting their jobs (whatever that means).

Neither one gives a shit about what you're selling.

Find a way to incorporate whatever you're selling into the solution to their problem. In order to do that, you need 2 things:

1. Get them to define their problem.

2. Have something of value to offer as part of the demonstratable solution.

Many of us hackers are pretty good at #2, but in the B2B world, still need to get better at #1.
For the life of me, I have no idea what this is about. It was a BBC headline here in the UK but there is absolutely no interest from anyone in the UK at all. No ISP focus, nothing.

I would rather like IPv6 but I don't know why.

(I do understand OSI model, IPv6 thoroughly, played with 6to4 and my Windows 7 boxes talk to each other with v6 etc but I just don't get IPv6 day).
The article doesn't mention why they shut it down.
Good points Daniel. Definitely valid - I actually re-considered the "Spam my inbox" tag a lot, and didn't come up with anything better so stuck with it for the time being. I'll definitely be re-thinking that.

Overall, seems to be a big hate towards contact forms -- I don't quite understand why as maybe I want a bit more information to qualify the contact (like info on where they found out about me, or budget)? Just giving an email address doesn't allow for this.
Ask HN: Is Bitcoin in a bubble?
The value of a bitcoin in real money:

30 days ago - $10.36.78 //
7 days ago - $17.1156 //
24 hours - $24.0685
>I guess Americans look at distances in a different way than us Europeans, but Moscow isn't `just shy of the Arctic Circle'.

You're quite correct (these scaled-out world maps can be misleading), though it is not really situated on fertile ground either. A city where the weather has historically been a major force preventing invasion does not bode well for agriculture!
He did point out a couple of times that they're the largest tax payer in Cupertino and while they wanted to stay, they've go a couple of miles up the road to the next city if they needed to. Also note the councillors asked when they'd be breaking ground so they could start taxing them on it. Apple wouldn't have to look hard to get big incentives to hop over the city boundary, and they'll keep reminding the council that they have options.

I imagine a large percentage of Cupertino residents are Apple employees or otherwise directly benefit from Apple being there. I'd think that the majority of the community would be completely happy for the biggest local company to spend a lot of money in their city, and to convert a big chunk of asphalt back in to green space.
ACH is still stuck in the 1970's (along with banking mentality).

You should definitely be able to whitelist and blacklist ACH transactions on your bank account but nope, anyone can just take the magic digits off the bottom off any one of your checks and help themselves.

But why the heck doesn't a bank have software that sets off alerts when more than $100k is drawn from an account, even $10k transactions have to be reported to the government, so why not also notify the customer and bank management?

Also, why in 2011 does it take 5 days officially to clear ACH?
Okay, so the first part of this is nitpicking the obviously impossible task of summarising the history of the world (perhaps it was Khan's intention to simply get students interested in the subjects so that they could study them further), and then the second part verges on parody by putting together some poorly connected thoughts and trying to pass them off as an argument.

If this is representative of the type of person against the Khan Academy, I'm for it even more.
On the other hand, cars raise a lot of tax revenue. There's a 400% tax on petrol in the UK. 80p out of every pound spent on petrol is pure revenue for the govt. And people hate the oil companies if the price of a gallon goes up by 1p...
... and "code should read like prose".

this is an old idea.
On the facts reported in the submitted article, I would have to suggest that Mr. Khan bring some expert historians (preferably of multiple cultural backgrounds and different nationalities) on board his project to produce the history videos. He could well devote his own time to producing more videos on more elementary levels of math, as elementary mathematics is still very poorly taught in much of the English-speaking world.

http://math.berkeley.edu/~wu/

ftp://math.stanford.edu/pub/papers/milgram/report-on-cmp.html

http://www.math.wisc.edu/~askey/ask-gian.pdf