skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could make a case for all three, but ultimately I think #3 is most likely, given that Lala did it.

The key: Lala’s song-identification-and-upload technologies (also discontinued as of today) allowed users to mirror their local music -- including an iTunes library -- onto cloud-based Lala accounts. -- http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/apple-kills-lala-musi...
| It has always been difficult for programmers to organize and work on projects across a variety of locations, computers, and devices – especially when you work in teams. When you store your code on one computer at one location, you become tied down to that one computer, finding yourself running back to that machine each time a you’re hit with coding inspiration. Worse, if you’re working in a team, each member of the team has to send their code to every other member, each step of the way, creating organizational distractions and unnecessary delays.

If only there was some kind of tool to solve this problem. It could keep track of revisions and allow a team to work together on a codebase more easily. We could call it 'Version Control'.

And maybe, what if there was a way to develop on another machine remotely? Maybe like some kind of... secure telnet? We could call it Secure SHell. Man, it'd be cool if you could just SSH into your server and code from there.

Nah, let's just use clumsy web-based IDEs.
Oh yes, I've done plenty, as well as autocross. To do it right, I need another set of wheels. I can buy scrub hoosiers or r888s for ~ $100/tire (vs $400 new), so the wheels make sense. Then the C5s are HARD on brakes. I'm still on OE rotors with no cooling, so I need to add cooling, and plan for a set of rotors for every weekend I go out. Plus pads. At least I've got wilwood calipers up front now which use a much cheaper 7420 pad with more material (compared to OE). Plus entry fees, and other consumables. Oil changes every weekend out. And I need a trailer to get the car to/from the track.

Trust me, if I had the $ I'd be doing it, but having done it I know what the real costs are.
If enough people want it, and they will, there is incentive.
404 error, guess it doesn't hurt to know how to program if you're making web sites. Otherwise nobody gets to see your designing abilities...
Also try running apachebench with the keepalive flag. I know it's not realistic, but then again, hello-world benchmarks never are.
If we need mutual fear to assure civility, I'm pretty sure the term society does not apply anymore.
No, I think everyone is on the same page. It's just semantics: mining is a mindless task, it just happens that bitcoin requires verifiable but otherwise pointless tasks in order to operate.

And I don't think you should dismiss this criticism so easily. I personally have very little confidence in bitcoin as a currency. But if the system also contributed to science by folding proteins or finding Mersenne primes or doing anything else that is externally useful, I would consider participating.
Especially since I don't think we were taught grammar until we were 8-10, where I'm from. At that age, I couldn't have possibly answered that question because I wouldn't know what grammar is.

I suspect that they didn't use the word grammar, but somehow got around it, asking if the sentence was correctly formed or something.

Of course, it's also possible that having parents teach you 2 languages practically forces them to teach about grammar early on, so they had an unfair advantage.
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Granted, percolation sounds pretty cool, but if the article is referring only to single-server/single-core Solr architectures, then that speed comparison is unfair.
The problem is there isn't (enough of?) an incentive to actually put out these treatments. I guess the money just doesn't compare to female birth control

One issue is that public health authorities are (probably quite legitimately) concerned that improved male birth control methods will lead to a decrease in the use of condoms and an increase in STDs.
This is presented as though it's an instance of regulatory capture - which it may be - but I don't think we really have enough information to draw that conclusion.

It's entirely possible that there was concern for contamination or the like in the methods used, which would be a fair concern. On the other hand, the current manufacturing methods don't strike me as sufficient reasoning to pass on the concept as a whole, if that's indeed what the final recommendation means, as the article seems to imply.
We already have a 'dangerously low birthrate' in the US (and in many other countries from France to Singapore). By this I mean a working-age population too low to support the retirement costs of the preceding generation. Practically speaking, however, this can be offset by immigration and the demographics should have smoothed themselves out by around 2030 or so.
Spam king faces jail over child sex charges
Looks like the future of space, medicine, and technology belongs to the countries that have not yet hobbled themselves with lawyers and bureaucrats to the point that something must be perfect if it is to exist at all.
If you had read just a little bit after that:

And while I’m well aware that half a year isn’t very long at all for a normal smartphone-owning human being, I think we can all agree that I’m not normal. And frankly, I probably wouldn’t have the job that I do if I felt comfortable about owning the same phone for six months.

He reviews phones/tech for a living, of course he'll expect to go through a bunch of them.
Armed robbery (via gun or otherwise) and a fairly fixed area of operation (near an appropriate parking lot) probably would not last very long. In some states, merely being in possession of a firearm while committing this sort of crime would up your jail time a bit even without drawing it, and even more so if you actively threatened someone with it.
I don't get what his complaint is; the Nexus S comes with Gingerbread, which has SIP calling built-in to the OS. I use it on my Nexus One without even having a voice plan. What's the point of wifi calling when you have that?
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When you're programming in Ruby, do you mentally shift into Ruby mode, or do you translate everything from English into Ruby?

Bilinguals don't translate from 1 language to another, they actually think in that language while using it, to the point that you can actually see attitude changes based on which language they are using.

I know I don't think in code, but rather translate it from English into whatever programming language I'm using.
I think this is the result of an A/B testing article which showed higher follow rates for "You should follow me" than "If you feel like following me" and other less imperative wordings.
Sorry, I don't follow. Where does 40% come from?

And to state the obvious, not all gold goes in vaults. Both the supply and demand for gold is affected by its fashion and industrial uses.
So both PHP and Python have AI in their regexp libs and understand what you mean with [a-z]? :-)

Strange that the libs are named PCRE (where "P" stands for "Perl"), then? :-)
Is there any actual value to finding Mersenne primes? Genuinely curious.
Those videos always bothered me. I suppose they never showed the ones where the slappee goes berzerk and breaks the slapper's arms.
There are any number of apocryphal tales along the following lines:

One day the parking attendant at a local shopping centre doesn't turn up for work, after fifteen years of faithful service without a single day off. The centre manager calls the local council, asking if they're sending someone to cover for him. The council have no idea who he is. After some investigation, it transpired that both the shopping centre management and the council assumed that the car park belonged to the other party. When the shopping centre was being built, the car park was finished before anything else. The bloke had just stood at the entrance with a yellow jacket and a sign and started collecting money. He did this so diligently that no-one ever had cause to notice him. He wasn't off sick, he had fled the country - £3 a car for 15 years worked out to £1.5 million.
Based on my minimal understanding, you need about 0.99% to defect (and collude!) to win all the coins, not just one miner.
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Nearly all UK business websites now technically illegal (EU sites to follow)
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This is even true in college, where for example a large part of a physics education is spent computing integrals and solving differential equations in special cases, using approximation methods by hand. It would be more appropriate for an intuition of the physics to use symbolic and numerical methods on a computer a lot more. You realize that doing arithmetic by hand is a largely pointless exercise when you get a calculator, and we should similarly recognize that doing integrals and differential equations by hand is largely futile when you have things like maple and scipy.
hq4x is certainly in the sweet-spot for real-time emulation upscaling.

However, this algorithm does actually vectorize the image, which has interesting uses for e.g. running all the sprites of a game through it and using the static results in a remake (they also talk about extending it to fill in animation frames in time which would be extra cool).
Please stop being an advocate for concealed carry, you are doing a terrible job.
Fantastic Idea - crowd financing at its BEST !!
But apparently not enough to bring it to market. This is just another example of a male birth control that won't even make it to clinical trials in the G8 nations for another two decades at a minimum.

Are people just that much more skittish about messing with male birth control that it needs 10x the evidence of female birth control before it comes to market, or have government agencies just gotten that much more strict/paranoid?
Am I completely missing a key part of bitcoin, then? My understanding was the 'pointless tasks' were actually the verifications of previous transactions. And to make such a system verifiable, several nodes in the network must hash out the same blocks the same way.
Node.js programming language?
Wow. Perfect timing on this. I've been struggling to develop a mindset like this when looking for a job. It's difficult, but you must not underestimate the value of a connection, regardless of the initial interaction (i.e. it's better to receive a "no" and be recognized than not known at all).
I suppose it's tax free, but I'm pretty sure that he could have earned quite a bit more if he'd worked a steady job for 15 years and was as diligent about saving money as he must have been.

edit: Then again, I suppose that's £100k a year, which might be kind of tough to earn without spending money on a degree first.
What Happened to SearchYC.com?
http://searchyc.com/

I haven't looked in several days, but the site (hacker news search) was up and running. Is it down temporarily or for ever?
I believe if they are successful they will be a threat to China's economic growth and their border disputes may spill out into more explicit hostilities.

From an economic standpoint they may be able to put together cost competitive manufacturing facilities with a better quality of life for their workers. That, coupled with the increasingly forceful way in which China struggles to maintain its margins are threatening the delicate balance in China between the benefit of hard currency and the challenge of an upwardly mobile workforce. (or not which would turn out to be the problem)

As more companies are put under pressure to avoid doing business with companies like FoxConn and the ability to keep information about working conditions in China out of the press is reduced. It makes for a challenging environment for the Chinese. To have a neighbor state pick up the slack with workers who, if they are successful can move on to big houses and a more affluent lifestyle, and are thus both happier and more productive in their jobs. That is the threat economically.

If India were to provide a ready market for Afghanistan's raw mineral wealth, that too could be problematic for the Chinese.
Could be. The question you suggest is then: do we keep this off the market to protect humanity from itself? Should we retract oral contraception on the same grounds? There are many inferences that could be hand-waved here, but, fundamentally, RISUG increases the range of options related to reproductive choice, no more.
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Bitcoin is not quantum-hard. When quantum computing reaches a certain threshold, bitcoin will lose its uniqueness and collapse.

Could you elaborate which aspect of bitcoin has efficient quantum algorithms? The proof-of-work system requires you to invert hashes and quantum algorithms only give you a quadratic speed up (brute force takes time O(\sqrt{size of range}) rather than O(size of range)). Right now there is no quantum attack on SHA-256 (which is what Bitcoin uses).

There are post-quantum algorithms that are computable on ordinary computers, ...

This sounds interesting, but could you elaborate? What does it mean for a post-quantum algorithm to be computable on ordinary computers?
Rejecting double-blind peer review
He's Dutch, right?

And while other people might not have the requisite place to put a caravan, they might also not actually have the need for one, due to being alone in their apartments. If you're married with children and work from home in a small apartment, you might need to get a bit more creative. Good headphones usually help, and if you don't even have a room to yourself, mounting some curtain rails to the ceiling might do the trick.
Aside from the STD issue, a condom is a contraception method that is instantly verifiable. "It's okay baby, I have had the invisible sperm destroying procedure" is a bit harder to check.
There's an important difference between this procedure and a vasectomy: a vasectomy is not reliably reversible. Because of that, the only men who get vasectomies are those who are done having children. Some men might make that decision on their own, but most men don't make that decision until they are married (or in at least in committed, long-term monogamous relationship) and have discussed it with their spouses/partners. People in relationships like that are generally at a much lower risk of STDs because of the monogamy.

If you roll out a treatment that is just as effective as a vasectomy, but is 100% reversible, and a whole new class of men will enter into the picture: men who aren't yet ready for fatherhood, but who want to be fathers someday. Many of them will not be in monogamous relationships. Some of them will not consider the risks of STDs as rationally as they considered the risks of pregnancy.
Hah, got me there! Honestly, I'm not so sure. But at least it's conceivably useful to someone's research.

Protein folding is a probably better example. Or, I don't know, modeling long-term weather patterns?

Here's a list to start with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_p...
"LXC used as a container for all dynos running on Celadon Cedar"

Has anybody published a complete SELinux or SMACK policy to use LXC with untrusted users? Last I checked LXC wasn't fully ready yet.
I can attest to that. When I was 9, we moved to another country and I had to learn Spanish from scratch. A year or so later, I still couldn't speak without an accent and still had a small vocabulary, but I vastly outperformed most of my classmates in orthography and grammar.
"We also have far fewer snake-oil salesmen ripping people off for cures"

Yet we still have chiropractors and homeopathy.
One thing about being an American living in another country has made me realize about the USA is that there are tons of police compared to other countries. This is a good and bad thing. It's a bad thing when you're being pulled over and harassed for looking suspicious. It's a good thing when you have bullies like this. If you call the police, they will usually respond promptly and eagerly looking to make an arrest.
A had a similar problem with a 20 year old amplifier that came for free when I got a pair of speakers at a yard sale. I ended up reusing half of the power supply and case to power a modern chip based amplifier that I built (PCB toner transfer and all):

http://aeminium.org/slug/hardware/gainclone/

Related to this article, I also fixed a TFT monitor I got from the trash, by following a similar approach, although without any schematics :)

http://aeminium.org/slug/hardware/lcdfix/

There was another time when I fixed a big old CRT TV by just replacing a shorted capacitor (€1 part) on the high voltage transformer circuit.

The brand representative at the store where my parents took the TV said that it would be too costly to repair and to throw it into the trash, so they kept the TV until I went there for holidays break.

Last year a friend had her laptop showing just half of the screen image. I opened it, saw that it was a flat wire connection problem and installed ubuntu, replacing XP in the process. She would need to buy a new laptop, so instead she used the money "saved" and bought herself a nice digital camera.

And this goes on an on...My point is that some things are easier to fix than others and if you enjoy electronics and tinkering, it's a fun way of spending time, learn new things and to keep (working) stuff away from the dumpster.
Exactly! Just use what you like the best. There is no contest, there is no winner.

Saying git is the "clear winner" over hg or svn or what have you is like saying that ruby is a "clear winner" over python or c++ or whatever. It makes no sense.
Yes and no. There are some people who make a living asking 100 people a day, and banking on the five people who say yes. Then others are fortunate enough to have customers, investors and interested parties knocking on their door -- simply because they've made something really interesting. These people often get things without asking. And if you are bad at asking -- it's better to be one of those people.
My daughter is only 13, and is in fact being taught the same proofreading marks.
Well, the entry barriers to programming were actually lower in the 1980s. Pretty much every home computer came with a flavor of BASIC built right in to ROM or at the worst bundled with it on a disk. Anybody with a TI-99/4A, C64, various Apples, Atari 400/800/ST, or many others could jump right in to that kind of programming.

What's the equivalent nowadays? Windows doesn't really come with any programming environment. There's no standard for those math books to write towards. Yeah, there's plenty of free compilers for any language, but the funnel from even knowing they exist, to having a reason to get one, then finding it, and downloading and installing, gets pretty lengthy and technical for your average seventh-grader or whatever.

Heck, I would argue that TI calculator BASIC is the closest thing we have to a universally available development environment for secondary students today.
Maybe, but that's a social issue not an FDA (in the US) issue, it shouldn't (ideally) hold up approval. (But it will.)

Every time male birth control is brought up all these same (social) issues get touted about. Women won't trust guys that say they're on the "pill", STDs will become rampant, etc. But they are by no means unique, every new treatment(in a new area) has social issues to begin with, but they usually turn out to be overblown once it becomes accepted.
I'm just gonna leave this right here... http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/11/11/installing-mysql...
As both a PhD in math and a working programmer who started with machine code (not even assembly language) and now programs primarily in Python and C, I think the analogy you make is incorrect.

I don't think there is much insight to be gained about programming in Python from repeatedly simulating the program at the level of tracing stacks, etc. - on that we agree. But I don't agree that doing so is the equivalent of learning how to add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions, or graph quadratics and cubics, or solve linear equations.

I believe the insights gained from doing quite a lot of arithmetic by hand are genuine.

Having said all that, if people aren't going to go on to careers or jobs in hard sciences then I believe the concept of qualitative computation is more valuable than doing any kind of mental arithmetic. But if you want to do proper math, or use calculus for real, or understand Fourier Transforms, or manipulate sheaves over higher dimensional topological spaces, then the abstract insights gained from arithmetic are, in my opinion, more than are generally suspected.

That's not to say that calculators are bad. Enormous computing power has let me get insights that I otherwise wouldn't have had. I'm just saying that not learning and internalising the underlying arithmetic basics is like not learning how to carve basic joints in carpentry.

To do so is to deliberately limit your skill set. Can't be good.
This is some great advice.

I'd add the tried and useful technique of having your first email be purely relationship creating: say, respond to a recent post with a useful thought, or point out a minor bug somewhere on the site

Having sent a decent bunch of emails to bloggers, I've also noticed that smiley faces increase response significantly, but using them makes me feel a bit cynical, so I usually don't ;-)
Apple Releases iWork for iPhone and iPod Touch
Second design looks better in content but I liked the first one. You could make the slider auto scroll with some slick graphics of your app (slider arrows are doing no good).
At first I tried to reason with them. When I brushed off one, another one from the same office would call back. I started hanging up as soon as they announced themselves and not saying e anything. If I had caller ID at that job I would have just answered and hung up before they could even announce themselves. After a few of those they stopped.
On ubuntu it is under monitors (might be a gnome thing) and you just select right or left under rotation.

I'm sure kde has something similar, but one thing to be aware of is that some monitors are specifically designed to be viewed horizontally so fonts and other things may render weird when rotated.
Wrong. If you have something people want, they'll force money on you. Make something people want. People are so naive, like they've never seen "Soup Nazi" episode of Seinfeld.
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A friend and I made a website that asks you one of the most useless questions ever... for science.
I'm looking forward to Apple restoring OpenGL acceleration to what it was before Snow Leopard. After updating, games that would run in the 50 - 60 fps dropped to a disappointing 20fps.
How does the author measure anxiety, hostility, depression, confidence, compassion, and happiness? That seems to be left out.
Very interested to hear this as well. Anyone from Heroku can comment?
I think this is most likely but doesn't really differentiate it from current competitors

Well, Apple doesn't really need to differentiate itself from current competitors, it just needs to show up to the party with an identical product that's already integrated with iTunes and iPod and they win by default.
All of this work has already been done at the first massively parallel (64k processors in early 1980s) supercomputer startup: Danny Hillis' Thinking Machines. Look at StarLisp, Paralations, and NESL.
Why are women on the pill any more trust worthy? I've known women who say they're on the pill just because they didn't wanna use/buy condoms. Surprise, surprise I now know people that have kids that probably shouldn't.

Also, condom misuse is a big problem in general and is the cause of the low rate of success for condoms 85% vs proper use 98%. The people that need condoms the most (uneducated/young people) are the ones that just throw them on without making sure they know how to properly use them.
Really? How and why did that happen?
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