skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? Nobody has mentioned a worm hole yet? Screw mirrors to cut the distance needed in half (although requiring the same amount of time).

How about this:

Step 1) open up a worm hole at a point along the path of light emanating from Florida on June 16th, 2008.
2) install a video camera with a giant lens around the same point pointing back at us
3) send the wireless ;) signal back through the worm hole.
4) Determine if the Anthony jury is a bunch of idiots or not.
Twitter Starts Promoting #longreads
App Engine has been simply excellent. I've got a $5 limit on possible daily charges and mostly stacked in the bandwidth areas.

Really like the admin interface, the sensible Python, and 'appcfg.py upload .' is a lot like waiting for C to compile!

Charges so far have been $0.00 and, admittedly, traffic has been low. But should a /.otting come along I might have to shell out a couple of bucks (bfd!).
OP doesn't actually do regex parsing of HTML, so all is well. It does regular 'ol parsing, and uses regex to chunk html into consumables.
That's a very useful library, and also great example of how easy it is to hook into C code from Lua.

Another one which I prefer personally because it's more comprehensive, is Steve Donovan's Penlight. If you have a background in Python you might enjoy using it:

https://github.com/stevedonovan/Penlight
A quite good answer, from Wikipedia:

"a design pattern [that restricts] the instantiation of a class to one object"
Is the purpose to gain more votes from prospective voters by alwaysawesoming their plays?
TANSTAAFL. Being poisonous takes effort. You need to have defenses against your own poison, spend energy producing often complex molecules, etc.

Not spending energy on being poisonous means that a snake can spend it elsewhere; run a bit harder, lay more eggs, lay eggs earlier, whatever.
A good way of avoiding this problem is to get rid of pronouns altogether. Case in point (drumroll): Facebook's interface!

You can count on one hand how many times they use pronouns, and those could be actually be removed as well.
I'm not sure you understand me.

To illustrate with an extreme: If we happened to be hard-wired by evolution to be tremendously predisposed towards genocidal behavior, would that make any acts of genocide we commit morally acceptable behavior?
It's also worth remembering that a pro athlete if he's lucky has a career that lasts 15 years, tops. Most play significantly less. Contrast that with the average person's working life, which usually lasts 40-50 years. So sure they make a lot per year but once they're done, they're done, since they tend not have much by way of marketable skills. Saving and investment is the smart thing to do, but it's also a difficult thing to tell a 21-year-old who suddenly has more money than he's ever seen in his life.
The building I work in once had a contest: whichever floor recycled the most paper in a month got an ice cream party.
I don't know about an NBA player that did that but Brazilian football player Marcelinho did that while playing in Germany. Despite having a seven-figures salary he was broke all the time and had to ask his club for loans because he financed the lives of literally dozens of his friends and family members.
I'm no expert. I don't claim to be. My point is that people actually appear to do testing. Now maybe you should relay your message to these testers, but it doesn't appear to be uncommon.

In fact, there's a whole Wikipedia page dedicate to Malaria testing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria_antigen_detection_tests

And they note more than 20 commercial products for sale that test for Malaria.

Here's a paper from the NIH on the importance and state of rapid Malaria diagnosis:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2223842/

Here's another NIH paper talking about an Malaria eradication, and a big part of their plan is diagnosis:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21311583

Again, I'm not expert (or even novice), but looking at the literature and what people in the field are working on -- it looks like they make use of diagnostic tools for Malaria. I've certainly seen no papers saying that diagnostics isn't useful in 99.99% of all cases, just pop a pill. Not saying that that's not what should be done, but I find the evidence thus far lacking.
The problem is the $$$ plot point. Grade school teachers (in the US) are not well paid. Which is why it attracts the lazy people instead of the ones who would actually put out the effort needed to properly educate our youth. (Not meant to be an indictment of all teachers, just the "bad ones".)
> particularly the older ones whose only sources
> of income are album sales and licensing

I don't particularly have sympathy for people that feel that should profit for the rest of their lives off of their music. Either: 1) manage your money wisely when you're making buckets of it (instead of ending up broke when the gravy train stops) or 2) get a job when you stop making music.

I seriously doubt that anyone but big name artists are making any significant amount of money from royalties on catalog albums.
Wozniak: Humans destined to become pets
In English, yes, but in other languages this isn't always possible.
William Shatner Narrates Space Shuttle Documentary
This looks pretty awesome! can't wait to try it out.
Maybe you're doing it wrong? Why don't you put out more effort and make it fun. Or find something else where you are willing to do so. (I am a former high school teacher.)
Except for that fact that we already have plenty of U233 sitting around being useless at Oak Ridge. Certainly plenty to do all the research and prototyping needed to get a design certification for a LFTR.

Clearly, the problem is the political will to do something different. If the nuclear lobby and the anti-nuclear lobby are both against it, it's hard to get traction. Kirk is likely correct. The only way to get this through is via the DoD. I wish FLIBE Energy the best.
But lizards are cold-blooded. Wouldn't they just freeze to death in the winter as well?
That might be the explanation.

Are there really enough people who keep poisonous snakes as pets for this to happen? I don't think the Florida situation is analogous because of how much less dangerous constrictors are than cobras.
<I arleady replied to another posts of yours. But here it is :) >

Incidentally a few women expressed similar opinions a few years ago on two other forums I visited.

Really, if he used "some women" would you have any objection?
Wow, I remember reading this exact article when I was in a middle school music education class.
public class Singleton {
private static Singleton self = null;
private Singleton() {
//...
}
public static Singleton getInstance() {
if(self == null) {
self = new Singleton();
}
return self;
}
...
}

So at any point in your code you can call Singleton.getInstance() to have access to the same Singleton object. So it's effectively the same thing as a global variable.

Edit: Added `static' to be more correct.
Google have taken Randall's feedback into consideration and have added the feature to hide one's gender on Google+ profiles.

Women using the service are reporting that their low-level wariness and sense of vulnerability has lessened somewhat as a result.

"Hiding female identity from male view on the internet is very important and is likely to lead to real social change," a spokesperson from Google added.
Thanks Dude! I'm incorporating some feedback from my beta testers. I'll activate your account after I deploy the fixes.
<I arleady replied to another posts of yours. But here it is :) >

Incidentally a few women expressed similar opinions a few years ago on two other forums I visited.

Really, if he used "some women" (edit: or many women I know) would you have any objection?
Social game maker Tiny Speck hires Japan’s famous game designer Keita Takahashi
This is nice! It also fits the pending revisions of blogger etc to unify the google ui styles etc.

one thing I recently discovered about blogger that won me over is this: you can have you default draft template include the right commands to import the mathjax javascript into every post, so I can then just write inline and display math latex naively with \[ some math \] and \( math \) and it'll just work! (both in preview of post, and the live post!)
Facebook Friend Exporter is working again
As a new Objective-C programmer, I recently ran into the global state problem with an iPhone game I'm working on. I needed some settings that could be accessed/changed from many different classes. I was told the AppDelegate isn't the right place to put this.

A singleton SettingsManager was suggested, but singletons always get a bad wrap.

So is this a good use of a singleton? What would be the correct way to handle this?
The weird thing is that most of the bullying has nothing to do with litigation. DRM pops up all over the place in standards like HDMI, willingly put there by the electronics companies. If they wanted to, they could all go to the entertainment industry and say, "You guys want DRM, but tough luck, we're not building it. If you want to sell your stuff on the next generation of devices, you'll have to work with what we want to build." But they don't, even though in theory they should be able to.
It takes more than the few hours you're in the studio to hone the craft and create that art - why shouldn't you be compensated for as long as it's a product people want?

Nobody needs your sympathy. They need you to either buy the product, or refrain from using it. It's a very simple arrangement.
Nice job. This fills a big gap in Lua.

I think the stewards of Lua are afraid to grow the standard library because most of Lua's early popularity stemmed from how small and embeddable it is.
(Re)raising questions about safety of particle accelerators
I think the author ignores the elephant in the room: RIAA being part of the labels share > the artists share - ever! So torrenting a track/disc/anthology monetarily hurts the labels more.

However, it hurts the artists disproportionately more, but this is because artists get a paltry amount anyway. So they get less or none of their $.35, but labels get none of their $15.

My hope for all this is that artists will just empower themselves and use the newer channels of distribution the internet offers. I can't in the least bit, after all their congressional lobbying to restrict the public rights and expand their corrupt initiatives, feel bad - ever - for the RIAA or labels. Everyone knows their fat, lumbering, dinosaurs..
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2000/WHO_CDS_RBM_2000.14.pdf

From WHO/USAID report on Malaria detection (executive summary):

"In malaria patients, a prompt and accurate diagnosis is the key to effective disease management. The two diagnostic approaches currently used most often, however, do not allow a satisfactory diagnosis of malaria. Clinical diagnosis, the most widely used approach, is unreliable because the symptoms of malaria are very non-speciﬁc. Microscopic diagnosis, the established method for laboratory conﬁrmation of malaria, presents technical and personnel requirements that often cannot be met, particularly in facilities at the periphery of the health care system. In addition, delays in the provision of the microscopy results to the clinician mean that decisions on treatment may be taken without the beneﬁt of the results. Thus, the recent introduction of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria is of considerable interest."
Hah, that'd be awesome! One of the first strings I tried was "bender". Considering how fast the image loaded, I'm guessing it was already cached from other users doing the same :)
No. My use case is that I want to awesome all of my friends' and coworkers' music while in the office with them. We're all working together in the same room and have good taste in music.

It's not really meant to cheat, but I'm sure some folks could use it for that.

I just hate having to switch back to my Turntable.fm tab or window just to Awesome a song every 5 minutes.
If these are the problems you are trying to solve, just don't buy something with iOS on it.
Python vs. Java in CS classes: An unfair comparison
This assumes a massive number of serious developers making games for the platform. That has yet to materialize, every discussion of iPad games falls to token successful titles readily available on other systems.

Console makers license tons of exclusive content, Apple just isn't getting into the game software game(yet?).

Developers of small inexpensive games target the larger, established PC market, and iDevices get the runoff.

Compare the sales of indy games on steam(one example) vs. any apple platform.

My personal opinion is that the iPad over-hypes the few games it has because it fails as a useful work tool, it's an expensive toy. Limited use as a web platform will not be enough to establish a game platform, software always does. Time will tell, I might be wrong.
They are defined in the usage wiki: http://code.google.com/p/google-singleton-detector/wiki/Usag...

Singleton	A class for which there should only be one instance in the entire system at any given time. This program detects singletons which enforce their own singularity, which means they keep one static instance of themselves and pass it around through a static getter method.

Hingleton	Derived from “helper singleton,” a class which turns another class into a singleton by enforcing that class's singularity.

Mingleton	Derived from “method singleton” a class which has any static method that returns some state without taking any parameters.

Fingleton	Derived from “field singleton,” a class which contains a public static field.
You can argue semantics all you want. To rely on the definition of theft as an argument while saying it should instead be called something that is described as an act of war that usually involves robbery seems like a pretty weak defense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy
Faster than light travel isn't classical time travel, until you turn around. If you only travel away from Earth FTL, then that doesn't automatically produce nasty paradoxes. However, if instead of sticking around to see all the light pass you by, you just turn around and head back to Earth, again FTL, then you can arrive before you left, and cause all sorts of trouble.
In romance languages, it doesn't even necessarily require pronouns. The English sentence "Sam is tall." cannot be translated into Spanish without knowing whether Sam is male or female.

Interestingly, Google Translate assumes (in this case) that Sam is male, while Microsoft Translate assumes (in this case) that Sam is female.
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who has not dated in decades stands out from the epitome of un smooth Now spend the evening sulking alone in a local bar the hapless Cal has so gregarious and protected is a good player
Here's a few examples:

"Seat Belt" Changes:
- Making sure photos are all cropped/uploaded at the same resolution so collections look tidily aligned.
- Taking product photos that are clean, simple, and well-lit... great product photos don't require a DSLR, just a bit of preparation, and the time to make them look good is worth it.
- Setting up Google Analytics to start collecting data on visitors.

Airbag Changes:
- SEO. Getting traffic is great, but if the site isn't compelling people to buy it's a wasted effort.
- If you're not a capable designer, trying to make extensive changes to your site's layout can be extremely time-consuming and won't necessarily make your site look better.
- Trying to round up hundreds of products for a brand new business. Keep things simple in the early stages and build out your product lines as you grow.

Those are just a few.
There are bands that are still able to maintain the copyright on their stuff, though they are probably few and far between.
Nobody is saying you need to be chums with the RIAA. What I'm saying is pirating music because you think the RIAA deserves what they get is like punishing a corrupt business leader by locking the doors and burning the building with the employees stuck inside.
They are doing browser detection instead of feature detection.

"ERROR: Possible problem with your *.gwt.xml module file.
The compile time user.agent value (opera) does not match the runtime user.agent value (unknown). Expect more errors."
Ask HN: Does anyone remember the smart image region selections site?
There was a demo of some sort that employed smart image region selecting. It was posted within the last few weeks. I can't seem to find it using search. Does anyone remember?

Thanks!

- Jolan
Yes, the blog is scary. We're doing a site-wide restyle in the next month or so. But thanks for the additional motivation, in both paragraphs. I'm seriously thinking about starting such a blog, thanks to all the requests here. There are a number of factors limiting my inclination, but it would be a great way to keep my team focussed on these practices.
Granted that when you are working for someone else, the incremental improvement/hardwork that you put in does not translate into recognition or reward.

Is it still true in the business world? Especially when you are running your own business doesn't hard work translate into something?

For me, When you are trying to get started in the business world, the temptation to keep churning day in and day out is pretty high. It may not necessarily be the right thing.
The moment it becomes cheaper to breed snakes than to hunt down one of the last wild ones, the logical thing to do is to breed them, rather than hunt them. That applies even in the case of one person 'competing' (but in that case, that person, of course, would need to turn in only one snake every time period). With multiple farmers, they will compete by producing snakes as cheaply as possible.
invited, thanks
We have plenty of more insightful posts about this topic on our blog. This was a rant. I don't need to recap everything we've already said every time we want to make a point. It's not CNN coverage of the election.
I have a promising start-up, with several hundred users in specific geographic locations. I will need "$4.6m" to scale, and I want to take out $1m for the cofounders.

In our market, 32,000 such companies launch each year, and of those, only 250 generate more than $200,000 in revenue. Only 30 generate $20m.

What is a fair percentage to offer the VCs?

Yes, I appreciate that there are many differences between bands and start-ups, but if, as she says, only 250 of 32,000 albums sell more than 10,000 units, then this $10m the record company makes from her band must go, in a large part, to cover the costs of funding all the bands that dont make it. Maybe they are still making a handsome profit, but its not as unjust as she makes out.
Wow, what a read! Thanks!

1. Related: Michael Jackson calls head of Sony, his record distributor, a devil. What a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt6zVypo72E

2. Love’s thesis: Through lobbying and collusion, the big labels (she calls them distributors) essentially own artists, which she calls “slaves” and “sharecroppers.” Following, an excerpt from the Sponsorships section.

> When I agreed to allow a large cola company to promote a live show, I couldn't have been more miserable. They screwed up every single thing imaginable. The venue was empty but sold out. There were thousands of people outside who wanted to be there, trying to get tickets. And there were the empty seats the company had purchased for a lump sum and failed to market because they were clueless about music.

> It was really dumb. You had to buy the cola. You had to dial a number. You had to press a bunch of buttons. You had to do all this crap that nobody wanted to do. Why not just bring a can to the [venue] door?

> … They were a condescending bunch of little guys. They treated me like I was an ungrateful little bitch who should be groveling for the experience to play for their damn soda.

> I ended up playing without my shirt on and ordering a six-pack of the rival cola onstage. Also lots of unwholesome cursing and nudity occurred. This way I knew that no matter how tempting the cash was, they'd never do business with me again.

> If you want some little obedient slave content provider, then fine. But I think most musicians don't want to be responsible for your clean-cut, wholesome, all-American, sugar corrosive cancer-causing, all white people, no women allowed sodapop images.

> Nor, on the converse, do we want to be responsible for your vice-inducing, liver-rotting, child-labor-law-violating, all white people, no-women-allowed booze images.

And that may be the least interesting part of the screed.
Oh, there's definitely money in launching satellites. But that market is already served by commercial companies. What we're talking about here is manned flights to orbit.
I think the cost problem has largely been solved. Someone can throw together a DAW for $2 or $3k and start creating really great sounding music following hours of practice. I think most young musicians know about and go this route when they are learning.

The world Courtney Love is from is the old world, where you needed a specialist to do all these different jobs. You needed to pay a producer, engineers, buy studio time (sometimes these are packaged but the more well known the pricier, and acts like Hole use well known outfits), this is what drives costs up. Not to mention marketting, distribution, etc.

In today's world a poor musician who wants to record and distribute his or her music can, and the best of them will be able to demand a price, or merchandise.
Do you mean seam carving? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_carving)
Time-saving Google Commands and Search Engine Operators
Sad to see Bender in this state: http://static1.robohash.com/bender
It's an understandable issue of perception because so many content owners are willing to give things away. And, many people don't even know what's legal and what's not. The problem is the attitude of entitlement that people have who clearly know the difference.
Anyone mind posting a screenshot? I'd like to see the UI but I don't want to create a blog on Blogger just to see it.
I just host a ton of sites including my personal sites on a single Linode VPS.
Deliberate vulnerabilities are being introduced into outsourced US software
Hey yes we do (including the Big You! ;)

We think we have an interesting twist on the way you can get videos on to your iOS devices.

We're working really hard polishing up the experience for the user right now, so we'll be sending out invite codes really soon. Thanks everyone for signing up.
I'm pretty sure that in a well-managed company, someone who didn't contribute would be let go. I'd like to leave off the always-contentious question regarding "effort vs. contribution".

So to alter the question: how to improve compensation in a hypothetically well-managed company, without busting 60-hour weeks?
You may be right, but I suspect interest will start to fade when the early customers get back and describe the experience. Inevitably one of the launches will go bad and kill the passengers. There will be calls for the government to make it safe, and that will be the end of space tourism.
Example of stuff that was modeled erroneously as a Singleton?
Justin.tv/TwitchTV is hiring a designer to create the future of pro gaming
YMMV, but the way I prefer doing it is by telling the settings explicitly to the different classes, instead of having all those classes rely on getting it by themselves from the singleton (this is where the problem lies).

You can pass the settings in the constructors, with setter methods or have a "state object" that contains the configuration.

For "updating" the states on every class in real time I'd rather rely on explicit state change using the Observer pattern.

EDIT: I'd also like to know what other developers do, or if there's anything wrong with my methods, so I second your question.