skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget that they aren't even able to find the dangerous items. Their system frequently allows box cutting razor blades onto airplanes. How do I know? It happened to me: http://bit.ly/if5XDR after experiencing a traumatic "enhanced" pat down procedure.

After my incident I went to both of my Senators and my Congressman (in person) and recounted my story. I also followed the TSA procedures for reporting civil abuses, which incidentally was a completely worthless excercise.

Their written response to my Congressman's letter to them was, "We followed procedure".
I had a lot of trouble with this aspect too and your logic is perfectly valid but your assumptions are missing a key piece. Part of accepting things the way they are is understanding that you are an integral part of the world. This implies that not only do you have the power to influence it but that doing so is both inescapable and your duty.

Telling someone that they are ignorant or incompetent is far more effective when you're not hinged on whether or not they will listen to you. If you are attached to the result, you will become a dictator. If you are not, you will become the most effective type of leader. It is far more effective to give someone the message and trust them to figure it out then to force them to change when they either don't want to or are not yet capable. If one person hits a bottleneck, there are millions of others who are capable of taking their next step with a little guidance from you.

I completely agree that a lot of people fall into the trap you described.
Carnegie Mellon University develops "hive mind" for autonomous, crash-proof cars
Yeah, "loosely defined" is probably an understatement - key rule if you are ever interviewed and want some level of control is to ensure you and the journalist know the definition not just the phrase.

Another one that I discovered in my brief time in journalism was that the medical reports (stable, critical etc) you hear most often have no medical basis - they're used by the media, and many healthcare professionals (at least, in Aus 10 years ago) didn't much like them because of their vagueness.

If you want my working definition of those, you basically have two scales: condition (fine, minor, serious, critical, dead) and change (improving, stable, deteriorating). Combine the two and you have an excellent soundbite - "The driver is in a critical but stable condition".
Well, pre-release hardware was pretty hard to come by. I'd imagine performance fixes to the VM image are also coming. Even webOS for phones was sluggish in the VM.
Show HN: Intercom, get to know your users
Why would an iPad app even be newsworthy, let alone "awesome" ? I just assumed there already was an iPad app... Does the iPhone app not work on it anyway?
Small startup to take on Eventbright | Video interview
I am not a physicist, but...

Does the matter/antimatter distinction have any relevance to black holes? I though that they erased all features of the mass that they swallowed.

What does it mean for an object to be composed "mainly of antimatter" as opposed to "completely of antimatter"? Surely an object that is "mainly antimatter" will rapidly turn into an object that is entirely antimatter plus some photons.
I have used Tipfy for a couple of projects. It is VERY lightweight and flexible, and comes with jinja2 templating built in. Basically webapp + some missing components, like Session management. It's not even as close to as robust as Django-nonrel for GAE but depending on the scope of your project it might be perfect
Most of that is your expectation of what the author intended. I didn't read any of that. Just this: try to improve the world, try to help others perform better. Emotionally respond to the result, sure. Then ... let it go. Live and learn. Try something different next time.

I've met folks who live this way. They are not wimps. They are strong, and resilient.

What is a wimp? More like, someone who is afraid, who lashes out at things before they understand them, staying in their disfunctional rut rather than risk any emotion other than anger.
> Since most of the people who are on Google+ so far are geeks, insiders, social media stars, journalists, and other people

This is what I fear the most with +. I'm just as nerdy as the next guy, but I like to have some good un-clean fun with my friends, and Google+ comes off as conservative and parental. If Google stays too clean it won't draw the non-technical users I converse with on Facebook, and enjoy conversing with. Part of the fun of Facebook is the college atmosphere where few things are off-limits.
This Engadget summary is at Engadget's usual level of quality. The previous submission links to a Chessvibes blog entry which is much more informative.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2709401
I just tried it out and it's very useful (apart from the fact that it show my competitor exactly what I'm doing).

As far as I can tell it only works for the US market though, I always find advertising outside the US much harder and would really like the same service there. Any plans to do that?
Stop wasting your time, learn to outsource
I did not know you could spell tyre with a 'y'. Is Nature a British publication?
so my fellow developers work on OSX ( I'd ask them but they've only ever used OSX ) They run textmate / console for the majority of their work, I'm thinking thats where I'll be...

So then its a "Yes" sans all the usual matching of drivers / software to mesh with the hardware
No, we don't agree to disagree, you are wrong. You haven't made arguments with any value. You attacked character and it IS a logical fallacy in this case.

>Ad hominem circumstantial constitutes an attack on the bias of a source. This is fallacious because a disposition to make a certain argument does not make the argument false; this overlaps with the genetic fallacy (an argument that a claim is incorrect due to its source).

You aren't arguing about what is right or should be done. You are trying to imply I am wrong because of my business interests instead of any real issue. You've ignored solutions which fit within your arguments but you don't like the outcome (like a .startup TLD or using subdomains yourself). You clearly see the value in .com which everyone has recognized but want to monopolize it for yourself under the guise of the greater good.

You may be new at this, but because of my history, I've heard each argument hundreds of times, you haven't come up with anything new; thousands of people have whined about domain names and not followed through on a real, workable solution to the system that does accommodate all stakeholders.
Google Announces the Google+ Project
StarGit: interactive exploration of your GitHub graph
larkinalan [Invite needed]
I bet the big announcement FB makes in upcoming press conference is

"We are announcing these fantastic new features to Facebook users: <copy-paste G+ features here>"
I wonder how long it will be before China decides to take away their right to protest and the freedom of the press...
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How to get gmail.com banned - not that I did this
It is a pretty big jump to say that since Google+ is geeky, therefore the masses won't adopt it. We are talking about an online social networking site. No matter how slick and friendly it looks, the early days of any website are bound to be geeky. Sure, Facebook was never really that geeky (you know, as ungeeky as a Harvard social network can be), but Twitter sure as hell was. That is the lifecycle of these sites. More importantly, yo momma may not have much of a choice. Google is making it pretty clear with all of the redesigns that the Google+ tail will be wagging the Google services dog. Once yo momma starts googling her friends and seeing their profile pop up in search results, looks up directions and see recommendations in the area from her friends, and so on, I'll bet she'll start using it.

Now whether that is good or bad is another question, but Google does seem to have it set up so your mom being on there won't hold you back much.
any chance of an invite ?
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How about a Accelerator that caters for single founders?
I wrote a post about it here: http://chestergrant.posterous.com/proposal-for-a-single-foun...
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That the music in the background was only a temporary track, that the main one was still being worked on. Quickly he made it up to us by replaying the opening scene, this time with
"You are a tiny band of nutjobs. You can't kill us all. You can't even kill .00001% of us."

If we're talking about the US population, then 0.0001% is thirty people. They can probably manage that.

However, on your broader point, nouveau-Islamist terrorism differs from more traditional varieties (the IRA et cetera) in that its practitioners are markedly less rational. For them, terrorism isn't a tool which they're applying calmly in the hope of achieving a political goal. Most of them seem to just want to kill infidels, because the existence of people who aren't Muslim makes them angry.

So I don't think the refuse-to-be-terrorized strategy actually works. They don't particularly care whether you're scared of 'em, as long as you die.

(They're not very rational or very nice.)
Wherever pics of their grandkids are, my momma will be.
> What’s a life without expectations like? It means you accept reality as it is

Actually no.

The fact that some expectations don't match reality does not imply that there aren't any expectations that match reality.

Realistic expectations seem quite reasonable and useful.

Note that realistic doesn't have anything to do with your preferences.
Note: unlike lambdas in functional languages, this lambda does not capture the containing environment.
Iraqi Dinar Revaluation
Dinar Inc is a global wholesaler of Iraqi dinar or dinar and supplies some of the largest financial institutions in the world with the currency. We are licensed by the Office of Financial Regulation.
ex-employees we spoke to, was McNamara's need to exert total control over what goes on in the studio. When asked whether that was true, he chuckled and asked "And is that a bad thing? I make video games. They're personal statements for me. I write 'em, I direct 'em, I put the technology together to make them. I go out to the world and say, 'Will you fund them?' So if you think that's obsessive: absolutely."

With over a hundred employees doing most or all of the work, you really have to love the massive ego that takes all of the credit.
I don't believe he has the required evidence to make this claim.

(1) I have a lot of non-techie friends that are interested in using this just to try it out -- they are early adopters but consumers instead of creators; they do not have technical ability.

(2) Whether or not Plus gains market traction is dependent on how it fits into the current social application space. 'Hangouts' and 'Circles' will help differentiate them but to gain a foothold the network effect is of greater importance. Google are making a very calculated move by inviting people with higher quality social graphs as this will help them here!

Plus' success will depend on:

(a) whether they can keep non-techie early-adopters interested in the new features they are providing.

(b) how well they manage to cross-pollinate between each of the services in their eco-system: the changes in Gmail, the navigation bar, and UI across their services point towards them realising this.

(c) easing the move in-between other social applications by providing APIs that could be accessed by more generic desktop and mobile applications that users often use to interact with networks: Tweetdeck, etc... As I said, it's all about harnessing network effects and getting the right people on the service. At this point, I don't see any reason to doubt they have momentum and if they're smart they will continue to connect their eco-system together in a way that creates long-term growth long after the buzz dies.

(3) It's quite presumptuous to assume that since many early-adopters are techies that this is how it will remain: does anybody remember when Twitter was only used by techies?

Let's just see how it plays out and avoid creating mindless tech gossip...?
ish. The MB is based on the aluminium PBG4 which was bigger and rather less good-looking than the TiBook. But the TiBook's painted kept flaking off, and that wasn't sexy in the slighest
This means that it will end up having the size of twitter?
Please explain how G+ is more geeky than Facebook. It's a much more intuitive product. It enables features in such an easy way that Facebook can't even dream about.
This is a fine way to live.

But it falls apart when you mix in other people. Because, if other people are emotionally immature (and most people are) they'll perceive you as weak, and limit your opportunities because you're not posturing as a chest-thumping blowhard. Thus, you too have to speak the language of power while knowing full well that you don't buy into it. I can think of nothing more boring than taking yourself seriously.
Bah, beat me to it. It's still kind of cool though.

qsort (array, sizeof (array) / sizeof (array[0]), sizeof (array[0]),
lambda (int, (const void *a, const void *b),
{
dump ();
printf ("Comparison %d: %d and %d\n",
++ comparison, *(const int *) a, *(const int *) b);
return *(const int *) a - *(const int *) b;
}));
My mom already wants to join. :)
Yup, that’s British spelling. That’s why the bicycle that got tired joke never works on Facebook if you’re from there.
I'd disagree with that, England does have several 'hub cities' - see Manchester (largest non-London airport, probably second biggest financial services area outside of London) and Birmingham as just two examples.

Moving your startup to Newcastle means:
a) Lower costs in terms of rent and staff (you have to pay people more in London).
b) Fewer competitors trying to poach your staff.

Of course you don't get the same international connections as you do in London, but it's not a case of London holding all the trump cards.
For Some With Autism, Jobs to Match Their Talents
I bought the alpha a few months back because I was very impressed with the demo. Its fast, looks good and has good amount of power, power close to Vim level in my opinion. But at the end of the day I use Vim because it is so ubiquitous (and open).
Why do we keep hearing about London-based incubators, but then all the great European companies are born elsewhere?
Hacker News: you can checkout, but never leave
Being able to download a dump of your data is a very poor substitute to a real federated network.
I wonder what Google learned from it's social network popular in India and South America, Orkut.
The vast majority of site authentications (including many very large sites) use http, so their authentication code should be hashing and salting the password on the client-side and sending the result to the server for authentication. In this model, the site never actually has a plaintext copy of the password.

In this model, the server would receive the (unsalted) hash of the password when the password is set, and a salted hash for each login. At no point will the server ever have the plaintext password.

I describe the implementation details here:

http://loewald.com/blog/?p=1374
Scalable proactive customer communication that doesn't suck
To be clear I didn't mean that there are not literally enough people to hire to do the job. I should've been a bit clearer but what I was really getting at was the massive scope and cost of such an agency with staffing requirements like that. We're talking about something on par with or larger than the FBI.
Very good summary of German economic thinking - the goal of combining a free market with a fair amount of redistribution has broad support. The German constitution defines Germany as a "Sozialstaat", which is not quite the same as what we call "welfare state" in the US but seeks to create social justice.

What's not mentioned is the remarkable fact that Germany was able to absorb the collapse of economically completely dysfunctional East Germany. If anything, the influx of a generation of Germans raised under "socialism" has strengthened the base of voters valuing economic stability. Despite western grumblings and the still existing Wessi/Ossi divide the reunification and subsequent wealth transfer from West to East was largely viewed as something that just had to be done.

It's hard to measure the performance of Germany over other large economies in isolation of the current state of the European Union, though. I think the opinion about Germany is quite different in other European nations, especially Greece. There you would find a large number of people claiming the performance of Germany's economy is at the expense of the smaller countries of the union.
What are folks actually suggesting here? That we go back to the more relaxed pre-9/11 days where you'd go through a metal detector and get your carry-on X-rayed, but it wasn't that big a deal? Or that we actually abolish airport security entirely?

The former seems pretty sensible to me, the latter seems a bit crazy.

I guess the other problem is this: there's no doubt a bunch of Al Qaeda-ish folks sitting around right now plotting how to kill people. A big sudden announcement that "guess what? you won't have to take your shoes off any more" might just give 'em the idea.
Corporations elect them, duh.
Luckily you can say your Scala program is written "on Java" if not "in Java" in your marketing literature.
Why you can't immediately find the Share button on Google+
Improved comment alerts for Facebook
>If you hash passwords in javascript, a middleman could easily just look up the source of your application and decrypt the hashed password coming over the wire.

Hashing ≠ Encryption.

Unlike encryption, where an encrypted message is intended to be decrypted by a trusted party, a hashed password is never intended to be 'unhashed'. Rather, the hash of the password supplied by the user is compared against the hash value stored in the database. Given a sufficiently strong password P, it should be computationally infeasible for anyone to compute the value of P from hash(P).
They do block Friendster. I could only read the comments, I couldn't follow the link...
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Sure, but not "search not read your emails."
Interesting android widget that shows you nearby deals
How to successfully install Ruby on rails 3 in Windows 7 with MySQL
"Scala requires the smallest mental shift from Java". Feels to me like Groovy would be the smallest mental shift from Java, not Scala.
Now this is just my opinion about Big Corp from experience, I'm all for Scala and have been helping people all over the world with it and Akka.

Let me first define Big Corp. A traditionally long standing business (good ole boys) type of company. A financial or insurance institution, with hundreds of employees in I.T., devs, QA, and deployment.

I've seen big corps with large teams who are entrenched in .Net or Java mention they also must worry about getting people to understand your Scala code. Hate to say it, but I've meet a lot of supposed Java programmers who didn't know what a HashMap was... in big corp...

In my experience, they just (big corp) don't give a crap. It's Java or .Net and if you don't like it... leave.

Unless that one small group going rouge and using Scala has full backing from the top you'll find yourself on a deserted island in time... which doesn't mean to say that they won't give you a shot. They will but they want 2-3x results. Otherwise why break what you have now? I'm just saying that is what I see them thinking.

I believe it has to do more with the type of project and if it has real visible impact on the bottom line to whether Scala or X,Y,Z will succeed in the big corp env. Project A does well, makes Big Corp more $$$ then they try to reproduce. Mr. VP of finance doesn't care if it's Scala or Alacs (Scala backwards) and that Scala helps you write less code. Small Corp might though as they have less resources (funds/time).

Just my opinion from interfacing with Big Corp.

I did leave (each one) after I got tired of trying to champion better ways of doing things.
Yeah awesome, a mexican stand-off for millionaires :p
One thing that I haven't heard yet is that Google+ is the worst name they could ever come up with!

"+"? Are you kidding me?

On the other hand: here is a feature that would help G+ to take of: Tight integration with Android (2.1 and above at least!!! not 3.1) with android video hangout over wifi and 3G for free(!) international!
A tough move, I know, but without something on this scale, this could just be another wave.
That new "dense" GMail theme has the bar's opacity set to ~40% and is much less jarring. I think the black bar wouldn't be an issue if the rest of the pages weren't so low contrast now.
Burning wood == renewable, requires low investment. In fact, it's using Sun's energy captured some 100 years ago by natural means. Plant biomass, if left to rot, would release highly greenhouse methane (some 25 times as greenhouse-ish as CO2).

Solar power == a lot of non-biodegradable waste from construction and decommissioning, requires high investment and constant maintenance, large infrastructure replace natural habitats (think rainforests and plains). Small solar devices are even worse in terms of environmental impact: manufacture, transportation and disposal of countless small units.

</only slightly sarcastic>
http://css2sass.heroku.com/
Because it's so freaking awesome!
Blackboard has been acquired
Noticeable Hacker news I read at 2011/06 | beyondlinux
Noticeable Hacker news I read 2011/06
Debug other people's code.
This is true, but the current electoral system in the US isn't very responsive to public input. First past the post voting systems will tend to two parties, which makes voter opinion less effective since election winners will not have to form a multi-party coalition. This means that politicians and lobbyists can use wedge issues to divide voter attention and reduce the effectiveness of voter choice.
Am I really out of my mind or is this not a lambda at all but just an anonymous function?
I solved all my problems that needed disposable email addresses quite simply: I just don't sign up for those sites. If I'm not interested in getting future emails from them, I probably don't care enough to even log in.
g+ is going to be like a "grown up" facebook - without the farmville games and the like. It'll be the social network for people who've avoided facebook over perceived privacy slights. It'll be somewhat like a cross between facebook and a friendlier linkedin.

It'll be a lot of things to a lot of people, but it won't be a 'facebook killer' any time soon. G+ is going to be expanding the social network user pie for a while, rather than siphoning off large chunks from facebook.
I'll second this suggestion. In my experience so far, webapp2 is a great way to get beyond some of the stranger idiosyncrasies of the default webapp without being overwhelmed or completely throwing away the benefits of Google's extensive documentation. If you like an extension or modified feature, use it. If not, do the way Google tells you to and it'll work just fine.

If you use nothing else, the extended routing functionality and lazy loading of handlers are big improvements and are pretty painless to implement.
I'm sold on Google Chrome, but it's frustrating that some sites aren't available on Chrome and I'm forced to used Firefox and Safari from time to time. Does that qualify me as a user of all three, thereby inflating the statistics?
Good bosses also want happy employees.
Worked on my Samsung Series 5, but when trying to do a youtube watch with a friend and the tab crashed.
this is an interesting stat as I still don't understand how you can get around the "visa" issue of working in the US with a UK passport.