skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read it more as chagrin. I was once looking at Saturn through a telescope and a satellite (of Earth) crossed the scene. As it's rather rare for "fast" events to happen while looking at the sky, I was somewhat thrilled. I interpreted that poster's comment with similar context.

The author did say the observation was "just to test a new guide camera", so it's not like ISS interrupted the main purpose of shot, and a picture of NGC7000+ISS is much less common than NGC7000 by itself.
I'm a Chinese Malaysian and pretty familiar with Chinese culture and their ways. For those of you who might be skeptical, I think this article quite accurate.

I've tried hard to think of recent Chinese tech inventions that are truly new, and not a ripoff of a popular existing product, and could never come up with any, until just recently. I bought one of these "Air Fly Mouse" http://www.airflymouse.com/ and it works as advertised! Here's to more innovation coming from China.
Ah. I suppose we'll start working on the core of our application now and decide on the UI later.

Thanks!
unordered queue

What is that? Do you mean a regular, non-priority, queue?
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He's trying again at http://www.justin.tv/realnotch

Edit: Seems like many people having problems with it, but Notch is sticking with it. Would be awesome if the Justin.tv/Twitch.tv crew can jump in and help!
> I just don't want to [...] buy a license [...]

Would you pay the $100/year AppHub fee to publish apps for WP7 if you ended up liking it?

This sort of argument just reminds of all those who whine about having to buy a Mac to do iOS development but in reality they wouldn't be doing iOS dev anyways, they just like to loudly cite all the reasons that they're not doing it for some reason.
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If instead of a constant rainbow, you use a gradient that changes colors from left-to-right, that would have been a better visual indicator.
I've been refreshing the Amazon page throughout the day. They just went up in price by $15; the official Amazon listing is gone and has been replaced by the listings from other merchants.
There was actually another case I don't have a link to at the moment where a guy passed out drunk at a party and a women he had never met essentially raped him in his sleep. Yup, he was forced to pay child support too.
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You mean except in trading, sales, marketing, and management of those fields and technology? Like I said: outside the Professions, where is the degree an absolute requirement?

A degree is necessary to be an accountant, a lawyer, a doctor, or an (non-computing) engineer. But that's a small slice of the overall workforce.

And sure, especially in the Fortune 1000, companies strongly consider degrees even outside the professions. But I guarantee you that success in (say) sales has almost nothing to do with the degree (or lack thereof) you start with, and management of sales teams has everything to do with prior sales success.
For a little bit technical overview have a look at http://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_What_is_hot_code_replace%3F
It would be presumptuous if I was to say that not thinking that way would make you a bad programmer; I'm sure there are many ways to enlightenment. And many types of enlightenment, for that matter. But I would venture to say that being able to think of programming as language, is a strength. Whether you use this paradigm as the primary frame for writing software, is a different matter. I find it very powerful.

See also: Literate programming, or - more recently - Domain Driven Design (In particular: Ubiquitous language).
class Colour extends Color {} // problem solved.
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Though they take a lot of flak recently, patents and patent protection are crucial for the environment in which any innovator can market his/her products, without fear of the idea being copied and mass-produced by a mega-corporation.
Probably. It would also be good if there was a visual indicator of how much text is visible in the buffer relative to buffer size (like sml-modeline does). However, this mode is Nyan Cat first, visual help second. :).
And yet, I'm offended.
Err, yeah, but it's priced below cost
Hurray for peer reviewed news.
But you can be sure the big music labels will furiously lobby the Americans and Europeans not to see things that way.
Some of the best, most meaningful and informative "social" participation I've had online has been with pseudonyms. And those people would not have been there if not for the pseudonyms.

(People shared their real names if and as there were ready, and one-to-one. I'm still in touch with many of them, a decade and more later.)

I'm not terribly interested in Google's (and Facebook's, et al.) seemingly self-serving "speculation" on this topic. I'll base my opinion, and decisions, on real experience.

Buzz. Wave. Get on the clue train, folks.
Notch's NEW Livestream for Ludum Dare 21
Problem is if we only saw him diving into Rage source code and tweaking stuff, that wouldn't teach us much.
That's the joke (Most touch typists will do shift-4 with index finger, and shift-3 with middle finger)
It was only a matter of time before somebody suggested this.
https://github.com/kkdoo/bootstrap/tree/scss
argh :( looked nice. an absolute bargain.
I'm always amazed how hard it is to type a | pipe on an american keyboard. On British keyboards it's next to left shift so you can type it with just one keystroke.
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I'm all for Nyan Cat becoming the new Hello World.
I had a Firefox extension on my PC that did this pretty well. You can always do a "curl | grep" in an emergency.

Imagine a world where most people understood regular expressions. Definitely going to teach my son about them when he's mastered times tables.
You can't get a job as a secretary without a degree these days.

There is a bubble in Silicon Valley, but it's not an economic one...
Well, it's not a bad idea. Why let WebOS have the same faith BeOS (another Palm owned OS) be forgotten?
The price that is shown after it's in the cart is $493.99, hmm. And says "only 1 left in stock".
Gotcha...on my own projects I write very clean code, because there is never a shortage of time.
Many plants actually do rotate throughout the day to face the sun.
12000 people watching a man program _JAVA_. I guess hell is a cold place nowadays ;)
I would argue that it is, the flat line could be said to have tripled from the seventies to right before it took off during the current panic. If one had bought gold before the panic and held long they would most likely see the same trend as was seen from the 70's up until the panic. The thing about gold is it is subject to panic buying when currencies are debased and it is exactly the time that someone that has held long in gold should vacate there position, wait for it to implode and then double down on it again. Gold purchased at it's baseline is actually one of the best hedges available. The problem is gold goes unnoticed until there is a panic. Institutional investors ignore it because it's performance is long while others ignore it because it is not a high profile security that the institutions are chasing.
That is ridiculously cool! I'm always amazed to see how people are creative like this.
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see - you CAN compete with the iPad: it's all a matter of price ;-)
"...what would happen if most of your school’s peer institutions replaced expensive tenured faculty with cheap online courses and used the savings to cut tuition by 50 percent."

Tenured professors at research universities are 90% there to do research, not to teach. I don't think they're replaceable in that way.
In Germany you have to buy a premium account to watch.
It says to much streams in this country.

There is just one peering video hoster, when can users stream on Youtube?
The name "nano" in computing is already used by a well-known text editor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_%28text_editor%29
4G
What is Fourth Generation (4G) Technology & Its Importance?

http://www.newtechie.com/2011/08/what-is-fourth-generation-4g-technology.html
This is the lie that every functional programmer has perpetuated for the last 50 years since the dawn of Lisp - that somehow, automagically, productivity or effectiveness of programmers increase with the use of functional languages.

It's the biggest lie in the programming world, and it was designed to make the uber-geeks of this world, those people that you walk around the block just to avoid saying hello to because you know they are deeply and profoundly anti-social, feel good about themselves, to feel special, as though they have the "upper hand" that other normal people who deliberately choose other languages over purely functional ones.

There is value in learning how to think recursively, but a lot of programming, especially systems programming doesn't need to have its for loops transformed into recursive functions, or its addition operators into primitive recursive functions.

I am sick and tired of people expounding on the alleged efficacy and efficiency of functional languages and I wish they would just STFU once and for all and go back to their porn intermezzos between their functional programming spurts.
Max number of streams reached for my country. Who knew there are so many Notch fans in Estonia.
Hmm. Queuing might well be ubiquitous but data would be accessible only in meticulous order: from the head of a queue and from nowhere else.
I was hooked on the section covering Berkeley DB design and will be recommending this to pretty much all the developer friends I know. I even put up with registering on Lulu to pay for the PDF version. I am so sick of registering for things and creating new accounts, although I saw it as a necessary evil in this case. Can federated identity get here any sooner?
TouchPad $99...
Slightly off-topic, but you can also use an apostrophe (') to search text only inside links. Really handy for navigating pages without the mouse.
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Where's the incentive to innovate if you have a huge market with tremendous cultural barriers to entry for the most innovative companies in the rest of the world?
More like 12000 people now understand that is not the language that matters :)
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Oh god, I had to use a British keyboard while working on a project this summer, and that damn backslash/pipe key next to the left shift was the bane of my existence. I don't know how many times I accidentally hit that when trying to hit the left shift. Why would you ever put it there?

And the tall Enter key - uggh, why? Even if you need an extra key because of the pound symbol, you could just put it where the backslash/pipe key normally goes, instead of having a misshapen Enter key. And swapping " and @ - completely nonsensical. ' and " should be on the same key.
I like the shot of the bathroom!

How is the Nova Scotia tech scene?
Thanks for the link. I'm working on some new internal functionality at work, and I too suck at design. The admin templates look fabulous, and $20 is WAY than an hour of my time! I thought Themeforest was only for Wordpress...
Odd when I try to load it the url jumps back and forth between twitch.tv and justin.tv and never sticks on either.
Indeed, nor is it in ASCII. So it might at least have encouraged attention to be paid to character encoding issues a decade or so earlier!
sorry disagree 1000% percent. I don't know about the tv experience written about, but as a former Iphone user and now an android user, I prefer the dedicated buttons. Its consistent ui behavior across all apps vs trying to figure how to get to the menu screen as iphone apps handle it differently. If the app doesn't use a standard apple ui, also navigating back can be difficult.
How is HP's shopping site so incredibly bad? How many different servers can we force the users' browsers to hit to load the cart. Loving the error msg:

>cpqUtil error '800a0006'

Overflow

/dstore/dcart/include/u_util.asp, line 221
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Wow, even the walmart where I live, and I live in podunk, sold out at 9am
Good point, although I feel that real names would make things better on Hacker News by giving (1) accountability for comments (2) credentials and justification for opinions. By the latter, I mean that it constantly seems that (for example) on many posts lately involving mathematics there's an argument where one side is forcefully saying one thing that's false and covered in any good college pure math course. For third-parties it isn't obvious that one side is correct and that one side may be a professor or PhD.
A command line /me utility from IRC
Use /me in your terminal. Useless but much needed terminal fun...
Yeah, this one's a fun issue to deal with, especially on Android where there are some (rather large) manufacturers who seem to forget that UUIDs are supposed to be at least relatively unique. I know of at least one major device line that uses the same UUID for all its devices, however, there are probably more out there.
Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21 (now on twitch.tv)
FP is becoming the new OOP. People who don't understand its original meaning are misinterpreting it and incorrectly expounding its usefulness. Newcomers are not grasping how it fits into the bigger picture. Be cautious.
Stealing what?

Fulcrum developers had decided to implement FOSS self-hosted solution, comparable to Pivotal Tracker. They even wrote this clearly in project's README file. How that could be "stealing"?
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This is why probability is such a useful math: it turns our intuitive reasoning on its head and gives us solid descriptions of the processes at hand. Another great example of probability in action is the Monty Hall Problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem). Totally unintuitive process, but unarguable results.
Obviously a bug, i got there from twitch.tv now and have the same problem.

http://www.twitch.tv/realnotch

Edit: Delete your cookies/privatewindow and go there with the twitch domain above now it works.
I just get redirected to twitch.tv, is it being streamed on both or only twitch.tv now?
Google to roll out verification badges on profiles.
Man, you suck at Space Invaders.
I'm not a FP-fan boy (yet), but it seems you have a very limited view of FP. It's not just recursion...
Infinite loading for me.
Readability is just one click away http://www.readability.com/
nice - but don't you think all that red is going to be hard on your eyes after a while?
Wow, this is really dramatic.
> Panels efficiency is measured in Watts, and this kid is not going to be able to record their efficiency with a simple probe DMM.

Well, he could've just connected a 5-ohm resistor across the leads, so he would be measuring voltage under a load instead of open circuit. Then finding the power produced would be a simple application of Ohm's law.
I just got one from office max offline. In fact I am using it to type this comment.
Interesting choice, and I'd imagine that it sidesteps all of the balance issues. On the other hand, what now separates you from a VPS provider with an API? (like say Linode)

Interesting. I agree with your approach. When I was looking at KVM, I noticed its rather insane surface area (Everything is in the kernel as a kernel module) and that almost all of the vulnerabilities found seem to stem from that arch decision. As an example have a look at this: nelhage.com/talks/kvm-defcon-2011.pdf

I was just wondering if you knew of any way to secure that down, or any way to patch quickly enough that you don't break SLA by having to forever reboot people.

Just generally given that we've had CVE-2011-2212 CVE-2011-2527 CVE-2011-1751 CVE-2011-0011 CVE-2011-1750 for kvm itself in the last few months, so say you have 5 critical bugs in kvm a year. If you need to restart everybody to patch and it takes a minute or so to restart per vm and you have say 40 vms/box (random numbers for the sake of argument), that's 3 hours of downtime/year not counting kernel upgrades/etc. That means the best you can do is 99.9% uptime not even considering transit failure/dc power failure/etc.

So my question is how do you deal with that?
No offense but the same could be said about Object Oriented Programming. To me functional languages make a lot more sense, because of the "No side effects" stuff.

Reminds me of a quote from Richard Stallman:
"Adding OOP to Emacs is not clearly an improvement; I used OOP when working on the Lisp Machine window systems, and I disagree with the usual view that it is a superior way to program."

But I also don't consider functional programming harder. I actually do have more problems with (C++/Java/Python style) OO, even though I like it when it is a real language concept, like in Smalltalk and others.

But I am weird. I consider Assembly to be easier (to learn) than C(++) and Perl easier (to read) than most other scripting languages.

I think it is a lot about the way you think. A language has to compensate the things that are hard for you so you can concentrate on the easy stuff. It's a bit like having different tutorials or teachers. There are people that think similar to you while there are other who think very different. It's a common problem in schools. If the teacher thinks in a different way the pupils will have a hard time.
If I saw a WP7 market share uptake, probably yes.
Yeah I think you're just wrong.
What I find interesting are the anecdotes (of which I've now seen several) of first-time tablet owners buying TouchPads because they're so cheap.

One has to wonder if HP hasn't inadvertently created a whole new group of future iPad owners.
I know of this. The interesting question it brings up is how do you keep a cloud like this patched and up to date without dropping SLA?
ha ha, i'd take censorship over patents anyday.
He moved to http://www.twitch.tv/realnotch#
I love the Monte Hall problem. I've found many smart people who have a difficult time getting it.
Meanwhile, HP UK have them at £349/429 for 16/32GB. Pity, for anywhere near $99 it'd make sense for me.
So, is that only happening online or also in the real world? Also, is it worldwide? I just happened to be at a (German) electronics retailer and they still sell the pads for their old prices and the people there know nothing about a reduction in price.

(They are also still selling the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, preliminary injunction be damned :)

– Edit: Also, I played around with it a bit. It certainly wasn’t as bad as some made it sound. The tablet was not connected to the internet (none where, which makes testing all that harder) but no matter what I tried, everything was very snappy – to a degree that the Honeycomb tablets weren’t really. (I have unreasonably high standards.) The only thing that tended to take some time was launching apps.
There definitely hasn't been an Open Source project similar to Pivotal Tracker and I am happy that somebody has finally taken the time to write one. I am sure, this will help many small companies like ours.

I've tried a couple of times to build a usable bug tracker (we actually use an inhouse bug tracker at our company), but this is a hard problem. It'd be great if the ruby community rallied around this and make it into the "goto bug tracker"
Sure, down vote at will! My point wasn't that the current price was the right price, but that it was overpriced before. Clearly, there is a demand for the product. Maybe an experiment with a happy medium would have been a good experiment before tossing out the entire product.
Can you share some of these? Should be interesting reading.

I'm mostly seeing nerds going crazy at the cheap hackable tablet.
Ask HN: What Would You Study if You Could Redo College
Hi everyone, this is my first post on HN, but I've been reading for a couple of years now. I'm entering my senior year of high school and have been thinking a lot about colleges and what I want to study. I've always enjoyed math and science so I figure I'll probably end up in some sort of engineering career. Additionally, I've been teaching myself Python and really enjoying it; I try to read programming books and write programs for an hour or two each day.

I'm wondering what you all would major in if you had the chance to redo college knowing what you know now. I'd also like to know what your opinion is of CS as a major. Is a CS degree useful for learning to write code better, or does it make more sense to focus on some other engineering field and learn to program on your own to be more well rounded? I'm a little worried that getting a CS degree would give me less options than, say getting a mechanical or electrical engineering degree and learning to program on the side.

Thanks for reading
If you don't mind my asking, why choose to post this specifically where it will be blocked for others in China?
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"I think it is a lot about the way you think"

Brother, you are on the money with that statement. But the MINUTE I make a religion out of the way _I_ or a bunch of eclectics uber-geeks think, is the minute you bring about the demise and distaste of that particular paradigm of thinking.

I can relate to the 'way of thinking' better than these stupid religious arguments about FP. Did you know you can program in an OO fashion in C? Or even in Lisp, if you really cared to? You could also write a very 'functional' program in C if you really wanted to.

Why is everything black and white with geeks, is beyond my wildest dreams - but it just points to a lack of mature thinking.
Working fine for me, but it redirects to twitch.tv.
Also, if you're feeling generous, open-source webOS too please? :)
Actually, at least in the US and UK, "ecstasy" usually refers to pills of MDMA which have been cut with some amount (50% or so) of meth or a similar upper. Pure MDMA (much safer) is more commonly referred to as molly to avoid confusion. The two formulations are very different.
If people don't like walled gardens, they won't go there. If they do go, that means they are OK. I myself enjoy my real name and walled gardens.
I loved the doublethink involved in "There’s no stupidity in the story. The managers in both companies did exactly what business school professors and the best management consultants would tell them to do".

When you play chess, you shouldn't optimize your strategy for short-term capture of your opponent's pieces.
I prefer the Manc version of PHP (which syntactically has bugger all in common with PHP coz thats how we roll in Manc):

alright ar kid?
im not being funny but x = y
z is like 10 * 10 int it

you got a spare minute?
can you just do this for us
// codage
while im sorting this out
// conditionage
ta son

if /*function*/ is acting the goat
bloody_nora (error)

summat wrong? nah : damn fucking right flower
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How many developers you work with know how to search/navigate the code base effectively? How many of them know and use regular expressions when ever they can? How many of them feel really comfortable with find/xarg/(e)grep? How many of them know advanced editor like vim/emacs? How many of them know that there is something like pentadactyl for firefox?

I thought so. So, I can't really say I'm surprised that 90% of people don't know how to search either.
"Sir, you must be the greatest archer in the world - everywhere around on walls, trees and fences there are targets, each with your arrow exactly in the middle. How did you achieve such greatness?"

"I paint the targets after shooting."