skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bizarre post that is wrong in almost every detail.

o "In America, you don't ever see them." This is just screamingly false. There are satellite dishes all over the place in both urban and rural areas all over the country. (Suburban too, but there they're often in backyards and harder to see.) They may be sparser than in Europe, I don't know, but they exist in America and are not rare.

o American cities have lots of churches. A much higher percentage than in Europe are low-church Protestant (and thus without the eastern alignment) or constructed in the last half-century or so (and thus without the eastern alignment), but I think the overall percentage of buildings that are churches is actually higher. It's certainly not radically lower.

o The idea that nothing in the US is older than 20 years is clearly meant to be an exaggeration, but it goes beyond mere hyperbole; in any city there are a few buildings that are almost as old as the city itself and plenty others that are a lot older than 20 years. New stuff too, but there are old buildings.

o Semi-true, but in the parking-garage cities the crowds would be moving in no clear single direction, right? Anyway, there are many cities with at least some subway/tram/commuter rail system, not just NY.

o Even in the grid cities, the expressways tend to be radial, and they do point toward a heavier "downtown" area. If you want "decentralized", try Paris.

o The vast majority of US cities have weather that includes clouds, not "only in a few cities".

As far as I can tell, your point really was "these don't apply very well in LA", but that's not because the points mostly don't apply to the US, it's because LA is an outlier.
Just as another note, that picture was used on the front page of the biggest newspaper in Israel regarding the news story.
Hear hear! It's funny how some artists are so conservative about their own industry...
That's not "DLL Hell," it's an attempt to alleviate it.
JavaScript Performance On Mobile Devices
Think canvas and javascript will be just as smooth on a mobile device?
Interview with Jennifer Fremont-Smith of Smarterer (video)
[video] The Matrix is inspired by several other films?
> In this case, it's less so that it's a "hipster artist",
but it's more that he's a "douchebag artist" with a
bullshit patent. Bullshit patents cost all of us money by
distracting people from doing awesome stuff.

All you did was validate my point (as annoyed is that is going to make you)... this sentence is dripping with preconceptions about both the person trying to assert their patent and the patent itself, neither of which I assume you are intimately familiar with.

If I took the identical scenario and replaced "douchebag artist" with Sergey Brin or Steve Jobs and left all other facts the same (the same patent, the same timeline, the same lawsuit) this discussion looks A LOT different.

Now you have people asserting the patent validity and how it overlaps with X and infringes on Y, but with some easily dismissable artist at the helm, most people have the same response you do -- shove him into a socially defined box and throw it all out the window as bullshit antics of some random douchebag wearing a hemp necklace.

All of these discussions are bullshit - they produce nothing except strife and accomplish nothing.
This should remind everyone to pressure the White House to respond to the very successful: "Petition to End Software Patents".

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/#!/petition/direct-pat...
I got one, this is my first Kindle.

I am incredibly impressed than they produced something like this proced at $79 dollars. Instant delivery of thousands of book, supposed 2 months of battery life, extremely light, fits in my pocket. This is star-trek technology.

And it costs $79.
The article talks about size on disk. Not how it gets loaded in memory.
many entreps are good at starting businesses and bad at maintaining them. Some better serve the economy helping launch more businesses rather than fumbling around trying to grow one.
Less people are now being remotely killed. That can't be a bad thing.
I love this idea ... I can't wait to use it to spy on people.... ;)
The iPad is terrible for reading books.

I was on a plane and got a headache while reading on the iPad - the screen glare is unbearable - I could see the reflection of the above light-source and my ugly face. And the device itself is a lot heavier than a Kindle, so you also get tired from holding it.

After 2 hours of struggling I took out my netbook, which at least can sit in my lap.
I would still try to put any kind of businessmodel onto it and look if any money comes out. Now you are here on the mainpage and thus much more famous. Having your source code in the open doesn't mean you don't see a paycheck for your work! (especially when most of your page views will come from HNers, who value great coding work and thus are more willing to pay for it, even if they don't have to. Think about this one article about Textmate2 some days ago.)
Best of luck to you. I have been fighting off AML for the last 4 years. Keep a positive attitude through all your testing and chemo. You have a long road ahead and always laughing and making jokes will be your best friend.

EDIT:: Also people are right, everyone should join the marrow list. bethematch.org. You just swap your mouth and send it back. You might not ever be called, but one day you might save someones life.
Go 1 is a good idea. I just hope Go 2 is not considered harmful.
Zero latency?

Cool idea nevertheless =)
Beyond Task Completion: Flow in Design
I remember trying it in Vista and being disappointed that it didn't work. There were a lot of times in my old job it would've been useful.
Yes, thank you! I've been to #2 and #3, and both were great. Keep up the good work!
Or this section of Queens where there's a 23rd Street, 23rd Avenue, 23rd Road, 23rd Terrace and 23rd Drive in close proximity: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=23rd+Street,+Queens,+New+York,...
I think Io is one of the most inventive languages I played with in a few years. Lots of interesting ideas and as _why said "it has a very clean mirror" that give you special powers.
This. We have a bubble in dubious relationships not being properly exposed: from patent trolls, to wealth financial scammers, etc. If you play with fire - be prepared to get burned. Let's hoping Anonymous and others can help burst this bubble.
Wasn't the announcement supposed to be on 10/11 that is almost a week away from Steve's death. Is it really that mournful at Google?
Thanks for the link to the site. Tweeted it to those who may be able to help. Cross our fingers...
Goodbye steve - Jonathan Mann
LLVM is a square peg. If your project needs a square shaped peg then it will do amazing things for you. On the other hand if you want it to do circle shaped things you will feel the pain.
> I kept going exactly in the reverse direction I "knew" I should go

I had exactly the same problem when moving from Australia to Japan, and it didn't go away after 4 years living there! I always wondered whether it was to do with the sun angle, or some other effect, as I seemed to suffer from it at night too. I wonder if there's been any studies of this kind of effect.
Great example, but that was a long time ago. The argument being made here is that there isn't enough innovation in the free software space in recent years.
Does anybody know what operating system the infected machines run? If it's a Unix variant, ouch--I guess they have some really bad luck. But if this is just an everyday virus, as opposed to cyber warfare targeting the drones specifically, I can't help but think they might be running Windows. Air gap or not, that seems risky to me.
Oh please tell me they aren't running windows.

Just wait until the cops start using these in the USA for "crowd control" ugh.
In particular, `ctags -x` generates human-readable tabular output (instead of the normal output designed for parsing by text editors) and annotates each symbol to indicate whether it's a variable, function, macro, etc.

If you want to get a list of all function names from file "foo.c", you could do something like:

ctags -x foo.c | awk '$2=="function"{print $1}'
This is a complaint I've been hearing from the majority of in real life people that own a Kindle3. Interestingly enough, I do own a Kindle3 and have used the previous versions and I like the next/prev page buttons on the Kindle3 better. I find that they're harder to press by accident, and although at first I found them awkward to use in the beginning, after going through half of the A Song of Ice and Fire saga I find them perfect for the way I hold my Kindle. I'm a big bookworm though (I spend from 8 to 16 hours a day programming, ie. looking at a screen... therefore I'm not really interested in watching TV and use books as my daily escape from reality mechanism) and going through three of those books, which by the way are humongous compared to "regular" books, took me about two weeks at about four hours of usage a day. The point being that I believe that after you have been using a Kindle for 60+ hours, I think that this type of buttons kind of grow on you.

The statistician in me kind of want's to know what are the usage statistics for people that dislike the buttons and people that love them, though that could also be because I want confirmation that I'm not just a dude with a weird hand anatomy! In any case, how long have you been using your Kindle and what are your usage patterns?

PD: I can't believe I'm so damn interested in freaking usage statistics on Kindle buttons...
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President Barack Obama issues order to bolster classified information security
Hold an iPhone in your right hand with your fingers wrapped securely around the device. Now type Q with your thumb. It's perfectly comfortable for me. But if I try to reach literally any further, I can start feeling a tightness in the tendons of my thumb to stretch further.

It really is the perfect size for me, and I'm a 6'0" lumberjack of a human. Any bigger and it would be less comfortable to use.
How a web design goes straight to hell [comic]
Why copy-paste? (Well, I think I know why...)
Should we do the same with all messages from ML now? Just use normal ML UI, like gmane, I provided link to earlier. If you need direct one to Chris' mail, it would be:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/4376...

Actually I'm not sure why this particular response was pointed out, as it is not perfect rebuttal. It's almost always better to even only skim whole thread than be picky about which mail to read carefully, as you'll always miss something then.
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Windows 8 on CR-48 notebook
Look at what the perl script at http://www.gson.org/egypt/ does -- if you are using gcc, you can compile with certain options to generate info from the source code into an intermediate file and then parse this intermediate file with a script to get the info you need. A bit complex, but useful if you are trying to read through code you are maintaining. A compiler is better than a regex for this, I think, for C.

Also ctags/etags like another comment mentioned as also the cscope utility.
> This tends to work great in theory

That's a great lead in for something that contrasts fact and theory. Unfortunately....

> You can look at California as an example of this. The populace have voted on referendum after referendum to pass new laws without passing the budget to match

That's simply not true. The referendum-required spending is a small fraction of CA's budget.[1]

The closest thing to an exception is that 50% of the budget has to go to education. However, that doesn't mandate a level of spending.

Even if CA had a huge amount of voter-mandated spending, that doesn't justify or require other spending.

CA has a budget problem because its income tax system is fairly volatile because it is very progressive. (Property tax receipts, thanks to prop 13, is actually fairly stable.) That's a problem because the governor and legislature see good years as opportunities to increase spending, which can't be paid for when bad years come along.

When I lose income, I cut back. CA govt doesn't. (And no, increases in unemployment compensation aren't the problem.)

[1] I'm ignoring the bond measures because they're put on the ballot by the legislature and required for all significant borrowing. The relevant projects aren't referendum-spending.
I think he just wants a new phone.

... perhaps to console his broken heart ...
Can't blame Google if they are trying to be publicly mourful and trying to get mileage out of it. Tow birds in one stone: time to fix those last bugs and also get good press for the delay. Well played.
I've tried vbox when I used a mac and couldn't get past the user interface. The gui severely limits what I can easily do with it, and it's just plain irritating sometimes.

Now I'm back on linux and kvm/qemu, and I'm much happier. Why are people using vbox over kvm?
"When patents are enforced by big legal entities, we ALL scream foul, "Patents are meant to protect the little guy, not make lawyers rich!""

Please, don't use "ALL" because that is not true, I don't cream this, so your statement is a fallacy easily to demonstrate. It is only you who has problems with big entities by default.

Patents are about successful implementation of inventions. Business patents should never be granted in a free market economy because it destroys it and create a "privilege and monopoly buying" society." in witch people in power could buy privileges witch gives them power and the possibility to buy more privileges.

The moment you need to ask permission to the state to operate in your business you are not in a free market anymore, you are in a centralized economy in witch everything is decided by the people in top.

US of America is becoming a totalitarian state, step by step.
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Use mysql_real_escape_string() instead of addslashes(). And the cookie contents can't be trusted. The usual way to do this is with a server-side session, but if a cookie is used the user id and name have to be protected; MD5 can be used to do that, too.
Yes, but they have to give credit back. Better than nothing - people can follow the trail.
Ohh yeah. Driving in DC is a nightmare in general. Thank goodness we have great mass transit in a fair portion of the city.

The craziest thing is that we have lanes and even whole streets that change DIRECTION depending on the time of day/day of the week.
Amazing chalkboard Steve Jobs tribute at General Assembly.
Wow that's really interesting, thanks!
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Well said.

I generally don't agree with Stallman's viewpoint, but his voice is important. I would neither like to see an all encompassing Jobs-world nor a Stallman-world. As long as the one exists with the other we all have more opportunity. The Jobs approach enables mass consumption of technology. The Stallman approach enables fully detailed exploration of technology. Either, on their own, severely restricts access to technology. In the case of the former, through disseminating technology by fiat. In the case of the latter, through disseminating technology only to the dedicated and skillful.

I don't see how either one can disappear and leave the other as the complete dominating implementation of technology. It doesn't appear to be a possibility. Even with market domination of the walled-garden approach, the hacker will always have the opportunity and capability to start from scratch. There's nothing stopping anyone from building a better mobile OS.
I'm starting to believe that memory usage may be a red herring in modern operating systems. Memory prices have been crashing, every day on Slickdeals I see 8GB of notebook (and netbook) memory for less than $30. Is this a problem worth solving anymore?
ITunes store now compatible with the GPL?
http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html says:

You may not copy (except as expressly permitted by this license and the Usage Rules), decompile, reverse-engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, modify, or create derivative works of the Licensed Application, any updates, or any part thereof (except as and only to the extent that any foregoing restriction is prohibited by applicable law or to the extent as may be permitted by the licensing terms governing use of any open-sourced components included with the Licensed Application).

When did that change? Does that mean I could include a GPL executable as part of my app?
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Also watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qost8BSnJr0
'a former musician'. That tells you pretty much all you need to know about this guy and his motives.
probably are... mission control at spacex has many windows terminals.
Unflagged. Thanks.
Exactly - they are essentially selling a "I'm a cheapskate" version and a "I can afford to pay more" version.
I saw the Romo guys demonstrate this at Seattle Dorkbot a couple nights ago. It's a neat little gizmo.
Nokia C1-01 Light solution
Nokia C1-01 Light solution

This is a discussion on Nokia C1-01 Light solution within the nokia c1-01 forums, part of the nokia c series category; Nokia C1-01 Light solution....
Oh I should've read the whole article first...apparently reduced memory usage leads to longer battery life which is a worthy goal.
It seems to me that a more interesting question than "how did the malware get there?" is "why are they telling us that they found it?"

Presumably the default thing to do under these circumstances would be to shut up about it, so the fact that they're broadcasting it to the whole world must mean something. In any case I wouldn't take any of the details at face value -- e.g. do they really not have any idea where it came from, or are they feigning ignorance in the hopes of lulling their opponent into a false sense of security?
28 Months Later
28 Months Later
,The film opens in Don and his wife Alice in the English cottage, protecting Rabies virus has devastated the United Kingdom. Together with a variety of comfortable family sitting at the table.
This is definitely the key point of the issue. As long as people aren't arrested for 'intent' to commit a crime - which is really impossible to prove without action - this tech might help out a lot. If it works as advertised and is used responsibly, it might help bring certain areas closer to security, instead of security theater.
The privacy implications need to be managed carefully; it's probably too much to ask for them to not be botched.
Site looks nice. Very Apple-like.

Have you considered pre-installing Mint?
We have lost a Giant
Maybe they anticipated a leak and wanted to get out in front of the story.
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I don't know if I can answer your question, but I could maybe clarify what I think are a few misconceptions.

The first misconception is that artists are generally opposed to new revenue models. Artists, designers, craftspeople have absolutely embraced new revenue models, and the number of artists, graphic designers, fashion designers, video artists, industrial designers, et al. using sites like kickstarter and etsy, or selling digital work like templates or themes, is staggering. And many of these don't involve the 'typical exchange of work for money,' but are on one level or another creatively or professionally fulfilling.

The second is about the 'no spec' argument. There are huge differences between new revenue models—they're not all equal, and they're not all fair. Design professionals find spec work exploitative because they're exchanging their services to a client without any guarantee of payment. Most people in most industries find this unfair. Programmers are no exception. Nobody likes to do a lot of work for someone else to only earn a chance of getting paid.

Working for spec is fundamentally different from working for free for yourself—to design and manufacture a product, for example.

And as a sidenote, while few designers are comfortable with the proliferation of spec-driven websites, most designers I know don't feel particularly threatened by them anymore. At their best, they provide an outlet for students, unemployed, and self-taught designers to build their portfolios. But the work that comes out of them isn't generally great, and the clients that use them are generally the kind of clients nobody wants: fussy, demanding, unimaginative and cheap. Clients who probably wouldn't be paying for design services otherwise. It still costs money to get good work. That's what it's really about: protecting the value of the work you do professionally.
I love GPS. I really do. But I'm realizing that my sense of place would be so much more vivid if I were constantly thinking along these lines. I suspect I'd have a sense of my own presence in direct relation to the natural (as opposed to the artificial) environment. Specifically, I think I'd deepen my appreciation of the relation between the larger world, and the micro-environments we construct for ourselves within it.

I realize that there's a lot of additional cognitive load needed to maintain this sense, and that by relying on GPS (as I do to an almost embarrassing extent) I'm freeing up mental resources for other operations. But to some extent this seem like not stopping to smell roses in order to make more time available for other 'more important' things.
...I would expect the stories and comments to move to a full and varied spectrum of views....there needs to be room for a larger conversation.

You said this well, but it's been said better:

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify and vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as crazy, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
Let the trashing of jobs stories begin
Good work Waseem/Khuram. Inbox2 going to live on for the iPad? Moving into 500?
Steve Jobs tribute art made from MacBook parts
I don't believe this is true. Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses indicates nothing about an attribution requirement.
Thanks for this constructive criticism. I do kind of feel like I am making excuses to myself and need to admit that to move forward.

I just felt like working on software and integrated circuits in the 1980's would have been so easy compared to the highly specialized environment today.

But at the same time someone pointed out that it probably seemed pretty difficult to them. Also that in 25 years students will likely laugh about how easy some of the work we are doing today was.

(edit weird that that my second post showed up so late. I wrote it as an add-on. Been having issues with posting.)
I wish the Kindle (and ipad) could browse the shared file directories on my LAN. This is a glaring and inexplicable deficiency.
I feel embarrassed when I read such material from ESR.

We nerds are mortals, knit from the stuff of earth, and born of woman, even as other mortals.
People also have opinions and they should be free to express them.
This is going to be fun when somebody figures out how shoot somebody with a virus based predator.

Next time think twice before antagonizing your local geek :)
No you're not blind. you're something else.