skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, great criticism of science journalism. Mainstream science jouranlism is mainly of two strains: (1) Don't do this a home, kids! We're experts! and (2) Oh, look, that whacky scientist invented sausages made of poo! Looks like this kraken thing might be part of that.

Second, did anyone else think of the Kraken in Ken McLeod's Cosmonaut Keep (http://literarygalaxies.blogspot.com/2011/03/engines-of-ligh...)?
RSA: Nation-state responsible for SecurID breach
I was supposed to be in NYC this week but pushed it out, so I think if you're going to be done with 1.3 problems in a couple days, I stand a good chance at catching up to you.
Nope. It's definitely not easier to use -- you have to join their developer program or whatever in order to add a website to that "smart" bar.
That's assuming you could account for the rate of psychopathy among those criminals who died before they could be tested for it as well as those who died before they were caught as criminals. Lifespan will also probably be different for criminals on the streets vs. inside prison, so I'm not sure you could simply adjust for that.

The original commenter amended his post to say that he mis-remembered about it being higher than in prisons, anyway.
Imagemagick can already use this "algorithm". See "fourier transform" applications such as:

http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/fourier_transforms/fo...)
Coffee makers
I was searching everywhere for information on Coffee Makers and then I found this website. Lots of Coffee Makers related tips and tricks for free!
What system takes 55 seconds to boot an Android Virtual Device?

I get to the home screen with everything loaded in about 18 seconds. I'm on a fairly new system with decent processor and memory to spare, but even on my old single processor 4GB laptop I get the emulator launched in about 35 seconds.
The next time a venture of mine gets a nastygram from the Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht, I know exactly where I'm going to tell them to file it. What hypocrites.
IS Perl 6 "working now" ? Last I heard it was still not really running acceptably fast, and major pieces of the language are still under construction.
"What happens to developers who get old"

We look at the young kids and think "What chance have they got".

We've had decades to assimilate Basic (C64), Assembly (6502, 68000 and Z80), C, Pascal, Serial Comms, Linux, Windows, X, ASN.1, C++, STL, OO, Patterns, UTF-8, Java, Lisp, Ruby, CSS, SQL, HTML, XML , XSL, XPATH, JSON, Node.js, Punch Cards, Boost and all the other stuff I've forgotten.

And guess what, once you've been to about 20 interviews all the questions are the same. So you better hope you don't come up against us.
If we're going to be posting judgmentally titled articles, then why don't we post "why perl is the language of the past." I suspect the main reason languages like perl and FORTRAN are still used is because of legacy and tradition. But I acknowledge that is my opinion, not fact, so I wouldn't post such a title. Seriouly, we need to stop the pomposity. What about "My concerns about Dart 0.1", or "Early Criticism for Dart 0.1"?
Sign or sanity check, whichever you prefer. Personally in a simple interface like this site I'd rather sanity check the few simple parameters.
How the US government secretly reads your email
True, but by that logic, it would almost make sense for Apple to go to a 2-year upgrade cycle, since the 3GS to 4 upgrade is also definitely worthwhile for those users. The main reasons they didn't already upgrade are not being off contract yet, and waiting for the iPhone 5 release.
Sure, but to most developers the functionality of seeing their mobile application running on their desktop machine is "emulation". And they probably don't need true emulation, they just need to test their application
I don't think the author gets how markets work. Investors are much more focused much more on macro factors (e.g. the state of the EU) than micro ones (e.g. Blackberry's servers being down in the middle east).

The S&P was up 3.4%, and with RIM's beta of ~1.3..a rough benchmark, extremely imperfect "guess" for how much RIM should be up is 4.4%. This could mean that if the overall market was just flat, RIM's stock might have taken a loss. I think this was more a case of a rising tide lifting RIM's boat.

....or maybe it means MSFT will finally buy them out.
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To be honest, if it was written in a more popular language, there would probably be a fix.
based on the data in the article QEmu + Android ARM runs at approximately same speed as Nexus One phone which is a good thing, right? I dont want my development emulator to run twice as fast as actual hardware, do I.

The question is whether you can make the emulator run as fast as modern dual core android phones.
He means that he can't say “value = 5” and then later say “"the value is " + 5”.
I see that as a feature. It looks like you're saying "I want to add numbers and letters together and Ruby complains."

If you really want that value in your string, why not use "The value is #{value}"
I was thinking in the context of Apple. Redesigning the form factor every 12-15 months has a cost. For this reason, redesigning the iPhone to incorporate the LTE chips wouldn't make sense since Apple seems to aim for a 24-28 month refresh on the form factor.

I wasn't suggesting that it was impossible if you were designing from scratch.

Battery life is important. So yes you can sacrifice battery life for more power hungry 1st generation chips but it isn't wrong to decide that the battery life is more important.

Seems like the effective CPU+GPU capability of the iPhone 4S is at the head of the pack. When you add in the overhead that Android software has I don't think it is necessary for Apple to goose the processor specs in order to get fantastic end-user experience. This also saves power. Again tradeoffs that have to be made and the ones Apple picked seem entirely reasonable to lots of customers (based on pre-sales orders).
Whoohoo Spotify App Lets You Access Friends' Playlists
It's not productive to have a site that randomly locks out visitors. No matter how clever the code design is, this is a product flaw.
Wouldn't all the NDK programs at least have to be recompiled?
Why does one need JavaScript to build a web application?
A lot of Ruby idiomatic methods will return either a value or nil, which is falsey, so things like:

x = meep
if x
# do stuff
end

will run as most might mean.
How to Pick a Great Designer
hmm why not set the avd ram size to 512?..even on my slow 32bit 4 gig ram 2-cpu core desktop ubuntu I do not get his slow figures..
I'd like to see a separate chart of paid download comparisons. My bet is iOS dwarfs Android where it counts.
Dart provides and enforces a bunch of idioms that you don't need in JavaScript in the first place! Adding classes to a language that... doesn't need classes.

If anybody but Google released Dart HN wouldn't give two shits.
The dominance of the iPad has always been about the walled garden and iTunes.

Amazon will clean up in the lower end of this market because they also get the importance of content and to some degree walled garden.

To stretch an analogy somewhat:

We geeks are the cowboys who want to roam in wolf-infested
hills, looking for gold. Normal people want to play in a
beautiful, safe garden filled with lovely shiny toys.

Who can blame people, after years of viruses, malware, stupid UIs and techno-babble, to want to sit on a sofa and noodle on the internet while watching TV.
Unless you set +H in bash, including a '!' insisde double quotes is a bad idea.
Internet Accelerator on Amazon
Like 80% of these things are true for Scheme/Lisp/Dylan. Canonical true value? Lack of implicit type conversions? These are good design decisions, not warts.
If there was never a war, do you think more money would have been spent on cancer research? Nope.

A lot of basic science really could be funded by government but there really isn't popular support to do it. Someone needs to figure out a way to get more invested basic research, either through public and/or private money.
Half-Assed Startup: Start your company and keep your day job
I was talking about go, which doesn't have generics, optional typing or operator overloading, doesn't really have "classes" (arguable), and a fairly tight type system which covers structs, interfaces and functions in a minimal way.

I don't really have an informed opinion on dart yet, I'm just noting that 90% of the complaints I'm seeing consist of people with a hobby horse that predated the Dart announcement.
Do you not like it just because of the name itself, or are you also having a problem with the o's? If you don't mind, constructive feedback would be appreciated. Thanks!
Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Hacker News

2. Go to lunch

3. Come back from lunch and click next

Every. Time.
You're thinking from a engineer's perspective, and not average joe. Average joe cares about are downloads 'fast', not that is has to have LTE. LTE is overkill for a broadly marketed product right now considering all the other sacrifices you would be making in form factor, power, buggy new baseband firmware, what people consider broadband speed (4mbps is broadband according to FCC) etc etc.
Not to pile on, but:

> Many people want government-run health care in the US. Legalizing illegal drugs will add to the already large amount of addicts. Do we really want more addicts in our hospitals? I also don't feel like I should be forced to pay for your poor life choices. Regular Drug users should immediately get a huge increase in healthcare costs.

First, the fact that drugs are illegal has done nothing to make them difficult to get - I think most university students would agree they are about 3 text messages away from any drug they might want. People don't avoid drugs because they are illegal, they avoid them because they are concerned about addiction & health effects.

Second, addiction is a public health issue, not a law and order issue. Do you know how expensive it is to imprison someone vs sending them to a rehab program? Take a look at Portugal - treating addiction like the health issue it is works and it's cheaper.

> We still have tons of people suing the cigarette companies because they cause cancer. I can only imagine how many lawsuits will be in our court systems if there is a company selling heroin.

I won't argue the premise but surely you would agree that a backed up court system beats DEA agents getting their heads blown off on a regular basis.
There are sit/stand desks where I work, however I would rather get up and walk around and take a break than desk-up and keep working :o) That said we have Steelcase Leap chairs at work. http://www.steelcase.com/en/products/category/seating/task/l... and at home I have a Herman Miller Mirra http://hermanmiller.com/Products/Mirra-Chairs I hope to purchase a Herman Miller Embody Chair next year.
for how long ?
how about 45 bytes...

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...
Of course. You and I know they're doing it wrong, however sirclueless suggested above that type correctness is "arcane" and asks if "we would really care" when it comes to type issues in printf format strings.
Really interested in seeing what iOS 5 does to these numbers. When it's updated, I'm planning on the iPad being my grandma's next computer.
I'm tired of hearing how Apple is "closed".

Before Apple there was no expansion plane on computers. The Apple II was the first, and the IBM PC copied it. Before Apple there was no open app marketplace, to get your apps on the a cell phone you had to be a big company and do a deal with the carriers. From beginning to end, Apple has been working to open the technology world and empower people.

Also, part of empowering people is delivering a quality, safe, reliable user experience. That means things like, not shipping malware in their appstore.

Look at Apple, and Steve Jobs personally's, stance on DRM. DRM was a competitive advantage for Apple, because iTunes was the worlds largest digital seller of music, and all the music sold on the iTunes store came with DRM, and could only be played on iPods.

Did Jobs and Apple exploit this, or did they try to push the music industry to remove DRM? The answer is obviously the latter... and now music sold on the iTunes music store (a store created to support the iPod and run at break-even for that purpose) can be played anywhere.

When they had the power to do so, not only did they not stay proprietary, they lobbied very hard to open up the rest of the music industry.

The only place Apple keeps things private is with its inventions, and that's understandable in a world where every graphical interface, and a large chunk of the phones sold are direct ripoffs of Apple's inventions.
Sort of yes, sort of no. It's a rapid prototyping technique. Essentially you fix it case by case, by taking individual bits of code that use this technique and replacing them with the uglier and less flexible but more efficient alternative of a hard-coded url.
It seems plain to me that drug opinion on HN ranges from "don't care" to "aggressively advocating legalization". Are you sure you're not just spoiling for a fight? (It's ok; we all get bored sometimes).

Your comment captures nicely one of the things I hate most about out-of-place political stories on HN. There isn't enough diversity of opinion here to have a real debate, so basically what we get is a competition of who can be the most ardently in favor of the idea.

(I'm "don't care" leaning to "legalize because prohibition is expensive", for whatever that's worth to you).

I flagged this stupid article, by the way. What Greenwald says here he could have said at any time during the last 10 years. He's using the tragic death of a public figure as an excuse to suck all the oxygen out of the room and replace it with something else. This is bad, tactless writing period, not just a poor fit for HN.
The Mythbusters on Steve Jobs: “iGenius” Documentary to Air October 16th
PG is using a really cool programming technique that I'm afraid is ahead of its time relative to current hardware. An upgrade to the HN server should allay the problem.

To see the potential, look at this code snippet from an academic paper on the topic. The web server presents a form asking for a number, then presents a form asking for another number, then displays their product. This technique makes event-driven web applications feel (to the programmer) like sequential imperative programs.

;; main body
‘(html (head (title ”Product”))
(body
(p ”The product is: ”
,(number→string (∗ (get-number ”ﬁrst”) (get-number ”second”))))))

The paper: http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/khmgpf...
Why are 95% of blogs abandoned?
The Hopes of the "Cloud Management Team" : Ops, DevOps or NoOps?
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"Mr Hemmes then had the chip removed as the Food and Drug Administration will only allow one-month trials for safety reasons."

That is a darn shame. It must take a lot of effort to train control in less than a month.
Data Visualisation & Dashboard Design in Web Apps (With Slidedeck)
I honestly stopped following it a while back and turned my attentions to watching Go instead :)

I think it is working now (for some definition of 'working').
Can you relate an HA architecture to a specific uptime gurarantee?
Can you say that by a cross regions or cross cloud architecture you can stand with a specific 99.999.. uptime SLA ? I am sure that it is all depends on the past but how can a new SaaS vendor decide ?
I use an exercise ball actually - 75 cm. Good for your core and keeps you alert all day. Not as hard to get used to as you might think either.
WordPress Display total number of PDF files in your media library
I'm interested to know whether the novel query rate is changing over time. If it's increasing, that might be an indicator that google users are trying to refine their search terms in response to the creeping SEOization of the search results they're getting.
If you love your country like a patriot should, you have nothing to hide.
How much code do you read?
Point well made. I'll see if I'm able to contact blogs and see if they would be interested in writing an article about it when the beta's out. I'll offer early testing of the beta so if they do decide to talk about it, they can. I'll start gathering a list. Thank you for the great feedback- very helpful! What's your blog about? Any links?
Rich text input on iOS
I've been using Android-x86 in a VirtualBox for development for a long time, and totally recommend it if your app is pure Dalvik (i.e. no native ARM code). It's a night and day difference after using the emulator.

One pain point I have, though, is the need to always hit the VirtualBox host key when switching between Eclipse and VirtualBox, since there's no true integration. Sometimes I also get some weird effects with the mouse pointer not being able to move around the entire framebuffer. (Hmm, maybe a VirtualBox integration module for android-x86 would be a good weekend project...)
Cinema 5D http://www.cinema5d.com/index.php
Now including discussion about large sensor video cameras, but started very niche for those of us interested in shooting video on DSLRs.
my browser has a feature that protects me from dangerous flash downloads

http://i.imgur.com/yhIeD.png
Verizon Will Expand 4GLTE Some More
I don't see Android overtaking iOS paid downloads anytime soon. The customer core is much different (I'm talking average Joe) and the Android market is a cluster... for many reasons.

This might change with the Kindle Fire though, and I actually expect that market to grow very quickly. Question is, does that count?
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Good job! Do you mind to share which service you use to send snail mail? And, comparison of different services? If not I do understand.
Scala is gaining a lot of acceptance even without the backing of a major sponsor like Google. I daresay that if Google were behind Scala, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
But, keep in mind that Perl 0.1 wasn't intended to replace a Javascript-like language. It was created as a replacement for Unix shell, and tools like sed, awk etc.
http://www.ign.com/ - not sure if it counts as 'community' - but is very popular and was sold for something around $600m I think.
You are right in that

31 c0 xor %eax, %eax

is shorter than

b8 00 00 00 00 mov $0, %eax

but that's not the main reason it's often used in shellcode. The xor reg, reg is preferred because it means the resulting shellcode will not contain a null byte. This is desirable since the null-byte is often used as a string terminator, in environment variables for example.
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IPhone: Why a 4-inch display is to prefer over 3.5 Inches
It's not about one-handed phone use; folks who think in terms of smartphones as a one-handed device are still stuck in the telephone age). The real bone of contention is what to do about ageing eyeballs in the era of visual media. While the market for one-handed talk-to-me gadgets is declining, the number of folks with sub-optimal eyesight is only going to grow with time
With all due respect, who cares?

It could be that much more naive and ignorant people are submitting applications now than before. 99% of these applications could be hogwash and disposable. That may not be the case, but who's to say it isn't?

The quantity of applications doesn't actually indicate anything except greater name recognition and maybe more recent entrepreneurs, but even that is a stretch
Would love to hear anyone's thoughts on Postary or blog abandonment in general here! Thanks in advance guys!
There is also essentialbaby.com.au that is an Australian new mom site that was purchase by fairfax for around $4m
Doing it in C with mixed assembly

[surki@linux-vrse tt]$ cat | gcc -nostdlib -x c - -o helloworld
#define SYS_exit 1
#define SYS_write 4
#define stdout 1

int strlen(const char *str)
{
long len = 0;
while (str && *str++)
{
len++;
}

return len;
}

void print(const char *str)
{
int len = strlen(str);

long ret;

/* Can't touch ebx directly, PIC uses it */
__asm__ __volatile__ ("pushl %%ebx\n"
"movl %%esi, %%ebx\n"
"int $0x80\n;"
"popl %%ebx"

"a" (SYS_write),
"S" ((long) stdout),
"c" ((long) str),
"d" ((long) len));
return;
}

void _start()
{
main();

__asm__ __volatile__ (
"xorl %%ebx, %%ebx\n"
"int $0x80\n"

"a" (SYS_exit));
}

int main()
{
print("Hello World\n");
return 0;
}

[surki@linux-vrse tt]$ strip -R .comment -R .comment.SUSE.OPTs -R .note.gnu.build-id helloworld
[surki@linux-vrse tt]$ ll helloworld
-rwxr-xr-x 1 suresh users 540 2010-07-21 13:19 helloworld

[surki@linux-vrse tt]$ ./helloworld
Hello World
I am not sureif this message wasn't misplaced. What problem? Converting PDFs?
How is a foreign corporation, setting up a US corporation, going to have a social security number for an owner of the corporation, if none of the owners are US citizens?

Is this really a requirement of the underwriters, or the IRS? I remember looking at an EIN form once and seeing that it required a SSN in order to get an EIN. But of course, someone whose never lived in the USA would not have an SSN.

This would seem to imply that the USA is only open for business to US Citizens. You need an EIN to do anything that might be taxable in america, but you can't get one unless you have an SSN.
True, but times were different. Microsoft was being evil in the browser wars, being a monopolist and pissing off the hacker community: just the people you need for a new tech like this to take off.
Thanks for the honest input! I'm not too worried about the extra o' in the domain name at this point. We're bootstrapped so we need to make sure that we're dedicating our resources towards the more critical areas for now. But i'll definitely look into it soon.

Does the domain dribbble.com also make you want to enter dribble.com at first glance?
I won't go into details about why each solution you present is not optimal, because I have a better proposal.

Make LSD and other drugs of similar effect legal. Have the government regulate the distribution. Put an exorbitant price tag on them and disallow buying-in-bulk. Make me sign that I am wholly responsible for what happens to me by using them (even though nothing adverse as lung cancer will, I'm sure). Give me a piece of paper that says the LSD I carry is legal. Done.

Where i'm getting at is that I (for various definitions of I) would gladly pay, say, 1.000 USD/EUR for a "trip" if I knew I wasn't illegal or about to get poisoned. Heck, it's even cheaper than non-spiritual trips.
To me, it is mind-boggling they won't release it online for free.
Maybe they're afraid the translation team will be overly grateful?
An core i5 with 8 GB of ram and a 7200 RPM 500 GB hard drive.

Actually, it is closer to 70 seconds.

Then the lag while attempting to use it is unbearable, it stutters, input is completely ignored, or it crashes randomly when we try to replicate that bug on an actual device we can't.
Writing CouchDB Views using ClojureScript
"I think the answer comes down to the ecosystem being far more important on tablets than on phones."

from what i've seen in my friends and customers usage (and my own experience) you couldn't be more wrong. on a phone, a mobile app often provides significant usability improvements over a website. on a tablet, all anybody cares about is having the web. games are nice, but ultimately not that big of a deal, and the iPad doesn't have a significantly better ecosystem as far as games go. the app advantage on iPad is apps that are clones of a website.

the reason that android tablets are failing is because they are an inferior product to the iPad in terms of style functionality and raw specs, and yet they cost the same or more than the market leader.