skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not exactly sure why this is such a popular subject today but here are the earlier threads on this:

Link 1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3373018

Link 2: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3373739

I voted light text, dark background. Currently use Solarized Dark theme.
There's a section in that link which details how they handle calls to libraries that aren't aware of what's going on. Sounds like it works just fine.
Basically Utzon designed it to look awesome. And it does. As a work of sculpture it's really lovely, and the engineering to make it stand up is difficult and impressive.

But as I said, Utzon and his offsiders obviously did not care about the actual purpose of the building, or whether their beautiful design would be at all practical. It's not. Even Frank Gehry, whose work I find to be obnoxious, has managed to design a semi-practical music hall.

It's not really architecture, in a Vitruvian sense. It's walk-through sculpture.
> Is there good way of knowing how you'll respond in a crisis?

Practice. Get safe but uncomfortable, cause some chaos, and deal with it. Then think about what you did, and why, and what you'll do next time. Or hire an outdoor first aid instuctor to inflict that on you.

> Does all this mean I stand a better chance of not being a sheep in a crisis?

It might. On the other hand, it might increase the chance of you getting blown up while arguing about the right way to escape. There's no easy answer.
Burgess Shale Fauna Animated Reconstructions
What about the part of the tube where the magnet has just past half-way (the magnet length, not the tube), wouldn't you get an opposite effect right past that point where the magnet is slowed down due to an attraction from above?

After all, a magnet has two poles, the leading end I'd imagine would be repelled while the trailing part would be attracted.

If that were not the case not then the forces would cancel out and the magnet would fall at its normal speed. (I'm assuming the magnet has 'top' and 'bottom' as the poles).
Stupid question but why do folks write $1,000,000 as $1MM instead of $1M?
I am very interested in taking a look at your level builder.. i am even willing you pay for it :)

Also, are you available for freelance work? contact me at ob.ahmed[@]gmail[.]com
Light theme on a glossy screen, dark on a matte one.
> Another reason is that almost all prevailing contemporary environments use virtual memory, and the prevailing embedded architecture (ARM) is about to go 64 bit (the desktop/server world already has). In a world with virtual memory, paging, and even where we're 10 years away from "complex system" interconnects powerful enough to provide shared memory across 10k+ computers filling a football field, how much longer would setting the stack size have any practical meaning.

I set the stack size on my worker threads because I don't want my users looking at my process in 'ps', see a big VSIZE, and conclude that my software is bloated and memory hogging. Yes I know I can educate my users but I would rather prevent them from bothering me with these false conclusions in the first place.
Even if 10 of them use it for booze and drugs, that 11th one that you give to and feeds her kids for the night is worth every penny that the others use to chemically escape their realities.

To be honest, I think it's worth those pennies for helping the first 10 as well. To steal a quote from Sports Night:

Isaac: Danny, every morning I leave an acre and a half of the most beautiful property in New Canaan, get on a train and come to work in a fifty-four story glass high rise. In between I step over bodies to get here - 20, 30, 50 of 'em a day. So, as I'm stepping over them I reach into my pocket and give them whatever I've got.

Dan: You're not afraid they're gonna spend it on booze?

Isaac: I'm hoping they're going to spend it on booze. Look, Dan, these people, most of 'em, it's not like they're one hot meal away from turning it around. For most of 'em the clock's pretty much run out. You'll be home soon enough. What's wrong with giving them a little novacaine to get 'em through the night?
This is freaking awesome. Congrats on releasing the project Gordon!

Just played till level nine and even paid for unlocking the rest of the levels. Some feedback:

1) The game needs music. It's a little quiet after awhile, would be much better with music.
2) On a lot of the levels you don't need to do anything and you'll "win" by just pressing play.
3) Totally understand why you have the ads on in the game but sometimes on the cloud levels it gets in the way of placing blocks.
4) Sometimes the game gets stuck at the end and doesn't count up all of the points
5) Counting up the points on level with a ton of items in it takes forever
6) You should also explain the different birds and which ones are coming. Noticed some had dynamite strapped to them but didn't expect that at all.
7) On replay I really wish I had the previous blocks stay where they were.

Overall an awesome game but wanted to give you some feedback on it after I played around with it for awhile.
I have vitreous floaters (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater) which are significantly more visible against a white background. This is especially annoying while programming. I've always preferred a dark background though tried switching to a white one a few years ago. Floaters made the decision for me: dark it is.
No. It is not an addon or toolbar; it is what happens when you select Amazon.com in the search box and then search for something.

The query string includes this: tag=mozilla-20

(To be sure, I just checked this in three different instances of Firefox: Iceweasel 9 on Debian, Firefox Nightly on Debian, Firefox 9 on Windows.)
Mozilla Releases Firefox 9
On my last trip to Germany (1998, ~2 weeks in each of Nuremburg, Berlin, and Freiburg with a host family), there was no shortage of beggars on the street.

You're not getting your Geld's worth, if you know what I meine.
The truth of the matter is that witholding kindness is rarely going to cause that person to hit rock bottom because there will often be another person that will be kind. Given that fact, this tactic is appears ineffective. So what is the most beneficial action in the situation?
I can't seem to find where it originates, but there's a frequently mentioned saying to the effect of: the optimally productive person is really smart but not so smart that they see too much of the big picture, because that's paralyzing, unless perhaps you manage to get yourself a job as a McLuhan-style public intellectual, or a novelist. Someone in an HN thread somewhere hypothesized that that might be related to the "Ballmer peak" in productivity after a beer or two, because alcohol sort of dulls the insight a little.
I'm not sure I have a coherent proposal. Clearly ISO-C is a cul-de-sac by now, and will have to be ditched. What we should replace it with is not clear to me.

It is a big problem that so many standards, requirements and tools (from EMACS to Coverity over lint) have their fingers in the C-syntax. The autocrap abomination is a further complication.

So I guess a good place to start is to swear that we will never touch or use the botched ISO-C thread API, and beat some sense into the WG14, by whatever means are available.
The 9th employee of a company sold @ $50 million is very unlikely to cash out with fuck you money, regardless of anyone else's level of integrity - it would probably take close to a double digit undiluted stake to put you there...at least.

In other words, the biggest way to avoid feeling screwed is to have realistic expectations and to place a realistic value on any stock options. Remember that the bigger the target number for exiting is, the more likely that all the options and stocks will be worth exactly zero.

Good luck.
In this day and age even if you are afraid they're going to spend the money on booze you can buy them a gift card to a nearby restaurant...
Do you think a new language (Go, maybe?) will take C's place, given your distaste for ISO's handling of the standard?
Twitter's investors include KHC and DST. This may cause some to question its integrity.
Entertaining, definitely. Notch has been making games for years, so he's drawing on a lot of experience.
This related article in which the reporter gave out prepaid charge cards to beggars on the street helped change my ideas about the people who are panhandling.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/854018--how-panhandl...
Exactly. I've long since lost track of which shiny new systems language we're supposed to be using.
This is a cool gift site from someone on HN for hackerneurs!

http://hackerthings.com/
f = lambda: g(""")

f()

technically not two commands, and it will look like:

>>> f = lambda: g(""")

. . . f()
My day job is using Application Express. And yes, it's explainable as an Access-for-websites, backed by an Oracle database.
Very nice list, thanks for sharing!

OT: is LaunchBar/Alfred really that better than Quicksilver? Has been some time since I last touched a Mac, but I was totally amazed by the magic that was Quicksilver.
Thanks for the insights KLS. Whatever the solution I just wish we could all get on the same page about it.

Whether we all give to everyone or we all give to no one, or maybe well all do more than just giving I think if we could all be consistent in our behavior as a society that would really help out. I think the randomness of some people helping sometimes really hurts the situation.
You're probably right about that, ANSI did a couple of good things, but I'm not sure I think they came out in the black in the end.

ISO on the other hand, seems like a total disaster.
Snowman bookmarklet gives web pages a holiday makover
I know, it isn't really working :-) But I think most beggars are probably mentally deranged, so that they are incapable of receiving the benefits.

Also there are now proposals to pay a base income to everyone, without fuss, but it is doubtful if it will ever be implemented. And nobody knows what would be the effect.
> There is no way it is less than $100m. The Chrome team is at least the same size as the Firefox team, if not significantly larger.

I would guess significantly larger. And Apple's WebKit engineer's efforts are also of value, making it effectively even larger.

> Google probably spent a good chunk of $100m on advertising Chrome; television spots and subway posters don't come cheap.

It's much more than that. Chrome is advertised pretty much everywhere online, and it has deals with lots of shareware software, where Chrome is installed along with for example Adobe Acrobat. The cost of all of these user acquisition strategies has to be way more than $100M.
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#if defined(__HAVING_A_CASE_OF_THE_MUNDAYS_ON_TUESDAY__)
# include <feet.h>
# include "mouth.h"
# include <bikeshed.org>
# include <_Fastly>
# include <buyafuckingssd_you_prick>
# include "pick_on_zed_for_grins.h"
# include <et.al>
#endif
You've made some good points.

I don't know how complex your data set is, so just remember that if you have an extremely complex set of data, give me the user a way to find something based on different criteria. If an item has a date, a number, attachments, etc give me a way to sort through them so that when I kinda know what I'm looking for I can find it.
What about a really nice day planner and we all need massages to relieve the stress we feel!!
Quick math.

We don't see the tube, but assume that it is 1m long. The experimenter picks drops the 100g magnet into the tube once per second and that it has zero velocity at the tube exit. i.e. initial and final kinetic energy is zero, but the experimenter keeps inputting gravitational potential energy, all of which gets converted to heat.

Power = m * g * h / t = 0.1 * 10 * 1 / 1 = 1 W.

So, dropping a magnet every second generates 1 W of heat, which is virtually nothing.

This result is logical. The only energy input is the experimenter repeatedly moving the magnet from the bottom to the top of the pipe, and this simple movement probably won't tire him out. He could, indeed, do it all day.
The opposing fields will center the magnet.
As hard as I try, I can't seem to get used to the prettier Finder replacements.

Some additions:

* MuCommander (Norton Commander-style file manager)
* ShiftIt (window management/"Aero Snap"/Moom alternative)
* Isolator (widow focus indicator)
* SecondBar (menu bar for your second monitor)
* KeyRemap4Macbook/PCKeyboard Hack (remap keys, capslock=command, etc.)
* BetterTouchTool (trackpad gestures, middle click!)
From my experience when on a budget the best thing to do is work with a good agent, I used CSC who can advise on most things. Then combine this with the document driver from Goodwin Procter http://www.goodwinfoundersworkbench.com/document-driver/

The document driver is a really invaluable tool for startups on a budget. Even if you then have the documents looked at by a lawyer. It will be much cheaper then having them draw the documents up.
I believe, at least for certain newer models, Microsoft's driver will correct the acceleration curve.

I personally use a Logitech and it seems to do the same.
Okay I'm not going to attempt to support/defend SOPA but I have some serious questions:

Why do all of these SOPA articles on HN fail to mention that this bill specifically targets "foreign" sites?

They all mention a possible threat against youtube, facebook etc, but since these are "domestic" sites aren't they excluded?

Is there a particular definition or qualification in the bill that I missed that would widen the scope to include these existing sites?

(I do acknowledge that a potential youtube/facebook competitor overseas IS affected by SOPA, so again, I'm not saying SOPA is good, as it should be obvious it isn't. But lets bash it based on facts not conjecture or, worse, emotion)
I have always advised engineers that being the only person who understood, or could maintain, a piece of the system meant that you were stuck there. And while you might feel that was job security, in reality it limits your career.

I whole heartedly endorse the idea of figuring out ways to make your job redundant so that you can move on to other more interesting things.
I didn't say nationalism and the Revolution were the same thing, I said they could play the same role.
>and other MS properties, like Firefox

I'm assuming you mean IE.

>nobody should be surprised when Bing plays dirty and intentionally degrades the experience for Firefox users in an attempt to compel a switch to IE

MS would never degrade performance on their own platform. Tying IE into Windows was different; they made the default work better than the alternative. They're not going to intentionally make Bing shitty for FF users; they'll just go elsewhere. They might integrate Bing and IE more fully, adding features and making it more difficult to use other engines, but they would never intentionally degrade their own product.
Fatal problems plague the U.S.' costliest fighter jet
The fact that they developed this in 24 hours is ridiculous. I sat next to them when they did it and it was pretty incredible to see in action.
As I'm sure you are aware, there are C compilers for Harvard architecture machines with fixed-sized call stacks.
Perhaps it provides a test of management competence. If you do make your job redundant and your manager lays you off then you are better for it, since you've escaped working for incompetent management!
Take the second most downvoted video on YouTube, parody it, ???, PROFIT
Yeah, this guy is insane.
Lots of beggars use drugs to cope with the fact that they have no homes. Shelters are disgusting, in most cities, generally. If you don't believe that, watch the documentary Streets of Plenty, or visit a few. Sure, there are a couple nice ones here and there, but most are lurid.

With that said, I will give a beggar money and do not care if they use it to buy drugs and alcohol. The only reason I wouldn't give a beggar money is if they were the confrontational type that runs after you or ambushes you as you open your car door. That is an instant no.

Finally, a great reason to give a beggar money is that many times charities can't be trusted either. If you give the beggar money, you know you are going direct. Cut out the middle man. Comedian Steve Hughes said it best here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXpUwBJ2SS8
Quick, inform Tesla!
I'd be interested in that too - Versions is great, though not perfect. Looks like one thing Cornerstone has is a built-in diff tool:
http://www.zennaware.com/cornerstone/index.php
RIM reportedly rejected takeover talks with Amazon this summer
excellent link! thank you
Your remarks are superficially plausible and fit many people's pet theories about architects. The only flaw is that they don't have any relation to the reality of the construction of the actual Sydney Opera House.

The internals of the building were not built to Utzon's design; they were redesigned and built after Utzon resigned in 1966.
I think it's still "All rights reserved". The rules for Ludum Dare say that you have to submit the code for judging, but you don't give up copyright. And he didn't put any license in the source archive. Although I doubt he'll complain, this porting effort might violate his copyright.
It was actually a team of 4 people. Avik Das who is mentioned only briefly at the bottom of the article was crucial in finishing the project.
You guys should work together so that your app work with their system.
What do you think about D? ;)
Great idea and execution, love it.

Perhaps you mentioned it in the opening message and I just missed it, but...I was waiting for objects to appear that were oriented differently, and only by accident did I realize that I had to tap to rotate (I had first tried by actually doing a rotation gesture).

I'd add some note about this on the object palette in the bottom, and maybe even add a rotation gesture to turn it.
...which promptly can be sold for cash money.
I use the tomorrow theme with gedit https://github.com/ChrisKempson/Tomorrow-Theme
I was stuck supporting an activex based desktop viewer for a couple years. I kept suggesting an html5 solution, since everyone wanted iPad for non diagnostic review, and that maintaining activex controls in a locked down DOD environment is a huge pain, but people kept saying it couldnt be done.

This is great news -- I hope this makes teleradiology more widespread.
Most of the other "zen magnet" videos linked as "related videos" are pretty damn awesome. I strongly recommend watching them all, right now. Really, there's nothing more important for you to do at this point in time.

Exploding zen magnet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q...

140-sided zen magnet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRiMexbocBI&feature=relmf...

Interlaced dodecahedron: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2qfCn3gclQ&feature=relmf...

"Hell's Diamond": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF2i8eG7KhA&feature=relmf...
That might be a solution 5, 10 years down the line.

What's the solution today?

If you cut any site off from Google/DoubleClick, you've effectively prevented them from monetizing through advertising enough to reach top 100.

That's not every site's business model, but there's certainly a class of sites we'd like to exist (of which YouTube is a prime example) that would not be able to exist without access to the US advertising networks.
Mozilla And Google Extend Default-Search Agreement For Another Three Years
I doubt many people would bother I change it back unless they started getting really bad results to queries. Bing is a pretty solid search engine, most wouldn't really notice a quality change.
Analytics gone wrong
> use native libraries that are built into python

Specifically?

> I believe MRI is generally...

Show me the numbers ;-)
I was talking to a guy who owns a warehouse in Brooklyn a few weeks back. He said he was turning a relatively small part of it (a few thousand square feet, if I recall) into a residence, and leasing the rest. He started complaining about his prospective tenants, so I, sort of jokingly, suggested he build a small data center, since the lease revenue would be much better, even if the costs rise as well. Too bad you weren't there to close the deal!
That sounds ridiculously fun. I may have to go do that. I just need a beach...
20,000 right?
There's a story floating around my school of a student a few years ago who wanted to make a sort of hovercraft by fixing in position two opposing large supermagnets (I go to an art school). He couldn't build it when his supermagnets arrived in the mail because it was deemed too dangerous, supposedly they could have snapped or crushed someone's arm/leg easily had they come undone, and that was assuming he even survived the construction himself.
I doubt any language will replace C ever, given the penetration it has, but maybe we could get a better C2X than the crap C1X seems to be. It would require a significant fraction of programmers to agree with me that C1X is crap in the first place.
What is the deal with those FEMA/DHS AM backup transmitters?
Stanford professor files net neutrality complaint against Verizon Wireless
I like Chrome's "private browsing" mode better than Firefox's though. Mostly because I can have private and non-private windows open at the same time (and they're properly sandboxed from each other).
Businesses might. They are usually much less price-sensitive. And that makes sense: if your business gets just a little bit more done as a result of using a service, it almost certainly pays for itself.
Thanks so much ... very enlightening and exactly on point! I appreciate the info.
> Reserving a namespace and not having a mechanism to enforce it was a massive fail on the part of the standards committee.

How do you expect the compiler to enforce the "identifiers that begin with two underscores are reserved for use by the implementation" rule? Some things just belong in the documentation.
> The internals of the building were not built to Utzon's design; they were redesigned and built after Utzon resigned in 1966.

My understanding is that Utzon's original design was, basically, impossible. The new design was a compromise made during intense negotiations with physical reality after Utzon had quit.

The further point is that those compromises rule out little things such as the ochestral pit or the tower. Things that are sorta kinda really really useful for ochestras.

If it was up to me I'd build the usual mausoleum somewhere else and turn the "opera house" into something else. A museum perhaps.

> Your remarks are superficially plausible and fit many people's pet theories about architects.

Availability bias. We never hear about the vast majority of architects who stick to designing safe, sensible and non-hideous buildings. We do hear about self-promoting designers of monuments to their own egos, such as Gehry. And naturally this tilts the public view of architecture.
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For some online & finance things M = 1 thousand (like CPM, cost per 1,000 impressions). So MM means 1 thousand, 1 thousands = 1 million.
Java was an over-reaction to C.

Go was a reaction to Java back to almost center.

C is close to hardware, which is important for things like game engine cores, video drivers, varnish and the list of use-cases goes on and on.

Finally, people tend to complain about their tools even when those tools work. Be thankful if you didn't have to write the tool yourself. But if you would feel compelled to complain, write a better one yourself first instead. :)

@phk: When was the last time you wrote inline asm in C to solve any problem on an non-embedded system? Mine was 1996.
The FCC Lanches API Curation Platform Called MyFCC
I wish the music and film industries would just die already. They are nothing but a drag on society.