skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author isn't talking about games though, nor is he really talking about "storytelling." He's saying that the philosophical bent and diversity of the game makes it the most important sci-fi universe. Your argument has a great angle, but as for godless diversity and the insignificance of man, Vernor Vinge has definitely been there before.
Frank Zappa Explains the Decline of the Music Industry
Found a link from today's HN homepage: http://mycareerstack.com/questions/?company=Amazon

Looks like a nice resource.
if you're not that into emo/hippster music try out http://www.ektoplazm.com/ - great music for coding.
Arch linux having problems since update
Singapore Still the Best Place for Entrepreneurs
I think they are aiming for smooth transition for MATLAB users. They also have 1-index based arrays as opposed to 0-index .
And the main character who saves the day in ME is a human. I thought that was a weird thing to overlook in the article.
Oooh, enigma, submarine patent, U-110 so funny! http://instantrimshot.com/
this is surprisingly complete for a relatively new(?) project.

one notable restriction is that inheritance is only for interface, not implementation.

also, can anyone find a sequence abstraction (like lists)? arrays seem to be fixed size and i don't see anything else apart from coroutines. am i missing something?!

[perhaps not, if it's intended for numerical work. on reflection i am moving more and more towards generators (in python) and iterables (in java, using the guava iterables library to construct maps, filters etc) rather than variable length collections, so maybe this is not such a big deal. it's effectively how clojure operates, too...]
Because compiling jquery etc. is not expensive compared to the cost of downloading the script. Each version on Google CDN is already only downloaded once if the cache in the browser works correctly, so the cost is minimal.
At about 0:58 in the video linked from the Wired article, the narrator says "and two piezoelectric inserts for actuation."
JS libraries on the client-side are currently stagnating and will soon be dead, largely, because they won. bind, each, map, filter, etc are now part of the language, with more coming in Harmony. They are becoming less and less necessary. Even animation, the very thing that got them started, can now be done in CSS3. There's no need to include them.
Samsung is wrong about TV
So by "brain image" it means they observed some activity in the brain related to actions performed in the dream. Pretty cool, but that title is seriously linkbait.
and most users of this sort of languages aren't going to be running it on windows but on Unix systems.
What Forbes did/does isn't journalism.
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/927/

It's about standards, but it still applies.
What is Hacker Emblem? A Universal Hacker Emblem: The Glider Emblem
It really seems like "what the author had laying around" stuff.
It would certainly be nice if there was an option to use 0 based indices in blocks of code. It's understandable in that they are pitching at the technical community, and many mathematical papers and books are written with 1 based indices. But I am a mathematician who prefers 0 based indices.
8 Ways to Surf the Entrepreneur Information Wave
The Revenge of the IE Box Model?
I thought that Chile with its StartupChile was somewhere on the chart.
As StartupChile alumn I can say that it is getting better doing business in Chile. For real!
/me not my current employer speaking

OTOH, that means it's a back door for use with those nasty handset manufacturers that still ship phones that can't be unlocked. :-)
Growl creator responds to Mountain Lion's Notification Center
Of course they think it's a good idea - they have been able to trace a huge increase in sales to this promotion/mining program.
I think 99.99% of news in all papers, tabloid or not, falls under that quote.

Unless your job is to directly action the news (e.g. if you're a trader, in which case I hope you have better sources than newspapers), "news" makes zero difference to your life, no matter how greatly written it might be. This is true of all papers, not just tabloids.
The LHC has two independent detector/teams: Atlas y CMS. Each one announced last December "evidence" of the existence of the Higgs Boson with a mass near ~125GeV, with a ~3 sigma significance. This is another ~3 sigma result in the same range from a different laboratory.

Combining naively the three results we get a ~sqr(3)3=~5 sigma significance. The real combination methods are more difficult, and probably involve a few Ph.D. thesis. But if someone that really knows about the subject does the calculations and get a 5 sigma result, I wouldn’t be very surprised. So another 3 sigma result in the same region is very interesting.

For the official result, I think that it is difficult to combine the results of different laboratories. Each laboratory will continue to get more data and try to get it own 5 sigma result, probably next year.
Ah, yes. Thanks. I must have glossed over that when watching it.
Feels a little racist.
The BBC's programmes aren't, as far as I'm aware, geoblocked.

I loved Americana... until Radio 4 removed it and replaced it with an interminable panel game featuring four of the usual suspect "comedians" who seem to take up an inordinate amount of the station's airtime.

Now, I go the other way, and listen to a lot of stuff on NPR stations from the US.
I will definitely go to a group study room at the library and practice on a white board. Thank you!
Two great links!
And what should the library writers use? The great advantage of this is that much of it can be done in one language.

From the article: "The library, mostly written in Julia itself, also integrates mature, best-of-breed C and Fortran libraries for linear algebra, random number generation, FFTs, and string processing."
TL;DR: Contact Joel Franusic: http://joel.franusic.com/w/page/14522706/FrontPage

BizSpark Evangelist, Silicon Valley.
Where I work, we listen to BBC 6 Music (http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music). It's eclectic enough that no-one gets annoyed with the choice of songs (if you don't like one, you'll probably like the next) and there's nothing particularly noisy or distracting on there (loud over-processed pop/dance music, shouty DJs or ads). There's also far less repetition than on similar stations.

I'd much rather this, than one person's choice of "concentrating" music. One man's concentration aid is another man's hell.
I personally find The Necks very good for almost any kind of work. They produce minimal jazz, which I prefer to more distracting music — even if I might listen to it otherwise, such as electronic.

While their tracks are not available for free, you can find samples here:

http://www.longarms.net/cdcatalog/detail.php?ID=1809

http://www.myspace.com/thenecks
PyPy is missing complex support in numpy (on trunk anyway) and numpy.random to run those benchmarks. Those that run:

fib - roughly the same time as CPython
parse_int - 10x over CPython which is extrapolating to their python vs julia about 20% slower
quicksort - 4x faster than cpython much slower than julia.
pi_sum - 20x faster than cpython, a bit faster than julia?

Those are very unscientific measurments. Both fib and qsort are recursive benchmarks (why would you write qsort recursively??), so I guess the JIT does not have time to kick in (and PyPys support kinda sucks for recursion at least in terms of warmup times).

On a slightly unrelated note - a modified lxml library runs on pypy albeit a lot slower right now.

Cheers,
fijal

EDIT: updated formatting
One should not take this quote seriously. Doyle was not hoping his Holmes should be a model for anyone to follow. He is some kind of anti-humanist. I see Holmes stories as some kind of exercice de style, and in real life the reasoning part of a detective work is anecdotal, I believe the real good detective is the one who can put himself in the brain of his prey, see Maigret for example.

TLDR: BS! Reading good books unrelated to your main work is more necessary than ever. And that'a why closing the pipes of the noise is a good idea.
Nessus 5.0 vulnerability scanner
What kind of lifehack would it be if we could fully understand lucid dreaming to the point we could teach everyone to do it on command. What would the benefits be for entertainment, education, and psychological health?

If you were getting your entertainment during sleep, what kind of productivity boost would that have? Spend more time sleeping and more of your waking hours working.
OK it seems pretty impressive, but I love how something that should be a 'fresh approach to technical computing' has 1-based indexes and 'end' statements!
Anyone into contemporary classics? I really enjoy piano and cello music while coding, like Ludovico Einaudi, Brian Crain, Julia Kent, Zoe keating etc.
The reason we have not submitted an application for YCombinator is actually simply that we perceive the US to be a bad place to be incorporated. Not just for the reason stated in this article of course, hacker news is frequently littered with other reasons as well. My understanding is the requirement to incorporate as a Delaware company is fairly strict requirement for YC companies. Can someone verify this? (we're already incorporated in Singapore).
The grammar alone on this site is just dreadful, who the heck says "Codes"? And then career v. careers in the same slogan two different places. If I saw this on a resume, it would be placed straight into the circular file.
Informal Comparison Of Some Languages
So this article is suggesting that this practice is wrong and will not be tolerated or that the root CA authorities should not be the ones to generate the certificates?
Why is the Sky Blue? No, Seriously
Nice commercial for Microsofts product. The "article" or blogpost or whatever it is couldnt have been done better to explain the various products offered and where to get them. Classic.
Eh, trypt in the comments claims it can be done in a week.

How legit he is I don't know.
Python+numpy+scipy does work only if you actually don't write much python or at least not run much python. Otherwise it sucks
Such a lofty title.. felt let down at the end of it..
Invention? I fail to understand.

In any case, in your posting (I see that you wrote that info tidbit):

1) most of the page was advertisement. I don't mean only the various side-bar and in-line ads, and massive numbers of links to other content from the same site, but the text itself including things like "Attackers can exploit your PC remotely" where "exploit" had a mouseover to an ad to "Watch TV live" and "your PC" was an iPhone mouseover ad.

2) the information was wrong: there is no known exploit. The actual published bug "allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors that trigger an integer truncation". This may or may not be an exploit.
It seems like both 0 and 1 based arrays is asking for trouble :) I would prefer 0-based, but still prefer 1-based to mixed or optional.
Are you insinuating that Windows users are too stupid to use those languages (and use only rotten ones like V.B etc. ) ​​?

Please, be a minimum objective and constructive.
I just got finished building one for a client and I'm getting ready to start another. So there's always a market if you solve the problem well.

Coincidentally, I'm looking for a python coder to work with on this next one. If anyone is interested in learning more, send me an email.
You won't, unless it's CGI.
There's the function of the news in practice and there's the function of the news in theory. I don't do very well making political small talk because I get very angry about it. Nonetheless, I believe it is my duty to be informed about political goings-on since I am a citizen of a democracy where the people are sovereign and I participate in the political process. You can make all kinds of arguments about why this is bogus in reality (both political parties are the same, news is just about the horse race, etc), but I still feel that very strongly.

Reading How to do X better articles, on the other hand, not so much.
We'd never wake up I imagine. What'd be the point? I have heard true lucid dreaming described as being like the holodeck. Suddenly Nozick's Experience Machine becomes an alarming possibility which must be considered seriously. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_machine
Look at the goal applications: scientific computing, automatic multithreading/parallelism, distributed tasks across multiple machines.

That doesn't sound trivial to port to Windows, and I'm sure their own application was their first priority.
There is definitely something wrong with the "Georgia" flag.
Growl is in for a tough one here...
If I had to picture "windows logo for metro" something more akin to the Black Flag logo comes to mind. Not this disaster that looks like some shareware multi-monitor utility.
Disregarding the engineering of the bee itself (which is equally amazing) the fabrication process is brilliant. 2 things come to mind when I watch this. A. I live in the future. B. There are people out there far more intelligent than I. Consider my mind blown.

I wonder if they are working on a method to power the bee for actual flight. Of course it has no control system either at this point. Off to read more. Thanks to the poster for the link.
They want something like OCaml ...
Something revolutionary is coming to the world of football.
Check out sportdaq.net and enter your email and we’ll put you on our invite list.
Johann Christian.

Should've clarified.
Don't even do that -- have one header that all the platform interfaces implement without ifdefs.

Keep the conditional compilation in the makefiles, not in the source.
I've definitely observed this performance difference, and it is quite significant. However, the new AES-NI instructions in more recent Intel chips may lessen the performance difference over time, as more users buy machines with these chips. (Of course, that won't help mobile devices yet, and it's possible that one could equivalently speed up RC4 with those instructions as well.)

But I know the latest OpenSSL does have an AES implementation that uses AES-NI when those instructions are supported.
Fortran is 1-index as well. I think MATLAB gets its notational style from Fortran.
Writing a Sencha Touch MVC Application
They have ruined security for everyone by allowing government agencies (they didn't even bother to setup a front) and other questionable entities on that list. The correct response is not to send out a nice letter asking everyone to please give up crucial business information, but to kick everyone off that list and start over.

Mozilla was compromised, not the CAs.
Wait, what? No they can't. The whole point of SSL/TLS is that you don't trust the DNS.

The only way an attacker can redirect DNS for Paypal and have a valid-looking CA for Paypal is if they compromise a CA root certificate. That's the point of SSL/TLS.

Before you suggest "but we can't trust the CAs", note two things: (1) if you don't trust the CA, SSL/TLS isn't doing anything for you anyways, and (2) DNSSEC also has a hierarchical PKI in which you are required to trust commercial enterprises --- or governments, explicitly.
There's much leftover material that looks to be wasted. Is there any reason the block has to be this size? Can't the margins be smaller?
This is more true than you realize. Many days I will awake from a lucid dream and go back to sleep for several more hours to discover/continue. "Waking up" from that is like being pulled out of an RPG game right in the middle of an exciting action sequence. Also, sometimes when I'm feeling bored or a little depressed, I'll go to sleep for the excitement/entertainment factor (it's a letdown if I don't end up in a lucid dream, but you can't always have everything in life :)
Everyone has a question.. what's yours?
Indian fashion salwar kameez and kurtis
As far as I know, at the end of your Bizspark term, don't you have to pay something like 300$ (still trivial considering what you get)?
Yeah - it looks like they took the flag from the state of Georgia in the US, not the country Georgia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Georgia_(U.S._state)

Like that guy in the state of Georgia in the US who got scared when Russia "invaded" the country Georgia
More often than not, very basic things get over someone when he/she is writing a lot of backend and frontend code in a team of 3 people for just 2 months. Btw, thanks for bringing this to attention :) Will try to look for all such errors and remove them asap! Thanks ;)
Com Truise is fast becoming one of my favorite musicians.

PS: Usually at this point when discussing music for working, somebody has mentioned "Selected Ambient Works" :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-ecyzuMNs0
Quick summary:

A new [US] federal law, signed by the president on Tuesday, compels the Federal Aviation Administration to allow drones to be used for all sorts of commercial endeavors — from selling real estate and dusting crops, to monitoring oil spills and wildlife, even shooting Hollywood films. Local police and emergency services will also be freer to send up their own drones. ...

Under the new law, within 90 days, the F.A.A. must allow police and first responders to fly drones under 4.4 pounds, as long as they keep them under an altitude of 400 feet and meet other requirements. The agency must also allow for “the safe integration” of all kinds of drones into American airspace, including those for commercial uses, by Sept. 30, 2015.

Most of the rest of the article is about privacy concerns.
Nails tips
I know I will probably be down-modded for this, but I will add my $0.02 here.

The more I travel and live overseas, the more I think the US is a lousy place for startups.

Why? The regulatory climate in the US is fairly anti-small-business. Taxes are high but worse, they are complicated. The tax system is designed around the idea that people get paid fixed amounts. Those with variable incomes or the self-employed have a horrible time with estimated quarterly taxes esp if income fluctuates significantly.

Compare this with Singapore: For the wealthiest, the taxes approach 30% of income and instead of a tax bracket system, you have a series of compounding taxes (something like 5% of income over 40k + 5 % of income over 50k etc). Every additional dollar you make puts something in your pocket. No nasty "I moved up a tax bracket and so I took home less this year!" surprises. Additionally the taxes aren't owed in the year assessed. They are owed the following year, and the government accepts monthly payments on those. Your income has to fluctuate terribly before that can be the end of it.

Most other countries outside the US and Western Europe have much simpler tax codes, and the codes are more friendly towards small businesses (and even Western Europe is more friendly towards small businesses). In the US, however, multinational corporations can use the complexity to avoid paying taxes at all, and small businesses are heavily burdened.

When you add new laws like PPACA, things just get worse. PPACA is based on the idea that employers are the primary means of supplying health insurance, so when you are trying to hire your first few employees, you are going to have to get an expensive plan since you can't likely get into the larger pools, but more to the point, this is the case even if you don't have to offer the insurance by law, since if you don't offer it, your employee has to buy it him/herself. Since health care in the US is phenominally expensive, this is a dramatic drag on startups (compare the cost of having a baby in the US to anywhere else in the world and explain why it costs so much to me here. It's not just the standard of care. It's because our system is broken and geared towards an ecosystem of big businesses making a ton of money off it, and the PPACA makes this worse, not better).

Add to this the fact that the economic downturn has not created a major glut of high tech workers (in fact, quite the opposite), and it's just not the place I would say to work with right now.

So my list of countries to startup businesses in right now include:

Singapore

Colombia

Malaysia

Indonesia

Ecuador

Chile

Ghana

These countries all have issues of their own but aside from Singapore, one thing they all have in common is a surplus of educated people, good education systems, and sufficient infrastructure. They also have some semblance of stability (even Colombia is slowly getting there).

I don't think one is going to see superstars like Facebook coming from any of these countries. However I do think one will see a lot of good, solid businesses that will grow well, and prosper.
No.

There is nothing wrong with creating your own CA root certificate and installing it on computers you use. People do this all the time. For instance, web testing proxies all synthesize a fake CA root cert, because otherwise they wouldn't be able to run tests against HTTPS sites.

What happened here was, a company didn't want to go through the (significant) bother of installing something in thousands of computer systems. So they did an end run around the system and got a complicit CA to in effect add them to the global Internet CA root system, which they had no business being a part of. Since the certificate they minted in this process appeared to browsers to be a real, signed, chained-from-the-roots CA=YES cert --- something nobody can make for themselves, not being able to do that being the whole point of SSL/TLS --- they didn't have to install anything. On any computer. Anywhere on the Internet.
Fastest software for copying and moving data
OT, but wow, is it me or is nearly everything in their portfolio _terrible_. 95% of that junk wouldn't make it past the first cut on a 99 designs contest.
Which country would you move to? No government of any country gives prior notice before shutting down a website.
yes, the blog post was quite clear that it's built in-house, with no plans to open source it since it isn't a generic solution (it's purpose-built with Basecamp in mind).
That assumes, of course, that the viewmodel used to render the server-side view is identical to the model you'd return serialized into JSON. That's mostly true, but not always.
Thanks for both of those links -- and for scaring the crap out of me when I clicked the second one and got to the bottom of the page.

"1 - 15 of 534"

Five hundred and thirty-four purchases. Like having a cattle prod jammed into the back of my head.
[ ] Picture of actual dream in post
Redditunes is good too.

http://www.redditunes.com/?g=Ambient

http://www.redditunes.com/?g=Chill
I do this and I don't even lucid dream.

However, to say that we'd never wake up might be a bit of an exaggeration. Until all labor is automated in some way shape or form, eventually someones going to need to get up to keep the water running.

You also have to remember that people sort of have this tendency to die when they don't eat or drink. Though I guess thats one way we could all never wake up. Have a lucid dream thats so compelling that you can't justify it to yourself to get up for food and water.

EDIT: On the other hand, you could feed people intravenously. But a matrix of solipsism probably doesn't sit right with a significant portion of humanity.
How to waste a lot of space without knowing
So, the usual caveats about writing code to match the languages strengths apply here. For example the fib function plays to a python weakness - function overhead. Rewriting the code to be a simple loop removes the inefficiency:

import time

def fib(n):
if n < 1:
return None
if n == 1:
return 0
if n == 2:
return 1
x0 = 0
x1 = 1
for m in range(2,n):
x = x0 + x1
x0 = x1
x1 = x
return x

if __name__=="__main__":
assert fib(21) == 6765
tmin = float('inf')
for i in xrange(5):
t = time.time()
f = fib(20)
t = time.time()-t
if t < tmin: tmin = t
print str(tmin*1000)
Python is dying....