skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some jurisdictions it is illegal (civil offence) to record a phone conversation without informing the other party (which is why whenever I phone my bank I am told my call "may be recorded for training purposes" long before I am put through to a human).
Bill threatens to de-fund public energy research in Minnesota
wow, his domain name is worth that much? How could it worth that much? If b-ball player's domains were worth a lot, the squatter for kobebryant.com would've sold it by now.
They looked exactly the same to me as well the first time I looked. When I just clicked again a magnifying glass widget appeared over them that wasn't there the first time (even though I spent quite a while staring and scratching my head). It's obvious when that pops up.
Ketamine - Magic Antidepressant, or Expensive Illusion?
Is me the only one was secretly hoping for tactile feedback?
The Right Way: Thou shalt not commit haphazardly
I think the change is due to cheap and plentiful on-board graphics that limits the screen resolution but provides a longer battery life.
Since most users don't need a powerful gaming laptop, manufacturers use the cheap, efficient, but limited on-board graphics processors.
I have a slightly different view. I prefer to spend time designing a unique/good looking website but I do not like to waste my time creating my own buttons, text boxes etc. Modern design styles leans towards a 3D css button and nice large curve text boxes. Just grab them from bootstrap and use the grid for the layouts. Do everything else on your own.
While bandwidth does have physical limits, we can all agree the prices currently being charged are excessive.

The proper way to fix this is to have very local cells (or wifi). I would like to see cell networks pay individuals to connect mini cells to their home connections, and then allow any phone to connect to the cells. Wireless users get connectivity everywhere, mini cell operators have financial incentive to exist, and carriers reduce demand on their macro-scale network. If the telcos could agree on reasonably low prices (cost plus?), I would even agree to usage-based billing.

The wireless carriers would become dumb pipes (as they really are to begin with). Their new role would be to coordinate distribution of mini cells.

This system also creates incentive for wire line ISPs to increase their transfer rates to customers, and perhaps get into the mini cell game themselves.
I also think that the naming convention is gonna stick for a while.
Private JavaScript variables with the Module Pattern
The two aren't directly related. More pixels means more information to store and process, but that's just one component of rendering.
Actually, I would think it would be the inverse. 1 million of anything is a volume order. 15 million of something means that the supplier has to build a new factory.
I think the biggest issue is simply thet desktop operating systems doesn't have good resolution independence. So for most people, a laptop display with more than 1920x1080 will make icons and buttons very small by default. And of course, most people (and businesses) don't care either way and don't want to pay for the price difference.
Tangible things are not the only way to add value to a start up. Popular start up methodologies, and I speak specifically of Lean Start Up and Customer Development, all have a strong focus on making sure you're building a minimum viable business, not just a minimum viable product.

However, the statistics are such that it's rare to have a start up team with the self-awareness to recognize this need connect with a non-technical person capable of satisfying it.
I first started writing software on contract in the mid-90's. It was a good time, full of C++ jobs and my skills and my market seemed to be in harmony. I put my resume out there on the still-so-new-it-shined internet and immediately got over a dozen calls, the vast majority being from 3rd-party recruiters.

I complained to my wife after the third call in a row and she explained to me that I should never be upset when someone called because they wanted to get me a job. She had endured a lot of unemployment in her family and a call from a recruiter was a cause for celebration, not complaint. From that point on, I've never complained about a call or email from a recruiter.

2002 and 2003 were some lean years for software jobs and those calls became few and far between. Now the phone is ringing again, and I don't even have my resume posted anywhere. Still, I won't complain and I haven't blocked emails from any recruiter.

I actually go out of my way to respond to recruiters that seem halfway decent or better. A couple have expressed grateful surprise and I've made new connections that may work out in the future. The awful ones aren't blocked (at least none have been so awful to merit blocking so far), but I don't respond to them either. I just keep the channel open in case times do get lean once again.

The third-party recruiter model may indeed be broken, and, with a few exceptions, isn't a fit for the startup world. It does however seem to work well enough for nearly every BigCo in existence and should I work for a BigCo on contract once again, I'll likely work through a third-party recruiter.
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Huh, what about the meeting goers who aren't toting iPads? Couldn't your interactive presentations be achieved with content built to web standards?
Twice the battery capacity, but still rated at 10 hours. That new display must really drink the juice.
Pangool actually seems like a generalization of Hadoop. This doesn't necessarily make it more complex. If a problem maps exactly to the Hadoop API, then it should also map exactly to the Pangool API by setting m=2 (in the extended map reduce model described at http://www.datasalt.com/2012/02/tuple-mapreduce-beyond-the-c...).
As mentioned elsewhere, Macs may see similar resolution bumps soon, along with resolution independent UI.
The Mystery of Stuxnet's Duqu Framework
What? No love for http://www.colourlovers.com/ on that list?
The 4:3 aspect ratio is the big thing. Impossible to buy a laptop with that spec any more. A new ThinkPad X series with the iPad's display would be amazing.
I'd say it's more of a marketing move than a scale issue.
More evidence that financial speculators drive crazy food-price swings
My understanding is that in Colorado, it is perfectly ok to record with one-party knowledge.
The slow speed at which consumers upgrade their devices can be a good thing.. for developers.. once you finish making an app stable that works across most popular versions. You don't have to worry about future versions breaking it, or feel the need to upgrade your app to take advantage of newer features.

Compare that to iOS. Now if you download the new XCode, you gotta worry about ARC. A few years back, you had to make retina versions of all your images... and if you just had 1 version of those images, you were screwed. I compiled an app I made a year ago using iOS 5.0. It's breaks. I have no clue why.. As consumers we want the latest, but as a developer, sometimes I get really annoyed that Apple keeps changing so much so fast.
I get 5-6 Mbps on Sprint. I don't think most people even on Verizon get 73Mbps.
I'd be just at least as worried about data sitting in named files (not to mention swap). If you're worried about lost/stolen laptops, encrypt the disk.
It looks like his argument is that somehow combining results from various detectors/measurements ends up with sigma > 3. I don't understand why that would be the case, but he isn't just saying 2.2 == confirmation.
Well, it seems ZDI sort of missed the boat with their earlier statements about 60k not being enough.

Quote: Due to our disagreement about the best way to get the most vulnerabilities fixed, Google has withdrawn sponsorship of Pwn2Own. We understand their reasons for doing so: they want to be able to receive the sandbox escape details to improve the security of their product. That is why they launched Pwnium. What we believe they fail to realize is that, for the $60,000 they are offering, it is incredibly unlikely that anyone will participate. For example, a quote from a prior Pwn2Own winner: https://twitter.com/#!/VUPEN: "Google canceled its sponsorship of #pwn2own and launched its own #pwnium. To win, report your sophisticated exploit. We're not interested!".

http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2012/02/29/pwn2own-and-p...
During iPhone 4S release, who cares about 4G. iPad HD, all hail 4G!
I would think that this is largely due to the fact that Apple uses its massive cash reserves to effectively lock-in parts exclusively for their products.

Its not like that part is a COTS part that is available to all OEMs.
Sure, maybe the output of the composer app is a web document. The point is that it should think like a book in terms of composition and layout, and less like a website.
Note that this is a third-party survey, not sponsored by Netflix itself.
Speaking of their support, I can see why some people were avoiding Gandi because of it. I'm trying to transfer a domain (from SWITCH, no less) and am having issues. I emailed them a week and a half ago and heard back the next day saying they were looking into it. Still nothing, so I sent another support email two days ago and haven't heard anything.

They have the most TLD offerings of any registrar I've seen (sans Go Daddy) so I'd hate to move away from them because of support issues, but I'm starting to understand the complaints I've read.
When I see people complaining about being capped at 50kb/s speeds it makes me sad to live in New Zealand where our capped speeds are about 15kb/s at best.
Then explain this. How am I typing this message FROM THE PAST?
What they don't teach you at Indian B-schools
There a lot of plugins to handle 2D (2.5D) games on Unity, I am currently using 2D Toolkit ($50) for sprites and it's awesome. I also recommend to check RageSpline and RagePixel, this tools provide features totally integrated with the IDE and really easy to use.

I haven't try CoronaSDK but I can see a lot a potential in 2D games with Unity, not just 3D. I fact, you can see a lot of nice 2D games in his showcase, for example Zombieville USA and Max & The Magic Marker.

- http://unikronsoftware.com/2dtoolkit/

- http://ragepixel.com/

- http://ragespline.com/

- Max & The Magic Marker http://goo.gl/H9Hl0

- Zombieville http://goo.gl/fzZP0

- Showcase http://goo.gl/g4uux
I thought I deleted this comment. Sorry. Turns out I had an old key still in my .ssh folder. Two current and valid keys and no others. My bad.
Awesome, email sent :)
How Scientific Publishers' Current Licenses Impede Text Mining
I get it. Rewriting your prior post for accuracy:

How does having technology deployed to a school help educate people at all, regardless of things like platform fragmentation?

:-)
How Not to Draw a Probability Distribution
So, from your [APS] link:

"1.6 to 16 times more efficient than first-generation gas centrifuges"

Even taking the SILEX claims at face value, that's compared with first-gen gas centrifuges--presumably those used in the early 20th century.

That's still not going to produce output in a form factor usable in a garage. Moreover, the argument I'd posited earlier doesn't hinge on the refinement--the sheer issues of scale of processing for ingress that much raw material are what gets in the way. Then you also have to dispose of the waste tailings.

As for the refining... look at a pic from an '84 processing plant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gas_centrifuge_cascade.jpg). Each of those cylinders is ~40' tall, according to the parent article's caption.

Better info is available from globalsecurity (http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/intro/u-centrifuge.htm):

"A single centrifuge might produce about 30 grams of HEU per year, about the equivalent of five Separative Work Unit (SWU). As as a general rule of thumb, a cascade of 850 to 1,000 centrifuges, each 1.5 meters long, operating continuously at 400 m/sec, would be able to produce about 20-25 kilograms of HEU in a year, enough for one weapon."

Even going with the factor of 20 speedup (overestimation from your provided article with the SILEX quote), we would expect to need 50 centrifuges, on the order of 1.5m long each--that's quite a lot. There's also the supporting equipment, power conditioners and piping and so forth.

In fact, powering the entire apparatus is also a big concern. The article I linked suggests a power draw on the order of several hundred thousand kilowatt-hours (compare with around six thousand for a normal home per year) per year. So, again, I don't see the garage fab making sense.

Oh, and during all that time?

You bet your ass the government is datamining your browsing history, purchase orders, and hobbies. I've ignored it so far in the discussion, but if you want to play the magical singularity wand I'll play the fascist police state card.
Apple has been known to build the factories for the suppliers or at least contributing to the cost to secure the products coming out of said factory. I remember them building a factory with Samsung (ironic) and Foxxconn.
One of the problems with Yelp is that burger king has 5 stars, because 'everyone' loves burger king. Ness runs a recommendation algorithm on my quick star ratings and knows what kind of food I like. Ness typically recommends high quality, good value yuppie food to me. Ness's algorithm isn't magic, it isn't great. Its just kind of okay to good. But good is immeasurably better than Yelp, which is useless.
I'm not involved with the app in any way other than a happy user: http://www.likeness.com/
It doesn't seem to be fully confirmed yet. There is just much stronger evidence that points to its existence.

Better link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/science/higgs-boson-may-be...
>> "However, the "other conditions" case IS covered, and this wasn't about that."

>Depending on the organisation, it often times it is not.

Citation needed because the Catholic organizations in question DO cover the use of birth control drugs and procedures to address "other conditions".

There's even a papal statement to the effect that doing so is a good thing - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanae_Vitae , specifically the "Lawful Therapeutic Means" section.
With the Retina display, using the new iPad as a second display for the Mac (using the Air Display app) becomes more interesting.
I for one am feeling way less confident in them with every announcement they make. They clearly have no idea if and how they were exploited, and their communication with their users only asks their users to check for one attack vector, while in actuality the attack was not limited to just adding ssh keys.
We built the site for http://www.semantics3.com/ and we tried my best to use as little elements of bootstrap 1.4 as possible.

We loved the grid, the form elements and buttons and its sized. The first thing we re-did was the nav bar though. Apart from that we think the framework really accelerated the design process.
You don't actually need to make the filter friendlier to advertising. Rankings change every time they re-run the algorithm. You hint that things will be better if I advertise; 50% of the time, that's true.

http://www.skepdic.com/perfectprediction.html
I'm not sure , sticking numbers after something is a fairly universal thing. Movies, video games and most software has been doing this for a while.
>Only to those who confuse a test on details with ignorance of a field.

There are insightful details that you only catch by working with something, eg. If I ask you what will the following python code print :

def default():
print("using default arguments [1, 3]")
return [1, 3]

def append_five(a=default()):
a.append(5)
return a

print(append_five())
print(append_five([1, 3]))
print(append_five())
print(append_five([9, 7]))

I expect you to know the "detail" of python handling default arguments, even tough it's non obvious anyone with decent amount of experience in python has probably been bitten by that behavior, you'd have to be a master bullshitter to guess that one. Similarly there are many such nuggets that could be used to determine if someone has actual experience/skill with the language/tools vs. reading the brochure before the interview and did his homework in college.

But this is not the same as asking what package contains what class, and similar petty details that you think are good questions because you looked them up in the documentation before the interview. I would expect many good programmers to miss that and bad ones get it right. Knowing the answer to the above question vs. knowing the name of the Java clusterfuck naming convention IMO gives a very different level of insight in to the experience of a programmer.
Not really possible. If they were going to restrict their devices to their own carrier they would need a presence in most countries in the world. For Apple to buy a big carrier in every country they operate would be costly and stupid (it would be difficult to manage carriers all over the world when they just want to produce hardware and software).
ASUS n55sf is <$1k from some vendors with 1920x1080 (plus quad core i7, 2 gb nvidia 555m, 8 gb ram)
A teardown won't tell you anything: it'll tell you that the GPU is in a chip called the A5X. You might be able to get a little more by pulling out an electron microscope, but iFixit doesn't go that far, yet. :)

It'll be the people doing software sleuthing that'll get you the answer.

However we are fairly confident that Apple didn't build their own GPU -- they would have bragged about it if they did. There are a limited number of GPUs IP blocks available for licensing, so that does mean that speculation can be relatively accurate. Their use of the term "quad-core" makes it highly likely they're using the SGX543MP4, twice what is in the iPad 2 (although perhaps higher clocked or with better memory bandwidth). That's also the GPU in the playstation vita.
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Ah, I think that's a company. A few got mixed in my list of recruiter firms. Like it says on the site, I need to take some time and filter it.
Oh, man. Come on everyone, pull up a chair and warm your hands at the bonfire of Dwolla's credability. :(

This is getting painful to watch.
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One more reason to switch to Universal Zebra Time!
We are working on re-working the JIRA UX right now and we would love your feedback. Shoot me an email at james@atlassian.com and I'll pass it along :-)
If that correlation existed, it wouldn't still indicate causation, i.e. that advertising causes the filter bias to change. Maybe the companies who eschew planting fake reviews are also the ones who are willing to pay for advertising.

Yelp has repeatedly, strenuously denied the extortion claims, yet the accusations continue to come. I think a phone recording by one of these accusers would be an excellent smoking gun. Or if someone here calls on behalf of a restaurant or other business (that they have a stake in and has filtered reviews), they could report back to us on what happened. In the meantime, I'm inclined to apply the "innocent until proven guilty" principle in favor of Yelp.
A problem with that (a problem Yelp was meant to solve) is that I don't have the time or money to spend going place to place hoping they have good food, especially when I am visiting a town for a short period. If I'm on vacation, I likely have a set and limited food budget. Vacations are spoiled by bad restaurant experiences.

I think this is the opposite reason why there are no high-profile craft beer review sites (yes, small sites exist but they're not going public anytime soon). Beer is a luxury, and there's not much in the way of truly disappointing beer to the point where I've ruined 1/3 of my taste experience for the day by consuming it. If you're going to a brewery to try a beer and don't like it, you can get up and walk out a few bucks lighter and travel to another taphouse. You can't easily do that with a meal.
If you have particularly anti-US content, I would think .ru or .ch is a good bet.
You can often get them to not charge the early termination fee either by either being really deserving-seeming, or being a belligerent asshole (but you have to be consistent). At least with t-mo and sprint, never tried with ATT or VZ.
I hope one of the top two Stackoverflow answers steals this example and appends it. It is better than any of the examples in the thread.
Any idea why they went for that over Postgres?
Isn't the LTE migration in part a cost saving measure for carriers and later on the final user?

From what I remember, LTE does pump more data in a more cheap way; and the infrastructure for it is more cheap also.
I was always amused when $12/MB BGAN (L-band satellite) service was cheaper than roaming cellular data on some plans.
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Could you please elaborate on your experience with them as a solo founder?

Also, how would the US market being the almost sole target impact things?
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The Asus Infinity is on my shortlist, however realistically when could it be in hand? Next month? The next month? Late summer?

That's sadly how it usually is for products from just about any other company, and I wish they would learn from Apple. One company that seems to have gotten a clue on that is Samsung who are quite rightly trying to quiet the Galaxy S III noise until it is close to general availability.

As to the actual CPU power I think it's reasonable to say that we're at a stage where how you use the CPU becomes far more important than the CPU itself. Apple manages to make a "1st generation" iPad operate competitively with a current generation Transformer Prime. That is just perverse. I want to fully exploit those dual A15 cores of the Infinity LTE, but sadly a lot of it is just trying to overcome the software gap.
...and keep your karma?

I'm pretty sure "no" unless you had good enough of a reason (and reputation) to warrant pg actually changing it for you in the database. I'm not sure he's ever done this.

Your rep is similar to mine, though, and I consider myself still in "newbie" ranges -- I mostly lurk, and have only had a handful of popular comments along the way. So just grab a new username and start from scratch.

Karma doesn't buy all that much for you, anyway, on HN.
Also want to add that Firebase should definitely do a write-up about their Angelhack sponsorship. We were so impressed by the way that they helped and encouraged everyone there. Andrew, the CEO was giving us advice at 4AM on a Sunday morning! Seriously, these guys are amazing--basically, anytime anyone is building anything real-time, I'm going to refer them to Firebase.
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What are your thoughts about AT&T crippling unlimited data customers going over a specified limit (iirc 3GB)?
Dammit, well.... EA has the Sims 3 and Sim City 4 on Steam. I think they only did it with massively high selling games like Battlefield because of Steam taking 30%.
Could Humans evolve into a giant hive mind?
Yes. I made sure i highlighted that point before the survey begins
I lived in roughly the same place for the last 20 years, so yelp is very interesting to me. I often notice poor ratings where I believe high ratings are deserved, but also low ratings where high ratings are deserved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

The police have no duty to uphold the law or to protect you.

http://www.expeditersonline.com/forum/soapbox/48007-fbi-wrec...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity

The FBI doesn't get to be sued for a bunch of stuff because they claim sovereign immunity.

It's all fucked up.
It's cheaper to contact a reference than it is to bring someone in for 5 hours.
>Sadly Sprint, which has unlimited 4G last i checked, was absent from the release of the new iPad.

I think Sprint is excluded because their 4G service is based on WiWax for now, although they are switching to LTE later this year and continuing into 2013.