skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Airships? How did Europe go from crappy roads to good roads? Not with airships.
Can you elaborate on your definition of a good Culture fit.
PlanGrid shows how wrong people were to think the iPad was just a toy. It turned out to be the last remaining thing the construction industry needed to go digital. I doubt Steve Jobs knew that when Apple released the iPad. Nor did we know it when we published RFS 6 (http://ycombinator.com/rfs6.html). But they knew and we knew that they were onto something.

What other industries have been waiting for the iPad? If you want to build what they need, we'd love to fund you.
That's kind of the angle I was coming from as well. In order to effectively rewrite something you first need to know what the existing code actually does. If you don't know that yet, then figuring it out is usually a lot harder than fixing whatever problems it has.

It's not that you should never rewrite, but it's always a lot more work than you think it's going to be.
You should also mention that it adds vi-style keybindings for the main page, which is at least as awesome as the killfile. I use RES on Reddit mainly for its keybinds, and I've been looking for something similar for HN for ages. Thanks!
Adding zero (of either sign) has no effect on denormals in an IEEE-754 system. -0.0 and signaling NaNs are the only values which are effected.
I'm wondering how atomic clocks in general get set in the first place. Did, at some point, scientists calculate when the sun was exactly overhead Greenwich and call that noon? Because I would think that that calculation would have a multi-second error, so setting your clock to the second would be pointless.

Or maybe there is no such thing as "actual physical time" and there is only what people have agreed to call the standard. But in that case why do time sources, such as time.gov and time.windows.com, still give different times? I would think Microsoft would have fixed any bugs in their NTP implementation by now, so it's not that. If it's just politics about nobody wanting to move to someone else's time, then there's no way to tell which source is the real standard, so your most practical choice is to synchronize your clock to the times you deal with. That is, set your clock to your clock at work, or an average of your friends clocks, or whatever source they get their time from. I don't mind the existence of central time sources, because they are better than having to go out and find someone else's clock, but they shouldn't call themselves official if they aren't actually official.

So, does anybody know how the starting time for central time sources is chosen, and if any source is worthy of being called "the real time"?
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> it was alarming that pg didn't have a clear moral position when asked about his decision-making process.

I would prefer it if people didn't force pg to qualify his statements like a politician.

Obviously he could add "of course, this is just a good idea as long as the expected utility of the humanity at large is greater with it than without it on a reasonably long time line." but it would just be an empty phrase.

We need powerful people to be more open like pg, what we don't need is more people putting on a PR-mask just for the sake of seeming Responsible, Serious and Altruistic.
A lot of people are making disparaging comments about the acccuracy of the site's time estimation with little or no explanation/data. All things considered (three samples to estimate clock deltas and network delay) the time estimation is fairly accurate.

time.is reports my clock is:

-0.004 seconds (±0.021 seconds).

I have a stratum one time source on the local network (gps+pps) and my ntptime agrees with the time.is estimation:

dfc@bushido:~$ ntptime
ntp_gettime() returns code 0 (OK)
time d3077752.4160a634 Sun, Mar 11 2012 15:11:14.255, (.255381196),
maximum error 260579 us, estimated error 3294 us, TAI offset 34
ntp_adjtime() returns code 0 (OK)
modes 0x0 (),
offset -4842.630 us, frequency 8.446 ppm, interval 1 s,
maximum error 260579 us, estimated error 3294 us,
status 0x6001 (PLL,NANO,MODE),
time constant 10, precision 0.001 us, tolerance 500 ppm,

NB: this is my laptop. so powersaving, heat fluctuations are adding a decent amount of uncertainty from a metrological standpoint.
Intel hasn't missed the boat on tablets or phones, they will be there shortly.

It takes years to design and tool a fab to build a new chip. Intel started the R&D process years ago to maximize battery life. But, soon they will be in lots of phones and tablets.

The part of Intel/SoC/iPad/Tablet/Phone world that people don't understand is that there is almost no profit in making low end phone chips. At $35-$45 gross per chip, they only make a few dollars in profit.

A high end i7 processor probably achieves profitability in the $700+ per chip sold range.

That means they need to sell roughly (round numbers) $700/$5 = 140 smart phone chips to make the profitability from one high end computer chip.

No one is going to try to compete with AMD/Intel on the high end since there just isn't room for a competitor and the R&D risk is too high.

For Intel, they need to get in phones and tablets for the extra profit because they can, but there isn't that much there.

Whether Otellini has done the right thing or not is yet to be seen, but I would bet that Intel will start getting design wins in the next few years and will eventually become the dominate phone processor seller.
Innocent 12 year old? LOL.

Try being a teacher. Then read that article from the perspective of the educator and it reads completely differently.
Absolutely. I have this theory that part of the reason that meme culture is often so absurd, obscure and frequently offensive exactly to prevent its co-option and commercialization.
Using RapidMiner to Predict March Madness
Nice, but your SSL cert cannot be verified because you haven't installed the intermediate CA bundle: https://knowledge.rapidssl.com/support/ssl-certificate-suppo...
Mainly Win 7. Otherwise Mac OS X. Sometimes Win XP, and very rarely Ubuntu.

But I almost never have a terminal open (and don't have a shortcut for that either) whereas Firefox almost always is. So I'm just 1 click away rather than 4 characters away.

You taught me something though (I highly prefer typing on a keyboard than using a mouse or, worse, a touchpad) and I wish I had to spend more time in a terminal.
It would be good if you could make the title of the tab show the time.
Governments are free to change timezone rules at will with no real advance notice. Case-in-point, tzdata2012b was just published a few days ago and already on the tz mailing list Morocco's DST date is changing and Haiti apparently changed as well.

The problem is exacerbated by the fact that most systems rely on OS tzdata instead of shipping it themselves, yet in many places the administration of the OS is separated / walled off from the devs who maintain the apps which actually suffer from the bugs.

I feel bad for users who live in countries whose governments play with DST law on a whim, because they are certainly destined to encounter bugs throughout the Internet because it isn't always reasonable to ask all administrators around the globe to patch all production systems in a matter of a few days.
You don't own a meme. Heck, that's almost an oxymoron:

"an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture"
- http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meme

And who actually makes money from meme's anyway? Is YouTube scum for making money from showing video memes? Likewise for 4chan (the website, not the community) and Reddit? The advertisers that buy ads on those pages? What about memegenerators?

Double standards?
What's wrong with the new analytics program?
Be aware that in a felony plea bargain, you may forever be forfeiting your right to vote. 1 in 40 people in the United States are not allowed to vote because they have lost, either for forever, while in prison, while on parole, or while on probation, their right to vote. Fourteen states (AL, AZ, DE, FL, IA, KY, MD, MS, NE, NV, TN, VA, WA, and WY) eliminate voting for any felony conviction for life. In 31 states, you can't vote while on probation. Only 15 states allow you to vote while on parole. Only Maine and Vermont allow you to vote while a prisoner.

The most comprehensive study on the issue that I'm aware of is still the 1998 Sentencing Project / Human Rights Watch study, but The Sentencing Project provides attention to disenfranchisement issues on their blog.

'98 report: http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/File/FVR/fd_losingthevo...

Voting rights blog: http://www.sentencingproject.org/template/page.cfm?id=133
Node.cs - a C# version of Node.js
There's tons of other resources out their that sound like a professional voice over. However they have no personality and don't sound like a individual talking to you one to one.

They sound like they are are polished for a mass audience with no personal attachment what so ever to the user. They sound like a robot repeating facts from a book. This is opposite to khan. Khan takes the 'brotherly'(Despite never knowing you) approach to teaching, and sometimes makes mistakes and lacks a little bit of polish. I think this is actually the key thing that makes khan academy work compared to other suppliers.
If you're seriously interested, read Kahan's "Branch Cuts for Complex Elementary Functions (or: Much Ado About Nothing's Sign Bit)".

TLDR: there are some classes of problems for which the sign bit of zero preserves enough important information to get an accurate solution to a problem that would not be possible if you only had an unsigned zero. These happen to turn up in certain types of conformal mappings that are useful for solving certain PDEs.
When it comes to health I am generally a reverse skeptic when it comes to interference and tampering - prove that it does no harm first rather than how great it is.

Anyhow, at bottom of article is link to another article (Electromagnetic Radiation From Laptops and Wireless Devices Nuke Sperm in Proximity) http://preventdisease.com/news/11/113011_Electromagnetic-Rad... which references: http://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(11)02678-1/abstr...
Hi match,

As a developer looking for work, I am curious what you are looking for in your future employees. Looking at your profile and comment history gives me no hints.

Perhaps you have enough people to weed through that you don't want to post here and get a few more, but I know that I am not the only developer on HN that is looking for work. I'm also certain that other people would also appreciate knowing where to look for employers who have "crazy number of openings".

Thanks,
*inspects the page

Yeah, you're right. That's not so bad.

It just seemed like it was claiming a lot of precision that, from my own experience of javascript, browsers and network latency, seemed a bit over the top. (Granted, on the order of magnitude of seconds, I'll accept that. Less than 100 ms and I grow suspicious).
Totally agreed. I think, however, the author mentions an interesting point, but he fail to deliver it correctly. The documentary "High Anxieties - The Mathematics of Chaos", by David Malone makes a very historical analysis of the point the author is trying to make.
The trouble is that so much production code starts as a one-off. Worse still, in a startup environment there's often not much distinction between production code and one-off code.
Can Windows 8 Tablets Compete With The iPad For Mobile Music Making?
Ayn Rand doesn't usually admit any precedent for her ideas, but anarchists and some socialists have had a similar diagnosis since the 19th century. For instance, Kropotkin's "Law and Authority", published in 1886.
I got death threats when I followed the open source license, but tried to make money on my own app. It utilized an app under the GNU license.

The problem with open source (especially anything involving the GNU) is that although you can make money, the majority (not all) will make it very difficult for you to do this.
In order to achieve the highest possible accuracy, you have to bring in your own hardware. We use appliances with internal rubidium oscillator clocks which also synchronize with the signal from all visible GPS satellites. This is as good as one can get if you really want to ensure proper time without having an external dependence on a third party or network.

edit: A paper from 1989 on the subject: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ptti/1989/Vol%2021_14.pdf
The appstore mentions that it was launched on 17th February. Why is this being posted today?
This happened to a page that my former classmates made too. It was made up of pictures of people in the community that they think weren't helping. It didn't get much popularity though. But it got shut down by facebook too. They later on found out that several people reported them using the "report/block" button. These people are relatives of the people that they posted funny topics about. They couldn't do anything about it.

On a related note, maybe the people who deserve to be reported are the likes of Justin Bieber. See
Bieber tweets a phone number, except the last digit. Real people driven mad
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3690118
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Strike is a good analogy. However the modern labour & trade union movement has succeeded in getting some labour reforms over the last 100 years. Workers now have much more rights (e.g. to not be fired for no reason, mandatory holiday pay, employee tribunals to settle disputes, force majeure, maternity & paternity leave etc.)
"Let’s say a politician comes up with an ingenious plan that would ensure universal health care while decreasing health care costs.

According to Dunning-Kruger, no matter how much information is provided, the unsophisticated would 1) be incapable of recognizing the wisdom of such a plan; 2) assume they know better; and 3) have no idea of the extent of their inadequacy."

Jesus..biased much? I stopped reading here.
UTC is a "paper clock." The calculation of UTC has nanosecond error, not multisecond error. The most recent data for the calculation of UTC:

ftp://ftp2.bipm.org/pub/tai/publication/cirt.290

Time is a really tricky and interesting topic. I would start with:

"From Sundials to Atomic Clocks: Understanding Time and Frequency"

http://www.nist.gov/timefreq/general/pdf/1796.pdf

"Originally published in 1977, this full-length book provides a comprehensive, easy-to-understand introduction to the field of time and frequency. Readers of nearly all ages and educational backgrounds should find it enjoyable. 306 pages."
It seems like a lot of people maintain code for these stylesheets on github (so it's easy for the developer to maintain), and then publish to stylebot or stylish (so it's easy for the user to update and maintain). I've always wondered why there's not better integration between the two. It seems like it should be pretty easy to create a service like stylebot that pulls stylesheets from github repos (just from master, of course).
great article.somebody once said "programming is filled with plagiarism" and i think that is absolutely true,noobs especially like to do it this way.
Well… it's an arbitrary standard. We just call a day one full rotation of the earth, and we just happen to divide it into 24hr periods with 60 subdivisions.

Theoretically, you could measure the rotation of the earth and call that a day, but I have no idea how you would measure that down to the millisecond.

As to "Real Time", I don't know about the specific legalities, but the standard goes as follows: everyone uses UTC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time which is based off the International Atomic Time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time

I too would be interested in how they picked the beginning epoch, i.e. "this moment right here is midnight from which all other seconds shall be referenced against" but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter - the only thing that matters is the standard we agreed to measure against.
It can if you set the DAZ (denormals are zero) flag on the Pentium. I don't know if the C & IEEE-754 standards require the optimizer to preserve semantics in that case, but I can see why compiler writers would stay clear of such an optimization.
what does your machine say for "ntpq -p" and "ntptime"?
bleachers, n., "Usually, bleachers. a typically roofless section of inexpensive and unreserved seats in tiers, especially at an open-air athletic stadium."
I just read a good book that advocates jury nullification in non-violent drug cases: Let's Get Free, A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice, by former federal prosecutor Paul Butler. In areas hit hard by unjust drug enforcement, it could catch on.

The great thing about jury nullification is that there's no collective action problem. A single juror can make a difference for one case.

So the best approach is probably to pick one vulnerable jurisdiction (with little excess capacity), focus first on jury nullification to reduce the risk of jury trial, then work on reducing plea bargains.
Maybe 12 year olds aren't THAT innocent, but come on. What about privacy? And as an adult, how would you feel if the boss of your boss asks for your facebook's password so they can have an eye on your boss and co-workers?
> nor is it necessarily right to imagine they will once they are subjected to "widespread outreach and education".

This. Proponents of jury nullification seem to think that a juror needs to have revealed from on high the idea that a jury can decide to flout the law and issue whatever verdict it wants. The reason why juries don't do this isn't because their minds can't conceive of this fact, but because the majority of people understand the importance of rule of law, and that they have a responsibility that extends beyond the scope of the case at hand.
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Yes, I recently moved servers, just doubled the memory and now i'm trying to get in so i can make a static copy. fun!
Working on it, it's up and down right now.
Your cell network or you do not have multicast ntp enabled?
No, this works for me as well.

Not Germany specifically, but I left the US for France. I don't mesh with the culture 100%, but... more so than I did in the US, except for little localized pockets there. Just for starters, religion plays a far smaller/quieter role here; no one cares that I'm an atheist. When I come back to the US, it's just so obvious and... loud, and everywhere. It grates incredibly.

I certainly talk with my family frequently, though just between parents & siblings we're already split across both US coasts, the Netherlands, and (me in) France. My in-laws are in Malaysia & the US; we also talk regularly, and try to see everyone in person at least once a year.

But I never, never forget about state borders. I don't have that option; they don't let me. My wife is Malaysian; I'm American (as is our daughter), we reside in France and my employer is in the UK. We have to file tax returns in both US & France, and have wasted weeks of our lives doing paperwork and waiting in line in embassies and other government offices (sometimes forced to stay in hotels to be near an embassy in the morning... we don't live near one!) sorting out all of the incredibly stupid details.

My wife needs a visa for flights to the US, or Canada (and was once ejected from Canada because she had a US-bound flight with a Canadian stopover, and hadn't realized that mattered. Yup, it really does.

The hoops you have to jump through to emigrate to a country -- like she did to the US, and we both did to France -- are horrible, with uncertain outcomes, and often poorly documented.

I'll stop the rant, but I'd really, really love any progress away from current states.
My free idea: when using different analytics services, I'm sick of having to add the tracking code and then reconfigure the same users and events for every new service.

So my idea is a third-party site that only collects your data once, and then serves it to other products. Kinda like Twilio for analytics, if you will.

As an added benefit, new analytics startups wouldn't have to build the "collect data in real time" brick. So that might help them focus more on what to do with your data, instead of on how to collect it.
For the current laws, I assume you are correct. I was thinking more in terms of what would happen if SOPA actually passed with the three-strikes law and everything.

Anyway, I know that this is the kind of thing that is only an hypothetical. It certainly would take millions of people to actually do some sort of sacrifice. But one could think about it as a true test to reddit: if they managed to do anything like that, no one would accuse them of slacktivism ever again.
If you are evaluating 3rd party DNS, I developed a tool for testing recursive dns query latency here http://cloudharmony.com/dnstest - the test covers most major Anycast providers.
It's worth noticing that this font is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0.

So it's ok to use it in personal or commercial projects (by including a copy of the license an propper attribution).

The font can be found in the folder data/fonts on the Android SDK 4.0 / r14, and also the Readme file that states the license.
Why Is Android Going Nowhere Fast As An Audio Platform?
You're pretty much talking suicide here.

Additionally, why incur the personal risk from confession when there are plenty of cases to be had that are already charged? OWS comes to mind.
An Asterisk CLI + Node.js + socket.io example
Bluray discs can contain Java software with access to a full TCP/IP stack. Netflix used to send out Blurays containing an app to use their streaming service on the PS3, and it worked in most internet-connected set-top Bluray players. My guess is they're having the user run the app on the bluray, give some kind of ID credentials associated with the session in the iPad app, and once they are paired, they have the bluray app play the movie, and for as long as they are paired, intermittently send its state (position and playing status) to their server, which in turn passes it on to the iPad app, which responds accordingly.
Ah now, the judicial system is much better now than it was 1,000, 500, or 200 years ago. It's still not great, but it's getter better.
Interesting tidbit: it's taken us months to get approved for the App Store b/c we were a bit stubborn in our refusal to offer an audio-only version of Sal's videos to people w/ crappy cell connections.

Since his stuff is so low-bitrate, we thought we could get all videos down to the lowest of Apple's HTTP Live Streaming requirements -- even having the crappiest of crappy video is 1000x better than audio only when trying to learn algebra.

We were able to make a <64kbps version for most of the videos, but couldn't do it for everything. Some were just over the mark. We hoped for a little app store leniency given the content.

Eventually we had to give up on some problematic videos and offer audio-only versions for crappy streaming connections. Gotta ship.
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I don't think it requires decades of study to tell you that. It's not enough to say that something is broken. What you end up having to answer is how to fix it. So far consistent mediocrity seems to beat the other forms of government that came before it. (Disclosure: I haven't done a full study of human history, but so far thats the vibe I'm getting.) So a new form of government should provide consistent high-quality leaders if it wants to beat the democratic-republic model.

And I personally have no idea how to do that.