skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His take off speed and the angle of attack for his wings looks suspect. As much as I want this to be real it looks like he is in a stall the moment his feet lift off the ground. I am looking at this from a traditional fixed wing aircraft view though so my views could be flawed.
Reddit? Or maybe not.
Acquiring and dealing isn't building. This rings of the acquisition sprees that RIM and Nokia went on in the run-up to their dramatic declines. It's embarrassing to read Extremetech dress up the Beats acquisition as something of a coup - their industry reputation is somewhere between Monster and Bose (ie competent if unimpressive technology with overbearing marketing).
I suspect that by "I run the proprietary ATI drivers on my laptop", franciscoapinto does indeed mean he's running catalyst/fglrx.
Assuming that all of your attendees will be men, and that all of your attendees will find the presence of friendly women a perk, seems sexist.
One issue with the OpenBSD "bug" that i think hasnt been mentioned is that while openbsds srandom(0) leading to a 0 sequence sucks.
The fix everyone is using (including up to date OpenBSD trunk)
causes srandom(X) and srandom(Y) to produce the same sequence for at least one pair of distinct X and Y. This probably is less an issue but still. For example linux debian with gnu libc produces the same sequence after srandom(0) and srandom(1). Namely
1804289383
846930886
1681692777
1714636915
...
I'm going to get downvoted for this, but here's my opinion:

I recently had a similar issue with OnLive - I registered for free and found that you can play over 100 games for $10 a month - a great deal, right?

Well, for some unfathomable reason, I couldn't PAY for the monthly subscription because I am outside the US. I used a VPN and added my (Bank of America!) credit card to the system without problems - now I have a subscription and enjoy Dirt 3, TR:Legend, Driver: San Francisco on my laptop AND Android phone (it's really impressive).

I'm also practically forced to order a physical CD of a band I like (I'm NOT going to do that, because I'll have to wait a month, then just rip that CD to my computer and throw it away, which is quite sad, really) instead of being able to order it online and download it.

HBO doesn't want to allow you to watch a show you like (love?) and you can do it illegally - I say DO IT if you want - sooner or later, they'll either sue everybody or understand that they need to give their potential customers the products they want, when they want, which will actually save them money and make them richer.

And the author, actors are getting paid the same amount regardless - the network pockets most of the profit, anyway (that's why I hope the current direct artist -> consumer trend is the future).
Search engines must delete links to pirate film sites, says Lord Puttnam
Iran’s Electronic Curtain: How the U.S. Is Tearing It Down
I framed the post around Sqoot's apology because that was what gave me the idea. I didn't intend to slap them around any more than they have been. It's just an example of what I think was meant to be a genuine apology that fell totally flat.

But yes, my central point is that when someone (or the whole Internet) is pissed off at you, you have their attention and a chance to turn things around, if you have the right goals in mind. Nurturing your relationship with your customer(s) or audience is likely more important than saving face or winning an argument.
you can click on that gear icon in the top right to add/remove cities. The list of available ones is quite limited tough, and it’s very US-Centric
True. Most of the time I can't spell it myself either.
I'm the original author, and I agree with your point. I do think the things you produce are part of your identity. It's when a person mentally replaces "part of" with "is" that it becomes dangerous.

We can be so much more than the artifacts we create.
Video: HumanBirdWings guy finally enjoys the miracle of human flight
Crafting the perfect apology is fine, but you need to consider whether there is value in doing so.

Are the people whom you are offending by acting like a fratboy really going to believe that you have "seen the light"? The apology these guys wrote basically says "sorry, we thought this was funny"... which is really just creating more problems.

I'd argue that this affair validates a rule my grandfather had: When you say something really dumb, the smart move is to stop talking.
You mean more time sink?
Gnome 3 shell on OpenSUSE 12.1 and Fedora 16 regularly (at least 10 times a day) crashes when using catalyst drivers on my HD5650. Using the opensource drivers it works fine. Chrome blacklists the GPU/drivers so no WebGL without --ignore-gpu-blacklist, WebGL performance is ~ old TNT2 in chrome/firefox (although that can be simply because WebGL implementation/app isn't good). I used to buy ATI/AMD because they offered good price/performance ratios but I'm going to go with nVidia/Intel for my next PC, it's going to have to suck really bad to provide a worse experience than this.
Ask HN: About Us/Team Pages
I'm looking for some examples of creative About Us and Our Team pages. I've found a few, but I thought I'd reach out to the community who might have seen some really great About/Team pages.
If that's true, then Scala was simply specified less precisely than Java. As lemming said, Scala is a massive superset of Java's functionality.

Off the top of my head, I can rattle off a slew of functionality in Scala that's not in Java:

* Regexp literals

* partial/curried functions

* for comprehension

* argument defaults

* case classes (and switches thereon)

* tuples

* combinators

* XML interpolation

* Mixins

* Fine-grained visibility

Caveat: I'm no Scala expert. Some of this may be in the libraries and not the language proper.

Now... what Java functionality can you name that's not in Scala?
For Brasil news.seedclip.com will be launched this week, based in the public github project of Hackful. www.seedclip.com
Been reading a lot about Pyramid lately, both praise and criticism. From your experience, how does it compare to Django and other Python frameworks?
Dude, we work all day with a bunch of other men. It's boring as hell.

If we can get some women in the context of our passions, that is awesome.

You sound like someone who is apologetic about their manhood, to be honest. It's unfortunate. Look up Bill Maher's rant about the feminizing of America.
That is good to know. Thank you for the clarification. I'm glad the inventor took this into consideration.
http://quippd.com

(Full disclosure, I'm a founder).

Check out the about page: http://quippd.com/about/intro
If they prefer men, that's already handled. So what's your point?

I see what you mean though. Increasingly, there are a lot of professional women in these things. Might be a tad insulting.

Eventually, they'll have to start hiring stud muffins to compensate I guess!
Mouse 'avatars' could aid pancreatic cancer therapy
No, saying that you like chicks is not sexist. Implying that women are for getting beer is sexist. Saying that the presence of hired female staff is a "perk" is sexist.
on second inspection, that “gear icon” only appears when looking at it on the iPad.
Grok and automatic log pattern discovery
Stop equating bad code with bad developers. Stop equating code criticisms as a knock against you as a person.

To me, what I find jarring is how common bad code is and how incredibly rare well-designed systems and good code are. It seems obvious that the causes of bad code are numerous (only one of which is unskilled developers) and the conditions that allow good software to be created are very rare. You have a lot of "goldie-locks" variables that ruin everything if out of a narrow range. One of these is time pressure. If there are tight, rigid deadlines the code will turn bad, but if there's no sense of time pressure at all the code will usually rot in a different way (becoming increasingly "clever" and impractical after the project is essentially finished but no one wants to admit that).

I've come to the conclusion, over the years, that getting mad at people for "writing bad code" is both useless and wrong, because (1) you really don't know what conditions caused the code to become bad, and (2) it means you make an enemy of the one person who can help you out. I've generally come to view standing code-quality problems (and the lack of budgeted time and resources to fix them) as a managerial fault.
This, I agree with. My job is not to change society though. My job is to enjoy my life and guide my kids. That's it. And I'll enjoy it more with some nice women around.
Why Startups Need to Be Told They're Wrong
Ask HN: What is the best way to learn to make an Android Apps?
It may scream "NO WORK/LIFE BALANCE" but at least they are honest about it. Being upfront about it is much better than going through the interviews and being told one thing but when you start working it turns out "hey, we need you to work more hours" which is what happened to me currently.
Not everyone has this problem, but Go only works on a portion of platform configurations that are available in the real world.

C and Python, OTOH, are available pretty much anywhere. Redis builds on say, Solaris, with no problem because the project is written in C and it is trivial to add the needed calls. A KV store written in Go can't support Solaris because Go itself would need to support Solaris first.

Years of tooling centered around C (e.g., autoconf/automake) is what makes most C programs cross-platform out of the box with little or no OS-specific code if you are sticking to POSIX. Until the same ecosystem develops around any new language, authors realize that choice of language alone can immediately limit their cross-platform capabilities.
Human Gets Top of Head Cut Off by Robot, Survives
but I don't think wanting women around a sausage fest is sexist. It's being male.

Sure, that's being (heterosexual) male, but you are making the same assumption as the original event-planners did: all of our attendees will be male. There is nothing in the subject material of the event (their API discussion or whatever) that would interest a female.

This is the thinking that strikes me as sexist: all developers are male, so we only need to appeal to males to make our events appealing.
Everyone is entitled to have an opinion and they shouldn't be ostracised for expressing them. There is no such thing as a wrong opinion, only opinions that you disagree with.
I see it on my iPhone as well.
When we entered graduate school, the program director gave us this piece of advice:

Success ∝ Ability * (Hard Work)^2 * Sqrt(Luck)

I think he was right.
Support for video games, R&D and enterprise zones announced in UK budget
Why? I enjoy women.
I've traveled a fair bit across 6 continents and I don't think I've ever encountered a society that is simultaneously multi-cultural and without racism. I'm also a believer in the axiom that those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it.

I can't comment on the dryness of TKaMB though I would say that it does contain enough elements of typical human drama to be more than "a book about racism".
Progressive Suspension Touring Link Chassis Stabiliizer 30 2000
Progressive Suspension Touring Link Chassis Stabiliizer 30 2000
Lastly an inexpensive and straightforward to install solution to the handling challenges faced by most Touring models Does not hang beneath the frame or impede ground clearance.
guess where trying out new ideas is somewhat low in costs as far as movies go? 2d Mobile Games :)
The danger of deadlines
Bitcoin Seeks New Life In Africa
What’s New In Pyramid 1.3
Discussion over here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3733850
Save Thounds
Tweets Could Land Twitter User In Jail
Glad you guys like it. I designed it, my husband Thomas Fuchs built it.

I designed it this way because none of the time zone tools out there reflect the actual nature of time (zones): simultaneous, overlapping lines thru time. ETZ doesn't just give you the answer, it helps you create a useful model of understanding to take with you & use even when you're not looking at ETZ.

We've been slowly improving it, so expect more options for customizing the tz's you see & static links to times in the future, etc.

EDIT: if you like the design of ETZ, you will probably love Freckle, which is our time tracking / productivity tool -- all about making your data painless to get, then super useful & actionable: http://letsfreckle.com/startups/
Now that you wrote an article on it, there will be other people that will build a similar business in a weekend and compete with you.

There already were competitors: http://presentnow.me
Don't take this as a dig at you, but I think that's a very revealing comparison. A hackathon is a professional event; people go there to code, not to hook up. Men are largely immune to being propositioned in professional spaces, partly because it just doesn't happen and partly because men perceive public space as "theirs" (there's research to show that women don't). So the cost to men of presenting this as a sexualized event is virtually nil or slightly positive. The cost to women, on the other hand, is phenomenal, because not only does it signal that this is an event where they'll be assessed by their tits rather than ability, but that the organizers of the event are likely to be indifferent or overtly hostile to problems of sexual harassment.

This is often a gedanken experiment that's often as distracting as it is illumination, but (assuming you're a straight man), imagine that 90% of programmers are gay or bisexual, and that one of the few hackathons available to you advertises itself by promising that "beefcake hunks" will fetch you drinks (which is just a couple of points down from the "massage" perk). Would that change your perception of the expected atmosphere of the hackathon?
How I wrote an iPhone app in less than 24 hours, part 3
I wish I remembered it, but I have forgotten the name and can't find it with google. If you find it, please reply to this thread.
Dutch man flies like a bird with selfmade wings
Trejdify if you are interested in economy (my baby)

http://www.trejdify.com/
I don't know who thought of the whole EST, UST and other nonsense, anyways. Why not just use GMT? At least you can easily convert that.

I prefer using UTC, myself. I think it's the way of the future. Timezones have long since been obsolete with the advent of a globalized world, not to mention that they are an unholy mess. UTC is universal.

So while we aren't going to switch to UTC for a while, I would very much thank you if you'd use UTC on websites and other internet related services. It simplifies things for everyone and will drive adoption forward.
Google Patents "Advertising based on environmental conditions"
I have mixed feelings about this: "The methods include FileLawsuits, FileComplaints, SupplyDocuments, GetCaseHistory and so on (the actual names are in Polish)." I'd never even think of creating an API that doesn't use English method names (even though it's not my first language). It doesn't matter whether this is used only internally at the moment. At some point you'll need to integrate with others in one way or another.

Then again... it was created for Polish people and it probably contains some law-related vocabulary which not everyone will be familiar with if it's translated.

But if they ever make it stable enough to license the system to other countries, it would be a hard thing to change. Can't decide what I think of this idea.
Show HN: Graph of wikipedia articles semantic similarity (LSI, Python, d3.js)
Small experiment of visualization of wikipedia articles as a graph using d3.js.<p>Articles with more traffic are bigger.
I computed the semantic similarity using LSI with python (gensim)
You have to scroll down/right a bit!<p>http://similarityapi.appspot.com/graph/?title=blade%20runner<p>There is also a JSON api:
http://similarityapi.appspot.com/api/v1/?limit=100&title=blade%20runner<p>All feedback is appreciated:<p>@lucamartinetti
luca@luca.io
I don't think they can do rote statements. They have to explain what caused the problem, explain what they are going to do to prevent the issue occuring again and admit that they cocked up. Nothing really very rote about that!
The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
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>static links to times in the future
this would be awesome, sharing of dates is the one feature missing form this cool tool (which made it into my bookmarks toolbar by the way, next to gmail and basecamp)
My seven-year-old son has recently been getting his first experience of programming using the Lego Mindstorms visual programming environment [1]. It uses a similar 'jigsaw puzzle' representation, and he just found it instantly intuitive. It has similar limitations to App Inventor, but I don't see support for recursion as being too important for this type of programming.

[1] Example: http://www.techno-stuff.com/AirPressure.htm
The Right Time for Love: Tracking the Seasonality of Relationship Formation
Have a look at http://worldtimebuddy.com/ - i am using it for exactly your use-case. It is really convenient to only display some specific time zones and search for a specific timezone, country or city.
Elastic Beanstalk now supports PHP apps and deploying through git
Small experiment of visualization of wikipedia articles as a graph using d3.js.

Articles with more traffic are bigger.
I computed the semantic similarity using LSI with python (gensim)
You have to scroll down/right a bit!

http://similarityapi.appspot.com/graph/?title=blade%20runner

There is also a JSON api:
http://similarityapi.appspot.com/api/v1/?limit=100&title...

All feedback is appreciated:

@lucamartinetti
luca@luca.io
Sprint CEO defends company’s decision to bet it all on the iPhone
Stop Motion Trailer for my Command-Line Programming Book
Second comment puts it perfectly: "Could you please explain how your "humor" was designed to call attention to the male-dominated world and was intended to be inclusive? How is inclusive to say that one of the perks were "women" and that one of your female event staff can fetch the boys some beer?"

Claiming humorous irony is a very thin get-out clause in this kind of situation. You can't say "we were advertising our female beer-fetchers to ironically draw attention to the male-dominated programming field, thus showing solidarity with women." It just doesn't hold water.

For your own sakes, guys, grit your teeth, bite down on a piece of leather or something, and write a real apology. This is so close! I know you can get the last 5% of the way!
No joke: YouTube gets its first live comedy show
I've been to many (tech-focused, admittedly) conferences that handle this through RFID tags or simple barcodes embedded in the conference badges, the advantage to that system being that attendees don't have to do anything more complicated than hold up their badge to a badge-scanning attendant.

I feel like there's a fantastic use case for the parent's project; I'm not quite sure what it is yet.
http://lamernews.com
Better Than Lego: A Free Kit That Makes All Brick Toys Compatible
Make Something People Love (Building brands 101: reddit breadpig hipmunk)
Note that it's not human powered. More on this blog: http://www.humanbirdwings.net
Stop Brogramming
Terms and Trends in DIY and Open Source Online Maps
Surviving a bad RNG
http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ offers exactly this. It allows you to search for cities/timezones, shows weekdays, native time format (am/pm or 24hour depending on the timezone) and you can easily select a specific date for the comparison
> Once at the meeting, you tell everyone attending to text the word “PTA” to 917-746-0007. You’ll immediately get their numbers and emails added to your list at RollCallMe.com

How do you do that? How do you get someone's email from a text she sent?
And there's no chance you could, instead, just get up and walk to where the PM sits, or call him/her via phone, or use IM, or just send an email, and accomplish the same end?

To me, it sounds like a false dichotomy to say that you either sit together and have rapid communication OR you sit apart and are forced to wait for a weekly checkup meeting... surely there's a continuum there??
Usually just mentally add the +1/-1 in my head where needed

It's a pain but, it's better than doing all the math
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Now the landing is fixed. Have a look now if you want...
this sounds like limbaugh's apology the other day. "sorry that our WORDS made our sponsors mad. we should have used different WORDS." missed the point.
At no point have I flagged or downvoted you; I do believe my responses to what you have written stand on their own merits.
Their response is neither thoughtful nor convincing.

But my bit was about the haste to draw conclusions. That some of those conclusions turned out to be more right than wrong says more about luck than the process by which they were drawn.
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The totals are public, but not your entire tax report. And since this guy could represent his company, all the tax details of his company was also available.

I think the biggest issue is that this bug raises serious questions about the whole implementation of the site.
Developer interest in Android slowly eroding
Interesting problem: iPhone 30-pin cables adding noise to digital audio signal
Given the precedent of the DocX foreclosure signature fraud, the DirecTV smart card lawsuits, and the RIAA lawsuits, I think bulk lawsuits are a ripe territory for a combination of fraud and lawsuits with poorly thought-out evidence that only win because settling is cheaper. With the current system, there is an assumption that a human at least looked over the lawsuit before filing, but if programmatic lawsuits are made possible, we may see the first lawsuit that literally was not thought out at all before filing. In this case, I think it's best to retain a human element to the filing process, much like we have dead man's switches on trains.
Analyzing FAA Air Traffic Datasets Using Cloud Numerics
> Where do you go after you exhaust HN?

My editor of choice to get some work done. Stop procrastinating!
If HTC wants to integrate these services into the core experience of their devices, then they are going to have to manipulate the android source in a substantial way that will contribute to the fragmentation issue. I think these manufacturers are expecting something out of android that it cannot deliver. These "kindle-esque" forks are going to be android's undoing.

We'll have to wait and see, but I think every major manufacturer is going to to try and build a platform/ecosystem similar to what Amazon and B&N have done.
Reddit's subreddits are really a nice place to be. Not the funny/wtf/vidoes/politics etc, which will overwhelm you quite fast. There are some really useful subreddit which are of good quality, but because of their smaller sizes, are difficult to know about.

I feel these subreddits are worth a try:
compsci (http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci)
explainlikeiamfive (http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/)
programming (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming)
(There are a links to other subreddits of similar type in the sidebars of these reddits, which can be further explored).

One caveat is that lots of articles/links/posts from those places turn up here at HN as well. So there is factor of duplicates involved.

All any of your interests might have its own subreddit. If it exists and there isn't too much trash, those can be looked at.
Ok... this may actually be better

Really digging it so far
Cool, if it gets widespread implementation.

Had to read a ways down to see an example to confirm, in simple terms, that this would mean you could make function calls such as:

( a, b, c) = f();

like you would in Perl / Python / Ruby. (not so good at decoding BNF while I'm sipping my first cup of coffee in the morning...)