skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what gets me about the moon-shot deniers. If NASA was motivated to save expense and risk, doesn't the act of launching the first stages of a bunch of Saturn rockets going to mostly squash any savings flat?

Those things are huge, their launch was witnessed by many 10's of thousands, and their flight was tracked by the USSR and anyone else with the technical capability to do so. (Admittedly, the latter is probably only sporadic, but still an effective deterrent.) The second stages -- also huge, also tracked by the USSR and anyone else with the technical capability to do so. The third stages: the same. Even the command module+LEM: freaking conspicuous. And it's not as if you can send them up there, then fake the thing coming back -- you had to actually bring the freaking things back so the USSR and everyone else could track it then too.

So, after going to all that trouble, exactly how much money is going to be saved? How much risk is going to be saved? If you're faking a flight to the moon, and your fake command module misses its burn and flies off into the void, you're going to have to fake the deaths or kill off those astronauts anyways. If anything, one has greatly increased the risks by engaging in a such a huge and technically challenging conspiracy.

Kudos to Bezos for finding the engine!
Predicting MacBooks with the Ivy Bridge schedule
San Diego JS is a presentation based meetup and we found that a lot of attendees were also interested in classes where they could work on actual code while having the ability to get advice and ask questions.

JSU is not intended to compete, but to fill that need without causing confusion as to what SDJS is. Using a separate, geography-agnostic name also allows us to expand the concept to other cities if anyone is so motivated.
This is not particularly enlightening. Any number of things are possible. It was possible for Adobe to institute unreasonable pricing terms before this announcement too.

EDIT: Uh-oh, somebody downvoted this. Quite worrisome, because right now it only applies to my comment, but tomorrow, it may not. Right? Because apparently one data point constitutes a trend.
You cannot possibly put HTML5, mostly three.js at this time (thank you Mr Doob, you rock Sir), at the same level as what Flash is able to do on a browser or what Flex is able to do on mobile. It is also not supported in some present browsers. Neither targets "social gaming" at all. Adobe is doing HD specs at 60 fps, full GPU render support. What other cross plat does this in the browser at this point and what other cross plat that does this aims at social game developers even? HTML 5 does a better job at what ? 8 bit looking socket based casual games and full 3D are not the same thing. IE 10 is lining up to miss on browser level AAA looking games and iOS prefers to determine the "future" where it is able to vote, none of this brings hardcore gamers in no matter how anyone may want to present it. Look at the triple A titles that sell, look at what Abode is doing, then look at what three.js does, does it look like social gaming to you ? Let's be realistic and not just play along to a party line. In the process lets also not build up casual gaming to be something that it is not, some sort of made up standard for what gaming should be just because it is of interest to push for specific tech at a specific point in time. It is getting old already.
...so it sounds like you resented that job due to giving you limited time for sleep/food/unwinding?
Kickstarter: rails.app
Decommissioning the Space Shuttles
Scaling Windows 8 to different screens
Wow.

Disagreeing doesn't make you evil. Trying form a cabal to keep people from talking about and fixing an inequity that favors you sure does, though.
"Though they've been on the ocean floor for a long time, the engines remain the property of NASA."

Interesting, I thought Law of Finds stated that abandoned property belongs to the person who salvages it (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6896645.stm), or maybe the engines were not abandoned?
"I can't understand why Adobe is making these decisions when they're competing with an upcoming technology that has a such large & growing fanbase."

I think Adobe is currently a divided company. Part of it want to remain with Flash and view HTML5 as a competitior, while the other part is into HTML5 and see it as the future. Adobe makes their money from development tools, after all. The technology used to present the content is less important as long as people use their tools, even if Flash player gave them a sort-of monopoly on it's creation.
> an employer from whom I could have no possible legal recourse in the event of a dispute.

That part is easily solved: the dictator can put up a bond in some trusted country. The bond is forfeited if the dictator betrays you. The contract laws of the trusted country apply.

It could be that some enterprising dictator could gain a better reputation for respect of property than the US government[1]. A reputation for respecting property rights, combined with a country, is an extremely lucrative asset, and it would be costly to lose it.

> As a business owner, I then have the choice of doing my business in a major Western democracy with an elected government

If moonchrome can offer a better regulatory environment, you might prefer to do business with him. Maybe your business is melanoma detection. HN user danifong approached YCombinator with that idea, and Graham told her[2]: “The trouble with the melanoma detection idea is that you’d spend most of your time dealing with legal and regulatory crap. That sort of work doesn’t really take advantage of your skills.”

[1] The USA has questionable regard for property rights, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London

[2] http://daniellefong.com/2010/02/11/how-law-shapes-the-busine...
I agree that XeTeX doesn't provide a drop-in replacement for TeX-with-dvips, but neither does pdftex/pdflatex, and many people already use that. Generating postscript or DVI first and converting to PDF produces suboptimal PDFs.

For quite a long time, pstricks didn't work very well with pdflatex, until eventually pstricks added limited support for PDF.

Also, I do consider TikZ sufficiently better than pstricks to switch. The low-level PGF library alone wouldn't provide enough benefit, but the addition of the high-level TikZ makes it extraordinarily good.
YC accepts people without a specific idea for the very reason that the people they accept have lots of good ideas.

Have you done a startup before? I think you'll find that there are 100 little decision points where you need to make the right choice, and that process is far more important than the initial idea.

Even though I can be uneasy to share ideas, like you, I've always found that I've learned the most from sharing my ideas with super smart guys. The things I get back from them have saved me years of time.
> I'm assuming Facebook, Twitter and Myspace are not paying Bell Mobility

It is quite likely that they are, see the nice error message you get from http://0.facebook.com . I suppose the deal requires Facebook to pay ISPs; the ISPs are free to offer free access to any site whenever they want and I doubt they are really after a text-only interface.

But this is not the point. The main problem is that all the Facebook competitors will have to pay if they do not want to be relegated in the I-have-to-pay-for-it separate internet.
A great response to a lousy situation. Mad props to her.
NSA Chief: China Behind RSA Attacks
Another way to read it: Relational databases just aren't elegant.
In particular, what I'm saying is that "fighting fire with fire" is a far cry from "taking the high road."

In another comment, oskarth posits that she "did everything right" by not going to her supervisor, so as to avoid "turning it into drama".

How does this not turn it into drama? Isn't that what supervisors are for? I understand the inclination to avoid being the snitch, but all this does is set her up for equally serious rebukement by management if and when it does get escalated there, and prevents her from having a leg to stand on.

Whether or not it is as offensive as the other, I think we all know that it was intended to be at least as annoying.

What she's effectively done is the digital equivalent to "I'm not touching you. I'm not touching you." while holding her finger one inch from the face of her co-workers. That's fine and dandy, but she doesn't get to respond like a two year old and also expect me to think highly of her actions.
I guess the TSA now has to start psychologically screening pilots. Right?
House Shoots Down Bill Stopping Employers From Demanding Your Facebook Password
> The defining characteristic of privilege is not necessarily that you are judged more favorably, but that you are judged on the basis of your behavior, rather than on the basis of your group membership.

That's a good point.

> The situations you point out are about mocking behavior, not groups. Your friend said something about a young girl, so you make fun of him for being a pedophile. Your girlfriend happens to have a black eye, so you get jokingly accused of abusing her.

I think there are elements of both. For example, if a female friend had said something about Harry, it wouldn't have the same impact, humor-wise, to imply she was a pedophile. The joke depends heavily on making the connection between innocuous individual behavior and the stereotypical behavior of the group. I suppose the equivalent for women would be "that time of the month" jokes. They're usually making fun of an individual, but rely on connecting individual behavior to the stereotypical behavior of the group.

That said, I think there is a spectrum of purity in such jokes. "Duke guys are rapists" jokes, for example, focus less on individual behavior and more on group membership, at two levels (Duke student, man).
He hasnt left anything for the rest.. the next coolest stuff will be to run linux in the air.
I do think think that there's a combo of simple techniques and rules of thumb, that, taken together, yield better results, with less ceremony, than Agile. And certainly far better than Waterfall, in the general case.

That combo (in my judgement) includes: iterative development, risk-driven prioritization, KISS/YAGNI, note-taking, scripted automation, CLI bias, FOSS, backups, version control and RDD (README-driven development). And several more, but these are among the biggest.

Because you don't necessarily need tests. You don't necessarily need pairs. You don't necessary need cards, or standup meetings. You don't need big upfront design. But you do need to produce working code. You should provide enough documentation to help you remember how things work and why, and bring new team members up to speed and/or project inheritors, and you ought to be flushing out assumptions or minimizing your biggest risks as early as you can, when there's still the most time to fix things, workaround, or abandon an approach entirely. These are rock solid, universal patterns I've seen over the decades. And they apply to small projects and large. Solo rockstars, small teams, large, etc. Independent of tech mix and software types.

And yes, ultimately the quality of people you have is the most important. They drive everything else: the choice of technology, tools, architecture, prioritization, morale, pace, resilience, etc.
It's funny you mention that - we studied Sealand as part of my Public International Law course about 5 years ago, and that's pretty much the conclusion that we all came to. The "best" things a country can do are only worthwhile with international recognition. Even Tuvalu (population c.10,000) gets its own TLD (.tv), which has been its prime source of income for some time.
"Sure it can... If he lies every day about what he does, the longest he can go is one sprint before his work gets verified."

That's not fixing bad communication. That's wrapping it up in process, and calling it "good enough". The team communication, and probably its morale and output, still sucks.

"etc. Pretty much what actually happens at a construction site"

That communication happens continuously, throughout the day. If isn't happening continuously, throwing a standup at it ain't gonna fix it.
A nice addition might be the current locations of wind farms (if that data is accessible someplace).
Game of Life implemented in Game of Life
Not a lawyer, but I would imagine the definition of abandoned has some sense of an indistinguishable owner. In the case of Apollo 11, the owner is quite clear.

On the other hand, if you consider the law of "Finders Keepers, losers weepers" It is clearly Bezos to do what he wants.
You can lose motivation to do something without resenting it.
Everywhere I go, I find a spammer has been there before me.
I suggest learning about HTTP and DNS first. The easiest starting point might be to install firebug so that you can see what's really happening between a browser and a web server.

In short, when the server receives the raw request, the targeted domain name and path are included in the headers. With that raw request its pretty easy to do whatever they need.

Honestly, I dont really know what virtual hosts or rewrite rules are. These sound like specific features of web frameworks rather than anything inherent about the internet.

Feel free to ask me questions by email. Also don't be afraid to say if you want to implement something similar. It isn't hard to do.
.mov was not working yesterday for me, but .avi seemed to work ok (5 min conversion time).
Domains owned by the Gov't
Learning CSS from Scratch
"omg i'm offended ur heteronormative comment its fucking disgusting take down now"

Seriously, after seeing Basho Troll raise such hell last week, I've been quite unsympathetic to anyone who might seem like they're working themselves up to win 15 minutes of fame from the PC flash mob.

But this bot is an awesome hack, and exactly the kind of thing people need to do to empower themselves in the face of quiescent low-level offensiveness. It fights the battle in the lighthearted realm of wits, and like all games of wit, whomever caves to forceful methods (say crying to management about too many bots) loses by default.
I tried to fast forward through commercials an On Demand TV show and wasn't allowed to! Of course, no 3rd party box would have such a "feature".

Actually that's not a box feature. That's functionality provided by the VOD server. The box does very little w/r/t the playback of VOD it basically just collects remote presses and sends them upstream to a VOD controller which actually controls the video server. This is a consistent paradigm however the stream is pretty much always controlled on the server side and in fact Hulu implemented this feature way before Comcast did.

The difficulty with 3rd party boxes (outside of losing any "rental" fees) is that it adds a lot of provisioning overhead and frankly may not work properly. Your cable system doesn't want to have to support your cable box. Similar to how they don't support your wireless router.
A single cool C hack is a million times more cool than all html/css/js hacks combined.. awe inspiring.. jaw dropping stuff.
This article got me laughing into tears.

Only to make it even funnier by the glazed look in my girlfriends eyes when I was trying to explain whats so funny about guy bootstrapping a 32bit OS on a 8bit micro controller.

I mean the idea of emulating 32bit OS on a 8bit machine is not something too ridiculous on its own. But the setup he used. Oh my god. Must stop trying to comprehend this madness.

Kudos to Dmitry.
To be fair, it would be easily worth it for a blind person to spend a few hours carefully programming important routes like this. And of course, when self-driving cars are widely adopted, Taco Bell will automatically make instructions available. (This could be as simple as a standardized sign denoting the entrance and two windows of a drive through.)
The types of recommendations in the report have similar themes to some of the features of Cloudyn/ UptimeCloud. However, the Raveld Score is a completely free product. We do not intend to monetize the score itself. The plan is to use the contacts generated by the score to refine our additional products so that they specifically fit the Raveld Score users' needs. This functionality and value go far above the Score itself.
The Next PlayStation is Called Orbis, Sources Say. Here are the Details.
I wonder how much it costs?
I don't know that there's really that much data on the subject (and if there is, I probably wouldn't be able to disclose it). I will say this though: I've never been asked to work long hours. Nor have I ever been assigned enough work that I've had to work long hours. We tend to not have fixed deadlines, so it's rare that I have to work in crunch mode. Some people love their jobs and work at all hours. Google is more than willing to accommodate those people. Me, I strive to get a lot done in little time so I have more time to unwind and can be more productive the next day.

TL;DR - It depends.
I like how Jeff Bezos talking about hiring a team that found the engines ends up with the headline, "Jeff Bezos Discovers ..."
The point was more than you can wire the SRAM to the address bus of the CPU with maybe a little GPIO logic for bank switching to expand the address space. The DRAM has to be done over GPIO (my count is 22 data signals) solely, with attention to timings and refresh.

And sure, I can see how it's done and announce it's "easy". But I'd be hesitant to try it. So if you've actually done it, bravo.

(edit: Among other things, how did you handle the case of your refresh ISR firing in the middle of a read cycle? Certainly can be done correctly, but it's a non-trivial (albeit software-side) problem to solve.)
More serious to who? Sometimes it's the little things that hit the worst.
Not to be picky, but would you mind deleting this post and re-submitting with the URL in the "URL" box instead of the "text" box? thanks.
Hot, crowded, and running out of fuel: Earth of 2050 a scary place
Nicely done. 3D Product previews seem like a good use of CSS transforms.
'Angry Birds Space HD' Soars Into Orbit
https://www.adobe.com/products/flex.html <- free.
All the other tools can be found for free too, specific swf packaging, etc. But now it is down to sprite sheets so...
Perhaps, that is what you get by putting ex microsoft employees in charge.
How strange that this amazing dream, now rekindled, was originally born of cold war.
My report says my 3 of my 'most contacted' emails are gmail accounts I've never heard of. Googling these email addresses returns lists of known spammers. However clicking on the emails in the report itself shows no known results in my gmail. Has anyone else seen this? Should I be concerned? What should I check for?

I already re-checked that I have no forwarding addresses set; the addresses do not show up as autocomplete if I begin to type a message to one.

Could it just be a bug? The numbers are "14 emails sent", so not a huge amount, but I'm slightly disturbed by this and can't find any other clues yet.
Hey, that boss isn't taking home a paycheck like you are, so suck it up. <adding sarcasm tag here just in case>
I agree, but I think burnout and low motivation aren't necessarily the same thing.
> He expresses an opinion that is contrary to what other people are saying and he gets down-voted into oblivion.

He's being downvoted not because of his opinion, but because of the way he chose to present it. And, he's whining about downvotes. Read what he's writing. It's downright rude.

> I'll be down-voted myself anyway for even daring to defend someone’s right to express their opinion however.

No, and suggesting such is fairly dramatic. However, the fact that you spend 2 paragraphs on the "plight" of your posts' voting trend is pointless.

> So god damn it learn to argue with people properly instead of just trying to silence them.

Learn to discuss matters like an adult, and you won't have this issue.

> Also, down-voting people as you disagree with them verbally is like gagging them whilst you debate them.

IIRC, your vote doesn't count if the person is responding to you, or you are replying to them. So, enhance your calm.
predates both of those by quite a bit: http://nixweb.com/dust/
The news here isn't that China has been hacking US companies. The news is that the USA has started calling them out on it. I wonder if this signals a shift in foreign policy?
Thanks wikimedia for once again providing a detailed analysis of something that's been absurdly obvious for the last 5 or 6 years - "However, the rate of rejection of all good-faith new editors’ first contributions has been rising steadily, and, accordingly, retention rates have fallen."

And so the conclusion? "At the Foundation level, this includes major software changes like the creation of a visual editor to lower the technical barrier to entry..."

Which completely doesn't address the human issue of entrenched editors who reject perfectly good edits by new users and delete perfectly good content. Nothing about that problem is addressed by making the editing GUI simpler.

Useless.
I have two children, a pre-schooler and a kindergardener, and I very much doubt either of them could solve that puzzle.
Why do we need a Photoshop or InDesign killer? I have never heard any designers complain about Photoshop, or any of the top Adobe products (Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks) for that matter. Flash is definitely on it's way out, but Adobe isn't going anywhere.
Primeval Precipitation: What Fossil Imprints of Rain Reveal about Early Earth
If you could get at the GIS data sets you would be golden. Anyone know of an easy way to integrate GIS data into web applications?
I strongly disagree that the notion of patriarchy is inherently biased. It's a reasonably neutral description of a social system. For example, the Patriarch of Constantinople apparently likes the term: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_of_Constantinople

Also, patriarchy doesn't imply that all men have incredible power, any more than institutionalized slavery meant that all white people had incredible power. Patriarchy also misuses men who step outside their role in the system, in the same way that white anti-slavery and anti-segregation activists were treated poorly.

It's true that critique of feminism is not necessarily anti-woman. Many feminists sometimes critique parts of feminism. However, when some guy turns up and turns a discussion of an actual woman's actual bad experience into a discussion of how oppressed he is by feminism, I'm still going to make some assumptions.
Touch hardware and Windows 8
Same. OSX Chrome.
The Case For Apple to Preserve the Mac Pro
IPad POS Solution (Updated)
Time Track Turbo
Nice, thanks William.
It doesn't matter, the application of the "rules" (read: guidelines) is so arbitrary and capricious as to be entirely meaningless and unpredictable.
I wish they would make this open source. It is beautiful.
What A 16th Century Guild Teaches Us About Competition
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Richard-Cl...
Whats funny is I agree with just about everything you've stated here, although I do believe we did get a pretty good idea of the backend with the screenshots.

But your point doesn't detract in any way from these projects. The point of Svbtle is the network. The point of Obtvse/Simple is the backend. You say "clone all you want" which is exactly what we did.. the goal was never to "beat" anyone or prove anything, it was to mimic the software, which we've already accomplished.

And IMO, that is more valuable than a network. Because now anyone can use it. And as good as Dustin's network ends up being, if it's never all-inclusive, it will always miss out on a the biggest and best talent-pool around... the internet.
Looks like a really interesting book - they do cover the remote bits of Oregon, right? There is some incredible country out there - it can feel a bit creepy to be so far from anything.

Pity there's no Kindle version:-/