skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've also seen this in a UK airport. I did not think it was a hologram.

When I read the title, I was expecting something different:
A pool of agents "beaming into" the busy hotspots from a central, remote location. E.g. If airport A is quieter than airport B, then the agents just beam into airport B.

The agent can see the person via camera, and can tell the person to place his passport in a reader that quickly scans all pages, and sends the agent an image. To stamp the passport, the agent can tell the person place page X in slot "Y", where the agent can release the stamp remotely.

Then I read about the $180k non-interactive cardboard cutouts....
I think you missed the point that you set a fixed amount of money to use each month.
There's no way flattr will use more than the chosen monthly amount.
For an extreme case of nimby-ism and all the other factors mentioned in the slate.com article, please read this article on Half Moon Bay:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/17/...
"The ear, the organ of fear" by Nietzsche
Modern agricultural planting and harvesting equipment is already GPS guided, this is more of an incremental step to full automation of something that was probably 80--90% there already.
"All of the good places to live in the USA are balls-expensive"

By "good places" of course you mean places that you've hard about in Berlin, right?
No, I knew about that. I'm talking about the subject of the headline, Isaac is well known for hatred of semicolons, and outside of that I can't see any reason to questions Joyents stewardship of th project.
I went past the construction site on my way to vegas last week. It looks like all 3 towers are at the full height.

It looks really crazy from the highway with the large towers and circles below.
Cached version from Google:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6tI7UJT...
Would opening a pdf via Chrome for example provide any extra protection? From what I understand most of the exploits are because of embedded media, no?
Start-Up Chile team looking for UX/Designer
We just got accepted to Start-Up Chile and will be moving to Santiago, Chile on July 25th and are looking to bring a UX/Web Designer down with us.

We are building a meeting/event management system for organizing and running large conferences.

You can e-mail me sontek [at] gmail [.] com if you are interested in traveling to South America to work on an early stage start-up.
It's a beachhead. It does not increase the perceived validity or precision of the test, but it does help support the claim that the theory and model, may have a basis in reality.

That is the foundation of science, models and theories describing reality.

There are also plenty of new theories being created today that have yet to be empirically evidenced. But that in itself, does not make that theory unscientific.

Thus, "What is science?" This is actually an extremely thorny question and perhaps better suited for another time. Although I should add philosophy of science and epistemology happen to be two passions of mine.

Falsificationism is a pretty good start if you are interested. It is by no means not contentious (as is probably any position in contemporary philosophy - but that is another matter)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability#Falsificationism

Many engineering types with a brief flirtation with the philosophy of science, tend to like Popper's idea of a theory being solid, if in theory it is able to be shown to be false.

That is the major reason why the MBTI is not at all like horoscopes. Horoscopic predictions cannot be shown to be false (because they are too vague), but the MBTI test can be.

For example, I have never ever met a single person that has said or thinks that "all 16 types fit a person equally".
You will find these problems have been solved: https://github.com/substack/node-bigint
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Helpful to know, and thank you for the suggestions.
True, and all new products in the UK have to have pre-wired sealed plugs now. Although you can still buy replacements plugs - I don't know hoe much longer for.

It's just part of the lost art of being able to fix things, now you throw away the Walmart appliance rather than replace a plug. Soon you wont be able to fix your car and will have to scrap it when the dealer decides that support has expired.
I think the Camper website needs more animated GIFs, Javascript image rollovers, MIDI music, and a tiled background.
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I'm not saying that TCP was a super-bad choice, just that they wanted only a subset of the features and got a bit more than they wanted. Also see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4033822 .
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We should just convert the comments to a poll. Who is behind this?
There's nothing about ring mains that makes them any more dangerous.

The UK pugs probably are needlessly safe - but so are aircraft and cars these days. I can't see a big campaign to remove earth pins, shuttered sockets, fuses and switches to increase the number of accidents getting much public traction!
Totally true - I visited Detroit a few months back and was surprised how much it reflects its MotorCity roots. The roads are so massive in width, lot size in the neighborhoods is ridiculous and so much space is dedicated to highways with sparse exists. You can see why a local business couldn't exist - the density never gets high enough to allow a critical mass. Add to this that many of these neighborhoods are at like 20% capacity.
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That is not always the case. Lots of times I ended up re-implementing rails in Sinatra or so.

e.g. Rack -> Brochure -> Sinatra -> RailSinatra (half-ass Rails'ish Sinatra).

Things like crsf protection, email sending, asset pipeline etc. are not available/usable by default in small frameworks. It is good for learning to start with the simplest approach and build all the way up to the need as the project evolves, but it's bad if you have limited resources.

Successful projects tend to evolve and you can save lots of time by starting with a powerful framework. You just need to judge if the project has potential to grow, because the downsides of using a big powerful framework are not always that bad.
Having your software come in a box doesn't always mean anything. Take a look at Diablo III. Even though the particular software that you use may work if you have the disk, there's a good chance that the next version won't even have a physical option.
disallow all speculative investment in property (foreign or otherwise), voila, instant price drops and quality of life increase for anyone who doesn't already own a home.

Well, that or massive shortages and black market sublets. I agree that housing is way too expensive, but before coming up with new ways to solve it with central planning, how about fixing the central planning that's a primary cause of the problem (e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4032046).
and ireland. and with all the companies from the usa here i suspect it'll be a popular purchase to save space in a bag.

i know i want one or three.
Unfortunately Node's implementation of web workers uses external processes and serializes all the data as JSON. This makes them considerably slower than Chrome's implementation of web workers, which use threads.

In general if you're doing something compute-bound, Node's single threaded event loop isn't going to help you.

Depending on your performance requirements you might take a look at LMAX and Disruptor. At the very least you could be writing Java instead of C++
#13 is a tricky one, but important:

Don't be too technical. Gauge the technical ability of who you're talking with and match it.

I can't tell you how many times I've called customer support with a problem that I've done all my homework for the support call and then get greeted by a person who absolutely must follow a script.

You could tell them you restarted the server, restarted the process, etc., etc. but they don't care - they just force the script on you. I get that the first line of support needs to triage the caller before escalation, but annoying them right up front makes the experience very unpleasant.
Thanks for stating so eloquently what I've been struggling to communicate. The heart of the matter to me really does boil down to the fact that JSON is meant for humans, too, not just machines. You nailed this sentiment.

(As a friend pointed out, "Do you not comment your code just because it's meant for machines?")
To be fair, that's exactly what they did with IE6
Great app. I actually had a showstopper with it just a few days ago [1], though the patch got merged pretty fast.

Definitely consider dajngo-facebook if you need a quick and stable way to do Facebook integration.

[1] - https://github.com/tschellenbach/Django-facebook/issues/116
Oh, Paul. ;( Less Ruby??! What happened? Are you angry at her? Did she cheat on you? Did you catch her in bed with Mikael? I warned you about him.
Having done freelance work in varying amounts for a couple of years now, I'd say that task switching between two projects from one day to the next is not really a big deal. You have an overnight sleeping period for your brain to process and reset. Switching within the day, or trying to switch among three or more projects starts to break down, efficiency-wise.
The redesigned icon has the added benefit of subconsciously conjuring thoughts of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza
Thank you for the kudos. I experimented with the order a bit, but myself and a friend that looked at it found the flow of information a bit weird when starting with the specifics.
settings.py is the new php.ini
I think wikileaks is interesting and powerful, but Julian Assange strikes me as a creep. At best he distracts from the cause he champions and at worst he really harms it. And I'm not talking about the rape accusation.
The ideals of a crazy person like me would be "hike up the minimum wage insanely high, pry money from the pockets of the wealthy"

I'm the only libertarian I know who is provisionally in favor of a universal income. But once you have that, you don't need a minimum wage and in fact you don't want one, because you want to maximize the number of people who can find work. The minimum wage exists to prevent exploitation, but if everybody automatically receives enough to live on, that's no longer a factor.
I've been hearing a lot about lucid dreaming and how people use it practice, experience, and grow.

I've heard a lot of claims about lucid dreaming among some young people I know well locally (who post here from time to time). I don't get the impression that lucid dreaming is really as beneficial as they think it is. Some cases I know about from personal observation involve disturbing sleep cycles so much in pursuit of lucid dreams that the young people failed in work environments or crashed and burned in their university studies. Getting a normal amount of sleep (for you, that leaves you feeling rested when you wake up in the morning) is very important. It's a lot more important than what kind of dreams you have.

I think a writing intervention

http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/Faculty/Pennebaker/H...

may do more for many young people in high-creativity careers than lucid dreaming. There is a better research base, by far, for the writing self-help than for lucid dreaming. Try it and see how it works. Best wishes for much success in improving your personal insight and problem-solving.

AFTER EDIT: An issue to consider whenever participants on Hacker News discuss self-help strategies is how reliable the research base is. People who only use the University of Google Library to do research will often find websites by advocacy groups that are pushing a solution that may not have been tested. Fortunately, Google's own director of research, LISP hacker Peter Norvig, has written a guide to reading research reports

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

that reminds us all about what to look for when someone reports some new, amazing treatment. Check out whether lucid dreaming has really been well evaluated with sufficiently large sample sizes, control groups, and other marks of good research.
While I agree that killing him would probably create more problems than it solves the facts remain.

a) judgement will be given 1 hour after the court building so thats still not much time .

Here are the facts:
Sweden is trying to extradite him for the purpose of questioning, but they have refused all offers to question him via telephone or video call, despite it being a completely legal method under Swedish law.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's lawyer tells CBS News that rape and sexual molestation allegations against his client in Sweden are a "stitch up," and the Swedish prosecutor's failure to provide him with documentation on the claims, or any evidence, makes it impossible to begin crafting a legal response.

Call it what you want, I call it Bullst

If charged, the following trial would be held in secret.
Suppose there was a super HOV lane on your freeway where you were allowed to do 100mph in stead of 55mph and the distance between cars was 20ft instead of 300ft.

Would you buy one then ?

Would your local highway authority jump at the chance of getting 4x as many cars without building anymore infrastructure?
I don't get the point of these iOS apps. I use (and love) AirFoil to send music from my MBP to my AppleTV to have my computer stream music to my TV system's speakers. But who would want to have something sent TO their iPhone?
The piece could be a lot shorter by eliminating the paragraphs of prose about lean manufacturing, only to halfway through the article state the obvious fact that manufacturing physical things does not have a lot in common with developing software. A short summary of lean manufacturing, and then the discussion of lean software development, would be more efficient.
It means "package vacation" which for lots of people means "Caribbean island and it doesn't really matter which one."
Apple Can't Be Too Happy That A New iPad Prototype Just Leaked
All of us? All of you, perhaps.
Unfortunately true. TBH The only two things I've needed/bought in the last couple years were an adobe suite (wanted to get one while I was still a student) and parallels, both for my macbook. I run linux on all of my other PCs and use free (as in proprietary but at no cost) or open source software pretty much exclusively so I'll be alright.

Buying software has just left a bad taste in my mouth most of the time in the last couple of years. Good thing I'm not a gamer I suppose.
This quickly fell off the top of the list at HN, and rightfully so.
There haven't been many recent super-exits out of NYC. The only one that comes to mind is Quidsi, which was acquired by Amazon, but they weren't even actually in the city, they were in Jersey City.
This is the NYTimes doing it's job of tooting the city's horn by citing a couple of examples (I give them credit for leaving foursquare out this time), and a "recent report from the Center for an Urban Future, a New York-based public policy organization" (ok, if the name of this institution itself doesn't suggest an incredible amount of bias i don't know what would). The mayor has fallen in line as well, so his legacy will not be a collapsed financial services industry(not his fault) but instead, he hopes, a tech startup paradise. And still not quite sure what the point of this Tech school on Roosevelt Island is. Stanford isn't a tech school, it just has a solid tech offering.
MIT is a tech school yet Boston has failed to become a tech mecca on the same scale as the Valley.

What matters it the culture of a city or environment. NYC's culture is not tech startup, it's finance and media. It's foreign investors buying large buildings and apartments to park their black money. It's gritty and boisterous, which can be fun, but it's not nurturing.

Sure there will be a few hits, but there will be a few hits from many cities around the country. That doesn't mean they are going to become the next tech mecca and take down the Valley.
>> Our estimation of development ‘cost’ in LUA is over 3000 lines of code, which for an average developer should take about a month to create and debug.

They should do project estimation instead of Security Analysis.
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You could have your iPhone docked in some kind of stereo system and have bazillion gigabytes of music that don't fit on iPhone, or just don't want to get up to change the music.

I don't think it's used to stream to iOS devices so they can play it back trough their speaker or headphones - I guess it's to use their line out.
Hierarchy is key. Choose one or two paragraphs that are most important and make them pop. It shouldn't feel linear.
Thanks. Don't worry about the number of technolgies, just make sure you do one stack (one server-side language, HTML, JavaScript and CSS) well, and call yourself a full stack developer.

Drive safe.
He comes off rather poorly in Bill Keller's account of Wikileaks' dealings with the NYTimes as well.
There is a finite number of things to do which create value and which humans are willing to pay for (just as is the case with horses). The only difference is that N_human > N_horse.

The fact that N_machine < N_human doesn't mean that N_machine will always be less than N_human. I'm only pointing out that it is a fallacy to claim that it is.
Oh, Don. No, everything is fine with ruby, I just got bored. And scala... she is so much faster! See you soon in AMS; I'll bring Mikael for fun and profit ;)
Yes you're comments are "helpful" but, you should be shedding that advice on a project that is looking for it. My comment is indirectly helpful by attempting to have people avoid leave comments like yours on great work that has no place for irrelevant points.

Yes its a visual resume, but unless he's specifically in the design field, the time you took to point all those things out could have been put to better use elsewhere.

And this response can apply to all the others that left attack-esque "advice" ...
How HubSpot built their new nav bar. (Awesome usability study)
Thanks for the eye-witness info. The need for the actor/actress to remain frozen in position so as not to extend parts of their body outside the perimeter of the screen explains the wildly exaggerated facial expressions (including Stepford-y smiles so wide that I'm pretty sure that I saw some wisdom teeth) of the actress-playing-avatar in the video embedded in the linked page.
At yet, you're still in NY. Happiness isn't everything: http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=8311
I was thinking that Silicon Valley's problems could become an opportunity for places like Detroit.

Of course, it takes money to attract new people to a city, but I think it can be done if the cost of doing business (i.e., cheap office space, business taxes, access to skilled labor, etc.) is attractive.
When the highway patrol cars came past the Volvos drove underneath the trailers of the big rigs and another rig overtook the first and hid them from view.

Just press the smokey-and-the-bandit button on the self drive console.
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That's not how the Face API works. An app needs the user to be logged into FB, and then the app can attempt face recognition for that user and their direct FB friends only. For a government to do this it would need collusion with Facebook; with or without the Face API.

As for satellite surveillance - even if modern military satellite imagery had that kind of resolution (it doesn't), and ignoring atmospheric conditions (a bit hard to do for the UK), it's hard to imagine how they would do face recognition from the tops of peoples heads.

With all due respect, your paranoia is misplaced.
Seems more like a boon to lawyers to me than anything else.
Extra protection as opposed to opening it in adobe reader, yes, much likely. Chrome has a sandbox for pdfs as far as I'm aware, they also provide a lot of big bug bounties to people who find any remote execution bugs in Chrome. So, in conclusion, yes, chrome provides relatively more security than other software when opening PDFs.
People are taller in the morning than at night
We do sell software, too. But we send the key immediately. In case the payment gets declined later by our processor we just lose one license which is no real cost to us. But a good customer experience is important enough to us to warrant this risk.
This bug reminds me of what my dad taught me when I got my driver's license. He taught me that knowing how to drive carefully wasn't enough to prevent accidents. I had to drive for myself and for everyone else. I clearly remember "you don't know what kind of drunk will be blowing a red light".

In this bug, Paul was driving carefully - he relied on the parser to do a good job. But relying on the parser is like crossing in GREEN light without checking. 99.9% of the time you should be OK. Until that one time with the drunk blowing the RED light.

My dad was right. Had Paul not relied entirely in the parser and done accurate memory allocation (checked for that drunk blowing the RED light) - everything would have been fine.
I think Instacast, and maybe Flattr as well, should boycott Apple and instead focus on the Android platforms starting with Google Play and Amazon's Appstore. Otherwise they are helping to perpetuate and even reward this kind of behavior.

Does anyone have the link for Instacast for Android?
As I understand it, it wasn't until the latest version (which was recently released) that they did the reverse engineering and bypassed the Apple licensing model which is why it was recently banned.

http://rogueamoeba.com/utm/2012/04/25/turn-any-ios-device-in...
I heard the same thing.
Why not run an app on the mac that serves streaming aac over http and give the user a link to open in mobilesafari? It seems to me that that would sidestep the whole issue.
Yup, that's why I mentioned it. I think it's important that my code can be easily read and is well-structured. Vote counted!
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Wow. This is fantastic!
Yes, this almost looks like they've created a sort of malware toolkit which has all the hard parts and exploits in C, but can be scripted quickly for purpose.

Even better if the scripts can then be updated remotely as well.

All things considered, this is the kind of thing you'd do if you were going to do this long term.
Could the radiation absorber also be used to enhance battery life? I imagine it would be possible to extract SOME kind of power, but i'm not sure how much.
Steam punk fusion is ridiculously cool. :-)

Google for the funded Tri Alpha, too. And then there is Lerner and team. I hope at least one of the groups succeed, the world will change.

(If you check talk-polywell.org, there is some positive info which is "only" 6 months old.)
Seth Godin has a better explanation:

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/03/dont_shave_t...
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This is the digital equivalent of a Chinese burn.
Being a nice place to live is a luxury that the rich enjoy and everyone else suffers for. Silicon Valley is the biggest tech hub in the world and home to billions of dollars worth of industry. Zoning should reflect that, rather than the whims of the lucky few who can afford to buy into the current inflated market.
They already have a relatively successful business. This rejection just removes one of their possible revenue streams and nothing more.
Proprietary software making looking to go fully GPL with donations.
Not sure if this is helpful but Ghostery blocks Yahoo Analytics on your site and it goes completely blank.
Principle is the same. So Flattr only enables shady access to $30 a month, which mom wanted to use at a day spa say. Only little suzy saw the "like" thing and said, "Hey... I like this paperdolls app/site (whatever)!"

I mean, mom may have even been happy allocating some money to educational things, but not virtual Barbies. Your statement is basically saying, "Well Flattr only enables shady people to steal a set amount every month."