skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I don't use any RIM products personally, the Canadian in me wants to see them turn around this slump and be innovative again.
Simple Slopegraphs in Python
First, as far as I'm aware, there's no allegation that either this developer or Rogue Amoeba was responsible for extracting and publishing the key in the first place.

Second, I think the point is that some developers did good and innovative things with the key. By itself, I'd call extracting and publishing the key a mundane technical challenge, nothing more.
So Facebook gets all of the support burden and none of the hardware money?

That is never going to happen. Nor should it.
It went from a rumor of around 2000 workers a few days ago to around 6500.
I listened to a set of lectures from the Teaching Company a while back on the debates that occurred when the United States ratified its constitution. The opponents made all sorts of slippery-slope arguments: that there would be a standing army, that the federal government would grow past it's ability to pay (which the supporters actually acknowledged), that the Congress would become politicians for life, and so on.

At the time, these guys were dismissed as being totally wacko (my words, not the lecturer's). What kind of ridiculous slippery-slope arguments were these guys making, anyway?

Of course, all of these predictions did come true, it just took a long time. But when they were made it was all too easy to discount them as being far-fetched. This trend in public discourse continues to this day.
Feeding your tinfoil hat for the moment... Isn't the implementation of Angry Birds in desktop Chrome built using WebGL?
Also, your ancestors went though this millions of times while living long enough to have kids. So, while it may be unpleasant chances are it's just going end up with lightly different lights in the sky and at worse a small increase in cancer risk.
I haven't used iBooks Author, but you may want to check out Squarespace 6 when we launch in the next few days. I'm very proud of our editing and layout system.

http://new.squarespace.com/ <- about halfway through demo video.
Ask HN: Programmers, Macs, and Hackathons
I've been watching some videos lately about hackathons. While watching the videos, one things kept bugging me. Why are all these people using Macs? Is using a Mac a Silicon Valley standard nowadays? If you watch some of the videos on Facebook's career page, you can see Macs all around. My question is why are they so popular to use? Is getting a Mac worth it as a programmer?
Do you know why games use Ogg internally? Is it just licensing or does Ogg have some technical advantage for them?
Charged particles are the only thing affected by the earths magnetic field and they tend to be absorbed easily. Especially when they would need to get though 10+ miles of dense atmosphere to get to us.

Alpha Radiation can travel a few inches in the air.

Beta Radiation can travel a few feet in the air but far less than 50% can make it though 100 feet of air. So for 1 mile of atmosphere you would leave 1/2^52 of them.
Yahoo Has Changed A Lot. Really.
I spent the last few minutes poking around StreetView looking for a photo of the units I'm thinking of without luck

In my city I know that they periodically move the units so it may be that they were moved when the pics were taken.

but a hard, flat surface would be perfect for a sound transducer.

I would be surprised if the mic was embedded in a flat surface, that would cause all sorts of diffraction problems for a surface that wasn't (effectively) infinite, especially since there is a lot of high-frequency energy in gunshots. I suppose they could try to equalize them out, but that seems like unnecessary work. But again, I haven't seen a (confirmed) transducer.

It'd also be easier to weatherproof than something with microphones dangling outside.

edit: actually I suppose the mic could be offset just an inch or so from the enclosure, that would be enough to reduce diffraction problems while not being noticeable from a distance. I'd love to see one of these systems up close.
That problem has long since been solved with metal diaphragm mics, especially at the price points they're targeting. Microphones in airport monitoring systems last for years.

edit 2: some more searching indicates that a unit is actually made up of an array of mics. In that case, a flat surface would make perfect sense.
...which assumes a readership mostly in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere...

should be:
which assumes a film industry mostly in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere
FLAME isn't a virus, it is software from Brazil, just like LUA is from Brazil.

"Tool prototyping in the FLAME platform is based on the Lua scripting language. Lua is adopted in FLAME as an extension language: its interpreter is embedded as a library into the measurement agents. On the one hand, the Lua interpreter gives to the scripts running in the agents access to active measurement primitives through a high-level, minimalist API. On the other hand, the measurement agents and the measurement API are implemented in C, preventing significant overheads in the measurement results due to the execution of Lua scripts."
http://martin.lncc.br/main-software-flame
Sounds interesting, and a step in the right direction for re-thinking the way people write software. I look forward to seeing something in the future.
There's a potentially huge difference: if these outside company reports exist independently of the official PD story it becomes much easier for a reporter to start asking why the numbers are much higher. If the police are under pressure to get their stats down (i.e. cook the books) there will probably turnout to be a number of real incidents which were described as mistaken reports
Why We Pay More for Walkable Neighborhoods
Powerful "Flame" cyber weapon found in Iran
I'm confused why Gould came up at all

Perhaps Wikipedia can help clear your confusion:

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

"Glenn Herbert Gould was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach. His playing was distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and capacity to articulate the polyphonic texture of Bach’s music."
That may be true as well, but I feel like it's easy to resort to blaming the customer as "cheap" or "demanding". Again this is all speculation, but I think the fact someone is ready to pay for your product at all already means they value it a lot.
I don't think that data makes it through when Facebook resizes the picture. At least, I wasn't able to extract it from any of the photos at the top of my feed just now, including pictures from a couple of smartphones.
Security is all about execution: Chrome has an enviable track record; Adobe has an embarrassing one. They could change that but it's unclear that they're motivated to build up serious security competency (if they were, the manager in charge of their update process would be fired for cause)
From Lockhert's Lament, in which the author debates a fictional idiot (this should be required reading for anyone who has anything to do with curriculum design).

"What about geometry? Don’t students prove things there? Isn’t High School Geometry a perfect example of what you want math classes to be?"

His reply

"There is nothing quite so vexing to the author of a scathing indictment as having the primary target of his venom offered up in his support. And never was a wolf in sheep’s clothing as insidious, nor a false friend as treacherous, as High School Geometry. It is precisely because it is school’s attempt to introduce students to the art of argument that makes it so very dangerous.

Posing as the arena in which students will finally get to engage in true mathematical reasoning, this virus attacks mathematics at its heart, destroying the very essence of creative rational argument, poisoning the students’ enjoyment of this fascinating and beautiful subject,
and permanently disabling them from thinking about math in a natural and intuitive way.

The mechanism behind this is subtle and devious. The student-victim is first stunned and paralyzed by an onslaught of pointless definitions, propositions, and notations, and is then slowly and painstakingly weaned away from any natural curiosity or intuition about shapes and their patterns by a systematic indoctrination into the stilted language and artificial format of so-called “formal geometric proof.”

As Lockhart notes "Many a graduate student has come to grief when they discover, after a decade of being told they were “good at math,” that in fact they have no real mathematical talent and are just very good at following directions. Math is not about following directions, it’s about making new directions."
I find that a consistent exercise routine helps to implement good habits in other parts of my life, such as making good food choices, sleeping well, etc. And it certainly spills over into my work, as well. I just have more confidence and improved sense of well being. One thing that keeps me going is keeping in mind the long-term benefits. Not only will it improve my day, but I have a goal of living a long life with all my capacities.

I've recently started swimming and love it. If you have access to a pool, I cannot recommend it enough. I'm also in the middle of the "100 Pushup Challenge."
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Asus F3E battery
8 Reasons to purchase this 7200 mAh Asus F3E battery replacement: 1. it is safe and pass certification 2. made of sony, samsung, bak, and moni battery cells. 3. never refurbished battery. 4. protection circuit board. 5. good package. 6. full 1 year warranty and 30 days money back. 7. paypal, moneybookers, and western uninion payment. 8. high quality at the cheap price.
Would it be awfully smug to point out that Valgrind would've pointed this bug out in mere minutes? That's exactly why I make a habit of running my tests under Valgrind regularly during development; there's no point wasting hours debugging the classes of problem that tools can pinpoint in minutes.
Good old fashioned social engineering? The attackers already knew where she was going to be from other location based apps or just investigating the address of the grandmother. Also, the attackers could have access to the daughter and she is just pretending not to know anything to help the grandmother file an insurance claim.
I can relate to this sentiment. I've always described software development as moments of great frustration followed by great satisfaction. I just love the feeling that comes after you've squashed a nasty bug.
At first I was annoyed at the audacity of NASA; "don't touch our stuff because its important and has a historical significance". But as I read more of the story I realized that the historical significance is related to the fact that we're not really sure what 40 years on the moon can do to equipment. Keeping some of the existing sites in "pristine" condition is necessary to find out how long term exposure to a hard vacuum as well as large doses of radiation could effect future missions.
Texans the vote to oust SOPA's Lamar Smith is tomorrow. GO VOTE
I hate TDD because I have to actually debug them, sometime more so than the actual app themselves. Also, there's the issue of slow TDD suite, which means you have to optimize them or otherwise it will slow down your development pace.

TDD is only good when it provide more benefits than its negative(debugging time, time waiting for it to run, time spent ripping out code).

That being said, it's better than 0 test. Just don't get crazy in writing testcase for every minute scenarios.
You're getting very particular very quickly which may mean you miss the forest for the trees. What I think is a valuable take-way on this point is that "Ignorant customers do not have the tools to make an informed decision. They are therefore likely to be a) less confident and b) staring at 3 big price points. What do you think someone who is ignorant and unsure is going to do at this juncture?"

It's a really valuable point worthy of consideration even in the absence of concrete data.
I imagine phone calls could be an order of magnitude cheaper...
I guess the author forgot to add "... and oh yeah, blogs too" to the title.
At a basic level, over 99% of the internet is text files and simple databases. Why would you have web pages?

The interface is often important.
One of the fascinating parts of true startups for many people is that there aren't concrete definitive answers. Rampant speculation is a fun exercise that can lead you to discoveries that you never would have found if you didn't start down that path. Embrace the rampant.
Web War II: What Future Cyberwar will Look Like
Sure, and Microsoft provides document signing/rights management, as well, if you can get the supporting infrastructure. Office apps also have built in change revision history. Track Changes is sorta orthogonal here, I think.
USF not in NCAA baseball field
Use what you have.

No compelling reason not to.
This is a good thing, isn’t it? So why do I hate TDD?

Because debugging is fun. There, I said it. I love debugging. I think lots of clever people like debugging.

I've been doing embedded development for quite some time, so you know, flipping bits like a boss, a shitload of open terminals, lots of cables everywhere all the stuff that makes you look like you know what you're doing but debugging is not fun, it never was, it's a huge waste of my time.

You know what's fun? Having a product that works.

Debugging is code monkey job, you don't do it because you're smart, you're doing it because you were foolish.

To love debugging is to not love to code.
But at ground level, cosmic radiation accounts for apparently an average of around 11% of ionising radiation exposure and this is measurably affected by the interaction of the solar wind with the magnetosphere according to experiment, or at least according to the nice graph on this page - http://www.sievert-system.org/WebMasters/en/contenu_rayonnem...

[edit] I think I remember reading somewhere that a strong magnetosphere also reduces the erosion of the atmosphere, but I suspect that this would not be a particularly important effect over the timespan of a magnetic flip, otherwise we would not be here to worry about it.

[edit] Have just gone and had a good look at this and it would appear that while there is an increase in cosmic rays at the earth's surface when the magnetic field is reduced, this basically has negligible effect when compared to other sources of ionising radiation exposure - http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/FAQs7.html#q104 - so I was talking monkey poo all along. Oh well. Quibble revoked.

However I did learn a little bit about oh-my-god particles while looking into this - http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/OhMyGodParticle/ - which are really, really cool. :)
Ask HN: Visiting Palo Alto this summer. What should a geek do/see/visit?
Hey everyone, I've never really traveled outside of my home town (Montreal, Canada) but I now have the opportunity to go visit my dad for a week and he is stationed in Palo Alto. The prospect of seeing with my own eyes the tech hub that I read news from almost on an hourly basis is mind-boggling to me and I already feel like a child that is about to go to Disneyland.

I really want to take advantage of the week to visit places that minds such as yourselves consider MUST SEE. If I can visit such places, that would be truly the greatest vacation ever.

Any recommendations? I should be going for June 19-25 if there are any time-sensitive places that you would recommend.

Thank you in advance, and cheers for making HN an awesome website to procrastinate to!
It's only a crapshoot if all you do is drop your app in the store and assume that people will find it by magic.
Elon Musk is the next Steve Jobs. What Jobs did for computing, Musk is doing for Space exploration. In this video he displays many of the same signs of a "reality distortion field". He describes quite candidly what the general public thinks is crazy and unachievable (especially in 2002). In some ways I think his way of thinking is much more contrarian than Jobs. This year seems to be a tipping point for how we (the average person) see the future of space.

From all who care to dream,
Thank you Elon Musk!
Important Facts to Know about CUBRID
Likely reusing his directly allocated ByteBuffer and not checking the number of bytes that he filled it with.

From what I remember, directly allocated ByteBuffers are not guaranteed to be zeroed.
'Silicon Beach': Google's plea for Australia's future
Woah. I stopped reading at "Patrick McKenzie’s podcast" (but Instapaper'd for later, promise). I had no idea, but am thrilled and off to iTunes...
Leadership and Emotions
I had two issues: you have to click on the top of an empty textarea to start editing (guessing the first input position), and text entry stopped working after pressing the bold button.
She's from a pretty small town (population ~2000 according to Wikipedia). If she listed her hometown on facebook, her last name, a phone book, and a photo of her home would be more than enough.
I'm pretty sure this is an article that has been updated for years. It probably fell perfectly on those dates early in the series, then the deviations weren't enough to sacrifice the humor later on.
Nolan Bushnell: My New BFF
They were incredibly arrogant and are now paying the price for it.

I remember going to the CUTC conference (Canadian University Technology Conference) and having one of the ex-ceos (don't remember which) lead a chant on stage of "Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo!" during his keynote. To say that alienated the conference-goers not from Waterloo would be a bit of an understatement.

From what I've heard of people who have worked there if you went to Waterloo you're golden. Almost all upper management is from there. If you're not you're going to have to fight many times harder to get promoted. It's an old boys club and an incredibly short-sighted one. Just last year I met some Waterloo people working at RIM who were convinced that the company was doing just fine, that the Blackberrys were just as good as the iPhone and the stock tanking was just temporary. They spent way too much time in their self-congratulatory bubble and now it may be too late. I could see Microsoft buying them up, forcing them to get great exchange integration and be the "Windows Phone for Enterprise" provider.

After witnessing their arrogance I definitely won't mourn their loss. I just wish my taxes and mutual funds weren't pumped into them so much.
Regardless of what OS you have running on Apple hardware, the build quality and aesthetics of a Macbook Pro beats anything available from manufacturers like Dell, HP, Lenovo, IBM, etc.

OS X provides a good trade-off between developer friendliness (because it's unix) and usability when you don't want to mess around with stuff. However, I have on more than one occasion read about developers who are pushing the limit of their development productivity get fed up with OS X and install Linux as well for when they are developing.
Perhaps negative margins should be mentioned?
Massive State Sponsored Cyber Attack Uncovered
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Does anyone else have experience with using full-service outsourced HR? Even with an accountant and a good law firm, its amazing how complex HR can be, given all the nuances of payroll, benefits, contractors, etc.
Some people should debug their irony detector code as this is clearly irony. Great irony :)
Those paragraphs are so short that it makes me angry.
I still think it would be far easier and more obvious to have a few friends phone in diversions. What you're describing might feature in a Batman film with a master villain!
I can't be the only one who thinks this is meant to be sarcasm?
I've heard several very successful iOS devs say that they basically did exactly that.

I think the secret is finding a rich but unexplored niche but of course that's getting more difficult over time.
I am one of those people who have been "corn-holed" over the last 30 years and I seriously don't care how many publishers or retail outlets I put out of business by buying electronically.

The Internet selling model is here to stay and as long as the artist or author gets their fair cut for creating the work, the model is fine by me. The fact this author is tied to his publisher is between him and the publisher and not my problem.

I've read some rubbish by established authors with ridiculous e-book prices and some fine stuff for $0.99 by authors quite happy with the e-book format, Amazon does not need to apologise to anyone IMHO in fact I'm preparing my first book for publication with them later this year, I doubt I will make much but I have a day job and the Karma value will be immense, I suspect this is the feeling of a lot of authors (yes there is a lot of shit ebooks to wade through but its worth it when you find a gem!)

If there isnt an ebook and the price is too high I go to the library or dont read it (seriously how many people would seriously read a photocopied book)
I remember reading somewhere about a theory that people who pay more for a service end up committing more time and energy into learning it, because it seems more important to them.

If you signed up for a $50/mo service, you would probably feel pretty special about it and possibly spend a few hours learning. If you paid $5/mo you would probably skip through all the documentation as fast as possible, race into trying something out, and upon encountering a problem would probably fire off a support request without searching (hey you're a paying customer now, right?)

Of course none of the above is terribly scientific.. but I thought it post-worthy anyway.
openness and freedom means giving your open and free code over to people who might not share your values quite so much. North Korea has a linux distro. A partnership with facebook would not be against mozilla's ethos at all. Facebook could contribute to the development of B2G and use the final product without compromising its openness in any way.

Furthermore, facebook might be somewhat evil when it comes to customer data, but they're an upstanding citizen in the open source community. they manage or contribute to many open source projects.
Why Yahoo's Axis Is Going to Fail
We've had an excellent experience with TriNet - highly recommended.