skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In essence, the lawsuit revolves around MS and GS passing bad news round internally without publicly broadcasting it publicly - a form of insider trading.

This is silly. The bad news for Facebook was public, before the IPO. "Did not do the research" is not a defense.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/facebook-amends-its...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/47147457

I think that the suit against NASDAQ has some merit, especially considering all the stories about traders getting the incorrect number of shares.
US Launches Digital Roadmap To Open Up Government Data And Court Developers
I only see this being useful in a college campus setting. My freshman year I used to have "Free T-Shirt weeks", where I would wear all the swag shirts I've received because all the shirts I actually liked were dirty and I didn't want to do laundry yet.
Why China Won’t Rule
Constant zooming and panning for every page turn and no ability to alter the font, size or color. Sure, smartphones can render PDFs just fine, but reading long PDFs on small screens is just a miserable experience inherit to the format.
Weird, the glide was in the filter section. I was getting so confused as to where that was being set
Getting meta, are we?

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta
I do software consulting, so I tend to use a variety of different environments. Likewise, my debugger use varies quite a bit between projects and platforms.

Python/Django: never. I don't think I've ever used a debugger here. I tend to write unit tests instead.

Ruby/Rails: same as Python, never. Unit tests all the way.

JavaScript/CoffeeScript: occasionally (once a week?). Usually in chunks of code that are hard to test (DOM manipulation, generally). Usually use Jasmine and write a unit test, especially if it's a logic-related problem.

C#: I've been working on a legacy codebase written in C#, and I tend to use the debugger quite liberally here. When I got there, the codebase was around 36kloc with 0 unit tests and many global variables. Most of the code was not written with testing in mind.

Java: Not often. It's been a while, but most of my Java projects were greenfield projects, so they were written with a JUnit suite from the ground up.

Objective-C: Occasionally. The last project I worked on was using Cocos2D and network stuff. Neither was particularly easy to write tests for, so the debugger was useful for inspecting state when things got weird. More often, I would add a few NSLog statements instead, to capture long-running state changes so that I could reconstruct a model of what went wrong and when.
Here : http://jugend-forscht-sachsen.de/2012/teilnehmer/fachgebiet/...

Analytical solution of two fundamental unsolved problems of particle dynamics

Two problems in classical mechanics have withstood several centuries of mathematical endeavor. The first problem is therefore to calculate the trajectory of a body thrown at an angle in the Earth's gravitational field and Newtonian flow resistance. The underlying power law was discovered by Newton (17th century). The second problem is the objective description of a particle-wall collision under Hertzian collision force and linear damping. The collision energy was derived in 1858 by Hertz, a linear damping force has been known since Stokes (1850).

This paper has so far only the analytical solution of this approximate or numerical targets for the problems solved. First, the two problems are solved fully analytically. For the first problem will be investigated further using the analytical solution, the physical behavior of the system and set up outline solutions for generalized models. For the second problem is carried out in order to increase efficiency and convergence control a semi-analytical optimization. Finally, the analytical results are compared with numerical solutions so as to validate accuracy and convergence to numerically.
Extreme reading
Patently absurd
This looks really interesting. Is there a link on the site anywhere to download it as a PDF or Mobi? I'd love to drop it on my kindle but I don't see a link.
History doesn't show them to have had to drop many restrictions; I don't see why that would suddenly change. I've always thought that it's hard to come up with a killer app that would run afoul of the guidelines that's not outside what Apple's trying to make their devices good at. I think the record bears this out. I don't think that's because Apple is co-opting so much stuff, it's because their guidelines allow what the overwhelming majority of useful apps need in order to be useful to the overwhelming majority of people. (Because most people want devices that are good at what Apple tries to make their devices good at.)

It's easy to come up with an idea for something cool that requires access to capabilities that aren't permissible in the App Store (constantly running in the background, access to execute downloaded/arbitrary code) and it'd be a horrible shame for there not to exist devices that can do those things out-of-the-box, but the fact that they've so far been forced to bend very few of the rules implies that there's proportionately very little demand for such things.
Nice, I am an Arch user too :)
A 6-Day History of Facebook, Inc: A Glitch, a Snitch, and a Tumble
I have, but it was a patched version.

I think there's a sense, which I generally agree with, that random applications asking for your password is something we don't want users to get used to.
So Java and C++ programmers don't panic and think the whole thing will fall through.
2012-012. Duh.
Navy Will Put 4G Network on Ships
"... walked the half mile to the San Mateo County fairgrounds to join thousands of others where I discovered that my son was probably adopted"

Nope, you were probably like that when you were a kid. Unfortunately, the "look, but don't touch" mentality has been thought relentlessly to children for the past N years. In some cultures kids, after a certain age, say, 10, are supposed to be totally focused on studying so that they get to a good school, so none of that tinkering stuff. Unless, of course you wanted to belong with the grimy, poor souls who had to work with their hands, e.g. the young boys who were taken out of school and given as an apprentice (my mom made an argument similar to this when I was studying for the middle school entrance exams, when I was 11.)
Ah yes, the get one, give back 3, receive one back does indeed look a lot like a pyramid scheme at first glance.

Copy definitely needs work. I'll be trying some different things in the future. Thanks for the tip :)

Hadn't heard of iwearyourshirt, very interesting proposition. Thanks again!
More detail on the Haskell -> js options here: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/The_JavaScript_Problem
Ask HN: IP blocked after refreshing too much
Yesterday I submitted a post and wanted to watch its votes/time trajectory as it moved up in the rankings. In order to do that I refreshed fairly frequently and got my IP banned.

Is there a reasonable mechanism to appeal this?

For reference the ip is 69.26.158.178
It could be used to transmit information, just not faster than the speed of light.

Quantum entanglement might still be used for communication. See quantum cryptography
His Class B shares should take care of maintaining control.
Heaven forbid they make the mobile/SMS UX the same as the web client.
WebKit Bug Fixed: 2px of Unnecessary Padding Removed From All Input Elements
I don't really see where it works. Unions never care about the end users or customers. That's not their agenda. They only care about unions members benefits. They are the parasites of corporations.
No. His stock was near zero when he acquired (created) them. He'll pay full cap gain rates when he realizes them (which is 15% cap gains rate which is not too bad for him; I pay a lot more on my labor gains). He owes no tax until then. If you received stock worth , say, one million , you might want to sell 1/3 to pay the tax. Otherwise if stock price goes to zero you've got a million in losses to write off which is hard to do without a million in gains to offset it.
Windows hasn't been "administrator by default" since Vista.
Chronotron - Puzzle Games at Miniclip.com - Play Free Online Games
Regulators eye Morgan Stanley's pre-Facebook IPO actions
They haven't removed the Geo Location API from Safari because it means websites could steal your location. They added a dialogue to ask if you want to allow them to use it.

I imagine a simular API for sound would surfice.
I just did this for the book, the automatic Kindle conversion handled this particular book pretty poorly. Randomly long spacing between words or spaces removed and alignments destroyed in some spots. Not unreadable but it obviously looks like a conversion.

It's still better than reading a PDF on an e-ink Kindle or phone sized screen, it's just a bit messier. Sometimes the Kindle conversion works superb though, it's just a crapshoot.
Qwiki Launches Creator, a Publishing Platform for Interactive Content
See Google's paper 'Brawny cores still beat wimpy cores, most of the time'. It concludes that 'Slower but energy efficient “wimpy” cores only win for general workloads if
their single-core speed is reasonably close to that of mid-range “brawny” cores.'

http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/36448.pdf

HTML version at http://bit.ly/KOhENi
If you're having this kind of problem a lot, now might be an excellent time to start using a lint tool in your development process. It'll catch these things.
Cool to hear that you'd sign up for advertising!

Ad will be completely visible before the shirt is sent.

Thanks for the tip on order. Hadn't thought of it that way. Is receive better? Feels like it's less clear on how that t-shirt will end up at your place.
If they price it very low ($10 to $20), I can imagine this eating into their sales of desktop Office products.

On the other hand, if they price it similarly to existing Office licenses, would many people buy it?
Everyone in America should be required to watch this HBO documentary
When I vi a read-only file:

"/etc/mail/aliases" [Read only] 36 lines, 1023 characters

Its simply a matter of remaining keen when doing admin tasks. Sure I have to close/re-open with sudo but its prompting me up front that I won't be able to save it.
Animate.css - Plug and Play CSS
Some sort of professional negligence. Many other people should have been charged as well.

It may well be true that there is no specific law he has broken, that's part of what I'm raging against.

I accept that the post-80s regime of light-touch regulation means that these people were basically doing what they were supposed to be doing, and that kinda makes it impossible to punish them.
Airship's where relatively slow and expensive which is why airplanes killed them.
I found this to be true with the term 'M$', specifically with the '$'. I didn't think that term was still a thing, and then I came across it in an email. I wanted to note my surprise on twitter, making a ridiculous comparison that I shall not repeat here, but the tweet would NOT go through. Change the '$' to 'S' and everything is cool.
Chinese madskillz in Photoshop
Photo was posted on the official website 09/05/12 Chinese government. Officials inspect the project landscaping Nanhu Beach Park
I hear ya. It might be true for some people that they don't need a GPS, but having an always in my pocket GPS whenever I'm in an unfamiliar neighborhood reduces my stress level a lot.
3 different advertisers requires mass customization => extra overhead. You'll get to choose advertiser + t-shirt combos; not sure if added flexibility will make up for the increase in price, but I'll keep it in mind!
We showed examples that relate very cleanly to "normal coding", but what we ultimately want to see is exactly what you're describing. There are so many places where a thin veil over the implementation would be immensely useful, presenting new interfaces for things like working with physics simulations, financial models, etc etc.
In my mind, an unelected Lords is far preferable to an elected one for the simple reason that both houses will make mistakes. If the houses are both selected on the same basis, their mistakes will be correlated, rather than cancelling out. Given that the Lords is there precisely to hold the Commons in check by stopping its mistakes as early as possible, you don't want the Lords and the Commons to have the same biases.

I don't know that hereditary peerage is a good idea, but I'm pretty certain that an elected peerage would be worse.
Do you happen to know what site that is?
This might work if you create a category and add these languages to it. Ontology-wise you would need one category for the compilers that target javascript (subcat of compilers), and another for languages (primarily?) designed to be compiled as JS (subcat of programming languages). And maybe one more for languages+environments that compile as JS, primarily run in browsers, and wrap some browser APIs in their standard library.
Life hacking might sometimes be what my grandfather called "working to get out of work" or rather, doing a lot of fiddling in order to avoid actual work.

I know I'm definitely guilty of this at times.
Always kinda hard to describe the thickness of the cards but with the glossy finish they feel like thin rigid plastic tokens. On the website we say 0.025" thick. Send us an email at info@app2card.com if you have any questions or concerns about the product itself.
Allowing for Fluid Decisions
Being the 48th most commonly used word in US English is a little misleading in this case, though. Verbs such as "get", common as they are, are rarely used to begin a thought.
Facebook founder faces lawsuits as questions mount over IPO
That makes me wonder: is the nature of Facebook inherently distrusted, since they have so much data, and those who use it spend so much of their lives on it, or is the distrust based more on their privacy record?

What if Facebook had a clean privacy record but still collected all of that data from us, in the name of providing the service (of messages, friends, social—your life on the internet, essentially)? Would they still be suspicious?
Zero credibility.
Google CEO : Facebook holds its users hostage
ASUS Zenbook Prime (UX21A) Review: The First of the 2nd Gen Ultrabooks
This is pretty off-topic from the OP, but I want to point out that the ISO standard for OBD-II is a fantastic reference for this kind of project. We built an OBD-II reader for our engineering capstone project, and that ISO standard was an invaluable resource for getting things to work.

If there's a university nearby, you might want to go check out their engineering library and see if they have a copy. I don't recall the ISO number off the top of my head. If you're really serious about the project, I think the book only costs around $400 or so.
For the tl;dr -- Learn to discern the forest from the trees.
It was, back in 2010: http://gizmodo.com/5535536/the-real-story-behind-twitters-ri... .
Virgin Oceanic trials
Go out onto the streets of britain and ask people who princess anne is. I seriously doubt you'll get a good rate of correct answers, especially if you ask people under 50.

There are so many minor royals, and their lives form such a complex soap opera, it's very easy for them all to blend into one if you don't actually follow it, which very few people do.
Well, here the compiler won't help you with bounded access - you can easily read array[42], and it would compile (and maybe even work... but just a little bit funny ;-)).

With dependent types function to get element from array may have type (this is pseudocode):
get (array : T[n], index : m) : T {n : nat, m : nat, m < n}
which would mean "function get, which takes: n long array of elements of type T, index of type m, where m is smaller than n, and returns T". Type-level naturals and bounded array access are the basic examples of dependent typing, more interesting ones may be red-black trees with guarantees about their shape put in the type or some magic for creating DSLs.
The FB shares aren't voting shares or are extremely diluted voting shares? This is the same scam Google and UPS pulled. Beware of owning second class stock shares. It means that someday the insiders can wave a magic wand and screw you over. Do you trust them? Maybe. But it doesn't mean they can't do what they want and "share holders" can't do a thing about it.
But unless your are a real FOSS zealot (say > 500milli Stallmans) you are at the mercy of the bios, the disk controller firmware and the CPU microcode on any machine

In reality being able to run whatever user programs you want in whatever combination you want without artificial is what FOSS is all about.
AMD CEO says every laptop on the planet has enough processing power
Remembering Good Old Games: Max Payne, Mafia, GTA 3, Hitman And Others
> Not to mention the number of times I've made a bunch of edits to something like a conf file in nano and then gone to save and got "permission denied" where the only solution seems to be to exit nano and run it again (and do the edits again) with sudo.

Nano asks you for the file name/location when you save, just save the file somewhere you have write access to then move it with sudo afterwards. No need to retype your edits.
I kind of wish "life hacks" as we know them today could be replaced with a simple set of tricks, such as "melt a pen cap to remove weird screws" or "blanch onions to make peeling them easier". A blending of classic tricks (like the onions) and modern tricks (pen cap).

99% chance you don't need a cell phone turned on 24x7

Agreed, my phone automatically powers off at 11PM and on at 7:30AM, and I barely ever notice. I do notice the improved battery life though.

99% chance you don't need a stupid GPS guiding what you do, where you drive

While true, the cost of a GPS unit is so low it is easy to throw one in the glove box for that 1% when you do need it.
I think we are going to need a new term for legitimate ponzi schemes to help identify them now that anything somebody doesn't agree with: FB, social security, socialized medicine, unions, groupon, quantitative easing, bailouts, unicorns, etc... are now routinely written off as "ponzi schemes".
Little Bobby Tables strikes again, potentially?
Not sure about appeal process.

You can watch changes on the main page at hn4d.com and just wait for the page to refresh (every few minutes). Save your refresh button too...
Tanzania can be in both Southern and Eastern Africa. It's in the SADC ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_African_Development_Co... ).

These terms are just descriptions, there are no hard, objective, definitive rules about it.
For similar reasons, for decades Canadian government policy (although not law) has forbidden Canadians from accepting foreign titular honours. The Canadian Honours System does not grant titular honours (those that go before not after the name). You may find this an interesting read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_titles_debate
I'll try to make a law here: For every way you can use X to improve your life, there's 100 ways X will just waste your time or worse.

Corollary: Over half of the audience for self-help books need one to stop buying self help books.

So, lifehacking is just self help packaged in tweet-sized and blog-post sized attention span chunks?
You nailed it. Of course all usual caveats apply. I won't be surprised to find a few excellent schools out there; but, I expect them to be the exception, not the rule. Education in this country is a national disgrace. Have kids? Get yourself on the local school board.
Also, it seems like a relatively significant commitment from a person who signed up because you're asking them to upload three pictures of themselves in the t-shirt (for either another free t-shirt or "credit").

The system I intend to implement should make this relatively painless.

Presumably,and I may be way off here, you're sub-contracting out the screen-printing of the t-shirts. And, as I understand it, the cost of producing t-shirts can be significant and you would probably have to hold a large inventory of t-shirts in various sizes.

Entirely true. But if Lockerz story is any indication of how it can work out, inventory turnover is likely to be ridiculously fast.

- What kind of advertiser are you trying to appeal to?

Large consumer goods and local stores. Got a nifty solution in mind on how this'll scale.

* Does an advertiser pay only when there's evidence that the t-shirts are worn? Or why do you have to upload three pictures of yourself in the t-shirt?*

No, pay up front. Receive elaborate statistics afterwards.

- Roughly, what kind of margins are you expecting to get?

Back of napkin style; profit margins somewhere between 30%-50%. Margins on t-shirts alone 50%-75%.

Are you trying to focus in a local region or nationally?

International user base. Allow advertisers to segment their target users by region/age/interests.

What happens with any left over inventory?

Promote them to first time users. Loyal users get cooler/more shirts.

Lastly, I may be interested in a t-shirt that combines an advertising with "pop art", but that's just a quick idea...

Definitely a great design idea. The one that's currently on the site is a drawing an ex-girlfriend of mine made over a year ago. I thought it was pretty amazing and asked her whether I could print that instead of my own terrible attempt at a mash-up of several freely available vectors.
ARM boards are generally more power efficient for any given compute unit you want to benchmark, but it's not a huge advantage

And note that there are Intel solutions in the "cheap, low power" market too. There are ~$80 Cedar Trail boards (I forget the part numbers off-hand) which take 2GB of DDR3 memory and run on 15W or so at full CPU utilization.
It's all about the viagra.
The SEO Rat Race ... Avoid it like the plague
switch (v) {
case FOO_A:
case FOO_B:
do some_foo();
break; // if you really want :P
case BAR_X:
case BAR_Y:
do_some_bar();
}

Here you have two implicit fallthroughs used for cleaner code.

Another use is to express one case as a subset or superset of another case:

switch (v) {
case FOO_BAR:
do_some_foo();
case BAR:
do_some_bar();
/*...*/
}

IIRC, there was some C-like programming language out there (C# probably?) which only provided default fallthrough if there was no code between the cases, as in the above example.
You could say that dealing with the interruptions is the actual work now, and the work that you were supposed to do has been relegated to being a nuisance.

So we don't need evented dev environments so much as we need evented people?
Contact people in that niche and ask them for their input. Maybe have a list of credits and offer to put their name in there.

Feed into their ego, make them feel special and they'll be more likely to spread the word when you tell them it's done.
Unicorn futures are a well known ponzi scheme.