skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"super cheap working replicas of things like refrigerators, water purifiers, clothing, house-building materials,"

For the most part, the point is to prevent the laws from changing for these, rather than fixing current law. There is already no reason why you can't print those things. There are some reasons you can't just copy existing things, but in the end that's not a problem anyhow because we probably need to significantly modify the designs to account for being easily printable anyhow. Raw copying is just a bootstrapping note.

Though I suppose the next generation of "X, but on a computer" patent will be "X, but printed via 3D printer".
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Scalable UI testing - chances are you are doing it wrong
As big as pinterest is, I feel there is still many opportunities left in this space
Industry Groups Bid To Control New .Bank And .Insurance TLDs
Obat Penyakit Glaukoma Herbal
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Glaukoma merupakan penyebab kebutaan yang ketiga di Indonesia.Terdapat sejumlah 0,40 % penderita glaucoma di Indonesia yang mengakibatkankebutaan pada 0,16 % penduduk. Prevalensi penyakit mata utama di Indonesiaadalah kelainan refraksi 24,72 %, pterigium 8,79 %, katarak 7,40 %,konjungtivitis 1,74 %, parut kornea 0,34 %, glaucoma 0,40 %, retinopati 0,17 %,strabismus 0,12 %. Prevalensi dan penyebab buta kedua mata
The comments UI is the deciding factor for me as well. So far, the best implementation of this I have come across is cheeaun's Hacker News mobile web app: http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/landing/
Chutes spotted in the water by the recovery vessels.

(pause)

And now (5 mins later) video of Dragon in the water.
Java hashcode performance boost
> Isn’t that repeating the same thing I said?

Not even close. They do not have to figure out how to make money from things now or even for several years. Or in some cases ever. The ad revenues can subsidise things forever.

For example their maps product (excluding premium) being free means no one else can realistically charge for an equivalent service. But all the people using it provide Google with a large amount of information such as places people actually want to go and where they don't. Those signals can be further used to improve their search relevance which keeps users away from competing search products.

asymco.com has various revenue numbers. At best Google is making around $4 per Android user per year in revenue (not profit). However if Google did not provide Android then they would be completely at the mercy of the likes of Apple and Microsoft who could make using and finding Google products on their devices hard.

Chrome is another example. Even if not a single person used Chrome, its effect was a massive reinvigoration of browsers (sandboxing, Javascript performance etc). Google depend on browsers to deliver their products so this helped ensure continued good delivery. (If users started abandoning browsers for native platform apps then again Google would be in danger of being shut out.)
HBOT EHR | HBOT software
The HBOT-specific EHR system includes clinically defined templates for common HBOT care complaints, a history of present illness and a review of systems.
Web pages aren't just rendered output, they also (usually) include portions of the web app in them (javascript, template sections, images, etc). This means that the output is itself a derived work of the original code, and thus needs copyright permission to distribute.
I just downloaded it because its been bogging down my machine. Its running notably smoother and quicker but I've got a regression on how its rendering the document I'm working from. Whats really stinks, its an internal document so I can't send it upstream so they can fix the issue.

The rendering bugs with Microsoft formats are understandable but still extremely frustrating.
a) Needn't be public facing.
b) You have much more flexibility to select the specific bit of HTML you want.
c) Does a way better job of capturing the "live" DOM context. You aren't grabbing an image, you are grabbing text/structure/etc.
d) Resembles Pinterest only in that you can make collections of things and share them with people. Unlike Pinterest, the point isn't just to show people stuff, but rather to harness something useful (you are grabbing bits of structured data).
Just bought this and I'm not seeing any way to leave a comment. Am I missing something? The discussions in the comments are the most important part of Hacker News IMO.
It seems that this would rather drastically interfere with your peripheral vision. Looking at Sergey wearing it at 0:17 in the video, it looks like around 60% of the right side of his view is obstructed by the device. While certainly some cool tech, I'm skeptical about how well that would integrate into your daily experience.

You certainly wouldn't want to wear it while driving or operating equipment.
Less expensive than a main memory access. It must be that an uncontended lock/unlock can happen in cache.
This is great. Especially with services like Parse out there, I could see how a sufficiently motivated/creative person could start from zero programming experience and become a skilled iOS developer in the course of a summer.
Very well designed site. Who made your intro video? Great work!
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Good call. Maybe it was misworded in the post, but the packages available for download are fully functional app skeletons that consume the API and are ready for you to build on. The API itself is just JSON over HTTP.

Making an API accessible without code is an admirable goal. Reminds me of Yahoo Pipes and the application-via-visual-blocks frameworks.
While we're at it, why is it called Computer Science? I think "Computational Mathematics" or something would make more sense.
The chart shows progress, but when you dig into the text above from the BLS website, there are some glaring metrics staring at you in the face.

"Dig into" a two-paragraph blurb? Instead of looking at raw BLS statistics? Uh-oh...

Why are there so many people out there who can’t find jobs for a long period of time? [...]The simple answer is: Those who want a job, don’t have the tech skills that companies want.

Wat? No. This is head-spinning interpolation backed by zero real data.

People are unemployed because we're experiencing a significant structural economic shift, not because these people have "generic business" skills (wow, what a hand-wavey statement). Domestic manufacturing has been hit hardest, so those with double-digit years of manufacturing experience have had their responsibilities outsourced to other countries unless they're (a) building aircraft, or (b) working on specialized, highly-precise, machine-produced parts.

This is a great example of the tech-obsessed writing produced by the startup craze. Does anyone really believe people are unemployed because they can't code, given that software makes up less than 5% of our GDP? [0]

I can't believe this type of self-congratulatory pseudo-economic article hits the front page of HN. What a load of crap.

[0] See Table 3 of the latest BEA GDP release. Look for "information processing equipment & software" on Table 3, compare to the level of GDP in 2012q1:

http://bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2012/pdf/gdp1q12_2n...
The Jurassic Park stuff wasn't done by a "guy", it was done by a team of folks, of which my mom was a part. (Specifically she helped pull together some of the spinning 3D xray skull stuff, wrote some c-shell scripts and was part of the sales team that sold the Sun systems to the movie). Also, the UI that you're probably talking about is this thing, and it's (sadly) real: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn
Imagining Siri's Operations Center
Of course, but part of the benefit from studying CS is that you'll be able to recognize intuitively when there is or there should be a better solution.

Let's say you want a data structure that performs three operations. Insert, Delete, and Find (as in, 'is this in the database?').
The intuitive sense may come from saying, "Linked-Lists would be horrible for this! Each operation would be slow." (O(n))
The practiced programmer may say, "I can keep the data sorted and use an Array. Those would probably be faster." (O(lg n))
However, if you learned a little more CS and how hashes work, you would know that they are constant time for all three operations. You never had to waste time thinking about which choice to make because you know how hashes are implemented and that they specialize on those operations running in constant time.

Besides, big-O notation takes no time at all to learn. I learned it's theory as a freshman in high school during algebra II when we wanted to know which of two polynomials grew faster. Take the most significant part, rip off the constants, and that's its growth rate.
I think the capitalisation and the "4.0.1" was a hint that it's really a pun on SunOS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunOS
Actually, she just spend a few weeks practising with an Olympic competitor, i.e., nowhere near 6 months. I'm not an expert on these things, but it seemed to vary from scene to scene. Someone commented on the trailer and explained how it's very accurate, but there were a few shots in the movie where what the expert explained seemed missing (like "kissing" the string).
"Developers will need some theory, and I'm painfully aware, too, of the degree snobbery that most employers harbour. So I propose that the right course would be a 5+ year apprenticeship with part-time degree study - CS in the classroom 1 day a week, software development in the office the other 4."

I disagree with this statement. My program at school supplements 6 months of formal learning with 6 month long internships. I don't feel like 4 days a week is enough to get the benefits of working to supplements formal learning. I defiantly need 6 months in a job to learn something valuable, and towards the end of my internships is where I feel like I've learned enough to contribute just as much as any of my teammates and coworkers can.
Really great article by Betakit. We`re all about the attendee experience.
"Don't touch the pad on the side" ..... prototype or not, what kind of usability nightmare is that? You put on glasses by grabbing the sides.. The control should be based on your eye movements or something like a watch.
Hmm...not quiet what I want. I want to group stuff I've read and want to keep by tags, like python, JavaScript, etc.
Vector calculus course
How to build verifications into your service or marketplace
At which point, after not receiving a paycheck, do you cut your losses and stop coming to work and start looking for a new job?
An open letter to Waze: Fix your app before someone gets hurt.
Yes Yes Yes, this. The world is littered with code that never made a dent in the world but was uber-prepared for the day that we'd suddenly need a new way to talk about numbers/dates/strings.
There is in the English translation of The Girl Who Played With Fire.
This could not be more true.

A formal CS background gives people a very valuable toolset with which to program. It's something you can't fake, and if you know what to look for, it's instantly recognizable.

But if you don't have a CS background, yeah, I could see why it would all look the same to you.

A CS person can easily learn programming; it's second nature to them. But a programmer does not learn deeper theory as easily. Of course it can be learned, but that's why they teach CS at universities and not just programming—it's a much more difficult and more fulfilling subject, in my humble opinion.
Pedantic quip: I have a hard time believing you guys were measuring half nanosecond cache latencies on a machine with a 100MHz clock. :)

And actually the cache numbers seem optimistic, if anything. My memory is that a L1 cache hit on SNB is 5 cycles, which is 2-3x as long as that table shows.
GlowScript: VPython for WebGL
Looks interesting, but there are a few lingering questions remain:

1) Where will the academy be located at? Do you already have the logistics covered? If so, could you share some of these details? (Location/Photos of area/etc)

2) You mention that the Summer program is free to build up excitement for the fall session, but later you mention you will try to help find the developer a position. Are you acting as a recruiter, taking a % of the first year salary?

3) Could you go over in a little more detail the schedule of the class? You mention starting in ruby and moving over to Objective C and iOS, but don't really delve any deeper. You mention that "No programming experience [is] required", so I'd imagine there would be quite a few weeks of basic stuff.
Early Unix history and evolution
Many interesting tidbits, like Unix was originally created to run a game called 'Space Travel' or the design of fork-exec was because the implementer was lazy.
Would be interested to know the course requirements for the CS vs. CS-SE

If they had more relaxed A-level grades for the CS-SE students (or it was under-subscribed and filled through clearing) then the students on the course were just a lower standard of student rather than the course itself being deficient.
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That would be so awesome for people not located anywhere near SF (like me). Hopefully this happens!
Course in the mathematics of computer vision
Digesting problems, parallelism and innovation
Fantastic achievement, well done to everyone at SpaceX and NASA! Hopefully the start of something very exciting in space exploration.
Parachutes detached.
You Should Probably Send More Email Than You Do
How a trio of hackers brought Google's reCAPTCHA to its knees
The Pirate Bay Celebrates Independence Day, Six Years After the Raid
It's the same effort to the machine, not the developer. If the objects manage their own units, you can just use them naively and let them handle their conversions during arithmetic if they need it. You don't need to write the code for conversion explicitly anywhere outside the class. This is a material advantage of object-oriented programming, consolidating the knowledge about one aspect of your program to the right place to deal with it and keeping it out of the rest of the codebase.

How's your standard units solution going to work when the users consider their input units to be part of the data? Are you going to store their units alongside the converted units and convert them back whenever you want to display? If so, you've just replaced Matt's example problem with an identical problem. This is a clue that you have insufficient abstraction: a small change of requirements can force a lot of code to be written across your application. And don't assume you can dictate units to your users, there are plenty of situations in which the users and their units are vastly more important than the programmer's time and ease.
HN: help design a case to make an iPad a portable 2nd display for the Macbook
Very, very insightful post. Thank you! To add a little personal bit, I use Haskell daily in my research. I also do web programming on the side in Rails. After figuring out Haskell, and then learning idiomatic Haskell (along with monads, monoids, functors and friends) my way of writing Ruby became much different. I'm more cognizant of patterns in Ruby as they relate to Haskell (as they relate to formalisms in computation). For example, handling nils in Ruby can follow patterns of the Maybe monad in Haskell.

This isn't to say that Haskell is the only mind-expanding language out there, but it sure is good and it worked for me. I think it makes it especially easy in this regard over ML or Lisp in the "mind-expanding" game because it has so many formalized computational concepts that are first-class and upfront. That's not to say that you can't expand your mind in other languages, but Haskell can really help you out if you're willing to roll with the learning curve.
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did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he
utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.

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burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.

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with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither
left they any to breathe.

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Commodore 64? God said 640x480. Higher values are impossible without GPU support -- there's not enough horsepower ever with 8 cores to do more than 640x480@60fps.

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> the UML meta-meta-model

that's not computer science; that's software engineering "theory".

Algorithms; data structures; type systems; however ...
a) Large, sorry HUGE. Current CPUs cannot address it. 128 bit is probably enough to encode most of the universe and not insurmountable bit width. PAXOS consensus algorithm + hybrid virtual memory system for management. Literally a GLOBAL P2P heap. Your CPU resides in a unique section of it.

b) The above solves that. You just read an address and it pulls that block over the network into your local address space. You write to it, and it pushes it back.

(STM comes in here as you can semantically wrap such things in transactions).

c) Someone gives you a pointer to the root of a catalogue or there is one built in then you can navigate the data structure be it a full text index or linear linked list to find the data you need. There is no filesystem.

I think someone related my ideas to AS/400 which TBH after doing some reading is a pretty good comparison, although I'd do it on a larger scale.

This is really "fringe" computer science if you want to call it that. It's pushing thing boundaries of what is possible intentionally.
WarGames was a marvelous movie! With the exception of WOPR, all of the computer usage was fairly accurate, with a few fudges such as that speech module being audible everywhere, when it clearly says that he bought it for his home computer to read terminal output. Everywhere else a computer is shown being used, it's fairly mundane, e.g., a librarian doing searches for books on Falken. There's no "computers are magic" crap-ola that goes on in later hacker-themed films.

As for WOPR, he is based on a real cold-war program called SIOP (Single Integrated Operational Plan), under which the President could tentatively select nuke targets and run computer simulations of what might happen. WOPR, unlike a lot of movie AIs, is not even particularly malicious; he is just running what he thinks is a simulation, blissfully unaware of the stakes, as any computer program without sufficient "common sense" would be.

Probably the biggest exaggeration in that movie was the shots of the NORAD command center, which NORAD officials at the time stated was what they wished they had rather than what they actually had. The filmmakers were not permitted access to the insides of NORAD so again, they had to make shit up.
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Microsoft reportedly working to block apps that re-enable the Win 8 Start button
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The time to buy for many people may arrive soon.
> Printing for your own use is non-infringing

This may be true in relation to fair use/fair dealing exceptions, but not as a general statement.

> 3D model is effectively a drawing of it

They may hold the copyright in it, but it can still infringes a pre-existing third party design right.

> Copyrights can be infringed, but only where there is copyrighted detail

I don't understand what you mean by this. If something attracts the protection of copyright, it will be infringed if the usual tests are satisfied - where does 'copyrighted detail' come into it?
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Exactly. My pet peeve is military depictions in movies. I can't recall a movie that's gotten even the basics right. I may be nitpicking, but it does detract from the viewing experience.
I'm can't help but wonder if this a continuing corrective downtrend or some kind of 'death by a thousand cuts' scenario. I guess that's always the question to ponder when you're looking to get in, right?
I looked into a few of the Classic mac emulation packages and the amount of work always looked off putting -- in fact I think some even required finding a ROM if I recall. It's actually easier for me to dust off my giant G5. And yes abecedarius another challenge you may find is that if you have the real Hypercard it would be a series of floppy discs which can no longer be read.

Side note: My other dream has been to run NeXTstep on my Mac -- I understand that can be done too, but it looks like a ton of work.
Flying, building a great world - much like creative Minecraft 10 years before it was invented. And yeah sex too, but that kept waking me up.
Why is a gender gap considered "depressing" ?

Women have a bellcurve of capabilities, inclinations and skills.

So do men.

So do people born inside Route 128.

So do left-handed people.

Ideally any given person with skill set X should be allowed and encouraged by society to participate in career field Y.

...but the average height of people born in New York is not the same as the average height as is found in Tokyo. The average amount of fast twitch muscle fiber in Kenya is different than that in Chicago. The average enjoyment of sales calls is different among introverts than extroverts. The average enthusiasm for long hours is different for men and for women.

If a woman has the skills and desire to be a VC, great.

...but why should I be depressed if this is not the case?

There's an implicit unspoken axiom behind all of these sorts of arguments, that all demographics are identical in the distribution of traits.

That's false.