skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My father fought in the Warsaw uprising when he was 16 years old. He spend the next year as a prison of war in a forced labor camp. This video has brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for posting it.
Back in 2000, when I was in high school, I developed a trojan similar to netbus and sub7, but just to use it in the school comp labs. The objective was only to have fun. Telling my friends their login passwords, controling their pcs, (screen streaming, key logging, file management, mouse and kb control, some nice screen effects like making the screen move like ocean waves, launch programs, it was fun, lol). There were like 200 machines connected. The infection was simple (auto-installed in services/run) and later it was even network-automated (when I got the admin pass). Then, I	handed the commanding program to some friends who used it a little bit too uch. We even had the net admins credentials, so we started to get some extra benefits (like internet outside the internet lab, etc). The admins realized what was happening, and started to use Norton ghost in every pc, first once a week (before it was once every 2 weeks), then, as the infections didnt stop and they started to get very paranoid, they run Norton ghost every single day. It all ended when they discovered a copy of the the source code I	had given to a friend of mine. They confronted him, but luckly he took the blame (as he later told me, it was very dumb of him to have saved a copy in his own account. But he managed to convince them that it was just a learning project that went little bit too far. They reprimanded but nothing serious happened to him. So, he is still one of my closest friends,=)
#3 - keep clean underwear nearby. Classic...
Japan's NICT develops futuristic 'Daedalus' cyber-attack alert system
By virtue of their tight bundling, all composite multi-core cables have high capacitances. However, onshore AC transmission is typically run on overhead lines, with large line spacings and thus capacitance isn't as much of a problem.
Looks like Inconsolata [1] to me. The slashes are set slightly higher than the pipe, the asterisk is vertically center-aligned (as opposed to super-positioned as with Consolas, Monaco, Vera Sans Mono and others), a distinctive upward curve on its lowercase 'y', and it has a looptail lowercase 'g'.

[1] - http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
Thanks! Should read the article more carefully.
I'd be extremely interested to see what their engagement over time looks like. I tried signing up initially but fell off after a few weeks. I realize my behavior isn't necessarily indicative of the behavior of the majority of their userbase, but I feel like it must be a big problem they're dealing with.
In your restaurant example, profitable could mean that you're able to sustainably pay salaries of the cooks, cleaners, and wait staff as well as rent, utilities, supplies, and overhead... but not much left over for yourself. In that case you could say that was minimally profitable. If, however, the restaurant depends on all the cooks, cleaners, and wait staff volunteering their time then that's hardly profitable.
It appears that where he is going is only as far as a small blog stylesheet. I appreciate his argument about context being important in styling, but it creates a very fragile stylesheet that could crumble with a simple change of the context. If you're updating often, this would just be too difficult to maintain.
How to improve your aim better and faster
That's gamification... :D
So. I wrote a novel. And I published it.
ifttt is pretty much my favourite service at the moment. It saves me hours a day and everyone should use it!

edit: Well, let's say it saves me hour per day. Hours plural is probably stretching it
Good deal, congratulations to Lance Albertson and his team.
Also potentially interesting, I wrote a blog post about how I wrote the first draft of the novel in about two weeks: http://www.syncingdreams.com/2012/06/dragon-master-post-mort...
> There is nothing inspiring in this product, at least they didn't answer a question: is there something new we can do with this tablet?

The new thing is this is a all-in-one machine that can be your only computer.

You can browse the web in tablet mode, then put it on a table, plug in a mouse and play starcraft on a desktop.

Nothing on the market (except old win7 tablets) can do that.
Regardless of whether spying on US citizens is good from the standpoint of security or civil liberties, it is a problem when two elected Senators don't know the extent of what they're voting on. This would turn the power of the government from elected officials to appointed ones. Imagine if the US Army wouldn't divulge the capabilities of a new fighter jet to the very people who were authorizing the money for its construction. The civilian-military hierarchy has long been recognized as a cornerstone of American government. I find it hard to accept an NSA (preceded by the DoD) that has the ability to say no to two Senators, and answers only to the President.

This makes me wonder if the Wired article got a little jumpy when it wrote "the National Security Agency won’t tell two powerful United States Senators how many Americans have had their communications picked up." Perhaps they've been told, but are not allowed to disclose the number publicly?
Even if the latter is the case, it is disconcerting that elected officials cannot convey basic information about the laws they vote for to their constituents.
I'm interested in what you have to say (not your parent), try to think it through. There's really maybe this tension in this thread between profitability from the point of view of the business entity and "whether it's worth it" to the founder. It sounds like you are almost trying to say Mark Zuckerberg couldn't possibly anonymously launch a profitable business by himself as a sole coder using nothing but an AWS instance, since his time is worth so much at Facebook. Yes, that's true in some sense, but no, not at all true. Of course he can still launch a profitable business. Maybe he "shouldn't", but that doesn't mean the business is suddenly unprofitable.

See my other comments on this thread.
I'm surprised they are looking to translate the site, considering I think their English version is of mediocre quality. I have been programming for 10+ years and had a chance to go through a lot of the exercises with my girlfriend. It looks like the exercises are crowdsourced from several different authors and therefore lack flow. Additionally, I felt the exercises did not explain enough, or were downright confusing, especially to a novice. For example, one solution required the use of "&&" despite it not being taught in any other previous lesson.

I still recommend books for anyone that is serious about learning to code.
If you're happy, you're happy. That's great.

But if your company is bringing in $1500/mo after line-item expenses and before wages, you are making less than minimum wage; you are not profitable. Happy? Sure. Profitable? No.
I assume it is not relevant, indeed: I was merely asking for comments over an unrelated point that was made in the essay, which is that there are no working Lamarckian mechanisms in biology.

I certainly agree over your second point, which I had considered myself, but that did not seem to be particularly relevant to my doubt.
Could you provide some references please? I'd like reading up on the things you mentioned.
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Agreed -- while I absolutely love watching the show, there have been very few times when I have felt the entrepreneur has gotten a great deal from the sharks.
I really like this style of templating, it's pretty close to how Seaside generates it's HTML, but more direct since it manipulates the dom directly. Also using the DOM directly is very fast.
As a 20-year-old, I definitely feel much younger than a majority of my batch. It's my experience that the median is much higher.

I don't see what asking for your HN handle has to do with anything.
Getting new devices to work (though thats probably just in the olden days as well). Also; Cygwin.
Does it count toward my 250 texts per month, or is it free?
I was hoping for something written by a human and instead got a robot regurgitating copy. Whatever.
signed usually promotes to unsigned in nice ways, such that if you really want to store -1 in your unsigned, it will just work. I've found using all unsigned types, with the occasional signed value jammed into them, is less error prone than mixing and matching types throughout the program. ymmv, and of course, here be the odd dragon or two.
the main reason i use android over iphone is the seamless integration of google voice, and gv already gives me access to my sms & vmail from the browser.

imho, the solution isn't to build yet another android app but to make google voice a natural/default choice for android users. if you have an android phone and haven't tried google voice yet, i highly recommend you give it a shot. having used it for the last few years, i can't imagine ever going back to carrier sms/vmail.
That's really cool! I've signed up and will hopefully wait for the sms message :D
How Well Will Microsoft Surface Tablets Work With Skype?
> The queen is like a brain in the body.

The queen is much more like the genitals.
Nobody disagrees with this. If the business runs without your consistent involvement, the value of your time doesn't factor in, because your time isn't one of the costs of the business.

If you have a business that throws off $1500/mo and requires one hour of your time in each of those months on average, you absolutely are ~$1300/mo profitable. That much is obvious.

The problem is when your business is throwing off $1500/mo and you are spending more than 8 hours on it in a month.
Gooseberry, A10 Arm SoC, 40GBP
If they pull this off, a Windows Phone and a Surface will replace a $3000 Apple set that someone like my mom would use and love.

As a deeply invested Apple user, it is nice to see Msft finally making something I might want to use.
Easily sync data between your mobile and web apps using Firebase and Trigger.io
There are seemingly obvious things that are classified for valid reasons, too. Sometimes the motivation is not to shield the information itself or propaganda-driven feigned ignorance, rather what matters is protecting the classified source from which the information was obtained.

This still only applies to a small portion of classified material, much of which is simply subject to classification inflation.
But they are really forcing you into the Metro interface, and it's quite clear they would like to "phase out" the desktop part in a couple of generations.
It seems like their launch happened 48 hours earlier than expected due to one of the reporters breaking the embargo. I think they are currently scrambling to get everything fully functional, but it may be a bit slow for the time being.
I work in an industry that heavily relies on HPC. For any applications that require less than infiniband-grade interconnect, the energy efficiency of EC2 or other cloud solutions will massively outstrip that of even the most efficient hosted datacenters, with little or no performance impact.

It's a really strong argument with customers who are conscious about their energy usage.
that does seem like a rather large omission. how did he work around that issue?
Stardog 1.0 announced - high speed and simple deployment RDF database
I have attempted to go through it numerous times, normally when I feel super motivated for a few days, but then I get busy with other things.

I don't know what they could do differently to keep me more engaged, because I feel like it's my own fault, not theirs.
More like "A restaurant that makes 50,000 per month in profit isn't profitable if the person who made it is Bill Gates, if Bill Gates has to work as the maitre d'hotel for 40 hours a week, and that's the only way the restaurant can get any foot traffic". And, actually, that seems like a reasonable analysis.
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We've been using it since we started earlier this year.

Changes that I like (from traditional companies):

* We're all treated like respectful adults. We're all trusted to manage our personal schedules to meet the expectations we set on an ongoing basis.

* No start and end time. Thus, I'm never "late" for anything. If I feel sleepy and need some extra rest, no big deal. If the subway is acting up, I don't have to panic and notify everyone I'll be "a few minutes late" (obviously if I have some obligations I've set with someone else, like a conf call at 10a or something, I'll have to make alternate arrangements).

* Every* meeting is optional (1:1s are not optional). No need to be dragged into things I don't want to do.

I can go to a doctors appointment, dentist, etc. without needing to take "sick time" or ask anyone. I try and schedule it outside of my "normal" working hours, as I like a core block of time to code, but if not, no big deal.

* I can run errands (pick up dry cleaning, meet HVAC repairman, etc.) any time of day without asking permission. OR anyone caring.

* No excuses for why stuff didn't get done. If we agree to get X done in an iteration, it's my job to make sure it gets done. If I decide to go to the beach all week and don't take "vacation" then I'm responsible for the work getting done.

* "Marginal" or folks not cutting it won't work out. If you can't meet expectations, you aren't doing your job, and appropriate penalties will apply. There's no place to hide.

Changes I'm still getting used to:

* Folks can work anywhere, whenever. So often I'm the only one in the office (I like to work at my desk - at home I have too many distractions).

* Pairing takes more effort. I have to make sure to schedule pairing sessions otherwise I'm not guaranteed someone will be sitting next to me when I get in the office.

* All communication needs to be async & recorded. Campfire, Basecamp, IM, email, etc. are used instead of face-to-face chat, as folks may not be here to hear it.

All summed up, I love it. I'd hate to work any other way.
Can you use an email address instead of a phone number? I don't use a cell anymore.
A 3-tiered model of trust, and how con men hack people.
Who on earth would want some sort of horrible transcode of a transcode?
My memory was that (at least at one point) the application mentioned wanting to read someone's posts to see what kind of a thinker they are. (and also that it was ok if you didn't have one already.) This is probably a lot less practical these days than it was in the early days.

The above quoted line would more accurately represent what I was trying to say if I had written: "YC really seems more geared to people in their 20s."

I apologize for implying bias.
It's remarkably straight-talking for a press release, actually. Money quote is this one: "While we understand that some people would prefer us to provide detailed documentation on all of our GPU internals, or be more active in Linux kernel community development discussions, we have made a decision to support Linux on our GPUs by leveraging NVIDIA common code, rather than the Linux common infrastructure.".

Basically, they recognize that they don't support DRI2/KMS, or libva, or hybrid graphics. And they don't care. They think their stuff works better for them and the customers they care about. And they don't expect this to change.

I guess I can respect that, even if I disagree.

(Then they go into PR mode in the final point, arguing that NVIDIA has contributed lots and lots of Linux patches for the Tegra SoCs, which is obviously true but irrelevant to the controversy.)
For me, Codecademy was less engaging than Treehouse and Code School. They all offer different approaches to teaching different aspects of development through the browser, and I have thus far spent the least amount of time at Codecademy because I have felt that it doesn't offer as efficient of a learning experience.

That being said, it's still a good tool with potential, and they might just be worth whatever valuation this round was brought in at (I didn't see mention of it in the article). Best of luck to the team!
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If you create a business that pays you $50k/yr and generates $25k/yr in reinvestable cash flow, I have no problem with you calling it "profitable".

But if you create a business that pays you $0k/yr, and offers $2000/mo worth of revenue to split somehow between reinvestment and wages, I have a real problem calling that "profitable". That business is "profitable" only so long as you are willing to donate your time to it.

In reality, that second class of business is virtually always pro-forma cash-flow negative; the founders simply aren't accounting for the rent/mortgage and food payments slowly draining away at their savings cushion. That cushion is a phantom capital investment on their books, but they don't want to account for it, because if they did it'd be obvious they weren't profitable.
I've told this story once or twice on HN before so apologies for anyone re-reading it, but it seems relevant: I was doing some IPTV stuff in China a couple of years ago and we were warned that, among the things the government would be watching our streams for, was use of the word "Taiwan". We absolutely weren't allowed to use it, instead using "Chinese Taipei".

So I'd suggest it could offend some people :)
Great stuff! On the landing page, I would add some examples of what one can do with this KB.

e.g. a startup in local space can use BaseKB to find various attributes about a city and nearby towns etc. You can also price various subsets geared to such niches.

Most startups re-invent the wheel when it comes to such KB/data issues. Show them the math :- instead of spending 1/0.5 FTE time in aggregating/cleaning data, they might as well shell out $199pm and get the job done.
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The only thing this can do is increase the quality of MP3s on the internet.

The audio is as heavily compressed as the video, not much point in ripping that.
I can second the recommendation to visit Kraków - it really is gorgeous, even compared to my home town of Edinburgh.

However, if you are visiting Kraków for pleasure I can also strongly recommend a day you will not enjoy: a visit to the nearby Auschwitz and, worst of all, Auschwitz-Birkenau. If you do go, I would recommend making sure you go with a guide - the one we had did an excellent job of explaining what we were seeing. One comment in particular he made I will never forget, while we were standing looking at the remains of one of the huge gas chambers he said:

"More people died in that room than at Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined"
"I felt the exercises did not explain enough, or were downright confusing"

"I still recommend books for anyone that is serious about learning to code."

Agree although I haven't tried the site since January.

"looking to translate the site, considering I think their English version is of mediocre quality"

Expand expand expand before getting your own house in order. It sounds impressive to investors and future investors if you've got a large footprint and as many users as possible. The experience and utility of codecademy is of course of less importance and that info certainly isn't going to be released. Other than we will most likely have some carefully placed stories about someone who was able to give up pole dancing because they learned to code in order to support their 4 children and go to medical school.
ARM unleashes 8-core Mali 450 GPU, heads down both forks in road
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There's CodeCademy and then there's CodeAcademy. The latter was registered in 2002 while the former was registered in 2011.

Frankly, I'm surprised CodeAcademy hasn't complained about this. When you search for CodeAcademy the results default to CodeCademy.

I don't know any of the players, and maybe it doesn't matter, but wouldn't a first-use trademark dispute tend to defer to the 2002 registration?
It doesn't. Since 2011 Germany is under the EU deficit limit.

Which is an artificial limit anyway.

The budget deficit this year is extremely low - around 0.9%.
That depends on what you mean by "should". Is it required by the standard? AFAIK, no. Would it be a braindead decision on the part of the compiler writers to do otherwise? Almost certainly. In practice, the answer to

> Will a == b for every implementation?

is, I suspect, yes.
How does one get torrented movies onto the iPad?

How does one watch the movies? (which app?)

(Genuine questions, I'm curious and don't have one)
I just want to throw out a startup idea that I have, that I hope someone is working on.

Codecademy meets Geocities

I did my first web programming on Geocities when I was in middle school. I saw an awesome website my friend made with crazy animated gifs and pictures of Shaq. I wanted one for my own.

I went home, and in a week, I banged out my own site with pictures of Stephon Marbury and a pageview counter and more animated gifs. It was glorious.

I've only been able to learn by doing and the best kind of doing is creating something. I'd love to see someone have lessons in an online, interactive programming environment a la Codecademy, but have the result exist and be live on the web, and provide a basic development environment to just build stuff.

In other words, lesson one is "Hello World". When I'm done, my app is available at http://newapp23.codecademymeetsgeocities.com. I'll show my friends. I'll change the text to read "Hello suckas!" I'll move on to the next lesson, or I'll just start playing. I can toggle between viewing my app as a progression of lessons, or as files and folders.

If someone's working on this, do let me know.
Yup, totally the kind of bullshit Linus gave the finger to... I can imagine how much of this "PR" stuff one like Linus gets to deal with...
shrug.. youtube-dl + ffmpeg.
The same sort of people who would watch 240p video.
Can I ask how it is saving you hours per day... I like the idea, I just can't think of cool ways to use it.
This uses browser plugins and public-key cryptography.

The technical details page[1] mentions some problems and workarounds. Some more issues I see:

* How do you securely log in from an internet cafe?

* What if someone gets your private keys, and gets your password with a keylogger? This looks like "game over."

[1] http://trustauth.com/technical_details
You'd be surprised how many technology-illiterate people do these things.
"The right answer is almost never to use unsigned; instead, it's to use a wider signed type.""

Depends on the case of course, but yes, you'll rarely hit the limits in an int (in a char, all the time)

"It's far too easy to get things wrong when you add unsigned integers"

I disagree, it's very easy to get things wrong when dealing with signed

Why? For example, (x+1) < x is never true on unsigned ints. Now, think x may be a user provided value. See where this is going? Integer overflow exploit

Edit: stupid me, of course x+1 < x can be true on unsigned. But unsigned makes it easier (because you don't need to test for x < 0)

"what unsigned arithmetic is"

This is computing 101, really (well, signed arithmetic as well). Then you have people who don't know what signed or unsigned is developing code. Sure, signed is more natural, but the limits are there, and then you end up with people who don't get why the sum of two positive numbers is a negative one.
I'm the mobile engineer at Cue.

Some very interesting issues with iOS 6. Apple went and implemented a method in NSMutableArray with the same signature as one of my category methods. Hilarity ensued, but also a broken home screen.

I'm actually really thrilled that the try-catch was able to help the app recover correctly.
no problem. Are you using Django form validation ? It should take care of this then.
He says "the apps that I've been showing you, they look really great in the native resolution of the screen, the 1080 resolution", that's very unambiguous.

Also, they refer to the resolution as "HD" and "Full HD", which is also a rather unambiguous description of 720p and 1080p.