skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have any resources / books for writing modern C like this or is it all experiential from the trenches?
> You're being very unspecific about who these "speculators" are, and lumping a huge group of people and companies into one bucket.

Generalizing the evil "speculators" without calling out specific sub-groups or behaviors was exactly what the OP did and why I was pointing out the reason we tolerate and encourage speculation in the first place.

>but saying that everyone should be absolved of wrong-doing just because the sector as a whole provides some benefit is equally ill-judged.

I certainly didn't say that or even mean to imply it if that's how you read it.
You should be able to differentiate yourself from those projects by focusing on something full-time and adding your unique expertise to the mix. You are a unique human being, after all. If you can't, you shouldn't bother.

I created Stormpulse while bootstrapping on the side with a family to support. Ultimately the competition became irrelevant because it's an extension/expression of myself which can't be easily duplicated and provides immediate differentiation.
Happy birthday! I've been reading your posts ever since 2005, and I've enjoyed a lot of them. Keep on writing. Thanks for showing us youngins' that there is a future in tech even as you age.
And Now the Happy Hour Has Been Patented
How the world was imagined: early maps and atlases
Good question; I updated the title.

Update: oh, no room in the title. To answer your question, it's from 1987. I found it via this morning's C vs Go article (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4110480)
The review process is conducted by multiple outside firms that tendered in an open process for the right to review the gTLD bids.
Yeah...it seems like, Nikon released this zoom for that exact market, http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/06/14/Nikon-Nikkor-24-85mm...
I don't see how tax credits are always idiotic. Presumably in a given system there is an idea tax rate for a particular income level. If the actual system has the rate 10% to high but the tax credit puts that back where it 'should' be, is that idiotic?

In short, don't the final numbers matter more than whether we reach them with or without a tax credit?
I wish people would inform themselves before blogging on topics they don't understand.

ICANN has a dispute policy in place for this. Any community group can dispute a gTLD application that is targeted at them. So ".authors" can get together and prevent Amazon from getting the gTLD.

See: http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/objection-disput...
Well, to be fair, Java and .NET have generational, concurrent, incremental garbage collectors.
This is just an indicator that we need a proper native development environment. Devs who embrace new web technologies like WebGL, <audio> or <video> forget that those are just Javascript bindings to the technologies developed in C/C++. Can we please have native code instead, so developer controls the underlying system without having to rely on the wits of browser makers? Google Native Client is a step in the right direction.
I was always fascinated with the idea that "the game" has a certain way of being played -- I think Bodie says something of the sort when they're trying to set up Hamsterdam --

I walk by a pretty busy drug corner on my way to work and it always fascinates me how organized it all is. One of the most interesting things I ever saw was two homeless guys fighting over some money when several of the drug dealers came over and broke it up. Self-policing to keep the police away.
>most of the DOD is still on IE6, as an example that is something like 2 million daily users.

Do you have any evidence for that? From what I've seen, which is admittedly not comprehensive, this is false.
Is a project like Voyager worth repeating every so often? Speaking in financial terms relative to other space ventures, would it really be all that expensive to launch a deep space probe every few years and send it hurdling off toward some distant recess of space, outfitted with whatever state-of-the-art equipment we had available at the time? It just seems that we keep coming back to Voyager and we continue to be fascinated with the measurements it takes these many years later. Why are we not preparing even more capable craft for deep space exploration that future generations of humans could marvel at?
the whole point is that if they keep the money then the users won't game the system, they'll complain that fb is selling their data...
Good. If you are into these things, this is also a good audio

Pour en finir avec le jugement de Dieu - Antonin Artaud - 1948 [1]

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiTiz2fxJcM
This is really cool, in that I remember being a kid and telling the other kids in school about the Saturn flyby.
New payment methods create new security issues
The Lean Stack
Cobalt Strike - adaptive penetration testing software
If this camera will show as good as a Dynamic Range as the new D800 it will help recover the global recession :)
I wonder what their investors think of this.
Very good point.

I use to sleep 8-10hrs a night but that was when I was taking life easy.

I now average 5-6 hrs by choice, stress free! no health issues, as happy as I can be. Simply because I want to wake up early and work on some projects. They should take such into account.
This is a full frame camera. $1500 is cheap for a DX camera. It's more than affordable to prosumers.
I read some speculation maybe a year ago saying a possible reason space outside of our solar system seems to quiet to us is that the heliosphere is blocking almost all radio frequencies from reaching us (or getting out). The author of the piece then questioned if we would hear from Voyager once it's outside. Outside of the heliosphere may be teeming with transmissions, may be noisier than Times Square on New Year's Eve. Voyager might pick that up, but we'd never hear about it.

In this article I see some very slight hinting towards that possibility. Does anyone know what I'm referring to? Anyone have any more input on that?
We really need to hear from him.
> The current economic problem is a lack of aggregate demand.

This just half-gelled a different viewpoint for me. There's nothing inherently noble about saving, because the demand doesn't vanish—that money still represents a claim on some fraction of society's resources, only they plan to consume in the future rather than now. Well, we have to align both present and future supply and demand. We can't have everyone expecting to consume all their resources in the future, because then we're wasting our capacity to produce resources in the present.
Yup; human spammers are awful. Labor is so cheap now that it's financially viable to pay people to spam sites in some cases. The Internet is a sad place indeed.
Promoting your articles on Twitter, Facebook, Google News and other channels expressly designed for that kind of purpose is fine.

Submitting your own articles once to a place like HN or reddit is pretty shady in the first place; since that's not the intent of these sites. The intent of these sites is sharing stuff you found, not stuff you created.

Submitting your own article twice is just a dick move.
Not to say that anyone should have to do this, but I did the following:

http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&q=Structural+Regu...

Which yields the paper as the first result, showing its publishing year of 1987.
This does not seem like a lot of fun for the person wearing the t-shirt.
So either the code is easy to patch, or we DO advance. Win/Win?
Sued by whom? I only see another large corporation being able to take on Amazon. Then we're in the same boat as before.

These TLDs are supposed to be generic, not country-specific like .ly or .io or .uk. Giving private entities control over them is an all-around bad idea.
For me, the key word is usually the unreadable one. I've never had success typing only the readable one.
Sure, but you can use them more effectively if you aren't caught up on making them look like something else. iBooks, for example, has the page crease in the middle, page images around the outside, and goofy animations when you turn the page. It probably helps sell iPads but I think it distracts from what I'm trying to actually do, which is read text. Some day it will look as goofy as the old music player plugins that would add pops and hissing like from a vinyl record player.
Java FX2: Transaparent stage
Oh Jesus. The dumbass is trying to get IndieGoGo to shut down the fundraiser for a supposed TOS violation. I can't imagine what world you live on where, after the reaction that he's gotten from the legal threats, going after a $100k charity fundraiser seems like a good course of action.
Ask HN: What's on your laundry list of new technologies you want to learn?
Nothing to add. Title says it all.
Video: Amazon Web Services for Java Developers
New York City Soda Ad Wars Heat Up
Giant 'Tropical' Methane Lake Found on Saturn Moon Titan
PerlyBook (create epub or mobi books from any Perl module on metacpan)
Next weeks HN article - "iOS Settings App Constantly Spies on Users With Camera" bad idea
Guide To The New GMAT Test
Sunlight Labs - API Powered Governmental Transparency
Python Bindings https://github.com/sunlightlabs/python-sunlight
Python API https://github.com/sunlightlabs/python-sunlight
If that were true, shouldn't the space beyond the heliosphere be dead quiet then, assuming all the other solar systems had the same effect applied to them? No noise in, no noise out.
Oh MySQL I hate you
I'm pretty sure this post is satirical.
TastemakerX builds a "taste graph" to reward music trendspotters
And this is the beginning of economic entity 2.0: a Self Managing, Self Optimizing, Economic program, that also happens to provide the service that makes it money. Humans are only needed to read the instructions, replace the parts, and satisfy the legal system (or well, in this case, design and build the thing)
From the users' standpoint, ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away.

Telling people how their data is being used is much more preferable to doing nefarious things behind the scenes. This transparency allows users to make their own decisions about what to do with their data.
VintageEx: Vim's command-line mode for Sublime Text 2
This + IPv6 addressing will be great. People who still think "www" is /required/ would be forgiven for just giving up.

This is a huge loss for UX on the Internet.
Earth-based radio telescopes would receive nothing from outside our solar system if that was true.

Unless you mean to imply the heliosphere might be blocking low powered radio signals from other spacecraft?
Possibly true, but we have perl, python, ruby to deal with those cases which all embed regex in a structural way.

Occasionally you can just convert it to lines first as well and problem solved.
It is really cool, sadly I remember as a kid remember NASA saying that it could leave the solar system as early as 2010 and thinking "Wow, I'll be really old then." :-)
That absolutely doesn't contradict the point of the post. Yes, a group of authors could argue against .authors. But the process remains opaque, and the point is that the onus is on an authors group to make that objection, rather than ICANN making either a more open/market-like or more fair domain allocation process to begin with.
Yeah, we are at WWDC at the moment wearing the t-shirts to promote the game and I have mostly been the back people have been playing off. It is a bit odd just standing there but I think people can have 'fun' by using it as a way to impress and shock people. The t-shirt draws a lot of attention and so it's great for people who like that kind of thing.

Also the game just needs the marker that is on the website and so it can be played off of laptops, iOS devices and even printed out.
+1. If you need Contracts - PLEASE switch to different language, or spend some time learning how to speak Ruby.
Your Brain on Bargains: JC Penney and the Curse of Discounts
There is nothing in the instruction set that is more or less energy efficient than any other instruction set

Oh, come on. The problem with x86 is that it's a variable length instruction encoding that isn't self synchronizing. That is, you can start reading at byte 0 and read one set of valid instruction or you can start reading at byte 1 and read another completely different set of valid instructions.

This means that the logic to decode more than one instruction in a clock cycle is really complicated, and complicated means power intensive. For instance, in AMD's Bulldozer chip the instruction decode unit uses more power than the integer execution cluster. Now, ARM has its troubles too (instruction predication on every instruction means another logical dependency, meaning that if you go out of order your scoreboard is more complicated) but they're not as bad and don't really exist in alternate encoding like Thumb2 or the 64 bit one.

Intel is able to compete so well because they tend to have better fabs, they tend to reach a given node like 22nm before everyone else, and their performance on that node tends to be better than other players too. But x86 does have intrinsic disadvantages.
Arguably a better approach would be to use something other than pickle for serialising.
Arch Linux AUR packages available at: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=60059

I have tested it; works great!
Happy Birthday!

Enjoy that delicious, delicious cake.
> It's a royal pain writing go that talks to C code, compared to say, lua or python

This is plain wrong, you can pretty much call C code directly, while in Python and the like you really have to write a wrapper.

Of course in Go you will write a wrapper anyway to give the library a more Go-like API, but I don't see how this could be any worse than in any other language.

> there just _isnt_ a way to make other languages pickup go libraries and run the symbols from them afaik...

To get non-Go code to call Go code is trickier (also Go really wants to run your main()), but can be done, and there are even libraries to write Python extensions in Go, see:

http://gopy.qur.me/extensions/
With so much outrage over sexism in tech, I wouldn't title a blog post this way.
No matter which side of the piracy/sharing debate you fall, there really should be no room for us to tolerate the use of government power without integrity.

Government needs to follow the rules all the time and at every level.

We give the Government power to act on our behalf because we suppose that it has the moral and physical authority to do what we can not as private citizens. When the Government loses its moral high ground by breaking the law or otherwise acting without integrity, then its use of power is simply abusive and worse than the criminal behavior from which it purports to protect us.
What, then, is the point of a domain name at all? You can get Google to index your IP. Save cash, protect yourself somewhat from USA or some other police state pulling your domain...there are myriad benefits.
It works like a charm!
In Go you can also just disable the GC if you really want to, but obviously then you have to be more careful.
The problem with such policies is that the definitions are squishy.

How do you define "regular" and "sometimes"? At what point do you decide someone is "participating"?

If someone submits, say, 10 links to other (presumably interesting) sites for every 1 link to his own site, is that kosher? What if it's 4:1? 1:1?

How interesting do the other sites need to be? At one extreme is neat stuff that everyone likes and makes it to the home page (which benefits the "my own stuff" not at all, but certainly helps with karma). At the other is junk thrown in as filler to make that 10:1 ratio.

These are not idle questions. Especially when I think everyone in the HN community is aware of journalists' and bloggers' need to attract attention to their articles (which they, at least, believe are relevant). The question is how one can be an accepted member of the community _and_ also let people know what he created.
Syncapse acquires Clickable
I am up in arms about this.
Show HN: Open Source business models
You do realize that this paper is from early 80s and Perl, Python and Ruby did not exist, right?

As for your second statement, if you would have read the paper you would have seen why it is not the case.
After reading through the paper[1] it appears that the only security afforded is an ability to detect energy fluctuations caused by a MITM attacker? A public channel is then assumed to exist to allow both parties to broadcast the monitored energy levels to each other for comparison (evidently over a high bandwidth link and with low latency). A further assumption appears to be made that an attacker is unable to perform a MITM attack on the public broadcast link.

I am naturally sceptical of research of this nature that does not mention:

* practical implementation issues such as the required accuracy of clock synchronisation, required A2D converter parameters, required tolerances for electronic components, etc.

* emanation security/side channel considerations (timing analysis, power analysis and filtering, etc)

* prior work and existing equipment in the space of protected cabling: pressurised cable monitoring, time-domain reflectometry, etc.

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.2534v2
If all you have is a battle-axe, everything looks like hours of fun.
That is not the definition of "hard real-time" that I, and others, use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing

Hard real-time generally means that you have an actual deadline to finish your computation, and Very Bad Things will happen if you miss that deadline. Both of your examples are soft real time.
Social music app Roqbot raises $1.2M for streaming music and jukebox service
This is not a solution for those don't want to think. But many who would gladly think if they cared will now find the transition to algebraic symbol manipulation lot less painful. Kids have their own set of "wants"... In most situations they have no clue how math is a path to satisfy such a want.

I once came across a thread on the scratch website where a student was saying he wanted to figure out how to use trig functions because the guys using trig functions wrote much better games. He(she) was complaining that all the explanations on the web made no sense to him(her). These kinds of tools together can ease the path for those who want to think, but never end up paying enough attention to math due to unnecessary hurdles that prevent exposure to deeper ideas. It is not a silver bullet, but definitely a nice tool in the hands of a teacher who wants to stimulate thinking and a student who wants to think.
The relative overhead of x86 vs other instruction set's is meaningless next to intel's current process advantages. ARM is only viable when you have a similar investment in design AND operate on the same manufacturing process.
You should probably stay on 2.2 beta....

1. Skype 4 require download 95 additional packages for ubuntu version (all marked i386 even if you using amd64)

2. I am not sure but giant ads probably included too [1]

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/skype-...
I was trying to import a lib just for fun.

http://i.imgur.com/GayxZ.png

Very mature, RubyFiddle
Apple's "benign dictatorship" of the App Store leaves users, devs in the dark.
I'm working on a project for a major bank here in the UK, one of the requirements of IE6 and no Javascript. Seriously. It's anal. But it's how their system runs internally, so for management to be able to "test" the new site it needs to work in IE6.

What I don't understand is the bank should be promoting use of latest technology. If your online account was robbed of all it's money and they found out yuo are using IE6 (with all its security flaws) what's the likelihood they try to say it was your own fault?
The point of a domain name is an easy to remember address. Not a guessing game. Not an easy to guess address.

I'm not even sure how you came to that conclusion based on what I said.

Multiple domain names (like book et al) will hopefully be easier to remember.

Things like "harrypotter.book" or "looking-for.love" won't be easy to forget if you see them once.

Domains shouldn't be a guessing game anyway.
I didn't imagine the heliopause having such a (almost theatrical) hard edge. Isn't even a month rather rapid at the scale of distances involved?

At what point would equipment failure be considered, especially given the notable lack of experience in this scenario? Seems that corroborating evidence would be highly desirable before publicizing this. (Or perhaps I am underestimating the data already gathered on this topic...)
The flip-side of human nature
I'm not really throwing jabs, I'm being mildly facetious. Still, the "we're nearly at the edge of the solar system" stories have been coming for a long time. From 2000:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/12/001219073936.ht...

The Voyager 1 spacecraft, the farthest human-made object from Earth, may reach the beginning of his boundary region between early next year and the end of 2003

Now, that was the termination shock, this is the heliopause. Next comes the bow shock.
I got a pretty good chuckle out of this.

Reference to Star Trek: The Motion Picture, for anyone who may not immediately get the reference. The plot of the story revolves a giant space cloud containing a vessel that's ultimately returning Voyager to Earth.

It was a very appropriately timed movie and really explores the idea of Man's impact even beyond our solar system with the devices we shoot off into the stars.
I'd say "C programming: A modern approach" (K.N. King) should be a good candidate? Personally I like the book.
Appendix A -- "Thanks to Ray Bradbury"

The returned error code value is a reference to "Farenheit 451."
There is the New Horizons Pluto/Kuiper probe belt sent in 2006. The thing is fast, it passed Jupiter in 13 months and is currently beyond the orbit of Uranus.
It's not a battery-powered device. Why is 10 watts exciting except to people interested in power optimization?

Note that there are passively cooled (albeit larger: ITX) Cedar Trail boards available now for about 60% more (total system cost) which outperform this box by a factor of 8x or so, and consume about 30W peak. They have hardware accelerated video too (though the GPU acceleration requires proprietary 32-bit-only drivers).
I also thought that was insulting with the wheel chair icon. A person in a wheel chair has problems walking, not (necessarily) their vision. How about "Help" in text?...less confusion and possible anger
Yeah, currently I am still learning to code, but I have lots of ideas that I want to turn it into reality. Its interesting..how I am graduating soon in UNSW of bachelor of commerce, done some investing and trading, and find out coding is really what turns me on. Add my email and twitter as well, I am sure there is lots of things we could talk about.
Zork II, Part 1
FunkyJunk and this lawyer are the types that Anonymous needs to be bringing down. What a bunch of waste of space douche-wagons.
How To Retarget the GNU Toolchain in 21 Patches
Salesforce.com Gets Access to Twitter's Fire Hose
This guy should really be sued for malpractice.
Maybe, but if they allow for usb sticks all that is undone. Sneakernet is hard to firewall.
I'm interested in this too.
Worth saying: this is not another minor update of Wrox's Beginning Perl. There have been a number of revisions of Simon Cozens's Perl 5.6 (5.8?) era Beginning Perl, but this is a completely new book (other than the title). Cozen's original version is already available freely online[1], for what that's worth.

[1]: http://www.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/
Our YC Interview: A Scottish Startup's Perspective
Ooh great, the holy grail of content farmers. Say goodbye to any good content on the Internet after Wordpress network ops find out about this.