skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting to see Tim Bray (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray) still being active at this level of the web's development.

Not sure I see the applications of this, but I guess more high-level error messaging is something that is in general a good thing so I guess that should hold for the web, too.
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See the real time location of your train on a map
karmaME is a real time mass transit visualization app for smart phones. When users launch the app, they can see the real time locations of their trains
on a live map.

As a bonus added feature, karmaME also shows daily
deals around the users at a particular location. So, if the users' trains are late, they can enjoy a coffee or a discounted food deal while they wait inside the eatery rather than waiting in the cold at the platform.

karmaME is a crowdsourced app (although the users do not have to do anything to feed data to the system). See “How it works”. (“see how it works” text has a link to that section.)

If you don’t see enough trains on the map, tell your friends to download the app. Make your life a little bit easier and make your friends’ life a little bit easier.

What We Solve:

One of the biggest complaints of the NYC Subway/LIRR, Metro North and NJ Transit riders is that the trains are late or early compared to their scheduled arrival times. In 2011, only 71% of the NYC Subway trains were on time. "On time" is defined as reaching the destination within five minutes of the scheduled time, so many trains that were technically on time, were also late.

The scheduling situation is not better in most parts of the world; at any given time, you can probably find thousands of people around the world wondering where their trains are. Some people waiting in freezing cold and some people in scorching hot weather.

karmaME is the solution; when we have enough users, everyone can see where their
trains are, and they can wait for them at much more comfortable places, like a nearby café (preferable enjoying something yummy at discounted prices) or in their air-conditioned car.
But that only solves a narrow sliver of what he wanted.
In that case, consider making an ~A5 version of the PDF or viewing it on e-readers will be a hassle.
The bill isn't about restricting the publication of ideas, it's about restricting harassment and defamation.
You forgot to mention black choppers.

FTFY: "Do not pick fights with people who can fly black choppers"
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We use SNI SSL certificate (running on appharbor). On Windows XP and IE-8, there are issues with certificate detection. (There's no issue with the actual transport layer security - All data transmission is over SSL. In case you are interested in the details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication )

I am looking into the IE-9 issue. I wasn't able to reproduce on the Windows XP SP3 machine I have with me.
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I would post about what a great idea I think this is, but I don't want anyone knowing my real name.
> If something didn't exist at all, why would I send a 451?

You just don't acknowledge the existence.

> So... everybody can ignore 451?

The status code is optional in the sense that you don't have to use it if a resource is unavailable for legal reasons. You can use it if you want to inform the user what exactly is going on.
Very cool idea! I think you should think carefully about the use cases.

Is it for someone who wants to take a gene from one organism, move it to another and then order that organism?
Is it for people wanting to manually tweak genes to improve efficiency, slightly change function? What kinds of manual tweaks?
Is it for someone who wants to understand how an organism works?

When /I/ look at it, I think it could benefit from being more abstract, but I am not your target audience, so take this with a grain of salt. I don't think looking at individual base pairs is useful. Amino acids might be, but are still too emphasized in the interface. The most abstract view, showing genes in order is not abstract enough. I want to see genes grouped by function (e.g. reproductory system, energy production, acidity regulation etc). For each gene I want to see:

a) High level description of function (already there, but in a single line text field. Give more screen estate).

b) What activates the gene? i) Directly (e.g high concentration of Na+) ii) Indirectly (e.g. genes a, b, c) iii) Very Indirectly (environmental stress)

c) As exact specification as possible of what happens when it is activated: i) What does it activate in turn? ii) What does it catalyze?
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PC manufacturers other than Apple despair because people overwhelmingly opt for the low end, low margin devices, since most laptops are now "fast enough" for people to use them as their primary computers. It's not that long ago that using a laptop as your primary computer was inconceivable. And even shorter ago since the thought of using a phone as replacement for a laptop would've been considered science fiction.

In other words: Your phone will catch up to where it is fast enough for enough uses for enough people that there will be a substantial market for taking advantage of the enhanced mobility and flexibility.

Power users will still want more, but power users are a small niche.
> You shouldn't mix up RMS with the Pirates

Shouldn't I? RMS mixes with Pirates, seems to be broadly in favour of what they stand for, and comments a lot on internal Pirate Party mailing lists.
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Very good overview. I've built lock-free hash maps, and this article covers the areas you need to be aware of. I'd also suggest looking up false sharing, and also making sure that you really understand exactly how the memory barriers are operating.
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Italy half-assedly implemented it in late 2002, and then reworked it in 2005 -- so it's about 7 years since it was fully implemented and enforced, which is still "recently" from an industrial point of view. Considering that Apple kept ignoring it until at least December 2011 (!) when they finally lost the trial, I wouldn't be surprised if they were doing the same in other EU countries.

TL;DR: Apple only "felt" this legislation in the last 12 months.
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I think the reason we ended up down this road was that your original comment accused somebody of "illegal" use of OSX.

Firstly this makes the assumption that the person fell under US jurisdiction at the time of their use of the system.

It would also assume that the DMCA would apply to this specific person in this case. I don't know of any instance of a successful crimimal conviction against somebody for using their own legit software on a system they own themselves and we will not unless this is tested in court.

"Unlawful" would probably be a better term in this context. You could argue that this is pedantry but I think that throwing terms like "illegal" around in this way could cause undue anxiety to people who do not understand the specifics.
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Ask HN: What attire is appropriate for interviewing with a startup?
I have an interview today with a startup for a developer position. I just graduated from college, and my parents are pushing hard for suit and tie today because it's "conventional wisdom."

What do you feel is actually appropriate? I don't want to appear as a stiff who won't fit in with the culture.
I was talking more about the mainland - Germany, Netherlands and Belgium to be more specific... But you can't really compare anything with the Silicon Valley directly - IT and engineering jobs are present all over the US, and they pay less than SV companies and startups, too...
This point is just not true..Buyers don't have to like you app first before they buy it. They just have to think that they will like it. In truth , most apps only get used a few times by most buyers
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Thanks, I sometimes only read the comments on HN. My first thought was: Civ III is over 10 years old.
So when you mention black choppers, people will assume you are either being ironic or crazy. There's a particular policy goal affiliated with these attacks, and a spectrum of options for achieving that policy goal. Those options included "There exist certain individually identifiable employees of a foreign government who are personally indispensable to implementing something which goes against our policy goals. We could assassinate them."

If you read the papers you know that that option is neither a joke nor the fevered imaginings of a paranoid conspiracy theorist.
One additional consideration; does being hit by a missile constitute unsolicited mailing?
The idea that governments are stupid in the sphere of technology ignores the recent-ish discovery on behalf of governments that if you just pay a bunch of geeks to be geeks on behalf of the (evil or otherwise) government and make them exempt from bureaucracy they get results that are at least as good as geeks acting independently.
Similarly, I'll grant that the fight may appear asymmetrical at the higher level of organizations if one side is run by geeks and the other side is run by non-geeks. Nonetheless one should recognize that those hired by either side to be on the "front lines" so to speak will be geeks. Whether they're computer geeks or gun|bomb|espionage|etc geeks, assuming an asymmetry in the ability to employ strategy and accomplish goals on that level would be unwise.
France : what are the best tech centered incubators around Paris?
And where is there a tech hub, if such a thing exists in Paris ? I know about the Camping but i assume others exist which might be just as good or even better... I am currently working on a startup with 3 associates and we could use some mentoring or at least some exchanges with fellow upstarts.
Can we rename this to the "MPAA/RIAA HTTP Status Code"
Is this a troll or something?
I love the example.

FYI, 755 AUC is 2 AD, so the example is referring to the time of Jesus.
We bought our family plan from Verizon when we heard rumors that the unlimited data tier was going away and it's worked well for us (there are currently 4 users in our household). We'd be paying quite a bit more with the new plan simply to support our data usage.
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Yes, the internet is good at selecting pedantic people for extended discussions of absurdities. However, this doesn't have much significance for whether GPL-style licensing provisions are preferable in the regular world.
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What's important to remember is in the 1990s the Mac business was the vast majority of the then "Apple Computer" company's revenue. Today it's a small and shrinking percentage.
"geeks vs government" assumes geeks don't work for the government.
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A puppet account on HN? Can't be, can it?
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They made that transition when they dropped "Computer" from their name. The rest is just logical follow-up.
Thanks for taking care of this! I like what you're doing with this. As a Tumblr-head, I think you should also consider adding follow, like and reblog functionality. The API also has functions for this.

But either way, I'll be keeping an eye on this!
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The "cloud" is still ultimately hardware. And it'd be much nicer if a good chunk of that hardware is light enough to be carried around in my pocket so I don't have to deal with network outages or latency issues, and instead have it form it's own little mini-cloud with nearby devices combined with synchronizing to more remote large scale cloud services to safe keep my data.

That's already sort of here: My data exists with external providers but is nearly all backed up to my home server, which serves my set top box, and serves as a backup point for my phone and laptop (before shuffling the data on to external backup), and my phone can tell my home server to push a movie to my TV via my set top box using DLNA, or my laptop can push it to my phone. Or my phone to my TV. Or any of them can pull it straight from the file server.

No "hardware integration" necessary other than the networking and power supply.
Indeed: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in...
The forum software used by HomebrewTalk does the same thing. Always annoys me when I'm just trying to get to a thread that I had bookmarked to look at while I'm mid-brew.
This can't be a coincidence right? Its a way of saying that DMCA/lawsuit takedowns are digital book burning.
Because in their view, which may or may not be correct, they are injustices which receive very little mainstream attention. Is that not enough?

Enough for you, not enough for me. That’s how human behaviour works. You may meet someone who goes on and on about men’s rights and think, “here is a fellow who has encountered injustices which receive very little mainstream attention, how perfectly ordinary.” Someone else may beet the same fellow and be disquieted by their choice of injustice which receives very little mainstream attention they have picked as their fixation.

And I didn’t say he’s a racist. Pointless waste of time when discussing a man who wrote an essay asking for the word “racist” to be defined in such a way that he explicitly isn’t one. Likewise, it would be a waste of time to insinuate that Mr. Does had inappropriate relations with his students in the middle of a debate about the word “inappropriate.”

If you and I can agree on a definition of the word, I’ll happily denounce or exonerate Mr. Raymond. Until then, I’ll use a made-up-phrase so there’s no misunderstanding: He strikes me as a man fixated on race. Do you disagree?
As it was done many times in the past, the second can be gamed to prevent the first. It is not about the intentions, it's about the possible outcomes and this is just another reach for fear based censorship. Because you know the system is always gamed and abused when in place.
> Gee, drivers hate the idea of having to actually pay a market rate for a scarce resource?

Is it a market rate? Or, it it some penalty scheme, where those that get pay significantly more than they did before for basically the same thing and others are shut out even though they're still expected to pay capital costs?

Who could possibly object to that?
Peter, I have gone to your site to be presented with something I don't understand.

Please make a splash page which explains exactly what is clickable, and how to use the website, and what the workflow is.

That should be your first UX job. Have fun.
I don't think so. I won't go on record with what I know but I do know that Microsoft has consented to allow governments audit, review, and sometimes even modify their source code.

I suspect a polite request (perhaps backed by a threat including the L-word) will get them far further than a virus.

Edit: Others have pointed to public documentation of this program. I believe the two cases I was aware of at the time were the governments of China and Germany.
Per the article, the new MBP actually renders at double the scaled resolution (so 3360x2100 for 1680x1050) and then downscales that to fit 2880x1800. (See the screenshots.) It shouldn't look blurry at all. In fact, it should look considerably better than a MBP with a 1680x1050 display.
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Unless you are a designer, do not waste time making the HTML for your resume more elegant.
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New app gives early warning of mean messages
Computer scientists have developed a mobile phone app that can predict the tone of incoming messages before a user reads them so that they are not caught off guard by angry or hostile words.
Cool, so it's public knowledge now :-D
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It seems some inspiration behind this is in the blog post at http://shkspr.mobi/blog/index.php/2012/06/there-is-no-http-c...
I have a rule that I will never wear a suit and a tie to interviews. I don't dress scruffily however nor do I dress formally. Some companies take offence at that and, in some cases, you won't get the job as a result. Those jobs though - chances are you don't want them.

However if in future I am ever struggling to find a job then I will likely have to relent on this rule.
The thing I find most interesting about Flame: whoever developed it surely understood that by being released into the wild like this, their new cryptographic attack was guaranteed to eventually be discovered and analyzed. And yet they spent that attack's secrecy on a (very sophisticated, but still) fishing expedition.

So what cryptanalytical capabilities do they have which are considered too sensitive to expose via malware?
I can say that I'd never pay 599 for this when the Mac Mini is pretty much the same price and on top of that is much more powerful and feature rich.

If they were even closely comparable I'd consider it.
Windows 8 Metro, supposedly. They designed it to be either vector graphics or for bitmaps you have to supply multiple sizes. The largest size is chosen so that higher resolutions than that won't be neccesary because the human eye can't perceive it, so it will be future proof (at least that's what their marketing says).
You may be thick-skinned enough to cope with online harassment and bullying but not everyone is.

Here's an example of a 13 year old girl who commited suicide after being bullied online .

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1569949/Girl-13-co...

Do you really think that is OK, and that the issue was in herself? I really hope you just haven't thought through what you said.

Just in the same way you can't harass someone in the street, there shouldn't be carte blanche for bullying just because it happens to be online.
> The reactor ... feeds on aluminum grains and water and produces hot hydrogen. This hydrogen is then converted into electrical energy that replaces the battery in an electric vehicle.

>The products of the reaction are warm air and water vapor which are later chilled and reused. “The water is not consumed, it is returned to the tank after it goes through the process. Even though the system works on aluminum and water, in practice it doesn’t use up the water,” Yampolsky tells NoCamels.

Ok, so if water (H2O) and aluminum go in, and hydrogen, water vapor, and hot air comes out (and later the article says aluminum oxide comes out as well), and the water is not used up, where does the hydrogen come from?

I.e.: 1(Al) + 1(H2O) -> 1(Al2O3) + 1(H2O) + heat + H2

Now, the system could obtain oxygen from the atmosphere, so the excess output oxygen could be accounted for that way. But from where does the excess H2 come from, if the water is not consumed?

Something does not add up, given what the article reports.
It certainly sounds at least like export to me. Are they therefore illegally exporting munitions and crypto?
Maybe, but if I have to guess differently than you think: They probably want to use this to "troll" governments and heavy users of DMCA take-down notices. These people usually don't like it if users notice that they were responsible, so this is against their interests.

Reminds me of this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4048828
Do you mean the 'This forum is TapTalk enabled' alert - I hate that too.
So for the same price I pay now (about $130 after taxes and fees), I go from unlimited data down to a shared 1GB for everyone on my plan? How is this Verizon finding a common ground?
As I said, learning the basic commands and using them. There's no need to remember a key combo for 'swap lines' because it's just 2 basic commands used in succession. I never even think of it as 'swap lines' because what I want to do is remove a line, then place it somewhere else. And that's what the commands are in Vim to make it happen.
Fahrenheit 451, drafted in the last couple of days in honour of Mr. Bradbury? I do find it fitting that if this passes, we have a cultural reference to remind of its significance. I look forward to seeing some interesting error pages in the future.
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How is that more awesome than any other LCD monitor that is able to up-scale?
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Always threaten with small claims court, and if they still won't honour the warranty just sue.

Those judges will usually rule in your favour and Apple might not even send a representative.
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If 90% of everyone who hears about this story hates their guts and only 1% start using their service that's a big win for them. Being a small website is not like being a politician or national brand where you can't afford to alienate large numbers of people.
Bear in mind that attacks on MD5 have an inherently limited shelf life, and that while the exploit used in Flame may be new, the underlying vulnerability and the fundamental technique used to exploit it are very well known.
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I usually just ask someone from the company I will be interviewing with.

IMO, a suit and tie, especially for a junior developer type position is probably wrong UNLESS you are the sort of person that is 100% comfortable and natural in a suit, and even then I'd skip the tie.

My goal would be to dress 1 step above the people you are interviewing with. Enough that you clothes help convey a sense of elevated status, but not so much they look at you and go "I don't want to work with some guy that wears a tuxedo to work".

Based on my non-scientific observations over the years, the ideal outfit would be pressed khakis, ironed polo or button-down shirt, sport-coat. If the environment is one where the people dress a little nicer, then you fit in well and the jacket probably sets you apart. If it's uber-casual you can leave the jacket someplace and then you'll be dressed nicely, but still a touch above most of the people you're interviewing with.

FWIW, I can't remember the last time I've work a suit to an interview in probably 15+ years, the last 10+ of that I've been working higher-level management type jobs, many times in sales-ish roles/departments.

Also, respect to your parents, but their conventional wisdom is probably massively out of date with current job trends/cultures, especially as it relates to developer positions.
Big buckets of data my ass. My 2gb cap is pathetic, and I've only got 3g.
;_; what a waste of peoples lives to even make something this absurd a discussion..