skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zonal Marking (zonalmarking.net) is excellent for soccer. Lots of attention given to formation and player positioning.
Slave labor and "slave" labor.
For the curious:

"Evolution Data Server manages access to the calendar, tasks and addressbook information available for Evolution and other applications.
It is a CORBA component which, when activated, allows concurrent access by several client applications to the same data, adding to that notifications of changes, which are signalled to all clients.
Its extensible architecture, allows the addition of plugins to manage different kinds of calendar/tasks/addressbook sources, by just writing a shared library, which will be loaded by evolution-data-server on startup."

On my debian testing installation

$ apt-rdepends -r evolution-data-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
evolution-data-server
Reverse Depends: contacts (0.9-2+b1)
Reverse Depends: dates (0.4.8-3)
Reverse Depends: ekiga (3.2.7-5)
Reverse Depends: evolution (>= 3.2.2-1+b1)
Reverse Depends: evolution-data-server-dbg (= 3.2.2-3)
Reverse Depends: evolution-rss (>= 0.2.90~20111111-3)
Reverse Depends: gbirthday (0.6.5-1)
Reverse Depends: gnome-core (>= 1:3.0+9)
Reverse Depends: gnome-phone-manager (0.68-3)
Reverse Depends: libfolks-eds25 (>= 0.6.9-1)
Reverse Depends: libjana-ecal0 (0.0.0+git20091215.9ec1da8a-2+b3)
Reverse Depends: tasks (0.20-1+b1)
It's either because the guy died from AIDS so the comment is insensitive, or the OP is homophobic and thinks calling people gay is always used as a derogatory.

It's probably the former though.
Woman passenger cries for help  after search by TSA agent
Thank you for spending your time. I really appreciate it.
At the time when I was writing those sentences, I realized it will be too long to fit into the area, and left behind like that.
We'll be rebuilding the website some time in the future. Thanks for the suggestions
It's interesting how many comments here imply that more complex is better.
My thought process went, "a dollar is 90 cents more than 10 cents, so $1.05 is a dollar more than five cents".

I made exactly the same fallacy as those in this study; I've just learned to check my work. On the other hand, I suspect the whole process of estimation and refinement was faster than writing out those equations.
Vulnerability in Remote Desktop Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2685939)
I was under the impression that the current iOS map app was created by Apple but used Google's API for data. I could be mistaken.
SAT originally stood for Scholastic Aptitude Test...so it seems properly named, even by your own standards. Similarly, ACT stands for American College Testing which doesn't have anything to do with intelligence.

You seem to have a pretty serious ax to grind with standardized testing.
I am really skeptical about Apple Maps. Maybe they can get data as good as Google. Maybe they can even do directions as well as Google.

I think they will falter on one of the most important parts though. Google Maps has a fantastic search. If it does not match up, then it will definitely by an issue.
The vertical axis of the graph on page 6 is in log scale - it already accounts for exponential growth, considering we get there in 600 years, which is, IMHO, a very reasonable (and I dare to say, optimistic) extrapolation.

Consider you need more than access to raw materials: you need the manufacturing capacity to harness the power source. Covering the Moon with 100% efficient solar panels wouldn't even put us on 1 at the Kardashev scale.
How Starbucks is turning itself into a tech company
Agree with your thesis, but John Williams is the wrong guy for your point. He's a popular composer too, in his own way.

You could point to the Neo-Classicists -- although Prokofiev's dead, of course. Or there's Penderecki; perhaps a hard sell, but deserving.
I think we'll have a Google Maps iOS app in short order. They'll have to do some hardcore OpenGL hacking (reimplement CATiledLayer) to get it working as smoothly as the current maps app without using private APIs though (cf. https://github.com/frankus/NetPhotoScroller)
How many times has Android's UI and conventions gotten completely overhauled and rewritten? Apple thought things out, and got a lot of it right from the get go. Reduced fragmentation, better quality apps, long-term consistency vs android rebooting and trying to get it right with each major revision. One example being that there are only a couple hundred Honeycomb optimized apps out there, how many exist for the iPad?
If they can get it working correctly with multitouch trackpad gestures I'll be stoked.
There are two problems here.

Firstly: As I see it, an evacuated tunnel at 20m is a very different proposition to a non-evacuated tunnel at 30m, even if the pressure difference is the same. Why? Well, your big problem is always going to be leaks. In an air-filled tunnel you can get away with microscopic cracks, no problem; you've got a small direct interface between water and air, and the surface tension of the water is enough to keep the water in place. It's very hard to force water through a really tiny crack. In a vacuum, however, surface tension goes away -- liquid water at an interface with vacuum will boil, and all of a sudden you've got water vapour filling your nice evacuated tube through every microscopic crack in its five thousand mile length. Nasty. Clearly the joined-concrete construction used for the Transbay Tube isn't going to be sufficient.

Secondly: unfortunately the Atlantic Ocean isn't 20m deep, or 30m deep, or even 40m deep like the deepest point of the Transbay Tube. It's several kilometers deep.
War is actually a negative sum game today; even "winning" you lose a lot. It's not clear to me if this was ever different for anything larger than Viking raiding parties, though.
Who said they were? Better yet, who is? Which for-profit companies contributing to open source solely for charitable purposes? One of the primary reasons anybody — individual or company — invests time and energy into an open source project is because, when all is said and done, it's in their shared interest to do so. Sometimes the invested time pays dividends, sometimes it's mostly charity. But few people — and even fewer for-profit companies — participate in open source projects to be "charitable."
The purchaser would have good reason to zero out the drive before return. That would protect personal data and coincidentally not leak any additional usage info to the supplier.
Great suggestions. It would be awesome if you contributed it to grocer as well :P. It's still in active development though so you may find some of these enhancements in grocer at some point in the near future. Thanks man!
Fragmentation at the API level is the real problem. Not at lack of "built-in features."

An app written for iOS 6 can run on the iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, and iPhone 3GS (not to mention the iPad 2 and 3, and the newest iPod Touches).

An app written for ICS can only run on those 7% of devices running ICS.

This is how fragmentation works. The only fragmentation happening on iOS is for the original iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPad 1, and the old iPod Touches.

The only one that I don't quite grasp is the original iPad. Running on the same processor as the iPhone 4 and is much faster than the iPhone 3GS. Color me somewhat confused by this one.
"Indeed. Google could have implemented it on iOS if they had wanted to, but that was a pretty big selling point for some people to get an Android phone over iOS."

No they couldn't, Apple controlled the app, Google was just the pipe. A recent WSJ article claims that both Google and Apple wanted feature parity/turn by turn, but Google wanted an increased amount of Google branding in exchange which Apple refused so they ultimately couldn't come to terms.
This is really simple: there is likely no copyright treaty between sender and recipient jurisdictions. So no court exists that would be able to resolve a copyright dispute. In the case where some rogue paramilitary group starts using GPL software to, say deliver payload to a target within a single jurisdiction, the delivery itself is highly illegal. Related case: delivery of non-weapon contraband such as illegal police scanner. Not only is GPL violated, but the device itself is illegal to posses.
I don't mean that you should bill hourly if you can measure your work in hours. I mean that you should bill hourly if you want to run the sort of business where you work on six different clients' smallish tasks each day (say, simple web stuff with minimal ramping), like the setup ErrantX described elsewhere.

As you say, this is based on value provided to the customer. If you're working with clients who are going to want you to do $100-$1000 worth of low-complexity work for them in any given month, an hourly fee structure is going to let you serve that client base, while a daily structure would not. If you're working with clients who are going to want you to do $10000+ worth of work for them on a single project, a daily or weekly structure is going to be more convenient for everyone. If you're working for the DoD on military hardware, you might charge 10 figures of development fees and 8-9 figures per unit delivered.

Pick a billing structure based on what's natural for the sort of projects you're doing in the market you're serving.
Yes. I wont be updating to IOS 6 unless there is a choice of mapping apps. I'm sure Apple maps will be a good product, but unless it's really as good as Google, or I can still install a Google maps app, then I will not update to 6.

I'm less concerned about transit and walking routing (because I am sure Apple will get there), but more concerned about search of maps. OSM search is currently nowhere near the level of Google maps search.

On google maps I can search for things like "usps near south lake tahoe" and it do what I expect. Try that on OSM, or anything remotely not a well formed address. Google maps has some sophisticated logic for biasing towards current location, and it knows the names of places, like 'moscone center', or 'facebook offices'. And of coruse, I cna mispel them all and it still find it.

If Apple maps can't do the same, then no matter how pretty the 3D view is, it will disable one of the main (for me) functions of the device.
It's called a deceptive cadence -- that's the I V vi part. The IV is warmup for the V - I cadence that ends it all. "Deceptive" because vi is one note away from I, but in minor, not major.

It's a well-known pattern; sorry the internet let you down.
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I hope their guidelines are not valid for Google+ posts about HN moderation too: https://plus.google.com/u/0/113250814961864918365/posts/dQkv...
The Silencing of Maya
Saw a build on a post in the the hackintosh sub-reddit, the link to which was posted here on HN. Great site.

Since you're here, I'm going to file a bug. :) I just noticed that the following motherboard isn't showing an amazon price for me: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaz68xud3h...

although amazon has it: http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-Intel-DDR3-Motherboards-GA-Z6...
I was assuming the purpose of such a visualization was to understand the offense, which can't be done without including free throws.

This is an accurate assertion -- teams like the Heat live and die by their free throw attempts -- but the article isn't looking at offense. It examines how well players shoot around the court (as the title states).

Realistically, heatmaps with free throws will just have orange-to-dark red circles at the free throw line. That's boring.
Wrecking things with a default build is still an option with binary blobs and sneaky variant hardware. Our dev team standardized on the x120e's a while back; the first one or two were great, but the second batch had a serious flaw in about half of them -- the fan speed reported to the kernel is inverted. (How you invert a PWM count, I've got no clue.)

Same distro, same config, and half the batch has a death wish, shutting down the fan in response to increased CPU temp.
I never understood what's so bad about swearing in code comments. It's not something I would do, but different people speak in different ways, so what? This commit seems like a big waste of time to me (except when it replaces variables names with something more descriptive).

Personally, I like William Morgan's IMAP rant[1], from the source of his excellent mail client Sup[2].

And then there's the kernel: http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/

[1]: http://sup.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/lib/sup/imap.rb

[2]: http://sup.rubyforge.org/
Hell, I do this twice when dealing with in-laws. The first time to make sure I can restore the OEM partition, and the second time so I can restore the thoroughly sanitized install when they filthy it up with malware and browser bars.
Transatlantic Tunnel is a 1932 SF film about a strong-willed engineer determined to complete an underwater train route from London to New York.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027131/
I fail to see how the questions presented in the article are "trick questions". They're both written in a straightforward way and solved by very simple math.
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this, pdf does not look very good on an e-ink kindle.
A few seconds could shut down reactors, gas lines, slow trains, trigger stop-lights (e.g. preceding tunnels), alarm people in parking decks, etc.

Earthquakes are known to sometimes be preceded by unexplained balls of light much further in advance. If this phenomenon is related, the warning period likely exceeds just a few seconds.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. I was listing a few things that wouldn't show up on this list and wouldn't be in pop music. Dissonance and interesting chord progressions were the two I called out specifically.
They obviously don't care. The last two which made it to the front page were also killed.
Hey, you do know that Apple requires developers to maintain persistent connections to their servers, right?

Checkout https://github.com/jnak/apnmachine
Feature list:
- persistent connection to APN Servers (as Apple recommends)
- real-time notifications (no regular polling a la Resque)
- super easy to use in Ruby and any languages (as easy as enqueuing a serialized JSON hash in Redis)
- persist and queue messages when server is down
- horizontal scalability and out-of-the-box load-balancing
- fast daemons
I feel that most of the cost is for tunneling and the difficulties of working in such a space as a subway system. as for normal railroads, a quick googling shows that the cost is much more conservative, with a 1995 estimate[1] stating about $250,000 per mile to rehabilitate an existing railroad.

[1] http://tacnet.missouri.org/history/railroads/rrcosts.html
Velti Mobile Ad Report: iOS Pulls Way Ahead of Android, iPod Touch Beating iPad
Maybe they didn't want to take the risk of it being rejected as 'duplicating existing functionality'. I know that some apps have got through nowadays, but has the policy changed to allow this, or is Apple allowing these on a case-by-case basis?
"Even at using costs of the propsed high speed rail in California ($80M/mile), nyc-london would cost $280 billion."

Which is roughly 1 / 14th the cost of the Iraq war. Not bad if you think about it.
Love it. Times like this I wish there were more of a sketch comedy scene in our community... Not sure whether to go with "The AWS Enterprise" or "Bob the Cloud Mechanic".
Pride, gluttony. Both deadly sins.
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As enterprise apps become more complex and the cloud increasingly meets mobile, organizations and app developers need to look at private cloud options for platform solutions. It's good to see some great PaaS companies collaborate to provide even better mobile solutions.
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How I got quoted in CNET by tweeting at a journalist
FWIW, that's exactly the approach Apple has taken with both iOS and OS X. Some elements are rendered as vector graphics, most are rendered as bitmaps and the app provides a 1x and 2x bitmap.
Ask HN: PHP or Python? for a beginner.
6 months ago I decided I wanted to learn how to develop websites. Since then I have been working on developing my first project (www.plotified.com) in PHP. I choose PHP because I have a couple friends who are very proficient in it, and would make for good references if needed.

So, now that I am a little versed in PHP I am wondering if i made the right choice. Should I have gone with Python? Or should I continue PHP til I and proficient in it and then learn Python? Any advice would be much appreciated.
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>But so far the damage is pretty limited, and HN seems to be working pretty well. //

The thread seemed pretty contradictory to your conclusion.

I think the message from the secret society of HN moderators is "butt out this is our board not yours".

Quashing feedback in this way is pretty awful particularly in view of the legal issues involved.
How Ancestry.com is using big data to map people, places and time
read through the thread; it's anything but easy. he's hit the point where the ai civs have decided nuclear war is the way to go, and he's reaping the global penalties for it (radioactive wastelands, global warming) while simultaneously having to divert all his resources to maintaining the red queen race of building tanks and having them destroyed rather than cleaning up his farmlands to grow food.
No problem, I would love to contribute! My account is kyledrake on Github.

Right now I'm experimenting with socket keepalive, which I think may be important to keeping socket connections open (per some discussion I found from an Apple dev). If my tests go well I'll send a pull request later tonight!

The one thing I haven't figured out yet is how to stop messages from being dropped after feedback comes in. It has a tendency to silently fail to send messages. My current solution is to check for errors before a write, and do a IO.select on the socket to wait for a read for an arbitrary amount of time. You might want to look at some of the weird stuff I had to do in here.. it's a problem I'd like to figure out how to deal with: https://github.com/geoloqi/lead_zeppelin/blob/master/lib/lea...
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What a nice explanation. Here's an FTC page that amplifies this:

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/credit/cre04.shtm

This page relates to your maximum loss if you lose your card, but it also details that the two instruments are governed by different laws.

If you lose your credit card, your max liability is $50. But if you lose your debit card, there's a sliding scale of liability (going all the way up to, "your entire balance") depending on how soon you notify your bank.
> you could be dead in an instant

You have your answer right there.
Flesh Map charts which body parts are most commonly referenced by musical genre:

http://www.fleshmap.com/listen/music.html
How much longer until he gets a cease and desist from apple? (Or is emulation legal?)
I think you're thinking of ionospheric data, rather than IR data.

E.g. http://www.ep.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/~heki/pdf/2011GL047908.pdf

I haven't heard of an infra-red-visible precursor of any sort, at any rate, though I could be very wrong there.
My thoughts exactly; I hope this trend towards quality continues.
Well I got both those questions right by following the heuristic that the most obvious answer off the top of my head would not be the answer.

To my mind on any test that was supposed to be hard the appearance of any obvious an answer triggers me to check for the proverbial trick question.

On the other hand, most brain puzzler type questions that get discussed on HN (for example interview questions at Google) I find to be damn hard. I can't imagine that "smart" people would do worse than "stupid" people on truly hard problems. I guess that is the area of bias being pointed to in the OP.
Sounds about one inch away from an AFJ.
Nice! We keep a single connection open using the standalone gem.

But yeah you're right it would be an issue if you were connecting to Apple's servers in a resque worker for example, since the socket would be opened in a new child for each job. I bet you could get around this though by opening a socket in the parent and using it in each child process. Reconnecting might be a little trickier though.

apnmachine looks pretty sweet. I'll have to check it out if I need something like that in the future.
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The bat-ball and lily-pad questions are 2 of the 3 questions on a short test called the 'Cognitive Reflection Test' (or 'CRT') meant to measure whether people make the effort to think beyond the obvious (but wrong) answer.

By using those examples, after its headline, this article seems to imply smarter people do worse on these CRT questions. But that is not what I've read elsewhere -- which is that the CRT is positively correlated with other quantitative measures of intelligence (including IQ scores, SATs, and high-school/collegiate grades). 'Smart' people (by those measures) do tend to do better on the CRT.

And if you read this article carefully, you see that while it uses these two CRT questions as examples of tricky questions, when it discusses the results about awareness-of-bias not helping alleviate bias, it isn't necessarily saying smart people do worse on those two CRT questions. It's a bit muddled in what it's saying, and reviewing the linked abstract doesn't help much either. The paper is evaluating some very specific things under the umbrella term 'cognitive sophistication', which might not map to what we usually call 'smart' or even 'test-smart'.

BTW, I personally think the CRT may be especially useful for evaluating software/systems proficiency. The bat-ball question probes understanding of algebra; the lily-pad question probes understanding of geometric growth (and someone accustomed to powers-of-2 will find it easier); the third question probes understanding of parallelism and projected-rates-of-work.

That third question happens to be:

"If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?"

(A software person might also think of it as: "If it takes 5 cores to compress 5 GB in 5 minutes, how long would it take 100 cores to compress 100 GB?")
Chrome Canary Fixes Rendering Issue with Retina MacBook Pro
A reference to mitosis, perhaps?
Of the $80M/mile - $70M is to buy the land and pay off objectors, $9M is security and fencing for the work site and $1M is to build the actual track.

The nice thing about a transatlantic tunnel is that crustecaeans can be bought off cheaply
Apple Will Discontinue Ping in Next iOS Update
Learn C the hard way

You bet it will be hard to learn when you shun the best book ever written on the language, coauthored by the designer of the language!
They aren't going to dig a tunnel through rock all the way underneath the Atlantic - that's many times further than the Chunnel, and that was a serious undertaking. The article implied it'd be underwater.