skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an incredible statistic. If the cause is cultural then
it's a wonder there isn't a plethora of books advising on how to raise children the Ashkenazi way. Are there any such books?
I guess they finally brought in the outsourcing experts.
Really excited about the pointer lock API. Makes the browser a viable gaming platform now.

Edit: There appears to be a bug in the pointer lock code - not sure what's going on, but my mouse is getting locked into the wrong monitor if I move the Firefox window between monitors.
Or at least we should be pushing micro-nutrient supplements. And encouraging school lunch programs.
Skype's Source Code Leaked...?
>Most impoverished Americans have TVs and microwaves.

What's your point? Ownership of an arbitrary appliance doesn't mean you're able to put food on the table or afford tuition for your children. You don't need to eat a TV every night to survive nor can you fill up your gas tank on microwaves. Besides, in the developed world, TVs and microwaves are a dime a dozen and are regularly discarded because their abundance makes them worth so little.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/zip?query=tv+&srchTyp...
I agree. It seems like there would be some opportunity for a revitalized Flickr to integrate with Facebook but also to include the more professional feature set.

Please forgive my ignorance but does iOS provide access for third party applications to Photo Stream? It would be great to provide a mobile application to connect to an Eye-Fi card when the phone is plugged in to automatically upload to different services (Flickr, Photo Stream, etc.)
Previously discussed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4254925
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No, you misunderstand my point. My point is simply that in modern day slang and often in discussion forums (outside of military/aviation documents) UFO means "I think I saw an alien spaceship or something equally unexplainable, here's why there isn't a good explanation." In UFO related threads someone will inevitably post a non-reply that is 'argument by acronym' where a person makes a claim as to why they think the UFO they saw is unexplainable (however unlikely that may be) and the 'counter-argument' is a reading of the definition of UFO. This proves nothing and reveals just how much the replying person looks down upon the person making the claim, as if they were too stupid to understand the definition and history of the acronym and as if knowing that changes what they saw.
@slurgfest

Oh, I don't think anyone doubts that. The question we are discussing is: to what extent does their innate genetics (categories of similar DNA, if you prefer) influence their intelligence?
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It is ridiculous to begin talking about things as "damning" when a company is doing nothing but dedicating resources to the cultivation of Linux as a platform for video game development and (yes) the sale and consumption of commercial games.

The word "damning" should not even arise. Don't lecture me about thumping chests and waiting to see what they put on offer, I am responding to inflamed language being applied to a company for no reason other than that they sell software.
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Rent is the biggest expense in NYC. If you are in the suburbs, or live in NJ and commute to NYC, then NYC is not as expensive as it is made out to be.
GraphChi - Big data, small machine
Thanks, it should handle resizing better now.
You are right. I tend to think in terms of thermal conductivity, which is not the same as thermal resistance. Editing post to use proper terminology.
Mozilla survey for mobile web developers: Want to fix the mobile web with us?
You could say that guy is a real cad.
Raspberry Pi production grows, $35 Linux computer now available in bulk
The untold story behind Kickstarter stats: I was wrong
Agreed, but if you use a descriptive title it's likely to get changed by the mods to something less useful, simply because that's what's on the article.

Indeed, this title shouldn't be allowed to stand, it should be changed to the title on the page itself, based on moderators' recent behavior.

Added in edit: Oh look - downvotes for pointing out that the current HN system of finding interesting items occasionally fails.
I often leave work by saying 'cheers guys' or 'have a good evening guys' to a mixed gender group and then ponder in the elevator down if, perhaps, I've offended females with my casual nomenclature?

I think it probably is slightly misogynistic. Not my personal intent, but inherited from history?

What term could I use instead? 'Guys and Gals' seems old fashioned and too wordy. And the set order of the list might imply something. 'People' seems too cold.

I reckon using "guys" as a gender-neutral term for a mixed gender bunch is ok.
On joindiaspora, pressing cmd+left (which is usually the browser "back") leaves me in the same page. Which is more strange is that pressing the back button it works properly.
Twinview is an implementation of Xinerama, which predates RandR and was standardized for X11 6.4. When nVidia released twinview, it was using (at the time) the standard way to achieve this functionality. They haven't moved to RandR or KMS, which is a bit of a pain granted, but that's a case of being stuck on older tech, not a case of ignoring what's out there.
Write-only variables considered harmful? Or beneficial?
That's definitely true, but when you say "Java", most people immediately think "Java EE", and that for things that should be simple (like a blog web app), you're forced into "enterprise" stuff.

It's largely cultural (and though they aren't doing a great job the Play guys should be commended for trying), but no less a problem.
The section regarding textbooks and the conflicting agencas of the teachers (use what is good and what works) and the principals (use the new shiny ones) reminded me of Richard Feynman's stint on a textbook selection committee: http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm

Compare this from the article:

"[T]he standard geometry book for Fairfax County, which is
used in schools around the country, tries to explain what
a mathematical point is by analogy to pixels on TV
screens, which are not in fact point-like."

With This:

"[T]he books were so lousy. They were false. They were
hurried. They would try to be rigorous, but they would use
examples (like automobiles in the street for "sets") which
were almost OK, but in which there were always some
subtleties."

Feyman continues:

"The definitions weren't accurate. Everything was a little
bit ambiguous -- they weren't smart enough to understand
what was meant by "rigor." They were faking it. They were
teaching something they didn't understand, and which was,
in fact, useless, at that time, for the child."
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Sorry, but The goal of the facility is to validate simulations of Hydrogen Bombs and test high energy laser not to generate net energy as they don't have anyway to capture energy produced in this test.

Still cool though.
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It reduces the margin cost for each individual student.
So his message is know your place and aim low? Angel investing layoffs are like buying a lottery ticket, it is charity with a small chance of a huge payoff. If you are getting diluted to nothing, you are doing it wrong or the company is going down the drain.
Move over, Flame: New Messiah-themed malware targets Iran, Israel
Nature has been an unapologetic advocate of open-access publishing for as long as I've been reading it.
What would confuse them? You can customize the warning message to be as clear as you want. The benefit your users get is your page will actually work the second their browser can support it, not when you officially define browser X to be "acceptable".
I took machine learning the first time it was offered, and took about half of the PGM class before personal commitments won out temporarily (it was quite demanding, 10-15 hours per week). I re-signed up for PGM so I can give it another go this fall. Quality was really fantastic. Some people complained that ML was not as hard as the Stanford class, but I probably wasn't expecting quite that level in a free, online class, so expectations on my end were more reasonable.
Hi, do you have an email I could reach you with? Your profile is empty.
Now that sounds like it could be really annoying. Even more than websites saying "You may not right click".
RubyMine 4.5 is Here to Make Wishes Come True
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_from_blindness provides a succinct overview of Molyneux's Problem, a philosophical thought experiment that attempts to address this very issue.

This quote is especially interesting from a 13 year old whose sight was restored in 1728: "When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgment of distances, that he thought all object whatever touched his eyes (as he expressed it) as what he felt did his skin"
NASA's Logo Redesigned To Be Truly Out Of This World
Can someone please provide a valid, technical reason for not using braces other than "it reduces my file sizes by one percent prior to gzipping zomg!"
I'm actually not assuming that - I tried to write something to that effect, but I wasn't pleased with what I wrote. Take my comment with the pre-condition that if we're going to assume it has something to do with Jews themselves, it need not be attributed to genetics.
But validating simulations of hydrogen bombs is fusion research, isn't it?
Why doesn't this code cause a compiler warning?
This is the first browser to ship with this feature enabled, so overall the web isn't quite ready yet. But hopefully other browsers will follow suit soon.
I found the lack of semicolons annoying when reading the Bootstrap jQuery plugins.

Although, if I'm not mistaken, the exclusion of the semicolon is technically correct. So, both parties are at fault here.
I doubt any remnant of a programmer's semicolon preference would make it through a compiler that performs this sort of optimization. The code is likely going to be transformed into an intermediate form (after applying ASI rules) and then that will be transformed into an optimized output.
I always assumed Skype used the client for tapping, considering how buggy it was.
That is funny, but babies "breathe" through the umbilical up to several minutes after birth, so I'm sure it has nothing to do with "brain cell loss" or oxygen.
It's a big deal but not totally unknown for Autodesk. A quick look on the Play store shows they also own "Pixlr-o-matic", an image editing app. They've been experimenting with consumer-facing stuff for a while.
Given the prevalence of c-sections and episiotomies, highly unlikely. In 2010, a full third of US babies were not born through the vagina.
We care more about founders than ideas, and the founders of SocialCam are great in every respect: nice, effective, and good technically. And SocialCam itself is necessarily innovative because video sharing is being invented right now. The app looks simple because they worked hard to make it so.

So the lesson here is actually one that we learned long ago. Great founders succeed.
Read the blog post. Calls still don't go over supernodes by default, it was just changed so that specific calls can be routed over them if desired.
Yep. You can even run Wordpress with our fork: https://github.com/Americastestkitchen/heroku-wordpress-php/
On Vagueness
The definition from the constitution just underscores my point. Progress is not promoted but blocked.

Companies may act according to law, but laws can be unjust. As a customer you have the power to punish companies for their wrongdoing, and that is one reason I will not buy Apple products. Just sitting there passively and saying they are not breaking any laws while they are laughing in your face is not an option.
This is very different. Preventing rightclick can be done silently, without the user intervening. Mouse lock, on the other hand, must be explicitly accepted by the user.

In fact, the current implementation ties this to fullscreen, combining the prompts into one. In other words, the only way mouse lock will happen is if the user clicks on a button for fullscreen and then allows the site to use fullscreen+mouse lock. So there is very little risk of annoyance here like there is with rightclick prevention (but is still exactly what a first person shooter needs).
Singapore's Venture With Yale to Limit Protests
I was disappointed by Heroku's lack of PHP support while speccing a recent project.

Happy to see that there is "unofficial" support for it at the moment. Competition is a good thing!
If you really like coding or writing, you shouldn't need to force yourself to do it.
Ah, good. The title is meant to be an homage to the original source of the idea.

My Spanish is somewhat rusty so I didn't know it also meant boss. :)
Not sure if this is true

That's definitely NOT a well replicated finding. In general, no study has ever shown any single-gene allele variation with strong effect on IQ across the general population. There are rare genes (but, really, mostly rare chromosome abnormalities) that have devastating effect on IQ, resulting in mental retardation, but the variance in IQ in the general population above and below the population median is still quite mysterious as to whatever genetic basis it has, as the references I've already shared in this thread will make clear.

After edit: has anyone got a contrary example to the general statement I'm making here? I gather someone disagrees with the statement, but I'm not seeing any citations posted in reply. Feel free to check the citations I've already posted in other replies in this rapidly ramifying thread if you disagree with me and would like to look up facts on the matter.
But reducing file sizes by one percent, if done by an automatic tool, is a perfectly worthwhile reason. You don't need any other justification.

Or you wouldn't, of course, if it weren't for some browsers being broken and unable to handle it.
'Guys' is often used as gender neutral address to groups: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/guys
How do you deal with uploaded files/persistent storage?
Not that that isn't a great thing to do, but how does that help anyone overcome the limits on opportunity that poverty places on them?
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Glad to see the screensaver/power save inhibit API https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697132. I was surprised when HTML5 <video> didn't do that from the start
I've heard good things about http://www.appfog.com/ who used to specialize in heroku-esque PHP deployments. Perhaps they'd be worth checking out.
>if you can mathematically describe and analyze this set of periodic curves, then you have also described and can analyze the prime numbers.

Dude, no offense, you are really making stuff up. The periodicity has to to with the divisors of the composites. Every prime p has exactly 2 curves - the wave of period 1, and the wave of period p. There's nothing interesting or useful to take way from that observation. otoh, you look at a composite c - it has several divisors & each divisor d generates a curve of period d, and those curves intersect in interesting ways...though I don't see how you could mathematically analyze them to tell you anything about the primes nearby. They are mostly pretty patterns, not mathematically useful...here are 2 quite famous & useful diagrams on periodicity in primes if you are interested in that sort of thing -

1. the prime number cross - http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/1329/primenumbercross.gif

2. hippocampal neurons & primes - http://www.hindawi.com/journals/amp/2011/519178/fig8/
Surprised it's using mod_php instead of PHP-FPM
I'd have to disagree with the post title. I think logins are reborn, and it's mobile that's resurrecting them. I'm working on a project to build a pervasive authentication system (http://www.toopher.com) that finally allows for systems to protect their user's accounts with more than just a password but without annoying the heck out of them. Instead, why not use the location awareness and network connectivity of smartphones to learn where you should be when you log in from a given device and automatically provide additional protection. I'd love feedback from the collective HN braintrust, here's how it works: When a request is made, a website can push the details to your phone, where they're displayed and you can grant or deny them. But instead of bugging you every time a request is made, you can opt to remember your decision and automatically respond to identical requests when you're in the same geographic location. This way we only pester the user when something is out of the ordinary (e.g.: they're in a different location, using a different computer, etc.), and fade into the background for the majority of requests.

Since it streamlines authentication, there's no reason to limit it to just log ins. Sites can authenticate any action they decide is critical enough to warrant it (e.g.: a bank could authenticate requests to transfer money, etc.). There's also potential for other scenarios like credit card transactions, physical security, etc.

Anywho - I'd love to get feedback. Any thoughts?
Looks like Autodesk may be purchasing talent. Seibel is certainly someone who could fit into Autodesk's executive succession track; Bartram has some pretty solid technical chops in video, and Luccisano has a strong Rails background.

As Autodesk reengages in multi-platform development, all three developers potentially deepen the in-house knowledge-base - I try to keep in mind that Autodesk is a mature company and has always seemed to have had a bit more of an academic culture than a typical software company (e.g. the use of Lisp in their flagship product).
Hasn't this been on HN more than once? Yes, it has. http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+h...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3753155

and http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=skypeopensource

We've been over this (re: wiretapping). Skype uses supernodes for STUN traversal and UDP hole punching, otherwise communication is peer to peer. Even if this were true, it would only apply to traffic that Skype is TURN tunneling, which is very minimal and can be avoided by one client simply not having a corporate, full-cone NAT router.

It's really hard to take this seriously when it's obviously not a good faith use of the phrase "open source" and it's littered with tags like "#OWS", etc.

If you want open source, encrypted voice communication, it's easy to find.

edit: To cover all bases, if there is some implication of collaboration between Skype and the government, there is still the potential that the US could be listening in on peer to peer communications. I don't find the Azure/Super-nodes to be evidence of that.
All signs point to Dropbox (or a 3rd party app linked to Dropbox) as the source of the leak:

* Multiple users with email addresses unique to their Dropbox account are reporting spam. It's unlikely these individuals' computers or email accounts were all compromised at the same time.

* These same users aren't reporting spam on their other unique addresses or catchall accounts. Some of them are non-trivial addresses that would be hard to guess. It's unlikely to be a bot guessing email addresses.
Any downvoters care to give a more specific response? The OP completely missed the actual purpose of SPDY/HTTP 2.0, without contributing constructive feedback. Facebook's comments on HTTP 2.0 proposals were much more useful

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2012JulSep/...
Shared hosting is all over the world, most of them provide PHP+20GB for 1/10 the cost of heroku+5MB.
The main page for the site I work on makes extensive use of jquery, jquery ui, backbone, a crapton of custom javascript, and more of the OpenLayers library than most places I've seen. It weighs in at 330kb and has a decent bit of fat to trim.

What on earth are the people at twitter doing that warrants that much code? Maybe their single page app -> dedicated page transition was more about disabling some things and rewiring urls with the plan of taking advantage of the dedicated setup later?
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Playing with UEFI Secure Boot
How much do you pay for Google searches? For Yahoo! email?

The revenue model is going to be something that is roughly similar to the ones we have with any number of "freemium" type services.

My bet is that there is going to be a certification track that complements the online course delivery. I've seen this with industry certifications (JNCIE, CCIE are ones I'm familiar with) and that the cost to get "certified" will be fairly substantial. It'll also require physical presence and some practical demonstration of competence. For math, I'd expect a traditional sit-down exam. For CS, probably some combination of programming exercise and exam. I don't know how this will work for the humanities.

And one other thing considering the cost argument: paying for the production of a video lecture and the hosting of the content for hundreds of thousands is going to be a fraction of the cost of paying even a grad student to give a lecture on-campus.
And Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, which was actually pretty great. It also had megatextured maps, which were nifty.
> I also can't find a way to have different games installed on different partitions/drives. This would be very useful if you have an SSD but can't fit all of your games onto it.

You can do this by moving the directories in question into the other disk, and then creating a junction (symbolic link) from the original location to the new one.
On windows 7:
mklink /j "path/to/steam/steamapps/common/gamefolder" "path/to/the/other/disk/gamefolder"
very slick!
The real reason Marissa Mayer left Google
Cleaner for who ? Easier for who ?

For the webapp-developer, which results in a faster and cheaper experience for the user.

I'm still baffled at your persistence given you sit pretty much at the source. You have probably written VCLs for sticky sessions yourself and pondered the constraints wrt data-locality and single points of failure? Sticky sessions are just not a good design when the alternative is so readily available; it's the first time in a long time I hear anyone disagree with that.

That kind of cookie usage just makes it Somebody Else's Problem instead of your problem.

And who would that "somebody else" be?

Users certainly don't care about a few hundred extra-bytes that their browser sends with each request, especially since that trade-off usually makes their browsing faster than the alternative would be.

The privacy concern is valid but boils down to developers using cookies wrong (without encryption). If we were to remove all technologies that are used wrong by incompetent developers then the internet would be a pretty empty place.
I personally use the Chrome Nanny extension to block certain websites during specified hours. This goal-oriented approach is interesting though, as it seems to get at the core issue: "to create more than you consume".
It's hard to take anybody seriously when they write "M$". Reminds me of people still using the "Windows crashes" argument as a reason to use Linux.
I can't tell if you're agreeing with me or not :)

Flickr isn't about casual users, but for a while it was bloated by casual users which made it look like a site with really big potential.

"I want to make the photo storage/sharing site for all people who take photos" is a bigger proposition (and potentially more lucrative) than "I want to make the photo storage/sharing site for all pro/prosumer photographers".

For a while people were judging Flickr by the fact that it had users from both camps. Then the consumers left and Flickr looked anaemic.