skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except not all fusion research is particularly useful for building a fusion power plant. I mean if we where really desperate we could dig a large hole fill it with water, set a H-Bomb off under it and then extract energy from that water. However, while that works the ROI is rather limited compared to say just extracting geothermal energy in the first place.

PS: That could actually work, at 5% thermal efficiency a Castle Bravo device ~= 63,000TJ = 17500000000.014kwh *.05 = ~1GW for 1 month.
Please make Yahoo Checkout more usable from start to finish. To feel the pain, purchase _ANYTHING_ from a store using the Yahoo Checkout system.
It's interesting to speculate whether the Middle East is just more susceptible to attack, or if these hacks are just cyber-weapons deployed by a Western power. It seems like the US could be hit just as hard, unless there's something fundamentally insecure going on in the Middle East.
Its also his opinion and the result of decisions made by people who represent twitter.
I currently maintain a travel photo journal site for my sister, it has a database of about 30,000 photos, and I'm sure they'd love to be able to add more.

Now I'd LOVE to be able to ditch the code I've written and hand them over to a $nn/month commercial service offering even vaguely similar functionality. It doesn't need much. Just the ability to correct timezone issues and time offset problems between multiple cameras, a simple way to add approximate geographic data, and nice publishing options that aren't advertisements for the service I'm paying for.

This would be like a week's work for a site like twitter.

And even though I'd be willing to compromise greatly on many fronts, I've found nothing that even remotely resembles the broad theme of what I built. Yet it would be perfect for anyone who goes on a long holiday and takes lots of photos.

This sucks.
Why Free Website Monitoring Is Good, But Not Good Enough
In the CAD space, Autodesk is anything but "rough around the edges." The only time that was a reasonable argument was when they rewrote AutoCAD to be object oriented in the mid 1990's and issued it as Release 13. Otherwise, relative to their competitors they are able to deliver solid applications and reliable implementations of new features (maybe it's their Lisp background?)
So, which solution do you use in the end ?
I see what you mean, but still, it wouldn't upset me unless he/she is a stalker and I find him/her taking pics of me on regular basis singling me out. For just a one time snap in the street specially focused at me by a complete stranger I wouldn't even think twice about it. It happened to me in southern/middle america countries as i'm really big and bearded so in the middle of Guatemala city I would attract attention.

But why would you be pissed off exactly? I mean I understand you don't 'like it', but why the strong emotion. EU people are pretty open minded (I'm from the EU) and I am just surprised about the emotion level here. Whether I 'agree' or not; it seems so overkill.
Thank you Cam. Awesome to see specialist in specific area offering to help the community of users.
Electric car 500 mile barrier breaks
Congrats Michael, Ammon & Guillaume! :)
js bundle...worth it?
thats because they are capturing the arrow keys without checking for simultaneous modifier keys.
Intelligence is traditionally measured through testing. School is the only place people generally practice test taking. Ergo, it makes sense that school affects the results of intelligence tests, but perhaps not in the way you might initially think.
This is stolen, not open source.
Easy, tiger. Be nice. It's a plausible line of reasoning; getting personal interferes with the education process. You can't persuade if you alienate.
Upvoted because this made me laugh.
Correlations mean almost nothing. Just going off your list:

-IQ:Test Performance - Of course. IQ is a grade off of a test. It correlates with itself. If you mean tests such as the SAT or tests in a school, then yes, IQ does help somewhat with that, as it was designed to (the first IQ test, created by Alfred Binet, was designed to find students who would not do well in a regular school environment). However, do high test scores mean high intelligence? Not necessarily, as most test scores can be improved drastically with a class focusing only on the test, showing different tricks that the test maker's use. Same with IQ tests.

-IQ:Income - Income (generally) means higher education level, and modern education teaches the general forms of questions asked on tests, such as the IQ tests. Education trains the mind to think along the lines of what the IQ test uses to grade performance. Also, spoken another way, if IQ (which is "intelligence") correlate with income, then one can say that income correlates with IQ ("intelligence"). If this correlation is weak, then it is meaningless. If it is strong, then that is a very strong evidence for eliminating the lower classes to raise the "intelligence" level of a nation.

Most other factors follow along these lines. The problem with correlation is that it is not, in any way, a suggestion or a proof of causation. There can be infinitely many other factors that can be influencing the two.

I do agree that without a consistent, objective definition, one cannot possibly study intelligence. However, IQ is not a good definition of intelligence. At best, it tests "academic" intelligence, and at worst, it tests test-taking ability.

Taking from Wikipedia:

>"Individuals differ from one another in their ability to understand complex ideas, to adapt effectively to the environment, to learn from experience, to engage in various forms of reasoning, to overcome obstacles by taking thought. Although these individual differences can be substantial, they are never entirely consistent: a given person's intellectual performance will vary on different occasions, in different domains, as judged by different criteria. Concepts of "intelligence" are attempts to clarify and organize this complex set of phenomena. Although considerable clarity has been achieved in some areas, no such conceptualization has yet answered all the important questions, and none commands universal assent. Indeed, when two dozen prominent theorists were recently asked to define intelligence, they gave two dozen, somewhat different, definitions." -APA report quoted in the article.
I get the "Aw, Snap!" splash page when I visit this, or anything else on joindiaspora.com, in Chrome. The Diaspora folks may want to look into that.
I don't want to speak for the founders, but looking at the factors surrounding this acquisition(little innovation, spam tactics, low price, unrelated acquirer), it is clear that Socialcam was a build-to-flip company. And as a build-to-flip company, it was a fantastically executed one at that.

Some people (pg included[1]) build companys just so they can sell them off one day. Many around here get worked up by that reality, but the cold, hard truth is that not everyone is in this game to change the world forever. Deal with it.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3178029

(edit: reference)
It’s the result of a bug in Opera’s JavaScript interpreter, parsing a minified file. ☺
The current peer review process requires expert supervision (qualified reviewers need to be selected, etc), so a charge of GBP 2,000 seems reasonable to me.

In time we can hope for an HN-like system where publications are ranked immediately on publication. The algorithm would have to recognize the expertise of authorities when assigning the value of each vote. When this is possible, that cost should dissapear. But until such a system has been proven out, peer review should remain and a charge of GBP 2000 is reasonable.
Animated 3D Clouds in CSS3 and JS
Although I think you're baiting, I'll bite.

I really enjoy eating, but if I'm caught up in something I don't always remember to do it. Sometimes I'll go hours past my regularly scheduled meal times. Then I'm sitting at my desk wondering (only for a short time) why my stomach hurts. Oh ya, food.

While this is a extreme example, the logic still applies to coding/writing or anything else. Sometimes the tasks you should do are side tracked by other tasks. And if you're deep in thought, you might not have the internal alarm to switch to something more of a priority. Hence external alarms.
Why Wordpress is the framework of the future
“The biggest problem in detection of such cells is that these cells are extremely rare- one in a billion blood cells,” says Goda.

According to Goda, the cutting edge device now harbors an unprecedented false-positive rate of one cell in a million.

For anyone who has forgotten statistics like me and was thrown off by this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors#Fals...

The false positive rate is the proportion of absent events that yield positive test outcomes, i.e., the conditional probability of a positive test result given an absent event.
Somewhat off-topic, but: why semicolons?

C, Pascal, and ALGOL (1958) use semicolons as a statement delimiter. Why was the semicolon chosen instead of, say, the period or newline? BCPL (like JS and Go) allows semicolons to be omitted if a statement ends unambiguously on one line.

Was the semicolon a QWERTY home row key before or after ALGOL?
A more reliable way to navigate with the keyboard is ⌘+{ (back) and ⌘+} (forward). The chords ⌘+← and ⌘+→ can be captured by text input, JavaScript, or Flash.
Office politics are killing Windows 8
Adventures in Functional Programming With Ruby
Hi folks. Related presentation: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=153...
Imagine all the cool stuff you could do with a box of these... yet a huge chunk of the things I keep coming back to are various nefarious or gray area uses, where these are cheap enough to be effectively disposable:

* Put them in cheap weatherproof housing, with cheap storage, and place them all over as communication and file sharing hubs. Combine with meshing (like the commotion project) and use them in arab spring situations. Essentially darknet building.

* Put it in your coffee shop with ettercap running and mitm everyone. So what if the thing is found - presumably you can get another with proceeds.

* Similarly put it anywhere you need/want a gateway that doesn't look like a gateway. Good wifi at some coffee shop? Put your box there, and now you have device to do whatever from, and you can be 1000 miles away. No need to break anything. Total time saver. Want to get around firewall crap? Just have this guy in the wiring closet opening a "reverse shell" out (probably to the afore-mentioned gateway :) ).

* (not nefarious or grey at all) - cheap video player/presentation player. It has hdmi out, so you can just send it a video feed/remote desktop feed via wifi and not worry about cables/connectors/drivers that are still an issue in 2012.
Stanford Pushes Genetic Data to Limits
I want this but at the OS level (windows in my case) with white lists.
Didn't Instagram have a team of less than 10 people? (or close to that number) I'm not entirely sure what their market share was, but I believe they were growing pretty quickly prior to being purchased by Facebook.
> Do you have to resort to personal attacks? Really?

You are hardly in a position to talk. Anyway, the only 'personal attack' that I see is calling you a jerk - which seems to be rather an entirely accurate characterization.

> If you are going to use intrusive tech in public you need to make the tech non-threatening. That's basic UI design.

'Basic UI design' would be making sure that a device intended for permanent attachment to a human body was sufficiently supported and padded to prevent physical damage.

Appearance would be a strictly secondary concern, especially given that we supposedly live in a 'pleasant society,' as you put it, where physical assault should be looked down upon as a response to 'looking weird.' Though I have a sneaking suspicion that you might disagree with that idea . . .
In Chrome: Go to chrome://flags/ and enable it.

Demo: http://media.tojicode.com/q3bsp/

Some docs:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/API/Pointer_Lock_API

http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/mouse-lo...
Very, very lovely. You might (or might not) also be familiar with the Ulam Spiral[1] or the arguably more beautiful Sacks Spiral[2], which do reveal certain patterns in the distribution of the primes.

I used the software from this site[3] to generate a large Sacks spiral graphic, which I had custom-printed on my shower curtain. To most folks who see it, it's just some pattern of dots, but knowing the order within gives me great joy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral

[2] http://www.numberspiral.com

[3] http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jhw/spirals/index.html
Does this block all internet? How can you code well without resort to some googling?

Edit: By this I mean it would be preferable if I can leave some sites up, like SO for instance.
A quick browse through my domain's catchall spam folder shows an e-mail addressed to techdirt@mypersonaldomain. I don't have a techdirt account -- nor have ever used this e-mail address anywhere. Yes, spam bots make guesses, folks.

The Internet would be a better place if people would stop, take a deep breath and think before they type.

Good idea: Let the dropbox folks know that you received spam to a custom address tied to their service and let them look into it, whether it be a directed spam campaign or a possible leak.

Bad idea: "OMG!!1! Dropbox is pwn3d! Admit it! Apologize for your wrongs!"
Sketch.js shows what can be done with just a few lines of code. See the demo.
I don't think it's about liking or not liking writing or coding. It's easy to start the day with checking email, reading HN or other less productive tasks. It's just something to help you start your day Hemingway style -- writing (or coding) every morning without distractions.
That's because Windows does crash and there's nothing you can't do about it.

Truth be told.

P.S. I agree with your M$ comment tho.
Facebook is blocking the link eyetap.blogspot.ca
I think you mean FreeBSD.
Wonderful.

Headline should read: Spammy app gets rewarded for heavy-handed, spammy tactics.

"Nice guys" or not, the founders are douche-marketers ... and it's a pity to see such things pay off, even if in a suboptimal exit.

Money isn't everything.
S3. Ignore the scary warning, this plugin works great for us: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tantan-s3/
well, you could just use a mailing list. my local meetup group does that with great success.
Congratulations guys
I got my PhD under Indy. Besides being incredibly intelligent and resourceful, he is one of the nicest advisor one could wish for. He lives a balanced life (this includes things like hosting a 2-hour weekly radio show prior to getting tenure) and, as such, that kind of lifestyle transfers on to his students. Furthermore, he was always available. This combination of characteristics is the rare amongst young professors. I thoroughly cherished it.

If you are thinking of doing a PhD in distributed systems, I would strongly recommend you to consider him.
Google’s Project Glass will lock down when it senses theft, patent shows
> Improving photo quality would be expensive at their volume.

Sure, but getting left behind as the photo sharing platform of choice is much more expensive. Also, they might make it a paid-for service. Flickr Pro is like $20/month? Facebook PhotoHD could probably be $5/month.
Yahoo's New C.E.O. Is Pregnant
Did they put the lasers on a shark yet?
This parent comment really shouldn't be down-voted for saying the same thing half the people in this thread said an hour later.
So far it seems to be basically a "subsidized by universities" model. The people giving these lectures are earning traditional salaries in traditional professorships, paid for by a mixture of tuition, research grants, and (for state schools) tax money. Of course, that doesn't explain whether it'll be viable long-term for the universities to keep subsidizing it. My guess is they're hoping to either: 1) use it as a loss-leader that pulls in more traditional, tuition-paying students; and/or 2) use it as a loss-leader that pulls in some kind of other revenue source, e.g. impressing people at companies who are in charge of grant programs; and/or 3) charge at some point.
That's assuming the birth goes correctly though. If the umbilical cord is wrapped around your neck and you're coming out breech then that's another story. My understanding is that it has a large effect in a small number of cases.
Depends, as always, on where you go; we avoid Paris like the plague (for assorted reasons, rudeness of owners is one of them), but in villages and small cities (south of france, belgium, netherlands, germany) I feel very much like a king. Especially if you speak the language.
A Pregnant CEO: In Whose Lifetime?
most of twitter is still on single page app. they announced the change back to dedicated pages, but only rolled it out to user pages so far, afaik.
Yahoo social reader on Facebook? Just say no.
If you had contact info in your profile I'd send you this privately, but that's exactly what we've built with https://monotask.com. The pro version is free for another few days. Free version will be free forever.

Not trying to threadjack, so if anybody has questions, etc., would love for you to e-mail me directly at charlie@monotask.com.
Ok, but any front-end engineer worth their salt should be used to the fact that the browser will never be a perfect implementation environment and be willing to adapt around known issues to produce functional code that works for your users. They aren't going to notice that 1% file size. They are going to notice your page not working.
It's interesting you bring up food. Everything goes much more smoothly when I'm fasting: I'm way more focused, and the problems that do crop up, I feel I'm able to negotiate more effectively. I tend to look at it as a kind of perverse karmic trade-off, but that's just me...
Worst two weeks of my life was two weeks spent in France. And only about 8 hours of that was in Paris. And that was actually somewhat pleasant. Aside from the people at the host company I was doing work for, nearly every human interaction I had in France fit the "Rude French" stereotype to the letter. But I doubt they care (or even know) they were all rude asses.
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Ask HN: Gamification API
I am thinking of adding gamification to my app Finderous (http://www.findero.us) and want to know if anybody has used any such similar apis for their projects.
It will be easier for me to develop the framework myself, but I want an opinion from someone who has used such apis.
What I need:
1. Users of the app need to spend some credits to post a question on Finderous.
2. Users who reply to questions, earn credits.
3. Users need to buy credits if they run out of credits to post questions.
4. If users want a detailed answer (currently the limit is 222 chars) they have to spend more credits to post such a question.
5. Users who reply to most questions at a certain place become champions of that place and get rewarded with extra credits.
6. Users who want to cash out the credits can do so using real word deals and rewards.

Any suggestions?
Exactly, I'm not much of a numbers guy but this was really beautiful and when I hit the scroll wheel on my mouse and it got bigger I was "oh, now that's cool."
That is awesome news. Always glad to hear positive bits on the SDL front. http://lists.libsdl.org/pipermail/sdl-libsdl.org/2012-July/0...
Levi does a great job identifying the following distinction
- Simplicity vs Minimalism.
- Change vs Decisions
in vim A (capital!) jumps to the end of the line in insert mode and semicolons get in the way

this is literally the only objective reason i have ever seen for using/not using semicolons
I still don't get why everyone is so pissed off about fullscreen.

OK, sure, with two monitors, it renders the second display useless. I get that.

So why don't you just not use fullscreen mode, and continue doing everything you've been doing with dual monitors since the days of OS X 10.0 ?

You lose nothing, and gain nothing, so it makes absolutely 0 difference in your workflow.
Fair enough. I was terribly impolite. Though to be fair, sticks (via public shaming, in this case I guess) work as well as carrots often. The "coming to the defense of clearly broken software" thing (which happens far, far too much) is a pet peeve. People who make arguments like that are generally the ones who write code like Opera's parser.
Apache Cordova (PhoneGap) + processing.js
ActiveState's Stackato private PaaS platform (http://www.activestate.com/stackato) has support for Heroku buildpacks to deploy (http://docs.stackato.com/deploy/buildpack.html), as well as the usual options for polyglot app deployments (it also has a 100% compatible Cloud Foundry API). This is useful when you want portability (deploy on a PaaS that you have full control over).
Android-X86 4.0.4 (ICS) RC2 Released With ARM Translator, Dalvik JIT Support
I don't care if your goal is to change the world. But please, don't make it worse (spam).

But congrats to the team on the acquisition. Maybe Socialcam will die under Autodesk and everyone wins!
But no code needed to be rewritten. Skype supernodes were working on Windows before (on Windows machines in the P2P network.) Microsoft effectively stopped supporting Windows!
Yes, yes. It's not entirely clear whether this will work for retinal detachments, but I really hope it will.
I take it, then, that you find nothing inspirational in the videos made by Vi Hart either. To each, their own.

As to the diagrams you pointed me at, they mean nothing to me, and do not inspire me. If I knew more about number theory, perhaps they would. Some things are not about information, they are about inspiration.

The visualization in the OP provides inspiration that number theory is connected to other fields of math. You can see structure in the way that the periodic curves intersect and the primes are the gaps. If you could understand that structure, then maybe you could understand the gaps. Then again maybe not. That doesn't mean that the question and the visualization doesn't cause you to think and wonder.

Sure, this is old hat to mathematicians, and for all I know, this approach is a complete dead end. Sometimes dead ends are interesting too.
Their site seems to be down... see http://appfog.com/products/phpfog/pricing/
Not sure if you were trying to imply something different, but that result would suggest that the students don't have adequate basis for claiming that things in those fields are "obvious" (or of their own confidence levels), not that the community of scientists in those fields lack adequate epistemic basis.
I can assure you, even if you buy well and minimize it, there is still need to play with drivers to get wifi working. (It doesn't have on board wifi, not sure if you know that from your post). I mean, mine was as simple as a single modprobe, but that's because I was using raspbian and not the stock image or the XBMC builds.
Hey Jay, David here (Ravi and I published the interview)

Did you listen to the audio or just read it? We want to tell the stories of working engineers, product managers, etc. in Silicon Valley and are wondering what the most appropriate medium would be.

We think these interviews will be more valuable later, as people look back months or years, to see what the state of the art was then, but they're also pretty interesting to read now.
Whisper Systems Releases Redphone Source
Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for the one I ordered from RS on May 24th. Never heard from RS again. Dropped an email and got no answer. I do imagine all the cool stuff I could do if I could only grab a box full of these at a reasonable price here in Brazil, but for now it is just imagination.