skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have the tools on this CPU to get good numbers, but if that hole is about 35 Meters, I'd estimate to resolution to be about 20 CM/Pixel. I know it's often difficult to find civilian access to Imagery at a better resolution than 5 M/Pixel for some places on Earth.

It's probably safe to assume we don't have imagery this good for the entire surface of Mars.

Edit: It seems likely that these new images are captured with this equipment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiRISE
Marissa Mayer vs. Mark Zuckerberg
Analyzed from all angles. Now let's bring on the insurance smackdown.
Exactly. That's the part I learned from.
The Slow-Motion Collapse of American Entrepreneurship
Interesting, thank you. I wonder why you can't get there from linux.oracle.com (or why the mirrors don't all mirror the same stuff). It'll be interesting to see what the state of Oracle Linux and those wiki pages is a year from now.
that's true! and there are cases, where your way is applicable, however there are a couple issues with it when working with canvas apps(I'm not completely up to date with all the details about style.zoom, so correct me, if i'm wrong):
- the css3 'zoom' is not very well implemented, for example in FF you would have to use: -moz-transform: scale(XX); (which is a hassle, but okay - it works)
, but afaik in IE9 the whole method was marked deprecated - i don't know about IE10 - maybe we have some luck there, wouldn't rely on it though :-)

- when zooming via style.zoom, everything will be zoomed according to a base-width&height, so if the target-device has a different aspect ratio than your base-sizes, you will have to reposition certain objects by hand anyways, also you will have to set the width&height of the canvas manually - as there might be overlapping parts

- when it comes to targeting mobile devices with canvas, you quite often want to use tools like Ludei's cocoonJS or AppMobi's directCanvas, that render html-canvas as a native WebGL-stage on mobile, and css-values like zoom or any other markup will just be ignored on those platforms

- however when you are working with DOM-elements style.zoom can come pretty handy!

I really like your Poker-Demo btw.! Love how the animations are super-smooth! Keep it up!
cheers
Kiss her now!
I feel sad for the author if he actually believes this. Sure your environment does influence you a bit, there is something to be said for self determination and individual character. I have throughout my life enjoyed friendships with amazing people who have driven me to succeed. On the other hand, I wouldn't have the depth/perspective in life where it not for my incredibly enjoyable friendships whom I have had with people who didn't exactly "succeed" in the conventional sense of the word. Friendship with those "less successful" people didn't exactly pull me down or make me "any less" than who I am right now. Sometimes one makes friends because one enjoys a dimension of a person's character and not just because they make a ton of money or start a bunch of companies.
Not to mention these cities and neighborhoods are very pedestrian-friendly as it is, since they were around long, long before cars were invented.
Microsoft’s prototype stylus can work on any screen
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At 6480 km, this is even further away and clearly out of reach.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory#Landing...

http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=List_of_...
I got one of the original Linux Dells with Ubuntu on it back in the day, and it was a nice effort, actually. I opened up the box, fired it up, and it was a fairly standard Ubuntu that I kept using without having to fiddle with it all. It was a very pleasant experience, and sold me on Dell. I'll be in the market for a new laptop next summer, so hopefully this goes well. My big worry is finding another machine with a screen like this one (1920x1200, 15"), as I've gotten used to the screen real estate.
The Boy Scouts only help boys

And only straight boys! No gays allowed there (in general).
The paper did discuss adaptations, though in my skim I saw no sign of anything genetically unusual behind them -- afaik they left that open.
Thanks! Academia is more a social network for scientists, whereas we're aiming to be a discussion platform. So, our site has a search engine that lets you search papers like you would in pubmed and on top of that, you can start discussions.
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Travel, it will build your character.
Super awesome, though it makes me hungry for a full CSS3 periodic table.
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Electric assist bikes are making this far less of an issue. My relatively aged parents had no trouble riding 70km with 1800m of climbing. The happiness, health, and environmental benefits remain.
Does she like rollercoasters? I feel like it's a show for people who like extreme tension and the catharsis of relief, cause my wife and mother-in-law totally dig it.
I had similar issues to yourself when migrating from screen.. the notion of 'panes' ~= 'windows' doesn't really work in some sense.. in screen when you split you initiate an empty 'pane' (if that makes sense).. and then you put some content into it.. you can also move the 'windows' around to wherever you want.. but all within a single 'pane'-buffer

however, in tmux.. what you have is like a whole series of pane containers.. these are called windows.. now, each window can have a name.. whilst a pane on its own does not.. you can fortunately 'join' and 'send' panes between windows.. also, another thing I tend to find useful is the ability to 'break' a 'pane' out've its current window and devote a full window to it..

the .tmux.conf bits you need are

bind-key 'j' command-prompt -p "join pane from:" "join-pane -s '%%'"

bind-key '@' command-prompt -p "send pane to:" "join-pane -t ':%%'"

whilst :break-pane (or ^b ! by default) allows you to send a 'pane' away to its own window.. (apologies it that sounds awfully convoluted/confusing)
Hmm. I was going to get a set of truck nuts for his new Yukon, but this might be even more fun....

"This is what happened in the Soviet Union."

Be careful when you're choosing your enemies. You become them.
Nobody wants it both ways here. I do accept "white men only private clubs". I think they're shitty and absurd, but so be it, it's a free country.

I'm not sure what you're arguing against. Nobody said they're excluding non-blacks or non-girls. Maybe they would, and I would definitely disagree with that. What they are doing is focusing their attention on black girls. Other children are not being disadvantaged in the process just because there isn't a group that caters specifically to their demographic.
$100k/mile seems more reasonable given typical suburban rd pricing (~$200k/mile). Hugely dependent on how much the right of way has to be refrigged first I guess.
Make helmets mandatory and people choose to take their cars instead of cycle. More cars on the road = more cyclist (and driver and pedestrian) deaths.

Suppose for example that train passengers were required to wear motorbike helmets - would it save lives? Well there has probably been a very rare train accident where somebody died of a head injury. But if all those train passengers decided to drive instead there would be a huge rise in deaths.
Its much harder to execute an idea that has no proven business model. Much easier to see what the competition is doing, and do it better. Photo sharing is a crowded field, for example, but its one that some apps accelerate in growth while others remain stagnant. Just do it better.
This won't apply to anyone else.

Ignore almost everything anyone else tells you unless you can independently verify it, especially your parents. In fact, just divorce your parents now. The correct answers always come from within your own head. Your first impulse is always wrong, but doing the wrong thing almost always turns out well. You're almost always the smartest person in the room, and everyone knows it, so calling yourself "stupid" is calling everyone in the room stupid, even when true. Confidence is key. Talk more slowly. You can't be anyone other than who you are, but you can be the best "you" that can be. Nutrition is entirely applied physics (calories consumed - exertion = weight), so count calories. Yes, you'll live to see 85, and yes, life gets better at 30.
10 Myths About #Productivity #Business
Mars (according to Wikipedia) has a surface area of 144,798,500km^2. This thing is within an area of 35 meters^2 and I'm guessing it's not very flashy when viewed on a screen.

Needle in a haystack.
(Some of these are specific)

- Stop wasting time watching TV.

- Instead of taking BS classes in highschool, go to a CC and get some college credit so you don't have to kill yourself taking 18 credit semesters just to graduate in 4 years with two majors.

- Stop procrastinating. There are things you'll have to do and doing it sooner is almost always better than later.
This is an interesting counterpoint to the original time post; it's better to think about the amount of energy and focus you're putting into something, because in the end these resources are much more finite and variable than time.

Time is a known quantity, and at any one time you know how much time you or your employees have available (more or less). You can burn through energy and focus at very different rates depending on how you spend it. It's also not as measurable as time, which is why people like to just equate time to effort/focus, and then just measure effort based on time spent.

In reality, some people are better at spending their effort in short sharp bursts over a longer period of time, while other people prefer to spend it all once until a task is done or they run out of energy, and there's all sorts of people in between. This also highlights the importance of taking time to recharge, and making sure you have a reasonably balanced life.

I think this is the big reason for the success of some implementations of hammock driven development and paid company holidays in increasing the value generated by employees. In the end it's important not only to consider time spent, but also to consider productivity. A focus purely on time spent is what gives us 40-hour work weeks chained to a desk. Because logically the more time you spend at your desk, the more work you'll get done, right? We all know the fallacy of this type of thinking.
There's a limit for how big/small an object you can see with a telescope due to diffraction. For instance, the Hubble telescope can not distinguish features on the moon that are less than approximately 100 meters. Obviously it gets much worse for Mars and the other planets.
If only YouTube would pick more than 3 frames at random for you to use as thumbnails.. it's been picking some next to useless thumbnails for my videos lately :-(
Isn't it a security hole? Normally, you work with Gmail using https, and sms messages are plain text which could be read and/or collected by mobile operators.
Google Street View - South Pole
One more worth mentioning "Zubhium" , end to end solution for => Beta Testing + Crash reporting + in app support desk for android apps
A freeway costs $1M/mi in the middle of nowhere it costs $30-50M/mi in an urban area and $5-6Bn/mi in Boston!
So this was an altruistic theft? I thought it was to steal money from confused consumers with an inferior product.
Vacant Sarlacc pit?
No, it's nothing like HIV. HIV is a statistical thing: It's random chance if an infective particle travels.

A nuclear bomb like this is deterministic. Based on the distance, altitude, size (power), and type (fission, fusion, specifics of the design - especially the tamper) of the bomb you can calculate exactly what and how dangerous the effects will be.

The military was trying to show that they are able to make these calculations correctly, and that used appropriately, this type of bomb an be used without undesired damage.

It didn't work for them though, because people have an irrational fear of anything nuclear and are not interesting in hearing about any calculations.

It's one of those paradoxes similar to how people are completely unable to correctly calculate how risky an action will be. For example people are scared of flying but not crossing the street (a common event comes to be seen as less risky) or driving a car (if you are in control it seems less risky).

> It's amazing how these men have went on to live such long lives.

No, actually it was completely expected. If you can manage to internalize this, and actually believe inside your head that these men were quite safe then you will have gone a long way toward conquering an irrational fear.

PS. You may be thinking of Cancer when comparing to HIV which is indeed a random thing.
The HN discussions on the article are also very good:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3683607

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1598728
In theory conferences, it is given to a paper who's all authors are full-time students.

But the theory community does not place a student's advisor's name on the paper as a matter of course, correct? While in the systems community, the advisors name will usually be on the paper, listed last. With that in mind, the two classifications of "student paper" represent close to the same thing.
Hubble spots spiral galaxy that shouldn't exist
In fact, the entire point of this test was to demonstrate that it was safe to stand under it. While some of the early tests were very unsafe, by the time of this test (1957), the dangers of radiation were well-known, so it wasn't a cowboy-type experiment like the early ones, and the planning would've computed the expected radiation dose and ensured it was safe.

The military did it as a publicity stunt to assuage public fears of nuclear-tipped air-to-air missiles by showing that even if they were used in a dogfight directly over a city, they wouldn't pose any risk to those on the ground. The volunteers were even supposed to not wear a helmet or hat to show that it was fine for normal people. If I recall correctly from having seen this discussed previously, they measured radiation doses received, and found that the highest doses (but still not at dangerous levels) were received by the pilots involved in the test, not the ground volunteers.

This was from the relatively short-lived era when several militaries were hoping to make a distinction between "strategic" nuclear weapons, the kind that blow up cities and would only be used in doomsday scenarios, and "tactical" nuclear weapons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_nuclear_weapon), small-yield varieties that would just be like very big regular weapons and could conceivably be used in a non-apocalyptic war. Due to a mixture of public opposition and fears of international chain reactions that might result from "going nuclear", though, that initiative failed, which is why you saw a transition back into really-gigantic conventional weapons in the 1990s, e.g. the MOAB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_Massive_Ordnance_Air_B...).
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Hmm, cycling in Copenhagen is the default mode of transportation. You can't live there for more than three days and not be aware that there are cycle paths everywhere.
Didn't know about that and it doesn't seem to be available anyhow.

Anyway, you make a good point about visibility but I could always have published that.

Doesn't matter because this isn't getting traction anyway. Not a single comment explaining why someone is for or against.
East side likes Tupac more than West side, Vidyard analytics reveal
The easiest thing to do is to sketch it on a piece of paper and show it to someone. Thats perhaps one of the most basic ways to validate a concept. I've read some stories where an entire app was sketched on paper and demonstrated to other people by moving around the pieces of paper. If people can easily grasp the idea, find people to partner with. There are a lot of great developers willing to contribute to a project if they see value. However, you will need to contribute something as well as an idea is worth $0. But if you have some talent (biz dev, design, etc.) that would be your contribution to it and it won't cost anything.
Well I may have read "all colored girls" rather than "girls of all colors" but mostly it doesn't seem to make sense to call your organization BlackGirlsCode and have race be completely irrelevant. Why bring it up at all? It's encouraging race discrimination either way.
Why do these photos look like they were taken in the 1920s?
90% of your time with 2 people every day? What's left in a few years?
curl and wget might not follow Unix conventions all that well, but from the look of it neither does HTTPie.

Thus the GP's point stands that this program offers little more than a stylistic change. And a bit of pretty printing, which you could (ideally) pipe into some syntax highlighting script or an editor to get the same effect.

Don't read the docs with this thing, for example, and you'd wonder why it defaults to JSON encoding and not the default HTTP POST format. And so the 'simple' version is now dependent on a trend and not the HTTP standard. In fact, even with a modern API I don't recall ever having to serialise my data before posting it. So why this?

That's a few minutes wasted on RTFM already. What else will there be?
Those sentences were in two separate paragraphs, and while not unambiguous, it's pretty safe to say that the first sentence was intended to relate to the photo above.
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aakil: Not sure why, but your comment is [dead]. Here's your response for anyone who has showdead off:

aakil said: Thanks! Academia is more a social network for scientists, whereas we're aiming to be a discussion platform. So, our site has a search engine that lets you search papers like you would in pubmed and on top of that, you can start discussions.

Thanks for the explanation =)
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You asserted that black people are of lower intelligence than other groups of people without any citation or argument. You also argued that the status of Haiti and Africa (two unalike things, btw, as one is a country and another a continent) is solely due to this lack of intelligence instead of a history of exploitation and colonialism. Then, you cite the Dunning–Kruger effect as a way to dismiss criticism.

I am merely pointing out that you 1) offer no info, 2) clearly are racist, and 3) believe yourself that you have a superior point of view on this story. What you have said is contradictory and it is essential that this is pointed out so that others see why you are so very wrong.
I'd tell him a lot of things but that idiot wouldn't listen to any of it.
"It can only be viewed as the hubris we have come to expect from Oracle"

Exact my feelings
Ref:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/07/18/208210/facebook-lose...
Very impressive! And on a related note…

I just finished the entire series (so far) last weekend.

Yep, season 1-4 in 3 days. Finished it the same night S5E1 premiered. Now I'm currently in BB withdrawal… Definitely had to get over the 'Malcolm in the Middle Dad' barrier at the start. Wow, what an actor!
(Shrug) The image got smaller and the text got blurrier, but maybe my eyes aren't the best optimization targets.
Nobody Ever Got Rich Working for Somebody Else. #horseshit
> "Quite a few have died from cancer," he told reporter Bill Broad. "No doubt it was related to the testing."

Is there really no doubt? I didn't see any more details in the article pertaining to the deaths, but for the sake of not implying that correlation == causation, I would point out that most cancer patients were never involved in nuclear testing (and, conversely, the cameraman who said the above also shows contradictory results).
> The only point in your reply that I understand is that you believe black women are poor, therefore typical social rules regarding segregation don't apply.

I don't know why you're having trouble understanding this. This stuff is pretty basic to understand. Your view is childish and pedantic. "Wah realizing there are social mores in effect in the real world is just segregation."

> By this logic you are OK with a group called "White boys can code" IF it helped that group raise money? And why not, these could be boys from Appalachia who have Mountain Dew and Snickers for dinner every night.

No, I think there are qualitative social implications that we all recognize when we stop making silly statements like "Why is there not White Entertainment Television." But I do think having groups as you suggested is a good idea but I think the naming of them should pay attention to social realities.
Also they got some interesting advisors[1], including Alexis Ohanian (Reddit founder) and Hiten Shah (from Kissmetrics).

[1] http://visual.ly/about/investors
> Buy AAPL

I'm sure they mean "What advice would you give to a youth similar to yourself today?"

But hey if that's legit, then "February 18, 2006: 15, 17, 43, 44, 48, Powerball 29".
It will be interesting to see how those papers compare with the Most Influential awards which, at least for SIGPLAN conferences, are given 10 years later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGPLAN
I'm getting overwhelmed by all these nifty browser based prototyping tools coming out. Very cool stuff, but it seems like the market is starting to get a little saturated
They use SVG and Canvas.
I said nothing about altruism. Do you understand how it is that competition under capitalism benefits consumers while reducing corporations' profits?
Things that could cause it to be missed:

* Angle of photography

* Time of day (direction of sunlight)

* Weather conditions

We often ignore problems that are "closer" to us. For example, the oceans on our own planet are still very much a mystery, yet we still look outward.
Dont be a fucking idiot and coast through college. Dont drop out of computer science because youre a lazy piece of shit.
"Once upon a time. The end."
"There are plenty of white people who live in abject poverty."

Sure, but just by being another race, there is very little if any chance for non-white males to do certain things. A feel-good story like Jim Carrey would NEVER happen for a Asian male in America. Heck there was even a survey that found women estimate Asian men would need to earn about $200k to have the same 'status' as a white male. So yes, while being poor sucks for all, but be a poor minority is even worse.
I'd really like to be able to use Dropbox as a magic upload handler for any file I upload on my local HD, not just those in my Dropbox folder. They handle the logic of getting all my files into the cloud. Why can't I point a website to my Dropbox and say here, this is handling the file upload?
There was a study that showed having pedestrians wearing cycle helmets would save 100x as many lives and drivers 10x as many - as making cyclists wear them.

Partly this is because there are a lot more pedestrians/drivers than cyclists but also because above children speed a bike helmet doesn't do much for you. If you are cycling at 20-30mph you need the same helmet as a motorcycle doing the same speed.

ps. this was also before airbags became ubiquitous. a lot of non-seatbelt wearing drivers die of head injuries in common low-speed impacts.
BTW does Cologne just suck in terms of mass transit, or is there another reason why you didn't use it? I can't imagine anyone driving 1.6km in a car in Vienna, Berlin or Zurich.