skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are certainly more than two facts in those 500 words. Some relevant ones:

1. chriszf wasn't aware of the guest list requirement at the gate

2. No one at Yelp told him of this in response to his inquiries

3. Yelp was provided with a guest list

4. The security guard said "undisclosed security risk", not "not on the list"

5. Everyone except this student got in without a hitch

6. chriszf came to the conclusion that, since the only information Yelp had on her was her name (due to the guest list), that that was why they had barred her.

Fact 6 implies that chriszf did check the guest list (as later confirmed here). I'm just wondering at how, especially in spite of facts 2 and 4, so many people decided that the most logical conclusion was that chriszf is an idiot that is unable to confirm whether a student's name appears on a guest list.
Get people to sign up (even just to see a demo video or something) and then remind them. The number one reason people do anything is because they are asked. So ask them.
Mozcast - a 'weather report' to track turbulence in Google's search algorithm
I hope you're at least familiar with Conway's Game of Life? If not, go look that up first. ;-)

Standard Life uses a rectangular grid with a Moore-neighbourhood: cells are squares and all cells that share either an edge or a corner are neighbours. In such an environment, and under convenient propagation rules, patterns exist that translate themselves in a couple of generations. In Life, these are called “gliders” if they move diagonally, and “spaceships” if they move orthogonally. (Again, go lookup these things if you're not aware of them.)

In a rectangular grid it's easy to see that a glider in empty space moves indefinitely, because after a couple of iterations, the state is equivalent to the start state (up to translation). But that's not true in an aperiodic tiling, like a Penrose tiling, because the topography of the surrounding space changes all the time. (If you aren't familiar with aperiodic tilings, go look up e.g. Penrose tiling on Wikipedia.)

So now for the novelty. In the linked discussion, Andrew Trevorrow notes:

> I was trying to picture what a glider path would look like on an aperiodic tiling, but came to the conclusion that such a thing isn't really possible.

So it's not obvious that a glider-like pattern (a pattern that translates itself without growing or leaving crud behind) could exist on any aperiodic tiling. The significance of this discovery is that it shows that, contrary to intuition, they do exist.
Yeah, the relevant naming was great. Seeing it go from rough segment clustering to your website design was very neat.
Thanks for your insightful comments! I appreciate that you took the time to back up your opinion by distilling your thoughts into something quickly digestible.

Have you heard of any other projects outside of disco that are more performant than hadoop when used for similar applications?
On the bottom of the search homepage.
AngularJS 1.0 - 1.2 Roadmap
Mind sharing how long you've been using it and how it compares to hadoop in your opinion? I'm very interesting in hearing your experience.
I am sooooo happy that I'm an engineer right now.
It's funny, because in my (shitty) country, we have a "communications industry regulator" that basically does only this: sue people who give free internet.

Well I get 30Mbps for less than 40€/month, so I can't complain I guess...
Heh, I'm sure no pun was intended but I did chuckle, since to 'excise' is to remove whereas 'exercise' would be to take possession of. As someone who struggles daily with this type of typo I feel that pain. The humor comes from the fact that the sentence works both ways.
And the documentation page is even nicer:

http://prezjordan.github.com/Melopy/
Lots of information about who and how many might buy your spaceship, helpful in decisions thought the design and manufacturing process, a group to announce product and beta launch to, leveraging months or years of long tail attention rather than just launch day, ...
Because you have travel insurance right? That may be a relevant area for Vayable to get into for the extra income as a reseller (and in itself it's an area that needs disruption).
Some time ago I made the same experience but making it more extreme: I posted a job for an architect offering very bad conditions (minimal money, long hours not paid, 10 hours day, etc). I can say that I got 250 answers. I'm speaking about Lisbon, Portugal reality, not in NYC.
6. Create a product that your users actually want to pay for and charge them for it. Note that I distinguish this from #4 "Paywallify" in that you actually have a product and are not just displaying content that is consumed by your users.
It's not easier if you're standing in a forest of 桜 and there's no paper and pencil around, as in the demonstration video. :-)

And even if you do have it written, it may be easier for the user, but it's harder for the computer. The order and direction of strokes is standardized, and getting this information as the user writes it is tremendously valuable.

I've played with handwriting recognition algorithms for kanji before, and if you assume the stroke order and direction are correct, you can make a surprisingly good algorithm with very little code. Detecting a character from an image is much harder.

The iOS handwriting recognition, for one, takes this into account. iOS officially only has hanzi (Chinese) handwriting recognition, but it usually works OK for Japanese, too, as long as it's a character that both languages have. But when you run into one of the characters where Chinese and Japanese have standardized on a different stroke order, like 王, it'll never recognize it when written using the Japanese stroke order, no matter how nicely you write it.
"Getting one up in your system is beyond the scope of this document."

- 67 characters

brew install redis

redis-server

- 31 characters
You've heard of Conway's Game of Life, a cellular automata (CA) on a square grid. There the glider travels over a nice repeating grid.

Now imagine that the grid itself is changing underneath the glider - it will just fall apart. That's what we saw when we looked at Penrose's famous non-repeating grids - it looks impossible to have a glider that would work. A bit like trying to rollerblade over rubble.

See earlier in the linked thread for a link to the paper by Nick Owens and Susan Stepney that started us thinking in this direction.
I'm not sure what sort of context you were looking for. The author certainly explains the methodology well.

As for whether it's scientific, it strikes me as having many similarities to a paper "Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination." That paper was authored by two of the most respected academic economists, and it was published in the top economics journal.
FWIW, just implementing the server-side version of FB's or Foursquare's implementations will basically get you to the same place.
No, that is a totally different thing, and a fairly ridiculous comparison. You clearly can't have Crysis 3 15 years ago because the computers weren't powerful enough. Please don't apply a bad metaphor and tell me that's my reasoning, because it clearly wasn't.

Security does not require computing power, it needs careful code. By your logic, OpenBSD would have been an insecure mess 15 years ago, and nobody's web server would be getting hacked today. That is not how it works.
> I agree with most of the article, but the "The Ubuntu Unity failure" was only a temporary one.

Absolutely. Unity in 12.04 is very solid. There's still a lack of settings options, but I don't think that warrants the whole thing being called a "failure".
Can travel agents match automated ITA Travel Matrix prices?
Leaving aside Java's packaging structure, if you're on Github, just use "t" and search for the filename you're looking for instead of clicking up and down the directory. hierarchy.

When I found this out, it changed my life.
I can read it without being signed in to Google.
Gotta love the cognitive effects of measuring simple data. Even if fuel points are arbitrary, the behavior change is a welcome one.
Is there anything funny there?
Hey ladies, did you find something interesting? This funny football pic will make you smile and have fun.
This is proper old English, was your coworker Indian?

Same for "kindly <do something>", interesting phraseologisms that are not used by modern Brits, but are still in place in ex-colonies.
There may be a deeper issue here. That being the difference between owning a computer which can do what ever you tell it, and owning a tool which only does the things you bought it to do.

It used to be pretty clear that your phone wasn't a 'computer' in the sense that it had to offer up generalized support for doing development. So pre-packaged 'apps' were the norm, and the model of privilege constraint made a lot of sense.

If my laptop is simply a web browsing/mail reading/status posting machine with a bigger screen, then it has a similar requirement set.

But laptops have evolved from desktops which evolved from personal computers, which evolved from computers in general and the flexibility knob was historically turned to 11.

I'll reiterate my surprise that Apple doesn't (yet?) have two 'loads' for the Macbook, one which is a general purpose OS (MacOS) and one which is an application hosting OS (iOS).
... Right up until you work out the most efficient way to reach your desired level of inefficiency ...
Ask HN: How far are we from in-browser typesetting
Given advances in computing power and browser abilities, how far are we from in-browser
typesetting? Suppose we ignore issues such as reflow and legacy browser support. I am asking whether true typesetting, such as is provided by the LaTeX engine, is now possible with up-to-date technology.
Coal Power Loses Its Luster in India as Costs Rise
Could you wire it directly to the limbic system so you only get hungry after you have moved around enough?
This Guy Turned Down A $500 Million Offer For His Startup
We have to go deeper...
Study: Brain Objectifies Women As Body Parts, Men As Whole
How would this work? I mean, even assuming Apple let you get away with it:

If you store the version on the device, the user would simply have to delete the app (which wipes all data the app has stored on the device) and re-download from the app store (which is free) to get the latest version. It's not going to take long for users to notice that and then you'll never sell an upgrade again.

So you'd need to move away from a straight app and also create a server component. But to store it on the server, you need something that uniquely identifies the user.

You can't get access to the UDID any more (and besides, people would catch on when upgrading their phone got them new version of everything for free).

You can't generate some kind of GUID, because that has the same problem as just tracking it on the device. Upgrades are just a reinstall away.

And you can't force them to sign up for your site on first launch: App Store reviewers won't approve apps that make users register solely to store information about them. So you'd need to push content through the site, at which point you've moved well beyond the purview of most apps, and you ought to just give up the game and sell access to the content itself.
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"There is pretty much no decent scripting language available on Windows, so if you do not have immediate access to some unix (or at least cygwin), you're out of luck."

He seems to be fully uniformed about what he writes about. The graphs he produced in Excel can be produced without Excel and just with open-source tools on practically any platform. Python and Gnuplot can be installed anywhere:

http://www.python.org/

"Python runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, and has been ported to the Java and .NET virtual machines."

http://www.gnuplot.info/

"Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven graphing utility for Linux, OS/2, MS Windows, OSX, VMS, and many other platforms."
> Nowadays nobody under thirty writes anything on Microsoft developer tools unless they are demented or brain-dead

The gamedev community is very MS centered. There are a few people doing handheld stuff, or homebrew console hacking, but the majority use Windows and Direct X. A lot of people use C#, or even develop for the Xbox 360.
My Vision for the Socially Connected Future
Not only that, but also relying on job ads.
IOS Devices That Almost Were
Gabe announced that windows fails and he wants to go linux. So based of this, the console will be Linux based that either allows to run Windows based games, or, what I think Gabe is aiming at, urging the developers to make hardcore games for Linux. Either way, this will be the first time Valve is going into hardware (at least to my knowledge) so we'll see where this goes.......

All in all this is about integration and innovation :)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: 20-Somethings in 2012
Ttycast: Broadcast your tty to the world
I've read before that my macbook pro 15" with regular display port wont support the 27" displays, can anyone confirm this is true? even with the Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB571Z/A?)
Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?
Doesn't even have to be anything profitable (but hopefully covering your hosting costs at least). I'm just interested to know what others are working on in their free time.
I can work fine with a single 20" 1600x1200. It's not my dream setup but it's also not hindering me for my work (backend systems).
Yes, the methodology is well-explained. My reaction to this article can be summed up with, "“A lot of résumés” is an egregious understatement.".

Why are 653 responses for an unskilled job with no experience requirements in a metro area of 20 million people 'a lot'? Where is the context? How does that number compare to other metro areas? To other times in history? To the history of NYC? Would that have been 'a lot' 20 years ago? How about during the Great Depression?

I'll check out the study you cited.
Congrats Jon! Zencoder is killing it! Plz keep the service up! Both videolla and Virool are proud customers!
> Find yourself a grad student in Math and you've got your job.

Sorry, what do you mean by that?
thanks this is fascinating!
As a matter of comparison. Here a regular situation in France :

I pay 63€ for a nominal 100MBps fiber connection + free calls from my landline (to other landlines in most of the world (more than 100 countries, and all the big ones (but neither Africa nor the Middle East)) and mobile phones in France and US), plus 170 televion channels (that I don't watch anyway), plus a femtocell device, plus a smartphone subsidized (2 years contract) with illimited calls to other mobiles or landlines in France, free SMS and MMS, 1Gb of "high speed" (in average 2Mbps) 3G , after 1Gb it switches to low speed (512Kbps). Oh, and I get Spotify Premium. All that for 63€ a month (That's 78 american $) (but I'm in a 24 months contract) It's quite the usual "quadplay" offer (Television + Phone + Internet + Mobile Phone) here in France. There are cheaper ones.

So yeah, at 200$ there is somebody being ripped off. But the Google 120$ option doesn't seem too bad, it's a little less than twice the price I pay here in France, but with great goodies like the tablet, and an incredible 1Gbps... Ten times my official speed. So the markup is deserved.

To French people, I have the SFR MultiPack offer with the Carré Web + the Spotify Premium at 5€ option, and the Classic Fiber option (not the Evolution one) cf. http://www.sfr.fr/mobile/multi-packs-de-sfr-mobile-et-adsl.j...
> Airlines enforce minimum check-in times of 1.5 hrs

Holy shit that is insane! Here in Australia I just get there 20 mins before take-off and pretty much walk straight onto the plane. They xray my hand-luggage and I walk through a metal detector on the way but that never takes more than a couple of minutes.
In business school I read a study showing that for a few industries (telcos & utilities among them) there is an inverse relationship between customer satisfaction and profitability.
chriszf is an idiot
Your words, not mine.

There are many reasons for a name to not be on a guest list. I never implied anyone was an idiot. Not one of the items listed confirm whether or not student x's name is on the list.

chriszf was able to come to the conclusion you state because chriszf had more information than was written in the blog post.
You have to sign in because you're signed in to a Google account but not Google+. If you were either signed in to Google+, or not signed into Google at all, you would see the article without a sign-in prompt.
It's called ack. Ubuntu gave its package and executable a different name because it conflicted with something far less notable (poor choice IMO). I suggest adding an a alias or a symbolic link so you can call it by its proper name when typing in commands.
But again. Google is diversified beyond just advertising whilst Facebook isn't. It seems illogical to just blindly compare total revenues.

Why not compare Facebook/Google to Apple then since they are also vying for the same piece of the pie ? Or News Corp ? Or Vogue magazine ? Or Playboy ?
I'm wonder what the ratio of job postings to job applicants is.

If there are 600 applications per listing, and each applicant sends 50 applications, then there are 12 times as many applicants as listings.

Do the 600 and 50 numbers seem about right?
It sounds like the prevalence of gun violence in the US has been significantly overstated in whatever news you have been reading. Taking guns away from communities where violence is rare will not solve the problems with those in which violence is common.

As for US exceptionalism, you left out all the pent up emotional and cultural baggage held by some communities that makes them significantly more violent among themselves than the vast majority.
And then a cheating client will be developed that uses the information in these "alternate timeline" frames to alert you of enemies around the corner, etc.

I'm not saying that's catastrophic, but I think the impossibility of cheating is one of OnLives clear advantages. Sure you can write a bot, but it will only have access to the same information a human player does.
The question this post raises is can one 'legally' ban personal 3G hotspots? And the answer is, I suspect, that on your ticket which you need to be in any of the Olympic venues, it says that you agreed when you bought it to be bound by the rules the organizers might impose on you. And this is one of their rules, and so your bound by it.

That said, there are lots of access points provided and managing a dense AP infrastructure with un-sanctioned broadcasters is pretty difficult. Channel conflicts can take other paying customers right off the air and result in poorer service for everyone. That said, I notice they don't have any problem with people carrying in a multiport ethernet switch and letting other devices share their connectivity that way...
That is about as convincing an argument as Stave's "it's the Internet, I'm allowed to speculate about anything" argument.

If he hadn't written a blog post, HN would be all abuzz about his name vanishing from their web pages.

There's no way to win this.
I may be biased* but have you looked at SugarCRM?

* I am biased, as I do in fact, work at SugarCRM. That said, I used the product before I came to work here, so I actually think its pretty good.
Interesting firefox will do the isometric text, but not when its the shadow
I think that the big deal is that they would essentially be setting a baseline level of hardware for developers (and consumers) to target.
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I also especially loved his credulity wrt the 1-hour integration estimate.
Read through a couple of comments and all I see is people bitching about phone and cable companies.

The problem is, you can only get Google fiber if you get enough people in your neighborhood that want it and you meet a preregistration goal. Then you can choose the DSL crappy free internet, or the gigabit one for 70/month which is comparable to the Comcast rate, except faster speeds. Of course, the more people that choose Gigabit, the more demand there is to justify a price increase.

And, to be honest, my employer is running on fiber with a link speed of 1 Gbps and there isn't that much of a difference between Internet browsing at home.
Manu Kumar on Future of Mobile Phone Cameras
I'm building a platform where non-profits can host virtual garage sales, so their members can buy/sell stuff and donate a portion of the proceeds back to the NPO. Think of it as an Ebay for Charities. It's a side project as of now. Would love your feedback :) http://shruffle.com
Setting up postgres.app with PostGIS
it's not hardware and doesn't exactly what you'd like, but have a look at MIT's Junkyard Jumbotron: http://jumbotron.media.mit.edu

Essentially a bit of software to add other devices (ipads, phones etc.) as virtual screens
Business Insider recommends smoking, says it makes you smarter
isn't this pattern the 2D projection of a periodic 5D pattern ?

what would it mean for the glider's path in 5D (well, 6D with time) ?
In the US:

Betting on sports online is illegal.

In Washington State, playing online poker is a felony.

The UIEGA, which forced the three largest online poker sites to shut down, defines a gambling act as "a bet or wager to include risking something of value on the outcome of a contest, sports event, or a game subject to chance."

However, fantasy sports is excluded, including "daily" fantasy sports games, where players win or lose money based on the outcome of as few as three games.

How much government time and taxpayer money is wasted restricting how people spend their money, for the sole purpose of pandering to Harrah's Entertainment and the like?
Might as well just forget about a technical section then.
Facebook earnings disappoint investors
Have to admit, pretty close to signing up after reading your experience...quite the push.
How OS X Mountain Lion cured me of my Android addiction
>There are no comparable states with a comparable history, demography, economy, and culture.

American exceptionalism refers to the primarily used meaning of exceptional as "unusually good." I never remotely said that.

America is different, not better. I'd also argue that you can't compare Germany to Spain. Does that mean I think Germany is better?

You also didn't answer my argument. Can you point to another country with comparable history, demography, economy, and culture that has passed a gun ban. Or should I just go ahead and hand over my gun, based on your unsupported fears?
I keep hearing programmers tell me how much better IPS is than TN, but then they emphasize colors and viewing angles. Are these monitors better for programming and text editing?
A RC helicopter-hackathon is definitely. I could think of tons of things that could be built over these tiny ones.

I haven't yet tried RC helicopters, but I'd definitely start on one.