skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why Knuth has stopped writing cheques, incidentally:

"Nowadays almost everybody knows that it's dangerous to reveal your credit card number, or to have that full number on a printed document that somebody might find in the trash. Soon people will learn that it is equally dangerous to reveal the numbers that are printed in plain sight on every check. Forget signatures; banks have no time to verify them. The once venerable system of checking accounts is irretrievably broken. Before long, companies will find it impossible to give out paychecks without exposing themselves to unacceptable risk.

One consequence of this debacle is, alas, that I can no longer write checks to reward the people who discover errors in my books. The system that I've been using has worked well for almost forty years; but recently I have had to close three checking accounts, and the criminal attacks on those accounts have caused significant grief to my bankers. (Certainly I do not believe that anybody who received one of my checks has been in any way a culprit. But all such recipients are entitled to bragging rights; therefore the numbers printed on those checks inevitably become known to random members of the public.) I cannot in good conscience continue to traumatize the people at my bank, who obviously have plenty of other things to worry about."

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/news08.html
Hackitat Film Set To Update the Definition of Hackers
The Mongo DB Migration Linksheet
Both, given that programming languages shouldn't be a horse race. They're different languages that fit differing niches: both address concurrency and parallelism at the language level, yes, but at least from my perspective, Rust is oriented towards systems programming (task-level GC, lower level memory access, and strong static safety guarantees), while Go is for rapid network service development.
Khronos Releases OpenGL 4.3 Specification with Major Enhancements
Add '.nyud.net' on the end of the URL. So, like this:

http://joelrunyon.com.nyud.net/two3/an-unexpected-ass-kickin...

It's the wickedly useful Coral CDN in action:

http://coralcdn.org/

Great for reading sites that are slashdott..., um, fireball..., erm, 'News'd. Doesn't always work, doesn't work for POSTing anything, but this time we got lucky.
Khronos Releases ATSC Next-Generation  Texture Compression Specification
This is the big problem with acquiring bitcoin right now, of course once you have it, transactions are very cheap.
As someone who did learn to program at the age of 12 (and is now 32) I don't think it matters. Programming is not that hard to learn - it's another language that is far more straightforward than trying to learn a spoken language that might have genderizations, weird grammar rules and so forth. The actual learning to program is not complicated.

What is complicated, is the analytical mindset that makes a good programmer. I believe that the better programmers just have this mindset and it is what makes them good at what they do. Coupled with a passion for the technology they are using, this will make them better at what they are doing regardless if they have 2 months behind them, or 20 years behind them - and also regardless of the age they start at.
Of course the "Win 7 interface" is better with keyboard mouse. Their only real complaint they had on metro was that the office suite had some parts that weren't as touch-friendly.

In my eyes windows 8 has potential because it is currently the only OS that can be used both in a tablet and a laptop that isn't dumbed down.

You can criticize it all you want, all in all I barely have any interest in metro for myself, but you better make a better argument than this article or you are just going to make a fool out of yourself.
What do with other ideas, when got funding?
We had three ideas for startups several months ago. After some negotiations, we started working on the most reliable among them. We have made the prototype, then beta-version and finally got some seed money last week, so we have no time (and not allowed too) to do other things.

But we still have two ideas, that are also really good. At least, in our opinion. What to do with them - just wait and run them later or..? What HN can advice?
That's all true, but at this point we're not even spending money in NYC anymore. The north east corridor could be turned into full blown high speed rail - the demand is absolutely there as shown by how many people ride the current (broken) system. I think we have heavily tipped in favor of 'anti-rail'.
One issue I've noticed with the GoPro army as a quad-bike rider is the increasing amount of high-speed riders on the trails. At the sand dunes I don't have as much of a problem with it (although not watching over your hills is another issue), but on tight trails with people looking to get that perfect YouTube shot it can be deadly. I don't ride with a GoPro, but I pull over for those who do quite often.

There's nothing wrong with GoPro, and I would have one if I could justify the cost at this point. Idiots will be idiots, the real issue is they now have an audience larger than the other people on the trail. I'd love to see public trails go camera-free just because (in my anecdotal experience) a small but significant minority of riders lose all sense when the reward of a million views is dangling over their head.
Do you use all those 600 mins? For £10, giffgaff gives you unlimited data, unlimited text, but only 200 mins. But I don't even bother with their goodybags. Think I spend about between £5-7 a month on just prepay.

Vietnam I found pretty awesome. I got a sim for my phone, tons of data (which I couldn't use up) and plenty of calls for about £5 (150k VND) which lasted the whole month I was there. And the data speeds seemed pretty good (although I was only on 2G). Think I was with Tomato plan on Viettel?
You appear to argue that a western concept of property rights is essential to guaranteeing some sort of magical, responsible custodianship of earth / space.

You use the Great Pacific Garbage Patch as your first example, which has nothing to do with absence of private ownership of the seas and everything to do with industrialisation, a throwaway consumer culture, and the ability of corporations to avoid the cost and consequences of environmental externalities.

I get a sense you're actually arguing the tragedy of the commons, and asserting that total private ownership is the solution to the tragedy. But ownership in itself does nothing to enforce good behaviour on bad actors. You need societal rules that are enforced, and they can be enforced in any situation, regardless of whether the situation is private or commons property.

Your anecdotal evidence doesn't support your argument either. You use personal experience related to garbage cleanups to assert that pollution only really occurs in common property areas. Yet some of the worst environmental disasters and cleanup sites are on private property operated by mining and chemical companies. The dirtiest, most polluted locations are often urban areas in cities where private ownership is highly concentrated. Some of the cleanest areas in cities are commons areas, such as public parks.

You imply that Africa's poverty is as a result of traditional "communal lands" systems, when in reality the first world simply steals Africa's wealth through financial and military force to bump up Western living standards. An alternate scenario where Africa had a private property rights tradition would have done little to stop more powerful nations from seizing their resources by various means.

Finally, there's a certain irony in your position, when it could be argued that private property rights narrow the focus and encourage self-interest whereas a more traditional 'communal' view of the land has been associated with a broader and deeper connection with the land, and a healthier sense of custodianship.
I understand your argument. While nothing will stop people from polluting, land ownership does encourage people to clean up the unavoidable pollution. Assuming your county's code is enforced. Property owners can get in trouble for leaving trash on their land. It doesn't matter where it came from, if it's on your land, it's your problem. The little bits of trash you find on your property are nothing, volunteers find tons of garbage in the forests, rivers, abandoned or derelict properties that no one owns. You might get annoyed by all the trash the teenagers deposit in your yard, but what you aren't seeing are the massive amounts of garbage they throw in the streets, storm drains, side of the road which tumbles off into rivers and streams. When it's on your land, you see it. When it's not, you don't.

Romania had so much garbage that volunteers launched "Let's Do It" http://www.letsdoitworld.org/country/romania a national cleanup campaign where over 200,000 people volunteered to cleanup the forests from illegal dumpings. They planned for 3 weeks, geolocated 6,500 waste piles, and in 24 hours assembled in massive droves to the locations, picked it up in 350,000 full sized black bags and hauled it away. It was the most successful social cleanup campaign in the world at the time and has been done EVERY YEAR. This cleanup effort happens every single year. That's how bad our garbage problem is.

- http://www.toonaripost.com/2011/09/green-world/lets-do-it-ro...

If someone owned the Pacific Ocean it would be in their best interest to protect it. It's fish stocks, it's ecology. If it made money from this ownership it can pay for lawyers, lobbyists, enforcers, representatives, campaigns, tv spots. It could at least try to charge countries a penalty for the garbage that flows in by surveying which country it comes from (garbage is traceable) and how much of it comes in. Contrary to popular belief there are international laws. The US, China, India, and everyone else can't just dump waste into another country's territory (not for free at least). I the Ocean territory were owned, there would at least be someone to sue on behalf of that ocean's interests & protect fisheries when their fish stock become exhausted due to over-fishing.

Of course nothing is perfect, but with humans being extreme opportunists, self-regulation is not an option here. And rules can only be made if someone's interested are threatened, and interests are weak if ownership doesn't exist.
I'm 99% sure signatures only come into play in the event of a dispute.
Space exploration is not a war between "funding" and "they." Consider what you can do in your home or with your friends to advance space exploration instead of cheering on abstract forces with vague connections to real knowledge, drive and accomplishment.
The trend only appears disturbing if you few it from a very, very high level.

Apple didn't do the best job of keeping up with some OSS components included in OS X. X11 is a great example of such a component. Outside of OS X, lots of changes were occurring with X windows servers. By including X11 (or even providing their own package), Apple was actually in the way. XQuartz dates back to 2007.

There were five releases in 2010 and 2011. By stepping out of the way, OS X users will have a more up to date version of X11 on their machines. That is a good thing™.
And I'm sure you posted this message from something that won't end up in a landfill?
Ketogenesis is actually one of the metabolic pathways involved with the breakdown of fats.

You may be thinking of gluconeogenesis.
I want to see a demo before I auth with my instagram account. What does it do? Allow me to share photos & vote on them? Doesn't Instagram already do this? Make value prop more clear, show an example of what it does.
Fascinating. What were the "few trustworthy references" you found? I've never heard anything like your experience before, and the anecdotal evidence I've heard regarding fasting is largely gathered from spiritual traditions (i.e. Yoga, Christian, etc.).
Eh. It's obviously an issue if not disabled.

But what's more worrying is people not disabling it. It's very easy, expose_php is an ini setting that it disables this, and the PHP version header sent in HTTP requests (and some other things too).
The good news is that this article is from an antitrust lawyer with contacts in the Justice Department. The abuse has gotten so bad that even they can probably see it.
If you expect the worst everything will turn out better than expected.
I've started programming at 12. But rest assured; the moment of - wow, this is really cool, (why?) I've never seen this before seems to hunt me many years after my initial contact.
From #wikipedia on irc.freenode.net

Wikipedia is currently down due to networking issues in the Tampa Datacenter. No ETA is known at the moment. To see current Wikipedia status go to http://status.wikimedia.org. If you want to browse the wiki, please try other tools such as Archive.org and Google Cache.
Wouldn't the ground not being perfectly flat mess with a measurement like that?
Yeah you should go for it. Do the things that make you happy.
I used to live in Sunnyvale for a few yrs working for a big corp. Then I quit and moved to Vietnam. Best decision I made ever. Didn't make as much money but wouldn't trade it for the world
From IRC: "Status: Down - routing issues to Tampa" (edit: removed conjecture)
Why You Didn't Get the Interview
The Bricks - User Interface Framework
The Bricks is a free set of User Interface components designed to facilitate the creation of design or prototype for the future website.
C:\Text\QUIX.TXT

ght which my rank as a
gentleman gives me, and with just cause challenge him on account of the
injury he has done you, not regarding my own wrongs, which I shall leave
to Heaven to avenge, while I on earth devote myself to yours."

Cardenio's words completed the astonishment of Dorothea, and not knowing
how to return thanks for such an offer, she attempted to kiss his feet;
but Cardenio would not permit it, and the licentiate replied for both,
commended the sound reasoning of Cardenio, and lastly,
Webinar Replay: Get the most out of the Online File Sharing Solution
How is this junk on the popular page of HN? This post is poorly formatted, not very informative, and why is it not just a link to the actual service's home page? This definitely looks like spam to me.
Worth noting that (at least according to him) it's not just that he didn't make the fake cheque, it's that when he gave it to his bank he meant it as a joke, he wasn't actually trying to get the money.
Oh no, I forgot to donate! Sorry, Jimmy!
No, not him, and not interested in playing 20 questions.

Look, we all know HNers are smart enough to Google up the particulars. That would put me in the awkward position of having published a private conversation by a deceased gentleman who generously paid for several dozen poor students to go to college, including me. I'd appreciate if you just wrote this one off to "I trust Patrick not to have invented this story out of whole cloth" and let it lie.
Casters And Wheels
Groklaw dissects Apple's trial brief on trade dress claims
they do have cameras that see the ground. but for reliable measurements, you'd need essentially a constant video stream going back to earth, which is expensive.

and you have to deal with all the different ways a camera might malfunction. the shape of the wheel is much less likely to be wrong somehow.
Why does anyone care? These posts are getting increasingly popular. It seems like reputation-bait to me and really detracts from coming here to do what we do - read articles.
Doesn't work on Linux. Frankly, that sucks.
I was trying to convey the opposite, as you stated, that inefficient memory access is not limited to the JVM.
It should have been DEI.
interestingly, X11 is part of the "open sourced" part ( almost all of the UNIX underpinnings ) of OS X. Can you change what goes into the distribution CD provided by ubuntu ?
Xiaomi M2 Design Leaked By Certifications Ahead of Launch
I see a practical use: I dont' care what device I am on, I always have my contacts in sync, I can now see the same tabs open, I can access my presentation which I started yesterday on MBP on my iPhone.

But there is no reason we couldn't do that with a basic home or small office network, adding basic VPN functionality to allow remote access if necessary. It's not particularly difficult to set these things up today for anyone who can set up a broadband router and home wireless network. If they were the must-have technologies being promoted instead of the cloud then it would get even easier, as the people making the equipment built more user-friendly interfaces that didn't need much in the way of technical skills at all, and as ready-made server software to co-ordinate your mail or calendar or music collection or whatever became as simple as a one-click download.

My contacts? Not vital at all. My presentations? Not vital at all. My music? Not vital at all.

Somehow I suspect you'd disagree if all your contacts started getting phishing e-mails that looked like they came from you, or if you blew a million-dollar business deal because your presentation wasn't available when you visited a prospective client, or if you had thousands of dollars' worth of music that you'd spent real money on and it disappeared overnight because the service provider closed down the system or you didn't realise you couldn't transfer something between accounts or you sync'd the wrong thing the wrong way. Things like these can and do happen, but I think there's a perception of "It'll never happen to me".

Because when I figure in my time needed to configure and maintain this decent, cheap and local storage it is not that cheap anymore.

I guess you're looking at this from a personal point of view. I'm not sure it's really true even then, but I acknowledge that setting up and maintaining IT systems today does require technical skills that most home users don't have, and if your new tablet or laptop or smartphone ships with the vendor's pet cloud services already integrated then of course that's an easier user experience since it just works (as long as you're happy to use those services and don't want any others).

I don't really buy that argument at all for businesses, though. Usually there are all kinds of gotchas if you're doing serious work in the cloud. Just look at the string of pathetic excuses and weasel words every time Amazon's services go down about how you should have used redundant something-or-other and different availability-wotsits, and then look at how many businesses either hadn't understood this or hadn't wanted to spend the extra money or simply hadn't done it yet and wound up offline as a result. I defy anyone to claim that the time and money to configure cloud services to be reliable per all these recommendations is harder than setting up equivalent equipment on-site or with dedicated hosting and a decent off-site backup system, assuming that you have someone who knows what they are doing in each case to do the work.
SpaceX also use it for their Dragon spacecraft:
http://www.spacex.com/downloads/dragonlab-datasheet.pdf
You're sadly mistaken if you think space exploration isn't dependent on funding, and that that funding is in constant danger of being slashed.

As far as "what you can do in your home ... to advance space exploration" pretty sure contacting my congresspeople and telling them that funding for NASA is important to me is the best thing I can do.
Does anyone have any benchmark numbers for either?
The Smart Grid future
Tangentially, "They Write the Right Stuff" was a very interesting 1996 article about writing the software running the space shuttle.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050830190246/www.fastcompany.co...
if you have seed money, get some devs, hire them and develope the other ideas as well. if your investors believe in you as team they may give you even more funding...

if your budget is too short, i would rather wait and see if the idea you are now working on works.
If Your Boss Fired You Right Now, Would You Feel Sad Or Would You Feel Relieved?
Amazon Now Sells More eBooks than Traditional in the UK
The Battle Against Emoji
See also http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=2062 (linked in the Use Vim article).
I think the panic occurring already over Wikipedia being down for less than an hour reflects on just how reliable the site usually is - especially for one relying exclusively on donations.
That's just the stuff that goes in /usr/bin, right? Aren't the files always present in /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin etc.?
As I understood it that's exactly what the camera is doing, and the morse code is just a helpful pattern with a known distance to make more precise measurements of ground speed.

With no patterns one could think of a situation where the surface sand/terrain would be displaced but your actual position was exactly the same.
I'm a little disappointed with the answers from Zypher (one of the Stack Exchange sysadmins) and Jeff Atwood. Particularly troublesome is Jeff's statement "If you have a 'man in the middle' then there are deeper problems, like, you're using a compromised network." I'd argue that it's appropriate, from a security architecture perspective, to treat the entire Internet as a "compromised network".

Admittedly, my use-case for the Stack Exchange sites (specifically Server Fault) is a little different than most people's and I'm a lot more worried about "theft" of my "identity" there than most people would be. Still, though, I'd like to see the answer revisited in light of mid-2012 technology / costs. I suppose I should go post something over there...
Depressing, but true.
That's a good argument for Apple not including their own version of x11. But the author was most anguished that they removed an installation of x11 that he was depending on.
>The crowd at Planetary Society started chanting "USA! USA!" and Bill Nye the Science Guy quickly made them change it to "JPL! Planet Earth!" freaking awesome.

yet more evidence that scientists hate america
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Double thanks :)
Humorously Cool and Perhaps Educational Street Slang
The X11 that Apple provided with OS X was nothing but a snapshot of whatever XQuartz version was current when that version of OS X went GM. In other words, we are now getting the exact same product, but with more timely updates. It takes a special brand of cluelessness to see that as a bad thing.
The question is - why are online transfer mechanisms expensive? Wire transfers should be much cheaper than checkques.

In Poland (although we're a much smaller country), wire transfers cost from free to 30 cents (doesn't matter how much you send, you could wire $1M and still pay 30 cents), and take from an hour to a working day to process.
Pricey too - according to this from back in 2008, its $16,500 per seat (developer)...
http://mihirknows.blogspot.com.au/2008/03/rtos-cost-and-feat...

A drop in the ocean in the scheme of space projects though.
Reasons I can think of include: the ground does not consist of a regular pattern of known length so image processing might be more difficult; looking out over the track allows more data points to be interpreted; an outward looking camera can fulfill more additional roles or be repurposed to compensate for other failed instruments more readily; a downward facing camera is more likely to gather images within the rover's own shadow; other outward facing cameras could use the same algorithm should the distance measuring camera fail.
Datasheet for the Dragon Spacecraft
Like Asana or Twitter which were "extra" ideas at Facebook and Odeo, if they can stand on their own feet they might be separate companies altogether that can be spun out.
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