skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter jokester wins appeal for 'menacing' airport tweet
I can't help but feel that this is a bit cargo cult. I'll wait to see the results.
This is the exact same process used by http://hid.im to encode a torrent file into a PNG (not for obfuscation, mind you).
They previously pinpointed the iPad 3 launch date:

http://www.imore.com/ipad-3-announcement-march-7-quadcore-4g...
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/02/apple-ipad-ev...

and the iPad mini has been talked about a lot in the past few months. lots of rumors about it. 7.85"
Why would any comapny outside of List X (ie those working with SC and TS info) and a select number of govenment agencies have/need a drugs testing policy.
If, in the context of development work, you find an employer that requires a degree as a prerequisite they will probably specify it being something related to CS, EE, math or maybe MIS. They would probably view a degree in music composition as pretty worthless (again, in the context of software development), so it doesn't sound like it would matter.
No longer a DESKTOP thread. Servers are not desktops.
Great question, that's something I specifically thought about. We probably would have interviewed him if he had said "some knowledge of" etc for those bullet points (which would have been truthful). He actually had quite an impressive resume without the fibs.
Awesome write up. Inspiring/Interesting statistics. Much love my fellow indie developer
In five years time your degree should have become pretty much nebulous on your resume/CV. You won't be getting hired on the basis of your education but your experience. So screw 'em, you're in the adult world now, where people pay you for your time and effort, not the other way round.

This world relies on educating its descendants, in fact it profits from doing so. But it should only profits from the actions of the descendants later in life, not the direct charging of their education. I'd much rather live in a world where I invest in the schools that made me successful instead of being forcing my children into debt before they even have their first job.
This should answer your question: http://www.telescopes.com/telescopes/canyouseeobjectsleftbeh...

tldr: you would need a 200 meter telescope to see the flag, or a 75 meter 'scope to see the lunar rover. The largest earth bound 'scope is 10meters. The Hubble scope is 2.4m

Also goes in to the 'rippling flag' question that someone asked in a different comment below.
Fluid simulation with 512k particles
Probably things like this[0] are designed to help.

[0]http://www.siemens.com/press/en/pressrelease/?press=/en/pres...
True, but perhaps they find 0.5% of users get confused by that screen and that 0.5% represents several million £ in revenue.
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On every microprocessor I have seen, increment has a different assembler instruction (e.g. INC) than add (e.g. ADD), so it is reasonable to say they are different.
So for the past five years, it's been pretty common to hang out with friends that moved across country to catch up and all just talk about the same crud we saw online.

If we extend this trend, then perhaps I won't feel a need to catch up with friends since we're just consuming the same data feed all the time. It certainly hasn't made my friends more interesting, and I am sure I am just as boring to them.

Whether this is a problem is a much more interesting conversation. I'd like to have a coffee with someone over this.
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Right... that's like saying "The root password was strong, however it is entirely possible that it could be an empty string."

Fortunately, someone on the main article did respond that having trace.axd enabled could result in 500 errors dumping a stack trace. That's a much clearer argument for why having tracing enabled is a bad thing.
>Facebook actually hashes multiple versions of your password (eg ... when you left caps lock on).

Detecting if capslock is on with javascript (in a round about way) would seem to be a much better solution for this case.
That would be new to me - people here have been able to feed in excess energy to the grid for more than two decades. The real problem however is that the traditional power suppliers are forced to pay users that _feed in_ a very lucrative amount per kWh they produce in excess and recently started to rebel against that policy. So I wouldn't be surprised if the "technical problems" are somewhat politically/economically motivated.
Huh? A bulleted list of release notes with a pot shot at Safari and some mighty large leaps of faith.

"Since most Mac users use Google Chrome as their primary browsers (sic)..." -- Oh really? I'd be surprised by this. Do you have numbers to back it up? I'm guessing most Mac users just use the default browser.

"Safari for Mac is just like IE for Windows, it is only used to access the web for the first time to download Google Chrome." -- I don't even... no.

"While it is a bit better than IE it still sucks and needs to be replaced ASAP." -- News to me. I use Safari every day. I've considered chrome and do tend to use it for development, but Safari is my default. It certainly doesn't suck and doesn't need to be replaced at all.
They can easily use scheduling/cron and create N slots for 1 Hour and assign a slot for a build .... No need to have a huge infrastructure just smart schedule and if really lots of sign up patient users ...
Well for the recruiter it is probably no risk. They get paid if the person gets hired, nothing happens to the recruiter if the candidate gets fired/arrested a year down the line for lying on their CV.
Try to fix your htaccess or server configuration, cause it doesn't work if you access without www in the address
It's not a rational thing, but more instinctive. Your immediate surroundings influence you in all sorts of unconscious ways, but all the people in that global distribution are pretty abstract. You can quote statistics all you like, it's difficult for them to change how you "feel" about yourself.

Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbars_number
the stackoverflow question is labeled 'c'
In terms of renewables, i think Norway and Brazil are higher up there, with 85% and 95% of their energy coming from renewable sources such as hydroelectic plants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Brazil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Norway
It's not just that he may have lied about other stuff on his resume - he could lie on the job, which can be very destructive.
Yea, but you can correct for that. Because it's always going to be close but low. So just1 add number to it's self twice and if that's low add 1, repeat as needed.

PS: Or because there is no need for it to be fast just start with zero keep adding 1 until 3x+3 > n.
This might be useful as a way to reduce your code size using the image's compression algorithm
As one of those who worked on one of the Washington Post pieces, I would invite you to come by my blog, <a href="http://christopherdanielson.wordpress.com>Overthinking My Teaching</a>, where I think you will find my motives to quite pure-better understanding of student learning of mathematics.

In fact it was very important to me that the piece I co-wrote <strong>not</strong> be a smear piece. I can't speak for the comments I did not write. But a careful read of the post itself should reveal a claim backed up by evidence. The claim is that Sal Khan is lacking some important knowledge for teaching. That's not a smear. I would gladly engage in a discussion that pointed to evidence that he does know some important things about how people learn.
And then the music stopped
EFI rootkit for Macs demonstrated
Nice collection! I've been getting more and more people asking where/how to learn to code (good for them, they're gonna need it). I knew the big ones and the ruby-focused ones, but nice to have somewhere to send them.
I think one reason that this legal brouhaha generates so much invective is because of a few fallacies about patents. At least, I think they're fallacies:

1) If a patent is easy to copy, it must have been easy to create. Samsung's 3G technology sounds hard to copy, so it must have been hard to create. Slide to unlock is easy to copy, so it must have been easy to create, right? The classic counter example is Viagra: formula is C22H30N6O4S. Easy to copy. But hard to create; clinical trials alone provably cost $100M, and billions of dollars were lost exploring other drugs which were failures. Similarly, I think slide-to-unlock is but the tip of the iceberg of Apple's expensive R&D machine; without the entire machine, it's hard to create, but easy to copy.

2) The value of the patent system is in the disclosures. People assume that because they didn't need to read a patent to recreate an invention, the patent is useless. But I would argue that the de facto value of the patent system is not the disclosures, it's the legal protections that allow the damn thing to be invented in the first place. If SmallCo is pondering whether to invest $100M to develop an innovation, and they know that DominantCo can quickly copy it for $1M, they won't proceed; they'll gave spent $100M for no benefit in the marketplace. Innovation suffers. Patents allow SmallCo to proceed with expensive investment by documenting the protected result. Similarly, if Apple couldn't protect their investments, we might all still be using BlackBerries.

Personally, I think the patent system should be modified so that the amount of protection is proportional to the monetary investment in the innovation--but that is hard to make game-proof.
In my opinion, the average comp sci college grad (BS or MS) is a bad programmer.
Interesting.
I guess this is what is referenced here: http://www.zdnet.com/samsung-sacrificed-qualcomm-truce-for-a...

According to the article it was not a license agreement, but rather a contract not to sue. Apparently, Samsung claims that the agreement was terminated when Apple sued them, but I would not be surprised if we see Qualcomm doing something to make clear to Samsung that it does not appreciate this move.
>My JS code is an array of characters, a character has an ASCII code which lies in the range from 0 to 255

Your JS code may happen to be ASCII only, but in the context of ECMAScript, a character is actually a Unicode code unit.
Hydroelectric power is not something all countries are lucky enough to have.
I agree, I use safari every day across three macs. Never seen a need to move to chrome which I do have installed. Safari just has better integration in to the mac eco system and is very capable.

Comparing Safari to IE shows the authors bias IMHO.
Can you please provide arguments for this course of action?
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How is this a rootkit when the user installed it and got notified of a plugin browser installed ? Strange behavior yes but no rootkit !
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Maybe, but obviously we would need loss-less compression. And the current web standards like gzip are optimized and perfectly suited for "text-like" loss-less compression, so it seems a little pointless to apply any image-optimized loss-less compression.
the whole situation is a counter-example to first mover advantage
It was my first job out of college, working tech support/help desk. I explained that I had career services help me with my resume, and that in the hurry to get the resume submitted I had not fully proofread it. He knew that I had applied and gotten an interview without having a resume submitted and that it needed to be in HR's hands before the first minute of the interview.

He was actually a pretty cool boss. I have to imagine that making that same mistake wouldn't fly in most places, which is why I mentioned it as a warning.
Because biomass will naturally released CO2 when decomposing

Add that biomass usually releases CH4 (methane) which is a considered a much more potent greenhouse gas. Even simply burning the methane to CO2 -- ignoring energy recapture -- is an environmentally beneficial action, which is why landfills sometimes have flares.
First map of the human brain reveals a simple, grid-like structure
The bit shift solution uses += -- how is that better?
Biomass is renewable.

Depending on one's definition of 'green' it may or may not be green. However it is renewable (in a sensible time frame).
Brute force in python:

n = 12345 # your input
s = ''.zfill(n) # fill as many zeroes
while len(s)>3: s=s[3:] # trim 3 zeroes each time
print 'divisible by 3' if len(s)==3 else 'nop'
This article describes the power Germany produced, but doesn't mention the power Germany consumed. Does Germany import a lot of power? If so, that would be a good way to tweak the numbers, just import more non-renewables, and produce less non-renewables at home.
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Whatever else Zuckerberg is, the fact that he paid a billion dollars for Instagram, makes him a bad businessman.
Awesome! Have my background music for the day!
I was surprised the energy they get from wind is more than twice what they get from solar. Isn't Germany like a good country for solar?

Also, this is the first time I see that they want to get only 35% of the energy from renewables by 2035. So they want to improve it only by 10% in the next 23 years? That's sounds like a very small improvement in a lot of time. I thought their original goal was 40% as renewable energy by 2020.
I actually think in this context "writing on your profile" is actually outdated.
More likely when you sign up for a dating profile it cross references your online shopping accounts and gives you a suggested profile automatically that will be partly based on the amount of meat your purchased etc.
I'm still not sure if this idea is any good. Let me know what you think.
The reasoning runs:

* A CV is not created under stress, it's a considered document which will almost certainly have been drafted and reviewed. Lies on a CV are not spur of the moment things, they're thought through.

* Yes we all lie but there are different levels of lie. Lying in a way which might involve someone making a decision to give you a job (and thousands of dollars) that they might not otherwise give you is a significant act of dishonesty.

* An interview is a time limited thing and because of that I have limited information on which to base a decision. If one of the things I discover during that interview is that you have perpetrated a significant, considered act of dishonesty, it's almost certain you're not going to have done anything to allow you retrieve the situation.

I'm not saying the person is a habitual liar, I'm saying I don't know but I'm not going to take the risk given what I've seen.

Probably worth saying that I'm talking about lies here, not exaggerations (which I accept as part of the game).
Whats the best IDE for development on linux? I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
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As a computer engineering undergrad with a < 3.0 GPA at a top 5 CompE school with 1 more semester to go, I've felt a lot of pressure to lie about my GPA on my resume just to be above the 3.0/3.3/3.5 cutoffs that so many jobs have. It's a little tougher to score an interview without a GPA on my resume, but I feel that once I'm in an interview, I'm at little to no disadvantage compared to anyone else since I think most places will prioritize actual problem solving skills over a number with 3 significant figures...

Currently unsure whether it's better to blurt out "2.6" or "don't worry about it" when recruiters ask me what my GPA is after seeing the rest of my resume. Either way, I sleep way better at night compared to lying.
Groundhog Day. As many tries as you want.
silicon. please.
There is a general rule of thumb. People who don't cheat, tend to strongly dislike people who do. People who do cheat, convince themselves that everyone does it, and it isn't a big detail.

Admittedly a ton of people cheat. But as someone who doesn't cheat, if I find out that you did, I'm going to lobby to not have to have you as a co-worker.

I have no idea how many people there are out there like me. Hopefully enough to discourage you from cheating. (Probably not, but I'd like to believe that it is not just a quixotic gesture on my part.)
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Modern servers and browsers support the DEFLATE algorithm for compressing over HTTP, which is the same algorithm as PNG. The only difference is that PNG preprocesses with a predictor to exploit row-to-row correlations in an image. Since the assumptions of that predictor are less likely to be sound with JavaScript code than with practical image data, and since lossless compression is a zero-sum game, PNG will perform worse than plain old DEFLATE on average for JS code.
Here is the breakdown by type, Q1+Q2 2011 in TWh, Q1+Q2 2012 in TWh and % of total |
Wind Energy: 21.0 TWh, 24.9 TWh, 9.2% |
Biomass: 14.5 TWh, 15.3 TWh, 5.7% |
Hydropower: 8.7 TWh, 10.8 TWh, 4.0% |
Photovoltaics: 9.8 TWh, 14.4 TWh, 5.3% |
Garbage and others: 2.4 TWh, 2.5 TWh, 0.9% |
together: 56.4 TWh, 67.9 TWh, 25.1%

http://www.bdew.de/internet.nsf/id/20120726-pi-erneuerbare-e... [pdf, german]

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js... [english translation]
If this was something released by Valve would it be described as a 'rootkit', or more of a dumb mistake? The internet loves Steam and anything and everything by Valve and hates Ubisoft.
Not sure what the lesson is here, other than "shares sometimes drop in value".

I think most people understand that shares in tech startup IPOs are a fairly high risk business.
I think I might have said "capable" programmers.
Using a common metaphor, a show needs "roadies" as well as "rockstars".
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I think they just fixed this. It opened Uplay and it instantly downloaded a new update released today.

Version 2.0.4 - Monday July 30th 2012 - "Fix addressing browser plugin. Plugin now only able to open Uplay application"
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I missed the download but it looks pretty sweet.
Seinfeld Moment:

George: Alright. Listen, I gotta get some reading done. You mind if I do this
here? I can't concentrate in my apartment.

Jerry (checking out George's textbook): Risk management?

George: Yeah. Steinbrenner wants everyone in the front office to give a
lecture in their area of business expertise.

Jerry: Well what makes them think you're a risk management expert?

George: I guess it's on my resume.
Nuclear power is not counted as "renewable" in Germany. So this number will only go up.
But, really, how shitty is it that the only ways to watch the olympics is to pay out of your ass or do things that aren't totally legal.

This is not true. They broadcast about 20 hours/day of olympic programming for free OTA. Most of it live, they delay high ratings events. I know it so 20th century, but they provide you free and legal option to watch Olympics.
Round it to 3. You did say engineering, right?
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Congrats on the funding and the new launch!

The article mentions that the product is freemium, but I don't see the upgrade options I remember seeing when I tried Newsblur a couple times earlier. Have you removed the paid version?
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There are some interesting things happening on the reporting side: data analysis, drone usage, citizen-sourced journalism, and more.

However, I believe the most interesting things right now are happening on the news monetization side. News outlets are desperate to find a solution to continue the work they do.

While lots of folks are creating aggregators (this one looks great), it's not hard to make a news aggregator that looks and feels nicer than a newspaper (step 1: No ads. Look how much nicer it looks already!). The far harder part seems to be figuring out how to pay for great content.
Actually the Window Manager seems to be OK (if a bit blurry). There may be problems with games going full screen for example open-invaders is a few pixels short on my PAL TV so only half of the score characters are visible, dunno if I should fix the display settings or fix the program.

Biggest problem I can see is that Midori as a browser seems to struggle on things like Google+ Photos (This may just be an out of memory and hitting swap problem, I've not investigated)

I haven't thought about what I'm going to do with mine yet (it was a gift from my father). It does come with Squeak so if thats useable on a CRT I may give that another go.
There is no article attached to this post. Just the homepage of a small piece of software targeted at developers who are familiar with installing gems.

If YOU read the content that was linked, you'd see there is a very long README targeted at people who aren't Ruby developers.
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I agree. It's about honesty and expectations, and trust of course. If you have set your character around being okay with lying, that's not cool to me.
Just because it has value for them doesn't mean it hurts you.
Why would the percentage go down if you replace one non-renewable energy source with another one?
why can't apple hand off vp8 to silicon?

http://www.webmproject.org/hardware/
So when is Google dropping H.264 in Chrome, as they indicated they would a year and a half ago? (http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in...)
We just don't shove it in your face. We're absolutely still freemium and we show you the upsell when you first create an account. After that, once you hit 64 sites, the limit at which freemium kicks in.

Otherwise, you can go to "Choose your 64 sites" under the Manage menu. We will make it clearer on the dashboard later today. Thanks for the very useful feedback!
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They also dropped the Windows port.

This seems like a bad move to me, as it makes it more difficult/expensive/impossible for 80+% of developers to test pages on the default Mac browser, which means there will be less testing. Luckily Chrome currently serves as a decent proxy for Safari, but if they diverge this could become a pain point for OS X users.
The resumes of people straight out of college/university are often horrible, so this is more likely than you think.

I don't know why that is though, it's obviously important. Maybe these, err, kids, think that as they have no working experience, employers aren't likely to look at it a lot?
If I had a dollar for every time in the 12 or so years I have written code as a profession, I have needed to implement tricks such as this I would have...

1 dollar.

I get that a company wants to hire smart people who can problem solve and think outside the box, but it doesn't really represent reality. I think if you had someone who wrote code like that you would have a maintenance nightmare since most people don't write code like that.

Of course not all situations are like mine. I write a few layers of abstraction away from the hardware, and live mostly in the managed code world. A low level/embedded systems developer may need to know these things.
This was fixed this morning. No need to go ballistic over it. It's not a rootkit.
Did anyone here actually purchase shares of Facebook, Groupon or Zynga? I never read one positive thing saying that their share prices would go up, it was always the opposite. I just assumed people who took a bath on those stocks were less tech-savvy investors trying to be "hip" with fresh IPO stock.