skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good story, shame (though understandable) that it cares more about promoting his show than actually finishing the tale for readers.
Nokia launching Windows 8 phone after disappointing Lumia sales
How about that: I wrote my first programs with pencil, on paper. I had no computer at home and very very limited access to computers at the university. Then I had to retype everything from my notes.
Noisily channeling Claude Shannon
Yahoo Strategy Guru Jim Heckman Leaves
BlindSearch 2012 - Google vs Bing
Web Site Brings Student Portfolios and Companies Together
Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai
"So... WHAT HAPPENED?"

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The problem for Linux games by Id has been the distribution. How do I buy this Quake 4/Wars that Id has ported to linux? Certainly not from Ubuntu software center. Do they have distribution system or do I have to download some binary and house it in my /home/? I don't know and couldn't find out with 1 minute of googling.

I don't think that Valve will have this problem.

EDIT: Quake Live works really well but there is a lot of free competition with Q3 type games on linux.
That the price was 10 billion does not mean the cost was that. They might even make a profit since they sell the sponsorships, broadcasting rights and tickets not to mention the stimulus of the local economy.

Sinking 2 billion into something that yields no direct monetary profit, that's a bold move for any country. They did not even sell broadcasting rights!
Curiosity Rover Landed on Mars and First Images of Mars
Yes this is called survivorship bias. Only the successful people end up being in these news articles, thus leading people to believe that everyone going through YC ends up successful.
Why would switching to a prepaid plan give you better coverage?
Well Apple deliberately forbids runtime environments on the iPad. Or rather, you could have one, and a programming editor, but you would not be allowed to share your code with others or run code created by others.

I suppose you could circumvent it by coding on some web site or server. But nevertheless, I'd say that counts as "inherent in the tablet design". Of course there are other creative things to do besides coding. You can do some things with the iPad.
Building mapping apps for the iPhone and iPad [O'Reilly Webcast]
That wasn't a story, it was a trailer.
I use an iPhone with a prepaid SIM with AT&T. I pay 10¢ a minute for calls and texts in addition to a $25/1gb data plan. I make my calls over VOIP with Talkatone and use the Google Voice app for texting. I pay $25 a month.

It was really hard to get this set up. I had to literally fight with AT&T, cut my own SIM, manually enter APN settings. When I have to purchase a new AT&T SIM after traveling they tell me it's not possible, that I can't do it. I explain that it is and I can, tell them how to set it up on their end. Ridiculous.

They tell me the iPhone can't do prepaid (it can), that it isn't unlocked (it is), that it won't work if it's jailbroken (it's not) and that all of my data will magically disappear (it will if you don't configure up the APN settings). They will say anything to steer you from prepaid.

Overseas in Southeast Asia you just walk in to a corner store, pay $2 for a SIM, give him a few dollars to load it up and send a text to buy a data plan. Vietnam was the cheapest, a couple bucks for gigs and gigs of mobile broadband.

I will never buy a phone on contract. AT&T is a nightmare and the fact that we're no longer married helps me rest easy.
Biochemically speaking, ketosis is starvation. Once you exhaust your livers supply of glycogen (within 24 hrs usually) you begin the metabolic changes to gear up to burn muscle for ketogenesis. This involves secretion of enzymes that will break muscles down.

I would presume, however, that when adequate (or some) caloric intake is maintained, esp in the form of amino acids, that this liberation of aa's from muscle is somewhat inhibited
Silicon Valley finds its heart in San Francisco
>As long as America is paying for the vast majority of space exploration, the achievements belong to us.

Well next time you can wait 12hrs until your own receivers get the signal from the rover. Or perhaps the achievements belong to Australia as well?

As an Australian your post really rubbed me the wrong way. We've been helping NASA with our specialised equipment and expertise for decades (at the Australian taxpayers expense).

Australia was integral in Curiosity's success.
Holmes.css : The HTML5 debugger
Defense and aerospace - even there we are seeing more Linux for non-safety critical software
It's a biochemistry term. Any first year biochem textbook will contain the information you want, would be happy to post Dropbox to my notes if you are interested
Implicit Undo or How to Lose Your Fixes while Merging
My problem with SPDY is that it is compressing only headers.

I still haven't figured out how to combine SPDY and gzip compression for POST requests without manually decompressing it in the browser javascript.

Other than that SPDY is extremely useful for web apps as the latency with HTTP round-trip is noticeable and most of the cases web app already runs behind TLS.

For a regular website (not a web app) SPDY adds much less value: 1) TLS encoding and negotiation adds load time 2) 3rd party javascript loading from HTTPS sources do the same 3) Main server data that was previously sent gzipped is now sent deflated [1].

[1] Maybe it's just my incompetence and it's easy to compress the SPDY content. Would be happy to hear about it.
Your voice influences how people perceive you
Via that link, I found this answer. http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/69177

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how much traffic I'd have to hit before my "$20 SSL certificate" started being a chokepoint and bottleneck? If I were able to hit stackoverflow levels of traffic, I'm sure I'd be able to figure out a way to afford it (although maybe even they haven't yet), but I'm curious at lower levels of traffic if I should still worry.
I hate to talk about this but it might be worthwhile... avoiding negative emotions led me to depression and anxiety.

About a year ago I started noticing that my life, while looking wonderful from the outside, was anything but. It was the subtle things -- eating pizza every night for a month, playing video games to pass the time, looking for excuses to avoid "living." Summer was just finishing up and one of my favorite pastimes - swimming, was only sought out 2, maybe 3 times that year. Far from par.

Emotions seemed mundane, thoughts were rarely provoking, and my opinions of the world became overly moot. I was getting stuck in the drudgery and monotony. Movies blended together. My driving habits were developing patterns. Green light, green light, red. Yield. Lather, rinse, repeat...

I was becoming more distant with my wife. Her presence was something I rarely cared for. Trying to connect on an emotional level was becoming increasingly difficult. When her days would usually be interesting and we could talk for hours about something as basic as an inkpen, it was difficult to stay focus for more than 5 minutes on largest of issues. I was frustrating with myself, my brain and especially my actions. While I was never abusive, I was distant, and I was distancing myself from her. She could be traumatized and I wouldn't be there. Her life became hard to understand, hard to relate to. And I was clueless.

Once I started picking up that life wasn't the same, my instincts started kicking in. It was fight or flight with my mind. This isn't something easily overcomed. For the longest time my only logical approach to alleviation was a frontal lobotomy. But that's not really practical. Or realistic. So there has to be something else, right?

A lot of us have an inner desires to "fix things." Pipes leak and we replace 'em. A/C goes out and recharge it. Pants get ripped? Patch it. But what do we do when WE are the problem? When our minds are the problem. And what do we do when we can't be "fixed?"

Negative emotions are healthy. Sadness, fear, hate, anger -- they're all emotions we tend to label as negative. It's society that associates negative == bad. But instead of fighting everything, we should learn to accept that these exist. They have always existed and will always exist. We can't flip a switch and all the hate in the world will be gone. Instead we should appreciate the Eastern (religion) approach to it -- keep everything in moderation. Happiness, sadness, everything. Keep it equal and don't try to fight it.

We also shouldn't go out looking for specific emotions. That'll only upset us when it doesn't reach our expectations. Instead we should put ourselves into situations where certain emotions naturally occur. Then we can observe them at face value and embrace them with our true self.
$ vimdiff <(curl http://www.fastcompany.com/node/28121/print?donttaseme) <(curl http://www.fastcompany.com/node/28121/print)

Aesthetics, perhaps?
anyway to get my hands on it to have a play?
Could be some entirely different scam? Like they could write cheques in the names of old people with lots of money in the bank, then, if some people cash them in, they could approach them and ask for their money back. If some people comply and don't check carefully who the money originated from, they have extracted some money from random people who may or may not have noticed it.

Not sure how cheques work in the US, though - I think we don't have them anymore in Germany.

It is a common scam here to be asked to receive some payments on your bank account and pass them on. When the original owner discovers it, you are the culprit and not the scammer...
I think I peered some SUN workstations, so Solaris would be a fair guess. Pure speculation of course.
I don't think it's against the law. But, in an interview the student w/ the cell phone camera says there is a "no electronics" policy at the school, which I imagine means he's not supposed to have his cell phone with him. There's probably also a policy about video taping in schools.
Yes, that kind of rate is only for partner-level time at a Big 4/Big 3 type shop--and those guys aren't billing more than a few hours a week typically. Even then, $1k/hour is pretty high.

Now, it's not uncommon at all for the staff folks who are on the ground 40+ hours a week to be billed out at anywhere from 200-600/hour. But >$1k? Very rare.
What are you getting at, if you don't mind me asking?
Makes a lot of sense to me. I don't think it's a marketing ploy.

Going out and trying to get work is massively annoying. So is context-switching. Plus paying your own benefits, dealing with non-paying customers, legal fees (yes, you need a lawyer if you're going to freelance) and having a complete lack of job security. I don't envy freelancers when I look at what they have to put up with. With all this, a typical hourly rate (and this is generally considered fair) is 1/800 of salary.

He also has an existing project that he's working on full time, and that he'd presumably be taking time away from to work on the consulting gig. When you're already working full-time, it makes sense to tack a factor of 3 on to your hourly rate, on the supposition that leisure time is worth (when you work full time and have little of it) 3 times as much as regular work time.

Given all this, a reasonable consulting rate might be 1/250 of annual salary, so he's rating himself as being at the same level ($250k/year) as a mid-career Wall Street quant. I don't think that's unreasonable.
I have watched enough mechanics open a car door locked with the keys inside. I still can't do it on my own though. Call a professional, the guy gets it done in seconds (plus the time it takes for him to travel to wherever I am). Some things, even if you possess the knowledge, you may not possess the skill.
50,000 hits in a few hours will do that to a site. Time to upgrade.
There's plenty of software required to track / audit what's happening in a business in order to comply with plenty of legislation
The CPU on board is a RAD750: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAD750 It is a radiation hardened PowerPC 750. The PowerPC 750 was launched in 1997 and the RAD 750 in 2002. So, it looks like radiation hardening took 5 years.

The MSL project started in 2004. So, it was probably the best radiation hardened processor for the job at the time.
The problem with Objective C
Am I missing something here?

The transit, bank and account number on the check must all be fake (or I would hope that this get-rick-quick company didn't actually send their real bank information!). So whether or not the check has non-negotiable printed on it is a mute point. The check cannot be routed anywhere and would have been flagged immediately. This is not the good ol' days of bank fraud, ala Catch Me If You Can.

Does the fact that he knowingly deposited a fake check constitute fraud in the US?
There was an article in linux-journal that described how linux was being used at JPL : http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7570

From what I understand, Linux runs the rover simulator environment - known as RSVP. It consists of a DSL that is used to direct the rover's operations and a visualization environment. This way the ground crew can first plan and test the activities they want the rover to perform in this simulated environment and then upload the action plan to the rover - so overall Linux plays a pretty important part in the the rover tech stack.

Most probably the initial rovers ran VxWorks RTOS, because back then it was the best choice (even now it isn't a bad choice at all) - complex systems are built incrementally.
CamelCase and code generation don't mix
The question is, can this be repeated? Junk mail creators haven't necessarily seen this story, they may not know that they are in error.

Would some sort of penalty be applied to someone depositing such a check, assuming one received such a check and it does have all the necessary features?
Google to shutter Apps for Teams and Listen
That image is taken with the front right Hazcam.

Here's an image of Curiosity, so maybe you can work out the shadow form this?

(http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20120803.html)
America: wake up.
VxWorks as well, http://www.spacex.com/downloads/dragonlab-datasheet.pdf
>Sinking 2 billion into something that yields no direct monetary profit, that's a bold move for any country.

You need to look at what is spun off from the projects. If you look at that I'm sure the 2 billion will seem like a pitance.

http://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff/database
Why you should try out phototags.me?
Blackhat 2012 presentations
Curiosity lands successfully, kicks off new era in Mars exploration
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I don't see what the problem is. Care to elaborate?
Is it really the case that the only way to get a handset in the US is through a carrier? Not even from Amazon or other online electronics retailer?

I've not bought a handset in the US. And never will, from a carrier (irrespective of the cost) because -

a). I want an unlocked handset

b). I don't want carrier branding or crapware on my phone

c). I don't trust carriers (ref. eg. CarrierIQ).
I'm sorry, but from what I know of banking law (ianal, nor do I play one on the Internet, but it helps to know enough to defend yourself from banks)... why isn't he in jail? I thought knowingly doing what he did constitutes bank fraud and numerous other charges?
This story was from a little while back but what's to stop you just printing a cheque from someone else and paying it into a bank today? There's no alerting to the originator that a cheque's been paid out and there are no obvious authentication tokens on the cheques.

Frank Abignale only had to get past an initial look-test so what techniques protect against (and are consistently used) to prevent cheque forgery today?
The price of the certificate is irrelevant. The issue is that encryption and decryption eats CPU cycles, so running all traffic via HTTPS on a busy site is going to require significantly more processing power.
The guy's too focused on the new and shiny and too little on the elphenat in the room.

3D Printers will be constrained by cost and the choice of materials that they use. There will be some range of applications that they're economical, but I can't see them being competitive for low end clothing.

On the other hand, I'd say that white color workers of all kinds are endangered, even A.I. Programmers
Etymology aside, what's your suggestion for a workable replacement to "they"?
That wasn't rhetoric. I actually want an app that can do these three things:

1) Let me work with custom fonts

2) Let me import images and cut them and place them

3) Export the whole thing as pdf

(Bonus points for handling svg and clip art)

I have not found one that does. I didn't try Pages - I assume it's a word processing app like Word and not a page layout/design/typesetting app like In-Design.

Have you tried it? Does it let me do these things?

I've often toyed with the idea of writing it myself. But I stop at point (1) because loading custom fonts that don't ship as part of the app bundle doesn't seem to be supported by iOS. (And also because I tend to procrastinate)
Two billion dollars and they couldn't put a color camera on it :-(
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I realize that. I'm asking how much traffic can be handled by a simple single server before it starts dying due to SSL CPU cycles.

I do realize now that my question is too simplistic and obviously varies according to the nature of the application, server config, etc. So won't expect any answers for it. :)
If it was fake, wouldn't the bank have figured it out when they tried to transfer the money?

Maybe it was a case of "america's stupidest criminals." I don't know the details, but weirder things have happened.
Sure, they could still use 99designs. But if they are in my target market why would I refer them to a competitor? That doesn't make sense to me...

I agree, some folks have a terrible amount of talent and don't know their value. I see it all the time. But, I wouldn't make a blanket statement and say "all designers are equal", which is essential what you are saying.

You can call it entitlement if you would like. I call it I've worked my ass off for many years and now have the luxury of only accepting gigs that I want. This isn't about being a dick, it's about doing what's best for me and my family.
I had it bookmarked like that, my guess is that it was a re-submission and somebody added that tag in order to make the URL unique
I once paid a fairly big cheque (> 10k sterling) into the wrong business account. It cleared but I only realised the mistake a couple of weeks later.

I rang the bank (Santander in the UK - terrible bank don't use them) and they said "Oh yeah, we generally don't check the payer".

Really.
> Nobody is saying space is America's

Really? [0] rings a bell from a few years back, but I'm not sure if it's still current. If denying access to space to anyone "hostile to U.S. interests" isn't "ownership" (or maybe "guardianship", if you prefer that term), I'm not sure what is.

[0]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10...
Definitely a question I can't answer. Although these days SSL is rarely implemented on each individual server. Instead, load balancers handle SSL and traffic is passed unencrypted to the backend servers doing the real work (presumably at this point, you're on a secure network). Many hardware load balancers even have specialized chips for handling SSL.
They have at least one color camera that "is like a consumer point and shoot" on the mast. The pictures released are from the very technically-limited hazard cams, which are really only for the drivers to see what they have to deal with.

Within a week we should see some full-color images coming in.
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IIRC from this guy's site, before it was a show, he had a stand-off with the bank for a while before learning that this check was holding up a merger between his bank and another company, so the whole executive suite was freaking out. Eventually he gave the check back with no repercussions and some token like a letter of apology.
As far as I know, there are just 2 things preventing fraudulent checks:

1. Obscurity : Someone has to know your account number and routing code.

2. ...

Ah, make that just one thing preventing fraudulent checks. It's scary. Any legitimate check, for any amount contains enough information to create a fraudulent check to drain a bank account.
Ah, right. I tend to forget those psychological shortcomings :(

This one is rather strong and I easily fall for it, thank you for reminding me.
Cool, that's what I suspected. Maybe CTO should stand for Chief Traction Officer.
That's the thing, I'm pretty sure check clearinghouses are near real-time these days. At least in the US. Deposit the check and within a few minutes it'll either clear from the other bank or bounce.
There is a color camera on it. It's just not deployed yet.

https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/status/232412416728788992
Woz has no need for the cloud, he has one in his backpack:

http://gizmodo.com/5926598/the-amazing-contents-of-steve-woz...
Victoria Coren: I'm a smoker who doesn't smoke
I watched the beginning of the NASA JPL press conference and the overt patriotism was unbearable (at least for me as an European citizen). They not only coarsely described as an American victory, but also patronized foreign Mars projects – the successful ones apparently being a result of "American leadership".
Mostly, yea.

You can buy on Amazon, but even there you're still buying it through a carrier, with a plan.
Mumbai, the City of Younger Population
I don't think someone that has "no experience with html/css" would care or understand what a "functioning cross-browser compatible layout" is. Just my opinion though, I've been wrong before!
To amuse: Dunno if things have changed here(UK) but a cheque can be (or could be) anything. It's just a bit of paper with some details on it. In fact, I'm not sure there is a requirement for it to actually be on paper. Legend has it some students in the UK banked a cow (yes a large moo moo thing) because it had the right details on it.

Anyway, if this fake cheque had all the right details on it, or enough to make the transaction, how is it fake? Or how could it clear if the details were wrong? Surely US banks clear the cheque before crediting the account with the money?
I worked on VxWorks and Linux on Intel's IXP embedded processors before, and VxWorks' performance and memory footprint were always better than Linux's. For 'Performance' I refer to network throughput because IXP was meant to be for routers and gateways. It was around 2006 so I am not sure what these two OSes are up to now. Don't flame me because I am just speaking from my own experience.
It's Woz or Wayne if you want a comment from an Apple founder...and who quotes Wayne?
Ask HN: What should I do to be able to raise my rates?
The recent post about Sam charging $1000/hr (http://samsoff.es/posts/one-thousand-dollars-an-hour) and the fact that my current client just spent $30K on a load testing provider who didn't provide much value made me think about the things I should do to be able to naturally raise my rates.

Here are the things I can think of:

- Raise my profile by speaking in local events

- Polish my website to showcase my experience (10 years in .NET and numerous side projects)

- Pick a niche that provides high perceived value: security / training / load testing (apparently)

- Charge per day or per week rather than per hour (as suggested by patio11)

What else do you suggest me to do or has worked for you?