skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will pay a lot of money for a Linux-compatible Excel feature-parity version of a spreadsheet.

In fact, most spreadsheets today are created using OOXML, so it might be easier (notionally speaking) than the binary XLS format.

I daresay, there is a very, very large market for this - especially in Asia. I dont need the same for Word or Powerpoint - PDFs work fine in an emergency. For spreadsheets, I dont have an alternative.
Ask HN: Are GitHub Buttons Gone?
Where there used to be a GitHub "watch" button, I'm getting an error saying "for security reasons, framing is not allowed" (see http://bulbflow.com), and Mark Dotto's GitHub button repo is gone (http://markdotto.github.com/github-buttons/).
I'd check your post date ;)
I assume you're referring to the use of the 'register' keyword? well, that's not "memory mapped registers!" That's a suggestion to the compiler that it should store a variable in a cpu register, if possible. that means that you can't take the address of that variable, and so on.

Last I heard, 'register' is pretty much obsolete these days, because there is no way you can do better at guessing which variables are candidates to be stored in registers than the compiler can.
I am really excited about Ouya. It has the potential to become a game changing (pun intended) product. I hope they can live up to all the buzz they have generated.
That is quite a parody!! :-)
SOLID Clojure
Weighing the costs and benefits of High Availability systems
Jeff Rubin: Oil and the End of Globalization
Great link. Thanks for the info.
I'd love to learn it, but Java and XML scare me away.
I could never get my socket.io instance to max out, is there a good way to load test socket.io and web sockets?
This is a honest post and very valuable.

"why did I quit a job that met all these criteria? The easy answer is that I knew I didn't want to be an academic. But since the job was a stepping stone to a similar, higher paying job in industry, there's a more complex answer hiding away in here somewhere."

That answer could be: Freedom.
Yes, apparently it's using celery to "round up" the values if it's "not there" yet and it needs some more calories.
Don't the the four voting members of the foundation have to vote to BSD license Qt? Its not auto kick-in right?

I think there are a ton of partiess that would be interested in developing a BSD modern GUI framework like Qt 5.
That specifically analyzes the asteroid and circumstances in "Armageddon", starring Bruce Willis. It does not apply to all incoming asteroids.
If you scale up everything, the aperture stays constant, correct.

But since the larger sensor can work with much more light, it therefore has a much higher S/N-ratio. If you switch that camera to a higher aperture, you get less light, leading to a lower ratio again.

So the lower S/N-ratio of the smaller sensor could be estimated as a higher aperture. Whether the numbers calculated by wisty are correct, I don't know, though.
I would also like to see the ranking "By national pride sentiments" , as i'm pretty sure olympics performance is just a meaningless show.
Don't forget http://leicarumors.com/
Unexpected skip of a destructor
doesn't work on opera mobile
Adding android to their p&s cameras is not what I expected from them. Nikon has a huge problem to tackle and adding android to their p&s is not the solution.

While Nikon makes great DSLR (but not necessarily better than the competition), their point and shoot cameras aren't any good. Not when compared to the Canon S95 in the cheap segment. Or the Fuji X10 in the expensive segment.
Nikon can't even get the mirror-less interchangeable lens system right : what were they thinking with the Nikon 1 ? the sensor is way too small, much smaller than the already small sensors of the Four Third system from Olympus/Panasonic and the size of the sensor is one of the most important thing to consider when it comes to image quality. Canon obviously knows better than Nikon and their entry to that market will feature an APS-C sensor.

Whatever it is that Nikon does, they do not understand photography anymore, apart from the few who work in their DSLR division.
More the opposite - I care about money only to the extent that it allows me to stay out of trouble. I don't want to be a millionaire, I'd just like $5M sitting in a bank account at 5% so I don't ever have to think about money again.

The technologies/products I was exploring - while awesome, some verifiably so according to the customers we spoke with - weren't likely to lead to profitable businesses. I had to learn the difference between a good idea and a good business model. This is a valuable lesson for any entrepreneur.

As something to play around with as a hobby or technology demo they're still great ideas, but as businesses they're not viable (and in one case, perhaps just not yet.)
Quick feature request. I have no interest in the second rating scale about how much I would enjoy a film if I watched it again, the vast majority of films I watch I never watch a second time and have little interest in doing so. Please let me rate films without smileys.
They know he had guns but they all went in without any armour. Sure looks like they were anticipating the use of guns!
can you email your phone details to help@goodfil.ms and we'll see what we can do. Glen has an iPhone, I have an android, so that's been our testing to date.
Sorry for taking a while to get back to you.

I've sent you an email today.
That sounds like an insult. "Hey, buddy! Go eat a kilo of salt!"
Why you should know a lot about your competitors
Yes. That's why I mentioned not only type trickery but the one domain specific example where I can claim to be an expert in (mathematical optimization).

I guess, the original ten years was hyperbole?
Ansel Adams disagrees.
Wouldn't that be only for power users? I am very good at Excel myself but it's not part of my job to work with it so I'd say most of the time I use Excel as a quick storage for data and not as a calculation sheet. Grid sounds great for almost every case where you would fire up Excel but not actually do any complex calculations. It made me think of this article by Joel Spolsky about Trello (and spreadsheets): http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/01/06.html
Actually, the footage looks great for an anti-copyright advert. "If you are suspected of copyright infringement, we send in police with weapons, in a helicopter".
Ask HN: How do you create a sample DB from your LIVE DB?
Our LIVE database is too large to be running on our dev machines, but we do need good data sample to test & develop on.

Does anyone know of a good solution to this problem?
Wow, to call your own site massivegreatness, that's something!
Pushing systems to their limits is what hackers do.

Figuring out when it's appropriate is what adult hackers do.

It usually takes a while to go from one to the other.
Link to his next post showing him breaking 250k - http://blog.caustik.com/2012/04/10/node-js-w250k-concurrent-...
Not to mention, it took them 15 minutes to actually find Dotcom.
Zeus malware targeting BlackBerry and Android devices | The Hacker News
I can't stress enough that it wasn't just me doing this - I had a great pair of co-founders, even though they weren't as committed and ultimately walked away from the business. They helped a lot with the cold-calling and face to face meetings. A large part of what I learnt was that I really dislike cold calling!

But you're right I'm probably not done. I still like this world; making stuff, fixing people's problems, innovating, etc. What I've learnt is that I certainly don't want to be the CEO/hustler. I like technology more than money. I should sit on the CTO/product side of the fence if I do it again.
My first few tries were wonky, but after adding more cooking time the suggestions came out GREAT!

Extremely well done! I've bookmarked it and will be back.
AVR microcontrollers, certainly.

Edit: That's answering the question I think you meant, which was "Is memory mapped I/O in use anywhere ..."

And yes, they're often programmed in C.
We have always solved this by having a large dev database machine, periodically synced it from live, and connected to it from the dev machines. Hardware is extremely cheap, compared to dev time. (in the cases I've seen, it was infeasible to select a representative sample - we may need any of the database rows; approximating the live database from just a sample was not an option. I understand that your case would be okay with not having specific data on-hand, as long as the sample is representative of the full set?)
Google wants to create the Star Trek Search Engine
3 days to crowdfund the missing $2400 to develop the Brickflow beta
Mars rover camera project manager explains 2MP camera choice
Is there already a nice way to do the freeze under OS X? I vaguely remember a simple hello world app being 50-100MB, as the tools had no clue which parts are actually needed.
500 Startups Looking to Latin America and India for Second Fund
She's a lot more risk adverse than me, but I ran the numbers, we had about two year's runway, and as I said when I started out "at least if I fail it'll be quick!" :-)
BTW, note that Duff's device leads to an irreducible flow graph. In one compiler I know of, that led to really bad code (it gave up on putting variables in registers); in others, I think that the changes to make the flow graph reducible undoes the jump into the middle of the loop.
Wouldn't that amount of whole milk just make you vomit? (not an expert, just asking). Is there some trick to keeping it down?
I use MDN, not extensively though. I like this site, it is useful and very well organized, but feature availability (browser & level) is not as well documented as in w3schools I find. Chrome is probably not the issue here, rather - let's name it - IE.

MDN is a great site, don't misunderstand me - but in this case I am not sure this is the right hoster. I used MDN for some JavaScript issues like one year ago, and it was then running well on FF but not at all on IE. Maybe they have all corrected that since, but I'm not seeing that clearly now.

dochub looks nice, but again it is not something for beginners.

Also, MDN is client only (which is one point making me say it is very Mozilla oriented). w3schools has this part about PHP which is very useful for beginners. Again, my point hasn't changed. MDN and others are more useful resources to experienced web devs than w3schools, but w3schools is the better point to begin with when you don't know about web development and want a clear overview.
I remember in high school, the computers where running windows 95. They used this shell hacking "protection" software called Fortress. It worked by hiding buttons and menus and trying to prevent you from opening up various apps or clicking certain files in common dialog boxes.

My first "hack" was just a boot disk that simply copied fortress.exe to another directory (a little choice.exe with autoexec.bat magic).

The second hack came later. The computers were upgraded to Windows 98 and my autoexec.bat trick stopped working because of a BIOS password. Thankfully the machines came with Word which had nice shinny feature called Visual Basic for Applications. Most of the shell was hacked to hide menues still in Fortres 2.0 but good old VBA was still accessible. Using VB I could call Win32 apis and it was just a few calls to enumerate and kill the startup entries for fortress in the registry.

The best part of this was that it was all sanctioned activities sort of. The IT department was in a central building downtown (30 minutes away from our school) and who was always a pain to work with for the teachers. Their gradebook apps failed under fortress and even their teacher passwords failed to disable all the shell hacks. Shutting off fortress was the only compatible way to get things to run correctly for the teachers.

At first when the local IT department found out, they laughed, but then later got upset when the disk of my magic word document spread. It was making it's way across the district via email lists.

At some point in the school year I got accused of spreading 'a virus' to other students that allowed them to download 'warez' on school computers. Apparently fortress was the only thing preventing kids from using WinPopUp and windows NT messenger to send broadcast messages to all desktops across the network.

I tried to fight it and explain exactly how the thing worked and the silliness of shell hack in the first place. It didn't work. The Principal said I was hacking regardless and suspended me. After getting the suspension (and after they called my parents who knew before I did and were very upset already), I quickly called the computer programming teacher (who knew knew C++ and VB and had previously been an assistant for in my sophomore year). He called the principle and super and explained that I was not hacking and that I was 'improving productivity' and that the IT department's policies were hindering teachers. I got out of the suspension by the super the next day but no apology was given. Just a stern "stop hacking" the next week when I got back.

I was later voted most likely to succeed by my class. Apparently in a class size of 1200+, I was well known for my exploits.
ئه م سايت هاكرا له لايه ن rezhan
Things 2 is out (Mac/iOS app)
There's something amazing about programming in that regardless of whether you're a 100-year tree in the forest like Jeff Atwood or a hapless sapling stumbling about on Codeacademy you can still add value both as a developer and a community member.

I've been coding for 10 years now and have reached the point where I'm reasonably handy but I look at a post like this and the sedimentary layers upon layers of experience that Jeff has and feel like a total novice. And yet I can still build stuff that's useful. I can still help people on StackOverflow and I can still learn from the giants above me.

I had no idea when I got into it but in retrospect it's pretty awesome to have chosen a career with such an updraft for newcomers and where everyone at almost every level can meaningfully teach, learn and contribute.
I hope that even if they fail this will be one of those failures that expands our collective knowledge.
There's Opera Mobile for iOS and Android guys ;)

http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/
Truly? I don't know yet.

I have the luxury of a reasonably large nest egg from my previous job, so I'm not desperate for work. I'm considering whether any of these ideas are licensable (I've never done licensing before, but it doesn't seem too unfathomable.) I'm also networking/advertising myself, partly through posts like this, and seeing what opportunities turn up as a result. If you'd seen my inbox since posting this you'd become a believer in this strategy...
The population density (according to duckduckgo) of India is about the same as the English one. England is doing fine, though perhaps getting a bit too old.
Functional Programming in 2012 … time to learn something more?
But the whole point of buying Valve would be to dictate what they can do with Steam. If they're still a distribution platform for Mac and Linux then what's the point?
I was poking around on the school computers and I found a (world readable) script for joining the AD (these were macs, so there was some black magic going on), with an username and password in it. Turns out that username and password was the administrator account on almost every server in the school, which were all accessible through remote desktop.

Yeah, that was a good time.
They recently revamped their entire notification system. That probably has something to do with it.
It is seriously lacking, but the underlying point is good. Consider using colors that are nearly black in preference to complete black.
(until I got suspended, ofc)
But then you have bickering over what you classify together as types. E.g. does diving belong to swimming? Hurdling together with marathons?
Pythonect (new dataflow programming language based on Python) 0.4 released
While we're noting things, I couldn't help but continually note that the text on your website is damn hard to read. I'd rather have legible pure black text than text with such low contrast that I have to spend more effort to accommodate it.

"Design" is supposed to be a beautiful blend of form and function, and I find it hard to take advice seriously from a website that doesn't care about the latter.
It's a shame, that he didn't mentioned about kernel tuning. Without custom settings ( like net.ipv4.tcp_mem ), i think, it's a very difficult to reach this numbers.
If you are nitpicking about the names of states, you'd probably also have to call Germany the Federal Republic of Germany. And lots of other countries have more formal names, too.
I'm curious, is this still useful on modern architecture? I would have thought branch prediction would largely negate any performance benefit.
Even with good monitors, some of us are tired of the trendiness of greyscale designs and see them as just as dated as it is using green text on black to suggest 'hacker'.
I think we can have an 'Open Twitter' without anyone needing to fund it, or own it, or monetize it.

1 to Many short messages are a powerful concept, but as with email - a spec is all we need.

In a nutshell: we define a layer on top of email and mailing lists for short broadcast messages and discovery.

I jotted down my rambling, incoherent thoughts on the subject here:
http://www.aschroder.com/2012/07/an-open-twitter-like-networ...
There's an upper limit, and the bigger countries send all they can. (Unless with Olympian you mean something other than number of entrants?)
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This is not an answer, but there is a previous discussion in a submission of mine: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4136682
This kind of money is clearly a message the world needs a product like this. Hopefully existing players (Sony, M$) will think about it a bit. I hate the fact that my PS3 is still considered the latest generation of consoles and is now more than 5 years old.
The information is incorrect according to Jeremy Bicha:

> Yet another poorly researched news item from Phoronix. Debian hasn't actually switched the Wheezy default desktop to XFCE. GNOME is the default today and could still be the default for release.

> It was changed in the git but it wasn't actually released yet. Several GNOME packages have already been rebuilt with xz compression to make the binaries small enough to fit on the CD.

> Switching the default desktop would be controversial and there's a lot of inertia behind GNOME.﻿

https://plus.google.com/110356875332222535709/posts/46wiyitn...
It's probably easier to make lifestyle businesses pay off. And how is success / failure defined? I can imagine failure might mean that the VCs didn't make money? Then it could still have been worthwhile for the founders.
The details are a bit fuzzy, but I remember a certain computer lab of mac classics on an applets network. We installed some extension that let you send messages to other computers, and even put it on the teachers computer, which was connected to a projector. In retrospect photoshopping his head onto a playboy centerfold and resediting it into the extension and removing the reply button, and then sending it to him during class on the projector, well that was probably a bit much.

They tried several types of lockdown software, nothing ever actually worked. You can't stop kids from playing games.
This was my initial thought, too. They're in a real pickle though: Is their long-term strategy really to build a platform/ecosystem to compete with Apple, Microsoft, Amazon AND Google? Because that's quite a crowded field, but if they don't build that ecosystem, Steam as a separate line of business for Valve seems like it would have its days numbered.

Only way I can see them getting around that and competing succesfully is if they offer a console-like appliance, which still seems like a huge departure and risk.
Some people are concerned about the hardware, whether or not the specs will start to get outdated when the product finally ships (Q1/Q2 2013).

Another point is the openness, it being so open for not only software hacks but also hardware hacks, will it also produce a lot of cheaters in online multiplayer games?

I pledged, and personally, I can't wait to get my hands on it! I think the media player capabilities and Android compatibility will make the product succeed anyhow. Certainly, the campaign (904% of Kickstarter goal) already has.
Your powers of deduction are breathtaking. :)
Is it me, or is Valve gearing up to launch its own Linux distro? With Steam as primary content distribution and app catalogue and a bit of thought and focus-groupery poured in to the UI/UX the same way they design their games, they could own the desktop space in half a decade.
but why should it care about it? it's a whole different stack...
A new article about Jeff and Sanjay.
win compatible acls are incompatible to posix acls. that's hard to argue away.
At college, we had AIX Unix terminals that ran in character mode. I wrote a program to simulate the login screen. It would record your user/password to a file and then throw an 'Invalid Login' error and then actually logoff and give you the real login screen. So no one suspected anything.

After I was done with a terminal, I'd run this program and leave (knowing full well, that someone could Ctrl-C to terminate the program and get access to my account though no one ever did)

I got more than a few passwords with this. But didn't actually do anything with them. I felt bad and deleted the program and passwords after some time.
Pretty cool.

One thing is that it's hard to anchor the figures to actual medal counts. I think normalising the data would be awesome. The normalisation should be such that sum(actual medals won) = sum(adjusted medals won).
I suspect that's why Windows has you do a Ctrl+Alt+Del before logging in.
What we can take away from this, and i hope the major console makers do this as well is, that many people (especially developers of course) want a more open and friendly console market. This basically embodies what the rumours wanted Valve to do with their own pc-based console.
Judging by the title I would say you are bipolar in manic phase. =P

But it's a pretty inspiring post. =)
It's also considerably cheaper to field a larger team as the host nation. Or at least, there's so much money being splashed around that the budget for the actual team is peanuts.
Why do you hate that fact? It's not like the PS3 is a bad console in 2012, incapable of incredible modern games. The console lifespan is lengthening as a general rule, and for good reasons.
I run a small site called http://twitya.com - maybe that'd be a better name for it, named after the Twitya river in Canada.
ctrl+shift+n (incognito window).

At least gets around the Google login / plus / social info. Still going to have something to do with your location, but I guess there are no totally objective results if you consider that part of the search personalising.
July 2012: four Cisco vulnerabilities
QT = "cute"
There's no Opera Mobile for iOS, it's called Opera Mini, and it's a different beast. Opera Mobile is a proper browser, but Opera Mini is a thin client and uses a web browser running on a server as a proxy - which introduces a number of limitations.
How does Flash Contribute To The Success Of A Website
Forgot the mandatory link: http://smartpost.ee/
Doesn't mars also lack a magnetic field?
The Film Industry Doesn't Want My Money
Nice idea! I am a developer so take my advice with a grain of salt. The good - Very nice idea. I would subscribe to it within a moment's notice, not for every month though.

1. I would change the fonts on the title and the content. May be hire a designer, if you can. 2. Try explaining your product with as less content as possible. People usually cannot spend too much time on your home page understanding your idea.