skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not the only one. Considering that the owner have ads on the site, gives evidence of someone who want to make a quick and easy buck from trolling the community.
http://icecoder.net/ open source web based IDE
Luckily, SoundCloud's next release will be HTML5-audio-only. You can also enable experimental HTML5 playback support with the current version in your settings.

Your point is correct, though. There are a lot of sites that break if they don't detect Flash right at page load.
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Why I backed Instacube
http://brightswipe.com - Brightswipe: It's a fast, open-source, and better looking version of the Pirate Bay, with more features coming soon (SSL, connect to swarm and get new torrents, node-to-node communication, etc). The design right now is godawful (since I designed it) but we have a new design coming out in a few days. It'll be gorgeous.
Yeah, buy "open" Android tablets instead, then spend another couple million on support and throw them away in 2 years.

On his school experience: Windows software is also proprietary, but you can run Linux on a Mac, and open-source software on OSX or Windows too. He is completely mixing up open-source software with hardware/OS vendors.

> I strongly recommend your students become broadly educated computer users [...] so they can maximize the effectiveness of their computing and be more employable because of their high ability to adapt to whatever computer platform their employer may be using

Sure using Linux will do that... what's the difference? Students won't learn how to use Windows or OSX either if they don't have contact with them.
The answer is that modern consumer memory packages have come a long way from core memory. Standard ECC tech is extremely resilient to bit-rot and can recover in cases where older memory technologies would have failed catastrophically.

And in the case of real memory corruption, i.e. where cosmic radiation overwhelms the ECC controllers ability to correct the bit rot, well .. "reboot and retry" has been a standard for years, and will continue to work as a strategy as long as it is considered by the software architects of the system.
How about Oysters? http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2010/04/consider_the...
Cool product! I know this is a nitpick but you should include a link to your homepage (http://telech.at) somewhere on your blog so readers don't have to manually type in the URL.
Comparing Intel HD 2000/3000/4000 Linux Graphics
I remember the O2 smartphone running some form of windows about 2005/06.
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Species of phospholipid, soybean lecithin, is a byproduct of soybean oil. It contains nutrient choline, to ensure proper fonctionnement the brain. Order to obtain the Soya Lecithin, soybean exercise and stored at a specific temperature, to keep moisture, over one week.
Damn, this is so cool! I love it. I think I'm going to switch from Wordpress, actually.
Lambdas: a looser, more flexible future for Java
Java desktop apps are just fine for about 99% of business apps - get some records from the database, make some changes, and store them. But yeah, I wouldn't use it for external customers.

Of course, where I work we're replacing pretty nice swing apps with far-less-nice web stuff. Why? Because the CTO read some trade mag that said nobody is doing fat clients anymore. Glad to see he's earning his salary. Sigh.
JFK had health problems in his youth and during his presidency, right up until he was killed. He felt it necessary to convey the impression of "vigor" (a key word for JFK) despite/because-of these problems. It's only recently that the inner circle has felt comfortable talking about it.
Right. Questions like this are stupid because they're not asking a usable question. The best response to the headline is really, "Define a thought." This is difficult in humans, never mind anything else.

If you choose to define thoughts as stimuli-response, then you're classifying our entire system of instinctive responses as thoughts, which is practically a brain bypass. (The literal knee-jerk reaction.)
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Indeed, it's more like observing a magnetic field by dropping iron dust on a sheet of paper, and gently hit/shake it until the field lines "appear".

It makes me wonder why we can't observe dark matter (which seems to emit only pure gravitation, and no light nor electromagnetic radiation). Could it be because there's no actual matter (i.e pure gravitational waves, like the magnet+iron+paper experiment)? Or are they massive clouds overloaded with Higgs bosons?
I'm making an Internet protocol for sending money. It is like SMTP for payments.
When Your Seed Round Is A Party, Few People Have Fun
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> He is not talking about causation or not.

Of course he is. Here's a quote from the post to which I replied:

> There is inadequate evidence of a link between the hygiene hypothesis and autism ... the article is claiming a correlation, which is at least weak evidence.

But the above is false. A correlation is not "weak evidence" for a cause-effect relationship, or a "link", as the poster put it. We need to be perfectly clear that a "link" suggests a cause-effect relationship, but without specifying which way cause and effect run.

A correlation is an observation that can only lead to further work, and it is never, in and of itself, evidence of a cause-effect relationship, absent discovery of a mechanism.

This reminds me of one of my pet peeves about science journalism -- use of the word "link" to describe a correlation. It's tendentious and misleading. There are lots of studies that find "links" between utterly unrelated things, by simple data mining (searching for coincidental correlations devoid of meaning). Such meaningless correlations are often published as though they mean something, and they're nearly always described with the word "link" or another tendentious word.

Intentionally humorous examples:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/correlation-or-causatio...

Apophenia (seeing meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
Then why not change the subject to Coolidge?
Not only just light (photons) but no other radiation as well (electromagnetic, like X or gamma rays), except gravity.
A big part of it is that space is just too inaccessible to most people - Neil Armstrong was elite, and an aversion towards all things 'elite' permeates our societies. We technocrats sure know why he was awesome, but to the average Joe, Neil Armstrong represented a segment of society that was untouchable, outside the reach of an average individual.

I think its a two-edged sword - we need 'the best' to pilot our technologically overwhelming machines - but this leaves a lot of us out. If Neil Armstrong wasn't such a well-trained, highly educated, privileged individual, perhaps there would be more of a fuss made .. but the fact is, average humanity is about as far away from the state of existence of Neil Armstrong as you and I are, really, from the Moon ..

(Too bad NASA and the entire US "Defense" apparatus isn't delivering water purification, school library and DIY-hospital packages from orbit. Maybe it'd matter more to the rest of Humanity..)
While JFK's grades may have been unexpectedly poor in any case, readers should bear in mind that C and D had different meanings than today's due to grade inflation.
The G+ UI is great if all of your other friends have Google accounts and have signed up for G+. Pretty sweet.

But for those that haven't signed up for G+ or even worse, don't have a Google account at all, forget about it. I wanted to set up a Hangout for my family members in other states to chat in, but after the catastrophe above, there's no way I am going to try and convey those instructions to others..
Disclaimer: I don't have any iOS devices. But AFAIK as a developer you can load anything you want onto your personal device including C/C++ and Ruby code. Check out the Marmalade game engine for example - pure C/C++ for iOS.

Getting it published it on the app store is another matter however.
Is the update for the Nexus S OTA? I haven't gotten mine yet. In fact, I haven't gotten the 4.0 (ICS) OTA yet. I heard they released a version but pulled it... I have yet to see anything beyond 2.3 for my Nexus S.
HarvardˆHˆHˆHˆHˆHˆHˆHANYWHERE
Will all these cheap satellites (from NASA or hobbyists, there are a couple of them on Kickstarter) cleanly de-orbit themselves or are we just adding up to the space junk at this point?
And that's why I never sign up for a gym for more than 6 months (but usually 3 or 1 month since I'm on the move)

(Also, I do go to the gym)
Wonder if Apple will sue to get an injunction against the launch. :)
Let's just hope Apple haven't patented smartphones in space already.
As you suggested: http://www.heystartup.com/hey/pitch/1

Although currently only one submission - that is ours!
There are a lot of people thinking about what kind of structure the model of dark matter particles could have. And there are a lot of different ways for there to be more than one dark matter particle, and even if the only way those other particles interact with normal matter is through gravity, there are still ways for us to understand things about them.

At the moment, the most popular dark matter theory comes from supersymmetry. In this case, there's only one dark matter particle, and all of the rest of the particles interact with normal matter, in pretty much the normal way, since all of the underlying structure of the model is almost identical.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Richardson Maturity Model: http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.htm.... It's explicitly for discussing and characterising the degree of RESTfulness of a given API.

For my money there's nothing actually wrong with implementing, say, a level 1 API, as long as you don't claim anything higher. It'd be very nice for everyone to be at level 3, but obviously the tooling isn't there yet to support it universally.
I think it has a bit to do with how mission critical something is. With the Mars rover, if it fails that is a lot more money and time down the drain than if a small phone satellite does.

As I commented on a Curiosity article, I hope they eventually tend more towards using lots of commodity hardware running instructions in parallel and working off probability rather than any one processor having to be perfectly deterministic.
We got it OTA.
Actually, that's true but you need to change this to "Don't fail to remember to backup your databases" or something similar, right now you're telling me to make sure to forget it. :)
Wonder how they solve the orientation problem.
This is very good value

(well, it's probably because most people will go 1 month and then quit)
Having spent a while now working on a project with a RESTish API, I can say that I'm really regretting not pushing harder for hypermedia controls earlier. It would have made pushing upgrades out a lot simpler.
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Wow, judging by the narrative I at first though that I ended up on Encyclopedia Dramatica...

Ayn Rand fans should not read this, for they will experience severe butthurt...
it is working now. it had a traffic spike and we boosted the RAM. please check again.
> This is a testable hypothesis and will be known in time.

Wait -- if resolution requires the simple passage of time, then it's not testable, indeed it's not really a test. A "testable hypothesis" means a notion that's subject to practical test in the present. Waiting for a future yea/nay outcome isn't, strictly speaking, a test. More of a waiting game.

> I believe that we will have a good enough understanding and control over genetics such that effective therapies even for adults will be possible in the stated time frame.

Gene therapies have a pretty terrible track record to date. Nevertheless, if your "time frame" is 100 years, then I would have to agree it's likely, based on Clarke's First Law:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkes_three_laws

Quote: "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."

> Also notice I used the word correct not cure, not a mere play in semantics but a subtle change that strongly alters meaning.

Yes, agreed, and if this era arrives, treatment recipients will have to be told that their improved condition by no means implies that their offspring won't be similarly afflicted.
Well, they will sell your debt for, I dunno, 20%? Maybe more, maybe less

The buyer will make more angry letters, maybe signed by an attorney, try to negotiate, etc and then maybe go to court
not true. boolean, strings, numbers (int, float) are passed by value, while Objects, Arrays and Functions are passed by reference!
Those were still basically locked down on the phone/baseband part, with a PDA glued on. They weren't anywhere near as closely coupled as today's smartphones.
Your landing page is beautifully designed, but from it, I have no clue what you do. You comment below[1] is hardly better - full of fancy words, buzz words, and very high on the "Ginger Factor".

It's full of marketing-speak - and if you were to ask my advice I'd suggest you change it for a quick graphic that shows what it actually does, along with some text.

Is this accurate?

"eGo: wear it as a ring, pendant, watch, or other item, and a simple touch of the finger will provide your credentials to unlock a service."

As it stands it takes too long to figure out what this does, and what it's for. I still can't work out what services can be accessed using this.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4437638

Added in edit: I take it there is in fact nothing it can be used for at the moment. There's part of the problem - it might be great technology, but you have to get someone to adopt it. Am I right? So then the question is - who is the page trying to sell it to? Airlines? Telecoms? What service industry will be first to adopt it? How, and why?
I honestly don't know how representative the forums are, I've mostly helped out a bit with the conferences and interact with current and former board members in person fairly frequently. My sense is that the desire to have as many comforts as possible is to attract a varied initial core. From the very beginning the aims were to get the people who are super into, and then build-up. But if you don't have sufficient social infrastructure you're going to end up only with the hardcore who don't serve as a useful seed for a growing system.

I think they're trying to skip the true frontiersmen, those folks are already living aboard their boats. They're trying to enable the homesteaders that come after them, and from whom settlements grow and expand.
"brand-new way of doing computing without the digital " - Analog computers have been around for 70 years+. They are based on OP-AMPS and, at that time, were made out of tubes.
I'm not really much experienced, but I've played around with Noir and its really similar to Flask. You could try out Compojure too, on which Noir is based(even more minimalistic).

Right now, I'm following some Noir tutorials here: http://yogthos.net/
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One can certainly question his performance at that age. It's kind of reassuring actually, not all great people have to be born such.

However, why would his father write things like that?
It's definitely not just you. To me, almost the entire list reads like "Figure out something how to do something frigging awesome in field X, by solving Y!" where X is any old scientific field and Y a random mathematical problem drawn from a pop math book with a picture to equation ratio greater than 1.

Mathematical Challenge 15: The Geometry of Genome Space

What notion of distance is needed to incorporate biological utility?

That was the point where I decided that I want to crawl into a hole and die [1]. The biology related "challenges" on this list drive me particularly crazy, though most of the others are pretty bad, too, since they're not well defined enough to even have much to say about.

[1] It's not that I don't think "notions of distance" are an important thing to understand, or anything like that, they certainly are, and biologists do worry about that type of stuff - I'd guess that the computational bio folks out there understand that stuff a lot better than a lot of mathematicians. But this question...it's the type of thing a philosophy major would ask after hearing about the concept of a metric space, getting stoned, and seeing a Darwin poster, not something anyone that actually knows both math and biology would (should?) ever ask.
Google begins investigation of Android installation numbers
Last week I wrote about the strange discrepancies in the number of the total and the daily installations reported by Google Play.

http://artymiak.com/can-you-trust-google-play-statistics/

On Sunday, Google posted a message on the Google Play Developer Console informing developers that they are investigating the issue.

Have you seen similar problems with your stats?
Gamma rays and X-rays are photons.[0]

_____

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EM_Spectrum_Properties_edi...
Except #forEach is a method of Array, and getElementsByTagName does not return an Array but a NodeList. Which doesn't have any of Array's methods (it has a length, it can be indexed, and it has an alternative indexation method - #item — but it's not an array at all)
Basically, Apple got the jury that they wanted, ignorant and unwilling to understand the consequences of their decision.
What is this "Hackers!" crap on every page?
I'm guessing that these spacecraft have none of the mission requirements that most others have. They're not doing a flyby mission where they have to work during the flyby, or doing anything actually critical (such as provide comms/science, or use propulsion). The system is designed to reboot in the case of problems, which

The closest to a mission goal I can find in the post is "This approach allows engineers to see what capabilities commercial technologies can provide, rather than trying to custom-design technology solutions to meet set requirements." So the only goal is to see _if_ they work.

Trust me, if other missions could get away with less shielding, they would. That's one reason why RBSP[1] is being launched, so we can better understand the radiation environment in Earth's orbit, so future missions aren't undershielded or sent up with unneccessary shielding. But I doubt that most big-budget missions could get away with no shielding.

[1] Shameless plug/full disclosure: I have been working on this project for the last 2+ years, and am now one of its flight controllers. For updates, you can check rbsp.jhuapl.edu or http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av032/status.html
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Have you considered LGPL or dual license?
GPLv3 will restrict even your own future work involved the product.
Actually, the there is a reason why I use the short form - the rest of the workflow is also completely keyboard based:

`open -a Mail mypdf.pdf` opens an email window that has the focus and the cursor in the "from" field, with address book access and all. From there on, it is:

- Type the first letters of the contact to sent to
- Tab to "Subject", write Subject
- Tab to Body, write the Body
- Command-Shift-D

Includes all (legally needed, yawn...) signatures, my S/Mime-setup and has full access to my address book. Sure, its simple and the equivalent of dragging the pdf to the Mail icon, but damn quick.
veryvery superb quiz! I like the way you mix questions with a tutorial, not just "HA, you suck, wrong", but really give detailed explanations, even when the correct answer is given.
Maybe you can add some questions with strange return values or some "what happens if you modify the passed-in object within a function?";

function(){
var fn2=function(){}
if (fn2()){
alert("nobody ever calls me");
}
else{
alert("stop calling me!");
}
}
(no return value is a falsy value)

var data={a:"cow"};
function update(obj){
obj.a="fish";
}
update(data);
alert(data.a); //"fish"

vs.

var data="cow";
function update(str){
str="fish";
}
update(data);
alert(data); //"cow"

keep up the great work!
True. Once you have the right libraries in place working with SOAP can be surprisingly easy. I always find defining and passing data types/structures the most frustrating exercise with SOAP though, especially collections. REST makes that stuff so much easier.
Harvard^WAnywhere.
Not unless the satellites are rounded of course :)
If you would favor seeing all transcripts, then why did you choose to single out Obama?

I hope you'll understand why I struggle to believe that this singling-out is purely coincidental in the context of an election season where rhetoric about Obama being 'the least transparent in history' is abundant, on the same weekend as a new movie which claims to dig up sinister anti-American mysteries from Obama's past. It is just terribly convenient to bring up such issues as a topic change.

In any case I find it very irritating that almost any HN article tangentially touching on the government is co-opted for some kind of biased political propaganda, however subtle.
Because a URL defines one resource in REST, so strictly speaking, /path/resource.json and /path/resource.xml are different resources using REST.

Content-negotiation is what people should use to specify format.
In which quarter of the class is he? 3rd

What number out of 110 students is he? 85th

What honors has he won in literary or scholastic pursuits? None

So JFK was basically just George W. Bush. Interesting.
This is total rubbish. I had a HTC TyTn II and everything on it worked, yes even IE. I could do everything I could on a conventional browser on that phone.

Websites have changed to accomodate mobile browsers now so Safari looks like it works great. Travel back to 2007 and it would suck just like everything else.
I hadn't seen it before, but I like it. Practical and specific. I think you could actually use this when proposing time/cost estimates for web service development.
Are the algorithms used weak to that? I know that deltas will reveal the locations of changes and also let you detect whenever the same sector has the same bytes written to it. What else might be revealed?
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Character sets in MySQL – still not for Windows users.
Yes, and I am currently working on GAGA-2: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/01/gaga-2.html, http://blog.jgc.org/2012/01/gaga-2-distance-rtty-test.html, http://blog.jgc.org/2012/01/gaga-2-mounting-flight-computer.... The vague plan is that GAGA-2 will be all about lots of cameras pointing in all directions. GAGA-3 will be about precision landing probably using a guided parafoil.

None of this is about orbit. Orbit == high velocity and altitude. Although high-altitude balloons regularly go about 40km that's still in the stratosphere and nowhere near space and the velocity is nowhere near what's needed.

These phone-based cubesats are a good idea. There have been plenty of phone-based balloon flights and there's no reason not to use them in satellites if you have some way of recognizing failure because of cosmic rays.