skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4chan represents a social cauldron unlike others. The first and foremost question I had hoped to find out was "What do people talk about when they don't have an identity to think of?" There is almost zero consequence in the case of failure. If you say something and no one responds, or everyone insults you, it is completely forgotten within a few minutes. You can say almost anything you want without fear of retribution. (Where else in life does this exist?) So, with no rules, what do people want to talk about?
Peyton Manning jersey being banned in Colorado
Twitter Officially Launches v1.1 Of Its API
I believe the system should mimic the email system:
- a simple unique identifier. Eg: me@mybank.com, you@yourbank.com
- any mail client would do
- mail content (amount and currency details)

Paypal does this but:
- it is fairly convoluted process now
- requires Paypal software (website or app)
Actually you are right. The problem (from user point of view) is not licensing. The real issue is the drivers being out of tree, making them much more fragile. I'd like to be able to update kernel and/or xorg without having to worry if binary blobs explode on my face.
Don't worry, it'll be abandoned in a year.
We can confirm a particular account got paid, but we can not rule out a person got paid -- simply because it's easy to get new account to be paid at.

So parent post's point stands -- his campaign can't reliably claim they ignored the blackmailer.
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an alternative approach

echo images/*.jpg|sed 's/.*/convert -geometry 200x \"&\" \"&_thumb.jpg\"/;s/\.jpg_thumb/_thumb/' > script; sh -v script 2>log

you could also use -x instead of -v

reasoning:

globbing is as fast as find and is faster than find _if_ you do the same glob twice (b/c it's cached); i'm assuming the images dir is not full of subfolders otherwise i would would do

echo images/*/*

if the dir structure gets any deeper than 2 levels, i'd use find

while loops typed from the command line are a p.i.t.a. if you don't bg them initially and want to bg them later; you need to put them inside brackets or into a function

using a script and a log, if something goes wrong while it's running, you can restart after looking at the log; you can't do that with a loop
Landing an airplane is fairly bounded problem. Its just a matter of getting the wheels on the runway. I probably had 6-8 hours of landing practice before I was allowed to do it on my own.
Sometimes. Or to multiply by 25, multiply by 100 and divide by 4.
I always meant to study the trachtenberg method but never got around to it
Yeah. AFAIK, ICS + Jelly Bean by themselves are bigger than every mobile platform out there except for:

- Symbian

- Gingerbread by itself

- iOS as a whole

- Android as a whole
Ask PG: When will YC W13 Applications Open?
..and what will the deadline be?
IIRC, the application had already been open for a few weeks by this point in 2011.
http://ycombinator.com/apply.html
Peyton Manning jersey banned
Good ideas. I was thinking of charging per success rate. My application increases exposure over several social channels. If my application is successful in providing them what they're looking for I am sure they'll be willing to pay for that value. I am not sure that on first glance they'll trust my app enough to pay a straight on high sum. What is your take on this?
Write code + learn about forex.
> Vendors that kneecap themselves with overzealous mods and fall behind in updates are going to get a bad reputation eventually. This has already happened to Samsung who in many ways is the flagship vendor.

In what way exactly? Given that the Galaxy S3 is selling like hotcakes, it doesn't seem that having a bad reputation is bad for business.
A Cow Calf With 3 Heads and 9 Legs 
A Cow calf born with 3 heads and 9 legs on September 1st, 2012 at Bhad, Ta. Khambha, Dist. Amreli, Gujarat - India. Watch here a rare miracle of nature.
Ask: Good video lectures for studying Calculus?
I am looking for a good online video resource to start studying Calculus. I am studying it alone, not part of any school or university. Trying to learn and enhance my mathematical skills.

Thanks!
New idea for backpackers to connect with local people
Hi All,

I got a new idea for person in a new country or culture to connect with local people and share their experiences.

The Coffee Table
Are you a backpacker, a traveller or just a person far away from home?
Connect with local people around the coffee table and share experiences about their culture, country or food.

1. Open the app, find a local person nearby.
2. Meet him/her in a coffee shop and share your experiences and interests.
3. Make friend and have fun.

How do you think? Is it make any sense?
So one year after ICS came out and about three months after ICS' successor came out, there's finally 21% of the devices running a now outdated version of Android?

And we are celebrating that?

Google really needs to find a solution to get these devices updated independently from the manufacturers which are only interested in selling new devices.

It's very frustrating for developers to see more and more features being added to the platform that are out of reach for years or require a lot of work to implement in a backwards compatible way (which then also isn't worth the effort because nobody is running the newer versions)
The Truth About Convertible Debt and The Hidden Terms You Didn’t Understand
I think the argument here is: the longer you have your phone, the less often you open the Play Store.

Seems somewhat plausible to me.
Good points. I am not a native English speaker myself. I am afraid that I will be too upfront. Can you think of any terms or phrases I can use here?
You can click on it to undo the kudos.
Most of the people interviewed in that video are program officers/administrators at the NHGRI (an institute of the NIH) who oversaw the ENCODE project. They weren't researchers who did the work. The mission of the NIH is human health, so anything funded by them has to have a biomedical implication somewhere down the line.

I guarantee that the real impetus for the project in the researchers' eyes is to understand how an identical* instruction manual (ie., genome sequence) in every cell can give rise to a plethora of cells that do very different things to make a functioning dynamic human. In other words, for the most part, it appears that there's the sequence information and then there's how you use it. ENCODE (and modENCODE) are about how you use it.

fyi: I'm a researcher in the modENCODE consortium, a sister project to ENCODE, aimed at characterizing functional regions of DNA in two model organisms, a small worm and the fly. My PhD advisor was funded by ENCODE as well. I obviously find this stuff fascinating and important.
Google should force ability to update system without manufacturer caring into Android ecosystem. It's probably hard with all these custom modifications done by OEMs but something should be doable. By the way, I think that HTC allows users to "root" their phones.

And I'm running 2.2 on my less than a year old Motorola Defy. No further updates expected.
Yes, I process everything in 10% as well. 15% tip on $34? 10% = $3.4 so half of 3.4 is 1.7, combine them for $5.10.
Clementine, it's derived from Amarok's KDE:
http://www.clementine-player.org/

It has the nice feature to queue tracks inside a given playlist ('Queue manager.').
Securityoverride Hacked By Iranian HackerZ
On 5th Sepetember 2012,The Iranian hacking group called "BHG" attacked securityOverride one the most successful cyber security websites which offers security articles, exploits, tools, pen-testing tutorials and security attacks prevention methods.
"BHG" claims it has taken control of securityOverride server via zero-day exploits and they finally hacked into their database. "BHG" wants to publish database dumps soon!!!
It depends. Will accessory prices come down with the iPhone5? If so, it's an unfair comparison to compare current prices.
Also, I can typically buy an iPhone data cable off eBay delivered for about $1 to $2 ... i've never had an issue with a cheap accessory from eBay (and i've bought quite a few). Apple will not want to compete with that sort of price - because it doesn't make sense for any OEM to sell cables at that price. This "lock in" by Apple will almost certainly drive prices up, with little improvement to quality.
My dad wrote a short article on this in the 1980s:

http://darrow.faithweb.com/peasantmultiply.htm
>By the time CM has stable builds for J, my phone will be on K.

Going to take issue with this as well. I'm on a SGS3 and CM10 (JB), and they just changed the status of the rom from "EXPERIMENTAL" to "NIGHTLY", yet I have not seen a single problem so far.
Everything works except for TV-out, which I couldn't get to work with either of my TV's with the stock rom anyway.
I don't have those numbers off hand, but contact us with any specific questions you have and we'll see what we can pull up. team at goalhawk.com
And you talk as if iOS didn't copy from android(notifications). That's right, Apple stole Google's innovation. I believe you ignoring this elephant in the room is a logical fallacy.
>Someone would make them, and sell them.

Nah. Democrats and Republicans alike would have us all believe we'd be riding bikes and horses to work because, magically, no cars would exist for at least five years.

Total shit.
Somehow I was expecting an ending where the author is awesome. Maybe he lifts a car, maybe the girl gives him a series of unreasonable compliments... just something
Technology Review: What's the problem you have most wanted to solve and haven't been able to?

Whitesides: There's an intellectual problem, which is the origin of life. The origin of life has the characteristic that there's something in there as a chemist, which I just don't understand. I don't understand how you go from a system that's random chemicals to something that becomes, in a sense, a Darwinian set of reactions that are getting more complicated spontaneously. I just don't understand how that works. So that's a scientific problem.

--This is a rare, intellectually honest view of Evolution. Notice, there is reasonable doubt. However so constrained.
Interestingly, there are some circumstances where you actually want "cat file | program" and not "program < file". The case I have in mind is when file is actually a named FIFO which was not opened for writing. If you use cat, program will still run and only reads to stdin will block (but it can perform other things, possibly in different threads). If you use '<', opening stdin will block and program will probably block altogether.
Cambodia is ranked 164 out of 182 on the Corruption Perceptions Index list as of 2011, just slightly less corrupt than Libya. Not a very ringing endorsement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
Is Requirement Traceability the biggest challenge of Agile-CMMi coexistence?
In a day or two.
Amazon Might Have Just Leaked the New Kindle and Kindle Fire in a Commercial
I don't think I could live without ack:

http://betterthangrep.com/
Taking GNOME 3 to the next level (GNOME 3.6 features and screenshots)
A cheap, easy-to-use diagnostic test out of paper
I am curious about how HIPAA plays into this - specifically, if the doctors did not contact the police stating that the injuries required further investigation, was there any further basis for investigating wrongdoing by the parents?
Even shorter, avoiding the echo sed business:

find images -name '*.jpg' | while read jpg; do
convert -geometry 200x "$jpg" "${jpg%%.jpg}_thumb.jpg";
done
Apple charger - about $26 for an original... About $3 for a knock-off (I just checked eBay). I have never had an unreliable bootleg charger yet.

This is a little more than "double" (it's acutally 8x the price) and I can assure you, there's no noticeable quality difference, other than the shininess of the plastic.

Please do not justify Apple's behaviour because others do it. Would you justify Pinochet because of Stalin? Unless there's a tangible benefit to society, you may want to reconsider your views.
In my experience, a corporate employee needs to be able to relate a fixed cost (or fixed cost estimate) to their superior. This mostly holds when the project is a line item, and they need a signature on a purchase form (instead of a comparatively expensive exec buy-in).

If your app is unique (or offers them a unique and important-to-them value prop), they have to trust you. If your product isn't unique, it must have some unique value props. Emphasize those! Strut your stuff, so to speak.

The attitude of many F500 purchasers is this: does it meet my criteria? Does it meet my budget? Then purchase. (Often, it's not the end-user [e.g. engineer, product manager, etc.] who makes the decision, but the purchasing agent.)

My only caveat is that corporate sales are tough. You may get a "yes, yes yes" all the way along from your POC, but they may not be the decision maker. It's easy to spend months purchasing a sale that you never had a chance at, but didn't know that. You have to judge by the conversation tone these things.

I wouldn't worry too much about the "do they trust my product" process. They trust you enough to ask for a price -- that means they're sizing you up for their budget. It's tough to think like a corporate buyer if you've never been one... but they have different incentives than consumer purchasers (who, after all, have to live with their purchases...)
If the phone were face-up on the counter, the text message appeared, and the officer photographed, but did not disturb, the phone, how would the case be different?
Twitter introduces embeddable tweet-stream tool
Look Through Flipboard’s 2 Years of Service.
I know, but this does not make it ok.
http://web.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/gdc2006_orkin_jeff_fear.pdf Here's a (pdf) paper presented by Jeff Orkin, lead AI programmer on F.E.A.R, at the 2006 GDC. He talks about how he made the enemies behave in a human-like manner using a technique called Goal Oriented Action Planning.
http://web.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/ This is his MIT student page.
I doubt it's harder, but you certainly have much better reasons not to mess up :P. A bug in your code is far less likely to cause bodily harm than a botched landing.
Interesting, thanks - I'd completely ignored the messaging the side of things ;)
No easy answers, but if it's a big enough deal ($100k US or higher...) it may be worth finding someone who can negotiate for you. Or sell for you.

If you focus on the value delivered, know your market (what people are paying your competition), and you can justify your higher-than-competition cost, you should be OK. Then double that, in your mind, because you're probably underselling yourself, and underestimating the cost of an employees time to even research these options [ie even the worst product delivers more value to the corp. than a continued search for a product.]
µTorrent Beta for Android is now available on Google Play
Alternatively, the ET44 is a portable electronic device, Apple Calc is a piece of software. The T3 is a radio receiver, the iPod is a stored music decoder.

Why not point out that the T1000 is a radio, and the PowerMac contains bluetooth and wlan radios? Or that both are electronic devices?

By all means, argue that the distinctions don't matter (and that the distance in time excuses nothing), but putting these examples in the same box as the Apple/Samsung ones is surely disingenuous.
This case will have a lot of resources thrown at it, which means tracking down where the USB key was bought from, where the envelopes are from, printing marks, where it was mailed from, how it was mailed, surveillance cameras within distance, toll booths, traffic cameras, witness statements, door knocking in the areas, electronic purchasing records, etc. you name it.

It provides 8, 10, 12+ more bits of information in narrowing down the suspect

He sent two letters, so you double up the amount of information and then can narrow down the bits by overlapping what you find

The FBI uses a computer program now that can take all these bits of information and consolidate them, so it no longer even requires a single investigator to have the complete picture.

You can send out dozens of agents and local police to collect as much information as possible and to log it, software will do the job of spotting patterns, narrowing down ranges, etc.

By venturing outside of the realm of the internet where the advantage is with the hacker/perp you step right into a world of real evidence where the FBI has a huge advantage with resources, knowledge, information, ability to subpoena, physical evidence etc.

Very different to just a single IP address on the other side of the world

Many large and high profile cases have been broken with such evidence, for eg. BTK killer

Seemed a bit strange to think of using bitcoins but to then undo that work by leaving an evidence trail and a lot of information to narrow you down with
Are you saying youtube "failed miserably at adapting to new challenges"? Because I'm not seeing it.
While you clearly pulled that percentage out of nowhere I would agree it's probably not too far off. While it's fair to call it bisexuality, it might be more accurate to simply label it sexual opportunism.
I'll quote a tumblrer:

"When you except to run into brick walls you usually don’t go as fast as you can. When you let go of fear and focus on results, it’s freeing and effective."

http://infjdoodles.tumblr.com/post/28056863738/

Basically, stop thinking about the what ifs. Focus on making something work and relish the result.
I bought one on element14 over the (holiday) weekend, and it shipped today.

It's not that bad
>Cyanogenmod is fine
Yes it is.
> but what about all the others?
You don't need to venture beyond CM if you don't want to, but really, CM brings the whole "land of milk and honey" thing to the table.

If you get kicks out of flashing "edge" ROM's (I do) then you can go nuts, but if you're looking for fast, reliable and full-featured (of which stock ROM's are almost universally are not), then just flash CM and enjoy the phone as it was meant to be before marketing and lawyers fucked it up.
I've sometimes heard it's "catenate" not "concatenate".

Do they mean the same thing?

As for cat, the utility, I'm afraid we'll never stop seeing people doing

cat file|prog1|prog2

even when it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

If it did, I might as well do

cat file|cat|prog|cat|prog2|cat -

I mean, why not? It "looks nicer" than

prog file|prog2 or
prog < file|prog2

Programmers love their cats.
For people who didn't know the background story on Rove, is probably incomprehensible. I wish I could find a better synthesis, other option is to link to the entire documentary.
HTC allows users to unlock the bootloader:

http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader

In my experience, HTC is pretty good (although a bit slow) with updating Android on their older models.
I'm unaware of a specific name, but it's not a new idea. See The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein. (link to Google Books reference http://goo.gl/IdBoU)
The other interesting property to the first algorithm is that you don't need to calculate a conditional for each bit in one of those factors. You can just AND each bit in one factor by all the bits in the other factor (ANDing is equivalent to multiplying in binary), before the shifts and the adds. Because ANDs, shifts, and adders are extremely simple to implement in hardware, most (all?) binary multiplication circuits are based off of the peasant multiplication algorithm, with modifications that trade off expense of manufacturing (more gates) for quicker computation (less gate delay due to exploiting parallelism in the algorithm).
Bubbly 2.0 for iPhone Becomes “The Instagram Of Voice”
> Virtually all the Galaxy S/2/III phones are supported by cyanogenmod.

Since when was the S2 supported by Cyanogenmod?

And by supported, I don't mean "do not use, phone calls do not work" or "stable to come soon (last non-stable release three months ago).
I have many clients scattered around the world - I am based in Poland - and the biggest issue I have is with the US banking system in general.

Pretty much everywhere else around the world, asking a client to transfer electronically to my currency broker's local account (http://currencyfair.com if you're interested) is not a problem. The process is as quick and painless as PayPal, and most times without fee.

In the States though, it's always a different story. Some have to phone up their bank to request a wire transfer. Others ask if they can avoid the wire/PayPal fees and send me a cheque! (I'm astounded that cheques are still being used in 2012). All because it seems that the local banks offer close to nothing for their clients. The concept of using online banking to make a transfer seems to have completely passed the country by.

So, that's what I'd change, and I pray for the day online banking sweeps through the USA as it has elsewhere. I bet PayPal are very much praying for the reverse.
It's been around for a while. I think the idea is that it's only for appengine apps, and even then only when a relational database is really useful. I think the key use case is admin/reporting on the back end, with noSQL on the front for scalability

I suppose you could also use it to store key relationships (only), and then periodically update the nosql relationships through the map reduce API also, or build prototypes with it then migrate to nosql when or if you ever need to
Only for file names starting or ending with spaces, as far as I can tell, which are pretty unusual.
Google is waiting for consumer outrage before twisting the carriers' arms.
Hands-On Video of Fuji X-E1 Camera
You can't build web apps that run in the background and expect any sort of browser compatibility, and you know it. That's why you picked that example, despite the fact that I freely admitted in my original comment that there are use cases for which a native app is a better choice. If you are bound and determined to hate the web, good for you.
another hands-on preview video: http://youtu.be/8_JZ_bWWg3Y
Soooo it looks like the DX is still the red-headed stepchild.

OK, I get it, I'm a niche customer. But I would happily pay exorbitant markups if they kept updating the DX screen and software.
The Executive Veto power serves this purpose. Every new law may reviewed and rejected by the President. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_veto#United_States
It may be an abuse, but at least it has no influence on the correctness of the result as pipes are a monad http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/monadic-shell.html
Sadly, I don't see skinning hurting Samsung, especially since, judging by the volume of build leaks, the Galaxy S3 is very likely going to be both:

1. The first non-Nexus phone updated to Jelly Bean.

2. The first device using a non-Nexus chipset updated to Jelly Bean.
> The "Notes" application on OSX is a fantastic use of skeumorphism.

I think good skeumorphics are called "affordances", while skeumorphism is being used as a prerogative term ("indiscriminate affordances").

There's no reason for a new word. Affordances are ancient. Bad affordances (especially crappy media players) are ancient.

"Apple" and "media needs a new trend to carp on about" are the only reason to start using a new term for them.
Show HN: DDay
I don't know if Poe would be considered a novelist, but he can really blow you away in less than 5 pages.

1) http://www.online-literature.com/poe/335/
"Google really needs to find a solution to get these devices updated independently from the manufacturers which are only interested in selling new devices."

Why? I mean I'm sure Google would love faster updates from their partners and I think going forward they've decided to share their roadmaps with more then the current nexus partner which should help but:

(1) At the end of the day Android is doing gangbusters even with slow updates.

(2) There's a distinct line of devices that should get fast updates if that's a killer feature for you.

(3) The whole point of Android is they don't all have to do anything.