skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Most people thought that the genetic code, perhaps like computer code, was well organized and well laid out. "

Oh my god! We've sequenced and decoded the entire human genome and… we're written in _Perl!_

(And, given my gag and the backend of this site, of course I have to post: http://xkcd.com/224/ )
But caught where? Eastern Europe?
It recently acquired the power to levy taxes as well.
Thanks for the comment. Yep for sure, if you read the end it talks about this. So far I have validated people are interested in the idea, got feedback from many users they'd be happy to pay. Next step is to find a financial model, paid or otherwise.
Being sued is not the same as being illegal. Let's wait for the ruling first.
Facebook's new iOS app is not fully native. Not even a mostly.

http://jairaj.org/2012/08/27/facebook-for-ios.html
A lawsuit is not an indication of lawbreaking.
Yeah, Moore's was the first spot, even the one on Granville didn't have them.

Eventually I found a couple at Metrotown, and a whole stash at the YWCA thrift on main, walked out with 5 for $25.
Just like Karl Rove did with Dan Rather's forged letter about Bush going AWOL. Worked like a charm.
Since dividing by two (ignoring remainders) is just a left shift, and multiplying by two is just a right shift, this means you can do multiplication with just <<, >>>, and +.

Of course, here's another, er, related algorithm. Take your two numbers A and B. Make a variable called C, initially set to 0. Iteratively decrease A by 1, and increase C by B. Do this until A = 0. Then C is your answer. Everyone knows this technique, it's obvious. But it means that you can do multiplication with just + and --.

I wonder what other ways you can do multiplication with a limited set of mathematical operators.
I don't know; I feel like this would get complicated far more quickly than the FOIL method...
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Except the NY Supreme Court upheld the legality of GrooveShark two months ago. Get your facts straight: http://blog.grooveshark.com/post/27150025910/ny-supreme-cour...
Shit, shower and/or shave.
As soon as I walked away for some more water, I realized I had missed the point ;-)
I redid an admin tool from plain html to bootstrap. It actually provided less functionality, but because it was prettier people thought it did so much more.

Really, prettier makes it easy to consume the information you want to, which is just as important as getting that info on the screen.
Regular expressions. With a few weeks of learning the cryptic syntax you'll enjoy a lifetime of reaping its power.

Mastering Regular Expressions by Friedl is regarded as one of the best resources. But just to get up and running and as a reference I recommend http://regular-expressions.info
> I believe the Penske bid was actually to buy the Saturn brand from GM,

Okay.

> buying a company the size of GM at the time of the bailout would still have been a very difficult proposition.

As you point out above, GM could have been sold in parts. (Some of the brands and models are independent of the rest.)

Basically it would have been a no-reserve auction with the money going to the bondholders. (They'd have taken a loss, but wouldn't have lost everything.) The winning bid is based on what folks are willing to pay, not what someone thinks GM is worth, book value, etc.

There's actually a lot of money available for such deals. Yes, 10s of billions and hundreds for "special" deals.
Yes, exactly. That's why Gruber is wrong (as usual) and it is "rip-off" in both samsung/apple and apple/braun cases. For example, both ET44 and Apple Calc are calculators. Both the T3 and the iPod are portable music players.
I've been using the same vimrc (and gvimrc) for at least 4 years (minor tweaks when something breaks, of course). But 99% of the time, it's identical and set up exactly how I like it, versus the magical GUI IDEs that change where options are, or what they are called. I don't have time for that (and I use the same vimrc on windows, Mac and Linux).

Sure the initial set up is difficult. But once it's done, it's done.
People wouldn't use a product that changed that quickly. People complain enough as it is.
Where did you find people to write blog posts and create contests?
That's a perfectly fair argument. For those who want to embrace HTML5, which flash-based features in the main site weren't ready to be ported to HTML5 due to technical limitations? As one of the few sites even trying, your use case could drive HTML5 audio.
"Being prepared to walk" (or at least looking that way) isn't exactly a hardball negotiation tactic, it's more a prerequisite for being able to negotiate at all.
which it apparently does if the video released later is to be believed.
Anyone ever noticed that the print screen key is from what I can see, the only key on a conventional qwerty keyboard that doesn't have an event code? What's the reasoning for that?
or anybody else for that matter...
Thanks, my information was slightly outdated.
Here's an interesting article from consumer reports which looks into the cost of car ownership. http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/06/what-that-car-rea...

This graphic (from CR) shows how depreciation accounts for most of the cost of owning a car, over time. http://imgur.com/wrOQu
Apologies if the title got you unduly excited! I was echoing this submission (admittedly titled more accurately): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4470133
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do the typical bathroom stuff, eat breakfast, drive to work.
Android fragmentation is a reason not to use HTML5? That's about as backwards a statement as I can imagine - web apps are the great savior that abstract away all the device fragmentation. And windows phone's incompatibility as a sticking point? That's an easy one to overcome: nobody writes windows phone apps either. I don't have any experience with mobile IEs quirks, but if it's as bad as you make it sound, just sniff the UA and tell the user it is not compatible. Until I see a windows phone show up in my server logs, I'm not going to worry about it.

Overall, web apps as a platform have made a lot more growth than native mobile apps have aince the advent of the smartphone. There's no reason to look at the state of html5 now and say "it'll never work". Sure, there are some things that native is better for, but html5 is a very useful tool and can give a great user experience in a lot of cases, and it's only going to get better.
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I'm an Android advocate, but I'm also a glass-half-empty-you're-going-to-die-of-thirst kinda guy at times. For example at times like this, when I read that 21% have ICS, I want to shit all over Google's Android team for not having the sense to know this was going to be a problem. I mean ICS is still a release behind state of the art. I know Google has business PhDs, can't they lend them to the Android team for a bit. "Root and load your own rom" is not an acceptable answer for the user who has to be explained both what a rom is and what rooting is.
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Both invocations take similiar amounts of "real" time because the task is IO-bound and it takes roughly 1.5s on your machine to read the file.

But if you add up the "user" and "sys" time in the cat example, you see that it took 1.992s of actual cpu-time... Which is actually about a 30% increase in cpu-time spent.

The perf decrease wasn't visible because you have multiple cores parallelizing the extra cpu-time, but it was there.
I spent some time with the ZippyKid team that other day. I was quite impressed with what they were up to and the technology they were looking at for the future.

I am glad that they are focusing on support and service. This is a win for the wordpress hosting world.
The user is still not being abused. You may feel Apple is abusing their power, but they're not abusing the user.

Were this something happening against users' will the, yes, I might concede it's abuse. It's not; users love the app store and a large part of that reason is because the content is curated. It's Apple's store (not a public marketplace) and they know what they purchase isn't likely to be offensive and is likely to work as advertised. You may not like the App Store, but Apple is definitely not abusing users.
And how is it in day to day use? What display settings are you using?
Does it do podcasts as well?
There are cameras on anything that can accept packages over a certain size. Kinda stupid since the anthrax came in an envelope, but you know, anything to support the panopticon.

edit: I could be wrong about the above, I haven't found anything to support my assertion, though I am pretty sure I got that impression from the automated kiosks. They display a notification that packages over a certain size cannot be accepted without a camera. It's possible that a lot of rural POs don't have cameras though I'd be surprised if it were common.

https://epic.org/privacy/postal/postalapc.pdf
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Sending minutes and discussing it next day is a great idea. Thanks for the tip.
Usually you're not immune from prosecution; they just suppress the evidence collected in that search so that it cannot be used against you (this is a simplification; there are a number of reasons why this evidence can be used against you anyway, generally amounting to `they would have another legal way of discovering the same fact about the crime').
I'm only buying nexus devices from now on unless	a manufacturer gives a guarantee on update delay and life of phone (or at least establishes a good track record)

As much as I love my Samsung devices, really got burned by those updates
While you're talking about the homophobia, let's not ignore the blatant racism on 4chan. The work n-gger is not only casually thrown around on those boards, at this point it's ingrained racism that's influencing a lot of young teens visiting the site and is subtly encouraged by the moderators. It's disgusting and even thought I'm a strong advocate for the freedom of speech, I fear the power of effective propaganda.
Why would you hotlink to 4chan-pictures? These get deleted with their thread once the thread hits page 10, anyway, which can happen in under 5 minutes (on the more active boards like /b/)
How is it different than YouTube? Besides nobody's losing a dime from Grooveshark, same as nobody is making a dime from Spotify. Including Spotify.
You missed my point, which is that people jump to the "they must be hiding something" conclusion too readily. I don't doubt, for a second, where and when our president was born.
I've been collaborating with a bunch of people all over the globe on my latest contract and so far the hardest thing has been coordinating dependencies. If my task depends on somebody else's task but he's in a different time zone it can take a couple of days of messages to get things going in the right direction.

I think the key here is to nail down the design and any related specs as much as possible upfront. The more you have to sculpt things as they go along the more time you lose in coordination.
Because Amazon prefers to reap the benefit themselves?
What would you suggest as a solution? This isn't to suggest it isn't a problem, just that not all problems have viable solutions.
Virtually all the Galaxy S/2/III phones are supported by cyanogenmod. Reflashing a phone is scary and weird when you do it the first time, but it's really not hard and the community support is quite good.

If you're at the point, as a technical user, where OS flexibility is more important to you than the device choice, then it's probably worth your time to puzzle out the process.
The Dvorak layout. The high return? Using Emacs is less bad for the hands, I think, because Ctrl+X stretches the fingers apart instead of scrnching them up. Also, the underscore key is in a very accessible location. I tried learning it in high school, failed, and eventually forced it upon myself in my freshman year by playing a video game while using it. The problem? It is low-return.

Another? Learning Haskell would count, except I did it for fun, so there was no risk. I could say learning Perl has been very useful, but again, there was very little risk -- I was in high school and didn't have a computer I could use all the time, so I simply read the 3rd edition of Programming Perl straight through up to the reference section, and then reread the first 7 or 8 chapters. That taught me how regular expressions worked, that closures existed and how they worked, and other mundane stuff like foreach loops and pipes.

Another? Maybe learning about math. I spent a lot of effort learning a little bit of math. When I think about the return I've gotten, well, I'm very comfortable with discrete math and quite good at estimating the performance of programs. The presence of some math-related things on my resume helped me land the phone screen for my first job out of college. The problem? It was low risk because I enjoyed it.

Another? Golf. You could say it was my parents who took the risk because they paid for lessons and clubs, while I enjoyed every minute of learning how to play. The return? It's fun to play but really it's that I got my dad to start playing. He now enjoys it a lot more than I do and has made several friends through the game. My return? One time the son of a guy my dad played golf with several times hired me for a cool summer job dealing with optics measurement systems. The problem is that this is a lame example: no risk for me, and the return was kind of indirect.

Another? Making sure to take the core CS classes while I got a math major. The reward? I was able to tack on a dual CS major with another semester (plus got some knowledge). The risk was 5 or 6 poorly taught CS classes.

Another? Maybe Emacs counts. I couldn't convince myself to learn it and use it the first time, but eventually I managed to convert myself over to XEmacs from whatever awful thing I was using. However, it's not as much of a risk as Vim, which is known to cause brain damage.

Another? Learning how to play the piano. I spent 12 years taking piano lessons. The return? When I had wrist problems as an adult programmer, I got a digital piano and started playing again, and the wrist problems went away for good.
Suppose that in 1938, someone had bought a large supply of the same paper that comic books were printed on, along with a large supply of the same ink that was used. They then put these into storage and waited a decades, until they knew what comic books from the '30s and '40s were valuable.

Would they then be able to make forgeries of those comics, using their properly aged paper and ink, and so fool collectors? Or would it be possible to tell that even though the ink and paper are of the right age, the ink was recently applied and the whole scheme would fall apart?
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That's kinda the point.

> No app store? No problem.
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Not sure if you can call it the same food per se, since it's not the same quality (as in visual quality) as what you buy. It's like saying you can improve the looks of a car by putting a greasy glossy finish on it, while the one you buy looks faded. Basically there are steps in the process MISSING in the product you are buying.
I'm also an Android-lover, but this sample is all kinds of skewed -

"based on the number of Android devices that have accessed Google Play within a 14-day period ending on the data collection date " (September 4, 2012)

14-day period? That's a pretty decent way of making sure that the people who have had their phones for a long time (like this guy here with the Droid X) are underrepresented.
> When people want AI in video games they want the AI to be truly smart.

Yes! This statement made me think immediately of Team Fortress 2 and how impressive talented spy-players are. They're so impressive that I can be in awe of a good player whether he's my ally or my opponent. Of course, the latter also comes with some frustration.

For those unfamiliar, the spy in TF2 has the ability to cloak (turn invisible) for a few seconds as well as indefinitely disguise himself as a member of the enemy team. Subtle cues give away a disguised spy--he can't run 'through' team members of the same color like true allies can; he un-disguises if he attacks. His deadliest attack is the backstab--knife someone in the back to instantly kill.

What makes good spy players so impressive is that they've anticipated how other people behave and have thought of effective countermeasures.

A troll-ish, albeit intelligent, example of such intelligence involves a spy spraying a provocative out-of-game image on a wall at a corner. He cloaks when an enemy approaches and waits near the corner. Most new players will pause when running past the image to have a closer look. The spy then uncloaks and backstabs the player.

Example: http://youtu.be/zOR3snVKW0E?t=18s

Pre-programming this sort of behavior makes it quickly predictable, unless the AI has enough variety in its 'bag of tricks' that it would take a long time to learn it all...just like playing against a skilled opponent for a long time. I'd love to see the day when game AI could discover such behaviors on its own, searching for new ones when old techniques become too common.
perhaps a sample chapter? Or details about the author?
I think the point was that cold-calling works if you're selling your skills dirt cheap or free, expressly for the purpose of building a portfolio.
As pissed as I am about my phone not getting an ICS update, I can't really fault google too much for this. They made an open mobile OS, and released it to the world. What makes it attractive to the handset manufacturers and the carriers is that they don't have a software vendor trying to exert control over the product.

You can make a direct comparison to windows phone: Microsoft has all kinds of restrictions for handset manufacturers and carriers about what they can do with it: device makers can't bundle shitty bloatware, tight hardware requirements, updates are controlled, etc. All things that produce a good experience for the end user. And look how the vendors reacted: the OEMs don't really want to build them, the carriers don't push them, the salespeople recommend android over it, and usage is minimal. Maybe if google took the same route and forced all the OEMs to upgrade to the latest firmware, those 21% of android phones that are on ICS would be android's total market share.
The main site actually used to be 100% Flash (Flex). We've ported nearly everything out now but there are some algorithms that are still in there for no other reason than never getting around to porting them, but the other thing we rely pretty heavily on Flash for is cross domain communication with 3rd party services, many of them don't support or know about CORS/jsonp but getting them to add a crossdomain.xml on their site was easy. We'll probably just disable support for those services for people who don't have Flash. We'll also probably prefer to use flash whenever it is available for playback, because so far for the most part HTML5 audio is still more flaky and gives us less control over buffering/playback than Flash does...but at least the basic aspects of the site that most people care about will be able to work seamlessly whether or not you have flash. Eventually. :)
https://github.com/lipka/svbtle-for-posterous
Samsung files injunction against LG, claims its OLED tech was stolen
A quick glance at that woman and that guy and it is obvious that the whole scene is obviously fake.

They didn't say "screen images simulated" because they weren't showing a screen.

Every camera ad shows fake footage. Example:

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Megapixel-Digital-Optical-Stab...
I doubt that. Groveshark is not some new casual game. It is a well known site with a ton of users.
Nice article, we have ~85 people working from ~18 countries since the business runs 24/7. A bit easier than the business int he article maybe since about 50% of those people are doing customer service shifts, and the others dev / systems.

A lot of fun problems but I love it!
Why exactly? Maybe you misread it? It's data from people who accessed the store in 14 days, not people who have bought devices in 14 days. If you have an old device but is actively updating apps, then you'll be represented.

They're getting data from devices which accessed the play store, because that's all the data that google has.
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Good data, thanks.

That said, there was a recent blog post about how one HNer dramatically increased his revenue by changing his pricing model. Rather than charge for features, he adopted a few tiers of service, each one targeted at one type of customer's use case.[1] I don't know your exact situation, but that might be worth trying as opposed to configurable add-ons. In general, speaking in the language of use cases resonates with the buyer more, and is more likely to result in a purchase.

[1]: http://www.extendslogic.com/business/what-i-learned-from-inc...
Honest question -- why do we assume our actions deserve privacy on the internet, when we access someone else's site? We don't have the same expectation for e.g., when I walk into a shop (eg I may desire, but do not receive, privacy from being tracked if I were to walk into a sex toy shop).

Is it because of the third-party component?
You get a beautifully designed power adapter, probably removing and reattaching it comes with a very satisfying slurping sound. Those things don't come for free.

Removing the USB cable from my Android phone makes my ears bleed with it's creaking.
Radio stations don't pay to broadcast music, what's the difference. Grooveshark is just a more confusing kind of radio station. If the labels had any sense they would use their data to figure out what people are actually listening to.
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Actually I think he increases his chances of getting paid by your own reasoning. Who says it has to be paid by Romney? The 1 million Bit Coins could be paid by anyone with a desire to make him look guilty, but not something that might cause an issue with the election (like the release of stolen tax documents of the candidate). If the blackmail is paid the day before the 28th, everyone will assume Romney was hiding something, even if he wasn't.
You can read this stat in two ways: 1. wow how tech savvy android users are OR 2. totally skewed stat, user never upgraded, they maynot even know.
Ask HN: Indian IT companies have raised notice periods to 3 months. Legal?
I am frustrated as I am passing on job opportunities due to this insanely long Notice Period.
The News Feed and Messages are what users spend the overwhelming majority of their time with and they are both rendered natively now.
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Full Title: Sorry, Google fanboys: Android security suffers as malware explodes by 700%

Is it really a drive-by installation if you have to manually enable side-loading, and then agree to download and install the infected apk?
It’s sad the trolls seem to have gotten hold of this.

Torrent Freak has not even gone close to saying Sweden has bought him.

When countries give foreign aid, it is often, at least in part, for power plays.

Japan regularly does this in the pacific islands and uses their support to continue whaling. To argue the amount of money they give (quite large) is so they can continue whaling is also ridiculous. In fact most Japanese don’t even eat whale or care about the issue. It’s mostly political.

Sweden is owed a few favours and it seems they have called one in. The story here is why they have chosen this as one of them.
How can you have a technology-journalist-circle-jerk without anybody having hands on?