skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it sounds like you have figured out a way to display ads to monetize video that still offers a good user experience better than whats available now. You sir have a billion dollar idea, why aren't you implementing it.
You can hardly take the ethical high-ground if you've been buying Samsung products.
That's where I thought this was going.
Apple don't make that many products themselves.

If the Samsung Galaxy S Note S2 Ultra S is banned in the US, consumers will still be able to buy the Samsung Galaxy S Note S2 Ultra X.

When Samsung had the South Korean government block the original iPhone from South Korea, it was Apple's only phone.
Certain people (e.g. doctors, policemen, lawyers) seem to be defined by their jobs.
If he had been a plumber this story would probably have been titled An improbable transformation
This of course looks very cool, but to me it does not seem practical besides edge-cases, even though the technology is not new in any way, high-powered transformers which you find in power plants, for example, are oil-filled since basically forever.

The practical problems on the other hand are not to be ignored: The oil needs to be kept rather clean, otherwise it will loose its good insulation properties, hence you need sealed containers or purification devices, in industrial scale deployments this means keeping an eye on the chemical composition of your coolant by regular chemical analysis.

Connectors and cables need to be really oil-tight, otherwise the oil will creep out through cables hanging out of a closed vessel (even if they go higher than the oil-surface)!

It's not an efficient technology in terms of the amount of coolant that is used: You put everything into the oil-bath, both the high-energy-density components (CPU, graphics-card, maybe chipsets, fast RAM), regardless of their energy consumption: Imagine a full data center, you'd basically need thousands of cubic meters of pure, constantly filtered oil... For the good old cray-computer often used as an example it was different: There computing was spread out over a vast number of logic gates that deposited their waste heat over a really high volume.

The examples I have seen (casemodders being a good example) were also rather generous with container-size and amount of coolant where enough circulation and cooling was provided by natural convection. "Professionally", one would use this technology for a reason, hence in devices that are even more densly packed than usual blade-centers and there I expect issues with forced circulations of warm/hot oil just as we have hot/cold air distribution nowadays.

A technology like currently deployed water-cooled devices, where the majority of heat is collected by water at the concentration points (mainly CPU) and air is taking care of the (much reduced) remains seems much more sensible to me.
What's wrong with []?
StackOverflow is constructed software. I don't agree with much of Geoff's writings, but I do admire his output.
Ask HN: What do you use to A/B test your mobile app?
Now that http://clutch.io is winding down as the developers have been aquihired by Twitter, how do you A/B test your mobile app? Is there space on the market for something new?
They do actually have a link at the bottom, labelled github, outside the article for some reason.
How does a web app do notifications on ios while it is not open?
> the US provides access to specialists in days where other countries often have multi-week [...]

This is a view that's strongly distorted by the UK. It's seems to hold there, and the wait times sound terrible, but it's definitely not the case in the majority of countries, by a long shot. As far as I can tell from personal experience, wait times are not an issue in The Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, or France; outside of that I've never heard of really long waits in any country of Europe, with the exception of the UK.

The European systems are all different in sometimes surprising ways, throwing them together into one bucket is an incorrect generalization. E.g. the UK system with the NHS is entirely tax funded, where the Germany system has insurance paid 50/50 by employee and employer, and the Swiss system has 100% privately paid but mandatory and state regulated insurance.

These are really massively different systems, and the effects on e.g. waiting times are huge. They are all state regulated and sometimes state funded, but that's by far not the only interesting characteristic of medical systems.
Here is something false: You only live once.
Not sure if you are familiar with Enumerator class in Ruby, it does pretty much what generators in PHP are about:

require 'enumerator'

def each_line_from_file file_name
Enumerator.new do |yielder|
File.open(file_name) do |file|
while line = file.gets
yielder << line
## or, alternatively:
# yielder.yield(line)
end
end
end
end

each_line_from_file('test.txt').each do |l|
puts l
end
It's not my favorite magazine, but I've read long New Yorker human interest pieces, and they've always had more, well, interest than this.

The problem is that when you see a long piece in a respected magazine on a subject that you are interested in, it's hard to decide at some point that all the rest is garbage, and put it down.

I started reading this story expecting a tale of a middle-aged dentist who transformed himself into a remarkable marathon runner. Pretty quickly, the story veered into a tale of cheating. I could see there is another 30 pages left to go, and kept wondering what I'd learn about. A secretive group of marathon cheaters who jet around the country and subvert race after race? A group of vigilante marathoners who help bring them to justice? Maybe Kip Litton's whole life is a lie, and he is not a dentist, but a spy from Gondwana? Maybe we at least get some fascinating psychological portraits painted by the masters of investigative journalism?

No, in the end, it's a pile of boring and irrelevant details. "At 7:34 the next morning, Joe Blow leaned over his model M keyboard, and, with keystrokes echoing crisply through his split colonial house, posted a message to the forum revealing that he has a photo of Litton at the 10K timing mat". Ok, that's not a quote, but the article is very much like that. In the end, Kip Litton is indeed a dentist from somewhere in Michigan, who for some unfathomable reason decided to start cheating at marathon races for amateurs. And that's it. Nobody knows why, and in some cases, we don't know how. This is a 10,000 word article in a major magazine. 30 to 40 printed pages. Come on. I have just as much right to express my disappointment, as the New Yorker has to print this nonsense in the first place.
Agree, esp. regarding creative suppression and intimidation.

While one should respect the law, I do wonder how the GP can so factually and confidently, conclude the project's legal status.

For example, only as recently as April 2012, did Namco Bandai choose to even register the trademark for "Pac-man" in Europe. In addition, Midway Games, who previously owned the distro rights in the USA, filed for Chapter 11 in 2009.

I certainly have no clue as to it's status, but I do know there is often a digression between what a person thinks is illegal, the actual law, intepretation of the law, case law (e.g. precedents), politics of the law, pragmatic issues etc. Hence the reason we have lawyers, that understand these issues better (and even then, they often disagree with each other). There are also degrees of legality (civil, criminal etc) from jay walking, copyright infringement, patents to mass murder and genocide.

Is Wikileaks illegal? Did Samsung illegally create certain Android smartphones? etc.

Is <x> illegal?, does not seem like a simple boolean, for a wide range of values.

The author of this project, is clearly a huge Pac-man fan, does not appear to be profiting financially (released the source on GH), and is generating interest in a product, that could be potentially be capitalized on by the rights holder.
The Counterintuitive Physics of Tarzan Swings
Either cheaters and liars are common (and consequently unremarkable) among the people you have met or you do not share my anger at cheaters and my pleasure when someone who is definitely a serial cheater is publicly shamed. Either way, that makes me a little sad.
Flying high: Researchers decipher manic gene
The Beautification of Enterprise Apps
Article sucks - don't read -

watch this- about cheating and taking a bus ride to win a marathon- typical hackernews fashion :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fc_og9KLcU

Specifically watch at 10 seconds at the cops face.
Anyone interested in this topic should read the primary research papers.

The pattern of differences in IQ test answers between generations is not congruent with the pattern of differences between individual who do better and worse on average within generations -- at least according to the few studies which have looked at this question. For this reason, we can infer that the generational changes in IQ test scores are not changes in the same underlying factor that causes differences in performance within a generation. If we call the factor that causes within-generation differences in IQ test scores intelligence, then what differs between generations isn't intelligence. In other words, the Flynn effect is something other than what it might appear at first glance. It's still something of a mystery.

Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis can be used to demonstrate this, or you can just look at the correlation matrices.
This is an exceedingly poor way of looking at things.

First, and pedantically, your statement "are poorly represented among developers" doesn't make sense as I don't know what "representation" would mean in the context of arbitrary subsets of humans.

Admittedly, you could phrase it as "developers are poorly represented in the subgroup", and it would work, but given that you phrased it the way you did, I feel like you didn't really think through what you were saying.

As for why the particular subgroup in question is special, well, it has an important quality:

If you ask people to construct a model of a human in n dimensions, I guarantee you that almost everyone will include "gender" as one of those dimensions. So, it's an important characteristic.

Next, wouldn't you know it, this particular subgroup we're concerned with is one where every single member has the same value in that dimension, while every single member of its complement has a different value! Wow, what are the odds!? Among the powerset of humans, there are probably fewer than ~10^5 subgroups where the humans contained therein share the same value in an important dimension of our model. 10^5 / 2^(10^9), what is that, like, practically zero!?

Okay, so now we've narrowed down the practically limitless subgroups of humanity to a reasonable number -- but does that mean anything? Are we on the right track? Holy cow! It appears that humans with this particular value of this particular dimension have been treated completely differently from other humans with another value in that same dimension. This can't just be simple coincidence, we must be on to something here. When we've investigated this in the past and made changes, the collective social utility has increased. Cool.

So, to recap:

1) We've constructed a model of a human by characterizing them by their most important traits, as determined by an extensive survey of humans themselves.

2) We've used this model to narrow down the field of the powerset of humans to only subgroups whose representation or under-representation among developers may mean something.

3) We've seen that using this technique in the past to investigate the subset of humans with a certain value in a certain dimension has achieved positive results as measured by the increase in social utility per capita of that group, with a relatively minor decrease in the social utility per capita of its complement.

4) Yes, it is worth being concerned about this one particular subgroup, because among the 2^(6 billion) subgroups of humans, there might be something easily correctable which yields great results.
Also, to nit pick again. The data from India seems to be wrong. There seem to be only 3-4 commercial passenger jets in the sky. This is impossible because most major Indian hubs are always backed up on the landings and departures.
Clients want apps in stores. It's much easier to promote than mobile web apps. And even though for a nicely looking, nicely working cross platform phonegap app you will be paying a lot of money (the tweaking takes a lot of time between different phones/pads), it is still cheaper and faster than going native.

We advise native for productivity apps and such; day to day use apps should be fast and snappy, while promotional apps / marketing apps should look pretty.
London, UK - SamKnows
Frontend developer/designer

SamKnows measures the speed and quality of thousands of residential broadband services, for regulators and ISPs around the world. We need an experienced javascript developer to build a UI and data visualisation frontend which our clients will use for statistical analysis, and to identify problems in their networks.

Initially, you will be building a rich (and beautiful) data charting app, with an intuitive UI to allow for complex filtering and aggregation options. Further down the road, there will be the opportunity to work on many other visualisation projects, including mapping and mobile development.

If this sounds like you, and you've got at least four years experience as a javascript/frontend developer (ideally 6+ years) and preferably a little PHP, then please write to cvs@samknows.com for more details.

This role is available on a permanent or contract basis.
Works perfectly fine for me.

(Linux Mint 13, Xinerama, Chrome)
The orange planes you see are from the FAA ASDI Data. That feed is delayed by 5 minutes. I would guess the site is meant to ignore the FAA data where ADS-B data is available, but in this case it looks like the call sign is incomplete in the ADS-B data.
Yep. How incredibly lame again :(
Using Gnome all day, nope not dead. Gnome Shell is quite a good environment. I think many people just complain because it's a change. People don't like change.
Not sure why it got all the down votes. Since Visual BASIC faded away there's been two mainstream languages that have come in for much complaint; C++ and PHP. All languages suffer some valid criticism as none are perfect but the weight of criticism for these two suggest much is deserved, it is in my opinion. Consequently, that the author/facilitator of C++ has a fun quote to dismiss the large-scale criticism is fun but "counts for little" as he's biased.
In general I agree, but the professor explicitly told them not to discuss the test with each other.
Looking for a room in San Francisco area from mid September.
We're 2 young professionals, male and female originally from Russia (Moscow and St. Petersburg). We're new to SF, arriving on September 13th and we'd like to rent a room for around 2-3 months or longer. I'm 30 y.o. documentary film maker and photographer, coming to SF area to develop a startup - Photo Time Machine. My girlfriend is a recent graduate, 26 y.o. and will be doing an internship as a user experience researcher / strategist.

We both are friendly and peaceful, non smokers, clean and responsible. Been travelling quite a lot, living in Austria, Sweden, UK and Ukraine. Appreciate diversity -- racially, sexually, culturally and otherwise and would like to live with someone with a shared passion for discussions, however we're going to be quite busy, so won't spend entire day in the apt.

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Now you're trolling.
I don't entirely understand the permanent residency for EU citizens part. As far as I understand, EU citizens have work permits and no restrictions on residency in all European countries, what would permanent residency get you on top of that?
Enjoying it combined with ATC feeds from http://www.liveatc.net
"I personally, won't support anything that makes me pay for your health insurance."

Um, that's kinda the point of any kind of insurance.
Defining a Growth Hacker
Sigh. India, where bureaucracy and logic are at war with each other.
I don't remember hearing Apple sending troops to the "developer"'s house arresting him.

Forgive my crudeness, but you're absolutely clueless about what "free speech guarantees" mean.
To put this is perspective, the ALICE experiment produces 2.5GByte/s of data.
Any ideas whether this applies to CloudFront as well?
I have to admit, it's kind of amusing seeing the lengths people will go to on HN to rationalize a patently off-topic comment or submission as being on-topic.
Thanks for pointing that out :)
I too would favour Steve McConnell's _Code Complete_ over Jeff's blog-post collection but having read the book when it came out, i.e. not recently, I wasn't too keen overall, perhaps it was McConnell's Microsoft background.

My preference is Kernighan and Pike's _The Practice of Programming_, TPoP, that's Kernighan as in the `k' in awk and K&R, and Pike as in Blit, sam, and now #golang. The book's home page has a sample chapter and a war story that didn't make it into the book. http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/020161586X/mqq-20 http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/
>Gnome is still the default GUI on a lot of operating systems

The one statement does not contradict the other. For one, any operating system that uses Gnome as its GUI besides Linux has an insignificant user population (FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc).
No, it just wasn't on Github. The original repo was this: https://hg.mozilla.org/services/fx-home/ And it's MPL licensed.
Excellent. Now to find some time to recreate the RSI Megademo(1) (Romeo Knight!) and and Scoopex Mental Hangover(2) and I never have to boot up my A500.

(1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9zDWgeV8zY
(2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37XY28YDju4

Edit: maybe someone here knows/can guess; I'm looking (for a long time) for a cracktro which had a very long musical score which culminated in a Jean Michel Jarre kind of high pitch synthesizer fest. It had (only? I don't remember a scroller or anything else) a 3d starfield which moved back and towards you with the music.
We have it. It's called WPF.
LG E970 Eclipse for AT&T cruises through FCC approval
>Why is it hard to use random open wifis? Walking around my neighborhood there are at least 5 open wifis in my block. With google fiber, high speed, open public wifi will only get more common.

If you are in the US (and in some other countries), you know it's illegal, right?
You could buy something once then, and the other days just re-use the password from outside the cafe.
Redesigned Apple headphones on the way. Puts an end to the current crap
Democrats release voting application code
> "I personally, won't support anything that makes me pay for your health insurance."

> Um, that's kinda the point of any kind of insurance.

No, the point of insurance is not to buy into or share the risk of others, but to amortize one's own risk over time. An insurance policy can have a single applicant and still function as it should -- the issuer is betting that the applicant won't suffer a loss, the applicant is betting that he will. An actuary sets the rate based on his best guess about the possibility of a claim.

This thesis is proven by the classic alternative to buying insurance -- self-insurance, a scheme in which an individual sets aside his own cushion against loss, or "self-insures" -- accepts risk using his own resources.

Many states will accept an alternative to otherwise mandatory car insurance -- a personal bond against claims. The advantage to the individual is that the bond can earn money as an investment while it stands as proof of personal responsibility.

So the idea that insurance means joining a pool of insured individuals may be true in many cases, but it isn't a requirement for insurance to function. And it certainly isn't "the point".
He's thinking of switching back to Firefox ... because an icon changed?????
Cache Lines Are The New Registers
Awesome website! Thanks for sharing :-)
I too used Fop at my last $job to generate PDF files. As you said, the source was extremely tedious to write but you can't beat FOP for the precise control. I would first look to other solutions, since they can be faster, but FOP will always come through.
iOS+Mac Safari, Chrome are okay. Firefox is sort of ok. Opera not so much. Webkit seems to be doing a good job.

(checked on iPad, iPhone , MacBook air, iMac)
This is the only one I remember from back in the Amiga days... the one with the red bouncing balls ... by "Dr Mabuse" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RO5xaP5TSk
Not sure if it is on WAB or not, couldn't see it.
No risk of short-circuits?
مشاهدة مباراة الاهلى ومازيمبى
It's not double standard IMO.

You don't buy Pac-Man from namco anymore (I hope they've stopped selling it). So, nobody (much less them) gives a damn if it is being ripped off.

Doodle Jump, on the other hand, is a game that you can (and millions do, every month) buy from the App Store. If you build a clone of it, the Lima Sky guys might lose some customers.

That's why creating a Doodle Jump clone is wrong, but creating a Pac-Mac clone is not.
Came here to post the same. Interesting bit of history, to know that it was actually a thing.
Cool!:p I'm living next to an airport and it looks like it doesn't pickup everything (or some too late), but just a few minutes ago I heard a plane coming by & it was also on flightradar =')

Idea: people give their location & the app says when to expect noise from airplanes and when it will be away=)
According to the article, Intel recommends removing the grease between the processor and the heat sink. Question: Why does it need a heat sink if it's being cooled by oil?
I can't find any solid references, but there was an improvement in health, but part of the reason could be that people who would previously have had a poor diet were 'rationed up' to a balanced and healthy one: everyone got protein and fresh veg.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/9728.php

PS: My Mum can still remember the first banana she saw, and getting fresh oranges (overseas sourced foods basically disappeared for 8 years)
Very interesting, thanks. http://atilf.atilf.fr and Dictionnaire historique de la langue Française both see two meanings for the French "trivial": one is common as in commonplace, and the other is common as in gross and vulgar. The first comes from /trivialis/, as fhars says. The latter comes from /trivium/, the crossroads. I don't know if English also has the second meaning: vulgar.
I don't use Gnome anymore, but 9/10 Linux users I know use it (well, Gnome or KDE). That's not very dead.
Just remembered that I found Donald Trump on this a while back - he was flying in to my home city of Aberdeen:

http://blog.mclemon.cz/i-found-donald-trump-in-flight-radar-...