skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I'm in the EU and bought it from a local dealer. However, I wouldn't order such a bed without having tested it. There are some parameters like the thickness and the softness of the mattress that should be adjusted to your needs, but maybe the Manufacturer ships also to the US when they get an order.
Well, EPA is really more "systemic" risk of chemicals, I think. It regulates chemicals at point of production and use mainly to prevent systemic environmental issues later on.

I was mostly wondering who regulates this stuff for point of consumption by consumers -- OSHA is pretty clearly focused on production or use in business, not in the home, and CPSC isn't really so "sciencey" as OSHA or EPA -- it's more concerned with grossly apparent problems with products like swallowing magnets and decapitation in cribs.

I don't know who proactively looks for risks of products in long-term exposure/normal use on a long basis. Arguably the non-consumers with the most to care about that would be health insurers, so either an industry association of those or a regulator or a government insurer (medicare/medicaid) would have an interest in doing something like Underwriters Laboratories.

Not that health insurers do such a good job at anything that we really want them to expand to looking at home furnishings and such.
+1 for python support
Or when I click through to the question it "duplicated" only to find that that question was never really answered either.
"I've never understood needing a desktop client for most websites really."

One less tab in my already inundated browser (20+ tabs open at any given time easy) makes a world of difference. At least for me, it's so much easier to swipe to a different desktop on my Mac than it is to hunt for a particular tab.
Any plans to support JVM based languages? I imagine something like Tomcat would work with your ideology of uploading a file (in this case a .jar) via FTP and being up and running. Adding JVM support would add many languages to your supported list quickly :)
To everyone, on both sides, that feel this is just a stunt or a sign of real change, just give it time.

Either things get better at Paypal, or they don't. Yes, big lumbering companies can change for the better. Microsoft, IBM, and Apple come to mind. Yahoo may be on that road now too. But it takes time to see. The wheels of change move slowly.
Canceled my preorder. Don't like the policy or the sleazy way they glossed over it during the press conference. Really disappointing.
FIRST Tech Challenge 2012-13 robot game video
The are intensity recordings subject to filtering at specific frequencies of light.

There's no conceptual difference between this process and that of 3-color film photography, in which three monochrome silver-halide images subject to filtration are made, and the color is added in, during processing, chemically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography#.22Modern.22...

Or NASA's various color photographs, most of which are created using three successive images through different filters (and that's for true-color images, rather than false-color images in which the finished color range is entirely an artifact based on EMR outside the human visual range).

Or for CCD-based color photography in which, again, intensity recording based on filtered sensors is presented by adding in the colors selected for by the filters.

So long as the recording and reproduction processes are faithful to the colors present in the original image, the colors are authentic. As authentic as anything that's a copy of an original impression can be.
Oh man, I remember using dotgeek a long time ago for some minor PHP stuff. Awesome to see it expand (and still exist).
Why is isometric pathfinding different from square tile pathfinding? Isometrics is a UI issue, it is still a square grid. Because each tile had non constant terrain? But that just seems unrelated to isometricity.
My desk has two levels. 5 inches of height difference.

- Upper Level: 13" Laptop + 24" external display (Use both displays)
- Lower Level: Wireless keyboard + mouse

Pros: Very comfortable. Have enough space for a notebook to write stuff.
Cons: Getting tired of changing mouse batteries, every 2-3 months.
I put the link to the gist with the code for now, when I get a couple hours free sometime (soon I promise) I will do just that and put it on my github, so feel free to watch my account there.

As for patching string.rb I don't know 100% but I believe thats the point of being full OO is that I can make a patch like that where it makes sense to do it. I was using those functions in multiple places, and given they are meant for strings it made sense. I can see the potential pitfalls when it comes to sharing things like this, but again, Ruby makes it easy for anyone to make the same patch for a reason.
Sustainability of the service is a concern, so I wouldn't use it for anything mission-critical. Still, I applied mainly so I could have a place to host and stage a few different open source PHP and Rails projects I'm working on.

The application process should allow them to rate-limit new signups. And shut down new accounts if their infrastructure starts hitting limits. Also - Hopefully they're not afraid to slam down the ban hammer on abusive accounts.
Not me. For one thing, keep in mind these people are selling page views. If the headline was "Odds of being diagnosed with brain parasite at .00061%", would you even bother reading the story? Dividing things out is a big anxiety stopper.

And think about it when you see something like "...100% increase in your risk of brain cancer," since it represents the doubling of a very small number. Taking percentages of percentages is a sneaky way to make things look more important than they really are.
Why Founders Should Split Equity Evenly
This is something Google could do pretty easily themselves right now - I'm a little surprised that they haven't. Installing the plugins isn't that hard, but a nice little package that contained everything you needed for Android development (and none of the stuff you didn't) would probably make the onboarding process for people not accustomed to Eclipse a bit better.
Is it possible to point my own domain(s) at an instance, instead of having to use a 1.ai subdomain?
> The constitution says "Congress shall make no law concerning an establishment of religion..." and that's all. It has, or should have, no bearing at all on the actions of state legislatures

The Constitution does not explicitly state it, but the Supreme Court has a long history of rulings interpreting that part of the Constitution which have explicitly dealt with it, going back to the 1800s. Those cases include Reynolds v. U.S., Everson v. Board of Education, Engel v. Vitale, Epperson v. Arkansas, and Lemon v. Kurtzman. In a common law system, as that used in the US, these rulings have the force of law. As they were Supreme Court rulings, they apply to the entire country and overrule any state laws.

> Furthermore, it has essentially nothing to do with the Fourteenth amendment, except maybe a few idiots who tried to use religion to justify racism.

Read what I wrote again. I wasn't suggesting any connection between separation of church and state and the Fourteenth Amendment. I was merely giving an example of when the federal government directly intervened in the public school system and overrode state authority in order to enforce federal laws and judicial rulings.
I don't think these points are particularly fatal, and they don't exactly make it hard per se to participate, just a little discouraging at times.

I take issue with his issue number one because I think the blame is placed on new people FAR too often online. The way new people are treated on pretty much every online community I've been a part of has been horrible, often downright pointlessly mean.

If we want SO askers to have good manners its our duty to explain our customs. When I answer a question from a new person I try to welcome them to SO or applaud their question (if novel), and if they worded it poorly I might answer what I think they meant and suggest better wordings to get help faster in the future.

Reputation is a bit of a sore point for a lot of people. I only hound two tags (canvas and html5) which are relatively unpopular, so my reputation will never be as great as someone who simply peruses the JavaScript tag and gives offhanded answers to very simple questions. A very detailed, analytical answer to a difficult problem in an unpopular tag will see one or zero upvotes compared to a flippant 5-second solution in a popular tag. This can be discouraging, and I'm not really sure if it needs fixing or not, or how it could be done.

I symapthize with the autor, but at the end of the day I choose to stay on SO in spite of all its woes because the gratitude of the answerers[1] alone is more than enough for me.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/POZmt.png
> The built in sharing and that thingy that swipes out from the right of the screen and lets you Tweet work fine for making posts then the site itself is just fine for consuming them.

One simple concept that makes all of this fall flat: Multiple accounts.

If you're just looking to share things on Twitter, then the built-in stuff in OS X, or a bookmarklet, can work.

But if you use Twitter primarily as a newsfeed, to read/monitor things, and if you need to quickly check multiple accounts, doing so via the twitter.com website is extremely painful and slow.
My guess is "50 Pence - In Da Pub"
Broccoli has some mutagenic properties, and some anti-mutagenic properties. This study was to see whether the overall effect was more damage or more protection, and the damage won.
I ran into the "Juno is ridiculously slow" thing myself (mentioned it just yesterday here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488005).

Running Juno on my work laptop (a recent ThinkPad i5 system) is close to unusably slow while 3.8 runs great (for a Java UI-heavy app).

Hopefully this helps sort things out (though donating time of Google engineers might be a better practical solution). In any case, I think I'll stick with Sublime Text 2 for Android development when doing anything other than on-device debugging.
yeah it was in 2003! first to launch PHP 5 hosting with the nightly build! these were the days with no cloud and now everything has changed ... so yes we are back with a better service and more servers ! thanks for looking at this (I think I even remember your name from our old users !)
Thank you. System allows multiple aliases per email, you can separate your aliases and services as you want. Such as using my_mostly_spamming_services@mailmist.com for ..uh.. receiving from mostly spamming services, and job_related_watch_list@mailmist.com for, well...

It will also ease the filtering and grouping in MUAs as a side effect.

fixed the example.

edit: typos
I've got a similar keyboard from logitech for my pc:
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/keyboards/keyboards/k750-keybo...

They keys are good, similar to Mac keyboard.

Thinking about get a laptop myself just so I don't have to sit at this desk to do anything.
A couple weeks ago I posted a web-crawler I'd built for parsing Wikipedia articles (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4436349). jDistiller grew out of this project. As a test I rebuilt the crawler in thirty lines of code using the jDistiller API:

new jDistiller()
.set('title', '#firstHeading')
.set('links', '#bodyContent p a', function(element, prev) {
var href = element.attr('href'),
key = href.replace('/wiki/', '');

if ( key === href) return;

element.replaceWith('[[' + key + ']]');

return [key, {
title: element.attr('title'),
text: prev[key] ? prev[key].text : element.text(),
occurrences: prev[key] ? prev[key].occurrences + 1 : 1
}]
})
.set('sections', '#bodyContent p,#firstHeading,h2,h3,img', function(element, prev) {
var images = [];

if ( element.is('h1') || element.is('h2') ) {
this.heading = element.text().trim();
return
}

return [this.heading, {
text: prev[this.heading] ? prev[this.heading].text + element.text() : element.text(),
images: element.is('img') && element.attr('width') > 50 ? [element.attr('src').replace('//', 'http://')] : []
}];
})
.distill('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog', function(err, distilledPage) {
console.log(JSON.stringify(distilledPage.sections));
});
Eh. I'm to the point where I see an attempt to "fix things" on their end ... I just hear "we're sorry its broke, heres a fix that should have been there a long time ago."
This looks really cool, it seems perfect for hosting games in the playtesting phase, as a free host without onerous bandwidth restrictions. +1 for Python support.
I really like the idea, I think it would be interesting to see this kind of info centralized and organized.

Though, I'm of those who think that more information tends to distract instead of help in making decisions
I rarely ever get that thanks. On a decent % I don't even have it marked as an answer when it actually is.

I tend to go for the computer vision and finance questions since thats what interests me... but eh I can't participate due to those reasons anymore. I just don't care, and its not worth my time. I will however still use it to ask questions.
Do you provide access to a full shell/ssh? If so, is 'screen' or 'tmux' available?
To protect someone, we must endanger everyone.
The perpetual 2 months deadline is interesting. Is it because 1 month is definitely too short, while 3 months will invoke the wrath of Boss? I think a 2 months period hits the sweet spot where developers feel like they can get a lot done, without noticeably impacting the schedule.
I have been finding SO much less useful recently (6 months). My primary background is in javascript and I occasionally pop on and look for questions to answer to help other folks out. However, I find most of the questions being asked not necessarily being questions, but more statements. Among the actual questions, they are more about this jquery plugin or that ASP.net thing. I wish that SO had better enforcement of how questions are submitted, along with quality.

My other problem at the moment is that I am working on some objective-c stuff and SO is mostly useless for finding answers. Being new to the language and the APIs, I am sometimes lost and trying to get my bearings. A few questions I've submitted have either been closed or ignored. Only one really got a good answer, and when I tracked down the author I found he is very skilled and helps out lots of people. But there only seem to be a few people like him.

And by the way, if you're in SF and know objective-c, I'll buy you a couple beers in exchange for walking me through a couple things.
Myth busted: http://www.pitara.com/discover/5wh/online.asp?story=184
Matthew Green has remarkably bad timing... The crypto might be provable,
but the implementation is another story:

https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-attack-uses-ssltls-in...

And no, I've found no other details about the new attack, but if
anyone knows anything, particularly mitigation methods, please
post them.
Do you desire classic WOW?
That chromatic effect is specifically the result of different intensities of light tracing different paths across a highly variable reflective surface (water) to the slightly different locations of each of the three separately filtered lenses of Prokudin-Gorskii's apparatus. It's an effect of space, not time.
I'm inclined to agree, but see this comment upthread about smokers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4494407

I'm hard put to believe I could be that careless even if I were a smoker, but apparently some people are.

Anyway, as a matter of policy, maybe as smoking continues to become less popular (here's hoping) it will seem less like a good trade to provide some very slight protection against smokers setting their furniture on fire at the cost of exposing all of us to carcinogens.
Are you using the same site I am? It's faster than it used to be but it's still one of the slowest sites I know of. Not to mention that they randomly break core functionality for months at a time.
Unless it's a very simple game (very little animation, no physics etc) then a game that uses the DOM (and CSS) for game objects will perform horribly.

HTML5 canvas is definitely a possibility though. Check out http://impactjs.com/

Its a great game engine which will allow you to create all manner of high-performance games on iphone4+ hardware (i've never tested on <iphone4, so performance may be ok there too)
So, less than one developer year? That is incredibly generous.
> It has, or should have, no bearing at all on the
> actions of state legislatures;

Almost all of the Bill of Rights, including Amendment I, have been held by courts to be "incorporated" against the states as a consequence of Amendment XIV.[1].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Ri...
FYI, so I thought "Ok, I might try it for something simple" and signed up. Got an error that I hadn't accepted the terms/conditions, which incidentally, are very easy to miss. So I checked the button again, after re-entering my password. Then, I mind-farted and wrote "June" for the 5th month of the year, so the submission failed again. After re-entering my password a second time, and re-checking the terms and conditions box, and re-entering the captcha answer, on the third request, got an error that my "About You" wasn't long enough.*

Then, I gave up.

Full text was: "Learning ruby & javascript. Will host some simple one page apps with Sinatra. Current project: simple anagram finder." What else do you need here?
3.8 is not Indigo, 3.8 is Juno. Indigo is 3.7.
> I swore then, make your career dependent on Microsoft for <i>anything</i>; they'll always let you down.

Yes, your one 30yr(or 20?) old anectode invalidates all the tens of thousands of profitable programs, games, and literally millions of people who made and still make their living with Microsoft technologies.
It's certainly much less bad for the other people around you, like your children.
I'd be very surprised if there weren't at least a few Eclipse committers inside Google.

EDIT: In fact, they have nine. http://dash.eclipse.org/dash/commits/web-app/commit-count-lo...
I'm really annoyed with the people looking a gift horse in the mouth in this thread.
It's disturbing that you're not making any money out of it, but I'm all for it.

Kudos for you.
Beam me up, Scotty! (I couldn't resist...)
Microsoft's Bing is now the default search engine on all Kindle Fire models
Biologists tag "zombees" with radio trackers to monitor parasitic infection
The skepticism about PayPal is well founded. PayPal has rightfully earned a reputation of imposing arbitrary decisions on account holders. Maybe if PayPal was more transparent and actually provided some semblance of customer service their decisions would appear more fair.

While its nice that the CEO has personally responded this actually shows a far greater dysfunction. Why should it take escalating all the way up to the CEO level to get someone at PayPal to listen and advocate for the customers position?

The contrast with startups is misleading. PayPal has been in business for a long time and is a billion dollar company. They have the resources to stop making stupid mistakes, but still persist in their bad behavior. They can get away with this because they've cornered a large part of the online payments marketplace.

Sure, a startup is going to make mistakes. And they're expected to. That's all a startup is really - a machine that generates mistakes in an attempt to find (or build) a profitable market.
Competitive advantages: A comparison of competitiveness and wealth
For more joy:

script --timing=typescript.time
<stuff>
exit
scriptreplay -t typescript.time typescript

Try that, say, with a few commands such as 'top', 'mtr www.google.com', and 'vmstat 4 10'.
Exactly; maybe it's just because of age, but by the time on-line reviews became important my BS filters were well developed. Its not very difficult to detect the chaff, and it doesn't take too many heuristics---I like "specificity" a lot---to recognize the honest ones. Then doing your step b is easy.
At some point they figured out that smoking is somewhat less bad for you if you smoke outside

Smoking is in no way less bad for you if done out of doors. It's because no one, not even a smoker, wants their domicile to smell like an ash tray...and when selling a house, you don't want to cut out that large swath of the population that doesn't smoke from your buyer pool.
Just signed up. Looking forward to giving it a try.
Amazon's high-end Kindle lacks FCC approval
I understand how this type of color photography works, as does anyone who read the article, since the article explained it. It's basically the same as Technicolor

That sentence says, no you don't understand.

The images are monochromes, set with chemistry. 100yrs ago.

Then they are scanned into a computer.

Imported into photoshop.

The color is from photoshop.

The working color space is from photoshop.

The output color space is from photoshop.

Ergo, they look like photoshop.

PJ's use photshop all the time, there is nothing nefarious.

But the "look" is a function of the post-processing.

Provided a somewhat reasonable monochrome scan quality.

In fact, images are shot on overcast days to maximize the post-processing range of the output images.

Thats how you max tonal seperability and ability to punch the color without blowing the dynamic range.

Its counterintuitive, but true.

A modern look is a dull image input + aggressive tonal controls.

This is exactly what NASA does from the digital files from Mars.

Or what the NY times does on its news stories, etc.

Its "cool". Its just different than what you think it is.
Studies Find More Students Cheating, With High Achievers No Exception
I've been buying Amazon ebooks for the Kindle. I like the Kindle 3 keyboard without special offers well enough, but I don't really like the "we want to make money when you use the device" angle. Making money when I'm buying content is okay, but this Kindle will have to be replaced eventually, and then my entire ebook collection is retroactively adified.

Very irritating. I suppose I'll have to rip the DRM off of them and use them with another device if every eInk kindle has mandatory ads in the future.
50 pence posts on hacker news. Amazing. Well done my friend, if it is indeed you - that song was and is most amusing. Surely the highlight must've been yoda playing it on radio 1?
Smackdown Nexus 7 vs Galaxy Tab 2 vs Kindle Fire HD
Could someone translate the abstract into English?
The community edition of IntelliJ makes a great Android development environment and is free. I can't imagine doing Android dev in a straight text editor.
"it's the smooth-talking-but-not-that-bright individuals who do well, and any smart employees who perceive the real problems the company is in find themselves a part of an outcast fringe."

Extremely well said and sadly often true.
I'm not sure what the point you're making here is. Matthew is very deliberately talking about formal proofs of the protocol; Juliano and Thai are talking about implementation flaws.
One of my coworkers had his 4 year old child set fire to his couch (he pushed and pushed until it was next to the gas stove - it's easier here in Uruguay due to smaller houses and different gas stoves).

Irresponsible, absolutely, for not supervising the kid, but it is possible.
"a number of users reported significant performance issues when using the 4.2 release, compared to identical setups running the older 3.8"

3.8 is not older than 4.2, they were released together.