skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... thus prompting hackers worldwide to quickly create a version of Linux that will run on the Clover Trail Atom processor. Just to piss them off.
To be able to Fly like a bird.
I was watching a documentary about a group of doctors doing high altitude research while climbing Mt Everest. It was claimed in that documentary that breathing pure oxygen only increases actual oxygen intake by 5% at those sort of altitudes.

Presumably they were talking about conventional oxygen masks and not the tight fitting, high pressure masks that pilots use.

In any case I was fairly shocked that breathing pure oxygen made such a small difference at altitude, but the difference it does make can be critical at the limits of human endurance.
Observations on the iPhone 5 event
Elon Musk: California Is Going To Burn Money On A Bullet Train
Reminds me of...

I approached a couple of old fellows top-roping a route on the Niagara Escarpment. I asked if they would be long, as I wanted to do the route. They invited me to jump on their rope. I had a look. It was dirty and the sheath seemed to be detaching from the core. The end was kinked and frayed. How of ten do you change your ropes, I asked in horror.

"Every time they break. Why?"
How To Do Calculus: Basic Derivatives - Hood Style
So how do you envision the transition taking place? Given that 6 and 4 talk past each other.
Looks like it is due to the one-chip design: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/09/still-no-simultaneous-v...
What? No. This isn't a philosophy class. The word innocent has a meaning, and in this case it was used incorrectly.
The Linux kernel has built-in support for bit-banging I2C and SPI interfaces, which I used way back when I was writing a driver for the MyHD HDTV tuner card. The thoughtful developers of earlier TV drivers had written a plethora of tools for probing and debugging I2C buses.
Major Social Networks and Why They Grabbed Me (trying out AuthPad)
How is that working exactly? If you are using custom graphics it needs to be stretched to fit a larger screen, or letter boxed to keep it's original ratio. If you are using nothing by standard UI elements it will adapt to the screen.
> But the bank… was different. No one could give an overview of the wholesale mortgage management system.

As a side note: The fact that few folks understood the global mortgage ecosystem lead directly to the housing bubble. For the bankers, it was not a bug but a feature.
iOS 6 has auto layout.
Show HN: Our physics teacher needs a new iPhone.
I found this. Towards the end, it starts talking about positive pressure respiration at high altitude.
http://webs.lanset.com/aeolusaero/Articles/A_Brief_History_o...
Challenge accepted. ;)
And this is exactly how it is supposed to be! The solution is switching to IPv6, not more NAT and ever more complicated routing to support the fragmentation of networks.
> What I really don't understand however, is why they decided to make a new proprietary format instead of using micro USB like everybody else.

Is getting an extra couple billion dollars in profit really that hard to understand?
It's almost certainly a hoax, of course. I'm fairly certain there's never been a bomb threat on an American school where there turned out to be an actual bomb.

Not once in any school in the United States, ever in the entire history of the nation.

I've really looked for a counterexample, but I haven't found any. If any of you have one, I'd love to hear it.
The goal of a college education is to learn how to learn, so you can stop paying people to teach you. Becoming an independent learners isn't in spite of college, it is the goal.
For Android it wasn't smarter, because they allowed any screen size and dimensions it was absolute necessity.

Which is why Apple introduced Auto layout in the iOS 6 SDK.

I don't really see this as a problem. Old apps still work just as will as they always did, and now you can also support a single larger screen size. If they wre goign to proliferate further. 3, 4 or more screen dimensions (in pixels) yes I'd say that's a problem, but two, especialy since one dimension is still exactly the same?. No, not a problem.

What I do wonder is how apps that support the larger screen size work on an iPad. Presumably they only run in small/older screen mode, scaled?
TLDR: Wealthy individual from wealthy family who already owns a home, a car, a motorcycle a sizable retirement account (for his age), who made almost $100k/year (at the start of his experiment) and has $1300 in disposal income each month after all expenses was able to pay off his loans in 7 months.

For those of us who are not already wealthy, this is a non-story.
I don't see your example as a trap a self-taught developer would fall into. The non-usage of enumerate just indicates that it is a code from some one who has started with python and any self taught developer who groks pydocs would eventually discover enumerate.
Go's error handling reminds me of the Icon programming language's elegant "goal-directed execution". Icon's control structures use implicit "success/failure" instead of true/false boolean logic. For example:

if a := read() then write(a)

read() could return a false or zero value and still "succeed", calling write(a). If read() returns "failure", then write(a) will not be called. (I don't recall what the value of `a` will be in that case.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon_programming_language#Goal...
It's a very very pretty screen. People are going to be chasing that.
That gives me an idea... What are three most popular text editors out there?
I don't know how much heat in CPUs is based on transmission resistance vs something inherent in the operations done (something analogous to how a Carnot heat engine with 100% theoretical efficiency is impractical) but if you have a circuit with no or significantly less power loss you could blow up Moore's law since if I recall correctly the limiting factor is heat.
Do Your SSL Certs Meet Microsoft's New Requirements?
Sorry, I should have said that this already works on Firefox OS. It may also work on Firefox for Android, but Apple would have to add support for Open Web Apps to Safari on iOS for it to work there (and the same with Google and the standard Android browser or Chrome)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Apps/Getting_Starte...

It's being proposed as a standard, so hopefully Apple and Google adopt the API, but these things take time and politics.
First person to turn a 90s animated GIF divider into an actual live progress bar with API wins the Internet.
It's pleasing (but also frustrating) to see that there is still some back and forth between different OSs.

Dual monitor is something that really really should be a solved problem.

Many developers use more than one monitor. Many professional (with big budgets) customers use more than one monitor. Multiple monitors make great sense for many people and many user interfaces.

And yet sometimes it's a hideous kludge. randr, xrandr, etc are for most people impenetrable gobbledygook. You've seen people struggling to get modern computers working with projectors. People on HN often mention the frustrations of weird behaviour with multiple monitors.

TL:DR nice to see some competition between OSs.
Shumway – a Flash VM and runtime written in JavaScript
The Auto Industry lost a lot of money trying to stop aftermarket products from being sold in the USA. Good luck Apple, it's going to cost you millions to stop the aftermarket business from producing equal and less expensive alternatives.
Kevin,
Cellphoneguruman
Tópicos da Semana - Portuguesa Vence Concurso de Fotografia de Arquitetura
Do whatever you want with them, copy and paste into your projects... I need to add licensing (or the absence of them) on the site, will do today.
JavaScript Tricks You May Not Know
Harvard MBA discovers personal budget!

The part where he cashed out the IRA at a 40% penalty to do it does suggest that much of the debt problem that gets so much attention is personal in nature. I would think it might occur to an MBA to apply a little bit of that business training to their personal finances.
Maybe it's to work around public computers with keyloggers?
iOS has always had different screen sizes: When someone tethered or in a call, the app dropped several pixels of vertical real estate.

Now, many apps didn't handle this, but this is really "more of stuff you should have been doing", not really "tons more work for iOS devs.
Location Analytics: How it Works
We need to quit looking back at the v4 space like this, bite the bullet and deploy v6. It's already in use on some networks, and inevitable on 95+% of the rest.

The amount of time spent bike-shedding "well, v4 isn't running out as fast as they say it is" or "NAT will save us" (lol, no) that time is better spent deploying v6. For many installations, its actually not that big of a deal to do.
It's pretty cool! But I've found a few bugs:

Code doesn't wrap, you can see the posts I did here:

http://doug.authpad.com/

The bottom post is using a codeblock, but it stretches out the pages.

Also, when I went to edit the page and updated it, it made a new post.
What's the direct harm if I post naked pictures of consenting adults on my porch for the neighborhood to see?

There's no direct harm right? But it's not protected free speech - it has limitations.

You do realize the video in question was heavily edited to change dialog and things like blackboards were switched out. So it was purposely tailored to cause a reaction - incite a physical reaction.
I know it sounds a bit apologetic for Apple, but like HTML, variable width is generally a bigger design problem than variable height.
It's a stretch to say that the author made up facts. I'll respond to OP's complaints one by one.

> ...a blatant lie, saying "Apple tried to convince us that it had stolen a 16:9 display from the gods".

This is clearly an opinion. It's weird to call an opinion a lie.

> He then lies about the hardware, saying that "you would be hard stretched to find any new features except for the single-chip GSM/CDMA/LTE radio".

Again I wouldn't call this a lie. It's the author's opinion that the most significant new feature is the radio. You could (and OP does) make the argument that the author is willfully ignoring the other feature updates. I still wouldn't call it a lie.

> Later in the article, he gets the software wrong too, talking about how iOS will use the additional screen space: "Rather than do something interesting with this space, though, Apple will simply letterbox all 3:2 apps". That's already untrue;

I think OP is stretching here. It is true that iOS will letterbox 3:2 apps right? Just because Apple and some developers will update their apps before launch doesn't make it untrue.

To my reading those are the only places where OP complains about incorrect facts. As outlined above I don't find the complaints very compelling.
>but if you ever watched people shop for phones basically nobody cares about specks.

You're right to some extent, but I wouldn't say "basically nobody", or the S3, Nexus etc. would be dead by now instead of selling tens of millions.

Taking an extremely wild guess based on personal interactions, I would say 40% don't care, 20% care, and the other 40% ask the pople who care about their opinion.

>So, is it worth the 800$ upgrade no, is it worth the 200$ upgrade on a 2 year old phone with some scratches and diminished battery life? probably, and that's what apple is going for.

The only issue is that the iPhone 5 design is pretty similar to the iPhone 4, except longer. So looks wise, it's like getting a new iPhone 4 or 4S that you see in almost everyone's hands, except taller. That might steer some of those people onto other devices. How many? I don't know, it's not going to be 90% but I think it won't be just 5% either.
I read this as "low-level employee with no authority to speak for the company says dumb thing at conference."
Show HN: YouTube powered Music Player.
Agreed. People keep comparing the device to the Nokia 920, but nobody has had some good hands-on time with either device. NFC might be a nice feature to have, but there's very little infrastructure in place to support it. Wireless charging is cool, but I'm not sure it's much more than a gimmick at this point? What's a use case for wireless charging where it's more practical than plugging in? On paper the 920 has the "better" camera than the iPhone 5, but the sample photos from the 920 were faked. Even if the iPhone 5 isn't quite as good, it's still going to be a top 5 camera.

Fortunately, we live in a time where smartphones are developing at a very rapid pace. And we as consumers have some really great options. You might have to make some compromises, but not many.
Why You Can't Photograph a Spinning Propellor With An iPhone
Wouldn't that lock up a thread, per request? Things would quickly grind to a halt I'm sure
I'm somewhat "self-taught". I majored in straightforward "pure" math, with emphasis on real analysis and abstract algebra, but I did take graph theory, numerical analysis, and so forth - and the professors did include a lab component that involved writing substantial amounts of code... so I'm not completely self-taught.

That said, I feel that there is a gap because I didn't major in CS.

Although I had to read a textbook on Data Structures and Algorithms on my own, I don't feel like this is a particularly glaring gap. Interestingly, my math coursework did cover a lot of the stuff at the end of the algorithms book, since I'd taken graph theory, linear and non-linear optimization, numerical analysis. But I had to learn the basic data structures (trees, hashes, lists) on my own. While it took some work to learn this, it came naturally enough, because I consider data structures and algorithms to be very similar to math. You could study this stuff without a computer and get a decent understanding of it.

The big gap in my knowledge is more around compilers, operating systems, and that elusive border between software and hardware. I never took compiler design, and I think that languages are still a dark art to me because of it. I think I also would have benefitted from doing some very low level programming (when I was in college, "C" was still considered a "high level" language, but at least I had to struggle with memory management). Also, a lot of data structures that are optimized to interact with memory or hardware are still pretty much a mystery to me. Obviously, without this knowledge, my understanding of operating systems is going to be pretty limited.
Not really. All the blocks that are marked "reserved" are more like "unusable"; e.g. real equipment cannot use class E. People have been over this stuff with a fine-toothed comb. http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-addr...
Blogspam of http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2205462/idf-intel-s...

which was posted on HN 9 hours ago.
The conspiracy theorist in me wants to believe that this statement was actually a calculated move by Intel, designed to goad Linux hackers into getting the OS to support these features sooner.
A reboot to switch to and from CLI and GUI on a server? This is so many different flavours of wrong. As compared to a few keystrokes on most other sensible server OSes.
I just had the strangest Futurama flashback.
North Dakota State University has been evacuated as well.

http://www.chron.com/communityblogs/atmosphere/article/North...
At least for them...
I call them "mundanes".
Original article was already posted 9 hours ago: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2205462/idf-intel-s...
Ask HN: Dealing with clients who don't know what looks bad?
To start, I'm technically a backend developer. I'm most comfortable tweaking and optimizing code to run milliseconds faster. However, web design is still a hobby of mine and after adding Dribbble to my RSS feed I've gotten a lot better just by immersing myself with the work of great designers.

So now I have my first client ever, I'm 20 with no experience in dealing with them and I'm finding that he is insistent on pushing his own ideas that , to be frank don't look so great. I try to explain to him the issues but he seems to be ignoring them. I've managed to work with him and create something decent around what he wants but it's hardly my best work or even something I'd be proud of.

Is this the fate of all designers, do I just have to suck it up? Or is there some way of satisfying the client as well as myself.

EDIT: Clarification, the design is not really for some functional or business website, it's the equivalent of a business card, it just displays basic information. It's more likely to be viewed by colleagues than consumers. It's fashion related so image is important.
Your E-mail In-Box Is About to Be Swamped. Happy Holidays
Take home exams are common at my alma mater. Hell, I had more than a few limited-time (as in, do it in X hours but it is due in Y days), closed-book, take-home finals.
"Facts" aside there is a certan degree of hyperbole that disqualifies something from being an opinion piece. There was a real excess of rhetoric or trolling. I did not see anything of value in this piece. It did not look a reasond critisim or an Honistly emotional appeal.

It was a shameless promotion of troll behavior and pointless partisan arguments.
Interview: Star Economists Launch Marginal Revolution University
Founder of camarades.com / ww.com, creator of the first 'streaming webcam software'

see: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jacquesm
Why is this on HN? Hoaxes like this happen daily.
I hereby declare my workspace a No-Intel zone!

(Of course, I must admit my workspace was a no-Intel zone even before the release of the Clover Trail processor.)
This put Treehouse on the map for me. I have not seen evidence to suggest that Treehouse's $50/month program is any bit more worthwhile than Codecademy's program, but the notion that I could "save" $1,200 ($50/month * 2 years) on education makes this attraction too interesting to pass up.

I just signed up, told a friend, and will probably tell another five people about Treehouse today. Great marketing stunt.
Been there done that. Only thing I can suggest is that you keep notes, very good notes. You start looking into the WhatchaMaCallIt.java class to fix a bug you've been assigned? Write down in a text editor what you think it does in human understandable sentences. Then see how it interacts with other objects in the application. Draw squiggly lines with notes on them. You get briefed by a very experienced senior developer with absolutely no time? Keep notes of what he/she is saying and try to ask questions if something doesn't make sense. Also thank them for their time, always appreciated since I'm that guy now. I remember filling up notebook after notebook at my first job out of college. I then moved on to text editors that I could keep open in a second monitor (hidden whenever coworkers came by because I was embarrassed, which was stupid in hindsight).
Apparently you weren't around for the 2008 redesign of reddit.

The new image-friendly site ushered in a new era of image macros replacing once text-based content.

It's been a mixed bag ever since. Sure there are more users, but the content is now overall geared more towards a younger crowd.
Some anecdotal evidence here: http://www.geoffreylandis.com/vacuum.html
To be fair, ID3v2 is a ridiculously complex and over-engineered "standard". It reeks of second-system syndrome, despite not being created by the same person who created the original ID3 format. What was needed was a basic key-value store. What was delivered was a custom container format with an over-complex frame system, a bunch of redundant frame types, an unsync scheme, etc.

iTunes is hardly the only software with issues related to ID3v2 reading/writing.
Show HN: Use OS X and StackOverflow? Check out ProStack
USAToday.com Redesign Preview
It Ain't Easy Being Queen
A CS degree can differentiate you from someone who cargo-cults their way through a software project. Sure cargo-culting can make the plane land once in a while, but wouldn't you some day want to know why?

I started programming for a living before I got a CS degree. After I got the degree, the biggest difference I found (aside from the really cool knowledge I gained) was that I had a common language to use to talk to other people with CS degrees and an understanding of common methods that I used to take for granted.

Also, I appreciate the rigor behind a lot of CS fundamentals, and I believe I'm able to teach myself new CS-y things more easily and do my job better as a result. I don't think the CS degree is necessary, but I really really really believe it helps you in ways you may not realize until you get one.
HTML5 context menu API:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
The difference is Android was from the ground up designed for adaptive design and multiple screen sizes. AFAIK most apps on iOS use fixed pixel sizes and positions.
I would be surprised if 20% of people with cellphones knew how much RAM their phone has or how fast the CPU was within 50 MHz or 1% of some specific benchmark. Ditto anything specific about their GPU or Battery.
51.0.0.0/8 the secret IP block otherwise known as Block 51.
iPhone 5 – Learn marketing from today's most popular landing page
For me, I've learned what I've needed to learn to solve immediate problems that I was facing -- more like JIT learning. As such, there's many concepts that I simply haven't had a pressing need to learn and personal curiosities aside, they won't get learned.
Alarming number of Muslim protests around the world today
The iniquity of failing to punish blasphemy against Islam is far outweighed by the injustice of punishing blasphemy in the first place.

No set of beliefs should be so sacrosanct that the government must act to shield their fragile believers' minds from the criticism of others.
I would imagine this might also affect strategy regarding power plant placement.
>That's nice. I don't like to scroll. Surely there's someone else in the world like me.

Hmm. You might want to check the notions of:

1) opportunity cost
2) outlier
Robots That Work for the Little Guy
Agreed, but not before they went through very painful times in the 90s and came close to getting shutdown. OEMs fell into a rut so Apple had a chance to ramp up the design, and OS X was amazingly better compared to OS 9, not to mention that Vista was terrible as Microsoft tried to remedy some of the issues with XP like everyone running as admin.

Probably companies go into a pattern alternating cycles of leapfrogging innovations and then to milking cash cows and then back again to innovation as the cash cows go dry. But it does feel like Apple is transitioning into milking cash cows w.r.t. to the iPhone (while perhaps concentrating on things like iTV).
What if ugly design is something good - who's the judge?

http://www.mrgreen.am/affiliate-marketing/the-ugly-truth/
How To Build A Community (Why Lyft Rocks)
Rails: Easily Version Your Views (show.v1.json.jbuilder, show.v2.json.jbuilder)
self-learned? :-)
IPhone 5: When technology expires
It seems remarkably easy and consequence-free to disrupt major institutions like universities, sporting events, etc.

The answer probably isn't to ignore the threat, but it seems there's gotta be a better solution than shutting the entire thing down. Maybe not.
Making a Better Internet
My Life as a TaskRabbit
That's about how much a speeding ticket is.

Would you be happy if a cop gave you a ticket for that amount every time you drove past one, because he thought you were speeding?
From the example,
;; go and open http://localhost:8081/ in Safari or IE6

IE6, are you serious?
You're right it is objective however I should clarify.

The design is not really for some functional or business website, it's the equivalent of a business card, it just displays basic information. It's fashion related so image is important.
Obligatory counterpoint:

"Drivers don't care about different ways of reinforcing concrete or finite element modelling or yada yada, they just care if the bridge works."

If the users don't care, it's because they don't really understand why the software they pay for and put up with over the years becomes an unmaintainable nightmare...