skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have? So I can fly back to the US now without having to worry about TSA grabbing my ballsack or blasting me with untested X-ray machines? The patriot act is gone? NDAA?

The US hasn't remotely gotten over it. Long after the orchestrators of 911 have forgotten all about it (or died), politicians in the US will be dreaming up some new way that a terrorist could potentially, theoretically, possibly, attack us and passing laws to stop it.
Save As will show up in all apps automatically if you bind Shift-Cmd-S to "Save As..." in your keyboard shortcuts preferences.
The issue is that the plugin model means that Firefox has no way of knowing if sound is playing via a plugin. The plugins access the OS's sound layer directly.

Edit: The relevant bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486262
Your State House is also bought. And more cheaply at that.
Stickman Games
Interested in china, dm me at twitter: @mik4el4ndersson
True, but they won a small victory: now we get a little taste of what we've made life to be for them. It's small compared to what they go through but it's much more than it was in the past.
git checkout -b dev-10.9 release-10.4
This is a very interesting exercise, I have to try it some time this week!

Here's another one: Go to a quiet place, outside. Maybe to a forest. You should be alone. Now stop and listen. Try to identify all of the sounds you hear. Try to hear more, quieter sounds. Do this for several minutes.

For me it's always amazing how much more sound there is than you'll initially hear. And how I get bored first and then, after a while, can't stop listening.

Edit: Spelling.
Hi all,

I posted this offer a week ago so now's time to award the domain name.

I decided to give the domain name to runeliger since his idea struck a chord with me, and since I think it'll be a great fit for the name.

He/she said that the project could be completed in a couple of months. If that doesn't happen, I ask for the domain name to be returned to me by the end of November so I can give it to somebody else. I think this is fair game for everyone.

Thanks for submitting your ideas, it was great reading them all. Sorry if you didn't get the domain name :/

Carl
"A collaboration with Internet Explorer" and everything's jaggy on a big screen — can't deny the irony. When will Microsoft finally learn how to properly use web technology?

Regarding the link copy issue: They could've just added an automatic redirect/URI change on page load. Too bad they didn't think of that.
actually i was refering to entrepreneurs, not programmers. some of them think "important thing is founding the idea, any programmer can code it".
Hi! Congrats! You won that domain name!

If you're still interested, please check my profile and send me an email. We'll make arrangements.

I also posted another comment explaining the terms under which I'll transfer the name.
Do you have a file called "mule" for bad ideas?
Isn't that a bit partisan? There are some big names above it (Cambridge, Harvard, Oxford, Yale, ...) - coming behind some of those doesn't make it a bad university.
I think there's a culture with modern developers that says using older, less sexy technology isn't going to work as well as newer, sexier technology. "Cache HTML?! That's so inefficient!" Yeah, it also just works, too. When all your databases, content engines, storage services, deployment tools, etc all take a crap, your clunky little web proxy cache keeps right on humming and your customers get at least a half-functioning site, if they notice at all.
I have no issues with syncing my stuff across devices. Works quite well, actually.

And "NexPhone"? Really? Nexus + iPhone. Quite original.
An Extended Introduction to Ruby on Rails at Boston Ruby Group
Our monthly project nights have been really successful. Feedback from newcomers to Ruby has been extremely positive.
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ is a kind of reference browser from the W3C. The release history lists the first SVG support in Amaya 4.0 from 10 November, 2000.
That just means you're not hanging where the cool kids are. Then again, judging by the quality of most things on github it is probably better. You may catch a GTD (Git Transmitted Disease).
Mostly, I want to hear that they know that their idea is not the end of their contribution -- that they are going to spend as much time as I spend on technical things getting market validation, building traction, creating content, acceptance testing etc.

Usually, I get the sense from these kind of emails that they think the idea is so great, that just by itself, it's more valuable than the time you will spend implementing it (or even comparable).
There's even more at work here. In the context of RSA and DHMW there are bad primes and good primes. A prime p is potentially bad if p-1 has no large factors. The algebraic structures associated with pq are then combinations of small algebraic structures, and that can (sometimes) make pq easier to factor.

So not just any old primes will work, and if two unrelated, unassociated people use the same software to generate "good" primes, sometimes they will coincide, leading to the potential for finding their factorizations with GCD on pairs.
Berlin has a lot of the right incredients (e.g. an engineering culture, cheap rent and a "hip" reputation). And that last thing along with a Samwer-influenced culture when it comes to start-ups are huge obstacles. And hordes of clueless managment graduates are doing it for the lifestyle and with delussions of a multi-million exit doesn't help neither.

But what I miss in Germany is innovation (not just in start-ups but in general), we have grown lazy over here... ;-)
there's an amazing thing about code is that once it works, it can continue to work in the exact same fashion indefinitely as long as nothing changes

No business stays the same. All systems have to change, either due to evolving business needs or because the data inside them are growing. The first means bad code getting changed, generally at incredibly high cost. The second puts stress on critical points in the bad code, generally causing unexpected and intermittent failures.
The wrong edges are rounded :(
> I'm not sure if I can bring myself to support undoubtedly one of the most unethical companies in the world.

Really? I wish Apple was one of the most unethical companies in the world, because if suing some companies over patents was grounds for that, then the world would seriously be a much better place.

In the real world, I probably wouldn't rate Apple in the top thousand unethical companies... Real unethical companies are ones like James Hardie [1], which manufactured building materials from asbestos that gave thousands of people mesothelioma, despite knowing the health effects for about 10 years.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hardie
I too have never received this kind of email, though have been asked about it.
This is undoubtedly a design flaw, although one solution (albeit extremely inelegant) could be to remove the power button key from the keyboard. If the Retina Display models are anything like their predecessors, they keys should be fairly easy to remove.
LOL "COME ON DOWN THE THE SKEU WAREHOUSE! WE’VE GOT LINEN! WE’VE GOT WOOD!" http://dribbble.com/shots/662571-Mo-Tab-bars?list=following
Focused on innovation? It's focused on selling advertising.
OP might have a faulty unit. I never experience this with my Macbook Air, which has similar design of the power key as the new Macbook Pro.
It's not NexiPhone. It's Nexus+Phone?
At this stage, yes, it's naive. The ideas and techniques here are pretty much completely new, and it will take years, if not decades, for people to understand them deeply enough to find the essential core of what's happening.

No, they are not overly long. It's likely that papers explaining them will effectively be an order of magnitude (base 10) longer.
My guess is that they use the referrer only as a point of origin on the map. Each subsequent user to hit that referrer id plots on the map in sequence from the original, based on their geolocation. They probably do not plot users who do not share their locale.

Just a guess.
wow guys, why so negative? I firmly believe that Eric knows what he is doing and that telerik is going to keep the tool free and polished. And as someone said, if they make it paid an alternative will pop up in the matter of hours...
the water is indeed deep and dark where these guys swim. Thanks for the ppt, it sheds more light on the abc conjecture.
Honestly, someone's willingness to learn programming just to implement their idea (if they stick with it) would be a huge positive to me. It is the people that think 99% of the work is having an idea that dishearten me. "Oh, if you implement my idea I will let you have 10% of the profit." Great...

"Yep, the only reason I'm not rich is that I couldn't think of the idea for a social photo gallery for cat pictures. I am just not creative enough to think of such amazing ideas."
I can't see how the compiled code for Type is supposed to work?

If you deference a JS function from an object, you lose the context of `this`. So in

Ruby.prototype.cut = function () {
this.shape(); this.polish();
};

var old = Ruby.prototype.cut;

Ruby.prototype.cut = function () {
old(); this.engrave();
};

`Ruby.prototype.cut` will be called with `window` as `this`, so `this.shape` will be undefined. Use `old.call(this)` to get the behaviour you want.
Because you don't manage them there, you mostly consume them, and one at a time at that. In any case, you do it at your leisure, while delving into them. Consuming them, and mostly one at a time is the main reason for having the iPhone/iPad.

On the contrary, when you want to sync/manage/backup your collections from your desktop to your iDevices, it would feel like madness to have to use 15 or even 8 different apps. You want to be able to backup/sync everything with 1-2 clicks, drag new songs (and maybe some movies), etc.
He may be thinking that the Apple should have sent a warning letter first and attempted negotiating changes. I would bet they did that and, in most cases, that's the part of the story you never hear; that the offending company ignored the warning or was unwilling to negotiate.
The menu behind the content UI Pattern is actually one of the suggested UI patterns in the official Android style guide.
I think they should ditch the idea of docking devices and just focus on making good low power / inexpensive computers. If you're already paying for the screen, battery, enclosure, etc why not just throw in the cheap SoC and make it a standalone device?
Javascript the right way
One data point doesn't mean it's a design flaw. Most people aren't going to take their MBP offroading, so why should they make compromises just to serve this small, but now vocal minority?
I've been reading/thinking about consciousness a lot lately and agree with the idea of philosophical zombies. I don't think that there is necessarily anything "magical" about consciousness - I just think that we are in the dark ages of understanding it. I think it's more like a fundamental property of the universe, or a property of matter, than something that can emerge from matter. Conscious experience emerging from matter seems more "magical" to me.

I've been reading a lot of David Chalmers lately - he's awesome.
I get them, but not on a weekly basis. Possibly 3 per month, usually not phrased explicitly like that. But I'm not in the Valley and not that well-known. (If you're outside of California, it cuts the number you get in half, at least.) It's becoming a star economy where if everyone knows you're a 6, you're golden. But there are 7s and 8s and 9s out there who few people know about. In New York, you find a lot of them doing high-frequency trading in quant funds.

Cold-calls don't mean much and you shouldn't take a lack of them to be indicative, especially if you're far away from that scene. Hot girls get a lot of mail on dating sites but it doesn't make their lives easier. Same principle.
Where The Bailouts Stand, In 1 Graphic
This is great.

For those who haven't followed for 11 years, Garage Games started off selling the Torque engine for $100 - full stop, no tiered licensing schemes, making them at the time the cheapest game engine on the market.

The engine itself came from that venerable and dated Tribes 2, which was a commercial flop, and when the studio went under the tech rights when to GG. I'm not sure if GG was a third-party or more of an ex-employee spinoff.

In any case, I've been doing amateur game dev since around that time, and Torque has always struck me as a highly troubled product. They were offering $100 licenses to a 100% C++ codebase, which attracted all kinds of dreamers who really had no realistic hope of hacking on a C++ engine. I imagine their support load was immense.

I'm surprised they've survived this long - at $100 a pop you wouldn't expect the cash flow to be great. But kudos to them for open sourcing this.
I remember that it used to be a choice between Unity and Torque 3D if you wanted a solid 3D engine + integrated toolset. My guess ( I've been out of the loop in making games for a while ) is that this is related to pressure from the success of Unity. In which case I say good luck, the more open source engines out there the more code for people to learn from.
I think it shouldn't wake up when the lid is closed. Am I missing a point?
Yes. It's just the MD5 of iPhone mac address taken twice
Clearly it needs more control-alt-delete.
There's a lot of blogs with bad fonts that show up on HN. Readability chrome extension is my savior (no affiliation)

http://www.readability.com/
What I'd like to see now is an integrated XPadder-style system to allow for playing games.

XPadder works OK, but it's kind of a pain to use. It would be nice if you could set up a configuration for a game once, and Steam would remember it every time you played the game.

It would also be nice if people could share their configurations, and maybe when you buy a new game, it would default to the highest rated game-pad configuration.
HP Boosts Job Cut Forecasts As It Executes Turnaround Plan
I keep hearing things like this about the Retina MBPro. Dangit I WANT one, but my spidey sense keeps insisting that this is first round, early adopter technology and that I'll be MUCH happier if I hang onto my early 2008 17" MBPro for another few months or maybe a year until the next laptop line bump from Apple.
Well, then just take out the batt.. Oh wait!
How on earth is a key being pressed on a closed laptop? Bumpy road or not.
Marching Squares Explained
This part:

>Access to specific website content may still be made conditional on the well-informed acceptance of a cookie or similar device, if it is used for a legitimate purpose.

Could certainly be interpreted to mean that users must actively accept or refuse cookies before accessing a website. I don't like this because the inconvenience outweighs the privacy benefits, in my opinion.
I know thousands of companies do the same thing because a tiny company I once worked for was warned by Tektronix over our use of, not our name but, a swoosh that was behind our name that looked almost identical to theirs. None of us ever thought about it and the name of the company was Microtek.

A restaurant chain I'm involved with sued another because the wallpaper in their restaurants looked the same as ours.
How to be half as effective
Oh, I see. I thought you were using it ironically against Jobs, which would be missing the point.
"It was never an attack on our freedom." You only believe that because you are not listening to what they are saying to you.

Here is the full text of Osama Bin Laden's letter to America:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver

And here is a choice extract that totally contradicts your erroneous belief.

"(Q2) [...] what do we want from you?

(1) The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.

(a) The religion of the Unification of God [...] of the discarding of all the opinions, orders, theories and religions which contradict with the religion He sent down to [...] Muhammad...

...It is the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah's Word and religion reign Supreme."

Him and his kind want to impose a theocracy on the entire world. Under the rules of jihad (outlined in the Koran), once they call you to islam and you refuse to take up islam, they have the right to kill you. http://islamqa.info/en/ref/43087

They are not just opposed to America, but also to buddhism, hinduism and African pagan religions (hence they ran a trade in Black African slaves for 1300 years). http://www.amazon.co.uk/Islams-Black-Slaves-History-Diaspora... The 1951 UN report on slavery documented that 5% of the population of Saudi Arabia and Yemen were slaves. That is almost 100 years after the US fought the Civil War. Non-muslim black Africans are still being taken as slaves in Mauritania and Sudan (which is why the non-muslim south of Sudan seceded from the muslim north last year). Baroness Cox of Britain is still going to Sudan to buy slaves in order to free them. http://groupspaces.com/humanitariancentre/item/205497 Books on sharia law say that slavery is legal under islam.

Over 5,000 buddhists in southern Thailand have been slaughtered by muslim extremists in the past 8 years. That dwarfs the deaths in the WTC, but you probably haven't heard of it.

Bin Laden's letter to America offers up Palestine as a pretext. But his kind have said they plan to take back Spain for islam (it was occupied by jihadis for 700 years, don't you know). It also explains the civil war in Sudan, and the massacres in Thailand. The jihad is also going on in Nigeria, Mali, and Kenya.

It is eurocentric arrogance to ignore what the muslim extremists are telling you they want.

By all means get on with your life, but don't deceive yourself about what they want.
Aren't those nouns?
Alternatively, go "dd/month/year", eg:

[ 12 ] [ December |v] [ 1980 ]

(Please forgive my crappy ASCII Art month dropdown.)
I always thought the Golden Path referred to the continuing fate of the human race and continued after Leto's death, not referring just to his forced peace.

Still, I'm impressed that you managed to work a Dune metaphor into a Java discussion...
Why does this site say (at the bottom, under the license) Based on a work at http://jstherightway.com. ?

I noticed that PHP The Right Way (the inspiration for this site) says something similar: Based on a work at www.phptherightway.com.
The only thing interesting about this to me is that they are going to finally try and force Canonical's hand at making Ubuntu for Android a reality. It's already tempting to leave the laptop at home when traveling for business, but there are always a couple of times when I'd be dead in the water if all I had was Android itself. Theoretically I could RDC/SSH into a remote PC, but that's a pita when all you need to do is make a couple of edits on a document or perform a similarly minor function.
Can you imagine the pain caused by transitioning away from HFS+? Is there something so fundamentally wrong with it to justify all the compatibility headaches of a new filesystem?

Under the hood, there's some low-hanging fruit that I'm surprised Apple hasn't gone for yet:

* Turn off the writing of ALL memory to disk every time a laptop is put to sleep. Got an SSD MacBook Pro with 16GB? Every time you close the lid, sixteen gigabytes get written. Every time.

* Disable file access times so every file that gets opened doesn't need to have the timestamp updated.
Good point. A very good MIT Press book on this topic (I think it's this one: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&... but the cover is different; I'd say its still relevant if you don't have a good background in the topic), noted as of 1980 that TI managed to be successful through 4 or so generations of semiconductor technology starting with germanium transistors (following would be silicon ones, one or more generations of ICs including the ubiquitous first widespread TTL family; since then microprocessors and now specialized types of those).
I agree that so many apps would be overkill, but I literally only use iTunes for 1 thing: to add comics to my iPad. The process of doing so is ridiculous in its complexity and lagginess. If they simply let me add files to an iPad via Finder it would make the process 100x easier than it currently is.
Personal computers aren't a commodity?
I'm not sure if the big spike was HN or not. This hit the front page of Reddit and The XX already has a large following of tech savvy hipsters.
Mathematics of a Lady Tasting Tea
Serious PHP for Real Drupal Developers
Why does the laptop power on when the lid is closed? That seems like the design flaw to me. And it could probably be fixed with a software update as well.

Still, not very frontpage worthy IMO.
What's really bad about stories like this is that social engineering is not new. I recall working on closing some of these types of loops at companies 10 years ago.
not sure if that was trolling or pure genius
Exactly, and it's a real bummer because true virality would have looked much more interesting.
The source is available here:
https://github.com/apigrove/apigrove
I would like to see it taken a step further. While devices could have SoC to act standalone, Operating Systems should be able to utilize both the SoCs (the one on host Device and one on the docked device) to expand its computing power, besides sharing state and data
He wants to get rid of Stickies! The only justified response to this is to turn up on his doorstep with a torch-wielding mob.
There's nothing that says an iTunes rewrite would necessitate opening X programs to sync content. It's trivial to envision an architecture where a sync service is aware of and can pull from those X repositories.

In fact, iTunes already works like that with regards to contact sync'ing (from Mail) and the optional iPhoto/Aperture photo sync'ing.

And the only time someone need open those individual apps is when they want to consume or manage that content.
Yes, but I suspect it will be a "Wunder" if they can monetize their TODO-List app..
Nexus 7 is denied entrance in the Chinese market
The inertia of the keycaps is probably sufficient if the force required to press the key is very low.
This submission would be better titled Serious PHP for Real Drupal Developers since that's the title of the page, and since the site/workshop is focused solely on Drupal.
Offroading isn't the only source of bumps - turbulence while flying, public transportation, strapped to a motorcycle on backroads...

I think the point is that when the computer is powered off and the lid is closed, there is absolutely no reason it should ever power on by itself.
One Does Not Simply Scale into Real-Time
In this case it's a defect, but in general, people operate their Macbook Pros with the lid closed attached to an external monitor.
Because it's hackers who can acquire them. duh!!!
Here's a link to the homepage:
http://apigrove.net/
and to the repo:
https://github.com/apigrove/apigrove
Why does the graph only go back to 2006?
Ask HN: What about having a free pool of business ideas?
What about if you get business ideas for free, that you could implement if you think there are some opportunities?
In return you only need to give credit where the idea came from. Is this something you will use?
>>It is hard to be an entrepreneur when you can't make things. If you're good at selling, you still need something to sell.

If you find yourself in this scenario, step one is selling yourself.
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My only request:

- Add a wheelbarrow icon to the menu bar.

What for? To drag and drop stuff so I can move them around.

* More explicit: to easily move/copy files from one folder to another. From one app to another. Drag files to the wheelbarrow icon, a red circle shows how many files you're holding. Open an app or a finder instance, then drag from the wheelbarrow to the folder. No need to hold the command key while waiting for a finder instance to open and navigate to the folder I want. There is an app somebody showed some time ago that did exactly that. Something like that but part of the OS.