skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought about it, however it will make things more complicated. Currently I get the pics unfiltered from Instagram. If I need further processing, I need to process each image and cache the results, then compare the feed per spot for the next request for the same spot etc. It's not that it's not doable though.
Why Hackers And Geeks Should Homebrew
Spot on. You have to realize that the government buys software and systems that rely on encryption from the private sector. It is in their own interest to have the strongest crypto in government hardware and software. So while they know a lot of exploits they also know that it is quite plausible that our enemies know the same exploits (i.e China, Russia) and using government hardware that uses a poor standard is not a great idea.
The good news is that the Sequel Pro guys have started to work on their Postgres framework:

http://stuconnolly.com/blog/sequel-pro-postgresql-support/
that's wasssaaup c;
You should use localstorage to cache the results of your get requests.
HeidiSQL [1] is pretty good for most tasks. Although, it doesn't have an easy GUI for building databases.

[1] http://www.heidisql.com
.... smub & sand !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^~^
BrowserID Protocol Spec

https://github.com/mozilla/id-specs/blob/prod/browserid/inde...
that's wasssap tho c;
That's worth thinking.
I got into the science of brewing pretty seriously for a year and then stopped drinking entirely. It was a great experience.
I like how you put this, I feel the same way. It's like having the sludge drained out of your head.
Browser based vizualization is better: http://mbostock.github.com/d3/talk/20111018/tree.html
It's easier to share and you can quite fast create cool tools based on some API's.
i'm COOL cx
New Sublime Text 2 ebook beta launched
Camera+, a Top-Selling iPhone App, Expands to iPad
Again, it's harder than you think.

- You have to get content. Those people want to be paid. You are in competition for this.

- The cable companies control your air supply -- the bandwidth to your customers -- and unless you make them happy, your customers are screwed if they watch your stuff. Bandwidth caps on the order of 25GB / month are just crazy small for any amount of TV watching.

Apple could probably afford to buy Comcast (and Warner). That would suddenly be interesting.
agree, this is something new. here's how google search on desktop acted the last time i checked:

from http://google.com --> redirects to a url that sends "google.com..." referrer with search terms

from https://google.com --> redirects to a url that sends "google.com..." referrer with search term stripped

from https://encrypted.google.com --> sends blank referrer
That you. I am constantly annoyed that most parents aren't honest about how much babies suck.

Even after they have admitted that they basically killed their own children by beating them to death they will still claim that they are good parents and absolutely love their children.

Please don't get kids and treat them as an experiment. Don't get children, at all, unless you have spend significant time with kids and are completely sure about that you want children and have been so for years (not as in eventually, but as in right now).

And don't get them to "save the marriage". That you can even consider that as an idea shows that you are unfit to be a parent.
Objects and Procedures: A Python and Java Comparison
Why do I get the feeling that everyone here is threatened by this attempt to make programming easier?

Oh, wait... this is Hacker News.

"Geek Central".
"That which gets measured, gets done."

I find that by logging workouts and measuring progress, I am much more likely to improve and know by how much I improved. Logging workouts can also save time. By logging my workouts, I know exactly what my target goals are for my next workout, so I can get in and get it over with instead of wasting time doing what "feels right" at the time. This works great for me, but YMMV.
Airbnb looks to mobile to boost revenue and make hosts more responsive
http://careers.sh/

This is a small site I run that links to ~26 dev job boards. Posting on places like Meetup.com might be your best bet.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

You can also wait until Oct 1st and post in the next WhoIsHiring Freelancers thead.
I believe Firefox OS will have the first enabled-by-default, user-visible implementation around Q1 next year. Bits are starting to land in Firefox, but they're super, super experimental and not totally functional yet.
Tracking your workouts is important for debugging later - if you're not getting the results you want, how can you figure out the issue if you don't know what you've been doing?

If your goal is "general health" and you're doing okay, you're lucky (or you should set harder / more specific goals!) But as an example, I thought I was eating well, but when I started tracking my calories for a few months, I realized I had underestimated my daily calorie intake by about 400 calories, and I was still eating way too many carbs for what I considered to be a "low-carb" diet.

I'm also on Fitocracy (was using spreadsheets before) to track weightlifting - tracking is a necessity for lifting IMO.
Take note startups -- find a way to put this in a pill and you can make billions of dollars.

Yeah, exercise is free but only if your time has no value.
Online font for dyslexia growing in popularity
Blackberry famously solved this problem with magnets (in the holster which activated holster/sleep mode)
Mentally, the first twenty minutes matter most. Physically, it's the last twenty minutes.
Probably to reduce latency. Another hop is expensive on mobile networks.
Yeah I too was on an Exchange server. I had no idea it was storing on only Exchange/that one account. Really hard to discern where it was saving contacts to, hence why I had about 8 or so contacts left over when I deleted the account.
The last 20 minutes matter if your goal is performance, or muscular hypertrophy. Then yeah, those last few reps, done through clenched teeth and sweat dripping in your eyes, are the ones that matter.

If it's for health and well-being, it's the fact that you're doing anything at all - hence "the first 20 minutes" rule.
Current GPUs are very suitable for ray tracing, because raytracing can be almost completely parallelized and GPUs are programmable nowadays. However, one problem (huge) is random memory access. When rays can bounce at objects scattered very far from each other, it's difficult to keep anything cached. Nevertheless, most current realtime raytracers are GPU implementations, some are hybrid GPU/CPU.
7Geese Wins HootSuite as Client and HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes as Investor
Is this 30Mhz value per chip, or per memory channel? Would it be possible to increase total random access throughput by adding more chips to a channel and pipelining more requests?
Yes, I just read this book and wholly recommend it.

John Ratey is a famous Harvard psychiatrist who wrote Driven to Distraction. In Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (http://www.amazon.com/Spark-Revolutionary-Science-Exercise-B...), he explains how intense aerobic exercise, like sprints or interval training, will generate the fuel that grows your brain and makes you smarter, and puts your brain chemicals in balance to improve learning esp if you have a history of partying, stress, anxiety, etc.

I have been running several miles a day for a few months, and then last week I started running sprints and noticed an immediate effect.

This is the routine I've been doing: I've been running in a field about the size of a soccer field. To start off I jog half the soccer field and then on the second lap I sprint the length of the field (about 50 yards) and then jog the remaining part. Then walk a lap to catch my breath. So one interval is three laps -- one jog, one jog/sprint, one walk -- at first I did that 4 times, and then increased it to 5, 6, 7, as you get better. When you sprint, just pump your arms and run as fast as you can. Do that 3 times a week -- every other day to let your brain and body recover. On off days, jog a few miles. He gives more details in the book.
Major quakes can trigger large aftershocks around the world, study reveals
Yeah I wouldn't normally post something that ridiculous, but given the state of the patent system, it seemed worth mocking.
This is just great. I do hope this replaces Facebook connect as authentication provider, though I doubt it since getting all that user info is priceless for most sites using Facebook connect.

It looks very lovely.
A mind map can be a good way of getting a grip on legacy code (using the same flow as the article but to document legacy code and not a programming language). Freemind is excellent for this but I often just use a folding text editor. The main thing about either is that you can go from 10000ft to ground level and back up quickly which is what understanding a codebase is all about.
Shopify was one of the most immediate requests we had right after publicly launching Zenbox, and made perfect sense. WE've been testing it out with some beta-users for awhile now, and the feedback's been awesome. Happy to answer any questions or hear suggestions.
> once the site speeds up.

That means when the interest in the language drops to near zero again... I don't know, maybe the authors or maintainers of a web page should be warned before posting the link on Hacker News? I'm angry, because I find Cobra to be one of very nice languages that I'd like to see used more - and hn'ed site does not do any good on that front :/

I was playing with Cobra about a year ago and it was promising then - now it looks like it's almost ready for prime time. I think I'll try to use it for my next project.
I apply this approach and it has been a huge help, especially since I have been moving from Windows to Linux and there are many useful commands to stash away.

About six months ago I moved from Free Mind to workflowy.com and never looked back (incidentally, I believe workflowy is a ycombinator company).
Canadian Startup Success Story
Hustle, build a great product with a great team, and persistance, persistance, persistance.
It doesn't have to be either/or. I have a thin NFC tag with a QR code printed on it stuck to the back of my business cards!
Yes, Gittip is crowd-sourced patronage. In another context I've said that Gittip will be born when the first person announces that they're depending on it for their livelihood:

http://ryandeussing.com/blog/2012/09/24/chad-whitacre-gittip...

Personally, I think we'll get there in a year or two.
So... did you just bring up the subject of linguists simply so you could argue with me about what linguists do? I spoke about authorities on language. I believe this includes linguists amongst many others. English teachers are at the forefront of this as they will be the ones enforcing proper English usage, and as such they were the ones I spoke about by name. If you use the language wrong in school, you get marked down to reinforce the correct usage.

You happened to call out linguists as well, so I agreed with you that while I didn't mention them specifically, I was including them in the category of authority under the "etc" label. You then proceed to tell me I'm wrong because linguists don't work that way. Seems to me like you wanted to bait me into a trap. I don't think I fell for it in quite the way you were hoping.
Permissions issues aside, this is really awesome. Great work!
Yes, I will sell it on CodeCanyon.
The plural of anecdote isn't data ;)

Having actually seen the religiously-collected failure data that all manufacturers keep, I can safely say that your impression is incorrect. The budget brands suffer from substantially more expensive failures than the luxury brands, whose failures tend to be concentrated in non-critical systems (power windows vs. your transmission).

The AK-47 analogy doesn't really work here. There haven't been any "mechanically simple" cars since, what, the 80s? The main differentiator here isn't design or technological complexity, it's part selection and manufacturing rigour. So really you're talking about a hand-made M16 done up in a garage vs. a precision-manufactured M16. We're well past the age of "AK-47" cars.
Right click > Inspect Element > font-family: Dosis
I've always like this quote: "Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly." - Spencer W. Kimball

Cursing is like salt: judicious use can improve a well-made dish, but overuse doesn't make bad food into good.
Seriously, how does gittip get upvoted consistently to the front page all the time? And.. nevermind I just answered my own question, he tweets the link to the HN article. I have to start doing that with my own projects as well..

Anyways, it's been a neat idea, but at this point I'd say pivot.
Instagram passes Twitter Users
Realistically though the fallback will need to be kept around for a long time.
This graph seems to indicate that the Chinese anti-satellite test moved the number of objects from ~10700 to ~13900, or about 3200 objects released. Now that we are at about 16000 objects, 3200 is closer to 20% (in fact is is exactly 20%) than 10% of all objects.
simple answer, it's two to many ;)
Hey Gwen, do you plan to enable people to correct the info? Somehow my account is being combined with someone else's stuff--the person who created the Tumblr theme that my personal website uses.
Thanks for the heads-up so I don't waste time trying to build it. Did you file an issue on their Github?
I hate to say this, but the first month or so is a honeymoon period when the baby is unusually quiet, sleepy, and peaceful. Maximum sleep deprivation probably kicks in at around three months. Also, any smiles you see at this age are involuntary and not social. Mark my words: it will get much harder.
Interesting, did the homebrewing lead to the decision to stop drinking?
I'm actually starting to find that many times I'm more productive, feel better, and I believe do better work when I do my "thinking" on paper/white board. When I sit down at a computer to do the actual coding, my brain isn't processing a ton of information. It's just using what I've already written down.
I think you're right to criticise capitalism's approach to so called externalities. It's a convenience to not treat limited resources as depreciating assets, for the purposes of competitive advantage. And near space is a limited resource. As are oceans and accessible space and atmosphere and so on.

The normal solution is a market based allowance cap, An example from another resource area are carbon taxes that give pricing to carbon.

Pointing out that accounting rules don't correctly price scarcity is not really a criticism of capitalism per se.
The Danger of Tools
Came here to say this. It frustrates me to see this BS repeated on an almost daily basis, I can only imagine how much it must infuriate you.
Think of the children too.

Personally I couldn't care less if some people lose jobs.

SEO in general is all about gaming the algorithms of search engines to gain an unfair advantage. A search engine that needs SEO to get to the front page is a broken search engine. And because Google has the incentive and the resources to constantly improve it, an industry built around the deficiencies of a search engine is doomed for extinction from the start.

Of course, SEO is not the only reason for why some companies need analytics. But for all the other reasons, they should do what good businesses have always done and actually talk to their customers or potential customers, instead of looking in the records of their referrers, which often contains the deepest desires of people without them realizing that the data in question will be released.

if you don't want to be track there is one very
simple solution turn off your computer.

These kind of statements kind of make my blood boil and I'm trying really hard to contain my anger.

As to your statement, you're saying it like it's an option to turn off the computer. Well, that's not an option anymore for many people, and it's increasingly clear that we're going to depend on computers connected to the Internet for everything, like for doing our shopping, for paying our bills, for communicating with others and for being able to do our jobs.

It's enough to say that privacy is a fundamental right that people should always keep fighting for and for which eternal vigilance is required. And if there ever was a time in history when people truly had privacy, that was only because some people fought for it.

Totalitarian states never needed high-tech, like interconnected computers or street video cameras with face recognition and GPS chips implants and all that crap, all they needed was for people to turn on each other, so the Internet is not even a prerequisite, but human stupidity and shortsightedness is.
I just sent a LinkedIn InMail to Kasparov (0 connections on LinkedIn) trying to gain attention of this thread.
There's actually a book about that effect: http://www.amazon.com/Breakout-Principle-Creativity-Performa...
Does anyone know of Doxygen <-> mind mapping tools that work well?

I'm a big fan of Doxygen for having the documentation live within the code, but I find it lacking for drawing the graphical connections between things.

I've been looking at embedding UML using plantuml, but I figure there has to be a better answer out there.
Ancient Buddhist statue discovered by Nazis is made from meteorite
When I attempted to "facebook like" this page, the preview displays "Find MSN Hotmail Hacker, Cash Advance and more at Hackerface.com. Get the best of Debt Consolidation or Insu...". OP might want to fix that.
I would argue that, in the US at least, criminals winning on technicalities is not a side effect. It is a direct punishment of the government not following proper procedure. Authorities cannot illegally search your home because if they do they forfeit the right to use that evidence. If that repercussion was not in place, there would be no incentive for the government to actually follow the law.

Do it right or you lose the case. That's the deal.
> I'm not totally sold on the value of invisible things that cause phones and other electronics to do things.

I'm not either and with good reason:

"Black Hat speaker shows how NFC can be used for malicious attacks"

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/strategy/item/28552-black-hat...
I think you're misreading my reply. It's not that real world innovation isn't tested and iterated on, quite the opposite. The Wright Brothers are exactly that model and I don't dispute that at all.

What I'm drawing a distinction between is this approach to innovation, which is necessarily iterative and based on incremental improvements to prior art, and another approach which makes larger conceptual leaps and may not have obvious initial practicality. I described these two approaches as being roughly comparable to "business and research", although I admit that's a somewhat crude dichotomy. It is the latter camp that I think Victor falls in.

Both are relevant. For every Wright Brothers you also have a Tim Berners Lee, whose invention was developed in an international research laboratory (not a startup) and was largely ingored by the public for several years. It took the perfect storm of the late 90s Internet boom for the web to develop into the thing we recognize today.

In any case, it's not as though Victor has been doing nothing but writing papers and photoshopping mockups. If you look for them, you can find videos of him giving talks where he is demonstrating real, live software that implements his ideas. He has been refining them in practice for several years now, and others (such as Light Table's Chris Granger) are doing the same. The question is whether they will catch on, and the jury is still out as far as that's concerned.
I will add that this is legit and upon the bbc and not theonion.com, which is were a story like this would not be out of place.
No! Bad!

You would only ever need one paper NFC card (for yourself). The whole idea is to store the info digitally. That's what NFC is for. In fact, even one paper business card is too many if your phone supports NFC.
Sites that deal with financial transactions are almost always 5-10 years behind on the adoption curve; of course they will be reluctant to use Persona. And that's not unreasonable.
I've been using something similar called XMind for a few years. It's a lot more visually appealing to me, and the customizable relationships are a big plus. The first month I had it, a huge backlog of ideas were freed as I made dozens of maps covering all kinds of ideas I had been having difficulty articulating up to that point. It helped me plot out goals and track my progress through school, helping me to graduate early and wind up doing something I love.

For me, the most useful aspect is how I can express a thought in a very thorough manner, and form several related thoughts I've had into a unified structure.
Yahoo and Media.net Launch Contextual Ads for Web Publishers
"Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century" (1999 MIT Press)is an excellent biography of Bush by G. Pascal Zachary.
Android smartphones: USSD calls can kill SIM cards
I don't think it'll replace Facebook, it'll just be an alternative to it. We've integrated both Persona and Facebook into our site and it works great.

For my business, we need more personal details about each person that we get by default with Facebook (name/age/sex). So, that integration will always be cleaner than Persona because it is just a few clicks.

We've been working with BID/Persona for a while now (we're linked from the /about page) and we're huge fans. If you want to play around with it... https://www.voo.st/
Important: Safari has no secure site indicators for popup windows
Most bank websites (at least in Turkey) open a popup window to get your credentials. I realized there is no way to tell if HTTPS is used if you use Safari.

Here are some screenshots: http://i.imgur.com/71G2Z.png http://i.imgur.com/vHQEa.png

This is very dangerous since it is not very hard to use mitm attacks to redirect user to a similar unsecure website.
> Companies give out NDA's like candy, so that's hardly private.

private as "private/internal API" nothing to do with secret.

> I've written Linux device drivers. They're easy to write, and API changes are not a concern at all.

The whole point is that it changes! So it is ok for Linux to change the Kernel ABI, but for companies not?!
Huh :) I went in circles on the MDN site for a few minutes.
A sentense that begins with "I believe..." may not be the best example of science,

a better way to express himself could have been "[X] study has demonstrated...".
Do you only see two sides? I see at least four: "we need more tools to identify banned objects", "we need personal privacy", "we don't know the health effects" and "we need cost effective ways to handle the threat of terrorism."

The lack of solid benefits and the known cost of the machines seems heavily weighted against them being cost effective, even ignoring any privacy and health concerns.
This blog post seems to be about pigeonholing other people - "John is a bad programmer because he does $x / Mary is good because she does $x". Labeling people doesn't help them. Pointing out problematic behavior doesn't directly lead to solutions. It doesn't tell people how to change their behaviors to remediate the problem.

These generalizations seem too high level to be of any use, anyway. Good programmers want to program, and their interest will carry them up through skill levels. They'll want to learn and improve, and if they can't learn from your workplace you're wasting their time and yours. Bad programmers don't want to program, and should do something else.
It's the same thing as with aircraft carriers - today, smaller, more maneuverable ships (hence the focus on VTOL, as well) and drones are favored over the huge floating islands that are basically sitting ducks.

I think the reason for no more tall buildings is the lack of space in the big cities - nobody's going to build a skyscraper in the middle of nowhere, after all :-)...
I prefer the compact view of HN. Style is really just a matter of taste though.