skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where I come from 16% accuracy does not mean the problem is solved. Yeah, its a big step up from where we were, but the cat detector neural nets by no means solved the object recognition problem.
Relevant calculations: http://blog.wolfram.com/2012/10/24/falling-faster-than-the-s...

I'm not versed enough in Wolfram Alpha to extend this all the way to ISS orbital altitudes. That's of course assuming one nullifies the lateral velocity, which is actually the main concern for not turning oneself into ashes from friction.
Don't put it off!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxVBHhXi8Ho&feature=fvwp&...
http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...

s/television/facebook/
If they actually will "delete your life" instead of keeping and mining it I wonder if messing with the "Facebook police" might not become an acceptable roundabout way of effectively wiping the online record clean for people who'd care to.
Being as the A10 is armv7, it's already possible to run more on it than on the Pi. Let us move forward, not backward.
Known unknowns vs. known knowns.
>its also likely they used them because they're cheaper or somehow easier for them for some reason besides keeping owners out of devices.

I am having a hard time imagining a way this could be true.
Just got my first update from Gallup... Romney 50%.. Obama 47%... This is kind of cool.
IIRC the E-3 sentry had jamming equipment powerful enough to damage older RADARs
I still don't think it's trust. It's desperation. Equities aren't really in the same class as government bonds. But the holders of all this cash (I won't even call them investors, but rather folks left holding the bag after a gigantic monetary expansion) can't look to equities for a better rate, because in order for any instrument to provide a reliably high yield, the money supply would have to grow even faster, and it's already grown too fast.
This is why the fact that Alex Chadwick has written just enough of a USB driver for HIDs is such a useful contribution.
> But its also likely they used them because they're cheaper or somehow easier for them for some reason besides keeping owners out of devices.

How is this even possible? They undoubtedly manufacture their own screws and it would cost the same regardless of the design of the screw.

Weird screw heads always translate to people wanting to keep you out. You don't even need to write an article about that.
He's absolutely nailing this Surface presentation right now. I think he's doing a great job selling it and I think the audience is finally warming up.
Social API with Facebook Messenger for Firefox
But if I lost my FB data now? I'd never find these guys again.

You haven't bothered to copy off important contact data to some personal file? That's crazy.

You wake up one day wondering what happened to Bob, then slowly realize that you'll never see him again. It's a weird feeling.

True. OTOH, when that has happened to me, I realize there's a reason for it.

At 54 I find that a) life is not only short, it's shorter than you think, and b) there's a whole lot going on right now that dwelling on acquaintances lost to the past is probably a waste of time.

[B]y the way, my wife and I are having a competition to see who can get the most friends.

Seems we're very different people, so my anecdotal reflection likely as alien to you as yours is to me.
The little bald guy at the start talked far too much without showing anything FAIL.
Two things:

1) You can do this with connector services like Zapier. [1]

2) Are you worried about basing an entire business around something Trello could instantly implement (if they haven't already)?

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[1] https://zapier.com/zapbook/email/trello/424/email-to-trello-...
Boy, that Apple, they sure are evil. rustles newspaper

What other reason could there be for running this story?
> "Foo foo = new Foo()" is not something you see in C.

In C++: "Foo *foo = new Foo()"
In C: "Foo *foo; foo = malloc(sizeof(*foo));"

C stutters even more, unless you want to use macros to 'patch' the stutter, but that applies to both languages equally.

You're right that there's no need for flamewars. I agree with most C programmers in style, as I am a C programmer at heart. I program C++ code that looks like simpler, cleaner C code.

Why does it look simpler and cleaner? Because I don't have to typedef my structs or stutter "struct" everywhere. Because I have templates to reduce that "necessary code duplication" where it matters for performance. I have constructors and destructors for the cases where I need compiler-enforced init/destroy function calls within a {} scope. I have references so I can almost entirely eliminate the worry of null pointer values in my code.

The point is that C is not the subset that most people want. Being a smaller subset of C++, it has a lot of appeal to me. But ultimately, there are genuinely useful C++ syntax features that can make your life much easier in producing reliable, clean code.

Absolutely C++ can be abused (i.e. inheritance for anything but interfaces), and absolutely C++ has some annoying quirks. That doesn't bother me too much, because at the end of the day C++ leads to cleaner code and higher productivity for me due to these relatively "syntactic sugar" features that I use.
Thanks everyone for your opinions, comments and disagreements - pleased to see that we've sparked a debate.

If currency transfers can be facilitated in a way that circumvents the markets and requires no actual trading of currency, then many of these concerns and processes voiced above become irrelevant.

Of course there is huge complexity behind the formation of the mid-market rate, and yes, perhaps we were being ever so slightly facetious in our post!

The point we really want to get across is about improving transparency for end users, and how difficult it is to get a straight answer from a bank's customer-facing staff.

We speak to consumers and businesses every day who have no interest in what happens behind the scenes. All most of them know is that at any one point in time there is an 'official exchange rate' of sorts, but they never see that rate when they actually come to make a transfer or exchange.

As a result it's difficult to work out which provider is really the most cost-effective for their money transfers, and how much they're really paying. This is what we think is broken, and it's great to see so many people also passionate about it.
I have a PS3 because it's dead simple to buy a game, pop it in, and just play it without worrying about anything else. I would never use this, it defeats the purpose of the ps3 for me. I'd rather just spend $20 on a game.
The implementation of Clojure itself is not idiomatic nor is it intended it to be so. Most of the complexity in that example, for instance, is to deal with chunked lazy sequences. In user-land code, chunking of lazy sequences is pretty much a pure performance optimization that you don't have to worry about.

Granted, it's not a ideologue "turtles all the way down" LISP. But it isn't intended to be. If you want that, I advise you to find an old Lisp Machine and use that.
A new way to prevent source code merge hells.
Having deep industry knowledge, a product with paying customers and spending a lot of time preparing the application and video is not "hacking" the application process.

I typically think of the term in the way it's used in the question "Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage." I.e. something like finding a loophole.

It's too bad, this diverts the discussion on that post around the use of the word, whereas there is some good stuff in there.
The Great Depression - Fact v Fiction
I tried to be constructive, but I honestly couldn't find a single good thing about this. The execution was poor, and the entire idea of making a 'framework' out of boxes with background colors is ridiculous.

I do apologize for the harshness, especially if it offended people, and I'm all for trying new things, but something like this should absolutely not be up on the popular page of hacker news. This is an amateur attempt at a framework that was very poorly done. Is that honestly deserving of more than 100 upvotes?
How long would it take to learn a web framework like django or rails?
I'm currently a student and I'm not sure what career path to take. I enjoy research and I enjoy building things. I want to pick up a practical skill so that I have extra income and I'm not sure if learning a web framework will be worthwhile for me. I fear it may be too time consuming (first to learn, then to keep up with updates and best practices).

a second question:
Do I need a comprehensive understanding of the framework to build secure and overall "good" quality applications?
As I often have to repeat to people: don't use RabbitMQ unless you need durable messaging. That is to say, if losing a message is catastrophic, and in the event your broker goes down, you are guaranteed to still retain your messages, then I'd recommend RabbitMQ. For example, you do not want to lose a queued financial trade.

Most people really don't need durable messaging. They are typically offloading asynchronous work jobs via messaging. This is where a broker-less technology like ZeroMQ makes sense. You can achieve the same high-availability architecture without having to worry about the availability of your RabbitMQ choke point separating you from your worker instances.
Pretty much what I was thinking.

I've often heard the same kind of judgement when people see a Torx for the first time.

Thing is, a curiosity about Torx born from their prevalence on cars I've worked on led me to learn that Torx were designed with the intent of preventing cam-out [1] as opposed to the intentional, damaging, torque-limiting cam-out of Philips screws.

This makes Torx attractive for all kinds of applications, particularly automated ones where fit and finish are important.

The use of something other than the most common fastener, connector, whatever is not necessarily a matter of "making things difficult".

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam_out
21 and find that it would be hugely inconvenient to delete my Facebook account.

But this isn't for the social aspect, I don't post status updates or photos or share personal information (not even my Birthday), however Facebook Groups are just so widely used that it's hard to stay in the loop for certain things without them.
Funny how now matter where they start out, just about everybody who attempts to take on the 3x+1 problem eventually ends up in pretty much the same place:

http://xkcd.com/710/
He still hasn't fixed the squished screenshot's obviously wrong aspect ratio, at least as of the time I am writing this.

Screenshots with incorrect aspect ratios are a huge pet peeve for me and while this may not be entirely rational, it is one of the big things I find myself judging someone's overall competency on when they screw it up and they are doing design-focused work. I'd rather have the whole page be written in Comic Sans but have the screenshot in the right aspect ratio because at least that's a choice rather than just shoddy work.

Of course, YMMV.
this is so normal. ark torrented all the fb accounts for their yc demo day
how about http://www.flippa.com ?
Perhaps suggestions of how this could be made more civil while retaining the criticism would have been a better way to word the comment - want to take another shot?

Stuff like "one good thing, one bad thing" or any type of sugar coating is not relevant. We are (I hope) adults here and should be able to accept criticism without needing an ego boost along with it.

There are in addition a number of inaccuracies in your comment:

- "Your feedback has not been positive." - It wasn't supposed to be positive. I thought that much was fairly clear.

- "Yes, yes you are" (reply to i'm not trying to be a hater) - No, I wasn't. I was making a critical comment, but I wasn't trying to be a hater. You cannot tell me what I was trying to do.
The purpose of my post was to point out to HN users, some of which may be old cranky guys with too much time on their hands, the way the average Facebook user looks at things.

If you'd like to make it about me, happy to do that. My email is in my profile.
Apple Store Credit? I'd rather take cash thanks.
It was 85% accuracy on imagenet of pascal voc, using just a couple of computers with nnets vs 1000 for that google brain. And both of these were just experiments run by grad students, a proper industrial effort would solve it.
Introducing the Parse Windows 8 SDK
Smartphone wireless chipset vulnerable to DoS attack
Five reasons why RFPs are a bad idea
Dreamhost changing SSH server host keys
Stamped was an awesome (and beautiful) product. Sad to see it go.
I've noticed that too. Alas, everybody wants a shortcut -- and the word 'hacked' implies that someone found one (for stories like these).
Create a Superhealth Community
Free Clojure Course
You can order the e-book on O'Reilly's website:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023784.do?code=CFSTNY
Congratulations to the Stamped team and good luck to Yahoo.

On another topic, has anyone else noticed Marissa's hands in that photo?
I presume the projects that are built are intended to be public repositories, but it is not clear from the contest rules. Is that correct?
Realistically, how many people repair Android or non-Apple phones? How many iPhone users would, when faced with a broken phone, try to fix it themselves rather than take it to the Apple store for repairs?

I've got no data on it, but my gut tells me it's a tiny, tiny percentage. I would also bet that switching the entire massive operation over to using pentalobe screws (not to mention the presumably higher cost of the screws themselves) cost more than the revenue they're "losing" to people who would repair old phones themselves.

Isn't it more likely that the pentalobe screws, with higher internal surface area than a phillips screw, offer some other benefit? Looking at them I would bet that they stay on automatic screw drivers better than a phillips-head screw.

If they really wanted to make it impossible to un-screw them they'd make a screw whose head was in the shape of an Apple logo or something that nobody makes a driver for. It's not really hard to find a pentalobe screwdriver so if they were trying to keep people out it's not working. (Actually, using an Apple logo as the screw-head shape would be kind of interesting, because they might be able to sue anyone who made a matching driver for using their trademark...)
A better question is do you enjoy building websites/webapps? Try to answer this question first. To do that you should pick one of the frameworks, find a few tutorials, and try and build something. If it turnes out you hate the process of teaching yourself that tool you probably want to look for some other way to spend your time because you will be iterating on the process of teaching yourself indefinitely.
When has a major country ever really paid down its debt? The debt never gets smaller. At best the economy grows faster than the debt so that the debt to GDP ratio improves.

The problem right now is that we're spending too much money on the wrong things (military spending and entitlements) and it's crowding the things out of the budget that actually help the economy, like basic research and education. Imagine for one second where we would be if we swapped the budget lines for the DoD and scientific research.
I'm kinda amazed Apple still have screws at all. I wouldn't be surprised to see them disappear from the exterior of the device in a year or two.
Why Apple doesn’t care about its competition
The future of NeighborGoods
But its also likely they used them because they're cheaper or somehow easier for them for some reason besides keeping owners out of devices.

If they're cheaper, then how come they only use them on the outside?

So either they're doing it to keep owners out -- and most people would agree that they have readily explainable motives for that -- or they're doing it for some mystical reason that makes it "easier" for them, a reason that nobody so far has been able to imagine.

I think I'll bet on "keeping the owners out" as an explanation.

Of course, you're completely right insofar as that doesn't make it news. But it's still worthy of fussing about, as far as I'm concerned ;)
You don't even need to write a facebook app. I have put together scripts in R and Matlab with those capabilities. Its absurdly simple to do using Facebook API and a JSON parser.
Sadly, one of the reasons that you don't see much sexism on HN is that numerous articles about sexism in the industry are flagged as soon as they arrive on the home page, and get removed fron the site.

It's quite depressing.
Not really, In concept its more like 99designs. Main focus is on customers with fix budget rather than seller.
BTW Zarly and TaskRabbit are interesting, never heard of them.
In any city in Europe you'll have corner stores all over the place who will do a screen swap for you, or just sell you the screen to do it yourself. This is far more handy, environmentally friendly, local-economy friendly, and probably cheaper than shipping in phones to Apple for refurbishment.

> Isn't it more likely that the pentalobe screws, with higher internal surface area than a phillips screw, offer some other benefit?

The article refutes this with the argument "then why don't they use the same screw on the inside of the phone?"
This paper demonstrates an effective way of interfacing between typed and untyped code such that type errors can only happen at the boundaries - not within typed code.

homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/blame/blame.pdf
Are there many games worth playing that sell for $20? Going rate on new releases is more like $60.
A one-man orchestra with custom built instruments
Good looking site. Nice.
Heroku releases Followers into General Availability
One of the things I tried to impress upon the kids is to look at where the jobs are, and what they pay.

Honestly, there's such a thing as "too young" for that. Your high school career day makes more sense, but in the OPs story there are kids dreaming of being pilots and firefighters. A little young to be thinking of career development.
To be fair, a class 10 SD card could be ten times faster than the figure you quoted. Still a big difference, of course, and I imagine there are some write queueing feature differences as well.
Both Android and iOS make panoramas, yes; but this is listed as a '360 panorama', meaning it would get a full revolution panorama.
This makes me remember a thought I was having a while ago. I'm not a fan of regulation on the internet, but there's some regulations i'd really like to see for the purpose of creating a more competitive atmosphere. They're probably too extreme today, but in the future I can see them being necessary as our lives increasingly become more digital.

One of them is that all data I create, which is stored, I should have access to, programmatically preferably. If I sign up for a site like Facebook, and create data such as friend connections I should have direct access to that data. Without access, there's an anti-competitive atmosphere. It is near impossible for me to create a new social network today on a similar scale to Facebook, because people's data is locked up. Even Google+ with google's resources, and popularity couldn't get people to detach from Facebook. I watched as people enthusiastically went to Google+, but then left as they found everything they wanted to do with it was locked up elsewhere. It is true that Facebook has this data available on their API, however it also has the ability to choose who can use it. That's the problem. I feel this data should be available for the express purpose of allowing competition to flourish.

of course there's other examples. Linked in has almost exclusive access to my resume + business contacts. Gmail has my life's history. Literally. I probably talk to my girlfriend on gchat more than when we're home. By the time we get home, there's nothing new :D Almost every big decision we've made has been while chatting at work. I can go back, and look at the record of our conversation I had when we came up with the name for my dog. Or when we decided to move to a different state, or when I told her my mom was hit by a car. No one company should be able to wipe out my life's memories. No one company should have exclusive access to this data. It is MY DATA (i realize the law doesn't recognize this as true yet, but it will).

Every day as we move to digital lives, the services we use go from being fun things we do, to critical infrastructure. Those gchat logs are really important to me. Those facebook status conversations are important to me. I didn't choose facebook based on their features. It kind of just happened. But now its a part of my life (a lot of our lives). I want control over it.
Did you actually read the PDF before posting this comment ?

Even Krugman can't deny reality. The medallion scheme of NYC is a bad thing for everyone - except the few happy medallion holders.
What's the difference between them, 3 decibels? I've frequently upgraded hard drives in my macbooks, and always upgraded to 7200rpm drives. I've never noticed a difference in volume, the fans are always much louder than the hard drive.
There's a ripe market opportunity for a free or significantly cheaper alternative to Meetup, unless I'm unaware of a competitive one that already exists. $12/month is absurd for what amounts to a BB service with a handful of social networking features.
Website Over Optimization Google Panlties and Updates 
The post is conducted from a recent forum thread that entirely discussed about "What is Website Over Optimisation", most importantly from the point of view of Google's latest updates about regretting over optimisation.In fact the current issue is too much hot on the web nowadays and most of forum threads talks about it.So here to better understand the current topic let's have a little glance at the following example..
Contact me at my username at gmail if you are interested in helping out and we can work together on the basic idea etc. I'm thinking about targeting early/mid Dec for the first event.
It doesn't matter. That's beside the point. I'm trying to point out that publishing speculation as fact is dangerous and its not specific to Ars or tech media but its endemic in all news, journalism, and media outlets. What's happening is that those who used to be held to the highest standards have lowered the bar and everyone else is taking advantage. So now when the nightly news reports some speculation as fact that signals to everyone lower on the food chain that they can do it too and they end up doing it worse and more often. Things weren't always this way and they don't have to be. I will not accept cynical or conspiratorial rebuttals as having any merit. The news used to be the news and reporting, no matter if its the nightly news or some blog, should at least try to hold themselves to some kind of standard.

But I digress. The point isn't why Apple uses new screws. Its about making it clear that this article is putting forth the suggestion that it does but that there are no facts to back this up. Just speculation.
I fail to see how using facebook to reconnect with disconnected friends is what is wrong with facebook. As a tool that is exactly what it is for.