skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure where that "Slashdot has many problems" statement came from, but I enjoy Slashdot every bit as much as HN. Actually, I like /. more because there's a lot less shilling and gaming votes there.
That's not how you validate credit cards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm
It seems like some of YouTube's region-based relay stations are down. Temporarily changing DNS to a US-based ISP is advisable. (Viewing from Japan)
Looks very nice.

A few things I can't seem to see how to do (that I can do with TinyMCE):

1. Define some CSS classes that I want to be available to the user (I'd never give colour and font controls to my users unless I wanted my lovely site design to end up full of bright-pink 42pt comic-sans)

2. Supply a list of already-uploaded images

3. Supply a list of internal links to the 'add link' dialog

4. Resize handles for images (or even better - some preset sizes) - I process WIDTH and HEIGHT server side and replace the image with one resized on the server.

5. Allow a couple of CSS classes for images (although I had to hack MCE to allow this)
Design and manufacturing engineers have been using 3D printing for some time now and while it hasn't revolutionized anything 3D printing has certainly made the discipline more efficient and lowered the bar for prototyping. We now have a fully established rapid prototyping flow that allows an ME to"print" a part without even fiddling with the actual printer or stereolith machine.

The only flipside is that customers can see the real thing much earlier and do not understand that at least two or three more engineering disciplines are involved in turning a prototype into a product.

I think the potential for the home user and tinkerer is enormous and that can only be good. Companies that can afford in-house 3D printing are also the ones least likely to address niche markets or crazy ideas.
The guy commenting on the video seems absolutely clueless.
That ranking would be highly subjective. For some people, it's the #1 issue. For others, it ranks behind their children, family, property, status, and comfort.
I think you have a false nostalgia for what "old school" tech reporting was. Before web publishing and blogs, many tech magazines were nothing more than press releases and a couple of opinion pieces stapled together. It was trade press, not journalism.

Amongst the cabal of editors, PR and companies the racket was positive coverage in return for access.

At least today we have viable independent sources who can build an audience without giving a crap about access or offending PR people.
NoSQL Databases: What, Why and When (video)
Finding Signal In The Noise of Fundraising
Hey, how can I contact you besides replying to one of your most recent posts? Apparently HN doesn't have a private mail system, so this is the only way I can reply after the discussion has been locked. You wrote a ridiculous ad-hominem attack to my post calling you on your bullshit a while ago, that I didn't see until now, and I'd like to follow up. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4435852 You accused me of being stupid and not being able to support my claim, but of course I can: http://www.beststuff.com/audiovideo/connectedtv-turns-palm-h... http://www.pencomputing.com/palm/Pen44/connectedTV.html Do you really still believe Apple invented finger gestures? That's very naive -- you should do some research before calling people names.
"A lot of "journalism" today consists of regurgitating press releases rather than actually reporting on issues."

E.g. most of what is written about Apple.
For comparison, Monday Night Football is usually low 20,000,000 range.
Nokia doesn't have too many options left. My advice for Nokia -- http://mytwocents4today.blogspot.com/2012/07/save-nokia-simp...
Same problem here. The BBC are also broadcasting and that stream is working fine for me. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19887652#TWEET...
Finally...a WYSIWYG editor that doesn't look like absolute shit.
SNL’s Sketch Pits iPhone 5 Factory Workers Problems Against The Tech Critics
You are absolutely right and it will even get worse. The govs log your personal data including fingerprints etc. I'm real skeptical that they are able to store this sensitive data securely, but I guess I'm the exception. The most live after the slogan "I'm a honest citizen, I have nothing to hide".
You get a very pretty but difficult to use website?
There is indeed. Take a look at require.extensions:

http://nodejs.org/api/globals.html#globals_require_extension...
Ask HN: Why don't we have academy awards for software?
Aside from the webby awards, and other web/design specific awards, turing award for computer science achievements, I haven't seen (or Googled enough) to find one award to rule them all.

I wonder what attempts what arguments for and against are for such an award. The award should be voted by the top of the software community, which will be academia, startups, VCs, enterprise (yes, we have to), students, and select independent people.

the awards will be for things like, best open source project, best software design, best commercial product, best mobile application, best SaaS, best bootstrapped startup, best linux project, best Ruby on Rails project, best Scala project, best Python project (and so on)

The benefit of such awards are superficial but

- people like getting awards
- people like award shows
- will help promote good software projects
- Hollywood has them, why not us?
- will encourage people to learn SE or CS

Now please tell me why is that a crazy idea that won't work, (I thought of a few reasons, but I chose to ignore them)
Hardening Linux Security in few seconds using "Server Shield"
btw, you can download Code Rush from archive.org:

http://archive.org/details/CodeRush_616
Looks super slick, but worth noting there are open source alternatives. For example:

http://jhollingworth.github.com/bootstrap-wysihtml5/

This a bootstrap wrapper around the wysihtml5 project:

https://github.com/xing/wysihtml5
That sketch was not completely terrible, which is better than a lot of SNL does. But seriously, complaints about the iPhone are not put in perspective when contrasted with the complaints of the people who constructed it. The fact that Foxconn exmployees enjoy (well, so to speak, "enjoy") a lower standard of living than Americans does not make 1st world complaints insignificant. Otherwise, nobody would have any recourse to complain about anything!

We should feel fortunate to have the opportunities available to those in modernized countries--don't get be wrong. But that does not necessarily mean we should feel guilty about theirs. We do not have control over the situation. Plus, this sketch ignores the reality that the people who design the software and design the hardware have higher standards of living than the average American. If we take the logic of the SNL skit to the extreme, we have every right to complain; the people responsible for the iPhone's problems are more well off than half the people who buy the product!
Reddit leaders deflect censorship criticism and defend hands-off policies
Interesting. I believe the developer of doodle jump is a solo developer in Florida. I was about to question the ethics of this coder cloning his app, but I noticed he kindly didn't release a working version.

We all learn through copying, but I have never seen someone who shared their copying process online... It's funny that it rubs me wrong only because I know doodle jump is a small outfit. If it was a giant faceless organization I probably wouldn't bat an eyelid.
Deobfuscated: http://dpaste.de/1OJXR/
My Galaxy Nexus reboots during phone calls about 3 times per month. When it happens, it will usually happen 2-3 times in a row, so it seems to be tickled by something environmental like a network problem.
Can't move images in Firefox 15.
True, I we use a MAC Filter at work. If your MAC isn't in a whitelist, then the port get blocked. They took the file sharing a bit too seriously..
Reward does track merit as well, that part has already been accepted as a topic of negotiation. For example, see people who are given massive retention grants at big companies. Little risk, high reward, on the basis of merit.

Where software does mirror the film/music industry is that the marginal cost of production is very low. Copy 1 is very expensive, copy 10,000 much less so. The concept of residuals is to capture some of the resulting profit for the team that created the original work.

It's not a ridiculous request. Of course there will be pushback. But that doesn't make it wrong.
The lateral braking provided by the atmosphere causes objects to burn up.
Interesting that nearly all the affected phones seem to have been purchased and used in either Germany or Italy---that may point to a problem with a particular production run. (Also interesting, though unsurprising, that Google has not weighed in on this month-old thread.)
That's actually a very likely explanation. Thank you.
They are being given massive retention grants because of opportunity cost, which is a form of risk.

"Right" and "wrong" are moral terms. Compensation structure for developers isn't a moral issue. There are few other markets in the US economy where labor has the mobility, upside potential, and control that software developers do.

It's not "wrong" to ask for royalties. It's just that most of the time, supply & demand dictates that developers won't get them, because they're asking for royalties on top of an already generous (relative to the whole economy) comp package.
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It seems this issue affects the GSM version of Galaxy Nexus (i9250) and only handsets manufactured in August 2012.
I think you may be ignoring the community moderation effect of downvotes. Try turning "show dead" on and see if your opinion changes. There is a surprising amount of spam, abuse, and downright awful content that is moderated through the downvotes. It's easy to decry the function as useless when its prime effect is invisible to you.

In a community like HN, I think it has a secondary value, as well, in that it provides well-intentioned posters with feedback that they are making a weak point, or doing it in a way that is not contributory to the community. There is (or was) a standard of discourse on HN that down votes help to reinforce by communicating to people that they need to improve their communication. Lack of positive signals is not the same thing as negative signals.

It certainly is abused by insecure morons, but I think it's a bit narrow to decry it as useless because it can be misused.
Here's the JSON endpoint with the data from the launch: http://services.redbullstratos.com/LiveData/Get
A few clarifications

OnLive is free to join.

There are 3 purchasing models:

1. Buy the game outright (or until OnLive folds ;-)

2. Rent the game for a short period

3. Buy a bundle (the 'Play Pack') which gives you access to a huge list of indie or older games for a pretty low monthly cost). They are a mixed bag. Some old A-list games, some really interesting indie games and some junk.
I strongly disagree, and have found myself downvoting more and more lately to (what I've noticed to be are new accounts) derisive comments, one-liners that detract from the conversation (vs. contributing) etc.

If you want to keep your community at a high level, then I feel it's important to be able to illustrate to contributors what you consider to miss that mark. I used to comment along with every downvote, but there are so many bad comments on HN of late that it would take a full time job.
As a white male from the suburbs over the age of 21, I am strongly offended by the racist tone in this article. This author has asserted that people of my generation and people like me are not likely to found successful companies, which is simply not true, as most high-tech startups are founded by people just like me. It talks down to Americans, saying that immigrants are somehow better at business or better at founding companies than we are, which is rude and offensive.

I'm sorry, but I have to take extreme racial offense at the article that was posted.

wink
"Quantitatively, what is the proof that any policy change is needed?"

Well, this subject in general (the US loosing its draw and appeal in the globalized marketplace), is something that IS not just coming up as it has in the past but seems to be becoming a serious problem. Here are some quantitative reports and recent news having to deal with the us specific issues,
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/03/why-silic...
http://www.fastcompany.com/3000410/silicon-valleys-world-asi...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044349330457803...
http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/18/silicon-valley-is-in-dange...

EDIT: I just wanted to add I'm watching the developments as a non-us developer and entrepreneur, where some countries I'm familiar with (germany, estonia, singapore) are actively making policy changes to support startups and foreign investors / immigrants, specifically in the tech sector. Whereas from what I'm reading in the US this seems to be increasingly not the case. Obviously, I would be very interested in stats and news to counter what I'm reading, and have been watching the "the startup act 2.0" to see where it goes.
My thoughts exactly. It has been "designed". I'm not sure if it is well design though.
Conway's Game of Life in HTML5
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Looks like he's still over Roswell, NM; presumably so.
why is this unsurprising? (isn't Google usually pretty responsive?)
I get annoyed when people imply that I am trying to make something seem racist when I'm not. Just saying you'd be surprised about the massive interest for (Western) culture and style in certain parts of Asia.
Those firms may be training clients, like department stores have done with their customers, only to buy when prices are discounted, which could lead to more major firms going out of business

Doesn't this sentence indicate a basic misunderstanding of market economics? "Prices are what you train your customers to want". Really? I'll bet that's not what the partners say to each other when they're buying IT services or xerox machine paper or office supplies or hiring paralegals.

Besides that, what if a bunch of law firms go out of business? It's kind of hard to see that as a detriment to society as a whole, although I'm sure some divorces, hardships and personal catastrophes would come from it.
I am having terrible problems using youtube to view the live stream. I am getting "stops" for about 5-10 seconds constantly. Sometimes I have to refresh the whole youtube page to get it working again. Earlier they said that over 100 sites are streaming the event... does anybody know about the best working site?
>A new Kauffman Foundation study finds that high-tech, immigrant-founded startups — a critical source of fuel for the U.S. economy

Since when is outside entrepreneurship a "critical" component of any country's economy? It's not as if the economy would fail if we didn't have immigrant workers. As an American, should we not encourage our own country to lead the way in our own economy?

>With funding from the Kauffman Foundation, Wadhwa has launched a website — ImmigrantExodus.com — as a resource for journalists and a voice for immigrant entrepreneurs.

Oh wow, they go so far as to make an entire website dedicated to this faux alarmism.

>To protect the future for American workers, shouldn’t the US immigration policy focus on letting job creators stay in the country

Yes, to protect American workers, we must ensure they are employed by foreigners, LOL.

>Kaufmann Foundation, Goldin Solutions, Levy

Color me surprised, Jews are behind demanding America becoming more "multicultural and diverse", ie less American.
Early Sunday
Well, its not all about the "copying" process. Its the actual game making process used by the author that he shared which can be used to "copy" games. If that makes sense.
I really liked the mission timeline page: http://www.redbullstratos.com/the-mission/mission-timeline
For those that are curious, the stream is being narrated by Robert Hager [1][2].

[1] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3688609/ns/nbcnightlynews/t/robe...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hager
IPad Mini pricing reportedly leaked
"Terence McKenna recommended a chemical perturbation of the brain, that is, a visionary substance, be used in order to 'step outside your culture'."

So does Tim Ferriss. Here is a short YouTube clip of him talking about his views:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcqXRDqjIpo

But the better source is probably his original interview with Joe Rogan.
> states whose ruling structure is inclusive and not extractive – i.e. you can open a business without having to belong to the aristocracy.

Which demonstrates just how much the original article gets the issue exactly backwards. It's not the "1%" of income-earners that threaten to transform our 'inclusive' society into an 'extractive' one; the threat comes from the growing regulatory state itself - which the author seems to imply is the solution rather than the problem.

The increasing politicization of every element of society - from economics to education to interpersonal relationships - is the danger; in many jurisdictions in the United States, you already need permits, zoning variances, professional licenses, etc. to initiate even the simplest economic venture. In most of the US, education is already firmly dominated by political institutions, and is increasingly rigid and uniform in structure and content. This situation will inevitably lead to the development of some kind of "extractive" elite - regardless of whether or not that elite ultimately corresponds to those the media currently label "the 1%" - if we can't find a way to reverse it.

It's this politicization of society that threatens to subjugate and exclude everyone who isn't a member of the dominant political class - it's the centralization of power, and not the distribution of wealth, that we need to be concerned about.
Not at all. I've written massively parallel codes for a number of computing platforms, both conventional and exotic. The vast majority are primarily written in systems-style C++ (basically, C++ minus several popular features).

Most of the knocks against C++ are micro-optimizations that are not material to the actual parallelization of the code. Parallelization is done by carefully selecting and designing the distributed data structures, which is simple to do in C++. For parallel systems these are required (theoretically) to be space decomposition structures, which happen to be very elegant to implement in C. Communication between cells in the space decomposition is conventional message passing.

The usual compiler-based tricks such as loop parallelization are not all that helpful even though supercomputing compilers support it. By the time you get to that level of granularity, it is a single process locked to a single core, so there is not much hardware parallelism to exploit. And even then, you have to manually tune the behavior with pragmas if you want optimal performance.

Most compiler-based approaches to parallelism attack the problem at a level of granularity that is not that useful for non-trivial parallelism. The lack of multithreading in modern low-latency, high-performance software architectures make the many deficiencies of C/C++ for heavily threaded environments largely irrelevant.
Complete nonsense. After creating a hit song, does a team of singer come along and maintain it and add features? Does yet another team build the next version of that song? Or that movie? Or that painting? Or whatever artistic work?

The logistics if the software industry are nothing like the music or movie industry. This post is absurd.

And further, to claim anyone "deserves" a royalty is ridiculous. I know a developer who is quite rich off of a software residual deal. He did not deserve it. He negotiated for it and earned it. Good for him!

I love the idea of working a royalty deal as a developer and hope more devs can pull it off profitably, but it would obviously have to entail getting paid less to nothing up front, similar to a starting musician. Risk vs reward. The ultimate balance.
This is awesome! Any plans to add other sites, like amazon, yelp, tripadvisor, etc!
Slightly off topic, but can anyone recommend an android phone that the vendor actually supports properly, isn't chock full of bugs, lasts an entire a day on battery doesn't have some crappy UI on it (like touchwiz) and is built like a Nokia 3310?

I've got a 5 year old Symbian Nokia that is on its last legs and I really don't want to pick a lemon.
Appreciate the share. Thank you.
Oh the things my Android phone didn't do when calling or receiving a call... it rebooted, froze, missed calls because UI was unresponsive for 2 minutes and you couldn't answer the call...
I'm just waiting for Matter Compilers, as imagined in Neal Stephenson's novel The Diamond Age
The first data structure, the Compact dynamic array, is explained beautifully for an undergraduate audience, in Pat Morin's Open Data Structures open source data structures textbook. He calls them rootish array stacks.

http://opendatastructures.org/ods-java/2_6_RootishArrayStack...
So we're oversupplied with developers?
Wonderful! Thank you so much. I know it's a bit too much, but there is a way of making a 'route' of the positions?
There was certainly a lot of trade press (PC World, many of the gaming magazines, etc.), but a number of the '80s and '90s tech magazines were pretty good, with independent content and reporting. For example: Byte, Dr. Dobbs, and the first 10 years of Wired come to mind.
According to the OP's metric, Wittgenstein could be very influential and yet still be undervalued.

I kind of agree with OP here. Most people know of Wittgenstein as this impenetrable weirdo who stressed the importance of language to defining philosophical concepts, and then they move on from that. But if people really got what Wittgenstein was saying, it would bring a lot of philosophical debates to a screeching halt.

Sometimes I think of Wittgenstein as the guy who beat philosophy's final bosses.
Almost 5 million people watching live now. Compare to presidential debate with 67 million viewers - not bad!
Utterly sterling selection of quotes there. The Stafford one resonates with me the most personally – I can't count the number of times I've realized a greater subtlety and complexity to my position on something after I've written a paragraph or so on it.
Particularly for educational environments. Annotation of texts to explain cultural references, idiomatic usages, etc., is extremely useful in foreign language instruction, and anything that can help do that automatically and reduce the time an instructor has to to spend preparing the content would be extremely valuable.
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Open Data Structures: an open content textbook
Wittgenstein is the guy who got fired as a schoolteacher for violence against his students, and threatened a philosopher with violence when he was losing an argument.

To be thought of merely as an eccentric is lucky for him, given his history. He was a thug.
Well, one of the most famous disciple of Seneca, was Nero (yes the infamous emperor)... As long as you believe that there is such a thing like a "Personal operating system", it's a long way to understand stoicism. If you really spend a lot of time reading Seneca and Marcus Aurelius (I don't encourage you to do so, I did because I learned latin as a teen ) you'll realize that these writings are deeply connected to the context of the first century in the Roman Empire. Many of these thoughts have percolated through Christianism, that's why they're able to reach most westerners today, but remember that stoicism has failed to change romans, both individually and as a society.
The Droids you're looking for: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/10/android-users-these-m...