skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Just curious, can this can ignite the patent trolls? Say I use a more polished version this to build the next viral site - what are the chances to be dragged to court?
I do not think it matters, but there is an extra (implicit) constraint: you would want the descent to be done in some reasonable timeframe (say a week)

Also, I think your "Is it possible to build a passive wing system" is too restrictive. If I had to design something for this, I would consider wrapping a huge balloon around the astronaut to limit the rate of descent. It could start out uninflated as a gigantic air brake, then work from a compressed air cylinder; at lower altitudes, it might be possible pump in air an/or heat air. 100% safe it would never be, but it might be possible to get something that works sometimes. Braking without melting/burning this thing probably might be a stumbling block, though.
Where People Get Their Mobile Phones
Yeah, but I really want to get into Clojure, the only problem is, in my short lifetime I have only heard of the criticisms on Java being owned by sun, and later oracle.
Obvious troll is also obvious.

I have compared them, I've looked at the result images for both that are listed. I'd try them but I really don't care that much.
In my experience (ex-Googler here), recruiters tend to be contractors who work off a script and get bonuses proportionate to how many people end up in the hiring pipeline. There are checks and balances to prevent outright spam, but the motivations are aligned in such a way that a pretty wide net is cast.

Also, until you have interviewed, all positions are "unspecified". Many positions need to be filled and they don't pick one for you until they know what you can do.

Geography is not really considered to be an issue. Once SRE finds someone they really want they will help with relocation.
Awesome! I've been waiting for this for so long; I even wanted to make it myself. Does this work with default bootstrap HTML?

Keep up the good work, I'm definitely going to use this.
Is there any real reason to if I just use my Windows PC to play games?
This domain is more complex that this Hinrikus guy makes it out to be. You can not be expected to be able to trade at the mid-market price, and the market for a volatile currency pair such as GBP/EUR easily moves several hundred times per second at times. Additionally, the rates the bank gets quoted depends on which exchange they are talking to, and the deal the bank has with them. The assertion that "there’s only one interbank rate at any point in time" is flat out false. Exactly which price does Hinrikus want his bank to quote him?

In fact, the bank offers a service where it takes small positions such as 1000 GBP and gives EUR in return. This is the deal. This small transaction does not necessarily change the bank's plans for foreign exchange.

How does the bank set the price ("rate")? To some competitive value where they expect to make a profit or not lose too much, depending on the competition. The assertion that they do not profit from it might very well be true, even though it probably shouldn't be.

Compare, if you will, to gas stations. The current price for petrol is dependent on what it currently costs on the world wide markets, but also dependent on the demand in the specific area, for example. It is complex, is all I'm saying :)
MIT Technology Review Redesign
Embracing change
Are you trying to say that there are very few libraries for something that runs on the JVM?
I have a new 11" Macbook Air, and I use it on a daily basis for coding. Portability was my primary concern (I wanted something I could carry with me whenever I leave the house), and I've been really impressed by the speed.
Here's the article Joel's talk was based on http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html

Reading it should give you a good overall picture of his talk.
It isn't cynical in the slightest. That is simply the game.
Out of curiosity, how does Metro look to color blind people?
I find evercookie a really hilarious example of unintended consequences. I think when the author released it he thought there would be so much uproar that browser vendors would rush to plug all the gaps. But they didn't, so evercookie remains an absolutely awesome tool for unethical marketing companies - he handed it to them on a plate.
Ask HN: What is this? 158268a350000000
Found this twitter account https://twitter.com/googuns_prod posting these weird encrypted tweets. The locations are all over the globe. You can find them using this site http://onemilliontweetmap.com/. Anyone know what it is?
Thank Apple for making them offer what their competition offers for half the price.

I'm a Mac and PC person ... I'd download this if it was similarly priced to the OS X downloads.
Wait, you can download it? Then why do I get a "coming soon" page?

Mind sharing where you're located? Perhaps MS is pulling a $ENTERTAINMENT_COMPANY and restricting downloads to certain countries.
Post-mortem on New Relic's Move to Ruby 1.9
Everytime one of these rPI-like boards list "Use it as your NAS" I get disappointed to see that it only offers 10/100 Ethernet.
Look at why Europe is so messed up right now - they adopted a single currency without a real government to match. Much as I might not like her, Margaret Thatcher was right when she said that "single currency is a federal Europe through the back door". It's either that or big trouble down the line.

We adopted a single currency, which is the new government-enforced legal tender. You're right that it caused plenty of problems, but it's hardly relevant as an example of destabilization caused by many currencies.
Read-it-later service Pocket launches Mac app
I really doubt that do any of Microsoft employee really care about the page.Seems they even don't check whether the page is functioning properly or not.
In the age of infinite scrolling / non-pagination it's a huge pain to scroll back up for menu. Especially on mobile. Polygon obviously uses the fixed bar for improved user experience. It takes up precious screen space - but that's the tradeoff.
DARPA’s latest humanoid robot jumps and climbs with athletic precision
>I'm so happy that people are still getting value from it.

I took a look at it a few weeks ago based on a recommendation here on HN and have been enjoying it ever since.

I'm in the process of trying to extend some very basic programming skills and refresh / extend equally basic math.

I started reading expecting something that would assume enough to fly right over in my head. Instead, I found a comfortable pace and very "practical" examples.

Every few pages is a delightful "Ohhhh...So that's how that works." demonstration of things that I've always wondered and theorized about, but never understood the mechanics of.

It's a great book, one that I expect will end up being pretty significant to me.
In this day and age, we should be forcing banks not to flat out lie to customers. Spreads are another thing they seem to be able to shamelessly lie about without any apparent fear of punishment.
I'm not sure if it's transitioned to a Square-based app yet. If I recall correctly, details around the partnership were slim.

In the short term, it meant that Square would process all of Square's payments on the backend. Square app-integration would occur in the long term. My line of reasoning was basically that Square's launch in Canada closely coincides with the Starbucks partnership, which means they will be processing all of their Canadian transactions, which has to include Interac.

If/when the Starbucks app transitions to the Square wallet type implementation, it would act as a catalyst for Square adoption in Canada. And you raise a good point, the app will change greatly once it's implemented.
Is Britain's greatest 'startup' part of the Civil Service?
Right, the basic version I guess. It's free and always will be.
A million tweets isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion tweets.
I normally transfer my money via XE trade: to be honest, I take their word for it that they are giving me a current rate with no fees, but I do know that the rate they offer me is only ever valid for something like 20 seconds...
Apple's Think Different aka The Greatest Commercial Ever Made
How HTML5 supports different versions of Internet Explorer with javascript
They have lifeboats on ferries crossing the English Channel. That's not because it's physically impossible to swim the channel (it's quite clearly possible, and is done on a fairly regular basis), but because most people couldn't do it, and even if they could the lifeboat is a safer way of managing an evacuation from a sinking ship.

I'm not saying that it is possible to jump from the ISS, just that the presence of a lifeboat doesn't demonstrate that any other evacuation route is impossible.
Thailand: Part I
I don't need on my desktop, but I can totally see my next laptop to be a laptop/tablet mix if the OS can really run great on both mode it would be fantastic.
Not yet, but one only has to look at the history of just about every widely popular digital offering to see that it is coming eventually. And, making decisions which alienate your users and make your service less enjoyable is a great way to speed that process along.
thank you. I have looked for similar sized sites to mine, they seem to be listed for 200 days+.
I'm not arguing that they're obviously not making a profit, but saying that it has to make a profit is not necessarily true. I mean, overall they must, but they don't have to make a profit on each individual service that they offer.
Thanks for all the links guys!
+1 for Tom Mitchell's book. Although it may appear a little outdated, it is an excellent introduction to ML. Highly recommend doing the exercises (in whatever language you'll be working, not necessarily in C), especially the Neural Nets face recognition one. The book doesn't cover SVM, so you might want to learn about those elsewhere. Also if you don't have a good background in basic applied stats (linear models, logistic regression, etc), I suggest you brush up on that as well.
Multiplayer 0x10c testing [Streaming]
There's a reason why enterprises often transition slowly: Dependencies. Lots of dependencies between platform components, third party applications, in-house code and data, etc.

You picked a single function device that isn't intertwined with much else. Not a good counter example. Just a special case.
also I find it ironic that it doesn't work well on Windows Phone
Depends if you want to play Metro based games or not. Not sure how many there are and if the ones that exist will play well on a PC rather than tablet.

There's also some performance benefits like faster bootup etc, depends if these are valuable to you or not.
In cases where developers have unconstrained resources I'd actually expect C{,++} to be about 50% faster than Java as you see in the programming languages shootout due to better ability to optimize memory use. But I'd expect most professionally produced software to use PGO, and hence get most of the same benefit from runtime information as Java.
Maybe you should rename the title to 'Windows 8 available for purchase'? Just sayin..But a pretty good bargain hard to beat I say!!
He says on the landing page that it is

> Latest version: 0.5

which implies that there are quite a few things left for him to do before he considers the first version complete.

He probably felt that the marketing page was good enough for a 0.5 product. I personally think it is good enough.
There are a number of comments on that site that are eye roll worthy. There are even a few comments that show cluelessness about the magnitude and implications of orbital velocity.
Sometimes there are non-obvious ways that banks can make profits. For example, a bank can offer a free checking account by paying for the costs with interest on the balance. The mechanism for that is easy to understand, but your average layman would not think of it on their own. So I don't think it's unreasonable for a layman to trust a bank when they say "no fees", and assume that the bank has some clever way of profiting off of the transaction without hurting them. It's a wrong assumption, but it's not unreasonable.
Telefonica acquires Tokbox
No, Temperature does weird things as you increase in altitude. So it's colder at 10km than 50km, then dips at 90km before rising again before dropping off in space.

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/atmosphere/q0090.shtml
I thought John had written another article on the subject but it turns out this is actually two years old.
It's $40...that isn't bad at all.
The text in the download button isn't vertically centered. Not a good start: http://cl.ly/image/2B3K3J3u2r0C
The big problem for the successful incumbent in these innovators dilemma scenarios is that most innovations fail. Most of the upstart challengers will fail. To risk for dominant position for the sake of a long shit chance a second life as upstart innovator is not rational. What is rational is to defend your dominant position to the end as the odds that your company can dominate in New territory is tiny.
Yet another developer who uses Webkit styles only. Very annoying, especially when other browsers support the same features.

A simple search and replace for -webkit- to -moz- in the HTML and CSS as well as another from "linear 0 infinite normal" to "linear 0s infinite normal" (or even removing the 0 altogether) makes it work in Firefox too, for instance.

Forked: http://jsdo.it/shd249/zOsj
Colorless.
Should I Become an Expert in a Single Technology/Platform?
I'm at the beginning of my career, working as a web developer for a small company. I would really like to advance my skills, but I was wondering, in what direction: horizontally or vertically?

In other words, should I learn a lot about a small number of technologies, or should I expand my knowledge to a lot of fields, taking the risk of knowing stuff only superficially.

Both approaches are fun. While learning a lot of stuff superficially is easy and not too frustrating, becoming an expert in a specific technology can also be fun, since I get to choose that technology...

But what I would really like to know is which path to take in order to become a great programmer? And which is the path to a more lucrative job? Are they the same?
Ah.. yes.... the ever-reliable windows upgrade offer dot com. Why, I think I shall plug my CC into whatever app it downloads.
Can't find anything related to this account, so I'd speculate it could be C&C for a botnet.
At 25,000 Tweets, My Thoughts About Twitter, Its Users, Business Impact...
1. Multiple monitor support for the Macintosh II. This was a couple weeks of work (described to me as "five days, five hundred lines of code") with little support from management because of ship pressure. Result: /lots/ of people with more than one video card (ka-ching!) and monitor (ka-CHING!) for the next decade or so.

2. Again with Apple: The folks who decided to define a native code extension system for Hypercard; a simple system that spawned a small industry in custom XCMDs. I say "folks" here, but HC was a really small team, and it was probably just one guy.

There are a couple others that come to mind, but I'm under NDA on them.
There are certain games that will not run on Windows 8. The only one I've personally run into was Grand Theft Auto 4. I had Windows 8 installed on my desktop, could not get the game to run, and moved back to Windows 7.
1366 × 768 screen resolution

So this OS is specifically designed around 16:9?

Any ideas how well it would work on a 4:3 monitor if at all?
The keys it is sending appear to be in pairs, in sets of 16, if you concatenate them you get the 32bit entire key. All of the keys are presented in hexadecmial format, you will notice none of the letters go above f. Most of the keys sent end in eight 0's, this would me to believe that this is padding and infact, the two keys concatenate to build up one 32bit string, but if you look carefully you will note that some of them only have 7bits of padding on the end, so I will disregard this assumption.

These tweets appear to originate from Russia.

Now, common uses of 16bit (and 32bit) encryption keys are for WEP keys, traditionally used in router password protection, which can be provided either in a full ASCII spectrum or in merely hexadecimal format.

Taking these points together I can conclude that these could possibly be the encrypted WEP keys of a Russian router.

Or I could be totally wrong, but I really wasn't given much to work with :)
For a man who thinks $40 is too expensive for a good OS, you'll love Linux.
Can you email me about this? I might have a few alternatives that you might be interested in.

shahed [at] viatask [dot] com
skype: sdnerzz
Summary: If you allow making a man-shaped space capsule with retro rockets, heat shield, and parachute, then it's possible. If you call that cheating, then it's not.

Incidentally, the "unobtanium" comment is quite clueless. People have proposed making ablative heat shields out of wood, for heaven's sake. If you allow a "suit" to get bulky enough, an ablative heat shield in one is well within the realm of existing materials science.
Does GB18030 translate 1:1 with UTF-16?
Social Engineering Toolkit v4.1.1 “Gangnam Style” Released
Neat, I forgot that they changed the stuff later on. I suppose the fact that the new one requires a battery bolsters my overall point, anyway.
Apple's Contradictions: Think different each time? - iPad Mini
That depends on what type of colour blindness they have, as there isn't just one type. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness
Apparently it is more than just a sailing term, my bad, I thought you were using it in a playful reflective sense given the nature of age in the discussion similar to this definition:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jive
Yes. "For how long" is the operative question. While still affected by gravity (at about 9m/s Earthward) the forward velocity of the ISS's frame of reference is balanced to maintain orbit. At the 0.5m/s (or so) velocity delta in whatever direction chosen, it will take some time for orbital decay to alter the orbit of the jumper.

Things burn up on re-entry because of the tangential speed of the craft (laterally through the increasingly thickening atmosphere as distance to ground increases), not because of the plummet composition of the velocity vector.

If someone could manage a strait jump from that height without forward velocity (in relation to the Earth's rotating frame), I suspect they'd be in freefall (without a normal terminal velocity) until they hit the atmosphere, at which point they'd probably be going pretty fast (9m/s for a few hundred kilometers adds up) and would have some severe heating issues to deal with.
I agree with you, and I'm working on a solution as we speak. I'm looking to feature web app submissions real soon. If you would like more information or just want to chat, please email me at contact(at)webmenu.org. :)
> Any ideas how well it would work on a 4:3 monitor if at all?

Well, hopefully they won't do Pan & Scan. ;-)
The $20 you save on OS/X over Windows is more than made up by the more expensive hardware.
You can use e.g. this link and then select different types of color blindness via the popover on the right:

http://colorfilter.wickline.org/?a=1;r=;l=9;j=1;u=aozora.git...

In short: Metro looks different because it uses different colors. I guess this shouldn't impact readability or accessibility in most cases due to the use of simple, sharp icons and white text. But I guess the white text could result in problems when the color blind perceive a given color as a light gray, resulting in little contrast.
Your screen's aspect ratio doesn't really matter. Desktop apps work like they used to. "Modern" apps expand to fit the space given. The minimum resolution for such apps is 1024x768, which is 4:3.
Horizontal scrolling seems to be broken in Safari on OS X.
Exceptions vs error codes
Kicker starter project: 100 dollar supercomputer.
If you're in the US (or can open a US bank account), I've always had good luck with Charles Schwab's ATM card. They don't charge a foreign transaction fee (which is where you really get killed with US credit cards - my Amex Blue has a 2.7% - way more than any difference in spread) and they refund your ATM fees (even foreign ones). Sometimes their system doesn't automatically catch the ATM fees, but it's generally pretty good and I've always had a good experience with customer support getting the missing ones refunded. While I haven't tried to match up the mid-market rate for the exact moment I made the transaction, it's always seemed to be close enough inline with what the range on that date was that saving the $2-5 in ATM fees + no foreign transaction fee if I use it as a Visa would have greatly made up any difference in the spread.

Do UK credit cards generally not charge foreign transaction fees? There are still some in the US, but a lot are either higher end cards (Amex Platinum) or geared specifically at travelers.
Show HN: Dial-O-Spresso – a phone controlled coffee machine
Here’s Some Working Code to Sort One Million 8-Digit Numbers in 1MB of RAM
See where the Internet lives...
Does this mean Google OWNS the internet?
"...they converted SQL commands into bar codes, printed them out and scanned them.

When placed under the scanner we were able to perform SQL injection against the price check Web application..."

SQL injection via printed barcodes. Epic.
So now with iPad Mini here, what do you think of "Apple's Contradictions" : Think different each time? - http://blog.cloudmagic.com/2012/10/25/ipad-mini-steve-jobs-a...
Very cool. I would suggest revising the scale of the bubbles so that 100 tweets does not have equal representation as 1500 tweets
US: kitchit.com, munchery.com, kitchensurfing.com

UK: housebites.com
Whats it monitoring?
> meet up with a traveller coming in the opposite direction. Work out the market rate, swap the cash and be on your merry way. Possible startup idea?

Ha, I've thought the exact same thing. Sitting in KVB Kunlun Sydney a couple days before going to Japan, buying a few thousand dollars worth of yen, and watching recently arrived Japanese with bundles of yen buying dollars. I wanted to stand up and say, hey, anyone wanna buy some dollars at the market rate, I'll even round up to your smallest note?

Doubt there's all that much money in it though, and people would naturally be wary of meeting strangers while clutching bundles of cash. It wouldn't surprise me if once you did all the sums, in order to make any kind of money you'd have to charge the same as the rip-off exchange offices.
Security on Facebook: Are your private photos STILL PRIVATE?
Oh brother. This "they messed this one thing up so they must be idiots" is already a way for the simple minded to be able to feel superior about something useless, but in this case you're not even correct. Go read some Mark Twain. That guy must have been a moron, right?
BufferBox launches network of parcel pick-up stations in Toronto
I had bought the book a few months ago for work in a big batch, thinking ahead to the time I would need it. That time came a day ago when I needed to do clustering of markers for displaying on a map. A stackoverflow post mentioned the book, so I pulled it out and was wowed! Great stuff so far.

I like that the code is in python, which I find easier to read than the java examples in Algorithms of the Intelligent Web. Being a perl guy (and a perl shop), python feels pretty similar and it's easy to port anything I need. If the rest of the book is as good as the clustering chapter, it's going to be a fun treat for my brain!
So the user friendly statement on why RT can't run old apps is this:

"Refers to programs built for mouse and keyboard that run in the classic Windows desktop environment."

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/compare

Scroll down to the "* * *"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_War

Hey, we owned the whole Philippines for a while.
Exploring the HTML URL: Uniform Resource Locator (basic level)
Netflix hits 30,000,000 members.