skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like the only thing requesting the 404`ed page was google bot, which I do not believe tells you the referrer. If this is true, then it would mean either that google does not clear their cache (which I doubt), or that the link exists somewhere on the net, but in a place where no human would find it. I've done some work with web crawlers, and it you fall into that type of hole alot more often than I would expect.
Basically, somebody sees some code with two operators (decrement and less than) with no whitespace between them and thinks it's a single operator.

The answer that shows it with the brackets is probably the clearest:

while ((x--) > 0)
{ ... }

The compiler sees that as the same as (x--> 0)

So it checks if x is more than zero and then decrements it each loop iteration.
I wish I had multiple, legitimate (aka not dial-up, not 4mbit adsl), choices for an ISP.
...especially in today's social network world, you'd be surprised how many technophiles, while perhaps unable to afford a Tesla, can influence those that can.
He did not have a demo when posting on Hacker News. Someone asked for one in the comments here, so he put it together as fast as he could. So really, he just didn't think of creating a demo at all until after he announced the game. These things happen, things can be overlooked.
"how would the level be tested?"

So there are basically four ways to test for the presence of marijuana: saliva, blood, urine, and hair. Because smoked marijuana is only intoxicating for 4 - 6 hours, ideally we want to use a test that will only pop positive if someone has used the drug within the last 4 - 6 hours. Saliva testing roughly fits this profile. With blood you would still pop positive up to a day later, with urine up to a week or more later, and with hair testing up to several months later.

The good news though is that saliva testing is easy and cheap, and can be done in the field by police officers, unlike with blood testing. I think ultimately per se limits that are enforced with saliva testing (but not with the other methods) are reasonable, but the limits need to actually be based on science, not just pulled out of someone's ass.

(Of course this is assuming that better studies eventually do support per se limits for marijuana, which they don't seem to currently.)
Great work! Needless to say, you have to play listening to Pink Floyd?
This just inspired me to throw out my startup's name and buy a new domain.
Kill the Zombies in Your Code
Regulatory capture usually describes government regulators ruling in favor of industry, only to leave office and be hired out by those companies that they helped (instead of helping the general public).

I wouldn't call it regulatory capture when an industry attempts to regulate itself.
The Lua scripting is also great if you need two commands to run atomically. I wrote a blog post about this just the other day:

http://illuminatedcomputing.com/posts/2012/10/redis-eval/
The "idea jam" is a staple at my company as well - done correctly it can really energize a team.
For some reason it changes the "-->" back to "--"
I tried many times/ways to include the entire operator before giving up & just posting it..
As an owner of the Motorola F3 I can tell you that it suffers from severe battery drain. Doesn't make any sense, but there you have it.
Multiscreen Interaction Study
If I baptize a child in 'my' religion, then I get custody? Then my ex-spouse baptizes into his/her religion, and custody again changes hands?
This is invaluable advice. You should start a web service with which people like me can submit all the crappy domain names we think about buying and you give us feedback. I'll let you think of the name for it though...
Some of the best kept "under wraps" business models are in these areas. A surprising amount of interesting/challenging problems exist, and they have real impacts on peoples' lives.

They are traditionally backed by large companies, but a talented/knowledgable/passionate group can shake things up in a big way (with stable/long term revenue streams).

Interesting to observe the "what is your passive income" type threads and realize just how many in this community are unaware/under-appreciate some of these amazing business models. Not shocking to see medium sized 1-man projects to have lifetime revenues over 1 million.

One of my first gigs was at one of these types of companies. While the engineering was deplorable (one reason I left), the insight into the business side of things has forever changed my path.
Lawmakers Seeking Limits on Contractor Compensation
for anyone that is interested this verse is used to support the doctrine: http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/1-cor/15.29?lang=eng#28
Since you already went to the work of implementing everything from scratch anyway, is there a reason that you don't compile the code up front?

My understanding was that the big bottleneck for Javascript on iOS was the inability to use JIT (due to the lack of execute support for code on the stack or heap) and this seems like the perfect opportunity to bypass that issue entirely.
You meem the American Kennel Club and pedigree?
I fixed EC2 using this one weird trick..
I wish I had more than two choices at 4 mbit. You can pick the phone company or the cable company. Neither is very good, and neither cares - they don't need to.

Heck, I wish I had one choice where I could call tech support, tell them that I've been getting dropped packets and 3000 ms pings for over a week, and not have them blow me off because the bandwidth tests fine.
All the contender OSs listed in this article have a Web runtime for applications. All are making the same bet, that Web apps are ready to take on "native" apps.

One thing that sets Windows 8 apart: Windows has a mature application runtime, the Common Language Runtime, that is roughly equivalent to Android's Java-based application runtime.
perhaps they should make it easier to do so, as in having some default option you could select, at a premium of course.
Weird weather predicted for UK this week -could include "blood rain".
Patents Hamper Innovation
For those interested in the cause of the slowdown on Firefox, it's a bug in the calculation of overflow in 3D transforms that causes the browser to repaint the background every frame: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=804324
QC generated random examples from a rule, not the reverse.
Fixed everything guys :)
Rates of alcoholism, arrests for public intoxication and deaths related to alcoholism under Prohibition in the United States were several times higher than either before or after.

One factor in this, however, was the quality of alcohol being consumed. The drinks in a speakeasy frequently contained various poisons ranging from methyl alcohol to organophosphates to carbolic acid. Thankfully the US Government has largely seen the wisdom of not poisoning its citizens.

My understanding of drug treatment programs is that you may pay for them or face worse consequences. I was not raised to believe that justice should be so purchased.

On the subject of young people: pot dealers do not check IDs. Medical science indicates that marijuana interferes with pre-adult brain development. No one is proposing that marijuana be made more available to young people, or more generally that making it more widely available carries much innate benefit. The push for reform is simply an observance that, as with our other Prohibition, the cure is worse than the disease.

EDIT: Just to point out, possession of marijuana has been legal in Alaska for decades. For the most part, nobody cares. Some people smoke, some don't, nobody does it in public.
Great attempt. You did what 99% of people don't do - take action.

Having said that, did you begin your project with the end in mind. Who is your paying customer(target market) and what is your revenue model?
It's an ad channel.
Rates of alcoholism, arrests for public intoxication and deaths related to alcoholism under Prohibition in the United States were several times higher than either before or after.

Evidence for this? I've seen contrary statements from a very eminent criminologist on the deaths from alchohol, at least. What is the best source for statistics on such issues?
Wayland (X11 replacement) 1.0 Officially Released
I went back and looked at some articles from March of this year...they just seemed more substantive, and more useful to this guy who builds content websites for a living. The stuff on your homepage now reminds me more of Business Insider than of ReadWriteWeb. Just my $0.02.
Subscription revenue model that offers a certainty premium for investors? check

Tap into a deep psychological Maslow-style need that potentially hundreds of millions if not billions have (aka the desire to know where we come from, who we are connected to)? check

Future plans to possibly pivot itself towards being a platform that other developers can build apps on that tap into its genealogical data? check

Looks like it could turn out to be be a bloody good deal!
Was too quick in Calculator; my fault for multi-tasking.
From a business guy - I promise we're not all like this
This industry is manifestly not attempting to do that. The very subject of this article is the laughable state of affairs with regard to this.
Backwards are the sites with unplanned downtime.
No offense to her but does Mayer really know Yahoo's roots?
Sustainable Pricing in the App Store
Dutch Government Proposes Cyberattacks Against... Everyone
From what I know Wayland is only supported by Intel and AMD graphics drivers, has this changed?
How do you come up with new shortcut keys?
I see this all the time.

"Run the speed test at blah.ourdomain.net and let me know the results"

"Okay, this is reporting great but when I try to..."

"Awesome is there anything else I can do for you?"

"Yes I'm still seeing packet loss and really high latency!"

"Must be on your side click"
Did anyone else get really bad font rendering running Chrome on Windows 7?
I re-watched the last gif where he makes good contact over and over because of his action. His head doesn't move a millimetre, it's all body motion. Amazing.
Matthew Albanese’s Magical Miniature Worlds
Romney's budget website down after debate
If only there was competition in even the largest cities. Large parts of NYC (largest city in the US) are offer only Time Warner. As in you cannot get anything else other than wifi/dialup.
Where does Apple go from here?
Federal agency to switch to iPhone, drop BlackBerry
Just like: passwords, backups, etc.

It reminds me of my father: I used to interrupt him with "I know dad!" when he was chastising me. His response was simple "If you knew, then why did[n't] you do it?"
I'm not sure I understand, why wouldn't Webmasters show that one hard to find link if Googlebot found it?
FWIW, if you ever order this or anything from Google Play online, double check all your order info. I ordered one of these this afternoon without realizing that the "ship to" address on my Google Play account was out of date (the billing address was updated, and that's all I noticed when I scanned the invoice).

Once you put in the order you can forget about getting any useful support when you notice a mistake like this. All I've been able to get out of their support is the same automated email sent to me about 10 times in response to my various queries. They are simultaneously (on different pages) telling me it is too late to cancel the order and yet the order won't ship until the 24th...

For a company that basically lives and breathes the web, Google ought to be totally ashamed at how god awful their online order support is. I've dealt with dozens of mom and pop online shops that run circles around this bullshit.

In the future I'll be sure to just be patient and wait for Amazon or someone else I can trust to get online retail right to have the item in stock.
Yes, it's a known issue and has been a problem for a long time. Quite ironic that it's particularly bad with Google Web Fonts.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692
Ask: Do you know your customer?
Do you want to see a profile of your customer which includes information about interactions on your website, social media engagement with your company, and info from your user database?

I'm considering building such a tool that could pull up these types of profiles in tools like Salesforce and Zendesk. Would you find such a comprehensive view of your customer useful?
"We need to prioritize our law enforcement efforts, and if somebody's gonna smoke a joint in their house and not do anybody else any harm, then perhaps there are other things that our cops should be looking at to engage in and try to clean up some of the other problems that we have in society that are appropriate for law enforcement to do."

Guess which (former) political figure summoned this wonderful word storm :)
I gave Popcorn a whirl after watching this video. For full disclosure's sake, I'm a rather experienced videographer with years of experience using Final Cut Pro.

I knew not to expect the moon with Popcorn, but they have a lot of work ahead of themselves. I wrote a hefty block of text for feedback, but essentially, the drag and drop interactions really needed work, the Events need more elements inside of them, and there's no good way to get rid of Events other than moving it to another layer and trashing the layer.

There were a few other points I made as well, but I hope they take the time to really study how people interact with video editing software and emulating that behaviour with Popcorn. As it stands, it's a tad too unintuitive to use and remix with Popcorn.

Really looking forward to what they can do with this though.
It's experimental on my little omap4460 board, which means it must support powervr as well.

(I haven't tried it out yet, but Google searches confirm TI is doing this)
Economic forces.

Once this happens to enough people a new provider will spring up catering to those banned from ISP's following the "six-strikes" plan.
Did you know that many websites operated BEFORE Amazon Web Services existed? Perhaps going back to 2008 could give us some ideas for alternate deployment methodologies...
How about: "If the driver is observed to drive in unsafe or erratic way, prosecute". If not, there's nothing to test.
Seems to be broken in Firefox 16.01 (Linux).

I get the title screen. 'x' or return will take me to a map screen, at which nothing happens except music playing.
"life, liberty, and pursuit of property", that is.
i live 2 mi west of ut/downtown, and i disagree. i gave up cycling when i moved here from the Valley. :/
The problem with putting labels on cans saying the amount of caffeine (and often other ingredients) is that just listing the measurement doesn't put it into context of how much that is.

I had to look it up, and apparently coffee as either a brewed cup, or espresso shot has between 100-200 mg of caffeine.
So the amount of caffeine in the can isn't out of range for what would be expected of a caffeinated energy drink.

However, we don't require that coffee have a label showing how much caffeine is in it either.
My question is this...why doesn't a service like Heroku which acts as a Paas...have this built in? I'm on their blog now trying to understand their complete setup..
In Mobile World, Tech Giants Scramble to Get Up to Speed
as a fyi: I seem to be stuck here on the demo: http://cl.ly/image/2o0m202s361M which appears after this: http://cl.ly/image/0C0b423f1Q2b (I basically touch the stala(ctite|gmite) combo and then I'm stuck).
Shouldn't surprise us to see a coalition of world governments recommending action to disempower the world's non-governments.
In Report, Speed Trades’ Problems and Pluses
Everything you say is politically true, but the reason we have judges and juries (in the US anyway, I don't know how Italy works) is that they are in a position to stop the BS.
Unlikely. The entire reason the US telecom market has so little competition currently is because of the cost of infrastructure. Touting that you won't follow the six strikes plan will give you a minor market of techies at best.
Import fresh HN Comments with jQuery and uiji.js (reverse jQuery)
Covering up corruption, like Councillor's Expenses, is part of corruption.
Wow...!

So... the entire perception of e-ink as being slow/flaky is because of the controller chip used to drive it?!

That's ... man....

Are the faster electronics too power-hungry to use in a device like an e-book that's very focused on extremely long battery life?
>> Wayland 1.0 doesn't mark the point that Wayland is complete and ready to replace the X11 Server as there's still a lot of work left to do but it marks the point at which there is API/protocol stability in terms of all future releases being backwards-compatible with the Wayland 1.0 release.
Holy cow, the plot of Sin City (Politician's son builds a rape/torture chamber, and the son is protected from punishment because the politician wants him to produce an heir) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401792/) actually really happened in Milan?
Facebook posts during POTUS Debate, and tapping into Facebook API with R
Entrepreneurs are the sperm of venture investors. If you are a venture investor who wants to "conceive" a Google, it helps to have a high count as well as high quality. The perspective of an individual swimmer would be different, of course.
Wayland isn't going to replace X11, it's going to be an alternative to X11.
Today, when faced with that decision, you will drive your second gasoline powered car.

This isn't either/or.
Effortlessly Log Time Spent on Projects and Tasks
It's supported by all the open source drivers, and AMD's proprietary, IIRC. the only driver that doesn't support it is nvidia's proprietary one.
An hour? Wow. I did all 100 free levels last night, and other than 61 and 62, which took 10 min each, i solved all in 5 sec to 4 min. I used exactly 1 hint...
+1 for the coding effort. However, generally speaking, stories are anchored in time and don't need live changes. Think of a birthday, marriage, or graduation for example. He's selling point is wrong. This should be more targeted to niche cases where a live web stream is needed instead of advertising it as story telling tool that everyone needs to use (plus I agree with moocow01 this smells in-video ads all over it)
Haha... do you think I'd be using Time Warner (my current ISP) if I had any other option short of moving?
A family friend owned a gas station, and pricing was so competitive in the ~1million people city he lived in, he said that the one or two drive-offs he had per week cut his profits to zero. He was shocked that stores can offer 2-10cents per liter discount.

He sold up last year.
Bug report: http://quotab.ly/924/influencer-the-power-to-change-anything

The thumbnail is wrong.
I think the idea is that people look at quotes and then click the associate links to Amazon.

I don't know how the associate program works, but I clicked through to a number of books. It won't make him rich, but it might make him a few dollars a month.
Like, the iPhone? Or maybe a Lumia 800? They both fit comfortably in all mens' pockets (and most women's, assuming they have pockets).

The problem is Android is such a power hungry OS that you need to be constantly updating the specs as hardware and app demands grow higher, and high-end specs require space to fit everything in (including ever-growing battery demands), so small Android handsets have to make compromises on specs. It feels sort of like PCs did 10 years ago - 3 years of use and your top-of-the-line PC was near unusable. I find Windows Phone and iOS don't suffer from this nearly as much.
Free Halloween Wallpaper
I think 6 strikes will fail because although I (and I suspect most people) usually only get relatively obscure things (long tail..), I am still always paranoid about being slapped with a lawsuit.

With any "strikes" system I can download in peace, secure in the knowledge that nobody cares and that if anybody decides that they do care, that I get a warning before the lawsuits roll in.
The kind of "Justice" money can clearly buy
"technology is being used to give more normal people a say"

God bless technology. Without it we would run the risk of letting less and average normal people have a say.
> Most car companies have been researching electric vehicles since the 60's or 70's when the first oil crises happened

Exactly. They've spent all those years and dollars, and they still have nothing compared to the Model S.
Vishera-based AMD FX processors debut
Want AMD's new Piledriver cores without Trinity's integrated graphics? Vishera-based FX processors are out, and they start at under $200. The top FX-8350 model excels in heavily multithreaded workloads and is particularly quick at compiling code. Single-threaded performance isn't so hot, though, and the chip is a bit of a power hog.
nice webpage. i like the map!
Great Post Tracy. Great going for your startup and ATB. Thanks for being open in talking about your current troubles and not giving a rosy picture about ur startup.
If you are smart, you'll run CI on JRuby. Then your test environment matches production.
Android apps leaking personal, banking details
>The highest end Apple products are still affordable by most people

If you think the iPhone 5 or the Retina Mac Book Pro are affordable by most people, you seriously need to look at the poverty figures in America.
The Case Against Auction Houses
You'd be much more motivated if you have thousands of dollars in your account! A similar thing happened with my business's PayPal. I tried to transfer funds, and they decided that it was a good time to re-verify our location. Since we missed the phone call, we now have to wait for them to mail a letter.
I agree that this is a political discussion probably worth removing, however I can't resist responding.

You want hard data to show whether or not marijuana use goes down, in order to combine that information with your totally unsubstantiated "burn out" theory to come to a decision? Don't you think the "burn out" theory is just as deserving of real evidence to support it?
Safebrowsing API downloader/comparison
Marcus Hutter On Universal Artificial Intelligence
Joystick Labs ends funding for new video game startups
> So as it turns out, this is wrong. [...] I decided to code up a quick version

You rock. I wish more people at HN/SO/Google were like you.
SSH client for Chrome, by Google (using NaCl)
Wayland is going to replace portions of X11 pretty much as fast as it can. Basically, the X11 devs want to drop all the parts of the pipeline that Wayland implements from X11 and move to (usermode) X11 on Wayland.
Wow what a hopeless system. Wouldn't be surprised if this was designed by greedy numb-wits.
(I live in CA, and I have 3 MJ dispensaries in a 10-minute walk from my house; 7 more if I want to drive five minutes.)

You have raised an important point. This has turned out to be a problem in CA.

Pharmacies don't want to touch MJ because it's illegal under federal law. The regulatory arm of the state of California doesn't want to touch it for the same reason. Some cities attempt to regulate it, some don't.

Because the dispensaries produce a lot of cash profit (in violation of prop 215, but whatever), they have been able to fund lawyers to sue cities and invalidate all regulations. It turns out it's really hard to craft a regulation, even a simple one for licensing, that holds up to court challenge. The city of LA has given up and explicitly called in the Feds to raid the MJ shops. (The feds get them for tax evasion -- kind of a catch 22 because it's hard to report this income on your federal return; as mentioned, they're not supposed to profit but there's no way to check.)

I voted for Prop 215, but I really had no idea how quickly it was going to turn to shit. Pothead idealism meets serious potential for quick profit.
You're in the comments thread of an article about simplifying your life and having less stuff, and you sarcastically criticize me for suggesting you remove TV from your life. I offered that advice because I honestly think it's helpful.

What were you expecting to find when you came to these comments?