skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was 14, I had to push the electrons around by hand. It was painful getting clobbered by those massive protons and neutrons. I eventually got around the problem by converting the particles to waves, so that they only tickled.
You only forget the difference between active and reactive load. If you have active loads on your system only (i.e. light bulbs) than your calculations are valid, reactive loads (like electric motors found in a/c units, fridges etc) then they are not: you have to budget for several times their power in order to make them able to start up. So the guy selling you 20KVA (they are labeled in KVA, not kilowatts, which isn't same thing!) unit is probably not all that wrong, this is 14KW and is just right for you when you say, have a peak load of 4.8KW of which 3.6KW is active and 1.2 is a conditioner that you are starting up at this moment - it will make an equivalent on 10KW or so load. So 20KVA is just right or only slightly more than you need.
If you can move one percent of the population everywhere with some nation-wide issues, that's huge. Currently, that strategy is less useful, being costly and with less payoff.
when I was 14,I started learning pascal and c I think :p
Am I the only one who was playing gameboy and watching cartoons when I was 14.
If you're sufficiently convinced by this, the 538 model, or your favorite electoral vote map, and you are willing to bet your beliefs (and you are in a jurisdiction that has not regulated prediction markets out of existence), Intrade contracts on an Obama victory were trading around $6.70 today.
Ask HN: Upcoming Unconferences / Hacker Spaces in India
Hi hacky types!

I'm Kevin, a senior at Portland State University.

I am going to be traveling to India Feb-Apr 2013. And I would like to get linked up with the hackers there, because I am writing an undergrad thesis (12 years coming) about hackers / open source / geeks etc.

I haven't narrowed my topic completely yet, but am interested in how Open Source software has been implemented by universities and other institutions in India. If you have any other ideas as to interesting things to do some research on, let me know!

As far as I know now, I am flying into Delhi, and then my plans are pretty open. I would like to spend some time in Bangalore and Mumbai. I have friends who are flying in at about the same time who are planning on heading to this Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad, but I am not committed to that plan.

Summary: I am traveling to India in hopes of doing some research about the hacking community and/or open source. I want to meet you!
The only thing interesting about election day will be what happens to the House.
Does Linux behave similarly by default if one uses calloc instead?
Boxing: Manny Pacquiao Vs. Miguel Cotto Revisited
Invest in a local, private tutor. If you've been reading books or watching videos and hitting brick walls, you might be the sort of person who'd find asking questions directly and having quick back and forth conversations beneficial. Even if the tutor isn't a world champion coder, it might be the medium you're having friction with rather than the underlying concepts.
Man, this is like the sixth or seventh time you ask similar questions. Honestly, why are you so worried about the JVM? It is just a runtime. Yes, some people use it, some don't. Get over it.
Great! :) http://rubyweekly.com/ is the Ruby one and http://statuscode.org/ is the one for programmers generally (covers algorithms, general advances in the field, generic tools, language agnostic articles, etc.)
The Lorentz transformation (as I understand it) pertains only to inertial reference frames moving at constant velocities relative to one another, hence the "special" rather than the "general" theory. However, the player seems to be able to stop, start, or change course at will. Wouldn't those actions cause lots of effects (e.g., gravitational waves, etc.) that are not accurately modeled in this simulation?
MailChimp has two methods. They have something called Inbox Inspector (powered by Litmus) that can both show you visuals of your e-mail in various clients but also has about 10 different spam filters to test against. They also have something called "Delivery Doctor" which does a quicker check but is more a safety valve than anything super useful.

More generally, http://emailsuccess.com/ is a new service that you can send your e-mail to and it'll produce a report on all the problems, both technical and content-wise. I only just tried it for the first time and it gave a great report.

There's also http://spamcheck.postmarkapp.com/ which is a JSON-accessible API to which you can send a mail and it'll run checks. Alternatively, you can just paste your message into the page.
Don't forget you choose your House and Senate reps. Those are vital for actually passing laws.
You make a huge and incorrect assumption that both parties care based on raw population.

In fact the more urban someone is, the more likely they are to vote Democrat. The more rural, the more likely they are to vote Republican. If you're targeting swing votes, you're interested primarily in suburbs and smaller cities.
Icon fonts are awesome.

http://glyphicons.com/ (Paid if you want formats other than png)

http://www.justbenicestudio.com/studio/websymbols/

http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/

Found this directory of resources in my designer brother's bookmarks: http://skout.co.za/. Not sure how updated it is though.
The OP is a list of vulerabilities by severity. When I look at the current US-CERT database, I don't see any Microsoft products in the top 10 results by severity[1] or by date[2].

[1] By "Common Vulnerability Scoring System": http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/byCVSS

[2] By Date: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/bypublished
When I clicked on the link, I was worried it might be me.
where in the third world ?
The special theory can handle acceleration perfectly well. What it can't handle is gravity.

Therefore the game is fine in so far as it has been presented.
eight or so :p...... Yeah maybe thats too much for anybody...
I should have asked this just ones on the clojure mailing list.... On HN I should do something productive.
I had an idea stolen. It was pure philosophy... a means to help a woman understand how her man is motivated. Not a male / female thing, but that was a very marketable aspect, and (thus) the way I communicated the idea. It was butchered, but still sold $4m in books. The butchery got worse over two sequels. I seriously doubt that I will ever be able to communicate said idea (much less sell it) unless I can completely reconstruct its presentation.

Not saying that I disagree with the idea vs execution rhetoric here in the comments, I do agree... execution is more important. Execution in plant growing is more important than the seeds themselves... unless you lack the seeds.

Some here have said that at the right moment any arbitrary number of people will discover idea X. I would agree if the subtlety of the idea is not arbitrary, however the best ideas are unexpectedly early, and therefore subtle.

Do not mistake any of this as an argument for patents, or even fairness in a general sense. I know business is war. One's only recourse is carefulness, caution, the sacred texts called it wisdom.
Cloud Atlas 2012 is a very nice Drama, Mystery and Sci-Fi movie. Everything is connected: an 1849 diary of an ocean voyage across the Pacific; letters from a composer to his friend; a thriller about a murder at a nuclear power plant; a farce about a publisher in a nursing home; a rebellious clone in futuristic Korea; and the tale of a tribe living in post-apocalyptic Hawaii, far in the future”Cloud Atlas” explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/11/cloud-atlas-2012-hd-movie...

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/11/cloud-atlas-2012-hd-movie...

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/11/cloud-atlas-2012-hd-movie...

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/11/cloud-atlas-2012-hd-movie...

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/11/cloud-atlas-2012-hd-movie...

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/11/cloud-atlas-2012-hd-movie...

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/11/cloud-atlas-2012-hd-movie...

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/11/cloud-atlas-2012-hd-movie...

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/11/cloud-atlas-2012-hd-movie...
I think you are referring about the data for the number of trips undertaken by an average user. It is just a statistic based on total number of trips/ sample size. No one is actually taking a half trip.
Nonsense Accusations of Spaghetti Code Considered Harmful
This should be legal for any American:
http://tippie.uiowa.edu/iem/

Sadly, if you don't already have money there, your transfer is unlikely to go through until after the election.
There's a lot of fluff on HN lately, which is why I'm slowly transitioning back to Slashdot (where I was before for about 10 years).

While HN has its highs and lows, Slashdot is consistently better.
Amazing work! I remember when I was about 15 I started selling my first software (a billing web app for shared hosting companies). I developed it in maybe one or two months during the summer, set up a website and started getting payments through Paypal. My English was so-so at that time and there were no Hacker News or StackOverflow. I remember one day suddenly realizing that "if"/"for"/"while" were actually English words.

Sales quickly averaged ~150$/day and despite that, my parents still wanted me to get a summer job (at McDonald's maybe) like "the other kids". I also had a computer usage quota and was often going over at my friend's house just to cheat the quota :). Looking back at those days, I think they just wanted me to spend more time with my peers. Anyways, I turned out fine!

To conclude, I truly hope your parents are supportive and if they are not, feel free to get in touch with me for advice (can't help with game development though, you are way more advanced than me).

PS: You have a bright future in front of you!
So the question remains - how best to run Java on a Windows machine and minimise your risk?

I've got Win7/64, service packs up to date, java autoinstaller thing....what else can I do?
Or maybe it's not Firefox at all, but rather my Chrome install went better than normal and has resulted in abnormally good performance.
The best way would be a sandoxing model like SELinux/AppArmor/GateKeeper coupled with a microkernel.
At that point, you were way past the idea stage.
The electoral college is incredibly unfair to voters who live in states that lean opposite their view.

I fully understand that the popular vote option has its issues (focusing on large population areas, etc.). However, a lot of this can be mitigated through legislation and regulation of the process.

Here's a random set of ideas:

- Candidates are only allowed to visit each state capital once. That's it.

- Candidates are not allowed to trash the other candidates. They are only allowed to discuss their views.

- Candidates are awarded an amount of money to run their campaigns. No external contributions from any source whatsoever. None.

- Candidates must participate in detailed interviews for a period of several weeks. Some of these interviews are aired in national networks and the rest made available online.

- Candidates are obligated to participate in detailed debates

- Television networks are prohibited from endorsing or communicating bias

- The publication of poll data is illegal

- A candidate must post a huge bond. If he or she is found telling lies they end-up in prison and have huge financial consequences.

- Campaign promises are recorded and signed in a document that is publicly available. A politician that does not deliver on promises made is exposed to financial and criminal liability. Don't make promises you can't keep.

- Public endorsement of any candidate is illegal. They have to float and survive on their platform and track record.

- The incumbent is not allowed to campaign in any way at all. His or her opponents cannot trash him/her. The incumbent can only rely on having done a good job and kept promises. People will vote and want to keep someone who is doing a good job. The only thing they are allowed to do is announce their running for office and participate in scheduled debates or interviews.

- Politicians are limited to serving in public office for a certain period of time, perhaps ten years. After that they must return to private life --no connection whatsoever to government and politics-- for five years before they can run for office again. This is to infuse balance and perspective and not have a race of politicians, by politicians and for politicians.

There are probably a number of other interesting ideas out there. What we have it horribly broken in many ways. It'd be nice to see real dialog and actions to change it.
It's all great, but how do they measure the open rate? From what I understand the only email client that leaks information (through css/img/font/etc back links) was Mail on iOS. Surely, you can't just extrapolate the open rate of Outlook users from that.

(edit) Or do they simply send a link to webpage and then count hits?
"You buy a Mac and you get a fantastic IDE and development platform for free, etc."

Buy a Mac to hack on iPhone? I don't think that any IDE is so costly if you develop on any other phone.
I love how he doesn't consider himself an optimist. There's an important distinction between knowing that something is possible and going for it and hoping to accomplish something that may not be possible. I think many people confuse one for the other.
In psychology (or behavioral economics) you might hear people talking about "hyperbolic discounting", which is basically the fancy version of "something now is better than something later".

This can also have the effect of making your new idea seem better than doing the same thing next year.

This article is hyperbolic discounting in action, and it is irrational. He has actively changed his method so he gets to feel the rush more often, which also inherently maximizes his impulsiveness.

However, I don't think an article called "Be as impulsive as possible" would have the same ring to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_discounting
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Well, I don’t know. Calling it a tossup is very wrong, but Romney’s odds don’t seem that bad to me.

Nate Silver, for example, gives Romney a twenty percent chance. That’s not bad. I would gladly pay $1,000 for a twenty percent chance to win a million.
In my experience with converting to XAML you don't experience the same degradation since your art is being actively redrawn. You can add gradient brushes and other embellishments that scale well. Perhaps I will dust off my windows laptop and do a blog post about it.

That said, you mentioned that Metro will do image substitution a la iOS. Thats fantastic and something I sorely missed during my Silverlight dev days.
I'm sure they'll make it. They've already accomplished so much no one else though possible. They've built technology no one else has. Even if they didn't Elon would still be a legend for even trying.
Show HN: I built an app to find words in Letterpress
>I was talking about the variety of games available on PS1 rather than simply which system had more top10 games, which is highly subjective.

Sure, but I think it extends to top100 or even top1000 games; my point was that the N64 has more of the high end. Unless you're a video game reviewer or something you're probably going to play <50 games over the life of a system, and for most people who play a variety of games (sure, not if you're a dedicated fan of a single genre) I think the N64 top 50 beats the PS1 top 50.

The PS1 undeniably had more third-party support and far more games, and sure that means more variety. But if you're talking about whether something's a "poor system for games", I'm more bothered about having the best games than having a wide variety of genres. (Hell, I count the Game Gear as a "good system")

>There's a clear reason why the N64 sold way less than the PS1: it was just a much better deal to get a PS1 if you wanted to play lots of different games. The market is not stupid :)

Careful. By that logic the Wii is the best of the current generation (and I don't think either of us believes that).
"Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work."

If you need a thesis for why, 4 year later, SpaceX and Tesla are seeing the succes they are, this attitude might be at its' core.
This was an interview from 2008.
Good example of relentlessly resourceful: http://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html
That is remarkable, yet the thread somehow more and more resembles this nice Monty Python's sketch: http://youtu.be/Xe1a1wHxTyo
Ego Makes Entrepreneurs?
"All entrepreneurs have an aptitude for risk, but more important than that is their capacity for self-delusion. Indeed, psychological investigations have found that entrepreneurs aren’t more risk-tolerant than non-entrepreneurs. They just have an extraordinary ability to believe in their own visions, so much so that they think what they’re embarking on isn’t really that risky."

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/ff-elon-musk-qa/

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2005-01-31/ego-makes-ent...
I see your point, but have a strong suspicion that the election would just be fought out on TV to an even greater extent, with more mudslinging and rumor-mongering. Traditional city/country campaign rallies would become a fixture, but mainly as audience competitions. But the internet and broadcast media would become more critical than ever, and accuracy or integrity haven't exactly been at a premium in large-scale election campaigns.
Try making an app that isn't some cookie cutter code handed to you by another group of people that won't let you fail. No credit is deserved here. Look ma, someone did my math homework! I'm awesome and young!
The head and the body are reverse spinning!
This would be great if voting were restricted to smart people with halos.
Perhaps there is a closing down of focus being achieved through the 'hobbling'? I accept that if those people examined their process, they might find other ways of focussing without the hobbling
If there is any quote that every would be world-changing entrepreneur should live by, it is this one.
A really great way to show why Ohio is so important:

1. Give the democrats Wisconsin (I don't know why people are treating it as a swing state)

2. Give the democrats Ohio

3. Give the democrats any other state (except New Hampshire)

Basically, as long as Obama takes Ohio, Obama wins.
Using fiction to encourage kids to program in Python
Of course, it's basically a wrapper around malloc. All allocated memory is subject to this behaviour: malloc/calloc, forked "copy-on-write" memory, mmaps and statically allocated segments (especially the stack).

In a system with MMU all allocating memory does is tell the kernel to not give you a segfault when you access some range of virtual addresses. To actually materialize a virtual page you have to access it.
Jscii - Webcam to ASCII
Apple’s Samsung Apology Hits the UK Newspapers, Doesn’t Seem Any More Heartfelt
Location Services doesn't start up until the "Add Location" text is tapped. The best Facebook or Twitter could do would be to geolocate based on the IP address.
No, it's NOT. Try some beginner courses at http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs101/CourseRev/apr20...
You should instruct the OOM Killer to not kill PostgreSQL.

Memory is a global resource, even if you didn't overcommit the process getting the allocation failure is not guaranteed to be the misbehaving one, it's just the unlucky process that did the first allocation after all the memory was gone (this is also why handling allocation errors in your application is usually impossible, even without an overcommitting kernel).
> Rather than developing standalone applications and Web sites, today we're moving towards smart clients with rich user interfaces interacting with Web services.

Spot on. 2002.
So, when there is no memory and no swap space available, instead of crashing, it zombifies whole system? This is weird.
Nissan extends "Employee Pricing" to vehicles damaged due to Hurricane Sandy
I LOVE this. I have always wondered what such a visualization might look like. Now, when the results come in, I can be my very own 'electoral college pundit' and be right :)
This article really struck me the wrong way. The connection to being a "Man" is really, really weak and could easily be eliminated from the article.

I mean... I get the connection to "No Shave November"... but it adds nothing to the content and while reading the entire article all I felt was "MAN MAN MAN MAN" instead of "Unit Testing! Documentation! Pair Programming!" which are actually important programming topics.
Definitely not too late, but it's hard to tell what you need to change in order to finally get programming without knowing more about your history. What is it that you don't grasp? The conceptual ideas behind programming? What programming does in the first place? The specifics of whichever language you're using?

Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu) could be a good starting point for you— it's very visual and helps conceptualize programming (loops, instruction blocks, etc.).

If you have background in design/art/illustration/etc., then Processing might be for you— I recommend this book highly:
http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Processing-Casey-Reas/...

If you have any specific questions, feel free to send me an email or ping me on Twitter (all info is in my profile)
The concept work is about all you did. Try writing an app that gets more than 0 downloads a day.
I don't think a "real" CS masters would be a good idea without a lot of undergrad math and CS. Keep in mind what constitutes a masters varies widely. Some schools are basically just the same undergrad material. Others go far beyond undergrad topics and pick up where undergrad textbooks end.

It really depends on your goals are.
You are so cool and amazing. Oh wait, this app sucks ass.
I'm surprised the author doesn't mention the async library[0] to avoid callback hell. Also, he should probably have mentioned "continuation passing style"[1] as it is the term for that style of programming.

[0] https://github.com/caolan/async

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation-passing_style
I'll take mudslinging and rumor-mongering over harmful subsidies to e.g., corn.
Can someone edit the title of this to correctly reflect that the linked article is from 2008? Without a close look it gives the impression all this happened last weekend.
https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:GRPN
Why? So you could be bombarded by ads and annoying campaign propaganda while you cast a still-statistically insignificant vote?
Wireless for Beginners Part 2: Avoiding Collisions
It will be impossible to get money on Intrade before the election.
Seems to be much better description about the case than the original article.

Excerpts from the article:

- Apple already owns two iPhone trademarks in Mexico in Class 9 and Class 28

- in 2009, Apple's lawyers decided iFone's Mexican Class 38 mark wasn't being actively used, and they filed a lawsuit to try and get it canceled so they could register their own pending Class 38 mark on "iPhone."

- iFone obviously disagreed and convinced the Mexican courts that they were still using the mark in commerce

Class 9 = computers, software, cameras, and mobile phone
class 28 = electronic game devices
Class 38 = communication services