skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://tinkercad.com is another one that I have been using lately. It seems to be focused on editing more, but the community and library are quite good as well.

I'm always amazed at how well WebGL works - I used to think that 3D intensive applications would be one thing that would/could not be converted from desktop app to web app.
A flooded house is difficult to live in, even a flooded brick house. The calls for mandatory evac were made because of coastal flooding.

I'm to understand that very few tropical cyclones reach inland Europe; if you're European, I doubt that you understand what it's like. Why don't you spend a few years living in coastal Florida, and see how your snark holds up after surviving a few of these storms?
To switch between apps, you can hold the Home button down (Don't know what that is mapped to in r2d2b2g, and it will 'zoom out' to a WebOS-like list of cards that you can swipe left or right.

Swipe up to Quit the app. Press home, or one of the cards, to return.
I just got done describing that that's not what I want, though I'm not sure I made myself very clear.

Different tabs, different windows, it's all the same thing. I want Gmail open exactly once for a single goal. My other post describes my use-cases more completely.
One tab: an email with project build instructions.

One tab: an email with a homework assignment.

One tab: my inbox.

One tab: composing a reply to a recruiter.

Two tabs: Other emails from the recruiter I'm using to compose my reply to the recruiter.

The first three I'm fine with being separate tabs in Chrome. That's fully intentional. However, the last three tabs are all one task, and in my mind should be achievable in one window/tab.
IPad 4 benchmarks confirm the A6X as the most powerful SoC on the market
Client Side API Mashups With CORS
Use this one: http://www.bootstrapcdn.com, it also hosts FontAwesome and some extra themes for Bootstrap.
Or the engineers want to work on interesting problems, rather than patching the bug tracker every 2 weeks.

In my experience, what self-hosted bug-tracking systems might gain in redundancy (a few hours every time a major storm hits) they lose to context switches (which hit team morale, not merely time.)

"Hey, Bob! Can you reset the MySQL server again on the bug-tracking maze set up by Fred over 4 years ago?"

Bob obligingly does so, and then, having been interrupted in the middle of a hard problem, loses his place and can't get back up to speed by the end of day. So while you may gain four hours of butt-in-seat time, you're losing four hours of real productivity on a far more frequent basis.

I'd rather pay Fog Creek to worry about that stuff, and actually ship products.
‘Not all money is good money’
If you fork this repository... do you have to pay child support or get arrested for identity theft?
Yep! Made with Skanect by manctl.com
> How many more hurricanes occur today than 100 years ago?

Rhetorical question. It's not about the amount of hurricanes, but their strength and their path. Apparently Sandy was blocked by an anti-cyclone south of Greenland and instead of turning right it turned sharply left and made landfall. These highs are linked by latest research to the loss of ice in the Arctic. And connecting higher ocean temperature with more powerful hurricanes is trivial.

So, it is not about preventing hurricanes it is about preventing damage and victims and keeping the infrastructure functional. In this context you can easily justify closing fossil power plants.
I don't get it. All of these people on the project would typically have amounts of money for research on whatever they want to do. Why do they need more money? I guess I am missing the point. I've heard of a bunch professors from friends that have huge research funds. They can even give portions of their research grants to students.
That made my day -- seeing JavaScript draw me a happy little tree.
New Google Search App With Siri-Like Voice Responses Finally Approved For iOS
Github does that for you already. In the network section of the project.
The two CPUs appear to differ in dispatch and branch prediction. Interestingly, that's where much of the power/silicon budget goes nowadays.
Fusion drive on older machines? YES
I always wondered if someone wrote a browser extension that automatically redlined all TOSs if that would legally prevent click wrap TOSs from being enforceable for the user running the extension.
I welcome this change if they implement it well. I sometimes keep two gmail windows open so that I can compose in one while I reference emails or search in the other.
Developers you love, and why they love developing
The feature won't be available for phones.
GAE is really the perfect "my first web app" platform. It just works right out of the box. No need to setup your environment or dependencies to get a web app running locally, and then it's equally trivial to host it on the internet.

After learning the basics of web development using GAE, I've since moved on to other platforms like RoR and NodeJS. But GAE still holds a special place in my heart.
Proof of Heaven...visions of an Afterlife
The opposite is what happened with the company I work for.

They brought all the email server management in-house, probably cost a lot of money, took a while, and when they finally turned it on... half the company was without reliable email for about a month.
Ransomware Holds Computers Hostage, Demands Payment
Loosies 2012 is a romantic comedy-drama film written and produced by Peter Facinelli, and directed by Michael Corrente. The film stars Peter Facinelli, Jaimie Alexander, Michael Madsen, Joe Pantoliano, William Forsythe, Glenn Ciano, Vincent Gallo and Chad A. Verdi.A young pickpocket in the New York subways, living a fast, lifestyle is confronted by a woman whom he had a one night affair with, she informs him that she is now pregnant with his child, he must now choose between continuing the lifestyle he lead or take responsibility for his actions.A young pickpocket in the New York subways, living a fast, free, lifestyle is confronted by a woman whom he had a one night affair with.

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I'm concerned about the DNA opensourcing (searching by the preamble, others have published their DNA, too) - it's not computer code, more eyeballs on it won't make it better.

Now cloning from raw DNA data is probably far enough off for now but couldn't the DNA be used to find vulnerabilities, for example, allergies or diseases with a genetic component? What about an insurance company looking at the DNA and denying insurance because of preexisting conditions?
Fails to work w/o javascript enabled as well.

Fail Google.
You don't find good e-books on Amazon by browsing. Pretty much everything you find is crap. "Anyone can be an author" is great until everyone is. Then it sucks. Apps are exactly the same; almost everything is crap. Perhaps one in a thousand apps is worth a buyer's time, just to read the description.

So you need a gatekeeper. But not just one -- you need a number of them.

In the physical book world these are publishers. There are many good and bad effects to publishers, but one of the good effects is that they screen out huge amounts of crap before it's ever inflicted on the public.

I don't buy e-books by using the Kindle store. I go through physical book listing only, presuming that if it's made it past a publisher, it might be worth my time to look at. After I find something interesting, I'll flip over to the digital version if that's what I'm interested in.

To solve the app store problem there needs to be more than one store. There needs to be a lot of stores. These can be _within_ Google's or Apple's store.

Professional publishers can partner with selected application vendors, roughly "endorsing" apps. Publishers can join together to form groups, and groups can create storefronts.

As a buyer I can then pick and choose from storefronts/publishing groups that organize and choose books that are appropriate for me.

App sellers will have to give up some of their (non-existent, because nobody knows the app is there) revenue to the publishers in exchange for the service.

As long as the buyer and can shift and select from between publishing groups, and the base provider (like Google) makes it _tough_ to become a publisher or group, it stands a chance.
I took Steve's course on Udacity, my first time doing any sort of substantial web development. A few weeks later I met him at a YC event, used the Udacity course as an icebreaker and now hes my boss at Hipmunk.

True story.
Society is shooting itself in the foot with the trend of dumbing everything down. While we sit here being presented with one button devices so that "we don't get confused", the rest of the world is busy educating itself to a high standard and building tomorrow's industries. This laziness will be the downfall of the west and we'll have this constant thirst for profit at the expense of society's well-being to blame for it. IMO, anyway.
Home office decoration on a tight budget (+timelapse video)
Yes. If design is language, the new Apple HQ's architecture speaks of an encircled army camp, bulwarked against any possible engagement with the world around it. Every visual feature is defensive in nature.

It's the sort of place where I'd expect a zombie movie to finish up, not where I'd expect people to be inspired to create great things. It belongs in Pyongyang, not Cupertino.
> Read more at http://blog.serverfault.com

Thank you for this discussion!
Damn. Instant is only US customers at the moment...
Laziness on the part of the network operators.

Seriously, they're just too lazy to auto-generate firewall rules from their list of assigned addresses.
I just wanted to say that I appreciate you acknowledging the need to buy-in and being almost completely unjudgemental of things that are preferences. I think your condemnation of Unity's configurability is pretty spot on, though I'm not sure how much of that is deficit vs intentional.

For what it's worth, Apple's been grouping windows by application, GNOME now does it, elementary OS does it, Android/iOS/WP7 arguably do it. Honestly, Windows and KDE(?} are the only modern DE that don't do it. I'm not saying that makes it de-facto right or that you must accept it at all though.

Also, I know in GNOME at least you can configure it. I only say because if that's a big issue stopping you from like Gnome-shell or unity, you might check it out. I know I was blown away at: one, how offensive the Amazon results were in Unity and two, once that was remove, how really, really, really good they've managed to get Unity to me. Compiz will never not be crashy for me... we just have too much history... but Unity itself, I was pretty surprised. Polish (not the people) helps, a lot.
Well, in regards to the first question generally a processor's performance is proportional to the sqaure root of it's area at a given frequency and voltage, and it's active power use and leakage are both proportional to it's area. So yes, a smaller core will be able to accomplish the same task for less energy even though it takes longer.

Now it used to be that processors power budget was dominated by active power and the solution was to scale clockspeeds and voltage levels. As we move to smaller process nodes it's more about leakage power, which only goes away when you power down the core meaning that now race to idle is a better choice. But that's tangential to the bigger/smaller core issue.
Agreed. I'm doing freelance for a huge corporate client. There was a nice plan and schedule for feedback and revisions. I'm now on the 8th round of changes and all the different departments weight in.
Don't know why but this popped into my head.

Arnold mindfucks Lou Ferrigno right before they hit the stage for the Mr. Olympia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwtL2KPPc1k

"They should have it in a month for him. But then I have another month too."
Pretty creative stuff. I am looking forward to AMD building an eco-system around these things. My guess is that if AMD could deliver 64 bit ARM server chips and full programming documentation to support a robust Linux server OS architecture they could take a huge chunk of server share away from Intel based machines.

My reasoning is that people started migrating to AMD when they had a 64 bit x86 architecture and Intel didn't. That showed me that folks were willing to go with AMD if they provided something that Intel wouldn't (or couldn't). Given that ARM isn't bogged down by Intel's staggering licensing challenges (chipsets, busses, instruction sets, etc) this suggests a very interesting couple of years ahead.
Thank you pg !
I was more interested about what sorts of pull requests he might accept.
Ah, crap. I thought I might have been getting my wires crossed, I even searched Google news!
| Then reboot. You can just unplug it. At this point I wouldn’t worry about file corruption. If the thought bothers you, you can run sudo shutdown now, then unplug.

I wouldn't recommend just unplugging it. I have corrupted more than one RPi sd card this way. Do the latter, it will save you a lot of time in the long run, especially after you spend all the time to download software and set it up -- do you really want to do that again.

This is a fun post. I've been using both technologies recently -- I'm thinking of ways I could practically apply this...hmmm
> The only role the tests played in this story is that they are an effective mechanism for making sure teachers actually do their job.

I am having trouble finding a word in that sentence that isn't wrong.

That's not the only role the play. E.g., they also cause people to spend more time on test prep and less on education.

There isn't just one story here, despite your attempts to pretend that teachers are the only problem and tests are the only solution. Which is the political angle you aim to work.

They are not a particularly effective mechanism. Which is why nobody sane uses standardized tests forevaluating, say, which developers to hire.

They are not an effective mechanism for making sure that teachers actually do their jobs. They could only theoretically cover a small part of the teacher's job, and it's not clear how well they cover that. And they lump together all of the other factors that go into even that small slice of a student's performance.
And ... addressing the content of this blog post: yet another reason mutt wins as a mail client.

Open mutt (preferably under screen so you can 'C-a "' between mail folders), view message(s) you want to reference (optionally: tag relevant messages, using mutt's filtering tools as necessary, than 'l ~T' to restrict to just the tagged messages, allowing you to rapidly reference a set of messages.

Fire up a new terminal window (I bind this to '<shift><alt>t' in my window manager) and write "mutt -s 'subject line'" to start your message, drop into the address lookup window to designate recipients, and edit away in your editor of choice.

And all of this without the multi-gigabyte overhead of a full browser session + gmail.

Oh yeah: offlineimap means you can work on your GMail account (and/or any other accounts you've configured for mutt) readily.

Just sayin'.
It does, at least filtering and accessing them if they have a ForeignKey to User.
Steve Blank and Startup Weekend unveil an online "pre-accelerator" course
You are like a god, created through spontaneous generation!

https://github.com/Gawen/life/commit/ca14573e9e4e9769b02e3e2...
It's not clear how AMD's ARM chips will be any better than the other ones (e.g. Calxeda), though.
Got any deep house in there?
One more thing -- as long as reviewers keep mentioning 1,000,000 apps available as a _good_ thing, it's hard to make the situation better.

Imagine logging on to Steam, and finding a million games, 99.9% of which are crap. And then buried somewhere, in all of that crap, are a few underfunded gems, whose authors are desperately trying to make it work. And then they get cloned.
The Changing Economics of Google AdWords [Infographic]
>What about an insurance company looking at the DNA and denying insurance because of preexisting conditions?

Assuming the recent law changes survive coming challenges, such shenanigans will be illegal, at least in the USA.
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Call me when Github hits 1 billion users.

I mean, I'm all about creation vs. consumption and quality over quantity, but ... that's ... optimistic of you.
Russia went from oligarchs to...corrupt officials and their families taking over industries. They have basically moved toward the China model. The best we can hope for in China is something like a Singaporean police state, where the officials are autocratic and a bit unfair but, at least, incredibly honest.
I use it with mongoengine (drf 0.44). I only had to implement the resource serialization logic.

The framework is great, the best I have tried.
What is wrong with a manager who is considering bringing you onto their team wanting to know about your past performance at the company? I bet that happens at EVERY company. It certainly did at Microsoft.
"I'm kind of an optimist"

Sorry for what you are going through obviously. One thing I have found though in disaster planning is that it pays to be a pessimist. While worrying certainly doesn't help once you have a problem to solve doing so in advance helps you anticipate things that you need to take into consideration when planning.
So a couple of things:

1) Like any prepared person, I got all my data out of the east coast before this whole hurricane thing. If someone from Fog Creek hooked me up with some emergency licenses while they got their stuff sorted out, we'd be fine. Actually, this would be a good time to switch to self-hosted.

2) Second, while I was doing our hurricane prep, I ran into this blog post from Joel:

> Copies of the database backups are maintained in both cities, and each city serves as a warm backup for the other. If the New York data center goes completely south, we’ll wait a while to make sure it’s not coming back up, and then we’ll start changing the DNS records and start bringing up our customers on the warm backup in Los Angeles. It’s not an instantaneous failover, since customers will have to wait for two things: we’ll have to decide that a data center is really gone, not just temporarily offline, and they’ll have to wait up to 15 minutes for the DNS changes to propagate. Still, this is for the once-in-a-lifetime case of an entire data center blowing up

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lHEK939...

Obviously this was written in 2007, but they claim to be geographically redundant and have geographic backups that are "never more than 15 minutes behind". Presumably things haven't deteriorated since then.
It seems to me that there are a lot of efforts around making the front-end easier to understand. I think there needs to be at least one project that touches upon the back-end in a way that doesn't trivialize it.

There is not even one similar project for the back-end that I am aware of. And it's a shame, because I think the back-end is way cooler than the front-end.
I would disagree with the initial premise that it's about the pursuit of "perfect sound reproduction". There's many people who do that, but that's not what the audiophile world really has become. It's about a bunch of hand waving and big checkbook spending to impress other audiophiles. Oddly, that describes a lot of "hobbies".

Nobody who feels that a $4,000 power cable is important has any semblance of sanity remaining. It's the homeopathy of consumer electronics.
I think Ubuntu and Linux in general would benefit from a standard SDK for packaging and selling apps. Yes, selling apps. There are plenty of package managers and so on if I want to do FOSS, but if I want to make money selling software for an operating system that I love, make it easy for me to do that. Otherwise, I'd rather dev for Mac or Windows or Android or iOS.

Ubuntu making their own SDK would solve the "which set of tools should I use" problem that I think makes commercial Linux dev less awesome. Ubuntu's already gone down this road a little bit with their Quickly app framework, but I think they could take it a bit farther.

Mac, Windows, Android, iOS all benefit greatly from a standard app SDK. Add Ubuntu to that list and I'll be a happy camper.
7 Rules for How to Sell to “Darth Vader”
I would really appreciate if Google took some time to work on the speed issues we now experience with Gmail instead of working on this cosmetic changes.

I use Gmail basically ever since it was on early early stages (I even pay for more storage for years now) and the degradation of performance is the one thing that makes me think of leaving the service for something snappier.
Avoiding Financial Armageddon at the Post Office
Does your library have to be a single compiled binary across all these variants? If so, good luck...

Otherwise, hopefully, a compiler takes care of most of the mess for you and gets you the best it can on the platform you're targeting. You might need to check that things would run on a variety of configurations - for instance hardfloat and softfloat do indeed have very different performance profiles when it comes to floats. Thumb shouldn't bother you too much as an application programmer (unless I'm very much mistaken) because it's just another instruction set for a compiler to target.

Errr....

You can get into all sorts of complications when actually looking at the platform ABIs. Debian, for instance, seem to have something of a lowest-common-denominator approach that targets features present everywhere. Which is then why someone had to rebuild it to get decent FP performance out of the Raspberry Pi which had hard-float...

Part of the complexity is that ARM is a licensed architecture. Some companies license the design of the whole core, some incorporate their own stuff and some just license the instruction set and do their own stuff otherwise.

What do you mean 'supported across all (or most) ARM cores'? Because that's huge and varies massively. There are the sub-100MHz embedded devices I happen to be working on at the moment (which may be running any of a load of different OSs), there are ARM cores embedded in all sorts of controllers where I wouldn't think you'd want to run, then there's the multi-core multi-GHz stuff from the likes of Samsung, Qualcomm and Marvell...
They also don't properly filter keyboard events, so Cmd-Left navigates to the next most recent article, rather than browser-back.
When Business Is Going Well
I think that is a matter of perspective. If you phrase the damage done by a storm in terms of dollars (as opposed to, say, lives lost...), then I think that opens the door for comparisons to other things that destroy wealth.
If they get to the point of going into a store, you can bet that the store employees will do everything they can to sell them a different phone that is in stock today, that they can earn a commission on now.

The same would be true if iPhones were abundant and the Galaxy was out of stock, though Apple will always be at a disadvantage because there is only one "current" iPhone while there are any number of "new" Android phones the sales guy/gal could choose to push.