skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BTW, what's your opinion on niche markets? When github started, was hosting source code repositories considered a big market?
I imagine that the Zuse Z1 must have sounded like that while running.
I use it too. I don't want any third party provider use for analytics.
I also reject this claim and augment the mention of bughouse with crazyhouse, which is basically a two-player version of bughouse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazyhouse

Crazyhouse has a much higher branching factor than regular chess, and because dead pieces come back onto the board, the game cannot be attacked with endgame tables.

I also personally find suicide chess and atomic chess quite interesting. I can't make the claim that they are more interesting than the original, but they do require delightfully interesting changes in mentality. And endgame analysis in each of these variants is vastly different from regular chess with some beautiful patterns.
Growth hacking is the new marketing in the big data age
Your argument doesn't really make sense though.

Nonworking -> working can describe early soviet industrialization, but it was far more impressive than you're making out - they were first in space for everything up till 69.

Also, going from the everyday puddling to big science projects can also be described as nonworking->working. If government taxes landowners more thoroughly and invests in big science instead, you can consider that as nw->w.
F1 has been doing this for a while. They've had some great camera angles on the cars for the last 20 years and in the last 5 or so (at least in the UK) we've been able to stream the race online, select different cameras and see live telemetry and car locations via GPS. This live timing map is nice but it's nothing new. The major players have been doing it for a few years.
I had the same problem, which is why I created Instahero: http://www.instahero.com/

You can extend it to cover any sort of reporting you need. Nothing else I've used could cover all the cases I needed.
5 PRINT "WHAT'S YOUR FIRST NAME?"
7 INPUT NAME$
10 X=1
20 D=1
30 FOR Y=1 TO X
40 PRINT " ";
50 NEXT Y
60 PRINT NAME$
70 IF X=0 OR X=39-LEN(NAME$) THEN D=D*-1
80 X=X+D
90 GOTO 30

RUN
Yup. Also, the Proton rocket (Russia's other workhorse commercial launcher) has ICBM heritage. It was an offshoot of a "super ICBM" program that never became operational. It would have been capable of launching 100 Megaton (Tsar Bomba) warheads. It ended up being obsoleted by MIRV technology and generally just being too large to be effectively deployable as an ICBM.
Some of those "hobbyists" at Copenhagen Suborbitals are former NASA contractors and they have been working on that project since May 2008, so I think his main point still stands.

It also looks like they're still doing a lot of testing on active guidance systems, rather than trying to put a human up any time soon.

You can see their plans for the rest of this year under Campaigns > 2012 on their main site:
http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com
Street Dance 2 2012 is the sequel to StreetDance 3D which was released on 21 May 2010. The film has been released in RealD 3D, XpanD 3D, and Dolby 3D with Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini returning to directing. Britain’s Got Talent stars George Sampson and Flawless return along with Hip-hop dancer Sofia Boutella (backing dancer for Madonna and face of Nike) and Falk Hentschel. The cast also features b-boys such as Lilou, Niek, and Yaman.After suffering humiliation by the crew Invincible, street dancer Ash (Hentschel) looks to gather the best dancers from around the world for a rematch.Street Dance 2 2012 is a nice movie in the year.

so nice movie
http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/street-dance-2-2012-720p-...

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/street-dance-2-2012-720p-...
If the premise (maybe I misunderstood) is that the threat facing Microsoft is a result of not inventing anything, then how is Apple not subject to the same threat?

Microsoft got big for the same reason that Japan got big - doing the same thing more efficiently and often cheaper than incumbents.

I guess I'm struggling to understand the real point of that post.
Can you imagine having to debug that wirewrap.

I wonder what technologies from today will look like 40 years from now as we compare 1974 to 2013.
Obama is unfollowing lots of people on Twitter
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Entering machine language monitor:

call 151

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it unassembly a portion of memory.
I can type the minus before the 151. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/143374/call-151-what-did-...
I keep my ideas in https://AES.io - one of the reasons I created the service.
Why would there be? Android is a better OS than Ubuntu right now. Especially given all the issues that Ubuntu currently has on the Nexus (keyboard, camera, bluetooth, etc).
Shut down is the former Hibernate now. That's why it wakes a lot faster from a boot than the "regular shutdown" of Windows 7. Better hope you're not going to get into freezes or such with Windows 8.
Just a painful decision that was made by me yesterday :(
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Neat. It's not perfect (i.e., the rubber banding effect that others have mentioned here), but there's a lot of potential in this idea.

My main sport is cycling, and the UCI (the governing body) has banned the live transmission of GPS data from bikes.
What if drone warfare came first? (Ethics of drone usage)
It seems I wasn't clear enough; I apologize for the confusion. I fully admit that Java has dynamic loading and a security model and the Go does not.

I was responding to "you can't have an app that loads plugins much less one where the app can do IO but the plugin can't."; that is, I was merely providing a way to implement what you wanted (plugins that cannot do IO, in a host that can).

Like I said in my original post, "If you mean things that you can syntactically write down, like a Giraffe is-a Animal, or an Apple is-a Fruit, then yes, that is impossible to write down in Go." Similarly, it is impossible to dynamically load code, or enforce permissions at the runtime level (although implementations of this enforcement has historically been... buggy, to be charitable). I was attempting to show that the problem of having sandboxed plugins is solvable in Go.
No but Copenhagen Suborbitals are hobbiests. And they expect to launch a suborbital rocket with a human onboard.

And their combined budget is properly less than what NASA use on toilets.

I've noticed this in many of your comments, so I thought I'd point out that you are using "properly" in place of "probably" quite frequently. Also, this is a common mistake, but it's "hobbyist" rather than "hobbiest."
>Just imagine. [Driverless cars] could, for a start, save the motor industry from stagnation...; and since [cars] would be able to drop off their passengers and drive away, the lack of parking spaces in town might not matter so much.

Strange that the Economist would catch the diminished need for parking spaces, but miss the real economic impact of driverless cars: many fewer cars would be needed as utilization rates rise far above the current ~4-7%[1]. This would cause a total collapse of the car industry, not save it as suggested by the article.

[1] 7500-15000 miles at an average of 25MPH is 300-600 hours a year or or about 4-7% utilization.
I think you read differently from me, I did not saw anything you answered for in the above comment.
Or, change your utensils and embrace being a short order cook.
A great little documenary (0:15h long) about the MR-1 launch, with an emphasis on the testing and preparation that went into the flight. Shows footage of the failed launch and the subsequent successful launch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJPy6FPWhmc

If you're only interesting in footage of the failed launch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O4V7JfeTSU
No. But that's not what the GP does.
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Recuperar de nuevo tu amor perdido después de una ruptura no siempre es fácil, pero siempre es posible.
La clave del éxito es la persistencia y determinación. Lo sé porque he estado allí. En este artículo, voy a tratar de explicar lo que funcionó para mí para conseguir mi amor de nuevo.
Most of the same advice applies, connect to your local startup community and use that to get intros to VCs. What do you find difficult about building relationships ?

If you're in London a number of VCs run open-hours where anyone can come along and meet them.
Agreed. The car industry would surely know this too. I wonder how the future will unfold; maybe the automakers will end up resisting the self driving car.
Thanks. You have no contact options listed and I don't like using whois contact data. I have my contact details in my profile if you would like to reach me.
Sounds interesting, care to give an example how you use it exactly? You dump everything to JSON and then simply run some RecordStream queries on the data? Or do you generate something visual?
Okay, thank you for that information. I'll be buying one anyway - Insanely curious about the overall user experience.

Edit: Come to think about it - I hope that update was explicitly stated. Wouldn't want my hardware to perform system critical updates disguised as a simple application update.
it looks cool, but I would have to see it side by side of an actual formula race (on tv) to see whether it's of any use. f1 is a sport where tenths of seconds determine your position on the track and I'm not sure whether you can accurately enough depict that on the map using only online timings.
Creating users might be a problem, if you are working within a larger organisation (university in my case).

Penguins have LXC, which is comparable to BSD jails or Solaris containers.
I wouldn't worry about karma points on HN. Karma isn't meant to happen as a result of the votes of others, but instead on cosmic feedback, synchronizing with our activities and perceptions.

According to those who subscribe, anyway. But whether you believe or not, karma is not decided by a committee of down-voting equipped readers, each with his/her own desire for points. That's not karma, that's polling or rating.
I currently see Google taking the lead in the development of driverless cars, so I suppose car makers will be left with no choice.
They are already building their self destruction with more automatic driving features. The only question is which carmaker wants to pull the trigger first and come home walking with the prize.
The author completely misses here - probably due to limited exposure to real-life third-party code in real life production systems.

Code auto-grading, at least at Coursera, is usually done by running comprehensive unit tests, which extensively test border cases as well. These test suites are often 5-10 times larger than the actual submitted code, and it is difficult to imagine anybody outside of this type of environment spending so much extra time designing (and testing!) test suites with 100% coverage.

Moreover, code submissions have to comply with (or implement, in case of Java) predefined interfaces. And some courses (e.g. Scala) have style checker output taken into account (20% of grade is decided by the style checker in the Scala course).

In summary, well-thought-out test suites and interface specifications demand well-designed code submissions; in real life, poor comments or sloppy expressions are a very minor nuisance compared to poorly designed interfaces and forgotten border cases.
the scala coursera course does a style check which will catch some style issues. i think it uses this: http://www.scalastyle.org/rules-0.1.0.html but it wouldn't have caught the clip problem discussed on the blog.
What about allowing downvoting of stories (maybe not below 1?). Upvoting is subjective too, and while flagging may be to strong for something so subjective and ill-defined, maybe it would help if people could downvote a story so that it disappears from the front page faster.
What I like about gitolite is that I can give push permissions to people, but deny pushing to the master branch. Of course, this can be done with mere git hooks, but gitolite makes it easy and centralizes the admin configs.

It is essentially useful to use git in a svn-like workflow.
What would be the exact reason that less cars would be needed?

Are you referring to multiple cars in one household becoming superfluous? This would, of course, only be the case if driverless driving would be permitted entirely — I can very well imagine a prolonged transition phase where a human being needs to be able to intervene at all times.

Or are there already plans for automatic car sharing? This could be easily opposed by promoting the opinion that having an own car that is customized to your personal needs and where you can leave your belongings bears an advantage big enough to buy one.

Of course, ecologically, it would be great if both of this would be permitted, but my point is, autonomous cars could be introduced without car manufacturers incurring any immediate losses.
can't wait for fia to block this..

on the other hand, although cool, this isn't a new thing.. slapping google maps is a nice touch, i prefer just the circuit.. its much more clear.. i don't have the link right now.. its a bookmarked in another computer.. but as far as i know, it was blocked recently as he's getting the telemetry data without the fia's permission..
That is a seriously strange complaint. The reason a bank can provide a service to your for free is that it expects growth in society, therefore growth is forced upon you?
We already have cars that don't need you to drive them: taxis. Where I live the various different competing taxi companies compete to give a pretty high level of service - I can order a cab via an iPhone app or through an IVR system that only requires me to press a single key if I want a taxi there and then - payment is to account (work) or chip-n-pin.

Even with a pretty decent taxi service I still own a car, as do most people I know.

So I suspect that even when cars become completely self-driving we will still generally end up buying the things for possibly less than completely rational reasons.
Is there a curated list of such live real-time data sources? A directory if you will; cutting across different sources like train/flight info, shopping, finance, sports, politics/elections etc.

Guess most of them wont be free, but some of them could be.
You are assuming that driverless cars will be just as inexpensive as the typical American car today. That's certainly not true today. For example the Google car has $150K in equipment costs. Sure that might go down in time due to more demand but I doubt it will become literally negligible cost wise. Besides that, there is the added cost of software development, and maintenance. And besides that there is money to be made in selling software for these new cars. Software like up to date datasets or more accurate traffic avoidance heuristics.
The bright side of this push to get things running well on the nexus 7 is that these inefficiencies will have to be dealt with. I'm running this build the Nexus7 now and, yeah its slow, but as the goal for 13.04 is getting the performance and battery life acceptable, these developments 'should' leak back and help the whole Ubuntu experience. It might just be the itch required to get development focused on performance again.
> What I'm trying to say is that you and the OP
> shouldn't presume to say what the HN audience wants.

That's exactly the decision that up voting gives us: Each up vote is a tiny fragment of a dynamic editorial policy, and the result of that policy is the top stories on the home page. While each individual can decide who the HN audience is (either themselves alone or some idealized audience) they are making that presumption.
Sustaining vs. Disruptive

-- or --

Reactive vs. Proactive
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The issue here is all wrapped up in "bounds of negative externality regulation". I'd hate to 4Step my way into being Zygna - I don't think it's useful for the end users and is nearly 100% parasitic. The market isn't perfect due to there being no "digital-heroin regulations" to prevent this drag on human progress. I think we can say with confidence that we're in a local optimum in current market conditions, and some us - myself included - wish to select ourselves out of doing such companies.

"Wealth creation" is a byword for justifying rent seeking as if that was an end in itself - "job creators" at least has some positive end in sight.

The argument you make "cat videos, etc." being beneficial is a valid one. The 90% of shit is why we have much of our infrastructure from AWS to FedEx. However, it's dangerous to assume that this is the only, or best, path to increasing our standard of living, and moreover to not see why we shouldn't try, in our own activities, to try to rise above it.

Any concerted effort on solving a problem produces the effects you speak of - it's not just crap. Pure end-user numbers, vis-a-vis "crass consumerism", are not what dictate these positive externalities (AWS, etc.) that we experience. It's likely the challenge of the problem with respect to having a product-market fit. In other words - a hard problem solved for a small market is likely to produce outsized spillover effects - like why Rails powers productivity software and now tons of things.

There is a middle ground between the dreamers and the rent seekers where the biggest impact to society can be gained. Rent seeking hoping for spillover is not the optimum path. Instead, if you really do want to make an impact first, find a real problem that benefits humanity and solve it - don't dream about it, and don't whitewash what's black.
I love reading the articles on driverless cars. Every single one conveniently forgets that, at this point, we're no where near solving the fueling issue for any car.

Teens aren't getting cars because they are too lazy to take the drivers test. It's because the cost, fuel, and maintenance just aren't worth it to them. Even if it drives itself.
"A byte of Python" is the best book I've seen so far that caters to a beginner audience. All you need to know about computers to read this book is to how to save text files. Really engaging.

http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/python/
My thoughts exactly — Microsofts didn't invent the PC, the GUI, the internet, etc. but neither did Apple. Ideas don't matter, execution does.

The Surface, while not as perfect as it perhaps should have been, certainly is a promising device, and I thus wouldn't yet write Microsoft off as doomed.
70 IF X=1 THEN LEFT=0

Makes for a more symmetric pattern.
By the society we're part of, as a whole. This includes politics, industries, businesses, and ourselves.

Individual decisions only go so far - you can decide to "degrowth", but if the politics, or culture, or industries are oriented toward growth, this is pretty much a drop in the water (well until a given subject becomes suddenly important, like we saw with environmental issues in France a couple of years back).

If as a society we consider stability and sustainability to be more important than growth, then this affects a lot of our decisions: expectations of how long a given useful product should work (appliances etc), how we decide about things that are worth investing time and resources in, subjects to be taught at school, kind of jobs to be created etc.

Now a true "cultural" question: you mentioned that people should not "expect the rest of us to appreciate being forced to do it" - is that because in your country, there is an activism (perceived as negative?) around degrowth?

Honest question: I'd like to understand your initial reaction!
there are fixed costs to producing the book so it is possible that without price discrimination it would not be possible to sell the book to Thai customers in which case the inability of the company to price discriminate decreases social efficiency.

For example say the book costs $1 per copy to produce and $10 of fixed costs. There are two customers who are willing to buy the book. The American customer is willing to pay $12 for the book and the Thai customer is willing to pay $4 for the book. With price discrimination the publisher sells both books. One to the Thai for $3 marginal profit and one to the American for $11 marginal profit. For a total profit of $4 after fixed costs.

If the publisher cannot price discriminate then they just sell to the American for $11 marginal profit for a total profit of $1 and the Thai person doesn't get a book :(

The wiki page on Price Discrimination says the social efficiency impact is unclear (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination). Maybe it makes us better off. Maybe it doesn't.
Probably. Never underestimate the bureaucracy of a big corporate entity (specifically when it comes to having to pay money to fix something).

Possible causes:-

* General ineptitude
* It's not something they monitor.
* The main www site is up, what's the problem?
* The technical contact for the previous certificate is no longer at the company. So the "expiring soon" notification was never received.
* The PO is awaiting 'approval', or Finance are sitting on it whilst arguing whether it's CapEx or OpEx, or the "Business Justification" was rejected by someone who doesn't understand, etc, etc.
Then Ballmer can hand that money to Warren Buffett or to Buffett’s successor and let them manage Microsoft as a mutual fund rather than a technology company.[...]
Nothing else makes sense to me.

He was doing alright until the end.
Steve Jobs boat in the Nederlands...
what about noise? Audio noise. If it works, this is the next feature I'm interested in. For example, I have an HP laptop, and the charger is noisy.
Kind of unrelated, but maybe someone from DDG will read this.

It would be really awesome if when I went to duckduckgo.co.uk it would default to UK search instead of US! :)
Hacking Ubuntu Community flavors Nexus 7
Now why can't they do this for UPS and FedEx trucks for consumers.

(they already do it for buses in some cities)
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Are you glad to see North Korea develop its "space program" too? Yes, I know this is HN where discussions about politics are discouraged, but in this case it's bordering on farcical to ignore it.

I have a lecturer in fluid mechanics who used to be an engineer on the Indian space program. He interchangeably uses the terms "satellite" and "warhead" when discussing the work he used to do.

It may well be that Iran wants to develop orbital launch capability for launching satellites and people into space. But assuming that's the only reason is a little naive.
Before you take the iPad back, lock it, put a text says "this ipad belongs to your name". That would help.
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Is utilization over time important? If we assume that people will still travel the same number of miles[1], then while there will be fewer cars on the road at any given moment, they will wear out more quickly as they are utilized more heavily.

Another way of thinking of it is that there is demand for a certain number of vehicle-miles per year. In the aggregate over the long term, it is no different if we buy 5 cars, each of which lasts 5 years, or if we buy one car every year for 5 years as the old one wears out[2].

Higher utilization should make fleet replacement a smoother function over time (whereas now, you can see dips and spikes as people decide when to put capital in their cars based on factors like the overall health of the economy).

[1] It is not clear what the impact of driverless cars would be on mileage. It would eliminate some useless trips (e.g., doubled miles for dropping somebody off). But the convenience may mean that people simply use it more.

[2] I'm assuming that wear and replacement time are purely a function of miles traveled. This is not entirely true, as age is a factor, but I think mileage tends to dominate in the average car (i.e., one that is being used, not one having its belts dry-rot over many years of neglect). Companies that maintain car fleets probably have data on this.