skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While reading this, I slowly started to tune out and pressed the back button after realizing just how much material was on the page.

I realized that this must be what my friends go through when I explain stuff I'm interested in.

Ouch.
Good question! I test all the products in the adafruit shop for quality and functionality :)

I tried out half a dozen 5v/1a adapters and this one was the winner - best performance and a very good price for UL listed. The most important points: It has the 'iDevice' resistors and has very good voltage regulation - extremely clean, no big voltage spikes. When loaded down 1A it stays around 5.2V, I actually pulled 1.5A and it was still above 5V. I opened a few up to look at the construction and found it well designed with good soldering, strain relief etc. In the product description I explain why its a 5.25V not 5V adapter - its perfect for high-current devices like the Raspberry Pi and we have thousands of customers who have happily used it for the Pi.
The weather people aren't blowing it out of portion, the media is doing that.
Ask HN: NFC security?
Hi All,
I've googled a lot, but I can't find info about NFC tag security.
Is there a way to "securely" store data on NFC tag, i.e. a password?
Any web UI that requires a user manual is a major fail.
I simply don't get why they'd centre the on-screen buttons. Surely the ergonomics don't support such a move?
It's an Organic Like Manifesto. No more steriods Like stuff
This would cool as a bookmarklet that can launch the graph in a modal window when viewing any JS app.
Hi Rhizome, adafruit does not distribute the specific USB charger we carry at Frys - sorry to hear you had a bad experience with them but it was certainly not the same one from the adafruit shop the parent poster was referring to!
Yet practicing old tests clearly does increase scores, and token adult's comment above did not account for that. He assumed that everyone practices and so the measurements are unbiased, or that practice is highly correlated with IQ (which may be true)
>Desktop-mode version of IE.

I don't get the point of a desktop-mode version of IE in Windows RT. Under Windows 8 proper, desktop IE gives you flash and other plugins (i.e. traditional browser experience). Under WinRT, desktop IE has the same restrictions as Metro IE.
Did you use it? Aren't abaci rather loud?
I didn't get the recalibration :-( one off perfect forever. same as my LSAT.
The only risk you take in that scenario is that your device may not charge as fast as you expect (or at all, if in use.) Same with the 3 different wattages of MagSafe adapters.
Aside: What is the appropriate website to host video or audio of talks with slides?

What I don't want: Just slides no audio. I also don't want video of the talk uploaded to youtube, because sometimes the slides aren't visible in the video.

My talks involve slides that make no sense without the audio. If there is video capture of the talk, it's nice to include some of the video too. But I guess I would be content with just audio + slides.

I do not want to have to do complicated video editing; I want an existing solution for this problem.

[edit: clarifications]
The apple store in that mall does just fine. It recently moved into a spot with double the floor space.

I'm sure it's considered a flagship Microsoft store, but when I was computer shoppin last year the sales staff did not unde rstand the difference between "small form factor to watch tv and DVDs" and "tablet". Even when I said, "no, like a Mac mini".
No, it was just for show.
Skepticism is also the wrong name for this ideology. Genuine skeptics would direct their doubt against the leading dogma of the age, whereas this ideology seeks to comfortably reinforce it. Historically, its true name – as I believe you pointed out here once – is positivism.
offering discounts, tricking ppl to like your page, all Armstrong like fake
I have never seen a teacher or student like you describe. The ones who don't know the (purported) reason for the Civil War don't know when it started either.
I didn't catch anything about DNT at all during setup on my Surface (not saying it wasn't there). Just tried to find the setting; it's not exposed on the Metro side at all, it's not in the logical place for it (the "Privacy" tab), rather in the "Advanced" tab and under the Security heading, nearly at the bottom of the list[0]. Microsoft's DNT position has always smelled like a political stunt, burying it like this doesn't do much to disprove that.

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/s/xslbzy04l37wnf7/Screenshot%20%289%...
Been using 8 for a couple months now, and I see no difference between the desktop mode between 7 and 8 other than 8 being a little more visually appealing.
I avoid EBS because I think it is very complex, hard to do right, and has nasty failure modes if you use it within a UNIX environment (your code basically hangs, with no warning).

Now I learned that ELB uses EBS internally. I consider this very bad news, as I inadvertently became dependent on EBS. I intend to stop using ELB.
>Are all the HN upvoters are retarded? This is not Surface RT. RT does not have a classic Windows Desktop environment. It only has metro.

Either they are all 'retarded' and you are the one in the right, or vice-versa. Which do you think is more likely?
Oracle and OpenJDK are just two JVMs.

I know at least the following JVMs

Oracle JVM

OpenJDK JVM

Metro JVM

IBM JVM

Aonix JVM

Cacao VM

Squawk VM

Jikes VM

VMKit

BlueRay VMs

Excelsior JET Java native compiler

GCJ native Java compiler

Aonix Perc Java compiler

... (many many others)

I doubt every single of the above implementations does threading the same way.
Did it hurt your future prospects?
In Java, you'd have like 3 layers of abstract classes that define a serializable type, you'd make some kind of listener class that receives responses from an RPC call, and do tons of other boilerplate.

Or you just add Akka to your pom and pass messages between actors. (If using Scala, the syntax is tightened up very nicely.)
According to the initial surface presentation, the piece isn't plastic but metal.
The combined storm system is currently forecast to drop twice as much rain as Irene across a much larger area (recall, if you will, the catastrophic flooding that resulted from that event), raise a 20+ foot storm surge across much of the mid-Atlantic coast during at least two high tide cycles, and produce sustained winds over a 25+ hour period during a time of year when most trees haven't yet fully lost their leaves. There will be millions of people out of power, injuries, and quite possibly deaths (in addition to the ~50 people already dead in the Caribbean).

For anyone reading this, don't listen to an idiot on the internet who doesn't understand weather forecasting (and specifically doesn't understand most damage from storms is done by things other than the maximum wind speed). Read the NWS watches and warnings and listen to your local emergency services.
I'm curious, on the Currying (Standard Library) slide, the author uses `attrgetter` from the `operator` module -- I've always used `getattr` to achieve the same thing. Am I missing something by not using `attrgetter`?
Sad. Learning to use of tables helps you learn the concept of logarithm. Way better than a calculator.
There is a big difference.

When a developer makes a class implement an interface s/he signing a contract thus validating assumptions.

When a type in Go matches an interface, it happens by chance.
Downvote more...I'm greedy and want to be the first to use Steam on Linux.

On a more serious note this bodes really well for gaming and software distribution on linux.
Dont forget IE4 (iirc) that ran on sparc solaris.
He addressed that issue here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4706767

He is tall, 6'3", but moving the surface away form him enough results in it being too far away to type.
Brent, could you comment on the performance of the browser, specifically, how it behaves when, from a fairly hefty page, clicking through to another fairly hefty page, and then clicking back to your original page. I read a lot of forums on my iPad 3, and oone thing that drives me up the wall is when clicking back, the 5 second pause for the original page to reload from the server (rather than cached memory) and jump you back down to where you were. This is one of the main annoyances that I was hoping would be better on the surface, so hopefully you can comment on it.
All of my data science FTE jobs have paid at least that much ($115k+) in salary alone, and I have just 5 years of CS experience and I'm a college dropout. I do not live in California.

Developers/programmers are vastly overpaid. Including myself.
It's exactly what it sounds like: a short-term dip in voltage.

I'm not sure why any end user would care about this, unless they are using a device with no battery.
I also agree, and I'm also troubled by how addicted I've become to shallowly browsing dozens of such articles a day. I find that it's getting harder and harder for me to concentrate on something like a lengthy book for long periods of time, something I used to do frequently. But it's ironic that the author of that article is himself writing articles in his blog for people to read online - articles that contain some interesting opinions but have no particularly deep content.
I hope someone works around the UEFI secure boot soon, I would be very interested in having this as a Linux tablet.
I don't know if this is a problem if you're going hardcore with your FP -- one line is one expression, and multiple expressions are probably going to be stateful, which should probably be factored out into something with a name.

In Haskell, the only places (that occur to me right now) where you'll have multiple lines are:

* Pattern matching function arguments

* Giving things names with `let` or `where`

* In a monadic `do` block, which is just sugar that reduces to single-expression chain of lambdas

And all of these are language design decisions that require more than just multi-statement lambdas.
Right now? A SATA cable. I could swear I had 2-3 in a drawer but I'm out.

On a more regular basis? Replacement hardware for the data center. I'd gladly buy a new hard disk/DIMM/System Board/You name it and get it in 1 hour. This would allow me to have a cheaper support contract with next day delivery, and when the warranty replacement arrives I'd use it in a future server.

--edit:

Also, medicines. Last year I had just moved to Germany, knew nobody, my fiancee was still in Italy and I caught the mother of all flus. Could hardly stand up, awfully dizzy, fever, vertigo, you name it. I had to walk around, and find a pharmacy.
I would _gladly_ have paid 50 bucks for a home delivered box of aspirins.
I noticed the issue with the GitHub icon — it seems that my hoster is caching something. I'll fix it asap.

Thanks :)
If someone has merely "reasonable belief" that he will be assaulted, even by an unarmed assailant, in his home, he may use deadly force in response.

This makes sense to me. The worries that this might be abused seem real, but I don't understand the mindset that one should accept being beaten into submission by an assailant who has just broken into your house, armed or not. Is this really the thought, or is the presumption that the abuses of the principle will be a greater problem than the current crimes?

I don't see how it is possible to accurately judge that someone has the intent to physically harm me, but not the intent to kill me. Is the presumption that once I'm incapacitated, they will complete their crime, helpfully calling an ambulance on the way out? I lack that faith, particularly in those who have already shown intent to do me physically harm.

I wonder if the difference is that I personally have a general opposition to violence (as in, I have never violently attacked anyone, don't think much of violent sports, and am bothered by media glorification of violence), and thus don't see many circumstances in which I would attack someone while simultaneously limiting myself to non-lethal options. Are those who are against the 'castle doctrine' doing so as to preserve a perceived right to limited violence?

As regards this case, do those who disapprove of the shooter's actions feel that the 'victim' was in some way entitled escalate from text messages to a violent unarmed assault on the homeowner for having a relationship with his wife? Or do they doubt this was his intent? Would the situation be different if he clearly but merely intended to give him a "good beating" for embarrassing him by usurping his right to exclusive access to his wife?

[Apologies if my phrasing makes my questions seem rhetorical. I would love to understand the opposing view better.]
People who coast through high school effortlessly have a lot of trouble when life throws them problems that lack of textbook answers, and they have no skills for solving those sorts of problems.
On a similar note: I have a second generation iPod nano. Years ago I took a spare cable for it and cut the data wires, hoping to be able to plug it into a computer to charge while still being able to play music. (I saw this tip somewhere online.)

It worked with my brother's iPod classic (maybe 5th gen?), but not my nano; later I saw something on Adafruit about how the iPhone needed specific voltages on the data pins to charge, and I figured that was what was going on.

But recently, I got a battery pack, which can output to microUSB, iPod, or some other things. It works with my iPod, the same one I had years ago. But the cables it came with have swappable ends, I think 2.something mm jacks. At any rate they only have two points of connection. Here's what it looks like: http://i.imgur.com/8TliS.jpeg

So, how does this work? As far as I can tell, this should be exactly the same situation as a standard USB-iPod charger with its data cables cut, but it's not behaving the same.

It's possible I'm getting some details wrong, but can anyone shed some light on this?
iI just finished getting the plugin working with host checker for our juniper vpn at work on Linux. no its not dead and won't be in enterprise for a long long time. Would love for people to find a way though
Edward Gorey's gothic tales from the vault
I don't know if there is existing solutions to this but my favorite example of a good way to do it is the defcon style with picture in picture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJDCxzKmROY&feature=rela...
Everyone I know with a high IQ did plenty of IQ test practice.
Just Enough NLP with Python
This appears to be what I purchased, and it looks exactly the same:

http://www.frys.com/product/6740515
Did anybody else end up with the voice of the narrator from the game "Bastion" in their head dictating this?

I have to say that my standard practice now is to write all my code twice.
I write it the first time and just do "whatever" until it appears to work. Then go back and refector, add tests etc.

That second time I always find an astonishing number of bugs that I hadn't even considered.
Seconded. I switched from Mozy and would not go back.
The issue is that your post is written with the idea of creating controversy (look at the title).

Everybody is entitled to their own opinions, but IMHO one day is not enough to properly judge any piece of complex technology. I am writing this on my RT and I am very surprised with your post, specially when the word preview issues are easily fixed with a simple SW update that is coming soon, as Office is already RTM. A technologist would not ditch this beauty after a couple of hours playing with it, my $0.02.
They surely have strict limitations for the emissions. There is probably a load of filters and converters for the smoke before releasing it.
@traxtech this is what I am talking about :-) TorqueBox is made possible through JBoss and JRuby. We have had that stuff for years on the JVM. Don't get caught up in the hype and leave us for no good reason :-)
Can you praphrase? I couldn't follow all your pronoun referents.
The article quotes the average starting salary at google to be $125,000. After converting that into GBP (for the UK where I live) you get to 77,613.

Europeans quote salaries (usually monthly) after taxes, and Americans use pre-tax numbers. They also pay a higher tax rate (and get more, like real health coverage). So when you hear a European say that he makes 4000 Euros per month, that's an after-tax number and it's actually comparable to about $80,000 pre-tax salary in the US.
I was thinking of making this my next PC purchase, but after watching a video in this blog post I see i would be forced to use the touchscreen as there is not a built in trackpad on that cover/keyboard thing.

Overall the design looked cool, as I am interested in tablet with an attached keyboard with a trackpad. Though I want a tablet/PC type of device that allows me to use it as a tablet or a PC laptop. I guess the Surface is not what I imagined.
I'm not so sure about that. HP and USB aren't exactly in people's search list as frequently as Apple. Beyond that, I clicked wondering if Apple was selling a general USB charger and not an iPad / iPhone accessory.
As an aside, it seems Dropbox is biding on the [SpiderOak] keyword on Adword

So they are. Is it legally acceptable to bid on competitor trademarks? I thought that was regarded as being over the line these days - anyone know for sure?

If you look at the adwords link, it's clear that Dropbox is bidding on "competitor keywords" as a class.
Making the answer hard to deduce/calculate is only one side of the difficulty. The other side is making the question hard to decipher. I don't think the SAT has any questions that are as straightforward as your example, but I could be wrong.
What is the purpose of school, education or selection?
tabs mean you and i can vary in how our editor displays the text -- this is the simplest form of separation of style from content.
The Buzz About Reverse Phone Searches
Flynn effect compared genereations, not individual's changes.
Nope, I work for a multibillion dollar company. We don't have separate roles like "architect," "business analyst"," "programmer," etc. We hire people who can be given a requirement, and then trusted to get it fully implemented. In the beginning, especially if you're fresh out of school, you may be given a simple design and told "code this," but that phase doesn't last very long.
So, considering individuals as "human resources" instead of people (personnel) has consequences in the US Military as well as in corporate life. Who would have thought that change in how people are considered would have such an impact?
This is something I've been thinking about myself. Sometimes when writing large Backbone apps you may find yourself binding the same event twice to a model, or creating memory leaks by not deleting objects efficiently. It would be great if this tool could pick up on code mistakes like that.

Personally I find the force-directed graph animations distracting. I would render the graph statically and have better animations for the propagation of information in your code.
Can the cloud withstand a "perfect storm'?
I like how you created a brand new account just to call me an idiot. My post only objected to the term "superstorm", which this is not.
Or they needed a certain amount of capacity to make it profitable. A lot of infrastructure projects have minimum inputs to be useful.
11" Macbook Air?
...or anywhere you're using a 'let' statement. I write a lot of OCaml, and I write a lot of multi-line anonymous functions that aren't stateful. I think it's less common to do this in Haskell, but that's more because it's Haskell than because there aren't any side effects.

Random other tidbit that doesn't deserve its own comment:

In Python, instance.method is the same as doing ClassName.method(instance). This can be helpful when using map/filter, because you get to do map(ClassName.method,lst) instead of map(lambda x: x.method,lst).
You're not overpaid. Decent programmers, properly set up and put to work on useful projects, can easily add 4-10 times the average programmer salary in business value.

Look at house prices in the Bay Area or New York: $500,000 for starter houses, and $1 million is not uncommon. Read: someone is making a shit-ton of money, and it's not us.

Executives are overpaid. Our numbers are merely creeping up to our real value, and still 25 to 50 cents on the dollar. We're just less underpaid than most of the poor saps out there.
Exactly. I really don't think that what we ask for should be hard to find, but experience proves otherwise.
Whichever way they rule it is going to be interesting.

If they bless the sales, it legitimizes what is already a very active global gray market.

If they condemn the sales, they strike down the first sale doctrine and it is a massive blow to fundamental property rights. As commenters have already pointed out earlier this year regarding this case, since most electronic goods are made overseas, it would be officially illegal to resell them without permission. Criminalizing the resale of foreign made goods that contain an IP component. It would also provide a massive benefit to moving manufacturing of every kind overseas to obtain this special new protection.
At the margin, every employee makes the company money or saves the company money. You do a marginal analysis: if you get rid of the employee, does the net income go up or down?

Whether the contribution to net income is direct or indirect is irrelevant in determining that person's contributon to the bottom line. 1 accountant who bills $500,000 isn't really different than 10 engineers who build a product that brings in $5m of revenue, in terms of the bottom line.

Direct versus indirect is, however, relevant to compensation. It's much easier to negotiate a higher salary when your contribution to the bottom line is direct and easily measurable. But that goes to my point of there being more things that go into salaries than supply/demand. Whether your contribution to the bottom line is direct or indirect shouldn't affect salaries, theoretically. In theory, people don't get paid what they're worth, their salary is set by market forces and supply/demand. But in practice that's not the case.
The data pins may be shorted or bridged on your battery packs' cable.
The reason security researches follow "responsible disclosure" is because publicizing the flaw or existence of the flaw could allow innocent customers to be hacked and suffer security breaches.

However in this case, Facebook users can't be affected. We know the root cause of this 'breech' a dodgy Facebook app. If the original blog post actually contained the details of the users affected, it would be a different matter.
Ah, yes, I see the context now. I suppose I have less an less exposure to people like that these days, so they rarely factor into my understanding.

Probably fair to say there's a mix of different attitudes, understanding, expectations, and hopes in the American landscape.
Delightful Animations in One Line of Code: Part 1
Apparently living in the UK aint too cheap either. Did not know that!

The house-price plague is a worldwide problem and it's still in force. The "crash" was not as much of one as the world needed; brownstones in Manhattan are still over a million.