skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My connection does seem to be the problem here. I wonder if it's something that only affects me or if anyone else here is having the same issue connecting to this server. Traceroute times out.
+1 for Scorched Earth, the mother of all games :-)
Agreed. I created a login on accel.io, then came back to the site - then tweeted the course, still nothing.

How does one join the course?
Matt Cutts has responded in the comments of the linked article. (http://www.line-of-reasoning.com/issues/privacy-issue-google...)

I think Google make a reasonable point; a bit daft, but still.

Has anyone tried fusking the URLs?
I don't understand why CSS would have both actual lengths, and device pixel lengths, and then define them relative to each other. That makes no sense.
Google has applied for the ".dot" top-level domain: http://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationst...

So, eventually, getting http://learn.dot might be possible...
It is the exact same size as buttons on the iPhone if you are rendering the iPad 2 design on the iPhone as well, but in that case the button on the iPhone would be less than 40 points wide and also too small by Apple's guidelines. I am saying that it would be against Apple's guidelines on both the iPhone and the iPad 2.

That's why I mentioned an iPhone-specific design, as well. The iPhone's pixel density isn't a problem because it can be distinguished from the iPad 2. And, as you've shown, if the iPhone-specific design is displayed on the iPad Mini then there is no problem at all. The issue is that there is no way to distinguish between the iPad 2 and the iPad Mini.
Inj3ct0r Team found XSS Vulnerability on MSN website - Hacker News
Are you referring to BATS?
I never noticed this until now: how does the scribd script work on HN? Does it automatically suck in the PDF after it's been posted? I didn't realize that clicking on [scribd] takes you to an actual scribd page (I just thought it was the convention that people used to indicate that the link goes to a PDF).

Also, why scribd? (API I'm guessing?)
If the "working as intended" behavior is that these images won't be deleted since they can be linked to from elsewhere on the web, as appears to be the case (see my link to the old blog post above), they actually can't delete these old images.
Cool. May even make the switch before long as I am still waiting for Samsung to release JB on the Galaxy Note.
I've gone through one of Steve Blank's free programs. It was definitely worth while, so paying with a tweet and having to sign up is more than worth it.
Tried www.abebooks.com ?
10 Best New Products That People Don't Know About
Productivity of your crew, mostly. Serving a consumer or b2b website is probably not something you're going to want to do out of a house any time soon. Google Fiber isn't redundant, it doesn't give you better RW security or route around any of the other problems of enterprise-grade hosting. It's just FAST internet.
> why scribd?

Scribd went through Y combinator.
Have you used the Metro version of IE10? It's pretty nice. 0/10 is laughable considering how well it handles hardware acceleration and how it looks in full screen Metro mode. I use Firefox Aurora but like using IE 10 as an alternate so I don't have to install Chrome.
No they don't. They have a reputation for taking months to respond to security issues, responding with "yeah whatever, we'll look into it" and then doing nothing for months, leaving software vulnerable to known exploits because "its not patch day yet", and similar bullshit.
Some notes on Posix regular expressions
If you don't mind looking a bit like other sites, I'd highly recommend using bootstrap as a basis for a modern-looking redesign. You can customize it to your will, or even buy some bootstrap-based layouts to work with for not much money: https://wrapbootstrap.com/

As someone who learned table-based layouts and who now designs using HTML5 and CSS3, rest assured that the "new" web is not that hard to learn as long as you understand the basics of css. And almost all your JavaScript skills will transfer. It's really as easy as picking up a book on HTML5 and reading it. Alternately, check out: http://diveintohtml5.info/
Looks like just a direct link to the UC Berkeley site - no scribd at all.
They are planning the GUI update for the later 4.x releases. At-least that's what i could guess from the forums.
quite simply, to see just how far we could take it.
The solution is here: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/13664q/skype_vulnera...
It works like this:
http://www.scribd.com/vacuum?url=http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/...

By which I mean, it just appends the posted URL as a scribd url parameter, it doesn't actually "scribe" it...
Facebook Open Graph API Down For Some IPs/Internet Providers Since November 7th
If a dev can ensure that the app works correctly (in terms of size proportions) on the Mini, would it not also ensure it works on the non-Mini?
I don't understand why you would ever want to ruin a perfectly good PDF by letting Scribd anywhere near it...
You could do that and keep track of touches that are not very close to the target's center instead. But it seems a bit more complicated to implement.
Having used both extensively, I am very disappointed with both systems. It is almost as if they do not care about developers any more. OpenGL has little/no incentive to improve itself because it is not tied closely to any single commercial product, and DirectX used to be very well developed, but it seems Microsoft borderline lost interest in it (the leap from 9 to 10 to 10.1 to 11 happened fast, since then it has been fairly stagnant). For all intents and purposes, the average developer is still stuck developing at the DX9 level API to maximize compatibility. OpenGL could be great, but some central party needs to take ownership of it (without putting up a walled garden like Microsoft). As it is now, OpenGL is facing the same problems as HTML5 - a bunch of committees that are slow to make decisions and don't really care that much about the product. Combine that with the fact that we only have two major card manufacturers now (Nvidia and ATI/AMD), and there is just not enough competition to drive the space effectively. Both products are usable, I am just annoyed by their borderline-stagnation.
Time Warner Cable Modem Fee Is "Hi-Tech Consumer Fraud," Lawsuits Allege
How to connect your home appliances to the Internet of Things
Makes you wonder who, if anyone, is still paying to host the site. Someone must be keeping it online on purpose, right?
Looks like they also have an HTTP service and a Python client library, so you can use it other ways than embedded, and for the Python client, you can switch back and forth from the embedded one to the HTTP one with the same API. Seems pretty slick.
Ask HN: What habits should I adapt to excel at my job as a programmer?
Hi guys!

I want to excel at my job as a programmer. I've been doing it for 4 years now and I really want to be good at it.

I hope you guys can suggest habits/concerete things that I should do to be better WITHOUT burning out or being fed up with programming.

What tips/suggestions/comments can you share? I hope you can help me. I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance!
gmake scripts are usually fairly portable to OpenVMS, and there is a decent — though not great — ability to invoke bash build scripts directly.

If I had my druthers here, I'd like a build tool that wasn't a layer atop GNU/Linux/Unix — and that's not to imply how autotools works here is at all bad or particularly wrong, it's just an approach that's a bear to port the tools — and have that (portable) build tool then generate the platform-specific build script, build procedure, build-whatever equivalent.

Conceptually: to move the existing builds from a procedural, interpreted approach into a higher-level and object-oriented approach.
Who serves your assets?
Available on flipkart for 356 INR

http://www.flipkart.com/algorithms-0070636613/p/itmczynvb7p2...
That says more about HN, or other referring sites, than it does about Stack Overflow. The problem you mention afflicts questions with incoming links much more often.
These have come to be common features of NoSQL in general. I wouldn't be too surprised to see them here in a product marketed as NoSQL.

The other attributes i'm not too fussed about personally, i figure i can always work around them or face the question "am i using the right tool for this job?" but the fsync one still gives me the heeby-jeebies (even though it's never bitten me despite many many TBs of data).

Cassandra does periodic fsync's (although it can be configured). I understand HBase and Mongo have similar shennanigans.
Also you can try this for the same purpose — http://yuml.me/
Why on earth is Google TV separate from Android?

Why is the only Google TV device available in the UK a £200 Sony box when you can get pretty capable Android Media Center Boxes for a third or even a quarter of that price? (MK802 etc.)

Why is nobody attacking this space with any gusto? Boxee, Roku, Apple TV, Google TV, YouView, Windows MCE and various no-hope proprietary platforms (Samsung - you'll never build a platform anyone wants to build on. Please give up).

Will someone sort this out? We need a decent open Smart TV ecosystem.
I've previously purchased the Startup Owner's Manual. This is actually a great complimentary resource
dict(foo='bar') becomes {'foo': 'bar'}, removing the need for quotes around the key.
The [scribd] part of the title is the link to scribd.
You're still bound by the laws of physics. Nothing real time is ever going to get to you faster than a piece of fiber can carry it.
Was the Internet just an accident?
Yes. BATS has been a positive member of KCMO's tech community for years and had no part in KCK landing the Google Fiber deal.
Lots of impressive headline features. DirectX 11, detailed animation system, Linux support.

The trouble is, these come at the expense of the basics. Not so impressive is that the only supported method for sharing code between projects is copy and paste.

The engine is six years old. I'm not kidding.

Unfortunately, frustrations like that are common. I adopted Unity expecting to be there for the next few years at least; however my experience has been lukewarm.

It's a shame, because it could be a fantastic engine if they'd concentrate on polishing what they've got. But I don't get the impression that's the roadmap.

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/148393-Unity-4-removes-supp...
Simple HTML5 cloud data manager app hosted at Dropbox
Interesting, a chapter on quantum algorithms. I've often wondered whether there might be room for novel research in this field if quantum computing became more practical.

I'll definitely give this chapter a read. Thanks for posting it.
This seems like a speedy solution for inserts but I'm curious about reads

"Indexes tries to reuse as much space as possible, because metadata size is fixed, during every write operation, if index finds metadata marked as removed or so, it reuses it - writes new data into that place."

I'm curious how this is implemented.
a) What does it have to do with this post?

b) Google doesn't provide updates for Nexus phones indefinitely.
Can't join the program since twitter is unavailable here in China + VPNs don't load the site properly.

I'm going to have to download all the useful stuff the internet has to offer and bring it back in a huge 1TB disk. Internet is a joke here.
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.” - Francis Bacon.

This one should be chewed and digested. It's not a race - work slowly and diligently, and start exploring the boundaries of the topics covered, and you'll get much more out of it.
Show HN: Push targeted messages on your website using WebEngage Notifications
I love Steve Blank's blog but it's so long. Great to have a step-by-step approach
I know. it seems to me that there should be 3 ways of referring to distances and sizes; absolute (px: actual hardware dots not scaled), real world (cm/mm/inches/pt) and relative (100%/0.75).
It really depends on the use case and the applications, some times it is an overkill to use a system like the RaspberyPi fo r just monitoring some sensors or controlling a relay switch. Especially when it comes to price, size and power consumption, microcontrollers are the only answer. System on a Chip devices can make great gateways for microcontrollers and supplement functionality by providing e.g., data processing, secure communication, etc.
Oops, I was thinking of milling, not forging.
The price is realistic: http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/pages/Low-End-Google-N... gives a BOM cost for the Ouya sans controller at around $75. Add a year's worth of deflation, and it should be around $50. No, they're not making any profit at $99, but they hope to make that up on game sales and later sales to those who missed the Kickstarter. The point is that they're not losing money. A normal manufacturer would have to spend millions in advertising to get the exposure Ouya did.

The only thing that's hard about the schedule is that they're a new manufacturer and need to build relationships with all of their suppliers. NVidia would have given them a reference design that they could almost use unchanged.
The Onion Dehumanizes the Internet With Technology
Anyone knows how much the upgrade costs? Can't find it without login which I don't posses at the moment.
The average question is probably either one of the following anyway:

• How can I parse a bit of information from a HTML page? [regex] [php]

• Why does the compiler complain here? [c#]

• Regex question [regex]

• How to add two numbers in jQuery? [jquery] [html]

• What does this operator do? [java]

The long tail of not-very-highly voted questions is mostly beginner questions about a particular language or environment. As for me, it gets tiring explaining exactly the same thing in slight variations (adapted to the problem) three times a day.
I don't have a hard time believing that someone signed up for some sort of annual billing and never bothered to cancel it. Perhaps they host a whole bunch of stuff with the same company and simply pay their bills without double checking ever line item.
Windows 8 has a new set of touch APIs (including on desktop). The Windows 7 touch APIs are still there for compatibility. They'd have to either port the web touch stuff to the old native APIs or port the new native touch APIs to Windows 7, and I guess there's not enough Windows 7 touch interest to bother.
>Your computer can become just a screen with a Ethernet cable in the back. The desktop comes from the cloud.

>Dito for your TV/Games console. Instead of buying a PSP or XBox that can all be run in the cloud and just streamed to your display.

Oh boy I can have even less control over my stuff than I do now.
I'm only upvoting for the choking analogy.

That one is going into my permanent memory file.
My argument is still the same.

By having the data types exposed as objects, it doesn't matter what you do, because from the CS point of view you are still manipulating objects.

Even lambdas and functions are objects with some kind of invoke method.

So it is not possible to use those languages without OO, because OO is part of the language's type system.

Using CS language speak, you cannot do language semantic analysis without making use of the object semantics.
He's also got a really great set of videos on Computational Finance. I haven't seen the Discrete Mathematics or Computational Biology videos, but I imagine he does a good job there as well.

I believe all of these videos are also available on his YouTube channel by the way.
Yes; reading the book cover-to-cover in ten days sounds like a fantastic way to waste ten days learning nothing.
Seems to cover less than CLRS. I find that most algorithm books cover the same general (beginner to intermediate) set of topics as CLRS does. I was hoping to find something that goes beyond the stuff covered in CLRS but not as far as the level of TAOCP. Any recommendations will be appreciated.
"simple" + "IPN"... right.

Go for Stripe.
Show HN: A visual perception game - 'SET' game
I thought we were talking about the "Release Preview for IE 10 on Windows 7"? That's what the post is about.

It's nice to know you have Hardware acceleration on Metro. But um... that's nothing new. I've been enjoying hardware acceleration for 2 years now. Again, it might be a new feature to IE, but it's an old feature for browsers in general.
Good one and indeed, explains the basics to get someone started. I think what is missing though from most socket.io (and node.js) tutorials is code examples and full tutorials of -in browser- clients.
That was what I was guessing in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4783393 as well. Still, the point I was complaining about was clearly wrong in the post :-)
It's possible that he/she is already familiar with the material but is reading it as review, in which case 10 days sounds more than reasonable.
Mr. Fix It - The Engineer's Mentality in Politics
the answer is No
anyone interested in a medical curriculum? what can be improved?
I'm in the same boat as you. I absolutely _love_ developing sites JavaScript-free on the first pass. It really makes you realize how much of a crutch it's been that you've depended on, and how much you can get away with these days without it, especially with the rise of newer CSS features in the last couple of years.

At the end of the day you're left with a very fast and clean site that you can, after careful consideration, add very tiny JS snippets to in order to improve UX in places.
Yeah sorry, should've been clearer. The [scribd] bit is actually its own link, which I found out by accidentally clicking on it instead of the rest of the link title.
A VC from General Catalyst on how he stays on top of new technologies
Except, as the comment you responded to suggested, you would use a different email for each service.
If it doesn't I'm sure the lobbyists will start sliming out of their holes soon enough.
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) Shares Soar Despite Another Lock Up Expiry
> This one should be chewed and digested. It's not a race - work slowly and diligently, and start exploring the boundaries of the topics covered, and you'll get much more out of it.

Thanks for the advice. Just in case, I am a Masters in CS and currently into my PhD.
Python is a truly bizarre language in this regard. It's behavior is unusual and similar only to a few other less well known niche languages such as C# and Java.
I haven't been this impressed by a keyboard shortcut in a long time. Thanks
The claim that you don't need more than 1 hidden layer is based on a mathematical theorem that says roughly that a sufficiently large 3 layer net exists that can fit any sufficiently smooth function. One has to look in detail at things like "sufficiently smooth" and "sufficiently large" when applying mathematical theorems to real problems - and that's a step practitioners often seem to neglect when looking for rules of thumb. Also just because a net exists doesn't mean that any given training algorithm is likely to find it.

As for overfitting the best way to reduce it is to use more training data and I believe the nets discussed in these papers have been trained on some of the largest training sets ever used.

The other problem with deep networks is that they have been considered very difficult to train with backpropagation due to vanishing or exploding gradients. I think the recent major algorithmic developments have mainly involved methods to mitigate these problems.
From top of my mind gog.com might be interested in your skillset, probably not the only one.
Merging Google TV and the Nexus Q projects would be a good start.
The Kremlin’s 21st-century thought police
> Serving a consumer or b2b website is probably not something you're going to want to do out of a house any time soon.

I always thought this was primarily because of bandwidth and scale issues. Removing the bandwidth issue leaves the scale issue, and that's just a matter of how far you're willing to go in your own home, isn't it?
BREAKING: just had a Windows update for Intel HD drivers and GPU Caps Viewer tells me, the GPU is now at GL 4.0! That's good stuff... Intel's getting there.

Now if Windows Update would stop hiding such updates under "Optional"......
Thank you for your feedback. Like I said in the post, we created this website in 54 hours, so obviously it is not perfect yet. In regards to the influx of new users, they are likely friends of mine that I sent to the post so they could check it out. These are people who probably have never come to the site before. Either way I'm happy that more women are signing up.
Hipmunk launches Hotel Search
Android Market Share Jumps to 72 Percent [REPORT]
Total badass. A few months ago I saw a gallery of screenshots taken from 'wayback machine' of a whole bunch of old websites. Netflix, Dell, and Apple look COMPLETELY different. What's surprising (or maybe not) is that Amazon 7 years ago looks almost exactly the same. Thanks for sharing the Dole / Kemp campaign site - brings back fond memories. Heres's the gallery if you're interested... http://www.shopify.com/blog/6464492-the-ecommerce-graveyard-...
There's probably not much new for you then. Pretty much everything in this book is covered in my Master Curriculum at least. The chapter on Quantum Algorithms looks interesting though. Quantum Computing is a bit of a mystery to me anyways.

However, it's always good to review things one has already learned. For me this usually leads to insights I haven't had before and a deeper understanding. Learnings seems to be an iterative process.
May you find something interesting and in need of some help — ping me, I'll help you out. Skillset: LESS, HTML5, JS (Backbone.js), hardcore Java, Node.js, Hadoop, EC2.

Btw, I'm in Amsterdam, Netherlands; saw that you are from Eindhoven.
The problem I was trying to solve is of many people who use the same password and email everywhere, and who won't use a password manager or feel it's too complicated to install or use etc.

The email addresses are not as sensitive as passwords. Sure. If someone gets hold of all of them AND your master password you're in trouble. But same goes to getting your password manager file and the password for it.

The difference is you don't need a password manager software. You can store this list anywhere which is reasonably safe.
Bit of mudslinging going on about a "clipper chip." I was much too young to really know what was going on with this (can read up on it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip), but it's interesting to see that there were security concerns in 1996 similar to the ones we have in 2012. http://www.dolekemp96.org/agenda/issues/internet.htm
The only thing that turns me off to a product more than a poor website is poor English in the documentation. If English isn't your primary language, PLEASE get someone that speaks it fluently to either write your docs, translate your docs, or edit what you've written.
And actual hard questions that can't be answered by Googling just sit there with no answers. And then I win the Tumbleweed badge: http://stackoverflow.com/badges/63/tumbleweed

That kind of thing is the problem with SO, not the ones with 5k views and hundreds of votes.
Perhaps the following solutions are possible:

- Hardware fingerprinting with the canvas-tag ( http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~hovav/dist/canvas.pdf )

- Somehow check which assets are preferred downloads:

rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="144x144"
rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114"
rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="72x72"
Cyanogenmod also provides many features that aren't found in the stock ROMs, like the option to modify what on-screen buttons are available, modifications to the lock screen and home screen launcher, etc