skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks very nice. Good job! I think 1.99 is a good price for the app as it allows you to drop it to 0.99 when you want to boost the sales.
>I immediately noticed this feature due to the high number of discards

the same here.
The Jeff Bezos School of Long-Term Thinking
It seems to me that disappointment in the current state of campaign finance reform and interest in how a campaign dealt with the current reality are not mutually exclusive.
On ThinkPads the bright yellow USB ports are ones that are powered even when the computer is turned off. You can use these as charging ports for phones and other devices. Usually only a subset of the ports are powered like this and marked yellow, so this isn't a feature primarily designed to make it easy to plug stuff in correctly.
500px launches new iPhone app
From the article: "The company has deliberately avoided filing patents on its heat exchanger technology to avoid details of how it works - particularly the method for preventing the build-up of frost - becoming public."

I would think that for something like this, the patent system would actually work fine. Anybody who tries to make this is going to be located in the US, Canada, Western Europe, or Japan. It's not like they're going to make cheap ones in China and India, and if they did it would be easily correctable with the WTO. What am I missing?
Shel Kaphan

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/meet-shel-kaphan-amazoncom-empl...

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/shel-kaphan/0/781/7b6
I've looked through old comments a few times, and my opinion of my comment quality had only a very weak correlation to the number of upvotes my comments receive.

Specifically, comments that I thought made only small contributions to the conversation received the same number of votes on average as those that I thought were much better comments.
Jason Davies (frequent D3 contributor) started a standalone stats library: https://github.com/jasondavies/science.js/

Originally intended to be part of D3, he's now set it up as its own library.
Hardly. Obvious camera artefacts caused by radiation.
East/west africa are also very cheap. have been away for 4 months and spent close to $500 a month in Rwanda, Kenya and Sierra Leone. Only costs are flights really.
I should add that due to RSI I use the mouse as little as possible, preferably using a tiling window manager like awsome or xmonad, and vimperator for Firefox.
> so only for launches to orbit

Isn't that our biggest challenge right now? I like how dismissive you are of it, like we have somehow overcome that and are now on our way to Mars any day now.

If someone was able to reduce the cost of going into orbit by as little as 10% that would be a MASSIVE achievement. Getting out of the atmosphere is still a massively costly, logistical, and dangerous challenge.
Indeed. The capitalisation was what threw me originally, but I understand that the title isn't wrong - hence the use of "unfortunate" rather than "incorrect".
I was using the analogy of the composability of Unix tools as a role model for how to think about the segregation of roles in an object-oriented system. I agree with you that the ways in which we can couple these objects together through their interfaces is the core of what we're designing. I think this philosophy as an analogy (especially as outlined by ESR) is applicable to a wide variety of things beyond even programming. Interesting to think about, anyway. Thanks for your thoughts.
Science.js Scientific and statistical computing in JavaScript
Don't know why you're being downvoted - I thought the exact same thing. It looks like it's from 2002, not 2012.
This is great. One of the reasons I've always liked Phusion Passenger is because of its toolchain. They use a similar method (inspecting smaps) to report Private Dirty RSS for Apache processes and Passenger processes:

https://github.com/FooBarWidget/passenger/blob/master/bin/pa...

The Passenger utility is difficult to extracate from their package though, because it has several separate class dependencies. It's good software writing technique for a library, but it doesn't make it terribly useful for a shell script.
Techcrunch article: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/28/gorgeous-photos-in-your-poc...
If you use PCRE, you do NOT support the same regexes as Ack.

"Perl Compatible" isn't really Perl compatible, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCRE for details.
did you start learning it by yourself (i.e, watching videos or reading books) or did you attend devbootcamp first?
Though Paris has surprisingly large avenues for an European city because of Haussman's renovations.
My predicament exactly. I have heard good things about Xbox Music, but I haven't given it a look yet.
It's not strange at all. Most colleges are that detached from reality.
A really amusing writeup of a similar situation can be found on metafilter: http://www.metafilter.com/78177/PLEASE-UNSUBSCRIBE-ME-FROM-T...
Patent Wars: Nokia seeks sales block of BlackBerry devices in US
Ask HN: What is your opinion on dojo framework?
Personally, I've had experience with other frameworks/libraries such as: jquery, extjs, yui, mootools, among others, but I'm really having a bad time learning and using dojo. I consider myself not so bad when it comes to javascript, but dojo has been quit a challenge for me.

So, It would be nice to know what are your thoughts on dojo, and perhaps give some advice or share some good resource (beyond the basics contained in the docs).

For instance, for me, the only effective way to deal with problems and actually learn dojo has been reading the code.
You're missing the point that a competitor could build it in direct violation of the patent, go into space, get all of the glory, while they tie this company up in court for tens of years and cost them millions of dollars. This company might eventually win but by then the other company has become massively successful.

This has happened before. It will happen again.
It's coming soon and much more: http://angel.co/sense, http://www.senseplatform.com. Three of us, full time, for over a year.
Report: Mobile hardware will be a $500-billion industry by 2015
Show HN: We built a simple way to accept payments through Stripe
What happens when nearly all of the 21 million Bitcoins are mined[1]? Will transactions not happen anymore?

[1] - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_Currency_Supply#Projec...
That is true, but it is still the reality of how we code Ruby today. (also most editors are pretty good at navigating this)

One of the original beauties of Rails was it's pragmatic approach. It took a couple of key patterns and bent it into a less pure yet easy to use way of writing maintainable code.

I'd argue that the directory structure and conventions behind it was DHH's main innovation here. Of course Rails own code base was quite ugly out of necessity before the 3.0 rewrite to handle this.

I think the current trend to use patterns blindly comes from the fact that there are so many large Rails legacy apps now. We need better ways of organizing the code. Yet we shouldn't break what made Rails good in the first place or we end up with the Ruby equivalent of EJB's.
Imagine this in a country with a lot of bike traffic... 10 ~ 20 flashy green bikes on the road would decrease safety, not increase it.
Some comatose brains remain active, but can't enable conscious actions
Start with "g++ --help=warnings | grep "\-W" | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq", sort out the ones that don't apply to C++, add in "-pedantic" and "-fdiagnostic-show-option", then (sparingly!) disable spurious warnings via the "GCC diagnostic ignored" pragma, or just outright removal of the warning option (the first candidate that comes to mind is -Waggregate-return). Do be aware that if you are using libraries which trigger warnings, you can turn off warning checking for them with "-isystem" (but make sure to also take "-Wsystem-header" out of your list of warnings). This won't prevent every gun pointed at foot incident, but it's a good start.
Segmentation. When I'm not working, I stay away from a PC but I stay connected using my phone.
The way they chose to present this delay is really infuriating - they have doubled the time to delivery from when the kick starter campaign ended, and made the product worse (a heavier screen farther away from your head).

I understand how hard it is to predict a timeline for a product in development, but I would expect an apology instead of "We’re happy to be able to finally announce that the Oculus Rift developer kits will begin shipping in March 2013."

I am still excited to get mine in March, but this attitude from occulus makes me question weather it is worthwhile to spend much time developing for it.
Help us to unfuck online publishing
Amazon Appstore hits Japan
Why is Occam's Razor true?
I'm looking for an alternative to both, after having left Spotify after their Facebook dealings and because Rdio has no clue what they're doing when it comes to design, UX, their library and their suggestions. On top of that, their feedback form uses your real first and last name when you make a complaint and doesn't allow an alias.
Great call, I forgot to include that. After what seemed like an infinite number of lost battles with teachers yelling at me for drawing in class and forcing me to take notes in list form, I finally accepted and truly saw that I wasn't stupid just because my learning style differed from most (I learn best by drawing what I hear or read). It took me maybe 10 years to realize this.
That, plus one weird trick that computer science professors hate!

Why is this spam on HN? Why is this person credible to ask $10 for his book, sight unseen? There are plenty more credible sources with stories to share. OP could perhaps be credible, if he wrote and shared a bit first.
Isn't it illegal to jam cell phone reception deliberately ?
We believe Helium's target audience isn't the HN community, but it'd be good to get your thoughts about it anyways.

It's basically an easy way to add a shopping cart and check-out flow to a website. Think of the small business that's not tech-savvy but wants to sell a few products (or a service) on their site.

Design was by Michael Yuan, the same designer that designed Divvyshot.
Help me fund my RPi Robotic Shield on circuits.io
RubyMine now supports debugging for RubyMotion apps
Syncable comes out of beta as Morse, an easy way to store email contact info
> @devbootcamp graduate

Thought this was going to be about someone who was self-taught in under a year until I saw that part.

Dev Bootcamp is an amazing program and pretty much guarantees you a job if you make it through (at least from what I've heard). But it's only in San Francisco, and they take what, 20 people every few weeks? Not exactly a path that everyone can follow...

Edit: Just realized this was posted by the author, so here's my concern: Considering the fact that you went through a fairly intense 9-week program taught by several experts, how can we be confident your book is useful to beginners who lack that option? The excerpt on your page seems more like a promo for programming/entrepreneurship -- it doesn't tell much about the book or add to your credibility as someone who could teach people to program.
I can't address submissions, but I can however address posts:

The unfortunate problem with this is that often, there is no direct link between comment quality and the amount of karma you receive for posting it as several walls must first be breached before your comment is even seen.

Firstly, the quality of the article in question is the most important outside factor, if it is a fluff piece, apart from several posts about it being a fluff piece there will rarely be a fair amount of visitors to the comments section, whereas well written, high quality articles tend to drag a crowd, curious to know what their peers have to say of the subject in question.

Secondly, the position of your comment in the comments section can be a massive boundary, you will find that often, the comment at the top has the most replies, this has a direct correlation to it's position of course, people tend to read what the see first (and to reach the top, it must have been up-voted, leading you to believe it will add value to the thread) although, the more cynical side in me wants to believe that some people post on high placed comments simply to farm karma with their yes-man comments.

After being seen, there is the length of your comment, people bore easily and if your comment isn't interesting (to the person reading in particular) from the first instance then they will move on without properly absorbing your opinion.

After gaining the initial traction to be read, then and only then is the quality of your comment going to become a variable in the equation of how much karma you will receive.
Moving Varnish caching logic into PHP with the cURL VMOD
What if we are the replicated life sent out to colonise the universe. It would be hard to self-replicate knowledge and especially knowledge of our own origins over such distances and tiny cracks.

#justsayin

I am also not too sure the maths adds up either.

Lets assume that this "spread everywhere" civilisation does exist, and it fortuitously started evolving just after the Big Bang, and neatly at the "centre" of the universe (i.e. somewhere that is not next door to us, nor the furthest point possible from us)

Lets also assume it took them roughly 4Bn years to evolve to the Promethean level (age of the Earth) and so have been spreading for past 10 BN years.

And (yet) another assumption - they spread uniformly outwards, travelling at speed of light (!) but taking a recharge period to, I don't know, consume the resources of a planet, build a few houses, before spreading again.

So, with a observable bubble of 46 bn light years, and 10^^23 stars in it, I think the following calculation works

* there are 10^^23 stars [1], spread evenly over 46 bn light year diameter bubble

* they atarted their migration to us (to everywhere really) 10bn years ago

* between the "them" and us there should therefore be a even distribution over 23 bn light years or ~ 10^^23 - 10^^9 = 10^^14 stars.

* given a "pause" of 100 years at each star system and light speed travel in between that is still 23 bn years plus (100 x 10^^14) 10^^16 years or a ridiculous number that I have probably got wrong but is clearly older than the age of the universe many times over.

I know this can be tweaked any which way, but if we are looking at the pan-dispersal approach, even simple lower bound cases make it highly unlikely that a civilisation spreading enormously fast and comprehensicvely throughout the universe will still "never" get here for any value of "never"

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#Size.2C_age.2C_content...
> Did anybody see what it looks like? It is very clean. Boring even.

I'm sorry that you don't like clean interfaces? The modern Microsoft interface aesthetic is minimal by design. It's not something that everyone loves.

> And in chrome the screen is not even 100% height in the mail overview.

That's because you don't have anything in your mailbox. It will expand as you get more mail. Gmail has the same behavior. You just happen to have a bunch of stuff sitting in your Gmail inbox.
Hey, this looks impressive.
Engineering for a Magical Experience
Indeed. I think some people underestimate how much variation there is in culture and lifestyles in this country.
Yet the refactored example is still showing application domain logic being built within the web framework. For simple applications that are only ever going to be delivered via the web and only ever rely on one particular web framework this might be ok. That being said, I'd like to see movement away from this back to using web frameworks or anything else simply as the communication platform between your application and the user.
I think these biologists are betting on "not yet".
New Unix implementation -Stallman 1983
very cool & useful
Cost was probably one of the main factors. Remember, these were sold for $300 including tax and shipping (or less depending on Kickstarter reward level), and that money also has to pay for R&D. A better screen is likely the first priority for the consumer version.
At the risk of sounding like a troll, honest question here. Why wasn't the CVV part of this page? Seems like a lot of headaches and bad press could have been avoiding by just actually including it (and you know, less fraudulent donations).

Great work by the way with the optimizations. As patio11 noted, add a 0 or two to your rate and point people to this blog post.
You're projecting your insecurities on someone else's attempt to understand.
Also worth mentioning - they announced this to backers in an email titled: "Update on Oculus Rift Developer Kit Technology, Shipping Details".

It is easy to skim the email without realizing they are announcing a delay at all. This is the kind of statement that I would expect from AT&T, not a crowdfunded project.
Welcome to 2008? Facebook has been letting sponsors attach your friends' faces/comments in ads for a long time.
Yup, free knife sharpening is a common perk. I've also seen generous policies on repairing the grip etc - not because those areas are prone to breaking, but they expect you to use the knife for a long time and it's a way to stand behind their product.
Firefox needs to grow up, or be suspended altogether. IMHO, its horribly behind. Technically behind on WebKit, behind usability wise on almost any browser.

Yesterday I ran into a 5 year old bug in Firefox (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405761) that required me to write Firefox-specific JavaScript workarounds. I used to accept that from IE, but from Firefox, never.
I'm already using it. Totally rocks!
Why Image-Based Design Rules the Web
A basic nuclear rocket—the kind we could build today—can reach 10 kilometers per second. That's gets a robotic factory across the galaxy in 1.5 billion years. The oldest habitable stars are considerably older than that.

Top quality propulsion can shrink the time to 50 million years, which means somebody can colonize the galaxy faster than dinosaurs can evolve into talking monkeys.

So there has been plenty of time for robotic probes to colonize the galaxy. So where are they?
Being on a keto diet doesn't mean you must eat a lot of meat. A keto diet is perfectly compatible with vegetarian\vegan diets.
I would think that a good auto responder would not send a response to the same email address more than once a day (or some other small number).
Not to defend the current campaign status quo, but when comparing the US to Canada it is worth pointing out the population of the US is ten times that of Canada.
Agreed. The fact that we managed to get a versatile, standardised cable is a miracle and one I'm grateful for. But just because PS2 was bad, doesn't mean USB couldn't be better.

Sadly, every micro USB cable needs a "normal" (Male A) USB connector at the other end.
I didn't mean to be dismissive about it, just trying to point out the major differences in how SpaceX's design is supposed to work (if it does work) and how this is supposed to work. And I agree, just being able to send them to orbit in a much cheaper way, would already achieve 90% of our current space goals.
Google Mail feature: Add notes to messages
"Increasing human longevity has no meaning, it is ecological nonsense."

This is an interesting quote from the article given by another biologist Stefano Piraino, not the main focus of the article. If we did find the secret to immortality, it would be stupid to give it to everyone. In that case, who gets it?
Ars asks: Help us max out Google Fiber
I love this: the $1.1B Obama campaign uses nearly the same stack as my single page personal website.
Test your staging server with production traffic with Parallel Proxy
My first thought was a metamaterial.
Imagine the anthropologist studying American human female reactions on preinstalled social prejudice.

I am just promoting the understanding of sex differences to enhance equity and excellence in social science.
It would br nice if Google added spelling correction, which they already do on search results, to auto complete.
Seems like a much better investment than college, imo. Unless your passion drives you elsewhere.
Cheers! After looking at it more (I don't have experience donating to political parties), I realized (I may be wrong) that alot of information are actually mandatory and affect your taxes(?) down the road. Was confused why all necessary info required, like addresses and employment information. (When I was think of 1 page, I was think just donation amount + CC # and CVV)

But I look forward to reading any numbers of before and after you share!
I love that they support GIFs :D
You might be able to use this engine to get in and out of orbit, and than use a traditional rocket engine for the space travel itself.
Maybe the principals are easily applied in a just different enough to not violate patent way.

Maybe they don't want to spend the time or money in court instead of on getting to market.

Maybe they know big aerospace companies will be able to out spend them on lawyering/lobying and so will loose.

Maybe they believe their time to make profit > than the duration of patent protection.
Makes sense.. Didn't they hire the CEO from OnLive?
Ask HN: At what Karma Cliff can you down-vote a post?
I'm not really the down-voter type and always feel there ought to be a reason behind everything. Nonetheless, there are times when you need to down-vote a post.
Hey - I work for a company that brings authors to speak to readers based on sales. It's like the groupon model. If x number of people agree to buy the book, the author will come speak. This might help get people into the store. Incidentally, we're having an event in New York next month featuring a book about hacking! Anyway, we're called Togather and you can find us on the internet. You can email me tom (at) togather (dot) com if you have any questions. GOOD LUCK!
A sharp operator would figure out how to get a newsgroup going to NYU off of this incident. I betcha that could be monetized via local ads. :-)
I highly recommend "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" by Steven Levy
Varying your Reading Materials
AWS re:Invent Live Stream
Or you could view this as a fascinating case study regardless of all that. I'm personally horrified that Obama got re-elected but this post is cool as hell and I'm absolutely fascinated by this work and appreciate that Kyle took a few hours to compose all of this and share it.
As much as I love what they're trying to do here, I can't help but feel that they need to work on some of the basics first. For example, if the parts you're using don't already have a footprint, etc set up on circuits.io you're pretty much screwed. Design a pad by inputting vertex coordinates? Seriously? It would be much better if you could choose a general shape and tweak the parameters from there – vertex coordinates should be left as a last resort.

Props to the team, though. I hope this gets traction.
for a moment, the animated glitter gif made me wonder if this was to become the next myspace. but the awesome stuff ppl have been doing with it fortunately proved me wrong. :)
Transaction fee's should support the network.
Thanks for the write-up.

Too bad that there were no checks in place to determine who is actually contributing. For that reason, many non-citizens were able to contribute, some from questionable places, and even Osama ibn Laden had posthumously donated, receiving congratulation later from Barrack's wife thanking him for his donation [1].

Since Romney was rejecting contributions that could not be confirmed as of where they came from, this race in terms of fund-rising was skewed from a get-go. Imagine a marathon where everyone runs on their feet and you -- against the rules -- are using a bicycle. Guess who's gonna win?

[1] http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obama-accepts-osama-bin-laden-don...

For those who hate googling:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10...

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/10/08/exposin...

http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=76534...