skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only that, Ack's core strength over time will always evolve and depend on Perl's regular expression and text processing powers.

So re writing this in C will fundamentally mean endlessly growing a language which will look similar to the Perl implementation. Or a Perl DSL.

Not that its a bad thing, I find it interesting though. I would say you better start with a specification.
It's not a "requirement" if it's not actually required. I can guarantee you that if someone were to go into, say, silicon valley and find every single developer who got a job in a role which was advertised at some point using the word "rockstar" or "ninja" and then compared the average talent/skill of that pool of developers vs. developers as a whole there would not be much difference, if any.

Edit: I think I slightly misread your post, so you have my apologies.

It is much in the same vein as the silly "requirements" of x years in y, z years in w, etc. And a stack of degrees. Usually it's just a way to keep the walls high to weed out the truly unqualified.
Would you rather have Google track your visited pages, or allow your destination to know how you got there, personally identifying you?

Webmasters get aggregated data via Google analytics. If you're signed in to Google, they don't know your personal, individual referrer on landing on their site.
Presumably, this is an attempt to put Amazon's App Store on par with the Android Market, but having to swap in different Maps APIs for different devices seems like a big disincentive. If this mild fragmentation continues, and I can't rely on Google's APIs existing for a given build target, I'd prefer to just ignore the smaller and/or less likely to be useful platforms like Kindle rather than try to stick to the common interface.
Molamp - Discover your music
By "active" they must mean "actively collecting spam".
What a coincidence, I registered yesterday. Must have been me ;)

But seriously: WTF. It sucks so badly, that badly needs to be redefined. OK, it's much better then msn/live mail was... and redefining badly is perhaps a bit too harsh. But it still sucks.

Did anybody see what it looks like? It is very clean. Boring even. And in chrome the screen is not even 100% height in the mail overview. (And sending mail from google mail ended up in junk, but that may have been bad luck).

I do like the new stuff MS is trying though. I really hope their metro stuff on desktop and mobile will cause some movement in the 'almost the same for many years now'-interfaces from other manufacturers. In that case I might benefit from their experiments as well.
This looks fantastic. Could you by any chance update your PPA for quantal in the future?

EDIT: The last precise build works just fine, though.
The reason Outlook.com has 25 million users is that it's harvesting/transplanting users from the it's Hotmail user base.
Please keep in mind that Curiosity has not the capability to recognize biological molecules, only organic ones. That means that even if it finds current life, it will only be able to recognize the presence of organic compounds. That is why the "organic, not biological"; it may well be biological, but Curiosity cannot know.
Agreed.

Also, all this discussion about grammar is useless noise which should've been taken privately in order not to interrupt the flow of ideas that might improve the software.

So, please, in the future redirect grammar nitpicking efforts to a more appropriate place like StackExchange's English Language and Usage [1].

[1] http://english.stackexchange.com
If someone is causing substantial harm to you by stealing your WiFi then sue them.

If its just some dumb kid guessed your 'password' or aircracked it, the upgrade to a better WPA.

If you're being trolled by a leet hacker, then you've got bigger problems.

But please don't buy into that BS.
That's all true, but gasoline is actually a biological derivative as it's formed from the remains of living things. So your two examples actually both occur within the context of life.

We do know that organic molecules with non-biological origins do exist on other planets and even on asteroids. Titan has large quantities of organic compounds on it's surface that have non-biological origins, for example. It is believed that at one time Mars had a much thicker atmosphere and active geology which may have lead to the formation of organic compounds.
U.K. student strikes deal to avoid U.S. extradition over copyright charges
I really doubt that a speculation made on some remote conference, containing the words "perhaps" could mean the end of his career if it doesn't come true.

NASA is the agency that made a big prime time press conference for their "arsenic DNA" discovery not so long ago, which proved to be BS (and not well researched at that).
Pandoc a universal document converter
It's not a NASA director, it's the head of JPL. And it was abundantly clear from his comment of "perhaps Curiosity has found simple organic molecules" that he does not actually have any firm knowledge of what Curiosity has or has not found and is merely speculating along just like every other armchair scientist has been. And because that is abundantly clear to everyone with a gram of common sense, notably excluding those who want to hype this speculation into something it's not, whether or not it's actually an accurate prediction has about as much impact on his career at JPL as him speculating about whether or not it will rain in Pasadena tomorrow.
Probably a good idea, until you find a really good use for it that everyone wants, in which case Amazon will kill your app and steal your idea.

Sorry, just getting a bit cynical in my old age. Also a disclaimer; this warning is not aimed at/about Amazon in particular but to anyone making a business off an API to a popular web business.
Link to the path talk?
Enjoying the Internet of things? Thank your smartphone.
Not for a tuning app. But if the aim is to make a musician toolbox, then it's ok.
Right, I was actually thinking of synthetic hydrocarbons (for example motor oil), and thought gasoline was something people could relate to.

Methane on Titan would be a better example, and I actually initially used methane - but most people have experience with methane in the context of biology, too.
Organic molecules on mars are nothing new. Methane had been shown in very low concentrations using remote sensing (spectral) methods, but had not been detected directly on Mars so far by Curiosity. This might mean that it has now detected methane after all.

The reason why methane would be exciting is that it is broken down by UV radiation, so there must be some persistent source of it on the planet for a sustained presence.
I think gubarton is on right
i think gubarton is on right
Organic chemistry technically just means carbon chemistry.

In biology carbon is the backbone molecule for all life/biological chemistry, although there are theories that on other planets/ecosystems other similar chemicals, such as silicon or germanium (both able to form 4 bonds, like carbon - same column of the periodic table) may be able to fill the same role.

From the scientists perspective discovering 'organic molecules' is important because basically when you get down to the nuts and bolts of what carbon molecules are, the point is that on a planet with an environment such as mars', without 'biology' as an underlying mechanism for the generation of these molecules, there shouldn't be any, I.e. they will all get degraded by the environment without some process churning them out.

That doesn't mean it's the only way that they can be made, just a theory that we have for their source.

The presence of methane (organic and usually biological in origin) in the Martian atmosphere has long been suspected of being persistent (ir should otherwise escape/be broken down) because of renewal due to biological activity however that is far from clear and more likely scenarios put the gas escaping from geological processes under the surface as the cause.

The long and short is thus that the discovery of organic molecules may be a tantalising clue to the presence of biological processes, either now or at some time in the past, however there would likely remain many alternative hypotheses to rule out and it would be (extremely) unlikely that any announcement could point to the existence of a form of 'life' on mars due to the equipment they have available.

Interesting nonetheless
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Microsoft asking for engineer to work on a native compiler for C++ and C#
Windows 8 has sold 40M licenses in one month, outpacing Windows 7 upgrades
Finally, a chic replacement for tinfoil hats!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4511208
But I do underline, here and there.
Probably more useful in the role of attenuating other people's wifi APs and upping your own's s/n ratio, or even opening up entire channels for you.
I think you overstate how much performance hit you get by running things virtually in ex. KVM or Xen. With the first, it's almost negligible, as you don't have to run a paravirtualized kernel in order to gain full access, so for Linux you are basically just limited by other factors, such as disk IO long before anything else start to kick in.

I don't buy your argument about latency one bit, do you have ANY data to back up your statement? You know - Google and many other big players run huge virtual machine clusters, you'd think they wouldn't if that almost unmeasurable difference in latency had an impact.

I would run KVM on top of a machine, even if there was only to be one VM on it, just because moving, backing up or scaling up or down can easily be done. You can also easily migrate the host to another physical machine if you are experiencing hardware issues, or just upgrading your rig. And yes, you can migrate a running server, I'm doing it all the time.

And yes, you can snapshot and take a backup of a running server, but what goes on inside of MySQL, or other applications for that matter, has nothing to do with the consistency of the disk image. When you snapshot a disk image, you naturally don't know whats in RAM.
> Mr O'Dwyer will travel to the US voluntarily in the next few weeks for the deal to be formally ratified, it is understood.

IANAL but I don't think this will work as he and/or the UK justice thinks
Don't do that without an USB condom
You are right. But this "perhaps" is not the kind of "Perhaps it's that, perhaps it's something else". He is saying "perhaps" because they are still checking, double checking and extra checking the data. He says "It's preliminary data that must be checked (on) organic, not biological, molecules"
Touch Creator - Multitouch Authoring Tool
More details here http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/science/space/undisclosed-...
"Mr O'Dwyer will travel to the US voluntarily in the next few weeks for the deal to be formally ratified, it is understood"

Yeahhhhh he's not going to be coming back.
> I am not sure if it makes a difference that Ford wouldn't have the car anymore, they have the marginal cost. Asking for more than the marginal cost seems to be immoral to some.

It does, and the cases are not comparable. Leaving an empty space (plus marginal cost) where the car used to be requires the original owner to expend time and effort to replace it, and they have opportunity cost as well. None of that is true of the digital example. To be a fair comparison you'd have to leave an atom-for-atom identical replacement for the car (or more accurately, take an identical copy and leave the original) and I doubt as many people would judge that unethical.
Geek Researcher Spends Three Years Living With Hackers
@seats I've been a Slicehost customer for 3 years. Was very happy with the service until bought by Rackspace. Currently looking to migrate my servers to somewhere else, blah blah.

Any interest on your part in starting another VPS hosting company? I figure if you did it right once, you can do it again. You'd likely have a customer in me.
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Sigh. There is no difference between "organic" and "biological" molecules chemically. There is no "vitalism" force which makes a biological molecule special.

Also, Curiosity is quite capable of unambiguously detecting life on Mars, the question is just a matter of how likely it would be. Curiosity can detect a wide array of organic compounds, and if a sufficient quantity of the right variety of compounds were detected it could be near incontrovertible proof of life. For example, if you fed a pile of fine wood shavings into Curiosity's SAM instrument you would be able to look at the data and go "yup, this is absolutely, definitely, wood, it couldn't be anything else".

The difficulty is that realistically the amount of organic matter from some life form that is sampled by Curiosity could be fairly small and very difficult for the rover to get any useful data out of. That's why Curiosity was not designed as a "life detection mission", which would require other instruments. However, that doesn't mean Curiosity is incapable of detecting life, just that it would likely have to get fairly lucky to do so, and most of the evidence it would gather would likely be fairly circumstantial rather than definitive.

This is all rather speculative though as there has been no information provided on Curiosity's new findings, merely more speculation from people who don't know the findings (in this case the manager of JPL).
Thanks so much, I was staying with grep precisely because of the performance and perl dependency of Ack. Does the silver searcher compile on win32 as well?
Holy crap. Renaissance Technologies gives an annual return of 35% on average. That is quite amazing.
Small point that I frequently bring up with posts like these: Put the price on the marketing page - thats generally a first/second qualifier in my decision to purchase the app or not.

Looks nice though, good luck!
There is a chrome webstore link above that.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/undirect/dohbiijnj...
Why Bruce Byfield Prefers KDE Desktop and Software
Can you ditch your smartphone data plan for Wi-Fi?
"This is because the largest contributor to code quality is the coder"

Even if that's true, it doesn't support your claim.. The language still matter, even if it turns out that it's not the most important part.
Dropbox and Git
"Curiosity - ha spiegato Elachi oggi - non è dotato di strumenti per trovare tracce biologiche", ossia molecole necessarie o prodotte da forme di vita, "ma ha la capacità di riconoscere molecole organiche". Già questa sarebbe una novità importante: tali molecole, composti a base di carbonio, non provano di per sé la presenza di vita, ma senza di loro la vita non può svilupparsi.
It looks more like a joke... this can't be real.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.outlook.Z7
Ag supports the same regexes as Ack. I use the PCRE library. I only call pcre_study once, and I use the new PCRE-JIT[1] on systems where it's available. These tweaks add up to a 3-5x speedup over Ack when regex-matching.

1. http://sljit.sourceforge.net/pcre.html
Micheal Abrash on resolution in upcoming VR headsets
Feel free to correct me as I am too lazy to test this, but I do not think that is the most fair comparison. I would do

ack -i mbr > /dev/null

I think that starts up perl once, not once per file. If so timing should be much better.

ack searches recursively by default; I don't think it can search non-recursively (why would you want to? That is what grep is for)

Also: try comparing grep and ack in a directory tree that has 'garbage' such as .svn or .git directories or .o files.
10GB via Gmail celebrate.Anyone thought how much time it takes to upload.
I work near one of these and a couple of us decided to investigate purely out of curiosity one lunch time earlier this year.

We used a netbook with a fresh Windows XP on it and nothing of value and destroyed the disk afterwards.

It had on it some inane chart mp3s, a low quality DVD rip, a text file with 1337speak in it and what looked like a Ubuntu ISO. I doubt anyone else had actually plugged anything into it and these were probably the originator's files.

I can see the attraction and purpose of it, but the idealisms probably won't ever be realised with human nature as it stands. Someone will trash or break it and someone else will upload something nasty to it.

As for security, all these probably carry the Internet clap so don't go sticking them in anything of value (sounds like a certain human problem as well).
MySQL Commands (I Always Forget)
Useful MySQL commands I always forget...
I'm not sure what you consider a "large" chamber, but formlabs is supposed to start shipping in April.

http://formlabs.com/
Great. The computer equivalent of a glory hole.
> And that VM migration is also nonsense. You are running, say, a MySQL instance. Can you migrate it without a shutdown and then taking a snapshot of an FS? No.

Rubbish. I do this regularly.
EnterpriseDB cranks up Postgres database scalability
Using the .NET Micro Framework C# can already run pretty close to the metal - so why not?

See https://tindie.com/shops/nwazet/netduino-go/ for an accessible example set up.
If you don't know how to do it by hand, then puppet is just going to confuse you. Better to keep it simple when you're new at something.
While I love Linode (It's my VPS host of choice) it's always bothered me they don't do any kind of volume discount - ie: the cost of 8 GB is just 32 times that of the 512 MB.

I was hoping this change would rectify that, wishful thinking I suppose.
Is this some kind of job security on NASA's part? The unspoken goal of these mars missions has always been to find life, so why not make sure the rover has every possible piece of equipment to do so. Unless they want to send another one. They certainly have good arguments for the pitch now.
Graphic: Practicing for cyberwar
If they found organic molecules in the very first test then it says something. The size of sample was very small and from an average patch of crust.
VPN ban makes for nervy times behind Great Firewall
The difference is that we have found (indirectly) many organic molecules, even in deep space: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_interstellar_and_circum... (most of the molecules with more than 4 atoms are organic)

So, finding some organic molecules in Mars is totally expected. On the other hand, finding a any proof of life in Mars would be amazing, but as far as I understand this "report" is only an uniformed speculation.
Thanks for that link, looks like a real steal.

Do you have one of these? Can you answer some questions for me, as I'm just about ready to impulse buy!

Is it passively cooled? Is the "embedded raid" an actual RAID or some junk software emulation (I'll probably use ZFS anyway, and that should be used w/out hardware RAID)?

EDIT

Not passively cooled :( Full review here: http://www.silentpcreview.com/HP_Proliant_MicroServer
What they're talking about is the difference between measuring a dead organism (looking at organic molecules, something Curiosity is capable of doing) on the one hand and performing experiments to detect active biological activity of a live organism on the other hand. Look at the experiments that the Viking Landers carried for examples of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_biological_experiments
Show HN: I built a mockup/prototype/wireframe editor in ten weeks
Hi HN,
After watching a lot of Show HN's here, it's finally my turn to show something. This is the first real project I have shipped, so it is extra special to me.

For those who will inevitably ask why I made yet another mockup editor I covered it on our blog (http://blog.mocktailsapp.in/why-build-yet-another-mockup-editor-tm). Not all the features mentioned in that post have been implemented yet. As such Mocktails is pre-beta software and very minimal. It does not even have user accounts or any actual server side component at all for that matter (yet)!

Our intention is to build Mocktails into a first-rate mockup editor within the next six months. Please visit, provide your feedback and spread the word.

Thanks!

Links:
Mocktails - http://www.mocktailsapp.in
Blog - http://blog.mocktailsapp.in/
This Music Video Was “Filmed” Entirely With Instagram
As I understand it he made a deal with US, not UK, authorities.
Worked off that to make one that uploads to s3:

https://github.com/RoboTeddy/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/screen...

- uses https, to keep url and screenshot secret

- uses long random filenames to prevent enumeration

- copies url to clipboard before upload starts, so you can paste it immediately
I'm recommending all three. In most companies, your boss and possibly your team will pressure you to devote 100% of your available energy to the project that you've been assigned to, and let all of your long-term or external interests slide "for now". Don't. It's a classic newbie mistake.

You need to figure out what efforts are actually important and will keep you in good standing, but also sneak away time for your own career goals. This will (a) ensure progress that's independent of local political winds and (b) give you a head start if things go to hell (which they can easily do, because even if you have a good boss, there might be a problem with his boss-- or boss^2, or boss^3) and you end up looking for another job.
I just noticed this feature today, I kept wondering why I was replying to sections of emails!
Microsoft's Outlook.com Android app released today: It sucks
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How to get startup ideas? - Paul Graham
Agree. As I was looking into various ebook production tools that are commandline based, Sphinx and pandoc struck me as two very good solutions.
the outlook.com web app is nice, but the Android app is complete junk,, looks like something they just put together in few days.. makes me wonder why they even bother making it in the first place...
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Romanian Versions of Google, Yahoo Homepages Defaced by Algerian Hacke
Presuming that you've got them in return for doing some dev work (the subject of this article), when the tax man audits the company that you did the work for, and asks them to explain where they got the website/app/software developed when they don't have inhouse developers one of two things will happen. Either they won't give the tax man your details and invite the rath of the tax man, or more likely they will give them your details and how much was paid. You see, even if your customer keeps the transactions completely off the books, there is usually something to show for it, particularly if we are talking any kind of volume, and the tax man is very very used to looking for those kinds of signs.

> and no tax to be paid

There is tax to be paid, legally speaking, its just a question of whether or not you get caught for not paying it. Just like the tax man investigates people selling stuff on ebay, when sites like localbitcoins become more popular they will start investigating them as well. You may just find that the person you're meeting to sell your bitcoins to turns out to be a tax investigator.

AS with all criminal enterprises (a harsh label, but that's what tax avoidance is), you may get away with it. Or you may not.
I'm ready to bet dollars to pennies that in a few years, this will be their primary market.
Does Every Startup Need to be Super-Successful?
No, but I obsessively scroll down so that the paragraph that I'm reading touches the top of the viewport. The last few paragraphs become a pain of course.
Show HN: Custom Logo Land - Logos for your Startup
I agree that there is such a thing a too small, something the backpacker community seems to eschew [see Tynan article above]. We've been travelling for 6 months with 40L packs, we're consistently wishing they were about 5-10L larger.

However, we make due and are always grateful when we see a fellow backpacker with an enormous bag.
The CPU priority may be considered a volume discount.
Mono already compiles to native code with LLVM:
http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:Runtime:Documentation:LLVM
Already appeared on HN about 4 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=318537.