skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was trying this briefly last night. It does have 3-way-merge when you integrate it with your source control tool, however I couldn't seem to find a way to use this functionality when you're just using it standalone.
We're doing for payments what MP3s did for CDs
What should an engineer be thankful for?
Newton Papers
World Bank envisions a +4°C future
JQuery plugin to ease the writing of accented or rare characters
Altria Group Surpassing Philip Morris International
Many tobacco experts though that the main reason for splitting Philip Morris into two companies, Philip Morris International (PMI) and Altria Group
I had a quick play around with it, and major locations seem more accurate, but shops and smaller locations are still off (e.g. in the middle of a road or the wrong side) here in Dublin.

At least the Zoo is in the right part of the city... http://i.imgur.com/4bZWP.png vs http://i.imgur.com/eby5R.png
A lot of people did exactly this when the story broke on Slashdot.

http://slashdot.org/story/08/01/08/1920215/nsi-registers-eve...
p^2 mod 40 being one of a small set of numbers is related to quadratic reciprocity.

All odd numbers have a p^2 mod 40 value that is 1, 9 or 25.

The margin isn't big enough for my proof, but only odd numbers with a multiple of 5 will have a p^2 mod 40 value that is 25. Once you remove the case for p=5 (by ignoring the 'inner ring' of numbers where p^2 < 40) then the only valid residues for odd numbers (that aren't multiples of 5) are 1 or 9, but, more importantly this is true whether they are prime or not.
Fraud prevention will never be free. Neither will payments.
Gnumeric Crunches Numbers Like a Pro
" The prices of gene sequencing and 3D printing are both experiencing Moore's Law-like declines. What new things will we be able to do in the new world we'll have in a few years?"

An OkCupid for best genetic matching?
As usual, an excellent and well articulated essay from pg.

Just a couple of thoughts on the paragraph about finding non-organic ideas.

If you're a developer and in need of an idea, I couldn't recommend highly enough to attend industry conferences (in any industry). Over the day or two you are there, you will hear speakers tell you the problems they face, hear which are the repeat questions asked from the audience, and have a chance to talk with delegates about their biggest problems and why they are attending (what are they trying to find out). I rarely leave a conference without several obvious pain points facing the industry jotted down. If one of them inspires you, sounds interesting, feels familiar etc. then that could be your start-up idea. Most of these could be 'eaten by software' I'm sure, so they would be ripe for a developer to tackle. You could even find your domain-specific co-founder there too - 2 birds, 1 stone!

Another place to look (and possibly cheaper and involving no travel) would be sites like twitter, quora, linkedin etc. where large numbers of users can ask each other questions or complain about some pain they have. You could look for trends and see if that sparks any interest.
I like 'Nokia Maps' much better than 'Here'.
What Is The Easiest Version Of Linux To Learn?
Feds to take a closer look at patent trolls with patent trolls
Typographic scale based on the Periodic Table
Agreed. The entire map view (including location dot, paths and markers) seems to be rendered in half resolution on Retina devices.

Public transport in London seems to work very well, and the Underground overlay is a nice feature. I will be using this for the time being.
Right now I'm currently 21 years old and I've had quite a few organic ideas pop up before which I took the time to brainstorm a little about, sometimes even creating a little website for them.
I've shown to many of my friends my aspiring entrepreneur-ish spirit and many of them support my ideas, but I'm still at a standstill over here.
I personally feel that the main problem I'm going through is that the college I chose to go to is subpar, to the level where it does not produce many people with "dreams." Everyone around me are just lazy people who like to party, so unless I spend all day trying to go to other campuses to talk to people, I find that I rarely get to experience an intelligent conversation about tech, career goals, and whatnot. Has anyone ever encountered this and have any advice for me?
I go to Cal Poly Pomona and have many smart friends (from highschool) but they go to schools like UC Berk, UCI, UCLA, etc.
Proprietary Linux extensions reportedly violate the GPL
It's not as though they are being treated as equivalent, they are just potential explanations for this kind of behavior (carrying an improvised electrical device, which would make a viable timer for an explosive device, through airport security)

First they establish if he has any malicious intent (i.e. is he a terrorist?), then they establish if he has a legitimate non-malicious reason for such odd behavior (i.e. is he an activist?)

Turns out this guy is just a little unhinged.
You bought it, you own it, you should be able to do what you want with it
"Hauntingly Beautiful" ... It's interesting to me how the feet on each leg is designed to catch the wind. You might not get the torque needed to generate electricity, but the gentle continuous "nudge" needed to roll across the desert can come from any direction.
I mostly - for seniors - look in the experience and what projects the person did. I don't believe any skills in a skill section.

This is the first screening, followed by a programming task during the the telephone interview, interview with me, interviews with developers, followed by practical programming work.

So yes it is important to get through the CV screen (have experience), but it's only the first step.

Side note: Hiring for Junior positions is different, for me the CV here is mostly irrelevant.
The GPL strictly dictates what kind of "extra terms" are allowed. If the author attempts to add non-allowed terms then the GPL itself is invalidated, according to its own statements.
The numerical prefix repeats commands in vim, so '5gqq' means '5 times, format line'. The default format will wrap the text to an acceptable level, and 5 lines encompasses the 3 text lines plus the whitespace. The command 'gqq' here is a single one, you can read more with ':help gqq'.

8G moves to line 8, and =G is a command combined with a movement. The = command by default will remove any indentation on these lines, and the 'G' movement means 'to the end of the file'. This will remove the indentation from the 2nd and 3rd lines/paragraphs and the signature.

gg means 'move to top' and >G is another action/movement. > indents lines, and G means 'to the end', so this indents every line by one.

Hope that helps.
Planet ‘devoured in secret’ by its own sun
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There are certainly similarities, but civil engineering when compared to software engineering methodologies is closer to waterfall. And waterfall isn't the most efficient way to turn out software.
That's awesome! I wish you had been my music teacher when I was that age. Keep it up; you are giving a valuable gift to those children.
Oprah endorses surface - on her ipad
Jail Looms for Man Who Revealed AT&T Leaked iPad User E-Mails
There are probably interesting intros out there, but for what it's worth, the standard text book on computer networks is Tanenbaum: http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Networks-5th-Andrew-Tanenbaum...
I was going to say, 'Is risk management free?'. However, there are other ways to make money than transaction fees. For instance, merely having people hold money in their accounts allows them to earn interest on it.
Your Next Android Phone May Come With An Ubuntu PC
HTC’s Peter Chou: We Don’t Pay Apple $6-$8 per Android Phone
There is Bitcoin already, and the companies dealing with transactions already have to charge 1% to sustain themselves. How does this company make money then? And this is only for iPhones?
Yeah for scientific computing specifically i was more expecting to see concerns like ensuring intermediate working state is persisted to a durable medium and facilitating restarting from a working state "dump" instead of from the top each time.
I guess I'm lucky in that respect. I have no problem finding jobs so far, but exactly zero recruiters have ever contacted me.

EDIT: I'm sure I've jinxed it now, and this message will cause recruiters to start emailing me.
Unveiling Play 2.1 JSON API Bonus: JSON Inception with Scala 2.10 macros
Ordinary Skill in the Art (2001)
This one actually has poorer satellite imagery than Apple Maps where I live.
I'm sure there's a book you can pick up but the most pleasant way of learning is solving a problem you have. Get a decent router, maybe something a little beefy like Netgear WNDR3800[1] so that you're not too constrained in what you can do with it, install OpenWRT on it and make your life a little easier.

Maybe you need a VPN to your company, or university? Unless it's some high security stuff, set up a client on the router and route the traffic through it to selected networks.

Or maybe your ISP doesn't offer IPv6 yet and you'd like to use it? Get a tunnel from SixXS[2], or HE[3].

Set up a file server, bridge your network with your parents' network, and let them use it. Keep their backups for example.

Create a completely separate open wifi network if you live in a densely populated area. You can also route its traffic through some other host, if your ISP doesn't look kindly on that sort of thing.

Learning without goals in mind seems a little tedious.

[1] http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wndr3800
[2] https://www.sixxs.net/main/
[3] http://www.tunnelbroker.net/
When doing a google image search on a screen shot of the sign, I found a couple of matches:

http://www.travbuddy.com/Kulyab-travel-guide-1325354/photos#...
http://serious.tumblr.com/post/39645197/beware-of-landmines-...

Could it be that the sign is in Tajik and not Russian? (I speak neither of those languages, so I wouldn't know…)
..cool new language

...if only it allowed monkey patching and, bien sur, refinements to make them "manageable" :(

</sarcasm>
From the support page (https://dropletpay.com/support/) ...

"What happens if I want to take my money back out?

To take your money out of Droplet to your personal bank account you need to have Direct Debit enabled. This is a feature that’s coming soon, so during Beta you’ll need to contact us and we’ll send you the funds by bank transfer within five working days."

In other words the only way right now to take your money out is via a wire transfer? ... along with the possibly hefty bank charges associated with it.
Accepting cash is free. With cash fraud prevention is unnecessary.
They state:

Droplet is the first app of its kind that lets you send payments completely outside of the traditional banking and credit card systems. It’s a bit like cash – but digital and mobile. You don’t need to connect your phone to your bank account to use Droplet. Instead you just top up your account via your phone, a bit like you’d draw money out of a cash point.
https://dropletpay.com/about/

What does that mean? Is that a new implementation of chaumian e-cash?
It sounds like you are pretty savvy at getting hired. I am a computer science student who is graduating this December, and I would love to get hired as soon as possible! Do you have any tips for someone like myself? The only experience I have is interning at a very small shop where I build custom Google maps for other schools and companies.
The OP clearly has skills in page-layout as well as music, but maybe not software development. Some musician/programmer combination (maybe yourself?) is needed to produce what you describe.
Here's a link about the mine sniffing rats out of Tanzania developed by APOPO. Supposedly cheaper and more effective than dogs.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/09/07/herorats.dete...
Agreed. Ironically the only tolerable music theory book I read was "music theory for dummies". Actually learned something from that before falling asleep.

Then again, mashing 3 or 4 memorised chords on an old korg trinity gets you quite far without having to know what you are doing :)
Apple has been held by many hedge funds, it is known in investment industry terms as a "Hedge Fund hotel" see-

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-19/september-30-hedge-...

Reggie Middleton has done some good analysis of Apple-

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-10-09/right-time-m...
Another reason is added security. The joint registrar/hosting companies allow you to use the same account/password to access and update the site that you use to transfer and register domains.

My rule of thumb is the registrar, www hosting, email hosting and DNS all be totally separate and have unique accounts with different companies. They all use unique passwords too. A compromise of one will not compromise the others.
No, there are no charges to the user to get their money back out - the service is totally fee-free to users.
That watch is ridiculous--I certainly hope the TSA would stop someone wearing that, and I doubt a regular agent is educated enough to decide whether or not a homebrew contraption like that is dangerous. So to a degree, TSA did the smart thing.

The question becomes, was arresting him the right thing to do? Maybe it was--if nobody in the airport had the expertise to decide that this thing that looks like a Die-Hard-style bomb was not dangerous, maybe they had to hold him until an expert could be located.

The other question is, were the charges dropped because he was innocent, or were they dropped because he got media attention? That's probably the more important question. Not everyone can get the news to write about them, and no doubt many injustices in America and in the world get ignored precisely because they're ignored.
This doesn't appear to be tax efficient.

They donate 10% of your bill after VAT, so 8.3%. I'd actually be paying VAT on my donation. Meanwhile the charity can't claim back my income tax on the donation.

e.g. if my phone bill is £24/month, then £4 of that goes to the government as VAT, and TPO passes £2 of the remaining £20 to a charity of my choice.

Alternatively, if we don't tie the charity to the phone service, then I get charged £21.60/month for phone service (£18 + £3.60 VAT). And I can separately give £2/month to a charity, on which they can claim back 50p/month income tax (assuming 20% rate), so they actually get £2.50/month. (Unless they can claim back national insurance as well?) So I would pay less, the charity would get more, and the phone operator would do just as well... but would have to rely solely on the "25% of profits to charity" shtick in their marketing.
This is now on BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20408037
I'm confused, why would a political activist in particular be more likely to carry an improvised electronic device?
I upvoted you and your parent. His assertion triggered your informative response, which I'd have had to do without otherwise. He wasn't annoying, just wrong, which is entirely acceptable as long as we are civil about it.
Bose QuietComfort. They're really expensive ($300), but one of the few products I find to be worth the seemingly ridiculous cost.
Nintendo by contrast makes a profit on every console it sells from day 1. IIRC the Wii is the most popular of the current generation, so I don't think you can dismiss them like that.

Not only that, they've made 4 of the top 10 selling console games this year. By contrast Microsoft Studios has 1 game on the top 10 list and the best selling game by Sony is on 26th place. The numbers are basically the same for 2011. So not only are they make healthy profits by selling more consoles than anybody else, they're also running an incredibly successful (and I assume profitable) games studio selling games for those consoles. That's not too shabby for a niche player.
I've run a symbolic analysis on this article, it came out empty.
Android users are experiencing wide range of issues after upgrading to 4.2
Show HN: Drawbang - Instagram for pixel art
I'm not OP, but I found the Hurricane Electric Certification[1] quite useful.

The course is free and you can do it on-line. You will have to do certain tasks, (e.g. set up a ipv6 capable mail server), HE will check and if you were successful you enter the next level. If you make it through to sage level you will get a free T-shirt (which in my case they even sent for free to Germany).

The tasks are not difficult but completing the course will take some time. It is hands on experience and I learned a lot. I'm not affiliated with HE in any way.

[1] http://ipv6.he.net/certification/
Yes, it's pretty terrible branding, especially for non-English countries. Nokia Maps was much better. I don't know why they felt the need to change it. Just to get a few more articles in the press about it?
It sounds like a good service then, so good that there must be a catch. ;-)
Wait, so bulky old electric devices (toggle switch and old school big fuses) are scary things eh?

How about the fact practically everyone is carrying a smartphone that can be far more easily used as a wireless trigger? You can do a frequency scan/pulse with a phone with an app!

What if someone tried to get onto a plane with a smartphone without a cover and all the electronics exposed, or a clear case?

Those xmas toys people carry on planes, even unwrapped, they contain far more electronics and hiding places than that fake watch with electric fuses.
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Minor criticism, but I think the 'military-grade security' section on the homepage could be doing more harm than good.

By all means tout the security benefits of the encryption you use, but I don't think the other two points (vetted personal and different bank accounts for internal/customer use) are really necessary from a customer perspective.

I don't think I would have considered either of those as potential security risks before reading them on your homepage. Reading them plants seeds of doubt in my mind; Why do they vet personnel? Because they have access to my payment details? What if the vetting isn't good enough? Why do they point out they have separate bank accounts; are they planning on going under?

The measures that you have taken re: those two points should be taken as given for any established payments processing business.
Tel Aviv, L.A. Right Behind Silicon Valley in Startup Genome Rankings
that he likes shish kebab.
I think it's pretty self explanatory.

Instead of an account with a credit card company, you have an account with droplet.
From an end user POV: task manager is fine in windows 7, for any deep system performance troubleshooting I use perfmon; multi monitor support is work brilliantly for me in Windows 7; I use Dropbox, works very well for me and is quite integrated enough!

As for Windows runtime APIs, it depends on whether I want to make he bet that Windows 8 is going to be successful enough to learn them. Jury is still our on that. Besides, I'm more of a Spring man...
HP takes a $8.8 billion writeoff, alleging Autonomy accounting fraud
It's quite quick on my iphone 4 but the actual maps are blurred. It would seem that they are rendered at the "old" iphone resolution. This gives the app a very unpolished look unfortunately.
To you and me who understand how they work, no they are not scary.

To a TSA agent who probably has only a high-school education, a power trip, and was raised in a culture where movie supervillains use bombs that look just like that, yes, it's scary.

The right thing to do would have been to stop him in the line, bring in some kind of expert to look it over, then let him get on to the plane. It looks like they started on that path, but then went too far. That's where my questions come in.
Mine Kampf
Putting aside the feasibility of such an idea at a global scale, the clarity with which the idea is described in such a minimalistic scheme is awesome.
I can almost let the decision to have Metro on enterprise desktops slide, considering I use Windows 8 everyday in the enterprise and can almost fully ignore Metro (except for the broken desktop search).

But Metro on Windows Server? It just warps my brain trying to justify that. I cannot think of a single technical reason for it to be there. Except maybe consolidation of shell code, and that's a crappy reason.
And there is a lot of specific case law in terms of guns in the work place which many employers do have problems with.
I guess the difference is you don't earn interest by holding other peoples bitcoins, you do by holding their cash. Apparently there is an android app coming.
For those who care, and that's most power users, they'll replace the brain dead Samsung version with their own customised versions of Android.
Apple should buy Twitter, and they should do it now
Same as how other countries build other phallic symbols (rockets); although i think buildings are rather dumb.

By definition that contest would be doomed because the contestants would not want to outcompete each other (or they would provoke others to make them more hostile).
Same goes for recruiters, they need to know which buzz words to use too. I saw a good list of requirements the other day, for a vaguely machine learning type of job, that said:

"An Ideal applicant must have experience in:
- Maths
- Computer Fusion
- Algorithms
- ..."

I assume they misheard 'Computer Vision' over the phone. Also "Why yes, I do have experience in Algorithms.".
Sam sung works for apple
I beg you pardon, but a large segment of internet fraud is: You pay me for a laptop, I send you a brick.

This does not depend on a payment method, the problem is the time delay between sending money and sending the goods - especially goods delivery not being instantaneous. So without an escrow service there will be this kind of fraud, and someone will want his money back.

[edit] And people will not only send to friends if you are successful.
How to post on Facebook in India without offending anyone or getting arrested
> Accepting cash is free.

Accepting it might be free, but what happens when you need to transfer large amounts of cash from your premises to a bank? Cash-in-transit services aren't free.

> With cash fraud prevention is unnecessary.

Not if we include the identification and rejection of counterfeit currency.
Today you can compile Elixir source code using --debug-info as an option. Then you would be able to retrieve the abstract format from beam files and write your own code that converts abstract format to erlang source. It is definitely doable and I wouldn't be surprised if someone already did it.
The paragraphs in question:

"Fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2012 results include a non-cash goodwill and intangible asset impairment charge of $8.8 billion relating to the Autonomy business within the Software segment"

"The majority of this impairment charge is linked to serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations at Autonomy Corporation plc that occurred prior to HP's acquisition of Autonomy and the associated impact of those improprieties, failures and misrepresentations on the expected future financial performance of the Autonomy business over the long-term. The balance of the impairment charge is linked to the recent trading value of HP stock. There will be no cash impact associated with the impairment charge."