skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well done!
Suggestion : A full-screen mode to take advantage of big screens
Here's the whole book that that article quotes: http://public.gettysburg.edu/~bcrawfor/physics/nnscat/C700.P... (~10MB)

And an earlier edition with the same quote:
http://mightylib.mit.edu/Student%20Materials/books/mcnp4b.pd... (~5MB)
Get a better job, dude.
Rootkit infects Linux web servers
Every single experience I've had with a swede, (technical, entrepreneur, or otherwise) has been extremely pleasant. It might be selection bias - most of those that I've met were outside sweden at the time I met them - but from spending some time in Lund, I got the impression that it's a national trait, to the point that I have considered moving to sweden for a few years if the stars align properly.

Perhaps we can have a sweded version of NYC in the US? :) That would be ideal.
Unless the bytecode gets translated to native code ahead of time (AOT).

Although OpenJDK/Oracle JVM don't offer this option, other vendors do.
Thursday to Sunday off??? Which place do you speak of?
I'm not sure about the responsive image format thing. The problem is : the restrictions of mobile today (both in term of dpi and in term of connection speed) are likely to change very quickly. This means we'll need to re-encode images as mobile devices change.

A server-side solution where you store the full resolution image only and then use a cache for lower resolution seems much more flexible.
Concept; Control the desktop game with your smartphone/tablet
There is also a hands-on preview here: http://www.arcticstartup.com/2012/11/21/jolla-comes-out-of-h...
Yeah, I've booked travel on the wrong dates before because I've selected the dates visually. Really annoying. As you've spotted it's an endemic problem in the UK, and it needs fixing. Even Apple get it right, and they have a strong bias to USA-ify (at least more than, say, Microsoft).
Thanks! A full-screen mode is in place but not in the demo. You'd have to sign-up (free) to get the editor with fullscreen capability.
The "formal language of mathematics" is can only be read by those who have taken the time to understand it's symbols, syntax and grammar. Legalese generally also has very specific meaning, but without training "us mere mortals" fail to interpret it correctly too.

I guess that one positive impact of your idea would be moving mathematicians into the almost celebrity status of lawyers. They'd be fun to watch when interviewed too.
Well, what would you do if the police executed a commando raid on your property looking for a meth lab that wasn't there, and your pets were slaughtered, but you really hadn't done anything to precipitate such events?

Given that context, it doesn't seem unreasonable.

Around the turn of the millennium, on my little software company's farm-like compound in rural California, we had a couple incidents where we would find one of our angora goats lying dead in front of the converted-barn office, with its throat slashed open from ear to ear. I happened across the first one when me and a buddy were out for a moonlight walk--after smoking a joint, no less--and it was some creepy fucking shit. I invested in a whole bunch of wireless night vision cameras after the second time that happened, and put them in trees, on the roof, and in the bushes.

It turned out it wasn't any kind of weird cult ritual or insane meth-heads living in the woods, as we had first thought; it was the German shepherd owned by the Nazi skinheads up the road, slipping its chain at night and going out on missions, apparently well-fed but still with the killing urge.

We didn't find out through the cameras; it was one morning when I ran outside at 5:30 after being awakened by the plaintive cries of our biggest billy goat, only to find him on his back with his neck clamped between the jaws of the dog (named Psycho (of course)). Luckily for me, those skinheads had apparently beaten a healthy fear of humans into the dog, so I was able to save Billy Whiskers by throwing some rocks and shouting.

Still, given the circumstances, it doesn't seem too paranoid to have planted all those cameras. If McAfee's story is true (which is admittedly pretty hard to believe) then going on the run, carrying guns, and deploying all the cameras and whatever else he can seems reasonable to me.
Patent Wars?
That's a great suggestion. Putting it on the list of the next features to be done...
> People get on airplanes every day without thinking much about it.

I think you underestimate people's paranoia and what it has done to flying. Planes are the safest way to travel by far, yet there are safety instructions, passenger screenings, restrictions on luggage, etc.

You don't get this when getting on a train or bus, because people simply aren't as paranoid about it.
Doi, didn't read thought it was a stand alone date picker.
GNOME 3: The Next Step
Long variable names are a crutch espoused by those of mediocre ability. Variable names should be explanatory to those who could be expected to comprehend the code, length has nothing to do with it. The domain of this code is physics, if you don't understand what the code is supposed to be doing you shouldn't be messing with it.

That said, a comment at the top explaining the algorithm used and a refence to the literature is all that is really required. A comment explaining what the variables are could be provided if you really must (i.e. you work with those who prize dogma over clarity).
> here you have one: tired fingers. myReallyLongAnTemporaryVariable could be just t :)

With most editors/IDE, you'll type the variable in full once and autocomplete the rest of time, so not much of an excuse.
I'm enthusiastic about animation support. It's mind-boggling that we are still using an image format from 80s with crappy compression and limitation to 256 colors.
Entirely my fault. Or scotch's.
I saw a similar philosophy at work in a dynamically typed language (Lua):

function foo(String, Float)
-- Some code
end

"String" and "Float" aren't type names. "string" and "float" are. But they are just as effective at signalling intent, when the name of the type is enough.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it! -- Upton Sinclair
Probably another victim of ill-thought-out complex password requirements. If it's too complex to remember, it will probably end up on a post-it note.
Nor does it mean he can't
Ask HN: Does HN search work for you?
Looks like I can't find anything newer than 4 days old.
some people have no credit score - in particular it is hard to get one if you have never had any previous debt or credit cards...
Sorry Jacques, I'm sticking to the suborbital maglev thing.

Yeah, I know it's a long-shot, but it fits into my idea of Musk better than a giant mail tube. I'm just seeing pressurized tubes scaling. There's the same problem with the orbital sub-loop, but I'm betting Musk spent a lot of time looking at this idea as part of his Mars dream.

One thing's for sure -- it's going to be a blast seeing how it all turns out!
You know what, you're right on the money and the worst part is with people angrily denouncing you they've forgotten that one of the biggest trends in startups is 'fail fast'. It fails, it sucks, you tried. Either get back on the horse or transition out and go work for one of the myriad companies that'll be hiring.
It's sad that Mozilla has not included WEBP. I cannot understand why since it seems to be a wonderful format.

Maybe they are waiting for all the promised features to deliver. So far I haven't seen working animations or lossy + alpha in Chrome so they probably aren't ready yet.
You essentially repeated what I said about value and finding the right market, so that's cool.

At the time I made the zine I too was in transition, not exactly homeless because some friends who were renting an apartment let me stay with them, but I've been homeless before and simply fulfilling basic needs like a next meal and a place to sleep consumed most of my time and energy.

However, I know your advice needs to be taken with a big ole grain of salt and some major considerations because I've done it. There are better ways.

Another PS! What is great about your suggestion is that it's outside the box. It's not the typical "RAISE YOUR RATES" that you are hearing from the Borg. It's inspirational. So for that, thank you.
How is that any different from any other emotional pain?
When insane people commit a crime they should be incarcerated. The victim should have justice. But, it seems that McAfee started going downhill years ago. Look how far he's gone. That could happen to anyone. He's just in the news because he was rich and has a recognizable name. If even the rich can have this happen to them, there is little hope that we can be truly effective at stopping others from having the same happen to them.
No matter how closely together the cars can drive, as long as you have an engine and a crash-resistant shell around each passenger, it will never be as space-efficient was the 35' Gillig Advantage I am sitting in right now.

IMO the best application of self-driving cars in an urban landscape is last-mile demand for people who live outside the city, where it's not economical to run buses or trains. But inside a city proper, or even on a busy freeway, having one car per passenger takes up a lot of space that could be better used elsewhere, both while moving and while parked.

(Also, self-driving technology could be applied to buses and streetcars to reduce operating costs and expand frequency and range of service.)
Already discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4809176
In Europe, it's about 12-30 million € / km for high speed tracks (according to Wikipedia).
That's not how humanity works.
HP's Autonomy fraud allegations? Get real, it's buyer beware in this industry'
ARM processor running Ubuntu? What kind of applications can you run on that? (Genuine question)
This is really one of the worst articles I've seen submitted here lately. I'm truly surprised that it is currently ranked up so high.

The presentation of the article is atrocious. The font alone renders extremely poorly in Firefox. It is just plain hard to read. Please just use a common font that will render well basically anywhere.

The inline "$3.99 ThanksGiving Offer" ad links peppered throughout the article are distracting, too. They really take focus away from the article itself (unless, of course, that is exactly what they were intended to do).

Then it has one part that goes, "It’s the WebP Image Format (see https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/) as shown here", with an image of the WebP logo that follows. The WebP logo image is a PNG, however! With a lead-in like that, I was sure it was going to be a WebP image demonstrating some of the format's benefits.

The various inline URLs that aren't hyperlinks are very annoying, too. They should obviously have been actual links.

Seeing stuff like "Microsfot" only makes the horrible article look even worse.

While I'm not expecting perfection, nearly everything about this article is sub-par. It's not what I wish to see when I come to HN.

When it comes to information, the Wikipedia article is so much better, yet it's still quite concise, too. For anyone interested, it is at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP
Reminds me of http://xkcd.com/936/
Interesting thanks, shame the map as drawn was never presented at the talks...
It says in the article that the password was obvious and easy to guess so I doubt this is the reason.
The comments criticizing the protagonist are somewhat churlish. If someone shares painful emotions with the a comment like "how could they know my pain," he is demonstrating that he has some awareness that his emotions include self pity, that his feelings are subjective. Generally, in the the US anyway, people know that sharing such feelings is not cool. (People start with snarky comments along the lines of "call the waaahbmulance")

The author is trying to buck the huge social pressure against admitting such feelings. Therefore, to ridicule such a person is re-enforcing the paradigms which drive the feelings in the first place.

On a personal note, I have never been comforted in times of unhappiness to have it pointed out that many people have it far worse. I guess if you are someone who derives a sense of well being based on how well you are doing relative to others, being reminded of how much better off you than the hordes of wretched who walk this earth could give you some happiness.
I must say it is really an innovative and a usable UI concept. It seems that Jolla has all those MeeGo engineers from Nokia who developed the Swipe UI of N9.

The pulley menu is a great conept. You slide the menu to make the selection. Nice touch.

Another useful feature is the stuff you can operate on the "multitasked windows". I wonder though, how would the UI display more than 4 multitasked windows - displaying smaller icons or may be provide a horizontal navigation for 4+ windows.

Definitely an OS worth waiting for. It would be awesome if I can deploy it on my N9!
TL;DR — Faster News
Stopped using Apple products time ago. Great choice.
Even with the actual document photochopped out, the credentials could still show in a mirror or monitor. Or maybe soon we'll be able to recreate missing parts of images by analyzing the ambient light distributions in the rest of the photo...
> I don't communicate by email with anyone in my age group or, indeed, anyone under 30, unless it's to pass around attachments

If you don't mind me asking, do you just use Facebook, or other means too (e.g. Twitter, IRC, ...)? I'm just curious about what people are using these days (I'm 34).
While I feel like this is a very interesting initiative, my distrust in humankind makes me fear bias and sponsorship. What if a big sponsor decides competitor news are to be ignored and their own news are to be kept at the top longer?
When social security will pay out more than comes in, the difference will come out of general tax revenue. There are no books to balance. The retirement age may go up, but reducing or eliminating social security is electoral suicide.
An 80 character artificial limit in some coding standards often causes developers to have to use difficult to understand variable names. The 80 character limit is apparently a readability thing which I find quite ironic.
Sure, drop me mail. I'd prefer not to chat about it on a public forum. People (myself included) get defensive about their alma mater, but in e-mail you can just ignore me if you think my gross generalizations from experience are off-base for you :-)
#NYTECHRESPONDS announces hackathon to benefit Sandy Victims
Trust no man who writes web content in MS Word.
How much preparation do you do when participating in a hackday?
Y-Not? - Adventures in Functional Programming
Lund native here. If you ever visit again - feel free to hit me up :)
>I'm dealing with clients that insist on writing custom applications to do complex ETL instead of using SSIS or decent third party tool.

I have some beefs with SSIS (which I bring up to the SSIS team lead, Matt Masson, every time we meet) but it's not as bad as so many folks seem to make it out to be. However, what I always see is a never-ending shortage of clients that write their own ETL systems that have 10-20% of the functionality, and 10-20% of the performance (and 10-20x the bugs). Even my current client seems to be doing just this.

Replacing homegrown ETL systems with SSIS, ODI or PowerCenter implementations is a great way to make money. I've seen ETL systems that folks were mighty proud of that had throughput (granted, to some very questionably modeled "data warehouses") measured in bytes/sec. Yes, bytes. We're talking 3 hours to get an 2MB file into the final fact table with some custom "framework" written in C# or Java that uses a web service for all message passing for servers within the same rack (and will always be in the same rack). Again, not necessarily the framework's fault either, just how poorly it's used, and how poor the data is modeled (in the above case, I was able to rewrite it with their tools and get the 3 hour job completing in ~50 seconds after a few days work and tearing through their framework's source code repo). The bugs you can find are fun too. My favorite was when the web service endpoints weren't reusing the same connection, so they were exhausting all the ephemeral TCP ports on the database server's TCP/IP stack -- when the job ran ~200 times faster, since the messaging was so chatty, the ETL framework was basically DoSing their SQL Server (for any service/application using a non-specific port).

Honestly, if you enjoy making things 100 - 10000x faster, live in the database world. The market will present an infinite number of opportunities for you to do so with commodity DBMSes such as SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres and Oracle. Most of it is simply cleaning up bad data modeling decisions, cleaning up a complete misunderstanding of how their database engine works, and overly complicated systems doing very simple things.

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I do agree that SQL Server licensing, especially when using Enterprise, can hurt. A lot. It's really set up for scale-up architectures (and Windows clustering could stand to be improved quite a bit), and if you dare deviate from that notion, you get hurt rather badly.
This is quite possibly one of the most dystopian thoughts I've ever heard.
The difference to me is that one is the pain of realizing "hey, I am not the glorious human being I thought I am" and other pain is caused by real loss. Sorry if I can not sympathize in this case, to me there is just some aspect of humility missing.
Of course it is a real pain, too, but it is not the end of the world. Shame about the girl-friend, though.
I am what I guess you'd consider a junior sysadmin. I graduated in May of 2011. While it's not being a developer, all of the points stand.

Read other code - still very important in admining. Other people write scripts, and there's a wide variety of Perl that's been written. Understand what's good and bad.

2-5 are all true. I just want to reiterate how important it is to ask questions (#4). When you start a junior position, spend time getting to know people. Set up one on one meetings with other people to get to know them and find out what they do. It's important going forward with a cohesive team. From the training side of it, if you're not asking questions I can't be sure that you understand what I'm saying.

Unit testing doesn't really apply to sysadmin that much, but basically have a plan to test if something works as you're going along. If you're making 4 major updates to interdependent systems, how can you tell which of the 4 systems broke the service for the user? I ran into that recently. We had a problem that stumped 4 technical experts and two vendors for over 8 hours, when it was a relatively simple fix (once they figured out what the fix was). Systems get more complex as you add things to them, so be sure to test the individual moving parts.

Refactoring is still always allowed. I feel as though you can extend this to procedures and processes. Where ever you go, there's always some "legacy" that builds up. If you ever receive the answer "That's just the way it's done" you should absolutely look into refactoring that. Odds are the decisions made back then aren't as relevant, because the base assumptions have changed. That's a major area you can show initiative on and start flexing your wings as your own person.
A nice editor/IDE feature might be to be able to use 2 names for a variable.

Short name for ease of typing and understanding when you are writing the code and a longer one for when you come back to it 6 months later or give it to someone else to understand.

Of course you would need to deal with collisions in a sensible way.

Something I have observed is that Java programmers seem to like longer variable names (sometimes hideously long) whereas C programmers often seem to use one, two or three letter names. Python/ruby seem to be somewhere in the middle.
Really really nice, i liked it. Particularly I like the motion controlled one. Well done. The first one with the slides was a bit hard to use on android, nothing you can't fix with some work I think. The second one of the cube.. I'm not sure what happened, i pinch&zoommed and completed the level without actually understanding a lot. But nice job nonetheless.
How to use Fragments in Android Applications
No. Sounds like "pouch". Which is not good.
Box.net has 50GB for free. don't remember when I got this but it's the cheapest I'v found
WebP is not a hybrid of GIF or JPEG or PNG. It's a subset of the VP8 video codec, which, if anything, is more similar to H.264.
"Then it has one part that goes, 'It’s the WebP Image Format (see https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/) as shown here', with an image of the WebP logo that follows. The WebP logo image is a PNG, however!" <-- LOL!
All these horizontal, design-y layouts
You retired from a "job" that gives you 16k ? Right...

Ok, since I'm a good guy, gimme your account and I will keep selling your stuff and only will get a cut of 50%
I use descriptive names unless programming in R in which case I use obscenely short names to make me feel more like a mathematician.
Absolutely, and since Musk has an electric car company, something along those lines might be quite realistic. For electric cars used in that way, charging would not be an issue, as it would not be the burden of private car owners.

I just had another thought, although maybe a bit ridiculous: the main issue with "public cars" to me seems to me hygienic, how to keep them clean. What if in the future instead of owning whole cars, you only own a capsule with seats that can be picked up by transporters? I'd still prefer a world where parked car things are completely gone, but such capsules might still save a lot of space in the meantime.
Didn't he say in the Ariane 5 is dead interview that it's a cross between a Concorde and a rail gun, so think super streamlined glider, launched by maglev, captured by maglev (recovering some energy energy on capture). High speed rail without most of the rail.

The big issue would be air traffic control at launch and landing. 600 m/s (Mach 2) at 0.5g acceleration would require 36km of launch rail which is kind of a lot. But you could loop the track and reduce the acceleration to make up for centripetal forces — a 200m radius loop might be about right, and once you use a loop you can go a lot faster (and this explains the name: hypersonic loop).

I suppose it might skip short distances requiring pylons or something for speed top ups and travel at lower speed.
love the idea.
Agree, all the most recent posts seems to be 4 days old.
Giving that according to a new graphics standard is surprisingly difficult, wouldn't it be a good idea to try to do a "container" format?
It seems that adding new video codecs is (relatively) simple, but adding a new encode for images is awfully difficult due browser issues.

I mean, I am not sure, it will open a can of worms with a lot of problems, but not sure if anyone is trying something in that direction...
And US construction costs tend to be at least twice what they are in Europe.
Yes - PhilterIt's compatible with Rapportive
The information was available just by putting a URL into a browser and nothing more. Just change the number at the end to your iPad/iPhone ID, and the server will send you the user's information. There's no hacking or fraud involved.
borrow it. http://www.prosper.com/
Fantastic OpSec, there.
TSA spreads FUD on “Opt Out and Film” week
Beat every level of Angrybirds
You don't have to dig. Just place the metal shell on posts like an oil pipeline.
Android Community Demands MIUI ROM Comply With FOSS Licenses
I figure it is a side by side maglev with a bunch of mass going around one of the tracks to store energy.

That's assuming the mass needs to be on a second track to maintain a schedule. I guess it's probably possible to do something clever at the stations to avoid a second track.
Any kind of application you have the source code to, which is nearly everything in Ubuntu repositories.
Windows Phone gamers monetizing at "significantly higher rate"
Gimp Sucks.