skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think as it stands there's probably people who'd either sign it over and take the chance on a there-and-back trip and potentially get cancer, or view it as a one way proposition. Not sure whether the ethics of sending people to their potential doom would fly mind.
Thank you very much for the instructions. I've tried this one, but without switching to the "AirPlane mode" just power the device off... and it haven't worked for me.

But now, after second time - it's updated!! Yay!!!
Thanks one more time!!!
No idea. Few years ago it was announced as a soon to be implemented feature. Every update I clicked on the preference button just to be disappointed-ish, I totally forgot it thinking it was at the bottom of the todo-list, and now I stumble upon it randomly browsing about:about.
He was the last driver to die in an F1 crash. Unfortunately not the last person, but I think the road-side crews haven't seen a fatality in years.

My interest in F1 stopped a few years ago when they downgraded the engines and made things all weird for a while. I hear it's getting back to awesome nowadays.
You do realize of course, that the manual is about what the DOJ is going to take a position as, and has little to no bearing on how a court will actually interpret the law?

Yes, it makes legal citations, but so do the US PTO guidelines. It's like reading one of the briefs for a supreme court case and declaring that's what the law is.

Like any legal brief, it's just a glorified policy position with legal citations instead of study citations.

If you want to know what you may get arrested for, sure, it's great.
If you want to know what you may get convicted of, it's near worthless.

The first one would be very hard to solve anyway. Most laws don't specifically prevent arrest for minor violations, and at least right now, you can almost never prevent the police from arresting you for something (in most cases, they don't actually have to tell you why they are arresting you, only that you are being arrested. They can charge you with something different than they tell you anyway).
I use aniracetam (500mg twice daily) together with a choline supplement. It definitely improves my cognitive stamina: while I don't think it boosts my 'peak' ability, it increases the amount of time I can operate at that level.

It doesn't seem to be right/left-brain specific, either - my wife (a psychotherapist) finds it similarly helpful.

Regarding side effects, I had some headaches and disorientation during the first week, but nothing after that.

Better living through chemistry :-)
If a function is more than a page long, refactoring should be considered.

It sounds like perhaps the solution to the parent's readability problem might be replacing the function in question with two or more functions: One function to load the variables from the table into a class instance, and another to take that class instance and run the algorithm

It's almost always good to keep code that interfaces with the outside world -- reading information from a database, sending triangle meshes to the GPU, whatever -- from pure mathematical code. It sounds like the parent's codebase doesn't follow this philosophy.

Depending on its complexity, the algorithm might need to itself be refactored into multiple functions.
This is really well done. I like that the bid process stays on the current page so that the user doesn't have to go to another site to post the bid. Very quick and easy.
Nice work your editor! Small note, I'd suggest you not hide some of the functionality behind menu (Bring forward, Send backward, ...). There is plenty of space in the upper menu and it might be better if the user saw these buttons directly and be able to manipulate them with one click.

Figurepool is indeed built with Raphael from scratch. I'm also using JointJS though, a diagramming lib that I built some time ago. My goal is to build a mixture of vector graphics and diagramming tool.

You're absolutely right about the "Save & Sign up" button. Will do it soon...
TakeOff Conf 2013 - A broad look at all the trends of the upcoming year 
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The call for papers is still open and is the following :

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Take Off is a conference for passionate web developers and designers about trending topics for the upcoming year. From server side to pure front end through mobile, from design and philosophy to new languages, frameworks or development techniques, Take Off is your chance to show the world how the future of development and design should be.

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We are a bunch of open-minded guys and gals waiting to discover what's hot and new.

Our people using Ruby enjoy discovering new tricks in Javascript or Python (and vice-versa), our backend geeks enjoy scaling their virtual machines while coding cool data visualisation dashboards with HTML5's canvas tag and our web designers want to know how to deploy.

The attendees will know how to code and what we want is to give them the opportunity of launching new projects with new approaches in 2013, especially if it means switching a langage or shifting to a new platform...

Please email us at hello@takeoffconf.com with your proposal, with one email per proposal !

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The problem as it relates to business is that there are no clearly defined rules. Your business model can be trumped by a single court case.

Legal uncertainty is not something that any company would prefer to endure.
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Option 2 would almost be workable if you had a very streamlined system for implementing revisions, to prevent more than one individual from exploiting a loophole before it's closed.

Like a group of elected officials who's only job is to close these loopholes without massive fanfare and a simple vote. A process that is incredibly fast and decisive in order to get double digits done per day.
In that sense VAT is also a voluntary charge. You can avoid it by eating nothing.
hey flyinglizard, I'd love to pick your brains too :)

regards, manuel
Variable names should be clear. Sometimes tradition makes short names clear: for example, "i" and "j" are traditional names for loop indices being iterated over. Sometimes, especially in scientific functions, there are standard notations that do the same thing; the most famous is probably either "F = ma" or "e = mc^2".

When this happens, the traditional/standard short names should be used, because the weight of tradition and standards can actually make these names clearer than anything longer and "more descriptive." But there are many cases where there is no tradition or standard to clarify a variable name, and when that happens, you shouldn't be afraid to use something longer.
I've had the same experience. Though on an interesting note - I had drinks with one recently and told him as much, and he was taken aback by my observation. "Really? I've found them to be quite difficult at times." Maybe there's something cultural about the way they interact with themselves vs outsiders? Or, as you pointed out, maybe it's the ones who leave Sweden regularly :)
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I believe in research, I believe that we need to seek understanding and explore concepts, technologies and questions that can improve our race.

However, I have a huge issue with one of the goals of the project "People may choose to take nootropics due to the additional clarity it gives them, leading to increased performance in all walks of life."

The ethical dilemmas that this creates are massive. What about the authenticity of what it means to be "human". WHat about the adverse affects it will have on competition against those who don't have access to the enhancement (due to physiological, economic or other reasons)?

We need to understand this class of substance, however we cannot responsibly peddle "enhancements" in this way.

The ethics on this subject are extensively debated in academia (see works by Forlini & Racine among others...) and the only clear consensus that I've seen is that there are some very serious unanswered questions about the societal impact of this.

Would anyone back this campaign if it was studying athletic doping?
It was partly due to the weird changes they started making 5-7 years ago that the sport is so good now. For the last few years the championships have been fought down to the last race or two, not to mention that we have 6 world champions on the grid. I don't feel strategy plays as important a role now as it did but they have certainly made it more entertaining to people with less knowledge of the sport.
Th biggest problem I have found each time I have evaluated gimp, is how long it takes to get work done.

In Photoshop so much of the workflow can be done with non destructive adjustment layers and smart object. So I can import a raw file, apply contrast and B&W filters perhaps a gradient, and then go back and make a change to the raw object. Because its all adjustment layers you don't have to redo any of that work.

In gimp you import your file, make an adjustment and if you want to change the raw file, well oops, you have to recreate every layer again.

If the gimp team implements this it will be a significant win for users.
Talk to yourself much?
Cool. I was just complaining how cluttered and junky Google News has been looking lately. Way too many links, borders, and images. It used to feel so clean compared to the other news sites. This is what I was looking for.

Also, how did you get the summaries? It's like you have some algorithm to re-word the first paragraph of the story.
The HP Way, and How It Completely Screwed HP
Unlocking the Science of Habits
3 Common Post-Hurricane Roofing Repairs | All Roofing Solutions, DE/PA Roofer
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Singularity Rising, review of a new book by James Miller
I remember when rentacoder was a sure fire way to earn an extra couple of hundred bucks a month on the side and freelancer was just a bad joke.

Weird how things change.
Ugh what a un-interesting story. FYI this is trademark and not patents which makes more sense to be on HN. Just another minute legal battle with nothing much to do with anything
The info page[0] says a little more, though not much.
The news seems simply selected by the small handful of guys behind it, rewritten and posted manually.

This being HN and all I must admit I had my hopes up for something more .. technical. Some kind of text summariser perhaps..

Nice site never the less.

[0] http://toolong-didntread.com/info
I haven't tried it myself, but http://technoticraccoon.com/post/27876540798/how-to-create-a... looks like it may be the way to go.
As an aviator in the US military, I'm not surprised. This is common practice. The system in question is for public domain UK aviation charts and pubs. Many of the unclassified systems I use have the user and password taped to the monitor.
I should be able to figure this out for myself, but I will ask anyway: is 16GB SSD really enough to support Ubuntu and a development environment?

At a minimum, I would need Ruby+JRuby+Clojure+editors an an IDE. I could probably live with just 4 or 5 extra GBs for project files and whatever my current writing project is.
I can understand. Part of it is certainly going to be peer pressure related. My own nephew has friends he knows are getting an iPad so in his mind nothing else would suffice.

Pretty much the biggest innovation of Apple was marketing. Yes the devices are very good but their marketing is something that their competitors always seem to overlook.

Fortunately you can buy iPad's of earlier generations, even the first retina types, for a lot less off of either Apple's own site or even through their e-bay entity.

While I see the value they represent I am all for finding more reasons to keep kids outdoors instead of indoors. I kept my Kindle for reading because of this one issue, it is much better outside than any tablet. If need mail or internet my phone is fine and any serious mail/browsing is best on the computer (iMac fwiw)
What else would you use? Biometrics are expensive, and far less secure than passwords in most instances. Besides, once you have that information, it will get converted to a hash (same as a password) so you're really stuck with the same problem from a hacking point of view. And once somebody figures out the rainbow table for your retina, what are you supposed to do, change your retina?

Two factor auth is really the best way, and although it's kludgy, it provides the best protection. And it includes a password.
Yeah there is: http://toolong-didntread.com/feed
I sometimes have a hard time trying to fathom all the regulations imposed on the teams. Can anyone shed some light on eg. the dangers of wing design?
Ending refueling during the race did a lot reducing the time required and therefore positions lost when you come in - so _some_ changes are good, though I agree most don't move the needle at all. This season is great - coming down to the last race to see who comes out on top between Vettel & Alonso...even if only mathematically, I couldn't really ask for too much more.

A few years ago they were discussing making qualy 3 short "sprint" races where the fastest of the pack start at the back of the next sprint - now that would be cool.

Edit: Forgot to mention how much I love seeing anything F1 related on HN.
Just because something is easy to do does not mean it should be legal. A person could walk into a business and find documents with private information that have been carelessly left in the open. That does not make it ok to take and publish them.

There are plenty of physical crimes that are easy to commit. For example, opening up someone's unlocked mailbox is technically a federal crime in the US (even if you don't take any thing and just put a leaflet there). Pointing out that a 'bad guy' could easily steal someone's mail by opening their mail box does not constitute security research.
> What about the adverse affects it will have on competition against those who don't have access to the enhancement (due to physiological, economic or other reasons)?

This is already a "problem". I don't think a new (potentially, safer) nootropic drug would make matters any worse.
"We need an image file format that is, in essence, a storage locker."

I disagree.

HTTP supports cache-able compression, and connection re-use. It wouldn't be any slower to download frames as needed (lazy = good)), using the existing transport protocol. All you need is an ASCII/UTF-8 index file for an animation. Getting browsers to support anything new that doesn't come from the W3C and contain the word "semantic" in the spec on the other hand... That's the hard part.
The "hottest sector of the entire economy" might be true in certain areas of the US, but it certainly isnt true for the whole world. There are alot of places without a Facebook, Google, MSFT and where technical people dont per se earn six figure salaries...
Who knows where this guy is from ?
Moscow bans protest 'due to lack of political repressions'
Short variable names are like pronouns. Their brevity is justified by the fact that their scope is very local and the meaning is well-established by the context.

You wouldn't write "George Walker Bush was the 43rd president of the united states. George Walker Bush served two terms along with George Walker Bush's vice-president, Dick Cheney." Rather we can, after the meaning has been established, refer to him by shorter words like "him," "his," or just "Bush."

This is somewhat easier in strongly-typed languages where the type often gives a strong clue about the initial meaning of the variable. For example, "MutexLock l" seems like a perfectly reasonable variable declaration to me.
I use a cover that works quite well. I always use the ipad sideways, so that the keyboard is bigger and the format of the pages is good. Its not great for responding to emails but it works. For reading them its perfect. I love it very much, then again im sure it will become better over time. I have the autocorrection disabled because I write emails and messages in various languages.
Ceci n'est pas un portrait de Diderot
If it would create separate twitter accounts per section (like tech) and autopost stuff there, that would be a major win.
I see no moral dilemma in the least. There are two problems with doping. First, athletic competition is human vs human and is innately about the limits of human ability. Why prove a human can lift large amounts of weight instead of using a fork lift? Second, most athletic performance enhancing drugs do long term damage, so people are trading in their health for winning.

If there were a safe mental enhancing drug, I would definitely take it and never a moral dilemma in the least.
According to http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Nov/94 it would inject an iframe in each http response.
List of features still waiting for.
Generational GC
OMTC - Off main thread composition
SuperSnappy - a mini e10s
Support of H.264 Codec - aka playing H.264 using the codec that comes default in Windows Vista, 7 & 8. XP Users get fallback to Flash

Four Big features, lets hope Mozilla will finish them off in 2013.
> Could be anything.

That's true, but then again, that doughnut you purchased to "Support the Troops!" could contain anything as well.

Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders
Probably not unless you cloudsource your project files
Knowing how heavy those springs are and how fast those guys travel, that was one of the most painful things to see. I'm blown away he survived without any kind of serious disability and continues to race.
If not done right, it will not make enough downforce to corner properly. The cars are designed to have no air underneath them, so as to create a vacuum to the track. If air does get underneath them, the car becomes (briefly) an airplane...

edit: A lot of the regulations are also based around making the cars somewhat slower(safer), so they dis-allow massive wings so you can't fly around corners at 200per... And then everyone trys to take advantage at any cost, so they bend the rules to the limit. To the point where it could almost be seen as cheating.
Interactive Sketching Notation v1.3
Slush startup conference is happening right now in Helsinki
Here's the Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howabouttha...

Here's the IndieGoGo page for the project: http://www.indiegogo.com/upacrosstheatlantic
Did you just imply that existing problems are difficult to make worse, so we should only worry about brand new problems?
agreed. the current "hand curated" approach does not seem sustainable in the long term.

it's already showing some quite old news as a result. the new jersey earthquake was several weeks ago, positioned as the third "world news" story.

great concept and design, though.
If you ever have a chance to go to an F1 race, do it. You might have a terrible view of the race, but it is the greatest sound you will ever hear. It's like the sky is getting ripped apart by a million banshees.
Kids don't watch Oprah, dontchaknow.
A quick google search for 'oatmeal greeting cards' brings up oatmeal studios for me. In fourth place behind theoatmeal.com

There should also be a specific trademark search available, not sure what that would be in the US.

Did Oatmeal studios contact Innman first before bring the suit?
I think I will stick with DB2. One person, four machines, multiple logical partitions, and nearly a hundred terabytes of data. Oh, I have a backup person.

Administration, monitoring, maintenance, and such, is all like, yeah its done.

Really I read these comments here about SQL and DB on other platforms and I cannot fathom it, I simply never experience it. The AIX/Oracle gang has half a dozen people or more doing the same work as I for their platform and I don't see the benefit.
I like the idea. I really do. But doesn't twitter do a lot of this already?

Good luck to you.
Laziness is a really good one for me. But I'm not a developer, I'm actually a mathematician/statistician now working for a bank, my code is generally a couple of functions, almost none of them too long, that I did some time and glued together using a huge amount of shell and glue scripts. If I need something new I do some quick and dirty coding to work around my problem

It's not exactly the ideal but it works for me, when some people need the code I change all the names of the variables.

I did my PhD in Applied Mathematics (CFD, google it) and there almost every code have very short variable names, such as h, k, n, and things like that, it's a common thing in almost every numerical code that I saw out there, if you know something about theory you will be able to find out what these names are, sometimes they are two or three letters. Nothing like Sedgwick algorithms book and their single letters variable names.

EDIT: Of course, CERN probably works different around their ROOT framework, but I never worked with something of comparable size.
Sometimes I hate Java
Show HN: cloudmonkey, a command line interface for Apache CloudStack
I think he meant something in the line of sources of clinical trials etc. Nonetheless, the sources on Wikipedia suggest that they have been extensively tested in mice, like all the other stuff we take. And they do have proven use in treating Alzheimers etc. They are considered nontoxic or even neuro-protective, but in my opinion often sought out for based on reviews from first users who are mostly biased from the start and therefor easily placeboo'd. No offence :) I'd love to try them, but I'm in dubio for reasons stated above.
Drug users and terrorist are wholly separate groups that need wholly separate approaches but to claim that drug users only harm themselves is just not true. That being said the War on Drugs seems to amplify the impact of drug use on society rather than minimize it but just leaving drug users alone is as failed a policy as leaving the terrorists alone.
First, it's not 60% yet, it's 50-55%

Second, I know quite a few who are at almost-the-maximum. Most people, when they talk about their taxes think only federal. AMT at 28% is a bitch, and NYC at 13% is too, so if you're less than 40%, you might be an audit away from serious action (despite what your highly paid CPA tells you).

Ask high-worth individuals in NYC with >$500,000/year income and a few millions to lose what their overall tax rate is.

Third, deductions are available everywhere (at least they are in Tel-Aviv) and can be used to lower your tax burden. If you use them as intended, it means that your tax rate is not lower - it's just that your books do not reflect expenses in the right place.

If you use them too aggressively, you risk criminal charges.

Finally, you should add your accountant fees to your taxes. No one does. Most people in Sweden submit their tax return with an SMS saying "all has already been reported by employer / stock exchange / bank".

I spent two full time weeks doing my US returns this year. Officially, I'm paying much less than the highest rate. In practice, I'm paying it, and possible more, if I put Tel-Aviv, Stockholm and NYC on equal footing.