skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice article. It could have done with a better example for %difference. %difference is used when neither value is more important or topical than the other.
No, it's the same. If no one talks, nothing bad happens. If one person talks they get to keep all the money and everyone else eats a big fine.
When I was in University I did a research paper for a module called Emerging Technologies. One of the suggested topics (everyone ignores suggested topics as well) was automotive tech, which interested me straight off but I focused down on safety research. Some of the stuff I heard back from car companies and research labs was mind-blowing, it's just starting to appear now in stuff like this Mercedes. Not sure if they've started getting it together or shelved it, but there was a plan for having adaptive controls based on the cars essentially becoming a large network and being able to respond to changes through the entire 'pack' of cars.

Give it a few years, I think some of the tech they'll start trickling down from luxury cars to everyday will start making a massive difference in terms of road safety and getting the car to do more of the work.
Summer... I think we had that one in the UK at some point
Haha, that sounds like the perfect competition for a startup country :P.
It would certainly be different if it were restricted to a specific group, but part of the point was that it was not. Given that this wasn't exactly a backroom deal, I have trouble seeing what an investigation could uncover beyond the first hour of fact finding. Plus, the article makes it sound like the SEC has moved beyond the initial fact-gathering stage and is now actively considering filing charges based on what they know.
800 camera CCTV hub unveiled in west London
The smartphone needed inventing, it was low hanging fruit (for Steve Jobs).

Tablets had already been invented, and had already failed. It wasn't obvious that even Apple could make them succeed (perhaps in hindsight).
Agreed. As I understand it, these automatics kick in when there's a certainty of a crash ahead if no action is taken. In those circumstances, it's better to avoid the certain crash and take a risk on a uncertain shunt from behind.

On a similar note, in the UK, where most people have manual gearboxes, the advice for an emergency stop used to be to jump on the clutch and the brake, to prevent stalling. Nowadays you're taught just to stamp on the brake: in an emergency, who cares if you stall? Pushing the clutch can lead to the car "surging" if going downhill, so why risk it?
What problem does 30 bit color depth solve?

The obvious answer (or strawman) might be aesthetics. Yet two bits is sufficient to create art. Each medium has its limitations. Pen and ink, watercolor, clay - why should a computer screen be seen as inherently different?

We tend to view computer art on our own often miscalibrated displays, under variable lighting conditions, and at a variety of resolutions. Computer art is generally mass produced. Yes, it is behind glass, but not in the manner of the MonaLisa.

I'm not saying that "deep color" isn't worthwhile. Only that a coherent case for its practical advantages wasn't made. The problem wasn't obvious on my screen, and I am biased toward content over form.
Huh, don't get me started on image quality and such. Look how people watch constantly 4:3 movies horribly stretched on 16:9 screens. Look how bad the animation is on 99% of bluRay films (to the point of being unbearable) -- action scenes are stuttering and jittering except on the most recent hardware.
> It's a UI/UX tragedy of a severely high order.

An editor with a project tree is a UI/UX tragedy?
Google should state a new policy. We're not going to spend our money on servers and bandwidth indexing and linking to German publishers who won't pay - I guarantee you the value of the traffic they get from Google dwarfs what Google gets back from them in terms of marginal revenue directly attributable to their content. That's the thing about Google. They make tons of money - but given that they're a prime mover of traffic around the Internet they make a damn site more money for other folks - including newspapers.

So Google should charge. Then they can do like the phone companies with termination fees and call it a wash.
The Crazy Keyboards of Yesteryear could lead us to a better typing future.
Maybe they're just sending the headers for user-agent "curl"?
I think "suit" was intended.
>Microsoft's overall profit numbers still look pretty strong to me, and their product portfolio is as diverse as ever. They've got 6 different products in their server and tools division alone that generate more than a billion dollars each year! [1] That's not to mention Office, Windows, Xbox, etc.

What, if anything, has Ballmer done to make a difference in those areas?
It was promoted from Draft with great celerity. I think they'd like it if folk stopped using X- sort of nowish.

Edit: on second thoughts, it's the IETF, they always move quick. And it's not as though this was a particularly thorny protocol or anything.
The selling point would be that you might only need one car instead of two - which would make 25k more attractive than 2x20k. The use of a self-drive car isn't that it drives you to the office, it's that it drives itself back home for your partner to use.
My buddy that makes one of these apps wanted to email you something, but got this when emailing team@uxarchive.com :

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

team@uxarchive.com

Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 554 554 5.7.1 <team@uxarchive.com>: Relay access denied (state 13).
"Superior", ha!
Exactly right. I made a similar point here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4886376

Media companies are in the attention harvesting business NOT in the information delivery business. The marginal value of the information product is virtually zero. The marginal value of attention redirected to ads is some rate greater than zero - some rate greater than the cost of delivering that information product. So profit can be made. But the power is in delivering the attention, not the information.
> - Google WERE supporting this model very well - shame on you for stopping."

This is ridiculous, besides the absurd sense of entitlement, it's only $50/year. People who build startups spend more on their lattes or phone subscription in a month. Come on.
> Modern GPUs actually allow 16 bits per channel of precision when rendering, but it comes at a significant cost - various features no longer function, memory bandwidth is devoured, etc.

I'm not sure that this is true. It's extremely common for games to render lighting texture maps with HDR render targets. 16 bit-per-channel render targets are often used to accumulate excess light. The excess light gets processed by successful full screen pixel shader passes. These passes generally include blurring and flattening into a normal 8-bit-per-channel texture on the swap chain.

Furthermore, multiple render targets have been common since before the release of the Xbox 360. Deferred shading engines come into and out of popularity on what seems like a biyearly basis depending on what visual style is popular in games currently.

It seems to me that modern hardware is quite capable of greater color range, but the most demanding applications, games, would rather use that extra video RAM and fill rate for storing and processing surface normals, lighting scalars, material properties, etc. Desktop applications always lag behind games dramatically. Hell, browsers are just now starting to see some of the benefits of modern GPUs.
Before you start knocking it too much, check out the inspirations tab.

I love that idea, a community that's inspiring each other to create and share.

Admittedly the overall implementation needs work. But it looks pretty good and the point of it seems to be to be to inspire and encourage people to create rather than share others work.
Open Learning – Where Facebook meets Wikipedia
When I clicked the link, I got a 404.
Tried submitting my app and got the same.
I tried on my Android. If you click on the boxen they embiggen. It's not much better than having to mouseover.
Maybe, This question is totally pointless. Because, it doesn't make sense to go back to the Moon. What for ? it's a desolate rock, we've been there many times already, brought back rocks, learned as much as we could about its geology that we possibly could.
Going back to the moon is at best an entertainment proposition, it has no practical or scientific benefits.

The fact that we didn't go back on the moon doesn't say anything about government. We might hold different opinions about its inefficiencies and bloated nature, but none of them are relevant to this debate

Mars, on the other hand, holds a promise, although very remote & very premature that it might one day host humans, even possibly a permanent settlement.
I see lots of these 'we run the lights in high-beam mode' options recently (currently in the market for a new company car, won't be a Mercedes, ever, but this crops up ~everywhere~).

Now, for a while I was driving a lowly car without auto-dimming (whatever you call that in english, technically correct) mirrors. Being sensitive to light, I was cursing every second car behind me.

This tech scares the hell out of me: Just a slightly slow reaction time in this magic machine (or maybe I'm too far away yet to register as 'being annoyed' for that machine) and I'll see significantly worse for a short while.

And ignoring that: I haven't seen anyone mentioning how these gadgets feel to motorcycles, scooter drivers, bikers or people jogging (over here it's really quite plausible to be next (walking) or on (biking) a street between towns. Do I have to drive/jog blind, because some Grandpa in a Mercedes cannot see the road with normal lights?

This is a feature that I consider braindead and totally anti-social by default. I might post an apology in 2 years from now, but from what I see on the streets: Lights turned worse for everyone but the guy behind the steering wheel (lots of cars are misadjusted or too high, xenon-super-mega LEDs turning night into day, hell I cannot even stand behind one of these oh-so-cool cars at a traffic light, because the breaking light is subjectively putting out more lumen than most lights I have in my apartment, directly into my face).

Summary: No feature, no progress in my world. On the contrary.
The SEC could certainly do (much) more, but I'm merely claiming that they seem to be improving. Most of the articles I've read about Mary Schapiro's recent retirement conclude that she left the SEC in a better state than she found it. For example, from [1]:

She inherited a mess at the S.E.C. Critics contended that Christopher Cox, her predecessor, left an agency with low morale that was ill-prepared to cope with the financial crisis... Ms. Schapiro directed much of her early attention on the beleaguered enforcement unit... Over the last two years, the unit has filed a record number of actions and brought 129 cases against people and firms tied to the crisis.

[1] http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/schapiro-head-of-s-e-...
I don't know if you're still following this post, but find the one thing you want most from your product and build it. It may be shitty, but that's okay. It's a process. Don't procrastinate over perfection. Take it step by step. Want by want. If it's a good enough idea to you, you'll figure out a way to make it. Period. If not, you don't want it bad enough, which may be a strong indication no one else wants it either. Find your annoyance. Hope this helps.
Let's only use two bits then!
Varies a lot by country. Technically in Ireland it's illegal to drink in public. Police can confiscate drink. However the irish police enforcment can be flexible sometimes.
If the newspapers could make a profit putting pictures of cats riding unicorns on every page with any text written in swahili, they'd do it every day it worked for them and not give a damn about the societal benefit - they'd cry that they're businesses and they've got to be allowed to make a profit. This is exactly what's happened over the decades as they cut international staff, and investigative staff and focused on lifestyle and entertainment news more and more.
Posted this yesterday, somehow it never made it to the front page http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4884403
Because capitalism & marking is too good at extracting value and promoting it's product. Just look at tobacco and alcholol.
Money and science
The Pivot to Digital Learning: 40 Predictions Revisited
You are in violent agreement with the author. This is what he says as well.
on my website i haz:

Never-gonna-give-you-up-Never-gonna-let-you-down: Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry
I think the point that is unnoticed is that medium matters. More specifically, medium & distribution matter.

Mediums beget business models, not content. Game Of Thrones has business model closer to X Factor than to Avatar, because similarity of the medium is more important than similarity of the content.

The best way to see this is by looking at the history of porn, the content industry with negative lobbying power. Adult cinemas had the same business model as (and competed with) live shows. Certain types of content got produced. Then home videos changed it entirely. DDifferent types of content got produced for different people. Then DVD + online sales, changed the industry (growing it again). Then live streaming shrunk it.

Each time the medium & distribution changed the whole industry changed. Different producers, different consumers, different content, different size industry, different business model.

Online consumption of news media is not the same as dead tree. That is reality. All of the characteristics of the industry change when that happens. Douglas Adams said it best "It's like trying to explain to the Amazon River, the Mississippi, the Congo and the Nile how the coming of the Atlantic Ocean will affect them. The first thing to understand is that river rules will no longer apply."
"Disc" is a perfectly valid spelling. But even if it wasn't, it still wouldn't be worth posting to HN about.

Now, if you'd written a blog post analysing spelling/typing/grammar errors on a major web site --- or several web sites --- that might be worth posting. But this is just noise.
If you only support public key or two factor authentication you won't need to worry about brute force attacks. Most SSH brute force attacks are dictionary based using common usernames.
I would be surprised if all of this tech is developed internally by Mercedes.

I would expect a lot of it to be purchased (and then suitably integrated/branded, of course) products from automotive safety technology developers such as Autoliv (http://www.autoliv.com/ProductsAndInnovations/Pages/default....).

That should mean that the QA is not solely done by whoever puts the tech in a car, but first by the dedicated technology development company, which feels nice.
If a man speaks his mind in a forest, a no woman hears him, is he still wrong ??
You appear to be arguing that we should subsidize businesses for which the market rate for their product is virtually zero. The idea that what's in the interests of big media companies and their owners is somehow in the interests of the creative talent (think - do musicians outside a tiny number of stars have any negotiating position with record giants?) and that that is in turn somehow in the interests of society just doesn't follow for me. Every industry that fails makes the same argument - the public should pay to save us (and you are paying if as a Google customer you are forced to have your services restricted because Google has to pay to subsidize these failed businesses). But just as the piano sheet music industry was successfully replaced by the recording industry, new industries rise and replace old ones and meet the demands of the market. Just because we cannot see what that future is - because if we could we'd be building it and be billionaires doing so - doesn't mean it won't happen.

Twitter's coverage of the Arab Spring was better than any Western media in the early days... food for thought.
How many software engineers do you need to recruit via your http headers to offset the bandwidth costs?

pinterest.com seems to download ~700kB. Adding amusing http headers seems negligible.
Python:

* Pyramid
* SQLAlchemy
* Redis
* ØMQ
* eventlet
* nose
* Protocol buffers

Coffeescript

require.js

mustache

Bootstrap

Backbone/underscore

moment.js

Websockets

What I really want to use:

Haskell :-)
Show HN: Realtime Twitter Search using NodeJS & SocketIO
I think c3d is right in that Lion and Mountain Lion are slower than Snow Leopard if you don't have an SSD. It seems to me that recently Apple have been designing OSX with SSD-equipped computers as the target. They assume that you will have fast read times, and use algorithms to optimise that. For example, they 'deactivate' applications that aren't being used, because they know they can restart them from SSD very quickly, which in turn frees up physical RAM, which speeds the computer up elsewhere. The problem is that if you don't have an SSD, this decision is catastrophic for performance. As always, Apple are skating to where the puck is going to be, not where it is...
WeightWatchers' Offensive New Logo (NSFW)
That's actually not what he was referring to. I'd be interested to see him post one example, though, of the federal government making any enforcement on users for any reason at any time.

You want to ignore that? And still claim it might happen?

This gets decided by the DOJ, which is controlled by President Obama, whose base is college students and...others who show a propensity toward lighting up. Cracking down on everyday pot smokers would be political suicide.
Black and white pictures only have 256 shades of grey. Ever wondered why black and white photographs taken on film, displayed in an exhibition have such stunning detail and dynamic range, while the same photographs viewed on an LCD look bland and weak?
From reddit.com:

User-Agent: bender
Disallow: /my_shiny_metal_ass

User-Agent: Gort
Disallow: /earth
Agreed. To some extend bureaucracy exchanges negative liberty (freedom from constraint) for positive liberty (the enabling force). The exchange has some overhead not only in terms of money, but we also seem to pay more negative liberty to obtain the ``same'' amount of positive liberty.
The problem for high-line car makers is that there's little more to be done in the basic areas. The only place left to differentiate (besides raw horsepower) is in the gadgets.
But the moon could be a good testing ground for a settlement. Also, some day a nice starport perhaps.
The same greed that sent jobs overseas is now bringing them back. The difference is now the US companies will run a huge PR campaign saying they doing this because care about America, blah, blah, blah.
Event Toulouse Human talks
Well, I think anyone who has a desire to learn programming should do so. The original debate was about whether or not absolutely everyone should learn at least the basics of programming, regardless of their passion or career. It was a good debate but as always a lot of the titles of the various blog posts involved were very link-baity.
Cyber-warfare: hype and fear
I couldn't agree more. just like hybrids & EVs, it will take some time before the math surrounding that investment would work out. I supposed it would make sense for areas where parking is extremely expensive, it might also make sense for an autonomous towncar/ cab service. I could also see it being adopted by disabled people who would otherwise be barred from driving or DUI repeat offenders.
For the rest of us, it will take some time for the investment to catch up with the utility.
Common Physics Misconceptions (2m YT video)
For a minute there I though I was blind. Kept staring with my nose touching the glass. But you can really tell the difference in Chrome.
Not all bad.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/9/3009157/netherlands-net-neu...
I know Wordpress.org sends a header called X-Hacker or something, telling people who see the header to look at their jobs page and tell them about the header.
this is not from the onion
Why don't they just break and add a new line? These are really annoying.
I have a RESTful Symfony2 bundle that sends an X-Men header with a random X-Person from the comic books:

https://github.com/brightmarch/BrightmarchRestfulBundle/blob...
If you're on Safari the colors look the same, try Chrome instead.
Facts have value irregardless of whom communicates them.

For opinions on the other hand reputation matters a lot. You can't seriously give credibility to somebody with an obvious ax to grind, with an agenda and with a certain history. Even if that opinion seems valid, you may just be suffering from confirmation bias and at the very least you should seek out that confirmation from people you can trust.
Yeah it is a waste, but then so is sending CSS and Javascript that hasn't been minified. Or having multiple CSS / Javascript files when they could be consolidated. Or having long variable / class names in CSS / Javascript. Or constantly referring to Javascript as Javascript and not JS.

At some point you have to question whether you're being too stingy with bandwidth. Particularly when easter eggs like this could potentially bring you a few new visitors from the free advertising that happens when your site is discussed on blogs and forums like these.

But if nothing else; I think fun should be encouraged. After all, that's what Wozniak set out to do when he co-founded Apple :P
Right now, at my corporate job in the insurance industry?
scala (notably scalaz is banned so I've had to reimplement the bits of it I need) with a little java; spring, hibernate, wicket; oracle, mule, drools. Tool-wise eclipse, subversion (I use git-svn), twist; jenkins, crucible and I'm just in the process of setting up rundeck to replace the collection of bash scripts that currently do deployment. Sonar is running but I don't really look at it.
Hmm, I wonder if same apply to mega projects. Cost overran and miss deadlines a lot.

What is the main reason? The fact that they are hard, because they are complex or because they are mostly managed by government. Perhaps, it is a combination of both, but would love to read some scientific analysis about that.
Common Physics Misconceptions (2.5min YT video)
The Jelastic Spotlight: PixMix
Amazon allows Kindle Direct Publishing Authors to sell in Canada
Superior in every aspect.
Perhaps allowing public drinking, in the long run, might actually foster a 'healthier' drinking culture though.

It's hard to predict, of course, but if you compare it to the 'legalization' of weed in Holland and the resulting 'healthy' weed culture, it might actually work.
It'd be cool if they streamed the images over the net. Maybe like a realtime google street view.
In addition to geological resources, there is water on the Moon that can be mined [1].

Building a Moon base is a reasonable proposition because it can serve as the stepping stone to other destinations in the solar system. The low gravity makes it more attractive to mine and build things on the Moon rather than having to uplift everything from Earth.

[1] http://www.space.com/7335-water-moon-suddenly-attractive-des...