skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried Octopress, but didn't like the default theme/layout — I wanted to design my own theme, and was hoping to build up a site from scratch, not rip out what was already there. After considering a bunch of Python-based SSGs which didn't impress me for various reasons, I went with Jekyll and have been quite happy.

One feature on my todo list is to find a way to add infinite scrolling (this is 2012, I don't think blogs should have “Next Page” anymore!). It seems it shouldn't be too hard but a quick search suggests nobody has tried this with Jekyll (or Octopress) yet.
I couldn't agree more. This is exactly the experience I had being coached with poker. Sometimes you get some insight or way of looking at a problem that you probably would have never worked out on your own no matter how much time you were given. Having an external person who is invested in your success is really powerful as a tool for learning.
While it was far better (and thanks for the pointer to Cathode!), I figured out what the problems are. First (and probably most important), the lines being output don't touch each other, so there are horizontal gaps across the entire screen. Second, the glyphs are much thinner, reducing the feeling of "wall".
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Does anyone know how practical this is? Is it economically feasible to do this on a jetliner, at Concorde prices? A business jet?
I guess more to the point, 'business value' has to be measured - it's generally going to be measured in dollars.

If doing XYZ with the business will earn $50,000 over 6 months, let's consider doing it. Now, we need to look at the cost. If the cost is a few days of work - say... $5k for a team of people, it's a no brainer.

If, however, making the code do new things breaks old stuff, and ends up taking 4 weeks, the cost may be $20k now, as well as 3x the opportunity cost of the extra weeks, as well as potential lost good will or extra customer service required to deal with things that broke because we pushed out new functionality without any ability to comprehensively test.

Suddenly that potential $50k at the hard cost of > $20k might not be so appealing, and is far less a sure thing.

This is one of the reasons it's been hard for me to be an 'employee' for any length of time anywhere - the politics involved in trying to see a big picture, and convince other people you can, in fact, do this, is troubling in most organizations. However, as an outside consultant, you're treated differently. And to the extent that you still run in to obstinate politics... you get to move on instead of having to work in the same org for years on end.
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The advice seems qualified to networking/fundraising.
"When word of a crisis breaks out in Washington, it's no accident that the first question that comes to everyone's lips is: 'Where's the nearest carrier?'" - Bill Clinton

From what I understand, the modern concept of carrier operations is to always have a carrier near potential trouble spots, so that you don't haveto get her ready to sail - she's already at sea, close enough to make a difference.
Can't believe the linked article describes the Galaxy Nexus strength as the camera. It's arguably the weakest part of the device. It was an under-performing camera compared to others when the phone was announced, now it is left in the dust.
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But then again, Xeon Phi which inherited some technology from Larrabee maintains cache coherency for its 60 cores.
My own : https://gitorious.org/fugitive ;-).
Former Shadow 200 TUAV from the US Army pilot here. Not only are fully automated landings feasible, they are happening in practice. The Shadow has a piece of equipment called the T.A.L.S. (Tactical Automated Landing System). Landing a shadow (I did this in Iraq as well mind you) involved aligning the AV in a small box on the screen which turned it green. Provided the airspeed was right and crosswinds were in tolerance, you click the "Land AV" button and the landing is 100% hands off. If at any point during the tals auto-landing something looks off, you push the abort button which powers the engines to full, gains altitude, and lets you circle around to try again. This tech is around and battle tested.

My thought on why the predator / reaper aren't is simply so an officer can go through flight school and get his cool flight wings in the USAF. There is no good technical reason as far as I know landings can't be fully automated with larger UAVs.
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That feels so wrong. It is still floating and could be useful.

Destructing it is just destruction for the sake of it.

Why not at least sell it to a friendly country, who could use such power to defend itself from neighbouring enemies?

I'm sure Israel or Japan would welcome the gift - they sure could supply their own planes and weapons.

It's a real shame to destroy so much investment - especially since, as noted in the article, its speed is still competitive.
konec allows you to perform general public key cryptography operations (encrypt/decrypt/sign/verify) with your OpenSSH RSA keys.

This is also possible to do with openssl rsautl, but I wanted a simplified interface, so I wrote one in Go. Build/installation instructions are here: https://launchpad.net/konec/+announcement/10904

So what's the point of konec? As I mention in the man page, encrypting with an OpenSSH key is probably most appropriate for publicly posting a nonce or expiring session key to a remote host, because you're using what is otherwise (in OpenSSH) an authentication/identity key. But what about signatures? Signing a message with an SSH host identity seems interesting from a trust perspective.

Edit:
Right now the encryption is rather limited (I'm doing direct RSA-OAEP on the plaintext) so I'm considering adding a wrapped symmetric cipher. Or maybe this is a feature?

What do you think? What features should I add? How would you use konec?
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(function draw(i){ return function () { document.write(i%30==0 ? '<br>' : Math.random()>0.5?'\u2571':'\u2572'); setTimeout(draw(i+1), 100) } }(1)())

A throttled run-forever version.

edit, slightly neater:

(function draw(i){ setTimeout(function (){ document.write(i%30==0 ? '<br>' : Math.random()>0.5 ? '\u2571':'\u2572'); draw(i+1); }, 100) }(1))
Hey Joel, isn't this, strictly speaking, a Google position now? :)
I can follow your aversion to IDEs (to each his own).

But foregoing a nice font and some basic syntax highlighting just seems masochistic.
There's lot of data about this, but as someone else noted it is very workload dependent. It allows you to more effectively hide memory latency, but of course you still have to deal with other issues like the increased register file size.

A lot of modern app architectures are effectively 3 threads (UI thread, compute thread, and compositor thread), which seem like good candidates for SMT. Although I don't think many/any mobile architectures use SMT -- I don't know how it effect power efficiency.
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It's funny that this turned up today. Last week I was browsing craigslist for quick side gigs, and came across a post of someone wanting a Django/python tutor. I pinged the person - and decided to help her out. The problem is: I am not comfortable taking money to help someone learn something, since I am not a professional tutor or teacher. Fortunately in this case she was also about to apply for a job at the university I work at, so payment for the tutoring couldn't happen at all (due to potential conflict of interest issues). So instead we worked out a deal where I will help her learn if some of her learning projects are stuff we need to do at my local hackerspace, and helps me with some of the pages I do as volunteer work for charities.

We were talking and have come to the conclusion that this arrangement might be somewhat scalable for learning - an apprentice model for coding, that benefits 3rd parties. It certainly gets around some of the weird power dynamics of traditional apprenticeship/mentoring and paid tutoring. Further it is a good way to get some needed talent to good non-profits that may not be able to otherwise arrange such a thing.

Finally, and this is the kicker - it gives novices practice in real development, and it gives experienced people (who may be hiring) access to people to see how they are at problem solving in a real environment, rather than interview tests, potentially faked code samples, etc. (Not to mention, someone willing to go through the effort of something like this is probably already a great candidate on the strength of "wants to learn more and actually takes effort to do so", which I have found to be a strong indicator for a good employee).

I don't know where you are located, but if you want to get into some more discussions about setting up something like I described above, feel free to email me:

$HNUSERNAME at gmail.
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It's fun to imagine the type of replicator a Type I civilization might be able to produce. Imagine a machine that takes hydrogen and energy (or just energy) and builds, from the subatomic particles up, all the elements needed for production (just as stars do). Then, using a combination of scaffolding, precise placement, and self-replicating nano-structures, creates any object, organic or otherwise. Who knows, we may ultimately figure out how to manipulate a more fundamental physical substrate than just "packets of energy orbiting each other" and so create exotic but stable condensates and states of matter we can now only imagine. This would be something akin to using the hypothetical "quantum foam" as a sculpting material.

Granted, this all requires physics that aren't currently understood and may not even exist, and the amount of energy required would be staggering, but a true "anything replicator" would surpass the Star Trek vision into something that needed no "raw materials" at all except energy.
IIRC the iPhone 5 (and probably others) are sRGB. I'm sure the N4 is an upgrade to the Galaxy Nexus though which cannot display any color without awful pentile distortions.
Internet back on in Syria
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I don't think he was saying it's a shame it's being decommissioned, rather that it was a shame it's being scrapped. But the other poster's link does a good job explaining why it can't be turned into a museum or something after the reactors are removed.
It's important to promote yourself whenever possible, even if you have enough work right now. You never know when that may change. You want to line up work before you need it, otherwise you may find yourself without any.
Yes, if PRI_LL_PREFIX expands to a string literal, the literals get merged together.
I should be surprised that a HN reader is falling for this guy's trick, but I guess I'm not.

"Oh and look at how the military is using these hacker kids with neck beards who part-time as assassins in between their Battlefield 3 matches"

I guess this guy (and apparently you too) would feel better if this guy was wearing a 3-piece suit before he launches a hellfire missile into a Taliban camp.
Japanese railway introduces fastest commercial maglev ever
If anyone sees this: Don't be fooled by the outdated graphics, this is actually a pretty good game, the crafting system is just insanely deep and the whole concept is implemented really well.
I'd imagine you'd be hard pressed to find a video of "expert players" playing D&D. And even if you did, I really doubt it would be overly thrilling to watch.

For what it's worth, RPGs are a rather specific thing, since they can only work if the given group works as a group. This form of gaming is a communal effort, a DM who doesn't adjust to what his players wish for will soon be without a group. Both the DM and the players are supposed to have fun. They might need some nudging here or there, but overall, they are just as much part of the process.

Most questions in any RPG forum I've ever seen center either around meta-gaming questions (rules and how to enforce/circumvent them) or about how to deal with situations that arise from a specific group constellation. If you have a group that likes the fighting but dislikes riddles, a DM avoiding juicy fights and drowning them in riddles does them a disservice. Most problems however arise from less homogenous groups, where some people fancy one thing while others would like to focus on others.

Ultimately, every group has to find out for itself what does work and does not work. Other people can give you hints, propose changes, improvements or overall just tell you about their experiences and how they deal with problems, in order for you to be able to compare their problems and solutions to your own.

[edit] Something like stackoverflow works in much the same way. The community can propose solutions to a specific question you put forward, based on their own experience and ideas, however, you will ultimately be responsible to figure out whether the proposed answers are right for you and your specific contexts and experiences.
I kinda like the idea but...

Coaches for online poker had that convenient that you could get a coach whose prices would always been within your reach: if you were a regular winner (or break even) at, say, $25NL then you probably had a few $25 buy-ins you could use to pay a coach begin a regular winner at, say, $50 NL or $100 NL and both of you could find value in doing that.

Then there was also this idea that you could learn from someone only a bit better than you: someone who was beating one or two levels above yours had already stuff to teach you and would be unlikely to give you bad habits.

But for programming I'm not too sure: it's not really a good idea to learn from someone who's just "a bit better" than you. And if you want to learn from someone who can do $100/hour consulting then it may cost you an arm and a leg to learn anything from him.
Gotchya.

But that doesn't invalidate my reply, which was about the numbers being compared and the context of those numbers.

Are there many people living in the desert where the military trains? Or over open water? Many military bases don't have residential areas in the immediate vicinity, unlike most civilian airports. (Sure, there are exceptions to both, but as a whole - what's the norm?)

I realize there are incidents that have involved civilians, such as when I was in San Diego and an F-18 (?) crashed into a neighborhood near Miramar in San Diego. My questions: what is the total number of civilian casualties from military "incidents" and how does that compare to civilian incidents? And what other airspace can they fly in? Is there no way to compromise? Etc.

I'm not arguing for or against contractors or drones. I would think they should be launched from military bases, if at all. My goal is to look at it from the right perspective.