skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off topic, but the "flying brick" would actually let you measure longitude; you get a lattitude fix via stars, and then the time from the position of the flying brick (which has a known period).
Small variant:

void main() { while (1) printf("%c", "/\\"[rand()%2] ); }
This guy won reddot design award in 2007. So this is much more older than 2 years
Yes, I see the same thing, but it does work remarkably well aside from that! Thanks for the tip, HSO!
Red herring. If Penn State coaches had bet on the games, that might be applicable.
It's an interesting article, but I doubt the gamification stuff would work for me at all.

It does nothing for me to create some artificial reward unrelated to the goal I'm trying to accomplish. If accomplishing the goal isn't reward enough on its own, then why should I do it? That's especially true if the reward is something I can I have anyway. There is no net gain by depriving myself of an energy drink in my refrigerator for another hour. The energy drink was already mine; and was mine to have when I decided to have it. The gamification idea seems trite to me.
In Taiwan, every convenience store acts like a post office where you can pick up packages, even if they are on the same street. Because there are so many 7-11's, Family Mart's, etc., the system works extremely well.

In Canada now, I think the only instance that is as wide-spread is gas stations. I could see Buffer Box stations at selected pumps in the near future.
Hypersonic Flight ‘Breakthrough’ Could Have Us in Tokyo by Lunch
Yeah, M is ripe for it. The graph theory is already there, along with symbolic stat distributions. We should be able to do some pretty powerful inference, perhaps even on generalized box-plate diagrams.
Apparently you missed the part where I said I'm on ML (and have done pretty much exactly what you suggest). I'm merely observing that I do not like the direction that OS X is taking in terms of UI/UX.
This always comes up. But everyone knows its execution that matters
Uxmas Advent Calendar - 24 days of UX
The problem that's being solved is that we have no control over which delivery service a retailer uses
The help is voluminous and really quite wonderful (all the examples are executable). Just go to the documentation center and explore until you get tired. And repeat a couple hundred times. It's like reading Wikipedia.

At least, exploring is how I learnt it.

These video courses also exist and are all free: http://www.wolfram.com/training/courses/. I haven't tried any of them, but they're supposed to be quite good.
Thanks for posting this. I was looking at adding uploads just this morning, so this is very timely. It looks like if you combine the direct upload to S3 as outlined in this article with bitline (http://www.blitline.com/), you get some pretty cool abilities. I especially like that bitline supports batch operation (for example create five sizes of my image) in one call.
TIL "Dead Reckoning" is more than just a badass movie and band name. That's really neat!
Wow, thats a lot of negativity here.

There were some neat tricks to use here:

1) The reward feint - people are statistically terrible prognosticators of what would make them happy. Setting a stretch reward which actually uses this aspect of to create a positive outcome is really neat.

2) The variable reward schedule? just 2 coin flips is a really stupidly obvious solution, and variable reward schedules are like crack for the brain.

3) How he dealt with high energy requirement prep, during low energy periods. That's something I've faced and I used to just say "man I've just got to work through it."

These were some obvious things executed nicely. For people who are facing trouble with intrinsic motivation, this is something that can be set up and launched and will helps you get through the hump.

edit: flow/redundant bits removed.
Here's the other page on the AWS documentation on this:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/s3-developer-guide/RESTAuthentic...
Basketball Players’ Night Off Makes a Stand for Sitting Out
- Only 25 percent of college graduates are deemed proficiently literate. How did the 75 percent complete college (and how did they get in to college in the first place) if they can't read and write at a proficient level?

- 43 percent of all grades are As. Isn't an A supposed to be the best grade? I was always very impressed when someone was mentioned as "a straight A student" but I guess it just means she got average or slightly better than average grades :-)
Pointing out a conflict of interest, by itself, is indeed an ad hominem. Whether someone has a conflict of interest or not has nothing to do with their argument being right or wrong. It only indicates that they might be willing to put forth their argument without exploring any supporting evidence (or willfully ignoring it). Besides, in this case, I personally think that is very unlikely.
Uncaught SyntaxError: Variable 'handler' has already been declared

that's what i get when i try to run that thing.
Jobs also demanded and got the full resignation of all but 2 of the prior BODs after he came back. Dump the past troublemakers. That won't work here since Meg is one of those previous bad HP BODs members.
I like Zurb. I like using Foundation. I dislike this. If I'm reading an email I want text.
Font Awesome to become LGPL by KDE developer's request
If I'm running, or plotting a path in general, I don't need the GPS immediately. I think instantaneous GPS is mostly used for navigational and augmented reality purposes.

So, I could see there being some consumer uses for it, if you could demonstrate that the power saving was worth the wait.
Reminds me of this blog post about a Tron game that didn't check memory bounds either: http://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/10/real-life-tron-on-an-a...
congrats to bufferbox, and kudos on an excellent slogan: "let us handle your package" <immature snicker>
My Notes on Icecast with NodeJS
I thought this was going to suggest cloud route processing, like Apple Maps/Google Maps/Nokia Here where the GPS is done on the phone, but the routing is done in the cloud.

This is why your iPhone or Android is a hundred or even several thousand times faster to "recalculate" a new route when you take a wrong turn than your trusty, old Garmin. That's also why if you get lost in the middle of nowhere w/out cellular reception, you'll be hoping your old TomTom is still in the glove box - the maps and routing algorithms are all stored on the device itself (though this means the data on it gets outdated and you will need to update it, often for a price).
Super Mario and the Warp Whistle
HP desktops and networking hardware is good. I don't know about their laptops but they were horrible 4 or 5 years ago. Their printer division has been resting on its laurels for almost a decade and its not clear if the hardware is any good because the software that ships with HP printers is SO bad its impossible to say.
ÂÄÀÁaâAä[tab]åáãÅ[newline]àÃ
Scientists build tiny structures using Lego-like DNA 'bricks'
Learning curve != ease. The niceness of Cocoa Touch is one of the things that keeps me working on Apple's platform.
HP's software division is actually doing pretty well except for Autonomy. Of their other recent acquisitions, Vertica is doing great, ArcSight is doing pretty well, Fortify (where I work) is doing pretty well.

But HP Software accounts for only 3% or 4% of HP's revenue.
Enterprise Apps Are Moving To Single-Page Design
There's no doubt that there is a lot wrong with education in general but there's also a lot of great things about it too. The value of bringing together a large number of young, intelligent people with all kinds of interests is incredible.

In terms of what's wrong and suggestions for improvement, it's hard to know where to start. One big, doable change may just be more standardized testing. The price of education is simply a reflection of the fact that employers and students overvalue degrees. This leads to this perverse effect that causes people to enroll because they feel like they have to, not because they want to. The whole dynamic just seems to create an enormous amount of problems. Tying so much economic value to a college degree drives prices and attendance up and the effectiveness and true value of education down.
Jeff Hawkins Discusses Intelligence
This was the most beautiful one for me: http://cl.ly/image/3y0I2J2q421E
I was reading an article in an OLD print magazine published in the year 1900 (probably around when that picture was taken). It spoke of the increase of college students in the U.S. and made some comments on how past countries had suffered because of too many college graduates:

"There can hardly be too large an attendance at our colleges so long as the sturdy common sense of American life keeps its balance — the common sense that forbids even an effort to make a distinct "educated " class which when "educated" is unwilling to do the common tasks at which young men must first try their mettle. In Germany there is a surplus of scholars who are worth nothing to the community. They might have been good craftsmen, but university training has left them unwilling to do the common work of the world."

Has the U.S. lost that "sturdy common sense" recently? Too many degrees are handed out (a large part thanks to for-profits) to those who probably shouldn't have a degree. If they were to attend a vocational school or become an apprentice instead of college, college degrees wouldn't be watered down by those who don't even need them, meanwhile colleges would have a student body of only those fit to be there.
I disagree (HP employee here). I was actually pleased to see these decisions being made with due deliberation. Quite an encouraging change from Apotheker's loose-cannon style. Seriously -- killing the TouchPad after six weeks?
If you have a 360 you should avoid Fez. That game does some clever things with glitches and crashes.
IT is a good point, but HP does not have the Fed to backstop their losses, nor to loan them money at almost no cost.
"Transitioning developers from HTML to Java"

Fail.
I've only really seen screenshots of metro but this app looks like a bad recreation. Are the colors usually that bright and are the fonts that padded?
I tried to like it. I bumped up the font size to 36 points. I slowed down the loop to .01 seconds. Unfortunately, it isn't remotely the same.

The C64 had magic. I miss my old C64.
what do you mean migrate to new machines?
Creating the admin part for the new User model is quite a bit of work. You will have to not only create a new ModelAdmin but also create new forms and/or views for all the CRUD operations.
I'd extend that thought and say the problem with American secondary education is American primary education; and the problem with American primary education is American pre-school education or lack there of; and the problem with American pre-school education or the lack there of is that investing in 3 year olds requires a long term outlook and patience; two things politicians and decision makers are incentivized to be deficient in.
Applying to YC is all about focus - if you get accepted it's the first thing you should if you want to invest in your startup more than everything.
If you risk losing your job, make it a side project.

One other thing you can do is to start working on it full time and get funded only after a considerable amount of development has been done in a better valuation.
Oh, I didn't know that. I saw YC S12 and assumed they had just launched.
While interesting, it isn't the same. I'm not sure what, exactly, the difference is, but I don't get the feeling of "labyrinth". Instead, I get the feeling of a bunch of similar glyphs.
Post anything form your Google Drive.
> Interviewing at Google took the same amount of my time as interviewing at Amazon.

Both of which consist of a sequence of several interviews that can take a significant amount of time, time that could be better used applying to other companies.

> Why would it not be worthwhile to peruse all options, especially when one of the options seems better than the rest?

Because it's not better, not on the whole. The nice perks are only one factor - the competitiveness of the interview process must be considered as well. When my competitors, such as the guy who wrote TFA, are willing to go to fanatical lengths to do well in the interview process, it's not worth the trouble of applying.

In fact, with lower competitiveness among applicants at other companies, I could demand a higher salary, and then use that salary to buy gourmet food/coffee and pay for Instacart to get the same grocery delivery services you get for free at Google. You shouldn't forget that a lot of those Google perks are fungible, given a higher salary. Actually, I would prefer the cash over the free coffee - I hate the taste of coffee and it gives me indigestion, so I don't benefit at all from free gourmet coffee at work.
I've been wrestling with a similar question. My current take on it is this:

1. Get a real, working system to a demo-able point. This is not an MVP, but rather a system that lets people see the underlying potential.

2. Start talking to people. This includes both potential customers as well as potential investors. The goals is to find out whether I'm up in the night or if there is a real need here.

3. ???

4. Profit.

(#3 is said somewhat in jest, but it really means synthesizing the output of #2 and determining if there is a real path (whether bootstrapped or funded) that leads to #4.)
Having seen Autonomy's products and support in action, I can vouch for their seemingly preternatural ability to brush off problems as if they didn't exist.
Are You An Ubuntard?
That doesn't really surprise me at all yet it still manages to upset me quite a bit.
Parse is looking for a Solutions Architect passionate about mobile
I disagree with your argument that email lags behind web design due to pack of effort. Have you ever tried to code a HTML email like you would code a website and looked at the result in email clients? Do this once and you'll see what I mean.

Email clients are definitely to blame.
same here in Canada... which is why I find it odd this service was started in Canada.

My post office is 5 minutes from my house. Open late.

Purolator/UPS, Fedex, and DHL are a bit more painful though. Close at 5, only open monday-friday.
TouchDevelop Wep App Preview does not work with Opera.
Please use Internet Explorer 10, Chrome or Firefox.

Why?
I agree. The way the laws have been interpreted are incredibly arbitrary and create way to much uncertainty. Horse racing and fantasy sports are legal because they have friends in high places. Theoretically games of skill are legal but skill seems to be a word with a vague legal definition.
Tattoo Artist Sues THQ for Copyright Infringement
Doesn't google maps allow downloading of data to the phone for use without internet?
BoA got 20B in TARP funds specifically to offset that loss. It's hard to know how much of their further 118B of Federal guarantees against losses and Geithner-knows how much free money from the discount window and Fed purchases of terrible securities can be attributed to their agreeing to buy Merrill.

But I think it's fair to say BoA didn't lose anything close to even 8B by the time the deal was done.
Because developing on that many web standards when the other three have such a huge market share is unnecessarily onerous.

Not supporting one browser or another is rarely if ever a stand against that browser, it's just a decision based on living in reality. I've used and liked Opera in the past, but I've never once tested so much as a web page in Opera since I stopped using it as my primary browser.
University of Utah actually. They offer a similar program to CMU.
Ok, I think you've accurately communicated HBO's reasoning for thinking this would be a bad idea. I'm not persuaded by their argument. For the reasons that I enumerated.

I completely accept that they wouldn't be persuaded by mine either if that helps. I firmly believe however that someone will adopt this sort of model and then we'll have an empirical example to talk about.
Norway is building thorium reactor
Try changing the 0.01 at the end to 0.001 or lower.
I'm not saying that asking for hard proof is ever a bad thing, but I will say that it's not illogical to make this claim without.

Anecdotally, I know exactly 1 programmer TOTAL that does not use a mac laptop when they develop out of the dozens that I know, and he just got hired at Microsoft. I know several that use Windows desktops, but exactly 1 that doesn't have a mac laptop.
Browsers for Windows
ChallengeHN: Popular Hanging Picture Puzzle
Yeah, I guess I should keep in mind that it depends on the person. I have a hard time typing on the Surface without the Touch/Type Cover.
Obviously most of the clients that don't support this are built by Microsoft. Nice job, btw.
I like how you say oracle is a hostile entity and then propose that Apple should charge licensing fees for using objective-c.

You state a lot of opinions as facts and give zero justification.
Sure, that's one of the ways to solve the problem.

Most retailers are upfront regarding the delivery service used. You wouldn't shop at a brick and mortar retailer that's unreasonably far from you. Why shop at an online retailer that sends your packages unreasonably far?
It doesn't look like he was interviewing for a software engineering position.
DevOps Culture Hacks
I prefer HTML emails in many cases. However, most aren't responsive and for the longest time Gmail for Android hasn't supported pinch-to-zoom (I think it does in 4.2).
Patent pending... ;)
This is where the abnb model seems to have an angle: if you are part-time subletting, the interest in the person living there full time is to keep a livable place. so if the FT lessor is paying 2K a month and lets his house 3 days a month, the 3 days are much more likely to be OK (~= to the other 27). The problem in one sense, is with "absentee" or professional landlords, who don't live there and have the "skin in the game". On that end of the spectrum, hotel licences seems to make a more compelling case (consumer might want an inspection if he cant trust the landlord would live in the place himeself).
How I built HN Browser(my first iOS app)
I have written a blog post about it. http://soleun.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/how-i-built-hn-browse...
It's interesting that you should bring up the college application process. I came to a similar conclusion for college. Rather than going to an Ivy League (or MIT/Stanford) school, I went to a fairly good (top 20) university instead. I got a full ride, which allowed me to come out of college with a net profit of $25k. To this day, I have no regrets about the decision I made, while I have friends who went to the Ivies and are now still in debt and without a good job (primarily because they went into finance right before things went to hell in a handbasket, but still).
they are professional real-estate investors. your analogy is like saying invetment bankers and vc's need protection from their clients or entreprenuers. while they do need (and are entitled to) equal protection to support bilateral contract, its not clear they need protection laws in the sense of "consumer protection"==which is protection given in the public interest to allow 'naive' parties to trust 'sophisticated' professionals.
ascii works for me if I escape the \, ie: / \\
Same thing, but with corner-to-corner unicode glyphs:

python -c 'import random; print "".join(random.choice([u"\u2571",u"\u2572"]) for i in range(80*24))'
Is it real acquisition this time by Google? Because there wasn't any press release link and very recently there was a rumour of a company being acquired by Google.
I'm pretty glad I saw this on the day that I learn I'm undertaking the project of implementing an email newsletter system :)
The foolproof formula for raising a Series A
Here’s how you respond to an unfair post about your company
BOOM. It's moves like this that are going to ensure that Windows 8 prevails in the end. I hate to make the comparison, but Microsoft's only competitor is Apple and now that Jonny Ive is helping out with the design aspects of not just the products but interfaces, Microsoft have forced Apple's hand so-to-speak.

I doubt we'll be seeing Apple make a web-based touch interface for building applications, but it'll no doubt force them to consider something because Microsoft are starting to make me even consider trying to build an app. And out of a C based language and web based builder, which has the lesser learning curve?

Very smart move. Well played, Microsoft.
Even if that isn't what happened, sounds like a wonderful plot for a movie. Want to help me get started on writing the script?
Dissecting the source of OpenStruct (Ruby)
Top 6 Podcast Tools - Linux Links - The Linux Portal Site
Wow, if Google wants to hire the top 1%, it hardly means rejecting 99% of the interview candidates.

First of all, that logic only works if Google only wants the top 1% of people who apply to Google, and that Google is completely and absolutely incompetent at weeding out the bottom 99% through other screening methods.

Secondly, I doubt that Google has any kind of monopoly that allows them to determine what, exactly, the top 1% or even the top 10% is. A lot of people are fond of throwing these percentages around without even rudimentary data to support their notions of competence - which I think is probably fair to use as a data point for evidence of incompetence.

Thirdly, I could go on, but...
Um, investing in 3 year olds is done (assuming raising children is not the states responsibility) by parents, not politicians... not sure what your point is here.
On two-factor authentication
Everything is fast and cheap.
When you buy a new computer, how do you get iTunes 8 on it. Do you keep the old installer around, etc.

Do you not use and sync any iOS device with it?
Yes, you can download a fairly large region and keep it on your device. It also downloads a route when you begin navigating so you could just turn off your wireless once you start and it'll still get you where you are headed.
Rest the portrait on top of the nails.
They definitely need some js error tracking tool (like qbaka.net) to handle errors. Their main javascript size is 420K!
There's always a post like this. Who gives a shit about Opera at this point? It's hard enough making a complex web app work on IE, Chrome and Firefox as it is.
The article isn't perfect but the conclusion is:

> Just as Autonomy was supposed to transform H.P. into a software powerhouse, AOL was meant to transform old-media Time Warner into an Internet darling. So-called transformative thinking by some board members and top management rendered traditional valuations irrelevant and silenced critics.

In both cases, that thinking proved delusional.
Nasrine sotude 
نسرین ستوده
I thought another big issue with flying at such fast speeds was that you end up tearing pieces off your fuselage every time... This looks like one piece of a bigger puzzle to achieve what the headline of the article is suggesting.
Hi this story is obviously embellished. I can't be bothered to correct it on the mail but don't want hacker news readers getting the wrong idea! See my site finalbullet.com -- I don't have that many pictures and have never travelled anywhere to get one!
Reddit Update 0n PDF MAGAZINE
I am somewhat doubtful about gyroscope replacing GPS. If it can actually happen, it will require, as noted by others, re-tuned/tweaked/calibrated/adjusted every day/week to void accumulated error/noise.

Keep in mind that as precise as gyroscope can get, they could be susceptible to shock (if you drop it on the ground).

But I am interested in seeing how it could develop into
Which browser/platform?
Thanks for the recommendation. We (I am in the TouchDevelop team) have an excellent crash tracking system in place, and whatever issues you see today might be fixed tomorrow. If you are curious how we build TouchDevelop, you can watch this video from a session at the recent Build conference: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/3-018