skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.businessinsider.com/digitimes-microsoft-cut-surfa...
Why would natural selection be dead? I don't see why humans would be any more immune from natural selection than any other species. At the bare minimum, people still choose their mates (and some die without reproducing), so unless these choices are completely unaffected by genes they should be causing a gradual change in heritable traits among the human population.
If the guy has a halfway competent lawyer, that is not what the judge will think. This grossly oversimplifies the exigencies of law enforcement versus the courts. Law enforcement is forced to take down things like exit nodes because they have no other way of tracking down the originators. Whether that will stick in court is an entirely different matter.
> biological evolution strike anyone else as rather irrelevant, now?

Depends. I can envision a lot of scenarios where infectious disease wreaks havoc on our species. Random mutation might have a significant impact on who would survive such a scenario and I don't think we (as a species) are anywhere near being able to circumvent natural selection of a sufficiently dire infectious disease. jmho
Icon you mean.
Paper is a renewable resource.
US Startup Visa a reality? Startups will gain from GOP's immigration pain
"Survival" in the evolutionary sense is not "survival" in the social sense. Natural selection only works if unfit individuals are killed off prior to breeding.

I don't think it's a stretch to say that, even in the least developed areas of the world, this is no longer the general case.

Humans are no longer subject to natural selection, since nearly everyone survives to breed.
I don't think it is out of place. Which comes first? The games designed for boys and men or the boys and men wanting the games? Or does the issue go even further, boys and men building games for boys and men and forgetting about games for women?

We know there are a lot of women playing video games out there, but much of the industry focuses its hype on games in the above categories.

Now, whether or not that's discrimination, I can't really say. However, it's a structural focus that's probably born out of a male-dominated workforce. Who knows how many great, marketable AAA games die on the idea floor because they don't fit into male ideas of what makes a great AAA game...
In defense of CoffeeScript, I'm not convinced that semantic issues like this are at all obvious during the creation of a programming language. Honestly it'd be dumb luck landing on this one in particular since you can imagine that the grammar definition for lambdas and invocation/application aren't sitting right next to each other. That's what got me thinking about how you could explore the term space automatically.
Is this the first time organic material has been confirmed outside of Earth?
The 90s called. They want their ecosystem back.
1) I have no idea what this is. It appears to be a short blog post with a comment box. Don't WordPress and Tumblr serve that purpose? You need to solve a pain point, that the other apps dont.

2) I have to log in to comment? Wtf

3) If you want to start a social app, start reading how others got launched. Social apps need a "seed community". Twitter had the SF tech scene. Facebook had Harvard. The seed community gives the app its first users and helps dictate the features and tone.

Hope this helps. There is tons of opportunities for new online communications software. But you need to solve a unique pain and have a realistic strategy to getting an initial user base. Posting on HN doesn't do shit.

my 2 cents
Maybe OSX is the main reason to you, but for most other people the build quality, weight, battery life, screen and design matter just as much. You can run OSX on other hardware or a VM too.
> I have no problems with coming up with something better. More like 3 a day before breakfast; I'd just have problems making people actually go along with whatever I would come up with.

Perhaps because you don't actually share your "something better"?

Two posts in, lots of words, still no alternatives.
Good point. Overpriced products that people think they can't live without are great for profits.
> "The factory that makes a product in China extracts the least margin even though it could be argued that they do the "real" work, but that’s not how the world works. The closer you are to the money the more you can extract both as a percentage of value and as a total profit."

I only realized this a few years ago and I think young people should be explained this before they go to college (that is, before they choose a major).

Had I known this then I would have chosen a different career path. The first two paragraphs of TFA should be enlightening to those about to make this choice.
> I didn't support the previous humble bundles as a marketing tactic, I supported them because of their goals.

Couldn't you just give your money to the EFF, then ?

My first reason for buying Humble Bundles is the very low price. The goal is the nice side effect.
Ah, I misread the feature list (namely the text right above the examples, about Module#include).

Matsumoto gives two of the same examples, the first in how he wants the feature to work (R2 having the refinements of R1 if it includes it) and the second in how it works at the moment (or doesn't work).

If you try that code it breaks, he wants it to not break and return :bar.
> We encrypt data with 256-bit SSL in transit and AES-256 encryption before it hits disk.

Your website copy does not inspire confidence in your ability to properly implement cryptography software.
A friend of mine redesigned the calendar
Fair, though not all households have multiple earners either. I think it is still quite conceivable for someone to be in the top 1% and still feel like they are failing in life.

And what about local wealth distributions? A $100K income puts you in like the top 0.5% in my community. Someone making that much here is part of a 1% group, just not at the country scale. If houses are cheap in your locality, I expect things to be similar.
OP is showing the old prices for Amazon. New prices:
http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing-effective-december-2012/

Google went to $0.095 a few days ago.
S3 went from $0.125 to $0.095 per gig.

Google has undercut again by going to $0.085.

I like this very much. Hey Amazon, I heard Google also called your mamma fat, are you just going to take it?
Yep. If you're a paper company, the cheapest way to get wood pulp is to grow and harvest your own forests. Replanting is how you stay in business.
Interesting note. If you change the custom value to under $1 you get the following message:

"Warning! Please note that orders under $1.00 will ONLY receive the soundtracks and will NOT receive the games! "

This seems to go against the spirit of "pay what you want"? Not that $1.00 is really different from $0.01, but I'm pretty sure that for indy bundles before you could go as low as you wanted? I didn't think to try before though, I guess. Can anybody confirm?
Seconded. The preferences dialog appears to be completely unchanged from iTunes 10.

What's especially irritating about this is that modal preferences dialogs with 'Ok'/'Cancel' buttons have been discouraged since, as far as I'm aware, the 10.0 HIG.
Of course it’s a typical Humble Bundle. There were goddamn Android bundles in the past. No one complained. But now suddenly everyone. I do not get it.

The point of Humble Bundles is to make a bunch of cool games available for however much money you want to pay. Sometimes those games are cross-plattform, sometimes not. That’s it.
NASA has discovered Water Ice on Mercury
Anyone with a PGP background who could comment on how well this works, and how likely this is not to leave information open to either the email provider or the app provider?
I meant specifically norway (though admittedly I don't know what the law actually is there) but the GP suggests that the law allows one to make backup copies of your files.

Norway is not an EU member state, so normal european laws will not necessarily apply there.

Here in the UK I'm not aware of any specific laws that would make owning software like CloneCD illegal, though it could be used in ways that might be considered illegal.
Seems very promising!

A few samples or demo code would be great though. Just to check how basic/intermeditate/advance code and concepts are.
Senate Panel Passes Email Privacy Measure
How Syria Turned Off the Internet
They are probably just whitelisting the check numbers that they write, and then rejecting any other check numbers.
Here comes Anonymous lol
I dunno, I think the regex example that Ashkenas posted is a pretty good argument that the syntax decision wasn't a mistake, even if the actual decision is up for debate. Syntactic sugar has inevitable tradeoffs and edge cases if the goal is to minimize the alteration of existing symbols and grammar.
I'd be interested in hearing from other dads: how do you balance tech and your role as a dad? How do you "turn off" tech, so that you can be more present with your kids?
I did that too, but I went the extra step of writing a little Ruby script to switch between them based on the number of outputs xrandr says is connected, and then I bound that to a keyboard shortcut, so I don't have to mess around in the terminal. I just hit ctrl-alt-M.

https://gist.github.com/4171654
As if in reply to my comment yesterday, Google continues to validate its service not by competing on quality or feature distinction, but by throwing gobs of cash at it, as they have done every other 'successful' effort outside of core search and Gmail.

Man, if only there was a single serious App Engine-compatible competitor, prices there would be at the sub-penny level by now given the fair value of that junk. Only it seems designed from the outset for this scenario to never occur, and so why would I trust my future forward compatibility to another of their cloud efforts (or the mercy of their customer support ethos)?
I have no problems disagreeing with someone, but the phone chat has exactly one and only one purpose: Get the on-site. Then once I have the full spectrum of communication available to me (mostly worried about body language and facial expressions), I will gauge how open-minded they are and adjust. I've told people before that I think their $FAVORITELANG is bullshit, but I won't risk a job interview just to score an A+ on the "utmost honesty" scale. I'm happy with a preliminary B- while I'm temporarily unable get a solid grasp of what they're like.
Show HN: SocialCla.us - Secret Santa groups with Friends
Hey guys,

http://socialcla.us

A friend and I thought up SocialCla.us over the weekend and have spent the last few nights building it after work. SocialCla.us makes it easy to start Secret Santa groups with your Facebook friends.

Feedback is appreciated!

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By using Webkit
This is the way that 3D printing will take off before in-home 3D printing -- instead of having to get a small part or prototype shipped 2,000 miles, you'll drive 5 miles to your nearest Staples.
Shit, they got me with the rick roll (short link end of video)
What is expected of a consultant
Ask HN: Pro forma help for startups?
I need to put together a pro forma for our D&O insurance, as well as potential angel investors. We haven't launched yet, and don't have anything but projections so far. Does anyone know of a good resource for pro forma statements, and help creating them?
They did that to work around a problem where people were paying $.01 just to get a steam key.

Adding a game to a steam account "validates it" and this can be abused in certain scenarios. For example, steam sometimes has events where you can enter contests, and people were creating hundreds of fake entries for almost no money.

Edit: just to be clear, for other bundles you can pay $.01 and get the DRM free games but not the steam keys (which require a payment >= $1). Here, since the games require steam, the minimum price is $1.
I use iTunes to play my collection of lossless audio (downloaded as FLAC, converted to ALAC in m4a containers). I also like to DJ occasionally, or send albums to friends. Spotify allows for none of that, and has no lossless playback options.

I'm not down on Spotify - I am a customer, as well. But don't pose it as the solution to actually possessing a music library. If all you do is listen to your music on earbuds, it's just fine. The moment you want to do more with it, you're stuck.
ya, i noticed all HN is good for is a little traffic bump.

thanks for the input though. i guess the pain point i've trying to fill is exactly this one: how do i get a message out to a large number of people?

reddit and HN got all the people but all they care about is 'whats new' and damned if they participate. where are all the participators?
Recruiting Developers? Create An Awesome Candidate Experience
How Much for that CISO in the Window? Apparently Too Much for SC.
I have to admit, while desperate by THQ, this isn't a dumb move. Notice how they give away three games with sequels out or coming out and Saints Row 3 which has a ton of dlc. It seems like they are betting the bank on the new titles that are coming out. I hope this works for them because I like the titles produced by this company.
In all likelihood...

What are you basing that on, exactly?
Just like desktop publishing.
Check out squarespace, they probably fit the bill.
I'm already pretty handicapped by being an introvert and not having English as my first language, so I'll try and make up for the difficulty of holding a conversation by other means. I'd love to not have to rely on these things, but right now I'm not confident enough in my conversation skills to forego these "conversation hacks". At least during the initial conversation.
The liberal version is paternalistic totalitarianism. You need a mix.

I'm not against meritocracy or ownership. I'm against not capping poverty and I'm against worshipping those who are lucky in life.
Well, that's obviously because English is a Scandinavian language... http://www.apollon.uio.no/english/articles/2012/4-english-sc...
The 'so what' is that Marco is telling people to boycott cable companies by not watching their shows, which would most directly hurt the writers, artists, directors, etc, who have worked really hard on their shows.
ok, great. Thanks!
By that standard, suspects are often presumed guilty by society even in the USA (for instance, suspected rapists and other sex offenders). The presumption of innocence is still considered one of the core principles of democracy and/or the rule of law.
“If, all you need is to run Linux then you can use one of the plethora of other great machines and save money.”

I didn't find that to be the case. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon was the only Ultrabook that compared at all favorably to the Air in reviews, and it costs something like $1450 versus $1140 for the Air. Thought about it. Couldn't justify the higher price. (Edit: Price has apparently dropped, see below)

Another contender was Asus' Zenbook Prime, which got mostly good reviews and is cheaper than the Air. But it's only slightly cheaper ($1080) and the Ubuntu wiki mentioned a bunch of ugly issues I didn't want to deal with: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AsusZenbookPrime

Xubuntu (Ubuntu with the Xfce desktop) is my favorite operating system. I'm not settling for less by using it. I set out to run Xubuntu on a great, lightweight laptop with an SSD, and the Air was the most compelling option. Simple as that.
They can't compete with open source on price, and Apple on marketing. So no, they won't.
No, it is known for a long time that organic compounds like Methane are found in the atmospheres of planets and comets.
Mercury has billions of tons of water ice
Not writing; speaking. Now it's not as if I deliberately employ sesquipedalian graphology for the express purpose of obfuscation. But I've spent a lifetime developing a rich, meaty vocabulary, and I'll be damned if I'm going to talk like a public high school sophomore with a sub-20 ACT score.

Just sayin'.
> Also I am not sure you understand what "mortal coil" means:

I did not know that - I really thought "mortal coil" meant the human body. Now that I know I'm wrong, nevertheless I must point out that qualifying "coil" with the word "mortal" is not only misleading but empty of meaning.

The Wikipedia article says that "mortal coil" = "the bustle and turmoil of this mortal life" but I do not believe that "mortal" fits well as an adjective for "coil" just because it refers to a "mortal life".

It seems like a very tenuous connection. Not one of Shakespeare's best poetic terms by far.

EDIT: Thanks for teaching me something interesting today, hnriot.
"American educational admission process looks more and more 'Soviet' nowadays"

Be careful when choosing your enemies. You become them.
It's Official. Water Ice Discovered on Mercury
Thank you. I've been researching job search related stuff for the past ~4 months (still stuck in a limbo during that time) and so I would say I know more about the job search than most people :) Especially those that have been able to just get a job out of university (I don't have a degree) or who are already so wanted that they don't really have to worry about these things.

What I pointed out are mistakes whether you know job search best practices or not (as most people will agree).

Finally I would like to submit that your post is a form of DH1 (http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html)
Apple did drop the ball on it... they said they are no longer going to do any development work on it. It's just as well, if you want a good browser on Windows you should be using Chrome or Firefox anyway.
You're describing a show trial. Not to say that they don't exist (or are even particularly rare), but if you're in a country that has them, you're pretty well already screwed regardless of Tor or anything else, because all it takes to throw you in prison for a decade or more is for a cop in your vicinity who needs to make his quota to decide he doesn't like anyone with a beard (or anyone without a beard, or people who are taller or shorter than he is, or brown people, etc.)

In countries where you get a legitimate opportunity to make your case, cases like these get thrown out, because the prosecutor is almost always required to prove that you knew the nature of the material, which in the case of an exit node (where "he ran an exit node" is the only evidence), they can't very well do. For exactly the same reason that ISP employees aren't prosecuted for the same thing.

Which brings it back to the issue at hand: You have people who apparently (barring additional evidence beyond running an exit node) are not guilty of the offense in question, but still the police bust into their facilities and steal their stuff. That should not be allowed to happen.
Some people were paying multiple times $0.01, using this as a vector to spam the steam key generation servers.

So they have asked (since few bundles) to pay more than $1 when you want to get te steam keys. And since this Bundle is steam-only ... The minimal amount to get the games is $1.
Is it painless if you don't have a permanent residence yet? I spent a 98-99 in Berlin after living in the US for several years and Deutsche Bank Berlin wouldn't give me a checking account even though I still had the DB savings account I had since childhood in Stuttgart. Same story at Sparkasse so I had to first move to a real appartment, then open an account, then I could do banking.

I never did manage to get an EC card.

Hopefully things have changed since then but it certainly wasn't easy then, even for a German citizen without any bad credit.

Other than that I always thought German banking was a lot better than the craziness with checks here in the US. Luckily checks are rapidly going away, though. Can't remember the last time I wrote one.
and why is the mozilla-prefix not used as well? it's not that webrtc is only google's project.
waiting until it is "done", which might mean fifteen years to find out that the game is rather crappy (duke nukem forever)

DNF wasn't done. IIRC, the developer gave up, sold what they had, which was tidied up and shipped otherwise as-is. It's another example of shipping a product before it's "done". ...and sometimes an idea just doesn't work out, no matter how much effort.
I'm surprised NASA would take the time to make such a statement, that anyone would take this end of the world thing seriously. But then I guess many people actually believe in God, and there isn't much difference.
To add to that, it is also incredibly recyclable. Any waste paper this process creates is undoubtedly recycled.
Please remember that every time you cat a file and pipe it to grep an innocent process dies. Have you no compassion?
"... retains the pilot version's 1366x768 display resolution."

Why would Dell use such a low-resolution screen? My phone is higher resolution than this laptop. Visual information density is very useful to "devops" Dell is said to be targeting and hi-dpi enables this.

Linus Torvalds is right in saying we need a new standard (he is advocating for a new 2560x1600 laptop standard, see https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/ByVPmsSeSEG ).

(edit - fixed resolution typo)
OH NO SHE DIDNTTTTTT
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This is a great example of how competition is good for the customer.
Why thank you, kind sir, I never would have thought of that myself.

Where do you research it? As I was intimating, all I can ever find is some person on some forum who says it's working fine for them. I have zero confidence in such "research".
You expect me to go to all the extra trouble of typing a 4-letter command instead of a 3-letter command? This is Unix!
Life Post-Acquisition: A Startup Engineer's Perspective
...making "anulled" a relatively rare word in the English training corpus.
Perhaps as a certified Old Grouch(tm) I'm merely being paranoid in that I use a three step approach to this problem: 1. local project; 2. backup project to thumb drive; and 3. backup project to the cloud. Of course there is a reverse approach to synchronize accordingly. I also would like to see some attention paid to the traditional problem of "Who's on first" that invariably arises when number of participants is greater than 1...
But the Android ones also worked on Linux, OSX and Windows. This is just Windows.
It blocks the UI thread when generating thumbnails in the "video" tab... lots of small modal progress windows... really still feels like an OS 9 app at times.

It does seem like they removed the ability to open multiple windows though, which I always activated by mistake instead of on purpose.
Not so sure about the speed, I can't even scroll through albums smoothly in the default view.
It sounds like it is still shipped 2,000 miles. You just receive it at your local Staples instead of your mailbox. Though I'm inclined to agree that the next step will be in-house 3D printing businesses.
You have always had to pay at least a dollar to get Steam keys, no matter the bundle. I think it has something to do with Steam's requirements, but I don't know that.
A couple of things come to mind.

- It's easy to condemn a country for cutting off the internet, but can it be justified under certain situations?

- The UN Human Rights Council deemed that basic internet access is a human right, but is it a fundamental human right which should never be taken away?

- What if we're isolated from the outside world but can still access local email, banking, websites, etc. to carry on our daily lives. Does that count as being cut off from the internet and having a human right violated?

- The sheer scale of shutdown is surprising - not just a few days, but for months on end. How long could we last without access to the internet and how far would we travel to get it?
Alcohol was also found in space: http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2001/vinylalco/
> What's especially irritating about this is that modal preferences dialogs with 'Ok'/'Cancel' buttons have been discouraged since, as far as I'm aware, the 10.0 HIG.

When has Apple followed their own HIG?