skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lying, even when the lie is "conventional" can cause problems as well; many immigration agents are very good at sniffing out little inconsistencies.

I once spent about three hours arguing with immigration officials in "the back room" after a friend decided that "tourist" was a better answer than the real reason (going to a wedding, staying with my family)—but that didn't quite match up with other details ("where are you staying?" "how long are you here?" ...). [Note this was also prior to 9/11, and they probably err on the side of "grill" more often these days.]

The guy that did most of the grilling in that case (and who seemed pretty sharp) ended with this advice: "next time just tell the truth... it's a lot easier for everybody."

I think that's pretty much true.
Editing visual studio project files with text editing tools works just fine, they're pretty-printed XML.
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Come on. The federal debt is >$40,000 per person, and that's not including unfunded liabilities. At the worst, a municipal level government can have an orderly bankruptcy that causes no systematic damage. When the treasury market finally crashes, the entire world is going to look like an exploding hemorrhoid.
The $25 million they obtained was a loan, want it? You have to include paying that back, and the interest on that loan, in you calculation.
Yeah, I started by saying shoot an email, but realized I didn't want to post my email address here :)
SGI = IRIX, DEC = Ultrix

What you're thinking of is different from task/processor/thread affinity.

Regarding SGI, I'm guessing you're thinking about the Onyx, which would have put it about 1993+. The R4x00s that were in the machine were not powerful enough to drive the RE2 and IR boards on a shared basis. The scheduler on many of these machines (Ultrix and IRIX both, along with Unicos, etc.) all pretty much sucked at the time, with AIX being a notable exception in some environments, especially running under VM.

You still see dedicated task processors with the z-series and maybe i as well today.
fyi rack-mini-profiler does timeline stuff https://github.com/SamSaffron/MiniProfiler/tree/master/Ruby
Or run an emulated Android instance with the hacked library. I've done this--not for Ingress, in fact they may check for it--so it's possible.
I'm struggling to understand how they're going to pull this off without pissing people off. It was my understanding that console makers typically take losses on sales of their console and make up for it by selling games. That's why we have such a slow release cycle for consoles.

A big gripe people seem to have with consoles is that the hardware limitations due to slow release cycles prevent games from advancing. How is Steam going to continue to put games out quickly?

Are they selling it as a PC that I could also use for word processing or programming? This might help justify a higher cost. But then, I'm not putting it in my living room and it's not really competing with consoles. Perhaps I'm missing something here.
The best dessert I've ever eaten was both:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qofsdSMuGbg

There's something extremely decadent about devouring something that beautiful and meticulously crafted. Fine dining is as much about the experience it creates as the food itself. It's not for everyone.
Well, body temperature has been linked to immune system performance. So wet towels can arguably worsen a pneumonia.
Haha - I came here to say this!
I like how Dell, Red Hat, and Rackspace are also cosignatories, but the article's title mentions Zynga.
Because constantly refreshing the page just to check a variable assignment that could be checked by an automated test is a ridiculous waste of time.
The game is enjoyable; thanks for making it. Would you please change to using system-mutable sound that doesn't play when the phone is set to vibrate? You're using the un-mutable sound that is supposed to be for alarms, video and things like that.

From the Human Interface Guidelines[1]:

Users switch their devices to silent when they want to [...]

- Avoid hearing sounds that are the byproducts of user actions, such as keyboard or other feedback sounds, incidental sounds, or app startup sounds

- Avoid hearing game sounds that are not essential to using the game, such as incidental sounds and soundtracks

[1] http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexp... ("Sounds")
It's just an amicus brief. There's not really any reason to think it'll have any effect.
I don't think this is true at all. Big companies can easily pay armies of lawyers to file patents on obvious ideas and then sue other companies. The ones taking a stand against this behavior don't want to do that, though. They know that implementation is the hard part in software engineering and would rather pay people to write software, even if that means some other company can "steal" their ideas.
One of the points of the article is the head/skull usually associated with the Brontosaurus was incorrect, as well as the body being a duplicate.

So with the usual headline sensationalism, it is fair to say "it never existed". More accurately, one could say something like "the dinosaur popularly known as brontosaurus, is actually a aptosaurus with a different head..." But as a headline, it lacks punch.
Three Dozen Private-College Presidents Earned Over $1 Million in 2010
hell, Microsoft's internal mail system was Xenix. The last remnants of Xenix weren't removed from Microsoft until the Tide servers came online - ITG ran a xenix machine as a Usenet spool and telnet proxy until 96 or 97.
Good job! I love the simulation in the credits screen.

What's the pixel font? One of the '04b' series?
I do not understand why anyone would use an account created 9 hours ago and named as a variant of my legal name to criticize me personally without conclusive evidence, other than in an attempt to destroy the reputation of an 18-year-old entrepreneur, who is also a victim of the mis-management of his former startup after acquisition.

EDIT: I'm open to any discussions about your opinions and ideas. Feel free to email me (email in my profile).
It's not "anti-intellectual", it's a refreshing dose of anti-snotty-ism (not typically synonymous with cities containing top research universities).
> I think an argument that evidence of independent invention should create a presumption that an invention is obvious would be far better received as well as being more consistent with the statutory framework.

This seems plausible on its face, but in fact there have been lots of cases where really inventive things were conceived at nearly the same time by different inventors.
> I came here to learn to program, so I can more effectively share what I know.

Ah, yes, that would explain why you immediately asked about computer programming, instead of commencing your rant about your unfair treatment by doctors.

As to the legitimate topic, for analysis work and to avoid a lot of unnecessary minutiae, and to maximize your productivity, I recommend Python. There is lots online about Python, including a great number of analytical/scientific/technical libraries. There is even a free partial stand-in for Mathematica called "Sage" that can help you do some very sophisticated work in analysis, mostly written in Python:

http://www.sagemath.org/

My free Sage tutorial:

http://arachnoid.com/sage

> ... who feel personally threatened by my views.

You very clearly have no idea how you come across.
If I could ever score an invite, I'd like to hop on the motorcycle to get around and play--it's way more fun than driving, cheaper, and easier to find parking spaces.
No, you can't do it with computable sets, because if you could then there'd be a proof that doesn't need the Axiom of Choice, but Banach-Tarski can fail without the Axiom of Choice. (For instance, without AC it can happen that all subsets of R^n are Lebesgue measurable, and then Banach-Tarski is impossible.)

[EDITED to add: er, actually in order to prove that "without AC it can happen that all subsets of R^n are Lebesgue measurable" you need there to be an inaccessible cardinal. If you don't know what that means, ignore it. I'm mentioning it just to avoid leaving a false statement in the record.]
Sublime Text 2 isn't too far off from being able to read mail, is it?

How is ST2 plugin development? Is the API stable? Well-documented?
The Exciting,Terrifying Future of Work
Isn't being homeless generally accepted as being more detrimental to health than pretty much any office job?

My only point is that you should start at the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy and take care of the basics for yourself before trying to change the world.
Seriously. Get off the internet, get off HN, and figure out some way to have a stable income(or apply for disability and welfare), get health insurance, etc.
After you've done that you can transform healthcare. Not before. Ranting online isn't going to change anything for you. Get out there and fix the basics.
Hard to say really, didn't work in this case. Another friend of mine has been told before by passport control to just say "tourist" when she gave an answer that wasn't "I'm here on holiday" whereas customs then grilled her minutes later on why she said "tourist" when she was there for a wedding.
/me looks at http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ and is...skeptical.
I was commenting on this sentence, in particular:

>Once this notice is completed we are left with an impossible task of policing our indexing bots. Even then it won't stop there, there will be follow-up notices etc.

This seems to me like they're being told to actively police automatically-indexed content after this notice is processed?

I'm not sure how provable that 'knowledge of infringement' clause is.
The name isn't all that obvious, but from what I recall of the original talk by Jake Wobbrock, he intended the recognizer to be very simple and easy to implement [edit: and computationally simple] (as opposed to HMMs or the like). This is alluded to in the pdf of the linked paper: "we present a “$1 recognizer” that is easy, cheap, and usable almost anywhere in about 100 lines of code."
Mostly very specific wireless hardware patents, am I wrong?
At all? You can still share a link to an Instagram photo. You just won't see the full image in the official Twitter stream.
Sorry about the wording of my sentence. It was supposed to imply that I built a prototype cable at home to show to the cable vendors who would have to build them. Also, there was plenty of discussion about the potential of these cables to be misused, the vendor manufactured the cables to handle 15A. I have corrected my Wordpress page to reflect this discussion.
Ah. Good tip. We'll look into it and try to provide a fix in the first upgrade. For now you can press the mute button in the upper left hand of the screen. Your sound preference will be saved in the user defaults so you should only ever have to mute the game once.
I'm also suspicious of the video: won't planes on localizer approaches all be flying the runway centerline? I just don't see the opportunity for as much horizontal deviation as the video shows. (Though I guess the video is taken pretty far away from the airport since the landing gears aren't down. Maybe we're watching departures instead of "landings" as the video title suggests?)
After reading your blog, I just asked a friend who is a cable company director (and one of the owners) how you could do that, the answer:

Build a cable company (there is local regulation about how that's done, you are not creating a 'new' thing, cities and states might already have guidelines and/or legislation on that subject - and the tech is already there) Sometimes that's not possible, because those services are state regulated that the spots are auctioned every zillion of years. A mile of cable coverage can cost more than 10k USD and it's not guaranteed that you will make any sales on that specific mile.

A single company usually owns many channels, they want to sell them all to you (based on your subscription numbers) those prices change based on your performance. You need to invest money to receive their signal, so it's usually better to receive the 'whole package' they are offering anyways. This is more or less how it works.

Our take on this (over a beer):

A pay-per-hour-view cable company. Using your alien negotiation skills you will convince all companies to give you all the channels and you will log what viewers are watching. You will charge viewers based on how much they watched. Prices would vary per channel and every ad watched would generate a 'credit'. You and the channel would split the revenues.
But what disincentivizes me from hitting him? In fact, with no state I should go back and make sure he's dead so he doesn't track me down.

The problem isn't that I'm blinded by ideology. Is there any actual way we cold take action on your ideology? I posed two scenarios where a libertarian view doesn't introduce any penalty for externalities, and so he world goes to shit.

Rather than telling people they should build their own roads and let companies store toxic waste wherever, why not try to take a less absolute stance? I'm socialist, but I'm not calling for the government to seize all private businesses. You can create meaningful, effective change by advocating for positions which are well thought through and have a definite impact, rather than idolizing some abstract concept - "freedom! Yay! No roads, but no oppressive IRS".

To get back to the topic at hand, you oppose black boxes in cars because you think it infringes on civil liberties. I think that's a perfectly valid viewpoint, and getting all in a lather abut why roads are bad just confuses the issue.
Has anyone had success driving motors directly from an Android device?
Is USENET anything other than file sharing (mostly piracy) now?
Yes, let's blame the bankers for the incompetence of government officials.
Police concerned with Apple iOS 6 mapping system
Pacman [1] [2] [3]

1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository

2: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/

3: https://aur.archlinux.org/
My first post, the day I joined four years ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=713015

Unfortunately, it didn't do much for me. Getting well took longer and was more arduous than I anticipated.

I have no doubt I am not at my best right now. But it takes two to communicate effectively and you have so far taken zero responsibility for your repeated ad hominems.

I am about to log off. I will check the links you posted some other time.
*is stranding
Fair enough. Let's assume they are getting $27,500,000 (adding the private loan with the federal loan) and let's assume they will repay $70,000,000 after 20 years. We still come up with an effective interest rate of 5%. Still not a bad deal.
I agree, Mac Minis are not good servers, but these are simply for testing software.
Doesn't work on OS X since Darwin hasn't implemented /proc. But Amit Singh has some pretty interesting information about hacking together something similar.

http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter11/procfs/
The question is: which situation is more common. That should be the default presumption.
I fail to see how throwing away Eclipse would solve this problem. What you probably want is more engineer time thrown at Android tools, which is something I can certainly agree with.
That is true for people in meritous systems, but in general:

1. The level of incompetence designed into the system rises at the federal level faster than the level of average individual incompetence. For example, large municipal debt can be reduced by municipal employees and councilors who could never get a job in Washington. In Washington, there are thousands of brilliant people who can do nothing about debt and poor choices.

2. Many of the most competent believe crazy things and rise to the federal level to inflict them on the government and us. The most brilliant, careful financial manager in the world can become secretary of treasury, and all of their work can be undone with an enormous war, creation of homeland security, etc.
I would like to chat about it.
thanks kranner! yes the font is '04b03' in fact :)
Great story! :)
Since the times when automation is not necessary greatly outnumber the times when it is, "how would u automate that?" is not exactly a knock-out blow to the pro-GUI position.

In other words, even for people like me who when asked, "how would u automate that?" would reply, "I'd write a shell script or some Emacs Lisp," it is IMHO often better to do it in a GUI when automation is not necessary. (No joking.)
Not to mention I don't think XP supports /NXCOMPAT anyway.
Zed Shaw: Indirection is not Abstraction (2011)
And just after they'd finally gotten out of debt, after more than twenty years: http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/04/once-bankru...

On a related note: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/16331
It's pointless to think of it as "wrong" for third-parties to web-scrape. Entities will do as they must to survive. The onus of mitigating web scraping, if in the interests of the publisher, is on the publisher.

As a startup developer, third-party scraping is something I need to be aware of, that I need to defend against if doing so suits my interests. A little bit of research shows that this is not impractical. Dynamic IP restrictions (or slowbanning), rudimentary data watermarking, caching of anonymous request output all mitigate this. Spot-checking popular content by running it through Google Search requires all of five minutes per week. At that point, the specific situation can be addressed holistically (a simple attribution license might make everyone happy). With enough research, one might consider hellbanning the offender (serving bogus content to requests satisfying some certain heuristic) as a deterrent. A legal pursuit with its cost would likely be a last resort.

Accept the possibility of being scraped and prepare accordingly.
If you just want to restart a single pow app - in the directory of the rails app run `touch tmp/restart`.
I am fixing the basics. I know you mean well, but you do not know what you are talking about when it comes to my situation.

Also, I did not post in this thread to ask for support, but to make a point, and not about me per se. I am sorry you are so distracted by the particulars of my situation, which are really rather incidental to this discussion, which is about HN culture.

Anyway, I have things to do. Logging out now.

Later.
> I have made every effort to avoid arguing with people about this.

Obviously false -- you've done exactly the opposite.

Your rant reminds me of the girl in "Five Easy Pieces" who, while riffing endlessly about something perpetual and tiresome, interrupts herself periodically to say, "But i don't want to talk about it."

> Being suffocated by having zero outlet is ...

Obviously false. You have any number of outlets for your rant, including this one.

> It has basically left me no outlet for discussing it at all ...

You're leaving out the option of writing a comprehensive scientific article that replaces emotion with reason and tries to change the world instead of complaining about it. An article like this:

http://arachnoid.com/trouble_with_psychology

> I wish it were not so.

It is not so. Get over yourself.
Not being issued a refund after returning the device should be grounds for a chargeback. Once you initiate a chargeback the vendors has about 30 days to respond to the chargeback to prove it was a valid charge.
Why did you have to include alt.binaries.? I thought the alt. hierarchy was basically optional, and it was the news server admin's prerogative to opt in and out of alt.* groups.
Congrats!

I think The dialog after finishing a game would be better as "title screen" and "play again" directly on the buttons, or "play again?" should be more prominent.

Another thought: a lot of puzzle games have a way to "chain", which mastering is the most addictive element.

Wihout that element, this game has a little of the problem that randomly tapping is no less effective than playing "properly"... Good puzzle games are really tough to make, given that they rely on a sweet spot between entertaining and frustrating. Good luck!
This was my reaction as well. My default behavior for years has been to assume everything as my fault. The big turn for me occurred a few months after my ex cheated and I ended the relationship. I kept thinking, "What did I do that made her want to cheat?" But that's a very misguided question. Her behavior was completely outside my control. Eventually I was able to simply accept that it wasn't my fault, and it significantly improved my emotional health.

I get that OP isn't being completely literal or universal. But there is a whole class of neurotic self-blamers out there that could stand to learn the opposite lesson: some things are not your fault.
"The main binary is unprotected from DEP. Likely for backwards compatibility with sloppy plugins."

I think IE uses SetProcessDEPPolicy instead of /NXCOMPAT.
Thanks for creating these videos. They are a GREAT resource.

For anyone looking to learn d3.js, I would highly recommend starting with the video tutorials by enjalot (the above linked or dot enter vol. 1). He does a great job of walking through how each visualization works.

Additionally, tributary (http://tributary.io/) is perfect for playing with d3.js.
Hey I really like this app. Thanks for keeping a very simple style with the comments. I would like the ability to vote and write comments. Looking forward to the live tile updates. Also it would be cool to integrate the native sharing options to quickly share a link.
It seems like this would be most useful for non-developers, but the use cases (I'm assuming that's what 'regic solutions' are), sit obscured at the bottom of the page.

Look at how Twilio markets their paas to non devs.
Thank you, this is what I am going to do, although in my case, the situation is a bit more complex.

The apartment complex I live in receives packages from UPS en masse, and then classifies it according to apartment numbers, so there is a possibility that they might not detect my package before accepting it, but I will ask them to keep an eye on it.
Since it's Google, they have a lot of photos with location IDs. I wonder if there's something they can do along those lines. But then anything they have an algorithm to score on the back end could be faked with an algorithm on the front end.

Hmmm.
I looked into some rack cooling options, but was unable to find a solution that would provide the amount and wide coverage of airflow I needed to move air slowly and uniformly through the rack to provide effective cooling. ( I was designing this to be used with the active cooling rear doors, so I couldn't overwhelm the door with too much air or it wouldn't cool the air effectively, and would raise the ambient temp of the room). So the fans move a high volume of air through the entire cabinet (including the corners) at low velocity resulting in very effective cooling of each of the 40 shelves.

The fans are large so they move a high volume of air at a low speed, the door doesn't move is left unlatched.

Also, can you please explain your "Massive Fire risk" comment? All of the hardware installed in this rack is UL certified and all of the machines will simply shut down if they get too hot.
This reminds me of the idea that leaders share the credit when things go right & take the blame when things go wrong. I've personally found it to be a far more productive way to live. Instead of looking to blame others, I try to look at myself and ask what I could have done better. It focuses my attention on the one person I have the greatest power to change... me.
The infographic is not very informative because you can't tell if 100 is bad or good at a glance. Sure, "red" usually means negative. But yellow means?

Also in this case since 100 is "good" it's confusing because again, on the initial read people will think, "This country has a score of 65, does that means 65% corrupt?" (whatever 65% corrupt means, maybe 65% more corrupt than other countries)