skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A massive enough black hole could contain our entire observable universe. An observer crossing the event horizon of a black hole needn't notice anything special either.

That's the theory anyway. Black holes are disproved using the theory itself and rock-solid logic, here: finbot.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/no-black-holes/

Of course I'm using a throwaway account because people love to assume that any science not coming from an academic source is both false and crackpotish, evidence be damned. (This unscientific behavior that pervades our society is the strangest thing to me. Especially among hackers, who are otherwise highly logical.) It's generally accepted among astrophysicists that black hole theory forms a physical paradox called the information loss paradox, a contradiction with quantum mechanics, a much better tested theory. No black hole has yet been definitely observed (despite media harping to the contrary), and Einstein's theory itself explains all suspected black holes without predicting them to be black holes. Sorry to pop anyone's sci-fi bubble!
I bet this guy can make a mean snow angel.

Seriously though, these are amazing. I sometimes have problems drawing a "perfect" square without a ruler...
Sometimes it's hard because reminding someone who sends you pull request about the projects contributor guidelines sends them off in a huff and even though they pull "might" be good in that it does not break any tests it's hard to know what scenario it's guarding against or if the person is doing something strange in their code.

The cocky contributor is usually a bad contributor in my experience and are both energy drains and time sinks. The belittled (or humble) contributor is the one I am that I really appreciate and value as they are willing to enter into a dialog about what needs to be in the pull request to get it in.

In the end is all about normal human social decency. Treat people badly and don't be surprised when they treat you as a leper.
http://arngren.net/ is also pretty horrible.
Absolutely, but then Gmail would save unencrypted drafts as you type, compromising security. Short of blocking all scripts on the page, I'm not sure how we could prevent a server-side backdoor.
Charging by the hour is the wrong way to do it. Most developers who charge by the hour are making a lot less than they have to. Charge per project and you can structure it for $300 an hour or whatever you want within reason. It has been talked about a lot in other posts if you want to know more about it.
Well, I think they first tried charging royalties before finally disclosing the docs and a patent list to Samba on royalty-free conditions. See this:
http://www.samba.org/samba/PFIF/PFIF_history.html
http://www.samba.org/samba/PFIF/PFIF_agreement.html
No. Yvette's Bridal Formal was the worst ever made, as others have noted. Sadly, it is gone. A site with a similar feel is http://www.thecountrycupboardtoo.com/

If Yvette's was a 10 on the badness scale, that one is only a 6, but it gets the point across.
Making Network Calls in iOS
Very true. Your first job isn't going to make or break you, but you'd be surprised how many new grads stumble into an industry and are still working in it 5 years down the road. I was a programmer at a brokerage firm out of college, and after recently getting out of the industry a few jobs later, it'll take a while before my resume is really attractive to non-finance gigs.
It may well be too puritanical for you but there have been far more recent cases of sexual impropriety with intelligence personnel (like affairs, or being married to someone who's promiscuous) that have ended the careers of the intelligence personnel.

Personally I'd expect a current serving officer with high level security clearance who is privy to some of our most sensitive national secrets to be disciplined for seeking sex with random youths (of any persuasion).

If you're in this sort of position you need to get security clearance for sexual partners surely? Do you really want your "spies" getting intimate with any random person that flirts with them at the cinema?

The Profumo Affair doesn't seem a million miles away as an analogue. I'm not cognisant with many such cases however. There was the Max Mosley scandal - an MI5 agent "resigned" because his wife had sex with someone else.
How do we tell truths that might hurt? (E. Dijkstra, 1975)
Need to get myself to Seattle.
How does MariaDB compare to Percona?
>Tell us, concretely, what is to be gained from a biological approach.

Here it is from the horse's mouth: http://youtu.be/15sh05wrQ6Y#t=16m34s
Crazy man ;) Great to see people like that and sometimes to take some of the positive craziness with you. This made my day.
Couple of corrections about Slash:

The tag vocabulary isn't really predefined. There is a default vocabulary, but it can be easily changed by passing in a different dictionary of tags.

Also, the attributes aren't restricted to UIKit's NSAttributedString attributes (or not by Slash, anyway). You can provide whatever attributes you want, so long as the view you pass the attributed string to understands them.
Who was the Biggest Beneficiary of THQ's $5 Million Humble Bundle?
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In the sci-fi stories of a libertarian bent, ethics were a little more mutable in the search of their ultimate goals. Such externalities were often avoided or ignored.
Software developers, systems analysts rated best jobs for 2013
Actually it's been easily possible for years. Just forget about buying new equipment and buy older Tektronix or HP sampling scopes on ebay. For eg the HP 54121T, a 20GHz scope with TDR, able to characterize trace impedance absolutely workably for modern motherboard applications.
I got a perfectly functioning one on ebay for $600.
Also you can get the service manuals, which you can't for more recent equipment.
The console is just the ante into the game, same as Xbox,PlayStation,Nintendo. Having a standard would allow hardware manufacturers as well as game devs to come into sync.

Establish a clear casual,mid level, hardcore specs every couple years and the software will be able to anticipate what it will be running on when it's released. Now GPU,CPU and SoC manufacturers will be confident that if they release hardware that conforms to each spec they certify their hardware will run at a given level. Now ARM licensees will be able to make sure the right components are integrated and they progress in the direction the consumers want/need.

Valve is more of a publisher than a hardware manufacturer anyway, they will likely be much happier just sitting back and offering OS images than make a gripe about who gets to make the physical box.

I personally would be excited about a variety of boxes. The companies that are currently on the cusp of ARM components that already have the grunt to play casual to mid level gaming and without need for a battery/display/fancy case they can do it for much cheaper. Go to your local big box store and pick up a mid level gaming system with WIFI/HTPC capabilities plus abilities to connect to a wide selection of cloud services and your good to go.

If we could get Valve to make a mechanism that would allow the resale/trading of games I honestly believe the market would soar. If there was a Valve sponsored "swap meet area" it would allow for people to become much more involved and if any money was actually made it would likely be dumped right back at the Seam Store. I guess that is a discussion for another day but ya a standard would not be a bad thing.
Shortcomings in the Django ORM and a look at Peewee, a lightweight alternative
An upgradable machine would allow proficient users to simply improve their current system rather than buying "this year's new device." It would be nice to have both options available. You still don't have to support older hardware, and savvy users don't have to pay extra for a whole new system.

Meanwhile, if you can't afford either upgrade, it should still be possible to play most games, albeit at a reduced framerate. The same could never be said for a traditional console.
Money is the Devil's eye, they say.
Have the extension create a new HTML element that gmail isn't tracking; perhaps encrypt it on the fly, and auto-paste the encrypted version into gmail's (hidden by the extension) input. That way, gmail still saves the draft, but the draft is encrypted.

Totally making this up off the top of my head, no clue how practical all of this actually is, especially the encryption speed.
Well, MySQL plus a text store.

MediaWiki, the open source software that Wikipedia uses, now officially supports MariaDB.
We've found that since we've starting using PowWow, we don't need to sit at the same computer when we're working together. In fact, we prefer to stay at our computers, even if we're sitting next to each other :) Being able to use our own screen, with our own particular hardware setups is really nice. It also avoids having to reach over the other person to use the keyboard, or squint at the screen because it's too far.
Click on the links on the left frame and be prepared to be blown away by the load speed. Better than anything most programmers can achieve.
You're much better off figuring out a wireless solution. Building out and maintaining a network of underground cables in an established city just sounds like a nightmare.
How did he manage to walk with such precision? Assuming it isn't just photoshop.
Wikipedia seems like the perfect system for a document store like CouchDB. I would be curious to know if they examined it and, if so, found it lacking.
Maybe I'm not up to speed on the latest developments, but I currently have two laptops whose batteries have essentially been reduced to short duration UPS's.

I should be more pro-active, but I forget, or I worry that I'll discharge right before I need to be charged up. And one sits on a spare table, doing its thing all by itself, much of the time.

They tend to stay plugged in and on overnight. It would be nice if, e.g. once a week or so -- whatever's best for the battery at hand -- the power system could run a discharge /recharge cycle "in the middle of the night" or similar.

In my experience, batteries still have memories (that shrink over time and with lack of cycling), and from what I read periodic cycling is the solution.

If Bunnie can find an acceptable fuel cell option, of course I'm all for that. ;-)

P.S. I think I do at least partway understand what you're saying, that being that rechargeable batteries have a limited number of cycles and tend to loss capacity with increasing cycle count.

However, in my case, it appears to be a lack of cycling that is catching up with me well before the above does.
New Apps Recall the Details of Your Online Past
This is incredible. In a time where it seems the big pc designers are shifting appeal to the facebook heavy consumer market, developers need a new source. Id love to see this snow ball into open source phones, tablets, glass etc. and an open ubiquitous wireless network.
Also see Jim Denevan for sand versions: http://jimdenevan.com/
Big Data: Challenges and Opportunities
The Power of Concentration
Ask HN: Why hasn't Apple implemented the most obvious UI improvement yet?
So I'm scrolling down through the list of songs in my iTunes (sorted alphabetically, say) and I find a song I like by Led Zeppelin. Now I'm curious to see what other Led Zeppelin songs I have in my itunes Library that I can listen to. Instead of typing in the artist name in the search bar or finding it in the list of artists...WHY CAN'T WE JUST CLICK ON THE ARTIST NAME in the "observation" row and it is an automatic filter? Same goes for album title. This seems obvious to me. Does anyone else think iTunes lacks from a artist/album hyperlinkability/useful click-on-shitability?

Let me know, thanks.
[...] Fortunately, I am pretty sure verbatim copying something into your own brain isn't copyright infringement (yet).

I found that footnote enlightening. Passed as a quip, but actually profound. Wow.
And yet here we are: a man just shot up a school full of kids.

A gun is an effective way to kill somebody - regardless of what happens after the fact. Most of the time in these kinds of massacres, the perpetrator doesn't care at all what happens after the fact - and I'm willing to bet that in a lot of gun murder cases, the perpetrator was not thinking about the consequences / ramifications at the time they pulled the trigger.
"I guess there's no way of knowing, but I really would like to find out..."

Yes, so would I, which is why I followed the link to this article after reading the title!
Why are those fields still searchable after encryption? Doesn't that fly in the face of the article's utopian state of email? I can still see you're emailing with this contact, at this frequency, and with these subjects; seems like an awful lot of insecure leakage.
As someone who ran games under wine for years - yeah some do work well - some don't or with heavy speed penalty.

Ideally i would see openGL games on steam console - which shouldnt really be a tough problem since wii/ps3 do something pretty close to this.

It's interesting that you say some mac games use wine under steam - I wasn't aware of that.
I sent a pull request :)
1. I'm not interested. It's a pretty simple project if you take my advice at the end of this post, so you could easily do it yourself.

2. The three ways to legally destroy a gun are: 1) destruction by the owner (google instructions), 2) giving the gun to someone who can legally possess it who will destroy it, 3) turn it in at a police station to be destroyed, although the guarantee depends here as some departments resell and won't necessarily tell you. You will need a federal license from the ATF to broker guns which is what your service will be doing despite your goals. You will probably need one organization per state since you can't easily trade guns across state lines. The military will absolutely not buy from you, even if you go to all the trouble to become a federal vendor.

Because of these difficulties, I suggest you stick to a simple pledge plus social media share system, provide destruction instructions and suggest gun-regulation lobbies to interested donors.
This would be really easy to implement using pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/), which converts Markdown with extensions and LaTeX formulas into LaTeX. I think it supports Org-mode too.

Markdown would be excellent for sharing short notes and ideas among mathematicians, as opposed to full-blown papers.

Also, great job! I like how simple and efficient the interface is.
Considering that life expectancy, quality of life and opportunities for better life are all somewhat better than historically, I for one like the current way of the world. I say this comparing it to what was, not to what it could be. Far too many people (a majority?) have far too little.
I've just waved off my grandparents at the airport. My grandfather is the last living of his 14 siblings. 7 made it out of a childhood of abuse, poverty and neglect. Edinburgh in the 1940s sounds like a hell if you were poor.
Edit: autocorrect error.
2 live crew sampled the Orbison recording. There is no compulsory license for recorded music. It's a different situation than "using the same notes."
Seems like these are instructions for how to live life by default. Instructions on how to fit into the cogs of the system and not fall into depression. In my opinion, life should not be like this.

For those who haven't already, you should read this article from HN a few weeks ago:

http://www.raptitude.com/2012/07/most-lives-are-lived-by-def...
> If he was given a pardon this would set a very difficult precedent.

Unless U.K. law is entirely different than the United States, the specifics of a pardon do not set any sort of legal precedent.
The main complication of protein folding is how the amino acid chain interacts with itself, not its interactions with an external environment.
My guess is that they have been using MySQL for a long, long time (possibly since the beginning)m, and see no need to migrate to something different. MariaDB is API-compatible with MySQL, so this migration will not involve much changes at the client side; it's mostly thorough testing that needs to be done.
If you reach a contradiction, it means you've done something wrong. To me, this article is a partial confirmation of earlier suspicions that the physics community has lost touch with reality.
A cool idea might be putting a push/pull fan setup for the drawers themselves. Cut 4x12cm holes in the top 2 on either sides, get grills and mount them underneath. You might have to cut out the drawer it's self to open and close but the grills will add a cool look and maybe even mount the fan control knobs somewhere so you can make adjustments and even turn on/off LEDs mounted on the fan it's self. Put the system in the drawer without a case of any kind, particle board doesn't conduct but you could just get a non conductive mat to put under it.

Good luck!
Abstinence education works wonderfully right up until the moment it stops working.
The Wayback Machine knows all, tells all:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110718150425/http://yvettesbrid...
Sony releases new "motiongraph" app on the Google Play Store
Just out of curiosity (having used Tcl shell EDA tools myself) could you Swig stub versions of the proprietary commands and test your scripts standalone?
Build Data-Driven Email Campaigns in 5 Easy Steps
Quantum Imaging Technique Heralds Unjammable Aircraft Detection
I'm guessing the answer to this riddle is "the rest of your life".
>Its a multinational corporation beholden to its stock holders.

Larry, Sergei, and Eric own almost all Class B shares which have 10 votes each. They control about 65% of the voting shares. So really the rest of the stockholders are just along for the ride. Google is really in this for the long game.
No external css, no javascript that I can see, and probably no database backend or dynamic templates. Just plain old school html files. A visual abomination but also, yeah, lightning fast and robust. Unintentionally a good argument for the KISS principle.

And if it's been making money for its owners with this code for this long, how hard can we really laugh at it? It seems to be working for them. Shame about the yellow though.
Gmail loses Google Sync: How Windows 8, RT, Office are affected
Very well said. I think he's off by a factor of ten though: "100,000 Americans that die every year due to domestic gun violence". I think the number is closer to 10k.
Ask HN: A good website to buy gifts for other Hackers?
One great idea, is to store energy by ammonia NH3, split water into H2 and O (brown or grey, and you can actually clean the water this way) by electrolysis at as little as 1.2 V (Stan Meyer) and then using a reverse Fuel cell to bind the N in the air (N is about 80%) to store NH3 at as low as 120 PSI/10 Bar in existing nursing tanks. It can be used to run an existing (lightly converted) diesel generator or a fuel cell again at a higher efficiency level. No need to use H2 which requires massive amounts of energy to be cryogenically frozen or compressed in carbon fibre tanks. And you can run your diesel engine car/truck/train/ship.

Another novel and new invention is www.aquionenergy.com who has an environmental battery made of carbon and salt :)

Essentially its best to start capping our consumption levels and increasing efficiency. Have a look at the current wasted energy in our system: https://flowcharts.llnl.gov
You have to protect the unencrypted content not just from Gmail, but from any script anyone could potentially add to Gmail or any other service. And this protection has to be bulletproof, since the whole point is to not trust the service provider.

A lot of work has already been done to prevent cross-site attacks, and if we have Gmail (or whatever) in one tab, and FooAddon in another, it's a pretty safe bet that one tab can't read the other. I'm less sure how you protect part of a page from itself.

Maybe putting the edit box in an iframe would work? http://pipwerks.com/2008/10/15/iframes-and-cross-domain-secu...

Edit: Another option: Focus text box where you want encrypted message to go. Click FooAddon toolbar button. All scripts on the page are stopped, and you can safely type your message. When done, click toolbar button again. The message is replaced with an encrypted version and then scripts are resumed.
MariaDB is a (almost) drop-in replacement for MySQL, CouchDB is a totally different concept that would require nearly a complete re-write of their backend. I doubt they considered it.
Chris, thanks for the correction. That's very good to know. Sorry if I misrepresented the project!
Yes, many uncomfortable objects are designed as statements of form (the Reitveild Chair or the Juicy Salif).But I consider these examples of art, not design. The main use of a chair is sitting down, and thus a well designed chair will always be comfortable. This, of course, doesn't preclude it from being beautiful, as in Eames own work: http://www.visualphotos.com/photo/2x3218172/.jpg
Thanks! This is a great idea --- we'll see what we can do.
You should check out railwayjs before you get too deep into it - this might do what you were after: http://railwayjs.com/
(BTW: I'm the author of the topic blog post)

I've not seen it from the inside like the Samba developers have, but I do work closely with them. Based on that experience, I think the relationship between Samba and Microsoft is complicated. It's true that the EU case forced Microsoft to release certain documentation. I doubt they'd have done it without that.

But, Microsoft did take somewhat of a "if we can't beat them, join them" approach to the situation, which I think was useful. I certainly still have a strong bias against Microsoft due to their past actions, but I don't think they've been completely begruging on this issue in their collaboration with Samba.

It's about their self-interest, though: Microsoft now needs Samba more than Samba needs them. They're still acting in service of their profits, but now their profit-motive is more aligned with helping Samba than it once was.
What a refreshing attitude. Someone with no emotional connection to his operating system.
fuck, i need to graduate :)
"I think Microsoft has two camps inside. Those who really are technology focused and the marketing and management team. The latter are the ones doing all the damage. The technology people I genuinely feel sorry for."

Reminds me of this: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/?p=1329&cpage=1#comment-1171...

The referenced PX00307 refers to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3441885
While true, the infinite case is of no interest here: a brain is finite. (Many infinite grids require an infinite amount of information to store, and clearly many of our assumptions break down there.)
Great comment. Wow steam engines are great, and at small scale they are even better. Dual action, those centrifugal governors, and the smell of that lubricant oil mixed with hot water. I'd never before considered messing about with small steam engines to be hacking... That used to waste many an afternoon. Don't fuse the safety valve though, that's a bad way to get power and eye brow re-growth takes ages and annoys one's mother.
Maciej Ceglowski is the Flounder of Pinboard.in - http://idlewords.com/resume.htm

We all flounder sometimes, but it's good to admit upfront that it's your full time (pre)occupation.
Not exactly what you're asking for, but when you select a song or hover over the name, there's an encircled right arrow after the song name. Click that for options to go to the artist or album.