skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can grab 64-bit linux binaries compiled on Debian from http://mcpherrin.ca/code/mozilla/rust-0.5-binary.tar.bz2

I don't know if that's helpful for you. I'll look into packaging stuff too.
Yes, of course I'm sure.
It's great seeing innovation challenges such as these; they're a win-win for everyone involved.
Polynomial time factoring algorithm using Bayesian arithmetic
We're talking about something as obvious as taking a photo and sending it to a friend in a streamlined fashion. If this counts as innovation here, I want no part in it. Taking a huge stream of data and figuring out what to show to who might be called an innovation, but this is not. Building the worlds best mapping service with street view is innovation, this is not.
I haven't run across or know of any tutorials on this exact problem, but I think you're right that you'll end up doing a lot of the synchronization yourself.

You might check out PubNub and other messaging services. PubNub is a stackmob partner product that can be added in their marketplace.
That would provide for a component to handle transporting messages and state information between your document editors.
I can't help but think that NFC and the technical implementation differences between Isis and Wallet are a total red herring as far as consumers are concerned. Isis have already stolen the momentum but have wasted it with inaction. Non-NFC fully-online payment systems (square, Starbucks) have meanwhile grown successfully.

Google pushed hard for adoption from terminal providers and retailers while Isis have done very little to develop a real platform until very recently. The result, frankly, is that you aren't likely to need to tap your phone to conduct business, instead you'll press a button on your phone. And no consumer will care.

So Verizon ultimately loses out on a massive transaction market by trying to fight Google.
Facebook Will Let People You Don't Know Message Your Inbox For $1
The beginning of the end. Reminds me of how Foursquare, Airtime, Color, etc... have all been struggling amidst these crazy times.
Apocalypse not: 50 years of failed catastrophic predictions
"To define it rudely but not inaptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can do with two after a fashion."
-- Arthur M. Wellington
Ask/offer HN: Are you alone this Christmas and don't want to be?
Hello HNers.

If any of you are alone this Christmas and would rather not be, I have a plan.

Me and my girlfriend are organizing a dinner meetup in the Cologne, Germany area. If you are in the area, email me ( kliment[at]0xfb.com ) or post here and we'll arrange things.

If you are anywhere else, post your location and whether you can arrange a meetup. Let's see how many meetups we can arrange.

If you have places to be, but know others that don't, point them this way.
As I see it, two factors combine to make this to optimal strategy:

1. Limitations of Mobile UI

Facebook isn't just one tool, it's dozens of tools combined. On a web interface with PC-browser sized real estate and mouse/keyboard interactions, you can pack a lot more features onto an app and not sacrifice too much in the way of usability and complexity.

With mobile, you have to make sacrifices due to limited screen real estate. As you pack in more features into any single app, you start having diminishing returns due to increased complexity.

2. Desired Tool

So considering the limitations, you have to ask: what function does the user desire in the moment?

Consider some of the FB mobile applications: Pages Manager, Camera, Messenger.

They're all quite unique from one another. On a web interface you might be afforded the luxury of building them all into the same app with a common entry point and framework.

But in mobile, developing all those functions into a single app would be complex due to the 1st point, and unnecessary due to the 2nd.
I use kerosene lights by choice in the winter in weeks like this one when there is no sunshine. So, here's my firstish world problems take on it. May not apply to people for whom a gallon of kerosine is a significant fraction of their monthly income.

I have a hard time seeing myself using something like this, except as task lighting. I'd be fine to have to lift a weight if I was only going to be using the kitchen for 30 minutes (it could even serve as a useful timer), or similar. But getting up every 30 minutes rules out using it anywhere I need longer duration light for eg, reading.

Also, anywhere I could use this, I could use any of the many inexpensive crank LED lamps available everywhere, which run for similar amounts of time.

The pity is that, with the right design, this could support a longer cord for a further lift distance, so it'd run an hour. Or multiple weights used in sequence or parallel so it can be primed for even longer (iirc that's how my grandparent's cuckoo clock worked). From what I can see, it's not designed to be very hackable, and something like this needs hackability.

The LED light is the other problem with it; I'd much rather have a well ventilated kerosine light than blue tinged LED for almost any task. (I'm curious to see studies about kerosine health risks however.) Since this light cannot be moved, it has to illuminate the whole area, and its light doesn't seem up to it, so I'd be doubtful about eg, reading by it either.
Users of GMail will no longer receive ActiveSync (push) support.
A new streaming API for Node v0.10
So has anyone read the TOS yet? Is there a guarantee that the content is deleted from their servers in a reasonable amount of time?
It’s Finally Here Final Fantasy IV for iPhone and iPad Released
D3 and possibly work more on a haiku generator.
> countries that actually try to protect their citizens rights and privacy

Haha. I assume you're talking about Germany. Hahaha.
I noticed it two days ago. I actually used Bing for a search.
You are probably right. If all governments in the world collapsed today markets WOULD still exist with or without regulation. BUT regulation would start to reappear almost as quickly as it disappeared.

A healthy marketplace relies upon a foundation of some sort. There has to be trust between producers and consumers. Regulation is a framework to create that trust.

I am certainly not against all regulation. I also feel that interference in the market does more to hurt than to help.

Places in the world now where anarchy or something similar reigns do not have more of a free market than we do.

My larger point is that patent law is part of the regulation in our market that is not being implemented effectively.
I hope you're right. I think so too and I'm building a native check-in experience for Facebook as a side-project. It's almost ready to be launched, but I haven't managed to convince anyone I talked to that they needed a separate native app for check-ins. Lets see I guess.
It's taking a photo, which self-destructs after a certain period. It's not mind-blowingly innovative, but the idea, time periods (max of 10 secs) and even the UI involved are exactly the same as Snapchat.

If the original idea isn't innovative then Facebook's version is orders of magnitude less so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baPgr_tw79Q

I think I just realized how old this argument has gotten. "It wasn't the gun's fault, it's just a tool, it was the person's fault".

OK, fine.

How did that person get a gun?

If gun advocates like yourself are actually concerned about protecting their gun-owning rights, they should be organizing and policing themselves to make sure that things like that video above can't happen.

Putting an advanced weapon in the hands of a crazy or mentally unbalanced person does far more to harm your right to own firearms than any liberal or politician. Every time some gun dealer at a public event displays a weapon and sells that weapon to an individual without any kind of background check or waiting period or any other due process, the odds of yet another school shooting in the U.S. goes up. Eventually, the odds get to be > 1, there's another huge example of senseless stupid violence in the news, and once again it becomes politically beneficial to limit your right to own firearms.

So, you want to have guns? Fine, then keep them out of the hands of crazy people.

If you can't do that, then I can't defend your right to them.
Right, but no uproar = no u-turn, you can't have one without the other.
So happens if the user you sent the message to hasn't seen it within that timeframe? (since FB does offline message)
Oh nice - I'll have to check that out. Standard libraries... smh
Makes me wonder why Facebook haven't done that already.
On Windows, Firefox and Chrome render all columns identically. I think they're pixel-perfect replicas. http://i.imgur.com/9iaZq.png
Colalife Aidpod: distributing medicine via Coca-cola's logistics network
Correct. It's ISN'T DSA. It's very promising for eCommerce sites which may have a personalized header (Name, Cart Contents, etc...) and some customized Ads/CTAs/Marketing slots, but where the bulk of the page (often a very large page - 100+ KB) will be the same for everyone.

The obvious win is pushing less bytes across the wire. The less obvious win is that it allows the application server response to complete VERY fast, freeing up the app server thread to handle more requests. This is the larger win for large scale 3-tier applications.
As it is, we have a surplus in our labor force, so I suspect the opportunity cost is minor, and outweighed by the benefits of having 58,000 jobs. Of course, I suspect that those jobs do not justify the opportunity cost of their paycheck.
Pick a framework, read a couple of books on it, and start experimenting and developing some pages. Consult the documentation extensively.

You get to a certain point in software development and there aren't online courses. You just have to read, seek out things on your own, and build stuff.
> Turns out that unannounced Verizon has started blocking Google Voice verifying your number do I cannot use it.

How exactly do they block it? According to the verification instructions[0], Google Voice calls you and asks you to enter a verification code. How can this be blocked? It would be like any other DTMF service. Also, isn't it illegal to block this?

0: http://support.google.com/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
So considering the limitations, you have to ask: what function does the user desire in the moment?

In the moment, I desire just seeing a friend's timeline while I am chatting with him and being able to go back and forth between the two. Right now I have to switch apps in order to do this. Are you saying that I am in the exception to have this use case or that I am in the exception to find app-switching inconvenient?
The coupling is removed because you both standardize on the message format: the media type.

Think RSS: clients and servers are decoupled.
Is that 40% your required payment for SL? Especially with almost no safety net, you gain very little (and stand to lose quite a bit) by over-paying student loan debt unless you have a preposterously high interest rate.
I'm a 10x developer most of the time. It's all about motivation. When I'm producing 10 times as much as my peers, I'm working on something I want to work on. I can go all day without visiting facebook, reddit or hacker news, because I simply would rather be working than be reading those sites. Any time I see these kinds of articles that tell you to have "discipline" to not read those kinds of sites, I think they have it all wrong. You're only addressing the symptom.

When I'm forced to work on something I don't think maters, I'm not a 10x developer. I'm really obsessed with code quality, so any task that involves refactoring, I am 10x or even 50x. If the task is to track down a complex bug in a PHP system, and I'm under strict orders to not refactor anything (which is common), then I will be a 0.01x developer. With my personal projects, I'm always 10x or more.
These are not real facebook pokes https://www.facebook.com/pokes they are phony.
An external DSL example with Pyparsing
Your complete DNA genome can now be sequenced from a single cell
> My larger point is that patent law is part of the regulation in our market that is not being implemented effectively.

I don't disagree with that at all. But that should be the argument: "this regulation is helping more than it is hurting" not "this regulation is bad because regulation is bad."
property rights are a regulation

No, they aren't. They're a voluntary choice by the parties to reap the benefits of specialization and trade instead of trying to kill each other and take each other's stuff. People make that choice because they understand that they are much better off with specialization and trade; for one thing, we wouldn't be having this conversation in this medium if humans had never got beyond the "kill what I can and take what I can" stage. The regulations and legal niceties come later.
The biggest difference is that Intel has consulted closely with Christenson, and is not afraid to cannibalize their own market to retain dominance. The Intel Celeron came directly from their consultations with Christenson. The Celeron signficantly dented Intel's profits temporarily but was the beginning of the end for AMD.

And certainly the price is a very significant factor. But remember that ARM sells an order of magnitude more chips than Intel does. So if Intel is successful, they can make it up on volume, at least to a degree.
One touch to open Camera app. One touch to post pic.

Multiple apps to see what the pic looks like on my wall? Multiple apps to post snarky comment about pic on my friend's timeline? May be you are right that this is a use-case tech people have but from my observation, I see this pattern repeated all the time on facebook activity of non-tech friends.

On more than one occasion I have elected to use WhatsApp over facebook Chat app because of the app switch. My thinking is "hey if I have to switch apps, might as well pick the better chat app of the two". If this was built into the main FB app like it used to be, I'd be less likely to use WhatsApp.
Why their opensource projects are spread over many github account? Why not organize them on their own organization account at github http://github.com/artsy/?

When I want to check if a company is a good one regarding contributing back to opensource, one of the first things I check is their github's organization account.
https://github.com/gavinandresen/paymentrequest/issues/1
Not that I necessarily disagree with you, but the problem with this in the U.S. is that we are indoctrinated at an early age with the notion that it was the right to own guns that primarily won us the revolution.

i.e., any attempt to limit the ownership of firearms in the U.S. is seen as a direct assault upon the brave minuteman militia that rose up to defeat those red coats in glorious battle in 1776. (That last bit was satire, not serious.)
Gravity isn't the storage mechanism; the ballast bag is. Gravity is the mechanism used to unleash the stored energy, the same way that the electro-chemical voltage difference between the two components of the battery is the mechanism that unleashes the stored energy in the battery. If anything, it's a ballast-bag-powered light.
I'd hire a bunch of competent but relatively inexperienced lawyers starting at $35k/year

That was my initial thought, too, although I was thinking more like 80k. At that rate you could attract idealistic, smart lawyers. At 35k you're attracting desperate lawyers.

Also, the place to setup shop would be SF proper. That is where the customers are, and for any business, especially one like this, customers are most important. That said, from what I've read the trolls do a lot of business out of East Texas, so that would make sense too.

The interesting thing about this business is that it's intended to be a stopgap measure until the law changes. That is, if it is very successful it will go away. Also, to avoid becoming the enemy (from what I've read IV sells "patent insurance" - basically protection money against IV) I'd make it as transparent as allowed by statute, and a non-profit.
If you have a bounded system growth will eventually level out. Physical considerations makes it unfavorable to go below the atomic level for feature size. Therefore growth in transistors per area is bounded and Mores law will eventually stop being true and therefore it is nothing but a phenomenelogical law.

I think Kurtzweil has suggested going into 3D for CPU design with multiple layers of circuits, but I have seen no serious attempts to realize this so it is a bit of a long shot to depend on to keep the pace of growth intact. However, it still does not resolve the fundamental limitation of Moores law, it only extends it for some time.
We don't have slow servers. We've measured before and afters on multiple clients and have seen quick page render times on the client end after rolling CloudFlare in. Caching static assets on a CDN (like CloudFlare) speeds up overall page load time. The minification features around HTML, CSS, JS, also improve transfer times. If you have optimized html, don't expect html serving to be faster (as you have more hops - unless you use railgun maybe).

Homework done, measurements taken. Happy with the results.
What is the purpose of that? i can't think of a single use aside from, say, sexting.
There's actually a huge body of psychological research on what, exactly, creates and boosts flow. In a nutshell, it happens when an individual with high skill meets a problem that they find subjectively challenging, while working with a certain degree of autonomy. There are also personality types that can slip in to flow states more easily (this is known as the autotelic personality, though research on this is a bit sketchy), and there's some evidence to show that flow can be artificially induced through a process called trans-cranial direct current stimulation. Google Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi if you're interested, he's spearheaded a lot of the research on this stuff.

I wrote a pretty significant research paper about this stuff once upon a time... one of these days, I should sit down and write up a proper blog post on it.
This post is relevant:
http://dcurt.is/photos-for-communication
When we think about statistics about support for the TSA, it's important to note that the majority of Americans don't travel by air at all in any given year.
Not really. Casual pirates grab it off The Pirate Bay or similar where it's already in cleartext.
Facts about Herbalife
> How is it done in Asia where this is already much more popular?

In Japan, Osaifu Keitai[0] is a partnership between the major carriers (NTT DoCoMo, au, and SoftBank) that uses technology developed by Sony.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaifu-Keitai
This could easily start to kill Apple - or at least start taking big bites out of them.
All of Google and AWS are built out of many copies of "just a linux box". It seems you understate the usefulness of general purpose computers.

These, indeed, _are_ revolutionary due to their size and power.
The Boson Apocalypse
I agree with the author. I remember reading a Seth Godin post from about six months ago that addressed this albeit in different words.

I wrote about the subject myself a bit here: http://sicklittlebeast.com/2012/07/25/how-does-it-fit-in/

"Are you avoiding important work by doing busy work?"
No, the third party chip chipset market died because Intel killed it. NVIDIA had a superior chipset with a better GPU and Intel stopped them. Intel wants commodity production of a very limited number of designs.

Intel doesn't want customizations that can be offered by other companies. Intel wants Intel's GPU not a choice of NVIDIA, S3, ARM, and soon AMD/ATI. Intel wants to ship "Phone Motherboard 1", etc.

Its an advantage because ARM lets other companies play and Intel won't.
France: I see aliens. Maybe coz of the bottle of wine I just drank :)
Excellent.

Kliment to the rescue yet again. I am not in a position to arrange a meetup this year myself or I would...I will keep it in mind for next year.
Googling "ISP rule changes during clinton era" brings up ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996
Test-Driven Security
Speaking of loading fonts dynamically- the site looks absolutely atrocious while loading (on Chrome, anyway). I reloaded the page multiple times before it finished loading because I thought there was a rendering bug.
Pretty much the same here... and we have the fabled e-commerce style pages (because we do e-commerce).

The only thing that we saw a slowdown for was when we connect to pages from our office, when our servers are in town.. but that's not the fault of Cloudflare, but simply that they don't have servers in the same city as us!
I think Quora's founders just need to take SEO seriously for a few weeks. Successful Q&A sites like Stackoverflow and Yahoo Answers rely on search engines for their traffic. Quora should embrace this and stop trying to be Facebook.
This didn't seem to stop them with Google Fiber, though.
I rarely defend Facebook, but if you make an app that snaps a photo (which self-destructs) that you can then send to friends, then you knew what you're getting yourself into. The only two options you have is to either make an app that is difficult to copy, or make an easy app but hope for the network effect to work in your favor (i.e. any social media thing out there).
Why would you need to compare the states of the particles if you know a priori that they are entangled? Doesn't the theory say that the states will always match? I still don't understand why one side couldn't just measure the interval between state changes and use that channel to read information.
Using the numbers above and the typical LED efficiency you get 5 lumen of light per half hour ASSUMING perfect mechanical efficiency.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=20+kilogram%E2%80%90for...

A simple wax candle produces 11 lumen. And there is no way you will get anywhere near perfect efficiency.

So at best, this will product maybe 1/3 of the light from a candle.

If you directed that light into a small spot, it could be useful, but of course it's a large device and you can't do that.

If you illuminated a room with it it would be enough to walk around and not crash into things, but not enough to read.

Another comparison: Assuming a 2 meter by 2 meter room (which is tiny), this would produce 1.3 lux (again, assuming perfect efficiency).

Moonlight produces betwen .25 and 1 lux.

So at best, with reasonable efficiency, and assuming a tiny room, this is comparable to moonlight under a full moon.

Can you read in moonlight? Go try.
This is slick. isotope.jquery is great for square and portrait images, but there doesn't seem to be many plugins to handle a more horizontally-based portfolio...I've tried a few times to implement something like this and it always ended up way more convoluted than it seemed it should...Looking at the source code, it's not a non-trival number of lines, so I'm glad it wasn't just me completely missing a super-simple solution.
Counterpoint: I have opted out over a dozen times at a variety of airports (RDU, SJC, SFO, BUR). I've never been treated with anything but professionalism, and I dare say, politeness. I was asked why I was opting out by the TSA officer performing my pat-down at BUR who seemed personally curious more than anything, but otherwise it's been perfunctory. I've never had to wait more than a minute or two at most.
The abstract states, "When applied to NP-complete algorithms, this leads to the fundamental conclusion that P = NP".

Isn't this a much more important conclusion?
Easily start to kill Apple? That's a pretty strong claim.