skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Scalars (integers, characters, strings, floats, booleans), sequences (lists/arrays) and maps (key-value pairs) as built-ins are enough to support almost all data models.

There is some wisdom in Larry Wall's decision to make scalars, lists, and maps the main data structures in the Perl programming language and to give them the sigils $, @, %. The considerable wealth of Perl libraries available on CPAN today demonstrates that you can support essentially all data models using these three data types.
I like how he's posting from next May according to the timestamp. And points to an explanation of the difference between open source and free software which is mostly wrong.
Most Drug stores I've been to in the US do photo printing. At CVS I think it's around 20 cents for a 4x6.
HTML5Wow
THQ has interest in Linux games? Aren't they bankrupt
Reddit Rumored To Be Raising Money, At A $400 Million Valuation
The bizarre tale of John McAfee, spymaster
I have to really write careful in Perl to make it readable by non-Perl heads.

This is an honest question: why would you care about that? What does it matter if someone who doesn't know a language (or isn't bothering to learn it) can read code written in that language?

Python sort of forces that on you up-front.

How? Indentation doesn't really matter and, for example, list comprehensions aren't all that obvious to someone who's never seen them before. I can understand "I think sigils might be confusing", but that's such a superficial aspect of programming I'm inclined to dismiss it as such.
> hopefully instagram has better success.

Instagram isn't involved here, besides being a potential source of imagery.

This is all Polaroid.
Ironically, this page loads jQuery from googleapis.com.
DailyFeats
One issue with automated trains is when something inevitably goes wrong, if it happens in a heavy trafficked system like in NYC you might have dozens to hundreds of people dead compared to a couple of people with a driver-less car incident, which will make it much bigger news, which will mean a much bigger backlash.

And safety experts will go on the news and explain how the train incident was one issue among billions of safely-moved people and it was really a human error that was the root cause and the automated trains are much, much safer than human drivers by the statistics and they'll be completely right, but people won't care because omg robots.
Way too expensive for small groups.
Yeah, that seems like an easy problem to solve, with both technology and regulation. Self-driving cars would only get certified for driving conditions they can handle, so driving below, say, 3°C or with ice or snow on the street would not be allowed if a car can’t handle ice or snow. (I assume that in the foreseeable future all self-driving cars will also have to support some sort of manual driving.) The first condition can even be enforced automatically. When self-driving cars get better those conditions can be relaxed.
> they did html and js apps way before anyone

After iPhone was released the official way to make apps for it was HTML and JS. That was in 2007.
WebOS was released in 2009.
I think regime changes will be done from the inside more often than not in the future - it's been proven to be more effective (and cheaper) than sending thousands of soldiers and machinery to foreign lands...

Meanwhile, telepresent groups of drones and semi-autonomous turrets would be used to fight any localized resistance and protect important objects.

I think (and hope) we won't see any major conflicts like WW1 and WW2 in the future, since there's really no good reason for one (even Europe finally gets it, hence the EU), unless it's an alien invasion...
You know what I would like? Math material that is less concise.

Some math concepts are too dense to grasp without first understanding the reasoning behind it, the axioms it's based on, real-world applications, metaphors, diagrams... heck, even the history behind the mathematician helps sometimes (e.g., knowing Newton was a theologist is relevant to understand some things about classic physics [1]). In fact, I love how earlier mathematicians were mostly multi-disciplinary scientists, and almost always philosophers. We need a new Renaissance.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#Religious_views
Hi, thanks for your feedback! I have heard of this happening with iSSH's clean-room reimplementation of the protocol, but never with Mosh. Please file a bug report at https://github.com/keithw/mosh because we are eager to trace this down. (We have never heard of this happening to anybody, and it should not be possible if all is well.)
True - if caffeine was interfering with his sleep then it was a problem. I didn't see any indication that he had attempted to fix his sleep schedule before he dropped caffeine, though it's certainly possible that he did. Sleep exercise and diet are connected to each other, and maybe kicking caffeine happened to give him enough motivation or momentum to improve all three of them, but it's only loosely related. Setting up dropping caffeine as the cause of his improvement is strange - it just happened to come first.
Has that been done for OpenSSH?
The biggest mistake they made was not hearing the case in the supreme court. There are some strange things in the verdict which I think if not revised at least should be addressed to regain some trust from the public. For example:

"One factor making this case special is that the main crime is not particularly severe, as seen individually they are of limited scope, not organized and not commercial", p43.

"It should be noted that in paragraph 9 in directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights the following is concluded: 'Infringements of intellectual property rights appear to be increasingly linked to organised crime. Increasing use of the Internet enables pirated products to be distributed instantly around the globe.'", p46

"That copyright infringement by illegal file-sharing is a social problem, which in later years spread like wildfire, does according to the court of appeal appear close to a publicly known fact", p46.

"The court of appeals overall assessment finds it clear that the illegal file-sharing quickly reached proportions at which the general preventive considerations must have great importance in the application of the law. According to the court of appeal there are therefore concerning this form of copyright infringement very special reasons to see the crime of such severity that the sentencing should be imprisonment", p47.

So... Judges joins copyright organization. Copyright organization tells judges that file-sharing is bad. Judges sees file-sharing as a huge social problem. Judges sentence defendants to exceptional sentences without being biased?

http://cybernormer.se/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/defavgdok.p...
That's what university is for.

~There is no royal road to mathematics~
I think what you're looking for are textbooks.
Tricky one. I think there will be initial positivity. We're getting to that stage now. Lawmakers are happy to embrace it at the moment. The first accidents will result in a major setback, though. Difficult to say exactly how much people will freak out when the first casualties happen in a self-driving car. Hopefully by that time there will be enough data to strongly demonstrate that even though self-driving cars can still crash, they can also be much safer than non-autonomous cars.
Do We Still Need CES?
I'm curious on a legal aspect: Do you check with the website owners before posting?
You can't even get HBO content if you aren't a cable/dish subscriber. I would seriously consider paying for their content, but they refuse to sell it to me and there is no way I'm going back to paying $100+/month to have 500 junk channels in my house.
Don't you think this might be a case of "boiling the frog slowly"?

That's the impression I get from both Apple and Microsoft's recent OS/App Store directions.

A few years from now the apologists for each will be saying "Well hardly anyone but super techies ever used those options to disable verification anyway, so I understand why they turned them off".
> This is an honest question: why would you care about that?

My goal is to write stuff so I can DIE. In 30 years can you imagine how much I've written. I don't want all that code following me around the planet. I want to move forward and leave for others something they can maintain and understand and use.

> Python sort of forces that on you up-front.

Again I'm not done with my processing on this but I am a bit unimpressed with using spaces to identify code blocks. Ask me again in a year it might grow on me.. :)
Why not combine both? This proposal recently won a design contest, the tech already exists from maglev systems. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wLokWkUdHM
I realize this is subjective, but I didn't get that feel at all from The Children of Hurin. I thought it did a pretty good job of capturing Tolkien's style (and, of course, significant passages were taken verbatim, or nearly so, from the shorter versions in The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales).
I'm sure they could produce (mostly) bug-free software if the cost-benefit ratio made sense. The problem with trying to ensure a web application is bug-free is that your incremental spend is probably greater than the incremental revenue. Self-driving cars are a different story. They will get sued when the cars make mistakes.
I don't doubt there will be some of that. One can hope their will be fewer issues than on human operated trains, and the issues will not result in the loss of life or even the same scale of injury. People ride in elevators after all.

But more importantly is that if it is 'safe enough' such that a critical mass of people use it, then the anti-tech antibodies won't matter. Some people refuse to fly, others to drink tap water, but the system is 'safe enough' that its self sustaining and can tolerate lack of participation by these folks.
For all those recently into the Arduino posts on HN, this seems like a nice start (starting at lesson 1) into electronics. http://www.renesas.com/edge_ol/engineer/01/index.jsp
The Twin Cities (MN) two year ago had about 400 accidents during the big blizzard at the start of the year. I hesitate to think what would have happened if those folks hadn't had to drive all summer.
I personally have never been a caffeine user. I had always assumed that if I used it regularly, my body would eventually counteradjust so that I would require coffee just to bring me back to my original baseline level of alertness. Can anyone comment on whether this is the case?
It's light enough to carry in bed, and is really comfortable to use.
I actually do it very often, I even have a laptop bed table but I actually never use it since the rMBP has such a nice solid feel to it.

Even considering bed use, I'd still go with a rMBP over an Air, for the rest of the advantages.

The one thing you might find annoying is that the rMBP can get pretty hot when under stress, e.g. if you watch a movie in bed, it will get warm around the top rows of the keyboard.
The way I hold it, it doesn't really bother me that much, though after I got it I took it to an Apple store because I was worried with how hot it would get. You can use something like smcFanControl to turn up the fans, which will make it cool down fast, but it's nicer to use it in bed without it making any noise at all.

If you'd like to see exactly how hot it gets, just go to an apple store, and stress it's CPU a bit

e.g. open a terminal and pipe yes to dev null in 16 processes:

for i in {1..16}; do yes > /dev/null &; done

It should get really warm in ~2 minutes, you can walk around while this happens.
(when done, remember to kill the processes: killall yes)
I, for one, appreciated the clarification.
Its not that the idea didn't catch on, its that they were unsuccessful. Just like most attempts that aimed towards 'strong' or general artificial intelligence were unsuccessful. Natural language understanding is not necessarily general intelligence but it is closer.

The difference is not so much about the profile data that Google has now but rather the AI approaches which are available. For example, the type of hierarchical hidden Markov models that Kurzweil goes into detail on in his book have a broader application than most AI approaches previously used. Also the body of text which Google can process and the amount of processing power Google has contribute to making the goal feasible.
More features can be handle by more pieces of software, each doing one and only one thing ("cat -v Considered Harmful").
Unfortunately you are using a definition that is not shared by most people when judging business success in the long haul. It is okay to have your own metrics but it is disingenuous to suggest that your metrics are also the metrics generally considered by the majority of industry experts.

Why do you feel that profits, market cap etc. are poorer metrics to judge a business success than your metrics? You should write about that.
Conference Quotas
A service that scans your Polaroids and puts them on Instagram might be more promising.
Right, they obviously don't want to wed themselves to any particular "quasi-console", but they want to be ready if the "quasi-console" thing really picks up steam. That's how I see it.
I meant use of HTML and JS as the Mobile OS itself, and exclusively as the only way to make mobile apps. Firefox OS is doing something similar too.

Hope that clarifies.
<shame> The gTar! </shame>

Of course I have some vested interest in that... But I do think Lit Motors is pretty cool, the new Makerbot Replicator (although I've had limited personal success with it), the new Sifteo is awesome, and I've seen some really amazing early projects that might not make it this year but have some really great promise.

Haven't had a chance to play with the Leapmotion, but that seems like it's really awesome too.
That is good advice - even if you are on solid legal footing, the presence of someone else in the market (even as a dead entity) with a too-similar name will cause issues around brand recognition, SEO, etc. And they can decide one day to use the domain they do own and put something up there that will cause confusion. They can't sue you, you can't sue them, but they can just be a pain.

Sometimes the answer is not a legal one, but a practical one.
Because a porting a game client is just like porting a game.
I think I could do a year without caffeine. But a year without alcohol? IMPOSSIBLE.
Circumventing Windows RT’s Code Integrity Mechanism
> Users want more results per page.

For me, I cannot use Etsy because there are simply too many products. I have no way to narrow down the volume of products to something which anywhere near approaches my ability to make a choice.

(At least with Amazon I can filter by department, then filter by four stars and higher...)
Ask HN: MWC 2013 hacks
As the date for the MWC 2013 is approaching, I would like to compile a list of useful advice or links to get a free pass or access to VIP parties, venues...

What I know from last year:

- RIM was giving free passes and an invitation to their keynote, in which they gave a Playbook to every attendee. I haven't found anything similar for this year, so it won't be that easy to get a sponsored pass by them this year.

- You could also get a sponsored pass from the official MWC website. This year you can too.

- Ericsson had a private space with a free buffet. I managed to get access, and when exiting and passing the pass through the card reader, you got added to the access list (free meals for the whole MWC :D).

- There are a couple of events from WIP Connector which seem interesting. You can also ask for a sponsored pass in the registration form.

- There was a Microsoft night event for VIPs one night which had amazing food and open bar. I got an invitation through a friend who had been invited by Microsoft through a link. There was an exploit that allowed anybody who registered through the same link to get an invitation too.

Do you have any other hacks worth sharing? Would love to hear yours.
No loopholes needed, just ask Ahmed Agiza.
HBO is a subsidiary of Time Warner. It is understandable why HBO has declined to sell its content on-demand independent of cable subscriptions. It would be interesting if it were spun off.
"Your plastic pal who's fun to be with"? Never!
Out of convenience. They're temporarily out of cash, but it's a cyclical business and they're going to have a very different balance sheet shortly.

The bankruptcy angle is being played up as the decision-makers are trying to ram a sweetheart sale through to ensure their own lucrative exit from an increasingly-difficult business. (Instead of actually considering competitive bids or seriously seeking funding to cover them until the money starts rolling in again.)

A group of shareholders has just filed suit over the issue.

In any event: there's no chance they stop making games and thus having an interest in the current platform upheaval.
I've come across similar issues and I thought I coined the term "monolithic testing" but clearly great minds think alike.

I'm the biggest proponent of avoiding monolithic tests and having clear and testable hypotheses. I'm glad there's a high profile example to point to now. Thanks.
That of the car company, of course. I bet its car would beat any car Google built as far as passive safety goes, and don't see how any software could compensate for that. Even if software could, I do not think (but am less sure of it) Google's self-driving car software is that much better than those of car companies, if at all.

In other words: “car companies have learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent car. Google is not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”
weedbear.com - a webcomic I don't have time to build (though my drafts are pretty funny).
One issue with automated trains is when something inevitably goes wrong, if it happens in a heavy trafficked system like in NYC you might have dozens to hundreds of people dead

Can you give an example of a subway accident (in NYC or another US system) that lead to that many dead? A head-on collision on the WMATA system resulted in only 9 dead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2009_Washington_Metro_trai...

From this list of NYC subway accidents, the worst involved an accident in 1991 that killed 5 passengers: http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Subway_FAQ:_Accidents
come one man, its just an experiment using html5. don't like it? ignore and move on. he atleast did something and you are sitting in front of dump terminal in your bedroom and criticizing. its like a hatred or jealousy.

be a man. get matured.
I'm actually a little surprised it wasn't noticed earlier. I'd have thought someone out there would have set up a program to check his site periodically.
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Many of the comments here hating on the idea of management teams highlight how blinded we can be as a community. While it may be cool for startups to hate on BigCos, almost all start-up founders aspire at varying degrees to become the very BigCos they bitch and moan about here.

Management teams may have their own issues but to blanket discount them shows utter misunderstanding or ignorance. I challenge folks to find me a single billion dollar revenue company that doesn't have some structure that looks much like a management team.
sitewithpornonit.com - well, hard to guess

empwire.com - wired empire (wut?)

catato.com - cats that look like potatoes
I will note that their suggestion of using an FPGA to do the flashing LED is far far far more complicated than it needs to be. Two AND gates, a decade counter and a timer are all you'd really need to make it flash after hitting the button. Adding a reset could be as simple as another button or another counter depending on how you want to go about it (or if you get creative, i bet it could be done with a JK flipflop).

Though adding the MCU (or an FPGA) does allow you do far more than just flashing it at some interval, you can also make it fade in and out far easier, and a number of other things like that.
Ask HN: Best Web Application Framework
I'm looking to work on a small side project and am looking for a pretty decent web framework. The alternative is to do everything from scratch and sort of trip my way through everything, but because of the prototype nature of the project I figured a framework might make more sense.

I've been a fan of CakePHP in the past, Django rubbed me the wrong way. Language is not a big deciding factor, wouldn't mind learning some new technologies on the way. Lately been on a Javascript kick so was considering doing something with node.js, is Express any good?

Anyways, not trying to start a flame war, just some honest/direct advice on where to get started!

Thanks,
Idan
Yes: http://stackoverflow.com/a/473866/687355
>>>The decision to ban traditional desktop applications was not a technical one, but a bad marketing decision.

But wouldn't Desktop apps need to be recompiled to run on the ARM CPU?
Infinite scroll really annoys me on most sites where you're searching to find something (vs carefully reading each and every result). It's frustrating to not really have any sort of "progress" indicator.

For example, try "scrolling" this list of acrylic sheets on inventables: https://www.inventables.com/categories/laser-cutting/acrylic...

Makes me want to find whomever implemented the system and shoot^H^H^H^H^H err explain to them how unusable it is.
At this rate, I see absolutely no reason to stop pirating. I started it because I was in high school, didn't have money, and didn't have my own TV, so I'd torrent shows and watch them on my desktop.

But now, even though I have a TV, I have no reason to get cable even though I can afford it. I don't watch any sports and I read my news online. I already know how to torrent, have private tracker accounts, and an HTPC to watch torrented shows on my TV. Unless the cable industry comes up with an a la carte, on-demand, ad-free model, I'm just not interested. It's too easy to pirate.
On Google, from http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/03/google-larry-page/ (HN thread at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5002483):

"There is no question the once-open Googleplex has become more compartmentalized. Areas where the Google+ and Android teams work suddenly began to require special badges. Page's own suite is on the top floor of the Google+ building."
Excellent! Just what I was after having been on holidays and wanting to see what I missed. Also, is there a list of HN interfaces and related sites somewhere? HNSearch etc?
>> Diversity is what can happen when lots of different people choose to show up. Diversity is not about how people look, but about how people think.

That may be true--or, at least, it may be true that that is the sort of diversity which is important in a conference. But what Mr. Rutledge fails to acknowledge is that the "how people look" diversity (e.g. race or gender) can deeply influence how people think.

And so it's still important to press for "how you look" diversity and encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, sexual orientations and ages to take leadership roles in the tech community.
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