skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They seem to have added more links:

http://www.amazon.com/Objectified/dp/B002SOUVKU/

http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/stream/
Well, I'm all for military research.

But it seems like a criminal waste of resources to build the developed stuff -- and train lots of people. This decision have no good reason (North Korea? Hardly), it is forced because China haven't democratized so it needs external enemies to generate jingoism and hinder criticism of the Party.

(But sure, maybe China's main motivation is to get natural resources in sea areas that have belonged to other countries for centuries. That is hardly better.)

Edit: Clarity.
Ask HN: Gauging interest in a UI workshop in the Bay Area
Workshop 1: Photoshop for Engineers

This might make sense as a day long workshop, and would empower engineers to work with Photoshop files as specs and understand the actual implementation of common layer styles and other relevant graphics topics (as to make it much simpler to recreate graphics programmatically).

Workshop 2: Interaction

This would be a day-long course which would introduce Quartz Composer, a node based functional visual programming environment on OS X. What's so special about it as a design tool is that it gives you the ability to instantly iterate on an idea without recompiling. The tight feedback loop allows you to dial in designs (and engineering approaches to visual things in general) and come to the right conclusions quickly.

We would start off learning the tool, go over some tips, and then dive into creating some sample projects. One project idea is to recreate Coverflow from scratch (this would teach a lot of aspects in QC).

This one would be aimed towards designers and engineers with a front-end persuasion.

In my years working as a UI designer, and now more recently also as an engineer, it is all too common that there is a disconnect in the design of an application and its making. These workshops would aim to teach new techniques and create bridges between disciplines that would most certainly result in better software and higher productivity.

Is this something that you would be interested in? Is there anything else that you've been itching to learn?
Who says they woul be thinking incorrectly?
I think what you mean to say is that you need to match the performance of the current network. But this would put you at 50% of the global mining speed. For example the current network mines at 20 Thash/s, so you need to bring another 20 Thash/s for a majority attack, in which, an attacker can do the following: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Attacker_has_a_lot_of_...

Anyway, Titan is not powerful enough to perform a majority attack. First of all, there is no Bitcoin miner optimized for the latest GK104/GK110 Tesla and GeForce GPUs. With current miners, people report speeds of barely 110 Mhash/s on the GeForce GTX 680, which should translate to ~140 Mhash/s on the Tesla K20X (which is only 30% faster in terms of 32-bit integer ops per second.) Titan has 18688 K20X, so that's only 2.6 Thash/s total. Far from the 20 Thash/s required. It would still bring 400 coins/day, or $5600/day :)

I theorize here [1] that based on the number of ALUs and clock frequency, that a properly optimized miner should be in theory 4x-6x faster than this on GK104/GK110, bringing Titan to 10-16 Thash/s. (Nobody bothered optimizing Nvidia because everybody is mining on more efficient Radeon GPUs or FPGAs.) Still not enough to match 20 Thash/s. Disclaimer: I have only programmed AMD GPUs, never Nvidia. Maybe there is a reason this 4x-6x theoretical perf gain has never been realized, such as the inability to execute 1 32-bit integer instruction per ALU per clock due to instruction latencies greater than 1 clock, or throughput being less than 1 instruction per clock... I don't know. Theoretical FLOPS numbers published by Nvidia indicate that floating point instructions, as opposed to integer instns, can run at 1 instruction per ALU per clock. Which makes it even weirder that there would be such a huge perf gap between int and fp.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=129292.msg1381510#ms...
A few years ago, I worked on a video player and looked around a lot to figure out if designers tended to go for "show action that will happen when clicked" (e.g. video is playing, so display the "pause" icon) or "current state" (e.g. video is playing, so display the "play" icon). For a video player, you'll have things like the play/pause button, the video quality, etc.

I think the conclusion is that in a lot of cases there are no conclusion. There are no definite best practice, both can be justified and both are used pretty widely.

(PS: I just checked Vimeo, Youtube and Hulu. It seems that they tend to agree on showing pause when it's playing. However Hulu and Youtube both show the mute icon when it's muted, so they're not consistent regarding action vs. state. My point is that for video players, there seems to be a potential best practice here, but in general "action vs. state" is not clear-cut)
Are Java applets still used anywhere? I haven't seen them in open web in years (I see one in my companies reporting software made by third party - no one knows why it requires java to do it's things)
i just want to mention something about the "Sorry, MagicScroll was unable to parse this page" window.

because "Report This Page" is the only button, i instinctively hit it under the muscle-memory assumption that it's the back/escape button. chances are you're going to get a good deal of noise from beginners because of this
It is. The annoyance comes from when the styling makes the message unclear as to which one is selected.
Aaron Swartz commits suicide
Tip: make your lesson 1 a "free demo" or something if you want to get more people interested! (the only reason I didn't say "fuck this" and moved on after amazon said it won't stream the video to me because I'm not in the US was because I happened to remember the Helvetica documentary and thought maybe it's worth the pain...)
You may want to look into broken window fallacy.

Technological improvement that happens because of military spending could have happened anyway under civilian spending, although the side effects resulting from research may well be different.
An Unwelcome Consequence of the Multiverse Thesis [pdf]
>> I wonder if there is a name for such a double take?

"Funny"?

(Sorry for a non-serious answer to a serious comment, I'm making a point that you should relax. The lack of taking responsibility (school education etc) for what happened in the 2nd world war might make other countries nervous, but afaik only Germany ever took responsibility for large war atrocities. Not Turkey, Pakistan, the Chinese communist party, etc, etc. No one expects a return of the militaristic Japan.)
Ask HN: Hire me
Hi HN

I made the scrolling extension and bookmarklet that are on the frontpage at the moment. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5043388

I'm a very good Java/JavaScript/GWT programmer and I'm looking for a few days work a week.

The bookmarklet is getting all the press at the moment but I also built the ebook reader at magicscroll.net . It is fully offline capable and can unzip and parse an epub file completely in javacscript. It also uses a bunch of the latest HTML5 stuff like offline caching, the File API and the FileSystem API.

My rate is $300 a day. I'm a full stack programmer and I work very fast.

I'll need to work remotely unless you happen to be in Durban, South Africa. Would prefer clients who are in timezones somewhere between GMT+0 and GMT+4 but I'll consider other offers if the project is interesting enough.

If you want to chat you can email me at rdwallis@magicscroll.net
Working with Friends: 2 Pitfalls to Avoid
Firefox's click-to-play is still enabled by an about:config pref because its initial implementation is not a user-facing feature; it's targeted at disabling plugins for security vulnerabilities (like Java).

I believe a per-plugin setting is planned.

I like your suggestion for a basic whitelist for popular websites like YouTube and Facebook.
I like the points made here and the general thrust of the petition; however, the big question I have: where is the data to back up these claims?

The argument would be a lot more convincing if sources or studies were cited for claims such as increased air conditioning costs, etc.
Both go to bed 30 mins earlier so she gets the same amount of sleep? Or alternatively, suggest that you start going for a jog/whatever together in the mornings so she has an incentive to wake up the same time as you.

Sorry that it's not the most high-tech of solutions. I could probably make an app for monitoring both of those if it helps :-S
What a load of bullocks. There are many fields within CS that are very interesting that don't fall within any of these characterizations, like AI, machine learning and computer vision.
One real problem with daylight savings is that it goes the wrong way. The idea was that in the winter there would be fewer hours with the sun up, and it made sense to put those hours in a more useful part of the day.

When daylight savings was introduced, that "more useful part of the day" was earlier in the day. That doesn't hold today, though - as TFA says, most people work indoors under artificial lighting, and shifting daylight hours earlier into the day just means they're wasted while we're behind desks. What we really need is more daylight in the evening, so we can make productive use of our leisure time playing catch with our kids, practicing with the football club, drinking beer on the porch etc.

Still, killing daylight savings would probably be better than "reverse daylight savings", and more politically feasible. Certainly more feasible than crazy ideas like moving to UTC (and probably better for the average person anyway).

My pet peeve, though, is leap-seconds. Life would be a lot easier if you could rely on days always having 86400 seconds.
...jeez ...shouldn't "enterprise grade software" imply at least a "give some fuck" attitude towards security? wtf is wrong with Oracle?!

Most browsers have an autoupdate mechanism. Can't Oracle encourage browser devs to push an update with a patched java plugin and Microsoft to push a windows update with it? I mean, really, wtf?!
I must be missing something, I don't see how that Wikipedia article says the US is bound by treaty defend Vietnam's claims the islands in the same manner the US is bound to defend Japan. Can you clarify? Living in Vietnam, I'm very curious about the subject
My heart goes out to his family. I'm a big fan of his work, particularly web.py. He made a huge impact on the web by anyone's standards and his contributions have personally touched my life in many ways. Rest in peace, man.
I'm speechless.

He had his troubles and he made some bad decisions, but it didn't have to be like this.

I wish his family peace and clarity in this dark hour. I'm just so sorry.
Fuck this country.

EDIT: The guy was facing 13 felony counts for downloading academic articles.
Hmmmm... It appears to have changed. I swear they used to be forbidden to spend money on things like phonics.

Parental income is highly correlated with child IQ.
The Amazon link don't work internationally I think. I can't download because "It is only available on US".

The objectifiedfilm works fine though. Downloading right now...
He made huge impact in the tech world. RIP
That is so goddamn sad. Rest in peace, Aaron.
It's always a shame when someone commits suicide in a situation like this. There's always a better option. Everyone makes mistakes.

I've seen this happen in my own life. I had a family friend that committed suicide after being indicted of a felony DUI charge because he swore he never would go to prison.

Tragic. My thoughts are with his family.
Yes, and five year olds in nursery school ought to be learning to read. In any event, it appears that these days they do teach reading.
I admired him quite a bit after the JSTOR thing.
Yes what Buzzfeed did was wrong, however:

On Reddit many times I see users swiping photos from news sites, uploading them to Imgur and then go on to generate countless page views which don't help the news organization that paid for those photos in the first place. In fact many times there's not even any attribution.

Also it's not just reddit that does this but in the early days of Wikipedia many entries were scraped together by copying-and-pasting content from other websites without any permission. There are also sites like Pinterest which seem to exist to just swipe photos from other websites.
I think it's tragic that we all, with our laws and courts and systems of 'justice', can ruin a brilliant kid's life to the point where he decides it's not worth living anymore.

All over 'stealing' some ideas.
Slightly off topic -- but these petitions have been cropping up more and more lately, but have they actually done anything? Are there any we can point to that actually caused some change in government behavior?

All I see in every response is just politician-speak from random government officials. Typically they acknowledge the submission and then wave it off with no specific action to fix it.
You can see some of his recent work here https://github.com/webpy/webpy
Given that Congress recently extended DST in the name of saving energy, I doubt there is much appetite for abolishing it. While the benefits are disputed, the benefits of no DST are also disputed, simply because almost no industrialized region has abandoned DST, so there is no data. Clearly DST is a stressor, but there may health benefits to stress induced hormesis.

Personally, I prefer DST simply because it gives a longer block of sunlight in the evening, when I can be active, at the expense of daylight in the morning, when I am asleep anyway. I'm not sure my sleep would improve with the extra light in a non-DST world.
"Everything bad that happens is because this country sucks, everything good that happens is because our community is awesome".
Here's the JSTOR Statement related to the downloading incident: http://about.jstor.org/news/jstor-statement-misuse-incident-...

What Happened

Last fall and winter, JSTOR experienced a significant misuse of our database. A substantial portion of our publisher partners’ content was downloaded in an unauthorized fashion using the network at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of our participating institutions. The content taken was systematically downloaded using an approach designed to avoid detection by our monitoring systems.

The downloaded content included more than 4 million articles, book reviews, and other content from our publisher partners' academic journals and other publications; it did not include any personally identifying information about JSTOR users.

We stopped this downloading activity, and the individual responsible, Mr. Swartz, was identified. We secured from Mr. Swartz the content that was taken, and received confirmation that the content was not and would not be used, copied, transferred, or distributed.

The criminal investigation and today’s indictment of Mr. Swartz has been directed by the United States Attorney’s Office. It was the government’s decision whether to prosecute, not JSTOR’s. As noted previously, our interest was in securing the content. Once this was achieved, we had no interest in this becoming an ongoing legal matter.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/aaron-swartz-felony...
In theory the community here should be startup oriented which gives it a unique point of view.
He was being charged with the felony of downloading/distributing research done using public funding so that it could be made freely available to the taxpayers who funded it. JSTOR had no interest in prosecuting him, but the US Attorney's Office decided to go ahead anyway.
Sad, he just wanted to make the world a better place.
This video explains DST really well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84aWtseb2-4
I have no words. I've been sitting with my phone's cursor blinking in this box and, for the first time in a long time, my stomach has turned so much from this news that I have nothing to write.

What an absolutely dreadful shame. My heart is wrenched for his family and all of us, who lost a brilliant young man. I'm a month older than he was, and to imagine someone my age thinking there was no way out... with all of the possibilities of his life, a life just beginning.

Christ.
UPDATE: Either the maintainers are responding to feedback or, as speculated downthread, some A/B testing is going on. If the latter is the case, pick B, for the love of all that is holy!
Read the statement above.

If you're looking anywhere its probably towards the US Attorney's office, not JSTOR.
Ehhh... neat setup (I've wanted to try such a thing for a while) and a good implementation, but especially with such large text and vertical spacing it makes it noticeably more awkward to read because my eyes need to travel bottom-to-top many times. Scrolling lets me go side to side without as much movement. And yes, spacebar to go down a page works pretty well too.

All that said, it could just be that it's new. I'll happily try the extension for a while (thanks! makes it a lot easier to try out) and report on things later :)

One detail does jump out at me: I would prefer a gap between 'bottom' and 'top' so I can park the separator out of sight. I might just be obsessing with keeping a 'clean' page, but I do find myself trying to do so.
This is so sad. I just responded today to an email from him about demandprogress.org. RIP.
PayPal Apologizes re: SciFi Writer’s Cancer Fundraiser. Promises Transparency
RIP Aaron...
Wow. Shocking news! I've been reading Aaron's stuff online and following him on twitter for years. Only last week I re-read his amazing "Raw Nerve" blog post series http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve

Lost for words!
This is HN, I think this is last virgin land the political nut jobs haven't found yet. Why don't you post it first and we'll discuss it like reasonable people?
A tragedy that this caring young man has taken his own life. My heart goes out to his family.

This feels a bit inappropriate but at the moment I hope that some members of the US Attorney's Office are wracked by guilt.
Zynga Underwriter J.P. Morgan Reduces Stake to Almost Zero
Josh Bloch: Java The Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts [video]
There's a lot of difference -- i.e.work -- between a CRUD app and a successful business. The experience has shown that the first version of anything is rarely successful; it's only after a lot of testing and tweaking that you find the right formula (and then you still have to keep working on it).

Anyway, an idea that a) has the concrete people with a concrete need, b) can be (at least initially) solved with a CRUD app and c) hasn't been (successfully) tried before is so rare that you probably have more chance to literally stumble on a buried treasure. Of course we would all like to have an idea like this, but the problem is that you can't possibly know that you do until you execute and test it -- in nearly all cases it will turn out that you were wrong on b) and/or c) above.
Will C++ remain the game industry standard for a decade more?
They went on a witch hunt against the guy and destroyed his life. There's only so much a man can take. More blood on their hands.
Aaron was one of the genuinely good guys. May he rest in peace.
Why are you assuming he did it because of his legal problems?
It's worth noting that this is a tiny, tiny amount of money by US standards. A couple billion USD is not a big deal (financially or militarily, other than as a signal).

Still, as a Japanese resident, I am happy with this use of my tax money. With the Cold War with China already well underway, I think Japan needs a much stronger military than at any time since losing WWII. Partly because of the economic ascendance of China (which a lot of people these days somehow forget is a brutal, repressive, totalitarian state, not an advanced democracy like Japan) and partly because of the decline of the USA as comptent and rational actor on the world stage. Treaty-bound or not, I don't have much faith that the USA would do much wrt Chinese aggression toward Japan, short of an actual invasion (which hopefully will remain very unlikely).
Don't go dragging Microsoft into this - they haven't shipped anything Java-related in a long, long time.

Also, this isn't Slashdot circa 2003, "M$" is quite passé.
If frames and iframes had been fixed instead of being ridiculed and discarded the web stack would be a better place.

Blogs wouldn't regularly collapse under load because blog posts could actually be static html pages instead of being dynamically generated just so we can slap the same header and linkroll on each one.

We wouldn't need new html5 tags to tell screen readers and crawlers where's the content and what's navigational elements because they would be in separate (i)frames.

Ajax's use could be actually reserved for interactive web applications instead of ugly optimizations like loading the comments separate from the article so the article itself loads faster.

I've been telling this to people for years, at my street corner, with my megaphone. But nobody is listening! It's a conspiracy!!!
I'm completely sold on inverted scroll. 100%. It maps to touch interfaces and touch pads, it's "moving content" instead of moving that little (mostly invisible in Mountain Lion) progress bar, and the "moving content" concept fits extremely well with smooth deceleration - it always slides to a stop at the same distance after you've gone the same speed. The scroll bar becomes a progress bar and almost nothing else.
I'm sad there is no way to upvote this more than once. That's all you need to know about startup ideas in a few lines of text.
Using #! (hashbangs) in not advisable as you will be presenting different pages to the users and the web crawler for the same URL. If you can make sure that you present the same content to the users and the crawler then you should be fine.

Anyways, the preferred method for such single page seo friendly URLS is to have hashbang in them. E.g. domainname/#!/category/value. When the search engine crawls to this page it will crawl to domainname/?_escaped_fragment_=/category/value. So for the crawler you will have to write search engine friendly page with all the info that you want it to index. But also make sure that the same info is presented to the users. The UI could be different in both the cases but the content should be same.
When the search engine indexes these pages, it will present the url in #! formats in the search results. For more details check out the link that mileschet has provided.
As pointed out earlier in the thread, the significance is not Safari but WebKit, which is now used by the majority of the software that is used to view web content. The reason WebKit was originally developed is Safari.
I'd like to add another item to your list, tap to zoom. Why some webdevs disable this feature? If I can't tap to zoom I usually do one of these two things: open the reader or leave.
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Every single person employed by the US Attorney Office involved in this tragedy should be sued to hell by the family. Have some goddamn responsibility for once.

This is utterly disgraceful, I feel for his family.
This is terrible news.

Depression is treatable. If you find that you are thinking about suicide, even speculatively, seek help immediately.

You are not alone and it will get better.
Responding to feedback because I love you and you were right.
Do you call that successful?

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AZNGA
Better eulogies will follow, to be sure, but in the mean time, much of what can be said about him is captured in a touching talk he gave called "How to Get a Job Like Mine" [1]. What I think is especially touching about this is how he gently deconstructs his success, demystifying his own legend by pulling back the curtain on what would have otherwise appeared to be a string of miraculous accomplishments. In the process, he reveals himself to be a sensitive, seemingly grateful, and thoughtful person.

May he be remembered well; he seems to deserve it.

[1] https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget