skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree with your view. As an european that sae the EEC become EU and (most) national currencies being replaced by the Euro, I am myself a supporter of tighter european integration and increasingly closer relations between neighboring countries. And I am sure that most of my fellow europeans will not like it if they ever have to start using their passports again just to go next door.

I believe the problem right now is that most european politicians fail to understand your last paragraph. They simply do not remember (as I do not, but I make an effort to imagine) what it was to be at war and the damage that this caused to Europe and the World in general.

When german leaders are quoted as calling southern europeans "lazy" and greek politicians evoke the Nazis as a defense thesis... you feel that something went really wrong. It's old wounds opening again and each one looking for the best way to put the blame on their neighbor.
I'm getting crazy on this. Just quick recap:

1. I did a statement that people who need skype won't buy it.
2. Someone told me that "these things have hangout instead".
3. I pointed that it doesn't matter since all your contacts are still in skype (and their contacts too), so you'll have to switch them all to hangout too.
4. Now you're saying "If they have a Chromebook, it's a good bet they have a Google account".

How is it related at all???
Yes, more than once, but I tried again just now and it worked fine. Thanks!
Nvidia  Unveils GRID Servers and Project SHIELD Mobile Gaming Device
Kinda, but isn't it a pain for developers to have to account for all these kinds of Android devices?

I don't have any experience developing for Android, but I can imagine developing for Android phone handhelds is hard enough already.
Good to know. That's actually a border crossing I'm planning to do relatively soon.
I can understand some of the benefit from bringing namespaces to HTML5-like element tags...but I find this to be a step backward rather than forward.

For instance, rather than doing <form:input> it would be great for html to be a bit smarter about nesting and the parent child relationship between the DOM tree.

So instead of <form:input>, I would proposed <form><input:text></form>. Why continue to bloat the code by adding <form:input type="text"> etc...?
This has made me think about what happens here in Germany: All the main TV channels start their big show of the night at 20:15 (but I guess due to competition for viewers sometimes a channel will start their show one or two minutes earlier).
Then the main channels will often have ad breaks at the same time (I guess so they don't lose viewers zapping to other programs). This seems like a bad idea given Germany's push for green energy production, but I wonder how could the government or the energy producers persuade the TV companies to spread out their ad breaks?
I wouldn't recommend CMake without qualifications.

It is vastly inferior from the perspective of the end user. Any autotools package can be handled with "./configure && make && sudo make install", and you can change it up by "./configure --without-gtk --enable-network --prefix=/opt/crazy CFLAGS='-O0'" and then make a package with "make install DESTDIR=/tmp/package". Try doing that in CMake, you'll see what I mean.

The syntax is also really terrible, in particular, If/Else. The documentation is not so good, in particular, it's available online as one big block of text and they want to sell you a book.

Finally, CMake doesn't solve the one problem I was complaining the most about, which was the ability to set per-file compilation flags. This is not an optional feature in my eyes -- it's necessary for avoiding cross-contamination of -D_GNU_SOURCE turds picked up by pkg-config, and it's necessary for writing libraries that use processor features that might not be available at runtime, like SSE3.

I think CMake, like Autotools, has a niche in which it does best. "Simple things easy and complex things possible" is a nice motto, but the truth is really boring -- CMake and Autotools make different things easy and different things possible. CMake's niche is medium-large projects with medium amounts of complexity. Projects that are complex, like Firefox or FFMpeg, tend use Autoconf with custom build systems.
> This is a privileged person, someone who travels internationally, ...

... and who has gone through extensive scrutiny to get a green card.

Exactly the kind of person who should hit red flags at the border, right?
I am English, and was partly mimicking the parent who used "regular kettle" to mean "stove top kettle."

I did grow up with one though. My parents had previously lived in a house with a very small kitchen with no convenient place for an electric kettle. When they moved they kept their stove-top kettle until it burned through (about 10 years) and replaced it with an electric. I bought a stove-top kettle a few years ago for the same reason. It still comes out occasionally when an electric kettle breaks (which is quite often if you live in one of the "hard water" areas of Southern England.)
I have some rails related domains for sale:

railsaudit.com

railsbuddy.com

railscopilot.com

railsdoctor.com

railsreview.com

railsrookie.com
Lazy way: drugs and caffeine.
Hard way: intense execercise, paleo diet, no sugar - balances insulin and hormomal levels to keep mental acuity sharp but you will still need at least 6-8 hours sleep to maintain a sharp mind during work hours.
I'd like to say that Apostol's "Introduction to Analytic Number Theory" is bloody awful and is in no way suitable to be an introduction to analytic number theory. A reference book of proofs of some common theorems, yes, but an introduction? No.
Excellent summary.

> "So a coal power station with high base-load capacity will place low bids for the majority of its capacity, to ensure that it gets picked first when demand is being met. It costs a lot of money to turn a station like that off, so they price their bids accordingly"

Nuclear puts in bids of zero since adjusting the power output of those is difficult. Coal is quite flexible once the turbines are running so can be used to deal with upcoming demand (ie if you realise that you need more generation in 30mins time) - apparently this is because they run most efficiently at 70% of max output. Gas generation/stations are most efficient at 90-something-percent of max output, so they have less short-term flexibility than coal. Hydroelectric storage is the quickest to respond but also the most expensive (generation within minutes - some folks I knew called it the 'emergency button' :).

That's all random stuff I learnt years ago over a summer in the industry.
My parents used to have a saying: "He was so charming he could tell you to go to hell so you were looking forward to the trip."
I'm not quite clear on your point here. Did the compression cause problems? Did it keep reserved space so you still didn't have any free? Compression on a slow hard drive should generally improve performance and at the very least shrinking files means fewer fragmentation problems.

If you wanted the software to warn you it was buggy before you turned it on, haha good luck.
The Transterpreter VM was ported to RCX if I recall correctly. It uses Occam-pi for the development language:
http://transterpreter.org/

Not Go, but go-like.
"Would you like to cancel this transaction?"

"OK" – "Cancel"

Easy, just replace would with wouldn't :)
A Billion Dollar Idea
This is Titanium Desktop itself, they just started the development again with a new name.
Am I the only one who thought this has startup potential? It sounds like a problem in search of a solution. I can picture for instance a service that would take a page, scan it, remove all the unnecesary clutter and make it as much screen reader friendly as possible.
Oh, that's very interesting, thank you!
I was under the impression that you can't include GPL stuff in App Store apps full stop.
I've used leJOS, an open-source jvm on NXT. It comes with libraries for sensors and actuators and it works quite well.

http://lejos.sourceforge.net/
The other part of the article is the psychopaths' "relative indifference to setbacks" and their fearlessness.

> “The thing about fear, or the way I understand fear, I suppose—because, to be honest, I don't think I've ever really felt it—is that most of the time it's completely unwarranted anyway. What is it they say? Ninety-nine percent of the things people worry about never happen. So what's the point?

> “I think the problem is that people spend so much time worrying about what might happen, what might go wrong, that they completely lose sight of the present. They completely overlook the fact that, actually, right now, everything's perfectly fine.

> “So the trick, whenever possible, I propose, is to stop your brain from running on ahead of you.”
Missing from headline: "(Obnoxiously Cheerful Music Will Start Immediately)".
Dont trust 'great' universities too much, not all brilliant people feel obliged to get the best grades and go to the most shining university, some prefere having less demanding studies and use their free time to learn and build things by themselves. You dont really need a 6 to understand if you're good or not at something, it only boosts your ego. Exposure and competition are better suited for self evaluation.
Definitely not; I'm now panicking about the same. The advice is greatly appreciated by those paranoid about losing out eyesight.
Lovely!
I'd add "outline: none;" to inputs, chrome displays the ugly orange border when fields are focused.
APOD's 2013 calendar
We solve that problem by carrying a pressure cooker.
As a student, I tried to use a tablet with ebooks exclusively for a few of my university classes, and it was fairly dreadful. Not because having a tablet is distracting, but because it's not the best way to organize reference information. When I was trying to do homework, I wanted - the questions from page 251, the table of equations from 190, and to be able to flip through and find similar examples. Obviously e-books fail miserably if you need quick access to multiple pages.

As a test-taking tool, an iPad is not terribly effective either. The maths teacher shows that she can quickly aggregate the solutions, but there's no good way for the students to express their thought process. I'm pretty sure by their age, if I had simply written the answer on the paper I wouldn't have been given full marks. It's important to teach students good mathematical form from an early age, and this definitely undermines that. Consider maths is one of the easiest classes to write tests for, I wonder how science, english etc. are getting on - likely a lot of terribly simple multiple choice.

Lastly, everyone seems so smug. The school's administration thinks they've taken this gigantic problem of how to do learning electronically and they've just knocked it out of the park. I know it's a sort of fluff piece, but it'd be better to see a longer video about problems they solved, lessons they learned, etc. As it stands, it looks like a lot of off-the-shelf software cobbled together by a local Apple rep, which is hardly ground-breaking. They've just thrown a lot of money at it. The administrator featured doesn't seem to be overly technical, and the teacher seems more interested in the fact that now she doesn't have to go home and mark things in her spare time ( but, of course, she's 'dedicated', as she says herself ).
nice demo, but terrible physics
Get more users, add functionality only if it will increase the number of users or reduce your churn rate.
Mostly they make Dr Who about 45 mins long, presumably with the idea that it'll be packed out to 1 hour when shown on a commercial station.
They work out how much renewable generated energy they're obligated to provide (or estimate) and ensure that they have at least that much renewable energy generation capacity. The actual electricity supplied to the households doesn't have to be generated from renewable sources.

I imagine.
Of course, of all tablets, it had to be an iPad!
I can to some extent explain the college process in the US.

The first is that grades matter, but only to a point. Colleges have to work with all sorts of crazy grade point systems from all over the world. Not all school districts have the resources for premium programs (AP, IB, etc). They also have to deal with how those premium programs are reflected into your grade average. So I think as long as you make the cutoff grade average (say 3.15/4.0), it doesn't matter if you have a 4.0/4.0 or 3.9/4.0, they're going to move on and look at other parts of your application like your essays and letters of recommendation. HINT: They look for "well balanced" individuals, so you have a lot of academic achievements. You may want to try volunteering for this next year, or joining a club (preferably outside of your core skills) of some kind at school.

Secondly, in US there are typically 2 ways to get scholarships. The first is merit based (for grades). Since you're going to private organizations for this mostly, their requirements are all different. In some cases those organizations want to help a particular set of students (particular gender, race, or religion) so your competition is going to be less intense.

There is also "need based" scholarships available for students. If you can't afford college, there are scholarships or subsidized interest loans to help. With some private organizations again they may filter applicants depending on what their endowment is for.

Another option to support yourself during college is to work. It's possible to work and keep your grades up, even at top schools.
Incredible photos from the CES vault: 1967 to 2012
Nice work. I found a couple of bugs:

- Straight after you jump on enemies you're able to pass through
some blocks

- You are not able to jump on top of shells and stop them from moving

- You could improve jumping
Jumping Off Of The Page
With all lower case it does exist: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sircmpwn
+1 for node-webkit; I've been having a blast messing around with it lately, it's great stuff. With the pre-built binaries, you can be off and running (with full node support in your browser JS) in minutes.
I've been through many airports' passport control and customs. I haven't had a major issue. With the Canadian/US border in NY. Thats another story. I've had to park to the side and go to a different area while the car got searched and they grilled me about everything I did during the weekend [US side]. The Canadian side was worried I'd steal all of their jobs during the weekend. This was all for a quick weekend trip to toronto.
Ask HN: Is coffee healthy?
haha, yes that does seem to do what I wanted. Not sure how I missed it. I will test it, but I imagine that since it uses unicode.IsSpace it will be slightly slower.
Isn't the whole DMV thing largely fixed? In Manhattan, they even have "express" DMVs. I have to assume the idea came about due to voter pressure rather than some altruistic bureaucrat.
Personally I found tablets AND laptops lagging a plain old paper notebook when it came to reviewing notes before the test.

Distraction is another thing (sit on the back and watch to get an idea) but I presume that iPads can eventually be modified to access only coursework.
Here's a dissenting opinion: I hate pagination. Especially when I need to browse through a lot of content. When I scan for something I hate being interrupted every 10 seconds by having to click a tiny pagination target, especially if that target jumps around from page to page. I understand that most infinite scrolling implementations leave out critical functionality like back button support, but that doesn't mean infinite scrolling can't be done well.
We did indeed have a drought in 2011, and there were no ill-effects on this system. That's the point. Water shortages in the UK tend to affect the southern end, and most of these hydro buffers are up north, where they wish it would stop raining.
Increasing loads on the system won't really effect this type of setup, hydro is used as a peak buffer not for base load, peaks like these will tend to have the same order of magnitude (they have over the past 40 years while base load has increased).
There are other issues with power in the UK, but dealing with post TV tea peaks isn't one of them, and isn't worth investment which could be spent better elsewhere on the grid.
Show HN: FollowWWW - Automate the web
I've had several black spots that float around in my vision for over a year now. Is that a sign of retinal detachment? I visited the doctor and he said eye floaters were normal and people with myopia were prone to getting eye floaters.
In other words, you're part of the Programming, Motherfucker (http://progmofo.com/) religion now? ;)
We made a quick spike locally in the office. Like the idea but seems to be based on a two year old webkit and only gets a score of 202 in html5test.com.
That's a good and correct way of explaining it in a few words. Of course, there is nuance, but it gets the point across.

Psychopaths observe but don't feel or care.

Autistics are handicapped in their observations, although they may feel and/or care.
wow, thats super cool!
> URLs are hard to type, and prone to human error. Simple as that.

Your phone is just as capable of reading a URL with its camera as it is at reading barcodes.

The only useful use I've seen of a QR code is a vcard though, taped to the back of my friend's phone.
half the internet seems to advocate being a psychopath as the best way to get laid

wat?
A very good point. And currently Office 365 isnt a value proposition for upgrade. It wont even load most of our department's important spreadsheets.

But dont the big corps work on volume licensing that is renewed regularly? In any case there clearly isnt a rush of new customers.
Here's a good article on the floating black spots you can experience in your vision: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Floaters/Pages/Introduction.asp...

TLDR; they're pretty common (I've had them for years), but you should go get them checked out if you see a rapid increase in the number of them.
TBH, it's hard to get the same level of user-experience from an Android tablet. There are very few apps on Android which offer the same level of experience as those found on the iPad.

Also, in a school setting, how do you expect students and teachers to deal with different versions of operating systems and device specifications?
The author of the book (and OP article) writes about his experience with transcranial magnetic induction that is able to turn him into a temporary psychopath by effectively disabling the center of the brain associated with empathy. (The anecdote is in the full text of The Wisdom of Psychopaths - I don't think I've seen it online.)
What's your point? Nobody is arguing whether this was a mistake, not even DHS officer when asked. Nobody is saying the DHS is the most competent organization on the planet or that it can't be better. In the vast majority of cases, people enter the country without issue and in a tiny minority there is some inconvenience.

Clearly many of the people in that room were there for a reason, as some was arrested and some were denied entry.

The guy had to stand in a room for 3 hours before entering the country because he tripped a false positive. We can hope that this won't happen every time - if it does, he might have something to complain about, though still not justification for the exasperation shown in this forum.
Dad hires online assassins to slay game-obsessed son
This project has been going on for some time - very interesting. Recently I've been hearing about (planned / just started) similar projects in the UK and the US with K12 and higher education.

TMK its iPads as frontends, Meru Wireless Networks to connect the about 2000 iPads, MS Server 2008 with AD and MS Exchange at the backend.

for more info see:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/t...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13FO_A0Sokw
(plus an Apple UK profile on ESSA) http://www.apple.com/uk/education/profiles/essa/
Fuduntu 2013.1 Released - Steam, Netflix, and lots more inside
We aren't talking about those black floaters here, are we? With constant you mean "fixed in position" I suppose.

I think the same thing happened to the author Oliver Sacks, who wrote about it. He noticed it right before Christmas and lost some sight because no doctors were available during the holidays IIRC.
Really? Amazon order fulfillment is a lot more efficient than Apple's.
While the login form might be pretty, I'm a bit turned off of "dzyngiri" by the lack of indentation in their code. And it might be helpful to have the demo/download buttons immediately visible rather than having to click the tiny X in the box/tooltip/whatever that is. I probably spent a minute searching for the buttons before finally clicking the X.
Show HN: Demiba - Get the most out of YouTube music
This looks really nice, but the games runs too fast on my machine. It's probably close to 1.5x speed vs the original game.
Might be worth seeking a second opinion, or maybe that of a specialist? Certainly can't hurt given what's at stake!
The drought only really effected the south, the north and Scotland still had less water reserves than normal but plenty of capacity left. The hydro generation is mostly based in Scotland.

There is also a Welsh hydro-electric dam, excess capacity from the grid pumps the water up the mountain during the night and then it's released as and when.
While a sudden increase in floaters could be an indication of a retinal tear/detatchment, so long as they do not continue to increase and aren't directly in your vision (or not easily ignored) you shouldn't worry too much about them.
My father The call made to me The call that will be made for me Some thoughts
My first thought was to do with the name - is 'SlowPal' at all at risk for trademark infringement?
It looks great and all that, but wouldn't 'FastPal' have made for a better name?
I've used it on the RCX a year or five ago and back then leJOS didn't have any proper garbage collector implementation nor a proper way to free memory explicitly. Due to all my buddies only having Java knowledge we were forced to use leJOS and I ended up still having to write some C code and cross compile it in the leJOS JVM to get that all to work. A bit of a pain but fun and I learned lots.
Nice idea. Your logo is a lawsuit waiting to happen, though.
Quick note - I actually wanted to make Mario in HTML5 but came across this today before starting. I'm not the author :). Thought it'd be interesting to share.
That list is very long with some very nebulous items in it. Just ASK THEM what actionable things you can do in 2 weeks (or however long the notice period is) to make the transition as smooth as possible. Anything more than that and you're wasting your time.
The namespacing is indeed ugly. HTML's current tag soup might be legacy filled, but we haven't replaced it because it's convenient to have short memorable tags for these things. XML namespaces failed in this, never letting you mix two namespaces on an equal footing.

If HTML is to go beyond just HTML, then we're going to see much more variety in web content and markup. In that case, doesn't it make more sense to stop worrying about a universal, global tag standard, and instead see it as a 'from module import x' type of problem instead? Let the document author figure out how to map tags in, and make it as easy to import a vanilla HTML baseline as HTML-with-a-dozen-bells-and-whistles.
Pedantry: BBX hasn't shipped yet outside the PlayBook, and I'd hardly call that popular. The phones are still running the original since-1999 BlackBerry OS.

And why not BSD? I'd mainly say mindshare, and portability to a degree. You don't have to release your source every time you port BSD to a shiny new platform. BSD code is out there (networking stacks, a handful of the base *nix utils in OSX), but the permissive license cuts both ways.