skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What scenario are you concerned about?

I suppose if they squashed commits that weren't there's, then that's a problem of course. But just rebasing their own work between branches?

The real trouble I'd see for this mythical newbie is when they get in a situation that calls (correctly) for a force push. That would come-up if they fork an OSS repo, push some changes to their fork, then do a $ git pull --rebase from the OSS repo to bring in new changes.

When they go to push again to their fork, they will get an error that will require a force push. The force push will be fine because they are working alone, but it could cause an issue for a new git user.

But I'm a little unsure of what trouble you're afraid the maintainer would have.
RE: Open Government Released - What Would Aaron Do?
1 book released out of how many?

https://github.com/oreillymedia/open_government

Submit pull requests with more O'Reilly books. #PDFtribute
I have no idea what you tried for your prototype, but I find it kind of interesting that almost nothing ended up with nice parts. They won't always be nice, but if they're designed with the constraints of 3D printing in mind, they can be significantly better than just a generic part without any care in mind for the characteristics of 3D printing.

> Most plastics were too brittle and would crack when you snapped them on the iPhone. In fact, only 1 ABS was usable.

I haven't injection molded anything yet, but I have made some 3D objects with my home made fused deposition printer. This may not hold for other types of printers, but selecting the correct infill orientation, fill percentage, and pattern can drastically change the properties of the final printed part.

> The consumer models had a hard time with the curved surfaces and felt much grainier in the hand.

I'm not sure what kind of printer you have, but if it's correctly calibrated you can print some pretty nice curved surfaces. They'll always feel grainier because the "normal" direction is on the Z axis. With something like injection molding, as you get 'flat' faces everywhere as you have normal surfaces on every part of your mold. SLA does a little better with the layer heights, but the plastic isn't as strong.

> 3D printers are great for prototyping and hobbyists doing 1-offs. But the tech has a way to go before being useful to the average consumer.

That's absolutely what they're for. What if every piece of tech you had came with a CAD drawing that you could load up and make that thing you wanted but can't buy yet? What if you just wanted one, but someone wanted to buy them from you, and would be willing to skip the design step completely by letting you design it, and them buying it from you. Freelance engineering is getting a little closer (instead of having a full blown design studio, you can make the parts you need for a project in the comfort of your home no matter how bizarre they need to be). Nokia isn't trying to get anyone to mass produce cases with their designs (although they could be used that way), they're trying to entice people with access to a 3d printer and their phone to make something cool. Just check out the search for 'iphone' on thingiverse [1]. People are making anything and everything for them that enhances the functionality of the phone. Nokia wants in.

[1] http://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=iphone&sa=
There is huge market that needs to be filled.The existing money transfer services just don't work well for Africa
This is a great description of what happens, but only tells part of the story. Besides dissolving bad memories Vipassana also has an effect on the depth of your consciousness. Compare this with the upgrading of computer screens from 800 x 600 to the 1920 x 1200 resolution sported by many of them today. Everything is more detailed, more vivid. So is the effect of Vipassana: emotions are more "real" and makes the feeling of being alive more vibrant. We see kids and pets being this way and that is why we like them, the are always fresh and enthusiastic, they know how to enjoy every second with nothing pulling them pack (an effect of not having those negative memories weighing on their brain). It is a profound change in the most intimate place of our being - the consciousness.

Then there is also an expansion, a feeling of infinity, eternity and something that could hardly be described by "radiant space like consciousness" or "luminous mind" which is really what meditators are after. This experience is the enlightenment sought by all religions and spiritual paths. You doubt it's existence? Just remember what your brain and body can do: bliss (orgasm), body buzz (marijuana high), extremely intense feelings of love (young people in love have this sometimes), total serenity (right after we when we wake up, before we start thinking about stuff), dissolution of the ego (we can all have this if we simply participate in a large gathering of people in an emotional state, like, a protest or a football match). Imagine an experience of which bliss, serenity, buzz, inner light are just aspects.

We do have the hardware for enlightenment, we just don't know the API. Vipassana is such an API.
TSA 'Viper' team makes appearance in Emeryville (Amtrak)
I enjoyed it for the first few seasons, I generally like musicals. I got tired of it too for basically the same reasons.

I didn't know they had done this kind of thing before (or at least been accused, see the top comment). When I saw this story earlier today I played that video... I was amazed. It was a nearly perfect copy. That takes a lot of chutzpa.

Someone put a comparison of the two songs up on SoundCloud (link is elsewhere in the thread) and it's nearly perfect. Same tune, same BPM, just a perfect copy.
It could work without the developers embracing it, the same way as almost any DirectX game works with NVIDIA 3D VISION, because it's doing the stereoscopic rendering in the video driver without the need of special code in the games. Of course a few games has visual bugs in 3D but most of these are fixed in newer video drivers.
The Prosecution of Aaron: A Response to Orin Kerr
Massive Layoffs Crush Gas Powered Games
It's being sold by Fox on iTunes http://imgb.mp/iX6.jpg
Official version on iTunes http://imgb.mp/iX6.jpg
You think someone is going to waste time to find you "proof" especially in light of your previous comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5081667 ? I tell you what, using your logic, maybe those Tesla engineers can fix the battery but they'll f-up the cable and the plane will burn totally next time. Proof is in the pudding and all, no?

Ever build anything with a lot of parts? Things do go wrong.
It's in iTunes in Sweden[1], and Kotaku claims[2] it was in the US store but was pulled.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/se/album/baby-got-back-glee-cast-ve...
[2] http://kotaku.com/5977149/glee-egregiously-rips-off-jonathan...
Is there a playable form of this somewhere? I spent a few minutes looking around...
Parsing a DICOM file for fun and profit
For those of us not familiar with Presto:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presto_(layout_engine)

Thanks for all the work, Opera has long been my favorite, only eclipsed in recent years by open-source Chromium.
Your criteria for being "proven wrong" are fairly narrow.

Tesla has clearly had quite their share of battery related difficulties, including the infamous bricking problems. They have domain knowledge, but let's not pretend they are in the same zip code - let alone ballpark - as Boeing.

This is a publicity grab by Elon.
Inasmuch as the crowd you choose to fit into can correlate with other behaviors it may be perfectly reasonable to make objective biases based on appearance (verbal or otherwise).

When push comes to shove and you need to actually decide what your assumption is, you're going to assume something, it may at least have the best possible shot at being accurate.

Even Jeff Foxworthy would often joke that he wouldn't want to be operated on by someone who talks like he does.
Boeing has some long safety checklists too. How many cars is an airplane worth? How many car companies is an airplane company worth?
I'm surprised you didn't mention City Lens. I loved that while I had it. Nokia Music is also really nice. I agree that the Windows Phone 8 OS is quite nice. My problems were as follows:

* the volume wasn't loud enough - I kept missing calls even when the volume was on 30/30. This is just not acceptable and I wasn't going to spend 2 years explaining to my wife why I didn't answer her call. Also, I hate the fact that there was no media volume. If I wanted to watch youtube or listen to Nokia Music the volume that the ringer was at is what the youtube/music was at.

* MMS didn't work. I couldn't send MMS when connected to wifi. I had to go through 4 steps to get it to work. I'm sorry but a brand new phone shouldn't have this issue. That is something that should have been tested and others have had the same issue.

* Call waiting didn't work - I was on the phone with my mom and my wife called. I heard the typical call waiting beep and looked at my screen. There was no notification of an incoming call, which I thought was weird but I just kept on talking with my mom. After I was done talking to her I was going to call my wife to see if she tried calling me, except I couldn't. The call with my mom never ended, it was stuck "ending call". I would click on the "People" tile to call my wife and it would bring me to my stuck ending call. I had to restart the phone and when I did it showed I missed 5 of my wife's calls.

* The OS feels like the Windows 95 of phones - while I liked most of the operating system, it just didn't seem stable. Too many times I had to restart the phone to fix a problem. One of those problems was the call waiting issue I mentioned above. Another was my data just stopped working, even though I had full bars and LTE. A phone shouldn't haven't to be restarted to get things to work, at least in my opinion.

* Voicemail - the voicemail was confusing and there weren't any notifications. I went a week without knowing I had a voicemail. The only reason I found out was because my brother had told me via email he left a voicemail. The voicemail app on the live tiles wasn't for the voicemail, it was for visual voicemail, which isn't free.

Those were my main issues. The fact that I had so many issues in the first 20 days was what made me realize that I had to return it and couldn't spend 2 years with that phone. I switched to the iPhone 5 and am super glad I did! I have had no issues and love the phone.
Gas Powered Games bets the company on Kickstarter
Especially considering that "Johnny C" is "Jonathan Coulton"...
Coulton is also relevant as a very successful internet entrepreneur: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/05/14/136279162/an-inter...
This would represent a sea change in your perception though. If you can get to the point where you're actually "spending on your retirement" then you're good to go, sort of "paying down your retirement mortgage."

But you have to be perceptive enough to see you are "buying" a retirement, not "denying" a Latte.
I don't take to Twitter to announce that I am ready to "do something nice". Genuinely nice acts typically are not preceded by public fanfare.
Security theater. Performance paid by taxpayers.
With your experience how would you invest your money. What suggestion would you give to someone who is not an expert in the area? Do you think value investing is a good idea?
Http://www.mytinyphone.com/profile/cellbinfrenzy/inbox/
Line, The Messaging App That Took Japan By Storm, Crosses 100M Users
"This is the sad reality of America"
This is the sad reality of a democratic system. People have short memories.
That's like complaining when someone redistributes something you gave them under the condition than they promise not to.

I can theoretically repost any "private" content shared by my Facebook friends. Is that a breach of the TOS? Is that illegal? Is that Facebook's fault?
Six BaaS Providers Discuss the Industry at #APIStrat in NYC
So technically, one person of the group makes the post public by clicking on the Storify button? Not sure if it's a FB problem, people just need to be careful about what they post
Anecdote time.

The last time I played with a set of VR goggles was a few years back, and the technology was certainly not up to this pace. That said, the head tracking was pretty good, particularly for the FPS we were playing.

The problem wasn't in the head tracking... it was that the head tracking was pointless. Since you couldn't realistically look around more than ~120 degrees, you still needed a way to turn around and move. The result is that while the head mounted VR goggles were neat, they were just a trick.

After 30 minutes of play, I found that my head had lolled down to rest on my chest (in part due to the weight of the headset), and I wasn't using the goggles for anything more than I would use a monitor for.

Given that, despite the advances in technology, you'll still have a practical limit on how much your head can turn (and thus still requiring a mouse/joystick for real movement), I have a hard time seeing the niche these will successfully fill.
I enjoyed most of the first season, but then it took a hard left off into political preachin' and lost the quirky charm that made it fun to begin with.
The replies are inconsistent. Sometimes, I'll click on reply and get a view of a totally different comment than the one I clicked on. Sometimes I'll see the correct comment, but when I submit a reply, it goes to yet another random comment.
Try imagining GP comment as being directed towards those who believe that someone who agrees with you on a few issues is your eternal faithful ally and someone who disagrees with you on a few issues is a partisan demagogue who will oppose you at every turn. There appear to be many such people commenting on HN stories related to this series of events.
Weird. Terry Tao posting a note on his Google+ feed saying "this is a good paper", with few relevant +1s, should be more of a resume booster than any journal publication.
> since we were completely outgunned and outmanned by the competition

I wouldn't be so sure about that:

http://html5test.com/results/desktop.html#fsCanvas

Opera has always been outmanned and yet consistently been close to or ahead of the curve.

I would say this is more about arbitrary and unhelpful platform restrictions and Opera being characteristically pragmatic about that (lawsuits notwithstanding).

Going forward, are Microsoft and Opera now both to be contributors to the WebKit project? :)
>given it's simple and free to avoid simplifying the causes of suicide, why not avoid it?

It isn't free though. It's de facto censorship.

Aaron Swartz is dead. People want to know why. People want to make sure something like this doesn't happen again to someone else. To do that on a rational basis, you have to understand the cause. It appears quite likely that the cause, or at least a very large contributing factor, was this prosecution by the DoJ. What they did was unacceptable. If nothing is done they will do it again, and again, and again. How can we do anything about it if we can't even talk about it?

I get what you're trying to say. It isn't sensible to commit suicide just because you're in a bad place. But you're arguing like all people have to do is shut up and everything will be fine. Not talking about it doesn't get it fixed.
Oh, absolutely. Path dependency is huge, for example.
The bit about "Absolutely no uranium, plutonium, thorium, or radionuclides derived therefrom" was actually not inspired by the "No tea" inventory item in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It should have been. I wrote that part, and I've played THHGTTG, but there was no causal relationship between these two events. I put in that inventory item because there was a "fission" verb, and I wanted to be explicit about the fact that you do not have any critical masses of fissile elements anywhere on your person, nor any elements from which you can breed fissile isotopes using some spare neutrons.

(I probably would have made the radionuclides examinable, if I hadn't been too busy making all the verbs apply to pigs. There's probably a lesson in here somewhere.)
Who is that guy saying that publishing in arxiv is career suicide? Why are there ML people playing paper chase at universities when they can quickly make a fortune in industry and retire to a life of academic leisure. Of all people, ML researchers should have noticed that the 21st century has arrived.
If you were set on using the head tracking for movement, you'd have to set it up like a controller's thumbsticks (which also have a fairly limited angle of motion). There's a dead spot in the middle, but going outside it makes you turn. Speed increasing the farther out you go.

Metroid Prime 3 on the Wii (and possibly other games) used a similar control system based on the wiimote pointer. It had an adjustment period when you first picked it up, but worked very well. Whether the same holds true with head tracking, I can't say.
A lot of people discussing the 1 hour in the morning, 1 hour before bed requirement. I also found this impractical, but lately I have been pondering something that Goenka said on this subject: If you don't have enough time, sleep less. When I heard this, it sounded ridiculous, since sleep is so important for the body.

A theory I have been developing is that perhaps meditation that achieves a no-mind state for a long period of time, may allow the practitioner's brain and body to enter the same kind of restorative repair cycle that it normally only enters during unconscious sleep (the only time a normal person's mind is truly shut-off).

A variety of experiences have lead me to suspect this, most profoundly being the night AFTER my 10 day retreat ended, when I was quite tired from a long day, having stayed up past midnight, despite having gotten up at 4:30 am that day for the final day of the retreat.

When I lay down to sleep, exhausted, I fell into a deep meditative state. I got up and opened my eyes, took a walk around the block, went back to try and sleep, and immediately was back in a meditative state. Gave up and just went along with experiencing being in that state all night, since I was totally aware, yet in the morning felt very rested despite having not slept a wink.
Well my daughter is 5, and she's above average, developmentally speaking.

The problem we keep running into is that my daughter sounds excited about learning something, but when it comes down to actually doing it, she loses interest fast. We haven't tried programming yet, so far we have been experimenting with other stuff because we plan on homeschooling her.

I'm hoping that isn't a trait she inherited from me. I was a terrible student from about 3rd grade until I "finished" high school. Sometime in my early 20s, I suddenly became interested in electronics, math, and programming. Now that I'm a 30 year old, 3rd year college student, I wish I hadn't wasted so many years.
> Clambering" may be a bit hyperbolic, given there are only 15 comments...

Certainly true. Hyperbole is basically my favorite thing in the universe.
And the profit?

Very cool though.
I like projects like this. I want to also suggest to others looking into boiler plates like these other options such as yeoman and bowers which are essentially tools for generating your own boilerplates. Different tools for different needs, but just wanted to make sure ya'all know.
Where possible, GHC does not compile Haskell via C anymore.
The best reference that Google turned up, IMHO, was the info page for the GNU Scientific Library's random number generators, which has MTH$RANDOM under the name gsl_rng_vax():

http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Other-rando...

Of course, that info page can't tell you what seed the VAX in the game is using....
Yes. They even used the lyric "Johnny C's in trouble", referring to Coulton himself and substituting the original "Mix-A-Lot's in trouble".
Isn't there a history of VR headsets directly causing brain and eye injury? (Sony, Nintendo Virtual Boy, eye desynchronization) Does anyone know if I am misremembering this, or if not, how the Rift avoids the earlier issues?

EDIT: Nope, I was not making this up... it was Sega VR causing strabismus.

http://www.audioholics.com/news/editorials/warning-3d-video-...

http://www.strabismus.org/all_about_strabismus.html
The same applies to C, of course.
I think it is a little unfair to say C the language is not low-level because a C application must implement features (or use libraries) that higher-level languages would already provide.

However, your older post [1] contrasting the code generated by gcc -O0 and -O1 was illuminating and made me rethink my position. Thanks! <:)

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3753530
This is needless scaremongering !
If you write a web application that blindly executes/evals the contents of a request parameter or submitted form data, you need to have to have your head examined and not blame the underlying framework for security vulnerability.
These security experts wrote a JSP page with a intentionally flawed code that passes an incoming request parameter to an expression evaluation engine:
<spring:message text="" code="${param['message']}">
</spring:message>. what did you expect will happen?

No framework is invulnerable against idiot programmers.
>Agreed. But you should never lift more than your back can handle.

"Lifting more that your back can handle" is the very definition for fighting for freedom.

If everybody played it safe, and only went as far as they could comfortably tolerate, they would have been no freedom.
You could try something like:

$ sqlite3 -column ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEvents <<END|pbcopy
> .mode tabs
> .headers on
> SELECT strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', LSQuarantineTimestamp+ 978307200, 'unixepoch', 'localtime') as date,
> LSQuarantineAgentName as App,
> LSQuarantineDataURLString as URL
> FROM LSQuarantineEvent
> --where LSQuarantineDataURLString like '%bankofamerica%'
> order by LSQuarantineTimestamp;
> END
$

Then open your favorite spreadsheet program and paste in the results.

The 978307200 number corrects for the fact that Apple is using 2001-01-01, the year OS 10.0 was released, as its epoch.

I got way fewer rows than expected. Apparently, downloads by Firefox are not logged. When I screened for B of A downloads, I was puzzled to see only downloads in the past year or so. That's because I only recently started using Chrome to access that site.
When I try it, the Haskell version is faster (1.3s versus 2.6s on a 98MB input file). GHC 7.0.4 with -O3, GCC 4.6.2 with -O3. Not sure why these results are different...
Haskell maps, being persistent, aren't anywhere close to efficient for mutable maps.
Where were “should”, “shall”, and “must” in the 18th Century?
> This contrasts with our modern scientific assumptions, that there is just an organism-as-a-whole-in-an-environment, which functions as such.

The rubber hand illusion shows that mind and body are far from unified.