skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ditto everything. I also use gnome-do launcher and vim keybindings for everything, making my UI 95% keyboard driven and whatever the window manager is irrevelant. Unity? Gnome3? Mate? Etc. Couldn't care less, all the same to me.

>private package archives

Personal Package Archives [1] actually, but another good point. Between the Debian and Ubuntu repos, Ubuntu PPAs, and the awesome Debian tool Update Alternatives [2], I can install any piece of software, packaged or not, and even multiple versions simultaneously and change the active version with a single command line command [3]. I don't know if the Red Hat or Open Suse ecosystem has something like this, but I'd have a hard time switching to something else without an equivalent.

[1]: https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA

[2]: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-customizing....

[3]: https://github.com/byrongibson/scripts/tree/master/install/h...
Twitter actually were willing to offer more than Facebook, but something made Kevin go with Facebook's offer in the end.

I think it was Systrom who made carved out that path for Instagram, and not any reluctance on Twitter's part.
Where is the benchmark code for this? Cassandra and MongoDB are not key-value stores, you should have compared Memcache and Redis for this. It's like comparing MySQL and Memcache for your key-store corner case and be surprised that it's 20x slower! Ridiculous
App.net Becomes iCloud Of The Web, Could Make Twitter-Like Service Free
If im not mistaken the iterative solution of using a simple for loop would definitely be insanely faster than a recursive algorithm which is exponential.. What am i missing here?
XCode 4.6 is also available today
While making that might have been a fun project, that's not where I see myself spending my next night out. :)

On a more serious note, the reason I go to a specific bar instead of another is often the fact that the bartender is a nice guy and I enjoy chatting with them. That's why I don't see some of these job replaced by machines anytime soo.

Another example would be telemarketing: robocalling existed more or less since the phone itself, but people still find pushy telemarketers to be more effective than a machine. For starters it's far easier to hang up on a machine than on a person.

And that's also why retail clerks are more effective than pop-up ads even if they serve more or less the same purpose: "I see you're looking at x would you be interested in y as well?".
Did you perchance enjoy playing Uplink?

Also, kudos for clearing his name of the stuff you did on his behalf. That shows some real strength of character, IMO.
All of the large technology companies should create a common legal fund, whose sole purpose is to seek out and invalidate bad patents.

Are there any potential down sides to this idea?
That's like saying you can eat a steak and be a vegetarian because the cow it came from eats grass.
> One item to consider, Tesla is only going the route of battery powered cars. The majors are investigating multiple different sources, hydrogen, natural gas, compressed air, battery only, simple hybrid, and series hybrids. So as for stepping up their game I am not sure what you think they need to do.

I don't see how that benefits the incumbents. Unfortunately, the realities of physics and economics (to say nothing about total pollution generated) mean that there are really only two choices: Burn liquid hydrocarbons; or store electricity in a battery (or some combination of the two). Tesla is currently pursing the second option and traditional auto manufacturers are using both. Hydrogen, natural gas and compressed air have all the limitations of batteries and more: The technology that goes in the car is more expensive, the infrastructure is more expensive and exists in fewer places (excluding natural gas), range is short, and 'refuling' times are long.

About ten years ago, as an undergrad, I worked on an NSF- and DOE-funded project to use single-walled carbon nanotubes both as a catalyst in hydrogen fuel cells and for hydrogen storage. Unfortunately, the efficiency gains were minimal, and I'm not aware of much[1] progress that has been made since (but I now work in a different sub-field). That means that a practical fuel cell, big enough to power a lightweight vehicle still costs hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars (mostly due to the requirement for large amounts of platinum to catalyze the H2 in to 2H). Frankly, there has been enough money wasted on pie-in-the-sky projects when there is already-existing technology that works (lithium-ion batteries).

If you don't trust a random stranger on the Internet, then please trust the managers of auto companies. Honda has effectively abandoned their FCX Clairity project because it is cheaper to meet CARB (CA Air Resources Board) requirements by buying zero-emissions credits from Toyota, Tesla, or GM. The FCX, by the way, was a hybrid that only used a fuel cell to meet the average load for electricity and batteries to meet the peak load.

[1] You need at least an order of magnitude better catalyst performance before you can even consider using PEM fuel cells in a mass-produced car. Every time I've seen a press release about better fuel cells, they seem to mention a few percent. At the current rate of improvement, it will take a quarter of a century before we even solve one of the show-stoppers for hydrogen cars.
This is for surveillance. The regular camera is a zoom lens but has a very narrow field of view.
Thanks! Check below for the stack/setup. It's also on GitHub: https://github.com/nirvanatikku/stack-ed
Thanks for the kind words. We believe that coming to the conference itself will be worthwhile for many aspects. Meeting people in the community, being able to share ideas in real time, and having a shared experience of watching all the talks with other members, and having that spawn ideas and conversation.

However, we know that not everyone can make it. It's a conference about documentation, so documenting the talks just seems like a natural thing to do :) Hopefully it will be a good aid for others trying to write documentation, and serve as a resource for the good of the community in general.
It's a relative term. Vine launched what, a week ago, and already all of us know about it.
Definitely the social element. I almost never drink cocktails, it's usually a beer or wine, and I hope he's not mixing those. :)
How big a reduction in braking power is it?

Can you notice the difference? Does it do this while you are already braking and the batteries end up full? (in other words, does the braking action change while you are braking?)
At least a grand? In 12 hours?

Quick reality check: LAX has more expensive cabs than Chicago, but let's assume they're equal. A ~30 minute ride to the airport costs me, including tip, ~$40.

A quick verify shows that Chicago is actually $41 for a 31 minute ride, no tip. (http://www.taxifarefinder.com/main.php?city=Chicago&from...)

Given that people need to get in/out of the cab, etc, I think we can stay with $40/30 minutes. That's $80 per hour. $960 if the 12 hours are completely booked solid and people tip well.

And unless he's an independent operator with his own license (which would run him $300K - http://www.cityofchicago.org/content/dam/city/depts/bacp/pub...), he doesn't get to keep all that.

I'd think your buddy was maybe telling a slightly tall tale based on that one night where he ended up with almost a grand in cash at the end of the shift. :)
DID CIA, JUST BLOW UP IRAN NUKE SITE?
Anyone remember the orange one? I heard they changed it to orange after getting sued due to the grey one looking too "real" - any truth to that legend?
Everyone I know who had a BlackBerry already moved to Android or Windows Phone.
Do you have anything to back this up? Articles etc? I heard lack of liquidity was the issue
Undistract Me
I didn't realize there was audio in Vine until this morning. I always have my phone on mute and didn't think to try the app out with mute off. I prefer it with mute on, specifically because the sound takes away from the experience because it's clips of sound stitched together, which does not sound very nice.
Gamified Visualization of Facebook Privacy (fb app, flash, sorry)
Rob Walling has a tattoo on his wrist that says, 'create' to motivate him.

Epic presentation by Rob Walling: http://vimeo.com/26282954
I would be fascinated to hear how you figure that.

Literature on the scientific process is all quite clear that the process does not yield perfect knowledge, nor is it supposed to, nor can it.

Also this is not a conclusion of science (the scientific process is not meant for such things) but rather epistemology and the philosophy of science.
KillerRobot - (Embarrassingly) Simple Chrome Tab killer/manager
Based on the article, she's a pioneer in using new biological pathways for a cosmetic effect. You don't get to be first if you're trying to study safety, and that industry as a whole does not pay much attention to safety.

Therefore I find it extremely likely that she has evidence of biological effect in your body's cells, and has not done research on unexpected possible side effects in the same cells that she's impacting.
Agree with you that generalizations are statistical. However, that does not condone them. I don't want to take up racial examples, stereotypes don't help communities. Nuanced debate and constructive debate does.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasty_generalization

Perhaps the OP would have been better taking a less inflammatory and more rounded approach to low-cost economies, contributing in a global economy. I would have no beef with that.

But yes, sensationalism, and awkward generalizations sells. :)
Yes, I agree. Also how many consumers know how their/others privacy is handled/valued by these companies.
Beauty contest thats all. (most brand related surveys don't mean much, because not many people know a thing or 2 about the lesser known companies)
What LA would look like if all the best design proposals had been accepted
If you can only pick one, pick a great designer or engineer?
Would rather have a bsd phone. Hell even a netbsd phone than a linux phone but I will accept your Ubuntu phone over Android anyday though I fully expect Ubuntu to get sued out of existence once they start getting into the mobile biz. There isn't a day that goes by when Samsung isn't being sued by a hundred different corporations or Samsung isn't themselves suing a hundred different corporations.

I'm also secretly hoping Ubuntu is paying attention to security with all the mobile spying going on and not just concentrating on making the latest supercoleslawesome twitter integration while they develop this.
The Left wants everyone to go to college because if you educate the proles, they get pissed off about their situation and the waste of their life at the hands of an entrenched elite, and you get a violent revolution (in theory).

The Center wants everyone to go to college because it's an easy way to throw money at deep social problems under the pretenses of improving equality (in theory).

The Corporate Right likes this whole mess because it's a sorting mechanism paid-for by the people being sorted.

I won't even pretend to know what the Radical Right wants. Religious indoctrination, perhaps? They aren't much of a player in the higher-ed debates.

The Corporate Right is the only party that is actually getting what it wants.
Blueprint is a simple config management tool that reverse-engineers servers.
I use prompt app on my iPhone all the time!

https://itunes.apple.com/es/app/prompt/id421507115?mt=8
fork the code and post the benchmark results
This has got to be another one of the biggest fallacies. Yes, I would love to see from where as well, and I guarantee it's a minor factor in income. After equalizing for grades, experience, connections, charisma, IQ, motivation, and career goals, I doubt the institution matters much. As a hiring manager, I place little value on the school. It's usually just a function of income, race, personal preference, and legacy status.
I'd be curious to know what numerical value you attribute to success?

Here's an easy way to subjectively understand if something is popular: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23vine&src=typd
You're right, at the time though it didn't feel very constructive to hear those words. There are much better ways that it could have been presented to me however the impact of a nicer way to say it might have changed the outcome of the book...

It all lead to something great and I am grateful for that.
actually, in the distant past, I did. I don't remember a lot of embedded systems where Fibonacci numbers were important or where floating point was a real option (been awhile, probably same length of time since 384 bytes was the killer). I was always RAM constrained more than ROM /EPROM.
No. He was commenting primarily on the low market value of English/Communications/etc, and less on whether they are easy things to do. They may be quite hard, but it's easier for an engineer to get paid to be an engineer than it is for humanities majors to do likewise and be paid the same amount. Yes it depends on what time we are living in, but currently we are living in the present.
correcting rampant old wives tales is pretty much a thankless job, so thank you.
Android you can, with bulk surplus Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus phones because the binaries for the proprietary hardware have been released, albeit with very restrictive conditions on what you can do with those binaries, so distribution is out of the question unless you're selling for bitcoins.

iOS nothing has been released so you have to reverse engineer everything.
Student debt for bachelors, maybe.

Even then this doesn't tell you the cost of education (IE how much you + your parents are spending), only how much money you still owed at the end.

If it takes eating your parents 401k to pay for college, that's still very harmful, even if you only have 36k debt at the end.

Lastly, all the numbers are normalized to 2009 dollars, which makes them hugely misleading.
If you look at the original data source, in original dollars, the debt load has gone up by ~50% in <10 years

(They are also estimates, with 2009 being based on 17,000 out of 1.6 million degree earners. i'm too lazy to look up the methodology in the referred report to see if it's sane)
Humanoid Robot To Be 'Born' In Months
Common flame-retardant chemical damages brain cells, linked to autism
See, that is exactly what I meant. That's not a 'full opt-out', that is just an opt out from having your search results personalized.

Tracking will merrily continue.

And if you fall for that what do you think the general public will do?
Digitalocean?
HP to launch chromebook with Celeron chip
It's great that you wouldn't. But it's really very arrogant to assume that there exists no reasonable moral system that would allow an engineer to participate in drone development or audio weapons.
I didn't post the link at first, because I couldn't find it in my bookmarks, but I got lucky with my Google search:

The people familiar with the negotiations said Twitter
executives were shocked that they had not been given an
opportunity[1] to present a counteroffer. They said
Twitter was prepared to make higher offers [than $525M].

~ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/14/technology/instagram-found...
SilkJS: JavaScript for the rest of us
I am not sure if it was the case at the time, but I believe there are currently federal regulations that mandate that airsoft guns have to have a bright orange tip.

That is what this wikipedia article indicates anyway, though the section is rather poor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_weapon#Toy_weapon_laws
Businesses increasingly relying on internal referral candidates
How would this happen like you say?

Browsers stop accepting third party cookies & scripts, block ads, disable localStorage, etc?

It'd be the browser that no one would use, because half the sites on the 'net wouldn't work.

Like many big problems, the solution is a lot more nuanced than you suggest. It involves browsers having more stringent defaults, website makers caring more (altruistically or by legislation) and consumers caring more.
I rather think that all of the information gathered by ARGUS can and will be used against citizens and/or armed troops.

The only useful cases i'm able to imagine where civilians may profit from it are :

* traffic predictions
* safety issues ( but only after the fact, to convict criminals )

but i'm pretty sure that for the larger part it will be used in a disadvantageous manner for the majority of citizens.
Um... I would? Then I can reattach to my tmux sessions, keep working, and restart at my leisure... or just restart x.

But I haven't used ubuntu in a while, so perhaps this is just a case of I'm not in the right user group for the distro.
> All of Debian is available in Ubuntu

Except two things: higher standards around packaging/stability and the DFSG. These are the things I value most in Debian, especially the way they stick to their guns and refuse to release until it's ready.
(The author probably meant on the actual blog post, rather than at the top level on HN. :) )
//C11, safe version of strcat
errno_t strcat_s(char * restrict s1,
rsize_t s1max,
const char * restrict s2);

strcat_s() copies no more than s1max bytes to s1. The second function, strcpy_s() requires that s1max isn't bigger than the size of s2 in order to prevent an out-of-bounds read:

//C11, safe version of strcpy
errno_t strcpy_s(char * restrict s1,
rsize_t s1max,
const char * restrict s2);

Originally, all of the bounds-checking libraries were developed by Microsoft's Visual C++ team. The C11 implementation is similar but not identical.

There are so many problems with this. Yet another slightly different string manipulation function? Why not standardize on one of the already existing ones, such as strlcat/strlcpy? I can see people making some big mistakes with strcat_s, since the size passed is the number of unused characters left in s1, not the size of s1. And strcpy_s can cause a segfault if given an s1max that is greater than the size of s2. Why not only copy up to the first null character?

Also, these functions have the same name as the VC++ functions, but behave differently. In VC++, strcat_s takes the size of s1, not the space remaining. People are going to google for strcat_s, read the MSDN docs, and unknowingly add buffer overflows to their code.

Finally, these functions have annoying behavior. If they hit the limits passed to them, they erase s1. No best-effort. No copy whatever fits. Just destroy the data in the destination string.

strlcat/strlcpy solve all of the problems I've mentioned. See http://www.courtesan.com/todd/papers/strlcpy.html for more info about them. It's sad to see them only supported by *BSD and OS X.
Java’s new "very high" security mode can't protect you from malware
That's how I would approach this if arbitarily large integers were needed. It's particularly nice because it readily generalizes to any other finite depth linear recurrence.

The analytic solution really should win for very large terms though, but I'm not sure how to implement it properly. Can someone outline how you would decide what precision is needed to compute the Nth Fibonacci number?
Very good answer in my opinion. However, it doesn't mean that technology can't help motivated students on the way. Many motivated students might be turned away because they don't know where to begin, or the learning curve is too difficult. By using the right tools you might make better use of your time. But ultimately you need intrinsic motivation.
Congrats on 0.8.0! I've just started learning Elixir, but having a lot of fun in iex! Thanks for the awesome documentation!
Vine is for Storytelling
Entry level job is a job teaches your skills and gives you the experience to get a better job in the same field. Taxi cab driver isn't an entry level job, being an intern or assistant is an entry level job.
I'm sure it would.
6. Huge pointless graphics at the start of blog posts
I have no idea what the difficulty of various majors are in China.

Now, let me put this caveat in the front: At a good University, there are people who are serious and will amaze you in the following majors. Those people will be successful, and go on to graduate school and eventually become academics. But that doesn't change the fact that...

In America, the following majors are a joke. If you are bright and can read wikipedia, you will find that two hours of reading will leave you ahead of 90% of the people majoring in these things in knowledge of their major:
Criminal Justice
History
Journalism
English
Kinesiology
Communications
Anthropology
Religious Studies, Comparative Religions

And of course there are things that are more about passion and talent:
Anything Art (Film, painting, photography, music)
Custom Perl solution O_o.
Ok seriously, no matter what, DuckDuckGo is still just a front end of some search engines.
Yup, $5/month. https://www.digitalocean.com/
MIT’s mobile hotspot sharing app aims for free P2P data coverage
Haha, of course. I guess it was just a moments blackout — I was probably just too focused on making Backbone easily understandable. There might be some strangeness in there, but hopefully most readers have a better understanding of Backbone after reading it. And I don't have time to change it now either way.
I wrote the same thing yesterday. It will be very interesting to see how this battle for video pans out.

http://lukethomas.com/vine-is-for-storytelling/
I feel like this attitude that English is an easy major smacks of the guy who goes to a meditation retreat for his competitiveness, never gets the point of what he's there for, sits there bored and learns nothing, then walks away saying, "That was easy, and I was the best meditator there."

It's easier to bullshit, but that's largely because of lenient grading. You can actually fail a math course if you don't understand any of it. If you fail an English course, you typically get a C.

Also, while I think STEM majors are more valuable, I would argue that it's a sign of cultural decline that English and history majors often can't get quality jobs. Sure, if you're not from money, you should study something practical. That is true. But it sucks that so many people can't study humanities and have decent careers.
I'll second that. Despite the warnings of "it's a lot of work to maintain!", I've only had one minor glitch which was my own fault - I didn't read the update news before doing a full update. When that happened, the steps to recover were all clearly laid out in the very excellent arch wiki.

My experience with ubuntu was that when something went wrong, there was no easy way to deduce exactly what had happened, or what to do to fix it. The forums were full of similar symptoms with different causes.

I've also become much more knowledgeable about the way linux, and OSes in general, work thanks to the closer relationship arch makes you foster with your machine.
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