skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Lori Garver becomes the administrator, this giant rocket to nowhere cargo cult could finally end.
Aren't we supposed to have hoverboards and jetpacks by now? All we have is a million photosharing apps...
it is actually very interesting .
You're completely right, it does require a deep knowledge of things like finite element analysis and the whole thing collapses in a heap if you don't carefully apply constraints and penalisation rules. But on the other hand, a title should try to convey some of the excitement of the technology.

We had a lecture from the Additive Manufacturing group from Nottingham University a few months ago and they've built some metallic aerospace parts that look surprisingly similar to the structures of bone networks in nature using this technique. I think I'll be trying to do something similar and make some design and 3D print some parts, compare them against the traditional manufacturing routes and see how the marketplace reacts to them.

If anyone here has an knowledge in this area or seen anything cool using it it'd really be great to hear form them.
Guys, this is real. http://www.somethingsimilar.com/2012/05/21/the-opposite-of-a...

Yes, it's a hash table without conflict resolution. No, that's not the joke.

From the article:

The simplest data structure that fits the description of a “opposite of a Bloom filter” is a hash map. With a large corpus like the one we were dealing with, the memory consumed by a hash map is far too large and its growth is bound only by corpus size. However, from this simple idea a more fruitful one comes out.

The design I pitched uses an array, a hash function, and the ability to swap ids in and out of the array concurrently. The hash function and the array are used in the same way they are inside of a hash map implementation. Unlike a typical hash map implementation, the array size is bounded and hash collisions are not avoided.
Something similar is being done for buildings by a startup called Aditazz http://www.aditazz.com

Very interesting. It's like designing chips, but for buildings. On the cloud! They are starting with a vertical that it's like CPU's ... hospitals! It's the kind of thing you wonder why we (as the human race) did not get to play with this until now, given that we have been building structures for so long!

[Disclaimer: I helped build early prototyped of their cloud infrastructure for them and know the founders]
swap out "nobody could" for "most people couldn't" and it makes more sense.

This guy is there with a good, expensive, microphone. He records it, putting the signal through cables, pre-amps, amps, mixers, software of various types. Eventually it gets encoded to whatever he's releasing his music as.

Someone downloads that.

Most people do not have monitors or studio quality headphones. Most people have bog standard mass produced headphone drivers (I wouldn't be surprised to learn that most of them are made in the same factory) - eg skull candy or urbanears. And they're using a little mp3 device, or a phone, or their computer. They might have been playing with the filters to give it more bass.

So, really, are those listeners going to tell the difference between a good microphone and the Singstar microphones?
Thanks for your feedback. I've been playing around with both languages, and was leaning towards scala since it seemed more likely i could use it professionally, even though i liked clojure a bit more, sortta like the lisp like syntax.
Don't you worry my friend, I saved them all: http://i.imgur.com/EbvgPyT.png
This is great, I think this is going to come in pretty handy for an upcoming project at work. What a great method of job hunting, I hope it works out!
soma.fm - Mission Control, Space station or Drone Zone

di.fm - Chillout, Minimal or Ambient

bassdrive.com (liquid dnb)
When people compare public transit systems, one thing to keep in mind. The ones you usually compare as world class: NYC, Chicago, London were all originally built by private companies (and later made public), while the crappier ones out there SF, Atlanta, Baltimore were built with public money from the start. The DC subway is one of the few decent ones I can think of that was built with public money from the get-go, but it had an incredible budget, and still fell way short of it's original plan.
Wait, Opera's Got A Phone?
Got ya. Please voice your opinion about the priority in which features should be implemented by submitting a feature request at https://github.com/Factual/drake/issues, or +1'ing an existing one.

There are so many potential features to be added to Drake, and a lot of them have already been thought about and spec'ed out, that we need some sort of a way to figure out what to do first.

Of course, if you'd like to actively contribute, we'd be ecstatic.

Artem.
"Nothing is more fatal to the progress of the human mind than to presume that our views of science are ultimate. That our triumphs are complete. That there are no mysteries in Nature and that there are no new worlds to conquer."
Sir Humphry Davy
Good hustling! (Serious, not sarcastic.)

Your comment was funny and provided value (now I know about your service). Well played.
It's a good point, and I agree it might not be the top priority, but I also understand the frustration. I, too, find 5s start up file rather irritating especially when I make errors in the workflow file, or didn't specify targets correctly. So, we are in search of ideas on how to fix it.
Or maybe they just needed an excuse for not giving those specs.
Cross-Dressing, Porn Store-Owning Catholic Priest Busted in Meth Ring
The Germans "considered" a sub-orbital bomber for attacking the US in WW2:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silbervogel
Brilliant, I'll be able to dock with it from my flying car :-/
Relevant xkcd:
http://xkcd.com/678/
Proof: http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Sources-Cross-dressing-m...
PII means "Personally identifiable information", if that's what the confusion is?
Do your homework before joining a startup
i think PII is publicly identifying information (a public identity)?
Maybe a bit tagent, but a comment to the article claims that stackoverflow.com is a men favored place, and thus there is a need to have a female exclusive place where female coders can ask questions and get answers.

Could someone explain this to me? I know that stackoverflow actually has less female participants than software industry in general, but any causes is eluding me. Are there just a number of hidden stories out there about all the sexist comments being made (have not seen any story, or any such comment while using the site), or are question made by females being singled out and left unanswered? We hear constantly about the evils done in IRC rooms , and we hear about conferences/work places where females don't get respected when they got similar amount of experience as to their men co-workers. Do either of those exist on stackoverflow, and if not, why is stackoverflow not gender equal in participants?
> More capable mobile devices --smartphones -- are slowly but surely proliferating globally

lol
I can not comment on things I did not see. As I said, I read the article (and the posted video), didn't know the details or the story beforehand. I'm not usually interested in gossip - but with the news, it was interesting to try and understand the reasons of what looks like another suicide.

In the video, I see him breaking bricks and lifting weights, armwrestling etc.

All this is quite possible for me, and no reason to be ridiculed against. Physical prowess is a good thing!

The rest I don't know, and considering the "media fame" and joking aspects you mention, unless the claims are directly attributed to him by verifiable sources, I would call them hearsay.
I actually don't think the new version of their app is that bad. Granted I might not be a heavy user of the app, maybe 10 minutes/day, but the feed seems a lot faster than it used to, and I like the ability to swipe through peoples image galleries from the stream, without leaving that view.
you know that the 4h Paris-NY has been killed 10 years ago after more than 20 years of service right ?
And what killed it is not technology but economy.
LA is much flatter than SF. Although some live in the canyons and on the hills, most live on a single plain -- well, two plains if you count the San Fernando Valley as a separate plain.
Also, the Nokia N900's browser supported WebGL in 2009.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/03/nokia-n900-impressively-d...
Sounds extremely inefficient, not to say it's a rocket. I can't even imagine how hard it would be to land this thing.
When is Chrome officially replacing the Android browser ?
http://blog.hellokitty.com/minusworld
my humble adventures in online game hacking.
A couple of problems/solutions for problems I encountered using Ubuntu 12.04:

* It will crash right after start using NVIDIA drivers 310.19. Upgrade to the latest, I used 310.32.

* It does not work with plain ALSA, I only get sound after starting PulseAudio.
great.. in 2050 I'll be dead..
I'm experimenting with electronics/microprocessor programming.
http://smok.zoxt.net/
Also, i'm documenting some Linux and web-development hints there. Your know, things that take a couple of hours to figure out.
Doesn't Lausanne have pretty good public transport? Here's a live map: http://simcity.vasile.ch/lausanne/
Freedom fighter
Suggestions to improve fullscreen jquery plugin
I am making a fullscreen plugin for jquery and want to add some features...Some suggestions would be great

https://github.com/thecodejack/jquery-html5-fullscreen
http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10663/115...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceLiner
Probably scrapes the google devices page, checks for "sold out" message existence and renders response accordingly.
They also have the best automatic presence detection, it's miles ahead of iMessage in that (and almost every other) regard. I want to dislike it, but Facebook has done a stellar job making their messaging system bullet-proof.
Apple Is Stronger Than Ever
Tips on Getting More Pinterest Followers
As a user of both Windows 8 and Mountain Lion, I fail to see how either can be perceived as being a closed system (other than being closed source).

In Windows: "Metro" apps didn't exist before Windows 8, and normal apps don't have any origin restrictions.

In OSX: Gatekeeper is easily bypassed by the user for specific apps or even turned off entirely.
PhoneGap : To build cross-platform mobile apps using HTML5, Javascript and CSS.
Looking for a new Job? First cleanse your Facebook with FashWash
Does anyone have an example, worldwide, of any of these petitions being successful in effecting change? (I'm not implying here that it has or hasn't happened)
http://www.hackerjobs.co.uk/blog

I blog about how to improve your chances of finding work as well as how to improve your chances of attracting the best staff if you are an employer.

I also interview leading figures from the UK tech industry about their hiring processes in order to give job seekers a direct insight into what impresses these days.
Steve Wozniak Isn't Impressed by jOBS Clip
Hopefully after they've fixed the woeful performance which is plaguing it.
R is hot [pdf]
In defense of Provable Security
Magic Removal
ITA Matrix is pretty good too. http://matrix.itasoftware.com/

Plus, if you know your way around fare codes (http://www.farecompare.com/products/fare-display/index.html) you can find dates with Matrix where these "cheap, special" fares are available, using the advanced options.
'So': How did this two-letter word become so important?
Life in a startup incubator
Square is card present though.
The design is good but the implementation is very slow (for me at least) and the kind of natural language they are processing is trivial. Driverless cars are 'phenomenal'. Regular expressions, not so much.
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3593
Yeah, I am a bit disappointed that this is not supported by default.
My technical blog (not much updated): http://www.jjude.com; thoughts on all other things are at: http://www.jjude.biz
"the points made on either side can't be proven convincingly enough by either party to someone who has no clue what they're arguing about."

What about someone who does understand large IT infrastructure rollouts? At least one side of this is wrong, and my money is firmly on Microsoft as being the one more likely to simply make things up to suit their agenda.
"The phenomenology involved in interpreting LHC data and predicting new phenomena to look for at that scale is a big deal these days, and string theory really isn't relevant to those questions."

I think "string theory is overrated" meme is mainly fueled by the fact that it "really isn't relevant to those questions". I got the impression that many string theorists claimed string theory to be relevant to those questions, and only changed position once it became clear that won't be the case.
Blowing the Whistle on the Mortgage Bubble
I think something got lost in translation in your last sentence there, as it doesn't seem to make sense.
> What about someone who does understand large IT infrastructure rollouts?

Especially if those people are working with auditors who know the tricks for burying data.

Since this is Europe it should be possible to get quite a lot of the data from Munich.
Why doesn't spacex use this engine instead of making their own? Why doesn't NASA just bring back this engine?
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
The very first answer to the question you posted seems to disagree. They poster basically points out that when people say "security through obscurity" they don't mean passwords. Well, of course they don't or they'd realize that security by obscurity is valid and used successfully every day. You just need more than one layer of protection. Passwords alone aren't enough, trying to obscure the port number of your service isn't enough, etc.
It's got noticeably better performance than Firefox for Android (on a N7, using [0] as a "benchmark"); but Chrome doesn't seem to have audio support.

EDIT: hm, Chrome doesn't seem to want to grab the audio at all; on both the pages I've tried, the audio downloads just hang as "Pending" in the inspector [1] [2]

[0] http://apps.playcanvas.com/will/doom3/gangnamstyle

[1] http://monosnap.com/image/5F201GaEW7UUfEZKOSfPjTLQW

[2] http://monosnap.com/image/G9U7tpuoCVlvMFli8NgOBB9tD
The majority, sure. But every time FB makes on of these changes some small percentage of people decide they've had enough.
Does what it says.

What are some use cases?
Yeah, no. Elon Musk should instead focus on fixing the Peaks that will make the Almighty Industrial Revolution look like a blip on the easel of the history of history. Space travel, cars and the Internet has no future beyond the next 10~ years. Possibly shorter if the financial paradigm falls sooner.

* Peak oil, gas, coal, phosphorous, rare earth metals, uranium, copper, iron und su weiter.

Sorry Elon!
Nice. I really like adioso. I have recommended it to a few people already.

I also think Skyscanner (also mentioned in this discussion) is very good.
What do you mean giving up your IP?
I am also planning on eventually starting a SaaS, but I have this desire to try out consulting for at least an year to mainly develop my soft skills. I eventually want to become one of the greatest marketers there ever was!

So you just, call them? My first thought was how awkward that might be, but then I used to think knocking on doors to sell honey was awkward until I actually did it (for charity). So I guess it's one of those things that seem awkward when you haven't done it yourself, but is actually the norm for people who are involved in business (I hope!).

I also agree with your statement that you should not waste time with small businesses who are struggling, as they tend to be more price conscious. This is as opposed to big corp who have plenty budget who won't blink at your "high" price.

I don't like to put things off. I will call two businesses today and come back with experience to base off my next set of questions for you. I have no idea what I am doing, and I am not sure how to open, but whatever, I will learn eventually!

Thank you for your help. I truly appreciate your willingness to talk to other hopeful entrepreneurs!
Groovy 2.1 is released
Freedom fighter is a synonym for terrorist, so that'd have some unfortunate effects.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6js5K08m3g

Didnt realize that WebGL already is on such a good performance level on mobile devices, impressive and exciting!
Shame that HL1 looks like absolute ass @ 16:9
Not exactly related to the post's contents, but I'm so excited I found out how this sort of this is called: topology optimization.
I've been thinking about designing an 'object' under certain constraints and I didn't know exactly where to start.
You forgot to add "to me" after the "look good" bit.

What with taste being personal, and all.
Almost none of the European city has a flat/grid structure as typical of more 'recent' American cities, yet they most have a much better public transit story, so I doubt that's a factor by itself.

More likely, that's correlated with something else that is the real explanatory variable (history, etc...). John Kay had a good article on a similar topic: http://www.johnkay.com/2013/01/16/london%E2%80%99s-rise-from...
I think the success and features of Github is getting undeniable. There is a social graph emerging that doesn't exist anywhere else.
An unseen disadvantage
I think they're stuck in the desktop mindset.

Moving to mobile would require a shift in thinking that might be impossible for such a large and entrenched organization.

The teenagers of today, having grown up with smartphones, will likely exit en masse when a usable alternative emerges.
Brazil

According to census, we have one lawyer for every 300 persons (from which I extrapolate that there's one on every 6 people with a degree)
It already has with Android 4.1. But manufacturers might keep customizing the previous open source browser instead, for the time being at least.
Can A New GPU Rejuvenate A 5 Year Old Gaming PC?
YADT - an Augmented Deployment Tool
"But if I choose the non-felon, then I don't even have to worry about it."

Unless the "non-felon" is simply smart enough that he hasn't been caught yet.
GIFPaint, MSPaint + HTML5 + GIFs
I expect USG to simply destroy it at some point with a sustained 51% attack.
Bujalski's Computer Chess: Sports Film About 1980s Computer Programmers
Try ng-grid http://angular-ui.github.com/ng-grid/ -- to get editable cells, you just make your own cell template. Fairly straightforward. I just built something with this, and it worked out nicely.
MMV technology is still under development but as this excerpt from Pink Floyd's "Welcome to the Machine" shows, an exciting future lies ahead when all music can be transcribed to MusicMadeVisible.

I preferred the laser shows at the planetarium when I was a teen.
Dutchman brings glow to night-driving
That's a relief. I went through a miniature grief process when I heard Kutcher would take the role. Also, the lines in this clip are way below par. (Whew!)
It will just get used in the rest of the world anyway.
I never got it working more than a few seconds without it crashing the whole browser.
Should the paper describing experimental method also include ROOT code? Because is sounds like the error could certainly be there.
Rock salt
I hate those buttons in the top-left corner of the screen that are used for the main navigation. If you use two hands they are ok, but you know there are people that still use phones only with one hand. There is no better place for the main navigation that the top-left corner? Could any recommend a better alternative? What about bottom-left?
I don't think this is because private companies are inherently more competent. I think the reason for the discrepancy is that private companies aren't going to build in places where there isn't a very good chance of the project turning a profit.

The public ends up funding projects that might be valuable to society, but that won't turn a profit. Of course, this tendency needs to be monitored to make sure that the projects actually are of value, but I would say that public transit in San Francisco-- if nothing else, it brings down real estate prices-- is clearly in that category.

I do not intend to say that public projects are always well-managed, because that's demonstrably false. However, there are a large number of badly-managed private projects as well. In terms of turning a profit, though, the private sector almost always has better material to work with, because it takes the projects that are visibly likely to be profitable.
Right hand is the one where your thumb is on the left (and vice-versa). Invert this if your hands are palm-side up. :p
Implementing Half Floats in D
Every time when a company resurects old hardware/software puts a nail in progress coffin.
Easy way to build product tours with Bootstrap
iOS Simulator Tips
Use XMPP-Client as debug-console
Sometimes it is not easy to get some debug-output to find an error inside your code.
I use my XMPP/Jabber-Client as an universal debug-console.

If you like the idea add the buddy dump@jabber.databay.de and send 'help'.

You get some short code-snippets (PHP, JS, JQuery, Shell) with which you can send Debug-output to your Jabber-client.

e.g. If your need an output from within a PHP-script you can call:

file('http://databay.de/dump/?key=myKEY&data='.urlencode($myINFO));

or if you need an output from within your phonegap-js-app try:

(new Image()).src='http://databay.de/dump/?key=myKEY&data='+myINFO;

or you have a shell-script you can use wget or anything similar:

wget -q --delete-after http://databay.de/dump/?key=myKEY\&data=myINFO
>specifically because they want to get the competitor's knowledge.

This is covered by NDAs and if you can prove these were violated you can get something done about it. I've seen this happen.

>The competitor can try non-complete clauses, but those may not hold up legally.

I should certainly hope they wouldn't be held up legally. It's bullshit. The worker has a chance to make twice as much money. They shouldn't get blocked because some company thinks we're still in slavery times.

If it really matters so much to the company, they could just pay those workers double themselves (since, by definition, that's the market rate of those workers now). Moving is always a bit of a pain so if they're not already very unhappy they might even take less than double just to not have to move.

>They can threaten to sue former employees who betray secrets

If they can prove the NDA was violated they will sue and they will win.

>but it's pretty hard not to use or at least be inspired by what you've learned in a past job.

What you learn on the job is yours. This is known and completely accepted. If this were not the case then a Senior programmer would make the same money as a fresh-out-of-college Junior programmer.

You may find this extreme but some of us believe a programmer should get some kind of residuals for anything they write for a company the way authors/musicians/movie stars/sports players do for their work.
Apple trademarks store layouts
Howto use PythonAnywhere to host your private git repos
مسلسل .حريم السلطان الحلقة الأولى 2013
This area of an active study (which my wife studies), so I will make a comment, although any mistakes are my own, not my wife's or her research!

Many women doing computing at university have repeated bad experiences, with either asking or trying to answer questions in a vaguely public setting (that is, outside a small clique of friends).

I would guess (and this is where I am stretching) that this discourages them from taking part in the most public of Q&A sites.
Because noöne really knows how it works? That's part of what makes me so sad about the space program: We've lost worlds of knowledge of the past few decades.
I used to just go to pick up an imaginary pen to write, and then knew that was my left (being left handed and all). A lot more discrete.