skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes this happened to my father. I remember the crunching sound of his ribs to this day. This was at waterloo station in London in 1993. He just keeled over. Fortunately for him, someone had just got stabbed 100 yards away so people were already on hand. The paramedic didn't even blink. Everyone else shit a brick.

He survived though and after a bypass op is fine to this day.
The problem is that opening a furniture factory or expanding a grocery chain were far more commonsense propositions than starting a social-media company, pitching a new videogame idea on Kickstarter, on even just opening a trendy bubble-tea cafe. As the business serves a need further up Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, it becomes riskier, both due to possible disruptions further down the pyramid (larger, higher-priority line-items of the household budget) and also due to increased variability of consumer preferences.

Or, on the other hand, the creative economy could turn into a huge engine of bespoke design and manufacturing, so that real people start to own mostly customized items. I can definitely see Etsy, crowdfunding, and merchandising sites heading this way. I guess "we are all My Little Pony dolls now".
I would imagine the same investment strategy and using the money to make huge component buys. I gotta wonder how much investment in the US is kept from happening by the US government's insistence on taxing income not made in the US.
European Commission: 1 Billion-euro for Brain simulation and Graphene research
Yeah, these kinds of crazy movements are also pretty common among some of the tech companies.
In the 7 years i've been at Google, our stock has always gone up or down crazily around earnings, no matter what is announced.

You will always see articles about how the "market reacted to X" in the announcement when this occurs.

X is often different between articles ;)
Actually, that is a copy of DHTML lemmings from before the age of WebGL, Ajax, CSS sprites (alistapart only came up with an article about CSS sprites a year later), html5, or any of that fancy modern stuff kids these days play with. The original is at http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/.

And background info / blogpost, written seven years later by the author: http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3881/dhtml-lemmings-primer....
At least for Apple it seems to be a profitable hobby which is more than can be said for some PC makers.

It certainly seems like there's a downtick in computer buying as a whole - perhaps because its a fairly saturated market that's now driven by upgrades rather than new users combined with it's taking longer for a computer to be really out of date.
Apple is going to have a problem on it's hands selling Mac's moving forward - I have a 13" 2010 MacBook Air, that is currently running 27 applications (including VMware w/Windows XP). I don't really feel any pressing need to upgrade, and will likely wait another year at least.

For non-gamers, the Mac's that Apple sells are now lasting three, four, and in the case of the iMac, 5+ years. That's going to kill their sales to existing customers - so they'll need to rely more on their mobile platforms (not that they don't already)
You can probably swap Ctrl/Fn in the BIOS settings on your ThinkPad -- I have, it's much more sane.
Completely understand. I know a number of successful, well-respected UI/UX folk who do not code.
In this case, I believe the [server provided] salt would be used solely as a precaution against rainbow tables, but there may be additional benefits of which I am unaware.
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We Compared the Websites of the World’s 30 Busiest Airports.
I don't hate Maven, and I haven't left it yet.

But he is absolutely correct about the key observation: a basic tool with "plugins" is simply NOT the way to create a build tool. A built tool should allow (when needed) the full flexibility of a Turing complete programming language. Because eventually your project is probably going to need it.
> "I accept that they send me a confirmation e-mail to see if it's a genuine user. But after that, it's all spam." It's ok you feel that way, but not everyone thinks like you.
I used it for creative writing. While I used LaTeX for the text, I heavily used TikZ: the "mindmap" library for drawing mindmaps, the "chains" library for story lines, the "trees" library for relations and connections of fictional characters, matrices for easy positiong, arrows for connecting. And a very good point was: I could use the same macros in the conceptional drawings as in the text, regarding macros for names for example which still could change, and so staying consistent.
You could write a script to save them all!
Re: Pricing Fairness

The article claims that if the Cable industry offered pricing based on what is fair, it would offer very cheap plans for little old ladies who barely use their connections. This definition of "fair" assumes that what you pay is proportional to how much you use it.

The real world almost never works this way.

Does a new car cost less if you drive it less? Perhaps a little in terms of maintenance and gas, but the initial cost is still the same. Does a banana cost less if you only eat half of it? Does a comb cost less if you're bald?

This leads us to the other definition of "fairness", which is also not often closely associated with real-world prices. i.e. What you pay is proportional to the cost of producing it. If Cable plans were priced this way, a Granny plan would be just a few dollars cheaper than the super-high-use plan. Why? Bandwidth is cheap compared to last-mile installation and maintenance costs. The cost of getting the first bit to grandma is astronomically more expensive than getting the last gigabyte to a heavy bandwidth user.

So how does the real world work? In the overwhelming majority of cases, companies charge whatever people are willing to pay. This price frequently has little or no correlation to actual cost. This is why airlines typically lose money while cable providers do pretty well for themselves. The NCTA's claims that "fairness" is the motivation behind usage-based billing is complete BS. People who use more bandwidth are willing to pay more. That's the reason for usage based billing. Fairness has nothing to do with it.
for those saying that github or git should have a default rule preventing private keys from being committed, I say:

lolwat?

private keys are private. these people -know- that they are pushing a git repo to a very public site. as such, they should recognize that * is going to be visible in their dotfiles repo. it's not git or github's fault that users are doin it wrong!
I don't understand why are people having troubles interpreting the text.

P(i,j) = the number at i-th row and j-th column, could be defined as:

P(i, j) = P(i-1, j-1) + P(i-1, j+1) - for the indented pyramid diagram

or

P(i, j) = P(i-1, j-1) + P(i-1, j) - for the non indented triangle (the way it would appear in a basic 2D data structure, eg: int P[][]).

Also, you will have to check if P(i-1,j-1) exists.
FailCon celebrates failure as the path to success
iPads are lower margin than phones so a higher mix of ipads would give a lower profit percent. Fundamentally though they sold a lot more phones and a lot more ipads which are the big ticket items so you'd think total profits would go up but they are the same 13.1 bln so maybe there is some big investment made.
The DOJ was investigating antitrust concerns, which is a civil matter (and a rather controversial area of the law).

The OP was discussing the criminal liability of corporations and their officers. That's a huge difference.
Injectable Foam Expands in the Belly, Stops the Bleeding
I like "Fat Metabolism" sitting up there near diesel and gasoline. Imagine a fat-powered fuel cell that can draw from our own bodies....
ENOUGH TO BE DANGER.US -
The creator says you can pronounce it any of the canonical ways; he's good with them all.

One of the hardest things about LaTeX is deciding how to pronounce it.This is also one of the few things I'm not going to tell you about LaTeX, since pronunciation is best determined by usage, not fiat. TeX is usually pronounced teck, making lah-teck, and lay-teck the logical choices; but language is not always logical, so lay-tecks is also possible.
Where memes really come from
Great question. In the recommendations, we're suggesting using two salts. One for deriving the key, and one just for challenges. Both of them are stored plaintext on the server. The salt itself does not need to be kept secret -- it's purpose is just to mitigate pre-computation attacks on the password and the resulting derived key.

Both salts are created by the client from random data at the time the account is created, and saved to the server.
So when a user wants to authenticate, you can just give them the plaintext of the challenge salt along with the issued challenge. There's no harm since it's just random data and shouldn't help them to calculate an answer to the challenge if they don't know the pass phrase. (Note that you only give them the challenge salt, not both salts.)

If you want the server to avoid disclosing the existence/non-existence of an account with a particular name (wise!) then just give them a made up random string as a challenge for non-existent accounts. Cache it somewhere so you can be consistent. Always rate limit login attempts.

Hope that makes more sense. :)
That is terrifying, I just logged in with three separate accounts and they worked. Obviously I logged out without fucking around with anything; why mess with somebody's professional work.

This is dangerous. But then again, is it Github's responsibility to keep these people from shooting themselves in the foot?
It just might be worse news for Intel than for Apple, since both PC and Mac general computing sales are down (meaning that truly, the industry as a whole is shrinking).
Metro and CoH 2 seems to be safe. Southpark may be in trouble, and Obsidian are in no need of additional trouble right now. And Ubisoft don't know what an RPG is.

Darksiders are done which is sad.
Here's.. a grep for the web, though: https://blekko.com/webgrep
I've got multiple machines like this, they run Windows as the host OS but I spend a lot of time in VMs writing code under Linux (I don't do Rails dev, but lots of Go stuff mostly targeting embedded Linux platforms).

On systems with modern CPUs and plenty of RAM to spare the VMs feel basically the same as native to me, especially when running them in fullscreen modes.
DNA 'perfect for digital storage'
Shakespeare, thou art stored in DNA
How People Make Cash In The Share Economy
Academics have been whining about C and C++ since at least the 1980s. But if you ask any three academics what programming languages they like, you'll get three different answers, depending on what department and program they are in.

I'm sure Dr. Regehr is a smart guy, but I don't consider academics good sources of advice on software engineering, for the same reason I don't get sex tips from Catholic priests. Also, John Regehr's CV relates more to static analysis than software engineering anyway.
You mean by not being a tax haven for profits from outside the US. Or am I missing something?
Read in Haskell returns a well defined type, it just happens to be polymorphic.
Quora Launches Blogging Platform
I guess it's technically not required unless you want to play the levels.
FCC wants Gb ISPs in all 50 states
Nice. I hope this will be open source. I know it's not rocket science (probably few lines of javascript, maybe another few of ruby for backend for analeptics proposes) but consistent experience across various pages would be an advantage.
If you don't need ca$h there are plenty of opportunities for equity. Get one or the other, maybe a mix of the two.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/0001193125130...

Dividend perhaps?

edit: I suppose that doesn't come out of operating expenses
Longtime Sequoia Capital Partner Greg McAdoo To Depart The Firm
Lookin' for the next team member
Looking for some awesome people to help us scale. Our user base is growing nicely. We are profitable, have customers and technology. Looking for our next team member(s) to help scale. Experience in the non-profit sector a plus. Proven track record growing operations and revenues required. Email jhartman (at) yovia.com.
It probably helped as well that St Thomas's is literally within a few hundred yards of Waterloo Station.

The speed with which you can be in specialist care is absolutely critical when it comes to cardiac problems - which is a large part of the reason why survival rates are far higher in places like Central London where you've got both fast response time for paramedics (for London as a whole, ~75% of 'immediately life-threatening' calls have a response time of under eight minutes) and multiple world class Hospitals with specialist cardiac centres.

Even so, that's one hell of a lucky break your father had and fantastic that he both survived and is fine still!
I suppose it wouldn't be absurd to have another repository in Ubuntu, say, for unvalidated packages, kind of like the PPA, but without having to manually add the PPA to your repo.

If, along with main/universe/multiverse/restricted, they had "badlands" or something, that contained all packages that would otherwise be in a PPA, it could be more scalable.
Online cloud based editors are a great step forward. They bring LaTeX to tablets and smartphones, and to people who now don't need to overcome the barrier of a LaTeX installation, and maintaining it.

With an online editor, I can send my mom a web link and a LaTeX document which she can easily compile on her iPad! She even can do text corrections for me, even if she doesn't know those preamble things.
I largely agree with what you are saying.

When I say that psychedelics are "not necessary", I mean exactly that. I don't mean to say that they're evil, or even that they do more harm than good, because I don't think either is true. I think they're one path to something that can be attained through more difficult but, in the long term, safer means.

I don't know where you get the idea that Indian culture celebrates severe schizophrenia. It doesn't. In fact, the contentions some people have that schizophrenia is an asset in other cultures is untrue. That belief comes from a time in which this illness was poorly understood and sloppily (read: too easily) diagnosed in other societies. In all cultures, actual schizophrenia is a disadvantage. However, having traits often classified as schizotypal can be an advantage in some cultures.
NY Times headline: Apple Revenue Misses Again, iPhone Disappoints
Official Release:

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2013...
I get your but point Point No. 6 in the Colligan affidavit says a different version -

Mr. Jobs proposed an arrangement between Palm and Apple
by which neither company would hire the others' employees.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/121737673/Colligan-Affidavit

Note - there is no version of "active" or "non active" in the statement. It simply says no hiring ex-Palm/Apple employees. I simply see no reason why this should exist. Why should there be a collusion between company X and Y on a legal platform ?
Dutch Architect Plans To Build A 12,000-Square-Foot 3D Printed House
> Did anyone see on their balance sheet where it went? Any extraordinary items?

They've introduced new products for every category, so the manufacturing processes are still being refined. As time goes on they should eek more output in a given amount of time with fewer rejects, thus increasing margin.
Your post comes across as being resistant to change, and plays on the emotions of those who might feel similarly.

First of all, the anecdote of the stripped fruit tree is irrelevant to your argument. Better services than AirBnB have had worse horror stories. In fact, even AirBnB itself has had worse (http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/29/airbnb-victim-speaks-again-...).

"All of a sudden, we're using the law to regulate something that used to be managed less formally. The law is a terrible tool, way worse than just talking to your neighbors, but when you have a new neighbor every three days,it may be all you've got."

The law is not a terrible tool, and short-term vacationers or not, I'm sure you can still talk to them. Noise pollution is unwanted whether it comes from your neighbor or a stranger. You make it sound so terrible lol.

"There is also absolutely a loss when families who would like to know and socialize with long term neighbors, especially with children, start to get pushed out because they can't compete on price with people who plan to airbnb the crap out the old neighborhood."

Sounds like your notion of the idyllic suburb is getting ruined by the increasingly evolving home rental industry. While I don't empathize, I can understand why this might be uncomfortable.

"I don't have a link to this, but I read once that an economist estimated that good relations with the neighbors were worth about $50,000."

Now this is something interesting I would like to know about, and would give your sentiments more weight.

At the end of the day, if your neighbors want to rent out their homes, they are in the right to do so. As you've mentioned, excessive noise and possible vandalism cannot be tolerated, but assuming this is dealt with, all should be well. Technology and business want to advance though - people want to turn their properties (something as arbitrary as a piece of land which for some reason costs so much) into something that works for them.

I guess what really bothered me about your post is that it seems to be coming from the perspective of upper-middle class white people who want to maintain their comfortable status quo. To which I say, good luck.
Open Source node.js-based URL shortening service
Has anyone downloaded the mod and tried it?

I'm curious why they use this mod for recruiting, though I don't own Portal 2 and I'm not interested in applying to Wibidata. What the video shows of the gameplay and puzzles are what I'd expect from Portal 2.
AngularJS: the beauty of concision
They cited Andrew McAfee in the article, but I believe he's come to a different conclusion than the authors of this article did.

He gave an excellent talk called "Are droids taking out jobs?" http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mcafee_are_droids_taking_our...
Why Functional Programming in Java is Not Dangerous
The web has content discovery, the app stores provide function discovery.

They are subtly different I would say. Though I can't say entirely way.

I think we've been trained to go to google to search for content, but not to search for something to help us get a specific job done.
Visualize your JavaScript dependencies with grunt-dependencygraph
It's a trade-off, right? As most things in software are.

Recently, I inherited a project that had 10,000s of lines of ant scripts. Resource constrained, I didn't have anyone to maintain that build process. So, I took a few hours and converted those projects to several hundred lines of maven 'scripts'. Now, it works way better than the previous system, because now I can have a person focused on coding features, rather than maintaining process.

Maven was what I knew at the time; and, it fit well enough. Maybe Grails is the right answer, though. Or, something else.

Anyway, ultimately, it comes down to what trade-offs we make and what things we prioritize with our limited knowledge that we have available. And, that is the art of software development.
Even that issue isn't that simple. There is no right answer to the debate between being there as long as you can for them and not wanting to have them experience their parents withering away and dying, entirely helpless. I have been fortunate not to be in this position but I can't imagine the latter being very healthy for the children. It's up to every parent and family to decide this in their own way.

I've known two people in the medical field in this position, late stage cancer with young children at home. Both chose to fight with drug cocktails and experimental treatments (such as sipuleucel-T when it was in trials) but stopped short of life debilitating treatments like chemo, although one was lucky enough to get laser based irradiation therapy (I forgot the technical term, but it uses an accelerator to irradiate a tumor without harming surrounding tissue as much as chemo: http://www.protons.com/protons/index.page). I never asked but I'm guessing that they've seen all too often what the family goes through with a loved one dying from terminal cancer and don't think it's worth the pain or suffering, for the family or for them.
FYI:
Q1 2012 = 14 weeks
Q1 2013 = 13 weeks

Q1 2012 profit/week = $0.93B
Q1 2013 profit/week = $1.00B
Yes, that has been my experience. Most tech stacks I use install better under Linux. Even if I were using a Mac as the host OS, I will still run Linux as a VM.
But if you pay professors, you either pay them enough to make it worth their time, or you pay them less than that.

In the former case, you are incentivizing people to do reviews who are not actually qualified to do them. Or, incentivizing people to do more reviews than they have time to do a good job on.

In the latter case, there's not really any point.
> I don't really feel any pressing need to upgrade

Retina displays could be a driving force for selling more airs.
Due-south/south-east are fine, southwest is awful (~15th and west). West is okay provided you don't go further than, say, 40th. North is a warzone aside from the narrow strip following the Schuylkill river. Fishtown is okay.

Thankfully the Delaware river provides an adequate barrier between east Philly and Baghdad... err, I mean Camden. You can go as far east in Pennsylvania as you like and be fine.

Philadelphia is sort of an inversion of the stereotypical "ghetto in the middle, suburb surrounding" model, the main line being an exception to this.
Someone is interested in what you and I have to say: https://github.com/ruggeri/hn-local-copy

Found via Github search
Where "most open" means "you can look at it". By that definition pretty much everything is open.
ICARUS
A "kafkaesque nightmare" perfectly describes my thinking.
You can absolutely cherry pick permissions (and everyone should). You just can't do it during installation and without a 3rd party helper app. Please look into rooting your device and installing LBE Privacy Guard.
Thankfully EA, Activision or one of the other more cookie cutter publishers did not get ahold of Saints Row and Metro. If they did, each series might as well have died with THQ. I think I would be sick to see Metro or Saints Row turned into a Call of Duty or Medal of Honor knockoff.

EA just is not what it used to be and all my favorite classic franchises (Command and Conquer, C&C Red Alert, Sim City, Syndicate, etc) are just a shadow of what they once were.
I really like the fact that i can finally see how many people are using my library, a lot more than i thought :) Thanks Github!
This phenomenon is called pauperization. Many countries in Europe experienced it acutely during the early 19th century. People were allowed to starve back then until production shifted to take advantage of the surplus labor. And though people in developed countries are unlikely to starve this time around, the real challenge for us is figuring out how to allow the change to continue (because we will all be better off for it) without destroying people's dignity and/or creating an economically futile and dependent underclass.
That screen shot just pains me to look at it.

Even obvious details are wrong like one set of reply buttons being flat and another set with gradients. This is really sloppy.
This kind of stuff, and the ridiculous pain that Samsung is being put through, is why I've quit using my iPhone and switched to a Nexus 4.
2B stock buyback
It does so far, and I see how this does no harm (as you say), but I also don't see how it improves security? Can you give an attack that would work against the unsalted system which wouldn't work against the salted system?