skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that's why you can unlike what you liked in the past, leave groups, unfriend people, etc. Also, it might still be an unreasonable expectation, but to be honest people do need to understand what is public and what is private on facebook. You don't give away embarrasing pictures of yourself or your bank account information to strangers in the street, so why should it be different online? Facebook, like real life, is not a product that can be used properly without understanding what's public/private. That's not to say the users who don't understand it are to blame; possibly it's just Facebook that has to work harder on this, but still.
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lol, now define your binomial function.
I'll second this; it's the first thought I had when I started reading TFA. One thing I'll add, though, is that Sanyo might not have been the first (or at least the only one) to start pushing low self-discharge batteries. I've got a whole bunch of Powerex Imedions (not linking because I'm not a shill, just a satisfied customer; google it) that are awesome. Keeping 85% of their charge over a year of storage has made me happy. Being able to swap to rechargeables in everything and getting rid of the alkalines that _always_ end up leaking (yes, even the name brands; especially the name brands) has made me very happy.
I don't use facebook myself (have an account, but never touch it) so I'm a bit confused about one thing.

Who would actually, seriously "like" something like Prostitutes or Racism? It seems that fields like that would have literally no serious responses, beyond a bunch of frat boys goofing around.

Or is that the only expectation for searches like this anyway?
WineHQ has it listed as 'Platinum'. I've played all the way through Half Life 2 and Portal using wine a while ago and they worked very well, but I can't speak from experience on Portal 2.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&...
Appalling is that you would equate negative marketing with threatening a patent lawsuit extortion to force a probably illegal agreement to fix wages.
A post for startup spouses
It's a PR stunt
Feedback: The image gallery type of thing on the search ninjas was neurotic on my machine and I'm running latest Chrome and Ubuntu. By neurotic, I mean that it jumped around quite a bit. Not smooth at all.

Take out "ninja." Yoga ninja? Golf ninja!? I just want a Golf Instructor...

Btw, what company are you going through to get the video chat? Did you do that yourself?
I live about a mile north of City Hall, but I grew up in a small town (pop 3000) in south-central PA. I've been living in Philadelphia for only a few years now, but every single night, I hear sirens, several times a night. And several times a week, I hear helicopters. I'm used to it now, but the police activity is on a level I never could have imagined existed in America when I was living in my tiny little town. Parts of the city near Temple are lit up and patrolled like it's the green zone in Baghdad.

When you stop and think about it, there is a near-constant state of emergency, and this no doubt applies to any major American metropolitan area. I'm not at all surprised that the police department has such a huge budget here.
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I see your point. I've been put off jobs in that past where the requirements have listed stuff like "You must kick ass at Xbox games!" for completely non gamedev jobs.

Now I love video games as much as the next geek and I've always assumed it was a light hearted hint towards company culture rather than a hard requirement.

But I just find something a little off about stuff like this, like it sets off a little red light in my brain that I can't put my finger on.
We would probably think it was weird if they said "we all love cricket so you should too!", I guess it feels a little patronising to be told "of course you love Xbox, you are a geek after all!"

As a Segue the use of the term "geek" in job descriptions irks me also.

Edit: Wording corrected
Neat. Was some tool used to construct this, or was it done manually?

What may not be obvious to people initially when they look at it, is that when you see the label "Department of Finance" on the gray rectangle that is actually the label for the gray rectangle plus the green and orange ones adjacent to it -- the different colors represent the expenditure classes described on the "About" page. It would perhaps be clearer if there were thick black lines separating the items (instead of just a thick line of the background color) and zero separation between the colored rectangles representing the breakdown by class within an item (which currently have thin lines of the background color separating them giving the impression that they are separate items).
OP here. I quit my full-time job almost a year ago to travel and work on startup ideas, and this is the fruit of my labor in the past six months that I hope you'll find useful. I wanted to make it easy for startups and indie devs to test their iOS applications. How does testelf work? You upload a build of your app without providing any additional instructions, and we'll test your app from a user's perspective, logging what we did or saw. The goal is to charge a flat price per test, provide good coverage and actionable feedback, and have a 36-hour turnaround time.

Over the past few months, I recruited and trained a small team of testers, developed internal testing tools, and worked with a handful of startups who are piloting our service. The service is now open for beta -- I would love to hear feedback from hackers and startups on HN who can give it a shot.
Shit. I'm also 34... Totally forgot I had a birthday recently. My life seems to take place between 4am zombie walks to the kitchen to make milk bottles.

I do have sort of a wife's account vector but tbh: she also starts feeling shit and creeped out after being in there.

It's ok, as the apologists are wont to point out, there is a choice.

Mine is made.
I'm a bit confused by the concept of using media queries based on em's instead of px, since em's are based on font sizes, and I wouldn't expect the "window" object to have a font size at all.

Do media queries based on values like max-width simply assume 1em = 16px universally at default zoom level, or is that something that can be overridden? I mean, em's are not "inherently" 16px at all, that's just what happens to be most browser's default font size.

> However, I've learned that when you test your media queries you will need to reload the page each time you change the zoom level. It's just a nitpick where media queries won't get affected by zoom level adjustments after the page load unlike browser resizes.

I think that's actually a good thing -- if you're adjusting the browser zoom level while you're looking at a page, that's because you want to inspect something more closely. You don't want the whole layout to change. Browsers also conveniently try to keep you looking at roughly the same thing in the scroll-position, even though the whole height of the page may have drastically changed.
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Sounds like it's classic capitalism as outlined by Adam Smith.

Smith didn't envision massive corporations making money by having the government pass favorable legislation, he envisioned many small players making a decent living through competition rather than rent seeking.
A UI mistake which benefits users. Right...
I try to ignore these things because the GPL generally just infuriates me, but do themes seriously count as derivative works for the purpose of GPL licensing?
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We just finished developing this website(http://www.kwipp.com). I promise it's worth a minute of your time and you'll get a few chuckles out of it.
Thanks! Very helpful. I've kept the user experience descriptions a bit vague as all of our user feedback has been from "lean" products - basically me emailing people with match suggestions with screen shots of shared mutual friends, then asking if they'd be interested in these people. We've had favorable response to that, but until the app is in our users hands I don't want to jump the gun. It's not yet - the stuff we can play around with works "amazing," but a full experience is not yet built so our users don't have it yet. I definitely could've been more specific, though.

On the video - great point. Wish we'd thought of that a bit earlier... The hope was to prove that we were legitimate. Gaining users for a dating site is not an easy proposition, and we should've focused more on what we can do for users than why we are viable.

Thanks again.
Google's blog post: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/transparency-report-w...
So are we saying for a commercial developer to legally distribute themes and not open the source code they'd have to basically build their own platform ala wordpress.com? Seems like that would basically only be using the GPL as a tool for monopoly. Does that mean Thesis and Genesis and these toolkits are also violating GPL since they are not openly available?
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I wish this point was raised more in the fawning articles about how great a place Google is to work, and how generous the 10% raise was, e.g. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/01/...
Personally, I don't doubt that people with questionable shared interests have made contact with one another through FB.

World's a weird place at times. The Internet kind of dilates the portal into those spaces.
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That is an excellent way of conducting an interview. Are you hiring? ;)
"Is there something about newer CPUs such as i7 that makes virtualisation hugely faster and more responsive?"

Well you probably could set the CPU affinity of every single application that is not the VM to one core and set the CPU affinity of the VM to the three other cores. A tiny script doing that should be fairly easy.

Maybe someone who knows VM better than me could tell if it would work or not?

Now my experience with VMs do not match yours: I've been running Windows just fine inside VM providing it has enough RAM (but RAM is basically given these days) and provided the special drivers were installed to make the UI fast.

Also, I've read professional photographer use Octocore Macs with 20 GB of RAM and create gigantic ramdisk for Photoshop and saying that it is incredibly much faster than letting the OS be "smart" about what/when to page to disk.
I'd check your RAM settings first. A faster processor helps, but to virtualize an OS properly you need a good chunk of RAM to make both Host and Guest feel snappy. Four gigs works well for me without a VM running, but is a little laggy once a virtual OS is spun up. With my typical work load and 8 gigs of memory properly allocated between the host and guest OSes I rarely notice the VM running in the background.
The only thing I'd add to this concise post is that once you settle into the mental discipline of sifting through your experience with these filters running automatically, other people's problems become frighteningly clear in the same context. I find many people are wasting the energy they wish they'd reserved for fixable, controllable problems on a long list of things they can't control. They're not "working smart" energetically.
The post was written in 2008. Has there been any changes in the past five years to indicate any fundmental breakthrough in energy density? I know Tesla has come out with practical electric cars, but was that an improvement in energy density or an improvement in energy efficiency and management, as the article argues?
The project is interesting, but I can't help but be disappointed the logo isn't Freddie Mercury.
While I think most on this site would applaud efficiently allocating anything, there are some drawbacks to efficiently allocating things strictly for money.

Michael Sandel, author of What Money Can't Buy, argues pretty eloquently the economic and social cost-benefit to pricing things like a placement in line, or a spare room in a house.

To extend one of his examples, Airbnb gives you a hard-cash price for your extra room—or even your couch. One of your friends wants to couch surf for a week.

By past social convention, you'd give it to him for free. He saves money he'd spend on something else.

By Airbnb convention, you charge him for it. You kind of have to, because everyone else is, and you can't leave money on the table. You have cash now, but a bit less than he would have, because Airbnb takes a cut.

Sandel was interested in investigating this society where the rich get the best of everything first, explicitly at the expense of the poor.

So I hope there are some comments investigating whether or not we're better off socially, not necessarily economically, by renting our "excess capacity" or being generous with our "excess capacity."
>> Is there something about newer CPUs such as i7 that makes virtualisation hugely faster and more responsive?

Yes.

http://ark.intel.com/Products/VirtualizationTechnology

Running the Android Emulator on my i7-3770k is smooth as silk with Intel Virtualization turned on. Without IV it's like rubbing my face on sandpaper.
Ultrashock.com was awesome!
my hope is it would have been pioneered by Dr. Obvious
They're probably the biggest
But "molecular energy storage" and hydrogen (solid or otherwise) are not battery technologies. They are better classified as fuels which store (chemical) energy in chemical bonds, which is distinct from batteries which store (electrical) energy by charge separation.

I agree with the article author. I was convinced after reading chemistry professor Daniel Nocera a few years ago, after he became famous for discovering a cobalt-phosphate water-splitting catalyst, for the first time enabling hydrogen generation under normal conditions (neutral pH). He had been looking for it for some time (his "holy grail" of renewable energy).

He's a proponent of solar and hydrogen (collecting energy from solar and storing it in hydrogen) and a detractor of batteries. He (convincingly) argues that battery tech is fundamentally limited by the physics of charge separation. The only way to beat that limit is to store the energy in chemical bonds - as fuel - like nature does.

His paper "Chemistry of Personalized Solar Energy" is a good place to start.[1] Just the introduction and conclusion - you can skip the middle (its dense orbital theory).

1. http://www.tarleton.edu/Faculty/alow/solar2.pdf
Biological organisms have quite a lot of energy stored in a small amount of space.

A lot of inventions were based on nature, e.g. wings for flying. Who knows, one day maybe a battery invention will also be based on biology.
Yes, but one of those searches was for family members of people who supported the Falun Gong. You may live in the US, be a member of the Falun Gong and your grandparents in China get picked up and shipped off for suspected support.

Even if the privacy settings do allow you to opt out of being visible in Graph Search (and there is an open question of if it would for a query that returns other people instead of you), now people's safety is involved for something they themselves have no control over.
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My host OS still feels fast enough with the VM running.
It's just stuff like menu draws and window dragging etc are very far from snappy. Throughput doesn't seem to be the issue so much as latency.

Possibly a graphics issue, though I do have a reasonable nvidia card and enabled 3d acceleration in Virtualbox.
binomial(n, k) = factorial(n)/(factorial(k)*factorial(n-k))
factorial(n) = n <= 1 ? 1 : n*factorial(n-1)
This had nothing to do with wage fixing.

A patent lawsuit is just a tool they had available. Patents as they stand have defects for the broader economy but I don't believe they are immoral. Though some do, highlighting another grey line between legality (encouraged by the government too!) and morality.
I like the site that said "but we ran a prominent disclaimer at the end of the article!", as if that made up for a lede and a series of breathless grafs reporting the contents of an anonymous mail as fact.
I am crying tears of joy right now. Just. So happy.
It seems that software patents have long become a case of "hate the game, not the player."

Although Steve Jos certainly was the most determined player I have seen on the corporate stage.
So maybe either Wordpress.org needs to a) sell the next version of Wordpress and see how many users are left or b) somehow disallow commercial themes by tightening / changing licensing and then see how many users are left...
> This type of reporting is fantastic if you’re technical and understand it, but for the average businessperson it’s reminiscent of that calc class they barely passed.

I like how the response to that is that the reporting needs to get better and not that average businesspeople need to smarten up and pay attention in math. I don't disagree that reporting can and should get better, but this is a shared responsibility.
Thanks, muellerwolfram. This guide is excellent and dear to me as someone once stuck in the exact same position described in the opening paragraph. Indeed, flitting between operating systems was so natural that even now I instinctively want to take issue with your "dual boot sucks" but if I could use one OS for everything (and I do mean "everything", other OS emulation included) then I would, so quite simply: you are right.

For what it's worth, I chose a different route in solving my Photoshop dependence: I forced myself to learn alternatives. But I don't mean just that I learned GIMP (which I recommend, though completely sympathise with the "Regarding GIMP" section); I mean that I made it my goal to be someone who can take new software and ascertain how to do with it what I already know how to do in my "native" habitat, even if the method is convoluted or requires learning a new paradigm. This goes back to days of using elementary school computers with nothing more than MSPaint and enjoying that hit of satisfaction from performing a manual "crop": make a selection, copy it, minimise the canvas to a handful of pixels, ctrl+V, MSPaint automatically resizes the canvas to the pasted selection, BLAM it's a crop! (We've all been young, when figuring these things out for oneself is the next best thing to being a Jedi - and that said, if anyone has their own method for cropping in 2000-era MSPaint I'd love to hear it). Likewise in the "new paradigms" category, learning about Turing machines and formal data structures changed everything for me as a BASIC-minded programmer.

Since adopting this generalised view I have found it's helpful as a core principle: I can't always count on the environments I know, so learning to adapt is crucial. This applies to programming, competitions, and even romantic partners. In the infinite indulgence of our field to give everything a "cool" name, I refer to this as the "Peter Petrelli" skill.

Quite apart from arguing against using Photoshop in Ubuntu, it returns to your piece. Sometimes short of coding something up from scratch there really is only one program that does what we require to solve a specific problem, and sometimes the operating system is fixed. Knowing how to solve the equation for these variables is part of being an adaptable and valuable agent. Great article.
What Jobs offered wasn't necessarily illegal. This email is normal business practice, anywhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_battery
a framework by definition is to help bootstrap whatever product you want to build.If a framework gets in your way , ditch it.

Anyway i think , thanks to composer we are way passed using a single monolitic framework. I often use symfony libs , but never used the kernel. That's what make the lib very good.
You can maybe start with a Scheme parser, it's quite simple.
I'm not sure this is posturing. Or at least, it is certainly not "just" posturing.

I'm not in research like this, so I just hear things fed off of Y(HN). I've heard of some interesting devices like the carbon nanotube based supercapacitors (was that what it was?). Who knows?
In summary, author blames gaming sites for lack of journalistic integrity at the same time he fails to notice he is a liar and a snark.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
Honestly, I could. It'd probably require deception, though. Once I found your address or even your name I can grab a list of your suspected relatives. After that, I can find their phone numbers, and call them, and tell them you're in the hospital and in need of a blood transfusion or you'll die.

They'll find me it very quickly.

I used intellius to conduct a background check on someone the other day and for a few bucks I got all their public records, prior addresses, emails they used when they were in high school (mine too, apparently AOL and Yahoo sell your data to companies like intellius). Also, a fairly complete list of relatives, and contact info for them as well, neighbors too.

While finding your blood type is definitely possible, I don't really have an interest in spying on you :)
I'm not sure what your startup does, but I would bet there are better things to ask a candidate than this. You get these problems in school and become quite good at them in the moment but after doing real world work, this mindset will fade. I consider myself a pretty good coder. I've made full production apps that work just fine. But who knows how I would handle this problem if handed to me at an interview I'm already nervous about.

Give this problem in the same setting to some of your currently employed programmers. If they have similar results as your candidate then your candidate filter sucks and you should re-evaluate it.
But what if for all the other applications, for example out of security and performance concerns and by desire of not having to reboot every patch-tuesday, he prefers to not run Windows?
fwiw, his list of "major sites" that got fooled is rather misleading and sketchy in its own way:

"yahoo" - syndicated content

"cnet" - (UK) cnet.co.uk's crave blog

"gizmodo" - (UK) gizmodo.co.uk

not saying that you couldn't fool major sites, but this is a misrepresentative. You say "Gizmodo' without qualification, people expect you mean Gizmodo.com -- Not Gizmodo.co.uk. But hey, anything for a headline/clicks/press, right?

Edit: It should also be noted that most of the sites listed are not gaming sites despite his tirade against gaming journalists
I am not a member of the MIT community. But I would like all communications between MIT and the prosecutor to be included in the investigation. In particular Aaron's lawyer claimed that a plea bargain with no jail time was turned down due to MIT's objections. Who was objecting? What were they asking for? Why were they objecting?

In short I want to understand MIT's role in pushing for punishments that were out of line with community expectations.
Congrats on launching! I love the idea - this is somewhat similar to clarity.fm.

The site itself is pretty but seems to have some UI issues which are slowing down the site.
Well http://adrive.com has offered 50 GB free for several years. If they want to make news, they should offer much more.
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In this case being licensed means getting an independent opinion that you know what you're doing. If you don't, you might "be an ass and interfere with others" without even knowing it.