skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A great place to take a look and see some things that you can do with this program is this:

http://gallery.r-enthusiasts.com/

Examples of graphics with code, and some are very smart
Really? Can you give me an example? Seems to be working OK for me.
But if your 1.1x result is not confident in reality it could perform 1.1x worst. In my opinion in this situation you're just guessing.
Try Otixo -- www.otixo.com
Still, some prosecutors proposed that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. meet with Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, people briefed on the matter said. The meeting never took place.

After months of discussions, prosecutors decided against a criminal indictment, but only after securing record penalties and wide-ranging sanctions.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/hsbc-said-to-near-1-9...

"This process has highlighted some unacceptable shortcomings that HSBC deeply regrets," said Levey in written testimony. "While our old model served us well historically, it does not work in an interconnected world where transactions cross borders instantaneously and where weaknesses in one jurisdiction can be quickly exported to others."

WASHINGTON – Global banking giant HSBC and its U.S. affiliate exposed the U.S. financial system to a wide array of money laundering, drug trafficking, and terrorist financing risks due to poor anti-money laundering (AML) controls, a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations probe has found.

http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/med...
This study is a non-issue until Microsoft actually publishes it.

Until then, this boils down to "Microsoft says it has found proof, proof, that its products are cheaper than linux, this proof is very well substantiated, so well in fact, that we won't publish the study. But really, do believe us. We even paid someone else to do the study for us. It's solid! It shows it all! You don't have to believe us, because it is proven. At least to those who get to see it. Which means Microsoft. But really!"

> Langkabel declined to break down the costs into individual positions. "Of course it includes licence fees," Langkabel corrected a report to the contrary released by Focus Money Online on Monday, adding that the study also considers costs incurred through "tuition, training, migration, templates, roll-out and deployment and the integration of subject-related procedures". "The study is reliable", said Langkabel.

If it is reliable, publish it so we can assess those claims. Until then, this can be understood as spreading FUD.
Aix&terra, Provance
How to increase daily downloads for your app
I used this library to build the product tour for my app (
http://www.thetaboard.com). Was really easy to customize the color scheme and behavior--I think it took 2 hours to integrate it.

Adding a product tour really improved my "demo" to "sign up" conversion rate. Probably the single biggest conversion rate "win" I've had.
Lines 4 and 5 are pretty ridiculous in the actual source: https://github.com/1800joe/LoResForm/blob/master/loResForm.j...
Austrian mobile contracts are still cheaper in Germany than German ones. But the Austrian market is special case.
Go Daddy Releases 2013 .CO Super Bowl Commercial
Wow, this is great, especially since I'm a Linux user. Now if only Adobe would port CS6 over to Linux...
This is an important point, and one that I personally believe explains why we didn't see prosecutions at the highest level. Geithner was instrumental in guiding Obama away from this heavy handed approach, as he recognized (I think quite accurately) that confidence was really the only thing keeping the system from crashing completely.

If Obama had given execs the kind of treatment Larry Summers and the other half of his team wanted (heads on sticks to put it lightly) it would have rocked the investment world and brought much more pain to our economy than many could bear. The American people would have seen justice, but most likely at a substantial cost to the American way of life with ripple (tsunami?) effects seen and felt around the world.
Don't forget about most people's very limited upload speed if they need to access files from a "not-in-sync" client.

Not saying Dropbox download speeds are a lot better, they actually sucked for large files last time I checked.

Of course, if you throw this on a server though, it obviously becomes a very good alternative to Dropbox et al, yet that's not a solution for everybody and you yourself are responsible for keeping the server safe.
"$X0,000 a week" - patio11

Words to live by.
That's DYLD_, and vanilla HL runs OOTB on OSX here.
Alistair Darling, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of the crisis, pretty much did think that the world was going to end - he had the chairman of RBS (one of the worlds biggest banks, possibly the biggest at the time) phone him up and say that he thought they might be able to last 2 or 3 hours.

[NB I'm pretty sure I've read they were considering going to what sounded awfully like a wartime "emergency" government if the UK banking sector had collapsed.]
Upcoming Album Release Calendar - Upcoming Albums, Upcoming Music Albums
This seems like a good idea, however the website needs more information. It's not to clear what your $40 is getting you or how it works. Maybe look at adding a demo video or something?

Slightly off topic: What if you already own both an iPad (assuming it's a 3g model and not just wifi) and an iPhone, couldn't you just leave your iPad in the bag then use the "Find Your iPhone" app to locate the bag for free?

EDIT: I guess my overall point is why would anyone pay $39.99 for a simple tracking device when you can do this free (with an iPad/iPhone) or buy a GPS tracker yourself, for cheaper than ~$40? Maybe this leads back to my first statement that the landing page needs much more info to convince the user this is worth the money.
Probably would be best implemented as an extension that can display a chart in a lightbox or something. Probably something akin to this:

http://wyuenho.github.com/backgrid/#api-text-cell
New Internet-Draft: Balanced IPv6 Security for Residential CPE
Northern Virginia is pretty much all a disaster. There is zero urban planning. The streets are built randomly, not in a quaint way, which makes getting around impossible. The commercial areas are built as far as possible from residential ones, which makes running to the store for milk or going out to lunch a huge time sink. The traffic is horrible as a result, even though the area isn't really that densely populated.

Compare: Westchester County to Fairfax County, roughly similarly sized suburbs. Westchester has all these cute little downtowns with grid streets (ish) built around Metro North stations. Traffic is kept under control because a large fraction of people commute to the city by rail. Fairfax County sucks in comparison. No transit to speak of, awful traffic, etc. Its the result of urban planning that basically consists of (mark of a subdivision and let the developers do whatever they want).

Arlington is tolerable, but only because development sprung up around Metro lines. Ditto Alexandria, which at least has a centrally planned downtown core.
This is rather misleading. The average processing time for Canadian citizenship remains 21 months. There is a residency requirement that applicants live 1,095 days (a full three years) in Canada before applying.

Some require a residency follow-up, because there are people who cheat the residency requirement, forging paperwork to pretend to have lived in Canada, etc. This is only a minority of cases. There's an average of 172,000 new citizens to Canada each year, which is huge.
Actually that is the definition of a switch. Routing happens at layer 3 between networks domains.

I'm sure this is going to turn into a semantics battle with the layers blurring, but traditionally all routing happens at the IP address level.
> The ones you usually compare as world class: NYC, Chicago, London

I wouldn't call the CTA Rail world class. Compared to NYC or London it has limited stops and doesn't touch large chunks of the city.

CTA:
http://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/maps/P19_2012_CTA_Rai...

Tube:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/standard-tube-map.gif

Chicago's bus system doesn't really make up for the lack of stops. Lots of people consider a car mandatory here, unlike London or NYC.
It's in the works

https://github.com/wyuenho/backgrid/issues/4

PR welcome!
NOVA has horrendous traffic because of poor urban planning (e.g. too much sprawl), few successful small businesses (mostly just chains), a barely viable public transit system outside of Arlington County.
How much of this is fundamental to how technology and efficiency gains have happened, and how much is due to regulatory or other capture by elites?
Yes Nexus 4
In what way did he have Aaron's back? (I'm asking, not challenging).
http://zolmeister.com
I write about my technical projects (both software and hardware)
Wall Street Thinks Facebook Will Grow 29 Times Faster Than Apple
If you hold press a link, do you get an option to open in a new tab?
Expect R is dominate as the SAS legacy begins to die. R is spreading across a lot on analytics departments in Universities, from Stats to Finance. The holdouts are the CS departments, who have rebranded much of statistics into data mining/machine learning and, smartly, use python.
I have to e-mail someone to pre-order? That seems...odd. Just setup a Wufoo or Google Form?

I don't know what I'm even supposed to put in that e-mail; am I going to e-mail you my CC details (PROTIP: No.)?

tl;dr: SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY.
OS X is not "far more closed". Darwin, the UNIX kernel and utils that OS X runs on top of is fully free and open-source. It's just the Apple-specific APIs like Cocoa, Carbon, Quartz, Aqua and all that jazz that is closed-source and proprietary.

Can I get source access to the NT kernel on Windows? Nope. That's Microsoft's secret and novel invention that is supposedly the best OS in the world, so they have to keep it on lockdown. 


Just being restrictive of what computers can run your OS does not make it closed. When has Microha$h ever supported FOSS? Think about it for a second.
Very cool. I'm going try this out on a web app I'm currently developing (which happens to use Bootstrap). I would definitely prefer to implement popovers as opposed to a tutorial with lots of screenshots and whatnot.
'likely to stabilize'? Are you on crack? Congress & O can't even create & pass a budget. They talk about 'saving' a trillion dollars... over 10 years! Our armed forces are still deployed to 3rd-world cesspools that we have no business being in. Debt is going to go up and up until the balloon pops.
I represent one of the largest venture capital funds in the state of Indiana with a substantial number of investments in tech-focused companies. I would be more than happy to speak with you and your friend and see if we might be able to help him.
So, for your point 1, neither Krugman nor the CBPP report he links to claims that the debt will stabilise at 80%. It will arrive at 80% with a rising slope, not flatten like the "cuts" scenario. Also, good thing you didn't link to anything containing conspiracy theories:

To say what should be obvious: Republicans don’t care about the deficit. They care about exploiting the deficit to pursue their goal of dismantling the social insurance system. They want a fiscal crisis; they need it; they’re enjoying it.
"couldn't you just leave your iPad "

What if you don't. You could get lucky if you leave your iPad in the bag. But the point is when you don't.
Why do we believe in this concept of general multitasking?

If someone is "really good" at texting while driving (let's say top 1%), it doesn't mean that he is anymore than average at a different multitasking task, like solving math problems while remembering a string of letters!

For a computer any bunch of tasks can be considered equivalent, they are just calculations (yeah, even in this case we have to ignore a lot to say this but bare with me), but the human brain uses different physical subsystems to handle different tasks. So any multitasking performance depends specifically on the tasks being multitasked. Yes, there are things like general attention and interpresonal differences in it, but for the wetware in our skulls, the idea of "general multitasking" and being better or worse at it is bullshit imho.
Artificial Intelligence and its Ability to Generate Alpha
I have used ChannelAdvisor. I found it really lacking. It was excellent for pushing out postings, but when your employee makes an error, we had to fix everything by hand. Also we were selling in Ebay Motors, which ChannelAdvisor did not handle as well as the normal Ebay. And then Channel Advisor took another 2% cut on top of Ebay fees, paypal fees.

Too much money for not enough benefit was the reason I stopped using it.
It's not the form of government, it's the willingness and ability of the mayor to rule with singular vision without getting bogged down with the concensus building. Not every mayor uses his power in that way.
So why doesn't NASA just rebuild the F-1 engines instead of spending (5 or 10 years?) designing brand new rockets?
Yeah, I was curious about which areas he was referring to as well. Arlington and Alexandria are very well set up. My guess is he is talking about the sprawling surburbian hell-hole known as Fairfax and beyond.
If you're building a product tour, consider making an animated GIF screencast to demo your use case.

Yesterday I wrote a tutorial on how to easily create one on OS X using just free tools: Quicktime Player, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

https://gist.github.com/4627207

(Animated GIFs might also be useful for bug reports).
Show HN: Redesigned a mashup of mine, nearby tweets
Would appreciate feedback/if you see something wacky
And we wonder why the programmer geek/nerd/shut-in stereotype or whatever sticks. We fucking step all over eachother as a chance to look better. "Oh, look, someone wrote a helper function that does something I already know how to do."

What's the benefit of calling that person out?

Seriously. Answer that question before you take to a twitter mob.

People through this thread argue whether its worth the time, but if it took Heather one hour to write it, the function paid for itself once she used it for an hour of work that would otherwise be spent crawing man pages.

Hell, she says it was written a few years ago. Every piece of code I wrote two/three/four years ago can be looked at and often makes me cringe. You learn in time but that doesn't mean you should vanquish your mistakes. Grow from them, show them proudly as a statement of where you were and where you've come from. Whether you've evolved to a better programmer or not if that single function proved useful to you at one point it means that just one single person out there needed it. Does it make you wrong for not knowing/finding the tools it mimics? Maybe, but without someone beside her in the first place how should she have known. Perhaps taking to twitter with a knife for someone's back is a better start?
Easily the worst homepage I've seen in some time.

Zero information, literally no explanation of what the product is.

None of the links go anywhere but the single page.. why even have links?

The website is literally void of information, which should be the only reason to have a website in the first place.

I can only imagine this is being upvoted by spam/shill accounts.
Can you read 1 million rows at a time like Neo :P

Jokes aside, no it cannot, not yet anyway. This is version 0.1 and I really have no intension of cloning SlickGrid. That said, the infrastructure is here

http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/176tvf/backgridj...

and avoiding DOM repainting is on the top of my list for version 0.2.

https://github.com/wyuenho/backgrid/issues/26

This should take only 3 lines of code.

PR welcome!
This seems to be just a landing page to validate the idea. However it's quite a good idea.
Unauthorized unlocking of smartphones becomes illegal Saturday | Crave - CNET
See the note on the consumer-facing Java website regarding 64-bit vs 32-bit versions of the JRE:

> 64-bit Windows operating systems (which may be Windows 7, Vista or XP) come with a 32-bit Internet Explorer (IE) browser as the standard (default) for viewing web pages. These operating systems also include a 64-bit Internet Explorer browser, however using it is optional and it must be explicitly selected to view web pages. Note that because some web content may not work properly in a 64-bit browser, we recommend using the default 32-bit browser and downloading 32-bit Java.

More details: http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/java_win64bit.xml
This is assuming someone doesn't jack your iPad from your bag as they did mine at SFO. :)
Exactly. Even when the money was made of gold, it was still worth exactly what people thought it was worth, nothing more or less.
If stuff isn't running as root, but still running as you, that still gives it access to a fair amount of private data. So, to keep really suspicious code from reading your banking details, etc., you need to run it under a different uid than the one that runs, say, your web browser.
If you get caught by a cop opening my unlocked front door, or trying random keys in it, you will sure as shit be arrested for B&E.
How is this different from the stick-n-find or tod devices recently launched through Kickstarter?
I think the biggest risk to that is battery life.

Also, am I the only person who gets seriously bothered by profession-looking websites or applications that list the dollar sign after a price?
Are We Really Addicted to the Internet? Yes…
How to accidentally start a cult
I guess my overall point is why would anyone pay $39.99 for a simple tracking device when you can do this free (with an iPad/iPhone) or buy a GPS tracker yourself, for cheaper than ~$40?

Maybe this leads back to my first statement that the landing page needs much more info to convince the user this is worth the money.
Thanks! I saw you saw it last night :D backbone.layoutmanager looks great too. Can't wait to see what awesome sauce the 2 projects can come up with!
Wouldn't you have to leave it powered on for the entire flight? Seems like it would drain the battery before you got there.
looks like it was initially deemed legal by DMCA, but this decision has been reverted:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/jailbreaking-now-...
If Your Ears Are Open, You Will Hear Honesty Fom Me
GitHub Search Makes Easy Discovery of Encryption Keys, Passwords In Source Code
Actually, the old skilled worker backlog (FSW?) has been reduced by about 50% in the past year or so.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/releases/2012/...
This doesn't solve anything. Most people could give a crap about Ortiz getting fired. She's a symptom of the problem. Firing her doesn't cure the disease.
The biggest problem R faces is the corrosive attitude the language developers and maintainers have towards the R community. The R core team sometimes seems openly hostile to users; instead of Benevolent-Dictator-for-Life, it's more of a military junta that suppresses the opposition.
Show HN: Pretty music visualization in real time with JavaScript and WebAudioAPI
yeah... they are output from the program that we wrote to generate the font maps by reading an image file. I'm thinking something like this next: http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/pub/PDF/FarnesBAlph.pdf
Okay, I upvoted this story for the sake of 'missing kindness', in general on the Internet.

But after having understood, the whole story. What replace does is that, basically it is a good small utility for the author of the post to replace some content from a lot of files, also recursively going through directories. And the author happened to make it depend on nodejs.

In defense of these folks, who made nasty comments: they appeared to have made so, in the context of this nodeJS-based-replace, attempting to replace the sed/awk/grep and unix scripting.

To any long time unix user, any quick hack to replace the said commands, does indeed appear to be falling short. And also a bit of a why would you need to do such a thing?.

Honestly, they should have been just empathetic enough to understand a non-unix user, hacking a quick utility, with the tools she is familiar with (nodeJS and javascript) to come up with something useful for self and friends.

edit: rephrase
Fake It Till You Can't Fake It Anymore
Justice should not be a market transaction for the sake of efficiency. Plea bargaining is coercive. The buyer cannot walk away. Justice cannot be built upon caveat emptor. Yet, that's what we've got. The seller may withhold material facts. The answer to a broken justice system is not more injustice.
Checking in on Bill Ackman and P&G
An idea why my Tomato flashed router needs a weekly reboot? I can't tell if it overheats, or what, but it gets to a point where it just stops responding: dhcp, WIFI association, etc.
You are both right and wrong.

The total amount of support given to the banks was far greater than the total amount of ALL residential mortgages everywhere in the USA. Total support given in all the various ways was over $10 Trillion, while the total value of all residential mortgages is under $4 Trillion.
An iPad (fully charged) with no use in a bag could easily stay powered for the length of any flight. I don't use my iPad often, and when it's 'locked' it can last for a few days on that battery charged. I don't think battery life would be an issue at all.
Why should I take what we all learn in computer architecture 101 seriously? Ya, it's crazy fast, but someone in the 50s or 60s invented it, and we should all know this class of algorithms like the back of our hands.

Bloom filters are interesting because they reverse what we typically do, the reverse again is then not that interesting. So I thought this was a joke.
Google thinks the page is italian, if I let it translate it, the $ sign goes to the start... odd!
No. The actual results screen does appear to be a custom odd thing, and you cant see tabs until you click.
Pretty cool.

Do you or anyone knows if there is something like that for distribution warehouses?
The budget comparison is totally not fair. SF is also a county, so I bet say Muni is in SF's budget. OTOH, Chicago is just a city. How much does Cook County spend in Chicago?
The Dangers of Handing Off
Very impressive indeed... one point to consider though - a perfectly reasonable follow up query to "somewhere warm" is a query like "somewhere warm in the usa".. this doesn't quite seem to be in place yet with the result redirecting to "somewhere warm"
Andy Jassy's keynote from this year's AWS conference (amazon's web service business) talks about running AWS as a high-volume, low margin business and why that's so different from high-margin businesses. The whole keynote is interesting, but here is the part that's pertinent to this discussion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJ5DBLSFe4&t=30m35s
> Most people could give a crap ...

I suppose you meant "couldn't".

As written above, I'm well aware that getting rid of them will not solve the problem. It's more about making noise (which is all I can do from Europe regarding US politics).
This was announced at CES 2013:

http://www.trakdot.com/

The site in the OP looks to be testing the idea.
Pen testing on IPv6 networks: In Through the Back Door
See my reply to mdanger about battery life not being an issue at all.
About as nice as San Francisco, though I biked most everywhere in the latter (small city!) and only took Caltrain in the former.
This, simple form please?
My Thunderbird opens, but I don't even use mail clients.
This is when you should not use mailto. How do I give you money?
Eric Schmidt Projects Kenya As Africa’s Tech Leader
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Yeah, the "solving math problems while remembering a string of letters" it's a little bit out of context, while comparing it with another type of multitasking like answering email and talking on the phone.
"Just complete what you have started." Wrote it here - http://www.vusal.me/essays/just-complete/