skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
29 bytes, or 229 bits, of information is a LOT.

To put it another way, you have pick out the one sequence you saw from 2^229 other similar-looking sequences.

Our brains are really good with structure, and the problem is this information has no inherent structure. It's like memorizing, not a sentence of length 29 characters, but a 29-character string of random ASCII characters. (Memorizing pi to 29 digits is a mini-feat, and that's only using 10 different characters instead of 255.)

I guess that's why all the techniques people are mentioning actually add information to the problem. Rather than trying to memorize 7S QD 3D 4C 10H ... you try to memorize some structured storyline with far more details, then pick the information out of the structure later.
If they are only making 100m in profit of that 6b in revenue, then a 40% tax rate sounds about right.
Um, the NTSB didn't build the battery. The quote I gave is from the NTSB chairman, not from Boeing. She was talking about the current state of an ongoing investigation, which has already narrowed down the possibilties greatly.
I was impressed that that long German word was both spelled correctly and grammatically internally consistent. It shows an attention to detail that's often lacking in this day and age and something you don't see often. And I don't even try to use umlauts on my US keyboard anymore.
Few Entrepreneurs Actually Reach the Top
"give a week warning before closing out if you can. It's not too much to ask"

Do you think that the "one week period" is going to get continued funding? I doubt most are given that much time ahead to prepare, let alone able to prepare to give the users the ability to prepare.
Feature Development
wait.. so reservation/private codes just allow you to jump ahead in line and that's it? no immediate access? :(
It's a bad sign. I also read them and thought they were something new I hadn't heard of. I didn't even click until I saw your comment.
>Seems like Musk was right in his guess after all.

Yeah, some luck that guy has...
Developers probably aren't the intended audience. Yammer, Chatter, Hall, etc are going after enterprise customers.
Building a PaaS in Ruby
> SpaceX (market cap $10Bn, AIUI)

Market cap is not the purchase price of a company.
Ted comes home early from work to discover his best friend in bed with his wife. "Frank," he cries. "I married her, so I have to! But why did you?"

That rather old and tired joke (one of Isaac Asimov's, I believe) says how I feel about Libre Office. I use Ubuntu, so it's the only game in town if I want to edit documents and spreadsheets. But it may be unique in the world as the only software that's actively worse than Microsoft Office.
I could easily build something simple like this. I've done a lot of work w/ the Instagram API recently.
That would transfer value only to those shareholders who sold shares. A special dividend benefits all shareholders. Both effectively accomplish the same thing (less money in the company, more among the shareholders), though a buyback would also inflate share price (fewer shares outstanding).
On the contrary, money is the "best" way to pursue political ends, much more successfully than grassroots support.
IRS steps up challenging identity theft battle
Raspberry Pi GPIO interface using html5 websockets
I'm not a lawyer either, but I am married to a former debt collector and I agree with what patio11 said.

The first thing you should do is deal with the lawsuit that's already underway. Contact who's suing you and offer a settlement. Make sure you get a written notice of debt discharge and keep the settlement papers forever.

Most debt collectors are just ordinary people doing an unpleasant, high-pressure job. Yeah, I know some of them can be assholes, but that's life. The good ones can be very professional until you really piss them off. Be polite to the people you talk to. First, ask to be mailed proof of debt. If they can't provide this, then they don't have a leg to stand on in court. Make it clear that you simply can't pay the entire amount owed. They would rather settle for a smaller one-time amount than have to sue and then deal with the difficulties of collection (lots of people who owe money will change jobs frequently to avoid garnishments, don't have any assets in their name, etc.).

Negotiate: don't take the first number they offer and don't take a deal you can't live with. In the end it's just money; you won't go to jail, it doesn't make you a bad person, it was a business venture gone bad and now you need to clean up the loose ends.

It might be a good idea to join one of the online debtor's forums to see how some people handle it. Trust me, you have lots of company, especially after the last few years of this economy.
Suppose it was encrypted, how hard to brake would a reasonable, in this case on board, encryption be? I find it interesting, that Wikileaks was also able do decrypt the US Military video of the killed Reuter journalists.
As a graduate student, I prefer bitbucket to github for maintaining my codebase for course projects and homework assignments, for the simple reason that it provides free private repositories.
For the sake of maintaining academic integrity, making my course projects and assignments public is not recommended till the course ends.
I'm not going to be behind anything that's rocket powered (nor really, do I want to be directly in front).
I might call it an informed opinion.
That's a pretty hyprocritical statement. Big companies know how to legally pay almost no taxes, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

And that's probably not "our" politicians who are to blame.
I had that, try using a different IP address on reinstalling.
DRM is an unethical tool to begin with. As a game developer what benefits does DRM give you, besides the fact that it's insulting for your potential paying customers and degrades their user experience? In practice DRM has no useful application neither to end users nor to game developers.
I uninstalled and reinstalled the app and was able to use my reservation code after I remember I had it. So was my friend! The button to use the code is kind of hard to see
Liberating the Programmer with Prorogued Programming
It is sometimes conversation, and that's great. It is much more often argument. And it is frequently pointless argument between two people who don't want to learn anything but instead are playing "king of the hill" with words.

For people who really want a conversation, I think a forum should support some way to privately contact one another. And a good ability to start new discussions. But for general-audience, broad-appeal forums, I think threads usually create more problems then they solve.
Awesome Lego Creations
Yuck, open office plan?

http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/17/2013/02/phil_desk.jpg
I only really began to appreciate what work it takes to make a definitive translation when I read about all the effort that Walter James Miller and Frederick Paul Walter put in to Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea -- it's no mean feat.
If you could order one...
The materials would be crap....
It'd need a ROM from a Russian ICBM to function properly
On the flight into space you'd need to reboot it several times.....
The manufacturer and the launch pad owners would keep the updates from the pilots.
The luggage compartment is much hotter than the flight deck, especially on a freighter. If your luggage is parked in the hold during summer when the air conditioning units are off that is a major concern. There is concern that DHL flight 6 could have crashed for that reason.
But from that perspective, the activist is not distinguishable from the criminal. Responsibility and acceptance of consequences is the source of "honor" in an act of civil disobedience.
Game Boy emulator for iPhone 5 (without jailbreaking)
Almost everyone I know who's been exposed to (and intrigued by) a friend's/acquaintance's Linux installation has been stopped by a fear of weak Office support. Aside from the hassle of partitioning and installing Linux on a Windows computer, this seems to be the single issue keeping them from switching. I'm not pretending that this anecdotal data supports a blanket statement that it is the main issue keeping people from Linux, but it certainly helps belie your blanket statement that people who would switch to Linux are relatively unaffected in that decision by Office availability.
Ruby on Rails + MySQL on CloudControl : Quickstart Tutorial
Pretty cool and thanks for releasing for free! That said, why would you put a multi-step wizard inside of a modal? Seems like bad UI to me. Modals should be used for quick data collections, small actions or context-aware warnings/insights. Using one for something that is complicated enough to need a wizard just seems like a bad idea.
Uber is awesome, even the taxi version of it (which I primarily use unless taking the wife on Big Dates). For only a little bit more than a usual cab (which basically comes even to a large-ish tip), you get:

- Improved safety. You know the name of your driver and your trip is logged. Many of my wife's friends like this aspect a _lot_.

- Cleaner. At least in Chicago, many cabs are a stinky filthy mess. In Uber, with the ratings, such cabs would be out of the rotation pretty quickly.

- No standing in the sleet.

- No fumbling with cash or the argument over "broken credit card reader". Cabbies in Chicago make less on credit cards, so on most of my non-Uber trips where I want to use credit, the driver and I basically come down to a lying competition about me not carrying cash (lie) versus his machine being broken (also a lie).
Uh, actually, no. And I put together a screencast to prove it.

http://screencast.com/t/RkImuQ9i
My Arm is a Timeline.
Anyone know where I can find more in depth articles like this? I'd really like to see a breakdown of the habits and daily routines of successful people more than just the normal 'work hard and do something you enjoy and you'll be successful'
This guys arguments are really bad because he makes them from a very narrow one sided point of view. It is actually hard to read through the hatred....
"Some shareholders want to sue Apple to force them to pay out more of Apple's cash to shareholders.."

From my reading of the news, I think this is wrong. Einhorn (of Greenlight) is not suing to force them to pay out. He's pressuring via normal shareholder activism.

"They are also sueing over a special term that allows Apple to create preference shares.."

Well, this is closer, but still not quite right.

Apple has a proposal forward for shareholder vote. Einhorn/Greenlight claim that this proposal is really three proposals in one, and that SEC rules require these three proposals to be unbundled, and voted on seperately. They're therefore suing to force this unbundling.

Even if his suit is 100% successful, Apple shareholders will still be able to vote in favour of the modification, which would, according to the summary by Apple and that by CalPERS, 'Eliminate “blank check” preferred stock'.

Einhorn's choice of language implies that he is in favour of at least one of the other aspects of Proposal 2, which is part of why he's suing to unbundle.

Here are some things I read to help me understand this:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/00011715201300...

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2013/02/07/aapl-is-...

and then after that, re-read TFA (the apple.com statement)
>legally

So it sounds to me like they are paying their tax bill. The fact that it's not as high as vacri or you may like is not their fault.
Microsoft's 'Blue' wave is coming to more than just Windows
Integration Testing Backbone Marrionette Applications
Offshoring and the Future of U.S. Engineering: An Overview
Buying out all patents related to something up and coming sounds dangerous, we already dislike submarine patents and this sort of act could make them even more likely.
I thought he was just a genuinely funny guy.
Good point. Also that Swartz's primary focus was not just on copyrighted materials (though those too), but also materials whose copyrights had been expired but were still hidden behind paywalls.

To JSTOR's credit, they have been opening up access to such files since the incident, which is awesome.

(On the other hand, most of JSTOR could be replaced by a dozen 2TB hard drives and a cable modem internet connection, so it's hard to understand what they charge so much for...but I digress.)
I completely agree. Google's Blogger service is one of the worst offenders. I've been to so many blogspot.co.uk sites where absolutely nothing loads if Javascript is disabled. Once you enable Javascript, often a page of text with no visible interactivity loads. Or the interactive elements are for the sidebar widgets, not the content of the page.

Javascript is simply being ridicuously overused and few people seem to call out for it to stop.
There are apps built into windows 8 that display ads.

http://www.zdnet.com/how-outraged-should-you-be-about-ads-in...

Link to an article explaining how they aren't really part of windows 8 but merely an "experiment". Fact is, install windows 8 and some of your apps will show ads (and when we saw them we had no idea that these apps were part of some "experiment" and not really windows 8).
Can graph programs modify the graph they're in, or is that completely fixed? Add new computation nodes, say, if necessary.
[...] even the memories we do have are often quasi-fictionalized reconstructions [...]

Ever since I read about flashbulb memory[1] in my psychology textbook, I've felt uneasy about using witnesses for high-profile criminal trials.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashbulb_memory#Stability_over...
There are people that organize their entire lives with it. Following GTD and http://www.thesecretweapon.org/. For them it's absolutely fundamental.
Could a patent dispute take the Kindle off the market?
It's not dangerous if they are all opened up - completely the opposite. That's what Google did with buying On2 and opening up VP8. That is really useful way to spend extra cash - it benefits everyone.
Beatport catalog added to Shazaam database
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2007/sep/11/julesv...
Handset industry is making 101% profit? Impressive.
It would be a terrible shame if you tanked a viable business because of availability concerns, because these sorts of problems are well solved. Highly available systems are designed in such a way that any individual component may fail without bringing the overall system down. (ie. "Kernel issues? Detect, remotely reboot server." Yes! There's free code for that. No. Many run of the mill sysadmins probably aren't familiar with it.)
Great question. In my career so far I have deployed Web apps in ASP Classic, PHP, ASP.NET and Ruby on Rails. It appears that RoR can only handle a small fraction of activity compared to the other technologies before maxing out system resources. There are some lighter weight Ruby frameworks out there (Rack, Sinatra) that are probably more appropriate for large-scale back ends. Still, I have not worked with any Web technology that is performant enough to confidently endorse.
I've worked as a dedicated software tester for a team of programmers and I've lodged bugs for them about the product that they're currently working on, that haven't had anything done to them in the system for that long. Sometimes there is other shit happening and that subsystem is on the backburner while it's sorted out.

Or perhaps the coder responsible for that subsystem has been on holiday and is working through a backlog. Or perhaps their 'day job' has blown up on them and they haven't had quality time to look over things.

I think jwz is just being precious here.
I did this, and uninstalling/reinstalling was fine and allowed me to enter in my reservation code.
I worked for a gift card company and wrote and maintained some client side card validation code. My suggestion for client side card validation is "don't do it". As your client gets used more and more you will see a wild variety of cards. The minimum card length I have seen is 5. The maximum is 22. Some cards have correct checksum and some don't have checksum at all. Some cards have only numbers and some cards have letters and numbers. At the end we stripped all our fancy validation code and left only a check that card length was 3 or more.

All card validation must be server side.
Buy My Book
I thought it would be a deal breaker for me, too. C/C++/C#/Python have been my standard languages... but after coding in it for a while, I love it. You never have to worry if someone downstream is going to throw an exception make your function exit before it gets to the end. That means you can write robust code without needing a ton of try/catch everywhere, or using statements (from C#) or whatever.

Yes, there's some of this:

if f, err := io.Open("foo.txt"); err != nil {

return err

} else {

// use f

}

However, that's not really any more code than

try:

f = open("foo")

// use f

except IOError as e:

return e // or throw, or whatever

Plus Go uses multiple returns everywhere, so you don't have to worry about errors being confused with actual data returned.

It's pretty awesome.
Agreed, and they don't want to... Apple's cash is much more useful to Apple wherever it happens to be. It's the shareholders who want the cash, which in a lot of cases means repatriation.
Now I can finally do all the special moves whenever I want! FINALLY!
Their P/E is still ridiculously low, of course.
Good response. This is not directly related, but wouldn't it be nice to have some sort of convention where install scripts declare the access that they need and people could allow it (or not)? Something like the Unix permissions systems, but more fine-grained. E.g. perhaps a chroot jail with symlinks to the places that you want to give the script access. Indeed, the first run of the script could be to generate the symlink commands you'd need to execute before it really executes. If you don't like the permissions it wants, you just exit the jail, kill the parent process, and move on with your life.
What we know is that, for whatever the reason, the rate of catastrophic failure has been quite low in the past.

When new information becomes available we are able to update our risk assessment, it isn't necessary for us to wait for more plane crashes. I don't see any new information here though, the risks posed by Li-ion batteries and fires on airplanes have been well understood for quite some time.
Did you even bother reading the article? The very first sentence is about a politician pointing this problem out in Parliament.

Hell, that a politician is involved is even in the HN-visible part of the URL.
I wonder if traditional/desktop projects like KDE will join.

I would like that.
But wouldn't different types of sand taken as a collection be "sands?" Just as many types of fish are fishes?
There is a Minecraft themed Lego set.
"Genius Bar, we have a problem"
Bitbucket has the potential to become much better than GitHub - as long as they keep filling feature holes like these - since they're not tied to just one DCVS.

For the first time, I feel compelled to set some time aside and test the service throughout. GitHub stability/availability has been lacking lately, and a better bug tracker would be useful.
Your argument is that they aren't paying their tax bill. That's just factually incorrect. I don't know what to tell you.
>The fact that it's not as high as vacri or you may like is not their fault.

Lobbying (also lobby) is the act of attempting to influence decisions made by officials in the government [...] [1]

It works pretty well when you are as big as Apple.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying
Or to not waste your time beating your head against absolutely pointless mastery.
He really is. Had the pleasure of running into him last week and he is one of the most genuinely nice people I have ever met.
Neverthless I still find it pretty impressive!
What Are The Pros & Cons of My Approach?
I have an idea for a SaaS app, but I'm putting it on hold to launch a niche site. Hopefully, it leaves me better prepared to tackle the "big idea".
You can read more about it on my blog @
http://www.evanlemke.com

What do you think about this approach?
Presumably they own the full copyright, so they can license it to themselves under any license they want (non-GPL3, non-AGPL3)
The point is that Apple in Australia is basically just a retail arm. The idea that a retail arm has running costs of 97% is purely ludicrous - particularly the retail arm of the richest company in the world, the one of whom everyone talks about how much money they have and how dominant they are.
Most people who participate in these discussions have no problem understanding what the word means.

The fact that some people have an opportunity that others don't and that the distribution of those opportunities is unequal is definitely unjust. Is there some particular privilege Danilo has listed that you are thinking of?

Your last paragraph is not entirely coherent, so I'm not sure what you think the lie is. I have personally avoided paying attention to my privilege by quibbling about minor details. And I've seen others do it quite often. I'm not accusing you of doing that; I couldn't know. But I am saying that having your only contribution to this discussion be of that form makes it harder to take your point seriously.

And that goes double for your strong emotional reaction in the post above. E.g., accusing me of propagating disgusting lies and doing things to people. That's a lot of drama, and raising the drama level is a common derailing tactic.
well...do you want to fly on a plane where any passenger can go fiddle around with the jet engine or avionics?
Not really, I use several completely average PC laptops

The thing about phpbb-type board is that they encourage the people who them up to put huge graphics on the masthead, so the average subcultural board is actually going to be significantly larger than a pure default install.
I think it looks and works fine. "Looks nice" is a totally subjective argument that often leads to abominable design, a trend disguised as a function.
Didn't really work out for me.

I listed my project[1] there, but for some reason it's detected as having 0 issues.

Additionally my project is listed under JavaScript repos, while in reality it's both JavaScript and Ruby project, it just happens to have slightly more JS than Ruby code.

[1]: http://www.codetriage.com/senchalabs/jsduck
Reminds me of the dell lithium ion battery recall that was caused by metal fragments in the cell during manufacturing causing shorts in the cells.
I love Project Gutenberg.

For those of you who enjoy listening to audio books, there's a project called Librivox -- http://librivox.org -- that provides volunteer-read audio versions of public-domain books. (The quality of the volunteers is mixed, and sometimes every chapter is read by a different person, which can be a little disorienting, but hey, it's free!)
Yeah, the market cap of SpaceX is undefined.

And since Musk owns 2/3 of the company, and seems to be a man with a mission, it's not at all clear that he'd sell to anyone.

Then again.... SpaceX was apparently built on around one billion dollars. So for $10B (Charlie's suggested figure), you have a fair shot at building a SpaceX from scratch. Start by offering to triple the salary of everyone at SpaceX if they come work for you.
> First, the 10gen spokesperson seems to have read only the H2 elements on my original writeup -- he seems to not have read or understood the actual text that goes along with them. Do they have some local CSS applied that makes regular text invisible?

Couldn't read past that.
Anyone got a number for the percentage of Samsung phones that are smart phones? It makes a major difference to what these numbers mean.

edit: IDC say roughly half Samsung's phone sales in Q4 are smart phones, which makes these numbers twice as good as they seem but... if you compare IDCs market share numbers it seems clear that these figures are only for smart phones.