skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see what you did there :-)

I suspect the negativity is the non-news news (which is to say insufficient context to evaluate the story, sadly a common news problem these days). No doubt Microsoft will give out some more durable numbers of units sold at some point. We'll all compare them to the number of units of $favorite_product{$user} sold and then gloat or gnash our teeth. :-)
and a challenge will take many years to go through, meanwhile they are completely free to implement this abusive policy.
This article promotes the conspiracy theory that Obama is making some kind of Stormtrooper group and amassing ammunition for some unspecified nefarious plot. Why is this on HN instead of the Blaze?
Yeah, coax Ethernet did work reliability, or at least enough to get the job done, but none of us missed it when twisted pair became available, it was a major pain when a physical disruption would take out a whole cable segment. Note the original coax for commercial Ethernet was quite a bit narrower and more flexible than that used for the CHAOSnet. From very old memory, something close to maybe 3/4ths? vs. 0.375 of an inch for what came to be named 10BASE5: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE5 Original research Ethernet also used narrower coax.

Here's Wikipedia on CHAOSnet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaosnet ; it seems to be pretty accurate.
I use Lua for the scripting front end of my interactive dance software https://www.facebook.com/FormConstantDance

I considered using Python, since I'm very familiar with the language, but in the end, the ease of embedding Lua in c/c++ sold it for me.
Maybe their analysts have predicted that another war could start? Or that ammo prices are going to go up, so they're just stockpiling?

As for the domestic insurrection conspiracy theory, it's been months since the election. If the teabaggers were going to do something, it would've probably happened by now.
haven't own any CPU that could die due to overheating since a very, very long time

You probably have, CPUs are just smarter about it now, and throttle themselves back:

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tech...

If you have a densely packed blade farm, you could easily exceed the cooling capacity within the rack. Another scenario is laptops.
Is there any evidence, out side of statements made during the campaign, that Romney actually holds views towards gays and women that are substantially different than Obama's?

As governor, Romney spoke out against same-sex marriage and tied to get an amendment passed to ban same-sex marriage:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governorship_of_Mitt_Romney#Sam...
ZestJS: Modular frontend development with RequireJS render components
From the same author as "Obama's shotgun photo: Fake or for real?"

I'm sorry but while I was very interested about finding an explanation about the alleged acquisition (of ammos), the second I realize this is an opinion piece and the author likes to veer in conspiracists territory, I have to treat him as an unreliable source and check everything that's written from reliable sources. IOW, I have to rewrite his article for myself.

So yeah, I would have loved to find whether there's something fishy about DHS's current ammo that they had to replace it, or if they have reasons to believe that the price of ammo is going to flare up, etc... But once I realize this is an opinion piece from a potential conspiracy theorist, phrases such as "...shoot every American 5 times" take another implied meaning.
To make it work across various tabs i needed something running in the background that's reason for using chrome apis.
Thanks.
The first lab is due Monday, six days after class began, so we were given about a week for it. The professor told us it was not supposed to be a very intensive lab, and its main purpose was to get us up to speed with Go and the scaffolding code that we are using. In addition to the labs and tests we are required to read a research paper for every class and write a paragraph answering a question about it, and we must also do a project at the end of the term. You can find examples of old tests at the OCW site http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput..., if you'd like to see what they are like.
I don't know why people always use Paypal when it's had a history of screwing people over.

Use Google checkout for merchants, I've used it and it's really really easy to setup as well as safe.
There has never been a more perfect litmus test for intelligence and education than one's attitude toward evolution. Evolution and natural selection have nearly the highest agreement between theory and observation of all scientific theories.

But because of a certain contingent among the religious, anything that casts doubt on a literal work-for-word reading of the old Testament must therefore be wrong, and needs to be cast into the outer darkness.

This, in turn, arises from the intersection of two sets among people. Set one are those who have religious beliefs. Set two are morons (and yes, boys and girls, "morons" has a clear definition). The intersection of the sets has the right combination of literalness and stupidity to want to ignore the role of evolution in the world around us:

http://i.imgur.com/XawS2xt.jpg

The solution to this problem is ... wait for it ... evolution. It will take some time before there are no more people who try to use rhetoric to fight science.
Haskell I/O Is Pure
To reduce the amount of ammo available for sale, in a arms-race of sorts with all the gun-nuts stocking up in case guns get banned?
Not sure how that would work though, won't the manufacturers just jump at the opportunity to make and sell more ammo?
Maybe they're just getting ready for when they finally get around to officially declaring Anonymous a terrorist group so they can get started with the next chapter in the War on Terror.

My money's on them having unspent money in the budget, though. Everyone knows government agencies have to spend every cent of their budget because if they don't, the budget is smaller next year.
Look great but the title "CSS 3D Clouds" is not truthful.
> there is little chance of forgetting.

Head injury, neurological disease, etc.
The Constitution does not forbid the government from conducting searches without warrants at the border. The word "reasonable" is in the 4th Amendment in order to defer judgement about what searches are and aren't constitutional to the the courts. Unfortunately for your argument, SCOTUS has for many many decades held that border searches are, subject to some limitations, reasonable.
As beautiful as this is, it still saddens me that the best we have for efficient cloud effects is drifting camera-facing billboards displaying pre-rendered poofs.
I know what this code is supposed to do. I wrote it myself expecting to see "General Protection Fault".

IIRC, it indeed faulted when executed from main() in a C application, but somehow it hanged Windows 95/98 when inserted immediately at the _start label of a simple 32-bit assembly code. So either executables had some "run in ring3" flag which my assembler didn't set, or the pre-main() initialization code was handled in some special way (executed in supervisor mode or with broken exception handling resulting in a lockup).
Where do you see Paxos? This looks like something simpler. It pretty much has to be as implementing Paxos would be too hard for a class exercise. I don't think it makes sense to do Paxos with 2 servers.
Could this be connected with gun control? i.e. trying to influence the market in some way to make gun ownership less more difficult or less attractive.

Random idea, probably stupid.
A Map Of Where Drones Are Allowed In The US
Wow, although I don't care much about the Surface (I use Linux and laptops) I am very surprised how fast everyone is at bashing the Surface.

It looks like if was a lost cause before even it was lunch.
Ask HN: What exactly does the equity % on a job offer mean?
I'm not asking for obvious answer of a % stake of ownership but looking for slightly more details.

If the offer says 0.5% - 1.0% is that upfront? Is that over time? Is it different for any company? What happens if you go through funding?

I'm trying to gather some knowledge solely for the purpose of not being nieve to how equity works in start-ups. Any additional read would be gladly appreciated.
And another middle man accessing my mail. Privacy hell. Would never use.

Edit: Haiku style:

Middleman sees mail,
welcome to privacy hell.
I would never use.

Edit2: Well, maybe not. Is it a client app or is it a middle man app? Why is it requesting permissions to Gmail instead of using IMAP? Weird.
How does did CISPA allow companies to "exploit citizens"?

When you answer that, try to capture what it was that companies couldn't do before CISPA and could have done after CISPA, and how they'd have had any incentive to use CISPA as their vector to do those things.
The best line in the linked article: "I don’t want a notational shortcut to undermine my argument and leave the audience believing in God."
LEOs need to spending more time at the shooting range.
Oh, I forgot to upload the extension code on github, I will do it tomorrow.
Most people don't know that the USCG has never needed a reason to board and search any boat within US waters, or any US flagged boat anywhere in the world.

This doesn't seem much different.
There are two parts to both “merit” and “cracy”. Merit can be thought of as your abilities and talents or as your willingness to work hard. “Kratein” means to rule (i.e. have responsibilities, make decisions), but in this context it’s often seen as earning money (i.e. having a comfortable life style).

I would say that in an ideal meritocracy, the people with the most knowledge, abilities and intelligence should be the ones making the decisions and carrying the responsibilities. The willingness to work hard, however, should determine income, luxury and comfort.

The problem, of course, is that the powerful usually try to make themselves and their friends wealthy, but maybe this separation of the idea of meritocracy into (knowledge/ability = power/decisions) and (hard work = wealth/comfort) is what we as a society should strife for.

Thoughts?
It appears that Paxos will be used in the third lab, http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/labs/lab-3.html.
Lol. Do I look less stupid if I say it's my principal principle?
Yes, I remember some backhoe incidents, perhaps the same ones. ;-)

Funny, IP at the time seemed very clunky and verbose to those of us used to the concision of WANs like the pre-IP ARPAnet host-to-host protocols, and I remember the massive hair involved in the first DEC-20/TENEX implementations of TCP/IP. It took a while before people really understood TCP/IP enough to implement it well. (Some of the faster, smaller implementations first came out of Dave Clark's group at LCS, he being one of the designers of IP.)
A designer in a developers shoes: How to be a conscientious designer.
Etherpad does the job I need as far as docs are concerned http://etherpad.org
But it takes a lot of work and planning to let this look natural. i.e. switching the systems back and forth so the plausible deniable partition looks legit etc.
That the latest foray didn't carry its weight doesn't imply the earlier foray carried its weight.
Ahh, misunderstood your original statement, sorry!

And yeah, it should fault; I don't see why they'd run init code in ring0, but win9x did some very strange stuff. There was some malware that I'm trying to recall that would rewrite the IDT and then trigger an interrupt, immediately running itself in ring0 -- anyone know which that was? I used to have the assembly sitting around, since it was a fun little virus to analyze.
What good is what the Supreme Court said, if the DHS freely violates it?

Nothing personal, but you seem to pay more attention to what the law says then what actually ends up happening. This is a common issue in American politics
According to AngelList, the Mailbox team is at least 5 people https://angel.co/mailbox-by-orchestra

I wonder if they have additional folks from the original Orchestra team pitching in right now given the fast rise of the app though. And I'm sure they can't hire fast enough right now... http://www.mailboxapp.com/jobs/
Is ammo particularly cheap at the minute? Are they trying to hedge against future price rises in ammunition costs? Maybe it's a game of brinkmanship between federal departments "I can buy more bullets than you."
How do you figure? The point is that the 3D is achieved using CSS instead of WebGL. It's not pure CSS, but it's CSS where it counts.
Remember, some of those green squares don't just turn blue, they die.
I'm a Slovenian currently looking for a job in London. As far as I can tell there are many "direct" job postings. You just have to look a bit:

http://www.cwjobs.co.uk/ http://roundabout.io/ http://workinstartups.com/ http://www.gumtree.com/ https://jobs.github.com/positions?description=&location=... http://www.3-beards.com/jobs http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ ...

I've also had good experience with recruiters so far. Haven't gotten a offer yet, but I did get a face-to-face interview for next friday :)
No wonder we're running out of IPv4 addresses!
I sort of wonder if maybe they're trying to drive up ammo prices?
It's the first thing that occurred to me - drive up the price? It doesn't make much sense, though.
Here is the link: "We are SpaceX Software Engineers - We Launch Rockets into Space - AMA", http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1853ap/we_are_spacex_s...
ha I am pretty much in your same situation, but am looking for a job. Where are you staying?
spam. it's just a fake article to sell their product.
Stockpile in preparation for ammo control?
Yes that's true. I wonder about the case where the data is not present on the device. I've seen lots of people assert that the government would be powerless in that case. I think this assertion is often made on the basis that the alternative is too horrible to imagine. I hope there are more compelling reasons why this would not be legal but I am doubtful.

For example, I have heard of border agents taking phones and calling contacts on them. This is a way of getting data about you from another location. From there it seems like a small step for border agents having the right to get access to your data at the border if it is available to you when you are crossing the border regardless of its physical location.
The Examiner reporters have their math wrong. They've taken the numbers in the FedBid solicitations and multiplied them incorrectly because the description describes both the unit size and the total quantity requested. For example:

Desc = BRASS CASING 100,000 ROUNDS PRICE PER 1000 ROUNDS WILL INCLUDE DELIVERY.

Qty = 100

The article has taken the Qty number and multiplied it by the total units, not the unit size.

Their math to get to 21.6 million is:

100 x 100,000 +

100 x 100,000 +

40 x 40,400 =

=============

2,160,000

The correct figure for the bid is actually the much more reasonable 240,000. That number is reasonable if you imagine that maybe the department has 100 armed employees who fire 50 rounds per week at the gun range to maintain their abilities: 100 x 50 x 52 = 260,000.

https://marketplace.fedbid.com/fbweb/fbobuyDetails.do?token=...

http://www.examiner.com/article/dhs-adds-21-6-million-rounds...
You mean like this? http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/
How a security ninja cracked the password guarding his most valued assets
Vinestagram parodies Instagram with Vine video filters
pretty funny. you can replace the vinestagram ID with any vine ID in the URL. didn't always work for me though.
> I have to wonder what happens when those Obama supporters with left-wing sentiments read an article like this.

Most liberals I know just shrug. It's why the far left has so much contempt for liberals in general.

Every time I criticize Obama, I have to go out of my way to qualify that I'm _not_ a Republican, either.
The author missing this further shows how bad this article is.
#1: Or just install an SD card...
I think that, aside from disagreeing with most of that principle, it is futile to search the contents of electronic devices at the border. I could ship an encrypted device through mail, I could use steganography and encryption to upload a file to a personal server and have someone immediately unplug said server... there are lots of ways to transport digital files that don't involve the physical device at the border.
That's an over simplification of what is in the Wikipedia article. It also says, "He also opposed an amendment, then before the General Court, that would have banned same-sex marriage and outlawed all domestic partnership benefits for gay couples."

It sounds like he supported equal rights and benefits but opposed the use of the term "marriage" being applied to gay couples. Still seems like a superficial difference to me.
> The material can probably get into your body by osmosis alone.

Correction: only water can get into a cell through osmosis; the term you're looking for is actually passive transport.

Apart from semantics, nanoparticles are known to cause serious health problems. Asbestos fibers, which are very thin and on the same scale as the nanosilicate shown here, have been all over the news for causing cancer due to disruption of normal cell activity. Fiberglass, which is insulation made of very thin silica fibers, can cause lung problems.

Although I do think nanotechnology can have some benevolent effects in the future (think about this: what if tiny, very tiny nano-cells entered the bloodstream, and attached onto cancerous cells and killed them? The possibilities are so vast) the tech just isn't there yet in terms of health safety.
Anti dog-food I guess.. Google builds services to empower people to collaborate on the web then invest large sums of capital into transportation which voids the point of their services.

Kinda reflects how fragmented Google has become.
I guess I'm the only one who isn't surprised that the 128GB sold out. Do you guys remember that when they made the Xbox 360 originally it launched in the Core and Premium (I had initially written Arcade and Pro here, but my intention was Core and Pro)versions with none and 20gigs HDD respectively? If my memory serves me right, they had higher sales of the 20 gig model rather than the arcade model.

Holding that thought train did anyone else compare this to the Dan Ariely's 'Predictably Irrational' chapter of human choice. Given A, A-, and B, A looks better than B precisely because our minds compare A with A-, over which it's clearly superior and applies that to B as well. Only, here they don't need a B. They've made it work fantastically with just A and A- options.
Lynn Westmoreland has an explanation (Note: most of the purchases were made last year).

http://westmoreland.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&#...

Short answer: It's cheaper to buy a lot up front.
Show HN: An NES emulator written in Rust
...to then begin selling it to the public via online ammo sites, while gathering data on the buyers.

How did I do?

/tinfoil hat etc
Now or then, everyone will go to the surface, also those who make jokes out of it.
Hi from the Etherpad team :)
How do you know if you have a bootkit?
I could have one running on my system right now syphoning off data, I probably don't but I can't think of any way that I could prove that I didn't even if I ran every anti-malware program in the world.
At the same time California is trying to pass legislation to limit citizens to purchases of 500 rounds.

Not saying they're related, but it's certainly provides conspiracy theory fodder.
Gain Fitness, A New App with Personal Trainers to Keep Fit and Healthy
This is an interesting article, and I think it's the product of microsoft marketing.

After the lukewarm sales of the surface last fall, I bet microsoft would be keen to stock stores with less surface pros on release to provoke articles like this. After glancing at this article title, the first thing I thought was "Maybe there might be something good about the surface that I had overlooked?".

It's a bit of a stretch, but isn't unreasonable for a good sales team.
No, you need 'textures' for both displays, but not geometry. The geometry has not changed in retina displays :D (This question was answered dozens of time @ stackoverflow, you should check there)

This is why I'm converting an open source app I built to just render everything (using CG, not CALayer) instead of using images. Yeah, images are faster. But I hate to repeat myself and exporting images from photoshop is more time consuming than it seems.

(Edit): Images are usually faster, but that's not entirely true if you use only CG calls on a drawRect. From a memory standpoint, keep in mind that a PNG file will occupy the 'framebuffer' + the original image + all the crap that comes with UIImage. By drawing it yourself, you will burn a little cpu time but than only the result buffer will allocated.
Technically, 'taggers' refers to spray-paint only. You're referring to 'scratch.' This is because a 'tag' indicates a spot on the complexity level of the graffiti, and it's impossible to make a throwup or piece via scratch.

The More You Know!
It impresses me what an effective technique it is!
Probably to be able to send push notifications for new email.
The GHC scheduler
>point being that the common reason for not voting for the third party candidate is fear that the other guy wins. I'm suggesting that that's a stupid reason if the difference is $9 + campaign rhetoric.

I'm kinda flabbergasted. I genuinely believe that Romney/Paul would have been a significant setback for LGBT rights in America. At the same time, I can point to numerous things that were accomplished in the Obama administration that have made my life better. I agree that voting defensively is not the best, but I certainly understand why people do it to protect their self interests.

Also, ironically, that article points out that contraception often costs far more than $9, implies that many of the low-cost alternatives are provided by organizations that Romney and Paul both expressed interest in defunding, or via insurance that the most-in-need-of-family-planning have no access to, etc.
My local Staples received a shipment of exactly two: One display model and one in box.
I wish I could get a list of every web developer in the world and mail them a copy of this in a holiday card with a cookie attached.

I'd like to see a report that has the age curve of internet users, a projection of that curve over the next 20 years, and that curve in relation to the average decline of eye sight over time.

My hypothesis is that given the declining birth rates all over the world, most users are going to be older and therefore have worse eyesight than younger folks.

Make your fonts bigger!
I thought it was just me that likes my font to look like Safari's reader at all times. Good thing I know I'm not alone. I designed my blog the same way.
>> If the offer says 0.5% - 1.0% is that upfront? Is that over time? Is it different for any company? What happens if you go through funding?

It all depends on the legal details of your contract. If the it stipulates that equity will be a certain amount even after other's go through dilution, then that's what it is (this is a rare promise to receive in my experience). If nothing is promised, then your percentage is at the mercy of the of the board.

In situations like this I always have a lawyer review my legal agreements so I can get solid answers to my questions BEFORE I sign anything.
Somewhat unrelated, but I can get why people use Spideroak as opposed to Dropbox, the encryption/security features.
Only if you have a white car, though. From the specs, the color of the coating is a translucent white, so that pretty much eliminates possible use on any other paint than white.

http://www.ultraeverdrystore.com/products/