skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I predict the ABM interception will turn out not to have occurred. We don't have a surveillance system capable of detecting something that size until it hits atmosphere, which means there would only be seconds of warning. That's not enough time to make the decision to fire an ABM.
How hard is it to brute-force 10k keys?
I think you're reading too much into it - the point actually is the puzzle. Some people find it really fun to have their mind challenged, even in small ways like this. It's the same idea as picking up a sudoku every day.

The reason that such a low percentage of people got this right is probably the most obvious one: Only those who have a math background (so that they encountered actual problems like this), or who have a natural impulse to be a little OCD about obtaining and verifying the answer, will be likely to get it right the first time. That doesn't mean that both they and those who got it wrong can't have fun with it.
My favorite ever Aaron Swartz quote - Be Curious
Why didn't Techdirt just deactivate Office 2013 and install it on another PC? Uninstallation is a one-click Fixit at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2739501
Uninstall Microsoft Office 2013 or Office 365
With the huge number of uses for 3D engines these days, the idea of 'typical' is the same as asking what the typical setup for any programmer is.

3D programmers for Android are probably on a combination of windows and linux. 3D programmers for iOS are no doubt coding away in Xcode. The new field of WebGL could have people coding 3d engines on Chromebooks. Etc.
> I really don't get why "computer skills" should be conflated with learning how to program completely.

Well I really don't get why "math skills" should be conflated with learning how to program completely. Why don't we just teach kids how to use a calculator?
Top 4 things to think about to handle account take over
I thought it was funny, until I checked out the example content, and realized it was a standard "php" introduction book. It doesn't build off the concept it's title presents, and so I feel it's fair to say this book is just pandering.

Not something I would proudly show off, by any means.
Use AWS Import/Export service to bring it into S3, then you can load it from there:

http://aws.amazon.com/importexport
3D Printed Portaiture: Past, Present, and Future
I'd be interested in other people's methodology and working out.

I got 40, but I'd be interested to see why other people discounted things that I counted as squares. (Unless they just didn't see them.)
I believe the Google car has pretty good intelligence for this, such that it will begin to creep forward to indicate that it feels its turn has come, in the same way humans do.

That being said, I don't believe that is a type of intersection we have in the UK.
http://sexyphp.net/toc.html

Sample Job Description: Jr. PHP Developer
- The Eight Primary Categories of JQuery Features

o_O
crushed in the mobile space by Android/Linux?

Apple completely dominate mobile gaming. 84% of all mobile gaming revenue is on iOS as per http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/06/mobile-gaming-revenue-appl...
The author is very literally taking the phrase: "Sex sells".
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Back in the day stevey rehosted his blog on 3 or 4 different blogging services IIRC.
"you think you've saved enough, save some more"

This.
That's only OK if your computer is still working.
Hmm, this article answers nothing for me since I would never run windows directly on hardware.

What determines if my virtual machine is one "system" across host systems, visible "hardware" changes and/or windows license keys?
And there is someone who always beat me to post this answer :)
Mozilla -- and Brendan Eich specifically -- have held back the web as a platform for years.

Brendan Eich is myopically focused on the DOM and JavaScript monoculture -- rather than the underlying potential of the web: a standardized and completely open application platform.

I assume this is due to his own vested interests and personal investment as the author of JavaScript, but it has been incredibly damaging to the web as a whole. For Google to push anything forward (NaCL, PNaCL, dart), they need at least one other major browser vendor to join them. Apple and Microsoft have vertically integrated native application markets, and have no reason to further the development of the web. That leaves Mozilla.

If Mozilla genuinely cares about providing an open application platform (ala Firefox OS), they'll put Brendan Eich out to pasture and focus on moving past his stranglehold on JavaScript+HTML.
It is only an offence to live off the immoral earnings of others, not your own.

“Public place” includes any highway and any other premises or place to which at the material time the public have or are permitted to havea ccess, whether on payment or otherwise ”.

I wouldn't think a website constitutes a "place" under such a definition. Otherwise posting a picture of your genitals on a website could be viewed as indecent exposure, though IANAL.
World's most sensitive plasmon resonance sensor inspired by ancient Roman cup
The correct answer, at least for me, is 18.

If the question had instead been "how many squares are in the image", the answer would have been bigger.
The Message
> I predict the ABM interception will turn out not to have occurred.

I agree.

> We don't have a surveillance system capable of detecting something that size until it hits atmosphere,

NASA tracks at least 21,000 items above 10 cm diameter.

Objects above 3 mm can be tracked by ground based radar.
(http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/faqs.html#3)

(http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/)
'Can I transfer the software to another computer or user? You may not transfer the software to another computer or user. You may transfer the software directly to a third party only as installed on the licensed computer, with the Certificate of Authenticity label and this agreement. Before the transfer, that party must agree that this agreement applies to the transfer and use of the software. You may not retain any copies.'

From the Microsoft Software License Agreement for Microsoft Office 2013:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/microsoft-softwar...
10 R’s of Motivation Every Entrepreneur Should Know
I've tried running it on Ubuntu 12.10. The install script seems to work without a problem, but when I try to run their command line tool (basil) it dies without an error message...
> 5. Lisp will be in the top 10 most popular programming languages by 2010. This failed hard.

Not according to http://visual.ly/most-popular-programming-languages-2013. Clojure alone is in 10th place for code submitted to codeeval.com in 2013.

Edit: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.... appears less focused on web development and startups (it puts VB ahead of Ruby and leaves Clojure and Scala out completely) and even this ranking puts Lisp (presumably CL) at #13 overall.
'[…] You may not transfer the software to another computer or user. You may transfer the software directly to a third party only as installed on the licensed computer […].'

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/microsoft-softwar...
The Gates Foundation has a trust endowment of $36 billion. Through June 30, 2012 it has made grants of $25 billion. Warren Buffet and others have contributed.

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/Pages/foundation-fact-s...
Which it usually is. If not, I'd expect a phone call to solve the problem, at worst.

Either way, it's something Techdirt should have covered....
Can I just add:

1. Microsoft office technical support is a whopping great big dinosaur sized turdzilla. If you have any activation problems, you usually get "tough shitted". I've been on the end of this. Fortunately I'm a member of a" Gold Partner" (paid goon) and could kick the crap out of them from that side of things. Partner reps have a little more spine than office support people.

2. This does not cover warranty replacement PCs so if you have a hardware failure, it doesn't count.
Another problem with a "long fuse" approach: It offers either antagonist a (seemingly) low-cost path of escalation (say, "just" deploying the ICBMs to their silos) during a crisis. This not only necessitates a comparable response, it is subject to being interpreted as more belligerent than intended. After you've gone a few rounds of this, you're right back where we are now, launch keys always ready to turn, except this time you're riding the momentum of mounting brinksmanship.
This is probably the most common way to handle jump tables on the 6502. If you're writing ROMable code you'll have to use indirect jmp (vector) instead of selfmod. It's more efficient to split the jump table into two halves though, with the LSB in one table and the MSB in another, and access it like so:

lda param_lo,y
sta vector
lda param_hi,y
sta vector+1
vector = * + 1
jmp $5e1f ; dummy address, written with selfmod
As a Microsoft employee, I can confirm that this is true -- but only when he needs a break from "roaming the halls of Microsoft swinging a baseball bat".
Ultraspeed version settings: http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/5382/080a8b4d79fa4842b495...

This game is 100x more fun to play than most of today's racing games...
If the crazy shit that is caught on dash cams was going on every day I'd have one too.
>I don't think fighting a monoculture is a bad thing.

he didn't imply it was bad, just that no one in this environment is going to switch to or stick with Firefox just to fight monoculture.
Best Practices for In-App Purchasing from Amazon Game Studios
JSON Databases have passed relational in popularity? I don't know that I believe that.

Anyone know if there's a NoSQL/SQL market share comparison out there?
"You will also learn ... to manage your code with Subversion" How is this possible in 2013 ?
Yep. I've seen a few where pedestrians attempted to get hit.
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Out of interest, how does an enterprise developer (whatever that means) ensure consistency of data and good performance, the two competing aims of a decent mutex/lock strategy? Is it taken on trust that someone else handles this, and therefore hidden in 'safe' data structures or... ?
In the US, based on Q1 2012 data.

They probably still beat Android, but nowhere near by that much.
And the magic roundabout in Swindon offers a pretty good test bed for any form of vehicular intelligence.
Why you and I suck at gay 'dating'
Just tell them it is the same computer, just with an upgraded CPU, RAM, mobo, case, screws, cables, ...

Or install office in a VM you can shuffle around at will forever. Perhaps even a Thinapp.

You could even keep your virtualized office on Dropbox and use it on all ten of your personal computers (but not concurrently of course).
Actually that's an answer in and of itself. Recently as a few years ago the answer was Windows / Visual Studio even when targeting non-Windows based consoles.
Design decisions: Projects on Basecamp for iPhone
Why online dating services are like financial markets
Corruption.

* Pedestrians are corrupt -- they throw themselves in front of your car then sue for damages.

* Other motorists are corrupt -- they lie about the accident facts

* Cops are corrupt -- easily bought off and bribed (or tapped through nepotism)
They are becoming popular but there is no way they surpass relational databases in use.
You've obviously not dealt with Microsoft support then?

I have had an activation issue open for 6 months before I got a resolution in the past and I had to go through my Gold Partner membership to get it resolved.

In that 6 month period, I used a cracked copy of Office.
probably not this year.. but 'soon'.
from my point of view, linux is a great choice for gaming, not only that this 'platform' is much more open than windows/mac, it's also extremely lightweight compared to windows.
we have already seen that great games can be created using opengl (Rage for example).

looking forward to the day i'll finally purge windows from my hard drive. installing linux and playing some recently released AAA titles^^
Ask HN: What is the most impressive thing "other than this startup" you've done?
Resubmitted for more answers.

I'm not asking to start a posturing or bragging contest. I'm actually curious to see some kind of sample of impressive things. I've already submitted my own answer on the application, I wonder what variety of things people have answered on their own.
pg - If this amounts to some sort of cheating, please let me know. That's not intended. On another thread I saw someone talk about their interest in other people's answers and realized I am as well.
I still use XML/XSLT daily.
Samsung to produce 100m S4's in 2013
http://helpdesk.bradley.edu/howto/images/iOS/erase.jpg

also, if you need it you can enable passwords of any length and with more than just digits.
> I don't see what the fuzz is about for now.

People are pissed because many of us have two devices. In addition, it's almost impossible for many of us (like me) to avoid Office. Finally, this is the sort of thing many people were concerned about in the '90s, when Microsoft achieved hegemony in office suites, and in the 2000s, when Product Activation became ubiquitous.
People also should not take out their anger and grief on their doctor. While it's understandable and we should cut them slack because of their situation, doctors deserve some slack as well.
Of course it does. Doesn't make it not impressive.
Monoculture means here that everyone is running the same implementation. Flash 11, Silverlight and Unity Web Player are all examples of that.

Allowing opaque plugins encourages weakly specified technologies with just one defacto implementation and leads to monocultures.
Most good programmers I've met are metalheads. Coincidence?
Is there a correlation between great minds and heavy metal music or is just my demographic too small?
My comment is 3 sentence long and has 3 caveats. I am definitely reserving judgement, my praise was mostly about the tone, which I maintain is near perfect. I'm really curious if it was a case of him just writing it because a response hadn't been forthcoming and there needed to be one or if there was high-level meetings dissecting every word and phrase to make it just so - or where on that continuum it fell.
From the extracted phone image, obviously.
It is a pretty good test of human intelligence, never mind vehicular intelligence!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_%28Swindon%29
Virool sounds like a russian saying "we rule".
This seems to make the assumption that there is a right and wrong way to have sex and that there is a definitive list of things that women do and do not enjoy.

Of course it stands to reason that porn marketed to men will put more focus on the parts that men are more likely to enjoy and the marketing will also reflect this.

So a scene showing fairly vanilla sex will be labelled "slut gets destroyed by huge cock" or something.

To be honest I would suspect that women in porn who truly hate the experience wouldn't last too long. It's more likely that they simply find it boring after a while than outright unpleasant. In other words doing anal to them would be like debugging to us.
Seeing that Guido Van Rossum is Dutch and invented the language in Netherlands, has he said anything about this?

Can't the university where Python was invented be contacted to help as well with any relevant information or documentation?
The Open Source Phones Are Upon Us
Demographic.
Windows has been a good product for the average user since 1995, and has been great since Windows 7; it's just their business practices that were a problem. And to be honest, they were hardly the worst offender there either.
Bring In The Robots To Pull Superweeds
There used to be these articles with the title "The year of the Linux mobile phone" around 2006. If anything we will see something like Android /using/ Linux. Linux is, after all, just a kernel.
Having said that, the gaming platform (The Android OS if you will) of 2013 will probably be HTML5.
Pretty sure the biggest "gotcha" for people is squares consisting of multiple smaller squares. Unless you've encountered problems like this before, it's not intuitive to consider the 2x2 or 3x3 squares (and they might even miss the 4x4).

This iteration of the problem is more interesting because of the two inner squares. It simultaneously makes you think you figured it out too early (I got the inner squares AND the tinier squares they were made up of! That must have been the trick!), and suggests the larger problem you might be missing.
Google maps link: (http://goo.gl/maps/IjlWz)

Wikipedia: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon))

This is why I hate using () to delimit URLs instead of <>.
Every now and then you get deadlock on a mini roundabout in London...
I expect DevBootCamp to fail like all other things with which Michael Staton is involved. Staton is the type of entrepreneur who screws over countless other individuals in order to achieve his own success; he pretends to help edtech companies with the sole goal of advancing his own agenda, and his own product -- Inigral -- is rarely used by the universities or the students who pay for it. All in all, Michael Staton is one of those wantrepreneurs who advances because of his success as a "socialite" (in his own words) rather than any prowess, intellectual ability, or entrepreneurial talent.
I think the key difference, at least among most developers I work with, is that ORM has evolved from a complete abstraction of all relational querying, into more of a productivity tool that can be useful in certain circumstances.

The differences between something like Hibernate and something like ActiveRecord is pretty vast, at least in terms of usage, and I think one of the key learnings we've made since 2004 is that it's not practical or feasible to treat ORM as a silver bullet.

Honestly, no one should be surprised that ORM isn't a silver bullet. NoSQL isn't either - there's plenty of caveats that should be considered before deciding on using NoSQL. I'd still argue that about 80% of database interactions can be solved by a decent ORM. Anything that lets me ignore 80% of my trivial problems and focus on the 20% that's actually challenging is a net win in my book.
Ginkgo BioWorks is a young company out of MIT with the mission of making biology easier to engineer. We engineer organisms to address fundamental challenges the world is facing today. We aren't trying to study biology, we are trying to build it - constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house pipeline of synthetic biology technologies to design and build new organisms.

You will be working closely with our biological engineers to write the code that provides the backbone for our synthetic biology pipeline. Work may include programming to control robotic DNA construction, automate measurement processes, design genes and genomes, or manage our process workflow for building organisms. It will depend what's most important once you start - this is a fast moving field and we're a young company. You don't need previous biology experience: Ginkgo is a great environment for amazing programmers to learn to hack biology.

Ginkgo's programming languages of choice are Ruby, Python, C, or DNA, but you must be someone who loves writing elegant code in any language. Most importantly, you should be passionate about engineering biology. Applicants must be able to start within 6 months.

To apply, visit https://ginkgo.resumetracker.com/public/job_detail/83
Can someone please change the title to say "has donated", since "had donated" implies he is dead. Or that the took the money back.
This blog post and website in general are both guilty of something that I see a lot and that drives me crazy: I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS IS. You got me to click on the link – now what? I don't know what the app in question is. I don't know what codeable.io is. Even after clicking through to the home page, I still don't really know what codeable.io is. Something about WordPress and contractors, maybe? The first thing on a site should SAY WHAT IT IS. The first line of the blog post should include something like "A little over a month ago, we released our app to do X" – with a link to the app. You know, so I know what the hell you're talking about and where I can get it.
I'm not sure I like the position of the comma in the title.
Isn't the answer "people"?
I know lots of programmers who listen to classical while they work. I personally listen to female singers while I work, although if I need to really get motivated I put on some metal or dubstep because the fast pace helps me. It's all personal preference.
We have a magic roundabout in Cardiff too, though it's named that way for a slightly different reason: http://i.imgur.com/pmQmg4M.jpg
NaCL is tied to particular hardware.

PNaCL doesn't exist yet, so there is nothing to push.

Dart is a much more interesting question.

That said, is there really value in having two and only two languages available (and leaks when you try to use both together in nontrivial ways) compared to using JavaScript as a compilation target? I guess it depends on how good a fit Dart is for your use cases...
I get your point, just how is this news?
Office 2010 OEM license states exactly the same limitations in regards to parallel use on multiple machines.
I'm a little disappointed that the author didn't examine the original DOS version. DOS emulators and the Watcom toolkit are still available.
LSD shows success in medical trials
Thanks, I guess we'll have to increase the header font even more :)

Joke aside, it's an outsourcing portal for WordPress. That would be the shortest version.
Getting them through The Little Schemer (or something like it in another language) may be a good idea, but I'm a little skeptical of actually making coding mandatory.
At least he has and hasn't just pledged to like most politician scum.
I'm not sure how people can defend Broder. He lied in a very well-respected newspaper about the quality of a product he claims to be an expert in. That could sink a less vigilant company. I get it's just one review, and Broder also probably wasn't even necessarily trying to misrepresent anything. But his rebuttals are completely disingenuous, and he won't admit any wrong doing which is the cardinal sin journalists always seem to get away with. I don't know why journalists can seemingly get away with anything. Always the critic but can never be rightfully criticized by the public.
Yes you're right but what is also striking (at least to me) is that they seem not very confident with their choice to sticking with Gecko and as far as I can remember it dates back to the launch of Chrome and its new threading model. I don't say they have done a bad choice (I'm still using FF as my main browser) but they seem to doubt about themselves, that's not really reassuring.
This is optimized for bulk analysis. RDS is more optimized for low latency queries. This is because Redshift is column oriented: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS .
Dude. You claim that "The uninsured rate has actually remained roughly flat at 15%." in response to nhashem's claim that there were fewer uninsured in 1980. But your graph only goes back to 1987!!

Geez.
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Meteor... Security Risk Much?
Most DOPE programmers I know listen to dubstep, techno electronica ect. None that I have met listen to metal. To be blunt with it that is an irrelevant correlation.
IosWorkflows
Depends on how you count. The endowment is mainly (all?) Gates's money, but a substantial proportion of the annual spending is funded by Buffett. That's because, rather than donate money to the Foundation outright, Buffett set up a recurring-donation program structured in a way so it feeds directly into the Foundation's annual program spending.

For 2011, it looks like the Foundation spent $3.4 billion total, of which the annual installment of Buffett's donation accounted for $1.5 billion, so a little under half.
alternatively: use uWSGI cron

http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/PythonDecorators...