skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your original impression was correct. The first big bang is most likely a sonic boom that occurred shortly after entering the atmosphere. There are several smaller bangs and some crackling noise after that. Some of these I suspect are echoes, but party it would also be the sound of the thing passing through the air, and then possibly breaking up. I doubt the burst from the breakup was that loud (it looked more like a relatively gentle split), especially compared to the massive energy that the entry interface boom must have released.

Damn that thing was fast! Tore through the whole atmosphere in just a few seconds...
David Rotschild's Oscars Predictions as Excel app
I believe point #3 describes a paradigm shift from thread-based programming to a more event-based approach (which still uses threads/co-routines) rather then implying that everything will be single threaded
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just click on it and it should download and install quick time that will place a plugin in your browser
Good post

Getting back to this specific topic, there's also the issue that, when driving, your own safety is still paramount.

Even if this was recognised as an emergency, there's very little a driver can do to react while he's inside a moving vehicle on a busy road.
Would love to see any notes you have regarding the current state. The developer documentation* isn't a great overview.

* https://www.libreoffice.org/developers-2/
The XML things is quite amusing, given how far out of favour XML went. XML has now failed hard AFAICT.

But I can agree the spirit of the prediction lives on in the form NoSQL and JSON.
2. Someone will make a lot of money by hosting open-source web applications. Github is cool but with all the cheapskate web devs (no offense, I am one of them) I don't think it is _that_ profitable.

I think he means more like wordpress.com, WPEngine and those ilk. Those are currently the most lucrative, but there are other examples of businesses monetising open source by hosting it.
On the xkcd thing, meh. If your users map is similar to a population map, then it means you're appealing to a broad slice of the population. If it's centred in one area, that means you're not appealing outside that area. There's nothing wrong with such a map if it's interpreted correctly.
Yep, and then after a few experiences like that you suddenly really you need to have some life. I started changing my priorities around so I can actually spend time with my girlfriend and friends. No point earning money if you don't use it to enjoy it.
> useful, but not that useful

+ 1

> Apple's profits

With all respect, I have hard time seeing Apple laptops outside the US. Not counting some fanboys who acquired the taste trough some snob blogs.
Point 2 isn't particularly clear. Is there a market for a product aimed managing vacation time for employees? What price range had you in mind?

Also agree with the screenshot comment.

Some copy amendments:

#1 Should read: Collect vacation requests

#2 Should read: Adding new staff or changing the approval structure

Sign up page. Should read: We are working hard adding the final touches to Flexday.

Overall, I'd need a lot more info to peak my interest.
More like reddit, no? Or hacker news ;)
Nope, advertising online (or anywhere else) is illegal (offering sexual services for money). Pretty much the only time its legal is if two adults who have otherwise met come to a spontaneous agreement to have sex for money. E.g. if a friend says to me "I need £500 to pay my rent" and I say "how about I pay that for you and you have sex with me". Just to be clear, thats never happened to me. I don't have £500 spare...:)
There probably is a nuclear blast in that mix. They stated that anti-missile systems intercepted it - the only thing with a hope in hell of reaching and destroying/breaking a meteor is the 53T6 Gazelle, which has a 10kt warhead.
That's right, much clearer now. And yes, there is indeed shitload of money in that market.
Tesla just needs to buy a bunch of gopros for all the people in Norway and Sweden who have Teslas.

Let's see Teslas commuting to work in arctic midnight.
What if there was a competitor to Best Buy, where everything was free, but only if you took your shoes off when entering?

[And no, I'm not saying that that's a true analogy either — I'm just exploring what makes this one right or wrong, and where you think the insanity lies]
If it is true, they've been lobbing nukes - their principal ABM for ICBMs/fast re-entry is the Gazelle - 10kt warhead.
I'm curious - and excuse me for my ignorance - but what is "unrolling code"?

http://fabiensanglard.net/duke3d/duke3d_code_review_unrolled...
Considering that Lisp failed to get to the top 10 between 1958 and 2004, it was pretty dump to predict it would suddenly rise to the top.
Wake up. Open laptop. Skim through the pages of HN. "Open in new tab" for all the ones which look interesting. This could be a couple dozen new tabs. Close-tab (cmd-W on my Mac) to close the HN page. Read next tab. Close-tab. Read. Repeat until done.

My scenario doesn't match any of the 4 listed arguments against opening more than 9 tabs. For example, the user interaction is easy; "open in new tab" and "close tab". Both easily done from the keyboard.
No it doesn't. The analogy was flawed from two sides. Firstly, VB was (is?) a perfectly good solution for producing functional systems which solve problems. It's not very nice, but to say that it doesn't bring you closer to what you wanted is downright false. It does - that's why so many functional applications are written in it.

Secondly, I'd argue that the same statement applied to 3D printers is also false. Just because the output of hobby level plastic extruding printers is limited to certain shapes and materials doesn't mean that the process as a whole is flawed. I've played around with titanium springs, brackets and other interestingly shaped pieces which simply couldn't be produced by any other manufacturing process. 3D printing (in particular selective laser sintering) is going to produce a step change in the aerospace industry.

Finally, as an aside hobby and low cost plastic 3D printers are very useful for some applications. Producing brackets and mounting plates is considerably streamlined with a 3D printer. It's a useful technology for particular applications. Its not the fault of plastic additive manufacturing that journalists are getting more excited than they should be about it.
Actually I took it to mean more like wordpress.com and WPEngine - ie. things that people can self host if they want to deal with the hassles of it all.
In Australia, or at least in my state, brothels are legal but open to health check inspections. Streetwalkers are illegal. It seems a sane approach - safer working conditions and public spaces.
This in spades. Emergencies aren't announced as they are in Hollywood movies with dramatic music and leading actors. The most striking thing about many disasters is how mundane they are, and how slow people, even those aware of the situation and its gravity, are to respond. Spend some time watching videos of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and what I'm most struck with is how long people act as if things are normal. Granted it took several tens of minutes for the tsunami waves to reach shore after the earthquake, and even then several minutes for the tsunami to reach full strength.

Technological, fiscal, and other crises are similar. Often your first real sign of trouble isn't a sense of impending doom as just a very strong sense that things are wrong -- your perception of the world isn't adding up. I've trained myself (or tried) to recognize such situations and respond more quickly to them, but it's still easy to miss things. Especially as it's not clear until later (and often much, much later) just what has gone wrong and what's the best way to address it. In military it's called "fog of war", but a similar condition pervades most complex situations.
Predicting that a language without a type system is the future is pretty dumb in itself.

I give y'all an other one: "cars without brakes are the future".
Indeed. Also, when driving, what are your options? Unless you think you need to stop the car and seek shelter immediately the best option might just be to head home as soon as possible.
I'm mainly I focussing on startup at the moment, I believe the libreOffice guys have their hands full with a more productive task if implementing features. I think they are approaching things from a different perspective to me: I'm interested in how it all hangs together, they want to work on things that give them the most bang or buck.

And that's sensible, and very fair, given limited man-power :-) no to mention I'm doing what I'm attempting is a part time hobby!
(General response to a trend in the comments.) I believe #2 refers to things like Wordpress.com or CloudFoundry.com. Wikipedia.org might qualify as well. If Discourse.org offers hosted instances, (and they make a lot of revenue), they could qualify too.

As far as I know, GitHub never opened their source.
Would better thermal insulation help? Or it is already best economically viable?
Here's some advice that I took from HN a while back and have benefited greatly from:

Market yourself as an expert in your field and not someone that just 'wants to learn,' even if that is your primary goal. Businesses (and any potential clients) are in it for a profit, and they generally want people who appear to know what they are doing rather than someone who is looking to learn. Now, keep in mind that you will most likely be learning a lot through challenges that arise - this is actually the fun part (in addition to the paycheck)!

By now, you probably know a few people in the business. Email, call, or perform any other forms of reaching out to these people. Google "X freelance jobs in X city." Update your LinkedIn. Go to local Meetups (meetup.com is great) and hand out business cards (these can actually be ordered cheaply via internet sales). This may all seem like obvious information to you, but go ahead and add it to what you are already doing.

Also, the most effective resume is a portfolio.

Good luck in your future endeavors!
You can see the blast wave as well
Lol, I remember reading this :)
In the various videos, there are a few noteworthy artefacts.

1) After the bright white flash, we see debris flying in the opposite direction to the meteor's path, in a parabolic trajectory - i.e. falling.

2) Your AMM system doesn't need to be hypersonic to intercept a hypersonic target. The key here is "intercept". You launch a missile to be where the target is going to be, in a direction >90deg away from the target's path.

3) The Russian AMM system that would be used in these circumstances would be the 53T6 Gazelle, which is equipped with a 10kt warhead.

I'm inclined to give the air defence line credence.
Not sure, but it could be something like Duff's Device. Look it up, it can be used for various things, like drawing and stuff.
I live here. It's the best place in Ohio, for sure.
They're listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange, with a market cap of approximately $770 million, so financing a $155 million acquisition doesn't seem like it'd be a problem.
Mach 32, that's Earth's escape velocity, which is also how how fast objects tend to fall to Earth.
Congrats. You are lucky. Don't resent your doctor for that prediction. Have a good life. Find peace.
Sounds like an upgrade.
So far, local meetups have been an easy (and free) way for me to connect with like-minded professionals. I have yet to attend any big conferences, but I know that connections you might make can be priceless in the long run.
> Lisp will be in the top 10 most popular programming languages by 2010. This failed hard.

On contrary, for me this one was one of the strongest predictions. In my opinion, predictions should be taken in spirit and not by letter. Looking at the rise of Clojure, i dare say that was a great foresight.
yep. videos and thread here http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/11c0dd/why_russia_ha...
Hieroglifs Translations welcomes Public Relations intern from Germany
Hieroglifs Translations would like to welcome Claudia Simos-Dziewonska from Germany to the position of Hieroglifs Translations Romania intern.

http://language-translation-project-management.com/2013/02/12/hieroglifs-translations-welcomes-new-intern-claudia-simos-dziewonska-germany/
Looking in there quarterly report for 4Q 2012 it looks like they can afford this. According to it revenue for 2012 as a whole appeared to be $216 millions, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) was $50 millions[0].

Also, according to an article in Digi.no[1] $100 million is borrowed in the bank. The total price is up to $155 million, but is dependent on an earn-out, so maybe the full sum isn't payable yet?

0: http://media.opera.com/media/finance/2012/4Q12.pdf

1: http://www.digi.no/911670/opera-kjoper-opp-konkurrenten
Any reason for it not beeing in the web archive?

http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://sites.google.com/site/s...
You could repeat the same prediction every year, and you'd probably be right everytime.
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1) in 2020 most programmers will still be average

2) in 2020 browsers will support a multitude of programming languages natively, most of them functional

3) in 2020 linkedin will be dead

4) in 2020 there will be a huge governmental campaign to teach kids programming, starting in pre-school

5) in 2020 there will be an SVG that is to SVG what HTML5 was to XHTML

6) in 2020 TV will still be mostly watched in 2D

7) in 2020 Steve Ballmer won't be CEO of SonyMicro any longer

8) in 2020 we will finally have an CSS alternative
I agree. Some projects will get less funding than others.

But I think that's alright -- and that is the core of our disagreement, I suppose. Plus, I think you're underestimating the numbers of what various people would find interesting/fund-worthy. It's a big, connected world, these days.

By the way, I gave several counter-examples of "esoteric enough that the benefits of the study are not immediately understandable, and without the potential of enormous impact" in my other replies in this thread, including the comment you're replying to.

In the extreme, when only one person is interested in a project (the researcher himself!), then only one person will devote energy/time/money to it. Fine by me.
No way. There have been lots of posts elsewhere about users being abused by developers after leaving a bad rating or having their details sold.

I'll take Apple's implementation any day of the week.
As far as I can tell the advertising is only illegal if it is in what constitutes a "public place". IANAL but I doubt that a privately owned website would count as such and if it is illegal it doesn't appear to be enforced at all.

Women who work as prostitutes will usually pay taxes as self employed people and can actually claim advertising (as well as various other things that are best left to the imagination) back as business expenses.
A database of open source HTTP proxies
There's a world of difference between a documentation mistake and sale info being wrong. And this is absolutely fundamental to Heroku.

Not impressive at all.
+1 for Masters of Doom. It's the best computer game book I've ever read.
_that_ profitable???

The company I work for pays $250 a year for Github Enterprise per developer for about 400 developers... That is just one company. 100k/year! They are thinking about extending it to all 2,000 developers.

A few months ago they raised $100 million!
With all respect, I have hard time seeing Apple laptops outside the US.

Indeed. And where I am (also outside the US) I have a hard time seeing non-Apple laptops. Anecdotal evidence isn't really that useful when we're talking about global trends.

Not counting some fanboys who acquired the taste trough some snob blogs.

Making statements like this cause you come across as overly emotionally invested in your platform, and make others less likely to take your arguments seriously.
Tartu University in Estonia apparently uses Python for introductory programming course that is called "Programming".

Description of the course and its objectives, both in Estonian and English: https://www.is.ut.ee/reports/rwservlet?oa_aine_info.rdf+1010...

Learning material, in Estonian but there is Python code everywhere: http://courses.cs.ut.ee/2011/programmeerimine/uploads/Arvuti...
> With all respect, I have hard time seeing Apple laptops outside the US.

Maybe Africa? I live in China and I see a lot of them here; China is Apple's second largest market now.

The fanboy argument is funny to no end. I mean, I still can't find a freaking non-Apple laptop that isn't a huge piece of crap. Maybe the X1 will change my mind, but they are on hold right now due to faulty touch screens.

I'm scared to death that only Apple is willing to produce non-crappy laptops these days, that the other PC vendors have given up and are content putting out cheap crap (and expensive crap for the enterprise). Depressing.
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That's what I mainly meant by "fast", the angle of attack appeared to be relatively steep. I suppose you could be right about the idea that the breakup sound should have been heard before the entry sonic boom, but wouldn't you expect there to be two distinct bangs in that case? I still think the breakup was not that energetic, but it's hard to tell from the footage. It's all just guesswork, but still exciting :)
That's a bit similar to the way I did it way back when Firefox came out. One of the early window managers that supported this, probably pwm. And it does work quite okay as a simple tab substitute for most applications.

For browsers, I would need some kind of hierarchy support, though. A bit harder to do in a window manager, but then you'd have it for all kinds of applications. Maybe even combine it with some additional exposed information -- so without support you manager your hierarchy yourself, but if there's an easy way to get a buffer list, the top-level would be from the wm, and the second level from that list.

I would need some kind of display for a browser, though. I'm fine with on-demand buffer lists in editors (and actually turn off sidebars when I use Sublime), but for my browsing habits I'm better off with a list that's always visible.
twodayslate: Wooooosh...

rdl: https://twitter.com/sneakatdatavibe/status/29980282343510016...
It's interesting, often we see the whole "Give it to me straight doc, how long have I got?" and the doctor being over cautious. Whilst I'm sure many doctors can compartmentalise incredibly well, I imagine telling someone that chances of survival are very, very low has to be a gruelling experience. Is it better to know that the chances are bad, and be prepared for the worst, or to have an overly optimistic doctor who wants to avoid having The Conversation? I don't know, thankfully I've never been through it, but I'd prefer the doctor to be as realistic about my odds, and if I got through it then I'd know I fell into the 20%.
Would we require people to know the basics about car mechanics if 90% if out jobs were depending on driving a car and if people had about 50 of them on average? I think yes, Sir.
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No this is not impressive. This is them fucking up and misleading customers for 3 years, enjoying a great reputation and now FINALLY getting called out for their BS. They're about to lose that great reputation that they've spent the past years building up, so of course they're in major crisis mode and doing everything they can to fix this.
If they had announced "we're going to add links to your comments to make it seem you're endorsing advertising of our choosing" that would not have made it okay.

It's not something you can just announce and then do. There is no possible way it is okay to make "we're going to use your voice" as an opt-out feature. Without his consent it is just wrong. They could have sent him letters or even left him voicemail messages, but anything short of getting explicit approval makes the appearance of his endorsement a misrepresentation, or more simply, a lie.
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Where I come from, students choose subjects they wish to specialise at the age of 12. One of these specialisations was computer studies, which gives basic knowledge of various topics someone working in IT might need. One of these was programming.

It was poorly taught. Half of the class couldn't even figure out loops, they were literally scared of them coming out. They absolutely hated it.

I chose to continue studying this subject at sixth form (basically the local equivalent of high school) and even though we were now taught by engineers and people with doctorates, they were horrible. They just spoon fed us, giving us programs to study by heart. They had no idea of code redundancy, modularity or readability.

These were for students who chose to study the subjects. What the situation would be like if these courses were compulsory.
Busy week for Opera, a transition to WebKit and a big acquisition. I wonder if the Skyfire purchase indicates Opera is going to make a far bigger push to try and capture market share in mobile browsing, where at the moment there's far fewer competitors and an ever increasing marketshare to tap into.
I think what he means here is that all the code that is abstracted into functions etc. is "unrolled" (at some sensible level) into one main function so you can see the complete flow of the program without searching around.
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That's interesting because I recall hearing that FB is tracking non-FB users too.
Credit for owning the scope of the problem (allowing serious discrepancies for 3 years), which is sure to cost them trust from the community. But the skeptic in me reminds me that it's likely there was no way out of admitting it.

What disheartens me is that the documentation discrepancy caused real, extremely substantial aggregate monetary impact on customers, yet there is no mention of refunds. Perhaps that will come, but in my opinion, anything short of that is just damage control.

This is a time excessively demonstrate integrity, for them to go above and beyond. It's in their interest not to just paper over the whole thing.
I've heard several people say they keep lots of tabs open like you do and I'm curious why.

Personally, I find I never need more than ~10 for the task at hand. Also, if I ever DO have more than that open, the titles get too small to read and I start forgetting what I have. I either go flipping through all of them to find one, or I just give up and open a duplicate tab, making the problem worse.

Instead, if I want to look at something later, I usually tag it in Pinboard. Later, I can scroll down through a readable list of things I've recently bookmarked, or if I vaguely remember it, I can search by tags or text to find it.

Given this, I can't see a reason to have so many tabs open. Can you explain why you like to work that way?
Nah, mainstream social networks are new.
Fear, uncertainty and doubt is all I'm reading. Top Gear was even worse. Behind it all is the ego of the car. What's the identity of an electric car which isn't trying to be green?
It's not like he's selling Prince of Persia or Command and Conquer t-shirts, or a book on how to rip off games and make money doing so, he's selling expertise on creating game engines, and using retro games to demonstrate the effectiveness of the techniques. He's doing this out of a love for the games in question, evidenced by the faithfulness of reproduction. What you're describing is something like Evony or Zynga, where they rip off other games wholesale and pretend it's original.

There is a reason why practically every indie engine under the sun has the ability to load e.g. Quake models. It's an easy source of well-crafted content. Programmer art is a surefire way to kill interest in a project.
Incidentally, look at OpenOffice's info:

http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/OpenO...