skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of years ago a smaller meteor blazed over the western United States, lighting up large parts of Utah (http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=8714738), but lacking the sonic boom. I did see the Utah meteor directly, and I imagine that today's was significantly more awesome and more terrifying.
> Math is mandatory and people still can't figure a tip in their head.

Yes -- be that as it may, let's remember that mathematics and arithmetic are two different things. Arithmetic is useful even though we now have calculators everywhere, but understanding math is much more important -- and it isn't about adding columns of figures or figuring a tip in one's head.
I use Firefox for the reasons stated in the article.

What I want to know is why do I still see errors on specific websites that say I need Chrome to view this page.

I think Mozilla matters, but are they interested in keeping pace on what matters to their users: the best usability; or are they more interested in this blog's bullet points?

If only the latter, then I say I support your efforts and hope you continue the good work, but I should start looking for a web browser that is trying to be that.
I never would have thought that Opera had $155 million to spend on an acquisition. Does their browser make any money?
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I think that is a little petty. While I may be a vivid Mozilla supporter (and user of Firefox!), I did too get the strange feel of it being a bit of a 'whining'. At least the title gave that impression.

But reading the entry, it is actually rather good reasoning for why Mozilla won't switch to WebKit. I am not sure WebKit-dev really needs more companies telling them what to do. Or fight over what to be done.

While others may disagree, I consider XUL a compelling advantage over the alternatives, because I can modify my browser to my liking, without writing my own browser from scratch.

I am not trying to be conservative, but I like the way Firefox does things. Yes, there are issues, it is hardly perfect (I use Chromium to watch Flash and use Java at home, because I fear Firefox's heavy memory footprint[1]).

And Firefox's desktop share has remained rather stable the past year, along with Chrome's share.[2]

[1] Although, in fairness, I do usually have over 100 tabs open.
[2] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/02/intern...
With all these videos, I wonder if Photosynth-style 3D reconstruction of the scene would be possible. That would be very interesting to look at.
That's a bit ironic. I remember not so long ago I've heard many people who switched to Chrome were deeming Firefox "memory hungry". I haven't heard similar complaints about Chrome up until now.
Can you please point out Locke's 'main' point, because it seems he's danced around a few topics to me.

If you're talking about the parent of my last comment, it should be abundantly clear that I'm saying 'no, you did', which is directly refuting his point, with a quote, no less. The rest was a bit of poetic license called 'taking the piss'.
I think both Musk and NTY have errors in their stories. But I particularly despise the way Musk went about responding to the article. If he's right, just post the raw data with a summary of Tesla's findings for the readers to decide. I much prefer a detailed and professional retort over an "emo" knee-jerk berating. And if you can't do that, just post the parts Tesla doesn't think add up minus the highly pointed commentary.

But thats me... I find you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
OK, this post certainly led to some fun internet hopping.

I liked this vintage Carmack quote from Ken Silverman's website:

St. John: If you could just hire anybody from the 3D world, who would you hire?

Carmack: Well there's a big difference between who I consider the most talented and who I would necessarily hire, because you have to hire people that fit right. If I had to pick who I think is just the most talented, it would probably be Ken Silverman, the guy that did the BUILD engine. He does engines and tools. He's great as an editor. He writes all the code for everything, and he's just extremely talented. I think it was 3D Realms' worst decisions not to coddle him, or whatever it took, to keep him on board. I think if he was still working directly for 3D Realms, they would have a Quake-type game shipped by now, just because he's extraordinarily good. There's maybe a half dozen people that are top-notch A-level 3D programmers. I'm not going to give you a list because I'd leave somebody off and they'd be all pissed off at me.

St. John: You've already left off 90% of them by naming Ken Silverman.

Carmack: All the people doing things that people are talking about now are pretty talented. The Epic people have been working on it for a long time. They've gone through a big learning process, but they've got the issues under control and they're going to ship a product.

St. John: So you think one day Tim Sweeney might grow to be as successful as you.

Carmack: It's hard to become successful by following in footsteps. This is probably going to come out sounding demeaning, but Epic wants Unreal to be Quake. Everything they did with Unreal, they did because they wanted it to be like what Quake turned out to be. And they're going to achieve a lot of that, because they're doing a lot of things well, but you're just never as big when you're second in line.

Hook: Just like Dark Forces and Duke were both phenomenal games, they still definitely didn't have the impact of Doom simply because they just weren't first out the gate.

Carmack: Like Prey, there's a lesson to be learned, something a lot of companies don't really ever learn. You hear it from the fan base a lot. "Do it right. We'll still be here. We'll wait," and it's tempting to just let things slip. But that's really not OK. If you're doing something cutting edge, you're making fundamental decisions about your architecture, and if you let it slide for a year or two, then it's just not the right decision anymore. Even if you pile on all these extras, it's not optimal. It's not targeted at what you're doing. So I have some concerns about Prey coming out this late.

It's funny to see Carmack trash talking what Epic was doing with Unreal now, given the way history has unfolded. Tenacity, persistence, and consistency can outweigh the disadvantages of following an industry leader with a me-too product.

And for anyone else who eats this kind of thing up, David Kushner's Masters of Doom is a great read that I can't recommend highly enough.

p.s. I can definitely identify with running across popular commercial game codebases which are composed almost entirely by one source file.
I guess I assume loud boom = bomb, which makes me want to be behind concrete. But maybe earthquake is more likely -- it's still arguably better to be in a sturdy building than on the street near non-sturdy buildings, though.
At first, I thought that the number 9 in the title was arbritrary. I was just wondering why the author didn't choose a round number, such as 8 or 16. Or a link-baiting number, such as 3, 7 or 10.

I was surprised when I found out that the number 9 has an actual meaning in the article:

> ... but why pick 9 as the upper limit? Simple: every modern browser supports using Ctrl-1 to go to the first open tab, Ctrl-2 to the second, and so on ... (Control-9 always jumps to the last tab, however many you have open, by the way.)
Yeah, I don't buy your attempt at a 'save'.
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> Does anyone now a newer, more comprehensive and scientifically solid article having the same claim?

As to "scientifically solid", you may be reaching beyond the plausible. Such studies are in the domain of sociology, and sociology is less scientific even than psychology (in fact, sociology is located at the very bottom of the science heap). One reason is the fact that you can't run controlled experiments with such luxuries as control groups and experimental discipline.
This needs to be introduced (in a much more basic form) well before high school. You have to get it into the average child's head before the age of 5, or it will never stick or be easy to understand, just like learning a new foreign language. And it should be taught in the same way (just not like they do in public education, but in a more modern way that is proving to be more effective).
Awesome summary! You should love http://tldr.io :)
I'd like a Model S (although, ideally, something more BMW 3-series sized, same performance, and slightly cheaper, and AWD), with the 300 mile range, specifically for daily use in the Bay Area. It is unlikely I would need to worry about range, and just plug in every night (although plugging in at the office would make sense, too)

Being able to periodically ferry it between locations using the supercharger would just be a bonus; I'd be fine with a car which could never leave a 75 mile radius of Palo Alto, provided I also either had a second car (ideally diesel, 45+mpg or a diesel truck), or could rent one whenever I left.

I suspect most people who can afford $100k cars can afford multiple cars, or don't do 400 mile road trips on a regular basis.
theoretically it coul be run by autonomous agent. hosted as tor service.
If he ignores/distorts the facts in order to 'create a narrative' then he is not reporting, he is writing fiction.
I must confess that I never had this problem in the first place. I'm quickly annoyed if I have too many open tabs, long before I even reach 9 tabs.

I never understood other people with their 3 to 6 rows of open tabs. [1] However, I never had any real arguments to convince them to change that habit. That's why the article was an interesting read for me.

[1] In the old days, browsers stacked their tabs in second row when the first row was full. And opened a third row when the second was full, etc.
Thanks for the tl;dr.
GoChat for Facebook closes after peaking at $4000 of daily income
Last week I worked 63 hours. The week before - 58 hours. This week i will probably reach 60 hours. I work in public accounting.
While riding a bear

http://guyism.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/putin-bear.jpg
IOS 6.1 hack lets users see your phone app, place calls
You can try OpenSCAD - but it's its own 3D language, but pretty intuitive.
> (FWIW, the above is why I don't understand the excessive promotion of "OMG LOL no chargebacks FTW!")

That flexibility is great. I'd be perfectly happy to buy from a lot of merchants that I trust (say, Amazon.com) without the ability to chargeback. That will lower costs for them, which will be passed on to the consumer (if the overall market is competitive).

OTOH, merchants that aren't widely trusted may "have" to allow customers to purchase using an escrow-like service that allows chargebacks.

In fact, maybe the same merchant could offer both options; you pay a tiny bit more for escrow.
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...pushing the router IP into DNS...

Maybe, but they don't currently give each app its own IP, and might not want the complications of volatile IP reassignments, DNS TTLs, and so on. (Though, their current "CNAME-to-yourapp.herokuapp.com" recommendation would allow for this.)

...want Heroku to do the icky difficult stuff...

Yes, but to a point. Customers also want Heroku to provide a simple model that allows scaling as easy as twisting a knob to deploy more dynos, or move to a higher-resourced plan. Customers accept some limitations to fit that model.

Maybe Heroku has a good reason for thin, fast, stateless routing -- and that works well for most customers, perhaps with some app adjustments. Then, coaxing customers to fit that model, rather than rely on any sort of 'smart' routing that would be overkill for most, is the right path.

We'll know a lot more when they post their "in-depth technical review" Friday.
Firefox improved quite a bit with the more recent rapid release cycle. And don't forget the "organise" part. Once you get beyond a certain amount of tabs in a window, the usual tabbed arangement shows its weakness -- and at this point, you probably need something like XUL to expand the GUI, what Chrome/Safari have to offer in this regard just doesn't seem to cut it.

TreeStyle Tabs is basically my #1 reason why I'm sticking with Firefox.
I work for a mid-sized financial software company and am involved with dev on a mature, used in production, in-house Excel clone.

Initially I figured this was about the craziest thing possible, but over time I've come to realise the company derives genuine competitive advantage from this system because

1. it allows actuaries to program calculators in a language and environment that they are comfortable with. It is a lot easier to find finance guys that do excel than ones that can seriously program.

2. tbh, excel is often a really good tool for the job because it allows visualization of data as you work. If you work often with projections it kills the alternatives like numpy, matlab etc.

The system is pretty advanced and has been used in production for about 8 or so years. We have an interpretive runtime for use during dev and also a static compiler that generates c++ and creates a shared library per sheet.

Some interesting points about implementing excel:

* Most functional languages do lazy evaluation on the assumption that there's a fair amount of arguments that won't be evaluated. We find that in excel all arguments are almost always used, so lazy evaluation and thunks just add overhead if you use them in all cases. We just have special cases for IF and OR et al.

* Performance is all about cell caching - i.e. memoization - but you only really have performance problems if you want to do root finding monte carlo sims online (we do). We have a dependency tracking system so cached cells are selectively flushed only when a cell they depend on changes.

* the system generates very large amounts of static c++, sometimes hundreds of thousands of lines for one sheet - this can be necessary when the sheet has millions of cells, even though we scan for similar formulas and factor them into single functions to improve spatial locality. MSVC can compile a million line .cpp in about 5 minutes using about 1gb ram - gcc 4.6 would use all the memory on my 8gb machine and swap ad infinitum (but if you split the files it is fine).
I would be really interested to see statistics about the differences to the rest of society.
On maps of e.g. the birthplace/hair/color/... I'd be more interested in the deviation from national averages.

A lot of people are born in big cities, so a lot of pornstars will be born in big cities. I'd be interested to see which cities have a disproportionally low/high number.

Even with the hair color, I'm wondering what the deviation from the national averages looks like.

p.s. obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1138/
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Meteorite explosion over Russia injures hundreds
In these circumstances, running outside of an apartment block is not bad because of debris from an impactor crator, it's bad because the sonic boom will shatter glass windows with ease, raining down lethal shards on the people below.

This holds for a nuclear strike as well as a bolide.
I heard the microsoft mobile store works the same way? Like ebay? And what about Amazon, is their app store in any ways like their "seller central"?
Then I suggest you read the article as he gives a very good explanation.
"Numbers don't have significant leading zeroes" is a rather daring statement. I guess you mean 'the western format of cardinal real numbers includes no leading zeroes,' but that assumes you are speaking of cardinal numbers, which are just some of them. 01033 is as much of a number as 1033.

Sorry for being nitpicky but do not confuse numbers with their representations. You would be amazed at the weird representations humans have used along history.
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Yeah I see that. I think it's not a tabbing problem, but more of a "I really want to multitask" problem. Better organization can definitely help keeping the number of tabs open at a safe limit.
>It is within the performance envelope of those types of systems.

Is this true? Reentry speed of an ICBM is something like 5 km/s. Entry speed of a meteor is a minimum of 11 km/s, and more like 25 km/s if this object wasn't in an Earth-like orbit to begin with. Missile interceptors travel much slower than either, and they have a tough time hitting ICBMs from what I understand.
According to NPR, the big trend in recent years is a steep drop in profit for porn. The supply is enormous and people don't seem to care much about production quality. People may shell out for physical contact, but they expect porn to be free.
"Closest was 1.5 unemployment in 1944 (which, to be fair, is really impressive.)"

Could using up surplus workers in a world war have anything to do with that?
One recommendation, and one meta-recommendation:

The recommendation: Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book. Short (maybe 150 pages).

Meta-recommendation: Get a copy of Anki (free), and as you read, make new cards that test a single piece of knowledge (this can mean you make two or three cards for one concept...so be it!).
The constant back and forth on this issue (whether or not this luxury car can in fact drive further than the supermarket) feels absurd.

I have to honestly say the Model S is very, very low on my list of cars-I-wish-I-had. It screams conspicuous and vapid consumption to the nth degree.
There is a much better video where you can see it skipping across the atmosphere before plunging in like a rock across a lake.

And the four minute delay of the boom from the atmosphere to the surface is super scary considering how much energy it had.

There's another video with it head-on and that must be what being hit by an icbm looks like, at least for the first millisecond.

Try some of the videos here: http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/18kado/ufo_meteorite...
Sadly, Ken declined: http://videogamepotpourri.blogspot.ca/2012/05/interview-with...

Seems like he ended up quite depressed.
>It's funny to see Carmack trash talking what Epic was doing with Unreal now, given the way history has unfolded. Tenacity, persistence, and consistency can outweigh the disadvantages of following an industry leader with a me-too product.

If you're talking about how Epic does really well in the licencing space while Id does not, I believe that an intentional decision by Id to not compete in that space post Q3.
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Not trying to fanboy anyone here, but while id was still in the "license the engine out for fun and profit" game (especially during the quake 2 - 3 era) they dominated. It wasn't until id tech 4 and Unreal Tournament 2004 (and the Unreal 3 engine) that they stopped being really competitive in the engine space, and Epic is as big as it is today not just because of Gears of War (was UT3 popular?) but because they own the high end licensed 3d engine space.
Here is an extremely frightening dashcam video of the 2011 tsunami in Japan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgNnZgXVZVk
never underestimate the power of tweens, hipsters and pornographers!
Exactly. It's easier/quicker to mock something up using existing assets, like this HTML5 version of Klax (http://tinyurl.com/html5-klax) I made to test out ImpactJS.
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"I was given battery-conservation advice at that time (turn off the cruise control; alternately slow down and speed up to take advantage of regenerative braking) that was later contradicted by other Tesla personnel."

The emphasized part makes no sense (vs. driving at constant speed), regen braking is not perpetual motion machine. Technology reporter should know that. Still amazing how such a foolish advice was given him by Tesla personnel.
My beef is: Why Excel?

It's not like you can't script Libreoffice spreadsheets, or OpenOffice, or for that matter Docs Calc sheets.

Why does it need to eat a big part of our budget?
Based on what I have seen , the money seems to be in webcams.
The free porn is used as a lure to get people to click on livejasmin popups.
I bought some Bitcoins using MtGox about 4 months ago. The experience was pretty smooth. I had to send money to their bank in Japan and they credited my account. This increased the cost of aquiring bitcoins, because the bank also took a cut.

In general, I don't trust my wallet in the hands of strangers so I don't keep my bitcoins with MtGox. Instead I encrypted my wallet.dat with GnuPG and put copies of it in several locations.

Bitcoin Qt seems to be able to attach a passphrase to your wallet.dat as well, but I opted to go the manual route. I bought some bitcoins as an alternative to gold to balance my portfolio and hedge against inflation. In other words I plan to hold on to them for the forseeable future, so the inconvenience of dealing with the encryption manually is negligible.
Unnecessarily evocative title
I believe the niche is partially the price and partially those who want to arrive to work in style. Manager, CEO, COO style employees are the kind of people who'd buy this for the attention and to reaffirm the statement, "Yeah, I'm rich, but I work for it"
This one is rather impressive to watch as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c-0iwBEswE
Librarians Rally Behind Blogger Sued by Publisher Over Critical Comments
This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWvG4KAYJfY is why
It might not prove he drove in circles in a parking lot, but you have to admit there are discrepancies in the data that have not been explained fully by the NYT editor that don't prove he didn't deliberately try and drain the battery all for having the scoop review that tries and dispels Tesla's claims of efficiency.
Depend on where you live it might be illegal to do so.
For this to have any effect, your $DAYJOB has to decide to sue you, go to court, win a judgement, then they get... nothing. You don't have any assets for them to take. You're a poor peon worker. Your $DAYJOB is full of people who see your work as near worthless, and it IS worthless without you to breath life into it. In a corporate bureaucracy it is taboo to even suggest that individuals produce the value. It's the bureaucracy that produces the value, not the cogs. It's essentially not possible to convince the company that your IP unrelated to your specific job is something the company wants.

Assuming this scenarios ever played out in the history of IP and your dayjob is actively suing you to get their greedy hands on your awesome IP, this is gold for you. Your stuff is in extremely high demand. Throw it away, and go out and get version 2.0 funded.
There are thousands of European companies using Python. Some very notable companies too like http://www.distilled.net/ as well as dozens of huge financial organisations such as http://www.cqs.ch/.
He gives a lot of political reasons for that, and I agree fully with them, but in the end the only thing that matters is the resulting product. Don't get me wrong, I am very thankful for what Mozilla did for the web at a time when IE was practically the only browser. And I also see that they continue innovate.

Mozilla can only survive if a sizable percentage of end users perceive Firefox as the best browser for them, and this usually means that Firefox needs to provide the best user experience.
Personally I think that other browsers currently provide a better user experience, and I see a lot of people around me switching from FF to Chrome. The reason for that is not Webkit , but Firefox's user interface.