skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10 year, very lightly hedged, mostly specific prediction is hard. Pretty good job, I think.
I'd prefer a "hide username until 24 hours" extension.
Not really. A 10kt yield at altitude wouldn't leave much radioactivity above background at ground level.

Also, this is the Russian military we're talking about. I don't think they'll fess up to detonating a nuke, no matter how small, in a populated area.

We're talking about the same guys who absolutely definitely positively did not use nukes to build shipping canals.

Oh, and I am a Physicist. MSc from an Ivy-League equivalent in the UK, although these days I'm a web gimp instead.
This isn't entirely true. While the street kids aren't specifically responsible for the neighborhood's legacy, they are part of a line that has given the neighborhood a certain magic for tourists and nostalgics anyway
> Second, a lot of porn out there focuses on and glorifies the woman's suffering, pain and degradation. Seriously, you only have to read the word "painal" once to realize that. However, if that's not enough, you might also look for the occurrences of "choke", "gag", "destroy", "slut", etc.

I might be mistaken here, but as far as I can tell this kind of porn is the minority. Also, isn't this 'degrading porn' meant for people who identify with the person being degraded? Whether you like it or not, the power dynamic is an integral part of human sexuality. That you see this in porn is just an effect of the phenomenon, not the cause. It's completely natural and benign. People saying that this is "wrong" and taboo are doing far more harm than good to the women and men (!) who enjoy being on that side of the power dynamic.

Secondly, porn isn't meant to be realistic. Complaining about that is just like the people complaining about violence in video games and movies. People are perfectly capable of distinguishing reality from fiction. The reason people enjoy porn is exactly because it is not realistic -- it satisfies a fantasy, whether that is sex with a person who is far out of your league, or rough sex, or otherwise. The way to go here is to improve sex education, not to blame porn for not being sex education.
Adobe taking 10% of developers earnings on iOS games published using Director 12
There's a whole bunch of HN applets, extensions, scripts, bookmarklets, apps and readers - has anyone created a list of all of them anywhere?
God, yes. I often hesitate to even look at the comments because the 1st comment is inevitably some hyper-snarky rebuttal with a thousand sub-comments.

Please add this.
heh, I'm not sure where I'm defending anything.

I'm saying that the baseline scenario is wrong.
Anything politics/news related is generally considered Off-Topic by the community guidelines http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and people are encouraged not to up-vote them, and I think you are generally ok to flag these items as well if you believe they don't contribute to the "hacker" nature of the site.
Hide or user configured filter? If its just hide, then you have to go through the "clutter" to hide it. Damage is already done though.

Personally filtering is problematic. Yeah, most of the time I'm not reading Apple articles either, but if there is one that is about Apple and child labour, Im interested. But filtering out Apple would hide such an article from me. So, then we get in to complex filters, and constant messing about setting them up right.

In the end though, I assume that if implemented it would be up to us users to use or not use. Perhaps have it as a turn on-able option, so that the extra clutter of a hide or filter mechanism, button, link whatever is not cluttering up the page.
It is a hard problem. You could, for instance, divide by population to get a rate instead of an absolute number -- but then rural areas would have all the hotspots. Why? Because in areas with small samples, you're bound to get more variation and noise, so all the extremes will occur in areas where there are few people.

There are ways to adjust for that, but basically, you can't win:

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/allm...
This one uses off the shelf parts and looks completely normal:

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/02/continental-autonomous-...
Please post polls using http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll (as mentioned in the faq, as linked to from the bottom of this page) instead of karma whoring.
As someone who had an 80's diesel car as his first, I can verify that even leaving them in a high school parking lot during a cold winter school day in Maine is a bad idea.

I had to wait about a week for the weather to warm up before the glow-plugs were enough to start it.

However, I believe a Tesla is a different case. I always keep my car's fuel tank above half-filled to preserve the fuel filter (and you should too). While the Tesla might lose some charge during the day in a parking lot or overnight, I can't imagine it would be a seriously substantial amount.
TodoMVC 1.1 Released: Now Includes Kendo UI, TypeScript, Dart, Thorax & More
Depends on how good their equipment was. The small boosted plutonium warheads used in that kind of missiles are extremely clean (they are meant to be used over their own territory, after all...), and I think that after the kind of wide dispersion you get when the surface of the object ablates away as it falls there might not be much more than a small blib over the background left.

However, based on my very limited knowledge, I think that the Russians are supposed to only have operational Gazelles in a ring protecting Moscow, and those shouldn't have the range to hit anywhere near Chelyabinsk.
That is something I have wanted for a while too.
The article justifies bitcoin hoarding.
It is one of those (many) spots where UK law is almost deliberately patchy. We don't make it illegal, but we make it hard to do legally. Having sex for money will never be completely outlawed, as it'll wreck a popular past time amongst the politicians who vote on these things (and their lobbyists & other interests)!

Basically it is illegal to advertise paid sex or go looking/asking for it - but if by chance during some other encounter someone who is willing to pay meets someone who is happy to be paid for it, then there is no crime.

Another oddity is pornography. A small brothel in Grimsby got around the brothel thing by having a camera in every room - that way porn was being filmed which sidesteps the wording of the law nicely by instead being a film studio that happened to work on adult material (apparently customers walked away with the tape afterwards, though to be honest I'd not trust that wasn't the only copy!).
Impact: Earth A web app for calculating the consequences of a meteoroid impact
The name is "Impact: Earth!" but the "!" was removed from my title. The official name in the documentation is: "Earth Impact Effects Program: A Web-based computer program for calculating the regional environmental consequences of a meteoroid impact on Earth."
That may be the case with comments but I don't believe it is the case with stories. The only thing that may be a factor is the age of the account, if it is a very new account (minuets old) then it may be harder to get on to the homepage but I don't believe your karma has any impact.
Took a quick look at this - did not make much sense to me and looked nothing like my HN front page. Not criticizing, just not for me.
Passcode locks are a barrier only for domestic uses, and wouldn't be a problem for a forensics expert. It's not like the pass code would encrypt the filesystem.
Agreed! A comment with many replies is essentially a new "sub-post" with a life of its own.
I think it's because rough as the gameplay may be, the music is perfect.
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Github hosts git repositories.

Git is open source.
No, it's not a tautology at all. For instance, one sensible interpretation of the prediction would be that > 50% of all developers are within a range of += 10% of the average performance score. This may or may not be true.
If you don't like monocultures, you shouldn't have hated plug-ins. And Firefox OS should allow users to install browsers other than Firefox.

I'm very sad that not only Flash 11 but also Silverlight and Unity Web Player are all doomed by the enthusiasm of the "open" standards. Therefore, I feel that current Mozilla is full of hypocrisy.

And Mozilla, you must implement the Web Audio API ASAP. Without this, all interactive "HTML5" demos with audio will be developed only for WebKit browsers. "We innovate early, often"? I don't think so.
Initially I was really excited by Redshift, but when I got a chance to play with it I found out that there is no JDBC support for any kind of bulk insert or trickle loading.

The Postgres JDBC driver when you try and do batch inserts runs each statement individually and you end up inserting 10s of rows a second.

I wish they had gone with something like Vertica.
I might not be at the party to drink the spiked punch, but that doesn't mean I won't partake a bit...
Can someone please enlighten me, because I was under the impression that there is no ABM system on the planet capable of intercepting, let alone destroying, a large rock moving at 10km/second.

I'm not saying its impossible, but it just seems to me that there is a lot of misinformation as to what actually happened.
Even if you don't like Windows, you've got to admit that Gates is a good guy.
Looking at the silicon to understand the 8085's undocumented flags
> A tautology if I ever heard one.
In fairness, that statement was clarified: "In five years' time, most [future] programmers will still be average [by today's standards]."
Congrats on launching!

Can you say how your site is different from other similar sites? I'm asking because I have seen a few dozen sites like these. I even tried to build a shopping search engine once, but it fizzled out.

Unless you have a good specific angle on this, it will be hard to get users.

You should highlight what your site lets me do that I can't do somewhere else.
FlightCar (YC W13) Launches Its ‘Airbnb For Airport Car Rentals’ Service At SFO
Perfect, but how do we upload those already collected 300GB raw data there ...
The State Of Web Development Ripped Apart In 25 Tweets By One Man (2010)
> accentuated the overall negative experience to create a better narrative

I think that's pretty much what "stacking the deck" means.
How does an automated car handle a four-way stop sign intersection, out of curiosity?
SexyPHP: A Fun Way to Learn Object Oriented PHP
Actually the PIN code is the key (to the key) to the encrypted filesystem. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428477/the-iphone-has-p...

That's why on modern devices, a full remote wipe / secure wipe takes seconds instead of hours - only the master filesystem encryption key needs to be zeroed.
Javascript based search for your site
They produce stuff on Excel.

If they're really producing stuff, there's a good chance it involves a bit of programming (and wasn't HN discussing this a few days ago?).
"place their own customers directly in their crosshairs. Your immediate reaction may be to blast the previous sentence as hyperbole, but you would be wrong to do so."

Of course this is hyperbole. Don't be ridiculous.
Yeah, I got the same error but for some reason the Mint Software center can't find package 'steam' not sure what I'm doing wrong...
I'm pretty sure mentioning the amount of twitter followers he has as credentials was a joke, but I agree with your point. I don't think anyone would contend the fact that Ashton Kutcher had the final say in all matters.
>Even on an H-1B doing what the OP did would be a violation of status

Could you expand on this?
Do you mean an H-1B doesn't let you sell things online?
Tried in FF18, got "element is null", line 30.
In this case he sort of replaces some function calls with bodies of these functions, so the actual program flow would be clearer to read.
My company is migrating away from office. We use google docs and Libre Office for internal documents and only few copies of office for the external.

With html and css, and the paperless office gaining traction Word and Powerpoint will have a hard time defending their existence, as is the majority of other apps. For me it seems that the only really good application that is worth the money right now in the suite is Excel.
Indeed - or at least he's become one. Something good did come out of Windows after all...
What I find interesting about that obsessive 10% is that's how they socialize. It's the thrill of the challenge. See http://www.kaggle.com for more communal socializing challenges.
This reminds me of the "how many squares are there on a Go board" puzzle: http://senseis.xmp.net/?HowManySquaresOnAGoBoard

Hint: This time it's less than 18*18.
This is a dupe. And the numbers are wrong.

EDIT: Found it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5191094
It is great that FlightCar is doing the little things to prioritize customer service. As noted in the article, their idea of specializing in multi-day rentals is unique and in time, I believe they will beat out their competition.
Unlike most super billionaires, Gates is actually actively spending the bulk of his wealth while he's still alive. Genuine philanthropy.
Kickstarter doesn't validate your product; it validates your pitch
"had"?
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I think the Gates Foundation is doing some amazing work.

But, uh, this blog post doesn't seem very well researched. It lists $18.5 billion for male circumcision in Africa, when the correct number is $18.5 million. Kinda makes me question the other numbers.
How much of the Money donated by B&M Gates Foundation is Bill's personal money vs Money raised from donors? Not trying to diminish his donations, just genuinely curious how much money foundations like that raise form outside donors.
There is a "Is 20xx, the year of Linux gaming" thread somewhere every year.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2021249
I'm curious. What do the OpenGL graphic programmers do? Program games or software?
Optimal memory reallocation and the golden ratio [2011]
Pitchrs & Pubsummit in amsterdam next friday (22nd)
Qualcomm's Quick Charge technology speeds up recharging time
The patent in question has nothing to do with Chrome OS, beyond the very generic notion of thin clients.
Worse than that, this hypothetical 10% spends their time and attention on things that the 90% by and large don't value, while giving no attention to things the 90% do care about (like grooming)
Original article referenced:
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/does-you...

My question follows his:

Exactly how is this enforced? Is it just "forbidden" or are you actually blocked from using the retail activation code on a new computer? Is it tracked via your Microsoft cloud account? What if you change some of the hardware in your PC, will Office 2013 complain that it's a new computer?

I'm very interested to see how Microsoft attempts to prevent spoofing. Does anyone with experience in this type of DRM have a comment on how a device with no real unique identifying property is tracked? As mentioned above, using the hardware configuration would have serious issues, and is certaintly not unique. A "cloud account" I can't imagine can tie itself to a device any easier (IP, obviously not, MAC address, not a good idea, etc.). How can MSoft allow re-installing it on a reformatted device, but not taking it to a new device?
> a.c: A C reverse-engineered implementation of what used to be highly optimized x86 assembly. It works but is a monstruous pain in the ass to read :(

Was this manually reverse-engineered or was a tool used?
Investigative journalists have an address book and call history that is hugely valuable to certain people/companies.

Want to know which employee leaked your super-secret info to a reporter? Arrange for his/her phone to be stolen as they walk down the street chatting on it. Then it's just a quesion of how fast they can remote-wipe it...
I wonder if it's possible that it was an automated response?

Some combination of mass and speed detected by radar (or satellite?) triggering an S2A response.
He donated most of the money to his charity, which he controls.
Not really, any more. The fuel is winterized at point of purchase, so fuel geling is rather unlikely these days (and if it does, there are additives that will un-gel it.

Modern glow plugs are also much better. In my VW TDI, at 10F the glow plug cycle is only about 3 seconds, and then it fires right up. No glow plugs need at all above 35F.
# 6,9,10 are ok. Other predictions failed
He's talking about taking the Tappen Zee Bridge vs the George Washington Bridge. I actually used to live in Groton CT (the terminus of both trips) after graduating from the University of Delaware (the origin of both trips). I would never ever use the GWB. The extra 30 miles is always worth it. You can sit on the GWB and associated roads for 3-4 hours on a Friday night to go 10 miles. Not a good situation no matter what kind of car you have (and ironically, there aren't a lot of gas stations in that area, definitely not well marked).
Microsoft have done a fantastic piece of marketing for OpenOffice and LibreOffice here.
The ambiguity is helping that prediction quiet a bit, wouldn't you say?
Congrats on reaching critical mass already!

I wonder about those 3rd party developers: what's the incentive for them to include pressureNET in their apps?
Straw + Camel's back.

I tend to switch machines at least once a year for various reasons. My office license goes with me and is removed from the original machine. If they won't allow that, then I won't be upgrading and will be preemptively migrating to something else.

I don't think Microsoft realise how easy it is to just move to another platform/tool these days!
60 games, 47 DLC. Don't know if this url works:

http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_230_linux__12...
Exactly, in fact I'd say there's a lot more multithreading going on today, it's just that it's hidden behind whatever JEE framework people are using. This isn't a bad thing, enterprise developers (i.e. 90% of us) shouldn't have to worry about mutexes any more than they have to worry about interrupts or sorting algorithms.
Err... speaking as someone who has two Firefox OS Developer Devices in front of him right now, I can tell you that it is indeed very innovative. And so is Firefox for Android (specially when using the Aurora channel).

What you seem to be completely ignoring is the proposal of a WebAPI standard that allows web applications to access hardware and OS features and how this enables a vendor-neutral app ecosystem that doesn't have to answer to Apple or Google. This is way more important than hiding the protocol in the URL.

Firefox for Desktop, Firefox for Android and Firefox OS are a combination that will soon allow you to have the freedom of the web (aka cross-platform apps that doesn't require permission from your vendor to exist) on all your devices.

This is not only innovation but this is fighting for a web that belongs to the users and not an ecosystem where the user is the product being sold.

Have you ever considered why Firefox for Desktop appears to evolve in a slower pace than Chrome or Safari? Its because of standards. Mozilla works in the open, heck, you can have access to all the steps of production of a Firefox feature and Mozilla strives to make things standard in the W3C or whatever standard organization deals with that feature while Safari and Chrome will often implement things and not care about interoperability. They can do this because they are the spear point of two companies, named Apple and Google that have their own objectives. As companies, they need to differentiate from the competition and thus need to evolve fast. The choice of evolving fast and differentiating alone or working together in cooperation between companies and committees is this gap you see in browser evolution. I'd rather have standard W3C backed WebAPI and Firefox than WebKit features that do not work on Gecko and Trident and whatever engine launches in the future.

Different from you, I see Mozilla as really innovative because fighting for users and a free standard web is an innovation in these days of vendor lock-in and "I have this feature, you don't".
They already do this with WGA/Activation. It's a combination of disk IDs, MAC address, graphics card etc.
Steve Ballmer literally aiming guns at customers in Microsoft store.

Story at 11.
I don't see what the fuzz is about for now.

a. One Copy per Device. You may install one copy of the software on one device. That device is the "licensed device."

b. Licensed Device. You may only use one copy of the software on the licensed device at a time.

c. Portable Device. You may install another copy of the software on a portable device for use by the single primary user of the licensed device.

from http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/does-you...

The original australian article states two non-definitive answers:

A: "A perpetual license of Office 2013 can only be installed on one personal computer. This means that the customer can only install it on one device, either a desktop or laptop, but not both. If the customer has a system crash, they are allowed to reinstall Office on that same computer. If there are problems with this process, customers can contact Microsoft technical support"

B: "No, the customer cannot transfer the license from one PC to another PC."

I would bet on A and and a confused PR department. Of cause if you wan't to report some kind of "news" you would root for B rather than investigate further.
Look for the COPY command. Upload your raw data to S3 (gzipped if you like) and you can pull it straight in from there.
There are a lot of claims that were not proven by Musk, like driving through the downtown Manhattan.. When Lincoln Tunnel is nowhere close to Downtown.. (or properly Lower Manhattan)

Let's not start nitpicking, that stop was new for the reporter. He stopped once on the different side of the highway (North bound) and on this side of highway (South bound) the tesla station was in a completely different place.

So yea, it's very plausible that he was looking for it.
At the date of his death, I was wondering what the financial status of his company was. Now we know, unfortunately.
Play Perl is online
Nazca Blueprints
This was written in 2004.
Show HN: Startup Wishareit – Trying to solve the bad gifts issue
Hi HN!

I'm quite new to HN so I'm sorry if I don't do a well built post (in terms of form) as you are probably used to.

My name is João Romão, from Portugal, and I'm one of the co-founders of Wishareit, a place for collaborative gifting with your friends and family.

Everybody loves gifts but sometimes finding a gift is a really hard task. And the consequence is painful: you get ugly clothes, bad books and.. cactuses. We reached out and discovered that 40% of all gifts in the US in 2011 were considered to be crap and that 83% of people had trouble when looking for a gift. That's a really annoying issue.

Our vision is to transform the way gifting is done, turning it into a really collaborative experience.

We started off with Wishareit, a collaborative gifting platform where you have socially curated wishlists and where you can find, recommend, give and receive the perfect gifts with your friends and family.

We're still in open beta, trying to understand the space and the user behavior.

I'd like to get some feedback on the general feeling for Wishareit design and usability and some inputs on what may be improved (i'm sure there are some relevant advice you can provide me).

I hope you can help us grow and improve as a product and as a team!

On other subject, we will probably pitch at SXSW in Austin, Texas so feel free to tweet (@joaoromaolx) or send me a message on Angel List (https://angel.co/joaoromao) and we'll have a chat there!

You can visit Wishareit on www.wishareit.com (I'm sorry if you don't feel confortable with facebook login - contact me and I'll give you a test account so you can experience the website).

All the best for you guys,

João Romão
CEO, Wishareit