skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of jobs in Java are not for Java Applets running on peoples machines, a lot of the Java work is for client side apps, and for server side apps (think app development like RoR).

Java applets are not necessary.

The reason why the US government said to uninstall Java is because it is the quickest and easiest way for the layman to remove the ability for Java applets to run. If Sun^H^H^HOracle provided a way to just install Java so it can be used for client side apps without turning on Java applets in the browser, then it is not any less unsafe than C++/C#/Obj-C apps running on the same system.
So, call the one Documents, and call the other Shared Documents. This ≠ rocket science.
The problem is, most people don't have the money for it.
I'm a little disappointed with the quality of the explanation. It's conjecture at best, and while this is a good theory, this better not be NASA saying "we're convinced this is what it is, we're not going to look into it further; case closed."

It's a good hypothesis, and now the scientific method mandates that they prove it. I realize nothing the Curiosity does is free - any decision to investigate something comes with the opportunity cost of investing something else in the same time. However, as far as I can tell from the cursory glances I've had at the Curiosity archives to date, this is certainly one of the more intriguing things it's come across till now, and it would be nice to have a look at it.

Curiosity's mission is (purposely and rightfully) somewhat vague and open-ended; however the number one stated goal (IIRC) for Curiosity is geological research - one would think that this fits squarely into that category.

All that aside, the photos they have published in the linked PDF (it loads super-slow, btw. Use the scribd link or the nyud cache) are less than damning proof. None of the "similar photos" they post really are that close of a match, and their conjectures about different rock types still fail to arrive at a conclusion as to what juxtaposition of different elements/minerals are we looking at in that "ventifact." Also, given that the last time Mars had the atmosphere or potentially water required for that sort of erosion to occur was likely several billion years ago, I find the odds that neither - a) this hasn't been completely weathered down nor b) this is one of many and we should have seen much more of it if it truly is just a result of normal erosion - are apparently the case to be a little hard to swallow.

Then again, I could be jumping the gun. NASA hasn't actually come out and said they definitely will not be looking into this further, though their official post on the matter [0] is suspiciously devoid of any mention to the contrary.

0: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20130211.html
Amazon Segregation - I thought I came to a free country
I am a last semester Masters student of Computer science with GPA of 4.0/4.0 in a US university.
After interviewing with Amazon, today I received a an offer from Amazon for summer 2013 internship. The recruiter had sent me a congratulations message and had asked me to schedule a phone call in order to discuss the details of the offer.
She called me tonight and told me that she has a question first.
Recruiter: Are you from an embargoed country?
Me: I am not sure what you mean. But I have friends who are of the same nationality as mine working in Microsoft, HP, Google, Facebook, etc.
Recruiter: I see you got your bachelor degree from an embargoed country.
Me: Yes!
And the she told me that based on Amazon policies, they are not able to proceed with the offer anymore!

What is an student role in his country's politics?
What he can do about what the politicians do in his country?
Have you decided where to born?
Is it what they are calling freedom and is it what Amazon means by "Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer"?
Isn't it what we call SEGREGATION???

I am just SAD!
How I can get my offer back?
Starry, Starry, Starry Night
Quit my job and now on my own
My wife and I quit our day jobs to make our side project a reality.
In my brief experience with Angular the difference is that while you can do "ui-keypress="{13:'keypressCallback($event)'}" that is more of the lazy way of doing things. The benefit of using the View and the way it should be used is in a declarative form such that someone looking at the View can know immediately that some element has some interactive behavior attached to it, but the proper way is to abstract it via a directive so that you don't pollute your view with the imperative details.

So, instead of using

<input "ui-keypress="{13:'keypressCallback($event)'}">

where keypressCallback does a form submit or something, you would write a directive that is just "form-submitter" and you would have your DOM be

<input form-submitter >

So that way you can easily scan your view to see what elements have what behaviors, but not how.

And Angular also allows you to bind events within javascript and really that is what the "form-submitter" directive in this example would be doing as well, but it should not be happening in general within the view/dom.

Although many times it is too heavy weight to make a directive for everything, but that is where the scope concepts of Angular comes in as well as the controllers so that at least the functions that are being triggered are still more expressive as they are localized to the containing scope. So, for instance you could have a directive "my-form" which is just an enhancement of the standard html form. In my directive I can then define a "validate()" method which validates the inputs. So, instead of having a "form-validator" directive I can instead do:

<my-form>
<input type="text" >

<button ng-click="validate()"/>

</my-form>

Because of the scoping rules of Angular it is generally easier to infer the behavior of the method that is being called as it is scoped to my-form and as long as you are playing by the best practices there is not any real concern for functionality within that method to leak outside of "my-form" thus maintaining the ability to look at the DOM and have a pretty good idea of what the application is doing without digging through javascript as well.
Strange. I understand the point the slides are making: over geologic time periods, the erosion of rocks is very complicated. It certainly seems possible that xenobiologists are saying "of course, the slides are spot-on"... But, as merely an MSEE/MSOtherStuff, the slides don't reduce my curiosity in the least*.

My curiosity about this stuff could certainly be a personal thing/defect, so I don't want to discount the idea that winds and sand could produce the observed structure... But it certainly suggests more than a craggy geode.

And here we brush the realm of Creationists: it's tempting to say that nothing but intelligent life could have produced the "door handle", but that's "irreducible complexity".

The mere thought process that these two things could be linked produces two simultaneous thoughts: that's a door handle on Mars!!!!, because nothing natural could have produced it!!!; and, now I'm guilty of non-falsifiable thinking because I want it to be true.
Tully Foote has posted this on Willow Garage's blog: "Willow Garage has decided to enter the world of commercial opportunities with an eye to becoming a self-sustaining company. This is an important change to our funding model."

http://www.willowgarage.com/blog/2013/02/11/willow-garage-ch...
Are there any particular resources you'd recommend on getting to know this stuff?
I have no experience, so please excuse this if it's insensitive, but isn't the difference between adopting and being a foster parent the fact that as a foster parent you are only a temporary guardian for the child? i.e. they usually have parents they would go back to eventually?
Do you have swap disabled by chance?
Crowdmap - Power to the people
I own a Chevy Volt and it gets about 20% less range in the ~32 degrees F temperatures we have around here in NYC environs right now.
Which means that Willow Garage is NOT shutting down, they are merely changing.

The article is incorrect.
But at least with music interfaces the levels are quite different. As a long-time user of music UI, pianos tend to have glossy white and black keys, knobs may have shading, there may be fake screws in the faceplates. Those elements are meant to look like and mimic their physical counterparts.
At least you can back it up... unlike a real cash wallet.
As far as I know, not really... in Europe you might have been able to file a lawsuit for discrimination, but the US and especially its handling with the "axis of evil" states is ridiculous. I guess you're from Iran?
Cool to see that you guys remembered it from months ago. The Bill Gates IAmA is up there as well for those wondering....
That designed was copied by Media Player Classic which is still popular to this day.

Microsoft's flat aesthetic dates back to at least Encarta, which was wonderfully designed.
What about compass anomalies when flying around the poles? What about flying at extreme altitudes?

If we're talking about avionics for Boeing passenger jets, that's one thing -- but those aren't going to be the same avionics that go into a Cessna 172 or a glider. That's why differing standards exist.

And no, I'm not claiming that -- that's what the giant sticker is for. If you're concerned about that sort of thing, make your hardware open and people can put on whatever custom firmware they like.
how about "view archive" and "send to archive"?
Ask HN: Where are the cheap gyms in SF?
Thats it! Looking for something < $20 for a day pass. Or a month-by-month under $50 bucks. As I'm not sure where I'm living yet. So short term is good.
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Amazon cloud spin-off 'inevitable,' says Oppenheimer
I say laser it and see if it shoots back :-) Ok that is too silly. I'm betting its a chunk of basaltic glass.
...and commit some sort of federal offense, to boot. At most you could take out a victimless crime that conscionable people would violate, but you wouldn't change the whole system.

They could even use prosecutorial discretion to ignore the federal offenses committed purely out of civil disobedience.

Also, you can't say what Aaron would or would not have done in response to the still-in-negotiation plea bargaining that was happening in his case. He could have chosen a plea bargain, or he could have chosen to go to trial, but he took a far more tragic third option.
I appreciate this. For a deficiency that affects so many men, I'm always dismayed by the lack if awareness.
Why Thousands of Spiders Are Crawling in the Skies Over Brazil
Seismic activity reported in area of previous North Korea nuclear tests
Foundation video: episode 27 with Jawbone founder Hosain Rahman
I see, thank you. I wasn't familiar with this expression, but it's more the mention of 'cheap kids' that I found awkward. I guess it's just me.
In "Lord of the Flies", one kid's broken glasses are a significant plot device.
Civil disobedience entails publicly flouting the system and then accepting punishment in order to demonstrate the injustice of the system. Aaron Swartz never got around to the second part, tragically.
FYI: There is a book on Meteor by Isaac Strack already out (released in late December). It's called Getting Started with Meteor.js.

It's a decent book for getting your hands dirty with Meteor. I'm looking forward to the book in the link also.
It's just a joke, reddit humour is a little bizarre.
"How I can get my offer back?"

Think of it as Amazon's loss. Look for another job offer. If other US companies do the same, look to Canada, Australia, Europe (and think of it as USA's loss).
Relationship Science Plans Database of Names and Connections
When a Phone Upgrade Is a Downgrade, and Why iPhones Still Don't Have NFC
You could continue to blast full-speed down sidewalks and blow through red lights, so no change there.
What makes you doubt that? If there was no money to be made, these wouldn't be spam, Viagra Wordpress hacks or Phishing attempts.

You have no idea...
That makes more sense. They supposedly had enough funding to last through at least 2020 so it's hard to see why they would shut down. But since not bothering to actually commercialize stuff has been their biggest weakness to date, this move seems sensible.
Not only that. Just last month Carmen Ortiz was being talked up as a serious candidate to be the next governor or AG of Massachusetts. [0]

Now she is extraordinarily unlikely to ever hold elected office. I know that I -- a committed Democrat -- will cheerfully send money to any opponent in a primary and even an odious Republican in a general election running against her. The local tech scene is full of people who feel the same and can organize the state's most productive industry.

One US attorney on the verge of greatness has seen the career consequences of serious misbehavior. We can only hope more will see them because the nation's prosecutorial culture is nasty, vicious, anti-democratic, brutal, and out of control.

0 - http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/30/1183402/-As-Gov-Pat...
“It is a safe haven,”

and that's it, especially with Chinese, Russian or ME oil money. If you have $1++ bilion, you want to safely put away enough to live comfortably for the rest of your life, should government act up and taketh it. Maybe you are on a foreign trip, or you make it to the border, fake a passport or whatever, and then your property in NY or London awaits you. No need to work as a busboy or at a dry cleaning service.

In US, rich people may buy land, bunkers, gold and silver coins. But USA is much more stable and property rights are relatively safe so we call them paranoid.
Yes, but if you want to compute exact results, then you're stuck with log n time.
ZeroCater is hiring Hackers
Christopher Dorner Timeline
I'm not going to fill in a huge form when I have no clue what it even is. Make it clear, make it easy for me.
Hacktivist Michael David Crawford update from jail
They are more complicated to repair. But they are also more resilient. Broken glass is less likely to disable them.

If you have a fairly new car and you can get fuel, you might be able to travel thousands of miles without a repair. And they come with a spare tire. And you can carry tools and extra oil and a mechanic.
Oh! The demo only appears above a certain width of the browser window. It's Chrome and Safari only right now.
Miredo/teredo is yuck indeed. ATIYA is not bad, I am not sure why you turn your nose to it. Practically it just adds 8 bytes to the headers compared to 6in4 yet is a lot easier to set up. Specifically, if you do not have a router that you control and that can do IPv6 and ip6tables, AYIYA is the easiest to set up and have a static address. I would not set it up for a server but for a small LAN it will be no different than 6in4.
'Artificial' earthquake detected in North Korea may be nuclear test
Just betting that you don't regularly travel with kids...

I just drove from San Francisco to San Jose yesterday with my family, had to stop twice along the way for near-emergency bathroom breaks. 45 minutes every 4 hours sounds like NO PROBLEM.
This sounds like a strong argument against preschool: if you need to learn to respect other kids, wait your turn, and be kind, a bunch of five-year-olds is probably the worst possible place to turn to for help.
Cool Google Nexus Tour
Sure, except that Crichton was extremely outspoken regarding "climate change as a lie"[1] where he used his book, State of Fear, to present his views as facts[2]:

1. https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~scranmer/SPD/crichton.html

2. http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/glo...
A 1000 mile trip in a gas vehicle would require 3, maybe 4 fuel ups. I've timed my fill-ups many times, 7 minutes from off the road to back on (assuming an en-route gas station) is about the average. So, figure 28 minutes lost to fueling, vs. 4 hours. The Tesla will take at least 3.5 hours longer to make the same trip.

On the other hand: you'll be shelling out about $60 for each gas station stop; and $0 for each Supercharger stop. That adds up too, you know.
This happens to be the opposite of the way Twitter direct messages work though.
Still more DOS, Directory traversal and CSRF vulnerabilities.
It's obnoxious - and so is your manner of speaking to people.
Hi, I've tried starting multiple projects that faced this chicken and egg thing.

While I wouldn't call ourselves really successful, our latest venture, Fork the Cookbook succeeded by having what we call "single player mode". We had initially got people to add their favourite recipes into Fork the Cookbook (and in the last 5 days or so, this has come back to bite our asses), and thus, the 'single player mode' is essentially letting the users achieve something that can be done on their own (i.e. beautiful looking recipes for their personal collection)

Now after some amount of recipes, we're only starting to actively promote the community features (like forking a recipe).

All these came from our past experience in failing to gain enough traction on community sites. See my profile for more of my failed projects (there are a lot more listed on my latest blog entry where I was feeling rather blue).
Personally, I found some of his responses to be really hilarious.
It was actually the traffic from Google since day 1. Advertising may work for just the first few, but it costs too much to be sustainable. Many podcasts and journalists are startup friendly and would love to recommend you to their following too.
That makes the most sense. Imagine a Jiffy Lube style setup: you drive on to a station, robotic arms automatically remove your battery and install a new one, and you're on your way. Total time: under 2 minutes. Boom!
Bootstrap Mention Plugin (@you @me, #this #that)
Medicine Publication: Survival Benefit of Pexa-Vec in Patients w/ Carcinoma
The best way to write, collaborate on, and talk about a text.
> These three points affect anyone who lives near heavy automobile traffic. Just because it's an externality doesn't mean it doesn't exist!

And the externalities of electric cars matter quite a bit to the people who live next to coal-fired power plants.
data.table deserves a mention here too. It simplifies and speeds up dataframe operations

see ?data.table
Editorially offers a refreshingly legible privacy policy
Or sometimes the aesthetics and usability of the webpage the article is on.

Not that our meta-comments are much better.
Excellent article.

I recently read three books: one on the Kindle iOS app, archive.org's PDF scan of a real book, and finally, a real, printed-on-paper book.

I used to dislike skeuomorphism as exemplified by Apple faux leather. So it came as a surprise when I found I enjoyed the PDF scan much more than the Kindle version. (The paper version came out way on top, because it was an old book much enjoyed by bookworms of human and insect types, and was a pleasure to hold and smell as well as read)

I now appreciate that natural variations and noise inherent in paper and other real-world materials have a calming aesthetic effect, while ultra-Spartan black-on-white is perhaps _too_ antiseptic for comfortable human consumption.

The design tension then, is between

- being true to the medium, in the sense that the design should do its job within the abilities and limitations of the medium, rather than gratuitously imitating and importing look/feel from previous mediums just for the sake of familiarity.

- being human, respecting the human aesthetic sense, honed over millenia of exposure to fractal and noisy nature.

Extreme skeuomorphism results in campy, tacky faux leather. Extreme minimalism results in bland, "inhuman" interfaces. At the golden mean lie things like "noisy" linen backgrounds, subtle shadows, which assuage the human need for variation without imitation of real objects and grandfathering in their functional limitations.

I agree with the author - Google has found its design feet, and they're not bad!
This was fun.
You can do the same with python's msgpack as the C# version

Try this:

packer = msgpack.Packer()
serialized = packer.pack('stuff you wanna pack')

unpacker = msgpack.Unpacker()
unpacker.feed(serialized)
print unpacker.unpack()

I had originally used this, but then as my API scope extended to more than just using msgpack, having a common API interface for json (i.e. the .loads() and .dumps() method) was found to be more useful.

And while I agree with most of the article, I don't think writing more classes is a one-size-fits-all solution. Classes IMO, only makes sense from a heavily OOP point of view.
Machine code on an 8-bit processor - ideally an old microcomputer, failing that an ATtiny. It's the only sensible way of teaching the fundamentals of how computers actually work. A reasonably bright young teenager can easily understand a computer from the metal up, so long as that computer has a bare-bones instruction set and no more memory than can be copied onto a couple of sheets of paper. There are a number of excellent books written for the Vic-20 or Timex 1000 that cover all the fundamentals in an accessible way.
I hope that reddit comes up with a better interface for doing AMAs, too. I think that the interface for the interviewee is just what I see as the observer. Hitting re-fresh over and over again.

It'd be nice to see a real-time client of popular questions and chances for rebuttals. There'd only be one client in this case, everyone else would see what we do now.

Hopefully, this would make it easier for interviewees to answer more questions in an hour rather than the dozen or so I see now.
If you're changing your oil every 5,000 miles, you're wasting your money.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/your-money/11shortcuts.htm...
It doesn't seem to be available anymore, sadly.
Link for the lazy: https://leanpub.com/getting-started-with-meteorjs
I would also be concerned about increasing travel time by 25%. That's hardly trivial.

To establish a frame of reference, this means SF <-> LA would take ~7 hours instead of 5.5. SF <-> San Diego would be just shy of 10 hours.
> What do people give you for your birthday, given that you can buy anything you want?

thisisbillgates:

> Free software. Just kidding.

> Books actually.
That's a very good and positive attitude...
YMCAs are a good start, tho they're a bit over your budget: $60/mo.
WOW, that old-timey Finder on OSX is horrific. Almost as bad as the current Finder.
Fast - most cars that cost that much are fast.

quiet - one of the selling points of expensive cars are how great their engines sound.

beautiful - I don't think it's look compare to an Aston Martin or Maserati. Maybe that's just me.

high status - mostly because they are so new and rare at this point.

I can't commen on the others because I honestly don't know.
This article should really just be called "Everyone should just follow Hadley's Github". Actually, someone should write that.
The 10 Stages of Evolution as an Entrepreneur
I assume that you don't leave it unattended since someone could start stealing the gas which you are paying for?
It is ridiculous... I can not see the relation between what a programmer does and his nationality... Yes I am from Iran.
I'd love to see some software you've designed.