skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Old Pixilated Doom Screenshot Redone In High Resolution(9600 x 7211)
Nice tip, My sledgehammer is a git-sub script (http://minhajuddin.com/2011/12/13/script-to-do-a-global-sear...) :)
My new employer was owed nearly $23000. Hopefully that gains me some good karma.
I'd actually be very interested in this. Recently went back to C# and have quickly remembered how painful .sln and .csproj files are to merge >_< Would love a solution that used something easier to merge, lol!
500 Helps Indian Startups March to Victory
I wonder what kinds of safeguards they have in place to prevent people with the same name from claiming each other's things.
Is it just me, or is it really creepy that anyone can dig up this sort of info about your income/pension/insurance/etc?

Illinois' search is no better, but it does not display dollar amount details: https://icash.illinois.gov/
Why so many asteroids all of a sudden?
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It currently costs $505.90 to register an account as a vendor on Silk Road, so I do not think this is a financially feasible strategy.
Is anything that anyone claims as art.
Where would one start - I would like to buy some and see how it all works, and maybe leave a laptop mining some - but I would prefer to research first - where would I start?

Cheers
I thought it is well established in the lesswrong community that we shouldn't give money to Eliezer Yudkowsky until the Singularity Institute proves itself to be of value.
"With a score of 6.25, we found the happiest city to be Napa, CA, due to a relative abundance of such happy words as “restaurant”, “wine”, and even “cheers”, along with a lack of profanity."

I grew up in Napa so I know something was off here. While adults love it, most kids find it boring or even hate growing up there.

Tweets about wine != happiness. Lack of profanity != happiness. Examples - "The wine sucked" or "Vegas is f*cking awesome!" This is an interesting study of vocabulary, but hardly a measure of happiness.
Nothing beats a keyboard for efficiency of text input.
Is there a time limit on making claims? If they do expire, where does the money go? This money could (and should) make a huge difference to the lives of the public.
Nyan Cat inspired RSpec formatter
Mega-cities on the West Coast? Portland and Vancouver are mega-cities? San Francisco and Seattle are not mega-cities either. It's really funny how things can look so differently depending on where you sit.
Cost? Who would cover the bills for such public registry's office and staffing needs?

The number is also a meaningless baseline - 5 inseminations in a rural community might lead to a higher probability of inbreeding that 5 inseminations in Los Angeles, CA. Patterns of social mobility differ greatly across various geographies.
Most of this problem is self propelled prophecy.I highly suggest you to read the book "Never eat alone" following principles in it will help you maintain a bond with someone and re engage it. Mostly by reinviting those people you met for food. Everyone eats food right. This was the basis for which i started http://LetsLunch.com
Nice! awesome work Sprint :)
I think you might mean 'evoke'.
Yes, it's really more a measure of non-profane, Epicurean words.
I have put up a cool tilt shift video of San Luis Obispo on http://slo.com/
Also note that:

Due to the large volume of claims we receive and process,
it may take up to 180 days to process your claim.
Property tax searches are a great way to DOX someone, btw.
On that note, I think a more accurate measure would be to look for two emoticons: ":)" and ":("
This is a marketing spoof.

All CDNs offer DNS level DDOS protection by default. Not because they choose to, but because they have no other option. After all, the same IP ranges are used by all clients and this makes it impossible to pinpoint the original target. (thus no one to blame/bill)

Every CDN does it, but only CF claims it as a "feature".
Ultimate Cluster Models with NAMCS and NHAMCS Public Use Files
Masked sample design variables were included for the first time on NAMCS and NHAMCS public use data files for survey year 2000. These design variables reflected the complex multistage sample design of the surveys and were intended for use with software such as SUDAAN that required such data for variance estimation.
Scientific evidence on heritability is inconclusive at this point, from what I understand, there was a recent article on this http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732416230457830...?

"People have chosen to ignore the genetics of intelligence for a long time," said Mr. Zhao, who hopes to publish his team's initial findings this summer. "People believe it's a controversial topic, especially in the West. That's not the case in China," where IQ studies are regarded more as a scientific challenge and therefore are easier to fund.
Dave McClure - doing things the right way for Indian startups since 2010
Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
Turning point talk. Must listen.
You could just create an alias for that.
Maybe the happiest people don't tweet
Hey thanks for the Monsanto information. I was unaware of these updates.

Regarding the Macbook analogy, agreed, but why would patent law hold true here ? Just trying to understand. A Macbook doesn't replicate by itself.
Are there any companies that will monitor states unclaimed property and retrieve it for a commission?
AWS OpsWorks - Flexible Application Management in the Cloud Using Chef
Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful AWS Application Management Solution
The Founding Fathers commented anonymously!

http://www.carolinajournal.com/articles/display_story.html?i...
Pretty well captures my experience, though there's a lot to like about Python, it's 3rd parties that are making it accessible in spite of what's at python.org. Also, the CP4E concept is regularly decried as defunct and unworkable in Python forums.
This actually confirmed my thought, it was not a money related issue ..

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5239673
Git: forever remove files or folders from history
What I mean by "everyone on the team plays by the rules." is:

- all pointer access done via smart pointers

- std::vector instead of native arrays

- Use std::vector::at() instead of std::vector::operator[]() unless profiling shows a relevant performance increase

- std:string instead of char*

- References instead of pointers for mutable parameters

If you do C like coding in C++, which is of course possible, then C++'s safety over C gets thrown out of the window.

When I get to decide, the continuous integration build is always done with all warnings enabled, warnings as errors and static analyzers tools.

The developers can do the local build as they prefer, though.
I'm glad you pointed this out because it was also my blink-one-second reaction.
If you want to test out how it works in practice, try playing with instawallet.org , maybe buying small amount of coins and tracking how it works. There are also free bitcoins sites, I don't have much experience with them or either with mining. You can track transactions on blockchain.info

If you want to learn about technicalities, Satoshi paper would be a good start: http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Then bitcoin wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page
I especially like the myths page: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Myths
I'm just happy you got it fixed! Thanks!
>I find it pretty annoying that there seems to be lot of people with strong opinions about bitcoins, but who haven't really studied it that much...

Read the last line of my original comment. No reason to get snippy.
The way the industry is run now, we all have to react to the transient nature of our employers. Apple is probably less transient than most at its core. But its nice to see someone who had a career somewhere move on, but for the rest of us without stock options or "minions", its really a question of where is this whole thing heading. The career of software engineers is not heading in a good direction at the same time that ordinary people are finally beginning to see the benefits of technology in their own lives. Its not about burnout so much as it is that we as engineers were the only ones who cared to see,know and touch how the sausage was made. I feel that this view will only get more dim and more grim as time passes. The more people want technology in their lives, the faster and more brutally we will become a sweatshop.
FWIW, due to the way that the IPv4 address space is allocated, you could achieve far fewer "collisions" (i.e. different IPs producing the same palette) by throwing away the first byte instead.

http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-addr...
Wow, that's insane. Spending $50m/year to notify people and process these claims could easily be justified given the sheer size of the assets being held.
Yet another PHP programmer throwing a tantrum about Python is neither representative nor particularly instructive.

There is no technical substance in this criticism, so it is really useless for anything except venting about one person's tastes.
Inside the Battle of Hoth: The Empire Strikes Out
GP here. You're right that the final diff, in this case the second-order diff, cannot by itself prove that my final adjustment fixed all of the broken sentence-end links. But I wasn't merely going on that evidence.

The whole point of using a second-order diff was to allow me to reliably carry forth the knowledge gained by my exhaustive review of the prior diff. That exhaustive review told me that there were a dozen broken sentence-end links. And that's how many showed up as fixed in the final, second-order diff: one dozen.

So the prior and final evidence, together, allowed me to be confident that the adjustment worked as intended.
This is called, in my experience, "throwing it against a backboard" (ie, basketball reference). It's incredibly useful - not everyone can explain things to a rubber duck but can usually explain a problem to a real person.

Plus you get some more human interaction - which as a programmer, you probably need more than you are allowing yourself (or your coworker is).
A long time ago now, Slashdot had a discussion on the death penalty and the deterrence argument was being tossed around.

A cop spoke up and the essence of his point was: The punishment doesn't matter, as much as the sure knowledge that you will be caught.
You're talking organized crime with cat burglars breaking into US facilities.

Another method is Social Engineering.
almost all apps: apple trackpad scrolling, with awesome speed sensitivity (even a less pager inside a terminal in a linux VM.)

that one app (nano - don't judge me, I use GUI editors for programming): has its own shortcuts (Ctrl+V for pgdown and Ctrl+Y for pgup.)

On the other hand, don't get me started on OS X home/end keys...
A Look Inside The Top-Secret Google Glass Foundry
Really? Is this article serious or are we being trolled?
Very true, and a good point. I thought it was a interesting little gotcha about the whole technique though: sometimes you will actually need to go ahead and look at whole diff to be 100% sure.
Ubuntu & HTC collaboration unveiled today?
Both companies have a countdown on their frontpage that looks suspiciuosly similar:

www.htc.com

www.ubuntu.com

Is an HTC tablet with Ubuntu preinstalled coming today?
We Oppose DRM
The manufacturers can't hear what you're saying over the sound of the ringing cash register. You've already bought the Windows laptop, proving that Linux support from their part wasn't that important after all.

The only way I'd see this working is if you could use the magical checkbox to say "I'm preordering this laptop only after you get all hardware properly working in Linux". Get enough Linux preorders like that and they might even task someone with prodding the component manufacturers to come up with proper drivers.
Microsoft cares, and the Business Software Alliance cares, because one potential impact of the ruling would be that the license agreements which come with basically all proprietary software would be rendered null with respect to their restrictions on copying (the argument that IP protection is exhausted at sale of a seed can easily extend to the idea that it expires at sale of a piece of software).

See SCOTUSblog for more:

http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/02/argument-preview-stakes-ar...
Thanks for the explanation. Hopefully we can agree that it still puts the US in a precarious public spotlight...not sure that the public will make as detailed a distinction as appears to be required.
usage would shift.

There are many reasons people take drugs, and in the places where people don't have an escape or a way out, people will sniff glue if they've reached that stage.

Fixing people is HARD. If you have someone who suffers from depression, its a quick way to suddenly see how hard they will have to travel to reach to just functionality, and from there to being competitive with their cohort.
Ask HN: Copy and paste on any device
I find myself most of the time needing to copy a piece of text or even a link from my mobile and paste later (when I get out of the bathroom) on my PC.

Do you have the same problem? What are you using to solve this?

Thanks
I used to be a delicious user. Their export was broken for several months, and they did not show signs of wanting to fix it. I had to write a Python script to backup my data by parsing their HTML pages.

Regarding Diigo, their Firefox extension sends every visisted URL to their server. Thanks for the respect of my privacy.

Enough is enough.
Surprised this is the #1 story on HN...
Indeed. Whenever you drop the sledgehammer, you have the obligation to exhaustively review its effects at least once to be sure there wasn't collateral damage. The beauty of the second-order diff is that, once you do an exhaustive review, you need not do another one just to adjust the sledgehammer.
I paste it to the cloud so i can access it from everywhere.
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Good find, it certainly does look like that.
Hm, perhaps, but what about other options? What about interviewing him in embassy in person or via Skype? Is there a reason that would be impossible for Swedish government?
The snicker net will still work when the Internet police will come. It will be lower bandwidth (or higher depending on the size of the exchanged HDDs :), high latency but will work.
Well no tech really goes extinct. Kevin Kelly has a great piece on it:
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/04/technologies_...

It just moves to hobbyists / fringe. Mainline agriculture hasn't saved seeds for a long time (coming up on 100 years) for many crops due to the improved performance of hybrids. Seed saving is brought up w/r/t GMOs because it makes for a better narrative. People actually originally attacked hybrids with the same approach ... farmers wouldn't be able to save seeds since their saved seeds would be worse than the hybrids.
Why you are missing the point of marketing
This is an ultrabook, you can't expect prices to be anywhere near those of a bulky 15".
You're right, I assumed the billion times figure was correct, it should be a million.
Heh. $24 from a Washington Mutual free checking account. Surely would have paid that in fees had I agreed to become a Chase member.
You've omitted a lot of context.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7106589/ljbox/doc/MSFT-shares.png

Gates has been selling his stock at a steady pace for over a decade. Since Sept '01 he has sold an average of about 78.4 million shares per year.

Using your link you can see that he sells 20 million shares quarterly, with each block of 20M selling within one week. So he did his usual 80 million in the past year.

Since the rate of his selling has neither increased nor decreased significantly in at least 11.5 years, are you sure you can conclude something about his satisfaction level? What about the possibility that he is diversifying and funding his philanthropic goals?

As of today he still owns about 421 million common shares of MSFT, worth $11.8 billion.
Meet a need, get known and have empathy with John McIntire
It does in the sense that they show one at a time. In WP functionality mostly integrates into the main interface. Of course android isn't standing still, which is the point of the article.
"If javascript is part of the toolchain at all, I will have to eventually debug javascript code"

And if a bytecode spec was written and used you would eventually have to debug bytecodes?
In Germany, a recent court ruling means it is impossible to donate anonymously. Another court ruling makes it impossible to get out of child support. EDIT: Child support only ends after around 5 years of university study.

I predict mail-order sperm or sperm bank tourism. Especially for high acheivers' sperm.
VIDEO: Chinese hackers exposed. (by Mandiant)
Confused... is this an alternative for chef server?
Studies of twins consistently show a heritability of about 85% for adult IQ and executive function (focus vs. ADHD). The postnatal environment has little effect unless it is severely neglectful or deprived.

Edit: added "postnatal".
Indian Startups - scary combination!
Security Firm Outs Chinese Hackers with Screen Capture Video
We Bet You Never Knew This Would Be A $100 Billion Industry
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The prevailing ideas (AKA Eliezer's ideas) do change. They used to be for AI research before they were against it. I am too bothered by the groupthink to hang around for long periods of time. I get enough of it IRL.
> Another advantage of C over Old C++ is that there's one C, defined by one standards document and maybe a few common features that are not standard but reliably present on most compilers and hardware. There isn't a list of features you're theoretically able to use but the compilers don't support (templates in Old C++) or common things you do differently in every implementation.

If only this was true

http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...

I had to develop with multiple C commercial compilers between 1999 and 2002, across several OS. The code had quite a few #ifdefs because of them.

Are you aware that C11 has optional features?

> Pascal figures in this in that the official standard Pascal was basically unworkable as a language, due to features like the size of an array being an obligatory part of its type and the resulting lack of a way to write a function that could handle more than one size of array. Having it be optional, as we see here in C, is really the only way to go unless an array knows its own size and won't let you overstep the bounds.

The first ISO standard yes, but all Pascal dialects always had feature parity with C, while being more type safe, fast compile times and direct support for modules.

Most of it was made part of the ISO Extended Pascal standard, which most people ignored as the industry cared more about Turbo Pascal compatibility. Both solve your arrays example.

The common complaint that the stronger type checking languages impose performance penalty with arrays bound checking is always wrong, as the compilers allow for it to be turned off.

In both cases it is the problem with standards and vendor differentiation, you seldom get a 100% compliant implementation of any standard.
I think this is the best idea/solution in this thread...
Your hard work is appreciated. Thanks.
Looks interesting, but it seems strange to me that it's something of an island.

There's no integration with Elastic Load Balancer, no integration with RDS or in fact any of the other AWS services except for deployment from S3.
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Sort of, but not exactly. It's not API compatible with Chef server, and I believe you don't get the nice search syntax for grabbing node information across your fleet that match some kind of criteria. But you still do get info on your other machines, and you do get nice orchestration across your fleet.
a bit off-topic:
Golang has a similar feature built into it's type system [1]

"The size of an array is part of its type. The types [10]int and [20]int are distinct."

[1] http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#arrays
Talking about Tor; you can built your own Silk Road with http://osclass.org/ (it's a software for creating your own classified site) and using the Tor plugin http://blog.osclass.org/2013/01/21/anonymous-with-tor-plugin....

Disclosure: I participate in Osclass.
GTA in JavaScript:

http://www.webworks.dk/enginetest
Have you read Spenders (the grsec maintainer) recent comments on Linux security development practices? They provided interesting insight imho, even if they were bit flame-y.

https://lwn.net/Articles/538221/ (ctrl-f spender)
Early product demo of Twitter
3D printing pen lets you draw sculptures in thin air
My nephew has $0.26 coming to him. I wonder if he'll track down a notary for the form that will charge less. Next question is: drive in the form or mail it? ;)
Bad news for heroku...
If all you're looking for is proxying, I'd agree. But nginx remains a good solution for caching + proxying.
You do not necessarily need a perfect 1-on-1 relationship between the used words and 'happiness', as long as this 'noise' is canceled out in the same way between areas.

And that's where there might be a problem, the results may (perhaps partially) reflect a structural difference of 'use of language' between areas.
Wow, I have that sinking feeling that this OpsWorks stuff may have turned what was a coin flip decision we made between Chef and Puppet (in which we chose Puppet) to a one heavily weighted towards Chef, but hard to say without reading more.

My immediate question is how easy it would be to keep your Chef recipes in source control somewhere and have equally easy one click deployment to both AWS and to a local Vagrant development box. We currently have a similar environment set up with puppet and it makes testing sysadmin stuff pretty awesome.

Edit: already finding holes - can't deploy to cluster compute instances (a deal breaker) and deployment seems rather slow (15 minutes to deploy from scratch versus about 8 with normal puppet) :(
How? what app are you using?
After reading the article, that would be me. Why do you think they've worked their asses off to be able to shut off our power grid? Can you think of an explanation that isn't just a little bit spooky?
So you mean that I could acheive Genghis Khan-like levels of genetic patrimony just by becoming a sperm donor?

It's tempting. I'm not sure I could endure the social stigma of being a sperm donor, though.
you get a much better orchestration as you could with chef server
you also have much faster interactions, better life cycles
and to the searching... you get every information of evert machine under your fleet
it is much much more better the chef server
Same problem in Iran, I couldn't access to HN all last day.
Use a paste service like pastebin.com or hastebin.com (you can self-host haste-server -- https://github.com/seejohnrun/haste-server)
http://scoweb.sco.ca.gov/UCP/PropertyDetails.aspx?propertyRe...

I bet this guy made keyboards.
let's see how the service grows
Great! Now the browser finally caught up with MS-DOS games!