skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's too bad the article didn't touch on the adverse effect science journalists are having on science journalism. Every day we see another "breakthrough" that isn't a breakthrough, a correlation reported as a cause-effect relationship, or a premature conclusion based on one unreplicated study.
He's talking about the possibility that one or both may prevent used games sales by tying games to the console account they're first used on.
I enjoyed the Pong demo, it's pretty inspirational. The Mario sprites demo appears to be broken, though.
Huh? Both Safari and Chrome support hardware acceleration of 2D canvas.
We're really happy not having sales commissions at GitHub.

Further reading: Optimizing Sales for Happiness
https://github.com/blog/1230-optimizing-sales-for-happiness
If they caught you. They'd need to spend a lot of effort to do so, or be very lucky.
Show HN: A DIY 3D Motion Sensor
Hooray for forward compatibility. "static" means "Semantic Token Always Taken In Context."
I do like to read code, because I do not trust comments. Code is probably easier to read than comments. But I do like to read tutorials.
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Thats a bad way of writing code, to be honest. On projects I run, code has to be warning free with -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -std=c99
Twitter has suspended burgerking after the Hack
Twitter has suspended @burgerking after the hack
The pedantry period is inescapable. I really wish that would change. Everyone wants to be right, though.
N.B. I should have written "Lees" instead of "Yews", as Lee Kuan Yew (born "Harry Lee") uses the Chinese (and Korean) convention of listing the family name first. His successor as Singapore's prime minister is his son Lee Hsien Loong, much as Kim Il Sung's successor was Kim Jong Il.
Both South Africa and Kenya already operate military drones, in South Africa's case dating back to the mid-1980s. The idea that a tiny number of cheap low-endurance crowd-funded drones will increase government oppression or that these governments can't already get better drones is poorly thought-through.

Plus, neither South Africa nor Kenya can be considered 'oppressive' governments.
* the guys deserves kudos merely for sticking with the exercise to its conclusion

why? If I pierce my scrotum a hundred times should I get kudos? No of course not, just doing something uncomfortable for no reason isn't admirable.

Meditation is great for some people, and a total waste of time for others. Each to their own, but let's not pat anyone on the back for it.
Meditation is one of the things that most people should do, it enlightens you as to your faults, bringing them to light so that you may change yourself for the better. It's also nothing to do with making you superior to other people(if it is you have other issues that won't work themselves out until you learn some empathy.)
Can someone recommend a resource that talks about some interesting C stuff similar to this? I've looked at "Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets" but found it a bit outdated. And the C standard is a bit dry :-).
Facebook Network Hit by 'Sophisticated' Attack
There's no magic: virtualenv edition
I've been doing sort of a hand-made version of this for a while. It's a useful trick and one of my favorite quick-blogging techniques.

This doesn't have annotations, but it's a free alternative: http://grabbox.devsoft.no/
There is monosnap. Much better than Skitch.

http://monosnap.com/
Totally agree. The emotional variance a salesperson has to endure on a day to day basis is very, very high. We engineers are lucky to work in a rational space. When things work, they work. When things don't work we can apply rational thought and fix the problem a majority of the time. You can deal with emotional/people issues via straight talk, through your manager, avoidance and/or just quitting. With sales and marketing, they are grappling with a fundamentally irrational (or at least opaque) set of constraints - people, their moods, budget cycles, company processes, etc. Its hard.

I used to think sales and marketing was at par or below engineering. My thinking changed over the years thanks to something I saw first hand. My previous employer had a large, all hands on deck, one week long conference every year. As an engineer I would observe how our sales team would interact with clients. Clients, especially the bigger ones, would treat them very badly. Our sales members would put on a cheerful face and continue with their jobs. I would have walked out if I had been treated like that in public. I can only imagine how bad the treatment is when its in private. I've been much more polite to salespeople, even to pushy salespeople, ever since then. I actually take time to reply to (generic) emails for products that I signed up for a trial offer.
Researchers Discover "FROST" Cold Boot Can Breach An Android Phone's Secure Data
iceweasel 10.0.12 (basically the same as Firefox 10.0.12)
It ships as the default browser for debian wheezy.
The home page of flotcharts.org does work correctly.

I also tried Konqueror Version 4.8.4 (KDE's browser) and it didn't even display the graphs (not in the blog post or on flotcharts.org).
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> What is the value of a skin on top of Chrome?

Increased profit for the owners of Opera, who are the only corporate masters I know of who make their profits off of a web browser.

Users might prefer the Opera skins, but, frankly, users aren't central to this story. Profits are.
I wonder what their definition of "troll" is. It appears they're conflating matter-of-fact criticism with true blue trolling. Perhaps by their definition, I too am a troll and I've just helped cement your preexisting biases!
Governments have repressed with swords and spears for far longer than we care to remember.

Communication tools have so far managed to undo repression more than enable it. Hopefully the trend will continue.
feature not a product
Although I broadly agree with your point about significant details, it's absolutely not the case that English 'isn't much of a problem'. English is an extraordinarily hard language for a foreign learner: the grammar is idiosyncratic and subtle, our use of prepositions is frankly bizarre, the orthography is about as difficult as they get, etc. etc. etc.. English is a dominant language for historical reasons, but it would be hard to choose a worse one on linguistic grounds.
TL;DR - They've said repeatedly that they would rather work on their product/projects than have to deal with all of the details themselves.

The crazy amount they're spending should give you an idea of how much throughput they have and what would be required for their own setup. That means a lot of design, additional time implementing, more time updating to new tech (including on the software side, in gems, etc), then in the end, ongoing maintenance.

There's probably a lot more that I'm not mentioning as hey, like them, I'm not interested in spending my time developing, purchasing and administrating my own hosting systems, either. I have apps to write.
I like to run once a week or so. It helps me shed a lot of stress, and is supposed to be good for me.

At first I hated it. But then I began bringing my iPhone and listen to music. I mostly listen to electronic dance music, but there was a specific genre that I found worked well for runnig; Trance.

There is one "song" that illustrates this very well. It is 9.5 minutes of very monotonous, slowly building "umm-tss". http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

There is a reason for that name. I found that this music, in combination with the deep breathing in coordination with my steps sort of lets me enter a state of trance. I can empty my mind and just be. Stress over deadlines and finances - and even stress over being stressed - pretty much are gone when I get back home.
Self contradictory title. Once again we're mixing up chemical imbalances (however induced) with this notion of a Creator. If there really is this God thing, then do you really think they give a damn about you sitting on hot rocks? If you do, then you've really missed the point of it all. If you don't then you'll quickly realize you're just wasting your time, the most precious resource you have.
"Most people do choose to care about it simply because it serves as a reasonable filter and this combined with social proof can reduce the problem of choice with minimum effort."

This reminds me of the most obnoxious question I have been asked by a salesman (in this case at a high-end audio shop): "how much are you looking to spend?"

This question was so backwards to me that I didn't know how to respond. To me, each product is a cost/benefit value proposition. How much I'm willing to spend depends on how much the product offers.
Why HN was down
Hacker News was down all last night. The problem was not due to
the new server. In fact the cause was embarrassingly stupid.

On a comment thread, a new user had posted some replies as siblings
instead of children. I posted a comment explaining how HN worked.
But then I decided to just fix it for him by doing some surgery in
the repl. Unfortunately I used the wrong id for one of the comments
and created a loop in the comment tree; I caused an item to be its
own grandchild. After which, when anyone tried to view the thread,
the server would try to generate an infinitely long page. The
story in question was on the frontpage, so this happened a lot.

For some reason I didn't check the comments after the surgery to
see if they were in the right place. I must have been distracted
by something. So I didn't notice anything was wrong till a bit
later when the server seemed to be swamped.

When I tailed the logs to see what was going on, the pattern looked
a lot like what happens when HN runs short of memory and starts
GCing too much. Whether it was that or something else, such problems
can usually be fixed by restarting HN. So that's what I did. But
first, since I had been writing code that day, I pushed the latest
version to the server. As long as I was going to have to restart
HN, I might as well get a fresh version.

After I restarted HN, the problem was still there. So I guessed
the problem must be due to something in the code I'd written that
day, and tried reverting to the previous version, and restarting the
server again. But the problem was still there. Then we (because
by this point I'd managed to get hold of Nick Sivo, YC's hacker in
residence) tried reverting to the version of HN that was on the old
server, and that didn't work either. We knew that code had worked
fine, so we figured the problem must be with the new server. So
we tried to switch back to the old server. I don't know if Nick
succeeded, because in the middle of this I gave up and went to bed.

When I woke up this morning, Rtm had HN running on the new server.
The bad thread was still there, but it had been pushed off the
frontpage by newer stuff. So HN as a whole wasn't dying, but there
were still signs something was amiss, e.g. that /threads?id=pg
didn't work, because of the comment I made on the thread with the
loop in it.

Eventually Rtm noticed that the problem seemed to be related to a
certain item id. When I looked at the item on disk I realized what
must have happened.

So I did some more surgery in the repl, this time more carefully,
and everything seems fine now.

Sorry about that.
I agree. It reminds of this quote :"Premature optimization is the root of all evil"
I agree that Heroku's response is pretty unbelievable and their engineering choices very suspect. Reading the email chain between Tom & Adam really drives home how badly this has been handled by Heroku.

Heroku is massively crippling its own product with random routing. Other cloud providers have been able to get this right, and Heroku very obviously knows what kind of applications are running on its server (e.g. deploy a Rails application, Heroku says "Rails" in the console). It would not be difficult to apply different routing schemes for each type of application.

Given that this has been going on for years now, Heroku is either acting with pronounced malice or incompetence. Any competent engineer would not be satisfied with switching the routers over to random and calling it a day. How could that have possibly been approved, then remained for years? They must not have realized what a grave mistake it is.

The #1 thing they should be doing right now (aside from damage control) is to move the routers over to round-robin routing. Random is the most naive scheme possible and is laughably inappropriate for this situation.

See for yourself using this simulator: http://ukautz.github.com/pages/routing-simulator.html
Content Management by Redefining the Document
>> Fishing for crimes to prosecute

Err, if its a crime its a crime. Upping the detection rate is not a bad thing in itself - it merely hastens the day when we reduce the number of crimes because if we prosecute we manage to bang up 20% of the population.

(See the US approach to mandatory drug sentences for a tired example)
"Rap Genius became a cult phenomenon and scaled from zero to ten million users with ease thanks to the Heroku process model."

Good for at least one chortle.
There is no finish line for entrepreneurs
Nice work!

>>> import zlib
>>> s = open("uncompressable_block").read()
>>> t = zlib.compress(s, 9)
>>> s2 = zlib.decompress(t)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
zlib.error: Error -3 while decompressing data: invalid distances set
>>>
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Well, I say stay humble :) Not many people of your caliber manage to keep this honorable quality. For which I humbly respect you :)
Thanks... a link to an app I didn't yet know about was what I was hoping for when I posted my comment. :)
Because in his title, premise, and conclusion about the experience he alludes to his acquisition of special knowledge. It's the language of the charlatan.

Meditation for one hundred hours or one thousand does nothing else but prove you can endure it. To which I say: big, freaking deal. I made it through a 36 hour martial arts retreat where we practiced the same kata over and over again in between hours-long meditation sessions. You know what I learned? That I was physically capable of such a feat. No inner peace here and if I did see shit it was because I hadn't slept for two days and was exhausting myself. You know what... it was kind of like a cult. They wanted me to believe that there were mystical forces at work and that I was tapping into them.

Why else would you endure such harsh treatment than for the promise of some great insight, access to special knowledge, or powers no one else has? What does not looking others in the eye and abstaining from masturbation do for you? Nothing. Who makes up these stupid rules then?

Oh. Right. A human being.

The author does mention not buying into the Buddhist beliefs that were impressed upon eir by the organization running the center... but that doesn't seem to stop the author from offering eir own.
Why does the xbox have HDMI in? My only guess is they are getting into the business of HDMI switching, so the XBOX can sit behind any DVRs or other media boxes you have. If they do this, they might have an interesting remote control to unveil (either physical or app-layer)
Kind of funny, but please don't call it "hacked".
That approach has been tried and although there's limited success it's not workable for rhino poaching. The huge amount of money being made by criminal syndicates means that the people doing the poaching are being paid far, far more than the state could ever afford to compete with while the extra money means the poaching operations are more sophisticated with their own helicopters and pilots, paid-off veterinarians and other high-skilled and well-paid people.

Nonetheless there's a large reward incentive offered in South Africa and neighbouring countries for information leading to the arrest of a poacher or the head of a poaching syndicate, amounting to $10 000 for the former and $100 000 for the latter. It's too early to say how well it's working, but it is being supplemented by military patrols, drone and aircraft operations and sophisticated sensors and early indications are promising.
You could just set up a redirect from blah.mydomain.com to myname.browser-details.com (whatever subdomain you choose). Then, just give out the url with your domain name, no hyphen, and they land on the browser-details.com page.
Genome is a couple megabytes. Brain is terabytes. A billion times more complex. And its not all about the chemistry, its about the physical wiring. So the same techniques won't apply.
I don't want to divulge my identity to the creeper that buys my old TV.
BPI set to block three more BitTorrent sites (UK)
To add to that point, the XBox is now selling twice as many games as the Wii (which has a much larger installed console base).
Unfortunately while this helps it's not a panacea. I wrote a previous comment on HN [1] on the same subject, which I'll paste here as the points still apply:

This is welcome from Google, as focused aid of this sort can often have an outsize effect, but we must be careful to avoid believing this can solve the problem.

For one, sophisticated UAVs that are much more capable than those the WWF is getting are already being used to combat rhino poaching. SANParks, the state agency responsible for South Africa's state-run national parks, has deployed the Seeker II military-spec UAV[0], ground radar, thermal imagers, cameras and dedicated teams of heavily armed rangers in the Kruger National Park, one of Africa's largest wildlife reserves. All anti-poaching resources have been placed under the command of Major General Johan Jooste, a highly-regarded retired military commander and a rewards program giving approximately US$ 10 000 to anybody whose tip-off results in the arrest of a poacher and about US$ 100 000 for a tip-off leading to the arrest of the head of a poaching syndicate has been created. At the same time the South African Army has deployed units in both the border patrol and anti-poaching role in certain parks.

These measures are all helping, but it's important to understand just what an impossible task this is. SANParks's 19 national parks alone cover 37 000 km², that's larger than Belgium, Israel and Lebanon. Moreover those 19 parks are dispersed across South Africa's 1.2 million km² and many of them are on the border of neighbouring countries from which many of these poachers come. It also doesn't include the hundreds of private wildlife reserves across the country which have been badly hit by rhino poaching. As the US has discovered on its southern border with Mexico, trying to prevent small bands of people from crossing a border this large is impossible even with UAVs, manned aircraft and massive resources.

So technology alone is not going to solve this, though it and other measures are hopefully going to help reduce the rate at which rhinos are being killed. The only long-term solution is to somehow stop the demand for rhino horn from Asia and thus remove the profit motive for poaching rhinos in the first place.

[0] The Seeker II is a 9-12 hour endurance UAV with all the standard surveillance gear such as FLIR cameras that is being provided free of charge by Denel, a South African arms manufacturer. The intention is to supplement that with a longer-ranged model, the Seeker 400, sometime next year. At the same time they're finalising development of a much smaller UAV, the Hungwe, that can be deployed by ranger teams for short-range surveillance.

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4936947
Well said - so much of science journalism and even academic publications are attempts at career-advancement more than scientific advancement.
Is putting a toilet in a gallery all it takes to be art?
Agreed, by definition, you are right. However the whole "Linux is free therefore it can't be good" attitude that did exist circa 10 years ago is pretty much dead these days except for some hardcore MS customers who are blind to the real world.
Man Who Killed Osama Bin Laden is screwed
Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Disclaimers. I am also an atheist. I took this exact meditation course 20+ years ago and know people who have followed it for decades. I am not so enthralled.

The meditation itself is fine. However the problem is in the tapes. Goenka is not just trying to teach people to meditate, he's trying to teach a particular religious philosophy. He doesn't want you to just be aware of your body, he wants you to pay attention to how things arise and pass away, and from that conclude that all attachment is bad because you will feel grief when it passes. This ties into Buddhist philosophy.

To me the problem with this philosophy can be summed up by, 'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.' I was fascinated by the experience, but receiving indoctrination while I was in such a delicate state was not to my liking.
It's interesting that none of those references refer to the Lovey Howell character in the 60s sitcom Gilligan's Island, which came first to mind for me when reading "luvvie alert". I suppose the character's name+personality is more of a blatant archetype than I (now 43) had realized as a child.
This is brilliant! Especially so, because this is happening in a country praised for it's nonexistent corruption sightings.
Show HN: Quora unblocker - login wall no more
what's interesting is that, by desktop x86 standards, cpu power is power in these consoles is going to be rather anemic. AMD "jaguar" cores, are optimized for power not performance at only 1.6GHz, meant that max single threaded performance (which is still important in games) is probably going to fall short of even what today's base-model 11" macbook air is capable of (1.7 i5, and the i5 core has a lot higher IPC than any core of AMD's). And that's at launch, how will these cpu's compare to laptop/desktop cpus just a few years after launch? not well.

But the design will allow for small, sleek and quiet boxes.

It's clear that the competition they are really targeting here, from a hardware perspective, is tablets, appleTV's and anything ARM-based. Those AMD cores will still wipe te floor with any current ARM designs, esp when coupled with an AMD GPU unit. The designers of both platforms have apparently decided that PC gaming isn't worth competing with, it's device-based gaming (and google and apple's game/app stores) that they are targeting with this form factor.

Meanwhile the gap between what a PC can render and what a console can render is only going to get a lot wider this generation.

Or maybe we all just need nVidia's grid solution to come to reality and disrupt the whole model. (e.g. end the hardware race by just putting huge racks of GPUs and CPUs near the edge of the cloud and run your games as VMs on any handy screen or device)
Why isn't it..? There's so many ways that even little things can be improved; and everyone should do their part to help their fellow man.
Do We Live Inside a Mathematical Equation?
Just to be clear- The university that you study has the right to censor certain websites because they are providing you internet and hence they can stipulate the rules(for the service they are providing). However, the argument here is that the government should not block URLs because they are not providing the service and they are just regulators of this service. The argument here is that as regulators, they are going out of their purview by curbing on freedom of expression (guaranteed by the constitution).
For those of you looking for a place to go on a similar 10 day retreat, there is:

Northwest Vipassana Center (PNW Region, I've heard really good things about this one from friends who have done the program)
http://www.kunja.dhamma.org/

Dhamma Manda (Near SF)
http://www.manda.dhamma.org/

The closest one to NYC I can find is in Mass:
http://www.dhara.dhamma.org/ns/

For more info on locations near you:

http://courses.dhamma.org/en/maps/001
12 nautical miles out from the low-water mark.

US influence extends further.