skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds downright revolutionary. Could someone with domain knowledge comment if this is really such a new thing?

The press release says,

>In chemical looping, the coal isn't burned with fire, but instead chemically combusted in a sealed chamber so that it doesn't pollute the air. A second combustion unit in the lab does the same thing with coal-derived syngas, and both produce 25 thermal kilowatts of energy.

How much coal does it take to produce those 25 kW? You'd think efficiency is what most readers would want to hear about at this point because everything else sounds pretty great.

A page linked [1] from the press release states that

>New technologies that use fossil fuels should not raise the cost of electricity more than 35 percent, while still capturing more than 90 percent of the resulting carbon dioxide.

but it is unclear if this is mostly due to the price of extra coal or the equipment itself.

[1] http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/looping203.htm
Yep, you're partially right: http://imgur.com/vFTvFTP

However, it's worth noting that it works fine in IE8 if you have it set to IE8 Standards mode. (http://imgur.com/GEuyx8X) I'm sure that, like me, you had it set to IE7 Standards mode for testing purposes. Even jQuery itself no longer supports IE7.
Beware Of The ‘College Dropout’ Success Story
JS-everywhere ideologues are always trying to buy a hamburger today and pay for it tomorrow. Someday machines will be faster. Someday the implementation will on par with the alternatives.

How it works today is what matters to users. Tomorrow the native stack will just make use of more hardware features, it will still be faster, and we'll still be having the same conversation that we'be been having with JS ideologues for 10 years now. "Someday ..."

This is what the XML ideologues used to say too. The problem wasn't XML, it was the libraries, or the lack of dedicated XML processing hardware. Then someone realized that if you got rid of the core complexity -- XML -- you could stop layering on piles of additional complexity while trying to work around the root of the problem.

Someday...
I am not sure about a practical purpose, but I am completely fascinated by the fact that our senses are curtailed and there is a lot more happening around us that we can detect.
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> The past 24 hours confirms Hacker News is both a kind caring supportive community and a bunch of people who talk when they should listen.

Personally, it wasn't his comments to Aaron that bothered me so much as ones similar to this tweet. I think the fellow has no humility.
Improving Visibility With System Records
This is great news for Linux. There are a LOT of companies who's entire infrastructure is the MS Windows environment and hopefully they'll begin the switch!
I haven't read it yet, but the linked report may have the answer:

The 2013 Linux Jobs Report, conducted by Dice, [...] includes insights into why employers are seeking Linux talent now and what the top incentives are for Linux pros, among other important findings. Download the complete report [1]today.

By looking at the infograph, it seems developers, syadmins, and devops are amongst these 'UNIX pros', so not really kernel hackers. I'd assume few companies are in need of 'kernel hacking skills'.

[1]http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/linux-foundation...
Is there a "read only" feature that lets you approve every decision made by the app? I'm thinking of direct message sending.
Probably just someone who has used Linux or some other Unix derivative on a daily basis for a few years and is very comfortable with the terminal.
Don't feel bad about your investors. They went into it with their eyes open, knowing that they were taking a punt. Taking lots of punts is in fact their business model. They knew there was a good chance they would lose that investment. As long as you dealt with them honestly then you have nothing to be ashamed of. Better luck next time.
That the most salient feature used to describe their phone is Samsung, does not imply in any way that they are unaware that it is an android.

As anecdotal evidence, every non geek that I know, knows about android.
What about a petition to prevent lawmakers from creating legislation that turns regular people into criminals.
One simple legislation to rule them all. The GOML (Get off my lawn) law.
The browsers themselves have also been subject to such vulnerabilities. I dare say the attack surface of a full browser implementation is much larger than just the sandboxing, and sandboxing ideally sits behind all I trusted operations in the browser, providing a single common last line of defense.
Thanks for your story, I appreciate you sharing it.

I agree with you about the only constant in life being change. I think it's even older than buddhism, I seem to recall it was Heraclitus who put it as "change is the only permanence".

As for the OP, I hope he stops taking losing investor money so personally. The investors knew well they bought a lottery ticket. Had OP succeeded, the investors would, of course, have gladly taken their part of that upside. Now, he didn't, and they lost their ticket money. And that's all it was: ticket money, their fee for getting to play the game. I sympathize with what he's going through, and hope he'll get through.
Chuck, this thread stops being so benign when it starts offering up defenses for Levchin's hiring advice, which is frankly odious. That Levchin note is prefixed with a recommendation to actively resist diversity early on, and is followed by a rationalization for gender discrimination.

If "culture fit" starts becoming a shibboleth for prejudice, that's just fine with me. One problem my company has never had is discrimination, but the occasional genuflection to "culture" in our hiring process has always annoyed the hell out of me; it was never more than the excuse we made for making hiring decisions without evidence.
I don't like it.
For me it is really hard to find something there
Would love to hear your opinions on how to deal with disagreement in an early stage team. It's definitely something that I haven't been aware of before starting
Ask HN: New to the site, why are some names green?
Question is in the title. Why are some people's names gren ?
You have apparently never been handed a $93k estimate for dental work, and are probably not aware that it is nearly impossible to find a dental plan that will pay for more than a couple thousand dollars of work (they all have caps that can easily be exceeded by getting work done on a single tooth).
If SPDY has limited benefits in the real-world why have both Facebook and Twitter deployed it?
The other side of Albert Einstein
Developer creates Chrome VPN extension to access censored porn in Singapore
As far as I know, that's because they joined recently, I think less than a day ago.
Is Louis C.K. Our Gogol?
I kind of agree, but it is good that some attention might be brought to the issue (not necessarily the government's).

My concern is that the WH might once again raise the number of needed signatures for the next petitions! as there are still many reaching the target.
I can't imagine any criteria under which the handling of this situation could be considered a "success"

Not even the bit I wrote in the previous sentence? To clarify: "the author went off the plane calmly and without making a scene".
Damages ? is easy just count the people in the hospital for this.

A way to compensate is to link to the original artist page and maybe buy a license from him.
depending on your area of specialization, microeconomics and game theory are no less bogus than DSGEs. MWG, for example, does not mention real world data once...
It sounds like they're making an iSlapBracelet to me. That means the whole surface would potentially be a screen with just the part facing you being active.

I kind of wonder where else would be appropriate to wear it other than on your wrist, given that it explicitly mentions that (Geordi LaForge style visor perhaps?)
I'd like to disagree that biege boxing COCOTs wasn't useful.

Umm, nobody said that.

First off COCOTs were owned by customers, so the magic did not happen at the telephone switch. Quite the opposite.

That's exactly what I said above.
And it may be that what they want is a Ruby/Python developer where the stack happens to run on Linux. Deployments are most likely to be to Linux environments (eg AWS). Consequently "Linux" in job descriptions really means a familiarity with the command line, and a propensity to build smaller components that can be run together.

We do all our development on Linux with one or two developers using Mac. I expressly forbid doing any development on Windows even though everything could run on Windows. This is purely because it takes longer, has more hassles, the tools aren't better (eg valgrind), awful package/dependency management, and it doesn't match deployment environments.
An iPad Veteran Evaluates an Amazon Kindle Fire HD
Can you create flexible remote task?
I am assuming that there is a reason that you are hiding the prices? I failed to find them anywhere on your site.
I agree that we should hold all parties to the same standard no matter who the party is, but commercial usage should add additional expectations from the defending party. Commercial use is commonly perceived as "worse" than if it's done for private/non-profit use.

But my initial comment was mostly to acknowledge that we do not give the benefit of doubt to private persons, but we do to commercial entities. The law should be equal, but had this been a discussion about someone who downloaded songs, there wouldn’t have been a single comment questioning the validity of the accusation.
I've come to similar conclusion recently (well, "same" may be a better word). I think much of the problem, at least in the US, is that when you graduate high school no one knows what the hell they want to do so a lot of people pick something that sounds good that they could probably do. On top of that, in the years before its time to make that choice you have all sorts of authority figures pushing you in every which direction to try new things but somehow they never quite push you toward your "blue flame" as the author calls it.

I remember always being a great performer, reader of people, and able to turn on my charm on command. But where's the market for that? I'm not an actor type of performer, I'm just really good at relating to people but only in large crowds. So, since I was a smart kid I went to college to be a doctor. Barely a year into the premed program I dropped out, became a junkie, and lost about 5 years of my life to a lot of bullshit. In between I did study music at another college which is closer to my blue flame. Long story short though, after all that I ended up joining the board of directors of a charity at age 24 and I found my blue flame. I get to do a lot of TV, radio, and newspaper interviews as well as give talks and run different support groups. Whenever I do any of those things, suddenly the whole world makes sense. Then I have to go back to my day job as a developer which I love too but now, at 26, I've finally discovered my "blue flame". All that's left is to monetize it and all will be right with the world.
India had a process patent regime earlier. The result - generic rituximab costs around 0.7$ in the country. Compare it with the story where the price was $13702.
http://www.healthkartplus.com/details/drugs/30975/reditux-50...
Design your dream DVCS
It's clear many people have issues with Git's commands [0][1] and there are dozens of addons to help simplify or extend (e.g. [2]).

So let me ask: what would your dream CLI look like? It's the part everyone uses every day, and no matter how good the technology it shapes people's opinions.

What would your interface look like?
Which problems would you solve with direct commands?
Which would be hidden away, with flags and switches required?

Bonus points if you can show your CLI to a manager/designer and have them understand it first-time.

For me, http://www.git-legit.org/ is heading in the right direction. I would have one standard workflow, so squash & merge, fetch vs pull, rebase branch or merge from trunk etc isn't an issue for new/casual users. Checkout would automatically stash new files and unstaged changes in the current branch. Users would have to copy those across if they wanted them (the less common scenario in my experience).

It would be easier to see which is the parent branch, and people would be warned before merging into a non-parent branch.

And conflict resolution would be smoother. I don't know how (I'm thinking something more visual) but I want it to be.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5251359
[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4882495
[2] http://rondevera.github.com/twig/ - it's useful. I forget branch names. Linking w issue status is very useful!
You mean the "havoc" of taking pictures onboard?

I do not; that would be asinine.
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In the context of software, "piracy" has come to mean downloading and distributing copyrighted material. And I think it's fine to use it for that, even though it doesn't happen on the high seas (usually?).

But this is more like plagiarism, although I'd be fine with calling it stealing or theft, which have a pretty broad meaning colloquially.
It's not an "article", it's a KDE deveoper's personal blog.

The "blogs.kde.org" I would have hoped gave that away.
Why an External Critical Eye is Vital for Great Content
Working with the assumption that Sony righted-itself in a reasonable time-frame after legal action/threats began;

Could KDE prevent sales of VAIO machines if they were now complaint? I guess not?

Is there ANY precedent for damages of this kind of situation? (particularly where wilful infringement was not long-continued) If not, it would seem there is an almost non-existent risk.
Track180 Builds iPad App to Bring More Context, Balance to Online News
The good hedge funds are doing extremely well with algos. Graduating students from CS/Math/Stats have a great career here, not to mention the opportunity to do some really interesting work and make a lot of money.
Just saw a green name and the profile stated that it was created 10 days ago, though every other I checked was less than a day.
This seems pretty handy
How do you evaluate the PDF's JavaScript in an interpreter that is distinct from the renderer's?
Game where to cast spells you must actually saying the magic words
Internet giants back life extension research
Canon MREAL Mixed Reality headset hitting US March 1st for $125,000
I know I'm pretty late here, so hope you see this. I found this free online version of "designing for the web" to contain an accessible guide to typography and even delves into some of the more technical/nuanced areas

http://designingfortheweb.co.uk/book/
> there wouldn’t have been a single comment questioning the validity of the accusation.

That just isn't true.
If flight attendants got everybody that they didn't like kicked off flights, it would seem[1] that there would be barely anyone flying.

Speak for yourself. But this is neither here nor there, as you well know. The issue is: have you announced your likelihood to become a problem later in the flight? If so, why should you remain?

I think in this case it was a harsh call, but ultimately an understandable one. Heck, who's to say the same flight crew hadn't earlier had to deal with an undeniably genuine problem passenger, and hence were being over-cautious? We're all human.
Considering this patent was filed in mid-2011 and is almost certainly claiming an earlier invention date, I think you may have your order of events backwards.
Oh I see, when you zoom in enough, it transitions to an ultra-close shot. A little jarring, but you can see things much nicer that way.
You may need to install some unicode fonts.

Try a url like http://renren.com and it only has certain characters.
Anyone else doesn't get it?
What does any of that have to do with whether or not "pirated" is the best word choice for this?
So basically forget all about your civil rights or basic human decency, and accept the fact that you are only a peon that other people can abuse.

With such a mentality it's no wonder TSA still exists.
The article mentioned that you have to be running the Samsung stock build, because the issue is with the Samsung clipboard manager.
The Digital Blasphemy guy later worked with some developers to make some PS3 "Live Wallpapers" based on his artwork... perhaps that was in reaction to what you pointed out?
Take it easy dude. Don't feel sorry for your investors, they know the risks they take. Don't feel sorry for yourself, you knew the risk you were taking. Failing a startup is not failing at life, it's just life. Forget it and go on with something else.
No longer a konami code. http://konamicodesites.com/
So, this is a web based API wrapped around webkit2png starting from 9.99 a month?
Are you saying that the image is not, in fact, used in the UEFI firmware Sony is distributing?
Is there any reason the sources and targets couldn't both be thoroughly distributed throughout the cluster? Nothing says hard drives have to be perfectly replicated, you just need multiple copies of the data. I'm imagining that a HD dies, and the extra copies of what it contained are scattered all over. You re-replicate them by scattering them further all over. No one pod has to move any substantial amount of data.
Ask pg - I think he's done something with Arc. Seems like anything he'd do'd be pretty frequently trafficked...
That depends on whether they think it mathes the native implementation in compatibility, performance, and price.

My hope is that they wouldn't replace the current implementation simply because the JS implementation is free, and the JS implementation is never going to be as fast as an effecient native implementation, and its always going to be more difficult to write.
Police can search cellphone if no password, says court
Of course it matters.

Who wouldn't take a pay cut make 40 hours of their week more enjoyable?
I'd add, the cost of medical education before one can practice in the U.S. has multiplied over the years and seems excessive compared to Europe, where medicine is traditionally a 6-year undergraduate program.

As a result, doctors needs to get paid far more, especially specialists.
I don't know how this guy is still standing.

http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=-46.1228...
Codeporting Shutting Down on March 23, 2013
Is this product trying to compete with free plugin-in's like Screen Capture (by Google), or is it trying to be more of a "live site" preview generator that you see on like inspiration-esq sites or theme seller sites? I don't think that is fully clear in the marketing site.
IE8 likely doesn't hold 15-20% browser share on jquery.com.
Apple's patent application was filed on	August 17, 2011.

Pebble's Kickstarter campaign started on April 11, 2012.

From the description of the patent application it's clear that this thing is nothing like a Pebble or a watch. It's a slap bracelet covered with a flexible touchscreen. What's more, the patent application describes the device's battery being charged by ambient light and kinetic energy. That's pretty wild.
Sony would have to either stop using the Icon or they would have to attribute it according to the license.
Indeed, different. No gravity or wind to blow away dust - it will just hang there, for 10,000 years, a growing problem as mining activities continue. Gripping a rock to drill becomes a major problem - no weight to press the drill into the surface. Then, when a chuck of material is gotten loose, it will just drift away - how to tether it, guide it into a smelter? How does the smelter keep the material contained, how does it separate metal from slag in zero gravity?

There are half a dozen major engineering hurdles before asteroid mining can be attempted. Add to that transportation and energy hurdles - also unprecedented in mining history. Finally, control delay of minutes make remote operation impossible - will have to be completely automated.

Right now asteroid mining is a pipe dream. It would be far easier to do deep-core mining right here on Earth for instance - none of those issue apply. I don't say it would be easy - just easier than asteroid mining.
People have it in their heads that a successful petition is supposed to mean there will be change but that was never promised.

I've always felt petitions were used by lawmakers to help filter noise. If you set a threshold for the amount of support any cause needs before you'll address it (preventing you from having to listen to each person individually) the petition system seems only logical. If the lawmakers now see that 100,000+ people are against their decisions they promised to make a response but have no obligation to change anything.

This is where people's voting power is supposed to matter. If the representatives are always ignoring the issues that are deemed important by petition/protest groups then why should the be expected to get re-election?

Its sort of a shit deal where we're hoping the channels they provide will show some benefit or marshal of change but I haven't seen that happen yet. I'm not American so I'm somewhat distanced from everything but it has always seemed like these petitions were just another campaign tool and never intended to be taken seriously by gov't.
> there wouldn’t have been a single comment questioning the validity of the accusation.

did you mean something else? You could not of meant that.
Samsung makes gorgeous, inexpensive products but their software leaves a lot to be desired. I never understood the boosters of the GSIII, really. I can understand loving the hardware and the form factor but I booted it up once, saw the third party Android shell and put it back on the shelf.

I still don't get what manufacturers are thinking here. I know they want to differentiate their devices and have unique features but I've yet to see an Android shell that wasn't buggy, slow, and usually ugly.

Not only does their software suck, but it keep users from updating their phones. I suffered through this with the horrible worthless Motorola Photon 4G (don't buy Moto phones kids, they are garbage), a dual core piece of overpowered bugware they wouldn't bring to Android 4 because they were too lazy to rewrite their nearly worthless third party tools like Moto Blur.

Companies like Samsung and Motorola clearly cannot handle software development and should leave it to the pros instead of cluttering and messing up an attractive, usable interface.
Looked up a few, saw a few more of > 7 days, up to 11. So I'm guessing it means "Less that 2 weeks old"
Seems to not be working in Opera 12.14. Cant see any screenshots. Anyone else with same problem?
I put together a (silly) post to highlight some of the features of Racket. http://blog.fogus.me/2013/01/21/enfield-a-programming-langua... It's worth a look if you want the overview and don't have time for the video.
Run multiple Celeries on a single Redis
WTH is a "UNIX" pro?
From what I understand they want experienced Linux sysadmins/devops.
These sites don't.

http://www.tineye.com/search/20fd99e0d87a8d04e30b5c307d81b49...
The original PS3 was a huge box, but it wasn't full of air. It was filled with cutting edge tech hitting thermal limits. It's hardly surprising that over a 7 year lifespan the system can be miniaturized.
6 Keys to a Satisfied Yet Successful Entrepreneur
Not really, apart from the other software utilizing this icon, this "inspiration" might have come form a quick search [0] :(.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=preferences+icon&tbm=isc... (this particular icon is one of the topmost results in my surely personalized search)
I agree but where Google felt different from others, is that all their rip-offs were simpler, faster and free-er than the competition. What other company gives free candies like that ?

Glass, and most importantly cars are even a stronger step in that direction. Actually, if Google cars ever make it to the public, I think it would qualify them for being up there with NASA, Bell and many others, don't you think ?