skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surrounded at work by at least a dozen HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Test) chambers, and many, many of our engineers and QA people debug and test code with thermocouples connected to the system they are working with. Anybody with a EE will have lots of stories of debugging temperature related bugs on their systems - it's a (relatively) easy variable to both quantify, measure, and replicate - and the components you are working with are all temperature rated.

Combine RF + Temperature + Antennas - Then you are in for several months of interesting debugging - particularly if you want to optimize for performance at low power transmission over a wide variety (-55 to +85 Celsius) of temperatures. The math gets hinky really quickly.
Nice troll :)
Spain is in Western Europe
What's the minimum time counted for billing in Heroku?
Most of these "dark corners" have been in C for at least 25 years and have been repeated over an over for at least 20.

My main take-away from this is that Google Drive seems like a nice way to put presentations online :-)
they like you.
You better NOT be putting your expensive bikes away dirty, sir!
A special room just for cooking is rather opulent in relation to the level of poverty. There is no need for a stove or a fridge if you buy groceries every few days and prepare meals in a crock pot or rice cooker.
whoah - I find that construction astonishing.

My gcc compiles it with only this warning:

foo.c:2:6: warning: ‘main’ is usually a function [-Wmain]

hah!
When More Trumps Better
I love the drop down menu, has anyone come across any tutorials to create something similar?
I'd imagine that the software produces STL files. Unfortunately Makerbot only announced this product will exist, they didn't provide any pictures or details yet.

The github style site exists, it's called Thingiverse[1]. People post some amazing stuff. Watching Thingiverse was a big part of why I bought my 3D printer.

I agree that the ability to make something in a medium you're familiar with and take that as a base for 3D modeling seems great. I think some people have tried that using the 3D capture programs that use a series of photographs, but this would certainly work better.

1. http://www.thingiverse.com
If Google are blocked could this also pose a problem for other companies such as Apple, Nokia, TomTom?
As an aside: down-vote on HN isn't for disagreement. It's should be used when you think a post doesn't add to the discussion. The fact that you are giving an interesting counterpoint, I think, shows that the post isn't worthy of a down-vote.
Oh, for security reasons! Whose security? Let's be honest here: the content owners. It's classic DRM: you buy the device and it works for someone else. My solution is to strive to avoid buying, supporting or discussing DRM-crippled devices except to reveal their true nature to the wider community. "Don't be evil!". Puh-lease. Anyone know what Google spends on PR? I'm sure it's either hidden or shocking.
Sim City 4 is (still) superb. However, you will likely want to mod it to get the most out of it. There are also a lot of pointlessly finicky things in terms of maintaining a good budget.. enough so that I just enable a cheat for tons of money and forget about budgeting altogether (since the rest of the game is so deep, skipping financial worries loses you little and gains you a lot).
> If your code lacks the declaration of the function, the compiler will assume pre ANSI-C semantics and generate code returning an int.

Better, please help by compiling your C code with -Wimplicit-function-declaration (included in -Wall), and fixing all the problems it reports. Then you won't have to worry about this problem, or a bunch of other problems.
Thanks! I did not know Stormer-Cowell, but googling it, I've found a comparision to DROMO, suggesting that it's even more stable: http://www.congrex.nl/11c01proceedings/Papers/2225317%20Pela...

I'll try both if I find the time :)
?? Could you elaborate a little more? Thanks.

EDIT: OK, I now noticed you were replying to a sub-comment and not the main thread (missed that earlier). Still, a link or two be helpful in directing the rest of us to the 'source'.
>By misrepresents you mean that the end users didn't exactly understand how underlying architecture worked

Uh.. no.

Heroku claimed to use intelligent routing, they used random routing. And then covered it up with their monitoring tools.

How in the name of crap can you blame this on the user?! Did you even read the Rap Genius writeup on this problem? If I were in their position, I would be utterly livid.
Man has 75% of skull replaced with 3-D printed implant
Off topic but 1Passsword is cross-platform, syncs via Dropbox and has browser extensions for auto-filling passwords.
How long does it take to stop working? I'm living in Copenhagen, and it seems to have been working here for quite a while now. And it makes the city much nicer for everyone. As a middle-class professional, I don't need the social welfare system myself (at least, not currently), but I still do benefit from the quality of life that comes from living in a city with very low crime, relatively low poverty, and reasonably good (though far from perfect) economic equality.

Occasionally people do leave, whether for tax reasons or other reasons, but on the whole even the wealthy agree that the quality of life you get from living here is worth the expense paid in taxes, compared to moving somewhere that's more unequal and more violent. If anything I would guess there is a net influx of well-off people, and there would be more of one if immigration rules were loosened, to make it easier for wealthy people to move here from outside Europe.
Wouldn't a solution be for the server to set its session cookie for every subdomain, as HTTP-only? For example, set "_gh_sess" for every requesting domain, whether www.github.com, github.com, something.github.com; and ".github.com" as well. If you hit them all, you prevent js from shadowing them.
Not all that is a part of the US is a reason for its success. Whilst the US does a lot of things well, there is always room for improvement, and some of the aspects of its legal framework is one of the areas that could benefit. The US spends 2-3 times as much on tort as other developed economies; this is clearly a problem, not an advantage.

For more examples, see:
http://www.economist.com/node/21541423 - on attempts to reform tort law

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21571141-cheaper-legal... - on how US legal education can be reformed to reduce the cost of legal counsel

http://www.economist.com/node/18389167 - on problems with the US' patent laws
...and if games these days really are dependent upon services at the publisher working to do more than just validate DRM (which can usually be worked around with some very clever TOS-voiding hackery providing a local server and lying to the game client), there won't even be a way that they could just "tell the game to switch it off" before they decomm that service.
William Morris Takes Stake in Austin Based Mobile Studio
This is big news for mobile app studios as this marks one of the largest deals in the space to date. Silver Lake is also an equity partner.
> As an avid SimCity player I can recall every game, I'll never recall SimCity 5 as at this point I'll never get to play it.

Likewise :)

Played all the Sim City games all the way back to Sim City Classic (though I played it on SNES). Played the rest on PC and also rebought Sim City 2k on gog.com a while ago for nostalgia. Even my brothers, who I would only consider casual gamers were always able to play them without a problem.

I'll never touch Sim City 5 though unless it comes to Steam and without the always online DRM.
As the video pointed out, only about half of government officials in Hong Kong are directly elected by the population. For the remainder, there is little pressure or incentive to get anything done in this regard.
Hooray for enterprise software 'design patterns'.
Do you honestly believe the ultra-rich work for money?

Imagine, if you were a multi-millionaire, would you go to a job you hated for 60 hours a week?
I don't downvote opinions with which I agree, even when they are little but opinion.

Yet, even when I have little emotional reaction, I may downvote a post with expressing an opinion with which I disagree when that post contains little but opinion.

I suspect most of us are that way to some degree.

Downvotes are for moderating behavior. The behaviors intended to be moderated include the person doing the downvoting - e.g. sometimes it is better for the community if I downvote something I disagree with rather than inviting an argument (at best) or a flamewar (at worst).

In other words, downvoting can be a better reaction to the emotional component of a disagreement than expressing that emotional component in a response.
The keenest Wikipedians
I've worked at a couple of jobs (telecom, semiconductors) with environment chambers and equipment of that ilk. Heat guns were a common bench testing tool.

Fast forward ten years and I'm doing contract work for a local company. Of course the contractor got the shittiest workstation, which dies every afternoon like clockwork. So I move the POS white box away from the window and out of the sunlight. "Magically" it only crashes once week. So I send a ticket into the queue, stating the obvious, then the IT folks quibbled and finally admit the motherboard needs to be replaced.
Android on top Surface Pro [video]
Having it as a git pre-commit hook seems dangerous to me — what if there's a bug in the formatting tool that breaks something in the code? Then you have non-functioning code committed. It's a lot better if you can just have the self-discipline to run the formatter when you're done making changes. Alternatively, you could have it in your build script, so you'll likely catch the formatter-related problem when you're testing your code.
Hah, a nice article. :-) My favourite sentence from the PHP documentation:

string create_function ( string $args , string $code )

"Creates an anonymous function from the parameters passed, and returns a unique name for it."

So there you are. Of course you can choose to be an anonymous value, but you'll get a name assigned by the state, for free. :-) Fascinating logic, captain.
I have a hard time equating a lack of all organization with progress. It's true that many organizations have needless layers of management (and the associated interference), but what the article describes could most easily be replaced with four (or thirteen) individual sole-proprietorships.

And does the company's views on organization extend to the agile training they provide? Agile isn't disorganized or even unorganized, it just recognizes that you can't know everything/enough when you start. If they can't organize themselves well enough to avoid bankruptcy, can they organize a software project?

I think what they've done is an interesting social project, but by his own description, it seems like they've proved it doesn't work.
Yes, it's confusing how you are asking to login then you can't post a video and there are no instructions, help etc.
Let's be honest, it isn't this firm's legal duty to set up a marketing website to try to find a plaintiff to launch a lucrative lawsuit. Law firms seek to offer the level of service that maximises their returns, just like any other corporation.
Learning from Big Data: 40 million entities in context
Spiritually it may as well not be. They usually stand on their own and stay out of the news when it comes to politics of Western Europe as a whole, since they were kept out of the UN post WWII. The biggest tie to the rest of Western Europe recently is that of organized crime; the Garduña of old evolved into the Comorra of today, well known across Europe, especially in Italy, obviously.
This is great, except for the times that you take advantage of the fact that programming is essentially ascii art sometimes. I grant that these examples are edge case in occurrence, but breaking the formatting really helps there.

And... I just can't bring myself to think that a rigid adherence to formatting will benefit any codebase as much as folks would like to think. As "edge case" as my reasons for wanting to break it, the straw men built up to show why it matters are even more ridiculous.

And this is completely ignoring that, once again, the largest collaboratively maintained source tree on the planet (that I am aware of) does not need this level of formatting adherence. Why do we think other projects do?
funny, jews are now very over represented in elite US universities (adjusting for academic achievement). there was a fairly recent ron unz article on this subject

and of course azns are strongly discriminated against in a way that is entirely analogous to the historic jewish quotas, but people can only respond by lamely bleating about "diversity"
And the rest of us are working on fancy "CRUD" applications.

I enjoy working on hardware and RF projects as a hobby. Not much fun doing it at a large corporation anymore....
Does ruling impact the DHS discussion from a couple days ago?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5321036
http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty...
This seems similar to Morning Star's self management principles: http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/enterprise-without-bos...
Thanks for this link. Thats a very helpful site.

I am choosing between RAMnode and Digital Ocean. Both look pretty much affordable and recommended.

Any tips?
What would be the price of your service or the business model?

It seems you will sell our developers APIkey registration...
Tips for Mastering Android Operating System
In my experience, the biggest hurdles to a truly self-organizing organization (at every level) are people and trust.

If you don't have really excellent, self-motivated people, you are going to have a lot of trouble with self-organization simply because some people need to be told what to do. People also have to be 100% bought in to the concept and don't try to create themselves management and authority roles. It really does take the right people.

Trust is probably the biggest problem. It takes a lot of trust from the people who start the business to let it run itself. It is probably easier at the start of a business than when it's big. Everybody has to have a high level of trust of everyone else, and when that trust is broken the organization probably needs to be willing to fire the person who took advantage of the system.

For many people, the hardest part would be to maintain that kind of system with ruthlessness enough to fire people who don't work well in the system. Knowing that it's not going to be for everybody and practicing that is hard.
Apache Blur - Structured Data Search Engine
No objections mate, just that I'm not convinced if Mint would receive updates as early as the original ones get. Or does it work in a different way?? Please correct me if I'm wrong!
I guess, yes, but I don’t particularly like Dropbox and don’t see the need for syncing at the moment anyways. And for my passwords text file - org-mode (and epa) come with Emacs in Debian main, 1Password doesn’t seem to be there :)
feedback.js - Feedback form with screenshot
It seems totally insane to not build a gaming system to be infinitely partitionable as priority #1.

Have users pick a realm (continent) that their region (and hence city) lives on. Only allow X cities per realm. Announce only less-loaded realms to people trying to create a new city . More demand? More realms.

Or in shorter form: copy Blizzard. I'm struggling to think of a reason why this wouldn't be not only doable but the obvious default. Eve gets (deserved) props for violating this default of course but I think EA wants a slightly broader consumer base than Eve for this one.

Anyway I can't wait to read a detailed tell-all from an ex-dev.
The only flaw I can see is that the string literal '1' should have been declared as a const somewhere, preferably in another unrelated library, and called something like 'UNITY_VALUE'.
Yes this is a good joke until you realize there is no other way to get some level of type safety in PHP other than adding a bunch of unnecessary classes.
It seems inevitable that as more and more highly lethal weapons are found among citizens, the police will justify militarization as the appropriate response.

Like Joshua said "The only winning move is not to play".
Here's the money quote: "Java has two parts: the runtime that runs on your computer (and lets you run Java apps), and the browser plug-in that comes along with it. When people talk about Java being insecure, they're talking about the browser plug-in. Java apps themselves aren't inherently insecure, it's the browser plug-in that causes problems."

A world in which Java (the run-time) suddenly disappeared would be completely non-functional due to the amount of enterprise software that runs on the JRE. And while Java (the language) is often bashed for it's verbosity, many of the up-and-coming, "cool" languages target the JRE as their run-time environment.

Unfortunately, burying that paragraph in a long article and stating "you probably don't need it" is the wrong story to tell. You probably couldn't live (your modern life) without it, but you may not need to have it installed on your computer.

EDIT 1:

I also should have mentioned that Javascript is not "safe" ... it's "safer" than it used to be because browsers have gotten way better at "sand-boxing" its behavior (I love LocalStorage!). Applets were designed to allow browser-based applications access to the underlying computer's OS, so it should be no surprise that there are more vulnerabilities. And if you think about the biggest attack vectors on the IE browsers (at least the older ones), ActiveX shares this trait (I won't call it a problem).

For Android users, you should realize that when you authorize applications to use various features of your phone or tablet, you're explicitly opening holes in Android's default security model (fully sand-boxed).

EDIT 2:

My favorite quote (so far) on the life-hacker site is "Java does have some legitimate uses (namely Minecraft) ...". The rest of his commentary sounds like the rants typically found in language wars (I won't participate).
I know a couple of Java programmers that will find this helpful. Thanks.
With or without FirefoxOS, people are developing web apps. If somebody has a nice web app already, maybe they will look into whatever little bit of adaptation is needed for FirefoxOS.
>"Instead, I would recommend pricing the game at something like $60 for two years. "

While I personally understand all the costs involved and would perhaps be willing to do this (kinda like the WoW model where the game had an up-front cost plus recurring service fees), I think many would feel scammed by this model.

My question is: what is wrong with the model where single-player is totally offline, but multiplayer requires a matchmaking server that DOES validate the license? This model is already out there and works well enough (though it is 2013 and we could /probably/ figure out how to make open directory server software and/or employ P2P tech to lessen the financial burden AND increase reliability / stability / community relations...).

The bigger issue here is that American companies are trying to move us to a subscription model for /everything/, so we're always in debt and most will never truly own anything of significant value. Lease your housing, your car, your computing, your gaming, your textbooks, your cellphone, your couch, your money, etc.
The strangest coincidence ever recorded
What Java really needs is a KitcheSink class.

I'm pretty sure there's already one in PHP.
I guess it depends on how outstanding your stuff must be. If it is ok to be merely very good, then the later approach should be the best, I think. If you want one of a kind stuff, then you might want to be a little bit more lax about the other aspects. But often there isn't a conflict. I've found that the brightest people are often very nice, too.
I guess it's good that Firefox is doing this, but kind of like the Ubuntu mobile project, I just don't think it's going to make much of a dent.

Consumers don't care about technology ideology. Native vs web, NOBODY CARES!

Consumers want their apps. They want to play games. They want instagram. They want beautiful hardware and lots of accessories.

The only place in major markets where a Firefox OS stands a chance is low cost prepaid like Virgin Mobile USA, Straight Talk, etc. but there are enough good android options and even iPhone now, that it might be too late.

Maybe it could take off in some other countries, but I don't see Firefox OS taking off like the original Firefox did.
This is brilliant, I will use it on all my php sites.
Monit will startup a program if it's not running according to it's pid file. In other words if the pid file doesn't exist it will start the program. I use it in deploys by killing a program and letting Monit start it again with the new version.
Re: Justin Bieber, Google News Bends Rules For ABC News
It is absolutely your opinion that it is their job.
Another great alternative is LastPass, which works in Linux / OSX / Windows / Android.

Sync that with your KeePassX and Dropbox and you might just be good to go.
It's to technical... I don't see a reason why you'd win.

Lies happen all the time, i saw someone here mention that Heroku didn't knew it was such a big deal.

They are expanding a lot, the issue (intelligent routing) has been raised and will be solved. They know what they've done wrong now... They didn't see it as a big issue before.

It's up to Heroku to resolve the problem, because at the end of the day it's an issue to be fixed.

And don't we see issues all the time in software development.

As long as the company itselves communicate about the problem and is honest about it when the problem comes up.

That's the only thing i would really care.

PS. I'm not associated (employed or client) by Heroku.
Yes, that's one of the reasons why police use them. As for what kind of ammo is supposed to be more "humane", it depends on how you define the word. Keep in mind that law enforcement and militaries tend to use different kinds of weapons, and that changes the ammo they use.
The myth of daylight saving as energy saving
While it may be the bubble scenario all over again, it remains to be seen if a pop will really create the sort of disastrous effects as the dotcom bust, or if a majority of the one hit app-dev studios will get by on the sheer popularity of smartphones and tablets without having to resort to mass layoffs.
A grenade that stuns your senses isn't even closely comparable to a tank.
I'm not familiar with the PHP ecosystem. Is the author making fun something other than obvious over-engineering? Does he or she feel like that's a problem in the PHP ecosystem?

I'm criticizing, because it's funny. I'm just trying to figure out if theres some wisdom being conveyed that I'm missing.
I'm hoping that this is just a bad joke.
My dorm room was a bunk with a futon under it with a very small desk to the side. It wasn't ideal but fine considering I spent most of my time somewhere else.
Range Count Tree - A simple BST for range counts
The C++ standard has a clause prohibiting macros that re-#define keywords if the translation unit also #includes a standard header. I guess this is to clarify whether the standard-library functionality is expected to still work even in the face of such a #define, by specifying that implementors don't need to worry about that situation.

I don't believe C has any such restrictions, though.