skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I had a talk with someone from valve awhile back and he mentioned that only a certain kind of developer works well in the "work on what you want" strategy. If you don't have goal driven people who know what they're doing, nothing will ever ship.

On the other hand I see Mojang, the company who in its infancy hired the popular and attention-obsessive "minecraftchick" to do PR/Advertising rather than someone who actually knows what they're doing.

On top of this, Valve has the kind of financial backing where they can screw around all day and still not go bankrupt for awhile thanks to their previous work in Steam. Mojang on the other hand is only making income on merch and the 5 people who haven't already bought minecraft.

As much as I hate to say it, the more I read about Mojang, Minecraft, and the decisions they're making, the more I feel like the success of the game was an act of serendipity rather than one of skill.
Cryonicists are, generally, painfully sincere. This is not the same as correct, of course. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cryonics
NASA to Get $100 Million for Asteroid-Capture Mission, Senator Says
You're not wrong, but what you're stating is completely misleading. The problem has nothing to do with the fact that material may be classified or not. It has nothing to do with the fact that authorities are demanding to take down the material. Heck it has nothing to do with Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation or this particular case.

The revolting issue is that a Wikipedia volunteer got bullied because of this incident. Let me rephrase this: They went through the legal channels, met with a refusal from the other party's lawyer. Instead of moving the issue to a judge or a competent authority (remember, the article had been up since 2009, I really don't think they were in a hurry), they harass a kid who had no idea the page even existed.

Talking of whether Wikimedia should take this down or not has absolutely nothing to do with this far greater problem. And most of us probably don't have a fraction of the info to grasp the bigger story. Let's focus on the real issue here, the one where government stepped out of line!
I've always thought of POI as having above-average tech related consistency compared to other public network US shows.

Some of it still makes me cringe, but when you put it into the perspective of their general audience it does seem, to me, that it's more complex than 95% of said audience can understand. Additionally, I haven't noticed many blatantly stupid/irrelevant errors in the shows technospeak. It's all generally, vaguely, sorta legit.

I mean, I am not seeing any gooey interfaces in visual basic yet (ignoring the typical beep-boop flashy computer interfaces).
Exactly. It's a move to avoid a Nash equilibrium and push the world towards a socially optimal configuration. (Ie a global optima for everyone ideally, rather than a Pareto optima.)
If you don't trust the experimental results, exactly what process are you proposing?

More experiments? Will you trust those?
Draytek Vigor. Any of the mid range units. Bomb proof, well supported and have VoIP support that isn't a piece of shit.
The Disposable Academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time (2010)
Where free = for sale
Is it any easier to write gui code on windows now? I remember trying to write stuff with gtk a few years ago and it was incredibly painful to get anything to work.
IIRC new pesticides have to be tested by the government, no need to trust just about everyone that mixed something in their factory or bathtub.

http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/about/aboutus.htm
https://secure.pesticides.gov.uk/pestreg/
No, we do not know any such thing. Again, you personally were told this by someone who works with this stuff: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/8f4/neil_degrasse_tyson...
Yeah I know that, obviously.

But why Liberty, Equality, Waxing?
One of these featured in the recent James Bond book, Devil May Care (decent book, not a patch on the originals).

Ground effect [1] is a really interesting phenomena.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_(aircraft)
http://torentilo.com/download/8748214/AMI-Firmware-Source-Co...

Torrent...
This is not about intelligence - its about Point of View.

We the French government have said that 100ft tower over there is a secret - so don't look at it.

We the people of a democracy like to look around and ask questions like "what is that 100ft tower over there?"
You made not one but two responses about why you had no interest in talking to them about an acquisition, when none was specifically mentioned by them in the first place. Throughout, your negative opinion of IAC was pretty clear, and while you didn't come right out and say anything nasty to anyone at OKC, it's hard to not see it as something of an "F U" to someone who had sold their company to IAC.

Bottom line, I think it would have been better if you had just done one post that stuck to only disputing the data with your own sources, and left the idea of an acquisition out of it. That would have been walking straight ahead, paying no attention to them.
Teenager Builds DNA Testing Machine In His Bedroom
The only real advantage you gain from a salt these days is that a precompiled database of hashes can't be used against you. Whether it be from someone's personal collection or one of those web-based hash sites.

Generating a rainbow table for each user isn't that much more difficult or time-consuming than having a single rainbow table. Processing power is cheap and easy to come by these days. A small botnet can be rented to generate rainbow tables at a faster rate than most supercomputers.
I'll remember that for the future. Thanks.
It should be pretty easy to upgrade vulnerable WRT54GL routers. Any volunteers to setup a page that POSTs a newer firmware like OpenWrt or Tomato?
Somewhat related, I've had an ambition for a while to contribute to a widely used library like zlib or OpenSSL, purely so that I could claim I had written code used in Windows or on my friend's mobile phone.

I am yet to contribute to either project, but I did successfully get in a patch to PHP which removed logo GUIDs for good, which means once PHP 5.5 is out, I can claim that a lot of internet websites use my code :D
I just bought a Macbook Air. 256GB SSD and 8GB of RAM. Seems snappy enough for me.
THE SP:01 Meet the world’s fastest pure-electric production car
http://careercup.com has sample interview questions and answers, sorted by problem category and company.
What the Internet Looked Like in 1995 [video]
That's how I did it, connected my WRT-54GL (Tomato) to a D-Link modem/router, works fantastically well.
It's a little scary that SOX was required to force them to do this... that company was run very poorly, IMO.
They also feature in Missile Gap by Charlie Stross (HN cstross):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Gap
Someone has pass ?

http://www.mmnt.net/db/0/0/www.jetway.com.tw
Brian Eno has released a bunch of iOS apps that generate music autonomously. http://www.generativemusic.com/
I haven't seen a modem (from a telecom) that isn't a router in the past 5 years. Most ship wireless router/modems to their customers these days as standard.

Cable companies might still ship modems (they did the last time I had cable internet, but that was probably 8 years ago).
I would currently not hire, based on this resume, things that are missing that I look for.

A clear story - What do you do now? What have you done in the past? What skills do you have? All I currently see now is a list of projects (some with very odd names).

An email address!? I have moved houses/apartments at least once a year for the last 7 years, and countries a few times in that, hence my resume does not have an address or phone number as those become out of date so fast! I instead have an email address under a domain I own which is used soley as a professional email address.

My CV is structured as follows

- Education
- Current Job
- Previous Job
- Job Before That
- Skills
- Open Source Projects

Granted, all of my experience is directly related to Computer Science Research / Software Development, but you can't hide where you come from!

Focus on roles not projects. Make it skim-able! On my first pass through I just saw a lot of names of projects which did not make any sense to me! I would present it in a format similar to the following:

- Software Developer (2007-Present)
(subheading - Flightlogg.in)

Improve the English. Write in complete structured sentences.

And finally, I would recommend typesetting (http://www.latex-project.org/) there are lots of nice templates which give a professional look and feel.
or like https://github.com/ciju/gotunnel?
Looking at the absolute numbers: RIM at .7%? Jesus.
the French have intelligence? I thought they lost that with bravery?
Saw a documentary on it a while back.

Wings of Russia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr8N0Z4Cl0U

In flight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Nu94khHoo
It has probably been said in this very thread before but here goes nothing. Here is why I made some of my own code open. Some of it was college stuff. I wrote assignment programs and made them open so others can see it. (I am almost the only one in entire class who can write code that does not suck) I made it open so others can understand.

One other project I made open was because it was a practice code and I wanted to show it off and maybe (again) help others who want to do something similar. I also made it open because I didn't intend to work on it anymore. One time job, so if someone else finds it of any use, they can commit to the main repo and improve the source repo instead of keeping the changes to themselves. And in the likely case that no one commits anything (no one has, yet) I wanted it to be somewhat of a demo code in case I wanted to show my skills to someone quick or impress someone.
I'm not convinced by the maths in that headline, but looking at the actual data is quite interesting - it's looking like Microsoft have a pretty solid grip on third place.
This is from August of last year. Is it still relevant?
Online tool combines microscope photos to recompose objects in actual scale
This is the first comment from the article (and also somewhat makes sense?)

The math in this article is painfully bad.
You can't make statements that a drop from 3.6% to 0.7%
market share is a "plunge of 81%" in sales.
You could only do that if the underlying volume hadn't changed.
Also, normally you would never calculate a percentage change on a percentage.
It's at best drivel and at worst, misleading.
This article title should read: Android market share rises 5.8%,
IOS slides 3.5%, but that's hardly as exciting, now is it?
Google Fiber coming to Austin
The cables at the top are all for fall protection. The tether (power and control) goes through its ankle or hip area, depending on the video. The one video where you see multiple strands hanging down directly from the top are connected to a block and tackle pulley system. If you watch the one shot from behind you can see the hoist hook in the center of its shoulders up high. You can also see the tether at the hip area in the same shot.
The funny thing here is that deleting an article on Wikipedia is more akin to hiding its contents from the public (i.e. non-sysop users) than it is to deletion. No history or content is actually lost, and as we're all aware nothing ever truly disappears on the internet. Ironically, if they wanted sensitive information gone for good, they would have to use the "oversight" feature, which requires the Foundation's blessing.
> I don't install non-work IM programs on my desktops anymore because I found that an 'online' status typically denoted to people that I'm available to talk.

With the exception of Facebook Chat, that is the purpose of the Online status. There's (busy/your client's name for it) for "I'm here, but may not be able to reply". And offline for when you're actually not available. If it wasn't for Skype's terrible offline messaging implementation, I'd have said that 90% of the time offline or busy implies you should probably close the IM client.

(Facebook is different because afaict, there's no way to manually put it into the away state, it just does it if you haven't interacted with Facebook in a while)
After running DD-WRT on a WRT54GL for years I tried the RT-N16 and got terrible network throughout over WiFi even within 5-15ft. Maybe the issue has been solved in the last few months but I was very disappointed.
I'm french i read the article , i dont see the big deal ? there is nothing special in that article. It's a stupid move from the french "secret" services as it will draw attention on something nobody cared about.
How is this similar to Photoshop? Is it as powerful?
Also why does most of its traffic come from India?
And yet I still know people who won't give up their old Blackberry solely because of the hardware keyboard.

The quality of those keyboards is the only thing that stops them from changing phones, as for them it's the difference between consuming email on the go and managing their email on the go.
The RT-N56U is one of the best routers I've ever used. Great transfer rates, strong signal in both bands, gigabit ports, and the management panel is pretty decent if you don't want to install Tomato.
For more inspiration (and tutorials), Generative Design[1] is awesome.

[1]: http://generative-gestaltung.de
french fry boycott
These are pretty great -- they're making me want to dive back in to the art thing. (My old stuff from around 2000: http://djb.deviantart.com/gallery/ and http://wry.me/~darius/gallery/index.html from code at https://github.com/darius/tusdl -- my involvement in the actual images was limited to feedback to the program as it threw them up.)
Interesting: comScore had iOS up and Android down. I think all that proves is that these numbers are essentially meaningless. http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2013/04/04/comscore-apple-incre...
This is something I wrote couple of years ago.
http://hkelkar.com/2011/02/19/the-case-for-open-source-devel...
For me its to become better at my craft.
They gave me $4.00 toward the purchase of a gift in the hope I would give them my CC#
I'm not sure if you're being cynical or sarcastic:

"...thanks to some DoD funding, it's using the robot to test suits like this in hazardous conditions, with an array of sensors on the robot itself able to detect chemicals leaking through the suit."

There's a clear purpose here. Humanoid robot testing of garments intended for hazardous duty. I doubt anyone at Boston Dynamics or the DoD are sitting around pondering how they're going to cloth the obscene masses of robot humanoids they plan to produce.
Thats awful. It looks like you can purchase a standalone ADSL model for about $30: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16825165...

That coupled with a router/wireless ap running tomato or the like should work well from what I understand. I, however, never have used DSL so I'm not an expert.
Show HN: Subvim – Vim customized to be like SublimeText
The bug mentioned still appears to be open, though there's progress: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+b...

The code mentioned in the post is also still in the latest version of the package's code on Launchpad: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/raring/a...
http://www.generative-gestaltung.de/ is a bit more fresh! And all source code is up on the site.
I've heard that Andy's work (while amazing) isn't generative. I think he actually lays it all out by hand (in Illustrator or the like). Not sure if genius or crazy, maybe both.
Is this a problem if I have DD-WRT?
That file is very ugly (it's one of the oldest files in the repository) and does not reflect the current programming style. The indentation is all over the place, the type names are not CamelCased, there isn't enough use of methods—`str::len()` is ugly compared to `"foo".len()`—and so on.

(Of course, this isn't an excuse: we sorely need to refactor the compiler.)
It's a 'do the ends justify the means' issue. I'm kind of shocked that the above the fold comments here no one seems to take into account that France is engaged in conflict. As a result, if you have an easy to access well written article, which is exactly what wikis espouse to be that has detailed relevant as deemed by the french gov't military information, It is their decision to determine what was once public to be classified information. As much as I am for supporting rights of individuals and keeping systems in balance, I'm not so much for the establishment of principle to prove a point and set a precedent (which is not how the french law system works by the way) so much as I am for the utilitarian exercising of power when lives are on the line. How selfish must one be to cling to a few pages on principle when others could die for it.

"The precedent they are setting is something like "if you are involved in a website where someone else does something we consider problematic, you could be in trouble. If we feel like it".

The other way goes that: 'If I have time sensitive information due to the changing landscape of warfare, I could get soldiers and civilians killed if I feel like it'

I sadly would trust the gov't on this decision than an individual.
I assumed this was because a pool of funds had been set up to prop up Romney's odds to make him appear more viable -- or at least to stave off a story that Intrade users were betting heavily against him. Intrade was a small enough market that this could have been done with a comparatively small investment compared to media buys, and without any technological or financial chicanery. It's not illegal to pay too much for something that could have been had for less.
Maybe they should just ship with the alternative firmware installed if the open source is doing a better job?
A new monads library for Clojure
The strange three minth period they used (dec to feb) greatly favors windows phone at the expense of blackberry. The period starts right after the new nokias came out but much before the new blackberries did.
The smaller versions also work as well and are only $80!
http://www.roc-noc.com/mikrotik/routerboard/RB951G-2HnD.html
JPA: Ordering Collections with OrderBy
Epiphany Eyewear
Except for the fact that comScore knows what it's doing while this article doesn't. I'm gonna trust comScore on this one because it just makes sense. The iPhone 5 came out and HTC, Motorola, and Samsung's new flagship phones have yet to be released yet.
We actually have partaken in long, long debates about the syntax, and the current syntax is one that everyone seemed to be OK with, modulo a few compromises here and there.

Usually people who say Rust looks like line noise are concerned about `@` and `~`. These are there for a reason: they're the Rust versions of the smart pointers `shared_ptr` and `unique_ptr` in C++. Unlike in C++, you have to use them: there is no other way to allocate memory. So `shared_ptr` and `unique_ptr` would be all over the codebase in Rust code if we didn't abbreviate them, and making them one character was the easiest way to do that.

I actually think that one of the reasons few people write exception-safe code in C++ is that `shared_ptr` and `unique_ptr` (especially if you don't use `using namespace std;`) are so long that `new` and `delete` end up being more convenient…
Why do you say paid GNOME contributors have been abandoned? Where do you get this idea, and which company are you referring to? Also, what do you mean by "GNOME development is lacklustre"?
Always fascinated by these. Are the large tubes torpedo tubes on top?
i wonder how efficient it is
The Unifi line by Ubiquiti is also great, dirt cheap, good-looking and have wi-fi bridging as a bonus.

http://www.ubnt.com/unifi
Why I decided to finally start a blog?
Reminds me of Veblen's "The Instinct of Worksmanship"
Rather than the RB2011 series, if you can make do with fewer ports, you can look toward the RB751.

Fewer ports, but essentially the same wireless specs (1W DC 2.4GHzbgn). The routing capacities on both are way more than you'll ever run up against on a home connection. Same RouterOS. License level is one lower, but that essentially just restricts you to 200 VPN connections instead of 500.

The RB751 is ~$80 (5xgiga) or ~$60 (5xfast) versus the 2011's ~$130 (5xgiga+5xfast).
If you can handle the bulk: Thinkpad T series with Intel HD4000 graphics + a dock at your desk. Don't buy the E/edge series..
Yeah I guess you're all kinda right. I was just thinking about the situation, not judging anyone.
> In conclusion: don’t EVER send your laptop to a Dell lab.

Simpler: Don't buy Dell.

I thought this was common knowledge.
i wonder how performance is on waves and choppy water.
How is Wikimedia foundation subject to the laws of France?
Yeah, and I don't know of anyone else doing this.
Tom Woods on sound money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnS2OtzSTq0&feature=yout...
50% more weight and 50% less fuel than cargo plane
Awesome dude!

I recommend you read this archive of Bill Starr articles:
http://billstarrr.blogspot.com/

He taught Rippetoe much of what he knows back in the day.
I think Starr articles are way more readable and useful than most of Rippetoe's stuff to be honest.
The laws on official secrets typically (and uncontroversially IMO) forbid any unauthorized handling or distribution of classified material. This is not a US-pandering post-9-11 knee-jerk thing, it goes back at least to WWII, and probably much longer.

Interestingly, the US has no corresponding law. There were previously some similar terms in the Espionage Act, but the courts have held them to be unconstitutional. A civilian who comes in to possession of state secrets is not obligated to keep them secret. Selling them to foreign governments would probably still constitute espionage, but selling them to newspapers is protected under free speech/free press.
Besides pure memory, there are other types of resources as well, which are deterministically destroyed/closed/freed (automatically, in C++ RAII usage).

Also, in C/C++ your performance critical loop/execution is not interrupted by harvesting GC passing nearby.

AFAIK, one of the main reason people come up with custom allocators is that the system new/delete (malloc/free) are expensive to call. E.g. it is much faster to pseudo-allocate memory from system pre-allocated static memory, in your app.
I heartily support these sort of viral "would you get a load of these assholes" public shaming about large companies that become like the DMV with the way they deal with customers.

It seems like one of the few ways for the little guy to fight back.
Sounds miserable. If they'd give you a loaner for the duration it'd be a little better.

I and others have recently had employees at the Apple store encourage us to utilize their no restocking fee policy to effectively get a "free" loaner laptop while ours were under repair.

Maybe Apple should encourage people to do this even when they're having computers from other manufacturers repaired. How often do people end up just keeping and paying for these "free" loaners... ?

Edit: loner -> loaner, Thanks ColinWright!
The case still has merit, I am in no way debating that, however DCRI has to maintain a relationship with Wikimedia (and other similar organizations) and this callous disregard for that relationship is unsettling to say the least.
We've ordered thousands of dollars worth of stuff from roc-noc.com over a couple of years. Chatted on the phone with them a bit too. I'd definitely vouch for them if you're looking to make an order.
Thank you very much for your support :D
The third place will be claimed soon enough by either Firefox OS, Tizen or Jolla Sailfish. I wouldn't bet too much on windowsphone becoming significant.
I recently gave a talk about programmatic art at Heroku's conference.

https://vimeo.com/groups/waza2013/videos/61113159

My lecture notes may be of interested to you also:

http://www.runemadsen.com/printing-code

For example:

http://www.runemadsen.com/printing-code/lecture-form
It's not an issue for US citizens. It's an issue France has to resolve, and believe me, I'm reading through the french comments and a shitstorm is going to happen.