skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He (or she?) has had a couple essays rise to the top of HN. In my memory, one this week about predicting Google product shutdowns, and one a while back about determining whether a leaked film script was legitimate.
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
If you click through to the screendump of the bids there are some pretty obscure jokes besides the obvious KurtG and GeorgeCantor. BusyBeaver is another computability joke, solving "in the most productive manner possible". chn's bid is in infinite-radix numbers. The HaltLib.NET library is claimed to work in PNG and BNF among other languages. J. S. Carberry is a mythical Brown professor started as a practical joke in 1929; the backstory is interesting: http://students.brown.edu/College_Hill_Independent/?p=2127
So Twitter Bootstrap is the king of github...
Meh, I've always liked the smooth shape. I also love the look of the much boxier and more aggressive looking Ferarri Testarossa and Lamborghini Countach, but I think they look much more dated than even the 73 911. Design always has some elements of personal preference, of course.
Rip DVD to iPad Mini with DVDFab 9
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Yes - my mistake.
As a U.S. citizen I fear clicking the link ;-)
Maybe the people that put the ad up did the analysis?
LOL don't be too serious this is just a cute silly app made in half an hour :P
ElementaryOS Beta2
Well, at least we know where the WSJ stands on drilling and the environment :).
Can't speak for the entire academic career, but in my CS grad school, for students and post-docs politics did not exist. Maybe it kicks in later when going after tenure or trying to win a proposal over 500 other submissions.
Why?

I work for a consulting company which does all kind of projects, and I jump from joy every time I get to chose a native project instead of a web one.

It all depends on the market you are aiming for.
I don't know if you are in the US or not but our local city library can get journals on inter-library loan. Stanford used to have an affordable non-student library card fee but it has since gone through the roof. That said you can often do the legal part of what Aaron Schwartz did which is use the WiFi in a college library and get access to their journal subscription but this only works well if you already know what articles you want. And Google Scholar can be good for that but not as good before 1999 sadly.

I recognize the difference between BI and GMI as strategies but just so you know they are often both talked about in the same papers as they are both approaches to putting capital to work effectively amongst the poorest.
The marionette's had it right, Team America, World Police --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPBX47zSktc
> This is the first time the yellow rubber duck has appeared in China—prior to this, it has been in the waters of 10 other countries, such as London, Sydney and Osaka.

Yes, those are some great countries. I wonder what their capitals are called. Pedantic!
I'm not arguing that it's a bad microbenchmark for FP run-time performance.

I'm arguing that it's a bad microbenchmark for compile time and code size. I'm not all that familiar with go, but in most systems I've used, if you write a really tiny program, you will find that there's a "fixed cost of entry' where the standard libraries get munged through the linker (or whatever) and that writing a program 10x larger will not cost you 10x as much. Since you took only one measurement of one program, you have no idea what the trend lines might look like here.

It seems like you are going out of your way to do this badly and make a snap judgement that you can proclaim to the world.

I am surprised at the extent to which you seem to think you need to ration your investigation and avoid wasting your time by the exhausting task of "also investigating GCCGo".

Also, in the world of high-performance computing, 10% for zero programmer effort is huge.
Chrome Sync also gives you all the open tabs from another browser (which is one of many reasons I love Chrome for iOS)
Maybe you're talking some sense here but remember they came at him with helicopters and automatic weapons. If you ask me, he's just some fat kid with a website who likes pretty girls and video games. I support copyrights as much as anyone and have criticized this "Mega" fool but the way he was treated was outrageous. If RIAA wants any sympathy they need to get with the program.
"if California were more like Texas"
I'm glad I was lying down when I read this line. Even if I was sitting in a chair I would have fallen out of it laughing as hard as I did.
This reads more like PAC Campaign Ad than a news Article...
> This made me scratch my head. Desktop apps have been accommodating multiple screen and window sizes since before the Internet existed. Do you think we hard-code a separate layout for every window size?

I think the problem is the youth of today doesn't know anything other than web development, so they are full of false assumptions.
Sort of. It has issues with ProGuard, but the Scala standard library is a couple of megabytes, so you'll be adding some size to your application, or you'll have to very carefully test and configure.

Additionally, Dalvik didn't have JIT until late in its maturity, so besides the normal slowdown from Java->Scala, expect it to slow down further by the less-efficient VM.

It might be viable on newer devices, but it'll definitely have problems on older ones. Other than that, it does seem very feasible to write and deploy a Scala Android app.
If they stay committed to it, it will get a lot better over time, both in terms of functionality and form factor. That's a huge if though.
Years ago I would have agreed with you, now I'm not so sure.

Most users know so little about the UI of their computers that they don't know when to click the mouse once or twice.

They spend their day working on Windows, checkout Facebook on their iPhone on the way home, play a game on a Playstation then send some email using Gmail on Safari.

Then you have the major changes within operating systems over recent years, Windows Vista/7 and Windows 8 both introduced major UI changes as has OS/X.

Peoples interaction with computers has become much more diverse. Unless the UI is jarringly different they just aren't going to notice.
For the C++ engineer position, is a part-time setup possible (say 25-30 hr/week) in case of REMOTE?
Given the amount of applications on the app store, it is as hard to find anything as anywhere else.

Plus, people are selling desktop applications since the dawn of home computing, nothing new there.
I ran across this book while I was researching the caloric engine. Momentary obsessions can be very rewarding sometimes. :)
> "A big part of megaupload's business was infringing property rights"

Objection. Hearsay, your Honor.
This is a great book, that and Watt's book on steam and others which talk in pretty simple terms about how to make things for your steampunk collection.

If you are looking for fun things to print on your 3D printer you can make a number of interesting clock mechanisms, and from there some interesting pieces for an automaton. Lots of fun.

My favorite btw:

"226. This movement is designed to double the speed by gears of equal diameters and numbers of teeth—a result once generally supposed to be impossible. Six bevel-gears are employed. The gear on the shaft, B, is in gear with two others—one on the shaft, F, and the other on the same hollow shaft with C, which turns loosely on F. The gear, D, is carried by the frame, A, which, being fast on the shaft, F, is made to rotate, and therefore takes round D with it. E is loose on the shaft, F, and gears with D. Now, suppose the two gears on the hollow shaft, C, were removed and D prevented from turning on its axis ; one revolution given to the gear on B would cause the frame, A, also to receive one revolution, and as this frame carries with it the gear, D, gearing with E, one revolution would be imparted to E; but if the gears on the hollow shaft, C, were replaced, D would receive also a revolution on its axis during the one revolution of B, and thus would produce two revolutions of E."
Startups Are Like Friends (sometimes they die)
$81 for http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Thomas-H-Corme...

No legal DRM free option as far as I can see.

Fifth link was a direct to the PDF.
Actually it is quite true, contrary to many other 3D graphics APIs, OpenGL lacks support for text rendering.

It is up to you to somehow transform text into 3D graphics operations.
>>If you don't like how Glass looks, or if you don't think you'd have a use for it, DON'T BUY ONE!...I must have missed the announcement that Glass use will be compulsory.

We're having a discussion, and no I wont buy one. I wont even wear one, unless I'm paid a large sum of money for it.

>>Not everyone has the same definition of "normal" or "looking like a dork" as you do.

That's obvious, they're plenty of socially awkward people out there.
It also says it must take "the source code", so that means you would have to be able to build any arbitrary program from source?
That would be a huge pain in the ass in general, above and beyond actually doing the things you mention.
https://github.com/popular/starred
Business Development/Partnership discussion, first and foremost.
I know next to nothing about the music industry - as do most people here I suspect. Your comment is unhelpful here without expanding on what about it was lazy reporting.
Hey that's my site - thanks for mentioning it! There's also a UK, NZ and US site( http://booko.us/ ) now.
My main issue with Objective-C is that we are in 2013 and the language still lacks namespaces.

Prefixing names is just something no developer should be forced to do.

I hope with the work being done in clang for C++ modules, Objective-C gets some form of namespaces as well.
Stein's phenomenon
There exist research programming languages that support 'total functions', that can be proven to always halt. Usually you divide the world into functions and cofunctions, and data and codata, the latter of which may be infinite (such as I/O).

I wish this were a more popular thing. When I write a function, I can probably enumerate in my head all the things I want it to do, and not halting usually isn't one of those things. But the instinctive reaction is to worry about Turing-completeness, which is puzzling. When's the last time you wanted a program with fundementally unprovable behavior?
A startup lawyer’s take on winning over a venture capitalist
> California has the natural resources and technical expertise to be the next Texas if it wants to be. What it needs is the political will. California Governor Jerry Brown at least says he wants to drill, but his dominant Democratic Party is so beholden to the already-rich greens that the state is paralyzed.

Those poor oil companies, being outspent by the Green Party spending juggernaut!
Ask HN: Share your startup ideas (May 2013).
Kotlin might have a better time on Android (though I too would prefer Scala), or at least better support. I haven't tried it yet on Android, but Jetbrains had a small tutorial for it on their blog[1]. I've just been putting it off since it was an immature language, but that may not be quite as true now.

[1] http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/running-hello-kotlin-on-and...
Congrats __chismc. Shortly after this post it appears they moved the "Install" link under the permission requests.
These so-called "Rule 4" issues are a symptom of the DOJ's quest to become the world's police force. But the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure exist for precisely this reason. It is in the very nature of the mindless beast that is the DOJ to try to escape from its cage; it is the job of the judge to ensure that the cage door is never left open by enforcing the rules. Hopefully the judge will do his job in this case.
Two words: Video games.

Sweigart's tutorials [1] are a perennial favorite. The materials formerly hosted at simpson.edu [2] are also good.

[1] http://inventwithpython.com/

[2] http://programarcadegames.com/
> older folks have something solely by the virtue of being old?

Not always, no. Sometimes, old people are just plain stupid. Not necessarily bigoted, hateful, and mean, all of which can be explained if not forgiven, but stupid. Age only brings experience if you're smart enough to gain experience from what happens to you. If you're not, you don't have thirty years' experience, you have one year of experience repeated thirty times.

Now, add to that the Cult Of Age, the idea that old people deserve special respect simply because they're old, and the unchallengeable idea that old people must be wise because they're old. (We can go back and forth on whether respect is deserved or earned, because the two camps of people on that issue are apparently not operating from the same definition of 'respect'. What I'm talking about is the idea that, whatever 'respect' is, old people deserve more of it simply because they happen to be old.) Throw in a little bit of people disrespecting anyone younger than them, especially when the young person is more right than they are, and you get a lot of anger.
Just the answer I was hoping for. Thanks!
The comments of the NPR article suggest that the reporting is misleading at best, wrong at worst, and isn't news (the facts were reported months ago).

Edit: to expand on the comments in the NPR piece- Macklemore and Ryan Lewis didn't sign with a label to get distribution, they stayed independent despite hiring ADA (a subsidiary of the Warner Music Group) to get them distribution.
Has anyone built an NSURLProtocol subclass for SPDY? I did a quick GitHub search and found nothing. Seems to me that's one big use case that SPDY could dramatically improve, is all these native mobile apps which open SSL connections to their APIs.
What I really enjoy about Kara Swisher's article is how her writing style and her framing of the story reflects the whirlwind reality that found Systrom and Krieger in an 18 month exit.

There are no superhuman heroics involved here nor supersecret backroom deals. This is really just a simple story of good luck and timing, a spot on pivot and execution, and honestly brokered business relationships.

You can't duplicate the Instagram strategy because there was no strategy. These guys didn't build an app to flip. They built an app that was cool: to them, their friends, their investors, their users, and ultimately their suitors and acquirer.

Kudos to them.
The readme is very unclear, I've installed it but it doesn't appear that it's doing anything.
Don't get me wrong, I think the Megaupload prosecution was a waste of scarce federal resources. I don't even think copyright infringement should be a criminal issue (blame Microsoft and the BSA for turning it into one). I'm just commenting on the U.S.'s right to enforce its laws internationally to the extent the activity is targeted at or has major impact on the U.S.
Oh of course. I didn't mention:

3) One day I'd like to own a caravan park.

And indeed, they were complete and utter generalisations. I'm sure there are people in interesting jobs, who come home and are able to work on interesting side projects. Either because their jobs are interesting but not brain-draining, or because they are particularly driven, or any number of reasons.

I have just found that at this point in my life, those are the two prospects that I am weighing up.
What facts in this article do you dispute? This is a carefully researched and reasoned article that is consistent with what I know about California after living there 40 years. California's anti-drilling stance has existed since they banned offshore drilling after the Santa Barbara oil spill. The Sierra Club was formed in California (named after the mountain range there) and has a history of environmental activism. I don't think this article is much of a surprise to anyone.
As a newbie just learning ruby/html, can someone explain to me how would Jekyll help me build a small static website for a small company? how does it differ from bootstrap?
> It is in the very nature of the mindless beast that is the DOJ to try to escape from its cage; it is the job of the judge to ensure that the cage door is never left open by enforcing the rules.

And this cuts to the heart of the adversarial system, where both sides are out to win and the judge is meant to be an impartial referee. So it isn't just the DOJ that judges have to keep caged to some extent.
> A big part of megaupload's business was infringing property rights granted under U.S. law to Americans. If your actions are going to effect people in the U.S., obviously you should have to follow U.S. law.

That is a poor argument.

North Korea could decide to assign patent rights to "online shopping" to one of its citizens. This citizen now has an intellectual property right that every ecommerce website is infringing. Every site owner is failing to pay legally required royalties, depriving this citizen of those funds, using millions of copies of his invention without authorization.

According to your rule of thumb, all these website operators should be required to follow NK law, so it'd be reasonable for them to land a helicopter in your yard and arrest you for violating it.

What actually exists is a web of extradition treaties whereby nations have agreed to voluntarily transfer someone to another nation for prosecution in certain situations. There's almost always an absolute requirement for dual criminality -- that is, that the act is illegal in both nations. That's the test, and the treaties signed by both governments are the source of power, not "domestic effects" and whatever you think makes the US special. The case this article is about is an extradition hearing.

To your reply: No, substituting NK for US in your own proposed system does not make a straw man.
OpenJDK does not have a field of use restriction; if it did, Linux distributions would not ship it as Open Source software (it wouldn't appear in Debian main, for instance).

The Java compatibility test suite does have some such restrictions, but those same restrictions would have prevented using it on Harmony too.
Here is the SPDY indicator I use for Chrome. It's also simple and works well.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spdy-indicator/mpb...
You are not mistaken at all. Schools are one part of a system that should identify and help abused children, but schools can not be the only safety net for children.
You may want to look in other areas. I was "collecting" watches[1] for years before I realized that I wanted to make watches. Because there was a 'purpose', I found myself with a desire to do more electronics projects to support my hobby.

My knowledge in that area (and software) gives me the leverage to make cheap-but-adequate tools that would cost $15-50k or more from watchmaker tooling companies.

[1] Basically, using my annual watch "budget" to buy a watch that had some unique or unusual attribute, not really collecting in the traditional sense.
I use those "Read Later" services, but I only put something in one once I've read the first paragraph and am sure it's actually something I want to read. Preceding that, I open everything in a bunch of tabs, in the same way you'd put a pile of resumes in an inbox. If my browser crashes, I ideally want them discarded, not saved.

An alternate mechanism for the same thing would be to make an HN extension that works more like StumbleUpon: have the browser history function as the "tabs", and just advance through the things you're reviewing (seeing both the HN thread and the original article at once) by clicking either "Save" or "Discard".
A big step for me was realizing that I don't need a university to keep learning and discovering. There's never been a better time to be an independent learner. If there's something you want to learn, then learn it. If you've got something to say, then say it online. And if you're interesting, people will listen and engage with you.

A PhD is training to be a professor, so don't do one unless that is your goal and you know how long the odds are and what the job of a professor really is. Plenty of people realize how hard it is to get a tenured faculty job, but I don't hear many people talking about how crappy the job of being a professor is for someone who primarily wants to do research. I routinely got emails as early as 6AM and as late as 1:30AM from the same faculty members while I was a PhD student; it seemed like my rockstar professors, well past middle age, were still working 80+ hour weeks to do their administrative duties, and teaching, and grant writing, and student mentorship, and still have any time left for their own research.
Author here.

Re [1]: True. But (a) that's a grad program and (b) it's aimed at giving programmers a journalism education, not teaching journalists how to code.
If my server is web site running Django then the special one that I'm manually managing happens to be the most important one.
@rayiner I can't reply to you directly for whatever reason. Maybe we're not getting the whole story. Reminds me of the McAfee story, some nut building what looks like a meth lab in the jungle, is he nuts or just trying to impress his girlfriend? Why does he have a safe room? Anyway, at least he lived to tell the story! Rad helicopter footage!
Peter Thiel - You are Not a Lottery Ticket [video]
It doesn't exist as a formal major at the institution where I am pursuing my undergraduate degree. But yeah, there are some interesting overlaps @ the grad level. My school included, but that program is aimed at giving a journalism education to "hackers," and it's not meant to teach non-technical reporters how to code.
I am sad that this is the top comment. Estimates vary, but something likely over 10% of the population has been abused. That's a lot. That's a lot of kids that are going through schools and being missed right now. It is wonderful that your mother caught one, but she missed dozens more. That's not an effective approach.

Doubly so when kids tend to think that schools work hand in hand with parents. Your expectation is that anything you tell the school, goes home. Even if they say it won't. Adults lie. Abused kids don't have a lot of trust. Anonymity makes a big difference.

Also there are worse things in the world than having to have that discussion with your kid. Like not wanting to stay home when you're sick because you're afraid that you'll wind up with a sore ass from your mother's boyfriend.

What? You think that is an unfair thing for me to say? Well I've got worse for you. I don't have to imagine that - I just have to remember.

If a billboard like this helps one kid like I was, and disturbs a hundred like yours, that's a worthwhile tradeoff in my books. Before leaping to disagree, stop and think about the fact that the typical estimate is that equivalent experiences are the reality of childhood for 20% of women and 5% of men. That's a lot of kids. It is wonderful that your kids get better. But far too many don't.

And no, schools are not an effective answer to this problem. Ideas like this one might not be either, but it is worth trying them so that we can see how well they work. Because until you try them, you can't find out if they might.
Agree that it's very hard for academia to keep up with industry, and the shortcomings of the design of college majors. I still see value in a liberal arts undergraduate education, but that's awesome your school had more leniency with individual studies.
Apple.com Does Not Support SPDY
Weekly Digest 12 - The most interesting links from .NET community
At present, the best commercial solar cells convert between
17 per cent and 19 per cent of the sun's energy into
electricity. UNSW's technique, patented this year, should
produce efficiencies of between 21 per cent and 23 per cent.
You've just made my day with C-#
The article does seem biased. It says, "California has huge reservoirs offshore" but doesn't mention the enormous BP oil spill in 2010.