skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dondrey's Law: The number of tabs a programmer has open is proportional to how stressed out they are.
There's more "hacking" that went into this ring than most of the usual HN front page articles.

This is truly an impressive bit of work, and I hope the author and his beloved share a happy and healthy life together for the rest of their days.
So the problem of attaching the stones was never really solved? that section seemed to be leading up to a moment of genius and a thrilling conclusion, but it looked like it was just epoxy in the end.
Yes, glowing when hands are close suggests that the two are 'zinged'.

Triggering a color when the partner is close within a few feet after a period of absence would mean 'he is here'.
actually, the 'machine' is trained with a voice model. so, when you're saying that you'll let a machine decide, in this particular case you're really letting google decide (and expecting them to have baked in an appropriate pronunciation of gif).

here's what we've got at nuance: GIF or JIF -> http://bit.ly/1938drD.

the google translate tts models are older than their android models (particularly network tts), and it seem as though it still treats it similarly -> http://bit.ly/12tpCol
Little bit of nitpicking: If x = y = 1, then value = 0. I wonder why he didn't just choose value to be 100y/x.
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Indeed. With 75% of Debian packages available, this should be enough to try it out. It's pretty amazing to have it somewhat usable nowadays, considering how long it has taken.

Looking at the wikipedia page, the project seems to have some focus issues, with people periodically starting to port Hurd to other microkernels and then stopping due to lack of time. It would be interesting to have a side-by-side comparison with other similar projects like Tannenbaum's own Minix 3.
Log(1)=0 If you interviewed once and got the job, your score would be 0.
Seems pretty new to me. The Schnozzel is not remotely the same product. I don't think they are claiming that effect they are exploiting is a new technology, rather integrating that directly into the nosel of an inflatable.
PrimeSense (the company behind the Kinect IR technology) had a competitor at the time called 3DV systems (or something like that), that made an RGBD TOF camera that worked way, way better than the kinect - but they ran into financing problems, and were bought at-cost by Microsoft (something like $30M, which was the investment). That was in 2007, and even back then they were able to produce them for ~$300/BOM if I remember correctly.

At the time, everyone assumed MS just bought them to shut out competitors - but it appears they actually use the thing.
Is your goal to build something or to learn how to build something?
Under the hood it's all Cyrus IMAPd server with a ton of customisations (seriously, it's a lot - it's kind of getting out of hand - I need to tidy some up and push them back upstream)

The code we run in production is all available to anyone who wants to play with it, though the usual caveats about "it's not particularly well tested for any configurations other than exactly the one we run" apply.

https://github.com/brong/cyrus-imapd/branches/fastmail

brong@prin:~/src/cyrus-imapd$ git log --oneline cmu/master..HEAD | wc -l
632

brong@prin:~/src/cyrus-imapd$ git diff cmu/master HEAD | diffstat | tail -n 1
149 files changed, 39060 insertions(+), 4314 deletions(-)
"shadowy gizmo malevolence" .. wonderful
I am from Yandex Mail team.

We've been having an influx of users for our mail for domains product because it is free compared to what Google provides now. We also have an importer from Gmail that works via IMAP.

BTW, there's an XMPP service too but I don't think we have English docs for that.
Ask HN: Why has X not been updated from X11 since 1987?
Is it simply perfect and can not be any better?

I find reading this statement incredible considering how widespread X is:

"X originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1984. The protocol version has been X11 since September 1987." as seen here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_server
"Nothing over the main Linux kernel" is complicated. It offers a microkernel design that was modern and radical 20 or so years ago, and is still pretty unique as a Unix system; Linux being as monolithic as ever, you can still do some pretty cool stuff with it you can't come close to with Linux. However, afaik, these days the designs of Mach and Hurd aren't looked upon very highly, the stability advantages of microkernels aren't as important anymore with rock solid traditional kernels, and instead of figuring out how to empower non-root users on Unix systems we just give everyone their own VM.
thank you, that's what I was looking for
It could be that your target market (people in debt) is one in which people have a lower ability (or willingness) to spend. (Google Ramit Sethi's Pay Certainty test.)

In that case, perhaps an alternate revenue system can be found. Maybe something like Mint.com.

I read (listened) to Chris Anderson's book Free: The Future of a Radical Price [1], which tackles this very subject of creating revenue from free products. (Chris Anderson is the founder of Wired.com and this book debuted as #12 on the New York Times Best Seller List.) You may find his book useful too. I highly recommend it. Best of all, the book is priced appropriately: Free.

[1] http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B002V5CUHI
> I think a more rational takeaway would be responsible disclosure.

The takeaway, happy or not, is that most companies see no disclosure as the only right disclosure and will punish you beyond reason if you're even connected to something that hurts them a little - even if they're the ones who caused themselves the hurt.

So, responsible for who?

Because the fastest way to guarantee this stops sooner than later is leak every address publicly with information about every error AT&T made and let civil suits from pissed-off customers fry them.

This is all just manufactured panic anyways so it's not like anyone would even get hurt. Email addresses aren't secrets and we don't act like they are or we'd be arresting spammers.

> That or avoiding these situation entirely by not meddling

No, then it'd still be broken and nobody would know.

> where you're not supposed to.

Sorry, but if you have my data or provide a service I need, I've got an interest in your systems.
I've created a ticket in our bug tracker to fix that ommission if it's not available, or document how if it is! I wrote the initial one-time support many years ago, but I haven't worked on the authentication subsystem for a while now. Thanks for the suggestion.
The idea is to get in the door. Unfortunately, the bouncer is extremely flawed and often gets it wrong. But once you're in, you should refocus on building things.
With Firefox's tab-groups, the fact it doesn't load tabs at startup until you switch to them, and the TreeStyleTabs extension I can easily and efficiently have over a hundred tabs "open" and everything still stays fast and efficient and uncluttered.

Basically, I never use bookmarks anymore - when I'm researching some topic, I do a bunch of searches, open a bunch of interesting results, and when I need to task-switch to some other topic I shuffle them all off to a tab-group, name it, and come back to it weeks or months later.

Another good application is having a tab-group per project - I can have a collection of tabs with API docs, SQL docs, specifications and such, and stash all that state and restore it almost instantly. As added benefit, since Firefox's AwesomeBar will prefer to complete from the names and URLs of open tabs, an easy way to switch to, say, the "CREATE TABLE" docs when I have a dozen identically-iconned tabs open is to just say Ctrl-T, "CREATE T", Down, Enter.
Lots of googling. You can see my favorite coding resources by typing learn_to_code in the terminal. Mostly just HTML/CSS with a nice js plugin plus the js time code. Feel free to ping me with other questions
> neutrons are stripped of their electrons

Got to love science journalism.
Yea, a lot of people are already hurting themselves with their regular diets. Might as well try something new.
I'm not a totally sure what would be a control. I typed that last section with quite a bit of haste, but I assume that it could be tested against a traditional food based meal that has similar nutritional value.

The meal replacement idea is not entirely new, though, they've always been more in the area of supplement, rather than outright replacement. Things like ensure, slim fast, and a host of other meal in a can things exist. A quick googling led to this study: http://www.nutritionj.com/content/9/1/11 which indeed did follow the shake vs traditional food format.

If nothing else, it could be benchmarked against existing meal replacements.

I'm now actually curious how these things do get tested, and over what period of time. I'll have to hit my school's database tomorrow and see how trials have been run in the past
Yes and no, what we need is a better way to bookmark and navigate branching paths through our browser history.
I still love my husband's grandmother's ring...but damn, this is cool.
Consumer Reports: The Galaxy S4 is the world’s best smartphone
Intentional. The idea is that 1/1 could be a fluke. :-)
Forget gamers: The Xbox One is targeting TV watchers
I'm glad someone mentioned the carbs here – it gives me a good excuse to pipe in. Maltodextrin is a ludicrous oversimplification of carb intake. The carb intake in whole foods is ridiculously complex, given the ubiquity of the variety of carbohydrate in all of our foodstuff. Not only do you have to take into account the stuff that we directly metabolise, but all the stuff that the little bacteria that live in our gut like to eat too.

Experiments have been done with mannose to try and recover a genetic disorder where the bio-availability of mannose has been impaired. A kid was fed with mannose in what was assumed to be the right amount of the correct monosaccharide. Turns out he ends up having a toxic reaction to the mannose, even though it goes part-way to curing his particular disease.

I know researchers in this area that don't eat red meat because they're worried about the incorporation of particular sugars into their body that are not natively found in humans. I never really understood why I looked down on biology when I was younger. It's one of the most complex and intriguing problem spaces in the world, and well worth investing your time (on the order of decades) to try and figure something out.
Joux kills [elliptic curve] pairings in characteristic 2
I think the raw _editing_ power of Vim is, as you say, probably unmatched in Emacs. Vim, however, cannot hold a candle to all the rest of Emacs and its elisp-y goodness. I'm a long-time Emacs user, and having recognized that Vim's modal editing and "language" are a better way of editing, opted for using Evil-mode, which gives you the best of both worlds. The transition was not without pain, but it was overall quick and worthy.
Despite my username, I'm not really an expert.

But even with my primitive knowledge, shouldn't any fusion reactor, cold or hot, produce a bunch of easily measurable alpha/beta/gamma particles?
No, you didn't quite see my point. In Haskell, types aren't only about correctness--they're also about expressiveness. They help you program beyond correctness--they even help if you're just hacking around. Moreover, they're sufficiently central to practical code (even, at the risk of repeating myself too much, hacky code) that it wouldn't really make sense to write untyped Haskell and try to stick types on afterwards.

Basically, in Haskell, the types go well beyond correctness. I hope this clarifies what I mean.
"Well, she insists that I change the design on this ring to make it more permanent and forgo a professionally made ring."

You have a keeper here. I made a (low-tech) engagement ring for my late wife, years ago. She would never have dreamed of replacing it.
Lovely article. Glad to have read it. Suspect Marco is a little modest about his contribution, but great to hear he came out ahead, and then some.

Truly hope Tumblr can maintain its independence from the Yahoo hive mind/wholesome image, just like Conde Nast has let Reddit's less-than-family-friendly stuff thrive (smartest decision ever).

Despite all that, the $1B valuation is batshit, not unlike the housing market in NYC these days ($1.6MM for his Brooklyn one bedroom?) I'm glad to be escaping the clutched of NYC in several weeks from now. A yard!
All the older people are, in fact, at Google. The average age of software engineers there is much higher than you might think.
I generally don't design or build with outside investment in mind. Given how I've seen how bad investors make good teams crumble in short periods of time. But, I would actually consider working with people who see value in me and my team, rather than only focus on the bottom line. May you mention other investors who share this same attitude?
Yes, it gets rid of the per-country quotas.
HumanAPI
You can use JSHint to fine-tune your linting rules.
We could certainly operate more cheaply if we didn't have every email replicated to another server (and a third in a second datacentre) as well as backed up daily to yet another machine with a different operating system and different security model.

You're right, doing it properly costs money, and I'm really glad there are enough people willing to pay for good email that FastMail has a viable business model. We've never made stupid-money like the tumblrs or instagrams of the world, but we're growing reliably and at a pace where our infrastructure can be improved gradually.

And we didn't sell for heaps of money either, but then we've been able to keep on operating much the same as before (apart from me getting a 2 year stint in Oslo to do skills and knowledge exchange with related teams inside Opera)
Somehow over the years learning C on my own, perhaps because it seemed more consistent to me, I got used to writing

if(foo) {

omitting the space after control statements' names, which is almost never done - except in very early C code. (It's not just this: V7 Unix often omits the space as well.). I should probably settle on a less idiosyncratic personal style, but I can't help but take a little heart from seeing "my" style in such a famous codebase. :)
I think you are right about it being R&D cost. I'm sure its more than a webcam even at scale but I think that both probably have their pros and cons. How do the cams work the morning after a snowstorm when everything is white vs the radar system? I could see both being in-use with one being used as warm backup based on road conditions. Never the less still sounds like the guy knows his stuff.
I've been a reader for about a year... and frankly the tone of comments has changed drastically since then. At the time I felt like I had nothing to add and thus didn't create an account, when I finally did create an account I almost immediately got into a political flame war with someone (remember the elections were coming up then) and got hellbanned, I stayed quiet for a while after that, and then created another account this time vowing to not comment unless I felt what I was saying was something other's would find useful and interesting. In addition I attempted to stay away from politics as it gets heated quickly (I kinda failed on that front when the NYT published that op-ed from the Gitmo Terrorist).

All this to say that people will abuse their power more as accountability nears zero. If we can figure out a way to keep everything open and still provide a good environment I'm all for it, and some people here have provided a groundwork, and I think it's great!
> But in my opinion the biggest single factor is that the DA in question is an investor in the private jail to which he sends people.

If this is true, it's a serious breach of legal ethics. It might be worth someone's while to get some reputable lawyers in Portland interested in the issue with an eye towards filing a complaint with the Oregon bar.

I'm not going to say that shady things don't happen in prosecutor's offices, but the ones I've seen tend to be political (trying hard to nail someone for a high-profile case because it would look bad to come up empty handed). State bars don't like to second guess discretionary authority in situations like that. Clear-cut conflicts of interests like this one, on the other hand, are the kind of thing state bars like to make examples out of, because they are easy to verify.
Well, yeah.

[Hydrogen] proton plus electron to neutron, which when absorbed into the Nickel nucleus decays to a proton and electron. Colorfully put, the Ni atom strips the electron from the neutron to gain a proton and become Cu.

Which is a decent enough lie. I'd be more interested in why all the rigamarole to generate the neutron at all, and I suspect many others would to, since it somehow allows for this to happen. IFF the experiment is legit.
A DT fusion reaction produces He and a neutron. Alpha, beta and gamma particles are stuff that comes from radioactive sources.

Even fission reactions don't directly produce those particles, they just change the elements involved which changes the rates at which those particles are emitted. (Fission reactions generally involve bombarding relatively fertile sources with slow neutrons which breaks those elements down and usually cause more neutrons to show up.)

For whatever it's worth. The reactions the article is talking about isn't DT or a fission reaction. So I'm not sure if it's producing radioisotopes where you could verify their presence by looking for alpha/beta/gamma particles. There's probably a way, even a change in beta particles from tritium could be used to partially confirm a DT reaction, so an equivalent very well might exist. Though with light elements like these, it seems the easier way to confirm this would just be to look for signs of the product element directly. (Copper in this case. Which should be easy to test for.)
Unifying the LinkedIn Search Experience
I just don't have that much drive to get a job. Maybe I underestimate getting a job at google or similar company.
FlatUIKit for iOS
AirBnb - New York today: the real story
Decoding the great Indian real estate ponzi scheme
I think the idea of that reaction is that it doesn't provide ionizing radiation. Also there might be some such particles, but if Rossi determines independent readings as a threat to his intellectual property he can prohibit the other scientists from getting these readings.
Yup. In this case there's some beta (electron) decay. I'm curious about how heat is transmitted, though, too. Possibly it's just from the electrons. Hmm, time to look up the nuke charts again.

Edit: here's a chart:
http://atom.kaeri.re.kr/ton/nuc4.html

Edit2: for convenience, here's the paper:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1305.3913v2.pdf
I reported this Firefox bug just moments before reading your comment. <:)

https://bugzil.la/874766
> “On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the highest, how would you rank your knowledge of C++?” ... Bjourne Stroustrap himself would rate himself probably an 8 or less.

Is there a citation for this, or a citation for something similar, or is this just a guess?

If it's actually true, then score++ for people who complain that C++ is too complex.
I had this problem with earlier GPGTools, but this one seems ok. I did an install on a machine where I haven't had the old versions and the doctor is happy afterwards.
Did you get a job?
The mysterious true origins of bootstrapping compilers.
I don't care really. Good vid though.
Wow, I wonder why I got down-voted for stating something that was simply true. I guess it's bad the people discussed the possibilities of these tools? Interesting...
The referenced paper is available for download:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3913
API Providers - Stop breaking my apps
um...this is rossi....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Rossi_%28entrepreneur%29
>There was a small hitch...i[t']s a really tight fit for her

Definitely the Homer Simpson D'oh moment. Could you have shaved the inside to make the adjustments?
Honestly, I use Google Apps for Domains myself, behind a domain I own (so I can leave down the road if I want.) I don't think folks moving off Gmail to leave Google want to do that but it's worked well for me. It's been long enough that I can't remember what I used before that for my email.
> if Rossi determines independent readings as a threat to his intellectual property he can prohibit the other scientists from getting these readings.

Echos of Utah all over again... I guess we'll see how it shakes out.

Confirmation and replication is important.

Though I guess if he can prove that he can put nickle into a jar and take copper out, that's probably a pretty good start.
I'll add: third-party arbitration is already quite common, and in many cases is very deliberately used to avoid the government alternative. The definition proposed by that commenter indicates to me that he or she is simply unaware of the existence and commonness of arbitration.
Apple: Does a broken tax code justify cheating?
None of the people on the team have a nutrition background. That makes no sense to me.

The body is complicated and stopping eating this diet if you feel sick doesn't necessarily mean that you won't have ongoing health problems even when you go back to a normal diet.
So, I've thought for a long time ... if I could take a clean sheet of paper and write [a new language] that retains all the goodness of [JavaScript] ... I would not have come up with anything like Dart. - Douglas Crockford
> The taxi monopoly is a bargain struck between municipalities and service providers.

Indeed. It's an agreement of which Uber and its customers are not members.
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You can replace RIPE or ECDSA or even SHA (in the address-generation mechanism) without impacting the miners at all.
Has anyone located a more detailed project description or paper? Using camera imagery is definitely nothing new, and in many autonomous systems with radar/lidar (including the Google car), cameras still supplement the lidar imagery. I'm wondering how he improved on the current research.
Alpha-level software is hopefully not used in production. Could this be considered 1.0 (Beta 1)?
Where do you draw the line? How much is "too much" profit? Would it be ok if he made $50k per book instead of $100k?

It's not like the guy's making billions. He's working his ass off and producing extremely valuable content to make an income that is maybe comparable to a senior google engineer. Given all the blatant fraud and theft going in the world these days at a million times the scale, I can't imagine why you'd choose to pick on someone trying to sell a good product for as much as people are willing to pay for it.

Being able to make a comfortable living by doing something like self publishing tech books is actually a huge coup for the little guy, not a form of greedy exploitation. It makes me happy that so many people are willing to support such an endeavor.
3/50 is an unacceptably high failure rate for automobiles... "in-factory" failure rates are measured by PPM (parts per million) and in-field failures I imagine must be in the order of "trillionths" in order to maintain reliability across millions of cars driving tens of thousands of miles per year each.

edit: I don't mean to dismiss the student's accomplishments, but wanted to bring some perspective
The same people were trying to peddle this a couple of years ago.

See http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=198040 for discussion about it at that point. Also note that many of the claimed co-authors did not, in fact, exist. And many of the co-authors on this paper do not have any other papers, and also have dubious existence.

This has scam written all over it.
There is a company I can't remember at the moment that claims they will provide a $4k LIDAR for cars.
Also see my B compiler that was inspired by these early C compilers: https://github.com/aap/abc