skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of Microsoft, aren't they patent trolling Android phone makers like right now?

Sure, it depends on your definition of what a patent troll is, but IMHO, a company that failed to innovate for years until Apple and Google did and that makes more money from Android than from its own OS is a patent troll.
mattrobs, looks like your account is dead.
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I haven't seen the updated version, but the one on gutenberg is gold. The old language is comical on its own: he cracks jokes and it is funny because of the jokes //and// because of the old language.

This book is so good, that gutenbeg volunteers took the time to typeset all the math in latex so the PDFs are very good for reading or printing out.

excerpt:

PROLOGUE.

Considering how many fools can calculate,
it is surprising that it should be thought
either a difficult or a tedious task for any
other fool to learn how to master the same tricks.

Some calculus-tricks are quite easy. Some are
enormously difficult. The fools who write the
textbooks of advanced mathematics—and they are
mostly clever fools—seldom take the trouble to
show you how easy the easy calculations are.
On the contrary, they seem to desire to impress
you with their tremendous cleverness by going about
it in the most difficult way.

Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had
to unteach myself the difficulties, and now beg to
present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard.
Master these thoroughly, and the rest will follow.
What one fool can do, another can.
"Backup" means, more specifically, multiple backups at various points in time.
The Googly-eyed Mona Lisa
I think it is okay, as long as you have a backup plan. Can be advantageous to keep the code required to build the project small and have people pull dependencies as required.
The issue, as Ian pointed out, is that it's hard to pinpoint when GC allocations occur. Language constructs allocate in ways that are not immediately obvious.
I also have this problem intermittently - using Chrome v26, Mountain Lion.
For most customers, maybe, but I suspect there's a pretty sizable portion of the population

Yup, and for those two things you mention that you are willing to pay more for, there are probably 98 other things you aren't. Each person will have the things they are willing to pay more for, and most will be different, so for most services, 98% of people are going to choose the cheaper option.

Hence most companies won't give a shit, and almost everyone has moments where they wonder why there isn't an option to pay more for higher quality of X product.
Netflix stops third-party apps from tracking when streaming titles expire
I can't believe no one here talked about Feynman. He is the quintessential example of the great teacher.

http://www.pitt.edu/~druzdzel/feynman.html
And don't forget about people who don't like to specialize, yet wouldn't like to be anywhere near business administration. The idea of being only a programmer seems to me as depressing as running a business. It's just not for me; there are a ton of things to learn, and I prefer those that stimulate my brain before anything that stimulates my wallet (and yes, business administration may stimulate someone's brain, just not me).

I prefer to have a 9-to-5 job that pays the bills and then, back home, study anything else.
Since not all seats are sold for an equal price, the extra seats may have indeed increased revenue potential by allowing for more "premium location" seats on the plane.

There are a lot of factors and it would be silly to think that the airline didn't take more than we can come up with into account in their decision.
I know that App Academy won't charge you if you aren't able to get a developer job (it may have changed, though, so you'll need to ask them yourself).

It also depends a lot on your prior experience. Have a solid math background? Then you'll probably have a slight edge overall.

There are a lot of programs out there in all parts of the country; investigate your options.
MIT OpenCourseWare.

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
Can you provide citations that aren't garbage linkbait that pops up with a passive-aggressive "I believe in equality blah blah blah" that you have to click through before seeing nothing but a six minute flash video with no other useful content? Because I'm not going to watch it. I can read, thanks. I'm literate. Please don't insult my intelligence.
There are plenty of years where some airlines make around $100-$200 profit per flight. Not per customer, but PER FLIGHT. Think about all the costs involved, and that is your reward.

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/PJ-BH720A_MIDSE_G_...
Seriously? This sounds like an outfit that's in dire need of some (more) competition.
Signing Up and Signing In: Users in Django with Django-AllAuth
New exploit for linux kernel
See also: http://nvidia.fullviewmedia.com/gtc2013/0319-230C-S3185.html (Presentation recording with audio)
Awesome... lol
Thank you- I also built several baseball sims and this article is just insultingly ignorant! Maybe thats a little extreme, but that was my reaction.
If you don't have a particular special goal, a spectrum is good. I think yours sounds OK. Some weights, some jogging, some sprints.

My conditioning requirements basically are to get my breath back within 90 seconds of attempting a 1RM snatch / clean & jerk, so most of my conditioning is timed KB swings.
tango is awesome, but saying he is the best is misleading. He is just one point of view, albeit a fairly wise and proven one. There are many other people with other opinions, using other techniques, and they have gotten good results- He is a bit of a curmudgeon when it comes to modern statistical techniques and machine learning.

edit: sorry, misread "one of the" as "the"...
I feel like saying "a single inch" like it's a pittance when we're talking about airplane legroom is a bit silly. Sure, it seems small compared to the other 31 inches, but that's not a fair comparison, because most of those 31 inches are non negotiable.

Realistically, we're talking about at least a 5% reduction in leg room, and that's nothing to sneeze at.
Nosql: ArangoDB 1.3 brings multi-collection transactions
This sounds like a problem the community can resolve. Check http://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Remote_import_path_syntax -- anyone can create a Go "repo" by using a <meta> tag in an HTML page.

I don't think it'd be difficult to create a CGAN/GoPI/Gobal/gojars/etc. that provided versioning.
I call this one DoS attack:

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,1,0,2,2,0,3,2,0...
I think the problem is that we are getting the worst of all worlds right now: successful malware, messages can only be sent when both sides are online (why, if there is a middle-man??), and messages are being snooped on. Oh and clients still display them out of order.

Unlike, say, FB messages, Skype has always felt so brittle and unreliable that I hoped it was peer-to-peer, and this news came as a bigger shock.
I'd love for Firefox to have a task manager like that.
If you just need the local drive part on Windows, I have been using this for some time to make the complete Dropbox folder accessible as a local drive m: on all my computers. Of course you still need to run Dropbox to handle the syncing.

- create a file containing this:
subst m: c:\Users\<username>\My Documents\My Dropbox\

- put this file somewhere in your Dropbox folder (that way it will get synced to all your other computers and you can use it there, too)

- add a link to it in the Start Menu->Startup program group
on all your computers

Voilà!
Amazon acquires Liquavista display technology from Samsung
Cool, i just finished watching a SXSW video and it seems like it is just a rest api. I assumed it would be more like mobile where you would get an SDK and could develop apps to be downloaded on to glass. Does this mean that if there is no wifi or 3g/4g access the glasses become useless?

Also it works off a realtime timeline which your app can subscribe to, inorder to receive 'cards' relative to your app. I couldn't help but think that this timeline is twitter on steroids, it could be a competitor to twitter.
Related previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5151140

Analog security cameras are standard definition or worse after DVR compression, but you can get a DVR + cameras in a box for a few hundred dollars. It might be worth it just to learn what you really need and want.

Just like you can't recognize someone from a convenience store security camera, your IP cameras won't be any better unless they're HD.

Ideally, you'd have 720p or 1080p video cameras as well as still cameras capturing at a high megapixel resolution, both interior and exterior.
You could have just said "Why use this when I could use http://collabedit.com/ for free? It's 'good enough'"

I'm personally excited to try this app out though this week on a candidate. There's no way in hell I'd use Google Docs. The lack of auto-indentation just kills it as a tool for writing code for me.
Comments at the right edge of the screen are unreadable as the balloon is partly outside the window. Would be nice if they would pop up to the left, in that case.

Beautiful design nonetheless!
My guess is that someone on a phone accidentally down-voted you when they wanted to up-vote. Those little arrows are... well... little!
> European nations would not be able to afford universal healthcare and all the welfare if they had to pay for their security. US bases in Europe are great financial aid.

Bullshit. Not only are there examples of military independent countries (ever heard of France?) with better healthcare systems, but your whole theory about military expenses being the root cause for USA's less than ideal healthcare system is far too simplistic.
Exchanges are the same as auctions in the sense that the person that is buying the item is the one who bid the highest price. There is a reason why the buying prices is called a bid.

Auctions are not limited to a single item, radio frequencies and bus routes are just few of the examples that are sold in multiple item auctions. There is nothing special about the number one in auction rather than a single item is limited in supply, but in most cases two items can be of limited supply as well and even millions. Good example for that can be engineers. Even though there are many of them, their supply according to many is still limited, which causes their salaries to rise.
I recently bought an uncomfortable flight - mostly because there was no information on legroom on the purchasing system (designed in '70s and wrapped in web goodness)

Ultimately until the information to differentiate between flights is provided at POS all anyone can judge on is price.

A poster below has enough flight experience to know that United has less legroom and he is willing to pay a premium to avoid that. However that is only because he has external to the transaction knowledge.

If airlines want to differentiate their products they need to differentiate from POS backwards. That is a reworking of a vast network of affiliate sales. Maybe they could do it (anyone can book online) but I doubt anyone will take the risk
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In an ideal society, it would not be illegal to be rich. It would be illegal to buy off members of Congress, pay people to vote for you or your cronies, own media outlets and using them to get (and keep) yourself elected into office, or in any way use that wealth to subvert the democratic process. We don't have ideal societies, but that's obviously a direction worth going.

That doesn't mean you totally eliminate any power or privilege that wealth brings. Trying to eradicate malaria using your billions of dollars is an exercise in power, albeit not one that subverts the democratic process.
The problem with bodyweight training is that there's no smooth gradient from wall sits to, say, pistol squats. The difficulty increases lumpily and frequently requires a new motor pattern to be learnt.

Whereas going from a 20kg squat to a 100kg squat can be done 1kg at a time with the same movement pattern throughout.

For people who genuinely can't or won't go to a gym, I'd first suggest installing a power cage, adjustable bench, barbell and some plates. Failing that kettlebells and resistance bands. Only after those are exhausted would I suggest a purely bodyweight training regimen.
I've been championing the same issues, or rather bemoaning them on HN repeatedly.

I never see much innovation with the actual browser UIs. The rendering engines get plenty of love, while something like the UI for Firefox has barely changed at all.

I used to have an aging powerpc, and Firefox would bring it to it's knees. But I think I was abusing it. Firebug, Flash, JS and too many tabs were the main culprits. And I have sinced tried to change my habits.

I think tabs are heavily used and abused! I personally believe that they are so popular because the bookmark UIs are so sucky. Most tabs could be replaced by a bookmark.

Tabs bring other problems, resizing the browser window in one tab, effects all the others. Tabs have inconsistant behaviour between different applications. Windows should be left to a window manager IMHO.

Now I try and keep my tabs to a minimum. Two or three. Any page I think I might want to read later I once bookmarked (to one day sort through...), but now I send to readability to read later at my leisure.

My main browser I have configured to make reading on it more pleasurable. I've throw away the page author's styles, and instead opt to use my own font, font size and colour scheme. I block adverts. And block flash. Layouts can suffer, but if I have to, I resort to using another browser. I did have JS turned off completely, but I am finding that increasingly difficult.

In terms of design trends - responsive web pages are quite welcome in my world. I think people will soon hunger for simpler pages and simpler sites. Something that's far easier to use. And I welcome the day that I can actually surf web pages comfortably on my TV when sitting on my arse.

Some sites are still very difficult to use, and the browser UIs could really lend a hand here.
Static Sierpinski triangle

http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#2,3,1,2,0,1,2,0,0...
TRUNCATE TABLE users; should work and will have similar disastrous effects.
This is simply not true. There are scads of studies that have established DDT's potential for human toxicity in diabetes and cancer. Not only that, DDT's LD50 is not particularly large.

Salesmen used to drink large amounts of organophosphates to show farmers it was harmless -- now we know that class of peaticides cause serious neurological disorders.
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There was an article in Science last year[1] that backs this anecdote up with statistics. Graduate students who teach in addition to performing research are better at designing experiments than students who perform research alone, despite the vast amount of time that teaching consumes.

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6045/1037.full
Yes. But with economies of scale each individual unit should cost less than the one before it. That's why you have minimum runs for production. Any less and the manufacturer doesn't make enough money to be worthwhile. Fixed cost vs unit cost, etc.

With things like aircraft, the first one costs billions because of the R&D having gone into it. But by the time you roll out the hundredth F-22, you've learned a lot about the process and refined the techniques. Same thing with processors.

One of the biggest downsides of kickstarter projects is that the creators have some engineering/ design skills but seem to have practically no business skills. (I'm generalizing here for the sake of argument).
I wouldn't be so sure. I pay a rent premium for a view.
BP and Shell raided, may have rigged prices for more than a decade
Did they try to post about their problem on postgresql mailing list (both pgsql bugs and general apply here)?

Postgres community is quite responsive and usually give very effective advice, as long as you use the proper channel to communicate.
How An Airbnb Founder Sold Me His Travel Start-Up In 2008[video]
The trouble is that cardio-only doesn't improve or forestall certain classes of health problem such as sarcopenia or osteoporosis. Plus most folk discover to their very great surprise that weight training is very satisfying.

For most people the answer is to do a bit of each.
To emphasise the point about the distance education program being equivalent, some 'on-campus' students who can't get into a class because it's full often take the distance ed class (which is often simultaneously recorded).

As far as I know, they have the exact same work.
Another experiment similar to this, but uses Biham–Middleton–Levine traffic model: http://htmlpreview.github.io/?http://github.com/MaciekBaron/...
Ask for proof first.
I would really like to learn your criteria for calling someone a troll.
Anytime someone says, "...just a few bad apples" they show a complete misunderstanding of the roots of the saying.

The origin is that you should not let a few bad apples spoil a barrel, because if you pack a barrel of apples for the winter and leave a bad apple in it, it will spoil the barrel. Therefore any time you find a bad apple, INSPECT EVERYTHING CAREFULLY.

Today it has reversed meanings, "Oh just a couple of bad apples", and this version is almost always wrong. Where you've found one bad apple, there are likely to be more. Do not leap to make excuses, leap to investigate carefully. That is the healthy response.

As for spying, give people access, and incentives for accessing, and I guarantee that it will be abused. Oh, most Americans won't be targeted. But anyone running for office whose policies those in power don't like...?
Thanks, that's the clearest explanation I've seen of our system. And what a mess it is!

I am personally in favour of the bedroom tax, so it'd be good to hear why this is horrible (I'm sure there are edge cases I've not thought of).

Completely agree about housing benefit being a horrifically inefficient system. I was talking to a person who deals with people on housing benefit yesterday, about the number who lie about not cohabiting (so they get higher payments for being 'single'). Not sure any way round that.
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Why I chose to write Nuuton in Go
This is really sad and unfortunate, considering how many items on etsy are just reseller nonsense, or unaltered items that someone just found. - Like these http://www.etsy.com/listing/127063284/super-clear-quartz-cry...

Or just ridiculous stuff that.. I don't even know, like this: http://www.etsy.com/listing/112833746/increase-breast-size-s...

Either way, Etsy is notoriously rife with resellers, so to see them going after someone that actually makes things is frustrating but unsurprising, given their track record.
Running an airline is an enormously fixed cost business. At 75% occupancy, you are barely covering the costs of renting airplanes and terminals, paying personnel, etc. Once you are clearing enough to pay all of that, your marginal profit margin jumps tremendously because all those costs don't increase with the number of passengers you have, so the only thing you have to pay for that extra person is gas, which is about 20% of the ticket price. That necessarily leads to a boom-bust type industry. Southwest has been consistently profitable to the extent that they have tried to actively undo that. They do so by flying out of airports with cheaper terminal rents, reducing the size of their maintenance crews by only flying 1 or 2 models of aircraft, etc. A professor at NYU posts lectures from his corporate finance classes online and actually goes through a thorough analysis of the industry in one of the lectures. Link: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/
It sounds cool, but not being a douchebag doesn't automatically put food on the table. I'd rather for this to say that this is a hobby project or that it's a part of fremium service.
The link says the rule was revoked in 1977, so the link text, currently “It's against US law to touch aliens.”, is wrong.
Source?

Or more importantly, where is the evidence that exposure to much lower dosages of DDT causes more harms than millions dead of malaria?
Is there a distinction between sharing among peers and using other peoples work for your own profit?

Is it possible to make a difference how copyright laws are applied to personal/private use and for organizations/corporations?

How is software and "culture" as in music/movies different?

If any, should we make that those distinctions visible in IP-laws?
This is wrong. So tired of seeing this, how is this possible. This took individual people out of the pool of Super Nodes. This results in the same amount of traffic being TURNed as was being TURNed before and everything else is purely peer-to-peer. Flatly, you're wrong, please stop spreading that info.
Alex Epstein is the director of the Center for
Industrial Progress, an organization he founded
in 2011. Its mission is to "inspire Americans to
embrace industrial progress as a cultural ideal."
He is also a blogger at Master Resource, a "Free
Market Energy Blog," and a past fellow of the Ayn
Rand Institute, an organization that has received
funding from the Koch Foundations including at
least $50,000 between 2005 and 2010.

http://www.desmogblog.com/alex-epstein

Some of my favorite blog post titles of his:

* Coal is Clean: http://industrialprogress.com/2012/03/12/coal-is-clean/

* Keep Our "Addiction" to Oil, End Our Allergy to Self-Assertion: http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr005=zvtlch4...

* Why We Should Love the Oil Companies: http://www.masterresource.org/2012/06/love-oil-companies-edu... (I think this might be my favorite for its shades of Dr. Strangelove's subtitle)
I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's when I was 15. I was referred to an endocrinologist and placed on levothyroxine. Aside from a brief detour into Armour (they had production issues and I had to switch back to levo), it was fine.

Hashimoto's is not a rare disease. It is one of the most common forms of hypothyroidism and one of the most common autoimmune disorders. The diagnostic metric for it is also well-known--check TSH levels and, in some cases, the free T4 as well. I'm sorry to hear about your friend, but his experience is not entirely typical.
If you like collabedit give http://www.stypi.com a try!
Considering the fact that a ami can ( and does ) shutdown at any time, loosing everything you've got on disk, i've always been reluctant to use those for databases ( and ebs volumes mounting / unmounting while a vm properly relaunch seems too slow and cumbersome to me and not reliable).
Am i right not to trust those for that task ?
Well, duh. More importantly is whether you see that as morally fair or as stealing. Usually when people say this line, they're implying that the rich will have all their money stolen until they have the same amount of money as everyone else - and of course this isn't actually advocated anywhere outside of communist societies.

That particular quoted line reminds me of a friend, who when she got a $10k raise, could do nothing but bitch about how 'half of it was going straight to the government' (despite it actually being only about 30%). If you define how wealthy you are by how much is taken from you, you should probably re-examine your priorities.
I wouldn't say it becomes useless without wifi but definitely less useful. The timeline cards are saved to glass memory, so the content on them should theoretically be accessible without wifi.. I am under the impression that any actions performed without a connection get queued up, and then sent once connected, though I'm not perfectly certain that this is the case..

Twitter on steroids is actually a surprisingly accurate analogy, I think. Probably just about the most accurate description I've heard so far. Mostly I think people think of google glass as a HUD, which it isn't.. yet anyhow.