skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “The problem is that the board is still absolutely focused on fixing electronics”

I hope they do. I see a board focused on fixing a problem less concerning than a board in denial. I have a feeling that, as their electronics preeminence waned, they were probably in denial for a long time. They have decades of engineering experience, and now that they've hit bottom, it would be a shame to see them throw it all away.
wow... So $150 billion ISS was using Windows XP until now?!!!
Is there something like ipython for Haskell? GHCI is fine but some subtleties are missing. Like typing a prefix and going through a subset of the command history. And also the numpy/scipy/matplotlib toolkit that come with the -pylab option would be great!
Centuries-old frozen plants revived, well then, let's...:

As today's notable 7GB bitcoin blockchain with user encoded messages down in the .0000000001 values boundary redundant buffering, assume we're now ahead of biogenetics automation where compressed high value -think of `earliest Hebrew/Aramaic God scrawl on vellum', or `Naming Infinity Worshipers', or `Of Euler-Ramanujan-Melzak Proportions!', TeX ASCII text be loaded and recoverable in recombinant DNA insertion/recoding among the redundant/junk noise of this bryophytes' chromosomes, try this as a candidate for a long duration/persistent terrestrial manuscript bio-alive reproducing publishing medium, with also as a `Clock of the Long Now' very-long-term equivalent example, with its own half-life carbon-dating copyright(c) timestamp thrown in for free!
Interview with Donald Knuth (2008)
Women entrepreneurs win 40 per cent of start-up cash
"The offer is already above my current pay,"

Take it. And learn how to talk to people, as that will net you more pay over your lifetime than any other skill you build. Your current boss understands that, and is ultimately trying to help you.

Make the job decisions that will net you more pay, and build friendships outside of the office. If your current teammates are really your friends, they should still be after you move on to seek more money.
Now who's being radical? I was proposing to legalize something that only hurts the person doing the drug, or in the case of graffiti hurts no one if only people could look beyond the cover of things.

The drug debate is for a different forum but the graffiti argument is that people are judging things based on the cover. Anyone who goes into the German subway system and thinks "this is a terrible train and I might die if I ride in it" because someone sprayed some paint on the cart, or the walls, does not have their priorities right in my opinion.

Same goes for any building. It's a matter of tolerance and priorities. Can we learn to tolerate some color on gray walls, and can we prioritize important things in society over children playing with paint?
> It's copyrighted information.

It's a public school. So copyrights are now more important than parents rights? What a lame excuse.

Maybe that's also why our - so called - Representatives in Congress can't see the Acts they are voting into the Law? Because it's copyrighted by Lobbyists?

What a joke of a country.
Yeah it's one of those things that is really counterintuitive, probably because we tend to underestimate inflation. I thought the opposite as well until I ran across an article a little while back.
Like when wheel was invented and first horse was used to haul cargo, there must be multitude of middle class going out of business and declaring bankruptcy.
How Email On Acid stole worth over $20.000.
Principles of Flat Design
There are five pretty distinct characteristics. Here’s a look at each, plus an introduction to “almost” flat design.
W. T. Tutte - mathematician and code breaker
What damage is graffiti doing? It seems to me, that most of the time graffiti is mostly damaging peoples minds. Because people perceive something as dirty when it has paint on it.

I have neither of those things.
How I wish I could upvote this more than once. One of my heroes - wonderful mathematician, phenomenally clever, incredibly modest.

His Wikipedia page is definitely worth a read to get a more balanced picture of the scope of his work:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5779247
Running The Table
Bitcoin rigs are only good for certain mathematical functions. They are not general computing devices.
I have to agree.
I did love nokia devices (and they are still great, except for the OS) .
Now Sony... :(
Change is inevitable. So if you are not liking the environment in your current job it is always better to move on and focus on improving the skill set rather than thinking about what your immediate super wiser thinks about you.

As far as your friends/Team mates are concerned they ll remain your friend no matter which company you work for. All the best.
I loved the old MSI Forgotten Realms Games, especially my first, Gateway to the Savage Frontier, which had a German release. I was very new to Computer Games and AD&D, and I briefly thought you had to wait 8 real time hours for your wizards to memorize their spells. I played the sequel in English, and I didn't understand anything from the story. Show how simple the gameplay was for an RPG; go to X, kill everything, repeat.
I faintly remember having success playing some of the games on a DOSBOX, so I am not sure if you'd need a rewrite in .NET
It's no problem at all, I should have been specific about how I've come to know such details about his development :) I'm not an expert and this is new water for me.

Thanks for your advice and taking the time to help me out, it's much appreciated. I do understand your point and looking at things I can see how my focus and frustrations may have gotten in the way.
Google I/O 2013 - High Performance Apps with Go on App Engine
After the fall of Nicolae Ceaușescu in Romania, it was discovered that there were terrifying orphanages full of kids who had had almost no human contact for years and were in bad shape as a result. My aunt volunteered to go to Romania to help save as many of these kids as possible.

The relevant news for you is that kids who were only three at the time rescuers arrived almost all recovered without lasting harm. The thing that saved them was LOTS of daily human interaction.

Talk to that boy as much as you can. Hold him, sing to him (singing skill is optional), play with his hands, play "piggies" with his toes, work on naming parts of his face, play "head, shoulders, knees, and toes," play with blocks, talk about colors, have one of you make a funny face and the other one has to copy it then switch roles, and so on. (Don't read too much into it if he's really bad at some of these games. My sons had no developmental problems, and yet I could not BELIEVE how badly they did on some simple mental games: "See this green card, Buddy? It's green, isn't it?" "Yes." "What color is it?" "I don't know, Dada." "This color is green, okay?" "Okay." "So, what color is this GREEN card?" "I don't know, Dada." Yes, believe it or not, this is totally normal.)

Be a little careful not to overstimulate him with too much noise, wild motion, etc., because that can be hard for him to process until he's older, but lots of calm, happy, silly, giggly talking and playing should (slowly) bring him back to the path he would have been on without the early lack of attention.

Also, as others have suggested, do involve doctors in this to the extent you can. There might be more to the story than lack of attention, and "many eyes" are better for debugging problems early, right?
Agreed. And also everyone talks about Enigma but in many ways it was the end of the line of cryptosystems.

The Lorenz cipher that Tutte broke is much closer to today's ciphers. It was a pseudo-random number generator whose output was XORed with the message to be enciphered (which had been converted to Baudot code): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_cipher

Very similar to RC4, for example.

And Lorenz worked by exploiting co-primality to achieve a long key stream.
You won't have time to read it, not with all of what you have going on! ;)
One nice feature of the newer cabal-installs is that it can compile dependencies in parallel[1], e.g.:

cabal install pandoc -j5

Will run five parallel cabal processes.

Also this release contains attoparsec and unordered-containers as new packages \o/.

[1] Obviously, as permitted by the dependency graph. Source files within packages are not compiled (yet) in parallel.
I want to get hired as a Junior RoR developer
Places near water tend to have milder climates which humans definitely find desirable.
>> In an ultra-automated economy, there won't be much to trade other than information.

If we reach the point where there's not much to trade in, most of the uses he lists for information would also be gone. If scarceness disappeared, there would be no point to advertising or stock trading, for example.

The monetary value of information is mostly dependent on it enabling other transactions.
In the right circumstances I would as well. I meant to simply point out the general idea that substituting man for woman will imply if it's sexist or not. In the article it also does not mention whether or not she was ever planning to go back to work.
GoCardless is now integrated with Xero
Ghci comes with editline/readline generally. So Ctrl-r is backward search.
Lets me tell you my story, I was in UK working for a small consulting company as .Net developer, then I decided to come back to Vietnam and started my own company , outsourcing back to the company that I have worked for. The company has started ok with 4 people, but over the last year or so, besides doing outsource, we stated several projects but none of them has gone well so far. Further, the company has been hit by the economic crisis as many other companies, so its finance hasn't been in a good state. Due to my personal financial need since my marriage, I have once again got a corporate company working as PM/Developer with an high pay ( in Vietnam), but at the same time try to keep my business alive. It has been one year since I started working here, and even though I don't think I have done a bad job with the salary increase, but I honestly never have been enjoyed a single day of it. I am determined to quit the job and get back to my business as it has started to pick up again, we also preparing to launch a mobile product shortly.

All in all, I think the stories that you guys have put here is such a good inspiration for me to get back to start up world, enjoying every day of coding and hacking. Hopefully, one day my product will make to the top of hackernews.
A small anecdote about the original RCT: while building your coasters, trees weren't automatically removed if they were in the way, you had to manually click them away. Chris Sawyer, who basicall built this single-handedly said it would be too resource intensive. I wonder if this was true, or if it was based on some architecture decision he made early on that would have been to costly to fix, given that he was the only programmer (it was possible in RCT 2, though).
Plenty of CDBG money has gone into Jamestown. Mostly in different parts of town. At its peak the city was 50k people. Now more like <30k. That house is shot. If you go west a bit you can find the worst off housing in the city (right next to a park oddly enough). That part of the north side of town also has really nice old houses east of the cemetery.

Imagine manhattan before Central Park.
Garry is wrong. What looks visually pleasing is not necessarily the right layout.
Historically, typesetters only had paragraphs to set in doing a book layout. Now in the age of post DTP, layout can be more expressive. That is exactly what the lesser margin of 8px does. In this case, it means that you are liking the status message only 8px away, and not liking the author.
His complexity textbook is also very much worth reading.
There's a good book out - http://www.amazon.com/Colossus-secrets-Bletchley-code-breaki...

The book talks about Tutte and Flowers and how they went about building the world's first true computer. It includes schematics and algorithms and other technical details of the machine. Actually, if you're old enough, you probably remember getting told in your first CompSci classes how computers were made up of I/O, a CPU and memory, which even by the 1980s seemed like a quaint way of viewing things. Reading Colussus for the first time, you really understand why they made the distinction in the textbooks. Just the machines to read and write to paper tape were incredibly complicated, and the speed that you could spool paper tape was a limiting factor in the early days. Indeed the first systems didn't really have a memory system, they had to keep re-reading data from tapes. The need to avoid that was the reason they invented memory in the first place - it sped up computer operations by orders of magnitude!

The book also covers in great detail how they went about intercepting the signals from the German High Command - which itself was a very modern digital modulation scheme that hadn't existed until them. The work of the signals interceptors was very impressive too, and run by the British Post Office, if my memory serves correctly :D
What I Want from a Web Font
Don't try ghc-7.7. After -fdefer-type-errors and -XTypeHoles there is no way back.
I think that you have to prioritize - no human can do the four things you've listed at max capacity for each. It's just impossible. You can have a Dad, have a part-time consultancy, be working on your startup "on the side" for 15ish hours a week, and go to school part-time. That works. But there's only so many working hours and so many play hours to go around.

168: Hours in a week

50: Hours of sleep a week (average)

========================

118 hours of work and play

60 hours a week of working

58 hours a week of playing

Of those 60 hours, it's just a matter of priorities that week in terms of what goes where. You can't work full-time on the consultancy, the startup, and be the degree - just not enough hours in the week.

The reason I spell it out like this is that sometimes our mental approach to a problem causes stress for us. If you have it in your head that, "I'm trying to do my consultancy full-time and get my degree quickly", then man - that's just a lot of pressure when you look around and go, "Holy crap - I've hardly worked on my startup at all today! Sorry, honey - I can't play with little {insert_child_name} today because I need to work!" The right frame of mind makes a lot of difference IMO.

Best of luck!
I also strongly recommend membership too. There is so much to see that a single visit will never be enough - time is complex and the astonishing story of measurement and ties to astronomy and navigation which were a coernerstone to allowing discovery and for our modern society to evolve are astonishing.

The time and navigation section at the Smithsonian in Washington is also an interesting adjunct but the true gem (to me) is Greenwich.

Plus, membership also gets free access to the Cutty Sark and the Queens House making for an interesting day or two in London for anyone to enjoy.
They had a strategy that was designed to hold ground (the OP said the strategy wasn't deigned to hold ground).

The strategy failed. That doesn't mean it didn't exist.
>School district employs below average intelligence administrators who are easily manipulated and controlled by contractors, lobbyists, salesmen, suppliers.

So if the corruption is the problem why they don't get questioned by the Police?
I was a 100 tab kind of guy but this has helped me kick the habit: http://www.one-tab.com/
Getting to know our microbial roommates
how many people are in this situation?

I would guess almost every business that has < 10 employees is in this situation.

It's good advice to be open and honest with potential employees but I don't really see what most recruiters can take away from this.

I don't think this was for recruiters; I think the target audience was for the employer who has to hire without the help of a recruiter.
Web Summit 2013
I didn't mean to imply an imposed government is a good thing. I agree with the rest of your statement.
Whenever someone talks about Alan Turing as just a "code breaker" I cry a little
>> If robotic surgeons get really good, will tomorrow's surgeons be in the same boat as today's musicians?

This requires AI on the level of humans or higher. Can you really imagine a robot pediatrician playing with a child to assess developmental milestones, gagueing caregiver behavior for signs of abuse, or patiently asking questions of toothless Grandma who can't describe the symptoms without telling her whole life story?

I can certainly imagine a computer taking ultrasound images and lab values as input and detecting cancer more accurately than humans can. But that's the sort of narrow task we know how to program for.

I think we'll never see AI on the "replace doctors" level, but those who think we will refer to it as a "singularity", after which predictions are useless. If we ever get robot overlords, I doubt they'll want your data.

Meanwhile, any job demanding hard-to-script actions will be safe.
If my memory serves, the German High Command were using teleprinters and were sending the teleprinter signals via radio. This did sound totally different from Morse (which was used for other signals, such as those encrypted with Engima), but I don't think this was very new.

The transmission technology was RTTY (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTTY) which was active well before the Second World War. It would have sounded odd to Morse operators, but would have been recognizable and easily decoded as it is just FSK.
Armed drones for sale soon to governments around the world
Why smart homes failed and how we can fix it
Is it possible to start with a single color and get a suggested color theme? If not, please consider that a suggestion. I often spot a color I love from someplace else and then struggle to select complementary colors around it.
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; may help in some cases
That will remove pre-computed rainbow tables from the equation.
Yeah, you have to think that was a joke, right? Can you imagine the headlines, "Google Drone kills 7 on Somali border"
really? his book about turing is pretty bad (all i can remember, having read it years ago, is being disappointed).

http://www.amazon.com/Turing-Novel-Computation-Christos-Papa...
Or to give a slightly cheaper example:
Sony Tablet S and P.
Both were experiments,as in - tablets with a very unusual form factor, released to see if the market will accept them. And while the Tablet P was a failure, Tablet S sold quite well - and what Sony did? Abandoned it. The only available update to Android 4.0 leaves all users with slow system on an otherwise nice device, but worst of all - it has a locked bootloader,so you can't even put a custom rom of a newer version. A cool device released quickly, and just as quickly abandoned.
Every nine after 99 is going to cost exponentially - There are only few critical services that can justify that kind of outlay.
Not to mention that the selected font has no crossbars on the capital I. Such fonts should be avoided, always and everywhere. It's stupid not to distinguish between a capital I and lower-case L.
Two things I noticed -

1. No tab 'recycle bin' (you can get this with extensions in other browsers, but I always liked that Opera had it out of the box.)

2. The downloader is similar to Chrome's one, and I've always hated Chome's downloader. I want my browser to ask me whether I want to open the file (i.e. save into /tmp and open) or to save. I download a lot of things such as Office documents, tarballs, torrent files (etc) that I don't want to have to manually delete from my downloads folder when I'm done.

I can appreciate that this is a beta version, but right now, it looks a lot like Chrome with a different skin. I just hope it doesn't remain like that for long, as Opera is the one browser that annoys me the least.
Their previous CEO was a content guy from Hollywood; Maybe he focused mostly on the content and insurance stuff and forgot to lead the electronics division or just didn't have a compelling vision? I always wondered why they would take a Hollywood guy instead of more of a product guy.
I was actually half-joking. I don't actually believe that software engineers will have to work out of storage cells in 12 years. It was a Snow Crash allusion.
thumbs up to this
That's because it has some characteristics of one.
This Pentagon Project Makes Cyberwar as Easy as Angry Birds
XPC services implemented in golang would be very handy - here's hoping iOS 7 gains full XPC support.
I tried to visit when I was last there but the DLR was out of action completely, and when I asked the staff how else I might get there from where I was they were completely out of ideas (one said "nah you're pretty much fucked...")
How to learn to program without going on a £1,000 training course
@pornelski:

> They say git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space.
You're pretty optimistic about those two things. The history of the past 10 years, and for that matter of the past 50 years, suggests that both are decidedly non-trivial challenges, with or without "modern technology."
The Transform Priority Premise
I was just recently trying eM Client, was happy at the beginning as it has nice interface and integrates with GMail contacts and calendar. Was considering even buying the license. But then I started having contact local/remote sync conflicts without having them changed on either side. And then while the modal was blocking UI, it apparently was blocking the scheduler, so it was queuing all mailbox sync operations and performs ALL of them multiple times after modal is closed...

So I guess back to Opera Mail. Other ones like TB, Sylpheed don't cut it for me.. I guess they have UI and network actions within the same thread, and that makes them get stuck.
woow so creative meteor application. congratulations guys
Ask HN: Remote encrypted backup recommendation?
Hey everyone,

I've been researching my backup requirements lately, and my requirements are:

* Encrypted, trusted (this implies open source) backups.

* Able to backup to a remote server. Google Drive is a plus.

* Not terribly bandwidth intensive.

* Not terribly expensive, as I'm backing up non-critical photos which are already on RAID and local backups anyway.

I'm currently using SpiderOak, but I don't like the fact that it's closed source. I experimented with Duplicity, but it turns out that it requires me to reupload my entire 50 GB collection every month or so, as it's good sense to have full backups every so often.

The problem is that, even though I require encryption, it shouldn't roll all files into a huge ball of mud, as that will need reuploading every once in a while, it's not easy to sync, etc.

Basically, the ideal for me would be something like Duplicity with per-file encryption, or rdiff-backup with encryption. Is there something that would fit the bill, or would I have to build it myself?
Also a contributor to discrete math while teaching in at waterloo (graph theory and combinatorics):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._T._Tutte#Doctorate_and_caree...
Ah, so you're talking about tooling. Specifically, the way object method invocation lends itself well to autocompletion or intellisense?

In functional languages we tend to use far more generic facilities than this. Some examples of this are lenses and scrap-your-boilerplate style generic programming.

We also tend to think differently. We don't "hold a user in our hands" and ask what we can do with it. We think in terms of extending our base language until we can express the solution to our problem in a trivial way.