skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring the obvious "I don't want to watch fucking random useless shit in the middle of something I am enjoying," there is another reason: commercials create mental pollution that in some cases never goes away.

For instance, I still have the jingle of this horrid local low-budget commercial from KFTY TV 50 (UHF broadcasting out of Santa Rosa, CA) in my brain: "♫ Auto body masters... EuroCal... ♫ Auto body masters... EuroCal...".

I was fucking eight. It's been thirty fucking years. And yet that crappy little jingle for a company I never used still bubbles up to the surface sometimes, in the shower or in the subway station. We all carry around these little worthless turd fossils in our heads. I noticed my friend humming McDonalds' I'm lovin' it to herself as she worked just 20 minutes ago.

Gross.
There is design that has been scientifically tested to be usable by humans.
Ask HN: Do you use block diagramming software for your code?
I'm catching myself doing this thing where I write some code, block diagram it then the diagram allows me to get a clearer vision of where my program/script is going. Then I add to the block diagram, then write the corresponding code. This pattern is very very nice!! The problem is block diagramming is slow since I have to toggle between my code editor and use either a diagramming software solution or use an image drawing program. This takes away from the speed of the creative process. I'm wondering if there any solutions for this that make this toggling between "worlds" fast. I might make an simple HTML/Javascript version of this for myself but in the meantime I thought I would ask. BTW this seems like it would make a cool add on for Coda 2,Sublime or other editors.
Backbone's dependencies are jQuery and Underscore. With those three libraries, anything is possible.
It has been done, there's at least one base64 channel on bitmessage. I imagine its horrible slow to send though, the POW difficulty scales with the size of the message.
> Everything is insipid for me. I have no hobby, no programming idea, no desire to meet people, travel whatever. When I try to get a hobby, I m fed up after a few try. When I go to nice tech event, I'm bored.

Join a local church.

This what I have done recently and it has been amazing. Friendly people who are extremely caring, a welcoming environment, and a call to a higher purpose. I've instantly gained some new friends that I care about. You may find value in doing the same.

Stop worrying about startup ideas, hobbies, etc. Just get to know people and care about them. Find ways to help them. I guarantee everything will work out by following this simple rule.
Commodore Amiga A1200. I need to get it an accelerator card though.
Assuming that Satoshi remains anonymous. It is entirely possible that he could out himself at some point in the future, or be outed by friends/family/collegues after he died (or before).

Theres also the speculation that Satoshi is not an individual, but rather a government or organization. In this case, there are almost defiantly written records of 'who' he is.

Or it might end up truly being lost to history.
I like breaking things too. But it would be great to see more people like you (and me) coming up with solutions to the problems we identify.

Keep hacking, my friend.
Mine's a Sony Discman D-E200 ESP2, not really THAT old. But still, not many people walk around with cds and a discman anymore.
Sentinelese people
An Olivetti M24 :-)
You have a point. Let me rephrase it. There are $40 quadcopters which use weak, yet easy to replace parts. More expensive parts and materials are usually easier to work with as well, so for a prototype they are well justified. But for a production model like this one, is it a product market choice to go with expensive parts, or does the cost of designing for other materials outweigh the risk of going to the customer with a more expensive product?
It was never very stable.
And you didn't even touch on how much Android hates its developers. ;)
Or just use a proper OpenPGP card.
So, even though it's inspired by bitcoin, it doesn't quite have the same rock-solid original implementation. Bitcoin would have collapsed if there were any major cryptographic bugs, but it turns out that "Entire classes of bugs [were] missing." (-Dan Kaminsky, Security Researcher).

I hope that you can help out by reporting your findings back to them. I think Bitmessage is a really cool idea. It has the potential to allow communication to occur no matter what hostile power wants to censor it. It also finally make end-to-end message encryption a default rather than an after-thought.
scratch that, the Kirchners doubled the GNP, the debt went from 160% to 40% of the GNP, and unemployment from 25% down to 8% (less than here in France). These are results.
I don't think there are waves that move "as a single mass of water across the ocean." or through any other medium. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waves:

"The term wave is often intuitively understood as referring to a transport of spatial disturbances that are generally not accompanied by a motion of the medium occupying this space as a whole,"

For an analogy with (not quite an explanation, as the mechanisms are a bit different) a tsunami's speed, think of what happens when you pluck a guitar string. The back end of the string starts moving up before you even release the string. So, say you lift a string at, say 1cm/s for .1 of a second. (Almost) at the end of that 0.1s, the start of the wave that will form has reached the other end of the string, moving at meters per second (the 'almost' is because the string will deform. Ultimately, relativity has something to say here, too, but that only matters when the resulting wave signal would move near the speed of light)
Apparently, this article is about oldest known depection of symbol of zero (i.e. a circle), which is found in Gwalior's Chatur Bhuja temple.

But, zero in decimal place-value system[1] and zero's usage as a number[2][3] are much older.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lokavibhaga

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C4%81hmasphu%E1%B9%ADasiddh%...

[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmagupta#Zero
This would be easy if I were still living with the folks as my old bedroom is virtually a vintage computing museum.

Since moving out - and abroad no less - I have to think a little. Probably a 2GB USB memory stick I brought with me. I shudder to think how much it cost new at the time and perhaps because of that still sentimentally use it over the 16GB+ sticks I've acquired since. Good ol', reliable 2GB USB stick!
UPDATE: The good guys at Behance emailed us an apology. AND sent out a new tweet with the correct link! :)

https://twitter.com/Behance/status/338006059446837248
I don't understand why this criticism keeps coming up.

Isn't it safe to assume that anyone that is buying Hulu would know that the content is what is most important?

I assume that to be the case for Mayer, so I assume she wouldn't buy Hulu without the content. That doesn't make sense. Unless....she knows something that we don't know...like Yahoo is going into the original content creation business like Netflix - but even then, we would still be years away from Hulu recovering from the networks pulling their stuff.

Give them a little credit please.
Choosy programmers choose gif.
Quick iOS Prototyping In Flinto
Oh hey, I had an idea to make this exact protocol a few weeks ago, just for fun. I didn't think of adding a POW in though.

Anyway, this is a pretty cool implementation. Just one question though, how does a node know if a certain message is for it, rather than another node? The whitepaper didn't specify anything about attaching a recipient to the message.
Jeesh, why are people still putting up with Apple's domineering control over what they're allowed to do with their own devices?

I know none of what you said is new news, but seeing it all come together like that really highlights the problem with Apple's policies.

IMO, a much more useful app to build would be an HTML5 Bitmessage app that users can just run in their browser (similar to the blockchain.info/wallet app for bitcoin). This would make the technology accessible to a much larger group of people.
Yes...but for whatever reason, he couldn't execute.

Perhaps he didn't have the geek cred that Mayer has - so no one would make the deals with him.

Tumblr is a major coup for her, and if she pulls of Hulu...that would be crazy too.
I'm not sure what your trying to say, but with the people of countries/areas like PNG, the only real option is to replace their violent, torturous and inhumane superstition with one that is, at it's core, focussed on something more positive. These people are very spiritual and evangelising atheism simply would not work in the short or medium term.

> "seem to fix the immediate problem"

But the thing is, it is a fix to the immediate problem. Those people that were praying with her were praying. Not torturing and physically abusing. Even if you think it will just lead to issues down the road, we need to stop this torture and abuse in whatever way possible. In my opinion, the best way to do that without restructuring the government and pouring in money to cut down on corruption seems to be evangelising.

But, what I'm more interested in knowing is why you're face-palming hard enough to leave marks. Yes, humans will do things that are horrible no matter what the religion, but what's so terrible about teaching them to follow doctrines that forbid what they're doing rather than ones that compound the problem?
Technically lightning would have left via the window, it goes from the ground up and just looks the other way around.
I splurged for a 32MB flash drive. Cost me far more than I'd like to admit.
While I feel your pain... that jingle must've been damn catchy! I wonder how effective it was at attracting potential customers from the older-than-eight set?
Wikipaintings, programmers need some great paints.
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It's not about the fact that she is making acquisitions. It is a well known fact that CEOs like to be self-aggrandizing by doing big deals.

The difference is the TYPE of deals she is doing.

All of her deals, so far, fit into Yahoo's strengths.

Also...the fact that she is able to do these deals at all, is testament to her genius. Many others before her tried, but couldn't do these deals.

So there must be something different about her than everybody else that tried.

Edit: And yes, the story is yet to be told about how these acquisitions turn out. But with the refocus on product, recent redesign and refactor of Flickr and the way she is consolidating Yahoo's focus around products that give quality display media inventory. That is the genius. It is easy to dismiss it, but if it were so easy, why did no one else do it - including 2 of the founders!
With millions of dollars piling into bitcoin, both via startups and via direct purchase of coins on the markets, it does seem likely that someone somewhere has put a "due dilligence" team on the case.

I wonder what, if anything, they've found...
I had never even heard of it before. Perhaps that is the problem they ran into? (Not that I hadn't heard about it, but maybe nobody had outside of whatever bubble they grew in).
‘Kindle Worlds’ Lets Authors Publish Fan Fiction — At Dubious Cost
Slightly off-topic, but does anyone think that in ten, twenty years, their "most outdated device" would be their personal computer? It's like Moore's law has been too kind -- just 3 years ago I don't think I would've ever had this thought. But now, IMO, the only real reason you'd need to update your PC would be for newer games. Otherwise, there really is no reason why you'd ever need more computational power than you currently have (say, mid-high range ivy bridge, decent graphics, etc). Anything more intensive that cannot be reasonably handled by your own computer, you have the cloud -- crunch large numbers, computer renders, etc.

Or am I just afraid of change? Am I missing something? Do I really need to update my hardware for a better screen? Perhaps the day Wi-Fi becomes obsolete, maybe then I'd have to buy a new laptop...
This colour scheme seems possible to me, especially with the latest iPod Touch (and Nano) colour schemes and the rumoured iPad and iPad Mini bodies that pictures emerged of a few months ago. I wonder in the hardware refresh in November will reflect the new colour scheme? I'd like a more colourful device range.
Gruesome video of witch burning in Africa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5qYhmf-boE&bpctr=1369466...

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News Corp, Comcast, etc. They don't have the experience selling online display media like Yahoo!

Guess who else does? No one!!!!

So they have an incentive to cooperate.

As I said earlier, if Mayer makes a deal without locking up long-term contracts, then on the surface that seems like a dumb deal.

Given what I have seen of her so far, I would be surprised if she did that. She is doing good so far.
No one is talking about it because the site design is horrible...

Clicked 3 links and I still don't know what they do or did.
Here, the x() and y() are assignments, so it's easy:

ret = 0; //y()
if (A)
if (B)
ret = 1; //x()

If the else statement is more involved, it gets difficult.
IBM PS/2 (mostly) keyboard from an RS/6000 workstation from around 1986. Essentially one of the good clicky keyboards. Works ok as a PS/2 keyboard on modern machines, but fails during soft reboots sometimes.

IBM 4758 32-bit PCI HSM from circa 1998 and an nCipher NFast from around 2001.

IBM ThinkPad T43p with a UXGA 15" IPS LCD.

Martini-Henry rifles from Afghanistan. For one I'd actually shoot, an ex-Nazi, ex-IDF Mauser rifle in .308, with Nazi proofmark and IDF star on the same receiver, and a Hebrew name on the stock.
I still have my 128 MB thumb drive. It still works. At the price that I (okay, not me, but my parents) paid for it back then in 7th grade, I can get a USB 3.0 32 GB one today.
“Or,” he continues, “maybe there is a simpler explanation: You can't order a car stereo off Amazon, which is where I get the rest of my stuff.”

...huh? http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D...

(The oldest thing I own is a Sega Genesis Model 1 -- not terribly old, but it is a few years older than me.)
I think it is easier in Austria (my mother was born there). In Vienna, with a reasonable flat and public transportation, you probably don't have a lot of extra costs. I'm not sure what the Austrian parental leave policy is... one year? How much salary do they cover?

Sources of capital expense for US/Canada:

- Parental leave. Most social insurance systems do not pay full salary if you make over a certain amount of money (say, $40,000 annually). If your lifestyle is higher than that, you need to save the excess. In Canada, parental leave is usually up to 1 year. In the USA, it is often 2 to 3 months (though some insurance plans allow for longer).

- If you're both working, daycare can cost $600 to upwards of $1500 monthly, depending on quality & city.

- Depending on the child, if you want to actually sleep at night it helps for the child to have their own room by age 1 to 1.5 or so, which may entail a larger flat or house. Other children are not restless sleepers and can be tolerable in a shared room.

- Otherwise, the usual expenditure, depending on your desired lifestyle and travel needs: car seats ($500+), booster seats ($200+), clothes, toys, diapers, child-proof cupboard door clips, strollers (upwards of $1000 if you're getting a multi-purpose Chariot-type carrier)

So I'd say, a middle class family would often be advised to save at least $10,000 before having a child. An upper class / affluent family that wants some level of dual parental leave, or a nanny, likely $100,000 or more.

There's also the dark side of having a child, and that's the astronomical costs of separation, assuming you want shared custody (or are fighting for primary custody). In the US or Canada, legal costs are usually at least $10,000 to get to a custody agreement and divorce filing, and more likely $20,000 to 50,000 for minor contentions. Major custody battles can cost upwards of $500,000 (each). Legal aid can help, but only if you fall below a certain income threshold. Whereas I've seen couples split with no kids for under $5,000 each.

source: many friends with children, I have a 3 year old, also too many friends with bad divorces
Secular thinking can also become a folly, just like any religious thinking. For example, believing that anything and everything can be measured in numbers, or refusing to acknowledge any phenomenon which cannot be explained scientifically.

A rational mentality does lead to a more civilized society, but sometimes it can be just as cruel.
Qualitatively, I agree with all the points. Quantitatively, I love to see program benchmarks to test.

I am particularly interested in the insertion performance. While insertion may not seem cheap, it seems the benefits of locality and large block operations may keep the performance competitive. I'm assuming using memmove() to shift a block of contiguous array elements will both keep the implementation reasonably fast and simple to maintain.
You have the power to remove them. There was a popular HN post recently advocating having no comments at all.
DConf 2013 at Facebook
The Girl with a Pearl Earring. (Huge)
I have a small collection of older unique/high end computer hardware. Up until a few years ago my firewall was OpenBSD on a DEC Alpha 21164 at 533Mhz, with 512MB of RAM, which I retired just to save on power. Also in the collection are a Mac IIfx and a SGI O2, both in working order.

I also have a set of early 80's Bose 901 speakers in my office, which were acquired for $25 at a yard sale.
The Mauser rifle sounds interesting. Is there a story behind it that you can share (or a hypothesis)?
Well, the future seems to be in ARM chips. It's quite likely that the developments in the next few years will be about building ARM processors for laptops as powerful as our current non-ARM ones.

This + evolution of battery technology means that in 2020, we might have Macbook Airs roughly as powerful as our current ones (albeit with better GPUs, as that's still evolving pretty fast), but with a battery life at 20+ hours.
This is the kind of link bait that strokes the collective ego of humanity.

It's not too overt, it avoids referring to 'you' or 'we' but it plays on the same emotions.
On the bandwagon, my dad had a 256MB usb stick. I showed it off in a college class to everyones amazement. I put a couple of Simpsons episodes on it.
Funny someone posts this just as I received an email with the subject line:

"Researchers say Western IQs dropped 14 points over last century."
(http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/researchers-western-iqs...)

I'm actually surprised it's that low.

IQ falling, drastically. I was browsing the Twitter feed of a friend from high school and in five minutes I was bombared with statements like "instagram straight flexin", "poppin mollies", "fuck the police", "we on that vine all night baby".

Background: the guy is 28 years old, white, grew up in Beverly Hills, works at real estate firm. Wears suite & tie all day. Went to college.

My brain is bleeding.
Uhm no. The zero could have only been born by a culture that had an understanding of nothingness, the Nirvana. In Middle-East all negative numbers including the zero were considered a work of Satan and therefore avoided. The shape of zero goes back to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros, the snake biting it's own tail and symbolizing eternity/infinity.
Browser-Mario - Play Mario in the Browser
I have an NES. I'm sad that the Zapper and Duck Hunt from the Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt Game Pak doesn't work with my LCD HDTV. Everything else works great, though.
It's pretty clear/common, although I don't know so much about this one in particular. Presumably, it was a Nazi weapon during WW2 (although probably not front line), and, like a lot of the other weapons, survived the war.

Israel was desperate for weapons post-WW2 (before and after western countries recognized it as a state). They bought a lot of WW2 surplus. Financial constraints, as well as arms embargoes. So, they ended up with this rifle, and were quite practical. They converted it to .308, issued it to a soldier, who put his name on the stock. Israel eventually upgraded again, and the rifle was sold surplus, and a few years ago it was on Gunbroker and I bought it (2009). Apparently Israeli fighters were told "it's up to you if you want to scratch off the swastika marks on the old proofs"; I suspect most of them either didn't care, or appreciated the irony that the Nazis had lost and now Israelis were using their weapons to defend themselves in Israel.

I also have an M1 Garand (US rifle during WW2) which was later sold to the Italians who converted it to .308, and I bought it -- it is a far nicer weapon, and about 10x the price of the Mauser, but roughly the same path -- war surplus reused by another military and then sold again as surplus.

(I wanted both kinds of guns, and specifically was looking for .308, since I try to only stock .22lr, .38/357, 9mm, 12ga, .45acp, 5.56mm, 7.62x51mm, .300winmag, .338 Lapua Magnum ammo.)

There are still plenty of WW2 (and even WW1, I think) surplus rifles for sale by the US Government to civilians in the US (odcmp.com). In WW2 they made a lot of weapons.
I am also currently working on a web-based remote desktop app as a side project. I am using socket.io (python port) and pngs, using transparency to only update the part of the image that changed between frames.

However, I also thought about using long-loading animated gifs, because:

1. Run-length encoding seems to be ideal for screenshots.

2. You can use transparency to only update pixels that changed between frames without need for an alpha layer.

3. Palette-based does not seem to be a big issue for screenshots, which typically have few colors.

4. You use an additional frames to update colors that are off [1]. That way you get the best of both worlds: low latency and high quality images.

Do you have any issues using gifs? Memory usage, closing connections, etc...?

[1] http://phil.ipal.org/tc.html#
Thanks, I didn't get it.

If the issue only appeared on all W's I'd guess you could set the bug as minor and discuss if it's worth fixing. If it costs an incredible amount of time to fix it, the problem relies more on defining priorities than on having too much granularity on the testing side.

To go back on your parent post, I'd say validating funky emails is of the same level. The test team should bring up the edge cases, fixing them or not is a matter of priorities.
I hope everyone realizes that this code was probably written by Ken Thompson or Rob Pike.
Zach Braff’s Kickstarter Campaign Closes With $3.1 Million
A500 here. Monitor connection needs a fix, but otherwise ok.
This looks like a nice, Node port of Jekyll. Not really how I prefer to blog.

My idea for a blogging platform (maybe even a service), if I ever get to it, would be a combination of Jekyll and Posterous. In other words, you'd have:

* A Jekyll dir structure on the server

* You write a post via Email

* The email is POSTed to the service via MailGun

* The service writes a new HTML file in the Jekyll dir and runs `jekyll build`

BAM, you have the speed of a static site, the wysiwyg editing features of whatever email client you use, and the ability to post from any computer/phone/tablet (not just one with git configured).
I was going to ask the exact same thing as shriphani. Thanks for such a detailed reply. Fascinating. I especially enjoyed:

"Apparently Israeli fighters were told "it's up to you if you want to scratch off the swastika marks on the old proofs"; I suspect most of them either didn't care, or appreciated the irony that the Nazis had lost and now Israelis were using their weapons to defend themselves in Israel."
Most "content" sucks. Most designs are a kind of content in themselves... and suck. That's why we have these awesome design fads.