skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perth is at a disadvantage though being so far from all the angels/VC in the eastern states so kudos to Pin.

And being originally from Perth it is fantastic to see it show that it is so much more than just a FIFO mining town.
Have a look inside Facebook’s massive data center
Camino means road? I always thought it meant "I walk"..
I still love it. To this day it remains my primary browser, through its aged rendering, through its lockups on JS-heavy sites, through its dated icons, through everything. Because the UI of every other browser just feels wrong. Aside from Safari maybe, but Safari's tab bar makes it impossible to handle 50+ tabs.
Don't forget that the car itself got the highest rating ever from one of the most independent reviewing organizations in existence. But, yes, the marketing is pretty terrific, too.
That seems like a (probably inadvertently) awful example. Chicago is right smack in the middle of the 'tongue' of the Laurentide ice sheet that sticks out way to the south - even today, without miles of ice the climate of NYC and Barcelona are quite unalike while being at the same latitude. At the point of maximum extent global mean temperatures were already rising, there were great big gobs of the Pleistocene in which they were far lower.

'Mean surface temperature' is something that can be directly measured or estimated from paleometeorologic proxies but without models for the underlying mechanisms, it's pretty uninformative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WhereIsTheHeatOfGlobalWarm...

And the linked references give some idea of how very misleading, taken at face value, mean global temperatures can be.

Even just doing a bit of napkin physics - if one applied the energy needed to heat the top meter of ocean by one degree to the first meter of air, it would be like taking a blowtorch to the layer of air in question.

Examples like that are pithy but they're almost like walking up to a denialist and saying 'I want you to hit me in the face, as hard as you can'.
This sort of change would only be necessary if the value of a bitcoin grows significantly making today's dust into tomorrow's crumbs. I don't generally pick up pennies, but I've never ignored a dollar before.
There is lots of mining boom money in perth.... lots.
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Most of the team is in Melbourne these days.
Aside from that, Mozilla backed out Gecko embedding a long time ago, which is why Camino still operates with a Firefox 3.6 Gecko. That makes maintainership futile when the browser can only fall further and further behind on its ability to simply render websites.
A very sad read and the comments are even worse. This sort of thing so clearly crosses the line in to inhumanity. I appreciate that some/many of these inmates have committed awful crimes but it seems that this particular system offers no opportunity for rehabilitation and is focussed solely on punishment.

I forget where I read it but I believe that there is a correlation between the severity of the punishment and it's peak effect. If it is normal imprisonment then the effect of the punishment plateaus at 18 months (ish) and if it is solitary then the (albeit greater) effect of the punishment plateaus at 30 days, after that it is achieving no extra punishment and you may as well go back in to a rehabilitation mode. I'm not saying that prison sentences should be no longer than 18 months but after this point the focus should be on (eventual) reintegration into society with new skills and education to keep them from reoffending.
The problem is that psychological forms of harm are not treated with as much respect as physical forms. There are no pictures of it, you cannot see it. It is the same reason why people struggle to see a psychiatrist but not a doctor.

Lack of sleep is also deployed in some countries ie. the guards won't let you sleep.
The problem is that the first season is really good at setting up the universe an start the story. A lot of groundstones are layed there that you will definitely enjoy later on. Its just that some of the episodes feel like they were still trying to find their way of storytelling. And the production values suck, but hey - we still watch 1940s cinema today.

Also, it has some really outstanding episodes, e.g. the introduction of the agent of the enemy.

But do as you want.
or stealing your bitcoins
Maybe it's just because I spend too much time lurking here, but I see a relatively large number of re-posts (or things which I have read before somewhere).

I don't usually comment on these articles, however especially when it looks like someone has lifted content I try and link back to the original (and original discussion where appropriate). In this case I was pushed to comment because I thought it was not attributed (and hence lifted) but in any case I am always concious of the type of post you outline - the 'OLD' comments.

I think a 'more intellectual' version of that comment is actually a good thing in general, mostly because it adds content rather than simply deriding, but it's always a tough question to decide if posting is the right choice or not. I'm happy enough with this post.
Hey! I'm from Perth too, we've probably met at Spacecubed. Would definitely be interested in the story, especially how you got support from the Government.
Here is the post from the most recent maintainer on his blog: http://samuelsidler.com/2013/05/the-end-of-an-era/

Thanks to all the devs who have worked on Camino over the years.
You are the one ranting about how something you disagree with is bad, actually. (The only uses of "evil" have been by you, except for venomsnake discussing censorship.) Your comments have been much more nasty, dismissive, vitriolic, and over-the-top than those of venomsnake.

I tried a little experiment: I supposed that venomsnake commented in good faith, and isn't crazy. I could not find disconfirmation. In his/her first sentence, there's a proposal that there are some virtues to MS's approach, and that dethroning those virtues might not be an unalloyed good. In the second sentence, there's an observation that the new regime has substantial drawbacks (for some people's values, including many HN readers). The third sentence is a bit hyperbolic, true, but the fourth sums up fairly even-handedly by calling the victory pyrrhic (which does still mean victory, btw). What's the problem?

On the other hand, your first sentence is nothing but vitriol, your last sentence is nothing but vitriol, and you allocate time in the middle to a sarcastic "I'm so sorry", and to misrepresenting venomsnake's comment (about "open" and "backwards-compatible"), just so you can call it "stupid". All in all, not very nice.

And venomsnake replied to you with far more politeness than you deserved, and for that you called him-or-her a zealot.

I totally missed the bit where you're "preaching tolerance", sorry if that's thick of me. Could you point it out?
Is this Batman equation for real?
Thanks for all the comments. I wanted to write the post to surface some of the environmental issues, certainly did not mean it as a negative rant. I think there are any good companies and startups here in India working in an early eco-system. Lots more to come out of here over the next decade.
It's a little difficult to believe you're actually trying to have a conversation about this when you selectively misquote what I said - you chopped off the bit where I said I was quoting/paraphrasing the OP and then claim my own words are reinforcing what the OP is saying. Well, of course they are, I was quoting the OP!

And I think for the most part, I am relying on facts - it's the OP that appeals to emotions - 'poison', 'heavily encumbered', suggesting Valve's motivations for quality service is to trick their customers into accepting DRM. Based on, well, nothing but opinion. My experience may be anecdotal but it is factual.
This is one of the oddest things I've read on HN. What do you think money is FOR?
Actually, all nations think they are special. It's not an excuse for backwardness.
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Elon Musk looks increasingly like someone straight out of Ayn Rand's work. He's the present day Ellis Wyatt or Henry Rearden, tackling grand projects that others shy away from.

He deserves respect just for that — looking beyond the next quarter's bottom line. Just look at the contrast this creates with all the managers whose plans for the next quarter are "let's spend slightly more on marketing".
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=batman+equation
Lofstrom has lately been talking about "PowerLoops" - basically underground loops that run for many miles under railroad right-of-ways in order to store energy from windfarms and solar arrays. He seems to indicate that the ROI could be as short as months by buying utility power at night when its cheap and reselling it during the day. Perhaps if the loops were along railroad tracks, they could be used to propel trains? Probably not, but as a power storage method, they can be underground.
http://launchloop.com/PowerLoopAbstract
Hi! I'm from Perth (Subiaco) but have been an ex-pat for over 20 years. The reason is, I've always considered Perth a mining town, and have managed to live in many other big cities around the world during an active professional life, working as a systems software developer. I'm quite ex-pat, but fondly dream of days in the sun..

So I take this opportunity to ask someone, sensibly: Is there a thriving tech scene in Perth? Software businesses, catering to a local market, that sort of thing? Like most major cities, there is probably an 'IT sector', consisting of hardware and systems support companies, probably -and of course the Uni's of WA are all very well connected in the F/OSS/Academic systems software departments. But, whats the local software economy like? Much custom, Business to business, software?

I imagine that with the Perth Mint and the Mining banks involved in all this, its going to be a solid way to do business in that part of the world, as well as Internationally. I'm, anyhow, off to get my family to set up their Pin Payments accounts asap .. :)
Interestingly when I went looking I came up with http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/07/climatec... which is a prediction from 5 years ago citing two studies saying that there would be several cooling years ahead.

But more fundamentally, the natural variation over a decade is +- 0.2 C. If the warming trend for a century is 2 C, then the warming trend per decade is also 0.2 C. Thus a flat decade is readily explainable by normal variation. If the warming trend is instead 1.5 C per century, then a 15 year stall becomes even more reasonable than a decade had been under a faster rise.

The golden question then becomes how this study found a 0.15 C rise in temperature from data over the last decade. I have not read the study. But I know that correctly modeling these things is far more complex than just looking at a long-term average. And given that I know that detailed attempts to produce actual heat budgets for where energy is going have consistently found that the planet has been steadily absorbing large amounts of heat in recent years, I'm inclined to believe their figures over an argument from a temporary stall in global atmospheric temperature.
That rounded tab just looks off to me. Everything else looks great though.
I sometimes think the perfect todo app is harder than colonising Mars.
“Camino is not receiving security updates” “Camino reaches its end” “Camino is no longer being developed”

I don’t like the tone of this press release. They make it seem like they’re not responsible for the lack of updates and that Camino died a natural death. They didn’t offer an explanation nor did they give any advance notice. Not very classy.
It's not about rehabilitation or punishment. It's far more cynical than that. It's simply a matter of separating people from the population. Prisoners are separated from the free population; especially dangerous prisoners are separated even from the prison population.
It isn't about the binary presence of these problem but the nature of the frequency and overlap.
Risk aversion – fear of losing what you have earned by hard-work is the key here. The attitude prevails in families, customers, investers and even in aspiring entrepreneurs. Even if they trust you, they don't want to bet on something that has a risk of failing. The attitude has developed over the many years due to the dismal socio-economic conditions and is completely justified.
Until recently a successful business is a lottery that only a few could get either by many years of perseverance or by being lucky to have been born in a wealthy family.

We not only need individual successes but these should be more visible similar to what we see in bollywood/cricket and people will start appreciating the potential on a wider scale.
Your mother would be proud!
Both are correct.

- As a noun, it means "road" ("El Camino" – "The Road").

- As a verb, it's a conjugation of "caminar" ("to walk" or "to go"). The -o ending makes it "I walk" or "I go".
How to get Stripe in Australia, set up Pin, $$$-big (locally), BRANDBRANDBRAND (its an Aussie thing), and then .. when big enough, the sharks come calling, throw out the chum ..
> Every other attempt is made to keep a person in a constant state of mediocrity. People who try to break out of this vicious cycle are automatically termed as 'greedy' and 'selfish', In other words if you promise to stay poor as them, all is fine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome
Direct link for those who want to try it live: http://kripken.github.io/lua.vm.js/repl.html
They had another 6 months to update their Maps app... (released it in September or something, the contract ended in December).

They just wanted to take Google by suprise, so they wouldn't release their apps map on time and by this, they had upset their customers with a piece of crap product (Apple Maps :s)
I'm not a Mac fanatic, which might be why I prefer FireFox on Mac to other browsers.
Actually, I still think you are right. You know how in pictionary when someone gives an absurd suggestion that is actually not so absurd because you end up mentally responding with 'I guess if you look at it like blah blah..'? I think that's what is going on here.

Musk is thinking, I guess if you put a train in an evacuated tube such that friction was not an issue, and moved it electromagnetically using above ground solar, you could reach supersonic speeds and a lot of the same scientific principles would be shared or be in use. That would fit the idea of a railgun+air hockey+concorde. You could share a lot of the same type of engineers on both projects even though the devices are not related in actuality. He is playing fast and loose interpretation wise and switching between talking about the interface Hyperloop and the particular instantiation he has in mind. It's the only way I can think of where he can claim it's not a vacutrain at the same time as say it could work underground.

But the launch loop fits so much better, in particular because of the massive kinetic energies involved (no batteries for store) and how very well it works with space travel. Even if this particular incarnation doesn't help, it would be invaluable in terms of experience and proof of concept.
It's really irritating that the syntax is incorrect in some examples.
Yeah, there are real problems with an evacuated tunnel - such as the fact that any air leak in its hundreds of miles makes it a non-evacuated tunnel. Do something like this and you've got the best of both worlds.

Elon Musk is making America something I'm proud of again. Or at least trying.
That's an interesting claim, what do you mean?
Also, the Apple ice cream shop is staffed by friendly, well dressed servers who are knowledgeable and passionate about ice cream and all of the relevant subfields.

The Google ice cream shop is actually a vending machine.
Well, it was legal then - the copyright treaties were only signed around 1994 IIRC.

And nobody was selling stuff to Poland anyway in eighties (even if we could buy it).
VIPS values are very good and you should notice it says "All timings are for a 5,000 by 5,000 pixel 8-bit RGB image in uncompressed tiled TIFF format, 128 by 128 pixel tiles". I haven't used VIPS in production. It seems like it's better for big files. I heard VIPS is not that performing with small files.
Writing a GetPID Application in x86 ASM
> how they "feel" the interactions without disturbing them

They can't. I don't know if there are quantum complications at that scale that change this picture, but my basic idea from classical physics is that Newton's Third Law says the probe can't have a force exerted on it by the sample (action) without also simultaneously itself exerting a force on the sample (reaction).

> The single-atom moving finger of the nc-AFM

The mass of the detector particle being deflected by the fields is small compared to the mass of the molecule being measured. So a force large enough to move the probe by a lot might still be small enough to only move the sample by a little.

The bottom line is, you can't measure a sample without disturbing it, but as the ratio of probe mass to sample mass shrinks, the level of that disturbance also shrinks. In this case they're using a single atom probe to measure a large organic molecule, apparently the ratio is small enough.

> Resulting movements of the stylus are detected by a laser beam

I guess in order to engineer a system this small, you need a probe to measure the probe. Again I'm guessing the momentum of the photons from the laser that are used to measure the probe atom is small enough not to appreciably deflect the probe.
I would imagine that it would be much easier for Stripe to acquire local Stripe equivalents and rebrand, rather than trying to navigate the labyrinth of financial regulations in each location. Maybe that's the game plan for Pin?

From another Perth guy, more congrats to the Pin team (I actually discovered them when I had the same idea, googled it and found that it existed already - in my own town!)
Oh dear. Proposals that had been on the extreme side of the possible are now considered impossible. Everything that we thought has fallen through! It is time to stop believing everything that scientists say!

Do you have any idea how many garbage theories are published every day? It is all part of the scientific process, as is the process by which we constantly weed out proposals. Wake me when the scientific consensus has moved to a median rise below 1.0 C per century. Until then scientists are not actually disagreeing with what a lot of them claimed in the IPCC report you were blasting.

And even if that report was wrong, until the bottom of the range includes 0 C/century, the consensus is global warming.
I kept all the definitive language references (K&R for example), and theoretical books that I thought would be applicable, but got rid of most of the rest. I didn't even really use textbooks the last year or two of school, so it was mostly just undergrad classes that I had left.
Exit nodes aren't really a problem either, if you realize that Tor's purpose is to protect your anonymity. An exit node may see your traffic, but can't see where it comes from, thus protecting your anonymity. If you need confidentiality in addition, you need to use tools designed for that (such as SSL).
That explains why the death sentence is on the books ... these are the lucky ones.

That is cruel but sadly not unusual punishment.
> might make junk food cheaper.

You mean might improve profits for junk food companies?
If I'm reading https://pin.net.au/pricing correctly, they're charging four percent extra for conversion, which sounds like it means they end up costing 7% + 30c for payments in USD.
I remember when everyone was annoyed at Go stuff getting posted on hackernews. /hipster
> Actually, all nations think they are special.

Actually, they don't.

And that's another way in which America is different than most other nations.
I had almost this exact same idea last year (a one-off blogging platform). It wouldn't have looked anywhere near this nice though, good work :)
Threat Predictions 2013
A lot of people want their language embedded in the browser suh as Lua, Dart, Ruby, etc.

But the way things are standing now it's not gonna happen. JavaScript, for the better and worse, is what we are stuck with. No browser vendor will be able to push though another language, and no standards committee would suggest a second scripting language to the web that runs alongside JavaScript.

If you absolutely cannot stand programming in JavaScript, which is the only native option for the web, you have to make do with the "language written on top of another language" solutions that are so popular these days, along with it's somewhat costy overhead.
Yeah, I saw the post about gonuts.io on the mailing list and wished the creator would have gotten a warmer welcome. Some valid points were brought up, but everyone seemed to be annoyed at him.
There's still no substitute for cash when you need true anonymity. How long till cash is made illegal?
This is great news. I've been patiently waiting for Stripe to arrive, but I've started to lose hope. Pin looks like it will fill that void. Can use a standard customer savings account to receive payments?
Color is only one way to improve the usability. I think glyphicons included in bootstrap can complement the color as an indicator of the meaning of buttons, and they should be used whenever appropriate for that very reason.
Don't trust your brain [video]
I want to archive your comment and bring it up again next time there's a discussion of Rand on HN. Musk is her idea of a businessman-hero (yes, government loans notwithstanding... he doesn't have the luxury of playing in a free market to begin with, energy is already highly regulated and subsidized), not the current crop of Wall Street bankers.
What happens to the sonic boom in this scenario? I understand that is the main obstacle to conventional supersonic flights above or close to land, how would this be different?
Why Trademarks are important for startups
I'm guessing fmt is the odd one out because it's used a lot and clear that it means format. Of course by that logic, image should be img too.
How do I delete a file whose name begins with “-”?
For comparisons sake Scooter Libby was also convicted of revealing the identity of a CIA operative. But his sentence was commuted by then President George W Bush.

Scooter Libby explicitly and intentionally revealed Valerie Plame's name as retaliation for her husband's New York Time's article detailing the lack of evidence that Saddam Hussein could have acquired Uranium from Niger. John Kiriakou admits to providing a name to a journalist as a source of information on torture but the name has never been published.

Scooter Libby was convicted of outing a CIA operative as retribution for her whistle blowing husband. John Kiriakou is a whistle blower who gave a reporter a yet unpublished name. In both cases the actual whistle blowers were punished. One through losing their career as a CIA operative(Valerie Plame) and the other by being sent to prison(John Kiriakou).
> I'd personally settle for a voice-output-only Glass (maybe with chording for text input to avoid the "talking to yourself crazy person" problem, and with a camera/microphone built in for ambient data gathering).

I pitched exactly that idea to Logitech & Inria in Switzerland about 15 years ago and I agree with you, we could have done that long ago and it is one of the best interfaces that you could have. Think 'personal assistant'.

The general idea was to simply open a voice channel with a server farm somewhere that listens to your ambient audio and pics up cues / clicks and responds with audio.

The project stranded on privacy concerns, and on speech decoding issues that Inria foresaw would be hard to overcome.