skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fullscreen API works fine. A website can display itself without any other clutter on the screen (with user permission). Unfortunately, it is no longer possible for a user on Mac OS X to cause the switch to fullscreen. The view menu (Firefox 21.0, for example, on OS X) still offers an "Enter Full Screen" menu item. Unfortunately, all it does is hide some of the chrome (it hides the menu bar and the title bar), leaving other bars (tabs, URL) still cluttering the screen.

It has been this way for a couple of years, if I recall correctly, and it is only a "feature" on OS X. Nothing is being done to change it, AFAIK.
What single-dispatch generic functions mean for you
I think you're misunderstanding, because (a) no it doesn't, and (b) no it isn't :)

Clojure docstrings need to precede the argument list. e.g. this is correct:

(defn foo
"Some docstring"
[]
"Some return value"))

But this is not:

(defn foo
[]
"Some docstring"
"Some return value"))

It will still compile, but the first string will be treated as an expression, and therefore ignored as it has no side effects.

The reason docstrings in Clojure come before the arguments, is that because if they came after, their effect would be ambiguous, regardless of arity. e.g.

(defn foo [] "foo")

Is the string supposed to be the return value of the function, or its docstring?
From the paper [1]

The WiSee proof-of-concept is implemented in GNURadio using the USRP-N210 hardware.

Each USRP is equipped with a XCVR2450 daughterboard, and
communicates on a 10 MHz channel at 5 GHz. Since USRPN210 boards cannot support multiple daughterboards, we
built a MIMO receiver by combining multiple USRP-N210s
using an external clock. In our evaluation, we use
MIMO receivers that have up to ﬁve antennas. We use single antenna USRP-N210s as transmitters.

So basically, they are using 6+ USRPs at $1400+ each to do these experiments. However, since each USRP is communicating on a 10MHz channel at 5GHz, someone with between two and five MIMO 802.11n Wi-Fi devices could theoretically do the same.

[1] http://wisee.cs.washington.edu/wisee_paper.pdf
"I want to deny opportunities to others in order to preserve my own advantage"
To Design or Not to Design in the Browser
i didnt catch it in the pdf but a single deployment is supposed to push 200tb/s. Id ball park the capital cost aaround 1.25M USD.
the original 4u boxes do/did ~9gb/s of prod traffic each. peak/lab util was about 15gb/s. IIRC two of these boxes could cache nearly the entire library for a region.

The interesting bit is the new 2u hosts used specifically for hot content. only using 3x 10gig interfaces because the bus is too narrow. im guessing these hosts are pushing 20-24gb/s at peak. theyll have to be using a zeroish copy like sendfile() to just dma everything from disks to nic. looks like the 14 ssds can push 450-500MB/s, so theres the bus limit again. read scheduling will probably suck at that rate. but id wager that most of the bits served are super hot content being dmad straight from memory pages.
> I don't know from where you are buying 'foreign books for cheap' and I'm not sure if you are referring only to LPE text books.

I don't have special shops to buy books for free, and I am not referring to LPE editions only. I am saying most of the foreign books are LPE whether explicitly or implicitly. They do compromise on paper quality, printing and covers.

> But most of the novels, and other books that I know are definitely expensive.

An average novel costs me 350. That is by no stretch expensive. Sure you can get a "lord of the flies"(or may be not; I mostly see Chetan Bhagats and Sidney Sheldons) on a pavement for 50 bucks, but that doesn't mean 350 is expensive.

> But pirated books sold on by footpath hawkers sell like hot cakes only because many foreign best sellers are generally expensive.

Pirated books are cheap doesn't mean most of the foreign books aren't reasonably priced.
"I don’t want to provide extras to others as that would devalue their accomplishments, hence supporting prejudice"
Looks like font rendering in Chrome on windows is going to be finally sorted
KDE Ships June Updates to Applications, Platform and Plasma Workspaces
This seems to be an extremely needed tutorial. makerops, do you have an ETA on when the lessons will begin? I am very excited for the premiere.
> Did all car manufacturers receive a $500 million loan to build electric cars or something?

Did any other manufacturer build a car like the Tesla Roadster? Any medium to large manufacturer could have done that, noone did. So as a government I'd be wary about the true intentions of those industry players who didn't want to touch electric cars in the past decades, too.
A point to reiterate is that a great leader will always surround themselves with brilliant team members. Bad leaders like to surround themselves with 'bad' workers to make themselves feel better about their own inadequacies. If you can try to hire skilled individuals, and encourage your team members to become the best possible in their field, then you are not only guiding, motivating and creating future leaders for further scalability but you are enabling your team with a strong powerhouse of knowledge where everyone is valued for their expertise making your life a lot easier as the manager in the meantime.
Always surprised me how they didn't tackle this earlier - at the very least I think by putting the SVG font declaration before the others fixes the smoothness
I stopped reading after the first 2 or 3 sentences. In fact even the title is wrong. Sloppy investigation, can be invalidated by 5 seconds of Google.
Roman Seawater Concrete Analysis
"A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit." -- D. Elton Trueblood

Such a person would also be counterproductive using the criteria of capitalism, and I think the rest follows from that.
Irish tax flashmob floods Apple flagship London store
I'm not sure I know where to start.

Firstly, "Lots of well-meaning people in the tech industry are giving free things to girls." I don't think this stretches to giving unqualified non-programmers programming jobs (which is the inference I'm taking from the piece). I also don't think it's as industry-destroying as OP suggests. I do believe that there's a possibility that some companies try harder to find qualified women so that it's more likely that a less qualified man gets pushed out, but that's not at all the same as "free stuff".

Secondly, programming is difficult. I went to school to learn how to do it, even though I started way back in my teens. Lots of other folk on here went to school for it too. Like any skilled technical job, you wouldn't expect to pick your way through the minefield of complex concepts, principles, and fundamentals and just whack away at tools until you get what you want. It's hard, so anyone who blames some arbitrary selection criteria because they're underqualified should look at the underqualified bit before the other criteria.

It's hard knowing that you're not good enough to follow your dream. The solution is to get better, not blame someone else.
There are two separate issues here.

One is the safety of radiation. This is a medical question. It can be tested in the laboratory, but we have enough "field experience" with it by now to know that it is indeed Very Bad News(tm) in high doses.

The second is the safety of nuclear power. This has many factors including the first issue and also including things such as evacuation response. Our ability to recognize threats (such as plainly unsafe radiation) and react effectively and rapidly is itself a reason that nuclear power is safe.

Properly regulated nuclear power is safer than nuclear power that is not. Sort of like how cardiac arrest in Seattle is safer than it is in Detroit, since the EMS response time is about 1/3rd the time.
Validator.js: the almost missing javascript validator for Node and the browser
Judge: Child porn suspect doesn't need to decrypt files today
Revealed: Australian spies seek power to break into Tor
Just like 9 woman don't get you a baby in 1 month, having more devs won't get your games to market and bug free after certian diminishing returns. Too many cooks in the kitchen and all that.
I'm not at all a fan of positive discrimination.

However, the author is saying that we shouldn't give out any opportunities because programming is supposed to be hard.

I see that as equivalent to saying programming should be restricted to the wealthiest, most privileged of society: those who can afford to take the risk and time and expense of overcoming any inherent obstacles.

The latter case is absolutely worse.

Ways of supporting people into the industry need to be found (ideally, equally), rather than complaining about and pissing on existing efforts.
No, that was the man who visited him later.

"..and the last time a North Korean made the journey to visit him in Japan, a decade ago, he was there to kill him."
dealers have fat margins in the US? I'd be suprised. around here they are capped by the manufacturers and raised only after achieving goals that are impossible for newcommers to meet. the money is made on service, without that you'd basically sink cash into a very expensive gallery. setting up a dealership is tough, very expensive and very risky.
He does that. Musk almost lost it in his 60 minutes interview when asked why Neil Armstrong (a hero of his) was actively against what both he and SpaceX stood for.

Personally, if I were told on national TV that my personal hero hated what I was doing, I'd be pretty negatively affected as well.
Wall of text. Please, write "tl;dr" somebody.
Contrast this to the cost of a typical ACL injury in Australia: http://www.injuryupdate.com.au/forum/archive/index.php/t-801...
Really? My 5 seconds of google showed links saying pretty much the same thing as OP's article. No one died from radiation poisoning (yet).
A $2.5 million fine is nothing to a guy with an estimated $2.1 billion fortune [1]. If we don't want the rich to flaunt the law with impunity, the find should be a hundred times larger - that way it might actually act as a deterrent.

Of course, you could argue that we don't care if the rich can commit certain offences with impunity. Perhaps we've signalled that by legislating a fine rather than imprisonment for this offence.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Parker
Don't worry about signing up guys, they will only send you a random 10% of the promotional emails they send out. Or was it 90%? Who knows.
Personally I will always start any design within photoshop, or actually really back to basic's with pencil and pad to start off with. It is this raw creativity and freedom that distinguishes a designer from a developer.

A simple way to describe how I see it is this analogy, would you rather get dressed in a box, or would you rather get dressed then try and fit in the box. You will end up in the box at some point either way.
I always love it when coal is used as a comparision. Because:

Coal isn't the alternative, solar and wind are

Furthermore:

Nuclear energy has a fairly high CO2 output, if you count it all together. So this argument against coal is itself an argument against nuclear energy.

Most importantly: We can't manage nuclear waste. There is just no feasible scenario which makes sure for future generations that the nuclear waste we produce now won't be the mulch of the society after us. This point is what seems to seperate the people pro and against the sharpest, some seriously believing we could manage that.
I love it when people make brand new cars with brand new eco-friendly lithium batteries to save the environment.
Also coal power produces more nuclear radiation than nuclear power plants.
So, you’ve tuned your expectations for Parker appropriately. Good. But that doesn’t change the definition of “excess”.
"No leftist, or even middle-of-the-road, government will accept that."

It is funny that the author equates left-leaning with freedom limiter. In reality, a left-leaning government limits economic freedoms, and a right-leaning government limits social freedoms. A virtual currency is not only a threat to economic control but, since economics underpin the rest of social interactions, it is a direct threat on social policy monopoly. So it is also a threat to right-leaning governments.

So it is not the entitlement state which will fight bitcoin but, quite simply, "The State". It doesn't follow the state will succeed.

"When men are free to choose, they choose gold."

Ha! Those men who are free to choose, pay as little a wage as possible to some other poor bastard who will sell his time in order to perform all tasks related to arcane metal verification, so that he can be halfway certain that their gold is really gold, that it is properly stored, and that it is properly handled during transfers (to pay for things, otherwise what is the point?). They will also pay journalists to write articles about how great gold is.

For any men to choose freely, technology must come helping, to lower the costs of handling the value storage. Bitcoin is here for that. Maybe rich men will continue to hoard gold, but the cost of doing so will be much higher than those of handling bitcoins. So, one would assume, at some point rich men will do their math and switch to bitcoin. Of course, not before all risks associated with bitcoin have been cleared - rich men are very conservative with regards of where to put their savings, prefering high fees (which they make up for with their multiple businesses, or government association) to uncertainty. Later, when they move to bitcoin, they will sing the "I-knew-this-bitcoing-thing-would-fly-and-was-there-since-the-beginning" song.
They can't really tell with 100 % accuracy until birth, but by week 18 they can tell with a very high level of accuracy. And Sweden permits abortions until the end of week 18.
Bitbucket is great with its free private repos, but I hope they'll add more payment methods, in particular PayPal.
What is "derp"? The answer is technical
> And that includes Chernobyl, and uses the worst case scenario for the effects of radiation!

I know he writes that, but the numbers used aren't mentioned and not easily to research, as far as i saw. I heavily doubt that statement.

An article talking about "two failures" of nuclear plants isn't believable, there were quite a few more.
"Skeptics say the company produces low-price iPhone imitations with no significant software or hardware advantages."

I must say that compared to other low-price phones in china like Lenovo, ZTE, Huawei and Hisense I'd rather take Xiaomi. They seem to pay more attention to quality than others and they do show innovativeness with MIUI for example. And more importantly they seem to have more and more of their own innovation in each product generation. For example their MI2S offers exchangeable colored backs that I haven't seen with many other companies (Nokia maybe).

I used to think NYT is respectable paper, but with words like "aping" in the title of an article like this I'm giving up on that thought.
I was not thinking of that and you are absolutely right.
It seems that too many times I have to install a plugin to revert some design decision I don't like. This sounds like one of those times.
Sorry, I don't think I was clear. I'm not disputing the Bitbucket free service, I was just pointing out that Bitbucket do have a student account, and it's handled automatically by you just adding your student Email to your account. I assumed (wrongly, perhaps?) that Github would use a similar system, since case by case seemed very odd for that.

I agree with what you're saying, though I hadn't thought about it - and it's also great that these courses are mentioning version control. That really should be a part of a CS curriculum, and it's great they're doing that, my university doesn't which I found quite surprising.

Anyway, sorry for the confusion, I just thought that Github would use the same process as Bitbucket to identify students.
It's less than 1250 words - is that really a problem?

OK, tl;dr - naming things can change how you think about them.

Oh, and in case you're interested, "War and Peace" is about Russia.
but at the moment, coal is the alternative.

Coal provides something like 25% of the world's energy production. Solar and wind more like 2%.

The more nuclear plants we build the more coal ones we can shut down.

The more wind and solar we build, the more coal we can shut down too, but it will take a lot longer and a lot more money to replace coal with wind and solar than with nuclear.
PEP 443 -- Single-dispatch generic functions
Yeah, SourceTree is easy to use and the latest release looks great. Although GitHub for Windows got me started with git, I much prefer SourceTree when I need a GUI (as a git nube).
What is this word "allow"?

Who forces car manufacturers to go through a dealer network? Or rather, who forbids them from selling direct to the public? Doesn't that constitute unfair restraint on trade?

I'm serious here. (Non-American speaking.) Is there some law that mandates that cars can only/must be sold through dealers?
All of those are useful.
This entire thing is a publicity stunt for a comedians new show. This isn't newsworthy.

The tax avoidance issues plaguing Apple & Google are categorically news, but this stunt is PR for a show, nothing more.
Solar and wind are ways off replacing nuclear and fossil fuels.

There is no way we could switch to solar/wind without moving to the 1800's. There are many technological and economic issues with large scale solar/wind. We need to build better grids, we need storage for when sun doesn't shine and wind doesn't blow...

Realistically we are at least 20 years from the point where renewables could overcome fossil. And that is assuming optimistic scenario.

If we plowed all this funding into nuclear power research we would get far more out of our investment.

e.g.: You can use (advanced) nuclear power anywhere, while solar and wind are less than suitable for outer space applications, etc.

This is why I feel that people that support "green" agenda are hurting environment and our species.
Since the link to the source of the first table in that blog post does not work:

http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull411/...
(pdf, Wilson &al. IAEA Bulletin 41/1 1999)

Additionally, I recall that there are some problems with the estimate. For example it assumes that there are no more major accidents after Chernobyl. And he uses the WHO study, which may underestimate cancer fatalities by an order of magnitude. For a nice discussion of the problems of studies of Chernobyl see:

http://allthingsnuclear.org/how-many-cancers-did-chernobyl-r...
This isn't a first, a lot of discussions are "off topic"-powered.
One of the only companies around which almost always come into limelight because of something going amiss.
I have tried half a dozen of them, and found HostGator to be the most reliable.
The importance of sketching in product design
New report: Public engagement in policy-making
It's more of a case of good defaults vs bad defaults. When 90% of your customers will never know how to change the defaults (or never like your system enough in the first place to bother) then being served up something weird by default doesn't help your popularity.
How does laying off workers equate to shutting down a business. Am I missing something?
Show HN: Learn Your Favorite Editor With Spaced Repetition
In search of a social media strategy: Making our process transparent
Thanks, but ya I've already spoken with people and they are asking to start paying for this.

I was more focused on how you might go about equity splits
If there's any story here it's impossible to tell with such a badly written and misleading article.

>Nothing says, "I love the Earth!" quite like bringing bulldozers into an old-growth forest to create a fake ruined castle.

So he brought multiple bulldozers in hey? Somehow I doubt that, do people actually buy into this sort of stuff? At best from pictures it looks like they used small earth moving vehicles as you'd expect.

http://ncwtv.com/nn/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/0e64parkers-w...
great point, thanks.
Skeptics's annotated bible
As noted in another comment, right now solar and wind are not a viable alternative. Hopefully in time, though I'm not sure it will ever be possible to completely do away with location-agnostic power generation (coal, nuclear).

> We can't manage nuclear waste.

But it is tightly regulated and under close scrutiny, unlike coal ash contamination.
Ehm, the question is rather strange: as a matter of fact, what is called a determinant is interesting because of its properties, which is what you may call the 'definition'. A bit of a circular argument but: the 'determinant' property is interesting, so it is given a name.

The 'property' can be one of many.

The most 'obvious' being that the only 'coherent' way to define 'area', 'volume', etc... so that it behaves 'linearly' [i.e. correctly for parallelepipeds] ends up being quite 'complicated' but quite useful at the same time and it receives a name.

As it happens, it turns out to be quite useful for theoretically solving linear equations as well (although NOT for real-world solving them).

So... It is not weird, it is what it is because it happens to be that way and then it receives a name.

There are much weirder things you can do with a matrix which do not have a specific name. Determinants have because they are useful.
All the benefits of solar/wind are not easy to research, as far as I saw. I heavily doubt that statement.

Can you see what I did there?
Fines are meant to teach the offender a lesson. You can't teach a millionaire a lesson with a $50 ticket, though.
The question how many people have died will probably not be answered in a couple of decades. The problem is, that the sample size is limited and disentangling various reasons for diseases is quite hard. For example the highest radiation dosage after Chernobyl was in Belarus, but the population there did also go through the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Billions spent decomissioning, billions spent building, billions spent operating and billions saved on coal mining and transportation.

Probably people and companies who decided to invest billions in nuclear plants did some cost-benefit analysis.
Look at germany. Alternative energy doesn't have to be used that little.

On a worldwide scale, it is even a different thing. You can't simply replace coal with nuclear energy worldwide, even if you were absolutely convinced that nuclear energy is safe when properly used and you have a concept for the nuclear waste produced like shooting it into space. Because many countries are just too instable, poor and iniffecient to consider building a nuclear plant. It wouldn't be safe at all. Also, don't overestimate the availability of uranium, which is estimated to only reach till 2080 (depends on who you ask probably).
CIA Releases Analyst's Fascinating Tale of Cracking the Kryptos Sculpture
Surely the LLC must have shareholders or executives that could be held responsible?
It validates emails with a regex. I'm not sure how many times it's been discussed that you shouldn't validate emails with a regex, but please stop validating emails with a regex.

Source: https://github.com/guillaumepotier/validator.js/blob/master/...

http://davidcel.is/blog/2012/09/06/stop-validating-email-add...
http://stackoverflow.com/a/202528/744180
(others, just Google)
Characters like Mark Thomas and Michael Moore build their protest messages around PR stunts, it's their modus operandi and I believe it's a valid usage of media.
> Coal isn't the alternative, solar and wind are

Still really aren't and definitely weren't when Fukushima was built.

> Nuclear energy has a fairly high CO2 output, if you count it all together.

Care to elaborate?
If you were a school district, you could probably afford to hire a person, part time, to make sure the software worked.