skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It seems wrong based on that world view that a baby-faced geek in a hoodie can look down on all the traditional businessmen from his mountain of money.

I don't know what you mean by 'traditional businessmen', but Zuckerberg's flaunting of Wall Street conventions by wearing a hoodie was great. Seriously, fuck those guys. There's good people there, but talk about guys making insane amounts of money for work of dubious (and dubious ethical) value.

And yes, Zuckerberg's billions came rather quickly, but he did create a product that is used by a billion people, and his company employs thousands of engineers. He broke no laws, didn't destroy the economy and didn't need a trillion dollars of tax payer money to be bailed out.
A) You have forgotten basic physics. The beginning of the disk is faster. Locality is desirable but is not and has never been the only thing that matters.

B) You have just named three uncommon filesystems that few people will ever use in the first place, much less with TrueCrypt.
I'm having a problem with not overriding the browser shortcuts. One of the shortcuts I'm supposed to be learning is shift-ctrl-T, but when I type that in a plugin window opens instead (in this case LastPass). And ctrl-U (soft undo in sublime text) sometimes opens view source.
Could you use something like this to lower bandwidth costs for displaying a media-rich website? There would be implications in hijacking user's upload bandwidth without them accepting.

IIRC Opera had a BitTorrent client built in. Perhaps in the future we'll be able to do:

<video>
<source src="webp2p://example.com/video.webm">
<source src="magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:YNCKHTQCWBTRNJIV4WNAE52SJUQCZO5C">
<source src="http://example.com/video.webm">
</video>
TDD and Clojure
Couldnt help but think "Wouldn't mind seeing his Glass video feed" though.
Could be useful in prisons to keep tabs on the general population without having to use cameras.
On the plus side, we are really good at it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X697yZBCN8w
Paging search results is just silly
Your point is proven wrong though by the fact that there were phones that looked like the iPhone before the iPhone.

Granted they were rubbish to actually use, but they looked good, just like the iPhone does.
I luckily grew up in the time of BBS text games (TradeWars, Legend of the Red Dragon) and never got into the MMORPGs...but from my reading of articles about UO, WoW, and the like, I thought the average casual player could not stomach PvP? And yet in the OP, it sounds like a key mechanic in the game is to prey on players who don't log in as frequently. So while that's fun for the hardcore players, I would've thought that would drive off a large part of the target audience (i.e. casual gamers with iPhones).
"they know what they're doing, and they're not picking winners and losers, they're playing the same game every investor plays: trying to decide who is going to win or lose before it happens."

The government should be in the venture capitalist business funding companies based on the recommendations of the board of People Who Know Things, now?

"As for dealerships, the reason Tesla doesn't have to go through them is because they don't have any preexisting agreements with the dealerships."

Other smaller car manufacturers are having to go through dealerships, even with zero pre-existing relationships. Why should Tesla, which has a market cap that far exceeds those aforementioned manufacturers, get special rules?
Disagree. This guy seems pretty legit and humble. Calculating and shrewd? Sure, I give him that: a vision like Tesla and Space X would require such characteristics. That said, I take him on face value and love how his vision comes from such a genuine place of logic and reason (as opposed to the Jobsian hoopla bullcrap). A singular figure.
I like the slid.es examples.
Are there some JavaScript based slides, which work on a server so that one user can navigate to new slides and the other users see the change in their browser?
I use feedly now too, I could set it up to look almost like reader did. I use it on my android phone as well.
I'm using Anki (http://ankisrs.net/) which is a similar system (spaced-repetition/flashcards). I'm using the "fat" client, although it syncs to all my desktops. I only have one "deck" at the moment (vim) and am building it up. I think it is helping me a lot.
If you throw a net wide enough you will catch plenty of fish. Some of it may even be the target species.
This isn't new but I've used it successfully. They're a bit aggressive in their sales but hey, they are a database company after all :).
Yeah, really. A lot of times in these kinds of "police brutality" pictures it's a little hard to tell what's going on -- maybe somebody was being aggressive and stuff was warranted. Here, that's obviously not the case:

* wiping tear gas out of a <10 year old girl's eyes

* groups of cops kicking a single person who is already on the ground

* frail old man with broken nose bleeding

None of these people were in any position to be a danger to the cops -- why beat them up? Makes me proud to be a human that Turkish citizens are standing up for themselves. All the best for them.
I still see the bar with the address and search fields, and associated buttons to the left and right. They don't seem to go away. This is on OSX.

The OSX fullscreen button does the same thing, leaving me with chrome up top.
> This kind of behaviour should be discouraged and a fine is entirely appropriate to discourage it.

I would actually go so far as to say that the fine should have been much bigger. This is something that annoys me about tickets being a fixed amount: is it really a true deterrent to bad behavior when the fine is so negligibly small that you basically don't give a damn? The purpose of punishment is to reform bad behavior, bad behavior that is dangerous to others. When you're going 80+ kph above speed limit you're not just putting your own life at danger, you're putting other innocent people in the vicinity at danger too. A ticket should not be $400 at that point when you're a billionaire, it should be $4 million. $400 is likely not enough forceful enough as a corrective measure. In this instance I'd have been happier if the fine Parker incurred was above $25 million.
It's not that no one "should" be compelled. The constitution states that no one "can" be compelled. Huge difference. "Should" implies choice. There is no choice here. I hope the court sees this as a circumstance where the person is being compelled to be a witness against himself. I like laws that protect individual citizens (and I mean actual living, breathing entities and not that BS 'businesses are people, my friend').

So, I agree with you... Just a bit more firm and by the book. :-)
The turning the idea into reality part was implied.
Submitted 9 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5773895
Interestingly, this is written by Yonatan Zunger, who is the Chief Architect for Google+: https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger/about
Goal -- I guess any project can be lofty in its projections, but my understanding is Kickstarter gets directly involved in helping set appropriate targets for projects over a certain size.

Time will tell if that's actually the case. This is the first kickstarter project I'm following closely enough that it feels like watching stocks... wondering how much momentum a project needs in that first day to predict if it will succeed or fail.
£600'000, which is normally VC territory.

To my mind there is a reason for that - kickstarter allows people who really want a thing to exist to pay the amount that thing is worth to them, and then get it.

No computer game is worth $10'000 just to play. What is worth $10'000 dollars is ownership of the IP, and a share of any profits.

Maybe this is against kickstarters rules, but I'm not sure it should be. I'd happily invest my savings across a spread of carefully chosen crowd funded companies, in the hope that one out of those hundred would make good the losses on the rest.

Why is there not kickstarter style crowd funding platform for investment?
I am not outraged at anyone, except previous commenter. But to your point, yes it is okay to give them half a billion. I don't see why government should not have supported them. And as time has shown it was a right decision, since they have paid off that loan, which I think is incredible for an only electric cars company.
After reading down the list of other questions on the right, I think this is my new favorite website.
Criminals Face Online Cash Dilemma
It's a tough fight too. I mean, this association has been around for almost 100 years. A lot of bills greasing politicians hands too ('Murica!!). Tesla have their work cut out for them in disrupting this megalithic entity. Best of luck; sincerely mean that. These guys are effectively patent trolls, and will do anything to hawk their inferior wares.
Is Berlin on its way to become a new global startup center?
Other than legally undermining traditional American narratives, the Parkers illegally undermined ancient redwood trees. That was the point of the article.
Djangocon EU 2013 recordings online
I'm curious about the fractal tree indexing referred to, but so far all the information I'm running across seems to be fairly one-sided. Performance is rarely so one-dimensional that I can accept statements like "When used in a database, they can be used in any setting where a B-tree is used, with improved performance" (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TokuDB) on face value. The algorithm claims to have strong insert performance, as well as higher compressability when compared to B-trees, and all the performance results play heavily on these.

What about read-heavy workloads, etc? Can someone with a bit more insight provide an objective overview?
Hmmm. Is there really a fold though? If you added velocity and position above the water into the mix then the state transition is unique and smooth. The fold appears because important quantities are not plotted and resolved elsewhere.

The only real discontinuity is the when the hull touches the water.

Maybe I don't really know the definition of a catastrophe. To me a PID controllor exhibiting ringing would look "folded" in position space (smooth in position/velocity space).
This is just another reason I am very scared about the Government's proposals to push through the "Snoopers' Charter" giving government agencies a record of all emails and SMS messages sent, web pages visited, and phone calls made.
Safari 6.0.5, which should improve Facebook chat, actually makes it worse.
The problem here wasn't that he was accused, but that the entire case was seemingly going through based on an interpretation of the primary evidence, as opposed to the evidence itself, which seems ridiculous to me.
That's certainly true. But also (from a investigation point of view) more suspicious than a filesystem covering the whole harddisk, but only filled to 20%. That will always be a problem, as long as the "visible" filesystem just maps block 1..N directly onto encrypted blocks 1+k..N+k (with k being a constant offset), as it's currently the case e.g. in linux LUKS (I assume CRYPTO discipline in BSD is similar).

The proper solution most likely would be to integrate a kind of block-mapping into the encryption software which allocates randomly distributed blocks from the encrypted harddisks whenever a filesystem begins to write to the blocks of an volume. This randomization algortithm then will be aware of all currently active "hidden partitions", but due to the randomness, a pattern to draw conclusions about the existence of other partitions would not emerge.
The Ugly Reality of Mobile Device Management Technologies
Anything you or your wife buy for you wedding is not tax deductable.

Anything a corporation, LLC, or company buys can be treated as an expense as a consumable. I'm not sure what revenue the LLC would have, so it would probably take a loss, which then can be written off on personal taxes as "income/loss from a business."

That's my guess.
I think tcpdump is the better solution since it's less intrusive into your production environment. Even if the tool suddenly crashes, it will not interrupt the flow of requests to your servers.

Something similar, like using libnetfilter_queue, would also be good.
one possibility which has never seen the light of day:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_Fast_Reactor#Nuclear_w...
Because your OPs and deployment team are going to know exactly how to deploy and support something you cobbled together in a completely arbitrary way.

You obviously thought through the integration with monitoring, scaling and multiple redundancy systems so in the event of traffic spike or disaster it'll keep working without manual intervention.

That's not even touching the business logic complexity of issues like DST or leap seconds where you have to be able to arbitrarily change the clock forward or backward.
I dug into that, and what I found blew my mind.

Usually these lightbox/modal overlays use an extra div either loaded with the page or injected on the fly that covers the entire window and is positioned just below the modal on the z-axis (z-index).

His solution was to give the button a really massive box-shadow :O

box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 3000px rgba(0,0,0,0.8);

I'd never have thought of that.

---
| | <--- the box
---

X <--- where Hakim thinks
That's the beauty of the setup: since things are cheap on the lower levels, raids aren't really a problem, you can earn enough anyway. It's only when you reach the higher levels that they start to become a major pain.
G'day mate,
here in australia we're leading the world in nuclear waste storage. After giving our best scientists 30 years to spend on the question, we've finally brought it to a head, and are in the process of unveiling a state of the art solution.

here's what we've done:
found a remote and isolated spot of land in the middle of a 3000km long highway. we've paid a pittance and reminded the small local indigenous community who actually own the land that they don't have any political, economic or social power. Their economic disempowerment was exacerbated a couple of years after they were targetted, when new apartheid-style laws quarantined welfare to natives. Their political disempowerment was reinforced by unprecedented laws that negate their rights as land owners and remove any possible legal obstacle to the dump plan.

Right, so with the social engineering out of the way, let's get into the nuts and bolts:
we're gonna grade a dirt road onto a dry patch of land, and build a barbed wire shed. to hold the most highly radioactive nuclear wastes we produce.

I'm sure before too long the rest of the world will get on side to endorse the engineering, and of course site selection.

As we say down under, she'll be right mate!
My question is, how long before the peaceful demonstrators turn hostile? If I were there, I would feel like the government has crossed the line into violence and that therefore the crowds have no choice but to defend themselves.

Soon enough, Turkey won't look that different from Syria, if the police keep that up.
Speaking of ways in which our language affects the way we define the world around us, here's a list of Eskimo words for snow names (or rather: lexemes, in the article):
http://www.princeton.edu/~browning/snow.html

Some would dispute that there exists a similarly diverse taxonomy of ways to classify snow in English, but I'd argue those rules are looser and more subject to interpretation.

Either way, it's really interesting to learn the ways in which the constructs of our language define the way we see the world. Another example of language influencing thought is the way gender assignments of words affect perceptions of their characteristics as masculine, feminine, or neutral.
One wonders what would have happened if he had, in fact, pleaded guilty.
I see a couple of problems with this:

First - property taxes, depending on the state, are fairly high. In my case, this largely offsets the mortgage deduction - though not completely (maybe 75%). People talk about how the mortgage deduction is welfare for the middle class (and up), but there are also a lot of heavy taxes involved in owning property.

Second - there's a difference between getting rid of a bad policy and never implementing it. If the mortgage deduction were a new proposal, I'd be opposed to it. Here's the problem - the government decided to "encourage" home ownership with a big deduction. New buyers factored it into what they could afford, and are now heavily dependent on it. Should the government now say "oh, on second thought, no, we shouldn't have encouraged you to do this after all, so we'll be pulling that rug out from under you now"? It would be very destructive. To me, this is a good illustration of how difficult it can be to remove a bad policy once it becomes very entrenched.

Slowly phasing it out could work. Alternatively, removing the mortgage deduction and property tax at the same time would probably reduce the impact (if taxing discourages ownership, then we'd remove the encouragement and discouragement at the same time). Problem with this is that property taxes fund local government and the mortgage deduction is a federal deduction.
The federal tax credit of $7,500, plus any state subsidies, for each Tesla sold doesn't ring a bell to you?
It is a pretty weird world we live in where nudity is automatically pornography. But that doesn't compare to the recent prosecutorial practice of trying to avoid a trial at any cost, including innocent lives, which has become a truly disgusting game, and now includes trying to bullshit the process of discovery. How many innocent people, with worse legal connections, went to jail over similar mishaps?
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That was by a user, not the team itself. Now they are ready to launch.
What to do if you’re a programmer and your project is the Titanic
Wouldn't exercising your 5th amendment rights remove the need for you to lie about not remembering?
the code was convoluted but correct. A lot of people got it wrong. The code was still shit, but correct shit.
That's easily solved with CSS.

You wouldn't want to remove the styling completely, but definitely get rid of the browser default and use a custom focus style that looks better.
I think another parameter is the intergenerational teratogenic impacts: Radiation fades your genes.
They're not all assholes! James May is a quite a nice guy. And the money they use isn't particularly greasy: it's the taxpayer's :)
More like he had connections through his days at Harvard to people with more connections and money and hands on the levers of power. Whatever though.
>Other smaller car manufacturers are having to go through dealerships, even with zero pre-existing relationships. Why should Tesla, which has a market cap that far exceeds those aforementioned manufacturers, get special rules?

I don't believe you. Show me some evidence that they have to, and that they're not merely choosing to.
It literally just has to be an ajax call that spits out a bit of JSON with the current time on the server. Set server to Europe/London and switch on NTP and bam, done.
An unsolicited endorsement: I switched from TextMate to vim/tmux in February, and shortcutfoo.com cut my vim curve down by many weeks. Later I also started using it for git, even though I've been on git for years, and already have several new git tricks I didn't know before. I've been recommending it ever since -- great service guys!

It's like a tools kata for my fingers. I run a few reps most mornings just to get warmed up.
From your link:

>Researchers at Fukushima Medical University, which has been taking the leading role in the study, have so far said they do not believe that the most recent cases are related to the nuclear crisis.
"But to your point, yes it is okay to give them half a billion. I don't see why government should not have supported them."

I find it quite outrageous that we're enriching well-connected billionaires and millionaires, but what do I know?

"And as time has shown it was a right"

Not really. Taxpayers are still on the hook for $7,500 for each Tesla sold.
I guess what is required now is the obligatory donation to the
"Save the Earth" Foundation.
"reflect as accurately as possible, bearing in mind the technological constraints of delivering data across the internet"
If you plot "Steady State Driving Force" against "Steady Speed" then for any given craft there is a curve. This curve the changes from simple quadratic(ish) through to the version discussed for the hydrofoil. We can think of this as adding every more efficient and effective foils to a more-or-less standard craft.

Now in the space "Foil Size" x "Driving Force" we plot "Resultant Speed" and we get a classic folded manifold, including the singularity.

So yes, there really is a fold.

Physics tells us that if you include lots and lots of things in your phase space then all the transitions are "smooth." Even here, when the craft touches the water and decelerates dramatically, almost "catastrophically", the transition (when considered in sufficient detail) is smooth. We can plot keel height above water, and as that gets to -1 mm then the deceleration is increasing smoothly, etc. However, dealing with this on a macro level, it's more useful to consider the dynamics as being a fold catastrophe.
eh... he's "part of the club now"
The book "How to bbe invisible", by J.J. Luna[1] gives stories like this as one of the (many) reasons why privacy is important. The media jumps on stories like these and the victims are labelled in some way. When it later turns out that they are innocent, no amount of apologies will remove the label. For this reason (and many more), one should not make it easy for others (media or whoever) to find out things about you without your knowledge and consent, even for seemingly innocent purposes...

Having said that, I'm not nearly as anonymous as I'd like to be. In fact, its pretty easy to find out who I am and lots about me.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/How-Invisible-Revised-Protecting-ebook...
I'm pretty sure licensed dealerships barely break even on new car sales. They make their money on maintenance and used car sales.
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"With a physical safe, at least it's possible to prove that I don't have the key in my possession."

Immediate, on the person, maybe. But you cant prove you cant get hold of it. That's the old proving a negative thing.

In fact, even if they search you, all it proves is that they didn't find it, not that you don't have it.

When governments start expecting us to prove we didn't do or don't have something, you might as well give up. Its a line no one should be able to cross, not least governments.
If you get stuck, try this: http://tidepools.dreamcats.org/

You can take the html and put that up anywhere you have a domain and it should set up a redirect.