skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I think it's meant to illustrate the point that they're frustrating.
"Ender's Game" movie faces a boycott
Are you suggesting that it was worse at some point in the past?
I hoped it would turn my JavaScript code into UML sequence diagrams :(
I have already forwarded this to some people I know...
2006 was seven years ago; circumstances were different.

Nowadays, at least for the JS stuff, we're much more circumspect about adding features, and really only do it for ES.next kind of stuff.
How To Meet Einstein In An Elevator
This is a great idea! However, it has a few issues:

1) How do I make a screencast private?
2) There isn't a way to save this locally. I don't really want to upload this to a site and then have to embed it :-)
For what it's worth, I started messing with HTML in elementary school, but had no idea how simple HTTP/1.0 was until I hit the 400 level classes in college. Editing in Notepad was the only way to go back then: even Dreamweaver got too complicated. Likewise, my first foray into JMS/message-queue type stuff was with STOMP, the simple text-oriented message protocol: there was no way I was going to understand the 'open wire protocol' for ActiveMQ. Ain't got time for that!

All that said, I think peterwwillis is right: http/X.0, as long as it's well-simplified, is better in binary than it is in text. Ideally, there's a bijection between your text-mode and binary-mode (like a lens), where it's easy to parse (rely on your toolset to do the translation back and forth) and easy to put on the wire. Forth is a good example of how to do it sanely.
Has Iceland officially offered?
The benefit of Haskell for me is not that it allows "idiots" to write decent code, but that it allows very smart people to write decent code.

It's much harder (in my experience) for very smart people to write decent code in C, C++, Python etc than in Haskell, simply because so much of their smartness is consumed by having to constantly think about what code might break their program.
In Berlin there's St. Oberholz: http://www.sanktoberholz.de/
which has really embraced the people using it as an office. Feels like a very welcoming place when you have to get some work done and you won't bother "normal" people since everyone knows what the place is about. They even have added a better co-work space with more office services like snail mail, scanner, printers, conference rooms etc.
The article doesn't do a good job of making the distinction, but there's a big difference between an evacuated tube and an excavated tube. In the first case, you lay a tube along the ground and suck all the air out. In the second, you have to dig a tunnel underground.

Also as mentioned by others, Musk is apparently not talking about an evacuated tube, but it looks like ET3 is. (Unless the quote from Musk was actually that it's not a tunnel, in which case maybe he was making the same distinction.)
This has been posted and discussed here before ...
> but it still feels to me like this idea that we will just perpetually invent new words that serve the same exact purpose to be a bit of an unconvincing assumption

We sure do. Check out some of the examples here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism_treadmill

> .. the word "fudge" ... considered a swear word? .. carries significantly less of a 'sting' to it ... feels too arbitrary

Yes, it's a swear word, and it has less of a string. It's exactly the way you write. It's good to have a variety of words to fit different situations. It's not anymore arbitrary than any other word.

> so to try and say anything conclusive about something that seems to be a purely linguistic artifact feels a bit premature.

It's not an artifact. I think it's pretty universal to all cultures. Toddlers will find "swear" words and use them when mad (usually related to bathroom activities). Kids who don't know swear words immediately try to learn some as soon as they hear any. And as far as I know every single culture has taboo words.

Most of the time the swear words stay pretty static. But then you have people who want to "liberate" them (and enjoy shocking people), without realizing they are actually neutering them.

I've seen people say that modern society is more accepting of swears. That's not what's happening, what's happening is the swears are losing their power. And of course then people find, and use, new ones. (Like the kerfuffle about the swear word in the movie Kick-Ass. The regular swears were too mainstream so they went with the strongest one they knew just for the shock value.)

I don't approve of using a swear for the shock value - use it where warranted by the situation, not to try to impress your listener. I will continue to criticize shock usage, and people will continue to scream about censorship.
In a secret trial, yes.
I've never watched an EVE battle before... was anyone else expecting a battle like in Star Wars?

I dunno, felt kinda weird, all zoomed out, no aiming, just a big coordinated zerg ball
VLC threatens to sue Secunia over full disclosure
Documents Reveal How the NSA Cracked the Kryptos Sculpture Years Before the CIA
I had to disable adblock to see the images, fyi. which is amusing on a meta level.
Definitely used it alot when travelling around Europe. We still have inflated fees for date roaming here, so having offline maps comes in handy for visiting cities abroad.
The game devs sell game time for real cash. When you buy some, you get an in-game item called "PLEX", which you can either convert to 30 days of playing, or, sell for anyone in the game in the in-game market for in-game currency, at whatever price you both agree to. This creates a floating exchange rate from $ to ISK, by which count the Revenant was $9K. However, since the conversion is one way, it's questioned whether this means the ship can be said to be worth $9k.
> How did you come by the ability to read others' minds and tell them how they think and feel?

About 10 years of practice.

It's clear you don't understand what I'm saying. Read my conversion with oblique63 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6017261

Maybe you'll get it, maybe you won't.
>> ... being treated for a heart attack, are situations where demand is completely inelastic.

> (...) It would be perfectly rational for them to tell the ambulance crew to drive another five minutes to save $25,000.

I wouldn't want to be in your care. If you're having a heart attack you want to get into a hospital ASAP. And that's coming from somebody that took a taxi to the hospital after being stabbed in the chest.
She did that as a protest against airport scanners, I believe.
Not really. The amount of significant digits in those measurements is too small for it to be affected by such a minute redefinition of the second (and by consequence, meter). Keep in mind that we're actually changing the definition of the second (and, again, by consequence, meter); but we're still putting the new definition somewhere in the area that the old definition put it. The only reason for the redefinition is that we can't measure the things it's defined in terms of any more precisely.
Name resolution order in JavaScript
Which is why the UK system of specializing in 3/4 areas in your last 2 years at school as prep for Uni works better.

If you have A leves in Maths and the sciences your probably have worked out if you want to do a STEM degree.
Substance.Chronicle implements versioning for JS strings, arrays, objects.
Even in Haskell, you still need to test your code. The type system doesn't prevent

double = (3*)
Please do, I'm also curious
> And the device experience is really strange. There's the "marketplace" but also the .. I don't know what it's called, two swipes to the left of the app launcher screen. The experience is very poor compared to Android/iOS; using familiar "apps" is really the mobile site for that service, and doesn't work as well as the Android apps I'm used to. (I.E.: Rating a movive in IMDB takes one tap to load another page, one tap to open the select box, another to pick the value, then another to submit that form. Versus one tap on Android.)
>
> Lots of the "real apps" from the marketplace are also immediately greyed out if you lose data. Including simple games that totally should work offline. (Though I was recently surprised by how many games refused to run without an internet connection on my Android tablet recently, also.)

You should complain with the app authors and get them to improve their mobile website and/or their manifest. This will be beneficial to everyone.
Google is retiring its Latitude location-sharing service on August 9th
Eve is a point&click MMORPG. To pilot a ship you basically activate modules when you need to and choose where to fly to and what to shoot at from a list.

In practice, it's more exiting than it sounds, but not by much. The game is about dealing with other people, trying to work together for some common goal, or trying to clean them out, and never knowing what the other side is up to.
I was expecting a flat out NO in a big font, but the page manages to make the point much better.
Possibly. Really, given Intel's record in the mobile space, with impressive claims and products which are really extremely disappointing (generally from a power usage or GPU point of view), I'd like to see real benchmarks conducted by a reputable third party before getting too excited.
And I'll assume this is only a problem if you're using the web client? ... When GMail starts putting ads into my POP3 or IMAP mailbox, I'll draw the line! (Actually, I'm thinking about ditching GMail anyway since they're so happy to share my private business with the government).
As Erik Meijer said, there are many ways to be dirty, but only one way to be pure.

Haskell allows you to annotate classes of side effects such as "changes state" or "might throw exception", not necessarily the full IO monad, so annotating as pure doesn't make sense.
Thinking constantly is part of the craft.)
These prices were ridiculous to start with. Now the are only 20% as ridiculous.
"This is an officially supported product from Microsoft's Developer Division."

Also relevant: Getting started with Django on Windows Azure Cloud Services[1]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsLti4KlgAY&hd=1
FWIW, the constructs with the initial biggest win for us (in converting procedural thinking) were pattern matching and option types. For pattern matching, the guidelines were

- Don't do any processing after the pattern match within a function; break into smaller functions

- Reach for pattern matching before if/else

- Avoid the use of var

- Avoid dropping through to wildcard pattern. (This tip was from Yaron Minsky of OCaml fame)

In conjunction with preferring the use of combinators over loops, and using Option (and being forced to think about None), we got surprisingly functional Scala code in a short time.
That's covered as well

http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/redis-as-LRU-cache.html
I never understood the allure of having a real-money economy (or something that is closely tied to real money) in a game. On that note, many MMOs seem to be structured like actual work places, complete with command hierarchies, politics and territory. This must be immensely appealing to a lot of people, but it's pretty far removed from my understanding of a fun pastime.

But once you're past that, does it really make a difference if that item is worth $90 or $9000? There will always be really rich and influential players around and I'm sure it's not that big of a deal to them. After all, if there was no risk of losing that item, they wouldn't have bought it in the first place. In a real-money game, the material worth of an item is a direct measure of what's at stake, and if the stakes aren't high people aren't having fun.
I love the short timers on blocks of text too large to read properly before it moves on. I kept clicking back and of course starting from the beginning of the quote to remind myself of the flow and then SWOOSH it moved onto the next one. I did that about half a dozen times and definitely felt my stress levels rise. It makes the point very well!
With modern Java GUI apps, you still do, as any Netbeans user could attest.
Direct link: http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/07/09/price-r...
I don't think "5 small atomic bombs per year" is a particularly relatable example. It's about the average electricity consumption of 7500 US homes - that seems more concrete to me. If you can save the equivalent of switching off 7500 homes by fixing a bug in your software, that's a pretty big impact for one person to make.
It's a Django project, so the command might be "syncdb" instead. If that doesn't do the trick, they'll have installed a custom management command that doesn't seem to get picked up. Grep the source code for installdb then.
IMHO, the only use case suitable for a carousel is showing eye-candy pictures.
> I don't practice every day because I'm disciplined. I practice every day because I'm obsessed. I love dancing and my body craves it. If I didn't have this raw hunger, there's no way I would've had the discipline to practice every day.

Oh, come on. Enough with the personal development/startup advice bullshit habit of redefining every word to make a point.

Especially when two lines of text later you can read: "If you practice something every day, you're guaranteed to get good at it."

Obsession is a mental activity that consumes people. Discipline to act on this obsession often translate into improvement in the physical world but obsession and motivation alone don't make it. Discipline which brings continuous repeat of the activity is the source of improvement.

Nice story though :)
Very useful when you're on an underground train - its a killer feature in London
I used it all the time when travelling anywhere.
The PNG Rotate Trick
624 values are enough.
I do mean the opposite. Got the wrong word in.

The issue with fast growth is that it requires people to continuously adapt to the changing power structure and the influx of new people. Beyond a certain point, people are no longer focused on their daily work, but on making sure the new hires don't get "slid in" above them.
Akka's Actors are different from EJB's remote session beans. There is some usage overlap, as both Akka and EJB provide a way to do remote procedure calls, however there are differences in the approaches used. For me the Actor model [1] is saner.

Also, Actors aren't only about RPC. All my actors are in the same process, being a capable multi-threading model. And Akka isn't only about Actors anymore. Scala's Future/Promise interfaces were nurtured in Akka and Akka 2.2.0 includes a cool foundation for asynchronous I/O [2], being an alternative to Netty and Mina.

It's an awesome library.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model

[2] http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.2.0/scala/io-tcp.html
Hosting performance / Hosting convenience
Those "we" that tell others they should be ashamed are still a PITA. They are the one preventing others to dance however they want.
There's a place for carousels in some user scenarios, but there's never a place for a poor implementation of one. ;)
Very neat example. But OP raises a point, and as we see there's the issue but no proposed solution. What should be used instead?
True. I can't imagine them ever doing that though! Where would you go instead? They're still the best web based email provider IMO.
Just use OpenStreetMaps (aka https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.osmand ) and download half of Europe if you wish. Just works, and the navigation was for me (at least in Italy) better than with Google Maps.
Amazon's response to higher demand (anticipated or real) for dedicated instances outside of the US to avoid the NSA's prying eyes?
Add to that UK police using terrorist powers to harass... sorry, stop and search kids who dare to be out in public. Oh, I also believe the police can use the terror excuse to search homes with out a proper warrant. Most people who are treated like this don't even know why. They just get quoted the act section number. Something like, "we are searching you / your home under section xyz." No mention of the terror laws.

This is exactly why we should be very careful about giving sweeping powers to authorities under the guise of "terror".
I suspect galaxy distances are not very precise to begin with.

For example, the distance to the nearest galaxy:
"The team refined the uncertainty in the distance to the LMC down to 2.2 percent." [1]

This kind of precision could be used for example to measure the radius of elementary particles (wild guess, I'm not even sure that makes sense given what we know about the quantum world)

[1] http://obs.carnegiescience.edu/content/distance-nearest-gala...
Did you ever play old arcade games? The fact that you had to spend money made playing the game more exciting, you actually had something to lose. I guess it is the same in these games.
Twitter's ads look like Tweets, Facebook's ads look like Facebook posts, oh and search ads look like search results. At Least in Gmail they have their own designated tab.

They replace the "web clip" ads once the "Promotions" tab is enabled: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/06/ads-in-gmails-promo...
> If I'm out to be a doctor or an astronaut or an engineer, I'm likely going to question my ability to accomplish these if I'm made to feel that I've missed a bunch of knowledge on the tests.

And that's the best thing you can do, and learn to do!

> Those, and many others, are careers that ought to get everything right because of the consequences

You don't get everything right by believing that you "ought to" and rigging the game so that it looks like you do. You get everything right by always assuming the worst, double-checking everything and analyzing mistakes with the goal of making them impossible in the future, rather than finding someone to blame.

> (they don't, of course, but why is college teaching this lesson?)

Because it cannot be taught too early.
No one talked about unconstitutional. You raised the argument and then shot it down.
can anyone recommend a service like this for realtime sharing?
Wow. How the hell did that happen :S
The court can publish opinions and cases without revealing identities or identifying details.

This would have caught the insane redefinition of "relevant" that allows for receiving all call records for everyone, for example.
Anyone notice the comment (view source) on the bottom in red? Whoa! How?
Well that might have been true in the 17th century but Starbucks is totally fixated on making the most optimal use of its space - got to keep the cash coming as much as they are in avoiding CGT the tax on it.
Can you put some of that in plain English, and provide some references please?

It has been law since 2007 in Australia that in any question impacting the federal taxing power authority conferred by the constitution, such queries can be made as a matter if course, as long as permission is obtained from a single signing supervisor.

What exactly does "federal taxing power authority" mean, and under what possible interpretation does that mean that a body funded by the federal government suddenly gets the power to subpoena phone records and tap email?

There are plenty of other federally funded bodies at (AFAIK) don't have that power. Or maybe I'm wrong, and agencies like Screen Australia actually can do that?

(Not that I support this referendum, but that's for different reasons)
Amazon Web Services has achieved compliance with the Federal Risk Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP).

The FedRAMP program has also established a Joint Accreditation Board (JAB) consisting of Chief Information Officers from DoD, DHS and GSA.
The point is wedging N-times content into 1 content space is a bad design and interaction choice. There isn't a good solution to wedging too much content into a small space, rather the content should be sympathetic to the medium in the first place.
I'm not suggesting that you're doing something wrong the minute you pull out your laptop. I don't think anybody is. It's all about how much of the finite seating resource is consumed for how much business. Somewhere down-thread is another comment about the purchase price for a cup of coffee being only partly about the coffee but mostly about the experience. Yes, and that's just as true for the person who only needs to sit down for ten minutes. They paid just as much for their coffee as the person who has been there all afternoon, they have just as much right to enjoy that experience, but all-afternoon guy is effectively crowding out dozens of such others. That's simply not fair.

I'm generally not affected by this myself, BTW. I don't go to coffee shops very often, and have only brought my laptop (sans power supply) a few times. The longest I've stayed has probably been a bit more than an hour. I've done more "squatting" at my local McDonalds, which has better WiFi and is practically empty in the mid-morning so nobody cares. However, I consider it a basic rule that if somebody else is waiting for something and you've had your turn then you should yield. If you don't feel that you've had your own fair turn yet, then by all means make the newcomer wait. No problem at all. This is only about the people who seem to feel that they're above that basic rule.
Hourly billed "bare-metal" cloud servers from Softlayer seem to be cheaper still: http://www.softlayer.com/cloudlayer/computing
> There's a robust meme on HN that the USG is bound by the Constitution when dealing with (say) Malaysians. It simply isn't.

That's because it well should be. I don't think anyone asserts that it is legally obligated to today, but if we are to maintain a globally competitive internet industry we must start at least making the appearance that we respect the privacy of all those filthy foreigners.
Mercedes have done a lot of work around this (more for pedestrians than cyclists I believe) for their S-Class: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m9qI70L2yQ
Absolutely, which is why the compiler should remove as much thinking burden from the programer as possible. Then he/she has more free brainpower to spend on additional important things.
I apologise because I'm probably missing something, but I don't understand how the amendment affects the gathering of metadata in any way.

The explanatory memorandum seems to make it pretty clear that the Commonwealth isn't going to rely on the amendment to interfere with local bodies and I think reliance on a council worker's signature as authority to gather data for the Commonwealth would almost absolutely be a violation of the separation of powers doctrine anyway.

Our government can already arguably take what they want anyway under ss51(vi) or (xxix), so I don't really see why an ulterior motive for this is necessary anyway.

Also, I was under the impression that the funding would be grants, so I don't get why you're saying fiduciary relationships are involved here.

I haven't studied constitutional law for a couple of years now so I'm probably behind on bits and pieces, but I'm not getting any warning signs from this referendum at all. It just seems like it's an attempt to cut down on bureaucracy.

(IANAL by the way. Or an exceptionally good law student, so I'm sorry if I've misunderstood everything here)
I'm always irritated that when they move beyond the last page, it scrolls in reverse to the first page.

EDIT: This sarcastic carousel gets it right.