skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Warning: Dow 5,000, crash of 65%,Sucker’s bull market of 1928 now repeating
My gut feeling is that someone running Linux as their desktop OS has had to opt in; this means that the pool of potential desktop Linux game purchasers is more likely to be made up of people who are motivated by Linux itself; and that these people are thus more likely to be people who are invested in the success of Linux as an environment.

I'm not au courant with Linux in any of its various forms, so my assumptions above could be wildly wrong, of course.
My proposal was for a medical data manipulation tool for surgeons in an operating room, and I received one. Maybe I just beat you to it ;)
I know. Doesn't help Silver and ESPN, though. :)
Monit is by far your best bet. Easy to install, packaged on most distros and it performs reactive monitoring as opposed to most traditional monitoring systems like Nagios. Plus you can open up a web interface if you want to allow for easy browsing of monitored processes.

EDIT:
I liked it so much (and it was so easy) that I wrote a blog post expounding how much I liked it and how to use it. http://moduscreate.com/monit-easy-monitoring/
I got my PR in months but I've been waiting for citizenship now for 2.5 years
Biology could also be a very competitive field that seems to have devolved into basically a rat race. How do you compete with your equally capable peer when they work 80 hours a week and you work 40? Yes, its not sustainable, but maybe that's where we are right now (disclaimer, I don't work in Biology, but have friends that do).
I don't think the proverbial small inventor is so rare, but that as you say, a patent is practically useless for them.
Yes, VMWare Fusion was tested using shared folders instead of NFS, which are considerably faster than VirtualBox's.
Not smart. How could 1 device in 1 location be optimized to detect motion, video and environmental conditions.

I went with the iSmartAlarm (which was an Indiegogo project from last year which uses wireless, battery powered sensors which report back to the central device plugged into my router.

Makes a lot more sense to put the sensors where they're best positioned to detect the specific activity for which they're designed.
I would want to know what I was getting in trade for the increased risk of enabling javascript. Your proposed message isn't substantially different from the current message.

Noscript users are going to be more savvy than average users, but they are still users so if you are going to make any effort to inform them, make sure it's from the perspective of a user rather than a developer. Developers care about AJAX, users only care about what they see on the screen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Night
Gun.io seeks to connect hired-gun hackers with companies
Just an unfortunate effect of Facebook's terminology (compared to, say, a Google +1, or an upvote). The intent is to promote and share the message, regardless of how it actually makes you feel.
I'm glad Nate walked. He was always a poor fit at the New York Times.

Actually Krugman is also a poor fit. I wish he'd walk away and just keep doing what he does independently. At least then I wouldn't have to go into privacy mode to read his articles.
Okay, let's say I'm slow or a little short on time. Can I get the summary of why I love this? I read the About section but it didn't help me much.
The pompous aspect comes (IMO) from primarily historical reasons. However, in my experience, the judgement of them being "utter crap" is simultaneously (1) mostly uninformed and (2) yet mostly correct.

Let me clarify: people think they are crap for the wrong reasons, such as vastly overestimating the scope of the claims. But they are (IMO) still mostly crap because they are ridiculously narrow and not necessarily clever... Yet they are still valid because that's what the patent system is tuned to.

I have said this before in other comments -- the way patents are examined is mostly quantitative: find enough pieces of prior art where enough snippets of texts cover the text of the claims, and you have a rejection. No thought is given to the quality of the claims. For instance, I'd wager the RSA patent (which even the most die-hard anti-patent folks typically admit is novel) would not be granted today because each aspect of the claims is mentioned somewhere in the prior art. It is the combination of steps which is novel. Yet todays examination process would shoehorn the claims into a ridiculously narrow set of steps that (the attorneys hope) would still typically be infringed.

Examination these days is a mechanical process whereby examiners just try to find enough references with language in them to cover all steps in a claim to issue an easy rejection. (Yes, the "rubber stamp" is more likely used to reject rather than allow.)

So how do you try to qualitatively judge a patent when you have only a few hours appreciate all the prior art out there and appreciate what is being claimed and to do so?

The answer is, you can't; the only way to have a scalable process is to issue actions on a quantitative basis rather than a qualitative one.

As I said, it's a difficult, almost philosophical question.
Prototype it in a couple of days with FTM[1] for Max[2]. Video[3].

[1] http://ftm.ircam.fr/index.php/Gesture_Follower
[2] http://cycling74.com/products/max/
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dSU8MeJlz4
Judge to Ohio- Death certificate should list gay couple as married
Ask HN:social print studio makes $40 million profit per year?
I have a friend who personally knows the founder of http://socialprintstudio.com/, a website where you can get all your fb, instagram, pinterest pics printed on nice paper.

He claims that they make $40 million profit/year. I took a look at the company and feel like this claim is totally preposterous. Last year facebook had about $53 million in profit (I know it's a different industry but that is A LOT of profit.)

This company is bootstrapped and has 10 employees. They make all their sales online yet their shop ranks in the top hundreds of thousands of websites on the internet which is not very high for their purported profits.

I don't believe they ship internationally, yet the country from which the 2nd greatest amount of visits come from is India (they SF based), which is 1/3 of the traffic from america where the most visits come from.

He says they outsource all the printing to China.

Doing the math, and let's say they have a 20% profit margin, that means they make $200 million/yr in revenue. Assuming the average purchase is $20, that means they sell 10 million goods a year, or roughly 30,000 goods/day.

Is there any possibility that this claim is true? I put together a top 50,000 website a few months ago and I get about 23k uniques/day. There's no way this company sells 30,000 goods/day based on their much lower web traffic.
They also didn't seem too interested in our application for a radiation oncology treatment planning tool, so maybe they just weren't into medical stuff?
For me, the big confusion comes from the fact that if you simulate people, you almost inevitably have to deal with data about people. How can those two be mutually exclusive?

They're not mutually exclusive: the inverse is not necessarily true. This is basically the entire point of the article. When you're just working with data, don't use constructs which are meant for simulation. It's a subtle way of saying "Don't model data about people (or any other piece of pure information) with mutable objects; prefer values instead."
> The demo apps [...] complain that the room is too bright. Coincidentally, it's a stormy, overcast day, and my office lamp burned out this morning. This is as dark as it'll ever be in here during the day.

Could it be that it's aimed too much towards the screen? I mean, that's the most obvious remaining light source.
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How do you manage connections? Do you use keep-alive or not? If so, you have some sort of connection pool mechanism in order to be able to perform requests in parallel? These two problems is the main reason for why I switched to a MQ instead of using HTTP.

(Hopefully I managed to not make this seem like flaming, I'm genuinely curious.)
XBox -- Worst user experience in a very long time
I was just rejected from logging in to my xbox live account and experienced one of the worst user experiences of all time.

1) have been using this xbox for a long time, but have to re-enter password

2) do so, have to set up additional security to confirm

3) enter my phone number, get sent a confirmation number

4) enter confirmation number, am told I have to separately confirm my phone number by clicking link in sms before xbox will accept the confirmation number they just sent me

5) click link in sms -- go to non-mobile page

6) sign in again to live account

7) have to re-enter phone number to confirm it

8) get sent another confirmation code

9) enter confirmation code on non-mobile website

10) xbox now accepts my previous sms'ed confirmation code

How super f*$%ed up is that? Apparently logging in via Xbox (with password) doesn't verify my identity enough to allow me to confirm a phone number, but logging in online (with the same password) does. Also, if you're going to sms me a link to a page, why the $%^$ isn't it built for mobile devices?
is there any evidence that the steganography here is undetectable? i would have thought that uniformly random data in the low bits of an image's data (pixels or fourier coefficients or whatever) was a clear signature for anyone trying to find these things. aren't they naturally correlated in various ways?

also, something like tineye can be used to retrieve web-sourced images for comparison, which would make any hidden data really obvious (and a smooth gradient would be even more suspicious if the lowest bits weren't smooth).

what is the state of the art in steganography? is it feasible for reasonable bandwidth? what are the best carrier data to use? do phone cameras provide raw images or are they always jpegs? i guess a webcam video uploaded to youtube has the advantages of large data volume, unique content, and wide visibility. but do they reformat?
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> Also claiming that they have an incentive to leave the country seems wrong

I don't know about that, ever been to Narva? Ethnic Russians are, at least to some extent, in a position similar to that of African Americans in the US, but it is easier for them to leave since they just arrived a few decades ago, whereas African Americans have been in the US long enough to have established long-term connections and to have lost contact with the "old world". So it seems pretty reasonable to me to say that Ethnic Russians have an incentive to leave the Baltic states.
3D Printing a Better World for the Disabled
Could a Leap be mounted on the side of a laptop looking sideways at whatever table surface happens to be there (if there is one), so as to functionally give the laptop a big touchpad off to the side?
For a start when we're talking about closures versus objects, we're not necessarily talking about true functional programming. Closures can have and manipulate internal state. Pretending that they don't ignores real world usage where they do.

However let's limit ourselves to functional techniques. Whenever someone talks about something in the very abstract and says "easier to reason about" I mentally insert "for you". Certainly it isn't true for everyone or every situation.

A basic principle in programming is that starting at the hardware level we build abstraction layers that let us think about things in higher level ways, hopefully ultimately in a way that matches the terms that the end application uses. End applications have concepts like account balances, user status, and other such stateful pieces of information. If you're going to have the state, workaround that you pretend you don't, you will cause confusion. Pick your favorite 5 Monad tutorials for proof.

Consider as an example the use case, "Provide a form to let us mark spammers, and block them from our site." For all the theoretical advantages of avoiding state, this is going to be easier to model in a system where users have a piece of state known as is_spammer.
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> at least 4GB of RAM

This seems... odd, or the 'at least' bit does. The first 64bit ARM chips are due late next year, and will be very much server-targeted.
Which mailing list? There seem to be several on this topic.

Also, you're probably right, there are at least three other prominent electoral college forecasters who write well, were as accurate as Nate, and who could possibly be contracted to provide the same analysis and commentary: Andrew Tannenbaum [1], Drew Linzer [2], and Sam Wang [3].

Unlike Nate, forecasting is not their primary career, but it's clearly a labor of love for them and who knows what could be worked out with the right offer. If I were in charge at the NYT I'd be starting up conversations with these and any others doing similar work, stat.

[1]: http://electoral-vote.com/

[2]: http://votamatic.org/

[3]: http://election.princeton.edu/
But you will only need 1 VM :) For realistic testing of a multi-component stack, performance gains start adding up very quickly. There's also the start/teardown time if you want to run tests from a clean environment repeatedly.

In short: the right way to use VMs is as dumb chunks of hardware. Using them as logical units of software makes increasingly less sense as container-native tools get better.

(disclaimer: I'm the Docker guy :)
Currently using upstart, only because it's default in ubuntu.
This has been a dream of mine for several years now, and I believe Ubuntu (with Touch coming around) is currently the OS best suited for this task. However I do have some concerns which still go unanswered. Until then, I'm holding back my pledge.

1: I realize this is their first attempt at this, but if this phone doesn't support 2+ monitors, then this simply won't work as a desktop replacement. HDMI-output is nothing new. Who still uses a single monitor on their desktop?

2: I didn't find any mention of docks. I'd be interested to see if there would be any future plans to create different types of docks. I.e. tablet dock with extended battery life (like the Asus PadFone), desktop dock with 2+ 1080p+ monitor output. Preferably with the docks allowing USB connections, so that we are not stuck with buying new gear all around. Maybe even a laptop style dock?

3: Context awareness. Not sure if this is already addressed, but it'd be nice if when I docked it at work, I'd have the option of continuing where I left off yesterday. Achievable through profiles combined with some NFC cleverness? Personally, I can think of a few contexts I'd set up myself: desktop@work, desktop@home, laptop, tablet, HTPC, nightstand, car... and of course, phone.

4: Waterproof. If I'm going to walk around with my personal computer in my pocket, it'd be nice if a splash of water didn't kill it.
Also see https://github.com/deanmao/node-chimera
I'm not sure if people understand that Nate Silver likes sports. Under the tweed blazer and spectacles, the guy loves baseball. There are very few topics of study with more data points than baseball. Besides, there are sports 100% of the time during the year, and a US national election once every 4 (Senate and house races are boring).

Seriously, it may not have been about money or fit. If someone came along and said that you could continue to code software and get paid to do it, but didn't have to work for CrushSoul, Inc., anymore AND it was in something you found insanely fun and interesting, wouldn't you do it?
Love it, wanted this for so long. But I want to record everything.

What will happen to the app and to my batter if I just let this record perpetually? Do you upload pieces of the recording throughout the session?
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It doesn't seem wildly different from say, Detroit. It looks like the population declined about 30% over the last 20 years[1].

Granted, the population is smaller than the Baltic states, but the population of the Baltic states is also smaller than that of Russia.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Detroit
PHP SimpleDOM Class makes scraping just like working with jQuery on the backend. http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/
Ubuntu forum un, pw, and email hacked
I think you need to watch the video. It definitely sounds like they've had talks with manufacturers and been heavily criticized for believing that the industry is ready for this kind of convergent device. As Mark said, manufacturers need proof of this proposition.

It sounds to me like Mark has said, "Fine then, we'll go to our fans with the ideal device and see if the market responds. If they do, we're right and you can help us make these. If they don't, we're wrong and you can help us make more realistic devices."
Which is what bennyg said, except in negative numbers.
Alternatively, many c# programmers use the default stack because they don't treat their client/employer as their personal playing field to try out the latest buzz.
Urgh, that doesn't sound great. We haven't encountered that issue, but we also only use it for a largely inconsequential service.

I think it's a bit unfair to downvote me, the OP has posted a Poll for what people use, not what they recommend. We use God, so I've asked for God to be added to the list.
Hm, I was comparing it to a typical workstation machine in terms of raw specs - this is my personal laptop :)
It may be real, but it may also be inaccessible at human scale. That is, the accelerating recession of distant objects might someday be fully explained, but there might be no way to use that knowledge to go from place to place in our solar system or galaxy.
Facebook Executive Chef Josef Desimone Killed In Motorcycle Accident
Recently purchased a windows and to my horror, despite a i3 processor it was slower than my celeron PC running XP. There was no reason why a machine just unboxed should have been so slow.

Soon I figured out it came with following crapware

1. Google chrome with Bing to be homepage and defautl search engine. I even suspected that Chrome Exe might be bloated so I reinstalled it.

2. It came with Norton antivirus which consistently took up 10% CPU and large chunk of memory.

3. Some intel software which always squatted in background without telling me why it exists.

4. Lenovo's crapware

- There were 11 Lenovo software, each of which I had to uninstall separately. This included some rescue programs to some remote diagonistic programs to some internet security.

5. Did I mention Windows Update ? It was the shittiest of all. First it choked my bandwidth. It slowed down everything. Eventually my screen went blank and my machine restarted on it own. It took around 90 minutes for 71 updates to get applied. I dint even ask for them.

Even all this did not work so I had to change my display settings tuned for performance which is basically windows 95 look and feel for Windows 7.

Overall compared to my macbook which came with very less software but only something that worked as it was supposed to be.
> mermaids

A matter of advanced genetics. ( See C. Stross "Neptune's Brood" ;)

> magic

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke

> the halting problem

Any super Turing machine that can calculate busy beaver is sufficient. ( And creates a halting problem of its own.)

> ESP

Let me guess, live TV does not count?

> religion

I am pretty sure that we developed organized religion eons ago.
Exactly, at 3am this morning every device in the house went off giving the announcement. My only fault with posting this was I got distracted before I started the conversation by with editing this post: https://plus.google.com/u/0/106420735876542072423/posts/DZ9G...
News coming and going I am writing this because every device in the house just went off with breaking news alerts. It's 3am. Looks like another item for the obsessed will soon be over. First, the Zimmerman Trial is over, next the infant Prince will be born. Soon that Glee stars passing will be a one time news story. In the near future Snowden may or may not be freed from that Airport in Russia. What will the media pick to be the next national/international discussion? What options can we take to shut our devices down at a certain time to prevent mass alarms for so called breaking news.
I posted this just moments before sharing this link over at G+ at 3:03 am. News coming and going I am writing this because every device in the house just went off with breaking news alerts. It's 3am. Looks like another item for the obsessed will soon be over. First, the Zimmerman Trial is over, next the infant Prince will be born. Soon that Glee stars passing will be a one time news story. In the near future Snowden may or may not be freed from that Airport in Russia. What will the media pick to be the next national/international discussion? What options can we take to shut our devices down at a certain time to prevent mass alarms for so called breaking news.
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The iPhone does support HDMI out via an adaptor, and has since the iPhone 4 (though screen mirroring only showed up on the 4S; the 4's video out was just for apps that supported it). Various Android devices do, too.
The Ouya Experience: What game developers think so far
Thanks, just contributed! :D
What, really? $10k on an attorney for something like this? Seems a bit excessive... they haven't even got their lawyers involved yet.
I don't think there is any evidence that the hack attempt was linked to this vulnerability. It seems more likely that it was the Turkish hacker.
LinuxAdvocates...

I wouldn't advise using that guy as a source of reliable information.

For far more balanced views that aren't pro-Ubuntu (necessarily) it would be more advisable to visit a site like The Var Guy.
I might be biased as I run a venture fund myself (Version One Ventures) but I think there are a handful excellent investors up here in Canada, most of which invest across North-America. Here is a good overview: http://www.techvibes.com/blog/state-of-venture-capital-in-ca...
RE: ACPI Machines and IRQ 9 [2001]
Canonical really seems to believe in the convergence of multiple computing platforms. They've staked a lot on it and ticked off a lot of people in the process. I don't know if it'll succeed, but I sure love seeing them try with such gusto. Succeed or fail, this sort of choice and innovation (not to mention debate)is what makes the FOSS community so interesting.
Thanks!

The app works for long-form recordings too. We upload in chunks throughout the session, and the battery usage from our all-day tests is currently about 30% on a Nexus 4.
Agreed. Other very successful start-ups include: Wattpad, Frank & Oak, Indochino, Clio, Unbounce, Top Hat.
I get the space-time vector thing. You said that, when moving at the speed of light, one moves through time at a velocity of zero, thus giving the appearance of infinitely fast movement. So if one was able to achieve zero movement (which would probably require achieving zero energy?), wouldn't time also appear to be moving infinitely fast (even though it was actually moving at the speed of light).
> As a software engineer, I have to admit to being inspired by near-future software engineering fiction that explores new ideas, many of which are quite achievable.

What are some of your favorite examples of this genre?
Is anybody doing anything to connect bands with rehearsal space?
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