skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But because Seattle artificially restricts housing supply, the high paying jobs bring in people like me that can absorb the cost, pushing out people that can't absorb the cost

I do know that the pace of new housing construction in the Seattle metro area is very low, and last winter the housing supply on the market hit its lowest level since late 90s dot-com boom. Now I don't know if this is truly due to artificial/legal/zoning restrictions as you say, or if it's just due to the geography and the fact that the areas within reasonable commuting distance of Seattle are pretty well built out already--or some combination of both. But the fact is, people are moving here much faster than we are building housing for them, and it's pushing up prices very fast.
Plane crash at LGA
All UEFI implementations have a minimal level of functionality, and a well defined way of passing control off to the OS. You're guaranteed that it can read a FAT filesystem, and you're guaranteed that if you put the path to a UEFI executable in the default boot variable that that executable will be run on boot.
Star Trek is Scaring the Ladies: Why Women Don’t Major in Computer Science
Security through monopoly
Momentum Continues on the Hill with Two New Patent Reform Bills
What I need is something that can scrape .NET sites with lots of weird and signed AJAX stuff just to populate a select control.

I'm using node.js with several libraries and nothing has worked so far.
I just think about projects I benefit from and team members I've worked with and how this can happen at any moment. How differently the world seems when you take just one person out of it. Suddenly, everyone around you becomes the most important person to ever exist.

My deepest condolences to the Desimone family and to everyone at Facebook.
Snap peas were cited in an eating on 1 £ a day site I saw.
IPhone activations on Verizon grew 41 percent, analysts didn't notice
"the one thing UEFI doesn't specify is an exact, reliable procedure to boot an operating system"

Nonsense. This is very, very well specified. Implementations may, of course, fail to implement the specification.
I've been using http://diffbot.com/ for this sort of stuff, together with http://oembed.com/
Canonical seeks $32M on Indiegogo for 1st Ubuntu phone
NASA Releases Images of Earth by Distant Spacecraft
I actually think the opposite: Sports is full of stats geeks. The whole essence of sports is statistical: Who gets how many points? Who runs faster? Who throws faster? Who's taller? Heavier? Who's highest ranked? Stories glue all of this together, but sports = stats.
I'd be excited to try this if it weren't (as far as I can tell) another use-the-app-store-or-nothing setup. https://www.leapmotion.com/developers points to a signup page with a lengthy contract.
Came here to say exactly this. I can only hope their "form over function" mentality does not transfer over to the product itself.
Your code (`when` that binds `it`) translates to:

(define-syntax (awhen stx)
(syntax-case stx ()
((_ expr body ...)
(with-syntax ((it (datum->syntax stx 'it)))
#`(let ((it expr))
(when it body ...))))))

I find it a bit hairy, but mostly sane. It's all about being hygienic. Notice how you explicitly place the `it` identifier into the caller's context but keep the usual let and when?
Lots and lots of investment for high frequency trading. For example, a new undersea cable to cut 6ms between London and New York [1].

1: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8753784/The-300m-...
All FTL is is the wish to travel to other worlds that we think exist in the sky. This inspiration pre-dates not just science fiction, but also science and probably writing.
Wish there wore more ISPs like this in UK.
Also I wish their offerings were more in step with the times. :(
Right now I get FTTC (80/20) from BT for £40, unlimited and unthrottled[1]. I'd be willing to pay a bit more for a similar service from AA.

[1] - whatever that means nowadays
I pay for bundles I don't even play, just to get the word out that there is a market, and I want more games in it.
> Ok, but what of it? Is anyone ignoring that?

Yes, just about every article that uses the Baltic countries as an economic example to emulate fails to mention this bit.
Looking forward to combining Leap with the Oculus Rift!
If robbers are cutting your power lines before entering your house like a scene out of Panic Room, you have bigger problems.

For people who don't have any security system at all because they are too complicated, unfriendly and expensive, this is a great way for them to add a basic level of security and awareness into their home that they didn't have before.
Convince a client that they value to switch to you. Seriously.

You've got to show them that you are a threat.
The problem is the existence of the humungous centralized Federal government with its Central Bank and its spying apparatus. Politicians and The Money that buys them created the problem. They're certainly not going to fix it.

The way to fix it is to cooperate with the central State as little as possible while also working towards decentralizing our own lives and economic activity as much as possible. This is going to take generations to fix, not years or decades.
Looks like a very nice integrated solution for data scientists and researchers. It's interesting to see the different shapes tools like this take, depending on their target users. I've been happy with node.js + cheerio[1] and it's simplistic jquery-like API:

request 'http://website.com/list_of_stories.html', (err, body) ->
$ = cheerio.load(body)
callback $('#comments li a.commenter-name').map(cheerio::text)

Plus if you need to handle javascript/ajax, just replace that with jsdom/chimera with minor changes.

[1] http://npmjs.org/package/cheerio
Mermaids: I have little doubt that genetic engineering will reach a point where we could create mermaids if we so choose.

Magic: We call it technology.

Halting problem: Closed time like curves can solve this.

ESP: Brain implants to interact with external tech.
Cool library, Jeremy...another Ruby scraping framework you might want to check out and improve upon is Artsy's Spidey:

https://github.com/joeyAghion/spidey

Has a similar approach but also leaves storage (and caching) up to the end-user.
My thoughts exactly! I've preordered my MYO :) Let's throw a Kinect in for body-scale gestures.
in my version the fisherman had a nest-egg and a supportive village, killjoy... ;)
If you were heading due north at 100m/s, then changed your bearing to head slightly east without changing your overall speed, then you'd now be heading a bit less than 100m/s north and a bit more than 0m/s east.

This is the same kind of thing, except that when "at rest" in space (relative to some fixed point) you're moving at the speed of light in a pure time direction. When you move in space, you divert some of that speed from the time direction into the space direction you're moving in. Overall you're still doing the speed of light, just in a different "direction".
Mark's grinning face right above this announcement bothers me for some reason: http://cl.ly/image/2k0p2v2A1U3t
I just noticed Realm of Racket in my local bookstore a few days ago. Haven't had time to peruse, but looks good, a dozen pages on macros

http://nostarch.com/realmofracket (download a chapter, index and ToC)

_______________________________________

also, on the openJDK list, they're looking at Clements/Felleisen's tail call writeup from 2004

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/mlvm-dev/2013-July/00...
According to http://articles.latimes.com/2008/apr/04/business/fi-chef4, Desimone worked for Google before Facebook. "As Google's first executive chef, Ayers hired Desimone in 2003 when Google was growing so fast that they cooked in the back of an 18-wheeler and served meals under tents."

Quite an amazing journey. RIP.
I think, at least in baseball, the culture has come around to the importance of statistics and numbers in the game. The fact that Silver has a decent track record in his analysis and that sabermetrics has been showing some positive results probably make him a welcome voice in ESPN's baseball programming. Numbers are a fun thing to show a viewer and to make comparisons with and I think ESPN is coming around to that (they developed their own QB Rating for football a few years ago).

That said, it also makes him an interesting counter to some sports pundits when there are invariably differences between the numbers and perception of players and teams. This will make for some good television. Heck, ESPN just started a show called "By the Numbers" a few months/years ago, so I think there really is a move to numbers-based analysis in sports. The key is just making digestible to the general public, which Silver has been very good at on 538.
What separates this from Nokogiri? (Don't take that as critical, more working code out in the world is better. Just wondering, as I use Nokogiri heavily for our company chat-bot, and couldn't tell the answer at a quick glance.)
I'm not saying that you shouldn't ensure that your website is crawlable by search engines. You absolutely should. But we're at a point today where you simply don't need to worry about whether your site works without Javascript or not for the functionality of the site. Even Mozilla is removing the option to disable Javascript from the browser's UI (you can still use the advanced about:config or extensions).

As mentioned elsewhere, screen readers fully support Javascript and have for a very long time (which you've updated your post to acknowledge). That was one of the big reasons I used to ensure sites worked without Javascript years ago.

NoScript users know enough to turn it on for a site for it to work. NoScript users only make up 0.08% of internet users worldwide, a far cry form 1-5%. Basically, you can safely give them a significantly reduced site experience or just a message to turn Javascript on. They're not really worth the effort in most cases. Hardly anyone disables JavaScript anymore as most sites simply won't work right without it.

If you want to expend the extra effort, more power to you. It's just that for most sites nowadays, it's not worth the time/money anymore.
The article says he chose left-handed out of personal preference. Not everything by Microsoft is a sinister conspiracy, sometimes it's a garden variety screwup. They were probably merely insular enough to ignore the rest of the industry, rather than arrogant enough to deliberately subvert it.

There is some logic to left-handedness, which is a bit more intuitive in some ways for computer graphics. Left-handed means the Z coordinate increases with depth into the screen, that the viewer is somewhere near Z = 0 and looking towards positive numbers. And projection space has 0.0 at the near plane of the view frustum and 1.0 at the far end. Right-handed means that either your projection space coordinates go negative or that your projection matrix includes a negation for the Z coordinate.

Left-handed does however have the enormous disadvantage of working against almost all (non-computer screen) representations of 3D space. Draw your X and Y axes on a sheet of paper in their customary orientation. It's much more intuitive to interpret positive Z as altitude above the paper rather than as depth into your desk. That's right-handed, and that's why OpenGL and everyone else chose that.

Answering a different parent, it's more than just one line of code in a library to change coordinate systems. The depth buffer check needs to compare in the opposite direction, for one.

Incidentally, Microsoft has learned from this mistake: XNA uses right-handed coordinates.
Sometimes there is a little quiet poignant moment on HN - may you be lucky in finding a man to share new books with.
Primes (6n-1)(6n+1)
When I used these two equations to build a line. Every multiple on that line is that many distances from the that prime. I started looking more at the multiples on this line and less on the primes... I've also built equations based on this line. I want to share more. charlesjosephhawkins@gmail.com
You're missing the point: I'm not the only one. It is obvious that people who don't mind his management style will work together with him.

To put it another way: There's absolutely NO chance that I would work for a boss with Linus' poor manners and rudeness for money. No way in hell would I do it for free. I don't think I'm the only one who feels it would go against myself-respect to work together with a boor of Linus' caliber.

The dissemination of information is a completely different thing from the respect and honor you show the person you're talking to, which is again completely different from your selection of strategy.

For instance, it is possible to be steadfast without lowering yourself and the communication to the level that Linus will do.

(And in stating 'FWIW', I know what it's worth. No need to be rude, is there? In fact, there's no need to be anything but polite. In my opinion. For what that's worth.)
I think of that as more akin to how political pundits use polls: they cite numbers, but they object to the use of statistics as an analytical tool to tie them together. The Moneyball approach in baseball was hugely controversial, as were (are?) sabermetricians like Silver trying to push predictive statistics like VORP and FIP over the more traditional descriptive statistics. Perhaps more to the point, also to challenge traditional narratives (not that different from the political horse-race narratives) of "momentum" and "choking" and "playoff runs" with statistical analysis. The above-cited Joe Morgan (ESPN commentator 1990-2010) was a famous example of ranting on air constantly about this kind of thing. One of his more notorious comments was that on-base percentage (OBP) is a stupid statistic because he doesn't like people "clogging up the basepaths". Perhaps that genre of ESPN commentator is finally on the way out.
That's just a feature of having two parties dependent upon the same funding sources trying to differentiate themselves. There might be individual members of conscience, but there's somewhat of a Gresham's dynamic going on where they will be the first to get booted in favor of someone who will toe the line.
>You simply need to learn the language to appreciate what you are reading.

when i read my ones (basically the same crap that other 99% software patents are) in patent legalese they sound more pompous, yet still an utter crap.
Here's an illustration, if it helps: http://imgur.com/YrlKW4Z

The length of the red arrow is always the same. When your velocity is zero, your "time speed" is 1.0. As you begin to move faster, the arrow tilts towards the X axis, decreasing your "time speed".
They didn't like that, but they liked my application for a gesture based file browser? I feel bad for being on the dev program now...
>If a missionary religion is the correct true religion, and FTL exists anywhere in the galaxy, then by definition we should have already been contacted by missionaries and "civilized". Yet we're clearly not civilized, so at minimum at least one must not exist. So its not looking good for the FTL hopefuls.

Not nessasarily. Assuming FTL does not imply time-travel, FTL still does not imply the ability to search the entire universe. The alien missionaries would still be limited by their sensors to scout X cubic-meters/year/ship. They would also have a limited supply of spaceships (that may grow exponentially with time).
Are you thinking of weev? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#AT.26T_data_breach
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headless_system
fofum - a quick way to connect to instances in elastic beanstalk
Mercury 2.2 is out
Life Insurance Policy: A Starting Guide For Everyone
Oh and people have stopped visiting palaces like Versailles because the French no longer have a monarchy?
Not surprised that political journalists at the time were so threatened by his work, since it renders what they do utterly useless, and entirely about manufacturing drama and conflict and personality narratives when the numbers tell a more complete and more accurate story.
>"Sign of a more general change?"

Possibly, ESPN had some struggles this year [0].

I hope they're looking to change up the formula. I find the traditional sports pundit and the fans who ape them unbearable.

0: http://deadspin.com/espns-ratings-are-way-down-this-year-wha...
Algorithm for Increased storage space and data transfer
Well, I've been working on the math part but I need to partner with an engineer to see how it works with the processor. But the method is clear and NDA later we can work together. It could store a movie on a sheet of paper.. or anything as an image. The decoding is where I think the processor might have trouble..but I'm not sure. I can always split things up so it works with little. The idea is to shrink the information. I know how! I have an alternative method for streaming as well based on coaxed probability.
This appears to be the case. Well, perhaps not an additional fee, but filing isn't cheap.

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee031913.htm
It's an interesting project (not for me, personally, but hey, let a hundred flowers bloom and all that), but I think that they're overestimating the state of phone hardware commoditization, if they expect that they can pick and choose parts and hit their spec targets in less than a year. That seems insanely ambitious to me.
Scene Reconstruction from High Spatio-Angular Resolution Light Fields
Just an additional data point: NFS does not work when you use vagrant with windows as your host OS. Things like git status when run from within the Ubuntu VM was something like 25 to 50 times slower (IIRC 7 seconds vs. 5 minutes) then when I ran it from git bash in windows.
The best thing the Canadian government could do for Canadian tech entrepreneurship would be to work with the US government to make it easier for Canadians to work in the States and Americans to work in Canada. That, more than anything, would help the skills, knowledge and resources required to build good software companies flow between Toronto and SV.
Scroll to the top of the page. Click the link. There is your mission creep.
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I feel the same way. Every time I try to understand the speed of light and correlation between time/space, my brain just hits a dead end.

"When you "move" through space, you're not changing the magnitude of your velocity vector, only its direction. So the more you move through space, the less you move through time."

I can understand what is being said here word-by-word, but the concept as a whole does not make much sense to me.
Single page:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/science/faster-than-the-sp...
Catnip for HN.

It's beautiful and so far less ominous than Carl Sagan's pale blue dot. Instead of being lost in the vastness, we are part of someone else's sky, connected not alone.

Have as much tax money as you want Science.
Embracing Tablets, Comic Book Publishers Cash In on a Digital Revolution
In the US, the costs really depend on the state. Some states take years upon years and allow many appeals. They also provide lawyers (if you can't afford it). Not to mention keeping the prisoner in death row is more expensive than regular.
@westcoastjustin For sure! I used 150 Square Feet per person, but it varies widely. Really luxurious offices can be easily over 200 SF / head, and on the tight side you can get down to ~75 SF.
No, having to double check that whatever I call her is gender-neutral to not offend overly sensitive people who look really hard for sexism, is bogus. And sexist. It fosters the impression that any female professional is a damsel in distress dependent on acts of chivalry from people who go to china and call the people there "asian-american" because they have grown up in a culture where more and more words are dangerous, frightening and forbidden.

To be quite honest, I really do not give a damn about your mental hangups and I am truly sorry if I have ever given the impression that I do. But it does bother me when people have the cheek to tell me what I meant when I said something. I know what I meant and when I say that it wasn't meant in a sexist way, then only an idiot would persist in trying to tell me what I meant.
My litmus test for whether a language really succesfully marries OO and FP is: how well does a language blend pattern matching syntax and inheritance?

OCaml - basically only gives you pattern matching on primitive types. Object types end up having dramatically different code style

Scala - any syntax that deals with types quickly becomes so complicated that you can't explain it to non-experts

I don't know much about F#.

I've heard that Clojure's core.match grants pattern matching over abstract interfaces in a nice style. It's not an official part of the language, yet, though.
How do you whitelist AWS?
Never visit a farm, you would not be able to handle it.
You're right; that was a little movie-plot-threat-esque. Something that might be more realistic: what's to stop someone from waiting until the power goes out to rob me?

And yes, I recognize that something is better than nothing. I was motivated to post by two things: firstly, my security system comes with a battery backup, and my sense is that this is a standard feature. I assume if that didn't provide useful additional security, it wouldn't be a standard feature. Secondly, if you're going to have a side-by-side table that lists a bunch of ways your security product is better than the industry-standard product with which it's meant to compete, as they do on their indiegogo (going so far as to call current technology "broken"), you should be honest if it does so by being less secure. They imply an equivalence that isn't justified.
To repeat the test with Docker you'd need to use VirtualBox anyway.

(Docker is Linux only. To run a Docker container on OSX, you need a Linux VM.)
A little hyperbole never hurt anybody. But they are off by at least one order of magnitude in terms of cost if they're thinking of doing really new things with a mobile device.

Actually, upon reflection, the comparison to F1 is completely spurious. They're not talking about doing any new hardware development; instead, they're looking at slapping commodity hardware in a box. That's doomed.
US Government Treasury bonds have a 3.5% annual interest rate. I'm pretty sure that buying them does not require trying hard.
it might be a decent (though seldom used) feature for these communication mediums to have (FB, G+, etc) to be able to hotswap your icon for just one message when the message is grave.

many gmail users now have icons (gee thanks, G+), and I can imagine that this awkwardness happens frequently in death notice emails sent to family and friends. Swapping it with even a generic frown face icon might do.
Only Nixon could go to China, after all.
It makes sense to shut it down during keynotes, events, etc. But the store also goes into "we'll be back" mode once or twice a month for routine updates.
>We also believe the race for ever higher resolution has become a distraction. Beyond 300ppi you’re adding overhead rather than improving display clarity.

This isn't completely true, higher PPI improves readability (and looks) of the text that's written using more complex characters like Chinese Hanzi or Japanese Kanji even beyond that line at smaller distances. Here's an image that illustrates this:

http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/hires/2011/1-toshibab...

Not to mention it's useful for displaying 1080p without losing information.
I used Snaphax to make a website of mine,SnapSave.me! You did a great job. Please don't take Snaphax offline. There's no other library on the internet like it. I don't know what the legal ramifications are but your work is making a difference.
Yeah, it's only failing because I list the summary of the posts on the index page, and Google isn't picking up the real link.

It'll take a bit more time for Google to index the rest of the site, but I've removed the summary from the index page so it shouldn't get picked up by this.

[1] - http://monocle.io/?_escaped_fragment_=
They don't actually need to cut it. There's usually a master breaker by the meter, so you can just switch it off.