skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of those annoying pages that breaks the back button. Hate that.
It's amazing how people on the Internet know perfectly how the economy works meanwhile nobel laureates disagree on major topics.
Pentium 4s and the early AMD64s could have up to 4GB of RAM. I had 3GB in mine back in 2003. The average consumer might not have had that much though. Anyone playing games or running things like Photoshop had much more than just 512MB.
It's on the same level as saying "There are gazillions of unicorns outside of our universe." It's just an idea in our heads. It doesn't tell us anything about our universe, about what we can ever possibly experience. Occams razor would remove this from our model of the world.

Also, when we're talking about what could hypothetically be outside of our universe, unreachable to us, there are millions of possible theories. (All of them meaningless.) Why choose a simulation on a computer from our universe?
That's like saying "I want equal rights for all races, except Asians."

Gay marriage is a civil rights issue. ACLU is all about civil rights.

If you don't support civil rights, don't donate to the ACLU. Full stop.
Where full-time means a 40-hour work week.

It would probably be more accurate to say that the article takes numbers and compares them to numbers, discovering that the first can be related to the second by a constant multiplier.
It's true, I still listen to New Kids on the Block.
Building the open source laptop: How one Eng. turned the geek fantasy to reality
Video: Lego help kids learn programming - Wish I was young today...
> Note that Chrome is using keychain

I note that it's misusing keychain: if it's given (temporary) access to a password it will copy it to a permanent access entry.

> and that you can dump the complete keychain data with all passwords decrypted via terminal anyway.

Interestingly annoying, thanks.
I quite agree that the way it currently works, private prisons are the worst. However the root of the problem is not that they are private, but rather that they are still paid by the government. Private prisons have all the incentives in the world to hold prisoners for as long as they can, because they know government is paying and it's paying with taxpayers money. That is, bureaucrats by definition cannot be nearly as careful with taxpayers money as taxpayers would be themselves. That is not even mentioning various corruption possibilities.

Now, for a moment, imagine private prisons and systems of law that are directly financed by each and every person and which have competitors. Most people's objective is to stay safe, not keep others in prison longer. This objective, together with the fact that they actually can see and decide how much of their income goes into imprisonment would serve as a powerful incentive for private law enforcement companies to focus on safety and prevention instead of incarcerating people (especially when it comes to victimless crimes). It's one thing to just vote and make a certain drug illegal, imprisoning all who's caught in possession, knowing full well that money one has paid in the form of taxes are gone anyway. It is a completely different thing to decide whether to have some additional money this month or pay for the imprisonment of someone whose lifestyle you dislike.
Escaping special chars within LDAP
Court Germany, ruled that VP8 does not infringe a patent owned by Nokia
The analogy at the top of this needs a little work. Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) wasn't in the Social Network (Jesse Eisenberg)

Both great movies though :)
Pi Computation Record on a Single Personal Computer
Hey martin-adams, we are really targeting any sector which wants to communicate the current project status. I've taken in your advice though, as I could describe this better on the landing page.
Indeed, in point-of-fact:

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/half-a-billion-people-escap...
is there any one particular lecture you recommend? i don't have time to sift thru the large number of results from that search to find the gems.
Yes and no. If you're in the Keychain.app a user expects security question for revealing passwords.

On the other hand: if you in a third party app you just click "allow" and the app can use that password. Let's read that again: an arbitrary third party app … has access … to a password … by just clicking a button. You have probably done this many times (if you're using a Mac), but without thinking much about it (convenience).

Obviously there must be a way so that everyone can write a little app, request and access a password with a single mouse click and then show it in plain text.

(Always under the assumption that the keychain is already unlocked.)
> The most plausible explanation would amount essentially to a misconfigured library, not a fundamental advantage due to say, advanced JVM JIT.

Configuration rarely impacts such trivial cases. I would rather bet on a thread affinity or page locality.
I want to agree, but I can't help but not find their current layout to fit perfectly with what and how people will experience the Amazon shopping experience. If people are reviewing / analyzing art to potentially buy / see how much they like it, they aren't going to be in a mindset to take in the whole viewing area - they will be focused on the bounds of the art, else they will shop differently and perhaps not be able to appreciate the art if and once they had it on their own wall - because unless they live in an art gallery, there will be other living things around them, and so they would need to focus on the art within the same scope of view.
Take out the power socket and plug it back in upside down.
The one at lisbon and the one at Mälardalen university are good. They're all good as far as I can tell.
Not at all. Capitalism is not a divine all-or-nothing concept, and in fact has not ever been practiced in its "pure" form anywhere.
What I am thinking will happen is lots of ugly wars as inflation and debts cause several crisis, until there is not much trade left, plunging us back into dark age again.

Debt, and inflation in the whole world is rising much faster than people income. Yes, now people are richer than ever, I am sure that right now there are more US people being able to buy crap than in 1968, the same in Brazil with the famous "rise of the middle class".

But this won't last long.

US has crazy debts for example: http://rt.com/usa/us-debt-study-hamilton-economy-103/

Or Brazil, as I fully expected in 2011 (where we had a crazy GDP growth) is now with lots of inflation (6.7%) and anemic growth (0.9%)

And why I expected it? Because it was fueled by debts, and as soon people had to PAY them back, and fail, things would derail. And they don't even fully de-railed yet, the construction market is still misbehaving (house prices where I live rose 200% in the last four years and are still rising, to me is obvious the whole thing will come crashing down US 2008 style when foreclosures start).
Google images is great for that. Search by keywords, then set the minimum resolution under "Search Tools". 8 megapixels should be enough for a good print. 20 megapixels - for huge ones.
Seems to me that the situation is more like NSA is a tool that can be used for good or evil.
A website has adapted bitcoin protocol to raise money for The Muslim Brotherhood
There isn't a better word though.

The worst is when people try to use a different name, like "box".

Yes, technically millions of different devices are computers, everything from sim cards to satellites to robots to TVs.

When someone asks to look at your computer, you don't show them your phone, even though there is very little technical difference, you show them your laptop or desktop computer.
Hours worked is irrelevant. The lifestyle afforded by $21,480 a year is terrible. That's barely enough to support a single person let alone a spouse/family. This means that 40% of the workforce are most likely dependent on someone else. Either another individual or the government as evident in the 47.7 million Americans who receive food stamps.

The workforce has changed since 1968. Full time jobs are not as easy to come by now as they were back then. There is indeed underemployment with people working fewer hours but that doesn't change the fact that 40% of the population is living off less than a 1968 minimum wage.
Back button seems to work as expected for me in Chrome. And I'm grateful the site doesn't use an annoying carrousel. I find those things garish.
This statement "This change will have ripple effects throughout the solar system" will sound like an doomsday event to an average reader, in reality there nothing that would affect you.

At least they almost immediately mention that it is a common event.
If you don't like Unity, then there a number of official Ubuntu flavours that you can use. Xubuntu gives you XFCE. Lubuntu give you LXDE. Kubuntu: KDE. There's Ubuntu GNOME, too.

Defining Mint as "Ubuntu without Unity" makes no sense.
I like it, but: I guess you're talking about civilizations deliberately communicating with each other. If they don't already know each other, then maximal compression or encryption would prevent them recognising each other's signals, by your argument. If they do, then how did that happen?
Just like the Zero fees, this has zero thing to do with bitcoin.
Here I go, party and counter-party are in my table and I flip a bit and it ZERO fees! wohooo!

Ahemmm! Things people do for PR!
" It could also perform its storage functions at 20 times lower power, extending the battery life of devices using it to weeks, months, or years. "

no, reducing RAM power 20x does not extend battery life of devices to weeks. Anything with a screen or active antenna will likely not see much of a difference
Will this undo the horrible decade we've had since 9/11 ?
TL;DR He goes to the Business of Software Conference.
Perhaps the reason those ObjC fans of the language itself seem to be smaller in number by your metric is that there are other reasons for avoiding GNUStep--namely, that it's GNU. If you've grown up with OSX etc., then you're more likely to be BSD type person (thinking primarily from a licensing perspective here), and the FSF's push viral "software freedom" is a big turn-off.
Maturity, and development speed is what it comes down too.

(Development speed also includes support, and community willing-ness to help)

Its all well and good selecting a technology because its got a lot of hype at the moment but what happens when you need to support, fix and maintain the code.

Or even better debug the darn thing!
You can just install (for example) Xubuntu directly, and you'll get Ubuntu with XFCE installed by default. There are also flavours (and corresponding images) for LXDE, KDE and GNOME. Ubuntu isn't a Unity-only shop.
All the time machines that seem possible in current physics require massive objects and must exist before the earliest point in time to which you can travel. So, the simplest explanation for why there are no time travelers is that we haven't constructed a time machine for them to use to visit us, yet.

Also, see "massive object".
This seems pretty incredible, unless there is something not entirely straightforward about who has actually made them. $1200-$2000 for an original limited edition Salvador Dali or Marc Chagall print, seems like a steal. Maybe I just don't know much about how less rare artworks of well-known artists tend to be priced though...
For an online demo without signing up head over to http://app.trakstat.us/
If you're still using magnetic platters, it would be a good idea to take them apart and flip the disks to reduce data corruption. There are also tools that will do this for you in software by flipping every bit on the disk and using 1 for 0 and vice versa. You can also do this with dd in Linux, just make sure you flip the binary description bit in the Disk Parameter Table.
I still use my computer to compute (spreadsheets anyone?) so no, leave it alone! I want to compute!
I'm guessing that for the target audience, the 3 days of actual time is the more significant expense.
The alternative Ubuntu flavours also deliver this. Mint isn't anything special here, unless you care that it's not Ubuntu.
probably.

last time it flipped was in 2001 [1].

[1] http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/a...
Very nicely done, and you seem to be selling almost everything - and strangely you're mirroring our plans. We're planning to move to the bay area in March, also from N1!

How did you create the page? I'm sure I'll be needed to do the same in february!
Just to be safe I upgraded my tinfoil hat to Mylar.
Admittedly, I'm not very well read on literature works at all, 95% of my reading has been things like modern business books. Just practical reading.

There was one book I read that I really enjoyed that was done as a literature work. "The Art of Profitability". Another one was "Five dysfunctions of a team" which I'm not sure if it could be classed as a true literature work or not, not to mention the fact that the ideas hit too close to hoe at the time I was reading it and demanded a serious life change that I wasn't quite able to enjoy the work itself.

I like prose that is a commentary on observations about life, man and business, if you're able to find anything.

I spent about 20 minutes reading through the archives on the lettersofnote website and loved every minute of it. It was the easiest route to a super meditative state I've ever experienced.

Here's one example that I really liked : http://www.lettersofnote.com/2013/06/let-us-blaze-new-trails...

But that said, I'm open to varying suggestions.

Thank you so much.
ACLU does quite a bit more than just support gay marriage, though. If they do a lot of things you think are great, and a few you're meh about, it's still good to donate.

The people who donate primarily for the gay marriage fight don't get to earmark their money either.
I suppose you could have your mail system forward all mails with the following format to your real mailbox: api-<guid>@yourdomain.com
Apparently this happens every 11 years. Nothing to panic, but an interesting astronomical phenomena nevertheless.
'Safety issues' prompt Apple charger trade-in programme
It's not clear to me that a private system of law would have any prisons, private or otherwise. At most, I'd expect very temporary jails for pre-trial, but the risk of having to pay restitution for kidnapping in the event that the suspect was found not guilty would make insurance very expensive. ;)
I'm not refusing to accept anything. Of course words have multiple meanings, but that doesn't mean the other meanings magically disappear just because they're not implied by context.

Interpretation of natural language is strongly influenced by lexical connotations. If you use a negative word in your sentence, people will have negative reactions to it, regardless of your intent.

In practice most people who do this are merely profoundly ignorant and unsympathetic, rather than overtly being assholes. But yes, if someone intentionally choose to use words with upsetting connotations, I consider them an asshole.
+1 to Apple here - they don't have to do this.

But maybe it's the cheapest way to:
a)deal with fake chargers
b)turn a -ve story into a +ve
c) still sell chargers at a profit.
If this turns out to be true and functional then the ramifications will be incredibly interesting. The flow of currency in the Muslim world is under constant scrutiny so I wonder how governments will react to the notion of an online, encryptable currency becoming popular.

I have a bit of experience with the financial sector in the Middle East and my immediate thought is that if this idea comes to fruition it will be immediately banned in all major Arab countries.

Alternatively, it could be a honey pot trap.
Yes, it's well-documented that the polarity of the Sun's magnetic field is highly correlated with the prevalence of evil in the world.
We still don't really know how bicycles work
Could the down voters of this post please explain why they down voted it? I ask because it seems quite reasonable and mild to me.

What am I and the author of this post missing? Is there some massive killer point that has been missed, or something?

Edit: it now seems less grey now!! Even so, my question still seems reasonable.
Bigshot DIY camera aims to teach kids tech basics
It was, indeed, a matter of leaked packages intended for another recipient, but sent to all when not received properly. You are doing it correctly, but it should as of today no longer work. Can you try again?

jb.
How AngularJS Made Me a Better Node.js Developer
So the Myans were right all along!
That quote is totally on the money. I have a new blog post that I am writing today. I'm too scared to really say the truth of what I think and feel for fear of being judged. Shall I do it anyway?

What say you?
Why the Sale of the Washington Post Seems So Significant
I would be wary of donating. It might not be legit.
And even if it is, why would you want to donate to the Muslim Brotherhood?
C++ concurrency cheatsheet
How to use free software to recover deleted files
Not sure HN is the best place to report it, however working at a company that extensively uses github on a large scale, for the business I think even an outage of 5-10 minutes counts as serious. I'm amazed that people seem to find downtime of 'cloudy' services more acceptable somehow. We have similar issues when JIRA goes down that has a significant impact on overall productivity.
Resistance is Futile - Paul Kenny on Sales
Once the API gets to the stage where you need authentication, access controls, blocking access, proper rate-limiting or billing, you have outgrown the "email address in request" method. After all, the abuser might not be a former developer, but anyone in the world who knows your email address.

But for a first experimental API, it's much better than having no info on who your users are besides an IP address pointing to AWS. And logging API requests to a text file and doing analytics manually with grep is much faster than setting up developer accounts.
I'd sign up as a candidate on any site that only allows recruiters to get in contact with candidates if they submit a company name and zip/post code. If it also gave some stats as to how many candidates they had contacted/put to interview/successfully placed that would make it much easier to filter out time-wasters.
> On the other hand: if you in a third party app you just click "allow" and the app can use that password. Let's read that again: an arbitrary third party app … has access … to a password … by just clicking a button.

It's possible to require the master password for each password release, though that is not the default and — in 10.6 — it seems there is no way to enable this globally, it has to be set individually per password as far as I can see.
RaceMenu and MassChallenge Holding Second Startup Sox Event
Samsung to produce world’s first 3-D vertical NAND flash
I read SOAP... I'm so relieved it's not.
Prints are cheap. These are not signed, "signed on plate" means the engraving plate was signed but that does not mean the print was supervised by the artist so they are semi mass produced. But even signed prints by moderately well known artists are cheap as they are very unfashionable.
JavaScript should certainly be used to enhance content and ad functionality. But the core content should always be available without JS, since not all consumers of that content will have JS enabled, or be able to interpret it.
No, browsers control their cookies. MLR's point is the ability to password-protect cookies reading and sending, to prevent third-parties from being able to use your account on site you're already logged in
Maybe this: http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ ?
Might not be as high resolution as you'd like but still an interesting collection of art from old books.
As a computer scientist I like the idea as I also believe that information (and time or a unifying concept of them) is one of the most fundamental building blocks of the universe, however we have to keep in mind that we leave the territory of science here. The statement: "The universe is just a simulation." is just not a scientific theory as this is probably unfalsifiable [0] or am i wrong?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
>I quite agree that the way it currently works, private prisons are the worst. However the root of the problem is not that they are private, but rather that they are still paid by the government. Private prisons have all the incentives in the world to hold prisoners for as long as they can, because they know government is paying and it's paying with taxpayers money. Now, for a moment, imagine private prisons and systems of law that are directly financed by each and every person and which have competitors.

How would this change anything, if not for the worse?

In this version, they have an incentive to keep the legal system churning even more prisoners, so they can get paid more, build more prisons etc. That will end in a huge witch-hund, revamped racism, worse drug laws etc.

People will not have the option "not to pay", because the law says those people have to be put in jail, and the jail is private (e.g municipal).

And as for the prisoners themselves, they will get even worst treatment, they will try to make money out of them (forced prison labour), and they will try to keep the costs as minimum as they can, e.g shoving them in cells with 10 and 20 people, like in some Latin American hell hole.

>It is a completely different thing to decide whether to have some additional money this month or pay for the imprisonment of someone whose lifestyle you dislike.

Yes, so the "good people" in conservative states, say, might also say: "Why pay to keep in prison all these people? Make more offenses punishable by execution, and make execution procedures faster and cheaper, so we cat get rid of those n... (the n word), for, say $10K per head".

So you might get pressure to get some people off for lighter crimes, but you'll also get pressure to execute people for things that would get 20-30 years or life currently.
There are people who do this for others for a living.
That won't work in the UK. :-D
Just wait until it happens again here on Earth.
One interesting aspect of modelling the universe is that the universe is not a single atomic entity. Speaking of what happens 8 lightyears away from us "right now" makes no sense - there's no way information 8 light years away can reach us faster than 8 (of our) years, so the shared "now" between us is just theoretical. We can imagine that it's there, but we cannot know what's there, or measure it in any way.

The only atomic thing is the way I percieve the universe right now. Someone else will percieve it differently. I'm _not_ talking about the fact that your blue might not be my blue, I'm talking about the fact that time might move at a different pace (if you've accelerated or decelerated) and that you're a long enough distance away from me that our lack of a shared "now" is not negligible in calculations.

So a digital model of the universe would have to take into account that the whole universe, again, isn't an atomic entity, and rather model that we have different entities perceiving things as the universe has propagated to their point of view, in their speed of time.
With Go using 20 times less memory, I'd take Go any day since I can just throw in 20 more processes and up my throughput 5-10x. But of course, scaling like this takes a bit of design and the processes have to share nothing.

That doesn't even make sense. The Scala version can simply spin up more threads. It's not an issue of parallelism, the Scala version just happens to be faster, throwing more Go processes at the problem won't help. Go is already multithreaded. You don't need multiple processes to use the cores on the box. The JVM scales memory usage by default (heap size etc.) based on the amount of memory on the host. If you're going to worry about 100 MB RAM it's easy to constrain the JVM with -Xmx
Indeed, for experimental early stage APIs this is a good idea, where some info is better than none.