skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try zooming in, and look at variations within regions of fairly uniform population density. Then you can see interesting things.
They've changed focus - not all of their early bundles were labeled 'indie', but the ethos was there. I stopped caring about them when they started spamming weekly deals.

Still, 'humble' and 'EA' do not go together semantically.
whois: connect(): Network is unreachable

- Maybe because I'm in office?
same here. I was thinking that it might be a "lurking" magic bit in all particles that are working together to form a super-super intelligent...
Carl Sagan's essay on the benefits of cannabis
You're totally right, I would hope that many people would be as smart as that person and understand how much more dangerous alcohol can be than marijuana or many other drugs.
I used to be a pack-a-day smoker now I'm a runner/cyclist and you're exactly right if I've been sitting all day and I don't get exercise by the time it gets dark I start going nuts. That being said I'm pretty confident my body was designed to run and not to inhale burning plant matter or drink excessive amounts of fermented grain. So far I feel much better and I don't have any of those problems.
What exactly does Palantir have to do with "the tech power of the NSA?"

Oh, nothing. Okay.
200 Years of Books Prove That City-Living Changes Our Psychology
The book was originally released online in parts, and I read it. The parts were then taken offline when the book appeared. I remember they used jet engines for thrust assist in the first stage.
Works quite well in FireFox, which is nice until you use the find my phone which requires Google API for some reason (which I have blocked). I prefer developers to use their own javascript. Why wouldn't they?
The rest of the world put together has 9 active carriers, all smaller than any of the US carriers. That's including the Chinese one, which they're still practising flying from, and the UK one, which doesn't have any aircraft until our JSFs turn up in a few years. Besides the US, only the French have an active nuclear powered carrier. So I don't really agree that discussion of reducing the number of US carriers is "extremely dangerous".
The US focuses on immigration but also investment schemes like 401Ks, which require a continuously growing economy to work. Thankfully, we have lots of land to grow on.

As for robots, watch Japan: they have an aging population, an aversion to immigration, and a love for robots.
Only if you get lucky enough to hit the exception on the initial call stack. If you do anything asynchronous first and then throw the exception, express just either leaves the client connection hanging (if you trap and log unhandled exceptions) or crashes all client connections (if you don't).
It doesn't mean we can't get sick from it, I think we need to be very careful with extra terrestrial life.
What should the next gen iPhone's hardware improve upon
Many thanks to the mods for improving on my title shortening.
I don't mean 13.04 in particular, I mean Ubuntu in general (though 13.04 does come with some nice UI updates). Before I became a developer, I used Windows. When I started trying to get into more serious development, trying to do it in Windows was just awful. Ubuntu was a breath of fresh air. From an interaction standpoint, minor things like workspaces, always-on-top, etc are great for my workflow. Things often take more work to get up and running due to various issues like hardware incompatibility or lack of software support, but once you do get it running I feel like it's smoother and more stable than Windows. Software management (e.g. installing and removing packages, adding and installing from various sources, updating) is more logical and consistent than for Windows (e.g. downloading and installing executable, managing updates individually).

This is all subjective and I wouldn't consider myself an expert on either OS so I could be wrong on some accounts, but that has been my experience.
DISCLAIMER: I am not in any way affiliated with Plivo, Twilio or any other provider.

Twilio, Plivo, Tropo/Voxeo, etc. are reselling minutes at a given rate that are aggregated from a basket of carriers. You get a "blended" rate based on their ability to optimize the routes (least cost routing or LCR), carrier quality/redundancy needs, and margin the reseller is trying to make.

For smaller companies, individuals, these blended rates is absolutely the way to go - less complexity, less variability in expenses based on traffic, fewer things to screw up.

For a larger company that already has the carrier relationships and staff to manage them, these reseller models become prohibitively expensive.

If you come to an IT Director managing telco for a large company and tell him/her that it will be $0.02 per minute in 60 second increments (Twilio's list rate) to make outbound calls, you will get laughed out of the room.

Of course, Twilio, Plivo and others offer volume rates, but they still need to make margin. If you are big enough to have direct relationships and/or buying multiple services from carriers (such as minutes and bandwidth), you get better rates.

Plivo is therefore very smart in going for infrastructure play. Twilio is also doing this with their SIP offering, but at a somewhat different angle.

Let me know if you'd like to talk offline.
https://github.com/holman/spark

You'll like this then.
So is this Grindr for straight people?

(With some nifty features, granted)
From what I've seen, watching security and cryptography from the sidelines for the past 18 years, is that we programmers are still in the myopia of the early days of technology.

It took decades for programmers to come to the awareness of the importance of human factors and user interfaces to reach today's levels. (Really, how useful is computing, if only a very few want to use it?) Yet we're really just beginning to truly get it as a field. (Or as a "not-quite-a-field," to give a nod to Alan Kay.)

It's probably going to take just as long for us to figure out how to account for human factors and economics when it comes to security. Yet, if you are really savvy about security, it should leap out at you that human factors and economics are just about the biggest two determining factors in security.

The big problem is not what algorithm you use to encrypt A or B. It's the employee's and programmer's lack of knowledge about security and key management. It's the secretary who clicks on the phishing link. It's management's misconception that a dozen of BigCo's employees with insufficient peer review can take on the reverse engineering resources of the entire Internet.

The big problems in security have to do with organizational awareness and economics. If you're not accounting for those, you are misallocating your resources, probably by an order of magnitude.
Touch Device Jelly Menu Concept
This was downvoted and yet seems to me a perceptive comment. Unless Pure drastically limits the quantity / quality of men, they aren't going to succeed because overwhelming male response will drive out women.

The developers behind Pure presumably aren't stupid, of course, and know much more about how to solve this problem than I do. The problem most women have is not sex, but finding someone they actually want to have sex with and (who also wants to have sex with them). That's where filtering becomes important.
To be precise, John wasn't involved in Armadillo much when they had the recent string of parachute failures.
The problem with those services is that the amount of girls just looking for sex is tiny compared to the amount of guys just looking for sex.
Engulf, an Ergonomic, Distributed Load Tester
> Their average may be comparable, but frequency * intensity produce wildly differing results.

I think this is largely an academic discussion. Some people drink a glass a wine every day, some people binge drink once/two times a week. If you consider alcoholism to be the point at which you can't withdraw without death resulting then both groups will pass. If you consider regular alcohol consumption as a potential psychiatric problem then both groups are suspect. But both groups still have:

A) People who just drink socially/for fun.

B) People who are alcohol dependant (in terms of a psychological crutch).
I expected this to be from The Onion with that headline.
Site is 500'ing. Oopsy!

In any event, this app won't get past the severely disparate interest in casual sex between the sexes.

Unless men just accept that women interested in casual sex might have FAR more conquests than they do. Good luck with that.
Sorry, but the "government" isn't why you need an app to get laid.
The serious question I would have about non-s-expressions language is - while they might be homoiconic by whatever definition, what makes them easy to parse?

The thing that's appealing about s-expression languages is that code-as-data is easy to do because parse, creating and modifying code is dead-easy. Is there some still-very-easy algorithm for parsing things like infix operators or does code-as-data depend on using the facilities of the language.

Edit: I can see Julia does this by reflection and macros. But I'm still curious about the general issues and algorithms involved here.
Has anyone ever actually tried to do something like this in the AppStore or Android Marketplace? Perhaps even to acquire an app and totally replace it with a new app? This seems like it should be do-able... yes, no, maybe?
Or maybe the tech company has, Idk, cool tech. Although I guess appreciating it would take more than a reactionary pants-pissing any time a writer happens to mention 'PRISM' and another (unrelated) company in the same article.
ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
EUROPA
ATTEMPT NO
LANDING THERE

I think I'll stick to Arthur C. Clarke's half tree, half animal lifeform in Europa which is better than a single-celled blob.
Very interesting! It might be exactly what I was missing. I ended up using simplejson[0] but it still felt like a workaround. I'll give yours a try next time. Thanks!

[0]https://github.com/bitly/go-simplejson
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It does seem unusual that there is exactly one metal that is liquid at STP (room temperature? been a long time since chemistry). On the other hand, it's always blown my mind, just a little, that the moon's orbital period and rotational period almost exactly match, so it's not like the universe isn't filled with these weird coincidences, based on relatively simple interactions exploded on macro scales.
Sure, but that's hardly numerical. It's algebraic.
I quit drinking six years ago cold turkey. Working for myself it was always easy to find a time/reason to have a drink and I realized it wasn't heading down a good path. My wife and I were also looking to have kids and I decided I didn't want to drink around them. For awhile people either didn't understand it or were amazed that I just quit (I love to party, still do!).

My best friend kept nagging me about having a few beers with him when I visited. Since we both smoked for a short time in high school I suggested that we, instead, buy a pack of cigarettes and smoke a few while we're hanging out. "But I don't smoke anymore." Lightbulb moment.

The biggest thing i realized is that drinking is something to do. You hang out with the same people at the same bars talking about the same crap. Initially it's pretty boring when you quit but I really don't even think about it anymore. I will say that in the time since I quit drinking I had two kids, my business has seen year over year success and I've completed an Ironman triathlon.
If you think about it, we're all dependent on exercise: if we don't do it, we'll become weak, and become prone to all sorts of maladies. I don't suggest cutting it out, completely.

We're also all dependent on eating. Too much is a bad thing for a lot of different activities (sex, basket weaving, etc), be them addictive substances or not.

"Everything in moderation", is a good starting point.
Hmm... this assumes that a carrier would directly engage the enemy. To my understanding, in modern times they are more like a mobile airstrip and supply base, and you would leave the carrier far over the horizon away from hostiles.

Your only other options are to fly your planes straight from the USA to your target, or to build bases with airstrips all over the world, which are easily bombed.
It's an option in the embedded player API.

https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters#colo...
Maybe they expected you to swivel your seat around =p
Everything looks easy, until you try to do it yourself.
Then I missed the point of the author's amazing experiment. If he's not "feeling it" buzzed or whatever, what is the point of all that expensive drinking he's doing and why all the health changes once he stopped drinking? Author is having a lot more than a glass or two, to get that kind of long term habit and those effects, I think.

I also have a glass of wine that goes with some meals, but I don't cook "chicken in wine" every single day. Wine doesn't go well with everything. When I'm eating something unhealthy like pizza, well, you gotta have beer with pizza, but I don't eat bad food every day, so... Or even stuff in between good and bad, I had saki and sushi last weekend, close enough to natural human food to not bother me occasionally, but not eating/drinking that every day.
They mean no parking or overtaking. Typically found on the approach to crossings or outside of schools etc.
You're right that the article doesn't mention it explicitly, but it seems to me that the explanation is "large Z and filled 6s orbital yields a liquid at STP if you account for relativity". So I wanted to know why "large Z and filled 6p orbital yields a liquid at STP if you account for relativity" is false.

I think the true explanation is the one you give: STP is totally arbitrary and it's a coincidence that this is the standard we use. That is, my question was a silly one; I didn't notice that this is a coincidence.

However, I think there's a related, more well-formed question:
Br, Hg, and Ga are liquids (or nearly so) at reasonable Earth temperatures (from your [2], Cs is also), but all other elements seem to be solid or gas at reasonable Earth temperatures at 1 atm.

Why is the range where you get a liquid so narrow?
Why do melting temperatures vary so widely?
What sets the scale, and how does it vary over 4 decades (or three decades, excluding H and He---I understand that quantum effects are dominant there at standard pressure)?

EDIT: Would copernicium be a liquid, if its nucleus lived long enough?
I think it's because you're flaunting yourself, you're daring them to do something, and they hate that even more.
> Sorry, he asked where they were, and went on as if they didn't exist

He described them as 'under-represented', which isn't how you describe something you were claiming didn't exist.

> How do you measure..

Any of those examples could be used as a metric and provide meaning to the question of differing scale. Each one would be a different discussion - the only conclusion is there there is no simple metric that we can make the simple claim that one thing is the same as another, just because of these examples - which is what you're claiming, right?

And you're wrong, I'm not making a claim, I'm just questioning yours. You're trying to shift the burden of proof, but it was you that rudely asserted that your googled evidence showed parents' argument to be ignorant.

> I had the not-at-all-interesting insight to google

Again more snark, but who says you are now informed? You are of that impression, but what a googling? Do you have an education now? Does a 14.8s search-engine lookup make you an expert on the matter for which such arrogance is appropriate? Maybe parent did google, and considered the results weak evidence compared to other sources.

Again, your attack is based entirely on beating the straw-man of "parent claimed there where no grants for men", a claim never made.

> I don't cater to people who chose to be uniformed

What did parent choose? what do you know of parent?

> That is not something I am willing to be polite about under any circumstance

I subscribe to a less conditional for of politeness - especially to those I have no need to respond to at all.
And, as I'm arguing, I think you have read unduly into parents post, and your attitude only serves to jump the gun after a hasty mis-judgement.

> holding an opinion that contradicts facts, or stating a "fact" that is simply false are mere agenda building disingenuities

Google = facts? and yet no fact were stated, and now you read a "disingenuous" "agenda" into parents post - isn't this clear that you are reading into parents post more than can be reasonably inferred - that you are applying a stereotype, and fighting a perception that exists within your own biases.
I treat Vito’s as a restaurant (a very, very lounge-y one) - this is pretty much a personal choice, as I like their kitchen (and their mocktails). I should check Rumba’s mocktail selection.

And I don’t find other cities more mocktail friendly - Seattle’s pretty impressively good at it - in the restaurant scene. And perhaps I should just be spending more time talking with the bartenders at the bars :)
Grasshopper is a test vehicle with the aim of making the first stage of the Falcon 9 reusable. Grasshopper, for example, has one motor, while an F9 first stage will have nine. (Thus the name.) The landing gear is also obviously not streamlined for rocket use. But the tankage and avionics and propulsion and such are all from an F9 first stage. So it's pretty close to what will really fly, but not quite.

Though it may go into "space", a Falcon 9 first stage will not go to orbit; it is decidedly suborbital. This makes it much easier to recover, as it is not going that fast (for a rocket) at engine cut-off. (The second stage takes the payload the other 2/3 of the way to orbit. While they imagine recovering the second stage, that's a lot harder.)

Being suborbital, the first stage probably will not do a retro-burn, as it will come back to Earth naturally. Entering the thicker part of the atmosphere it will reach its terminal velocity, possibly falling on its side to make that slower. They might use drogue chutes for this, or might not.

Once it has fallen to some frighteningly small distance from the ground, it will right itself and use a small fraction of its launched fuel (probably close to what current F9 stages keep in reserve) to slow down to landing velocity from terminal, steering along the way to land exactly where it needs to go.

I once did some rough numbers to guess that the landing propulsion will take 10-20s with 1-2 of the motors, using 5-10% of the fuel. (With only 5% fuel, a rocket stage is actually crazy light, which makes this work.) Hair-raising, but well within the capabilities of today's sensors, actuators, and computers.

No one's actually done this yet, but it seems plausible. I worry mostly about the stage surviving the initial re-entry, because reports are that earlier F9 first stages, which were supposed to water-land on parachutes, were totally trashed, possibly during that event. SpaceX actually has that data, though, so that's either not the case or they have some plan to make it work.
For the Kickstarter I paid $10 for international shipping :)
1% does not sound like a lowball offer for a salaried employee, but why take a job you know you don't want?
Co-founder here - thanks for the great feedback Osmium. You're quite right in that the number of people who have unilateral hearing loss is pretty high (it's close to 40% from some recent studies).

We're working on developing a test that works well for people with single ear hearing loss for a future app update - would you be interested in trying out our beta? Please drop me an email if you are: varun [at] soundfocus [dot] com.
Looks like he hasn't updated his website design since the late 90's.
i looked at lush several times, but somehow never got into it. some of the things that put me off: the fact that sdl and opengl were not supported under windows (my primary interest was in developing desktop applications and small games), the dynamic scoping (i'm a scheme fan; not having lexical scoping throughout just feels offputting) and the (real or perceived) lack of a strong community. it did look like a great language, though, and i was rooting for it despite never finding a good use for it myself.
These sorts of stories hit me hard - not that I have my own, "I quit for x number of days", but rather, I don't think there was 40 days total in the last year that I had a drink. It would take a few years to get that number.

I guess I just never developed the taste. Hard to understand the other side of the ritual.
Anyone knows which games do this, and which don't?
I feel that the understated effect is, that doing x or stopping with y for a month gives you the idea (illusion) that you are in full control of your life.
This does not solve the issue that men and women, in most cases, have fundamentally different mind sets in regards to sexuality. It assumes, incorrectly, that anonymous sex is something that appeals to a large majority of women. I am going to go out on a limb here and say the inverse is true.
For those who doesn't recognize OP's name: he founded IndexTank which was sold to LinkedIn in 2011.
I'm about a month away from releasing a production app, entirely written in Meteor.

Don't let the sub 1.0 diminish your interest. The framework (as well as the core dev team and community) continue to impress me. It's really well written and I think what's different about how they do things comes down to quality. When the dev team puts out a release, you can trust that 99% (if not all) of what they're releasing works, and works really well.

I'd much rather put my weight behind a team that paces themselves than rushes releases out the door just for press sake.

Stay tuned, it's just going to keep getting better.
That's true in general, but, as I wrote here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6214504 , the founders presumably know that—and know that plenty of women are looking for sex with the right guy. The interesting question to me is how Pure will solve that problem.
A great way to make Steam a monopoly where every consumer will lose.
Web use appears to start at 29$:

http://www.fonts.com/font/linotype/neue-helvetica

http://www.linotype.com/1266/neuehelvetica-family.html
I wonder how useful the Lunar Lander Challenge was in being a trailblazer. Here's one of Masten Space's 2009 flights. Rock solid transfer from one pad to another, with a 90 second hover. They had hired a guy from Draper Labs to do the control code and won, snatching the big price from Armadillo. Impressive control. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaXW5TaFwAE
JavaScript right on the hardware
I teach scientific programming and this is always the point in the class where the students really start to appreciate the tradeoffs between speed/efficiency, and readability. Passing around large arrays and matrices by value is much more readable, but obviously slower and less efficient than passing by reference, which is in turn more difficult to keep track of, if you're used to languages like matlab and octave.

This is also the point in our introduction to python and scipy/numpy where they realize, if they have to contend with passing by reference in this "high level language" then why to just contend with it in C and be 400x as fast?
Key redeems are not functional at the moment, either on their Origin client or on their website.

Doesn't help that every major website I've been to today has reported this deal. :)