skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's a serious question. My point is that this is not a "complicated" mistake. It's a very, very simple mistake. You're building a curved, reflective surface. First question should be, "what happens when the sun hits it?"

Edit: as another commenter pointed out, this isn't even the first time this architect has designed a building that burns things by focusing the sun: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6327766

Still think my question is bad? Still think this is a "complicated" mistake?
Best not to truncate "they are" in this instance.

Could you share why not? Is this just "feels better that way"?

English is my second language and maybe I should read more.
NSA-resistant Android application 'burns' sensitive messages
and that may be the biggest success of the action: that the leaders have to live with a little voice inside them, telling them that they did wrong there. Depending on the person it could either make them into a total tyrant or push them more toward a democractic view.
Well, your eyes can't see above 24fps so it does not matter

</joke>

Honestly, I don't care after 60fps, even for games. Are 4k monitors (smaller screens) available? I only see huge 4k TVs, never heard of monitors. (It is not like I can afford one though :()
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Is a Master’s degree in Statistics worthwhile?
Alexis Ohanian visiting 65 schools promoting Internet entrepreneurship
Just click the space bar. There's no need to scroll.
On the other hand, we can't just add more code to increase our safety margin.

I read a book[1] about civil & structural engineering that made me think that perhaps we software engineers should stop fetishising what is a quite different, but still quite uncertain, profession.

[1] http://chester.id.au/2013/07/07/review-to-engineer-is-human-...
Y Combinator now taking applications for Startup School 2013
Don't understand the downvoting!

The concave part of the GSK's right building can focus in a relatively small area quite a lot of sun. It is actually impossible to sit in that area in a sunny day, starting May. I got cought while eating a sandwich so I know from my own experience.
Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis
Hynix FABs on fire after chemical explosion
It may be difficult to model precisely what will happen because of the little fiddly sub-millimeter differences in window positions mattering. It is not difficult to understanding that a generally concave surface facing the sun is very likely to have some sort of significant problem. To the extent that the exact result is hard to model, simple engineering prudence would suggest the "'Doctor, it hurts when I do this.' 'Don't do that then.'" response.
Microsoft buys a chunk of Nokia. Surprise • has_many :codes
Do they really allow hourly billing - I wonder if they realise it can cost less to get an experienced person at a higher hourly rate who'll do the job in less hours.
You will need gold plated cables that have resonance crystal around them to reduce polarisation
A developer can't just set a background fetch interval in iOS7 and have the app fetch at that interval (i.e. fetch every hour). Rather you can set your app to background fetch, and when it fetches is at the mercy of the OS.

The OS tries to be smart about it, lumping fetches together when it can, and noticing things like when the user opens the app typically.

So say the user launches GREAT WEATHER app app normally at 8 am, the OS notices and performs a background fetch a few minutes before (for example).
>Eating healthy and making sure you get a decent amount of protein along with full-body exercises with heavy weights

And getting 7+ hrs of sleep 5+ nights a week.
It looks like you can't buy an ad-free version anymore :(
Aside from the screwup here, this is a good chance to check backup mechanisms for your various 2FA accounts. If your phone is broken or stolen, do you have a recovery plan?

I keep backup codes for each of my 2FA services in a Truecrypt container, which is mirrored on Dropbox. Additionally, I keep a copy printed out and kept in a fire safe. Phone backups for personal accounts have my wife's phone on record, and I try to keep printed copies of the QR codes I used to set up the account.

About a year ago, my phone was shattered while on the road, and while I was able to regain access to those accounts due to existing login sessions on my home computer, I'd have been sunk without them. Make sure you have a plan for what you do if your phone authenticator becomes unavailable.
Anyone noticed how funny it is? Even if it's not perfectly coded? God you guys know how to complain!
The importance is that it turns a local maxima into a plateau and replaces a disincentive to improve your lot beyond the assistance with a mere lack of incentive as you improve beyond it. It provides assistance without a hook to keep you on it.
In terms of difficulty, it's one step harder than modeling which direction something will fall if someone drops it off your building.
That's part of the 'Robin_Message's points here on this thread and it is a valid concern. We want to focus on small circles inside employment network, where your Director and you end up being there independently. Yes, the chances appear to be low, but we don't have a time limit.

Just think you are running a Scala or Ruby development team, and regularly meet a lot of developers in conferences. You are a small group, and you are connected to each other. However you don't want to offer jobs explicitly. In such cases Jobrupt may help. It's our hope, and it is still an experiment.
So far this morning we've had two Show HN's with similar titles:

"Job searching/hiring turned upside down"

and

"Show HN: Dating turned upside down - Tomonotomo"

I'm wondering if this is just a coincidence or its the same person/entity. They both use cheesy stock photos on their landing page and have very similar layouts.
It's based on usage. For example, if I use an HN reader a lot, that will get frequent updates in the background. But the RSS reader I haven't opened in a week will get less/no background updates since the OS knows I'm not using it too much.
Dans ses écrits, un sage Italien
Dit que le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.
The Future of Money and Bitcoin by Chris Larsen, CEO of OpenCoin
>120 fps is the minimum for me when it comes to playing games.

You like wasting CPU power for placebo-level difference?

In a few years (assuming 20-something) you won't care much for games anymore, and 99.999% of the kids are perfectly fine with 60 fps anyway.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

-- Alan J. Perlis, Epigram 7
Two words: Torchwood Tower
Totally concur, had to press back like 6 times (or right click it) just to get back to hacker news.
Slide and drag is hitting the technological useability sweet spot, where the mouse was at last 'generation'.

Haptic (force feedback), 3D mouse, a variety of trackballs, are all available, all suffer from missing the spot, either due to expense, unneeded complexity, or just disinterest. Trackballs are an example, the one ongoing use I've seen is for film color correction workstations, but are used for a specific mode in a color wheel where it's natural to nudge on a few axis simultaneously.

Phones also have vibration feedback, I've rarely seen it used, and dare I say, never well (love to seen an example of an app that uses vibration frequently and effectively).

Slide areas on a screen are effective when the domain of attack is narrowed to the standard 3-7 options. Mouse interaction is best with a narrowed selection of areas/icons/corners, love those 4 pixel boxes. And they are both cost effective. As the tech to 'understand' the users domain becomes more sophisticated and 'early' in the interaction cycle, gesture interaction and eye tracking will be more effective, the participant will begin to feel the system knows their needs.

As much as I love thumbing through a book and can imagine a dance interface, the future is probably less and less pointing and more just single tap to “go ahead, just what I want” than elaborate touchable interaction.
The emphasis in this particular sentence is on the word "they". Truncating it to "they're" removes that emphasis.
Samsung beefs up Knox malware protection with Lookout
The planned military intervention does not want to "solve" the problem. It wants to send a message beyond Syria.

It's about holding people accountable for genocide.

I have raised my concerns about this position here. [1]

I also have to ask: Why exactly is it that the FSA is "completely overwhelmed"? At the start that was clearly not the case. Hm, now is there some authority in Syria that wanted to frame the conflict from the start as a democratically elected leader against foreign jihadists? Could it be that said authority targeted primarily the non-jihadists over the last two years?

I think that the most plausible explanation is that the jihadi movement had more external support. War is expensive: all sides of the conflict are in need of arms, food, medical and other supplies, training and expertize. And the FSA has got least.

I think that Assad is generally not a good guy. And that FSA has had legitimacy at the start of the war. Probably, Assad would've liked to frame the conflict as "Assad" vs "Jihadists/Foreign-sponsored freedom fighters" from the very beginning. But the conflict has indeed became a proxy war with many sides, and the FSA has got caught in the middle of them. [2] [3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6327563

[2] http://www.policymic.com/articles/28414/syria-civil-war-u-s-...

[3] http://www.juancole.com/2013/09/government-rejects-strike.ht...
Then there's the Museum Tower in Dallas: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/arts/design/renzo-pianos-n...
The days of the Vitruvian virtues have long since passed, friend. It doesn't matter if a building is useful. What matters is that it is a monument to cooperative egocentricity: the architect's and the commissioner's.
It is so good for productivity that I've completely stopped using "staying up late" as a method to get things done. If I have a lot of work to do that's a good sign to get to bed early and start in the morning when I'm fresh.

Problems that I spend hours on the night before seem to solve themselves magically in minutes. After a while I got the hint: Just go to bed and sleep. You save time and feel better.
A city like Phoenix (6), Jacksonville (12) or Columbus (15) would be a good analogue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by...
Actual I entered the second one, after seeing Tomonotomo's title first. I liked it as a nice expression of their ideas, and wanted to reuse it, so no coincidence indeed. But we are not at all related. Sorry if that was disturbing in any way.
AT&T helping US drug cops in 'vast, troubling' phone snoop scheme
How to Make a Young Child Smarter
Good, because that's the climax of, and the craziest thing that happens in the film. It's certainly the limit and it's well-placed in the context of the story. I like this movie, despite it's short-comings, more than I thought I would. I recommend it, even though it runs right up to my absurdity detector.
What do you think of our pre-interview SQL challenge?
Glass is cool
Where I think good, genuine code comes from
>It always seemed strange that monitors aim for 60fps. That seems like a recipe for input lag. They could aim for 90fps, because when they fail to meet that, at least they'll still achieve 60fps.

It's not like modern games have that much CPU time to prepare each 1/60 sec frame -- 16ms actually.

As for input lag, they can scan inpput at different frequencies and adapt the next frame accordingly, but it's not like the input is gonna show in any less than 1/60 for an graphically involved game.
Ask HN: To make games, what tools do I use?
I am a developer with 5 years of programming experience and I now want to start programming games. What I'm asking is what the best way to get started is. I've used Haskell, Scheme, Ruby and JavaScript before, but I can probably learn some new languages if required.
We have plenty of empirical evidence that you can rewrite from scratch - every competing product in the marketplace is essentially a 'rewrite from scratch' from the perspective of all the other products. Almost very start up poster on here is 'rewriting' an app in that sense.

If you can't 'rewrite from scratch' (i.e. write a new app) you probably don't have very good programmers (they are only comfortable bandaiding and throwing a few routines in existing code), or, perhaps, management is tying their hands someway. So, I don't buy into the horror stories. Well, I buy that they exist, just not that they should drive my decisions.

Of course, you should expect the cost of your new app to be about the same as entering the business cold. It's particularly difficult to meet every requirement/feature/bug of the old system. Orgs get fossilized around features. If you were to download and install a new IDE you'd expect it to have different features from the old one. You will miss some of the old features, but presumably the new features more than make up for it (otherwise why would you switch). Yet, when we upgrade apps, it's "remove nothing at any cost". It doesn't necessarily make a lot of sense. It can take enormous effort to re-implement some broken feature as opposed to just offering a new way to do things.

None of that is to say I blithely throw code away. I did, once, amidst a bunch of hue and cry of 'oh no', but it was the correct decision because the old system was hacked together by 'weekend programmer' (my boss at the time who was very smart but learned programming from a book). I turned it into a modular, decoupled system, and most of those parts got reused over and over in different parts of our vertical. If you have a plan, and the old code doesn't, it can pay off.

There's more to be said, but this is a wall of text already. Every day I work in the refactor mode, even while mostly adding new features. Its an extremely powerful idiom. But I also have my eye on code that really needs to go to the big bit bucket in the sky. No one understands it, every fix introduces new bugs, and what it is trying to do is very well served by existing open source code, or code be written from scratch.
Inner city solar power plant!
The Autor, Dorn, and Hanson paper on trade and technology
"It would be like... programmers pretending users never make data entry errors."

I think I've spotted a problem!
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It's just a line on my iPad.
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Actually a lot of their ideas are similar emacs. Have a few core pieces written in C and then everything else is written in elisp. Even the stackable navigation and WebViews are the equiv of buffers.

Conkeror already has stackable navigation and can be extended using javascript. In many ways the ExoBrowser is simply taking Conkeror to it's logical conclusion.

Very interesting, I'll be interested in seeing where this goes in the future.
Do you have any references for the side effects and the dependence?

According to gwern, the detriments are far from clear:

http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil#side-effects

http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil#tolerance
If you are using vim and it is built appropriately, the "* register reflects the contents of the primary selection and the "+ register the contents of the clipboard. See :help registers
There is a new settings screen in iOS7 called "Background App Refresh" (under General) which allows users to disable app refreshes altogether or to turn off the ability for specific apps
Reading Other People's Code (2012)
The headline is horrible—it's kind of like saying "Scientist's Theories Led to Atomic Bomb" for an Einstein obit—but Ronald Coase was one of the most creative economists of the 20th century and deserves to be widely known. For a great introduction to Coase's Theorem and its implications, I recommend Law's Order by David Friedman (available in a nearly illegible online edition at http://www.daviddfriedman.com/laws_order/, but I recommend the print version). It will challenge many of the things you think you know about externalities.
Oh, now I see. Thanks!
If only there were some technique they could have used to calculate the amount of energy that would get focused with the 70% film in place to see that it was still too much.
Right, not new to iOS 7 but this time Apple took the time to make a nice mock of what we shouldn't do!
Never seen that at Christ the light; but 2100 Franklin a couple blocks from there definatly has hot spots pretty much all day from swoopy glass

http://www.loopnet.com/Property-Record/2100-Franklin-Street-...
Are you kidding me? I get emails from customers every single day, each one of those emails I read very carefully, from a large screen. Each one requires a response on my part, and if you were a customer you would expect the same.

I also do a real lot of personal emailing. I have family all over the country, and email is one way we keep in touch. I can spend over an hour composing an email to one of my family members, or one of my friends. If I wanted to communicate a shorter message, I'd use SMS, but if I'm telling a longer thought email is my go-to.
Perhaps the "fakes" are actually QA rejects from the very same line the real products roll off of.
I don't actively follow it anymore but I remember there being a huge fiasco over Dell's 2007fp series. A few hardware communities labeled buying one as playing "panel roulette" or "panel lotto".

It went on for a few years after its initial release so it's still semi-current although now a days I doubt anyone would be buying that model.

I remember a 100ish page thread on hardforum documenting which panels lined up with what serial numbers. I actually played the roulette and bought one off a dude. I ended up getting an s-ips panel and I still use it as my second monitor. It's not 120hz but I don't game with it.

Here's the link to the thread:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1111100

I'm sure there were/are more cases but this was the most popular one because the s-ips version of this monitor was amazing for its time. It was my first LCD purchase.
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I like the idea, but have my doubts that 'design by commitee' is going to work better here than it usually does.

Also, the required funding is enormous - not sure if they mean financing the whole project? That would be outside anything JumpStartFund / Kickstarter / whatever could collect.
I read this a year ago, I was really hoping for something to come of it.

Really cool idea.
Google's 'Android KitKat' Will Appear on 50 Million Candy Bars
Predictions are cheap in biology
>30 fps is even a bigger joke than 60. I think even the general public would get nauseous watching a game being played at a solid 30 fps, it's much different than watching a low fps movie.

People after 4K displays in the current market aren't going for game machines...
>Not kidding about this either. For example there are ways to design the facade of a building to make wind intensely uncomfortable for pedestrians, thus repelling homeless from the building. This actually works pretty well for a "car culture" building.

Remind me to get this feature for my evil lair.

Considering that this apparently isn't the first time that the Architect has made this mistake, I have to assume either extreme incompetence, or that he got a little too much enjoyment out of burning ants with a magnifying glass as a kid.
LeapTrainer: A JS gesture learning and recognition framework for the Leap Motion
No. I'm afraid you are missing the point entirely.

Let's use your example as context.

I am running a Scala or Ruby development team and regularly meet a lot of developers in conferences. I meet an amazing Scala developer at a conference but he seems happy in his current job and I don't want to plead with him to join our company.

Lets assume this amazing Scala developer subsequently signs up to your site and selects me as someone he would like to be interviewed by.

I will never, ever find out that he's interested.

Why? Using your current model, I, the hiring manager, would also have to select him as someone I want to be interviewed by.

The chances of this happening aren't slim, they are literally zero.

Hence my question on why you don't have a SEPARATE sign in for employers so that they can list people they would willingly interview.

You have potentially created an amazing tool but it's only 50% complete.
In this context, input lag refers to a monitor phenomenon. Some monitors have terrible input lag. The game can't compensate since it's due to the monitor.
A Visual History of The Mobile Phone
egads, that's a crappy website. For others who just want to see the photo: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jmYevHrBr6M/Rr3BvETpHbI/AAAAAAAAAO...
Great feedback, thanks. It will help us improve the home/landing page. It has been 2 almost weeks, and we are trying to validate the idea and come up with a better version.
The cityam newspaper measured 70C on Eastcheap. Apparently shop doors are burning, carpets spontaneosly combusting and roof tiles exploding.

http://www.cityam.com/article/1378168692/exclusive-few-solut...
Worked fine on my mobile as static images.
8k is also an OUTRAGEOUS amount of pixels to throw around. Unless you're eyeball to eyeball with a 40" display, your eye can't distinguish between 4k and 8k.
Freemium or free trial
Well, but this again works:

type pair struct {
x, y int
}

func main() {
var p pair
fmt.Printf("%d\n", p.x)
fmt.Printf("%d\n", p.y)
}

That's just wrong, that declaration and initialization behaves differently depending on the type.
I've come across many people that program as a means to an end. They don't enjoy it, it is just what they need to do to get the machine do what is fun, which is folding proteins, modeling ocean currents, driving the CNC, or what have you. For me, the actual application is fairly incidental to the programming and design part, which is where the fun is for me.
Bingo. Without reproduction pressure it doesn't matter either way.
There's no reason to hire extra employees for the sponge baths. Just put a drain in the floor, a shower overhead and a pull cord to activate it.

As for the feeding tubes... soylent. :D
Did none of the architects, or even construction people, ever stop to consider that they're essentially building two giant, parabolic, solar death rays?

This ties into another pet peeve I have; bloody trees and grass in architectural drawings. It's nice to think you can grow anything at that height and wind, but physics has a tendency not to cooperate with idealized visions.
Shakespeare is still an entertaining read after five centuries.
"But what abou-"

"ONCE AND FOR ALL!"
Yep, feels like one of those cases where you want everyone to lose somehow.