skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amen to it being harder to _get right_ than first appears...

I've been working on a floating/sticky scroll solution over the last couple of days and decided to go with fixed positioning to try and lessen the CPU load. Dealing with all the edge cases and trying to keep the code as sane as possible has been a complete bitch. Off loading all that to the browser would be a godsend.

It's still a work in progress but this is what I have so far: http://pastebin.com/PWCCERXk
Ask HN: How do I successfully illegally immigrate to the U.S. from England?
I am a white, British male. I don't have much of an accent, nothing I can't mask or learn to get rid of. I am supposedly taking a year off before University. Except I've known for a while I'm not going back.

I want to leave. I want go emigrate to the United States -- more specifically California. I have no desirable skills or qualifications, so the U.S. doesn't want me. I've been programming for a couple of years and wish to persue that.

There is no way I am going to get any form of a permenant visa.

So I've been thinking about just buying a plane ticket from Birmingham Airport to SFO, packing very little, acting all touristy and then staying with a friend for a while until I figure out what to do. Except when my tourist visa expires, I don't leave. I figure what's the worse that could happen? I get a free plane ride back?

There are all these stories I've heard about people turning up in the U.S., thinking nothing of it, and stay there forever. And because they're white and from a first world country, no one cares.

So do you have any suggestions? I know it's a stupid idea.
git history serves as a Tabu list, and different people's tastes will serve as a stochastic breakout. If lots of people have a go it will de-facto be a particle swarm tabu. Even with a single starting point there's a good chance of global optimisation.
JAX-RS still has the same problem with nesting and redundancy, doesn't fit the word "micro" or draw parallels with Sinatra.
I'm very upset that this is the top comment on here. 14 year old teenagers are definitely children and they do need to be protected by law from predators. Just because they are old enough to have children of their own doesn't make them adults. Is not OK for sites or individuals to be collecting sexual images of children and distributing them.

Also, to all you folks on here saying that this is all fear mongering to take away or rights, you're missing the larger point here which is that the recent cultural shift with the prevalence of handheld computing has a lot of negative side effects and we need to rethink the norms. It is very rude to sit at the dinner table with people and be interacting with your mobile device rather than your real life companions. It wouldn't have been OK for a parent to sit at the dinner table having a phone call with colleagues back then and just because mobile Internet makes it silent it's still not OK.

That is just one example in a long list of things related to mobile computing that are considered OK but are actually rude or unhealthy.
Malibu, Crème de Menthe, Jager, Triple Sec, Vodka & Coke, Kahlua. These seem like cocktails for programmers... earlier in their careers, shall we say.
Natural Bridge in Virginia¹ was used as a shot tower during the American Revolutionary War. They simply dropped molten lead off the bridge into the water below. Someone would then collect them from the stream bed after they cooled.

¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Bridge_(Virginia)
Despite the disadvantages, I would really like an e-ink phone (and netbook) for the significant increase in battery life it could give. The software could be designed so that it is usable on e-ink. No animations, no reliance on color for indicators, flipping instead of scrolling, etc. As you say, it would only really work for static content, but for me that is fine.
5 IDEAS FOR THE FUTURE OF ADVERTISING
Phonebloks modular smartphone
Would you please keep me updated and tell me, if you're successful with the startup or not? How can I reach you?
New Approach to Making Graphene Could Lead to Workable Transistors
Check Running Spark on a Web Server, e.g. Tomcat in Readme section.
Not talking about the content of the article, but this 2-column style of reading is not very pleasant for the web.
In my case, I was experiencing pre-tendinitis symptoms (know them well as a piano player). All of those where gone after switching to Colemak. My advice, is to switch before you start experiencing those symptoms.

Cheers!
Hinge Dating App CEO Talks Meditation, His Philosophy on Love And Hiring
Interview on There Are No Roads for Dating app, Hinge.
The only practical approach is to give teenagers the tools necessary to deal with this and make sensible decisions based on their own values and respect for others (as if being a teenager wasn't hard enough already). However, good luck in getting PE (Porn Education) taught to ten-year olds, never mind being able to filter out all the agendas of concerned parties and being able to create the materials necessary with essentially nothing to base it on - in terms of the effects it's having on teenagers development.

The ship of consequences sailed a long time ago on this one and it's not clear where it's headed.
In what way is practice useful here? Determining the correct height to get good spheres, having a steady hand when dropping it?
That's really cool, I should file a radar (not that it matters) in Apple's radar so that they make Colemak available on iOS.
To quote another commenter, here's JAX-RS code:

@Path("/hello")
public class HelloWorld {
@GET
public String get() {
return "Hello World";
}
}

Seems very Sinatra-like to me.
...to achieve what?
Interesting. And here I thought they were all made by hand. I guess shot producers aren't nearly the highly patient and dextrous craftsmen that I made them out to be.
Not the same person, but I've found that learning other languages (and making mistakes in other languages) makes you attuned to what kinds of mistakes happen when speakers of that language learn English.

Just off the top of my head, Russian doesn't have articles. A Russian learning English is more likely to confuse definite and indefinite articles than a speaker of a Romance language.

I've been learning Thai and teaching English in Thailand. Thai has no articles, no tenses (in the way we think about them) and a simpler syntax with many prepositions and other "small words" omitted. When they start learning English, they often omit too many words and don't conjugate anything, so a sentence like "I don't have any pencils." becomes "No have pencil".
Completely offtopic, but there are some black(ish) metal bands with great lyrics.

Being a nerd, I am for example very partial to Vintersorg's album Cosmic Genesis (check out the song Algol ! [1]). (The singer, Andreas Hedlund, is actually a primary school teacher)

See (and hear) also the Irish band Primordial, who have great songs about Ireland. I've got goosebumps everytime I hear the chorus of "The Coffin Ships" [2] or the ending poem of "Death of the Gods" [3].

I could go on forever, but I'll mention three more bands, Vulture Industries for their very theatrical lyrics [4] and Solefald for the crazy and philosophical stuff [5]. And finally, a personal favorite of mine, Behemoth's "The Youth Manifesto" [6]. (Nergal, the lead singer and guitarist, is a fantastic lyricist and an incredible person)

[1] http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/vintersorg/cosmicgenesis.ht...

[2] http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/primordial/thegatheringwild...

[3] http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/primordial/redemptionatthep...

[4] http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/vultureindustries/thedystop...

[5] http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/solefald/neonism.html#3

[6] http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/behemoth/thelema666.html#11
Some societal implications of combining sensors for location evidence
> * No clipboard support -- all copying and pasting operations, apart from being another example of bizarre vi incantations requiring the recall of a raft of magic characters, is within vi/vim and disregards the system clipboard.

I was under the impression, vim does have clipboard support.
Putting "set clipboard=unnamed" in ~/.vimrc integrates it with system clipboard (at least on OSX).
Yep, I agree. When I invite people home and leave my MacBook playing my music, there's always someone who want's to go to Youtube and switch my music... Colemak totally avoids that from happening.
Reeder 2 for iOS
> Nonetheless, I think it's worth entertaining the hypothesis that in many ways the internet is like candy for your brain, and constant exposure might have subtle -- perhaps not yet fully recognized or appreciated -- effects on our cognition.

It does, actually. Read Nicholas Carr's 'The Shallows' [0], it's a pretty decent book about the subject. It also starts off with comparing our usage of the internet with the rise of reading - you know, books and the like. History lesson; humans needed to adapt their brains to be able to read attentively for longer periods of time. The book contrasts that with the ADD nature of the internet, and yet, indicates how it's actually going back to where we were before. Or just a change similar to when books became publicly accessible.

tl;dr, yes there is a change, but I don't think it's necessarily good or bad; just different. And shocking / to be resisted by the older generation, just as how their parents were shocked and resisting the Beatles and similar long-haired freaks. :p

[0]: http://www.amazon.com/The-Shallows-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/...
The author is obviously using colloquial definitions of "intelligence" and "stupidity", but those are even more flawed than the scientific definition attempts. Is a lack of ambition really caused by low intelligence? Can we really put intelligence on a linear scale like that?

Makes the whole piece pretty condescending.
Do we need real data to know that too much porn is a bad thing?

> The problem is that these are the same sorts of arguments
> that have been deployed in the face of every technological
> advance

I agree and at the risk of sounding like my parents, I think the internet is different. Never before has their been a technology so all encompassing and so powerful (and dangerous).

If I wanted to look at pictures of girls when I was a horny teen, I had the bra section of the JC Penny catalog. The jump from that to the type of online porn that exists today is pretty big. Add to the fact that online porn is so much more accessible than visiting a porno shop, it's no wonder kids can fall into it more easily.
This seems quite useful!
I am thinking to do a back-of-the-envelope orders-of-the-magnitude analysis for a setup similar to this for an Amazon AWS EC2/S3/RDS/foo/bar/baz based system.
The underlying cause isn't attention deficit or information asymmetry. It's opportunity asymmetry.

That could be disproved if it turned out serial entrepreneurs have bad experiences at similar rates to rookies.
You don't see all the redundancies in that code?

I see the term "get" twice. The class name is redundant with the resource path. I suppose not a huge problem because many MVC frameworks require classes, but not even close to Sinatra.

Sinatra:

get '/hi' do
"Hello World!"
end
I've been diagnosed with UC 10 years ago, only recently doctors changed their diagnosis to Crohn's disease (btw it's called Leśniewski-Crohn disease here). Apparently it's hard to distinguish, and I think it's good to keep them together.
Yes. Any XPCOM object is usable from JS that runs inside Firefox chrome and most things are XPCOM objects.
Really? That sounds misconfigured and it certainly doesn't happen for me. Are you on windows? Maybe it's just a problem there. I'd take a look a bit deeper to see if I could figure that out if I were you as it does sound like a nuisance.

Personally (regarding the original gripe in the post) I'd be horrified if my text editor was silently ignoring edits or just updating the code under me. If that was really a concern while I was working on my software I'd take a look at the workflow to see what could be done about it.
The average is around 50 watts for desktops (https://secure.www.upenn.edu/computing/resources/category/ha...) which adds up to a lot. 440 kWh/year per desktop.

For comparison, as much as your washing machine, dishwasher and all your 10 (cfl) ceiling lights together (from http://www.carbonfootprint.com/energyconsumption.html). Or as much as a low efficiency fridge-freezer.

Multiply by 2 if you run air conditioning. Multiply by number of employees for an office. Etc.
And yet, before the 60's and before the rise of proper education, teenagers went to work after elementary school (if that) and became mature, responsible adults much sooner. At least, so I heard. They couldn't get together and have orgies or whatever, because they were expected to be either at work, or back at work at 6 AM.

[/faux history teacher]
Others will correct me if I'm wrong, but Deis particularly makes sense, since Dokku has a more restricted scope, and Flynn isn't out yet.

Also, the required glue is a bit more complicated than you think, especially when you want to be able to scale and/or deploy on multiple servers. You need to store some extra info somewhere (at least in a database, at best in a distributed one like zookeeper, doozer, or etcd). Then things get exciting :-)
Thanks for the suggestion! I know next to nothing about data analysis so I might not ever get around to using or writing about Incanter, but I've seen it in action and it looks super cool. Thanks again :)
Interesting. So in essence, the 19th century used zero gravity fabrication. Who knew?
At the bottom of http://www.sparkjava.com/readme.html there are 2 options, an embedded web server (Jetty) and a configuration snippet for a standard web.xml file.
i.e.: Everyone seems to be focusing on whether it's a security risk to use fingerprints for authentication, but there's been very little discussion of the implications of combining a positive biometric auth with reliable location data.
I'd imagine it would actually be shorter because the ambient temperature in Northern Alaska will be much cooler than that in South Florida, so the shot will cool faster.

It also depends on the diameter of the shot you wish to produce.
FarmWallet - Payment system for farmers for sale
MOOC → MMORPG, not a big difference, but a huge impact. Education should be more fun, less hostile/prison.
I've viewed the Angel/VC infrastructure as the modern form of slavery once I understood the details.
14-15 is prepubescent for many individuals. Definitely children.
MVC is dead, long live MVC.
I fail to see why I should take your feeling driven anecdote backed position over your interlocutor's feeling driven anecdote backed position.

I watched all the porn I could get my hands on and turned out fine is evidence. It's not conclusive or anything but you wouldn't see it in a world where porn was the devil. The below articles certainly don't support demonisation of porn.

http://maggiemcneill.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/pornography...

http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/biblio/articles/1961to1999/1999-p...
I think part of the problem is this binary label of children | not-children, which then gives rise to infantilizing treatment.

The post you're responding to was splitting the spectrum into at least three parts, children | teenagers | adults, while you're arguing for children | adults - or at least that's how it looks. But I think you're on the wrong track there. Something that is closer to modelling a spectrum is better than a binary distinction, and is less likely to give rise to asinine laws / enforcement, like prosecuting teenagers for self-production of child porn.
How does pulling the app from the store benefit you?
Free and unlimited access to hardcore pornography of any type when you are in your early teens is relatively new. No generation has been exposed to such a stream of heavily sexualized content before, both online and offline.

I mean the porn of 50 years ago seems tame by todays standards. Exposing children to such adult themes before they have even fully developed can't be a good thing.
Who the christ is feeding the output of /dev/random for its use as a cryptographic function without checking that what they read is in fact NOT just a stream of zeroes? Because that's an outcome which can happen from any truly random number generator just by chance - its unlikely, but not unreasonable.

Hence debiasing and the like.
Going private might be the best way to adjust sales models for Dell
Yahoo CEO fears defying NSA could mean prison (AFP)
>If the evidence is as clear as Obama is trying to make it appear, why not have an independent body from the U.N. review the evidence?

The thought is that Russia will find a way to veto the proposal no matter what, because they have financial interests in Syria.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coop%27s_Shot_Tower

It's been turned into an enclosed mall in the Melbourne (Australia) CBD. You can see the glass dome covering the whole shot tower building from all over Melbourne.
This is a pretty naive idea. There are a lot of reasons to go in the opposite direction

For example, water-resistant phones are going to be hard to take apart, and that's a feature that will result in many fewer dead phones.

Packaging for mobile handsets is continuing to evolve. Any modular system would be obsolete long before it breaks even on repairability, upgradeability, etc.
Also companies such as Blackberry are thinking of going private.

Is this a new trend or just a few isolated cases?
Another cocktail is the "Tschunk", which is hugely popular with hackers here in Germany. See the recipe here: https://entropia.de/Tschunk (the main ingredient, a carbonated, caffeinated soda called "Club-Mate" is difficult to source outside of Germany, though).
Hey. I Actually agree with your article because I HAD lyme 1 month ago too. And felt the same. You are probably on the 14 day Doxy. After it you start to feel better pretty quickly. I went to a great infectious disease doc (if you are in Seattle). You probably tripped out like me and went reading about it on the internet for hours if not days. 99% of lymeand post lyme disease is BS. No such thing as post lyme disorder. Its highly sensitive to doxy . I caught mine a month after and 2nd day of doxy started feeling better.

But man such a strange feeling. Depression was a first for me i don't know if its from the toxins that inhibit certain stuff or psychological but its strange. Anyway get well soon and don't believe the lyme stuff you read I can assure you. You reach 100%. Just don't have unprotected sex as that shit is real depression material !
I think the most concrete example of what you're describing is the "pattern" we saw with tobacco. Science suggested for a long time that cigarette smoking might be bad for you. As the evidence grew stronger, tobacco companies ran ads with Joe DiMaggio about how healthy their brand was[1].

Eventually the evidence was so irrefutable, and there were enough "casualties," that most reasonable people were forced to accept it.

This seems like a pattern that repeats itself. It begins with anecdotal evidence, followed by a long period of scientific research, then propaganda campaigns and eventual acceptance.

We're currently seeing it, about halfway through the curve, in the food industry with sugar. It's also happened previously with lead, seatbelts, asbestos, gambling, mercury, alcohol & driving, cholesterol, tanning booths, etc.

And now, perhaps, it's starting on the effect of information consumption. I use the term "information consumption" because it seems to be about much more than just teenagers and their phones.

[1] http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6149/6012309554_2c177196a8_z.j...
Yes, sharing your password is really secure
; not to mention that you can only login to one Steam client with the same account. While it's not perfect, Steam Sharing is a step up.
Parent isn't saying it's OK to distribute sexual images of young teenagers - he's saying it should be a different offence to child porn.

I agree with your point about a shifting culture requiring adjustment. But you should recognise that rudeness is just a cultural norm that shifts with geography and time - what you consider rude (phone at the table) is perfectly acceptable in my family. In fact we almost never ate at the table, and rarely all together, but we're a very closely bonded family. To assert your version of politeness as a requirement is arrogance.
Stephen Hawking's Brief History of a Best Seller
Re: Internet has vuln.
It's been some time since I did this, but yes, it's mostly the correct height + keeping the hand steady when the drop falls. I think getting the height right is more critical. You need enough time to have the drop cool down. On the other hand, higher means also larger impact which can splat the drop more easily.
Facebook 2FA Security Flaw (Disclosed)
The company I worked for back ended some of these datasets. Definitely a bunch of usgs imagery. At the time several racks of solaris servers were required to serve up the imagery using tomcat for the requests. Those machines were in canada. Windows was used for arcgis and oracle. Shortly after opteron was released and ibm came out with a 64bit jvm I moved the whole thing except for the esri portion over to a simple load balancer running apache and two mirrored dual opterons running fedora 64bit (2002). A total half rack which handled about a million image reqs a day or so. Each req involved decomposing, reading and stitching image mosaics together and sending out in under 10s. Unfortunately we were back ending more than just terraserver so I don't remember who had what specs. With all the memory alloc/dealloc going on inside the java process we were fortunate if it didn't require a full restart every 12 hours.

The funniest part of the whole thing was that I rewrote the engine from java over to a c++ stitcher and got request times under 1s on a dual p3 600. That was bypassing the esri server, oracle database and java stuff. At that time the umn mapserver started getting interesting as well although their image processing was glacial at the beginning. And then I was retasked and I left before being able to finish up and deploy.
Agreed; the "JMP" is especially unfitting (and unappetizing).
Thinking behind the visual updates to the Washington DC Metrorail map
Because of this: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=145027
The Junkman (Giles Bowkett's Cyberpunk/Privacy Short Film)
Samsung backs Apple's 64-bit chip smartphone chip switch
Check out the Javascript PC Emulator by Fabrice Bellard:
http://bellard.org/jslinux/

He also wrote the original QEMU for machine emulation, long before native virtualization support was available in x86 CPUs.
Submission by 'The Greens' to the UN (BND/NSA illegally spying Germans)
Valve are not giving away a single copy of anything, they are licensing intellectual property with specific terms. I'm advocating licensing terms that allow licensees to simultaneously install and use licensed items on all computers owned by them. The terms of the Mac App Store already allow this.
With everyone pointing out it's infeasibility in mind; didn't Bug Labs do something similar already?: http://buglabs.net/products/blocks
Saying it can't be a good thing without even providing a reason is not constructive. It could very easily be a good thing.
I already picked up brutal legends from steam for 5usd a few weeks ago. The sad part is that I can't deal with the camera controls very well while driving.
TimeStream: Reliable Stream Computation in the Cloud
Actually that's what MVC is supposed to be. Whether you use events, callbacks, delegates, or dirty checking really doesn't matter. Views inform the controller, controller updates the model. Events and Operations are the Controller, but lets not shove MVC into some specific implementation based on events, it's an abstract pattern for software architecture, not a framework.
Aren't the next instructions going to be in the code cache? So "detecting the code sequence" would seem trivial.
Building and testing a cluster of RethinkDB Docker containers