skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self-plagarism is a tricky thing. Some redundancy in publications is virtually unavoidable. If you are reporting new results from an experiment that has been previously published, you still need to provide a brief summary of how things work but, of course, you reference your previous work. This is as transparent and innocent as things get, and isn't self-plagiarism. However, what if you reproduce a figure published in another journal exactly? Then things can get ugly (Depending on a lot of legalese no researcher should have to worry about.)!

To make matters worse, the same experimental setup is frequently used to run experiments that result in several publications. When you have several papers authored by different overlapping groups of researchers in various stages of review simultaneously things can get very confusing. The first paper you submit is frequently the last one published. The last paper you submit will then wind up referencing arxiv pre-prints instead of published articles, and if you did plagiarize yourself by mistake, the publisher of the paper submitted last might have absolutely no chance of detecting it. On top of it all, there is frequently interference from editors and reviewers. A well-written and coherent paper on a theory an experiment testing that theory might be considered "too long" or "too confusing" by a referee, and the editor will jump on that comment and demand the paper be split into two, sometimes only one of which they feel like publishing in their journal. If the researcher had done this of his/her own initiative many would consider it CV-padding!

Yes, self-plagiarism can be a means to pump up your publication list, but it also happens innocently because publishing is such a confusing counter-intuitive mess! It's probably an idiotic idea, but some kind of pan-journal version control system, even just for figures, would be a tremendous headache reducer if done right!
> Political ignorance and shortsighted squabbling, along with false promises from Russia, and penny-wise management of NASA’s ever-thinning budget still stand in the way of a robust plutonium-238 production system.

Biased much?
I knew I've seen it before somewhere. NVI posted an example [1] below [2] where it can be seen live.

________

[1] http://osteele.com/tools/reanimator/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=NVI
I don't think it's introversion. I think it's the personality types that don't register or care how (negatively) people are reacting to them. For example, the guy that will talk to you incessantly about some topic you don't care about, or someone who's smelly because of their own fault.
And then please get all major desktop operating systems to follow suit. Although I guess something like that can be made by someone else to at least work with applications that honor accessibility APIs (and then it could work in all webpages as well and even show the focus shift from the address bar to the default input field on the web page).
The UIDatePicker has 322 subviews...
There is no more than kiddies who eat shit about JavaScript.
When Startups Seek Patent Trolls as Saviors, the System Has Failed
I'm not sure I follow your criticism of the clock app. It looks the same to me, albeit "flatter".
My Daughter’s Homework Is Killing Me
I don't think Apple wants to abandon their desktop market at all. However, they could be introducing a new thing - a new Apple TV style device that's designed to connect to monitors and act as a workplace bridge for iPhones and iPads.

If you could get a $100 or $150 AppleDesktop that only ran App Store apps, but hooked up to a monitor/TV and allowed BT keyboard/mouse, would you do it?

It could be the AppleTV store, or the iOS App Store, or even the Mac App Store that's backing it, but it would definitely be an interesting competitor vs. a Chromebox, as it could function without internet (which might make it a perfect "computer" for your aging parents). The fact that it couldn't run OSX or sideload apps would clearly protect Macs from some cannibalization.
It used to be chrome. But over the last 6 months chrome has become a huge memory hog. I'm back to Firefox now.
Eventually, and amazingly we actually became decent friends... eventually. In the early days it was a matter of picking my battles, and there were other more important things to work on. (Hard as that might be to believe.) So for a while I just put my headphones in and tried to tune it out.

(Initially I just asked him to turn it down, and I don't recall the exact response, but it was probably approximately, "No.")
Can you potentially point me to a reliable source for this type of number (or tell me how to calculate it myself, assuming I can get the zone file from Verisign)?

I had similar issues with the data, and I tried emailing these guys to find out more about their methodology. Didn't get a response.

Are they crawling DNS for every domain that has changed info (or is new, or drops) from the prior zone file? How would one recreate this data, hypothetically?

EDIT: I'm aware of the ICANN delayed data (as the site below uses), but I am hoping for a more up-to-date source.
An interesting point is Apple is more like a consumer product company. The rules of tech industry have their effects on Apple. However, while completing in the consumer market, there are other rules as well. Taking different dimensions in to account could not be a bad idea.
The Odin Project – Empowering Aspiring Developers to Learn Together
Have you tried http://anonquest.com

It's basically the internet version of what you're doing.
Seems like that would cause a perpetual copyright paradox. If the characters remain reserved so long as one story or more containing them remains in copyright, the rights holders (the estate in this case) could simply authorize themselves to keep publishing stories containing them.

Locking characters themselves away from public culture forever seems like the exact opposite of the original notion of limited copyright. I cynically expect them to win handily.

All you really need to know about copyright is that Mickey Mouse and The Beetles will never enter the public domain. Extrapolate from there. Its like predicting the future. If it happened a little faster, it'd be a fun party trick.
IOS 7 audio problems: musicians advised not to upgrade yet
Ubuntu? Where's the hardware? Where's the full experience?

Regardless, innovative isn't just trying it first. It's making it work first. Microsoft has made a good try but there's something missing if it's just not seeing adoption. I don't think it's easy to say what that is or it would be fixed already. But I do think Cringely is right that someone will get there, Apple or not.
Is Bruce Schneier's Blog Down?
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

indicates that schneier's site is down from their site also.

Google's cache contains content from Sep 18, 2013 13:50:33 GMT and earlier dates. Link to Google's last cached entry

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sRdSOSTdiykJ:www.schneier.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Entry for September 15, 2013 was titled

"How to Remain Secure Against the NSA"
I agree that the use of the word 'squandering' is provocative and incorrect. reddit points out that he is evangelizing Haskell (FPComplete) and trolling C++ users on Twitter ("I used to be a C++ masochist") He doesn't make his financial bias clear in the article, which would have been helpful for those not familiar with him.
Because it's not a new idea, just an idea that's time may be coming. Ubuntu is definitely out ahead on this one conceptually, but iOS devices are inching their way closer and closer to desktop-class software and performance... by the time Ubuntu ships something, Apple may already be there.
Accidentally crashing a Martian lander into the ground?
Just start automatically tabbing through the demo elements in a loop, why bother with anything but the real thing? Make it so it's easy to interrupt and take control over. Really neat idea by the way.
A Static Analysis Approach Relying on Symbolic Execution
that time can't come soon enough for me. :+)
#fedupwiththehashtagcrap

-bowerbird
>It takes slightly longer for the browser to decide if the text is a URL or not

I had the same problem which forced me to enable the search bar. But I've since discovered that if the text you entered into the search bar starts with a "?" character, Firefox immediately assumes it is a search query.
i actually love how you can just hook up a mouse & keyboard to android via bluetooth and put the screen to the TV via HDMI. Very convenient
Type Class – Foldable
You won't believe it but in India some software companies have a 3 month notice period :)
I think the point was to speak well of the dead: their acheivements, humanity and even their attributes. She was quite beautiful as well.
Building a Message Queue Using Redis in Go
Redis is not just a very good in-memory database, it can also double as a message queue. I want to show you our first shot at implementing a queue in Redis that can fulfill all our requirements: reliable, persistent, fast, monitorable. While still being a Gedankenexperiment the basic idea should be a very good starting point.
What Does The Web Say? No Thanks.
A Multilayered Architecture for Qt Quick
IPhone shortages frustrate networks on launch day
I don't see why that matters. This is in issue with absolutely every journal, and Elsevier should die regardless. Ask the editors of any open access journal what percentage of submissions show problems like this, you'll likely get the same response. This in no way excuses or mitigates the evil that Elsevier has done to the world.
nodeJS + expressJS

angularJS

socket.io

elasticsearch

mongo

redis (for session management)

nginx (for static file serving)

git

mailchimp
Another great project from Mozilla, congratulations. I'll definitely give it a try.

Sorry to blow my own horn, but a few months ago we launched a similar project called Quolony https://quolony.com (we are a small startup from Salamanca, Spain).
Right now we are working as a free service and we plan to publish it as open-source in the next few months.
People can use it individually using a browser extension or in whole sites including our library.
We have avatars, synchronized text selection, private and public chats, persistence, cobrowsing, file transfers and a lot more.

Some samples:
https://quolony.com/demos/photomess/ (drag and drop)
https://quolony.com/demos/quolony/developers/ (shared demo)

At the low level, we extend the browser event model to make it easier to use it in existing applications.

I hope you guys can give it a try and tell me what you think.

Kudos mozilla!

[EDITED: fixed linked]
Nah. You can write great code inside Racket for a PhD using tooling that's light years ahead of almost any development platform on the planet.
Anyone have any explanation for why the different color iPhones (gold vs silver) would have different batteries?
Contamination with plutonium-240 was a big problem during the Manhattan Project. They'd done the preliminary calculations based on cyclotron-produced plutonium-239, which was pure enough that a gun design with a long tube was feasible. ("Thin Man")

The plutonium-239 that came out of the Hanford reactor had a much higher contamination rate. This required a much faster assembly of the critical mass in order to avoid a fizzle. The gun design would have to be so long that it couldn't fit on a plane. Whereas implosion could provide the required rapid assembly in a limited space. Thus, "Thin Man" was out, and "Fat Man" was in. Implosion was no longer a secondary option -- it was the only option.
Yes, I will accept a higher rate of re-offending.

Thus, creating more victims and more criminals in the long run. We have to burn the village in order to save it?
I would say it's exactly what is understood as a codec pack.
That's interesting. I've written Perl tools that apply pattern-matching to several-GB flat files, and while it was horrifyingly slow at first, I was able to get the performance down to a minute in the average case. Honestly the whole time I think I/O was a greater limiting factor than Perl's processing speed.
Thunderbird, version 3, and you'll get me to upgrade when you pry the mouse out of my cold dead fingers.

Thunderbird was the first client I found that let me manage multiple separate accounts through the same interface, receiving and sending mail from each in a logical way. There's probably other ways to do that now, but I'm terrified of upsetting a system that Just Works.™
Can you summarize the difference between those 2 types of frameworks/technologies? From their website descriptions they all look to be web frameworks. Sometimes I feel like Javaland is so entrenched in itself that it's hard to communicate ideas to and from the outside. I've just joined an enterprise Java outfit and it often seems like I've stepped into a different world.
A major issue is that you assign copyright to many publications, meaning that it's infringement to reuse an image in another publication. The rest of the problem is basically one of passing off already published results as new ones. Of course, because reviews take for fucking ever and can be hit by unexpected obstacles, you will not know the publication order of your articles in advance, so properly referencing parts of the work as already published while it's in pre-pub limbo is difficult. Arxiv helps a lot there, but there are still many traps.
I'm also building a javascript game (I'm using canvas and 2d images). All the comments here are freaking me out a bit. They all keep saying that html5 games are too slow. My game has many significant features done and it seems to run fine. But I'm using tiny sprites, very few animation frames and probably 10% of the artwork I intend on having in the end.

How's your experience with your game? Is it really slow or does it run fine? I'm asking regarding all platforms.
I don't know any languages that are practical in a real-life production environment. They all kind of suck in their own special ways. What makes you think Haskell's practicality is more dubious than any other?
Design Case Study of Transitioning from iOS6 to iOS7
Opera! Fast, innovative, and standards-compliant since before those things were cool! Also, mouse gestures are pretty rad.
> you can't dumb down the complexities of the real world just because it'll make some engineers happier

Except that everything in science and engineering is about dumbing down the complexities of the real world so that it makes more sense to us.
Justice Dept. watchdog never probed judges' NSA concerns
hmmm, reminds me of http://www.twilio.com/blog/2013/07/billing-incident-post-mor...

If you have a software stack and it is going to do something that is not idempotent (like billing customers or sending emails), you need a state machine more complex than "not done" and "done". You need a "doing" state. After service is restored and everything is running smoothly, you go through all the tasks stuck in "doing" and decide whether to retry or abort, based on other logs or an evaluation of the consequences of not acting vs double acting. What you do not do is have your software just keep hammering away until everything magically turns "done".
> You’re also not able to tap the AM/PM or minute items to select them, which is completely inconsistent because you can tap the day and hour items! WAT

Uh oh, that is a major red flag that the code behind this picker is one terrible mess. It implies that the code used for the time part of the picker is completely separate from the code for the date part.
Incorrect audio-sync was a known issue back in the early days of MPEG4 encoding.

Getting it right was very, very hard, and some tools even came with options to "tweak" the output-stream to get things synched up, specifically tailored for the behaviour of the Frauenhofer MP3 decoder.

I suspect some videos encoded using these tools may render and synch "incorrectly" on newer players not aware of the workaround done in the past to make improper codecs behave properly, even though they may be 100% within spec.

I'm guessing the DivX-player (which sounds like a very stuck in the past kind of thing) uses old codecs and are able to account for this, by not following spec while rendering these "tweaked" video-files.
Without compiler support for precise stack maps and barriers (and I don't know if it's actually possible to implement them, given how malleable pointers are in C++) the best you can do is conservative stop-the-world GC. That sacrifices a lot of performance over the incremental or concurrent GC algorithms you see in runtimes like the HotSpot JVM.
I don't know how much credit the post deserves, but something to think about: A lot of very strong companies had already started capturing the smartphone market before Apple came out with the iPhone. I think it's clear that people care about marketing and branding and are obviously willing to pay for that (hint: car companies).
As soon as they finish building their new offices, they must do a teardown and score it for repairability.
Ok, so I had an "unpaid internship" that essentially consisted of hanging out on this company's couch and working on an open-source project (github.com/andrewf/pcap2har), with occasional mentoring, on hardware they had lying around. This resulted directly in a) a paid internship with this company the next summer, working on different stuff and b) an internship with Google the next next summer, working on pcap2har.

Am I supposed to be angry about this? They thought they were going to use pcap2har in their for-profit product, but in fact they didn't. Does that change anything? Today, I certainly wouldn't take an unpaid internship, having already been measured and found adequate. But for the company that first gave me a chance, I have nothing but gratitude.
Not "standard," really. My day-to-day wear is usually a short-sleeve button-down and slacks; ties and fedoras are more of a clubbing outfit. The one that the bouncer and half a dozen other people complimented me was a crimson dress shirt, sapphire tie, black slacks and fedora. Risky but striking, and evidence suggests that I pulled it off.

(I will now pause to enjoy your apoplectic fit. Yes, you. You know who you are.)

By comparison, my last-minute no-budget "Devil out on the town" Halloween costume was a black suit, black shirt, black fedora with the King of Hearts in the band, blood-red tie.
So, if “non-practicing entity” isn’t the right term, what is? I propose something much simpler: “patent-holder.” That’s all that really matters, and puts the focus where it should be – on the patent itself. There isn’t a need to categorize the holder beyond that.

Yeah. There is. Trolling vs. the intended exercise of this "negative right"? : "Its the difference between using a feather and using a chicken." We know it when we see it.
You may be interested in the technique Amy Hoy recommends in her 30x500 app development course, called a "sales safari." See her blog (unicornfree.com) for details, but the basic idea is to find out where people in a given niche/business hang out, and then lurk there, documenting what you see. Common watering holes are usually places people complain about things and commiserate, and paint points are likely to come up there.

This works better than asking people what their pain points are. For heaven's sake, if you want to know what someone really thinks, asking them is often the worst approach to take!
Seamless Login UX – best practices
I got tested as part of an entrance exam to my elementary school.
> One question though, her IQ was 173? Einstein's was between 160-180.

It's not about how big it is. It's about how you use it.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2049060/ballmer-strongly-hint...
Do you want to do scientific programming or work in scientific programming. To work in scientific programming you should probably find a PhD program. As a grad student in the right program you'll probably spend most of your time doing data science. Once you get the degree you can go back to where you work now except work on slightly different stuff.
Android did this ages ago. What's the news here?
This might be true if the speed was not gravity-assisted and at the edge of the athlete's performance. Braddley wiggins can take it 35mph and ride with traffic on the flats. He can accelerate (up and down) on his own volition. 40 miles per hour is more speed than most can handle, in terms of decelleration, on 20-23c slicks high pressure tires with minimal surface area, to a terminal speed of zero. While modern brakes are good, they are not that good. Usually the solution is to swerve (avoidance), but in this case it appears there are no shoulders, and consequences off the Tarmac. It doesn't take 170+ IQ to figure out you need to respect your limits in the terrain--it has objective dangers. As an avid cyclist (and someone with experience in dangerous riding conditions) the arrogance of some others I see (both on the roads in in these comments) is surprising. It seems like there is some territorial issues at play. Regardless, one needs to respect objective hazard and their absolute skill levels as those risks rise.
A lot of people are seeing this. Phones now have a lot of computational power, but a 4-5 inch touch-screen and a hardware button or two constitute a piss-poor interface for using it all! You have an office suite that works on your phone. Big whoop. It still doesn't make them viable devices for serious work.

So, what's next? Do phones become our personal go-everywhere pocket computers, and will displays, keyboards, "vacuum" laptops etc. just become a way to improve the interface capabilities of our personal pocket-computers? Cloud computing, if the NSA doesn't manage to kill it completely, offers a way to at least have our documents follow us around (e.g. Dropbox). There's no reason why a lot more of our computing environment couldn't follow us around via the cloud too. It's easily doable to store everything about your current session on the cloud so that, when you leave work, your computer at home has everything waiting for you just the way it was at work. Having the exact same computer following us around without transmitting everything to Big Brother would have a certain amount of appeal if not for the greater danger of losing everything with our phone! So, what's next?

MS isn't as far behind as Cringely thinks. The surface pro is basically a desktop that's meant to follow you around. It's not quite phone sized, but MS is definitely showing a strong interest in unifying the mobile and desktop user experience. They've done more so far than Apple has, since Cringely's speculations on iOS are still entirely future tense. Still, I'm not entirely convinced the one-computer following you everywhere approach is going to beat the cloud. A little back-tracking by governments on their right to invade user privacy or a credible open-source secure-cloud environment actually taking off could lift cloud computing's chances. Yes, I'm aware it will largely be chance which one wins, and user privacy will likely be compromised no matter which approach wins, either by cloud-data storage or mobile-device backups.

No matter how it happens, things are evolving towards a world where we won't have separate, discrete devices, but just multiple ways of accessing the same persistent computing space. When it comes right down to it, new ways to interface with our computing environment are probably just as important as unifying our discrete computing spaces. Google's work on Glass indicates another possible way to change the game. Free both the user's hands and you have the potential to deliver richer user-input capability. Still, it's not entirely clear to me that this is Google's intention with glass. They may be getting too hung up on the idea of augmented reality when improving user input capability would bring far greater benefits. Augmented reality is nice, but if that's all Google sees in Glass they're going to get their butts handed to them.
Yea, i'm not sure why they bothered to try to obfuscate the dst address at all, the article mentions siri...