skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article: 'One simple dynamo-technology low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe.'

And the bombs were 260 times more powerful than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Jesus H. Christ.

NB the original story appeared in The Guardian.
I don’t think it ever had animated focus transitions.
Expensive for farmers who make $2kUSD per annum. Even in the central districts of tier two Chinese cities[1], rent is only $200-300/month for a decent two bedroom. In which case, they ought to just move to a functioning city. My total monthly expenses (rent, food, leisure, taxis, reasonably fast internet) are often <$800USD.

[1]ie not Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou
I think it's a bit more nuanced than you are making out.

Samsung do have their own Software (Tizen, and Bada(?), and a third 'unknown' base). They are pushing for an Android compatible linux, with strong hardware integration. Huawei and ZTE won't be able to compete with that. They could fail completely on that strategy, but they are doing more than just increasing PPI.
Big buttons are great, but they'd better make sense
Its Mercantile's negligence!
True, but the examples in these cases are of cities that appeared to have been created anew - in China'a case in the middle of nowhere. India could never afford to create massive new cities using state funds like that, so it's city growth was organic by force, not by choice.

Also the reason these cities are ghosts isn't because there aren't enough people in China (it is after all the world's most populous country), but because they were ill-planned in terms of economic/social benefits for residents.
The juxtaposition of these two headlines on Ars struck me with some awe:
"Grand Theft Auto V rakes in over $1 billion in three days",
"Blackberry warns of near-$1 billion loss this quarter".
Especially since they're more tangible 'billions' than the Instagram deal.
People don't choose a server so they can use the name they want.They play on the server their friends on (or chose a random one).

If the name isn't available they come up with a new name.
I was wondering why nothing was playing until I read your comment.

Had to turn off flashblock for this site to make it work
Can you download this as a standalone app? I'd love a command line music player I can just boot into from my terminal
iOS7 definitely feels rushed. I work doing a lot of mobile web stuff, and the number of bugs in Safari in iOS7 is staggering. Here's hoping we see 7.1 very soon.
Need 70 days off your feet? NASA pays volunteers $18K to lie in bed
The only remaining viable part of BlackBerry (as RIM is known now) is their BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) service, which is like WhatsApp, but came out a decade ago. The user base is still very large (60m worldwide), so the platform could valuable as a standalone offering or as part of another mobile services company.

The patent portfolio will likely go to the highest bidder, independent of any company assets. No one needs their devices or the OS. Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Samsung are all candidates, or it may go to a consortium of some/all, as has happened in the past with the sale of Nortel's portfolio.
You can't convince someone who didn't even bother to read the article before coming to such a strong opinion about what he believes.
Why RSA keys so big and AES keys so small
How is it that banks, who arguably store more value, get away with 4 digit ATM codes? They do the same thing Apple does with Thouch ID. They lock you after a small numer of failed attempts falling back to a secondary form of authentication.
My Honest Clixsense Review
While i have always felt the difference. I never knew about the numbers.

And while iPhone wins @ 55ms, i still think that is a very high number for input latency. Would have wanted Sub 20ms.
There are command-line options that exist today. ncmpcpp and mocp are both popular options.
Show HN: A scraping-based API for Dubizzle
Project Gasbuggy
http://www.nature.com/news/dna-has-a-521-year-half-life-1.11...
It's apparently an ongoing project:

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/a-night-of-exp...

And they found blood:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/30/world/asia/siberia-mammoth-blo...
I agree, to mitigate mallocs context switches without refactoring the code you could malloc your own arena and use tlsf.
I always start important complaints by Twitter for this reason. It seem also like the support teams talk at a higher executive level in the company.
It's hard to say without knowing all of the details, which won't happen for a while due to the extreme secrecy surrounding the technical details of the bomb design among other things. However, the implication of the reports about the accident are that the collision with the ground was what caused most of the other safeguards to have failed, even though one of the safeguards appears to have failed during the breakup of the aircraft.
It just occurred to me that BlackBerry is playing a brilliant strategy. This billion dollar writedown lowers the stocks so it can be taken private. Meanwhile, BlackBerry announces the flagship Z30 to get users excited.

Z10 hasn't been out that long, and already they're writing off stock? And Z10 is such an awesome phone, anyone who actually uses one loves it.

It could only be for one reason, to take the company private asap.

I expect announcement of a sale soon.
I got my information directly from a geneticist friend who was explaining why cloning dinosaurs is not going to happen.

He may of course have been simplifying it for us.

Looking at the internet it looks like it's usually a lot lower. 10,000 years is the longest it might survive.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2...

This discussion explains it:

http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/10/10/1754212/half-life...

"10,000 years is roughly 20 half-life periods, so they should expect roughly 1-millionth of the DNA to remain"

EDIT: Reading on I see that if stored at cold temperatures it can last a lot longer.
The Benchmarks from Oracle on One VM to Rule it All has Topaz Numbers there.

Basically MRI <JRuby <Topaz <New Oracle SVM,

And the above line has roughly 20 - 50 times performance difference in benchmarks.
What Europe can teach us about keeping the Internet open and free
You have a certain number of tries with the passcode, too. You need to process that number in the same way.

Also, the slick, futuristic appeal of fingerprint access goes a long way to achieve Apple's branding goals, which surely is just as important to selling iPhones as actual security.
Talking about the security of the processed Touch ID data storage is worthless without discussing the data path from the sensor to the data store. It sounds like the sensor provides more detail to the CPU than it ends up storing. i.e. the real data is likely available to anyone who hacks your phone.
One step closer to Jurassic Park.
I am writing a book on different ways to do this: http://www.howtofindsaasideas.com/

I hope to meet the great patio11 at Microconf soon btw, looking forward to it :)
It is really noticeable when dragging something with your finger and the object you are dragging doesn't stay under your finger. I'm actually surprised the delay on all those devices are so high, I mean I can ping a Google server that's in another city 140 miles away from me in under 10ms...
The y2k mention was an analogy, not literally the same bug, because as you correctly stated it would be impossible to trip over the y2k bug several years after y2k. It was a calendaring bug.
I've worked on a GA144 into a 24-core (24 cores of 6 F18 cores working together) Lisp Machine, with some success. I was able to define a tiny Lisp in under 16 bytewords of F18 code, with the rest of Lisp being á la carte, and distributed across those six cores.

Because the core design is modular and all the cores are the same the GA144 is much harder to backdoor and it's easier to detect if it is.
Honestly, if you're worried about your image the citation to slate isn't the one I would have disclaimed.

That's quite some editorial comment at the end of the crev.info piece:

"""
These claims should be remembered if ancient DNA older than that is confirmed in future finds[...] if intact DNA is found in a dinosaur or other fossil older than the upper limit they just stated, it could have the effect of falsifying the evolutionary timescale. Since evolutionists are such staunch believers, though, most likely the reaction will be, “Well, what do you know; DNA can survive for 65 million years.” [...]
The rest of us should remember what they said beforehand about DNA’s upper limit age, and not let them get away with it.
"""

Now we know -- if you've had result A for hundreds of years, and result B for singles of years, then evidence suggesting that the two conflict clearly supports result B.

EDIT: link to http://crev.info/2013/07/longevity-of-dna-estimated/ (and vacillation about the propriety of citing to slate) was removed even before I posted this reply. It seems to be a nice, on-topic summary of current knowledge on the longevity of DNA, but wow, the editorializing. :/
Temperature chart for the last 11,000 years
"And what company on earth goes looking for "failed entrepreneurs" by design?"

One weighing cost/benefit. Failed entrepreneurs will be easily an order of magnitude cheaper than their successful counterparts. If you think you can identify and correct why they failed, you have a good source of talent. e.g. "this person was great at product development but lousy at business administration, so we'll give her a CTO role"

There are workable strategies other than "get the very best, and pay the moon for them"
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Manufacturing Combined in One Technique
IOS 7 bug lets you place calls from a locked iPhone
I'm not suggesting it, but since the service is apparently underfunded, could it be a palm greasing issue?
NASA Sees Super-rapid Intensification of Supertyphoon Usagi | NASA
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That's more of an automatic restart (kill and start the process again) than an automatic reload (update code within the running system). And surely there are non-go-specific tools which can already do that, aren't there?
One thing not mentioned here is how much the Chinese value brand new properties. By brand new I mean, properties that have never been used/lived in.

It's a common trend in real estate where investors buy properties and leave it vacant to brag about the place being brand new to sell at a higher price in the future.

This is likely to exacerbate the "empty" cities problem in China.
Why does responsible disclosure go out the window when it comes to iOS lock screen issues?
Lessons Learned From Selling Tech To Corporate Customers
Further proof that humans grossly underestimate all other non-human lifeforms. Parrots reason like three year old children[1], mice feel empathy[2], elephants grieve[3], birds hold funerals for their dead[4], and now this.

And yet we won't hesitate to deforest natural habitats for yet more highways and ugly low density housing. And scientists continue to use animals for all kinds of shockingly inhumane experiments. Over 19 million animals are killed each year in research in the US alone[5], and that's not counting mice.

Even house pets are stolen and used for animal testing[6].

Surely we are the smartest animal on the planet (smart enough to rationalize anything), but isn't it more important we be compassionate?

[1] http://m.livescience.com/22178-parrots-reason-three-year-old...
[2] http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/researchers-say-mice-feel...
[3] http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/06/when-doves-cry-scientific-a...
[4] http://news.discovery.com/animals/birds-hold-avian-funerals-...
[5] http://www.statisticbrain.com/animal-testing-statistics/
[6] http://www.stolenpets.com/about.htm
Ha.

I really should have taken a second look at what I was citing! I removed that before I saw your comment. For some reason I thought I'd cited some interesting genetics blog. I read the paragraph. Yep. Took a quick look around — looks science-y.

Oops. Bah. My shame. I spat my coffee out when I read the whole article.

On a related note, I really wish HN had a preview feature. I often end up posting & then editing because 1) no preview 2) sessions timing out.
A 4GHz 12-core Power8 for badass boxes
I'm in London. There are dozens of massive modern housing complexes... with no one in them. It takes time, and often the builders prefer to sell slowly at high prices rather than drop the prices enough to sell quickly.

I'm not saying none of these represents a problem, but it's not a given that large empty developments do. Especially in areas with very rapid growth.
Yesterday I bought a .my domain from Exabytes and I found that the nameservers can only be updated through their support staff rather than using their control panel.

Not as bad as your problem but a mild annoyance nonetheless.
How the Raspberry Pi boots up
First thing I thought, if nepal is anything like the rest of the region it makes sense.
Where does persistence come from? - The Genius in All of Us
And it's not just the dung beetles that are missing out on the celestial tapestry over our heads, thanks to light pollution.
Not only that, the problem was date/time related. Dates and times seem to be one of the most tricky things to account for and are consistently taken for granted, introducing unexpected errors. You would think by now someone would have made a fortune developing a robust radiation tolerant datetime IC, that has enough bits to count milliseconds from the big bang until the estimated end of the universe.
Is there any way to find out whether that is a permanent deal or contract based?
Maybe that sort of government guarantee is the only way to compete in a field like semiconductors.

Building a fab and developing semi technologies requires a huge amount of capital, but if a competitor comes up with a better process you lose your lunch. That doesn't mean that in the next generation you won't be out ahead though.

Intel seem to do pretty well without a government to bail them out, but the other players are all deeply intertwined with their governments.

Maybe high tech manufacturing is an industry where it is hard for free market countries to compete, hence its flight from the west. Actually, a lot of technological success on the US is built on the back of its military industrial complex.

Is deep government involvement required for technological development? (Specifically the needs R&D and money, not the many small bets found here). If so, wouldn't it be nice if our engine for funding that wasn't built around war.
Hitting The High Notes
Man stabbed and robbed in London of Grand Theft Auto game
Imagine if the x axis started at 50. The difference between the iPhone 5s and the next one would look massive -- much more than the 2-2.5x it is. That a lot of people do it ("standard practice") does not mean its not slightly misleading.
1) Starting with "meh" makes you sound extremely dismissive.

2) It's barely related. This art is about exploiting physics to make things that seem like they shouldn't be possible. FEZ is about solving puzzles by looking at them differently. (Or something... I haven't played it yet. The gist I get is that you're doing stuff in 3D when everything looks 2D.)

3) One great way to get down-voted is to complain about being down-voted.
Probably because Apple has never acknowledged a problem with their platform, let alone rewarded one. Apple's outreach to any kind of dev community is nothing short of awful.
I tried it on my phone and it indeed works.
Exploring the Psychology of Wealth, 'Pernicious' Effects of Economic Inequality
Actually, they're the second known species to do so in the Animal kingdom.

Humans have looked into the night sky and oriented themselves using the stars.

Although dung beetles have probably been doing it longer.
Can I ask for an argument in support of Laravel being the only PHP framework on here? I think it's very "cool" (especially the Silex-esque routing), but there's not a whole lot of Laravel jobs out there.
this sounds very interesting, is it open source? I am wondering how you made a processor made specifically for a stack based language (ColorFORTH) for Lisp work.
The secret company behind Twitter's TV takeover
New Intel Chips Contain Back-Door Processor, Hackable Even When Computer is Off
I fell into this trap. Once, when accessing my account, I thought I had forgotten the password, but in truth they were asking for the password to my email and I inadvertently put.
It is very common to reuse passwords, I bet they test for reuse and "invade" the e-mail account without permission.
If we want a 60Hz app, the touch latency + processing + display shouldn't exceed 16.7ms.

1ms touch latency would be nice indeed, but I think 5-8ms would work just as well on most devices.
Japan grapples with lack of entrepreneurs - FT.com
New Google Homepage
This is what first came into my mind also.

If hairless monkeys can evolve to do this, why not dung beetles?

> Although dung beetles have probably been doing it longer.

That isn't clear. I'm sure we've doing it for much longer than 10k years. That we've always been fascinated with the heavens means that perhaps even other apes were/are doing this.
Stanislav at loper-os.org is one of my absolute favorites, because he is an absolutist. I know he wrote previously about remaking a proper computer on an FPGA, but I don't know how he's progressing.
Testing the iPhone 5S slow motion capabilities
What I Learnt By Working With Two Startups At a Time?
AirDrop and app discovery
Normally that could be a reason. However, TCS, Infosys and Wipro have cash reserves of ~$3.5 billion, $4 billion, $1.5 billion respectively.

The acquisition of "failed entrepreneurs" will be at best in the single digit million dollar range.

And if the stated purpose of such acqui-hires is to "create disruptive technology", then I'd easily say they've got the cost/benefit equation turned on its head.

You can't be disruptive by not taking risks, paying peanuts or being a miserly penny pincher.
I hope they would have some pause over the border zone attached to constricted friendly borders (For example, I don't see much reason to consider Michigan a border zone...).

And I do see CPB vehicles dozens of miles from the bridges, apparently working hard enforcing that open border (or buying Subway).
This is not news. vPro is a system administration facility on some Intel processors aimed at enterprises and has been around for years.
Found: The Lost 'Steve Jobs Time Capsule' From 1983
Unfortunately, Lisp Machine software was not particularly secure. Everything ran in the same address space, with no protection; ordinary user code could, for instance, just call a low-level disk driver. And the code running in this environment was written in pre-Morris-worm days, when no one had ever heard of a remote code execution vulnerability. (I remember some people needed to be convinced that running an "eval server" --- a server that would execute code that came over the network from unauthenticated sources --- was a REALLY BAD IDEA. In this environment!)
"Because pretty much everything that was possible to discover with earth based telescopes has been discovered."

That's outright wrong.

Is the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope there just to look pretty and reconfirm existing theories? Why build the Giant Magellan Telescope when apparently there's no more discoveries to make? Or the European Extremely Large Telescope? The Thirty Meter Telescope?
Yahoo seems to have done it. Successfully.
Seems so

h> logBase 2 . realToFrac $ (secs "2013-08-11" - secs "2000-01-01")*10
31.999992174768167
On Windows you can use something like this

http://www.nodesoft.com/foldermonitor

(freeware)
I pay extra for machines to have IPMI support. Remote power up and down, console access, all via a separate IP and SSH.

Unfortunately, I also trust the BMC less than the main machine, since I'm not fully in control of it. Separate VLANs and firewalling away from the main network can help.
Things Linus Torvalds said at LinuxCon 2013
missing one thing for me, the Status page should also show in which Genre you are currently, i cant see that anywhere
googling "industrial revolution averted iceage" returns a few conservative blogs, smugly pleased with the possibility

the only credible commentary i can find is in a nytimes article:

"Scientists say that if natural factors were still governing the climate, the Northern Hemisphere would probably be destined to freeze over again in several thousand years. 'We were on this downward slope, presumably going back toward another ice age,' Dr. Marcott said."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/science/earth/global-tempe...
> And yet we won't hesitate to deforest natural habitats for yet more highways and ugly low density housing. And scientists continue to use animals for all kinds of shockingly inhumane experiments. Over 19 million animals are killed each year in research in the US alone[5], and that's not counting mice.

We aren't the only species on the planet that engages in genocide of other species. Plenty of animals, large and small, are predators of other animals as well as habitat destroyers. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if we someday find an animal that performs tests on other animals (other than us, that is). In nature, it is every species for itself, it is like that extreme form of capitalism that libertarians craze after.

It is egotistical to think that we some how exist outside of our ecosystem, with god like choices to make. Nature will throw things back into balance one way or the other, likely to our detriment.
Ha! This looks like the result of an 8-hour meeting between engineering and PMs.
Those big buttons seem more like a bad onboarding implementation than call-to-action buttons.
When it's public it becomes PR instead of "just customer service."
We barely even understand how quantum entanglement works, let alone being so sure that this sort of method for cryptography couldn't be bypassed in the future.
I'm a new user of MC after the redesign and I think they really made sense. They are not actionable buttons, but "instruction buttons". They help the beginners to understand the UI and know where are the things they're going to use often. I remember have used once the old UI and it wasn't as clear as this and normal people don't mind clicking.
NIC-SE (.se) used to require you to fax in nameserver updates. This was 10 years ago though...
As far as I'm aware, the 3G comment is uncorroborated. The anti theft system only works if the user has installed a 3G card. The chip can then access this card, decrypt the kill SMS and shutdown the chip.

Also think about it - you're locking the processor onto a board which mostly made of metal, under a big block of metal to cool it and then you're surrounding it all in a metal box with more metal around it. A 3G signal is no match for a Faraday cage.
Executable to preview markdown files in your browser
Does that change ethical responsibility?
Are you sure you're not conflating true disruption with media coverage/stock price appreciation?