skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There actually is a similar trend in cars. They're getting more featureful and larger. Which of course means they're trending ever further away from being able to double as practical aircraft.
That doesn't surprise me, the GamePad in particular seems like something that bluetooth wasn't really designed for. Does it even have the bandwidth to push video? It's pretty power-hungry when 100% active too.
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/08/dot-vehicle-miles-...

"As we've discussed, gasoline prices are just part of the story. The lack of growth in miles driven over the last 5+ years is probably also due to the lingering effects of the great recession (high unemployment rate and lack of wage growth), the aging of the overall population (over 55 drivers drive fewer miles) and changing driving habits of young drivers."

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/nhts.cfm

Why Young People Are Driving Less and What It Means for Transportation Policy
http://www.uspirg.org/reports/usp/transportation-and-new-gen...
Ah, I assumed you were in the US. I've actually bought some more second hand books from Amazon because it's now typically $3.99 for the handling and that includes the seller's profit - the book itself may cost as little as 1c.

That said I still prefer haunting second hand bookstores, which are far more fun that browsing online. I'll sometimes spend a year or two looking for a book even though I know I could find and order it in a 2 minutes on Amazon...but there's no satisfaction in doing so, whereas finding a book through diligent searching is enormously rewarding.
Even simpler, all you need is a water hose and a decibel meter.
if buf[4295967295] is valid, then you should almost certainly be indexing with something bigger than 32 bits, and the max of your index is again likely to be invalid (and, as I've mentioned elsewhere, more usefully invalid than -1).
Indentured servitude is debt bondage made explicitly so (contractually). When a worker says, "we were compelled to come just to make a living, but we've had no luck", that seems like they've been tricked into working as indentured servants without prior knowledge.
Cloudup acquired by Automattic
On the web, Vista's share is smaller than XP's.

StatCounter[1]: XP 20.58%, Vista 5.21%

Among gamers, XP and Vista are about equally unpopular.

Steam[2]: XP32 6.83%, XP64 0.35%, Vista32 5.18, Vista64 2.32%

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201208-201308

[2] http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
The article is talking about their not being paid, which means we're back into slavery again. Indentured servitude is also banned in the civilised world, so that's probably not a good way to defend yourself.
From the site:

Can't make it to an event? We’ll be posting videos of the sessions shortly after the last event, so all Registered Apple Developers can take advantage of great iOS 7 Tech Talks content.
It's funny that this should turn up on HN, which is the true source[1] of this quote, often misattributed[2] to Descartes:

"Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company."

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012082

[2]: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=Any+community+that+get...
Looks great! I think this would be great for anyone looking through online classifieds, so that posters could include a mobile friendly media (placeunit) link. Is that your main target?

Do you have any plans to charge for this service?
One of the appalling details is that these abuses to the individual don't make a dent in anyone's profit. Really, how many workers do you have to deny water to, in order to make up for even one worker's salary?

I allege that this is actually a symptom of corruption. Starting with poor labor laws at the top, down to poor enforcement of probably already poor corporate policies on the ground.

I don't really believe that this situation is even to the best interest of the companies (excepting maybe the slave driving contractors on the bottom).
If working fewer hours is better and increasing minimum wage is better, I don't see why we take stupid baby-steps? Why don't we just have a five hour work-week with a minimum of $500/hr?
Hasn't stopped working internally.
As I've already gone to WWDC, would there be any benefit to going?
Why is Windows even entering the comment section

Windows isn't; your parent is explaining that clearly, given the 360 controller works great with Windows, using a controller with your PC is no longer quite the black art to the public that it used to be.
Homemaking services.
This is useful for getting kitchen supplies for our 25 person office.

It's a small bummer that they don't deliver beer and wine from Whole Foods or Lucky for our Friday Beers but otherwise a great improvement in convenience. Given that Safeway delivers alcohol and Whole Foods and Lucky clearly stock it, it must be a policy by Google Shopping Express that prohibits beer and wine delivery.
There was a somewhat-confusing attempt at standardizing that pattern a few weeks ago: http://resthooks.org
I'm interested in your need - in your example, you have a verified, paid speaking lead and you need someone to line up the work for you, get it billed, maybe find you other leads, what else? I'm not going to promise anything other than to think about your need and see if I can come up with a simple solution (I have an idea in mind). If you'd like to email about it, send me a note - noj AT dimensionsix.com.
What happens when the timer hits zero? The game just kicks out?

Why not just set a timer on your smartphone and when it goes off turn off the kid's console..
Valve's Linux-powered Steam Machines gather steam
The entire idea here is to have a TV-attached device along the lines of the Xbox or Playstation that plays Steam games — so you can sit on the couch with your SO and play some Trine 2 or something. An input device that you strap over your face would make the couch-and-TV integration a bit moot.
Fortunately there are already a handful of signaling servers. Running an ICE server is trivial. It takes literally nothing to get a WebRTC chat up and running. If you multiplex in the browser, doesn't take any more work to have multi-peer conferencing.

It you want to be nice to your user and pull apart the streams and combine and multiplex on the server, that takes more work and is totally worth paying for.
untethered soul - after 15 years of reading about meditation and "inner freedom" this book explains things so clearly, direct and obvious that I feel I have made an important step forward. Right after finishing it I re-read most parts again. It was the right book at the right time for me. I guess many readers might find it indeed too simple but for me that's the strength.
Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted
As is the case in all the Persian Gulf oil states. You didn’t think the sheikhs themselves would get their hands dirty, did you? They’ve got Pakistanis for that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_Pakistan#A...
A Study on a Custom Laravel CMS's Caching System
Short answer: it's a mystery; long answer: it's a small island and the gossip is wild and unreliable, but he was definitely involved in some shady stuff. That having been said, contract killings and disappearances are not unheard of here (just not usually this high-profile). Only a few people really know what happened and aren't talking, but I wouldn't be surprised if either story turned out to be true (he was set up / it was him). I do know that his assets were seized and quickly auctioned off, so you have to wonder where that money went and what kind of incentives it created. It's a very small country with a very limited government, which while generally safer and less corrupt than other central american nations, creates an environment where wealthy and well-connected people can sweep a lot of questionable activity under the rug. He certainly had a lot of enemies, and enough wealth to be coveted, but he was also pretty unstable and by all accounts a bit detached from reality. None of the scenarios floated are as outlandish as they might seem to outsiders.
Will/can there be an Iron.io OAuth API?
This is ok in general, but IMHO silently failing code (like a break condition that never happens because of overflow) is far worse than getting your arithmetic right. Getting it wrong implies a clear bug, whereas a seemingly bugless loop might be harder to identify as the source of the error.
That seems pretty small to me, both in terms of progress and in terms of the actual size of of the release.
China is Not unblocking Facebook in Shanghai free trade zone
It's in his profile.
Hardware Trojans - Demo. How secure is the hardware that we use?
There's a difference between median and mean. While both can be called "average", that term almost always means "mean".

If there are 9 employees making $30K/year and the owner makes $270K/year, then the average salary is $54K/year, but 9 of the 10 people are making below average.

Bill Gates made, what, $10 billion last year? Put him in a city with 100,000 people making $100,000/year. His arrival would cause the average salary to double, and all but one would have a less than average income.
It might very well be actual slavery. The "recruiters" are probably not employees of the company that commissions the labor, instead they are selling these men to companies who then "rent" them out.

This comes very close to a proprietary relationship, and it's even partly supported by the legal system which helps to keep the workers/slaves in their miserable "employment" relationship.
I started this thread asking if there was a better solution that memorizing
5-10 passwords and using some variable of a throwaway for the majority of
everything else, and I'm still not convinced that my method isn't the best
outside of just hard memorizing a unique password for every site.

When I was younger, I had only 5-10 important accounts and I memorized unique passwords that I thought were strong. Now I have many more important accounts, including four brokerage accounts, several bank accounts, half a dozen credit card accounts, two domain registrar accounts associated with tens of thousands of dollars worth of domains, etc. I have a separate computer that I only use to access these important accounts, and my passwords for these accounts are stored in KeePass, which allows me to have unique passwords with 200+ bits of entropy.

I prefer my current setup more than my old setup.
Verizon Plans to Institute Internet Tolls
Your take on my objection is correct.
Maybe try finding a 360-compatible controller with a good dpad?
You could buy a console and a XIM3[1]. You could dominate any FPS, I think.

[1] http://xim3.com/
Sony's Xperia Z Ultra is 6.4".
Ask HN: What is the best enterprise digital asset management?
We have several hundred GB of files and need to share them across physical locations as well as allow our staffers to access from anywhere.

We want something like Adobe Bridge for any files. Also like our own cloud.

Can anyone suggestion some tools they've used for this sort of need?
The PC could certainly be a cause. Some video card drivers, for example, deal poorly with multiple displays or secondary displays, and add an extra frame or two of buffering.

Having a device like this certainly improves testing the PC side.
Well, it's arguable either way IMHO. I'd give priority to Bagwell because he first published his work academically in 2000. At the time he worked for Odersky, the author of the Scala language. So these structures were in Scala's implementation first, then adapted and improved for Clojure.
The New Kindle Fires in 14 Tweets
Jenkins is pretty good. It has plugins to integrate with other software. We have been using it for continuous integration, all kinds of tests, cronjobs and continuous deployment.

Making continuous integration and deployment fast is very important for us (jotform) so we made it run everything in parallel with our own scripts.

For example, one part of our app takes 35 seconds to be live on the site after a developer commits. If we run it linearly it would probably take 10 minutes. It takes 35 seconds because the slowest casperjs test takes about 35 seconds.
The only shocking thing is how we in the US put up with this behavior from governments we send billions in aid to every year. You'd think we'd have the balls to suspend some their aid and have them put an end to this type of abuse.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6446535
If this electron can travel faster than the speed of light, maybe other things can too.
Well, thats a good point too. But still, crazy people make good products all the time...
"We have nothing to announce at this time."

I'd like there to be is all I've got for you at the moment. :( Priorities, and all that.
Gross national happiness
Show HN: StraightUp - News at your pace
ewencp and I are building this service to help people keep up on news more efficiently:
readstraightup.com

Our blog explains what we're trying to accomplish:
blog.readstraightup.com/post/62080241248/introducing-straightup

We'd appreciate any feedback, e.g. usability, whether the value proposition is compelling, etc.
As someone who wasn't able to get tickets from network issues, please don't. :)
Gnome 3.10 Release Notes
It's more of a scientific koan. Interesting to consider, but of little practical consequence (unless, of course, the missing positrons could be located).
SqlFiddle down
I learned recently that the famous Dijkstra quote "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes" is apparently a misattribution (at least according to Wikiquote). But it is pithy and great, and it has that Dijkstra ring to it. The author of this piece is on to something with "crowdwriting."
People always complain that Google is making us dumber. Now I guess they can complain it's making us weaker as well.
I don't think it's viewed as a plausible idea by very many. It seems Feynman only mentioned it in passing, so I doubt he held it in much regard.

It's an interesting hypothesis, but without a testable and falsifiable theory, it's not really something we can study.
"An immensely useful lesson to learn is how to correlate all the conflicting advice and apply it to your own situation."

This appears to be the single most important way to get use from YCombinator (or from reading Hacker News). Even if it seems obvious, keeping this advice in mind also helps to avoid posting indignant comments on other startup advice threads.
Prosper Raises $25 Million in New Round, Adding BlackRock as a Backer
>So why is the article so short? Has there been any additional research?

This is just one of the many things that fell out of feynman's brain when he wasn't concentrating. AFAICT he produced ideas like this the same way the rest of us produce farts.
This idea is very, very old.
I first read about it in the book Stalking the Wild Pendulum.

http://www.amazon.com/Stalking-Wild-Pendulum-Mechanics-Consc...
Photo Pea 0.2 reads & saves to PSD format.
Great concept, thanks for sharing. This is a valid alternative to getting a cloud machine (e.g. EC2) and providing a reverse proxy from your localhost to an open port on the cloud machine.
New York Still Investigating Trading on Early Access
only 300 boxes for beta? That seems a little small.

It does, but like any other prototype the beta boxes are probably a couple more times more expensive than the finished product, and they'll probably be giving them to people for free (??) which represents half a million dollars out of their pocket.
My initial reaction was that you can't turn coal plants on and off that way, which turned out to be correct:

http://www.ipautah.com/data/upfiles/newsletters/CyclingArtic...
Clickable links:

http://www.readstraightup.com

http://blog.readstraightup.com/post/62080241248/introducing-...
It was his adviser's idea. Read the article.
Google Hangouts provides a lot of Skypeishness, for what that's worth.
If this were true, there would be much more antimatter in the universe than is currently observed.

The idea is that since positrons can be viewed as electrons moving backwards in time, it may be the same electron weaving its way to the future and past countless times. But that would imply that the number of electrons in the universe = the number of positrons.
579 Days Of Confronting My Fears
Seriously. This seems totally basic to me. If someone wants to program in C, vigilance for case coverage of any kind is essential.
I disagree with your assumption that sex slaves aren't by definition 'slaves' because they aren't legally owned. They are bought and sold (from what I've learned at the movies) so to me they are actual slaves.
The Tectonic Shift, Part 2: Moving to Agile and Tracking Success
Good points, makes sense now.
All I can offer is this: Three separate sites that have the script[1][2] (or a transcription[3] of the movie) all fail to have that quote. None of them even contain the word "imaginary" and only two (the scripts, not the transcription) have the word "religion" once but in a scene description and not as dialogue. I should note that the two scripts seem to be the same. (Although who really knows where they got it. One could just copy the other.) But both are different than the transcript.

[1] http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Point-Break.html
[2] http://www.awesomefilm.com/script/pointbreak.html
[3] http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/p/point-break-scr...
I went to the one in the Netherlands in november 2008. At the time, one half of the workshops were about making web apps for iPhoneOS and the other half was about developing for the then recently launched App Store. It was a great experience because there were a lot of Apple employees to ask technical questions.
why keep the ad?
I'll see your Mangetic Monopole, and raise you a Boltzmann Brain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
It's also a pun - R&R would normally stand for "rest and recreation."
The First Carbon Nanotube Computer
> So I'm going to refine my definition to only allow the points to be chosen in connected areas.

Are two areas considered connected if they cross a river, once?
Solar power has something that has been proven to be an universial law for all manufacturing: The manufacturing cost decreases is a power function of cumulative production, also known as wright's law.

This is a very interesting paper about this concept:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.1463

Moore's law is special because it relies on physical scaling (See Dennard Scaling) of the product. The transistors get smaller with each technology iteration, resulting in a physical correspondence to the economical law. Something like this does not exist for solar cells and most other products.
Further, is the law what is written on a piece of paper, or what is tolerated or even encouraged in practice?

To be slightly punnish, this is not an academic exercise.
You can talk to them anyway since they're using AC which means they're pumping the same electrons around over and over again. Whether it's just one or a couple that they re-use who cares, the fraud is obvious.
Seriously? When I was a kind my NES and SNES didn't need built in time controls and I am just fine.

I am a parent (11 year old girl and 7 month old son) and I restrict her (son is a little too young!) time playing games in the same way my parents did by making sure I do my chores and homework first. I don't rely on OS level parental controls and I find it kind of sad people need to. I spend a lot of time playing Animal Crossing with my daughter for example and she knows when she can and can't play it.

I guess I just find it kind of depressing that we have all these kind of digital restrictions in place for kids these days. Part of the reason I am successful in what I do [professionally] is that I didn't have such restrictions as a child and I hope my daughter in the same. At the end of the day playing Mario Kart or Viva Piñata isn't going to ruin her life.
It pains me that the U.S. has absolutely no balls to stand up to the Middle Eastern sheikdoms. And American businessmen are slobbering like puppies trying to get a slice of that oil capital. It's all quite disgusting really.
Why is government coercion so predominantly indirect?
http://html5-demos.appspot.com/static/css/filters/index.html

http://www.soundstep.com/blog/experiments/jsdetection/

http://webcamtoy.com/
Yeah that was what I was expecting they'd do also.

Maybe you'd want to compute the convex hull on a per-connected-component basis, though, to avoid allowing small islands to have undue influence.

Either that, or say that any area of sea within its convex hull gets treated as part of the state's area. This approach differs in that it special-cases sea over other kinds of land.
Pretty much. Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans and many, many Indians. The proximity to the subcontinent makes it easy to bring in the labor force. Growing up in the middle east, I knew people whose passports were taken by their sponsor so that they couldn't leave the country. House maids are very badly treated in particular (physical abuse sometimes leading to death).
Case studies from “Why you can’t find a technical co-founder”
moreover they've stolen your only electron and sell it back to you.
My 2009 Civic doesn't move the pedal when I turn cruise control on. That's entirely controlled by the car's computer. I would imagine that the Tesla does handles it in exactly the same way.
Humble Mobile Bundle 2
I find myself often using vim to write new code, and IDEs to perform routine adjustments like this one (or to do anything in Java). But, if I have to do really routine stuff, I bounce back to vim for the macro system, which truely blows away any IDE equivalent I've ever tried.

(Also, syntastic+pyflakes for vim provides auto-linting and pep8 checking automatically for basically no effort).
Ok, maybe it's just the terminology that's confusing, but how do webhooks differ from callback requests? Is it that the semantics are standardized, or is there something that I'm missing? The Author is quite excited about them.
For a fleeting moment, my work-weary eyes thought the title was, "Alabama Is Said to Move Toward an I.P.O. in the U.S.". After recognizing my mistake, I decided my first reading was more reasonable.
From great-grandparent:

> Actual slavery is when human beings are legally owned by others.

He's not saying that sex slaves aren't by definition slaves; he's saying that legal ownership is irrelevant, because sex slaves are, in fact, slaves.
There are many "angles" for utilization. Mobile friendly linking is a great idea. There is an auto implementation for Twitter cards in the Units BTW.

As for charging, it is a little premature, but if you want to attach a domain this will be a paid service.
The "full text" of the book is online, with the words in alphabetical order :) http://www.starshiptitanic.com/novel/

Here's the end: http://www.starshiptitanic.com/novel/lastpage.html
I made something similar for a webapp of mine (demo at http://www.wysp.ws/practice/course/1057894/ -- it's meant for painting so the functionality is a bit different, you control opacity)

A difficulty I had was to make the lines smooth whereas the cursor positions are not sampled very fast by the browser. I'm curious as to what your approach was, since everything seems perfectly smooth. I'll be reading your code...
Other fun Value patents:

Player biofeedback for dynamically controlling a video game state: https://www.google.com/patents/US20110009193 - Responsive play

Dynamically providing guest passes for a video game: https://www.google.com/patents/US20080234043 - Steam Sharing?
Don't forget, this explains pair production too! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_production) Pair production nuclei are just the places the electron decided to make a U-turn :)
Is it just me or do those icons look like they were drawn by a 5-year-old with a crayon?
The developers you meet
Frankly, no, I don't. The immersion is more than canceled out by the additional hassle, not to mention that many people (including myself) that this sort of 3D either doesn't work for or causes intense motion sickness.
I'll make a note of this, thank you.