skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are entire literal libraries filled to the brim with evidence of evolution. If you were really interested in reading it you would have noticed that you are practically swimming in evidence of it by now.
Experimental Git mirror of Oracle MySQL trees
Disappointing, but not a surprise:

1. Galaxy S 3 includes undeletable Pizza Hut bookmark http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1707047

2. Galaxy custom web browser allows random web sites to make links that wipe and reset the phone: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/117422-samsung-galaxy-s-3-re...
My coworker was looking for something like this a few days ago, and we gave up on our search. This is awesome. He's a front-end developer and nearly cried tears of joy when I showed this to him. Thank you from one small dev shop!
> my biggest problem with AGW is indeed the fact that its predictions have an ever-longer history of not coming true.

Are you saying that global temperatures aren't rising? Is the arctic icecap not rapidly getting smaller? I believe even the rising sea level is already measurable (though still small at this point).

The predictions are coming true in a quite alarming fashion.
http://www.web.ca/~tslee/
No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart, by Tom Slee

...shows why individual choice fails to give us what we want, and why we need to rely on collective action rather than individual choice to take us to where we want to be.

Don't buy it on Amazon...
He didn't attack you, he simply dismissed nonsense you stated as he should have.
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Just because you're too dim to understand the science here doesn't give you an excuse to mock it.

You right, me stupid.

Does that make you feel better to de-intellectualize someone who gives suggestions? Keep attacking people sympathetic to the cause and see where that gets you.
Right now when it comes to computers, there is an implicit monopoly. There is only 1 company on the planet that supplies both their own hardware and an operating system of their own bundled with it. This company is Apple. Because they supply both hardware and software, they can sell a "complete experience" to customers who, quite frankly, will lap up anything they hear about computers and their 'black magic'.

But Valve are about to change this.

The so called Steambox announced a day or so ago is now going to be in direct competition with Apple's own devices as Valve can now offer this "complete experience" package too. If you want to know why this is so important you only need to realise that the term "Mac" for most people refers not only to the computer itself, but to the operating system also. No other company has anything that comes close to this, but soon Valve will, and the more time passes and the more people get accustomed to the range of available Steamboxes, the most ground Valve will gain, and the more Apple will lose.
saw this brought up by another member. Can anyone clarify please?
Much better layout IMHO, and compatibility with DirectInput API (used in some games).
Presenters are awesome (I second the that draper is excellent).

Once you start decorating you find yourself decorating everything, because Ruby makes it so easy to throw on one-off delegates. I've even taken a presenter-ish approach to all my DCI implementations now and my model code is really clean.
> Almost everything associated with how climate change research is reported makes it reek of bad science and propaganda.

The science says that the Earth is getting warmer, and it's getting warmer because of people. If you think this interpretation is bad science and propaganda, then you are simply mistaken.
> One step, I think, is to take a weekly holiday from your devices.

You have just lost. Denying yourself something is not a viable way to avoid it. (Don't think about elephants.)

There are only two solutions here. Either become someone else, change yourself so that you do not crave it any more, or displace it with something else.

If you want to be fit, or at least less flabby, the psychologically viable route is to tell yourself "I am the kind of person who does 50 pushups after getting out of bed in the morning." Or, "I am the kind of person who cooks his own low-carb meals." And then actually become that person.

If you don't want to stare at your phone in a public place, displace that behaviour with something else. "Instead of mindlessly browsing HN, I'll go talk to that cute chick at the end of the bar." Or even just "I will meditate, I will think about nothing but my breathing while waiting for that coffee." Though that might be even weirder than playing with your smartphone.
Knockout.JS building a simple photo app
Here is the link to the Virtual Hackathon: http://lincolnlabs.com/hackathons/virtual.html
Troll-Killing Patent Reform One Step Closer
Go Circuit - Paradigm for scale-free engineering
I haven't seen anyone mention here that the pills actually contained steroids and muscle relaxants, and all of the fatalities involved issues with long-term steroid use and/or withdrawal.

Doctors and the FDA began to get suspicious because the pills worked so well.
Yeah, I'm a Kindle convert and don't read books on paper much these days... And Amazon makes it ultra efficient for me to purchase, download, and read books that way. Sorry small independent booksellers, but your time has come: you're selling vinyl LPs in the age of iTunes.
avoiding negative PR

They unfroze Mailpile's funds recently. That's a sign of good things.
Source Editing With Google Chrome Workspace
App Engine 1.8.5 released – featuring Search API and PHP updates
Sure, that's not a problem unit tests are meant to solve.

The appropriate practices there are short iterations, frequent releases, acceptance tests, and having product people sitting next to developers.

For those wondering how unit testing relates to other practices, go read Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained. He's one of the people who led the current wave of unit testing adoption via jUnit. Years before the term "Agile" existed, he was on a team that found a highly productive way of working, one for which unit testing was an important foundational element. But it was just one of 12 practices they saw as necessary.

Once you have that working well and you're building what the businesspeople expect, the next step is to make the businesspeople start testing their assumptions. That's basically what the whole Lean Startup thing, minus the fad, is about: let's not just go build whatever the guy with the tie says. Let's all get evidence about what's really worth building.
This is really off topic, sorry in advance.

Why did you use "(sic)"? I always thought it stood for "Spelling InCorrect", but lately I keep seeing people use it in other contexts.
Or randomise your password so you can't get into it.
Ohio State gets armored vehicle designed for warfare
Will you choose to buy HP printers in the future?
My mistake is thinking that the dimensions above 3+1 (space + time) are not part of spacetime proper, which I why I would say /out there/ because these dimensions are not apparent although theoretically defined. My argument is based on the twisty path moving through n dimensions (including the first 3) and not necessarily through the +1 of time.

I'm also seeing a problem of names, where 'the electron' and 'the twisty path' are being used interchangeably, but we're also talking about 'an electron' and 'the electrons' that exist on the reality surface. It gets confusing :)

I can see the 'barber shop twist' as being able to provide the necessary spin, but I'm not seeing how a sperical radius can come about from a slice along a path; a circular diameter yes, but a spherical radius is escaping me, unless the slicing 'leaks' energy (or harmony) to create some filling space around the intersection.

Nice discussion, but the indentation level is getting deep. Continue over email? Mine is in my profile if you're interested.
Totally agree. One less thing to carry.
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My Samsung printer (ML2165W) has some similar stupidity.

I had to flash it to accept a toner bought elsewhere.

It caught me off guard, my previous laser printer (also Samsung) happily accepted other cartridges (I would have bought Samsung, but they were out of stock).
That assumes that a company can maintain the monopoly while gradually making its service worse and worse. Other companies can spring up which take advantage of its margins (as Jeff Bezos may have said, "my margin is your opportunity").

What Amazon would have to do to maintain a monopoly is to continuously locate and destroy startups which try to compete with it, by using its scale. You're saying that, while it's doing this, it may make things worse for the consumer. Perhaps, but that's REALLY tough to do (until someone writes software to do it).

One thing is for sure though - regardless of how good the service is to consumers, the demand for human labor will erode further and the comparative advantage of local economies will erode all over the world - not just for books but tons of products and services. As a result, we will need an ever greater welfare state so that many out-of-work people can be paid to be consumers and send price signals back into the economy, even if they are unable to make much money themselves (because presumably robots would be employed instead).
Science is never required to be "provable". Scientific theories should be "falsifiable". Those are not the same thing.
Some people are gonna be really really happy they felt lucky.

Wow, now that I think about it for a moment, I realized no one ever feels lucky these days. As soon as the search bar on Google's homepage is filled, the form is auto submitted.
Shhh... NSA's Utah Data Center may be open already
Correction: trichromatic, not tetrachromatic (the post is too old to be edited).
BrowserSwarm: automates your testing of JavaScript across browsers
Line Mode Browser - Revisiting the first accessible browser
> "But free customers don't."

I respectfully (and strongly) disagree. You're essentially saying that free customers can be completely screwed over and have basically no rights at all (and you seem to be implying that this ok). Legally speaking, maybe Google has absolutely no obligation to say anything (even to it's paying customers), but this isn't about meeting the minimum legal requirements.

On a related note, how many people really have the ability to comprehend the ToS they click on? The reading level of many of those is surprisingly high given the demographics that use the services, so the concept of 'informed consent' is already quite strained imho. Therefore, people fall back on trust and it's probably in the providers interest that they do this (as they can make a ToS that's great for their own needs, while legally providing very little to the user).
It doesn't eliminate them, but it minimises the effort of performing these steps. You are of course correct in saying that you need to do manual testing to discover issues that you never thought of, but this is a separate process (which should not usually be done by developers who are too entrenched in the inner workings of the system to see it with fresh eyes).
The €25 Million turnover number is misleading. Later, the article notes, "AdCash gives about 70% - 90% of revenue to their publishers, so with a turnover of €25 million, you can do the math on their theoretical profitability."

Let's say they keep 20% (the middle of that range). That's €5 Million. Of course, that's not profitability. That's essentially their revenue before the expense of having 40 employees, etc.

Still impressive but more realistic with that aspect clarified.
Irrelevant political rabble rousing about Al Gore's personal finances is not a productive debate from somebody 'sympathetic'. It's just text book concern trolling.
We have to end this now:
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/19/19042103-modern-d...
Yes, they are both hypocrites :)

(Seriously though, degree and frequency are different things)
It's Official Google _does_ have a new logo
I recently went to the US for a few weeks. My Nexus 4 worked just fine with a US SIM from T-Mobile. $70 for a month for voice and data was worth it, and everything worked quite nicely. Big +1 for unlocked products!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415191/Global-cooli...
I just wonder why nobody hasn't mentioned C++11 yet :)
( so i'd be the one :P )
Btw, Compilers (almost all of them e.g: clang, gcc) completed all the standard.
This happened in suburban London. The supermarket was king.

Then along came delivered groceries and everyone does that and just uses new "local supermarkets" to pick up a few impulse purchases and medicines.

As a result, every row of shops is saturated with takeaways. There are very few traditional local businesses left.

However, everyone is happier as they are not slaves to the requirement to drag stuff around themselves and can concentrate on more interesting things. No tears have been shed. We're all better off.

People just need to now get used to the fact that there isn't a job for everyone as we've reached a pretty good efficiency ceiling.
As far as I can tell from the parent post 300bps does not reject the science of AGW

You're right - I do not reject the science of AGW. Here is my absolute concrete position:

It is foolish to squander finite resources. I believe fossil fuels and clean air are finite resources.

So while I don't reject AGW science, I think its messengers are terrible at PR and practice a level of dishonesty to attempt to further their cause (which so far has had the opposite effect). Having said that - I think for the most part we want the same thing - conservation.

I have 3 kids; I want them and their descendants to have the same chance at life that I had. It sickens me to think that we might selfishly destroy the world's ability to sustain human life.
How do websites sink in the ocean? Makes no sense. Link them to stuff you've worked on. Also, a lot of companies do contract-to-hire and there's the whole technical interview gauntlet. That's usually how people gauge ability.

Just seems like an impossible scenario.
It is unfortunate that biology news has the capacity to cause such a shitstorm. Imagine if this sort of thing happened every time there was a new article about NASA discovering some new property of Saturn or something.

I guess we should be thankful that most religious have only chosen biology as a good place for a last stand in defense of a "God of the Gaps". Science discussion would be far shittier if they did this to every biology and chemistry discussion...
I'm sure there's some danger in all this distraction but I also think that people really weren't that interesting and interested before smartphones. Smart and creative people will always find ways to do smart and creative things but lots of people just look for distraction in whatever form they can find.

The point about kids is an important one, though. Smartphone-parents do set a bad example for their kids.
There was a pretty great book by Max Barry (Jennifer Government, Syrup, Company) called Machine Man[1] that was about this; the main character was an engineer who lost his leg, and decided to build a better one. The whole thing is worth reading for the first chapter alone.

[1]http://maxbarry.com/machineman/
China never asked to participate in the ISS. If they had wanted to, they could probably have joined. "The west doesn't want us to join their space station project" was pure politburo PR bullshit. (Source: I worked at NASA at the time)
That is more of an Asian cultural thing that is immediately clear when you visit a Chinese computer store and see blinking non-rectangular widgets obscuring anything that is not a computer.
And here I was hoping I could finally buy a USB powered flamethrower.
How code review could discourage code disclosure in science
Ryanair: The Start of the Decline?
Yeah except now the average wage in the town drops, because all those businesses closed and people had to either a) move or b) work for the Wal-Mart.

"Always lower prices. Always." Yepand lower wages too. The town's inhabitants are also the consumers, so basically the end result is cheaper products AND smaller wages for everyone - and greater income disparity across the country (automation helps boost capital vs labor).
I don't require GBs of mail storage because my mail is automatically deleted before its 180 days old. Mail that's older than 180 days can be accessed by USG employees without a warrant.

FastMail provides me with mail accounts for $10/year[2] that provide enough storage for 180 days and include required features like custom domain names, domain aliases, email aliases, etc.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/when-will-our-email-be...

[2] https://www.fastmail.fm/signup/family.html
This is why I write unit tests in the exact framework the op dislikes: rspec. It makes testing far more readable.

If your unit tests are hard, that's a non-SOLID smell.
I think this is an excellent question.

There's been a lot of panic over the rise of sea levels and a warmer climate, but why exactly is this a world-ending disaster? Yes, the coastlines may change and yes, people will be displaced.

Such has been the case for all of recorded history, and far before. Humans can adapt: they have, and they will again.

I find the idea of geoengineering far more terrifying than global warming. The community that can't get their models to explain the last few years of observations now wants to throw a massive new wrench into the works? Madness.
Capitalism's greatest crash now likely within a few years
My guess is that this may be an attempt by Samsung to crack down on grey market imports of their devices.

Why would they want to do this? I could understand it in the case of a low-priced device intended for poor regions of the world, but this is a high-end phone that is presumably a similar (high) price everywhere it's sold.
My buddy is the VP of Web/Marketing there (Power Practical). Their Kickstarter last year went really well. Here's a link to their current product page: http://www.thepowerpot.com/
It makes precisely zero sense in today's intreconnected world. If this is true they're going to fail hard.
Ask HN: How much savings did you have before quitting your industry job?
No, this technology is still far from a "bridge the gap" solution to paralysis that would return both function and sensation to the body below the SCI. Still, natural brain control of a robotic prosthesis is a [pun ahead] big step in the right direction.
While they may not fast charge, many of the devices will trickle charge - simply because the original USB 2.0 spec didn't require high amperage. In fact, 2.0 spec allowed for a max of 5 'unit loads' with a unit load of 100 mA (5x 100 mA = 0.5A). Putting out more than that was against spec unless the port was specifically marked as a 'charging port' per the Battery Charging specification (you may have noticed USB ports with battery icons next to them).

It wasn't until USB 3.0 that the limits were increased. Additionally the Battery Charging spec was re-written to increase limits for charging ports.

If you can plug your device into any single USB jack on a computer (not just ones with a battery icon next to them) and it will charge, it will likely charge with this project.
Richard Branson invest in Clinkle App
Come on - Please Fix the Menu
Mindfulness meditation[1] is an old but very effective way of training the mind to recognize distractions. I agree with the article that the opportunities for distraction are at an all-time high, but the human brain has not changed much in the last few millenia, and the problem of being distracted is almost certainly as old as the first time a person desired to contemplate something. To someone who wishes to devote a significant portion of their day to contemplation (e.g. a Buddhist monk), any distraction can be a setback, and the so-called "monkey mind"[2] is awfully persistent.

Being able to recognize that you are being pulled away from your object of focus is the essential first step to reduce both the frequency and length of distractions. This is one of the goals of mindfulness meditation. Personally, I have found that the simple act of being able to catch myself in the midst of a distraction has improved my ability to focus.

After spending time practicing mindfulness, I have developed a wonderful skill of being able to "switch off" a racing mind and pull myself back down to the task at hand (or to simply pull myself out of an anxious state of mind and into a pleasant one). Importantly, practicing this during 15 minutes of daily meditation has enabled me to do this during any of the other ~1000 waking minutes of each day. The first time I noticed myself do this "automatically" outside of meditation, I was amazed that I was able to cultivate such a skill.

If you are interested in a good primer on mindfulness and how to actually go about meditation, I recommend Mindfulness in Plain English.[3] I recommend it whenever the subject comes up and I'm sure very few people read it, but it had enough of an effect on me that I would not want others to miss out.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness_of_breathing

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_monkey

[3] http://www.urbandharma.org/pdf/mindfulness_in_plain_english....
I don't see a problem here. I don't recommend we give our children a smartphone and allow them unlimited usage, but if a bunch of adults are standing around looking at their phone while waiting on take-out, who cares? Did everyone sit around in in-depth discussions with strangers before? I remember people would sit and read the newspaper or a book or stare into space while waiting.

3-4 times to get someone's attention for every person, or did it happen once? Could have easily happened if they were reading their Arthur C. Clarke novels as well.
I prefer the Fox News tutorial on the subject.

'Repo' means 'reciprocity' or 'reposotory' if you didn't know.
SlotCount.js - Simple slot machine-like counter, inspired by Google Plus.
That article is complete bollocks. http://psc.apl.washington.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/s...
Introducing BrowserSwarm – Automated cross-browser JavaScript testing
The link that resets phones in #2 resets them without warning.

Along with #1 and this article, I'm seriously baffled that any company can be this incompetent.
It sounds like instead of the author making this plea, the publisher should just withhold the books from Amazon. After all, isn't copyright still in effect in this country?
CapeDwarf: Running Google App Engine apps in JBossAS7
FarmBot: Open-source automated farming machine
I didn't know about that incident. Thanks for pointing it out. Here are some references:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/03/comodo_group_...

https://kb.bluecoat.com/index?page=content&id=SA54&actp=RSS
Maybe, but you and cygwin98 are seemingly the only ones confused/pedantic enough to care.
EBay hits “Buy It Now” button for mobile payments provider Braintree
Codeine rocks. I used it for a while after I broke my ankle but you're right: it is addictive.

After the doctor pulled the prescription, I had to come down off the stuff slowly and cocodamol was the only option. I decided to go cold turkey and was a grumpy asshole for a month in the end.

So fundamentally I agree entirely with you!