skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So far, two stratofeeds have been found. The others did probably not survive the severely low temperature in the stratosphere. Those can still be found, of course, but in the "hard mode", without the assistance of GPS location. At least 200 people (more than 100 cars) are at the location of one of the two retrieved stratoseeds.
Yeah, the next release will have OpsLog support for MongoDB and it will help tremendously with scaling if you are willing to figure out how to get OpsLog working for Mongo.
There's a difference between someone who says something, and someone who acts out on it - and when they're in the business of selling weapons or profiting from it - and say something like that, which will lead to action or is inherently acted upon because of the nature of what they're doing (the business they are in) - then it's no longer just a "freedom of speech" thing.

You can say you want to kill someone, or even tell them you're going to kill them - but under law, it's only when you act on it OR have a plan to do so that the scenario becomes illegal - and you'll go to jail if you then kill said person (assuming you get caught) or have a plan to do so. Likewise, them just saying wouldn't be illegal, however I feel them acting out and selling actual weapons to both sides (and perhaps somehow inciting war between two parties to then profit) should IMHO be illegal, stating their intent they would and would love to is not only having a plan stated but perhaps one of the most disturbing disconnected inhumane uncaring violent acts a person could partake in.

I don't generally agree that killing of anyone is right - though perhaps with the only exception of those who actively kill others or lead violence - however that's for a society to determine what is acceptable. Unfortunately many things a society deems unacceptable (even existing laws that are enforced) are happening and go unchanged, though we're moving towards a system that is more in line with general views. There are more basic issues that need to be taken care of first to help alleviate people's worries and stresses, removing fear of survival will solve most, if not lead to solving all problems.
It's a great book, a classic, and it's interesting to know how highly pg respects it.

When I look at leaders, the thing that I see more and more is the ability to not stress out about situations. Coming up with solutions is less important; putting everything in perspective is the key. Much of this comes down to empathy and being a nice person, as you describe.
37signals valuation tops $100 billion after bold VC investment (2009)
Yet Windows updates are a conveniently globally shared problem.

For real embarassment, nothing beats the unpaid software nag.
By making sure to enable all warnings, enable warnings as errors and use a compiler that integrates static analysis like clang.
Interesting.

The woman already had the milk bottled. What's the harm in drinking some of it to prove that it isn't any dangerous compound? I thought liquids from outside weren't allowed in the planes, ideally they shouldn't have allowed her in with it at all, though, but that's a different point.

> did she fail to see the connection to stopping terrorism
The connection is that she could have been a terrorist, and a compound dissolved in the milk could be used to make a binary explosive.
Sure, but the crime and punishment attitude was around before private prisons. They are more like contributors to the problem than the original cause.

It would be great to shut down the private prison industry but let's be realistic about the extent to which lobbying dollars influence the maximum sentence in legislation nation-wide. I would attribute long sentences mainly to poor thinking.
It makes it so simple, any idiot can write a GUI program ... so you get GUI programs that look like they were written by idiots.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^ixic
Bernanke's magic. TC articles should probably be autokilled.
Thanks for your feedback and suggestions! Book titles would make more sense definitely. But post titles lead to surprising and funny results sometimes.
New TLDs coming: .london
It seems this rally has stronger market support on the downswings (ie doesn't crash completely). I'd take that as a good thing?
You don't see any problem with this, a conflict of interest, that might lead to incentivizing said weapons company to be more inclined to help incite a war between two parties - which they'll clearly be happy to profit from?
Call it collateral damage. They have no problems inflicting that on others.
A crossword based on the Adobe password leak
I am using the default `cc` compiler on Mac OS X for this without any flags, are you saying I should something non-stock in this case?
More concerning: the pollution generated by the cars out finding these things.
A list Actor Sex Tape
GOSPEL ARTIST POSES NUDE!

Evon Latrail is the author of a children's book "When Mommy Went to Heaven". She wrote/recorded a few songs; "Lord Bless My Enemies" and "It Is Time" happens to be two of the titles. She even has a song entitled, "Can't You See (Abortion Is Murder). She went Pro-life after having a abortion! Really???? Now here is a photo of her posing in chocolate as a "Swamp Girl". The word Hypocrite is floating around somewhere. This story has made front page news in the local paper. How can this so called "Gospel Artist" be a role model if she's posing nude? For more on this story.....Go to Google or YouTube and search, Evon Latrail. I seen the picture on Google. Not to mention the video with her and a A list actor floating around.......
The alternative has to be asked too. How many crimes have been avoided so far because past felons fear of committing that 3rd crime.
It's essential to follow pjmlp's advice, since C does otherwise not give a lot of feedback about one's mistakes: learning from one's mistakes might take a long time since a quite broken program (think overwriting past memory strictly allocated for one entity) might still lead to a working program.

Use your compiler, use it well with all its warnings. Run your programs under valgrind or some such.
The PS3's API (LibGCM) had nothing to do with OpenGL. What Sony did however was provide an OpenGL ES 1.1+extensions implementation on top of the low level API. You can probably count on one hand the number of games that made use of it because it was too slow.
Hellbanned for dissenting?
So, my four year old account with 1700 Karma was hellbanned a few days ago, for expressing an opinion which was contentious.

Is HN now a place where not conforming with the majority opinion is grounds for dismissal?
There are websites and whole communities of developers that happily use Microsoft development technologies every day blissfully unaware of the existence of communities like Hacker News.

Hacker News is the mirror image of those communities and as such remains completely baffled by Microsoft's continued success while "nobody uses their products."
I've experimented with this strategy -- avoid putting bootstrap classes directly in markup, but instead use CSS pre-processors to mix bootstrap classes into your own css classes.

I've found it's less maintainable, in the sense that the extra level of indirection becomes a lot more confusing to debug or change. Dealing with a bootstrap upgrade (minor or major) only makes it worse.

The presentational classes in your markup does give me a bad feeling. Maybe if Bootstrap had been designed from the start to keep your DOM purely semantic and your presentation purely in CSS, then it would result in a framework that can more easily be used that way. However, there are other frameworks that tried to do this; they haven't been as successful (ie popular) as bootstrap, and it may be that some of the reason why is the extra complexity it takes to try and keep presentation and semantics strictly separate.

There is such a thing, sometimes, as too much abstraction. When we start calling it 'over-engineering' or 'too complex'.
Try passing at least the -Wall and -Wextra flags.

For learning, you could also add -ansi, as it will make your compiler be stricter about standards.
The good thing for a currency is to have a stable value. This is certainly not a good thing for people that want Bitcoins to be actually used instead of just stockpiled.
"After serving two years in prison during his mid-twenties for inadvertently killing someone during a bar fight, Aaron Jones turned his life around ...". To be honest, at that point I kind of wondered whether I was reading a parody piece or not. The 3-strikes laws are not totally irrational provided the legislators carefully decide what counts as a "strike". Even so, "inadvertently" killing someone during a bar fight should count as a strike in my book. Granted, having such laws in a legal environment where almost everything is a felony or can be charged as such, results in great many wasted lives and a huge societal cost. But it's the felony character of some of those underlying offences that should be questioned, not the three-strike principle per se.
I saw one boot last week on a Delta flight. I was very surprised to see Tux.
Nasdaq is up 28.07% YTD while Microsoft is up 37% YTD. That's quite an accomplishment and can't be explained by the "rising tide" theory you are putting forth.

Plus keep in mind that Apple is DOWN 4.38% YTD.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5EIXIC+Interactive#symbo...
"I don't have a disposable Github/Facebook/Twitter/etc account."

Now there's a business idea: Mailinator for shady sites harvesting "social" accounts.
A GUI framework can't recommend you on your hires.
An absolute gem

"...
2010-12-03 11:54:04	FW: Manning & Wiki Founder Arrest/Prosecution?
scott.stewart@stratfor.com	gfriedman@stratfor.com

Holy crap, we're passing Fred's rantings to confederation partners?

From: Emre Dogru [mailto:emre.dogru@stratfor.com]
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 3:37 AM
To: burton
Cc: Confederation
Subject: Fwd: Manning & Wiki Founder Arrest/Prosecution?

Hey Fred, one of our confed partners (Sabah daily) would like to use this
information without any attribution. But he just wonders if your source
used "fry" in the sense that Manning should be executed by electrocution,
or does it mean something else in intel business lingo?..."

https://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=410181
I learned C by reading K and R and doing the book's exercises . . . on paper. At the time I didn't have access to a C compiler, so I wrote them all out in a notebook. A month later I got a job at a shop that was running Unix, and got the chance to type my programs in and try them.

I had a lot of things wrong. It took me a while to understand the difference between control-D and EOF, for instance (how embarrassing). But the 30 days I spent without a compiler made me think about program behavior.

I'm not saying this is a great way to learn a language, but it can be done.

I keep hearing people complain about K and R being "a terrible book." For me it was perfect: pragmatic, succinct, with great examples and good exercises.
saying that 3 strikes laws should apply to murders != murders should get 3 chances.
NEW YORK,NEW YORK, what a beautiful place,?
It gets even worse, an airport's departures time table ran Windows and just showed the desktop, causing me to have to walk to the other end of the terminal to check the Gate number.
(source: https://twitter.com/Will3942/status/394915432660234242)
Some people can only complain. Can't be much fun to that person.
Aren't they funded by Microsoft, or something?
Mind-Reading Robots Coming Ever Closer
You frame the three points a bit derogatory and seem to have missed the point of your customers.

> Windows was the OS that the company was also using for employee machines, so they knew it.

They understand it, have an idea about the cost and amount of support necessary. "They knew it" seems to convey that they were essentially stupid or not adventurous enough to try something else.

> The IT department only wanted Windows machines on their network

Again: a complete valid reason in my view. Here on this forum you have even people advocating that server and client in web apps should be written in the same language to keep things consistent.

> The customer was afraid of Mac OS X because they thought it would not be stable enough

You make that sound like there teeth were rattling in horror, but apparently failed to convince them that OSX would be stable enough?

I'm not a Windows developer or -user, indications that win 98 runs on my ATM also make me concerned.

But "muhaha, they are just stupid bricks for using windows" (no, you did not say that, but it sums the attitude) shows a lack of understanding and, as a consequence, does not advance the spread of alternatives into these environments IMO.
European, US media face new tests with NSA spying
How does it work with search engines? Do you regenerate a static html version every x seconds?
Fair points, but I think the important takeaway is that $100mm per fire in <savings> is incredibly flawed. The flipside is if you save $1-2mm/per fire, you'd almost be encouraging fires (100-200?) in order to see a positive ROI.
As a practical matter, many of these fires cannot be put out once started, they can only be contained. (You don't just drive in a truck and shoot water out of a hose). The methods of containment are not fast, and they don't work all that well in areas like the Yosemite backcountry. There are other political issues involved. For example, the inability to use machinery in a Wilderness Area. Without taking a position on the logic of that restriction, consider the practical effects. Removal of fuel, lack of fire roads, walk-in only access, etc.

Empirically, its common for fires that start in very populated areas to still be incredibly damaging. Early warning in these areas does not seem it will materially alter the situation on the ground. Take for example the Powerhouse fire earlier this year in LA. [1] That was visible to the naked eye almost immediately. But the are is a dry, high-desert tinderbox. Ground zero was immediately next to the local San Francisquito <fire station>, yer it took 11 days to contain, and burned 30,000 acres despite its immediate alarm and proximity to roads and fire-fighting gear.

The Yosemite back-country is far more inaccessible and has far more fuel below tree level that the area around the powerhouse fire. I think the notion that once started it could have been contained in under 24 hours to be almost implausible. And once it reached 40 acres, we saw what happened next. Just as a sanity check, Assuming it was 20 miles in to start, it would take 2 days to walk to the area from the nearest road. You will not be dropping in smoke-jumpers like navy seals into this terrain in the middle of the night. Its steep, rugged, and when its not is densley forested. The nearest meadow may be in the next canyon.

In any event, it would be interesting to thing about what we would do with such a system if it were in place. Let's say that we got if for FREE. Then think about the next 200 million of infrastructre that would be required to actually put out the fires more quickly. My guess is that doing this logistical exercise would be more the bottleneck than the actual alert time. The prevelance of cell phones, sat-phones, epirb beacons, and Spot devices greatly increases the ability to comuunicate <SOS>. They do not make it very quick to get help, however. The benhcmark is 24-48 hours at a minimum if you are in a remote area, even with a Helo in many cases.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/06/the-terrible-beau...

[2] The fire station is on the road in the middle of this image of the fire:

https://d2aoguav525b8o.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/re...
Are there explicit laws against bitcoin? It seems unlikely that the OCC is going to just seize a bank when its following all applicable laws and compliance mechanisms.

Some banks (depending on the location and size) keep foreign currency on their books so you would just need to account for it by the same manner unless there is some definition as to what constitutes a foreign currency for accounting purposes.
Yeah that's a big problem in the 5% of companies where that situation exists.
Hate it when people use UX as a cool new buzzword for UI. UX is not UI. Read:

http://www.helloerik.com/ux-is-not-ui
The Mac OS X C compiler is clang, no need to install anything extra.

C is insecure by design and IT is still paying for its widespread, when used by developers that don't use the best practices for secure C coding.

So when learning how to use it, the best way is to learn those best practices from day one.
There are only 12 objects that are GPS tracked and twelve thousand people is searching for them right now. I do not think littering is any problem here.
I found that there's a great gap or schism between common digital signage projects. On the one hand you have solutions that just want to display 5 pictures or a simple website (current dish of the day, bus tables, train schedules, current news) and on the other hand you have high profile vendors that want (multiple) absolutely stutter free HD content (with huge bitrates because so much is going on in their animations), animate this in 3D, dynamic content (i.e. current weather, time, stocks, etc), and integration with other external technologies / systems (light control, sound control, etc). Thankfully, nowadays most of this can be achieved with a fullscreen chromium or webkit, but you need serious hardware for that.

The problem arises if people buy the lightweight hardware like a Pi and then try to run the complex stuff.

Also, most people seem to ignore just how important the backend / cms system for these installations is. The content that is deployed on systems is already out of sync as soon as you plug the systems in :) I still remember fondly how I watched one of our competitors distribute content (on a digital signage fair) to his systems using WS FTP for Windows. That's not a solution you should sell to a demanding customer, he'll simply call you whenever he wants a new image on there.
Just bought a Nexus 5 and switched from Verizon to T-Mobile. (1) I now find the pricing tactics of Verizon, where I had been a happy customer for years, to be brutally anti-consumer.

(2) The Nexus 5 was $350. An iPhone 5S $650.

These are quite problematic for Apple.
2 years too late, as the financial press usually is. Apple has already been crushed. It was obvious to anyone paying attention in 2010 (cue market/profit arguments in 3..2..1 - fanboys unite!).

Lessons learned:

Don't read the financial news if you want to have an edge. They know nothing. In fact they are so far behind you can't even see them in the rearview mirror.

Secondly, if your product is a commodity, make sure that your software owns all the price levels (see MSFT in the 80s).

Thirdly, if your monopoly is under attack, cut prices and flood the market (see Standard Oil).

And finally only the paranoid survive. Everyone is out to take your money. Be prepared and respond to the threat before it destroys you.
As the exchange rate rises buying Bitcoin will become ever more tempting. For those who haven't bought any Bitcoin yet do you think it's a good idea to commit now, Odysseus-style, to not buy Bitcoin as an investment for N years?

Edit: What I mean by "commitment" is that you absolutely won't invest in Bitcoin during that time no matter what happens to the exchange rate.
A training video? Showing them how to behave like barbaric cunts?
What Created This Mysterious “Picket Fence” in the Amazon?
could? According to latest figures, at least globally, is.

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/item/34832-android-t...

"'We believe the absence of a large-screen device may have contributed to Apple’s inability to grow share in the third quarter,' said Ryan Reith, IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker programme director."

Also notice the average selling price. Android phones are right in the middle of the pricing pack, with iPhones sitting at more then double.

Basically, Apple makes phones that are too small and too expensive to win in the global market.

In the U.S. market Apple is the #1 manufacturer, but iOS is the #2 platform by marketshare - but holding steady (grow some quarters, lose some quarters) - not a great place to be, but not terrible either.

http://bgr.com/2013/08/06/us-smartphone-market-share-q2-2013...

Samsung is almost as profitable as Apple as well.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/11/14/apple-samsung-take...

iOS7 may be the beginning of a new approach for Apple. But they're going to have to launch a larger phone in addition to the already well selling smaller phone size. It's no surprised that analysts are expecting such a device the next go around.
Google appends a ?_escaped_fragment_= onto the url and the spiderable package serves up a copy of the article from phantomjs. See http://differential.io/blog/thank-you-dhh-and-others?_escape...
To note, my comment is under the assumption they are involved in facilitating this process, and not merely just talking about it.
The irony :) [ref. twitter], however quite a bit more change than 1$ changed hands this time around.
That formula deserves an award !
BMW Submarine Concept utilises LA rivers for people transport
Looks like the site is having some trouble. In Firefox there's no text on the yellow bars (just two arrows and a drawing). In IE I get a blank page.
The simplest “Internet of Things” product yet
Yes, I remember rails going through this same "growing pains" of leaving a lot of stuff up to the developers. I look forward to the ride Meteor will provide and see where it gets.
Military might and the world's largest economy, but yea other than that, nothing.
Is there a chart of bitcoin prices that goes further back in time than bitcoincharts.com? And preferably logarithmic scale.
Four reboots on an eight hour international flight. Somewhat annoying.
Oh my god how do 90% of the replies blow this so out of proportion???

Yeah, it is some 5kg of "litter" if you want to call it that. How much litter is thrown onto train tracks on a normal train station in one day? Will enthusiast jump after it to return it to some organisation?

Yeah, the paths of these "seeds" might cross some air plane or some person on the ground but it is highly highly unlikely. Ever wondered why nobody is hit by rocket parts on new year's eve? It happens but rarely enough because human heads cover such a low percentage of earth that it just doesn't matter even with billions of private rockets shot every year.
Reminds me of "Bitcoin mining in the browser". Fun idea, but could end up horribly. Imagine this being the common thing to do instead of traditional advertisements. So you end up with "processing power" pay-walls.
I guess this is sort of I'm thinking about this, that is forcing people first to think how something should work, rather then just duplicating some code and seeing that it works. Thanks for sharing!
This is from 2009, just saying.