skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a very slow netbook, I noticed that Unity 12.04 (LTS version) opens quicker on the second and subsequent invocation than on the first. However, there is still a significant delay. I suspect the searches and time taken to build the various lenses is the reason. Gnome Shell appears to be a lot snappier because the search does not happen on that first screen.

Does anyone remember Mac OS Spotlight? Took ages when first introduced (10.3?) then got loads faster on the same hardware. I'm hoping the same will happen with Unity.
>>he wants to be the youngest, most talented, etc too. Can't have everything.

As an Indian, and someone who practically looks at Anand as a role mode. I would be disappointed if Anand really had that attitude.

Frankly speaking, I don't like the 'naturally talented' or 'natural genius' or this whole belief that people are born with some skills that can't be matched by other people. This isn't just about chess. This sort of thing manifests in every other walk of life.

Most kids just resign to be incapable at math due to constant comparison with other kids. Though I they would do far better if only they were motivated enough to put more effort.
Restore the old Google black navigation bar
German intelligence agency to step up counterintelligence
RIP the era of windows ricing.
I always thought the windows stores were copying apple also. They all have big open spaces with wood floors or stands with minimal furniture/shelves and accessories on the walls.
Whenever I find myself having to change a MAC address, I end up using DEADBEEFCAFE.

I hope I never forget about changing them back and end up having to debug two different machines with the same MAC (which has actually happened to me in the wild, with two machines coming out of factory with the same MAC, talk about bad luck and shitty quality control).
Mapping America’s Restless Interstate Migration Without a Map
I came up with a hack to do this. Basically I streamed my screen into a file, and then served that file with a DNLA server (which transcoded it into something the TV would eat).

The result was pretty because source -> youtube -> my screen -> mp4 -> mpeg.

Although it won't be so bad, I really see re-encoding artefacts being the problem here. Although Wireless N can have enough bandwidth to send video at a good quality.
I wonder what is preventing Stallman from doing it himself? It is, after all, open source.
I had a guest come over to show a video recorded on their iphone via airplay; when the video was about to start the apple TV flunked out with a HDCP error. I'm sure the digital rights owner(1) of the video appreciated that.

(1) my guest who recorded the video with his own phone.
The Difference Between Faith and Optimism
US blogger fined 8,000 Euros by France for criticizing Société Générale
I once tried to run Unity under VirtualBox, and It was the fastest uninstalaltion/purge I have made so far.
The Sound of Gravity
MVS: The Forgotten Son in Product Development
Mozilla’s reliance on Google is increasing: 90% of 2012 revenue
insanity is in the eye of beholder. There are probably thousands of executives in the world that use the help of their personal assistants when organizing dating. Leap from that to use virtual assistants is not a biggie. however, there are probably none or just a few crazy geeks that even try to use the help of machine vision for dating.
Distributed systems archaeology: part three
track and field is largely irrelevant. Chess is pretty irrelevant, no matter how much i love it. avant-garde Novels are also irrelevant.

What i mean is that a huge majority of gifted athletes will not be going into track and field. The best athletes aren't pro runners. I'm not saying that there aren't great runners who are athletes, just that soccer, and basketball will be taking a lot of the talent away from track.

Same is true of chess. Best gameplayers are not deciding to go into chess. It is a very minor game, like rugby. I would even think that Poker has more strategic talent than Chess does.
Show HN: Shopping cart built with Rails
Yeah, King.Com is pretty aggressive.

The funny thing with Candy Crush is that it's a free app. The only thing that costs money is if you want to "cheat" to get extra turns and goodies to help you get past levels. Totally defeats the purpose of playing a puzzle game, as far as I'm concerned, but they make tons of money off those who are fine with dishing out cash to see that next level sooner.
How did you come with choosing Parse over other providers?
Prospecting: 3 Digital Tools You're Not Using (But Should Be)
Ahh very nice. I have a similar one that is waiting on review in the app store right now haha. Very cool. Mine's going to be called Onions, but it's not out yet. Mine also doesn't have pictures, dropbox, or anything else yet - just notes.

www.onions.io
Works with both three operating systems.
If by "win" you mean "be in the top 5 grossing", there may be some meat here. But it would be surprising for an independent anything to break into the top 5 grossing in any market, software or otherwise, in a few years.

But if by "win" you mean "earn a comfortable living and possibly modest riches" then I doubt this thesis has any legs at all.
How To Understand API Design
The bit about app store search is so true, in general I feel the app store could get a lot more money out of me if they improved the search functionality and added more linking between apps.
Online Collaborative Modeling; Still Sketchy
I would love to know the current status of using viruses (bacteriophages) to replace antibiotics.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/409905/using-viruses-to...
Bitcoin for the Newcomer, Hobbyist, and Poor Man
Clumsy, an utility for simulating broken network for Windows
one reason why Poker is becoming the great strategic game for all of the World (or so it seems)
Yes because you really need 600GB of mp3s which on the back of an envelope calculation is over 1000 days of listening for 8 hours a day at a reasonable bitrate with no repeats...

I'm sure, at amazon prices which is a fair approximation including CDs, you didn't spend $100,000 on them either.

This is really not a problem. Well it is but only greed created it.
Indeed. The thing that annoys me about responsive design is when I browse on my phone and can't find what I'm looking for so I "Request Desktop Site" and it's the same! Grrr. Even worse when they STILL serve me all those images, but they are just hidden, eating up my limited bandwidth. Double Grrrr.
Yep. Article lost me at that point.

IMO it's quite possible to do well on the app store. Sometimes someone builds a great app, and it does marginally well, but Google or Apple notices it. They recognize that it's an interesting product and will likely at least call you about a job. Which in my book, would be somewhat of a success.
I have a good machine with quad core processor, plenty of ram, and a very good GPU GTX675m, but it still lags like it is the first alpha version of Windows Vista.
Android 4.4+ Would Not Ship Any Pre-loaded Browser
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There are certainly indy games that have got to the top of the appstore chart. Pou and Plague Inc are two examples (I believe both are single person studios), neither of which have significant viral components either.
They might be A/B testing it.
The comments are in a monospaced font for some reason.
Magic?? There is no hope for the future generations if we keep calling stores and products that are sold in them magical and revolutionary.
I guess you could say Da Vinci was a true resonance man.
What hardware bitcoin wallets people use?
With China pushing so hard on bitcoin and all other exiting news, what hardware bitcoin wallets do people use to secure their investments?
Pre-hacked Electronics Come Straight From China’s Factories
How To Read Code From Mars: A Story Of Unmasking Some Javascript Code
If only I could discover new games/developers at the rate of 1 - 3 an hour, whilst working...
Chromecast is limited to 720p @ 5Mb/s. It's nowhere near HDMI quality.
Thats a good point, I didn't think of that. The FCC did make some allowance for low power FM transmitters, probably because they couldn't control it anyway. I see some people selling similar low power TV transmitters, but I don't know why it isn't more common. Since it is more complex than the FM transmitters and more of a risk, I wonder if the lack of FCC regs has stopped it in the US.
Extending Minitest 5: Custom Reporters
Canada Grow Box - Feed YourSelf And Your Community
Also remember that most of the time you have two hops on your wifi network: PC -> router -> TV. (Newer wifi cards can skip the router if the software on both sides supports it.)
Not the gp, but their unprofessional, pre-biased behavior around the Suzuki Samurai. Not quite as bad as NBC strapping a model rocket engine to a GMC Truck fuel tank, but they wanted a result before testing.
You come with literal accusation. How would like me take them?

It is you who use the word better. Not me. And they are different because better implies that you accept it or think it's good. I don't. The only thing I accept is reality.

Are you some sort of mind reader? "The only people", nonsense. You made up your mind on the first reply and you are sticking to it, even thou things are much more complicated than that.

Once again, it was you who thought of muslims, not me. This is why profiling is politically incorrect because the accusers themselves are stuck in their prejudice. So I say terrorist, you say Muslim and then you accuse me of racism. This is how moronic the Marxist has become.

And once again you assume that profiling is racial profiling because some have been racially profiled i in Israel. But I hope you understand that a few examples does not make that true for all profiling.

Nice that you use Jihad Jane as an example without knowing the facts. Jihad Jane was not an old solitaire playing lady. She converted to Islam and became radicalized. She got caught by her writings by people running the Jawa report blog, blog dedicated to profile islamist terrorists. So profiling worked!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen_LaRose

From your answer I take that you would spend time searching the old solitaire playing ladies.
Ryan Levick is a self-taught developer, here's how he did it.
Just an FYI, there's a typo in the "How it works" section - should be "afternoon".
> 7. Fix a bug

Many open source projects (definitely those at Mozilla) even have specially-labeled bugs in their database that are good for beginners. For example, in Servo we mark those issues "E-easy" and provide support for them on our IRC channel:

https://github.com/mozilla/servo/issues?labels=E-easy&page=1...

I know the Firefox team is even better than we are, with a split into Mentored bugs (with an identified owner you can contact for help!), Easy bugs, and Good Student Projects:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Introduction#Find_a...
We Went to the McDonald's Build-Your-Own-Burger Test Restaurant
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.14-25.1 Beta is now available
New Indoor Navigation Technologies Work Where GPS Can’t
>Whoever they are I have no doubt that they represent some part of the establishment in the US.

Maybe? But "the establishment" is a pretty vague and all-encompassing term. That could be anyone from the CIA to a cabal of Tea Partiers to Wall Street bankers.

I would hope the government at least would've learned by now that it's smarter to discredit a populist movement or break it from with rather than make obvious martyrs of its leaders...
Do you think the performance is really going to be that bad in the regular Lua interpreter? I wonder if its going to be better or worse than the underscore.lua approach of using arrays instead of iterators.

Also, are you using lots of 5.1 specific stuff (setfenv, ...) or would this also be easily ported to 5.2?
> The survey will be published in its January issue, which comes out next week

These people sound utterly confused.

Also, the article seems to present the fires as a bad thing, ignoring the fact that the model S has less fires, and much less deaths than other cars.
How HealthCare.gov Is Giving A Once-Obscure Bill A Boost
Yeah. It was a standard type of calculation error (forgetting when you visualize a variation that a piece has vacated a square so that it can now be passed through) but not one I would expect a top-level player to make.
The irony that the top developers started as indie developers for the most part, and simply grew their business with successful products seems to be lost on the author.
Sounds like time to buy.
Highly editorialized title (of the original article). The content is a bit lame.
There's a fair few of those out in the wild.

The magic number that identifies a java .class file is 0xCAFEBABE.
My best guess is that it was something of a gimmick for Google I/O. They never seemed well-supported by Google.

An alternative to ADK is the Android USB Host driver support. It's like libusb: for phones with the right USB controller, you can write little drivers in Java/userspace.

Here's an Android library you can use to talk to almost any Arduino, great for these type of "make my microcontroller smarter" applications: https://github.com/mik3y/usb-serial-for-android (full disclosure: I'm the author)
the funny thing with Candy Crush is that it looks like a free app. If you want to keep advancing levels you will eventually need to pay as the difficulty will make it near impossible to win without paying...
Could you find a project with some form of mentoring happening on a forum or mailing list? Some projects have sort of 'funnels' where people get small tasks to do then progress to larger chunks of stuff.

E.G. the Ubuntu manual project at

http://ubuntu-manual.org/

looks like that on their mailing list...

So basically avoid the less responsive projects.
If have come to greatly appreciate Lyx' [1] WYSIWYMean approach. When you are mostly writing code or plaintext markdown is great, but if you have to typeset and edit a lot of formulas using Tex quickly becomes a pain. Lyx allows you to edit them graphically with the standard Tex syntax and displays them while you type which is a huge improvement to just rendering them after you have finished it. Unfortunately the videos I've found online all heavily use the mouse interface to choose subscript, special characters etc. which doesn't do Lyx' real efficiency via keyboard shortcuts justice.

If you want to try it yourself: The most important commands are [ctrl]+[m] to enter math mode (or [ctrl]+[shift]+[m] for display formulas) and [alt]+[m] for a lot of math shortcuts, specifically [alt]+[m] and then any bracket to open matching size adapting brackets of this type. To enter a sum for example press "[ctr]+[shift]+[m]\sum[space]_k=1[space]^\infty[space][space]\frac[space]1[down arrow]k^2[space][space][space]". The shortcut [alt]+[p] and then [space] to choose the paragraphs meaning (section, itemize, standard, …) is also a huge productivity boost.

[1] http://www.lyx.org/WhatIsLyX
Awesome! I fell for the superficial resemblance, clearly. :) (I even searched for the term candlestick on the wikipedia page for box plots... )
Bitcoin is a asymmetric bet[1], your cost of buying is known (price you pay relative to local currency when you purchase BTC), and it will either go to 0 or could return x100 or x1000 in the longer term. It's somewhat analogous to spotting the subprime mortgage madness early prior to 2007 and placing asymmetrical bets via credit default swaps on mortgage backed bonds[2].

There could be a fatal flaw uncovered with Bitcoin making it go to zero, Satoshi Nakamoto's true motives could be revealed to be sinister etc., or it could become a major commodity/currency for much of the world's population so the current price is dirt cheap. That's what makes it so intriguing.

I personally think of Bitcoin as like Napster. Revolutionary idea, scared the establishment shitless, but was ultimately crushed. However, P2P file sharing exploded in popularity afterward, and has proved impossible to stamp out since. I think whatever comes after Bitcoin will be ultra-resilient, will learn from Bitcoin's flaws, and will change how we think about economics, commerce and currencies.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6753060

[2] http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/04/wall-str...
The future of Microsoft Research
Just look at the other top cars:

>After the Model S, the Porsche Boxster sports car came in second place with a score of 95. The Porsche 911 sports car and Chevrolet Volt, made by General Motors Co, both got a 91.
I totally agree. I started using Org mode when I was taking an algorithms course that required a bunch of LaTeX diagrams.

The ability to embed code to generate a diagram is clutch.
In this case, dude lose because of a clear blunder... players of all levels make blunders, so there is some benefit in always playing a game till the end... Its more a question of mental stamina, are you gonna spend 8 hours of concentration on something you have less than a 1% chance of winning... maybe a true overlord of chess would be willing to do this...
Are those "E-easy" bugs a good start to get into Rust?
Assuming that that's true (idk if it is), they were there first, when offerings were more limited and the big wigs hadn't gotten in. My little hypothetical appstore game isn't going to compete with offerings like Angry Birds into which probably many man-years have gone in already. OP's point is that it's harder to get in NOW.
The real reason why indie developers can't win on the App Store: There's just too @%!@%@ many indie developers.

Let's look at the numbers from a different direction: Apple reports that the App Store has 1.25 million apps earning $5bn in revenue last year. But 25 companies take half of the App Store revenue, leaving only $2.5bn for everyone else. That means that if you knocked out all 25 of the biggest earners on the App Store, the other 1.25 million apps would see their average annual revenue double to. . . about $4,000 annually. Hot damn! Call home, tell the spouse to put the Hamburger Helper back in the pantry, the kids are eating at Chucky Cheese tonight!

Everyone wants to be a game developer. . . but just like every other job that everyone wants to have, it ends up being a cutthroat business. The big players - the Apples, the movie studios, the recording studios - certainly don't do anything to make it better. But even without them it'd still be wretched place to try to make a living, simply because of sheer volume of competition. There's something to be said for having a day job to survive on while you're trying to make it.

As developers we should count our blessings in that department: unlike for so many other high demand careers, chasing our dreams requires developing skills that are also highly demanded for less glamorous work. We're fortunate to be able to practically default into fantastically lucrative day jobs that still offer reasonably enjoyable work.

By which I mean boring corporate jobs. Working long hours for low pay to go chase somebody else's dream at XYZ startup is probably the wrong choice here. Get the boring 40hr/wk corporate job. You'll make enough money to finance the stuff you really want to do, and better yet you'll have enough free time to actually do the stuff you really want to do.
I dunno, I find the people who don't care about tone and think themselves above considering feelings are the most overly sensitive and easily outraged when criticized.

Its easy to disregard tone when its somebody else's feelings at stake, much harder to look past tone when its your feelings on the line. Nobody is above the fray.

Maybe we need a robustness principle[1] for human communication. Be conservative in tone you send out, liberal in what you accept.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
This is great, I hope he makes more. I'd especially like to see the +,-,x overlays as separate icons. Though that's easy enough to do on your own if you needed to. Still, I love this.
Try running less obscure (standard) file formats, like ogg/opus. Now you need to look for a plugin...
> Magic?? There is no hope for the future generations if we keep calling stores and products that are sold in them magical and revolutionary.

Magic always comes with a price.

Revolutions, too.
What you get from a day at number 1 on HN
TweetQureet: a full Golang technology stack
That sounds about right, magazines are always published way early.
Universal Law of Commuting in African, European and US Mobile Data
Wow! I was just looking for something like this. Thanks for sharing.

I especially like the permissive license -- commercial or non-commercial use with modifications allowed and no attribution requirements. Basically, you just can't sell the icons as your own work.

That means I can actually have nice icons in this project I'm doing for work. Good stuff.
Author here. If anybody has any other tools they'd like to share, I'd love to hear about them. Happy to update the grid.
Ask HN: What are the cheap options for reliable load balancing?
I am looking for cheap options to load balance 2-3 nginx instances, all on vps's, traffic is mostly http for now but may add SSL down the road.

I've look at Linode Node Balancer, currently priced at 20$ per month.

Who are the other contenders at this price?
Antibiotics on the farm are banned in the EU for anything but treating infections. This seems to be a largely an American problem. The real problem is that American politics are broken and adding even sane common-sense regulation against a mountain of lobbyists and corrupt politicians is an uphill battle that usually ends in failure (patent reform bill recently) or various compromises that kill any chance of the bill being very effective (ACA).

I think the US is a case study in how this level of "direct democracy" usually gets gamed by monied interests.
Super Idea!!!
You could argue that Tesla fires have a much higher report rate.
his response was a curt "no, I was thinking of what to eat tonight."

I was up at 5am to watch that. Embarrassing. Other great players (e.g. Kramnik) have lost tough matches with a lot more class.
Heh: https://blockchain.info/address/18PyfH1AqV2DbEweh6USf1HYg7D9...

No transactions found for this address, it has probably not been used on the network yet.
Presumably if they used 310 million faces instead of only 3.1 million it would be even more accurate, which is pretty impressive.
I'm really sad I don't have the funds to commit right now for the hacker version, however I'll definitely buy one when it comes out. I was really hoping that ChromeCast would've been what this is claiming to be. Please do show up Google on this front.

In the mean time if the people behind the AIRTAME are reading this, I'd love to see something like this with support for HDMI Ethernet Channel, since this will half the amount of wireless congestion AIRTAME would cause. I'm under no illusion that this will be added to the first version (I know what hardware dev is like), but it's something to consider for the future.
I don't think I see any way to justify this decision. The consumer don't benefit from this, and is even more at the mercy of the carrier. Trying to kill the open web on mobile?
Here's a list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak
Finally someone fixed this colossal mistake :)
Incidentally I just finished listening to the Russian police cover of the same. Something about this really cracks me up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P08B_lBUL0E&sns=tw
So so many Apple zealots here on [Y]. You lost, get over it.
> Right but the use of men by women is almost always negative and dehumanizing.

Since when? All the women I know use "man" or "men" (or informally, "guy"), correctly when referring to a male member of the human species. My wife might say: "my supervisor on this matter is a man." A disproportionate number of men I know incorrectly use "female" when they mean "woman." E.g. one might say "my new boss is female."