skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun fact about Type II topoisomerase: even though it only has local information (the area where it acts) it manages to move in the correct direction (lower unknotting number) about 90% of the time. AFAIK, no-one knows how.
Omtimizing clothing related routines
What is your best "hacks" for dealing with cloths?

Here are a couple of mine:
- I have several IKEA blue bags for different types (sports, white, bed+towels)
- hangers are used right after I take the cloths out of the machine (all of my cloths are hung)

I haven't figured out what to do with cloths I put on for few hours and that I want to use again instead of moving them directly to the washer pile.
The demo site says that it's IE10+ only. This is a non-starter for me unfortunately.
Is this purely evaluated at runtime or does Go annotates types with its static analysis and restricts the interface in some ways? IOW are default and else cases made optional by Go's static analysis, which would help Go throw its arms up at compile time if an unexpected type is passed?
Recovering from mistakes in Git
This looks very interesting. The Google, Facebook and Twitter login options are great to have.
Here is a presentation of Overtone from Sam Aaron at the clojure conj 2011.
http://youtu.be/imoWGsipe4k
That's exactly what I'm trying to test here, if there are people who don't care much about that as far as they get a lower price. Thanks
How to safely use the power-socket ground for the anti static wrist strap?
You should contact the NIPS organizers to have this kind of tools built-in into the conference site.

Would be great to have this similarity-based navigation on http://openreview.net as well.
Oh, this is beautiful. Nice work

Things to Never Say “Click Here”

DIY Weapons of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA

Did everybody see what just happened? The pendulum has swung.

Rootkit on a cube-shaped planet

So Long and Thanks for your password
WoW Lead System Game Designer Leaves Blizzard
i'm curious why? why wouldn't we just interpret these clues as laws of nature
"blue" is actually supposed to be blue. Like "yellow" or "green" or "black"

it's ”blue” that is interesting.
50 USD DigitalOcean Black Friday Coupon
DO is running a great black friday promotion. Coupon is valid only today: BLACK50

https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=169c74e2eae2
Yes, I got understood that. Just mentioned paypal to explain that the checkout flow will be fixed when we move away from them.

No worries, it's a very valid point!
Ask HN: what's your experience with patents and investors, as a startup?
I founded a startup in the EU, where you can't submit or defend patents for software. You can work around this by patenting the underlying processes and all, but it's hard to defend, even if you do have the resources to go to court.

However, the first things that investors ask me is "do you have a patent for that?".

On the other hand, I see major VCs in the US speaking out against software patents.

Can you share your experience regarding software patents when pitching investors?
Hi. Do you use it?
Whoops, those are on the reserved names now :)
Animated SVGs: Custom easing and timing
I have a three tier system.

tier 1 is a shoe shelf for the clean clothes: http://www.moebel-ideal.de/images/produkte/i55/5502-Schuhkip...

one box for underpants, one for shirts etc.

tier 2 is a buttler for the used but "clean" clothes: https://images.otto.de/asset/mmo/formatz/herrendiener-buchef...

tier 3 is a bag for dirty clothes
No apologies, it's good advice! Anyway, for 2013, 51% of unit sales have come from 2 discount offer email events this year. The discount IS the old price we had for years, so it's not that this price is somehow magic on its own. We are pretty sure they're responding to the psychology of the discount, not the actual price.

The sales volume is absolutely huge during these offers. At least by our standards. The two months that we ran the promotions, we brought in 400% and 437% extra on top of a typical monthly revenue, and it all comes in in just 2-3 days, but it's probably because we put a time limit on the offer.
Indeed however in the UK we operate a common law legal system which means that precedent and case law account for much of our legal system (in effect the law says X is legal but then the case law defines exactly when and when X is legal).

A case like this is highly useful at staving off spurious law suits and spoiling tactics (particularly from bigger players against smaller players).

I think it's a good decision.
GeeksPhone plans high end Revolution
I would make an ad hominem attack, yes. I don't believe ad hominem is fallacious in this sense.

Orson Scott Card has expressed such a lack of humanity elswhere that I do not understand why I would spend my time deciding whether his other arguments have any merit. He has disqualified himself from my consideration.
i'd recommend looking at how this works as a very tiny com file... its a bit out of date but reveals a lot about how an OS can choose different ways to achieve this, including how it can implement system calls differently and how simple an executable loader used to be...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/284797/hello-world-in-les...
I think it's purely evaluated at run-time because you can do this:

http://play.golang.org/p/Mtg8A5SzdS
HTML 5, cross platformness. We wrap it into a native container though.
We're still small, so we manually check out each person who joins.
Why Apache Oozie rocks
Nokia wanted to use its maps and not Google's, but still be a Google services licensee. That's a no go as far as Google is concerned. Microsoft let Nokia replace its Bing maps with Here, and in fact licensed it as a replacement for the Bing mapping data.

Third party apps on carrier devices that have the Google Play store are in addition to the Google services, not replacing them. The Google services are all there, even if they're hidden.
Can you elaborate on the 'Wrapping it into a native container'?
If facebook's HTML5 fiasco is any lesson, I would rather go with Native.
Sounds pretty much like Google
After doing some (very brief) research, the average price point for you product is between $130 and $150. Your discounted price is at the top end of this scale. Also, the fact that so many of your sales come from your discounted rate suggests that your regular rate needs to be (urgently) revised.

Also, have you ever tried providing monthly, quarterly or 6-monthly access to your product instead of a lifetime access?
Google Plus will get your children murdered
A Scientist Predicts the Future
The bounty on the file sharing site was for a different collection, with a slightly different set of stories. For what it's worth...

But being "the real deal" isn't always simple when you're talking about a print run of a short story collection.

It's not like validating authenticity of a painting, where the criteria (generally) involve being executed by the hand of the artist. Authors rarely print their own stuff anyway.

But if the author never intended the stories for collection together, or licensed them to a publisher at all...that can make the collection a "fake" even if the stories are perfect matches for the author's finished versions.

Somewhere along the line between drafts and manuscripts and galleys and first run publishing, the collection becomes real.

Salinger scholars and fans knew the stories existed, and knew where to go to read them, but no one seems to have known of a 25-copy print run of these three as a collection. This is surprising, bordering on incredible, given Salinger's prominence.
Just checking if I got it right: Google with Android is successfully using Microsoft strategy.

In that case Firefox OS is in the best position to compete against Android. FxOS phones can be very cheap as well. But is that enough to make it next big thing in smartphone's market?
A bit of both - we have an HTML 5 application used internally, and an iOS app we distribute to customers.

HTML 5 is a big win for letting us get new releases out fast, and not having to battle with native APIs that we don't usually, but native wins out if you need something polished.
People are willing to pay for good product. You can remove "free" from your list.
A compact clone of it-ebooks.info. Has cool collection of ebooks.
I've seen a real nerd (the guy that got the big companies to do tcp/ip in Sweden, I'm not going to write Googleable names) do an ass of himself in a similar way.

I happen to know that he considered that "funny". I'm willing to suffer his sense of humour; he is a national treasure, imnsho. The same goes for rms, I guess.
In MI, there are 10c deposits for cans and also larger deposits. There are $2.00 milk bottle deposits. Dumping is definitely not the best way to make money from food stamps, but I see it happen every week.
Apple forcing operators to buy phones - even if they can't sell them
I've heard development has stalled, can you confirm?
Breeder, a heterophobic term of abuse, I presume?
Take a look here: http://phonegap.com/

This is a free open-source wrapper.
Backup is manual Undo.
Is "don't buy from Nazis" really the same as "don't buy from Jews"? It's not about attacking people who disagree, it's about withdrawing support from those who attack others.

Let's say, someone beats their wife brutally, but they're very good at bowling, and always treat you respectfully. Would you feel good about going bowling with them, regardless of how much objectively correct things about bowling they could teach you? Or would you realize the world is full of people who know as much and more, who don't come with quite such a bad aftertase?
The usual references for that are from the US though (the main one being Compaq's emulation of IBM's BIOS to make the first truly "IBM Compatible" PCs) or cases that were settled out of court so therefore have little impact on future cases.

This gives the practise a fixed definition in UK case law rather than people just assuming it is OK.

Of course this is only covering copyright: patents will complicate the issue.
so is "asdf"

http://asdf.com/asdfgreen.html
I like how the logo looks like a Y-front
We prefer native 99% of the time. Performance of HTML is easily outmatched by native on both iOS and Android, and the multi-platformness of HTML is usually limited if you want to adhere to UX guidelines and conventions that are platform specific.
Can anyone confirm whether this is the software used by the AlgoRave collective in the article that was posted the other day. I tried looking around their websites for the software they used, the closest I reached was that it used haskell.
(AlgoRave article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6808744)

This looks very similar however It doesn't mentioned haskell anywhere, despite the syntax looks like haskell/a similar functional language.
Change to quote to "
How do replies work with group email setups like this?

Say I email the group address. If someone replies to me, how do they copy the rest of the group in without sending their message to me twice?

Do I need to train everyone to hit reply, delete my email address, and then use the group email address instead? It feels like this setup would carry more friction than simply hitting 'reply all' to the original sender of a regular email with a long list of addresses, especially among non-technical friends.

Or do you modify the headers of all mail sent to the group address to change the reply-to address to the group address?
Not to Edward Lasker: "The rules of go are so elegant, organic and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe they almost certainly play go."
it depends on what the mobile application will do. E.g. for more performance heavy apps native is the way to go. See reasons why: http://speedcheckerapp.com/NativeApps.aspx
Dark Bitcoin. I wonder if, in the scenario where it becomes an important world currency, you'll have people looking for dark Bitcoin, and dumpster diving for it the way people currently dive for silver and gold in sunken ships.
how about: fails to deliver the expected functionality?

this is probably top 5 on my list.
That's a lot of surface area you're exposing.
And for everyone like you, who does not fit into that niche, there is likely a person like me, who needs deeper information in that niche :) This looks like it will be very useful for people who are in that niche, even if it starts out simple. I'm (and I'm sure many others are) glad this was put on the front page and am looking forward to the other posts, hoping to broaden my knowledge of game development/C++.

Don't be so negative about things that seem like they aren't useful to you. Sometimes things like this are useful to many others.
Kent Beck on creating JUnit[video][2005]
Black Friday Dirt Cheap Video Game Deals
Can workshops be asynchronous? Story of one experiment.
Pictures of puppies and dogs
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Are you human :). I wish i had the capability of your species.
Don't be disheartened. I find that kind of dated look reassuring - it hasn't been broken for so long that nobody dared to fix it! People have relied on the software, and it's in repositories and what's more it (sometimes) continues to be recommended.

Something new and shiny makes me wonder "how long will this last", I suppose because of advances in web technology it doesn't take as long to put a nice website together. Sometimes I even wonder if time would have been better spent on the actual project and not the website.
We do Cordova/PhoneGap development - the best of both worlds. HTML 5 wrapped into a native iOS/Android app. We still use plugins with native code though (Java/ObjC), for receiving push notifications and accessing the camera.
Yeah, I'm waiting for prices to come down on that one. (Although it's still a bit large for me.)
There is no difference between rights and acceptance/legitimacy.

In a society that hopes to remain free, there must be a difference between these. There must be space for dialogue, for experimentation, for uncertainty, for personal preference, for disagreement. "Everything which is not prohibited is mandatory" is a totalitarian motto.

For example, although I find Nancy Grace repulsive, illegitimate, unacceptable, unwatchable, and generally awful, at some level I realize she has the right to produce her execrable television programs, and I don't seek to undermine that right.

Perhaps I'm quibbling over a minor point, as I certainly have no quarrel with criticism and boycotts of OSC (or of anyone really), even though I don't choose to take part myself.
Open Source Social Responsibility
Because some stars emit more blue and some more red. Also you can't have 100% light in universe (without creating a black hole that is), so when you mix lights, you have to mix different colors as unbounded values and then divide by max to get some normalized representable rgb value with 100% luminosity. #FFxxxx means there is more red than other colors, but only a little more. If every frequency in visible light would have the same strength in resulting spectrum, you would have #FFFFFF.
...for now - which is the aspect "open source" addresses
Technical debt in software development and beyond: how it applies to other work
Or unemployment would raise sharply, taxes would raise sharply (to pay BI), then companies would relocate to a foreign country.

Or wages would raise, prices would raise (inflation), then BI would not anymore afford a minimal standard of living.

Or both: unemployment would raise, wages would raise, prices would raise, taxes would raise.. companies would go bankrupt or relocate, and most people on BI would be poor.
Fair play - sounds like you've got a great business there.

Good luck with it all! :D
It would be nice to see a small form factor phone capable of running Android - it should be possible, now they can make hi-res displays.
Nope, from the video, it doesn't look like they are using Overtone at all. Overtone is a Clojure frontend/library to the Supercollider synth.
looks very similar to my own side project:

https://grouplet.cc

good luck with it :)
They use tidal (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/tidal), and it is indeed written in Haskell.
The gameplay was stale and the visuals tried to abuse pre-3D technology to add depth and immersion to what was an oldschool 2D point and shoot, but the tech and art were simply not up for the task. Ed Kilham (of Tie Fighter fame) is an awesome guy but he can't make miracles. Orson Scott Card's story was essentially invisible behind the mess, and apparently he didn't care much for it either.

http://www.gamefront.com/gaming-todays-exclusive-interview-w...

"a side-scrolling shooter that I’m not sure was ever published, since it was coming out just when first-person shooters completely took over the genre. However, for that game I came up with the slang that I later used in battle school in the Shadow books and in the movie scripts I’ve written for Ender’s Game. Nothing gets wasted."

(disclaimer: as they were finishing Neohunter, Ronin hired my bro to do their future tech and rendering, and IMHO things improved a lot for Ronin in that area)
I have written on some low level stuff on C and C++

C++ object model described with c code: http://www.avabodh.com/cxxin/cxx.html

How c code is translated to assembly: http://www.avabodh.com/cin/cin.html
Nicolás Brailovsky did a great exploration in to the internals of one modern implementation of structured C++ exception handling:

http://monoinfinito.wordpress.com/series/exception-handling-...

He went so far as to reimplement his own handlers, which is totally awesome.

For other important things, like the memory layout of the inheritance graph (generally optimal for single, non-virtual inheritance), virtual table layouts, the structure of member pointers and RTTI, the Itanium C++ ABI (followed by GCC and Clang on open OS's but not MS) is a good place to glean some insight:

http://refspecs.linuxbase.org/cxxabi-1.83.html

For instance, you may be surprised to learn that member pointers aren't even pointers in this implementation, but a pair of offsets (one for the object, one for the vtable) used to find the function to call.
If anyone is interested, the default language for writing Supercollider programs is based on Smalltalk. The standard library is well organised and was a revelation to me on how to use OO properly.

The main mechanisms used for composition are lazy streams (via generators), events (via prototype-like composition), and higher level structures (via classes).

Of course the client has been replaced by Clojure in Overtone, and I'm pretty sure I've seen JavaScript clients in the wild as well...

It's worth pointing out that the underlying synthesis and routing engine is extremely versatile, with signal graphs compiled from a user-authored OO AST.

I'm looking forward to returning to Supercollider next year as I'm hoping to return to study sound design and composition. My stuff is currently at soundcloud.com/slex...
No, he meant that it makes it automated to add money to the prepaid from the CB when some conditions are reached.
It is indeed just a simple process to register the card at the bank and configure the minimum amount before adding money.
Interestingly this article is NOT saying that GeeksPhone gave up the production of the Peak+

This has been reported yesterday by heise.de, a German news company (in German): http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Geeksphone-Firefox-Ha...
fb.html5isready.com
My issue is that the title of the article suggests it's much more general in scope than it actually is.

"And for everyone like you,... there is likely a person like me" - That would mean the article is applicable to 50% of C++ developers, which is not a niche. I'd say your estimation is way off.
Your choice of language can help you avoid, or even completely eliminate, certain types of defect.

But no language is ever going to prevent you from coding the wrong intent into your application - your programming language has no idea whether (for example) you are intending to keep or omit a left join in your optimisation routine.
I'd put learning the basics of data normalization ahead of any of your concrete examples. But maybe that's just because I partially fell into/chose that - and would otherwise have followed a rather excellent computer science degree that has no compulsory data normalization stuff... And in general I'd recommend a basic course of statistics for any science degree (as impostant as some basic philosophy, really).

Finally I'll just accept that if you're only doing 4-5 years of computer science, no one will be qualified to select which few parts to study without guidance.

[edit: spelling]
The char with the hanger looks nice!
Isn't it "girly" looking? :)

Thanks for sharing!
Two I got in this same category:

- Man places his genome to Github, smartass forks and issues a pull request
- Paul Graham consistently says ‘um’ ~7 times per year, audit finds

And this one is hilarious enough to get an honorable mention:

WYSIHTML5: A better way to get $12 billion of gold to Venezuela
If anything can't be written in JS now, it will be written in JS in the future. Everything will be in JS some day.
Creating Animated Gifs from 3D Movies (HSBS to Gif)
I would live on pizzas and coffee. Seems the newer generation of programmers don't like that sort of thing!
I'm not old by any stretch of the imagination, but I always thought of programmers as beardy types with awkward glasses, brown trousers and a crumpled shirt/t-shirt. (I never ironed my shirts, that's for sure!). And coffee was always black. Programmers were more like engineers.

As stated, this brogrammer persona is a new thing. No lattes for me thanks!
Nice.. but unless there is a way to install Github locally, it's not what the OP asked for ^^
I couldn't agree more. I think the "frame" of the political discussion is undermining an real progress. The fact that one of the most influential figures in the world is helping to evolve the dialog in a new direction can only be a good thing.
As a UK/EU citizen, this has always been my understanding of the law, and it's not strange to me.

I might violate US patent law (which is an increasing concern given the apparent freedom of extradition), but I'm not violating UK law.

There is copyright over my writing (here, lines of code), but typically not over my idea.
Show HN: Pick a number from 1 to 1000 in C
Everyone uses different tools. Lots of people build their own. Overtone, the tool in this post, is a clojure frontend to SuperCollider (http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/). Overtone is used to describe synthesiser networks which are then executed by SuperCollider.
That's actually my favorite area of research at the moment.
This is also the reason why Apple started counting "shipped" iPhones this year, starting with that "record 9 million iPhones in first weekend", that everyone thought were sold to customers, but in fact they were just shipped to carriers.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/09/24/apples-9-mi...
Inspired by: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6816411

SCNR.
"The deals for the Galaxy S4 were almost as restrictive as Apple's," one source said. "But Samsung has a range of phones, and operators had choices."

Well, operators have choices. They can simply decide to not purchase Apple phones - at least not in the 20 billion dollars scale.