skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, Ada usually runs more safely if you don't explicitly disable error handling, which is what they did to the Ariane 5.
The pressure people are under to work in the West is generally smaller than the pressure to work in second world countries including China.

And the Cambridge students chose to be under that pressure.
When Apple announces a new product, it is almost always available for sale that very day. Almost everybody is hearing about it for the first time. The big wave of excitement hits, which probably leads to a big first few weeks of sales.

Many (most?) other companies have talked a product to death by the time it is actually for sale. There is no excitement at this point, it has all been dissipated away. Consumers don't see much of a need to buy it right away. Maybe they'll forget about it altogether before making the decision.

I'd say this works pretty well for Apple. You are trivializing their methods in an ugly way.
My wife was a producer for fashion labels for many years, and has many friends who still are. Head to Shenyen sometime, and try and get 'off the rails' to see some of the conditions at the factories they're not willing to show you up front. Then try and find an alternative where that doesn't happen.
That would be good. However, the point I was trying to make was that the momentum required to advance technology at a faster rate is usually created by the government. I can think of the radar lab at MIT and the Manhattan project, for instance. The public has no immediate need for advanced technology per se, so I doubt that allowing people to put money where they want it would lead to such a fast development of new technologies as WW2 or the Apollo program led.

Please allow me to stress one point: I am against income taxes and big government. As much as I like the Apollo program, it was financed by the taxpayers who did not necessarily approve of it. In any case, of all the projects the U.S. government launched, the Apollo program was probably (one of) the most worthwhile...
staruml - http://staruml.sourceforge.net on windows.

just in case, you are using eclipse/netbeans, they have decent modelling capabilities.
Mod_dims: Apache module that can resize and crop images dynamically
Ah, true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_series#Formula
What was wrong with Java, may I ask? It's what's been on phones since 2000, and it's what Android is throwing it's weight behind.
The Productivity Trap - Do More Vs Do Better
This is a pattern I tend to use as well because it lets you reference known working code when changing things, and easily switch between development and stable code. However, usually it's just one line, so "copy, paste, comment, move" works well enough.
Oh please, I didn't add Hacker News to my feed reader to get articles from Zen Habits.
Learning To Ignore - Shift Your Focus To What Really Matters
[I am 25, moved to US for BS so worked since 18]

I think work age is slightly different in Asia. Most people do not work till they have at least a BS Degree (21/22) or possibly even a Masters degree. And also, while they are in school/college they pretty much stay at home in the comforts of their family unless they go for an engineering college to a different city. So, indirectly they are pretty much protected from the real world issues for a major part of their youth. So, age/maturity also seems to have some cultural flavor to it as well.
There seems to be this attitude in the US that it's selfish to have a lot of kids. At least I seem to pick that up.
New Study Finds Correlation Between Social Media and Financial Success
You use different nerves for different types of speech. It's possible that it's entirely physiological. Certain triggers cause a particular nerve spasm, and this disables his voice for a bit. Apparently, whatever the triggers are, don't involve the seldom used parts of his voice box: vocal performance, apparently.

EDIT:

If this were a hand, everyone would assume the problem was physiological, not psychological. If someone's hand hurts doing particular things and not other things, then you go to an orthopedic surgeon, not a psychologist.

Well, the vocal system is one the most mechanically complicated parts of the anatomy.
Amateur Finds New Earth-Sized Blot on Jupiter
Vinod’s New Fund: A No Brainer Investment
The trick is the ability to build everything and due to the cost of transporting stuff to the moon means CPU's are probably the last thing to be manufactured on the moon. So, once we start building chip fab's on the moon a lunar biosphere could last for millions of years.
nice review
Surely it's not the first private company to launch something into orbit. Haven't Boeing and/or Lockheed been doing this for years? What's different/special about SpaceX?
Books being read on iPhones et al...great time to go into optometry!
Free trade is the default. It has to deliberately made otherwise. Restricted trade serves only special interests and since the world is gradually trying to move towards undoing trade restrictions I don't see why this is a good argument.
"Corporatism" is not all the rich guys getting together. Fascism is a strain of socialism, and corporatism is where the State and the private sector are the same thing (sound familiar?). This includes labor unions, businesses, etc. Either way fascism is and was a national socialism. Communism just claimed to be an international socialism (it really wasn't in the strictest sense, but that's for another day).

And to call the Federalist society, the editorial board of the WSJ, and basically all conservatives "fascists" is just obscene.
I keep coming across sites that have text flush left against the side of the browser window (ie no margin). Is this some new trend? It looks weird.
China eagerly prepares for a rare total solar eclipse
Interestingly enough many of the curiosities above also affect stutterers. I wonder if a device such as the SpeechEasy which replicates the choral effect would have any impact on his condition, it does for stuttering.
The political tides of a given era do not necessarily equate with the level of general intelligence in a society, and the author (I think) stretches it when he says that we have done nothing since Apollo because we are a nation of idiots who refuse to give priority to scientific goals.

The moon project was given high political priority because of the cold-war impetus to outdo the Soviets. Substantial funds were devoted to the project and the goal itself was specific, symbolic, and achievable (as it turns out, though the underlying effort was obviously an amazing achievement).

Once that was achieved, nothing of comparable impetus has arisen in the space program to excite the public imagination in a similar way, and it is the public imagination that sways political decisions, not abstract judgments made in the name of advancing "science."

Average people may be largely ignorant of science but they like what it brings into a society even if they don't understand how it comes about. The American infatuation with "progress" for the past couple of centuries has largely been tied to a national pride over scientific achievements and nothing has changed in this area. A century ago, they were proudly boasting of Thomas Edison; today, they boast of Silicon Valley.

I would guess that it is not so much an antipathy to science that has caused politicians to pull back on the space program as it is a general loss of focus in that program that has caused the public to look at it with apathy. No public support. No political support. No political support. No "billions in funding."

The appallingly low level of scientific knowledge in the general population is real but is likely not (in my judgment at least) the cause of this particular phenomenon. The author does make his point with great vigor, though, and the piece is fun to read.
At our startup one of the main customers is a big Japanese company. They sent over a group of engineers for about a month once and the majority of the day they would just sit around the conference table, seemingly staring at their laptops in a trance, no typing, no mousing, no talking. When they weren't in the conference room and you'd talk to them they often seemed stressed out about getting the project completed, but then they seemed to sit around doing nothing (while maybe one guy was working with our engineers). That was always such a conflict in my mind, since we are all busy around the clock. But here these guys were worried, but not doing anything about it. It was one of those things I just chalked up to bizarre cultural differences.

Edit: we've also worked with a small Japanese startup company with maybe 4 employees, and they bust their asses all the time. So part of the culture is really a corporate culture difference as well.
I think you are missing what adaptive frame rate is all about...
Sort of like a tariff? This will end well.
You have yet to explain what "adaptive frame rate" actually is in this context.

Do you mean that each user receives a different framerate based on the download bandwidth that he has? You really only need a couple framerates to cover all users--and I suspect you mean "bitrate", not "framerate", in this case (though changing the framerate is one effective way to improve the quality of an adaptive bitrate scheme).
This example seems almost unbelievably bad.

Screenplays have well defined rules of organization and formatting that actually lend themselves nicely to being represented in HTML.
PSL Manifesto v1.0
Would-be buyer of Pirate Bay backpedals in court
Reznor Bites The Hand That Feeds. Deletes His Twitter Account.
Please please don't do this. It hurts readability, and relies on a subtle grammar ambiguity. Without a highlighting editor (e.g. reading a diff in a code review) I'll be scratching my head trying to read this. And tools like editors that have an imperfect parser are likely to get confused.

There's a chance you'll confuse yourself (or your code reviewer or other reader) and spend an hour debugging to find what you thought was commented out wasn't. That's not worth it to save one keystroke.
Boundary Values You Need To Know
90s and country, but I'm going to try white noise after reading this
Any advice on how to get a sandbox account or how long it takes? I submitted the form a couple of days after I/O saying I wanted to work on Ruby bindings, along with a nice haiku, but nothing yet. I am dying to start hacking on it.
I think he's saying that the costs of offshoring aren't reflected in the price, and that when you buy for the low price you also get liabilities you didn't know were there.

Kind of like the externalities of oil and gas exploration, drilling, pollution, habitat destruction, etc that happen when you buy gas but aren't included in the price.

EDIT: I don't think this is true, just an attempt to explain the article. Companies that buy bad outsourcing packages will lose to ones that manage their business better (onshore or off)
Ask HN: Why do we show comment scores next to posts?
What is reason for showing a comment score next to a post?
Enough of these web celebrity gossip kinds of stories. Please. Whether Trent Reznor, or anyone else for that matter, uses Twitter is completely inconsequential. Seriously. Are you a shill for TechCrunch, or what?
I'm not disagreeing with you, however free trade is most certainly not a default as far as the law is concerned. As such, intellectual property is for all practical purposes being treated entirely inconsistent with real property in this manner.

EDIT: FYI here is the U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule in delimited format (2.0 MB) http://www.usitc.gov/publications/docs/tata/hts/bychapter/09... to give a sense of the sort of wire-ranging tariffs that exist on real goods imported to the U.S.
> to call the Federalist society, the editorial board of the WSJ, and basically all conservatives "fascists" is just obscene

If the shoe fits.

Suppose that someone were to hook you up bodily to 220 volts. Would it make a difference to your subjective experience whether said voltage were coming out of a mains socket, an auto inverter, or a generator turned by a team of mules?

Likewise, many of us languish under the thumb of arbitrary authority, and don't give a rat's ass whether it is of state or corporate origin. Unlike the inhabitants of traditional autocracies, we are allowed some degree of choice regarding which miniature dictatorial hell we are to be imprisoned in from 9 to 5 - but the difference ends there.
JSRoll : Community Filtered JavaScript News
Indeed, progress is a float, not a bool. And the sign is dependent on the arbitrary selection of evaluative criteria.
if (NbrOfProcrastinationTips>1)
{
Result = (NbrOfProcrastinationTips-1)+" tips too many"
}
else if (ProcrastinationTip[0] != "Do Something")
{
Result = "Invalid Procrastination Tip"
}
else
{
Result = "Stop Reading Hacker News and "+ProcrastinationTip[0]
}
P.I.I. In the sky  (a blow for e-commerce fraud prevention?)
The point of having three colors is to show that there are three boxes of each size. As such, if you pick any of the colors to represent the series, it's plain to see that all the boxes of that color will make up 1/3 of the total area.
I can't argue with this. It's an application that tries to bring together people in very different roles and their respective interfaces should probably be more insulated from each other.
I came up with a reasonable rule that to emulate a chipset/machine/computer, you need 10x the power of that machine.

EG, a 1GHZ CPU could emulate a 100 MHZ Amiga.
I am very interested.

I studied mandarin a couple of years ago in college and used flashcards. Your site would have come in handy.

I am going to make an account today!
Ask HN: How often do you reply to emails/voicemail/text?
I had a discussion with an acquaintance recently. I have made a mission to reply to anybody who emails, texts, or leaves me a voice mail. My argument is that if somebody makes an effort to establish contact with me, I should at least acknowledge it.

I'm also doing this because I would hope that when I email others, they would also reply.

His argument though is that it's unreasonable for people to expect a reply. People get busy, etc.

So HNers, how often do you reply to emails, sms, etc? Do you ignore emails a lot?

My practice is that I reply to an email thread at least once. I also tend to ignore emails from headhunters especially those that looked like they were auto-generated.

Follow-up question is, would you email somebody who probably won't give you a reply?
I think a group that killed 6 million Jews is a little different than the job that you go to every day.
You can get the proof idea from the picture:

1/4 is 1/3 of 3/4
1/4 of 1/4 is 1/3 of 3/4 of 1/4
etc.

In math:

1/4 = 1/3*3/4
1/4^2 = 1/3*3/4*1/4
1/4^3 = 1/3*3/4*1/4^2
etc.

Summing equations:

(1/4^1 + 1/4^2 + ...) = 1/3 * 3/4 * (1 + 1/4^1 + 1/4^2 + ...)
<=>
(1/4^1 + 1/4^2 + ...) = 1/3 * 3/4 + 1/3 * 3/4 * (1/4^1 + 1/4^2 + ...)
<=>
x = 1/3 * 3/4 + 1/3 * 3/4 * x
<=>
x - 1/4 x = 1/4
<=>
3/4 x = 1/4
<=>
x = 4/3 * 1/4
<=>
x = 1/3
So if the applicant is completely open about their idea and tells you everything, projected data, perhaps past or present data also, fully lay out the idea, how it would work, marketing, everything basically, what is there stopping you from simply executing this idea yourself?
A fine reddit Politics post. Flagged.
Although I don't work with COBOL, I do work at a financial services company and we have a lot of old software that we are not going to replace with Ruby, PHP, or any other dynamic language because the precision and accuracy of decimals and floats in dynamic languages is inadequate. I'm really surprised that the precision issue gets ignored at the native numeric level within dynamic languages.
I keep 1 high priority email account that beeps me with any new message. And several others with assigned purposes.

This enables me to stay (best I can) focused on "code alone" ( plus HN for breaks ;).
http://twitterisnotacompetition.com
The key portion of this phrase is "a little."

I reject the notion that evil is a scalar, with Nazi Germany as a permanent and unbeatable record-holder, and that the only measure of a society's evil is the rate at which it fills up mass graves.

Godwin's Law, I piss on thee. The popular preoccupation with the most picturesque Nazi atrocity has prevented any lessons from being learned from their lesser crimes. Crimes which continue to be committed, by people who do not speak German. Crimes which are unforgivable though they may fall short of murder.
And the key word in this title: correlation

Part (or all) the correlation may come from the extra money ( = staff time) to invest in social media.
We in the US do very much live in a corporatist society. As the latest example, see Goldman Sachs making billions of dollars off taxpayer loans and government (AIG) guarantees.

There is vastly more evidence than that, but that is just the latest, most flagrant example. Some people disbelieve it out of self-interest (or they want to be one of the fat cats), but that doesn't make it false.
A fine Hacker News post.

Wish I could unflag.
The author seems to be a bit misinformed.

because there are only a few shuttle missions left. After that, nada. Nothing. Zilch.

True, there are only a few more shuttle missions(http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle). However this isn't the end of manned space exploration, check out the Orion spacecraft(http://www.nasa.gov/orion/). NASA recently tested MLAS(http://www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/missions/mlas.html).

Oh sure, NASA talks about designing a space plane- but they’ve been talking about designing a space plane since before Neil took his ride- and I ain’t seen one yet.

NASA has worked on this, many pilots of the X-15 qualified as astronauts, though I would not consider this a space plane either. Several Single Stage to Orbit ships have been built(none of them coming close to orbit)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-stage-to-orbit).

NASA isn’t going back to the moon, not any time soon.

Bah! Constellation program, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Constellation)

It bothers me that posts like this with such misinformation exists. Does NASA not have enough publicity to get this information out there?
Ruby does have libraries for dealing with real numbers with an arbitrary precision.
Adaptive means that based on the connection quality every user receives the maximum quality that their link is capable of while guaranteeing audio delivery with a minimum lag to stay as close to realtime as possible.

This means that every user has an individual stream because the connection quality can change very rapidly over short periods of time, they might switch a secondary stream on (or off) for a moment and whatever else can change the quality of the connection. You can't use very large windows because that would mean that if there was a hickup in the line it would take a long time to recover, which would degrade perceived quality.

Video is relatively forgiving by the way, the audio is the real kicker, a single packet delivered a little bit too late will instantly cause annoyance whereas with the video you can be a little early or late and it doesn't seem to matter too much.

Initial encoding happens on different machines (obviously) but a stream multiplexer that maximizes the end user experience is a lot more complicated than just encoding to a preset selection of rates, after all every keyframe and subsequent updates have their encoding scheme determined by the throughput measured during the transmission of the keyframe(s)+updates just preceding it.

For non-live consumption the situation is a lot easier, you can pre-buffer and that takes care of most problems but in live transmissions that is not possible unless you want horrible lag (which does not work when the connection is two way, it screws up the interaction between people).
You can force yourself to see during rapid eye movement by tracking a fast-moving object such as your finger and paying attention to the background in your periphery.
Those costs are not at all kind of like externalities because an externality is an impact on a not directly involved ("external") party. But these costs are all on the organization who decided to outsource, so — unlike with externalities — one shouldn't expect a market failure, and the article does not provide evidence of one, or even claim one.
That may be so, but the external costs of oil and gas exploration are borne by society (thereby meriting government intervention) whereas liabilities incurred by offshoring mostly affect only the company. Government shouldn't try to keep private companies from making mistakes, the free market does a much better job of that.
He keeps saying "backslash" when it's a forward-slash (or just "slash").
That would be what I am referring to, yes. Companies failing has, and should remain an important part of the business economy. When a company controls too many interests to be allowed to fail then this is evidence that the enforcement of laws that are already on our books has become lax.
I reply to pretty much all emails I get from real people, but then again I only get 3-4 per day that need a reply. If I had thousands of emails to reply to like some people, I'd probably be a lot more selective.

As far as emailing someone...if I'm emailing out of the blue, I pretty much fire and forget. If I get a reply great, if I don't, no worries.
I was in the dark about Acquia vis-a-vis Drupal. So, FYI (from wikipedia.org/wiki/drupal):

"In 2007, a Drupal-focused company, Acquia, was created by Drupal project lead Dries Buytaert and Jay Batson. Acquia announced a subscription-based service for Drupal at Drupalcon Boston 2008 and started services with Acquia Drupal, a distribution based on Drupal 6, in September 2008. Subscriptions include one or more Drupal distributions, a set of companion network-supplied value-add services, and access to a Technical Assistance Center."

I guess here's answer to question my wife often asks me, "why do people dedicate their time/energy to "free" open source software." Sometimes it places you right to make some money through support/special_features.
"The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations." - David Friedman

I've always liked this quote. The incentives inside corporations and the way things are organized is totally different than the surrounding free market. It's all centrally-controlled, five-year-plan stuff. Sometimes that makes the corporation really efficient, sometimes not (in the case of giant companies who get whooped by small startups).

I guess when we have "the high res society", free markets populated by smaller and smaller companies will replace intra-company politics in places where it's more efficient.
Wasn't a government contract from start to finish?
This article looks really good, I'll have to check it out later on
Against The “Master’s Bump” (Teacher Compensation)
1. What are we doing?

2. Can it be done?

3. Should it be done?

4. Will it be worth it?

5. How do we make it better?
I might be an ill-trained author, but I don't mind writing

<h2 class="stage-direction">

instead of

<stagedirection>

I think (X)HTML + CSS is extensible enough for me. The former is only slightly less readable than the latter for maintainers of my code, and my paramount goal for the rendered document can be achieved equally well with both.
Just because it's all in his head, does not mean it's not real.
Although the title has link-bait value, if taken seriously I would say that it basically reveals an author with limited vision.

In my experience there are nearly no documents (that have any significant value to me) that I would not want to see "webified". I love the options provided - to excerpt, cut/paste, add links, etc. Needless to say... no big scribd fan here.