skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Web developers have the same problem: Architects Don't Draw Blueprints
What's your definition of zoomable? I'm able to adjust text size just fine. More details on your specific issue? If you mean layout, it is responsive. The text column narrows and the images never exceed 100% width.
The glorious, good old Z80. Highly recommended.

Also, if you get one of those Z80-powered Texas Instruments calculator, you could do pretty neat things.
"Shouldn't at some point the cost of all websites in the world being broken on your corporate machines be a bigger problem"

Apparently some IT orgs regard "everything but internal sites being broken" as a FEATURE. Keeps the proles off of Facebook, or something.
I don't think that's what they think.

They're thinking more about the toolchains for those games, and the experience that developers have built up with them.

Though having said that, Sonic, Grand Theft Auto and a whole bunch of other "console" games are already available on Android, and there's a long history of Android devices with gamepad support and/or built in from the Sony Xperia Play, OUYA, the Nvidia Shield, the Samsung official Gamepad etc.

This is just one more grain of sand in the pile.
The Effects Of Gaming On Society
This article was trying its hardest to reinterpret “we have almost no data, and what we have looks boring” into a sensationalist story of master killers. 1/10 would not read again.
The two points are separate. The former is a fact, the latter is a general attitude.

Not our company fortunately, but I have stuff to integrate with their systems. They had supply and maintenance contracts and soure escrow. The supplier went under rather than dropped the product - this is not typical. The replacement is being built by ex-members of the supplier working for the company.

They won in a bad market so it's hardly a "tough" situation.
Questions no American (elected) politician can answer honestly:

- why is Cuba one of the four countries in the blacklist and not other totalitarian regimes like China etc?
- why is Marijuana illegal for the most part and not alcohol?
- have the Palestinians the right to defend themselves?
Oops, my bad :-/
They could save quite some money and gain security by switching to a mix of WebODF, and OpenOffice/LibreOffice.
...how did it not warn me that the link had been posted already, same story, different source?
> The JMAP format massively reduces round trip times, especially when you have sequential operations where you must wait for one to finish before the next can happen.

I hear you (REST and batch operations don't mix too well). But wouldn't it be possible to simply provide higher level operations, grouping several of these commands?

> And once you're not doing REST, I don't personally think putting HTTP verbs in the method calls doesn't really make it any clearer, and is just likely to confuse matters.

As I said, it wouldn't necessarily be restricted to HTTP verbs (eg, using 'create' and 'update' instead of 'POST' and 'PUT'), but I do like the idea of separating the resource you act on from the action on this resource.
In Defense of Scala. Response to “I Don’t Like Scala”
Same as above, what if you need to send the invoice after getting paid, not before?
Lots of posts here questioning why someone would climb Everest. I've never done it but I have a bit of mountaineering under my belt, and there was a time when I would've loved the opportunity to attempt earth's largest.

It's not just about danger. In addition to the element of challenge and personal achievement that a few have alluded to, mountaineering provides one of the most beautiful and serene experiences imaginable.

Have you ever attempted a physical feat as awe-inspiring as this? http://photos.freerobby.com/Adventures/Denali/i-XCFxjcs/0/X3...

Have you ever appreciated the vastness of nature as much as standing beneath seracs as big as buildings? http://photos.freerobby.com/Adventures/Denali/i-2QddZdv/1/X3...

Have you ever climbed alongside peaks so beautiful that they look surreal? http://photos.freerobby.com/Adventures/Denali/i-ZbZFvzL/0/X3...

Have you ever walked on a receding glacier that has been there for millions of years? http://photos.freerobby.com/Adventures/Denali/i-pStmFNs/0/X3...

Have you ever succeeded at a physical feat that looks less than possible? http://photos.freerobby.com/Adventures/Denali/i-tQ5cg7v/1/X3...

Have you ever woken up in the morning, gone outside your tent, and looked down at the clouds? http://photos.freerobby.com/Adventures/Denali/i-hgC65Lv/1/X3...

I can only imagine how awesome these things would feel, how beautiful these scenes would be, on a mountain the size of Everest, especially when you consider the beauty of the Himalayan ranges around it.

There are as many good reasons to climb mountains as there are bad ones. Most people have vices. Most people take risks. Mine have been extremely rewarding.
I suspect this is a different argument from yours, but the console sales have actually been a huge boon for AMD: http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/01/amd-reports-second-c...
> Should the US sanction themselves? :)

They do, you can't export from the US to the US, can you? ;)
The chance of dying makes the big difference (I guess, I don't have statistics on hand)
x86 code density may not be optimal but it's better than regular ARM - only thumb-mode can beat it, and just barely.

> Also remember that the memory bandwidth is primarily a problem for data, but not code

RISCs, by design, need to bring the data into the processor for processing; but I see things like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_RAM being more widely used in the future, where the computation is brought to the data, and this becomes much easier to fit to a CISC like the x86 with its ability to operate on data in memory directly with a single instruction. Currently this is done with implicit reads/writes, but what I'm saying is that the hardware can then optimise these instructions however it likes.

The underlying principle is that breaking down complex operations into a series of simpler ones is easy, combining a series of simpler operations into a complex one, once hardware can handle doing the complex one faster, is much harder. x86 lagged behind in performance at the beginning because of a sequential microsequencer, but once Intel figured out how to parallelise that with the P6, they leapt ahead.

Linus being an Intel fanboy has nothing to do with whether x86 has an advantage or not. But even if you look at cross-CPU benchmarks like SPEC, x86 is consistently at the top of per-thread per-GHz performance, beating out the SPARCs and POWERs, and those are high performance, very expensive RISCs. I'd really like to see whether AMD's ARMs can do better than that.
Not only is this groundbreaking with respect to the potential ease of harvesting stem cells, it could also likely change the 'debate' on stem cells. If all we need to harvest them is some ordinary cells and acid, then the whole 'embryo' debate should no longer be an obstacle.
Ok I am not 100 percent sure about that but it does seem that some courses in specializations are only available in this way.

EDIT: ok, so you were apparently right. The specialization courses stay free, but it's not so obvious when you are looking at them from the specialization page.
I Was Tailed by a Private Investigator
Pet peeve: this is a spike nozzle, not an aerospike.

The aerospike engine has a truncated physical spike that is extended by an "aerospike" that is formed by the pressurized turbine exhaust.

It's still crude and early, but it's very nice that people are actually building rocket stuff! Too bad ITAR is a problem...
I'm sure you can do that for GPL software aswell, and i don't see witch part of that clause forbids it.
no one is saying that there are no other issues in India. However - none of what you're bringing up has to do with increased life expectancy. I'd accept this argument if it was 70 year olds going out and raping. That said - I do wish that rapists weren't born or suffered infant mortality- but then again - I'm sure there were things that went wrong in their lives that made them be as screwed up as they turned out.
The majority of SQL injection vulnerabilities found by searching for unsanitized input at GitHub is by Portugese or Spanish users, especially in PHP. I am not trying to generalize, but it seems to me that a StackOverflow in Portugese perhaps is not such a bad idea.
Guild Wars is my game as well. My wife and my kids all play it with me. It's a decent family gaming night :-)

We like forming camp stealing parties in WvW.
Assuming this goes through with no successful appeal Google will have to pay 1.36% of their revenue related to a particular infringing product to Vringo for a period for which they were well aware of this patent until it expires in 2016. This example gives nothing to indicate that any business you start will be crippled by patent issues.

Now legal costs and/or Lodsys like trolls might be a real threat to a fledgling business but they seem to have gone quite quiet for the moment.
My larger issue is that the UI gets tweaked constantly. To the point where the app you originally purchased and the one you're currently using may not longer resemble each other and there's nothing you can do about it when it's hosted.
But most companies do. There's an opportunity right there. I'm sure we'll see standard encrypted communications in a few years.
Yes, UK's position ;) But I guess UK's position is based on interests of affected UK citizens, and doesn't have to be valid. I guess there are different ways to read these EEA treaties and regulations than what UK and Netherlands says, otherwise Iceland would be kicked out long ago for non-compliance.
The Self-made Developer: Bootstrap or Bootcamp?
It would be useful if a date was given for this story.
Skype Exorcisms Are Worthless, Say Full-Time Exorcists
If you have the Twitter app on your smartphone, you can get notifications through it. I have 2FA for Twitter but do not receive SMS messages.
It is hard to be where you are. Thankfully life does move forward.

In my case we had a couple million invested in the world changing idea. Saying we failed was very very hard. Hard to tell my friends, our industry partners and my parents.

What I did - was take a long walk to my favorite rock on the lake. And I sat there in the cold and watched birds fly and fish eat and the sky change. I cried tears of frustration and of grief, for the possibilities that wouldn't be.

I then went back the office and made a list of things we needed to do. In my case our investors saw it coming because we'd missed key milestones for additional funding. Our team was small and I'd been open with them about missing the milestones.

We negotiated out of our contracts and made our final payments. In our case our board had made it clear we needed "wind down money" in the bank and we had it.

It wasn't easy, not by a long shot. At the end I was drained. I took two months off. I slept, I prayed, I read and I journaled. You may not be able to do all of that, but give yourself a break.

What I wished I had was someone to talk to who understood what I was going through. Plenty of people fail in business, but not many have a lot of money backing it, a lot of people believing in it and you feel like you let them down. Take up the offers of help to talk in person. I'd be glad to sit and listen if you want. The good news is that the sun will rise tomorrow and it will be a new day. And while it won't feel great, you will get through all of this.
I found it very useful to read the Intel software developer's manual to get an understanding of the instruction set. If doing this for the x86 architecture seems too daunting at first, a fun alternative is to read the manual for the AVR microcontroller which powers the Arduino and then program an Arduino in assembly.
Everyone has already forgotten Pfc. Manning rotting away for 35 years.

I saw a "free Snowden" sign the other day which I thought was asinine.
You know how the nomination process works right? It won't be officially confirmed until 50 years has passed.

See http://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/
To be fair, toys modelled on real military equipment, like tin soldiers and airfix models, have been around for at least a hundred years.
The obvious comparison is to "physics" which is short for "physical sciences" IIRC.

Was mathematics once referred to as "the mathematical arts" or something?

(A similar way to appear very uncool is to walk into a record shop and proclaim, "look at all these vinyls!")
Working countless hours on your startup project can also have devastating effects on your loved ones. They may be terribly upset. Your selfishness may be altering their future, and not for the better. (Using "you" in a generic sense here).
They started pump.io instead. Which is a much more low-level project than StatusNet. Trying to build a federation-server that other people can make services on top of.

Trying to win a market that way. If only one popular site starts to use it, -- you might be getting some network effect out of it.

I think it was a better level to work on. Let others help with the network.
It's an interesting idea, I suppose, if a bit smug; I've always found it sufficient just to pop up a note saying something along the lines of "Look, I'm sure you have a good reason for using IE 7, and I'm not going to tell you that you shouldn't. But it's no longer reasonably possible to test in that version of the browser, and I therefore can't warrant everything on this site will work properly in it; I don't particularly expect problems, but you should know they might happen, and if they do, there's not a lot of help I can offer beyond suggesting you instead use a newer version of IE, or an alternate browser like Firefox, Safari, or Chrome, all of which I have tested and can warrant." We're all adults here, after all, even when "we" is mostly composed of triathletes, who are wonderful, athletic people and often not completely barking mad, and I've found this approach to produce quite good results and only a modicum of whining.

As for Kogan, their site seems anxious that I should know someone bought an SD card a minute ago in some antipodean town I've never heard of. I can't think why.

Oh, and someone else just bought a camera battery. It's interesting to see this sort of thing pop up, to be sure, but why would anyone bother? Does it help conversion rate? Mainly it just seems like an annoying distraction from the blog post I'm trying to read.
The only point you miss is that the dead bodies are part of the attraction for the rich idiots. Walking past dead or dying people is something you don't get to do in the berbs too often, and not many of your friends have done that.
http://flatassembler.net/ is very good assembler (linux, win, dos)
http://flatassembler.net/docs.php is good place to start
and http://board.flatassembler.net/ is very good place to explore
Wow this is the most unusable page I've ever loaded in mobile. Can't read a single thing.
Note that once you get that source code, when you start using it, then you are responsible for the patent royalties.

I think this is all left intentionally vague by patent owners, since they want you to just pay to be on the safe side, there's plenty of straightforward things you technically can't do with patented codecs, but which you'll never get sued for e.g. the person you pay to video your wedding has no licence to sell you the H.264 file the camera produced, and no way of getting one.

So I think it's at least partly based on what they haven't bothered to sue anyone over, though perhaps free speech comes into it in the USA.
So how hard would it be to fix hereditary illnesses due to known malformed genes?
I don't think anyone running IE 7 honestly believes that. But the promise of the Web was you got to avoid minimum hardware requirements and things worked everywhere. HTML and CSS were supposed to be backwards-compatible by degrading gracefully. This point has been lost. There's really very little point in having an open standard if the only way to run anything is to update your browser every 6 weeks.
R-r-r-r-repost...
So do we have a reposting bot on HN now?

Finds highly rated links that are a year old and reposts?

I posted this like a year ago with the exact same title.
They would be good candidates. But look at the numbers of Internet usage in Brazil. It makes perfect sense to have Portuguese as the first. It doesn't mean that it will be the only one.
How Does James Altucher Blog So Consistently
When Web Kit Opera was announced, I thought only the rendering + js engines will be replaced by WebKit/Chrome stuff and the UI etc. will be left intact. Oh boy, how wrong I was. :/
You could acquire a license that automatically propogates with the GPL code, but it is likely to be expensive...

Edited to add: it occurs to me that adding such an ability to RAND requirements might be a very interesting half measure.
Bitcoin 2.0: It's the platform, not the currency, stupid
I hope this research report interests the Hacker News community. It's a vision about how Bitcoin is going to alter the world even more than the Internet. Hope you like it. Comments appreciated.
Frankly speaking I dont think any one can give "valid" explanation why Obama won it!
I would recommend picking a project that you can do only in Assembly. For me, this was creating a special waveform on a microchip controller. I had to create a custom 800kHz signal using a 16MHz clock, so there was no way other than to respect each and every clock cycle, and make the most of it.

The key is to choose a project that you are excited about. If you pick another blah assembly tutorial, without the excitement of a project pushing you, your enthusiasm will evaporate sooner or later.
How to harness the power of a well-cropped photo 
As a website designer, I’ve always been fascinated by design (of any kind) that “works” and why.Of late, I’ve become particularly appreciative of the power of photography to anchor a visually appealing design that tells the right story, triggers the desired emotions, engages the viewer, and enhances the content (whether by breaking it up or calling it out).
Sane? Ha!

Usually, a sign of a well run enterprise IT environment is infrastructure builds driven by vendor recommendations, but customized by a deep understanding of the vendor's bugs and other strategic factors. On the procurement side, they make deals to keep costs in line. No Fortune 500 is paying $1,300/socket per host for RHEL -- they're wheeling and dealing site licenses that probably end up being similar to the Microsoft model of $X/socket for unlimited VMs.

For example, Microsoft hands out lots of useless sizing guidance by assuming that you use physical hardware and JBOD disk. Good Windows admins/build engineers test the actual limits on their environment and size appropriately, and get the vendor to sign off.

Enterprises are all about risk mitigation. Usually that means (Product X broke because vendor Y told us to deploy component Z wrong.)
Why does anyone believe the hacker's story of how he did it? It's possible he told the truth but it's likely he did not.
The $50,000 Twitter Account: http://Twitter.com/n
Any source for this statement? I ask this because Portugal has a population of 10.5 million people while Brazil has 201 million people and both have Portuguese as the official language.
If we as software engineers really cared, a page like that would never exist.
I use Dia: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia
I too have read a lot about people doing this, but nothing specifying how exactly they executed it. Does your contract specify production features, a timeline, or both (or neither)?

I’d love to read a blog post about your experience with this and how you executed it, how the pre-alpha revenue compares to beta or production, etc.
Works fine for me. Do you request desktop version?
As an option to jumping into real world assembly language there is Knuth's MMIX [and MIX]. It provides access to the underlying concepts alongside structured exercises. One might say it's an "onramp to the foundations of computer science." I prefer "gateway drug to TAoCP" however.

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/mmix.html

The first fascicle is a free download and the place to start.
Norway and Russia share a border. So it may be easier than at first glance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway%E2%80%93Russia_border
If Obama can receive it, then I don't see why not Snowden.
Respectfully, please don't delete posts. Edit in a warning at the top that you were wrong and realize it or something. People reading these conversations later now have no context, which is frustrating.
There are a whole lot of worse things one might be remembered for. Being Bush, for one.
Offtopic: Just curious why this submission is beating out mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7143500

Is BBC frowned on, maybe?
I concur that 6502 programming is great fun. When I had a bout of C=64 nostalgia recently, I created a simple Tetris clone as a relearning project:

https://github.com/cjauvin/tetris-c64
Obama got it before he did anything at all. By default. And in retrospect hes not that different from Bush.
Obama's prize was more of a credit for good deeds in the future. Jagland himself (Nobel committee chairman) partly confirmed that. Sadly, it didn't work out. Rather backfired.
Regardless of how this all went down, and is responsible... It is still theft right? Falsifying ones identity and taking possession of @n is stealing and should be covered under some law, no?
This. This. This. Thank you for explaining the reality of the situation.

I've worked with lots of different companies over the last 20 years with lots of legacy intranet systems that are too large, complex, and customized to make upgrading them anything less than a multi-million dollar multi-year endeavor, and yet there's always someone who says, "Just rewrite the thing in [favorite framework]!"

I've seen some programmers actually try to do the rewrites themselves. They code for a week or two, discover just how much business logic has been written into the thing over the last 20 years, and abandon it to start looking for employment elsewhere.
Wearable book lets readers feel the fiction
You're not contracting a plural. Mathematics is singular. "Mathematics IS a field of study", not "Mathematics are fields of studies". There aren't "3 mathematics".

A history of math vs maths: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SbZCECvoaTA
That's true, but I think there's a long way to go yet before it's all nailed down.
@ 2Ghz they can probably produce large quantities. It sounds like they went for a "safe" fabrication process so that the initial rollout is as defect free as it can.

I really hope MS ports windows server to it...
I guess my sarcasm didn't come over well in my comment.
The marriage of bisimulations and Kripke logical relations
>Whatever you think of the state of cybersecurity in terms of encryption, implementation, and user-interface (including 2-factor authentication)...it doesn't seem that the protections against social engineering have developed at the same pace as the increasing ease of accessing public records

Yep. Around the same time I started using a randomly generated 24 digit alphanumeric password generated with an offline computer, I noticed a twin person who looked nearly the same as me nearly started living in my apartment, and asking an awful lot of questions about our supposedly shared childhood, wanting to "catch up".

It was certainly nice suddenly having a twin, but it wasn't until he suddenly disappeared three years later that I realized I should have been just as wary about social engineering as I was about my encryption.
except that obama kept the million dollar prize. since he didnt return it id call that stealing.
One thing to remember about Iceland is that it has a very small population. (About 400,000). So the whole country has about the same population as Miami, FL.