skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point here is that the information in /proc/cpuinfo is virtualized, and therefore may not reflect reality...
I clicked that link and my web browser gave me a type of popup I didn't think it could, declaring: "This is a next generation website that is best viewed in an advanced web browser such as Apple's Safari. You will be able to view the site using this browser but the performance may be poor."

Then my browser nearly died before I could close the tab.
I was in a band in my college years that played this "indie / experimental" instrumental rock. We only played maybe a dozen shows that were sparsely attended. There's one show we played that had at least 50-100 people, but that was because we opened for a semi-popular local band. In 2003-2004, just about when I left the band, we recorded an album in on of the band member's bedroom. I doubt more than a handful of people have ever listened to it.

This album is on Spotify. If it has any listens it's probably because I listened to it, or maybe another one of the former band members did.
The GP said "firefox/win7".
Google's Game Of Moneyball
It's alternating. Android users got Facebook Home last year, this year iPhone users get Facebook Paper.

I think that's fair.
BuyVM.

http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/20847/buyvm-lies-cheats-ste...

Whether they are doing so dishonestly is a subjective question though. I changed the README a little.
The repeated posts (any) and the number of up-votes tell me some things:

- HN user base is growing

- the post is fun, entertaining or technically valid

- Internet is small and we stumble on the same cat pictures
If George Washington Were Alive, He'd be Reading Your Email
Yeah, you just gotta tough it out; eventually, every band becomes unpopular again ;)
Except Candy. And Saga.
Audiophiles are people who are willing to pay absurd prices to "high end" audio equipment (like speaker cables for $10k and more) which they claim to be clearly superior in sound quality, while the technical explanations fo the equipment's superiority are often nonsensical and the sound quality is not in fact distinguishable in blind tests.

The grandparents is implying that the price of Stradivarius violins is also based on assumed rather than proven quality.
It managed to freeze Firefox on my laptop.
What a bunch of grumpy old men. I bet everybody sitting here taking shots at this app 1) have never created anything nearly as cool 2) would not have understood Apple in its hayday 3) spend too much time reading and taking shots at other people's work.

I'm all for being cynical and questioning what's out there but you have to let the good stuff through. The design here is first class. The Facebook guys have outdone themselves. Yes, it's a culmination of a large body of work that's come before with a few novel improvements. That's how art works. Quit bitching and do something useful.

/rantoff
I'd tell you, but I can't fit my explanation into less than 140 characters.
That chair looks really sweet! Thanks! I'm going to go sit on one shortly since staples is close by
Google sells Motorola Mobility unit to Lenovo for $3bn
Yes, Google can afford to lose $9bn selling Motorola biz to Lenovo. But DID it?
Man Suing NASA for Refusal to Adequately Investigate Alien Life on Mars
I guess the right word for that would be hipster. I say that without any judgmental purpose, but that's what I think when I see the vintage product + cheap&chic design + sun flare scenery.
They don't appear to have live trademark registered[1].

[1] http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4804%3Arpp3...
They are very high profile. And the fact that they get moved around, used,and loaned out probably makes them a much more tempting target compared to a painting or sculpture that, for the most part, stays in one museum.
I don't know about the "average HN reader" I would have thought that anyone with an undergraduate CS degree should be reasonably happy with that article.
Basically, if the GET variable returns a check/tick, then they support UTF-8. Otherwise, no.
Are you sure you're the mark (i.e., their target audience)?
"A guy" <- I don't know why his gender is important. Headline could easily have read "Someone designed ..."
Couldn't see the original page due to the 503 error, but my immediate thought was that the guy from the OTM story was trying to get more song plays.
What happens if I think the concept is interesting, if only because a sound plays when you tap the Like button?
First interview question
You clearly haven't used Google Glass. With the exception of the camera, everything is inward focused. Everything you do and see and interact with glass happens with only visibility to you. Nobody else can see what you are seeing.

I wouldn't compare it to the boombox at all.
Oops... I updated my comment and up voted yours.
Stealing a 6 million dollar stradivarius is an incredibly stupid idea, really. With only about 650 surviving Stradivari instruments around, this is about more than just the sound. Its the same reason I bought a Martin over a 100 dollar import acoustic guitar. The Martin has a flawless 3 piece rosewood back and the construction quality is pretty much impecable. I know I could play just as well on a cheap guitar, but the aesthetics of my guitar make me want to play it more often, take better care of it and I do think there is a negligible sound quality difference vs something cheaper.

Maybe there isn't, but I know that 40 years from now when my kids inherit this guitar they will have something that has retained its value and will be treated like a keepsake instead of relegated to a landfill as "junk".

Its just like any hobby or discipline, when you are interested in it, you want to have great hardware/software to participate.
I think that our "grow up" attitude might contribute to more to the exclusion. What I mean is, saying "you need to change" isn't the best way to bring excluded people in. Even if we are right.
Where there is a will there is a way. It's easier for an attacker for find a way in than it is for you to secure everything. The point is the attacker has the edge when the name of the game is, for lack of a better word, terrorism.
Uzbek Terror Suspect Challenges U.S. Surveillance Program
Funny, my feed is becoming a mini-reddit with mostly memes and I was thinking "if the news for this app comes from my friends, I may need other friends". But I think news from friends is not the entire purpose of Paper, so there's hope for me. Then again, I have an Android and apparently even the biggest company's do not there do double-launch.
What would a more inclusive event look like?
Going to a bar and having people socialize with a no-alcohol policy? That gives off a weird puritan vibe.

More formal/structured activities are likely to be more exclusionary since people have different ideas about what is fun. Or may not feel comfortable participating in things because of disabilities etc. In a bar at least people are free to make their own fun and come and go as they please.
Starting a business in a bootstrap way not in silicon valley but in india
You're ignoring improvements in fracking that have only happened in the last 15 years. Certainly fracking itself isn't new at all, the first attempts date back under a century, but the cost has come down. Most fracking was done using vastly more expensive chemical concoctions which were largely unsuccessful in a lot of shale formations—until someone tried with a solution that was mostly water. Not only was it more effective, it was half the price!

Moreover, fracking came in to vogue due to drilling for natural gas, not crude.
Apparently not yet [0][1]. The new account holder is titling the account "Badal_NEWS" and has 189 followers with 0 tweets.

[0] http://twitter.com/N_is_stolen
[1] http://twitter.com/N
Just trying to be light-hearted about it, sorry if that did not come across.
>" you wind up needing a second one"

And by that moment it is not a singleton any more. The other way around is also true, you design your system to be scalable in db, cache store, etc. and you end using only one.
>since the government could compel HN to give up the certificate/key

Not if HN was an e.g. European company.

>And, by the way, that product will be open source.

Sounds great! Looking forward to it.
I applaud LibreOffice's intent, but the interface reminds me too much of Office 2003 and older.

What happened that Microsoft has the most modern-looking office software?
On my phone I saw:
Please use portrait mode... Play video. Plays landscape format video.
Iowa bill would legalize non-golf video game tournaments
Highschooler's solution to charities' marketing
While the danger of physical violence might not be significant, I can imagine that a big group of drunk men might be very intimidating for some women. We've all read complaints about unwelcome advances, harassment, inappropriate comments and sexist jokes at tech conferences. How much worse would it be with drunk men? How safe from harassment would you feel if you were woman? Imagine if you're in a group conversation and one guy keeps making dirty jokes and staring at your breasts when he says the punchline. Or if a guy is really overly friendly and keeps getting really close and bumping into you "by accident". Or if a guy keeps giving you overly personal compliments that are creeping you out, no matter how much you try to brush him off. In a room full of drunk strangers, you'd probably feel quite isolated, since you wouldn't have anyone you could reliably turn to for help. I can imagine all that being a bit intimidating, especially if you've experienced unpleasant behaviour from men at tech conferences in the past.
Physical Internet
Any word on if phones will still be assembled in US? Some Moto X models are today.
Apple has always been a consumer electronics company...they may have a diverse set of consumer electronics, but they aren't truly diveresified. I think a truly diversified company is more like GE, 3M, Samsung, Honda, etc.
BTC China accepting bank deposits again.
...an "aging" ~two-year-old laptop with a top of the line processor?
If it's possible for employees to be able to make such a mistake, that's a standard broken process. It should not be possible for them to reveal the last four no matter how badly someone wants them to and how clever their social engineering skills. It shouldn't be possible from a technical perspective, not from a "we told employees not to do this" perspective.
SwiftKey Note for iOS
Instead of pulling information from the marketing page, why not just read the PR release instead http://newsroom.fb.com/News/793/Introducing-Paper-Stories-fr...
So Mint? You can do nothing but manual expenses with Mint if you want...
Because he's male? The title might as well be "Something happened", going by your logic.
Very buggy on my iPad.
Thanks for making this!

It seems like I can't skip ahead to further chapters and start working through it there - for instance if I start here:

http://xuanji.appspot.com/isicp/3-0-modularity-objects-and-s...

and click the right arrow, it brings me back to the beginning. Is that by design to enforce that I work my way through from the very beginning? One reason I'd like to start mid-way is I've read this book a number of times, getting more out of it each time, and I don't feel like spending the time on the basics.
Personally I'm happy with bars and it seems like most people in the west are, so I'm not going to expend a lot of efforts fixing a non-problem. We don't need the alternative to have a tech community, and the fact of the matter is that any cultural choices we make will "exclude" some people.

(I put "exclude" in scare quotes because it's self-imposed exclusion.)

But if you find a good solution that might be deployable in India, let me know. Pune has a good tech scene but regular unstructured social events would definitely improve it.
I work with robots. The leading middleware is ROS. It is multi language, but does not support JS out the box (unlike LISP, Java, C++ and Python), though there is movement there
http://brandonalexander.com/rosnodejs/

I can see JS useful for a UI to a robot, but I can't see it replacing Python for math, or C++ for speed, or LISP for planning systems.

That said, I can imagine node.js being a better async message router than the current C++ one.

ROS is glued together with XML-RPC, which I think was a mistake (why not JSON???)
The point is, the ad is not aimed at your conscious mind. How you think you feel about it after watching isn't really relevant.
This HN trend of portraying everything as sexist is getting out of hand.
For a more accurate, informative and very digestible history of the evolution of programming languages, I urge you to watch this. It really is worth it!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAXlJEmNMg
It's exciting to see them developing the platform but I feel like they are moving in the wrong direction. The success of recent startups (eg snapchat) has shown that we're moving to a more ephemeral and brief form of communication among our peers rather than sharing entire stories.
Explanation:
Created by a group of high school students, techwurk pairs skilled students with charities in need of web or graphic design. The students get volunteer hours or scholarships, and the charities have the chance to put resources towards education, not corporations.
Ask HN: Name for high performance framework
I'm looking for a good new name for framework. Old name was worse because of legal issues.

The main idea behind the framework is to get more performance and pay this with less convenience. More performance -> less hardware needed -> less hardware production and less electricity needed -> less ecological damage.

Framework is java based (but I will avoid 'j' in name) and to achieve best performance it's core work without magic (no reflection or no DI). It's has no much features yet, but offer basic routing and reverse routing and proven for one small (internal) AngularJS app.

I looked different names in mythologies, species of animals, but all interesting names I have seen are already taken. I tried some generators like http://fancydomaingenerator.de/ and http://impossibility.org/, but they generate non descriptive names.

I placed framework temporary on github (it will be stay on github, but with different name), if someone get inspiration from source :o)
https://github.com/Bessonov/framework
The correlation is the ratio of the lead isotopes, which is specific for that Asien region. Lead from other sources has a different isotope ratio. (Don't have data right now so I don't know how specific it is.) (Of course, mixing has to be taken into account when backtracking.)

It is actually a pretty good argument. However, it only applies to PM2.5 lead itself, since different materials can behave very differently (chemistry etc). Also, how and where the lead came from the metal ores and coal into the air is not part of the research.
Meh.

1. Exceptional programmers write neat, maintainable code. Anyone can ship something that works right now but has maintenance costs up the wazoo later.

2. If you recruit based on open source contributions you'll miss out on the many, many fantastic devs who have no involvement in FOSS in their day jobs and like to switch off at night. (I love FOSS but I also love sleep)

3. All of what is written about in this blog entry is better termed experience. What you want is experience of working well in the industry. The blog entry is about as useful as saying "if you want a good employee then choose someone that's already shown they can do what you're asking". This is not new information.
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If anyone is interested in an account with us for user research, leave a reply. It's normally $100 a year. I'll circumvent that.
This reminds me of drop.io - a company Facebook purchased several years ago. I suspect Lessin, one of the founders and a writer played a role in this very polished storytelling metaphor for what amounts to content integration and sharing utility. If they carryover the phone, chat and other mediums from drop.io they may have something.
This looks like the work of Mike Matas and the rest of the team from Push Pop Press. Nice to see them be able to work on a full experience like this after being acquired by Facebook.
Afaik even 4k demos are mostly shaders these days.

Only remaining place for software rendering seems to be the embedded world. But if you are trying to make quake-level graphics on an µc then ... you are being awesome :)
There's a vast gulf between SSL and a third-party promo code generator. The main difference being the number of professionals putting time and effort into SSL standards and the global uptake of those standards. Trust is earned.

To say something as well established as a 'Trusted Certificate Authority' equates to 'Stranger Stranger Stranger' is slightly erroneous. I may not know them personally, but to all intents and purposes my browser is incredibly familiar with the technology and has been for generations. That trust has been earned.

I've no idea what the process was for SSL to become to central, but it'd be a good example of how to reach that position with something like a promo code generator. I'd imagine a lot of time being peer reviewed, worked on collaboratively and if it's ever misused strong evidence of hotfixes in new iterations. A a track record of legitimacy. Of earned trust.
Don't be obtuse. My point is his gender isn't important to the story.
First web 2.0 based search engine.
So mobile is winning.
> Just look around at people wearing headphones right now. Have attitudes really changed? As a technologist, do you see someone with headphones and think "progressive"? Of course not, you meerly ignore it unless there's a practical reason to care.

I don't normally consciously acknowledge that someone is wearing headphones, and that is the point. The article is pointing out how little we think of people wearing headphones in public now, while they used to be very noticeable and with largely negative connotations.
Someone designed (ie didn't even make) an expenses tracking app. It's barely novel. Maybe it looks a little better, but the thing only has about 3 screens to it.

It strikes me that the part that makes expenses tracking hard isn't how pretty your app is, but forcing users to regularly and consistently enter expenses. I know that I've never managed to track expenses for more than a month before starting to slip and eventually giving up. What you need is a zero-effort workflow.

I think perhaps the ideal expenses tracking app would link into your bank details (via Yodlee or similar), perhaps use your location history to identify shops you went to, and then try and do as much heavy lifting as possible to give the user a very easy daily task of aportioning the cash they withdrew recently to the shops they visited.
This is the stupidest anti-critique point ever; it's flawed, because it takes for granted that everyone talking hasn't made anything important (therefore they wouldn't be sittin' here masturbatin', no?) and gives to the simple act of "making somthing big" a value per se.
And yet, it ALWAYS pops out in situations like this. It's like the Godwin law but with the make-something-cool-before-you-talk cliché in place of Hitler.
Not sure what I expected, but maybe someone could point out to me what's so outstanding about this? I mean, it looks good, it's KISS, principles on how to create a solution to a problem/a software were followed... Genuine interest here.
I wrote a blog post yesterday that may be of some help to you

www.renderingwithstyle.com/post/74997233849/ten-things-you-should-know-about-shaders
I couldn't even watch the whole video.
Consider yourself lucky! We had some boring and entirely too basic OOP-y course (with Java, of course). I'm reading SICP now (this beautiful PDF version: https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-pdf/blob/master/sicp.pdf). I would've loved to have had it when I was in college.

Alternate HTML5 version here: http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/index.xhtml
Nice Post.. Really Helpful
The article is wrong.

From the abstract:

'We tested whether Pb isotope ratios in airborne particles can be used to directly evaluate the Asian contribution to airborne particles of anthropogenic origin in western North America, using a time series of samples from a pair of sites upwind and downwind of the San Francisco Bay Area. Our results for airborne Pb at these sites indicate a median value of 29% Asian origin, based on mixing relations between distinct regional sample groups.'

If it was unfounded, the reviewers would have shot it down.
"continuous deployment" is not a panacea to the issue. There's two primary ways of doing it, from what I understand:

continuous deployment to a dev/test environment is the easiest for most organisations to move to. Due to the live environment being mission-critical, they can't afford the risk of any degradation of service. So you push regularly (after passing test suites) to a test environment, get a small subset of users working, and at some point then push out to live from that. But I suspect that isn't what you are referring to, as this is too similar to typical change management.

the alternative definition of continuous deployment is that of constantly pushing to live, initially for a subset of users then rolling it out from there gradually, but always on the live environment. In many large, often 'cloud-y' solutions, that subset might be all users. Except you can't have a public transport ticketing system fail at peak times. A hospital patient record system must stay available for staff, and give sufficient notice before any possible impact to service to allow manual processes to be used. Payroll, accounts, HR systems... all of these have failure modes that have financial penalties at best.

Hence continuous deployment only makes sense when you can afford to risk service, possibly with significant impact.
I have been using Glass for almost 3 months now. I have tried out almost all the different apps for it at least once. And even written my own apps. My experience has changed greatly over time.

When I first got glass, I felt extremely weird wearing it, it didn't feel right on my face (I have never worn glasses for vision). But not only that, i was very self conscious about it, it looks weird and I knew it. I would maybe wear it for a little while and then take it off when I saw someone.

However, as time has progressed I wear it much more often. I have started to see the value in it, hands free headset. Driving directions, step by step instructions for things, and then the standard watch type functionality of SMS and email alerts.

It doesn't feel weird on my face anymore and I don't feel like an ass hole wearing it around anymore. It just took some getting use to.

It has been said here several times already, but the real key here is usefulness. There needs to be a Glass killer-app, and I think that we are close to having it. There will be lots of great use cases soon, and more will crop up as time goes on.

If you are at ITEXPO this week and want to try glass and see a cool demo of how it can be used in a real world situation, contact me and stop by our booth and check it out.
Ask HN: Do you use a spell checker?
context: my students were shocked to find out that I don't use a spell checker (I never have)... well apart from the one between my ears of course
GoPro Heroes
> Motorola is going to teach Lenovo about having a small, yet highly focused product portfolio.

Not so sure about that. Prior to Google's acquisition, Motorola had a huge product portfolio. I would bet that they only slimmed it down under Google's direction. Furthmore, the ThinkPad brand itself isn't known for having a small product line.
A guy took a dump on a toilet for his master's thesis. The details is not visual identity but makes the design. Got it?
Nothing is more normal for an individual than thinking he is not normal.