skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
for i in *.gif; do eval "print -f '%-21s %7.2fs\n' $i \$(($(gifsicle --info $i | sed -n -e 's/.*delay \(.*\)s/\1/p' | tr '\n' +)0))"; done

Assumes a shell that does floats, i.e. not bash.

amelia.gif 7.79s
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bike.gif 24.93s
birth.gif 0.24s
book_mockingbird.gif 42.05s
bottles.gif 1.27s
car_china.gif 1.89s
car_elsewhere.gif 1.03s
car_germany.gif 5.80s
car_japan.gif 4.01s
car_us.gif 6.95s
cat.gif 21.30s
cat_mockingbird.gif 1.82s
death.gif 0.56s
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dog.gif 15.60s
dogbite.gif 7.01s
domain.gif 0.64s
eagle.gif 2.69s
earthquake1.gif 2.43s
earthquake2.gif 24.26s
earthquake3.gif 242.60s
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facebook.gif 4.32s
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holeinone.gif 180.00s
house.gif 6.22s
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keys.gif 2.43s
kiss.gif 5.53s
littleleague.gif 1.23s
meteor.gif 1.15s
ndsex.gif 1.38s
oldfaithful.gif 5640.00s
parliament_toilet.gif 10.06s
phoenix.gif 2.05s
phoenixshoes.gif 1.08s
pulsar.gif 1.40s
recycled.gif 4.64s
shark.gif 0.83s
tattoo.gif 2.06s
turnsignal1.gif 0.94s
turnsignal2.gif 0.90s
us_cancer.gif 18.99s
us_cancer_death.gif 54.34s
vibrator.gif 2.99s
wedding.gif 0.75s
wikipedia.gif 0.67s
antr I don't know where you got the idea that Switzerland has the lowest level of immigration of the european countries....

"Switzerland and Australia, with about a quarter of their population born outside the country, are the two countries with the highest proportion of immigrants in the world"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration#cite_ref-90
I highly recommend Dragon's Egg, a hard sci fi novel by Robert L. Forward, as well as its sequel, Starquake, for anyone wanting to expand their mind with a fascinating portrayal of neutron star physics, dealing with the hypothetical possibility of life on their surfaces. The relative physical scales of time, space, velocities and forces are mind-boggling compared to our normal intuition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's_Egg
True, a shotgun is not the sort of thing you'd carry for personal defense outside your own property, but for home defense, a 12-gauge pump-action is as good as anything, and better than most -- especially when, as mentioned in the article, you have surveillance cameras at the approaches, so you can see any unwanted guests coming with enough time to prepare for their arrival.
Or you could just cheat and go to http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1331 but yes that takes away some of the fun :-)
There's nothing that says any non trivial specification in any language is either complete or correct.

Tests _can be_ used as a _kind of_ specification.
I'd expect that it's simply that the additional constraints implied by requiring deterministic behavior precludes certain optimizations that can lead to improved running time.

Iow, if you can never do X, then you cannot write any algorithm that may do X.
looks like they were actually trying to type 'lolz'
Using Django for mostly static sites
An interesting alternative to this is Spock [1], a specification framework for Java and Groovy with a nice Groovy DSL. Check out the new reference documentation [2] or try out some specifications using the web console [3].

It has a great syntax for data driven and interaction based syntax.

Data driven example:

class Math extends Specification {
def "maximum of two numbers"(int a, int b, int c) {
expect:
Math.max(a, b) == c

where:
a | b | c
1 | 3 | 3
7 | 4 | 4
0 | 0 | 0
}
}

[1] https://code.google.com/p/spock/

[2] http://docs.spockframework.org/en/latest/

[3] http://meetspock.appspot.com/
You should apply the same criticism to open source projects (specially the weekly new programming language in HN).
I'm not a great drawer myself, but I'd guess it depends on the intensity of your trembling. Most sketches don't rely too much on individual stroke precision, specially if you don't have very good coordination. In math terms, you can think of repeating your strokes successively so that the noise averages out; the eraser is your friend in this process also.
Google makes plenty of profits out of smartphones. They just don't make it from selling hardware. But a big part of their revenue comes from mobile (they do not tell you what part, unfortunately) and android is very profitable for them as it assures them access to that revenue without having to pay traffic acquisition costs.
Speaking as a European, one thing I love about Americans is the understanding of how fast business moves. I've had conversations with people way above my "level" treat me like an equal. I believe this has to do with the fact that they realize that in two years, I could be in a completely different position (granted, there are other, less cynical factors as well). In Europe, talking to the CEO of a big company is much more likely to leave you feeling like a peasant addressing royalty in ancient times. I don't have the experience to back this up but I believe it's like this and worse in many Asian countries.

It's related to the concept of Power Distance by Geert Hofstede (http://geert-hofstede.com/dimensions.html), but it's not exactly that. Denmark, where I am from, has extremely low power distance (even lower than the US: http://geert-hofstede.com/denmark.html) which means your seniors will treat you like and equal but in a polite sort of way. There isn't the sense of you-might-be-in-my-shoes-tomorrow or at least that's how it feels to me.
So if you visit a game hacking site, you're banned?
Why Europe needs to get over its Silicon Valley envy
The only things I managed to get working reliably with xdebug were

• break at the first line in a script (very annoying when you have to debug something very deep)

• generate tracing logs (horrible to read but the best debugger replacement I had at the time)

• generate profiling logs (very helpful)

I never managed to get arbitrary breakpoints to work so I basically resorted to either traces or var_dump.
Crunchbase is included as it is pretty much a standard if you want to have a startup profile for possible investors, PR people, etc. But you're right. It doesn't drive much traffic.
Yea that's what I'd be afraid of. It sounds like you handled it well. Since betali.st only features products that haven't fully launched yet, I just don't want to submit, and then by the time they see my submission we're live and they won't accept it. How long did it take between when you submitted to them and when you were actually featured?
Yep: a better reason (than those given on SO) is that it's designed for minimal UX annoyance - it is least likely to cover up what you need to see while still serving its purpose; the asymmetry allows you to more quickly understand which point is important.

It's instructive to observe the circumstances when the cursor changes: there is some indication of context change, but also the design of the cursor in each context is important.
Goldberg polyhedra: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldberg_polyhedron

As far as I can tell, the discovery here (if there is one at all) is a method for constructing those polyhedra and others like them and being sure they're actually polyhedral (no curved or bent faces).
It's not necessary to be a "skilled artist" to make beautiful drawings. Technical limitations force you to be creative. That's true in art as well as in programming.

Don't discourage people. Enthusiasm is what brings them to interesting places. Who knows what a "skilled artist" is anyway?
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Eh, that partly depends on how narrowly you define "something cool".
you forgot the New York Times, L.A. Times, Time Magazine & the Huffington Post... they publish for free all you need is a good story.
> but a heavily moderated part where you can ask recommendations from your peers about the best framework / book etc as long as it's related to programming.

This has been asked before on HN and my response is generally "no". First, the idea of SO is that it provides a QA format so that you can reference it later. If you watch Spolsky's talk about how they built the community for SO was built, he specifically mentions "SO is not for the person answering the question or the person asking the original question, it's for the hundreds of other people who ask the same question a hundred times again". In theory this means if I want to know how to (example) "split an array in Ruby v1.9" the answer is and always will be "<insert answer>". Your answer to "here are my requirements for a new facebook startup, tell me what frameworks work best" is going to go in 100 directions and even if one answer is "the best" it doesn't mean 3 years from now that that answer will still be true. If you think about it you can easily see how much of a wasteland that would become.
You can't change one part of history and everything else remains the same: In the early days the single and only reason Android had any hope at all was that it was the concerted push of a dozen+ once major manufacturers in the face of what was an obvious oncoming Apple hegemony. Google could be the fair player that brought them together precisely because they weren't in hardware, and offered the data side that the others didn't have. And even then Android went through a two year or so period where it was incredibly perilous, and is surprising it didn't perish.

Had Samsung bought Android it would have been a footnote in history. If I had to guess we'd be looking at a 90s-Microsoft-like dominance of smartphones by Apple.
I don't think that's quite right. They narrowed the definition to strict polyhedral, which hadn't been done before. Then showed that they existed.

"Schein and his colleague James Gayed have described that a fourth class of convex polyhedra, which given Goldberg’s influence they want to call Goldberg polyhedra, even at the cost of confusing others. "
Liberal immigration is causing huge problems for countries ranging from the U.S. to the U.K. to France. Chalking it up to uneducated voters worrying about a nonexistent problem is disingenuous.
loomis links for the lazy https://archive.org/search.php?query=andrew%20loomis%20AND%2...
> additionally, switzerland, of all the european countries, is the one which has one of the lowest levels of immigration (both legal and illegal)

Actually, it has one of the highest levels of immigration in Europe, after Monaco, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_foreign-bo...
Sushi story is about a man named Jiro. There is a wonderful, wonderful documentary about him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiro_Dreams_of_Sushi
Is DD-WRT really a secure alternative to stock firmware at this point? It seems as though development has stalled out on it.

For example, I have an Linksys E2000. The "recommended" build on the DD-WRT wiki page is 14929, which is from approximately August 2010. The most recent compatible build I can find is 18946, which is dated 4/7/2012.

Running firmware that is 2 - 4 years old just seems very unsafe.
It is quite large, although not in a way that really aligns with the rhetoric of the anti-immigrant parties like SVP. They are mainly attacking "culturally foreign" immigrants who fail to assimilate and don't share Swiss values, mostly meaning Muslims, and secondarily meaning poor eastern Europeans. But the majority of immigrants to Switzerland are "culturally close" and assimilate fairly easily. The two biggest groups are: German immigrants to the German-speaking region of Switzerland, and Italian immigrants to the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland. Yet somehow SVP posters don't indicate that Bavarians and Milanese are the invaders...

There are some more numbers here: http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/themen/01/07/bla... 23% of Switzerland's population are not Swiss citizens, and Germany+Italy+Portugal+France account for about half of that.
The Chinese make south top because the emperor must facing south to rule. 南面称尊, 面南背北, 坐北朝南. So if they look at maps they sure must look at south.
Except, of course, that they don't. Magnetic north is up to5 degrees off of our polar axis (center of rotation). "Up to" not because it moves but depending on where you're standing they may line up, as they nearly do here in Iowa.
So, what of those 10 sites did they wanted to boost traffic for, by posting this on HN?
I agree, energy problems were plot points, but they were often connected to equipment malfunctions as well.

If replicators were a non-trivial amount of energy as compared to warp drive they wouldn't allow such frivolous use of it constantly on the ship, every hour of every day.

Replicators can replicate nearly anything except very specific complex materials. The limitations they have is in the amount of energy required to create the object and whatever items they are restricted from creating. So the replicators in rooms only have access to enough energy to create typical items you might need your room. Although I believe they can create weapons as well but that would be restricted if your restricted to your quarters due to misconduct. If you require bigger and/or more complex items there are one or more locations on the ship that function as "shops" were you can obtain such items. Plus there's a theory that hasn't been shown anywhere that I'm aware of is that there are large replicators on ships that are capable of creating parts for the ship which would make sense. Star ships would be created with very large part replicators located at orbiting ship yards. Not large enough replicator nor energy source to just create an entire ship from a replicator.

You could replicate a living being because that's the same technology used in the transporters. Beaming down to a planet and back means they replicated you twice. It's just that I would imagine there would sever restrictions on replicating living things for various reasons (ethically, legally, and for safety) and is only allowed via transporters with trained personnel. There could be a discussion over what the "characters" inside the holodeck actually are as they are most likely created with the same technology and have been shown to become self-aware. There have been suggestions that these "characters" are in fact real people but as far as I know they never directly addressed exactly what they are in terms of "living beings" or not. Other suggestions from the show suggest they could be projections and contact with them is handled via clever uses of shield technology but I'd like to know how they simulate the feeling of warm skin with shields. It would mean Riker is always kissing moving force fields, which I wouldn't put past him.
Yeah, Buffalo does seem like a nice place. I've been there a couple of times and I always enjoyed it. However, I guess I've been thinking of leaving all behind, for a month or two and going somewhere where the culture is different (less hockey, less winter, less "american" if I could say).

I just feel like a need "culture chock" therapy in a way.
I actually think less of those working 60+ hours and being proud of it. You're being self destructive and trying to make it sound like a good thing...
You'd be surprised, since the company I work for uses Microsoft for nearly everything, they'll gladly jump onto anything Microsoft technology-wise. Heck I had to convince most of my colleagues that an open-source library wasn't the end of the world.
I know what you mean, but kids normally shoulder a huge wad of parental expectations - its called culture and we couldn't live without it. Rename 'unfulfilled dreams' as 'values' and now it can be a good thing.
Assuming everyone is using it all the time, and there's no meaningful caching that can be done.
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"The year is 2005. There are no smartphones"

In Europe, we had Nokia Communicator smartphones since 1996. They had web browsers, and you could install apps. They never took the market by storm like the iPhone, but they were smartphones allright.
Barcelona is pretty good. Very international city (Catalan is actually the first language here for many, but most speak both Spanih, and some English), but Spanish bureaucracy is a nightmare.
Ask HN: Web calculator for startup projections/spend (posted several months ago)
Several months back someone posted an online calculator they built to help with financial projections, spend calculations, and profitability for their upcoming raise. It was really well done and beats the hell out of the old excel models floating around - anyone recall the post or have it saved?

Thanks!
But Thoreau also wrote of the value of living in the moment. So don't get too worked up about the destination.
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The even more interesting thing is the extent that human beings can do the same thing.
To answer your points in reverse order:

It is entirely reasonable to expect newbies to read the relevant documentation; if someone can't be bothered to read and understand one relatively succinct RFC, then any difficulty he experiences in consuming my API leaves me entirely unmoved. As hurdles go, that one's so low it's practically buried; if he can't be bothered not to stub his toe on it, how's he going to handle himself when he gets to something that requires actual effort?

Someone else doing it wrong doesn't excuse you doing it wrong as well. How do you expect anything to get better if you won't turn your own hand to making it better? Sooner or later, someone will use your implementation as an example for her own. It is therefore very much worth your while to ensure that the example you provide is one of how to do it right.
Thanks, I thought that was just my slooooow network.
Hi, Nader from bondero here. I didn't want to boost any site mentioned. In the discussion thread on the site I even included more sites. I have a startup myself and know how tedious it is to find sites to submit to / generate initial traffic.
Will Your Project Go Viral? A transparent case study.
Because a compass points there?)
And that links expire before the end of the day.
Samsung could release a Galaxy S5 with TouchWiz on Tizen (Bada v3) and the average consumer would buy it. At least in Europe they buy smartphones with the Samsung logo, not because it comes with Android. Though there was some license agreement between Google and Samsung in the same week as Google sold Motorola, so this may not happen.
I used to be pretty heavily involved with the meta of p.se early on. The policy you suggest is exactly what SO users really wanted, but p.se rejected the idea because it would mean that they would become a dumping ground for bad SO questions. It actually became a bit of a dumping ground before implementing some very aggressive moderation.
Seems to me the vast majority of habitable area lies in the Northern hemisphere, so this would likely be an issue of statistics, not subconscious superiority.

Also, magnetic north on a compass is a natural way to orient something.
The free software movement was created to stop the proprietary software model. It is the reason the movement was created.

For profit companies are created in order to create profit. Environmentalism was created to regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the health of the environment. Police was created to stop criminals.

Organizations has goals, and they want to achieve them. Permissive license both helps the free software movement, but also makes their goal harder to achieve, thus they favor Copyleft licenses which only helps the free software movement. It doesn't make permissive bad, wrong, evil or any other labels like that. It simply is not as good as copyleft for achieving the free software movements goal.

In what way is this surprising?
Best rated movies are bimodal: war movies, and gangster movies.
As a former philosophy student, who cared little for mathematics in university, can someone point me in the direction of a resource that would allow me to understand the notation in this article? I understand the problem as described, but unfortunately not the notation.
I was looking more into "early adopters", etc. :) but yeah.
This command doesn't work on my ubuntu 12.04 system, but I'm not quite familiar enough with bash regular expressions to see exactly where it's getting off track. The following expression starts to work for me:

history | grep -o "git [a-Z]" | sort | uniq -c

I get:

42 git a
9 git b
236 git c
8 git d
2 git l
13 git m
82 git p
3 git r
244 git s

If I try

history | grep -o "git [a-Z]{3}" | sort | uniq -c

I would expect to get all of my 'git add' entries, but I get nothing. Can you see what's going wrong?
I disagree.

The book taught me that the things that we "see" in our minds are really very incomplete. You think you can imagine an elephant vividly in your imagination, but what is the ratio of their ears to their head, or their trunk to their head. Where are their eyes? How does their mouth open?

When you draw from what you see, or draw from what you imagine, it's easy to think you know exactly what you're going to draw, but unless you really pay attention you are probably glossing over it in your mind.

To draw things that you imagine well you need the same skill as you need to draw things that you see. You just need practice to memorize a form, or components of a form, or the principles behind a form before you can compose them into your own idea.

If you think that the book is just about copying what you see in front of you, you either haven't read it or really didn't pay attention to it. On the other hand, if you can't reproduce something you see right in front of you, you're going to have an impossible task in reproducing something that is vaguely held in your mind.
Only via a tedious visa sponsorship process. Thanks, but no thanks.
Well, there's the southern cross in the southern hemisphere, I wonder if they used that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crux
As it happens, the vast majority of the people in the world live in the northern hemisphere. There's really not a lot of land in the southern hemisphere. The equator bisects Africa, South America and Indonesia. China, India, the Middle East, they're all in the northern hemisphere.
> Even you seem to acknowledge twice as many commands for version control management for the simplest cases.

Well, I didn't really say that regarding the simplest cases. There is one extra command to get something into the central repository, but basic checkouts and updates from the repository are still one command.

I've gone through the "fighting" with git stage, but it was more because I was trying to use concepts that aren't even possible with SVN rather than that git makes things more complicated.
We've had the "free movement of persons" with the EU for over ten years now in Switzerland ! [1] And yes social security and other social insurances are also valid for EU people working in Switzerland.[2]

[1] https://www.bfm.admin.ch/content/bfm/en/home/themen/fza_schw...

[2] http://www.bsv.admin.ch/soziale_sicherheit/index.html?lang=e...
reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/startups
Apple and Tesla reportedly held secret meeting
Runtime vs Rating is essentially a heatmap; hard to draw conclusions.
All I want is a fully open source phone from the radio firmware up. Android has been such a disappointment for me as a security conscious person, between googles questionable open source policies to the carrier hell it gets forced into and into the blackbox of radio protocols like GSM that far too often have DMA to the same segments of the CPU.

The whole point of FOSS is to be able to see what's going on, for freedom and control to the user. At this point I barely see Android as any better than IOS, aka, a very pretty jail for the user.
That doesn't seem unreasonable. I find it rare to see an iPhone with its screen intact.