skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it's true, but I don't know if it makes a difference in this case. Game developers are already working in locations that have big studios. They work for EA this year, get laid off, go work for somebody else next year, get laid off work for EA the next etc. They're already more or less there. It'd make more sense for them to work for a "Sivart13 Melbourne, Co., Ltd." and contract out your group of developers to whoever so they maintain employment.

Instead of going through expensive and time consuming HR processes every year, the publishers could just go through half a dozen contract negotiations instead.

One well known example of this model is TOSE, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tose_Co.,_Ltd.
Reader/Writer Locking in .NET
Hey everyone, I'm still working on this. Work, life, HN being down, etc, but I'll get to everyone eventually.
Virool Banned from Google?
Seems like Google isn't too happy with Virool as their domain does not show up organically on the first page.... but then again, there is adwords!
Exploring the Human-Centric Web
Another point of this model is, unlike Cramér's, it doesn't assume the prime number theorem as an entry point but rather displays it as a naturally derived property.
Target Customers
"... with some guy in the middle signing papers."

His name is in the tags with the photo. He's the president of the country. All that effort but can't be bothered to identify the president.
Glove checks if you are using the optimal carrier – now launched in NY and SF
I came up with a similar solution while doing research on "eyes free touch controls" for a certain multinational engineering and electronics company a few years ago.

We found that these types of control perform well, because they effectively have an infinite surface area, but they are not very intuitive, especially when the number of fingers is used to distinguish between different controls. We ended up settling for slightly less "mystery meat" controls similar to Apple's UIDatePicker, which offer a good compromise between being immediately clear and offering a large initial touch surface (which is all that matters, because as soon as you are scrolling the control, your finger is tracked even if it leaves the component).

Touch screen interfaces still have a long way to go before I consider them safe for use in a car though. I did some testing with an eye tracker as well and found that people still glanced at their hands a lot (even after adding artificial tactile feedback). I wasn't able to account for prolonged exposure / experience in my experiments, so maybe it gets better after training.
It's supposed to reduce costs and material use (if everything uses touch screens, they're cheaper to mass produce) and the dashboard design will be simplified, like how digital electrical systems replaced the miles of wires in analog-wired cars.

But yeah, right now it's stupid - I can't even use my phone well outside when it's a bit cold and my fingers are dry...
So the US documents are now suddenly UK documents?

I call copyright infringement on grand scale. Authors' rights are internationally protected by the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. If the UK is claiming authorship of documents created by US citizen, the UK is either commit a crime or breaching international treaties.
Any preppers on HN ?
We need a Prepper News ! ;-)
a good overview about using monads in Java 8, even non-techs can get an understanding.
My father gave me a good piece of wisdom on that subject.

He told me that when you face someone who would be "intimidated", you have to realize that when this person is going to have to go for a crap, he will be sitting on the same seat everybody sits, and will be ejecting stinking shit like everybody else.

We are all humans.
Also, the Racket example starts a web server with an html "hello world" page, which is unlike the other lisp-based examples.

edit: my pull request with a fix was accepted
Ah, yes. I should have been clearer in my comment. Obviously, the request needs to be served from the domain or subdomain in question, but it doesn't need match the URL of the page you're on, and it doesn't need to be an iframe, nor be set by JavaScript. It can be a simple image request; doesn't need to be an iframe, and doesn't need to involve complex JavaScript.

My point was that it doesn't need to require much complexity at all; just an HTTP request served by the domain in question that passes along the cookies that need to be served from the new domain.
PRESIDENT OBAMA ON PUTIN:

I don't have a bad personal relationship with Putin. When we have
conversations, they're candid, they're blunt, oftentimes they're
constructive. I know the press likes to focus on body language and
he's got that kind of slouch, looking like the bored kid in the back
of the classroom. [1]

Putting Russia-United States relations aside, I thought that was a spot-on description of Vladimir Putin's body posture, that he uses to great effect, when he wants to be perceived as not being terribly interested in what's going on.

It is quite funny.

[1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewUXm_gqzrU

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/09/us-usa-russia-obam...
As GP said, and OS and board firmware are not the same thing, and equivalences are silly.

> In both cases it is software which is specific to hardware sold by the same entity which made the software.

The only thing that makes OSX Apple hardware-specific is that Apple put a check to try to prevent it from being installed on hardware they didn't produce. I can install OSX on non-Apple hardware just fine via hacks. I can also install OSX 10.9 on any Intel Mac that has the horsepower to support it.

Firmware is specific to a set of revisions of a specific board. I can't use N40L mainboard firmware on an N54L and vice versa. I may not even be able to use the same firmware on every board inside those lines.

> the software is necessary for the hardware to operate correctly

OSX is absolutely not required for Apple hardware to function correctly. I can install Linux and Windows on any Intel Mac, and Linux on any PPC Mac.

> Of course, no analogy is perfect, but those are the commonalities I see.

The analogy is shit. I can find commonalities in blue whales and elephants, but they are very different creatures. Firmware is a set of instructions for a special-purpose controller in a specific circuit. Software is a set of instructions for a general-purpose computer of a certain architecture.
use of the word terrorist: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_e...

bush just happened to make it more trendy. I hate the guy, but let's not contribute a word to his legacy.
It creates a thunk so that alert is called as a result of calling `main` instead of as a result of defining it.
Been using it for months here in Israel and works great. save me tons of money after I switched carriers.
You could go a lot further with Fireworks in terms of prototyping an app or a website. Neither AI nor Photoshop are good prototyping tools. But hey,Adobe never liked that product, too usefull and way cheaper than AI or Photoshop...
> What advice does anyone have for someone who wants to go up levels, in anything, but lacks the self-motivation to actually get started?

I was in a similar situation to you a few years ago; I actually still haven't graduated. However, I feel like I'm working hard and leveling up a lot over the past few years. This perception is validated by advancements in my career and social standing within the teams I've worked with. What it took for me was to to find a goal that I was intrinsically motivated to achieve.

See here for info on intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivation#Intrinsic_and_extrin...

It's easy to judge yourself for not being motivated, but that doesn't actually fix the problem in any way. And it also fundamentally misunderstands the nature of motivation: you have no control over what motivates you. If you try to coerce your motivation into some arbitrary activity, it's not likely to work, and if it does work, it could work a lot better, and it's going to be very stressful in any case.

So, a good place to start is by trying different things until you find something that intrinsically motivates you. Once you find that thing, a lot of things will fall into place (at least, this has been my experience). Tasks which were tedious when they were only extrinsically motivated become something you rush home to work on when they're intrinsically motivated.
From what I've read of carbon tube based cables, most of the length would burn up in the atmosphere before reaching the ground.

Edit: VLM does have a point in that a falling cable might be a problem on Mars. The moon doesn't have enough rotation for a fixed skyhook (space elevator) anyway. :-) More advanced rotating elevators in a moon orbit, maybe. But it might be hard because of the moon mascons (the moon is lumpy internally with different density, which results in gravitational anomalies).
Thank you! It took about a week of QA to feel comfortable with it going live. It's a pretty simple app, but wanted to make sure everything would work great, especially since it was not a free app.
Actually, that is somewhat informative. I was skeptical of the used methodology and conclusion which reminds me of conspiracy theory nonsense. Knowing that the guy in the middle is pasted in is pretty helpful.

I'm still not convinced about the relevance of the white outline on Putin.
hmmm is it strange that I hate the idea of doing 20 interviews and it leading to 1 job, but am ok with the idea of meeting 20 women and it leading to 1 girlfriend/wife?
It might be an improvement, but it would not be enough - so what's the point?
The ambiguity of ASI is that it is optional.

If there's one way to end a line, then it's used, the line is ended. Nobody in Python or Coffeescript-land misses an additional way to do this.
But it is actually working, which makes it even more amazing.
The reasoning for not using hi-tech refereeing equipment in football is apparently a desire to keep the game played at the top level the same as that played in streets and fields the world over.

The friction of imperfect decisions is also considered part of the drama of the game, rather than a flaw.
Not quite as fancy, but you can get really far with a prototype with Powerpoint which many people already have.

Click events, hotlinks to different parts of the slide deck, etc. You can even have elements move around or fade in fade out on click. Most of the simpler drawing tools have analogues in HTML or CSS. You can even set the slide size to something nonstandard to simulate phones or tablets.
My point was that the domain of the top URL you're on isn't relevant. Should have been clearer that the domain of the request itself needs to match.
The first one is an engineering problem. If the mass of the cable is immensely higher than the mass of "whatever it is" then it simply doesn't matter. High efficiency (ISP) engines unfortunately stereotypically output very little thrust, while high thrust engines stereotypically waste fuel. So rather than hoisting something heavy in only 9 minutes using incredibly inefficient engines, hoist it in a couple days and then using super efficient engines very slowly get everything back into place. Basically you shatter the old ISP vs thrust tradeoff by immense capital expense.

The second problem also frankly doesn't matter much. Aerobraking is cheap and efficient. I don't remember the specs but it scales pretty well, even when small, such that one pound of re-entry vehicle can land something like 20 pounds of "stuff" if you do it right, so rather than building a second elevator you simply "give up" on 5% of the first elevators capacity. Weight of heat shield is immensely lower than weight of fuel to get up there so don't even bother with reusable shields. Also once you get something up there, you should never return it with the exception (possibly?) of people. So keep a stockpile of shipping crates of re-entry capsules up there and never take anything down. Ever. Except maybe emergency medi-vac. If it costs almost nothing to get it up there, send up a solar powered foundry and a solar powered machine tool plant and start squirting out a stockpile of rough spare parts and panels and the like.

As for the edit, the hidden assumption is the cables "have to be" side by side. However the fuel cost to travel along an orbit is basically zilch compared to getting up there. And the materials science concerns of basically building a cablecar elevator are limited. So if you really, really insist on installing a "down" elevator, simply up the "up" in Africa and the "down" over south america and if you still manage to tangle them, you must have totally screwed up beyond all recovery anyway.
This is the problem. The letter of the law actually allows laws designed to stop actual terrorism to be used against those undertaking activities that those in power deem undesirable. Correct me if I am wrong, but almost every country has some set of laws designed to stop journalists from publishing truly dangerous information. Had Britain used those laws to detain Miranda, there would have been outcry, but the question in court would have dealt with something reasonably within the scope of the spirit of the law. Applying anti-terrorism laws to a journalist just screams of press suppression. If I were an investigative journalist in the UK, I'd be spending all my time learning about encryption, privacy software, and how to move my files to secure, overseas locations with multiple backups and fail-safes.
I find this discussion (Bayesian vs Frequentist) somewhat baffling - it's as if physicists spent time arguing whether Lagrangian, Hamiltonian or Newtonian mechanics was "correct". In reality all three are equivalent, but different problems might be more naturally expressed (and easily solved) in one or the other form.

Similarly Bayesian and Frequentist descriptions are mathematically equivalent, the only question is which is the more natural description for a given problem.

Having multiple models like this is incredibly useful - some things that are intractable in one might be trivial in another - but trying to anoint one model as "the truth" seems perverse.
Amazon Expands the Availability of Amazon Coins for Android Devices
The Complexities of Copyright in the Modern World
> And, could that current in the tether be used as a source of energy?

Yes, but the actual continuous power delivered by it would be surprisingly low, making it pointless.

> And, would stopping lightning cause other problems for Earth?

No, as the effect would be very localized.
Anybody knows if this is YouTube or Sponsored Posts related?
Not him, but I think this is the FOSDEM 2013 talk he's referring to: http://mirror.as35701.net/video.fosdem.org//2013/crossdistro...
Receiving GPS is potentially entirely self-contained and requires no upstream interaction. Navigation systems with on-board databases need no external data for geocoding, maps, etc.
Interesting. Seems this is a recent GNUism, where -b (strip leading blanks) is implied although not stated so in the manpage. I see this in "sort (GNU coreutils) 8.13" but not in "sort (GNU coreutils) 5.93" or BSD sort.
Yes I think Halley's comet appears in the Bayeux Tapestry which I assume has been linked to an appearance in the 12th century. Better check the stitching on that to make sure it wasn't modified ;)

[EDIT] Halley's comet apparitions are roughly every century so not that conclusive... cue twilight zone music
Nice work. The app feels really slick.
Well played Coinkite
PECAH PANGGUNG: MAHARAJA LAWAK MEGA 2013:FINAL
Libcircle supports reduction now
Purchasing power parity. You're conflating a drop in the factor of human labor with a drop in the vlaue of that labor, but they're not the same thing. For example it may take me only 1 hour to do in Excel what would take me 3 hours to do with pen and paper, but the value of an hour of my work has not dropped; it's probably risen due to the greater complexity of accounting tasks I can perform and my increased technical knowledge. I spend 3x less time on each client, but I can handle 3x more clients. My wafes ought to stay the same in real terms, or even rise depending on how well I can operate Excel. Your cost to get your books done may have fallen in real terms thanks to my doing it faster with Excel, but my hourly rate has not.

Under deflation, though, everyone has less money so I have to keep cutting my rate to stay competitive. Now even though I'm more productive I'm getting a lower return on my productivity. Arguably,this is a problem currently facing much of the labor force in the US.
An OS which doesn't have systemd-like functionality probably isn't very modern and is thus not an interesting porting target for GNOME. I expect the BSDs will get such functionality sometime in the near future.
>Peter's group can analyse thousands or hundreds of thousands of papers an hour, automatically detecting errors and fraud and simultaneously making the data, which are facts and therefore not copyrightable, free. //

Facts aren't copyrightable but their presentation is. If they're copying the presentation of those facts in to a computer for commercial purposes (free release of the content of those papers is certainly commercial) then in the UK they'd be committing copyright infringement. There is also a possibility of infringing on EU database rights.

The OP link says:

>"Note that chemical structure diagrams are NOT creative works."

Whilst a plot or diagram may appear at first to lack "art" the presentation is formatted and certainly a "sweat of the brow" analysis supports it being copyrighted.

You can't scan someone else's molecular diagrams but you could look at them and enter the data yourself. Just like a chart, you can't duplicate the chart except by looking at it and copying the information - the presentation of which has been filtered away. Duplication in a computer produces an exact copy and AFAICT under UK legislation that would be infringing [silly as it is as the end result is the same it just takes more work].

Relying on only duplicating the image transitively in to non-persistent memory might satisfy the requirements not to make a copy. That would be an interesting test-case. How the law has been construed to allow the use of search engines would probably help here.

>take an ancient paper //

I'm curious what license you'd acquire the papers under that allows their duplication in this manner. Even ancient papers are often controlled by the library they're stored in or by those that performed their digitisation.

[FWIW I strongly disprove of this sort of the strength and duration of currently granted copyright]
Hazelcast Introduces MapReduce API
"We'll need a safety concept both for the ground"

Think about it... without a working active stabilization system and a carefully engineered for re-entry shape, "stuff" that re-enters usually doesn't make it very far in the atmosphere before being turned into dust.

We have a long way to go until an elevator can be as large as a dino-killer asteroid. Existing designs have spectacular surface are to volume ratios, there won't be much left...

This is, however, a very serious problem on the moon or perhaps mars. And because the moon's gravity is so low compared to the earth, we're almost certain to have elevators all over the moon before the first one on the earth. A moon-vator is so small and light we don't even need new tech to pull it off, just drop a couple billion and we can do it within perhaps 3 years if done privately. Maybe 30 if NASA runs it.

So yeah, its a problem, but not for legacy earthlings.
I've always wondered about the aggregate effect of wind pressure across the length of the cable. It seems like it could be significant.
This is a great initiative!
I've been a long time IntelliJ IDEA user, among some other JetBrains products such as AppCode, Resharper, etc. They know how to build tools and it is money well-spent.
Better title: "VZW continue to be complete dickbags who've forgotten that their customers are the people paying to get bits from Netflix"
I would have liked to see something more substantial. As it stands (and I'm sorry, I mean no disrespect..), this is quite worthless. I'll spend 30 seconds clicking around random ones and then leaving.
Why Companies Should Buy From Startups
There are a lot of misconceptions with what "free-trade" means in our current form. The US does not have anywhere close to free-trade (and hasnt for a long long time).

The author is correct on the main premise that trade treaties and government interactions manipulate the markets. Most free-trade economists are adamant that there should be as little government interaction in trade as possible (but important to note that this is not ZERO government interaction).

Overall the author has the classic problem with understanding the difference between "wealth" vs. money. (Paul Graham's Essay on Wealth would be a good starting point).

Trade deficits are extremely overblown. I cannot imagine a better deal than the US shipping pieces of paper over to countries in exchange for cars, electronics, food, services, etc. We get wealthy by exchanging intrinsically useless pieces of paper for hard goods and services that make our life better. I would challenge the author to compare a middle class (or even poor) American to a middle class Chinese life. Not even close.
I am skeptical of anyone using the expression "conspiracy theory nonsense" so casually.
Michael Jordan's talk "Are You a Bayesian or a Frequentist?" is one of the better treatments of this topic IMO.

(talk): http://videolectures.net/mlss09uk_jordan_bfway/

(slides): http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/mlss09/mlss_slides/Jordan_1.pdf
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2817730
Artemis’s pCell Promises a Revolutionary Cure for Slow Wireless Data | TIME.com
It seems like it's the normal policy based on this page, or did I misinterpret it? http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/buy/buy.jsp#renew

"Regardless of the actual upgrade subscription renewal date, your new upgrade subscription term will always start on the date following your previous upgrade subscription expiration date."
Is pCell the Holy Grail of wireless networking? | Mobile – CNET News
That's not just the matter of language barriers -- that's basically a situation where you have some information and you try to draw conclusions without trying to get some context. Quite common with people who know a very narrow field very well which gives them the false sense of competency in other issues.
You can also do it by using fire bombs to kill the crewmembers handling the weapons and then destroy the weapons. Of course you still need to have enough other weapons to get through the shields & destroy the ship, but that's much easier when you're not being shot at.
Adobe Flash is way more suited for this sorta stuff.

- Its UI is simpler and more intuitive

- You have frames in addition to layers so you can organize your designs even better

- You can animate stuff (real nice for mobile app mockups)

- It's got ActionScript incase you want to do something mindblowing

As they say, Flash for web and graphic design, Photoshop for photography, and Illustrator for fine art.
Hey thinkbohemian, I'm actually putting together a website to provide a more interesting way of interacting with the SXSW music schedule. Would be great to hear from you about what I could do to make the site particularly useful to attendees.
There are a lot of things I can work on such as:
- a map view
- a calender view
- ratings
- personal playlist
- notifications of changes by RSS
What do you think should be my priority? The site is

http://gigsounder.com

All the best,

Ed
With some engineering, you could have dual-use climbers that double as habitat segments.