skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is an interesting idea, but there are other ways, probably easier, to get the positrons. For example, some radioisotopes emit positrons as part of their natural radioactive decay process. See:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2011/02/positrons-at-center-o...
I have a Unicomp Classic that I use daily at work. It's simply the best keyboard I've ever owned. Worth every penny.
Typed Racket is pretty decent.

However, behold the byzantine Scheme numerical tower and the effort to type it: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/stamourv/papers/numeric-tower.pd...
See also Tahoe-LAFS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahoe-LAFS
Yeah, same here, but it’s a testimonial we received :)

Given that Hoodie’s whole focus is on hiding backend complexities, it is not too far fetched, though.
PouchDB – The cross-browser JavaScript database that syncs
any clue what language the original development took place in?
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7763711.
Is Google about to buy Twitch for $1bn?
I think your static, static blog generator is a cool idea and I nice gimmick. It lets you pause for a second and really think about how the responsibilities of serving a site and rendering its pages should be distributed.

But you can't really think that rendering a page with javascript is faster than serving a static html page with all the possible optimizations like gzip, etag and byte-range, etc.

Even though a gzipped markdown file might be a tiny bit smaller than the same content as a gzipped HTML file, so the bandwith difference is negligible, the browser will have the HTML file at once, whereas with jr it still needs to compile the markdown file into HTML and finally render it.
I worked as a free-lance programmer 'on retainer' for a big project (I'd do work for them once a month or so).
It's never too early to discuss what will happen when you want to quit. I didn't do that, and after being more and more bored with the work, less and less excited about the pay and the whole project, I still spent more time working for them than would have been deemed reasonable, because there was no way to cleanly break off this work relationship according to a predefined set of rules.
It worked out OK in the end, but knowing that you can stop your free-lance work anytime you want (assuming you don't owe anything and the client doesn't owe you anything) and pursue other projects makes it a lot less stressful in some cases.
> For example, we might say "we believe site-a.com has a problem with spam or inorganic links. An example link is site-b.com/spammy-link.html."

If you are able to identify problem links, you can just ignore them. Or am I missing something?
If you need to send a file over the network using the cloud, it doesn't ever get downloaded to the local computer. There are a lot of limitations of this use case, but end user connectivity is only needed for the screen image of what is happening.
Hoodie provides a backend for you, you manage the browser.

Meteor (and Derby etc) is a full stack JS setup, where you manage both the browser and node.

Both do data sync.
So let's just deliver all our business logic as JavaScript to an entirely untrustworthy client! Whats the worst that could happen?
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>brav-fucking-o

I would have left that part out. Partly because it doesn't really roll off the tongue well, and partly because it comes across as hubris.
You could see that as an upside - Markdown is designed to be human-readable and is pretty successful in that design goal. So a NoScript user will see a rather nice plaintext.
Yeah, it’s a document database, uses UUIDs and revisions for identification and does HTTP-based P2P replication. In Hoodie we abstract that away in a simple to use `hoodie.store` object with the usual `add()`, `update(), `find()`, `findAll()` methods for operations. No need to know about the CouchDB/PouchDB specifics, just store your objects :)
Meet Twitch, the video-streaming firm Google may buy for $1 billion
Originally the game was written in a variant of asm resembling z80.
Floating Point Routines by Steve Wozniak
The lesson people learn from articles like this is "don't put dates on date-sensitive web spam", or alternately "always put today's date on every article".

Both of those are just spamming techniques.

If it doesn't have a date it's almost certainly worthless content. Having a prominent date is actually a huge positive credibility sign.
I've had the misfortune of being forced to use Laravel on a project, and the larval connotations are pretty apt. Basically it's yet another PHP framework that adds megabytes of bloat to your application in order to give you alternate ways of doing things that are already trivial to do in PHP without providing anything that's actually helpful. Its one redeeming 'feature' is that they didn't go too far out of their way to make it incompatible with Composer, so once you work your way through Laraval's inane routing DSL (which, being built upon PHP, is a shitty DSL, and doesn't add any value over an if-else chain anyway) you can reference whatever libraries you need to get the job done without a lot of contortions. Even then, it throws good practice out the window by defaulting to throwing all the application-specific classes in the global namespace (which makes Composer's work harder, since it has to scan the entire app/ directory to build the class -> file map) and failing to provide any way to pass context to your code other than through global state.

Don't even get me started on the ubiquitous, ridiculously verbose, unhelpful, and intelligence-insulting comments. It's this kind of thing that makes me want to take up shooting sprees.
See http://blog.hood.ie/2014/05/talks-about-hoodie-offlinefirst-... for a few pointers :)
The marginal cost of all of those is dropping. If you can automate mobility (Self-driving EVs), the production of housing (3D printed homes), and farming (automated planting, maintenance, harvesting), you can indeed provide it all for free.
Can't agree more.

US west coast prices are terrifyingly similar to prices in the Baltic States(unless you're living in a metropolis such as NYC).

Something to remember: It doesn't matter that you're from Ukraine. It matters where the company you work remotely for is stationed. If you find a company in the US or western EU willing to hire you, you can probably ask for their domestic market rates :)

Good luck.
Ctrl+Esc. Not as convenient, but it works. Alternatively, pair it with a new mouse fro m the MS Sculpt line, and you have a start button on the mouse.
Forget the 3D Printer: 4D Printing Could Change Everything
Most (all?) of those 270 static site generators generate HTML files that sit on disk on the server. This tool takes markdown files with a single script tag and serves that up to the client. While I'm pretty sure I've seen this idea before, it is at least different from the typical static site generator.
I computed a 3D model of the Arecibo Observatory:

3D: http://s15.postimg.org/5czp6yi6j/are_04.jpg

point cloud: http://s21.postimg.org/3nvdz80vb/are_03.jpg

3D: http://s15.postimg.org/4lk04gwwb/are_06.jpg

point cloud: http://s23.postimg.org/4mrgn0daz/are_05.jpg

3D top: http://s30.postimg.org/6jfoha3fl/are_08.jpg

3D side: http://s30.postimg.org/3n6fm81r5/are_10.jpg

(based on Flying over Arecibo photos, see above)

a close-up 3D model: http://s2.postimg.org/4rblqbnwp/are_12.jpg

related point cloud: http://s2.postimg.org/pqdgt84i1/are_11.jpg

..based on 500 public photos, taken between 2000-2014 by tourists - sadly that means the receiver moved around. So if you can capture hundreds of photos please go and upload the photos on flickr.com
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I'm really surprised oDesk has not been mentioned. They have merged with elance, and the type of work you are looking for at the rates you are seeking (and higher) are routinely listed there.

I would create a profile on that site, most new freelancers there start with a lower rate to build experience and feedback and in a few months look to raise the rate.

Feel free to contact me by email and I can tell you what my experience has been from the hiring side.
There are probably videos. However, I do not have links.

But he was one of the speakers at re:publica[1] two weeks ago in Berlin as well as one of the moderators of the Global Innovation Lounge that was streamed by voicerepublic[2].

1. http://re-publica.de/user/2037/event/1

2. https://voicerepublic.com/venues/196#archived-talks
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Just taking your screenshots from Iceweasel/Chromium instead of Safari would be an easy step. It shows that you've tried your project on a GNU/Linux platform at least once. I don't use any Webkit-based browsers, so it doesn't help me at all if you've designed your site/project to work well with Webkit.
The guy in the apartment next to mine uses one of these. I know this because I can hear the clicking through the wall.
Sadly Ctrl-Esc doesn't work for the various Win-key shortcuts (show desktop, dock to screen edge, lock, etc.), or any of the things you can do with Super_L in Linux (I've got Super_L as my i3 key for example)
Couldn't find the example link? Is there one?
http://www.xkcd.com/1290/
Hoodie works no different than Gmail. What’s the worst that can happen there?
So... and this question is for anyone...

what does any of this mean ????

Is it all basically posturing and everyone is stealing secrets from everyone whenever anyone can ???

I mean... does this just mean that the US is the only country that actually sued anyone for it ? I mean... even though we do the same thing too as anon1385 pointed out?
I'm not saying they are kicking butt and taking names. Just that they clearly have found some people interested in the device. I don't think you can move a million units on accident, even if it is a tiny piece of the market.
There was a feature named "app ops", once released accidentally and disabled afterwards [1].

There are also other 3rd party solutions [2].

I remember that some ROMs go even further and prompts you each time an app uses a specific permission (there is a "remember" option of course...). MIUI seems to be one of them, though I'm not sure.

1. http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/07/25/app-ops-android-4-3s...

2. http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/35473/other-apps-...
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Tried the Excel ones - seems to work well enough. Except the shortcuts are not the ones I use daily...and Excel has a lot of shortcuts so matching the drills with users might be a hint tricky.
OSM does have addresses, but coverage is far from perfect. Nominatum (the geocoder used by OSRM) will interpolate addresses if it does not have the exact parcel info, which is surprisingly accurate in many cases. Work is also being done to create full address coverage as well[1], which you should check out if you are interested.

[1] http://openaddresses.io/
This is certainly a thing of beauty.
See, for instance, the way the trainers are defined:

https://github.com/kanzure/pokecrystal/blob/master/trainers/...

It almost looks like a high-level language.
You did miss the point. Read the article. It's about how all IP is not the same because they originated from different places and they do different things. For example, software uses patents. That's not just a niche, that's an entire category of IP. Copyright is also an entire category that artists use to "protect" their work. But what kind of protection? It's different between patent and copyright, so just saying I have IP rights, is as vague as you can possible be because you don't have them all - just some.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7765879.
Multithreaded Transposition of Square Matrices (2013) [pdf]
I have a Unicomp Spacesaver that predates the Mac Version. It was my main keyboard for a while, but I've since switched to a Leopold Tenkeyless with Cherry MX Browns (and blank keycaps).

While the Unicomp is nice (built like a tank and very clicky), it's quite loud, and also takes up a lot of desk space. The keys also take a lot of actuation force, and I found my fingers getting a bit sore after using it for a while. So I switched to a keyboard based on Cherry switches, which are also pretty good.
A gentleman in Greece showcased on HN his Arduino code he wrote for his father to do just this thing, just a month or two ago:

http://www.stavros.io/posts/arduino-powered-irrigation-syste...

I live in Illinois and my grandmother lives in Central Florida. I installed a Nest thermostat, Protect sensors, as well as an IP-enabled sprinkler controller (http://www.roslen.com/products.html). I can manage her entire home remotely for her, so when she calls, its "click click all done".

The "Internet Of Things" is already here.
would the moon be able to orbit at its current angular speed / period as it does currently if it was closer and still maintain a constant distance?

i would think it would need to orbit much faster because the gravitational pull would be several fold larger. proportionally if it orbits at 27 days currently, it would need to orbit at (238,000 / (2160/2 + 260)) = 177.6x faster...and that's if gravity effects were linear, which they arent...they're inverse square.
> While this is true, Microsoft is making a big push to get Ruby working more equitably on its platform (for example, they had a heavy presence at Chef Conf)

Having heavy presence at a conference is clearly evidence of trying to get mindshare from users of the thing the conference focuses on, but its less clear that it is evidence of actual concrete work to get the related software working on any platform that you control. Is there really any concrete signs of Microsoft working to get Ruby working better on Windows?
One of the points they touch on is a "world where many things wont work and nobody will know how to fix them". As I understand it, we already live in this world. Some new cars dont come with dipsticks, and I cant look inside my iPhone.

In the case of the car and the phone, they've added complexity (a service layer) and I think its worked out well. The user gets to do what users should do and businesses grow doing what they do best. When it comes to IoT, my first thoughts always drifts towards "will this make things better, or could we muck up what once "just worked"?

We're entering a time where we have the technology, capital and reach to create and distribute new products and services at massive scale. Now that ideas are less constrained by "how", and compete on the "what", do we need to stop and ask ourselves not "Can we do it?", but "Should we do it?"

We can see this in many disrupted industries now, where new ideas, innovation and competition have shook up traditional business models. Whats left in their wake is not always better than what preceded it.

Ill use the social media ad driven business epoch as an example, was that a net positive for us as people? Or did we add a layer of complexity to the web that is now dedicated to delivering Upworthy blog posts, selling our personal information and a constant stream of Coca Cola ads? Is that a good trade off for pictures of Grandma, news from friends and Likes from everyone?

Do we already evaluate technology on these terms, or has our current state driven us to cobble together any business model that works?
Ctrl+Esc only brings up the Start menu which is probably the least common thing power users do. Instead the Windows key is used for shortcuts such as Win+UpArrow (maximize window), and Win+E (Windows Explorer), Win+L (lock desktop), Win+Tab (cycle through windows), etc.

Modern keyboards also have the "context menu" key which does the same thing as right-click on the mouse. A very convenient key to minimize lifting the hand from the keyboard and grab the mouse only for a right-click menu.
Show HN: bashblog, a single Bash script to create blogs
As far as I remember, the ISS orbits low enough that it requires regular rocket boosts to maintain its orbit against drag from the last bits of the atmosphere. So if the moon orbited there, I'm guessing it would have fallen back to the Earth within a few hundred years or so.
I kind of like having the page state in the URL like that - makes sending someone a link easier. See also: Discourse.

They should fix it by not pushing those minor state changes to history, though. Probably an easy fix.
> But you can't really think that rendering a page with javascript is faster

I don't really. In my comment I just wanted to mention more aspects to the problem. This is mainly a catalyst to show people there are more tools out there at our disposal that we sometimes think about.

And some of our tools need more research...
The scariest part about reading this is that I'm not sure whether I have done this or not.
The past week in Tech
Not sure about hiring side (about quality...), but from the contractor side - stay away from these sites. It is the race to the bottom...
Yup. I use Balsamiq too.
You guys should take a look at http://github.com/EGreg/Q

Not released yet -- but if someone has PHP / JS / PhoneGap skillz and wants to work with us, you can be an early member of the community.
There are API samples further down the main page on http://hood.ie

https://github.com/zoePage/hoodie-drawing is an example app.
you can use adblock edge [0] -- it's a fork without the whitelist for ads

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
Since an announcement about this is currently at #1, I guess we'll bury this post as a dupe.
It's always useful to check last edit date on StackOverflow—some answers are so upvoted they stay on top forever even when they get irrelevant, since whoever finds them today upvotes them again.

On a side note, why does Blogger have such terrible UX and why won't they fix it? On the desktop, they show spinning wheels while loading a simple text blog entry, on the mobile they override swipe left/right, completely screwing native browser navigation gestures.
This smells of FUD.

OSM is cool. Like I said, I would love to help with it, and I've got the tools I need to collect data. So what is my motive to lie about it? Why would I spread FUD?

Any time someone says "oh, you can't use online maps in $country" I pick some little town in the middle of nowhere and OSM consistently has three times as many roads as the Big Name maps

Okay, let me give you a couple examples I am familiar with. Plenty of stuff is missing or just plain wrong, right in town (now Google isn't perfect either but the coverage is much better). It only gets worse once you get out of town.

https://maps.google.com/?ll=62.316531,27.857552&spn=0.042946...

http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/62.3181/27.8425&layers=...

---

https://maps.google.com/?ll=62.065628,28.308163&spn=0.043304...

http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/62.0659/28.2959&layers=...
Fully typing variadicity in Python is only possible with dependent typing, since Python allows you to build the argument list dynamically. Generally speaking you can't even determine the number of arguments statically:

args = []
while some_condition():
args.append('x')
f(*args)

Typed Racket allows you type some common cases, though.
You should try to head to http://github.com/EGreg/Q and try it out :)

I think you'll find that you can make a multiuser app from a single user app rather straightforwardly in a day. Although 15 mins would be only for a Q expert.
My mother derived great satisfaction from cleaning other peoples' homes. If it paid better, she probably would still be doing it.
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Wow, I did not know that. You are correct, and that is a terrible inconvenience.

You could go the Sculpt mouse route still. I have the ergo, and I'm digging it. I have yet to use the (un-customizable) start button on it, but it does support the shortcuts.
If this is a recent terminology change, then people who use the old terminology are not factually "wrong", they just use an outdated definition.

I do have a question though, if you or anyone else wants to clear this up for me. Which kinds of energy are no longer considered part of a system's "mass"? I gather that kinetic energy is not. What about various forms of binding energy?
Google’s Eye Doctor Admits Glass Can Cause Pain
Consumer Ready? It is about 8 years behind in my neighborhood. My street doesn't exist and it there in 2006.

Google has a street view of it and has been able to find my address since 2007.
Elon Musk Says SpaceX Making 'Progress' Toward Mars Colony
Explicit Multi-Threading (XMT): A PRAM-On-Chip Vision
Is there anything like this for Python / Django? I've come across similar service for Ruby / Rails but not Python yet..
US justice department charges Chinese with hacking
This was addressed in the article, the new orbit period would be 90 minutes. Scary fast, for the size and distance of the moon.
In fact, both energy and mass are conserved. If you accept e=mc^2 as "true," it's easy to show.

If energy is conserved and mass is not, then what can E=mc^2 possibly mean? Is it a relation, like F=ma? Then if E is constant and of course c is constant, then m must be constant too.

Or is it an exchange rate: you can convert this much mass into that much energy? But then energy is no longer conserved, if you can make it from mass.

Last try. Maybe e=mc^2 means, within a given quantity of mass, there is necessarily a minimum energy? And this is true, but notice that the equation is phrased as an equality. Equalities go both ways: we can just as easily derive m=e/c^2, and now the "minimum energy" idea runs aground.

In modern interpretations, energy and mass are both conserved, and e=mc^2 is understood to be the energy in the rest frame of the system. Individually photons are massless, but multiple photon systems can and usually do have mass. The price we pay for conceiving of mass as conserved and invariant is that it no longer adds nicely.
The European Parliament report cites a single journalist, Nicky Hager. This particular allegation was based on interviews with anonymous French intelligence sources.

Basically, the French government selectively leaked to a New Zealand journalist, to justify retaliation (tariffs at the EU level, which never materialized) against the US government for burning their Saudi deal.

There has never been any credible evidence that US intelligence agencies pass trade secrets to American companies.
But by excluding the date, you eliminate the reverse: people being more likely to skip past it because it's not 2014. For some things, like your example, the date is very important. What solved world hunger in jQuery in 2010 may not work in the latest 2014 version.

But in Patio11's example on salary negotiation, the date isn't nearly as important. Some information is relatively timeless. I saw a comment on HN today advocating that people read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" and "The Prince". These books are still very popular today and were written in 1936 and 1532, respectively.

It really comes down to relevancy. If the date is relevant to readers, you should make sure it's easily found. If the date isn't relevant, why does it matter if it's posted anywhere?
yeah, makes the back button super fun too. Each pause seems to insert itself into history.
fn is a macro that knows how to apply destructuring rules, fn* is a primitive read by the clojure compiler and cannot apply destructuring rules.

https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/clj/cloju...
Just realized .ie is an excellent TLD for cute website names
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Because solutions already exist like Cloud66 which means I don't have to learn Ansible. Having worked on deployment solutions for previous projects (using Capistrano), I was ridiculously relieved to discover Cloud66 and realize that I never have to think about provisioning and deployment again.
But on the flip side, companies can get quality talent for cheap salaries, no?
Apologies for asking such a horrible question, but is there a rough timeline for it being production ready? It looks very interesting.