skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Not in that position myself, but I'd guess once you have a certain level of comfort, security and perhaps the option to indulge in some of life's luxuries, it's much like electricity or running water: desperately, terrifically important and yet so easily taken for granted.
> A single, open, interoperable standard is coming

Do you have some more info about that, or is it a gut feeling prediction?
Hacking trial: Coulson guilty, Brooks cleared of charges
The problem with having none is that makes your transistors even more vulnerable to quantum effects.
San Fran Clamps Down On App That Allows Drivers To Auction Public Parking Spots
> I programmed it to run as close to 24/7 as I could, because that way it uses the lowest flame, which is the most efficient flame.

The energy loss from your home increases as the differential between inside and outside increases, right? So at night or when you're out, if your house were kept colder, then you'd lose less energy to the outside.

So by keeping your heating running 24/7, you're wasting some energy in the extra energy loss when you're out, right?

How does this compare to the efficiency gain by running your more efficient flame? Have you calculated or measured that you actually save energy overall?
Tangential but important for long-term invesment: What do you (or some other experts) think the impact of self-driving car would be on different types of real estate markets in the next decade or so?

You seem to be an expert in real estate and I believe your opinions would be useful to many people deciding to make the largest investment of their life. (A snippet of your background is interesting too)
WordPress is where it is because the core team puts users first. They've taken on tons of technical debt in order to maintain backwards compatibility with themes & plugins. PHP 5.3 reached end-of-life a year ago, but WordPress continues to support 5.2 because so many shared hosting and un-maintained VPS servers use it. Even cleaning up some of the PHP3-style code in wp-admin needs to be weighed against the risk of breaking some five year old plugin.

From a UX standpoint, it's easy to use, install plugins, find themes, and get help. If you spend money on a commercial theme, you can be assured the platform is going to support it for years even if you don't have all the cool new features. It runs on PHP, from a $2/mo shared hosting account to WordPress VIP.

The community is great. WordCamps cover a variety of technical and non-technical topics. Most people are welcoming. It's just a great bunch.

Could you create a CMS with a cleaner codebase? Easily. And the people who make WordPress want to, too.
Is the amount of traffic the site gets worth billions of images?
Well, that's exactly what all the "lean startup" types say :) , the theory goes:

- 1) release an MVP
- 2) get actual feedback
- 3) pivot
- 4) repeat 1, 2 and 3 until you find the actual pain point to solve, or run out of cash
- 5) profit :)
So... what's the best way to tell if C99 is "installed" on your server(s)?

grep -Ri c99 /path/to/htdocs

would be my guess
Is it just me or does everyone between Flanders and Apu look a little messed up? In Firefox
While I feel for your situation, I had to downvote you because your comment smacked of No True Scotsman and attention hogging. Sorry.

A startup folded and left several people with nothing to show for years of effort. It seems pretty callous to me to assert that she didn't fail, when several measures say she did, and she feels like she did.

I'm glad she shared her story. Do you think your comment encourages others to do the same?
Not only that, but TOML is still considered unstable by its author. Granted, it hasn't been updated in several months. But that seems like a shaky foundation to be building on top of.

From: https://github.com/toml-lang/toml

"Latest tagged version: v0.2.0.

Be warned, this spec is still changing a lot. Until it's marked as 1.0, you should assume that it is unstable and act accordingly."
I'm pretty sure this is the remains of a Nokia strategy of not getting too deep into Microsoft.

The release of X2 should probably be viewed in a similar light as the release of the N9, which was a platform that basically got axed on release by Nokia, because of Elop wanting to change direction to Windows as the main platform. But that decision came too late to halt the release of the N9, just like the finalization of the Nokia sale probably was too late for MS to halt the release of this one.
It's caused by the high cost of construction. $30,000,000 gets you a few hundred mid-market three story walkup wood framed apartments with surface parking and some modest resident amenities.

From which, if all goes well, investors will see moderate rates of return after four or five years. On the positive side, it's all mailbox checks. On the downside, nobody will become a billionaire on the deal. So it's all risk minimization and most possible deals simply are not viable.
Fire in the (root) hole
You know what? I don't really know...and after doing some quick reflection, I think that knee-jerk assumption was based off of something I remember reading from the Simpsons Archive...which is probably the very first website I ever remember reading on a regular basis. From their About Page:

http://www.snpp.com/about.html

> The Simpsons Archive cannot accept sound or movie file submissions under any conditions. Our server traffic averages 24 gigabytes per month, and housing a large binary archive would boost bandwidth fees beyond affordable limits. Additionally, Twentieth Century Fox ruthlessly defends its copyrighted work by issuing Cease & Desist orders to fan sites housing said content. While we sympathize with those who have fallen victim to Fox, we prefer to avoid legal entanglements by steering clear of multimedia.

Otherwise, The Simpsons Archive gladly accepts all submissions in the form of fan-authored FAQs, lists, guides, news and other miscellaneous items. All authors retain full credit for their works and may update them within The Simpsons Archive as needed. We ask, however, that prospective maintainers be versed in basic HTML. For further details, please e-mail webmaster@snpp.com for our submission policies.

So Fox's aggressive C&D is maybe just for audio/video? The SNPP does have a very small sprinkling of Simpsons-artwork. And maybe Fox was more aggressive with C&D back in the day, like, 15-20 years ago, when SNPP was first starting out.
Kiwi Camara: Software patents after Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l
This code is buggy because they are using floats internally. A 32bit float can not represent the exact measurements specified.

This is a perfect example of why just statically type checking your code does not make it correct.
Fixing a broken BIND and then installing a backdoor is a much different kettle of fish than just writing a worm that fixes the bug and then walks away.

That said, I would agree completely that it's very legally dangerous. If it's not yours, don't mess with it!

As an academic matter, I think such a worm could end up being socially useful, if there are enough compromised machines and the people running them are sufficiently incompetent and those machines are being used against other people and you can be sure that your fix doesn't break something else and the machines just won't get re-compromised again next week. That's too many conditional clauses for me, but maybe someone else feels like taking one for the team.

Legally: again, don't do it. It's not yours.
Docker registry is hard-coded and other registry is a second class citizen
Show HN: Fast.js – faster reimplementations of native JavaScript functions
Oh the memories this triggers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2MNgY8E1dk#t=3m

I hope this is actually a true remake of Return Fire in the making: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Return-Fire/275297392576326
Borrow from people in your neighborhood
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"the Nokia X smartphone achieving top-selling status in Pakistan , Russia , Kenya and Nigeria,3 while earning the third-best-selling smartphone spot in India ," said Timo Toikkanen , head of Mobile Phones, Microsoft Devices Group.

This phone is not aimed at people who a power users. This phone is aimed at emerging economies where people are buying their first smartphones. Nokia X has all the basics (music, free messaging, email, Instagram, Facebook, Whatsapp), all running on some reasonable hardware.
Wirelessly mirror your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch screen to any Mac or PC.
Jrnl – A simple command line journal application
Ok. That was my WordPress cheerleader post. Now, here's the snark I edited out of that because it didn't fit the flow.

If you want people to adopt a different CMS, here are pain points I've heard repeatedly from users. Address all of these and you're golden:

* It should have perfect security. Vulnerabilities should be patched immediately, not the next day.

* There should constantly be new features to enhance my site.

* It should never need upgrades.

* It should do everything out of the box instead of needing plugins.

* It shouldn't be bloated. Keep the core code base small.

* It should be easy for me to do anything and everything from the admin interface.

* There shouldn't be a lot of options because it's overwhelming.

* 24/7 phone support should be included. Or, if I have to use a support forum, I should get an answer in 5 minutes.

* Everything should be free.
Eh shy guy probably really could have used that advice. I see what you're getting at though. :)

I also hate being told what to do and consider it rude. I hate people's 'input'. I've learned to counteract this by taking the time to recognize when someone is giving advice to be helpful, and when they are doing it just to talk.

You then have to if then else whether or not the advice is actually helpful. :D
Recruitment agencies or organized crime?
How to rip off educated people!
Tutorial: HTML Audio Capture streaming to Node.js (no browser extensions)
Comic Book Guy looks pretty screwed up on Safari. What browser/os was this guy targeting?
In the late 1990s, with the rise of cell phones, people were worried that the RF energy from the phones and towers, while low, might cause physiological problems. The first paper specifically concerns this topic. Note that it says "It was concluded that, although hazards from exposure to high-level (thermal) RF fields were established, no known health hazards were associated with exposure to RF sources emitting fields too low to cause a significant temperature rise in tissue."

The second paper is because starting even by the late 1980s there was a concern that the background 50Hz/60Hz EMF from power lines might be causing a problem. There was a 1979 epidemiological association between power lines and childhood leukemia. See http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/magnetic-f... for more details. This second paper presents a hypothesis for how that mechanism might work, should it exist.

The third paper rings warning bells. For example, it references clinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT00805337 but the research protocol was never explained in the submission, and no research results were ever published there. It was also registered at about the time the paper you pointed to would have been submitted, so it feels like it was added because it was required by the publisher, and not because it was a well-run clinical trial.

Also, frequencies like 10456.383 Hz are incredibly precise; to the point of unbelievability. They don't show a plot of the signal as a function of frequency, they don't have information about reproducibility, and they don't describe control, since surely they should have RF interference from the environment, and feedback effects from the equipment itself.

In any case, the last 4 papers all list B. Pasche as a co-author, and from the conflict of interest section in one of the papers it says "Boris Pasche and Alexandre Barbault have filed applications for patent protection and hold patents related to electromagnetic fields amplitude-modulated at tumor-specific frequencies as they relate to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. They hold stocks in TheraBionic."

Thus, they aren't really independent confirmations of some observed effects, are they? Why did you list them all?
Yes. In fact I am using it right now. What I suspect your VPN fails routing. When using more than one VPN you need to be sure to have proper routing for each. In my case it was a matter of checking "Use only for resources on this network" on IPv4 Routes page.
I'm pretty sure it's an animation that is there intentionally.
WP8.1 is so far ahead of 7.8. Don't write WP off just yet.
I think this one might be more interesting because of the focus on multiplayer (something that probably won't exist in Universim?).

But it's still nice to see the idea get picked up again.
Spore had a great concept, but was executed poorly.
In a way the progress of Sage actually does remind me that Mathematica and the new Wolfram stuff are pretty impressive. I think eventually Sage will overtake it, and I personally feel much more comfortable doing science on top of an open-source stack. But Mathematica was pretty ahead of its time with some of the ideas that are now being implemented on the open-source side of things, like the live "notebook" interface (which Mathematica has had since the '80s). I think it had/has a lot of the right ideas about how to build an interactive workbench that ties together a bunch of built in functionality, with both graphical and REPL/language interfaces to it. And I think the Wolfram Language stuff is making the right moves in generalizing that to data-mining/ML, cloud integration, domain-specific things like built-in mapping support, etc. It's less of a revolution than Wolfram wants you to believe, but it's still good, quite well designed.

There are bits of that concept that come from elsewhere, so it's not 100% novel coming from nowhere. E.g. older computer-algebra systems, Matlab, etc., all have bits of the ideas that this particular class of mathematics+data systems is converging on. But prior to the current wave of open-source stuff, I think Mathematica had the best example of integrating it all into a usable system. It might still be the most polished and integrated one out there; parts of Sage still very much feel like libraries with different conceptual/interaction models, glued together with a thin layer of Python glue. Though Sage does have the advantage of being able to add functionality at a more rapid pace, and I assume the integration will get more seamless in the future.
You cannot define something incorrectly. He can very well define "strategy" as something, you would label "tactic". That does not make it incorrect. It is great that a definition is done for an overloaded and ambiguous word like "strategy".

I have not found a good clear definition for "strategy" and "tactic". Could you give yours?
Microsoft's roots are contrary to characture in popular culture - they sold and developed for Unix throughout the 1980's. It's big and corporate, but it's still a company founded as a software startup and always dogfooding its way into new products.
Mongoid stable release: 4.0.0
For rust? There is...cargo not so much

aroch:~/staging/|⇒ brew info rust

rust: stable 0.10 (bottled), HEAD

http://www.rust-lang.org/

/usr/local/Cellar/rust/0.10 (74 files, 174M) *

Poured from bottle

From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/commits/master/Library/...

aroch:~/staging/|⇒ brew info cargo

Error: No available formula for cargo
It seems intuitive that heat exchanger eff increases with decreased flow rate. Also air handling is always best done as slowly as possible, because you're trying to move air, not make noise and turbulence. There doesn't seem to be any intuitive reason to think eff would be higher at low rates unless its doing something insane like varying fuel/air ratios to get a desired heat flow or some kind of slow PWM with repeated ignition losses. Real furnaces don't work like that, so...

My otherwise boring furnace is variable speed and the longer its on, the faster it runs. It's really roaring after about 30 minutes. Its more than a decade old, this is pretty old COTS tech. My first zillion BTU cost me somewhat less than my last zillion BTU in any heating cycle.

I live in a cold northern climate with great insulation and low heating bills and a variable speed furnace and the house is basically never empty (spouse and I work at home often enough, etc). The whole "nest" idea doesn't work financially for me although it is interesting to watch.
In my case, in Firefox they look slightly messed up, while in Safari they are getting closer to ugly: http://imgur.com/XzW1uJG

But then again, when it comes to CSS I've come to always expect that kind of bugs.
And more important:

https://github.com/mongoid/mongoid/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
Nice demo, but SVG exists for a reason.
Feedback to jenkins app
Hi there,

I have developed an unofficial Jenkins client for the Android platform. Would love to hear your feedback and how to improve it:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobilabsolutions.jenkins.app

Use the client to monitor all of your jobs, all builds, all artifacts and console outputs; install the APK artifacts of your Android jobs right from within this app.

Thanks
Agree 100% with this. I think WP finds a good middle ground between the iOS and Android experience.
The interesting news are the implications of Microsoft distributing the Linux (and the Android) kernel under the terms of the GPLv2.

What happens to their patent portfolio they allege Linux infringes on?
But the sensors and actuators that are keeping him in his lane would surely fire the brakes far faster and harder than he would while reading his magazine.

In fact, since human reaction time is on the order of 200ms, the car could likely see what's going on, double-check, and then hit the brakes before he noticed what was going on, even if he were paying rapt attention and expecting you to slam on the brakes.

What is the reaction time of these systems? There are papers on the Internet but they are behind paywalls (that I could probably get through if I were an automotive engineer).
Sales is a skill that is in a high demand by many companies.
> The Nokia acquisition was completed just two months ago

Do you seriously think there would be any other possible outcome for the burning platform memo?
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A great college football team makes money, but does require a substantial capital investment. Typically the only private institutions you will find in the AP Top 25 are Stanford and Notre Dame. The bulk of schools outside the Top 25 lose money on their football teams. Before we weep over that however, they lose money on all of their sports teams, their student newspapers and student theater productions and a flagship state university, the non-student state residents often do consider a quality football program through the auspices of the university a benefit they are willing to pay for.
The Virtues of Vice
Apparently Chrome. It's perfect for me.
Not more stable, but historically out of phase. i.e. when Germany has done well the UK has had a down phase and vice versa.

The killer flaw in the Eurozone is not appreciating how useful different currencies are for dampening the effect of such differences. Greece is the classic example, where for them the Euro was too strong making them globally uncompetitive, leading to a nasty downward spiral, whereas Germany benefit from their exports being far more competitive than they would be if they were still using the DM.
Maybe it's translating more wall coordinates into the viewable area? A lot of different walls are visible in that picture.
Smell lets you "hear" toughts of people around you
'I feel that most of the businesses at career fairs are looking for entry level programmers with no prior experience even in the language they are hiring for.'

Guess what? You take the job anyways. You've given no examples of professional experience so you are entry-level. Technical-skill wise you might, maybe, be a step above everyone else; but you are still very much entry-level to a company.

Now that being said, I feel you homie. You want a job a bit better then some local programming shindig and something with a bit of flair, a bit of challenge. What you need to do is begin to look at your geographic working locations and then within those areas look into companies that may be able to offer you an exciting position. Or you take a job with company that won't offer you as exciting a position because A) initial experience B) Even Ramen costs 10 cents per packet.

For what it's worth, Agile sucks. Putting projects on a whiteboard with sticky notes isn't agile; its just a project management technique, and one that some of us were using way prior to Agile. But really why does Agile suck? Daily standups. You think I don't know what I'm thinking about? Enjoy your daily meeting. Every day. Monday through Friday/ Because that's all a daily standup is, a quick DAILY meeting that's more or less pointless. Stop looking for a set of criteria (agile, TDD, whatever else), and start looking at the company themselves. The business, the problems, the solutions, the career potential, and also, the money. Find a place that lets you work and build things and work on your programming, and then interview well, and then say yes when they offer. That's how you find the type of employment you are really looking for. Good luck.
Absolutely fantastic idea Michael. I have been trying to solve the same problem from a different perspective. Would love to see you succeed.
That's not the case. It's not very easy for an Australian to get a UK Working Visa in their own field (as opposed to "working holiday" arrangements).

OTOH, the E3 US Visa is quite simple - it's generally considered to be the easiest US skilled worker visa to get.
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Yeah, I'm probably the wrong person to ask about this. I'd ditch the laptop, buy some cowboy boots and a powder blue leisure suit, then look up Nolan Bushnell's number in the phone book.
Robot valet to park cars at German airport
+1 for Xenix: the first Unix variant I met, where I learnt C and sh, and capable of handling 8 student terminals linked to a single 386!
This is the new ascii art
Yes, but ActionController::Streaming is not made for long pooling; what I mean is 1) web sockets and/or server side events support and 2) Raisl streaming helpers (models watching, client events, etc.); essentially, the good parts of node.js frameworks.

Lotus::Live doesn't exist, it is a name example for the feature of which I feel the missing.
And what if you don't have personal health and well being to begin with? What if you need money to pay off the medical bills, money that you know an ordinary job will never suffice for? Making money is not just a game for everybody, just because it's a game for you.
Well Lightroom is not exactly like Photoshop but it is mostly written in Lua. Parts are in C or C++ still it is true.
I don't think hacks make your phone experience any less flaky. For example I run cyanogen mod on my n4, i almost feels LESS flaky than stock android.