skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gradual how? If there's no overall magnetic moment then surely navigation on magnetic field sensing organs will simply fail, if it switches/moves - even gradually - and stays the same strength then the animal likely ends up in entirely the wrong place with the wrong foodstuffs and climate. Can't see that either of those "gradual processes" is going to work well.

Certainly the magnetic field has flipped before but do we know that animals that use magnetism for migratory guidance were able to "adapt quickly". Can you walk us through the evidence?
There's a missing semicolon in the Rust collatz code, let .. match { ... } ; <- here.

The Rust loop version of collatz is also missing a semicolon and missing a ! in println!.
> I'm a little surprised that Google haven't offered some kind of 'Google Identity' service to the web at large based on this sort of idea.

The problem, I think, is that, given the current "don't be evil, just creepily self-serving!" attitude that seems to guide Google, no one would trust them. Even if one could trust them to keep one's identity private at launch, I am sure that anything like this would come loaded with the kind of "T&C may change without notice at any time" codicil that would allow them to permit themselves to disclose your identity later.
For systems running Debian you might need to install a mkisofs replacement.

$apt-get install genisoimage
$ln -s /usr/bin/genisoimage /usr/bin/mkisofs

builds fine after this.
I don't know about you, but I have no problem using my real name. Anywhere.
Honestly, that seems totally reasonable. 100 pages is shorter than many company operating plans—considering that broadband is an essential utility, I fully expect regulations to be as complicated as their business model.
Sony, Microsoft mulling “Early Access” game sales on consoles
Name one of the applications.
ticks() and sleep() also use BIOS. The author could have implemented this by handling IRQ 0. :-) Come to think of it handling the keyboard interrupts isn't that hard either...

Also looks like boot.asm uses the BIOS to read the rest of the program...
This reminded me of the first native iPhone game back in 2007:

http://www.macrumors.com/2007/08/13/lights-off-first-native-...
TST is pretty simple to use and extensible if you want more. What you did was... not really practical. Have you tried using TST for a few days? I promise you won't be able to go back to any other way of browsing.
Git is an insult too.
It can be correct but still misleading. I think, depending on the reader, there's a good chance it's misleading.
This doesn't look free, when trying to signup, Udacity wants my credit card details and only allows two weeks of free trial.
+1 -- I made that comment after sending it out to a friend of mine at work
Recent version of TST are perfect imo. You can customize them exactly how you want them to behave.
> If we don't complain about it, nothing will change and the nonsense will continue.

It corrected itself, and the post is fine now. Complaining about down votes, however, should be discouraged.

> Hacker News used to be a great place for open discussion. Now, anything even slightly against the silicon valley hive-mind is downvoted.

I've been bearing that since I joined.

> Because the downvoting is only used as a tool to silence opposing viewpoints.

That's not true.

Coming into a thread still going on, you're just getting a snapshot. Yes, there will be up votes and down votes, but I find that generally things get corrected in the end.

However, contributing to the problem by complaining about down votes doesn't help matters. It makes them worse.

What's interesting is that the comment getting down voted now: "I get down-voted for stating a fact, welcome to hacker news.", is false in every way.
What are you talking about - IBM and Apple working together is old news. There was Taligent in the early 90s. There was the AIM PPC alliance which lasted from the early 90s to 2005. These companies are old friends who haven't been true enemies since the 1980s.
Just as the NSTIC was defunded, Google changes it's real name policy.
How does this compare to Tree Style Tab? I've been using TST for years and I don't want to downgrade.
Thanks. The API docs are being revamped as I mentioned and those things we hope to solve. We're also working on tutorials for JS. Right now you can see info on JS here:

http://hadihariri.com/2013/10/16/writing-kotlin-in-the-brows...

which discusses usage, interop and getting started.
How much extra saving does JPEGMini or smallfry offer over a sanely but conservatively encoded JPEG?
> the seedy version of Facebook

I thought Facebook was the seedy version of Facebook. Or has everyone already forgotten about Facebook apps, shitty viral games, the ever-shifting Facebook platform, fake likes, bogus ad impressions and all of the other shady shit?
That's exactly why it was chosen.
> After that happens, we should hopefully then feel okay about sharing that personal information publicly.

Setting aside how comfortable I feel with the rest of your suggestion (I don't), this seems to miss a fundamental point: part of the reason that some information needs to be private is that it is how you authenticate yourself. In a world where you can easily get your welfare check, and where everyone else knows all relevant information about you, how do you stop someone else from getting your welfare check? (For the near future, anyway, presumably a physical presence will trump any information-based authentication; but having to be physically present for these transactions seems like it would erase the very convenience that is your goal.)
For the single-column layout, https://userstyles.org/styles/87624 can help. (Though I get it - it's not a built-in thing, which reduces the value.)
Yes, letting child processes inherit stray file descriptors is dangerous. We're not talking about calling all file descriptors immediately before exec. We're talking about applications that say, "Ok now, I'm going to close all file descriptors and go back to what I was doing". You can't expect libraries to work when you're freed their internal resources from under them.
This reminds me somewhat of the Bloom programming language for "disorderly programming in distributed systems".

http://www.bloom-lang.net/
Thanks. Downloading now to compare with Hazel for keeping my Downloads folder organized.
Were you looking for disintegration?
I was at google while the nymwars were going on. The debate was just as heated and polarizing inside google as it was externally. I'm also surprised (pleasantly) to see someone use the A word here. I think this is an attempt to start over after exit and/or political defeat of certain high level execs.
But I also think it may be too late. G+ has missed the bus to be anything more than the butt of jokes and hilarious memes (A google employee ate a donut, here's a picture etc..). Certainly a lesson in there somewhere about hubris and corrupting influence of power etc.
Ask HN: Month in San Fransico, what to do?
Hi,
I am a computer science student from Latvia. (Studying my masters now in Italy.)

With the university we are making a trip to Silicon Valley from 20.07 to 29.08. The first two week will be visiting a lot of companies. Of course Google campus :). The 4 weeks in August I will be having a observatory internship in StartupHouse. But the evening and weekends I would like to use as good as I can.

Anyone wants to drink a coffee with me? Any meet-ups in August you would suggest me? Looking forward to an amazing time in the Valley.
While it's true that analytical minds aren't exclusive to engineers, knowing how to code makes a big difference in this new world of marketing. Want to create customized ads for each zip code that link to similarly personalized landing pages? Want to track and analyze those results then retarget certain cohorts of users across the web? Understanding how the technology works and being able to implement it yourself will give you a huge advantage.
Benchmarking PHPNG
I had that gut feeling prior to the stuff released in WWDC this year. If anything they're going for a complete customer experience across their iOS and OS X devices. OS X apps will get storyboards which was an iOS only thing in Xcode.
It really feels like they're going back over a lot of APIs in OS X and giving them a makeover with the lessons learned from iOS. Where Microsoft may have given developers a single API, Apple gives different APIs that have parity. (Plenty of the new APIs seem to work on both 10.10 and iOS 8)
Blackberry is not the iPhone's competition today and it is unlikely to be the iPhone's competition in the future. Today it's the Galaxy etc. and they are really nice phones with really good apps and perhaps even more importantly in the enterprise world, a diversity of open source development stacks that align well with the rest of the enterprise development eco-system.

BYOD doesn't scale directly.
Eeek! I ended up with a swastika on level 6.
I find the "heavy hand of regulation" comment amusing given that it's the "heavy hand of regulation" that makes my European cellphone bill cost 5 times less than my US cellphone bill.

And don't get me started on my Broadband bill...
No problem! There are a handful of other components I've used that also work well, eg:

* Traco TSR 1-2450 (available at Adafruit)
* Cheap adjustable dx.com step-down converter (can't find the exact part #, but it's very popular)
I only need a bit to turn a light on, so we may be onto something here.
These regulations are pretty straight-forward, too. As messy as the FCC tends to be, their rules are generally easy to follow. 100 pages is nothing.
"You can achieve anything with almost any storage technology" - is actually being very generous to quite a few other technologies :-)
One of the promising benefits of any technology that can make things run magnitudes faster, is actually that you can do totally new things you previous thought impossible.
Former Call of Duty Devs Create New Studio Reload to Make VR Games
Is there a Mac OS X support planned? Or perhaps the iOS version works as is?
Software used to count Australian Senate votes is a “trade secret”
> So, I would think it would be great if you could "triage" pages you wanted to save for later. Even if I could move them from a "to read" to a "read" pile would be awesome. Didn't know if you had any pointers on making that happen.

Not really; I do a first, basic sort when saving according to very crude topic (Math, CS, news, …). When I actually read, I treat it essentially as if I were reading online; unless I really enjoy the file, I delete it after reading. If I do enjoy it, I move it to a separate 'permanent' storage area.

One advantage of this over bookmarks for me is that I somehow spend more time looking at my directory tree than my bookmarks, and so am more bothered by an enormous (in the sense of number of files, not size) directory than by my bookmarks becoming, as you say, a massive dumping ground. Thus, having the files on disk somehow seems to cause me to deal with them, either sorting them more carefully or deleting them, much sooner (or, at least, before the end of time :-) ).
Scrolling on the site doesn't appear to work on Chrome (Mavericks, OSX 10.9.4). Have to use the nipples on the right to force a scroll.
It was really interesting to see Prezi on the list. They hired the creator of Elm and are one of the very few places if not the only place using it in production. If they're using this too they must be a linguistically fearless shop.

See this demo and try using the arrow keys to move the turtle: http://elm-lang.org/edit/examples/Intermediate/Turtle.elm
Assume 60 million cars produced each year, 10% with Google autonomous driving software and sensors, with a $1,000 per car licensing fee. That's a $6 billion per year business with very high margins.

If net margins are 50% and this division commands the same multiple as Google itself, then the division would be worth about $100 billion. That's about 25% of Google's current market value.

Today, there's talk of Uber being a $200 billion company[0]. Google Ventures is an investor in Uber, and if they could combine the autonomous vehicle tech with the Uber network, what would that be worth?

[0] http://www.businessweek.com/videos/2014-06-13/uber-could-be-...
77 points by 4 hours, a valiant effort. But, I don't think we'll be seeing Doge Flappy Bird Inverter anytime soon.
It's not obvious that this is their business model until you browse their selection and realise the prices seem high.
Rockr phone
Yes, you're correct. My bad. Though, in my experience, "radiation" without a modifier almost always refers to the electromagnetic variety. But I guess that could vary depending on what circles one hangs out in.
Parallel processing is doing less?
Wow, that takes me back. I wrote a game very similar to that (but with randomly generated symmetric boards) a while ago called Cesare. And by "while ago" I mean around 1998 or so.

http://robot-frog.stuffwithstuff.com/misc/index.html
Wow, this is a great (sobering) story. What happened to them? Are they still up?
> Why not point out any of the thousand bad things about private companies?

In fairness, I think the "potholes comment" applies to any lumbering, overgrown bureaucracy, regardless of whether it's private or public. Much in the same way major ISPs will drag their feet when asked to fix a problem, so too do governments when tasked to respond to requests that their regulations have mandated. Is it unfair to point fingers at one bureaucracy over another? Probably.

It's the nature of the beast. Or perhaps more accurately, the nature of human interaction on large scales.
Is there a command line tool available? I’d like to include it into my website build process.
I've taken a promo code, will try it out and let you know :)
There's nothing eloquent about this argument, it's a sound byte that reflects a typical "durrr free market" knee-jerk reaction. They sound like the words of a man who's been intentionally duped by the ISP lobby.

First, we've got an Illinois farmer claiming "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" when clearly there's something massively broken about the cost / performance ratio of our internet service.

Second, he's also confusing innovation in the ISP world with innovation in the tech startup world. He uses the example of improvements in farming (tech startups) as a reason why we need the internet (ISPs) to be de-regulated. This makes no sense.

Because we've completely forgotten the meaning of antitrust laws, deregulation these days doesn't mean competition and innovation, it means monopoly. If we're not going to fix antitrust, then the next best thing we've got is declaring the internet a utility.

Where we absolutely need to continue nurturing innovation is in the tech world, which relies on internet service being stable and fast and universally available.

Since when have we been hurting for a lack of innovation in the water, electricity, and phone utilities? The services that these companies provide to customers haven't changed in decades, and that's fine.

It's the businesses which depend on utilities that are in need of constant competition and innovation, and they can't do that if they and their customers can't have a guarantee of service.
I totally agree that side-tabs isn't the prettiest thing in the world. That said, the tree-style-tabs addon seems to be built around a concept that I don't need, which is why I hadn't really considered it before. It does seem to be fast, though, so I'll give it a try for a while and see if my life improves.

Thanks!
Do they still have that ridiculous law that makes you a potential terrorist for stockpiling more than 7 day's worth of food?

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/12/10-ridiculous-things-tha...

Apparently something like that just happened last month:

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/06/23/fbi-raids-home-dange...
Awesome, my downloads folder has 2865 items in it. This will help. :)
Good for you. This isn’t about you, then. The people who it is about are listed here:

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22Rea...
All used up, thanks for providing those to the community though! You definitely have me interested enough that I'm purchasing.
Most probabilistic programming languages give you samples from the distribution of execution traces that are consistent with the observed data. No probabilistic programming languages actually run things backward. They all use standard Bayesian computational methods, like MCMC over possible execution traces. The beauty is the user can forget about this and just build generative models with primitives every language contains -- random numbers. The language then offers a way for users to query plausible values for the unobserved elements of the model.

Conceptually, the easiest way to understand things is via rejection sampling. You can "run things backward" but running things forward and just keeping the traces that match the observed output. That's Bayesian inference. Unfortunately, the probability of matching the observed output is zero for most problems so you need to use more advanced methods. Most accounts gloss over these methods since it's a huge research area.

Running things backwards is also not a perfect analogy because if fails to account for the probability distribution you start with.
Same, I wrote the exact same game - with the exception that the board was constant, 6x6 maybe - when I was in highschool - 1998-99.
Welcome to the new world of no semicolons and not seeing the type of a thing.
In the movie There Will Be Blood a stranger shows up to Daniel Plainview's doorstep pretending to be his half-brother. The stranger relates some story about their childhood together and that's enough to convince Plainview of the stranger's identity(which isn't his actual identity) and relation(half-brother) to Plainview. It's false of course, and Daniel isn't happy when he finds out. But it's interesting comment on the times they lived in. There was no LinkedIn or FB or even a Driver's License for that matter to verify someone was who they said they were.

Regardless, I really don't know how you actually identify someone. Likely, as you say, physically being present(retina scan, fingerprinting, both?). You raise an interesting philosophical question; that is, what is identity?
I thought they got rid of the linear typing.
You're assuming that this is the only method of navigation they have, instead of it being one tool within their navigation tool belt. Also, I'm sure magnetic sensory organs have some natural error to them that they are constantly re-calibrating for. If the reversal happens within the bounds of natural error and recalibration, then I suspect they would have little trouble adapting.
Read again: to members. You will not be free to implement the technology.
Did you ever look at "Violent Python"? Any opinion as an alternative?

http://www.amazon.com/Violent-Python-Cookbook-Penetration-En...
All gone :) That's probably the one thing I miss from before the convinience of App Store took over; the ability to get a trial version to test the functionality.

Granted, 6 USD is not much, but I'm a broke student nonetheless.
Damn - missed it. Got any more? This looks awesome.
Vinod Khosla's fireside chat with Google co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin
This is a really great idea for people to be able to organise their download folders. Will give it a try :)
I got a code. I like this. It will work well for new downloads, but my already cluttered downloads folder will still need to be manually organized
This with parse would have been awesome. Super easy, out of the box and pretty much platform agnostic.
I'm getting lost in terminology: at least one source uses "cosmic radiation" in the exact opposite sense, as a synonym for cosmic rays:

http://pdg.lbl.gov/2008/reviews/rpp2008-rev-cosmic-rays.pdf
The framework in our release zip only works for iOS but if you build from source[0] it will actually generate an OSX framework as well!

[0] https://github.com/realm/realm-cocoa#building-realm
Hacking POS Terminal for Fun and Non-profit
FCC extends deadline for user comments on net neutrality
Check out the sprite artists on Fiverr . Sounds corny, but i've had good luck -- and they mostly all work on a per-sprite basis.
That earlier submission was ringvoted so egregiously that the system eventually killed it.

Reposts of items marked [dead] are generally not permitted, for obvious reasons. We won't bury this one, though.
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I took them down after about six months.

Yeah, it was a hard lesson to learn. I guess I was venting ;)
Sure, but there is a definite directionality to the overall idea flow here versus money flow. The ideas tend to flow from academia or R&D shops while most of the money flows to companies that take those ideas and build consumer products with them.
I'm glad OW got a mention here; I miss its tabs very much. More than just putting the tabs vertically, it included a thumbnail and a scrollbar, both of which I found incredibly helpful; my workflow hasn't been the same since I switched away from it.
I still don't see a compelling argument here. Who cares about having a "light show" in their house? What does that even have to do with the internet? We already have huge televisions that aren't very expensive. If we want the whole wall to be a TV, we can get a projector. A wall covered in individually-addressable LEDs is probably not going to be cheaper than a wall covered in televisions or just a big projector.

The question the parent was asking was "Why hasn't anyone shown me a concept that makes me think, 'Now I want an internet of things in MY house!'?" Not, "Why haven't I seen quick adoption of these IoT concepts out there?"
It /can/ be math. Usually it's more like magic or art.
TrueCrypt – Privilege Escalation
Almost every type of "show me a filtered subset of something" website could benefit from your first feature - basically an "I've rejected this item for reasons your filters can't support, and never wish to see it again" button or checkbox.

Unfortunately, almost all such websites are supported by vendors paying to have their wares promoted to users, and letting users _not_ see them isn't what the vendors want. (e.g. in real estate searches, there are plenty of houses that meet all my criteria but which are terrible for other reasons and I'd prefer to never see in my results ever again.)
Interesting info, thanks! And good to know. I like G+ and I don't want Google to give up on it.