skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you, yes, I'm aware of the keyboard problems with the the SP3, but i'm confident they'll be fixed soon and in fact some people have claimed to have fixed it already on their systems eg http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2231207&page=2 . However i do agree that that is likely a sign that there will be other annoying problems. The Dell XPS 13" looks great, but i'd really like a smaller computer. I currently have a 10.1" Fujitsu Lifebook T580 and i really appreciate its small dimensions. 12" is already a big stretch for me, and i'm not willing to go any larger, especially since most of the time the computer will be plugged into my external monitor and keyboard anyways.
Anyone with one of these devices care to share their experiences? I've been looking for a way to get into SDR and DSP, but not sure if purchasing a HackRF would be a good first step considering its price tag ($300) and relative newness.
Log Analysis with Graylog2
I hate the Star Wars analogy, but it's easiest to explain.

The Force = Hacking

Force User = Hacker

Sith = Cracker

Jedi = ???

At least black hat/white hat gave a term to both sides, even if it misses a lot of gray area.
Url changed from http://joybubblesthemovie.com since this page explains more.
Seriously? Quora has an ask anonymous function
Will Quantum Dots Dominate Displays?
Yes they have, for example http://youtu.be/0a_00nJ_Y88

Edit: and http://youtu.be/Qz0yJ8N3cA0
That's a good point. I wonder how much you could coax out of a regular camera by putting an IR pass filter in front of it to filter out all the other wavelengths and then using a long exposure.

That might be a dirt cheap way to get a passable IR cam.
Y U no archive.org?
Can't help you with the first one.

But feeling like you need to be a rockstarninjahacker is garbage. Many of my clients have no idea how to evaluate my code. The question is - can you get it done? On time? At price? to get to that point - it's do we trust you? Working on your communication skills will probably get you much further than improving your technical skills for finding/keeping freelance work.
I went on a field trip to Greece in School, where I saw a lot of ancient ruins of temples that had also been painted when "in use". While the landscape was just breathtaking (and the ancient Greeks had a knack for putting their temples in beautiful places), I was always a little sad to be shown the ruins without a clue what those places must have looked like back in their prime.

I know it is not easy, but I so wished to just once see the ruins of a temple next to a reconstruction of what archaeologists think it must have looked like back when.

So I think this is a really cool idea.
Good generalization of the approximately 500,000 expats living in Thailand. You are perpetuating the sex tourist stereotype that is just as disparaging to Thais as it is to the sexpat.
From the article:

"400 septillion watts per second"

... And the context is talking about solar output, not a rate of change.

Sigh.
Unfortunately, open source vs. commercial has nothing to do with whether something is a trademark infringement. The countless open-source fanworks taken down by brand-owning companies are a testament to this. As long as lawyers believe that "if you don't defend your trademark with takedowns, you'll lose the ability to defend it in court," then benign derivatives will not be able to use IP without licensing it in the general case.
Yeah, the landing attempts obviously flip before entry, while they're out of the atmosphere.
Without a comprehensive fix for mobile devices that includes a massive overhaul of UI and APIs to separate mobile devices from legacy Windows, it ain't gonna work.

Microsoft made the wrong decision back when it made Windows their mobile device strategy. Small measures like this won't even make a blip in the rather bad and getting worse numbers.
I really don't want to be the first to comment, and being unnecessary critical... but: Quora is Quora because of the whole real name aspect. Quality answers and everything else comes after that BECAUSE of the real name, not despite of it: readers can judge the credential of the one answering the question, and additionally, users seems to be much more hesitant in putting up crap with their name attached to it.

I guess I'm just pointing out that an "Anonymous Quora" sounds (to me) similar to a "Google without a search engine" (in the early day of Google, at least), or an "Antisocial Facebook".
that is not good advice. developer meetings through meetup are happening almost every day. there are a lot of companies that produce software and you don't need to be a freelancer (why come to Amsterdam to freelance?). The above text applied very well to people that are looking for common jobs like business managers,salesmen,hospitality professionals etc.
If you consider yourself a good programmer with a good CV come to Amsterdam or alternatively go to Berlin or London.
> By your reasoning, I should stop paying taxes too.

You can. Depending on how principled you are about thing like this. You'd still need to give up your American citizenship otherwise it doesn't matter where you live on the planet.
The Nature of Software Development
"The Tyranny of Print" has a nice ring to it, but mediums that give the creator more control over appearance+behavior are going to lend themselves to crafting more compelling experiences.

Sure, not disappearing in 10 years (or whenever the original server goes poof) would also be nice, but it's of little benefit if no one ever sees the thing in the first place.

And disappearing is the default, natural state of things.

If I see some people playing music on a corner and return the next night to see they've left, I may be wistful, but it would be silly to argue "playing live music is broken and we should fix it".

If you think of web sites as performances put on for a limited time by the server, it doesn't seem so terrible that they disappear after a while.
Can you not read? Did you not see the word "some"?

> "at least a small amount or number of people or things"

Edit: furthermore, if you think that the presence of sexpats, or the way some Thai people are "attracted" to them/their wallets, is disparaging to NORMAL Thai people, you are deluded.

I don't ever remember anyone ever saying all American women are gold diggers because of Anna Nicole Smith's antics.
I like that, it really works well. Repurposing yesterday's jargon for today's innovations.

I still think the writer should work on that word choice though....
This wouldn't work for any web page that has dynamic content stored in a database. If the database no longer exists a decade from now this doesn't solve that problem.

Also, wouldn't this break analytics and reporting for most websites too? It'll be much tougher to track user behavior to improve user experience. And debugging using log data? I get what the author is suggesting but "fixing the web" this way would break more things that large websites and companies rely on.
You'd have to have knowledge of what protocol was being spoken. Otherwise, you don't know of if a packet going back the "wrong" direction is a control mechanism (request for data, flow control, etc) or data itself. In terms of ethernet, you could possibly do UDP, but you lose any sort of error handling or flow control.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8206982
Gaudi – automate the setup of isolated and decoupled Docker containers
(I do worry about the size though; my current computer is a 10.1" Fujitsu Lifebook T580 and i really appreciate its small dimensions -- as noted in the post, what i'd really like is something between 8" and 10", but i might go up to 12" if i have to)
It's been a while since I looked at it, but they were often used to get the phone into DFU mode and upload data that way. Seeing as DFU mode requires the phone itself to be rebooted, you'd likely notice what was going on unless you left it unattended.
Actually the golden age for Helmand was the 1970s after the land was well developed and the farmers were trained into modern agriculture. Most of the land in central Helmand was developed from previously un-farmed desert escarpment and at least 30% of the farmers were settled nomads with no experience with irrigation farming under harsh desert conditions. The 70s brought in high yielding wheat with fertilizers and an explosion of cotton production to the point the Brits decided to build a second cotton gin in Girishk to try to keep up with the rapidly expanding production.
Very happy to discover this site. I'm really excited to explore the possibilities VR enables as far as interfaces go.

When it comes to managing the torrents of information we're deluged with today, there has got to be a better way.

Automation is a big part of it (and still nascent too), but there have to be better ways of quickly jumping around large amounts of data, be it your todos, app analytics, or anything else.
OpenERP 7 Hospital Management System (Lite)
I gave Lush serious consideration, but at this point, it already feels like Julia has more momentum (might be all perception, though). I actually haven't tried Julia yet, what problem do you see with it?

The thing is, if you haven't screwed around in an APL language, you don't realize what you're missing
Please tell us more! Give examples.
The pitch is designed to screen out some people who are a poor fit for the company's business model.

A charitable reading allows for the possibility the company pays well. A less charitable one is that their logic is along the lines of why Nigerian scammers say they are from Nigeria.

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1677...
Once again I am sucked in by a troll and his dictionary.

You caught me by surprise. I actually expected the trolling to be about my choice of a MacBook or mentioning I use vim. Live and learn.
This reminds me of Siemens RTL Titling WM demo[1] from '87.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFd0FDv3fQc
The rocket has two tanks, one with kerosene, one with liquid oxygen. I bet the black fireball is the kerosene burning, the white cloud is the liquid oxygen vaporizing.

Environmental impact is likely small, the kerosene would have burned anyway and there are little other hazardous chemicals on board. (Unlike for example the Proton failure linked by kryptisk above which is fueled with really nasty hypergolic fuels.)
It's useless to categorize things as imperative or declarative without defining those words. There aren't any agreed-upon definitions for what it means to be imperative or declarative (or functional or object-oriented...).

At this point it's mostly an "I know it when I see it" kind of thing, sometimes accompanied by a nebulous explanation about what versus how. There is a difference that programmers can feel, but we find it very hard to communicate that difference. Even at that, virtually every language has some aspects that are imperative and some that are declarative.

Without definitions (preferably rigorous ones), the only thing a post like this will accomplish is starting a flame war.
Obvious enough that I had assumed craft = aircraft as well since you can "take the keys out" of ground/water vehicles. I was challenging the thought that every aircraft needs self destruct, as I suspect it's a minority. If as you say supersonic capability is the threat threshold, fighter jets/rockets would have them but a C-5 Galaxy and Blackhawk might not (I don't know, I'm speculating).
In Saigon you can get around with only english. In other cities, it varies and I'd recommend learning some vietnamese or having local friends.
SpaceX Acquires Hyperloop.com
> It'll be much tougher to track user behavior to improve user experience.

That sounds tragically Orwellian. "We do [BAD THING] to help you! [and it also, just by chance, makes us more money too by exploiting you, but never you mind that]"

> break more things that large websites and companies rely on.

The historical "spy everywhere" privacy model of the web isn't a natural state anybody has a right to exploit. Breaking the current centralized curation model would be a benefit for everyone.
Clearly I'm a biased observer, but I really think people should take steps to archive stuff that is important to them. Of course it's terrible when large sites go offline and take vast swaths of the Internet with them, and we should continue to shame the ones that do it. At the same time, if something is really important to you, you shouldn't store it in the form of links to random third-party servers.

One problem we need to solve as coders is giving people better tools for saving stuff. It's really hard right now to save a webpage (or worse, series of connected pages) with any confidence that you've captured everything you need to see it again if the original server disappears.

A project that I think has struck a really good balance between permanence and retaining authors' control over their writing is the Archive of Our Own (AO3). A bunch of fanfic authors got tired of sites falling out from under them, and decided to implement their own system, along with sensible governance and a way to fund its ongoing operations. The only broken links I've ever seen to AO3 are ones where the author consciously decided to take the material offline.
How to avoid being forked into oblivion by a more powerful contributor?
Agreed :-)
But see the comment down thread about under painting - what we see here is fairly child like poster colours painting - all that can be justified from the scarce evidence. But it is hard to imaging the sophistacted sculptors leaving the painting to less subtle hands. So the reconstruction we could prove today is probably a laughable copy of the reality - after all they would have all the colours of the Greek landscape to inspire them!
What are the advantages to using this? These layouts are abysmal – even the website itself is bad.
> In July, Och-Ziff hired David Becker, the SEC’s former general counsel, as its chief legal officer.

Right. I'm betting for a quiet settlement, a few millions changing hands and everybody retiring to their hard-won country estate and living happily ever after.
Secret + Quora = Reddit
Looks like it didn't go anywhere. Oh well.
In my case I never ate much coke or ketchup, neither after nor before going to Singapore. I'm from Spain and the most typical way to have beef is together with homemade fries.

I suppose the kind of carbohydrates is everything: noodles and cereal good, sucrose bad... so that makes me wonder if the studies mentioned in the article might be too US-centric. Probably many Americans could lose weight by replacing the sugary coke and ketchup with more fat, so "high fat, low carb" may be a good advice for them. But in Spain where coke and ketchup aren't so widespread (some people have them, of course, but probably not even 10% as much as in the US) most people would do better to replace their fatty beef with carbs in noodle, pasta or rice form...
My guess is that naive searcher is O(nm) and two way is O(n) for haystack length n and needle length m.
Falcon 9 test vehicle destroyed in accident
Some RDBMSs support recursive CTEs, which come in handy sometimes. SQLite added support earlier this year, and I've written a handful of recursive CTEs to traverse DAGs in the database. I was blown away by how quickly SQLite can handle queries like that!
We resell something similar, from DFRobot: http://www.robotmesh.com/usb-power-detector

One of the ports has the data lines connected, the other port doesn't, so it could be used as a USB condom.
If you're looking for a good cheap kit to start out with, I suggest a cheap DVB-T card with a Realtek RTL2832U chip.

20 MHz - 2.2 GHz
~2.5 MS/s

Just google for RTLSDR.

You can get started for as little as 15-20 USD.
Sorry about that :-/ A librarian friend posted it yesterday and I thought it worth sharing here. I would have held off if I'd known the creator was on HN. I do feel guilty about racking up all this karma.
Well, as the Internet once said to the music companies, it's not our fault if our new technology breaks your business model. People would find new ways to solve these problems.
That is factually incorrect. You do not have to be a US citizen to work there. You do, however, with few exceptions, have to be a US permanent resident.

And those rules are the US government's, not SpaceX's.
> I didn't say the laws don't exist

No but you suggested that they can be treated as non existent because of lax enforcement/punishment, and then go on to complain about other people (apparently an entire country at that!) not following them - if you don't agree the laws should be followed, why are you complaining about other people not following them?

> How you went from my observations of life in Thailand to calling me a sexpat says something about you

It's generally sexpats who come to Thailand for some "brown strange", make no effort to learn anything about the culture or the people, and make sweeping generalisations, exactly like you have done.

> Maybe I'm generalizing about the Thai attitude about the law, but you can observe it every day all over Thailand. It's no more a generalization than saying Thais like spicy food.

The irony here is at level: ridiculous. Have you ever met any Thai people and actually spoken to them?

Let me make it crystal clear in case you can't work it out:

Not every Thai is a bad driver

Not every Thai flaunts laws/rules

Not every Thai enjoys or can even eat spicy food

Not every Thai is just a poor brown girl/boy waiting for a "rich" white prince to make her/his life better.
MSX is a band-aid to cover up low resolution IR. With 80x60 IR, MSX is a useful feature, because without it you often can't tell what you're looking at. But with 320x240 IR it's not needed in most cases. Worse, because the IR and visual lenses aren't coaxial, the resulting parallax error tends to actively deceive you about the exact location of small hot spots.

If FLIR didn't go out of their way to cripple the 320x240 sensors in their low-end models, MSX wouldn't be worth incorporating at all.
While I'm sure people will have many excuses, I think you are right. $200M+ for a health insurance portal that includes zero novel technologies, algorithms, or other sources of fundamental technology uncertainty, never mind actual risk, has room for multiple crimes of fraud, bribery, and other malfeasance. There are multiple comparable projects against which to measure this one and find the outlier events.

All that said, a successful lawsuit and even criminal prosecutions won't make a significant sent in similar future cases. Governments have got to start acting like a large, collaborative, transparent monopsony, and to demand that vendors draw on and contribute to a pool of open source software, and to form consortia to audit and maintain that pool. That would be a huge benefit to the technology industry, and to taxpayers.
Are you sure? As far as I could tell that thing was about messing with the firmware after you've already gotten control through normal communication.
No, that would be "completing" the mission, not "terminating" it... ;-)
There are more tests that test the string library in src/test/run-pass/. This reflects the fact that std::str predates the current unit testing infrastructure, basically.
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The questions are nothing what I expected.
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And my grandmother said dietary oil causes acne. Conventional wisdom isn't science. If it were, all science would ever do is confirm conventional wisdom.
Never really even considered an alternative pronunciation. Fog Creek Software is located in NY so I'm going to guess a straightforward American-English pronunciation.
Monitoring servers at Phyramid
The mental model of web browsing and bookmarking is: "If I see it, I can get to it again." There's a partial feeling of ownership. "I've read it, so I should be able to refer back to it later."

Nobody (at least, no sane regular person) reads a webpage and thinks "I have a time-limited license from the originator of this content to consume the material and only use it for their expressly condoned purposes."

The vanishing content problem is like if books in your house randomly walked away just because it's the "natural state" of things to disappear.
Where do we draw the line? It's clearly not willingly if they have a gun to your head. Would you move away from your friends and family for work? If your company announced they were moving out of the country, would you consider your decision to follow our not to be under duress?

These companies could have done more, but I think your standard for coercion is a bit high.
Old Spice Style Ice Bucket Challenge
On a Mac this works well: http://techslaves.org/isight-disabler/
We changed the title to the first sentence of the article because it is less linkbaity.
Let's stop being silly. No substance is or is not a poison. You have to talk about concentration and mass relative to everyday exposure when you claim something is poison.
Archive.org doesn't have everything and their archives can be cleared of specific content on request of the copyright holder.

There is a big copyright issue here as in the UK we don't have the relatively liberal Fair Use exceptions that are in the USC - we only just got permission to format shift and make personal-use backups (so MP3 players [using tracks ripped from CD] are legal as of June this year!). Copying down a website, beyond caching, is generally speaking copyright infringement for those in the UK.
Show HN: Terra, a JS framework for cellular automata and biological simulations
There should be room for a spectrum of stuff online, from evanescent to permanent. It's one thing for the musicians on that corner to be gone the next night, but you do expect the corner to still be there. Online, it's depressingly common for even large bits of infrastructure (like GeoCities) to just go poof.
It's not a pure USB risk. That plug on a phone can usually do a whole swath of protocols including serial consoles and they're probably not secured.
Show HN: Open Port Checker
8 Traits to Look for in an Early Startup Employee
Yeah, novelty throwaways are the first thing that come to mind.
APROL: Array Processing Lisp (1993) [pdf]
There is a wide gulf between beautiful Haskell and Basic-in-Haskell. There ate more direct techniques to optimize recursive logic, including (as another commenter notes) waiting a few years for someone to improve the compiler itself.
I've been thinking about this for a while now. Please check out my web app to solve this problem: https://www.purplerails.com/

The main idea is to use a browser extension to automatically save pages that you read to the cloud (including the images, stylesheets etc) in the background. Saved pages are searchable and sharable.
For anyone curious about the packages available in Julia 0.3, please check out http://pkg.julialang.org/. We hope to add keywords and such in the near-term to make package discovery easier. Until then you can check out some of the "organizations" (http://julialang.org/community/) such as JuliaStats (http://juliastats.github.io/) and JuliaOpt (http://juliaopt.org). Finally, we have a blog aggregator that you can follow at http://www.juliabloggers.com/

Julia 0.3 is a solid release and many Julia users have been using the master Github version for the past few months for production use, academic work, and just messing around quite happily. There are relatively few breaking changes from 0.2 to 0.3, with much better package support - so upgrade as soon as you can.

Julia 0.4 is likely to be a more "unstable" release in the tick-tock style that Linux used to have. Already been some great new things merged in, many more to come. I'd recommend not using the master branch of Julia at this time, and instead stay on release-0.3 if you like to build from source.
What the fuck are you talking about?

It's well known that the parts of Thailand frequented by tourists have a much higher percentage of people who "can" speak english. By "can" I mean are technically able to, and feel confident enough to.
Experimental SpaceX rocket self-detonates over Texas