skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's only oxidizing at the air/metal interface. It's a very small amount and the oxide already in the basin is lighter than plain Aluminum so it floats to the top.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cheapassgames/stuff-and...
Could you try to investigate that question with your usual news providers? I for one would be interested to learn about the reasons, if you can find out any.
I think he was trying to be funny
It's a problem that Github suffers from. The thing is, it's easier to educate people about .gitignore and .hgignore, and those are both more effective at blocking out sensitive files than accidentally switching over an editor tab with a yaml or whatever. The risks become compounded when you consider that people will record the sessions and make them part of the public record.

I might be overreacting, but it might be something to think about.
JS is very fast in modern browsers. It blows things like Python and PHP out of the water, it competes with Go, and with asm.js (or sometimes without) it can be like merely 2x slower than C.

The main reason most web apps don't also feel very fast is not "DOM manipulation" or things that happen inside the page, is that they also do AJAX network calls and that adds huge latencies.

This app, judging the functionality, does everything inside the VM (no need to do AJAX calls for a drawing app), so can offer the full speed JS can do.
Show HN: Public Obelisk Server for the Community
This is great. I could see it replacing much of my Illustrator work.
I disagree with your statement that native code is the way to go for snappy drawing apps, maybe for low end hardware like what you're using but for more powerful hardware there is no downside.
90k-140k sounds about right, depending on how well you can negotiate and sell yourself. You also need to take into account taxes and considerably higher costs of living compared to Germany.

The biggest problem for you will be getting a visa. There are relatively few startups who would go through the trouble of sponsoring you a visa, unless you bring something really exceptional to the table. Your profile doesn't strike me as something that would be considered by "big" companies who typically sponsor H1B's since they often filter by college degree.

That is assuming you are eligible for a visa. An H-1B visa requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Your experience may be sufficient, but proving that is easier said than done. As far as I remember 3 years of experience are generally considered equivalent to one year of college, which would mean that you need 12 years. But you shouldn't trust me on this and look it up instead.
Popsong Piracy: Napster in the 1930s and the Story of Fakebooks (2004)
As a young person, when I was examining possible choices for development, I chose what was fast and stable. At the time that was C & PHP, and maybe even perl.

I don't see how the young people of today decide to go with Ruby, with it's terrible performance, and especially last year with it's slew of vulnerabilities. If you like the beauty of Ruby, use it on your own stuff or for learning. But using it with intention for a production environment? I just don't get it...
The Road not Taken
I used to play knights & merchant as a kid so I was able to understand it :)

Why aluminium? Low temp, high availability?
I am actually surprised the travel industry isn't on facebook more. How many more travel pics do we see now then before fb?
There were two big architectural differences that created some weird (to developers used to conventional processors) code.

First was that the chips were fixed-point. That mainly changed the arithmetic of the individual algorithm steps, but it led to some really strange number packing schemes[1] that affected memory layout and added a bunch of code just for dealing with them.

Second was the concept of "on-chip" and "off-chip" memory. The chips did not have a conventional memory bus. Instead, the program had to manually make a DMA request to move data on-chip for processing. This was basically a stack memory space local to the DSP core. It was the only memory space the core could access directly, though. Thus, algorithms had to be implemented such that they moved memory on-chip in blocks, processed the data, then moved it back off-chip. Since these movements were expensive, the implementation also tried to chain as many things together on the core in order to minimize the DMA transactions.

Needless to say, these make for extremely inefficient code in some cases when you try to recompile on a real processor or controller that actually has an FPU and memory controller.

[1] If you have never tried working with complex numbers on a fixed-point processor, don't.
>The reasons behind her actions, however, are noble: it was all part of a university project, in which she wanted to show how Facebook activity is not necessarily reflective of real life.

I don't think doing academic research is a carte-blanch to lie to people. One girl might do this sort of thing for the ego boost of appearing cool. But what about the ego boost academics get from pulling this kind of trick on other people.
> The UK uses the same policy as Portugal i.e. soft enforcement with the same immediate effects.

No, it really doesn't. For very small amounts of cannabis people mght get an on the spot fine (£90) and a warning - this has effects on CRB checks and visa and etc. please stop spreadin the myth that England has decriminalised cannabis.

And it's certainly not thecase for heroin nor crack.
Sure, why not? There's varying depths of "learn". I took a "Comparative Programming Languages" class at my university that had a moderately sized project due in a different language every two weeks, one of which was C++ (also Perl, Ocaml, Scheme, and Prolog). It was a fantastic experience.
Cool experiment, but not letting your family in on it? Not sure how this will affect future trust issues...
>Do you disagree with the core dump on my hard drive?

No, he and I disagree that your experience is typical for everybody. Most people in this thread (including me) praised this for its quick loading, snapiness and speed.

Perhaps "Atom" and "1GB of RAM" doesn't cuts it for this kind of in-browser app, despite GIMP (a native app) running "pretty smooth). It makes sense if this has a minimum memory use requirement -- below which you can't run it at all because you don't have enough space that it needs to load, and after which you're OK and it's fast.

That said, people have run it on their iPads, and it's extremely snappy there too.

I'm also not sure the core dump was because of "out of memory". How about some glitch with your graphics card driver and the canvas renderer (which is not uncommon)?
Agreed, I'm a Canadian living in the bay area, and I recently broke my collar bone in Canada. I went the the emergency room in Canada and again, when I touched down in the USA.

The room in Canada was paid out of pocket (because I'm not a resident) and cost $600 for 1 x-ray a consultation with 2 doctors and a room for the night, and another $30 for the pain meds (morphine)

The 60 minute consultation I had in the US was $150 co pay, which if I had no insurance would have been $2000 Which got me an x-ray and 15 minutes with a doctor and another $10 for "prescription" acetaminophen. (aka overpriced over the counter Tylenol)

Doctors aren't the problem, it's the insurance companies. I don't see how it's a technology problem as much as a political will (and maybe stubbornness in believing America is always the best even when it's not). The best we can hope for is technology can help by gathering political will.

I'd love to be proved wrong.
'Last and First Men' tends to be a book that science fiction authors read and borrow from.

I suspect that there is a slight conspiracy: "the first rule of science fiction writers club is that you don't talk about Stapledon". It inspired most of modern science fiction but very few outside of the field have heard about it. Accelerando, The Shape of Things to Come, 1984, That Hideous Strength, 2001, Blindsight, most of HP Lovecraft, etc... all borrow from him.

To C.S. Lewis and AC Clarke's credit, they do acknowledge the importance of Stapledon to their work.
Dukaj is amazing, his "Other Songs" ("Inne Pieśni" in polish) is one of the best books I've ever read. I really hope it gets translated to english so non-polish speakers can read it.
The theme of the game is "pretending you've gone on adventures" (it's a remake of Captain Park's Imaginary Polar Expedition, by the same people).
The ivory consumers are members of the dictatorship and their friends.
Every time someone posts to Facebook, it's a lie. All of Facebook is a lie. No ones posts all of the details of their lives, especially the ugly details, or the uncomfortable details, or the embarrassing ones. This student set out to underscore that fact, and I am tickled that she did so quite effectively.
Of course you work hard, and thank you for that, but you're fighting an uphill battle. It's not like all the submissions are coming from YC founders anymore. People love to post stories with these sensational titles and meager content, and other people like to upvote them. There are still a lot of great posters/commenters here on hacker news, which is why I still come back occasionally, esp. for casual browsing. But the userbase is quickly being (has quickly been) diluted, and there is no protection from these goons by stricter posting rules like on subreddits. That's why I've started to go to /r/programming instead when I want to learn something. All this non-intellectual political content drains my energy. Just my two cents.
Yeah, hence the "snark" moniker, but funny works better if it's also clever and/or coherent.
http://www.wildaid.org/news/yao-ming-says-no-ivory-and-rhino...
Here at Enplug we use a wide range of tech.

Server: C#, Databases: MongoDB and SQL Server, Messaging: RabbitMQ, Clients: LibGDX and Java on Android, Web client: AngularJS
It was for research. If it were my daughter, I'd be both impressed and proud. Besides, most college students represent a different reality to their parents than the one they actually live.
The thought occurred during a recent vacation I took: if I tried to show my friends and family my vacation photos after the trip it would be a classic sitcom groan moment, but by posting during the trip I get past their defenses. Their need to compulsively 'like' things kicks in, and they unwittingly view the whole trip anyway.
You'll see patterns, pretty as can be.
People lying on the Internet? Inconceivable!
Yeah, in the style of Mike Daisey
ComputerWorld UK is summarizing TTIP news, a live blog of the slow but steady transition from nation state to corporate lawsuits. The first tier of governance will be done by lawsuit and whatever is left can be done by national governments.

There are implications for all startups: should your incumbent competitor be granted the ability to sue a national government and influence your ability to compete in a geographical market?

A single lawsuit can affect multiple industries, e.g. by changing insurance requirements. For the low low price of one lawsuit, a deep-pocketed competitor can influence multiple nation states and industries, by setting new trans-national "legal" precedent.

http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/ttip-up...

"However, one thing we have learned is that those behind unbalanced laws like SOPA and treaties like ACTA, never give up. If they fail with one, they just try again with another. And so it turns out in the wake of ACTA's demise. We are now witnessing exactly the same secretive approach being applied to TTIP - the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – originally known as TAFTA, the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement."

On a positive note, please share the CC-licensed A2K (Access to Knowledge) Handbook (pdf), http://a2knetwork.org/handbook & http://a2knetwork.org/book

"Access to Knowledge (A2K) is the umbrella term for a movement that aims to create more equitable public access to the products of human culture and learning. The ultimate objective of the movement is to create a world in which educational and cultural works are accessible to all, and in which consumers and creators alike participate in a vibrant ecosystem of innovation and creativity."
As in, you haven't seen old POS terminals replaced with new ones?

At least in the US, you're going to see lots of this happening in the next year. Starting October 2015, the major card brands have dictated that merchants will be liable for fraudulent transactions processed via the magstripe (as opposed to EMV).

That means lots and lots of new terminals. Square's also got an EMV compliant reader coming out soon.
Gravity's Rainbow is also a tribute to Richard Fariña's "Been Down So Long It Looks Like up To Me". Pynchon and Richard Fariña were friends. The two are very linked conceptually.

BDSLILLUTM is decidedly about paranoia. Beware girls with green knee socks.
I am working on wrinq

http://www.wrinq.com/

wrinq allows landlords to collect rent online from their tenants and issue rent
slips once it has been received. Besides that it allows the landlords to keep a track of their
expenses (on the property) and see how much they profits they earn monthly ,yearly etc. Admittedly this
would be much more useful for people who manage more than one tenant.

It will also keep a track of tenants who pay on time so in case if wrinq ever gets successful
I would have an opportunity of doing a spin off that "hooks"
potential landlords with good tenants (but that is distant future)

Target audience : Landlords who don't live in the same house as the tenants and who possibly have more than one
tenant to manage.

Launch Date: Well I want to collect a few emails this time around before launching.
See if there is any interest for what I am doing. Right now I am working about 25%
on the product (technology wise it is pretty simple) 75% on it's marketing (haven't started actively yet).

But I am thinking December should be a good time to launch.

Trivia:

wrinq is an acronym

Wield Rent and Issue Normative Quittance.

To be honest I only made it up after I decided wrinq sounded cool and got the domain for it :)

Tech stack :

I am using openresty and couchdb on the server side.

Jquery and simple grid[1] on the client side.

[1] https://github.com/ThisIsDallas/Simple-Grid
Exactly. It is extremely inexpensive -- the majority of the aluminum I melt I found abandoned on the side of the road -- it melts at only 1200 degrees F which is an easy charcoal fire. It is easy to machine, doesn't corrode, is hard enough to build interesting things, and lightweight.
I'm seeing many comments about Sqaure not living up to expectations or slowing down.

I guess I don't see that. Where I live I'd have to guess that 95% of food trucks, coffee shops, and smaller restaurants use square. That's not including the markets where square is pretty much exclusively used by all vendors.

I do agree that 6B is insanely high and most likely not what they are actually worth. However I wouldn't say they are slowing down.
I found the opposite opening a random file: https://github.com/quasado/gravit/blob/master/src/gravit/com...
I understand your morals could be different from mine but heres how I see it.

A Chinese or Indian citizen is an individual, like any other, just like you even. Through no fault of their own they've been born in a country that doesn't provide the same quality of life for them and their family that an American/EU resident enjoys. Don't they have the right to the pursuit of happiness just like you?

For an extreme example, would you rather be a Chinese Foxconn employee or an unemployed American. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance )
In the Guessing Game, you suggest using abs() to get a nonnegative number, but this is wrong, since it would make 0 less probable than all the other values.
A passive attack is an attack that can be done without interfering with the signal.

A MITM attack requires you to hook into the signal and interfere with it, replacing Alice's and Bob's keys with your own and decrypting/re-encrypting the communication to keep the illusion up.

So a MITM attack is not a passive attack, but an active one.
Considering that Java still has about 95% market share on the JVM, I'd say Scala has a long way to go before it can catch up to Java. Same observation for jobs and tooling.

It really all depends on what criterion you use.
Gombrowicz is a genius. It's nice to see him mentioned since we just had a Borges thread, and the two were the greatest living authors in Argentina for years.

There's a recent translation of Ferdydurke that's supposed to be good. Be careful not to get the earlier translation, which was translated indirectly from a French intermediate and really doesn't have much to do with the original as a result.
Google Voice is now supported on OBi VoIP devices
Why so many Koreans are called Kim
Could you offer some specifics?
Just want to say that implementing a client for a binary protocol like Obelisk clears the head after too many JSON and wishy-washy web protocols.

Fixed-width binary fields, framed as 0MQ message frames/messages. Relaxing.
Found some interesting articles about Korea on the economist today.

http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21611039-how-re...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/08/ec...

Unfortunately they are all behind a pay wall.
Inspired that you found something to get offended by in the very last sentence of the article.

Never give up!
Getting started with Docker [video]
true, I was feeling dramatic
Examine, a source I generally trust, recommends vitamin D supplementation [0] while also noting that its benefits have been overstated [1]. They do agree that vitamin E, however, should not generally be supplemented [2]

I find the "Don't Take Your Vitamins" title to be especially linkbaity and misleading. The reality is closer to: "you probably don't gain anything by taking some vitamins." Examine notes that vitamin D is both safe and cost effective, so there is very little downside to taking it even if the magnitude and certainty of benefit is still somewhat unclear.

[0] http://examine.com/supplements/Vitamin+D/

[1] http://examine.com/blog/the-truth-about-vitamin-d/

[2] http://examine.com/supplements/Vitamin+E/
> The biggest problem for you will be getting a visa.

I have US citizenship, just never lived there for longer than a few weeks.
So, considering all this. Is there any reason not to move down there and pile up some cash for a few years?
Ethics panels are important, but not the final word on what is right or wrong. If someone isn't defined to be an experimental subject, then the rules regarding deception are pretty lax.

In fact, your post exhibits exactly the supercilious attitude that I was complaining about. The article implied that any academic research was sufficient reason to engage in deception that would otherwise be unethical. Now you are saying that I cannot comment on the ethics of research because the ethics panel has already decided the matter.

EDIT: I assumed some sarcasm in your (deleted) post, and if I was wrong in assuming that, I apologize.
Selectively providing information is not equivalent to lying.
Be careful what you wish for. NSA's biggest policy goal isn't total awareness of all information on the Internet. It's maximizing their budget.
I'm in! I'll pay with 35 grasshoppers.
NV kit works by converting the photons to electrons and then cascade-mutiplying them and and then converting back to photons.
WeIO – The Power of Raspberry Pi,  Simplicity of Arduino
I switched to vim-plug from Vundle a couple of weeks ago, and I'm in love. Lazy initialization and, if your vim is built with ruby, threaded plugin installations and upgrades. As a bonus, it's beautiful.
Feelings of frustration are often understandable, but the point is that if we are to have a high-quality discourse here, we can't let them determine the comments we post. There are some contexts in which pugilism and intellect go together just fine, but experience has shown that Hacker News is not one of them.

It's particularly harmful when a good writer or established user goes there, because then everybody else does and it's degenerate internet goo for the lot of us.

The old line about heat vs. light comes to mind. We can't have both. Hacker News is about clearing a place for thoughtful conversation, or at least trying to. This is not a subject matter thing, it's a quality thing.
It's a demo...
Dealing with Data in Docker
The first paragraph:

You and your friends are globetrotting explorers. Or so you say. Actually, you are all liars and cowards, and despite your claims to the contrary, you've never left London.
I got quite seriously ill when I was 22, right after starting my first company. Bad timing. 3 months in bed with nothing to do. My neighbour Erik donated me his entire SF collection, which he'd been putting together for more than 2 decades, a gift for which I'll be eternally grateful. This was one of the gems in that stack of books. I'd have never heard of it until this thread today otherwise.
It's a single file. It works with or without the ruby-dependent parallel plugin installations and upgrades. It allows for plugins to be loaded only when they're needed (e.g. only for JS files). That's minimalist.
I mean Square ones specifically.
Widgets for WebDriver
Who are you selling it to / what's your plan to grow any part of the biz?
I don't know, I'd be pretty worried about my daughter if she were in another continent. I'd want the hotel information, I'd send her extra money. I'd be reading up on news in that area.

I doubt I would be angry to find out it was a university project and she never went anywhere, but whatever I would feel probably wouldn't end up being pleasant. Maybe it wouldn't be bad, but the stress put on the parents doesn't seem right. I don't think children know how much parents care about them sometimes.
There are lies of commission and lies of omission.
The ego-boost is speculative. I think she was genuinely interested in the question. And she's made the point very well.
What would you think of a similar experiment to probe deception in academic research?
Have you looked into ironworking at all? I think building a bloomery furnace might be something you'd find interesting.

Some sites:

http://iron.wlu.edu/

http://www.wealdeniron.org.uk/

http://findsandfeatures.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/iron-ore-re...
Maybe she didn't have them on Facebook. I refuse to add my parents as there is stuff on there I don't want them seeing easily.
Famous logos and their hidden messages
I didn't ask why he purchased a 64 gig, but what he actually uses the space on (especially without spotify offline playlists.) He said he's pushing up against the limit and I'm just curious what he's storing.
Kim Stanley Robinson's books are all pretty fantastic. I recommend the Red Mars trilogy as well as 2312. His vision of the future is exciting and optimistic, his deep knowledge of science and technology topics is enlightening, and his writing ability and character creation are fun and imaginative. It's great stuff for any hard science fiction fans.
Php-vfs 1.2.1 with support for locking now available
One of the amazing things abut Lem's "Solaris" is how invested humanity became in Solaris, the planet that housed the being they chanced upon. In the story, all of science basically revolved around Solaristics - the study of Solaris. By the time the events in the book take place, Solaristics had existed for over a hundred years. In one scene somewhere in the middle of the book, the protagonist actually sits in a library and starts to describe the key works of the field, but in an indirect way of course. Lem depicts humanity's obsession with the being perfectly, yet never actually spoon feeds the reader. Even so, the reader ends up investing himself/herself into humanity's struggle of understanding the being. I was simply amazed at how he was able to achieve this using only words. I've read a good amount of sci-fi, yet no author, not even the great Asimov, was able to execute such a thing so flawlessly. I'll be sure to read more of Lem's work as soon as I can.