skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in '97, I built myself a vector graphics card for a computer which plugged into an oscilloscope for a university project. Good fun. Of course, to persuade the university to let me do it, I described it as a "programmable dual synchronised waveform generator", but it was always intended to display images.
I feel the same way about the 12 steps. I sat in on a number of meeting when I was younger and it was clear to me at the time that a many of the people there were really involved with the scene because they enjoyed wallowing in self pity and powerlessness. NA/AA gives people an excuse to be weak, and it's often used as a crutch that further enables the "powerless" in avoiding real responsibility.
I am always interested to see ways that people apply different layout ideas to code.

The Golden Section is a number considered to produce the most aesthetically pleasing ratios of things. A playing card's dimensions are usually roughly the same ratio: 1:1.618

For the past few hundred years print designers have been aware of the Golden Section and have been working it into their page sizes and margins - so wether it's beautiful and that's why we use it, or we use it and that's why it's beautiful - there's no question that we are familiar with seeing this design tool be used in print.

This looks like a library to help integrate some of those layout ideals into your code in ways that would be tricky or cost a lot of time to implement otherwise.
Losing the sense of smell predicts death within five years
> If we had done that with the last BP spill

ITYM Transocean / Halliburton spill...
Buildings spread out through the city seems to be a product of having older universities. The oldest Dutch universities have that too, whereas newer universities tend to have most buildings concentrated on a campus. I know of only one that has on-site dorms (TU Twente), but most do have affordable student housing in the vicinity (though never enough for all students). There's usually a cheap, student-oriented sport center connected to the university.

University restaurants (also called "mensa" here) are pretty cheap, but quality is mediocre. Better cook your own dinner.
At this point, for all the work that has been sunk into JavaScript, we could have embedded a superior language in the browser, many times over.
We have had good results with the Barco Medical Diagnostics monitor lines - they are the only thing other than CRT's that our Radiologists are willing to use.
Title should be: "Just Learn"
Looking at the video it looks like the woman does not really manipulate the chart. It looks more like creating a chart and setting the type of diagram. Hence the result is a static chart not an interactive one.
Two long, bloody years would pass before the war ended

The article shows how easily Americans slip into the mythology of the Korean War. There's still an armed border at the 60th Parallel 60 years later, US troops standing at the ready south if the DMZ with reserves in Okinawa and logistics and strategic air support in Diego Garcia.

Korea has been in continuous civil conflict since the Japanese colonization in the 19th century. Over the last 20 years. the standoff has escalated to nuclear armed

The Korean War: a History by Max Cummings delves into the narrative America has constructed for itself and how far it differs from a more circumspect view.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/081297896X/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?qid=...
Could Uber be held liable for driver hammer attack?
Jed Margolin (ex-Atari) has the definitive history of the Atari vector games and how the hardware works:

http://www.jmargolin.com/xy/xymon.htm

http://www.jmargolin.com/vgens/vgens.htm

Asteroids was a humble 6502 running at 1.5 MHz with a PROM-driven pseudo-CPU acting as the vector generator.
Have had this problem too with making a racing game. We ended up making remote entities move independently of the physics engine (I.E. cars for remote players were just static objects that had their positions manually updated). This worked to some extent, but we had to do some fudging to make collisions work somewhat realistically.
"State" shouldn't be a required field on registration, not every country is the United STATES of America.

My country doesn't have states, at least ones that have any kind of influence at any level.
CTF365 Real Time Cyber Attacks Map
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Blinking dots = CTF365 VPN connected users
Blue Balloons = Fortresses (servers) build by our users
Blue Doted Lines = The attacks

It's an work in progress and works on Chrome and IE. There are some bugs in Firefox. Also we'll add some gamification things in the future like most active users, perform levels and so on. Things that can help companies to see their employees improvements.

Any feedback would be more than welcomed.
You are obviously right - kindergarten should be free for all. But you establish a false dichotomy: why exchange free university with free kindergarten? Why not have both? You could certainly argue with limited budget availability, but in the end it's a societal/political decision.
One reason that I love extjs is indeed its layout manager. This golden-layout seems promising...
That's complete recycled bovine waste my friend.

Just because I choose to use OS X does not mean I'm ignoring the bsd base its built on, nor not enjoying using / contributing to open projects.
Being on FB (usually with a false name) does not mean that they would have created it as it is
Looks very neat. But what is the reason for the initial load time?
Apache Tomcat 8.0.14 available
Don't worry, not only CUPS is PITA. Even one unnamed OS with totally different print service randomly decides that your printer is offline (what? it is live on the network, I can ping it! I can restart it million times and the spooler still tells me, that it is offline.), just to annoy you. The more important that printed document is and the less time there is for you to present it, the higher probability, that you will not be able to print it.
The path to cdi 2.0
iwantmyname: 49/Year.
I use iwantmyname :)
They claim they solved the problem of the overcrowded wireless networks. And it can improve the existing technologies like LTE, 3G and WiFi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eMBBVG-MNY
They will make changes to your contract, which you can only read after logging into your control panel, which you can't do unless you agree to your contract. Putting you in the catch22 of being unable to read your new contract without also agreeing to it before reading it.

Look around their forums 2-3 years ago. Many of their HG and HGXL customers had their server's 10Gbps link limited to 300mbit, their bandwidth go from unlimited to metered, internal bandwidth change, their bandwidth go from ok to shitty quality (OVH's "volume" network). Similarly, if you had an entire rack of 10Gbps servers (SO ~5-8 servers) they limited the entire rack to 1 or 2Gbps.
oh great - now we're going to have to make it GoT aware... you're creating a monster...
WoW uses TCP the last time I checked (the overhead of TCP is acceptable for an RPG in most cases). I believe Diablo 3 also uses TCP and uses protobuf.

EVE online have some very good tech posts and are generally quite open about their technology (although it's mostly about hardware and infrastructure). Valve also have some good articles on networking for Source games (someone posted the link elsewhere in this thread).
It's so simple, even a cave man could do it!

It's a plan that probably works for enterprise middleware, but for the majority of reality that is not covered by such a descriptor, it is significantly harder to find a path this way.

Unless you're an Oracle consultant on one end of the scale, or a WordPress theme designer on the other end, you're probably not going to be able to repeatably find lots of clients who want a little of your time and are willing to pay enough for you to work on the side.

A lot of clients want to hire consultants for full-time work, and they are frequently only looking for bodies to fill chairs. Finding a decent client that treats you with respect and understands they can't monopolize your time is hard, hard work.

So if your R&D effort is not related to your consulting--or your contract terms assign ownership of all work materials to the client--you'll just end up in the same situation as having a job.

I suspect the only reasonably repeatable path for early funding for big R&D efforts is through obtaining grants. Learn grant writing, or pay someone who does do grant writing (imagine the longest paper you wrote in college and quadruple it). There are a lot of research grants available, even for independent people not associated with accredited academic research environments. There are even grants for work in the arts.

I've spent the last two years doing freelance consulting. The money I've made was great, but I'm no closer now to starting a company than I was before. You should only do consulting if consulting is what you want to do.
Show HN: Modular LOB Apps in C#/LINQ/WPF/TypeScript/Bootstrap
Cheers. Good question about the load time. The library itself is 50k - without gZipping. But the demo on the startpage also includes Highcharts and SlickGrid and all their dependencies...and the examples are in Codepens - which take a while to load
Interesting idea but what is the purpose of having a laptop for one hour? if I know I need a laptop I will bring mine that's the point of a laptop. If I don't have a laptop I probably don't need one. Also probably you don't have most of the software I might need. I could see a use for long time rental but the overall price should not exceeed the price of a new one every couple of years.
[can no longer edit but of course should have said 'peek' blush]
Here is a link on how to build a native Android WebRTC sample app: https://code.google.com/p/webrtc/source/browse/trunk/talk/ex...
The speed, and the text rendering for me. Sublime renders the fonts I use better, and it supports bitmap fonts, which I am still fond of.
That's crazy talk, next thing you'll be saying we don't need AngularJS to make web applications.
I've been using Bolt [1] for Unity3D for a fast-paced game and surprised me how far I got with almost no knowledge of the library. It's UDP all the way and super explicit about everything.

[1]: www.boltengine.com
The number of choices tends to drop off to one or two (at most) outside of metro areas. I live in a semi-rural area and TWC is the only broadband option. DSL is available but only at speeds barely surpassing dialup. LTE coverage is patchy and (where my house sits) not strong enough to send MMS, much less maintain broadband-level bandwidth.
We're re-launching Signum Framework.

Is an Open Source (LGPL) framework for writing applications using a modular design, and taking advantage of the latest technologies from Microsoft (.Net 4.0/4.5.1, C# 5.0, LINQ, SQL Server, WPF, ASP.Net MVC 4.0/5.0 and TypeScript) and other popular web frameworks (jQuery, Bootstrap and D3.js), to provide a complete solution to Line-of-Business application.

In http://signumsoftware.com/en/Extensions there are examples of reusable modules that can be plugged in any Signum Framework application, including the necessary tables entities, business logic and windows/web user interfaces.

You can create an example application in http://signumsoftware.com/en/DuplicateApplication.
They have two problems here. One, they already have an option for price-sensitive consumers: free. They toyed with a full-on paywall, but that didn't work for a number of reasons (there's a lot of competition, and people LIKE sharing articles, so the ability to share articles with friends who don't have a Times subscription is actually an important feature for the website). Chasing after them with a low-cost subscription is a sucker's bet, since a lot of them won't budge from free, especially since the Times' limits on free articles per month is trivially circumvented.

Two, there's a gap between what people feel is a "fair rate" for the Times and what is actually a fair rate for the Times. People in this thread find it "violently offensive" that the print edition of the Times costs less than the digital-only version, despite the fact that if you look at the ad spending on each, it absolutely makes sense for the Times to charge you less if you buy the more fully ad-subsidized print version. And all of your comparisons (iTunes, Kindle) are third-party sellers of other people's works. They don't care if the writers or musicians make money or not. iTunes/Kindle also aren't the only source of income for those writers and musicians. The New York Times is responsible for providing its own content, and they need to make enough money to pay for that content.
Nitpicking, but why are they claiming to provide MAP (mean average precision) scores when their description and equation indicates that they are computing average precision, not MAP. According to the definition of MAP [1] that they link to, MAP is computed across multiple queries while average precision is computed for one [2]. Furthermore, they truncate their calculation to only consider the top 3 cited papers (i.e., they don't go all the way to 100% recall), so it's not even really the average precision.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_retrieval#Mean_aver...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_retrieval#Average_p...
It's ok, you've convinced me. The LG Prada was the first modern smartphone.
I don't think I've properly explained the idea... The goal is to get the same performance as ninja, in the common case when the dependencies/build steps haven't changed. We somehow use the makefile to generate the ninja file; likely by executing make and capturing the dependencies & commands (without executing the build commands). But we don't encode the full complexity of the makefile in the ninja rules; if someone adds a file or changes a flag or even adds a #include directive, our ninja rules will be out of date.

So we are able to run the build entirely in ninja, but we may not be building what the makefile would build. So we have to 'waste' some CPU time running the make -> ninja conversion in parallel to verify that our ninja build is still correct, but as long as 'total ninja build time' > 'make to ninja conversion time', we come out ahead in wall clock time.
Fun with HTTP Headers (2005)
Can't wait to use this in video projects. I already have a Kickstarter in mind.
Ask HN: Which VPN Providers do you use/can you recommend?
Interesting point: "The data supports this idea: If you start drinking or taking drugs with peers before age 18, you have a 25% chance of becoming addicted, but if your use starts later, the odds drop to 4%. Very few people without a prior history of addiction get hooked later in life, even if they are exposed to drugs like opioid painkillers."
What do you exactly mean by review tool?
Video: Alleged meteor caught on Russian dash cam
A Nomic game in Haskell
It packages up a nice collection of vintage fonts for use in other applications: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/tree/master/a...
Quickly switch accounts using aws-cli
Why They Called It the Manhattan Project (2007)
Unfortunately this seems to be what a lot of people strive to do, then burn out or can never really produce impactful research. Sleep, rest, relaxation, are absolutely essential to creative work. You needn't be good at everything, but you will need to strive for the best in something, and find that thing nobody has ever done before.
Check out the nice collection of fonts too. :-)

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/tree/master/a...

I've been playing with them in iTerm2 and having flashbacks.
This hypothesis is supported by this redditor's comment, who is apparently an MS dev:
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windo...

Also supported by this code search, which turns up a few classes in the JDK using this sort of check:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2i14ny/if_osnam...
Rocket Internet IPO takes off, then plunges 10% as Germany weeps
Why no one wants to host the 2022 olympics
Ask HN: How did you find your online mastermind group?
After hearing about mastermind groups in various podcasts and blog posts, I read up and went to meetup.com to look for one. Unfortunately, my area is a bit lacking, so I tried googling for some mechanism to join an existing group (lots of "how to start a", no "how to find a"). Instead of submitting to the urge of coding a mastermind dating service, I thought I'd ask here.

How do you find a (n online) mastermind group?

Thanks!
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How to Escape the Cult of “Busy”
Everything You Need to Know About the Shellshock Bash Bug
Ronald Pelton was an NSA spy who's been in prison longer for participating in war. Except he's being held in the US and is still locked up today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Pelton
>> Oh no! He was attracted to and dated women! How terrible!

No one is taking him down a notch for being attracted to/dating women. It's his chosen techniques in doing so.

I'm going to say on a whole, most females enjoy being considered attractive and enjoy being dated. There just happens to be quite a few ways you can fuck up going about it. Deception is one.
Life Is Like a Game. Here’s How You Master ANY Game
Funny how being around in the days when this was common I couldn't wait to see the future. Now I am in the future and people get excited about recreating the past. I can't win.
I hope it was Banksy who called in the complaint which got it removed.
One thing a friend of mind did during their PhD which he said was very useful was to always have his thesis. Every month he took a few days and wrote up his current state of mind and conclusions were. So over a period of years he went from rough outline to final thesis without ever having that 'OMG got to write everything up' moment. It also have him a lot of practice writing. Yeah — he ended up throwing away and backtracking a few times — but he was so chilled compared to his peers when it got to the end of his doctorate.

(and by curious coincidence one of the authors of this piece, Ben du Boulay used to be my boss many moons ago ;-)
Creative Commons licensed?

Q: Can I apply a Creative Commons license to software?

A: We recommend against using Creative Commons licenses for software. Instead, we strongly encourage you to use one of the very good software licenses which are already available. We recommend considering licenses made available by the Free Software Foundation or listed as “open source” by the Open Source Initiative.

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions#...
Vector CRTs are all kinds of neat technology. I own a Tempest arcade cabinet, which is a color vector CRT, and it's such a huge difference from using regular raster CRTs.
Congratulations on 2 years clean. Good luck with the tapering.
StoreDot says it can charge smartphone batteries in 30 seconds, raises $42m
MrCrowdfunding – The first global crowdfunding tracker
DogeDogeDoge – A silly Dogecoin website
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I'm doing it right now, actually. It is possible; there are clients out there that will pay for problems to be solved or for deep expertise. Even in the cases where they want a warm body for 3 months to a year, if it brings in enough cash for your other two partners to keep working, then great!

Outside of America this is basically how you have to do it pre-traction.
New York, NY

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I don't what to think about that, because due to severe sinusitis I kind of lost my smell sense when I was a teenager (I'm almost 30 now), yet I can smell pretty strong odours (mostly alcohol smell sensation and peppermint). It can't be really true that it's "5 years and you're dead" :D
Yup, but its a legal construct that allows to offer something "free for non-commercial use"
Reminded me of this cool invention..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E16g1_ibpBM
Echo Experience Studio
Big Data and Privacy: Big Deal or Not?
The only way I could see an hourly service working is at a coffee shop, library, or airport. Airport service would be almost perfect if I just wanted to pick one up for a 1-2 day trip.