skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And damn, it was good.

Back in the day when you didn't have support for FTP in Windows (XP), you needed IRC just once to visit some obscure chat room or you downloaded torrents only every once in a while, Opera could be all this for you. No need to download stuff for one-time use.

Gone now though, along with magnificent Dev tools, mouse gestures and tab groups and previews. Had to switch to Firefox (not to say its bad, its quite good, but I liked Opera's experience better).
Toccata: A Clojure-inspired Native Lisp for Category Theory
MonkeyBrains is not quite what we call "WiFi"; it's in the 80GHz spectrum. (I thought it was 60GHz, which is becoming a WiFi spectrum, but their page says 80. So I don't fully understand what they're up to.)

Beamforming and directional antennas works really quite interestingly on the higher frequencies. I think their stuff could work. It's not obviously doomed to failure, like most 2.4GHz-based WiFi setups are, in my opinion anyway :)
great finding .. here's an interesting paragraph[1]

Mozilla entered into a contract with a search engine
provider for royalties which expires November 2014.
Approximately 90% of royalty revenue for 2013 and 2012,
was derived from this contract. The receivable from this
search engine provider represented 66% and 69% of the
December 31, 2013 and 2012 outstanding receivables,
respectively.

[1] p21: Note 8 - Concentrations of Risk
> How would that be better?
The 7th, 14th, 21st, etc would all be octaves of the root. Currently it's the 8th, the 15th, 23rd, which is much less intuitive.
TLDR;

• Kevin Roose published an article that was based on an anonymous email with a hacked data-set

• The data included Sony HR data

• Roose published it without confirmation from Sony or any employees that the data was accurate

Questions I was pondering:

• Is this bad a bad precedent to set?

• Should we be concerned that journalists are using their platforms to release private information or does it matter now that anyone can publish on Pastebin or elsewhere?
Meanwhile, in Soviet Russia... http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radevents/1954USSR1.... - "can we nuke an area and then send troops into it?"
Ask HN: Can an Electrical Graduate Pursue a Masters in Computer Science
So i've completed my engineering in Electrical Engineering(in India).That's important becasue here they concentrate solely on Heavy Electricals with a minor influence of Electronics.As in most cases,I ended up wokring in the IT sector.But after joining I actually love my job and keep regretting not taking Computer Science as my under graduate.
With that background,my question is:
How hard is it for a person with my background to get into a Masters program for computer Science.And is there any way I could improve my chances.I am good at what I do and have also contributed to Open Source also.I'd like options and not answers which would end up on "If there is a will,there is a way" or something like that.
I think they spent plenty of time talking about the advantages of their approach. The comment at the bottom there was only in response to an FAQ of "why not just work from the docker you already use?"
US mainland does span from GMT-5 to GMT-8.
This is done but mostly for peripheral IO (like DACs/ADCs, disk, video or audio codecs and even between non-shared memory for processors) but can (and has) been used in the main memory hierarchy . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_memory_access
Please note that another german culture is to be overly pedantic in following rules, no matter if their initial intention applies or whether we just set them five minutes ago. Rules are followed because.

This culture makes administrative processes bulky and tedious and tiring.

It often fuels my Ungeduld, because I want to get st done zügig.
I was referring specifically to the notion that people who spend a lot of time in libraries are information addicts. I think that notion is not serious, and I do dismiss it.
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Self made developer for more than 5 years, and 2.5 years professionally, I learn anything necessary for getting the job done.
It is difficult to get an intuition about the consequence of radiation. Half life times are too long, radiation is invisible and the effects on organisms subtle.

So in conjunction with speculation about aliens, maybe you are taking this issue a bit too lightly?

Worth noting that the concept of building nuclear weapons is stupid to begin with, sacrificing large regions to radiation, possibly for a looong time is clearly unreasonable and weather something has a "civilization dooming effect" is not a valid criterium in any decision.
A locksmith came to let me back into my apartment the other day. He told me that because the front lock was a 'commercial' lock, he'd have to charge me $50 extra. I asked him if he would charge the same if he used the same lock-picking technique on a residential lock (since this was a residence); he said yes. So then I asked him what was so special about a bump key for this lock versus a residential lock, since they're both just blanks cut to five-nines and this lock has no anti-bump pin. He said, nothing special. So I asked him, since the bump key works exactly the same on either lock, why was he charging me an extra $50?

He ended up dropping the extra.

Security is not a Dark Art, and there is no harm in teaching people how or why attacks work. If you can find it at a bookstore or via a Google search, it's safe to disseminate to the general public via blog.
Exciting that Snowdrift.coop is so close to launching!
Space X is hiring a farmer
> However I think it makes more sense to do this on the actual Docker format which everyone already uses... That way you get the benefit of increased openness without the drawback of fragmentation.

One could have just as easily said the same thing when the Docker format was introduced. The OpenVZ template format works well and is very similar to the proposed ACI format. The Docker format hasn't been without issue/problems.
Shadow mapping[1] has pretty much taken over at this point. This is mainly because of the high overdraw when rendering shadow volumes. You can also filter shadow maps to get soft shadows. This is not really possible with shadow volumes.

Raytraced shadows are starting to become feasible.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_mapping
That does not sound competitive for the DC area - lead frontend engineers make $120k+ easily around the area, I find it hard to believe more than $90k can't be offered to an iOS lead.
Yeah, just try using OVF with containers and you'll discover how much of a round peg/square hole fit you are describing. VM's and containers are surprisingly different.
The same thing that would happen with glass windows and solar panels. They would eventually be cleaned.
Can anyone recommend an article for interpreters that is exactly at the level of the original link?
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Ask HN: What software to write a technical book in?
Hey guys, I'm about to write a book on web development in Clojure.

I'm completely new to this so I'm wondering if you guys had any recommendations for software to write the book in.

Syntax highlighting is preferred.

I'm currently looking at Lean Pub at the moment but I would rather not like to rely on a third party.
A trivial bookmarket or addon could strip their nonsense from the page. The examples you posted were all single page articles, though. Perhaps multiple pages are rendered on demand in a way that would be less trivial to strip.
You can do that with SIP now. But with email, getting a bunch of spam can be handled in bulk, and letting a few slip by isn't disastrous. With phone calls, it could be much worse. As I understand, Google killed xmpp federation for precisely this reason.
The fun part of demos these days tends to be making everything small or real time. Playing back a fullscreen video is impressive for old enough hardware, for recent hardware it's trivial and then it can display literally anything you care to prerender.
Addiction you say?

What is 'addiction'? What is 'disease'? What is 'real'?

It recalls Bill Clinton asking for a more precise definition of the word 'is'.
Cool, thanks a bunch for that info.
You would be extremely wrong.
I see a parallel with what Docker did with LXC and the libcontainer debacle. What comes around goes around ...

That said, I like this announcement. Docker was focusing on becoming an App store. I like that Rocket brings the focus back to technology.
At the very end of the methods section, they write:
"Future designs and configurations may find ways of using this reflected sunlight, enabling shorter payback periods and lower levelized costs." I don't have any idea what they have in mind.

This same group is also trying to solve a related problem, which is how to keep solar panels cool, since they are less efficient when they heat up. They have designed coatings that are transparent to sunlight and dump heat to space ( http://www.opticsinfobase.org/optica/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica... )
> no payment for truly anonymous searches

What's a "truly anonymous search"?
Interesting to see revenue went from approx $150M in 2011, to $310M in 2012 and then stuck steady at that same rough figure in 2013.

Is that a result of Firefox stopping growing or Google not paying as well, or something else?
I would also suggest this talk by Dave Thomas http://youtu.be/5hDVftaPQwY
Confessions of a former Google employee
See also: http://libgen.org and http://aaaaarg.org/
You may be shocked to discover that socket activation is actually a pretty old idea, and can even be found on non-Linux platforms. systemd embraces it in a pretty big way, but I can't see a problem getting the app containers to work with one of the other socket activation models.
Space X job requirement
http://www.spacex.com/careers/position/5749
Here's a second vote for the steel guitar forum-- they are quite helpful. Greets from Fredericksburg :D

If it is any consolation to your williamcotton, I'm also having trouble finding a band, but I haven't been at it so long so I usually end up playing bass....
It's not a security measure it's the truth. One or more of them is invalid, it's up to the user to decide what they meant to input.
Was North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-Un Behind the Huge Hacking at Sony?
Surfaces optimized for reflecting and emitting light/heat are indeed used on spacecraft ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_solar_reflector )

However you wouldn't have to worry about optimizing these for the atmospheric IR window, as you do on earth, which is the advance claimed in this paper.
Those photos bring back a lot of good memories. I believe MerbCamp was the first time I had met Ezra in person. Really enjoyed hanging with him and the other members of the Merb team. Ezra has impacted my life in a very good way and will be missed.
Google.com is currently down
Google may be factoring in their advertising revenue, averaged per website visited, or something like this. Not purely financed by connectioned fees.
Does the browser viewer use the new W3C DRM extensions?
Likely my problem is that I really like tiling WMs, so end up trying to make my world work with something like xmonad or even dwm. It's entirely possible multimonitor is satisfactory with KDE, and maybe I should give that another shot.

I do, however, know that OS X does font rendering so much better that I have trouble with pretty much any alternative.
Does the in-browser viewer use the new W3C-blessed DRM extensions?
The vast majority of open source projects, even if you just take the popular ones, never end up being companies run by "founders" who want to be gazillionaires.
And because of that, they work on any device. Even my iPhone!
I love reading this well-written anecdote every time it's posted on HN. :-)
Here's a link to the original article in Nature under their new [0] free read-only access policy:

http://rdcu.be/bKmA

[0]: http://www.nature.com/news/nature-makes-all-articles-free-to...
Let's not forget that he was not the first to come up with this technique. From wikipedia [1]:

William Bilodeau and Michael Songy discovered this technique in October 1998, and presented the technique at Creativity, a Creative Labs developer's conference, in 1999.[2] Sim Dietrich presented this technique at both GDC in March 1999, and at Creativity in late 1999.[3][4] A few months later, William Bilodeau and Michael Songy filed a US patent application for the technique the same year, US 6384822 , entitled "Method for rendering shadows using a shadow volume and a stencil buffer" issued in 2002. John Carmack of id Software independently discovered the algorithm in 2000 during the development of Doom 3.[5] Since he advertised the technique to the larger public, it is often referred to as Carmack's Reverse.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_volume
this is bad move by mozilla ,
“This business is like bird spotting”
"that will become unmaintainable in 1 year" or "that will be a problem if we ever switch databases" or whatever and sure enough, a year later, the team has to do that... and that 1 guy was fucking RIGHT.

And sometimes YAGNI, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it, nice problem to have, good enough is good enough, do the simplest thing that could possibly work, premature optimization, perfect is the enemy of good, grass is always greener somewhere else, better a bird in the hand than two in the bush, he's right but it's still not worth the cost right now, etc.
Storytelling for Startups
Less talk, more walk. =]
the author's other articles are worth reading too http://inertiawar.com/
The best thing there is this one comment:

"NOOOOOOOO.not that HORRID, irrelevant Yahoo? I may go back to , gulp, Google."

what.
I was hoping someone would post this. Too bad it hasn't been updated recently, but it had a good run.
>Surplus real subs weren’t cheap enough or pristine enough to use as instrumented targets, so the Long Beach Naval Shipyard built three identical 4/5-scale sub hulls to hold instruments while submerged.

This seems incredibly scant by today's U.S. Military standards.

Why not build the sub hulls exactly to scale?

Hell, why not build real submarines to perform the test on?
Caveat: I'm not a rendering engineer (though I do work in game development), so my knowledge might be a bit out of date or imperfect.

It's very clever, and leads to pixel-perfect shadows. the other main technique used to do real time shadows, shadow mapping, writes them to a buffer, so if you have a larger buffer you get better shadows, and with a smaller buffer you get worse, more aliased shadows (there are techniques to make this harder to notice, though).

Shadow volumes is also typically slower, and puts (more) restrictions on your geometry than shadow mapping, so my experience is that most engines use shadow mapping.

Though, I think I remember one of the rendering engineers saying that shadow volumes is much easier to implement for small engines, and that he's disappointed it isn't more widely used, but I might just be thinking of some other less robust method of stencil-buffer shadowing.

Searching shadow mapping and shadow volumes in Google looks like it leads to good links if you're interested in learning more.
Interesting read. I'd say one thing, bring back diesel boats, the Rickover experiments proved only how noisy and expensive submarines can be. Good men (or women if fully manned male/female - no mixing, it will not work), great batteries and ... Stirling Engines. I'd put to sea today with that, no more nukes. All of that to mean, you can't sink what you can't find.
I recall joking about "unobtainium" long before that movie came out...
Alternate view, I hate sites which require login & password, especially to only view content. I try to ignore every such site, because those are designed really badly. As well as I don't get it what's the correllation between email and registration. I don't want to give my email, nor I want to register. If I need to give email, I can give any random temporary email. Signup procedures on many sites are horrible. Best sites do allow at least accessing content without these hindrances. Logging in, especially on mobile, is painful anyway. Using some kind of federated login is privacy issue (in most cases), so it doesn't solve anything either. For lulz, how about just PGP signing nonce? They can verify it against my public key. PGP also allows me to easily create as many parallel identifies with strong authentication as I want to.
The fact you put the word "power" in scare quotes indicates to me that you don't understand what it means in this context. Here, have a pg essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html
Here's a great video of the Ambassadors of Harmony (an incredibly good barbershop chorus from St. Louis, MO) doing some exercises to tune overtones, and they're really loud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCdQVqQXkzc

Listen for when the director sings the overtone note alone, then listen to the chorus as they produce it.
I'm still not entirely clear. I think that it is the use of the word "right," that is giving me a snag.

I am reading the word "right" as you agreeing with their post.

Did you mean for the "right" to read as a dismissal of their post, and their silly use of "addict" to describe the book club member/library goer?
No, it the pitch change is different for each note. That's why it's a function (of the pitch number).
Waste and incompetence unchecked by competetion or regulation.
Perhaps in debug builds, memcpy could wrap memmove but assert() that the regions are non-overlapping? Would avoid code unintentionally relying on memcpy supporting overlap.
The Philosophy of Computer Science (2013)
Site is down. I highly recommend using CloudFlare or another cacheing solution to avoid server overload in times of high traffic.
Thanks for sharing this. Looks really useful since I'm working on a drip email campaign. Have saved it in pocket for reading later since its so long! I've also signed up to GetDrip recently, its pretty good to use for drip marketing.
How to Switch to Google Search After Firefox Yahoo Update?
Awesome podcasts on consulting, bootstrapping and SAAS
I see a lot of words in your post, but for the life of me, I can't figure out what part of the linked story you feel is "mud slinging", nor what "langauge" or "behaviour" you're so disappointed about? AFAIK docker has had a crappy security story from the start, by design. Perhaps Docker is now, or proceeding to, leverage more of LXC/namespaces for "proper" security -- but the argument against a monolithic daemon makes perfect sense.

Security and convenience are always at odds: I don't see it as a problem that tools lean one way or the other: It does make me a bit worried if they lean one way or the other by accident -- which is what you seem to imply with your comment. I take it you're trying to "defend" docker -- but I don't know against what, nor do I understand your arguments.

Perhaps you could take a deep breath, and try again? I'm sure you really do have something to say on the matter, that is worth reading.
>> "slow" is going to be self-defeating nomenclature

It's pointed, poignant and accurate as well as precise; self-defeating it is not.
Forking, not shelling out, no?
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It is made for long-lasting deals, store all customer information. Easy to send invoices, track contracts. The main features are - comments, tasks and files could be attached to any document or object in system. Deep links between objects help you to switch between documents in 1 click. Check it out, if it's worth translating to English?
Poor move by Mozilla IMO - clearly a profit driven decision and not one in be best interest of their users.
Translation system, maybe?
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> That certainly happened here. E.g., that (say) 2^(4/12) is pretty close to 5/4 is an interesting fact that requires no knowledge of music terminology to grasp. That we call a pair of notes whose frequencies are roughly in this ratio a "major third" is just trivia to memorize.

For musicians, this is actually precisely opposite. Performing and composing musicians absolutely never use the ratio of fundamental frequencies. They constantly use thirds and think of them as the third note in the major scale, which is the most common scale.
I think Amazon used to do this back in the depths of time.
It depends on how you look at it. The Docker Remote API provides an abstraction on the OS substrate and definitely binds you a lot more to Docker and their model. The "rocket doesn't implement an API" means all that it isn't really doing much more than kicking off the container and using the existing OS substrate to manage everything else.

I can see where for SmartOS & Windows the Docker approach is more flexible. If someone has already settled on Linux, but they have their own ideas about how to manage containers within Linux that have nothing to do with CoreOS, the Rocket model is going to leave them much more flexibility.
If you're curious about overtone singing, listen to this -- it's insane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC9Qh709gas

The principle is actually the same -- she is modifying her singing apparatus to emphasize different upper partials that are already in her voice. Barbershoppers do this as well, though less explicitly (we do vowel matching, which helps emphasize upper partials to produce greater ring).

Here's a video from a perennial favorite quartet (the Gas House Gang): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvYT_yWiLqU The top/tenor note is often the same note as the primary overtone produced by the other 3 parts (adding further emphasis to the overtone), but this effect is what gives barbershop the quality of sounding like more than 4 voices, and produces the "ring" in the sound.
Financial independence from a company that increasingly seems to be little more than an extension of US intelligence apparatus is very much in the best interest of their users