skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Near and far infrared, ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma rays -- there are lots of photons out there. Hubble has many sensors[0], so many of the images taken are from outside the relatively small portion of the spectrum that humans can see and then mapped to the visible spectrum.

Additionally, human vision is dominated by intensity sensitivity, not color sensitivity.[1] So especially with very modest optical equipment and faint light sources you won't see much color.

[0]http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/hubble_essentials/
[1]http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/rodcone.ht...
You write as if the whole thread isn't there for people to see, and as if I had somehow responded to something you said rather than it being the other way around. You literally started this unproductive subthread by responding to the comment where I addressed the need for cross-platform things that work like Truecrypt does, and you've tried to built an argument by stipulating that security doesn't matter. Sorry, security is all that matters here.
Mapillary Android app major update
Indeed, this argument is speaks to a fundamental incompatibility between OOP and efficient code. I wonder how to write a compiler to perform this transformation.
You are making my point for me. 330k would be the gross revenue, and 230k is what apple would have actually paid me.

230k / 4 years = 57.5k a year
330k / 4 years = 82.5k a year

Perhaps you misread my comment as I'd be paying 100k just this year, but that is total I've paid.
There are too many shiny objects and it is killing me
Does your product do any modeling, or is it basically TSP with an optimum function of visiting as many people and job hotspots in as short an amount of time as possible (with customisable boundary conditions, of course)? I'm very critical of the article's claim that this is somehow novel, but I guess it depends on how you define 'this'.
I played the original on my 486-DX2 and loved it. Countless hours I played that. I just picked up the demo of the remake (Avernum: Escape from the Pit) on my Windows tablet, and it works perfectly. It's not made for touch in any way, but the touch mostly just works. There are only a handful of situations where I wish the controls were improved, but the UI, while not modern, works just fine.

Try the remake. The demo is free.
That's the kicker for me too.

I'm often on the go, and don't do enough Photoshop work to justify lugging around a dedicated wacom. And even if I did it wouldn't have screen, let alone a gorgeous one like on the iPad!

Astropad is working great for me so far. Now time to invest in a pressure sensitive pen.
The very difficult trick is to find a virtuous feedback loop. Positive feedback loops might appear to be virtuous, but without balancing mechanisms they encourage viral dynamics (when did the virus become out role model for success?), group think and gaming.

Google's PageRank is an example of an incestuous positive feedback loop. Web pages with many inbound links get ranked higher, and pages that rank higher get more inbound links (because that's how many people find things they link to).
Please do go ahead and post a link to HN when you do.
Cool, thanks. I'll fix as soon as time permits :)
Bringing asm.js to the Chakra JavaScript engine in Windows 10
Fascinating. Thanks for the link
Edinburgh council should be ashamed of Princes Street, it's truly awful. During the whole time I lived in Edinburgh and when visiting I avoided it like the plague. I think I only visited Princes Street about four times (once to buy a mobile phone :) and the others for work and an interview). The real gem is George Street, but council seem to be doing there damnedest to make a mess of that as well.

The Royal Mile is a bloody awful tartan covered tourist trap despite having some fantastic buildings.

My favourite part of Edinburgh is Leith and the shore area. I lived just off of the bottom of Leith walk and always loved dawdling across Leith Links to work in Great Michael house.
Despite some of the snark-worthy issues raised by others, I found this to be very useful. Having a good interaction between Project (or Product) Managers and Developers is critical. Setting up QA to enable developers is very important too.
Be patient; April/May snow flurries in the TC area are fairly common.
I'm a little new to this but my understanding is that that would be the same as doing a GET request to the REST API. Which would have the same penalty for going over 30 req/s without an OAuth token.

For example, this is what my get request to the REST endpoint looks like without URL parameters:

GET reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/2w1xzo.json

Which returns the same response as appending .json to the the URL:

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/2w1xzo/e...
Yes - good point. Gravity or even collisions if this star had planets around it.
15 years ago? the ES4 stuff happened in 2009-2010. that was 5 years ago.

As for whether the failure of ES4 was Microsoft's fault, no it wasn't. It was ES4's fault. Microsoft and Douglas Crockford merely pointed out the irreconcilable mistakes in design in ES4. The last thing Javascript needed was more bungled up mistakes and weird things in it. In particular, the issues with ES4 were around the packaging system and how it combined with namespaces. Upon close examination the design, lifted straight out of actionscript, just wasn't going to work on an ASYNCHRONOUS web.

Works fine in a binary blob of flash all downloaded in one go. But when you have to download individual files separately all hell would break loose.
I actually bought Avernum: Escape from the Pit on both my iPad and on Steam. And I still haven't put more than an hour into it (on either platform).

Really, I think the biggest difference is just that I don't have as much time to play games as I did growing up, and there are exponentially more games now that demand my attention than there were back then.
I use fastmail, not free but I think it's worth it.
This looks really neat! As the post suggests, we also have been doing a lot of janky Log calls to debug our app's network code.

I am really impressed by a lot of the Facebook open source releases. Each new one makes me even sadder that you can't use them due to the crazy patent license they've started using:

https://github.com/facebook/stetho/blob/master/PATENTS

"The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice, for anyone that makes any claim (including by filing any lawsuit, assertion or
other action) alleging [...] that any right in any patent claim of Facebook is invalid or unenforceable."
There's a lot of space on the landing page, and very little of it is showing off your work.

Instead of having us click through to the more detailed screenshots, why not have those on the page?

Basically, you could consolidate all the images/content from the whole site onto the landing page, and it'd still be pretty usable. It wouldn't even require much more scrolling than it does now.
If I understand correctly, no, communism does not assume that, due to "false class consciousness". The proletariat identify themselves with the interests of the bourgeois, not with their own interest, and won't vote in favor of their own true interest. Therefore the proletariat needs saving from itself.

This simplifies to "if you don't agree with me, you're too much of an idiot to participate in the conversation". It's a profoundly anti-democratic idea. (Again, presuming that I understand it correctly.)
People involved in the TC audit project have talked to the developers. They developers do not have an ideological investment in Truecrypt. They're just developers. They built Truecrypt to scratch an itch, found that supporting it was a largely thankless task, and then watched their software get at least 80% obsoleted by modern operating systems.

They don't owe anyone on HN or anywhere else any kind of "ownership of statements" or explanation. The published some source code. They got sick of it. They've moved on. It's over.

I understand the urge people have to synthesize a soap opera narrative out of things on message boards --- that's fun, after all, and the alternative is boring. But that's all the conversation about the TC project abandonment really is: a synthesized soap opera.
As government programs I think both Hubble and the Space shuttle where significantly better than average. Realistically redundancy is the first thing that gets cut at budget time etc etc.

Still, what makes you think building a Hubble equivalent that would last 8-10 years is outside the realm of the reasonable when Hubble is expected to last 7 or 8 years after the last servicing mission.
You are doing yourself a disservice by talking about "primitives" and "call state" without naming the actual, industry-standard mechanism you have built.

This is an ACD. In the cloud. Using common terminology gives other developers a reference point in which to do more research and draw their own conclusions about the technology. Even a reference and link to Wikipedia would be good -- the ACD page is lucid [1], and I understood exactly what an ACD does after reading that. I don't get the same sense about TaskRouter from the blog post.

You have a decent explanation of an ACD mechanism, but now telecom-inexperienced developers have to try and internalize your meaning without the benefit of knowing the precise jargon, and potentially missing out on the decades of experience others have had in this field.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_call_distributor
When I have to do it manually, I usually build ports with -DBATCH=yes because I trust the defaults. The config-recursive target is a good one to know, but if I have to tweak package build settings, nowadays I'll set the appropriate OptionsNG knobs ahead of time in /etc/make.conf.

(I rarely install directly from ports, though. Instead, I use Poudriere to make my own package repository, and I have a version of make.conf set up for Poudriere that includes all of my package configuration tweaks.)
Why I Don’t Write for Medium
No, I'm saying that an article by him on a (relatively simple) programming technique is in no way more notable than tens of thousands of other articles on various programming techniques, in contrast to what is being claimed above ("articles [...] by [...] Raymond are more or less evergreen content").
This post clicked for me. I tried and failed to use it once before, read this today and it worked immediately.

Thanks!
Printed books can be uneven but they're also fairly limited in what they can present.

Your basic concept is a page full of type. I actually care a lot about footnotes or endnotes (I read a lot of nonfiction), indices, and bibliographies. Books lacking in any or all of these get strong demerits.

It's virtually impossible (and very expensive) for books to present distractions. Static black-and-white or color images are about the limit, pop-ups or fold-outs are possible, and as a novelty, perhaps an electronic gizmo pasted to a page or cover, though I cannot think of a single published book I've got which has such. Some technical books that came with CDROMs, but that's almost a completely passed phase now.

There are aspects which speak to age and printing technology -- the slightly blurred type of most pre-1950s 20th century books, and increasing sharpness of type and copy since (starting up-market). Typeface, though modern and sans-serif faces pretty much always annoy me. Large-print books for seniors. Different styles -- picture, comic, and children's books with lots of illustrations. College and high-school textbooks, increasingly almost useless with their call-outs, images, and other visual gimicks. Flashy, yes, but not all that informative.

Or look at Harry Potter and the animated magic newspapers. If I were to run into that I'd scream -- looks fun for a second on a movie screen. Rage-inducing in real life.

Your eBook suggestion is possible. It's really easy to overdo, and a little bit goes a long way. You're also limited by technology, and would likely find that you're getting noise at two levels -- the pseudo-analog noise (see LaTeX's coffee stain macro: http://hanno-rein.de/archives/349 http://texblog.org/tag/coffee-stain/), plus accumulated digital noise -- bad pixels or damaged e-ink.

Websites which use background images under text virtually always get it removed by me locally using a personal stylesheet manager.
^ edit: http://stared.github.io/tagoverflow/

Link "ate" the semicolon.
Excellent thoughts!! This is definitely the sort of problem we're trying to solve. Certificates get us part of the way there in terms of solving the authentication problem, and then we can continue to manage authorization separately.. something to think about.

btw, please feel free to become a user ;)
I don't know Colin's logic, but my personal reasoning would be:

1. If this were true then it gives a simple, efficient, deterministic method to test for primes. (You can compute P_n modulo n efficiently using matrix exponentiation.)

2. If there was such a method I am sure I would have heard of it before - and people wouldn't bother using Miller-Rabin or the complicated deterministic primality method

3. Therefore there must be a flaw...
True, but not every area has a lot of users that feel compelled to post things like that, so seeing a lot of hateful content is still a reflection of the people around you.
We assume gravity, the speed of light etc are the same everywhere. What reason have we to suppose our own stellar neighborhood is the only one to have an Oort cloud? If we assume physics is the same everywhere, then this cloud would extend throughout the galaxy.
Curacao gambling maffia robbed CIA and Dutch Secret Service data
Bitmia.com – A provably fair lottery
The coupling has nothing to do with the language and everything to do with the fact that FB grew organically into this giant monolithic mess of spaghetti. Can you do SOA in PHP? Of course. Does FB do it? Nope. Will this bite them in the long run? I believe so.
How to build a virtualized data services layer
Test: RAM usage of popular Linux server distributions
Do you have any specific examples of implementations on what you mean? I'd love to store word documents, pdfs, etc. gpg encrypted on an USB stick, without having the decrypted bytes be written to the device (Which I've previously done with TrueCrypt volumes). The concern being that I've decrypted a file, am working on it and someone pulls out the USB and leaves with it.
Rush's brain: "Wow, one of my classmates made it to Facebook? Cool." Rush's brain a moment later, "Wait, TWO of my classmates made it to Facebook?!? Oh... well then I should have applied for that internship." I'm sympathetic to the view that Rush was being sexist. But could it possibly be that Rush was just adding up the numbers and realizing that his odds weren't as bad as he realized?

"and I’ve been cornered by a stranger at night outside Stanford’s Gates Building when leaving office hours." This doesn't strike me as an indictment against Stanford or against Computer Science - just against men in general.

"Worst of all, a 50-­year-­old married, male coworker at one internship would regularly make it a point in passing to comment on how “fun” my dresses looked." I wasn't there, and again, I'm sympathetic to the idea that this could have been sexism - but I again wonder if this wasn't just a compliment. As a 40-year-old married male, I wonder if I can compliment my female co-workers on how they look. And at what frequency would it become the "worst of all" sexism that female had ever encountered?

"I noticed that management listened more to what my male counterparts had to say even though I was offering insightful feedback." I've seen this first-hand, and it's disgusting. I saw blatant sexism and racism in my college, as well.

I am sympathetic, but some of the examples cited seem questionable to me.
Google apparently shows Kosovo as a disputed region in the U.S., as well (demarcated by a dashed, rather than by a solid line). Ditto for the Crimea.
Square has the same thing for iOS:

https://github.com/square/PonyDebugger

I'm sure Facebook was inspired with PonyDebugger to create this.
From that page:

EXTENSIONS

... Further terms beyond those shown here have been
computed by cdw10(AT)cix.compulink.co.uk (C Wright)

I should contact Neil and get him to change that email address.
source in Dutch: http://politiek.thepostonline.nl/2015/02/18/geheime-document...
And even under plain-Jane Unix, you can name a device file whatever you want.
Inflation Definition
http://www.markus-gattol.name/ws/dm-crypt_luks.html

"The term "full-disk/on-disk encryption" is often used to signify that everything on a disk is encrypted, including the programs that can encrypt bootable operating system partitions."

Are you going to tell Markus Gattol he's wrong? No? Good, let's move on.

What matters here is the security, and the adoption rate of TrueCrypt is/was through the roof, because of how it allowed folks to move encrypted volumes across various platforms without much hassle.

What you wrote seems to intimate there's no actual need or value in moving encrypted volumes across platforms, and that if folks actually want to do that they should just encrypt individually and at a FS level and do so using PGP, which has existed for years, and whose adoption rate and ease-of-use are both, compared to TrueCrypt, through the floor.

The fact is, people want to move encrypted volumes across platforms. It's not more secure than anything else, but it presents a workflow that might actually be more secure, due simply to it's ease of implementation.

You're right, security is all that matters here, and folks aren't going to be secure if it remains impossibly difficult to be secure.
Okay so i've done some research and it looks like it's because they have a patent on the detection of exit intent? http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20140222502
Well you have two options, pay for email, or use gmail for free in exchange for allowing this.

I'm all for privacy, but sometimes you guys go way overboard and complain and act entitled like Google is obligated to offer Gmail free of charge with nothing in return.
Thank you explaining! I understand it better now. This comment would make a great doc entry.

It looks like ActorRef is equivalent to Erlang's process ID's (PIDs). As there a message is sent to an actor's PID.

Props sound very powerful. I like the idea. With Erlang one can do it but with extra work. With live code-reloading and access to the module loader.

Do Actor hierarchies imply a global registration mechanism. If it does, wondering what kind of consistency/availability trade-offs it makes. Erlang's clusters do not handle network partitions too well sometimes and there are few custom registration/leader-election libraries for it. (locks, gproc, pg2)
What does “asm.js optimizations” mean?
How about the lost art of COBOL record packing where COBOL records are like a combination of C's union and structs. It was great you could sometimes squeeze a few extra bits out in one case to use better in another case.
If you're serious about protecting PDFs and stuff, encrypt them with PGP. It's much more annoying than using FDE systems like Truecrypt, but much more secure.

If you're not so serious that you're willing to manually encrypt and decrypt files (or ZIP archives of files), just use your OS's full disk encryption scheme. On a Mac, for instance, you can create virtual disks with AES-XTS and keys derived from passwords; that's built into the OS.

What people really want is some kind of transparent encrypted filesystem. That's a reasonable thing to want, and it would be more secure than Truecrypt. I don't know of a good one.
Snapchat eyes $19B valuation
In that video you'll see Matt Cutts from Google's Web Spam team explaining how they've declared indexing a url on google, and crawling a url's content, are apparently separate things so your express wishes can be overridden by any third party linking to your content, resulting in the URL being on google search and in results with inferred content instead of spidered content.

I think this is a problem, but this is not the entirety of the right to be forgotten problem, which just makes what you proposed more efficient because people only have to contact one company with an official procedure.
Hey guys, Felix here - happy to answer any questions!
Maps please! I want to look on Google Earth and see some of these hundreds of settlements!
Hah!

Only when the difference in performance is end-user discernible. I do make sure the code is well crafted in those bounds though. There's no _valid_ excuse for crafting ugly code.

Coincidently my stuffed toy that I have kept throughout my childhood was named "Mel the Pal." I just noticed the irony of that. :)
>"Look me in the eye when you fire me, see if you can stare me down" is really just machismo bloviation, as far as I can tell.

Not to me. To me it's a question of respect. To do it by email even over the phone sends the message you didn't think he was worth enough, as a person, to waste any time on.
Actually, there is a polynomial algorithm for testing primality, the AKS primality test.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test

In essence, my reasoning was simply that primes don't behave like this. Any connection with addition-type stuff is spurious and doesn't go on forever.

Mind you, when I'd searched up to 10^5 and still hadn't found a counter-example I was starting to doubt my intuition. The first counter-example is when the sequence predicts that 521^2 is prime.

In fact, if p is prime then p divides k(p). I find that non-obvious, but do follow and believe the proof. Even so, I don't know it well enough to feel enlightened by it.

The work continues.
The reference you just provided, with your "are you going to tell Markus Gattol he's wrong" quip, starts out as follows:

Block-layer encryption, also known as "whole disk encryption", "on-disk encryption" or "full-disk encryption"

I think you're just trolling. Sorry, I didn't even finish reading your comment.

Amusingly (edit: given how you cited it), there is in fact cryptographic stuff wrong in that article.
Confidence Games: Why People Don’t Trust Machines to Be Right
First rule of networked application security is "Don't trust your inputs."

It's relatively easy to deceive an app about it's location; easier if it's running in an emulator environment. And that works just as well for iOS as it does for Android.
The best would really be some links to some pages which transform especially well, eg:

https://www.oracle.com/applications/enterprise-resource-plan...

http://discover.sap.com/S4HANA

Glad to see there are PRs in for leverage, platform, etc.
It should be pretty easy to look at the approach I took and mimic it for other providers. I write Open Source code for Microsoft, so we made it work with Azure first - but the code should be clean enough for someone else to pick it up and work in other stacks.

I should probably also mention that the engine running Azure Websites is open source itself (https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu), so you could just point it to your own engine.
All the reddit subreddit recommenders I've seen produce garbage recommendations. Outside of a handful of popular, general subreddits which everyone already knows about, everything is niche special interest stuff that you need to find on your own.
Proposal for a database-less, general purpose, name-based file management app
Freakin' A - I love this.
It actually writes like an actual human! Love it.
Yeah I don't know! :D I guess I was talking about graph processing in general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betweenness_centrality