skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an ad hominem. Rather than debating the merits of his suggestion, you're attacking his person.

Furthermore, it's not unreasonable for people living in one country to have opinions on the policies of others, especially when it's something like taking in refugees which has strong influences on a global scale.
Rats are, in some ways, very different from humans too. But if it's impossible to run human trials, or there are severe deficiencies in the way we are able to execute them, studying rats is still the best argument.

If there is a convincing empirical economic study that widely contradicts a theoretical consensus---yes, that evidence should be preferred. But that is not often the case, and otherwise the theoretical argument is simply the best argument there is.

What drives me bonkers, though, is the people who dismiss the math and its conclusions as being 'meaningless', but then what they substitute is not superior empirical arguments of their own, but their own emotional sentiments and undisciplined intuitions (typically decorated by cherry-picked historical observations).
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It would be nice to write another plugin for something else like Python or C++. For example in the UML diagram I saw something called "JavadocComment" which immediately puts me off writing a plugin because it looks like I would have to follow this even for a non-Java language.
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They make a comparison in their Docs.
http://docs.telepat.io/#comparison
Thanks for sharing. Following the comments on youtube and the wikipedia page [1] I found this scientific analysis [2] about probable causes of the accident. My layman summary: rising pressure of respired gas at high depth (about 26 atmospheres at the bottom) increases the respiratory resistance both in the diver (lungs, larynx) and the diving equipment. There is a limit to exhaled volume flow-rate called "effort independent flow" where compression of air-ways due to exhalation keeps air-flow from increasing further. This limit lies at lower flow-rates when breathing high-pressure gas. Physical exertion causes increased CO2 production by the diver which needs to be matched by correspondingly increased air-flow for CO2 removal.
Once point of effort-independence is reached, lots of respiratory effort is wasted, contributing to further CO2 production. This causes a downward spiral of increased CO2 accumulation in the diver that could only be broken by switching to alternative breathing equipment that reduces respiratory effort (i.e. open-circuit gear).

Seems that close-circuit diving equipment is generally more risky to use [3] due to difficult to detect and non-correctible failure modes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shaw_%28diver%29

[2] http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asma/asem/2007/0000007...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebreather_diving#Risk
Hoping the GC kicks in rarely is not a great strategy. Usually when I see something like this the developers have gone out of their way to write garbage-free code (see Coral Blocks for an example of this.)
This appears to be an irritating trend. Look at the gedit redesign on GNOME3 and see how the removal of all buttons and features is heralded as a GOOD thing?!?!?!

I understand the "let's not confuse the user" approach but simplifying everything down to have zero features reduces the computer to a useless tool, as all the features have gone. It's like a Swiss army knife where they decided that all the blades and options were too fiddly and confusing so they just give you a spork instead.
Is this aimed mainly at beginners? I would be interested in brushing up on my Java, and would like to skip over the basic stuff like variables and conditional statements and stuff like that.

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"However, we want to encourage you also to welcome irregular refugees."

I know that in some countries this would be illegal, not sure about Germany though TBH.

Edit: No sure why this got downvoted, especially considering the response by mtrn.
Php-cs-fixer is another example. It does some ridiculous changes though, such as change $i++ to ++$i.
This is rather intentional ;)

I love to play videogames. I don't play with my retirement or money that I need to live. I have always found hard work more satisfying than gambling.
His letters to shareholders are real gems: http://amzn.to/1UrANYO

Took me a month or 2 to read them all.
Due to Intels integration of design and fab they've been in a good position to make tradeoffs regarding design rules. Intel has been first to a new node pretty consistently and they've generally had better drive currents at a given node than their competitors. But I'd be willing to bet all this causes lots of extra work for their design teams who, given how much money Intel can throw at the problem, are large and very skilled.
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It's good to know there are people like Brad Smith standing up to government demands for full access to people's data. It brings up an interesting privacy contradiction. While storing data locally seems best for privacy, if it's on a networked computer, there are still ways for people to get it, and unless you have really good lawyers, nobody is going to challenge governments across the world if they want to access it. By moving data to the cloud, we are creating incentives for companies like Microsoft to fight against government intrusion.
gcc vs. clang is probably a special case. Code compiled with gcc doesn't become GPL, which is part of why it is so popular.
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"Biased" in the sense of correlation, yes.
Thanks! We'd definitely love to see more people get "fluent" in Java.
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The section about Diablo 3 reminds me of the article that was posted here some time ago actually, about a guy who made a very,very decent living off the auction house. He basically waited for people to post legendaries for sale in the gold auction house, when they clearly wanted to sell them on the dollar auction house - so items going for 5 gold instead of 5 dollars(5 gold is absolutely nothing in diablo), and he would re sell them for actual dollars. He was making like $200 a day, which in his country(Romania? Slovenia?) was huge.
I went to college at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Our online Student Information System (SIS) was one of the very rare online services with operating hours. It wasn't available at night (and possibly on weekends too, but I graduated eight years ago, so my memory is fuzzy).

At one point, I started asking around, and I found out that it was because SIS ran on an old mainframe that couldn't read and write the disk at the same time. During operating hours, it reads the disk and makes all changes in memory. When operating hours are over, it writes all its changes to disk.

This was in 2003-2007 and they still had that mainframe controlling all their class schedules and student data. UTD was considered the biggest tech-oriented university in the southwest, too.
Is the submit not supposed to work on iOS? Kind of a let down to spend 10 minutes filling it out, then the submit button doesn't do anything.
I imagine it's so they doesn't impact future entries.
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A Woman in Uniform
I would never, without quotes! (ie: Type "five random words")
Sadly not a new concept. The UK has been on the slide for a hell of a while.

Genesis from 1973: Selling England by the Pound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rn9tzirks4
cromulent

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cromulent
Mokusatsu: One Word, Two Lessons (1968) [pdf]
Love the idea of students working on these projects. How do you make sure what students build actually gets used in the real world? My assumption is that a lot of this work sounds great but rarely gets used by the target audience.

Looking forward to seeing the videos!
I tried to download the RPi image, but; how can I trust 10+ GB worth of software not to have some kind of flaw?
Part of my job is contingency planning...

The obvious thought is how nice and kind this all is, but what if after the 2 week honeymoon period you want the person to move out? It can happen with friends when someone needs to crash for a few weeks/month or so and people get tired of not living their normal lives, so why not with a stranger? If that person has literally nowhere else to go and no money, are you really going to kick them out on the street?

If you ever let out a property or room in a property without a contract you're up the creek if you ever want to make them leave. But of course, people don't think about that at the start... So in that case, good luck getting them out.
Thanks for your suggestion, we've just updated the link :)
If you're trying to say that the site's concept humiliates refugees, please be more specific as I don't see where it does that. If you're just trying to be funny, try harder, or better yet, just leave it alone.
But then you can't leverage customer data to sell to advertisers. The problem is, you are the product for most internet companies.

Think of a Cow in a barn. The food/water/shelter is free, because you are what's to be sold.
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It's like the UK is winning the competitions for "the easiest place to launder money" and "place with most regressive land rights"
The fact that skin color is used to represent refugees is a disappointment. Otherwise, it would be a great idea.
It's probably using middle-out.
The priority inbox thankfully can be turned off. It was trying to solve a problem that didn't exist - the ability to sort messages. The tagging of incoming mail with tags sorted that problem, and search made finding mail a moot point too.

I disabled priority inbox on browser and mobile devices and it's very usable again, so thanks to whoever kept that as an option.
Latest occulus + UE4 I think. Apparently the people actually in charge of the restaurant style and design at that chain like it very much, but obviously I can only take my friend's word for it.
Any decent library (of any sort) should already be providing hooks for its memory allocation. This isn't necessarily provided as a security feature, and it's common for your callbacks not to get much in the way of information about what's going on, but it will allow you to at least crudely put a cap on the library's memory usage.
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I'm glad you asked:

http://www.amazon.com/Progress-Poverty-Industrial-Depression...

Progress and Poverty, by Henry George

> This classic work is an enquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and the persistence of poverty amid advancing wealth. Published in 1879, it was admired and advocated by great minds such as Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Leo Tolstoy and Sun Yat-sen in China. Henry George lived through a period of American history which witnessed the closing of the frontier, and he noticed the dramatic deterioration in the condition of labour once that happened.

Read it, it's great.
Isn't this technology owned by Intellectual Ventures - the patent troll run by Nathan Myhrvold?

Doesn't it seem more likely they developed and patented this and are waiting for someone else to infringe on their patent, rather than them ever actually creating a product?

This is a perfect example of how broken our patent system is. We have a technology that absolutely has demand, but it will never be produced because it's more profitable to abuse our patent system in the courts than it is to actually manufacture and sell a product.
That's called using opaque pointers. It's pretty much what you do in C.

???

The empty interface is effectively dynamic typing, relying on runtime introspection. It does not hide any struct members (unless you make them private), you can simply enumerate them.

Opaque pointers in C provide a way to enforce static typing without exposing struct members and are effectively a method for information hiding.

So, I am wondering why you said that.

My other pet peeve is that a method with a non-pointer receiver that tries to modify the receiver object will silently drop those modifications on the ground, because the object is copied.

I agree. In fact, it is seldom that I actually want the non-pointer variant. If I don't modify the object, just give me a const modifier so that I can indicate that.

(Or reasoned from outside Go: the receiver should IMO always be passed by reference.)
Kinda wish you had waited until after the results were published to mention it. Plenty of people will read the comments first, so by talking about it now you're actively harming the very experiment you're so impressed by.
Experiments are pretty damn crucial to the entire scientific process, right? What if you couldn't do controlled experiments? That's where economics is right now. Until we either get enough data or economists can run actual experiments (ie those that don't just rely on fabricated mathematical models) I don't think we'll have real rigor in economics.

In the meantime, we still have to do our best. People still want ways to predict the future which suffer less from human interference (which is ideally what a mathematical model will let you do). That's still better than just asking people what they think (in some ways).

A lot of simplifying assumptions have to be made to say anything useful about a system which includes billions of intelligent actors trading trillions of dollars. There's obviously room for improvement, and I think that'll happen once people are given the proper tools to make it happen.
Some are more equal than others. ;)
All I can see is your name and email address.

I've refunded your penny :-)
This is a really funny comment!
On Linux Intel has been doing pretty well making high performance (meaning as good as Windows) open source drivers for their integrated graphics which makes the GT4 sort of appealing to me.
Not yet - unless you do it client-side. We're working on having a proper implementation for this use case.
In that space, I wanted to say PI, but unfortunately they only allow ints...
According to a comment[1] I read, it's being worked on but jemalloc 3 still isn't enabled by default. I guess it could improve performance for some things, but I think less fragmentation would be the only major win for overall footprint.

[1] http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/programming-co...
Hum, interesting. I guess I always thought it was his because he actually developed very similar ideas in his essay "In Praise of Idleness"[1].

[1] http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
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Are you suggesting that Vim-lovers and Emacs afficianados are actually very similar? Perish the thought!
They live on this planet therefore they have to deal with the consequences of "US refugee policy"
:) what types of tasks interest you the most?

Most common: blog posts, proofreading, social media graphics, banner ads, and lead gen
Thanks for the feedback. Do you mind elaborating? I've been thinking that maybe $199 / month would be a better price point, but with more included.

What would you expect to receive at a $1000 / month price point?
Sad but true!

Here, the sad response to slow web page load times on mobile is normally "just get a modern internet connection!" or "use 4G" etc. but if we had desktop apps that took forever to load, you'd hear complaints pretty soon. A response of "get a faster computer" isn't accepted there, and accepting all this boatload of javascript isn't good either.

I can't remember the link but the average page size has been skyrocketing the past few years, which I think is sad. All that network traffic, electricity usage and CPU processing just for the same jQuery code to be flung across the Internet a billion times.
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@jeffmould What you describe is absolutely true and no myth at all. There are several reasons for that.

1. Price differences may occur because all Online Travel Agencies (OTA) mostly provide cached data to the user as requesting live prices can be super expensive. Differences in the age of the cache cause the difference

2. Some OTAs have so called negotiated fares with the airlines and sometimes can offer different prices

But, when we as metasearch request prices from the OTAs, we always do that from the same IP with cookies
This is from over 20 some interviews. Most of them were in the last year. Some were from when I just finished school.
That's an excellent point. We intentionally partnered with organizations who are in the field and releasing products. Be it Delhi Government or Google, They all have a lot of experience of releasing these products. Students in the class will help our project partners in the technical aspect of the project instead of designing completely new projects (which would take a lot more time and research). Students will also be meeting the partners every week to discuss their progress.

You are absolutely right when you say that a lot of this work rarely gets used by the target audience. We are hoping to change that :)
Are you planning on creating a sophisticated web solution for your startup?
What is the point of reducing everything to nothing, or to the same thing? I mean I get it, technically it's valid, but it's very boring, there's nothing then to talk about. We are humans and we do have subjective experiences and classify things into different groups, and trying to understand the relationships and differences between groups gives us interesting things to think and talk about.

But hey, if a rock and a computer are the same thing, and computation is meaningless, words are meaningless, etc - why have you bothered to say anything at all?
Exploiting CVE-2015-2426, and How I Ported It to a Recent Windows 8.1 64-bit
Kinda pointless, the whole thing - though I bet some statistician is going to publish some deep-insight paper from this data :D
Eliminating certain sites and eliminating the internet is basically the same thing for me. As a programmer, I'm always on the internet researching problems and solutions. I don't count that because it's not an instant fix, it's the work I put into getting the fix, which is solving my problem and seeing my program work.

I'm tempted to start consuming the internet solely through my kindle (again, just the instant fix sites: hn, reddit, facebook). It would slow my consumption way down and I'd only be able to use it when I'm not working. But, I need to find a way to stick to that and not also read HN and Reddit while I'm at the work computer. The only tried and true solution I've found for that is to get an accountability buddy. I tried to do that once in person with co-workers (I offered to give them $20 if they can catch me consuming caffeine), but in the end they were uncomfortable taking my money. The next step is researching those accountability buddy startups, where you give money to an organization you hate if you fail.
True, but how much better than the index do you have to do - and at what risk?

If you have 500k to invest, and your goal is to do 1% better than the index funds.. this is easy to compute. You want to make 5k "extra" with your stock market playing. If you consult for $100 an hour, then you need to be able to do this 1% win in <= 50 hours a year (about 1 hour a week).

So you could do this for a year, measure, and see "Yes, I spent 50 hours and I made 5k extra over the S&P 500, so my time paid for itself".

However- did you account for increased risk? Very very likely you got the extra gains by extra risk (say, invest in 10 stocks you think are hot instead of the 500 of an index fund). So some years you will win, some years you will lose. How do you even calculate how more much risk your pick has over an index fund? Wall Street has a way to calculate this risk, I am not sure the average day trader does. How good is a strategy where 80% of the time you gain 1% over an index, but 20% of the time you lose 50% more than the index? (It looks really good while it works, until it doesn't!)

Ultimately, many people who trade for fun are gambling - not much different from picking horse races or football game results.
More and more sites and apps include user uploaded videos, which raise new challenges for web and mobile developers.
This article describes how to transcode, convert, resize, crop and manipulate videos to best match the graphic design of your application on any device, browser and resolution. All video processing takes place in the cloud.
No one is preventing anyone from expressing their opinion. Just expect people to call you an ahole for expressing it. Or in other words: deal with reality and stop pretending you're exempt from criticism (noticed that I was free to post my opinion on here and you were free to criticize it without getting hurt, right? My feelings and body are intact and I hope yours are too.).
Because people end up having to spend all their labour derived income on economic rent extraction by a financial elite.
I'd love to run a contest, but I'm pretty sure it'd be illegal.

Picture leaving the Amulet of Yendor somewhere hidden in a new WoW shard.

First player to pick it up wins $10,000.

$0.25 to play the contest - PER LIFE. PVP. MASS HYSTERIA.
How much does a website cost in 2015?
Why would anyone want to? Germany desperately needs immigration to keep up the economy and welfare system and overall immigrants pay more to Germany than they get out of it.
I'm using Firefox on Windows and it doesn't seem to do anything either.
Ed, man! !man ed
For C/C++/ObjC developers, `clang-format` is already a must. I have `git clang-format` as a pre-commit hook.
I am indeed following these subreddits, although I've not yet tried submitting BugMuncher. I don't spend anywhere near as much time on Reddit as I do on Hacker News, do you have any tips for submitting BugMuncher?
From what I can gather, Skylake really only has one major use case -> affordable HTPC.
According to § 96 AufenthG it is illegal to aid people, who have no permit of residence and whose application for asylum has been denied. However, this is not as clear as it sounds, since emergency relief and humanitarian support is encouraged in general.

However, as I read § 96 (I am no lawyer), it is slightly biased toward trafficking and the commercial aspect of the facilitation of illegal entry.
Or the cyber security company LookingGlass[1]

[1] https://lgscout.com/
It "amazes" me why these "refugees" flock to Germany or Great Britain and not to their very wealthy brethren in countries such as Kuwaii, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Arab Emirates, etc... Same culture, same religion and they are much closer!

It also amazes me why the EU leaders insist for other European countries to accept these "refugees" when the majority of EU countries is not responsible for this situation at all.

Luckily there are some leaders out there that are not afraid of this stupid political correctness and they build fences on their borders because they know what this might lead to.
Curious to hear if this is actually a significant stat. It seems simple to run a app company with only 3-4 technology person if you have a scalable technical structure.

With a customer facing transaction based service like Uber this would be hard. But pocket is pretty straightforward.
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Exactly - the UK is the home of financial fraud. Many of the problems of tax evasion stem from their tax havens set up around the world.

The City is a cancer that is feeding on the entire world. The City needs exorcising from the UK. And like all parasites it would not survive without protection for long.
pyvim (https://github.com/jonathanslenders/pyvim) is also a pretty slick vim clone in python that uses the python prompt toolkit (https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit)
You can totally skip over the basic chapters and polish up your knowledge about OOP concepts and the like. Also, we'll keep adding more advanced stuff!