skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a decade older. I've been into computers since I was probably 12 (Burroughs mainframe). I know what Snapchat is for, but I'm happily married and am happy to stay that way, so I don't much care. It's not that we're unaware, it's that the current crop of entrepreneurs are unaware of the market we represent.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/01/49888...
This is the only challenge I have with it as well, otherwise it's a fantastic experience.
Can someone please point to some credible source with a clear explanation how of how you're supposed to license F/OSS for profit?

I can't figure it out.
"a space he envisions as a dorm for Millennials" - he's pretty much over the line from the start if that's an accurate representation of his goals.
It feels exactly like a throwback to the days of entirely flash-based websites. Not entirely sure how I feel about that.
Wow, I used to think of this when playing pool as well, but at some point I internalized it and completely forgot where I learned it. Well, not forgot, but he memory became disassociated from the action, until you reminded me.
I have a similar issue on my Nexus 6 in portrait mode.
I doubt she read all 100 novels; skimmed or read Cliff's Notes, perhaps.

Among other things, she completely ignores important female characters that are nonhuman sentient species (I know there were in "Out of the Silent Planet", for example). This reflects her speciest prejudice.
I doubt she read all 100 novels; skimmed or read Cliff's Notes, perhaps.

Among other things, she completely ignores important femals characters that are nonhuman sentient species (I know there were in "Out of the Silent Planet", for example). This reflects her speciest prejudice.
I wanted this to become something much more. I think their sights are too low in terms of the ability of their product.

For example, I would turn this into a deliver anything platform that would eventually be integrated with stores/restaurants...etc. Instantaneous shipping. A mix between Peapod (for those who haven't used peapod its a grocery delivery service), and Homejoy except with delivery drivers.

There's many more routes they could take, oh and the employee/marketing associate discrepancy is a little messed up.
Or should I say, there is no greater burden to what NULL means for a specific column than any other value. You didn't answer my questions, I'm disappointed but not surprised. Since you can't simply provide a valid value for when one doesn't make sense -- you need NULL for those cases, it's unavoidable.
Also keep in mind that Elon Musk is trying this, but as a bastardization of its potential. What do I mean by this? The shortest distance between two points is a straight line (currently). Look at a map. The cities that were cultivated where they are geographically located are influenced by (Water + Politics + Monetary incentives to build roads closer to smaller cities to draw business (corruption) ) So if this hyperloop does pick up, it will be a horrible expenditure of resources.
How long do you have to be on the site or how much karma do you need in order to downvote?
Do you know a free way to transfer cash from aus bank to nz bank?

I want to buy from www.lastseason.co.nz without getting stung.
WebGL 2D Light Transport
What is Reputation?
"actual female"
"SJW"

redditcombinator.com
Well, lets talk about people who are not like that, but people who think drone strikes are might be okay in certain circumstances. My point is that those are the same people who say that torture is not okay under any circumstance. That is the inconsistency I'm pointing out.
The biggest problem is the very small market. Tech needs a big market to support it due to the sheer expense of it. Aus + NZ is only 25 million people - the nearest masses of humanity are a full workday's flight away. Compare to the US, Europe, or south / east Asia itself.
Nothing too serious ... mostly to glue embedded machine vision system components together in a simulation environment.
The Government Uses Zero Days for “Offense”
NSA Ordered to Stop Collecting, Querying Plaintiffs' Phone Records
Is that a bad thing? Why the but?
> have never had to havea filling or root canal

> they said I am developing a cavity inside one of my upper treth, and should get it treated.

So, in fact, you DO have to have a filling, you've just declined to have it. And if you keep on that path, you'll probably end up needing a root canal (far higher cost, much more annoying procedure, far higher chance of eventual failure) as well.

I'm 30, and had never previously needed fillings, but was recently told by the dentist I needed a few. So I got them. Just because you didn't have much tooth decay until now doesn't mean you're immune; you really should get it treated.
With the adoption of wasm, won't the web become inherently less hackable? Right now i can pretty-print some minified js and at least have a basic idea of what APIs are getting called. Difficult to see how one could do the same with wasm. Not saying wasm is a bad idea (i think it's good), I'm just concerned about what this will look like in terms of keeping the nuts and bolts of the web semi-readable.
same article already posted earlier today:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10531764
On a Lumia 920 right now, and it looks fine to me.
Due to the nature of such surveillance - there is little oversight over what is actually being done. Which means there is no promise anything is being done. As a citizen, is there any way for me to know for certain or must I have faith my government is working how it claims to work? I'll explain...

[Begin conspiracy theory]If a judge marks it unconstitutional or not or forbids them from doing it doesn't necessarily mean that the NSA stops. That only works if you have faith in your government.

A government set to maintain its own power, after being outed by a whistleblower, would seek to save face. Have judges "ban acts of surveillance" and distribute that knowledge to the general public while secretly maintaining the actions behind the curtains. With a smaller, more loyal/contained group to prevent future whistleblowers. [/End conspiracy theory]

If it is found that the NSA continued to keep/records phone records after being "forbidden from doing so" - who would be held responsible? Would it be the head of the NSA? Head of the specific surveillance department in charge of the program? How would they be "punished"? How would the government insure it doesn't happen again? Who provides oversight of the NSA, outside of the NSA?
Except for the availability issues over the past few months that would happen almost every other day. Moved my team to Github and poof, issues gone.
Statements are not violent, even if they have harmful effects.
Simplifying Login with Swift Enums
Time signature changes. And probably different phrase lengths.

It sounds to me like each part has its own separate timing grid, and - apart from the backbeat - none of them are predictably regular.

Fascinating article - really, really interesting.
Whooooooo! Thank you dang and team. I have been very critical of the site's mobile unfriendliness in the past. Now I can use this as an example of a small change that makes a big difference. Certainly better late than never. You have probably saved me thousands over the lifetime in new glasses and contacts.
Increasing inequality sucks the wealth into the top. At first, most citizens in developed countries benefits from rising inequality as the wealth from poorer countries are channeled into the country. As inequality rises, the bottom levels start to lose wealth to the upper levels. As it rises past your neighbourhood, you'll see your neighbourhood getting poorer, while the countries' richest get richer and richer. That's why there's more global wealth than at any point, still growing, but it looks like everyone is getting poorer, because almost everyone is. Not saying that's good or bad, maybe it's even necessary in our society for inequality to continue to rise and then collapse. Many communist experiments have already been tried.

EDIT: All conjecture.
A way to collapse replies would also be appreciated. Sometimes I just want to read the top-level comments and scrolling through dozens of replies to find the next topic of discussion can be frustrating.
This is a super sad story
Does anyone know if TensorFlow can apply algebraic simplifications and numerical optimisations to the compute graph, in the way that Theano does with its optimisations?

Sounds like it doesn't suffer from the (alleged) slow compile times of Theano, but I wonder if the flipside of that is that you have to implement larger-scale custom Ops (like torch's layers) in order to ensure that a composite compute graph is implemented optimally?
Support and additional services.

For example, WordPress.com does pretty well, despite the codebase being GPLed. Same for RedHat - they're quite successful despite all their packages being available via CentOS, because of paid support subscriptions, certifications, etc.
It has been suggested many time before to move the up and down arrows apart on mobile - something like

^ —- greatposter —- v

The one good that come from the current system is it helps you avoid taking a down vote personally since it could always be a fat-fingered up vote.
Maybe a bit off-topic, but I have a relatively close example of what you are talking about.

An older friend of mine got together with his childhood friends and built a retirement home, they essentially built a small building with small, private apartments (1 bedroom, bathroom, kitchenette and small living room), common areas and so on...

Now that they are all retiring (this friend of mine retired 3 years ago), they are all going there, each couple having their small apartment but being able to socialize whenever they want. Plus, they even have a kitchen service, cleaners, etc, etc because the shared cost is way less of what they would pay to have it at home or what they'd pay in a normal retirement home.

Been thinking that I wouldn't mind doing something like that...
Machiavellian. You are also overlooking pump and dump Twitter accounts which sway stock by micro-increments, this tactic becoming more of an art than a science these days (Twitter clamped down on those accounts in recent years). Also see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/11/twitter-hoax_n_2850...
Coding bootcamps are replacing computer science degrees
About 500 karma to be able to downvote comment, I believe (you can't down vote submission).
What the hell?

Frankly, I would consider foregoing anesthesia if they wanted to hack one of me members with a kitchen knife. But would never, ever, opt out of anesthesia for dental work.

Those tooth nerves seem to have realtime priority or something. These things HURT, and I haven't even done anything other than wisdom teeth extraction and normal cavity drilling. I cannot imagine a root canal therapy done without at least local anesthesia.
I think he is forgetting that the barcode is generated and exits not in a silo but with knowledge of a controller. I would be amazed if the system did not both track the barcode creation and exit events and trigger protocols on any outside system event.

Print out your card at home, park at lot, scan to checkout, your barcode is in one of three states: 1: Not valid because it has not been issued by the controller, 2: Valid and first use (you left before the other car on the lot with the duplicated barcode has exited), 3: Invalid because it has already been used on exit (the duplicate barcode has already left the lot).

In what scenario given an active controller that is not braindead would this give you any kind of advantage? You are more likely than not going to be in a situation where you trigger an alarm on exit.
Those are both actually really awesome.
What's wrong with it is that it's cherry-picking.

"Easy to handle" means you don't have to manually interpret the values every time you deal with them. That's the default! That's the hardest a thing gets to handle...

You're talking about an innately fragile process. This algorithm is not general, and it's not generalizable, and thus it represents an upper limit on the effectiveness of our ability to write good software.

You've got a method for solving multiple problems here; you gave me one example. Now give me an implementation of that algorithm, and you'll find it doesn't bother to employ nulls at all. You're just mapping other concepts onto null because that's how you imagine a database to work. You're familiar with a hammer, so you're employing nails all the time.

>Conversely, in reliable sources, missing email address means either that there is none, or that it shouldn't be used. In those cases, it would be appropriate to leave the column empty, or use "NONE", or even "nobody@dev.null".

A properly normalized database would put emails in another table and reference them using a key. You'll have no empty columns. You'll know there is no email because there is no value, not because there's a NULL value. If you want to send emails, you do a join on these two tables and get a list of people who have emails. This is the proper way to model such a domain.

In the mean time, you'll just have a fragile model. Then you'll use that fragile model to make fragile decisions, and your database will be completely useless in 40 years.

(Granted, your DB implementation might combine these tables as an optimization, but then the optimizer has a clean notion of what NULL means across your entire schema, and you shouldn't be exposed to it at all.)
iPhone 6 in portrait, same issue. Almost impossible to tell them apart without paying incredibly close attention.
I think most scientific apps written in Python rely on native non-pure-python (written in C, Fortran etc...) modules which I'd expect to not work in this context.
I like that concept.
Small markets can be good while you are starting out as it allows you to make sure you are able to achieve high penetrance at relatively low cost. In a large market you don’t really know how broad an appeal your product has until quite late in the process.
This library seems to provide most of the functionality: https://github.com/STRML/react-grid-layout
Except Mom.
But what about companies like highcharts?

Just answered my own question:
http://shop.highsoft.com/highcharts.html
China smog reaches 50 times WHO recommendations
Why the hell does it cost $1500? 23andMe does their test for $199.
The way Airbnb reinvented travel, CottageClass will transform education
> Cooking releases toxic cancer-causing chemicals

> Pyrolysis breaks down organic compounds

> Heat shortens molecules

> Reporters don't understand chemistry
Yep. Creative Commons isn't FOSS.
Yeah, the fact you have to audition for an overpriced room is kind of offputting, too.
A Facebook user is a bit easier to define than a Google user.
Be happy you never had to work with Lotus Notes. Only if you have mastered it you may complain about anything else ;)
So like a canvas element then?
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I agree regarding the commune-like situation, though I think I'd prefer a shared small hamlet rather than shared chores. I remember Plato said that best friends should live together, or something along those lines.
Mass. officials prepare legal push in support of self-driving cars
Well, for wikis it's obviously MediaWiki, and Bugzilla for JIRA.

Only thing that I don't know of free software replacement is the Agile Development tooling that JIRA provides. But tbh, "agile development" is a hellhole of buzzwords, expensive consultants and ridiculous bullshit rules anyway.
I guess the argument boils down to "path dependence". We're highly unlikely to get any language environment other than Javascript, so mutate Javascript to try and strong-arm it into something better.
Given any abstraction on a turing machine you will find it is easy to have memory leaks.
I think the idea of a shadow account is that you build the information on the person (from disparate data points, like phone contacts) and their connections. Then when they sign up they are presented with a list of people that have them in their contacts. From a UX perspective it can be nice but I can definitely see the privacy concerns.
My main point here was the tone of Friesendorf's article and his ridiculous glorifying of Erika Christakis' email which starts off 'I don't wish to trivialize' and then proceeeds to (foreshadowing) actually trivialize the issue by reducing concerns about college students in blackface to 6 year olds wanting to dress up like Mulan.

For the larger issue of whether her husband or she or both should resign/be fired or not that's a more complicated issue and I don't see much of a serious conversation in the comments here. For people who's job description includes being "responsible for the physical well being and safety of students" to be this tone deaf on race[1], resignation strikes me as a legitimate demand.

[1] "Nicholas says, if you don’t like a costume someone is wearing, look away, or tell them you are offended." The less said about 'look away' as a policy, the better. As far as 'telling people what is offensive', correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that exactly what was happening in the first place when they sent out an email that essentially said 'maybe don't be an asshole this Halloween'?
doesn't work for civil engineers a consulting engineer may design a bridge - but the building is handed over to the contractors
This seems really similar to Brain Simulator: http://www.goodai.com/#!brain-simulator/c81c
I'd like to second this one. Sometimes the top comment ends up being one of those that spawns a gigantic and completely unproductive conversation, and it would be nice to be able to move past it easily.
Indexing and Data Set Degeneracy (2009)
I just finished writing Python Crash Course, which is coming out this month from No Starch Press. I'm looking forward to hearing what people think once it's out.

http://nostarchpress.com/pythoncrashcourse
The provided link is wrong anyway.
The way they treat depression is still very low tech. They make it sound modern, but electroshock therapy still has the the highest rates of remission. I'm a nobody, so listen to your psychiatrist though.

I do agree they have a long way to go in dentistry. A year ago, I was browsing a scientific grant site. They still don't know why fluoride ions seem to protect teeth.

As to keeping your teeth as long as possible, I'm an old dude who's missing one tooth. It could be genetics, or luck, but here's my regimen. Brush with a electric tooth brush(the original one, that one that vibrates. Get in the habit of using tooth picks. I'm a former smoker, so the habit came easily. (Don't throw the tooth picks on the ground. Birds can swallow them, and other trash concerns. I won't mention a company. They are all the same.) Try not to eat sugary stuff before sleeping, even napping. Buy a few dental scraping instruments. (if you are somewhat coordinated, you can scrape your teeth. You can even get 1 to 2 mm below the gum line. Because you are doing this extra work, just believe you are saving your teeth. (Yea, why not use the placebo effect on your own body?). Drink tap water.

When I was younger, I looked into making chewing gum, but with a safe substance in it that would neutralize the acids on you teeth. Never got around to it. I recall a French company hit the market with a gum like the one I wanted to make, but unsure if it was successful, or even worked.

There's a part of me who believe's tooth decay is more about enzymes, and immunity, but who know?
I thought about this idea a while back when I saw an article about modernizing the concept of the trailer park home. I guess cultural grouping could be bad if it lead to more homogeneous thinking, but maybe it could occur naturally on a smaller scale in the same building and provide a different dynamic of interaction, kind of like what you see in some neighborhoods in NYC.
I would avoid talking about your disorder if I were you; you may feel like it explains your actions, but no-one else gives a shit. I would just say you felt like the role was falsely advertised to you, and be prepared to explain the specifics, people will want to know how big a difference there was that made you leave, especially considering the fact that some amount of drift is expected.

Most importantly though, I would ask if you've tried to talk to your management about the discrepancy and your dissatisfaction. If you haven't, this seems like a problem to me. No-one wants to work with someone whose first instinct to be to walk away rather than try and work things out.

Beyond anything else, I feel like the lesson here is to make sure that you actually want the job you are accepting. Be very specific in what you expect; if you figure out there is a discrepancy you can walk away before you both get burned.

Personally, I've started having bringing up what I want much earlier in the interview process, rather than getting to the end of the whole process to find there is a mismatch between what I want and the company wants so that we don't waste each others' time.
HN renders pretty good on Ubuntu Phone
Australia and NZ have different currencies so there is no way you can avoid dealing with the money changers. There was a bit of debate a few years back about if Australia and NZ should form a single currency, but it did not seem to get far.
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None of these things are new, true, but they're not common. It's not so easy finding a co-op to live in if you're not near a university, or, for that matter, even if you are near one, especially if you're not a student. If they're becoming more common, that's a trend worth broadcasting; hopefully it continues.

I'll agree that presenting it as a new invention, or something tailored for this radical new generation of "Millenials", is a bit obnoxious and misleading. But I'm still glad to see this sort of thing.
wasm and asm.js are perfect examples of incremental improvements rather than building something from scratch. The benefit of this is that incremental improvements can be built slowly on top of existing deployed JavaScript engines, whereas writing something from scratch has a serious bootstrapping problem.

The wasm/asm.js story goes like this so far:

1. emscripten, a JavaScript backend for LLVM, demonstrates that you can "compile" C/C++ code into JavaScript.

2. Some vendors start writing specific optimisations for emscripten-style JavaScript code.

3. This is formalised into a subset of JavaScript called asm.js.

4. More browser vendors get onboard with asm.js optimisations.

5. wasm is proposed. Initially it is a compact binary format that is equivalent to asm.js and that can be trivially translated into asm.js at runtime using a polyfill.

The future might look like this:

6. Browsers adopt wasm natively, so the asm.js shim can be dropped, giving more performance benefits.

7. Further enhancements to wasm follow and wasm perhaps begins to diverge from its underlying JavaScript runtime.

8. ???
Normally you blame the contractors - Back when I worked for one of the really big consulting engineers. I did reverse engineering on one project where the subcontractor had messed up some soil analysis,
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IINM, at least in the US, such laws don't apply to "shared dwelling spaces", which these would count as. (Not a lawyer.)
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