skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"2,000% price hike" is a link-bait headline.

Not to excuse the hike, but lets call it what it is - a 20 times increase.

Any use of percentages over double-digits is asking for confusion. And using a four-digit percentage is intentionally misrepresenting the scale of the increase.
Yes, but where does the $75M end up? Wouldn't Chapter 11 be an end run around investors?
I wrote a client-side encryption library for the communication part of the equation:

http://stringphone.readthedocs.org/
she was dating the founder

No. She was not "dating the founder". She was a founder.

Your position isn't "controversial"; it's based on a broken and insulting premise. Please stop pushing it.
The grain might not have been Hollywood.

I meant the idea that Jewish slaves built the pyramids. That idea comes from Hollywood, it is not a Jewish belief.
In Maryland v. King the crucial difference is that according to the Maryland law in question the DNA sample has to be destroyed if there is no conviction and it can't be processed before the arrestee has been charged. (according to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_v._King)
Examples? Typically it only happens if some strong leader portrays another group as the enemy and manages to build up wide support. Manufacturing fear.
Objectively, there is more to it. It might be uncomfortable, but sometimes a little coaching is useful feedback. Take a look at what happened to Ronda Rousey over the weekend. Complete lack of preparation. A cornerfull of yes men..."your doing great"...after round #1 etc. Unknown challenger meanwhile was methodically breaking her down. Point is there is a balance to he had from motivation and positive re-inforcement with some actual feedback...so you don't get blindsided. I think the only real questions is about whether that convo is best in in public vs private. There is some awkward in this essay. Some of it seems un-neccesary, and maybe could have been re-worked to make the points hit home without it.
In-Place Algorithm for Interleaving an Array
How does that indicate Pandora doesn't get the contact information and payment information of Rdio subscribers?
This prevents you from getting _why'd, so it's pretty reasonable.
I agree completely.

"Masterminded" or "sophisticated" would be to assassinate Hollande in the stadium.

There does not seem to be a very strong "theme" in the attack, which would have been sophisticated, like targeting predominantly Jewish population, or a group that offended the Islamic fundamentalist sensibilities.
Why is gfortran not viable? Vectorization is not as good as Intel?
You should look at the Balkans in a slightly different light. Under Tito Yugoslavia was held together much like a steel band can hold together a compressed spring. As soon as Tito's influence disappeared the spring reverted to its prior shape, and a lot of people decided to continue with their 'unfinished business', the feuds of many years past. There are other regions in the world for which such a description would be fairly accurate, Iraq under Saddam Hussain was another. Now both Sadam and Tito were not exactly nice people (to put it very nicely, both had the blood of numerous people on their hands) but they did manage to contain at least some local strife (with an iron fist and lots of casualties). Even today there is lots of animosity in the Balkans and Iraq is still embroiled in what can only be termed a civil war. A power vacuum is a dangerous thing.
> IS would be properly categorized as a non-state actor.

Given the exclusive control of territory, even with contested edges, it looks like a state to me...

Obviously other states don't recognize it as one, which is generally considered the litmus test, but has always seemed to circular to me.
Right. If we provide teachers to an area, we might be eliminating the teachers already present. More likely we're supplementing them. This is filling a need that a local economy may not be able to sustain on its own.

If we provide volunteer laborer a to a farmer who can afford hired hands, we're reducing the income to those in the local unskilled labor market.

Those are two extremes and most labor-giving and goods-giving fall in between. But we need to determine where it falls to determine whether is a positive or a negative.
Ah, interesting. Hadn't encountered that.
The article is not comparing 5 years olds to 6 year olds. It is comparing 11 years olds who started school at 5 vs 11 year olds who started school at 6.
>"Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever the defense they may hear; the only success victorious defense can possibly produce is a change in the indictment."
-Joseph Schumpeter
+1 my dear.
Speed. In many common cases, pypy is significantly faster than the python C runtime. Unfortunately, the python C api was not designed with a jit in mind.
I spent all that time trying to help you and give you advice, was it all a waste?

> Mods: Check out the votes and discover if the same people were attacking me and look organized.

For the record I did not vote you either way. But why in the WORLD would you assume some sort of organization? Are you the type to see conspiracies everywhere? In votes? In posting a story?
Differential Topology – Lectures by John W. Milnor
Did they develop this in-house or acquire a technology for this?
The Google Play Music library is excellent (I think it's still the biggest). You could try something like this:

http://bluestackstutorial.com/2015/07/google-play-music-for-...
My 15-person company uses zenefits. When our HR person was sold on zenefits she was promised some features that, bluntly, didn't and don't exist. They also, as a user, required some emailing to get stuff set up. It seems to be ok now that it's all set up, but it definitely wasn't 0 friction initially.
This seems quite unrealistic and inefficient to me. OP would have to find an open source project (with a good community) which would match his/her skills and accept him/her as a contributor - which is a challenge on it's own. Then there will be hardly any feedback on the written communication (correction of mistakes or style etc.). And no spoken language.

I know a lot of people who learned English by singing songs, but hardly anyone who've learned English in an open-source project. And believe me, I know much more codes than singers. :)
In Buddhist meditative practice terminology, it's known as the "monkey-mind" and the practice involves watching the "mind-stream" flow, from thought to sensation to feeling to thought...
The author paints a rosy picture of PC gaming, but in my experience (I work for a AAA game studio) PC sales are by in far the least profitable (10%~) and the most likely to cause piracy (crackers even use the PC version to figure out how to reverse engineer the console versions)

This would tell me that we simply don't know how to make games for the PC platform; but the author also ascribes the freemium model to PC gaming- which I personally see as a blight on gaming and firmly in the realm of the smartphone market..

or at least they do it more tenaciously.
>"Nothing except lack of motivation is stopping someone else from entering the market."

Have you ever looked at the cost of getting a new manufacturer of a drug approved by the FDA? FDA approval requires a lot more than motivation; if you disagree, I invite you to start manufacturing the drugs yourself (or even contracting it out).
This series has been really great. It's significantly more accessible than many other OS dev tutorials I've read in the past. I spent all day yesterday with a friend and the first few posts, it was such a good time. Nothing like seeing a machine boot up and print something, and know that you wrote 100% of the source code that makes it happen. Even with a tutorial, it's magic.
PyPy is much faster for many workloads. It's a garbage collected just-in-time compiler and mostly compatible with the CPython runtime (the one you get from python.org). It also happens to be written in a subset of Python which is pretty neat. The CPython API exposes a bunch of details specific to the CPython implementation (like object reference counts) and so hasn't historically been supported in PyPy (which supports the whole language but internally is very different). It sounds like it would be a pain to do but the PyPy team thinks it's feasible to build.
This does not allow you to efficiently browse by language.
I like that you're using NaCl. I'm earmarking this for review later. :D
> A close cousin to crowdfunding is the trend of pre-releasing games before they are finished.

This has contributed to a disturbing trend of actually releasing games before they are finished. AAA titles have been released in the past couple of years that should have been delayed several months to be fixed and polished first. Batman: Arkham Knight was so terrible on PC that all stores offered no-questions refunds, and even stopped selling the game altogether until it was patched. Fallout 4 committed the cardinal sin of tying physics to framerate, so people with high-end gaming machines are actually experiencing more bugs and issues than most, unless they cap their framerates.
> I try to do this quietly

If you hold a mobile phone to your ear, nobody will give you a second look.
It becomes 1.3 hours. Usually the exact dollar amount doesn't matter to clients, so I just try to be precise. What downside is there in being precise?
Early Phishing
A Mac Host OS would be less likely to have a virus than a contemporary Windows OS.
It's okay to talk about everyone working for $1 after all it has to start from somewhere right?

I think the spirit of the complaining is more of a warning to keep an eye out for the trend rather than stop these one-offs altogether, but that's a lot harder to say and act on than "stop these one-offs".
The $75 million will be used to pay creditors. It's not an end run, it's better than the alternative which would be creditors going after shareholders to recover their debts. (which is why bankruptcy protection exists)
This make a lot of sense to me. Every time this discussion comes up, I'm stuck wondering what the hubbub is, since I've never wanted for anything more than Pandora. In fact, Pandora is perfect for me, since I very specifically do not want to curate my music at all beyond choosing a song, artist or genre and letting it pick stuff I might like. Letting me thumbs up/down stuff to get it better to my tastes is just gravy.

I sure as hell don't want to actively pursue and catalogue music new to me, that just sounds tedious.
As someone who thinks Rdio is the best streaming service for diehard music fans, this really pains me.

With that being said, I definitely saw it coming.

No meaningful technical upgrades to the platform have been made in the past year, while keeping the technical deficiencies. the mobile apps are a disaster, and overall I had the feeling they were busy searching for a way to stay afloat.

Sad day indeed.
I tried out both a couple years ago, found them to be pretty comparable in terms of music catalog, and chose Rdio because I prefer their interface.

Recently, I've been noticing that some of the "people" I follow have stopped publishing playlists to Rdio in favor of Spotify, so I've been considering the switch. But it's a shame to have to leave Rdio's great HTML5 web interface for either Spotify's native app or flash.
"Nothing except lack of motivation is stopping someone else from entering the market."

Where motivation, in this case, is also synonymous with 'sufficient bankroll to pass FDA approval', an investment that needs to be repaid, somehow...
> A "naturally" regulated market eventually converges into one all-powerful monopoly player - it's a stable configuration that maximizes the profit for the owners of that monopoly.

This is unsupported by any serious literature. Economic theory tells us that the only circumstance in which this happens is an industry prone to natural monopoly, which are generally those constrained by geography and enormous fixed infrastructure costs coupled with relatively constant marginal costs.

The "natural" long-run state of free markets is economic equilibrium, which necessarily includes competition to reduce marginal profits to around zero at the point that the amount supplied is equal to the amount demanded.
Yep. Matter of fact, I thought it would happen anyway at a smaller amount when they started laying down lots of fabs. Figured they'd want vertical integration plus market-takeovers with their labor advantages.
Very interesting. I wasn't aware of that! I'm still skeptical of the ability for anything to be completely "objective and authoritative", but that still seems like a good thing to have, and it's unfortunate that it was eliminated.
IS controls the territory, but they don't actually control the citizens on that territory. This attack had as far as I can see it two immediate goals: to make it harder for people to flee from IS by provoking western countries to close their borders to refugees (which goal they appear to have achieved) and to serve as a recruiting poster for the future wave of terrorists by striking an opponent right in the heart of their country to serve as a show of capability.
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> Exactly as with pattern matching

With pattern matching you'll get static checking if your matching is exhaustive. Impossible with an if ladder. Therefore they're not semantically equivalent.
Nintendo is an outlier in another sense too. They straight-up do not understand the internet and customers. This is evidenced by how very long the 3DS account system had games you bought online tied to the physical machine, instead of the account you used. They're not strict. They're just helplessly ignorant.
Firmware Dumping Technique for an ARM Cortex-M0 SoC
Does it need to be? I think the suggestion is allow using your own tablet with a standard interface, if it breaks in a few years replace it with a newer one. That way the you're not stuck with the obsolete infotainment unit that would have been built into the car.
It's the offset added to the local time to arrive at UTC. So basically just the opposite perspective.

I dream of the day where ISO 8601 is pervasive.
Why do you require a profile photo?
Sure. The problem is that intermediate-skill developers read comments like yours and just glean "lol, syscalls are slow" from them. They then go on to use mmap and kill MM performance. It's important to keep your audience in mind. Most developers do not write high-performance IO layers that talk directly to hardware. Most developers will blindly follow any sufficiently authoritative voice that tells them X is better than Y, which leads them to misuse powerful tools.

In the vast majority of cases, you want plain read and write. In the vast majority of cases, the overhead of jumping into the kernel is not your bottleneck. Simplicity counts for a lot.
It might be simplified this this example, but if the mapping function is a method reference or some other reusable lambda, then it can be clearer to use consecutive .map-s
I'm not sure it's comparable, the tool supply chain for one is very different. A Dutch company is the lithography tool supplier for both American and non American chip companies.

If Moore's law is over that could be less of an issue (old tooling will still be useful).
Unless you get a real call while doing so.
I have not published the language yet, have to produce some nice looking examples first. But you can take a look at my approach to extensibility in general (the HDL language is using exactly the same thing) and some of the earlier mixing Verilog with C experiments here: https://github.com/combinatorylogic
My apologies, the terminology is imprecise; basically, in as optimal a way as you can brute force a solution, if one exists, relying on the simplest heuristic for branching. The same way, really, as you'd do it by hand, if you wanted to guarantee a solution (if one exists). So, yes, a backtracking solver, a la (this is basically what Norvig did in the link someone else mentions; I implemented mine around the same time as his article was written, it looks like, as a fun college time killer, probably when Sudoku was first in vogue) -

Figure out the possibility sets of all empty squares (that is, a set of all possible values given the current state of the table, i.e., for each square, initialize them with 1-9, then remove every value that is already contained in the same row, column, and 3x3, thus figuring out for each "this square could be 1 or 5, and nothing else"). Grab the square with the fewest possibilities; does it have only one? If so, go with it, update all related squares (by removing that value from their possibility set), recurse. Is it of possibilities > 1? Take one of the values out of the possibility set. Push a copy of the table as it stands (without that removed value) onto a stack; put in the taken value for the value of that square, update all related squares, and recurse. If you ever find a possibility space of zero (that is, a square has neither a value, nor any possible values), throw out your current table and pop off the stack, recursing upon that. If you find a possibility space of zero, and the stack is empty, the sudoku is unsolvable. Otherwise, once every square has a value, you're finished.

I feel like I had done a little pondering on ways, while coding it up, to find better heuristics for picking what number to start with, in the event the square with the minimal number of possibilities had more than one (i.e., "this square could be 1 or 5", rather than just picking one arbitrarily, would choose one based on some criteria), but I never really got around to playing with it, as nothing took more than a few tenths of a second, and that was enough to say "there, I need never care about Sudoku"
It is useless against small numbers of dedicated fanatics who are willing to give up their lives to murder defenseless people. See also: Boston, Bali, 9/11, Paris and many more. Even if some get caught they will adapt their tactics until they get through. An effective response would/should take a different tack than just more surveillance of the whole population.
When it comes to DNA we are already nude. You will have better luck keeping your face private and going about a normal life than hiding your genome from the world. The former can be accomplished with a mask. The latter requires living in a plastic bubble and never sharing the genomic information of anyone.

I do not want to live in a world where everyone must be masked, and although the utility of sharing information about DNA is of a different kind I will also be profoundly sad if we are too afraid of the bogeyman to let other people know what we are made of.

Perhaps I feel so strongly about this because there is literally not one case where DNA information alone has resulted in harm. I challenge you to provide an example. Digitized DNA sequence information from tens of millions of people is floating around in the world. If this were as dangerous as some people make it out to be I would expect there to have been many problems already.

(The example that I have heard is when someone learns their biological parents are not who they think they are. Although this may be troubling I find it absurd that someone should have the right to delude or be deluded about their genetic background. At worst it can pose a dangerous liability as someone lacks information about diseases that may affect them or their offspring.)
Spotify has a habit of replaying songs that I have already thumbs downed as well as other songs by that same artist.
>>Taxes are not a moral matter. Taxes are a legal matter.

Correct, but paying the appropriate amount for the services and programs you benefit from IS a moral matter. Taxes simply happen to be the avenue through which this is accomplished.

If you consume X dollars of government services and infrastructure, you should pay X dollars in taxes, regardless of whether loopholes exist through which you can pay less. Because if you pay less, you are doing two things: passing the tax burden on others, AND causing harm to the services and programs. Both of these are immoral. Therefore, not paying your fair share (note that I didn't say "legal share") is immoral.

You know how there are certain actions that aren't illegal, but are clearly against what's called "the spirit of the law"? This is one of those situations. Tax breaks are always created to encourage certain actions or facilitate certain results (e.g. Growth in a certain sector) but others figure out how to take advantage of them through creative accounting practices. That's when a tax break becomes a loophole. It's basically hacking the system.
Swiftline is a set of tools to help you create command line applications
https://github.com/oarrabi/Swiftline

Swiftline is a set of tools to help you create command line applications. Swiftline is inspired by highline.
Colorize: Helps adding colors to strings written to the terminal Ask , Choose and agree: Easily create prompt for asking the user more info Run: A quick way to run an external command and read its standard output and standard error.
Indeed. I'd say there is surprisingly little correlation between computational complexity and how a human experiences complexity.

A similar example, is that we know that 2-color match-Ns (and some further generalizations therefrom) such as Tic Tac Toe, Connect 4, and even wilder variants like Lumines have solved, polynomial solutions and machines can play them better than humans ever will. Humans will probably play some of these games forever, and its still a continual surprise to me how many people don't know the generalized Tic Tac Toe solution, much less that the only way to win is not to play.

Lumines will probably remain interesting to humans for a long time for those orthogonal reasons such as timing and accuracy (and music). But the interesting comparison here is to Tetris which we also generally know to be NP-hard as a direct relative to the generalized packing problem. I would think that to a human both games "feel" equally complex and yet in terms of computational complex you have easy solved algorithm in Lumines and computationally hard problem in Tetris. Lumines certainly feels at first glance to a human like an equal to the packing problem, even though it is not.
And if you get sued all your personal assets are on the hook for the business debt. If you die, your entire estate is on the hook for any business issues not fully resolved before you passing.

If you are young and don't have dependents or an asset base these may not be big issues. If you have a family and possessions or savings, not having a formal business structure can be devastating if things don't go according to plan.
Jesus. Yes, there are different roles. The whole point of the original link is to acknowledge the contribution of Jessica Livingston in a maybe intuitive "tacit knowledge" register. So
multiple divergent roles need to be cultivated. But please, this is not a "Futamura projections" scenario where building factories to build factories is called for. It would be the first time in the history of the world... right?

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431....