skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I've known a few drug addicts who died young and left no children.
It's slightly dumb, but on the other hand it doesn't need much power.
Check out this strange pic:

https://vintagespace.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/ivan-ivanov...

"MAKET" means dummy or doll. This is the dummy pilot used in a test flight. The word is there so that any well-meaning farmer who finds the craft won't start cutting anything open in a rescue attempt, possibly destroying test data.

I've also seen, but cannot find online, pictographs on soviet spacecraft meant to inform possibly illiterate rescuers that real people are inside and probably need help. Similarly, look at any plane with ejector seats. There are usually signs or diagrams explaining how to pop the canopy and even trigger the ejection seat of a crashed plane (usually by means of a rope).
There are much better resources for kids to learn Python. I recommend Chris Roffey's excellent series of Coding Club books. They are engaging, well-written and have more meaningful exercises.
This is naive beyond belief.

Reciprocation is a fundamental concept in keeping social systems healthy and balanced. Read up on the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma (or any number of the copious academic research on this subject; but PD is a great entry point).

"Merely doing what is beneficial at the time" is just bad advice, both on personal and social (national) level. "Spinelessness" is only a part of it; worse, such greedy strategies lead to poor socioeconomic results in the long run.
Nobody is self-sufficient
Personally, I would love a solid business model where the point is to have flatter management / pay structures instead of making everybody rich. Enough that everyone gets paid well and has some autonomy, but decisions don't get locked up by too much democracy.
These are all way too hard for an average 11 year old...
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Technically (at least on x86 and ARM), if b() allocates memory on the stack and returns a pointer to a(), as long as the pointer is dereferned immediately after the call the b(), the value should still be the same. It's not something you should count on (and purposely relying on it is a sin), but it won't kill your program.

http://ideone.com/oIZXTY
Then again Cantrill has an axe to grind.

In case others are wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Cantrill
I'm not sure how far away their datacenter is that they have 500ms of latency. I'm pretty sure packets can circle the globe in under 500ms these days.

The article mentions access points, maybe they're hampered by poor wifi?
This is at best a random click-bait post. No sources backing up about the information on the said meeting. And why does it have a picture of Steve Ballmer if it is an article about Elop?
I think you missed their point, they were talking about doing work as an architect designing buildings, not relaxation
If the method of viewing these isn't completely proprietary, someone should be setting up a site to distribute free and paid experiences. First or early to market would pay off like it did for early dominant Minecraft forums and the like.

I can see this becoming a thing. As a commenter here notes, people could create graphic novels in 3D space.
Oracle also owns SUN, who originally licensed it that way...
The FAQ doesn't mention anything about this -- can you explain how Seaside uses continuations?
I made this when I was 12: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/939866/
Saving this. I've said it for years and people just think I'm whiney because I despise lectures.
a) Return address is passed in the "link register" - our call instruction is "bl" (branch and link) and return is "blr" (branch link register)

b) We have 32 general purpose registers - the ABI defines a certain range of registers (8 general purpose registers + a bunch of floating point and vector registers) for passing parameters

c) The register range allocated for passing parameters is designated as "volatile", so the caller can't rely on them coming back unmodified. This gives you a few registers to play with.

(NB: I'm not hugely experienced in PPC assembly programming, I've just had to touch it a couple of times and so I've read bits and pieces of the ABI, don't trust what I say here...)
Have you tried using the webrtc protocol? It streams data without a go between server. You can probably find a website that implements screen sharing, if not its like 100 lines of JS.
Seems like the gamble here is on either:

1) SolarCity's newly efficient tech being the best in production for long enough to re-coup the costs of the factory, or

2) SolarCity being able to keep up with new developments along the way.

I don't know enough about the production process for PV to understand whether this is just a capacity expansion project or if the Gigafactory is tooled specifically for that 22% efficient panel. Can anyone clarify?
I agree, it's hard to actually engage kids with boring games, and anything that involves boiler plate.

The boiler plate should just be hidden away if possible.

I think a small coding exercise that kids would like is something that automatically solves their simple algebra homework. Although, do 12 year olds just go on wolframalpha now?
I noticed that too. Before Hillary final testimony I had utmost respect for this man. I took time off and microwave some popcorn for the hearing and then such huge disappointment -- he didn't have nothing against Hillary. Came totally unprepared! If anything he really sounded like this people are wasting tax payers money. And true -- arm wrestling Apple lawyer into "lets skip all this and lets save money lets do this and that" -- truly lost my respect.
Gdb has supported reverse debugging since 2009.
I really wish startups would pay attention to this: “The nice thing about revenue is it’s not diluted capital”. Far too often I see people look at their valuations as something like a scorecard for success. And if you can cash out, then I suppose more power to you. But this programmer is tired of the ".com", "web 2.0", "unicorn" bubbles... I wish companies would concentrate on providing value to their customers.
Please take a look at your buggy csv exports. They output the same data and can't do team summaries even though they should. I raised this issue last week and the support rep told me I should be using PDFs instead of csv. She clearly has no idea how payroll works and how important it is to run a reconciliation of the payroll.
I'm always amused by people who do the opposite: using wget to send get/post requests to web servers and having to add `-O /dev/null' (or, even worse `-O - > /dev/null'to keep from saving the results.
Really? I had a feeling everything is javascript heavy these days. Especially with React, angular, backbone, meteor... Maybe I should give it another try.
Apple's Developer documents[1] detail it pretty well

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Develo...
Why not give them accreditation? Clearly completing them is an accomplishment.

There are other reasons to 'drop out'. I like to save courses on coursera because I can't do them during the imposed timeframe. Sometimes I don't really need the full course and only bits and pieces. Maybe I just want to check it out and the opportunity cost was very low.

Don't solve problems when there aren't any. The biggest one is accreditation. I was trapped in college far longer than I would have been if MOOCs were accredited courses.
wasn't there are website somewhere with a list of failed startups?
Microsoft will soon offer a HoloLens emulator for developers
There is no such one thing as "breaking lines" in Unicode. There are a thousand slightly different ways to do it, in every single locale. That is explicit in the introduction to the first beast you linked yourself...

And assuming that a spec (especially a super-complex one, that moreover constantly evolves), is devoid of ambiguities, and makes every implementation behave in the same way, or even that every implementation implements the largest part of it, is being a tad idealistic.

Sometimes it's all about common sense. For most tasks I will happily continue using strchr or my manual loop and be done with it, thanks.
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I am not sure what the complete implications of this act are.

Were these options exercised? Does Jeff benefit from not having to pay taxes on the paper gains he would have realized had he kept these to himself?

Jeff is a great guy but I personally do not think that this act really means anything substantial for the employees.
> “You have had apparently 70 prior instances where you have not taken the steps available to you,” Judge Orenstein said to Apple’s lawyers during a hearing.

From http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/technology/apple-wins-ruli...
Too bad that is a reserved domain. Would be hilarious to put an actual shell script there that would echo ARF ARF ARF in a loop.
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> want to install? apt-get. Search? apt-cache search. List? dpkg. Remove? apt-get again, for some reason

I think this is largely why aptitude exists; a single unified command for all common package tasks. Most of the Debian docs have been switched over to recommend its usage, but for some reason Ubuntu hasn't followed suit. That said, I just keep using the same old shell aliases I added in 2003 personally.
Pretty much. If I want to save a file: wget. If I want to do _anything_ else: curl. Yes you can write files with curl, no I don't use that functionality very often. I don't think of them as "end user" vs "developer" use cases so much as them being two great tools for different tasks. I do wish that -s was the curl default, since that stderr progress output is pretty lame.
true, but its still a 'sizeable minority'. As far as number of deployments go, the embedded software world massively outweighs server, client, mobile and desktop.

Unfortunately (or fortunately), we in the embedded software world tend to be less vocal than the others.
I agree that it can be interesting and useful to discuss flaws, but potential solutions are what make the discussion worthwhile. Saying "This will never work for X, Y, and Z reasons" creates a much less interesting debate than "This has flaw X, but I think it could be solved by this change. What do you think?"

It frequently appears that people react negatively on HN purely based on instinct, without doing any research. The response to Dropbox's launch is particularly illuminating:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 (I think that every Dropbox user can point out half a dozen ways it is better than FTP or a USB stick)

All of the criticism on the Dropbox post is addressable, but the discussion would have been a lot more interesting if the original commenters pointed out solutions themselves. That shifts the discussion from a feeling of "This will never work" to "Cool idea! Here's how you can make it better." The latter, and not the former, is important to the culture of HN.
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Its interesting no one seems to have commented on the analog digital distinction yet. Not a cog sci scholar, but the massively parallel nature of the brain allows for highly sophisticated computations to happen more or less instantaneously but even an android such as this is (ie as powerful as this) is going to have to "look something up" as it were. The silliman (i think? drunk commenting) lectures neumann did at the end of his life cover this. also, the "intention engine" from the article sounds interesting.
When your costs don't increase in line with profits then share price rises. The easiest way to do this is wages. In the 1980s it was through massive layoffs.
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Seems to me that the Nagare framework is the closest match in Python.
It looks like Wireshark will happily keep your system permanently misconfigured. To fix it, disable

/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.wireshark.ChmodBPF.plist

This actually seems like a much crummier thing than the 1Password non-thing.
If you read Eric Schmidts book "How Google Works" one of the main tenets is you need people working together in one physical location.
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Douglas Crockford warned[1] us many years ago that mixing Javascript from multiple sources was fundamentally unsafe. The security model of the Javascript and the DOM was never designed for isolation within a page. If you're including Javascript from a foreign domain in the page, you're giving them access to any data in the page (and allowing stuff like this XSS problem). In most cases, this is irresponsible.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfBL2sc2zUU

(re: Google Gears stuff in that talk - remember when the talk was given)
I wish companies would concentrate on providing value to their customers.

That's just it, though. "Customers" are just another measure of your value to the people to whom you're actually beholden: investors. As long as you're providing value (perceived or actual) to them, you're winning this game. Ideally, that involves providing value to customers, as well, but it's demonstrably not necessary.
Google experiments with a way to pay without taking out your phone
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or a new user confusing 'reply' with 'add comment'.
Not responsive :(
He had just worked one week or so when he showed a crude demo/prototype on IRC/forums. And people thought it looked cool. So you do not have to, and should not wait until the game is finished before showing it to ppl and start writing about it on chat and forums.

When the game got into a playable state he already got some followers. And the word started to spread. It was still a free Java applet at the time. Then people started to play it on Youtube and it exploded. And that's when he started charging 10 bucks for the game.
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> Why would you cherish irrational vengeance instincts.

It's very much a calculated thing, not an “instinct”. Social systems are driven by the signals the involved parties send each other. If you tell them “I won't retaliate”, they will act accordingly.

> Psychologically, I understand long term grudges from any slight are considered pathological personality traits. It's much more healthier and productive to forgive.

Why is it “pathological”? Are there any observable negative effects? Nobody is saying “don't think about anything else” or “stop being productive”. Just “bide your time and take revenge at the most appropriate time”. This is perfectly sensible.

> One can hold political leadership morally and legally responsible for their countrys action.

No free nation can have an unpopular leader for a long time. In the long run, the actions of a free nation, good or bad, can be entirely attributed to its people. If you don't want to be responsible for what your leaders do, move to North Korea or something.

> Nationalities are an abstract layer

Nonsense. Nationhood is as concrete as is your mother tongue and culture.
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I'll remember two very good points from this:

- Blackberry sales' went up until Nov. 2010 and then it was too late, Apple and Android had the market. Wile E Coyote indeend.
- it took ten years from the mobile operators getting the 3G licences before smartphones got really good (and then everybody wanted one).

The parallel with AR and VR seems on point but aren't things faster now?
Acknowledging yourself as a part of a community whose well-being is your own, doesn't deny - au contraire, elevates - your individuality.
Seems like a much better metric would be total population that can be accessed without a visa or tourism volume access without a visa rather than just a raw count of countries.
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It uses continuations to hide the asynchronous nature of web requests and allows the flow between pages of a web app to be written in an imperative style.

"Inverting back the inversion of control" describes the idea (in Scheme) https://pages.lip6.fr/Christian.Queinnec/PDF/www.pdf

Paul Graham used the idea in ViaWeb - and apparently got a patent on some aspect of it https://web.archive.org/web/20060323211251/http://paulgraham...
Zynga is only nominally in the same business as EA and Activision. It is in the business of making games, and so are Activision and EA. But the latter two are really in the business of making hits and nurturing brands and franchises. Zynga is in the business of finding profitable models, arbitraging installs, right-sizing the game model and economics, then replicating over and over again, treating each successful game like a Starbucks location. A very different sort of franchise, you might say.

Activision and EA are movie studios. Zynga is a casino. Activision and EA want big hits and loyal fans. Zynga doesn't really care if you've played any of its previous games, or whether you play games at all; it just cares whether you'll play right now. (And maybe later, and later, and then more after that.)
That Google has relationships with In-Q-Tel - the CIA's venture capital arm - is fairly well known e.g. http://www.wired.com/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/

That doesn't need to mean there's anything murky going on or that Google is an arm of the US state department. Government invests in technology; that's how the Internet started
I doubt it very much. Children have an amazing capacity to learn and are usually constrained by adults thinking that kids can't cope with more than simple challenges.
I too doubt that we will see explicit mechanism for users to manager/report ads on a website, but I do predict that we will keep seeing ads on website even if adblocking reach 100%. For example, online stores normally has a "if you like this product, then you might also like this other thing", a advertisement that I doubt will be blocked any time soon. Similarly, streaming services like to recommend films and music, and that feature is something I hear some people really want to have and would be upset if it went away. Youtube dedicate a lot of page space for this, including the front page, the top of the side panel, the top of the search result, and the end of every video.

The upside of those kind of ads is that they are intended to be both a useful tool for the user and a revenue source, and they must be designed carefully to remain both.
I recall hearing that it wasn't so much politics as the potential for it to poison nearby water?
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I had submitted a similar script, among others a few days ago. It is a user script and can be used on Firefox w/ Greasemonkey and Chrome w/ Tampermonkey: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PauliusLabanauskis/UserScr...
I doubt this will hold true in the long term. I build stuff on top of Ethereum and there seems to be huge interest and financial support for the platform.

It is true that Zeronet works out of the box, but Ethereum seems to provide cleaner abstractions. The Web3 vision includes Zeronet functionality (decentralised applications, dapps). I think it all depends on the integration of Whisper and Swarm, which may result from a collaboration with the IPFS project and the Serenity PoS transition. The fact that there already exist node implementations in 7 different programming languages makes me optimistic.

Another interesting project is Hyperledger/OpenBlockchain which is mostly focused on consortium/private chains but provides a pluggable consensus model.

https://github.com/openblockchain/obc-docs/blob/master/white...

If the Ethereum core devs can take the project to that level of standardisation, they win. Unfortunately, its dependency on a currency and the focus on the public chain will also attract some of the worse parts of the Bitcoin community. One of the major risks is also the need for backward compatibility.

In the long term, code does not matter, standardisation does.
Apple apparently grew a pair.
Back when I was kid, I chose Flash programming over C++. It was just more fun, with results that you could show off to your friends. I didn't care how things work, I just wanted to build stuff. Once I started building tiny little games, I automatically started to learn how things work and developed interest in the science behind it, be it maths, physics or computer science itself. Today, I would suggest Racket's big-bang.

[1] http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/part_one.html#%2...
At the level of a penny, which is what the minimum price change is on most US stocks, almost anything can affect a sophisticated market-maker or proprietary trader's pricing: information in the stock's own order book, the price of related securities globally like the same stock trading in foreign markets, prices of correlated stocks, index futures prices around the world, his or her risk exposure in that stock and others in a portfolio, foreign exchange and interest rate market shifts, news feeds, sentiment analysis of online sources like twitter, company exposure to oil or other commodity price changes, etc. etc.
MSYS is Cygwin based and so does have the same issue.

As has been mentioned, its a DLL management issue, not inherent to the design of CygWin.
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While researching this I read a great quote "Radioactive volcanoes would not be fun to deal with." (https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2r43nl/why_dont...) tl;dr load up KSP and try to send something into the sun.
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It's cheaper to send things out of the solar system than it is to hit the sun. http://www.csicop.org/sb/show/shooting_for_the_sun
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Old media has always been in the business of printing stories that sell newspapers, or airing news stories that attract viewers. Facebook (new media) is in the business of getting eyeballs for advertising. These are basically the same business model.

What is different is that the owners of the press/ tv networks have traditionally used their editorial control to push a political view, whereas Facebook does not (so far, anyway). This is a tricky proposition for a social media platform that is formed with no political leanings, but it's not inconceivable that a future platform could be started with an agenda.

Social media (this site included)/upvotes/karma/imaginary internet points all encourage populist viewpoints. It's no surprise that a politician with a populist agenda is getting the most attention, it's actually the inevitable conclusion.
All that kind of stuff has already been discussed. Rockets explode way to often and then your nuclear waste would spread all over a region.