skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Private Eye magazine was covering cases like these when they were actually happening...3 or more years ago.

The targeting they described was frightening. Ome case of a successful business forcibly sold to associates of advisors connected to the bank.
It would help having some above average developers (or maybe architects is a better word) on the past two projects I have inherited. They clearly knew a lot of stuff, but elegant database and application design wasn't one of those things.
I don't lean left when looking back, but I just can't look back confidently because I lose track of what's happening in front of us. My first and only accident occured because I was so anxious to check the blindspot I didn't see the traffic stopping and I rear-ended someone. Blindspotless mirrors are a no brainer (they should be mandatory tbh). There are even inner car blindspot checking mirror, so you avoid the confusing view of two mirrors with different field of view close to each other. Either this or a proximity sensor with a large red light so I can sense I should break no matter where I look, military style.
Hi, original author here. I used "perfect" trees as I wanted to generalise it to trees of other "types", not just binary trees. But yes, you are correct that it is incomplete for the broader category of binary trees.
It suprises me that people, in this time of environmental problems, seriously want to deter even more people from riding bikes. Traffic accidents will always happen, and modern countries are only getting safer, but environmental problems are only getting worse.

How would you feel if you had to wear a helmet every time you walk outside? That's a bit like how the Dutch people would feel if they had to wear a helmet on their bikes. Arguably, it would help to avoid some injuries, but it is just not worth it. People in the Netherlands don't just bike to work or school; they bike when they go out (yes, even after drinking), when they visit friends, when they have a doctors appointment. Bringing a helmet every time would both be a major inconvenience and make you seem like a huge dork. People usually bike pretty slowly, and there are not many accidents. I live in one a city where the biker density is one of the highest in the Netherlands, and I have never been in an accident. I would never wear a helmet every time I would ride my bike. I would even argue it would reduce my quality of life.
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It could be further optimized

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd4nKJPmWGA (80s Italian movie)
Whoops, you're right. I've fixed it. Thanks for pointing it out!
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I am exploring a engineering position as Employee No 1 at a 3 month old startup which will be looking for product market fit in about 3 months. Founders have raised $2M in the seed round. What kind of equity should I be looking at given that I would be taking close to $150-$200 K hit in my total liquid compensation?
In monero each transaction gets obfuscated with a group of other nodes so that it is very hard to tell which node in that group the transaction came from.

In ZCash it is impossible to tell anything about any transaction- it could have come from any address on the network, and be for any amount.

A ZCash blockchain setup involves a sharded private key that is meant to be deleted. If every single one of the shards is kept by the group of people setting it up, they could mint new coins without anyone knowing. If the set of people setting up the blockchain is large enough it seems unlikely that not a single one would be honest, and that they would all collude later to mint coins without word getting out. However, this attribute has been a source of FUD, especially since many people have now invested in Monero.
Alternatively you could throw in a wait/loop and then the program would recover if memory becomes available. Though, that might never happen...
When you are large enough and entrenched enough, you can do suboptimal decision and still win the race in both market share and revenue. IE and Microsoft comes in mind, and it took major failures and long time before competitor started to gain ground.

And it would explain why say a gaming company can't have such rigid policies. Preventing that a game get delayed is worth both lawyer time and, in the case that a license directly conflict with the business model, send mail to the author and asking for an exception. For example, I recall that LGPLv3 which has the same patent clause you describe as "clause can't be adhered to by large companies" is used by blizzard in starcraft 2. Blizzard is not Google in size, but they are not exactly a street vendor. One might also ask if they have much need to protect patents about xml parsing, or fonts, or what ever specialized functions those numerous library do that blizzard use to build a game. The only thing they don't use is copyleft, as their core business model is designed around restricting copying in order to limit supply when selling copies.

Per case evaluation make sense when your product is time sensitive and when there is a lot of competition. A game from Blizzard is almost treated the same by the market as a game by a indie studio (keyword: almost), and a such can't rely on market share to protect them. A bad, delayed, and rushed game is still bad and won't sell regardless of who made it (To name an example, the last batman game). They must be agile, which mean religious thinking about software licenses must be thrown out and per-case evaluation be added to the process. If a library can be use within the business model, saves time and money, and is not your core ingredient in making your game stand out, its almost always a good idea to use it.
I do that - seems obvious to me, but I'm also a cyclist.

That said, when I'm in the back seat, I'm not sure if I do anything to avoid dooring.
Could you elaborate on what that decentralized architecture might look like? P2P? IPFS?
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Microsoft claims 93-94 percent correct, or in other words "6.3% word error rate"

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-newest-milestone-wor...
Acknowledge and embracing the assumption that the speed of light is a universal constant -- disregard of reference frame? And as a consequence, allowing space and time to curve? That is not a small fix. That is a fundamental faith jump.
I agree, the definition I provided (not mine) sounds more like an 'index' than a 'key'.

I am not familiar with that usage, I am used to 'key' being used as a logical concept, a constraint, while 'index' is a physical concept, some structure that is there 'just' to make shit go faster.

Anyways, some sources don't even define the word 'key', but use it to mean 'unique key'.

And some other sources (like the one by OP) use it to mean something else (totally not unique), as they recommend that it be 'unique to some degree'

And then some others use the definition I provided above. Is that the one meant by OP? I don't know.

I any case, I guess OP meant something like "indexes should be highly selective'.
Which BTW is a performance tuning advice, I am not sure that that belongs in 'SQL Style Guide'.
I'm pretty sure that Paint has seen some improvements in the past 20 years. At least it supports .png's and other image formats. I rarely use Windows, but when I need to upload screenshots, I use print screen and paste to Paint for saving to a file.

Don't fix it if it ain't broken, I guess. They did actually update the Windows Calculator in Win10 and completely broke it. It's only got a handful of features it used to and seems to use floating point arithmetic so you don't always get correct results. It looks pretty and consistent with Win10 apps, perhaps it's more important than actually calculating.
I thought this was going to be an article about Parks closing.
Shameless plug: libfaultinj [1] is my library that intercepts libc calls and does bad behavior (that you specify) instead/in addition.

It doesn't support this use case. Yet [2].

[1] https://github.com/androm3da/libfaultinj

[2] https://github.com/androm3da/libfaultinj/issues/2
I started reading the "Real-World Maintainable Software" book and found questionable advice given in the very first section of the book:

> The first guideline indicates that our methods should be short, usually no more than 15 lines of code

Why would that be a good reason to break apart code into different methods? 15 lines isn't even that big

> We can reduce the number of branching points per unit by moving the validation logic to its own method

Before I follow this advice I'd like to know why branching points per method unit is worse than total number of method branches. This wasn't explained to me and I don't see any reason why it should be a guideline worth following
Answered above. Some micro-controllers or fpga's ship without MMU's, this is needed if you want to run Linux.
As for Notepad: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040525-00/?p=...

Paint got a significant overhaul with Windows 7 and somewhere in between it got the ability to save/load PNG, GIF and JPEG.

Command Prompt got a significant overhaul in Vista, which broke drag & drop of files as collateral damage, which was subsequently fixed in Windows 7 again.

Which all comes back to what Raymond notes in that blog entry: If you change how things work underneath no one notices. Heck, even if you change how things look on the outside no one notices, apparently. Paint 20 years ago looked and worked very differently from now.
Amsterdam cyclists certainly have a tendency to consider traffic rules more as suggestions than hard rules, but there's still a huge difference between the kind that runs a red light because there's clearly no crossing traffic, and the kind that runs a red light on a dangerous intersection without watching while on the phone.

It's a minority, but I regularly encounter cyclists who clearly want to die. The most blatant example was a mother who was trying to direct her children to ride against the direction of traffic between a bike lane and two car lanes that just came from the A10 (presumably because she had to take the next road left and didn't want to cross the busy street twice).
> Alice wants to host a party, so she invites Bob, Betty, and Boris, by sending each of them a paragraph of invitation...

Yeah, contrast it with reality where: Alice wants to host a party, so she invites Bob, Betty, and Boris, by sending each of them invitation via Facebook.
In the UK, running a blog over HTTPS is “terrorism”, says Scotland Yard
Integromat can automate work with US banks
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Invented here and not invented here are equal signatures of crappy developers, in my opinion. I'll admit there's some skill involved, sometimes, in the engineering efforts of the NIH minded developer. But I've also seen NIH developers insist on building things like CI servers, company wikis, and message queues. And none of them have even been tangentially better than the alternatives. They're both mindsets that speak to immaturity and lack of judgement, but man, I've seen way more of NIH than IH, and in a lot more business-destructive senses
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Fully agree with you regarding the motorcycle, but it won't change the habits on those countries.
Seems like Google handles unicode characters, so those would be as good as any (I guess as long as it's a symbol people actually know how to pronounce). Something like Ω-lang or ∞-lang would be nice.
This type of question is probably better addressed to info@ycombinator.com . Threads are sometimes unnoticed.
Oh boy, this is great. Thanks! I was not aware of this when I wrote the article/post. I started out by wanting to make a very generalised pair of expressions for the space requirements so I had to make very little assumptions and would be able compare it to efficiency gains by other algorithms/representations.

Again thanks, I'll try to include it this week end if I have the time.
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> The amount of bicycles in The Netherlands is absolutely surreal. [...] I also find it interesting the Dutch rarely ever wear helmets.

Perspective, perspective. The amount of bicycles in Germany (which is next-door) is surreal to me (so few) and I find it interesting that people wear helmets. They're such a bother and don't help your scraped arm or broken teeth if you land wrong. The odds of hitting your head on a curb seem about as slim to me as when you're walking.
How does it compare to Ceu?

http://www.ceu-lang.org
Im not talking about defects, but malicious tampering.

I may not be able to get a bomb on board, but I sure as shit can short circuit a laptop battery and start a fire.
By all means, we should dismiss what experts in a given field think too.

What we should respect are hard results and proofs from said experts.

Science is not about trusting experts, it's about trusting a methodology (the scientific method) to produce results.
Do you wear a helmet when going for a run? What about going for a walk?

Most Dutch riders are cycling slower than a running pace.

I noticed that you categorized bicycling as a sport. For most Dutch people, bicycling is not a sport but a form of transportation. Commuting by car is a form of transportation, just like Formula 1 is a sport form which uses cars. The safety requirements are quite different between those two, just like they are different between those who mountain bike as a sport and those who use a city bicycle to get groceries.
Considering how easy it would be to turn batteries into time-fused bombs (that pass QA) with the tiniest of impurities in the manufacturing process, I sometimes wonder if the note 7 problems could be the visible part of Samsung trying to stand up to a protection racket. I guess it would not take that big of a network of infiltrators or blackmail-handles on factory floor workers distributed over a range of suppliers to go all "nice phones you have there, would be a shame if they burnt..." on a phone brand.

The weak point of this theory is that the risk/cost of going public about this kind of threat would not be terribly high, unlike e.g. in plain old hostage taking.
>But many scientists also believe in plenty of things that can neither be seen nor (again, arguably) measured, like love, freedom, happiness, and even God.

If you claim to be unable to observe love, freedom, and happiness, and to believe there can be no possible observation of God (such as a revelation at Sinai, for example, and its archaeological after-effects), then you're just being plain silly.

>What they can see of these are, arguably, their effects or the behavior of instruments that can detect them.

Yes, we do see their effects. Science deals with latent properties and objects all the time. After all, scientifically speaking, everything beyond our sensory nerve-endings is latent and is inferred.

Nothing abnormal here.

(Never mind the philosophers who claim to know their perception is veridical because it's more intuitive that way rather than because they examined how it was working.)

>I am reminded of this anecdote about a dedicated neurophisiologist writing to his wife:

I am once again reminded of how philosophers completely fail to understand science and scientists, and thus caricature us as blind idiots every chance they get.
Ask HN: Could U.S., work without a president for the next 4 years?
I live in Europe. I don't care much about U.S. But also I think, that the current US president election, takes about 10 years now! Really! How long does all this voting-voting-voting-voting-voting-voting-voting-voting-voting media campaign last? I think, is sick!

Isn’t the country like US or any other country, about the people who live there? The same people who go to work each day? The people that pay taxes and create values, and have no return in the local environment for that tax…

Do U.S. citizens really have to spend years of they live, just by looking on president candidates?

After watching the debate yesterday, after all this time you have to absorb the ever-lasting media presentations for the last months. Is this really about Voting-BAD <vs> Voting-BAD? Is this all voting opportunity that a country like U.S. can provide to the people? Hmmmm. After all this, it’s really just Coca-Cola VS PEPSI??? That sad!

P.S.: Who are the people who do organize those TV debates? Could those people run US for the next 4 years? As an experiment. I think they pay a role in all that execution and official stuff, the protocols, the representation of human and ethical barriers.

Let me know if I feel wrong about all this. Or anything else!

Thanks,
t.d.
Trying out Raymond's suggestion[½] to test arithmetic precision (1 / 3 * 10000000000 - 3333333333 =. The result is one third exactly. Type 1/x - 3 = and you get zero back) yields the exact result with calc on Windows 10. It's definitely not standard floating-point.

[½] from here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040525-00/?p=...
Can you elaborate why it would it "garbaging" the memory if the malloc() failed to return an allocation to the app requesting it?
https://github.com/Keno/Gallium.jl for the debugger. It was still a bit unstable last time I tried it.

One of the biggest problems that I had with Julia (which is one of the main reason I stopped using it) was the flexibility of the . notation. I use this feature in Python and Matlab a lot and I had some serious trouble trying to make it work or finding examples on how to use it. Though I think this problem will be fixed as the community grows.

What are you referring to? Properties?
A guy I saw a few days ago got one of those heavy chain-type locks in his frontwheel while riding his bike a few days ago. Of course, his bike stopped instantly. He was carrying a painting, so driving with one hand. Amazingly, he didn't even fall to the ground. It really takes a lot of effort to land on the top of your head; I imagine that being hit or run over by a car causes way, way more serious accidents.
I've been using html within my markdown files and hugo without issue. Admittedly, I'm only inserting simple html like h2 elements, or simple links to other sites...but its still html in a markdown file, and hugo does not mind, and in fact processes it all just fine.

I came over from lektor to hugo. As much as I liked lektor's UI (via local website), hugo's binary is far better for me since I'm constantly jumping to different machines (windows, linux, OS X), and didn't want the hassle of set up on each.

That being said, the one thing that is annoying with hugo - and I DID see this with lektor as well though not as annoying as hugo - was wiring up your first template. Ugh, configuring templates - or perhaps more specifically variables - is a big time sink. Other than that, hugo is my generator of choice.
I'm sure Hugo is fine, but if you want something in Python, try Pelican. And use a virtualenv, to avoid mixing up the system libraries with it. In my experience, it'll essentially work forever.
> I had a bad crash after being hit in the eye by an insect

How did that happen, did you reflexively close both eyes and jerk on the handlebar or something?
As an example of reliance on this, the C64 had a (rarely used) realtime clock in the 6256 CIA's (IO chips) that relied on the AC 50/60Hz signal to keep the time of day. It also used it to control the cassette motor. For those reasons and a couple others, it took both 9V AC and 5V DC in.

(The machine would actually mostly run fine off just a 5V DC input, or even off a 4.5V battery most of the time if you didnt need any of the things that required AC...)
Europe to Push New Security Rules Amid IoT Mess
Live in a van.

I am being completely serious.
Hi, original author here. I did not expect so much discussion and awareness! Once again I have to stress that I wanted to make a very general pair of equations so I could compare the efficiency gains in other algorithms from the naive versions in an 'accurate' way. If anyone has any suggestions for the algorithms involved please let me know (141bytes@gmail.com) and I'll see if it's suitable to put in. I apologise in advance if I take longer than usual to reply, A levels are a ton of work!

Also I was originally going to see how this applied to traversing really large, cross machine trees so I did not consider the algorithms that mutated the tree, but thanks for making me aware of those.
My point was less about the specifics of the fried chicken restaurant industry and KFC corporate mythology and more about the fact professional investors earn a living trying to pick winning startups; small business owners that decline to become a franchisee or reinvent themselves as a joint venture with you don't. As such, reticence on the part of the latter group to get involved says a lot less about potential weaknesses in your business model than reticence on the part of the investors.

(FWIW There are plenty of investors that specialise in investing in restaurant outlets and consumer brand franchises, they just don't tend to be located on Sand Hill Road.)
Do bike helmets protect against concussions?
May 1st was once moving day for the entire city of New York (2016)
I am sorry to hear that. If you wish, leave here the project you wish to be submitted, and I can do it on your behalf.

Unfortunately, there's a bit of refactoring to be done if we wish to disable the requirement of an email. Anyway, I will consider it.
Try Juno (a Julia IDE on top of Atom): http://junolab.org/

Recent JuliaCon talk allowing off the debugging features. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yDwUL3aRSRc
What's the line?! - "Give a man a gun, he'll rob a bank. Give a man a bank, he'll rob the world."

Off topic, but does anyone know the (pre Mr. Robot) origin of that?
Let's be honest, it's a 6SS (Plus).

And thank god, since I only got my 6S Plus a few months ago. :)

I hope they are planning some fireworks (you'll recover Samsung ;) for the iPhone's 10th year anniversary next year.
And you don't know shame :-) btw, nice meta thing.
I find it almost purely Matlab-like in syntax. What do you have in mind that's Python-like?
No, they'll call meetings internally to discuss how to use the AdWords and never decide anything or act on it.