skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I lost, but I got 31% of the vote and I only spent $3000. My opponent got 69% of the vote and spent $100,000.

I could be wrong, but I highly suspect that the curve connecting those two points isn't linear, and going from 30->40% is a lot harder than going from 10->30%.
Kennewick Man and the ownership controversy
Or uMatrix for anyone willing to have quite a bit more control and insight in what's going on at the expense of some convenience.
I can wager a guess: On paper smoothsort appears to be the better sorting algorithm, with identically or better complexity then Quicksort and Mergesort in basically every category. In addition, smoothsort works better with data that's close to being sorted.

Why then is it slower in this case, and not as widely used? Part of the reason is that smoothsort is simply not very widely known, and thus not as many people know how it works compared to Quicksort or Mergesort. Nothing that, while complexity is important to take into account and looks good on paper, complexity leaves off the 'constants', which is generally what people attribute heapsort's (And thus, smoothsort's) higher number of comparisons.

All that noted, smoothsort (and heapsort) have the big advantages of being in-place (merge is not), requiring O(1) extra space in the worst case (Quicksort can require up to O(n) extra space), and has a guaranteed upper-bound of O(n lg n) in the worst case (Quicksort can degenerate to O(n^2) performance with bad data). This means that heapsort may not always outperform Quicksort, but gives better guarantees about speed and data usage then Quicksort (And much better then Mergesort, which requires a lots of extra allocated data). Smoothsort is essentially just a better heapsort which functions even better when the list is close to already sorted.
This is clearly a gross misuse of the capabilities of the new MBP, clearly it was designed for flappy bird....
Clicking the 'web' link under the post title and then clicking the top result on Google should do the trick.
Sorry, didn't mean to cross a line!
He's OK with the cable. He's not OK with only USB-C ports.
They're not attacking anything, they're just presenting an alternative. Nobody is trying to take away your Linux distribution.
But you wont get penalized for overpaying tax right?
Show HN: Markdown to PDF converter site (www.markdownpdfconverter.com)
a weekend project i threw together, well a couple of weekends. yep, it's another markdown 2 pdf converter site. i wasn't happy with the quality and look of the converted pdfs from any of the other sites available online or tools available. seems like everyone's default conversion just wasn't up to my liking (mainly the styling was substandard) so i threw this site up for myself to use (love markdown), and to finally get a project done from idea to publish (first out of dozens).

so what now? i'm gonna be adding more features as i require them. how do i get the website traffic to increase and get more usage? any suggestions on improving the overall experience? idea was to be simple as possible. potentially add options for advanced users in the future.

thanks!

url:
http://www.markdownpdfconverter.com
Alternately, it suggests that people getting emails like this should be sure to send them to Recruiting with a "Could not follow instructions, do not hire" note.
But why say they have no plans to shut down and link directly to the part of their FAQ where they say they will shut down if they are under government surveillance? Why not just tweet something like "We have heard your concerns" or something similar
The Instapainting guys already do! https://www.instapainting.com/blog/research/2015/08/23/ai-pa...

I can't corroborate this with a link but I saw the founder talk at a meetup and he said they were using it in production.
Oops, may have been. I wasn't paying full attention to the TV at the time, just heard the english translator say "something something prime minister Abe something live statement something something" and then saw a small box with a Japanese man of approximately the right age speaking.
https://archive.fo/32Aiu
> the Windows ecosystem beats them out on price

Just from a "Apple Laptop" vs. "Windows Laptop" perspective, the MS Surface laptops are a bit pricy if you're only looking at the lower end of Apple's offerings.
> probably off-topic

Probably !== certainly. The only people who can really speak to something being certainly off-topic are the moderators.
What is Plotter and its Types
Usually people flag links to hard paywall sites. For soft paywalls like WSJ, there's the "web" link in the subtitle bar.
I live in what should be considered a developed country in Europe with 5 years work exp also abroad, of which almost 2 of software development in a highly specialized field, and I make one third (1/3) of what the average CS grad makes in SF. It feels very bad...
Imagine when algorithms (something like https://www.narrativescience.com/) start producing these stories instead of slow humans.
I think the parent comment is wrong about that, and is ruling out a lot of reproductive health issues.
There are plenty of counter-examples to this, in both post-Soviet and more recent times. Basically, the authorities are happy enough to "let someone go" (read: GTFO) once the political cost of keeping them outweighs the perceived benefit.
I think we can build emerging non-biological conciousness (if we keep going long enough) before we understand what conciousness is (if we ever understand that). But you can never prove anything or anybody is concious except yourself so attempting to prove it would be futile.

Whether or not we can prove it will not stop it from doing what it does, just like not being able to prove some other human is concious doesn't stop them from being so (or not ;)).
Jony Ive and Marc Newson create room-size interpretation of a Christmas tree
But you're pretty happy you're here, right?
>the NYT published a written apology for their role in popularizing the invasion of Iraq

i also remember how it was widely thought to be a bad idea at the time by millions of people, yet, somehow they managed to pick the wrong position.
My Airport Extreme finally died a few weeks ago and I replaced it with an OnHub (the TP-Link one). Couldn't be happier -- my Wifi range extends well beyond the perimeter of my house, speeds (appear) to be faster with less connection issues _and_, I can monitor router activity and other stuff directly from their App (though that is the one area it could use a few more features).

Google is definitely winning some points in the "simple and works" category. Pricey but worth it, IMHO.
Your personal experience as someone hiring developers or yourself looking for new jobs? I think a candidate with a 4 year CS degree and 1-2 years work experience should probably command more than $120k. A lot of it depends on how well you can sell yourself, IMO.
I think you're throwing the baby out with the bath water, and I think module level comments are a perfectly reasonable place to address most of your concerns. (I don't know why they're "hacky.") Look for example at these docs, which are completely auto-generated from comments in the source: https://docs.rs/regex ... Here's another example: https://docs.rs/fst

Note that I do think there's a limit to what auto-documentation can provide, but I think you're selling it pretty short.
>say I throw a bucket full of sand on the ground...

What happens if I homomorphically encrypt the AI and delete the key? What happens if I run the AI in a quantum computer such that the algorithm runs only if a particular atom decays, which I then choose not to observe? etc etc. Scott Aaronson gives talks about these things if you're interested.
It is.

Unfortunately, a free market for helathcare does not exist in the U.S.
Plenty of static site generators, as they're called, exist to do this. Good jumping-off points would be investigating Jekyll (written in Ruby) and Hugo (written in Golang).

https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll

https://github.com/spf13/hugo
that exact article is already on the front page with 300+ comments... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13005211

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It's scary how much power simply give to the government, and how thankful they are that government officials who they've never met can make decisions for people neither of them have ever met.
BTW, instead of "intercepted", the translation should read "be brought in to testify."
A preference to viral models, backed by unbounded trust, sets the intent (rules of the game) to produce viral business models at the direct expense of less viral, but more holistic customer-centric models.

Investing in high growth models seems like a great idea when sitting around drinking beer, but I'm willing to bet the long term effect of this practice is going to come back and bite us in the ass sooner than later, if it hasn't already.

There's a reason why seaweed reduces cow gas. We have to use seaweed on cows now because we removed the cows from the grass. There's a similar reason behind why our privacy has been thrown out with the bathwater!
Their usb-c power adapter doesn't even come with a cable to connect it to the fucking laptop

Apple needs to clean house their produces are causing more frustration than they are resolving at this point
Quicksort still requires O(lg n) memory because of its recursive nature. Since (lg n) is generally small, it's not that big of a deal. But with bad data, it's possible for Quicksort to degenerate to O(n) extra memory, which could be an issue (Especially for machines with little stack space).

Heapsort (And thus smoothsort) are not recursive, so they require a constant amount of memory for all inputs.
It's true that WebGL lags native capabilities significantly, but that's a good thing in terms of the number of users who will be able to enjoy your app.

For a mobile WebGL-native experience, check out PlayCanvas, which offers a Unity/Unreal Engine style game production environment on the web platform, and targets mobile browsers by default.

Check out Swooop on PlayCanvas for example: https://playcanv.as/p/JtL2iqIH/

Can you do more with native? No question. Will you reach the same number of potential users? Certainly not.

Will your users appreciate the native difference? Maybe.
Which means that the brain must be able to transmit information to and from the spirit. Please, by all means, point us to a plausible mechanism for such a thing.
> It is just enough to add support of behavior property to CSS:

That's been done before: that's how XBL works in Gecko.

Having now worked with it as both API consumer and API implementor for a while (going on 15 years now), attaching behavior via CSS like that has some really nasty aspects to it. For a start, if you create a "my-toggler" element via createElement, it won't have the behavior attached (because style doesn't get resolved for elements outside the DOM). And if you insert it into the DOM inside a display:none subtree it won't have the behavior, becase style resolution is optimized out inside display:none subtrees. There are various other issues; I don't really have time to write them all out right now.

But suffice it to say that this way of attaching behavior via CSS has been considered, implemented, shipped, used extensively, and found wanting.
As an Apple shareholder, and very happy user of Time Capsule this is extremely disappointing. My time capsule is the best value for a solid wireless AC router with 2TB of disk backup which I use to backup my iMac and MacBook Pro with Time Machine.

Can anybody name a solid alternative for $299?
Well, I can't imagine what they would be working on with the Mac Pro if they had people working on it for 3 years without any sort of update.
Could the Boeing 777 fly on one engine? (2007)
It's a very similar context where the word "emulator" is often erroneously used to describe how it works. It's the first thing I thought of when I read "WOW64 is the x86 emulator..."
How closely tracking our revenue led to our agency earning more
Tsunami alerts/forecasts:
http://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/tsunami/

They should really provide an English version of this page. Come on, Yahoo Japan.
You sound like you have a lot of free time...
You tried the same rhetorical tactic with me. It's unproductive. You're no better at sensing the emotional state of other commenters than anyone else is --- which is to say you're unable to do it with any accuracy, and should avoid it.

What you're doing here is really just a prolix way of saying "lol umad bro". Stop.

Instead of trying to read other people's minds, could you put a little more effort into making a coherent argument? Because I simply can't follow what you're trying to say. (If someone else wants to take a stab at explaining, I'd be happy for the explainer).

If you'll recall, this subthread started out with me being similarly mystified by your attempt at formulating an argument about college tuition financing. When I observed that your argument contradicted itself, you responded by suggesting that I'm "angry at successful people", which is a pretty funny allegation.

Maybe first get good at writing simple arguments, then (and only then) perfect "shock value".
Thank you for the information! So you believe that the homeless problem is greater if not equal problem to tge student debt problem?

What do you believe is a good solution to a large group of young able minds and bodies wasted from lack of employment and an oversaturation of low income workers due to the inability for college students to find middle class work?
Exactly -- I don't understand why they agreed to be interviewed. People riding a profit wave usually don't announce to the world that they're frauds.
But at least the land itself doesn't want to kill us.
Properly setup command strip based hooks can work.

However most apartments let you 'hang pictures'; anything that leaves so small of a hole that painting over it effectively patches it.
If you're looking for a commercial consumer product that blocks a superset of the exploits blocked by EMET, try HitmanPro Alert.
In mathematics a function is a mapping having the property that each input is related to exactly one output. This brings with it certain properties you can rely on. In particular functions themselves are also values that can be passed around as parameters or returned by other functions, hence higher order functions.

It's regrettable that we overloaded the word "function", given we could have used procedures or subroutines to denote, you know, jumps in code that trigger effects and push/pop the call stack.

And as proof, applying filter/map and other similar operations with side-effecting procedures is a really, really bad idea, because such operators are usually implemented with lazy behavior (in order for "fusion" to happen) and laziness doesn't blend well with side effects, with the result becoming non-deterministic. E.g. at least people that worked with Map-Reduce frameworks should know what I'm talking about.

Or in other words, there is no such thing as "function-oriented", there's just local application of FP where it seems to be making sense, but with all the caveats that entails.
That's similar to how I used to do it it but I got tired of paying for servers.... plus this approach let me play some "buzzword bingo"

BTW my first Internet facing thing was a CGI-BIN Perl script delivering call records for telcos, way back in 1995. I've been cutting code for 35+ years. Never feel old!
I've been thinking about this and wondering how they could prevent people moving to a WeChat like app and doing all financial transactions within that. If you enable anonymity in that there's no need to identify your meat life persona with your WeChat profile, how would the control be retained? Short of illegalizing mobile devices that allow installing a banned app like WeChatAnonEdition and having traffic police carry inspection devices that would allow them to detect illegally open Android devices in a driver's pocket, I don't see how it can be prevented. If you sell and buy inside WeChatAnonEdition and also get your salary inside WeChatAnonEdition, there is no monitoring and control anymore.

Just to be clear, I'm not agains taxes, because not paying taxes is like swatting an apartment, and generally taxes make sense to be paid, although most places also have several unfair tax codes, so I understand the common perception of taxes as "highway robbery".
Django Security advisory: Vulnerability in password reset (master branch only)
How much you pay for rent, and how long is your commute? Maybe you feel a little better now :)
> taxes should take about 39% of salary at that level of income

Is that 39% as in marginal tax bracket, or 39% of the absolute total?
Brains never evolved to present reality to its owner. It's there to help you survive. You're totally free to build up an internal world view that only has the most tenuous attachment to reality, as long as it doesn't interfere with your ability to make a living and have kids (in an evolutionary sense).

When reality becomes inconvenient to people, they'll happily ignore it and do whatever it takes to get by. As long as they're not ignoring something that's going to imminently harm them, they can get away with it for a long, long time, especially when they can find a community that reinforces it.

You also never know what people actually believe, in their heart of hearts, and they may be professing nonsense so they can signal that their in some group, or because it's what they think you should believe, or what you they think that you want them to believe, etc.
That would be Novocard[0]. It has a stack based metaphor and uses a superset of a JavaScript. I've not used it myself as Im a Pythonista fan.

[0] http://plectrum.com/novocard/NovoCard.html
Hackers program bank ATMs to spew cash
Perhaps we should start naming space telescopes after politicians, so that NASA's budget has an easier time in congress.
You can be a millionaire in the UK, and still be working class.
Palo Alto Traps also covers anti-exploit but I expect that this functionality is something vendors will be building into their upcoming security suites.
Those volcanoes are a feature of the area, but they seem to be very much extinct, not dormant.
Evil Mad Scientist makes and sells a Digi Comp II replica: http://shop.evilmadscientist.com/tinykitlist/375-dcii
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/tsunami/ The Japanese Meteorological Agency provides a greater source of info.
The 100% correct way to do CSS breakpoints
Lost Garden: Autumn of Indie Game Markets
This is precisely what happened. Edwin Hubble was an astronomer, James Webb a NASA administrator.
The philosophy behind scheduling your to dos makes total sense -- if it’s in your calendar, it’s actionable, realistic, and more likely to get done.

Only problem is that it's tedious and time consuming to actually schedule each item.

I created Focuster (http://focuster.com) to solve this problem by automatically scheduling your to dos for you.

An extra bonus is that it reschedules based on cancellations and new appointments.

Would love any feedback you guys might have!
As a hiring manager, I wouldn't say people are serious if they have a github account, but having one, which actually has original work in it, can show that the applicant has some interest in the industry beyond the money. If you don't have a github account, that's fine but you've got to show something else that can fill in the gap. Perhaps you're on bitbucket or even source forge. Or maybe you did summer of code. Worst case, tell me you can bring in some samples to an interview.
Whenever you accept that there's such a thing as "too late".
Kangaroos fill that niche here.
I'm using Google domains. I like the free private whois guard they offer.
I live in the Bay Area too, and I only know one or two people in the tech industry who have that kind of commute. Many of my coworkers rent their own apartments without roommates.
I agree of course - a society with at least some understanding of statistics, logic, anthropology (of media), etc is essential to a healthy democracy.

It would be great to see political/cultural literacy taken more seriously, but the trend as you point out has been in the opposite direction (and has been/will be for some time).

Being burdened with debt and not having the choice to pursue further education are the real problems, and can hopefully be solved in a way other than restricting access to those fields.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in this thread... it's pretty cynical (but not uncommon) to suggest that one's primary value to society is what they contribute economically (or otherwise validated economically).

I'm lucky that the situation is a bit more optimistic here in Australia...
Advancing exploitation: a scriptless 0day exploit against Linux desktops
I'd question how you're presenting and selling yourself to potential employees. You have ALL of the leverage. Cracking $100k should have been easy, IMO.
that's literally the opposite of what the placebo effect means.
Hey, thank you for sharing your opinion.

You seem to be abusing of whataboutism and straw manning in your comment. It's difficult to discuss when the goal posts are moved :)

In any case, I especially wanted to follow up on two things: your assumption that I think women are harassed at work based on articles is wrong on so many levels. I do have family, friends, colleagues and I see them suffering struggles that I or other male friends or colleagues don't have to go through. I see this with my own eyes.

The second is that you say males suffer more violence than women do. Yes, that's true. Who are however the ones causing such violence? But that doesn't change things. Men have been abusing their superior physical power to abuse women during history and even today in almost every part of the world.

None of that undermines you as a person for being a white male. I am fully aware of the rampant numbers on male depression and suicide rates. I am also aware that males feel often less inclined to look for help when in trouble, including extreme situations like being raped.

It is however the very same ideology that ostracise women the ones that will put pressure on you to "man up" and call you a pussy, a loser and a failure if you can't get a promotion, a submissive girlfriend or sustain a big stereotypical family with your salary.

The very same people that cause your biggest worries are the same people that tell you the rest are to blame for those. Please take a moment to think about why there's so much psychological pressure on men to be career successful... It's the same root cause that ostracises women.

We're in this together, please don't give hate a chance.

PS: I'm not surprised an educated person can share your opinion. It has nothing to do with studies and knowledge.
I don't live in a ivory tower :-)
I live in my own house and my commute is 20 mins by car, but I still feel bad... thanks for the different point of view though
Org-mode can do everything you're describing.
In a way, yes. In a way, it is punishment for not paying.

To be fair, though, in some cultures the shame really is with the nakedness. To a lesser extent, that extends to different regions of the US or different sorts of families.

Edit: Some of the reaction with the nudity - for a supervisor at work - is that if I was the supervisor getting that picture, I'd never forget the look of them naked. Whatever I did see. And so I imagine it is about the same for other people.
http://redis.io/commands/script-load

While I agree that the caller should be ready for a script not existing, one could build an automated tool to load scripts when starting redis using the SCRIPT LOAD command.
Cassowaries can be pretty aggressive. Dingos are dangerous for children. Magpies are very aggressive but can only maim, not kill.
Maybe attacking was the wrong word. Apple and Microsoft, at least, have historically produced general computers but they're moving away from that as computers move more and more from the domain of us nerds to an everyday appliance involved in all aspects of our lives.