skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C is actually "high-level" in most aspects and we tend to forget that because of newer languages with lots of bells and whistles. C gives you a lot over assembly: functions with (mostly) no need to worry about calling conventions, automatic variables instead of dealing with registers and stack frame offsets, expression-oriented syntax that facilitates nesting of many operations within a single statement, structured programming support instead of scattered jumps and a rudimentary type system around values, pointers, arrays and structs.

Nothing fancy, but it means that the language can be compiled in a straightforward manner without any runtime support and a programmer can easily have a complete mental model of it.
Perhaps you have existing MD notes that you would like to quickly reuse as slides?

Perhaps your workflow is MD based and you want a way to target Google Slides as an output in addition to the other targets that you already have?
Their semi-custom segment basically stabilised the company and saved them from bankruptcy, their new graphics cards have been good, and from what we know about Zen it's going to be a winner for them (somewhere around Broadwell levels clock for clock).

If you keep in mind that they only need to capture something like 10% to 20% of the server market to double their revenue you can see why people are willing to bet on them.

Of course if they've been fudging the Zen numbers as they've done in the past then they'll probably be done as a company, but it seems very unlikely this time around.
Simplest answer for me would be the ability to use effective version control for slides.
How do you prove that the pictures have been deleted once the loan is repaid? Seems like the borrower is exposed to blackmail.
I suspect that your brakes will seize very quickly if you try to battle your engine at full power.
Looks good. But editig and deletion does not work for me.
I only visit https://news.ycombinator.com/best . The articles there don't change every time you press F5.
> Perhaps Google could, by offering a no-ads subscription across their adwords networ. They are unlikely to ever offer this though, because it would cannabalise their existing, highly profitable ad business. Hardly anyone else would have the necessary traction to make it work.

https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/
Reminds me of that scene from US House Of Cards..
They'll soon have both a financial credit score and a "social credit" score:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/05/08/why-there-are-no-credit-...

https://techcrunch.com/2015/01/27/data-from-alibabas-e-comme...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186
Depending on the course/university there's limited space, of course. The problem is when this "exclusivity" that you mention is purely based on who can pay, that is what's detrimental.
function range_error_on_zero(x) {return Array(-!!x).length}
> yet people just buy once they have a down-payment without considering the financial repercussions.

My desired location is in an anomalous realestate market. Mortgage for the place I live in would cost me about $6k/month, rent is about $3.5k/month. Even if that wasn't the case, do I really want an illiquid investment that ties me down with a loan for 30 years when there are so many other investments I could make?

Just considering a downpayment of, say, $200k ... for that kinda money I could take 2 or 3 years off work and build a business that makes much more than that. Riskier investment, sure, but also a lot more profitable and more fun. Quicker returns too.

Dunno, the arguments for buying never made sense to me. Unless of course you have high leverage (can buy cash, but choose not to). Then it's a whole different game.
These are the most innovative countries in the world
The article makes it seem like a lot of these stories are just the result of reporters being too busy. That may be, but that leaves out other reasons such as the revolving door allowing partisan operators to run newsrooms, outright collusion with candidates, etc. Here's a more "haha, only serious" take:

http://freebeacon.com/culture/news-thats-fit-fake/
Could we please leave the memes and jokes to Reddit
The article isn't clear. I don't think this was the result of any official policy so much as individual authorizers making decisions based off the debtor's willingess to play along. The article ends suggesting that the companies issued a formal statement and command to their chats and branches to stop the behavior. Accepting this at face value at the moment for convenience, I would assume this means it was employees abusing their positions to get nude pics.
The point was that many species of algae already produce and release it. Using some of them as feed does not introduce additional emission sources, unlike artificial production would.

Slow release in the cow might help to smooth out the dose so it inhibits methane generation throughout the whole digestion time. But that part is entirely speculation on my part. Something has to make this particular alga better than the others tested.
They are so good that they became optional in C11[0] and thankfully were not adopted by ANSI C++.

[0] - ISO 9899:2011 Programming Languages - C 6.7.6.2 4
There are still people in the US without access to clean water. In some parts of the country, primary and secondary school education is abysmal.

As far as I'm concerned, it's a question of priorities. Sure, I love the humanities, but the government only has so many tax dollars, and studying Shakespeare in university is not a priority.
Thank you for responding. It sounds really interesting and I think I could use something like that, I've purchased it on Audible and will listen to it next.

When you were doing the Pimsleur courses, how far did it help you progress? Did it stick with you?
What's the app platform you're targeting?
grpc-rust: Rust implementation of gRPC
creating a web app is far easier than native.

Getting started with a web app is easier than native. Delivering something non-trivial that scales, run smoothly, works on all browsers, is secure and is easy to use is as hard as anything else in app development.
That works as long as people are bothered about seeing someone nude...
Actually, there are several modes of operation.
In one mode, it acts like a 60 core machine running your favorite x86 Linux applications, in another mode you can run OCL kernels on it. The former, appears to give poor performance, see:
https://cug.org/proceedings/cug2015_proceedings/includes/fil...
I'm posting these links as someone else with an open mind might take the time to read and absorb them:

* http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/opinion/research-shows-whi...
* http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/11/lessons-white-privilege-...
* http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deborah-foster/a-guide-to-whit...

(there are many more good resources -- the bottom-line is that if you're white, you have been privileged by that fact. What you do with this knowledge is of course up to you.)

You can keep on insulting my person, but instead my suggestion is that you read as much as you can about this important topic.

P.S. here's more on women (another non-white-and-male group) having to suffer online abuse:

* http://theconversation.com/abuse-of-women-on-twitter-no-quic...
* http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/entry/twitter-harassment-wom...
* https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/twitter-apologiz...

Denying that online abuse is a massive problem is not defensible, especially when you are comfortably outside of the targeted groups.
Have you planned on a simple sync with a backend DB (any nosql? couch/mongo/rethink..)
The SVG 2 Conundrum
>> Most people would say this. But then when it comes time to get out their credit card and buy a subscription - they don't actually follow through.

This shows that the average "information consumer" considers the so called "news" worthless. Action speaks louder than words.

The average "information consumer" considers his/her own private data also worthless, otherwise would not sell it for free eg. for worthless goods.
Coolermaster Inferno, by any chance?
> People often regard C code as inherently ugly because of nasty coding styles that were prevalent in the 80s and 90s

Those code styles as still prevalent in 2016, speaking from the experience of occasionally having to look into how people write C code to integrate into Java, .NET, Python, Ruby at the enterprise level, which just stresses my point of view about the language.

Specially since outside HN bubble many don't even know what a static analyser or code review are all about.
> Got to say: I can't really think of a better way to solve trust problems in a peer-to-peer lending platform between strangers.

You've got to consider the people who just don't care about nude pics being sent to work mates/friends/relatives. Free money for them? Yes please.

Hell, for the right price I'll do it. Especially if it's just a straight up nude instead of something compromising or whatnot.
Just a suggestion: Ensure a default value for when JQuery isn't available.

Your site is nicely progressive apart from the:

"Attach notes to your"

I spent a good minute wondering what I was meant to attach them to ;)
Not always.

Having done this a fair bit, I've often found that if I have a somewhat minimal template (perhaps haven't gotten to the design stage of a talk and I'm just fleshing out the content of the slides), it's far slower to fire up a GUI and make 50-odd slides than it is to write a Markdown document.

Example:

---

#This is a headline

##This is my subhead.

* And
* Some
* bullets

---

That took me 14 seconds. Creating a new slide, 3 textboxes, and adding in the text in a GUI would take me significantly longer. And that multiplies up for each slide.

That's particularly true if I'm having to produce a lot of similar slideshows, for an extended course or something similar.

In that case, Markdown -> Powerpoint or similar tools are an absolute godsend.
Get one that is Tip Top.
Bin2JSON CTF Challenge
Compared with languages like Ada, Modula-2, Turbo Pascal, Mesa/Cedar, Algol, PL/I, C is what we used to call a middle level language in those days.

And Algol, PL/I and their respective variants are around 10 years older than C.
FreeAgent IPO – a sign of things to come?
Thanks! Those cheap Scaleway ARM server looks very interesting.
In case of Toyota, the error was not with the driver. Not having ninja reflexes when your car misinterprets throttle input as you are parking is not user error.

Reasons that a driver might not simply turn off the engine:
1. Twisting the key to turn off the engine engages the steering wheel lock, which might not be a good idea if you're moving fast.
2. Modern cars with start/stop buttons might end up with issues that disallow stopping the engine - physical button failure, or software issues related to the button handling.
3. Diesel runaway - diesels are quite difficult to stop, as they need very little external assistance, and can run on basically anything. Oil buildup in the intercooler (which any used car will have) that ends up sucked into the intake is a fairly normal way for a diesel engine to self-destruct if you're not quick enough to clutch in so you can keep the engine under control with some load.

Reasons a driver might not be able to hold the engine at full throttle:
1. Brakes seize up at load, and "full power" is certainly a lot of continuous load.
2. Brake failure.
3. The sheer difficulty of holding the car. I have once in my life stopped a diesel van that was idling in first gear using only the brake (long story), and that required a lot of effort. I would not have been able to do it if any throttle had been applied.
The article title is inflammatory click bait.
No, I am talking about the guy who wrote the article. I appreciate the article and its subject, I just dislike the tone. The 'mathematicians are wizards'-attitude is hurting STEM, that is my point. I'm all for praising mathematicians, but they should be praised for their work and cleverness, not for their godlikeness. It is just pretentious bullshit.
>> So basically, now, people give about as much credence to an established media article as to a social media article

"established media articles" are as good as FB hoaxes. Sad but true.
> That's a non-sequitur. If there weren't several repeated experiments showing similar results it might be a reasonable caution. However, many of the best scientific discoveries arose in similar mis-comprehensions.

It's not a non-sequitur! It's firm evidence they don't understand what is going on and therefore aren't in a position to explain it. The fact that they have found a consistent effect does not mean they found anything interesting, a tiny wiggle very close to the detection range when you put a lot of power into it isn't by itself interesting unless you have a good basis to know it is. Which they DON'T.
There have been a number of tools to generate HTML-based slides from simple ASCII text. 20 years ago, I was a fan of Magicpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagicPoint

My recollection is that Magicpoint was really good for drafting the first version of a presentation, where you shouldn't be thinking about how it looks, but rather about what the content flow is. But fine tuning of good looking presentations was not its forte.
Which is why Trump is the president-elect. Keep regurgitating those one-liners from Stephen Colbert, good luck.
It's what we have in Paris.
It was a serious strategy on the part of the Clinton campaign to make the polls look more favorable.

http://www.hangthebankers.com/wikileaks-podesta-emails-polls...

The timeline of the Reuters polls suddenly bumping to a Hillary landslide confirms.
Oh, yeah, they should design and produce a completely different board that virtually nobody buys. That makes a lot of financial sense.
Spooky Physics Up Close: An Exchange
Meetings are ok if they have a clear agenda, a goal what should be decided in the meeting and a small focused group of attendants. If all this is true meetings can be very helpful to get some decisions or a better common understanding for a project.

However often meetings are called in without a real goal - just for the sake of having a meeting. Or a large group of people is invited which don't necessarily contribute to the outcome. If any of those are true the meetings can feel like a giant waste of time for the participants. If people feel they are in a waste-of-time meeting they start working on other things in it, e.g. replying to email, .... This makes the attendant group even less focused and the decreases the outcome even more. These kind of meetings often happened to me in bigger projects in corporate environments, where there were weekly meetings scheduled for almost everything.
As a side effect of UNIX adoption in the industry.

Like it happened with the browser and JavaScript, C got adopted thanks to UNIX.

Before UNIX's adoption, many of us had a pleasant coding life using Turbo/Quick/Apple Pascal, Modula-2, Basic compilers.
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> Do you have a blog?

No, although somebody requested I write an essay which I made on Gene Wolfe and Peter Thiel called 'Peter and the Wolfe'.

https://medium.com/@internaut_48577/peter-and-the-wolfe-b8de...

> I like reading your thoughts (though I'm unclear on how much of it I believe).

I get enjoyment out of speculating about the big picture.

How valid those speculations are is very much up in the air. I don't want anybody to take everything I say as gospel, but I would also say that focusing on arbitrary details (e.g. I could be wrong about biotech since I possess no deep insights about how it works) does not meaningfully alter the Tech Stag Hypothesis. It can be falsified of course e.g. if real wages increase but my point is that 'what about solar' rebuttals don't really work. It is possible to have islands of progress in an ocean of misery.

This is a really important point. In the BBC series 'Ascent of Man';

Drive for Power: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x206z0e_bbc-ascent-of-man-0...)

Jacob Bronowski eloquently points out that the French had all kinds of cute toys, advanced contraptions but it was all so profoundly meaningless. It looked very advanced (and still does) but in another, truer sense, it was a dead end. The real change was happening elsewhere in places and ways less obvious.

Back on point, the Thielan perspective is that there is a Liberal view, a Conservative view, a Libertarian view... and so forth about the world. There are other contexts too like Royalist and Communist but the point is that it isn't quite sensible to state that one of these models is right and the others are incorrect. Even were one of these world views completely defunct, we know it existed for a real reason.

I hasten to add this is not relativism. Human society is dynamic and contextual. Sometimes something is true or real for a long time, and then it isn't. The divine right of kings is no longer valid.

Gene Wolfe explains all of this much better than I could ever hope to.

> Your previous posts have convinced me to read The Book of the New Sun. I'm optimistically hoping it is as good as you believe it is.

I don't think I've been quite the same since my reading of it.

I recommend reading Neil Gaiman's Wolfe Primer:

https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/2007/gwng0704.htm

Don't forget the atmospheric 'music' of the spheres. I think I read Joseph Tainter's Collaspe of Complex Societies at roughly the same time. All of that together was quite an experience!

If you could tell me how you get on that would be marvelous. There are so few people who have read Wolfe and it is always nice to hear of travels along the same paths.
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I didn't know it. It seems indeed very powerful. I will try it and if it is as fast as elasticlunr, use it. Thanks :-)
You seem to be trying to promote some kind of objective definition of fair and freedom. I don't think it's possible.

I've already explained that freedom to join a union is as much a freedom for me as to not do it. It's just a matter of tactics.

Also regarding freedom of firing an employee for joining a union. That "freedom" is only rendered possible by suppressing other peoples freedom of joining a union, so no, I don't agree with you.

I'm not from the states.

I'm not even sure if you're arguing against or for unions anymore. Or if you are just trying to get to an objective definition of freedom and fairness that you can build upon to say that unions are inherently bad in some right-libertarian philosophical way.
Ask HN: What Linux Desktop Env do you use and what do you like/hate about it?
... though they've thankfully already corrected it:

http://www.snopes.com/monsanto-suppressing-evidence-of-cance...
Transporting it there might be an issue.
Except... the election was super close. There wasn't really a clear trend of much of anything when it comes to making people vote one way or tother.

The rise of the combination of third Party vote - Gary Johnson and Jill Stein + other was over 4% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele... - and less overall votes says that, far from people seeing their own side, people didn't like ANY side.

The question should really be "What made Blacks and Latinos turn out in lower numbers, and what made so many people vote Gary Johnson, Jill Stein or other, especially in swing states?" That doesn't seem to be the question anyone wants to look at, and I reckon that's the real story here: how invested in the two party system, and their own survival, the media is.
Deploy Newspipe on Heroku
I'm not going to comment on the same story twice. I shit, I just did.
Now you can get the news from many different sources. That's probably a blessing if you are capable of critical thought and want to invest a minimal of effort to do some fact-checking and to get the big picture.

If you can't or don't want, I'd say the situation is more grim than before when people had one or a few somewhat neutral established sources of news such as the main newspapers or evening news on television. People get to pick what to believe and enforce their own little bubbles of reality.

So it might indeed come down to how educated and critical people are whether this ubiquitous news trend turns out to be an improvement or more harmful. I'd say that right now, in the West – where traditional media on the whole was at least somewhat neutral – it's not looking great. But in less democratic places where the media is state-owned, alternative sources of news might have a positive impact.
I remember some solid refutation on why the USC/LAT poll was biased since it was a tracking poll with a biased sample and gave a couple of voters on niche demographics too much weight, etc etc.

Turns out they were pretty much right which makes us question all the social science accepted as valid.
Artificial Intelligence and life in 2030 [pdf]
What is wrong with declaring local variables at the top of functions ?
Here's another one.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642028/what-is-the-name-...

int main()
{
int x = 10;
while (x --> 0) // x goes to 0
{
printf("%d ", x);
}
}
I won't ever buy another Android phone, but I have been looking for a stock Android 7-8 inch tablet for a while. The search continues...
That sounds absolutely awful.

Because what's better than being 20 minutes into the worst diarrhoea shit of your life whilst away from home? Oh yeah, the door deciding to swing open when you're 21 minutes in.
Solar panels surpass coal-fired electricity in previously ‘unthinkable’ feat
A few years ago they laid off a whole bunch of journalists. Often they just don't have much time to write their own stories.

The institution is a shadow of what it used to be 10 years ago. It used to hold the government to account. Now it's more like a British RT with added clickbait.
A year with JavaScript (after 10 years with Ruby)
Monetization is a big deal because communications service for 1.7B people is expensive, and Facebook is actually a very efficient system compared to regular telecom.
The idea is roughly that each pixel of the camera has an address, which gets send whenever the pixel has accumulated enough charge. The pixels are sensitive to changes in intensity. So you get a stream of pixel addresses from the sensor and each send address signifies a sufficiently large intensity change.
You may be interested in the Linux kernel docs[0]. We use it at work to better identify faults with devices hanging off he PCIe bus, namely GPUs and interconnects.

[0] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.t...
That may be your bias. I know a lot of software engineers saying the exact opposite.
Machine Learning Meets the Lean Startup
Whenever companies i've worked for have provided breakfast, i've always abstained. I only eat breakfast if i'm going to the gym before work, in which case I eat beforehand. Otherwise I wait until lunch (around 12:30). So it always seems strange when companies offer it as an incentive to get in by a certain time.
You don't know what oversampling means in the context it's being used if you think that quote means that they're trying to bias the polls. One might argue that the article you linked is exactly the kind of fake news that is being talked about.
The spec for webapps does allow them to function without an internet connection. It's extra work, but you can get it to work.
Think wearables and smart jewellery is ‘cool’, well time to think again