skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had the opportunity to work with SPIL several times with my Flash games. They've just started a push to get HTML5 games so if you're messing around with it you might like to talk to them.

You can also talk to Martine Spaans who handles licensing for their Flash game here:

http://www.flashgamelicense.com/view_thread.php?thread_id=20...

or here:

https://en.mochimedia.com/community/forum/topic/html5-the-ot...

They're an awesome company to work with, and the biggest company in the world with online gaming by a very big lead.
RSS not dead, just misunderstood
I don't yet use duck duck go because of the tiny lag (couple ms) that takes to display the results. The google results are almost instant, and i'm relly annoyed by the ddg small lag.
Hey, that was small! :-D

thanks
Just disable all plug-ins & Java in Safari preferences. It's a lot easier and you won't miss them. The only thing I used Flash for was watching videos, and HTML5 has that mostly covered now.
The study involved 100 college students.

Maybe that might have some sort of application to college students, but I'm not so sure it would hold up if they'd studied the general population of Facebook users.
Errrm... I searched for "dog" and got pictures of women, then searched for "cat" and got pics of cars. Not sure whats up there!
Philosophy and sports.
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I bet 99% of all people who might be interested in Blu-Ray does.
Some good points in interviewing, but I think that's more useful to me for when I'm the interviewee... Seems like that info could be used to improve your resume and lead an interview from the interviewee's seat... Make them ask the questions you want to answer, etc, if they aren't already.

As for the lying on the resume, though... I disagree. Assuming everything on the resume is a lie and not being surprised about the lies is wrong. Anyone who will lie on their resume will lie afterwards, too. Anytime they tell you they can do a task, you can't trust them for it. You have to micromanage them forever after.

That's not to say you should assume it's the truth... You should investigate and make sure. But if there are lies, it should horrify you.
Good. They need to engage people and go for the openness and transparency. Otherwise I'd be seriously concerned about the security of this project.

I couldn't find a reference to the 'vigorous debate' mentioned. Can anyone point to relevant security mailing lists where Haystack is being discussed?
A nice summary has been posted on MetaFilter:

http://www.metafilter.com/95686/Needle-program-exchange

In particular, one of the commenters claims to have analyzed Haystack and found some very scary things:

http://www.metafilter.com/95686/Needle-program-exchange#3280...
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Oh man, it's such an awesome story. Thanks so much for replying. Good to hear the shack wasn't the first iteration (nor the last). Did it take some experience to be able to build a stable, long-lasting shack (perhaps just woodwork in general?)

How far were you from a town, for food, construction materials, etc and a PO (I guess biking distance)? I guess you had a friendly nearby neighbour for the extension lead? [I've been thinking solar, which I actually used for a hp200lx, using 4 rechargeable AAs, but today's netbooks need a gruntier, more elaborate setup: large solar panel, lead-acid battery, transformer etc. Seems error-prone. Maybe a kindle-like ARM+OLED/e-ink/LCD will change this.]

I'd like internet - either wired or mobile (we have rural mobile coverage, and the govt just reelected campaigned for more) - instead of a PO, but I'd still need a local town for food etc. It scares me a bit to be too far away - but that's where the peace/silence is that I want/need.

Just to collect figures and conversions for reference:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%243000+1975

$3,000 for 5 acres = $12,000 today
$40 per month = $ 160 today
@ 10% = $20,000 invested
1200' ext lead = 365m
Oregon 44N; Tasmania 42S

If these figures are applicable today, here in Australia, I could do this... now.
Guide to N.F.L. Defenses
According to OS X's dashboard dictionary widget (Oxford American?)
Stereotype: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

That "oversimplified" is what makes it an unreasonable assumption.
Damn, that's how I got this annoying adware. I think it's time to bury Flash for good.
Being "well-connected" will only get you so far. YC helps you develop as an entrepreneur, among many other things unrelated to having the right connections. Even if you previously worked at a startup, that's still very different from founding your own company.

Also, I think a lot of people overestimate the value of their current network, and underestimate the value of the YC network.
Here's a thread about it:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1690118
Why do the Japanese draw themselves as white?
> with the attention span of an ADHD kid hopped up on meth and Jolly Ranchers

Well, I'm very disappointed to find this.

1. One of the more common (and certainly well-known) medications for ADHD is Ritalin, which is methylphenidate. It's mildly related to meth. The long story short is that giving meth to someone with ADHD would not cause them to be able to focus less; rather, to be able to focus more.

2. Studies have shown that sugar does NOT cause hyperactivity in children, whether or not they have ADHD.

I'm saddened to see these incorrect stereotypes about ADHD. As an adult with ADHD, it's part of what makes my life harder than it has to be.
Interesting. That's a post by Jacob Applebaum who works on Tor. His Twitter feed is full of his thoughts about Haystack: http://twitter.com/ioerror
Which it failed spectacularly at by a) not doing anything to curb piracy, and b) pissing off actual consumers so much they'd rather pirate, c) being such "a bag of hurt" that it didn't get added to Apple's computers.
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>and I'll feel like an asshole

Why? I would try to make it as uncomfortable for them as possible so they don't do that anymore.
Why not completely uninstall them instead?
Division takes a data-dependent number of cycles on all x86-64 processors.
Are you referring to the strips on the old title bar?

True, but they were a _lot_ nicer. I remember at the time people complaining a lot about OS X look, including the stripes, and wanted the old look back. So I guess most of us don't feel like they are really the same. But I get your point.

As for the look of Snow Leopard vs. MacOS 9 and MacOS X 10.0 I'd say a lot has reverted back. The old one in particular used a lot of greys, which OS X at the beginning was trying to get away from ("Look, it's all colourful!").

So yeah, maybe I exaggerated when I said most of it, but you've got to admit that the look has moved back to the more subtle ways of Classic than the flashy ways of 10.0, no?
I happened something similar to me. I forgot I was running a recurring billing adwords campaign. I realized I had that campaign when the bill came with a lovely 3.700$ total. The worst part is I didnt got to sell anything.
I suspect this guy never compiled the code he posted. Not that his claim was completely wrong, but gcc-4.4.4, gcc-4.5.1, and clang-1.1 (LLVM-2.7) all fail to vectorize that snippet, with `gcc-4.5.1 -O3 -ftree-vectorize -ftree-vectorizer-verbose=9`, I get

note: not vectorized: number of iterations cannot be computed.
note: bad loop form.
note: vectorized 0 loops in function.

However, gcc-4.5.1 and gcc-4.4.4 vectorize it when the operation is written as a standard `for` loop. Clang never vectorizes it.
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You should like someone who puts absolutely everyone ahead of themselves (not making a judgment on if this is good or bad. It's definitely different then me).
I find the flashing or constant updating of the page as I type to be very annoying. So much so, that I have turned the feature off.
Could you tell me a bit more about why you like data.frame? Is it not just a 2D matrix?
Like I said, it's great for those purposes and I'm glad someone's doing it. But for people just casually wanting to hear some recordings at home, nothing beats YouTube right now.
IIRC Google helpfully embed Flash inside Chrome
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I think it would be a little scary to go through some of these roads…
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You could as well be searching for:
d) A term from the Set theory
e) Integer type

Too much ambiguity.
That's quite interesting:

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At the risk of getting sued, let me throw you geeks a bone and part the Goldman veil a bit. The Goldman Sachs risk system is called SecDB (securities database), and everything at Goldman that matters is run out of it. The GUI itself looks like a settings screen from DOS 3.0, but no one cares about UI cosmetics on the Street. The language itself was called SLANG (securities language) and was a Python/Perl like thing, with OOP and the ORM layer baked in. Database replication was near-instant, and pushing to production was two keystrokes. You pushed, and London and Tokyo saw the change as fast as your neighbor on the desk did (and yes, if you fucked things up, you got 4AM phone calls from some British dude telling you to fix it). Regtests ran nightly, and no one could trade a model without thorough testing (that might sound like standard practice, but you have no idea how primitive the development culture is on the Street). The whole thing was so good, I didn’t even know what an ORM really was until I started using Rails and had to wrestle with ActiveRecord. The codebase was roughly 15MM lines when I left, and growing. I suspect my retinas are still scarred by the weird color blue SecDB was by default.
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Define most people. Personally I spend the majority of my day editing text, so the small improvements are pretty important.

P.S. I have code completion, jump to file etc all working just fine in vim. On a codebase with 15000+ files, this is a hell of a lot faster in vim than it is in say, Eclipse.
Having spent far too much time figuring out problems in a fairly large email system (120 servers, world-wide, just about every MTA known, including Notes) I can heartily agree - there are just so many obscure ways that email can fail that it's really not funny.
Can't read your code, but aren't (F,M,1) and (M,F,2) impossible? Not sure what exactly you are calculating.
I know of a few people that had roombas. I can understand wanting robots for practical uses.

Other than playtoys and sources of entertainment (e.g. Fur-real pets), I think robots for companionship are for people that want to escape reality. That's fine and there is a market for that, but it is sad. Those people could be spending time helping real people in need rather than getting to know and loving non-living things.

And yes, I saw Millenium Man AND AI.
Do you think with all the screen scraping tools we're seeing come out these days, that there will be a lot more of "taking a crappy UX and turning it into an awesome one"? Not talking about to the heights that Hipmunk have taken it, but maybe somewhere between Hipmunk and all the different instant search tools we've seen.
And yet, a bartender or cab driver makes more in tips from Western tourists in a day than a doctor does in salary in a month.
No issue here.. Just use FlashBlock for chrome and firefox, and when theres flash content you want to view, click the Flash icon to enable it. Theres still a lot of flash content thats good out there. I think just enabling the flash content you want to use, will solve a lot of the issues people have with flash.
Is transactional memory actually easier? (pdf, study on students)
and c) the dillusion that there exists lost sales because a torrent of said flick is available now...
Apple: http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/02/apple-patching-nasty-ipho... ("fix by the end of this month")

Google: http://seclists.org/webappsec/2006/q1/66 (6+ months)

I'm sure you can find more of them by searching for them (as I just did).
You have to understand what lateness means. If someone is late because she was "getting ready" that means "I would rather spend time looking at myself in a mirror than spend time with you". Friends are not so disrespectful of friends.
Jack Kerouac did this in the fifties
Is there any library for desktop applications? I'm searching for UI Design patterns for scientific applications that run on a desktop and haven't found yet one good resource, that discusses e.g. real time visualization of measured data.
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According to the website, Parallel Colt supports multicore machines. There's no mention of MPI though. As far as I know, Incanter only wraps it, so it does not influence the performance that much..
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Many orchestras are supported by donations from wealthy benefactors, so "crying poor" is a core part of their (generally non-profit) business.
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I added the file to my torrent tool, but the only seeder online (you) somehow won't start to transfer the file.
Can you plan to be on time to the minute, though? With traffic? Or does being on time mean you have to be early, to account for the possibility of travel delays. Then suddenly it becomes expensive to always be on time.
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HDCP 'master key' supposedly released, unlocks HDTV copy protection permanently
Good. There should be consequences for stupid actions. Threatening the leader of a country is not something to do lightly.
Here's why: if you are not programming on mnemonic-level for the implied processor, you are not writing assembly. Period. Saying anything else is just romanticizing and paraphrasing (which in my opinion there is no room for in technics on this level).
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It doesn't work with Opera, so I'm not seeing it at all.
Use the kill-flash extension for Chrome. It takes off flash elements and replaces them with a zone to click on if you want to bring it back. It has a whitelist that you can use for sites that you want flash on by default.
I am surprised about the number one: it seems to be the best from a purely checklist point of view. Yes, it has the most features but it has horrible battery, or that's what all reviews say. I would have chosen something else for the top spot.
I'm pretty sure you could do a lot of this in Python as well.
When I cleaned up the quote for my blog, I did it as: "accept the loner: a mentally-sound individual with non-aligned sensibilities"
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And will also help many more people on many more social sites decide that it needs to be upvoted, while the ad for Halo Reach at the bottom of the article will ensure that the publisher gets paid handsomely for their work.

Nice little trifecta: article topic, emotional impact, and commercial-event tie-in. Very nicely done.
"3. What this means is, you can map almost any command in C into a specific command or a few specific commands in assembly."

Do you have any idea how wildly inaccurate that statement is? If you have no experience at all with assembly on any processor, or perhaps only on the x86 family, then I can understand your statement. It's still wildly inaccurate, though.
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(I think you mean Nietzsche: "Was mich nicht umbringt,
macht mich stärker."/"What does not kill me makes me stronger.")
Just make sure it includes a hologram.
All the techs you're mentioning are workarounds for downloading large files from usenet, a protocol mindnumbingly inappropriate for that task.

BitTorrent has errorchecking, and it's very good (SHA-1 hashed of each chunk, sized 32k-4m). RARs error-checking is geared towards fixing permanently damaged files, because re-getting a broken chuck was infeasible. Re-downloading up to 4mb is not an issue in this day and age, if it is ever necessary - which it's usually not.

BT also supports multiple files, no need to deal with RARs or ZIPs or whatever.

And what's the deal with full speed? The structure of the data being downloaded has zero bearing on the speed in BT. I have yet to come across a well-seeded torrent that couldn't max out whatever bandwidth I threw at it.
Ok, if you take that definition then yes, I agree that stereotypes are morally negative. I'd still say that the bad part is more in the 'fixed' than in the 'oversimplified' but that's just minor quibbling which doesn't take away from your point.

My point was coming from a slightly different notion of 'stereotype' where it's more similar to 'preconceived notion'. Maybe it's just a language thing.
Yep, I think it won't work either (too many holes in their ban).

However I would have really wished for the University to use this chance to carry a proper experiment, gathering data, analysing them, etc. They are a university, after all! They got a chance to study the effect of the ban on people's activities and behaviour... why not try to collect some data?

It may be useless and too noisy, but still.
Higgs Boson discovery before 2014 trades at less than 40% on Intrade
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EDIT: So I changed the general message to fit the original goal of this app: collaboration.

We originally implemented HobsonFiles exactly the way I currently describe it on the page. We need to bring back the collaborative feature but it should only take a few days to do that.

I believe this type of collab is definitely something that hasn't been done with email before. I'll put up a demo video shortly.
I'm not sure if you're kidding, but why would you prefer NZB/RAR/PARs over bittorrent?

Bittorrent has basic hash checking, will re-download as needed from peers and most usefully you don't have to extract anything afterwards.
Probably because they make that amount of money in a single year.
Do you mean direct/indirect objects as in French grammar: Le père donne la clé à la voisine ("The father gives the key to the neighbour"; father: subject, key: direct object, neighbour: indirect object)?

Corresponding OO code:

father.give(key, neighbour)

And objects (in the grammatical sense) with preposition could be understood to correspond to keyword arguments:

father.give(key, to=neighbour)

Now if we introduced cases to a programming language...
Oh. Wow. EPIC, EPIC FAIL.

Actually, they're doing it for other things too:

[web based email]
[adverts for publishers]
[traffic analytics]

I'm sure there's more.

Wow. That truly is an epic fail. Google have removed Google from the SERPs.

LOL! I love(d?) Google, but they are definitely screwing something up somewhere. These rubbishy results occur when I'm logged out too (well, I don't have Web History or personalized search enabled so I guess that's n/a)
The volume on Intrade for many of these niche futures is very low, which may make the payoff for correcting poor market prices too low to motivate knowledgeable physicists. But I think some more publicity for Intrade and prediction markets in general would be a great thing.

Full disclosure: I have several unfilled positions on the Higgs and Supersymmetry.
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I think he meant the Joker (from The Dark Knight), who of course was ripping Nietzsche off.

Nietzsche: God is dead.
God: Nietzsche is dead.
Indeed. This was the first article I read this morning and it woke me up.

A cultural aspect of the US not common in many nations is emphasized here - 'leniency to failed businesses and the people that ran them'. In the US there is very little stigma associated with individuals who ran a business unsuccessfully. In my experience that has not been true in parts of Africa and Asia.

The model even exists on social fronts. For example, divorce (unsuccessful marriage) carries a stigma in many Asian countries.

I think the US culture lets you breathe and live without making too many judgments about your life.
If X[0] is masked, it will return the value mask, of type MaskedConstant.

As for python vs numpy differences: yes, those can be confusing, and that's inherent to the fact that we use a "real" language with a library on top of it instead of the language designed around the domain. If you want to do numerical computation, you do want the behavior of numpy in most cases, I think. There is the issue of "easiness" vs what scientists need. You regularly have people who complain about various float issues, and people with little numerical computation knowledge advising to use decimal, etc... unaware of the issues. Also, python will want to "hide" the complexities, whereas numpy is much less forgiving.

As for the special case of divide by 0 or inf, note that you can get a behavior quite similar to python float. You can control how FPU exceptions are raised with numpy.seterr:

import numpy as np
a = np.random.randn(4)
a / 0 # puts a warnings, gives an array of +/- inf
np.seterr(divide="raise")
a / 0 # raise divide by 0 exception
Poll: How often do you use Twitter?
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I don't have a Twitter account
A few times a month
A few times a week
Once a day
Multiple times a day
Constantly
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Someone make an RSS reader for people. I think that's a good point; I've got too many subscriptions in my Google Reader, so many that I rarely access it: I feel overwhelmed.

I think there was a discussion on this in HN somewhere a week ago; someone suggested News Blur and it seemed a good solution although I haven't tried it out yet. http://www.newsblur.com/
The best interpretation of quantum theory [..] takes the [..] view that
randomness is genuinely physically manifested

We could argue endlessly about whether that is 'the best' interpretation (which ethical assumptions does your 'the best' presuppose?) but fortunately it doesn't matter. As Mermin (from the famous Ashcroft and Mermin book on Solid State Physics) famously quipped: you can 'shut up and calculate'. The usefulness of the model does not depend on its interpretations (although the interpretations are certainly important with respect to scientific progress).
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Both were shown a screen that had a set of randomly moving dots, and asked to determine whether there was any coherent motion, meaning that, despite the apparent randomness, the dots had a tendency to head in a single direction

This article should have been titled, "Gamers make faster decisions than nongamers at video games." Duh.
that was very well written.

"It got to the point that some papers had no authors, and had apparently written themselves. So it goes. No longer with the firm."

slightly vonnegut-inspired?
Viruses that target multiple machines may not be as ridiculous as they sound. At least one researcher has a proof-of-concept that works on multiple platforms: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2001/03/42672

As an aside, the alpha releases for Flash on Linux are surprisingly stable. The "gray rectangle" problem appears to be solved, which was the worst part of Flash on Linux in years past. Video streaming works well, but animations flicker and tear, so most online games are still unplayable.