skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to argue against most of the comments here though: I think, after a very short time with C, you get a clear sense of what will happen in the assembly. It's also pretty trivial to reach that stage with C++ - really, all the basic control structures are implemented in a pretty standard way. Sure, sometimes it throws a curveball, but you know what? It was the exception rather than the rule.

I'm fully convinced that I could sit down with the average C++ program and accurately predict the majority of the generated assembly. It's really not that hard - the compiler doesn't have THAT many instructions, and it only uses them in a limited set of occasions!

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I second that. Plus I would learn how to make music, party a lot and travel even more.
Ask HN: Money is not the constraint. Should I talk to angels?
So I have startup idea and I have implemented a fare bit. We hope to launch a private beta in the next couple of weeks. Right now I bootstrap this besides my day job.

My question is: Should I keep slowly boostraping or should I start talking to angels? What other benefits besides money does a good angel have? Should I care about his connections or will the product sell itself if its good enough?
Well indeed, and this doesn't just apply to quantum mechanics but to the OP's quotation from the article too:

People often intuitively think of probabilities as a fact about the world, when in reality probabilities are a fact about our model of the world.
Which is the marketing book that focuses too much on brand?
Visualizing Australian School performance with F#
Need to have more options. I use it even less than any of these. Also some may have Twitter accounts and have only tweeted once (I've seen many of them).
Printing a textarea
I upgraded Flash on my old laptop just yesterday. The pain and misdirection of being pushed through installing the Adobe Download Manager extension, then restarting the browser in order to actually update the plugin, seems like enough of an obstacle to significantly slow down the roll-out of the eventual fix.
Less than a few times a month
Just out f curiosity, what kind of people are asking this question?

I've been an anime fan for years and this question has legitimately never crossed my mind despite being cynical and critical of almost every single factual inaccuracy I come across.

Interesting article all the same!
https should stop your ISP from spying, no?
The best weapons in Mass Effect 2 are "protected against replication by sophisticated Fabrication Rights Management (FRM) technology"
The future of Lisp
As you can see Lisp community is still evolving:

From comp.lang.lisp:

Norbert_Paul:
Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> You're wrong, parentheses and conses are sexy:

> (.)(.)
> ) (
> ( )

That doesn't work.
When I ry to load it into sbcl I get a
SB-INT:SIMPLE-READER-ERROR
with
"Nothing appears before . in list."
True.. Added one option. Thx.
AFAIK, you can not apply that in Spanish, You should use the masculine plural gender to refer to both genders, or when the gender of the people is unknown.

There are exceptions to the rule, like the one above (Zapatistas) or some professions like "doctores" or "jueces", but they are exception not the rule. There are also many words that dont have a feminine plural, i.e "las soldados", "las jueces", etc
Aren't you allowed to genuinely like your language or tools?

Not of that means being blind to its shortcomings. I love my girlfriend, but that doesn't mean I can't name 5 things that sometimes annoy me about her.

but people can be completely satisfied and happy with their tools

You can be satisfied and happy while still sometimes cursing at shortcomings. I love coding in Ruby, but the state of affairs concerning documentation and where to find gems is appalling.

(BTW: upvoted for having a valid opinion. People, please don't downvote below +1 just to disagree.)
Kinda off topic but it's odd to see this post this morning.

Last night I had a dream where I spontaneously got on a plane to SF bay and loitered outside the YC offices where I social engineered my way in and pretended to be a founder.

PG was there just kind of hanging around and giving advice to whoever approached. I sat and listened for a long time and now I can't remember a thing he said. I'm sure my subconscious stored it all since that's probably where it came from anyway. Then I was suddenly in a gondola near the YC offices, over-looking the ocean and some mountains with a really majestic blue sky. My wife and a female YC founder were there with me and we were talking about how beautiful it is in California.

When I woke up, I had the feeling like maybe I should apply again and the first thing I see when I log on this morning is this post. I had firmly decided not to apply and told myself to just focus on the business.

Ignore the synchronicity or give it a shot...
I think I read once that Asian people pay more attention to the eyes than other facial features when they are reading emotions. The hypothesis was somehow based on the fact that the emoticons Asians use tend to mostly show the eyes. Since it's difficult to show emotions on a cartoon, perhaps drawing big eyes started as a way to make it easier for the artist to express anger, happiness,... on what they drew.

They might look whiter than Asian, but it probably has nothing to do with Asians wanting to be white. You can probably test what the OP said by asking a villager in Africa which race those cartoons belong to assuming he's seen an equal share of whites and Asians.
The post makes a good point, but it does overlook the fact that the "Godfather of Anime", Osamu Tezuka (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu_Tezuka) was heavily influenced by Walt Disney and American animation.

For instance, the Wikipedia article notes: "The distinctive "large eyes" style of Japanese animation was invented by Tezuka, drawing inspirations on cartoons of the time such as Betty Boop and Walt Disney's Bambi and Mickey Mouse."

You can see how Bambi was drawn with large eyes here: http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=bambi

You can see Betty Boop here: http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=betty+boop

You can see Mickey Mouse here: http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=mickey+mouse+classi...

You can compare the style of those eyes to Tezuka's Astro Boy, first published in 1952: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AstroBoyVolume1.jpg
This "article" seems to be very light on basically anything. Especially facts. How much karma does it take on HN to vote things down?
Very interesting - can anyone verify this fact?
Quick tip: hover over the numbered footnotes for some great asides.
Their forcing of the download manager app (painful trying to find an alternate download to upgrade Flash) should be a key reason for people to abandon the platform.
Exactly. I was baffled by the title. Anime characters never ever looked like "white" (Caucasian) people to me.
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I am not a user of their software and I generally dislike their business practices, but I must say that for this response they deserve credit and respect.
What is this "ganging up" you are speaking of? All I can see as of this moment are people making true statements about Adobe Flash's vulnerabilities, expressing their personal opinions about using Flash, sharing tips for avoiding or disabling Flash, and so on.

As for the two weeks, it sounds like you are saying that the appropriate response to being told that you have to stand in line a day to buy bread is to shrug your shoulders since you're already standing in line a day to buy milk.
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An oddly appropriate (yet completely unrelated) quote from another article currently on the frontpage:

> For all things (that are things I know) there exists a Context in which that thing I know is false
I wouldn't talk to angels at this point, if I were you.

If you're able to bootstrap your way through your private beta, do it. If possible, I'd hold off talking to angels until you've found a repeatable, scalable customer acquisition processes. If you manage to do so, you'll be in a much stronger position with the angels, and you'll also have a clear idea on how to effectively use the money raised.
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Looking for feedback on this new site which will hopefully achieve a far better conversion rate than the current one which can be found at: http://www.pestfreeproducts.co.uk/

Feedback welcome.
You can't vote articles down you can just flag them as not belonging on the site.
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Because PG's a bitch!
I am confused by the opening paragraph:

In a job interview, I once asked a very experienced embedded software developer to write a program that reverses a string and prints it on the screen. He struggled with this basic task. This man was awesome. Give him a bucket of spare parts, and he could build a robot and program it to navigate around the room. He had worked on satellites that are now in actual orbit. He could have coded circles around me. But the one thing that he had never, ever needed to do was: display something on the screen.

Okay, he "could have coded circles around the interviewer" while simultaneously he had never, ever needed to display something on the screen.

Does this mean he's an awesome developer and we should be wary of a false negative provided by applying a single, very narrow test? Or does it mean we should apply lots of tests because you never know when you're going to discover that the person you thought was awesome lacks some basic experience you deem fundamental?
You can already print in steel, and rubber. You can print in plastic and rubber at the same time.

Both of those things are still pretty expensive. But We Have The Technology. It's only a matter of time until it gets cheaper.
Now he'll never get rid of US taxes.
I think that is one of the more thorough accounts of that system I have seen published. All in one paragraph no less.
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I was okay with it until here:

"Some Americans, even some scholars, will argue against this view of anime. They want to think the Japanese worship America or worship whiteness and use anime to prove it. But they seem to be driven more by their own racism and nationalism than anything else."

It's a red flag when you preemptively declare all of your opponents racists before they've even had a chance to respond.

Maybe someone will disagree for a non-racist reason? Just maybe?
How come when I click on "reddit" in the top bar of Instantise, it takes me to Google in an iframe?
What struck me as odd in Asia were all the skin whitening products. Even regular cosmetics had "Whitening" plastered over it.
It's called "Fast Marketing For Fast Growth". I couldn't find it on Amazon.

http://www.newholland.com.au/product.php?isbn=9781921024306
Or, you could think of the legitimate uses ... someone who just wants to offer something for download, and then has to pay a fortune in bandwidth. Instead, someon uses this service, and we all benefit!
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Ayjay on Fedang
How would a rss reader for people look like? Would it be able to rate/rank items accordingly to the probability that I'm going to like it?

The main problem with rss feeds is the same as with many other media formats: people try to meet the standard volume (at least x posts per week) even if they have nothing interesting to say. Most rss feeds suffer from the same problem that also hampers novels that have to be X pages long, movies that have to be 100 minutes long, or CDs that have to have a minimum play time etc. even though the quality of the material would suggest something shorter.
Is it to me or the Quicktime plugin is still enabled and it even has a critical security update?
Thanks for that link - I'm enjoying the article.

I'm surprised to be reading so much talk about Flash not working very well on Linux. I'm using Fedora 13 (previously Ubuntu) on an extremely low-performance machine, and I haven't seen any problems in a very long time (at least a year). Video's, games, etc... all seem to work fine, and I generally pay a lot of attention to the Flash player because I'm a flex developer. The only time I struggle is when I watch HD video, but that's to be expected on my machine even if I'm watching a DVD.
Out of curiosity, can you not automate the acquisition of the key, so that when somebody runs your app the first time, it goes and obtains the key as required?
Oops, that was lame. I have added the link to the end of the blog post. Thanks for noticing.

Cheers,
Vincent
It's not racist as in kkk-style, overt hatred of another race, it's more like culture-blindness, or ignorance, or a misplaced belief that one's culture is dominant in an area where it is not.
I used to get distracted in tense Quake 3 duels because I would become aware of my heart racing.
I've had a number of people tell me this system is why GS won the financial crisis.

During the financial crisis, GS knew their positions and their risks. They could also calculate the side effects of proposed trades as quickly as their computers could calculate it. This meant the people at the top could actively plan what to do next during the day.

In contrast, MS and JPM can only get information like this a few hours after the end of the day, and supposedly Citi just can't calculate such things without massive effort.
This makes me proud :)
I had the same question. I didn't think it was a big deal, since I figured that other people ask the question and it just never occurred to me. Then I came across the last sentence of the article:

"Some Americans, even some scholars, will argue against this view of anime. They want to think the Japanese worship America or worship whiteness and use anime to prove it. But they seem to be driven more by their own racism and nationalism than anything else."

After that kind of sentence, I really expect some evidence that someone, somewhere has this view.
Who's been saying RSS is dead? For me, it's been the main way to get news/web updates for years.
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Not to mention that, for the foreseeable future, the end result of a homemade bike (for all but the most skilled) would probably be below the standard of the cheap products you could get outside of specialty bike stores anyway. Are the prosumers/dedicated-types riding those now? Not really.

That said, I suspect DIYers, innovators, etc will find a way to make it work regardless, even if it means starting very simply with parts or things like crockery, glassware, basic construction, etc.
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Good News: People Are Consuming More News
back to ensuring pixel level stylesheet compatibility for IE6-9

I don't think you have to go that far. I think it's perfectly acceptable to have a fully functioning app that works in most browsers, has a few hacks for IE7+, and a stripped-down version for IE6. Maybe the IE6 version should have nested tables, a high contrast color scheme, and lots of blinking text.
Don't listen to rich people telling you that you shouldn't get your first million dollars. Is this post that different than a VC hoping poor founders stay hungry?
Chess programming and such
Feed Readers are like mailing lists.
You have to scan the subjects and decide if you want to dive in.
You don't have to read everything from everyone you subscribe to.
Also Hacker News is for me a feed reader - I benefit from everyone else picking out good stuff for me to read and then I subscribe to that with RSS.
A quick check of Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_nationality_law#Dual_ci...) seems to indicate that he's still a Finn, since Finland permits dual citizenship.

The USA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_nationality_law#D...) seems to permit it, too.

Of course I can't know if Mr Torvalds has done anything in particular to only be a US citizen, but at least that doesn't seem to be the default.
I'm pretty sure that several search quality people are reading this thread now, but I'll try to mention this explicitly to people. Thanks for the suggestion.

Normally Google doesn't allows searches for punctuation, because doing so would swell the index size a lot for very little return in terms of helpful searches. But since we're engineers, we do search some punctuation, e.g. underscores so you can search for sprintf_s, and terms like C# and F#. I'll ask whether the # can carry through into Suggest.
Stop buying movies period -- because if not Blu-Ray, it will be another technology aimed at treating you like a criminal.
Right, the experience of being treated like a criminal will improve. Their shackled product won't.
You see a lot of that in the Philippines especially. Everyone wants to be as white as possible, so they carry umbrellas to block the sun, and use whitening lotions and soaps. Contrast that with the US, where people want to be tan, to the point of using tanning salons and spray-on tans.
Even more interesting, he's interested in the latency work that Desnoyers was working on last week.
The "give feedback" form does automatically populate the feedback form with what you were searching for when you clicked to give feedback. We haven't tried transmitting several searches because people would probably complain, and it's not clear how much previous searches would help. But when we revamped the feedback form, that's one of the big wins we got from making it dynamic instead of a generic form.
I'd guess we solve the normal way - googling the filename with '+filetype:torrent'?
I always love it when someone links to WSJ, because it seem that just when the article....

(please note that this is not sarcasm directed at submitter, just about WSJ in general)
The trouble with Flash is that it is so ubiquitous. If Firefox gets a critical zero-day vulnerability, I'll use Chrome. If Chrome does, I'll use Firefox. With a Flash vulnerability over 90% of computers on the web are susceptible and there is no alternative.
Anyone knows if the Twitter for iPhone/Android get a significantly higher quota of API calls per hour?
I agree. But I wonder if an angel could help me find a repeatable, scalable customer acquisition process?
There should also be a limit on such consequences. Teenagers do dumb shit all the time, and this is never going to change. There is no conceivable advantage for anyone in making someone suffer "consequences" for dumb teenager shit long after they've grown up into a perfectly intelligent, responsible adult. It's bad enough that some have to suffer the consequences of one stupid mistake for the rest of their lives (I personally know a guy who's paraplegic due to jumping into a lake at the wrong place at age 17) without artificially adding more such opportunities.

Having the guy banned from travelling to the USA while Obama is in office sounds about fair though.
In some cases it is interesting, for example when being able to socially hack due to ones learned ability to deconstruct social situations (the learned deconstruction being a survival trait). At other times, it is not so fun. For example when not being able to articulate simple things like "please pass the paper" in a high-stress moment, such as when spilling a glass of water.
Smeagol: guiding you through setting up an osx machine for open source ruby work
Just click from Google News to send the correct referer: http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&...
FTR:

smeagol is this ugly dude who led some hobbits around,
this is kinda the same thing. Except, like, instead of
hiking mordor you're trying to write some open source
code on a mac.
Those characters have big eyes and foreheads for two reasons.

Firstly, to make them cuter... like babies. All baby humans have proportionally big heads/eyes to the rest of their bodies and we're hardwired to think of those characteristics as simpler, cuter, and deserving of our attention.

Secondly, to give the animator a face that is both simpler and larger which makes it much easier to draw expressions

These two things make it much easier for the audience to relate to the animated character and for the artist to draw it
This whole 'death of RSS readers' thing is a real surprise to me - I connect to Bloglines every morning with my mobile (the browser is a bit pants, and Bloglines works better for me than Google Reader), and read interesting stuff on the train to work. When I find a blog post I enjoy on a site like HN, I add the blog to my blog-roll to sample future posts.

I find an aggregated set of articles all on one page much easier to consume, particularly when I'm going in and out of tunnels and losing signal - for that reason Twitter is of limited use to me since I'd have to repeatedly navigate links - not to mention the reduced load time and required number of clicks due to having the text all in one place.

Am I part of a dying breed? I thought mine was a fairly common scenario, at least among techies - talk about not looking outside my own four walls!
Yep, I love RSS, but I don't ever read my feeds. Every feed reader in existence sucks. Fever sounds interesting, but I'm not going to fork over $30 for 'sounds interesting.'

I'm not sure if this is an inherent problem, or if it's just that everyone's scared of Google Reader, and RSS doesn't seem sexy anymore.
You know, some of us like to be able to watch a large block of multimedia data multiple times without chewing through bandwidth allocation, or spending exorbitant amounts of money on a high-end DOCSIS or crap-hardware VDSL connection.

I have several Blu-Ray discs, but I've loaned them (and my PS3) to my parents until I get around to getting a BD drive for my Linux box. I do miss watching video in 720p, though; interlaced DVD is unpleasant, to say the least.

Hulu and boxee would be nice for some things, if the streaming servers for baseball games wouldn't get bogged down, or something causes a stutter or pause as bandwidth runs thin.

Also, I get poor cell signal in my new ground-floor apartment, so my $80/mo cell bill providing service to my smartphone isn't doing me any good. I switched to using Google Voice for the time being, but that doesn't well if something's hogging bandwidth. (Just because I can rate control going out, doesn't mean I can rate control what's trying to come in from the other side of that pipe.)

I wired my apartment to avoid wifi noise, but 6Mb/s DSL just isn't good enough for some common network multitasking activities. DOCSIS in apartment contexts is a horrible choice; you quickly get too many people on the same loop. VDSL may or may not be available; tech says one thing after a test, phone company's system says another. With VDSL, though, I'll get tied to a crap router with a built-in 802.1x identifying key, so I can't use my own setup.
IPad's used to create complex light-paintings.
http://macournoyer.com/instantinstant/ not quite the same thing, but an instant search for instant searches.
Indeed. A convention that recommends the following is not written:

newEmployee.adoptBy(department)
Putting "why are anime characters white" turns up a large number of hits so evidently it is an actual question out there. When the show has giant robots and aliens it never occurred to me to wonder what race the humans were.
Give him a break and substitute cracked out for hopped up on meth. I also would guess the medical dose of ritalin is anywhere near the recreational meth dosage, but I don't know.

What studies show that sugar doesn't cause hyperactivity in children?

Anecdotal evidence and extensive field work with my brother's kids has shown me otherwise. You feed them a ton of sugar at the carnival and they go wild and then crash a few hours later.
I'm the guy that did the Glenn Beck meme website in 2009 - during that, I used Twitter by request; but I've never really gotten into it... just doesn't click for me.

So I chose "Less than a few times a month", but really it should be "Used a few times, then quit". :)
Me too... as he says in the article, the white people are obvious because of their exagerated features... I've never thought the rest of the characters were (well... never found myself wondering about race as I watch them at all really).
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