skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly what I was thinking:

* In the first version each time the anonymous function is executed interpreter has to lookup String and from it the fromCharCode method => 2n lookups.

* In the second version the String and fromCharCode have to be lookud up only once => 2 lookups.

Therefore according to slow-lookups-theory the first version should be slower. Except when I measure it, the opposite turns out to be true.
Should workers be forced to clock out to smoke?
aligns with my political spectrum much closer.

So you want to continue to read content from a media outlet that has an agenda from a particular political perspective AND you consider this an important part of your day.

I'm sorry but I have to respectfully disagree with your methods of thinking. Doesn't this make you blind to anything else out there?
"Programmers will never have the luxury of collaborating with their idols, or pay homage to them like artists do. Programming != art"

Copying == art? Then I know a few very, very artistic Java programmers. They even pay homage to their own packages. (Which, excuse the pun, might even qualify them for "rock star programmer" status)
Aye, big media isn't reporting it because it isn't news.

And the article mentions the BBC? Hah, they have no IDEA what goes on in Europe do they? What happened in SF is but a blip compared to the street parties that happen after major sporting events in other countries.

Drunk people being stupid. Nothing to see here.
It's written in the Constitution as to when voting should occur. Remember, this was written for the late 18th century, so doing anything on Sundays was generally frowned upon. Plus, changing something like this would be far more difficult than just giving everyone the day off.

However, in this country there is a constant struggle between trying to let more people vote versus trying to restrict voting. Hence why a lot of people are up in arms about potential voter fraud. The traditional wisdom is that more voters helps one party, fewer helps another. With this as a factor, you can see how it would be very difficult to change the day of voting to make it more convenient for people.
Someday, I'd like to try this. But right now, every day, I write the book.
As long as you can give money to the politicians, as long as the gerryman as much as they want, as long as there is only two parties that are likely to get elected, your vote doesn't matter.
Developers say Microsoft has "betrayed" them by changing Silverlight strategy
I guess you could move to another country, or you could try and overthrow the government and change popular opinion, but that's a pretty big ask. The vast majority of people believe that one person per vote is 'fair'. Probably because it's simple for them to understand, and they've been taught that everyone should be 'equal'.

So if you disagree with that premise (That one person per vote is fair), what should you do? throw your useless vote in the box with all the people who voted because they like the candidates hair?

FWIW I vote anyway since it's the lesser of 2 evils.
17W * 2 hours = 17 W * 2 * 3600s = 0.122400 MJ.

For comparison 1kWh = 3.6 MJ.
Alcohol More Harmful Than Heroin Or Cocaine?
Huh, I don't understand.There are so many economists with conflicting views. Do they imply free market economists are smarter than the others?
Net subsidies? I know that in Europe there tends to be a huge tax on petrol.
Well, that should give other teams an incentive to write test cases, shouldn't it?

Unless someone is saying that the MS-submitted ones are incorrect, I fully endorse their submission.
IANAL and I didnt read the DOI paper, but as I think you are mostly right.

I think the DOI can require that a solution must be compatible with or have the same features as Microsoft's solution.

However, they cannot say the solution MUST be the Microsoft product, and I think that is what Google is arguing.
Hacking the Hiring Process
The solar cells would probably not be very efficient. So there would still be lots of heat.
New car finder
The decision of buy new car cheap is not made every day. Thus it is essential that you should prepare yourself for it accordingly. You need to make up your mind as to what make and model you are looking for along with the number of passengers and most important your budget.
I don't write many things up and publish them. And I submit them less frequently. In fact, I've had this saved as a draft for some time because I wanted to come to a conclusion about a system that could improve the current process, but was unable to.
> Are the students to blame for being unprepared?

Not really. For many, it's just that it's not "their thing". More that 50% of the incoming students failed the first semester at the college I attended. Many tried a couple times and then went away to pursue other careers. I would never favor dumbing down the curriculum to accommodate people who want to be professional engineers but can't do math...

One day, I could be flying the planes they designed.
ShopWell Says Better Health Starts at the Supermarket
How involved are you with Hipmunk? I know you did the logo, but are you working on it on a day to day basis?
That kind of should be the first train of thought in python too, why using "+" to add strings!? it maybe fixed in py3k but its still not worth it in py2.X

<pre>
return ''.join(map(chr, list))
</pre>

Also the liberal use of the words list and string bothers me.
The article links directly to the tests on W3.org - where they are clearly endorsed by the HTML Working Group.

If you want tests to cover other areas then feel free to submit them, or encourage others to do so.
I'm saying that more people voting won't change the choice of representatives. If people are voting for the same ineffectual or destructive candidates, it makes no difference whether turnout is 300 million or 100 million.

The solution isn't to get more people voting. It's to run better candidates.
Plus, we vote on Saturday. Weekday voting is incredibly disenfranchising.
Why did ReadWriteWeb omit the needed subtitle:

"IE CSS3 compliance continues to bring up the rear"
> I'm also a little leery of anything coming out of the Cato Institute.

The link is to Cato Unbound, where they host an essay and discussion by outsiders to the Cato Institute. The participants aren't just libertarians; Matthew Yglesias had an essay not too long ago.

> I'd rather see the opinion peer-reviewed.

It isn't formal peer review, but there are reaction essays here: http://www.cato-unbound.org/archives/november-2006/

> The author's main point seems to be that just because some people can vote, doesn't mean that they should vote. What he doesn't address is why the noise from the uninformed doesn't cancel out...(at least in my skimming).

Caplan addresses it in the last three paragraphs under How Misconceptions Are Possible, but he's pressed for space in that essay. He wrote about book about this. You can also find his argument here (PDF link): http://mercatus.org/sites/default/files/publication/Straight...
I don't think it's so much a matter of outsourcing services as it is that sites and companies are being created around the idea that these APIs exist. For these sites/companies, if that API didn't exist, doing it internally was never an option.

There has been a few times when I've seen companies consider rolling their own solution or using an API, but since it's the same as buying/leasing a product versus rolling their own, they already know the pros and cons of such a move. It's something they deal with every day.
Would seem to be more of a test of canvas than HTML5 in its entirity, given that over three quarters of the tests (179 out of 233) are canvas related.

Also, I'm not sure how seriously I can take an HTML5 conformance report that doesn't actually validate correctly (<center> element!?):

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://test.w3.org/html/te...
Building a DSL in PHP, Part 2: DSL Syntax
> that's far from what you'll encounter with complex projects

I don't think that's true. Even complex projects have some simple bugs. The example given was making the software produce a nicer error message if the output was out of bounds; you can do that kind of work for almost any program. It's not like they assigned a random bug...
No, choosing to not vote is choosing to not express your idea.

(If you don't believe in the system at all, do not make use of it at all -- and we don't see many people actually doing that.)
It occurs to me that instead of removing the field (which I'm sure people who used Company credits cards are looking for) they could simply have made it clear that it was the user's billing address they were looking for, instead of the bank's.

It might have resulted in more revenue if they had done it my way, since there may be people on business trips that now think they can't use a company credit card.

Or not. That's the thing with dealing with the public... Without paying really close attention to what's really happening and people are saying, you are just guessing.
Change requires willingness to change, and action. If no candidate is willing or able to change the system then you are indeed stuck with it.

Another view is that perhaps no one wants to change the system because it is, all things considered, better than the alternatives.
Microsoft's Azure Datamarket - Pretty darn similar to icelandic Datamarket.com?
This has been hashed and rehashed, but again, there is no right to drive (in a normal context). It is a privilege that must be earned and can be taken away. I really wish people would stop using that comparison to make the case for the 'right to fly' when it is completely false.

I don't agree with scanning but I also don't see you winning over many rational people with your comparisons. We need to come up with a better argument against the scanning that isn't so weak and easily shot down.
Get back to me when IE passes a significant battery of Firefox-submitted tests. W3C is owned by Microsoft at a time when Microsoft has lost all right to call themselves a browser vendor for any purpose other than to harm the browser market.

Get back to me when IE 9 runs on any of the thousands of machines in my company, where Windows Vista/7 is a non-starter at least for the next two years. Get back to me when it is able to run on any machine I have at home. It never will. With the possible exception of Safari, every other browser tested runs everywhere required, I think.
I see where you are coming from and what bugs you in the logic of Graham.

None of us denies that there are transaction costs related to operate an "idea market", we just seem to argue about their amount/importance/relevance. I say these costs are not the primary reason behind the absence of the market but rather the fact that there are no stable ideas that can be used to found a sustainable business upon. You say there are stable ideas but it would be too costly to operate or even establish a market mechanism. (Although I am sure there would be a charity organization or even the government that would establish the market if it would be mostly a one-time fixed cost and low running expenses such as in the lighthouse example).

I should go to sleep now, have to wake up in 2 hours.. (but I really enjoyed the conversation, thx :)

(btw, a question - do you really think there is anything that is valuable to people but nobody has ever tried to monetize it if it wasn't banned by authority? Air, love, aesthetics of a building or a landscape, even values and religions... I have seen business models related to all of these)

(btw2, it may be worthwhile to define what we mean under "1 idea" :)
The Economist Debate: computing was most significant advance of 20th century
It's somewhat like what we do to airlines. When air travel was expensive, couch seats were comfortable, silverware was made of metals, glasses, of glass and real food was served in long-duration flights.

We put pressures on them to lower prices and they responded by packing passenger in as little space as medically safe and by serving the most lightweight food that will keep you alive during the flight.

We turned airlines into people movers just like we are turning universities into degree mills.
If Mozilla want to submit tests then there's nothing stopping them doing so.
In this case, I have no dogs in the race. I'm registered in a different county from where I now live and it is too late to register in this one. I am not interested in any of the local issues in the other county and I am uninterested in any of the statewide candidates. For me, in this circumstance, a vote would be like a ritual selection of the best sounding name or the most obscure ballot or something. That is not the sort of voting that is good for anyone.

When I used to work on campaigns for a third party, the most annoying thing was the fact that there is a lot of inertia from people who have no idea who any of the candidates are ritually voting a party line. In NY, where I lived, there was even a special lever that marked the whole party row, to enable reduced thinking.

Another comment here says that politicians love an apathetic population. More correctly, they like apathetic populations that vote consistently.
So if information does not inform action -- if you where to be consistent -- then you would be against spending money for sex education in the public schools, correct?

'Cause no matter how much information on sex you gave the kids it wouldn't inform their actions.
Can Humans Beat Google? New Search Engine Blekko Is a Great Concept, But ...
Oh ok, thats interesting. Thanks for clarifying.
A New Way to Manage Facebook Pages
> The Web, with near-zero distribution costs

The problem are the production costs of quality news reporting.
> It seems that MS discounting Windows for netbooks successfully staved off linux - and therefore ARM.

Shouldn't we be thankful for how they help advance the progress of technology?
I would like to state for the record that I wrote that shortly before passing out for 11 hours.

That is all.
I thought The Times was meant to be slightly right, but their coverage seems more balanced in recent years. It's more an image than an overall agenda, given that their journalists have their own views that sometimes conflict.
How convenient for Microsoft.
This is actually legal in the Netherlands: just turn in a blank ballot.
Actually, it makes a lot of sense if you are IO bound too. Having little efficient ARM cores keeping your disk and/or network channels supplied is better than doing the same with a 90% idling x86.
I can't remember the exact wording, but their recent marketing says something like "Join the elite readership", which translated to me as "such a small amount of people are paying we need to put spin on it in a way that makes it sound cool".
It's not that I don't acknowledge that your emperor is wearing pasties, I just don't think they cover enough to be considered clothing.

I think the onus is on you, as the advocate of this clause, to name one actual patent troll case that would have been prevented by it. SCO wouldn't have been prevented. The recent Oracle action against Google would not have been prevented. So which one?

You need to provide protection from actual, plausible danger to justify the doubt, uncertainty, and fear that you are keen to spread.
I have some domains which I wanted to use for a similar purpose but I don't need them after all: iosgame.com, ios-game.com, iosgame.net, iosgamer.com, iosgamers.com, ios-games.com, iosgames.net. I can give you them.
Just curious: how hard would it be to turn GPU cores into simple ARM cores? I understand they are very different animals, but if it were possible to cram an ARM into the space and signaling a GPU core uses, AMD could show a massively multi-core ARM chip in little time.

What would it run? I am not sure, but there are lots of IO-heavy workloads where I work.

Don't think servers - think really clever routers.
But don't you think this niche is already filled by bloggers, who are (mostly) working for nothing.

Edit: My blog gets 500-1000 unique readers per day, roughly one post per day, which is now around 0.5% - 1% of the readership of a major newspaper's website.
The ultimate Vim tip? Use GNU Emacs. Seriously.

Vim is a great editor, it just lacks a decent implementation; GNU Emacs is a great OS, it just lacks a great editor. GNU Emacs + Viper + Vimpulse is what you should learn and use for maximum effectiveness.
This is actually a little paradoxical, because numerous reports have shown that strenuous exercise depresses the immune system by increasing glucocorticoid levels. The odd thing is that glucocorticoids cause an increase in circulating neutrophils, but some think that they are actually less available to fight infection, because usable neutrophils are found lining the postcapillary venules. All told, studies of the cold paint a complicated picture.
The article doesn't mention mobile, the area where I would expect Chrome to be gaining (and IE isn't a player).
Why not just:

def f(list):
return ''.join([chr(l) for l in list])
Standards of Political Civility and Darwin's Finches
The Google results for "vaccination" indeed are full of spam..

The idea is not bad. Google could add a "only trusted sites" sort of button and filter results accordingly to achieve a similar effect. On the other hand it should remain open for all sites by default. Even if it means spam in the search results.
Many of them were incorrect when first published (by Microsoft themselves) but I assume that's been fixed.
The rotary phone comes to mobile keyboards...
Thanks for the offer ... very generous of you. I'm actually not planning on covering games much, as I'm not much of a gamer. I'm aiming at covering well-designed productivity and design apps, perhaps some games and fun apps as well but that won't be the focus. Thanks anyhow!
Another alternative is to have advance voting. In the recent elections in Sweden about one third of the votes cast were cast in advance, IIRC.
it's an obligation and it's a right, isn't it?

"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote." - George Nathan
According to the video, the bike weighs 27kg, which seems a bit heavy for easy pedaling. Add in all your daily luggage and you're pedaling around with something like 35-50kg of extra weight. Except in really flat areas, that seems like a lot to ask of someone.
Rebellious Coders Home In on Apple TV Hacks, App Store
Australian's by and large are not very ideological. With the exception of the Green's movement, there isn't really another "issues" political group that gets much attention -- or members.

Politicians are a bunch of wankers. They wouldn't be politicians if they weren't. I don't mean that in a really bad way, I just mean, being a successful politician takes a certain personality type. If you aren't rough as guts, a bit of a prick and full of yourself, you won't survive in Australian politics.

As for compulsory voting, I dig it. You should too.
And many more people are just ambivalent; and it is those that really lose any right for people to listen to their complaints (which I think is a reasonable difference).
How come they didn't test a WebKit nightly as well? All other browsers are either latest betas or alpha(!).
I'm not against compulsory voting, but I'd just like to add that I don't think it's necessary in order to get a good voter turnout. We have voluntary voting in Sweden, and yet we get about 86% turnout.

In the US, there are a number of problems with the voting procedure, too many to count really, I think facing and addressing those issues would be far better than making voting compulsory.
Given all the different instruments - and all the many types and varieties of each instrument - how could you possibly decide which to learn and play? Not to mention all the different styles of music!
I think they will be served just fine by improving their own compliance where it counts, which as I interpret these and other tests, is already better than IE's.

Why go to great lengths to prop up such a sagging organization (w3c, Microsoft, take your pick)? It has never been beneficial in the past to do so. Microsoft has only historically materially supported browser standards at w3c when they were so severely behind they could not use their other monopolistic behaviors to destroy the browser market.

w3c has to value the contribution other companies besides Microsoft in their real plans rather than just being Microsoft's rescue vehicle one year and their sword in the backs of the competition the next when they suddenly lose interest in open standards again and shut everything down because w3c thinks if Microsoft no longer thinks it is important no one else should either.
As for (3), the carbon fiber wheels are there, according to the video, to make it easier to build them yourself. The designer wants people to be able to rebuild wheels to fit current trends and/or changing riding conditions. According to the designer, standard wheels are too difficult to maintain and require specialized knowledge.

As an avid cyclist, though, I rarely do much to change out or even maintain my steel-spoked wheels. Once they are well-trued, I usually leave them alone for the season. I certainly never worry about my wheels not looking cool enough.
There are also a bunch of swype apk's floating around that you can just install. Check the xda forums for your phone model, there's bound to be people who found one that works for it
(ecc) ram cache is astoundingly important to have I/O at bearable speeds, and the beagle boards max out at 512MiB ram, about what I expect my next cellphone to have. Again, we are in a situation where the ARM boards will become radically more useful when they come with socketed ram modules.
First Chrome OS netbook expected this month
> W3C is owned by Microsoft

It is?
C++ (with Qt), QML, Javascript, HTML, CSS and Clojure. Bit of a random mix, but it is working pretty well for me.

My apps desktop GUI is done in QML (Qt declarative layer) with C++ extensions (custom widgets, performance sensitive aspects, things that QML does not yet support such as drag and drop). QML supports scripting in javascript to handle events. I also use Qt's WebKit widget to display HTML/CSS/JS content (both local and from the web) and Clojure for backend logic and server code. I use quite a number of Clojure libraries for a rich environment, including some distributed/clustering stuff. My C++ app embeds a JVM which can run Clojure locally, but I have it setup so you can connect to it running on a server too (I plan to let organisations run their own servers but also host servers myself for people to make use of, perhaps as part of a subscription). I'm trying to push as much of the GUI logic to QML/JS or HTML where I can and as much of the backend logic to Clojure, but there are bits that pretty much need to be done in C++ (eg due to interop with Qt/QML). I like writing Clojure code, so I try to do as much as I can with it. I dislike Javas GUI stuff though and love QML, so the GUI is stuck in Qt/QML :)

Not quite ready to give details of what the app does just yet, though at my current rate of development I should be soon.
Flash coming to iPhone and iPad - really [see: SkyFire]
The curse of Xanadu (1995)
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=vaccination

Couldn't see any spam until I got way down to the bottom.
This would be my default approach as well. I'd be interested to see how it compares-- my guess is that it would be equivalent to or slightly faster than f6(), and slower than the version that uses the array library.
I can verify this as I was the super sickly kid at high school. When winter arrived, so did the illness period for me. Then I started practising some martial arts in university and my immune system got pretty strong. Hardly had any critical illnesses since then.
It’s not in the Constitution as far as I can see. Election day seems to be determined by an ordinary law.
Thanks for some time well wasted! By the way, the sound works for me using Firefox 3.6.12 on Windows XP.
CSS3 is not HTML5 and that fact is not debatable at W3C.

I don't understand: the ongoing efforts seem to be centralized at http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work