skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Downplaying it like a percent doesn't change the fact that there are 30 million men than women in a few generations. This was a result of (typically rural) parents determined to have males under the one-child policy. Why? Males are seen as better than females in returning honour, wealth and more to the families.

My original point was that equality should begin from start where infanticide shouldn't be allowed in this regard.
I didn't say anything about possession: I said distribution. Huge difference.

I also didn't describe any scenario for prosecution, so I'm not sure what you're referring to when you say that the scenario I describe simply doesn't exist. The only scenario I described was the kind where prosecution doesn't happen.

My overall point was that your statement regarding the illegality was wrong: the illegality of distributing classified materials is not based on covenant, it is based on statute. The covenant part gives prosecutors a few extra charges to pile on for people who have clearances, but it's not the main piece. Whether or not such laws are enforceable in a practical sense does not change the fact that distributing classified material is, under current law, illegal regardless of who you are.
It's capped to ~few hundred meg. At least when I was there for ~2 months a couple years back. It's really easy to get around though.

About the "if you can find anywhere to sit". I've never been in a library that was so full. I found that upstairs in the glassed off area to be the best. Got a lot done there.

NZ really does have some great libraries. Whangerei, Wellington and Christchurch being examples.
Well, I exhausted my knowledge of Korean phrases by trying the (phonetic) phrase "Anyong haseyo". I am as far from a native speaker as one can be.

I can't even describe how cool it was to see:

Hi
안녕하세요
It's a satchel, not a purse. [0]

[0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Satchel_%28ba...
It's not that easy. I think the (lack of) popularity of Macs during the 90s through 2005-ish is a clear indication of that.

I also disagree with the logic a bit. Where's the tipping point? At what percentage market share does it become difficult to gain more?
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Libraries are terrible for one reason: the hours are terrible. End of story.
Something about this article bugs me. Division and modulus by constants can be done very quickly with multiply, shift, and add (Hacker's Delight has a whole chapter on how this works). Furthermore, the compiler generally does this automatically in most cases. The clock timings here look rather extreme -- as if the compiler-builtin integer divide/modulus function was being called (many of these chips don't have integer divide units).

I'm not one at all to generally trust compilers, but in this case, either these compilers are very very bad or the author didn't have optimization turned on. Of course, the author doesn't post disassembly or even what compilers he's using, so we'll never know!

Edit: in fact, even without optimization, GCC uses this trick. Here's how gcc 4.3.4 compiles unsigned int foo(unsigned int a) {return a%60UL;} on x86_32, for example (I don't have an ARM cross-compiler handy):

With optimization:

movl 4(%esp), %ecx
movl $-2004318071, %edx
movl %ecx, %eax
mull %edx
shrl $5, %edx
imull $60, %edx, %edx
subl %edx, %ecx
movl %ecx, %eax
ret

Without optimization:

subl $8, %esp
movl 12(%esp), %ecx
movl $-2004318071, (%esp)
movl (%esp), %eax
mull %ecx
movl %edx, %eax
shrl $5, %eax
movl %eax, 4(%esp)
movl 4(%esp), %eax
leal 0(,%eax,4), %edx
movl %edx, %eax
sall $4, %eax
subl %edx, %eax
movl %ecx, %edx
subl %eax, %edx
movl %edx, 4(%esp)
movl 4(%esp), %eax
addl $8, %esp
ret

Note how neither series of instructions calls integer divide!
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I would say showing your ad to more unique people vs the same person over and over again would be where the new value of Uniques comes into play; of course YMMV.
Didn't think I could gain more respect for this team, but reading this made it happen.

I love the honesty about playing the app store lottery and comparing it to console sales. Thank you!
And let's remember that the argument in favour of government work programmes isn't solely to be contrasted with not-spending-the-money... it's to be contrasted with welfare.

So the society/government has, broadly speaking, three alternatives (and a continuum therebetween):

* Do nothing for the unemployed
* Give the unemployed some money
* Act as employer of last resort

Doing nothing acts as less drag on the productive aspects of the economy, and also it's really easy to implement. The downsides include civil unrest, and also arguably have long-term negative consequences on the productiveness of the entire workforce (compare with economically-inefficient government subsidies of shipbuilding in nations that wish to maintain the ability to go to naval war, e.g. the US).

Giving them money eases the civil unrest problem. Yay, less revolutions! And hopefully for people who go through temporary rough spots, it permits them to reenter the productive workforce, instead of falling into inescapable poverty. The main downside is screwed-up economic incentives for the unemployed.

Work projects have no greater drag on the productive economy than EI, but might have less drag. Also, they act as work experience, and they eliminate the wicked incentive for the underemployed workers. BUT, they create screwed-up incentives for the employers, who now have a source of cheap labour, which they are now incented to victimize. (Compare with the incentive problems with US for-profit prisons.) Work projects may prevent recipients from seeking new better jobs (through being busy during the workday). Work projects compete at the low end with non-government-run businesses, in ways that are sometimes seen to be economically troubling (I don't follow this argument, myself).

So, sometimes the arguments against work projects also apply to 100% subsidies: "that's anti-capitalist, anti-competitive, pinko commie socialism". But there are some other arguments that the left levy against work projects, like the victimization/incentive issue.
How could it ever be? In order to run a really top-notch contest, they would have to spend a lot of time and effort on each part of it, including the design. And how will they find somebody to design their contest for them?
Why do we still use type=hidden?
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Are you subversive at all? Anti-establishment?

If not, change your name. No one wants to check out a site that reminds them of Ben Stiller ripping his ball sack with the zip to his fly. Honestly, I'm cringing just thinking about it.
"embeddedgurus.com"

That might be a clue.
I did years ago, and a few of them still seem to be around. But won't be doing it again both due to reasons we have discussed before, and because the implementations seem to have totally dived off the deep end of complexity by now, and don't really look like they'd be much fun anymore.
You can generate a table of sunrises and sunsets from the US Naval Observatory, http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneYear.php . Unfortunately I don't see a way to link directly to the table; Moscow is 55 45 N, 37 36 E, and now four hours east of Greenwich. From their location, they're "naturally" around UTC+2:30 (37.6 degrees, divided by 15 degrees per hour).

The table says that in late December the sun will rise at around 10 AM and set at around 5 PM. This doesn't seem preferable to the 9-4 they'd have under standard time. I'm not sure about Russian time zone boundaries, though; is Moscow time used in areas to the east of Moscow?
comscore's numbers are notoriously lower than quantcast/google-analytics, but usually about half not 1/14th... so somethings clearly wrong there too.
tl;dr - there will be a new iPad. It will be better than the old iPad. Someone told us so.
Any idea if 'speak to translate' will be coming to the API?
http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/overview.html
The entire point of my above post was that integer divide is typically slow on embedded CPUs -- most of which don't have integer divide units. I'm quite aware of the domain name.
No, just the opposite. Most countries have more women than men.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sex_ratio_total_population...

Edit: check out that big red country on this one...: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Sex_ratio...
Parts of Western China observes "Urumqi time" (UTC+6, compared to Beijing's UTC+8). There's a point at which people won't let you screw with their clocks arbitrarily.
This was resolved a long, long time ago - it's why we have a timezone file, so we can keep the system in GMT and have it convert user-interface stuff for the user.

Software is often written in ignorance of this fact - and causes headaches whenever things change.
Only at birth. Men die faster than women, so most countries in the world have more women than men.
could we skip the shocked outrage part of the discussion?

Tax dollars go on random, pointless crap pretty much most of the time, and to be honest if I had to choose between, say, paying for the govt to invade Iraq or paying for someone without a computer to view pornography or visit facebook, I would choose the latter without hesitation.

Its a shame you dont approve of how others utilise their available resources, but maybe you could discuss the issue without faux-outrage. Its a boring and (these days) over used means of communication.
A lot of people, I understand (including myself), use Simplenote & NV to write blog post drafts, something for which Markdown is an excellent tool.

I would absolutely encourage you to add such a preview feature.
Hey, scrod, no prob. Can't believe I forgot it! One other feature I DO love is that the official NV does wiki-style [[links]] that are compatible with github's wiki markup.

Update added.
The star, listen and fullscreen buttons look awfully small
Article: "Well a little thought shows that C = A % B is equivalent to C = A - B * (A / B). In other words the modulus operator is functionally equivalent to three operations."

The integer divide instruction returns both the quotient and the remainder on the processors I know of. I can't see what sense it makes to have a modulo operator that is more expensive than a division operator.
The 'struct hack' is when you leave the type of the last member of a struct undefined (effectively making structs variable-sized). This is actually not a problem for runtime type checking, and is C99 compliant.

What causes problems is casting pointers to ints and back, and casting all other crap to chars. This is not standards compliant.

Casting ints to pointers will never be type-safe, but one way to get around that is to just ignore the cast, and overload arithmetic operators to work correctly on pointers - the pointers will carry around their type info, and everything should work ok.

Casting other crap to chars will never work because it interferes with the way the other crap has its type encoded. Luckily in most cases this casting is done to perform I/O, where you can also just ignore the cast, and specialize the lowest-level I/O functions to dispatch on the actual types.

The moral of the story is that you should basically ignore all the line noise the programmer produces about types, and look at the actual objects. This is exactly how Java works, btw.

WRT hardware tagging and type checks, there's really no reason to do it on a byte-addressed superscalar processor. If you look at 64-bit Common Lisp implementations today, you'll actually find that they use only about half the available tag bits in each word. The only thing that needs to be boxed is double-floats.
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But given that it's only a 3% difference, can't another possible trend just be men waiting slightly later for marriage and marrying slightly younger women?
Sheesh, everyone knows that! Just like the real Paris is in Texas, Madrid is in New Mexico, Amsterdam is in New York, and London is in Ohio. Those Europeans couldn't think of original names for their cities so they stole ours.
Calling a real time user activity stream a 'cohort' is technically accurate but I think it sounds inappropriate in this context.
Ouch, I think all of these miss the mark. They just lead to solving problems and writing great code. But those aren't the mark of a great programmer, just a good programmer as they don't imply that they build things of worth.

Great programmers build things that mean something, and they build them well.

The bottom line is great programmers care. They care for their mission, their users, and their craft.
From the article,they only said they won't be switching their clocks back this winter as they usually would.

They have "winter time" in the same sense that "it's the time we use in the winter"
Remember, some places refer to daylight saving time as "blah summer time"

So yeah, all they're saying is they are staying on their equivalent of DST starting this year.
How can you say that lag doesn't matter when playing a twitch game such as a FPS! Have you ever played one online!?
gcc is a much better compiler than many embedded compilers.

Many of the chips he's talking about are pretty tiny little underpowered things with bad-middling compilers.
Since when does watching where your money goes make you righteous? Has nothing to do whether I think they are right or wrong for looking at porn. I don't give a shit if people look at porn, or do drugs, or work as a prostitute. What drives me nuts is that this unsanctioned use drives more and more cost every year. If all the people viewing porn at the library were kicked out how many workstations would be rendered unnecessary? Probably a significant number. Those funds that would have been spent on those workstation could be put to use somewhere else, such as local police, fire, sanitation, etc. A rather better use of money in my book. Sorry if that comes off as being 'righteous'.
Yes, although I found the formatting somewhat annoying. It's basically an interview, so rather than trying to make it prose or an "article", with quotes and explanatory text, a simpler interview format would have been much easier to read:

TheNextWeb: Blah blah blah?
Harj: Foo bar baz.

Also there are a number of spelling/grammar mistakes. I think it's normally common practice to correct these in an article, unless you're really just delivering a prepared statement verbatim.
It surprises me that's possible. I can't get Clear in San Diego, but they have reception in the desert to the east? That's a really strange growth plan.
Thanks, Steve, much obliged.
That adds complexity; it could falsely trigger when someone was making a left turn in front of oncoming traffic causing them to stall and get creamed. Not saying it isn't still the best choice, but it does have potential downsides.
Not all leaders are managers. Some leaders lead quietly from behind their desks while their managers stay out of the way.
The ARM Cortex is faster than a Pentium 3 -- it's not particularly underpowered.

gcc supports all three CPUs listed in that article.
Many processors don't have an (integer) division instruction, however, particularly those in the embedded world. That said, I share DarkShikari's concerns.
(Warning: outsider perspective coming) Why do all of these startup ideas always have similar web layouts? It may be "cool" in YC-land but that's no way to stand out. The idea is intriguing though.
Rate my startup: Adore.ly
It started as an app for the University of Waterloo Facebook hackathon but it's taken off since then. We launched 4 days ago. We have seen decent growth. So what is it?

Adore.ly lets you adore a friend on your friendlist and your identity stays anonymous unless they adore you back.

We're looking for feedback on everything from interface, to troll and creep protection. Our questions are:

1) How do we keep growing? Is it launching features, or focussing on promotional stuff?
2) Do we focus on users or focus on monetizing? When do the priorities switch?
3) What are the challenges you think we face?
4) What do you like about the app? What don't you like?

Thanks guys for your feedback.
It's arbitrary to a degree, but having a single timezone for Russia, or even the US, would amplify the effect. It's no big deal now because you are used to season changing, sunrise changing, etc - but if suddenly you had to get up for work and endure, say, 5 hours of darkness, or perhaps only 1 hour of daylight left..... it would be ugly. That's why we have timezones.
Yeah, but once you move everything to base 2, you won't have to deal with those pesky powers of 10 anymore ;)
But he has time to comment? Sounds like a good plan.
It's also important to consider if TC readers are your target audience. I've seen big pageview spikes from TC and other widely- (or poorly-) targeted press coverage that didn't convert very well, whereas coverage in much smaller but better focused publications resulted in more overall conversions.
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I was referring your use of the word 'millenial', not the entitlement part. As for anyone referring to their entitlement seriously: yes. I see it happen all the time. I guess, however, they just don't realize it's their 'entitlement' they are talking about.
Who said it was encouraged? Every library is different. I'm sure if you go to one out in the burbs it is a lot different than in in the inner city, like I was visiting.
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If that's the case the whole thing becomes a game of figuring out what optimisations the compiler does make, and doing the rest yourself. Even in this light, there's not an awful lot to be learned from the article - no disassembly in sight, and no mention from which operations the division is synthesized. This is cargo cult optimisation of the worst kind.
Her degree is in special education.
It costs the US economy billions every year. Exactly how many billions depends on how you measure, but the direct costs of adjusting for the extension in 2007 were $1.1bn, according to the well-sourced Wikipedia article on the subject. DST all year round, say I. Dark winter mornings are OK by me.
Well, whether or not specializing in one technology is good for your career depends on your career goals.

Being an expert in one obscure technology is an excellent way to become a consultant.

If you don't want to spend your career maintaining someone else's code, then it's probably a bad idea to specialize in one technology.
* Part of Google's new campaign to collect and archive old organization calendars from pre-internet days.
Why I absolutely love java
not
Yes there are several that include a credit to you in the source code comments.

The last program Alexey Voznyuk contributed seemed mostly to be inline assembler with a hint of Lisp - off the deep end :-)
Yeah, Coach makes some very solid men's stuff - a wallet I bought from them was a tank, and looked great to boot. Their stuff costs more than average, but I think it also lasts longer.
"... and I sure was articulating like they do on national television" Not sure what they trained their algorithm on, but this articulation might have been the culprit. If they have a corpus of "normal people" speaking Dutch, and then you go and articulate, you will get poor results.
I am not saying that division is not expensive, or that the modulo operator is not just as expensive. I am only pointing out that the modulo operator is not more expensive that division.
But then they aren't worth praising, especially if their "pursuit" of said ideals harms people's lives needlessly.
"Everybody is under the microscope, and that includes the S.B.A."
> Read the rest of this post on the original site »
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870436400457613... - already with a discussion on HN
Screen resolution will be "similar" to the first iPad's. That's a bit vague.
According to "people familiar with the matter" the new iPad will be better.

They've used "people familiar with the matter" three times in less than 500 words, however "people familiar with the matter" can't tell if they are paid per number of words. :)
It would appear their sources are very "familiar with the matter"
But that's not the service they're providing, thus incompetence in that arena does not endanger multitudes of American lives and anon ruining their company is unjustified.
The entire article is vague.
The US DST change in 2007 cost an estimated $500 million to $1 billion: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0307/p02s01-stct.html

DST has cost me many hours spent debugging. I will be very happy if/when it is abolished in the US.
>(Though I better be getting paid overtime for that weekend work if the schedule slip isn't the dev team's fault.)

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahaha...

catches breath

...hahahahahahahahahahahahahaahha

Not worked long in software eh?
and to that NASA will respond, "$8 billion isn't cool. You know what's cool? $1 trillion." Ugh, where are the flying cars I was promised, by 2000...?
And that is why Bank Teller software sucks.
The entire "maybe it's just my millenial entitlement" was tongue in cheek. I've never seen anyone seriously refer to their own entitlement using the word "entitlement" in a positive content.
And do those companies build up their people or destroy them? Don't miss the forest for the trees in your response.

China is a different case. Insofar as they respect human rights they prosper. Insofar as they don't they fail.

No, socialism is strongly tied to eugenics, which is state driven Darwinism. That is purposefully killing off the weak and unfit.

Capitalism is a matter of letting the best man win. Killing the weak is not a part of that.
All the cultures explicitly founded on Darwinism crash and burn. Name an exception.
I read this right after another story I found on HN - The Youth Unemployment Bomb: http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/07_52/b40...

It's relevant because one of the methods for reducing unemployment was encouraging entrepreneurship. Considering the small chances of startup success, isn't the relationship between Crowdspring client / designers exactly the same as Venture Capitalist / startup founder? Most of the designs are losers, just like most startups. You could even extend this logic to social media participation - lots of people make YouTube videos, a few get huge and earn a share of the advertising dollars, same with blogging.

When there's an oversupply of skilled labor, you can switch to a contest model instead of an employment or contractor model, driving down the costs even more. This problem affects young, relatively well-educated Westerners, and as the Business Week article points out, this is the root of the current political violence in Egypt. Companies trying to find new ways to grow will demand tax cuts, governments will cut benefits to give it to them because they want to see improved unemployment numbers, and this will further enrage the struggling unemployed. If this trend continues, it's a downward spiral that could bring increased political violence in the West.
Long enough to learn to say "no."
> With all this experience, I asked about when he launches his next startup, what will he do differently? “I would definitely work on a problem or product that I personally was interested in and meant something to me. When I was working on Auctomatic, we bought all this stuff from China and tried to trade it on Ebay [Auctomatic was an auction and marketplace management system] to try and understand how power sellers work and the problems they faced. But it wasn’t the same as making something that I really resonated with."

So, so true. Trying to take this lesson to heart this time around, and build something I want to use everyday.