skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> marginally better.

I'm not so sure.

As written it's wasteful of resources and not cross-browser. (also not entirely functional)

All the stuff with the closure and defineProperty is basically pointless....

In the end what they have is an object with numbers for properties, and they are sticking values in those properties. That's an array.

All the hoops they jump through don't do anything except heat up the processor and waste resources, with nothing in return for that.

Consider this code which does the same thing:

var $ = function(val) {
var addr = $.mem.length;
$.mem[ addr ] = val;
return addr;
}
$.mem = [];

var foo = "foo";
foo = $( foo );
console.log( foo ) // 0
console.log( $.mem[foo] ) // "foo"

This code accomplishes the same thing but is much faster, leaner, simpler, and cross-browser.

I'd also say that all of this doesn't really do much to inform one about "pointers". Learning about the link between pointers and arrays in certain other languages might be helpful for some JS developers, but there's none of that here. Here is just a roundabout array implementation that doesn't really teach the reader anything.

I'm not going to spit on the efforts of someone who is trying to learn something, or be condescending about it (at least not intentionally)....but I think it's necessary to point this sort of thing out so everyone walks away the wiser.
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For as long as they are willing to stay slaves, I see nothing wrong with trading them. Outside of that situation, though, the right to body is unalienable (according to many rights theories).

The money came from British (banks, sponsored by artificially expanded money supply of BoE), German, French banks (sponsored by artificially expanded money supply of ECB), etc. I've got my order exactly correct. Then, when the crisis hit, more money come from ECB. It's a little surprise that the problem caused by excess money is not exactly fixed (in PIIGS) by more excess money.

Seriously, it's ABCT 101.
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Aside from the fact that more than half of the people in the world actually don't know anything about English, what does that have to do with..anything?

I do claim to be at least moderately familiar with the language, and have no idea why you're quoting that line.
I would be especially concerned about the 127.0.0.1 addresses listed.
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Yup, exactly. I'm absolutely ASTOUNDED it took this long for at least a portion of anon to start festering from within.
Nah, the vupen marketing guys are too lazy to patch it.
Frankly, I call BS.

I know a thing or two about camera design (my current startup manufactures a sort of CCTV camera).

A lens gathers a large field of light and focuses it on a specific plane, which is where the film or image sensor sits.

I think these guys are doing massive depth of field (f/40 or greater), coupled with an advanced imager that can get a good exposure from reduced light. Then they basically de-focus the image after the fact to look like a conventional photo. They may also be using something like the GBO Optics massive depth of field lens technology (http://www.gbosecurity.com/technology.asp) to help with the initial image capture.

None of their sample images really had a truly significant depth of field. It would not be unreasonable to build a camera that could capture those scenes with complete DOF focus.
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I disagree that general education courses are "crap". I think people greatly undervalue the skills those courses teach when they pass them off as useless.

I'm graduating in about a week myself, and reflecting back on my college education, some of the liberal arts courses I was required to take helped me to develop crucial communication skills - which technical/scientific people stereotypically lack.

Also, taking some of those introductory science courses, like chemistry, help to create a foundation of knowledge to intelligently speak about other scientific ideas. Could you learn this on your own time? Sure, but if you don't particularly like a topic, it's unlikely you're going to devote your precious free time to it.
I love how you assert that literally everybody is too dumb to understand computer programs that they use.
At the same time, my chemistry courses were nothing more than prolonged versions of what I took in high school. I didn't really gain much from them because they were 300+ students and skewed grading scales (85%+ was an A).
I am always slightly astounded by people who are completely cut off from their cultural roots. Likely because I am a white Australian guy with English parents and am envious of those around me with (to me) more interesting and varied cultures.
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More like, "all legal requirements around the redistribution of code we used should be followed."
What is the 'correct' level of progress in Arts and Sciences? It's completely arbitrary.

Apples are good. I think there should be more apples. I hereby decree that every man shall plant four apple trees in his yard. Ruling the world is easy!
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The author very carefully avoids the usual problem of a mathematical error on the first page.

Some mathematicians receive piles of purported proofs. They usually give them to their graduate students to find the hole, or if they are sufficiently convinced of the crackpottery, relegate them to the round filing cabinet.

I once recall spending over an hour finding a hole in a serious proof which had been sent to a well-known number theorist (who I'll neglect to name to prevent embarrassment). We considered that a tough case.

Having said that, I've seen too many of these things to bother looking for the first error in this paper.
The Nuance of today has little to nothing in common with the post-acquisition Nuance. It's really name-only at this point. Some of their speech technology has been incorporated into the Nuance 9 engine. There are some profesional services employees and perhaps a few product engineers. Most of the speech engine developers quit and tried to join Yahoo (http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-accused-of-poaching-speech-engine...).
Yeah it looked to me more like the product designer was concerned about ruggedizing it for the automotive environment and possibly making a weak attempt at making it tamper-evident.

It certainly didn't look like anything designed to protect secrets.
Yes, I think a limit on productivity amounts to a limit on knowledge. Does knowledge have a limit? There's no evidence for it; all our present mathematics of complexity suggests not (but it's possible one will be discovered...)

However, energy needs do seem to increase with productivity, and there's limit on how much energy we can get from the sun (a dyson sphere encloses the sun, capturing all its energy). But there's some assumptions here: that we can't discover ways of being productive that require less energy (and wouldn't that enhancement itself be "productive"?); that we can't discover other sources of energy (e.g. room temperature fusion micro-suns - or something better).

Once you factor in the unknown (i.e. knowledge that we don't yet have) it's hard to know what the limits are. I guess the entire universe is a limit on matter... if we can't discover a way to make more matter... or more universes.
No, leftists. (sorry :-)
Not dumb, there's just a lot of skills assumed to work on the security components of a modern Web browser. I would never claim that I could turn around and fix this bug as an outside developer. Words in my mouth.
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Thank you. Put another way, nodejs (except than the VM, granted) has less magic than erlang.

At least it seems that way to me having looked at erlang for no more than a few hours and using nodejs every day, so take this with a grain of salt :)
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Is that the PCIe crypto module shown in Google searches for IBM 4765? Please share the link if you have it, as I couldn't find a teardown in my brief search. I'd like to see how one would dismantle a potted circuit.
Yes, the police raided the house of a journalist and seized his computers. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20003446-37.html
ObjectAL - iOS Audio development, minus the headache.
Sony May Offer Bounty for Information on Hackers
Yeah, in the future there will be ads saying you should buy the latest nVidia graphics card for your fucking browser.
or you know..

1. install homebrew,
2. type `homebrew edit mysql'
3. change 5.5.10 to 5.5.12
4. brew install mysql

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula...
I'm pretty sure I'm alive today, although some may have their doubts on Moday morning...
A Falcon 9 can put 9900 Kg on LEO. A 9 heavy can put 5 times as much. It's reasonable to extrapolate that to about 15 tons on lunar surface or 10 on Mars.

As for Mars, you can use the atmosphere to shed some speed. You can't do the same on the Moon, but your speed will be lower, so, it may as well end up being the same.
This would be much more interesting if they were opening up the API infrastructure component.
So they can have a minimal HTTP server builtin with Webkit, can I access that some Javascript API?
In my opinion, this is one step away from sacrificing a virgin to make it rain. We should control our own software destiny and not just hope other people will do it for us.
At least in the US, civil court cases do not have the presumption of innocence, only criminal cases do.
Chaouki Bekar, VUPEN’s CEO and head of research, confirmed that the company had no plans to share any details about their findings with Google, nor was it aware of any steps users could take to mitigate the threat from this attack.

“No, we did not alert Google as we only share our vulnerability research with our Government customers for defensive and offensive security,” Bekar wrote in response to an emailed request for comment. “Unfortunately, we are not aware of any mitigation to protect against these vulnerabilities.”

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/05/security-group-claims-to-...
The metric the families probably care about is how the childrens' careers compare to the parents. Dirt poor immigrant to corporate America in one generation sounds pretty good to me.
Summary: http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.8/brisk/about_brisk#key-featu...
Maybe they don't need one? This is a page that is easily crawled and is in the top 3 for searches for "sitemap" on Google.

If it ain't broke...
They can influence those who do.
What do you mean "sounds far-fetched"?

There are people walking around with government installed GPS bracelets right now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankle_monitor
It looks like Refocus Imaging changed their name. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/refocus-imaging
I disagree with your assertion.

There is too much inaccurate information in the article for it to be taken seriously. The author is bias and spreading misinformation.

My headline was meant to highlight the absurdity of the article.
I tend to get ideas just when the caffeine from my morning espresso hits. So it may just be the timing of the shower.
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Dogma sprinkled with rape fantasy?
Standard reading in response to these purported proofs of grand problems. http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=458

I am sure most of his ideas can be translated technically to other very important problems.
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I can get Chrome to chew through all of RAM and swap just by repeatedly changing the src= attribute of an img tag (which, by the way, I'd like suggestions on avoiding). Flash isn't required to eat lots of RAM.
In many ways Reason's design limits the efficiency of its use, and it's hardware modelled approach is of no use (and in fact a hindrance) to the majority of users whom have never touched outboard audio gear.

I'm glad that companies like Native Instruments are building interfaces that are driven by usability[1], not analog fetishism, and I have high hopes that Apple will do the same with the next version of Logic Pro, if their approach to Final Cut Pro X[2] is anything to go by.

[1] http://www.creativeobserver.com/img/5238_native_instruments_...

[2] http://vicenteborrell.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/final-cut-...
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Seven for the C-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Java Men doomed to die,
One for the Search Lord on his data throne,
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One API to rule them all, One API to find them,
One API to bring them all and in the filesystem bind them
In the Land of Google where the PageRanks lie.
New Nintendo Cartridge, Chip Maestro, Turns NES Into A MIDI Synthesizer
Maybe a problem a few years ago, but certainly not in this kind of environment. Congrats to all the recipients.
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There's no requirement for the sitemap to be at /sitemap.xml, or even to be named "sitemap.xml". They may have one, but since the norm is to submit them directly to a search engine (thanks for nothing, Google), sitemaps aren't typically automatically discoverable.
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I think to really get at this you need to understand that eastern culture is not about glorification of the individual like western culture is. Couple that with the above comment, I believe that a large majority of immigrant parents, who came to the US with a few hundred dollars and barely speaking english, want their children to live stress free lives. They took a lot of risk coming to the US, and worked harder than most of us will probably know. We are the benefactors of their hard work.

If you had next to nothing for resources and don't have old family wealth, how would you try to help your children live a better life? I don't think you'd go teach them the Lean Startup method. You'd probably use what you had available to you. Go to school. And since you're there, you might as well make the most of it. One thing you can make your children do is study hard. Don't understand something? repeat it as many times as necessary to memorize it.

I don't think necessarily it's about what the "best" way, but rather the most reliable way. I would probably guess that those who worked really hard in school, got outstanding grades, and went to good schools, they are all moderately successful, if not at least comfortable.

Maybe very few hit a home run, but very very very few struck out.
It's not that ironic. Sitemaps are an "easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites." Hardly a requirement for a simple site.
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Oh come on, this isn't even typeset in LaTeX. There's Comic Sans on page 11.

The author doesn't even correctly state FLT on page 2.
Have you ever/often bumped into problems with 'make install' leaving behind system crashing buts of code as time bombs when you've deleted the original app?

My personal experience is that if that sort of cruft accumulates in Linux, it happens at a slow enough rate that system upgrades fix the problem before it manifests.
It's also recommended in the Games Art course at my university, and I've seen it referred to among games industry people several times.
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Ask HN: How to cancel a job offer finding another offer
Dear HN, I am a soon-to-be college graduate who accepted a job offer a few months ago. Just last week, I was offered a position a much more reputable company that would pay significantly higher than the previous offer. Of course, I accepted.

Now I am unsure how to contact the previous company that I made a commitment to. My question is whether this is a common scenario or was it a terrible taboo that I committed? Are they going to blacklist me from ever applying in the future or is this going to somehow bite me later on? Either way, I'm not sure how I should contact the rejected company and what to tell them (email, formal letter, phone?).

If anyone could give some advice, I would appreciate it greatly. Thank you.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that the second offer came a few weeks after I had already accepted the first. So far, it seems like directly contacting my recruiter is the right thing to do. I'll be making a call tomorrow for sure.

EDIT2: I haven't yet started either of the 2 jobs. The start dates for both are in June!
Are you making creations available right now? In that case, why? Surely you are aware that currently, others can use your work under fair use and that your copyright has an expiration date?

I don't think anyone is (seriously) suggesting doing away with copyrights entirely. The real question is: how much incentive do you really need? Would you really say "well, if I put work into this, after 50 years anyone can make money off of my effort, so f..k it!"? I have a feeling 20 or even 10 years would be sufficient payback time. After all, patents are limited to fairly short times and it's not like there's a shortage of patent applications.
This was a very interesting and long read as an Asian American Tiger child myself. There are things that I agree with and things that I disagree with. There are a lot of numbers tossed around in the article but definitely not enough numbers. I can say with confidence that the reason behind Asian Americans not saturating the CEO population in fortune 500 companies is not related to how we were raised. Off the top of my head, gather the age and experience of current fortune 500 CEO's, gather the age of the current generation of Tiger children, and then you can see where I'm going from there. One thing is for sure, the author doesn't know what it's like to be a Tiger child and his interviews feel very one-sided. There's a lot more to this story.
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Yep and install all binaries as your active user... and have non-traditional cellar based installs...
You can land an automated vehicle on the surface of Mars with a small stock of Hydrogen and brew Methane/O2 fuel (an excellent rocket fuel with an existing infrastructure of components that use it) out of the atmosphere, without having to dig or mine or anything of the sort. Moreover, Mars has a much larger quantity of much more widely distributed water ice supplies, making it far easier to bootstrap a mostly indigenous propellant, water, and Oxygen production infrastructure.

As far as cracking rocks to make Oxygen, that's such an expensive proposition in capital equipment and energy requirements that it's not on the table in terms of resources that will help bootstrap exploration and colonization or that will sustain a mostly self-sufficient local industry.
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Oh, nice guys.

Sounds to me like VUPEN is a cyberweapons dealer.
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I wrote a pretty good post on how we were rejected from YC accepted into YetiZen and we were looking for a tech cofounder. It disappeared 10 min after I released it this morning.
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Actually, Chrome has been sandboxing Flash since last December. http://blog.chromium.org/2010/12/rolling-out-sandbox-for-ado...

So even if the exploit is using vulnerability in Flash, it still needs to escape the Flash sandbox in Chrome.
That currently developed nations currently have a negative growth rate only makes sense in terms of our current medical situation. If it were a hundred years ago, they'd all have collapsed by now, and if life expectancy doubled, or if people could halt their aging, population would once again explode, simply because couples like to raise children.
What do you propose for a group of people who have little to no political power, and are being oppressed by some current law? They can run around telling people their argument all day long, but it is protests, and civil disobedience that have always forced those in power to address their grievances.

In regards to you gay-bashing example, civil disobedience is by definition non-violent. If a law was passed that required people to give gay people high fives, and Fred Bloggs chose to refrain, THAT would be civil disobedience.
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Well, if we're supposed to be flagging topics we're tired of, there's a lot on the front page that needs to go.
The difference is the version of webkit included in the browser. I'm also running nightly Webkit, and all the examples work fine, however in default Safari 5 only about 60% render correctly
Let's suppose the amount of physical goods produced increases 1% each year. Let's add that as physical objects they take up some space minimum amount of time. Now let's add that humanity is spreading out in all directions at the speed of light. If humans cover 1 light year of space they can expand faster than the new amount of stuff. However Volume = 4/3 pi * radius ^ 3 so what happens when humanity covers 1,000 light years. Well, next year they need to put 1% more stuff into 1002^3 / 1000^3 = 0.6% more space which means they need to increase the density which at some point means you have a black hole.

PS: 1% growth per year seems slow and sustainable but in 20,000 years your talking about 2.7 with 86 zeros after it. Start with 1 atom for one second and compare it with every atom in the earth for a year and your only at 4.2 with 57 zeros. So if the total economic output of humanity was 1 atom we could not sustain 1% economic growth per year for 30,000 years.

Edit: This assumes that the economy is based on physical goods, if we assume intangibles can take up 99.99...9% of the economy then 1% growth is possible for long periods of time even if it's somewhat meaningless.
The first question is very difficult to answer..the second?

>Or, how does a developed nation survive in relative bounty surrounded by nations undergoing severe war and famine?

Brutality and self interest.
Well, yes. If your point is that you are not compelled to share your songs you've composed in your basement, you are correct. That, however, has nothing to do with copyright and won't really help you with incentivizing either.

Once you have shared it with someone, you can only control what is done with those copies under certain circumstances. And in that question, the balance decided by society is decidedly not that you have complete say in what is done.
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Sounds like you have not actually started work at the first job?

You call the person who recruited you personally on the telephone, don't email as a first step because that is cowardly and rude. You say to them "I'm feeling uncomfortable about this but I'm sorry I have been offered and accepted a role which pays more and is at a company that I feel is a better fit to what I am looking for. Apologies for doing this after I have already accepted a role with you. I know it is bad form."

No, you should not expect that company or recruiter to ever do business with you again, why would they? But that's the price you pay for continuing to interview for jobs after you have accepted one. You have behaved unprofessionally and were disrespectful of the time, money and resource that it took to get you recruited into the first job. But that's okay, it's not a huge sin, lots of people do it unfortunately and really you must look after your interests primarily. Sh*t happens and people sometimes find better jobs, probably because they really wanted a job and made the mistake of accepting something that they really were not so enthused about.