skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is an aircraft crashing into a building not a source of "blunt objects, explosions, pointy things, or projectiles" that can maim your body?

So far the acts of these groups have only been against typical websites. What happens when it escalates to aircraft, air-traffic control systems, nuke plants, dams, and other things where disrupted systems could cause massive loss of life?
Umm, you can have many macs with only a single GPU configuration - if they are all identical models. Similarly, you can have one copy of Lion and install it on multiple machines (AFAIK). There is nothing in their statement that proves that they were only using one mac.
Typically (for a company at least), debt has 'cross-default' provisions in it. So that failure to pay any particular creditor causes legal triggers to trip on every piece of debt. This is prevent the company persecuting particular sets of holders, and makes it a huge incentive not to miss payments to anyone.

The problem with the arm-twisting idea is that it only requires one hold-out, and everyone gets pulled through the default process.
Greece looks First-world to me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World
Do you have any evidence that Stephen planned to avoid crediting Cook? I've never heard, seen, or read Stephen claiming the proof as his own. In fact, Stephen tells quite a detailed history of the proof in the notes to NKS, which you can read here http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-1115c-text. A short excerpt:

"His initial results were encouraging, but after a few months he became increasingly convinced that rule 110 would never in fact be proved universal. I insisted, however, that he keep on trying, and over the next several years he developed a systematic computer-aided design system for working with structures in rule 110. Using this he was then in 1994 successfully able to find the main elements of the proof. Many details were filled in over the next year, some mistakes were corrected in 1998, and the specific version in the note below was constructed in 2001."
Neat headline ... except Adobe saying that the problem relates to one configuration doesn't mean they only tested with one configuration. It may just mean they never correctly correlated the cause of the problem to the system configuration until now.
I'm quite sure they are still trying.
We use KSplice in production deployed to ~1400 servers. It works great. Never had any trouble with it, although they did have to roll back a patch a while back.

Unfortunately for us, we're a CentOS shop (which KSplice supports). The "unfortunate" part comes from Oracle (who only supports Oracle "Unbreakable" Linux [which is 99% RHEL, BTW]).

TL;DR KSplice is about to lose us as a client once they drop support for CentOS (which will happen when the Oracle takeover is done).
The simple fact is the Cisco conducted a Russian mob-style kidnapping

Re-reading this, I'm now convinced you're trolling. Regardless of whatever inappropriate influence Cisco may have exerted on US authorities, it was the RCMP that arrested Adekeye, and it appears to have been done in a very polite manner.
Remember Adobe purchased macromedia, they didn't create flash.
Why did this get downvoted? Again, heavy-handed HNers at work :<
If I were worried about this point (and a holder of a lot on CDS 'insured' bonds), I'd get a friend that was immune to 'arm twisting' to buy 1MM of a particular issue, and play extremely hardball with the ECB. Eventually, a payment would not occur, and there would be a solid 'Credit Event' to trigger all the CDS.
Apple Mulling Hulu Acquisition?
The worst part? There are people who fall for this.
The phrase 'interactive textbooks' is very interesting. A kindle textbook, where you could play with values and see the results... That's something I would like to see in highschools.
Safer? The risk is that 303 is misinterpreted, and this risk is why we have always used 302. I'd need evidence before taking a chance based on someone's recollection of an older version of Firefox.

RFC 2616 mentions early misinterpretations; they are why 303 and 307 exist:

"Note: RFC 1945 and RFC 2068 specify that the client is not allowed to change the method on the redirected request. However, most existing user agent implementations treat 302 as if it were a 303 response, performing a GET on the Location field-value regardless of the original request method. The status codes 303 and 307 have been added for servers that wish to make unambiguously clear which kind of reaction is expected of the client."

Recommending 303 sounds like a great idea, but the spec's description of 303 is what 302 is in practice, and the latest spec (2616) makes note of this reality. Also, consistent support for 303 is not a sure bet:

"Note: Many pre-HTTP/1.1 user agents do not understand the 303 status. When interoperability with such clients is a concern, the 302 status code may be used instead, since most user agents react to a 302 response as described here for 303."

Without evidence, using 303 is the riskier option.
I'm familiar with CMU's effort and am pretty sure they are still planning on using SpaceX's Falcon 9 to launch the robot.

The entrepreneurial ideas are necessary because going to the moon is very, very expensive. Even with the $30M prize, significant additional funds are necessary to get us there.
Looks like FB blocks links to torrent detail pages on TPB.
Best I could do was post a link to things tagged with JSTOR (there's only one):
http://thepiratebay.org/tag/JSTOR
Paying me, but not on the originally agreed upon schedule, is still a default. What's wrong about calling it one?
Does any corporation do anything for altruistic motives?
I'd suggest something like burpees as a better alternative. Whole-body movement, may incorporate push-ups, but you're also getting a full triple extension (ankle, knee, hip), and at least some posterior-chain activation.

If you're doing other movements at other times (including rows), the push-ups are fine. You don't have to balance your movements at the same time -- alternating days or workouts would be sufficient.
So, when you copy somebody else's work (e.g. a song) for personal enjoyment, it's an outrageous crime; but when you copy a student's essay for profit, it's fair use. You're right, it's not at all surprising.
Let me clarify: Inefficient conversion of dietary ALA to DHA is neither correlated nor causative to anything.

My point is that ALA provides adequate, not elevated levels of DHA, and there's no evidence to the contrary.

Now let's examine the actual context of my quote:

> ALA is adequately converted to DHA

I think it's worth mentioning where you make a false statement, directly after citing inefficient conversion rates in humans.

>It specifically states that ALA->DHA is only a phenomena that occurs in rats and not humans.

Which is it, inefficient or non-existent in humans?

This statement:
>It is not enough to assume that ALA exerts effects through conversion to EPA and DHA, as the process is highly inefficient in humans.

... Says exactly nothing about healthy levels of DHA. It is non sequitur. It skirts the issue, it avoids the topic, the statement tries to make a huge jump in unreasonable unproven logic. This paper shows nothing but the therapeutic effect of DHA/EPA on diseased people.

There is no evidence to suggest inadequate DHA is produced from dietary ALA in otherwise healthy humans. Not in this paper, nor any I've seen.
The better question is, why did Adobe test with only ONE GPU config?

Is it: Adobe can only buy and test one computer config, but test on dozens of computers with that config, or they were too lazy to test on multiple computers?

Heck, I got 4 computers with 5 GPU in this room with me right now.
“We are also trying to satisfy ourselves that Stern graduates know what they are talking about when they represent themselves to practitioners and in the world of stiff competition with graduates of other top schools.”

Wait... is he actually admitting here that NYU wants the post removed because it reveals that >1/5 of its grads are cheaters?
Meh. Outdated definition.
I'm not sure that PDFs are in decline at all. They're so ubiquitous that embedded renderers are now built into modern browsers.

Similarly, Flash has hardly gone away. Of course, 1) Flash has had persistent stability and performance problems, 2) Apple is waging a very public battle against it via iOS devices, and 3) its only real killer app, streaming video, is being folded into several (competing) standards. But it still has massive penetration.

The thing is, Mathematica is too big and too rich to ever achieve standardization. If you want the ability to easily inject graph theory, computer vision, symbolic statistics, non-linear optimization, discrete math, control theory, etc etc into your documents, CDF is unmatchable.

Now, without seeing with your own eyes the kinds of crazy stuff you can do with Mathematica, you might well be skeptical, but the next few months will change your mind, I promise.
Remember the context of that. It's not a general statement (even if the authors would agree with the generalized "don't fight" version); it's in the context of two sides armed to the teeth. If only one side is armed, there is the "nuke the other side" solution, which at least in the way the computer was measuring works just fine. And in this case we aren't talking about literal deaths, so it applies even moreso. MAD doesn't work as a strategy when you don't have the A or the D.
Wall Street’s Euthanasia of Industry
I don't think either is going away for a long time.
Writing Elegant Clojure Code Using Higher-Order Functions
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Wow, I think the professor may be the winner here. I felt that post hurt him more than help him.
Here's a video tour of their offices circa 1993, for those who haven't seen it. I think this is a cool look into the beginnings of the company and the (early) excitement surrounding Doom at the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65xJfVkiaI
That being said, it's also uncommon to specifically use Mr. (except for male surgeons, of course) - not unknown, but uncommon. I'd have less of a problem if the article was about, say, his dog having a funny coat pattern or him complaining about parking restrictions at the local council, but it is weird that in an article about his professional conduct and capacity, that the lesser title should be used.
Mr. is still not the correct formal title for someone with a PhD, Dr. is. The only exception of this is when dealing with patients in a medical setting where the degree could be confused with an MD. (I'm still having flashbacks to addressing wedding invitations 7 years after the fact).

Chronicles of higher education might have a different publishing standard, but I'm not sure why they would.
I interpret when Tux threw the rock as Tux trying to get Windows' attention.
To be fair to Google - doesn't the fact that they even agree to any damages weaken their case? I don't understand why they would have to determine damages before investigating if they infringed or not.

Going with Java and not buying Sun was HUGE mistake on Google's part - major strategic gaffe. You can thank Mark Hurd for the fact that HP did not buy Sun - even then Google would be better off as HP has no history of suing people left and right.
The iPad's Dominance of the Tablet Market
Is that true or does their mind explode because they see a figure that can only exist wearing the other color shirt?
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Apple to Buy Hulu?
+ one for this book. Excellent startup narrative.
This kind of invective has no place on HN. While valid points can be made about the lack of testing of flash on lion, the ill-supported headline, and repeated use of "FAIL" in the post only show laziness on the part of the author, not Adobe.
The attacks on torrent sites have little to do with headlines and more to do with the reality that they are critical points in the distribution of information people don't want shared.

To many people the distinction you point out is meaningless.
Thanks for the reply -- interesting stuff.
I would assume however that threading concerns have not been taken into account for the "Clojure-in-Clojure" on display in ClojureScript however, based on https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Differences-fr...

That suggests to me that concerns over thread safety that are taken into account in the Java implementation, say of the core data structures, STM, etc, are not taken into account in the std. lib. of ClojureScript. That would make it unlikely for this code to be a useful origin or starting point for, say, an LLVM backend.

Rich is a very clever fellow and makes fascinating trade offs between pragmatism and idealism in his language design. He continues to build languages quite tied to some existing runtimes which embrace their advantages and drawbacks. Consequentially, it will be very important to keep the rationale in mind while evaluating the real impact of ClojureScript. https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Rationale As neat as it would be to see, it will be a long time before an x86 or ARM backend emerges.

As far as I know, the G1 Garbage Collector in the JVM is still the top of the crop of production GCs and even Haskell with GHC7 is still working towards something of similar potency. See http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/new-gc-preview

Concurrent GCs and other aspects of runtimes geared towards heavy concurrency are insanely hard. Just something to keep in mind.
No. Macs used to provide a better environment for using Adobe products, including OS-level color profiles, a ton of printing stuff, and most importantly: Mac-only fonts and resources. An agency could amass upwards of 200k of fonts, and not really be blamed to avoid transferring to a Windows platform that would save them 500 per machine, every three years.

The difference now is that a lot of web dev’s use Macs strictly for the UX: since Flash’s performance negatively—in such a severe way—degrades the experience, it’s become loathed, even as it’s been tied into Adobe’s own apps as UI chrome. If Adobe had respected the UX of a Mac—including all the low-level coding things that form the basis of UX, there’d be a lot more sympathy towards their plight.

For me, it’s like watching the fall of Quark all over again.
Ask HN: When is Y Combinator's winter 2012 applications starting?
The beauty of asking for multiple specific times is that the asker can then respond affirmatively to one of those specific times (likely to the respondent's first choice), and eliminate any additional email exchanges.
Can I insult it based on my inability to afford it rather than my experience using it?
Apparently, the Ascendos guys are planning on forking it for their own free EL distribution. This may be fun
You think that 30 years is "practically indefinitely"? What are you, 12 years old?
Training modalities differ from just the 8-12 reps range. Check out the Wikipedia Strength Training article for a good overview. You can get varying responses with reps ranging from 1 to 30 or more (with appropriate scaling of resistance).

The disadvantage of push-ups from a training perspective is that it's hard to progress with them (increase resistance), though this can be done by changing body angle, changing hand position, adding weight, or changing to a more challenging variant (say planche push-ups).

The point that I and others have been making is that a naive and uninformed approach toward exercise and fitness may provide few if any benefits, could exacerbate an existing imbalance, and really shouldn't be touted as a genius inspiration. Much as, say, a naive and uninformed approach toward technology often has corresponding / similar / analogous negative outcomes.

Push-ups are fine, in the right balance with other movements. They're not a complete exercise routine of themselves.

As for getting big on push-ups, there are always exceptions. Hershel Walker comes to mind as a calisthenics devotee.
Yeah, this pretty much sucks for their existing customers. Even if they aren't immediately shutting down everything, I don't feel very safe trusting them to do the same thorough job preparing patches for Ubuntu and RHEL when the press release makes it rather clear that Oracle is only interested in servicing their own distro. :/

I have to say that I am considering terminating my service with them.
Honestly, I find it to be more the common superstition rather than the common wisdom. That is not to say there's no truth to it, but I find that I hear ppl repeating it religiously without really knowing why. The main danger comes from extending Object.prototype, which Sugar will never do. In response to a lot of people with the same concerns as you, I've put up a page explaining this in more detail (http://sugarjs.com/native). I think the idea of extending other objects may have gotten a bad rap due to this, but the fact is there is a marked difference, and frameworks like Prototype have known this and found their niche here for many years.

Now of course there are other considerations like collisions with Prototype itself or other libraries. But in the end, any library that modifies these native types is generally speaking meant to exist on it's own, without having to co-exist with other libraries of similar type. Now I realize that can't ever be 100% guaranteed, but if that limits the environments where Sugar can be included, then so be it. Now that having been said I am still going to great lengths whenever possible to minimize these collisions and in more than a few places have actually re-aligned Sugar syntax to match Prototype, so long as it doesn't violate my first rule of having intuitive syntax that "reads". Additionally it's worth restating that Sugar never overwrites methods that are already defined, and so any page that includes Prototype will always get Prototype methods in the case of a collision. I'm currently looking into an elegant way of having devs manually override Prototype methods/classes if they so desire. I also believe that the danger of modifying native objects can be greatly mitigated by extensive unit testing, and this was the main reason I've taken the unit tests as far as I have (to be honest I've gone a bit nuts with them). To summarize, there is a certain extent to which I disagree with the statement that "modifying native objects is bad" and a certain extent to which I agree. To the extent that I agree I think that making good design decisions, mitigating collisions, and having proper unit tests to tie it all together can more than make up for anything that might be considered "bad".

Lastly I want to mention that I just released v0.9.1, which uses Object.defineProperty to map these methods to the prototype. It's a long story (check out MozDev for more info) but the result is that in modern browsers including IE9, modifying the prototype object no longer breaks the for..in loop. I actually had to put a new "warning" into the unit tests that include Prototype because I wanted to put in a unit test assuring this, but Prototype breaks it!
Debt rating describes a borrower's creditworthiness at a particular moment in time. Since Greece won't have access to the world credit markets for some time, their credit rating today is not material. What is at issue here is how quickly their credit rating recovers.
You can find that here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnitin#Controversy

Turnitin has always been a concern of mine; not just the copyright/fair-use conundrum, but the privacy issues too.
For the same reason that clipping my fingernail isn't the same as severing my finger.
To be fair, the email templates were ancillary to your execution, drive, and skills. Of course, they weren't ancillary to your product, in a very meta way :).
Agreed. I had the same reaction. The guy outs the problem and the blatant use of cheating by his students and all he gets in return is a kick in the teeth by doing so.

I'm glad I never stayed in academia.
They'll respond positively because fixing a problem, even if some people lose out, is always better than uncertainty.
I'm sure you can use the native RegExp class:

(def pat (RegExp. "Some(.+)"))
You mean they're promising to repay it over a longer period of time, the same way they originally promised to pay it over a shorter period of time. The odds that they'll actually pay the debt over any time frame are very small and everyone knows it.
I've never worked for one, but it wasn't an ideological thing. If you worked with people for more than 6 months or so, you'd get your team broken up. If management found out that you were friends with a group of coworkers and were getting together outside of work, you'd get reassigned so none of you were working together. It was the harassment to prevent people from unionizing that that made it a bad working environment.
We're using SproutCore 1.6 and TemplateViews for a medium size app, and in many ways, it feels like the early days of any framework- there are a lot of nice features, but you have to be willing to dig into framework code and bend it to your will. SC 1.x has a lot of really great ideas, but they're buried deep in a huge system that is, in many ways, inflexible.

SC 2.0 seeks to change this, by making the framework much more modular (think Rails 3) and trying to do less. KVC/KVO really pay off on larger apps by allowing the data to drive the app instead of you having to write a lot of boilerplate code to push data and UI elements around as changes are made to the data. Statecharts are really useful for giving structure to a complex client-side codebase- I highly recommend using them.

I have only looked at Backbone briefly, so I can't comment on how it compares on a real app. But my gut is that it boils down to this: with Backbone you will be writing more framework-level and boilerplate code, which may seem more explicit, but will also be harder to maintain. With SproutCore, you will be relying on the framework to do more, but you will have to understand the framework in order to take advantage of what it offers you. And since SC 2 is still under heavy development, you should be OK with adapting to change as the framework matures.
I love to see Google squirm. They've made enough webmasters squirm over their Panda update. Now it's their turn.
And pissing off the judge by making stupid claims

Yeah, this is true. But Google needs to establish their position to the court as being "we don't make any direct revenue off Android".

The whole judge being pissed off is really just theatre. I'm sure the judge expected this, and his anger is more about speeding up the process than anything.

And don't forget the Judge is just as annoyed at Oracle's claims as Google's.
Aiding cheating is against the honor code, however no one is going to say "sell me your paper so I may turn it in for a grade against the code".

Rather they'd say they want your paper so they can see your thoughts. That's fair because they could get the same effect from merely talking to you about your paper.

Or they'd say that its okay to use outside sources (such as your paper) so long as they cite it. This is also true in many cases.
Wait a gosh-darn-second - if the situation is either definite default OR not-a-default, then Greece has NOT defaulted.

From the article: if you’re a holder of Greek bonds right now, you have three choices... 1. You can do nothing, and hope that Greece pays you in full and on time. (and other stuff)... The first option is by far the most interesting. No one has come out and said that Greece is going to default on bondholders who don’t exchange their bonds;

IE, the aim is to threaten and arm-twisted big banks into exchanging their bonds without any formal default happening. If we're going by a "gold standard", when Greece actually misses a payment on its bonds, then it will have defaulted. Until then, this is negotiation.

Further from the article: "Is it possible for other bondholders — those who haven’t had their arms twisted — to free-ride on the back of this deal and continue to get paid in full? I suspect that it probably is. Which is one reason why this Greek restructuring won’t be the last."

Again, nothing has happen to the non-big-bank holders. Indeed, they get a convenient free-ride.