skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget the division being done.

The iPhone appears to operate this way:

6
6%
6%2
6%(
At this point the 2 (or any value in that slot) has been dropped
6%(1
6%(1+
6%(1+2
6%(1+2)
and the result is processed in this order:
6%(3)
6%3
2

giving the result.

It appears what most people are objecting to is that it performs an unexpected operation when it discards the value at 2 (because opening the parenthesis without giving 2 an operator has been designed to be 'invalid') but it does NOT indicate this in ANY way.

It is also interesting to note that all of his other examples had the entire formula written out, where the iPhone did not. If it had, it would have been more clear when the 2 was dropped.
I never knew about the distinction either. But if interpreted that way

6 ÷ 2 (1 + 2)

should then translate to

6 / (2 * (1 + 2)) = 1

I guess this only reaffirms the fact that the expression is ambiguous.
> surely they stop using the site altogether? An interesting challenge.

Nope, a very simple one. Just keep the experience mediocre. Not bad enough for them to leave dissatisfied, but not good enough for them to leave satisfied. This will maximize their time on the site. This is largely the result of the monthly subscription model, which creates a fairly twisted set of incentives.

Interestingly, the old school matchmaker model doesn't suffer from this problem. You pay a fee for a successful "match". This creates an incentive for the matchmaker to do her best in finding the right match. This model is out of fashion now, because people prefer to have more control over the process and dating is no longer always about marriage.

Also, most relationships have a shorter duration than most leases, providing a very lucrative repeat business stream.
JoeAlpha100 wrote:
The kek problem is not the workers working overtime too much. It is Apple and Foxccon who squeezed the OEM margin too low and Apple’s profit margin unreasonably high.
The iPhone price could remain unchange and Chinese works earn $1 more per hour, if Apple cuts its profit margin from 33% to 32%.

A 33% or 30% profit margin is already too bloody.
When I'm awake
Who cares about Steamboat Willie, or Disney for that matter?

I care about that there will be little to no public domain between now and when I die. And I don't care about X popular work of the hour; I care about the myriads of media that have been orphaned.

Disney and its ilk can afford archiving services, and do as such. Many studios, authors, musicians and such may either have a copy or perhaps even lost it (thinking of Prince of Persia source recently found). Do we just let all but the most popular die in the annals of recorded-but-forgotten history.

DRM is just another chapter, in which the Twilights, Titanics, and Harry Potters are recorded unencrypted, but the minor films and media are forgotten.

*edited for grammar
At school, when I have nothing to lose by sleeping in, I love nothing more than hacking from ~10pm to 6am and watching the sun rise. Then as everything is opening I usually go grab a donut and come back and pass out until 2-4pm.
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If you've got your php code and static assets in the same repo, then it's generally easiest to have php and nginx run as the same user that owns the files in that repo. php needs access to those file to parse/run them, and nginx needs access to those (static) files to serve them.

Of course, you can manage this in other, more security conscious ways (move static assets elsewhere, use group permissions, etc.) but this is probably the simplest.
I've been using it for over a month or so now and love it.
to me, elided multiplication has a higher precedence than the explicit one (and by transitivity, than the explicit division), but I don't remember in which grammar I read that (mathematica, matlab ?).
If A Game of Thrones were out of copyright, he wouldn't be collecting royalties on the adaptations -- unless he made such an agreement while it was still under copyright.

One side effect of making copyright terms short, as is being discussed, is that studios could freely make movies (video games, etc.) based on all but the most recent works without seeking approval or paying royalties.

And if HBO's adaptation of A Game of Thrones was popular but was relatively inaccessible since most people don't have an HBO subscription, any random person could make their own adaptation of the book and sell it cheaply and widely.

I'm not convinced I understand the full implications of this enough to make a definitive statement about whether it is a good thing or a bad thing, but it's definitely something that should be considered carefully.
Based on Adobe's announcements on this subject earlier in the week, the licensing requirement only applies to apps that use both the 3d and memory-optimization technologies. Using one or the other by itself won't require licensing. The practical effect on Unity-Flash games are that small 3d games should not be subject to the licensing requirement.

Caveat: Adobe has actually not issued specific rules or statements on when licensing is required, so until they do, any analysis is really just conjecture.

Edit: The facts on which I based my analysis have changed. Adobe has issued a FAQ, and Unity has confirmed that the Unity-Flash conversion uses both features.
Consequently, the practical effect is that any game that succeeds in reaching the $50,000 revenue threshold will incur licensing fees of 9% on the revenue in excess of $50,000 (i.e., $0.09 for $50,001 total revenue, $4500 licensing fee for $100,000 total revenue).
Look, I'm not a REST cheerleader by any stretch of the imagination but in REST terms the OP just doesn't know his ass from his elbow here. Consider:

> POST /orders/42/pay

> POST /orders/42/ship

You don't put verbs in your URLs. This is really REST 101. I highly recommend Nobody understands REST or HTTP [1]. The above is exactly why you don't put verbs in URLs. Consider instead:

POST /payment { orderId=42, etc }

POST /shipment { orderId=42, etc }

is a much sounder RESTful API design.

And in case anyone feels the need to suggest SOAP, I highly recommend the satiricial (but disturbingly accurate) The S stands for Simple [2].

[1]: http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2011-07-03-nobody-underst...

[2]: http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/the-s-...
Wow. I'd like to think people aren't wired like that, but I guess subconsciously there's lots of exploits like this.
The Unity plugin is installed in far, far fewer places than Flash. That's why so many Unity devs have been asking for Flash export from Unity.

This 9% cost will affect all those developers. They are not a small group - Unity would not have put the effort it did into supporting a new (and very different) platform, Flash, if it wasn't for a large group.
I was quoted $480/year per user on Box.net (80 users). Dropbox may not be as good as them, but is a satisfactory solution based on their significantly lower pricing.
https://nimbus.io/

Almost public release, and $0.06/GB.
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You may reorder factors arbitrarily

*a /b *c = *a *b /c = /c *b *a etc.

so 6 /2 *(...) = 6 *(...) /2.
Hey devs, Amazon apps can make almost as much as iOS apps
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Yes, this is definitely true.. the main thing I've noticed is I like to not be a in an environment where its really brightly lit, so time of day isn't important, just if its during day time, I need to be somewhere not right by a window, etc, I find the office I work in currently has a great lighting scheme that seems to keep me where I need to be regardless of time of day
The fact that a startup isn't desperate makes it more desirable -> it may get to choose investors -> it ends up with top tier investors -> it is more likely to succeed (good investors are more than a check book) -> hence it's a good investment -> better for any given investor in the round (as well as the startup - it can and should be a win-win)
It doesn't matter if I'm excited about what I'm working on.
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I'm guessing you meant:
7+47435)7 = 14 for the second example?

I get 9 as written on my iPhone. The correction above gives 14.

The interesting thing to me is that the close parenthesis cause the same behavior. The consistent logic appears to be "an operator entered in error causes input to reset" or something like that. Also errors are silently ignored in the easiest way possible, perhaps internally the value never gets pushed to the stack or something along those lines.

I wonder what other 'errors' could show this behavior?
I didn't see that post, but every other post I've seen there has been a lot of hand wringing about being forced to use this language or be shut out of Firefox development, which is very clearly not currently even in the long-term plans. They've also been very clear that people should not form indelible opinions about Rust since they expect it to continue evolving at a rapid rate.

You're right that it would be idiotic to spend the money and time to develop this if they didn't intend to use it in their products, but they've gone out of their way to make people understand that the Rust they can see today is not going to be shoved down their throats. Whether some eventual successor Rust that may or may not resemble the one we have today is used for some kind of rewrite is probably a foregone conclusion, but they clearly don't want us deciding whether to support or object based on what exists today.

I sound like I'm making a big deal out of a minor distinction, but I don't like seeing what I saw on Slashdot, which was essentially, A) Rust devs announce Rust 0.1, B) someone submits story to Slashdot saying Mozilla is forcing everyone to abandon C++ and switch to Rust in the near future, C) everyone on Slashdot complains that Rust isn't going to perform and ought to have language features X, Y, Z. This cycle misinformation/non-information is going to persist as long as we emphasize the foregone conclusion that this might be used in some kind of far-distant rewrite ahead of the actual news, which is just that 0.2 of Rust, an experimental language, came out today.
Interesting, Midnight to 3AM has always been a sweet spot for me.It was better before Netflix and Hulu made watching interesting TV possible at all hours and there was a natural lull as broadcasters said good bye to the late owls and waited for the early risers, but I still find just the quiet of the environment persists.
Yes, I grew up in Wisconsin and lived in Los Angeles for the past ten years. Many of my friends in WI have since married and possibly had kids. Few of my friends in L.A. have done either.
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Is WebGL on Android Chrome at all? I have barely ever touched an Android phone. I imagine Google is working hard to port it to Android if it's not.
We are very very far away from having any kind of artificial intelligence on the level we currently exist. We don't even understand the mechanics behind our own intelligence.

So if a machine is killing humans somewhere, it's because some human pressed the button.

So I agree with you, I find the thought of humans killing other humans much more disturbing.
Sounds about right to me. How did you get to 596GB? That seems very low for 300,000,000 visits (remember this was a daily figure, but you're paying by the month). If you have 10 requests per visit (reasonable for the low end) that turns into a cool 3B requests. That itself is $2,250 a month.

A million visits times 500KB = 476.84GB. Per day, so 14TB per month. At best that's another $1,600 a month.
I am so torn as well. CC and BB hardly did anything to distance themselves from online vendors. Their prices suck, services suck, and they don't offer enough variety and/or higher end items.
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I ran into this problem myself in the 90s when I first got into the whole internet forum thing. This is something that has worked for me, though YMMV:

I re-read every post I write in my head, and pretend I'm saying it to the other person IRL who is sitting across the table from me. Would I use the same words? The same tone?

The internet is, in its current form, dehumanizing, you have to take care to maintain your own humanity and the humanity of the semi-anonymous non-faces you're interact with.

The negativity on HN doesn't bother me so much as the tone and language. Instead of criticizing, many posters here outright bash. Remember OMGPOP's sale to Zynga? The word "coward" got tossed around as if the company was staffed by an army of unfeeling Mecha-Hitlers.
Vonnegut published a copy of the originally private letter to the people of Drake, in his autobiography "Palm Sunday", pages 4-6.
Two totally different things.

Apple has a giant marketplace thats allows people to find your app by search or discovery, they distribute it, they host it, they manage the servers for the store, they keep it secure, they host the feedback, they have a massive customer base that they offer your app to in an easy to use marketplace, etc. etc.

adobe is just unlocking a portion of an language/api essentially. Ive never heard of a premium upgrade taking a portion of your revenue. ive only ever seen a fixed rate to have access to better features. That's just insane. I would never pay this & I pay 25% of my revenue for a marketplace for my scripts & themes

9% for unlocking an api? that's insane/offensive/hilarious & i would never participate in such a thing. it feels like a bully taking part of my lunch money no matter how much my mom gave me.
also fewer distractions at 1am -- easier to concentrate in the wee hours, when it feels like you're the only person on earth.
> Fabric is integrated with dynamic languages, we 're not interpreting JS or Python (we work with both languages).

Neither does Cython.

> Fabric is basically a high-performance threading engine that you can call from your dynamic language

Well Cython is for writing Python modules, so it's integrated with Python only. But that's pretty much it.

> the key element is that the operator code (KL) enables the high-performance. This KL is only required for the operators, and is not as difficult or complex as C/C++ to use - it's designed purely for this task.

So's Cython. Cython compile to a native module, that native module is simply imported and used from regular Python code.

> A regular Python or JavaScript developer can pick it up.

A regular Python developer really shouldn't have any trouble picking up cython.
I'm most productive when the world is asleep, so I usually work from 10PM to 6AM. I answered twice: 10:00PM - 2:00AM and 2:00AM - 6:00AM
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My original point was merely that FTP is far from dead for general purpose file transfer. It can still be quite safe if precautions are taken with encrypting the data first. Anyone looking at it will see nothing but gobbledegook, naturally.

It isn't dead and yes, of course, I know the difference between FTP and SFTP.
Android inserts the implied multiplication symbol when you open parentheses (on Gingerbread 2.3.5).
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If you write the expression as a fraction without anything beside it being multiplied, it is ambiguous as to whether (1+2) ought to go above or below the fraction bar. The fact that parentheses/brackets ought to be resolved before anything else complicates things because 6/2 * 3 could reasonably be interpreted either way. An unambiguous way to write it would be either as (6/2) * 3 or as 6/(2*3).
I feel much better if I get an early night, and wake early before the world starts. I get a lot of stuff done, and it's good. Then I get on with the day.
Supplemental data at http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2012/03/28/335.6076....

I haven't completely read it, but that data looks more noisy than that medical express link. That makes me trust it more. I (did?) wonder whether Science would do April fool's jokes, or whether the authors made a deal to do so, with the article itself being real.
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You basically equated the hassle of getting WebGL working if someone is on a browser without it to the hassle of getting Wolfram Alpha Pro.

What you are missing is that if you don't have Wolfram Alpha Pro, the regular plain old Wolfram Alpha still plots it for you. It gives you a 3D view and a contour map, and throws in a couple series expansion and the derivative. You don't get the fancy interactivity without Pro, but you get to see what the thing is.

At Google, on the other hand, you either get the full 3D interactive experience, or you get "3D charts require a web browser and system that support WebGL".
I'm a late-night hacker, but I think it's due more to a lack of distractions and a sense of true solitude than any sort of cognitive advantage granted by its placement in my sleep cycle. In fact, any serious hacking session has the unfortunate side effect of completely borking my sleep schedule for the rest of the week.
there is deviantart.com
You're right - it should be publicly visible. We're working on it - it will be updated and public in the next week. We'll be offering subscription pricing - so initially it will be a monthly that allows you to run x number of instances.
got it - thanks for the clarification :)
and douglas adams's beautiful take-off on the quote:

Ursa Minor Beta is, some say, one of the most appalling places in the known Universe.

Although it is excruciatingly rich, horrifyingly sunny and more full of wonderfully exciting people than a pomegranate is of pips, it can hardly be insignificant that when a recent edition of Playbeing magazine headlined an article with the words "When you are tired of Ursa Minor Beta you are tired of life", the suicide rate quadrupled overnight.

(from "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe")
it's awesome. Investors are going crazy
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You are right, all of this can be done via makefile ... assuming you know how to set up a makefile and take the time to do so. Part of the goal of grunt, as I understand it, is to make it so developers have fewer excuses for not doing this -- setting up a project of a certain type becomes a one-liner. To me, that feels a whole lot simpler than suggesting that developers create the makefile you propose. More often than not, such suggestions result in projects that have no makefile at all -- and thus no tests, no minification, no linting, etc. If grunt helps developers integrate those best practices more easily, that feels like a good thing to me.
I would have expected an answer of 3 as 2(1+2) cannot mean anything else than applying the constant function 2 to the sum.
Probably in Totem and Taboo? This concept is expressed in a number of his books, however.
Mmm, missed that, thanks. Doesn't change the aggression against women in the marketing, though. Though maybe thanks to our culture (violent video games, for example) we've been de-sensitized to this?
Everyone is entitled to their value scheme. Unfortunately, the regulatory requirements here have nothing to do with data security; they are imposed to nominally insure the security of funds. I think it is possible that where you see a pure regulatory failure, I see a technological failure that is being exacerbated by regulation.
That is an unfortunate analogy. I really don't want to see investors riding entrepreneurs.
It seems to me that the cost of regulatory/license fees could act as a barrier to competiton, permitting the incumbent to coast while maintaining its monopoly. The cost of fees/licenses is just a tax, which is less money a company or start-up could spend on meeting regulations (eg PCI-DSS) or other things that would actually protect customer data.

Why is chip-and-pin (which from what I understand would render ineffective this type of breach - track 1 + 2 card data) already common in Europe, but not the U.S.? [sincere question]
Right. Silly me. What a weird way of doing it though.
Prime hacking hours? 2:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00 and 11:00
I'm a night hacker but liking the morning hacking more and more. Lately I'm exhausted by 10:30 pm, go to sleep and wake up at 5 no problem.

I get the same solitude as night time, but with a full, fresh head of energy and a clear mind. Instead of attacking my own projects with whats "left over" in the tank after a day, I get to put my most creative and best effort, first thing in the day, into my own stuff.

For those who work answer this: Do you get paid for your best and creative energy and effort every day, or more your attention to detail and reliability?

The answer to that question will help you decide where you put that best energy for best result.
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I find that there is really no set time period that I can get to hacking but I do have tendencies. If I get a light day at school I might go to my hideout at the library and get a few hours of work done. Other than that I tend to work pretty hard during the 6 PM to 2 AM range and most of my greatest breakthroughs always seem to be right after I have had a good night of sleep after being frustrated by a problem the night before.
Great success story. Great links too (although, the 30x500 link is broken).

Thanks!
Emphatic no!

The seminal work from which Ash's book (and mine) sprung was The Four Steps to the Epiphany, published in 2005.
I have experienced the exact opposite of what this person experienced.

I use both Windows and OS X all through the day and while the response on both is adequate, the Core 2 Quad Windows 7 box is much more responsive than my MBP with the high end 15" i7. They both have 8GB RAM -- but then again, my Core 2 Duo Thinkpad X200 feels more responsive, and requires fewer resources.

I've never experienced or heard of the "infamous" cloned dialogs bug on Windows 7, but oddly, I have experienced it on OS X. Conversely, I've never experienced the reported cursor lag on OS X.

Like I said, I find both OSes perfectly good, but the post just seems suspect to me.

Now, if only Microsoft would integrate a well-supported, well-integrated, native bash/zsh. I can't bring myself to like Powershell.
What's so wrong about this representation? looks fine to me.
"I think it's pretty peculiar that Adobe would announce such a regressive tax,... even if you created the SWF yourself (using tools like haxe), you'd still have to pay the tax."

I disagree it is 'pretty peculiar', I think it is 'pretty obvious' why Adobe has done this. After years of growth and dividends and success, they have gone through a decade of sideways motions where they are resorting various and sundry cost cutting moves to keep their stock afloat. They have 'good enough' disease.

That is the disease where computers and their products which run on those computers have become 'good enough' and their customer base isn't rolling over every 12months to pony up an upgrade fee. One of the interesting ways to see this effect is to look for sales of technical books about older versions of a particular software. When they are still selling well it is because those folks are using the 'old' version rather than upgrade.

Given the pricing model Adobe doesn't have a good way to capture that market. They have aggressively been trying to shut down re-sale of older versions on Ebay and elsewhere but the courts have handed them a couple of set backs too because their licenses do actually allow it.

So they have a product, Flash, which they have already said is 'dead' [2] in that its future is maintenance only, and so they perhaps figure, what the heck, lets get some money out of it before it goes.

[1] http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&...

[2] http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/10/technology/adobe_flash/index...