skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the "trading glitches" were not in place for Morgan Stanley's buy orders.
Yeah, my first thought was that since the "rules" of art are merely the discovery of what we as humans find pleasing, and since mathematics is the discovery of fundamental logical conclusions, there's no reason to assume it has anything to do with genetics (well, aside from the fact that we must somehow be 'genetically' predisposed to liking golden ratios, etc).
TLDR: Agree with parts of Steve Blank and Grellas...

15 year veteran of the valley here, and as much as I agree with Steve Blank that the herd money is chasing social media right now (and why not?), I don't agree that the long-term payout investments are gone - just look at Planetary Resources for an instant counterexample (I know, they're based in Seattle so they don't count, right?).

But more importantly, all of Web 2.0's 30ish billionaires are as mortal as the rest of us. The difference is that they actually can throw money at that problem and stand a good chance of at least a modest payout (just look at Sergei Brin and Parkinson's research). And while I agree with Steve Blank about the importance of government funding for long-term technological development, I think we're about to see a Cambrian explosion in biotech as these guys try to fight off the inevitability of death. Because what good are all their toys if they don't stick around long enough to play with them?

Meanwhile, the north end of Silicon Valley has quietly transformed itself into a mecca for biotech and bioinformatics in recent years. Silicon Valley itself started out as farmland and look at it now. I see this as just the latest in a series of transformations to whatever is the next big thing.
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"Emperor" is a problematic work at best. He's skyhooking.
It sounds like AC disrupted the DC market. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me that Edison didn't want to be disrupted and took legal action, not unlike how it happens today in many industries.
Software design: simplistic or optimal?
I'm saying you shouldn't take everything you read at face value.

Other commenters talk about Edison is idolized throughout education and glossing over his imperfections.

The Oatmeal is providing an alternate viewpoint that takes some things to the extreme - but proves a point - Tesla was overlooked both in his time and in the education system.

Also, why you might not have found it at funny as his "reasons your cat is plotting to kill you" comic, if you could honestly read the comic and not laugh a couple times at least I'd be surprised.
> Thanks to a piece of equipment called the Medtronic Mag Pro...

The title should be changed to "When a PR Piece Creates a Sudden Article".
That's not entirely true. South Africa developed the RSA-series of ICBMs and space rockets in the late 1980s along with a concurrent satellite program. The RSA-3 was successfully tested in a number of launches from the Overberg Test Range in the Southern Cape of South Africa.

With the end of the Cold War, the abandonment of Apartheid and the unbanning of the ANC in 1990 both the defence budget and the rocket program budget were slashed and the RSA program and Greensat satellite were put on hold as a result.

An attempt was made to drum up international orders for RSA-3 launches and the development of an even larger variant, the RSA-4, but nothing ever came of it and the entire program was shut down forever around 1994. The sole remaining RSA-3 rocket is on display at the South African Air Force Museum at Zwartkop Air Force Base.

Nowadays South Africa is slowly rebuilding its satellite capability and built two micro-satellites on a shoestring budget, both of which had reasonable service lives in orbit, but it has some way to go to rebuild the capability it lost.
Just tried in my editor. At a size small enough to fit as many lines of text on screen as I can with Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, PTMono letters look like barely legible squiggles.

Still yet to find a font that competes with Menlo/Vera Sans Mono for coding on a 900px-tall laptop screen. If anyone knows of such a thing, please let me know.
That's fascinating. I now fault Apple a tiny bit less for its extremely-expensive peripherals.

Does anyone know of a good disassembly of 'MiniDisplay_Port/Thunderbolt -> VGA/HDMI/DVI/...', or 'iPad Smart Cover' (like this one) that justifies their premium price?
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Because their model isn't based strictly on government contracting. It is based on minimizing costs to build a self-sustaining, privately operated space program. Contractors give you the space shuttle: it doesn't matter how expensive it is if it's what was in the RFP.

It's the difference between the government contracting out the F22 versus going to Boeing to buy a 737. And that difference is what makes it exciting.
Gruber has always seemed a dick, which to be fair, is part of his charm. Dan has always seemed a gentleman, which is what made their banter so enjoyable.

But this is low. Add the fact that neither Dan nor John have taken the high road and announced the split publicly and with decorum, is souring my opinion of both of them.
They should just conform to EU standards and adopt a micro-USB charger.
When will my time come?
Google Knowledge Graph uses CIA and World Bank data as 'facts'
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I count 3 "miracles". In ascending order of awesomeness, these would be:

(1) No feature creep. They provide essential functionality, little more. I say that's a good thing, because if you miss functionality, the system lets you build it relatively easily. My guess is, it explains about 1 order of magnitude (it divides code volume by 10).

(2) Factor everything. Again not very impressive, but it goes a long way. Just good engineering principles applied systematically across the system. For instance, they have one graphic stack, which draws everything in every program, including the window manager. They also have one document type. A side effect of this approach is a greatly increased integration. My guess is, it explains about 1 order of magnitude.

(Warning: the divide between (1) and (2) is somewhat arbitrary. In some ways, the STEPS system provide more functionality than current systems. I think the trick is to stop thinking in terms of features, but in terms of capabilities. For instance, UNIX don't have a feature to sort Apache log files by IP address. But it has `sort` and `awk`, and therefore it has the capability.)

(3) Build the right tools. The tools being mostly domain specific programming languages. And that is the impressive part. Their language are so expressive and simple that they can reduce code volume by two orders of magnitude without breaking a sweat. I don't know exactly how they came up with such languages, yet they did. The tree core languages that may interest you here are Ometa http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa/, Maru http://piumarta.com/software/maru/, and Nile. Ometa is like Lex+Yacc, only much simpler and more general (it lets you transform trees, and flatten them, which makes it suitable for all compilation stages). Maru is a not-so-inefficient self-implementing language, based on 2 cores (lambdas and objects) which can implement each other.

So, 1+1+2=4. Or 1010100=10,000. I'm oversimplifying of course, but I think this gives an idea.
I would recommend coming to terms with "A Transition To Advanced Mathematics". Once you feel like you can plumb Cantor's Diagonalization without nausea :), then read on Godel. GEB is excellent but frothy ( not pointed and a slog ) but is worth it for other reasons.

I think that Godel was more important from a social perspective - there is a strong correlation between Postivism and much of the evils in the 20th Century.
UX is the focus, however we will still learn what happens as more users use it.
I think augmented reality hardware of the future (and smartphones too) will quickly replace QR codes with Near Field Communication.
> in the territory of modern-day Croatia
I like it though I do think that changing the logo from daily to monthlydo.it and futuredo.it when people select those tabs will cause some folks to forget your url if they didn't bookmark the site on their first visit.
My understanding is that Godel's proof was the inspiration for much of Turing's work.
It's an excellent book, but it's very broad, and requires a commitment in time.
You think audio is a trainwreck? You haven't tried detecting key presses.
The guidelines say otherwise.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You are looking for the "100 Years Space Ship", financed by DARPA (the same that made the Internet) and others.

http://100yss.org/

From the Mission Statement: "100 Year Starship will pursue national and global initiatives, and galvanize public and private leadership and grassroots support, to assure that human travel beyond our solar system and to another star can be a reality within the next century."
1) But as it turned out, the cost wasn't so high after all. (They didn't expect their graphic stack to run fast enough in a laptop, yet it does.)

2) What, they do not count the RFC they parse? I'd count that as cheating: if the RFC is part of the meaning of the system, it should be taken into account.
They should be, but all those video streams should be either made public or at least sent to a completely different Government agency, so the police has no power over the data.
Obviously, you have a very limited understanding of software development and the skill various areas demand. Further, your claiming that I have "offered nothing in response" doesn't make it so. Dunning-Kruger is a bitch.
I read it a long time ago (late teens/early twenties) but it changed my intellectual world and gave me an insight into things that I might never have been introduced to. Hard to know whether it would have the same impact now or the same impact for others but I rate it very highly for personal reasons. Also - Rudy Rucker's 'Infinity and the Mind'...
It feels like it is over-engineered. If a cheaper charger does the job (assuming it's not so cheap it violates safety regs) isn't this a case of over-optimisation?

PS: I'm not an electronics engineer so please educate me, on why this "filtered" and "cleaner" power supply is necessary to charge a phone?
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The bus factor is priced in, as is the assumption that Facebook will dramatically increase its revenue in the long run. If Facebook would not grow anymore, the stock would instantly collapse.
Related question: is there an easy build-in way in Django to write to stdout a count of DB queries made for a request?
It seems to me he is solving the wrong problem.

The problem isn't that we don't know our fitness data, the problem is that we are lazy and don't want to exercise. We might want to want to exercise (a big difference), but we don't want to exercise.

Solve that problem and you will have a ton of money on your hands.

(I know there are some of you out there who loves to exercise or who do it even when they hate it. Please accept that you are very far from the norm and enjoy your good life.)
All IMO of course, but programming HTML 5 Canvas apps today feels like having a late 1980s vintage CPU strapped to an early 2000s GPU. This is a really unbalanced combination IMO.

Given this imbalance, when I was at a recent employer, I suggested that exposing OpenCL or CUDA within the browser could lead to some really cool games and web apps. I was soundly shut down. Right around the same time, WebCL was announced: http://www.khronos.org/webcl/.

But it doesn't seem like it's moving particularly fast, sigh...
Like the design. Looks good for first web app. Do you mind sharing some background? How did you come up with product idea? What technologies did you use? What are your planned next steps for app?
A lot of misunderstanding about the greenshoe...

It's really simple: The IPO sells X+Y shares, where X is the big IPO number of shares and Y is the "over-allotment".

If the stock trades above the IPO price, the money from selling Y shares is given to the IPO company along with the rest of the money from selling X shares.

If the stock drops below the IPO price, the underwriters start buying back (up to Y shares * IPOprice) using the money from the initial over-allotment.

It is one of the few times outright price manipulation is allowed (which should be a completely different discussion, and likely why MS declined comment.)
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Although your sources indicate Bose did so after Tesla.
Bad power really messes with the touch screen. Capacitive touch screens need to sense pico-Coulombs of charger, and this is really hard when the power supply (and the display) create tons of noise. This is a bigger problem as phones get thinner because it's harder to shield the touch screen. For details, see http://www.cypress.com/touch/Noise_Wars_Projected_Capacitanc...

My totally hypothetical theory is that Steve Jobs tried a prototype charger, the touch screen didn't work well, and he said to do whatever is necessary to make sure that didn't happen again.

(edit: more info)
I guess we'll be seeing a lot of 2 week notices in 6 months..
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(Which is why it's being downvoted.)
They link to another tear-down of a fake charger that takes potentially dangerous shortcuts. Also, it generates noise which can interfere with the touch-screen.

http://www.arcfn.com/2012/03/inside-cheap-phone-charger-and-...
This could not be further from Steve Jobs vs Dennis Ritchie.

In fact there is no Steve Jobs vs Dennis Ritchie.Tesla vs Edison however was very real.
The awesome love2d lua game engine ( https://love2d.org/ ) has an html5 port, love-webplayer, that can play a lot of the games written in lua for love2d.

https://github.com/ghoulsblade/love-webplayer
I don't buy it. Why have erroneous code that is not used anyway in your program? Why not comment it out? If you still need to have that code, there's an easier way to typecheck -- use 'error'. (I don't assume dons doesn't know that, though). There are so many good features one can add to haskell and the surrounding eco-system, but turning off the static type system is not one of them.

EDIT: Okay, I can see the point. The linked ticket http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5624 gives a better motivation: being able to load a module that doesn't type check in GHCI and view inferred types, and, maybe, invoke some isolated functions. But why not just limit it to GHCI, though?

And, FFS, would SPJ and Co. please stop breaking core libraries and tools with minor releases? We had to wait for cabal-install to be ported for 7.2 and 7.4 for a couple of months, at least. Why have the bloody Haskell-Platform if you can't keep up with the compiler releases.
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Humans being human, that's not universal. While I've noticed that some very intelligent people are more pleasant and enlightening to talk to, some others just can't seem to be bothered to give you their full attention. It's as if you don't meet their "worth paying attention to" threshold. Symptoms can be anything from a vague dullness of the eyes, to glancing or even reading their monitor, to just total loss of engagement in the middle of a sentence.

But again, humans being humans, that's not limited to very intelligent people.
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That assumes that charging a high price for something involves conscience or morals whatsoever.
3 months in this case[1]

[1] http://www.inc.com/eric-markowitz/facebook-going-public-inve..., Ctrl+F for "90 days"
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Noisy power supplies interfere with capacitive touchscreens so you can't use the phone while it's charging.
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No doubt. This is a huge win for Facebook, as the article sort of mentions. There's no money left on the table, Facebook got full value for their stock.
But it's not the days when I "only" get two hours of work done that worry me. It's the days when I can't do anything.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html
So if I understand what you're saying, does this mean there are less total shares released into the market than there would have been if the price went up instead of dropping?

In the case where the price goes up, the shares to cover the short are sold by Facebook to MS right? In the case that happened yesterday the shares came from the marketplace which means those shares are now no longer in the market right? Where in the case of the stock going up, those shares would have stayed in the market.

Basically what I'm getting at is this could be viewed as a good thing right? It means that the total outstanding shares is now less than it could have been had the stock gone up. Right?
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My favorite is the Envy Code R: http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-cod...

I'm using it with full hinting enabled on Ubuntu/Xubuntu and it looks just as nice as the Windows screenshots on the homepage.
It's a very real problem. Even if GPL infection isn't a problem, it's perceived as one and the benefit of GPL is limited at best.
Hey, you that are defending libpng in this thread, go write a C example to load a PNG file with varying formats and color depth using this lib.

This lib API is completely broken. I keep cut&pasting the code I wrote one day reading the doc with much pain...
There will be in about 25 years.

Beginnings of which have already been pointed out by that Facebook picture that went viral, the one that tries to contrast their contributions and their fame.
The charger itself is a usb charger, the cable on the other end has a 30 pin connector. Nobody is stopping you from using the iPhone charger to charge other things via standard usb cable.
I completely concur. This seems to not be "haskelly" at all.
> The average broadband subscriber — those who only use up about 8 GB or 10 GB of data a month — shouldn’t necessarily pay the same as those whose usage goes above 300 GB in the same period of time.

I really don't like this argument, on its face it appears to be "fair", but if there's no reason for there to be a difference in cost in the first place it strikes me as a false dilema created for the purpose of raising rates, not fairness.

Everything i've been hearing for 6+ years suggests transfer pricing is going down, not up, and if anything the difference is already being pocketed by the service providers.

I've also heard repeatedly from journalists who have covered this subject before that the goal of cable companies is to keep revenue per subscriber above a specific level, likely amounting to administrative and equipment costs + some average level of upstream data transfer (which again, i've heard is the minor part of the whole breakdown), and of course profit.

In that light, letting individual users drop down below profitability by only using 10GB per month on a usage based plan makes no sense, unless the actual goal is simply to start charging more for what people are already using by calling it excessive, and ride the increases in transfer use as a profit mechanism.
Sigh, yep, I figured (1) that would happen and (2) there would be a few lulz worth the karma.
It's obviously not just a regular commit and everyone involved would know that. The commit log is not a proper place for a thinly veiled ethics complaint.

If you think something is wrong, have the courage to say so directly, don't hide behind a commit message.
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Cameron and Todd backed the Upturn project on Kickstarter, they didn't create it. NTS Works (the organization behind Upturn) is in competition with AeroVelo (the organization behind Atlas).
Non sequitur.

"PHP is simply more widespread. That has real value!"

"If you encounter a problem, someone else ran into it as well."

So you imply you can't be the first anymore to run into a new problem with PHP?

"If it's a legitimate error in PHP, it'll get fixed and will get attention."

If you find a legitimate error in the implementation of _any_ language it'll get fixed and will get attention. Unless it's abandoned, or no longer mantained.

"On other platforms? Yours may be the sole voice on the issue. Nobody will listen."

This is just non-sense.
I think Ubuntu's monospace font has true italic? (I'm not a font expert, though.)

http://font.ubuntu.com/#charset-mono-regular-italic
For the article-skimmers out there, "building a brand" is the one not listed in the numbered list.
I've been wanting to do TDD for my newest project, and hadn't searched for docs yet. Thank you, I'm using this now.

Using the core Django tutorial was a great decision. Being able to recycle things that I already know, rather than learning new things (even simple tutorial steps), is nice.
Sure, for small programs, that's probably a better approach. But this could really come in handy when your program is split across 100 files and you change a central data type. Now you can update and test in batches without having to refactor 1000s of lines in one go.
Comcast, of course, says that its new, usage-based
pricing policy is pro-consumer

Comcast is not in the business of making-less-money.
I got one with my iPad. If you don't like the idea of spending $30 on a power adapter, perhaps spending $500 on an iPad and getting a free adapter would work better, psychologically speaking? :)
Unfortunately the first thing that jumped to mind when clicking through was this: http://grokcode.com/746/dear-python-why-are-you-so-ugly/

I realize it's a almost self-consciously ugly and it's a development tutorial, but still - a little CSS & typography goes a long way.
My mother, fiercely proud of being Croatian (her parents immigrated to the U.S.), occasionally boasted that Tesla was "one of us"; she and my dad even named their dog Tesla in honor of him. I once told her Tesla was actually a Serb, the son of an Orthodox priest; she laughed and said with great conviction that I didn't know what I was talking about.
I quite like the 'l' here. It solves the conundrum of how to differentiate the 'l' and '1' quite nicely.

I've so far stuck with Courier for monospace work (coding, console, etc), as I find sans-serif fonts hard to read (this is also why I don't use web fonts). I'll give this one a go for while and see how I get on.
The author doesn't take the genius and import of the AC motor seriously, therefore I can't take him seriously. There are relatively few authentic geniuses in history; people who provide crucial fundamental insight that others just can't. Issac Newton was one. Euler was one. Tesla was one.
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> Now you can update and test in batches without having to refactor 1000s of lines in one go.

If a change in a datatype forces you to update 1000s of LoCs, you are doing something wrong.
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