skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you might be taking what was intended to be a simple example a little too far.

That said, "pushbutton" could very well be limited to the values 0 and 1 during the keypad scanning, debouncing and decoding code.

Chill bro.
I suppose I'll have to be the first to express shock that they decided to name it Folly. I feel like Poe's Law is expressing itself.
> The problem with this is that may of the victims of these crimes are too stupid (EDIT: under-educated / let down by the schooling system) to vote for the right person (or at all) during elections.

They are not necessarily stupid, see rational ignorance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_ignorance

Even assuming there was a 'right person' to vote for, your individual vote only has an infinitesimal chance of affecting the outcome of the election, while the upfront investment in informing yourself about all kinds of topics and how they match the platforms of each candidate requires considerable effort. (And that ignores how candidates often then go and do something else once elected.)
Did either of you pick-up the fact that the first version is missing a curly brace? :)

Hard to see. That's my point. And that's why I tend to favor the second style.

I'll use any convention if required, but if given a choice I go for styles that protect me from my own dumb mistakes as much as possible.
Perhaps all this time spent worrying about getting into the inner sanctum would be better repurposed making cool shit? Making smalltalk with the Director of Design at Facebook isn't an end in itself.

This is one of the things which annoys me most about a certain strain of SF startup culture: too much worrying that there's a holier of holies you haven't managed to get into yet (Davos, seriously?) and not enough time nose down on change-the-world problems.
very cool! it'd be nice to import playlists from youtube and favorites from soundcloud, and even save stuff back to them.

i'm building something very similar, but as a native mac app that lives in the menu bar: http://cloudplay.fm -- competition in this space is definitely good :)
People in the real world realize that outside factors have a lot to do with hiring.

But when these conversations turn into arguments it all comes down to some applicants being more "qualified."

There are lots of reasons people get hired to do jobs they've never done before and lot of those reasons are subjective.
They're not that bad. Will Newsome is being dealt with, dymtry is slowly reforming, and those are the only 2 persistent ones I know of right now. What's more problematic is lack of really good fresh content; this can be traced to the absence of folks like Eliezer.
funny, because POSIX came as an idea from RMS, an ex lisp machine hacker, where non-power of two words were tobe found at large
I can't speak for the grandparent, but I have to change my IP address to be able to download from the App Store (or other stores including Google's Play, or even sites like code.google.com and sf.net), and that is illegal in my country.
Due process only applies to arrest and trial (as in you can't be charged for theft of a candy bar and held in jail for 36 months until your trial begins).

It's still not "right" how some people are on the infamous do-not-fly list, but it is essentially "no shirt, no shoes, no service". Flying isn't a right given by God or the Government, it's a capability (not really even a privilege), that anyone with enough money to buy a ticket can do until someone else says no. American Citizens are given the right to speak out about the government and own firearms, but we aren't given the right to travel to New York from Los Angeles in 5 and a half hours.

Being held for questioning (detained) at security when flying is a whole other matter.
It comes up every year because it's correct. I have read and am familiar with the issue raised in the linked article, and respectfully disagree. I just think that if I can edit a Video file, record my voice over, and have my email running in the background without using all my RAM that it is time to take another look at how modern OS should work with memory.
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BlackAdder:
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I thought the primary reason for a separate ground was because neutral was a current return path and thus could develop a voltage on it due to resistance of wires, whereas a true ground carries no current and thus will not develop a voltage?
I've only launched a few products, but I enjoyed sitting on Google Analytics Real Time dashboard. It's available under the regular analytics dashboard as an option.

That shows where users are coming from (and how many are on your site right now, etc), its very cool.
The names I suggested were "CoffeeScript: Reloaded", "CoffeeScript Episode II: Attack of the Clones", "The CoffeeScript Supremacy", and "Live Free or CoffeeScript Hard". Technically, right now it's "CoffeeScript II: The Wrath of Khan". Jeremy suggested CoffeeScript Redux. That's probably the best choice, though a little boring.
Couldn't they just install the fuses in the sockets?

It seems terribly inefficient to require fuses in every plug even when the electrical wiring may not need them.
Sizing up iPhone 5: Close to a 16:9 screen ratio
Why don't you have an example on your site?
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Cool! Note that rotations also work on 12, in spite of it saying "Webkit only"
There's the directory at the bottom of the page:

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Do you think I should put a demo link at the top of the page?
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I have a couple of Microsoft Trackballs; I found that the constant moving back and forth with the mouse was a disaster for me. Unfortunately, I bought the second because the first was so good and I'd heard MS were withdrawing them from the market.

More about that here: http://my.galagzee.com/2007/07/03/microsoft-trackball-explor...

Specific exercises - does rest count? Take time away from the keyboard, use your non-dominant hand with your phone. At least, this helps me.
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Yes and no.

I wrote the Python version in probably under an hour. My girlfriend had gotten into playing some stupid Facebook version of Boggle and I just wanted to see her face when I came out of nowhere with implausibly high scores. I didn't think hard about the problem, just reached for the tool I know best and implemented the first obvious approach that came to mind. It worked as needed and I moved on. You make it sound like I think that's a bad thing.

Later, when I had a bit of time to think about it, it occurred to me that a trie would be a better approach, so when I was feeling like getting back into C and wanted a toy problem, re-implementing the boggle solver in C with a trie seemed like a good choice.

The experience of programming in the different languages does feel different though and I think it can affect how one approaches solving problems. Python is so good at just letting me solve the immediate problem that sometimes I rush and don't think things through or settle for a less than optimal solution. This will come back and bite me if that suboptimal code ends up getting built on and re-used elsewhere.

When I write C (or Go, Erlang, Haskell, etc. basically any language that requires me to think a little more up-front about how I'll implement it), I know going in that I'm going to be putting some serious time and effort into the code, so I tend to be more careful about things at every stage. The game changes from "get a result as quickly and painlessly as possible" to "write something that is elegant in itself". That's not always a win. Sometimes you are much better off building the prototype quickly, seeing flaws that you never would've thought of and then being able to approach the problem in a whole new way. Sometimes you just need a result quickly and time spent making things elegant or efficient actually is wasted (I'm not going to build a framework out of the boggle solving code anytime soon, eg).

I code in Python pretty much every day. I have for years. I probably will for years to come. It works for me. I'm just saying that sometimes other languages push you in different directions and I can see why, despite taking more lines of code to write, taking longer to write, having more potential for segfaults, and so on, languages like C still find a niche for writing systems and platforms. And that reason isn't just that it runs a little faster.
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Can anyone explain why this doesn't happen every year, and is on a 100+ year cycle of 2 in eight years and then nothing for 105?
Ardour is probably the most similar Open Source project.
I created Landslide (github.com/adamzap/landslide).

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I think that if Linux becomes the dominant desktop platform, it will be a new form (i.e. not based on Gnome or KDE). Just a (biased) hunch, though.
The ECMAscript standard[1] and the creator of the language[2] are pretty clear about it. From what I know of parsing, anything phrased in terms of adding tokens post-lexing in order to make an invalid parse tree valid as opposed to encoding the semantics in the grammar itself is most definitely an error correction method.

I think that a lot of the confusion comes from taking the term "error" personally. Nobody wants to be told that their programming style relies on "error correction" to be parsed, but it's just an implementation detail of the parser, not some kind of qualitative statement about your programming skills. Changing the name does not change how the parser works, and does not make anyone involved a better or worse programmer.

[1]: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST... (PDF) , section 7.9

[2]: http://brendaneich.com/2012/04/the-infernal-semicolon/, specifically "The moral of this story: ASI is (formally speaking) a syntactic error correction procedure."
Posts in reddit are partitioned into "subreddits". Each submission is made to one subreddit, though multiple submissions can be made to spread items to different communities. Each subreddit is essentially like Hacker News, a list of ranked links with comments all flavoured by some common theme. The front page of reddit aggregates posts from your preferred subreddits (or a default list of popular subs for users who aren't logged in).

/r/askscience is a subreddit in which users can ask real scientists questions about science. It's a less-structured StackOverflow, essentially. Submissions are somewhat moderated, comments are more heavily moderated. Top-level comments are not allowed to be jokes, and offending comments are removed. On-topic jokes in other places are allowed, but too much joking around in a thread will often lead to all of the comments in the thread being removed. Deleted comments are replaced by "Comment removed" tombstones, and seeing whole trees of these tombstones is a decent reminder to stay on-topic.

The CSS of the subreddit also encourages the community to maintain their standards. When upvoting, downvoting, commenting etc, users are reminded what those actions represent in the community. There is also an informal hierarchy of posters, with experts' comments being identified with short descriptions of their specialisations. The posts of these users are given more weight by the community, but the posters are held to somewhat higher standards.
I grew up in London when the IRA were leaving
bombs in the trains stations, we didn't have
this "throw out rights and laws" nonsense.

And Norway didn't go nuts over the Breivik
attack either.

Oh, and are you aware that Israel backed
Jundullah, which is a Pakistani AlQaeda?

Command of the facts helps avoid embarrassment.
I didn't say "fly" but rather "travel" as did the parent to whom I was replying. This is important because, well the TSA isn't just for airports anymore. [edit: mea culpa, I did say flying. I will fix it.]

There may not be a right to take a particular mode of travel but the overall right to travel has been recognized by the Supreme Court as a fundamental part of the system of federalism in the United States (this is why it's a 10th Amendment matter).

Edit: I don't know if one could argue that denying flying to/from Hawaii or Alaska is the same as denying travel to/from those states though. That might be an interesting argument. I am not aware if any case that addresses whether that would be constructive denial of that vested right in the same way that denying passports to suspected communists is....

Also it occurs to me... due process does apply to all sorts of administrative detentions, and I would be surprised if it wouldn't apply to things like no-fly lists.
I recognize the minifier significance. But wait, there are validators (!?) that choke on valid (!) syntax?
This story of a kid dropping a tape measure down on a partially plugged in device seems somewhat credible: http://www.electriciantalk.com/f12/1st-hand-ground-down-stor...
It feels awfully ironic that a SaaS provider is telling me that the Cloud is not for You.

If it isn't, then why would I purchase a GoSentry licence instead of just self-hosting Sentry and avoiding the $99 fee
I'd instead hope that bigger screens gradually knock people out of the "every window gets maximised without question" mindset. It made sense earlier, not anymore.

I also think different window usage changes what makes a good desktop wallpaper. When wallpaper no longer has "all or nothing" visibility, a solid colour or a subtle pattern works better than a photo or something else that spans the entire screen.
On that same site I found this slew of recommendations: http://my.galagzee.com/ergonomics-recommendations/

Thought I might as well link it here for reference.
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Of course this always depends on your use-case. If you have more ram then you use (say double), you would never notice the effect of this behaviour. I have a linux laptop with 8GB of ram, and no swap, since the SSD is rather small. It takes a few days to fill up the ram (with file buffers). The programs I run will never approach the amount of ram I have, so I am fine with no swap.
If he's worried about being associated with Match.com, he probably shouldn't voluntarily associate himself with Match.com (which is what this is). Obviously, a user won't be associated with the company unless they explicitly "like" the company.

This is not new. Facebook has always published news feed stories stating that a friend has "liked" a page. This simply attaches a recent post from the page to that story.
Essentially, it appears to work so well the review board feels it's unethical to withhold the treatment from the control group.
I understand. This was about coding style and not about solving a particular problem correctly. Next time I might choose a better example. Maybe I'll include complete keyapad matrix scanning, debouncing and encoding code...just to be safe. (just kidding).

It's been a long, long time since I've checked button activity that way. These days andy time I do embedded work I tend to use either my own RTOS or a third party RTOS. In most of these cases UI events get turned in to messages in a message loop (sort of like programming for Windows). So it is likely that there's a big switch statement somewhere picking picking off messages off the FIFO and processing them accordingly. The low-level stuff happened somewhere else. The message would indicate the event that took place (UP, DOWN, CLICK, DOUBLE_CLICK) and parameters in the message packet would identify the button or buttons (in the case chords are enabled) that generated the event.

Fun stuff. Wrote this code years ago and keep reusing it. It simply works. Now doing a lot more iOS and web development. iOS can feel a lot like embedded development at times.
No one has found a good solution to this problem. As an open community grows it will inevitably experience Eternal September and content quality will decrease. It happened with Usenet, Slashdot, Reddit, and Hacker News is following their footsteps. The upper echelon will migrate, others will follow.

Perhaps closed communities with a curated member list is the answer[1][2]. Closed communities are not without its own drawbacks, but the trade off may be acceptable to some.

Open communities allows for anyone's input, but you also get drama like arguing about Javascript semicolons or GitHub's commit messages. However, closed communities are susceptible to group think. How do you judge a minority opinion's validity?

[1]: http://svbtle.com/
[2]: http://www.behance.net/
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As a permaculture fan, I say well kept gardens die by being too homogeneous and rigidly ordered, rather than alive, organic, and vital. Layer plants in space and time and select them appropriately, and you can leave them unattended for months on end.

Well-layered gardens (like food forests but also my own flower gardens which never get weeded) also better support their members as each plant fills functions which help the other plants.

We need well-layered on-line communities, ones where each layer supports all others in an interdependent web. In such a community, trolls just simply don't show up. There is no room for them. As the permaculturists say, all of life's problems can be solved in a garden.

Lest you doubt my bit about troll-free communities, six years in, I have yet to have to take action against trolls in the LedgerSMB community. I have also never seen trolls on the PostgreSQL email lists.
What I meant is that you pull 100-200 out and go through them yourself, manually. Take a look at 15 or so a day and you'd be done in a week or two. Spread them out amongst the team and it'd take less time.
I took a quick look at my news feed, and found that non-sponsored "full screen" posts are very common. A few recent examples:

http://i.imgur.com/zcHoH.png

http://i.imgur.com/khR3W.png

http://i.imgur.com/zFdyv.png

http://i.imgur.com/fF8EM.png

Obviously, it's very popular to share photos and videos on Facebook, and it's understandable that those forms of media will take up a large percentage of small mobile screens. Not really an issue specific to advertisements.
/r/askscience is a heavily moderated subreddit where there are many rules for posting/commenting beyond those of other subreddits. Top level replies that don't site verifiable sources or contain layman's speculation are deleted. Comments that are off topic or do not comply with the rules are also promptly moderated.
this doesn't work anymore! I can't download anything :(
I don't know why you were downvoted.

I've programmed in everything from entering hex code into a hexadecimal keypad to assembly, Forth, APL and beyond. Sure, languages can influence style. I wouldn't go as far as calling any language "ugly". There's that initial phase of exposure when one might not be comfortable with the language constructs. And yes, at that moment in time it is natural to feel that a language might be "ugly". I certainly felt that way when learning Objective-C. Once you get on the other side and you start using the language for real work things can change. I don't hate any particular language but do enjoy some more than others. Forth, APL and Lisp were a lot of fun to work with.
Empezando con un nuevo lenguaje de programación: Scala
Nice to see something in South Florida.

Site looks well-done, too.
Yes, but it doesn't take lots of experts and billions of dollars to build an API, I would think.

And yes, we've seen tremendous innovation from SpaceX - but where would they be without that knowledge and experience from NASA? Just because NASA has been turned into a bureaucratic mess with funding that bounces around doesn't mean they haven't created a lot of value and new knowledge, most of which would never have been funded by the private sector. Government work isn't about having good returns on money spent, which strikes me as both a blessing and a curse.

I wonder how many current day innovations have sprung from the initial work of places like the DOE National Labs, and how many might in the future, for all that it's a government program.
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Is it just me, or does this reek of elitism?

...into this garden comes a fool...Then another fool joins, and the two fools begin talking to each other, and at that point some of the old members, those with the highest standards and the best opportunities elsewhere, leave...

It reads to me like the fool is somehow intrinsically, immutably subhuman compared to the "knowledgeable and interested folk". It's as if we weren't all once not knowledgeable, as if the non-knowledgeable fool can never become knowledgeable. I'd say that compared to a disinterested fool, a non-knowledgeable fool who's interested and is attracted to this garden of "high quality speech" is easier to fix.

The conclusion seems to go against everything Less Wrong is about. It reads to me like, "biases? Nah, I bet nine times out of ten you're not biased at all. Downvote away!"
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you misunderstand my intent: I was merely interested in finding out if there were any new ideas in plug design than what was indicated in the wiki article.

The IEC 60906-1 design linked by ricardobeat above, for example, can handle 250V at 16A and is way smaller and more compatible with other european standards. It was designed in the mid 80s, taking advantage of the new injection molding processes popularized in the late 70s.

I was wondering if there were any other designs that took advantage of the newer technologies since: I seem to recall a concept plug designed by an art student that was on HN a few years back that folded up rather neatly: does anyone know what happened to that?
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My company provides dynamic content in emails, and as such gets large traffic spikes when 10 million emails get sent at once and everyone begins opening them. The content's configuration (in postgres) is trivially cacheable, but our app servers render different content based on the user's context.

So we have a bunch of shared-nothing app servers that we can spin up and down based on the emails we know are going out. Automatically detecting spikes and spinning up new instances between the send and the peak is much harder, though.
Kind of not law. Most local codes will have a few items that they consider special and worth mentioning, and then it will tell you to refer to the County code (assuming you were at the city level). Then the County code will add some things and refer you to the State code. The State code may add a few more and then ultimately tell you that the NFPA 70 (NEC) is law.

Oh and by the way, did you want to know what the NFPA 70 actually says, since it's you know, law? Up until a few years ago that cost you a pretty penny. In recent times you can read it for free through their special online viewer.