skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's somewhat predictable that the claim is based on floating-point examples. Computer floating-point numerical processing reliably fails many kinds of common-sense logical test.

Those interested in serious computer mathematics have remedies -- instead of floating-point values, use integers or ratios where possible, as Sage (http://www.sagemath.org/) does. In Sage, one discovers that 3456/7263 times 21/996 equals 224/22327, rather than 0.010032695839118555, as one might expect from less specialized programming environments.

Or one can increase the size of floating-point mantissas, something not possible in a non-specialized programming environment, but always available in environments designed for serious mathematics. This is less satisfactory than avoiding floating-point altogether, of course.

To the student programmer, this simple advice -- always prefer integers over floating-point values, and never use a floating-point value as a loop index.
Are you sure that laptop design was not a factor in the overheating?
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Actually yes you're right. I used to price somewhere in the median/average. I think i worded it wrong. By lower i meant lower than one's potential or worth or the going rate, if that made sense.

But once i had a couple of portfolio pieces, i bid around the top 5% percentile and now usually much higher on these marketplaces. It gets me the right client who're appreciative and i get to focus on them without worrying about the hours*rate all day long.

Edited the post above.
I doubt it has anything to do with religion. He is inferring from the mistake of saying a Persian Muslim was an Arab that the author did not put much effort into research for the article, and so has decided it is not worth reading.
Looking good.

Hopefully I can recommend this to a friend who hasn't played HL at all. He isn't really into games but recently bought a laptop with a decent graphics chip. I told him that if you are only going to try one PC game then it should be HL but the graphics of the original look very dated now and don't work well on 16:9 and jumping straight to HL2 may be a little confusing without understanding the context.
I was building a micro blogging platform similar to a reddit or HN for singer/songwriters but the developer lost interest and the script broke so the sites were never launched.

Was going to launch:
http://lyricpost.net
http://haikufriday.com

Users can could create editable drafts of their works, publish to the lyricpost/haikufriday online communities and pre-schedule posts to post to their facebook accounts. Bloggers could also visit the communities and schedule lyrics/haiku they wanted to post to their facebook page. I still use lyricpost as a tool to work on and save my lyrics/songs in progress but I can't publish anything to the community. I thought starting with the lyrics would be an interesting way to discover music.
An innovative college needs to make this a four year concentration!

It will offer the students skills in design, development, online and regular marketing, PR, public speaking, team building, as well as internships at VC firms, other startups and more.

I graduated with a degree in the Recording Industry from a school in and around Nashville, which offered internships at labels and other industry focused businesses.

I'm surprised there isn't a web start-up concentration offered at any colleges similar to the Recording Industry concentration I studied. There should be!
Assuming, of course, that Apple isn't just deliberately leaking a bunch of bullshit to mask the inevitable real ones.
Coca-Cola is the top selling carbonated soft drink maker in the world, but PepsiCo still makes an awful lot of money.
While the original author has abandoned snipmate, there is a fork that is actively maintained: https://github.com/garbas/vim-snipmate

I've been a happy user of snipmate, but I'll give ultisnips a try. Thanks for the tip!
Rare ‘unseen’ out-takes from iconic Steve Jobs shoot
The guys is french living in France for a french company. I doubt he cares about FCC regulations.
Would recommend using CodeRay with the Kramdown gem (a markdown converter implemented in Ruby). Kramdown is a superset of markdown, and has a ton of other nonstandard (but nifty) features.
Move, Copy or swap DOM elements?
Ann Romney Tries to Pull a Fast One on Middle Class Women
"You visit a site on your computer and point your camera phone at the barcode next to the login form."

No thanks.
It is way cheaper to ban everything in sight than have the copyright holders' lawyers banging at your door for infringement. All the rest is just bad support, but ustream are covered by their terms: "[...] we also reserve the right to terminate the Site, Services or your access thereto at any time and for any reason". Using this kind of service as your unique way to broadcast is not the way to go. Next time you are using a free service with such terms, google for all the other similar services and use them as well. "Always have backups" applies everywhere.
So constructive criticism will cause downvoting...
1. The Unbeatable Word of Mouth (this is and probably will always be the No.1 way to get more business.)

2. Serendipity (I know sounds odd and I will probably get down-voted for this.) Don't leave a chance to get your work shown or known. Sometimes, small and seemingly useless leads can lead to huge opportunities.

Try to leverage Social Media, local PR firms, Freelance websites etc.
Would it even make sense to release a HL2:EP3 now, rather than a new game called HL3?

It's been so long since EP2 was released and I'm sure the new game will feature vastly updated graphics as well as some new gameplay mechanic (like that gravity gun did to HL2).
Definitely ridiculous. But this creates a case for hosting your own stream, instead of relying on a capricious 3rd party who is too scared of media cartels to serve its customers properly. It might be a little more work to set up, but that's the price you pay in today's hyper-litigious copyright-mad world.
Google actually made quite significant changes to Linux kernel (Binder, ashmem, alarm timers, wake-locks, adb gadget support, userspace gpio, paranoid networking, etc) to make it work. So yes, it could run on another kernel, provided they would be allowed to make such changes on it too.
You are correct that reddit has a fixed number of tables (waves hands a bit). There is one table per type, so when a new type is created, a new table is created. That rarely happens.

The reason you see those create statements in the code is for bootstrapping for open source users -- the first time they run reddit, it creates the tables.
Adwords worked best for me by crafting ads targeting specific niche specializations that would grab long tail traffic. In my case, it was converting websites to WordPress. I didn't need every single person looking for WordPress work; 50 clicks per day worked out just fine for my capactiy.

By some optimizing, keeping my bids low, and disabling Content Network, I was able to get CPA to ~$10; as long as I was converting more than 10% of my leads (which I was), I came out significantly ahead.
Copyright enforcement didn't kill the broadcast. Choosing an incompetent streamer killed the broadcast. The streamer still hasn't even responded to the users and organizers.

There are a lot of streaming providers that want your business. Choose better next time.
The funny thing is that the same can be said of Linux distributions. If you discard the huge driver support and some cool technologies that underlie some things we expect both from Android and Linux distributions, the kernel becomes irrelevant. The official port of Debian to the FreeBSD kernel[1] proves this.

[1] http://www.debian.org/ports/index.en.html
D has profiling and unit testing built in (also coverage analysis and documentation generation), but I'm curious how you'd see source control built in.
At the moment the error handling code for cat would be looking at failures for all 4 functions. Unless they fail that error code doesn't even get run.

My test code currently has to put the program into a state where cat can be called, and then has to mock/augment each failure point, and then check the results. Just having the middle piece (mock/augment) done automagically would be a massive help. And then of course cat itself can fail so each of its callers needs a way of testing too. Some hand wavy combination of convention over configuration, documentation and annotations would likely help.

Even the state issue should be automatable in many circumstances. For example you could make a successful run of the program, and then the magic records state at the entrance to code blocks. It can cause each failure circumstance, rewind state to known good and cause the next failure circumstance etc.

I'd even be happy running my code (with no error handling) under some tool that induces the errors - when they aren't handled it asks me what I want to do which typically involves writing code to handle the issue, which it then directly integrates and keeps running until the next error.

Even test pass/fail can be somewhat automatable. The tool records what happens, and then in the future alerts you when there is a difference in behaviour. The response is either that the issue needs to be fixed, or that the new behaviour is correct.
You can't generate an electromagnetic field just from software!! At some point you need a physical medium to accomplish that. In the case you point out he uses the DAC hardware on a graphics card to generate electric signals, controlled by software. Not really sure what you meant.
Most criminal gangs are honorable, by their own standards. Many of them work like this - if you break the rules, you die. So obviously, they have a big incentive to follow the rules.
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I almost downvoted this until I read who you were. I upvoted it instead :) What signs make you think it is fake?
Yes, it is more work but also in terms of the bandwidth to serve these awards via their own service it would be far more expensive (not to mention hard to maintain reliability of service).
Yes, I suspect most of us could pull a basic stream together pretty quickly, but that stream would likely not be up to the standard that would be expected of such a prestigious ceremony.
Tepco releases badly altered image of Fukushima Unit 4
Cheaper until everyone follows the advice to take their business elsewhere. Then what?
Maybe. Until nobody is banging on your door because they don't trust you to provide the service you say you are going to provide. Notwithstanding fair use (which really takes a judge to decide), it wouldn't be hard to come up with a list of clips that will be shown and get promotional permission to show them. These are essentially free ads, FFS!

Alternative: maybe it's time for some good fair-use cases to be heard.
I'm surprised nobody pointed out the three UX changes that appear to be the least Apple-like:

1) The white notification light located off-center on the home button looks like the biggest design flaw demonstrated in this video.

2) The phone's dimensions are no longer visually pleasing (same width, much longer.)

3) The centered camera is easily covered with fingers while typing or playing a game in landscape mode.

I agree with comments that the video is poor resolution, the build quality is pretty poor, and the phone boot-up sequence could have easily been added in post-production.
Don't get too caught up in it. Fights over Constitutionally "enumerated" rights are simply code words for ignoring the 9th amendment. i.e. the framers of the Constitution knew that they could not possibly enumerate all rights from the get go and were bound to make mistakes (especially since most of the rights they were enumerating had not been traditionally recognized before).

The Framers did not intend that the first eight amendments be construed to exhaust the basic and fundamental rights.... I do not mean to imply that the .... Ninth Amendment constitutes an independent source of rights protected from infringement by either the States or the Federal Government....While the Ninth Amendment - and indeed the entire Bill of Rights - originally concerned restrictions upon federal power, the subsequently enacted Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the States as well from abridging fundamental personal liberties. And, the Ninth Amendment, in indicating that not all such liberties are specifically mentioned in the first eight amendments, is surely relevant in showing the existence of other fundamental personal rights, now protected from state, as well as federal, infringement. In sum, the Ninth Amendment simply lends strong support to the view that the "liberty" protected by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments from infringement by the Federal Government or the States is not restricted to rights specifically mentioned in the first eight amendments. Cf. United Public Workers v. Mitchell, 330 U.S. 75, 94-95. - Justice Arthur Goldberg
We use an older version of Script# for a very large site at work. This looks like it might be worth trying to upgrade to.

But what I really want is a way to convert Silverlight to JS. I don't care whether it is source or binary level conversion, but it would be awesome to take projects we've written in silverlight and run them on any browser without a plugin.
This isn't a 100% explanation but it's how one of my professors explained it as a way to get comfortable with it: let's measure an electron and assume said electron has a well defined position and momentum that we just don't know. Let's say I want to know the position. How am I going to do that? Well, by throwing a photon at it. If the wavelength is small we can find the position fairly accurately but it's going to transfer momentum to the electron and we really don't know how much and it's a relatively major effect. Hmph. Alright, let's measure the momentum instead. We need a longer wavelength so we don't disturb the electron too much. Great, we get a very good value for the momentum! But, unfortunately, the long wavelength is not very accurate for determining the position.

Other intrinsic problems arise even sticking with the photon idea but hopefully this is enough of something to latch onto to help you start to understand.
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Regarding Java on Android, I think that Oracle made the same argument in court and lost big-time :-) And yeah, it is obviously possible that Dalvik could run on other operaring systems, but I don't think that the user-experience of Dalvik on WIN CE would pass muster with very many consumers :-)
I looked at that (and have done that in the past), but I really missed some of the ORM features I got with relational. I would up writing more glue code than I liked for things that would otherwise be free. This is my compromise world (and Postgres is getting better at handling its JSON).
Do you know http://8tracks.com ? Because it sounds a lot like what you are describing. You may find the answer to your question in their Licensing page.
Saying pizza is unhealthy is like saying sandwiches are unhealthy, or that salads are unhealthy. It all depends on how they are made.
Is it possible for the community to allow a desktop guru? Early on in GNOME they had a number of popular graphics designer types making all sorts of really exotic looking UIs, a number of conflicts ended that. (enlightenment was the official window manager for a while there)

Then the eazel guys showed up and made Nautilus, if anybody could have been the guru, it was Andy. I honestly don't know what appended there. Nautilus is still around, it's under gone some substantial changes along the way.

Seems to me it's a very difficult community problem to solve. Look at replacing sysv init, it's a very technical issue, it doesn't matter to a lot of users, there are some technical goals you can bring up to keep the discussion rooted in fact over opinion and there is tremendous disagreement about it. The community hasn't arrived at any conclusion exactly. Why should something as esoteric as a ui be easier to arrive at consensus on? Everyone has an opinion on ui.

There is another aspect to it, it's distribution fragmentation. How do you set an ip address in Ubuntu? How about Fedora? Do it via UI and command line. They are different and that's an easy one. The mechanics are so different, it's not a desktop problem, it's a distribution problem, which sort of makes KDE and GNOME toolkits rather than desktops themselves.
> Great article but it fails to mention something important. A lot of 3rd party scripts use document.write. What this means is that even if you try to load them up asynchronously you will fail because the browser will wipe out the DOM when it gets to those calls.

Yup
The only DRAM price fixing scandal that I know of is the one from 1998 to 2002 which gave the involved parties litigation on their backs up until 2010. If you know of any others, please let me know. Google did not turn up anything else.

Anyway, I want to explain why the DRAM world is brutal:

Here is the DRAM top 10 from 2006:
http://i.cmpnet.com/eetimes/seminews/2007/chart1_020107.gif

And today the state is as follows:
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semicon...

Samsung: Eating everyone
Hynix: Almost breaking even
Qimonda: Dead
Micron: Making money
Elpida: Bankrupt
Nanya: Losing more money than it makes
Powerchip: Barely alive with 0.1% market share
ProMos: Has sold its fabs, soon to be dead
Etron: Alive, but with less that 0.1% market share and 15 cent loss per dollar sold.
Winbond: Now only in specialty DRAM

So, Samsung and Micron are doing well, Hynix is barely OK and the rest are sunk. Yes, I believe that the DRAM competition is fierce and brutal.
Exactly why we need Bittorrent Live to take off. P2P live video streaming can help bypass shoddy bots.
My wife has a 4 and I have a 4s. Sometimes we'll both be looking up the same thing (like an address) and my phone will be done much faster than hers. So while it is hard to tell the speed difference independently, side by side it is quite obvious.
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Linus Torvalds on the Linux desktop's popularity problems
HN really jumped the shark with this one.
And that's the great thing about Linux. Companies can optimize for their use and then bring their changes back into the mainline where everyone can benefit:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/android-and-linux-re-m...
>Pizza, caffeine, desserts, beer -- these are all things that are easy to come across in many (most?) common social situations.

Pizza is kind of an odd one. It was ubiquitous in college and grad school, but since I started working in the corporate world I rarely see companies serving it. I suspect this is related to both age and culture.
The turn-on part is a simulated screen image. It's CG
This is not just startup culture, it's most professional
gatherings in general. Go to a conference of any kind,
other than one that's in some sort of health/fitness-
related industry and you're bound to see the same thing.

I have to disagree with you here.

Most conferences and catered meetings I've been to outside of the tech sector have employed corporate catering companies who supply the sort of buffets you see here: https://www.google.com/search?q=conference+catering&tbm=... you know, finger food, sandwiches, little tart type things, quiche, fruit, salmon wrap thingies, miscellaneous kebabs, pastries, bite sized meat pies, salad, small slices of cake and so on. Often with vegetarian items marked as such. Sometimes with vegan, gluten-free, kosher and halal items also marked. Actual plates made of ceramic not just napkins, and glasses made of glass rather than plastic. Real metal knives and forks.

Personally I'd just as soon have pizza (I drive way too badly to worry about healthy eating) but getting pizza delivery seems more common in tech than in any other sector I've had free food in.
Even more along these lines, Scala (another JVM-based language) has demonstrated 50 million message sends/per second with their Akka library.

http://letitcrash.com/post/20397701710/50-million-messages-p...

I too like Node for small little tasks, tiny dev web servers, etc.

But the JVM is a far more mature platform for writing scalable, multi-core application servers, especially with modern languages like Scala and Clojure.
I don't get it... you will always end up using infrastructure that belongs to someone else when streaming.
Good point regarding the chance to rally attention, but it would have been awesome to do both. It's probably 5-10 minutes of work to do the pull request!
The weird thing I thought is that Apple made a big push to allow you to set up a device without iTunes. When I got my 4S, I walked out the store with it working.
Getting paid is a proxy for doing something society actually wants (rather than paying lip service to) and brings the resources to make it self-sustaining. I'm torn because I find society's wants (at least around my calling) to be largely fickle and shallow, but if I disregard them it's mere self-gratification.
So how is this working legally? Has Valve blessed it explicitly or something? (One would assume so since it's going through Steam.)
And array.
Also—BTW—you should put an e-mail address in your profile.
The abstraction is too deep. The stack trace above is an example of what too deep abstractions do to those who have to use them.
A lot of people seem to think that according to the uncertainty principle it is impossible to measure the momentum and position of a particle together accurately since the more you try to measure one, the more difficult it becomes to try to measure the other.

This is wrong.I used to think this too until I came upon this quora answer.

http://www.quora.com/How-would-the-uncertainty-principle-be-...

Basically accurate information about the momentum and position of a particle does not exist fundamentally.Observational interference has nothing to do with it.
It's easy for the author to say that "dumb robots, programmed to kill any broadcast containing copyrighted material, had destroyed the only live broadcast of the Hugo Awards".

What he ignores, though, is how easy it is for them to get sued about copyright infringement.

That's what copyright law creates: fear, uncertainty and overly complex, confusing DRM systems.
The story has apparently been disclaimed by Willis' wife

http://9to5mac.com/2012/09/03/bruce-willis-dietunes-yippikay...
Great paper. Easy to understand, enlightening, fun.
My favorite part:

"The ‘non- fluent’ version of the excerpt was created by waiting until the departmental printer was low on toner"
Oh my word, this is finally happening? I've been looking forward to this for a LONG time.
I'm pro-thorium. What got me was this guy was clearly only interested in having Obama work on this, as a means to get re-elected. If he was truly an advocate of the technology, he would have sent it to both parties.

Thorium234 is much safer than uranium or other fissile material, and unlike those, it can be used to make neighborhood reactors, allowing energy independence on a local scale.
A bunch of people have posted about Ctrl-P being slow but I've never had that problem. Here's my user_command:

let g:ctrlp_user_command = "find %s -type f | egrep -v '/\.(git|hg|svn)|solr|tmp/' | egrep -v '\.(png|exe|jpg|gif|jar|class|swp|swo|log|gitkep|keepme|so|o)$'"

While the CtrlP window is open, hitting F5 will refresh the list of files and it's really fast. I'm on an SSD but it's still basically instant on every project I code in. I think it must have a slow default which gives people the impression that it's slow. After using both FuzzyFinder and Cmd-T for a long time, CtrlP has been easily the best of the bunch.
Although I've just started out, my client came to me because I started a Ruby user group in our area. My name is still attached to "Ruby Cork" even though the group fizzled out 2years ago. Now I'm working with Rails full-time again, I'll be restarting the group this month.

In short: start or get involved with local tech groups