skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a fuzzy line still. What if the artist doesn't really "explain" that it is art so much as he tells someone it is art? If, as a classic example, you submit a urinal on it's side to an exhibit, I don't think the act of submission would necessarily be an act of explanation.

Of course you can go the other direction, and wonder who this explanation has to be directed to in order to disqualify something as art. If I am a particularly dense person and ask what the point of the Sistine Chapel is, that certainly does not disqualify the chapel's ceiling from being art.

Is there perhaps a threshold percentage of the population that has to understand something as art for it to be art?
To recognize patterns, a great resource is Steven Skiena's "Algorithm Design Manual."

After a few introductory/overview chapters, it launches into a dictionary of algorithms, organized by problem description. There are also pointers to implementations, but the focus is high-level descriptions of what sorts of algorithms for look for, and how to choose among them.
I was referring to the standard library built into the language (Common Lisp), which has been in there since like the early 1980's. Like C, that standard library is a basic set of tools--it's not a whole platform like Java's standard libraries. But it's very well designed and tasteful for what it is.
I use this quite often when I'm mocking up a design and I want it to have kind of realism. I've recently discovered http://placehold.it/ which is pretty cool as well
Here's a better full-size screenshot:
https://d2cxspbh1aoie1.cloudfront.net/assets/press/flowdock-...
There are more tests of the ORM, for example in ./addons/base/test/test_osv_expression.yml, in ./tests/test_orm.py and other places.

You can get an overview of the technical "core" in the Memento: http://doc.openerp.com/memento/OpenERP_Technical_Memento_v0....
The theory is that the woman would want the more hearty sperm, but also want the father who is more faithful and more able to provide. It's a sound evolutionary strategy.
There were some temporary problems. Google.com sites were also eliminated, some 'spam' will leak in but anyway provided the people contribute, they submit google.com or microsoft.com because they're not ready to use their own site yet. An option to just post reviews without submitting site will take care of it. Thanks for the heads up!
This doesn't really address your questions but it's interesting none the less. I talked to a rep at a Tesla showroom. Surprisingly, the models seem to all weigh the same amount. The weight was maintained a specific number so the car could maintain it's 5 star crash test rating... He speculated that some of the weight was in the form of actual weights.
The Ars article biffed, it should be megabytes per second (MBps vs Mbps). It's kind of confusing on the Netflix graphic, because the headings are in all caps, so you just have to use context/knowledge to differentiate.
That is what I tend to think.

Although this is a bit off-topic rant, I really enjoyed using Turbo Pascal, before C took over in the PC world as well.

So thanks to UNIX/C being spread the way they were, better languages got a hard time being accepted in the mainstream.

And we are still paying with security exploits C's success.

At least static analysis of C code seems to be becoming a common trend...
I would assume because their goal is not to create a sustainable business model but to grow a massive user base and sell/IPO for >$1 billion.
Pornhub html5 version? :)
Announcement of Blake Irving leaving GoDaddy in 5...4...3...
Just about bought one of these as a gift yesterday --- now definitely getting one!
There is a value to allowing the inventor to cash out immediately with an NPE instead of taking the time to find a suitable buyer who will actually use the patent.

If the NPE actually does do work to find a buyer, so that he buys the patent for, say, $700 million but then sells it a year later, say, for $1.5 billion to a manufacturer, then I agree; the NPE in that case is adding value by doing "brokering" work that the original inventor didn't want to do, and was willing to take a quicker exit at a lower valuation to avoid.

But it seems to me that patent troll companies are buying patents with the explicit intention of doing nothing with them other than extracting fees and/or settlements, i.e., that they are adding no value.
Would like a vote on how many ran the command: `sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping`

Within my circle, it was the first thing we googled for. I like Ubuntu. Canonical's best best is to go the way of Wikipedia and plead for pledges or seek out crowdfunding. They also have an opportunity to take some share of the desktop market away from Windows 8 but adding in features like this hurts them more than it helps.
Web source, WikiBooks:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Algorithms
I am fearing a possible transition from iOS to Android because I'd be dropping SmartPlaylists... from what I gather though there are options. I just hope they're as good.
Art for the artist's sake. No need to explain it to anyone. :) Regardless of any artistic intent, this still sounds like a fun idea.

(And thank goodness for a generally good return policy)
The two purchases are fascinating. I am curious as to what other purchases of his suggested the CD.
The gov't ends up buying the deliquent loan in full and then they chase you down. Extreme hardship is the only way to get it dismissed and that is very unlikely.

They do have a 20 year minimum payment plan and then will forgive the remainder. Not sure if that becomes taxable after the fact.

They also have principal forgiveness plans for government or teaching service.
>I thought that was relatively well known

I find that most HN contributors are well-off, don't make too many movies/songs and contribute under their real name. Put those facts together and you can easily get a hivemind reaction of "piracy is extremely evil with zero justification ever for anyone".
Thanks for the follow-up. IFrame had actually been there in version 1 but people use really non-standard stuff to break out of frames and some are not even aware of it because they use third-party frameworks.

Screenshot + link to open in a new window actually started as a sort of a workaround but I think this allows people to focus more on first impressions instead of going into usability testing.
supply vs demand?
No. Repo lists are cluttered enough as it is. :)

A collection would just be a category of gists in a category like "Idiomatic Python examples", "Django snippets", and so on.

I think people use gists in a fundamentally different way (I do), and I guess you could argue that gists are mainly for viewing and sharing whereas repos are for cloning/downloads.

Think Collections as Pinterest boards for code, perhaps. :)

Gists could be social, whereas repos are more self-serving and utilitarian in the sense of scratching an itch. Or at least they could be.
Does anything like that exist in the states? I think that'd be an amazing and fun thing to have in my life:)
It was broke for me with the old Gist system. They only let me hotlink a .css file like 5 times.
http://plnkr.co/edit/gist:<gist id>
Actually, the 'increasing number' thing killed the deal for me so I decided to go for screenshots instead with all their drawbacks.
Not every data structure is a list
$4 - $8 per 100 mi.

Using 38 kWh/100 mi (from the article), and estimating electricity to be .1-.2 USD/kWh from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing#Global_ele...
I completely agree. I know this whole story is tired, and it has been said before but I'd really like to be able to update to a x.04 version without fear that it will break everything.
Wouldn't that be a bit too variable to estimate? If you charge your car during the day, it would cost a lot more than charging at night. I think in the bay area, it's around 5 cents per kWh in commercial zones during off-peak hours, so a full "tank" for the 60kWh battery pack would cost you around $3 -- that's almost the cost of half a gallon of gas!
Yes, if Unity/Gnome3 weren't enough to scare them away already.
Thanks a lot for the link, I was going to write Markdown -> NSAttributedString library myself, because I couldn't find one. Right now I'm just using DTCoreText and convert Markdown to HTML on the server.
But the same JIT is used by all programs. Less code, executed more.
That would violate Separation of Concerns :)
I just wish a way to label or organize my gists. I have dozens of them. That would be great!
Awesome model
I don't mean using gists as raw files. I mean embedding gists, using the javascript embed link they give you on the gist site.
Isn't that what this post is linked to?
As in apps for developers or just apps in general?
The author of the article highlights one reason why users might be unlikely to fall for this scam - the act of entering a phone number would arouse suspicion - but in just a couple of minutes I have thought of several others:

- A significant proportion of basic-functionality applications in OS X do not require installation. Therefore one that does may appear unusual for the user.

- Many applications for OS X are being delivered by the Mac App Store. As time goes on, presumably the type of user that would be likely to fall for such a scam would look in the App Store for it first.

- The user of the application may have used it previously and therefore would know this was not a normal installation experience.

- If the application is freeware, the user may be aware of this and thus suspicious of the activation. If the application is paid, it seems likely that the malware would have been attained in an attempt to pirate the application. Giving credit where it's due, someone who has the technical ability (by way of understanding search and keywords, possibly torrents etc) to pirate would be unlikely to fall for such an elementary scam.

- If users are attempting to find an application through a search engine, it seems unlikely that such an unscrupulous site as those distributing malware-ridden applications would command a high search ranking.

I have used some broad generalisations, but these factors when taken in the round should serve to minimise the impact of such a development by scammers. Nonetheless, it's very sad to see OS X becoming more of a target for these sorts of activities, even if as yet, the makers haven't been successful in making viruses that operate without user permission.
"a bit too trendy to trust"

I imagine java was trendy also when everything was written in C++
An Open Letter to Tom Preston-Werner
Tom Preston-Werner, the creator of Jekyll and co-founder of Github, has allowed his Jekyll project to fall to the wayside. Help me and others get his attention to finally allow this project to continue to grow.
It sounds like it would allow a client to send data (HTTP request) before the server has acknowledged that the TCP connection is open.
Not really. That's a theory and it is one that is hard to disprove experimentally. It is a much stronger theory than evolution, saying that every action is correctly designed to optimise gene transmission. Essentially it is trying to say that we are at a global maximum in a space that is probably more nonlinear. In fact our genes may well be suboptimal in some respects even if you think they have "control". The contortions people go through to try to justify homosexuality as a genetic thing are one example of many. In fact diversity is an advantage in a varying environment so many traits must be suboptimal.
soon they will launch a bloated LTS version. Time to switch!
Not really. Slow start is a precaution to avoid the network from getting congested; whereas TCP fast open is essentially trying to reduce the completion time of small TCP requests.
I was excited about Lisp for a while, primarily based on all the claims of increased productivity.

I started going to Lisp and Clojure meetups while learning, and I was struck how much LESS productive the supposed gurus at the meetups were in Lisp than I am in Python.

Maybe that reflects on the language. Maybe these people were posers. But the claims I hear seemed inconsistent with what I saw.
Same here. I have lots of snippets (in JS, Python, Go,etc..). Managing them is a pain. Also I have some that I use for my blog examples however executing them alone doesnt do anything. It would be great if I could organize them.
It does imply that. I know a lot of guys who have gone through a period in their life not being able to sympathize with women after learning about this. They would question why even bothering marrying a woman if she is just going to be a cheating whore?

The second point you make is very interesting and I have the perfect rebuttal. Unfortunately I don't have the book with me right now but a quote from a review on Amazon will suffice:

"And on pages 217-218 [Matt Ridley] explains why women cuckold their mates: "This is because her husband is, almost by definition, usually not the best male there is-else how would he have ended up married to her?" She wants the parental care of her husband and some other man's superior-she thinks-genes."

Here is the link to this book (one of the best I've read): http://www.amazon.com/The-Red-Queen-Evolution-Nature/dp/0060...

And although I haven't read this book (if you do, tell me what you think), I know that it talks more about how x% of children are not genetically related to their fathers: http://www.amazon.com/Sperm-Wars-Infidelity-Conflict-Bedroom...
I moved to Arlington, Virginia and down to Earth is not how I'd describe the area. Wish it was more laid back, but that's what you get when everyone works at a job that requires a suit.
Also, since we're talking about Gist, you can get your gists into Plunker very easily:

http://plnkr.co/edit/gist:1136236?p=preview is a snippet by the unbelievable Mike Bostock pulled directly from Gist.
House of Lies?
Thank you! Two first two issues will be fixed soon. The third has to wait till a bit later.
I prefer the current version of Yahoo Mail over the initial version of GMail. Perhaps GMail got a lot better since its initial version; I haven't checked.
No, he's merely saying that we are more privacy-conscious than the average group of people. I don't think he was claiming that was good or bad, just abnormal.
I don't think anyone (with the possible exception of the Spotify marketing department) thinks that Spotify will be the savior of the music industry. Most popular artists know this. Popular artists like Radiohead, Taylor Swift, or Arcade Fire either distribute only a portion of their work on Spotify, or distribute it with a delay.

And Spotify is better than piracy for record labels. (i) Spotify provides useful data for labels (at least those that have an ownership stake in Spotify), (ii) the revenue, in aggregate, is not insignificant and certainly better than revenue from piracy (again this benefits the labels with ownership stakes), and (iii) gives them a measure of messaging control.

Essentially, Spotify is marketing channel for major labels.
Zooniverse croudsources detection of animals in the Serengeti
is it really import if it's "startup" or just a website?
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Does it still show up like this?

I'm actually using a Mac to write this on with Chrome + Safari. There was a problem with too much traffic (fixed now by scaling the site up), I suppose CSS might not have loaded. Do you think this could be the case? Thank you.
I'm going to try to simplify this a bit because it would require a lot of explaining, but basically size of customers and size of customer base.

I don't see a single customer here that is either a Fortune 500 or close to being that size:
http://v6.openerp.com/products/new-references

PS - A note to the guys from OpenERP if they are reading. I would recommend doing something SAP does really well - touting it's customers success very publicly. It will massively raise your profile. Example: http://www.saphana.com/community/customer-stories

Note - I hope people understand I'm not criticizing them for their success, but rather for their statement that they are directly competing with SAP. They may be gaining market share in SME, but until you are doing this: http://www.workday.com/company/news/press_archive/kimberly_c... you are not really competing with SAP's bread and butter. And again, congrats to your success. I would be as chuffed as the author is here.
Agreed. There are quite a few motorcycles that can get around 95 mpg. It would still cost around $18 for a full tank of gas in a motorcycle, but probably only $3 for a full tank in the tesla. If they based mpg on dollars spent per distance provided, the tesla would get around 550 mpg.
I'm not saying it MIGHT be a good idea. I'm saying it MIGHT be permitted by SEC rules, or it might not. I do not know enough about the legal side of these things, except to know that it's a minefield, nothing is as simple as it seems, and that I would consult my $500/hr SEC specialist attorney about matters such as this before I make any information available.
That "where epsilon is usually defined by the language as a very small quantity" is BAD advice. double.epsilon and float.epsilon (std::numeric_limits::epsilon in C++) are "machine epsilons": numbers equal to the difference between 1 and the next representable value. In other words: 1 and 1+epsilon can be represented exactly, but there are no representable numbers between the two. The distance between representable numbers never goes down when you move away from zero. That means, that, for x,y >= 1 there is no difference between

x == y

and

|x - y| < epsilon

As I said, things get worse if your comparison is between larger numbers. For example, the smallest double larger than 1024 is 1024+1024 epsilon (IIRC; I am too lazy to double-check that now)

The epsilon used in numerical algorithms is an entirely different beast than the machine epsilon.

That epsilon you should pick as follows: make a numerical analysis of your problem, choose a good algorithm, and determine the desired accuracy of your answer. From those, derive a (relative, absolute, whatever) error you can live with.

Alternatively, pick a reasonable value from thin air and hope for the best/test your code to get confidence that it will return good values (do not do this when programming flight control software, pacemakers, etc). Oftentimes, it is not really hard to produce a reasonable value. For example, an iterative procedure that produces pixel coordinate likely can stop once the absolute error is less than .01 pixel, and possibly a lot earlier.

Finally, in the ideal world, you will use a good way to test for your accuracy, for example one from boost test: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_52_0/libs/test/doc/html/utf/... (contains useful links to more in-depth discussions)

And, by the way, 1E-8 is lower than the machine epsilon for floats, and 1E-15 larger than that for doubles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_epsilon gives them as 1.2E-7, respectively 2.2E-16.
Additionally, a commercial delivery has a lot lower chance of a delivery exception.
Github for open source project
Bitbucket for private usage
I agree with this answer, but I suspect that this is also why Lisp isn't often a first choice. Meta-programming doesn't figure into language choice discussions as often as it probably should.

I distinctly recall wishing for macros in Java a few months ago while working on an Android project -- so much boiler plate for doing so little. I came to the realization that Java uses XML augmented libraries so much simply because Java boilerplate is such a pain to write. It's often easier to build a mini-language on top of XML and use Java to parse and compile it than it is to write the equivalent Java code. I think that alone says something about the efficacy of Java and the benefit of using a language with a more malleable AST.
Price is most definitely not the only differentiator for us, though we do see it as one of main benefits of using us, especially for smaller businesses. One of our main differentiators is having much more intuitive, simpler, and beautiful payroll software.
Much needed update and Looking Good but one thing, why is the 'Delete Gist' on the Edit Gist Pages rather than the Main Page?
How much does your problem domain leverage Python's available standard library? I'm pretty familiar with both, and the former is what I use to write stuff when I don't have a library available that does the work for me. The latter is what I use when I don't really have to do much work to leverage something someone else has already built.
I really wish 23andme would merge with http://www.familytreedna.com/

I've done both, and to be honest, FamilyTreeDNA seems more comprehensive to me.
SYN flooding is only really effective if it's spoofed, and you can't spoof a full three-way handshake unless you're in a privileged position on the network.
I learned from Sedgewick http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/032157351X/

However, it was a much earlier edition and all the examples are in Pascal. Having to mentally convert the code from 1-based arrays to 0-based like any decent language has been a major pain over the years.

This looks like a C version: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Parts-1-4-Fundamentals-Stru...
Indeed true. And it seems to make an extremely expensive system out of it. But it also manages to do much of the worlds medical research so there are right bits amid the wrongs.
So basically end the Bush tax cuts…
It's a chicken and egg problem. The more people like you purchase the service, the less European it will become. It has made huge strides in the last couple of years, but there is a way to go still.
This was discussed in 'Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors'. I don't remember all the details, but I think it discussed the same research as this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/701286.stm
How well does this handle aware (non-naive) datetimes?
who knows, maybe they all use the identical motor, but there's a few solder bridges that prevent you from going as fast as the expensive models... cars that can be overclocked would be interesting.
In reality, once you get to a certain level of efficiency, it's something of a moot point anyway. Both money-wise and emission-wise, there are likely much costlier areas to focus your efficiency increasing efforts than your vehicle.

(Range, on the other hand, still has large gains to be had.)
Is it fixed in all browsers?
There is a place for those things in our society, and indeed a much larger place in today's society than there has ever been in the past. Even 100 years ago, the study of any of those things was mostly limited to a very tiny elite who could afford entry to the very tiny number of universities. Now, we have numerous state universities that have created far, far more paying jobs available today for someone with a degree in liberal arts or humanities than has ever been the case in the past.

The problem is rather that even with this historically high number of jobs available in history, literature, and so on, the universities are now producing people with degrees in those fields at a much higher rate than there are jobs available. Each faculty member added supports the creation of that many more new degrees in the field every year. Our society currently has a place for n historians (and that's a bigger n than ever before), but there are now also n^2 (or whatever) people with history degrees competing for those slots.

There is a place for professionals in these fields, certainly; but there is not a place for every single person who thinks it'd be fun to be a professional historian. The number of people interested in doing that is just far larger than the number of people our society needs to do that. Not everyone can be an astronaut or a rock star, and being a professional in the liberal arts is not different.
You pay for Chrome?
android coming?
My remarks here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4906217 probably should have been posted as a reply to this comment, which is what inspired it. The rest of the remarks here make mine seem out of context, but there were a lot fewer remarks at the time I started my reply.

So, basically, I was agreeing with you.

Thanks