skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Carry: "if (x + y < x)" compiles to code that uses the carry flag.

If x and y are signed, you're relying on UB, which the compiler might optimize out.

> "if ((int32_t) (x + y) < 0)" compiles to code that uses the overflow flag.

Again, which type are x and y? If signed, this code is UB. If unsigned, then the result of conversion to int32 may not fit into int32, in which case the result is implementation-defined, or and implementation-defined signal is raised.

Portable? Right.
Nice job on this, very handy. I'll link to this in my Hacker Newsletter as it seems like the other solutions have all been abandoned.
At prices of 60 cents per GB in SSDs and Apple asking for $100 for 16, 32 or 64 additional GBs? $300 might buy you a 512 GB SSD ... and on an iPad it justs buys you 128 GB instead of 16 ... that is expensive, storage itself isn't that expensive anymore ;-)
It has a 20GB restore partition....
Which never seems to come around, because the new hardware is so much faster that it can host what were previously problematic server loads without a problem, and you've got a million other things to write.

Yet players have a tendency to figure out when places are too overcrowded to be fun. So your old problematic load is almost never representative of how many players wanted to be in that area, but merely how many players were willing to put up with that level of degraded performance.

So upon release (or sufficiently close to it to start stress testing, which is conveniently when it's too late to really change architecture) the new limits are quickly hit.
They already had more than 10 titans. There were almost 3000 ships in the battle at its height. Also, this battle is a bit different in that it happened in low-sec space, where certain rules are enforced by the game's NPC Empire. So you can't use the Titan's most powerful weapon, which makes it vulnerable. Conversely, you can't use area denial interdictors, so many of the CFC's ships were able to escape when it became clear that they were doomed.

Also, travel takes a long time. This battle lasted 2.5 hours and both sides scrambled everyone, waking people up at 4am to go fight. The coalition headed by reddit arrived with 500 ships just as the battle was ending. Part of the reason the folks from Something Awful got beaten as bad as they did is that many different alliances, not just TEST, showed up just for a chance to stick it to them.
As far as I can tell, the maximum approved daily dose of Viagra is 100mg. If a 150 lb man takes that, you're looking at about 1.5 mg/kg/day, which is an eighth of what they gave the rats in this study. If I'm reading this other study (http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/004982599238687) correctly, we could probably roughly triple the equivalent dose in rats to account for their more rapid clearance of sildenafil. So we're still looking at 2-3 times a large dose for humans, taken over an extended period of time.

So we can reason right off the bat that this is an atypical use case. Glancing at experience reports on the internet, it appears pretty rare for people to exceed 100 mg doses, and even rarer for them to keep using it day after day for a week at a time. The one segment of the population we might expect to approach the level of usage tested in this study would be male porn stars. That's a group that is probably concerned more with building muscle than losing weight, so it seems unlikely that they'd be in a position to notice that particular effect.
Thank you. There is a strong HN bias in this discussion, as a lot of people are throwing their arms up and saying "of course! Software takes up memory!"

For me it's about average customer experience. An average customer with 50GB of music would likely purchase 64GB Surface without hesitation. Coming home and discovering it only fits half their collection crosses a (fuzzy) but very real line from acceptable loss to false advertising. They've made a large sacrifice they didn't know they were making when they purchased it.

If this actually was considered false advertising and manufacturers had to advertise usable space instead of HD space, wouldn't that encourage competition? Who cares if the numbers are ugly, I'd be able to evaluate storage as a metric for purchase much more honestly. If something has a 64GB hard drive and only 23GB are available, the number 64 means literally nothing to the average consumer.
Non substantive comment: "That's some bullshit."
In general, this is actually a major problem with EVE right now. The risk vs reward balance is off with the game at least in the sense of an individual player. About the only thing this applies to is alliance income from moon minerals and market speculation.

Most alliances who own space in EVE though don't actually hold the moons that are valuable and so its pretty much all risk for them and no reward at least in terms of money, you do get a reward of having fun.

For the player as I said the risk vs reward ratio is very off balance because there is really no advantage to living in an area that you are more likely to be killed or participating in any pvp of your own choice
Right. But the vast majority of users will likely never make an effort to remove the recovery partition, and even if somebody wanted to restore their system 6 months or a year from now, they're going to be restoring something that's certainly out-of-date and that requires additional over-the-air updates.

I understand all of the arguments for why they chose what they did. It just seems like the wrong choice given the huge disparity with the marketed capacity that appears on the box.
I know there are some very cool/interesting challenges associated with graph BUT...this approach sounds ultra-painful and rather terrible. I don't really see myself being productive having been up for multiple days...but, maybe that's also why I am not employed by FB.
You can still sift through resumés, but don't filter by school. Filter for people who have "created something" or who have a thoughtful online portfolio.
Good call. I intend it's use to be temporary for that reason e.g. quickly scribble down a phone number/website/name etc to refer to asap.
It isn't that hard to see satellites in the sky. The ISS, in particular, can be very bright, to the point where you can see it in daylight (http://www.hobbyspace.com/SatWatching/, http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2009/06/18/how-to-se...)

The 1950 ones would have been a lot harder to spot, of course, but might at times have reflected the light of the below-the-horizon sun.
Maybe it's due to the fact I graduated from the UT system, but I thought it was well known that UT Austin had a top notch CS program.
Quora (web) Redesign - tablet friendly for those of us with iPads
I played around with redesigning Quora for web and tablet. The result was a cross-platform version of Quora that would be more user-friendly for tablet users.
On one hand I admire them for pricing it high but on the other I think it's going to make it much more difficult to acquire customers. Salesforce is better than its detractors claim but that doesn't matter as much as the fact that sales people now just expect to use it...it's the easy choice. And it's immensely customizable.

I think like the recent Amazon post noted, Salesforce.com's competition is going to come from someone who undercuts them. There's no reason for SaaS software to be priced at $100/head/month (other than the need to fund a sales force).
Agree++. I used Macs for a few years (SE/30, PB180) but software I paid good money for kept not being usable, and my favorite piece of software of all time (HyperCard) was dropped from the O/S. Forcing my software to become obsolete is the primary reason I stopped using Macs.

Many in this sub-thread point out developers were warned. I'm thinking as a user:

I continue to use Quicken 2000 that I bought in late 1999 on a Windows 7 system I bought last year. I know with MS that I can buy a piece of software and will be able to use it a decade or two from now if I want, without having to pay for upgrades I don't need.

I have a box full of Mac software that cost me hundreds of dollars. Completely useless and without value. I have no such box of useless Windows software (though to be fair, I've bought less after having been burned so badly buying Mac software 12-18 years ago).
Why I'm learning to code
The code is over 2 years old, I did it on a whyday back then in about 10minutes. Had no time to make it work across all browsers.
Who’s liable when a self-driving car self-crashes?
The second scratch+ doesn't work (Firefox 18.0.1).

This one works (# is breaking it really):

data:text/html, <html><head><style>html,body{background:%23111;color:%23fff;font: normal 16px/24px "Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial;}body{padding:24px 48px}</style></head><body contenteditable><script>document.body.focus();</script></body></html>
A nontrivial fraction of people go from one subject in college to a tangentially related career upon graduating. If they had known 2 years later what kind of work they would want to do, then sure. But if you're not willing to give them a shot, you could be missing out on some cheap talent.

(I was an example when I came out of pure math and looked for a programming job back in the 90s, with no programming background.)
Why Elon Musk Wants To Help Boeing Fix The Dreamliner
Anyone familiar with when hormones (steroids/HgH/precursors) started being scheduled as drugs in the US?

Anyone bothered to ask why they are scheduled at all?

We spend all of this time talking about elite competitive and, frequently, professional athletes using them, WHY???

Next thing you know, they're going to "schedule" websites...

WHY?
A "no compromise" tablet that also includes a full PC. Basically, a MacBook Air and an iPad in one device.
> They're a strategic resource that individual players would never use.

Except for that year or two when they could shoot smaller ships with immunity, a LOT of people in nullsec alliances got one with their own funds just to shoot bigger guns with impunity.
I certainly agree with your last comment about WTF.

As you know it isn't a "new" problem. When I joined Sun Microsystems I was interested in learning what marketing folks did so I started work on that side of the house. One of the things they did was try to make the stuff sound as good as it could sound. So if you could sell something for 4999 you called it "Under $5000" and if your graphics card could do two million triangles / second you said "millions of triangles per second." When I transferred over to the kernel group to do development SunOS 3.2 had shipped and we were working on 3.5. There was a lot of pushback that adding things was pushing up the base system size such that 40 MB disk drives weren't going to have a lot of space left. Fortunately the cost of an 80MB disk was now down to the same price as the old 40MB one. The choice, as we saw it, was 'delete features to keep the size down' or 'have people get a bigger disk'. That wasn't particularly uncommon then or now in terms of tradeoffs.

On one of the developer panels at a user's group meeting someone asked me what would be the disk and memory requirements for SunOS 4.0 and my honest answer was we expected it to take about $400 worth of disk space and $800 worth of memory. It was a functionally correct answer (although not appreciated as you can imagine) because it took into account that the longer Sun worked on it the bigger the requirements got but the cost to buy the compute resources was staying flat relative.
This thread seems to indicate that a MacBook Air with 64 GBs of storage would have about 48 GBs free with just the OS, and a bit less with iLife and some other stock apps. Even with iLife, something that the Surface Pro has nothing like, you are getting more usable storage space.

So, it sounds like the 64 GB MacBook Air is a much better deal by both being a better thought out machine and having more usable storage space.
Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance
When the amount of storage lost to the OS is less than 15% or so, as with iOS or android based devices, it's not a big deal. When the amount lost is 2/3 of the entire capacity, especially for a huge 64gb drive, that's a big deal.
Build and Run webmachine (Erlang) apps on Cloudbees
Terry Davis is schizophrenic and his HN accounts feed random noise into threads; at times, the noise is more than just disruptive. He hasn't been "kicked off" of HN. If he created an account tomorrow and used it to post coherently, or even just in a markedly different way than he uses the site today, that account would not get banned.

The point 'angersock and I are both making is that it's not that HN is a different kind of club or a better club. It's the fact that it's not a club that makes it relevant. Overtly clubby alternative sites (with invite-only participation) are destined to fail, for reasons both obvious and subtle.

You say HN has all the properties of a club. But it doesn't:

* There's no shared purpose or interest, unless you count typing words into text boxes as that.

* There's no membership.

* There's no bar to entry.

* Half the site's participants are anonymous; for all I know, you and "angersock" are the same person.
You do whatever it takes to get what you want!People like it when you are just not ready to give up and try hard genuinely!
--You get a huge "point bonus" for using a car charger, which is a real cheap way to ensure that you're in a car, versus just standing in a bus. Also prevents us from murdering your iPhone battery.

--Given the way most busses operate (rough start/stops, crazy fast speeds, rush rush rush), you'd probably throw off the algorithm, which would flag you as "unsafe driving", and give you a shitty amount of points.

--At least for our test group, we couldn't find that many people willing to put down their iPhone when they didn't have to...Especially sitting on a bus for 3+ hours. Lots of folks said that they would do that, but boredom always got the best of them.
Plus, you had dijkstra.
Slightly slower but I use this etherpad clone:

piratepad.net/[gibberishstring]

It's totally public though and there is no way to delete pads, so use with caution.
OS X has more free space than the Surface Pro: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=583324
Bootstrapped Intelligence. I like it.
Just curious what technologies you are using? Also how quickly will this update on the 1st when a new thread is posted...again - just curious.

Great job! Much better than ctrl-f-ing my way through postings [just like you were doing].
Exactly. The advertising of a consumer product is regulated for the FTC because otherwise it could be confusing / misleading.
It turned out that this was the first visit where someone in the crew had brought video equipment, and Agafia would later tell my grandfather that she thought this thing would 'steal her soul.'

Sorry? It might as well have been a log on his shoulder.

Now, if it was viewing video of herself on this camera that brought a look of "pure terror" to her face (that you can't get out of your mind to this day, no less) I could begin to understand, but if she was watching a video replay on the camera, then how was it being recorded?

With no prior knowledge of video or photography what basis would she have for belief that the random equipment on a videographers shoulder would "steal her soul"?
There are a few standard things you could look for, like two letters for state or SF or NY{,C}.
It's not a pig of a mobile OS, it's a full copy of Windows 8. You know, that's like Mac OS X <feline animal>. And it doesn't fit on a ROM chip.
Car seating is DMV in the US. And yes, they have specs - you can't claim it seats more than average amounts of humans without backing that up by claiming they're unusually small.
Every site has an adoption curve for the UX unless it is copying something else. Build something as intuitive as possible that serves a big enough market and you will be a success.

I doubt most "users" or customers will know how to build a better mousetrap than the builder.
That sounds quite extreme... What do you do for living?
Ah, that explains why UK and not Congo, Uganda, Zimbabwe or any similar country...
Everything takes time, too.
It's not very hard to understand. Surviving in the wilderness is considered "manly" by most people. She's very good at this. So she's manly in a way.
Not quite. As far as I can tell DOS 3.3 was distributed on one disk for the core OS and commands (~1MB). There were supplemental disks for Basic etc. Windows 3.1 was larger but so were "standard" disks of that time (it was on 7 1.44MB floppies, compressed, but parts were optional).

But there is one huge difference you have overlooked - with your 486 you could install any operating system you wanted. You could even delete bits of DOS you didn't use. With the Apple/Microsoft tablets you can only run the operating system they provide (cryptographically/hardware enforced) and you cannot delete any of the OS.

With that 20MB 486 you could choose what every single byte is used for - and that is true of PCs today. But not for the locked down hardware.
> seek out the available space number

Do you yourself personally do this? Do you actively seek out the available disk space when purchasing a new laptop? I think you are fooling yourself if you think even 2% of people do this when buying a new computer. Namely because its rarely if ever in spec sheet.
I actually have a patch of black sky lined up already, just got to wait for the stars to align: weekend, no clouds, no moon, when I can afford to drive somewhere in the wee hours of the morning and back the next day.

But honestly, the tradeoffs I would have to make to move somewhere with even blue sky or green sky at this particular point in my life are large enough that they might as well be in Siberia. And I expect it to get worse as I age and entrench. Hence, a bit of jealousy.
Artichoke.
Will be interesting to see how this flies as an app rather than a web site. I'm inclined to think web would be a better call for this. But we shall see.
I'm not sure DSLs qualify as "the English-Likeness monster". A good DSL isn't about being like english, it's about being concise and expressive in the given domain.

A good DSL has no need to "look like English".
Ok, actually, those first two do sound like things I'd have learned more effectively in a classroom. Point conceded.
Great point. The idea here is that (at least for now) we want to make sure we're adding a lot of value to the sales process, rather than just being another CRM that's a little nicer to use than Salesforce. There are plenty of decent CRMs (Pipedrive, Capsule, Highrise, etc.) that are already cheaper than Salesforce.

The difference with us is we're not trying to be another CRM but rather focusing on sales communication that's automatically logged. We care more about the salesperson workflow than just being a database for deals.

Also the $99/month plan includes a phone number with unlimited minutes, which has a real cost associated with it. If you don't need built in calling, we've got a less expensive plan.
Great idea, I like it! Just one thing, you need to escape the "#" for the C# tag in the URL (C%23). The browser ignores the "#" and so it returns the result for just "C".
Well for my part it's probably because I'm Canadian and don't need to know this type of knowledge:)

Though judging by the negative votes on my post I guess I'm being punished for my ignorance.

I thought I made a decent contribution to back up the original posters claim. I guess its true that no good dead goes unpunished:)
The Basics:
We are designing hardware (schematics, pcb layout, even the software and mechanical drawings if that is what you want to build), and doing it in 12 hours.

You can apply as an individual or as a team. If you are in a team already, you can look for more members if you are interested. If you are an individual, we are going to help you find a group with similar interests.

What are we going to do? well there are some ideas started at http://ideation.upverter.com/. But the last hackathon we did we had some robotics, some devices that created and filtered white noise so you could have private conversation. the possibilities are endless.

This time we hope that the hackathon is just the beginning. we hope that the many of the things started (or continued) at the hackathon go on to be startups.

I hope this answers you questions.
Partly it's one of the pains of backwards compatibility. Unofrtunately Microsoft cannot, like Apple, just throw people who use its old stuff under a bus....
Language: Python

Frameworks: Django, Flask (in that order for employability)

Language: Ruby

Frameworks: Rails, Sinatra
> they're going to have ads on these paid videos

Please read the article; that is not what it said. Ads will be at the discretion of the content provider.

This means there will be within-Youtube competition between ad-free and ad-supported content providers. Which should hopefully help the free market establish the standard premium for an ad-free experience.
Just some thoughts --

This is perfect for people just starting out or looking to gain more knowledge in their respective interest, but it expects the user to put the time and effort into delving into the articles before realizing they may not be suited to them. The two things that mean the most to me as someone overwhelmed by where to start first are the smallest on the page (the stars and views). At the same time, these are subjective ways of determining the worth of the resource.

There was a similar service to this a few months ago for just front-end resources and my reply to them can be applied here; I want to know what the person found so great about it and what I can expect, rather than just knowing it was submitted and people with varying degrees of experience starred it.

1) Why did the submitter enjoy this link/how did it differ from other resources on the same topic that made it worth bookmarking?

2) What experience level is this resource expecting?

3) What type of resource is this about (front-end, backend, design, version control)? You have tags, but Sass and CSS could be in the same overarching category.

Just some general context to the links, so that when I see "Getting Real" under "General Programming", I'm not having to figure out what that even means.
Someone else just mentioned it, but I used to live in northern BC and our "red liquid" thermometers recorded temps down to about -60C or so. Coldest I can recall as a kid was -54C. We still walked to school.
'Coding with Coda' book released
It's mean.
I just glanced at this story. I'm actually familiar with this family and used to read a lot about them in early 90s. In fact, Peskov used to write pretty frequently about them in "Komsomolskaya Pravda," a very popular newspaper publication in Russia, ever since he located the family. He even found relatives of this family who invited Agafia to live with them, but she declined. Really interesting and kind of makes you think about the vastness of Siberian wilderness and that this kind of stuff is even possible in today's day and age.
This article exactly me, graduated high school (just) and managed to get into a very low brow university that I dropped out of within the first year it took me awhile but i've found its your experience and body of work that makes the difference, I finally, after working at a pizza shop at night and coding websites during the day for 6 months, a low paying "web developer" role at a publisher that turned out to be hell... still... every day I was there was real experience in the industry. After two years of waiting I got headhunted by an international brand and am currently one of the lead UX devs, when lecturing at career nights etc. I always say the same thing, "do not worry about university if your field is anything to do with the web, go CISCO / MSDN or, do what I did, be self disciplined and teach yourself.