skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Ugh? Isn't there too kinds of graphics currently used? Pixel art and vector art (whish is automatically converted to pixel art). Every jpg, png and gif image is pixel art.

No, every jpg, png and gif image is a BITMAP.

"Pixel art" is a stylistic category.

You might want to read this ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art ) which provides some basic insight, even though it is extremely badly written.

>There's no way around it, unless you start using svg's.

Or unless you use the terms correctly, like everyone else.

>Yes, I'm technical nerd. But who can say my opinion wouldn't be right one.

Anybody that knows what bitmap, vector and pixel art means?

>Those basic pixel art concepts are also needed with higher resolutions to make great looking stuff.

No, they are not. While some concepts remain the same, other concepts are totally meaningless in higher resolution non pixel-art styled images.
He never really answered the question as to why he thinks that Sweden is ready and willing to extradite him to the US, and that him being wanted for questioning is a pretense.

Is there some evidence that supports his belief?
"Is there actual data that says that null pointers are actually causing bugs in production software?"

Have you ever written even one line of code in your life?
Vim version referenced is horrifically out of date.

Their dev trunk is pretty stable, it'd be good if he'd update the post.
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Actual link, rather than just where the "More" starts:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/02/elizabet...
It doesn't. A dead person is effectively immune, that is "recovered". Popular modifications that do affect the model include temporary immunity and new births.
Can they force people to reveal the password of an encrypted disk or a Truecrypt container? If someone refuses to give the password can they be denied entry into the country?

I think Truecrypt hidden volumes can be useful in such cases.
One interesting anecdata point on the "everyone would just sit around and watch TV" front - my girlfriend and I just went through all of our reasonably close friends, and could only think of one person who might, possibly, not start or continue doing something challenging and interesting, given a "living wage" situation - and to be fair, we don't know that person very well.

The "everyone would just sit around" theory seems to be predicated on the belief that there are millions of people out there whom we don't personally know, but we somehow know well enough to believe they have no other interests that might blossom.
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>If you can't avoid the "pixel" part and go straight to the "art" my eyes would appreciate it. If I want nostalgia I will play games that look pixelated for technical limitations now in the past, not for willingly decaying graphics pretending it has some artistic value.

YOU will do that "if you want nostalgia". I, and many others, will happily play a modern pixel art based game.

And it's not even about the nostalgia. It's a stylistic choice all by itself, just as black and white photography is.

Today's pixel art is far more detailed and clean looking that any old low-res game -- to the point that it's not about mimicking low-res 80's games anymore at all.

>Even after just using a little bit of median filter it looks better: http://i.imgur.com/P4Dr9Kr.jpg*

You just turned it into a mediocre line drawing.
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That's nonsense. The work of a financial executive might be quantified by how much money the company is making, but judging the output of a professor is completely subjective. Sure you can do some bean counting by looking at the number of publications and citations, but 10 years of work condensed in one paper may just be more of a contribution than 10 derivative papers, or not, it's difficult to tell without hindsight, and even then presumably lots of work is under-appreciated.

My conclusion is that we cannot with a straight face claim that we can justify such a pay gap in this case, so whether it is justified is the wrong question.
Israel seems more plausible imo.
>In any case, judging and mocking people for how they like to enjoy their games is pretty shitty.

Not at all. Who said all opinions could be equally respected? Some are just plain ignorant and stupid, even when they pertain to personal choices.

(I'm sure for example you'll find my opinion above stupid).

The thing is personal choices are never personal. They aggregate with the total number of persons and structure the society everyone has to live in.

Somebody enjoying "Scary Movie Story 3" is a personal choice. Until you get millions of people enjoying "Scary Movie 3", and suddenly you have to suffer from an avalanche of shitty movies like it coming from Hollywood in order to watch something decent. Shaming them beforehand ("it's a bad movie, and you should feel bad") might spare you...
Yeah, but we already discussed how the OP doesn't know what he's talking about.
Only double-encrypted volumes provide plausible deniability. And even then you're not 100% safe. You can absolutely be arrested/detained/jailed/denied entry for not giving up a password.
She sounds a bit paranoid to me: checking passports is in theory part of a UK employment agency's legal obligations. If that's the sort of thing she's inclined to make a fuss about, it's not surprising if they were less than polite and helpful afterwards. Sure, recruiters also exaggerate how good some positions are, claim advertised jobs are filled and offer alternatives you're not interested in or suitable for, but employers do that too. Recruiters don't have a great reputation, but that's more down to them being expensive for employers and annoyingly persistent than dangerously immoral.

There probably aren't any legal issues with sticking up a fake CV if you get hired on the basis of a real one, but rest assured it's not going to look good with employers if she applies for positions they haven't got round to advertising yet or if they end up with a copy of two suspiciously similar CVs with similar names, or if it turns out the third party recruiter is actually being retained to do the initial screening interview (it happens!)

If she's worried about having her passport photocopied she doesn't sound savvy enough to be doing what the recruiter will consider to be cheating them out of commission, and even an employer that's quietly pleased not to be paying commissions will worry about dishonesty if she gets found out.
My understanding that this was mainly about moving graphic drivers back into kernel space from user space (circa NT 4.0).
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Probably about the best you could do then would be to interactively assemble code (probably without mnemonics!) and output the assembled version. You could probably do a reasonable interactive assembler without mnemonics in 256 bytes; not sure about base64 input and output (four letters/numbers per 3 bytes of code!), or error correction.

Did the machine not even have a memory of what was on the screen? Because that's usually at least 2K, and that would go a long way.
Sure, I will give it a go! I had the Good News bible around when I was a child and haven't revisited it for a few years.
The patent on Roundup (glyphosphate) expired in 2000 [1], so that's probably not a viable strategy.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate
More so than the obese? The smokers? the drug users? People who sit all day and never move?

I think they're pretty nutty myself. But if you're going to call them a burden on society's resources, you have to open up the argument to be inclusive of everyone who fits that bill.
And of course, grants would never be influenced by politics. Science is pure, ask any college or university.
Reminded me of this: http://liquidglassshield.com/, which looks very similar.
You seem to think that SSL is only for browsers.
Twins' DNA hinders France sexual assault investigation
"It would never happen!"
Hey, It's a week later, I think I will give the KJV bible a try again sometime. Have you gotten onto The Varieties of Religious Experience yet? Do you think I was warranted to recommend it to the audience I did?
All government procurement is heavily influenced by politicians looking to bring jobs to their districts/states.
I for one want pen input, but under condition that it would allow me to rest my hand on the screen. It should, basically, recognize the pen input exclusively and ignore all other touch events, if I tell it to do so. Sketching or writing all the while hovering your hand and ensuring it never touches the screen is not exactly the pinnacle of convenience. If Microsoft ever gets around adding this to Surface, they will get an edge... but, perhaps, by copying an idea from an HN thread :-)
The apple tree apples, and you, well you create
Actually, after a serious public kerfuffle, Monsanto pledged not to use this technology:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_technol...
Failed implies he tried. He didn't try. He just told the story.

People seem to know the guy. I'm not sure this is "imaginary" at all.
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It's actually not all that uncommon for well-written rootkits to do just that.
It works great on my C sources; have you reported the failure(s)?
The creation of better soybean strains could be financed by prizes and contests rather than by military procurement. For example, see the Longitude Prize, the Anxari X Prize, or the crypto primitive contests that NIST regularly runs.

The fact that giant corporations are involved with progress in our society is not proof that progress would cease without the involvement of giant corporations.
Wow thanks for taking the trouble to answer: I guess I got it wrong. Somehow I would like to be able to unpost some comments.
I entirely agree, which is the main reason why I am not interested in working in China again. But we don't live in a perfect world, compromises need to be made and living in a Western democracy is about the best you can do for your rights. Beyond that I feel you get into diminishing returns. At some point your treatment is based on the whims of the law enforcement officers and their particular culture which is very hard to measure and changes and evolves over time and political environments anyway.

Do you have evidence of any particularly good countries?
Yes, indeed. Here's the "canonical" C strlen translated to unsafe Go with pointer arithmetic:

package main

import (
"fmt"
"unsafe"
)

func strlen(b []byte) int {
str := uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&b[0]))
s := str
for ; *(*byte)(unsafe.Pointer(s)) != 0; s++ {}
return int(s - str)
}

func main() {
fmt.Println(strlen([]byte("ho ho ho\000")))
}

Not that anyone should use it :-)

The safe and readable variant of this, often used in Go code, is "slice arithmetic", like this: http://golang.org/src/pkg/crypto/sha256/sha256.go#L105
> It's only controversial with regards to sensitive issues like intelligence.

Granted.

> Of course humans are indisputably sexually dimorphic

Only in a trivial/technical sense, i.e., there have to be differences for there to be distinguishable sexes. But for a biologist, humans as a species are not known for and do not stand out for their sexual dimorphism, compared to other species. Which leads me to conjecture that the differences and problems with sexism are more related to the social construct of gender.
"Hello, I'm sure this is all a big misunderstanding, but did you happen to root my computer?"

Not trying to be sarcastic, but I'm really curious what such an email could possibly achieve. If they tell you they haven't done anything, they're either lying or not - you wouldn't know. And really, what are the chances they would tell you that they have rooted your PC if they had?
Among other things Swedish prosecutors refuse to question him in the UK, something which has been done recently for an alleged murderer. There is no obvious reason why they would refuse and none has been given by the prosecutor.
>And yet, if you say "well, we'll only give you your cut if-and-when you jump through all the legal hoops yourself so we can just send it without worrying or doing too much work", these people will get mad that you're withholding "their" money, move their blogs elsewhere, tell all their readers that you're stonewalling lazy moneygrubbers ("you're just like Paypal!" they'll say), etc.

I don't understand how "give us a routing number and we'll deposit the money into your checking account" is particularly arduous. If you live in a country that makes payments difficult, what do you expect a blogging platform to do about it? You'll encounter the same issue from any ad network who might pay you to put ads on your own unaffiliated blog. If you want that fixed you have to lobby your government to fix it, or move to another country.

In addition to that, Paypal has to deal with an army of international scammers and Paypal are cheap/lazy bastards who would rather screw over their users than devise elegant solutions to those problems. But almost all of those problems are a result of Paypal withdrawing money from one account and depositing it into another. A blogging platform doesn't do that: They get money from advertisers, who are happy when their ads are shown to users who buy stuff regardless of the are-you-a-dog status of individual bloggers, and deposit the money into the accounts that said bloggers have asked it to be deposited into. There is nowhere near the same opportunity to steal anyone else's money in the traditional method of signing up for a scam account and taking payments for goods or services you never intend to deliver, so the level of dickishness required to run the operation is substantially reduced.
Actually, it was originally designed to allow quick access to databases, but grew very quickly. So, no, not a silly reason at all.
Brief idea: Continuous Integration is a step function in how software teams can function. By enabling CI or CD one can remove the major impediment to remote working - managers cannot see what you have done in a day.

If folks remote work in the software department, pretty soon others want to. The company needs to have the same confidence that people are working and things progressing daily. So let's say marketing moves to the technicalmarketing beloved of patio11 - you can have Market department run tests on it's changes, measure customer behaviour etc. And they don't need to do it in the office.

Apply the same to every business process. Business people need to interact so we are not going to abandon cities - but the most valuable interactions are inter-company not intra-company.

So from little acorns of CI we can see the world of the Race against the Machine coming to pass - White collar workers automated or their jobs changed out of recognition.

So my startup, yeah that. I see my one person consultancy not as a lifestyle business but as a forever company - where I and I hope others will work, but more importantly experience many new modes of future work - and teach others and produce products that fill niches we ourselves need or are very well placed to understand.

To be brutal, I want to turn a one person consultancy into a dispersed products company, solving the big work ideas of the next twenty years.

First three are the CI consultancy, a data warehouse scm driver and videos of bug fixes.

Please don't judge the book by the website - www.mikadosoftware.com. Ps - I think the auto farm is fantastic - keep it up

I have never met any of my coworkers - they are in various parts of the States and I in Kent. The world has changed, it's just not evenly distributed - I want to be part of that change - the view is best right out on the edge.

Big long dreams.
A newspaper has the same problem. What is the difference?
Well, something good might come of it after all then.
Ioping, simple way of testing your vps from 10K miles away, gist
> Go provides ... much better speed than Python/Ruby/JavaScript,

Citation?
I don't use metro much on my desktop, just laptop and surface RT unit. The network sucks here in china, and most metro apps don't deal with it very well.
The concern was that the "terminator" gene would force poor farmers to buy seeds every year, and they alleviated that concern by instead forcing poor farmers to buy seeds every year by contract?

Let me guess, the "stakeholders" we have in mind here are trial lawyers? Sometimes the technological solution really is better than the "social" solution. It leads me to wonder just how effective this terminator thing really is.
Farmer’s use of genetically modified soybeans grows into Supreme Court case
Word of caution: GitHub has, at least in the past, had issues of gh-pages taking hours to be built. So if you are writing something particularly timely (like a project announcement) it might not be the best idea. I gave up on using it for precisely this reason ~ 1 year ago so things might have improved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Ahmed_Agiza_and...
It doesn't sound like it has much to do with databases anymore, so the name really doesn't seem to fit.
Lua is easily callable from C as well as the other way round. But you are right it is not common for high level languages.
The argument not being made here is this: why should you be able to patent DNA sequences? Sure Monsanto is patenting the method to create the sequences, but enforcing the end result of the method (seeds) doesn't make any sense as a patent. It's like patenting a machine that makes widgets, then suing people who don't use the widgets the way you'd like them to.
Then you aren't anymore.
Impossible Google search Queries is equals to Porn Results
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5195676
What bothers me is that there are people that would spend a lot of time and effort on splitting legal hairs over this, rather than to simply state that such patents are ridiculous and then we can all get on with our lives. This whole patenting of natural organisms is disgusting at a fundamental level.
This article seems to not mention another important fact for Schavan: If she loses the Doctorate, she will not have any degree whatsoever. The Doctorate is the only degree she ever did, she does not hold a Magister. (→ Grundständige Promotion)

The English wikipedia entry has that added by now, however, it doesn't list any sources...so in that sense:

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/153683 & http://www.wiwo.de/politik/deutschland/plagiatsaffaere-ohne-...

edit: Also, leave it to a right-wing Prof. Dr. from Munich to call all Germans crypto-fascist because of their degree fixation. Oh, the irony... → https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corps_Rhenania_Freiburg
That's one of the reasons Rust appealed to me more than Go.

Go has a global mark and sweep GC. OTOH Rust has a thread local, optional GC.
I'd consider the primary problems of early-Soviet style allocation economics to be (1) informational (2) computational. Money provides a quantitative (if not nice) solution to these because private economic decisions are intrinsically local, infinitely parallel and they self-aggregate.

Happily, look what happened in the intervening decades: mass connectivity and big data, plus the normalization of data mining over petabytes of raw information.

I think, in other words, that we have reached the point where we can batter down the economic calculation problem with brute force.
Isn't onenote for metro a free download from the windows store?

I tried to get my wife interested in the tablet PC (I have a Samsung tablet running win8 with a waccom digitizer), but she says its kind of small for sketching and the hand obscures the screen anyways, not as good as her Intuos; she has never tried an Cintiq.
My blog gets plenty of readers but I refuse to make any money off of it. Maybe I'm out of touch with that reality.
Doesn't the Surface Pro do that? I was under the impression that the pen on the Pro used a Wacom mechanism, not just a $5 capacitive stylus like you'd use with an iPad.
Where is the 8GB RAM version? Or the version with 256GB SSD? I would have instantly splurged for 8GB, but old articles were wrong about it existing.

It's a great machine, but I want to be able to run applications that take more than 4GB. VMware.. Photoshop..

(Admittedly it's nice to have a dedicated machine just for OneNote.)
"secure comms have no place in a web browser,"
Agreed. Any good stand alone stuff you could suggest?
Also, why cryptocat is browser plugin? Why not also make stand alone version? Like with contacts and such ( I know aka "skype with list of contacts you have secret conversations with that you don't want anyone to know about" would be silly but would have it's uses if it would also keep cryptocat style of "join public room and then go to private conversation")
That's fantastic, thank you for the link.
First of all, the leak I was talking about was about technology, supposedly robbing Israel and the US of a particular technical advantage over the Iranian military. If technology is not everything, then the importance of that leak was greatly overstated; if technology matters, the importance of the leak is still greatly overstated.

That being said, while it is true that coordination, tactics, and strategy can outweigh technical advantages, better technology confers a tactical advantage to an army. The greater the difference in two armies technologies, the more pronounced the tactical advantage is. The Taliban did not see anything resembling a victory when the US attacked Afghanistan; they survive now by hiding in caves, and their overall strategy is based on intimidating civilians.

If you want to point to a case where superior technology did not result in victory, you should have pointed to Nazi Germany. There can be little question that the Luftwaffe and the Kriegsmarine had better technology than the Allies, but ultimately Germany lost. I do not think Iran is really in the same position as the Allies were in...
"The evidence that the US seeks to prosecute and extradite Assange is substantial. There is no question that the Obama justice department has convened an active grand jury to investigate whether WikiLeaks violated the draconian Espionage Act of 1917. Key senators from President Obama's party, including Senate intelligence committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, have publicly called for his prosecution under that statute. A leaked email from the security firm Stratfor – hardly a dispositive source, but still probative – indicated that a sealed indictment has already been obtained against him. Prominent American figures in both parties have demanded Assange's lifelong imprisonment, called him a terrorist, and even advocated his assassination."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/20/julian-a...

see also - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/22/julian-a...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/24/new-stat...
A review with not much research is still a valid review - namely on what even somewhat technically savvy users aren't able to intuitively find out about Windows 8 usage. See also the inability to close metro/new-style/whatever apps. I didn't find that out myself when I tried Win8 for 10min or so. And it's not like killing those apps isn't necessary like on iOS, since the behavior changes when they are open, i.e. Windows button doesn't switch to Desktop anymore.
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