skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was surprised by how understandable the concepts are behind this stuff. I second this recommendation. They are really cool algorithms.

For real life, there is obviously a huge engineering component, but you can definitely see how the ideas could come together to build something like the automated cars.
I didn't know that! Thanks :-)
Shit. Yes I am Jealous. That is fucking awesome. I would leave any highest paid job with google, fb blah blah to work with Fabrice :)
tl;dr: "you’re going to have to figure out for yourself"
If you expect code reviews and automated tests for an open-source product that's developed in spare time for no money, you can go to this page (http://curl.haxx.se/donation.html), click the PayPal button, and be very very generous.
Yeah, i was thinking this too. While self driving cars will probably be a killer for some industries... its a huge boost to others, such as bars.
Jesus, haven't seen anyone cite K5 for serious purposes in a long time. That place a cesspit these days :)
I would say CoffeeScript is a parasitic programming language. We will only "get rid" of it by "curing" the original langage from all its flaws(which might never happen ).
99 times out of a hundred
ASAP = Idiot Alert

The hundredth time it's someones who's in a spot and needs some help.

You can immediately tell which category the request falls into by examining who it's from. You don't need even need the added context of the message.
You're assuming that people driving cars is safe. The question is which is less dangerous - an autonomous car or a normal car.
Yes, nothing quite as rewarding as waiting for a bus in the cold only to have it drive straight on by because it was full.
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On a related note, Dave Thomas has got F# working with MonoTouch http://7sharpnine.com/posts/monotouch-and-fsharp-part-i and http://7sharpnine.com/posts/monotouch-and-fsharp-part-ii/ opening a path to functional and perhaps functional/reactive programming on iOS
Definitely agree. My company has been switching over to a centralized version of Bootstrap for our internal applications (over 300 in total, maybe 40 use Bootstrap so far). I oversee the upgrade process, and quickly/easily doing so remains a hurtle I have yet to gracefully overcome.

The best solution I've been able to cook up is adapting their changelog into a step-by step tutorial for developers to use when upgrading, though I'd love to hear any suggestions on improving that process!
The real question is why the machines discriminate against old people:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/03/how-real...

According to the NTSB, unintended acceleration was not caused by electronic errors. It was caused by "pedal misapplication" and mechanical failures (gas gets stuck under the floor mat).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%962011_Toyota_vehicle_rec...
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Insecure software or safe cars?

Your implication being that there is such a thing as a safe car. I think that people are excited for self-driving cars on the basis that they will kill fewer people on average than human drivers do.

It's a slightly depressing way to think about things, but it's realistic. However, the media hysteria that will surround the first self-driving car accident/killing will be critical.
This technology has the potential to save tens of thousands of lives each year. How can anyone possibly argue that the technology shouldn't be on the roads until it's 100% safe (which will probably never be possible)?

So, it's okay for tens of thousands of human drivers to be killed while driving, but inconceivable for tens of people to die at the hands of a computer?
She should start by learning the mathematics and statistics that she will need to do the theory and the analytics necessary for her research. Then she can learn how the mathematical and statistical ideas can be applied using tools such as Matlab. Programming is seductive, because of the instant feedback it provides, but it does not provide much insight; math and statistics provides insight but connections may be obscured by a sea of data. What's needed is the combination of the two.
Two security flaws in Flash patched, both of which were under active attack.
Mocking other people being unreasonable usually works a bit better when you don't need to use such ridiculous hyperbole...
On a previous job I used to great effect the list of bodies of the Solar system (planets, moons, asteroids, etc.)

That led to memorable names such as Mars, Venus, Pluto and Ganymede that didn't conflict much with other namespaces.
This should be instead titled "How to force yourself to learn Dvorak."
Your anecdote actually illustrates the problem this article addresses with the blind men and elephant analogy.

Just because you made a million dollars by accident does not mean one can't make a million dollars intentionally.
The impact theory is outdated in that people used to think it was by far the largest cause of the extinction. What the article is saying is that scientists now agree it was far more balanced between impacts, volcanoes, and sea levels. Exactly how much each of those contributed is still debated.
Good points. Byrne's argument is interesting but not completely solid. Plenty of people doing civil disobedience don't want to be caught.

But if Swartz really believed in his cause, why did he give up on it so easily? Why not release the data or go on TV anywhere and everywhere to talk about the outrageous system that locks up research documents behind a paywall?
Agreed. I should have specified I was asking segmondy.
Which device are you using and with what light settings? I've received one report from a user saying that the text on my site is "unreadable" due to the contrast but nobody inside my organization can see what the problem is, so I'm interested in how other people are experiencing such problems.
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Yeah, the RAM limitation in particular requires a lot of creativity; this version would use the entire 1K for its label table: http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-discuss/2012-May...

Did you have any external media available, or just the RAM?
The parent post said "comparing that to other causes of death" not "comparing gun deaths in other countries." Generally speaking, the point is this: more people die of several other things that could just as easily be banned and save more lives than banning guns.
The simplest solution to a similar problem (a single hanging word in a headline) that I've seen is to replace the 'space' between the last two works with an &nbsp; This forces the last two words to stay together as a unit. It can be automated with a simple piece of ECMAScript.
Have to disagree with you on that one. I didn't expect a post on how to generate a million bucks (the same way I wouldn't expect to find a 100% guaranteed success way to SEDUCE DA LADEEZ if I clicked an ad on one of those more, ahem, personal sites).

It's a well written article that explains why, as you highlighted:

"The ability to ask for advice, and assimilate it correctly is the single most important thing you’ll have to do in your business life."

I'm fairly well-read in startup business methods and techniques and hadn't come across this lesson, specified this clearly, before.
Zepto is a nice alternative, with a jQuery-compatible API and a way smaller source. It would be the perfect replacement for jQuery if it wasn't for it's lack of IE support.

For that reason I and a friend started a project called Rye[1] that is a light wrapper around the DOM and other browser APIs; it's made of small modules that you can pick as needed. Despite being < 6kb, it also favours readability over code size, so it's easy to spy under the hood.

Ender[2], a hybrid library/package manager, has a similar philosophy.

[1] http://ryejs.com

[2] http://ender.no.de/
He obviously did not read this article, which was popular on HN a few days ago: http://www.jasq.org/2/post/2013/01/the-mathematician-the-mon...
Puerto Rico has a growing startup community. Check out this article when you can.

http://thenextweb.com/la/2012/01/08/startups-of-puerto-rico-...
The barrel is probably the only part that has "rigid tolerances". The AK is famous for a stamped receiver with minimal machining.

http://ultimak.com/AKReceiverID.htm
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I think you are correct and your point serves to de-sensationalize the 3D printed gun hysteria.

Until 3D printers capable of printing firearms-grade metal, they aren't actually making it easier to for the vast majority of people to acquire firearms who would otherwise have to go through the regulated process. Of course, the entirety of the hysteria is based on the flawed logic that if everyone suddenly has easier(subjective) access to firearms, then everyone will start killing each other.
Simply the hokey-ist article I have read in a long time.
My trick may sound stupid, but it does work and is beneficial in two senses. What I do is to drink quite a lot of water while coding.

I have a 1 litre bottle that I must empty and refill at least twice a day. Every time I need to refill the bottle or... empty myself, I seize the opportunity to rest for 5 minutes. That's all.

I guarantee you will get up from your chair and leave everything you're doing.
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There is no context to that number. Is 1621 gun deaths a lot, a little, are there seasonal effects, etc. It's not an entirely useless number, but it does little to clarify what the broader trends of gun violence are.
A set of humans is physically incapable of "flash crashing" a stock market

False. They did it in 1962.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870395760457527...
That's a separate paid for service specifically designed for this.
I'm not completely sure, the costs structure would likely be very different but imagine fleets of small (1-seater and 2-seater) automatic electric cars, call one on your smartphone specifying the route (for your job it'd probably be a recurring route), it arrives in front of your door, climb in, it leaves you at your job and goes back to hibernation mode (or picks up somebody else in the area)
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Drive-by exploitations don't stop to read project descriptions before scanning ports or sending carefully selected strings.
It is very far from all there is to monads. It's very roughly a small programming pattern which is inspired by how some people use monads.
The thing I hate most about people giving advice from the point of view of "I got rich, here's how you can too," is that they never realize the statistical anomaly that they are.

Some things are controllable, of course. Some advice is good. But some of it is sheer luck and timing. Would you listen to advice on how to win the lottery from someone who has? Of course not.

So what do you do instead? Listen to the science and math of it. Look at your market with a microscope, and your product like a scientific machine. Look at it like an artist and study social trends and psychology. Even then there will be some luck and chance in it, but at least you'll know how much.

Don't listen to people who won the lottery—listen to the ones with reproducible results who can tell you exactly why. And I guarantee you it wasn't only because they listened to other people's advice.
It's not the single word alone in a line. It's a final line that significantly shorter than all the others. You want to strive for text that's mostly ██-shaped, not ▐▀-shaped. Replacing the last space by a non-breaking one just shifts the problem around a bit (and you still have occurrences like “I am” at the end of a sentence – it's not like the final word is always something nice and long like “sightseeing”).
> It only seems absurd becaus you don't realize that it's only the exclusive right to use those words in a commercial context to describe a product or service in a specific field.

Actually it seems absurd because it is over-broad: "but also extended to published works."

Are they going to try and pull the 1959 book Starship Troopers for trademark infringement?
I'm using a 17" Dell M6500 running Windows 7 and the text is unpleasant to unread in all browsers I have installed (Firefox 18.0.2, Chrome 24.0.1312.57 and even IE 9).

It looks quite a bit better on my external monitor - which is 1600x900 rather than the 1900x1200 of my laptop display.
30 year video game collection being sold on ebay for 550k
a lot of depth; very insightful stuff.

thanks for the link.
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So are you the driver of the vehicle or not? Under current law, you're the driver whether your hands are on the steering wheel or not. Indeed, people have been convicted of DUI while sleeping in the back seat of a parked car.

This is sort of the whole point: everyone thinks they can eat their cake and have it too.

DUI? I'm not the driver, the car is! Hic!

Run over a kindergartener? I'm not the driver, blame Google!

Auto insurance rates go through the ceiling because of untested technology? Wait, I'm the same driver I ever was, this is unfair!

Can't get insurance at all? Help, the Man is a luddite! I'm being repressed!
camelCase vs PascalCasing is used to signal and separate public from private in C#, so that you always know what kind of data or function you are working with.

It's useful.
I am happy to see that too. Unfortunately a common trend in Puerto Rico is that it's best and brightest move to the states and only come home for navidad/three kings.
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I can appreciate that there are a lot of benefits to self-driving cars - safety, the possibility of reduced traffic and congestion, amongst other things. That being said, I'm always stunned at the complete lack of discussion about the topic of environmental impact (whether the impact of this technology will ultimately be positive or negative.)

If we are going to undertake such a major shift in how we all get from point A to point B, shouldn't that be a significant point of consideration? It is rarely even mentioned in the context of this discussion, which I find to be disappointing.
It is claimed to cover books:

> Its trademark claim covers the use of the word in connection with many aspects of tabletop gaming and video games, she said, but also extended to published works.
There are good and bad titles but I don't see what's wrong with this one. It draws you in and the article goes on to provide valuable information. The author doesn't use it to sell viagra or help you add an inch. He's just selling a point which he makes admirably so.
InDesign already does this (as does quite a number of other software) and it works remarkably well. There is rarely a situation in which manual adjustment improves the typesetting and the automatic solution i definitely always good enough.

A manual solution is possible but not very practical, as was also mentioned in the article. Especially when the web design is responsive, such manual adjustments are problematic. But HTML is (luckily) also very flexible and neither font size nor the font are guaranteed to be constant, making a manual solution break horribly in e worst case.

CSS desperately needs feature parity with something like InDesign when it comes to typesetting. Adding stuff like this is obvious, something those working with layout programs had at their disposal for a long time.
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I'm curious where or with who the buck stops. If my driverless car causes an accident who is to blame? It couldn't have been me as I gave it full control and was asleep in the back. Is it the developer of the software or the builder of the car?
Maybe a sensor failed and thus the finger is pointed at me but I point it at the dealer who service the car. Given that the people who would most benefit from this tech are the same people who are least likely to give a shit about the upkeep of their car we are going to have a few years of interesting news headlines.
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> Wasn't at all surprising to me. Have they never heard of Warhammer 40,000?

Was that before or after 1959 when Starship Troopers came out?
Right, well, ignoring the fact that you dodged the question of what you meant specifically by diseases...

Yes, you misread the word sad. I wrote with pity. Sorry you didn't pick that up.

I've always been of the opinion that the state doesn't need to be reformed so much as dismantled

Well... I think you're ignorant and entitled. Basically. Sorry.

You mean like completely out of proportion prosecutorial aggression to address an issue that the state would instead not like you or anyone else to think too closely about?

No, I mean like the Pope decided that he didn't like Galileo and he didn't like the idea of the Copernican system, and he banned the very idea. One guy stood up and literally said "No one is allowed to believe or talk about idea A. Idea B is the only truth."

The idea that the prosecution of Aaron is in any way comparable to the situation in Counter-Reformation Italy is just... completely retarded. There's no other word for it. If you really believe that, then you're stupid. I'm sorry. It's not "precisely the same thing," it's not even bloody close. Perhaps you could enlighten me: explain who are the people attempting to control contemporary discourse - explain how they are doing it - explain why they are doing it - explain exactly what thoughts they are trying to make illegal to discuss. I'd like to see you try without falling into utterly ridiculous conspiracy theories.

I think it's beyond obvious that there are a very large amount of very stupid laws on the books

Great, welcome to the club: it's called People Who Are Sure They Know Best How Things Should Be Run. Members: basically everyone. I have some grumpy old men who hate welfare bludgers and some young bright-eyed radicals who think money is just, like, this thing that people made up y'know, to introduce you to if you're interested.

Which is, as demonstrated by the magnitude of the horrendous nature of all the things which have been created in precisely the same vein, clearly useless.

From your writing I take it you're educated (in some respects.) By a school? Also, I'd assume you're in reasonable good health. Ever gotten sick? Needed medication? How about this computer you're using? Been mugged or stabbed recently? Your family ever been helped out by reliable insurance contracts? Ever worried about your hometown being invaded and burnt to the ground by neighbouring tribes? Enjoyed a bout of syphylis recently? How about reliable credit and a global economy that is a miracle of efficiency?

Oh yes, I absolutely agree with you: all of these silly laws - completely useless!

If the perspective is that one should simply accept that things are all roses...

Nice work reading your own pet peeves into what I wrote buddy.
The font is the issue, not so much the color. Light fonts as the bread font are just a bad idea.

Not that it matters even a little bit in this case. It's an irrelevant diversion of the worst kind. It's ignorant and foolish, something for small minds.
It's pretty easy to do the math and see that once population exceeds a certain density, the idea that all humans can move around on the surface of the ground in 9' x 14' vehicles is no longer feasible. They simply don't fit. We are past that density in all major cities.
TI-82 here, my first programmable computer.
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A quote: "The claim emerged when it was used to get an American ebook about the futuristic soldiers taken off Amazon."

Surely there's a way to construct this sentence that doesn't move two key words so far apart. The distance between the related words "get" and "taken" is seven interloping words -- this isn't world class (for that one needs to learn German) but it's definitely a contender.

How about "The claim emerged when Amazon was forced to pull an American ebook about the futuristic soldiers"?

There was a time when publications employed as many editors and proofreaders as writers. (sigh)

But apropos the topic, I was once forced to stop using the title "Sun Computer" for my sunrise and sunset computer page. The complainant? Sun Computer, of course. My page appeared before theirs in search engine listings, so they hired a lawyer to write and object to my use of the word "sun". After trying to apply common sense, I gave in.

The full story: http://arachnoid.com/lutusp/sunrise/index.html#The__Sun_Comp...
99% of Businesses fail.99% of Blogs are abandoned within a month. Coincidence?
So ... question is : why people stop blogging as soon as they `start` blogging ? Is this start-and-run mindset what makes 99% of the businesses nowadays fail ? Is it Human nature to seek quick aproval and abandon if not gotten ?
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In my experience, I only ever get crashes with LibreOffice. I can't honestly remember a MS Office crash for me since the 2003 version.

Are people honestly getting regular office suite crashes?
But you're not compensating them for the time they spent making it. They've spent time to make this thing, and you're taking a copy of this thing without spending a dime for their effort. It's a service. A labor. That you're not paying for.
This comment is exceptionally useless. Why is it wrong?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kony_2012

Edit: In my opinion, a demand for someone to be fired shares the same social DNA as lynching. Driven by the same forces: an angry crowd demands that a scapegoat be punished to appease it.
I agree with you that this is ridiculous.

However, you really need to define success vs failure before declaring any company as one or the other.

Taking Zynga as an example, viewed from the position of "making Mark Pincus an awful lot of money" Zynga was a smashing success, while viewed from the position of "painting Mark Pincus as a credible person to do business with in the future" Zynga was a huge failure.
At least the german official Blizzard website uses "Space Marine", the english term is "Marine".

http://eu.battle.net/sc2/de/game/unit/marine
So you think amazon would send you a free kindle if you reported the kindle that you are not using was stolen?
Since your reply basically boils down to "Is not" I believe that the customary response on my part is supposed to be "Is so".

And since this exchange is very boring and trite and you are clearly a complete moron, I'll leave it at that, we can pretend it went on for a good long while but eventually you got the better of me and said "Is not" one more time than I said "Is so" and you won.

Cheers.
Thankfully, we don't have to guess about this particular metric, or use silly results based on web-surfing of certain websites. Almost 9% of Steam users are already on Windows 8:

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey#cat0

8.76% is much higher than 2.26%.
He's just a couple years older than me, and the brightest point in my entire programming career wouldn't even show up as a minor bullet point on the list of stuff he's done.
Is your contact named Bruce Wayne?
Tell this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
Not respected, or not known?

Edit: I'm seriously asking here, if anyone knows.
"It's like speaking of astronomy and astrology in the same breath."

Hmm... which is which?
Considering a different technology as a "threat" seems like the wrong attitude to me. As he says: "...they will pick the right database for their particular use case and requirements". So why treat this like a fight?