skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, it's 4am, so presumably part of my brain is asleep, but I'm missing something here. If the latencies were unconstrained, I would agree that it is impossible to solve the initial riddle. However, since it states that there are only two possibilities, 2s:2s or 3s:1s, it sure seems solvable to me. You have two equations and three variables, but you don't need to solve for the three variables. You can eliminate the skew and end up with a single equation and two variables - the two latencies. That allows you to solve for the difference between the latencies. And since the possibilities are constrained, that is sufficient to solve the problem.

Of course, in a real world scenario the possible latencies would not be discrete, so indeed the problem would not be solvable. But that's not how it was presented. So either the puzzle was poorly constructed as an analogy for the real-world scenario, or (more likely) my sleepy brain is missing something fundamental. Somebody help me out.
Yes, I meant airless tires which can actually compete with pneumatic on efficiency and comfort, obviously you could always have a back-breaking full cylinder of rubber.
That's an interesting issue. I think you can make a pretty significant dent in marketing without really spending a dime, and I'd love to chat with you about it.

My background is marketing, but I'm currently in a producer role at a game company right now, and maybe I can take a look at your marketing efforts during off-hours and give you some suggestions? Feel free to reach out.
Bootstrap Table - Extend bootstrap HTML tables
Do not cite the daily mail. Or read it. Go and find some real research papers.
> I think the older standard was 10A circuits for most of the house

Ah that's probably it, I missed that you were talking about older houses. The content of your second paragraph sounds much like what I know.
RIP for NFC?
This is public data from the USGS and numerous other sources. Why is it surprising that Wolfram Alpha is using it?
It is funny, how "adults" think that this behavior is not acceptable.

I am... very curious. I am all the time curious, I keep researching about everything.

Sometimes I just stop, and keep looking at something, wondering how it works.

One day for example, I remember that I was looking at the rain, seeing it splashing on a roof that I could see from where I was. I kept looking at how the raindrops shattered when hitting the hard surface.

My then-girlfriend approached me, and asked: "what you are looking so much?"

I explained to her my wonderings about the raindrops.

Her reply was: "this is useless, drop it."

The thing is, this was not a single incident, and not only with her, many times in my life, people tried to convince me to be LESS curious.

I wonder why.

I wonder why the sense or wonder, curiosity, wanting to learn, is viewed as childish or a thing to be hated, or as a time wasting activity.
How would one know this is a nuke? Earthquakes happen.
Mod_pagespeed port to Microsoft IIS
Looks like a wise decision on the part of Vertu.

Why doesn't Nokia make the same decision!
> software entrepreneur

The good ones also understand business.

And Bitcoin as a brand is strongly associated with illegal activities.
I make games for children, not something easy to market for. In fact, some of stuff that I make are not even game, more like toys.

But yes, I would with to talk more about it :)
Israel's "Prisoner X" identified
They have made an official announcement of the test:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21421841
SnapChat’s N+1: What Would That Be?
Thats the reason why its more important to learn the fundamental ideas behind the frameworks and not just the syntactic sugar . A deep understanding of any one will help in easily picking up any of the newer ones.
>Journey went on to become the best-selling PlayStation Network game of all time. Chen doesn’t know for sure, but presumably it will earn royalties.

I'm sorry. I can't parse this statement. It's the best-selling PSN game of all time, but they don't know if they'll even make royalties for sure?
Sounds like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis
There's a lot more to DB v. TS than "Dropbox focused less on security". They're different programs for different audiences. While in some cases they may have market overlap, TS definitely has a niche that would never even consider DB as a possibility. TS's major competitor is custom solutions like rsync.net + duplicity.
Wouldn't they also need your phone number ?

So if you only have a mobile (and this is the government) they would also have your current position.

Sounds like a great deal: Free Surveillance with every Large Pizza + Coke.
I'm not the poster you're responding to, but I was under the assumption bitcoin's anononymity was one of its main draws.
I checked "earthquakes in the Netherlands" : nothing there

Google news has the one of 8 feb

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws...
Ableton Live has completely toned down the realism but kept the knob-based interface. When you interact with them using a mouse or on a touch-screen, these on-screen knobs seem skeuomorphic, but you can 'keybind' them to a knob on your hardware (e.g. on your USB midi controller).

The 1:1 mapping between the hardware and on-screen knobs is a great design decision.
Cool! But how do you revise already revised text? =)
Bitcoin: who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
You rest the nail against one of the splines and hit it with the rock. It's not pretty, but it does work.
Sunk: The Incredible Truth About the 'Bounty'
It all depends on what you consider the true price.

What you use to pay for the pizza.
It was pre-anounced.
You'll see in "Indie Game" that Team Meat got kind of fucked by MSFT. Phil Fish has similar horror stories: he avoided patching a critical bug because supposedly it would have cost him $40k to recertify Fez: http://kotaku.com/5927224/fez-wont-be-fixed-because-microsof...

So, if nothing else, it seems like it sucks for the developer.
I don't know if anyone will ever read this thread again :), but just in case, the the current front-page post on Julia provides another nice example of a fast, dynamically-typed, JITed language (within 1-2x of C, from their own set of benchmarks).
I just don't get it. Then again I don't get Rolex or Land Rover, both inferior products compared to digital watch / Toyota.
Yeah, can't you define what permissions you use, similar to how google oauth operates?

With github, shouldn't:
- Read your public information.

Be enough - it's no more than anyone else can find out about you!
reinventing yourself and wanting to be a fulltime employee?
Or reinventing yourself with the aim of freelancing, or even running a consultancy.

I would say that there is (at 5 hours a day with a family) a fairly long learning curve to get to the point where you have learnt enough python/javascript then built something with it to prove your chops and then got a FT job.

You might be able to learn enough in 3-6 months to have someone take a chance on a 36 yearold junior programmer. But we are an ageist sexist industry.

So, if you are done with CSS / HTML but do not feel a burning need to program (you would have felt it by now), then yes I suggest you learn to program, always good, but instead try finding a decent programmer whom you enjoy working with (I would guess you have met some) - and then set up a side project of freelancing yourself and him/her to local businesses or SF startups.

Maybe start with local businesses, build up the working rapport. (Try charging retainers!)

If you just want a change, maybe running a side business that might one day become a FT operation is it.
Every bitcoin transaction is publically recorded forever. Here's an interface to it http://blockexplorer.com/
Maybe this post is the original one: http://tilomitra.com/the-crazy-world-of-code/
And here are the comments in the issue tracker:

https://github.com/sirbrad/sirbrad.github.com/issues/3
Recently redid a WP site a neighbor had for his small business. Single page flat html using bootstrap. What fun that was! So refreshingly simple.
Nukes have completely different fingerprints than earthquakes.

An example: http://quakesos.sosearthquakesvz.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/u...
> one of the collections in stdlib is zero-based too.

Yep, array: http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/array.html

It's definitely a mess.
Because people were told to grow up. Which is the worst thing you can do. You should instead mature and learn from experiences, but also keep that child like wonder about things. Such is the reason I love playing with my girls. They always manage to see things I cannot.
Living in a bubble.
The GDP has recovered, the provincial currencies and barter meetups have fallen out of use, and most of the asambleas populares have become irrelevant. But the retirees are still being paid a pittance, the government still can't sell bonds at a reasonable price, the creditors seized a Navy boat in Ghana a couple of months ago, and there are still people sleeping in the streets and recycling cardboard from the garbage for a living. Also, I think adverse possession is much more difficult today.

The bike kitchen I'm talking about is La Fábricicleta, and it's hosted by the Asamblea Popular de Villa Urquiza, which is dominated by anarchists and is one of the few asambleas that hasn't become irrelevant.
Pinhole glasses. Very simple to make (paper, needle) and they work much better than I expected.
And some parts of EU still actually have 220V. There's no major practical difference between 220V/230V/240V, it's just that different parts of the world came up with slightly different standards. As standardization has progressed, now all of EU is on a nominal 230V ± 6% 50Hz -- in practice the countries are still supplying their old voltages. 230 is presently 220 in Hungary and 240 in UK. Since both are within the mandated 6%, this doesn't cause problems. Eventually, as parts of the grid are serviced and replaced, it will be transformed into unified 230V.
Ah, I see that the BBC reported this story in last few hours too.
It's about time we started to recognise light pollution as just that, pollution.
If you put the coordinates into Google maps you get this address:

http://goo.gl/maps/TNfuD
Here are a bunch of screenshots of my self-built academic productivity system - focused on reading PDFs, taking notes, extracting to a wiki, working on notes etc. http://reganmian.net/wiki/researchr:screenshots
Please read what I actually said.

There is a discipline which deals with this stuff. Being initially ignorant of that is fine - no one knows everything - but when people say "Look, there is a discipline that deals with this stuff, and here is how the terminology works and here is why" then replying (as you have done) "No, ignore that and use the colloquial usage when talking about this stuff" without watertight explicit reasoning as to why either that discipline does not apply, or some other discipline is a better fit, or the discipline is somehow flawed in a way that makes this terminology wrong, is stupid and also both morally and practically bad.

Do you understand this now, or do you think that the word 'page' should only be used to mean either 'paper' or 'position analogous to squire, but for either knightly or political office' even when we discuss webapps?
Most of the 'mess' I see is the current state of Javascript frameworks, which are in the Cambrian explosion phase of things.

I'd just use Rails as a default for most things I do these days, and if it's not a good fit, evaluate other technology.
This would be more impressive if it were backed by a Gist or something so you could actually clone your comments for use offline. As it is it's just using GitHub's proprietary storage backend through the issues system. So it's no different than just using Disqus or something.
Grove is actually not going out of business, the folks at RevSys (Jacob Kaplan-Moss / Frank Wiles) have taken it over and have improved both stability and support issues... You might want to give it a closer look.
Gamewise: The Fastest Growing Game Network
Tshinghua University is in Beijing. "BBS" and "forum" are approximately synonyms.
You fake it until you make it. Hire some interns and have them develop the community. Then market the hell out of it and watch it grow. Works really well. It also works with offline businesses. I know of a person who bought a couple of used cars and parked them in front of his store. Had someone come in and move/wash them every week. People always saw that the place was packed and stopped to see why.
Just choose the right tool for the job. Beside that, variety is a good thing, isn't it?
W in Wordpress stands for web scale.
Couples Apps, Please Stop Mating And Start Consolidating
It requires that role to make new issue comments on your behalf, no way around it.
Amazon wants India to ammend retailing laws to enter the $450 bn retail market
Hoping to get a foot into the door which opens to the $450 billion Indian retail market, America’s largest online retailer Amazon has sent one of its top executives to meet with ministers in New Delhi.

On Tuesday, Amazon’s global Vice President Paul Misener met India’s trade minister Anand Sharma and discussed the creation of a favorable policy environment for Amazon to do business in India, which is otherwise not allowed in the country.
~2000 with the naked eye. Have you never seen any long exposures of the night sky?
http://zef.me/4235/pick-your-battles

Pick technologies which are most suitable for the job, not the most "hyped" ones. Also don't forget that sometimes the latest technologies comes with innovation tax, you may be the first to solve some issues, because of the small ecosystem.
Fibonacci numbers cannot be computed in O(1), only estimated. All closed form algorithms start giving imprecise answers after some value of n.
It asks for permission to update not just issues but my public repositories as well. Does that mean that I am giving him full rights to commit stuff to my repos by posting a comment?
I agree and can see where OP is coming from. As a Chinese, I notice the difference in how we approach problems. Let me make an analogy:

Chinese and western dude learns guitar. The Chinese player will worry about the scales, the hammer on/off drills, chord drills, picking drills, and maybe practice a song and focus on technicalities; western dude would pick a guitar, learn a few chords to play a song, realise that to play more songs he/she must practice hammer ons, etc, but everything is so that he can play more songs. They have never had to worry about drills. It's a means to an end.

Web frameworks are just drills to choose from. Pick the one you need and move on. With experience, you'll be able to tell what is good and what is not.

Why worry about which framework is "best"? It doesn't matter. If WP template and jquery solves the problem then why is he even talking about Haskell?
Distracted by the Metrics: How to Make Sense of Your Google Analytics Numbers
any human (or even nature) domain knowledge is enormously detailed rich, with countless sub-domains, methodologies and references beyond the scope of a single person. And thanks god for that.
While some might complain or worry, this is what makes this field so fascinating. A myriad of options, toolsets and methodologies means that it is alive, open and thriving.

Imagine is Adobe, Oracle or MS had won the Flash/Flex, Java or ActiveX battles, where would we have been today?

As much as I use Chrome (and love it), I can't help but admire the work done by Mozilla to rescue the Netscape codebase and mould it into Firefox. I think they deserve a lot of the accolades that enables this zany ecosystem to thrive.
Going from "Suck to Non-Suck" as a Public Speaker
Shame that there's no street view... C'mon Google!!!
As you can see, he hadn't heard of Python.
As with all technology choices, you've got to draw the line somewhere - new and risky, or old and proven, or somewhere in between.

What matters these days is probably how well you and your team already know the technology, how good the documentation is, community size/takeup, how quick the devs are to respond to issues, and how mature and stable the API is from release to release. How popular/old the technology is also counts for more if you're looking to hire people with experience in it.

MVC on the client is becoming more and more important, once you start slapping a lot of js on a page it can quickly become un-maintainable. We went with Backbone as Ember was changing too quickly in backwards-incompatible ways.

MVC on the server (Django/Rails/Express/whatever) still has a place - you want something serving restful data / html skeletons and mapping urls to responses. In my day job that's Spring MVC because that's what people here know and it ain't broke.

Frontend language choice: Learning JS seems to be the natural choice here. Things that compile to JS e.g. CoffeeScript or DART might also work for you; I don't have experience with them but I'd imagine debugging problems in the resulting js would be a pain until browsers support them natively.
At some point you consider the hardware a part of the game's price. Pretty much every system I own was bought to play a specific game.
There is a high return on anything news breaking or extreme. Bloggers make up things constantly, report unsupported anonymous tips, etc.. Many of them or paid and fired based on the number of page views they get. Not really surprising this behavior is creeping into traditional media.
That's more or less right, masklinn. To the above writers, look at the Python source (I can't vouch for how the C implementation does things). It's not beautiful, but it's also not hard to understand.

The effective work is all done inside a big function. To customize it, you'd have to split that function into pieces and then glue it back together using a class or your own function coordinating the parts.
G+ Reviews of the Hwasong Gulag, North Korea
Yes, but I'm saying that there's a standard way to handle it, which is essentially taking the payment at a discount to the market rate in order to give you time to change it to your own currency without taking a loss.
I ran into this in the domain of networking.

Trying to deduce one-way path latency from the round-trip time ("ping") is impossible without further assumptions. You basically cannot understand if you are on a wire connection or if your uplink is via a sat by looking at just the ping output. You can try an bounce ping off multiple servers, relay pings and gather RTT properties over any graph path that includes your node and test servers, and yet you will always come one equation short for solving the linear system you'd end up with.

-- However --

If you make an assumption about some property of some path, then - boom - you can find the one-way latency for any edge on the graph. For example, if you have two test servers that sit on a backbone, you can assume the path latency between them is about the same either way. This gives you an extra linear for the system and this in turn lets you calculate the one-way latency between you and either of these servers.

It's a pretty neat problem. Makes you think, laterally.
Fascinating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

"for consumers who want to use exclusive products, price is quality"
They're one or two person shops that are lucky to get a game out for one platform a couple of years late. The only way they would be cross platform is for them to sell the rights to a bigger company which I'm sure they would consider like giving away their baby.
Zoom out a bit and you can see the "Hwasong Gulag."

https://plus.google.com/101019651244056999126/about?gl=us...

The reviews are, well, you know. Welcome to the internet.
To be honest, at least since Rails, the Ruby community has had a "cultural problem" of denial; Ruby is an academic language designed in academia for academic and theoretical problem sets. It's not really practical in most cases, especially when compared to a language of the same class that was designed for pragmatism and real-world usage, like Python. One could say "PHP was designed for pragmatism" but then they'd have to argue PHP was "designed" in the first place, and not just kind of accidentally snowballed from a hobby into a major platform.

DHH latched on to Ruby via Rails and hyped it up and suddenly Rails became the cool kid on the block, but I don't really feel that's deserved from an engineering standpoint. Rails has always been a lot of sizzle and only a little steak, from ill-conceived and convoluted workflows dressed up as "awesome, because it's better than your PHP site!" and rigidity and inability to adapt to normal needs dressed up as "opinionated design".

DHH is the only notable programmer so thick that he actually asserts mathematical background is not helpful to development, and that you should take writing classes instead, and I think that tells a lot about his general practices and his uninformed attachment to Ruby, which has propagated across to others as 37signals got coverage in our communities and more posers jumped on the bandwagon.
So it looks like they're bombing their own nuclear facility.
There is another selection bias: the companies that are declared successes are those that went through the FI 4 month boot camp and founded a company.

But they have a 60% drop out rate.

Why do people like myself (and several very intelligent people in my session) dropout of FI ? We all dropped out because we found the course wasn't well planned, the weekly assignments were often annoying and non-sensical and got in the way of doing important work on developing the company. They dump surprise assignments on us during Christmas while we are at our relatives. I wasn't getting important questions answered and found better info elsewhere.

So intelligent people are dropping out and then FI reads this as: intelligence is not correlated with success. So they reduce IQ from the entrance test. Correlation does not imply causation.
Actually, Fez is being ported to other (yet unnamed, but probably Steam) platforms:
http://polytroncorporation.com/state-of-the-polytron
I agree 100% with this.
Do Startups Really Need Media Coverage?
Quite a lot do, although even more don't. I regularly carry a multitool, cone wrenches, a universal spoke wrench, and an adjustable wrench, but not a file, freewheel spline tool, grease, chain tool (foolish, I know, I just haven't bought one yet), kerosene, vise, welder, taps and dies, that huge-ass wrench for tightening the headset, or heavy hammer, all of which I've needed at some time or other.
"Humans", as in "regular people" use Word for this, if they're at all familiar with the more advanced features. Which a lot of people aren't. Something like this might be useful for LiberWriter, but I'm 100% certain that our users would find it more confusing than helpful.
The USGS compiles seismic hazard maps based on historical data for this very purpose:

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_c000f5t0_w.html
The Java would have been prettier if he had used the new try-with-resources from Java 7.
And Surgeons who play video games are better surgeons… isn't the fact that intense game playing teaches skills clearly evident at this point?
UK Seedsummit Termsheet Initiative V2.0
That's more than a bit of a deal breaker. Can't believe how many people have just handed him the keys to their Github account. It's the ultimate hacker honey pot!
this is a bit misleading. i've worked at major observatories - the best places to see stars in the world - and the sky doesn't look like that to the naked eye. the star images are over-exposed compared to what you would actually experience. yes, cities have light (and other) pollution, but this is over-stating the case.
Market share isn't everything. OpenBSD is a perfectly suitable platform for a certain set of applications. If you're doing free-wheeling experimentation type stuff, you may want to use Linux, but if you're serving a fairly conventional web app that isn't going to depend on new language functionality any time soon, *BSD is probably better as a server platform.