skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These kind of problems are so stupid that they should not even exist... Please start using your brain and don't try to trick other in so low issues...

PS: We could send 1000 of email to that company just asking to stop the cause...

We could make a PYTHON script to send this email ten times a day...
As a native speaker, I'm going to push back on the nuance you suggest, and say that that distinction certainly does not exist in my idiolect. Which jibes with a quick dictionary check.

Neither word connotes intention, as far as I can tell.
So, I don't think this even in the ballpark. There are a very high percentage of "geeks" that would have no idea what Smalltalk's image based persistence even is. Excel is like the lingua franca of the financial business world. It is used an abused. The Smalltalk persistence thing is ... it's an odd comparison, let's say. :)
IOS 6.1 Hack allows iPhone lock screen bypass - Hacking News
Within each core are separate register files containing 160 entries for integers and 144 floating point numbers. These registers are accessible within a single cycle and constitute the fastest memory available to our execution cores. Compilers will allocate our local variables and function arguments to these registers. When hyperthreading is enabled these registers are shared between the co-located hyperthreads.

The article is oversimplified here to the point of being incorrect. The registers the compiler sees don't change (and there aren't 160 of them, I think there's a dozen or less), only the behind-the-scenes ones as the parent comment says.
HN is not reddit. If it helps though, intellectual property disputes are resolved on the facts of specific cases, rather than headlines. Even a loss for the PSF May not be that bad, as there is likely to be a ruling that both marks could coexist, given Python's long heritage and no evidence on consumer confusion.
Archived the source for when this inevitably is reverted: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4955465

The page embeds http://clients.frankjonen.com/fitnesssf in a frame.
Great thought. We are doing this.
Obama, Cybersecurity, And The Return of CISPA
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I guess I'm not the only one suffering from self-doubt. I think this is hard to notice since since people don't talk about it that much.

If you ask me, I'd say you have some pretty impressive accomplishments!
Yes, I certainly did not disagree that the effect is real. But at the same time the effect shown by the simulation is due to an artifact of the simulation.

Consider the two possible groups of predators with cycle 2:

year 0123456789 ...
predator1 X X X X X X ...
predator2 X X X X X X ...

In your simulation, you are only taking into account predator1, i.e. the predator that hatches at even years. You are not taking into account predator2, the one that hatches at odd years. This artificially punishes cicada that have cycles that are multiples of 2. Your argument is essentially that if you had a cicada with an even cycle length, then it would get eaten by predator 1. But one could equally validly say that an even cycle length is an advantage because predator 2 will never be able to eat it. For example the cicada cycle 4:

year 0123456789 ...
predator1 X X X X X X ...
predator2 X X X X X X ...
cicada X X X X

This cicada gets eaten by predator1 but not by predator2. So by assuming that all predators with cycle length 2 are of type 1 you are artificially punishing cicada with cycle 4. If you do the simulation with equal amounts of predator1 and predator2 you would not see any difference between prime and non prime cicada.

Now, it could still be that prime numbers have an evolutionary advantage; this kind of simulation is just insufficient to show it. For example I could think of a reason that has to do with natural selection of the predators. Because predators that are in exact dis-synchrony with the cicada have less food, they are less successful. So over time predators of type 1 will increase, and predators of type 2 will decrease. So predators naturally start to synchronize with cicada. That's why prime years are better for cicada, because there are fewer predator types that can synchronize with that. But the synchronization should be an emergent property of the simulation, you can't a priori assume that predators that share a prime factor are always synchronized with the cicada as you have done here.

That's the theory, but in practice I can think of any number of reasons why in practice even this is a very flawed model. The primary reason why cicada all hatch together is because then the predators cannot catch them all because there are simply too many cicada. So if at one point in history the cicada had a cycle of 6 years, then they will not adapt to a cycle of 7 years through evolution. Because the lone cicada that evolves to hatch every 7 years will easily be eaten. This strategy only works when a bunch of them do it together. So it is very possible that 7 years is just a historical accident.
How long will this offer go on?
I've been scanning through the comments, and I have yet to see anything written by a Heroku engineer to defend the company. I'm hoping its in here and I missed it. I have a feeling that this all might be absolutely true, and they have lawyers/PR trying to think of a damage control plan.

I suspect that the reason they'be been pushed to do this is financial, and it makes me think that Nodejitsu's model of simply not providing ANY free plans other than one month trials is a good one. I realize it's apples and oranges, since NJ is focused on async and this wouldn't even be a problem for a Node app, but from a business perspective I feel like this would alleviate pressure. How many dynos does Heroku have running for non-paying customers? Do these free dynos actually necessitate this random routing mesh bullshit? If not, what?
Someone show this to Scribd, quick! And/or switch the Hacker News auto-Scribd-pdf-links 'feature' ASAP...
There's some sort of patent involved - http://www.google.com/patents/US8239662 - "Network based operating system across devices", filed in '09, issued in '12, assigned to Google.
Infographic - The runway to the final four
If the code was simple I wouldn't be too impressed either. But a lot of processing goes into determining each of the 30 links to show the user. There's read locking and a sort on a ~1K-element slice in there too. The test was done on the server, nothing going across the net. In real use a page loads in as little as 150 ms, of which ~20 ms is the speed of light delay to/from the server.
at that point you might as well get google apps for business.
I used to work for a big bus company here in mexico ( A.D.O )and they implemented a system for recording everything that happened on the bus' trip. The buses had a computer that recorded the ranges, the speeds, the times, and the fuel the bus used during the trip and believe me, these sensors never ever failed.
I see that as a false dichotomy. There are many other options between staying in the ivory tower and playing homeless.
FYI: Your sample doc keeps crashing Mobile Safari on my v1 iPad, but the official preview (https://preview.crocodoc.com/) seems to work fine.
I agree with this. Excel is a wonderful product and I reach for it frequently when I need to get stuff done with some data. I tried to use OpenOffice and Apple Numbers and both are really poor by comparison.

Also, I've found that the combination of Perl and Unix command-line tools (cut, sort, uniq etc.) and Excel is really powerful. I can grind some data from log files or other sources into a format that Excel can read and then analyze it in Excel or get charts etc.

Excel and PowerPoint are the only Microsoft products I have on my Mac. Excel for its excellence and PowerPoint because I can exchange presentations with other people who use Powerpoint since none of the other presentation software really shares correctly with PowerPoint.
/pedantic rant

The cleanest of the clean is Greg LeMond, not Lance Armstrong. Greg LeMond is now the only American cyclist to with the Tour de France. Greg LeMond has been a vocal proponent of clean riding and a vocal critic of Lance Armstrong.

During the height of Lance Armstrong's popularity, Lance used his control at Trek to shut down the LeMond line of bicycles to punish Greg for his continued public comments about doping.

No one intimately involved in bicycling was under any illusion that Lance wasn't cheating. It had been regularly coming out that his saved blood failed newer tests for doping and other irregularities.

Calling Lance the cleanest of the clean would be like calling baseball's Mark McGuire the cleanest of the clean. If you followed the sport (and saw his ridiculous head size), you knew he was not only cheating, but the best at it.

/end of pedantry
stackoverflow modifies user-contributed content in much the same way wikipedia does. there is a very clear audit trail for who changed what; as far as i've seen there is never the case where my name is on something but it has been silently changed by someone else.
Giving birth can be deadly

If the whole contraceptive/abortion debate were about saving lives, then I wouldn't even be arguing with you... but it's not is it?

but more importantly providing those things helps to reduce the suffering and negative impact on society when people have children, planned or not.

Okay, now you're a lot more in line with the truth -- the masterminds in charge feel they have license to prevent "negative impact on society". Doesn't that scare you? The people in charge are no better than you or I... in fact I'd say they're mostly worse. They're mostly power hungry and good enough liars to get elected.

Taxes aren't raised for any of those things in particular.

I've heard both Biden and Obama use those EXACT reasons for why we need to raise revenues/taxes.

makes no mention of the actual amount of money allocated to that TV show and what it was actually for.

You're going to split hairs and worry about exactly how much of our tax dollars were spent on an Indian reality show? Who cares? Those people are abusing their trust to reduce "negative impact on society" and should be booted.

As for Solyndra

I didn't say Solyndra was the only loss. Once again, though, you're splitting hairs on how many million it was when the real answer should have been: No, we don't use BORROWED money to fund corporations for industries that are pet projects.

If you doubt that billions have been wasted, you haven't been paying attention. You must not have noticed TARP, large portions of which went to save the money and jobs of wealthy bankers. yay.
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I am a disqus user and I have no recollection of seeing this email or feature. I am not saying it wasn't sent to me, but if it was, the title surely didn't explain what was really happening because I would be concerned.
"Glue code" might be a little unfair, but it does tend to be much more used for internal tools than customer-facing code. I don't know official numbers, but I would think it'd still be still the #3 language after C++ and Java.
Targeted Hacking Forces a New Reality on Antivirus Companies
It's not an overstatement, please watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKQS8EDG1P4
"Even from highly experienced technologists I often hear talk about how certain operations cause a CPU cache to "flush"."

Ok.

"This style of memory management is known as write-back whereby data in the cache is only written back to main-memory when the cache-line is evicted because a new line is taking its place."

That sounds like a flush to me. Modified data is written back (or flushed) to main memory.

"I think we can safely say that we never "flush" the CPU cache within our programs."

Maybe not explicitly, but a write-back is triggered by "certain operations," (see the first quotation above).

So it sounds like the real "fallacy" the article is discussing is the idea that a cache flush is something that a program explicitly does. That would indeed be a fallacy, but I have never heard anyone claim this.

On the upside, the article does give a lot of really nice details about the memory hierarchy of modern architectures (this stuff falls out of date quickly). I had no idea the Memory Order Buffers could hold 64 concurrent loads and 36 concurrent stores.
My company's part numbers are in the form 00-0000. After enough conversations about how to convert back to this format from the date Excel changes it to, we've finally just decided to change our sku format. A rolling change though, so we'll still be dealing with it till the current 5k sku's are all EOL.

I also hate the scientific notation default, in addition to the leading zero. Guess what, UPC's exist and no one wants them in scientific notation.
> Why spend time and money finding new prime numbers?

By the same token, why fund pure (as opposed to applied) science? The answer is that applied science is able to produce short-term practical results, which it does very well, while pure science is able to create entirely new fields of knowledge, which it does very well.

The "time and money" spent on pure research is often criticized, usually by people with a limited grasp of history. If you name a modern technology or scientific field, I will show its origins in pure research.
Serial numbers and postal codes should be entered as text and not doubles. The user should have prefixed the text with '. It's not Excel's fault that the user doesn't know how to use it.
I think it's worth noting that seemingly all of Broder's past NYT articles are about the oil and gas industry - http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/peopl....

I think this might go a fair way in explaining why he wrote a fraudulent review of an electric vehicle.
I've generally written off Quora because of their poor growth hacking techniques. What struck me about this article is the the data usage. I didn't realize they load the entire answer onto your phone, only to cover it up with the "use our app" junk. I know it's not a lot of data, but this still appears like a pretty big lack of respect for users.
For more topics along these lines, look into Resource-oriented Architecture (ROA) [1]. Many REST tutorials and classes are often further labeled as Service-oriented, which is really untrue. This is also why many existing SOAs are unfit for a RESTful transformation. Truly RESTful API's deal with resources, not services/business processes.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource-oriented_architecture
Why do people insist on taking long winter road trips in cars that common sense suggests are for city / daily commuting duties?
If you live here, you have to harden yourself against constant harassment for money and offers of drugs, and you have to get used to stepping around garbage and shit in the street. As much as SF should strive to be tolerant, at a certain point it must be recognized that if you don't want to be taken advantage of, as I believe is the case here for "authentic" residents of Haight-Ashbury, i.e. people who pay local taxes and own or rent and have what I would call a more vested interest in the community improving, steps have to be taken to curb the more destructive behaviors. The fact is, we already have disincentives for littering, disturbing the peace, selling drugs, etc, but they don't seem to be working. So I'm not sure what can be done.
SSL wouldn't save you, but if you never get the magic cookie into a browser then you're safe from XSRF.
The ﬁfth way
The simplicity and flexibility of Excel make it great for one-offs and random hack jobs that don't require a new application or full-fledged report. At the same time, it has some minor idiosyncrasies that can be infuriating and make me wary of trusting it in the hands of average end-users who need to enter/analyze important data.

Automatic type conversion is my favorite. I can't even count the number of times I've received Excel spreadsheets where data was completely lost because of it. Leading zeroes at the beginning of your account number? Excel will gladly chop those off for you. Order number looks like a date because they used the year as a prefix? No worries, Excel will change that to a standard date and completely forget the original format.

Maybe I'm just crazy, but I don't think a business-oriented application should favor convenience that much more than data integrity.
Creating, rewarding and displaying badges in less than 10 minutes
Prediction: Half-Life 3 releases a week early on Linux in order to spur adoption.
Show HN: Python script to generate IOS icons
Starting with IOS development, I was looking for a way to generate icons in various sizes as required by apple. I couldn't find anything quickly, so I hacked together a Python script. Here it is:

[code]

from PIL import Image
import glob, os

sizes = [57, 114, 72, 144, 512, 1024]

for infile in glob.glob("*.jpg"):

print("File: " + infile)

if "_" in infile:

continue

file, ext = os.path.splitext(infile)

for size in sizes:
print("=> New size: %dx%d"%(size, size))
im = Image.open(infile)
im.thumbnail((size, size), Image.ANTIALIAS)
im.save(file + "_" + str(size) + ".png", "PNG")

[/code]
Thanks for your words - and we would love to get your assistance and advice. Unfortunately, our network of Python-using lawyers is much thinner in Europe than in the US. Feel free to contact me!
Does it say when he left Google?
New open source HTML5 mobile game platform
The service itself is not about virality, but their customers are people who want their video to become viral, and for a video to become viral it needs exposure to key figures, which you might reach using their 'AdSense' network.

Here key figures means people who are interested in your video, have the personality to share videos and are charming enough to have a following that enjoys them (and perhaps includes more key figures).

Also there Virool guys seem to have spend a rather large fraction of their seed finance on the video funny that sells their service :P
Explain what happens in countries with a unicameral system that you think are negative?

I like the streamlined efficiency of a unicameral system in a time where technology is changing things so quickly.

New Zealand, Denmark and Sweden have moved from a bicameral to a unicameral system. In the United States, Nebraska operates with one.

What are the negatives?
Really? No. The fans spin up as quickly as they can in a cold car. If you turn the fan up and the temperature up all the way when you start the car, you are just blowing cold air on yourself. The fans spin up when they can actually deliver warm air. Keep in mind of course this is in a climate controlled car, like the Tesla S.
In the bay area, there's a constant stream of events that are in the spirit of the Cacophony Society - for example, http://allworldsfair.com/ , or the Lost Horizon Night Market ( http://blog.sfgate.com/inthemission/2010/12/13/guerrilla-nig... ) - and these things are put on by a community of people that's actually fairly small - I'm not sure they'd all self-identify as "Discordian" but, as a Discordian myself, I'll claim them.
Good man i like it. If you let them go they will never learn
"Instead of simply being able to enjoy the music..."

Enjoy the music?! I wish. Radio here is a continuous wasteland of advertisements and Top 40 anthems played over and over and over again. There's talk radio / public radio / news radio, which are good, but not great as background noise as they tend to capture my interest.
You are certainly cutting this guy a lot of slack.

This isn't Jim telling you about his crazy weekend while you stand around the watercooler, this is a professional journalist writing a story for one of the largest and most well respect news outlets in the world.

To me it looks like he doesn't manage to report the correct numbers even once, he said 55, actually going 60, he said 45, actually going 50.

Is it that hard to read a digital display?

Then you say he mistakes a 50 for a 90, if he has that much trouble with eyesight maybe he shouldn't be test driving cars.

Lets see now, which source seems more credible, the guy who doesn't manage to report a single accurate number, and makes mistakes when reading a digital display... or the company which had the foresight to monitor and log everything in their vehicles right down to the state of the temperature controls.

You make a good argument, but I think you are being far too charitable with someone who is a professional journalist and should have done a better job reporting facts if they want to be seen as credible.
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