skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I happen to think that you are wrong.

As someone who only started teaching himself the python language last week (but who has seen it around the web for a lot longer) I would naturally assume that "Python server" was some variation of the python language meant for web tasks.

In the context of IT, the word "Python" for me refers unambiguously to the programming language, and any other uses of this word in the context of IT would be very confusing.

I could not for instance create a programming language called "Google" and expect to get away with it...
Did you get the Steam ones to work? At least the betas were hopeless because they're linked to glibc 2.15 or something, whereas Debian uses the forked eglibc 2.13.
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This is a great idea. Those who write, "go to small claims court" don't know what they're talking about. In small claims you may win your case, but that does not mean you can collect your money. Collection efforts must then commence; working from another country makes collection impractical. More importantly, this matter points out that a web site is a valuable asset which can be levied or seized for failure to pay a debt generally. So if I buy a car, sue the dealer in small claims court and win, I can seize the dealer's web site and sell it (or hold it) as compensation. A world of possibilities.
Yes, these libraries are very good, but they don't generate "@keyframes", Anima does in CSS mode.

And as far as I see they have no parallel animations like http://lvivski.github.com/anima/example/parallel.html. The ball moves forward with lenear timing-function, and up/down with ease-quad, so is slows down when on top and speeds up when falls down
HP sued by Chubby Checker over webOS  size app
Leg it !
The question is how did anyone figure out this method? I know it was first exposed in a similar manner on iOS 4.1 but is there someone deliberately trying to break the passcode lock? Is the recent jailbreak helping?
This kind of news makes me go "muahaha <evil laugh>".
The RT article quote local (military) newspaper as saying "A missile salvo blew the meteorite to pieces at an altitude of 20 kilometers".

I wonder if it's true.
Not true. Other, more plausible, reports say the meteorite is now located in a crater west of Chelyabinsk.
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Sonic boom followed in 2 minutes, so the altitude was in 30-40km range. That's damn impressive, with all the sharp shadows from the buildings ... damn.
Brazilian here, and I think not...

There are several cases here where an inventor receives no money at all and a lot of people get rich with it's invention, because of this law.

I think it's too loose and also our courts are terrible, there is a case from a guy that waited 20 years to win a first instance sue against several phone companies and after losing it they just appealed... so he will have to wait 10 more years, and probably die or go bankrupt.

Source: http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mercado/1161871-inventor-do-bin...
Meteorite Fragments Are Said to Rain Down on Siberia - 400 Injuries Reported
What can established businesses learn from Growth Hacking?
You are right. In the previous thread I pointed out one way of doing this with haproxy (there are many other tools that could do the job): "balance hdr(host)" on the first layer, and least connections balancing on the second layer. Or to know exactly which hosts are handled at the second layer (to minimize configuration size for each second layer server), create acl's for either specific hosts, or suitably short substrings, and your second layer servers can keep only the configuration for that subset.

You can also easily enough use "just" iptables at the second layer (supports weighted least connections and many others and you can plug in your own modules), which makes it very easy to do dynamic reconfiguration (to e.g. add/remove dynos), as well as traffic accounting (setting iptables to count bytes routed per rule is easy) and other fun stuff.
https://plus.google.com/106557483623231970995/posts/Bed6WUJp...

"With apple's app store you buy the apps from apple. With google play you buy the apps from the developer. If you are the merchant of record you need to know the address to correctly compute sales tax.

This is documented on http://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/bin/a...

Google cannot give tax advice, so we have to give you the data to make the determination yourself"
I'm trying to make sense of Texas. There's 50 claiming San Antonio (Good Catholic Latinas Gone Bad?) and another 50 centered on land that is merely rural range (but with a little shack outside La Grange!). One from A&M and one from Baylor U. Who wants to claim they're from Lubbock?
More videos here, annotated:

http://say26.com/meteorite-in-russia-all-videos-in-one-place
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Big meteorite rain over Ural, Russia
It depends on the usage. Users have different habits.

Firefox's memory usage is a bit less predictable (and can get crazy, especially when you leave badly coded js websites open for days in a row) and there are more situations when you say to yourself "I'm leaking memory, I'd better restart", but Chrome memory usage grows faster when you open more tabs.

Plus, Chrome UI is less suited to many tabs: favicons stop appearing beyond around 30 tabs (for me, it's probably machine-dependent), and the omnibar doesn't give you a way to switch to already open tabs by default.

Plus, Chrome autoupdates aren't exactly optimized for low-end configs.
Possibly. From a privacy pov, I suppose I'd also prefer a decentralized option like this, where everybody just gets their own small slice of all the data instead of one government collecting all of it in a centralized location. It might be slightly less efficient, but in general it's a better way of roughly getting the data just where it needs to be, as long as it needs to be.

Also note that the thing that caught on = something with a rather direct very personal advantage to the adopter, while your suggestion (that hasn't caught on) = something that personally helps against very rare events and sort of increase ambient security for everyone. Some lesson about human nature, here :)
You are asking the NYT editor to prove a negative? What evidence would you require to prove he didn't deliberately try to drain the battery?
9:36 GMT: There is a high chance that another
meteorite could enter the Earth’s atmosphere in
the next few hours, Sergey Smirnov from Pulkovo
Observatory told Vesti news channel.

9:07 GMT: "The object could be about a meter
in diameter and weigh a few tons,” Valeriy Shuvalov
of the Institute of Geosphere Dynamics told
RIA-Novosti.
“As it entered the atmosphere, it broke into a
cloud of pieces that flew on, creating a blast wave
and emitting light. That's where the flashes came
from, as well as broken windows. Most of the
object’s material evaporated, the remaining pieces
slowed down and fell. It was most likely of iron
nature as it penetrated so far through the
atmosphere.
However, we still don't have the exact data on
the debris."

Source:
http://rt.com/news/russia-meteor-meteorite-asteroid-chelyabi...
Article is about employees, you're talking founder. Very different.
Generate images with only a lambda expression
Congrats for Skyfire.

Knowing a few people there good to see them acquired by an interesting company. They've certainly changed a bit from the early days with the initial product being on WinMo (i was an early engineer there). The move makes some sense with Opera's embracing of WebKit.

I do agree with the other poster - opera had $155m? You learn new things every day.
Just like none of them have changed their car radios from the Russian factory default setting of 'generic trance music'.
Nothing works with perfect efficiency thanks to entropy. The energy recaptured during braking is less than that expended while accelerating in the first place.

In other words, crazy maneuvers like that are only going to drain your battery. The lost energy will go into things like friction heating up your brake pads as you wear them down pointlessly.
licensing fees mostly. they have sales of roughly $200 million a year. not sure about profit though but I assume they are profitable and they can get additional funding from stock market by selling some shares.
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I believe the whole "all kids should code" bandwagon is over the top, mainly because to me coding at its most basic form is a skill that is acquired through equal parts of learning and experience, very similar to the likes of plumbing or car maintenance.

My biggest issue is that most people for mandatory programming often believe that it will make kids "programmers" and will make them understand computers. For starters, I know a load of working programmers that don't really understand computers that well, and programming for an hour or two a week for a few months isn't going to make you a programmer, no more than me cooking dinner every night makes me a chef, or fixing a leaky pipe makes me a plumber.

I do think that programming should be taught in schools, as people need to learn the production side of the tools that society relies on so much. I also think that schools could go much further in teaching kids rudimentary skills for life as well, like fixing things around the house, basic car maintenance and basic money skills. In my mind programming is no more important than any of these skills, and if programming is to be taught in schools then so should these skills.
So the OP says '60 hours can be done, under some circumstances'. Then you come in and say '100 hours doesn't leave you with a life'. I don't have a stake in this discussion, I don't care - but I hope you see the flaw in your response.
How a petty aircraft can generate so much light upon exploding?
I flooded part of the University of Cambridge.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1287372/Cambridge-st...
Trying to figure out what difference that makes, or why you bring up jailbreaking at all.
Just an example. It's been a while since I've been involved in any scene.
Hogging all cores with Python
> Yes. When you write a controller action, you have access to what appears to be a hash called `params`, which is a representation of the parameters that the user passed in their request. It could be GET query parameters, or POST parameter data, or a parsed representation of JSON data.

So in ActionController::Metal (a superclass of ActionController::Base) you have:

def params
@_params ||= request.params
end

which is simply a case of a method in a super class being called in a subclass in your controller action. The rack request object in turn provides:

def params
@params ||= self.GET.merge(self.POST)
rescue EOFError
self.GET
end

The Rack request object itself does the things you describe with GET/POST in each respective method.

A few points:

* It took me about 25 seconds to find this code.

* Making a method available in a subclass doesn't strike me as magic, its just inheritance.

* Aside from the aforementioned inheritance "magic", the rest of the things you described come from Rack, not Rails.
I think Cedar is just not affected as badly because it will route > 1 request at a time to a dyno, which helps if you're using something like Unicorn.
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This sheds somewhat different light on the reasons why paid apps aren't that popular in Play market. It's not only about users being (allegedly) reluctant to pay for their apps but also about developers wanting to spare themselves the headache of dealing with customers' data directly.
I don't see how the desktop browser would make money, but Opera Mini is preinstalled on a large number of low-end devices. I imagine these bundling deals are quite profitable to the company, since Opera Mini is seeing a lot of use on those low-end phones.

Wikipedia has some recent numbers: "In February 2013, Opera reported 300 million unique Opera Mini active users and 150 billion page views served during that month." [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini
Chrome is great at releasing memory (since it often is just killing a process) and it does tend to use less memory with few tabs.

But even from Chrome's birth, Firefox was already using less memory with lots of tabs.
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The video of the loading dock door blowing in is extraordinary.
> a high chance that another meteorite could enter the Earth’s atmosphere in the next few hours

can you get another source than RT? they seem to aim for senation first, accuracy second
Most people who think they work 50-60 hours actually work 40 hours. Most people who think they work 40 hours actually work 30 or less. I've seen that for myself, working very hard from morning to mid-night taking breaks only to eat and tracking every minute, adds up to only 50 hours of REAL work per week (not counting Saturday Sunday). People work a lot less than they think they do. Track your EXACT time worked and see how much you really worked ... I've been doing this for at least the last year.
They exist and are called "law firms."
> At least one object streaked across the early morning sky and shattered 10 km over the city of Chelyabinsk.

This bungled account shows the risk in trying to report unfolding events in an encyclopedia. In fact, the meteor(s) didn't "shatter" over Chelyabinsk -- it (or they) remained intact and are reported to be located in a crater west of the city. This outcome is predictable by watching the videos and noticing that the paired contrails continue past the point of maximum brightness. That brightest point is the point of maximum energy release and deceleration. If you witness a meteor brighten, then dim, but continue to show a path and a contrail after that point, you can be sure it (or its fragments) will reach the ground.

It is most likely that this was a metallic meteorite, because most stony meteorites disintegrate before reaching the ground.
Did HN eat the word "penis"?
> with it head-on and that must be what being hit by an icbm looks like

I strongly doubt this is anything but a natural phenomenon.

Actually, what's most remarkable is the number of video cams which have surfaced having recorded some aspect of the event. It's amazing there was enough time to have noticed something unusual, deployed one's camera, and recorded the arrival of the shock wave, the broken windows, car alarms, and barking dogs. And then uploaded it to YouTube.

Also, the number of dash cams that recorded the entry and flash, accompanied by techno music. What is it with Russians and dash cams?
I compare that to the http referer sent by browsers, it's useful for developers, highly unknown from non-developers and it's not really good from a privacy standpoint. I don't really know where the line between helping developers and protecting privacy must be drawn but in doubt I've the weakness to always err on the side of privacy.
I'd say one of the more interesting implications of this is the ability to have 'throwaway' radio stations, essentially tiny, cheap Raspberry Pi-powered PCs linked to low-power FM transmitters. If they get discovered, it's not such a big deal, as the whole thing costs under $100.
All The Atlantic Wire "Convincing?" points are rather lame to be honest.
Yea, the FSF actually considers the term a misnomer:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#SoftwareIn...
Not even Google Analytics. I self-host Piwik for that reason.
I'm dubious. Be cool to see some hard numbers.
I haven't added the remaining rooms. I will wait until I debug the collision detection, and climbing routines....

I have been able to render all the rooms though....
Yet another compilation of all the videos here:
http://www.comandotibidabo.com/meteoritos-urales/

I've been amazed by how huge the explosion is being so far away from the meteorite crash.
I'm reading that the same way he did. When I read it, it is very clear that "that day" refers to Jan 24th. The day in which it told him it would go 32 miles and went 51.
If you're being at all conservative, and your estimated range is that close to the wire, it doesn't seem unnecessary, especially when the standard usage pattern with EVs is to plug them in every night. The Model S seems to be doing a much better job of estimating its battery life than any laptop I've ever owned.
No, not because of the jumpers.

It's to capture the car to car accidents and the road rage incidents. Too many people have bought their driving licenses and drive as if they are the only people on the road. Too many of these come from the criminal background and won't shy away from expressing their dissatisfaction with your driving ethics and what not. Now there's a dashcam for that.
> Not even security related. If I decide to move from rails to django, now I have to wonder if somebody out there decided to talk to my app using json instead of regular get/post, and deal with migrating/breaking that client.

If you didn't publicly document the fact that you accept a particular format you have no obligation to continue supporting it.

Your point about the XML stands though, that sucked!
Funny, this is the same argumentation I see on open vs commercial software.

In the end only the product matters.
We're also introducing Python in the Cambridge CS course for computer vision practicals.
I think that "switch" doesn't name the feature properly. It's more about "pattern matching" as defined by functional languages such as Haskell or OCaml:

http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/html/book-ora016....

This enables you to match any nested enum/tuple/list/tree structures, and have the compiler check that you didn't forget a case. The modern compilers can even give you an exact example of a case you forgot to specify.

Compared to those possibilities, the high-praised polymorphism of OO languages appears to be little more than simple dispatching. (At least for simple OO languages. There are also very powerful and expressive object systems such as CLOS.)
Thank you... :)
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Wow some of them are really spot on!
Can you point me to a concrete example of this? Rails as a codebase is decoupled reasonably well. As long as I take it in chunks, I can understand control flow through it reasonably well, and I probably have less ruby experience than you do.
Wholesale this. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, etc. will have no problems dealing with visa shenanigans if you get an offer from them.
LOL... I should have mentioned that it is only one room for now...

I blocked off the remaining rooms until I could debug the collision detection routines properly...
how are you proposing they shut it down? the best they could do is shut down the exchanges, but goven they are located in the UK, Japan, France, US, Russia etc then you cant get them all shut down and even if you could you can still do person to person trades and I am willing to bet that a decentralised exchange appears not long after the current exchanges are shut down.
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I generally agree with you, maybe I phrased it badly.
Thanks... Definitely hope to add more in the near future...
Also, Russian missile interceptors are outfitted with nuclear warheads, to address the precision problem. And virtually all Russian missile defense is concentrated around Moscow.

So it's safe to conclude the military was not involved here.
> what being hit by an icbm looks like

Here's what a MIRV attack looks like (with dummy warheads):

http://www.osborneink.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/MIRV.pn...

With a meteor, the energy is all kinetic. With an ICBM, the kinetic energy is incidental to the delivery method. The payload energy is all nuclear.
That line was in the page when I first uploaded it...
In fact I wrote that line before I even started coding the game...

:)
> I'm really confident that the only people who use Windows will be (a) people who know nothing about computers and use whatever it came preinstalled with (b) at work since they're not allowed to format the computer (c) they need a very specific software that is not available on Linux or Mac

Or OpenGL graphics programmers who find the state of drivers under Linux, while a lot better than years ago, still sub-optimal compared to Windows...
why wouldn't you accept payment for soemthing? Taking payments in BTC is very easy there are a multitude of copy and paste code snippets that will do it for you. Unlike taking paypal or visa there are no hoops to jump through.
"Important Note: the predictions themselves don't matter! Most of them are probably wrong. The point of the exercise is the exercise itself, not in what results. You should try this experiment yourself — it may show you things you're thinking that you weren't really aware of. And other people might find it interesting reading, even if there are factual errors or whatever"
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> Performance wise i can report CUDA is just as fast on Linux as it is on windows.

Great. But definitely not the case for OpenGL last I checked (which admittedly is half a year ago).
The articles on this blog always interested me.

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/
I use Firefox because it is free software. It feels more honest than Chrome, IE or Opera.
It appears he's suggesting flaws exploited in the jailbreak are related to flaws that allow you to bypass the passcode.

Seems unlikely, but still :)
Thanks, you're right. What I really meant was something backed by data. This is more about business management practices or motivational psychology and "optimum working hours" must be a well studied topic. There must be more than some weak anecdotal arguments about Sheryl Sandberg or Ford Motor Company in early 1900s.
Does anybody have tips on how to view the embedded quicktime videos?
With the Humble Bundles and Steam (and a lot of AAA titles going for console releases first or only) there has been a real surge in indy games the last 5 to 10 years.
Tricks With The Cleaning
I don't understand why some of the people are still listening to the radio and so uninterested.
Remote Working #1
Ken Silverman (18 years old at the time) wrote a 3D engine at home and sent a demo for evaluation to 3D Realms. They found his skills promising and worked out a deal

Cool way to start a partnership!
Useless but in parts well designed work of an addict.
I think you meant "Top Gear". ;)
> A red herring, because the real-world choice is usually between stop and go driving at a low average speed, and steady-state driving at a high average speed.

That's false, breathtakingly ignorant, and you have completely abandoned the original topic, which is to establish whether the advice given to Broder by Tesla (to engage in stop-and-go driving) would help or hinder battery duration and vehicle range. In point of fact, it would hinder battery duration.

> Not necessarily, if the actual choice is as I said above.

Try to focus on something other than your wish to be "right" in spite of the facts. Stop-and-go driving decreases the range of an electric vehicle, and it was incorrect advice to give to a nontechnical journalist.

Pretend to be a scientist, as hard as you may find that. Consider variables one at a time. The driver wants to maximize distance, so he is not going to travel above a moderate speed (this is proven by the fact that Broder knew this and traveled at a moderate speed after he realized his predicament). What is in question is solely whether stop-and-go driving aids or hinders maximum range. It hinders it -- this is physics 101.
If he was directly calling a person at Tesla it would be unlikely to be recorded. If he went through the normal customer support number - you'd expect it to have been recorded after the "This call may be recorded for training purposes etc" intro
It may be interesting to check archive.org for old job openings. For instance, this one at RIPE NCC, in Amsterdam, from 2006:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070101144833/http://www.ripe.ne...