skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It did and they were display ads. Incredibly distracting.

At one point the "homepage" of Hotmail was a huge ad space, stories from MSN, and a tiny link to "Inbox."

The new Outlook is so much better. If Hotmail had evolved that way earlier, I would not have switched to Gmail.
Ah, so I see. It's good to know you got it working though!
You might actually be better off getting a Mac Mini or Macbook Pro Retina for those apps, unless they are GPU or RAM bound. If I recall correctly, both these machines outperform the Mac Pro in terms of CPU now.
Are you thinking what I'm thinking? http://i.imgur.com/1d2F6Ot.jpg

PD: Apple please don't sue me for the patent and copyright violation this may contain; I have no money and this image is just a non-profit parody so it is covered by "fair use" under US trademark law.
> Unfortunately, the list of approved publications is essentially "existing patents and nothing else."

This is exactly it. It sounds like a joke, but the USPTO's definition of "non-obvious" actually boils down to "isn't already patented". (Allegedly -- I admit this is hearsay, and I hope it is just some joke.)
I'm a bit confused. What exactly are you talking about and referring to?
Real developers gets to blame malfunctions on cosmic rays.
Do you (or anyone) know of a resource where I could try some of these ideas on just a plain convertible laptop?
Yes, the question was regarding this line in the original post: "I personally find it really frustrating not being able to easily pre-alloc lists in Python."

So my mind of course wandered in the direction of how to do that.
Err....do you remember the Iraq war? We weren't in it. Harper demanded that we enter. That was a pretty big deal at the time.

The other parties do toady, but there has been a significant increase in toadying under this government. They believe in what they're doing.

I do recall there was a fair bit of Americanized copyright legislation under the liberals though. It just kept failing to pass due to frequent changes of government near the end.
It's more like...

1. Paid lobbyist writes law to protect enormous clients, convinces consumer advocates and legislators that it's in the best interest of the public and that there is "industry consensus" (actual words used).

2. Many incidents of fraud occur under the new law, including one that is nationwide to the tune of $120 million (settled for $100 million in three weeks to avoid an admission of guilt) involving one of the paid lobbyist's clients, whose license for some reason is not revoked.

3. Law is protectionist and not in the public's interest and should be repealed.

Issues like this are complex and deserve our attention. The argument isn't laughable, it's just the tip of a very complicated iceberg.
I use HDF5s for storage/analytics of tick data; my experience has been that the performance for storing large sparse matrices is both expensive in storage space and speed.

I know that a lot of my peers in HFT have an illicit love for column stores, but for a lot of work, there's the need for converting to 'wide' format, which quickly can take a 10 million row matrix with a few columns to one now with a few thousand columns. (And thus stuff like KX, FastBit, etc becomes sort of suboptimal)

The need for massive 'last-of' information for time series leads to basically abandoning python/pandas/numpy and using C primitives and doing a lot more than you'd typically like 'online' but really a lot of this could happen behind the scenes with intelligent out of memory ops.

So...I'm pretty excited for innovation in data stores -- I look forward to seeing more!
The quantity of votes isn't the determining issue in American election. Instead, it matters whether you win a majority of electoral college votes.

Florida had enough votes to swing the electoral college. There was a big controversy about this, and a Supreme Court case, and frankly I have no idea what actually happened.
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That was actually my point.
"Locksmith gets less tips and more price complaints for being faster"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007385
(807 days ago)
In our case it's more the split of the left. Harper only got ~35% of votes, but that's enough here when the liberals and NDP split the vote.

There's also the fact that electoral ridings are biased towards rural areas. They tend to require fewer people to get an MP.
I am sorry to have agree with you, but yes the contradictions did start piling up. As they say, photos, please, or it didn't happen.
I have probably tried 3 times to ditch the arrows and use hjkl and I've failed each time. What is the trick to overcoming this? Perhaps it's that I've done it while at work that has caused the issue (ie. I need to be productive now!). Pick a weekend and force the switch?
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> He can take comfort in knowing that, by leaving, he has already boosted his net worth.

Thats so sad!!!!
That counts as a device, yes.
Not sure if you realize it, but comments like yours are also part of what's going wrong on hn. Ignore the low quality comments and upvote what adds to the discussion. Don't add more low quality comments.
Impressive buildings are theatrical but not at all false. They don't really have a veracity at all.

A throbber is theatrics. Fake progress messages are (excluding joke examples like in video games) a lie.
The author states, "I personally ran into some roadblocks while working on a health-related mobile app project and that was what sparked my inspiration for writing this piece." Really?? I saw it as an article that may be useful to academics and clinical psychologists - especially those who also wanted to develop apps - but not to an otherwise talented mobile app developer with no more than an everyday, "pop" understanding of psychology. It was interesting - once I fought through the jargon. But if I were an app developer who "got" people, I would probably "just do it". But then, in a previous life, I was an engineer who wanted to understand only enough theories and models to be able to "just do it" and "build it".
You think Cabel Sasser doesn't know what Airplay is?
I can't believe this passes HN's dupe detector. A trailing slash is all it takes? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5307781 (Sorry OP, don't mean to imply you did it maliciously or anything!)
I took a year of sign language in high school to satisfy the language requirement. This is the sort of thing I could imagine a instructor doing. It was a public school so our outing would have probably been to Burger King.
I honestly don't know. Someone is somehow implying that the adapter is implementing a full stack capable of being an AirPlay receiver and transcoding video on the fly. I think Cabel is wrong or has explained what they think is occuring incorrectly. /shrug
Right, definitely just the video transport part of AirPlay. This is exactly how Miracast works too, except that's over a direct wifi connection between 2 devices.
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My first thought too. What kind of budget did the kids have on this day out? How do I get my kids into that school?
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Sorry, I don't mean to sound like I'm attacking. Was seriously asking.
I wish it were the case. But please analyse majority of the top posts in HN with an open mind. One can clearly see the connection SV --> Funding --> YC --> TC. The outsiders are treated or ignored like pariahs. Have you heard a term "Made in SV". It may be subtle. But it is there.
No, I understand. "Someone is confused about AirPlay" was more accusatory than I meant. I genuinely don't know if Cabel knows much about AirPlay, I only know what I know from working with it and uPnP/DLNA for the last some months, and it made this seem unlikely to me. He may well know more than I and I learn something new and useful. :)

Based on the anonymous comment in this thread and this tweet, I'm potentially happy to eat my words. https://twitter.com/jmreid/status/306987650001301505
He makes a good point though. You could switch insert to the h key and do it this way.

Upsides:
- ijkl is easier for users learning vim.
- don't have to shift your fingers over to h key

Downsides
- rebind insert to h (not really a big deal)
- middle finger is now responsible for up and down (I honestly don't see this having much effect on efficiency)

I'm tempted to try this, but I hate the feeling of not being familiar with a vanilla config. What if I have to use somebody else's machine?
This sounds like state based programming. IIRC this was a moderately popular way of programming games in the past. The resulting code is somewhat monolithic however, hard to maintain.
In this case, AirPlay is our easier-to-understand way of saying "the results you're getting are exactly the same as when you stream iOS video using AirPlay". (Which is really weird for a video-out dongle! Especially since the former, non-Lightning one did proper video out.)

I've tweaked the post to make it clearer that AirPlay isn't _necessarily_ the _exact_ mechanism being used! It could just be H.264 or MPEG or whatever.

Mostly I'd love to know exactly what this chip/system does, so if anyone here with far more advanced hardware knowledge than any of us have feels up to hacking around, that'd be amazing! :)

The key takeaways from the post are:

1. It's feels unusual that a AV adapter would have a full SoC ARM-based CPU with RAM etc, not just a video encoder/decoder chip. Is it unusual? Let me know. :)

2. It's a bummer that the Video Out isn't very good, and not true 1080p, and has MPEG artifacts.

(Thanks for sharing the link.)
The scale of this is absolutely shocking. How did they even manage in just 12 years to set up 30,000 slave labor camps, 980 concentration camps, 1,000 prisoner of war camps, 500 brothels with sex slaves and "thousands of other camps used for euthanizing the elderly and infirm ...".

They must have really wanted it as a society and hundreds of thousands must have been involved, one way or another. That's not the work of just a few crazy fanatics.
Links to the Hacker News discussions from previous parts, compiled because I was curious and on occasion a mention to a Hacker News discussion is made without a link:

Part 1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5265563

Part 2: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5276471

Part 3: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5295236

Part 4: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5302661
If the issue is complex the author shouldn't try to dumb it down as far as he did.
So instead of just going with USB3 like other phone manufacturers and having native HDMI they created their own interface that results in an a picture display with noticeable artifacts.
i think work is the best place to do it. just stick with it knowing that it may take a few days to get back to your original pace. don't allow your self to use the arrow keys and you will pick them up much faster. just remind yourself that you will be able to make up all the lost time because you will easily be twice as fast once you stop picking your hands up from the home row.

i went through the same pains. the worst was copy and paste. what a pain! but in a week or two it will become mostly natural.
www.vim-adventures.com :)
Yeah, someone mentioned something similar elsewhere in the thread and it certainly makes sense to me. It fits in with the comparison to Miracast, the need for hardware support for full screen mirroring over AirPlay. I can see the adapter processing a stream in a similar format or some such as AirPlay (without being a classic "AirPlay receiver" which is what I was hung up on)

For your two points:

1. I think that comes with the territory of being a Lightnin accessory and makes sense if they're doing some sort of compression or something before hand. It certainly fits with Apple's persona. Control the content, don't let any-old-body create a video adapter. They have to deal with Apple's handshake/stream/whatever because Apple doesn't pin-out the HDMI for the Lightning connector...

2. That is a major bummer and seems like one of those "details" that Apple would get right. I'm certainly curious the more I think about it as well.
Ubuntu is already takin huge market in the desktop and server space. I have made the full switch. It will be very interesting to see how it tackles smartphone .
Just thinking 'Sudo Apt-get install Apache' gives me the shivers
My #1 trick/recommendation? Use Control-[ instead of the Esc key. It's less hand travel and keeps your fingers on the home keys. It's all about minimizing your arm movements.

The same goes for hkjl. The arrow keys are too far away, that's why you use hkjl. Embrace the lazy and you'll grok vim.
Actually, they're dead on. (And no, I won't corroborate that further. But it does download a stub copy of iOS.)
Don't post these X is down posts.
And why were there tears at the end? Was everyone so moved at the theoretical plight of real deaf kids that they broke down?

Also, I imagine real deaf people don't have a habit of walking up to salespeople and assuming they know sign language.
There is a difference between a business and a public building.

For example, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District established that a school cannot "punish a student for wearing a black armband as an anti-war protest, absent any evidence that the rule was necessary to avoid substantial interference with school discipline or the rights of others."

And of course a manager can't eject a customer who is wearing, say, a yarmulke because of specific laws which protect expressions of religion unless there is a specific safety or similar non-discriminatory for the prohibition.

So in most establishments, a manager does not have blanket authority on all types of clothing.
Is there any publicly known information about what the 30 ms number means (or alternatively what the machine is)? Given 30 ms number and the number of searches per second, the number 1000 means something; I just don't know what.
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Wow. NYC brings enough traffic in the middle of the night that it stays open, huh.
I do not know why you were down-voted, perhaps for not fully forming an argument and making a tongue-in-cheek comment as an immediate response to the arrogant statement Google unnecessarily included in the description of how search works(yes, the same statement stood out to me, as out of place and arrogant, but not necessarily untrue).

As to your point, yes, Google does utilize its power, leverage, dominance to favor itself and its own products - and don't feel to bad others are demanding you show your proof - how quick they are to forget (and apparently Google's own employees who replied to your comment forgot also) that the FTC spent the last year investigating Google's behavior on this front - some of those charges into Google's behavior include using its knowledge of search and advertising to determine the most profitable online businesses, entering the space with their own product to compete directly or just drive up the price of the advertising terms (sometime 1000%). So imagine you were buying key word "y" for "$x"/click - Google comes along and competes, now their product is at the top of the organic results and you will need to pay (1000 x "$X") for the same advertising - oh by the way when they pays (1000 x "$x") for the same ad space that money just goes back to its own pocket.

So do not feel to bad - the FTC spent millions investigating Google to find said evidence and ultimately allowed Google to settle for $22.5 million, Google allowing others to use the Motorola patents is acquired, and changing their AdWords API. And keeping with their motto: "Don't be evil" it appears in the last 24 hours media has gone wild alleging Google spent $25,000 to honor the FTC Director during the investigation - I know when I am being investigated for federal anti-trust allegations I too like to honor the investigator, and like Google I do not give the investigator the money directly, I give it to a 3rd party who in turn gives it to the investigators office, this allows the investigator time to close the case before allegations are made and when allegations are eventually made it allows the investigator the opportunity to say at the time it was unknown who "donated" money for the honorarium.
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A little tangential to the story but a good thing to be aware of is that the barrier of communicating between deaf people and hearing people is not always that they simply can't hear the sounds you are making. Many deaf people (especially those who are born deaf) are illiterate or have low literacy in written language; so you can't expect to always be able to just pop out a pencil/paper and write back and forth normally as you would with a hearing friend while playing "the silent game".
Interesting article and I do enjoy my one cup of coffee (with Splenda™, brown sugar and milk) per weekday but . . .according to the article:
“Drinking coffee is associated with a drastically reduced risk of type II diabetes” and
“Coffee is associated with a much lower risk of dementia and the neurodegenerative disorders Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.” and
“Coffee consumption has been associated with a lower risk of death in prospective epidemiological studies, especially in type II diabetics.”

Being “associated with” is pretty meaningless; it’s not the same as being statistically correlated with. The article also states “In fact, coffee is the biggest source of antioxidants in the western diet, outranking both fruits and vegetables combined”. I view that more as an indictment against the western diet, not an endorsement of coffee as a source of antioxidants.
A picture of a bunch of kids and a teacher would prove what exactly?
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This provides no useful information whatsoever. I wouldn't be hugely surprised if they wrote code to the ARM MCU (if it has 2GB of RAM to work with), but what does "stub copy of iOS" even mean?

Also. Jimmy Hoffa is buried inside that microcontroller. I won't corroborate this further, but this is the dead-on truth.
> I'm really not sure why you would get tired of this "obsession."

It's annoying when you spot this kind of thing about 6 times a year. FWIW today I also spotted a story about how you shouldn't be using hjkl.
But there's a big difference between demuxing (e.g. DisplayPort to HDMI) and decompressing video.
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Come to think of it, this story isn't about Apple or the Apple Store at all. A better title would be "The Time I Wasn't Mean to Fake Deaf Kids and Felt Great About It".
The bomb! Great game and great execution! Kudos to the Bombermine team.
That's bad styling on my part.

The 'bag' logo goes to the homepage, but the text underneath it ("we're hiring") goes to the careers page.

I realize after reading your comment that it doesn't make sense to send people to our homepage at all, so I'm going to change it so that clicking the bag sends you to the careers page too.

Thanks!
Yeah, somewhat like this craziness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment#Li...
This happens with old-fashioned customer support and technical troubleshooting, too. It seems to be the temporal equivalent of putting scrap metal in electronics to make them seem heavier and thus "more reliable". The more I hear about it, the more I believe it.

I ran into this while doing phone and ticket support back in the day and tried to get my coworkers to join me in an experiment but they refused. We could have learned so much. I wrote about it: http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/07/14/difficulty/
Does Cython give you much better results than PyPy? I would have thought that if just a few type annotations make a big difference tracing in PyPy could figure them out.
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I've been in that situation at a car dealership and the service was pretty poor (AAA pre-negotiates prices with many dealers; if you call in advance you get the car at AAA's price without haggling). Basically, they know you're not going anywhere else, so they don't feel any urgency. It was much less stressful overall, but not because of the service.

Just an FYI. I don't know that the innate economics of Apple are any different.
Nice! Can't wait for a Python/Ruby version.
Not even close. Though what we did was certainly bad enough.
Does anyone have an explanation for this puzzling neglect of the market for "high-end" Mac desktops?
There's a (somewhat controversial) book called IBM and the Holocaust [1], which posits that the scale of the Holocaust was owed to the massive information gathering capabilities of computers.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
>The display clause prohibits advertising your party / movement / whatever in the Supreme Court building. It's a specific exemption intended to avoid influencing the impartiality of the group responsible for making determinations about the Constitution, which strikes me as not such a dumb idea.

Okay, now I get it. It sounds like they may be applying it wrongly here, unless they were deciding a case involving or related to the occupy movement.
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“The theory is that by requiring businesses that move money around on behalf of third parties to get licenses and post large bonds, that this will cut down on fraud. This theory was almost immediately falsified by the discovery that Moneygram, a licensed money transfer agent, had engaged in a massive fraud. And this was not an isolated incident. So the MTA clearly does nothing to prevent fraud.”

X mitigates Y. Y occurred. Thus X does nothing?

Posting bonds isn't to prevent fraud as much as to limit losses from disorderly unwindings. Think of it as the transaction equivalent of capital reserves.

Is the system broken? Yes. It's slow, fragmented, and overly cautious which serves to protect vested interests. But this article does a poor job of highlighting why the law is better dead than alive or modified.

Let's take as an example asset management regulation. Processors above a certain size must file capital adequacy, amongst other, disclosures. Regulators have the power to conduct investigations and, ultimately, suspend a processor's connections to the U.S. banking system. The advantage of a reactionary regulatory approach is speed and flexibility. Payment processors would be expected to fail from time to time, but fail gracefully, in a way that doesn't threaten to shut down the economy's ability to process payments (cash and bank-to-bank transfers are the safety mechanism).
That was bad enough, and it is yet more depressing to know that Hitler got some of his ideas from the US reservation system. Yet to compare the internment of Japanese Americans to the wholesale murder of Jews, Gypsies, and Slavs is a reaching.
I would say that those same people, those that were part of the machine, wouldn't share the same views if they were part of society today.

If anything I think it shows peoples ability to see circumstances as normal (even if they are horribly out of whack with morals from other times) if it appears to be the prevailing wisdom of the group at the time.

I would like to think though that it was pretty much the last possible time that this could happen in history on such a large scale. Today we still have outliers like north korea but in general the world is too connected for the same effect to happen.
I like this, but I feel that a list of all the potential completions instead of snapping to the nearest one would be very useful. Sometimes you remember part of the function you're after but not the enough of it to get the autocomplete to snap to the right thing. It could still snap to the nearest, but seeing a list of potential completions would be nice as well.