skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically Pi is a complex number that has the real number coefficient a = Pi and b = 0 resulting in a complex number of pi + 0j. This is because the set of real numbers is a subset of the set of complex numbers and Pi is an element of the set of real numbers.
Facedoctor Products Dramatically Reduces Redness Caused by Rosacea
The Dilbertization of Yahoo
I would certainly look at it with much interest. Being able to add an address to the list would be fantastic as well since small retailers like us can't combat fraud alone very efficiently.
MLcomp - Compare machine learning algorithms
But the reservoir for HIV infection, the thing that makes clearing HIV particles from the blood insufficient to cure it, is the CD4 T-cell. So just clearing the blood of HIV will not be curative.
Has the counter ever reached ten days? Not yet.

There! All fixed.
In case it's not clear, Caspar.js is a framework/library for PhantomJS
I said books written by women for women, not just ABOUT women. These books examine relations between the two sexes and society in general. If you have primarily 50% of the population writing these books to examine society then yes, it is a fallacy and it is a distortion of reality.

This very much differs from subjects like physics or math or biology, written primarily by men. It doesn't matter who writes these books, they are science based, based on logic and facts.

This differs entirely from gender relation based books, which are based on observations. Again, if you primarily have one sex leading the discussion and writing books about observations (NOT science) then it is a distortion of reality.

As such, you now believe that sexism can only be done by men, and other ignorant statements. The problem is now that you TRULY in your heart believe this, because you were told over and over that all the problems which face you are a result of patriarchy and that women can't possibly be sexist against men! This goes against what has been ingrained in your brain, and you've never had any opposition to this naive idea until now, so it will be difficult for you to accept.

Yes, there are many male feminists which actually believe some of the things which you say, but why wouldn't there be? Feminism is a now long-established and UNCHALLENGED institution. Of course there will be men who will be feminists.

All students should definitely not be required to take any GWS classes. First off the problem is in the name already, Gender and Women's Studies. Already biased. Gender implies that women are a part of that gender. Make it simply Gender Studies or call it Gender and Women's and Men's studies.

Until there is a shift in attitudes and Gender Studies actually moves closer to reality, no one should be required to take such classes. There should be simple encouragement for men, however, to attend these classes to dispel decades of myth and ignorance.
The First Marvel Superhero - The Android Human Torch
This works with legacy vnc servers
Printing Code: Programming and the Visual Arts
Are their rates that high? How much do those hackers earn then?
On the whole, you should get real if you want to be rational.
No problem.

My big problem with the tiered implementation is that it only really works until like 4 tiers deep. After that you have a long column of text. I haven't really found a solution for that except a "View replies" that pushes another view controller with that comment at the top tier. Seems clunky though.
Internet Marketer
We’re looking for someone to help out with a variety of tasks on our site (front-end stuff) and marketing. Essentially, someone to help manage Google Analytics/Adwords, site changes, A/B testing, small mobile site creation, etc. It’s a cross between a programmer, marketer, and designer. Is it you?
Straw man.

As I said, it boils down to guesses about the limits of Sauron's power. Reasonable people can disagree about the best guess. Unreasonable people pretend their guesses are not guesses.

That it is, to some degree, possible to evade Sauron's efforts by means of secrecy was a proven fact, or the Ringbearer would not have been alive to attend Council of Elrond at all.

The guess that someone who can create mountain ranges cannot swat an eagle floating by in plain sight, right in front of his seat of power, is not an obviously correct one.
I've been looking forward to this game for years now. I thought it would never come. And now that it's here I'm totally saddened and appalled that EA would ruin such an incredible legacy for such petty reasons.

There has to be another way to stem piracy without totally obliterating the value of an otherwise excellent game...
Volta, from the demo I used a long time ago, seemed horrendously slow, too. JSIL feels far faster. I guess you gain a bit of performance by making the code higher level so the JS engines can tell if an optimization is safe.

Is JSIL limited to a subset of IL? Can you target C++ (in pure mode) to it? Opcodes like cpblk, and others?
Fix SVG in WebKit browsers
As data is collected over time, I would love to see this plotted on a graph. Mostly for purposes of hilarity.
I started using antigen for my dotfiles (https://github.com/js-coder/dotfiles) a while ago, and it's really awesome. However it does make sourcing `~/.zshrc` pretty slow.
Global warming is epic, long-term study says
Money is always rational.
One of the biggest differences is that if you do:

foreach (var byte in byteArray)

The compiler transforms that into a normal for-loop that accesses the array directly. So that's already an advantage for the array over your enumerator.

The other difference that will have a major performance impact is the way the IEnumerator pattern works, even with generics. For:

foreach (var b in f())

The generated code looks roughly like this:

using (var enumerator = f())
while (enumerator.MoveNext()) {
var byte = enumerator.get_Current();
}

As a result, you've gone from 0 method calls per iteration (direct array access) to 2 virtual method calls per iteration (MoveNext and get_Current). An incredibly smart JIT might be able to figure out that the virtual methods are always the same and turn them into static invocations, or even inline them, but I don't think the CLR can do this for you reliably.
I have no idea what clearing HIV from the blood stream would achieve? I assume it is not a cure, but might help reduce risk of transmission or something?

Edit: Question answered whilst I wrote it! <3
I must admit I don't get the appeal. What is there to learn from it? Seems like a pretty standard scenario (internet lure)?
Do the OOP/Java courses still teach students that Java is "secure"?
How can someone that smart not ask for a verification photo where she is holding today's newspaper, or something like that. The guy is a physicist, can't he think of something like that?
Yeah - I know the guys building it - I definitely like their product and take on the market. It seems like it must be a crowded space, just saw this come up on HN: https://trychec.com
Scientists shed light on how resveratrol works - latimes.com
Revolution in Resale of Digital Books and Music
It is unfortunate. I've also been waiting on this game for years. On the plus side there are some entertaining 5-star reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/SimCity-Limited-Edition-Pc/product-rev...
They could have designed the game like the past SimCity games. Single player mode that give you God mode and multiplayer games that let you play with your friends and enjoy the benefits of multiplayer. What's essentially happened here is that SimCity 5 is a multiplayer only game and there is no real single player game bundled with it.
Wow…just when I thought there was no more hope in MMO, this definitely revived my interest.

I've always been a fan of:
1. Skill based system vs. Level/Class based system.
2. Looting Corpses/Houses
3. Player Housing
4. True/Open PvP

Having said that, I'm not going to come near this game if it's going to offer:
1. Trammel
2. Insurance
3. Closed PvP
4. Class/Level System

I don't mind the dated graphic looks. Look forward to more info.

Hopefully they'll bring some old school principles and mechanics back.
There cannot be a perfect solution; that much was proved by Turing back in the '30s, when he founded a branch of math we now call "Computer Science" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem (and http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem) have the details.

The question is, what is a desirable solution?

It's easy enough to detect while(true){}, but it's impossible to detect longer equivalent pieces of code.

I'd be fine with a "pause/halt running js" button; unfortunately, it's up to the browser to provide. User-provided solutions are essentially guaranteed to cause horrible slowdown.
Yes. Or at least, as recently as 2 years ago at my university, they did.
2 disconnected thoughts:

- if anybody hasn't heard of death sentences for traffickers in Asia, or had the experience in the airport, when you're waiting to clear Customs/Immigration, of seeing the labrador retriever decide that somebody's bags were interesting, you can google those stories.

- my parents are/were academics and I've met a nontrivial number of people who are brilliant in their little corner of math, software, EE, physics but palpably short on the skills needed to not get hit by a car or not burn down their kitchen.
This is a perfect example of why both drugs and prostitution should be legal.
Template for a perfect Google+ cover
2D vs. 2.5D vs. 3D ICs 101
Yes, me too, i wrote to n-drive and they send me a code for one of their partners application, very noble, but of course apple refunds nothing.
De-cluttering is one thing but.. no washer and dryer, no dishes and utensils? Unless he actually doesn't use things he doesn't own, simplifying ownership is just outsourcing your material and service needs to others. How about adding some self-reliance to your simple life?
EA acquired Origin for $35,000,000. If I remember correctly, Garriott only walked with $20,000,000 -- before taxes. I think his lawsuit with NC Soft netted him $32 million -- before taxes as well. 52 million taxed is maybe 30 million out the door (very rough estimate here). His space trip cost 30 million alone, nevermind everything else in his life. I would estimate that Garriott probably has a few million dollars in the bank, none of which he should have to risk on a venture that fans are willing to pay for.
Google admits it infringed MPEG H.264 patents
The world is a big place. Your admission that you have met people smarter than yourself may well put you in a different category.

The people I talk of are the people that seem to honestly think they are the smartest people in the world/their industry. Unless they have occasion to interact with people on the level of Nobel laureates routinely, I suspect their sample may not include 'very smart people' (and I don't mean 'very smart', I mean VERY smart, i.e. I am not saying the people they have met have been dull, just that they may not be in the upper echelons of intelligence).

Also, people's self-ranking of their own traits (especially something that is somewhat ill-defined, like intelligence) is notoriously less than objective.

Just know that for some of the people you have met and consider yourself clearly smarter than, they may have the the opposite view and believe it just as assuredly as you.
Just for reference, Mat Schaffer has had a similar project for about a year, same basic goal: https://github.com/matschaffer/zundle

He also uses it to build a nice default zsh profile here: https://github.com/matschaffer/zsh-matschaffer
While UO was my favorite game of all time, this is not UO. I won't be helping fund this. Garriot does not have a track record anymore. He's had failure after failure post-UO.

He needs to take a step back and look at the successful games that have taken off recently that have roots in UO. My best example is DayZ. You run around with items that if you die fall on your body. Weapons have low relative value like UO. You can trust no one. People love the hell out of this game and it embodies what UO was to a lot of people. Unforgiving and harsh, but so much fun.

I'm disappointed where he's going with this but with what he's made post-UO I'm not surprised. I never expected him to create the next UO.
I'm assuming the EULA says something to the effect of, "you're paying for a license to use the software, not to purchase a copy. You own nothing and we can void your permission at any time".
From my understanding, CloudFlare issued means they use their partner CA to generate you a certificate, while custom means you can source your own certificate and provide it to them.

They've already done as much checking for domain ownership as StartCom do, so they're free to issue you a certificate safely, especially as it will never leave their infrastructure.
Nice work, hey guys are you building your tutorials yourself or there's a way to outsource some of that work? Are there agencies in Bay Area who specialize in that?
>'What's ambiguous about "disempowering"?'

>disempowering present participle of dis·em·pow·er. Verb. Make (a person or group) less powerful or confident.

Do you honestly think that there are less woman in congress because Dinosaur Planet was never released? In today world political power is the most important kind of power, that's why saying "disempowering women" is extremly ambiguos.

> But objectification means "denial of autonomy, inertness."

That's clearly NOT what it means in the mind of most people.
In most people's mind it means "To become/transform into an object", no more no less; even the formal definition I found (different from yours) implies this: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/objectification

>Where does the presenter say that games where women are not the main focus are necessarily sexist?

Quote: "Is not about women at all!"... are you trying to tell me she is not suggesting that is about men? A honest non-biased person would add that men are also NOT the main focus; the relevance of the genders is not given by the players but by outsiders interested in judging those and accommodating those judgement inside their agendas.

> The goal of this video was to examine the 'damsel in distress' trope

False, as you can see in one of my arguments you didn't respond she makes unrelated proverbial quotations and commentary victimizing women for the lack of their presence in video-games.

All the claims are extremly biased; Dinosaur Planet was transformed to a StarFox game because it makes so much business sense but unsurprisingly she didn't mention this _extremely_ obvious fact.
How does this handle the majority of users who use webmail clients?
I would have to agree with the later approach as well. I have some limited experience hiring and I would say that I've learned some valuable lessons. One is that the "other dimensions" you list, which I assume are things like ability to work in a team, humility, dedication, work ethic, etc., are far more important than "smarts". To go along with that, having a ton of "smarts" does not compensate for a lack of the other dimensions. I'd say it can in some cases even go the other route and make things worse as a "smart" but non-team player is capable of doing more damage than a less intelligent non-team player.
Why you keep suggesting I'm talking about me?... are you just trolling?
It's been invented before. But it will never take b/c road construction companies do not want anything eating into their reoccurring revenue stream. Why do you think our roads are getting worse and worse?
InSight app uses Google Glass to identify people by their clothes
Con artist: The true story of a master forger
Yes, but since half the people who contact us have no smtp server, that doesn't work out too well.
Love your site design - great use of whitespace and big, bold images! It would be nice to see a sample of a cart/page before signing up so you know what your "shop" will look like..
Really preferred the original title on this Hacker News story. More people know what Ultima is, and the creator launching a new project means something to far more people than his specific nick or the new projects name. The submitter's title was much better.
Name? Job?
It works seamlessly with your Google Account. I gave it a try and it works very well. I couldn't even tell if I was on my Ubuntu box or Chromebook.
In what ways is this different to Gumroad [1]?

[1] http://gumroad.com
that seems like a big disadvantage, considering how often it is sourced in a working day
That's what EA does best: ruin games. (Yeah, I know there are exceptions).
Thanks - all built in-house! It's something that is definitely worth spending time on getting right, it has made a huge difference to our conversions.
You misunderstand, many people assume when looking at rare events you need to consider the direct odds but forget about the false positive rate. Which is really more the preview of drug trials than design schools.
Early Re-Payment of Tesla’s ATVM Loan
There's some aspect of his personal finances that's been glossed over here... it's pretty clear that despite decades of income he didn't have much in the way of assets to use to pay for his defense. (One would think you'd sell anything you own if it means avoiding a prolonged stay in a South American jail.) Maybe it was the divorce, or something else, but he doesn't seem to have a great financial situation.
It was Ultima III that first made me realize that all data lived on the disk and that I could alter all of it. And I did. Maybe I'm weird but it's fun to read the assembly for Ultima 3.

I was stuck in the Apple world so I stopped playing after U5. I bought the Ultima-giftpack on GOG.com before Christmas, but still have only had the time to work through the first 3. I'm savoring them, still.
Nice Laundry uses e-commerce to improve male-sock drawer relationship
GPU Password Cracking on Amazon EC2
true. however if (coders ran the world); we would
Yep, that's usually how I start my render() method (using triple-quote strings). Then I wrap it in jquery and do dom manipulation on it.
Brad Feld declares Waterloo startup community 'awesome'
It might be able to arrest an infection's internal spread to other tissues and cells, but the virus would still live in existing infected cells. They'd have to find the therapeutic levels necessary to "cleanse the blood", and do clinical trials to look for side-effects (since they'll've introduced a solution of foreign bodies into the bloodstream). It might be that the levels to cleanse the blood are too high in most cases to be economically or therapeutically viable; or maybe not.

In any case, the approach is pretty neat.
"As far as I can tell, he planned to steal the cocaine from Bolivians, fly to Europe with it, and then share the proceeds of selling the cocaine with his new bikini-model Czech wife."

No way it can fail -- it's science!
Seems to me that given the pattern of known surveillance, Skype users in other countries ought to be informed, via pop-up at call start, that the contents of their conversation are being monitored by the Chinese government.
How do you dissociate the contributions of knowledge, motivation, and experience from intelligence?
Paypal responds to Stripe, by cloning Stripe's website CSS by CSS.
Reminds me of the problems with Cowboy Coders. Many people would agree with your second approach.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CowboyCoder
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CowboyCoding
Punk Rock is Bullshit
Can someone explain what exactly happened with SimCity? From the article I gather that it had something to do with DRM but the author never explained what exactly made it unplayable.
Delight Your Users with Subtle, Beautiful Animations
Never catch up isn't really true, it depends on the game. I prefer perma-death games, and often you see a situation where you will reach max levels in the game in one month or less if you work really hard or have expert assistance. Of course item collecting might take a year if your guild doesn't equip you, and skill building might take a life time. Wow had to do what they do to build a never ending money sapping treadmill, but it isn't the only way.
Fermat's Little Theorem, a video tutorial
Android: Problems with Updates?
This looks like it's a step further than NK's usual bluster.

I know NK could do a terrible amount of damage at short notice if they chose to, but at the probable cost of their country in the end -- I hope their leadership sees things that way too, and acts to avoid war.
How much to support CoffeeScript?
It matters everywhere.
Like most collectivists, you fail to recognize that the power to lead collective action is almost uniformly commandeered by special interests, with the supposed collective benefits corrupted to benefit only those with the power to make decisions "for the rest of us".

What works in the real world is free agents doing business with each other on fair terms, with transparency, oversight, and no fingers on the scale.

On2 developed a competitive codec, taking pains to avoid MPEG patents. Google acquired that technology. In a fair market, VPx and H264 could battle it out and the best value proposition would win. Even if H264 is marginally better from a technical perspective in some cases, VPx has the advantage of being free of licensing restrictions and royalties.

But instead of letting this play out fairly in a free market, the MPEG dudes decided to play rough. They used their antitrust get-out-of-jail card for the exact opposite reason it exists -- to attempt to intimidate the market with FUD, and squash potential competition before it gained a foothold.

Unfortunately for them, in the new order Google just has more money, lawyers, and smarts than the old guard, so they won the battle. But this is not the way things should have to go -- the market should be free and open. State-sponsored "standards" simply stifle innovation and provide lock-in for the power players lucky enough to have a place at the table early on.
Surely those tie-ins could have been written to degrade gracefully when the servers are unavailable, rather than just refusing to run the entire game.
Gumroad's a platform for people who want to sell digital things they create and has a 5% fee.

We're a platform for long tail merchants. So for example - you'd sell the psd your not going to use in your app on gumroad, but you'd sell the final app through chec. - if that helps. - we also only charge 3.5% and can do a lot more with downloads + handle physical products.

We position ourselves between Gumroad & Shopify (if they did payments).

on a side note - me and sahil know each other well. Back in april 2011 when Chec was called Kout I actually reached out to him to join Kout after he launch groad on hackernews. He said "you've already built the software why do you need me" but we've kept in touch and occasionally get coffee and discuss the space.

Link based selling has been around for years. 2checkout, 1shoppingcart, paypal, ejunkie, quixly etc have been at it for a while. I came up with the idea for Chec after i ended up throwing a PayPal checkout in an iframe for a info product i was selling.

P.S - if anybody is wondering about the 2 year gap between launching - that story will come to light shortly.
WTF? The Falklands has nothing to do with anything.
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Due to popular request, I've added a link to the full pdf near the bottom of the page.
Not every piece of writing is an instruction manual.
Buncha articles on Duesberg's bullcrap science.

http://www.sciencemag.org/site/feature/data/cohen/cohen.xhtm...
Well, the problem is that he doesn't have any type of structured sales path in the page. Its all cobbled up together. To sell something you have to make sure the path to purchase is clear. You also need to get people on that path right from the start. I'd say that giving away the stuff for free right on the page where you want to sell it is just a bad idea. You are conditioning people to not pay for your valuabe product.
I should have pointed out what I understand as "personal" belongings. I can see how this is not very clear in the article. Great feedback.

Great point on self-reliance.