skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Europe's just as full of uneducated people as the rest of the world. But on top of them, we have tons of pseudo-educated pseudo-intellectual smart asses that make smarty "educated people" jokes that equate knowledge of how things from chemistry or physics are called with real scientific knowledge of those things and spread fud like "science is about facts" or "physics is about memorizing equations".

What I love about the US is that there seemed to be very few "pseudo-educated" people or "pseudo-intellectuals", just tons of uneducated people and few smart and educated ones, but without this annoying "middle layer" that seems to suffocate most European countries I know.

...all that said, I still can't stop enjoying the "are you American or something" jokes :) (http://i.imgur.com/OQYYA.jpg)
As a practical matter in the US, if it's not a criminal matter, it's the entity/individual bringing suit against a defendant, and additionally the court who must ensure that the plaintiff has standing to bring suit.

Crockford in this particular case seems like the most likely plaintiff, but I don't know if there would be other parties who would also have standing or not (also, i'm not a lawyer, so take this as you will).
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"...encountering code like this is a nightmare."

Well... "Code like this" and "micro-optimization" are basically what powers the 900 000 Linux / Android smartphones sold daily and 1000+ cores CPUs running Linux.

The very reason why such an OS is so fast on such a wide range of devices is because there are kernel developers who value micro-optimization and who constantly revisit their program, trying to lower the number of cache misses and trying to reduce contention.

As Linus Torvalds recently --and a bit provocatively-- said: "I don't do web development... Because I like programming".

We're living in the comfort of our unit tests and frameworks and whatnots and can afford to be on our good practices high-horses... But we should never forget that meanwhile there are people out there bringing us the best of the best because, precisely, they're doing everything we see as "wrong".
struct header __atribute__((packed)) {
unsigned int highnibble : 4;
unsigned int flag_foo : 1;
unsigned int flag_bar : 1;
unsigned int flag_baz : 1;
unsigned int flag_qux : 1;
}

if (((header)value).flag_bar) {
What's cigarettes for us, is alcohol and firearms in the USA, especially the firearms part, given the near-anarchist position in the USA, and the abolishment position prevalent in most of Europe.
I did some similar experiments myself a long time ago. Something mildly surprising for me at that time was that this got optimized to a single roll instruction:

uint32_t roll(uint32_t const x) {
return (x << 15) | (x >> 17);
}

I haven't managed to make GCC generate a non-constant roll (i.e. (x << c) | (x >> (32-c)) ), probably because it couldn't infer that c is in the [0,31] range.
And initiate the Streisand effect; I'm now digging around to find the article to read what sensitive information is hidden from me.
It's slow in the middle, cause I think you are just changing the direction, by maxing it out.
I don't spend a lot of time looking at complier outputs, but the optimization is quite obvious in the first case. I don't have a clue how it would optimize it out in the second case though...
The Sed FAQ
This was either planned or well handled by the radio station, announce a suspension to generate news and traffic to their website, get people talking about it on facebook, and the DJs were back on the air on Wednesday.
It's almost more of a prank on news outlets which will repeat any non-story.
I would be surprised if the joke did not work as well in e.g. France.

The only thing specific to the US compared to Europe is the influence of hard core christian on things like evolution. But for every other usual pseudo science crakery like astrology, magnetism, etc... there is little difference (see e.g. http://www.pseudo-sciences.org/spip.php?article1132 where a majority of French and American believe you can heal people with the power of thought....)
Adding it to the GPL would be pretty ironic.
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I think LeafStorm meant to put some constants in the divide call.
> What's cigarettes for us, is alcohol and firearms in the USA, especially the firearms part

Since we're on topic of science and ignorance, no it's not.

>> Using cross-sectional time-series data for U.S. counties from 1977 to 1992, we find that allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes and it appears to produce no increase in accidental deaths.[1]

This whole thread denouncing ignorance is full of depressingly ignorant opinions.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=10129
I believe the second case is quite obvious too, with function inlining (assuming that GP post just forgot to define a and b as constants.)
Have a look at the Zenbook UX32VD, http://zenbook.asus.com/zenbook/?c=prime_ux32

It's full HD 1080p IPS screen, switchable intel HD/ nvidia graphics, expandable RAM and HD. I've had one since November and find the keyboard and build quality to be excellent.

Since I bought it I've upgraded the HD to a SSD and add a additional 8gb for ram to bring it up to 10gb total.

Linux compatibility seems good
http://www.linlap.com/asus_ux32vd
https://github.com/joeldalley/Soma

I just spent a couple weekends putting that together. It's just a little toy, but it does exactly what I want, the way that I want it to.

I have to say I really enjoyed writing it. Specifically, writing it in Perl.

Writing Perl never feels like work to me. Can't say why, exactly. But I do know if I'd used PHP or Python instead, the pleasure of writing this app (as opposed to anticipating its completion) wouldn't have been there--I would have just persevered through it, in order to reach the final result. Totally different experience.
I suspect that future generations will be disgusted by the fact that we find it okay to shoot conscious beings for amusement. Am generalising of course.
I'm very happy with my Samsung Series 9.

Different marketing people mean different things by "full HD", so I'm not sure if it meets your specs, but 1600×900 is decent enough for me on that size; and it really, really is a gorgeous display.

Battery-wise, when I was travelling and had wifi/bluetooth off, low screen backlight, etc, it was pushing 9 hours.
Have you seen Punch-Drunk Love? The thing about that movie is that it takes Sandler's film personality, but abstracts it out from the context of blatant comedy and inserts it into a low-key tragedy, with the skill & taste of an auteur writer/director (Paul Thomas Anderson).

It's quite wonderful, and now I'm thinking about what the equivalent for Halo would be. Maybe a game that brings out the tragic aspects of war -- not just as shocking gore, but as sadness and horror. Maybe a game about a Halo warrior's post-war life, a civil Sim-type game interrupted by disturbing scenes of post-traumatic hallucination & paranoia. Or a game that starts out as a shooter and becomes impossibly difficult, until the player's inevitable death, after which the real game begins, taking place in a Tibetan Buddhism-inspired series of post-death liminal states of terrifying scenes of his past sins.
Your Idea Is Worth Nothing
That's a code snippet where extra parenthesis might help. The first several times I read it as:

((width * bytes_per_pixel)+(3&~3))

and thought "what's the point?"

I don't know why bitwise ops are so low precedence. They've always felt more like multiplication to me.
I'm with you, but given that no one does this yet, if I am going to be paying $3-$6 to watch something, I'd rather do it on my Apple TV.
Yes.

The UK is going through measles outbreaks caused by the lies of Andrew Wakefield and an anti-science bias in the media.

(http://tallguywrites.livejournal.com/148012.html)
Dell just released their native-linux-running XPS:

http://www.dell.com/Learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt...

1080p screen and you can assume the hardware works with linux.
why you had no interest in talking to them about an acquisition, when none was specifically mentioned by them in the first place

But that's the whole point of the article: it's pattern recognition, and I'm using anecdotes to support that. I also wrote a book where I talked to many founders who shared similar stories. Since this article came out, I've received a handful of e-mails from founders of companies that were acquired, all with similar experiences.

it's hard to not see it as something of an "F U" to someone who had sold their company to IAC

The original question still seems unanswered. By writing two essays where I warn founders of a pattern in one and I directly address line-by-line my own response to Brian in another, you still feel both are the equivalent to flipping off Brian from OkCupid Labs? That doesn't make sense to me.

As a founder, I'd want to know if other people experience these things. Has it happened to you before where you've noticed a pattern of competitors wanting to talk, but for reasons other than acqui-hiring you?
I wrote a command line tool to create these images a while ago: https://github.com/trishume/doubleVision
In Hong Kong and mainland china whatsapp is pretty ubiquous,its shown on adverts and business cards as a contact method. Some mobile carriers make whatsapp data traffic free on most plans.

Also the big reason in mainland china is that Facebook is blocked there :)
Or, maybe, the HN algorithm should take into account time zones in some way.
What you are saying is that the problem is that people assume that radio shows fact-check their claims and don't actively try to deceive their audience.
They made some poor decisions in the user interface this time that make things more difficult or impossible for average users. Hidden menus, hidden options... I know they can't copy iphone/android's user interface elements because of patents, though. Plus everything is so slow - launching apps, loading web pages, etc. Things that hinder both average and power users include having two desktops, two control panels, two versions of most apps (the metro one usually being very crippled), and having no start button in the windows 7-like desktop anymore. Add onto all that the lack of apps, the un-user-friendly behavior, like shutting down without asking, including while I was trying to record a meeting in onenote - the expensive desktop version, not the free metro version, which doesn't include the ability to add audio anymore. Luckily I was also recording it on my android phone - had no problem, shared the audio file to dropbox and emailed the link to others. Can't do any of that in Windows 8, at least no where near as easily anymore.
Hmmm... can't find anything else on that apart from the mention in that blog post. Is there more detail anywhere?

They also implicitly state that it's not Shor's which is (to the best of my knowledge) the most effective integer factorisation algorithm for general purpose QCs currently know.

They also say that they "have a factoring algorithm". They don't say that it's actually implemented on running hardware.

I also notice the complete lack of clarification on the followup question that poked on the explicit "executed it on real hardware" question ;-)
Race doesn't necessarily mean ethnicity.
Chromebook Pixel. It's all about the display.
I'd love to get into Open Source (right now I'm trying to figure out how to properly use Git).

My biggest issue right now is when do I work on it? Is it just in my spare time? Are people able to work on Linux in their spare time?

I'm not really sure how it all works to be honest. And if I commit/push an update, how does it eventually end up in Firefox?
Is shooting an animal really any worse than what happens inside a slaughter house? The videos I've seen seem to indicate that it isn't.
The question that this comes down to is a question of one's world-view and philosophy of responsibility, guilt, and concept of sin. It says something about how you conceive of those things if you trace responsibility from "meaningful contribution to a NoSQL storage engine" to "code was executed by a system used by people to seek terrorists and justify an eventual drone strike".

Due to relativism, I can't tell you whether your view is intrinsically right or wrong in a manner that all people are guaranteed to respect, but I can tell you: I would be upset if you used that logic to find fault with someone else who wrote NoSQL database engines, and blamed them for killing people (terrorists or no). I think it would be horribly unfair and modestly ridiculous - and if you agree with that when it applies to other people, consider whether you are, in fact, giving yourself a fair shake here.
Very easy question to answer. The answer is "no". There was no ill intent, no expectation of misuse, no "mens rea" ("guilty mind"). The intended and expected market is very large and overwhelmingly upstanding. The good done far outweighs the freakish non-sequitur bad. You don't not do something just because, with a twisted line of reasoning, someone can conceive of 1 in orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude chance it might be abused.

Someone driving a car into a crowd does not make it Ford's fault. Society does not ban cars just because 50,000 people a year are killed by them.
Target enjoys solving crimes. They have their own forensic lab in Minnesota.
Enjoy your hamburger.
Unreadable on iPhone. When you zoom in the text becomes blurry.
don't want to kick someone when their obviously down. But, are you losing $$ because of pypy's lack of support for python 3? Or is this a case of wanting to be "one of the cool kids" using the latest stuff?

I only ask because I have yet to get an answer as to how the lack of python 3 support for <my pet framework/tech> is hurting anyone at this moment.

FTR, I'm anticipating the gil-less implementation to see how that performs more so than language syntax updates. But I'm happily getting work done with python 2.7.3 in the meantime.
23. My foray into coding started by playing with game's level editors (such as Tomb Raider, Elder Scrolls and Warcraft 3). There was a lot of visual abstraction, but you could go deeper down if you wanted to. Then onto Game Maker. It was actually cool to see all my 'code' going from visual blocks in it, to just using the built-in script (over a series of games). Learned a lot from it!
D-wave's device has been used to solve exactly zero problems faster than a classical computer. Whether the current prototype even harnesses an actual quantum speed-up hasn't been shown.
No NVIDIA or ATI card? How is the graphics performance?
I am surprised at number 3, I would have thought that it would be optimised to x << 1, rather than the addition?

Edit: No. 5 explains why.
An introduction to smoothing time series in python. Part I: filtering theory
The best would be to ask them what would make them happy at new job, which conditions, etc. Then be honest, and offer them what you can.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Introduction#Step_5... should address the last question.
"As an European, all I can say is [...]".
Not "As I officially represent all Europeans and their opinions on this topic [...]".
You're confusing military purposes with "have the power to kill/hurt people".

Any desktop fits #2 if I open it up, open up the power supply, and lick the output of the mains rectifier in the switching power supply. Or consider a laptop/tablet having an uncontrolled thermal battery reaction (aka bursts into flames) on an airplane over the middle of an ocean.

Somewhat more directly, my dentist can't use a "sorta-open-source" calendaring app because people have died in dental offices from allergic reactions to injected dental antibiotics/anesthetics. Its kinda rare, but has been recorded to happen.

Simply naming or defining organizations is not as simple as it appears. Your freedom fighter group is someone else's terrorist is someone elses pacifist organization.

You need a cop-out for intention and rarity. By the time you add enough cop-outs that anyone can actually use it, you've almost certain cop-out enough that the .mil can also use it.
Oh stop being so high and mighty. Chemophobia! Really?

H2O is probably the most widely known chemical formula - go out and ask twenty random people what it is and you will get 19 answers for water.

Ask those same 19 people what dihydrogen monoxide is at 8am on a Tuesday when they are trying to get kids dressed and out the door, then say "contaminated" and the answer will be "I don't know but it sounds nasty"

Yes it's true - half of the population is below average intelligence, but amazingly they still seem to hold down jobs, pay mortgages, drive complex journeys and raise children. And when a public policy issue crops up - don't play silly in jokes but use plain English (like water) and explain - the IPCC has succeeded there.

OpEd politics is like programmin puzzles - it appeals to people who like puzzles. If you don't get a kick out of puzzles you won't concentrate on them. And the latest political oped piece, education or science understanding will just seem to most people as vital to existence as fix buzz. But no one here has a convincing explanation or solution to say US education policy - and neither will the people who did not recognise dihydrogen monoxide - but I will bet dollars to doughnuts they can all tell the difference between a good and bad teacher and want their children to go to the school of the former.

A comment recently mentioned how poor the voter turnout was - but given a introspective and mostly deadlocked congress, apathy is a rational response. Even those below average intelligence can work that one out. Those who refuse apathy are above average I other ways, emotionally, optimistically and more.
Clojure puts the emphasis on functional programming and the context should hardly ever be "global".

So I don't think it would make much sense: the context is the sexp you're currently in (recursively of course) and that's it. Sure it may help a bit if you're inside, say, a let and have a "long" function: so you'd be on a "var" (they're not vars but bear with me) and that same var would be highlighted inside the let. Why not but... You do know anyway that it cannot come from anywhere else because you shouldn't be using globals in the first place.

I do certainly try to only write referentially transparent Clojure function so this kind of coloring really wouldn't help me a lot.

Now of course there is an Emacs minor-mode which does modify the background of each sexp recursively inside your function should you like such a thing. (I'm personally fine with indentation and rainbow parentheses but YMMV)
Born in 1992, I felt this way as well. I literally spent months playing Crash Bandicoot when I was 9-13 years old.

When I finally got a computer, I realized I don't like the aesthetic of the newer games at all, and so got into programming without ever finishing a single game on the computer.
Well, I meant the software engineer job market...

I don't think mechanical engineers get any perks anyway.
Also consider the UX32A [edit: I meant UX31A], which doesn't have switchable graphics (which don't work well under Linux anyway), has an SSD instead of an HDD (good), doesn't have upgradable RAM (bad), and is cheaper. Same screen on both.
Halo and Wolf3D have about the same amounts of 'whimsy' to my recollection.
It's more expensive and with lower res, unfortunately
Actually, the big issue here is that the radio station took disciplinary action against the DJs, instead of standing behind them. Usually the type of DJs that would do Apr 1 pranks are on the edgy side, and are hired for their edginess. So they were just doing their job. If I were in this station's listening area, I would be on the phone with their advertisers to let them know in no small way that I dis-approve of the action the station took.
DJ got publicity, Ars got page views, and we get an opportunity to demonstrate basic chemistry competency. Everyone wins.
Ha, I've had the exact same feelings about Austin -- I've lived and worked here all my life, and have been thinking about moving to the bay area for some time now.

Austin's great. I just want to experience what it's like living in someplace different.
1600x900 is my old (current) ThinkPad T410. And it's 3 years old. I don't want to be stuck at this resolution for 3 more years. Especially having seen the Pixel...
This concerned IBM, so Crockford sent them a document saying : "I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138866
As always there's balance to be had: done right it gives a sense of urgency and involvement in what would otherwise be another "lean back and watch things happen" cutscene, whereas done wrong it annoyingly interrupts the flow at best. Personal experience: God of War QTEs feel entirely disconnected and over the top, whereas (Square's) Tomb Raider QTEs help in breaking the fourth wall and draws me into the scene.
Yes, the comparable macbook is much more expensive :( (and not so tiny though)
interesting.. will profit!
Eh, there's a history behind the franchise. It's not like Irrational started out with a story and turned it into an FPS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Shock_2
Of course, and there is quite a lot of good science coming out of Europe. I really should ignore blowhards.
Your marketing materials clearly use phrases like "forget about servers", "easily scale to millions of users", "scale effortlessly" and so forth. You're making it very easy to misunderstand you.
What if it changed based on cursor position?
I'm considering getting the Pixel and running Linux on it, but am extremely annoyed by the lack of upgradable storage.

The $250 Samsung ARM Chromebook has USB3 (~100MB/s) and a fast (~50MB/s) SD card controller. The $1300 Pixel only has USB2 and a slow (USB2) SD card controller and no real PCIe slots, which means that you can never get more than ~17MB/s when trying to increase the tiny internal storage.
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Broadcast radio is basically a consolidated hollowed out shell of its former self. Outside of public and college radio there is nothing interesting happening there at all.
Also, improving advertising isn't generally seen as having the highest positive impact on society, whereas a professor might contribute to a cure for cancer.
The missing half decade behind one of the Appstore's first millionaires
Does it matter that what you’ve achieved, with your online special and your tour can’t be replicated by other performers who don’t have the visibility or fan base that you do?

Nice, an unbiased interviewer. These are the best.
Yes; highlight BG lighter grey. This would be an awesome plugin for ST.
Yes, while watching the video I realized that I had never seen (noticed?) that much of the TF2 sky. It really becomes apparent with those goggles on.
I was once at a guest lecture by Bjarne Stroustrup (creator of C++ for those who don’t know), and during Q&A, someone in the audience asked him how he felt about the fact that his work was used to kill people.

(The rationale behind the question was based on fighter jets, to some extent, using software written in C++.)

The question was not tongue in cheek. Everyone in the auditorium laughed, though.
Working Yourself to Death
Not sure. I haven't seen one in the flesh, but I've heard good things about it. Nothing first, or even second hand though.

Personally, I wouldn't buy an ultrabook for the graphics performance, cooling is just too problematic to do anything overly shiny in my view, but I can't imagine you'd have issues running a shiny window manager or decoding 1080p video, which is the two most graphics intensive tasks I do.
What percentage of people recognize first glance off the bat what hydrogen monoxide is? Europeans versus Americans?

Instead of proclaiming Americans are a bunch of uneducated idiot, maybe one should find out the base rate for knowing basic chemistry fact like dihydrogen monoxide.