skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO conversions between weight, volume and dimensions are very useful for the average person, too. At least when the average person cooks food, builds something, etc. Though obviously this one-to-one conversion of weight/volume only works so great if you're dealing with water or other substances with a a similar density. But even so, also knowing that granite has density that is 2.7 times that of water helps e.g. in estimating how much a rock weighs.

I'm in a country that is as metric as it can get, and I'm still infuriated enough about package sizes that are sometimes multiples of imperial units, even if expressed in metric units.

"Mix 210 g of couscous to 2.4 dl of boiling water". Absurd. Well, recently they changed it to a more usable "Mix 2 dl of couscous to 2.5 dl of boiling water." That is a lot better. I usually don't want to use a kitchen scale and want to get away with a measuring cup.
Except it is clearly distinguishable. I am not sure what Arthur C. Clarke was smoking when he allegedly said that.

1. Corporations cannot levy taxes on citizens.
2. Corporations are not democracies (whereas, most
modern governments are). Only the board of directors has a vote.
3. Corporations often generate profits. Governments are
not very good at this.
4. Corporations (in most cases) cannot use force
against a private citizen (unless they are on the
corporations property, for the US)
5. Corporations pay taxes. Governments collect taxes.

...

I could name more differences, but I'm done.

Most governmental entities are indeed "municipal corporations" but there is a serious dissonance between the typical for-profit corporation and government entity. The police, public works, or fire department, for example, are municipal corporations. However, these are not governments. They are just parts of the government.
I'm on T-Mobile in the UK. This is a T-Mobile mobile broadband dongle.

They do give you the option to get the original image. They do this sub-optimally by injecting javascript into every page I visit. They hijack the alt-text, replacing it with a message that says something like "Shift R improves the quality of this image, Shift A improves the quality of all images on this page".

The IP address they use for the caching / mangling proxy is 1.2.3.X (where X tends to be 9 or 11) - I'm not making that up, they actually use 1.2.3.9 which is a bad idea.
I wonder if the US will ever move to international paper sizes? I would have thought this would actually be an advantage to (American) product manufacturers making printers and photocopiers. Would it not simplify product offerings if A4 was used instead of US Letter? Plus you get the advantage that A4 scales up perfectly to A3 and scales down perfectly to A5.
Megacorps tend to be efficient and concerned about their image, hence they'll avoid environmentally damaging actions that many small businesses take.
I always spun, and I'd say he spun around 50% of the time. We took around 10 turns, too.
Nice idea, I also find that it would be quite useful to be able to follow accounts, I mean when you see a comment about something interesting be able to follow that person posts and comments.
I have featured this awesome jQuery plugin by @alanking in http://jquer.in
https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG

:)
The one very good thing about Celsius scale is conversion of energy amount of heating up water to calories. Those as such are still not so useful but the conversion to J is still something you can do roughly in your head. (Of course, conversions between °C and °F are simple for anyone who started their learning of C from K&R).
The most useful one in metric is the width of the open hand, from thumb tip to pinkie tip is about 20cm. It is surprisingly constant from person to person.
I measure everything on the order of a meter with that, whether a piece of furniture will fit through a door, the size of rug I need, etc...
I'm sure there are more "body measures" like this but this is the most useful to me.
The level of skill required to build a building upright and straight and the floors flat is even more mind boggling to me - and those that goes like 100+ floors? Can't…comprehend…
The article (not the comment linked to, which was quite informative) also has this:

> Anyone that’s ever manually compiled a Linux kernel knows this. You can’t strip ext3 support from the kernel after it’s already built any more than you can add Reiser4 support to the kernel without re-building it.

Even 5 years go (and at least 10 years ago) you could remove ext3 and add add another filesystem without rebuilding the kernel. I know Red Hat at least included a helpful Makefile for precisely this purpose.

Rebuilding entire kernels in order to compile a single kernel module is a well known habit of early Linux uses, following advice from pre 2.x kernel days when loadable modules didn't exist that seems to have stuck around in the collective mind of the Internet.
Looks like a hybrid of Python and Markdown. And I think such thing deserves to exist!
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If I understand correctly, the determining factor is not the time spent on 'new' page but the number of upvotes. During less busy hours submissions spend more time on the 'new' page but are seen by less people per unit of time and therefore get less upvotes per unit of time.
The time itself means nothing. It's about ratio of time on new page to upvotes per unit of time which might be higher during busy hours. That means that it's not impossible that the correlation between time spent on new page and probability of getting to main page is negative.
I do that. But I am not very regular. I should change that.
Manuka has good characteristics and is a reasonable antibacterial. It seems to be possible to fake Manuka content with Eucalyptus, which is a shame however.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mānuka_honey
Yes, where() doesn't handle that case, but it makes its interface more smooth for more common case of string keys.

That was a deliberate choice.
It seems to me that sometimes HN freezes in some posts for days, and they are not specially upvoted compared with other posts that go down, It seems to happen more on weekends.
Has anybody noticed this?
To be fair, given that this only shows unregistered edits, the proportion of malevolent edits seems... unsurprising?
C++ is the 1980's Lancer with the same frame and same engine and the rest kept up to date with the latest performance tech. Fortunately for it, all the high performance cars which have been built since then can't reuse the same parts which are currently dominating the market.
Not easily recognizable if it's about D1 or D2.
JQuery HighchartsTable: &lt;table&gt; to Highcharts graph.
You are making a lot of sense. Especially "writing difficult programs" out of your system". I am going to attempt this. Thank you.
There's no enforced contract for a particular type, but a way to create entirely new values that have no relation to any existing value. I.e. you compare a value to MyEnum.SpecialUndefined and are sure that no None or 0 will yield True. OTOH, if someone would be determined to create a thing with the same conceptual sense as SpecialUndefined, he could explicitly define that it is Equal to MyEnum.SpecialUndefined.
If I remember correctly, an article needs to get some number of upvotes to make it to the RSS feed. For those who don't have the time to read every single article on HN, this is a useful filter.
I love articles like this, I would like something like this but more concise and indexed, does anyone know of anything like that?

There are so many things I do that are described in this article and I class myself as a seasoned CSS developer.

Every project I do I try to improve my layout and modularisation of my code. The one thing I find really difficult is naming, I always fall short on naming my elements.

I like to group stuff too so I know where it is but grouping is sometimes difficult, do I group buttons with buttons or inside the associated container it is in?

I've just done my second full responsive site and have learnt a lot about reusing code in this one due to the nature of responsive sites so on the next one I really want to come up with a routine.
Very helpful. Thanks for the information.
An inch is more or less the width of a thumb, not the length. It always surprises me how few people know that (is there a conspiracy in the USA, where parents teach their children about the inch at exactly the time their thumb is an inch long? When do they learn about the foot, then?)

That should be obvious from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_weights_and_measu..., which states "The Roman foot was sub-divided either like the Greek pous into 16 digiti or fingers; or into 12 unciae or inches". So, Romans thought a thumb to be longer than a finger by 4:3.

I think it also makes sense when looking at the way one would measure stuff. How would you go about measuring something in thumb lengths with some accuracy? With widths, you can grab it between thumb and need finger of one hand, place thumb and index finger of the other hand next to it, move first pair to the other side, etc.
> “Soma”

It's weird to me that the original blog post put Soma's name in "scare quotes." Soma is the Corporate VP of Developer Division at Microsoft, which means he's in charge of—among other things—Visual Studio, .NET Framework, ASP.NET, the now-dead Expression Studio, and I'm sure a few other things.

He goes by Soma because his full name is Sivaramakichenane Somasegar (really, I looked it up in Headtrax once and remember it, for whatever reason, seven years later). And, let's be honest, that is really hard to spell.
Perhaps there needs be a some sort of inforgraphics based reporting system that will enable one to perform social communicating with slices of people that do also buy said product - to form groups that can tag together to form a pseudo political force with a specific task in mind. Kinda like what corporations were meant to do when they were drafted into law (in US).

It can be used to build political counterweight to large corporations that want to flout law and regulatory guidances by way of subsidizing interests in the body of the government that performs such duties.

As per every endeavour the devil is in the details like page rank, colors used for graphs and general consumability of said service.
Don't say "a functional language" when you mean Strongly Typed languages with a specific type system. I.e. not Clojure or Scheme.
The teardown iFixit link, hidden in the last paragraph:

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Ouya+Teardown/14224/1
It's D2.
I was just reading a bit of the book and stumbled upon this.

http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/hello_world.html

"Do not install a D1 compiler. This book covers only D version two."
Never mind the paper sizes, the really crazy US measurement is the paper density:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_density

tl;dr - most of the world uses grammage (g/m^2, ISO 536). The US uses pounds in a ream of paper in its uncut basis size. The basis size varies with the type of paper, and so does the ream size. It's a measurement that can only make sense to people who never take paper out of the box.
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Because Congress and Ronald Reagan: http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/laws/usmb.html#disbandin...

“The efforts of the Metric Board were largely
ignored by the American public, and, in 1981,
the Board reported to Congress that it lacked
the clear Congressional mandate necessary to
bring about national conversion. Due to this
apparent ineffectiveness, and in an effort
[by President Reagan] to reduce Federal
spending, the Metric Board was dis-
established in the fall of 1982.”
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While that looks bad, it's only really bad if they don't validate it against Klout in some way afterwards.

Or if they actually care. After all the point of this "reward" is to advertise AA and their lounges. As long as the abuse isn't massive, it shouldn't matter much to them.

I deal with quite a few voucher programs at work, and a lot of the time validating that the requirements are met is not ever on the agenda, as people who "beat" the system also bring in more potential customers
But how much of that is due to nearly two decades of experience and how much is due to having kids?
I 'm curious why you are still invoking PHP and not serving the cached page directly from Redis with Nginx.

I believe that detecting the prescense of cookies, HTTP methods and and request paramters are all supported using the buitlin "if" block and standard HTTP module variables.
The neosmart.net post was totally ignorant.

And he dismissed "Shipping Seven" with hysterical handwaving and BS pedantic arguments, that were even wrong. He could not understand what SKUs were, he thought Seven referred to Windows as merely a kernel, like what you build in Linux, and other BS, he made some BS comments that only apply to monolithic kernels and ONLY if you compile extensions instead of loading them as modules...
I don't understand how this argument keeps coming up. If you use rails, schema changes and migrations are DEAD EASY and I am not even a professional developer. What time exactly are you saving ??
Wasn't NT kernel code widely leaked at some point?
Corollary: think of the pain of looking up all of the flags get some UNIX tools to do what you want. Apply that to products too.
Semicolons are a triple cognitive overhead (errors from omitting them, irritation that they add no value in well-formatted code, and ability to write very poorly formatted code), where their absence has the only overhead of unnatural ways of breaking long lines, so typical programmer performance should be better.
You can but I don't think that's a particularly fair, representative or insightful comment on why the difference exists.

The developers of MRI are focused on developing an interesting and useful language first and everything else second.
The developers of JRuby are focused on replicating that language on the JVM. They benefit from a sophisticated JIT and GC and in later JVMs some direct help, none of which diminishes their own efforts to improve performance.

Sure you can write slow code in anything but I don't see how that's in any way related to 'your JRuby/CRuby' comparison.

By that logic, any mention of any difference between any language, runtime or its implementation can simply be dismissed by 'well, they ARE all Turing equivalent!'
This is the final straw, I'm switching to KDE/Kubuntu in next release.

Even if a transparent terminal is a weird thing to like, I like it, and have always used it. Taking it away just because you think it's useless is not acceptable to me. Really you can come with 1000's of arguments why it's non-productive, "just aesthetic", "not in web browsers either" and so on but I don't care. And I'm sure I'm not the only one.

(as an aside I think it could be a interesting feature in web browsers to support window-level transparency. Use a background with partial transparency and render web content directly to the background. For example, for desktop widgets)

We're in 2013 right with super-powerful GPUs of today (and even the crappy i945 in your old laptop) it shouldn't be too much to ask to do a small bit of composition. Sure, X's archaic architecture may be at fault, it may be tricky, but now there's Wayland, Android Surfaceflinger, ... Please don't go backward to better support archaic APIs.

For me, open source is about choice and customization and possibilities, if I wanted a platform with a single vision I'd go for Apple.
I remember earlier versions of http://derbauer.de/
Why is having to use negative temperatures a problem?
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It was a link to a video making a relevant argument that happened to be by Morgan Freeman.

I'm not sure what your point is?

Should I have just linked the youtube video without any context?
Never in my life, which ranged from living in tropical jungles to snowy European cities, have I ever felt the desire for differences in measuring temperature.

Comparing F and C is one of the most obvious cases for metric, as I see it. 0 is freezing, 100 is boiling. It couldn't be clearer.
You're right, python2 doesn't have the extended unpacking (star) syntax. Furthermore, this:

>>> a, *b = range(2**128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C ssize_t

Ha.
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Exactly the thing I'd like to use in our company's dashboard, missing the webdev fluency to apply things like d3.js.

Moreover, generating JS from templates feels like a hack, and delivering separate JS docs via Ajax is somewhat more complex.

Thanks a lot!
Er, I'm not him, but I suspect the reason 6mm shafts were cheaper is because that's what the rest of the planet orders (not anything to do with rounding or whatever)... Rare or custom specs almost always increase the price.
This looks like a (rather cheesy) repackaging of the experimental electronic music scene. It's not significantly different to what people like Autechre have been doing for decades (several names on algorave.com are from that scene).
I'm interested in D but lack of tutorials/documentation have always kept me away from it. It'd be cool if it had something similar to Python's tutorial.
It would be ridiculous to just tweet and believe its enough.Our mothers are very important pillar of strength and on such a day even calling might not be enough, you need to something special and nice for mother.
I have some incredibly talented friends who operate this way. The trick? Team up with some MBAs. Do the hard stuff, design a contract that gives you trickle revenue, and pass it off to them when it gets boring. It's completely fine to be this kind of person if it makes you happy, and with the right structure you can be wildly profitable "just doing the hard 50%".
Question about iPhone app download numbers to get into top charts
How many downloads does it take to get into the Top 10 or 25 Free Overall iPhone apps in the US?

Does anyone have recent data? (Recent as in 2013)

thanks!
How do you label the axes?
> He then told me about an Arabic parable or the like that each child comes with a bag of money.

I can see how an empathetic person having children would increase their focus to succeed, but what is the limit on the number of kids? How would one know when to stop having kids? Why did you stop at four kids? Are you going to have more?
This is slightly offtopic but i really like the funding road theyve taken, after going through a Startup Accelerator and ultimately failing with the original product after 2 years (a game) myself.

If i was to try again sometime in the future, id certainly do it like this.

1. Build a good prototype and evaluate if the product works and if there is demand on a really small scale

2. Try to raise money through crowdfounding.

3. If it works, you have proven to everybody (including yourself and potential later investors) that there indeed is a market for your product(s). You dont have to step in front of investors and try to sell an unproven idea. Try to make a hit product and get VCs on board after this stage (if you need to)

4. If it doesnt you can quit or try it out on your own in bootstrapped fashion.

Never ever again would i take outside money for equity in a very early stage, but this is just my personal view and the lesson i learned in the last years.

This approach can work great for games/products, it wont really for your next social web startup/app project mind you. In that case i would go the bootstrapped route directly and try to prove my product before going for the stars.
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I feel exactly the same. Although what concerns me the most is: just text, black&white and on my Netbook only 50% of the screen width is used. It feel reading a 900 pages Stephen King book.

A technical text should be more easy to read and I would appreciate some eye candy. People understand texts much easier when there is an illustrative picture inside or a summary table.
> the general attitude towards 'lowest price' in America is what could eventually bring the downfall of America

Globalization is the real culprit here.

Before the 1970's or so, the US economy was isolated by tariffs and higher shipping costs. Since labor unions had a monopoly on labor in many jobs, workers were able to extract excellent wages from their employers.

Now that goods and services can move relatively freely across our borders, then labor unions can't demand higher wages, because the union isn't a monopoly any more -- industry has the option of relocating operations overseas.

The downward pressure on wages from this has resulted in a redistribution of wealth from labor to capital (I'm not on board with many of their policy suggestions, but the Occupy movement was on to something with their "top one percent" rhetoric).

As they lose earning power, people start to cut their budgets. When you're watching what you spend, price becomes more important than product quality or the feel-good vibes from shopping at a small local store. This allows the Wal-marts of the world to win.
Yes, welcome to the reality.

You can never talk about user friendliness, simplicity, aesthetic with Linux maintainers and their best friends.

Their religion is robustness. And having a religion leads you believe that what your religion tells you is always more important than what other people would like.

He probably has a good reason and doesn't want to explain that because you are not smart enough to listen him.

Welcome to the Linux community. I use Arch Linux for 8 years and recently was advised to stop using Linux because I asked maintainers to not break things and listen their users.

All they care is more robustness. It's their religion and you can't discuss about this with them.
Hah, you are right. I thought the switch to C++ was in tech5 but nooo. Although there is still a fair bit of straight C in there. Again, link to the relevant Fabien Sanglard architecture review:

http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/index.php
This is so cool, love it.
Actually, temperature is the only thing which regularly makes me long for the metric system. I used to think celcius was ridiculous until I realized how useful it was as a tool to intuitively understand large temperatures. Just divide by 100! When I see 2500 F, that number is essentially meaningless to me, but when I see 1400 C, I immediately think "oh, that's like 14 times (freezing to) boiling, that's hot!".
For general Gnome3 stuff (I don't care much about the look of my terminal):

I know they are trying to make it very easy to use for average useres (whatever this is) but why do I have no access at all to not even really "advanced" options directly from gnome? I need tweak tool for nearly everything. Where did the menu bar go in Nautilus 3.8? Why do I need to download a gnome extension to disable this hot spot in the upper left corner? same for window list. No minimize/maximize buttons, need tweak tool for it.

I think the concept of gnome 3 is nice and worth a try but why are they trying to block users who are not absolute beginners? and even those beginners maybe want to change their window theme or have other icons.
Since when has memcached been hard to configure, most times I've left it in either the default settings or upped the memory allocation. If you're going to treat Redis like a cache you should really be looking at memcached.

"best of all, it’s open source" -- Open Source should never be the tickbox on a feature set that wins over another product. Look what the product provides now and into the future with the less work -- just because you can change or view the source code doesn't mean it's going to grow with you.