skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See also "The Human Mannequin" about a young woman with FOP who decides to work in the fashion industry.

(http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-human-mannequin/4od)

(http://www.atvtoday.co.uk/9987-fibrodysplasia-ossificans-pro...)

(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/01/louise-wedderburn-t...)
Chrome is going to implement DOM Futures
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> For the same reason we trap on integer division by zero.

The thing is I can hardly imagine a situation where a division by zero would be normal and expected, while having integers overflow as a normal part of a calculation is business as usual in many cases. Having to handle a trap (or disabling/enabling it dynamically) would slow things down way too much. Many crypto ciphers for instance specify operations "modulo 32" in order to take advantage of this "feature".

> To allow compilers (not just C) to emit safer code by default by removing the small but measurable instruction penalty.

Detecting overflow in asm is just testing the carry bit of the processor. A trap would be orders of magnitude slower on any modern architecture. You seem to be assuming that overflows are rare in C programs. I'm not sure this is true, but I have no hard data on that so who knows...
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Everything is free if you have no intention of using it. I simply expanded on one possible use case for the usage of said "free" air.
Agreed. I also think that Mercurial is really great, and I'd recommend that anyone who has only used Git spend some time working with Mercurial instead.

It seems to me that Git has won the popularity war,and GitHub has benefitted from that. GH has also focused on the social networking side more.

As an academic, I'd recommend BitBucket, and pretty much every academic I know prefers it to GitHub due to the free academic accounts.

To students preparing for graduation, I'd recommend getting a portfolio together on GitHub, but also spending time on Mercurial - it is much nicer in some ways, and variety is good for the soul.
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Did this a few times, no change in the hash.

MD5 (kav2013_13.0.1.4190abcdefgEN_4519.exe) = e234d2efd7d7201e4886d2f21a329a3e
Apple's argument seems to be -

They pay taxes in the US on US profits (along with payroll taxes, etc)

They pay local taxes on profits earned overseas. Then they gather up those profits in an Irish subsidiary, where they get the most most favourable tax treatment available to them.

Why would they, as a multinational company, not do that? Why would they repatriate those profits, not earned in the US to the US and take a second tax hit?

If the contention is that they are somehow hiding US profits by misrepresenting them as overseas profits to avoid taxes, then that would obviously seem rather sleazy. But if that's not the case, what's the moral or legal argument against what they're doing? Or are they misrepresenting what they're doing? It's hard to get a handle on the underlying issue with all the congressional posturing.
It's still true from all I've seen in user tests.
Maybe now that they've dealt with the "important" stuff like reminders they can finally deliver the long overdue 2fa.
They can use XMPP as a base and build extensions for everything they need atop of that, then use these extensions immediately while they go through the XSF and eventually become a standard.

XMPP has sort of been designed with extensibility and innovation in mind.
It's the Pacific Ring of Fire, which includes Haiti, Japan, Chile, New Zealand, Solomon Islands and Indonesia (list goes on) which have had deadly quakes in the last few years - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Fire

*edit, not Haiti which has its own crazy deep-earth stuff going on in the area
I just signed up but I can't tell what this is. Do they have courses on all these topics? Or is it a forum to discuss courses from other places?
I worked in an IT department of about 20, of which two employees had each been hit twice.
Probably there should be a resource tax, not profit tax?
Except you cannot know if the patient is flat-lined or has arrhythmia. The AED performs an ECG and delivers a shock only if appropriate; if you have one available, you should always use it (which does not exclude CPR in the meantime).
Designer News
I'm interested in design and would love to learn more. I've recently come across Designer News and it looks interesting but it's by invite only. Are there other hacker news type sites for design or are there channels I need to go through to get an invitation that are open to me as a non-designer?
The same functionality in Perl: https://www.inkling.com/read/programming-perl-christiansen-4...

It's a fun feature but saying it's the main reason to upgrade to Python 3 is going a bit far. I don't see how it's much different to something like # TODO: implement this method! or raise NotImplementedError if you don't want it to be invoked.
How do we profit from taking money out of the hands of people proven to make things people want and putting it in the hands of people proven to murder civilians?
He was taxed, when he was selling his stocks.
It's a place for random people to teach online courses, using a subreddit for discussion.
Ideate the sh# out of it
The interesting thing is that "view selection source" on instances of the 'kerning' word don't show any shenanigans. Gotta dig deeper... Edit: ok, it's "em{letter-spacing:1px}" in the CSS.
I agree with you, but playing devil's advocate, American Citizens pay US taxes on their income, regardless of where they live (http://americansabroad.org/issues/taxation/us-taxes-while-li...) - so why shouldn't US Corporations be required to Pay US Taxes on their income, wherever they make it?

Note - my answer to that is very, very quickly you would find that successful US companies re-incorporating in other countries, in much the same way wealthy Americans will sometimes give up their US citizenship.
Supplementary data to your link in case of a change: historical tsunami travel times in hours: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/tsu_travel_time_events.shtml...

Most relevant: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/icons/1923_0203.jpg
This is really very nice. Thank you.
The sector is ripe for a grand slam by a good, integrated system. Decent CD/DVD printers that don't cost $20k US (for the damn referrers that insist on some kind of physical product), decent Mac and PC compatibility. Software that talks to GE, Siemens, Philips, Toshiba hardware in a reasonable manner. The ability to edit bad data easily and have it update remote workstations properly. Be easily searchable (Let me set up customised searches PLEASE - last 3 days of imaging off the scanner right by me for example). There are so many pieces to the puzzle and all seem to actively break each other. It's a hell of a mess at the moment.
Just as Steve Wozniak's invention wouldn't have been anything more than a simple hobbyist's device without Jobs, Neukirchen's creation wouldn't have had even remotely the same impact without Karp's ideas.
It's sarcasm. You can tell because of the "Even
worse" and "</rant>".
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These messages are always in caps to send faster over slower systems.

http://www.alternatewars.com/BBOW/Computing/Capital_Letters....

I spent a decade as a communicator in the navy and radio teletype is still the primary method of communication at sea.
As stated by Google officially, and by all accounts of everyone using external clients, XMPP works fine. Federation doesn't, just like with Facebook as mentioned above.
Cockroaches evolving to evade traps
Points on comments are hidden but have an effect - that post is raised and that commenter's posts are raised.
Hellbanned? Why? I'm a freaking designer and as one I can tell you I found the article rather interesting. Deleting your portfolio and making money? That's something you don't hear everyday. The fear of freelancing is not finding any clients. He found a way and shared his story, good for him. I found it irritating he didn't link to this Earn1K course. Had to google it and of course there are multiple hits. How do I know I've got the right one? I'd apologise if I was Designer News. Making money is not 'evil'.
Religious cities watch as much porn as non-religious cities
I immediately noticed he is from the UK, I speak with too many englanders to not recognize the the cocky tone littered with lols and hahas... It's like they are too cool to give a shit about sounding mature... Also the fraud scene in the UK is incredibly big ATM.
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I totally agree, WPS is devastating, but he can't use his motorcycle to attack those effectively. He'd have to stay in one place for a while to do a Reaver-style attack. Apparently he can collect enough data for offline cracking even at typical motorcycle speeds?
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outside of Jane Street (http://www.janestreet.com/technology/ocaml.php), I've not heard of functional languages being used in the financial sector. Where else is it used?
Reading about this issue, it seems like the mentality of the Senators is that the money belongs to them, and Apple is keeping it away from them.

This mentality is also common among thieves, who rationalize their thefts by believing they are taking things that they are somehow owed.
IP Addresses Don’t Positively Identify Infringers, Anti-Piracy Lawfirm Says
It's incorrect but not crazy: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=patternicit...
Can you use it with arbitrary sql (non MS) servers on other hosts?
I think everyone has their own cup of tea. I have been working remotely for about a year now in different places around the world and what I find most appealing to is to find a co-working place where I can get stuff done and have that busy/creative feeling all around without the constraints for work hours.

I have met some of the smartest and most amazing people in these places. It's also nice because doesn't make you such a loner :-)
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It shows the value of rare genetic disorders for biological and medical research, but I'm not sure it speaks for or against eugenics, it's a complex question...

Look at it from the point of view of an eugenics proponent: this disease is a good example of a genetic condition that you don't want spreading in future generations. Once we have treatments for the 7000 rare diseases mentioned in the article, we will have removed the evolutionary pressure that was keeping these diseases rare. Some eugenics supporters are afraid we are heading towards a society where everybody has to undergo a dozen lifelong treatments due to medicine effectively undermining the process of natural selection.

I can also imagine parents suffering from this disease, not wanting to pass it on to their children. So people affected might strongly disagree with you...
Google starts rolling out a conversational search functionality
Google has a marketing approach of being different by not being "evil", being open & accessible, and having smart people work there. The steady drumbeat now is one of being no different than the other guys. Google held themselves up as taking the high road, which is why so many are calling them out on this (and why people don't call out other companies for the same antics).

The issue isn't even about making hangouts open, but rather about chat messages in hangouts also being able to relay with federated XMPP servers - something GTalk does today just fine and has done so for many years.
The person using Excel doesn't have to be the person writing the sql :)

This could we useful to integrate Excel sheets & data with other systems without too much manual intervention.
Bitter hipster is hipster.
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I have read speculation about that too. I don't think it's crazy, but I don't think it's widely accepted as a significant correlation by seismologists either.
That makes sense.

However, I argue that the NOAA could serve their warnings on the web in all lowercase for the sake of readability. Then again, that could be a quick hack for someone.
The bit where they are fighting you off is the bit I always watched with interest. The erect or supine images are sort of scripted in ones mind after a while. It's the semi erect child with ankylosing spondylitis or some such thing that cause distraction. I remember the situation like it was yesterday. It must have been 10 years ago. I never did manage to get a film where the poor guys knee caps didn't appear over the bases of his lungs on every attempt. We never did see his lung fields well.
> "I tried all of the great tools that were around at the time—WordPress, Blogger—and obviously all the specialized tools—Flickr for photos and YouTube for videos—and I kept falling down. I was perfectly happy with all these tools but at the same time, constantly frustrated by the limitations imposed by all of them."

That is the biggest driving force behind the project I'm working on http://microco.sm/

The limitations of the software that powers forums and communities crushes me.

I feel that communities are incredible, have so much potential, and that they have the ability to be more than the sum of their members, to create so much magic through serendipity, and when the tools communities use get in the way of this... then I feel a deep sense of loss over what should have been but isn't, the wasted potential.

It is such a profound and deep feeling, and one that resonates so much with the users of communities I've spoken to that users of forums funded our seed round, that users are supporting us as we build it, and that we felt that we had to quit our jobs and work on this... this needs to exist.

The constraints today feel like chains, and the desire to break those and free the potential is frequently overwhelming. It creates a really powerful driving force to bring this into existence and do it justice, to free the potential of a community.
That is actually a good point. I wondered why the US is so adamant about its citizens paying taxes while living abroad. Theoretically - you are not taking advantage of any of the US infrastructure like roads and parks while you're abroad. I kind of think a citizen living abroad should be taxed, but much less (because the cost is not zero - think embassy expenses).
If everywhere had the same tax levels, why would anyone bother to be resident anywhere other than the London/New York/Tokyo. A tax cartel probably won't happen - it is against many governments' interests.
And perhaps the Congress of the USA can accept that the US has no right to expect a share of profits from sales made in Australia of goods made in China, shipped by an airline registered in Singapore.
I see your point, but isn't it also common among those from whom the thieves have stolen?
Yeah - I think it is to do with location. I tried out the UK Yahoo site on my desktop, and the US one and they are WORLDS appart.
Give the guy a break, he was clearly educated in the USA.
That's not entirely true.

First of all, when Apple pays income tax in most countries, they will receive tax offset credit in USA so they don't have to pay tax twice on same profit.

But Apple doesn't even do this. The whole point of having Irish subsidiary is to give it intellectual property which is the real money maker here.

What happens then is quite simple. Subsidiary company in Ireland is charging Apple in other countries huge licensing fees. In fact, so huge that it amounts to 100 billion dollars. Licensing fees are tax deductible so Apple is basically avoiding paying corporate tax all over the world because licensing fees and royalties eat up all the profit.

Of course, Apple as a group of entities is making billions in profit but as far as overseas tax authorities (Australian Tax Office, UK Revenue & Customs etc) are concerned, Apple is barely breaking even therefore is not paying its fair share of tax.

Obviously this whole scheme comes at cost. All these billions are basically stuck somewhere in Ireland and can't be used. They just sit there and earn interest.

Eventually money will have to come to America. How? Irish subsidiary will pay dividends to parent company Apple Inc. At that point all these billions in profits will get finally taxed at ~35% by IRS.

Congress is just asking Apple when they are going to bring to USA all those profits and what's the point of deferring it. Apple is saying, we will bring it when you lower our tax rate. They are basically blackmailing the government.

edit: I was wrong by saying Apple doesn't pay corporate tax in USA. I modified my comment to reflect what I have learned from comments bellow.
The ring of fire doesn't seem to include Haiti: http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=36428

The Caribbean instead has it's own smaller "ring": http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2010/0121/Haiti-eart...
Forth chapter (about collections) from "Discover Meteor" for free -
A lot of what is spoken of in this document relates to books boasting the benefits of ADHD and Asperger's.

Has anyone had an experience where a boss read a document like this?
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My questions for Tim Cook
You seem to think that governments do nothing but "murder civilians", so here is a list for you to choose your next place of living (all places have more or less no government or the government has no power): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Failed_Sta...

Please tell us of your experiences. Thanks.
> Subsidiary company in Ireland is charging parent company Apple Inc. huge licensing fees.

Cook explicitly denied this in his testimony. Are you simply assuming Apple is doing the same thing some other companies have done, or do you have evidence they have done this?
If you add your student Email address to the account they'll give you unlimited collaborators too if you ever need that.
Spain is one of them. I cannot quote the law but simple experience shows it.

Edit: there is some EU law about it [1] (it was bound to be...).

In the end, as you can only compare 'objetively', you will never do it (because your advert will become boring, mostly). So jokes like Microsoft does about Google are outlawed.

[1] http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/consumers/consumer_in...
So tell me, how do you make visual effects without jQuery? jqLite doesn't support half of the things I need.
Another example is the German word "schadenfreude".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
That's not the same as being taxed on the dollars you get each week though. With Job' scenario, what portion of his wealth hasn't been taxed yet? Sure it will get hit at some point but that's not the point.
Most people get taxed every time they get paid. I'm not saying his situation was/is wrong, or that he has done something immoral. I'm just saying it's very different.
Time for email, im, calendar, tasks, notes, docs and other services start-ups (for individual users).

Better if they are decentralized. You wouldn't have to move everything at once. But this will also increase costs.
indeed, as this document indicates :
"DUE TO THE DEPTH OF THE EARTHQUAKE NO TSUNAMI IS EXPECTED."

The Depth of the subterranean earthquake is generally a major factor in Tsunami (The main factor being the displacement of the water mass above).

The last two M9~ magnitude earthquakes causing deadly tsunamis (Indian Ocean 2004, Japan 2011) were only at a Depth of 30km (19mi). This one is very deep, at 619km (385mi) below the surface.
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> We trap on division because it is objectively a programmer error that has no obvious right answer.

Defining (2^31 - 1) + 1 = -2^31 is no more of an "obvious right answer" than defining N/0 = 42 for all N. It's just one that we computer engineers have been trained to accept because it is occasionally useful.

But it's still madness which discourages us from using tools that emit more correct code.

> A consistently not taken branch has very, very close to 0 overhead in a modern processor.

Except the half a dozen or so bytes it consumes in the cache.

Nevertheless, I concede that others have thought about this a lot more than I have and done so with hard data in front of them.
> why shouldn't US Corporations be required to Pay US Taxes on their income, wherever they make it?

Because the law doesn't say they have to. That's enough for me.

I'm a left-wing, pro-high-tax guy, but I can never understand people who get angry at corporations for obeying the law. Besides being nonsensical, it's actively counter-productive. So long as people are focusing their attention on the corporations, nobody is pressuring the politicians to fix the actual problem.
> A tax cartel probably won't happen - it is against many governments' interests.

This is a variant of my argument. I may add: It is against many governments' _perceived_ interests. I do not think that a race to the bottom (Come here, 15% tax! No, here 10%! No, here 5%! ...) will help any government in the long term. So far, I seem to be correct.
That is the dystopian future we will live in , Corporations replacing states. Everything will be private and own by corporations , like everything used to be owned by kings,royal families and the "blue blood".
In Skills That Matter presentations they sometimes refer to deployments in the city (London finance sector).

You also have some use cases here,

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/gg634701#Who_Uses_F_...

http://fsharp.org/testimonials/
I believe the details are in the committee report released before the hearing. The claim is that the IP deal is not something that would be done with a third party it is far too cheap.

See here for references and one view http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/05/21/tim-cooks-i...
Couple of points for your article:

Regarding the C++ self-assessment, it depends to whom your talking to. If it is a 10+ years of exp. hard core C++ programmer, then your point is right. But if it is some recruiter clerk - who just writes down your answers to compare with other candidates' answers later, then it is 10/10 :)

Another answer could be: "for your company, it is 10/10" depends on the company, of course.

But all in all, I find this score based questions quite stupid. Instead, you should ask for past projects using that particular language.

*

Now regarding your algorithmic part. Tell you honestly, the fact that the candidate implements the Dijkstra's algorithm quickly, because she implemented it twice, 2 weeks before the interview tells me just that - that she implemented it 2 weeks ago, twice....

I'd more value a candidate who have never implemented it, or implemented it 10+ years ago but doesn't remember details - when given the details/specs and a sufficient amount of time, and can implement it.

Overall, I prefer when the candidate can come up with the higher level solutions - knowing when to use e.g. Red-black (or any other balanced) tree, shortest path algorithms, suitable containers - data structures, etc... for some particular problems. The actual (hence 2 weeks ago) knowledge of every specific details of how to implement these is not that important.
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> Many crypto ciphers for instance specify operations "modulo 32" in order to take advantage of this "feature".

Which is one reason I'm specifically not advocating for doing away with nonsignaling modulo-2^2^n addition.

However, of all the addition operations in the gigabytes of object code on my hard drive, what percentage of them do you think actually encode the true desire of an application developer to perform wrapping arithmetic?