skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> 5280 ft in a mile.
>5280 is 12 * 440.

But what the heck is 440? 440/12 is 36.666666666666667

8292 is 12 * 691 but those numbers are just as meaningless.
Peter Thiels venture firm to invest in space
Note that the article is in Spanish, but the full letter sent to the developers in English is included.
That's really interesting. Is any of your GDocs/Python/SQLite setup publicly available?
It's President Obama, not Emperor Obama. The petition feature works fine for petitions whose authors have not overlooked this.
As usual Michael, I agree wholeheartedly.

The Bad Guys are plentiful and they include scope creepers, late/non payers and idea guys offering equity.

Our tribe (to borrow from your parlance) is goodhearted and kind and usually sees the best in people.

That is until we are crushed under the disillusioning reality that the Screwheads (to borrow from HST's parlance) rule the world and will exploit us instinctively. Our relationship with the Bad Guys/Screwheads is no different than the lion and the wildebeest.

Fortunately we can outsmart the bastards and destroy their outdated business models by harnessing the power of networked machine intelligence.
You're not? I know some places ban very specific elements of 'knifes' that have nothing to do with how pokey they are for political reasons, but there are areas that actually ban having a knife?
Hulu's CPM's are incredibly high, on par with prime time TV. Not that many companies advertise on TV at those rates; even fewer do so online.
Mentor launches an “anti to-do list” for iOS, against rivals Lift and Everest
10 things to learn from Calvin and Hobbes
The Kirchners continue to work wonders for the Argentine economy.
Interesting Timing: Tumblr Updates Its API Terms
Also covered in theverge http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/24/4363960/google-no-longer-a...
If he liked Hitchhiker's Guide and Kurt Vonnegut, you should give him The Sirens of Titan.
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Huh? Most lynchings, both against either whites or blacks, were a result from vigilante justice. It was completely illegal, but a result from accusations of rape or murder, not witchcraft.
I think the iOS team is facing a tough (and interesting) problem. They need to keep the edge they have in terms of app quantity and specially quality, so introducing big changes that break or degrade how apps look or behave and require big changes by developers can jeopardize their advantage.

On the other hand change in unavoidable. They cannot stop in time. Each iOS version that gets released with minimal changes is another catch up that will need to take place in a later version. The more changes are delayed the bigger they get. Android and even Windows Phone are moving forward and so needs Apple.

I think that there can be a certain feeling inside Apple that is not exactly change aversion but maybe is something close. They got iPhone so right and had so much success with it that maybe there is some fear that introducing significant changes can mess things up...
> I can't choose to buy my gas in liters instead of gallons.

I suspect that for the vast majority of people, this particular problem is not much of a roadblock toward personal adoption of the metric system, because I suspect most people buy their gas in one of two ways:

1. they buy whatever it takes to fill up their tank, or

2. they buy whatever it takes to cost a specific dollar amount.
mercurial (via tortoise, and even cmdline) is much easier to use for simple things (branches, merge, update) I think git has more bells and whistles, but a lot more painfull for novices to use
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honestly, I don't know. I know Go does concurrency well and I like it, the only reason I said it was equivalent or better was to avoid a flamewar. I've never even used Erlang.
I understand completely.

"And all that is fantastically interesting, but completely beside the point. I just fell into the classic programmer trap of exploring and learning about (what I find) fantastically interesting things that will address all sorts of amazingly complex situations, but which the learning of said things resulted in absolutely nothing of tangible value being created."

http://www.jamiebriant.com/blog/2013/1/fireworks.html
"She had dragged herself [...] into the clinic, her genitals burned and fused beyond functional repair by the repeated intrusions of red-hot irons."

What? This made me very angry. But how do we combat it if even law officials are aware of it going on and don't do anything to stop it? There's so much corruption, and the government legally acknowledges sorcery and punishment for sorcery as valid.

In order for this to stop, the entire society and way of life would have to change. Is the United Nations looking to do this? It needs to be done.
How self-harm came to take more lives than war, murder and natural disasters
Not really a bad idea, imo.
The upside is that you cannot make a stupid typo in these nested loops, which is really easy to do, when you have to write the same thing several times in several places of your program. Also, it is easier to refactor, when the need will be.
>Does anyone else feel this way about this and other things?

I'm finding this hard to articulate, so I'm just going to "speak".

I've felt the way you describe at times, but think it's good to face such things. I was forced to face crippling illness and death in people very close to me several times before I turned 30.

These possibilities are in us. There's no matter of deserve in play, it just is.

I don't continue to look and read about something like this to gawk and be entertained or desensitized, but to become slightly more educated, thankful and just maybe prepared.
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MEMS accelerometers are a fairly recent invention
I went to 5 and was still seeing a lot of errors, so upped it to 10.
They can solve this opening a company abroad. It is cheap to establish an LLC in US.
Putting the &&'s at the beginning of each line makes the overall shape of the logic expression easier to percieve: you can prove they're all one big 'and' expression without having to hunt for the end of each line.
> VNC protocol and implementations are too complex/sloppy so I don't trust them.

The protocol is 50 pages long with pretty reasonable margins and it even has pictures: http://www.realvnc.com/docs/rfbproto.pdf

It is an afternoon read. Most desktop environments in Linux implement their own VNC server just because it isn't that complex and you can implement a subset of the protocol for a server anyway.

I imagine if there was a protocol flaw revealed (or even in the many implementations like libvncserver) it would be patched overnight. All of them support viewer-only mode. I like krfb, because by default it only uses access passes rather than a global password, so unless you give someone credentials of an access ticket nobody can login.

I bet an exploitation in the way gifs download and how http resolves file transfers in the dozens of implementations of both is much more likely to have an exploitable man in the middle or other mechanism to eavesdrop, if not take remote control.
As yet I'm not aware of any circumstance where Apple has been reasonably accused of catering to techies. They polish for the masses (which is a good thing, imo, because their stuff ends up being better even for geeks). I wouldn't worry too much. They might change the UI, but it will probably just be a matter of adapting to a new look, not a paradigm shift in how you use stuff. You'll be fine.
I love Carl Zimmer. Great article, it was super interesting.
Google sent emails to Argentinian developers
While I agree the idea of it is ludicrous-- paid cable subscriptions come with commercials. Is this really so shocking?
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1927 color video of London
This is like in go. If your walls are too brittle, play more conservatively. If your walls are too thick, loosen up. You can make generally better moves in go just by recognizing if you are too conservative or too aggressive. Same with poker.
I don't like being in a position for less than a year :)
There are thousands of guidelines and many of the contradict each other .. there are many advisors creating posts, tutorials, patterns but I think you should work the way your ecosystems require it , don't try to be perfect just get things done and ensure your code will work in critical cases.
Sometimes I wish I could be up to date in all the best practices but is just impossible some developers like me we work with deadlines and there's not much chance to try new things.
MMXII => 2013

That's pretty cool how they almost achieved a "mirror" effect for the characters.
The problem that comes up is by the time you hit the tipping point of more cleaning then feature additions you end up having to do the fast solutions to fit deadlines.

I think when you take on the debt of poor code you have to remember that what it will take to fix that problem will continue to increase the longer you are away from that code.

Now I don't think you should consider fixing things for scale poor code that is it's own beast which makes the most sense to handle once you have the problem as you can't really tell what the problem will be until you have it.
I've been staring at your comment and I really can't figure out how to parse it. You're rambling like a crazy person and I can't tell why. Are these supposed to be real people? Some fake force you should use as motivation? Are you honestly saying people have 'nightmares about thinkers waking up'? And come on mailing lists to encourage flame wars?
This is also known as top-down design.
The UN isn't a global police force. All it can do its organise sanctions to force the PNG government to do something about it or get nations to contribute to some sort of fund to improve education and policing domestically.
I absolutely hate these mobile "optimized" sites (Slate) that disable pinch zoom.
Well most people pay for basic cable and most of those channels have ads.

Granted HBO and Netflix don't have commercials but I think they also both use product placement (edit: see granddaughter comment for more info) in their original content so it's not like there's some philosophical commitment they've made to not show subscribers ads to pad the bottom line.
An earlier use of zero (as defined in the article) for which one can assign a definite date was in 357 AD. The gotcha is that it's not the circle we're so familiar with. This is the first Mayan (Olmec) long-count recorded containing a zero, although long-counts showing a clear positional number system were recorded in the first century BC.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=TzrNgAsJY1MC&lpg=PP1&...

While the use of zero in India may have been influenced by earlier cultures (e.g. Babylon), it's pretty unlikely there was any direct contact that could have spread the use of zero to mesoamerica. Thus, positional number systems with a zero place-holder have been invented independenly at least twice in human history!
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I might hack a bit on JS-only gif encoder this weekend but at the moment yes, you need to have proper development environment to compile under windows. unistd.h dependency might be an easy fix though
It's impossible to know that your target market needs something, if you don't even know who your target market is. Statements like that are not going to help you find a cofounder, not to mention your method of finding a cofounder is backwards from how successful relationships are usually formed.
Leilani Münter: Why We Need to Fight for Tesla
+1 rfb protocol is not complex and properly documented
Airbnb could squander billions fighting every landlord in the world
I found facebook cannot beat google+ if focused on tech personalities. Facebook is great for my old world of interaction, but google+ appears to be better optimized for the scientific world. Both stimulate my mind, but I'm starting to spend more time on google+. Facebook development seems to have long been down the path to the cash cow.
What’s wrong with Google’s new Hangouts app?
Anyone else encountering these issues? I love the improvements Google made to the cat feature, but some of these inconsistencies are pretty unfortunate.
Yup; which is why the people getting hired for those projects would flounder if asked to make a large individual contribution without much handholding; and also why those types of project team structures yield such incomprehensibly shitty software (at ridiculous cost to the client.)
Point #1 is key. If you test enough terms retrospectively you'll find something amazing. Prospective hypothesis testing is where you actually prove something works (or not).
Thanks for clarifying -- to me, your original comment indicated that you were specifically concerned about the device itself. It's perfectly valid to be concerned about the security of service providers.
This. You have to think about the end result -- will you feel like you've done enough? What matters most to you?
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Google no longer able to pay Android developers in Argentina, pulling apps
In that case, I wouldn't say it's a particularly useful anecdote for anyone else.
When people I know (teens) say they "hate" Facebook, they mean they hate the amount of time they waste on Facebook. That's my chief complaint. It's an easy thing to do while mentally idling, and costs no effort, attention, or money. And you're on a variable-ratio schedule for dopamine hits. I quickly developed a habit where I spend dead time mindlessly browsing Facebook instead of doing something productive.

This is the only complaint I hear from my friends. Nobody in my age group has ever mentioned ad targeting, and people with nosy adult "friends" know how to use privacy settings to hide from them. The only reason I've ever been given in person for quitting Facebook is the time-sink.

My point is that we don't want to "leave" to another social network. We want to stop using social networking. But we can't, because spam-free email by real name is powerful, locked in, and occasionally necessary.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/an-honor-for-the-cr...
Install from NodeJS.org it comes with npm. Note: this tool is apparently linux centric. You should have a development environment (c++, make, etc) installed as well as Python 2.7 in order to work with development modules.

As some module mature, they do offer bre-built binaries as needed.
> In order for this to stop, the entire society and way of life would have to change. Is the United Nations looking to do this? It needs to be done.

And here I thought "Cultural Imperialism" was a bad thing.

This is a dangerous road down which to tread, especially when the entity doing the treading (the UN) contains members such as Iran, the PRC, and every country that rates "depicting Mohamed" as being worse than "killing Jews".
That sounds exactly like non-determinism, which is what we were trying to avoid.
Perfect timing with this post. I've been trying to use both VNC & xrdp & haven't been able to get either to work right with my box.

Thanks for the new option!
The Gish source code does that too.

https://github.com/blinry/gish
Saying "Always rasterize" isn't necessarily the solution, either. Its actually pretty bad advice to follow all the time ;)

I suspect (but can't confirm without the source code to the demo) that shouldRasterize would actually hurt performance in one of the two cases in the article. Specifically, I imagine that it would make the score for adding and removing views from screen even worse than it already is.

Yes, it renders into a bitmap, and reduces CPU usage, once you've paid the upfront rendering cost. But, it doesn't rasterize opacity, and, will use up a ton of memory (because it doesn't result in stretchable images).
Repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5765759
I'd rather have (tastefully done) product placement than ads. And I could never notice any product placement in House of Cards or Game of Thrones.
I don't even think they need to have a company, a person can sell apps.

But it's a huge turn off for indie developers.
I don't understand. Are the blue lines supposed to represent something?
I'm not new to here. I just created a throwaway to say a few things in another thread. I didn't read it because I was already familiar with the story. I have never cared so much for the amount of effort involved in things, just the value that said thing provides. Best regards.
I said "ritualized abuse/murder" which speaks to the act, not any specific dressing the people committing it have chosen to rationalize it with.
I understand crowd frenzies (riots, lynchings, witch-hunts) as fear of becoming the focus ("better them than me") and the willingness to be a spectator while not seeing the line between watching to know and enabling an event gone horribly wrong. I'd also like to think only sociopaths are the main actors, but apathy and simple mistakes all add their weight to such events.
I'm confused why this debate even surfaces. Of course you don't forcibly sterilize people.

I imagine the modern eugenics argument is about manipulating chromosomes rather than forcing people to not reproduce. IE, once we can selectively make the perfect human from a genetic standpoint (considering only using genes that promote intelligence / stamina / longevity / etc) that it becomes unethical to continue playing the genetic lottery and having children with FOP or down syndrome or some other life destroying condition.

Which I guess says sterilize everyone and grow people in tubes (or wombs until we can get that far). At least it is fair!
Absolutely fascinating.

And the color process is really fairly good, considering the age of the film. Interestingly, William Friese-Greene, the man who invented the color process used here, was unable to show movies using his process because a pair of inventors had developed and patented another color process, and claimed tha any color film infringed on their patent (according to Wikipedia). Ça plus la change, as they say.
Authorship and microformats (schema.org specially) would fall inside "making sure information is crawable" - that is, purely technical aspects.

The relation between sharing in social media and higher ranking on SERP is weak to nil in my experience (2m+ unique visitors site, thousands of Facebook likes in each post, low organic traffic).
Human sacrifice is far more ancient than the modern state, coinciding with primitive religion. As sick as it may be, I think its primary purpose is in-group cohesion, regardless of the religious or political narrative pretext. A cadre who have knowingly committed murder together is one whose members will have strong bonds of loyalty to one another.

See also: http://www.meltingasphalt.com/religion-politics-and-self-sup...
You make a good point; however, I'm not advocating we invade. I'm saying we need to do this as peaceably as possible, but certainly assertively. I'm not a politician, I don't know how it would be done, but would strengthening the economy even more help the situation and modernize perspective or serve to increase class divisions?
Let's compare.

At their age I went to graduate school in math. Which was a longer time commitment, at lower likely salaries, which left me with no real employable skills.

I do not see a failed startup at that age as a worse economic choice than graduate school was for me.
Catmull refers to the post-film analysis, to reveal what went wrong and right -- and particularly the anti-gaming techniques employed to keep people honest and forthcoming in these sessions, after each successive film.

Since you were formerly at Pixar, can you divulge some of these methods?
Exactly two people out of 251 on my list have ever used pseudonyms. In both cases it was brief as it annoyed the hell out of everyone else and we told them so.

A spam-free email account where everyone can be reached by real name is really quite attractive.
Upgrading Linux Eee PC 901 4GB SSD to 64GB SSD
I agree with the basic idea behind this post. But most of the worrying over architecture and paradigms should be done at the preliminary design stage, which should happen before you even think about coding.

It doesn't have to be a polished, detailed, or even good design, but it does need to be something that you can at LEAST loosely stick to initially and have faith in. If the design is flawed enough that coding progress is halted, stop coding and revisit your design.
Ubuntu donation page works only when visited 'the right way'
As an acquisition, Hulu is essentially a bag of content contracts with expiration dates. The infrastructure has value, but it's probably incidental to an acquirer like Yahoo. The challenge is to turn that bag into a property with lasting value; Yahoo is in a much better position to multiply that value than the group of current owners whose half-hearted "coopetition" has resulted in the fickle and watered-down service we currently enjoy.
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Keep in mind that you've got: Fed + State + City. Now if you are in Jersey your taxes will be lower, but I'm not sure how much lower they might be.

But here's some wisdom from my old professor back in art school in the 1980s:

Julie: Kids do you know how you get raise?

Kids: Work hard?

Julie: Nope: You quit your job and get a new one!

...this shocked me when I heard it, but it's true. So you may want to think about taking that job, waiting a year, getting the most valuable skills you can market, and finding a new job.

Yes of course ask for more! But keep in mind that the company may be cheap, although that's just a guess...
Wait, flamewars about spaces vs tabs are part of a conspiracy to keep programmers insecure and frightened? You'd better explain that remark.
PS $200 for food in NYC is not realistic unless you are just eating ramen!!!!
This is where my original question was going.

To question whether there's some lower level function to this behavior. If it's developing consistently, independently I would think there's some base, primal desire being satisfied through it.

It's an arresting question, I think.
I've always heard it as top down development, as opposed to bottom up development. I always say that's what I'm going to do, and then end up not doing it.
Since ANSI/ISO C, a "translation unit" (whatever is left of a file after preprocessing) has to have at least one declaration; a zero length source file won't cut it.
Content discovery is moving away from search. If anyone would know that it would be Marisa. Perhaps she is positioning the company for 2-3 years down the road. Which means she needs more social component to yahoo beyond tumblr.
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How long have you been programming, and how many jobs have you had writing code in an actual business? Your profile says you're a student, so I'm curious how you can feel justified in writing such a thesis.

Personally, after 16 years in the industry, I do stress about my code as described in the article... Not about making it work, because that will happen regardless, but about how. It affects my ability to code, because "make it work" is far drowned out by "make it work the way your peers will accept it." Many times, that "acceptable" approach is something I find far less intuitive, and far less maintainable... Also, that approach has changed so many times over the years and with each different team, it's hard to keep track. I can build far more in a weekend, on my own terms, than I can build in a week by someone else's. I am not complaining... I actually like to learn those terms, and I enjoy it as long as people are constructive about it rather than condescending. It's trying to pre-determine those terms that is the block, for me.