skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Assuming you meant 2^31

Where?

> The first equation in that second block (and so the rest of the block) doesn't really make sense in 32 bit two's complement arithmetic

My point exactly.

> computer representations of numbers aren't accurate

The numbers which can be represented in a computer are perfectly accurate.

> and don't follow the usual rules, in more ways than just overflow.

At a low level, we program computers to perfom bit operations on registers. Some operations are more straightforward and efficient than others, but ultimately it's how we interpret the bit patterns that makes them "numbers".

So if they "don't follow the usual rules", it's our own fault.

Security of low-level code has been enough a royal fuckup for long enough now that perhaps we should start to reevaluate some of our traditional assumptions about how CPUs should behave.
If they want me to trust them with that much information then what they seem likely to do with it is extremely relevant to my decisions about how much I rely on them today.

Even a few years ago I had no second thoughts about depending on Google for critical web services but their tactics with G+ have me seriously second guessing them.
WordPress doesn't support anything except MySQL because all the queries are specifically written for it. Developing for a single database enables the queries to be optimized for that database.

(That's the official WP line anyway, I'd love Postgres support myself.)
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Car2go should build a hand-off feature, where you can find people near where you're going who want a car. Then you can just pull up, put on the blinker for a few seconds and give them the car without parking.

I could imagine this would often work downtown at busy times.
There's no proof, sure. But nonlocality is very counterintuitive, arguably more so than nondeterminism (and there are no familiar classical/macroscopic phenomena that exhibit nonlocality, whereas many familiar things at least appear nondeterministic in practice).
It's pretty fantastic for finding the xkcd strip you're thinking of via Google, since the comic transcripts are read by Googlebot.
The curse of reading and forgetting
How does the articulator go from body -> skeleton when preparing them for display? Is part of the job to (for example), scoop out the brain?
Mostly I like the fact that the page includes the post in its original format.
Nothing, but that's not what this board is all about.
The headline is inflammatory and probably misleading, I thought it was regarded as poor form to editorialize by rewriting headlines.

Yet again, in threads like this there are lots of "never done anything" armchair quarterbacks pontificating about how to write "massive" (correct use of the word) software libraries without regard to the age of the software in question. X is really old, security concerns were different then. X preceded Linux by a long way and it was the increasing usage of Linux which made X itself achieve widespread adoption. Yes, it is kind of shocking that no one has scoured it for vulnerabilities so far but having looked at the code a long while ago I wouldn't want to have done it, it is awful.
There is an idea where strong earthquakes are linked to the end of large-scale nuclear tests.

Presumably nuclear tests helped tensions to resolve in small earthquakes and now they build up and release a devastating one.
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There are 7 billion people on Earth right now. You are going to find some that don't know what the hell "breathing" means if you just try hard enough. Using this to pick apart at the word "everyone" is just as pedantic as picking at the specific definition of "free" in that question.

Even more, in most systems I know the amount paid for health insurance is fairly explicit. Where I live you actually get a bill from a non-state company (some things may be subsidized from other taxes, and if you can't afford it you also get a subsidy, though) so no, people don't think it's "really-really" free. It's "people with more money contribute more".
It is tragic that certain individuals lives are effectively destroyed by losing a genetic lottery, but in the end genetic diversity allows a species as a whole to adapt and deal with unexpected changes in their environment. Even for mutations like FOP there's the possibility that it could benefit humans in the long run.

Perhaps a slightly altered form of expression would allow for faster bone regeneration or a reduced chance of osteoporosis. The most relevant example I can think of is Sickle Cell Anemia. Having homozygosity for the mutation causing SCA leads to a multitude of complications and higher risk of death, but heterozygous humans have a significant increase in resistance to Malaria. Mutations are a blessing to some members of a species and a curse to others, but without them life as we know it would never have existed.
This link seems a bit light and fluffy
This is an unexpected gem. I wouldn't have thought such footage existed, with sound.
Ask HN: Good tools (like Strikingly or reveal.js) for infosites?
Looking for tools that make creating one page information sites pretty easy :)
Are you making the claim, then, that there's absolutely no overlap between the fields of marketing and design, that conversion is solely the responsibility of marketing, that conversion is completely uninfluenced by design, and that being able to fill multiple roles is a waste of time for everyone involved? Otherwise I'm having difficulty following your train of thought here.
I wanted to type this exactly.
This data structure was linked in one of the screengrabs, very interesting!
http://cr.yp.to/critbit.html
You're safe in a car because the lightning will travel around the surface of the vehicle and then go to ground.This occurs because the vehicle acts like a Faraday cage.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/li...
The social sharing to move in a queue has been used many times before. Sites like betali.st and erlibrid showcase this.

I believe launchrock and similar companies specialise in these kinds of things. Open sourcing may be a good move, but many others employ existing systems with similar functionality (although they may not be open).
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Mostly repetitive 4/4 stuff like house or techno, sometimes downtempo/ambient/dubtechno (at night). Preferably without vocals; I am not a big fan of these types of genres (when I am not working I would never listen to these) but I found them very good for coding - they eliminate unwanted noises though they do not need your focus because of the repetitiveness.
Sure but WAL in SQLite is 3 years old. Wordpress is 10 years old. MySQL with MyISAM is a lot older than that. I personally happen to think almost everything about Wordpress is wrong. It's just hard to blame them they didn't start or subsequently adopt SQLite. I doubt it's ever been as much as on their radar.
You are actually right. They pay corporate tax in USA on profits generated in USA.

What they really do is that they don't pay their rightful share in other countries such as Australia and UK where they transfer profits to Ireland through phony IP claims.

For example, their net profit margin in Australia was less than 2% in last financial year which means they paid only $40 million in tax on revenue of $6 billion.

All that profit which should have been taxed in Australia and in other countries now sits somewhere currently untaxed in Ireland.
I find this very hard to believe.
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Precio de la Gasolina
http://shirtoid.com/7401/keming/
You can also use time.Tickers to schedule events to occur every so often in a similar fashion.

for now := range time.NewTicker(time.Minute).C {
fmt.Printf("%s is the current time\n", now)
}

In case you are unfamiliar, the range keyword, when used on a channel, is equivalent to:

for {
select {
case now := <-time.NewTicker(time.Minute).C:
fmt.Printf("%s is the current time\n", now)
}
}
Too right, bloody limeys! Do you have any evidence for the size of the fraud scene in the UK at the moment or was that just a baseless non sequitur to round off your delightful rant about the character of those deplorable English persons?
I'm happy to be an alpha tester from the beginning of Loom. I wasn't a big fan of iPhoto. The handling haven't felt comfy for me and also the sync sucked at the beginning (deleting was not possible). So I managed everything by Dropbox.
I was sceptic if Loom can replace my Dropbox-Photo-Upload-Workflow but it does! The design could be a little bit cooler but upload, sync, space and the mac & iOS app are quite good developed. So, now I can use my Dropbox for other things than photos ;))
El precio de la Gasolina es la mejor web para conocer el precio del diesel o de la gasolina 95 para tu coche.
Oh for crying out loud, just use Feedly already. It's a perfect replacement once you switch to the headline mode. It's even better in some ways I think (the feed search and recommendations).
It wouldn't be hard to have a very shallow translation from a lisp-alike syntax - to borrow Clojure's: "(fn [a b] (+ a b))". Named parameters translate trivially to (var n).
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It's actually impressive, that's a single mutation which causes bruises to heal as bone instead of muscle.
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Sorry but I personally find testing in Angular very fuzzy. It works great on school examples (test a function that should reverse a string) but in real-world I never know how to apply it or even what good it will do.

Where do I start and why is it better because of DI? Also Karma still requires something like Jasmine which means I need to learn two new tools (as well as how testing works in Angular). It is complicated for someone who is not used to testing at all.
Or... he's trolled us :)
What kind of organization account do teachers get?
Yeah that was my first impression the last time it was posted up here. Although since then it seems like they've made a lot of improvements to the UI of the site, certainly looks more polished.
Not no kerning, just bad kerning.
Let's just take that as a given, but Apple's tax status in other countries is not why their CEO gets called to testify before the US Senate - my questions were specifically about that.

Not that we're going to get much further in this, though, given that the submission dropped off the front page and into the dark recesses of HN a few minutes ago.
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Is SPDY and Microsoft's objections to it being implemented as HTTP 2.0 somehow serve as example to your expressed view?
A few of my favourites:

https://www.google.com/search?q=do+a+barrel+roll

https://www.google.com/search?q=zerg+rush

https://www.google.com/search?q=atari+breakout&tbm=isch
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Are you saying you are writing tests for all of your 50+ ng-click functions then? What's the difference?
Is the New Google Interface Flat? Announced on Google I/O 2013
Just in time for Google’s annual I/O developers conference, the web giant launched a pretty dramatic redesign to its Google+ social networking arm and Google Maps.

It is Flat?
Thanks I really do not know much about Mixins, but I have seen the discussion countless times here on HN. I will have to look into it soon.
“Nearly flat” is a great adjustment. The new MS Office suite is a slave to the flat look to its detriment. Anything that needs to pack a lot of information in, like options screens, toolbars, print preview and such like becomes hard to scan because of the conformity, and I expect over the next couple of years the UI is going to have to evolve out of necessity’s sake.
Microsoft Reactive Extensions (Rx) clone for Perl
Iain M Banks, Culture - commonplace AI of human level and above in form of drones and larger entities. Pretty please.
Not at all. Just poe's law in action http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law. If any of the discourse team are reading this - sarcasm/intention tag will be much appreciated.
So is Czech Republic. Comparisons are against "common XXX", not specific brands.
Isn't it to leave a body in lime for a while?
A rich Python console and more in Kate editor
Me too. Are you from outside the US? That might be it, as my university does not use a .edu.
I was talking about the percentage of existing programmers with the abilities to pull it off. I'm sure more than 0.05% have the potential to learn it eventually, given enough time, motivation and opportunity. Like musicians & theremin!
Out of curiosity, what do you hate so much about VBA?
I'm sure I don't want to stop on "make more money" as the fundamental answer to "why" - surely there are healthier, more basic motivations than that.

Go on, ask one more "why"...
Re-usable widgets with directives sounds great but the problem I have (with widgets in general?) is that every situation requires a slightly different widget which means the directive gets polluted with conditionals and stuff. For me it sounds good in theory but never works in practice.
You still could suffer lasting psychological damage.
> but the JVM kept me at bay

> ClojureScript compiler is implemented in Clojure, which runs on the JVM
That will be true if corporations were forbade to enter the political debate at all.

But a corporation obeying a law they helped draft, lobbied for, water down, or prevented from changing is somewhat different in my opinion.
Yes, and with the new 2013, it has some good OData stuff too.

Whilst this is a blog post by the party who have created the library, I also disagree with some of their assertions.

Hosting it in a sharepoint type thing, with track changes on, multiple users work quite well indeed. Not to mention that if someone is doing modifies or deletes, I'd much, much rather have that kind of history (hell even git/svn) than having a database without an audit setup. Given the amount of work involved in setting up an audit system, merging it into the excel UI they've just created, I really can't see the point he is making, or where he is coming from.

In fact I wouldn't really suggest people moved away from Excel for the volume of data he speaks of ether, it is very easy to backup (host on sharepoint or similar) incredibly easy to share with the people work on it.

What I would say for it being time to move is when you have a relationship then its damn well time to move.
The CSS selector length myth
Surely some startup has created a IsMyWebsiteUIFlat.com ? All you need is a bit of HTML parsing, feed it into some hipster-judging style algorithm, and hey presto, an automated measurement tool for the latest UI fad.
I prefer your index view to theirs.

Just check your page on iPad - the header bar doesn't quite fit.
The tension could come from others not knowing they're in a simulation. Oh, The Matrix.

As always, Gren Egan has done this stuff too.
divas ;)
Let me be more clear, "Why shouldn't the law require US corporations to pay US taxes on their income, wherever they make it?"
On the second example, wouldn't it make sense to create the ticker outside of the for loop instead ?
That's the main trick, but the other pattern there I really liked was the idea of pulling all mutable state into the function which was running as the goroutine (and manipulated by the for-select).

It's a lot like an object instance, responding to messages, changing internal state and emitting messages.

In fact, here is the same approach in SICP, where they start to model objects as messages passed to a closure with internal mutable state:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-21.html...

[scroll down a bit for exercise 3.11, the "cond dispatch" is analagous to the "for-select" case dispatch, except of course that golang select handles concurrency.]

It's the old "objects are a poor man's closures"/"closures are a poor man's object" duality.
What I don’t quite get is how server federation is much more difficult than ‘client federation’. s2s XMPP looks extremely similar to s2c XMPP, and since they still have s2c XMPP, they don’t seem to have a problem with only exposing parts of their architecture via XMPP.

Really, I can only think of laziness and trying to build a walled garden as reasons to support c2s but not s2s connections.

Both of which are not exactly good explanations for one of the largest companies in software engineering.
Regarding tax credits - that's fine, let's say Ireland taxes at 12.5%, and US at 35%, then all companies would be required to pay would be the difference, 22.5%.
Encouraging to open source _and migrate_ (not neglect and kill) Google Reader is very important.
The publicity came from the draconian treatment of her, not from the explosion.
its really interesting how the evolution of small chips powers alot of new possibilities. (and possible threats, like this or drones etc)

combine rasperry pi + google glass + kinect + leap motion + myo and you could do a number of interesting things that wont make some kind of Iron Man suit look all that scifi ;)

I am obv. dreaming, but still, exciting times to be in as a software developer.
Not to detract anything from Neukirchen's and Karp's perfectly laudable efforts and achievements but the Woz/Jobs comparisons (including those in Marco Arment's recent blog post) are facile and specious.

Woz's design was strikingly cheaper and more capable than anything else on the market and then it was successfully marketed as the first personal computer with wide consumer adoption.

In the seven years it's taken Tumblr to exit by acquisition Apple:

Developed and launched the first popular consumer personal computer.

Developed and launched the first popular consumer personal computer with a GUI.

Became highly profitable

Offered the biggest IPO in decades

It's not the same ballpark or game.
Wow. See also "Tupac Shakur and the End of the World", a short story about a similar condition, caused by a latent virus and triggered by minor injuries. Everyone dies.

I hadn't realised when I read it that there was a real-world equivalent ...

http://futurismic.com/2010/03/01/new-fiction-tupac-shakur-an...

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I'm sorry to hear that you didn't get a response. Maybe the emails went to your spam. Email support@github.com and I'll get you sorted out.
Copyright is still widely misunderstood:

> - Not! For commercial use!

> - No reselling or any other way of making money with my work

> - Don't include these illustrations in final products. It's meant for sketches, storyboards and pitches.

How does "It's meant for […] pitches" goes with "Not for commercial use" and "any other way of making money with my work"?

Please, at least choose one of the many existing licenses (like CC), so one does not need to consult a lawyer just to use two images.
Yes, please send a request via http://github.com/nonprofit

You'll need proof of non-profit status from your jurisdiction.
Start-ups can learn a lot from this ad. It is simple, mischievous, cheeky and above all creative - all the ingredients you need in your marketing.

How can this be applied to a start-up? Lets exchange ideas :)
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Treading softly in a connected world
It is when you're running your own show and are responsible for getting your own clients.
Ask HN: Now that Flickr keeps scrolling, how do I reach the footer content?
More search easter eggs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_hoaxes_and_easte...
fwiw the tsunami warning systems (one each coast) in the usa are currently in the process of selecting and implementing a major upgrade (i am working on one of the bids in a very minor role[1]) so you can expect changes in the next few years (but i have no idea about this particular issue).

[1] which, incidentally, involved me sending thousands of SMS alerts to a co-worker yesterday evening as i ran through a replay of the chile earthquake, effectively DOSing[2] his phone. most entertainment i've had in months. beep. new magnitude estimate. beep. beep. beeeeep... :o)

[2] it's ok, it's only a demo, promise.
I wanted to let you know that your email validation is broken. my real university email address does not pass validation.

this is the how the email address looks like:

someusername@mail.huji.ac.il
All of you are forgetting 'depth', which gives volume. It might well be that they have measured their screen's depth (whatever that means) and it comes out 'bigger' than the one of the iPad.

You never know, with Microsoft.

Man, they are silly adverts but funny anyway.
I love the readability of your blog. Is there an equivalent theme for WordPress?
Yeah. Maybe they can't open source the underlying APIs on the backend, but the webapp as such, they could do. That will be great.
Many things are hard to parallelize using current technology, and there indeed has been lots of research done on it. History goes back to the supercomputer era (Cray, Connection Machine, Transputer etc.)

The term of art is "inherently sequential" problems (vs "embarrassingly parallel").

In addition, the programming effort gets untenable quickly due to Amdahl's law when the amount of parallelism increases. Eg. if you have 100 cores, even if only 1% of work in your program is sequential, your performance goes down the drain. Currently we're in the comfy phase of the curve with few cores...

We've been making good progress with parallel-minded reimaginings of programming languages and computer architectures on one front: GPUs. On the CPU we are saddled with the inertia and backwards compatibiltiy lock-in of tools and culture (witness lasting use of C++ as a tool to write parallel software)
I would like to know more about his head mounted display, but Google isn't being helpful (or maybe I'm asking it the wrong questions). Anyone have any links?
The golden rule is that everything has something to do with security.
In my observation, the rule that people get promoted to their highest level of incompetence holds true way too often.

I.e. the incompetent new guy just has to fake it long enough that he gets promoted. Now his incompetence has leverage. He can most likely shove responsibility onto others, and eventually gets promoted again. More leverage.

If I were to start an organization, I would make damned sure that every single new hire could do what they were hired to do - and then some. Otherwise, the office dynamics may lead to a stagnant organization over time.
Educate me HN: how to contribute to an open source project?
I've been writing code for almost a year now. A friend told me once that contributing to open source projects can really improve my coding skills.

My question is, how do I actually do that? How do I become a contributor for an open source project?