skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We end up all working for the smooth-talkers selling
> trivial ideas because they've been overriding the "why
> you?" objections since college, when it involved booze and
> women with low self-esteem and, by age 30, they're very
> practiced at overcoming, for example, "last minute
> resistance" (LMR). So when they see LMR in investors, they
> know what to do, and we don't.

Fantastic.
Oh, it's basically quarterly stack-ranking? Adding Google to the list of companies not to be employed by...
Yes they are !
Global variables have static storage duration and are therefore default initialized.
Be careful with the word 'static' which does not always correspond to the the keyword static which has several meaning ! When used with a global variable the static keyword has not the same meaning as static storage duration". It only means no external linkage.
We taxpayers are still paying in the form of the tax credits you get for buying EVs.

Why is it that I pay $7,500 more in federal taxes for riding my bicycle to work than someone who purchases a $70,000 luxury car? Why don't people who don't even own a car in the first place, and take the bus to work, get that tax credit? We're basically transferring wealth from the middle class to the wealthy by offering these sorts of tax credits (at least, in the case of Tesla; other manufacturers like Nissan are offering more affordable electric cars that are actually within the price range of the middle class).

By offering a tax credit to people who buy electric cars, yes, the average taxpayer is still funding Tesla.

Now, the carbon credits are another issue. I think that those are somewhat more reasonable; you are making the manufacturers of vehicles that have substantial negative externalities fund ones that have significantly less.

Again, though, I wonder why only other automobile manufacturers are able to sell these credits; it would be nice for, say, bicycle manufacturers, electric bike manufacturers, public transit systems, and municipalities which build infrastructure more suitable for living without cars to be able to sell credits as well. Only allowing automobile manufacturers to be in the game means that you are still supporting transportation that requires each individual person to haul around a couple of tons of metal with them for 20 or more miles a day, taking up lots of extra space for storing them both at home and at work, leading to congestion and the necessity for more money to go into infrastructure.
"Black, white, and flat" makes me think it'll look something like this:

http://jomsurf.com/an-iphone-with-the-1986-mac-os/
I seem to remember reading somewhere that there are extra procedures in the Justice Department when issuing search warrants involving members of the press. Namely, that the AG has to sign off personally. I'll see if I can find a source.

Edit: Yes. The AG has to personally sign off on them.

"Justice Department regulations call for subpoenas for journalists’ phone records to be undertaken as a last resort and narrowly focused, subject to the attorney general’s personal signoff. Under normal circumstances, the regulations call for notice and negotiations, giving the news organization a chance to challenge the subpoena in court."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/us/phone-records-of-journa...

Double Edit: I guess that just references phone records. It's not clear if it includes all types of summons.
Both have so-called "static storage duration", which is what influences the initial value. See C99 standard, section 6.2.4 paragraph 4:

"An object whose identifier is declared with external or internal linkage, or with the
storage-class specifier `static' has /static storage duration/. Its lifetime is the entire
execution of the program and its stored value is initialized only once, prior to program
startup."

The default initial value of objects with static storage duration is dealt with in 6.7.8 paragraph 10. Basically: pointers set to NULL, non-pointers have all bits reset, aggregates thus recursively.
Atropine is mostly deprecated in cardiac arrest scenarios nowadays. It's still in-protocol for brady PEAs, but that's about it.

Rapid cooling is becoming very widespread in post-ROSC situations (we're spec'ing a chiller box for saline in our next rigs for that very reason), but if they're still dead, cooling them isn't likely to do much for them.
Removing incentives for EVs would be fine if we could somehow retroactively remove incentives, direct and indirect, for oil and gas cars. Just military actions and bases around the world to secure oil probably runs in the hundreds of billions added to the taxpayers' bill.

It's not a few millions, temporary (incentives for EVs won't last forever), that would be at the top of my list of things to cut in a trillion dollar economy.
From farther down in the article: "'I’ve seen 700 patients with FOP around the world, and it’s clear that there’s a lot of different ways to divide patients,' Kaplan said. One identical twin might be only mildly affected, while the other would be trapped in a wheelchair. Some patients developed a frenzy of bones as children, and then inexplicably stopped. 'I’ve seen it go quiet for years and years.'"

Wow. That's an important clinical clue, that discordance between identical twins. That suggests that the disease is not best described by a single-gene mutation, strong expressivity

http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/same-genetic-mutati...

simple Mendelian model. And that means that there is something else going on in the clinical expression of the disease besides the gene mutation, which might provide some traction for effective treatment.

The last part of the article sums up some interesting ways that insights from rare disease research can help physicians better understand human physiology and perhaps come up with ways to treat more common diseases. A very interesting read.
The web is a lousy platform for featureful applications. There's no amount of polishing that's going to shine that turd.
I imagine black and white wont be like windows phone, but will be more like the current iPod music app or the podcast app where they're dark and light, not completely flat, and still maintain shadows and gradients.
It'll be interesting to see how third party apps look. I can imagine the launch of iOS7 resulting in a clean, sleek OS with textured, brightly coloured apps.
Awesome WiFi visualisation from re:publica
Slashdot is right wing? Bahahaha. That's funny. Did you know CmdrTaco actually works for the Washington Post now? Not exactly the fortress of the right wing. In fact, quite liberal. Some would say very liberal.

Anywho, this topic is about government abuse, regardless of party.
Most people who "agree" with Ive don't seem to share his (stated) reasoning. I mostly hear of visual distaste for skeuomorphism, but the article points out

"Ive's…reasoning behind his distaste for the texture-heavy (skeuomorphic) interfaces [is that] software designs filled with physical metaphors do not stand the test of time."

Considering how long Apple has used skeuomorphic design, it will be interesting to see how long Ive's vision lasts. I wouldn't be surprised when as many years have past, that there will again be change.
Google’s Hunger For Structured Markup
Can this former Googler bring Silicon Valley to Myanmar?
While we're on this subject, what's the best DIY printer for an eager beginner like me? Last time I checked, it was Prusa Mendel, but there's been a lot of new additions to the market since then.
It's just as easy to build an AR15 basically from scratch: http://www.oocities.org/elmgrove1765/project6/project6.html

A $500 mill from Harbor Freight, a barrel, and some springs has you in business.
Bad wording on my part. I guess I was saying that there hasn't been a major court decision overturning US vs Ellsbury/NYT, yet somehow everyone's just pretending it's gone. Seems to me like in order to contradict that previous ruling you should be going to the Supreme Court.

I also think it's sketchy as hell to name someone as a 'co-conspirator' in a leak case for being a journalist who was leaked to. That's not conspiracy, it's doing their job with protection from the first amendment.
If I didn't have a clinical/diagnosed level of mysophobia (in my case, moral mysophobia) I would seriously do the sociopath thing just to express my contempt for the species.

My problem is that I am forced at a neurological level to be ethical and honest. In a world full of (and run by) liars, it really sucks.
Being a tea party member or a fox news contributor is starting to look like a "get out of jail free" card.
Apps and Gadgets Optimizing More of Your Life Data
"mass murders with guns kill more people in US than terrorism." Both of those numbers are approximately 0. It's not number of people killed that matters in a terror attack.
Sarcasm: "a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain"

Were you so personally offended by what the person wrote that you needed to stab them for it?

That seems like a very obnoxious thing to write and was completely unnecessary. If you disagree with someone fine, say so and why, but there's no need to do that to what the person wrote. Why sink to such a level intellectually?
Can you fit the CPU heat sink into a laptop?
As a resident of Seattle, I say bring it on! This fits with the paleofuturist theme we've got going on in the area. This would be a nice addition to an area that has already gained a big park with a museum. More reason to hang in South Lake Union.
I'm not arguing one (D)VCS over another, I'm just mentioning that you have some limited flexibility just like you do with BitBucket. Your emphasis was on the "and", so I assumed you were counting the option of choosing your DVCS as a benefit, not the specific DVCS that were offered.
Dying Light developer explains how to roam an open world full of hungry zombies
A Business Rebound is Not All Positive for Startups
I'm surprised he would care about the "test of time", when he's designing an OS that updates every year.
I thought this was a provocative read. I like looking at big picture concepts and theories. I have had similar concerns but am still a firm believer in free information. But I am reconsidering the parameters of this relationship.
Care to supply a link backing this claim that the overall losses have cost billions and been a "massive failure" ?

If we're talking about this program in particular, the Energy Department had the following to say: "losses in the $34 billion loan portfolio amount to about 2% of the total."

Even if that 2% is wrong, a loss of even a few billion compared to the entire portfolio of lending is minimal.

Now I'm not going to suggest that all government loans work, as picking winners in the private or pubic sector is very, very hard. But please before regurgitating a statement please back it up with some evidence or reporting on the matter.
If the alternative is not enough supply to meet demand,yes. Private capital might be better, but how much would private firms be willing to risk on a new company? Also, could that company scale up to build 1 million cars per year to supply American demand?

GM was not run very intelligently in the '90s (and '80s and '00s), so I definitely feel the urge to let them die, but the economic damage of the 100,000+ layoffs would cost more than the auto bailout.
It can be both. But the part where he plans his work as marketing is well done...from a marketing standpoint.
"taking up lots of extra space for storing them both at home and at work,"
+ 1
"The High Cost of Free Parking"
http://www.amazon.com/The-High-Cost-Free-Parking/dp/18848299...
> Why not be pragmatic and pick an appropriate technology for each use case

I suppose you know what's appropriate.
It's still illegal (and not socially accepted) to use those guns outside of the "well regulated instances" zackzackzack mentioned.
The Iliad and Higher Ed’s MOOCish Future
Do you know whether numerical analysis has improved with .NET? I know Morgan Stanley was evaluating it a few (4? yow) years ago, but there were two main problems:

- There were very few numerical libraries, and those that existed either had a high overhead (compared to, say, calling NAG from C++), or weren't very robust (didn't degrade well in edge cases).

- A windows license for a server machine with > 32 GB of RAM cost an arm and a leg, so server farms got very expensive very quickly. (Oddly, the price of the license depended on the RAM of the machine involved.)

It looks like NAG now has a .NET version, so hopefully things have improved. For a while, it seemed like math in .NET was strictly amateur hour, but I'm sure it's better now. I don't have the strength of will to research if the licensing cost has improved at all.
Automattic After-Market: $50 million secondary transaction in Automattic stock
During my Windows 2000 days (up until about 2005) I really wanted a monochrome and flat interface. I tried really hard to get black and white flat icons, and to turn the interface as monochrome as possible.

I suck at design, so my attempts were hideous. I was so bad at design that it was very obvious that my scheme was totally broken.

People trying flat UIs today are good at design. But the flat UI paradigm hasn't had all the UI testing that other UIs have had. I really hope there are feedback things built in, so that companies can learn from users about what is good and what needs more work.

It's very easy to look at an almost good design and not spot the stuff that'll trip up users. And this stuff rolled out by Apple and MS and Google will inspire other designers. Icons and themes and schemes etc will be heavily influenced by what those companies are doing. So I hope we're not taking a step back.
DOJ regulations require that the AG approve ('sign off' on) the request for a warrant targeting a journalist, but you are right that only a judge (well at least a magistrate) can actually authorize one.
Replicate or copy a database table with PHP
If your table is updated often, queries will rarely pull from cache. Depending on your situation, performance may be more important than up-to-the-second data accuracy.
the url in pastebin for the tar.gz is wrong and there other site cannot find it grrrr
In the long run, different people reap the benefits. I don't see his proposed solution as practical, but denying the problem won't make it disappear. My understanding of the thesis is that large groups of people will be left with only obsolete marketable skills in the not distant future: 5-10 years. I think a historical study of what large populations without work does to society does not argue for optimism about that trend.
[edited because I should know better than to post from my phone as I'm getting off the bus.]
The difference is that not one company is blatantly favored over another in those industries.
No reason. Just a curious reader.
Metal guns normally wear out by jamming or having another internal problem -- for an outside user, they are "Fail Safe".

One concern being presented here is that the gun could shatter on failure, making it "Fail Dangerous".
The argument Ive uses is that when the iPhone first came out and smartphones became a mass market consumer good, people needed the guidance afforded by skeumorphism to adapt to a touch-screen environment.

Now that pretty much everyone and their grandma has had a few years using a smartphone and knows their was around a touchscreen, the usability benefits of skeumorphism are no longer as valuable when compared to the aesthetic concerns. Thus, flat design.
Curiosity piqued. Explain. Good or bad?
That's correct, or users could use the right-click workaround.

Most users, however, won't know this workaround and it shouldn't be necessary to lessen the security of OS X just to use (or update) LibreOffice.

I'm sure the Document Foundation could afford the necessary app-signing.
I felt the same way about my MBA when I first got it. 8 hours of battery life! And linux runs smoothly on it. As pretty as the chromebook is, I'm not sure I'd ever want something with such weak processing power. A used thinkpad X series with wxga+ is probably more suitable (and cheaper!). With a new battery, it will also get 6+ hours.
Creating Virtual Reality Games: The Fundamentals
His argument regarding the way in which we develop "demons" is incoherent. Negative emotions are not just the product of disdain or fear of our own actions. Just because one thinks murder is abhorrent does not mean that they are secretly harboring a desire to commit murder. He never defends this claim, and merely asserts that, because people are displeased with the abundance of companies solving trivial problems, we must be afraid of entrepreneurship.

How does he reconcile this with people like Elon Musk and Steve Jobs, whom most people venerate. Did they not work exceptionally hard and face hardship that most of us couldn't bear? If the impetus for our dislike was really a fear of the toils of entrepreneurship, we wouldn't venerate any hard-working entrepreneurs like Elon and Steve. If anything, we'd dislike them more because they have faced more adversity than the photo-sharing apps.

No one dislikes these companies because they fear work. They dislike these companies because they are trivial, and there are too many exigent problems in the world to make another Pinterest clone.
Recordium is on App-store now (free for 1 week)
> I DO think it's wrong to target bona fide journalists for criminal prosecution based on their reporting.

I'm not sure there's any indication that they were really going to prosecute a journalist, though, was there?

I know the way the warrants were written probably sounds like it implies that. But I think they were using the fact that the journalist technically broke the law to fish for information about the guy they were really targeting: whoever leaked the info.

Now, you might well have a problem with that intent, the current law, or the way they obtained the warrants. But saying that the current administration was actually going to prosecute the journalist seems to me unfounded.
I think the problem I have with the article is that it makes no effort to truly analyze the issue at hand. The important questions revolve around whether such programs are important as long term investment or whether investments in Tesla couldn't have been spent better elsewhere.

Instead the author seems to make the issue too simple.

1) Spending tax payer money is bad.

2) Tesla is taking tax payer money.

3) Tesla is bad.

Or to pull examples from the article.

But such a success must still be measured against other taxpayer losses and misallocated capital.

Yes, and where are the author's measurements?

Why should middle-class taxpayers whose incomes are falling still pay to subsidize the purchase of cars that only the affluent can afford, and then partly as a gesture of their superior environmental virtue? When does the rest of America get its return on Tesla's profits?

And why doesn't the author attempt to answer these questions? Of course, you could assume these are rhetorical, but again, I'm not sure why that's useful.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230453790457727...
What do the best podcasts get right?
I agree. The linen texture looks "rich" to me, when used in certain places (full screen app). But in the Notification Center, it just adds visual clutter and makes it hard to read.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. It was a side project of mine a few months ago but they are only so much use on my hard drive, happy that people somewhat enjoyed me sharing what I've learnt
Oh boy.
When you ask government a question they can tell its classified.
But if you dare not to comply with government, you are in so much trouble :D
And there the illusion shatters where government is for the people.
>A monetized information economy will create a strong middle class out of information sharing

That is quite a thesis. In reality, however, if everyone starts charging companies in currency to collect information, only the Big Companies will be able to afford it, exacerbating the problem Lanier rails against.
A beta version is nice but it's a beta, i.e., it's not thought for use on productive systems. Paying is fine too but there're always developer releases of OS X and the GPGTools developers should therefore to get their app ready on or shortly after the release of a new major OS X version.

At the same time, I assume that the developers are well aware of the delay issue. So what exactly causes the delay? Is there any way to support the GPGTools developers in this regard?
On the other side of the scale, my 2720QM (4 cores + hyperthreading) came back as 24 cores. Man, if only...
Playing devil's advocate, hating Paris Hilton could have something to do with a longing or desire to be accepted, loved, or renown. She has those things with traits that you find far from ideal. This could breed resentment.

It's especially interesting as you didn't mention her wealth at all, just her publicity.

Disclaimer: Pure speculation.
I could not find an author credit attached to this piece. I either didn't look hard enough, or the WSJ chose to not include this. Anyone who reads opinions by the WSJ have any background on this?
Indeed. See the behaviour notes in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost
Well, I went with the buy one drive a month from each of my vendors for my RAID.

Use them, but take some precautions. Do real backups and test the backup to make sure it will actually restore. Replace blown drives very quickly. I had a group of C4 SSDs that tanked within 24 hours of each other. I was not amused and thus learned what I need to do in the future.
Have you ever worked on a non-trivial JavaScript application? I'll define that as 10,000 lines or more. I ask because I suspect that this comment is simply a visceral reaction to some flaw in JS, and I want to know if that reaction is based on experience.
Yeah, almost exclusively … it's not much better though since it's mostly a new skin while the philosophy behind the web GUI remains the same.
This is correct. When I scrolled south towards the nearest on/off ramps, I could see "(planned)" over the road.
The top answer to the question is visible without an account, and is interesting enough. The rest of the answers (frustratingly) require a Quora account to view.
Youtube of an rss reader I built 3 years ago.
I wanted to post this because some of the features are something i'd like to see in some of the new rss readers that are being built. I still use it and have enhanced it since then, but not as much as I'd have liked. It's become what I like to call my reference project for learning new languages and such. I first built it back in 2007 in asp and sql server, then moved to asp.net. The version in the video is built under LAMP with a python rss importer. It's also a single page web app getting all data via calls to an api. I started rebuilding it in ruby a while back but never found the time to complete it. also if your interested I chronicled the work I did on a blog, http://www.tubejumper.com/
Boy Scouts Lift Ban on Gay Members: How Twitter Reacted
Well, the New Yorker has been printing exactly your stance on this, so at least some elements of the media care. :)
Sorry, but I don't feel like spending $7K+ in taxpayer subsidies to help a rich person get richer is wise fiscal policy for our nation. I know this might sound completely shocking to you.
Here are some screenshots of iOS System 7 http://appadvice.com/appnn/2013/04/feeling-nostalgic-about-t...
I didn't read the article, but I've heard nothing about him targeting _the journalist_ for prosecution. They are trying to target the leaker for disseminating classified information, and got a warrant to search the email account of the person he leaked to.

By far the best part of this whole affair has been the journalistic pearl-clutching, as if they would be immune the the same laws permitting such invasions of privact that they covered being passed without uttering a peep. But if a bunch of college students or people with a suspiciously non-caucasian complexion have the same thing happen to them then its fine.