skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the paper is (perhaps a slightly different version of) this one: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1739 in which the researchers found evidence that favours the hypothesis "the D-Wave device is doing quantum annealing" over the hypothesis "the D-Wave device is doing classical simulated annealing".

> (though it's not clear to me how far they've ruled out other basically-classical processes)

According to my colleagues at IBM Research, not far:

> A pair of recent articles concluded that the D-Wave One machine actually operates in the quantum regime, rather than performing some classical evolution. Here we give a classical model that leads to the same behaviors used in those works to infer quantum effects. Thus, the evidence presented does not demonstrate the presence of quantum effects.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.4904
It seems possible to me to build the lamina style topologies on top of core.async.
Here's something I consider a problem:

If you're in the cave, and something attacks you, at the end if you press "eat meat", sometimes, exactly at the point when you want to click it, the buttons become "leave cave" instead, and you accidently press that. Then, a next fight may begin, and you're at low health.

Please provide some consistent way to heal yourself before a next fight.
I believe this is it, though github is down for me now so I can't really tell.

https://github.com/bazqux
God damn I so tired of this all.

“I did go home that night and over dinner with my family, I said, “Ask me what it was I did today, and remember my answer.” So my son, who was, I don’t know, nine, or something like that, asked me, “Daddy, what did you do today?” And I said, “I can’t tell you.” That was the only thing I said, and then months and months and months went by.

Just so utterly defeatingly unacceptable. This is not my America.
A lot of American companies make high quality, often cheaper-than-domestic goods. Favouring them is hardly a matter of subservience.
You don't need scientific research to know that a good extensible, programmable editor that can become an extension of your mind and hands is going to make you more productive than Notepad. It's like playing a musical instrument. The finger movements and thought processes move into the background over time as you master them with proper practice and you start operating at a higher level. A world-class musician isn't thinking about which notes to play when and where to put their fingers but rather how to put more emotion into a performance.

Similarly, a top flight programmer who has mastered emacs or vim or Sublime Text won't be operating at a conscious level but will be controlling the environment in front of them at a far higher level, especially if the conceptual model of the text buffer is the same no matter what they're doing with it.

An extreme comparison would be to sit two people of the same ability down in front of the Linux kernel source tree, one armed with emacs, cscope, syntax highlighting, org-mode and cc-mode and the other with nano and see who is faster at some non-trivial task.
I'm not sure exactly what your referencing, but if you are talking about all the stuff that's been going down in the U.S., Glenn Greenwald said at the Socialism Conference yesterday that a lot of what's going on isn't legal and has been ruled unconstitutional in the secret FISA court.

Link to video: http://youtu.be/Uulv4ve6RJ8

Skip to 45:00 and watch for a couple minutes if you're interested in hearing just that. Though if you have time I recommend watching the whole thing.
World.water = 80; Path.outfit["energy cell"] = 80; Path.outfit["cured meat"] = 40; Path.outfit["grenade"] = 10; Path.outfit["torch"] = 10; Path.outfit["bone spear"] = 1; Path.outfit["iron sword"] = 1;
Ask HN: How about an anonymous social network?
Over the last weeks(since all the crazy stuff regarding the NSA) I was thinking of this startup that would be an anonymous social network. Well not 100% anonymous, your profile would be public/private with your data but everything you do and all your comments to other people will be anonymous(messages encrypted even in the database based on tokens). This would also validate the idea behind you will get real answers to your questions, real and honest feedback to your photos and so on. What do you guys think of this idea, is it a valid startup?
This is more of a "cheat sheet" that a learning resource. For a complete beginner this has no value. To learn c, minutes are a 3-4 digit number.

I would recommend C Programming: A Modern Approach (Second Edition). It is pretty much an updated K&R for C99.
Using NuoDB from the PHP Zend Framework
An Interview with Yukihiro “Matz" Matsumoto
And something I wrote seven years ago, for Y = 10:

http://www.stavros.io/tutorials/python/
So simply that a language does not support car/cdr but uses first/rest instead disqualifies itself as a Lisp?
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I only started using it a few minutes ago, but it seems to have kept some of the best features of Google Reader. It was easy to start using.
Just so we are clear the comment you are replying to is quoting the Declaration of Independence and not the Constitution. These documents are very different.
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together at D5 Conference 2007
The interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, one of the most important moments in the recent history of computing. A great teaching for people who love Apple and people who love
That's only API docs and some forked Haskell libraries. You can't find source code of the actual app there.
And here is another post which gives more detail about C++11/14 STL features:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/06/28/c-11-14-st...
Learning C takes a bit more than learning than its syntax. Feeding someone this and telling them they now know C is a recipe for disaster. The "Best to find yourself a copy of K&R" line is the only line that should be there.
A legal system as only as good as those who control it.

One way to define what the law is, is that it's the will of the strong imposed upon the weak. In the Middle Ages for example the "strong" were barons who imposed laws upon the peasants through their men-at-arms.

Today we have various competing legal systems fighting either for global control or defending their local "sovereignty". When we reach the point of one global legal system, we will have found a winner.
I guess you could call it an adventure game? Yeah, the ending was a bit unexpected, but then again so was everything else :D I enjoyed it a lot, and it reminded me how with early games the imagination did most of the work.

Though I found the sudden restart pointless, and I think it took away from the ending a little. Unless the point of course was that you crash, and find yourself in a room with a fire that's nearly gone out... [kinda like that book of the guy who rhymes with Peevin' Ping haha]
One thing I've wondered about is why diesel is so much more expensive in the US than Europe (relative speaking)? As you mentioned, there is a LOT consumed by the trucks so it can't be a question of scale. Or even if it is, the US has massive refinery capabilities so it seems that supply should be able to meet the demand.
I think a few of you don't understand my point, so perhaps I didn't explain it very well.

The US government is on the verge of becoming a totalitarian regime.

The US government is on the verge of throwing out the Constitution & just doing whatever the hell it wants from now on.

The US government is on the verge of declaring that there is no such thing as a law, only some rules it has decided to enforce to its own benefit

You want Americans to focus on fighting this, using our laws and Constitution as a legal basis, or do you want us to waste our time gnashing our teeth in front of the Fox News crowd that foreigners - which to the Fox News crowd means, "al Queda, Mexican drug cartels, smugglers, etc" - are having their email read?

In WWII there were a lot of sacrifices made so that Hitler & the Nazis didn't win. The war was more important than the battles or the individuals.

Spying on foreigners is an important issue. It just isn't the most important issue right now, so you'll have to take a backseat for a while. If we don't block this for Americans, you have absolutely no chance of having it blocked for you.
Looks really well designed! I added it to our list of reader alternatives here: https://starthq.com/apps/kouio

As a sidenote: I think it's quite ironic that your blog doesn't have an RSS feed. I noticed the same thing for some of the other alternatives we've listed.
I don't think the author is saying "treat my rights as your primary motiviation", nor is he saying "you should be more concerned about other people's rights than your own."

What he is saying is that the American discourse over these violations — violations perpetrated by agencies within America upon as you say everyone's rights — tends to dehumanize anyone who isn't American. It seems that if the NSA had been using their Prism dragnet to target only non-Americans, then there would be no public outcry at all — as if the real outrage is the fact that American citizens might be the target of these blatantly illegal and wide-reaching abuses of power.

Perhaps, as you say, this is simply the American public "looking inwards" to it's own problems, but I'd argue that this is not your own problem. It's everyone's problem, and we all deserve equal treatment.
Both are my heros !!
I'm not sure exactly what your referencing

What I said was general, I wasn't thinking of anything in particular.. but thanks for that link, I will be sure to listen to it in full when I have time.
Check out Newsblur's story view (or text view if you don't want the site's hideous styling).
Thanks a lot!

I guess it's a little embarrassing, but it's not actually a proper blog - just a static page. We've just been too focused on polishing the app itself to worry about that :-)
saving energy, this is useful !
What does this really mean: "as long as it's not illegal to host it"? This site is globally accessible, but legal rules are local. If you host something which is illegal say in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (not that hard to do), and make it available over neocities also to Saudi Arabia, then is it illegal or not? Well, in practice for sure KSA will just block whole domain, and probably you don't care. I think whole youtube is still blocked in Turkey because of single bad video. Where are physically your servers?

Also I'm afraid according to many countries you would be legally responsible to the content what you help to publish. So any single page with questionable content may end up badly for you.

Geocities worked because these nasty legal problems did not come up yet, Internet was a marginal non-serious thing, and even if bad content was published then no-one noticed or reacted to it. Now a web is the mainstream media, and you may find out that technical hosting of some bytes is really smallest problem in the global publishing business. In order to follow all laws of all the countries where you operate (i.e. from where your site is accessible) you need to monitor the content, react to notifications etc.
There has been some research done in this area [1]. What interests me more is how does this compare to the other countries, if someone has the link please post it here.

[1] http://www.nationalgeographic.com/roper2006/pdf/FINALReport2...
Look locally. In Ottawa there are literally dozens. Might have to ask around.
But how did they shard a queue on multiple servers?
Looks good. A few questions, though:
1. Is there no "Mark all as read" (per feed, and general)?
2. Is there a way to only show those feeds with new items?
3. It says "Free for July". Afterwards what's the pricing?
4. Is there a mobile app or mobile-optimized site?
Thanks!
I've never had a problem with technical searches on DDG, since I use bangs to narrow them down (!so, !msdn, !mdn, etc.) Having DDG as the main search engine allows entering these bangs in the address bar just like the browser's search shortcuts. Google has gotten too smart for me lately.
What are the limitations of the GO macro, which I think makes these control flow manipulations possible?
You never know. But you can reduce the likelihood for that to happen by paying for it.
No. The debate is which rights should be universal and not linked to citizenship.
I cant think of another discipline where the first example from the time section will use a Julian Day:

>>> x=Ticktock([2452331.0142361112, 2452332.0142361112], 'JD')
The closest thing to the reader I always wanted is Hackernews; a selection of significant, educational and relevant articles on topics I'm interested in.

Meanwhile RSS readers have done little, if anything, to figure out how not to waste my time "nexting" through stuff I have no time or interest in.

The entry point for any software in this field should be "how much time per day do you have to spend on reading feeds?"

For example medium.com has a brilliant little feature - labelling articles with the time it takes to read them e.g. "2 min read". Yes! More like this please.
Makes sense. Send me a tweet @starthq when you get around to adding the feed and I'll include it in the directory.
I'm looking for a low power server for use serving media files over NFS. Any suggestions? This box doesn't sounds like it will fit neither my low power requirement nor being able to throw in a few large hard drives.
For me it was the switch from ATSUI to CoreText for the code view rendering. It completely changed the way the text was antialiased, and removed the faux styling for fonts that lacked variants. As someone who liked Monoco, this killed it for me.

At the time TM2 was still private beta and not yet open sourced. I figured if I was gonna change to a CoreText editor, ST2 had the better support.
The USC group has a response to Smolin and Smith which explains how some quantitative features are still best explained by a simulated quantum annealer: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.5837. So there's still some potential for evidence of quantum effects (though "maybe doing something nonclassical" is a far cry from all the marketing talk, especially since annealing with stoquastic Hamiltonions with a fixed topology is already a far cry from any known-to-be-useful quantum computing model).
Ask HN: What is your experience making a free service completely paid?
Today we decided to make our 7 year old free photo site paid. We really didn't want to do that, but Google banned us from Adsense because some users kept uploading porn. Google has been very lenient over the years allowing us ample time to remove the illegal content (illegal for Google and also illegal for us).

Because of the amount of users, traffic and images, we run quite a cluster for this site and we can simply no longer pay for it now that we don't have ads. We tried different providers but they don't come even close.

Did anyone here take the same (drastic) step and what can we expect do you think? Did we make the right decision?

We wrote this to our users; http://picturepush.com/gopro

Hoping for some positive experiences!
1) There are a few little ui functions like "mark all read" still missing, those will come over the next day or so - we just wanted to get this out right now to give people a chance to do the one-step Reader import before it shuts down. Actually if you look at our API you'll see it already supports mark all as read, just missing the button.

2) No but that's a great idea, we'll definitely try and work that in shortly, thanks!

3) We're charging $5 a month - we talk about it in much more detail in our initial blog post and FAQ.

4) Not yet, that's our next "big ticket" item, but it's absolutely coming.
Reading this my first reaction is to ask how much OP has been paid by google to write this piece of stupid, to me this looks like a mix of infomercial and fanboyism.

The title is misleading makes us think he had no other choice but to go back to google but when reading the article the reasons invoked are personal preferences preferences and comfort sprinkled with laziness.

Google feels faster by a small fraction of a second to OP, he asks to be geolocalized and profiled so he can skip a couple keywords in his query and his unreasonable expectations be met by google.

Here's an advice try searching for "pride weekend san francisco" instead of "pride" when you're looking for info about the pride weekend in san francisco. Try searching stackoverflow when you want stackoverflow results (though in my experience ddg almost always features a relevant stackoverflow result and link in ddg instant answer)

And this supposedly is worth renouncing privacy and being profiled and tracked across the internet and mined to oblivion ?

I'm not saying duckduckgo is perfect and will fulfill your every need but what telling the world youhad to switch back to google because ddg didn't fulfill personal expectation of it being google is dumb, really.
But then it wouldn't return the results he wanted for Pride.
Will do, thanks again.
Cookies Are Addictive
I'm not disagreeing with your point about the long tail. I'm just saying that there are other languages that, by this metric, are significantly more complicated than Java, yet which don't get drowned under the weight of design pattern abstraction idiom pattern architectures. It seems whatever causes that effect in Java is not (only) how complicated the language is.
Correction: Tru64, the Alpha achitecture successor to ULTRIX.

But still: the idea was to demonstrate the massive (for the age) memory capabilities of 64-bit processing. And it was a rather impressive demonstration for the time.

Still, it also pointed at the limitation of monolithic single-systems architectures. For those interested in the history of The New New Thing, for much of the 1980s and 1990s, focus on supercomputing was on massive NUMA parallel architectures. What we've seen instead is a gradual increase in core densities, leveraging economies where these exist, but a principle focus on distributed, multi-system architectures. With very few exceptions, supercomputers and massive public-facing Web architectures focus on designs of redundant, mass deployments of essentially similar (not necessarily identical) commodity x86 (and successor) hardware. Or GPU hardware for quantitatively intensive applications.
Actually, it died fairly quickly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts_of_1798
Ask HN: advice on overcoming a programming plateau?
I've been programming for about 5 years, starting with Java as an undergraduate, then moving on to C++ and Fortran (!) as a grad student. Along the way I've dabbled in other languages: Python, Ruby, C#, and Clojure; but I feel like I've reached a plateau in my programming ability.

When picking up a new language, I feel like a can rapidly reach the level I have in the other languages I'm familiar with, but never seem to progress any further. Whilst I realise I am learning new things, I feel I'm becoming a "seasoned beginner" of all trades.

Having a goal that I really want to reach might help, but I don't really have any particular project I want, or more importantly, need to achieve.
That's a whole other problem...

Is this feeling common?
Any advice on trying to "level-up" my overall programming ability?
Ooh, thanks. I think John and Graeme have been working on a second version, presumably in response to this. The battle continues...
Indeed, my first reaction is "no you won't." Even a low-level language like C has its quirks that will bite you -- undefined behavior, for example, or even how many bits wide an int is. Not to mention that knowing C involves a lot of knowing the standard library, which doesn't happen in minutes.
The approaching datacenter zombie apocalypse
Great thanks. About the mobile thing, I absolutely don't need a dedicated native app. Something like Google Reader's own mobile UI would be totally OK.
Agree about the brand. This business has potential for a very expensive long term impact on US economy starting with cultural exports to tourism and associated services.
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
One guy making a point in a blog post doesn't make a fact.

In my own experience, google is now offering poorer results to the point of being useless. I've been using it to search for error message for about 15 years now. While on the other hand duckduckgo very often nails it with a relevant stackoverflow result in instant answer.

I guess ymmv according to how much you're inside the bubble.

I'd like to see something more factual to show how much ddg sucks at fulfilling queries for info to fix error message vs unfiltered google.
Comments starting with // are not valid C89.
So what is your point? That I'm not spending time writing blogs about how broke up I am that foreigners are also being targeted? Ok, I'll go write a blog.

Personally I feel America is in a crisis right now, and I'd prefer to focus my energy on fighting something I actually have a legal basis for fighting and might win. We aren't talking morals, we are talking LAW.

Do you think that if we lose this in America, that will still be able to carry on and fight on your behalf?
Alternatively, you should have an attention span not measured in seconds.
No, no one thinks that Americans should be concerned more with other people's rights than their own. We think that Americans should be concerned by something more than only the rights of Americans. What pisses us off is that the biggest excuse in the whole prism debacle is that they don't spy on Americans. And then debate circles around if it is true that only Americans are spied on or not. Very few question the validity of the fundamental idea that it is perfectly alright to spy on all non-Americans.
Learning new languages is just one dimension, learn new algorithms, learn new computational problems, learn high level APIs, learn low level stuff, learn how machines work at the bare metal level, learn how operating systems work.

Make things, make toys, make tools, make big projects, make oneliners.

Write new things, rewrite old things, fix shitty code you find on github, fix shitty code you wrote. fix bugs you find, increase performance of slow things.

tl;dr Get better by doing.
Their job most certainly isn't mass surveillance of civilian populations. If they thought it was, they need to be disbanded.
Because it's a tired, overabused cliche.
Similar http://candies.aniwey.net/
Didn't making your post also require a browser?

You prefer running a binary to play a game?
This is the heart of the matter: the nation state is an unfit instrument in a globalized economy. We need to move towards a one-nation planet with equal protection under the law for all human beings, as well as equal obligations.

I'm just not sure how the voting system should work, because current voting systems mostly produce poor results.

I am reminded of Childhood's End where humanity is forced to grow up under alien guidance. Somehow we need to figure out a way to grow up as a species in a similar way.
Show HN: Women Reading Aloud While Being Pleasured
I was brought up on K&R. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone anymore. Much like a Java certification, most of it will have to be unlearned in real life. It's littered with holes and land mines and misses a massive chunk of the surrounding tooling and all the idioms which make for a good C program that won't kill you or your immediate successor who has to maintain what you've written.

I'd go with Zed's Learn C The Hard Way, then 21st Century C and go from there.
Yeah, the article could have done without that part and still stood upon its core argument. I think the author intended to start out with a little flattery to soften the blow, but it just comes across as patronizing and/or a bit outdated.