skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no measurement is free of bias. why did you choose a particular instrument to take your measurements on? Why did you use a bruker NMR instead of a varian NMR? Was it because one manufacturer is german and the other is american? Why did you report your measurement in kcal/mol instead of kJ/mol? How does that affect the ability of a reader to glean insight from your report? Why did you even do experiment X at all? Was it because a reviewer told you to do it otherwise it wouldn't be published? Was that reviewer a former post-doc of a vicious competitor, who had a petty dislike for your previous advisor that had to do with the way that he answered a question she posed at a conference fifteen years ago?

So in subtle (and usually insignificant but always nonzero ways) politics can creep into these "measurements".
It's changing the definition of the word, so yes there is something to stand for. If you don't believe marriage needs defending, look at the rates of marriage. Now the meaning of marriage has been diluted so much, no one wants to get married anymore - there's no point except to possibly get benefits from the state.

I could have just as easily said people who use the term "homophobic" automatically lose the argument, as there's no fear involved. This is a battle of semantics - and if we want a quality debate then we need to keep definitions consistent.
That is exactly true. People come up with ideas and try things all the time. The "new" thing here is the crowd funding aspect. It appears to be much easier to convince 100,000 people to risk $10 than it is to convince 1 person to risk $1M. This fact has been exploited by "religious figures" for centuries, I fear for a world besotted with tech "gurus" who get rich off selling people a technological dream future that somehow never quite comes to pass. But I worry about lots of things so what's one more right?
Injecting Grails Config Properties Into Services
The problem is that "domain-joining support" means nothing to me (and probably 99.9% of the world). It may be a really cool syncing solution, but I'd never get that out of the name.
BitTorrent creates a hashes of your file. The file is broken down into certain size chunks and hashes taken of each chunk. If you already have a piece with a given hash, you won't download it. If a hash differs, it'll be transmitted. The receiver verifies the hash. If it fails it re-requests that piece.

I assume the sync protocol works the same. It hashes the file, checks if any chunks have changed, sends the hash meta-data to the recipient, who then requests and pieces that have changed.
If the pizza has an area of unit size (1) - how does a fraction not have absolute magnitude? And what does the fact that the pizza is in two dimensions have to do with it? If the pizza is modelled as a cylinder with unit volume - any slice has both volume/x volume, and area/x area -- where x is the area of the slice?

I'm not trying to be snarky, I would just like you to expand on what you mean?

I can see that pizza slices is a poor framework for working with general fractions -- and I agree that a number line is a fine way of visualizing magnitude... perhaps I'm just not familiar enough with what "teaching fractions as pizza slices" entails...?
A: No, it's not too early. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6067152 Microsoft have taken a $900 million write down for it. That's not something you do for a success or success-in-the-making.

B: All of Microsoft's failed products (of which there are many) are ahead of their time? Or maybe most were just not properly executed? Occam's razor and my own experience with Microsoft's products both vote for the latter explanation.

> Let the Surface RT (and WinMO) be a lesson - you might have a game-changer of an idea

I think the lesson would be: "Listen to the market; it won't blindly eat everything you serve the way it does on the desktop, just because you are microsoft". WinMO had a good market position for a long time, indicating that the market did comprehend. It just didn't keep up with the times.
>Microsoft has forgotten why they even exist.

Microsoft is an office supply company. They got their niche by being cheaper and easier for the office worker. Bill Gates became the richest man in the world by selling EVERYONE a box of paperclips.

This is not sexy growth times. It's a boring business. You know, like most businesses that just make a steady profit.

Win32 will be around forever. It'll be like COBOL and Java. There's always buckets of money doing boring work no-one else wants to. It doesn't get you sexy startup cred with dancing VCs; it does get you a long-term living.
Nice! Have you tried any other tokenizing approaches, such as PyParsing? I think the syntax for specifying parsing rules with that library is incredibly simple.
Would it be safe to move the company outside of US where patent troll cannot reach in legal jurisdiction?
I don't believe it is revisionist thinking as the data backs it up very objectively. http://www.zdnet.com/windows-8-continues-to-fail-7000016222/

I, like nearly everyone on the planet, have never owned a flagship windows phone. I have no reason to own one. It doesn't matter if it is better than an iPhone or not - nobody buys them because nobody wants a windows phone. It's probably just a branding issue at this point, but branding is very important.

Irrelevant to the mobile phone market itself, but I would personally never buy a locked down windows phone as I enjoy hacking my phone to do strange things / connect to strange devices - and windows phone just doesn't offer that. I was previously very involved with windows mobile which was gloriously open and far more hacker friendly than windows phone. It's a pity MS discontinued it, the HTC Universal was one nice piece of hardware.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/australia-to-stoc...
I do, but how can I be so sure you're a AAPL developer :).
WinXP is still the dominant Enterprise Operating system (crazy I know).

Source? Everything I see states that Windows 7 is the dominant Windows operating system in the Enterprise.

HTC had some of the most badass, feature-packed phones ever, and the Operating system killed them. It's just a pile of bloat, the same way WinPhone7 and WinPhone8 appear to be.

This is just silly. You bring up Windows Mobile 4.0, then 6.0. Then you lump Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 in with them. Tell me - which WP8 phone have you owned? Because you're replying to a thread I started in which I said everything before WP8 stunk. So if you haven't used WP8, there isn't much point to your comment.

I won't even dignify the surface with commentary. It was an unmitigated disaster that everyone saw coming.

Surface Pro is doing well. Surface RT is what is not doing well - as you said, it's a solution looking for a problem.

There's a lot of empty instances in Azure land.

Where do you get these stats?

and it's not lost on me that he came from $MSFT

And it's not lost on me that you use a 90s-era style anti-Microsoft inclusion of a $ when mentioning them. Do you at least realize how biased you are or do you lack introspection?
Why replace it for something else that's not open source either?
Win8 is bollocks and has very low Enterprise adoption rates. I'm not a consumer guy so I can't speak there, but I don't think it's performing at all well in Business.

Office 365 is a decent product, I don't have any issues with it except for the marketing strategy (I disagree with cutting off the channel).

We run hosted exchange through intermedia at my office and other than some occasional issues with syncing, we don't have problems. It's certainly a bigger headache than Google Apps, but it's what we started on and it's not enough of a pain to get us to switch.

I have not used Azure personally, but have friends who operate fairly significant infrastructures on there. They've no complaints about the DC (except for the ridiculous SSL incident) but more about things like provisioning times and support responses. This is hearsay though so take it with a grain of salt.

You can do everything you can do on an iPad on a Surface, but the surface is visually unappealing, priced too high and not user-friendly. Those things matter a lot more than they used to; Microsoft needs to understand that the facts on the ground for product development have changed.

The Lumia 920 is not better than the iPhone, I don't know what criteria you could possibly be using to come to that conclusion. That's pure fanboyism, IMHO; I mean they faked the photos for the launch of the phone!? It doesn't get much worse than that.

I have a background in wireless and have used almost every version of the Windows Handset family. I can tell you that the process manager used to be the problem, along with the user experience, but today the issues are cultural as much as they are usability. Microsoft has a culture of adding options to menus and throwing in the kitchen sink; there's no product development because everyone is operating their own Fiefdom. Very similar to the culture at AT&T.
Could I bother you for a couple of specifics for why you left the field? As I mentioned earlier I'm exploring bioinformatics, and I've previously spoken to JunkDNA at length about his own experience, so it would be nice to hear another perspective. My email is pvnick [at] gmail.com if you don't want to discuss it here.
Zune 2.0: is Microsoft making the same mistakes with Surface RT?
Yep. You literally need devs to be able to push a button in Visual Studio and their app is RT-ready. Or you don't have apps.
And not only that, but if you're already interested in playing with legos (as I was as a child, although mindstorms was windows only back then much to my chagrin!), what a great way to learn basic programming concepts without even realizing you're learning! You're not even interested in programming, you're adding extra functionality to something you already enjoy in a fun way.

It's like asking some one to learn how to do the rainbow kick move over the head with a soccer ball when they don't play soccer at all compared to when they do if that is an okay analogy.
I don't understand how Ycombinator News works sometime. We have written this article http://wind8apps.com/microsoft-stock-down-11-percent/ and it was the FIRST here, it got on the front page, it got REMOVED and then somebody submitted a simple link to the stock page.

I mean, don't we deserve a little credit for being quick enough? Or we ALWAYS have to be the primary source of something. In this case, the google stock page is only a tool.

Please explain on how this works because I have previously submitted stories that I discovered and further developed.

I just need to understand how this community works to make the most of it.

thank you!
Wonder why that didn't kill the iPad? :)
If you remember to control for oil wealth when graphing "acceptance of homosexuality" against per capita GDP you'll probably be surprised by how well correlated they are...
> Over the past five years, their stock is up over $5/share or around 21%.

How much as the economy grown in the last year, or how much has the dollar inflated in the last 5 years. I'm sure there is some stock growth there, and it definitely isn't tanking. But for someone who bought 5 years ago, was it a good investment with respect to the market average for this sector?
You can do this, but I'd advise against it. I did this with one of my apps and have received quite a few complaints from people who can no longer find it by searching.

It seems to me that quite a few people don't know about the the Purchased list.
Riddle. How do you get a GOP politician indicted and facing 102 years in Prison in Ohio in one of Ohio's most conservative Counties? Answer: Run an investment scam with GOP investors money.

Rep Beck is a high-ranking member of the Ohio House and has served as 54th District representative since 2009.

He is the chair of the Ways and Means committee, and he's also on the Finance and Appropriations committee.

The full list of felony charges against Beck are:

Two counts of misrepresentations in the sale of a security.
Two counts of unlicensed sale of securities.
Two counts of fraud in the sale of securities.
Two counts of sale of unregistered securities.
Two counts of selling securities in an insolvent company without full disclosure.
Two counts of making a false statement about the financial condition of an issuer.
Four counts of theft by deception.
You will see this happen I'm sure.

Insurance companies don't sweat big lawsuits and have all the resources to put up a fight and spread the risk.

It's only a matter of them viewing it as an opportunity. It will happen. And they will be able to effectively (at scale) jerk around the trolls till the cows come home.

The trolls will either settle for a nominal amount (think of it as a protection racket) or pick a different house to break into without an alarm.
The Stanford and Berkeley admissions offices have basic lists of races and seem to think that they can determine the race of their applicants well enough that there is some justification for their race-based admissions policy. Are you claiming that what these major scientific research institutions are doing has nothing to do with science, that it's all, say, politics?
Win32 will be around as long as COBOL or Java. It's one of those boring "forever" technologies that the world actually runs on.
There's also http://opencongress.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon#United_Kingdom

Pardons are extraordinarily rare in the UK and normally only granted for misapplication of the law
Forums are now down as well.
and don't forget: DR now provided by the NSA.

And MS is still (a bit more quietly) trying to kill off Open Source in general, and the GPL in particular.

And MS is still trying to control your data by locking it up in non-standard (don't start saying it's a standard if even MS doesn't follow it) in proprietary products.

And MS is still running embrace, extend, extinguish on every competing technology.
No. The traveling salesman decision problem (is there a circuit of length m) is NP complete. The traveling salesman problem (what is the shortest circuit) is harder. This has been discussed on HN before.
Kill your R&D and seed corn for short term gains? Very profitable today...but what about tomorrow?
You didn't offend me, I guess my sarcasm wasn't evident. I just find the voting system to be pointless. I also don't know how you thought I was being emotional.

As for calculus, it's incredibly easy to learn - you just need the correct book. Most students don't know that unfortunately. Inventing calculus on the other hand isn't easy, but fortunately most of that has been done for us.
Cultural note: That bit of law is called "section 28" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_28) - There were worries that it would prevent a teacher from counciling gay pupils, among other things.

While 'toothless' it did have effects:

> As it did not create a criminal offence, no prosecution was ever brought under this provision, but its existence caused many groups to close or limit their activities or self-censor. For example, a number of lesbian, gay and bisexual student support groups in schools and colleges across Britain were closed owing to fears by council legal staff that they could breach the Act.

...even though it was mostly not applicable to teachers.
Some friends and I made a simple hot-or-not style site using the "Save the Cat" formula as a way to kill time on a 6 hour drive:

http://www.pitchwar.com/
Total ripoff of the website game GeoGuessr. Hopefully royalties are being sent.
Huh. We moved to GApps and our people cried tears of joy.

Mind you, that was moving from Lotus Notes for email and calendar. Fuck me, GApps is heaven by comparison. I wrote the Uncyclopedia article inspired by having to use the damn thing: http://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Lotus_Notes
The AGC is quite a feat, but already from the digital age. I find the TDC's used during the WWII more fascinating. I wonder how the space age would look like with electromechanical computers :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo_Data_Computer
New surgical knife can instantly detect cancer
My 920 lacks apps :( Even Facebook and Skype are missing from the market my phone is locked too.

What market is that? My 928 has both Skype and Facebook installed on it from the Windows Store. I'm guessing you're outside the U.S. but I'm curious just where you are and why you don't have access to the standard apps in the Windows Store.
Recon Jet pre-order is $100 off ($499) for one more day.

http://jet.reconinstruments.com/

Recon Jet is a heads-up display for sports [...]. The Jet features a
powerful microcomputer and a full-color widescreen display designed for
active outdoor use, mounted on high-performance polarized sports eyewear.
With car insurance claims easily being >100k due to injuries/death/multiple vehicle collisions, what kind of monthly rate could possible cover that?

Other examples with high claim amounts, flood insurance, health care, etc.

It doesn't matter how high the minimum cost is, and you cant judge any kind of insurance based solely on that. The chance of it happening is just as important. Let's say 1% of all companies get sued for patent disputes every year (I don't know the stats on this, just an example), with an average defense costing $500 000. The insurance company also wants to make money, so let's have them charge 150% over cost.

$500k x 1.5 = $750k (amount of revenue per 100 customers)

$750k x 0.01= $7500 (cost per customer per year)

$7500 / 12 = $625 (cost per customer per month)

Now even that number isn't that high, and I assume 1% of companies getting hit with patent lawsuit per year is bigger than the real figures.
As far as I know there is no way to get something back after deleting it using only BT Sync.
Moto X to be revealed on August 1st in New York City
I don't trust Apple. I can run Win95 programs on Windows8 still, and that is a good thing. If I'm building programs that last decades, I don't want to build them upon Apple's quickly changing landscape.

I mean, afterall, as much as Win32 is legacy code... Posix / SysV compatibility in Linux is an even bigger one. That doesn't make Linux a bad system, on the contrary, it makes me confident in building long-term solutions on top of those systems.

Microsoft has their new APIs: C# and .NET, which are all good and all for new programs. But their constant support of Win32 API is frankly one of their best assets. APIs with 30+ years of backwards compatibility are _good_ for the programmer.
yeah, that's probably about right. I had first started hearing about it 3 years into grad school (i.e. 6 years ago), and I wasn't really a biologist with an interest in oncology until recently.
Doesn't the opt-in setting make this a non-issue?

(not a tumblr user, so I might be missing something)
Despite Google’s statement, they still have access to your wifi passwords
> It uses named nouns, yet in real world, we usually refer to things with adjectives and types. We say "pass me the red apple", not "that apple is called Jimmy, now pass me Jimmy".

That's an interesting insight. The "pass me the red apple" version seems a bit like a declarative query language.
Oh, yeah. I'm speaking to everyone else :-)
In other words "changing the government is hard, let's go shopping".
If it was a breech, whether we hear something about it depends on what was accessed and what California's laws have to say about data breech notification requirements.
I'd say our posts are completely opposite in thinking. You think most texts and instructors aren't dipshits, I think they are. You think Calculus is hard to learn, I think it's easy.
It would be interesting to see whether assignments or equality operations are performed more often across the board in programming. I can't tell which way my initial lean would be.

:= certainly makes things syntacticly clearer but really after a point = and == are so common and so natural, is it a problem that even needs to be solved?
You think Windows is great. I don't.

You think you can tell me my comment is worthless despite the many years I've spent deeply entrenched in Microsoft culture. The past has relevance.

Well is relative with respect to the Surface Pro, but I won't waste my keystrokes attacking its sales figures.

As I mentioned in another comment I've got a lot of folks who run big stuff on Azure and I can tell you that almost all of their instance time is comped. Take that for what it's worth, I don't run in Azure and don't plan to run in Azure, but I can appreciate your comments here.

The $MSFT comes from StockTweets. I'm not biased, I am a student of the industry. If you ask me to critique Apple, I'd have a number of things to say. Microsoft isn't all negative, they still make a ton of money, but calling the Kettle black isn't a crime. WP8 is not a dominant operating system. Azure is not a dominant cloud infrastructure. Surface is not a dominant tablet.

We can debate semantics, but we can both agree that Microsoft has a lot of work to do. I believe it's in the product, and, if I understand you correctly, you believe it's in the branding/marketing. Chances are we're both partially correct.

Does that make sense?
If you have another machine with the tools installed, you may find the DMG you want in ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.dt.Xcode/Downloads
Forbidden Island, U.S.A.
This is precisely what fueled my employer (19,000 employees) to do a mass update of Windows XP to Windows 7. We'll probably skip 8 like we did Vista and go to 8.1 or more likely 9.

The 3 GB of usable memory you're limited to with 32-bit Windows XP is very restrictive.
It's a wall of protein with nucleic acid inside that reproduce by exploiting other organisms' cells. Don't get blinded by the differences, the similarities are much bigger.
The Pi is fairly limited in terms for resources. I was wondering if it could support OwnCloud with its low end hardware. I attempted to run OwnCloud on 128m of ram and ran into a lot of problems.
Show HN: A better way to learn AngularJS TDD and server interactions
What about hash collisions?
I stopped reading after "This is psychotic. In the literal sense of having lost contact with reality."
Star Wars home of Anakin Skywalker threatened by dune
Guys, so I have a question about Bittorrent sync. I realize that it's purely a sync tool but is there a way to make it backup data as well? Maybe there's an option that I'm missing that says "Don't delete, just backup"
Cool site.
The news feed has the month off by 1
I got my PhD at that same university in that same field (PL, but before Might's time as a professor there), and I didn't read any of those books (I read TAPL afterwards). My adviser tried to get me to read one of the writing style books, but I seemed to have figured it out by myself :)

People are diverse. There are no must have books but there are many books appropriate for your context (writing your first paper, need help with style? Read that book, or let your adviser beat it into you).

It is OK to provide a list of things nice to read, even better if you list the demand context where the book will be useful. But to use an absolute...that could confuse incoming grad students.
I imagine you could end up just moving the problem to a even more corrupt jurisdiction with laws you understand even less.
I got XCode 5 but none of the documentation installed. :(