skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hipster because it goes against the accepted standard way of writing Javascript. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1547647&utm_source=twit...
CoffeeScript certainly has its syntax quirks, but after some forced time using it I've found I can't go back to happily writing plain old JavaScript.

The first week or two you'll regularly need to peek at the compiled source to be sure it's doing what you want, but you'll quickly get a feel for it.

Also, a lot of the weird ambiguous cases are disambiguated by including parenthesis, so if you're unsure just include the parens and you should be ok.
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Number 1 is the reason why these Apple stories get written.
Warren Buffett would seem to be the canonical example of a business guy who reads a lot. He seems to be successful.
Australian car market is not small at all. In 2012, car sales were about 1.1 million. United Kingdom was 1.9 million by comparison, and although I cannot find specific data on the pre-tax cost of an average car, I am sure it is significantly higher in Australia.
I work on a high performance system which needs to handle lots of concurrency of requests with various possible scenarios.

In order to efficiently time out requests, need to have the requests sit in a chronological list. But they also need to be quickly found by other orderings, so they also sit in hash tables.

When a request is complete, I need to efficiently delete it from all these structures.

Using ptr arrays rather than lists would be catastrophic for our performance.

There is virtually no advantage whatsoever to the array approach over the list approach in our case and in many others.
Yeah, I think there is a niche for this. One of the main criticisms of vine is that there is a certain magic to pictures compared with video which comes off as more real. We don't want to save the reality of our lives, just the filtered moments.

I really think this could fill a space in between the perfect single shot and the realness of video.
Another entrant in the fascinating club of "weird but cool sounding things tried in our teens/20s in the hope they blow your mind but invariably don't" alongside lucid dreaming, smoking banana peels, and staring at the back of someone's head to see if they can sense your voodoo powers.
UPS Store to offer 3D printing service
Crazy. Has that been observed in carrier-grade NAT boxes, though? Or only in el-cheapo residential devices? It seems an incredible risk to the carriers to do things that way.
How about a "job offer"?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-sto...
It seems obvious enough that always reading and never acting is pretty useless: even if you remember everything you read and it was all good information, there's no magic force that turns correct knowledge into anything useful to anyone else.

So… spending every waking hour consuming information isn't a good idea if your goal is to deliver a product. That doesn't mean going in completely half-cocked is the answer either, though.

Would you suggest that a budding young programmer skip reading about computer science, or about interesting new languages and frameworks? After all, C was a perfectly fine tool in the 70s—who needs anything else? And premature optimization is the root of all evil—why even think about algorithmic complexity? The good ol' linked list is all you should ever need, right?

I don't know where exactly the happy medium is, but I suspect there is one. At some point, you have to start actually doing something. That doesn't mean talking and reading are a complete waste of time—just that talking and reading aren't building. They are, at best, giving you extra tools to build and sell a product in the future.
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While you are blindly jumping into the claws of the tiger because your man-of-action guts tell you it's a lotus, I'll stick around to grab your wallet while he devours you.

Signed,
The Theory Guy

P.S. Spending three seconds to think about why the fuck is a lotus flower striped and why it is purring like a cat could have saved you.

Also, what the heck is a wantrepreneur? Is that the pretentious term for "someone who isn't an antrepreneur, but totally knows everything about it because he read all the blogs on the subject and all the interviews in Forbes"?
Fan-made Halo game for PC
Lucid dreaming is actually pretty cool and did blow my mind. It's essentially not that different to temporarily being a god, with complete control over your environment. Takes a bit of getting used to, to not wake up as soon as you realise you're lucid dreaming ("oh my god, how exciting! Wait, no, don't wake up now!"), but once you get that down, your imagination is the limit. Pretty mind-blowing imho.
Skype may be American now, but it's origins are clearly European.

"Skype was founded in 2003 by Janus Friis from Denmark and Niklas Zennström from Sweden. The Skype software was developed by the Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, together with Friis and Zennström were also behind the peer-to-peer file sharing software Kazaa. In August 2003, the first public beta version was released."

Until it was acquired by eBay, it was a Luxembourgish company. I don't know how a company could be more European in origin.
Wherefore go-saturate
Pedantically, in Dr Who, she's always just along for the ride.

Double pedantically, I suppose the Dr is too since he has bugger all control over the Tardis (at least in the only series I acknowledge, before Colin Baker.)
Production + delivery in one service. I wonder how will online shops embrace this new situation. This model has a chance for large disruption. I wonder if producers (or in this case designers) will deliver 3d printable (i.e. 3d printing optimised) versions of their products to take part in this model.
You can coerce it to an int with a cast, with some caveats: It is implementation defined whether or not the size of an int is sufficient to store a pointer, and the type lets the compiler know what you want to happen when you operate one it.

If "foo" is an integer variable, then "foo + 1" returns the integer value of foo + 1, but if "foo" is a pointer, "foo + 1" returns the value of foo + the size of a pointer, for example.

So the pointer does not store any extra information, but the compiler stores and makes use of extra information about the pointer variable (not about the value itself) during compilation.
Facebook: Secure browsing by default
We have that already i.e. coding to a test. It sucks because you never seem to grasp the entirety of a program but instead just hack until every flag is green. It doesn't prevent entropy either. Only thing that prevents code entropy is careful and deliberate application of best practices when needed i.e. a shit ton of extreme effort.
If the arguments you wanted to pass to a constructor were variable in length, why not just send them in an array normally instead of having to jury-rig this?
Are there benefits I'm missing?
BillGates,MarkZuckerberg,Twitter's JackDorsey promote computer coding in video
Was chatting to some people about this today. One distinction I would make is the difference between getting the finished product as a reward or getting another incentive as a reward.

If I start up a kickstarter for a video game and I fail to deliver the video game I think that is fine. If I also fail to deliver something like tshirt rewards though that is plain mismanagement.
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I don't know what fiddling with configuration file and maintenance you are talking about. It took me less than 1 hour to setup my wordpress blog on a vps. Other than the occasional plugin and wordpress update, which literally is just a button press away and take 30 seconds, what other server/blog maintenance you have to do?

In the last 3 months, I didn't even log in to my server, it has automatic backup setup and basic security taken care of during initial setup. I spent less than 3 minutes in the last 3 months for occasional plugin updates.

If you are talking about customization, than it is not any different than spending time customization blog on someone else's platform.

If you don't have 3 minutes in 3 months and 1 hour of initial setup time than you have other problems.
There is another open source software which generates binaural beats. The software is Paulstretch, an extreme-audio time stretching software I wrote few years ago:
http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/

Here is a screenshots of binaural-beats generator:
http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/screenshot3.p...

But I don't know if there are real psychological effects of the binaural beats :)
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“SkyDrive” follows Metro into oblivion as Microsoft abandons trademark case
I think he meant "European companies like Skype are bought by American companies".
Doesn't have a huge "READ OUR STUFF!" popup though. They get bonus points for that.
You program as if you don't have finalizers. Finalizers really are just a safety net.
TIL I learned a new word ... it sounds kinda cute..

I'm sure there's a pretencious band name in there somewhere :)
I am not talking about building personal brand, not sure how you came up with that, nor am I talking about profit. Medium and other blogging platforms are content firm, basically you are working for them, under the guise of simplicity and they are (or will be) making money off of your writing.

This is stupid.
How to Solve a Real Problem
I don't know your definition of a browser, but in my opinion, a browser used to be mainly a document viewer. This is changing now, but the original statement does make sense in this context.
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Javascript. The core.
What actually happens when you hand over your credit card details?
Do you get an eBook or something?
The article doesn't actually say.
OMG, it works on IE 10! Congrats!

But not working on Chrome or FF :|
I heard it different: all that stuff is intended to make the mark feel superior and less likely to suspect that they're being scammed. Makes a lot more sense to me.
There is a "patent pending" notice at the lower left hand corner... Can you tell us what are you trying to patent?
To be clear, using SIMD for JPEG encoding is not new. I'd be curious how this JPEG encoder compares to libjpeg-turbo's NEON encoder.

http://libjpeg-turbo.virtualgl.org/
Evolution has been good at getting photosynthesis as efficient as possible in the most extreme cases. In rice and all other C3 plants, it could be at least 50% more efficient in the majority of field situations. That's what we work on. Projected yield improvements are on the order of 50%.

Absolutely agree about the importance of post-harvest problem-solving, but I disagree about the benefit/cost ratio. There are a few key things in photosynthesis which, if achieved (which won't cost that much), could have massive benefits. In post-harvest research there are many small, localised problems that change over time. It's a less tractable, but extremely important, set of problems.
The way I see it, information possession and ownership are the same thing, and neither concept should be recognized by the law.

What does it mean to possess bits? Do they have to be on a physical media on my property? What if I have a network drive? Do they have to be on a server that I have access to? Does that mean that we're all in possession of everything that is made public on the Internet?

There are ways to answer these questions, but I'm not convinced that we have anything to gain from the government doing so.
Samurai Loren Fykes of the Third Gundan releases recommendation app Quchy
Video gives you still images that are one quarter the pixel dimensions (1920 x 1080 = 2.07 megapixel) and presumably more highly compressed.
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Me too. You can find some stacks here (http://leanstack.io/cloud-stacks/) but HN isn't on that list.
Terrible article in my opinion teaching some really bad habits that will cause hard to find bugs over time. Truth is, omitting semi-colons is probably fine at smaller scale, but for larger javascript code base with multiple maintainers, it's definitely a better practice in my opinion. Oh well, no point in me saying what has already been said :)
What do you think about my startup?

Hi
My name is sagi
After 12 years in EE, Management roles in R&D and some experience in trying to go for my technology ideas (apps, gadgets),I have decided to try and explore and hopefully solve my and others obstacles in going for their dream ideas or collaborating on a great startup idea.
We are creative but most of the time we have commitments to our daily work ,lack of knowing the right people to team with, legals and always miss money and at the end read about someone else that made it with our own great idea.
so please check it out and let me know feedbacks right in my face!
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Appreciate it
Sagi

Hi guys
Thanks for the feedbacks so far!
Sure, I cannot talk about full features but maybe i can tell some so i will discuss with my colleagues.
We will be out in few weeks’ time
I am very practical so i was looking for practical solutions. It is not just “post your idea” for fun
But it is a practical solution that goes all the way.
I think (not yet sure) that we got it and i have some patents on the flow.
Looking to discuss with potential audience to learn what will actually work well….
We work very hard to make it easy and also deal with the legal aspects of engagements.
I want to make it easy for users (it means that we are doing most of the messy stuff)
The goal is for you to meet real partners for small projects, sign real contracts and start working. Who says the best guys live next door? Who says you can’t build an app or gadget with great experts on the net ?

Please Let me know more…
Best
Sagi
In case anyone was wondering, it's about 80MB zipped, 500MB unzipped.
oh, no line breaks :-) ...
A cross country move.
Setting up a game company: quite possibly using chunks of KS money to license other games before this one was actually produced.
Setting up a film production company. Possibly with game KS money, the timing is right.

Basically from what I've read the dude who ran the Doom That Came To Atlantic City KS is a failed serial entrepreneur, possibly a scam artist. There's a long thread on BGG about the details.
Phone numbers in Germany work the same way like you describe with Australia. Internationally you'd have +49 (area code without leading zero) (number) and within Germany you can use (area code with leading zero) (number).
Well... I excepted the article to go deeper. Investigate who actually pays these ads,,where does the money go, why are they allowed to basically lie in the ads.

Instead the author just clicked on the ads and watched the videos. Well, I can do that too.
Hmm. As someone who's had to run a massive IIS cluster over the last 3-4 years, I disagree. It's obtuse, unreliable, incredibly overcomplicated and regularly just fucks you because it can.

Some things that are utterly broken that really shouldn't be that have cost me literally DAYS.

1. Using IIS ARR to proxy subversion = hell. The moment someone requests a web.config file from the back end SVN server via the IIS front end, it shits a brick. You have to piss around in the applicationHost.config to fix this.

2. It knackers XML encoding transparently inside ARR somehow resulting in clients losing requests as they come down as application/octet-stream rather than what you sent them as. This breaks lots of clients randomly.

2. Wildcard SSL domains i.e. star.whatever.com. If you delete one site instance, it kills all the others completely dead and you can't re-add the certificate on the others: you have to create new site instances again from scratch. Workaround: stop a site instance and leave it there to rot forever. That's fine but we can have up to 100 instances on a cluster.

3. Thread reuse. Each module (in integrated mode) can run in a different thread so it knackers thread local variables like the current culture and identity system in .Net. This is an absolute fucker to debug as it only happens under heavy load and is barely documented.

4. Sometimes servers in our cluster randomly just stop for a few seconds for no apparent reason (7.5 on 2008 R2). Our phones start ringing then. We've had Microsoft working on a fix for over a year and even they can't work out why it's happening. They admit it is IIS that is doing it.

5. Deployment hell. You're supposed to be able to just "xcopy" deploy everything because it uses some mish-mash of shadow copies but occasionally this screws up and leaves an older dll in the ASP.Net Temporary Files folder which means your site suddenly has broken code contracts everywhere and your site goes down big time with YSOD (as even the error pages fall over) until someone fires up the magic "fix it quick" powershell script which cleans out all the crud, redeploys and restarts the cluster. That's fine but we have 16 front end IIS servers and 80 million requests a day so this means trouble for us.

6. IIS Express and Visual Studio integration is just shit. It doesn't work with source control software at all leading to constant problems when people do updates. The only solution is to shut everything down, delete the IISExpress directory in your documents folder and try again.

7. The whole dynamic vs static thing falls over when you have a module which rewrites static URLs. Everything has to run through the dynamic then. The coupling internally for features like this is terrible.

It's stuff like that which means it's still a broken pile of crap that I hate more and more every day.

For reference, we moved ALL of our development stuff over to an Apache mod_proxy setup with LDAP / AD integration and it just works. We'd love to do it with the front end but we can't for obvious reasons...
They simply are not using what Apple gives them. They wrote their own JPEG encoder which side-steps any limitations that Apple's own implementation has.
It's far too early for me to read that sentence again.
Amazing. People click on stuff that is in comments. Genius.
It crashes for me every time I take somewhere between 60 and 75 frames with the main camera. With the front-facing camera, I can shoot forever.
In the iPhone Settings (somewhere called Diagnosis & Usage), I have a bunch of LowMemory warnings. I'm using an iPhone 4S.
Well you could use Apache + Mono, but I don't know about that in production.
I have used brainwave entrainment before, to aid myself in meditation and to help me visualize. It did help me feel that I got into more of a meditative/trance state while using them, but sometimes it worked too well and I fell asleep (it doesn't help that I meditate lying down in my bed).

When I actively used stuff like that (many years ago), I had the impression that bineural beats in particular weren't useful. However I tried to Google it and I wasn't able to easily confirm my memory, so I guess it's up in the air for me.
It's hard to say exactly, but if you can work through all the problems in Barber's Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning, and some other standard 'frequentist' stats text, you'd be well placed to get started.

My profile says where I work.
I should have added data structures and algorithms to my list. De-novo assembly, alignment, phylogeny, and pretty much all sequence work rely heavily on advances in maths and comp sci.
He's got an affiliate link in the article. He is so greedy.
Getting better WiFi into a large chunk of public libraries requires making arrangements with thousands of cities and towns. Getting better WiFi into almost all Starbucks locations in the US requires just one deal with Starbucks. To me, that makes it seem perfectly natural for Google to focus on Starbucks and to reserve their efforts with public libraries for places where they have existing relationships like Google Fiber cities.
Glad to hear it. I feel the same on the format: it's closer to a photo on the left of the spectrum between photo and video, where vine/instagram/cinemagram are on the far right.

You've put it very nicely--there's definitely some magic about a "silent moving picture".

It requires and sparks the imagination in the viewer, evoking emotion perhaps as easily as a carefully crafted cinematic short.
I'm just moving from a startup to freelancing.

I founded a local e-commerce company almost 7 years ago which now has its own life with employees and investors.

I quit my day job to dedicate myself to bigger challenges like designing beautiful websites which deliver the message.

Why? I found more interesting and creative solving new problems. And when I'll have enough international contacts I'll launch another new company.

Which is by the way already in research phase. http://newsledge.com
A good basic article.

An advanced article would talk about arrays of function pointers, pointers to function pointers, returning function pointers and so on. It can get pretty crazy looking.
When? In 1995?
gh-pages / github.io
Even I'm charging more the common answer is: First we are trying to find somebody here (NYC, Chicago), if not we will get back to you.
I'm not sure to what specific beats you've been listening to but they surely did "work". I listened to a few hemi-sync beats some time ago (http://www.hemi-sync.com/) and they've brought me the worst nightmares I've ever had. On the next they I got sick. I've also talked to people who said they've had OBE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-body_experience) after listening to those beats. This never happened to me though. Just the nightmares. I guess it really depends on your current state, in what frequency these waves put your brain in, etc. So it's highly individual.
I wonder if that's an evolutionary thing – somehow we evolved out the ability to retain phase difference information outside the frequencies where it's useful for stereo angular location?

The "~1000Hz" upper limit is pretty close to a 1/4 wavelength for a "phased array" of two ears ~100mm apart. That'd make it pretty ideal for angular discrimination based on phase difference.
And what is a entrepreneur anyways? Feels like the definition has shifted from being someone who has the job of starting up new businesses, to just running a business at all.
That's one of the reasons I am a libertarian. Less government means less complex law means less bugs and abuses of the law. If your government tries to say what you can or can not eat, for example, you need complex law to figure out what is cheese and how big the holes in it must be. If you can eat whatever you like and the government couldn't care less, you do not need any of that. So tell me - do we really need a law specifying which size holes in the cheese must be?
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Although most of the tuning appears to be to prevent people from using it

"we've limited requests to this page"

For example...
OK, same here.

Suspect sounding claims with pseudo-science-y sounding justifications/explanations – I wasn't even interested enough to check whether I was effected that way.
Hi guys
Thanks for the feedbacks so far!
Sure, I cannot talk about full features but maybe i can tell some so i will discuss with my colleagues.
We will be out in few weeks’ time
I am very practical so i was looking for practical solutions. It is not just “post your idea” for fun
But it is a practical solution that goes all the way.
I think (not yet sure) that we got it and i have some patents on the flow.
Looking to discuss with potential audience to learn what will actually work well….
We work very hard to make it easy and also deal with the legal aspects of engagements.
I want to make it easy for users (it means that we are doing most of the messy stuff) The goal is for you to meet real partners for small projects, sign real contracts and start working.
Who says the best guys live next door? Who says you can’t build an app or gadget with great experts on the net ?

Please Let me know more…
Best
Sagi
Let Me Teach You Arduino, With JavaScript
>Did you see the article he linked about why he doesn't use them?

Yes, it's bollocks, goes against standard practice, and abuses a misfeature of the JS interpreter.