skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can that happen? It's not like your new employer will know what you were making at the last job, and even so why should that matter?
My thoughts exactly, instead of killing it off or at least limiting it to the browser, we're trying to shove that abomination everywhere. This is sad.
I don't know where you get those statistics but I'm really skeptic about their veracity. Be that as it may, what I was pointing out is that (to me at least) it appears they're promoting cheating as an uplifting a liberating deed (and I don't see how that would help anyone, them in particular, see the old media shitstorm). If their not, then it's just a deficiency in clearly stating their mission, since I don't think I'll be the only one interpreting it that way.
That would make me very happy.
So what type of guy did she end up hooking up with? If the fit/intelligent profiles she contacted didnt reply...

What were her results?
Shame about the last dumb statement, since it is a interesting project that they seem to not understand.

"If Peru can do this for its people, it makes you wonder why more prosperous countries can’t do the same."

Which purely takes away from the whole concept of helping remote, poor people who a little electricity can mean a lot.

As compared with the different issue of mass producing energy for high use, rich consumers in a efficient and environment friendly way.
thanks for the insight, very helpful
I think his point was that alcohol is far more harmful and dangerous than marijuana by virtually every sane metric.
JavaScript is my favorite programming language. It's not perfect, but still. (Other languages I know: Ruby, Python, Java, Go, Scheme, C, Erlang).
Java, maybe? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaStation
So much negativity in this thread & on HN in general. Not everyone has hardware experience, and this looks great for newcomers.
I agree. I was thinking the exact same thing.
So ... someone should pay you because you don't want to put the effort into finding new apps yourself?
There are many drugs which are socially acceptable - including alcohol.

People would look like you have 2 heads if you said you take stimulant drugs daily and have withdrawal without it, but coffee is incredibly popular.

Sometimes what you don't do is incredibly important.
Because JavaScript runtimes are the best dynamic language VMs by a long shot.
How to Ensure You Benefit From Your Failures
Yeah, you may as well be afraid that your friend will suggest you go out with somebody that you don't find attractive, or somebody who bores you, or somebody that is bored by you. What's the big deal?
A launch is completely different from a private short-range test on a closed site.

You could watch a launch live, and they are very public about the timing, purpose, and location of launches before they happen.

The Grasshopper tests (to my knowledge) are not open for public observation, and I haven't seen any media coverage prior to tests, so if there was an unsuccessful test it wouldn't be as obvious as an unsuccessful launch attempt.

My question was whether this is by design, and if there was an unsuccessful test whether they would showcase that as well, in the manner that unsuccessful launches are well documented public 'learning experiences'.
The JVM would like to have a word with you.
Complex algorithm solution to automatic film restoration
The F9R is planned to stage at a lower height to combat the problem you talked about of the first stage being trashed on their earlier attempts to recover it I do believe.
They ask. Are you just supposed to lie or refuse to answer?
I see where you're coming from, but I rather enjoyed the novelty of his style. I wouldn't necessarily want to read any more of it, but it wasn't all that bad.
Of all the great languages out there... we had to choose Javascript.

It's a shame, would love to see more Smalltalk posts.
CoffeeScript is JS. And to be more honest and judgemental, CoffeeScript is the sweeter-but-poorly-documented Javascript.

The reason people are attempting to put javascript everywhere is because they can and because others enjoy it. And those who do enjoy JS, know what parts of JS are to be avoided at all costs. And I actually like it compared to other modern scripting languages for two reasons:(1) I don't have to worry about whether my end-user will have to worry about installing 100 dependencies to consume my code/service (2) I can choose how robust my setup is (Closure Compiler) or how sweet (CoffeeScript), and spend time sharing my setup with others who like the language instead of using proverbial sarcasm on topics about languages that I don't want to use.
Build your own HAL9000 from scratch materials
Old media shitstorm? Quick, somebody alert Hustler, their business is in peril!
> I presume this is running on a Linux kernel?

I doubt that. It has M-series ARM microcontroller, Linux is usually used with A-series ARM CPUs.
You do understand that CoffeeScript compiles to JavaScript, and that by supporting JavaScript they're supporting CoffeeScript, in addition to TypeScript, right?
ARM tried this with Java, it was called Jazelle and was (is?) a complete disaster.
Yes I have and I invite you to do it also by yourself to check it. There is no significant difference in this benchmark between "ghc -O2" and "runhaskell". I didn't investigated why... but I would be very interested in the details :)

Also "-threaded" gives the usual penalty of bookkeeping and bad caching and stuff. You don't need threads in such a benchmark. Though I am mildly surprised that "node" runs faster with multiple processes :)
Clearly you aren't that interested in the games in the first place, and it's not really an Origin issue.

Clearly how? You are correct that I am not sufficiently interested in order to go through the additional hassle of Origin. I have in the past been very interested in some games but did not want to add on the hassle of Origin and so I never got them. That's pretty much the same case as here.

Steam has some pretty shitty policies as well, like the fact that you can no longer log in on multiple computers.

It does but I don't find that relevant at all. For one, I have no need to log into multiple computers anyway. But for the more general case of Steam policies, I have found them a sufficient tradeoff for value. My issue with Origin is not strictly their policies but the fact that I already have Steam running with >500 games in my library and I don't want to be running Origin on top of that. It's unnecessary hassle and it's wasteful of resources.

If I got my buy-in on Origin first, odds are I'd be saying things the other way around.
Since it seems to be that much of an issue for you guys, I edited to comment. That said, I don't see me switching from a celebrated English dictionary to the laughable Wikipedia anytime soon.
You prefer C over JavaScript? Header files? Pointer arithmetic hell? Precompiler Macros? Manual Memory Management? Seriously?

To each their own, though.
@samstave, I can't seem to reply to you, but to answer: nobody.
There is no significant difference in this benchmark. Do you measure something different?
It also assumes that anonymous sex is something that appeals to a large majority of men. I'm not entirely certain that this actually holds up to evidence either. Does anyone know of any research that studies this? I vaguely remember reading an article about this at one point.
They started posting their articles to Facebook while they were down. http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/14/4621324/new-york-times-pub...
There was some interesting research about moderate drinking (2-4 per day for a man). http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/AlcoholAndHealth.html
I completely agree. I'm a front end developer recently out of college and I decided recently that I wanted to expand my knowledge and learn hardware. This seems like a good place to start given my knowledge of JavaScript
The word you are looking for is a more "dynamic" workplace.
The laughable dictionary is, at least in this case, more accurate than your celebrated one.

Weird, that. I hope you are not forgetting that English dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive. You are going to continue having trouble using them if you make that mistake.
Agree on that, yet, if you want the big picture, you should multiply that by the probability of having something to troubleshoot, or a critical issue, in the first place.

That would give you a better estimate of the risk you're taking by using that language. And that's where the 30 years of PL design from GO's author gets some importance.

You could consider my argument a bit far fetched, but GO's design has been explicitly focused on keeping things simple and no-surprise, and so far all the reviews seem to agree on that point. That could compensate for the lack of results in Google (especially compared to what node.js forces you to do)
First successful attempt to eradicate cancer using a virus-derived agent
Adding noise can damage the ears, and adds more stress to the body.. just saying..
> poorly-documented

what?
>It's technologically damn cool, regardless of your take on a Forbes writer's take on one employee. If someone watches their demos or tours their offices and doesn't walk out at least slightly giddy, they're either paranoid of the solutions or ignorant of the problems. Or both.

i guess this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6209907 explains maximalism and arrogance of your statements. As i said - "cool" stimuli for young males.
I would say neither of them, they overstaffed with the wrong wrong people.

I had some relationships with Cisco as a vendor and talked informally to business people there. I can share my microscopic experience. I was surprised by the level of bureaucracy: wasting time in meetings (obviously via WebEx), project managers that only tick items, people who are in charge and don't know anything about the subject (and are not interested in learning).
No. When some is trying to be clear, they usually find a way, if they just keep at it.
Well, it's kind of hard to keep the tests secret: http://youtu.be/i9n6rYoSGNQ
>even older Russian and Chinese jets that can fly faster and farther and maneuver better

Dogfighting is obsolete as homing missiles fly faster, farther, and are more maneuverable than the plane carrying them. Air superiority belongs to the plane with the more sophisticated radar and stealth that is flying at a higher altitude. Flying faster also aids intercepting incoming aircraft or escaping interception attempts.
Rafale has reduced RCS and OLS(FLIR) but its not spherical either. Only the F-35 has spherical Electro-Optical systems. The Rafale also doesn't have mature A/G capability. Laser targeting and AESA radar have only recently been added to the Rafale F3 version.
Refuse to answer. It's none of their business, and nobody can compel you to answer a question.
Academic tests webcam technology (1998)
Judging by the video and the deck I'd say that they're approaching a problem that can't be solved by an app. Because it's not about finding someone to get laid - this problem has already several solutions which are working since few thousands years.
> There are a number of people through the ages who have greatly advanced science by providing accurate observations.

We need to distinguish between scientific observations and scientific theories. A scientific theory, in particular the sort that ends up defining scientific fields, must be in the form of a tested, falsifiable explanation of observations, preferably one that predicts new observations yet to be made.

Psychology's problems don't result from an absence of scientists -- there are plenty. But until those scientists start crafting falsifiable theories about their observations, psychology will remain a pseudoscience.

The peculiar thing is that psychologists don't realize this. It has something to do with how they're trained. At some point, they're told that, with respect to the mind, looking for causes is a fool's errand, and they assume they can create science without proposing and testing explanations for what they observe.

But they can't -- science doesn't work that way. As a result, psychology has produced any number of dried-gourd cures over the years.
This service promotes itself as a service for both genders.

The ad features a heterosexual couple hooking up with another woman. Both of the women appear rather normal, neither magazine-style 'sexy' (no fake breasts, no size 0, no crazy makeup), but both are certainly sensual. It even sensualizes the man.

I'd say their ad is rather spot-on.
Glad I'm not the only OCD. https://textit.in/public/pricing/
So I smoke normal, legal cigarettes. About 10 a day, 20 when I'm stressed. I started about 20, borrowing them off friends, and it's been maybe 8 years now.

The first 2 years, I didn't realize I was addicted to them. I just smoked when I wanted, which was between every lecture and with my friends in the evening. Then I tried to stop.

Quitting smoking is weird because sometimes you can just stop, and don't feel the need to smoke (until a couple months later you get drunk and buy a pack).

Other times, it's really hard. As in horrible. Your brain is trying to trick you into doing it. Telling you that your girlfriend (who asked you to stop) will leave you if you don't have one and calm down. Telling you that you haven't seen (smoking friend) in a long time. Just like you can't perceive your blindspot, you can't spot your own irrationality. This, I think, is the biggest reason smokers don't quit. It's relatively easy to fend off cravings, but recognizing irrational, addiction driven thought is hard.

Anyway, so one day I'm in a medical stats class. The lecturer is making a joke about a graph. It seems to show smoking is protective against prostate cancer. Smokers are super unlikely to die of prostate cancer. It looks convincing. Smokers don't survive to die of prostate cancer. It convinces me not to smoke again. I make my way downstairs, and grab a bagel. I have an exam next period, and I'm behind in that class. I can't focus without a cigarette. I light up, and keep lighting up, and now it's 5 years later, and I'm not going to die of prostate cancer.

There is this idea that humans are rational entities capable of making free choices, but we know they are really, really not. Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow, a great (nobel prize winning) economics book explains that there are situations where humans predictably make bad choices. Addictions are one of these. If I were not hooked on cigarettes, as a smart, otherwise disciplined person, I'd be more sympathetic with this libertarians on drugs.
If you don't feel like reading the paper Sebastian wrote on the Common Crawl data, he gives a summary of his findings in this video.

Link to full paper: http://bit.ly/14dxSJq
First off, this is cool. It is tremendously exciting to see the bar for hardware hacking getting lower and lower. To the people complaining "Why JS? C is fine!", remember that once the complaint was "Why C? ASM is fine!".

At the same time, I can't help but grin that we on the CS side find a way to erase all the gains in performance and efficiency as soon as the EE guys make them.

There has to be come kind of universal constant: the limit, as technology proceeds into the future, of the execution time of "Hello World" is some fixed number. Because as soon as we get better hardware, we invent an even weightier runtime environment to slap on it. ;)
You forgot the best part: not having to deal with javascript.
You're so incredibly wrong here. From my life experience, you can be one of the following: 1. a smart guy who has slept with less than 5 girls and never had a non-sexual friend who's a girl, or 2. An ignorant, average intelligent guy who's slept with a lot of girls but as in 1, never been friends with a girl. I see upon writing this that the common denominator in these is the lack if a girl _friend_. Because if you had one, who would talk open heartedly with you, and without the boy/girl politeness mask on, you'd see that they share a lot more than you think. They occasionally fantasize about a stranger who can give them a quick and dirty lay as well. Although not if said stranger had no idea what is happening and is gonna tell his buddies the next day about the slut he fucked over. But rather that he met this awesome person who had an great sense of humor, taste in movies, and knew how to give awesome blow jobs. That's the kind of girls that our world, being more and more rid of caveman sexism, is fostering. I excuse myself in advance fornthe possibility that I'm putting too many words in other peoples mouths, but your attitude just makes me depressed and angry.
Why? I really would like to understand, because I see JS as a necessary evil, and would rather use something else if given the option.
I've had significant hearing loss in one ear since birth and finally got around to getting a hearing aid after finishing school last year.

Right now I typically put the standard Apple earbuds over my hearing aid when walking around, but strongly prefer my Bose QuietComforts when I'm coding and want noise-canceling. This obviously isn't ideal because my hearing aid and the QCs don't play nice together, so I end up just taking out my hearing aid to use them. Really looking forward to seeing what's in store, and happy to help however possible - I'll email as well re: beta testing.
Well depending on your background, & education it may have felt dumbed down but I have a lot of respect for Robert Krulwhich his RadioLab co-host won a McArthur "genius" award, and they have done (in my opinion) an excellent job of bringing science alive for people that either don't have the aptitude or didn't cross paths with the type of people that can inspire you to learn more about the universe.
Pulse of the Alley – Christy Liu, Co-Founder of Wanderfly
In that case EFF would also avoid Steam
Owner of Lavabit on Why He Closed It Down
This commencement speech that he gave had a major impact on me http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2008/jul/29/tell...
Moreover, not everybody working with hardware needs to or should be dealing with low-level details.
The reply button takes an eternity to appear and it's getting messy, so I'll just respond here.

What you're all missing guys is that if that app hooks you with a man (and in my mind is more of a question of when and not if) it would be way more than an inconvenience. Yes you would politely refuse and move on, but at that point you would've also wasted precious hours of your time. Maybe you drove for miles in traffic only to find that you've been hooked up with a dude, that' my fear.
So is the point that it's even worse than normal grass-fed bullshit?
Teenager Tackles Autism With Help From Google Glass
It is very rare that I actually put my email into one of those "sign up for updates" things, this is pretty awesome, can't wait to hear back from you guys
And source code after $1M.
The problem with a system with no moderation is that the abusers of the system have more time and incentive to abuse than the community does to moderate.
I'm still curious what they're going to do about these apps: Find my friends, Airport Utility, Apple Remote, iTunes Connect Mobile, Apple Store.
Right.. because they already found him guilty.. so if he insists he didn't -- disagreeing with the court -- they'll point out he has no remorse about what he's been found guilty of, and give him a tougher sentence.
Nitpicking: while JVM implementations can run, they're not particularly tailored for dynamically typed languages.
Ask HN: VM Server options for BSD based operating systems
Hello all

I have been looking at possible VM Server solutions for a FreeBSD box that I have. I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations as to what to use to host VM's while still using BSD?
I assumed it was run using uClinux to deal with the lack of MMU.
They could go for full adress verification like ebay does.
Or customer service that calls you 1h after an encounter if you don't "check in" otherwise.
I sense a lot of haters in this thread...
Can you elaborate? Are you talking about your own startup product?
Everything you say makes sense, but here's the twist in my experience: women who can't get a Ferrari, don't get the next best car. The alternative to a top 10% man is a vibrator.
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Dictionaries are more descriptive than prescriptive. That is, they describe words and how they are used; they do not determine what words are and how they are used. Given that dictionaries are also conservative by nature - slow to change - it is unwise to appeal to a dictionary to determine how people will feel when they hear a word.
To add to this, abstracting away from hardware is exactly what C (which most people consider low-level) was built for. No one wants to write assembly, and even less people want to write 0s and 1s or punchcards.

Successfully-executed abstraction is a wonderful thing, people have been trying to abstract away (but retain performance) of C for decades. I welcome newcomers, maybe someone will get it right
The way a proper counterintelligence effort goes after someone like this is to develop a list of candidates based on known facts, then use surveillance, statistics, etc to rule people out. I could ID DPR for $500k with a few staff in a year, either by breaking the law or as an official state entitity breaking the laws of other countries.
not really.. it's entirely possible the growth areas are just as labor intensive or more so, but those positions require people with entirely different skills than those being laid off.
No. I prefer C over JavaScript for embedded devices. And actually in most places, too.

I know I'm weird, but I really like pointers, because I really like being able to manually setup data structures, and enjoy the power provided by pointers.

Manual memory management isn't horribly fun, but for embedded devices I would rather be in charge of that over the chip having to do it for me. It means that if there's ever a memory overflow, it's my own damn fault, and I have the ability to fix it.

JavaScript is an acceptable scripting language. It's not my favorite, but it works. I just don't think scripting languages should really be used on embedded devices.
This is awesome! I remember when this printer was announced and I got super excited about providing content for it. This is an excellent guide to get started working with it!
I'm curious; how did you know that?

Edit: Ah, of course it's in the source.
When printing machine was introduced in Ottoman Empire thousants people lost their jobes. Disaster for the economy?
There are two types of ships in the Navy: submarines, and targets.

How is a carrier going to protect itself from coordinated submarine attacks?
Yoga is how I broke my workaholism. It took a long time though - but it gave me 90 minutes each time I did it where I "couldn't" leave and/or do work; It started to break the cycle, and that's all I needed to start happening initially.
> it would way more than an inconvenience.

...and then you proceed to describe an inconvenience...

How is it hooking you up with a man that you are not attracted to any more problematic than it hooking you up with a woman that you are not attracted to? What if I drive miles in traffic only to be hooked up with somebody with long hair!? I prefer short hair, their profile picture was terribly misleading, the horror!

You should seriously consider the possibility that you have some prejudices that are compromising your ability to reason here.
I think the fact that these guys are taking their time to reach 1.0 is a good thing. Too many projects rush the "production-ready" label, and inevitably people end up getting stuck with bad technology that burns them. The fact that a project is taking their time to get this done is a vote of confidence.

Also, you don't have to wait for 1.0. You can start using Meteor right now. Is there anything specific that you're waiting for?
Could someone explain to me like I'm five why companies need to cut jobs when they are making pretty good profits, and have tons of cash in the bank?