skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"treasured"? No.

As was written, these sorts of calculations are easy to carry out by a "sophomore or junior year of college", and specifically the thermal expansion calculation is something taught in high school. It's like suggesting that someone's notes on how to implement a linked-list would be "treasured" by a Linux kernel developer.

Anyone who 'treasures' these comments is someone who isn't able to effectively contribute to a civil engineering project.

You also have to consider the overall net effect. People who might have contributed, had fundamental design issues like thermal expansion been addressed head-on, are not going to contribute, under the assumption that it's "put[ting] my money, time, or talent in the hands of someone who takes me for a fool."
Not figuring out a way to communicate with someone clearly having difficulty communicating is dismissive.
The people vote for law makers. The law makers produced a law which was abused by law enforcers. Law enforcers can't be voted for.
I implemented this on the Package Control (https://sublime.wbond.net) site over the past few months while developing it.

To get a smooth transition from page to page I use Backbone.js with pushState and Handlebars to do client-side rendering of various pages. This allows for nice subtle touches like the logo fading out when navigating to a package detail screen and the search bar animating position when switching from the homepage to the search page.

The thing that was missing was any sort of indicator that the page was loading. A progress spinner at least indicates some sort of activity, but can be relatively useless is knowing when something will complete.

To provide a better progress indicator, I used a combination of the XHR readyState value, plus the number of total bytes downloaded when in readyState 3 to set the width of a bar. I then used a CSS transition property on the width property to have the bar smoothly grow from one width to another.

Originally I had tried using JS to animate the width, but CSS transitions seem to do a much better job of creating a nice smooth animation. The downside is that IE8 and 9 aren't supported, but I just do full page refreshes with them anyway since they do not support pushState.
I wasn't surprised to learn that they detained him. What was surprising, and shortsighted I would think, was that they used a law meant for terrorism suspects. One could make a plausible argument that he was a courier for a spy. I don't think one could make the argument that he was a terrorist.

What's wrong here is the way a law that was sold as needed to allow for immediate response to a terrorist threat, without red tape, is used in a situation where normal law enforcement channels should have been adequate. It opens the door to "terrorist" laws being applied to the general population.
An Untenable Goal
Thanks, that cleared things up quite a bit. It seems that it is isolated to Debian unstable. Even that problem should be resolved soon through an alternative JSON extension.
This is one of the reasons I am running a Tor exit relay.
I give new hires exactly one month to prove themselves now. I've found that giving more time does not increase the success rate of workers in any measurable way.

Here's a good example - I hired two admins within a week of each other. The second hire had closed more tickets in two weeks than the first one did in three. The first was gone soon after.
It probably wasn't a UK list, might well just be a US one, but it's interesting that we have no idea what lists there are of people of interest, who makes them, or how people end up on the lists or are taken off them (if they ever are). See Laura Poitras being stopped and searched in Sarajevo based on a US watch list for example:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-sno...

Apparently she is a high priority terrorism suspect as well.
It is an improvement:

1. It lets you know that you clicked the go button correctly and that the computer isn't waiting for more input (perhaps you could disable the inputs as well).

2. It gives a user a reasonable expectation of how long the process should take i.e. it's not instant and they have to wait a bit.
Some U.S. feedlots rue loss of 'Vitamin Z' Zilmax
That's one possibility. Another is that time travel is fine, and never results in paradoxes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_princi...

The thought experiment: imagine a billiard table with a wormhole which curves around and goes three seconds into the past. Roll a billiard ball into the wormhole such that it will emerge three seconds earlier and knock itself off the path, so it doesn't enter the wormhole.

Instead, the ball emerges along a slightly different path, striking itself merely a glancing blow that allows it to enter the wormhole.

And why did it emerge with an altered path? Because it was struck a glancing blow.
The grandparent wasn't claiming that the 80s were as good as us, he's claiming that just the passage of time is a bad reason to forget a lesson.

You mention a long list of rules and practices, but I'm not sure they've had as unadulterated a benefit as you think. Replacing GOTOs with objects has more often than not resulted in a more structured form of spaghetti (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-yo_problem, for example) that's no better. There were already people programming with closures and anonymous types, there's just more of them now. That's probably better, but not night-and-day. Lots of people still write spaghetti with closures and callbacks.

Arguing about whether the past is better or the present is better is a waste of time. We're just trading generalities at this point about a topic that permits no easy generalization. One way I've been trying to avoid this trap is with the mantra (generality :), "languages don't suck, codebases suck." It forces me to remember that it's possible to write good code in a bad language, and (often) to write bad code in a good language. Intangible abilities, domain properties, accidental design decisions and cultural factors have a huge effect that it's easy to ignore and underestimate by clinging to reassuring rules about the parts that seem more tangible. But you won't grow until you try to stare into the abyss.

(Edit: By 'you' in that last sentence I didn't mean you specifically, mattmanser.)
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"Al Capone was finally put in jail for violations of the taxation code!"

Except that Al Capone actually was guilty of tax code violations (he didn't report the income from his criminal enterprises), whereas David Miranda is in no way a terrorist (at least under any rational definition of terrorism).
This article gives no new information, it is stupid.

Now i will speculate:

As long as he does not know his customers passwords he can't retroactively view the customers mails, once the mails have been encrypted and the plain-text thrown away the stuff is unreachable.

So the US gov probably wanted him to save his customers passwords when they logged in.
I didn't believe this when I read it. It was such I shocking statement. So I thought of what I find personally the most important developments in computing and their sources (in no particular order):

1) Unix - AT&T

2) WWW - CERN

3) The transistor - NASA

4) The computer - Government Code and Cypher School

5) The compiler - IBM

6) The internet - DARPA
They install the railway at the maximum possible temperature for the area. (Or heat it.)

Then when it cools it pulls very hard, but because it has a tons of anchors on the ground it is able to handle the stress.

But it requires a very strong railway track. With the hyperloop the tube is not made that strong, and would tear.
Groupon Fires Sales Rep Who Threatened Bad Reviews for Business Owner
Violation of the tax code is a crime, though, and Capone was prosecuted under those laws because he was violating the tax code. That's creative.

Miranda was not detained under terrorism laws because he was suspected to be a terrorist, but because he was suspected to be a journalist. That's simple abuse of power.
Nope, I'm Italian.
I hope that the fb'er who replied to him saying "this is not a bug" has been retrained to use the words "we are unable to reproduce this issue, please provide further information or perhaps a video demonstrating the bug".
It's possible I first heard in the OSS world and imported it to my jobs, but I'm not sure.
Depression is not "sadness without cause". It is a mental condition thought by some to be best described as a chemical imbalance in the brain, and often does have a very clear cause. Head injuries, drugs, and other physical injuries and stresses commonly cause depression, even if the person was otherwise emotionally well. "More than half of all people who suffer a traumatic brain injury will become depressed in the year after the injury".

In this case, he mentions a debilitating 50 mile run, a bike accident, and an operation, which very well could be the main causes rather than any job or emotional stress.
At that rate, you shouldn't even bother with an incubator or accelerator. If profit is looking good, no need to raise funds unless you guys are looking to expand your team.
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The jumping around got fixed last week. No one has reported the read/unread issues you've had. Could you report them to the github issues page? https://github.com/mjibson/goread/issues
>If I were White, I'd be talking about how I'd solved all of those problems (or any of them!) before jumping straight to trying to generate a warp bubble in the lab.

Why not try to generate a bubble, if it works great, otherwise try formalize it in greater detail. If warp bubbles are possible than it may be that they are already being created through random chance at the micro-level in the natural world.
Hopefully this will be enough to convey it, hopefully there shouldn't be any permanent damage...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTf17cmPl0I
I'm on the other side of the pond, sadly.
Got it. "Down on his luck web developer, just trying to make a living helping people, gets screwed out of $5k bounty for reporting a Facebook bug. News at 11."
David Miranda.
It is stomach-churning, terrifying, and maddening to read this ...
Meaningless make-work is the worst. Having nothing to do isn't so terrible. I can come up with plenty of useful ideas left to my own devices. It's when I have to do busy-work that's bad.
wow. they work in my building in wework.

CloudEmailApp, Inc.
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New York, NY 10013
Agreed. Without these terrorist laws they probably would have had to jump through more hoops to detain him. But detain him they would have. The fact that the Whitehouse had a heads up means this was something that was planned for quite some time.
What has David Miranda done which violates that law? For that matter I can't see what Greenwald has done to violate it either, unless all journalists are on now co-conspirators with their sources if they report anything which the government would prefer to keep secret.

It's an awful law, is far too broad, and should be repealed, but even accepting that law the regulator and many MPs have serious concerns that this was illegal.
Hence the "(depending on how you acquire/spend your bitcoins or cash)". With bitcoin it is much harder to keep your identity unconnected from your wallet (particularly if you want to do anything with it), though it is possible.
A device or piece of software designed to sniff the mail server to mail server connections would also be an option for broad based surveillance. Only a handful of mail providers (like Google) have the option to encrypt traffic server to server. Most mail servers transmit messages in the clear to each other and only encrypt the server to client side.
Another personal take away was, if a sales team wins in A/B test of who can sale more, instead on increasing sales team they learned what sales team did differently and then automated whole thing..which is brilliant!
It could be they were trying to score points with the US for their "special relationship". Show commitment etc. so they continue to get funding from the US for surveillance activities (I hope you do remember that revelation, a few weeks back!).
One reference is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_condition

These conditions are widely believed to apply to all realistic matter configurations (to the extent that the less-restrictive ones get used as postulates in some theorems in relativity), though there are some exceptions due to quantum effects (which I believe are usually short-lived). Just for example, a cosmological constant or other dark energy source does not violate the null energy condition.

It would be really cool to see any of the energy conditions violated for an extended time in a lab! I'm pretty sure, though, that it has not yet been done.
Here's a more convincing copy of theirs from EXEC: http://iamexec.com/house-cleaning/san-francisco
vs
https://www.homejoy.com/house-cleaning-san-francisco

mirror: http://i.imgur.com/OAH1tg2.jpg

Yelp permanently banned them from advertising for buying reviews, and one of the major deal sites is considering it. And they just continue to be stupid. A fancy, potentially sustainable version of your typical daily deal scam.
Yes. https://github.com/mjibson/goread has details.
> Shreateh reports he will not, however, receive a bounty for his work — per an e-mail from Facebook, he violated the terms of the program when he hacked Zuckerberg’s account.

I think this is wrong. He posted on Sarah Godin's wall first before making any report, very clearly breaking the rules FB sets up for its whitehat program. They offer a way to create test accounts for exactly this. Posting on Mark Zuckerberg's wall has nothing to do with it.

As far as I'm concerned. FB's only mistake here was to brush him off instead of asking for further information from the initial report. Hardly newsworthy.
I just meant that the basic idea doesn't violate general relativity.

Your link mentions that negative energy density has been observed at very small scale as a result of the Casimir effect. It's difficult to see how that could be scaled up, but I suspect that's what White is using here.
As susi22 points out the laws here are deliberately very broad.
With regard to the first half, your cofounder requiring an "office zoo", where visiting VC's can show up unannounced and whistle past, gawk, and throw peanuts at poor creatures who are not in their natural environment, I sympathize.

But you're going to have to pick a side here. Either your cofounder knows what he's doing when it comes to investor relations (and showing off downtrodden employees shackled to their desks can count as that) and you need to trust him, or he doesn't and you shouldn't keep treating him like he does.
Weak energy condition[1]. In general the energy conditions are useful for analysis of the Einstein equations, but general relativity does not demand them. So violating the energy conditions is somewhat theoretically sound, but one can only say so much about general relativity with violated energy conditions. ( For example a lot of stuff we know about black holes only holds, if some energy conditions are satisfied.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_condition
Assuming this experiment is done in a vacuum, I've never heard of a static electric field changing the index of refraction of a vacuum.
But nether said that depression is "sadness without cause" which appears to be incorrect. At least, according to this page from the NIH:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/depression/index.shtml

I don't see anything there that indicates that sadness must be "without cause" to constitute depression.

Contrasting normal everyday sadness versus clinical depression, requiring medication, is accurate.

True. But we should be careful when making that distinction, whether for ourselves or others, as the line isn't necessarily cut and dried. I think just dismissing someone's report of being "depressed" as "that's just normal sadness" is a very dangerous mindset. If someone's sad enough to choose the label "depressed" for themselves, that alone probably suggests that it's a matter to be taken seriously.
Trains, and especially HSR, have the same problem. A derailment of a long train can be disastrous, and can kill many passengers (arguably even more than the Hyperloop, since each train carries many more people).
That won't work because the capsule has to ride on the pipe wall. Any bump will destroy the capsule.
I downvoted you and am leaving this comment in hopes that those reading this thread don't get the impression that the entire HN community supports such a despicable outlook. I, for one, am grateful for all of the many important contributions to furthering computer science and its associated industries by non english speaking individuals.
COMET is in HTML5 already: http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/
Are there currently any alternatives, in terms of secure email providers? I never even knew it was a thing before the lavabit fiasco.
Not really. Before I was able to call her my wife, a lot of people thought I was gay when I referred to my long-term girlfriend as my partner.
Ask HN: Why torture yourself with Objective-C?
A bit confused here. I've deployed multiple iPhone applications with 0 native functionality only using HTML/CSS/Javascript. I've deployed to over 10 phones and everything works perfectly.

What is the point of using OBJ-C? It seems much harder to learn and use efficiently. I have a few friends who refuse to use anything but obj-c for their apps and as a result, it's taking them forever to deploy with much more headaches. Meanwhile, I'm deploying to multiple platforms with everything working flawlessly, even accessing native phone features.

Genuinely curious, not favoring one over the other as I've never ever laid hands on objc, though I tried once, I gave up.
Sort of. goread tracks a global unread date. Anything newer than that is unread. Any item you have read since then is added to a big list that is used to filter returned items. When you've read everything, it moves up the unread date and clears the list.
Do you have a link to said interview?
hwclock will only give you 1second resolution, because the RTC chip can't do better. But querying the RTC directly is dog slow by todays standards, it's accessed via 8-bit port IO where one access eats up thousands of cpu cycles on a modern chip.

The really old way of timekeeping was to basically advance the system time by a constant amount, in an interrupt routine which might have been triggered by the ancient timer chip, and interpolation done between those ticks using the cpu TSCs.

And actually hwclock accesses /dev/rtc* which is just an arbitrary character devices (which the kernel indeed can use to initialize its notion of time on boot up), it's never accessed with the standard syscalls gettimeofday() or clock_gettime().

So while I really like MS bashing from time to time, in this case it's probably not too negligent of them, there might even be a standard way of informing the OS kernel about a change in TSC speed?
I second your call. That would be a completely insane move!
you are naive to keep working without your arrangement written in stone.

You're good friends - for now. That can change in an instant.

Code "ownership" doesn't matter if he can afford better lawyers than you.
White House Taps McAfee CTO for Cybersecurity Post
And what does that have to do with terrorism exactly?
node.js was facing the same issue. In it's current state, node itself works fine but most native modules are broken with the latest v8. The main incompats are: Function callbacks are now a different type than they used to be before. The isolate parameter is required everywhere resulting in large scale deprecation of public api.
Every turn by the governments has been an attempt to cast the issue as a personal one by unhinged opponents. With every revelation putting the spotlight on the government and the laws and processes they have put into place, they try to turn around and say it's just some lone spy nut or whatever. Hasn't been working too well, but I suppose this gives them a minute of breathing room on the news cycle.

My sense is that if they're going after Greenwald's hubby, they don't really know what to do about all this. They certainly don't want any focus on the past, since they can't help but lie about it (and later be exposed for doing so), so this makes the story about "today." That means the governments can (finally) be the source of information in the story, rather than being wrongfooted as the subject. The western governments really don't seem to like the spotlight these days, but we'll see if they can convert this story to one favorable to them, if even for a couple of days until Greenwald/Gellman/Sanchez/etc.'s next story.
Windows 8 keeps terrible time on laptops or anything else which is trying to power save by varying the clock. I'm not overclocking shit. The OS just doesn't time sync frequently enough. This is why I posted a link about increasing the frequency of time syncs.

This has not been a problem with Windows 7, or XP on the same equipment.
I'm not 100% sure, but i think Al Capone actually broke the taxation code. This guy is most certainly not terrorist. I think your comparison is not a very good one.
If you like games like SimCity, you might like Minecraft. Although SimCity has much deeper game mechanics, Minecraft focuses on exploration. (HN crowd: bear with me, they're b both exploratory world-building games to a certain extent with terraforming. For me personally, my enjoyment of them is the same for similar reasons.)

There are a large variety of clones out there, and "inspired" titles, but Minecraft got a lot right as far as a sense of exploration is concerned.

There's a fairly advanced open source "Minecraft-inspired" game called terasology I found this weekend:

http://terasology.org/

It's not as polished as Minecraft, but if you just want to get a feel for the basic mechanics and tinker without having to pay anything, it's worth a look.

Notch doesn't maintain Minecraft himself these days; Jeb at Mojang does. But they're doing a great job.

I no longer have the time to play Minecraft regularly, but I revisit it from time to time, just like Simcity.
Fair enough, and good point on the touch-based devices, I can see how it would be useful for those. I don't use a Mac, so can't comment but same applies.
A green account with "SAS" in the nickname, not too clever.
We can and do know. It's called recorded history.
The fact that hes not english native and that communication seems hard for him does not mean that:

- he did not do all this in good faith. it seems like he genuinely did. Sure there are TOS. But given his english, do you really think he understood them? Of course not. Good faith is a higher morale value (even thus Americans are pretty much used to "if it passed as law/text, morale values are irrelevant, cuz lawyers+money is all that matters)

- $500 is less than peanuts for FB. Finding these bugs, even if they have to read into the guy's submission more than usual, is critical for FB. Refusing the bounty means that next time it'll be left unfixed and the bad guys will probably get it instead.

All in all, FB's not wrong per say, but it's still a bad move from FB, morally and PR-wise.