skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The failure to redesign the connection form factor is a major disappointment. Racking or repositioning a snug receiver with multiple HDMI inputs and outputs will almost guarantee that one will bend or break. This is especially true for low gauge runs over 50 feet.
X-infterfaced Linux has been failing to make a dent in end user space for two decades. Non-X unices have been highly successful in end user space (various Aplle and Goodle offerings, not to mention set top boxes etc.)

I don't necessarily think Wayland is going to set the world on fire, but the urge to dump X is based on a solid inference.
Amongst applicants mentioning GPA: 30% have GPA 3.8 or higher

Amongst job offers mentioning GPA: 67% have GPA 3.8 or higher

Author's conclusion: GPA doesn't seem to matter

Alternative conclusion: If you mention your GPA, 3.8 or higher gives you 5 times the chance of being hired.

*Edited for my bad.
Empathy with the developer who will refactor your code
I've never heard it described in those terms. It seems to crop up fairly frequently in areas such as feminism, "social justice", or atheism - topics which are frequently discussed online, which have vocal opponents that repeat certain arguments, and where the opponents tend to use certain rhetorical techniques in arguing.

See, for example, "Derailing for Dummies": http://www.derailingfordummies.com/

As well as a counterargument: https://feministrag.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/derailing-for-d...

"Railing" is necessarily context dependent. Using this particular article as an example, the "agenda" is women's issues in the tech industry in the USA (and, presumably, other developed countries). I suspect it would be interpreted as derailing, for example, to remark that women in the USA are (speaking in a worldwide context) relatively very privileged over many people in the third world, both men and women.

Ultimately, a conversation requires two parties. If someone is speaking over you and doesn't want to hear what you have to say because of their agenda, or their anger, or whatever, that's not a conversation, it's a lecture. They might be speaking on an important topic, or transmitting important information, but no one should pretend it's a dialogue.

If it's twitter, or blogs, or similar, you might as well just withdraw. In fact, you see people do this all the time - back away from conversations when they realize that the other party does not consider it a dialogue but only a means for them to transmit their own 'perfect' opinions to other people.
There's still some important stuff missing in the redesign though, like My Places. You can reach it through the settings menu in the top-right corner, but it just redirects to the old layout. I seriously hope they're not considering removing this feature...

Another issue: there doesn't seem to be a way to go to your current location, which is especially annoying because Google Maps decides to show me the US at the beginning (I'm not in the US).
You clearly don't live in the UK. The High Street is dying, and it's online shopping that's playing headman.
Computer programming is inherently a skill that tends towards full automation like any other field of labor simply because of exponential increases in efficiencies and scale. If one programmer can do the job of 5 programmers because the level of automation and the number of available tools allows him to, then the total number of programmers able to enter the market for programming will diminish unless demand for programmers rises at the same or higher rate of automation (a trend that has never occurred in any industry). We're probably not very close to that point just yet, but it may not be too far off.
I think the evidence presented with this article is at best inconclusive.

So a couple of guys at the repair shop guessed it's a fake. The comparison flash is a couple of years old.

If on the other hand the author had sent the flash to Canon for repair and they said it was fake, then I would say he has proved it.
Microsoft, Near Death, & Enterprise Cloud
I wish it had 8K support, given Japan is actually already planning on starting broadcast trials for 8K in roughly two years: http://www.futureleap.com/2013/03/japan-plans-8k-broadcasts-...
afaic chocolate covered biscuits fall quite neatly into most any definition of junk food...
It sounds like you mistook my comment for flippancy. I think it's a good idea, and it sounded like browser history was a good conceptual starting point.
> To be honest, most of the top programmers or engineers that I know have terrible, terrible grammar and spelling

On their resume? Or just in emails they are sending out or in chat?
Not sure how Manchester could be beloved of anyone.
Six months? I come in after the weekend and constantly want to rewrite the whole goddamn thing.
In Economics, nobody cares about facts. The ebook is "less" than a physical book, therefore it should cost less.
Responding to the last part of your comment the sensors are there to cancel the crossing request if the pedestrian crosses early or wanders off elsewhere, to avoid stopping traffic for no reason. The sensors pointed at oncoming traffic can be used to halt traffic if they detect it's moving too quickly for the area. Crossings with the sensors and the don't walk/walk lights on the side closest to you are puffin crossings. The other ones are the older pelican crossings. Infos from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffin_crossing
As a belgian european I often wonder if the United States seems as big to americans as Europe seems big to me.

I wonder if it feels different to be a citizen of a small country or a citizen of a continent-wide country such as the United States. Or maybe americans feel they are californians or new-yorkers before being american ?
Kadayif, Kheer
This is a really nice feature for whole-house setups.

Different feeds can have slightly different syncs. This is especially true with a matrix operation that uses multiple screens feeds and a single audio feed.
When you get back to the classic interface there's a yellow message at the top asking if you want to make the change permanent.
Windows Is Dead, Google Killed It
It is. Two summers ago, a kid from my school got off a city bus, walked in front of the bus and into the street and was hit by a car and killed.
Works fine for me. I was shocked because I have JS disabled.
Show HN: Bashstrap - Love your terminal
See: banking websites.
Milk jugs are the new bathrooms.
I'm British and I couldn't name any cities in Illinois other than Chicago and Springfield. (For some reason I know all the state capitals).

However, the UK is five times the size of Illinois.
Intriguingly in the full list he's lumped "brighton" with "briton/england" - Brighton is actually a place, albeit not a city.
From what I recall, they wouldn't have to pay tax twice, they'd have to pay the difference between the US and Irish taxation rates. Other countries don't do this, but other countries also have huge tax evasion problems as a result.
When I saw the headline I tried to think of one and failed. Then I saw the list in the article and recognized most of the names, and could even say a few things about them. And with those as priming, could name a few more.

Brains are weird.
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We might not be enjoying that much growth in the next century (or we might, who knows).

http://blog.ted.com/2013/04/23/the-future-of-work-and-innova...
A piece of (old) satire on the pedestrian button hacks: http://www.bbspot.com/news/2005/06/crosswalk_button_hacks.ht...
I'm not British(I'm American), but I'm going to start doing surveys like this to people in America. It looks to fun to see what we come up with.
Adding to my history when I _scroll_ is just a terrible decision.
If you've disabled the built in protections on Android for the /data/data/ folder (such as "root"ing it), getting the keys out is as simple as:

$ su

# sqlite3 /data/data/com.google.android.apps.authenticator2/databases/databases 'select email, secret from accounts'
There is the off chance that while they are waiting longer and watching their fellow travelers patted down more and more they will realize what a ridiculous show of security theater TSA checkpoints are. There are significantly easier ways to get contraband on board planes then the security checkpoints, and most of them involve weak ground crew security and checks.
Well more honestly you'd have to ask them to name another city in the states than NYC.

I'm not sure that many people outside the US would have even been able to cite Chicago when asked for a city in Illinois
Nice find. There are no other possibilities to start this easter egg, though. Yet, there are actually three different images that might be shown:

http://diclr3aci3hzg.cloudfront.net/desktop/images/misc/droi...
http://diclr3aci3hzg.cloudfront.net/desktop/images/misc/droi...
http://diclr3aci3hzg.cloudfront.net/desktop/images/misc/droi...
Pressing the button repeatedly until the light changes distracts them from the wait time so it feels faster. Effectively it works, technically it doesn't.
Hmm how will monster cables and the like sell their stuff when the standard makes clear that existing cables can already handle the greatly increased bandwidth? I look forward to the spin!
As a Welsh man I'm fairly sure that Wales isn't a city :)
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I would say the culture here is fairly homogenous, so most people feel like Americans before they feel like a citizen of their home state.
Brighton is a city, technically it's "Brighton and Hove" but that's what everyone is referring to when they say Brighton (in roughly* the same way that Newcastle = Newcastle upon Tyne).

Though not exactly, Hove is* a place too.
I have little time. I sometimes overwork one hour or more and I also have a long commute (between 1.30h - 2h).
I sleep at least between four and five hours (except weekends). I work full-time and I'm studying a degree. If I don't do this, I don't have time for everything (see work, study, hobby projects). But it is true that I still feel so unproductive, I can't focus, or it takes me a while and I'm easily distracted, it takes me a long time to think of the correct way to structure a pattern or algorithm... I tried to sleep more, but I always end up feeling overwhelmed by all the tasks.
Ask HN: After KitKat, Lollipop?
The Mac doesn't use smooth scrooling, but naturalistic scrolling: It scrolls exactly as you move your fingers. Smooth scrolling is more of a scroll wheel feature.
Would you be able to use Octave for reading from stdin?
It's extremely hard to break into because like healthcare these gigantic institutions where nobody can get fired made choices ten to twenty years ago that have now become "the way it's done" and they won't accept a better solution.
Have a look https://github.com/hyc/sparkey/tree/master/src
bench.c, bench_mdb.c
bench.out, bench_mdb.out

This was run on my Dell M4400 laptop, Intel Q9300 2.53GHz quadcore CPU, 8GB RAM. The maximum DB size is around 4GB so this is a purely in-memory test. Your hash lookup is faster than the B+tree, but with compression you lose the advantage.
Be careful with those numbers. He mentions that half the applicants didn't list a GPA. He also mentions that because of this, their are likely biases in those numbers. He makes mention of this in the comments.

Basically, the data isn't clear.
Nice, is there a maximum rowcount? What would be nice is a way to do a sum on a second or third column - or would you use awk to get those and pipe the result to st?
I look at stuff I wrote 3 months ago with horror.

Then again I started learning ios programming then so I might have a bias/reason for it. >.<
Beginners Objective-C Guide For Developers: Part 3
My GF isn't a techy person, but she asks "What's with this Android KitKat thing!?". So I explain it to her. She says "I MUST HAVE A KITKAT."

Of course...I also got a KitKat...
Unless you're from Mississippi raises hand
Thanks! I changed the algorithm to online variance, hope it is more stable:

https://github.com/nferraz/st/commit/d0fb1bf814fc5940c5aae39...
You can cheat at this if you watch a lot of TopGear like I do.
And the point of LMDB is that it's zero-copy, there is no wasted time "loading" values.
The Drake Equation revisited: An interview with Sara Seager
Given I follow English football Manchester was my first thought. I'd have laughed if Midsomer made the list.
Best Free Android Games
This could have been written in the mindset that JavaScript and PHP ran at the same time. Lots of people still believe that.
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'Operation Hemisphere' is the logical conclusion of pernicious subpoena laws
Novladex is shit. It isn't really a SERM. It doesn't get rid of the estrogen. Furthermore a week of it is terrible. Your PCT should last at least as long as your cycle.

http://www.steroid.com/Nolvadex.php
Interesting results that seem to challenge some received wisdom. However, N=1!

What this study tells you is the systematic relationship between resume detectable attributes and getting hired at this particular company. If this same analysis was carried out at 29 more companies we would have N=30 which is considered a small sample size. To effectively do that the author would need to put out a detailed description of methods for coding resumes and ideally a means of determining inter-rater reliability and so on.

Interesting conversation starter - but please no one make any important decisions based on this.
If you need numerical stability, I'd use Gary Perlmann's [|stat](http://oldwww.acm.org/perlman/stat/history.html). It's older and somewhat harder to get a copy of, but it's as reliably correct as a piece of software can be...
Go for lunch with your dev & test (with cartoon)
VMware woos power users and IT pros with Fusion and Workstation upgrades
I'm sorry, I forgot to write about this: We're allink.ch and we do a lot of Brand and Web Design/Development. ATM we create everything inhouse, from Design, over Frontend until backend (Django). But as I mentioned above, our Frontend guys are quit busy so we're looking for freenlancers/partners.
I think what the parent was referring to was that a lazy circuit designer might just never power off the mic, in order to avoid the characteristic "pop" sound associated with older audio equipment.
There isn't a max rowcount for sum, mean, variance, etc, because it is not necessary to hold the data in memory.

The calculation of median and quartiles require that the whole set is stored and later sorted, so it is limited to the available memory.

Regarding your suggestion -- I'm considering the idea of dealing with multiple columns and even CSV and other types of tabulated data.
A viable Instagram competitor
"The controversial desktop environment" .. things were not always thus. (gnome user since 0.9).
Often in Australia, pressing the button makes the pedestrian light go green. But it has no effect on signal order (it goes green when cars traveling in the same direction get a green light).

What's the point of making us press a button in this case? Why not give pedestrians a green light automatically?

Even more obnoxious are intersections where the pedestrian light times out from green to red, but cars still have a green light. You can press the pedestrian crossing button and get a second walk cycle.

Again, why not just make the first walk sequence longer?

It seems traffic planners don't care about pedestrians.
We're definitely American first, but we do generally have a somewhat strong sense of state identity as well.
and then ask 1000 Americans to name a city in Cambridgeshire other than Cambridge. what's your point?
Nice page. I wish I didn't need to hit the back button as many times as I did to escape.
Uh yeah, an official Canon repair shop. He writes about "Canon employees" later in the article.
Bad Decisions Don’t Make You Poor. Being Poor Makes for Bad Decisions.
My point is that the author's conclusion is way more than a stretch.
I am not afraid of Cannibals and Nazis
Does this affect android? my phone is off and I am not turning it on until I can somehow disable auto update from the play store from web.
On the software front, that already happened when Nokia decided to use WP8 and ditch their own software.

On the hardware front, MS might actually enjoy having more hardware engineers to help with the Surface/Xbox stuff.

HR, payroll, etc might be not that safe though.
If you want to preserve your vision, you probably want to change those colours. You need dark text on light background.
> I suggest to keep things consistent and actually use the syntax /* */ for multi-line comments

Idiomatic Go code almost never uses multi-line comments, see:
http://golang.org/src/pkg/net/http/request.go

> Also "// x == 1 here." should be "// x == 2 here."

No, it's correct. := declares a new variable. The newly declared, inner x shadows the outer x only within the block scope of the for loop:

http://play.golang.org/p/cP2dWyg0qw
"he" is a "she" you sexist idiot.
Australian comedian John Safran (and all-round crazy person) made a pretty good point about this concept that Americans are uniquely ignorant of geography:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z27xVjXBbk
Damn, you are right. I remember reading that quote years ago. To be fair he specifically deals with Chinese and asian markets though. Not sure this applies to the US and european markets.
Yup, octave requires more time to warm up.

Regarding speed, for simple calculations like sum, mean and variance, the bottleneck is in I/O.
It doesn't say why Liverpool is the most common choice, but here's my theory, as an American: the Beatles. Most Americans have heard of Liverpool in relation to them.
I don't know what the author's real motives were (Was it really to beat on the theme that 'Americans are ignorant?), but I personally think this is a good exercise to humble yourself - 'My country/city is not as important as I think it is'.

Frankly, Britain is not as important as it once was and hasn't been for half a century. And it's not particularly notable. You would have better luck with Germany, France, Greece, Russia or many countries in Asia which are much more interesting tourist destinations and have more name recognition.

I see this in science a lot. There are people in a field who are very famous and who get a little spoilt by that fame. But if you happen to mention their name to someone from a slightly different field, its 'Who?'

I think it is important to realize that.
Yes, Sprint suggested this:

octave -q --eval "mean = mean(load('$1'))"

But, again, octave requires more time to warm up...
On the source material, yes. But display devices may introduce some delay on the video due to scaling, de-interlacing, temporal noise reduction, and whatever other processing is done. The display device then needs to signal back to the amp how much delay it's introducing into the video so that the audio can be delayed by the same amount.
Hey guys, I'm the author of the original post. Happy to answer any questions.

Also, for some more discussion, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5919819 (last time this piece was on HN).
How's mega doing anyway? I haven't heard of it since the heavily hyped launch.
How is that "cheating"?
It's for things like Dolby Atmos[1]. Instead of having to be stuck with a premixed 5 or 7 channel format designed for an ideal that your setup probably is not, you instead include unmixed sound and where it would ideally be coming from. The receiver then has knowledge of speaker and seating positions and dynamically mixes the output to match the room.

[1] http://www.dolby.com/us/en/professional/technology/cinema/do...
I'm British and could name many American cities (some I could even place on a map), but I have absolutely no idea which cities are inside which states -- I never seem to come into contact with state boundaries in every day life or in the media...
"Truly Horrible" isn't mutually exclusive with "everybody has a Nescafé tin at home".

Also, it's not just controversial in the UK, it is in many countries, and it's not just Student Unions that have held boycotts against it.

I'm also not saying that it's in anyway alone in being a truly horrible company, there are many others in that category as well.
Motorola is building featurephones until this day. Lots of them. Nokia is not going to abandon that market (India's) anytime soon while they are selling there. I would not worry about it too much.
If you connect your source through an surround processor it helps to be able to delay the audio to match the delay of the TV which may vary depending on TV settings (e.g. Game mode may be lower delay but with less picture processing). I assume this spec allows the TV to inform the surround processor continuously of the current picture delay.
Who is sponsoring who?
>They weigh a ton, the keyboard doesn't work worth a damn, the trackpad is all but useless, and the wifi is flakey

Sounds like every HP consumer product I have ever seen or used, especially laptops.
Illinois is not a country. You should be glad people outside the US even know the name of the states at all. Do you know any county in Britain?
Citizen of small country adjoining a very large country here. People of small countries tend to understand that other cultures exist, because when they travel a couple of hundred miles (or less) in any direction they're in another country. I suppose for people living in the central regions of a very large country, it's your country and your people in every direction for as far as you can imagine. Then you tend not to be concerned too much about other cultures. But of course, I'm speculating here.
as a foreigner: The Smiths, Joy Division (and then New Order), the Stone Roses, the Happy Mondays.
Nestle marketing team.
Also, history.

Majority of UK emigration to the US was through Liverpool: http://www.european-emigration.com/uk/methods.html

Families would only need to know their family history to be vaguely aware of that city.
Lots of people in Chicago can't name a city in Illinois other than Chicago.
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'Americans are ignorant'

You know he was dying for results that would support this. Why else would they ask such an inane question?
It's good to be reminded how many employed programmers don't actually know how to program.

Actually, I'm not quite sure why or whether it's good to be reminded of this. Maybe it's better to try and forget it.
It's less by state and more by region. A rough "region guide" would include Northeast, Mid-west, South (geographic Southeast), Southwest, California, Pacific Northwest, and the Great Plains. But this is a huge over-generalization and doesn't really include places like DC, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, or southern Florida, which have their own microcultures.

People from the Northeast definitely feel differently than people from California.
Eddie stabs Gennady, and drinks his blood to absorb the intravenous NZT.

OK, I reached my absurdity limit.