skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? Can you have a stab at describing the difference? Because I've spend the vast majority of my life between Edinburgh, Nottingham and Leeds and I can't bring it to mind. I can see a slight differentiation in places with more solid 'r's (Scotland and the borders for instance), but any wild variation escapes me...
Decoding Fall Of Rupee Vs USD
All about http chunked responses
Many intersections (like California/Alaska Junction in West Seattle) have all-way pedestrian crosses, which are safer when you think about it (can walk diagonal, no worries about right turns).
Wow, I didn't expect to get a response from an actual Googler, working on Go no less. Anyhow, I also remember when people were saying that Java was a fun language to work with, but I still have to find a single engineer who doesn't think of it as slightly more than a pain in the ass. It's all a matter of right-sizing expectations; using and objective language keeps you from being called out should those expectations fail to be matched.

That said, I've already professed my love for the Go language, which I consider the spiritual successor of the C programming language.
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Do you have this kind of comments in your source code?
Given the number of major, established services running on AWS that go down perfectly in sync every time there's an AWS outage, it seems unlikely that the service is likely to fall out of most of HN's mindset for quite some time to come. ;)

Might lose some favour for new projects, though.
Application deployment issues
I think the mixing is another topic, what they're suing over is simple playlists.
Aah, I'd love to share more war stories on this subject, but given how identifiable this account is it probably wouldn't be prudent.
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You're welcome, always a pleasure :)
* It doesn't use uclibc. The way it works is the guest program is a snapshot of the target program process after it has been linked with its shared libraries. Usually this means it's linked with glibc (but not necessarily -- cyanogenmod programs are linked with bionic).

* Shared libraries: yes, and it doesn't need a header. Not supported yet in the interface. It does need access to the function symbols though.
I used to do this. It's because of the confusing presence of the AC button. The UI has made clear to you that there are multiple levels of cancellation, one can in fact "really cancel." We know full well that there is some overcomplex internal state to the device, and rather than reading the manual for a calculator (honestly) we hammer the cancel button a few times, just to make sure.
People who write similar code are what I like to call low-hanging fruit factories. I'm counting on them to make things as rubbish as possible, as long as they're not involved in any service I use, so anyone tempted to find vulnerabilities will go there first.
Screenfly - Online testing of responsive designs
> Maybe a replay feature (to show how you created that session, link-by-link) would be a nice idea

That sounds like browser history.
Some do, Kingston for example[1]. Although I don't know how they defend against serial numbers being copied too.

http://www.kingston.com/en/support/product_verification
"The short answer is - it depends. At a standalone pedestrian crossing, unconnected to a junction, the button will turn a traffic light red

At a junction it is more complicated."

That's all you need to know.

I've been to places where the 1st case applies. Press the button, the car signal turns yellow immediately (light traffic and light pedestrian traffic)

At a crossing, let's see, you got there and you pressed the button, then another person came and pressed the button to cross the other street (meaning, traffic where you want to cross)

No system can make sense of these requests, and the traffic has to flow. Makes sense to just go through the movements and ignore the buttons.
I was also too lazy to get there, but I got far enough to see their business model...
Forget KitKat, Stay Away From These If You Are In UK
My father was a computer programmer in the late 60s to 90s. Throughout his career he saw several of his skills automated but his approach wasn't that he was out of work, rather his tool chest was increased. With each automation there was more time to explore a new tool.

What makes us as a valuable source isn't how we use the tools today, rather our ability to understand and apply the tools to come.
This one is my favorite from there:

#define TRUE FALSE
// Happy debugging suckers

One other I found here on HN:
https://github.com/PlatinumSkink/MiniRPG/commit/595c77f35e45...

OT: no, I don't write such comments in the code but came across some funny ones here and then.
I thought he was the owner.. well I learned something new today.
Why big companies like Microsoft doesn't follow some standards when deploying application or services, at least they could have redirected to nice page instead of showing classic asp.net YSOD(Yello Screen Of Death) page
(The right panel of Glass is a trackpad, and is the primary interaction mechanism.)
I'm sad to see so many smart people wasting their time discussing what some stupid person did. :(

I'm also disappointed I lost a couple of minutes of my life reading about this stupidity as well... just because it got 233 points.

So, I'm looking at YOU 233 who upvoted this. WHY DID YOU DO IT?
Significant amount of mouse droppings were found in a Domino’s Pizza in London - on shelves, surfaces and under equipment.

The most disgusting fast food chain is Chicken Cottage

71 gang related crimes at Chicken Cottage in Ladbroke Grove

I wonder what Starbucks is like, I spend a lot of time there.
Using HTML5 Boilerplate Template in Your Web Project
There is a persistent myth that some elevators (aka 'lifts' in my part fo the world) have an express mode that can take you to a chosen floor by pressing the door close button in conjunction with the appropriate floor button [1]. As far as I know its false. I try to avoid using elevators, but the ones I do use always seem to have a key slot to allow them to be put into 'privileged' mode.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/10/17/051017ta_talk_pa...
There's also sound for the blind integrated with the buttons in Germany. Removing a placebo button would also mean removing that extra sound. You could probably separate the two functions though.
Not related to the actual lawsuit..

There are some pretty good MoS compilations, even epic. They release also chillout, lounge and other electronica compilations, not only with club music.

The fact is that they are releasing a ton of compilations, so at the end of the day there's more quantity than quality, but I would't say that they are bad.

Plus I bet the artists get more royalties - in percentage - from MoS compilations they were featured on rather than from Spotify.
There are easter eggs, type "haveabreak" or "up up down down left right left right b a".
It's working great on my admittedly beefy Win 7 Laptop on Chrome with my mouse wheel or dragging the scroll bar. The mouse scroll is a little choppy in that it jumps in tiny increments rather than elegantly transitions.

It would be nice if they supported the keyboard too though.
>You mean the same kinds of medical management we have right now for tapering off certain anti-depressants and maintaining pain and sleep-aid prescriptions for people with money and/or good insurance. Not to mention the problems associated with Big Mac abuse.

Yes, almost nothing would change WRT abuse of drugs.

>I'm not sure I follow the logic at work here.

Logic? In the War on Drugs?

>Basically, a portion of the money currently going to prisons would be redirected to medical assistance, which is not the worst result emerging from recent history that I can imagine.

Hopefully a lot of money would be diverted from law enforcement to mental health treatment.
Well this is a rare treat, a fellow York dweller, greetings!
I find a brisk walk, jog or bike ride in the middle of the day consistently boosts my productivity.
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> All that remains is for me to thank you for being a patronising bastard, and leave it there.

I'm just returning the favor.
The planned military intervention does not want to "solve" the problem. It wants to send a message beyond Syria.

It's about holding people accountable for genocide.

I also have to ask: Why exactly is it that the FSA is "completely overwhelmed"? At the start that was clearly not the case. Hm, now is there some authority in Syria that wanted to frame the conflict from the start as a democratically elected leader against foreign jihadists? Could it be that said authority targeted primarily the non-jihadists over the last two years?
Google might have just accidentally revealed the Nexus 5
> • no glacier support

I'm the author of glacier-cli (github.com/basak/glacier-cli). I'd be happy to see it move into aws-cli. If anyone wants to do this, please get in touch to coordinate.
they break back :( But otherwise, lovely.

To think its only going to be people like us that 'get it'
Show HN: Windows 8 redesign in angular.js
It looks and works fine on my ipad.
What's worse is when fake delays are put into the code because (stupid) people think that the computer can't possibly be doing a good job if it retrieves the results in under a second. If it's "thinking", it's working well!
This is absurd. When your value add is what order to play songs, you clearly deserve to be disrupted. Thanks for the great laugh MoS.
Jelly Bean was sponsored?

Calling the version "KitKat" was basically product-placement.
> The most significant feature by far was the presence of typos, grammatical errors, or syntactic inconsistencies.

I've always used attention to detail when writing (although I give a pass on grammar/spelling to some extent to non-native speakers) as a proxy for general professionalism/intelligence with relatively high accuracy.

If you can't be assed to write accurately and consistently in your native language (and/or don't avail yourself of the myriad automated tools to achieve this end), how can anyone expect you to be accurate and consistent in any other endeavor? It's not like language and written communication is unimportant; indeed it may be the most important skill any information worker can have.

If I were considering hiring a native speaker of English, a single homonym misuse (its/it's, effect/affect, et c.) or lack of subject-verb agreement in any pre-hire communication (emails, CV, their public-facing website, READMEs on Github) would be sufficient for a NO HIRE in my book.
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The whole point of Rendr is you don't have to write two code paths. That's why I linked to it.
So kitkat bought the new android OS release name for themselves, and released a coordinated marketing campaign. Is there any insider story on how that happened somewhere?. Maybe is a bit too early for that.
At university I worked with small unmanned aircraft. We had a crash due to a piece of code with this form:

int landing_flag;
...
if( landing_flag ) {
do_landing();
}

It was C code that pre-dated a boolean type. A single corrupt data packet in a wireless link made landing_flag == 2345923 (some arbitrary large value) and thus the landing routine was triggered mid-flight.

We changed every instance of if( flag ) to if( flag == specific_flag_value ) to ensure that particular bug didn't rear it's ugly head again. I keep doing that now.
Thanks! Saw a demo video (knew it was fake but the guy blinked and stuff in order to give 'commands').
I hadn't thought of that, but it makes sense.

A quick search reveals that some calculators have an AC button (clear everything) and a C button (clear last entry), while others have C (clear everything) and CE (clear last entry). Definitely confusing.
Pretty sure it alerts the system that there are pedestrians waiting to cross, otherwise why stop traffic if no-one is there?
Google could not have adopted marketing like this without Nestlé's approval. Nestlé are truly vile and "do no evil™" are in some form of partnership with them, at the very least it is cross-promotion.
It's not possible the teach these people without encountering a massive, irreparable, hack. Nothing short of complete obliteration of their project through their own incompetence will work because the Dunning-Kruger effect is in full swing.

The smartest people I know are acutely aware of how little they actually know compared to how much there is to know.
there is a huge market (education and higher education) where institutions (sometimes governments) will pay huge money for these sorts of apps, and for whatever reason, the only real players are often of this quality

at my university we use a similar system called OWL, which replaced a system called Web-CT. Both are horrendously slow, with fantastically poorly thought out interfaces.

There is a ton of money to be made here. Low hanging fruit.
I Asked 1000 Americans to Name a British City Other Than London
That picture is of Oxford Circus, one of the busiest intersections in the UK. There are very few crossings similar to that one here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Circus
Hey. Good news:

http://tribune.com.pk/story/599235/sweden-grants-blanket-asy...
The new Google Maps on Android is disappointing. I can appreciate the clean, minimal interface, but with it are gone:

1. Zoom buttons. Now I have to hold the phone in one hand while pinch in and out with another, instead of a tap with one finger.

2. Offline maps. I suppose it's part of the "cloud strategy".

3. Secondary streets at common zoom level. Now I have to really zoom in to see them. A tad out and they're gone. Sometimes it shows them just fine, though. Perhaps, it's a bug.
Ways to Address Collinearity in Regression Models
I'd forgotten about CE. Even worse.
It's full of tech references because they're promoting Android 4.4, which is named KitKat.
Because it matches their demographic.
I'm not sure they will optimize enough to make it as fast as the 'old' on an old machine. They won't put that much effort and just require machines supporting accelerated css/webgl and fast enough to run complex javascript such as this.

I hope they manage to keep the "old" maps accessible after switching to the new, since the responsiveness is so low it negates all the new features.
How did this make it to the top of HN 2nd day in a row?
So, do you think the quotes from people running the system who say that is not the case are lying for some reason? Or do you think you know more about how their system works than they do?
Android releases are named after some sweet, and going alphabetically. They just reached letter K. I'm not sure I can think of some other sweet starting with K?
The most fascinating part of this for me is that people _actually_ pay attention to the green and red men at crossings, and even to crossings at all. I mean, sure, where I live children or older people who can't walk very fast wait for the green man but most regular folks just go and cross where and when they please.

I believe in Paris all of these are entirely automatic ; though there are buttons that are here to help the visually impaired by telling them where they are and if they can cross safely.
This is well disguised advertisement for a kickstarter campaign with the trademark medium.com long-winded cringe-worthy grandiosity ego-stroking setup.

Skip, you aren't missing anything in this.
No, I arrived at that conclusion because KitKat and Google have both publicly announced the tie-up, and Google doesn't seem to understand, or more likely doesn't care, what it means to actively promote a company like Nestle. There are plently of other "K" foods they could choose if they wanted to.

To be fair, it's not just this incident that helped me reach the conclusion, its been festering at the back of my mind for a while.
Composing a new message should be a lot more RESTful and first class, not a modal popup. I understand the on-the-fly desire but not at the cost of manipulation.
I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position

Q1. - Given that most companies interview less than 10% of the total number of applicants, I would love to know how one job received 3,000 applicants.

Q2. - Why did you have to interview 300 people to fill one job? There is a serious flaw in that strategy. If you spent one hour with every candidate you interviewed, that works out at just under 6 weeks of back to back interviews. That's not taking into consideration the logistics involved in filtering and processing these 300. All that aside, do you not consider it to be exceptionally flawed that you had to interview 300 different people in order to find one suitable person for the job?
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This one explains the issue quite well: http://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/1le3if/so_i_discover...

Learn your electronics and don't believe in rumors ;)
I don't consider middle-click paste a quirk but rather a very useful feature I find myself missing all the time when I'm on Windows.

The bug in my humble opinion is having separate "selection" and "clipboard" buffers, but I just use a small util in the background to always keep both synchronized.

By the way, do people really use drag-n-drop on a daily basis? The few times I need to use that (mostly on windows) it's a really painful and awkward operation. You have to select what you want, click, then find the target (possibly minimized or hidden or something) and then drop at the right position while maintaining the mouse button pressed all the while. That's pretty terrible user experience as far as I'm concerned, but maybe I'm just doing it wrong/not used to it.
For those that missed it yesterday, per this[1] BBC article....no money exchanged hands.

[1] - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23926938
Class 10, but it's not the issue, as XFCE + XBMC isn't even close to swapping in the 512MB model. It's more matter of CPU hogging on XBMC code (you can see it using ~20% idling).
>No system can make sense of these requests, and the traffic has to flow. Makes sense to just go through the movements and ignore the buttons. //

One may not be able to mathematically ensure optimal operation but you can certainly "make sense" of the requests.

Surely you read the inputs and only include the pedestrian crossings in the lighting sequence if the buttons are activated. Unless you're halting the traffic for some ulterior flow management need.

As for non-interrupt raising buttons - the "WAIT" light should show to indicate the button isn't required to be pressed.

Lastly, some crossings in the UK have what appear to be cameras (I assumed some form of wide angle IR sensor) facing the pedestrians. I assumed these could provide input as to density of pedestrians waiting in order to balance flow of pedestrians vs. road traffic. Anyone know certainly what they're for?
If you want to use RPM packaging those 26 dependencies will be rather painful.

There are pros and cons to both sides.
Use the middle click scroll.

Middle click, then drag mouse down a little bit, then sit and watch.

[EDIT] Tested in FF and Chrome, surprisingly FF was smoother on my computer.
Firebug 1.12.1 released
I like the UK system and the way its implemented.I doesn't have to respond to a button push all the time plus you can always cross if you believe it's safe to do so.

Makes a lot more sense them forcing people to stand at a red light uselessly.
As someone who isn't familiar with audio technology: is there any practical use for 32 channels of audio?
Did you have a go? Any good?
I'm aware of all this. I'm not saying it would be easy - and the belief that high speed Javascript is necessary is one reason we've been held back for so long. Nobody should be writing a browser in Javascript (when I mentioned this possibility I was simply humoring the poster's ideas). An "Exobrowser" (or perhaps "Microbrowser") is what we should have by now, but the linked project is not it. NaCl and asm.js are only necessary because operating systems have failed to successfully implement process separation (more crap, monolithic design at work), so now it's being reinvented in user land with the resulting performance overheads. Javascript doesn't need to be fast! The whole idea of high performance programming done in Javascript is stupid, especially if it means saying "no" to a better architecture designed around security and speed for better systems languages. Even Mozilla's penny has dropped on low-level code execution - hence asm.js. If operating systems had been done right in the first place then you could have the following arrangement:

- Each browser tab is a separate OS process w/o any access to system calls except for calling browser services

- Browser provides services (e.g. graphics primitives, input)

- Processes from the same domain can talk to each other

- Browser comes preloaded with some preferred, but optional portability layers for the processes

- Everything else is libraries, with one domain being able to provide services to another. So mozilla.org could provide its rendering engine either as a library or as a background process (to reduce memory overheads).

And so on. This way there's no more waiting 10 years for Mozilla to implement whatever it thinks you need, with their 640k ought to be enough attitude. Their rendering engine has to compete with others. The most popular engines are most likely to already be in cache when someone visits your site, so there is room for lots of vigorous competition. This is all so painfully BASIC, but it will likely be decades before people get it right, if they ever get it right.

Chrome is going in the right direction, the poster's linked project is not.
One interesting topic not discussed which is very important is muscle / tendon strength balance. If you overgrow your tendons you are in deep trouble.

"no way in hell am I going to add all of the sudden"

This usually rapidly morphs into a discussion about paleo diet and such, which I follow but some irrationally hate (or are hired to hate, or whatever).
There are plenty of steroid users who do put in the time, research, and diet. Many of them grace the IFBB stages. I would argue many of them have much more knowledge about health and fitness then the natural counterparts.
Yeah, I can see how that would be annoying. I'll redirect GET requests to /play/ back to the homepage. Thanks for the heads up!
We have our lift buttons on the outside. You choose your floor, and are directed to one of the 6 lifts available. This seems to confuse every visitor to the building, who will walk into the first open lift (that will have opened for someone else). They spend 5 seconds looking for the buttons, the door closes, and they're stuck going to a floor they never wanted.

However, as the buttons are on the outside, the designers clearly thought they would aid things where a large group all want to go to the same floor. Press the special people button, enter how many of you there are, and the lift system will optimise to ensure it doesn't needlessly stop at interim floors if you have filled that lift to capacity, or send you a lift already filled that wouldn't fit your group in.

So the trick is to say, even if you are a single rider (lifter?), that you are a party of 14, guaranteeing your lift won't stop at any other floor on the way to yours. An 'express mode', if you will.

Problem is, everyone working in the building seems to know this trick, and it does not scale. Whilst it might make the time in the lift shorter, I notice that the wait time for a lift appears longer (from observing those going to my floor who have done the trick before I then select the same floor normally). The real trick then is to use the lifts as they were intended. The irony is that all these 'super busy' types who are slowing everyone up are simply slowing themselves up too.

Then again, who was expecting a building full of lawyers and traders to behave like good citizens?
I think everyone owes it to themselves to set aside a few weeks in which they go to sleep early enough that they wake up naturally every day. The feeling is amazing and it does wonders for your productivity.