skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great work, wonderful to see voxel engines becoming more popular and feasible. Also check out http://procworld.blogspot.ca/ great technical write-ups on the engine chosen by Sony for EQ2.
Is this guy some brogrammer I should be aware of?
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> I think most people know that the "fire" will fade with time intuitively.

Except that that is not always true... Only if you let it.
I'm confused. At some points you talk about "The" JVM as if there is only one, yet in other places you suggest there are multiple ones that offer different tradeoffs.

When someone says "The JVM does that", are they talking about all JVM implementations? Just a subset of them? How do you tell them apart?
What is the name of organization ?
guys what's the law in the USA (and if anyone knows, in Canada) with respect to running an open wifi router? If you pay for your internet service and you leave a wifi router open, are you liable for any activity that occurs?
The 60k users 60 hours is just the end result, but the slideshow is not about quick results as I expected : it's about iterating around different things to see what sticks until you find something that works.

"Presenting one feature at a time" is a quite useful thing because it allows you to talk about yourself regularly with a slightly different angle and it create news all the time.
Musk is a good general staff officer in the von Hammerstein classification system(Hey it makes more sense than myers briggs or that crap always posted here based on watching mediocre sitcoms.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord

I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent -- their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy -- they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent -- he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief
Also for Turkey, It means government gets an excuse for building landmarks to north Istanbul. Expanding city and continue benefiting from a never-ending real estate gold rush in Istanbul. Both bidding of big projects and real estate benefits will go to "friends" of government.

Also they will use this excuse for removing poor people, and destroying houses that have much higher real estate value than their residents.
# Standardised population-based household surveys across 10,000+ men aged 18–49 years in nine sites in Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Papua New Guinea

# The prevalence of physical or
sexual IPV perpetration, or both, varied by site, between 25·4% (190/746; rural Indonesia) and 80·0% (572/714;
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea). When multiple emotional or economic abuse was included, the prevalence of IPV
perpetration ranged from 39·3% (409/1040; Sri Lanka)to 87·3% (623/714; Bougainville, Papua New Guinea).

And as interpreted by Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2013-09-10/one-in-four-m...)

>>One in 10 men said they had raped a woman who wasn’t their partner, the researchers found. When partners were included, the figure rose to 24 percent. Just under half of the perpetrators said they had raped more than one woman.
IANAL, but I'm guessing no. Free wifi is too common to be the sort of thing you're legally liable for.

Basically there's no way Panera would give wifi away if that were true.
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I have been working on my writing and was looking for some feedback.
somebody needs to update wikipedia then:

>Current evidence suggests the expansion of the universe is accelerating (see Accelerating universe), meaning that for any given galaxy, the recession velocity dD/dt is increasing over time as the galaxy moves to greater and greater distances; however, the Hubble parameter is actually thought to be decreasing with time, meaning that if we were to look at some fixed distance D and watch a series of different galaxies pass that distance, later galaxies would pass that distance at a smaller velocity than earlier ones.[33]
This is just being silly. Spending time with your family is not an "accomplishment" in the commonly-understood sense of the word.
I have been working on my writing and would appreciate some feedback, Thanks.
Thanks for that tip. It really makes a difference in readability.
Reverse-Engineering the Fitbit Aria Wi-Fi Smart Scale
"After two months of dating, we were engaged. Three months after that, we were married."

WTF ?

I see this pattern again and again. We can also often add children to the whole picture. It's like a big red warning : immature people and ego to action.
I really like this clip of Grace Hopper on Letterman in the mid 80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-vcErOPofQ
bash is not a terminal client but if you are searching for a bash replacement try zsh or fish.
I was going to say the same.

How we got 60k users in 60 hours: make something useful that people really want.
> I'm no teacher, so forgive me if you think I'm out of place when it comes to telling you how to do your job.

And yet, here we are.

> But I am a mother, and I've spent years encouraging girls and women in IT, so perhaps my perspective will help you.

Being a parent does not qualify you to discuss anything other than being a parent. It's no different than saying "As a mother, I feel that we need to bomb Syria." It's just patently ridiculous.

> Here are seven suggestions for teaching high school computer programming:

I'm not a teacher either, but at least I know enough not to pretend that I can rattle off ways to "fix" the teaching of high school computer programming.
Apple in China: "Just not competitive on the hardware side anymore" [video]
A profit layer that also prevented those other things from happening. These things can not be considered in isolation. People are more careful with their own money than the free money the government provides. We prevented the eeeeeviiil profit mongering bank bastards from making money, at the cost of encumbering millions upon millions with debt, and who knows what damage we're going to witness to the higher ed system over the next few years.

Will it have been worth all this damage to prevent the eeeeeeviiiiil profiters? It really already wasn't, and the accounting for the evil of our current policy is only going to get worse.
It's a nice story, but for an even earlier bug look at the first 'program' written by Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage. In one of Lovelace's letters to Babbage she mentions finding errors in their 'table and diagram' (the program): http://i.imgur.com/zxOya1n.png
I'm defining “exchange” as not just the outside world but also among components in your own architecture. I've flushed out enough problems with the UCS-2 / UTF-16 breakage that I've become somewhat sold on the unambiguous nature of UTF-8.

For the classic double-byte languages, what's your total data size after compression? e.g. in the case of full-text search, enabling compression has been enough of a win that the 2/3-byte expansion hasn't been a challenge, particularly since the biggest UTF-8 drawback (inability to predict total byte string length) isn't an issue when working with a data structure which records the length of each record.
http://alphalab.org/
Angry Birds on Riak
Well, getting married after 5 months is never a good idea. Of course you have the fire for the first few months or even years - that's the excitement of a new relationship with somebody you feel is awesome, but you don't even know them properly yet, so how can you know if it will last beyond that. Whenever I hear someone got married after only a few months, I always think "cue the divorce in a couple of years" and more often than not, I've been, unfortunately, right...

I'm glad this guy figured it out and hope he can fix things for himself.
Looks good but the images on the page are actually larger images scaled down with css. This is a bit pointless as the images always show the same size regardless of how large my resolution is (They're shown in a small column in the middle anyway).
This is just a pet peeve of mine as I dislike seeing the images loading slowly and knowing there's no real reason for them to do so. Also Firefox has a tendency to resize is a really ugly way when width/height is set on an image. Finally it's going to eat through all your bandwidth as you're featured on Hacker News. :P (You might even want to consider replacing them with small jpegs if you're worried about your bandwidth but this would be lower quality.)

Congratulations and the engine really does look great. :)
maybe there aren't many advantages for a city like Tokyo or London

For a country that has endured the world's only recent nuclear disaster and has experienced massive economic stagnation for quite some time, I imagine that the Olympics could present a similar opportunity for building pride and galvanizing the country. Will the investment pay off? Who knows? China's investment isn't paying off in the financial sense that a lot of the Olympic buildings built have no real post-Olympic use. But if we are considering the pride factor alone here, then I imagine Tokyo will have a similar boost.
From Disney movies to my favorite shows like “The Office” to practically every pop song released, love is constantly sold as an emotion we have before we’re married. An emotion that, once had, somehow magically stays within a marriage forever.

I agree. However I think there is another cause that breaks many relationships: the illusion that happiness in found in the perfection of everything: a perfect sex life, a partner with a perfect body, the stellar job, a sports car, etc. The grass is always greener on the other side.

Very often, happiness can be found in the here and now. Learn to enjoy the small things.
You're more or less right, but I can weasel a technical victory.

The cost to build a house is essentially per square foot. In my area, about $140 / square foot for decent quality. Not the best quality, but good enough. So a small house (1000 sq ft) costs about $140,000 to build, and a large house (4000 sq ft) costs about $560,000 to build. That's parts, labor, permits.

But if you're willing to build what amounts to a studio apartment, you can totally build it for next to nothing. The smallest standard set of plans I found online was 213 square feet. Even adding in the $2500 they're wanting for that one (most standard plans are around $500), that still gives you a price tag of $32,500, which gives you a $7500 margin between the estimated budget and the stated $40,000, for cost overruns and furnishings.

Of course, the point wasn't "You can build a house for $40,000, that's totally cheap", it was "Now, a $2100 dome is 20x cheaper than even a minimal house, which is fantastic, but it's nearly half the price of a $4000 stick-frame structure with identical functionality. Is that cheaper-enough to declare domes the way forward on price alone?"
<opinion>
This guy seems pretty lucky.

> I mean, how you can feel that burning love when you’re sitting at the table discussing how to use the last twenty dollars in your bank account?

These are types of issues that, IMO, people need to figure our while they are dating, and not just jump into marriage with someone before knowing how they handle tough, down-on-your-luck, situations. How you handle finances, how you divide chores, the dynamic of a family you want... all these things should be figured out before you pop the question, to make sure you're on the same page with someone before you make to commitment to be with them forever.

It's great this guy found happiness with his wife, but that's quite the gamble he took, not knowing those things before getting married.

</opinion>
> How we got 60k users in 60 hours: make something useful that people really want.

And tell them about it in a way that they understand
An IT person should be there just to make sure everything relevant is collected.

He could be stealing credit cards using a VM stored in a USB stick.
This is interesting. I am the author of Gate One (https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne) and I learned early on that Chrome doesn't let JavaScript override Ctrl-T, Ctrl-W, and Ctrl-Tab but Ctrl-O? That's silly. There's no reason why they couldn't override that.

Note: You can work around the Ctrl key override problem by opening up any web app via an "application shortcut". Menu-Tools->Create application shortcut.
Of course most things do not "exist" if you demand physical material existence as semantics.

soul -> doesn't exist.

law -> doesn't exist.

countries -> don't exist

justice, peace, war, good, evil -> don't exist

computer programs -> don't exist

hacker news -> doesn't exist

and one might even say

You don't exist. You're merely a set of partially filled ion channels in a bag of liquid some existing system likes to simulate for some reason. Just like minds seem to like to simulate God (which is independant of whether God has a physical manifestation or not). Your mind only exists in the same way God exists, no more, no less. God is simply found in more than a single bag of liquid. (I've studied AI, so I would argue the same -partially- applies to your mind, in that people with memories of you effectively simulate your mind to e.g. know if you'd agree or disagree with a proposal of theirs)

And frankly, if I were free to choose, I wouldn't have a physical manifestation at all, if I didn't need it to affect the real world. In fact, I am a computer programmer, one way of describing that job would be that I spend my days making other physical systems do what I'd have to do myself otherwise. I'd love to cut out the middleman that is my body. It's fragile, it's distracting, it fails from time to time, it hurts sometimes, it communicates through talking and typing and that makes it fucking slow to communicate with, it's ... Why would you want that if you can avoid it ?
Most JVM implementations are similar in their capabilities (with the exceptions being some hard real-time JVMs). So when people say "the JVM" they either mean all of them (the well-known ones, at least), or the HotSpot or OpenJDK VMs, which are almost identical. Usually it doesn't make a difference.

There exists at least one commercial JVM (that I know of) that guarantees no GC pauses over a few milliseconds. It is based on HotSpot, so it offers HotSpot's advantages as well. Another implementation, based on IBM's J9 JVM, also guarantees no pauses but may require configuration (that one also supports hard real-time uses IIRC).
... and in the darkness (of Oracle) bind them!
Dyson sues Samsung over new vacuum
This article is very sexist. What happens is that there is someone 'bullying' and you assume that it is just because they have a penis and your daughter doesn't.
Well, if you're using Chrome on Linux you can just run Gate One (https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne) on your desktop and connect to https://localhost/. That'll let you access SSH or whatever terminal program you like. I use it every day!

(full disclosure: I wrote Gate One =D )
I just realized I that I look forward to Priceonomics articles and respect their writing tremendously, but I don't actually know what they do. I thought it was a blog about weird economics-like social signaling effects, and was only vaguely aware that their was some company underneath it.
Once (in 2005 or so) I was robbed, my backpack taken with my laptop inside. I was working as a consultant at the time and just got out of a meeting.

I lost the last changes that weren't on the Subversion server (2005, remember). I resumed work the next day, from the slightly older/slower/noisier laptop the one in the backpack replaced.

The importance of off-site backups cannot be exaggerated.
Isnt this kinda ad hominem? in fact the first 3 paragraphs explain she has more expertise in the topic than most. She more then has a right to an opinion and her points make sense it was not "dont foster an environment that belittled and harassed my daughter because I am her mother" even though that alone is perfectly reasonable.
Yes and bar the internet connectivity and the phone part, the HP48 series are far more powerful than any smartphone as a computer!

http://my.opera.com/vladrodr/blog/2008/11/11/convertir-progr... <-- says it all
If spending time with ones family is part of what it means to be a family, and when time/work pressures make it difficult to do so, I would say "accomplishment" is more than appropriate.
Serving your spouse is one of several ways to show love. There's a book worth reading on the topic. It's old and cheesy, but it's really useful for our 8+ year marriage to stay strong, even after a year-long separation. http://www.5lovelanguages.com/2009/02/acts-of-service/

Warning: The book is written from a Christian perspective.
UK-Built Keyboard Hailed As World's Thinnest
Very interesting - I've heard of this story before, but this was the first time I've seen an image of the notes, with the bug taped on it.

It is odd the phrasing used, in the original note: "first actual case of bug being found".

That makes me think of a couple of things:
1. Perhaps some of them were already referring to program errors as "bugs", or
2. They suspected before that bugs in the relays may be the cause of errors, but this is the first time it was confirmed.

A bit off-topic, but not too much: my kids, and all their friends, do not refer to programs or games as having "bugs" or being "buggy". The vernacular they all use (5th grade up through 9th grade) is "glitch"; e.g. the game has a glitch, or this program is glitchy, etc. I don't think I've heard them say "bug" very often, if at all, and I wonder if this is a new trend wider than just my kids and their immediate peers.
NSA-proof crypto for cloud computing
Unpaid intern 'hell': overtime, tuition fees
"How did you know so much about computers then?"

"I didn't. It was the first one."

Brilliant.
and this is just another kind of snobbery - a snobbery toward "perceived snobbery"
I think it is fair comparison. There are gangs stealing bikes, it is also frequently target to vandalism. And it is scalable to the level, that is not safe to leave your bike without lock.

Also article only talks about single credit card.

We should not make difference between crimes, just because one has strong bank lobby behind it.
CR4 - Thread: Production Floor: HCl & NH3
> It's a bit like those benchmarks that show that a language that's a subset of Ruby, performs much faster than actual Ruby.

I think this is unfair to my work. It's true that it is an incomplete implementation of Ruby, but to a greater or lesser extent so are Topaz and JRuby. Charles Nutter independently identified the tricky parts of Ruby that you are talking about, and said that people should implement these before speaking about performance numbers. We went through that list and implemented all of them to at least the same standard as JRuby, with the exception of C extensions, we have a GIL and we can't yet run Ruby on Rails.

So for example you can redefine Fixnum#+, or do any other crazy monkey patching, and we will run at exactly the same speed. This is actually unlike JRuby, which has a special fastpath for call sites calling these methods that if you monkey patch will be turned off.

This is all covered if you watch the full video. If that's still unclear, please join us on the Graal mailing list and we can chat. http://openjdk.java.net/projects/graal/
You do realize that the vast majority of slaves in, for example, the Roman republic were slaves by choice, right ?

Maybe there was a lack of alternatives available to them, or at the very least they didn't themselves believed other good alternatives existed (the same as with student loans), but it still required them to agree to it.
a technical question; how do you know you didn't have any collisions, do you get alerts when one occurs?
I think this is a big part of it. I think of it as a signalling tax on the young extracted by the old. "Ah ya think you're smart eh? You want a job eh? Promise me $100k+ your future earnings and we'll talk".
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could be interesting to see a revised version of this article, including also authenticated MACs (HMAC etc).
German goverment pretty much has its sh* together quite well. What has been described here shows how that is: While Germany offers a lot of freedom with "basic rights" (the constitution starts with an enumeration comparable to the Bill of Rights), there is a certain expectancy in the law that the state will not ever fail. There is no good damage compensation for damages done by the state. (We do not have punitive damages anyway here in German law, so expect to get the value of a pair of used glasses when a police officer mistakingly destroys yours.) This is a general line. You don't get much for being in jail when it turns out you've done nothing wrong. There's no "fruit of the poisoned tree" doctrine that forbids the use of proofs in court that were gotten illegally. You get basically nothing for the time that your stuff got seized when it turns out in the end (after 12-15 months typically) that you've done nothing wrong. Please come and pick up your 486 machine, we're done analyzing - otherwise we'll get rid of it (on your expense).

Germany as a state grands you a lot of rights, but expects you to do your share as a citizen - like not becoming a suspect.
Since he is an Chossid; very many of these details are spelled out by his religion and not left to chance; or pre-marital experimentation.
> 1. Perhaps some of them were already referring to program errors as "bugs"

This. Engineers talked about "bugs" even before the time of computers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug#Etymology
I wanted to flag this article, but then I noticed that it had accrued 58 points already. I gave up.
Yep. Back in 2008 or thereabouts, I threw together http://crashmybrowser.com/ (note that this page will not immediately crash your browser, it's very polite about asking first). I only spent a short amount of time on it and haven't touched it since, but at a quick check, it looks like at least a couple of the tests are still effective.

The site has a note, under "why", along the lines of resource limitations and process separation for tabs being a good idea. 5 years later, it still is.

On the plus side, all of the browsers have changed their UI a lot during those 5 years.

edit: looks like Chrome (or Chromium) has aged more gracefully than Firefox. It handles everything on the page with a minimum amount of fuss. Good. :-)
>How can you feel it when you think it makes perfect sense to put your socks on the floor after you’re done with them, and she has this crazy idea that they need to go in the laundry basket?

Yeah thats not going to get you very far.
Why GlusterFS should not be integrated with OpenStack
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This is like the theme for every family soap opera on Indian television. I swear.
The older OpenGL version is probably just because of the driver, not the hardware. The latest Catalyst beta is about to bring 4.3 support (to almost all chip of the last ~3 generations). Just a matter of time for 4.4