skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understood the problem pretty well before writing the C++ version, having done some prototypes beforehand. The C++ version went through some reasonable refactoring too, so it's not like that code was just the first working version that g++ would accept.

I didn't do a full C++ rewrite of course. I think it's fair to say that whenever you are doing lots of concurrency/multithreading/evented stuff in a language like C++, the savings will be enormous when you switch to a language that has a nice concurrency model (ie, not just threads and shared mem and mutexes).
Of course, the applications of this go beyond hashtags. You can apply this towards topic classification of content.
In this particular case, I think that you are right. But isn't it powerful to have it at the command line level? It's great to quickly create models as you can also use them to make predictions at the command line level.
Compared to other 1GHz SoC development boards, or Intel Atom-based development boards?

Just because a Raspberry Pi is $40 doesn't mean everything else out there is useless and/or overpriced.
That's a great suggestion, thanks. In your experience, have you run across any self-taught analysts, or do they typically have a background in a quantitative field?
This is a fascinating subject.

While technological progress seems certain, the direction of that progress will be surprising. We have iPads, but not flying cars. We have Facebook, but no moon bases. No one would have expected that fifty years ago. And I'm not saying I'd rather have a flying car than an iPad, but building things "people want" will probably lead to an unexpected world.
If you press the Google Drive button in QuickOffice, it will basically show you what you have in Google Drive, just like the Google Drive app. But yeah, not sure why they're keeping the Drive app around then.
Fucking backwards compatibility, let shitty code keep using shitty compilers while the rest of us move forward.

There comes a time when no one uses a feature anymore so it might as well be dropped. How many of you still have floppies on your computer?
They mostly don't. I recall they used to make some money off of affiliate links on products people posted. They abandoned it for various reasons. They've survived off of VC money.
default subreddits are just plain bad - but if you go to smaller ones (or, even better, highly moderated like /r/askscience or /r/askhistorians), it gets a lot better.
Maybe it's just your hospital then. I know that even the receptionist at my hospital has to go through HIPAA training.

If you know your hospital staff lacks HIPAA training, it's probably time to find a new doctor at a different hospital.
You're correct, Quickoffice did allow login from multiple sources in the past.

Obviously Google would remove that feature as they now own Quickoffice, I would have been FAR more surprised if they kept it in.
Meh. Questioning whether yet another Y Combinator startup can actually change education in a meaningful way is fair. This article, unfortunately, is a bunch of conventional wisdom crap.

To pick a nit, the author dismissively handwaved charter schools away as some sort of capitalist corruption. This is a pet peeve of mine. I was just ranting about this yesterday... read my critique here:

http://www.davestagner.com/2013/09/17/charter-schools-and-di...
Posthaven Reaches Profitability
I really like Deluge, but I've only used the Linux version.
That is a very interesting idea. I am wondering if monetized recommendations can be done algorithmically, which might be the case with their interest graph. However, if not and they are targeting long-tail ads it might be better to follow googles lead and do something similar to adwords. Do you have an intuition on this?
This is a "Blue Ribbon" school, apparently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_Magnet_Trinity_Colleg...

And this is why test scores alone are pretty bloody poor measure of excellence if that's the only criteria.
Disable the extended search API in chrome://flags to turn it off.
A few months ago someone posted a photo of a young lady sporting facial hair. Predictably the reddit hivemind were pointing and laughing until the lady in question saw her photo was plastered online and decided to reply to the OP, explaining she was a Sikh and her beliefs dictated that her hair was sacred (I think)

The OP grovelled and apologised for posting the photo without her permission, but still, I think that was one of reddits lowest points
Same here. WTF even is that other CLANG (the article doesn't say), and why should we care?
The strange thing about NYC is weird hipsters (and yes I'll call him that) are one of the things that make such a commerce driven city a livable place. They're behind random cool stuff in the park, most of the bars with really awesome beers, and a lot of the other quirks that makes a financial center liveable. Of course they just get bullied as a result...
That picture is adorable!

How could anybody have something bad to say about that? Haters gonna hate, I guess.
I disagree because there are fundamentals, highlighted by the author, that a lot of experienced mobile developers know already through trial and error that should be acknowledged up front.

For instance, doing single calls to APIs for multiple pieces of information instead of a bunch of calls. If you design for these up front, you can then head the problem off before it even becomes a problem. It's not premature because users expect it. They do notice network lag, they do notice battery usage, and they will give you one star on the app store or play store, etc. I've literally seen this play out in real life. It's no different than making sure your website loads quickly IMHO. You still have to do all those other things you listed to worry about, but this isn't to be glossed over and addressed when you realize people are noticing.
No, because the world is full of JavaScript kiddies.
In this case, I was re-implementing the C++ app I had written - so it was the same programmer authoring both codebases.

I expect if I rewrote either codebase again, it might shrink even more.
Thank you. I edited it (doing really well).
Good point. A modern phone (or any complex device) is more than a collection of swappable components - it is an integrated system.
Supply and demand. Funny how often people want to ignore it.
The first time I bought an Apple product it was iPhone 2, and I felt like a traitor, because before that I was using the latest and greatest with phones like Sony Ericsson's K790i, and I always thought Apple products were not for the trendsetters/uber-people/top-of-the-line but more mainstream and more of hip before hipster was around type of product. However, after they added copy and paste I really began to appreciate the simplicity, stability, and functionality.

I resonated with this article quite a bit. For SEO work and regular tasks I still prefer a Thinkpad with a Trackpoint and a great keyboard (X201 is my current weapon of choice) (My dad was a Sys Admin at a computer Recycling company and so I had quite a share of various laptops from major computer companies in Silicon Valley.) However for video/audio I have a maxed out Macbook Pro i7 (pre-Retina), iPad 3, and still use iPhone 4S, had iPhone 5 and sold it.

So here is the thing I have iPhone 4s, iPad 3, and Macbook Pro (pre-Retina) with no desire to upgrade at all.

iPhone 4S vs 5, the screen on iPhone 5 is too big. 4S feels perfect in my hand.

I agree with Steve why would I want a smaller iPad 4, if I have iPad 3 that is bigger size having retina?

Macbook Pro (pre-Retina) is the last laptop that can be have its memory and battery changed without having to take it to Apple Store having to do that is a hassle.

Now iOS 7, its throwing away all-things-apple-design and now following Android? The main reason I advocated Apple products was simplicity in its like real life skeuomorphic design (more here: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/11/...) I love that. You have seen the latest TechCrunch article on other App companies following suit and redesigning, with Hipmunk being a good example of over-simplistic Android feel that is not very user friendly.

All that background to say, I was hoping Steve Jobs would instill a culture/legacy after him to continue with the same thinking and mindset about the design. Yet, now I see how much of what Apple is was tied to Steve Jobs. Its a little scary: to have Apple changed after Steve Jobs, and sad, thinking about what Apple will become in a few years. More comments appreciated!
It's also built 80 feet above sea level.
I hadn't realized how little regulation there was around packaging dates. I never cared much for following the dates anyway but I'm still surprised to hear how meaningless they actually are.

Just another case of the FDA being an incredibly disappointing regulatory body...
That is what consoles are for.
To each their own. I experienced the PhD-postdoc path. IMO...

-- Science is the quest to understand how and why things work, and how to make 'em better (for engineering). Sure, some of it is "process", but not "process and people" (to me, though the people are good too).

-- Academic science definitely has a profit motive: get money to do more science.

-- Academic "workhorses" get paid $40k because they're either in training (grad student) or in a holding pattern (postdocs) and looking for the "right" long-term gig.

-- Biological sciences have perverse career trajectories compared to others in STEM. I still can't believe that you need multiple 5-year postdocs to be (truly) eligible for faculty jobs. Probably some supply-demand things going on there.

-- My gut tells me... People in science who bitch about others' motivations are just projecting their own unhappiness. You can love science and its beauty without committing your life to it.
If I take 10 years learning how to bake a cake, the cake is still only worth 5 or 10 bucks.

Two words: wedding cake.
Related: I've stopped using the term "sprint" as it is, by definition, a non-sustainable pace.
The original article: http://www.wfsb.com/story/23472914/students-called-n-word-ch... There's an older video by a guy who went on a similar, but apparently less traumatizing, field trip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PToqVW4n86U so I guess this isn't an isolated incident.
What kind of document did you open? A PDF???

It's working fine for me, .doc/.docx extensions open in QuickWord as expected.
Japan has very few natural energy resources which is the main reason they embraced nuclear power in a big way. Otherwise, they would have to import many more tons of hydrocarbons.
Your Cake metaphor breaks down because of your intuition and experience of cakes. If everybody needs to study for 10 years to bake a cake, cakes would become are more expensive. If people are were willing to spend 5 bucks on a cake, baking would not be a lucrative carer and few people would pursue it. Politicians might then show concern about a cake talent crisis and fund programs to get girls more interested in baking at an earlier age, while cakes still cost 5 bucks a piece.
I am willing to live with this case (some random person who is not used to presenting on a projector forgetting to mask his password) for MY personal utility.
Whatever i see things like this, it reminds me the way the greeks used to see the gods.. as jokers messing around with humans, much like politicians do to us nowadays.. (cause this must be a joke from the gods)

in the eighties the allmighty IBM get crushed by the rookie
microsoft because it didnt see the new software wave comming..
and from this new market its arch-enemy was born

now microsoft is falling into pieces, because microsoft in the nineties, didnt see the internet revolution comming (or was afraid to ask), and its killer born from it.

google its not only taking what once was a market dominated by microsoft, but are dominating also in the internet arena.. and if you guys see well .. they have created a "internet as a platform", buying and acquiring all over
the ones who create little niches in this BIG massive platform..

my question is.. it will have internet life outside of the google internet platform? and worst yet..

it will have life outside of the corporate internet the took all over? (the people who knew the internet in the beggining of times know what im talking about)

before us all were considered products and advert targets?
I’m confused. Do you seriously have a problem with the kind of glasses someone wears? I think you should re-evaluate how you view other people and stop being so judgemental.
As much as I enjoy linux and its commandline, that is one thing that really annoys me. The number of characters is not that useful of information. For example, in the times it takes to brute force a password known to be N characters, you could have brute forced every password with fewer than N character; so hiding the length of the password is no better than adding one more character.
Furthermore, providing an indication that a key-press was registered prevents the two most common reasons for mis-entering a password: not pushing a key hard enough and pushing a second key while pushing one from your password.

Having said that, when I write a script that needs to be provided with a password, I just make it hide what I am typing. "read -s" is so much easier than whatever I would have to do to make it show * s.
I tried numerous times with iPhone5 on iOS7 and I can't reproduce it. I wonder what the timing issue is. I tried immieately double-pressing home after cancelling the poweroff, and then delaying it. Nothing worked.
Click on the Home link just above the green bar.
SQL is nowhere near to being discarded; quite the contrary, for ex. Hive bringing it into the Hadoop ecosystem.
Making a big fuss about the internet hating you is so hipster.
Did you read the part about 'mask my password' checkbox option?
This info is already available for free (pinterest.com/source/yoursite.com then click on metrics). They would have to turn it off first.
It's a sword-fighting game being spearheaded by nerdcore author Neal Stephenson (Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, Anathem, et c)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang
California becomes the first state to regulate ridesharing apps
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6398018

My comment there...

This seemed very familiar, then when I saw phrases in the Kickstarter like "You are the computer and they get to order you around", the lightbulb went on: http://drtechniko.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/

...it's a very similar game, for the same age group, except you order around people in a room instead of turtles on a board. (Not knocking Robot Turtles. There's room for both)
> It's not a 'security researcher', it's just some guy messing around with his phone.

And that's exactly how a vulnerability seeker should behave - messing around!
That's cool RoboRally is a great game anyway so bringing it to kids is a good idea.
CLANG is a sword fighting videogame/hardware project led by Neal Stephenson, a rather famous sci-fi author. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang

[derp.... I forgot HN decapitalized titles. I was counting on that to differentiate it]
Http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?imore=1
The source is MIT licensed and fork-able on GitHub. https://github.com/inlineblock/javascript-hero
I'm on dev. I'll probably switch to stable yeah. But I'm afraid that this sort of things are gonna drip down to the stable eventually :/
I throw away prototypes pretty often. Spending a short time thinking through a problem by experimenting with it is more in line with my kind of thinking than writing detailed design documents or UML diagrams.

The key is to not be ashamed of it.
At some degree, word frequency counting does classify correctly what the story is about, so in my opinion it do adds quality to it. Think of it like regular tagging. However, the threshold for how many hashtags should be produced with this method should be very low, as it offers no contextual or meta information about it.
Scrolling: the way the Internet was meant to be viewed; Optimizes user experience.
* I can view the information quickly and easily one page, at a glance
* When viewing on a mobile device, I don't have to wait for additional load times for additional pages (less http requests)

(No, I don't want to click through 1,642 pages to view your article or list of top X things!)
Quantum Healing
Well, I hate it :) I mean fine add this, but make the old version available as a config option or something. I really don't need a big google logo and a search bar every time I press cmd+t
The fact is that there's a very huge amount of legacy code which provides irreplaceable functionality. What would you do if you had a complex data crunching library in C to be integrated into your program?

Rewriting stuff from scratch is sometimes good, but usually you prefer to have some well-tested routines, and be sure they will not fuck up.

Edit: you may also argue that projects like LLVM make it possible to compile stuff in IR, and still keep the old code... but there may be situations in which choosing a different compiler is not an option.
Yes, but there need to be at least as much incoming cash as outgoing, or there's a net deficit.
The price of beer at Oktoberfest completely defies economic logic
zPtr = malloc(128);

if( zPtr == 0 ){

/*

*If the system is so sick that we are unable

* to allocate a tiny chunk of memory, there

* is no much we can do here, kill this bitch

*/

exit(-1); //Seriously?

}
I think is is a really interesting point, and it's something I spend quite a bit of time thinking about. Why is some attention-seeking behavior generally seen as acceptable, even positive, while other attention-seeking behavior is seen as pathetic or rage-inducing?

Based on my own anecdotal experience, I think part of the anger comes from a sense of discomfort at the dissonance between how one thinks the attention-seeker is being perceived and how one thinks the attention seeker believes they are being perceived.

In the case of someone using a typewriter, the issue isn't simply that one thinks that person looks foolish, it's the dissonance between knowing they look foolish and imagining that they think they look super cool. Dissonance leads to discomfort, discomfort leads to anger.

With other kinds of attention-seeking public behavior -- street performance, for example -- even if one doesn't enjoy it, there's a much closer match between how the performer believes themselves to be perceived and how they are actually perceived (assuming they are competent).

I harbor no ill-will towards hipsters, self-identified or otherwise. But if I imagine someone using a typewriter in Starbucks, it does make me uncomfortable, and by far the biggest part of that is imaging that person thinking they are really funny or really cool.
"coming". Also sentences should begin with a capital letter.

Sorry, my OCD wouldn't allow me to absorb your otherwise well thought out post.
Awww man, thank you! That's just what I needed!
Apple brings iCloud bookmark syncing for Chrome and Firefox to Windows PCs
Ghost Recon    RAMBO STYLE
How I got a dream job
Former Amazon star exec killed in bike accident
I can see how reproducing could potentially be tricky for some, that said, I was able to reproduce this almost instantly. I wonder if I should bother restoring back prior to iOS 7 or just wait for the patch? Hmmm....
I don't know if it's because my iPhone 4's slower, but I found it relatively easy to do.
http://squid314.livejournal.com/292620.html has a good post on the actual danger of Fukushima. Pollution from other baseline sources like coal cause many more deaths than any nuclear accident.

When you hit a nuclear plant with the fifth largest earthquake ever recorded, then immediately follow that with a twenty foot high tsunami, and then it explodes, it still kills fewer people than an average coal plant does every single year when everything goes perfectly.
So, what do you think is the prior probability of being a disgusting reprehensible goblin? And what is the difference in likelihood of poor fashion decisions between goblins and non-goblins? Seems like would be interesting to actually try and find out which personality traits correspond most with poor fashion decisions (presumably introversion would be a given?)
RL-500 Platform Riser for Server Installs in Cold Aisle Containment
The ServerLIFT RL-500 Platform RISER is the only solution that enables you to reach to top of any rack, without penetrating any overhead obstructions, where there is a low ceiling clearance, such as cold aisle containment rooms.
You have to douple tap the home button a split second after having tapped "Cancel". It took me a few tries, but it works.
Here's a terrible one I wrote years ago for a Twitter bot:

https://github.com/stephenmcd/babbler/blob/master/babbler/ta...

If I recall, it simply extracts non-dictionary words from the outgoing tweet, then actually queries the Twitter API itself to gauge the popularity of each potential hashtag, only using the most popular.
Computers like most other things in life offer opportunities to screw up and engineering things requires a tradeoff between babysitting and general utility. I think the potential damage in the case above (the occasional presenter has to change a password afterwards) is less damaging than enabling most people to choose better passwords. Your coworker is unlikely to misuse that information. More likely: you have a shitty password and someone breaks a stolen hash because 'Pa$$word' isn't really that creative. I view accidentally showing your password briefly to coworkers as on par with accidentally having an embarrassing email up when you flip on the projector: unlikely to cause long term harm, slightly blush-inducing.

Edit: not implying that we should set up security procedures based on implicit trust of those we work with, but if you're talking about a global internet wide convention then likelihoods are more informative than exceptions.
Came here to say this, glad someone said it first. The sense of entitlement that sometimes comes with higher academic degrees is flat-out weird. Congratulations you have a PhD, keep making meaningful contributions but don't expect to get well paid until you earn it by bringing an idea/product that has real/perceived value to market.
Both are true. Not sure if you are agreeing or disagreeing though.
This is almost just bad timing, because the 3D motion/position capture hardware is just starting to get up to speed. At least the company itself is also a publishing company, so the project will only be put on hold.
You question is whether the internet will consist of anything other than Google? Yes, it will.

The internet remains the internet; Google is not creating "the internet as a platform".

Fractured English is usually quite tolerable as long as it's somewhat coherent, but when it comes in the form of a nonsensical rant I find it exponentially less so.
As an aside, do most people do the "stare away from the screen and keyboard" shuffle when sitting with someone who is logging onto their computer?

I do it (make a point of not facing the keyboard & screen of someone typing in their password) as a point of politeness, however in retrospect I find it a little odd. I've noticed other people doing it too (and yet when there is a presenter logging into a machine, nobody cares as much).
It's easy to talk trash on a technology that is in its infancy. Wait... WebGL games are still not as good as game engines that have been developed for 20 years? SHOCKER.

The technology is only going to get better. The whole point of these demo's is to show what is possible even now when the specs aren't finalized and the technology is barely adopted. Give it 3-5 years and I would be willing to bet you'll need to eat your words.
>Now this is an opinion based on the current_level_of_performance (which I agree is not at the expected level.). But it's not a great way to judge what the future could hold.

Native will always fundamentally beat non-native, that's a plain fact.
Is Phonebloks Possible?
Just disable Control Center on the lock screen. Seems much easier than downgrading iOS...