skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sprint? Maybe Verizon?
My thoughts exactly. Now, if it was a text post with some interesting technical info about what they did that we would care about...
Responsive Macbook to iPad to iPhone html
Some electrons are leaking into the ground under your apartment. You should pay at least for those.
Well, Mr "nsashill42334", account under 24 hours old, I don't think that Mr Snowden should be trusted without question. However it seems unlikely that he is setting out to dupe people into using encryption for some reason or other.
Lots of interesting recipients, as always, including one from the world of CS: http://www.macfound.org/fellows/894/
Template fragment caching is not a good thing. We don't do this anymore. If you have to cache your template fragments, I generally think you're doing something wrong. Gonna have a bad time.
Maths challenge:

I wonder if you could prove this "probability of a random line segment violating convexity" definition equivalent to something given in terms of a ratio of different areas like the area to convex hull area suggestion below.
what MS-Dos was to PCs in the 80's or what Android was to Smartphones more recently is exactly what Steam OS will be to home consoles in the present. I have faith that Valve will dominate the next generation of interactive entertainment, if of course they don't mess anything up.
Monetization Strategies for Startups, Incubators and Accelerators
W/o benchmarks, but from theory - it's a rather different data structure.

1) for pure lookup-by-random-int-index, the standard array is much faster - in C you just calculate a memory location and there your data is; this structure requires, say, 4-6 such lookups depending on the array size, and is that many times slower.

2) On the other hand, iteration through large consecutive parts of the array is almost the same as pure arrays; there is some overhead but that's tiny.

3) Insertion is much faster than standard C/Java arrays - you can't really insert in the middle of an array w/o copying almost all of it, but you can do it here.

4) If you need "modification while keeping the old version as well" - then again, arrays need to make a full copy, but this beast can do it cheaply, faster than a raw C array.

As for any data structures, there are no "faster data structures" since preferences greatly depend on what you want to do with them, some data structures are faster for X and others are faster for Y. The efficiency of this structure greatly depends if your array/vector is mostly used as random-access-lookup or as a list where you need to process all/many sequential items.
If it's not viable, why do you think Google is expanding it after testing it for months?

Expanding to where exactly? Nationwide? Nope, a very small and high density area. Google's loses are limited.

Don't take it a snark, but this is not Google's main line of business at all and quite a few companies have gone under doing just this. Google can afford to lose a certain amount but expect this to end when Google's growth is slowed and spending cuts need to be made.

If you pay the same prices as in store, the money has to come out of somewhere and labor to deliver same isn't that cheap.
Wouldn't that just be the one electron also leaking into the ground?
Was the RTFA really necessary?
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My understanding is they are selling the electrical tension (and charging for that) and not the electron.
Would you drive a 1950's car, live in a house half the normal size, and give up all medical treatments invented since 1950 to get those things?
They use the hot brine to vaporize a motive fluid such as liquid pentane in the heat exchanger, when the liquid is converted to gas it creates a high pressure environment and is piped into a turbine which spins the generator. Then they condense the motive fluid back to a liquid so they can vaporize it again. It's the same way binary geothermal power works, with the Organic Rankine Cycle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_Rankine_cycle
I would guess, like most people, she judges engine response by ear. And, because of the lack of noise, she accelerated thinking she had not pressed the pedal hard enough. Mix that with the different behavior around not moving when the pedal is not pressed (unless they changed that setting), and she just did the wrong thing at the wrong time. It's just sad that, for liability reasons, it is better to force someone to prove you wrong, than just fixing the issue.
If the long term goal is to sell items directly there is plenty of room for margins.

Combined with Google Now, you should rarely ever run out of anything you need.

I like thinking about how an urban environment re-arranges itself when you remove the need for most store fronts, and driving.

ATMs, CVS/Walgreens/Duane Reade, Target, Best Buy; these are all places that probably won't exist in the volume they do today in eight years. Whether it was low interest rates or other factors that made them multiply, it won't really matter. A mobile phone + a neighborhood distribution center should be all that is needed. Automating checkout won't be enough. (In an ATMs case, cash just won't be used except may be for narcotics.)

What happens to Starbucks, McDonald's, and other chain food service is a whole other question.
Yeah, that's really cool. Isn't the argument: if there exists a magnetic monopole anywhere in the universe, and angular momentum is quantized, then charge must also be quantized.

Nothing has made me wish for magnetic monopoles more.
I had to turn my lurker-cloak shield off and tip my hat to you my friend I have never heard of this! I remember my Quantum teacher introducing the concept of a one electron universe, and at the time it sounded like some 19th century type explaining that glass is a liquid, but this, my dear God... this is amazing.
Pure ruby implementation of HTTP 2.0 protocol
I'm incredibly excited about them.

As far as I'm concerned, webhooks and callback requests are the same. If we were going to get pedantic, I suppose we could say that for a request to be a callback, it would have to be a response to an earlier request (think asynchronous processing) whereas a webhook is an evented request (it wasn't prompted by a previous request).

But being pedantic is lame. Let's just be excited about both!

Relevant: https://twitter.com/paddyforan/statuses/254375310554968064
I wouldn't go that far, but they are bad. I think it will take some time for Apple's designers to adjust to the new style. Or maybe this was so far down the designer food chain that it got plopped onto the desk of an over-worked and under qualified graphic intern.
Okay, I somehow missed the comment he was replying to.
Why a portfolio is called “your book”
I’ve traveled to many art schools, being asked to review senior student portfolios, and speak on professional practices in the design business, and the one thing I always notice is the lack of direction in student portfolios.Without senior level courses on portfolio preparation, or classes taught by those who have been out of the field too long to know current trends, it is confusing, and students are left with their own thoughts on what a client wants to see.
This isn't the case: the electron postulated can travel no faster than the speed of light. It just happens to have a world-line which bounces back and forth, a lot, from the beginning of time to the end of time.

There's a variety of interesting theory-things which treat a particle's absorption as an emission back in time, as well; the difference is that here is the "same particle" tracing all those lines, instead of just one of those lines.
I would also recommend that interested readers check out the Places & Spaces exhibit (http://scimaps.org/) and Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/atlas-science).
I find trackballs (the Logitech M570 in particular) much more comfortable to use over long periods of time personally. The only criticism I have of their design is that having the trackball on the side entails removing a lot of area where additional mouse buttons could have been placed, and I enjoy having extra buttons there to bind to debugging/build/vcs keys.
Ask HN: Can I get an invite to Lobste.rs from someone
Please and thank you.

Please send to steventruong -over at- gmail
Why would the US be involved in this issue? I would think that it's FIFA's fault for choosing the location.
Well, this could explain the EPR Paradox[1]:

It is one thing to say that physical measurement of the first particle's momentum affects uncertainty in its own position, but to say that measuring the first particle's momentum affects the uncertainty in the position of the other is another thing altogether. Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen asked how can the second particle "know" to have precisely defined momentum but uncertain position? Since this implies that one particle is communicating with the other instantaneously across space, i.e. faster than light, this is the "paradox".[2]

The answer: It's the same electron being measured! No more paradox.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox#Einstein.27s_opposi...
Lots of good cat jokes here. One thought would be to automatically upload the images to Reddit and gather the # of upvotes. The higher the upvotes the more likely it's a cat.

/joke session
They actually wrote the phrase "scientific doctrine" without irony. Unbelievable.
I've started adding web hooks to one of my Django web apps with Zapier's django-rest-hooks which I'm liking a lot:

https://github.com/zapier/django-rest-hooks
This is certainly the case now. You have too much technical debt.

For future projects should you continue to use Django/Python, or something with better performance?

Should this be a lesson to me as a Django developer, that I'm better off starting a company on a different stack if I want to keep server costs low?
Well, Lady Gaga is also a songwriter and composer. What technology has McAfee really contributed?
Popular Science Turned Off Comments Because They Failed to Adapt
Great picture, those machines remind me of the turrets from portal 2
The Great Recession will hopefully stop eventually, and then you can expect to see the unemployed 18-35 year-olds get jobs, buy cars (among other things), and drive again.
Awesome post! The diagrams are really great additions. I look forward to the rest of the series. :)
How can someone enjoy a soccer match knowing it is happening on a field stained by the blood of modern-day slaves.

I WON'T. WILL YOU?
While I agree that they will definitely not be releasing source for Steam, I doubt its for DRM reasons. As far as I can tell steamapi.DLL DRM is pretty thoroughly owned.
Twitter Launches Alerts to Keep You Updated During Emergencies
From Wikipedia: "Anecdotal evidence is an informal account of evidence in the form of an anecdote. The term is often used in contrast to scientific evidence, as evidence that cannot be investigated using the scientific method."

I didn't say "this one time back in 2001". This is everyday for years. These are consistently observable data. Cars merge early, my commute is under 30 minutes. Cars merge late, and not just one or two (the north shore of chicago is chock full of entitled assholes), my commute is over 40 minutes. Sounds like a falsifiable hypothesis to me.

One of the main reasons airplanes and trains are much safer than automobiles is that planes and trains have outside coordination of traffic, a third party who can see the bigger picture. Automobile traffic is thousands of individual actors who focus mainly on their own interests, and consider others around them only to avoid near term problems. Hoping everyone will magically act in concert, without government enforced obligation, is a pipe dream. Which is what the article points to, and proposes to solve with self driving cars. Self driving cars would allow the outside coordination that could facilitate zipper merging.
I love this, I just wish there was a way to have the font in something more readable for the areas that aren't positional format sensitive. For some reason, I can read monospaced fonts for code perfectly, but when it comes to text, I have difficulty reading it.
> I have to object to The Guardian's use of scare quotes in the title...

I don't think this is scare quotes, more like conservative British journalism that handles any story-relevant term delicately by emphasizing it's a quotation, and not their interpretation. I've seen it lots in the BBC: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0...

'emits flammable gas'

'played dead'

'bad habits'
Indeed! Apart from all the hype Valve just seems to be confirming the rumors here. I'm surprised by how little information they actually give away. No screenshots/videos of SteamOS, no specifications of the boxes.

I'd really like to know more. Currently I don't see why this is better than building a mini-ITX gaming rig in a nice case and putting Ubuntu + Steam Big Picture mode on it.
I definitely noticed this independently and came here--Is it normal to mix a couple serif-like characters into an otherwise sans mono font?
Or you:

Buy Logitech F710 wireless controller.

Plug Logitech controller in.

Notice modern Windows games auto-detect Logitech controller as XBox controller.

Play games.

It's not rocket science. And frankly, most PC gamers are pretty familiar with jumping through far more hoops than that.
A bit of a crappy pattent.
Already been done: http://www.madcatz.com/mlg/ps3_controller.htm
Similar story here. Find a niche you care about. Look around for the right customers for your product. Do things manually as a test run if applicable. Make your first 10-20k or so. Scale out where needed.

Single founder startups usually can be great lifestyle companies until you decide to raise funding (if you do) as well.

If you're solving a problem you care about while making money at it at the same time, you basically have the ability to do whatever you want.
I think you either misread me, or I'm misreading you. I'm advocating the method that fails immediately (unsigned, so an underflow hits unmapped memory immediately and segfaults).
You're ascribing American notions of journalism to a British paper. They are not scare quotes.
Well, provided that you find the 360 controller's d-pad acceptable, the wired xbox 360 controller works directly, however the wireless 360 controller does not work directly, a different wireless controller that specifies working with the PC has to be purchased and uses a specialized receiver as well. However, once that is accomplished it works well. I do find it obnoxious that it both requires an external USB receiver and the typical wireless 360 controller does not work with the PC. Still, that is the one I use, and it works well.
Google Shopping Express just started delivering from Whole Foods.
Thank you kind sir.

Now combine this idea with the Heat Death of the Universe...
Strandperle Prerow, an der Ostsee, auf der Insel Fischland-Darss-Zingst
Ferienwohnung Strandperle Prerow liegt nur 500 Meter von der Ostsee entfernt und auf der Insel Fischland Darss Zingst, am Nationalpark
This the school principals statement on the matter:
https://linmedia-cms.endplay.com/documents/234677/0/Principa...
Isn't Google Alerts simply based on keyword/phrase matches? So if I want to get an alert for the keyword "recipe", it'll give me web pages that are about recipes, as well as articles that simply have the word 'recipe' (ie "Customer development is the recipe to startup success"). I don't think it ever marketed itself as a topic search alert system.
Mad, for sure.
>I have to object to The Guardian's use of scare quotes in the title...

I've noticed it's quite standard in English publications to use quotes around allegations, even if no one really believes the other side.

Not sure if this is just custom, or something to do with the stricter libel laws...

e: Here is a post on the language log that goes into the matter. (Make sure to read the comments.)

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1017

Comment from a headline writer: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1017#comment-18782
Python syntax highlighting under Vim Windows vs MacVim
Automattic acquires CloudUp
A day late and I'm not the OP, but a friend of mine did this by talking to a business broker. He found a small technology business that was operated by an old couple that needed to quit.

The couple had been making sensors for a niche industry forever and were still charging prices from 10 years earlier. His first order of business was to contact all the customers and tell them prices were going up.
That's SCARY.

Imagine if someone or something were to destroy this electron?

Imagine, if we had split the electron instead and then BAM, no more space and time.
LAUSD Halts Home iPad Use After Students Hack Security Locks
I will see your Boltzmann brain, and raise you Infinite monkey Theorem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
Is this cheaper or better then solar panels?
Code generation isn't particularly hard as long as your source language or API is well specified. The problems come after.

One shot code generation is usually fine (make it, run it, throw it away).

Similarly, if the target language is never going to be read or edited by a human then you should avoid most issues.
The Fed's 'hidden agenda' behind money-printing
Yeah, they are charging for continuously sending that damned electron back to you. But, if you wait long enough, it'll probably come back on its own anyway.

What a scam.
Yeah, there's a couple cases where this kind if thing cleans things up; use it with caution though.

More amusing, but less useful outside the IOCCC:

The C subscripting operator performs an basically syntactic transformation, turning a[i] into (*(a + i)). This means that, counter-intuitively (if you're thinking of [] as a lookup) the construct i[a] works too because plus is commutative.
Well that was fast.
FBI vexsome filer list
Google autonomous vehicles may, amongst other things, ferry seniors around safely.

Shopping Express may save them a trip and trying to lug lots of stuff around.

I don't know much about this market, but it's an interesting perspective.
This is plausible. Upload it with a generic title like "Reddit, meet Sniffles"

And then read the comments and detect indicative words or expressions connect with each animal
Check out ermine[1], a language for the JVM that was written for exactly that reason. It's being used at S&P Capital IQ. You can look at the user guide[2] for more information.

[1]: https://github.com/ermine-language

[2]: https://launchpad.net/ermine-user-guide
Even though these two share the same Arabic noun: 'kafala', they actually refers to two totally different things. One refers to the migrant laborers monitoring system, while the other refers to the Islamic view of child adoption. Don't mix them up. The 'kafala' system has no relation (or share roots) with the meaning of 'kafala' in Islam. It's nothing but a name of the legislation of migrant laborers.
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Ah okay, that makes more sense. I tentatively revoke my criticism of the author and/or editor if that's what is going on here.
Fwiw, I've used press release services like this in the past, and haven't gotten coverage like this. No doubt a targeted approach per author would be more effective than mass email, but from my experience, this certainly more effective than a press release.
Yeah, but here's a Fermi problem the crowd.

How many web pages get created every day that contain the word "recipe"?

I'm certain you'd be buried in notifications if Google sent you an alert for every recipe, so it has to have some selection mechanism to send you particular recipes...
Yep, thanks for the link!
Interesting point, but I think you don't mean to say vector, but something more like 'velocity', 'momentum', or better yet, joysticks are meant to control a rate of change.
I simply answered the question, which was 'Is there a new controller going to be included?'.

The possibilities are exciting.
Next up: WordPress in Node.

(j/k, but looking forward to getting more node.js services running as part of WordPress.com.)
That makes no sense to me, I mean what about particle colliders that bash together electrons to get subatomic particles.

That would mean you are colliding the sole electron with itself?

What about electrons on the opposite sides of a planet or even universe, they are violating the speed of light without any gain in mass if it's a single entity.

How about when an electron falls into a blackhole, why aren't all the other "copies" affected by the dramatic space-time shift of such an event?
Ah, interesting. Thank you.
Inside Google's quest to popularize self driving cars
I wish they would follow Apple's lead and tightly control the hardware. It would make it easier for devs to test and consumers to make a choice. Apple's wildly successful with their iPhone business model. Please try to avoid the fragmentation issues with Android. Windows already owns the home PC market, why go after it?
Uru is a bit uneven in spots, but I would recommend it just for Path of the Shell. It uses the new mechanic to create one of the sneakiest puzzles of the entire series. Unfortunately there are also several puzzles that require waiting around in order to solve, but it's worth it to beat your head against the time-travelling puzzle.
Digital Coaching for Employees?
>if all they had was a picture, they mgiht very well refuse and reject say pugs as dogs.

Oh, you mean like this picture from 1759 (you know, before TV/computers)?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Louis-Mic...

Sorry, but your comment is complete nonsense. Not only about the pugs, but in fact cats vary quite a bit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphynx_(cat)
I disagree... it would take much more than money to persuade me to spend more than 40 hours a week at the office. And I like my job.
TL;RA (Too long; read anyway). Brilliant!
Can't imagine to walk in their shoes. This is a crime and serious human right violation. Wonder if embassy of small country not able to take action against contractors?
expect this to end when Google's growth is slowed and spending cuts need to be made

At which point I resume actually walking to the store. I can live with that risk.
People who are using GNOME 3: how is the experience for you? I personally switched to Xfce from GNOME 2 when GNOME 3 came out and I don't think I am going back, but it will be good to see how the experience has been, given the negativity that surrounds it.
This includes both the user's manual, the reference manual, and platform specific information in one file. The user's manual is a subset of the reference manual, and that is 500-600 pages long by itself. The reference manual is enormous, but that is the nature of reference manuals. What is even more shocking is how clear the reference material is despite its breadth and technical subject.

It's an excellent example of how to write quality documentation. What Vim's maintainers get, and what is often neglected in products, is that the documentation is part of the product's value and must be as high of a priority as the rest of the product. If you have had the misfortune of working with Cadence's OrCAD (or pretty much any engineering software) the value of excellent documentation being available is very apparent.

Despite OrCAD's potentially 20k+ USD cost the documentation is very scant and greatly harms its barrier to entry for user's; as a result understanding how it works require tutelage from another expert as though writing has not yet been invented and stories are still only being passed down orally.