skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most hyphenation in compound adjectives occurs when the compound adjective comes before the noun, that is, in the attributive position. As a broad rule, when a compound adjective appears after the noun it modifies, that is, in the predicative position, it will not be hyphenated.

That is so arbitrary. Your source and the OP's source are linguistically prescriptive. Prescriptivism is unscientific and it leads to endless spats between groups of people that think the way they learned to speak and write is somehow superior. A better approach is to look at the reality of how native speakers of a language use, pronounce, and write words (descriptivism) and agree that some uses are standard, and some are non-standard.

Here are some screenshots of collocation searches involving post-adjectival 'looking' from the excellent COCA...

'good':

http://s9.postimg.org/r4cok4spb/good_looking.png

'nice':

http://s9.postimg.org/kcm9ha3pr/nice_looking.png

Here's one for your author's example, "well known" (or "well-known"):

http://s9.postimg.org/64wksmr0v/well_known.png

Notice that the reality bears almost no resemblance to the prescriptive idea of what's correct and incorrect.
Lucasfilm will use video game engines in movie post-production process
If nothing else, that's how I learned to write out the number in words on a check (in the USA).
Nope, it's totally ok. Tested for 4 years with a control from a government agent lately with 2 engineers and a 3D artist without any engineering degree. CIR is way broader than what people think, and it has been made even broader this year (you can now include tasks from pilot programs). This is really super undervalued, CIR and other grants is totally a game changer in assessing if France is a good country to start a tech business.
So, they better make arrangements to get Chrome or Firefox installed along side of IE6. The reality is that IE6 support is not going to happen. It's not worth the extra cost of development.
C#, clearly, did not meet their expectation.
A GUI being dependent on an init system!? I still don't understand why modularity had to be abandoned in order to implement event-based init.
Interesting. So you can get unemployed benefit and run a company at the sametime?
It is amazing how much I rely on Vim on a daily basis and yet how small a proportion of it I actually know.
Wait: so before accessing a website I have to go read its terms of use?

What if I set up a website, put a clause saying "you agree to pay $50/page view" in there, and hid it away. Google crawlers will find my site in no time, and then I can start raking the dollars in, right?
As a Kindle owner, I don't really appreciate PDFs...
Imagine you have commissioned 100 different manufacturers to make you 100 different arbitrary Lego knockoffs; each manufacturer picks a color, thickness, and a peg pitch (spacing between the pegs). Each manufacturer only makes exactly one kind. Some manufacturers' legos will fit together, and some won't.

Some manufacturers make theirs very cheaply and in mass quantities, and some will take years to deliver a very small number at very high prices.

As a solar cell designer, you want to make a stack of these legos to form a rainbow. It has to go from blue on the top to red on the bottom, and it has to stack together without too much force.

Think of a brand-X terrestrial Home Depot crystalline solar cell as just yellow lego bricks. They aren't the whole rainbow (and green would actually be a closer match to sunlight if you could only pick one color) but they're cheap.

Gallium Arsenide legos are green, but they're really hard to make. Germanium legos are red, and it turns out that the green Gallium Arsenides fit on them really well. Yellow Silicon ones, on the other hand, don't fit well with either.

So that brings us to two. Indium Phosphide legos are blue and so are Gallium Phosphide legos. But neither of those fit well on the green Gallium Arsenide; one's lego pins are too dense, the other too sparse. It took a long time for a manufacturer to come up with the right blend, thickness, and color, but they were able to come up with a lego that is blue, made from a mix called Indium Gallium Phosphide, and stacks nicely on top of the green Gallium Arsenide. So that's 3.

The fourth layer might be Indium Gallium Arsenide Nitride (let's just call it orange), shoved between the existing layers; somehow making a mix of a good quality lego, but one that makes the right color, right thickness, and right pin pitch.

Now to translate to real physics: The pin pitch is the lattice parameter of each of these crystals, or the distance between individual atoms. If you attempt to epitaxially grow (grow on top of in the same fashion) a different compound than what already exists there, it tends to work ok if the lattice parameters are close. If they're radically different, you can get growth but it's highly disordered and ends up making a lousy layer and a lousy solar cell.
What was that green bar flashing across the top of the screen while I was trying to read the article?
What ui toolkit is this using?
Yes. The timer was set to 47 mins for you to attempt your pure CSS layout, and would count down to your inevitable failure. Someone also built an opposing "Use CSS" timer, but I cannot find that one.
Ha Microsoft is the scapegoat for most. M$ hate from the 90s just carrying over. Remember when they brought out the Flat Design, the amount of skepticism here was amazing. Slowly Gmail switched, then Youtube, Andoid, Yahoo and now IOS. MS gets comparatively less credit for anything they come up with but don't bother, its a techy hivemind thing and it will fade.
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I hope Joe's taking the reigns again!
Did you read the linked Makefile?
It's even worse than the phrase "finding the rightsholder" would suggest. Most authors pass away without clearly designating a single literary heir, so the rights often get split among heirs, which is bad enough when it happens once, but by the time grandchildren start inheriting fractional rights, getting the legal ducks in a row is economically impossible.

Or maybe the rights end up in the hands of someone who is happy to see the work lost forever. Authors themselves are sometimes happy to help their old work get lost forever.
I'm just a novice programmer, but it is my understanding that Clojure is a Lisp dialect, it doesn't just feel like Lisp. Am I correct?
And what symbol is used for the "minus" operator?
Popular Science Shuts Down Comments on its Website
The linked article lists desalinization as one of the uses.
I just wanted to say that I was pleasantly surprised that this works so well with Chrome on my Android phone.
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While I agree with the sentiments of what you are saying but the 'move along' has nothing to do with it being Google. This has been known by everybody for a long time and discussed here on HN. All the 'article' shows is that there are some tools to see that info has been collected.

There is no point in flogging a dead horse. So yeah, move along.
Wait, what? This is new? I've been using this "hybrid" mode for about a year... Actually, I didn't know it was a hybrid, I just assumed that's how relative line numbers always work

Hmm. I don't know what version of Vim I was using when I first started using this line number mode since I've been keeping my install updated, but my install is from around this time last year.
Here's what I want to know:

When you open a new tab in Dolphin browser for Android, pressing the back button deletes it. Why shouldn't this be the default behavior for desktop browsers?
Google picks Waterloo for one of 7 new tech hubs
Put me down for "cool" rather than "creepy" on this. I'm mostly annoyed that it's missing a good 6 months in the middle for me. Missing 4 countries and some cool locations due to that :-(

The airplane trips section seems particularly bad, it pretty much only gets my home airport right.
The PDF is full to the brim with hyperlinks. That is the point of this.
Of course, yes, everyone is always in complete agreement about what is right and wrong, because humans are always absolutely objective when it comes to moral decisions.
It's built into my TV (along with Netflix, Hulu, etc) already.
The other benefit to these plants over nuclear is that the time it takes to get them operational is much shorter. This allows for faster iteration time, and therefore more opportunities to improve the technology and reduce costs.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6442806.
Thanks for the feedback. We are on our way to fixing this.
Give me a digital painting toolbox blade to go with that Wacom screen and I'll be happy.
That's not bad at all, it's sounds more like business as usual. I think it's my regular workday.
Btw. Did the customer require extensive documentation, escrow, you to fix their data when they can't get it done (like invalid post area codes linked to wrong addresses, fixing post number / city information based on post area code) etc or looking it up based on street adress or so. Been there, done that. Did you spend several weeks in meetings where they can't decide how their stuff works, and you'll just keep wondering if they'll ever decide what they actually want etc. Of course they're going to completely change that week later etc. They don't have a clue how things should technically work, or even what the actuall business process is. Because they have bought an integration, everything must just automatically work, right? We need to know what females in age range 20-25 have bought during last month. Err, but we don't record customer age or sex? Well, but our management team needs that information. It's sure alarm sign, that they want to know how much "this" project will cost, but nobody really knows what "this" is. Also it's needs to be completed by end of the month. I have declined so many projects, and clearly told customers why I'm not going to do anything for them at all. Unless they accept it as "agile" project, with unlimited budget. Then I'll promise them that I'll personally see that it gets done, but it's going to be expensive. - 15 years of ERP/POS/BI/CRM integration programming & consulting.
The Good and Bad Habits of Smart People
There is also a JSP breakfast store in Taiwan http://iwannagothere.com/userfiles/pictures/0005/5397/P10409...
Any idea whether this depends on the projection used to get the map in the first place? I mean, the "straight lines" are really curves that lie in the boundary of the Earth's surface, unless I'm missing something major.
There are of course exceptions to every rule. A specialized controller might be suitable for a few applications. When talking on the scale of Microsoft and general-purpose tablets, the market for such specialized controllers are vanishingly small; great for a niche, but a paltry offering from a company in desperate need of mass appeal.
It is using the Clojure seesaw library, which is a wrapper around Swing. The theme is the Graphite skin from the Insubstantial project.
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Being 'offended' runs a whole spectrum from legitimate outrage of a betrayal of vital social norms through to mildly inconvenienced that not everyone agrees with my personal world view. The problem is many people use 'offense' in the latter sense to ram through their personal beliefs onto others.

I have been known to be in the company of men to whom I am not related. Some consider this offensive. They can explain to me that its immodest. I can explain that I find the suggestion insulting beyond belief. Who is objectively 'right'. Am I not empathetic or are they?
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I hope not, I just wouldn't put anything past easyJet (I've had bad customer experience with them so I am bias)
Perhaps if you were my customer, but you're just consuming the free content I've spent a good deal of time putting together :)
I've heard of some folks using a Fresnel lens to concentrate light onto a smaller area, where the silicon is. It improves the efficiency significantly, but can also cause heat issues (which can hurt efficiency).
I find your sentiment about ORM overhead spot on. I did a simple unscientific benchmark once that showed a 2x overhead using jdbc versus a native driver and a minimum 4x overhead using hibernate vs jdbc. That means that using hibernate proved to be 8 times slower than using a native driver! And this is before you get into issues most ORMs have struggled with like efficient joins. And as bad as hibernate is, dynamic language ORMs are even slower.
Failure is Not an Option, but it Should Be
HN youngers of today like to bash Enterprise Java, whereas the old guys already have their share of scares from:

Enterprise Clipper

Enterprise C

Enterprise C++

Enterprise Perl

Enterprise TCL

Enterprise insert language here

You just need to let the enterprise architects loose...
Yeah, we should be able to define types of sandwiches in XML.

What if someone wants a BLT?
Absolutely. It's not a trick, it's an official system to help entrepreneurship. You need to have worked at least 2 years to have unemployment right though. So as hartator said, you don't get it straight after college.
Yottamine Analytics: A Big Data Machine Learning Company
Yottamine Analytics is a relatively new, small company that has created a cloud based system to apply machine learning algorithms to big data.
I can't figure out what the target audience of this post is.

It's part of Wired's "Enterprise Technology" blog[1] so it's for CIO/CTO and other IT consultant types who don't write any code themselves, but make "best practice"[sic] recommendations.

[1] http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/
http://www.rainymood.com/ anyone ?
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I have the dream that one day we will recognize languages as the tool they are

We do. They're just terrible tools. Do you think other industries don't criticize their tools? Hell, they have full magazines and reports reviewing and grading them.

The idea that all languages/tools are created equal and just have different use cases is nonsense.
It's got some differences, notably a vector type with square [] brackets that is differentiated from homoiconic function calls in normal (), and also some hacky stuff with (recur) that they had to do to deal with the JVM's lack of tail call optimization.
it still returns "ERR_NPN_NEGOTIATION_FAILED"
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Even Groupon, arguably one of the largest Rails-based sites still out there, is moving away from Rails. (Mostly to Node.js although again, with some Java).

(And yes, obviously Ruby != Rails.)
Copy-pasting the same comment more than once in a post == not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6444903

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6444838
it still returns ERR_NPN_NEGOTIATION_FAILED
It is a Lisp environment with a builtin text editor, not an IDE.
Yeah, I'm wondering if the projection used has the property that straight lines lie on great circles. And from what I remember about geoids, it seems like the term "great circle" wouldn't even apply to all of them.
Steam turbines have been around since 1800s. The tech is well understood. Mirrors are also cheap. These two can't be the reason for the high cost.

My guess is that the fancy molten salt stuff drove up the cost. Molten salt is very corrosive.

I would _love_ to see the breakdown of the costs.

Aside: I drove past the plant this summer, and even from the highway it looked awesome.
Funny thing Hail to the King started to play while I was reading this article.
That would probably be a bad idea: The main energy input will be by UV. If it is absorbed, the material will heat up.

Physics states that (Reflection coefficient + Absorption coefficient + Transmission coefficient = 1), all wavelength dependent. Now if you want a high number for the reflectivity in IR, you will have a low number for the absorption coefficient.

If you have a low absorption coefficient you will most probably have a low emission coefficient since those two are linked (equal for black bodies, see Kirchhoff's Law/gray body).

So you have a low emission coefficient in the IR, and the thermal emission due to the heating from the absorbed UV will be quite inefficient, and thus there will be more heating, which is bad (edit: the heat will not be transported away and will accumulate).

Of course if you have good materials you might be able to migitate, but at first glance it looks problematic to me. Sorry for inelegant language.
Nice work, I will surely have a try.
Is most science false? The titans weigh in.
I was just thinking about Myst after having read this article yesterday - http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9713372/looking-back-gam...
You are correct. Java's niche is servers that need to accept a lot of concurrent connections and middleware that can shove data around via a set of standard protocols. Outside of those enterprise-centric areas, it's not a great fit for much else (fast data processing, embedded, games, etc.) I say this as someone who has worked with server-side Java since 1999.
I'd argue Scala is much more readable than Java with some effective practices. Type inference (where appropriate) cuts down on distracting text, operator overloading is great when used judiciously, for comprehensions, etc are all great features.

Just because Java requires explicit typing all over the place does not make it easy to read, especially when I'm trying to decipher what the ResourceBuilderFactoryFactory class is doing in my enterprise grade codebase. There is cognitive load in parsing tons of text to express simple concepts, just as there is cognitive load in deciphering a bunch of random symbols doing something complex. Scala with discipline lets you choose somewhere in between; Java gives no choice.
Tennesse's line looks fairly curved so I'm guessing it's done on a sphere.
still returns ERR_NPN_NEGOTIATION_FAILED
Ask HN: Questions you were asked during tech interviews? 
I'm preparing for an upcoming interview for a Software Engineer position. Can anyone share challenging and/or interesting questions they've been asked in the past?
That story takes me back. With today's increased paranoia, one wonders if the Bitkeeper fiasco was just a smokescreen to obscure malicious additions to the kernel.
Great to know, plus points for using desktop libraries and not some HTML 5 wrapper thingie.
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Big Bang Abandoned in New Model of the Universe
I think the projection becomes relevant when you're looking at "straight" borders like Colorado. A great circle will bend slightly north of the northern border, so you can actually just barely touch Wyoming and Nebraska, but I don't think the projection is significant when looking at some of the more irregularly shaped states
To be fair, the article acknowledges as much:

> The solution I've employed involved discovering and forking of a kick ass data conversion tool called Mr. Data Converter, and quickly the tool retrofitted with some of my own enhancements:

> * HTML5 File API - Allows me to acces file content without server side technology.
> * oAuth.io - Dead simple, client side oAuth for Github and other platforms.
> * Github.js - A JavaScript API wrapper for Github, enabling client-side interaction.
I just wanna say:

Good Luck France(really)! We need different cultures, distinct point of views, more tech jobs, and innovation

Also the Euro zone got to recover fast, we need this strenght, sophistication and experience to help us all
to get in a better future..

I know the path is difficult, but i wish you all the best!

Sometimes, just a little optimism, can do wonders!
Honest reporting earns fewer eyeballs.
EasyJet is akin to Tesco Value - its shit but you generally know what you are getting. Ryanair on the other hand is like dumpster diving - you COULD get a cheap meal but if you aren't careful you'll get food poisoning.
> Myst's legacy is that if something is pretty, people will buy it, play it, talk about it until the newest pretty thing comes out, then forget about it.

Myst - 1993

Rise of the Robots - 1994

People not aware of RotR should do some googling. The pre-release hype was impressive. The game was shiny and looked nice. It was appalling to play.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_of_the_robots)

> Rise of the Robots was announced early in development, and generated considerable buzz for its advanced graphics. On release it became notorious in the video gaming industry for myriad crippling gameplay problems. Today it is generally considered one of the least successful and most critically reviled fighting games of its time.
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Type inference is great, and is part of why I consider Scala to be "one step forward, 2 steps back" rather than just a total loss.

As far as the rest, we'll just have to disagree, I stated up front that it was an opinion :)
I refuse to up vote any medium.com post until they stop disabling pinchzoom on mobile devices.
Aaaaannnd now I'm playing FTL again. Lining up those 5-room beam strikes is just too much fun!

On topic, though, this is pretty cool. Rivers and coastlines seem to be the best way to get appropriately jagged borders. It's interesting to look at states across the map from east to west and see the shapes get simpler and more geometric over time.
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This is amazing 15GB of free space!!
Three laws for a fair patent system, would help a lot:

1. Acquiring a patent must cost $0. -- There should be no distinction between applications, such as expedited service (which we have now). The USPTO is not a business!

2. A refundable sincerity bond is used to ensure the system is not abused. --The bond is 100% refundable, regardless of outcome. It can only be confiscated if willful negligence or fraud can be proven.

3. There should be no distinction in time frames. All patents are good for a fixed period of time and no longer. They is no renewal period or fee for such.
"I can draw the Javas on a whiteboard but I can't actually do the Javas."
I think that your gut is right. a problem with storing your passwords electronically (or really anything electronically) is that you don't have any notification of when they are compromised.

assuming that every place you use a password is both competent and honest (which is a stretch), the only way for someone to get your passwords is to compromise your computer. if they do that, and you use lastpass, then they have all of your passwords.

for this reason I recommend writing your passwords down on a piece of paper you keep in your wallet or purse.
That was clever.
Oh, never stumbled upon literallycanvas - it's cool! Don't know if I'd have made drawingboard.js if I knew it on the first place.
Pretty cool. But why is this posted on RapGenius?
This is the second IDE announcement on the front page in 2 days (the other one being PyCharm).

So far I have resisted the temptation to use an IDE. Whenever I thought I needed a feature from an IDE, I investigated how to achieve it in Vim. I've become a reasonably advanced Vim user, and I feel very productive in it.

Am I a dinosaur on its way to extinction? Or can none of these new IDEs match the power of Vim?
It seems to me that Amazon is solving new issues this way. Their online ordering process is still the simplest around (especially once you set up one-click - although that leads to my situation of frequent unexpected Amazon packages from impulse buys).