skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say most news media and many T.V. shows reinforce ideas that oppose accepting that there is an alternative viewpoint. Are you sure you haven't been brainwashed to hate Fox News and anything that shows a flag and an eagle with patriotic music in the background?

Let's try this on for size:

Is Fox News racist, elitist, sexist, and homophobic? My guess is that you just answered yes to at least 3 of those, however if I asked you for specific proof, you'd have a hard time making your argument in short order. Why is that? Perhaps because you didn't make up your mind for yourself. Someone else made it up for you.

Sure you can go Google and find whatever evidence you want to support those 4 viewpoints, but I'm 100% positive you didn't have evidence for all of the things you thought when I first asked the question.
Definitely. Be sure to check out /d/!
Absolutely. Here in the UK, we had an astonishing programming renaissance in the 1980s, fuelled largely by the Sinclair micros. They were pretty awful computers by most measures, but they were also very cheap, so they sold in their millions.

A talented teenager could spend a few weeks writing a game and realistically hope to see it commercially published. Even the most ambitious games took no more than a few man-months. Several major UK games studios were founded by people in their teens and early twenties during this period, most famously Codemasters. Nobody really knew what they were doing and games were something of a cottage industry, so there were no real barriers to entry. There was a distinct punk sensibility, with weird and irreverent games being published on cheaply-duplicated cassettes.

The British programming boom also benefited from a variety of other factors - the BBC taking a major interest in promoting microcomputers, a very supportive government and an exchange rate that made Japanese consoles punitively expensive.
I played this yesterday (I don't own a console) at a friends house and what they've been able to achieve on these consoles is impressive considering these consoles aren't next gen and are resource limited.

It seems like that happens at every end of every console's life. Last of Us, BioShock Infinite, and GTA V are three fantastic games to close out the PS3.
Try using promises, and a small utility function to convert library functions that take callbacks to ones that return a promise.
Whether or not my coworkers have unique and interesting lives shouldn't really matter in a work environment, no? Shouldn't the thing we're all working on and the goal were all striving towards be number one?

My bend at work is definitely more towards the antisocial simply because I would like to focus on work. Bother me if it's work related otherwise maybe wait until 5pm or whenever we're all wrapping up.

I'm down for making friends, but we don't need to talk all week long about the camping trip we're all going on this weekend. It's a thing, it's happening. Why don't we talk about it after it happens?

Honestly, I know it sounds cheesy, but I wish so bad to have worked on an Apollo mission or the Manhattan project. In my fantasy, those engineers just showed up and talked about the most interesting and fascinating and craziest shit and then went and built it. At lunch people talked about the minutiae of putting a dude on the moon or what the hell Rutherford scattering was and NOT the perfect temperature to roast a coffee bean or why the iphone sucks.

I know, I know, some people want to decompress and unwind throughout the day and not be so preoccupied with that intense shit all the time. I just think it'd be cool if people were more like that.
Storing them where?
You're both right. It's a spectrum. Perfect documentation is impossible, but good documentation is valuable.
All this does for me is raise the question: why, if it's so easy, wasn't the translation posted to begin with? Keep in mind that the user who dropped that untranslated brick on us has massive karma so that low-effort post is now parked at the top of the thread.
Which considering some people on the team are undoubtedly paid more, is not that surprising a number. (Although some are paid less too.)
ebay on iO7 looks a lot a nicer than the android version.
This is over simplistic and wrong. Mao used purging to get rid of others building power within the party. It had nothing to do with whether they were Communist (many good communists were purged).

Sane points: Education, Health, both improved under communist rule.
I know quadcopters are very sensitive to weight, and a 10oz (285g) quadcopter could probably not carry more than a 1oz (28g) payload. How destructive is 1oz (28g) of C4?

I want to see the destructive potential of a quantity of C4 graphed against its weight.
Yes, because sage isn't a new function it's one that was taken from 2chan and like the post says sage never was and never will be a downvote. It's just a way to reply without bumping the thread.
I'm kinda' researching this question for my MSc e-Learning technology, so I've got a lot to say on the matter, but I'll try and keep this brief.

We need the CompSci equivalent of Meccano sets for kids to tinker with. Something that's easy to just pick up and start playing with, gives instant feedback, and equips them with the skills to go and play with bigger and better toys.

The guys at Khan Academy understand this well, and they've built something pretty slick. <https://www.khanacademy.org/cs/browse-programs> I guess you could describe it as a cross between processing.js and JSFiddle, with a showcase for interesting new projects.

From my limited interactions with the system, I'd say it's already pretty good, but to be great they need to figure out how to make peer-teaching work better. Also, I think they would benefit from an even more accessible "just pick it up and play with it mode", rather than insisting that the kids sit through tutorial videos before they can do anything.
The average salary in the game industry is 84k.
Yup, in 2011 they has around 19,000 employees when they had their first major layoff. Kind of sad to see a once iconic Canadian company go downhill so fast these past couple year.
I clearly posted this 7 hours too early: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/take-two-first-day-gta-v-sa... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6407415
Imagine the type of machine learning we could do on low power 384GHz multi-cores
What about Windows? I completely dig the Lumia but the lack of apps that I'm used to using on iOS is kind of a big annoyance.
iOS 7 on the iPhone 4
An open letter to women in technology
There's been a lot of talk on how the new iOS7 designs now look like Android. Side-by-side pictures don't lie - iOS7 is different than Android. Just look at the Ted app for godsake!
10 years, god damn. I'm always impressed that 4chan has remained essentially the same for so many years and has been able to have a huge following the whole time. I don't think any other website has ever had so much sustained success.
kebab plz
I worked in the lab that Paul and John came out of at Stanford, they do some incredible work. This is largely the output of the DARPA SYNAPSE program if I'm not mistaken.
I remembered my first 'programming' experience. Went to the library and pour through the BASIC books, found an 'I spy' game that only had like 12-15 lines of code.

Went to my friend's C64, typed everything out and then sat looking at the screen after typing 'Enter' for the last statement.

Nothing happened obviously. That damn book didn't teach u about compiling, running and I am not even sure that book was about programming for C64 or what not.
If you're like some of my friends, your productivity has been shot for months leading into the release, endlessly looking at the latest screen shots, articles, teasers, pre-pre-reviews, ... They had a very effective marketing effort.
Brin's blog post on his higher genetic predisposition to Parkinson's - http://too.blogspot.com/2008/09/lrrk2.html
Often missed is the massive amount of motion-captured acting and voice acting in that game. How many voice actors just for random peds, hundreds?

Another big-ticket budget item is clearly music licensing and celebrity involvement for major-character voice acting (like GTA:SA had Samuel L. Jackson in a major role for example and some old-school rap celebs for "radio moderator" talking).
This is entirely contrary to my experience. My kids have slightly looser controls in the summer, tighter during the school year and it just doesn't work like that. My kids watch a range of stuff, have a range of friends, and all have skinned knees from playing outside with their friends which seems not to be a trajectory of social outcasts. I will remind my daughter who currently has a shiner on her forehead from trying (and ultimately succeeding) to do a trick on her rip stick that she should be more risk averse. In my experience coaching, the kids with no media limits are either from poor families or are the real dullards of the group.
The code is stored on device correct? Minifying makes no sense.
Original - http://too.blogspot.com/2008/09/lrrk2.html
Sorry for the late response - the answer is no. We haven't received any complaints yet. However, we don't have the greatest of followings, so there aren't a lot of users to complain to us.
Getting a little too meta here but your original comment was only: "If you actually want to have a discussion of those differences then you're going to need to point them out yourself instead of dumping a homework assignment in everyone's lap" but then you changed it to indicate you didn't think a Google translation was good enough.

He probably didn't post a translation because he knows most of us can either use Google translate or can read Chinese. That doesn't bother me and it shouldn't bother you.

I posted the translation because I think some people (including myself) need help reading Chinese and because I don't see value in bitching about someone copying and pasting Chinese. It's not homework. It's just Chinese.
I'm glad it helped.
Hello moot, nice to see you here :)
I played it on PS3, the only downside is the FPS drop that occurs when driving at fast speeds... which is a fair payoff for the impressive visuals they have managed to achieve.
Probably because all of the Windows Mobile app developers were forced to make the same choice, and most of them didn't choose Windows Phone.
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This is the one thing that has kept me from completely switching to Gmail. However, since these edits are not actually written back to the email, but stored locally (even synced with Signal on other machines), it does no good since the Gmail app on my Android phone and tablet can't see the changes. BE VERY CLEAR you're just editing and storing locally. The original Gmail message unchanged. I combined two emails, deleted one of them, and checked it in the Gmail app. All I see is the original message, but other other is deleted. This will just confuse most people. Unless this can change the message on Gmail, it is useless to me.
Find anyone who has a.) contributed code to the kernel (and, thus, holds copyright on it) and b.) wants to pursue a claim of copyright infringement. Any kernel contributor should have standing, AIUI.

(standard "IANAL" and "I speak only for myself" disclaimers apply)
Even 25–50ms is noticeable in certain situations. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4 for an illustration of how things get noticeably better, even as you go below 10ms.
The quoted average salary is not the cost of employing someone though, there are always significant on costs.
i think if your asks that in is not the more easy questioned to say... could be if your to not think so it bad but possible.
Awesome comparison..few apps are looking better on Android and few on iOS7.
There is this oft-repeated idea in modern culture: do what you love, and love what you do. But how do you find your passion? How does a person know what to aim for in life? I think it is the extra curricular activities that you do which determine if you'd find your passion. All the time that you spend in tinkering with stuff, reading books, playing games, hanging out with friends after school is the time you could find that. It is true that those passions change with age, but with any luck and a good teacher / parent) those passions could become your vocations. I remember the intial scene of the movie 'Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron' and realize that childhood is that time when we are free to experiment, unfettered by society's rules.

Schools teach us how to be disciplined and work hard, but a creative and a critical mind requires more to survive. It requires an atmosphere of similar kind of people, a place to keep on practicing its creativity.
lol @ the countermeasures being high tech lasers.

Spray them with water or vegetable oil. Water is easiest - just use a high pressure hose to knock them out of the sky / potentially break flight-critical components. Oil requires some special equipment but would presumably ruin the propellers/rotors.
It's about That Feeling. I got That Feeling from the Atari 800 and Apple IIgs, you got it from your C64, I sometimes manage to find it still, with the help of liquor and a Lisp interpreter (but not at all from the line-of-business apps that make my living now). Without That Feeling, you're not going to go past a certain level in software development, no matter how many dry facts you learn. How do kids get That Feeling today? It sure isn't from iOS devices.
> Yet when people demand our software be free, we'd laugh them to scorn.

Speak for yourself. I think free software is pretty much a net good. It's a shame we're not at a point yet where it's the status quo; I'm glad it is for content.
As Ken himself notes in the article, it worked for "retail boxes" but that model is now obsolete.

Upgrade pricing will almost always lead to an abusive relationship where the consumer is on the receiving end. Rate-limiting features, bumping major version numbers, setting targets for bi-annual release cycles, abandonment issues of old versions, creative versioning schemes, complex upgrade paths--it all sucks for consumers. All internal conversations around features and releases will also involve revenue assessment, putting business first, consumers second.

In-app purchases may require some re-architecting but in the end it's a better fit. All consumers should have the latest core so they get security upgrades through the life of an app and can buy any features al-a-carte that are carried forward.

The skeptics should note that web-apps already work this way and it's a lovely model. You don't need to pay extra to load version 2.0 of a website. If it worked that way, it would suck for everyone, even more so when the underlying technology is changing fast (HTML, CSS, browsers, etc).
> If you're running a company with 50+ employees that is having success on Google, and Google explicitly tells you what you're doing is OK, you'd probably make a similar decision.

Google doesn't click on the links it shows, your customers do. What google says is "OK" for them, is not always going to be "OK" for your potential customers.

Try giving this recent submission a read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6399494

Also, what does running a company with 50+ employees have to do with making a similar decision? You'd think with more employees you'd be more likely to find the guy that stands up and says "this is fucking retarded what are you thinking"

> At the time of the Matt Cutts video, EE was serving the full content to users who clicked through - the answer was just buried at the bottom of the page. Crummy, sure. Definitely not going to win them many friends. Worth getting so angry over? Not in my mind.

I don't know about you but when I have no idea how to fix a mission critical bug and need a fix ASAP and I search google but all I get is pages and pages of links to your site which "doesn't give me the answer" i get pretty pissed off, especially because you're giving google the answer in order to clutter up all those results pages and rank relevant.

And I say "doesn't give me the answer" because, just so you know, I never knew there was answers at the bottom of the page until jeff pointed it out.

Look, I get it questions and answers are just metrics on a screen to you, but questions and answers to the users are MUCH much more. You broke google, fucking with us when we least needed a fucking with. And to me, that is worth getting angry over.
Is Applied Cryptography Really Out of Date?
The Objectification Police would not approve of the Blackberry Babes. And people wonder why these industries have a gender imbalance...
Buying Into the Bias: Why Vulnerability Statistics Suck
The new Blackberry Z30is a monster of its ownkind, yes, its a Blackberry
Given his focus on transhumanism related issues, it's likely that he has spent more time thinking about overpopulation than all but an insignificantly tiny proportion of the population.
Because you're a hacker like the rest of us. :)
I wonder if COD:GHOSTS will beat this. From what I'm seeing, GTAV has a few advantages:

Non-yearly (or biyearly) release schedule for an extremely well-known franchise.

No outstanding publisher issues of note, especially gaffes related to gameplay "dumbing down"

A number of factors contributing to somewhat inflated review scores including normal reactions to AAA titles and the GTA series' tendency to hit the right buttons for reviews that doesn't necessarily reflect on gameplay
Those meta-hn comments are just as off-putting as shitty stories, I'm just here to read interesting stuff, I skip 70-80% of stories everyday, delay 10% to pocket and comment some and I'm satisfied, sorry if ruined your club, we'll miss you very much.
I'd like to know what are the ROIs for an advertisement like that. I can't really imagine that the people who will buy the game will buy it due to this advertisement. At the same time though, Rockstar probably knows what they are doing.
Why would a company like Coca-Cola get into crowdfunding?
Yeah I guess our popular end user products are much more polished now and don't force you to get your hands dirty. I remember you couldn't even start a game without typing some cryptic code into the computer. So that extra push isn't there anymore and you can easily use all of this technology without ever learning anything. On the other hand, I think we now have much more information available and easily accessible for those who do choose to get involved.
if you have a find-friends connection you can ask Siri to let you know when they leave their current location. very handy
I've noticed that people in the game industry make significantly less than other software engineers. Why do you think that is? The few software engineers that I know who work the hours that are the norm in the game industry make even more. I wonder what market forces are at work here.
Someone (T.E. Lawrence?) said that beginners overestimate the amount of explosives needed to accomplish any given task.

That said, a standard-issue hand grenade weighs something like 450 g, of which 150 g is explosives. The shrapnel travels out to 15 m. I think the verdict is that with 30 g of payload an assassin needs to aim really well.
>/b/
>on topic
Pick one.
We've made some progress with GHz :).
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9239098/Desktop_chips...
Tried it - do not recommend clicking on the links.

I mean I guess that was stuff that was banned from 4chan... I don't know what I was expecting
The code is loaded into every single page that is loaded. Memory usage and parsing time are affected.
In what way are Musk's criticisms of the CA HSR plan FUD? Frankly, the HSR plan is a dud, and his criticisms are largely, if not entirely, valid. The cost is astronomically high, as a result of that the ticket costs will be greater than airfare. The route they've chosen also means that the journey will take far longer than it should. Would you actually consider taking a 2 hour 38 minute train trip from LA to SF at > $200 round-trip?

Even if Musk's Hyperloop proposal remains only a proposal, if nothing else it should give people serious pause about the existing plan, and hopefully force a revision of it. The route through Palmdale is utterly pointless, tacks on a dozen minutes to a trip that's already too long, and exists largely to satisfy NIMBYs and give fat checks to a bunch of property speculators. That particular element of the HSR plan reeks of cowardice, corruption and graft. Consider this as an alternative:

http://www.cahsrblog.com/2013/06/the-truth-about-tejon/

Musk's opposition to the existing plan is well reasoned and rational. Calling it FUD is itself a sort of FUD.
I fully recognize ZFS's great feature set, it's just a tool though, and only represents one potential solution, appropriate for certain requirements, within one layer of a storage subsystem. If paranoid levels of data integrity are an end-to-end requirement, ZFS isn't a magic bullet.
Outrage after dating website ad on Facebook uses photo of suicide victim
No the dropoff in the late 90s was not due to a lack of self-teaching machines - we all know what it was due to: the invasion of H-1B visa workers job robbing Americans.

No one wants to enter a field in which they know they will be kept out by invaders.
The kids in my life are young at the moment, so I'm biased towards the experiences at those younger ages – and certainly more poisonous structures lurk as they get older. On the other hand, I'm not sure why you think I'm talking about school. The article is mostly not about school, and my reaction isn't about school, it's about the hours outside of school.

And no, preschools do not generally allow children to be physical with each other, and they tend towards rule-based conflict resolution instead of direct engagement, which are some of the specific examples I brought up.
I work in China in a semi-open office, every afternoon they make fruit available for consumption. Whenever the fruits are relatively juicy (e.g. Chinese pears), I can't get any work done due to all the smacking and slurping around my work area; I have to go to Starbucks.
Something Awful has had a public banlist (the Leper's Colon [0]) and a per-user rap sheet for years. They do a good job of shaming rule-breakers and people whose posts are generally deemed to be poor in quality. But on 4chan, I imagine making the list will be some kind of badge of honor.

[0]: http://forums.somethingawful.com/banlist.php
Great Pacific garbage patch
Anonymity is still important to some though, since whatsapp by default uses phone number vs bbm's pin number, some users may shift to bbm. It is late, but may be not too late.
It's not wishful thinking if every time humanity's faced any kind of such challenge, it's succeeded.

Inductive reasoning? Sure. But not wishful thinking.
I wish I hadn't
I don't think that minifaction will have an impact on execution time or memory usage will it? It's only advantageous to reduce total size of downloaded code, and total number of web requests to retrieve all the assets required for the page. I wouldn't think either of those things would matter in a browser extension.
Do you seriously think that Musk 1) needs some cheap "publicity", or 2) he didn't do quite a bit of simulations before releasing the very first whitepaper?

Again, this guy is sending rockets to space - and back. He has a couple of thousand rocket scientists and physicists at his disposal. Ansys is just getting to conclusions they have achieved long ago.