skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
:) Ok. Right. Nothing's holy in C++.
The last bit gave me a chuckle:

> As for the beetles themselves, they were “very easy to work with,” he added. “You can do anything you want to them, and they just keep on rolling.”
While I don't have a solution, I'm facing very similar challenges.
Yeah but in this case, they did not say that they showed that the "fake rich" player engaged in cheating or breaking rules. All they could show is that the "fake rich" player attributed their success to their own skill when it was obvious that the rules were significantly tilted in their favor.

So I believe the grand parent post still makes a very good point.
In terms of income ratio of Samsung, it is so focused on mobile business. Samsung mobile business income may beat rest of all samsung conglomerate incomes. Apple has been the biggest customer for Samsung FAB. As Apple were pulling out, it became like factory without running. Not sure why Apple chose both TSMC and Samsung fabs, may be gaining some bargain power, TSMC is one of the best. Qualcomm takes on the most advanced process with TSMC.
AP is designed by apple and they can always choose which fabrication facility to produce. Samsung FAB and mobile business are not in the same boat
While the alternative financial service providers is taking the road of improved customer service, the banks are going the other way.

In Sweden, most ATMs is set at a maximum withdraw of 100$, while a few is set at $300. The bank itself also adds additional restriction of maximum $2000 per week. If you want to withdraw more of your own money, you have to ask permission and give a reasonable explanation why one is taking out "that much cash". Only if the bank approves of your reasons to withdraw money will you be able to do so.

All withdraws are of course logged, stored, traded and given away for inspection. I can also be held, for any reason the bank can think of or from outside pressure (like the Wikileaks visa scandal).

I fully understand why more and more people chose to avoid banks. Banks are services. If you voluntary give away your money to be owned and controlled by a third-party, they will indeed do so.

corrected: month -> week
If you get a product popular on all the BRICS you can use it as cash cow...

Nokia in particular suicided themselves, when they stopped manufacturing Symbian phones they still had 60% of new phones sold in Brazil for example... Since they stopped Symbian and took a while to launch a WP phone, and the WP phones were much more expensive than their Symbian ones, they went from 60% to a negligible amount purely because they did not deliver anything to sell...

Now their market is taken over mostly by chinese companies.
"Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes". That's the most precise way of looking at life I've ever seen.

The example of Google can further be boiled down to just aligning your interest with your users. Google did fantastically well because they send users to other sites as fast as they can (doesn't matter that a user spend less time on Google as a result). And they make sure PageRank algorithm does just that.

That is also why dating websites won't be as successful. Dating websites rely heavily on repeat users. That means, their users dates have to go badly for them to return. Their interest and the user's interest don't align.
In purely economic terms, China has performed a fascinating ongoing experiment.

The Party looked at the "end state" of an industrialized, prosperous middle-class nation and then decided to will that end state into existence. In that end state, China needs to urbanize on a massive scale and these cities are simply the physical manifestation.

This is the grandest scale human experiment ever, collectivist decision making at its finest (those farmers who are forced to give up the land don't have much of a voice).

Will this work? I don't believe we can begin to calculate all the consequences of this experiment. In any case, it is not obvious the causality runs the way that is implicit in this experiment: build cities, move people, and forge a vast urban middle-class out of rural peasants.

This book is a somewhat sympathetic description of that grand experiment (mildly sympathetic to the Party):

http://www.amazon.com/Chinas-Urban-Billion-Migration-Argumen...
You're saying this as if Apple is some naive newcomer to the world of online music.

> iTunes serves almost no purpose in a modern world.

Seriously? iTunes invented modern online music distribution. It singlehandedly heralded in the age of digital music distribution.

Just because you don't like the fact that you can't download music from them without using their (very good, in my experience) music player doesn't mean it's useless or their strategy is broken.

They know exactly what you've outlined, and they knew it long before you did. Why don't they do it? Because it's antithetical to their business model. Simple as that.
I worked once for a company that made BlackBerry apps, and they were made mostly for companies crazy about secrecy and security, with the biggest clients being big pharma.
It does not. swap() only appears in the documentation as a function not implemented.
Velociraptor almost definitely had feathers, as well as wings. In fact, it pretty much was a flightless proto-bird (though scientists believe it may have descended from a flying predecessor). If it were alive today, we'd basically see it as a curiously shaped, medium-to-large land bird with teeth.

Check out some of the post-2007 renderings of Velociraptor. My mind was certainly blown, especially after having grown up with the image as portrayed by Jurassic Park.

(2007 was when Velociraptor bones were discovered with quill knobs, almost indisputably indicating that the animal had wings and feathers).
One reason why Blackberry holds leadership positions in a few markets is they work directly with the government to ensure their products don't get hit by the same import tariffs their competitors do, giving them a very significant price advantage - for example, they started assembling BB's in Argentina a while back for this reason (http://investba.com/2011/07/research-in-motion-blackberry-ar...).

In the last few years Apple has started to do the same: http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/24/apple_begins_selli...)
In regard to (1), I've been finding recently that I'll look up a CSS property, and it lists the properties and has an example, but I find it's really crap for actually learning anything because the example doesn't actually show you the output. And more than example with screenshots and explanations of each would be useful to actually learn how to use it...

I've been deliberately avoiding it for ages now.
Oh wow. Did not know that.

Apparently Firefox uses data from Google SafeBrowsing, which doesn't report anything out of the ordinary.

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=paulyoung...
I switched from iTunes to Amazon for music years ago, mostly on price.

One thing I don't like: Amazon has local music players for PC, iPad, iPhone, and Android -- but not for OSX. On my MacBook air I need to use the web interface which fails if I am offline. I suppose I could use the downloader and put them in iTunes.

I do like the idea of buying music, audible books, and Kindle books and always having them available. I think Amazon is miles ahead of Apple iTunes and Google Play.
Maybe because it is typical cheap poorly-shooped up stockphoto tripe that appears to be intended to appeal to naive but sincere neophytes for the purpose of roping them in, sucking their money, and giving them a useless certification. Such certifications are more likely to serve as a warning to the potential employers who know better, and have the tendency to discredit education in general when an unsuspecting employer is duped by one.

Double negative points for targeting women, making it harder for them to pursue a career.
You sure it's not 78% of the time it's cheaper every time?
Source: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/956343
How D.C. could look if the height restriction changes
Germany does this, for example. Criminal fines are set by the judge in "daily rates", and 30 of them make up the defendant's monthly income.

Over there the judge has some leeway for creative sentencing. I remember this case where one fellow ran the numbers and figured it would be cheaper for him to pay the occasional fine for parking in a no-parking zone than pay the parking meter. This didn't go down well with the judge, he argued that road signs are not made to look pretty, they serve to regulate traffic on the public roadways. That fellow had to hand in his license, he was banned from the road for five years, and a re-application after a ban involves a chat with a traffic psychologist.
Interestingly, in Japan, this preference is dealt with by building "disposable" houses with financing and a 25 year depreciating property valuation built around this concept.

Here's a great video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tNpFkdZwpk
Why is it exactly that online wire transfers aren't used in the US? As an European, I've not been in a bank since the 1990's, and never written or cashed a check. On the other hand, it's impossible to live without a bank account here. Your bank account is the only place you get paid to, whether it's salary or social security money. Also, you need it to pay your bills or transfer money to your friends.
Yes. In general when I sold to Canadian companies one had to tread differently vs US companies. There is an inherent sort of reserve for US companies. Yet RIM went well beyond that (just one person's experience though)
I bet that during the initial design phase, they wanted to keep the design simple, have enough timekeeping range to cover the mission and then maximize temporal resolution.

Someone realized that a counter operating on tenths of a second from 2000 was both easy to use and sufficient for the primary mission... they then thought nothing of it until the loss of contact
I was hoping for an optimization of 8char strings to be stored internally as longs.
I like the idea but found a few bugs.

1) First the confirm email address field is kind of confusing. Didn't know I had to type my email twice.

2) StackExchange favorites doesn't seem to work? I have a bunch of SO favorites that didn't show up when I tried to sync them.

3) I tried searching for "Macys" and got no result. I thought it would've let me like Macys.
This article has a lot of fluff and before getting to the point. It just seems unlikely that the success of these shops that provide expensive financial services to poor people is all down to the human touch. I see friendliness in the report but not much in the way of personalised service (just the lady with the payment plan).

The benefits of paying a percentage to get your money a couple of days earlier are clear enough. But the avoidance of overdraft fees may be the key. When paper cheques have had their day and every non-cash transaction is software talking to a bank server, there will be no need for unarranged overdrafts to exist for every bank account. Accounts that carry no risk of unplanned fees would be a disruptive innovation, given that retail banks seem very addicted to the profits from overdraft fees.
Let’s Take Back The Certificate Authority
I worked in a dendrochronology/dendroclimatology lab[1] for several years and can assure you that the researchers involved are well aware of the issue of multiple influences on tree ring growth. There are a couple of ways that they go about dealing with it. NB I was more involved in precipitation reconstructions than temperature reconstructions, but I know enough about the process to discuss it here.

The first is experimental design, much like is necessary in any aspect of science: Annual tree growth is definitely a response to a variety of regional, site-specific, and tree-specific factors for any given species in a location. So in order to increase the 'signal to noise' ratio for a given signal (temperature, precip, fire, disease or whatever reconstructions), you look for combinations of species and sites for which the factor you want to study is the limiting growth factor; in other words, other things the tree needs to grow are present in abundance and one is in shortage. If you want to make a precipitation reconstruction, you find a site that has very little soil moisture storage, such as trees basically growing out of fractures in steep bedrock. If you want to study temperature, you pick species like Bristlecone Pine that grow at high elevations (which are typically relatively wet), so that the temperature/length of growing season is the annual limiting growth factor. That sort of thing.

The second is that researchers use many other forms of measurements than simply ring width to tease these problems out. For example, many people use oxygen isotopic ratios[2], latewood (the dark outer part of the tree ring) density measurements[3], and other measurements in tree rings, both because of the unique and accessible response of the tree, and because (unlike, say, sediment cores) the tree rings are much more quickly, accurately and reliably dated at the single-year precision.

Third, there is a lot of statistical analysis thrown at the problem. I didn't work a lot with this, or see people in my lab do it, but I am aware of researchers doing multivariate statistics techniques such as principal component analysis[4]. I'm sure there is a lot more, but you can do a Scholar search as easily as I can.

Fourth, one of the strengths of the multiproxy technique is that many of them are independent, and they all show a lot of correlation to the temperature records during the instrumental calibration period. There is some divergence before this period, but not as much as would be expected otherwise. There is also the problem of weighting, like you mention, and I don't think anyone is comfortable with it but I don't think it's as ad-hoc as you make it out to be. A review (by a statistician) that discusses this is here[5]; I didn't read it in depth.

[1] http://www.uark.edu/misc/dendro/

[2] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-013-1674-3

[3] http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00139....

[4] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010....
[5] http://www.stat.unc.edu/postscript/rs/Sensitivities-Submitte...
TLDR: Check cashiers have better customer service and (anecdotally) less stupid fees.
Their SQL examples don't seem to perform any kind of input sanitization. They just use raw $_POST.

http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_insert.asp
Pretty much every PHP + MySQL example.

For example, SQL injection: http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_insert.asp

Perhaps to their credit, they have a two-part tutorial on email sending, one titled "PHP Email" and the other "PHP Secure Email". Also, their form handling tutorial is followed by another tutorial on "validation" (by which they seem to mean a combination of HTML escaping and outdated defenses against SQL injection). But most people are just going to copy and paste the first tutorial without looking at the second.
I don't really understand why you would want this other than to trick yourself into thinking you are writing java. (I already find it really annoying when people port their Javaisms to C++.)
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Here's an exact duplicate of this article on another spammy aggregator from five years ago:

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/most-alien-looking-p...

I don't really have a point.

edit: I do have a point. This is a "mirror" of the OP's site, now that its server has crashed. And if this one crashes too, just search "blooming elephant leg" for another dozen "mirrors". (Best viewed with AdBlock, Ghostery).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers_patent_war

Yeah, not a primary source, blah blah blah, but lots of citations in there.
There is no fallacy here, and your offensive, inappropriate retort has absolutely no place in this discussion.

You specifically decided to label one proposing an unwelcome data point as "climate change denier", which in an instant made your position clear, hence my reply.
As a relative youngster, I've only ever heard tall tales about Lisp Machines. I still wonder, with a tear in my eye, why they failed. In particular, Genera OS seemed like such a good idea.
Electronic ACH is often used in the US, which is basically the equivalent to an electronic check. Actual wire transfers usually have fees associated with them both to send and receive (~$25), and are thus more rare.
Sadly it is not advisable for tourists to visit Socotra, as access is only through Yemen.
I put together citations & fulltext links for some of these studies in http://lesswrong.com/lw/dtg/notes_on_the_psychology_of_power...
Here in Korean market, streaming service dominates. Many iPhone users have not even used iTunes. Why? $5/month music service gives you access to most K pops. Thats it. $5/month subscription for most musics. Depending on market conditions, a little lower priced downloading seems pointless
But I use iTunes (iradio) as i have U.S. Account.
Because inertia. I expect the greater success overcoming it in Europe is somewhat due to the smaller regulatory units (that is, countries) being serviced by a smaller number of institutions. In a lot of countries, if a handful of large banks say something is so, then it is. That pretty much won't work in the U.S.
Socotra gets posted on reddit a lot too, though I have never seen this walled city.

I asked my family for Dragon's Blood Tree seeds for Xmas last year and they seem to have not taken me seriously =(
That code isn't valid C++. Modifying a const object is undefined behavior. You would have to remove the const on your string in main to make the program well-defined.
Ah, good to know there area others out there :)

I really liked the object model of paper.js, but the very same layers/object model led to some performance issues ol large data sets. So im stuck with custom canvas implementation with no vector/high res export solution.
Not unexpected, nor futuristic. AI has already emerged in these fields. Only through the AI Effect can the author deny this.
Revised IndieGoGo perks
yeah they go through their own servers... so no shit.
Opportunity - make $18k by lying down for NASA
I have one, but I don't use it that much anymore since the cups themselves were of marginal quality and the DIY cup process was messy and almost more time consuming than using a regular drip coffee maker for any quantity larger than 1 small cup of coffee.
Global temperatures are basically flat for the last 17 years, and below every single computer model of climate change. This is even more stark given the fact that the most co2 has been produced in the last 17 years. I think the theory is pretty much broken and they need to figure a better model.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420783/Worlds-clima...
There is no way this construction is weaker than the weakest of the three. To convince yourself of this, assume one of the ciphers is 100% broken and spits out all 0s. Then you're XOR'ing your ciphertext with all 0s (or some other known pad). So it's just a noop. As the FAQ says, because one cipher is not used as the input to another, there's no way a weakness can spread up or down the chain.

There was a discussion on twitter among cryptographers/security practitioners (search for @agl___), and in spite of some unnecessary flaming, we are almost certain now that the cipher cascade and the MAC scheme are both as strong as their strongest components.

See this publication for more information about the cipher cascade: http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02620231

See this publication for more information about the HMAC construction: http://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/2094/1/thesis.lehmann.pd...
The page is down, but: Most languages have immutable strings.

Also, I hope you're not suggesting immutability is a Javaism...
I too prefer buying from Amazon, for mostly the same reasons. I had assumed that it was saving me money too, so I checked the last 8 albums I bought:

Amazon | iTunes
6.99 | 6.99
9.49 | 9.99
7.99 | 7.99
5.00* | 7.99
5.00* | 7.99
7.99 | 7.99
5.99 | 7.99
7.99 | 7.99

* Part of their X albums for $5 promotion.

So it seems that iTunes is a lot more price competitive than I thought.
The Wikipedia page on Lisp Machines isn't great. Read Dan Weinreb's "Rebuttal to Stallman’s Story About The Formation of Symbolics and LMI" [1]. Weinreb was a much more credible source than Stallman.

The AI Lab hackers had free will and were not forced to go anywhere. Saying that these companies "raided" the AI Lab is, quite frankly, insulting. And Symbolics's practice of hiring the hackers full time was actually done entirely for ethical reasons. Other spinoff AI Lab companies were taking advantage of AI Lab resources, and Symbolics wanted to be sure that they didn't do that.

The MIT Lisp Machine code was owned and copyrighted by MIT. When MIT licensed the code to LMI and Symbolics, they wanted to be sure that the code would not be given away for free to other companies, including companies that they had also licensed code to. Stallman essentially wanted Symbolics to give their code for free to their competitor, LMI, which would have been illegal according the licensing agreement (that MIT wrote) and would have resulted in Symbolics being shut down.

By the way, the comment thread on that blog ends up being about the origin of Emacs and is quite fascinating. Stallman isn't technically the creator of Emacs (Guy Steele and David Moon are), although he did so much to improve it that he is generally given credit for it.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20110719154038/http://danweinreb....
In the U.S. you don't have to give a reason for taking out your cash (though withdrawals over a certain amount are reported to the Feds). But there are ATM limits. I always assumed - perhaps naively - that the reason was to keep the ATM from running out of cash too quickly, thus minimizing the cost of replenishing them. And occasionally, on 3-day weekends, I have seen more out-of-order ATMS than usual. . .presumably because they had run out of money.