skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. When I was younger, I only got the obvious message about the transience of material accomplishment. The poem is more multifaceted than that.

One starting place is to think about the layers of interpretation (Ramses -> sculptor -> traveler -> narrator). Everyone concerned is still talking, in different ways, about the memory of Ramses.

As long as we're on the topic, here's one of my favorite expressions of parallels between us and people in the past:

https://plus.google.com/+Cornell/posts/MSaUEUpVB8q

This bench sits behind the library at Cornell University.
Very cool. Like the site. The one thing I noticed is that you put "Codeacademy" but they really spell it "Codecademy", with no leading "A" in academy.
this is cool! i can't wait to play with it in one of my own applications! thanks
It should be completely doable in Android 4.3, but you'll have to do it via the Bluetooth API instead of a location API.
"If Android starts getting marketshare. Samsung wins and Apple loses."

This is conventional wisdom and at some level of course it's true but in general I think it's misleading. The fact is that the markets Apple and Samsung are in are not identical. The market Apple competes in roughly equates with the top third of the smartphone market. Samsung competes in the entire phone market. It's quite possible for both to gain market share at the same time in their respective markets. And even if they weren't it's possible for both to lose market share but still be successful because the market for smartphones itself is increasing rapidly.
Not exactly.

Box prices for video games have been remarkably static. New games were selling for $60 in 1993, just like GTA V is today instead of the inflation-adjusted equivalent of $97.
I feel like a real Turkish coffee establishment where you could hang out, chat, and play backgammon could be one of those "slow" things that people like (slow as in slow food). Especially if it was a "no laptops allowed" type of establishment. Just to connect and have real conversations and socialization.

This is me at my most idealistic. :)
It's interesting to see you arrive at 'crash-only' error handling from C++. This method of error handling, usually known as 'let-it-crash', is arguably Erlang's greatest strength. Unfortunately, the designers of Go hadn't quite managed to crib this part of Erlang.
"so what's left to steal?"

The CPU? ARMv8 isn't a thing, it's an instruction set specification, just like x86, implemented by various micro-architectures. Samsung doesn't do that (yet).
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And good luck enforcing your patents in the countries where this is actually going to be a problem.
I think you're taking an overly-narrow definition of "malice". At least in the context of Hanlon's Razor, "malice" typically includes stances that might be more specifically described as "short-term thinking" and/or "apathy". The point is really just to contrast it with "stupidity".
For beginners, what about rad tools like Microsoft lightswitch or alpha everywhere/five or appcubator which offer much lighter learning curves and faster development, although for limited types of projects?
I was actually wondering whether the amplituhedron might possibly have some impact on quantum computing... but I'm not even smart enough with the math to know whether that's a stupid question. Now I don't even know if what I just read was satire.
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A better (i.e., not completely utterly horribly broken) PRNG would have made it impossible to observe and associate patterns in the output, even with poorly seeded entropy. There's no reason such a PRNG needs to be any slower than a fast cipher or hash function such as AES or SHA-2.
To be fair, the insanity of anyone using it was never called into question. We agree it shouldn't be used. As we all know, science has yet to establish any correlation between sanity and what companies are actually doing in the real world for security.

Edit: Actually, I take that back. I have no problem believing that RSA Security are perfectly sane. Would we be completely shocked if the reason they chose a questionable default was due to coercion from the spooks? Only NSA has the keys, so it's a pretty safe backdoor.

You know, props to China, had to go through the work of owning RSA's seed server last year just to level the playing field. They get so derided in the media for doing that, but it seems unfair when the other team has a backdoor. Who is the real "Advanced Persistent Threat"?
I think he's genuinely suggesting that if journalists are getting so excited about the amplituhedron, they should get even more excited about this, and probably can only do that if they have a fun word for it. No joke.

(If it was a joke, the paper he linked to -- http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/pp.pdf -- probably wouldn't be exactly what he described it as.)
Haha! Ok, fair enough :)

Thanks for the details, though. That actually gave me a few ideas.
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> Probably not; anybody who wants that on DVD probably already has it on DVD.

Which is why it comes on Blu-Ray and HD DVD as well, in "special edition" and "20th anniversary edition".
What people feel doesn't make it fact.

An embarrassment? Hardly. You don't agree with me and therefore I am an embarrassment? How convenient of you.

Values can change. PQ are doing that. If you don't like it, go live somewhere else.

Great bait. I took it.
Tesla autopilot system likely to include Linux
The mac app store is a standalone app.
the guy is s shill for Apple. not surprising at all.
Love all these new technologies that are hardly proven in production and many have been proven to have fundamental design problems leading to security issues that cannot be engineered around without breaking the flexibility offered by the technology, such as PHP and Ruby.

JSON and XML are just data formats, there's nothing special to know about them other than that a lot of stupid enterprises decided that they are standard now so that's what you'll use. Considering that Javascript isn't even a defined standard (although ECMAScript is) , I find the idea of a standard based on it quite laughable.

This is more like a cheat sheet for farmland development, as requested by the landowner. Bring your own tools and teach yourself how to use them, just don't bring your own land unless you plan to forfeit it.
Agreed. With all the cloud hosting platforms like Heroku, running one's own backend on these services is quite simple and low maintenance. Firebase may be useful for quickly prototyping something at a hackathon, but that's where I'd leave it.
Seconding this. If I had started with Rails I might have been just turned off by all the Active* gems it seemed had to know.
I have no experience with Web programing, but i know C and low level stuff pretty well, would anyone mind to elaborate what does Tny do?
Can someone explain to me some things that I'm too lazy to Wikipedia?

How long can this camera shoot continuously for? And what frame rate can it transfer image over its I/o ports?
Pretty sure you're just making shit up at this point.
What A Difference Six Years Makes...
Frustratingly, italics on the chrome browser on android seem to not work. I usually give it a combination of '>', quotation marks, and italics.
From http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash :
Later, however, it was found that both bombs were fully functional and that a single low-voltage switch was indeed all that stood between detonation.

The switch they're referring to is the arm/safe switch on the pilot's control panel. So the bombs didn't fail, one of them armed and tried to detonate exactly as designed when dropped from an aircraft. The only reason it didn't was because the pilot's arming circuit hadn't been activated. This isn't very reassuring because that arming switch may well have simply been a toggle switch under a cover, and even if it was better protected it still almost certainly boiled down to simply closing one or a pair of contacts, which can quite conceivably happen accidentally while bailing out of a spinning aircraft. Not exactly a one-in-a-billion chance.

There is a discrepancy between what TFA says (three out of four safety circuits) and what the wiki says (five out of six arming circuits) and I can't find anything to clear that up on my phone. Either way it's a disconcerting piece of history
A/B testing would have gotten the same result, if they'd optimized revenue/table across menu variations. In fact, A/B testing on websites does frequently enhance dark patterns.
> The timing mechanisms have to execute perfectly to get a full power detonation and should be designed to become inert in a catastrophic breakup anyway.

Should assumes particular goals, and with almost any system you're looking at a trade off between safety and reliability. Like the sensors on a modern car; some cars refuse to start these days if the sensor's out.

The military's perspective is likely to be something like: We press a button, we want a mushroom cloud. Thank you very much. They're unlikely to want to introduce unnecessary points of failure in their system.

Timing systems, trigger mechanisms and the like will break, or be manufactured incorrectly. Nothing's perfect. Especially when you're designing something that's going to be thrown around a bit (slimmer margins.)

Which then gets weighed against the concern that that thing better not go off by itself.

I would imagine that the latter is why there were multiple safety devices on the weapon - reasoning that the chance of them all failing concurrently was very low.

Either way you do it, you're taking on some degree of risk of something - even if you make a system with a single point of failure, and make it fail safe as far as possible, that can never be entirely eliminated.

It seems rational to us that you'd err on the side of the thing not going off. But then again we're not in an arms race right now. Someone might well reason that if you introduce something that's going to introduce a certain failure rate into your system, that's going to mean you have to invest in more weapons to reach the degree of force you want. Especially if they're reasoning in a very constrained space - i.e. they primarily think about the threats they're used to - and just don't think of things like bombers going down, (which in any case they're going to find themselves encouraged not to do since it implies fault on their part) that's going to be a very easy rationalisation for them to make to themselves.
Unfortunately, their pre-order link 404s.
I loved this site and the way the articles were written. Thanks to everyone (especially Scott) who contributed to it over the years.
Wait. What? You've started 12 startups in 12 months? Basically meaning that you've done one startup project a month?
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Not really. This quote explains it well, even though it's talking about pharmaceutical companies:

>Company X spends, let's say, $10 a year on research. (We're lopping off a lot of zeros to make this easier). It has no revenues from selling drugs yet, and is burning through its cash while it tries to get its first on onto the market. It succeeds, and the new drug will bring in $100 dollars a year for the first two or three years, before the competition catches up with some of the incremental me-toos that everyone will switch to for mysterious reasons that apparently have nothing to do with anything working better. But I digress; let's get back to the key point. That $100 a year figure assumes that the company spends $30 a year on marketing (advertising, promotion, patient awareness, brand-building, all that stuff). If the company does not spend all that time and effort, the new drug will only bring in $60 a year, but that's pure profit. (We're going to ignore all the other costs, assuming that they're the same between the two cases).

>So the company can bring in $60 dollars a year by doing no promotion, or it can bring in $70 a year after accounting for the expenses of marketing. The company will, of course, choose the latter. "But," you're saying, "what if all that marketing expense doesn't raise sales from $60 up to $100 a year?" Ah, then you are doing it wrong. The whole point, the raison d'etre of the marketing department is to bring in more money than they are spending. Marketing deals with the profitable side of the business; their job is to maximize those profits. If they spend more than those extra profits, well, it's time to fire them, isn't it?

>R&D, on the other hand, is not the profitable side of the business. Far from it. We are black holes of finance: huge sums of money spiral in beyond our event horizons, emitting piteous cries and futile streams of braking radiation, and are never seen again. The point is, these are totally different parts of the company, doing totally different things. Complaining that the marketing budget is bigger than the R&D budget is like complaining that a car's passenger compartment is bigger than its gas tank, or that a ship's sail is bigger than its rudder.

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/08/09/getting_drug...
I'll call into question the sanity of anyone using it.

The problems with it were known days after the standard was published.. meaning anyone who implemented was well aware of its problems.

Edit: actually, the first attack was in march 06 -- 3 months before the standard was published: http://www.math.ntnu.no/~kristiag/drafts/dual-ec-drbg-commen...
The door scanner may be easily fooled, but the computer login scanner they worked on is a bit more sophisticated. The "sub-epidermal" scan is actually what a gelatin synthetic fingerprint with a latex skin would duplicate fairly well.

It's important to note the scanner isn't an imaging sensor (I.E. camera) so touch and skin conductivity are still fair game.
The way I read it, the marijuana references tie back to his youth and are meant to contrast his youth to his daughter's. I actually found them pretty powerful. The feeling I came away with was: is this (ultimately low-value) homework causing her to miss out on opportunities to be a teenager and do teenager things, like smoking weed behind her parents' backs, making out with other teenagers, and making other irresponsible-but-ultimately-valuable decisions in her personal life? In a way it made me sad for her.
2 and a half year is very reasonable. You are free to go see elsewhere if you are no longer happy there. I would start looking for a new job before leaving, however.

Also, talk to your boss. Tell him you are considering leaving to do , perhaps he value you so much he will turn some things around to make it so you get to do .
I know that now but it was his specific casting that was entertaining and easy to understand. sorry, I'm a chemist - we just talked about and played around with wave functions (schrodinger formulation, not even heisenberg) without a word of referring to them as PDFs except in the psi*psi case (although as a math major in retrospect it's now plainly obvious to me that that's what they were).
> Considering that Javascript isn't even a defined standard (although ECMAScript is)

ECMAScript isn't a different language than Javascript, its just the name on the standard for the language (IIRC, the name is because of the trademark Sun had -- and Oracle now has -- on "JavaScript" [1].)

[1] http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=75026640&caseType=SERIAL_N...
Can't comment on FreeBSD but I run OpenBSD on my laptop and for me it "just works" (wifi, trackpad, display, etc.) but I did have to swap out the stock wifi adapter for a supported one. What doesn't work is suspend/resume. I haven't tried the latest -current yet though, which I did recently install on my desktop and finally got native resolution on my dual 30" monitors.

That said, things I don't do on my computer include playing games, watching videos and listening to music, so my definition of "just works" may not be the same as yours.
Also: http://www.geocities.jp/nchikada/pac/ Pacman in Excel.
Yeah, if we release it publicly we may change the name. Or not. :-)
Web monkey helped me a ton in my younger years. Thanks for all the fish!
The Opera browser has had this capability for years.
It's not hard...
More like all users would complain. Don't get me wrong, it sounds like like a good solution, but you would be amazed at the recalcitrance of users asked to do something new or different. Plus, your infrastructure and user workflows have to be able to support such a setup. If a user who travels a lot is utterly dead in the water without his dozen 10GB email archive files, and the VPN is a tiny 1mb/s pipe for the whole globe, the above isn't a particularly viable idea.
Looks like this chart is just the US. I'd like to see other regional charts, and a global one as well.
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The top model of the recent BMW 1 series, the M135i with its exhaust gas turbo charged straight-six-engine, offers a quite excellent optimization starting basis for track day and street. Thus, nevertheless, sounds the credo of the Bavarian TUNINGWERK GmbH at Puchheim, west of Munich.
Reading legal docs does suck for angels. We launched a product on AngelList that completely standardized the seed-round docs (debt or equity), the early adopters liked it, but we didn't get traction and it was an awful lot of legwork to maintain.

good initial press, but it didn't work out ( there's an entire blog post I could write about why)

http://pandodaily.com/2012/09/05/angellist-launches-free-see...
Random non-productive trivia;

There's a Turkish tradition that when you meet your girlfriends family with the intention of having their blessing to marry her, she makes coffee but puts (a lot of) salt instead of that sugar in step 4. (Only into your cup)

You are supposed to drink that without complaining. I'm not sure how or why this thing lives on.

Source: Turkish.
Oh, don't think this is a problem that is localized to some countries -- it happens all over the world. The actual work itself may be outsourced to some countries (some Eastern Bloc countries spring to mind; I met a couple of guys from Czechoslovakia who specialized in reversing wireless firmware in GPS devices) but the firms who contract this work and use the results operate in the US and Europe as well.
Good God, why would I ever want to see Loading Bars on a website.

If you can't front-load enough to give 100 bytes of text to read, don't bother answering my http request.
Ever since Igongate...
Using the Hotbot search engine to search through MonkeyJunkies mailing list entries (powered by Majordomo) to find articles teaching Netscape 4 only DHTML JavaScript posted on WebMonkey.

1998 indeed was a different time!

Flash 4 was also really fun to muck about with.
You couldn't be more wrong. The GTA titles are great sandbox games.
If you had a more fair look at things, I think you'd find that the rich diversity and sheer amount of music, film and written word available to you today is greater than at any point in history.

I can only assume that you either just don't know very much about music or you are mixing up "media" with "the top players in the media industry"
for true hipster web scale power, one must use node.js https://github.com/saml/nodejs-resize-image
It's not meaningless unless there is some claim like "the purchasing power of the money earned by this game is greater than that of some other game/movie." I don't see any such claim.

But besides, the movies and games it's being compared to are no older than 4 years, so I don't think it's a huge problem.
> Native will always fundamentally beat non-native, that's a plain fact.

The problem of WebGL is simply it has very low penetration. By my research, currently only 35% of desktop users can use WebGL with GPU acceleration (FYI, Flash 10: 95%, Flash 11: 75%; Flash 11(Stage3D with GPU): 70%). Now that IE11 is supporting WebGL, this might be a matter of time. However I foresee it would take 5 years or so to achieve 80%.

And, note that WebGL only has functions of OpenGL ES 2.0. Currently WebGL2, which has functions of OpenGL ES 3.0 is being developed. On the other hand, native games already utilize OpenGL 4.x. What API is used in native games when WebGL2 becomes popular? I imagine raster-based rendering might be obsolete at that time.

And I think people already know the web can't handle Oculus Rift, probably one of the most interesting, innovative and fun gadget in this decade. Of course you can use it on browsers with a NPAPI plugin. Oh, hey, the web people said plugin is obsolete and evil! Don't use plugins!!! Don't play with Oculus Rift, you, PLEASE!!!

I admit the web platform has some value on some points, but if people think HTML5 is the (only or most) cutting-edge and innovative technology, that's not correct. Absolutely not.
> I have a different explanation for why I always seem to be at odds with people on NSA topics, but I'll wait to provide it.

I'm very interested in that actually. I'm often curious what shapes people's perspectives on these issues, particularly if it doesn't align with any obvious incentives. I always thought that you must have family in law enforcement or something, but I'd love to know the actual reason.
another favorite is gti

On Mac OS X:
brew install gti
I am enjoying this immensely. Thank You!
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Inflation is quite low at present, and the comparisons are quite recent.
He's right though. As someone with 10+ years game industry experience it's obvious. You can't just add a bunch of programmers and finish your game faster because they don't scale up that way.

But if you have content, content is easy to split up. Instead of each designer doing X items, dungeons, neighborhoods, cars, whatever, they just do a fraction of X. It scales so much better.
And if it is true, why is it the case? I can't think of any particular reason why sales of one medium would gather closer to the release date than another medium. =
That's subjective. Many programmers would probably have a difficult time even understanding what git is, much less how to use it. Once you get over that hump, sure, the basics are fine, make repo, add files, branch, push. Anything beyond that suddenly becomes arcane magic.
Sorry, that was worded incorrectly. I meant that we all agree it was insane to use it. The contention was over whether or not it was in use, not whether it is a good idea to use.

I should have said calling into question the insanity, will edit.
Big movies also have huge marketing costs to recoup. The real money comes on the DVD sales. There's an adage in the industry that the theatrical release is the marketing campaign for the DVD.
Source? If that's the case, do you have alternate explanations for the success of Heroku, Firebase, etc?
Jersey is really easy to use as strictly a REST backend. I fully grant that Java is, in general, more verbose than Scala. Just curious if you were comparing this based solely on past experiences. (That is, when making a "service" with Jersey, there is surprisingly little boilerplate. There is the verbosity of Java, but pretty much none of the other.)

And, really, it mainly depends on how you want to structure your application. At face value, an angularjs/whatever frontend that calls to whatever REST implementation you can bring to works quite well.

Regarding JSP, yeah, planning on avoiding that as much as possible, though, for a quick "put a dummy string into a page," I can't say it is that terrible. (I fully grant that is a very slippery slope.