skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, now also the title are available. Tomorrow you will see all the 3 characters .io website and their respective title. https://github.com/RickyGeek/io/
I don't agree that it's "impossible to measure objectively." The practice to store floating values with less bits but calculate with more is very old, specifically, older than C. It's not accidental, it survived because it's needed. As long as we don't have infinite memory and want to have huge inputs and outputs we'll need 32-bit floats.

And as long we want to calculate with less error, and we need it, we'll need doubles as intermediate calculations.
Good advice, staying with it and believing in your idea is certainly important and I guess they'll see through that if you're not genuine.
So technically, I could buy items cheaply on ebay or similar sites, ship them to amazon warehouse and sell it there for profit and also have them handle pretty much everything from selling to customer support?

Or am I missing something and this wouldn't work?
I forgot about #3, so now I feel much better about not applying this time around. I'm still weak on #2 with two "maybes" which was just one of several reasons I don't think it would have worked anyhow.
This would be a great way to entertain yourself by bribing with random and weird objects such as a day old onion bagel.
It seems like they're trying to stoke artificial demand (similar to the Mailbox.app roll out). Except I doubt there is a real technical problem backing said slow rollout.
I hope, as a Wikipedian since April 2010, that this is the beginning of a thorough change of culture on Wikipedia in the interest of making Wikipedia more of a genuine free online encyclopedia[1] and less of a publicity platform for everyone who doesn't want to pay honest cash money for a paid advertisement. There is currently a proposal discussed among Wikipedians for a tighter policy against paid editing,[2] and as long as the new policy, whatever it ends up being, makes for less promotional content on Wikipedia, I'm all for it.

People who want to help Wikipedia improve as unpaid volunteers have a number of channels for doing that. One thing that would help Wikipedia's goal of better content quality[3] is adding more reliable sources to articles. I try to help that process by compiling source lists in user space that any Wikipedian can use for updating articles.[4] It's a long slog to fight the rot on Wikipedia. Reading Wikipedia takes a sharp eye for propaganda and advertising in disguise.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Here_to_build_an_enc...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Paid_editing_po...

[3] https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Movement_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia#Accuracy_of_content

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Intellig...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Anthropo...
Are you hiring now? ;) Contact me if so.
I guess he's just as tired as I am of seeing (yet another) quicksort implementation in Haskell!

99% of the time I spend coding does not deal with data structures or algorithms, but basic business logic.

How does Haskell perform there? I don't know, but I know Haskell's quicksort oneliners are pretty (and pretty meaningless too).

I know my way around monads, I'm fluent in functional programming and grasped typeclasses... but I still can't see what's so great about Haskell beyond algorithmic beauty. I'd really like to be taught real-world-Haskell just like I was taught real-world-Lisp.
I haven't done it personally, but I did intern under FBA and so I saw a lot of the procedures and code that implements it.

I'm fairly sure you need to figure out the ASIN for each item you want to sell, and label the product accordingly.
If you're buying stuff you already own, you may want to reassess some priorities.
Buy fewer things!
> why haven't millions of people descended on Washington and London

Because humans essentially stopped evolving after developing agriculture, and most are only really capable of thinking one year/harvest ahead.

Like so many other things, the long term consequences are just outside of their horizon, so they are not able to effectively assess the trades they are making. Like a chess program looking X moves ahead and not seeing the punchline X+1 moves ahead.
I'm with you on this. I always do pair programming interviews when I'm hiring. People may be able to bullshit me when I'm asking questions about their resume, but they cannot fool me, the compiler, and the unit tests when we're coding together.

Smartness is great, I like smart. But I agree that it's probably the fifth- or sixth-highest-weight factor in my list.
I wonder what the BlackBerry Babes will have to say about this. Is an Android running BBM as desirable as a BlackBerry?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lDJGHCX2wA
Great, it's finally happening! I wonder if there will be different versions of Soylent. E.g. if you are trying to maintain your muscle mass while doing a cut you might not want so many carbs, instead opting for more protein to meet your daily needs.
American universities are for profit entities (corporations).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act

Before the Bayh–Dole Act, federal research funding contracts and grants obligated inventors (where ever they worked) to assign inventions they made using federal funding to the federal government.[3] Bayh-Dole permits a university, small business, or non-profit institution to elect to pursue ownership of an invention in preference to the government.[4]

Stanford, further, is a private institution.
See, for example, their investment company:
http://www.smc.stanford.edu/
which is part of the university and is overseen by the Board.

They certainly don't qualify (nor do public universities like UC) as non-profits; they don't reinvest all their earnings into their operating budget. Investors in Stanford receive a return on the growth of the endowment.
This should be fixed the old-fashioned way: By cutting off teh flow of money at the source. When clients are caught directly or indirectly using sock-puppetry and astroturfing on Wikipedia, banners should be added to the affected pages naming and shaming the clients.

"This page has been locked by Wikipedia in response to deceptive practices paid for by Engulf and Devour to circumvent our community standards and mislead readers."

If you want this to stop, you have to give the clients a disincentive. That will drive the good clients out and these firms will be left with erectile dysfunction flim-flam as their market.
I think that exists. May have even been a YC company; definitely a fairly new startup. Can't recall its name though; something with "box" in it perhaps. Anyone have a better memory than mysef?
Amendment to GitHub Terms of Service Applicable to Government Users
It's generally not marketed that way and it's unclear if it would work like that. Possibly the relatively new "Ensure Complete" (announced less than a year ago) might work.
Okay, and all of the data that I send off to my GPU for either computation or rendering - I should just accept the huge performance hit I get when using double on them?

When necessary, manually cast your floats to doubles, perform the calculation, then assign the result back to a float. It achieves the same thing, though it is, of course, verbose. For example:

float result = (float) ((double) floatVar1 + (double) floatVar2);
If it's really newsworthy, wouldn't someone else not related to the company do that?
Emoticons are the future of communication
> That's a nice strawman you've propped up there.

In his defence, that's not a "strawman he's propped up", it's taken from the article.
What operator do you use for vector dot product? What about cross product (as opposed to vector scaling)? What about the different precedence between primitive operators and overloaded operators ('+' and '*' have the same precedence in vector maths, no so in basic arithmetic).

Does adding mathematical notation to programming languages make the code easier for non-mathematicians? Does having two different coding standards make the language easier to use and maintain? What do you do when your set of operator glyphs is less than the number of mathematical operations you need to perform? What happens with your code when the operator overloads you use clash with the operator overloads from a new library?

I don't see any language that does operator overloading well and a lot of issues with making a good implementation. I like the idea I just see a lot of problems with the reality. And unless you can solve the problem well, I think it's the right thing to do the simplest thing that might possibly work.
Create your own SaaS in 20 minutes: Simple PoC
China's northeast pollution so bad you can't see your fingers
You don't even need to wait for it. I just clicked through the waiting screen and logged in.
Technically, yes. You just have to know what to buy and how to price what you are selling. ("Oh, is that all?" says the broker who makes a living doing this. :) )

I had a friend who made decent money going to physical auctions and taking the items he bought and putting them on ebay (this was about a decade ago).

Arbitrage is here to stay.
Are these two plans equivalent? What are the deductibles involved? What's your copay?

Some of this is because ACA prevents unreasonably high deductible, unless you get "catastrophic" coverage. It was quite possible that your plan was a "catastrophic" plan. You might be able to get a similar catastrophic plan via state exchanges, I know that it varies state to state.
Thank you kindly!

And good luck to you! Having a hard time not spending all day refreshing to see if I have any views on the video we submitted with our app!
Because Obama was unable to garner enough support for Single Payer... at least, not yet. While the ACA is hardly a perfect law, its quite possible that the greatest thing it accomplishes is showing Americans how much worse our current system is than the Single Payer systems the rest of the 1st world employs.

While the insurance companies were generally lobbying for the ACA (although there's definitely clauses they did not support), they are vehemently against Single Payer, since it puts them all out of business.
None of this is relevant to my point. You can use doubles for intermediate calculations in C, Java, and Rust. The only difference is what the defaults are.
They reach for pasta or frozen pizza out of convenience and it's not the healthiest option if eaten every day.
BBM alledgedly had load issues because of a leaked android version maybe a month ago....
From what I can tell, it's fairly new and unique. The closest thing I'm aware of both feature-wise and marketing-wise is "Ensure Complete" which was announced less than a year ago and still isn't marketed in quite the same way.
No, that service that you're thinking of is nothing like it. I know because I want the exact same service 8ig8 is talking about and was hopeful that it was, but it's not even close.

(I also can't remember the name.)
Works here/now:

$ wget -q -O - https://privacy.cryptoseal.com/ | gpg --verify
gpg: Signature made Mon Oct 7 14:38:07 2013 EEST using DSA key ID D2E0301F
gpg: Good signature from "Ryan Lackey <rdl@icloud.com>"
Primary key fingerprint: B8B8 3D95 F940 9760 C64B DE90 07AD BE07 D2E0 301F
An article that is short on details and has no fewer that 8(eight) affiliate links to Amazon.

I am lost for words.
Ember.js 1.1.0 released
You say this, but it's been prosecuted in enough cases that are often posted to Hacker News, I don't even feel compelled to find a link to show that... deleting your account and informing you by e-mail that you have been banned and your accesses of the web services provided by a brand are no longer welcome are valid standards of "denying access."

They can block your IP address, but that's been held up as an example of "how not to implement a service block" enough times already, I think the important bit is above.
Levels of Excellence
This goes into libel territory - Wikipedia presumably doesn't have the resources or authority to investigate and fully ascertain who paid for what.
Amen, brother. As Martin Fowler writes, "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."

If Mr. not-Einstein had actually measured some production issue that could be traced back to commenting, he could always have written a filter that stripped them before production. My guess, though, is even he didn't believe this excuse; it was just a glib thing to say in hopes of wiggling out of trouble for being a negligent coder.
People went to school to learn how to be engineers and other technical careers back to the 1800s. Sure, maybe you couldn't get a degree is "office administration", but to pretend the old university experience was all Virgil and Kant is a bit silly.

Now, the romantic ideal of these old-time universities is the image of the rich sons attending dad's school so he can get set in with the next generation of Good Old Boys. Boy, what a shame we've lost that.
I liked the website and the idea. I didn't mean 'wavy' as offensive, but just that this above may be correct assumptions, but I fail to see whether or not are mathematically rigorous.

For example. I agree that within the circle of safety you can readjust your position however you want, given enough time for you to readjust.

What I don't necessarily see, is that one straight line is the best way to maximize the escape. For example, I could consider going at pi/2 for a bit, having the monster trying to catch up counter clock wise, and then slightly bend toward pi/2 + alpha.

This may be wrong, and maybe it's easy to see, but I failed at understanding whether or not that is possible from the explanation. After all, it's a similar strategy to the pi/2 one. I.e., the monster will have to get there covering more space. This would be very different from aiming at that point when you are at the edge of the safety circle, since now the monster is at a different relative position. So it depends on whether or not there is no solution that gives you some extra time.

For example, why is a spiral (that keeps being a spiral after leaving the safety circle) worse than a J shape? (same point as above but with a curve instead of two straight lines at an angle).

Another point is the optimal strategy for the monster. If the monster waits for a second waiting for you to move, would pi/2 still be the best strategy?

To be honest I think that the solution sounds perfectly reasonable. I just thought I wasn't mathematically 100% convinced.

And I liked the website and the other puzzles (I'm still thinking about the Ace of Spade, on which I have a question).
Suggest he take a walk with you. If he does, keep it up. If he won't even take a walk with you it's probably hopeless, sorry to say. I went through such with my father.
Except that would violate their policy of presenting information in as neutral manner as possible. It's also hard to see where this would stop: banners for Exxon stating they ruin the environment, a banner on the NSA article stating they violate civil rights?
This project is based on Docker and runs the same code thats on http://tryrethink.info
From the comments I've seen on other 'unauthorized access' stories, I feel like most of HN believes that sort of act shouldn't be illegal.

(I agree with your sentiment.)
There are two main difference between government surveillance and facebook. First of all, you get to decide what you want to share - it's not extracted from the email you sent to your doctor/lawyer/mistress in confidence like NSA/GCHQ does.

Second, if facebook makes a mistake you are probably served incorrect ads on a web page, if the government makes a mistake you can end up on the no fly list or in Guantanamo ...

But you are correct - most people don't value liberty or privacy.
Sure, try to finds twitter/facebook/blog/video/presentation activities. And do some research about discussed topic. Then your "cold" email will be much more "worm".
foe example : "Hey Jeff, I read you latest blog about BART strike and I agree that we need to increase number on car-pool lines when something like that happens in Bay Area I made a simulation that it will decrease bla bla bla... "
If "Jeff" answers, you will have an amazing chance for a personal conversation.
To provide meaningful results, 64-bit math should be implicit, 32-bit explicit.

The reason is: just like you believe that "it's same" or "it's not important" (it's not the same and it is very often actually important) there are a lot of programmers who don't want to spend any energy in "making the computer doing what's right" they simply assume that the computer "does what's right." In your language case, if it's hard to have 64-bit partial results, the programmers won't do this where they should. And the proper computations are the serious thing. Like calculating if the bridge will fall or not.
A company culture that allows people to watch YouTube, listen to music on their headphones, or joke around without a supervisor telling them to get back to work is not just cool and hip. At its core, treating employees like this shows that you trust them.

I find it hard to fully agree with this statement. Listening to music? No problem. Joking around with a supervisor? No problem. Watching Youtube while at work? Problem.

Listening is an activity that people can often do while multitasking, watching videos is not. It's just not a multitasking-friendly activity. Besides, with Youtube, there is a constant pull to watch the next thing ("People who watched this video also watched...").

If your manager and his/her manager happened to walk by your desk at the same time and see you (a) not working, and instead (b) watching a Youtube video, how's that going to play out? It's likely that your manager will get an earful from his/her manager and, as the saying goes, *#&$% flows downhill.
Or just download WhatsApp. You can even get that on Symbian phones.

iMessage depresses me. It's great. It integrates with the OS on a level that Apple is never going to allow anyone else to do. And they're not going to let anyone else use the iMessage network, either.
Hah! I have this discussion every time somebody tries to upsell me at the bike shop. I tell them that if I'm going to try to take 5 pounds off the me+bike combo, I'm not starting with the bike.
The Sunshade for Glass
I know nothing about Clinkle, but I think it's a great word for the act of passing a kidney stone.
The CFAA[1] is a powerful tool for all sorts of strong arming. Even if it can also be used for good, it would be far better if it were reformed.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
Yup I thought so. I think that might be too much work for me to make it worthwhile... :]
Mods: Any tips on why the post was slapped from #30 to #78 in seconds? Are speakerdecks discouraged?
How do books work? Can you just bung a bunch of old textbooks in a box and ship it to them? Do you have to package them separately at all, or put stickers on them, or do you literally just stick them in a box?

Are there any mobile apps for scanning barcodes on books and automatically building your Amazon catalog?
Ah that explains the 502 :)
Facebook Threatened Me With $100,000 Suit
Which is why the marketing/buzz, which many are complaining about, is key.
Might Google Have a Sly Motive Behind Motorola?
Spend time with him and savor being around him. We all die eventually, it's what we do with the time we have that counts. My advice would just be to do the things to ensure you won't live with regrets in the future.
Consultants vs. Employees: The Real Costs
By using EmberJS you could have made the pun so much better.
I use wire storage racks and cheap $10 transparent plastic drawers to store and organize my stuff, not counting clothing where i use dressers and closets and just plain plastic boxes for bedding . It's fairly affordable and effective. everything being transparent that isn't clothing is fairly essential for finding things.
Adblock plugins slurp down new lists without updating the plugin code itself. Newer techniques, sure, but I don't think ABP's release cycle is substantially faster than Firefox's.
This is hugely myopic: reality is far more Stanford students are going to be joining Microsoft and other established companies (we're not even talking younger public companies like Facebook!) upon graduation than startups; those starting companies are going to be fewer.

Stanford is a non-profit institution, their mission is education, not generating a profit for their share holders. Venture investments as an approach to maintaining their endowment does not, in any way, conflict with this -- all universities maintain investment portfolios.

Hennessy isn't exactly a new comer to technology: when I was looking at errata for my Computer Architecture textbook (_the_ Computer Architecture textbook) I found it more surprising for me to find that one of its authors (Hennessy) was the president of Stanford (given that Patterson is at Berkeley and that STEM folks rarely took leadership positions at universities).

I did not attend Stanford myself, but plenty of my friends have, and I've been on campus many times. Like any institution, I am sure it has many valid criticisms -- the idea the educational system is purely meritocratic and available to anyone intelligent and motivated, for example, is still a myth (in several senses of the word -- it representations genuine aspiration, but does not reflect reality).

However, it isn't some kind of a incubator for a lilly-white privileged elite that it's made out to be: it's incredibly diverse and beyond being a top-tier research university, it also has a great humanities program including a core curriculum. Indeed, the endowment is why students who do not come from wealthy backgrounds have been able to afford it (the same is also true for many other elite universities).

A long time ago, a friend who was heavily into hip-hop culture and lived in New York asked me if "people were just being shot randomly" in California, as the rap music seems to suggest. The idea that everyone in Silicon Valley is a startup founder is equally as silly: I remember the weekend after I left Yahoo (by then perceived to be in decline) to join a startup in January of 2008 (the nexus of web 2.0 boom), more people asked "why are you leaving a known company to join some tiny one that may not be around" then asked "what took you so long?"
iirc Google Play Services becoming updateable was to work around carriers and manufacturers not giving android os updates to their end-users.
Thoughts on MongoDB's Homongous $150M Round
Great idea, as long as there is some mechanism to deal with joe-jobs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe-job
Blackberry? What's that?
Landing In The Sky
I'm not a wikipedia editor, so they may think of things differently, but when I see a news story about a company, I generally think, "Interesting."

I don't think, "Ooh, I better check if this is in their Wikipedia article yet." Now, maybe the most devout of wikifiddlers will do that, but why not just make it part of your process? If it's not notable, presumably someone will delete that bit eventually. It's better than going to an article and finding that there's no news since 2009 or whenever the article was first written.
On Working at Barnes and Noble
There is a community driven recipe site; http://diy.soylent.me/
You get three months of rent. The trick is to have nothing of value in the locker, I suppose.
It's very simple: as soon as the floating value is read, it should go to the 64-bit virtual register unless you specify that register to be 32-bit too.

If you want to use 32-bit partial results, you should say that explicitly. Autovectorization can be applied even if the rules are like suggested.
Boxbee and MakeSpace are both new companies going for something like that.
Here's another idea: Remove questionable Wikipedia entries from the first page of search results. Could this be done algorithmically, or through the use of noindex attached to some trigger on Wikipedia's end?