skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And less error prone, no need for training, no need for downtime.

I promise you, even if the actual cost of the machine were the same as a worker every month, you would always choose the machine.

Sorry, humans are just really crap at automated tasks.
Eh. This product designer thinks otherwise: http://atomicdelights.com/blog/how-apple-makes-the-mac-pro
Cranky indeed. Unrelated but they have a misspelling on the referenced page:

"We can NOT control what other people forge in an email return address header and send using thier computers."
Pre SSE 4.1 floor/ceil/round functions
I wouldn't imagine anyone downloading php binaries from php.net gives the remotest fig about security so I'm not sure why it would matter.
See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
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Creating a game like that from scratch is a lot of work, but it would be a lot easier to do if people could start with the Full Screen Mario codebase.

There's nothing that prevents the creators from making their own thing that people could start from. It doesn't need to be Mario.

Game designers could also incorporate parts of "Super Mario Brothers" as a "mini game" within modern video games.

This also seems odd to me.

Generally I think I stand for reasonable copyright terms, but on the other side, I never applied those terms to Mario. I can't imagine a character like Mario being used by many companies in many games across many systems where it is not tightly controlled by Nintendo. That is really a dreadful outcome. Nintendo has grown the brand and character over the years and it would be immediately diluted.

I could very easily picture a game like GTA starring Mario using a gun to shoot goombas and koopas, while Bowser snorts crack off of Princess Peach. That's not the kind of thing I'd like to see.
To be fair Apple takes cheap shots at them all the time. Both companies have a long history of taking pokes at each other.

The outrage among their fans is always entertaining, but people should remember that "Apple" and "Microsoft" aren't people that are talking mean about each other. They are companies that sell products. They are going to advocate for their products vigorously. Shocking.

The emotion that gets wrapped up in these arguments is a little creepy. It's really a sign of how marketing has been internalized by some people. (Including the people at MS and Apple.)
Excellent point. So is anyone working on a kickstarter that uses this model instead?

Would it work like Kickstarter except you'd receive shares of a company? Would there be a lot of overhead?
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Wow, harsh downvote. Sorry for submitting something related to antibiotics I thought you guys would find interesting.
Does anyone else see how dangerous this is? Nefarious people could obtain common names like this and monitor them for submissions with personal data from ignorant developers testing software.

Sure the issue is with the dev who made the mistake, but the result is nonetheless dangerous enough to warrant concern with security folk.
Ask them about the radiation dose in banana-equivalent, then be less worried.
Yes, that was the background idea in the talk. Among the ideas explicitly said was that our iteration for antibacterial defenses is low and slowing, and that we actively contributed to the increase of bacterial mutation opportunity. The solution mentioned include corrections for both these.
It's most likely a bug in that wordpress theme.

I have used the same theme in my personal blog, and I occasionally notice the main and posts page turning up blank when I myself visit it. Doesn't happen if I switch to another theme.
...as I'm sure domain.com (a registrar) does to
Ha I live in Cobb County I wonder if that's a good bankruptcy lawyer.
Could be titled, "How [thing] hurts your [other things]".

Of course a newer, more utilized tool eats into your other activities that don't revolve around that tool.

Less time spent driving to the store, walking around the store, and purchasing the items, and driving back home? More time spent on Amazon.com?!?!

What about less time spent socializing offline, but more time spent playing MMOS?

IMO this is all about one major sociological/technological device eating into our other habits. Depending on the person, it could eat into bad habits, or good ones.

They mentioned 2.7 minutes less working, but what about the productivity gains from the internet?
Live user stats for my Android game. Thank you HN.
I was trying to emphasize that nutrition has more than first order effects, but thanks for letting me know about the omega 3 things being disputed, I didn't know that.
This is exactly what happens when your website serves malware. Unhappy about it? Don't serve malware from your website.
> someone would have taken them, whether or not it was this businessman.

Gimme a break - "someone else would have done that"? Is there really an ethics system that would score this above "shitty excuse"?
Interesting, I'm also in the Jakarta (South Jakarta), how about hangout for Jakarta HN ?
mandating a G+ account didn't change a damn thing.

It did though, it stopped those who despise G+ from making app reviews anymore. Sadly though the number of people that stopped is tiny.
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Maybe this title should be more like... "How having internet access changes the way people choose to spend their time". It's not like The Internet is attacking people, we choose to do this.
I'd prefer a Utah Teapot[1]. Then you can at least have a decent reference for your shadow rendering implementation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot
Random theory: BB might have contracted app promotions to a number of marketing agencies (or just one), and the account manager tasked with promoting the Android app figured out there's Mechanical Turk and Fiverr.

Now if I talk to couple of friends at digital marketing agencies, they would tell me this is pretty common. The client doesn't need to know or decide how it's done. It's just done.
Direct Invoice beta is up and running
I wonder if they still earn money from the original Mario. If yes than this move against the project makes sense.
Has anyone looked into running the fuel cell in reverse to recharge it? I remember seeing a demo at a fair where it was a sealed fuel cell and it could go from h2 02 to water and then run it in reverse to recreate the o2 and h2.

If that's feasible it could simply be a new type of battery, no?
A few days ago I posted about my Android game made in 23 days, and feedback has been great:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6594521

During development I posted updates on regular basis to LudumDare and Java-gaming forums, but I got way more traffic from HN.

I just want to thank everyone here, by giving the complete stats the user engagement for the game.
Call yourself a hacker - your computer could be seized without warning
How people have died in the 21st century
I decided to make the stats public:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6604659
And what about the false positive scenario?
Samsung fined $340,000 for faking online comments
(from following link...) Ah, an old CRT screen as a detector - hadn't thought of that.
This is the least data-backed, and most drivel-filled article I have read on hacker news. Seriously?

Anyway I strongly recommend "The power of habit: Why we do what we do, and how to change" which is a scientific investigation into, well, the science of habit, but more importantly the information contained in those pages is highly usable.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Habit-Why-What-Change/dp/18479...

Not to mention the "Don't break the chain" principle, which inadvertently makes you apply the most fundamental principle of good habit building:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36497
Still looks like a small dustbin.

That and the dust bunny acquisition system...sorry bottom drawing fan inlet.
Thanks for the information. Can you confirm how long the malware has been on the site for, and if it's possible that people may have been drive-by'd before you flagged the domain? Also what systems did the malware target?

Thanks
I received a [spammy] message from one of my Whatsapp contacts with the content along the line of : In order to unlock the full features of the new BBM, forwad blah blah blah to 10 of your friends.

It could just be a spammy message that caught on really well and might not have nothing to do with Blackberry buying fake reviews IMHO
Not entirely,for music in the US there is compulsory licensing in the law. The orignal copyright owner does not need to agree as long as the covering musician complies with the terms of the compulsory license laws.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license
wow, it really hacks! how could u find this bug?
Surely this is not causing Nintendo to loose money on SMB sales. I heard they have to pursue copyright violations, otherwise they might risk loosing the copyright (or did that apply only to trademarks?).

Anyway, why don't they just give that guy a very limited, non-commercial fan license to make that game? Maybe charge him a cent or so. And have him slap on a big "unofficial" sign. They wouldn't loose much, but it would be a big PR gain.
Nice how the negative aspects are nicely pushed into a small box at the right side, and a single a few lines at the end, as if they matter less.
Agreed. His initial example of hunger for one struck me as odd, as hunger is cumulative, so really the only thing that happens when one is continually offered food (one does not really want to eat) on an empty stomach is at some point hunger wins by value, not "attrition".

This whole article would be perfect support for men&women who need a new excuse for their cheating habits.

> I just get so many tempting offers during the day, eventually I had no choice in the matter.
From the cover of the book:

"Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit."

Great book - if slightly depressing.
It's not that it's not there -- Python 3 has been available on Fedora for years. It's that the system tools which use Python still use Python 2, which is itself still a modern, supported environment. TBH, I think it's probably correct for critical system scripts to be more conservative in upgrading.

It's also still going to be a while before Python 2 is actually removed, and while both are available the `python` executable will continue to point to Python 2.

If you don't ask for Python at the moment, you'll still get in your base install, because the system uses it. You get Python 2. In the future, you'll get Python 3 instead.
There is nothing less expressive about 1-based counting, it is only... different. Empty ranges are usually marked with 0 or empty index. Negative indices tend to mean "get everything except those" instead of "count them from tail". Also in 1-based languages element x,y is usually just A[x,y].
The latency is sufficient that you could actually use space as a data storage medium. At 622Mbps there is 1,596Mb in transit at any given time.
Hey, we're talking about Norway - it's pretty far north - I wasn't 100% sure :-)
Of course the general public has no idea how advanced the manufacturing sector really is.

I doubt anybody would know how advanced every sector is. Innovation has been increasing at a pretty dramatic pace over the last 100 years.
The icon is correct in tabs (and by correct I mean not there - the site has no favicon), it's only incorrect in the url-drop down (the arrow in the url box which shows you the most visited pages).
I don't know. Any examples? Perhaps, you should ask the victims of such false positives.
Let those people go
Check out his books too: The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming. Both co-authored by Brian Kernighan.
Services are generally using HTTP/REST these days.
Seems like you enumerated the possibilities, but I guess you'd also have to ask:

1. For whom? Is the divide between poor and rich people getting smaller or bigger? Is the divide between poor and rich countries getting bigger or smaller? Will there be countries?

2. What is getting better/worse? Will people be richer in the future? If they are richer, will they be happier?
'Aptonym' is the most apt word for this.
It's more that robots can do tasks with unrivalled precision at temperature/pressure extremes that would kill a human.
Art yes, name probably not. I believe the name would be covered by trademark. Trademark allows for indefinite ownership.
From 1979-1984, I programmed and operated NC & CNC lathes and milling machines that made parts far more complex and precise that what they are showing. One of our customers was the beer bottling industry.

In the period from 1984-89 I watched pick & place circuit board assembly, pick & place robotics, robotic polishers, robotic bead blasters and spray painters operate in local machine shops, automotive plants and electronics manufactures.

I've never worked in a shop that punched out cylinders, but I'm sure that the process they are using for punching out the cylinder from a block of aluminum is how beer cans get made.

It's not amazing.
The article is from 2003 (not a criticism, just trying to get someone to add that to the title).
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Snow reflects sunlight very well. That is why it is generally darkest in northern countries in the autumn before the snow comes.
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I would agree its a bit unrealistic to be able to save half of what you make, unless you are in a relationship. I only make 52.4k a year in a very low cost of living area but once she starts making some money my living expenses will be so low I think it could easily happen.
Those of us that wasted whole summers playing Elite were in for a shock when PC's came along - no games were anywhere near as good as Elite! We had been brought up on the good stuff and nothing that came along subsequently was anywhere near as compelling. Even the licensed versions of Elite on other platforms were a pale imitation. Because of this I gave games a wide birth, probably until the Playstation came along a generation later.

What Bell and Braben were able to achieve was tantamount to magic in many areas. As explained in the article the 8 galaxies with 256 stars was quite amazing. We all knew there were only so many banks of 16K RAM so how was this possible?
The display was also quite incredible, even if you thought you knew a lot about the display modes. The top 3/4 was hi-resolution black and white and the lower dashboard was chunkier 4 colour. Swapping display mode mid-screen-refresh was truly out there.
As for the 3D graphics, there was no openGL back then. Anyone that has had a go with openGL knows it is hard enough as it is. Bell + Braben did 3D with no library and in pure assembly language, hidden line removal included.
The game may not have been networked however that was not a problem, there was plenty to talk about. This word of mouth aspect meant that a lot of Elite gameplay (such as the missions, getting stuck in hyperspace, mining asteroids and the consequences of trading in contraband) was part myth. There was no knowing what extent the gameplay really involved, friends could tell you things they found and you might not be able to find out for yourself.

There were plenty of other BBC micro games that were excellent, obviously not to the same degree as Elite, however, Elite did captivate a whole generation for months at a time. I wonder what the opportunity cost of this was. Instead of moving up from 'mostly harmless' to 'elite' we could have had a lot else done by the likes of myself during that time.
What we can share publicly is at this diagnostics page accessible to anyone (it's linked from the warning page browsers show):

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://ph...

Verified owners in Webmasters Tools get more info.
As some who doesn't speak haskell, how do you add type safety to this example, but using more precise types than string/object/array ?
Ask HN: How do I get motivated again
I am currently working as a contractor in vertical advertising, sports betting specifically. Initially, the job was exciting, but now its gotten to a boring point, and on top of that I am the only developer, hence there is zero time to chill-out. Occasionally, I get to respond to support issues on my days off.

My client is a start up with little to no organisation, they want me in the office, and want me to get things done by verbally asking me, constantly changing their minds and, and most times I'd have to switch context constantly.

While the pay is relatively aright, and I have bills to pay, I have lost all motivation to keep on working. I stare at the computer but can't think. I really want to get my motivation back, but don't know how.

Can you share your experiences on how to keep on how to rapidly re-boot?
Original copyright holder doesn't have to agree for you to make a cover. It's a common courtesy though, but not legal requirement.
It is in the virtual console store on the Wii and Wii U. So it is still for sale not sure if they are really making money on it.
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> what strategies can be applied to increase the speed of language adoption.

In the case of Python 3, a neat thing library developers can do is write code that is both valid for Python 2 and Python 3. The six[0] library is a wrapper for making code compatible with both versions. There are tools like 2to3[1] and 3to2[2] that convert code from one version to another. They're not perfect but do catch the most common differences. Such things help with making the change.

However it is the availability (or more exactly lack of) of famous and widely used libraries that hinder or speed up the adoption. For example, Django recently started offering a Python 3 version[0]. Numpy and Scipy support it since around 2011 only.

0: http://pythonhosted.org/six

1: http://docs.python.org/2/library/2to3.html

2: https://wiki.python.org/moin/3to2

3: "Porting to Python 3" htthttp://pythonhosted.org/sixps://docs.djangoproject.com/en/de...

>Django 1.5 is the first version of Django to support Python 3. The same code runs both on Python 2 (≥ 2.6.5) and Python 3 (≥ 3.2), thanks to the six compatibility layer.

"Django's future, and Python 3" https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2012/mar/13/py3k/
I hadn't seen the newer revision of the protocol, only the original 2 out of 25 number. "Indistinguishable from 100%" was perhaps a little severe, but 90% survival is still pretty long odds.
It's like GTA!
ahan thats cool and its free with 370 icon and no java script awesomeness at its peak..
Less devil's advocate and more talking about just that particular point. There's a reason I haven't talked about the rest of his post.
Would it necessarily be such a terrible outcome?
The idea of providing protection for intellectual works is to incentivise the creation of these works rather than to protect any particular brand from being diluted.

What would be the upshot if the character of Mario entered the public domain, in the same way that characters from Greek mythology or Shakespeare are in the public domain?

Nintendo might decide to expend creative effort creating a new set of characters to figurehead their brand, this could well be a win for society at large.

Other unaffiliated developers might then decide to take mario in interesting new creative directions that would not have happened under Nintendo, this could also be a win.
I think that its UK laws that apply to securities on the FTSE 100 same as if I hold ATT or IBM I have to abide by US law - and file a wben 8.

Just seems odd that the SEC is fine with people investing in much riskier start ups than blue chips - arnt they supposed to look out for investors as well as companys
>> if antibiotic resistant bacteria survive, why would finishing the course of antibiotics make a difference?

I can only speculate, but here's how I imagine it.

Your body can kill a certain number of bacteria on its own. Antibiotics help reduce the infection to the point where your body can do the rest.

If the resistant bacteria are a small minority, taking antibiotics long enough to kill most of the non-resistant ones will let your body kill the remaining resistant ones.

If you stop too early, the battle tide has not yet turned. Instead, by killing, say, half the non-resistant ones, you've made the resistant ones a larger proportion of the whole infection. Then both groups continue to multiply.

If you repeat this several times, starting and stopping the antibiotics depending on how you feel, the resistant bacteria could go from being 1% of your infection to 50%.
The changes required to adapt to these stores (I can speak for Chromestore) are minimal, i.e. one needs to write a manifest file. It's like adding a channel to improve the app's discovery. It certainly seems to provide a lot of traffic if your app falls in the top of popular category.
Correction, they don't prefer virtual girlfriends but their fear of denial is too great to permit them to get real women as girlfriends.
The interesting thing is of course:
>DNF is the default package manager instead of Yum, which only works with Python 2

Otherwise no big news, since all other major distros are switching to default python 3 too.
I'd love to work somewhere with pinball machines. Sign me up!
I would think established corporations would have strict guidelines on marketing tactics that are allowed.
Obviously it won't help where companies want to retain their copyright longterm but I want to set a better example. I'm thinking of coming up with a license that offers no additional rights for a limited duration and then allows free use to emulate what would happen if copyright durations were more sensible. I don't think it will meet the OSS definition of Open Source although I think it should be possible to make it compatible with liberal licenses by offering mechanisms to exclude code (snippets, files or folders) from the licence. If you wanted you could dual license with a real OSS license.

I'll put it on Github do a "Show HN" when I have something worth looking at.

Does anyone know of any examples of this being done? Also I've never been able to work out whether code on Github needs to be under a license that allows modification/distribution, it seems like as long as it can be read it can still be copyright protected, does anybody know?
Squirrel tips: don't overthink it. It's always much simpler than it first looks :)
Reminds me of Square Enix pulling the plug on what was at the time a pretty awesome remix of Chrono Trigger. I really don't understand why any company would choose to piss on the efforts of dedicated fans who only wish to pay tribute to the greatest franchises. It's not like it's diminishing the sales of the game or anything. Quite the contrary, as all the past studies about piracy, fanart and derivatives have clearly shown.
I spent so many months playing this game. Loved it.

Regardless of the technical achievements of the developers, it also captured the imagination like no other game.

I'm anxiously waiting for the Kickstarter funded release of Elite Deadly.
Really cute animal picture
One picture that will show you 4 different animals that are really cute and happy!
When I suggested that there are some "Hail Mary" treatments once the post-exposure prophylaxis window closes, I was talking about the Milwaukee Protocol. Or the, I believe, single reported case of someone surviving a untreated rabies infection with no clear treatment.

As for whether or not I used the right term, I'd actually suggest that "infection" is kind of a fussy term to begin with. But I also never used it in my post, so I'm curious as to how I could have used it wrongly.

I stated that after the treatment window closes for PEP, we're in the realm of very difficult treatments that are really only workable in the developed world. I don't see anywhere that your post and mine are contradictory.