skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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There are a lot of unemployed humanities majors with friends, neighbours or cousins at newspapers, I guess.
>can be a problem at speed

Then don't speed, drive safely.
Yes, there are 100x android devices in places like India compared to iOS devices.
Democratization Is Badass
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It's explained rather well in the article, over several paragraphs, why it's okay to use floating point in this case.

The first thing we did in the programming class at university was to learn how the IEEE floating point standard works...
This is very good news. An interesting not here: In Norway the official postal service, Posten, has introduced something called DigiPost. Post means mail, so DigiMail. This is essential a secure way of sending information and it is approved by the Norwegian government for sending and receiving sensitive information. So you can ask to get your sensitive government stuff through DigiPost.

My point being: There is already a big market for sending secure emails. If this Dark Mail, or whatever it is called, is secure enough for a government to use then the adoption will be huge.

This probably means that it should be called something else than dark. "Normal people" don't know what encryption is, what NSA is or even why it is bad that companies like Google read and use their email. They won't know why or even that their email is insecure. They might have ssl in their Web browser showing a small lock, so they think they are already secure and don't need this "SecureMail". It is absolutely critical that the name of this thing is something that a normal person will feel that he/she needs. Something as simple as "New Email". Yes, the nerds will rage, but the nerds already knows why this is a big deal. The name does not need to cater to them. What is important is to get adoption of this new email platform. And naming it secure mail will probably not help. And having a dark alliance behind it all is the worst idea so far. Both words have negative annotations and sounds like a untrustworthy hacker group or even a terrorist organization. Needless to say, they need some serious re-branding, and fast.
Glitch furniture makes your bedroom look like it's malfunctioning
3-4 weeks for a simple app ? are you mad. 1 week tops and that's with rich client interfaces and without the need for a framework.

I think you need to learn how to code better
Regarding the choice of the secp256k1 curve: ECDSA signature verification is fairly slow and sipa, one of the Bitcoin developers, has been developing a faster implementation[1]. If anyone has any crypto expertise and can review the code, or otherwuse can provide further optimisations or patches, I'm sure it'd be appreciated.

https://github.com/sipa/secp256k1
1 city in The Crew is the size of Liberty City. There are 16 in the game. Woah.
Bitcoin Pursues the Mainstream
NSA leaks helping India become 'Big Brother' state?
> Having an add-on numpad would let me move it out of the way when I didn't need it.

You'd think so, but muscle memory is very powerful. If you're accustomed to a number pad and are typing an e-mail that contains just one reference to a number ( 2.388 ) the default action is still to try to type it on the num pad.

Using the top-row of numeric keys whilst tapping the decimal with the little finger is very slow and awkward by comparison and requires a context-change.
users do care about the tools they know. Our perl based webapp must interact with java, windows services, ... you name it.

You should not use virtual runtimes for everything your application does but using them in overnight cronjobs is ok.

Right now we are working on some middleware because the customers wants to use existing reporting tools(c#/windows only) with our product(perl/linux).

>Look how fast and simple this is!
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>Yeah nice so how do I genearte my <wateva> reports?
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>Well we can do the same with our <another> reporting service!
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>No I want to keep my <goodOldstuff> based reports can you integrate those?
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Humanities on it's own is useless. But combine it with something.
Kill? Really? Is this a fight to the death and there can be only one survivor leaving the ring?
Both Meteor and Rails will live on side by side, happy and unaware that somewhere there are groups of people fighting their fight for them. This is the same like the Spectrum Vs Commodore 64, or Amiga Vs Atari St fights... Pointless in any practical term, but I guess it gives some people a sense of some messianic gratification. "Hey, I blogged about X killing Y before X was cool".
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

Article 12.

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Otherwise, how would you define "liberty" or "security of person"? You're free to do what you want as long as it doesn't encroach on the freedom of others, and if being spied on makes you not want to do some things you ought to be able to do, then that's just tough luck, but not a restriction on liberty or your security? I'd say freedom of action is worthless without freedom of thought and speech, and that you can't pick and choose human rights, or rank them.
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Perhaps it should be banned, but it hasn't been banned yet. On what grounds did she get a ticket then?
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Why ? It's not because I'm trying to be a nice citizen in the memory part of my app that I use less or more memory. It's the developer choice that will take care of that, and not the way we clear our path.
Yes this. With Pluralsight you just tend to follow certain authors.
Tekpub was never hit and miss - majority of content was of really high quality.
Is the game (or its code) online somewhere? :P
needing college is a calculation of your planned life trajectory. I am finishing two degrees this year, law and economics with statistics and I can tell you 80% of the time you are wasting your time. however depending on your life plan that 20% may be the edge you need. but seriously if you dream of a startup career a degree is pretty much useless. I started learning code, from fundamentals, html intact, don't laugh, two months ago and I can say for a person with your experience you need not go to college, instead strive to create a new language within the next two years and chalk it off as college.
I wish they would give some sort of freebie to prorated Lavabit users that were were SOL due to the shutdown.
The only real advantage a 20 year old has over a 40 year old is that a 20 year old body can survive insane working hours, skipped sleep, sleeping under the desk, etc. Also, they don't have families and kids yet. That's why some companies want 20 year olds.

Edit: I'm 39, and I'm finally hitting my stride. I'm a far better programmer now than I was even 5 years ago.
They're only "open" according to some definitions. In this list of definitions of "open standard" in Wikipedia it only meets 2.5 out of 18, and the first one is that of a group that develops the MPEG standards:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard

The main sticking point, which is also what holds up W3C and IETF acceptance is not being "royalty-free".
Code: https://github.com/jakeogh/youtube-dl-wrapper
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From an entirely outside experience, I saw at the company I work for a very bad experience with a project where the team pushed for a single page application - they got delayed for months because of the technology, the problem was not single page applications in themselves, but that they seriously underestimated the learning curve and they were absolute novices (no-one had prior experience in SPA). And I definitely believe they could have cut months from the development time by sticking to known tech.

For a company where development is not core, I wouldn't recommend it, but if the company is a tech company, I would evaluate devoting resources to learning single page applications and doing some pilot projects, then leveraging the experience and pushing it into the main projects if applicable :) .
I think spin and wording was never less powerful. Today it takes networks of tv-stations to influence a public opinion and even then those influencers are hardly omnipotent. Opinions can still change within a day.

Also never before where there more people who were at least fundamentally capable of understanding politics. I often hear people say that the past was more democratic. Was it really?

Or is it just that the constraints of reality are only revealed gradually over time to the individual, as his understanding increases and his age progresses. Then the past was always easier and less complicated?
So does "Hacker News", but who cares? I sure don't. Name it XB483 for all I care, just make it work..
Out of interest, how easy would it be for you to adapt the system to manage the reputation for hotels, for example?

Doesn't sound like too much work given that you've said the system works on either web scraping or with API's of other review sites? Obviously you wouldn't want to jeopardize Bistro in it's current format through generalizing the platform for other "industries", but if done right, looks like a good opportunity to me!
How much RAM do you have? OS X is quite memory hungry and is terrible when it has to page. I'd recommend maxing out the RAM if you haven't already. I'm guessing you have a regular hard drive too. An SSD will make it feel like a new machine.

Also, Mavericks is much snappier than ML from what I've seen so far and makes much better use of RAM.
So I've been thinking about this and I am getting a bit upset that a corporate entity can stop a government policing and enforcement entity and make them sign a NDA. Coast Guard has the right to board any nautical vessel for inspection, no?

Can you imagine the police hearing screams and cries for help from inside a building and the corporate owners of the building stop them and say, well you cannot come in unless you sign this NDA first.
We are talking about MIDI sequences that are not producible by humans. If no human can produce those sequences, how can they have human soul?
* Get my startup out to at least one school and impact at least one student's life.
* Make a significant contribution to Go.
* Continue my GitHub streak: https://github.com/zachlatta
* Above all, be happy and satisfied with my life and work.
I choose to use javascript, nobody chooses to have cancer.
That actually made me giggle
Who would teach such a class? It's unlikely that English professors would. Maybe a few philosophy profs would, but there aren't a lot of people in humanities departments capable of teaching this.

And for that reason, it doesn't address the fundamental problem (as perceived by university administrators): "We have 11 humanities departments that are quite extraordinary, and we want to provide for that faculty..."

(The principal/agent problem is a common problem in non-profits, which are often merely schemes for funneling money to assorted insiders.)
Not in London it isn't; I've seen what a lot of startups are paying and 15% is definitely low for permie devs.
You probably mean "Medium TITLES Maker"?
I always thought it was 9 minutes to have 10 minutes of total delay with 1 minute ring time. So that if you don't do anything it keeps ringing every ten minutes.

If you hit snooze it just stops ringing earlier.

I think it's optimised to ring periodically in the worst case scenario (when you don't wake up).
With earlier snooze it's just easier to keep the 9 minutes worst case implementation, instead of taking into account the time you hit snooze and adjust the snooze time to reach the 10 minutes total delay between rings.
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They also took some techniques from published papers in the field, and many of the fundamental techniques are old enough to be patent free, so it's not like they're starting entirely from scratch.
I sometimes try to talk with my mother about truth, reality, correct beliefs and so on. Her problem is, she is relativist. To her, the idea that there's only one reality, and that contradictory beliefs are incompatible is not only false, but repugnant.

One of the major causes happens to be vocabulary. In French, the closest synonymous for belief, "croyance", carries a heavy religious connotation. We have other words, such as "knowledge", "opinion"… but they have other problems. We just don't have a short colloquial word to convey the idea of a probability distribution, and no more.

"No problem, I'll just define the word for her." But I'm not allowed to. I'm supposed to be accessible, which means no long sentences, and no jargon. My trying to be precise comes of as pedantic, pretentious, and needlessly complicated.

And so we're stuck. She doesn't understand what I mean, and I can't explain it to her. Even worse, she actually believes she does understand. Because my words have meanings to her. Just not the meanings I wanted to convey.

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Regarding solo pieces, quartets, and quintets, you should note that guitar has frets. Playing in tune is much easier compared to say, the cello. While becoming a good guitarist requires just as much effort than becoming a good cellist, merely playing something that sounds cool requires much, much less effort.
If the composer writes music that is not even playable by himself, then this music is never played by a human.
Therefore a soul to soul communication to the listener is impossible.
Does http://hmpgr.com/running resonate with anyone here?
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Robin Hood's freedom and privacy-loving band were dressed in Lincoln green...
what's the AB-BC problem?
> As a result, most of the decisions that Satoshi Nakamoto made in 2008 we are essentially stuck with.

Every single time I read something about what 'Satoshi Nakamoto' did in designing, implementing and securing Bitcoin, I grow more skeptical that one person, or even a small group of people, created Bitcoin. It is very difficult to believe that something this sophisticated was developed by anyone other than a well financed, possibly nation-state backed organisation.

This article suggests that Bitcoin was made difficult or impossible to fork by-design, which implies that the creator doesn't want to allow anyone to seize control of Bitcoin.

Paradoxically, the more you learn about Bitcoin, the more mysterious it becomes. Who would go through all that trouble to create it? What can they gain from Bitcoin's existence?
>>This document describes systems and methods that may be employed to provide data center (e.g., computing, telecommunications, or other similar services) support in an area quickly and flexibly. In general, computing centers are located on a ship or ships, which are then anchored in a water body from which energy from natural motion of the water may be captured, and turned into electricity and/or pumping power for cooling pumps to carry heat away from computers in the data center.<<
Some of my favorite music is VOCALOID-based (musical speech synthesis), so it doesn't even have a real person singing. And it sure as hell has a lot more "soul" that a lot of the music that's been played by "real instruments" (especially your extremely slim definition).
I wonder how long until everyone can just afford a $100 dye-sub printer.
Well, I would have tried it, but upon installation, it says: requires iOS7.

Sorry, not going to happen :)
Seems like there is a cryptographic explanation every few days. It's a popular topic to write about at the moment. This was well written however.
Coast Guard has the right to board any nautical vessel for inspection, no?

Is it actually a nautical vessel, or just a floating anchored data center? If the latter, it may still be a vessel technically but there won't be much "nautical" about it.
https://git.xiph.org/?p=daala.git
though unicycles? that sounds HARD :/ why not just run around? (or use those cool two-wheeled platform type bikes)
> Current theory: alarm clock designers never marry.

But when they do they may end up with their own alarm clock that is impervious to logic, programming or reason.

For a notional 7am setting our little alarm clock wakes up one of us (a seemingly random choice) usually sometime between 6.15am and 7.15am. Very occasionally it malfunctions and wakes us both up at 3am.
False dichotomy. Both of them can have too much power simultaneously! :)
http://run.south.im/tech for an explanation of how it was made.
If they are blind enough to not recognize games as a most modern and innovative art form, well then they should go down together with their departments and take the world where art is judged based on it's investment potential with them. Why isn't Another World the game celebrated same way as Mona Lisa the painting? Because you cannot re-sell it for millions. Programming is nothing less than practical philosophy (I deal with "objects", "classes" and other abstractions all day every day). Programming language is still a language, I know multiple and I can compare them which makes me a linguist. They should not try so hard to separate from science. They should acknowledge that art is evolving as well.
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As described here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6642919
I used to have a great alarm clock that would beep progressively faster until it was pretty much just a constant tone. It would start off with a beep every four seconds or so, for about 4 cycles, then go down to about 2 seconds per cycle, then 1, then half etc. I want that alarm back.

The snooze was on 8 minutes but I could press the snooze button multiple times to increase the time. So if I wanted a 24 minute snooze I could wake up and press it 3 times and it would go off in 24 minutes.
Great, print more things on paper and in the process, help Walmart. Awesome hack guys, I look forward to your next project that partners with Exxon.
How A/B testing helped a price comparison app increase revenues by 28%
I would like to be able to cross my legs, but there isn't enough room between the bottom side of the 'desk plate' and my leg. Without my legs crossed, I have one hands width, so about 5".

However, ergonomically, I don't believe crossing your legs for extended periods of time is actually good practice. You might want to consider what is 'best' for the user vs. what the user wants, as this isn't a 'feature' that it appears most people look for in a desk.
"People who say that are always judged as wrong, in the end."

By whom?
It is disingenuous for a school to charge 50k per year and wonder why folks are concerned about getting jobs. Humanities should join STEM, not fight it. Don't convince someone to study philosophy instead of CS, convince them to study it in addition to CS. Teach the math majors world languages so they can read German and French papers. But don't stand as an island, because at current prices humanities are a terrible buy.
The oldest digital clock my family had used a mechanical display, so it had ten values for the right-most digit, six for the next, and twelve for the left-most. So this explanation would definitely make sense for it.

But I don't recall if it actually had a snooze button...
Most things that are considered to be medicine are pretty toxic. It's the dose that makes them into medicine.

Some of this is because to be a medicine, a substance sort of needs to have a noticeable effect on our biology.
2) Is very true. I crashed my first car aged about 7 on a friend's farm - old volvo estate, slammed it diagonally into a tree doing about 30, and rolled it down a bank. Terrifying, but a very, very valuable lesson in terms of just how much energy a few tonnes of metal at 30mph carries.

I walked out of it unscathed, but was a kid made of rubber. Dare say these days I'd have smashed ribs and so-forth from the same - at the least.
Motorola Announces “Project Ara,” a modular phone hardware platform
What simplicity means for your SaaS business?
You have given good examples yourself. Before the acceptance of French into humanities, it was just a language evolving with its speakers. After that it was given the status of "official", with official grammar to maintain purity. But who decided which vernacular was pure and which wasn't? The powers that be. The privileged noble who had time for it. While it resulted in better economic opportunities for everyone (while requiring no effort from those who already spoke the pure form), it also quashed the cultural diversity.

English is another example. People in most of the world learn British English, simply because English was taught to them when British ruled them because they wanted to create a English speaking cheap workforce. Now that British are gone, their legacy remains. For example, Shakespeare is still mandatory to learn in India, and novels that are today confined to humanities in Britain, are most read in India - they don't read catcher in the rye, they read The Tempest and The Woman in White etc. You can see that firsthand - Indians use idioms that long ago fell out of use in Britain. "Please do the needful" anyone? "I was doing that only"? This is not just about Indians. Germans, as I have been told, learn UK English in school. But eventually all their clients are American, so they end up learning American vernacular and spellings. They can't be blamed, every default is American now.

Coming to Eastern philosophy, consider this: the earth is round, people are equal so how come there is something called East or West. It is arbitrary! It is THE example of grouping and stereotypes[1]. There is a large branch of sociology and history dealing with this idea.[2] I will leave it at that since this is closer to my heart and thus I am prone to be biased. Plus, I am still reading more about it.

The idea is not that Chinese philosophers would fit in my description or not, the idea is that the philosophers you call Chinese are just a sect of a philosophers in China. But when first non-Chinese went into China, their interest wasn't in philosophy but in the money Chinese had. Through that economical agent they measured everything that was there - the economically weak Chinese philosophers were neglected and forgotten into history and the official Chinese doctrine accepted as the one true 'Chinese'. "Because that is what makes them different." It is why when China dabbles into modernism we call them copycats and not just coming to equal terms. They HAVE to be different, right?

I went overboard, I suppose. I am not a good writer nor a native English speaker. Indian, actually. Regarding music, I think it should belong to science and mathematics :)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingroup

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism
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Lua indexes starting from 1 is a constant annoyance. Yes I'm used to it, and yes I remember, but it does always feel wrong.
Perhaps they will float it out to international waters to avoid the NSA.

(And host monkey knife fighting)
In the future, perhaps the Dark Mail Alliance mentioned earlier on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6642106
I see more value in accomplishing stuff in as little hours as possible. It's not about the hours, it's about what you get done.

And once you get stuck, it can be more productive to leave the computer and get some sleep, eat, walk, take a shower, etc. The best ideas or solutions come to you when you're doing something else.

To me, saying you work 60-80 hours means you're either doing something very simple, or you're not doing much at all.
Thanks for the mention... I'll be pushing out the next part in a couple of days. And I'm just wrapping up a part on register allocation.

The really great part with the Crenshaw tutorial, is that it's so cohesive and concise. It's reminiscent of Wirths compiler construction texts, but much simpler to follow.
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