skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does matter, because if you tack Point A down to a fixed position, and pull Point B away at a fixed speed, and the ant's speed is explicitly measured as relative to it's distance from A, then ant isn't catching a ride on the rubber band.

In that case, the ant is only moving at a fixed speed, toward the other end (100,000 times slower than the end's expansion), which will forever be too far away.
It would be nice if you supported ohloh in addition to github, since it tracks a much broader set of open source projects.
> Btw, Proper scrum/agile encourages people to refactor and keep technical debt down.

How? At the place I worked that followed agile by the book the backlog prioritization was done by product owner, who prioritized by the value to the business. Since it was a customer- (and hence sales-) driven business, any trivial change that was visible to the customers ("change subheading to Verdana") was prioritized higher than any refactoring.

Two-week sprints also meant you couldn't really commit to anything that would take two weeks + 1 day.
Score! Thanks tons! Been waiting for this for a very, very long time.
As I understand this article (and my long-past reading of the spec), the only thing in the spec that talks about visual angle is the part about defining the size of one reference pixel. That's a very small angle, and at those sizes angular size is essentially linear even when projected onto a flat screen.

Nothing that I've seen in the spec ever remotely suggests using angular measurements for more than one pixel at a time, let alone enough of them for 90 or 180 degrees of the visual field.
>Then you said that this guy did it working out for four hours a day

Nope, that's not what I said. I even linked to the article that has that exact claim; apparently, you didn't read it.

>just that it would take at least 6000-7000 kcal/day to gain weight that rapidly

I've also said repeatedly that I didn't think this was an obstacle, if it indeed was the amount required. I guess you didn't read that either.
I wouldn't expect it to be too difficult to incorporate one's own charity these days.

A 0.5% effective rebate on everything you purchase on Amazon is better than many bank accounts offer...
Android KitKat aims at a broader range of devices
Hey Adrian, Fred, co-founder here. Yeah, our docs need some love :)

It's totally seamless, so as soon as you run a test we allocate (multiple) human testers automatically and your results come back within 30 mins on average. The median time to being allocated a first tester for a test is (in the last 30 days) is 2min 29s.

We have a massive crowd of testers available, so in general response time is fairly consistent.

The majority of our tech is on the backend for scoring and sorting results and testers. There's a bunch of sorting that happens in the background between a tester submitting a 'result' and Rainforest verifying that result and returning it to the customer.

Does that answer your questions?
That's a great idea! Why don't you open an issue?

https://github.com/CodeDoor/codedoor/issues?state=open
I think the common sentiment is that we'd all hope to hell that we never have to work on a project so crappy that team members can't understand programming language basics.
How effective is AA? There is always some amount of people that recover on their own. How much higher is the AA success rate?
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If slavery was the foundation of the economy, then wouldn't the economy have collapsed when slavery was abolished?
Nobody was harmed in the interaction with the virtual child, but it's a reasonable bet that the 1000 individuals they've identified already have also paid real children for similar services, and their identifying details could either provide sufficient probably cause to get warrants against them or serve as points of correlation if police seize the data on the chat servers.
Vim-airline-tomato - Pomodoro Technique plugin for vim
I used to say "Get Shit Done" to my team, but for a different reason. That company I was at then is (still) so bogged down in meetings, changes, planning, etc that nobody ever had more than a few minutes to code without hours of interruptions.

So, different scenario but I get the post's point.
> users who need them the most are also the ones least likely to know they need them

Why? Do people with least technical knowledge just happen to build Wordpress-based sites attracting billions of eyeballs?
In regular dogfooding, you would give up if your product was so bad it prevented you from working on anything. I think the extreme here means they are trying to make failures as painful for themselves as possible, even if doing so makes it harder to resolve those failures.
It doesn't work that way.

This isn't a Verilog/VHDL implementation, but instead a physical chip.

Also he implemented the chip design tool in FORTH as well.
> But it gets more interesting if the lyrics are stored as an HTML fragment.

Is there any reason to store the HTML version with <p>s and <br>s instead of a plain text and converting it to HTML with simple rules à la markdown? (single line break = <br>, double line break = <p>)
However, this system could be used to identify people who would be willing to commit these crimes, and to justify investigation into other past crimes of the type that they may have committed. The line will probably be blurred in practice, but at least there is an ethical way to use this technology.
Without workflows, you can't achieve e.g. async without building it into the compiler. You can abuse the LINQ syntax to simulate part of it, but you don't get proper exception handling, and it reads terrible as well.

Versus Scala, F# seems far more concise. Scala seems to be very Java/OO oriented, and comparatively verbose. I understand the type system is more advanced in Scala. But I've not written anything in Scala so this is sorta speculation. I'd be surprised to find that the tooling for Scala surpasses F#'s though.
This is also a punishment worse than the crime, by the way.

What do you mean?
CSS Preprocessors and Parent Selectors
I'm not sure if I understand the significance of this post. Is PHP's implementation of the Mersenne twister more insecure than others? MT was never meant to be a secure PRNG, this is mentioned everywhere, usually in bold.
Tim Cook: Workplace Equality Is Good for Business
Show HN: FizzBuzz as a service
Marketplace for hiring open source developers
So far visual coding has just been useful for minting more CS degrees, not actually getting stuff done. Can't really see things going this guy's direction.
It's probably instructive to think about the type of product that you'd be dogfooding.

For most startups, dogfooding is a process of heavily using your own product to figure out what works and what doesn't and better understand the painpoints in the product from your customer's perspective.

That process changes quite significantly - what we're calling 'extreme' dogfooding - when the product you are dogfooding is a crucial part of your build process, because you cannot deploy if the product isn't working properly, whereas with most products that aren't developer tools a problem found through dogfooding isn't going to do something as drastic as preventing your deploy :)
I suppose it's because the wording is ambiguous, and we must interpret which precedence on the adjectives is correct:

(fake (femme fatale))
vs
((fake femme) fatale) ;; preferred
One way to judge that is to ask yourself if you know of any instances, personally.

Personally, I don't know anyone in a satanic cult. But I can personally name people interested in child porn (e.g., they have been prosecuted for it). So the second seems credible to me whereas the first does not.
If true, could doctors loose their medical license for participating in something like this?
You are correct it was just a virtual video feed. I misread the article.

I wonder how successful they could be with current AI technology. It seems that in this narrow situation and very "motivated" opponent it could be very successful.
It's not "known" to me, but I would be willing to bet significantly on the answer.

There are things that people don't do because nobody's thought to do it, or because nobody's been willing to accept the risk. But there are also things nobody does because they self-evidently won't work, and paying for introductions to VCs is probably one of those things.

The signals it sends is worse than "I'm new"; it's "I was unable to generate interest from investors on my own".
Health insurance is an even bigger factor once you consider kids. I went to work for a startup which at the time I joined did not offer health insurance. I was able to do that mainly because my wife's plan covers her, a spouse, and all dependents, free of charge. Now that my company offers health coverage, it is free for me, but a spouse would be ~$200/mo and dependents ~$400/mo. If you have a spouse and 2 kids, you'd be looking at $1000/mo difference between the two companies.
EU researchers create prototype for a server-free future internet
Probably analogous to leaving fake angel dust on the counter in the bathroom of a club, then arresting anybody who tried to snort it.
I assume there's some simple bypass, otherwise this seems like an accident waiting to happen.
More than that, they could be tried as war criminals.
I still feel you are being a touch unfair to the dynamic world. Many times, bringing in a dependency just works.

The analogy I have in my mind is a digital computer for a bike. The general "contract" is simply that you will somehow get a pulse to the computer for each rotation of a tire with a known size. The details of how the bike is constructed are ultimately irrelevant.

Further, because this is such a general contract, it doesn't actually matter if you hook it to the wheel or not. You can, in fact, use such a computer in a non bike device with success.
If you read indictments and court judgments from sting operations on online child porn, the statistics are pretty depressing. It's been a while since I read any of that and have no desire to do so right now but the DoJ maintains a page about their investigations: http://www.justice.gov/criminal/ceos/subjectareas/childporn....
The "Save Page Now" feature looks great. Hopefully this cures Wikipedia of its increasing link-rot.

Also, the Supreme Court will be happy: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/us/politics/in-supreme-cou...
I was part of a haunted house. Kids went through the backyard and garage. With really good candy at the end (snickers bars, kit kat, etc)

My girlfriend's brother was a clown with a real chainsaw (chain removed). It is amusing how much clowns scare people.
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The mushroom clouds add an element of dark humor.
Back in grade school, against certain opponents, I could "intuit" their plays. In retrospect, I was probably doing something akin to what the robot here does (recognized what their hand was forming before I make my play) + discerning a pattern in their plays.

Also, at this point I have no idea why we played rock-paper-scissors so much in 3rd grade, but we did.
If an administration can get away with launching illegal wars that are also based on plain lies, then this is will most probably be treated as a non-event.
The Best Time Of Day To Drink Coffee
Xkcd Python
The show "To Catch a Predator" usually claims that the predators they catch are convicted in the footnotes at the end of the show. None of these predators actually engaged in any acts -- rather, it is always the intent they are being charged/convicted for.

It's possible that these laws are different in the Netherlands, but even then, predators located in the US may not be protected.
Still waiting for the Style Editor's search not to suck complete and utter ass...
It makes sense, and you would be right if the universe were expanding at constant speed. But as the article mentions, the universe is actually expanding at accelerating speed so the ant loses; thus we have the reverse effect where as the eons go by, distant galaxies that used to be visible fade from view.
No, that's just a difference in default axis. I mean that `/` is a separator between traversal expressions, much like whitespace in CSS selectors.
These kind of news are so embarrassing for anyone living in the United States. It's a tragedy that there's not a bigger outrage about torturing people.

I'm getting closer and closer to expatriating because of the policies of the US government. And please don't tell me that all developed countries are participating in torture as this is just not true.
The 'more' link is not what pisses me off. What really sucks is when you go to submit a thoughtful reply and you get hit with a bullshit expired event upon submission. Then you need to click 'back' open new window, and paste a fresh submission. I assume those who post long responses do so by firing up a text editor then pasting the response.

You would think this site would work flawlessly. Perhaps HN feels you shouldn't be on here unless you know the pitfalls. HN doesn't seem to respect the community. Would PG return to a site with such a shitty user experience? Absolutely not. I guess YC subscribes to "do as we say, not as we do..." when mentoring batches.
Cool! I've often imagined alien worlds that had nothing resembling plants or animals, and they invariably ended up with giant fungi. Turns out many of the craziest life forms we can imagine have already existed on Earth.
I've been grammar sniped! [0]

> Confident that our product is fast and accurate enough to solve real-world QA needs, this has been a long journey and many things helped us get to this point.

This sentence has a very common grammatical error called a dangling modifier. In this case, notice that the adjective (i.e. noun-modifier) "Confident" is intended to modify the pronoun "us." But, if we look at the sentence, the subject of the sentence is the pronoun "this"! Because introductory phrases (from Confident... to the first comma) are naturally attached to the subject of the sentence, it sounds like the target of "this", namely "the long journey", is the target of the modifier.

Generally you can catch these by reading your work aloud. Once you read, "Confident that [...], this was a long journey...", hopefully it will throw some red flags that this sentence "doesn't make sense." Another technique (of error location) is shortening the sentence to make the error more pronounced: Confident that we're awesome, this journey has taken us far.

Potential rewordings (of many):

It has been a long journey and many things helped us get to a point where we are confident that our product is fast and accurate enough to solve real-world QA needs.

Confident that our product is fast and accurate enough to solve real-world QA needs, we're reaching a milestone in our long journey.

If we also try to introduce some brevity:

After a long journey, we're confident that our product is fast and accurate enough for real-world QA.

[0]: http://xkcd.com/356/

Edited to add: this is meant to be helpful to the poster, who also wrote the post (I assume). It's not a commentary on their product, since as I said, I never did get past the first paragraph.
You clearly glossed over my comment. I wrote:

"I would make the point that a lot of software jobs are "shitty" in the context of what many expect to find when they decide to become a developer. And that's life."

It is easy to develop unrealistic expectations and romanticized notions about a lot of things. That is life.

Tech companies aren't forcing employees to perform "mundane" tasks (fix bugs, refactor code, etc.) in air-conditioned offices in exchange for $xxx,xxx/year in salary plus benefits and perks the vast majority of American workers don't receive.

If you want something different, there are of course many other options. But here's an inconvenient truth: if you think running your own show (freelancing or building a business) is eight to twelve hours a day of fun and intellectual stimulation, you are probably going to be very disappointed when you're your own boss as well. If anything, "doing your own thing" is even more romanticized than working at Google, Facebook or [insert hot startup name here].
"Required." Unfortunately, pieces of paper can't project physical power.
I live in the DC area and don't have much interest in moving to the Valley, which is a YC requirement. But I'd definitely be into collaborating with people. I post frequently on Tumblr, so you'll be able to see updates when they happen. You can also follow my Github profile and you'll eventually see something there (https://github.com/capnmidnight/). Finally, you'll find my email address in my profile.
Thanks for posting this description. Good to understand the thinking behind your decision!
What is this OOP-like construction doing in Erlang?
I had a manager who day-to-day (literally) asked the same question: "Are you done?" - until someone asked: "What is your definition of done?".
Agreed, but for these purposes it's probably better to have it human-driven to avoid the possibility of entrapment (where the criminal perpetrator is actively encouraged to commit a crime, rather than passively presented with the opportunity to do so).

Having said that I'd say it's only 10 years before there's a trade in AI-driven virtual sex partners, which opens up a whole other box of ethical questions.
I googled war.

https://www.google.com/search?q=etymology+onomatopoeia#q=ety...

War never changes.
> that a modern government would ask its citizens to do this

Why do you think that a "modern" government would be any better in this department than "old" governments? Is there any evidence to support this, or do people just like to think that these days things are better?
Is this kind of platform possible with WebRTC? (where the files are hosted on the users' computers instead of requiring your own servers?)
New Y Combinator startup launches - Scribd = "YouTube for documents" (2007)
Right. But are those the group that selects to go into web cam or the group that is showing off to a significant other/on a lark ?
Snowden is not old enough to be a US President.
More NSA Revelations
How difficult would it be to create a bookmarklet or chrome extensions to save the current page you're on to Archive.org?

Bookmarklet (thanks to sp332):

javascript:void(open('//web.archive.org/save/'+encodeURI(document.location)))
I was unaware the only way someone can be harmed is physically.
(I imagine you mean "young daughter" - this is about the problem that children under the age of consent are involved, not about women in general.)
Interviews with Great Programmers: Haskell-NYC organizer Gershom Bazerman
Show HN: crater.io a Hacker News for the Meteor community
There seems to be a twitter account here for it:
https://twitter.com/volafile

Also, in chat I found https://github.com/binlain/volafile-bugs for solutions to fixing the site. However, I cannot vouch that is an official bug report location.

Considering this issue (nfsw): https://github.com/binlain/volafile-bugs/issues/5

I find this website a little amusing, but also creative. I think it's quite exciting overall! Good luck!
You really think it's ethical to entice people into thinking they're committing a crime, just to have an excuse to investigate them? That seems kind of shady to me.
What you're describing seems comfortably doable with a mid-range PIC with a lot of I/Os, but it really depends on how you're looking to program this (and how complex your game logic is going to be). For example, bit banging all of the PWMs can be done from one timer interrupt, but you need to be clever so that it doesn't use too many cycles. Keep in mind at this level, C is considered a high level language.

A FPGA is extreme overkill for this, and keep in mind that you still need some CPU to drive the logic (which could be on the FPGA chip itself, but I don't think this class of FPGA is reasonably priced). A CPLD is still overkill, but at least you don't need to futz with separate configuration memory. And you'll still be doing low-level programming for reconfigurable logic, just in Verilog instead of assembler.

Your level of parallelism isn't actually very high, and I suspect a large single-thread 32-bit microcontroller will do you just fine unless you're looking for an excuse to play with something else.
It's on a different branch; develop gets tested by master, before it's promoted :)
So... Jules Verne was right about YET ANOTHER thing? RE: Ancient giant mushrooms dotting the shore of the prehistoric coast in Journey to the Center of the Earth.
The value of (La)Tex has very little to do with academia. There is no other (end-user) accessible system that produces typesetting anywhere CLOSE to quality of TeX.
The article claimed it was a "Multi-billion dollar industry". I don't think there's any compelling evidence that this is true.
Yeah, the WS2812 does have a fairly unique interface, but at 45¢ for an RGB LED with a built in constant current driver, it's pretty much the cheapest option per LED. Other options I've seen like the A6281 are $2 for just the driver itself, without the LED.

Since there are probably going to be at least a few dozen LEDs, the per LED cost can add up quickly, so I'm fine with spending a bit more on a more powerful microcontroller or FPGA and learning a new system. And of course, part of the goal is to learn new things and have fun with the project, so some of these new highly parallel microcontrollers like the GA144, Propeller, XMOS, or even an FPGA would be more interesting to work with than a standard PIC, even if they may technically be overkill.

This is the first time I've done hardware hacking in a while; the last time I did it I used a 68008 as my microcontroller. So I'm hoping to find something that will be interesting to learn, not too hard to use, and capable of everything I'm going to throw at it, so I don't have to go through several iterations of buying expensive development boards only to discover that I can't drive my dot matrix display or I can only drive half of the playfield LEDs that I need or that interrupts from the flipper buttons cause my LED color fades to flicker since they screwed up the timing of my signal to the driver or something of the sort.

One of the problems is that since there are so many choices, and I haven't done hardware hacking in a while, I don't have a good sense of what I'll be able to do yet. Maybe I should start small, with an Arduino or a PIC or something of the sort, and move up if I discover that that can't do something that I want.
That's all completely true, but the article that this linked article is a response to didn't draw that same conclusion from the spec, and that's what started this whole mess