skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you see the interview with the coach? He showed up, identified himself, said these kids were in the right place and they were going to a basketball game all while speaking very respecfully and the cops said if he didn't leave the coach was going to jail too! Apparently being out in public is illegal.

They were going to a basketball game not school so they probably wouldn't get suspended but they were expected to be there. Plus they wanted to be there. It was according to the coach the normal place they caught the bus for games.
The same people who gave us the drink 8 glasses of water a day.

I did find two studies related to amount of walking to show health benefits:

http://link.springer.com/article/10.2165/00007256-199723050-...

http://wlv.openrepository.com/wlv/handle/2436/11110

No mention of number of steps. I think people add it for a way to equate a certain amount of time walking.
Placed an order 2 months ago, still waiting...
> Being Jewish is a choice

Do you think that proponents of Neo-Nazism (etc) really care about the distinction between "born into a Jewish family" and "is a member of the Jewish religion?" I'm not saying that there isn't a distinction, but people engaged in hate usually aren't too interested in nuance.
Now and then I wonder why Doom was such a perfect game, mostly I think it is nostalgia besides revolutionary technique at that time. I've also read the book "Masters of Doom" and would recommend anyone who wants to get inspired on creating something from almost nothing by some sort of following your heart and using your (smart) brains. It makes me happy to read the book.

The main ingredients which imho make Doom classic:

- creepy/spacey/metal Adlib music, thanks to Bobby Prince (Adlib was good for that)

- simple, but effective spooky samples playing at random locations

- for the time good textures (need some good graphics artists) to give it a dark feeling

- kiss play experience (see how it probably would be done nowadays: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4yIxUOWrtw )

- VGA-graphics, I keep saying this to people: VGA is pixely, but somehow I don't see that when playing Doom, I compare it with cartoon drawings, you don't focus on the details, but how it looks globally and use a bit of fantasy to bring it to life - nowadays graphics are so detailed that I somehow get distracted by too much detail, it's becoming too realistic almost and doesn't look like a 'game' anymore

- deathmatch or coop via modem, calling your friend to play a match via the telephone line, warning your parents that they are not allowed to pick up the phone, playing not too long because you had to pay per minute (in The Netherlands at least)

- everything packed in a few diskettes (3 or 4?) was at that time almost magic that you could have such a 3d world fitting on it

There are many more reasons why for me Doom will always have a good reputation for me, mostly because of a combination of properties which came together at that time.
Playing multiple sounds at once on one of their older audio APIs reliably crashes apps. It's on the Game Maker bug tracker at http://bugs.yoyogames.com/view.php?id=7977. I tried looking around on connect.microsoft.com, but I wasn't able to classify this bug into any of the listed products or find a place to search for bugs for anything at all.
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Netherlands.

Hell, even Switzerland.
> Wait, seriously? That's it? that's the patent MS uses to force cellphone manufacturers to pay them for Android?

No, that is not "the" patent. That is one patent. Microsoft has more. They also have patents that they're not even revealing, because they like to do blanket cross-licenses.

One could argue that it is Microsoft's strongest patent, and therefore its loss puts their patent revenues at risk. This is a version of the Oracle/Google scenario, but for patents rather than for copyright.

On the other hand, one could also argue that it is Microsoft's weakest patent, which they threw out there as a sacrificial lamb. Any patent that they revealed would be subject to intense scrutiny. Thus, it's safer to use a large number of trivial patents rather than a small number of more involved patents. (Especially if the legal system is so broken that both types of patents have an equal chance of prevailing. If it's totally random, then you don't gain anything by using a stronger patent.)

This would be the IBM/Sun scenario. IBM went to Sun and claimed that they were violating a patent. Sun replied that the IBM patent was obvious, so it would easily get struck down. Then the IBM lawyer pointed out that IBM had tens of thousands of patents. If Sun could get this one patent struck down, then IBM could just repeat the process with another patent, and they'd never run out. So in the end, Sun ended up buying a blanket license for all of IBM's patents.
As one can see from my ever so slightly sour comments, my personal experience somewhat taints my view of the platform as a whole. Essentially, the people whose company I'd enjoy the least are most likely to have the appropriate profiles. I'm sure there are other things one could do with the platform, and I'm sure not everybody is like that. However, this isn't a balanced pro-and-con argument, it's a rant, so there is that! ;)
Do you have crime stats for those areas please?
Failing to reach Hacker News
Just saw your edit. What's the terrible advice?
I'm generally really curious what people are using for prototyping. I've used Axure a lot, done a few things in Keynote, and recently have just been banging out a rough prototype with Python + Django + Bootstrap. Why do you choose sketch?
Unison requires a bit more administrative work to set up and maintain than BTSync, in my experience. People really like the Dropbox experience.
I get about 170MIPS in Firefox 25 on that link. I get about 173MIPS in Firefox 26. A nightly is at about 179MIPS.

Chrome on the same hardware is at 80MIPS for me, so I think Firefox is doing OK here...
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Fortunately nobody will be crazy enough to ship metro-only games.
I generally agree with the article, but I object to this section:

"And the mood is spreading. Take the asset bubble collapse of 2008 and the rising cries of progressives for the criminal prosecution of Wall Street perpetrators, as if a fundamentally sound financial system had been abused by a small number of criminals who were running free after the debacle. Instead of pushing a debate about how to restructure our predatory financial system, liberals in their focus on individual prosecution are aping the punitive zeal of the authoritarians. A few high-profile prosecutions for insider trading (which had nothing to do with the last crash) have, of course, not changed Wall Street one bit."

I think that the self-serving, damaging actions of those with a lot of power that affected the entire world's economy is worth looking into at least some prosecution, it's hardly in the same league as what happened to three innocent teenagers waiting for a bus. And if insider trading isn't related to the last crash, then of course prosecuting it isn't going to change anything.
Well, at least the parking break didn't fail and crush the neighbor's car.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2004-08-05/news/dog-day-after...
I like Julia because in many ways, it's a better C than C:

* You can inspect a function's generated LLVM or (x86, ARM) assembly code from the REPL. (code_llvm or code_native)

* You can interface with C libraries without writing any C. That let me wrap a 5 kLoC C library with 100 lines of Julia:

https://github.com/WizardMac/DataRead.jl

* You can use the dynamic features of the language to write something quickly, then add type annotations to make it fast later

* Certain tuples are compiled to SIMD vectors. In contrast, the only way to access SIMD features in C is to pray that you have one of those "sufficiently smart compilers".

* Like C, there's no OO junk and the associated handwringing about where methods belong. There are structures and there are functions, that's it. But then multiple dispatch in Julia gives you the main benefits of OO without all the ontological crap that comes with it.

For me, Julia feels like it's simultaneously higher-level and lower-level than C. The deep LLVM integration is fantastic because I can get an idea for how functions will be compiled without having to learn the behemoth that is the modern x86 ISA. (LLVM IR is relatively simple, and its SSA format makes code relatively easy to follow.)

Anyway, I only started with Julia recently, but I'm a fan. I should also mention that the members of the developer community are very, very smart. (Most are associated with MIT.) BTW I am starting a Julia meetup in Chicago for folks in the Midwest who want to learn more: http://www.meetup.com/JuliaChicago/
assembly language is not an extremely concrete representation of a program if the hardware is engineered with backdoors which is exactly what this article suggests is happening.

if some specific set of registers is set a certain way followed by a very specific series of commands, there is no practical way to prove that the hardware is doing what it should.
Classic example highlighting the difference between Research/Discovery vs Development.

Kickstarter and their crowd-funding ilk are fine when it comes to Developing a product but good luck getting funding for anything as iffy as R&D, more so in the biomedical realm.
Sure, but that's detectable. gefh's attack is not.
Our initial idea was that each donation pays for 30 days of tips (and rewards depended on interval between commits, see http://blog.anonymousads.com/2013/10/tip4commit-first-bitcoi...). But that idea appeared to be more complicated and a bit unfair (consecutive commits could receive very different amounts). So we switched to a simpler one. Yes, mathematically speaking, there will always be some money in our wallet. But we don't expect to have huge amounts of money there since donations are never stable and some projects have dozens commits daily.
It should be noted that medium.com is a penalized domain, so don't expect this to reach the front page either.
> Technically maybe, but when has a native speaker ever written that?

"X is released" is the most common way I've seen native speakers write it, though there is a common trend on the internet in the last few years (which may be largely driven by non-native speakers) to reverse the usual role of subject and object of the verb "release" and say "X releases".

"X has been released" is, AFAICT, far less common than even the new "X releases" construction.
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Nope, this country has way too many guns. They couldn't take us with only police.
> Frightening, in a way, but it seems to work for Switzerland.

Yes, because when the entire male populace is effectively your military it's a lot harder for the military to do shady things. Also, as the original commenter points out there's a lot less division between your average joe and someone who is a professional police officer/soldier.
If you don't like it, don't buy ("rent"?) it. But don't rip it off, either!

The book has lending enabled, and if you were to ask nicely, perhaps she'd disable DRM on it too, if it is enabled. She sounds like a very reasonable person, inclined to discussion before getting in an internet rage about some detail of the book.
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I'm not sure why you're quoting standard boilerplate at me (as if any site with UGC would say the opposite of what you quoted), but I was just going by their official statement, which is rather hostile.
"brains being wired" -- this is a failed analogy, since brains are extremely changeable ("plastic", another weak analogy).
You are talking about a wildly different threat model than this little section of the thread is talking about.

Meanwhile: if you can't trust the hardware, you can't trust C code either.
From looking at the screenshots I'd say it's most likely Cordova/Phonegap w/ JQuery Mobile.
I actually think there was a Mandela video on some of the early Live CD releases.

I figured that as soon as i saw the Prez say the word in this morning's speech Canonical's PR people were on it.
Firefox beats the pants off Chrome on benjamincburns's testcase, at least for me.
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Thank you for the heads up. Did you checkout the app? =D
>some people's brains just aren't wired in a way that would make them any good at software development.

People say this a lot. That is the entirety of the evidence for it. I have yet to meet someone in a context in which they actually wanted to program who didn't have the ability. Programming isn't hard, hard programming is hard, because it usually requires hard math and deep abstraction. In those cases, though, the programming is the easiest part - it's pencil to notebook that's frustrating.
If US economy tanks, all world economies will tanks, too. Then people will stick to precious metals - something that can be used off the grid, something lo-tech. I am on your side that we have to revolt against ever tightening grip of the US government and Wall Street, but when it comes to finances, too much optimism is not practical, i.e. don't put all eggs in one basket. I'm not saying buy gold as gold is manipulated as well, but there are other currencies as well - CNY (very popular in Forex recently, steadily growing against USD), EUR (hmmm), CHF (growing against USD steadily), etc. It's bad that gasoline takes too much storage space otherwise it's definitely better than gold. Maybe basic drugs are a better choice, too. I think The Walking Dead is a good guide for what's a universal value storage with or without an apocalypse! :)
> And I'd bet that the contracts (i.e. 'licenses') that they've agreed to thus far have a clause that prevents the licensee from seeking a refund should the patents ever be found invalid.

The licensees probably get a blanket license to all of Microsoft's patents. That's what the lawyers always demand in any patent settlement.

Thus, the loss of this one patent is immaterial anyway.
You seem very ignorant of all the troubles transsexual persons sometimes get. If everyone agreed that gender != genitalia, yes, it would be a nice world. Sadly, it isn't like that everyone. Being ignorant of this problem isn't good, and i don't know why you are having trouble to understand this.

> Do you have a problem that grants to students are given on the specifics of someone being of the racial and ethnic minority called African American, and is male?
> No

Strange, your comment seems to strongly implied you had such problem.

> as though because they give it to black men, it somehow detracts from the fact they're giving it to men — like it doesn't count.

No.
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Somewhere, Steven Jay Gould is very disappointed.
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They're designed like prisons.

They also ensure that there are two cars in every garage, guarantee a lifetime of high oil and gas consumption and are situated around big-box stores and malls. It's a very efficient, gilded jail.

Unfortunately dense urban development in my neck of the woods is essentially a forest of towers designed to be dorm-rooms for affluent twenty-somethings. Anything more than 2-bedrooms is absurdly expensive and rare. And the towers are rapidly turning into empty shells. I had to leave the city (and fortunately found a suitable, pleasant alternative) shortly after my wife and I had our first kid. I was terrified that we'd be forced out and into one of these communities.
Someone has to want them, with sufficient reliability.
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> you too, are likely to be running a vitamin B12 deficiency

Citation please? I've looked into this subject pretty intensely over the last decade or so and know of no controlled studies (or even poorly done observational studies) that demonstrate this in the least. The only place I've ever even seen this claim is on vegan advocacy forums as unsubstantiated claims or in studies of nutrition absorption problems as a general factor in the elderly. The amount of animal meat needed for full dietary B12 is actually shockingly small. A few grams a week. And it's water soluble so you just piss out any that's not used.

On the contrary I've read several studies that show that in the study populations, up to 92% of the vegans in the population were B12 deficient.

In another a little over 50% of vegans were deficient, while less than 10% of vegetarians and a single omnivore were B12 deficient.

I know of no studies where the studied, randomly sampled, vegan population was not majority B12 deficient.

In other studies that look for it, elevated methylmalonic acid (associated with B12 deficiency) was found in the vast majority (over 80%) of vegans while only 5% of ominivores and 68% of vegetarians. In the same study almost 70% of vegans were diagnosed with Hyperhomocysteinemia (caused by sustained deficiencies in B-vitamin groups or chronic alcoholism) while less than 20% of the omnivores were.

The most effective and reliable treatment for Hyperhomocysteinemia is a regular omnivorous diet of meat and eggs with a cure rate of nearly 100%.
Which is true, but then most international corporations, in other words the ones with money, tend to have local offices in country's with big markets.

But, you have to think long term, you sue the company with no local presence. If the court goes along with it and you win then that company will have problems waiting for it if an attempt is ever made to incorporate within the country.
Given that is is a modern radar and part of an array, my guess would be deep subsurface 3d spectroscopy using ground penetrating radar technology, similar to what is now used in mining - http://adrokgroup.com/ , then you know where the distribution of elements are down to several miles below the surface, which means you then know where all the nuclear material in the world is and can spot when it moves. Oh and as a bonus, you have a huge edge on mineral rights.
> Both sides seem victim of a middleman

She entered into an agreement with Amazon that she was happy with. She was not a 'victim' in that arrangement, and actually gets a pretty good deal in terms of revenue sharing. Yes, there was a problem with the international pricing in India, but that may be something she can fix. She got to set the price for her book, though, and is happy with the arrangement of getting paid for the book itself, rather than t-shirts, bumper stickers, or other unrelated knick-knacks.
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Worth noting since this is on HN: pretty much nothing in Atlanta is an "incredibly high price" by the standards of America's coastal cities.

Things may be relatively higher in Midwtown than places much further away, but none of it will be "expensive" for folks reading this.
> HAS NOTHING BUT KIND WORDS FOR DILUTED ALSO-RANS LIKE COD

I'll go on record as saying I liked the first few CODs (up to the first Modern Warfare). Sure, they were full of scripted set pieces, but pretty enjoyable set pieces. A completely different experience than Doom, to be sure, but atmospheric in their own right.
Estimotes are nice for production, but we built testing beacons out of Raspberry Pi's

http://developer.radiusnetworks.com/2013/10/09/how-to-make-a...

Here's a link the source for an app that we wrote for a Party that we threw recently..

https://github.com/backofthecup/HolidayParty

We built a few D3 visualizations of where users were at the party, and how fast they found hidden iBeacons... kind of like a treasure hunt game to demo the technology.
> Forgive me for my ignorance, but what determines the level of scrutiny that a publicly traded company has to make available, in terms of its sources of revenue? How far do they get broken down, either by law/regulation or by custom?

Companies are only required to provide an aggregate financial statement. They are not required to provide a line-item breakdown. They're not even required to provide a breakdown by division, although companies usually supply that.

There is no convention. Two different companies in the same industry may provide different breakdowns. Typically, companies provide the same breakdown that they have historically provided in the past. However, as they grow, they tend to roll things up into ever-larger chunks. So you lose some granularity.
>its not going to be anything like what is usually considered "F-you" money.

If you have no need to save for retirement, "f-you"'s become free.
Though it should be noted that the publicly-available statistic with the highest correlation with the drop in violent crimes is... drumroll, please... the drop in lead contamination.

Yes, America is safer primarily (presumptively) because it banned lead-containing antiknock molecules in gasoline and banned lead-containing pigments in paint. The dispersion of remaining lead contamination out of the urban environment over the years so closely tracks the drop in violence that it almost makes one believe the correlation is due to causation. Almost. Unfortunately, experimental confirmation would be grossly unethical.
Doubtful, unless there is some sort of agreement with the host country. But that wouldn't necessarily stop the troll because if that company ever wanted to expand into the US, which is still a big market, then they'll have to deal with the troll sooner or later.
It's not the article I object to, it's the vegans crawling out of the woodwork throwing heresay, poorly researched studies, outright lies and moral browbeating around that I find endlessly tiresome.
If you were to construct a graph of all the features implemented by one browser and then copied by the others, after a while it would look like a chain link fence.
> Being born into a jewish family isn't a choice.

The normal US point of view is that "Jewish" is a religion, not an ethnicity, hence is a choice.

That point of view is not universally shared, of course.
Can you talk a bit more about the dilution an employee should expect if the company completes more funding? That could have a serious impact on your shares. Who usually gets diluted first? Founders? Previous investors? Employees?

If you're an employee that received options and the company is doing another round of funding, should you be worried or on the front foot about finding out what will happen to your options?
If only they'd make it a DLNA Digital Media Renderer. You'd then have many choices for playing local content, instead of just Plex.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Living_Network_Alliance
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I don't understand. The definition of order is

s = score(ups, downs)
order = log10(max(abs(s), 1))

and the poster says that "order will always be positive". But that isn't true. It is the logarithm of a number in (0,1], and so is negative or zero. Since we cut the value off at 1 I assume that the score function does something to the votes beyond (ups - downs), scaling the value in a way that makes the logarithm of the score interesting.
You'd be surprised at how well studied I am on veganism.
Looks neat! Apologies for the hackathon code, there will eventually be a fully rewrite done ;-)!
you should ask to see the cap table.

I've asked that at every non-public company where I've had "options" and they've never complied. Just have to treat the options as confetti from then on.