skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It struck me that the two women and a child at the Cenotaph at about 2'20" were quite possibly remembering husbands and fathers killed in the First World War (9 years earlier).

Yes a wonderful piece of film.
Ask HN: Did the Google Play Store fail at keeping itself clean?
My father just bought himself an iPhone 4s and it's the first I've used the Apple Appstore. All of the apps I saw were great and looked non-spammy. Even the free ones didn't give me pause to install them.

Contrast this with the Google Play store where I have to cautiously read what permissions I'm giving and see that it doesn't install ads everywhere. I do _not_ feel safe installing things from the Google Play store. It's just mostly garbage, especially if you browse the Free Games section.

What can Google do clean up this mess and make the store feel safer?
Roman calendar? I think the reporter means, "Gregorian" calendar. That's the calendar used in the U.S. and by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and by everyone else in the Middle East when they wish to make a distinction from the hejira calendar. Although maybe a legacy of the Russian occupation is the use of the Julian calendar? Who knows? It's sloppy reporting.

Also, Chinese people have individual birthdays. However, black children born in many counties of northern Florida before 1930 were not given birth certificates.
Woman dies in 'suspicious' Newry fire
I don't believe you are a hypocrit for realizing the bulk of voters believe 5 is "good," and adjusting accordingly.
The more times that people answer "yes" to questions such as "Did you smile or laugh a lot yesterday?", the more emotional they're deemed to be.

Anger and sadness aren't emotions? The study seems to measure happiness and not emotion...
I am still expecting there to be an "Awareness Awareness" month. Are YOU aware? Buy your see-through anklet now.
And Stalin! http://community.schemewiki.org/?Stalin
As a Turkish Android user (not a developer, I just helped some developers by means of graphic design and Turkish language packs) let me speak my mind.

This thing is pretty new. I can't make a proper judgement of apps because of this new meme. I want to see international or English comments, but I can't without changing my language preferences. I guess it goes like this:

These people are mostly 10-15 years old, English-illiterate teens. Since Google uses real names on comments(Google+), they want to be seen with their names. I guess they show this to their friends, family, etc.. They feel like they are contributing maybe(?!) They seek for attention (?!) Or maybe it is just for trolling...

When you use Google Play on your PC, you can click on the names of the commentators. Maybe they think that it is a some kind of communication way :S Something like "add/PM me if you like". Weird.

When I check local reddit-like website of Turkey (eksisözlük), there are many people who are annoyed by this new meme. (https://eksisozluk.com/yorumum-gozuksun-diye-1-yildiz--41109...)

To sum up, I think this is really annoying, when I check the Google+ profiles of these 1-star-commentators, I see some non-english-speaking people or attention-seeking teens.

But what about Google Play's algorithm? Does it make sense? One-line-long comments with 1 star are being seen on front page of the apps... What about 2/3/4/5 starred useful comments? Why does Google Play show only 1-starred ones? It does not make sense at all. And these teens are just exploiting this. Why does Google Play's system accept 1-star comments as more helpful than others?
I find this interesting. Even though we think our lives did change a lot with Technology; in appearance the change is minimal.

This is almost 100 years old. 100 years ago, there were cars, roads and buildings. After 100 years, there is cars, roads, and also buildings. There are certainly changes: The cars are more comfortable, there is traffic lights, the buildings are higher... But they didn't change the way our lives look completely.

I suspect the next 100 years will be quite similar. We'll have better cars (and maybe automated ones), faster trains, more glass buildings, but essentially, the landscape is staying the same.
I have tried this setup but I found it particularly problematic that there isn't a separate 'dock' per desktop so I end out accidentally switching desktops for common apps such as a browser and shell. Have you found a work around for this issue?
It is, like most forms of official identity, primarily for the benefit of official databases and categorisation systems. But not entirely:

Birth registration and death registration are a matched pair that enable the tracking and prevention of certain kinds of abuse. In Victorian England, way before the availability of contraception or abortion, there was "baby farming". This involved a oneoff payment to send an unwanted infant to be "looked after" with no further contact. The baby farms had very high mortality rates, which everyone turned a blind eye to. This was eventually stamped out. See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Dyer

The most famous example of "why do I care about my birth certificate" is of course Barack Obama. Some people were determined to make it very important.
Evasion 7 1.0.3 Released
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This video comes up again and again but is is always amazing to watch.

Related but a little later (a train ride!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGTwSNPqAqs
Yep consider also this quick example on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Conditional_ex...
Excellent timing, it's really hard to find film-makers around here.
> The size has to be known at compile time, though.

That's the whole point of an array in Go. So you meant slices, not arrays.
its not very hard actually - you can map the PPC instruction set to the x86 one with a bit of framework around it. more trivially you can write a C program to perform the same functionality as the original CPU. what this means is that you don't have to re-write the game at all - you run the original compiled code, just not on hardware.

I did this many years ago when I learned about the existence of the x86 instruction set as a stepping stone towards understanding/making interpreters, virtual machines and compilers. I recommend anyone do it as a learning exercise.

This stuff is incredibly simple at its core but there is a common misconception because it is 'low level' that is is some how hard or complicated...

Once i knew it was just simple instructions, registers and a few flags coupled with a memory model it was obvious how to achieve... you write C functions for the various flavours of ADD, SUB, LEA, MOV, FSTP, ADDPS etc. by iterating through the stream of bytes and interpreting them in the same way as the CPU (this is always described in the CPU manual in my experience) you can call the right ones in the right sequence. you use some appropriate blob of memory for your registers, flags and other CPU state and some big array of bytes for your emulated memory...

this is what an emulator is at the simplest level, an interpreter for CPU instructions. (of course making the implementation of instructions might necessitate that you do more - e.g. emulating memory, BIOS or more...)
> I was expecting it to be a lookup table.

There's one ISA I've worked with before that does have -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, and some other "commonly used constants" like powers of 2 encoded specially in the immediate. I think it was an 8-bit, but I can't remember exactly which one. Anyone know what I'm referring to?
Eclipse has mylyn, is that what you're thinking?
So the one 'attack that might have been foiled' was some bloke in San Diego sending some money to someone in Somalia who might have had contact with extremists, extremists that are in Africa, a whole continent and a dozen time zones away.

Liberal left wing types that supported the bombing of Afghanistan on humanitarian grounds ('we have to bomb them because if we don't then they will all starve') did not imagine for one moment that the talk of 'terrorist training camps' was utter bullshit. It was all true - to them when Donald Rumsfeld was telling them. They thought that bombing them would only encourage the terrorists.

So where are they?

There are plenty of immigrants fresh from Afghanistan in London, the ones you meet work hard for a living driving taxis and doing jobs white people don't like doing. So if the NSA/GCHQ have not caught any of them for being unduly fundamental-extremalist and none of them have come here to join terror cells so they can blow up thousands more innocent babies and puppies, what is going on?

As a taxpayer I expect more from this clash of civilisations. I have not had any days of work due to terror bomb threats, no postcard sites have been blown up and I have no idea what the colour coded threat level is for the day.
Google has a much lower set of standards than Apple. When I worked at ClearChannel, our apps got into the Android store on the first try, where Apple kept asking for revisions. They said our streaming video bitrate was too high, and it would eat users data and battery life. They even made us retool the app so that the RSS news feed sent a diff instead of the whole feed to save a few KB. It was annoying, but in the end it made a better product. Google lets anything into the store, and it shows. If they raise the bar now, however, they'd still need to prune the crap that's already there.

EDIT: A good first step would be to do a basic review of permissions. I have seen tip calculators that ask for location, SD card, read contacts, and more. This is clearly not related to the core app functionality.
World's second bitcoin ATM in Hong Kong
I've been openly gay for many years and I've become intimately acquainted with the varying degrees of discrimination vs, acceptance.

When you're in a situation like that your world divides into a) people who really treat you just like anyone else, b) people for whom what you are is a positive/item of interest, c) people who have some aversion for you but would like not to and d) people who just displaying like what you are.

The easiest way to recognize type c) is actually that the first thing they say when you say you're gay is something like "I'm totally OK with gay people. My friend/brother/xxx is gay."

I don't dislike these people at all; they're usually sweet and I can tell they're working on their issues which I respect very much.

From what I had read so far Paul was a type c) when it came to sexism, so when this issue surfaced I really hoped his essay would convince me that he was a type b) or maybe even an a) but, given all the experience I've had paying detailed attention to dynamics like these because they have such a disproportionate influence on my life, I came away fairly confident that Paul is still firmly a c) with one foot cautiously on type b)

That's why given that this is the topic of this discussion I don't think I'd be doing anyone a favor of I pretended I felt Paul came off scot-free in all of this.

So yes; that makes me one of those "sexism accusers" you just called finger-pointing, ideologically blinded, upper middle class, oh so sensitive, fair trade coffee sipping, feel good armchair activists.

In that case I do the same as when a male colleague makes a smart-ass joke to a female colleague about making them go get them a coffee, which is calling them an asshole for what they just did.

(And no, you're not getting a pass by saying you were only talking about the real armchair activist any more than saying you only hate the real faggots would.)
Yes, but your analogy is flawed. This is more akin to dumping extra cargo on an overloaded donkey because of its supposed utility.

When education rankings are already so poor, adding another layer to the compulsory curriculum complicates the mess even further.

What's more is that all of the school districts that are rushing to implement this first (like Chicago) all struggle with low results and inefficient, highly bureaucratic teaching. Something tells me that adding coding (while erroneously calling it "computer science" to make it sound grandiose) will only lead to further mediocrity, deterioration and a lot of kids coming out with false and butchered ideas of what programming entails.

It's not that teaching programming is bad, so much as trusting that the compulsory school system will get it right is laughable and a recipe for disaster. This has the potential to go very wrong, or even be ultimately useless if it's just entry-level procedural constructs being repeated ad nauseam.

The camp here appears to be divided between people who highly support it at all costs and people who criticize all aspects. I'm more leaning to the latter camp, quite frankly, but one thing we really should all be focusing on is what the hell will they be actually teaching. I have yet to see a conclusive answer.
Same here, I couldn't read it at all.
Punisher - An alarm clock that ruins your life
Most parts of most programs aren't performance centric and can take a hit. As evidence, see all the Ruby/Python programs that have constant penalties that go up to 200 in many cases.
This is pretty sad for other Turkish people, who seeks proper reviews and know proper rating mentality. It is like hell for me. I translated an app to Turkish and wanted to check if there is any translation related comments. It blew my mind. There was 1 review in terms of new translation pack. The rest was 1-star reviews. I started to downvote these reviews (thumb down), but I guess no one cares enough to vote up or down useful reviews. There has to be another way. I guess voting anonymously will be the solution. Thanks to Google's Google+ integration, some stupid attention seekers want to show their full name on apps' first pages.
DDR3 absolutely is twice as fast as DDR2, there's nothing theoretical about it. A person just needs to define their terms correctly and understand what is being measured.
So, you already have 4% of a startup and aggressively scheduled stock options for another 4%, which seems a rather large slice of the pie, and you want a lot of money from your partners (in the form of a large share of some important patent and/or even more equity) simply because you had a valuable idea? Can you explain what sort of agreement gives you such expectations?

Barring outrageously generous clauses in your contract, it doesn't sound like you are being "screwed over": having valuable ideas is your job, and you simply have so little power that the other partners don't think they need to transfer money from their pockets to your pockets to make you happy.

The standard response is quitting, leaving the other partners alone with their greed; if you are as valuable and irreplaceable as you say, the vaguest hint of jumping ship should be a good starting point to negotiate a far better compensation.

If you can't quit, for example because you invested your own money in the company and therefore you really want it to be successful, you just have to be nice. They might be pulling less than their weight, but they are your senior partners and you should be on the company's side, exactly like them.
Spam/flood protection.
You didn't do that math right. Out of every 256 values at a particular offset, only a quarter of them are under 64 and can be encoded with rotate+1.

Doing a quick brute force test, it appears that there are 3073 unique values. I suppose that makes sense. Each new rotate introduces 192 new values that have at least one of the new bits set, and 192 * 16 = 3072. Then you have the number 0.
> a world riding the wave of the industrial revolution

> all of the people filmed were affected in some way by the Second World War

I can't agree with you more. But what makes me more sad is that it all seems to be slowly repeating itself right now. I mean we're currently riding the first ripple of the digital revolution... and war, fascism, and social unrest is back once again in the west - just under a less recognizable form.

The words from this song might be familiar to you. What's scary is that the speech makes so much sense in a present day context:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzxT7DNabB4
The Baby Boom was a birth cohort that spanned a lot of years, characterized only by high birth rates. (The Baby Boom is the only time in United States history when the long-term trend of ever higher ages of first marriage and ever lower rates of fertility was reversed.) A lot of thoughtful analysts distinguish the earlier part of the Baby Boom (parents who were part of the "Greatest Generation," which participated as adults in World War II) from the later part of the Baby Boom (parents in the "Silent Generation," whose earliest memories are of the Great Depression, and who didn't reach adulthood until after the war was over). I think that makes sense. Greatest Generation parents were about looking out for other people, as a group central tendency, and Silent Generation parents were about looking out for number one. (Silent Generation persons politically did well, gaining the greatest net surplus over the actuarial value of their Social Security benefits through taxation of younger working people, for example.)

In each generation, there are parents of differing core values. There are also children who either accept their parents' values, or react against them. That goes on throughout history. The one sure thing that demographers discovered is that during the Baby Boom there was a lower ratio of care-giving adults to minor children in the whole society than at almost any time before or since. Large family sizes spread parenting thin. So the Baby Boomers had less parental face time to receive parental influence one way or another than the preceding generations, and it wouldn't surprise me to hear (as we do in the opinion essay submitted here) that Baby Boomers, as a group central tendency, are less practiced in traditional parenting approaches than earlier generations, for better or for worse.

(Can you guess where I fit among the generations by what I write here?)
Maybe they got "Roman" from Roman alphabet? – another culture import of the Western forces.
Except Moore's law most likely isn't continuing for much longer, if it hasn't stopped already.
No FTL travel needed. The milky way is over 10 billion years old but only about 100,000 light-years in diameter.
I almost never get lonely, and love being alone. A big part of this is just personality, I think, but there are two other factors that contribute. First of all, as you mention, I practiced being comfortably alone. I intentionally traveled alone, and sometimes chose to sit in a bar all by myself, just taking in the sights and (initially) feeling very self-conscious. But another important factor is that being alone is a choice for me. If I don't want to be alone, I have plenty of close friends, acquaintances, and activities that would alleviate loneliness.

In fact, the latter might be a much bigger factor that I've realized. The only times I recall feeling lonely were when I felt a need to socialize or talk to a friend, but couldn't, or being at a party with nobody to talk to.
Dunno about Clozure, but I just ran it in SBCL (had it open anyway), it took 11.256 seconds (5.17s of GC) on my old Intel Q6600 (7 years old now). Makes it seem that there might be something strange about the Clozure benchmark, although I generally think of SBCL as one of the faster Lisps.
Similar, but not what you're thinking of: the x87 instruction set has instructions to push the values 1.0, lb(10), lb(e), pi, lg(2), ln(2), and 0.0.
Idea #1: Create handbook on "Profitable Side Projects" to sell to developers.
Just google John Rizzo, for his book tour the past week.

I should clarify he was the CIA top attorney who decided all waterboaring was perfectly legal and justified and still defends it in interviews to this day.

He and John Yoo should be tried for war crimes as well as those that gave and followed the orders. If we don't prosecute them, that makes it perfectly justified for other countries to do this to US citizens and declare it is not torture because the US insists it is not.
You say "billions". But if you know this [0], then you start asking yourself if all that money can really be just "lost".

[0] http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/11/8-5-trillion-taxpayer...
I remember there was a "never" condition, which was present just for completeness; it turns out ARM eventually found that having 2^28 different NOPs would not be a good use of opcode space, so it's now a special extension for newer instructions...
Let me assure you, they know that 1 star is bad, 5 star is good. Even courses are rated between 1(bad)-5(good) in school reports. They also say that "I just rated 1 star to be seen, BUT it is a wonderful app", etc. I saw some comments like this : "I say hi to my cousin, this game is so fun. But I am giving 1 star to be on top." They are trolling and do not care or do not know about total rating system.
> […] why we still sleep. Why hasn't this evolved yet?

A number of animals can put one half of the brain to sleep while the other half remains alert¹.

As for eliminating sleep or shortening it; for such “trait” to evolve there would (beyond being physically possible and the proper mutations having occurred) need to be an advantage that would cause more individuals with the trait to survive (and pass on their genes).

Considering that we have been sleeping in trees and caves, and in groups, there’s probably not a significant larger chance of someone requiring less sleep to make it through the night.

¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unihemispheric_slow-wave_sleep
Dwave has 1000 qubit quantum computer set for release in 2014
Also the term "yorum" in Turkish means "comment". So it does not completely mean "review".
In other words, there is no equivalent translation for the word "review".
Stephen Colbert urged to cancel speech for RSA
I think the cars moved A LOT slower.
i think interactive applications are a good example

we have what i consider 'a pile of hacks' (monad) in functional programming languages to handle these because its very difficult to make useful software which doesn't allow user input. whilst being functional in some sense most of the usual benefits are undone and we are left effectively with imperative code written in a functional style.

however the libraries hide the implementation details for us...

personally though i don't think its as cut and dry as 'OO is good for X' or 'FP is good at Y'

OO and FP are tools that should sit with good ol' procedural programming, array programming and other paradigms - they all have their place, and languages with too much emphasis on one in particular end up with weird constructs to work around that.

I/O monads are an example for FP, but if we look at an OO language, say C#, we have static class as a way to turn an object into a bunch of free-floating state and stand-alone procedures - because sometimes /procedural/ is the only approach and we must shoehorn it into OO with singletons which usually incur a needless performance pain - the static keyword then hides that our object is actually a load of procedural code for us.
It's HN, I just assume everyone pays like 5k~ in rent.
There are a lot of mistakes you can make.

In our case, it was Bootstrap AND die, as we were choked for resources and scope at a pivotal time. My business partner was so obsessed with the idea of bootstrapping, keeping all our equity, and making something for ourselves and not someone else—that we certainly starved from lack of growth. Our development suffered as we moved to also doing sales and marketing (with too few resources); our product suffered as we spent more time doing customer service; and most of all, our lives suffered as we had no time for anything, not even the company we had built.

We surely made other mistakes, but being absolute zealots about bootstrapping was definitely one of them. Be careful of that, even with this advice.
My take: I'd kind of like for him to give that speech. Keeping in mind his performance at the White House Correspondent's Dinner:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7FTF4Oz4dI