skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the core of COM is sound (pure interfaces, QI, refcounting, IDL).

I think the ugliness is due to threading issues and being welded on to Win32 message pumps. If you have a dedicated COM thread/pool you'll mostly be fine (security stuff can still get complicated). But on the other hand if you start doing COM things on a thread you own where you share control of the message pumping, you open yourself to a world of mental anguish.
Build a Windows 8 app before dessert with Project Siena
There definitely is, though how good it is I have no idea. The last one I used was probably a decade or more ago, I didn't really have a use for it then but playing with it showed potential (since they learn to adapt to your voice it's hard to say how good they are without longer use). And I would assume they've improved considerably since then.

Dragon Dictate is what I tried, and seems to be the biggest name brand in the area now from what I can see (and has a Mac version) - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nuance-Communications-Inc-S601X-W00-...

Whether it works well enough to be useful, or if there are better alternatives than Dragon Dictate, I've no idea.
Yeah, I suppose it's subjective. I personally think the RapGenius result is better, but you make a valid point about the performance and simplicity of the AZLyrics result.
When I first heard about the SnappyCam that is capable of taking blazing fast photos using a regular photo cam, I immediately purchased a copy and experimented with it. Not only it doesn't everything it claims (essentially a breakthrough in super optimized image compression) but also the UI is well thought. At the time, I was certain that it's just a matter of time to get Apple's attention and very likely Apple would want to acquire the technology. Kudo to Papandriopoulos (How do you exactly pronounce that??)

What I'd like to add that, it apparently SnappyCam would only make sense on iPhone 5 or lower. That is because iPhone 5S already can do what SnappyCam does in its native Cam app by holding down the shoot button. Perhaps Apple got other ideas for its use in the future.
The BIOS is part of the PC, yet it's not included in the 4043 bytes.
You can also use http://boun.cr it's like bit.ly for email addresses.
Server-side Analytics with Google
I reccomend Diigo becauseit's also an excellent bookmark organizer. I switched to it after using both Evernote and Springpad.
Google's product is search. They sell ads tailored to searches, but the product is search.

Saying people are Google's product is like saying people are McDonald's product instead of the hamburgers. McDonald's product is the food, not the money they get from selling it and not the people who buy it.
First "Faith + 1" then this.

The South Park guys always one step ahead with capitalism.
Well into a second term, it's the incumbent's everything, isn't it? Are any of the same generals still fighting "Bush's wars?"
Show HN: A Multi-User Domain in Node.JS
Here's a link to a fully functional Windows binary (built with Visual Studio 2013):

http://sdrv.ms/1hodqjP

Just add the bios and image files elsewhere.
the GRE doesn't look for a 5 paragraph essay format, I never use one and I repeatably score above the 95th percentile.
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As ChuckMcM and I point out, Pacific weapons testing released an order of magnitude more Cs-137 in the 1950's. So Fukushima's effects will merely repeat whatever that did to Pacific fishing, on a much smaller scale.
I don't think that punishment is necessarily effective in the long run either. If you are good at dirty SEO, you will accept your punishment on one site/business and restart with a different site/business, and hopefully last longer until getting caught this time.

With the goal of minimizing overall dirty SEO, Google shouldn't get caught up in an over-emphasis on punishment. Especially when the website being punished is actually the website that should be chosen, and they only use SEO to compete with other SEO.
>The controller is already responding to changes in balance at an extremely high rate. How do you think these things fly in the first place?

You really don't see how there's a huge difference between balancing thrust between relatively equal power sources and losing so much thrust that the aircraft is inherently unstable?

Because that's kind of a huge issue - multirotors fundamentally rely on having power at each corner for aerodynamic stability. Even brief loss of power to one is going to put you into a tumbling state with no way to compensate for it.

>that's a fairly simple engineering problem which has already been solved by the groups who are using drones commercially (i.e. the military)

What multirotor UAS systems does the military have in service for reliable flight over moderate distances?

I'd also take issue with the suggestion that controlling an aircraft which has become unstable over an axis that you no longer have control over is "a simple engineering problem."

>They're small enough that you could easily have two or more running in tandem and checking eachothers integrity

I was referring to the speed controllers that convert the battery power to AC for the brushless motors. I'd expect commercial grade ESCs to be overbuilt, but they put out a good bit of heat that has to be engineered around. They're also one of the more common modes of failure for the brushless motor systems used in mutlirotors.

>It just needs an engineer with a little more imagination

This is the equivalent to saying "we're going to magic away any problems with this idea."

EDIT:

I missed this.

> If you use EDFs

Seriously? Do you even realize how terrible a suggestion that is? EDFs are even worse in terms of energy efficiency and they'd compound stability issues since they have relatively poor throttle response.

But I suppose we can imagine those problems away too.
Someone else mentioned this site, which is exactly what I was thinking:

https://handup.us/
...plus cost of living for students...
Why we have to boycott RSA
Lastly, I really wish the author would give suggestions for what he considers to be a better approach to testing, beyond "integration testing sucks and is a scam".

He has more articles on better approaches than integration tests, but I haven't read them yet so I can't say if they answer your questions sufficiently:
http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/blog/categories/integrated-...
I really like this advice. It reminds me of sculpting. Should you start with a block and remove what isn't needed? Or is it better to start with nothing, and slowly build up?
As a matter of fact, this is done (with user consent) by Sofort.com to authorize immediate payments. MITM as a service!
Well - it is more - with the gaming industry churning out crap at large, it rarely has something worthwhile to buy. This year was incredibly weak in AAA titles and the majority of small games are below the impulsive buy threshold.
I'm really committed to startup culture.
Why wouldn't a JPEG compression algorithm work just as well on a different OS?
According to the coroner's report [1], both his girlfriend and his friend told the police he had a history if opiate and cocaine use.

[1] http://cdn2.sbnation.com/assets/3803095/barnaby_jack_autopsy...
Housing First has been shown to be fiscally prudent, generate good outcomes, as well as just being plain compassionate (of course we shouldn't base whether or not you have access to a home on whether or not you have a substance abuse issue). Salt Lake City has had some huge successes implementing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_first

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=18984066
When I attended the University of California at Berkeley in the fun 1960's, there was no tuition for in-state students. Zero. There were 27,000 students at that time just at that one campus.

It would be hard to quantify the return on investment to the taxpayers, but free quality higher education must have contributed to the thriving California economy and culture.

Of course, our costly rival Stanford has also contributed much, to Silicon Valley in particular. But we have twice as many Nobel laureates :)
Take a look at https://tent.io for a potential future solution to points 1, 2 and 3
I agree with this article.

If you want to deal with income inequality, there is a really, really simple system for this: taxation and welfare.

But this doesn't satisfy some people because they don't actually care about income inequality, they just want to have a go at nerds because they are an easy target.

The author correctly identifies a whole range of unfair criticisms against "techies", from their allegedly unfair incomes, to their lifestyle choices. None of these things are even anyone else's business.
I think the point is something like "don't unit test the system as a whole". Black box testing is great and most definitely should be used, but should be kept very high level and unit tests should be kept very small and granular.

The author has several other articles on the subject that I have not read yet, so I'm not sure if I've got a full understanding of his point yet: http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/blog/categories/integrated-...
> 3. In Python 2.c, warnings begun being issued when you tried to use the old way, explaining you needed to change or your code would stop working.

> 4. In Python 2.d, it actually did stop working.

I'm curious, what are some examples here? The `from __future__`s that I recall offhand are `print_function`, `division` (still need to be explicit) and the old `with_statement` (incompatible code broke as soon as this became default).

The other old way of doing things that I can think of offhand is `catch Exception, e`, which has been replaced with `catch Exception as e`, but not removed.
Spending $200M/year on ~15,000 homeless, that's ~$1,000/month for each homeless.
I don't think we need more money. We need to spend it better.

Why not build public bathrooms ? That could be used by homeless and others (like people renting a bedroom w/o shower, poor, students, etc.). Actually that could be a way to reach homeless people, to provide them medical and social help.

To integrate homeless to society you need to provide them the basics that they don't have (bathroom, shelter, laundry, food, medical and social help, and even bank account, internet, phone). Not all will grab the opportunity, but at least they will have a chance to.
Missing MSVCR120D.dll. Can you compile in release mode or include that DLL too? Installing the Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013 didn't help.
Apparently it's an often-requested feature. But the question you stated is exactly what the Committee is trying to find an answer to by forming the study group. Nothing's been decided yet; they're just trying to chart the possibilities.
Starting with Windows 8, there is support for C++ at the kernel level, including exceptions.
thanks, faster setup than boxen!
the newme accelerator is not for africans. it's for black people in america, which is different. the latter group is of african descent but live in america. if Yawboakye went to the newme companies to look for a job he would still face the same issues that he would have faced with any other american companies. my advice is to do elance/odesk until you can get what you want.
I thought the bigger problem with Fukushima was not the Cs-137, but the Sr-90.
I'm mischaracterizing ignorance?

Mischaracterizing dehumanization of entire swathes of people with a simplistic black and white view of the world.

It could be literally Hitler posting these comments.

There's no taste too low for people like that no matter what side of the aisle you're on.
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I'm really commited to start up culture! I think this a great idea.
Agreed.

Even more so, essays, like the serial novels, are antiquated formats from the time of letter-writing and paper publishing.

At least the Victorian novels gave way to their readership's desires and moved to a more concise format. The essays, annoyingly, remain overly wordy as the academic standards retain their obsoleteness in demanding a set word counts.

Already, the short novels are becoming dominant in the on-line publishing sites. With any lack, the current tide against the printed humanist\scientific publishing houses will bare fruit soon and in a decade or two we will be reading the thesis, facts and analysis rather then the dribble we've become accustomed to.

Present me your thesis in a sentence and a few bullet points: List the facts; Lay the arguments; Tie it all up in a paragraph. I don't want long prosaic discussions or fine poetics.
And yet your operating system and over half of your userland is in C. Must be doing something right.
Please upvote!!!

This is a great startup idea!!
I don't think Fukushima released much strontium (do you have a source otherwise)? The atmospheric release concentrated elements with high vapor pressures, in particular iodine and cesium.

edit: Here's a paper [0] which measured Sr-89 and Sr-90 in seawater near Japan: they found a ratio of about 0.026 of Sr-90 : Cs-137 -- relatively little strontium. Their estimate for total Sr-90 released is 90-900 TBq, corresponding to Cs-137 release estimates of 3.5 - 35 PBq. The figures for Chernobyl [1] are 10 PBq and 85 PBq respectively -- that is, Chernobyl released 10-100 times more Sr-90 than Fukushima. The Sr-90 : Cs-137 ratio was even higher (0.63) for atmospheric weapons tests: 600 PBq Sr-90, 900 PBq Cs-137 [2].

edit2: Made a table:

Sr-90 [PBq] Cs-137 [PBq] ratio ref
Fukushima 0.09 - 0.9 3.5 - 34 0.026 [0]
Chernobyl 10	85 0.12 [1]
Weapons 590 930 0.63 [2]

[0] (pdf) http://www.biogeosciences.net/10/3649/2013/bg-10-3649-2013.p...

[1] (large pdf) http://www.unscear.org/docs/reports/2008/11-80076_Report_200... (table 1, page 9)

[2] http://books.google.com/books?id=JLFX6EMPqBkC&pg=PA34
Why bitter?
However, Strontium-90 which gets into bones and was released into the atmosphere by those bombs, was detected everywhere in USA, in the teeth of children (baby teeth), see for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Tooth_Survey

Aside: until Fukushima is well and truly contained, the possibility of something catastrophic happening is still present.
This looks great! As a guy on the hunt for a job myself, more resources is always better. But you should put a link to the Github up so we can contribute! :)
Except that google is really an ad network, and if it's seen as favoring well-connected customers over not-well connected customers, then it's going to lose favor amongst those not-well connected customers.
Who says crime doesn't pay? Sad...
I agree than the term "fixing homelessness" is probably not appropriate. As you said some homeless might want to stay homeless, and that is fine. But for the homeless who want to get out of homelessness, there should be a clear path to get back. That could start with basics (shelter, bathroom, medical and social help).
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True, but if you're into FP, then folding is for those cases in which you really need the flexibility of iterating over the collection but without the side-effects.

This has consequences. For example you can't distribute a fold over multiple threads. I'm not very keen on parallel extensions to collections, haven't found a concrete usage for them where it matters, but this does tell you something about folding - it's a low-level operation with which you're back to specifying how instead of what you want. And for collections, at least you've got the flexibility of doing a fold or a foreach painlessly, but for other container types you're out of luck.

SelectMany/flatMap/bind is the defining operation of a Monad, which is a general purpose design pattern that has many uses (e.g. Option, State, Cont, Future, Iteratee, Rx.Observable, etc). It's cool having it, because then you can painlessly filter and transform the values in those containers without pulling them out of their context. To quote Erik Meijer: "Monads are return types that guide you through the happy path".
This is state issue, not a federal issue. Time to get the feds out of the discussion on most things.
"As it is now, it seems like every left-of-center friend I know comes to one of two conclusions: they don't want to talk about Obama or the NSA, or they say that they trust Obama with these powers (he'd never abuse them etc)."

Don't make this a left-right thing. For what it's worth, the people I know most in support happen to be weakly right-of-center and those most opposed are radical leftists but really there are other things dominating (the leftists are nearly tied by some Libertarians). Individuals with fair-weather beliefs are an issue on both sides (and it's somewhat human, unfortunately, which isn't to say desirable). And of course amongst mainstream politicians of both parties, we certainly are seeing a huge amount of fair-weather behavior - with strong supporters of this crap under W. now rallying against it while previously critical Democrats forget what the problem was...

To my mind, there's a few strong points worth making here to those rallying around "their guy"... 1) "you might not trust the next guy/gal" (which gets made pretty often), 2) pointing out that a lot of people involved here aren't even NSA agents but contractors with big defense firms, and 3) there's a documented history of abuses (most of which were found because they were self-reported, so there's tremendously more abuse going on we don't see).

"The upside to having a Republican in the White House, is that vast majority of liberals will finally stop being hypocrites about 'speaking truth to power' and pretending to care about human rights, and they'll instantly get upset about the NSA story (while claiming of course that it was solely the fault of Republicans all along)."

You'll have to explain why it would be different than every other time we've switched parties here. Some of this stuff was talked about under Clinton (e.g. Carnivore, though that was FBI), and some Republicans fretted. Much more was introduced under W. after 9/11, and some Democrats complained. Now Obama has extended it, and Republicans are rediscovering their opposition to this stuff, but they're sure to forget just as quickly if we give them power again. Probably the best chance is to have both houses of congress with an overwhelming majority of the party that does not control the presidency (and it probably doesn't matter much which is which).
Can somebody remind me if this was originally a Show HN post? I think I vaguely remember the app creator talking about it.
Making it 'easy' for the homeless?

Lol you think basic fundamental survival goods like food and blankets are making it easy?

Are you SERIOUS?

Because I completely agree! You guys are absolutely right on.
If you encourage homelessness EVERYONE will become one.
Note that the Federal Reserve is buying $85 Billion each MONTH as a way to prop up the banks/financial system.
Luckily, that's not true!

First, I think chipTAN is not publicly documented, and given banks' track record in security matters, I certainly would not want to trust a system that is not publicly documented, and secondly, using a card that I am supposed to carry around all day instead of putting it into my safe at home for transaction authentication doesn't sound like that bright an idea to me.

mTAN is completely braindead, of course, given the essentially non-existent security of mobile networks.
Jesse's TwitterBot project is presently located at:

https://github.com/jessehorne/twitterbot
This is funny but most likely going to get abused by morons
This is a very funny concept, and I've been messing around with it and it works, posted one to my wife's email on FB. She thought it was funny. Here's my problem with it. Immediately I thought about posting this on a friends wall on FB on Valentines Day just to mess with him. Because of that, I am pretty certain that if this blows up, it will be because of idiots abusing it. There's no polite way to describe it, but married guys will get the joke..

Read the lander on launchRock, but here's a link to where you can create a RoseJob card. http://go.rosejob.com/
Isn't public K-12 school paid by the government (i.e. taxes)? How would the effects be different, including the role of private schools, compared to the collegiate level?
The UK is already looking to save $738M over 6 years with its private prison contracts (450M pounds according to Wikipedia). Why would they do so if you claim that private prisons can't reduce costs?
Another interesting video, Fred Falke creating (rather than recreating, though the result is similar to his other works) a song from scratch and talking through the process: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tblZ3EqRE0
That's the point! And yes let me add a github link.
Agree 100% I would add the awful standard library (including its abysmal documentation). For instance the HTTP client API, it must be the most awful API I've ever seen, and Urllib2 is no improvement at all.
Node Streams for APIs
The games I tend to play the most, are the games I paid full price for. The simple reason is because I anticipated those games and waited until they came out.

I still browse the Steam sales. But I rarely buy. Steam has pulled off an amazing feat. They get people excited to buy games that, a decade ago, would be sitting in the sad dusty $5 bin at Wal-Mart. These games would get overlooked because they were in that same dusty bin yesterday, for the same $5. They weren't $15 and suddenly were priced $5 for Christmas. No. They were just old games being sold for whatever Wal-Mart could get for them.

But, take those same games and put them next to Skyrim like Steam does, and now you change the perception. Shoppers don't see the sad tired box art of a game from 1997. They just see a $15 game on sale for this limited time only for $5.
Would a grown adult with a knife have much more trouble against a room full of kindergarteners?
That doesn't happen much with public/state schools in the first place.
Honestly, the problem is that microsoft built a search engine like google, which needed to reach feature parity and until parity is reached consumers have no reason to use it. If feature parity is used, consumers have no reason to switch as the cost of switching does not outweigh the benefits of it, therefore you have an unnecessary product that you have to pump a shit load of advertising on, which creates more costs and no revenue.

The correct way, I believe, is to compete on non-consumption and capture those users, therefore you start small and execute well and scale up as users grow. You avoid the comparison to Google and can sneak in the back door without the crazy upfront costs. Imagine if microsoft focused on Knowledge graph before google did? It would be very interesting times, but every google competitor just competes head on. At the end of the day its about getting users and they don't care about the slight change in your algo, only in the way they feel when using your product i.e frustration, delight, anger, surprise, etc!
I'm so guilty of this, especially games on Kickstarter.
Nice work, I like it
Might this contribute to the many "Why I XYZ" and "Why I Don't XYZ" blog posts I see?
There was this[0]. The author of SnappyCam made some comments under the username jpap.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6137979