skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a 100% reproducible (hang/freeze) bug in Visual Studio, with crash dump and everything. It's in 2012, so it'll probably never be fixed. The one developer who responded ignored the information I provided, anyway.

I can no longer find the bug on the dashboard.
Why do you rely on a study that uses advertised speed instead of actual speed like Akamai's? Akamai also has a category for 10 Mbps+ availability, and the U.S. ranks very well there too.
I think this guy successfully patented half-precision floating point. No really, look:

http://www.google.com/patents/US8150902

What a troll!
With a 128GB card, you might not have to do much handling. Just put it in and you have as much memory as the biggest iPad.

I heard that KitKat isn't too friendly towards app usage of external media. With that and the lack of card slots for newer smartphones, what the biggest usage today of such media?
There is no evidence whatsoever that this document is actually legitimate.

If it is though, I wouldn't be too surprised. Gox has been known for their incompetence since day 1.
Check out the second audio teaser of "Crazy Love" by Abhay Gupta.
Check out this awesome teaser of "Crazy Love". The song is coming soon.
CF cards are falling out of favor with many people because if you screw up and break one of the pins on the CF receptacle, your device is probably hosed (a big problem for a camera person or musician) and will certainly require an expensive repair. SD cards are fiddly, I agree, but on the upside there seems to be a lower likelihood of breakage.

EDIT: of course this is about MicroSD, I agree those are fiddly. But damn impressive all the same.
apparently the scriptwriter had the Murray character visit the library each day and read one word on one page of a book, as a way of marking time in a world where nothing could be written down. The first drafts had him finish the library - thousands of years in the same day.

RIP
Probably something to do with the fact that the game was (allegedly) pulling in ~$50k/day at the top of the charts in iTunes with very little focus on monetization.

That was combined with an exceedingly simply UX anyone could understand.

And then the developer, to many people's shock, decided to pull the game. He said he didn't want the attention.

Like all popular games - especially the simple ones - there have indeed been a ton of clones pouring into the store.
If you browse through connect there's some really unhelpful responses from Microsoft and many people trying very hard to report problems in the most helpful possible way without getting a response. The idea is good but execution is weak.
I was playing around with Wolfram Alpha yesterday and found this page of examples:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/
Oh wow, that is extremely reasonable. I'll have to spend some more time researching this.
Actually I was originally going to add "so that is why you will see it frequently on projects related to those technologies," just to give some background and link it all together (e.g. the cited example is hosted on the backbone site).

But yeah, it also gives it some star power and instant credibility, and I wanted to highlight jashkenas for his significant contributions. (As a side note I don't currently use any of them, I prefer Angular and vanilla JS syntax.)
They forgot about Sales Secret #6: Sell Girl Scout Cookies Outside Marijuana Dispensaries: "According to her mother, [Danielle] Lei sold 37 more boxes catering to the munchies crowd than what she sold during the same two-hour period outside a Safeway store the next day, proving once again that when it comes to business it’s all about location, location, location." Read the full article "Girl Scout Sells Cookies Outside Medical Marijuana Clinic" in TIME (Feb. 21, 2014) at http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/02/21/smart-cookie-girl-scout-...
Yup, it's definitely done that for a while. It does become a pain when you actually want to locate quotes that need smartening up, though.
seems a great logical fallacy to reference betting, which is what is happening, in a sentence about how the decision was definitely right.
How does it compare with Telegram (https://telegram.org)?
The post was put on hold because the OP failed to provide the information the community would need to reproduce the issue. What good is a programming problem if no one else can reproduce it?

To have it reopened, all the OP needs to do is give the community all the information they need to reproduce the issue. Should we ask any less?

It's also worth noting that the question was not closed by moderators (denoted by diamonds next to their name), but by members of the community with high reputation (> 3000). These users have community moderation powers by virtue of their reputation, but are not moderators per se.

If you have over 3000 reputation, you could vote to reopen.

Full disclosure: I am an elected moderator for Stack Overflow: http:stackoverflow.com/users/16587/george-stocker
I lived in a duplex in Richland Washington that was built in the 1950s. It was in a very walkable neighborhood. I was a homemaker and we had two kids and one car. I found that a two bedroom, 1950's style home worked quite well for my 1950's style lifestyle at the time, much better than a lot of more 'modern' housing where you can't get anywhere without having two cars, etc. My sons hate the suburbs. My oldest refers to most suburbs as "suburban hell" because we live without a car and you just can't walk to anything in most American suburbs, especially those built relatively recently.

I also lived in Europe for a time, where homes tend to be smaller than than in the U.S. But the problem I have with articles like this one is that it is a poverty mentality solution, which helps keep poverty alive. It is not proposing policies which remove the incentives that are causing new housing to be 2000 sf or more. It is not making it more feasible for "normal" people to get a small place. It proposing tiny houses specifically for very poor people who are currently homeless. This is not a good way to solve the problem. That approach is basically how welfare began -- by defining the needy population as "poor, single moms" -- and it actively grew the population of poor single moms. This makes problems more entrenched. It is not a "solution."

Thanks for your great comment.
Why do people say that? Apples and oranges are very comparably, just as these to apps are very comparable.

Just because you disagree with one datapoint doesn't mean you can't compare them.
Debugging JavaScript in a hostile environment
At least nine EU countries are complicit. With as widespread as spying is, I don't think we could safely rule out the other 19 member states.
But on a realistic "hot summers day"...

That's an excellent point and a flaw of many "reasoned conclusions" thought experiments. There's a world of difference between contemplating what might happen (which is a useful first step) and experimenting to see what actually does happen.

In the case of your hot summer's day instance, there are a number of things which could confound the experiment: how do you distinguish between water inside the glass (from the initial water + ice), and that on the outside (mostly from condensation, but possibly also from spillage)? How could you control for this? How might you run the experiment repeatedly? Etc. Actually, a chemistry lab where students each mix known weights of water + ice at specified temperatures and observe what happens, then collaboratively compare results might make for a useful group + parallel experiment exercise.

And that's just for ice water. In a field I've got some interest in (practical and applied economics) there's an even greater tendency for assumptions and ideal circumstances to get constructed.
Some of the most desirable and expensive homes in the world are in apartment blocks (eg the infamous One Hyde Park here in London). And on the other hand, some of the most despised and squalid homes in the world are detatched units (eg trailer parks).

It's not the layout of a home that governs the quality of life of its occupants. It's how well built it it, how well maintained it is, how well connected to work, infrastructure, amenities, and the larger community it is, how mixed its occupants are in income and occupation, how well cared for by police, fire, and health services it is, dozens of factors. But not whether it shares a wall with its neighbouring homes.
Why you shouldn't hire like Google
While we debate this, the bitcoin price has plummeted to 510 USD.

Meanwhile @twobitidiot maintains the plausibility of these claims. He says that he will post more information on his feed.

I think we should follow him on twitter to find out more about this situation and protect our crypto-investments.

If the claims are true, bitcoin could see one of its biggest crashes.
Okay, but why "Mexican tycoon"? If he were white they probably wouldn't mention that.

We don't need racism around here, please. Just look at his name for crying out loud.
Author here.

Nothing much to add, except that this project really made me appreciate the sophistication of modern browser-based developer tools. You really don't appreciate something fully until it's gone. :)
Hmmmm, I don't think so...
They can, but once you have access to the image you can just copy it from the browser and email it to anyone... not much different from sharing a url. So it's not a huge security benefit, especially for the costs involved (as some of the other comments mentioned)
Your are exhibiting precisely the privileged attitude I referred to earlier. You believe that merely being a protestor entitles you to more rights than a mere squatter. In fact, both have equal rights under the law. Both a squatter and a protestor have a right to carry a sign or chant slogans. Neither have a right to camp in a park.
Printing random boobs is slow, okay.
And yet the community did find the answer.
Hands On With the Samsung Galaxy S5
How Pinterest optimized their HTML Sitemap
LinkedIn China
That would certainly provide some isolation from your direct neighbors. Not really sure if that would be a good or a bad thing.
Is this not just what spies and covert agents have been doing for centuries? But now with extra * INTERNET !!! * added, which somehow makes it worse? I would be more worried if our spy agencies and intelligence organisations did not have this sort of capability, and could only manipulate and deceive using TV, newspapers, talking, joining societies, clubs and associations, following people and so on.
If you're a photographer, that card is likely to be coming out of your camera every time you finish a shoot. The camera certainly isn't going to get the data off the card at the full 90MB/s over USB 2.0.

SD card gets the format right for me: I find SIMs to be the limit of my manual dexterity. The microSD format is just a data loss disaster waiting for a place to happen.
So, I have a question: Would the following be safe? Specifically the "* CNAME @" rule.

https://gist.github.com/dav-/eaa487032588efc0b4a3
Whisper systems is owned by Twitter. I'm not sure how it's privacy record compares to that of Facebook.
Do not link to content behind a paywall
Does it have to be just a phone call? Can you do some kind of screen sharing with Hangouts/Skype/etc?
The just-released Galaxy S 5 has a MicroSD slot. So not all Android phones have removed SD storage.
The Sad State of British Broadband
At these odds, betting on this that Gox will go out of business and hedging by buying a bunch of Gox coins on Bitcoin Builder seems like free money. I think you'd only lose if Gox doesn't pay its depositors most of their money but stays in business, which I don't see happening.
Paranoia testing
I'm not sure if you're meaning something else, but is /M or /MP not the direction for you? Though C# compiles can be pretty long, my experience is it's usually File I/O and ancillary tasks that take up the majority of the time spent building. Even our primary product which is an absolutely enormous webapp with tons of projects takes only 11 minutes to fully compile and about 5 of that is just shuffling files around.

To take from another conversation, msbuild is very powerful but it's not very usable at all. So much tribal knowledge and secret handshakes you can't learn unless you have a contact in devdiv.

Beyond that, I've opened 3 incidents with Microsoft in the past and they've been nothing short of amazing. One guy even busted out an assembler and stepped through my code to identify that our issue was actually a deliberately closed accidental exploitation path. Enormously frustrating at the time, but he even provided a workaround for us but, like you say, it took several months.

To be specifically productive though: I feel like Roselyn does provide lots of value to developers in terms of what VS plugins can do. There are infinity re-implementations of the MS Compiler out there in terms of plugins and analysis tools. Would be nice to have everyone at least speaking the same language. I think the other thing this initiative does is put the license out there with permissiveness and clarity. Mono can feel comfortable lifting the concepts and integrating it in to their own without worrying about being sued now. This is all great things that they are making available their compiler as a tool and non-platform limited licensing. But - it's only a step it's not the end-game.

What are things you think really improve developers' lives that microsoft used to build they don't build now?
> This was one of the bigger nails in my account's coffin.

What are you referring to here?
The derelict mansions on Britain's 'Billionaires' Row'
ruby has Event Machine , Celluloid ,... you dont need meteor or nodejs for realtime apps, really,they are as good as any javascript server solution.
Startup that helps reduce student loans
Sure, but you would also have to bring along a phone/tablet to show it off, or laptop/adapter.

Then how would you prove it had that much data? You can fake a sd card right now to show it has a huge amount of data on it.

I can hold up a piece of dust and claim it can hold 20tb, but no one will believe me.
Why? Why would you do that to the world? Smart quotes are about the dumbest concept that has ever existed.
A) The community did find the answer, regardless.

B) Someone is gifting free interesting content to the site; even if it's imperfect does the reaction have to be so harsh? This is, personally, exactly why I never post on stack overflow. You're acting like you're doing them a favor by letting them post there, when they're doing you a favor by giving you interesting content in the first place.
Maybe!

I wasn't trying to imply homeless == stupid, I apologize if it came off that way.

I understand homelessness is multifaceted and for some, even though intelligent, classic employment opportunities are not available/desirable for a whole host of reasons.
Honest question: is it poor logic or not that I tend to believe these slides are truly from the government they are supposed to be from based solely on how large of an eyesore the design is?

However, surely by now people like Glen Greenwald have heard such feedback so if someone from the other side of the aisle wanted to reverse false flag they would just use atrocious designs.

However, now the govt. has read THIS, so I clearly cannot choose the cup in front of me...
23 skidoo!
A shower and a roof solve an awful lot of problems, though.
The Walter Bright who's comment appears next to yours? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7294024
Mentioning race != racism. FFS.
Manna - Two Visions of Humanity's Future: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Epicaricacy. because you speak english.
Because a huge and significant chunk of America lives at a density that is prohibitive for small competitors to provide FTTH. The only way to get it is through municipal funding, because the large broadband providers certainly aren't going to provide it.
1. The timestamps are only years so I cannot use at least the information that IMDB provides for such analysis. That would be quite interesting, though. Also, what time of year that movie is released and how does that affect to the movie's overall success could be another interesting point.

2. That is a good suggestion but I think we need more votes and more importantly the users whose votes could be taken as a basis of quality of the movie.
U.S. freezes assets of work-at-home Web firms promising thousands
Q:"What is the standard deviation in height for humans?"

A: inches and people are not compatible

whereas:

Q: what is the average height of humans?
A: 5.3, with a nice graph showing the +- sigma

So it had the info, but just couldn't understand the question.

Whereas
Q: what is the average height of male humans in Canada?

gives me an answer and chart "weighted for USA demographics".

If I change 'canada' to USA, I get a graph labelled the same, but with a different numerical value.

I don't think I trust this. At least with Google and I can inspect the source, read links, and so on.

One more: "What is a basis vector"

Wolfram gives me the stock quote for BASI, google starts things off with the linear algebra definition followed by a lot of relevant links.
good detective work!
How is race in the post it even relevant?

And my point still stands that a white man wouldn't likely have his race scrutinized.
Any python backend examples for Meteor yet?
He did fly under the radar. He was one of my favorites. I'd always talk about him, but few knew who he was. But seeing the memorials on twitter and the net, I see many others recognized him. RIP Russell Ziskey. You will be sorely missed.
Intel aims 2.3GHz quad-core 64-bit SoC at Android 4.4
The net permits it to be done with unprecedented precision, scale, ease, and deniability.
I don't trust the IPCC because the actual results haven't matched their models, regardless of what the "scientific consensus" is on negative feedback loops.

And again, stopping the increase of CO2 would require massive global emissions cuts, which would require a new energy infrastructure.
send me a mail if you have any questions - it's in my profile.
Could you give some more detail on how it failed to power Wolfram Alpha? Did they switch to an alternate language?
If you're interested in this, then please vote in the SO elections, going on now. http://stackoverflow.com/election
This looks exciting. When can I try it?
I assume he is depending on the provenance marker that these are part of a big pile of documents provided by Snowden.
a microSD card would probably impress some guys at IBM, but take an iPhone (and the internet) and you'll blow everyone's mind. Just google maps alone in the palm of your hand is amazing. iPhone (or any hand held computer) plus wikipedia, google maps and of course tumblr for cats and people in the 50's would likely either kill you or start a cult for you. (or in the case of Jesus, both)
That is exactly why I generally prefer median-like average methods versus mean-like averages in these type of crowdsourced systems. Generally speaking, average votes are distributed evenly whereas the ratings on the edges are not. The movies that you gave as examples could be due to preference of voters for particular type of movies.
Most interesting part about it for me was the note that they are supporters of neovim.
The whole list is freely available right here http://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/sdnlist.txt
Search ":wq"
Bebo is back with BLAB video walkie talkie
Yeah, you are unethical. If you had been judged by Sun in the way that you judged Ben Noordhuis then you wouldn't have a job.

I don't think you ever apologized for your "ever kissed a girl" comment? Now you are some sort of bastion of moral integrity that threatens to fire someone you don't employ?
Correct. However, if you can define a level of resolution to measure the coastline/density, then then it can be compared. Average density/coastline is meaningless without context.
In a recent post, kens analyzed the recent malleability problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7244191 (67 points, 9 days ago, 33 comments).

I'm not sure if it's possible to analyze all the old blocks and look for strange transactions.
GSOC 2014 with the OpenBSD Foundation
http://vimeo.com/86562456
password: monkeypal
Or even the (previously) homeless people contributing directly by being able to get jobs and pay taxes.

I've talked with more than a few folks who not having a place to shower, keep clean un-wrinkled clothes, and receive mail is holding them back from getting anything more than the most menial job if any.
> In both languages threads are an added after-thought

So?

> no, I disagree with you - multithreading is not an implementation detail.

Threading is a language feature, not an implementation detail. Whether threads are implemented by way of native threads on the underlying platform (as in JRuby, current CPython or MRI), or green threads in the runtime (as in old MRI, etc.), and, in the latter case, whether the green threads are mapped to native threads on an N:1 (as in old MRI) or M:N (as in the main Erlang implementation) model are implementation details.

> For example Python has the notion of destructors in the language, the reference implementation having a GC based on reference counting, so when implementing it on top of the JVM/CLR or whatever platform that doesn't do reference counting, that's at least one feature that can't work.

Sure, it could, since you could obviously (at the cost of making interop harder) write a Python implementation with its own garbage collector that ran on the JVM or CLR. You might choose to sacrifice portability for better interop with the languages the platform was designed for, but that's a choice.

> Django that says it runs on Jython but nobody mentions that Django needs the MySQL client written in C and won't work with the pure version

Seems to me that's a problem either with Django or the pure python MySQL driver, but not with the Python language.

> Anybody that is fantasizing about Python having a usable implementation other than CPython is delusional.

Perhaps; I'm less familiar with Python's other implementations than with Ruby's (particular JRuby) which is definitely usable, and definitely uses native threads without a GIL.
The problem the user was facing had nothing to do with java. I'd say that is pretty much off topic.
> This is shallow and short-sided opinion. If neovim achieves goal of "easier to maintain codebase" then it will have much faster feature development, bug fixing, and extension development. All extremely user facing and exciting.

I think this is a bit naive. There's no plan of any kind laid out for NeoVim, not even a goal against which progress can be concretely measured. New and compelling features must be well thought-out, well designed and well executed; they don't just fall out of the sky as a consequence of "easier to maintain code".
When did he apologize for that comment?

Is it appropriate to judge someone's character because he didn't use gender neutral language? Is it even appropriate to threaten to fire someone you don't employ - that's sort of like trying to prevent the guy from having a job - ever!
In my head I just think of 301'ing to the naked domain but that is only about web. What is the end goal of redirecting the domain with dns records like this? (Newbie)
1. Yes, I agree with you and I wrote on the first post is that that is mostly due to selection bias. http://bugra.github.io/work/notes/2014-02-15/imdb-top-100K-m...
2) That is true but I think that holds for __all__ of the movies not a subset of them.
3) I am not quite sure about that but I think that would be quite interesting look at the temporal information correlation to the rating of the movie.
To be fair, normally you say the standard deviation "of" a distribution, not the standard deviation "in" a distribution. When you use the word "of," the query works fine.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+the+standard+de...
And now thanks to Mr. Greenwald's reporting, citizens & elected officials, policy wonks & pundits, scholars & laymen alike, can all discuss actual facts instead of relying on grkvit's assumptions about how government spy programs operate.