skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One allows you to make the document to look exactly how you want.

Are you talking about InDesign? Exact placement of anything is really a pain with Latex, choosing "normal" fonts requires you to switch to a different compiler and the debugging information on all those automatic choices TeΧ and LaTeΧ does for you is abysmal. What I'm saying is that even though LaTeΧ allows you to do precision work does not mean it is a good at it.
Related story:

Blender uses a low-poly monkey for a placeholder, called Suzanne.

Producer Tommy Trash released a single called "Monkey in Love" with this cover art:

http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000053576235-yu7a6g-original.j...

Hmm... that looks familiar. Let me just check:

http://williamgoldie.com/imghost/suzanne.png

Yep. Looks like the artist just made a glass material and rendered Blender's built-in model. I've surprisingly been unable to find any discussion of this on the web.
So, G+ as middleware?
Congratulations Sam!
20 million in revenue last year is very profitable? Twitter makes that in a day.
> I'm trash talking it because it's the most popular way of working. I don't know anyone that does not write his/her papers in LaTex.

And you never stopped to investigate why, in spite of the far greater ease of entry that alternatives have?
So, was this plus automatic updates over SSL one of the ways the NSA could access "any iOS device"?
Congrats, Sam! We were stoked to get you as an advisor for AdGrok, and the advice you gave us was remarkably insightful and spot-on. Thanks again.
U.S. seeks prisoner swap with Taliban to free Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl
Memory Access Microbenchmark: Clojure, F#, Go, Julia, Lua, Racket, Ruby, Self
I disagree that it's the most popular way of working. Perhaps that is true just in mathematics, physics, and maybe even computer science but unlikely to be true in many other fields. Let's be realistic and realize that the majority of people do not use LaTeX. The ones who do use it, use it because they are putting in a lot of mathematical formulae which are easier to do in LaTeX than Word (although Microsoft is making progress with the equation editor) and the formulae look way nicer in LaTeX. Word renders the formulae into an equation that generally looks bad and scales worse.

The things that I use LaTeX for are usually my own writing that I don't have to collaborate with other people for. If I have to work with other people I use Word. The things that I like about latex are that I can have it automatically generate my figures because I can script it, which I can't do with Word.

I agree that LaTeX can be difficult to write but you have to realize that word has it's shortcomings too (put an image in and send the document to somebody else, chances are the layout will get messed up). Tools like pandoc are trying to alleviate both problems so people can work in whatever environment they prefer, which seems like a good solution to me. I could write part of my document in markdown, convert to LaTeX and write my formulae and then convert to Word so my coworkers can edit it easier.
Pretty cool. Did you have to drill out the headstock, or did it fit the tuner holes? I'm a bit vary of putting power tools to my Les Paul.

And how does the weight feel? I put Planet Waves Auto Trim locking tuners (also highly recommended, btw) on my project Strat, and it became noticeable top heavy.
Apparently you would not have died: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halomethane#Fire_extinguishing
How do you not notice this? Maybe a lot of SSL interception is done with self signed certs and not ones that are signed by a valid CA?
I really wish valuation was a measure of how much value you can get out of a company and not how much somebody is willing to pay for it.
In the same vein:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
Are Two Actual People Still Required For a Relationship?
That is really cool, thanks for that.
For one example, just off the top of my head, most any remotely technically-inclined young person in 2014 knows that you use Ctrl-Z/X/C/V/A to undo, cut, copy, paste, and select all. (Or substitute Command if you're on a Mac--same basic idea.) They've got that down cold, along with a host of other ubiquitous editing conventions--Ctrl-Left/Right to jump words, Shift-arrowkeys to highlight, Home/End to jump to the beginning/end of the screen line, etc etc etc. Basic text navigation and editing is a breeze, straight from muscle memory.

Then you try command-line Unix for the first time and nothing works anymore. You have to unlearn the habits of a lifetime before you can do something as simple as edit text. You can't even remap them effectively, because most of them do something else in vim or bash that you'd have to move elsewhere.

This is one of those problems that is just completely invisible to old Unix hands. It took me years to stop writing code in Notepad, because using vim felt like trying to drive a car with the gas and brake reversed, and someone punching me in the face every time I reach for the turn signal.

I'm not saying Unix conventions are objectively worse than Mac/Windows ones. Once you've got them trained into muscle memory, they're just as effective as anything else. But that need to retrain is a pointless roadblock in the path of every would-be hacker.
Does Norwegian spree killer Anders Brevik deserve a PS3?
Dot MAtrix Printer Playing Eye of the Tiger
It's still an interesting point he makes. One sysadmin in any powerful organization can likely gain access to that organization's deepest, darkest secrets, and abuse that access for anything they like, whether good or bad.
That doesn't quite work. UVA is, along with Michigan and Berkeley and UCLA, among the top 4 public schools in the US.
> The smartest kids I knew were those with very intellectual, but hands off, parents.

Parents are one part of it, but teachers are another. I grew up in a very rural but fairly rich community, not because the people were rich (quite the opposite actually), rather because there was a nuclear power plant in town that paid 98% of the towns taxes.

I don't remember the exact prompt but I do recall writing a paper for 10th grade english class about quarks. My english teacher went and talked to one of our science teachers because she thought I made up the entire thing, she didn't think quarks were real.

That in itself is fine, this was 1998, I doubt many english teachers would be aware of them. What bothers me is that I'm fairly sure that the only reason my paper wasn't just thrown out was that we were lucky enough to get a science teacher who was an ex-Harvard associated researcher whom moved 'out to the sticks' for family reasons. It was this chap that my english professor asked, thankfully, since I'm relatively certain that no one else in the school, let alone the rest of the science department, would have had a clue. Without that stroke of luck I'd have probably been given an F and not even considered writing outside the box papers again, or at least delayed writing another one.

Side note, but this random teacher I had was amazing, he really changed a lot of the way I look at things. From his profession (biology), to thinking entrepreneurial, to learning the basics of the stock market when I was 14...I learned a lot from that guy. All because we were just lucky enough to have someone of his caliber there to glean knowledge from. It's amazing what a single teacher can do to change someone very early in their life.
In the 90's we thought there were 9 planets. Now we think there's 500 billion +
> This may give introverts a more comfortable setting,

How?
Very much so, with some philosophical differences

http://everything2.com/title/The+difference+between+Everythi...
I had similar sentiments about the vanity of blogging. But I also like to write, and found that posting something publicly forces me to take the task seriously and actually attempt to do a good job and/or follow through. I reconcile with my concerns of vanity by doing nothing to promote the blog. From what I can tell, I have yet to attract a single reader, other than spam bots. The added bonus to not having any readers, is that I don't have to worry if the topics I write about are interesting or original.

I consider the blog to be good writing practice, and if/when the time comes where a job I am pursuing requires some extensive writing experience, at the very least I will have a small body of work to show off.
So here's an idea. Conventional intelligence was off by quite a bit, spurring the allies to overproduce tanks (which was possible due to the absurd American industrial capacity), which then allowed the allies to cleanly overwhelm the order of magnitude fewer tanks they actually came in kinetic contact with.
I felt the same. When I was a PFY, I hung out with the then middle aged mainframe technicians, and they had lots of fantastic stories like this from the early days of computing.

Stories about unbalanced hard disk units wandering around the room to be found blocking the door the next morning. HD crashes where you had to vacuum up metal shavings before replacing the platters (which were the size of a washing machine drum). Amusing tales of the little vacuum hose that was supposed to automatically suck the lose end of a tape spool into the drive going wrong.

Now I work almost exclusively with virtual machines, which makes such hardware failures much less exciting.
Thank you for your explanation. Now I understand better. But a distributed system is usually defined in the second meaning of what you said inside the search engine, instead of across different websites.

I'm very interested in this topic because I've proposed my solution for how to improve search engines, not from algorithm point of view, but from systematic point of view. And making it fully distributed is the key.

While you mentioned about the 2-level search and "receiving their algorithms and data ...", I don't think it's very feasible. Do you agree? So vertical distributed architecture across various industries is not a feasible solution. But we can do a horizontal distributed architecture which will collect data from geographic locations. In each location, there will be many different verticals. It's matter of time if Google cannot find a better solution, search engine will be improved in certain way.
I disagree very strongly with the principle that services should be purchased with a photo. I will share a personal experience.

Traveling from Luxembourg to Brussels by train I made an arrangement for a room via AirBnB. It being the first time, they asked me for ID, and Credit Card information. I provided that. By the time I got off the train I received a response from AirBnB that my reservation had been canceled due to the fact that I hadn't provided a photo of myself for AirBnb. I believe the reason was because they wanted to know that I was a "real person", but the exact phrasing escapes me. This was not the case since I provided a photo of my driver's license as my ID. As a result I had to scramble to find a room in one of the most expensive cities in the world for this at the last moment (which was expensive).

I strongly disagree with the idea that "your face" should be integrated with a purchase. I strongly agree that your identity which includes but should not be limited to a subset of "your face" should.

If you are proceeding down this path I recommend having a user select a photo, rather than taking a self portrait.

Good Luck.
Surprising discovery about the Voynich manuscript - it contains hundreds of pictures of naked women, probably outnumbering the pictures of plants. Maybe the focus on botany is misguided!
I would say in most cases. Even if the group itself is stable, economics of scale kick in and you have cheap weapons everywhere.

A group of armed forces may be a nicer trade partner, buy some weapons and may protect your borders for you (North Africa), but at which price?

At the end people do not tend to like them and someone has to clean up the mess. My government currently argues, that we should join the French in doing so, as we are not Switzerland and the world clearly needs more German intervention.
OkCupid Profile Generator, Mad Lib Style
You're right. Didn't do the math.
Uhmm... I think I've seen this somewhere else...
You seem to have skipped the most important part in your constitution: Human rights don't come from a piece of paper, they are not given to you by a government. They are innate.

If you really are an American, you will stop with the whole "Americans have rights, foreigners don't" argument.
Installable web apps
Maybe due to lots of appliances that run HTTPS with a self-signed cert to "productname", but are often accessed via an IP?
This observation lends weight to my naked women theory. That extravagent P has arms, legs, a head and ... :P
I quit two very decent jobs last year. I've burned out hard after 11 years as a professional developer, mostly due to the outlook, more culture crap, more "unrequired" socializing on personal time to 'fit in', more pay than I need, less free time than I desire and no companies in sight that want to truly negotiate away from the norm of 20-ish year old suckers buying into the open offices and cultish companies. I'm trying to invest the next few years in my own startup idea(s), if I can't be my own boss, then I'm heading toward another industry.
Congrats. I think it's pretty impressive what you've accomplished.
Getting a little ahead of ourselfs maybe?

"Nobody knows", lets just compare IRC. #javascript on freenode got 951 users. #clojure on freenode got 651 users. Even tho its not a good comparison, saying "nobody" knows clojure is very far fetched.
It has a ever growing community, with several books published, and the whole point on Chris choosing Clojure shows enough of its maturity.
Congrats buddy... you gave instrumental advice during every funding round we've raised, and we're better for it.
If someone is willing to pay that much money for the company, then you can get that value of it.
I worked on this. The Author has tried to examine the question about how to deal with a Surveillance State at a personal level. I don't recommend all the projects that I work on, but I certainly recommend this one.

M Against M by Declan Tan.

http://www.amazon.com/M-Against-Declan-Tan/dp/0982280998
Wow, so much extra plastic. And are those compression connectors? Last I've seen those was in SGI computers, and they were notorious for failing to contact properly after being exposed for a while (rubbing with a soft cloth and alcohol seemed to do the trick though).

http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/dynaweb_docs/hdwr/SGI_EndUse...
Awesome guys, congratulations. I struggle with hearing and i'm sure years of headphone abuse hasn't helped!
I suppose if you misconstrue my first comment as "people should just do things, like, whenever, man", then you're right.
Erlang isn't more popular because to be popular you need to be at least passably good at a lot of things. There is a lot of stuff where Erlang makes life hard. Operating system integration, lack of IDE, imperative programming, UTF-8 manipulation, and maps (which just hit the language) are all good examples of things that Erlang gets stomped on by most more "mainstream" languages.

That having been said, anybody who is serious about concurrent network programming knows about Erlang. The problem is that those people are far outnumbered by the people doing CRUD all the time.
I'm not sure how powerful it is which cannot tell from the looking. If it's the same powerful as the existing PC, I found All-in-one PC now is less than $500. So why do we need to have this nice-looking but still heavy machine? If it's super powerful, then a lot of engineering issues need to be taken care before how it looks like.

EDIT: I'm sorry, it's fully expandable. But sometimes the OS may not support the hardware expansion that much or become very low performance.

But anyway, I agree that we should make PC more customizable and more pluggable if it's doable.
Is the Utah Teapot the 3D version of `helloworld` ?
Hey, it's in Arch community repository! Happy day.

sudo pacman -S uzbl-tabbed
I think the important distinction is not the size term but the "confidence of existence" term: "Largest/heaviest/etc known animal..."
> the value of a CS degree at the moment is dubious

Completely wrong.

How do you expect to re-invent the stack if you don't understand the fundamentals, and where we've been before?

The practice of CS is something that anyone can pick up. The theory is what makes you more potent. To the OP: don't be yet another Rails programmer. Help us build a better stack than the web so we can move forward.
I had a very different experience with a similar start: a D in eighth-grade math – and then was stuck being incredibly bored in remedial math in 9th - when choosing classes for 10th I lied, and changed my class roster at submission time. My altered roster was accepted, and I was back to "on track".

Sometimes even very rulebound places aren't very good at catching people ignoring the rules.
Nonsequential IDs can also help you avoid inadvertently baking in assumptions about your IDs being small, which are then broken as you scale up and cause sorrow and woe.

For example, Twitter uses sequential(ish) ID numbers for tweets. Havoc ensued when they crossed 2^32 tweets, because lots of software out there ended up being written with the assumption that a tweet ID could fit into a 32-bit integer. It was true for some years, and then suddenly it wasn't anymore, and everything broke.
Uh, how is this in any way a Nash equilibrium? And the rise of the pervading surveillance state has little to do with the perceived value of the data collected.
Twitter generates about $2M in revenue a day. And they make nothing since they're not profitable. So compared to Twitter, WhatsApp is undefined profitable.
Commodore B128-80
If you find yourself in Silicon Valley, you can see the original Utah teapot at the Computer History Museum. They have an incredible collection of artifacts from the beginnings of the computing age.
If you can call a P/E of 800+ "very profitable"? Making $20M a year profit is no small thing at all, and I'm sure if it was bought for a billion, you'd see far less comments on the subject.
I just tested this against my Snark Clip On tuner (http://www.snarktuners.com/tuners/original-clip-on) and it's almost identical. I hope your site eventually passes the other "guitar tuners" in Google search results that just play the tones, great job overall.
Thank you for the NYT article link. It is a fact that grade inflation occurs in the humanities at many school. Earlier posters state that Harvard Biz. School only give 5% of the class a C. My brother incurred this problem when applying for grad school in the medical field. He was a physics major, arguably one of the hardest majors on most campuses, and got a proud 3.0 based on a strict bell curve. Top 15% of the class is pretty nice. However, in the bio field, with GPA inflating a C to a B, this made him seem totally average. Many schools just rejected him outright based on this (he thinks)

What to do? A standard has to be set, and as been. But professors can do as they please. Inflating grades has all the wrong incentives, which is why it happens. Schools give high GPA, kids give alumni dollars back with better jobs, repeat. However, now you can't compare the kids as the metric is borked.

garbage in = garbage out.
12834982 -- can't believe I can still remember it. I haven't signed on in well over a decade. Kinda proud, not gunna lie. And according to Google, my last nickname was "Blake's Alright", must have been going through some teenage melancholy at the time, haha
WhatsApp put Facebook in a situation in which Facebook only could lose
Not him, but I'm guessing it's because SPARC looks a lot like the GAS/AT&T Intel syntax -- lots of 'noise' in the form of % and $ everywhere. It also has branch delay slots and not-so-intuitive operand ordering, register windows, and all the other RISC features that look like they discourage using Asm, as a big part of the philosophy was "use a compiler".
> In today's academic environment, it's downright impossible to get an F as a gifted person, unless you're making a statement.

I might be misunderstanding you, but I don't agree. I was in the gifted program starting in 3rd grade, through high school. I got many Fs in junior high and high school, and I eventually dropped out of high school in my junior year I think. Granted it's been 10 years ago now.

I spent 5 years either working in fast food or doing nothing. Eventually I took the ACT, got my GED, and got my CS degree from a public university.

I'm doing very well now, and I feel like failing school and taking some years off helped me a lot. I'm sure I'd be nowhere near where I am now if I had stayed in school.
I really love javadoc (pretty sure thats what generated the AS3 docs from back in the flash days). I feel the same as you, AS3 I could code from the docs, Rails I find myself searching online

Right now I'm really enjoying Dart's docs: https://api.dartlang.org/apidocs/channels/stable/#home

First time I've seen omniref so looking forward to trying that out
Remember, journalism. If he even said that, his next sentence might have been "Of course, that had been tried a thousand times and wasn't very new by itself."
Search Amazon.com books:

ClojureScript: 10 results (only one of these actually has ClojureScript in the title)

Clojure: 89 results

JavaScript: 5,787 results

Sorry, there is no comparison.

I'm not saying Clojure sucks, I am just saying that it's not mainstream. ClojureScript even less so -- it's an offshoot of Clojure which was designed around the JVM, not browsers.
I'm not sure why we only consider that this manuscript is either a hoax or a forgotten language. Why can't it be an expression of whimsical fantasy?

When I was 12, as an introvert kid with too much imagination, I started inventing my own language. I would make up words, sometimes based off various other languages, sometime simply based on how they sounded.

It had a couple of different writing systems, one was a slightly modified version of Greek alphabet, another, more complex, was made of dots and small squiggles that were fast to write (I was fascinated with the Arabic writing system at the time and took inspiration from it even though it didn't look anything like that).

I would write pages of nonsense in that writing system, just to see how it would flow or change over time, just to find patterns, just to have fun.

I even invented my own calendar, using the 88 day revolution of Mercury around the Sun as the year.

When I look at the Voynich Manuscript, all I see is the product of a fertile imagination that went a lot farther than my early teenage attempts at building a coherent world for myself.

I believe that these unconvincing attempts at finding meaning elsewhere -or degrading the object by calling it a hoax- are distracting us from the real beauty of this work of love and imagination.
>implying

>not on /g/
Does that photo have a slight illusory motion to it?
316666. Haven't used it in many years. Obtaining that number was fun, as well :)
No. A standardized PC is componebtized, but not really modular. You can't install RAM in a hard drive bay. This concept I see as more in line with traditional stereo systems....you can have many modules, and they all talk to each other via RCA cables.
Makes me chuckle thinking of Bill Gates reading Code Complete as a bedtime story.
>If you're concerned, ask about it – a testimonial, note, etc. might be more within her comfort zone.

I don't really care enough to ask(email) about it but it is really unusual to see a product targeted for children being marketed by a flirtatious woman (or mom?) instead of showing actual kids using it. I would find it similarly unusual if I were to see an ad on TV for a kid's toy without any kids in them.