skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a hard time believing there is a large group of people that are this lazy as well as careless with money that they would use this for their clothing.

> All purchases are final, absolutely no returns will be accepted. We're both too lazy to deal with that.

To me, that just sounds like you don't even care about the customer. But that could just be me as I actually do care about being happy with something I've bought with my own money.

I just don't see this as something that will take off. Especially as men are becoming more fashion aware.
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Surge pricing isn't going to look pretty either.
i think thats for the uberBlack
Over 5,000 Ph.D. graduates work as janitors – Why?
America inherited its legalistic nature from England. Uncoincidentally, the U.S. and England are two of the most successful societies in the history of the world. :)
Maybe they did "listen" but couldn't do anything about it?

There's another side to that story, of course.[1] They were in the middle the dot-com implosion and all their customers were dot-com businesses. It's not hard to convince me that the professional managers were bozos (and the games they play to maintain board control should be required reading), but that boat was sinking no matter who was in charge.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20061015135632/http://michael.yoo...

There is another side to Ars Digita
I thought it would probably be a good idea to fire Vic Gundotra for a while now.
Actually these are just regs on the driver, as a citizen I can get into any fucking car I want on any fucking terms I want and the police have nothing to say about it.
I would challenge you to name any software system that reliably shows you the precise value of a floating point number.

I couldn't find any (like not a single one), so I wrote a program myself to do it: http://blog.reverberate.org/2012/11/dumpfp-tool-to-inspect-f...
Can't wait to see the results. The term "roguelike" should be taken with a grain of salt of course - many are more like "roguelite" or the other preferred monitor, "procedural death labyrinths."

Between Teleglitch, Nuclear Throne, Legend of Dungeon, Rogue Legacy, Risk of Rain, Tower of Guns, and a few others, the last year or so has been massively fun for roguelike fans as we've seen pieces of the genre applied to other genres, usually with pretty amazing results.
My company's application (www.futurescaper.com) is built with Meteor and is currently pushing 34KLOC, so it's not particularly small. Unfortunately we don't have a public demo as of yet, but have used it with great success with quite a few private clients. On the whole Meteor has been a great success for us.
Hm, what I expected was a post about red flags in freelance (odesk, elance, etc) job postings. They are (normally) obvious but since treehouse is oriented to beginners [0], might be not obvious to them.

Although I try to adjust search well there, still ~80% of job posts are quite crappy [1], full of red flags. Maybe it's not a good place to look for $40/h+ jobs? Or am I being just too picky/paranoid?

[0] or at least that's the impression I got from annoying "understanding technology is as fundamental..." youtube video ad I am seeing every day for months and am fed up with. At least it's not "to have a job in tech, you don't need a degree". Hated that one.
You can still get a cab starting for $2.40/mile. There is a distinct difference between a "vehicle for hire" and a cab.
Looks promising. Not sure what I think of the concept of a 'Manager' (user who was the original submitter) being the only one to approve changes, seems a bit odd considering the rest of the community aspect.

A similar site, tosdr.org, was launched a couple years back to help filter through website TOS. It lacks a community editable system, and even with various publicity and funding still has a limited set of sites in their index.

Hopefully this new site can gain more traction and continue to develop.
"First" websites were written in the late 80's early 90's probably before you were born.

The web is a gargantuan piece of trash. Throw your HTML on the pile if you want. Take two and call me back in 10 years when you have realized what a fool's errand developing for the web is.
It's not just suggested as autocomplete, it's actually given as an example of a search on the front page, just FYI.
Just Javascript & recent Firefox/Chrome.
¿Cómo eliminar la grasa abdominal naturalmente?
Cuando de dieta hablamos a lo que nos estamos refiriendo es de perder la grasa que tenemos acumulada bajo la piel. Hay diferentes tipos de quemadores de grasa naturales que pueden cumplir perfectamente este rol para poder lograr lo que nosotros queremos, o sea, vernos realmente bien.
Wow, I had no idea that billions of dollars were fed into ripple.

Do you have any links that delve into more details (such as who was behind the funding rounds)?
I personally wish the job description would have elaborated on OO principles for HTML and CSS. Sounds interesting!
No, that's for anything. Any non-Austin-sanctioned service must charge at least $55 for any ride, regardless of even if it travels one block. This is an explicit move to make people not want to use startups like Uber.
In case you or others aren't aware that Doucet is running this jam concurrently (in part to promote the term "procedural death labyrinth"): http://proceduraldeathjam.com/
Well it would be good if the law was such that the police could encourage it, but since it isn't, why would we expect them to?

If the law says these vehicles are operating illegally, the police are pretty much bound to discommend them. We always knew Uber existed in a highly regulated space, and changing the law or how it's interpreted will always take time.

I'm also pretty sure that if the Ubers and other ride services are not in fact operating under the law, your protections as a citizen and consumer are limited. The police would want people to choose services where they have the most lawful protection.
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Yeah, TLDRLegal is actually older than ToS;DR, and I noticed that the community there kinda stagnated because editing was so difficult. I don't know what happened to them after they got their 10k from indiegogo, but I think they're still around. The idea of "managers" is to keep an authority reviewing the content since legal info is sensitive and can be very impactful to people, but TLDR admins can always transfer management from one person to another.
When I first clicked the link, I was hoping it would be something like Linux From Scratch. That however, would be a completely different class. More like math-for-future-mathematicians vs. math-for-future-engineers. I wonder if LFS could be adapted for EdX?
But we need to protect the people from being taken advantage of!!!1
Pretty sure it's common to older generations throughout history. The famous one (possibly apocryphal, I can't remember) is Socrates lamenting the fact that kids these days were writing things down instead of memorizing and preserving the oral tradition.

Edit to add also that Horace wrote (in latin of course):

"And yet with crimes to us unknown,
Our sons shall mark the coming age their own."
I'm not sure 1B is very little - it's thousands of programmer-years. It is weird to characterize 1B over 3 years as "billions" unless there are substantial funds coming from other sources.
What Web Hosts and Registrars Do Startups Use?
Are the accelorometers, touch screen input events and other data being fed into the random pool from system boot (or from when the system enables them in the case of sensors). What about SoC features (hardware RNGs) that use ambient temperature noise and other factors?
Hit the link from this on my phone. It sends me to the App Store but never loads (I'm in NZ - I suspect I can't get the app). Double tap back to the HN app and it loads and instantly redirects back to the non-loading App Store. Had to force quit the HN app to get out of the nasty loop.
I really don't think so. Being perplexed/disgusted by the iniquities of the younger generation has been going on for a long time and will in all likelihood continue. I do agree that there's a lot of boomer-focused "get off my lawn" stuff in the NYT, though. That's their audience.
> I always forget that [1:3] is not all inclusive. It's actually just range from 1 to 2.

Just remember that for positive indices, len(slice(n,m)) == m - n
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...the presence of those people might have been what prompted the person crafting the job posting to include that line.
Pretty interesting idea, good luck! Customer service and returns are pretty important though.
Video Background Subtraction in Python
So that flattening can also be written as:

x = [[1,2], [3,4], [5,6]]
[x for x in x for x in x]

More perversely, we can also flatten with my invention:

list(None for x in x if (yield from x) and False) # Python >=3.3

More reasonably, of course,

list(itertools.chain.from_iterable(x))
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We (me + colleague) are at SxSW now (over from the UK) - this is quite amazing given the utter lack of cabs if you're anywhere resembling out-of-downtown. Thankfully we have through an amazing friend of a friend procured the services of a friendly cab driver who goes out of his way to help us, without which we'd basically have to stay at our residence the whole time and not do SxSW at all.

Yikes.
That's a good point on the copy there -- a joke that fell flat ;) I've edited it in the next release, but no returns for the time being.
Return policies like that are more typical of lingerie sites for obvious reasons. If I had to guess, the real reason for that return policy is they don't want to worry about people returning things they wore for a night out and decided afterwards that they want their money back. Maybe they'll put some kind of highly-visible tag on the clothes and if the tag is removed then they won't let you return the items. Seems reasonable to me (a `no tag, no refund` policy).
I don't typically think of it as indexing an array, but it's conceptually similar in some circumstances I suppose. The hardware still eventually has to read values from integer-based addresses, though. As to the details:

Sampling modes customize how the value calculation is done. Some will simply round the index to the nearest integer texel, resulting in only one value being accessed (cheap.)

Others will interpolate via weighted average as you're thinking, in the 1D case. Then there's the 2D and 3D cases... plus mipmaps... plus anti-aliasing patterns... at which point you could easily have 16+ samples bearing little resemblance to "indexing an array", especially as one can apply all these interpolation techniques to generic functions such as perlin noise which aren't array based.
Been thinking about Python vs Ruby lately. I dread reading other people's Ruby code (eg. if there is a problem in a library I'm using) but I don't have that same dread reading Python code. Now if Python had blocks and RubyGems then I would never give Ruby a second look.
Some guides for different types of apps you can build:

- Reddit (https://getsproute.com/docs/reddit)

- Chat App (https://getsproute.com/docs/chatapp)

- Blog (https://getsproute.com/docs/blogapp)

- CMS (https://getsproute.com/docs/cmsapp)

- Image Sharing App (https://getsproute.com/docs/imageapp)

- Portfolio (https://getsproute.com/docs/portfolio)

- Notes (https://getsproute.com/docs/notes) [WIP]
Ask HN: How do you prove you're Not someone?
Recent news exposes a new problem for which it seems there ought to be a technical solution. You have an online identity. An Irresponsible "Journalist" suggests that real person x is you. How can you prove to the world that the IJ is wrong?
Wait so you can't buy hoodies? Uninstalled.
Take that, tax-and-spend liberals!
Yet another example of society acclimating to disruptive technology.
woop, fixed thanks.
Hi from https://www.twotap.com :) You can enable this for 100+ retailers -- https://twotap.com/supported-stores -- with full return support too.
I hope the FTC doesn't come knocking, because I'm pretty sure it's illegal to not accept returns in the case of defective merchandise. I suppose you don't technically need to accept returns, you just need to refund buyers who receive something that's defective...either way, it seems like something you should have a policy on.
Pretty sure that's "Greek-style yogurt", unless Greece has has annexed Albany!
There's a difference though between them just putting a fine on Uber cab someone reported or they ran across by accident, and them actively announcing the disagreement and targeting the business. I'm sure there are many other more interesting things they could spend their time on.

Does the police force care about Uber enough to do this? (on their own) I don't think so. I'd rather ask who cares and has so much influence on them.
Although some people are trying to participate to both, I think the Cyberpunk Game Jam could have benefited from not running partially concurrently.

*http://itch.io/jam/cyberpunk-jam
I know here in the US many brick-and-mortar stores have a 'no tag, no return' policy - although I'm not sure it's rigorously enforced, it's more there to stop obviously worn garments from being returned (I just returned a pair of jeans to Uniqlo that I'd taken the tags off, despite the fact the receipt did say no tag, no refund).
This may come as a surprise to people of a certain age, but the instructor's job is not to appease you.

True, but totally unrelated to the text you quoted from the parent post above.

* If the instructor believes that you'll learn more effectively by taking notes (and yes, most students will), they're entitled to do anything they wish to make that happen*

Including beating you with a metal chain and depriving you of food and water?

It's their classroom, not yours. If you want someone to coddle your unique snowflake needs, pay for a tutor. No one is chaining you to a desk.

It's all a question of perspective. When I've taught, I've always tried to keep in mind that not everyone learns the same way, learns at the same rate, or needs the same inputs. But if I, as an instructor, want everyone to learn (and I do) then it is incumbent on me to, within reason, adapt to the needs of the individuals in the room.

But hey...I do love the sense of indignant consumer entitlement ("your job is to make me happy!"), coupled with the sense of absolute helplessness ("you can't possibly ask me to choose a different product!"). It really defines the current generation of students.

Bah... people have been making comments like this about "the current generation of students" for probably as long as their have been students. And students have been complaining (rightly) that some teachers are terrible teachers and/or terrible human beings, for as long as there have been students and teachers. Nothing has changed.
Those prices are about 3x what I would normally pay for basic, casual clothing. I'm from Cincinnati though, so perhaps everything is a lot more expensive elsewhere, or maybe I'm just really cheap.

I don't like shopping much, but if I'm not being picky, it doesn't take very long to get in and out of a store, so even disregarding the price, this isn't that appealing to me. It might be more appealing if the app promised to make me look good without the effort of shopping. Just because I'm feeling lazy doesn't mean I want the person picking out my clothing to be lazy too. Keep the simplicity of the app, but go the extra mile for me. Take my sizes, but also get my age, a few snapshots, my general taste in clothing, and then really tailor your picks to me. That's something I might pay a premium for.
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I know one who does it because he is an alcoholic and a pedophile. Point being, having a Ph.D. doesn't mean you can't screw up your life in a variety of ways that limit your career options.
That's where you're confused. What they're doing isn't "science". They make no predictions and perform no experiments.

They're simply using statistics to analyze data. Their data is bad. That means that their results are meaningless.
A real alternative to floating points would be a Logarithmic number system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_number_system) which has been shown to be a "more accurate alternative to floating-point, with improved speed."
My interpretation of that rule. I think the author is only asking readers not to goof off or postpone work that can be right away. Like mentioned very often, getting into the right context for a task takes some time. So working till 8.15PM instead of leaving at 8.00PM, but completing the task at hand is better than having to come an hour early the next day. I find that even very incomplete insignificant tasks keeps nagging away in your head until you actually get around to do it.
> A later revision of IEEE 754 attempted to remedy this, but the formats it recommended were so inefficient that it has not found much acceptance.

The C and C++ standards committees have been drafting decimal support based on IEC 60559:2011 (previously IEEE 754-2008) since its creation.

Original C TR: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1312.pdf

Latest draft specification: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1781.pdf

Original C++ TR: http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2009/n284...

Update proposal for C++11: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n340...

GCC, ICC, IBM C, and HP C have adopted the extension. Links to the respective software implementations can be found under "cost of implementation" in the C++11 proposal above, except GCC, which uses IBM's library. Its support is documented here: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Decimal-Float.html

Meanwhile, hardware support so far exists in POWER6 and 7 and SPARC64 X.

This may seem like slow adoption if you aren't accustomed to the glacial pace of standards processes. Especially in the context of a component as critical as floating point numerics. If there is any holdup it would be lack of demand for this format, which the article's proposal doesn't affect.
Last time I ate lunch in the cafeteria there, it looked majority male and majority white to me. If you have stats, I will read them eagerly.
You are right. I got no points in the morning, afternoon, but lots in the evening.
Freescale management on missing aircraft
Are we talking about the same Google? Because when I was last at the headquarters, it sure looked like a suburban office park to me.
> Why? Why aren't you use half-bytes also?

I actually use half-bytes when it makes sense; my language of choice has bit-vectors so I can use exactly the number of bits I desire.

> If all your pointers are 64-bit aligned, all your variables are 64-bit aligned and your processor isn't any faster processing 16-bit numbers - if it even have instructions to process those - than 64-bit numbers?

Maybe I have an array with at least 4 16-bit numbers? If I'm counting bits, then it already means I have a lot of numbers. If I have 2 billion numbers in the range [0,15] Then I can easily represent them in an array of 4 or 8 bit values, but will run into performance issues trying to do so (if I can at all) using a similar array of 64 bit values.
thanks! Will check it out. I use noscript, which is a slightly easier option in this case than a text based browser. :) But having a very strict whitelisting policy, I have to allow 3-4 sites to run JS temporarily everytime I decide to read something on blogger.
The List of Lists and List of Lists of Lists usually results in me having to block myself from Wikipedia for the day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_lists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
If you can find one. If you aren't on the main drag, good luck. We called twice and waited for cabs which never showed up, and finally called a friend of my sister to pick us up. We would have been much happier taking an uber instead of waking up a friend if we could have.
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Indeed: the power of their lobbyists.
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The language has expanded a lot recently (2.x) series. It is no longer the language it once was. It is more advanced and not as svelte.

There's similar thing re eq/gte/etc for Python. Particulars escape me at the moment.
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> Especially as men are becoming more fashion aware.

That's a fairly broad generalisation about men. Different people care about different things. Some are happy to wear anything comfortable, some care about the choice.

There may be a big enough niche for people who really don't care about clothes as long as they aren't bad. I would happily do that for food for example... I know many people care deeply about food and like to cook, but if someone let me just exclude food I hate and shipped a randomised meal every day at a reasonable price, I'd be a happy customer.
In my experience float is well understood by very few of those who use it. I have had to explain multiple times to people who have been using floats for years that just because floats have guaranteed minimum 6 significant digits doesn't mean that the result of your calculations will be correct to 6 significant digits.
Generalizations are annoying. Not sure which "gen" I am (was born in mid 80's) I have dealt with it from family quite a bit and so has my wife. Saying we stayed in school rather than get "real jobs" (we each have masters degrees and she's a full time professor and I work as a full time business consultant). And that we don't understand "hard work" (she easily works 80 hours a week counting time in and out of the classroom and meetings and I regularly work until dawn). It's understandable as that's just sort of how people react to young people, but it is tiring.
That's great. You list a total of zero (0) security issues that have been caused by using /dev/random instead of /dev/urandom for long-lived keys.
What makes a "conversational interface"?
Seeking examples of and of course conversation about the idea of a "conversational interface"
Could We Soon See Modular Smart Watches?
I'm pretty sure there are state laws whereby you must allow some refunds (defective item, etc).
If you are worried about downvotes, be more subjective. If you mention you had bad experiences with the feature, or whenever you used it it didn't meet your needs, or ask if anyone knows a way to work around the limitations you are seeing, you're pretty safe. If you come out with a definiteive statement such as "it has crappy subtitle support" you are going to have your comment assessed differently. You'll probably get more votes, up or down depending on how many people agree or disagree with you, but that's the nature of polarizing statements.

It's not that different than speaking in person actually, except you don't have to pay attention to the reactions of others to see how your statements went over (in aggregate).