skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be warned though, this kind of intense visualization of bad consequences (or positive rewards) can also back-fire: if you start associating thoughts about your work with potential negative consequences it could drive you to shut down / try to distract yourself harder, and if you start daydreaming about positive consequences it could satisfy your reward circuitry and reduce your motivation.

In other words, you have to know yourself and your own triggers and defense mechanisms: what works for one person might be the worst possible thing for another.
Mandatory Dilbert http://dilbert.com/2013-11-06/

(hint: even closing the thing is not straight-forward)
This sounds like your opinion that comes off as a fact...
I've done plenty to cars. Have done plenty with computers too. I wouldn't let my family and friend ride in a car with compromized safety systems.
Automation Alone Isn’t Killing Jobs
Links from one of the best riddle website : http://www.wuriddles.com/cigarettes.shtml

Cylinder Length | Max cylinders that can touch | Min cylinders that can touch

Infinite | 7 | 5

Actual | 9 | 7

L=D | 4 | 4
Ha, wondered why they've never caught on here in the UK.
Diving into the python pickle format
You probably can't. If stopping cheating is a goal you need to go for client-server were you host the servers yourself. A lot of developers are not prepared to take that on.
The author makes some valid points, but he seems indifferent to the most important question: why program computers at all? He doesn't seem to enjoy it much (although that may be more of a sarcastic tone). I think we need more devs who do it because they want to accomplish something particular, and less devs who are doing it cause computers are kewl (or to get paid for that matter). With a utility view, the choice of low-high level gets less emotional:

* high-level is more productive in the short run, but may hinder you in the long run

* mid-level (C-ish level) tend to be more portable and more future proof

* low-level will probably give you better resource usage (speed, memory etc), but not necessarily these days

Personally, I find C++ (plus open source libraries) gives the best trade-off, but that's probably dependent on the task (I do audio/video analysis/synthesis).
Question I've not found the answer to:

It's possible to have 7 arbitrarily long cylinders
mutually touching. Currently it's not possible to
have more than 5 coins (which are short cylinders)
mutually touching. As the cylinder's aspect ratio
decreases, where are the thresholds: 7 -> 6 -> 5 ?
512(f) + evidence
The Klein bottle is sort of like that, only it's supposed to be in 4 dimensions, but the 3d version is still pretty cool and quite famous!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle

Never heard about the gomboc before, thanks!
You don't have to imagine every soldier having that, there are already armed forces doing that now. The technologies have improved enough and the costs come down so low that it's affordable for even a mid-level country's armed forces to do it.

I've seen one of these systems demonstrated, which uses a cigarette-box sized unit with a GPS sensor, GSM modem, satellite transceiver, military radio connector and battery inside. Positions were encrypted and transmitted via least-cost routing to a centralised command and control system, showing the position of each soldier in real-time.

Of course, in real operations it becomes difficult to maintain line-of-sight radio communications over long distances, cellular service is spotty in combat zones and satellite communications are expensive even with small data packets. So the related infrastructure requires careful thinking too.

So I agree with you, this seems a worthwhile investment for the military benefits alone. It's one of the main reasons to have an indigenous space programme in the first place.
The beautiful thing about experiencing different cultures is that it will allow you to open your mind about how things can be done differently. You'll walk away either feeling more reassured about how you have grown up doing something, or you'll learn something wonderful.

Being from the UK I do most of those. I sit here in my slippers, ready to go do bed under my duvet where I'll get up and eat my cereal, have a shower and head to work without a hat.

If you want to know about something crazy us Brits do, we're the only country to cause our national grid issues by simultaneously turning on a kettle to make a cup of tea at the end of EastEnders.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove/stories/people/teatime...
The Era of WebGL
Actually I do expect a certain degree of privacy while in public. No everyone is comfortable with Google spying and data mining everything they can get their hands on.
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I seen cricket for 50 cents/pound on street market in India.
I seem to recall reading that (1) the DMCA is not being used for YouTube takedowns (YouTube has its own takedown process that doesn't have a possible penalty of perjury), and (2) an automated process won't ever meet the bar for penalties under the DMCA.

Obviously I'm not a lawyer, and I'd love to see someone turn the tide with a solid victory against a false DMCA or non-DMCA takedown. Corrections welcome.
Non-Intrusive WebGL – Part 1: Context Loss and Preloading
He's got a point about sheets and blankets. I've never understood the appeal of tucking a top sheet in at the foot of the bed; I sleep with my feet sticking out of the covers, lest they sweat.

He's also got a point about showers, or at least about the timing thereof; I generally take two a day, one in the morning and one when I get home. Not since childhood, though, have I seen a bath as a place to relax, or indeed had a bath at all; the purpose of a shower is to get clean, which rarely takes more than ten minutes, fifteen if I also need a shave. On the other hand, as I understand it, Russian culture includes, or has included until recently, a tradition of social bathing, and perhaps I'd feel differently about bathing had I origins in such a culture; in the United States, no such tradition has ever existed.

And, as far as the adulteration of vodka goes, we do it because we're all lightweights! In the United States, being able to drink a big glass of straight vodka and not end up vomiting or passed out on the floor (or both, in any order) makes you an alcoholic; perhaps our Puritan ancestors are to blame for this, as for so many other things, but it's generally true nonetheless.
If a launch vehicle can place satellite in a geostationary transfer orbit with calculated apogee of 35, 786 km itself, the the apogee raising operation (i.e. perigee firing) is not required. Satellite can just start firing at apogee to transfrom elliptical orbit to circular orbit.

ISRO's PSLV-XL placed IRNSS-1B at an apogee of 20,630 km. So, ISRO needs to do apogee raising before transforming into circular orbit.
Spherical Panaroma Timelapse
Next time buy a Steam box ;-)

I'm not sure Sony's actually worse than Microsoft, which says enough about both.
Suicidal ideation covers active thoughts ("this is the method I will use; this is my plan; here is a note") and passive thoughts ("I wish I wasn't here anymore"; "they'd be better off without me" etc).

Depression covers a broad range of behaviours and severities.

But to say "anti depressants can cause odd thinking in some people during the first few weeks of use, and people starting anti depressants should be closely monitored" is not controversial. You mention bipolar - it is important to be very careful with SSRIs and people with (possibly undiagnosed) bipolar.

http://www.mhra.gov.uk/ConferencesLearningCentre/LearningCen...
My apologies. "What" ideas are being suppressed?

More in general, can't all social or political boycotts, ranging from the boycott against Boycott and absentee landownership, to the Indian boycott of British goods and British colonialism, to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and race discrimination, to the anti-apartheid boycott, to the US boycott of Cuban goods be interpreted as "suppressing" a disliked idea?

If so, then I can understand how someone who uses that definition of "suppress" can object to any social or political boycott. While I do support the right to boycott, as part of the right to free association, so I don't have the same definition.
10. Americans that have graduated from prestigious universities will mention that fact at any opportunity.
[Ask HN] Any Bump alternatives?
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I'm curious where he was in the United States that hats weren't de rigeur for very cold weather; I never saw anyone wear a hat in my Mississippi boyhood, but that's because it never dropped below forty (Fahrenheit) there. Here in Baltimore, when it gets cold out, everyone wears a hat who's going to be outside for more than five minutes at a stretch; I found it weird at first, but quickly discovered that, like a scarf, it's the only thing that makes sense when the temperature outside is measured in single digits.
There is a console client for Wave:
http://www.waveprotocol.org/code/console-client
This seems pretty spot on to me. More moving parts = more failure points...as a web engineer, I find myself bitten more by the trappings of abstract code structure than by things like faulty algorithms. This ties pretty heavily into why I feel the standard technical interview for web engineering talent is severely broken, but I digress.
I'd mine doge on a Tesla. Maybe it would mine enough to pay for a rapid battery change once a year on its own.
From the article: "While the no left turn rule has an appealingly simple and algorithmic quality to it, you will see UPS drivers take left turns on occasion, especially in residential neighborhoods without much incoming traffic."

So, no, they do turn left. More title mythology.
Responsive Video Embed
Lol paying for marketing. Go find your customers, it's free.
Thank you for posting this, the best quote so far has been this: "Prior to the 18th century virtually everyone on the planet died in the same world they were born into". This is a realization I never had, we take progress for granted but it's a precious thing actually.
I can see the use case for json, but hardly for anything else. What's wrong with just using a class here? Seems very similar to how it would work in java script.
... but your robot isn't delicious...
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The song Spaced by Beaver & Krause made this sound before THX, in 1970 on the album Wild Sanctuary

3:10 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xKO3KAtDZ0

Edit: additional wikipedia searching reveals this unsourced fact

"A variation of the end of their track "Spaced" from the Wild Sanctuary album became the inspiration for dual gliding synthesizer soundtrack for the copied THX Sound Logo in movie theaters, also for which neither Beaver or Krause were compensated."

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_%26_Krause)
Noam Baradin (CEO of Waze) about Unicorns
It seems like this solution implicitly acknowledges (and fails to resolve) the fact that their game has frequent, pervasive desyncs. The bug being described is only possible when in a state of persistent desync - that's a little scary in a competitive or semi-competitive game (like most games in the 'MOBA' genre are, including Awesomenauts).

I wonder what their reasons were for going with peer-to-peer instead of anointing a player as the 'server' as many other console multiplayer games do (Awesomenauts started out on console, IIRC)? That would solve a lot of these desync problems because the server would be responsible for resolving all the collisions.
Well, last time I looked for it, I couldn't find any older studies on the IPCC website that have been shown to be wrong.

However, having lived and read newspapers at the time, I remember the scare mongering, and specifically the mention of the "Marker Tree" in the Maldives, which were projected to to have significant areas under water by 2010, then 2020, now 2100 (spolier: it didn't happen https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201107180902...)

A quick googling cannot find the original predictions (days before the web ... go figure), but this interesting discussion http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/the-1990-ipcc... will give you an idea about the difference between 25 year old predictions and what actually happened. The guy who runs this blog is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Baez

Other readings: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/01/28/un-climate-report-... (yes, it is fox news - so use your debiaser, but do look at the content). Also the responses and links over at http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-assessment...
I have no clue about the SEO dynamics but I do know RetailMeNot used to be more legit and organic user generated. At some point they made a change and got coopted by companies paying to post codes. Maybe that original popularity is what gives them search result rankings.
Actually the Uk has a better national grid than the USA which has far more brownouts
I've actually switched to using a Reply<T> for anything which models the TrySomething pattern.

So it looks like:

var possibleInt = TryParse(s);
if(!possibleInt.Success)
{
//Fail out early
}
var actualInt= possibleInt.Data;

(Our Reply objects also allow for messages to be passed up, so that various layers can report details of the error they bumped into, and the presentation layer can then display them.)
One of the problems I've been struggling with lately is how to arrange for this sort of work, while still allowing the researchers to make a living. Governments and large corporations seem to have by and large lost interest in funding it, and a small company doesn't have the resources to make it sustainable. How do we solve this?
Ask HN: What does is the function of systemd?
Seems topical.

I don't know half the terminology in the wikipedia article, and, in light of recent events, it seems worthwhile to know.
I agree with you now ... but you're much smarter than I was as a 17 year-old! (or perhaps the right word is wiser)
Brb, I'm gonna create CylinderCoin.
Perhaps he's a tad obnoxious, but he says some interesting things.

- think of the future, than reason backwards

- use Moore's law in reverse

- an introvert character can be helpful in coming up with real inventions

- be interested in new ideas for the sake of them being new, not because they are useful now, or accepted, or understandable

- it seems good to sell stuff that can be instantly used, people however, like many other things. they might for example like to learning or get skilled. the bike example is one. but also the piano. or the skateboard.

At least, this is what I tried to grasp from it. :-)
Which of the 35 do you think are so difficult to deal with that startups will have to hire consultants or professional web design firms to deal with?

Most looked to me as things that are fairly easy to do, and fairly easy to tell if you got them right.
A lot of his talk was wasted on irrelevant complaining about lack of capex in R&D. That's only partly correct. Any one of us can afford to rent a crazy amount of computing power and storage on demand. Pfft.

In short, skip the first 20 minutes. He's being a grumpy old man. In the second part, he's a pissed-off genius and revolutionary.
At first glance it might come off as hubris, but it's actually just a way of separating what we now know as technology (consumer technology) which is mostly just incremental from the other kind of technology which is innovative and profoundly transformative.

When he talks about the research that went on at the Parc back in the 70s it's not to show his accomplishments but to show the difference between commercial products addressed to the masses and touted as technological breakthroughs and real breakthroughs that happen way before the mass production and slowly make their way into society and bring about enormous changes and wealth.
Probably a good time to mention that Google Ventures invested in RetailMeNot.

I think keeping these kind of coupon codes as a %rev affiliate model rather than CPC ads makes it easier to justify the high level of spending (much of which is cannabilizing other marketing channels) - if it was more directly comparable to adwords & Product Listing Ads CPC-based costs, I think more large brands would move faster to cut the wasteful spending going on in these programs.

Right now many rationalize it as "4% of revenue is a great acq cost" - but it's not a true acquisition cost as you already acquired many of these customers and if the affiliate sites didn't exist, 99% of these sales would still happen.

If you're a pure SEO built company, are you really betting it all on SEO? Without it you'd have no company, and if it weren't risky, there would be no opportunity left.
An entity that files false copyright claims can face legal consequences:

> Misuse of this process may result in the suspension of your account or other legal consequences.

That said, this was probably a ContentID claim, which means the video / audio stream matched something similar-looking from Sony according to software designed by Youtube, in which case Sony isn't liable. That system is plagued by false positives since day 1.

In which case, since Youtube users agreed to the TOS, no, they are not allowed to sue for libel:

> YouTube shall not be liable to you for […] the deletion of […] any Content […] maintained or transmitted by or through your use of the Service

https://www.youtube.com/static?gl=GB&template=terms

http://www.youtube.com/yt/copyright/copyright-complaint.html
Well, the first paragraph did say

> The solution we finally managed to come up with is also a good example of how very incorrect workarounds can actually be a really good solution to a complex problem.

So you knew they were presenting a "very incorrect workaround"---which, counterintuitively, worked better than some of the more "correct" things they tried.
In many RTS peer-2-peer games like Starcraft or Age of Empires, they use a lock-step model, which can stop the majority of cheating.

Every player uses a tick-engine (ie tick every 0.1s) that performs the same commands on the same ticks. When a player issues a command, such as "Build Unit X", it sends it to every other player to run a couple ticks ahead (how far ahead is based on average lag or whatever). If anyone performs differently, then a de-synchronization occurs and the game is over.

It's explained much better here http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3094/1500_archers_on_a...
"Because the game's outcome depended on all of the users executing exactly the same simulation, it was extremely difficult to hack a client (or client communication stream) and cheat. Any simulation that ran differently was tagged as "out of sync" and the game stopped. Cheating to reveal information locally was still possible, but these few leaks were relatively easy to secure in subsequent patches and revisions. Security was a huge win. "
The only part of this "deep note" that I like is the very end; top of the crescendo. The first part has always creeped me out worse than watching Hostel for the first time.
Let's list it then shall we:

We've had DRM hell, lots of proprietary crap (media formats/interfaces/software), impossible to get parts for most machines after a year (I've repaired a lot of Sony kit), poor support, stuff that doesn't actually work properly ever, screwing of Linux PS users, massive leaks of data, shoddy engineering at best, predatory behaviour as a media publisher and possibly the worst user interfaces of any devices ever.

Who haven't they pissed off?
The comparison between interracial marriages doesn't impress me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7534146

> Civil marriage is about two people deciding to form a partnership together

A marriage has traditionally been understood to be a partnership between a man a woman. Do you deny this? Yes, I'm aware of the muddled and unsavory history of the institution of marriage. But it most recently has been understood to be a partnership between a man and a woman. Society's views are evolving, as it has done in the past. But those who would prefer to keep the traditional understanding are not hateful monsters.

>The rational basis test requires that laws have a... rational basis.

That's not what it means (according to links you provided regarding the "rational basis test"). Its simply a question of whether the government has a basis/interest in the law in question. It's analogous to a jurisdiction test. The government certainly does have an interest in defining marriage since it confers certain benefits. To claim the government has no rational basis for defining who can receive tax benefits is highly suspect. It's also rather strained to reference one opinion from one court as the final word on a matter when there have been other opinions that did not claim a rational basis exclusion. Clearly, this isn't obvious or settled in any way.
Ask HN: What SaaS products do you wish were free?
Hey HN, I'm curious to find out if there are any SaaS products out there that you really love and don't currently pay for, but would use regularly if they were free?
Interesting. I would have thought that one could solve such things exactly by representing each unique known irrational that arises (root 2, pi, etc) by its own rational multiplier, and then overloading the relevant equality checks. Of course, you'd need to anticipate/implement each irrational type that might arise (roots, the geometric transcendental pi, and so on.)

[Leaving the next sentence in, for comedy value. I typed it and then realised how ridiculous it is - apologies!]

Essentially it's just teaching the computer to do the algebra for you, isn't it?
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I just wondered, if the parts of the trucks (specially wheels and steering parts) have uneven wear (off?) by this practice.

Apart from that, sounds like a good engineering/optimization result.

PS: But there is a solution to that problem, as I see the other posts around .... just bring the trucks with uneven wear to the UK after a while ...
Low-level programming requires a great deal of knowledge, in exchange for which you get an enormous amount of control over how your efforts behave. High-level programming offers the prospect of a quick start, but, especially with today's web frameworks, you tend to rapidly find yourself bogged down in dealing with magic that's baked into the platform and which nobody really bothered documenting very well because "it just works" -- which is fine, except when it doesn't, and you get to spend time working on your tools, instead of the problem you're using them to solve. I don't want to RAILS name any names here RAILS, but RAILS I'm sure every RAILS web developer has RAILS at least RAILS some RAILS inkling of RAILS what I'm RAILS talking RAILS about RAILS here RAILS RAILS RAILS.

My observation of the programmers with whom I've worked, and whom I know socially, has been that a given hacker's degree of intelligence and capability tends to be inversely proportional to the thickness of the stack on which he chooses to base his efforts; the smartest person I know, who has multiple doctorates and is currently busy breaking new ground in bioinformatics, doesn't even use libraries if he can help it, and complains constantly about the frustrating misbehaviors of those which turn out to be irreducibly necessary. Perhaps I've merely been observing a constellation of coincidence, but on the whole I rather doubt it.

(P.S. for the benefit of anyone who feels like I've just called him stupid: my last gig was a Rails job, and if you took all the programmers I've ever known and broke their smarts up into quintiles, I'd be somewhere in the upper second, maybe the lower third. It doesn't take genius to recognize genius at work; I've merely been uncommonly fortunate, for the most part, in my choice of friends and colleagues.)

(P.P.S. for general use: Speaking of recognizing genius at work, it scintillates in every jot and tittle of the article here under discussion.)