skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Geometry? But you can have 7 mutually perpendicular lines, even in a [7-dimensional] Euclidean space ... the ink thing is slightly misleading too, a yellowy-green will appear red under red-light. So that's doable. Just the transparency, oh and a choice of projection for the display in 2 or 3 dimensions of the lines ... ;0)

It's a great video.
They don't, but they're a lot saner to deal with. I don't even use inline assembly where it's supported; all the magic of a compiler, all the foot shooting of assembly, none of the transparency of either.

I'm happy either using intrinsics, or implementing assembly in separate .S files; I can't recall the last time my avoidance of inline assembly prevented me from implementing something I needed.
I agree; the work Dan Meredith at OTF is doing is truly impressive.
Microsoft had an application store in Windows XP. Remember "Find applications"? They had an online store of sorts that listed programs, but nobody bought anything on it because there didn't appear to be any vendors on it, and CD-ROMs were all the rage back then.
App Stores have only really taken off as Internet speeds have sky-rocketed. That was not the case when XP was released; everyone was on dialup or barely slow ISDN if they were lucky.
Weirdly, PE executables on Windows are Portable Executables that the system model would permit to run under not just Intel but other architectures.

Sadly the other platforms died so the portable executable is really just the stuck executable.
Artist sequences brother's RNA, creates loom-weave art
There's an app idea in the making:

Scan a bar code before you buy a product and see either a big red "EVIL" banner or a big green "GOOD" banner, depending on the ownership structure of the company who makes the product.

Version 2 could let you configure what things you consider evil (owned by private equity, venture-backed, owned by cigarette companies, etc.)
Wait, Common Crawl is part of Automattic? I had no idea!
Goodbye Chat Bubble, It Was Nice Knowing You.
This is really awesome. Great work.
Thanks for the link. The bare metal thing is probably why C guys typically see C++ as bloated and why I look at C and think "how do you write anything?!?!!"; I live happily in C++ land you see.
Just to point out, at the moment the big part of those signaled bugs does not work also in IE version < 11. This must stress the fact that, at the beginning, winJS was used only for windows app store and only recently it is being opened towards a cross platform evolution
Disagree wholly.

I don't think that a commit should be littered with commented out code, but there clearly are positive reasons to have some.

Besides, if the comment is not there, how can you be expected to know that there is old but still relevant code in the repo?
I have been in a lot of meetings where business-types suggest all sorts of ideas. I used to get really frustrated and would take the easy way out, i.e. think to myself that these guys are clueless, why am I even in this business, and just go in a really shitty place mentally.

Then something changed. About the tens of sales books I read, a nugget from one of them struck me. The idea was to re-focus / re-frame any conversation to "what are the business objectives we are trying to achieve here?". Instead of having them propose solutions, have them dig deep into the problem and where they are trying to get as a final destination. An easy way to do this is look them in the eye, smile like John Wayne and say "I have seen this many times, it's not a problem, in fact, there are hundreds of ways we can slice this, let me ask you, what are the key business objectives here? How will we be measuring the success and failure of the project from a business point of view?" Then they really go into what their problem is, and where they are trying to go. The idea is to not propose any solutions on the spot (guess what, they don't like to hear your smarty-pants / clever solutions anyway), they would like 1) for you to play therapist in the meeting and hear every last problem, 2) come back to them at a later day and tell them that every one of their problems will be solved and the cost will be low, 3) be prepared to explain how it would work (keep high level and leave the clever bits out, but don't forget to address the impact on other resources like marketing / legal / etc.) and 4) present to them a timeline of execution mixed with approvals needed at each stage.

I have fucked up 100 times, and gotten it right about 3, thats how I know. Hope it helps some wise guy (like I was) out there.
It could be that the swipe is more reliable in the app, but on the mobile website, it's not. Sometimes my swipe is ignored and sometimes I even accidentally activate the link of the current item in the carousel. #annoying
Don't you see the kinds of gyrations and hoops you're having to jump through just to get email to work even remotely similarly as an actual app?

Not to mention all the one-click-for-more, filter-by-category, etc. features that come with a native app.

It just doesn't make sense.
The Century of the Self is one of my five favorite documentaries, I would recommend it to anyone regardless of profession.
What's your fix for the man-in-the-middle attack on all platforms (including deployed ones) the audit identifies and your blog acknowledges?

In your blog post there seems to be little context that can excuse such a mistake and nothing that explains how you fix it? Am I correct in reading your blog post that right now there isn't a fix? I.e. it's an open attack assuming someone compromises a CA or a cryptocat server?

Isn't this a rather big issue since the only point of cryptocat is to protect against that kind of an attack. If you just wanted security only against eavesdroppers(i.e. you trusted the chat server), xmpp over TLS would work fine.
I think it depends on how you read mikestew's comment.

I am a physicist and I can relate to his experience. Sometimes friends/family will ask me absurd, ignorant questions and I have to pause to figure out how to answer them. But just because the questions are absurd or ignorant doesn't mean I disrespect the questioner or their other areas of competency. I think it's awesome when people have the curiosity and the confidence to ask questions that risk being ill-posed.

Taken at face value, mikestew's comment seems fine to me. I guess it depends on how much disdain you read into his usage of 'absurd' and 'ignorant'. Perhaps he meant them literally, with no connotation implied. I guess only he knows. And when the OP's intentions are not clear, it's probably not best to respond with a rude remark.
JavaScript is a slightly different situation. The degree of "sufficiently smart compiler" required to get C to run at assembly speed/power is nearly trivial (strength reducing multiply to shift? really not hard). On the other hand, the degree of "sufficiently smart compiler" required to map JS's type system and execution model to the machine is much higher and in some cases is impossible, which is why we have to use lots of JIT tricks (which takes power and time) just to get a mature, native-optimized JS program to run at half native speed at who-knows-what power.
All of us asserting what Art is or Art isn't are dancing to RZA's tune. This is probably a desired outcome of his gesture. It might annoy some, but it will be quite effective.
WRT scrolling, this is what I use in my .emacs:

(setq scroll-margin 0
scroll-conservatively 100000
scroll-preserve-screen-position 1)
(setq mouse-wheel-scroll-amount '(3 ((shift) . 1))) ;; one line at a time
(setq mouse-wheel-progressive-speed nil) ;; don't accelerate scrolling
(setq mouse-wheel-follow-mouse 't)
;; scroll window under mouse
(setq scroll-step 1)

I dislike accelerated scrolling and use searches or registers for moving in big files, so this works quite nicely for me.
Oh I am not disagreeing with you on that one. Definitely a subjective matter. Just the statement about "production-readyness" of docker comes from the docker developers themselves.
I must plead ignorance:

How is that a "workaround"?

An iPad, iPad Mini, iPod, or iPhone is your remote - the AppleTV remote is horrible anyways and I've personally long ago tossed it. Fire up your new remote and play anything you like... it's incredibly simple.
Show HN: Buzz Open for Sharing Apartment Buzzers with Multiple Phones
Yes, I think the gist of the article is that interest in outcomes evaporates with financing and consolidation. The creative destruction of capitalism becomes capricious destruction under those circumstances.
Hurray for cloud services! Let's chuck all of our microcomputers in the bin, with their massive amounts of RAM and cheap store. Cloud forever!
I disagree. A federal bureaucracy that costs $500 billion per year to operate has a very different impact, both socially and economically, than a simple transfer payment of $500 billion within the economy.
Simple - finding customers is surprisingly more difficult than you'd expect. Waaaay more difficult. I've thought about continuing consulting with big companies, but with big companies, you have to sign this sign that, get that manager's approval... it can take up to 3-4 months before you even start work (hence start charging).
On the one hand, Brendan Eich is entitled to his political views, and they do not inherently preclude him from being a great CEO.

On the other hand, a non-trivial portion of the population, particularly the next generation, see opposition to gay marriage as morally repugnant, the way most people now view anti-miscegenation laws.

I don't think this is going to go away. Mozilla will continue to suffer a minor but significant attrition of mindshare over this issue as long as he remains at the helm, regardless of his merits as a leader or as a human being.
Democratizing Robotics
"Justice Byron White played...."

He also drank milk. I mean there is no way you are seriously suggesting logic like this are you?

"Gymnastics leads to becoming a well-rounded person"

I agree that Harvard and Stanford will choose only exceptional people (that is ones without other connections or advantages etc.) However even without doing any research, I somehow feel that there are quite a few people at all the IVY league schools who don't participate in sports at all. And never have. I went to one and I never did any sports. And I knew plenty of people that never did any sports. And I know that there is no checklist that says "reject if no sports" like there might be "reject if a felon".

For that matter what makes participating in any sport (gymnastics or otherwise) a pre for being well rounded? What about handicapped people?

Lastly it's obvious that there are many schools other than Harvard, Stanford or the usual suspects that allow people to lead exceptional careers.

So the question becomes to what extent are you going to play the game in high school with extra activities to try to get into a "top" school vs. a "really good school"

Not only that but some people actually can't handle academics and sport participation.

Somehow I feel that since it is well understood that grades and sat's are quite important (and there are clear demarcation points on those values) for some students it might actually pay to not do any sport or spend time learning to program.
Google Drive's app on Mac is rubbish. No progress indication for uploads - yes! that basic feature is missing. You just get a tiny icon in the menu bar that flickers to indicate progress, and you are none the wiser. Google really are the "me too" company.
Humility is often a problem with software developers, though. Some software is still versioned 0.X after ten years of development, releases, adoption and usage. I would take any developer's claim that their software isn't production-ready with a grain of salt, and test it for your use-case for yourself.

They are probably correct-enough in that you shouldn't be using Docker in production at Google/Amazon/Facebook/wherever. It's not yet nine-nines reliable. But Docker is probably more reliable than your startup's MVP, and you shouldn't let "not production-ready" scare you away from developing and shipping your new project using Docker.
This reminds me of how software engineers have a tendency to see their viewpoint as the only correct viewpoint.

Source: Veteran software engineer.
Dear Harvard: You Win.
I tend to dislike pieces like this. Advice like this: ... but in the meantime, you can help as an individual. I recommend that you refuse to buy as much as a guitar pick from any company currently owned by a private equity firm, or any financial entity that does not come from the music industry itself. tends to not be very practical or helpful. It means that for many people their choice is do this evil immoral thing that the author is decrying as the downfall of civilization or go without entirely. Given that choice, most people will do this presumably immoral, evil thing. Because people have needs.

Stuff I would prefer to see: A list of websites helping to support alternative business models that the author thinks is not all evil and immoral. A list of businesses that try to source their products from approved, moral places as much as they can. Other pro-active things that one can actually do (other than "just don't buy from Bad Guys" -- I mean more in the vein of "here are the Good Guys you can and should buy from").

Last, "parasite" economies tend to kill themselves. Historically, Greece, India and Persia all placed extremely high value on bees as a naturally occurring mental model for business, basically: Bees neither kill flowers nor get killed by them. They exchange their service (pollination) for product (pollen, with which to make honey) and both sides gain something of benefit without being harmed. This is a brilliant thing to value culturally when most of your examples from nature fall into the category of "kill or be killed".

It is brilliant because it is the only paradigm that is sustainable. If you are enough of an asshole, you can and will be taken out eventually. Even Roman emperors sometimes got offed by their own Praetorian Guard for being too assholish to put up with. No one is beyond reach. You learn to engage in a symbiotic exchange where both sides gain something or you eventually get a Darwin Award. That's just how it is.
I had shared this a week ago here: http://mobile.theverge.com/2014/3/26/5550260/wu-tang-clan-wi...

Oh how fickle HN can be!

But to provide an actual opinion, I think this is extremely cool. We're still waiting to see where the record business is headed next and it's nice to see some outside the box thinking. The only negative in my mind is that this doesn't seem to bring us that much closer to solving the biggest issue in the music business, which is how we can get younger, fresher acts a larger share of the pie.

In any case, I really hope whoever buys it chooses to share the album with the world.
JOHN CAGE MATCH, Praxis, Wednesday (NTN) — The Wu-Tang Clan has announced the nonrelease of their new album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, to be made available in an edition of no copies.

“Music is a commodity these days and we want it treated as art,” said RZA. “The LP record you listened to reverently at home gave way to the portable cassette and CD, and now the copiable and disposable MP3. But the rarer the art, the better. So we’re making the album available as no copies whatsoever. It’s artier that way.”

The album will be unavailable as a double blank CD-R, though the band is considering refusing to offer it on blank LP and blank cassette as well. An MP3 of silence will also be withheld, as will an Apple Lossless download of silence from iTunes. The first video, “ ”, is not up on YouTube and Vimeo in the form of four minutes’ silence and a blank screen.

The album failed to be recorded at home by the band over the past several years. “Art only suffers from excessive physical realisation. In fact, the more physical realisation, the further the art falls from the perfection of the conception. So what we did was stay home in bed and think really hard about what the record should sound like. Frankly, it’s amazing. Well, we think it would be.”

The band hopes to get five meeellion dollarsss for this conceptual work. “We firmly believe that art — art! — should not suffer the petty, tawdry, bourgeois constraints of genre, media gatekeepers, critics, quality or existence. But the absolutely key point — which we’re completely clear on — is that it should be paid for with actual money.”

MODAL LOGIC PROVES THE EXISTENCE OF ONCE UPON A TIME IN SHAOLIN

(I) The existence of a perfect Wu-Tang album does not necessarily entail the existence of gratuitous suffering.

(II) If a perfect Wu-Tang album is possible, then the perfect being necessarily exists (given axiom S5 of modal logic).

(III) The perfect Wu-Tang album is possible. (This is a logical consequence of (I).)

(IV) The perfect Wu-Tang album necessarily exists (modus ponens on (II) and (III).

(V) Therefore, the apparently-nonexistent album does in fact exist, and you should pay real money for it.

http://newstechnica.com/2014/04/02/new-wu-tang-clan-album-av...
Have you noticed how Amazon Prime now has the rubbishest films on it for the "included with Prime" section but the films you'd expect to be included are now "buy!" or "rent!"
Lines, by definition, are also infinitely thin and extend infinitely far. By definition, they cannot exist in our world of atoms. :)

When people use the word line to refer to something in the real world, there are often some unstated assumptions baked in. I guess it's important for the consultant and the client to have the same understanding of what those unstated assumptions truly are.
Edit:

In retrospect this is probably what seems to have made people upset (from the comments below)

"Gymnastics, nice, leads to ?"

That said I'm appreciative for the other perspectives.

I didn't mean to imply that there was no value in sports (although for sure that is what my sentence seems to say). What I meant is that I thought the value of the other program (FIRST) was more valuable in terms of setting the child apart. That's strictly my opinion it's obvious that others see it differently. You only have so much time in a week you can't do everything and have to triage based on what you feel the best outcome is.
This reminds me of the future predicted in Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge.

Where he explores the ability to spin up pools of analysts like a cloud server.
Or even better, right-click the bottom left corner of the screen, go to Shutdown or Sign-out. Along with a ton of other stuff that power users want most of the time.
I had hope until our president invaded our neighbor.
But I agree, things like more or less free communication, better educated population and politicians that are at least held accountable by their western counterparts and the rise of the global economy will most likely improve things for the better rather than worsen the situation.

Your analysis is spot on though as a lot of our 'misery' is engrained in our culture and that simply takes more/longer to change than merely switching government.
Here is our blog post about our audit of Cryptocat, which was also announced today: https://leastauthority.com/blog/
MS also has more people using a 14 year old OS than their latest and greatest.
Thoughts on the movie “Particle Fever”
I can get you the resources for a Euclidean spacer, if that's the issue.
I just got this as well. I hope that this extends to all accounts regardless of history! Our software requires our customers to have a Stripe account to take payments and pitching 2 day transfers vs 7 would be a huge help!
People under the Roman Republic were also programmed to revolt at the notion of a Roman King...
Consumers are souring on Web, post-NSA, survey says
What do you get when you put Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft on iPad? Fun
I read that as the post-campaign follow-on pre-orders which tend to be fairly standard these days.
To RFP Or Not RFP? You Be The Judge
I used to work in Investment Management, primarily with wealthy clients.

Some clients would request that portions of their portfolio be devoted to 'Ethical', 'Socially Responsible', 'Green', etc. companies or funds. Ask them to elaborate on what exactly constitutes a 'Socially Responsible' company, and you get wildly different answers.

I guess what I am getting at is any definition of 'EVIL' or 'GOOD' is highly subjective. For example, not everyone would consider cigarette companies to be 'EVIL' ;)
Lines also, by definition, have no beginning or end. They're defined by a simple equation like y = mx + b. Good luck drawing one of those with any ink.
I have never worked with business people who were this stupid.
There is something funny when you have an entire post about supposed "parasites", that then try to sell you $800 dollars conference seats ("Transition Economics", "Book Now!").
Why go to the campus administration and not the police?
It's worth revisiting the original HN post from last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6097155

IMHO she deserves kudos not just for accomplishing her goal (which really is impressive enough on its own) but doing so in the face of a community with such deeply ingrained sexism that some people thought it "suspicious" at the outset.

Obviously she's a strong enough person that this kind of stuff didn't derail her project, but one can only imagine what a different world we'd be in if projects like these were met with more encouragement and less derision.

Not that the haters are getting any satisfaction today.
Which of the bugs were due to debugging code?
I'm a web developer.

I open an editor, a browser window, and a terminal. Then I write some code, testing it in the browser and checking the logs in terminal when I need to.

I resize the browser every now and then to make sure that what I'm making is acceptably responsive. I use the browser's developer tools quite a lot to inspect elements and interact with javascript directly.

After I make some progress, I make a commit with git by using git add -p and git commit. Then I push those changes to GitHub on a branch that has a Pull Request waiting.

After I have completed whatever I'm working on, I wait for a code review on that thing. As I'm waiting, I begin working on something else. After I address any comments, I merge the pull request and continue what I was working on before.

I use Atom, Google Chrome, and Terminal.app.
Am I really missing it or are they announcing a new version with no release notes?

edit: it seems that they had them in the blog post for the release candidate http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2014/02/25/announ...
I suspect it was downvoted for a lot of reasons. For example: What on earth is your problem with him asking this? So maybe you don't want to give time to a 12 yo girl. Does that mean others will not? There's just a lot of arrogance there. (and I could think of others, but I am honestly not trying to attack you, just give some feedback as to why this likely got downvoted)

But since you asked: I am female and did gymnastics as a kid. What has it led to? It has led to someone who knows how to fall without ending up in the ER. I have a serious medical condition which sometimes leaves me neurologically impaired. I sometimes fall down under circumstances where I really should be left bloody and with broken bones and the like. I am usually left with a few bruises and strains. That a) is worth big bucks in terms of money not spent on major medical care and b) priceless because god knows I have suffered enough from my medical condition, I don't need to be in the effin ER every time I turn around because I stupidly feel down. I have enough pain and physical limitations without it being constantly compounded by more scars and the like.

Gymnastics training is not just some frivolous indulgence.