skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But how could it be any other way? Isn't it an inherent gamble to develop drugs since most of the drug-creation attempts are bound to fail?
You could just pay researchers to "try" to come up with drugs, regardless of whether they get results, but that doesn't seem like it would work very well. Is there any other way to smooth out the rewards?
Sears does use a type of cell phone for checkout but it does seem to have a modified camera with a laser scanner instead. Something more interesting would have been a new type of amazon smart phone with built in laser scanner and some extra buttons for scan/talk.
About 20 days ago the same thing happened, and I posted a nearly identical comment. Then, it was a link that was to localhost. Some folks definitely seem to be gaming the system. Only the bad links have allowed their detection.
"This Social Progress Index ranks New Zealand No. 1, followed by Switzerland, Iceland and the Netherlands."

I can only speak for the Netherlands but our population is anything but homogenous. Our politics and societal issues are in fact dominated by racial, cultural and religious differences. It's almost all we talk about.
What's your opinion on going down to the liquor store, waving a magic wand that turns one bottle of tequila into a dozen, then stuffing the extra bottles into your bag and legging it?

"Software piracy" is a dumb phrase, but it's necessary because software piracy and theft are not the same thing. When you steal something, the person you stole from doesn't have it anymore.
Yes of course. All markets are the same. High frequency teachers FTW!
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fixing this now, thanks for note!
I was looking at devkmsg_open() because of Linus's patch, and I noticed that user->prev initialization is missing in that function and a few other places where seq/idx gets reset.

This is at best a minor bug since it only affects the first line read from /dev/kmsg, but I thought I'd point it out if anyone wants to fix it.
> I can't think of a better idea than incentivising people to reproduce more and as soon as possible

And for those who can't...? Just keep penalising them to teach them a lesson?

For 30 years I had no intimate or sexual relations with anyone. Not my choice by any means, but this proposal would have financially punished me because no-one else wanted to have a relationship with me. Thanks! A double-whammy of unhappiness.

And what about the gay community?

What about sterile people?

I am in a relationship now, with children, but strongly oppose this idea.
Ah yes, he could've spared himself the trouble by just parroting empty words. The heretic should've just recanted!

>there is no reason to believe his vague "stance" on equality.

There is: no one at Mozilla Co. publically doubted his stance on equality, in fact you had many coming to his side. It was people at Mozilla Fnd. who've never interacted with him, were the ones with doubts.

But instead of waiting for Eich, who said "I can only ask for your support to have the time to “show, not tell”; and in the meantime express my sorrow at having caused pain,[1]" to actually back up his words with actions, a bunch of social justice warriors decided that the heretic must burn. I'm not going to call them equal-marriage rights advocates because they're just acted like a bunch of bullies who thought he'd somehow "evolve" like our politicking President did.

It's shameful.

Hello to the person who decided to downvote all of my posts in a dead discussion, though. You must be so proud. Could've at least replied with a comment comparing Eich to the KKK or something.

[1] https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/
Right, my point was just that there is a specified way for the server to tell the client not to use HSTS any more. Of course, the caveats you mention mean that to be certain, you would need to wait.
it does the same for me in Chromium 33.0.1750.152, but works with Firefox 28.0
>scheduler

eh, it could pin threads at realtime priority

>caching

vm wouldn't use the OS cache

>memory allocation

it can easily allocate memory up front
This is quite confusing after reading Sievers' reply on Google+ (third comment on the post) [1]

> my last kernel patch is more than a year old, my last non-trivial kernel patch 2 years old. i stopped working on the upstream kernel "long ago" for reasons i cannot stand the attitude of these guys, i decided to work with grown up or funny, or grown up and funny people instead and i enjoy it a lot more. not sure what this childish blackmail attempt relates to.﻿

[1]: https://plus.google.com/108087225644395745666/posts/3cWXzYqB...
This is precisely how it works.

You say things to the mic or scan items and they show up on your Dash list. From here, you can add them to your cart to check out.

Generic things like eggs, milk etc will default to the item you typically would order, so there is an aspect of personalization to it as well.
What car are you selling?
Proud parents. http://thebentangle.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/goat-and-she...
Something like that happened to me, and I was very confused when I ended up at a website I had built a while ago - it was still running on that machine on localhost...I was scared that the website had made it to the frontpage, and sad when I realized it actually hadn't...
This is a taste of augmented reality. I like it. I'm left a bit unsatisfied though. I want to experience the real thing now.
The Future Of Wearable Devices Will Be Human Centric
Its rubberized. Would be pretty hard to open a beer bottle with it. :)
While mules are overwhelmingly sterile, I thought it was neat to learn that there are instances of fertile female mules, though no male ones are on record as having been fertile.
Older generations use their phones for...calling people. Not refreshing Facebook every 30s. That means the phone will be in the last place where they made a phone call, which could easily be the basement. This thing? Its somewhere in the kitchen maybe; exactly where it is supposed to be used.
Part of the confusion is the confusing terminology. "Shader" is a bad name. How do you "shade" a vertex? That implies color, when in fact vertex "shading" is really about deforming the position of vertices. It has nothing to do with color!

"Vertex program" is a better term.

That brings us to "pixel shader." That's actually a good name in order for beginners to learn the concept, but it's imprecise. OpenGL insists on calling it a "fragment program" because with certain forms of antialiasing, there are multiple "fragments" per pixel. "Program" is also a better name than "shader" because there are things you can do per-pixel other than change the color. For example you could change the depth written to the Z-buffer, or you could cause the pixel to be skipped based on some criteria, like whether the texture color is pink.

Anyway, it's just a tiny program that executes either per-vertex or per-pixel. For example you could write a vertex program which moves each vertex in a sinewave pattern based on time. Or you could write a fragment program to change the color of each pixel from red to green and back based on time.

Then there are more advanced/recent concepts like a "geometry program," which lets you generate triangles based on vertices or edges.

Sometimes I wonder if it's overly complicated, or if the problem domain is just complicated. It took me years as a kid to finally grok this, but once I learned it, it turned out to be very simple. Honestly it wasn't until I got up enough courage to sit down with the OpenGL specs and read through them that everything clicked. They're dry reading but not difficult.
Assassination via car hacking would have seemed like sci-fi a decade or two ago.

See Michael Hastings conspiracy theories: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/michael-hastings-ca...
Says it needs an internet connection, but a cell phone as a hotspot would do that pretty easily.
Suspended animation trials begin on humans
Udacity Course: Make Your Own 2048
why not sockets?
Two tips:

1) Don't whine about downvotes.

2) You can't downvote comments replying to your own, so the only post I could (and did) downvote was your first one.
I assumed it was so you could put it on your keyring.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep%E2%80%93goat_hybrid

quoting: "Darwinism – An Exposition Of The Theory Of Natural Selection With Some Of Its Applications (1889)"

"It has been long known to shepherds, though questioned by naturalists, that the progeny of the cross between the sheep and goat is fertile. Breeds of this mixed race are numerous in the north of Europe.""
You know,

I'm looking on craiglist in the Bay Area. It is pretty frustrating, I'll admit.

All those things you describe would be nice but any service like that would inherently restrict you to those seller savvy enough to put all that stuff down. Most people don't seem like and so you'd be only scanning a small subset of available cars. Is having them presented in an orderly fashion worth having few listings - of course not. Yeah, the sellers and buyers are a real mixed lot. But an organized website can't conjure a whole new pool of buyers and sellers into existence.
50% income tax rate? Wow... have to wonder how much one makes to have to pay that amount of tax! Anyway, the real question is whether you can sell for more than 47.5K after biting the inconvenience and spending time.
`stty` is not Linux specific, it's common to all Unix-derived systems (including Mac OS X, for example). Windows is not Unix-derived.
well, bugs or not, 487 bytes is a new high bar... I guess the lisp lads might need to curl up their sleeves.
You always need to learn the tools you're using. If you rely on autocomplete to learn those tools, you're going to write the kind of shitty software I loathe.
The experiment could involve adding a few nonexistent businesses to Yelp, half of which refuse to buy yelp ads, and half of which do buy them.
Linus Torvalds talk in Portland at 3rd of April 2014
5-year-old hacks Xbox, now he's a Microsoft 'security researcher'
Yes, "who is going to be harmed" should be the question, not anything about sexuality. Unfortunately most people, both pro-gay and anti-gay miss that point and continue to hold arbitrary prejudices against the sexualities and activities which don't fit what their peers tells them to believe. I can't enumerate them on HN without creating hostility but to get a feeling for the hypocrisy of strongly pro-gay advocates, see Paul Graham's "What You Can't Say" essay http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
Do they make the actual bug fix public? Seems to me that authentication with a few space bar hits should be worth more than $50 and a few games.
"Liberals get fired by their conservative employers for their views all the time."

Burden of proof is on you to prove this. Citing an example here and there does not qualify, since that constitutes something like 0.000000001% of conservative bosses who have liberal employees. I have all day. Please provide your evidence. Thanks.
In Pursuit of Inspiration
Show HN: Email service for cryptocurrecy users
HN got really trigger happy in the last few weeks.

That part of the comment only is partially correct, and not was even the main point of my comment; what I really meant was that it doesn't belong in windows, and the main point was that the code is not portable.
Unfortunately it's the same every time it is played. It needs some srand() love in there somewhere.
1. Do you have to find your frying pan every time you cook food also? This is a kitchen utensil with a dedicated storage location. Its not comparable to finding your phone which might still be left in your car even.

2. I think its very unlikely a device like this in year 2014 will have a power on button. Scan and power on will most likely be the same thing. Charging battery of yet another device is still a hurdle though

4-7 is something you only do once a week, and this action could still be done on the phone,
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Cellular Automaton Creates Music on iOS
I'm not a Linux expert, but why are other services even allowed the possibility of writing to the kernel log? I seems that this should simply not be possible. If you make it possible, someone will surely abuse it sooner or later.
Thanks. I should have mentioned I already looked at statcounter. The data for desktops is OK, but what I really want is the most common user-agent/resolution combos. It's easy enough for me to check the Apple ones, just by looking up the specs of recent models, but I don't really know what mid-range Android phone specs to target, as there are so many models.
More Super Soldier stuff. I was reading in a book by a Green Beret who served in Vietnam, where he mentioned a new type of grenade launcher they received that had a faster rate of fire than the standard one. I thought, "oh this is going to be exciting, he's leading up to something here" but what the author lead up to was a description of the extreme strain on the guy who was lugging the thing around through the hot jungle. First he begged to be allowed to bury the extra grenades and then after doing that asked (IIRC) if he could just leave the weapon behind--they were being pursued by Viet Cong. Ever since I read that, I look at the Super Soldier stories in a different light. These guys are alpha-testing stuff that could just as easily get them killed. Having worn contacts I can only imagine the type of reaction this might get from someone who has served in dusty or polluted areas.

Edit: Didn't mean to sound grouchy :D
Not sure why you're downvoted when you're completely correct. Kind of odd we have supposedly technical people on here who confuse median and mean.
I am not sure if there are any scientific material concerning the 20-20-20 thing, just some blog posts and a webMD page: http://www.webmd.com/eye-health/computer-vision-syndrome?pag... . Its just something to try, as taking eye breaks every now and then is probably good. But, thanks for the feedback!

For more general purpose break management tools, theres some pomodoro (not sure how scientific that is either) time/break managing tools online, but I might add some bars or user customizable bars if I get around to it. I usually try to stretch or take some deep breaths whenever my 20 minutes are up. For something like going outside, you could just add a weekday timer/reminder on your phone/watch at foo and bar times of day.
Holy math fail batman! You are completely wrong. Learn to distinguish between mean and median before you try to lecture us on 6th grade math.
Ask HN: Expected ROI of a random investment strategy in startups? 
Even formulating a precise definition of those things is tough, but I'm curious if there has been any good analysis on what kind of a baseline ROI you would expect a random strategy to net if you are picking from some restricted domain like early stage tech startups of a certain type. I understand its not a precise analogue to the stock market, but it would be interesting to see if you could get a gist of an answer.
I doubt that's actually a reason many people hold. It's more of an excuse. The basic reason is probably common to most anti-gays - simply that gay sex is disgusting and weird and they can't bare to imagine it. If it wasn't that, they'd be supporting gay marriage but trying to restrict effeminate males, "butch" women and single parents from raising children. The "it's disgusting and weird" reason also explains the extreme prejudice against minority sexualities even from members of the pro-gay community.
And yet how many people do you know that have plans for this Sunday to watch the Game of Thrones season premier? How many people do you know that watch and talk about live sports games? There are a lot of people that still care about TV. I think it will continue to change as Netflix etc. change consumer's expectations, but I don't expect TV to just die out any time soon.
Controller update coming to the Xbox One
A reaction to the new moderation proposals, maybe?
Where is the barcode on a granny smith apple?
That's a big when. HBO, ESPN, and live sports are deeply tied with existing cable companies because it's a huge source of revenue for both parties. But I agree. Live sports are the only thing that keep making me want to purchase cable.
The reason it's not called vertex program is because the pipeline is defined in terms of stages (vertex -> tessellation control -> tessellation evaluation -> geometry -> rasterizer -> fragment). Together they are a program. When talking about this structure the choice that OpenGL made is:

"A shader program consists of a vertex shader (VS), tessellation control shader (TS control), tessellation evaluation shader (TS eval), geometry shader (GS) and fragment shader (FS)."

You could instead say this, but it would be confusing:

A shader program consists of a vertex program, tessellation control program, tessellation evaluation program, geometry program and fragment program.

And it would even get more confusing if you drop the first shader:

"A program consists of a vertex program, tessellation control program, tessellation evaluation program, geometry program and fragment program."

So for the sake of it being easy to talk about, a (shader) program is the whole thing, whenever somebody talks about a "program" it's the whole assemblage. And when somebody talks about a shader, it means one of the programs tied to a stage.
"We all agree that homosexuality is not a choice, right?"

Scientific proof with reproducible results, please. We all agree in science, right?
As someone who is not well-versed in graphics or graphics programming, this was a very well-explained primer. I very thoroughly enjoyed it, and learned something in the process!
Five-year-old uncovers Xbox security flaw
I'm guessing Linus is referring to udev (which is broadly tied to the kernel). For no good reason, udev -- a separate daemon -- was pulled into systemd.
I'm seconding the notion that 'earn' is cumbersome copy here.

I think something like "that's an extra x with InstaMotor" or "Make X more than the average" It's hard to restrict it down to just one word -- don't do it if you don't have to. I was very confused by earn at first.
Send it to the adminstrative staff then, they spend about 50% of their day surfing.
Now this feels like the future.

I am curious what the upgrade cycles of these products will end up being. Can Amazon charge a subscription and keep giving me a new one?
Keep telling yourself that, specially when the spikes are the same than in Linux.
Response to systemd's use of the debug flag
Yeah, this has the side effect of making it almost impossible for newcomers to have any clue what the heck is going on until they have several months of (painful) experience trying to figure out each piece.

It doesn't have to be this complicated. Humans just made it that way. I'm just trying to make sure everyone understands that there's nothing mysterious or even especially interesting about these terms. It's complicated like an internal combustion engine is complicated, not like math.
As you said, you haven't used the Linux desktop in many years. It's come a long way in that time.

For example, editing your xorg.conf is virtually a thing of the past these days. I haven't touched it in years and run a fancy triple monitor setup.
You need to be an accredited investor, which I think generally means a net worth of $1MM.
Buy her a 3d printer kit, something she will have to assemble herself. Its the bigest, most enjoyable engineering puzzle I have ever had to deal with. A printrbot simple is $299 in kit form. Once she gets it to work she will have a tool that will enable her to build almost anything in plastic. She will learn, engineering, 3d modeling, electronics and operating complex manufacturing processes, materials and thier strength, product design.
I still use multiple OS across my laptops.

GNU/Linux support has improved a lot since my first installation in 1995, but it is still hit-and-miss on laptops.
I don't get why there are so many egos in kernel and low-level development circles. I get that it's a bit more challenging than usual application development but the egos seem way too big relative to what's involved.
I know Amazon hires for their internship program from Canadian universities, and I imagine Microsoft and Google do the same.
Holy shit I always thought the systemd hate was just change-aversion until I read this.

Ubuntu probably won't because they're user-hostile, but I really hope Debian and the other major distros move away from systemd.
Why not give it another try now then? I have used it for years and, unlike windows, I never had to reinstall it just because something broke. And things only broke when I messed around with them, but it was always fixable. If you also use virtual machines or linux containers you will never break anything.
He's been this way long before he was a celebrity coder. This is just how he runs Linux, and I think that is evidence enough that the process works for him.

The team itself might be a self-selecting group of people who can work with Linus. But, overall, I'd say that his brutal honesty works "well enough". It might not be a good way to run a corporate project, but for an OS kernel, the benevolent dictator model seems to work pretty well.

I wonder how the kernel groups at Apple and Microsoft work though... or how FreeBSD is organized... that'd be an interesting comparison.
omg K&R is sublimely written. You do not need more recent nor easier books on C.
Scala.js Ray Tracer
better go followup with everyone who donated and make sure they quit
I would think it would be negative. Most start-up go to zero. If you limited it to ones that someone else has invested in you probably go up alot.
Opening an app is awkward when you do something else, in particular something like cooking. This gadget I just pick up from the counter, press a button and scan or speak. I don't have to worry about slightly wet or dirty fingers. Compare that with my phone, which either is somewhere else in the house or in my pocket. Before I pick it up from my pocket I want to make sure that don't have meat juice, tomato sauce or chocolate on my fingers. I have to press one button to start the phone, maybe press a pin code, find the app either by sweeping between several screens with icons or by starting search and type several characters hopefully not making any mistakes and finally be able to scan or speak to the app. At this point the meat is burnt and the sauce has boiled over.

Dedicated devises definitely have their uses, and this one is one of them.
Cupcake Fascism: Gentrification, Infantilisation and Cake
Thanks for posting the link. After listening to this partially on the radio, I searched for it online but couldn't find it since I didn't know what the show was called.
Those sales also include MSDN You can buy VS 2013 right now, without MSDN for around $400.00. Still pricey IMHO. But no where near the 1k price-point you referenced.
There isn't a rational position on opposing marriage between siblings, yet it's still illegal in the US. Of course there are reasons about damage to children, bullying of children, etc but fundamentally people are just repulsed by the idea so they don't want anyone to do it and it's still illegal. Gay marriage is only one of various types of marriage that are unfairly discriminated against. Fortunately gay marriage might now allow a father and son to marry each other, which may help open the minds of the mob.
That's exactly my experience as well.
I tend to think of Linus as being similar to Steve Jobs - brilliant but arrogant srseholes whose products I enjoy using, but I would never work with them without some very serious compensation for putting up with the shit. Which is where this becomes a problem for Linus. Jobs could hey away with it, because he could pay people enough that they accepted the bad treatment. Linus, not so much.

It's clear that that the kernel dev guys and Kay have a history. I wonder if Kay would have been more open to accepting change requests to systemd without Linus's bad behaviour. It bears thinking about...