skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't aware that date rape drugs could tell the gender of the drinker.
Not directly part of any other feudal system, but Ottoman's empire has established the order of jannisaries by taking young male boys from the enslaved nation - these were trained to be the most ferocious fighters, and even the sultan had to comply occasionally with their demands.

Hardly a thing you can see in an capitalistic system.
Steady Anand earns rematch with Carlsen for world chess title
If anyone is interested in using spaced repetition for language learning, you might like to give http://readlang.com a shot (disclaimer - my site). It generates a flashcard every time you come across an unknown word or phrase while reading a book or website, and each flashcard includes the context sentence. You can also export to other software like Anki.
> But I don't see how seeking crowd funding in and of itself makes something inherently untrustworthy.

It doesn't. Those are your words.

Those reasons are not because occulus isn't a scam, they prove why its not a scam. If the "Healbe GoBe" had provided such validations from industry professionals, we wouldn't suspect that its a scam.
Is the shell what makes OS X truly usable for its target market?
It sounds like he's saying "people are more likely to intervene if they think they could take the other person in a fight". If you're afraid because of a size differential, you're more likely to stay silent (not "you" specifically, but the societal "you")
If I thought that you meant "to live off" was merely a drop in consumption to levels far higher than anyone lives off over here, I'd have written this in my very first response:

It may be forcing salaries below the level necessary to support US middle class consumption levels, but there is a huge gap between that and "possible to live off".

If you actually agreed with me but simply used a different definition that I did for the term "live off", why not just say "by 'live off' I actually meant 'maintain US middle class consumption levels'"?
It's just personal observations, pop-psychology...so YMMV.

But I like to travel overseas. I find that the stranger the environment, the more enjoyable. I think it's because the details, the things I can't readily filter out all come flooding in again.

A week in Seoul is a totally different kind of experience for me than a week in NYC. Even though they have lots of superficial similarities.

But I also notice that my brain seems to spend more time subconsciously analogizing what I'm seeing rather than learning things new from whole cloth like when I was young. It's like the filtering mechanism is working overdrive and knows it can't just toss things away (it can't make a value judgement) so its first pass is to try to find similarities so it can start to make these judgments.

"So this kind of place is like a department store, but also like a fleamarket..." my inner monologue goes.

After a few days in a new country, I'm usually just mentally exhausted and look for some familiarity, something I don't have to work for.

After a week or two, I'm usually comfortable enough in a place this feeling goes away and everything starts to look "normal" again. Meaning my filter is locally tuned and working at normal efficiency.
> While I agree with this, I find it equally annoying when people send 3MB attachments as emails (and then keep resending them for every email in the conversation!).

Why? I don't think I've deleted a non-spam e-mail since ~2001; e-mail-scale storage is cheap.
While fuel is more expensive in Europe, their trucks are actually less aerodynamic, with big flat fronts [1]. This is because truck lengths are strictly limited, so a shorter cab means you can run a longer trailer. Even with their high fuel costs the gains from the longer trailer outweigh the savings from better aerodynamics.

[1] http://www.emercedesbenz.com/Images/May08/15_Mercedes_Benz_C...
I guess something must have changed. Earlier it was giving me a message stating that "This repository does not have any branches".
Not really. Control of the router (of the kind he describes) can set up routing in such a way that it still goes to system under his control. It's easiest if he can get a shell with access to (e.g.) iptables, but even without a shell, it's possible to set up routing to do that.
Might be? This thing is 100% snake oil.
Someone as smart as cperciva can figure out how to "wrap it up in a sales pitch" if he wants it wrapped up in a sales pitch, even if that means hiring someone to do it.

It'll be authentic, and he won't give a disproportionate amount of the value of his creation to someone who has a much less complex job.
Thanks for the link to iterm2 + images! I've wanted this functionality for years and didn't know that the iTerm nighty supported it now. Fantastic!
EDIT+: http://www.mitportugal.org/press-releases/a-portuguese-fast-... - you now have systems that can do the charging without frying the meat :)
https://github.com/codrops/ProgressButtonStyles
Because: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MedievalStasis
"[In 1983] the couple bought the building where they live today."

"<Moving to a chalet in the Alps> struck some in his circle as unfathomably strange"

== Sounds like the rent is covered. But YMMV.
Because we could then have a virtual machine that we could send bytecode to, instead of having all of these languages that compile to JavaScript, which eventually gets compiled to native code by V8.
I fixed a crippling bug on another platform that was taking down whole servers, because someone was depending on a clever realloc to behave well.

This is implementation coupling at its worst. Don't do it.
I wrote http://www.memorific.com to be a spaced repetition tool/community for software related topics.

Collaboration is easy, which was something I really wanted to see in this space...building knowledge together (like in a class or small team context).

Personally it's helped me retain some Go language concepts as I learn.
I think reducing the mandatory time in residence is going to be a key way of reducing the burden of higher education. My wife graduated from U of Iowa in 5 semesters between AP credits and testing out of classes, which allowed her to pay her way by nannying and graduate with no debt. But this strategy is often not possible at private schools, where there are residency requirements.

Reducing residency requirements has a particular advantage, which is saving cost of living. My law school alma mater recently started a program to allow people to get a JD in two years. Even though the total tuition is the same, students save $25-30k in loans and interest by not having to pay cost of living the extra year. Cutting out tuition for the third year would be another step forward, but as a first step simply cutting the extra year can reduce costs while remaining revenue neutral for schools. It would also be a good idea to move classes to later in the day, to allow students to have part-time jobs to help pay their expenses.
>Oh, I agree. But wouldn't any existing car company also be worried about aftermarket mods to the car they sold, by people who "think they know what they are doing"? What marks Tesla's cars as significantly special or error-prone?

They ARE significantly special to the media and to consumers. Compare the press coverage of the Tesla fires to the, what, hundreds or thousands of petrol (gasoline) vehicle fires a year?

One fool disables some safety features to squeeze out some more performance from his vehicle, the vehicle catches fire and kills him. How do you think that'll play out in the mainstream American media and what will it do to Tesla's stock price?
I'm author of Mailr. PostgreSQL has full text search, has transactions and I like working with them :).

I had tried mailpile of course, but I don't like their way. I want conversations which really like gmail :). And I want to write less code for that.

The first priority to work with gmail, so syncer just work with gmail :). there is a lot of work, as I said in my post
"Assuming that everything went down as WingsofFury claims -- and since there's really no way to investigate it, we can't confirm that it did ..."

Even if Microsoft is hypocritical, that doesn't magically turn what they're claiming into "slander".

It just demonstrates that their arguments against an advertising-driven vertically integrated Google cloud can also apply to their own cloud services.
I am always amazed with HN's fascination with college degrees. What is the large part of most degrees that is pretty irrelevant to a student's future career?

{The downvote is a great example of this fascination. Merely asking a question was troublesome enough for someone that instead of responding to the question they clicked the down arrow. My question was polite and genuine, at least that was my intention. What is so threatening/offensive about my question?}
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Ah, the rising tide of open source software. Whatever was done a decade ago will show up in open source. Companies need to invent new things to stay competitive.
Ask HN: Offering equity to site contributors
Hi, I would like to know if anyone has experience or thoughts on offering equity to initial contributors to a site. I'd like to offer, say, 100 writers $1000 in equity for writing posts on my site. Writers would have to write a certain number of post to be eligible. I think it would be a good incentive for the seed writers and surely it would be better to cut out the middleman by giving the equity directly to the writers rather than giving it to a VC and then spend the VC money on the writers.
But the same thing applies to days, or even hours. So while every microsecond is the same, at the end of the second, in retrospect it was a faster second. And at the end of the hour, in retrospect, a faster hour, etc.
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I am 49, and I was an early Macintosh developer, gaining access to the beta OS at age 17 in 1983. I started programming via college courses in the 5th grade, and had a video game company selling Vic-20 and Commodore 64 games nationwide thru Sears & KMart in '82. Today, I am CEO of www.3D-Avatar-Store.com: a neural net + 3D computer graphics & animation startup.
Turbine powered battery electric drive train that can burn multiple fuels. It seems like that would be a nice combination in a car that you could drive long distances on cheap fuel without worrying about recharge stations and still get electric motor torque and regenerative breaking.
NASA Picks Qt For International Space Apps Challenge
How to connect android TV
Much has been said in some functionality that mobile devices connect to TV via HDMI or AV cable, this tutorial will learn step by step how to connect the TV pictures from your smartphone chaise compatible with this function...
I had to enable it from chrome://flags for it to work. I'm using Chrome unstable, it doesn't appear to be in the stable branch on Linux yet.
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What are gmail like conversations? Sorry I don't really use google products so I have no idea.
Same with most in Australia.

Engineering is one exception, generally being four years. But often that includes honours built-in (if you get a good enough GPA), whereas with most other degrees you have to do an extra year after finishing the bachelors degree to get that.
Not really. Last week my dad came to visit me and forwarded the airline's email with the time of the flight. Google Now correctly stated the time I should leave to catch him at the airport. Seems to work fine for me on this issue.
Cool! Reminds me of 'Wicked', another genre-twisting effort. Its effective to take familiar settings and recast them in an alternate-universe sort of way.
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Project Sagan: zero-downtime deployments (with video)
Yep, the glucose thing is suspect, however, my working theory is this is exactly what Apple are up to. Some of the people they've hired are in precisely this area, and it's a suitably massive opportunity to cause an industry wide meltdown, even if a complete longshot.

I'm obviously going to be seriously disappointed by the iWatch with expectations like that.
Yeah, but the $25k is recurring so you would have to capitalize it to compare it to the one-time cost of the new truck.
The problem is, existing 3 year degrees in America are compressed 4 year degrees. America should ditch gen-ed at the same time (as switching to 3-year).
C++ really wants a realloc variant that extends an allocation if it can be extended without a copy, and leaves the allocation unchanged if it can't. The annoying thing is that there's no good reason why this can't exist beyond that the STL allocator interface happens not to have it.
Chinese Beat Us Again Begin Constructing $4,800 3D Printed Homes
It's much better to work with a motivated senior hacker than an entitled brat spewing delusions of their own grandeur.
Anecdotally, I'm a polisci major who got lost on the way to law school and ended up in marketing.

Another of my friends was an English major; planned to go into teaching but found himself in med school a few years later.

It's always a pretty wide variety, but I feel a large number of people end up heading another direction at some point, if not right after college.
'Zero friends' is a strong statement, don't you think?

IMHO, Google is in its adolescence as a company. Its values of "don't be evil", transparency, etcetera are in the right place. Google has many bright and good-hearted people in its employ, and it's in them that I have the greatest faith.

Cloud-hosted services and social networks, Google among them, are only beginning to work out their strengths, weaknesses, and consequences of their actions.

But when I see how easily-rooted Android and Chrome OS are, Google's resistance to censorship in some countries, epidemiology outreach and more, I'm reminded that while there is darkness implicit in any company's great store of information, in Google's case there is a capacity and willingness to do good at scale. For that, I remain an optimist.
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Ah - that explains it. I hardly ever use the mouse for that kind of thing anyway. I pretty much only use it for navigating pages, I use the keyboard shortcuts for tabs, refreshing, loading, etc.
I've been using it for years and I've either never had these problems or they haven't been so bad that I would consider it broken. Isn't a time to home card usually valuable?
Lead Front End Developer for FlightCar (YC W13)
FlightCar is the world's first p2p car sharing company to operate at the airport. We're a YC company that's raised $6m+ in funding.

We give travelers free airport parking by renting out their cars to others. Everything's insured up to $1m. We're funded by General Catalyst, Softbank Capital, Brian Chesky, Ryan Seacrest, and others.

We're looking for a Lead Front End Developer. You'll be developing our desktop and mobile sites as well as internal tools. As the front end lead, you'll have the choice of which technologies to call on for projects. Currently we have a Django-backed site, and want to expand our front end work.

About our dev team: We all enjoy teaching and learning, and do things like build telepresence devices together: http://blog.printf.net/articles/2014/03/18/a-robot-for-timo/

Responsibilities:

- develop new and existing features for our current consumer site, which uses Django templates and Bootstrap.

- create new customer-facing and internal services using the front end framework of your choice -- we're a small team and you'll be able to forge our architecture from the ground up.

- layout user interfaces using FlightCar's current design language.

Qualifications:

- comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment

- have solid understanding of HTML5 and CSS3

- knowledge of mobile web constraints and ways to optimize for them

- knowledge of jQuery and JavaScript, preferably including significant work with a modern client-side framework such as Ember/Angular.

- a desire to complement the backend team by exploring server-side JS applications with node.js (or if you're daring, Meteor).

- have a strong sense of UX best practices

- knowledge of Google Analytics or other analytics software is a huge plus

- love simple design and bright colors

If you're interested, please email me at rujul@flightcar.com. Thanks!
Team behind webOS releases its abandoned interface redesign to the community
It's the standard hamburger style menu found across android. Maybe it would be difficult if it wasn't in every Google android app.
Interesting article. Depressing to see the word 'boffins' still in use.
I think the perspective of faculty who teach general ed classes is obviously going to be biased-more students graduating in 3 years means less students taking their general ed classes.

With the way that college tuition is increasing, I think its highly immoral to not want to push 3 year degrees. Granted I'm biased, since I've never thought very highly of the general ed classes I had to take in college (being a voracious reader myself).
OK interesting, I didn't realize that the altcoins use scrypt. I remember hearing that Litecoin used a scheme that was supposed to be GPU-resistant, but didn't realize it was scrypt.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Litecoin

Looks like there is a Bitcoin variant: http://bitcoinscrypt.org/
There were several factors playing in favour of the serfs. First, there was competition between the feudal lords, if one neglected his responsibilities too much and treated his subjects to harshly they could flee and find themselves another patron. What prevented a Silicon Valley wage cartel type race to the bottom was the emergence of cities and a merchant class entirely outside the feudal system. A serf who settled in a city had no master at all. The story of the Middle Ages is the struggle between the feudal system and the forces outside it, first the church, then the cities.

Also, the church launched a peace movement, just because someone had to keep up the public peace; in 9th century Europe warlordism had spiraled out of control. Ultimately, they were successful in restricting private war between the nobility and mitigating the impact on the general population.

Living conditions for the peasantry in the Middle Ages could have been worse. They didn't have cars and flatscreens, fridges and washing machines, but they had more holidays than the American worker today. And no back-breaking commute.
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Another important bullet I forgot- the national maximum speed limit was 55mph until 1995. Cars were probably made to target that.
It usually is. But in my case it's not as it shows up when I arrive somewhere. I mean, if they know I'm at work why would they show me that card immediately after I get there. It's not like they don't know when I usually go home.
The solution to this problem is as old as Lucretius.

Go to the edge, then add a bit.

Or, whatever, get two computers. Or twenty, they're cheap.
Impending doom has a way of focusing you: Robert Treat, CEO of OmniTI
Really impressive UI code. My god this stuff is free!
Thanks for your comment and perspective. My quip regarding UPS was a carry over from a thread that was on here yesterday with not a lot of thought beyond that! (Allegedly for UPS it is more efficient for them to do routes with no right turns.)

It figures that big trucks prefer right turns but until you pointed it out here I had not put two and two together, despite anecdotal evidence I see on a daily basis. This is actually useful knowledge as I share the road with the big trucks. I ride one of those vehicles where I am the crumple zone (a bicycle) in London where a lot of cyclists get killed down inside the left-hand side of left-turning trucks (we drive on the left and call 'trucks' 'lorries'). There is a lot of consternation about this with truck drivers tarred with the same brush quite unfairly (in my opinion they are professional drivers, cyclists, nah).

A little bit of understanding could help. In all the debate I have seen I have never seen it mentioned how left turns (in the UK) are particularly tricky for long vehicles as they need to use the on-coming traffic lane of the road they are turning into or the road they are on. This little detail needs to be widely understood by cyclists, it is not as if lorry drivers are being deliberately retarded and un-caring, a left turn is something very difficult for them and well beyond what a mere cyclist is capable of.
By this same logic, Google is too late to the enterprise and will fail.

In other words, this article has a static view of the world in that it thinks markets "are done" and not constantly in motion.

That's a flawed view of markets as we have seen time and time again.

This is the same view people had with AOL vs. Microsoft and we know how that turned out. There was a shift in the market to broadband and AOL died.
This bothers me so much:

buffer = realloc(buffer, capa);

Yeah, 'cause when it fails we didn't need the old buffer anyway... Might as well leak it.
Why do you think schofield is a developer? I didn't see any indication in this conversation.

Every company I have worked for has a support organization that deals with customer tickets like this. They might escalate the issue to development, or they might not. But either way they're the ones involved in the conversation.
No, feudalism is a hierarchical economical system that is capable of producing and maintaining heavy cavalry in a poor agrarian society.

When famine is likely, feudalism ensures that the knight, his horse, and his family, never starves and can defend the population at all times.

Knights were granted enough land such that it was deemed possible that it could feed the serfs living there, and produce enough excess to feed the knight and his horse.

Indentured servitude was a way of guaranteeing a stable population of serfs, and prohibiting competition between the landed gentry, otherwise the serfs would urbanize or move to richer lands. Feudalism is about utilizing all the land for the purpose of raising knights.

The "attendant absurdities" only appeared once the economy started producing so much excess that it became hard to justify the system, even though the system is what allowed the various realsm to be protected from raiders and each other in the first place.
It wasn't meant to be rude. My apologies for the ambiguity between tongue in cheek and rudeness.

Were this wikipedia or Stackoverflow I'd have just fixed it - I knew what you meant, of course.

The tongue in cheekiness comes from a (famous) quote from President Bush, "Is our children learning?" that the original title invoked.
Oh, no. There's now one less thing that it's socially acceptable to be a bigot about. That's clearly a huge loss to society. /s
Why did hard drive manufactures move from a (misnamed) base 2 to base 10?

A similar question is - why do all gas stations sell gas for x.yy9? It's impossible to sell something for 9/10 of a penny but in the U.S. they all do it.

If you ask the people doing it, you'll get the answer that it serves the consumer better, it's just a coincidence that it happens to make their product look artificially better/cheaper/whatever than it is.
The "Like" Drug: Focusing on What Matters in a World of Followers and Like Counts
Important discussion on the effects popularity and constant affirmation can have on creative work.

Further reading --
The Like Machine: http://justinmezzell.com/blog/2013/7/25/the-like-machine

Derailed: http://rog.ie/blog/derailed
The two options aren't "the original owner releases a new layer on top of his service" and "no such layer can exist". That's the whole point of white-labeling, and I doubt cperciva would mind people releasing layers that use his service as a backend, in the same way he releases a layer that adds value to Amazon's storage.

He wouldn't be giving away any value, somebody else would be starting a company that happened to pay him for service.