skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure in Saudi Arabia it's cheaper than that, or free. That's the thing with oil-rich countries. Saying let's have stuff "for free" because it works in Norway with a few million citizens and abundant resources makes exactly as much sense as saying do it because Saudi Arabia does it. More people live in New York suburban area or LA suburban area than in Norway. We can't live off oil and gas reserves, ok? Socialism in resourceful country might seem to make sense. Monarchy (Saudi Arabia is a monarchy) might seem as plausible and fantastic system just because Saudi Arabians have free stuff. But I wouldn't claim US needs to be a monarchy. This is quite weird this whole leftist argumentation here.
I wanted to try something different in order to find a job... it is a little narcissistic, but still.
Native wyomingite here - I wouldn't live anywhere else. Cheyenne (state capital) isn't even that densely populated and it's about the busiest city I'd ever want to live in. Here, life seems mostly laid back and relaxing where just a few tens of miles to the south in either Fort Collins or Denver, CO, life feels hectic and claustrophobic.

I'd call this city just about perfect, though - it's still in Wyoming, so there's still separation between people, but it's a quick hop skip and jump to a bigger city for any events in that area.
That distinguished list of people who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957 includes Gordon Moore, famous for Moore's Law (and other little things, like co-founding Intel).
Good luck finding the 31 billion pennies still out there! Here in Australia we farewelled the 1 and 2 cent coins in the mid 1990s - I've moved house several times since then, and still find the occasional coin somewhere. And that doesn't even account for the hoards that have been tossed away as worthless.

My only regret is that future generations won't understand why we ask police officers "What's the colour of a 2 cent piece?"
That's an immediate average valuation boost of around 5x.

(1.5 mil vs 300-ish k previously)
Really? I remember it topping out much higher than 50k. I remember maxing my download speed at 800k. Must've been a low slots/high queue server.
Well, yes, it is. You can turn Common Lisp (as it is) into a "language that doesn't need those macros" simply by going through the spec and changing everything that says, e.g., "macro DEFUN" to "special form DEFUN". The result would be a language that's no more powerful, no easier to implement, and marginally less convenient to use.

So how can "needing those macros" be a weakness, if the minimal change that makes the language not "need those weakness" improves nothing and actually makes the language a little worse?
A lot of the space is not really suitable for dense inhabitation, tho. (or any at all for a smaller subset)
Churnalism: US Tool for Jounalistic Accountability
Interesting... and frustrating. Certainly where I work, any new handset or tablet will be used for testing our apps. Freebies are most welcome; there's a lot of red tape involved in purchasing a device just for testing/validating.

Maybe they could key the freebie devices to your Google I.D. and use a non-OEM plain plastic ziplock so that the flippers will have to manually wipe it and list it as "open box" on Ebay.

Anyway, I enjoy watching the keynotes and classes from the comfort of my home office. You can't beat the price.
Yeah, and why people immigrate to US? I know at least couple French fashion designers who couldn't even start a shop in Paris as they would have to pay Eur15K to the Government just to get licensed. Isn't that an awesome example from real life of why socialism is killing innovation in France?
> Are you thinking before you touch the keyboard?

Agree completely. At this point it's part of our process to write design notes as the first part of a pull request.

My co-founder has been adamant that not enough time gets spent on the high-level architectural pieces. And I've personally found, after finally listening to him, that the more time I spend on architecture the less time I have to spend implementing.
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The courtesy of asking should've happened though.

Because it looks really bad to the public face person to not give credit where credit is due.
It was suggested to me by a friend that to get good OCR results, run it through the scanner/OCR twice, then diff the results. Usually one or the other will get it right, and if you run the two results through a difference editor like 'meld', it's quick to fix.
Forgive my ignorance, but doesn't there need to be a minimum-value coin in circulation to facilitate transactions? For example, I go to a shop and buy something for £4.99 and pay with a £5.00 note - do I get any change in return?
> "In Windows, the [repository] node I was working on was 4 levels removed from the root. The periodicity of integration decayed exponentially and unpredictably as you approached the root so it ended up that it took between 1 and 3 months for my code to get to the root node, and some multiple of that for it to reach the other nodes."

Does it take less time for a patch to the graphic system (for example) to trickle up to the Linus' tree? And to end up in an LTS distro?
I don't think that's generally true. YC is very well respected in a very specific niche of tech, while H/M/S have much broader name recognition in tech generally. Depends to some extent on what you want to do. YC has great name recognition among VCs, so if you're going that route, it's a good name to have. A Stanford or MIT degree generally has better name recognition among people hiring for tech jobs, especially outside of the SF Bay Area and among people not culturally part of the "startup scene".
That's the honorable thing to do and it prevents sour grapes, bad press.
The way dlss suggests is the safest and most sensible way.

Usually you'll start play by breaking the seal on new decks which will be fanned out to check them: it's effective and efficient to get the dealer to turn a few sequences of cards here while they're still in the right order.

Otherwise, you have a lot more work to convince the dealer to rotate the cards one-by-one: "rotate that 9 of clubs, not the other 9 of clubs" is way more suspicious.

Having said that, it is a bit surprising that "dealer collusion" spidey-senses were not tingling. This is the first thing that casinos should watch out for. Maybe they realised something was going on but couldn't figure out what, or how it would be effective, in time.
I'd be more concerned about this if the complaint was coming from Bolas himself rather than someone else posting out of concern on behalf of someone else. It may be a press-release-style post, but it would be good to see what USC's MxR lab itself had to say about Oculus VR's success in the past:

http://projects.ict.usc.edu/mxr/blog/it%E2%80%99s-alive/

>A goal of the MxR lab is to broadly disseminate its research. While the promise of personalized immersive virtual reality has been on the horizon for more than 20 years, the FOV2GO project has been publishing open source designs for ways to make it low cost and broadly available.

>Today, the bold actions of one entrepreneurial former member of the FOV2GO team - Palmer Luckey – is kicking this into high gear via this Kickstarter effort.

>We are impressed with Palmer’s gumption to make the Oculus Rift happen and helping to provide a widely disseminated platform. We wish Palmer all the good Luck in the world.
The same problem happened to me and I agree it was annoying.

The solution for reading the article is to read as much as possible before scrolling down. Then a slight scroll will move you down half the first page. After that first scroll the rest of the article behaves normally.
It would be interesting to also look at harvesting from PGP keys which have been posted to keyservers. I'm sure that's a small portion of the population, but I wonder if it is being (ab)used.
Interesting.
I wonder if anyone will fill empty warehouses with them and just sit tight and wait until they're no longer considered currency and so can be melted down (legally)?
It seems to me that Rails' main advantage over Clojure+microframeworks for web development is the ability to use mature libraries to handle common tasks: user management with devise, for example.
The average before and the average after don't measure the same group of people. So you can't use them to compare anything.
The part that made your comment look foolish was the assumption that it was normal to want to live in high density populations.
Freedom to Marry, Freedom to Dissent
Many, many forums use a feeble ratings/trust indicator for pseudo-anon users but then you end up with a clique of highly rated posters and the circle jerk is complete. The whole point in anonymity is every post has it's merit in what it says not who wrote it. I can easily skim the various *chans, filtering out shitposting pretty quick.

For trading pseudo-anon there is already this reputation system which has worked well http://bitcoin-otc.com/trust.php
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I think you're thinking of LFE, which is another lisp on the BEAM.
The agreement mentions that (unless you disable it) Apple will collect various technical data about your system. Makes sense. I'm curious, however, why that data includes, if Location Services is enabled, "the real-time geographic location of your computer and location search queries."

I'm not sure if there's a way to just exclude location information from the diagnostic info, without disabling location services for all apps? I'm happy to share information about my system configuration with them, but I'm not sure what's so helpful about my location data.
You can still third party MSN clients and there's fix going around to make the official MSN client work again.
After popcorn time and the trouble finding the most up to date copy of the code (that wasn't modified), I'm not so sure.
But isn't the ISC file a "derivate work" of the Apache 1.0 and thus subject to the same limits?
Can someone explain why SpaceMonkey is better than Dropbox?
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Players were not allowed to handle the cards. In this case, they were playing mini-Baccarat. In traditional Baccarat, players are allowed to touch the cards and even bend and turn them all they want, but all 8 decks are thrown out after every shoe (i.e. touched cards are never played again). In mini-Baccarat, players do not touch the cards, and the cards are reshuffled instead of thrown away. This type of scheme only works in mini-Baccarat (and Punto Banco - a mini-Baccarat variation), and the casino would only comply with the unusual requests that made this scheme possible for very big players. Casinos are very tolerant of high rollers - Caesars Palace was fined $250,000 a few years ago for allowing a man to jump up on a Baccarat table and dance before placing his bets.

In this case, Ivey had an Asian woman with him, and she told the dealer that she was superstitious and asked that the dealer turn cards of certain values a different direction. That she was Asian was important because the casinos are claiming that Ivey requested that his dealers speak Mandarin Chinese, and that the instructions to turn the cards were given by the woman in Mandarin so that supervisors wouldn't hear and immediately object to the request. In any event, the dealers complied. This incredibly simple strategy apparently worked at Borgata and Crockfords in London, to the tune of over $20 million in combined winnings. Because the casino could have simply said "no," I find it extremely unlikely that the Borgata will prevail here.

This was much more of a social engineering hack than anything else. Interestingly, because of this issue, casinos (at least in Las Vegas) have purchased cards with a new type of background that looks like pixelated noise - much harder to do this with.
Cool, just wanted to make sure. I just started with Golang and wanted to make sure I didn't miss something.
Axl Rose is a rock star too.
Developers will love it. For what it's worth Stash fits perfectly in our review process where anyone can be assigned to review and comment on code. The pull request diff explorer makes it super easy to track which files have been reviewed already and contain comments. It really has increased our overall effiency and shared knowledge as a team of seniors and juniors.

Give it a try!
So, getting fairly seriously tangential, what would you recommend for green field devs? Have you tried to skirt the ORM problem entirely and simply go for object stores / NoSQL?
What happens around 98º W? From ND to TX the character of the map changes around 98º W.
I think being able to write a web crawler is a better test for your development skills than opening a $25 developer account. And don't forget that most Android developers do not publish their work on their own private accounts.

Anyway, the easter eggs were just that: a small game for promotion and fun. There were around 300 of these - the Google+ I/O community alone has 43000 Members (Disclaimer: I got one 3 days after they started the easter eggs).

If Google's I/O team is smart they secretly check for peoples public activity through their Google+ account when they select winners in "the lottery". If they favor people who follow Google Developer pages or who liked some of the tech videos on youtube, they would already filter out a lot of the civilists.
Funnily enough, it was the topic of spam and building a better spam filter that first introduced me to pg's essays (and thence, to HN).

It doesn't look like his Spam page has been updated in a long time (http://paulgraham.com/antispam.html), which reflects for me the quality of spam filters now compared to 2002-2005 when most of those essays were written. Incidentally, they're a great way to learn about Bayesian Filtering as well !
Just reading through the article, it seems like they mean to say that the middle class have less leisure than the poor. Someone finishing college and working 60-80 hour weeks isn't generally "rich" at all.
This is one of the best things that happened in the open source world recently. I like their attitude towards "web hipsters" too. They're serious folks who shut up and write AND READ codes.

It's funny that they do this "donate to stop blinking" thing again. They have been doing it for OpenSSH since 2000. cf. http://www.openssh.com/
Google and you'll find a bunch, but sure, here's one:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/03/first-os-x-10-9-3-beta-...

60 Hz 4K appears to require DisplayPort 1.2, which I believe is currently only available on the late 2013 rMBP and the new Mac Pros.
This is handled by rounding. In the US many businesses already opt out of pennies and just round things down to the nearest 5 cents. It's just an extension of the rounding they already do (for instance when an 8.5% sales tax is added to a 1 dollar purchase, the half cent will be rounded even when the business uses the penny).

Interesting historical note is that when the US half penny was removed from circulation due to it being nearly useless, it was worth approximately 8 cents in today's money.
You can 'create' more water by desalination. The real problem is in energy.
or $0 for a trip around the world and a bag full of goodies. Many companies pay for business trips to tech conferences.
The Redbook audio specification allows for indexes (ability to have tracks within tracks), which was intended for jumping to the next movement within classical pieces. I haven't seen the buttons for this on a CD player (real or virtual) since the late 1980s.
What is a good JavaScript Physics Engine?
I am trying to write a small interactive physics simulation where students can learn by clicking, dragging or swinging a pendulum, etc.... I found a lot of JScript Physics Engine out there, but I don't know where to start. Any suggestions?
Repeatedly deleting and reposting the same story is against the rules—it's an abuse of deletion. Please don't do that. Accounts that do eventually lose submission privileges.
It depends. In Canada, legally, cash transactions may be rounded to the nearest 5 cents, so you wouldn't get change. In practice, many merchants round down, so you'd get 5 cents change.
And what happens if your future employer happens to google your name (which is not very common) and finds this article on HN (your first name is in your ID and your last name is in the URL) in which you admit that "I created a fake PR and Marketing Startup in order to find a job"? You could certainly be fired for lying on your job application. Do yourself a favor and delete this posting. (I already did you a favor by flagging it for you.)

And why are you posting this on HN anyway? Do you think the people here who created real startups are going to be impressed with someone who created a fake one?
Fixing that! I also have to write the entire second half of the chronology section, but at least it looks less like I pulled a "Monty Python animator".
Backbone.Model.State extension for storing / restoring states
Most places that have abolished low-denomination coins use Swedish rounding (or at least that's what Wikipedia calls it): when paying with cash, round to the nearest (sometimes this will be up, sometimes down) payable price.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_rounding
The article is worth reading in addition to the video. The impact data was analyzed in research by Peter Brown (et. many al.), published in Nature in November 2013:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v503/n7475/full/nature1...

Brown's quote in the article helps balance out some of the sensationalism: "To me, all this data shows just how effective our atmosphere is at shielding us from these things that could cause a lot of damage."

That said, I'm sure Brown is in favor of any new sensors to study the phenomenon, as it seems from his research that existing methods used to estimate potential airburst damage need a lot of improvement.
Alas, nowadays a function that always returns `true` would have impressive accuracy.
No, this is not the case as I know at least 3 past students in this class that did not have a CS background at all.
"If there’s one thing that software developers care about, it’s becoming even better software developers."

Observational evidence suggests otherwise.
Educated, wealthy and tied to their desk: The new 'super working-class'
Nice to know someone else hasn't forgotten the old ways that work. I'd be interested to read a blog post about your workflows.
I don't misunderstand. There's heat flow loss out of the body of the reactor. How much is this loss, compared to the amount generated?

What I'm missing are numbers: how much power do they expect to generate from fusion, how much power do they think it will take to run the full prototype system, and what's the operating temperature; ideally as part of a Sankey diagram. I think this isn't available because they simply don't know.

Again I ask, was Chicago Pile #1 a nuclear power plant? If not, what was the first nuclear power plant, and what distinguishes a power plant from other sorts of nuclear reactors? I think it must generate at least enough power to be be self-sustaining to qualify as a power plant. I therefore believe this General Fusion system, when built, will be an experimental fusion reactor used to develop the principles leading to a fusion power plant, but will not itself be a fusion power plant, experimental or otherwise.

BTW, the Wikipedia page says "They hope to have a working reactor by 2020", which is of course 6 years after Asimov's prediction. The WP does not give a source for that information.
The students in the last class were not CS majors and I doubt that is a requirement to participate in the future ones. The quote makes it sound like this, though.
Well there's GST+PST added in Canada depending on province so that $4.99 item would probably cost $5.58 then they round the price since the penny is gone, so $5.58 would be $5.60

Retailers are supposed to round up/down depending on amount but you will quickly find that everybody is rounding up unless you say something.
I wonder how many of those putting in long hours are expecting early retirement, only for their savings to fall short.
I still don't see why hard link both. In a truly random universe, the location of the bottle is a nonsense answer (or more exactly: is random). You can ask that. The bootle could, suddenly, not be there, so you can't decide where move the bootle.

The freedom of move the bottle is DEPENDENT of have a location for it, and have a certainty that a)Move exist, and the laws of it can be trusted b) Will move to the location you want to.

So I think that a chaotic universe is more problematic for this problem that a ordered one. Also, I think is possible to have "static" laws but "dynamic" actions, specially because a each step, could exist a limited set of possible outcomes (ie: You can't move to anywhere in the universe the bootle) but the summation of each step provide a path where you are not totally tied, ie, each step is bounded, but the final outcome is random (or random enough) to still make free will the reality.
I prefer this kind of experimentation on the city level. It's easy to find out what works and doesn't work, then adjust accordingly. I'm contrasting this to reform on the state/federal level which tends to be a lot more ham-fisted.
I don't think people are charged $20,000. Alexis Ohanian is raising money for the program, and he has a goal of $20,000. That fundraiser also says that the program awards partial and full scholarships.

Also, the NY Daily News is saying they are trying to raise $1,000,000 for the program to pay for 100 students. So that would put the cost at around $10,000 per person without scholarships.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/queens-techies-fu...

I didn't see any figures about how much the average student paid though. I would be interested in that figure.
Is an Apple-Nike partnership on the way?
> Figures from the American Time Use Survey, released last year, show that Americans with a bachelor’s degree or above work two hours more each day than those without a high-school diploma.

The title is a bit off.
Nope, this is like everyone doing websites in the 90's during the dotcom bubble.

All small business trying to find honest people ended up hiring someone's 12yr old cousin (trhu a spiffy LLC front) and ended up with worst-than-useless websites full of security holes and zero accessibility.

Hope those projects are all games and fart apps and not mission critical stuff. and since i have a very hard time thinking of mission critical apps, i think the world will endure.
Why not just bump your processing power?

No offense, but that was a hideous amount of effort for just 20% in one area. An extra dollar or two spent on a hardware upgrade wins for everything.
What is support like for the terrible line-folding (and comments) part of the specification?

In SIP land, which copied HTTP then messed it up even further, there is no correct handling of such messages. Some SIP stacks will error, some will ignore, some will do it correctly. Thus you can't trust your proxy and server to come to the same conclusions and perform the same operations or apply the same security policy.

There's no good reason for line folding or comments. Protocols need only be human readable not human easily-composed-for-formatting. This isn't the 60s or early 70s where you're writing all emails and headers by hand.