skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Staple crops are pretty important to the welfare of almost everyone in the country that uses them, right? Developing them is expensive and requires lots of people with high-grade scientific educations, right?

To me, that sounds like the kind of situation that would benefit from being made public. I mean, the theory makes sense: taxpayers share the burden of developing the plants they all consume. Something like the NSF's grant funding for most other science would work really well. This kind of situation would also facilitate a more permissive attitude toward sharing knowledge and seeds to help intellectuals and hobbyists (the same way universities make resources in other fields available to intellectuals and hobbyists).
Oops, you are correct. Good catch!

That is also the compiler required for FreeDOS; an effort towards creating a free replacement would be helping multiple projects.
Basically, the Yahoo valuation builds in some expectation that it will sell its shares in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan, but instead of returning the proceeds to shareholders (fully realizing its value), they will attempt to reinvest in Yahoo and destroy some of the value
This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7599393.
It was dramatized in the "Structural Corruption" episode of NUMB3RS, though they added in a suicide / murder element.
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For me there a couple of things that stand out on him:

* A builder of great narratives. His best books typically go through several little stories with a common unifying theme.

* A sharp builder of catchy phrases. This works much better in Spanish, he was a master of rhythm, but you can get in English too.

* A builder of great images. It is impossible to make a decent movie of the scenes he describes. It would be like dissecting an hummingbird.
Is HN open source?
> good language design means you don't have to read the docs

Let's assume JavaScript is a poorly-designed language, and Clojure is a well-designed language. In the first month of language use, the user of Clojure will have looked at the docs many more times.
I interviewed there almost a year ago for an iOS position, and it was an awesome atmosphere. There was a certain energy to the place and everyone knew a ton of stuff in the domain. I didn't get the job, but had fun anyways for that day in NYC.
No, the experiment I referred to hasn't been rolled out yet. We'll post about it when it does. In the meantime it's mostly moderation as usual.
Read Warren Buffet's biography "The Snowball" first. You could just read business textbooks but if you are starting from zero it will be like reading through an index.
I'm in the US and tried at least 10, all with failure.
And this is why we can't have nice things.

Seriously I think a wonderful investment right now might be to buy 1,000 Phantom's and just put them in a warehouse so that when they are banned you can resell them for 10x the markup. I am still waiting for the taser drone.

In an unrelated note, in the 1984 movie Runaway [1] the protagonist uses a quadcopter equivalent to go in and scout a 'hostile' robot situation. I could easily see this sort of deployment by police becoming common. If it stops them from coming in guns blazing it will be a good thing.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088024/
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I knew that it was a string. If you listen closely, you'll hear that he asked "is that an array of object?" He probably asked that because it's in square brackets. I said "No, it's just an object".

I've probably seen twenty people call this "wrong", which frustrates me. It's not wrong. It was a stringified object! I didn't say "stringified" because it wasn't relevant to the question of whether the object was in an array!

There are other things in Wat that are genuinely wrong, though, like the fencepost error about "16 commas", which mistake will haunt me forever.
It's never anything simple, like plain incompetence or not following "best practices". In this case we're told it was "highly sophisticated malware".

Yeah, sure, because a store that sells low cost craft supplies like Michaels does is undoubtedly a "high value" target worthy of only the most advanced malware ever written.
It's a dead end, but it makes the game kind of interesting (I just exclaimed in the office 'I got to SILICON! Now I can rip up the alpha process to iron! Muahahahahahaha! Then I got iron, and the game was over).

If you can just hammer alphas (Helium nuclei), the game is sorta dull.

I think there's still a ton of merit to this basic idea: Playing on a larger board initially full of hydrogen, allowing correct branching of decay products (so you keep getting back hydrogen in random locations), and allowing fission could be a (complicated) lot of fun.
I would just accept the hash, I think a lot of us prefer it to the pseudo keyword args.

(defn message [text {:keys [style color]}] ...)
(message "Text" {:style :bold :color :red})

To the person asking, that {:keys [style color]} is destructuring, it's not required, but it's nice, it's equivalent to doing:

(defn message [text opts]
(let [style (:style opts)
color (:color opts)]
...))
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Is this basically what Google Refine[0] does with their facet filters? (but obviously open source and allowing anyone to build their own platform)

[0] - http://openrefine.org/
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Potentially to "experience ice for the first time", but that lacks the romantic-ness of the Spanish original. The problem is that English's "meet" or "know" would cause the reader to double-take, and potentially still not understand the meaning, whereas in Spanish it feels normal.
The fix was to rip the building apart and weld everything together.
First world problems lol
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BTW, Windows is the only one mainstream OS I'm aware of, that actually attempts to implement some form of GUI-level isolation, starting from Windows Vista.

Is GetAsyncKeyState still available in Windows Vista? I'm guessing it is, and processes can still read each others' keystrokes without problem. The MSDN documentation doesn't mention it being deprecated. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms64...

(By the way this article is from 2011. It would be interesting to read an update.)
Good. Lawbreakers should be prosecuted. If the law is unjust, then change the law for all - don't allow some people to get away with it just because they are "tech companies" and continue to oppress the rest with the laws.
PS. I believe they obtained the pieces by invading Beijing... on the then Qing dynasty government's ever-so-serious provocation of refusing to issue free trading rights to foreign nations, in England's case mostly to distribute vast quantities of cut-rate opium produced in slave-like conditions by its Indian subjects to the Chinese population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War
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At some point you reach either enough users or an important-enough application where pretty good is not good enough, especially if you haven't tested it yet.
This is true, static hosting is served by the ecosystem -- yet they are buying companies very quickly right now with less obvious user value. Why wouldn't they buy one of these and see if they can grow it into something?
In his autobiography he tells a story I love.

While writing 100 Years of Solitude he listened to The Beatles' A Hard Day Night album on repeat. After the book was published he received a letter from a group of Mexican college students who asked him if he was listening to A Hard Day's Night when writing the book, because they felt the album in his words.
But the user of javascript will have more bugs.
Response time for me on getting sets 1-3 has ranged up to months.

It got better when I remembered we're a Matasano client so I shouldn't feel so guilty about harassing them. But it's an awesome free thing they're doing, so I still do feel a little guilty.
We also say, "stop and smell the roses", but we don't do that either ;)

We're so busy rushing here and there that we never touch nor live in the now. And we have children and expect them to just do the same. It's sad really.

We think to ourselves, "If I had a billion dollars, then I would be happy" yet all we need in order to be happy is to fully live every moment and stop looking to the future or regretting the past. Just live right now.
Unfortunately, Android Wear is pretty crippled in this regard. It doesn't even allow custom views in the notifications you send to the device, as normal Android notifications accept. It only allows text and icons.
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I really don't know.

I need to research more into what it means to have a collapse of state. Also whether a state of superposition is one that a system can return to or if once a system has collapsed if it stays that way. And if a system can return to superposition, what makes that happen?
Exactly what @rattray said. It's something you get nearly for free in data-binding world and is much harder to accomplish in imperative code. I wish you luck, and make sure you blog about it when it's done! (I want to see how it's implemented.)
Perhaps it needs admin permissions (UAC) though?

That would be the same as running it as root, so in that case it would make sense that you can listen to get every keypress. If not... then yep Windows Vista is as much a 'security circus' as anything else.
I saw this title and really hoped that it wouldn't be about this Katsu piece. For me it represents the worst of the intersection between art and tech, in that it isn't doing anything new or interesting in either fields, but riding solely off the fumes of 'daring' to combine the two.

I'd assume the audience of Silicon Valley Contemporary were savvy enough to see through galleries thin attempts to pander to them with stuff like this and "We accept bitcoin!" signs. I think SV is being looked at as a bit of a sitting duck due to the combo of huge amounts of money + generally small frame of reference when it comes to modern & contemporary art amongst its inhabitants (I think that's fair to say). It's the sort of situation art advisors dream about.
Oh I'm sorry, I get it now :)
The first I had heard of a tuned mass damper was in the installation on Taipei 101. There's a good video of it moving that gives you an idea of just how colossal these things are:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYSgd1XSZXc
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From the article:

[Katsu] pioneered the fire extinguisher spray can, which has permitted him to expand the scale of his art by orders of magnitude. He famously demoed it at "Art in the Streets," a 2012 show at the the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, when, without invitation, he left his multi-story calling card on the side of the museum.

The part of the story that is not mentioned is that this show was very well-attended (it's graffiti! it's art! it's hip!), but very controversial in an LA art world that is quite accepting of out-of-the-box concepts. This show and shows like it precipitated the resignation of all the artists on the MOCA board, and then caused the departure of the museum director, Jeffrey Deitch, who had championed the show.

The reason this is worth mentioning is that the article is playing in to the same rather thoughtlessly "transgressive" narrative about graffiti being, in itself, a serious contribution to the art world. What we actually have here is an interesting tech demo of novel ways to apply spray paint. But, what is the artistic contribution of this work? What is this cultural intervention on the part of Katsu trying to accomplish? (Or put another way, "Why are you calling this art? What cultural effect do you want to achieve?")

All he talks about in the interview is (a) some rather tired reasoning about the paint effects offered by the new method of application, and (b) some uninteresting claims about reclaiming the drone in the name of artistic expression.

This is hip and meme-abundant, but I don't see how it seriously contributes to culture.
It's a vast amount of land, no matter how you slice it.

A few hundred miles on a side is the size of many larger states in the US, and that assumes a 100% fill factor. Add in requirements for access roads, equipment, human habitations and support, and that's going to increase, though I'm not sure by how much -- 10% to 30% wouldn't surprise me.

Built as a corridor, 30 million acres is 1000 miles x 47 miles -- an assembly of grow tanks stretching 25 miles on either side of an highway running from Chicago to Denver. Though more likely it would be situated in a desert region (so as not to compete with existing agriculture), but where it would compete with alternative direct electrical (or electricity-to-fuel) alternatives.

Even if the area doesn't require freshwater access, it will require water, and for that to be transported (likelihood of occupying thousands of miles of coastline are slim) considerable distances inland, and then back out again (waste streams and salt). All of which are both capital and operationally intensive.

Building sea-based structures would similarly be insanely capital intensive. You'd be better off finding a way to create an inland salt lake (say: in the Dead Sea or Death Valley) and situate your grow-ponds there.

Marine or even simply salt-water environments are very, very harsh and hard on structures (even concrete) and equipment.
>Another possible answer is anthropic: you see an ordered universe because otherwise it wouldn't create an ordered mind like you.

Well, DUH.

This, so called, "anthropic" answer is still a naive non-answer. It's as if those that use the anthropic priniple in this sense have a very shallow understanding of Epistemology and/or Philosophy of Science.

It's obvious that the question concerns at least one level deeper than what the "anthropic principle" attempts to answer. Now just "how come" (possibillity of it being observed by an ordered entity) but "why" (actual mechanism causing this).
I recently joined Hacker News, and actually read through the guidelines before making an account. If there was one area where I feel that anything convinced me to be smart about what I post, it would be those guidelines.
Darn ... I found four but none worked :(
Please don't shut it down, like Readmill. I use Hackpad daily, and I'd hate to see it go by the way of Readmill and shoved down the toilet.
No, but dang's a mod, so he has access to the source code.
Nah, you're both wrong, and what's worse, you're holding strawmans. Not the time and place for this, my dudes.
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HN discussion is only sometimes technical, mostly it's opinion, so the norms should be different.

On a site like stackoverflow where the goal isn't discussion but answers to questions it makes sense to use a combination of mostly upvotes (for good material), lack of any votes (for mediocre material), and very occasional downvotes (for actively bad/outright incorrect answers). In that case it makes sense to engage with the poster and explain the problems, which can increase the potency of the downvote by providing context, while also helping to correct the original poster's misunderstanding.

On a site like HN that is mostly just opinion and commentary those patterns don't make sense. Most of the time comments that deserve downvoting are the sort that are either poisonous to productive conversation or just so monumentally wrong they need to go away. In that case engaging with the poster is precisely the wrong course, because doing so usually exacerbates the problem. Either by validating the behavior (if it's trolling) or by dumping a side-discussion into the larger conversation and polluting the SNR.
I've found the voting to be a great measure of what's hilarious. Whereas comments that are only moderately funny or diverge into off-topic are usually heavily downvoted. So, I think the threshold is just very high for jokes.
I hear that that's a heresy in some parts of the world that believe in the non-scientific "free market" cargo cult.
There's a new CPU architecture in the pipe(should have good silicon within five years, if their projections can be trusted), and it has a very good design around system calls, and also in terms of virtual memory.

It has a single 64-bit address space and only protection contexts, and due to the general design of the system it doesn't require any register push(or registers at all, at least in the traditional sense). In addition, it has primitives which would allow programs to call directly into drivers and kernel services without a context switch.

Anyway, I don't mean to sound like an advertisement, and we've yet to see any silicon, so the jury's out.

Aside: Starting process address spaces at 0 is not really a convenience as far as I know(other than offering consistent addresses for jumping to static symbols), it's a way to enable PAE on 32-bit machines so that single contexts(typically processes) can use the whole address space.
I cannot do a literary critique. But I can tell you that when I was 17, I started reading "One hundred years of solicitude" and couldn't stop until I finished the whole book. I felt enchanted, it is a feeling that I never had either before or after. I read it in Spanish, (my native tongue) so your mileage may vary.
Sorry for submitting the wrong link; resubmitted using a subscriber link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7607622
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You could watch a livestream on Twitch instead: it can even be fun to chat with other viewers or you can even work on other things at the same time. It's not as good as playing the game yourself, but it can be an alternattive.
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>I don't think I'll ever trust them to do what is right for the share holders ever again...

How abou them doing what is right for the company's future?
Do you not feel that workin on side projects all the time wears you down? I haven't had one for about 5 months now, I've been working so hard on other stuff, that I need something like LoL, WoW, or battlefield to take my mind off things on the evenings.
Wordpress is a fully capable blog, but we're trying to brand the way it looks, implement some discovery widgets that lead back to our actual site, and also add some features.

Basically, we want to be able to edit the HTML and potentially more, but Wordpress.com doesn't let you do this.
This looks awesome, thanks!
It was open-sourced at least two years ago[0]. I believe it hasn't been since to prevent gaming of the system, but I don't remember where I heard that.

[0] Based on this handy Github repository: https://github.com/wting/hackernews
Original: http://arclanguage.org/install
Similar genre to Rushdie, how might you contrast their styles?
But do you spend time watching TV? There's no real difference, if you enjoy spending time doing something then you should do it. Whats the point in working hard if you don get to chill out?
What deficiencies does Wordpress have? How is it not capable enough? Knowing whether it won't perform well under the kind of load your audience generates leads to an entirely different answer than knowing that it is limited in some other way.

If Wordpress is lacking in extensibility, then my guess is you'd be better off with something like Django, which isn't a blog at all, but could easily be converted into one -- or you could start with an existing, minimalist Django blog package and extend it.

If Wordpress is simply lacking features you need though, that's a different conversation, as it's the most likely to get those feature in the future, and/or possibly the cheapest to have those extensions developed.
The 99% Invisible story covers that a bit if you're interested. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/structural-integrity/
In the 1990s I worked at an investment bank, all the developers had X terminals (these were workstations that just ran X servers, they did not have any other local compute or storage resources). I discovered one day that I could run a program and direct the display to any X terminal in the network. There were some screensaver-type programs that would make everything on your screen a mirror image, or appear to melt down and run off the bottom of the screen. It made for some fun pranks.
You might be holding on to 'outdated' definitions. Here they are as they stand now:

Troll: Disagrees with individual or community. No/little/inadequate attempt to soothe egos potentially damaged.

Toxic: Disagrees and presents an alternative that is dangerous to the ego of the individual or community.

This comment is now considered "trolling" and I, a "troll".

Edit: An especially correct "troll" (as above) can be promoted to "toxic" without presenting an alternative if the disagreement is particularly damaging to the ego of individual or community.
I'm interested in Game Development, specifically physics simulation and graphics programming. The box2D code (C) is fantastic.
So, Google is a CA. Check the certificate chain for https://www.google.com: issued by "Google Internet Authority G2".
I got this idea to create a cloud based BRE and went with it since I hadn't really seen any others. Another unique thing is that rules can be written in any number of popular languages like javascript, C#, or VB (Python and Ruby will be available soon) not some proprietary, half-implemented language. Check it out and let me know what you think.
I don't know why I'm responding, this topic is pretty clearly dead, but here's another thing for you to consider. Your point 1 mentions how "the physical body we have, totally support our intelligence, is it mere coincidence" [sic]. We adapt to the bodies we have; other animals adapt to the bodies they have.

Albatrosses use a technique called dynamic soaring and can fly across literally the entire ocean without flapping. They've pretty clearly adapted to their bodies; do you feel the development of that technique doesn't indicate intelligence?
Yeah, Uber is oppressing the german people by offering a better and cheaper service to them, they need to go away.
I don't understand the people commenting that YouTube is not a proper archival tool. Obviously. They're not deleting their own copies of these films, they're just making them available to the public in an easy to use manner. Criticism of this is totally misguided.
According to wallflower below, it was to weld thick steel plates to the joints. That's not the same as following the original design.
I still feel 5 seconds is too short.

I actually decided to stop playing the game rather quickly, because the team is so desperate to move in 5 seconds that they make several terrible moves in a row, easily losing the game in a almost minimal amount of turns possible to lose.
Yes. Here's a Windows keystroke logger (with source code) that uses GetAsyncKeyState. I wrote this years ago to show an IT auditor that a restricted user could run a keystroke logger (he was adamant that was not possible). It works on Windows XP to Windows 8.

http://16s.us/software/16k/
Well-informed and well-put. May I ask, are you connected to the art world somehow? I had the same reaction to this piece (our comments were much the same, and made at the same time), perhaps because my wife shows in LA and I've inherited her skepticism of this kind of showboating.
Somewhere around 2001 Apple shares were about $12, giving it market cap less than its liquidation value.