skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
perhaps, but none of that really contradicts what I said. Just that there's little use for any kind of objective classification system for "art" and "not art" to a curator. Just a fuzzy wuzzy wibbly wobbly sense of what is culturally significant, valued, and/or a "good investment".

None of which has much to do with what you might think of as reasoning about "is" and "is not". The question is never asked. There's no point to it. No value in the asking. That's an "art critic's" job. not a Curator's job.

And even in Art Criticism, since the dawn of "Post Modernism" there's been an implicit almost non verbal agreement to never ever question the "Art"-ness of something. It's never about whether it is or is not. Only what an artist is attempting to say, or what you are able to grasp from a work. To question the is-ness is boring and pedestrian, and marks you immediately as someone who is not really clued in.

Questioning whether something is art or "Art" with a capital A is kind of equivalent to an ad hominem. It has nothing to do with anything. It's name calling. It's not taking the argument or the artwork for what it is.
The contract was signed in the seventies and nobody had thought to revisit it.

Or perhaps it hadn't been worthwhile to revisit it?
It will still work, but you'll have to hammer on it/babysit/handhold the code into maturity more.
Tiny Code: Floppy booting, Open Firmware, Bitlash, more Movizt.
The jump algorithm I've used for a long time(and cribbed from an old co-worker) uses three variables, going to a second derivative: velocity, acceleration, and "power." The first two are pretty explanatory, the third is applied to acceleration and decremented each frame to a minimum of 0, and is instantly zeroed when jump is released early, allowing gravity to start pulling down acceleration. (Acceleration is also usually zeroed at release for a tighter top.)

Tuning these has let me reproduce pretty much any controllable jump arc - for example, the jump in Metroid has a lot of "float" to it at release time. This is doable by making acceleration at release equal to inverse of gravity.
More info? I have never heard of anything bad about Linguist (And I don't know that much about it.).

Googling didnt bring up anything obvious,
I remember changing a digital clock to anticlockwise.

BTW good work.
> Or perhaps it hadn't been worthwhile to revisit it?

With public agencies, big companies, medics and anyone associated with higher salaries comes one thing: consultants and service providers WILL bill you until a normal person's eyes would bleed. Only that in some spheres, a) decisionmakers don't worry about money and b) they don't worry about money even more when you fill them up with tasty buzzwords.
Piketty's claim is that, in a capitalist system, wealth disparity increases over time (measured in currency).

I don't think he presented enough evidence to make that statement without a lot of qualifiers, but for now, let's just assume that it's correct.

What Piketty absolutely failed to account for is that capitalism's greatest strength (and even Marx thought this) is that it causes the marginal utility of currency to decrease over time.

That means that even if the dollar gap between rich and poor is bigger today than it was 200 years ago, the actual quality of life gap is just getting smaller and smaller.

A billionaire can afford caviar and ten lamborghinis.

A thousand-aire can afford hamburgers and a used civic.

The billionaire is not a million times better off, and every year, as brutal market forces push the development of better and cheaper technology in every field, the difference between the rich man and the poor man, measured in the quality of food, goods, and services they have access to, gets smaller and smaller. For the most part, billionaires can only buy more of the same thing that almost everyone has access to. The rich guy can buy a harvard education, and the poor guy can buy a cheap but effective online education. The rich guy can buy a gold-plated iPhone, and the poor guy can buy a cheap Android. It's all the same stuff, just with different levels of class.

Compare that to not so long ago when only the rich had cars, refrigeration, electricity, etc.

The best example right now is medical technology. The rich have significant advantages regarding medical treatment, but how long will that last? Look at the plummeting costs of gene sequencing, diabetes tests, advanced prosthetics...
My guess would be that they want to be able to share cookies across their sub-domains.

That file is saying that we should effectively treat:

education.vic.gov.au and courts.vic.gov.au as being independent entities that happen to both use the "vic.gov.au" domain, but otherwise have nothing in common (as far as same-origin policies go)

But

fairtrading.nsw.gov.au and housing.nsw.gov.au as being separate sub-domains operated by the same entity (in this case the NSW gov't)

It's certainly easier for those who operate site on that domain if they can implement single sign on, and cross-(sub)-domain resource loading without needing to jump through hoops like CORS.

However, since nsw.gov.au is also farmed out to every local council in the state as well as every government department, it's putting the security of your cookies into the hands a lot of organisations over which you have very limited control.
> You need to be able to say: "Here's why there is no way we can have a hostile work environment, and how we're taking action to ensure we don't". Part of it is policies, part of it documentation of events, part of it is ensuring that employees feel they have a way to resolve situations.

I'm skeptical. The fact that there is a documented procedure isn't nothing, but it's not that much more than that. I suspect if I went back and counted, a strong plurality of the "I worked in a hostile male environment" accounts I've read occurred in companies with HR departments and explicit sexual harassment policies- GitHub was pretty unique. I've worked in ten-person companies with an HR person.

What an HR department does is make sure management doesn't get sued. The culture of the company isn't something they can control by fiat.
The biggest issue for me is that I need to do a lot of price comparison now. Especially with Prime, it's too easy to filter to Prime-only results and order the first one. But if I take the time to shop around, I can often find a much better price and that diminishes the value of Prime and Amazon to me.
@pgeorgi - I was specifically responding to -- "Btw, I just noticed that the old Surface is now known as PixelSense. Makes sense."

MSFT (and other companies) have a very bad habit of circular/redundant/superfluous naming conventions.

In this case Pixelsense and the renamed Surface RT never had direct naming overlap.
I always considered it fascinating how so many of China's cultural heroes were people who built great works and disseminated knowledge. (Not that Chinese mythology is necessarily unique in this manner, of course.)

- Shennong, who invented agriculture.

- Cangjie, who invented Chinese characters.

- Yao, Shun, and Yu, who tamed the river floods and irrigated the fields.
"I don't know what the solution is."

Not have such a massive federal government that is always spending other people's money?

When people spend their own money, they often find much more efficient use of it.
Sad. I didn't make it either...
On Being an Engineer of Software
I feel rather silly now, but...

What does Flynn do? The word "ops" is so central to the pitch and so ambiguous to me that I have absolutely no idea what the function of this software (it is software, right?) is.
When bullying or harassment occurs in any environment unless there is intervention it will not stop. There is ample opportunity to collect evidence beyond hearsay.
What proof has either side provided?
That's right. Going to the mall to buy something is a 2-3 hour time sink, plus gas. Buying online is about 5 minutes, no gas.
Ask HN: is there a site-builder for the now-typical style of web product sites? 
Most of the new web based software-as-a-service products / companies have a site with a very similar style. That style seems to have been pioneered originally by 37 signals.

Do you know the style I mean? Typically one large page that is scrolled down through various sections, each section communicating a small number of marketing points/features/benefits. At the bottom there is the now-typical pricing panel. Often each panel will have a different color, sometimes an image as a background in the panel.

So two questions/requests:

1: is there a standard "site builder" anywhere that allows creation of pages that follow this seeming standard layout? Ideally something that just allows fields to be filled in and boom out comes the site.

2: if you know any examples of sites that follow this style/layout please post a link below. It would be great to have a collection of examples of sites that are in this style.
At MoMA I saw an unadorned bit of red paper, and in a separate piece, an unadorned bit of white card, both of which were mounted on the wall and presented as art. I personally think that's utterly crap art, bereft of any insight or skill... but it was still there, on the wall of a famous museum.

I may have mixed up the white card with a black one - but I do remember in travelling up the US east coast seeing three unaltered bits of paper in art museums, one white, one red, one black, with two of them in MoMA. I vaguely recall the red one having a thin, simple frame.
Yeah, I suppose my description of Java as compiler-enforced Hungarian notation isn't entirely fair. I often wonder if Java's problems in terms of bearability are as much syntactic as they are semantic.
I had a government customer once. And they had another vendor I met which was "owned" by a woman. But the real operator of the business made no bones about the fact the the entire thing was setup in his wife's name solely in order to enable contracting with said government agency.
I think when you're talking about a stocky plumber jumping several times his height without even bending his knees, you can discount the idea of the brain finding this movement natural.
I think there's a key distinction here between "unprofessional" traits that can enhance productivity, vs. unprofessional traits that kill productivity.

I agree that the former are good things and should be preserved where possible. (And not just in technology companies; some time ago I remember reading about a study that looked at various heavy industrial companies--auto manufacturers were one type--and found that the most productive ones were the ones that had many of the things you cite: limited or no dress code, limited HR involvement, limited written work descriptions and a lot of autonomy given to workers.)

However, the Github case appears to be an example of the latter. I don't think that's something to be celebrated.
One less ISP – Birch Communications Acquiring CBeyond
Your comment is witty, but I have absolutely no idea what it has to do with OneDrive modifying files. It's not even about Microsoft or the effects of any of their choices or policies - it's about stupid managers.
George and Jonathan "DataViz" Album
Tell me about it. I still do not understand why you need to put am after I but is after he. Isn't it clear 'I is' is different from 'he is'? Another thing troubling me is whether to reply yes or no on questions like "didn't you agree?". I also think it would be nice for English to have more compound words like "sunflower". I am not even starting on the cultural part yet, since I am still studying the evolvement from illegal to undocumented.
The thing that is most interesting is that neither of them seem to have ever heard of "consumer surplus". This is two of the most ... "educated" men of the time; now the concept is much more widely understood. Say what you will of Milton Friedman, he'd done a lot to at least get people familiar with these sorts of concepts.
Yeah, sure, but we all know it is inevitable the government is going to spend some money so as a practical matter just cutting government doesn't really address the problem of making the remaining parts more efficient.
Hijacking Gmail AJAX requests in a chrome extension – Gmail Traffic Watcher
>Is there something other than the substring 'Drive' that gives the expectation of a fully generic file synchronization tool?

I don't think anyone is expecting OneDrive to be "fully generic" (I believe that 'emeraldd was referring to the "tries to do intelligent things" portion of the sentence he quoted).

It just seems that people are unaware of the fact that putting certain kinds of documents into "document libraries" or "team site libraries" involves automatically adding metadata to those documents (from the OP's example, html comments and "xmlns:..." attributes were added to html files).
Glad to see Guile Emacs returning:

> Complete the integration of Guile and Emacs.

https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/g...
Well, that. Also about how bad SharePoint is, and the kind of people who think that it's okay, when it's not. I wouldn't put my data there because the types of things you run into on SP are endemic and fractally bad.
I can't recommend all of Solzhenitsyn enough. You'll be forgiven if you don't make it all the way through "1918"... I, frankly, didn't. Perhaps someday. also it never cease to astound me how deeply Boris Pasternak drew his picture of the thing. The David Lean film is almost better than the book, but the book is amazing.
And there are countries for which there is no Prime at all.
> a procrustean bed of document folders, all set for you to lose your documents

"I resemble that remark". Shudder.

Such fun, a web implementation of a 1980s folder system, with no possible way of doing an "ls -lr". One gets to click every node in a three or four deep hierarchy to look for a document. Shudder, erase from memory.
Looks like "Lockheed Martin Services" might be the company providing their IT. They have 3 contracts with HHS totaling over $200 million described as, "CONSOLIDATED INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE CONTRACT"

http://www.hhs.gov/about/smallbusiness/smallbusiness/pdf/cms...

Edit: It looks like the 200 million is only for IT services for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid so HHS as a whole probably spends even more on IT.
The Ghost Fleet in San Francisco Bay had me interested after going past it via train. Not sure what the plan is for it, but leaving stuff like that to rot won't be doing the sea any good. The well maintained shipyard that isn't too far from me has one hell of a high heavy metal count and I can't imaging The Ghost Fleet is doing any better. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suisun_Bay
Cause, no, but definitely the turning point in the tide. Before and during the nationalist fervor of the war, there was a bit of a movement to purge Japanese of foreign loans (敵性語 "enemy language"), similar to sauerkraut turning into "liberty cabbage" etc in the US. Once the war ended, this was swiftly reversed and the floodgates to importing foreign terminology wholesale (re)opened.

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/敵性語
A straightforward solution would be for the US to have a uniform online sales tax, distributed to the state of the shipping address.

Is this intractable?
I'm 52 years old. I've had this discussion with dmr, srk, maybe with wnj.

All I know is for years, decades, I carried around the source to some simplistic make. I hate GNU make, I hate some of the unix makes. I loved the simple make.

The beauty of make is it just spelled out what you needed to do. Every darn time make tried to get clever it just made it worse. It seemed like it would be better and then it was not.

Make is the ultimate less is more. Just use it and be happy.
How about if it's framed differently: he created coroutines in 156 lines of C++.
We're hiring for Scala development near Los Angeles. (Ventura County) We don't expect you to have prior professional Scala development; a sharp dev can get up to speed and start writing decent Scala fairly quickly. (Profile has my contact info.)
You're close. Someone added Zed to the dongml repo just to be annoying, and Zed removed himself. But the inviter just added him again, and Zed complained that there isn't any sort of confirmation to indicate, "yes, I'd like to be part of this project," so people can add you against your will, which happened repeatedly to Zed with dongml. Eventually, Zed retaliated with his commit bot, and github apparently looked at that situation and decided that it would be best if they added a feature that let you block other users. However, the idea wasn't that dongml would block Zed's malicious commits, it was that Zed would be able to block the person that kept adding him to dongml. In other words, the github feature wasn't to prevent Zed's malicious checkins directly, but rather block the behavior that annoyed him into making them in the first place.

Zed wrote up a long blog post telling the whole story but I think it's been deleted since.
Jesus, this is terrifying.

I need to go remind my family to unplug me if I'm ever in a state like this. Death is infinitely preferable to being trapped in my body for endless years.
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> art is something that makes you feel an emotion.

It's important to remember though that confusion is not an emotion.
I read the article the last time it was discussed here on Hacker News. The author correctly leads off with the main reason Chinese is hard to learn as a second language, and not easy to learn to full literacy even for a native speaker. My HN user profile discloses that I am a second-language learner of Chinese. I began study of the language in 1975. There are all kinds of interesting challenges in learning Chinese. One that is underestimated is how much the various Sinitic languages ("Chinese dialects") are not cognate even for vocabulary that would be cognate for French and Spanish, or for English and German. How you might write the conversation

"Does he know how to speak Mandarin?

"No, he doesn't."

他會說普通話嗎？

他不會。

in Modern Standard Chinese characters contrasts with how you would write

"Does he know how to speak Cantonese?

"No, he doesn't."

佢識唔識講廣東話？

佢唔識。

in the Chinese characters used to write Cantonese. As will readily appear even to readers who don't know Chinese characters, many more words than "Mandarin" and "Cantonese" differ between those sentences in Chinese characters.

On the whole, I find Chinese grammar fits my preferences (I like languages in which word order is the main element of grammar, and dislike languages like most Indo-European languages with a lot of inflection shown by changes in word endings), I can deal with Chinese pronunciation (but my children find it much more "natural" than I do to use phonological tone to distinguish differing words, a common feature of many languages but not my native language, English), and I just have to suck it up and exert a lot of effort to be literate in Chinese, even with today's computer aids. The Chinese writing system is HARD even for native speakers of Modern Standard Chinese.
They get hit with flack coming or going. If they're against online taxes, then they're accused of not doing their fair share to support government coffers, or they're accused of getting an unfair competitive advantage (per offline retailers).

It's similar to Walmart's minimum wage support. If Walmart were against minimum wage increases, their opponents would lambast them for it. If they're in favor of it, they get accused of only being in favor of it because they know they can more easily afford it compared to smaller retailers.
If you're interested in contributing your talents to solving problems for the world, check out http://reallocate.org/ and http://hacktivation.org/
Zed will standup to anyone being a fuckwit - big difference. Has naught to do with liking conflict.
Mlpack. Multi-Class Adaboost implementation.
The first argument is weak, arrays are THE mutable structure and no functional language uses it as it is. For the exact reasons of GC overhead, FP languages use persistent data structures meaning when you modify the data, what you get is (roughly) old data + delta , no need to deep copy anything
Microsoft is not the only one. I had saved a special PDF with settings to full screen the PDF on open. I uploaded this to my Google Drive to transfer it to another machine and it completely reconverted the file into another type of PDF which not only corrupted the document but also broke the full screen open setting. This is a really random circumstance, but I was surprised to see GD reconvert the PDF, not store what I wanted "byte-for-byte"
The smaller the government (or any entity) the fewer things look like a "drop in the bucket that's not worth looking at". So reducing the size of government will (I believe) increase the efficiency.
Smart electric – drive as low as $12,490 or lease for $139/mo
Or maybe there are some men who are aware that things aren't always as easy in the tech industry for women as they are for men.

Because they, you know, listen to the majority of women in tech, who say this is in fact the case.
The history of Internet use, in 3 GIFS
There's a strong current of spitefulness in those Twitter posts. While I understand that Horvath is clearly livid, and obviously not without some reason, that kind of public vitriol would make me question anyone's rationality.
Oh man i hope you manage to continue this bold and positive direction in moderation! At times it seems I have to wade through an entire thread just to see one or two comments about the content and not about something vaguely related.

Worse, the constant reinforcement of this sense that comment threads will be full of random unrelated diatribes leads more people to post their own such comments. It is incredibly hard to take a stand against them because they are often well spoken and interesting in their own right.
If you want open source, and you're okay with manual sync and conflict resolution, I've had good results in the past using Unison[1] to sync multiple systems.

At this point, though, I've personally settled on a system similar to the GP's — a backed-up laptop. In the rare event I need to access a document on the laptop when I've left it at home, there's always ssh, and, in the even more rare case where I need a document and I've left the laptop elsewhere, there's always ssh + rooting around Time Machine folders on my backup server. Finally, for times when I don't want to carry the laptop and know I'll need access to files, GoodReader[2] on iOS syncs over a variety of file server and cloud storage protocols.

[1] http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

[2] http://www.goodiware.com/goodreader.html
Who gets #hangry? I know I do
Iterating with functions is terrible, in Javascript, because of weaknesses in Javascript.
Is it possible to participate in SoC if you're not currently enrolled?
Mailbox – How to ruin customer trust.
Dujiangyan is astonishing to see in person. The scale of such an ancient project is mind boggling. Sadly, much of the surrounding area was destroyed in the 2008 earthquake as the epicenter was very nearby.
There's a good documentary on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4FRO1eYdgQ