skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the input. If I do this (trying to talk some colleagues and friends into it, study buddies and drinking buddies if it gets too bad) I'll probably have to stick to one course a semester then. I figured that'd be the case.
Let's just say that the lines got a lot blurrier over the last couple of decades. The difference is generally if there's an explicit compilation step that is not hidden from developers. If you "run the source file", then it's interpreted. If you "run something generated from the source file(s)", then it's compiled. Stronger type checking and compiled mode is likely since the cost of compilation is higher and more resource intensive, so it makes sense to push it into an offline step.

> You can run C++ or Java with run-time type-checking, but it doesn't conform the to spec.

I'm not sure what you mean by "conforming with the spec". You can opt out of type checking by using only `object` or `void*`. But golang has a mode where you run a go file directly and a mode where you generate a binary. There are no traditional interpreted languages anymore (or at least only very few). And what we call "compiled" languages today are not actually compiled ones. The way Java runs is closer to how JavaScript runs than to how C runs. It's only about the interface the offer to developers.
What will happen when profit-seeking priorities conflict with the social good? What happens if they discover that a more just solution or one that provides more benefits to society costs more than what they are doing?

(However, I only skimmed the article ... maybe that was addressed and I missed it.)
I don't see enemies and opposition everywhere. I'm not paranoid. You just happen to be an investor in at least one money transmitter and company I'm in litigation with (not to mention your Walmart involvement), and you didn't care to mention it. That would seem material and capable of altering your viewpoint. Instead you said you weren't employed.

The fact that I am supposedly "bent on turning the discussion to [my] cause" would actually suggest that I see potential partners everywhere, if anything.

As for phrasing, if the private and very polite conversations I've had with people had gone better, we never would have reached this point.
Nuclear powered aircraft have undesirable failure modes.

I may not be fair because it may not have been what you meant, but I need to address this.

It wouldn't be like a nuclear bomb going off. It wouldn't even be like a nuclear power station going into meltdown. The US purposefully made a nuclear rocket go through a worst-case scenario in the 60s and it didn't permanently irradiate the desert or anything.[1] It would kill people on the ground and you would need professional clean up, but that's also the case with normal plane crashes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket#Kiwi-TNT
Very interesting article -- I'm only surprised Gödel didn't make an appearance.
My assumption is that Spotify has so many passionate customers that killing the Windows/Android apps would earn Apple enough bad karma, they could never do it. Apple could kill Beats Music, integrate it into itunes, and the small number of customers can't kick up enough stink for Apple to care.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=burnout#!/story/forever/0/burnout

HN has a substantial amount of discussion !

(for those interested)
Note that my claim that free will is an illusion does not imply determinism. When I flip a coin (or do a proper quantum-y experiment) the outcome isn't determined either. That doesn't mean the coin decides mid-flight which side feels more comfortable to land on.
Maybe the most cost-effective solution is to better regulate Wall Street, which would prevent the economic crises that lead to high unemployment.
> Fuel has been getting more expensive for decades

No it hasn't. You are forgetting to adjust for inflation:

http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/images/charts/Oil/Gasolin...

And that graph is gasoline - if you graphed all energy it would look even better.

http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/realprices/ (too bad it's not logarithmic - it's hard to read without it).

It's basically only the last decade that prices went up - before that it was all down.

> Also, writing off a factor of five, when talking about an industry (transportation) where engineers would kill puppies for another 5%.

I'm not writing off the difference I'm saying that the difference is not enough to make it "non viable" - just more expensive. If we were going to cut back on things because of energy costs, aviation is not what we would cut.
I agree. A desktop environment is one of those things where familiarity trumps innovations. It's like your living room. You might do innovating things in your living room from time to time, but most people would say that the living room itself should remain familiar, conservative, and all around comfortable. You really don't want to re-learn how to sit down in your own couch.

In fact, I would go so far as to say that the only time when a massive change to the desktop environment is warranted is when there's a massive change to the physical method that people use to interact with computers. The widespread availability of the mouse gave rise to the now-familiar WIMP paradigm. The introduction of multi-touch triggered another round of innovation, but I doubt that this can be backported to keyboard-and-mouse devices any more than Photoshop can be backported to mouseless terminals.
Unofficial Atom Builds for Windows
Hmm, I've got a UX32VD, makes me want to try it out, usually I don't bother with laptops.
In FF 29 console, its giving this - "Media resource http://hidden-bastion-5609.herokuapp.com/2014-05-09T02:11:37... could not be decoded."

I downloaded the file myself and listened. Looks cool. (y)

Anyway, what are you using for text text-to-speech conversion?
Turing machines can simulate quantum computers. They just take longer to compute the same function.
I think Apple started the trend of large graphics alongside big marketing text. The pages look similar to this: http://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/
Nice. In terms of buying the raw materials - you should find if there is a specialty supplier in your area. You can get a lot more interesting cuts and species from those, especially if you're working on relatively small scale projects. The major stores are optimized around people buying lots for bigger projects. You might even be able to find a sawmill somewhere that is willing to sell direct.

Also, don't forget...they're just trees. You can get them milled yourself and get your own wood. My brother in law saw an old oak tree get cut down for a new factory. It had a nice, solid straight log. He approached them (they were going to chip it) and asked that, if he had it removed within 24 hours, could he have it? They said yes, and were happy. He got a truck to pick it up, and delivered to his house. He then got a portable sawmill contractor (these are a framed saw that sit around the log and mill it in place, rather than feeding the log through a stationary mill). They then stacked the green wood in the yard (correctly spaced for airing) and covered it with a tarp and an old sheet of roofing iron. A couple of years later it was good to go. About 10-15% was warped and useless but he got lots - and I mean lots - of fantastic oak all cut too sizes he wanted. From this he worked (and is still working) on building furniture - sideboards, table, a 'piece' chair, as well as trimming for his mantelpiece and a lot of other things. He could have sold the surplus for a healthy profit, but instead chooses to keep some and give away others to people who are interested.

If you enjoy the process of choosing the right pieces, you'd love the process of actually selecting a tree and then turning that into long-lasting, quality furniture that will outlast you.

EDIT: On that point, some timber is near-impossible to obtain now because of logging restrictions. However, sometimes individual trees are cleared from urban areas that would never be allowed to be removed from a forest. If you learn what the trees look like you might get lucky one day.
If you have any questions about the builds, reply to this comment and I'll help you.
Vibram Agrees to Settle Class Action Lawsuit over Vibram FiveFingers
Learning to think in terms of immutable/persistent data structures is transformative and surprisingly simple.

Boils down to same toolkit though, lists, vectors, trees, and key-value maps.

I benefit from the use of immutable or structure-sharing persistent data structures even in languages that don't natively support them.
Managed to avoid those things for a year in Tokyo...see if I can go for another.
Second this. Mailchimp integration <3
There may be some way to power it externally, like beamed microwave power. Sure there would be huge transmission losses, but the plane would weight a lot less, and the power could be from large, efficient ground based plants rather than portable engines.
2014 Developer Learning Guide: Part 2
They're forums. They aren't social bookmarking.
Elon Musk has talked about making electric planes, so I don't think they are entirely nuts.

Thinking out loud, you might build it with minimal fuel on board at all, doing a sled launch[1] or having it run its own engines off of external power for launch. Then require beamed power throughout the flight, with the provision that the plane can still land if all ground stations fail to provide power. But the plane starts and ends with less weight than a normal plane does because it's not carrying fuel, so it just might be feasible.

Then again, you can also manufacture hydrocarbons from atmospheric CO2 given energy input.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_sled_launch
Yeah I think this clause is about with-holding information about bad things done by others in the team. But this seems to have been covered by other points on the page. Something to be reworded.
Not very much info on it, it's written in Java? What's it compile to? JVM bytecode? Hello World example? Something?
This was a challenge in Stripe CTF3. As mentioned by aljungberg, see https://github.com/ctfs/write-ups/tree/master/stripe-ctf3/le...
This reminds me of the holographic theory in physics which says (I am not a physicist, so layman's summary) that the information in a sphere of space can be completely represented on the surface of the sphere. If we think of that surface as its "interface" of relationship to the rest of the universe, it sounds very similar to:

> "the collection of all ways to relate an object to other objects is isomorphic to the object itself".
I tried this thing on Linux yesterday, and when searching for a plugin, I got the chrome dev tools open and present me with an error...I'm surprised it came out of beta. Does this problem happen in Windows?
Hachette Says Amazon Is Delaying Delivery of Some Books
> I have moved into houses and lived there while upgrading the interior
> and it has always been personally and financially rewarding

...after the demo work is finished. Maintaining sanity and a positive outlook is hard if your partner/spouse does not thrive in chaos. Triple the insanity if the kids are hopping over the chop saw in the dining room:)
There can be an infinite number of different rigorous conceptions of logic, while at the same time there are also an infinite number of modes of thought outside of logic .. we know the ones like instinct, superstition, and religion that are considered inferior to logic. Is it possible for there to exist a mode of thought yet to be found or invented that is better?
Seems to work over here[1] on the Windows build

[1] http://i.imgur.com/glepE3c.png
Hm, so far I've only tested it in Chrome, I'll have to look into that.

I'm using the Google Translate TTS Api[1] - had to do some manual parsing + replacements to make some words sound right, but overall it's been stellar, especially compared to most other solutions. It also didn't cost a dime, which is nice.

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=Hacker+Ne...
Gas was under $1 / gal less than 15 years ago. Now it's over $5 / gal in many parts of the US. How do you see it getting cheaper over time?
Marc Andreessen on Bubbles
Always enjoy seeing others Trello boards to compare to my own Trello workflow, and way cool that these folks have released their roadmap to the world in a relatively detailed manner.
>If this kind of thinking were to get "popular," Western civilization and science would collapse into skepticism and religion would take over again. Just as happened in the Middle Ages and at the end of the Islamic Golden Age (in the latter case, there never was a recovery).

argumentum ad consequentiam
Raised beds are to woodworking as early 00s html is to programming.
That's not absurd, it's a perfectly plausible philosophical hypothesis. The only thing that's wrong with it, besides the fact that the "first conscious entity" sounds awfully similar to a god, is that I have no idea how to test your hypothesis scientifically. But that shouldn't be a problem if you don't intend your hypothesis to be a matter of science in the first place.

By the way, "consciousness is a requirement for a universe to exist. Without consciousness the universe exists as random information..." is self-contradictory, since existing as random information still counts as existing. I don't think this is what you intended, so I would suggest that you change it to something like "consciousness is a requirement for there to be order in the universe" or something along those lines. (Caution: if you say "consciousness is a requirement for the universe to be intelligible", that becomes sort of tautological.)

Anyway, happy philosophizing!
Thanks! You'll be fine. Hit me up if you have any specific questions!

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Beats CEO Jimmy Iovine in Talks to Join Apple as 'Special Adviser'

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/05/08/beats-jimmy-iovine-join-...
I am not really sure why they want to buy Beat for that price.
What is the strategic advantage in buying Beats?
> The general sentiment I get from the community is that
> if you're an expert on a particular issue, and you
> happen to have an unpopular viewpoint, you shouldn't
> participate.

For all the talk of deference to logic, facts and expertise here, the reality is that this community is just as emotional, superstitious and irrational as any other group of humans you'll find.

Forget about "facts" and "evidence": If you want to win people's support you'll have to court them like a politician courts voters. Study the techniques of some politicians who had to gain support for unpopular or controversial legislation.

Dale Carnegie is also worth a read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influenc...
Adam Smiths point is that you should stick to the production of whatever goods you have inherent comparative advantage at.

That doesn't mean you should be a mono-skilled person with only a bimodal work/consume life.

To be a rounded individual, you need to pick up skills in a lot of different fields, to the point of not being afraid of them. AT the very least, you'll be able to converse to a wide variety of people without feeling like a dumb schmuck.
Yeah, the developer has a really strange take on indexing. I got into a bit of an argument about it with him on a bug tracker. Baloo had decided that it would index all of my data files which are huge (multiple GB) which was going poorly for it and for me. The system is a wrapper around Xapian (http://xapian.org/) and Sqlite, as with any full text index when you try and put things which are huge into the index it is going to explode the index. Which is what happened to me. It also indexes source code which is fairly useless. (Although to be fair they have (today) blacklisted source code https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdelibs/baloo/reposito... )

EDIT: looks like 4.13.1 will also have a check box to disable Baloo! https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdelibs/baloo/reposito... which is great news.
> Will a bug filed at GitHub like https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/4761 still reach the right place?

Filing at Bugzilla will probably give you a wider audience. This can be useful if the underlying perf problem is with Firefox rather than pdf.js. Don't worry about getting some of the Bugzilla fields wrong, it happens all the time and people don't mind. A good description of the problem (with steps to reproduce) is the most important thing.

If you're still intimidated, filing something with pdf.js's GitHub tracker is a lot better than nothing.
It's only a game. You may restart it using a new life.
Add an about page, more screenshots, a bit about the team. Ya know, salesmanship.
I am not involved with Walmart. I sold a company to them and did some contracting work that wasn't extended. I am no longer advising them, though I haven't bothered to update every profile everywhere. I'll go edit some more things if that makes you happy.

I retract "dead horse" and wish to replace "pet cause" - the first implies more about your cause than I really mean to.

Is that better?
15 years ago was the lowest price gas has ever been. It fell dramatically to get to that point.

If I had talked to you 15 years ago you would comment on how gas keeps getting cheaper. It's corrected a bit since then, but adjusted for inflation and taking the long view it's not very expensive right now.

http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/images/charts/Oil/Gasolin...
Well, Apple already has plenty of experience building mediocre headphones. The difference is that Apple only charges $30!
Ha, my most successful project was done partially with a pregnant spouse and the other half with an infant in the house.

I find that you can gain a lot of understanding with 'shiny new house/cash to buy bigger house' promise at the end.

I always keep the saw in the garage. Better for keeping excess sawdust out of the house.
If true, they're really buying Jimmy Lovine.
Tinylog – Minimalist logger for Java
Google have also quietly launched a global sourcing search engine, which covers most of the core features of Alibaba's main site: https://www.google.com/shopping/suppliers/
I was aware of that, but it doesn't seem available to US students.
Clojure version of Bruce Schneier's Solitaire encryption algorithm
Stack Exchange for iPhone is here
The Solitaire Encryption Algorithm [1999]
If you want to use the same image tooltip as the homepage, you just need to add the 'image-tooltip' module and have a toolbar button with the class 'sc-image'. We didn't add it to the examples page editors for aesthetics (the tooltip is bigger than the editor) and thought it was sufficient to just demo the capability on the front page.

We realize and apologies for the lack of documentation for modules. One reason is the module interface is not finalized because we're not sure what the community will dream up and wanted to get feedback before making a decision that might unintentionally exclude certain use cases or encourage unsustainable designs. Depending on what's decided we will probably add functionality to the existing image tooltip. We'd love for you to be involved in the discussion if this is an area of interest.
For BeatPods by Dre
Are you a hiring manager? I'm super interested in what hiring managers would say...
I would argue the super-high-quality image PDF meant for printing on a 1200dpi plotter is an exceptional case a netbook will never handle well, no matter the format.

Usually when the PDF is silly big, someone just didn't do a good job preparing it.
Anyone got a link to the delete account page? Is there one?
Interesting. I wonder if Epic is also looking at this as an opportunity to cultivate, then hire, fresh talent.

To be blunt, if you always wanted to break into the game industry, this couldn't be a better opportunity for you to pick up related experience and build relationships with potential employers.
I'm curious how they get away with having basically 100% of their app as web-based. We used native controls for login screen and another screen to play it safe. Are we playing too safe?
It can be done, but you have to remember to set strict deadlines for yourself, or else it will be a waste of time.

Without the pressure of grades going on your transcript, it can get exceedingly difficult to push yourself to finish all of the assignments, and there are few incentives against quitting after getting frustrated. This is why college courses work so well for so many people: good university transcripts are far more important than the certificates that online courses might offer.

Harvard's CS50x released some interesting stats after its first year. Of over 100,000 people who signed up, only 11% submitted the first and easiest problem set. Of these 100,000, only 0.9% completed the course. Of those who submitted the first problem set, 13% completed the course.

It's definitely possible to get a good education from online courses, but it's important to realize how difficult it will be to keep yourself on a schedule. Treat it as a normal university class, prepare yourself, and come up with a feasible daily/weekly schedule.
Well, this one's not a technical acquisition.
it probably has more to do with Beats Audio (and by extension, MOG) than with headphone technology. And the Beats brand has a fair amount of value, although i don't think apple really needs that.
How much of the inflation rate is tied to the cost of fuel? It's built in to just about everything we buy or produce.
As a thought experiment, imagine that the mechanical computer in the following comic is used to create a perfect model of your brain...

http://xkcd.com/505/

At what point does it become conscious ? It doesn't seem to me like it would.

As the comic says, electricity is the same thing as rocks just faster processing.

Basic consciousness remains an unsolved problem in my eyes.
> While that amount of info and detail might be needed by a professional
> making furniture (and actually I don't even think that is the case
> if you are good you can usually make do with much less) my approach
> worked fine and I saved time by not having to remember all these excess
> details that really (imo) weren't needed.

You think countersinking screws is sufficient if not overboard for professional furniture? Quality joinery is not done with screws. If you think you saved time taking the bit out, putting it down somewhere safe/accessible, swapping the bigger one in, realiging drill and going slow enough to have a consistent depth you are crazy. Those coutersink bits are a giant time saver. The
A Question Of Biggitude: What's The Largest Creature On Earth?
I have also read a lot of complaints about their streaming app being just plain garbage as well.
I used to work at Kozmo.com during the dot com gold rush. And I remember our escalating battle with UrbanFetch.

Economics went out the window as it was all about customer acquisition and beating and coming up with better deals for customers. Ultimately, the only person who made money from our ridiculousness were bike messengers and other service providers (real estate brokers)

A lot of what I'm seeing with Uber & Lyft reminds me of that time. Some of my observations on it here - http://4044walnut.com/uber-verus-lyft-kozmo-urbanfetch/
They also seem to install and function correctly too, e.g. color-picker plugin: http://i.imgur.com/7vcU9qJ.png
This present experience falls outside the domain of physics. Physics is just models. This present experience is real. Ideas and models about reality are not reality, but rather contained within it.
Walking from the kitchen to dining room to cut 2xs is a lot easier than going to workshop. I was lucky and only had the girlfriend in the house. It is not the saw dust that killed me, it was the mess that came out of the walls when taking the old lathe and plaster down. The soot in the ceiling from the old gas lamps was disgusting.
I'm guessing that HP won't be having those weird commercials about having beats in them anymore.
Don't Call it a Fast Lane
Come now, Google China had onerous censorship provisions placed on it that it did not want to adhere to, and Google simply can't be a den of piracy like Baidu was.
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