skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is part of why I love Lovecraft. His brand of science fiction experimented with what we consider to be the nature of science, intelligence, and the universe. He was probing at what could be and what we don't know, rather than just rewording what we know now.

This is the hour when moonstruck poets know
What fungi sprout in Yuggoth, and what scents
And tints of flowers fill Nithon’s continents,
Such as in no poor earthly garden blow.

> The Outer Beings are perhaps the most marvellous organic things in or beyond all space and time-members of a cosmos-wide race of which all other life-forms are merely degenerate variants. They are more vegetable than animal, if these terms can be applied to the sort of matter composing them, and have a somewhat fungoid structure; though the presence of a chlorophyll-like substance and a very singular nutritive system differentiate them altogether from true cormophytic fungi. Indeed, the type is composed of a form of matter totally alien to our part of space - with electrons having a wholly different vibration-rate. That is why the beings cannot be photographed on the ordinary camera films and plates of our known universe, even though our eyes can see them. With proper knowledge, however, any good chemist could make a photographic emulsion which would record their images.
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This was our bible: http://nocash.emubase.de/pandocs.htm

We would use this as a reference when we didn't know how to implement something since this was the first time either of us had done any sort of emulation: http://imrannazar.com/GameBoy-Emulation-in-JavaScript:-The-C...
The dissection, vivisection approach is great paring for doing micro experiments with the technology. As the act of creation and scientific exploration are different, they require different thinking patterns that give the other parts of your brain a rest.

I just got a program in racket up and running, and not knowing the program or Racket, I hooked up http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/debugging.html and started to map out the transform and flow of data through the system.
Thumb up on the comments on "the East Version of Chess".

Go is not a Japanese game, though. It was originated in China more than 2000 years ago. It is very popular in both China, Japan, and South Korea. [I don't know how it is in North Korea.]
Right. Also crows have been seen to use tools. I found that more surprising than chimpanzees using tools.
Finally switching away from the horrible XML-based CSPROJ files to a more sane JSON format (that hopefully doesn't require you to list every. single. file. individually) is the feature I'd be most excited about if I was still using .NET.

I recall CSPROJ files being the primary source of pain for me as I started to transition out of the Microsoft world and into the open source world, as it prevents you from using editors like vim & emacs if you're working in a team environment.
And one person is a whole lot of cells...
Was it operating at or near its limits? Article said it was 6 miles down, is it built go that low?
Worth it if only for `copyfileobj`. As a seasoned Python expert, I was not familiar with that function. From the docs:

shutil.copyfileobj(fsrc, fdst[, length])
Copy the contents of the file-like object fsrc to the file-like object fdst. The integer length, if given, is the buffer size. In particular, a negative length value means to copy the data without looping over the source data in chunks; by default the data is read in chunks to avoid uncontrolled memory consumption. Note that if the current file position of the fsrc object is not 0, only the contents from the current file position to the end of the file will be copied.
It's not dead. WordPerfect Office X7 came out last month. I believe it is still virtually required at law offices.
Check out Tonga Room if you're up for something crazy and unique one night!
I moved away from C# and .NET about 4 years ago, and use all those things too. The recent developments are great, but I view them more as a cool glass of water for people in a hot place (not hell, far from it).

I don't like how .NET as a platform/ecosystem/community lags on certain things that are almost taken for granted in other areas, like deployment tools and package managers. Then again, when I worked with .NET those things were my responsibility so I guess their lack affected me more than many .NET devs.
I'm not sure about dolphins, but I do know people who claim to be able to hear some bird talk and understand what they are talking about (where the predators are, how far away the rain is, etc). Some Native Americans claimed to use this trick to know when other people were approaching, up to a few miles away. As far as I know, this only included listening, not interacting though.

That said, I've tried to find references online to this stuff and haven't been able to. I've only heard from friends who have taken classes/trained under such people.
So this is just the ::before pseudo-element? I feel like I'm missing something.
I get an imgur or Brightcove-for-images vibe.

If you're going for the first and your target is Reddit/similar, good job. If you're going for the second, then it needs a lot more.
Great!! I will be doing the same between 10th of June and 4th of July. Looking forward to meet with likeminded folks. One of my friends who had done an internship at facebook suggested me to drive towards San Diego, probably there are good views on the way. However what to do depends extremely on your intrinsic purposes.
It's impossible to have a rational argument about this because the legal justification for executing a US citizen outside of a battle zone has not been published.

This is the whole basis of the article.
Indian Elections conclude. Narendra Modi all set to be the PM
Growth of Global App Economy Gives Rise to The Planet of The Apps [Infographic]
Try Dapper for a simple .NET ORM. We created and use it for Stack Overflow. https://code.google.com/p/dapper-dot-net/

Here's the original post describing how we made it: http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/03/30/How+I+learned+to+st...
The definition of "monopoly" in terms of government sanction is very common (its one of two common legal definitions); of course, the other common legal definition (and the more common economic definition) is "
the ownership or control of so large a part of the market- supply or output of a given commodity as to stitle competition, restrict the freedom of commerce, and give the monopolist control over prices." [1]

There's obviously a pretty fundamental problem with any discussion of economics which limits itself to the former kind of monopoly and fails to at least discuss the latter kind (even if it uses a different name for it for some reason). And there's equally obviously a problem with any discussion of monopoly in economics which ignores that the use of the term in economics usually means the latter, not the former (while in law, "monopoly" without other qualifications in certain contexts does mean the former, though in other contexts -- e.g., anti-trust, it means the latter.)

[1] Both definitions illustrated here: http://thelawdictionary.org/monopoly/
Fighting the tools is like hating a place you just moved to. No matter what you do, you will never feel at home and miss out on all the experiences of being a local.
As "an abstract strategy game that is considered culturally to be a symbol of intelligence, deep thought and deep tradition", the analogy works for me.
I disagree. If the site is somewhat heavily trafficked already (which is the kind of site that will actually have an impact), then they'll wait.
There's definitely opportunities with AngelList's data as well. Please let me know if you start finding some clever use cases, I love knowing how these tools end up being used! tim @ my-HN-username . com
Kindness is Underrated
Wirefloss: Interactive Packet Builder
"All ads are manipulation" is one way of looking at it.

Another way of looking at it is: ads are a mechanism to overcome information shortages.

Let's say you invent a shoe that makes back pain go away. How do you get information out about it?

- you can tell everyone you know and hope they tell others (word of mouth)

- you can pursue PR stories

Or

- you can advertise

Let's assume these are the greatest shoes in the world and that everyone who tries them loves them. Word of mouth will work eventually, but it'll take 5-50 years for everyone who wants the shoes to hear about them.

The reason you're getting downvoted is that "ads are manipulation" requires a "consumer as victim" view of the world. Your view sounds nice to angsty teens, and has a kernel of truth, but fails to hold up to the "anyone who is honest" and 90-99% claims.

Remember that government programs to provide health insurance to poor children spend a significant amount of money on advertising to make sure people who are benefited by the program know it exists. I drive past CHIP billboards all the time.
And one of the key features the first versions of Microsoft Word for Windows offered was support for WordPerfect keymappings, to make it easy for WordPerfect users to switch.

Are they still in there, I wonder? I doubt many people use them today, but it's not hard to imagine them tucked away in a menu somewhere, a forgotten island of once-important code...
Yup. Mattermark is great. This is sort of dipping a toe in the water. Maybe we should start doing leadgen for Mattermark ;)
We are considering an option that blurs out the page instead. Also - we'll add more context to the page.
There's two different scenarios.

One is where you know what you want to learn (iOS, say). The question is, how do you efficiently learn it (or at least the bits that you are most concerned about learning). There are several good comments here along the lines of "download the tools, read the basics, start building something, look for help when you get blocked."

The second scenario is when you don't know what you want to learn. Should the next thing you learn be iOS? Android? Ruby? Haskell? And if you're not just going to go by which set of fanboys is loudest, you need to learn a bit about the candidates so that you can decide which is the one to dive into and really learn. The problem is that there are more candidates than there is time (especially if you count not just languages but frameworks and tools).

I don't have a good answer for how to find out enough to decide whether a particular language or framework has enough substance that it's going to pay back learning it.
I think "cloud-optimized" means "vaporware".
Ask a simple question, get a simple answer: yes.
For what may or may not be an example, Graham's number is astonishingly huge, but math world (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GrahamsNumber.html) claims the answer to problem it is an upper bound for may even be larger than 11:

"Graham and Rothschild (1971) also provided a lower limit by showing that N must be at least 6. More recently, Exoo (2003) has shown that N* must be at least 11 and provides experimental evidence suggesting that it is actually even larger."*

In this case, I think it is safe to claim that the answer is at least 361!/8, though (but that may already include many truly silly games with suicidal moves in the opening or games that continue way past the time experienced players think they are over)
We are going to add more context to the splash page.
http://makerfaire.com/bay-area-2014/

This saturday and sunday
You don't need full use of the hardware most of time

If you're bothering to write something in OpenCL/other parallel computation framework, you probably care about that stuff.
Using a cup holder or going inside so that it wouldn't be a completely full uncapped cup squeezed between her legs?
I'd say "crazy" is less accurate than "mainstream."

When something goes mainstream, it gets a little whack anyway.
Also there are certain federal agencies which are able to look into sealed (and even expunged or pardoned) records, such as USCIS.
I've been through EVERY ASP.net update on every version of .net and every MVC update from CTP2 onwards, dealt with WWF being canned and rewritten, moved APIs between old SOAP stuff (asmx), WCF and WebAPI and rewritten swathes of ASP VBnand C++ COM code, ported EF stuff to later versions and worked around piles of framework bugs including the MS11-100 fiasco. That and been left royally in the shit with silverlight.

Not one of the above has actually improved the product we produce and are all reactionary "we might get left in the shit again" changes.

I'm really tired of it now.
I was only up there for a week, but Chicago's CTA Ventra cards seem to work in this general way. Getting on the bus or train involved tapping the card on a reader. They're also Mastercard branded with a magstripe and can be loaded up with funds for general use, as I understand it.

I was up there last fall and they were just starting to roll them out.
The question is (from direct experience): how long did it take you, and what was the cost to your career in terms of papers you didn't publish, research you didn't do, etc.?

It took me far too long to realize that there's almost no reward for code quality in academia. Code rarely gets re-used. Of the small amount that does, result consistency is a higher priority than maintainability, except for the .0001% of projects that end up being maintained by a large, collaborative team. So if you're the sucker who spends 30% of his time cleaning up the old code, you're at a 30% disadvantage to the people on the team who will quite happily use your work to publish papers, get postdocs/professorships and succeed.

I'm being a little harsh, but not by much. Unless you're tenured faculty, publishing is job one. The same rule applies to startups: code quality doesn't matter until you're successful, and once you're successful, someone else will be maintaining the code. The costs of badness are externalized to those who will voluntarily bear the burden.
Class actions work well when a great number of people are harmed for a relatively small sum each. Let's say company XYZ screwed up something in their product that is worth about $100 damage per incident, but it impacts 250k customers. It's really not worth it for any one person to sue XYZ for $100. But with a class action at least XYZ will feel some pinch for their wrong-doing.
Apple is great at making something that has a lot of utility and then making it look/work great as well. To me that is what defines magic. No utility + pretty interface = unmagical.
Crowdy: Crowd-Powered Video Learning for Web Programming
It would be nice if the user were able to disable it once they got the message.
The problem with the "treat spectrum as property" argument is that it's effectively what we have now. Make it even more of a free market and you would expect to see much as what you see with agricultural land in the US: A small handful of companies own the large majority. Put spectrum on the market and AT&T will buy it, and they have more money than you (for any value of "you" that is not a similarly sized corporation). You end up with the status quo.
We're primarily targetting Redditors and such, so I'm glad to hear that it's good for that.

Can we do a better job of emphasizing the fact that we support more than just images?
Please show me where the U.S. has officially declared war on these countries it continues to blow up civilians in e.g. Yemen.
From the one person who has complained most about this topic, making him an expert on complaining about Python 3 but not necessarily as much of an expert on how to cope.
Well the good news is that those things are standard now.
The problem arises when logic indicates its a stupid idea, but in reality we just lack the information to know that it really is a great idea.
Vatican Library to Go Online
That's cheating :) CSS is applied to the whole character.. I'm sure that you can avoid javascript by using content:attr(letter) in before and after. like <span letter="X" class="half-red-half-green"></span>
> Calling people Marxist for quoting Adam Smith would be an amusing troll if you didn't sound like you actually believe it.

It's not as big of a stretch as it might sound as first; there a number of ways in which Smith was more like Marx than like a modern capitalist (and plenty of ways in which he was far from either, particularly his identification of the feudal landed aristocracy -- explicitly and particularly as opposed to the mercantile/capitalist class -- as the class whose interests were most naturally aligned with the common interest. (Though one who shared Smith's concerns about the mercantile class might see Marx's investment in the proletariat as the only solution given the demonstrated failure of the landed aristocracy, as such, as a viable class in the face of capitalism, so even that view could be seen as less incompatible with Marxism than with modern capitalism.)

To be clear, its ridiculous to call some one a Marxist just because they quote Smith, but not as ridiculous as it might seem from the naive association of Smith with capitalism and Marx with its opposition.
Emotions are still a physical process that can be modeled, and it may be possible to give computers a sense of "correctness" that doesn't require "real" emotion.
Someone should teach him about encryption, then he can encrypt stuff, back it up to many optical media, and send copies to his editor and publisher and lawyer and maybe keep one in a bank.

That's a sub optimal solution but it's better tuan what he's got now.
I find my active creativity is _much_ higher when reading well thought out print material like the New Yorker, fiction OR non-fiction book. My mind races with new creations and combinations. This rarely happens with online material which favors the NOW instead of the good. One cannot subsist off of newspapers and blogs along, they are deficient in all the nutrients the mind needs.

The thoughts are shallow and hurried with repetitive easy to digest truisms. A single sentence expanded to fill an entire article.

Reading something deeply takes work. Writing it even more.
Does anyone else spot the irony of an MS guy using Chrome?
You should focus more on security. I'm simply amazed, still, at how many devs need sa level access to the DB. I'm a dev that transitioned into admin with a background in Linux/Unix so the whole devops movement doesn't bother me.
Should autonomous cars kill their owner to save multiple other lives?
Same here. You can bet that's by design.
Condescension is not exactly the best way to win people over to your cause.
Surprise Your Personal Data Is Not So Personal
I actually find this site is god for getting an overall feel if something is good or not from the comments made about a library / framework, language. (Though there seem to be a tendency for anything in js to make it to the front page these days).
I suggest doing some online research and find people / companies that interest you and then cold email them and try to set up meeting a couple of people before you get there and then expand your network from there. Its the best way to go about it. Make friends and then friends of friends. 3 days is a short time so make sure you unwind as well. SF has a lot to offer. (Although if I was in your place i'd have prolly not 'Chilled' out either) xD.
You can message me if you need any other help. I can try and point you in the right direction.
Technically, Windows is no longer a windows technology, since Wine exists, but still it's mostly windows. Can you even run Visual Studio on another platform?
I think you're referring to the Delicious-style "web bookmarks manager" clone -- it has forks like SemanticScuttle as well, I agree, the name is taken. Came here to say this.
Can you elaborate on why a json format would be better for a csproj ?

I have issues with the .csproj also, but I don't think json would fix anything, my issue is usually with visual studio and the confguration manager not applying changes...
Indeed. So last year they were tricked (easily), and they are now more skeptical about these threats. This correlates with my response to the parent.
This looks repugnant. Just because it can be done, doesn't mean you should do it! :-)
Nope.

I've done .NET development before, and there is essentially nothing that could tempt me back and away from Linux/Clojure/Python/PostgreSQL/etc.
The article seems to contradict itself -- it offers $1M USD and then offers $1M AED, even providing an estimated USD value after exchange rate.

On the official website[1] it's quite clear: there are two competitions, one national with a $1M AED prize and one international with a $1M USD prize.

Regardless, this is fascinating and it exemplifies the value of drones in the same way that smartphones are valuable -- cheap, ubiquitous computers. In this case they can provide telemetry and transportation mechanisms instead of providing a means of personal communication.

[1] http://dronesforgood.ae/?p=en
great - I was looking at this one, thanks for the input.
In keeping with your shoe analogy, Vibram was just sued for $3.75 million in lying regarding this finger shoes:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Saving-Money/2014/0512/Fiv...
If you define 'unsafe' as capable of causing third degree burns, it actually is integral. McDonald's could have served significantly cooler coffee, but it still would have been capable of such burns.
I'd really like that the next ASP MVC comes with full Owin support.
So how do you then deal with problem in the original blog post: a filename that is a non-UTF8 byte string? Surrogates? A separate byte string type?
That's my graphical notation for lambda calculus, documented at http://www.cwi.nl/~tromp/cl/diagrams.html

Btw, here's an even shorter version of factorial:

┬────────────────
┼─────────────┬──
│ ──┬──────── ┼ ┬
│ ┬─┼─┬────── │ │
│ │ │ ┼─┬─┬── │ │
│ │ │ ┼─┼─┼─┬ │ │
│ │ │ └─┤ ├─┘ │ │
│ │ │ ├─┘ │ │
│ │ ├───┘ │ │
│ ├─┘ │ │
└─┤ │ │
└───────────┤ │
└─┘

In de-Bruijn notation it is \\2 (\\1 (2 (\\3 2 (2 1)))) (\2) (\1), which in conventional notation is \n\f.n (\x\m.m (x (\a\b.m a (a b)))) (\x.f) (\x.x)
Unlicensed spectrum works extremely well for low power devices that don't cover long distances. If your roommate is using too much bandwidth you can hash it out together. The problem with using it for high power long distance frequencies is you get tragedy of the commons pretty much immediately.

It would be interesting to try for the midrange though. Provide unlicensed spectrum at power levels that could cover e.g. a street rather than a city. Then you could get very local ISPs: One person on your street bites to bullet to buy a fast leased line for $$$ and then sells internet access to all the neighbors over wireless.
Wow - there is a lot of hating going down here, and it took me a while to work it out. The majority seems to be "But my employer won't let me Open Source my work". Well, yes.

We are entering a world where companies will have to compete to hire harder than ever before. Coding is a job that can be done anywhere in the world - so if they want to hire the "best" the companies need to be the most attractive.

OR ...

They need to guarantee low risk.

If you work in a company that does not expect to release some work product as open source, then it is not a company that is going to compete on that world stage.

If so then look at its approach to keeping employees safe and risk free - no layoffs, a nice profitable niche to exploit, no exploitation, no crazy deadlines, nice low turnover of staff.

If the company you work for is not competing for talent, nor is it giving you low risk in return for your work, then I strongly suggest you update your CV, on github or not.

PS

JoshTriplett comments are the sanest - in short "I have a github account for bugs I fix on major projects. I put that in my normal CV along with why what I did was important"

Now that is how to use a github account. I have some catching up to do.
Or you could use Qt and have it run everywhere...
Something I learned working in engineering at Formspring (which also used Cassandra to solve a similar problem) was that fan out is expensive (both in terms of necessary horizontally scaled infrastructure AND in terms of working with the complexity.)