skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Playing Flappy Bird PC can be a Pint of Happiness for Your Daily Life Routine
The popularity of games is increasing day by day. Games are played on computers, smart phones, laptops, etc. These games are either played online or offline. In case of playing online, a proper internet connection is needed and in case of playing offline, just a computer system is required. Peoples and persons of various age groups starting from a school kid to an established businessman with a retired person are playing computer games nowadays, which clearly indicate the increasing demand of computer games these days. The game developers are creating games in mass numbers to fulfill this increasing demand. One such game is the Flappy bird PC.
How many have been sent off to war? Is it really the majority?
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i imagined singapore was unique..take the price of the house(http://www.hdb.gov.sg/fi10/fi10321p.nsf/w/BuyResaleFlatMedia...), multiply it by 2(because loans and insterest), divide it by the income(http://stats.mom.gov.sg/Pages/Income-Summary-Table.aspx)... i'm always wondering how many singaporeans have a flat of their own...
Times made a big screw-up by not writing about the Program in 2004, and because of them not doing that, Bush got a second term. They also barely touched the Snowden stories, and when they did, they made his image worse, somehow.

So I won't cry for their decay and downfall. They've been shooting themselves in the foot for the past decade anyway, by relinquishing their integrity and becoming more and more like the other corporate media entities.
People do suffer from hunger. We have increased use of food banks.

People do also suffer from lack of housing. It is ridiculous to suggest that homelessness is mot a problem in England. Homelessness does not just include rough sleeping, but even rough sleeping is a problem in England.

People living on the street are not automatically entitled to a home.

Personal debt is also a massive problem in the UK.

Since the article is about young people there are some things you need to know: Housing Benefit is restricted for young people. The type of accommodation they can get is limited. (Young people here is "under 35" http://m.england.shelter.org.uk/get_advice/housing_benefit_a... )

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/benefits_e/benefits_ch...

The minimum wage is lower for young people.

Most government help is in the form of tax rebates.

The combination of "lower taxes" and "government handouts" cUses cognitive dissonance for some people - they want lower taxation because fuck government, but they don't want lower taxation for poor people they only want it for very rich people people because SOCIALISM.
Correction: it has really badly implemented path completion, at least in 10.6.8 (yeah, I know ...) For instance, "/hom⇥" gives "/home/" but "/home⇥" takes the focus to the cancel button. I suppose it's a tricky one to get right, given that ⇥ is being overloaded here, but it's a pretty horrible experience as it is.
Oh, I agree.

At the same time I think there are general rules about what makes a successful hire/interview. Maybe someone could help people practice those. It's one thing to read a book. Another entirely to practice.
> either test whether an absolute value is zero, or whether a value that was previously assigned the exact value zero is zero. So they do not actually support your case.

They are detecting precisely x == (+/-)0, whereas you earlier said "you should always use some other condition like |x-y| < epsilon, and NOT x == y”. They are all perfect examples of my case; the fact that some of them happen to be written as abs(x) == 0 doesn’t effect that (in the case of LAPACK, this is defensive programming because many LAPACK routines predate widespread adoption of IEEE-754; the compiler simply optimizes away the absolute value on a modern system).

My original claim was that neither NaN == NaN nor NaN != NaN is completely satisfactory, but the designers of the 8087 concluded that the latter provided an easier and more portable way to test for nan on systems that had no name for a NaN constant. I’m not the one who “came with this argument”, either; it’s directly from the writings of William Kahan, who was a consultant on the design of the 8087 and was the primary architect of original 1985 IEEE-754 standard.
" forum for capable engineers and designers to browse and help solve them would be awesome."

That is an awesome idea - it seems like I've seen/heard of something similar, but if not, I'm a web programmer who could bang that together rather quickly.

Before I do, has anyone heard of an existing site/forum?
Alphera financial services
It is a dream of every person to own a car as everyone desire to live a luxurious, peaceful and comfortable life. It is for this reason all we are working so hard each day in this highly competitive market. However, before, owning a car one needs to focus on certain important factors like maintenance cost, overall financing cost, insurance costs etc. With the rising price of all commodities due to the growing inflation cost of buying cars, too, have increased and alongside there has been a number of incidents of accidents on roads so there had been increasing demand for getting your car insured. Well, all these issues have led to the requirement of a well reputed car insurance and financial service providing company like alphera financial service with whom one can rely completely as per the car financing is concerned.
I can't figure it out either.

There appears to be a measure of anger in the world. It's sad really.
I love my Mac, I really do, but damn why is Mail such a POS? Really do I need a three key combo to mark a message read? Why can't I have my smart mailbox mark its messages read? Let alone Mail went through all those trials and tribulations where it really didn't want to think you read your mail.

Still there are still other quirks that can be irritating, as others have mentioned window controls and my favorite, accidentally finding a three key combo that puts things off the main window or worse changes the zoom and you have to figure it out the hard way (yeah, have had Macs for over ten years now and there are key combos that elude me still)
Foreign governments are certainly no better. However the government in the USA is certainly more capable and perhaps more motivated than most to act on the information it receives.

There is also familiarity with the government carrying out the surveillance to be taken into account. For most European countries, particularly the one that have been members of the EU for some time there is quite good rule of law and so the consequences of being monitored are potentially less severe. Looking at governments with lots of resources to spare or ones without a good rule of law then surveillance is likely to make people more nervous - which is exactly the intent.
So why does the BTC amount for the socks that he is buying change, then? 0.05264624 suddenly becomes 0.05265041 despite 'zero fees'.
2013 Catalog of available technology developed by NASA
Why do people blame the economy? No doubt it has an effect, but as individuals we cannot change it. Better to spend time looking for opportunity.

Things weren't easier 20 years ago (when I started work) - different yes but not easier.

I see people applying for 100s of jobs without even an interview. Posts with 500 applicants. Yet I have SME clients who have numerous hidden jobs which remain unfilled because nobody at the company is prepared to go through the recruitment process. These jobs are there but it takes a little more to open the door.
I hide everything too, but I wonder if there is a quick way to hide everything but the current active windows.
How to get your startup covered by TNW and VentureBeat
Maybe we argue cross generations because of cultures that have clear divides between generations - what they do, what they are interested in, etc. We are so adamant about it that we shame each other for being "age inappropriate" when we step out of those molds. In turn, maybe there is relatively little bonding and friendship between the generations. Everyone who is 20 years or older than you is either your parent, your teacher, your boss, your counselor, your mailman, or he's a noone to you. You meet some of them and, unless you see them every day for some reason (parent, relative, boss, coworker), they have nothing more to say to you than "are you still in school, what are you studying?", and the like, and you have nothing interesting to say to them, either. (I'm talking about myself here, not anyone else in particular.)
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But even then you're left with compressed text. If you're concerned about the amount of data you're sending on the bit level, then you're throwin all that out the second you start pumping out JSON.
Agree completely. You may want to checkout Airmail. Nice looking client with all of the GMail keyboard shortcuts enabled.

Plays relatively nicely with Exchange too.
That change only reduces RELAY fee, which means that nodes will now by default relay transactions with such fees to other nodes. The default minimal miner fee, which is what miners require to include transactions in blocks is unchanged.
Of course the email isn't meant to prove anything, I was just curious how long his development time took. I only asked about the length of time of development, nothing else, he volunteered the extra information, which is that he would not have been able to raise any money without them (including what sounds like a research grant) and that it was crucial to getting to market at all (or whatever he said).

As it's all in the past, I don't see that this would help his patent case today in any way. ("Please uphold the patent, because I really needed it back when it was just an idea" doesn't seem a convincing reason to uphold a patent today, as they are now on the market.)

So I read the information he volunteered as stemming from his experience and perspective, rather than his interests.

I also see projects fail completely every day which could have succeeded with a minimum level of patent protection on their narrow inventions. So there may be a built-in survival bias, and you will not necessarily hear about these projects, which fail to raise even a preseed research grant "round" to complete development, but are abandoned isntead.

Page Rank was also patented by Larry Page. In stark contrast to the view presented on Hacker News, ideas are extremely worthwhile and patents are one of the most important tools any entrepreneur has for getting to market with real innovation, which is unsure and costly, and requires people to buy in at a pre-revenue stage.

The mechanism patents due this via is a full monopoly for a limited time. We can see this in the price set on this invention (that we're discussing), which is a monopoly price and will be upheld due to the fact that competitors are not allowed in the same space.

In countries that do not acknowledge these patents, a $79 equivalent could appear shortly. It can even be objectively better. Nevertheless, this is the price we pay for this invention to exist at all, and but for the patent system this invention would not exist at all. (In reality.)
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Less economical — paying $2 for a small pepsi fully drunk is better value than paying $3 for one twice the size, if half is left undrunk (wasted). I like it almost as much as, "anyone who wants to offer a spare couch, I would much rather stay there than in a hotel" — keep it simple, don't waste, operate efficiently and without friction.
Sourceforge hasn't been recommended way for GIMP downloads for months. It is no longer linked from the official page.
Nondirective meditation activates memory and emotional processing areas
OpenERP become Odoo. Closes new round of financing. New front end apps.
Meanwhile, sensible people who don't rent their software are laughing from CS6.
Made my day...
Whoops. Yes it did. Haiku still does: http://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/bash-scripting.htm...
Go is not intended to be a fast and loose "bang it out in an afternoon" language. If you're comfortable with the language, then you can be really productive in it, but that includes error handling. You have to handle errors, that's like 50% of programming.

I really doubt you'll see headlines like that. Why would you not see the same thing for code that doesn't handle exceptions in other languages? They're far more invisible than Go's errors, which are right there in the method signature.
Submitting because I was very impressed with this tool. It's worth logging in - the interface and features are much better than the limited website suggests.

Also submitting though because the actual marketing website almost completely put me off at first - I nearly clicked away instantly. This shows that a great tool with a great UI can really suffer if its marketing materials aren't up to scratch.

I get that disliking a site design is a matter of preference, but the difference between the two halves is remarkable. Given that both are web-based I'm not even sure how this can happen.
Well, to play devil's advocate, 'planning for the unexpected' should also cover 'a client calls at the last minute with a rush job', shouldn't it? In that case, how is an Adobe outage the consultant's fault?
Were it not for Brown, we might have joined the Euro.
I wouldn't be surprised if you hadn't seen any of the output yet, as it's rather new, but Buzzfeed started expanding their operations past lists of gifs sometime last year. Going as far as hiring an investigative team in late 2013 and getting some industry names (e.g. Pulitzer winner Mark Schoofs) to join by using the money from an enormous venture round offer higher salaries than many of their competitors.

It was a shock to me when I heard this as well. But I've seen some of the work at Buzzfeed lately and they're even publishing strong cultural essays like this one: http://www.buzzfeed.com/syreetamcfadden/teaching-the-camera-...
I happen to live in a place where utilities are deregulated and people can choose from any number of competitors for their supplier, and US-style blackouts are literally completely unheard of.
1st, trades like this don't ever EVER happen out of the blue; there is always corruption - insider information and insider trading ..and market manipulation involved(just based on the leaks and medialised information during the past 2 years its pretty safe to say that all major markets are rigged). This trend of idealizing sociopathic individualism and white-collar criminals that are destroying the lives and feeding on the wealth of millions, disguising it as some acts of genius is making me mad(Wolf of Wall Street? seriously?). We are being robbed and a lot of money is being spent on promoting this the way you just did..

UA is not in NATO, this alone renders your "notion" a little misleading at best. Shouldn't NATO been dissolved after the Warshaw Pact ended? Who is really the "bad guy" in this complicated matter? Is the corrupt oligopolistic Russia(that was literaly taken apart 2 decades ago) the real aggressor?[1] But since this is not about UA I'll leave it here.

I do agree with your 3rd paragraph though. We're experiencing a play on democracy - a oppressive global regime with its equivalent of kings, aristocracy, vassals, the dirt in between and slavery, packed in golden toilet paper.. with a lot of democracy-stickers on it..

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nntB872pJ20
Glad to hear from someone currently going through it. My older daughter is only 3, so I haven't gotten there yet. I hope the new way works, I'd like our kids to understand math better than we did, and I'm not averse to learning something new in order to help with that.

I find it funny that these parents get so upset at how hard it is.... if the curriculum is designed for your third grader.... you should be able to learn it pretty easily, if you just try. My guess is that a lot of the parents aren't actually trying to teach themselves the new way, and then get mad they can't help with the homework.
You assume independence between the color of the marbles. This is highly unlikely. Promoters probably don't read the terms randomly and completely randomly fulfill them. Likely whether one of the marbles is black or white tells you a lot about whether the other ones are black or white, especially if it's a marble that you selected before hand in a way that will often change depending on how the marbles are colored.
Teaching a Camera to See the Color of My Skin
Because it's obvious?

Anything to enable social interaction for him would have to happen on top of solitary confinement (or equivalent security) after all...
Yeah the nationalised healthcare here in the UK sucks.

Last night my wife got seen by an emergency dentist at 21:45 an it cost £18.50 ($31).

My grandmother was on the waiting list for her hip replacement for 11 days and that cost... $0

I broke my ankle and it was X-ray'ed cast and dealt with in 2 hours from being picked up by the ambulance and it cost...$0

My wife had three C-sections over the space of a decade an that cost...$0 (no wait either!)

My wife has had two other surgeries and they cost $0 and the waiting time was less than 3 weeks.

Oh and our medicines cost a max of £104 a year (if you get a year prescription certificate) and for most people they are free. That's for ANY amount of them.

Yeah nationalisation of healthcare is absolutely fucking awful especially here in London...
The killer application for bitcoin, IMHO, is microtransactions. For global, universal microtransactions to take off, we need exactly something like bitcoin; purely digital, both a protocol and a service and not owned by anyone.

Once microtransactions take off it could turn a lot of things on their head. For example I wouldn't mind paying 0.001 cent to read an article. It just isn't possible with any current systems.

There are other fields where I easily prefer bitcoin over credit cards (pretty much any online purchase under $10), but microtransactions are the big one to me.
Ask HN: Email for startups?
Which is the go to service for email and calendar stuff for startups? Still Google Apps? Office 365? Some other third option?
I think the confusion might be the definition of 'new'. Something can be new without being the first of its kind, neither Bill Gate's OS or Larry Page's search engine were the first of their kind, but I think in both cases they were the first of their kind that I used. They were first to the markets that mattered maybe?
Pattern matching would be nice, but destructuring helps.

(defn sum-acc
([xs] (sum-acc xs 0))
([[x & xs] acc]
(if (nil? x)
acc
(recur xs (+ x acc)))))

Could you show Haskell equivalent?

BTW there should be a macro that adds argument with default value.
Passive smokers inhale 7,000 chemicals like toxic Lead, Formaldehyde and Ammonia
The keyboard layout took some adjusting to. First that Command/Super is used in place of Control for most shortcuts, and second that on a Mac keyboard, Command/Super and Alt are swapped!
Because you think that it's up to a greek political party to endanger the whole eurozone ?
Even if they had won, them leaving was really less than certain. Most political parties tend to change a lot once they actually have to take the decisions, and believe me, in that case there were a lot of things other euro countries could have done to prevent any kind of greek disastrous initiative.
I remember having to do this. And if you left out one single instruction, the whole thing had to be done again from scratch. The power-trippers would say 'it doesn't say here to click on the 'finish' button. You must re-do the entire document and go through QA again.

Ugh. Thankfully we live in a world where multiple deployments per day is considered OK.
Not EICAR because that has to be at the start of the file. But some other signature, sure.
But they all made companies that made things.
It has been a long time since any piece of software that was impactful could be built by one person.

And making the company is thus the important part. I would put "the next Linus Torvalds will not build an Operating System" in there too.

Secondly the next new thing has already been invented, it just has not been widely disseminated. James Watt did not invent the steam engine, but he embraced and extended it whilst building perhaps the first truly modern international company.
The snopes site is quite old. If they did move to a newer technology, it would be better for them to stick with their .asp extension so that they didn't have to change the URLs with redirects. They are well ranked across a lot of keywords - there is no upside for them to change their URL.
Encrypting your cat photos
So e.g. all the fees stated here for your neigbor country cost 0p for you ? http://www.bankofireland.com/fees-and-charges-365-online/
Ok sorry for my wording. English is not my first language. I wasn't trying to be rude. You are right that the way I wrote the comment sounded a bit assaulting. Sorry about that.
Practical and Portable X86 Recompilation of Cube World
At my current company, relayr, we use Scala Spray for building infrastructure API, that our internal and third-side apps will use (user management, app, device management). Our main functionality, reading and processing data from a large number of sensors, is currently built with Node.js, and it's mainly IO, not CPU now. After release we think to gradually move data processing and filtering to Scala / Akka.

At my previous startup we used Scala with Unfiltered and Akka for processing lots of data from recipe sites and food stores (NLP stuff, scrapping, retrieving ingredients, matching ingredients with goods etc.), Play framework was also used for admin board and marketing backend.

I personally use Scala / Akka to learn about distributed programming, concurrency, compiler and DSL building etc.
For me, it was better to follow the "non-mobile" link: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/encrypting-your-cat-phot...
Should OpenSSL be Considered Safety Critical Software?
CMD-OPTION-H should do that.

I also recall there being an option you can turn on through the Terminal that has the same effect when you click on an application's icon in the Dock.
Self-proclaimed LulzSec leader to be tried in July
So... who is this fantastic contract dev and is he looking for work? :)
The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later
I'll try it again with some more "realistic" scenes for it.
RIM should have sticked to keyboard based phones and use their energy on developping the application market. I do not disagree with you, but I think they could not develop their application market because all their energy was devoted to their paradigm change.
The personal data is somewhat vulnerable, but the actual money is more secure.

This is very important. It is nice that a purely distributed system can essentially achieve non-reversible transaction, but that's not something that most people need. Most people need reversible transactions, where the reversibility is controlled by adaptable laws and regulations that are ultimately interpreted by other people.
You mean http://xkcd.com/320/ - Back when I was single, I considered doing something like that. I'm sure my body would prefer to have a 28 hour day.
I'd say it's even more than that usually: you're forced to use a paradigm that you're not familiar with.

For example, while I do have a desire occasionally to full-screen a window (for which I currently use Divvy), I usually don't see a need to, because I picked up on the multi-window paradigm where it's quite convenient to be able to see parts of other windows (for drag and drop, for example).

When I first switched to OSX though, I hated the inability to full-screen.

Not the best example perhaps, as I do find it a bit lacking to not natively be able to do so, but my point is that rage is often a result of trying to cram one paradigm into another.