skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is something even more fundamentally different between football and rugby that lead to bigger, head on collisions (and what makes the padding in football a necessity).

Specifically, in rugby, the way you maintain possession of the ball is by falling properly with your body in front of the ball (not lunging forward) and making sure your team is around you so you can ruck[1] properly and continue on with the ball.

In football, there are 4 attempts to get 10 yards and you want to make sure with each of those chances you absolutely get the most amount of yardage (running backs are taught to always fall forward, defenses are taught to run people over head on, etc) and of course that doesn't even mention the forward pass where there is an incentive to hit a player as hard as you can to "separate the man from the ball" (this is something that is drilled into you as a defensive player).

[1] for people who haven't watched rugby, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2htLUcu-lcs is a video which explains what rucking is. Note how it's not important that you lunge forward for an extra yard. In fact, it's stupid to do so! The defense would allow you to do that, and then just take the ball from you once you're down.

This is also just my understanding of rugby having watched it from a distance. If I'm incorrect about my assumptions of the rules I'm happy to be corrected.
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In Genesis 2:18 God says He will make Adam an ezer kenegdo (Hebrew). In the context of subduing the earth (Gen 1:28) ezer kenegdo means "strategic ally". An equal to man in every way, ordained with the power to give life. Without the woman, human life could not exist.

The woman was God's final creation. One could convincingly argue He saved the best for last.
I'm actually thinking this is either "Kinect" on a tablet and/or eye tracking. The application specifically talks about additional sensors. being used to build apps. I'm not sure head tracking is a strong use case for additional apps. But something with the depth of MS's Kinect or eye tracking could be really interesting.
Breakup fees seem to be T-mobile's new business model
The solution is apprenticeships. University is academic, not vocational. Universities were never intended to teach specific job skills, they were/are supposed to teach how to think, or the broad sweep of the entire subject.

Apprenticeships were the vocational education, and they were done in the workplace. Apparently they still do coding apprenticeships in Germany and they work really well.

Employers need to stop expecting new hires, and especially new graduates, to be able to hit the ground running at full speed, and train more.
God this sounds like a nightmare. What looks like botnet traffic to an ISP (irc, ssh, just about anything other than 80, 443, and 53) is stuff that I use all day, every day, as part of my work.

Even filtering out SMTP traffic has been really frustrating for me at points in the past.

I really hope ISPs don't start doing this. I want them to be as dumb of a pipe as possible.
You sound like you have more experience with this than I, so take the following with that in mind....

My experience with this has mainly been in languages like Python, where bignum performance is way down on the list of worries, and C, where you wrap if you're lucky and end up with exploitable security vulnerabilities if you're not. I don't believe I've seen a language at work which traps overflows.

My experience with C has been that overflows (which would be unintentional bignums in another environment) are almost always one of:

1. Underflow of unsigned values used for sizes, especially for memory allocation, which causes a request for vast quantities of memory.

2. Computations on large quantities without thinking about how large they can be. File sizes are a really common example of this, especially since they fit into 32 bits for so long.

3. Reading textual data containing integers that either doesn't specify how large they can be, or specifies it but the specification got ignored. A fun example of this was the Twitpocalypse, when Twitter collected enough tweets for the tweet IDs to overflow signed 32-bit integers and broke a ton of clients.

#1 is an error, and crashing would be fine. That's usually what happens in C anyway, just in a somewhat more confusing manner because you get an error trying to allocate 4 billion bytes of memory rather than the more obvious "can't put -1 in here" that actually happened.

#2 is pretty much the poster child for automatic bignums. The downside being potential slowness, but most aren't performance sensitive.

#3 is an interesting case. I'm not sure that using a language "integer" type is even the right way to represent an ID from a remote service, even if that ID happens to be an integer. But automatic bignums would have prevented this problem, even if the design wasn't necessarily right to begin with.

As far as I know (and I realize it's probably hard to tell), I haven't seen bugs where automatic bignums would produce the wrong answer. They can be bugs (e.g. #1 above, possibly #3) but they don't involve incorrect output.

Anyway, to me it just makes sense for the default behavior to be correctness. When you write "a + b" without taking special measures, the result should be the right answer in a mathematical context. If you want bounds checking, that should be made explicit. (A way to create configurable integer types with arbitrary bounds could be nice.) If you want wrapping, that should be made explicit too. And if you want performance at the potential expense of correctness at the edges (presumably because you either know you won't hit the edges, or they behave the way you want them to) then that ought to be opt-in, not opt-out.
Clicking through to the World Cup page, I note a serious deficiency in this "parimutuel" system: only two entries per event, even when it's "wins the World Cup"! It certainly explains why the pools are so tiny. Expect to see great arbitrage opportunities among the myriad different pools. Regular bettors get screwed by this.

EDIT: I'm not wrong about this: https://bitbook.ie/make_bets/abf97e24-ded0-42bb-832d-669e275...
Yes, I would definitely use this often.
> Would you be happy (rather than surprised) to see a photo of two male models on your invite to this event in the same style? Maybe with their shirts undone to their waist, sharing a kiss, anything that's approximately equivalent?

That actually touched on a very different issue, especially the "sharing a kiss"-part. While nobody seeing the pictures of the two girls is thinking of them as lesbians, a lot of people would consider two guys doing the exact same poses "gay". Just goes to show that gender inequality cuts both ways :(

Personally I wouldn't have a problem with that all though. I REALLY disagree that we should hide images like that because a lot of people (even people who support gay marriage) are uncomfortable with things that "are gay".

> High school and sexualised imagery don't belong together.

WHAAT? They're 17/18 for gods sake! There's hardly a time where it is more appropriate.
Who wants to chip in for a zombie apocalypse shelter?
Got it. That is an interesting comparison (but as you say, not necessarily very meaningful).

It would be interesting to compare the political donations of wealthy people like Gates with those from regular folk. Does it scale with net worth? Do rich people give more or less, relative to what they have, to political causes?

You're right that your vote matters more locally, but so does your money, so I think the potential difference in influence remains similar.
The BMW i3 Rex carries around about that weight right now for it's gas generator, plus tank, and it will only go 50 miles or so once the battery runs down! Since it seems to be selling just fine, people are obviously willing to spend weight to get range.

Think how much lighter the Volt would be with no gasoline engine!

And they also don't mention if you can choose how much to lug around. Maybe I think I'll only need 500 miles of extra range a year and I can carry around a pack half the size? I'd do that, even in the fast-charge plentiful northwest. It would be nice to have the freedom to skip a station and make some time instead.
Is it ok if my car can keep the AC running (engine off) while my kid is in the car? I'd probably get arrested for the possibility that the car could get too cold...
I grew up in Farmington, NM, probably one of the few, if inly places you could actually learn Navajo in public schools, in addition to hearing it in your everyday life.

Even though I'm very familiar with the tones, stops, hard consonants and cadence, it's still strange to go back and hear it.

Luckily, more than a few times, we had code talkers speak at our schools growing up.
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LA and San Francisco have the worst traffic in the US
"[Content production is] not real reporting."

And neither is "Why I've Decided to Stop Taking 'Content' Gigs and Other Journalists Should, Too."
Blackberry is technically still around.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5293934
See my sibling comment to you, markdown. I think the helmet and padding came because of the rules, not the other way around.

Also, just an FYI that high tackles (at the head) are also illegal in football. The "head tackle" was made illegal after being popularized by Dick "Night Train" Lane. See this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPm-6ZlTM5o, for the savagery of yesteryear.
So, none of the features that mindcrime mentioned upthread?
Obama Isn't Killing Power Plants. The Sun Is.
Oh there's plenty wrong with recruiters. :-)

If you feel that your work has been wrongly portrayed, you can contact the New York Times, who will ensure that the article is corrected and updated accordingly.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/corrections/
Thanks for the advice. Would the correct thing for me to do be to withdraw my acceptance of said offer? It's hard for me to explain how I know I'll dislike what I'll be doing without revealing the company.
Unsurprising NSA story of the week
Randomly, how would you know, in general?
In-house patent counsel doesn't defend patent litigations. That is done by outside counsel. They mostly deal with licensing and the like. They have a general interest in patents continuing to exist, obviously, but, especially at large companies, not any particular interest in seeing more or less litigation.

Patent defense counsel definitely does have an interest in more patent litigation, but the Fed. Cir.'s decisions don't exactly serve that interest. As a litigator, you prefer fuzzy rights to clearer stronger ones. The Fed. Cir. has been making patent rights stronger, but has also been trying to draw more bright-line rules. The Supreme Court has tended to want finer distinctions to be made, which lead to more litigation, not less.
LTE has handover capabilities with CDMA, EvDO, GSM, and UMTS. The handovers are simpler for GSM and UMTS though since LTE is also a 3GPP standard.
Please file Radars on Swift, you are part of this language's evolution
Could be an economical replacement for open plan offices.
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If iDEN is any indication, it will take them eight years to merge the networks and by that time your 17-band 6G phone will probably be able to seamlessly bond all the T-Sprint spectrum to provide awesome throughput.
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I hacked this up over the last two weeks and it's finally in the appstore. It's a hybrid app (webviews with native forms and navigation) and uses rails (on a linode VPS) as a backend. It's a local messaging app that sends push messages via APN or GCM.<p>http://herenow.nolanconsul.com/
Jane grew up in an idyllic rural area.

I'm currently working on a system for understanding natural language and you might be surprised by how many assumptions one must make in order to understand just this simple sentence. The only part of this sentence that nearly all humans could understand is the concept of growing up. Everything else would have to be inferred inductively from our personal expectations and experiences. For example, from this sentence, you wouldn't know the gender, race, or even species of Jane except from your experiences of people saying similar things about people about of whom you already knew the race, gender or species.

Consider the difficulty of modeling that sentence in a computer system. If all you had were examples of texts to go by, such as the scenario in the grandparent, how would you determine that Jane was a female? Within that vast body of text, somewhere, it has to contain the statement that "Jane" is a female name. Or Jane can only appear in sentences as the referent of a feminine pronoun, like "she" or "her". Or in that vast database of images and video, all human beings that were identified as Jane have to have female characteristics.

From an even deeper philosophical perspective, how do you know which Jane this is referring to? Is this Jane supposed to be an actual person with hidden but unknown state (such as the name of her parents) or is this a purely fictional creation, for whom it would be meaningless to ask who her parents were? How do you teach a computer the concept of a fictional character? The interesting about fictional characters that they do not describe what something is, but instead, describe what something is not. In order to create a computer that could pass the Turing test, the computer would have to be capable of modeling both fictional and concrete things at a minimum. It would have to know when someone was talking about something fictional or something that is supposed to represent an actual object. If we do not destroy ourselves first, the day will come when computers will be able to make this distinction, but I think the design of such a computer will have to be evolved rather than architected from the top down. I think the problem is just too hard.
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To be honest, I don't think it is a huge issue for personal use. But when you're running a businesses then it becomes important to pay attention to software licenses. If you intend to get big enough to where you'll be audited for investment or sale, you wouldn't want to have your technology relying on improperly licensed software products.

That being said, I'm among the people who would love to run virtualized OSX.
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Where did they announce the terms of the break fee?
Are you allowed to re-submit your project multiple times on PH? Or is it just a one time thing? I'd love to submit again after adding cool new features to my projects.
I think... you might want to read up on aluminum smelting, which converts alumina (Al2O3) into aluminum (Al). The process involves passing a large current between two graphite (carbon) electrodes via the alumina.

Al2O3 + carbon => Al + CO2

Edit:
I can only guess that the down votes are for not providing a source? Here you go:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_smelting

It doesn't matter if the smelter runs on fairy dust or hippie juice. Reducing aluminum oxide to aluminum produces CO2 no matter the energy source.
It is not possible to verify the bounty can be claimed.

pacofvf's idea is good though: distribute the bounty across the chains. If you find that the first bounty is missing, assume the informant was dishonest and abandon the work.
Swift is not
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World's first fanless Core i5 mini-PC
On failing our values, our team, and our industry
I've learnt about navajo from the movie but haven't dug the topic since. Now I've glanced at the wikipedia page on navajo and got extremely surprised seeing "ł", "ą", "ę" and "ń" in navajo [1][2] - the letters I thought existed only in Polish language (not counting cyryllic languages' equivalents).

Does anyone knows about some story behind that?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_language

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_USA-Navajo.svg
Why in hell would someone pay for Dropbox hosting?
I think there's a major problem with terminology here, because high schools don't teach computer science. They may teach programming, but I've never heard of one that taught anything remotely resembling computer science.
The author is not teaching degrees, she's teaching a high school class. There's a clarification at the top of the article (in italics, directly after the heading), appropriate commentary peppered throughout the article body, and half a dozen comments here on HN to that effect.

I'm astounded that so many people are pinging the author for not being on the ball, yet missing all the massive signposts saying "This is a high-school environment, not university".
I can't imagine I would ever use this, as a developer or as an e-commerce customer. But it is certainly a well-executed, fun exercise... Folks on CodePen.io would go bananas over it.
You realise that the post was about high school, right? It's all very well getting on the high horse about degrees in CS, but that isn't the case in point.
That's part of the problem, that they think they deserve to get treated this way by making a sound and considered choice.
The "industry" in this case is not companies which hold patents, but rather attorneys who handle patent cases.
This is why I like Lua's '-' for non-greedy matching in its pattern facilities.
Any perspectives on what's likely to happen to Ting's Sprint MVNO status?

They're awesome, and T-Mobile's been slowly adopting pieces of Ting's pricing/openness policies.
Sorry, that was a very pessimistic way to phrase it, but you got what I meant. I didn't mean for it to be so pessimistic.
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To be fair, our definition isn't necessarily the definition either. And there are degrees of "enterpriseyness*. We, at Fogbeam, try to distinguish products by really emphasizing the integration aspect. But a tool without all those features could absolutely still be a useful tool, depending on the situation.

We're angling towards really large organizations with our offering - the kinds of companies that are using BPM / Workflow engines, a SOA architecture, LDAP/AD, etc. But many firms, especially smaller ones, might not want or need those integrations.
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I think that assessment is fair. Consider though that many users struggle with matching the data they have on the card with what goes on the form. Specifically the cvv code since some vendors use a 4 digit code instead of the more mainline 3 digit code. So I see a valid use case in here in presenting them a reasonable facsimile of whats in their hand to match up.
I'd be most interested in seeing the correlation between fewer fields and overall conversions, accounting for chargebacks. Neither conversions alone nor chargebacks alone tells the whole story.
Actually, probably not. Snapchat used to have this "problem", and they were never kicked off the app store for it.
This is, in fact, a very good response to this. Mostly based on what it is not:

It's not a "sorry if you were offended" non-apology.

It's throwing a particular person under the bus or offering his head on a stake.

It is thoughtful and direct and raises my opinion of Atlassian. Well done, guys.
Yeah, they're called ATM skimmers, they've been a pretty big problem in the US too. Kerbs has some nice articles about how they work:

http://krebsonsecurity.com/all-about-skimmers/
> uninformed people that will overpay for their crappy service/software

Those are executives over 55 who haven't kept up with technology.

The reaction among founders under 40 would be exactly the opposite: Contracting anything out to IBM would mark you as technically incompetent and a reckless spendthrift.
Nevertheless, it does cost money, and not a pittance. Particularly since selecting the best cases usually means working pro bono. And teams of attorneys ain't cheap, and there's so much messed up in the United States that you've got to be able to field a bunch of those teams.
The company I work for (that shall remain unnamed) signed a thousand million dollars, 10 year contract with IBM for IT infrastructure.

I was in need to log into a Mac Pro that ended up in one of the Server Rooms that IBM took over in our building.

I basically needed to connect a keyboard, log in and enable remote desktop so I could run a few XCode builds (I don't have a Mac, and I needed to test a few hybrid Sencha/Phonegap apps)

after several phone calls involving my boss and his boss, three meetings with five IBMers and 3 months (I kid you not) we gave up, and ended up borrowing a few personal MacBooks from friends to test the apps.

The Server Room was a few meters from the conference room, it was a 2 minute job, but we could not enter and do the changes ourselves without IBMs permission.

The word frustration doesn't even cover it.

(oh, and the 'copy jar files' thing? totally true.)
I strongly suspect they will move to CDMA, as IIRC Sprint owns far more towers than t-mobile. On the other hand for LTE they should be compatible.

[edit] As I said in another thread, my information for that is a few years old, so this may not be true anymore.
Live to 100: Number of centenarians has doubled
Turning down the offer that could have made my career
Are not concussions in football vastly under reported?
Ryan hustles hard and people way smarter than I love PH - great signals all around. Can't wait for stickers.
The site is missing QR codes and 'bitcoin:' protocol prefix which would make it wallet friendly.
Yeah saw after the fact that that was mentioned, my point stands for college degrees though (which I have indeed heard similar opinions on).

In this case... I guess I just find the premise that a bunch of industry people are telling her what to teach some high schoolers a little hard to believe/overblown (but I guess I'm not from the UK so maybe its common there to do that?). But yeah, sure, teach them whatever you want in high school, I agree.
It looks like the pools are small because the site is brand new. So actually, you are wrong about this.
Watsi is hiring a full-stack developer
noob question warning, I don't understand how a breakup fee works in america. If the deal can't happen due to regulators, why Softbank should be accountable for that?

EDIT: typo
He has been around a long time and has a lot of contacts in the industry. In general his work is opinionated but backed up by facts.
Not relevant in this case, but you may find this interesting (assuming you haven't seen it already): https://github.com/klmr/named-operator.
How long does it take to go from wanting to place a bet, to your money being in the pool? My knowledge of bitcoin is lacking but I was of the understanding that there is some time before the transaction/transfer is verified? Thus if you wanted to submit a wager close to closing time, you would probably be unable to?

IS there trend data available? Can see see where the public money is going, or is it simply a case of monitoring the blockchain for transactions going to the wallets (pools) you're interested in?
"he device houses an additional four front-facing cameras that work with other sensors to facilitate the software’s 3D effects."

I wonder how the battery life of this will be like.
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here: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230465530...