skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linguistics is a fascinating field. I suspect there is a lot behind which sounds are culturally biased, and which are universal.

I recall a study that said "spit" is the least corrupted word across languages. (Because the sound is similar to the activity)
We definitely have been :)
My $.02 - drop the expectations and the mental self-talk. Just do it. Have fun and give your partner respect and compassion, no matter what, whether your time together is short or long. Repeat. Learn by doing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-unit_train_control covers the gist of it. One of the challenges of long trains is that you can't easily start them on a curve. As the front of the train is pulled it wants to 'straighten out' and that would pull mid-train cars off the track, Such trains if they don't use MU put locomotives both in the back and the front (and some times mid-train).

The advantage of standardized MU is that your engine is simply a control center (especially if you're using power from overhead catenary wires) and any train of any length can "work" because the traction motors in every car are sufficient to push that car with some flexibility (some can push up to two additional 'dead load' cars.)

But as others have pointed out, in the US the tracks are primarily straight, the existing traction motors in diesels system works well enough, and there is little incentive to change. That said, one of the options on the table for electrified CalTrain is MU equipped cars so that train sizes can be varied depending on commute load.
well, society sells sex as an "important part of your balanced healthy life". Ergo, if you're not getting it, there must be something wrong with you.
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It's not that I'm not interested. I have a sex drive, of course. I have considered that it might be in 'idle' rather than 'overdrive' as some appear to be. I don't really obsess over it, nor am I searching about desperately.

I can't say that I feel empty. Other people don't define me, I am complete in and of myself. I have had girlfriends, but things never really went anywhere.
You've just described exactly what it feels like transitioning from iOS to Android development, too.
Female hurricanes being 'quite a bit deadlier' than male hurricanes may well be surprising but it has equal probability with the event that male hurricanes are 'quite a bit deadlier' than female hurricanes.

I definitely agree with this.

What you're describing is a rare event. Rare events happen, just rarely.

I'll restate this hurricane problem. Suppose we're flipping a fair coin. We should expect to see roughly equal numbers of heads and tails. If I flip the same coin a thousand times and see 523 heads, that seems "reasonable". It's certainly possible to get 873 heads, but I might start to wonder if the coin is really fair not because it's very unlikely to get 873 heads with a fair coin (and it is very unlikely) but because it's more plausible that the coin is biased. That is, it's more likely that a coin that gets heads with some probability near 0.873 produces 873 heads in a thousand flips than it is for fair coin to produce 873 heads in a thousand flips.

In the context of hurricanes, if we assign genders randomly we expect close to equal deadliness between male and female hurricanes. If there have been a thousand hurricanes, and female hurricanes cause 87.3% of all hurricane deaths, well... I might start wondering if giving hurricanes female names somehow makes a hurricane more deadly.

Of course, this is all in the context of a uniform distribution of names on hurricanes.
Ah, you're right. Wish I could still edit my parent post.

I hadn't noticed as I use Firefox on Android which has similar search engine options to what you'd see on a desktop browser.
Sure; my main point is that sex should not the main point, because by focusing on that it's easy to lose sight of much else that some people actually value.
Try posting ads on Craigslist or Kijiji, that might help too.
I've been thinking long and hard about upgrading my Macbook Pro with a hard drive to an SSD. Which this kind of performance and value, it's looking to be a no brainer. The main thing holding me back was going from 500 GB HD => 256 GB SSD (based on price). With the MX100, I can have it all!
WebGL on iOS confirmed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7836582

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- 60 fps even on an old iPad 2: https://vimeo.com/97167583

- List of extensions supported: https://www.dropbox.com/s/i80qxzap59i230n/2014-06-02%2023.43...

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I wonder why it wasn't announced at the keynote though, we've been waiting for it for so long, it was the last obstacle to WebGL, even Internet Explorer did it before Apple.

Like AlteredQualia said, WebGL is now probably the biggest graphics platform there ever was (in terms of reachable devices, should be billion or more).
Thank god they didn't unleash a macro system on everyone.
Ah, so much stuff went by I missed the name.
Did you read the article? It explained why we used fast-running tests from SunSpider combined with longer running tests from Octane and the LLVM test suite. You may have a fair point about the date tests being mildly silly. But many of the SunSpider tests (for instance 3d-raytrace, tagcloud, crypto-md5) are pretty realistic workloads, if fast-running. They are arguably more realistic than some subtests of Octane (like splay).

I agree with you that a neutral and fair benchmark would be good. Unfortunately, the non-browser-vendor-created browser benchmarks out there tend to be uniformly much worse. I think the only way to get something that is high quality and also neutral is to create a neural group that multiple browser vendors join.
It's not quite immaterial. You can only use an alternate search engine on iOS if you install a slower browser due to Apple withholding the JIT capabilities of Mobile Safari from 3rd parties, thus artificially propping up Mobile Safari as the fastest iOS browser. Although Chrome on Android limits you to only the 3 bundled search engines, alternative browsers expose additional choices without being artificially limited by Google.
The C stuff wasn't part of LLVM until Apple made clang, a separate C frontend which uses LLVM. It's part of the LLVM project only because they contributed it; there's no particular inherent reason it had to be.
Last big rejection != last rejection
What gets me is that I've heard of sex described inaccurately as a "need" on a great many occasions. You die without needs. I'm living proof that you don't die without sex.

You might be right about the hormones, but I honestly think that people care more about what others think on this subject.
Macro system != C preprocessor.
I wonder how many people, like me, right off the bad went and pasted minified jQuery into this thing. Looks like an invaluable tool for reverse-engineering when unminified code is unavailable.
Different problems, same result. If you're happy with yourself, you're better off than about everyone.
In what sense is bitcoin NOT a currency?

It has to not be a currency to be a virtual currency, by the definition you favor.

Any answer I can imagine that you would give would invalidate other things we all consider currencies, unless you draw a line based on non-fundamental properties (e.g. such as backing by government force or market cap). And you can't form a proper concept using non-fundamental properties.

So the definition you favor actually supports my view, though I think the definition you favor lacks appropriate context and nuance (which is often true of dictionary definitions).

Talking about the government defining something creating meaning is just irrelevant. You're obviously telling me things I already know, but the government is technically incorrect on this. Just as they are on calling capital gains "unearned income," for example, since many successful investors work hard and do earn their income.
Well, that was largely the state of affairs for computers for a while: From 1998–2007, I could reasonably expect 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8 with respect to both desktops and laptops.

We do seem to have regressed because of the phenomena of “worse hardware through software”, and the over-dependence on cloud services.

I'm also much more skeptical that software version n is unambiguously better than version n-1, having been burned a few too many times (that's also why sites like this exists: http://www.oldversion.com/).
I suspect Apple wants to hedge their bets between ATI and Nvidia and thus will not support Mantle (or CUDA, which exists on OS X but appears to receive no love from Apple).
I'm not sure whether the blades are proprietary, but I can find out if you like. A full set of matched and balanced blades currently sells for $19.95: http://www.thepocketdrone.com/store/p3/Pre-order_Spare_Prope...
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8066/crucial-mx100-256gb-512gb...
It feels like being level 60 in World of Warcraft versus level 5: pretty much the same.
It's only somewhat exciting, but it's his life, and I think it represents an unusual contrast: He's sexually un-accomplished (a virgin at 33) but also creatively accomplished (a successful comic & scriptwriter). That contrast, plus the candid description of his life and good writing, make it accessible and appealing.

Disclaimer: I also love /r/mildlyinteresting
In the USA, freight is the vast majority of rail traffic, excepting a few highly populated corridors in the northeast and commuter lines in a handful of other urban areas.
True. However all of those are, as you point out, from either South Africa or Ghana. See my points regarding the power houses of Africa in the parent post.

Outside those, the comp-sci depts. in every uni I checked with were only teaching archaic languages, even by the standards of the day, or none at all. I'll concede, that in my case, that was long ago - but given I'm just hitting middle age, I believe it's still relevant, hence the tips I later gave.

TL'DR: if you're African, and not from either of those places or outright wealthy, good luck getting in. Ghana and RSA count, in most respects, as exceptions to the rule.
I have Mavericks running fine on a core 2 duo ~2007 mac mini with 2GB ram. Where did you get the idea that it's slower?
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True enough; I meant conditioned on the slant many of the comments were taking, which was certainly not made clear in my comment---apologies.
To be fair, you can also do `optional.map(|concrete| { ... })`. I'll admit that's not quite as nice as Swift's, though.
> I’ve seen women I liked sleep with my friends behind my back. In fact one did that on my 22nd birthday. I was depressed as hell the next day.

If I could I'd ask this guy some questions: Did you ever ask any of these women out? Did your friend know your interest was more than a simple crush? If the answer to either of these questions is no, then one or both of those individuals are faultless here. And if the answer is yes, did she reject you already? Did he let you know that he, too, was interested in her? Then you needed to consider moving on or moving in faster (and possibly being rejected, but that's life).

Folks, if you're in this or a similar situation (years of chastity and no relationships, if not virginity) then just consider what you're doing. Do you ever express your interest? Do you shy away from the one you're interested in when you finally happen to be seated at dinner next to them? Take that time to get to know them. Then ask them out. If they say no, move on. It's not easy, and it's not instant, but it has to be done for your own mental health. Please do not get hung up on someone for years, look around you. If you're a decent person someone is interested in you. Pay attention. Do they laugh at your stupid jokes? Do they, a non-technical person, find your interest in math fascinating? Are they always trying to go to the same things you do, asking to carpool? Realize, you probably do the same thing with the person you have a crush on. If you can't find them in your current social circle, expand it. Start going to trivia at a local sports bar. Talk to the other teams, be friendly, get to know more people. Go play a team sport. Host parties, go to parties.

But, if you follow the other advice in this thread to just get laid, try not to get too heady about it. Realize that if it takes you just a few days or a few hours from meeting someone to sleeping with them, it's probably not going to be longterm. Let that experience happen and clear your head and get out there.
It doesn't make any sense to talk about static vs kinetic friction for the cars because they have roller bearings. Static friction is when things are not sliding and kinetic friction is when they are sliding.

Since the cars have roller bearings (not bushings) the wheel doesn't slide relative to the track and the axle doesn't slide relative to the axle truck.

There might be slightly more start-up torque to get a bearing moving but that's more as a result of the static friction of the seals or the roller cage or the grease. The reason that bearings work so well is that they DON'T slide but rather roll.

They're an ingenious hack around the idea that you have to pay the price somewhere for friction. Before they existed everyone bitched about friction but "hey what can you do?!" Afterwards it seemed obvious but the world spent many thousands of years with wheels and no bearings.
Pretty much every language to date allows this construct. And it's often considered a bad idea in languages where = is assignment because it's so easy to get it confused with == and accidentally assign to the thing you're trying to compare to, which will usually evaluate to truthy.

The special things about the way it works in Swift are:

- You have to put let in front, thus avoiding the confusion.

- If the RHS is optional it unwraps the option for the success branch, but the variable is not available in any other scope, thus ensuring safe use.

In JS, C, CS, Ruby, etc. you're not really doing anything useful if you assign a value to another name just for one branch of an if statement. In Swift you are.
Conversely they tell us to spay and neuter our pets because they will be healthier without sex.
This was about 2011 when I got that offer. The housing prices were jumping up. The founder attempted to hedge my shock at the 38k e a year by claiming "housing is cheap." Nice try, I believe that he was talking about a wohingemeinung [sp], which I'm not doing if I'm relocating to Berlin.

Also, they wouldn't offer a relo either.

BTW My tax percentage was take home pay. [Mandatory health payment is included since it's mandatory]
So, I saw this and wanted to see if it could decode output of something I saw earlier: http://patriciopalladino.com/files/hieroglyphy/

I took the source of a sample pasted here and ran it through the heiroglyphy generator:

var expect = function(val) {
return "string" == typeof val;
};

which output something along the lines of (truncated):

[][(![]+[])[!+[]+!![]+!![]]+([]+{})[+!![]]+(!![]+[])[+!![]]+(!![]+[])[+[]]][([]+{})[!+[]+!![]+!![]+!![]+!![]]+([]+{})...

But JSNice was unable to deobfuscate this code. Any ideas why?
Thanks for that link. As of tonight, I'm committed to writing version independent code.
Genuinely curious: How does it take down bad URLs? And, by "bad", are we talking about 404s?
Two big ones off the top of my head:

- Porting to other platforms/community implementations (think Mono)
- Developer input: being able to submit bugs, influence or even just *watch* the trajectory of the language, get a deeper understanding of how various components are really implemented
I'm agreeing with the parent. Neither of us subscribes to the commonly held belief around these parts that Google is special and lives by its "Don't be evil" tag line. I don't understand why you call my point a straw man.

Tell me why I come across as an ideologue? My opinion is strong and critical, yes, but it is not rooted in zealotry. Are people who decry the NSA's lying to Congress about its illegal collection of private data ideologues?

Why is my comment childish? Is it not childish to name-call a legitimate argument "childish" rather than addressing the point?

Is it possible that Upton Sinclair's words apply to you?

[I think it's hilarious that I keep getting new downvotes (at least 3) and upvotes to match. Sad really. Downvotes should be used to bury junk, not legitimate replies. Instead of an intelligent discussion, we have this. Maybe it could turn into an intelligent discussion on intelligent discussion. :P]
MU allows you to have multiple locomotives controlled together, but individual train cars still generally don't have traction motors. There are specialized traincars that have motors but not generators [1] but I don't think these were what foobarian was referring to.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(railroad)
It's not a failure. It's an option for developers who are constrained by the fundamental performance impact of a generic OpenGL layer when it sits between you and the hardware. The reason this is good is because it's platform specific, so it can make assumptions about hardware that Apple is in full control of.

I'm sure the big engines will just support multiple code paths where needed. And any existing developer has the option to stick with GL.
that's awesome. I met Brad in mountain view when they were just getting off the ground. really nice to see this happen.
"It's more than a little naive to think that the NSA won't be able to pull data without needing the cooperation of DDG"

How would they do this?

It's possible there are SSL flaws the NSA knows about that the public does not, but I can't think of many other ways the NSA could achieve this through technological means.

There could be a secret court order forcing DDG to place monitoring hardware on their internal network, but given that they're basing a business on privacy, this would be corporate suicide. DDG aren't behaving in a manner that suggests they believe they're living on borrowed time.
Here's how I read the conversation.

> Why can't I create multiple accounts? I want this feature.

> Because iOS is single-user.

It's not circular sorry, I meant to say your answer is stating the question.

I don't mean to offend or start a fight. I just read the conversation similar to "I have X why can't I have Y" "Because you have "X". The "by design" is moot when Apple are the designers. It's not some real world construct or difficult problem to solve, they don't have multi-user because they don't want IOS to have multiuser.
I'm pretty sure that Objective-C's named parameters actually have priority over all other forms, being from the nearly identical form they took in Smalltalk. It's only recently that languages have had the looser form of named parameters where their order doesn't matter and they're mostly just a way to disambiguate default arguments.

The Smalltalk form is actually more powerful, since it gives you a kind of multiple dispatch (a.la. C++ argument overloading) that would be quite expensive in a non-statically typed language otherwise.
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Foreign firms wouldn't even acknowledge my resume without the masters on it.

38k was from a well known startup that was backed by a well known FB related VC firm.
You can set the search provider on current Safari, so I'm guessing there'll be a way to install a system-wide search provider.

That would be very handy and I can see Spotlight being a lot more powerful if that's possible (integrating with specialized fact DBs, SaaS, etc.).
http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/smoothvoronoi/smoothvoron...
http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/voronoise/voronoise.htm
http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/voronoilines/voronoilines...

More interesting articles about voronoi diagrams, for those who are interested.
your trolling.
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I can only speak from my own limited experience, but for me ZFS on Ubuntu works as advertised. I was trying to put together a long term storage solution without becoming a storage expert. ZFS fit the bill. If you are nervous, go with a BSD: they are great choices.
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Yeah, at least at one time, and likely still the case.

I never liked this SEO "feature", however. My thinking is why should search engines really care about the URL WRT content? Seems like a shortcoming of the engines, as well as a potential technique for gaming the search engines. In fact, it seems that if search engines could determine that URLs were being used to game them, then they wouldn't need sites to bother with this behavior in the first place. OTOH, if search engines cannot tell they are being gamed with URLs, then it's also completely useless.

What am I missing?
I agree that Swift looks quite promising, though I'm a bit surprised that it doesn't offer any concurrency primitives like Go does. I only say this because "The Swift Programming Language" e-book claims that "it’s designed to scale from 'hello, world' to an entire operating system."
Me (running arch linux): Oooh! I'd love to learn a new language. And great, they have a free ebook it looks like to describe it!

Apple: To download Apple Inc.’s 'The Swift Programming Language', you need to have iTunes.

Me: What?

Apple: Using a 64-bit edition of Windows? On a Mac?

Me: No.

That experience just killed a potential programmer for you right there, Apple.

I had a few hours to kill, and was pumped to jump on the next apple cash cow and help us both, but you literally killed my ability to download the manual or learn anything more about it for a few days, by which time I'll probably be onto something else.

They have this: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/reference... But it doesn't look nearly as in depth as the ebook would be.
Apple's improvement is in reducing the friction. When the devices are in proximity you literally swipe the icon and are instantly in exactly the same state you left off — on a different device. Web apps don't do it like this, and I think that's an important aspect of the attraction here.
> It doesn't make any sense to talk about static vs kinetic friction for the cars because they have roller bearings.

Well, modern trains don't have cabooses either. So the scenario wouldn't even come up.

But suppose that this is a train from 1940, with a caboose, with journal bearings instead of roller bearings, and with a steam engine. Can it start?

I wonder if maybe this was a legitimate problem from the steam era, which led to the procedure to compress the train and the start it one car at a time. It's conceivable that we'd keep passing along the received wisdom, even after roller bearings and electric motors changed the picture.
> That means it is still under NDA as well.

Partially. They made the language manual freely available on the iBookstore.
Just seen the full list, and there're a fair few from other countries - but given the relatively tiny number of names involved, I stand by my opinions