skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm unsure if "role" is a useful way to think about the Watchmen. Since
the 60's there have been plenty of "adult" comics with sex and violence,
and with the Watchmen being released in 1986 (I think), the adult themes
weren't anything new. The "new" things I remember about The Watchmen, at
the time, were (1) increased popularity of a mature themed story, and
(2) the sales success of an adult themed story by a major publisher.

Similar could be said for the "Superhero without superpowers" plot
device, and "Heroes with fairly regular human problems" plot device. The
plot devices were old and well tested by the time they were used in The
Watchmen.

On the other hand, the idea of using a limited series outside of the
normal (cannon) universe to both introduce new heroes and kill them off
in the same book/series was a deviation from the usual comics industry
methods (for maximizing profits). Of course, DC eventually did a
follow-on prequel "Before Watchmen" in 2012 after the release of the
movie adaptation of the original in 2009. The price of success in comics
is typically repeated dilution.

Permanently killing heroes became normalized in 1988 with "A Death In
The Family" when they killed the second Robin in Batman (and started the
"Replaceable Robin" and/or "Replaceable Sidekick" trope).

I've never seen the Watchmen as an analogy to the comics industry. After
all, it was from one of the big two publishers. To me, the Watchmen was
mostly just a product of its time; at the height of the seemingly
endless threat of the cold war when everyone wanted the cold war to end.
The trope of "endless threat resolved with substantial losses and
significant change" was fairly prevalent in stories from the mid 80's.
To some degree, the trope is still reused in current works, but to a far
lesser degree. The toughest thing to grasp is what the mid-80's were
like, and unless you're in your mid-40's or older, it will be tough for
most to imagine. If I didn't know what the time was like, I doubt I'd
consider the Watchmen to be such a fantastic story.
I wouldn't describe that as persistence being a problem, since obviously the LCD can be illuminated for arbitrarily short periods of time. The response time penalty applies regardless of whether you're trying to run the LCD in a low-persistence mode. An OLED's response time advantage over LCDs is across-the-board and completely orthogonal to persistence (where some kinds of backlights could enable LCDs to strobe even faster than OLEDs), and the impact of 5ms extra lag for VR applications will be about the same with or without strobing.
Here is the one thing that really keeps me awake at night: what if our science was the equivalent of a bunch of ants in a typical ant hill in anyone of our backyards, defining a mechanism or "method" through which they have explained for themselves the nature of the solar system?

That's the one thing. And I can't shake it off.
I think that marks you as a youngster? For me, the word "cerulean" immediately triggers memories of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pusher_(The_X-Files)
Star Fleet Battles The Cortlizan Council
The Cortlizan are a squirrel-like species for Star Fleet Battles that was thought to be killed by the Sigvirions. Some Cortlizans managed to escape and have had enough time to build their own small fleet of ships. The Cortlizan have no interest in wars, but are prepared to defend themselves if need be.
Sorry I wasn't clear: by 'CS people' I meant to refer to CS academics in graduate school (professors, post-docs, grad students), not CS professionals in industry --admittedly a sign of insularity, I recognize.

And what I meant is that, anecdotally, academics working on CS theory (eg theory of computation, computational learning theory) are more likely than not to unmistakeably be what I think everyone on HN would agree to call point-blank "horrible programmers": no use of version control, no tests, little concern for organization/modularity/maintainability, etc. And in part it makes sense since they don't have to hack nearly as much as systems-type CS academics --in many ways their work is closer to pure mathematics than engineering/applied math. That's all.

In all just a silly anecdote, although with a kernel of truth. See for instance Scott Aaronson's joke comments about his programming abilities [1]:

On the spectrum of computer science, I'm about as theoretical as you can get. One way to put it is that I got through CS grad school at Berkeley without really learning any programming language other than QBASIC (!).

[1] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=266
Deep Neural Networks: A Getting Started Tutorial
There was a situation not long ago with some Macbook monitors going bad and it turned out Apple was getting the panels from Samsung and LG and it was the LG ones going bad. I'm not sure if there was much scandal around it though.
Any admissions criteria will be inherently flawed. I share the author's concern that more fixes will be worse than the flaws.

So, ironically, I propose my own 'fixes'. Leave the admissions test as is, but reserve 10% of the student body to be admitted by random lottery.
What would be some examples of "environmental estrogen-like substances associated with affluence?"
The problem is that she likely doesn't have the resources to run the site without ads.
Oh man... I thought I wanted an Oculus Rift before!
You can then sue the copycats, I guess.
I have two takeaways from this - first is that spreadsheets are an accessible metaphor, and grok'able by many for whom coding as we know it is too long and hard to learn.

So on the surface I think the superficial thrust of this is rather blunted.

But, and it's a really big but, software is the new literacy. And it is long and hard to learn to read and write, but we force our children to do it as a society because of the orders of magnitude benefits.

And so the same will become true of software - but not at the paltry expressive level of say, pg's Blub language - but at something Haskell is trying for.

I say there are three kinds of stages of sophistication for a person or a company - not coding, automating and compiler.

We want our children to be operating at the compiler level - so we want them to be using the languages Haskell will evolve into.

Now where did I put my copy of SICP?

Edit: Blub language not Blah...
"Does a mom obsessed with candy crush count"

Why wouldn't she count? Cause she's a mom? Cause the game has candy? Or what?

As for female assassins, truth is somewhere in the middle. You don't need to make everything from scratch. Procedural adjustments can be made to the male animations and you can use the same animations for females.

I mean come on, women have a slightly different figure, but they have two legs, two arms, one head and so on. They're humans. It's not like the complaint is that birds and dogs were left out of the game.

That said, I'm fine with women being left out being a business decision. They'll now see what the effects of that business decision is on sales, and have the chance to learn for the next version.
Since the article assumes you already know, Core Data seems to be an iOS-only (and I guess MacOS?) ObjC ORM. If you want compile time safety or portability, look elsewhere.
It's true, but it doesn't apply in this case.

Here's the backstory:

When Apple released the retina MBP in 2012, they had 2 suppliers for the 15 inch retina screen: Samsung and LG. To be fair with Apple, isn't gaming the system by giving earlier review models better quality screens. More likely, this is to ensure that instead of relying on one supplier, they can diversify their screen manufacturing so they don't get screwed if one manufacturer has production difficulties.

At the time, I had purchased a retina MBP with the LG screen that summer. (You don't know what screen you will get when you buy it). The LG screen, as it turned out, had very bad burn-in problems. After complaining to the Apple store a few times, they finally relented and switched it out for me to the better Samsung screen.

The customer service at the time wasn't the best, since Apple should have gone "This is a real issue, if you can show proof of screen burn in on your LG screen, we'll immediately replace it for you" rather than try to brush it under the rug. However, it wasn't a malicious case of screwing over customers after sending better units to reviewers.
BPA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A

Bisphenol A is in a lot of plastics (See: Polycarbonate), including soda drinks, and leeches into the drinks themselves in small amounts. BPA exhibits "Estrogenicity", in that it mimics the behavior of Estrogen in the body. Nearly everyone in developed countries has some level of BPA in them.

BPA has been linked to Obesity as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A#Obesity

Polycarbonate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycarbonate
>But I think ikeahackers could probably have prevailed in court, especially after some design tweaks. //

I disagree, especially in non-US courts, largely because of the "commercial" nature of the site. Any revenue makes it commercial, that doesn't obviate fair use but it makes extremely difficult to win on that claim. People arrive here because of Ikea's brand and products, they see Ikea livery and designs and then are forwarded to purchase other products to the gain of the site owners.

The "New Kids" case fits quite well with the case in hand and recapitulates the test for whether nominative use is infringing or not.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/integrity/Lin...

One might feel that the Volkswagenwerk AG vs Church case mentioned makes Ikeahackers a winner [see the footnote for key differences!] but the test stands that there is (ibid.)

>"a nominative fair use defense provided he meets the following three requirements: First, the product or service in question must be one not readily identifiable without use of the trademark; second, only so much of the mark or marks may be used as is reasonably necessary to identify the product or service; [7] and third, the user must do nothing that would, in conjunction with the mark, suggest sponsorship or endorsement by the trademark holder." //
I didn't either, but "how many of us" really means "how common is it" and the answer is very common, so individual experience isn't that relevant.

And doing things you don't want to is definitely not a negative, but trying to get a leadership position in something you have no interest in is. This isn't "I don't want to but it needs to be done", this is "I don't want to but I want to look like I want to". The "ideal" candidate was the president of the French club because they're passionate about the language and culture and their peers see them as a competent leader, not because they wanted to be president of something.
Fun, but a good media compression format has other properties like: 1) low cost of decoding in terms of RAM/CPU etc. 2) ability to decompress an arbitrary amount of the audio from any starting point in the file, 3) ability to start decoding before the entire file is present.
And even the models that have used PVA panels have been much better than TN-based monitors, with their biggest weakness generally being input lag.
Poachers kill one of the world's largest elephants in Kenya
It's not sarcasm. A class action lawsuit was filed in March 2013. It seems that LG screens on a certain model(s?) of a 15.6 inch Retina MacBook Pro suffer from burn in, and that there is no way for a consumer to tell whether the screen was manufactured by Samsung or LG before buying the laptop.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/macbook-pro-retina-lg...
Mouse Print* – Sneaky Fine Print
It would be hard to change the material dramatically year-over-year. For example the literary section is predicated upon you having read a number of books from a certain selection, and along with other things essentially tests that you are well-read. But if the scope of books they might inquire about is too broad, many test-takers (very well-read individuals included) will fail.
Didn't finish reading this, but was this data controlled for physical activity? In many developing countries, women are caretakers for the home and mostly stay home while men go outdoors for work, especially physical.
Also check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp5L1_67swk
How To Store Over 200 Billion Data Points a Day to Disk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology
Yeah, this study seems pretty shallow and fails to take into account other indirect factors which might influence obesity rates (so it's not necessarily A->B, but possibly A->B->C->...->Z).

Human culture and gender differences is overwhelmingly complex subject. This research is trying to establish direct relationship between estrogen and obesity, but hormones might have subtle but signficiant effects on human culture.
but fixed width data types are super freaking slow if your doing intensive processing.
The question thus turns to our modern Western society and why this process is not as coarsely observable, with the rates approaching parody [sic] as national gross domestic product increases.

Rogue spellchecker, typo, or Freudian slip?
Isn't that the contents of all files?
I thought obviously trolling like this got people banned here? Have standards on HN really fallen this low?
totally understand IKEAs concern. I thought this was IKEA's website before I read the article..

IKEA should acquire / host this community on their dime & domain
I cut-pasted and reused his hyphenation, I noted it well. He uses "open-source software" and just "open source". Did I err in this regard?

That aside, it doesn't matter if he wrote the line last week about making an open source project in 1996, it's recognition that open source per se (as opposed to the name) started prior to OSI and their OSD. It was an established thing that they tried to straight-jacket in to a particular definition.
This wouldn't be at all surprising if people realized that the job of academic computer scientists is not to program (just like the job of an academic mathematician is not to perform basic arithmetic.)
I wonder how stable the "charged" state solution is?

Could you charge it up in one location, and truck/ship/pump it somewhere else for consumption? Imagine refitting crude oil supertankers to handle the acidity and ship solar power from some remote coastal desert to more useful places. Other than the headmelting price of Va, it could conceivably be cheaper than building transmission lines & their associated resistance losses.

(I'm probably missing some key fact of why this wouldn't work. But it's a nice idea)
"open source" is descriptive (even if you capitalise it). Descriptions aren't trademarks; that's probably why.
"A Dark Room doesn't require any particular permissions".

I wish other game developers would take note.
> Samsung's 2014 phones will feature 560 PPI displays - 880 PPI in 2015...

Is there any benefit to having an 880 PPI display? I wonder if Samsung's marketing is driven solely by numbers or if they think charging your phone every hour is now acceptable?
You may well be right about non-US courts, but I don't follow your argument under U.S. law. (Is there one? It actually isn't clear to me what you contend the outcome would be in the U.S.) As I read them, all three NKOTB factors that you quoted weigh in Ikeahackers's favor.

1- The product or service in question is not readily identifiable without use of the mark.
2- Ikeahackers uses no more of the mark than it needs to to identify the products in question.
3- It is a closer question whether the design of the site implies endorsement (for the same reasons as I noted with respect to likelihood of confusion), but some cosmetic changes to the site could probably solve this problem.
>In developed countries, where women are more free to work, the obesity rates are comparable...

Or even: in developed countries, most work is not physical labor.
As it stands, it looks good enough for identification purposes (for example of a pathogen), but nowhere near good enough for genetic studies where single base pair variations are the most sought-after aspect.

For human genetic studies, I guess it also depends on how readily multiple reads can be obtained, and whether the errors are randomly distributed.
No. This isn't a real study, this is a "we were given a result and told to make up a poor justification for it".
The problem is that consumers could not know whether they were buying a defective product or not, even if they knew about the problem. Two different products were sold without any means of differentiating them, which is inexcusable. It would have been very easy to construct different serial numbers for the different models. It could have been as simple as adding an A or B or adding something to the tiny print on the back of the laptop or and the packaging.
Well... modern Fortran has pure procedures, at the least.
Links no longer seem to work...
I used objdump on one project, and I can't thank you enough for it!
The Little Known Trait for Success and Medication for Failure
It doesn't. They simply make that assertion and then assume it is true. There are lots of reasons for obesity variances with GDP to differ between the sexes that don't involve hormones.
I have found the article I linked to be incredibly digestible for people learning REST, which is why I recommend it; regardless of the point-of-view. It's what I think is missing from your slides. You might be able to solve this in the context of an actual presentation, but taken as just the slides, it's very dense.

Also, this isn't self-promotion at all. I'm not in any way associated with that blog. I just like the content.

Different perspectives and learning styles, I suppose. I'm not trying to be argumentative, just briefly laying out my thoughts. Cheers
Yes: That's definitely the way it should be! I agree 100% that CS is still young and cohesive enough for dedicated people to achieve both breadth and depth, which perhaps means "grand" single-person revolutionary breakthroughs can still be achieved: Karp made a similar point during one of the Turing centenary talks (*An Algorithmic View of the Universe [1,2]), positing that the field is not yet specialized enough to prevent an Alan Turing-like figure today to have a comprehensive view of the state-of-art of the discipline (!).

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2322176.2322189

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6df3s3x3zo#t=56m25s
Yeah I am wondering this too. This has all the hallmarks of HAES / FA type logic. Activity levels and expected roles does have a lot to do with weight gain. Now perhaps there is some truth that estrogen may make it more difficult for women to keep off weight but its not the reason they are fat

Fatness in the this century is due to an abundance of processed food that is readily available and has simple storage needs. Combine that with an abundance of idle time, especially urban poor, and its not a good mix. I love going through photo archives and the one thing that stood out is the lack of obesity, its like the people taking photos went out of their way to not show it.

Welcome to the world of Wall-E. People are going to have to adapt, those selling packaged food will need to adapt, so that we don't end up there.
Being a homemaker in the developing world frequently involves a lot more physical activity than in the developed. Food and water are usually a lot less convenient, and may involve travel. Homemaking may also involve farming, and taking excess food from the garden to market which again, often involves travel.

Also, the physical effort involved in being in the workforce in the developed world can be almost nil. A lot of people have to stand up all day, or pick up boxes, but that's far from subsistence farming or hand-washing clothes.
Because it involves all of the most important a constants: 0, 1, e, pi, i.
you could just use: mv * ~/.Trash
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=xiki#!/story/forever/0/xiki%20comm...
It's both Mac and iOS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Data

It's not strictly an ORM but more a model-data focused framework that handles the object graph, serialization and persistence.
He was a pure mathematician at the time this was written. Now he works for Google, IIRC on self-driving cars:

http://www.knowthecosmos.com/destember/destember-experiment-...

He also won an Oscar this year, his second total:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0685004/awards
"I'm not sure about you but if I was asked to sing for a computer science job I would probably refuse and it wouldn't be the place I'd want to work."

Right, it would be a pretty clear indication that the company has no idea how to hire competent people, but is good at chasing inane management trends. Not somewhere I'd like to work either.

Unfortunately, people in fields where it's harder to get a job are at the mercy of these idiots.
Marc said in an interview once, "being CEO is basically a constant stream of bad news."

I love that.
I didn't say it violates PC, I said it isn't inclusive. And aiming for 75% engagement is an awful teaching strategy.

I do however agree that a required class does pose an engagement challenge. Computer Science will be a compulsory subject for UK school kids from September.
Now we have to ask, how did he create that file without using petabytes of disk space?
And to be clear, yes CoreData was launched on Mac OS a while back, and then added to iOS, but CoreData is in fact way older than that. CoreData is a descendant of EOF: Enterprise Objects Framework that was created at NeXT, during the Objective-C days (aka before WebObjects moved to Java).

So Apple has a long history on integrating the ObjC runtime with a back end database.
I will be curious to see if something new for CoreData will be coming with Swift.
This is awful, but not a good story for HN: the phenomenon is neither interesting nor new, and the article doesn't offer insight.
Yes.

There is a lot of meat to the Enneagram. If you want to understand yourself better, it's a great thing to study -- and once you see how it applies to you, you'll see there really is something to it.
The user will ls their home directory, see this file, and attempt to rm it. The shell will instruct rm to remove their home directory instead.
"The only requirement is that they be between the ages of 18 and 30."

Why exclude older people who want to pursue a new career?

France currently has an unemployment rate of 9% for people over the age of 25[1], so I'm sure there would be plenty of older people who would appreciate an opportunity to learn new skills.

[1] http://countryeconomy.com/unemployment/france
I would guess you would just need to create the single 4G file and zip it. Once it's zipped, copy 16 times, put in a zip file, repeat.
Our original TouchArcade.com logo had a space invader in it. Taito contacted us, liked our site, and gave us a free license. We later changed the logo to avoid that long term dependency. But that was very nice of them.
All files at the same "level" are identical. The 4GB file contains zeros only. I think these "data" could be compressed into even smaller size using some different methods.
Note that the BPA associated with soda is present in metal containers, as part of the plastic liner used to protect the can from the acidic soda. Those liners are in lots of other metal food containers.

Disposable plastic beverage bottles are almost all PETE, which doesn't contain BPA.
I turned in my July 2012 MBPr about a month ago for the screen burn in issues. It went almost exactly like this: "This is a real issue, if you can show proof of screen burn in on your LG screen, we'll immediately replace it for you" Except that I watched them run the test on it instead of proving that it had burn-in myself. Got it back a few days later with a new screen :)

So I guess it just took a bit of time for them to admit the issue.