skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but it's just delaying the inevitable

What do you see as the inevitable? It wouldn't prevent them from losing something, but it would be the difference between the bottom being living under a bridge completely destitute and living in a shabby apartment until they got back on their feet.
My problem with most overloaded operators is that they too often have no sensible name.

When I talk to myself while coding, I have no name to say out loud.

I have nothing but a picture, when I try to remember the operator.
Jesus, what I would give to be able to compose like that.
I don't think it will necessarily improve typing speed, but it is definitely a good test. I suggest you supplement Typeracer with a touch typing tutor app. My favorite is klavaro (http://klavaro.sourceforge.net/en/).
At what point do you go from fundamental electronic gates to a Snapdragon CPU? The line drawing involved isn't unique to software. But life is full of line drawing.

There's a good argument to be made that the cost of the line drawing exceeds the benefits. I don't think it does, generally, but maybe it does for software. That said, I think you should make some money if you invent LZW. I don't like the idea of an economy where you can't make money off R&D unless you package it into a product with lots of advertising and sales people. I don't think that creates the best incentives.
No such thing as a dumb question. (My answer could be dumb, though)

I guess you would be limited by a couple of things:

You don't have scale. To produce cheap you need scale. Go ARM for cheap processors and emulate whatever circuitry you want. It will probably be cheaper for most applications.

Power consumption would be prohibitive.

Huge upfront costs for a market that is quickly fading away.
Darn, it's only available for WiiU. I feel like most hardcore level makers would work from PC. Obviously, that's not really their target but would have been cool to have it on PC.
You still would have had the TSA and the wars, plus an ongoing economic impact on the cost of chip production. I'm not saying that there wasn't a lot of economic impact. I'm saying there could have been more.
There is Javascript...
You aren't. The reason I'm on HN so much lately has more to do with my disquiet about work than anything else.

That is another flaw, I am a trace of a worrier. :P

I did try that for a year [straight partnership, the project I was working on required more than just a developer]. It went poorly, mainly due to my poor judgement in the partner combined with the fact I ignored my instinct about the client.

He actually made slightly more than me on that particular deal.

That was actually what finally convinced me to switch to being an employee for awhile.

I think I just need more time to figure out other people before I try that sort of thing again [hence hanging out on HN].
SpaceX launch webcast
"It was a discussion of the long term trend, not specific to that instance."

Well, point me at a source I can read, or quote the relevant parts, or email me them (see my profile). Or just tell me which polling outfit did it, e.g. Gallup puts this sort of stuff on-line and without a paywall.

"So you are saying more people lie about owning a gun to a nosy stranger than they did over the past 40 years?"

See above WRT my not being able to know what you're asking, but I wouldn't be at all surprised by such a trend, though I'd really like to look at the endpoints; also note phone surveys have had an increasing problem with just getting people to even answer questions of any sort. The errors in all too many election based surveys ought to give you pause in taking this claim so far.

And, as I said, the math doesn't work. That should be enough to falsify this claim.

"It also isn't a democrat or republican issue. The growth in gun purchases began in 2002."

Which just might be why I said in my original posting above that "it started post-9/11, I believe because the government made it clear we were on our own".
Here's hoping :) If it gets shut down then my total time has only been a few days of programming and about $15 in Amazon S3 bills so I still think it's been worth it. Never counted on other people picking it up as much though, that's been very fun. SNDTST has been played in 95 countries in the last 2 months.
That was a great answer, thanks.
The Typo that Destroyed a Space Shuttle
The education meat grinder destroys adjuncts, it saddles many students with crushing, non-self-liquidating debt and it outpaces inflation faster than any other major cost category:

http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/streams/2013/April/130430/6C71...

A bad product, the employees and customers are treated poorly, and prices are skyrocketing. Hmmm.
Sure it will -- they could run it (at some loss of bandwidth) as a hidden service. When "my favorite site" gets court orders, they can take down their official server, and spin it up somewhere else behind a Tor hidden service.

Yeah, I know -- Hidden Services need some work. As I understand, the problem is solvable, it just needs a few more heads thinking about it to get solved.
It's hard for me to see how a belief that you can have a personal relationship with creator of the universe can make you more aware of your insignificance. Scientific view that places you on speck of dust for barely a moment in universes time, until you dissolve into nothing leaving at best some memories in your culture is much more humbling.

People use religion mostly to keep disbelieving in injustice of physical world and to combat loneliness and meaninglessness.

You are spot on that in USA intolerance towards intolerant replaced racism. Nowadays people get fired over careless comments that can be percieved as racially loaded. It's almost funny when observed from a country that has 99.9% of population of one skin color and nationality and where racism by pople who hate it is perceived more of a sheer stupidity than capital offence.
That's interesting; did anyone have suggestions about why that should be so?
+1 to krapp. The patterns in Yii, Cake, Zend are very similar. Try one, then another to see which feels better. Or simple ones like Slim, Twig or Radix
This is awesome, now just to wait for a Python 3.4 PyPy release :D
Show HN: V8 JavaScript kernel
Also, possibly the start of a design document for an interesting indie game.
> I wish the community would just switch entirely to pypy.

What purpose would that serve?

> Being able to just slightly performance sensitive code in python is a huge win.

I think you slightly this phrase, but aside from that pypy does not work for everybody and everything (e.g. at best it's no slower for sphinx, it really doesn't like the way docutils works). It's not like pypy's a magic wand.
With $$ $$
There's actually a level with a springboard before the flagpole, and if you time it right sends you "over" the pole. It's like you said, once your X value is greater than the pole, you grab the top and slide down like normal.
If you're raising ANY institutional money, the expectation is trying for a home run (though most expect the process to take 7+ years).
I agree that politics is only a fraction of the issue. Washington affects the economy in complicated ways. Still, I recoil at an entire generation of people looking for others to blame for their failure. That's not productive either, and it has a creepy fascistic vibe to it.
That's not a solution for the general problem of getPixel + iframes though.

Here, I'll give a simple example. Let's say there's a site that uses cookies to track logins. For example, hacker news. Now, hacker news does have the X-Frame-Option Deny, but let's assume it doesn't.

So to figure out my hacker news username, all you have to do now is create an iframe with hacker news, and then getPixel on the area of the frame that contains usernames, run some trivial OCR, and done.

Now, this issue is even more serious in other instances. For example, google talk widgets are embedded by iframes I believe.

In both these cases, a fresh rendering would still have the inappropriate material due to cookies. If cookies aren't sent, e.g. you do a fresh render in a private tab, it would still have security concerns for anything that displays different, sometimes private, content based on ip address.

For an example of that, you could render "private.internal.company.localsite" in an iframe and if a visitor from that company visited, even a cookie-less load would probably show private data due to the internal site relying on ip/nat controls.
The slideshow that these are from says (on 6 of 14): "Degree: B.A., biology, Northwestern College. Career goal: Social worker."

Is says a bachelor of arts, but looking into Northwestern's programs more, I think it is a type. I agree that $50K of debt for a BS in Bio would be reasonable.
Amazon officially announces Python 3 support for  AWS SDK (Boto)
The software response to a "crypto ban" would be wide-scale steganography, I would guess pretending to be unencrypted HTTP. Good luck banning encryption!
Bring Fun Back to JS: Step-by-Step Refactoring Toward Ember
FTA: "Assuming servers are kept synchronized enough (the enough depending on your application), you may just solve the problem by acquiring time precisely enough."

How on earth are "sub-microsecond timers" supposed to be synchronized anywhere?
Hi Aatish! I enjoyed it quite a bit. The fibers on the bottom of the leaf may not be significant -- perhaps they are vestigial and only the upper ones provide an advantage.

Alternatively, heavy rain and wind can flip leaves upside down, blow plants over, and splash dirt and water up onto the underside of the leaves, so maybe it is an advantage for the whole leaf to shed water.
Now I see your edit. I was disdainful of the BA... I can't think of the specifics, but I thought I had seen programs with both BA and BS options in the past. I didn't know about the lack of distinction between the BA and BS. TIL!
What breaks the cycle is that eventually someone uses all this capital to found a business making use of all these unemployed people. They're an untapped resource.

You're basically describing technological progress, but there's no reason to assume that tech will always replace expensive laborers with relatively smaller amounts of automation. All that productivity created by new technology represents increased demand, and having workers go idle is just as much an inefficiency as using an older process. An inefficiency that can be (profitably) corrected with the right business model.

Tech can, for instance,replace expensive components with cheaper labor (think usability inventions), or help scale up existing production to meet greater demand (think bigger factories). Both of these require more workers in the aggregate, not less.
Then they adjust.

I think the point of BI is to keep you from starving. The idea is that no matter who you are or what your station is in society, you should be able to afford food, a roof over your head, and basic medical care. It's not to maintain your social standing in life - someone who has a job will rightfully have a higher standard of living than someone who doesn't. And you shouldn't expect it to be a comfortable middle class existence, you should expect it to involve living like the working poor today - a cramped apartment, not much in luxuries, public transportation or long commutes.

But it takes the stress out of simply existing. The idea is that it's set at a level where you're not going to die, you're not going to end up homeless, you're just not going to be very comfortable.

As for how it's different from welfare/social security/disability - I usually see it pitched as a way of unifying all of those (and the EITC), so that people don't fall through the cracks because they don't know how to sign up or what they're entitled to. It'd save on administration costs as well.
The submitted title was egregiously editorialized ("Hollywood Distorts Cinema Sound to Kneecap Blu-Ray"). As the HN guidelines ask: please don't do that.

Unfortunately, it's far from clear what an accurate, neutral title would be, so we've changed it to the title of the paper until someone makes a better suggestion.
Native Node.js Apps ( Video )
That's ad absurdum. The current statute is "anything under the sun that is made by man". That is pretty broad, but even that drastically reduces what can be patented, because you'll notice the number of things that could be described by a physical process is infinite, but an infinitesimal fraction of those is made by man. An even smaller fraction of that is useful and novel. I guess it's just my opinion, but the current theory captures the intent of the patent system just fine, though the implementation can use a little tuning.
I suspect this is because he only benchmarks small data sets, even the largest one used easily fits into the CPU cache. It would be interesting to see the number of cache misses for each benchmark, perf stat should be able to record that data.

And even the shuffling doesn't really simulate a realistic distribution in memory, it'd be better to also allocate random memory block in between the objects.
I jumped over the flagpole once in 1-1 in the original Super Mario Bros thanks to a Game Genie code. Once you walk past the pipe that's the entrance to 1-2, you see about two more screens that then repeat forever.

There are some places in The Lost Levels where you're meant to be able to jump over it. I believe that one had a warp pipe that took you BACK in the game.
So the cost of college is skyrocketing and teachers are getting paid less and less. Where is the money going??
Sorry, I was thinking more along the lines of gas-powered remote-controlled planes.

Look, you're right. Used tactfully, by reasonable people, they would absolutely make a fantastic photography platform, and probably not be too intrusive.

However, I have insight to the daily lives of park wardens in popular national parks.

There aren't many of them, they have to cover huge areas, and they spend their days stopping people lighting things on fire, breaking things and taking them away, writing their names on things and trying to put their kids on the backs of the wildlife for photos (I kid you not, it happens once or twice every summer).

I guarantee that if drones were permitted, some people would be buzzing them around the wildlife from a safe distance. This kind of added stress on the animals can and does lead to failure to breed, which has very bad effects on the viability of species, particularly for the less populous apex predators (bears, wolves, big cats).

From the parks point of view, they have to come with policy based on gross population behaviour. They can't supervise or train everyone using the park, so they have to come up with simple policies that can be blanket applied. Unfortunately, the potential for abuse with drones is probably pretty high, thus the ban.
In my mind, the difference is clear: scripting language == has REPL == lets you treat it as a calculator, and (in practice) has a one-line, one-statement "hello, world".

So, I don't think go is a scripting language. It requires you to write a function and then call it before it will output anything.

So, forth, JavaScript, lisp, lua, perl, python, ruby do qualify as scripting languages in my book.
I have seen many projects have little bots do things like post to third-party review services or whatever. Many projects use CI tools that have GitHub integration (e.g. travis), Rust's is just rolling their own so they needed their own GitHub integration. We should be lauding GitHub for their willingness to support integration, even if their native tools are a tad lacking.
Teachers would probably have bigger problems.

According to clay christensen , the guy behind "the innovator's dillema" , more than 50% of colleges will go bankrupt soon(until 2020/2024).
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. I think that a few people may have missed that due to the fact that my comment is currently at -2.
The Next Fitbits: Heart-Rate, GPS, Atmospheric Tracking
Hey Managers: Show Me The Last Thing You Created
That reminds me of google/trimble sketchup. It always annoyed me.
I don't believe that this generation is uniquely incompetent, nor do I believe that they are uniquely hampered from succeeding. I would be more swayed to your point that this is some sort of cultural shift towards multi-generational households if there weren't so much angsty finger-pointing from self-appointed millennial spokespeople.
> In other words, what good is $15k/year when you've been living on $15k/month? Or $7k or $5k/month?

Not much I guess, but if they're suddenly faced with the prospect of existing on $0/year, I imagine it'd look pretty nice. Quite a lot of people live on 15K per person in the family, so I don't think they'd be hopeless. I think BI is supposed to hit a sweet spot akin to the "better than a sharp stick" thing you mention. You could live off it if you really wanted to, but it'd kind of suck, and your life overall would be more enjoyable with a job.

I think a lot of the appeal of BI comes from two ideas. One: automation technology possibly introducing a "new normal" in terms of unemployment levels, in which case BI might help a society not eat itself. Two: it may, possibly, be much more efficient than the various welfare programs you mention. I don't think that's been proven, but it's a tantalizing idea.

I'm not really an expert on the idea though, so, two cents.

edit - I'm also not sure that automation tech introducing sweeping society-damning joblessness is something that will ever actually happen.
I currently use mailboxforwarding.com and am pretty happy with it.
1992?! Holy smokes, and here I thought I went to a backwater school (and I did) because we were still using manual typewriters in 1980. :-) They upgraded to electrics a year or two later.
I can't edit my comment for some reason, but as thefreeman pointed out in response to agildehaus' comment, I was referring to how the iOS Chrome is still WebKit.
Hey, I know an A. Manfredi. Are you Anthony from Swat?
When drones fall from the sky
Research, Sports, executive salaries. There are a lot of costs besides teacher's salaries.
China’s New Trademark Law
This is what I was going to bring up. Also: hello again ;).
> which seem to be optimized for small projects at the expense of large ones

Definitely, you easily hit its limitations with big projects:

* the commits view is completely useless if development is highly branchy (although to be fair that's the case for pretty much all git history visualisation tools)

* the CI integration (statuses[0]) is very limited with only 4 states (pending, success, error and failure) and doesn't work OOTB with merged heads

* issues-filtering tools have odd cases when you're trying to e.g. filter by multiple tags

* and they're not available at all the PR list

* the notifications system is insufficient and incomplete (IIRC you're not notified when assigned on an issue or PR…)

* the teams integration is lacking (essentially, teams are only very broad ACLs, you can't triage issues to teams so you have to use tags, except when you start doing complex queries involving multiple tags it all breaks down)

[0] https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/statuses/
A client-side JavaScript SDK for authenticating with OAuth2
Yes indeed :)
There's stronger stuff, like Diamon-Fusion, but they all wear away with use.
Want a fun Easter Egg? Try and guess a game (by URL) I likely don't have it, but if you go there http://sndtst.com/The_7th_Guest you get a page that helps you ask for it to be added (and possibly pester whoever owns the rights to it to let it be uploaded, hint hint The Fat Man)
And don't forget the whole thing self assembles with inputs of primarily light, water, and air at zero cost. Biology makes the rest of our manufacturing technology look ridiculously inefficient.
How, if at all, is this envisioned to interact with the work going on in LibreSSL?

I realize LibreSSL is optimized for BSD and Google is primarily Linux, but it seems silly to fork the code in 2 different directions.
I was once offered an adjunct position to teach a class at my alma mater. They were excited to let me know I'd be paid $3,000 for teaching the class.

I had to turn them down, as I was already doing private corporate trainings, where we charged $3,000/day.

I didn't get paid that much, obviously, but I thought it was really amusing that the amounts lined up.
The Startup Advantage: "Little Guys" making big waves..
I claim the opposite: one of the rejections was obviously made by a time traveler who has seen a yet to be shot Doctor Who episode written by the scenarist mentioned by the paper's author. Quite a mise en abyme.
Fewer surprises. You don't wake up one day and discover that TLS heartbeats have appeared in your library as a result of previous upgrades. Every upstream change has to be reviewed because that's the only way it gets in. Also, local changes are much less likely to be lost as a result of merge conflicts.

The downside is that you may miss some upstream changes that you do care about.
Thanks. And I agree. I, and you as well it seems, would like to smoke those people out of the market. If companies only used firms that did a good job and didn't give out their searches to every firm out there, those recruiters will be put out of business eventually. Some might get hired by these better firms who now have increased demand, and hopefully the bad recruiters who now work for good firms will learn.

Sounds easier than it is, but it starts with lower fees in my mind.
Hi. The needles are wax structures that protrude from the leaf, they aren't part of the leaf. So the added surface area doesn't absorb any air, and I doubt it helps in evaporative cooling either.
I thought sports were mainly profit centers.
The latter two are the one's that should be most limited.
That's fair. And you're probably correct that there's more to it.

Another issue could be our unwillingness to push young people towards trades that will be in demand for the foreseeable future.

I know plumbing and painting contractors who make six figures. Yet, I rarely hear anyone say "Hey, have you considered a career owning your own plumbing business". Instead, it's "Study what you love and rack up some debt."
sure, but if you haven't taken a ton of money, you have the opportunity at some point to take a strategy that turns a small, steady profit now instead of being continually forced to doubling down on being the Next Big Thing
I think it would depend on the quality of the studies. If focused on the gender, class and race food group of a large subset of the humanities, I can see corporate employers avoiding such potential trouble makers like the plague, but there are always non-profits and NGOs, even Foreign Service, although per Wikipedia the odds for the generalist path are very low.

If it actually made them useful, e.g. included some time "in country", and ideally minimal language and cultural fluency in at least one country of note, sure thing. Especially at such a price.

I have a friend who did both physics and Japanese and for a long time did well using both.
There has been an unofficial tool for editing Super Mario World levels available for many years now.

http://www.smwiki.net/wiki/Lunar_Magic

I wonder how Mario Maker will compare in functionality and ease of use.
They typically ask that you perform some step of the transaction using an e-mail address tied to the domain, so it's not quite that terrible. The 700USD EV certs actually require corporate registration paperwork, tax IDs, etc. and are far closer to a credit check in terms of depth.

I agree that Java should use the certs the system provides, and that is a PITA to wrestle with keytool, but I also know that the self-signed cert that apache is using is not trusted by your PC either (so you've got work to do regardless).