skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has AMD HSA development been purely a Windows (and game console?) affair up until this point?

edit: now I see that they've had a github up with Linux HSA drivers for a while now. Is the significance of today's thing that the patches are making it into the mainline kernel?
I don't know. I went to school there, and there was absolutely zero (or 0.01% cases) of beating I'm aware of. In a whole region of 130.000 people.

Perhaps that's the case in some down and out regions in England or France, with rampant poverty and ex-industrial towns/suburbs (think Detroit).

But not in the majority of Western Europe. Some guys getting into a fight, sure. But beatings are not an occurance in schools, the same way guns aren't.
The hyphen-with-spaces is a poor substitute for an em dash (&mdash; -- if HN supported HTML entities).

Where emdashes are non-operational, I prefer a pair of hyphens surrounded by spaces -- which at least looks more like an em dash.

Your comment is meta, but not inappropriate or abrasive. Civil commentary regarding common misusage has value, and I hope your comment will emerge from the grey.
They didn't keep you from installing another browser. An ultimately the only thing that came of that was that they had to let you uninstall the browser. It still comes on all new PCs in the US.
If this is legal, is legality meaningless?
My toddler is going to love this app. He can order up flashing blue lights and a siren any time he wants!
DOMPDF is by far my favorite PHP PDF Library, its not the most capable but its arguably the most consistent and least finicky.
>'Trust hasn't scaled before, and Uber probably can't innovate that away.'

I don't use Ebay, Craiglist or Uber so perhaps I just don't understand how these things work, but my first thought is simply to create tiers and let customers self-select?

Isn't that what UberX / Taxi / Black / SUV / Lux already are?

Just shift the balance of expectation/price for each tier or perhaps create a new one to handle growth without creating the mismatched bazaar of Craigslist.
Why is this economically insane bullshit on HN? Who is assumes to pay for this?
Bi-Directional Replication(BDR)
A lot of the cards are more or less automatically generated in the sense that they don't actually extend any functionality of the parent class. Variations in the special effects ("text" effects) are big enough that for those, I find implementing them one by one much easier.
In pretty much every position where I've interviewed developers, the resumes have arrived "ready mangled" by recruiters that have cut and pasted it into word docs with their own headers and the like, so my assumption would be like yours, that it's for human consumption. Furthermore I'd assume that the chances of any semantic markup surviving past the first meeting with a recruiter is pretty close to zero.
Under those facts as presented, the FAA counsel has ruled that fails the common-purpose test.

A different set of facts might be able to be judged as legal.

You: The weather is great this Saturday for 200 miles in every direction. I'm going flying for currency purposes. Anyone want to come along?
Other: I want to go to Martha's Vineyard this weekend.
You: I've heard there's a great restaurant on the airport there and I've always wanted to go. I've decided (just now) that I'm flying specifically to MVY this weekend. Would you like to come?
Other: Yes. Can I pay for gas?
You: Only half of it, because as a private pilot, I must pay my pro-rata share.

If you did that, you're skirting right on the line, but I think you're legal.

If the conversation goes like:
You: The weather is great this Saturday for 200 miles in every direction. I'm going flying for currency purposes. Anyone want to come along?
Other: I want to go to Martha's Vineyard this weekend. Could you take me?
You: Sure; I'd love to do you the favor of taking you to someplace that I hadn't already decided to go!
Other: Great. Can I pay for gas?
You: Only half of it, because as a private pilot, I must pay my pro-rata share.

That would be clearly illegal, per the FAA counsel interpretation and the demand for a "common purpose" to the trip which isn't met. (Oh, and by the way, isn't required by the FARs either, but it's been a consistent [and reasonable, IMO] policy interpretation.)
It's interesting to see that most of these libraries are either web services or language support. Are client side apps for the (Oracle) JVM definitively over?
Ah! That explains the small strips of duct tape—tear it lengthwise to double your available tape.
Your compression numbers are way off. 128kbps is for stereo music, not monaural voice recordings. If you stick with MP3, you can go down to 32 or 24 kbps without sacrificing any intelligibility. If you use a real voice codec like G.729, you can easily get by with 8 kbps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.729
A Brainfuck one will show up sooner or later.
Maybe a well-defined goal is an understatement

It is a extremely well defined goal, under strict constraints (but a lot of liberty otherwise - for example, using the flight plan cover) and under a lot of pressure.

You can have immense bursts of productivity this way, but it also wears you out a lot.
>Would you draw parallels between the government legislating that 'school-aged' children must go to school and the US decreeing that all Japanese people on the west coast must go to internment camps? Probably not.

Sure, why not? It's a little worse with the Japanese people case, because of the racism involved, but on the other hand, it was an era of war between the two countries.

Byt curfew for children? Even children aged 14 or 15 years old? That's no business of the law.
I followed your link to AbeBooks, and in the minute it took me to decide which copy to buy, it was bought by someone else.

First time that happens to me. I often keep books for months in my shopping cart.

EDIT: Ha, never mind, every copy I've tried (4 of them) has been sold, but it only shows once you add them to your shopping cart.
Seems like salesforce game up on organic growth strategy long time ago. Just a lot of acquisitions. Once you become their scale, I guess it becomes impossible to innovate. Whatever works for them I guess.
Will check out BA when I get a chance. But can't imagine it will displace what remains my favourite "business" book of all time, the Id Software creation yarn: Masters of Doom by David Kushner.

It was recently suggested to me that every entrepreneur should read Sir Richard Branson's autobiography. I was dismissive having read the LRB review of Bower's biography of "the stuntman": http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n06/david-runciman/the-stuntman.

Is "Losing My Virginity" worth a peruse? Or should we just wait for Gates himself to deliver his memoirs?
It is good for a person to be hyped about a thing, to hype something (≈ to trick other people into being hyped about it) is bad.
I've solved level 4 but regardless of what I enter:

- the whole phrase with and without spaces

- each individual word

...and in upper and lower case, yet it still won't let me move to the next level.

I'm bored now and going to the pub.
Binary Search Trees with Swift
Do you have a video showing this interaction?
I suspect that MtG's big advantage here is having a ton more cards. Hearthstone's meta is pretty straightforward because there are only a handful of cards to work with right now, but the upcoming Naxxramus mini-expansion should make things more interesting, and I'm looking forward to seeing what'll happen when they finally produce a full expansion.
Congrats to Steve and the magnificent team at RIQ!
Another pilot here. I also believe that FAA wouldn't recommend any pilot without at least a commercial pilot certificate to give rides to members of general public.

Personally, I do not hold CPL. Also, for many reasons, I would not be comfortable to fly with a random person from internet. edit: On the other hand, I might consider flying with someone who had passed some mild background checks and has shared rides before. For example, any of the following would probably do: student pilot or someone affiliated with a local flight school, house/business owner, graduate of ivy league, employee of a large company, etc.
I agree with you, but my definition of what I think is "meaningful" is broader than "open source/free software/creative commons". It is more like "is this a thing that I would like to see exist in the world?"
"Etsy’s seen the most success when there’s either zero or two women engineers on a team. If there’s only one, she’s a woman engineer as opposed to just an engineer." http://firstround.com/article/How-Etsy-Grew-their-Number-of-...
No, he made a link to cite that 128 kb * 60 / 8 = 0.94 MB
Mac development for iOS developers
The site where I had all the photos needs them to be reimported at the moment, so I can't check, but I estimate it was at least 8 million pixels tall. Instead of putting the photos IN the div, I just used the div to make the page tall. It was 1px wide and 8,000,000 pixels tall. If there is some limitation, you could have multiple divs of a million pixels each, or you could set the height of the body tag.
More nastily, it leads to the actually competent people of that group being forced to "prove" themselves.

Additionally, it leads to increased failure rates of people who get into the program / position. Advocates like to think that it's just these racist old meanies in admissions and hiring positions who are dictating unfair requirements, and it's bullshit. Often, requirements, especially very selective ones, are well-founded. Saying, "If they get in, they'll succeed" is a bad idea.
Good luck to you, but it never works. As you say, there's no way to discriminate between relevant & polite ads and spammy ads except for human intervention. I'm not involved in the business (clearly), but I think the overheads are sufficiently small in the advertising business that that's just not viable.

That's why I don't think advertising is a viable business model for web content in the long term. Spammers are going to spam, users are going to install adblocking software to get rid of the spam, and whatever's left will either get caught up in adblock or be too cost ineffective for businesses to bother with.
It wasn't that long ago and I don't think it was compromised. At least I hope not. It may have been a new plugin, but I'm fairly certain it was "Nowhere".

I'll have to look into HTTPS Everywhere. Thanks for the recommendation.
Thanks for the pointer. This particular service is useful to know about, but a bit more mobile focused than is appropriate for our current product. Noted for future reference tho!
Am I the only person in this thread who doesn't think that the structured nature of a CV isn't necessarily super important? Having a readable, well laid-out and well-written CV can be vital in deciding whether someone is worth contacting or not.

I love putting "structured data" in formats like JSON as much as the next guy, but sometimes that approach misses the point a little bit IMO.
It's worth mentioning that the definition of common purpose in this letter is considerably looser that what the FAA has used in the past. I'm having trouble finding the link at the moment, but I seem to remember private pilots getting in trouble when they carried passengers (on the pilot's schedule, not the passengers', as in this case) who had a different purpose for the flight--in other words, both pilot and passengers had a purpose for the flight, but it wasn't a "common purpose."

The FAA letter also calls into question the legality of the entire purpose of Flytenow: The letter explicitly states that publically posting the particulars of the flight (destination, date, and time) is probably illegal.
The event/listener paradigm is an interesting way of going about this, and I considered doing it that way at the beginning. But, after some thinking and experimenting, I found the "card use -> modify BoardState" way more straight forward, especially since it leads to a nice recursive tree structure for the game AI engine. The primary goal of this simulator is to do statistical analysis on deck performance, so I think it's a decent way of going about it. On the other hand, if my goal were to create an actual playable game clone, I probably would have taken the event/listener approach.
I have now. Thanks for the pointer!
Now you can add markdown resume on your markdown resume...
How cool is that?
Hacking set theory with Seth
What's a good way to contact you?
"The National Security Agency has been recording and storing nearly all the domestic (and international) phone calls from two or more target countries as of 2013." That seems like more than just satellite calls.
pandoc has very good conversion to docx and accepts external style files, so: some are doing both? ;)
Github as a social network is a nice idea. While it's not a big stretch, I normally wouldn't think of Github and Facebook or Twitter in the same context. But now that I am, I realize that my "social interactions" on Github are the most satisfying and rewarding of all on both a personal and technical level.
The #1 reason I stopped playing the game is because I would do fairly well at the game, get matched with stronger opponents, and subsequently lose because I dont even have the full set of Mage cards while my opponent is pulling legendaries. That kind of a game just isnt fun for me and it happens over and over.
Any more hints on level 9? The ones given don't help me to figure out how to even start.

"Flip-flop", like in a circuit? Those could do a myriad of things to encode the message.

"the second word" .. is the decoded message the first word or is it refering to 8bit words or something?
The American dock is presumably now defunct with the Shuttles retirement
We need to get web browsers to ship with Adblock from the start. You'd be insane to set up an email server without some form of spam filtering, why not do the same with browsers?

Yes, it would collapse the current web business model. I fully support this.
I just opened up a PR[1] for live updating of the graphs (with a delay from the setTimeout from javascript side). It's not amazingly coded, but works for me atm.

[1] https://github.com/davecheney/gcvis/pull/3
I have a question about the talk by Philip Roberts ("Help, I'm stuck in an event-loop").

In the following code, assuming that there are no read errors, is the load callback guaranteed to be always executed? I.e. are DOM events dispatched only after the call stack is cleared?

let main = () => {
let reader = new FileReader();
reader.readAsText(file);
reader.addEventListener("load", callback = (event) => console.log(event.target.result));
};
Fantastic write-up. Made me cringe at parts because I identified all too well with it.
But here's the rub - who still uses audio calls? Its a point of deminishing intelligence. That's like saying that 80% of all 8-tracks are now in 1970 cars (as a statement in 2014). Its just not relevant.
I lived in Atlanta for 7-8 years, and I'd definitely take Uber instead of calling Checker Cab. However, people giving up their personal cars in favor of Uber + transit is a marginal trend at best. The basic bottleneck is: how do you get to work? Like most sunbelt cities, the jobs in the Atlanta area are scattered across the city and suburbs. The average person in the metro area drives 17.5 miles and 30 minutes each way to work. That's a $30 Uber fare. There's no regional rail to get people to work, and MARTA barely goes anywhere. Very few people can get rid of their personal car because there are no other practical options for getting to work. And that bottleneck drives everything else. If you already have a car to get to work, why would you pay $20 bucks (roundtrip) to go from Buckhead to Atlantic Station for a night out?

I think you're just plain overestimating the demographic trends actually in play. Yes, there is some growth in urban areas, but we're talking very marginal ones here: http://www.city-journal.org/2011/eon0406jkwc.html. There's no demographic trend of a major shift to the cities that will create a "massive" opportunity for a company like Uber.
I thought the old NPR podcasts were pretty good introductions: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/13/137795648/the-tues...
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/04/09/176688096/episode-...
And the paperback just happens to be coming out in September but can be pre-ordered now.

Kind of annoying to me personally, since I take the advice a little less seriously now.
Streaming File Synchronization
Hey It's Shmueli, the creator. I've since removed the VS stuff and have been trying to give it more of the TLC it needs. I fully admit that if you're in the JS world it might not be the best (haven't personally used other JS game frameworks) but as CmonDev it's more for those coming from C# and XNA or those looking to port an XNA game.
I do 99% of my development in the office in an eclipse instance running on a remote server connected via LAN. It's completely seamless, you would have absolutely no way of knowing that it's not running locally. Having never use RDP, I can't rule out it's as good; I don't see how it could be better. VNC is laughably bad in comparison.

For working from home, we've got NX. Again, it mostly just works; I can't really tell that it's a non-local window. Again, I can't rule out though cannot imagine RDP does it better; some amount of latency is unavoidable via WAN; VNC would be excruciating.

This setup has been working fine for about 6 years now, btw.
server in javascript, 3d engine in javascript, brain in javascript, next kidneys in javascript
So, can someone correct me if I'm wrong? It appears that Amazon Cognito handles sync for local device data, but the developer doesn't have access to any of that data. Correct?

So this service seems to be geared toward developers who don't want to store or see user data at all. But for a developer that wants to gather user data (for crowdsourced insights) or for a developer that wants to offer a web app connected to their own DB, then this isn't going to work.
According to crunchbase http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/relateiq they took 3 rounds on top of seed funding. So in the best case scenario, each round diluted by 20%, leaving the founder team and employees with ~50% ownership (= 80% * 80% * 80%). Again, best case scenario, there is no participating preferred, then 2% options will end up somewhere around .8% (depending on the option pool), which is between 2.5M and 3M.

Worse case scenario, all rounds come with 3x participating preferred and much bigger percentage than 20%, and the options pool got inflated to accommodate more recent employees. So in this liquidity event, the VCs take 3 * 70 = 210M out first, leaving 150M on the table. 2% options might end up being .1% equity, resulting in 150K for the first employee (before tax).

The real number is somewhere between the two. From my experience, it's more likely closer to the lower end than the higher end.
RunKeeper's HealthGraph returns discoverable URIs from /users:

http://developer.runkeeper.com/healthgraph/users
Player 1 gets the coin, but the table is listing Player 0's win percentage. So when you give the coin to Player 1, Player 0's win percentage goes down. So yes, the coin is a massive advantage. In other words, the player wins more 20% games when the opponent doesn't get the coin, all else being equal.

If you want some real-world stats about going first vs. second, try the stats from Arena Mastery[1], which more or less match what Bilzzard has said anecdotally: with the second player getting the coin, going first is still a slight advantage.

[1] http://arenamastery.com/sitewide.php
Haha I'll have to do that soon...

In the meantime, I actually am looking for a job, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7833969 for details :-)

</shamelessplug>
I have informally looked at what the AI does. Turns out, as far as I can see, the AI does a pretty good job... with a BIG CAVEAT. The decks that I have used so far consist solely of minions and one other special card, so there really isn't any "mistakes" the AI can make. The decks are just so simplistic at this point. As more interesting cards are implemented, I'm sure there will be situations where the AI will make interesting mistakes that we can learn from. It is something I'm really looking forward to exploring.
How can simulation speed be a concern in a turn-based card game?
I'm working on this. Email in profile.
kevingadd pretty much sums up why I did one file. I do agree that such large files to get hard to maintain. To help with that I used regions, though I admit since it's a VS only feature it's of limited use.
In your last sentence, you answered your own question. Don't ask us how you would want to live your life, after all it is YOUR life. Just live it!

We can give you as much permission as you want. But all of it won't matter unless you give yourself the permission.

Some say "just ship", in this case, "just start".

Lots of great advice in this thread. A lot of ideas on where to start. But it will be all for not if you don't let yourself start.

Good luck throwing off the bowlines! ;)
Your irrelevant personal attacks against people who have legitimate gripes with W3Schools do not convince me that it's the "nice people" who like that site. Seriously, how is making rude comments about people based on their taste in learning resources meant to demonstrate that W3Schools is a good resource?
gooble gobble, gooble gobble...
Bitcoin addresess and balances of ancient
You're correct that the text of FARs does not explicitly require a prior personal relationship. However, as they are applied and interpreted in practice, you're almost guaranteed to get in hot water if you fly-share as a private pilot on a regular basis with people you don't know. And that's really not news to anyone with a private pilot certificate or anyone who has spent time looking into getting one.
The UK has the Open Rights Group and Privacy International. (ORG is focused on the UK, while PI is based in the UK but not solely focused on it.)

http://openrightsgroup.org/
https://privacyinternational.org/
It's definitely a bit of an issue, but less of one than people tend to believe. There are many decks that people bring to Legend rank that cost very little in terms of dust.
That just brings the entire "curated" aspect into question. I mean, sure it was curated. By the internet.

At the least, common metrics that can be applied to various offerings would be neat. Possibly a qualifier such that you can't add an item unless it meets a threshold on a few criteria.
So "computer error" is when the hardware designer screws up and "human error" is when the software designer screws up? That seems pretty arbitrary.
I'd be more interested in Steve Jobs' favorite business books. I know he was a huge fan of the Innovator's Dilemma, probably because he already naturally understood most of it from experience before having to read it, and he was probably fan of other similar books too, and I'd like to know which books those were.

I don't think Bill Gates ever understood a book like Innovator's Dilemma. Not really.
In search of search theory
I imagine this is the most traffic Sports Illustrated has ever gotten. Their servers weren't keeping up earlier, but it seems to be fine now.
I'm trying out DreamFactory (dreamfactory.com) to see if I can accomplish the same goals but using something that's open source (Apache License). Sure I'll have to maintain my own VPS boxes but that's something I do anyway.