skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's embarrassing that web apps have has much downtime as they do given the processing power they are given.
The only real limitation to current robots is the power-source / batteries

I doubt it, military standards demand a level of reliability most robots today can't keep up with. Faulty engines, backup systems that can't handle most situations, comms problems that end with crashed drones most of the time, etc...

A soldier can compensate for a faulty rifle doing repairs on the field, and pilots have gone as far as landing a plane with only one wing (F-15, google it) something robots can't do and wont be able for a long time.
I'd be really interested in help with this for us. Our traffic has been increasing for months now, but our conversion rate is low and I continue to try to improve them and do user testing to figure out ways to better convey and explain the product more so an outside view could be highly beneficial for us. The site is http://userdeck.com.
This was not a productive use of anyone's time. Now while I'm usually all for wasting one's time on interesting pointless efforts _and_ being quite a fan of manned spaceflight, I do not at all see the motivation in this article outside of maybe a 5 minute conversation on one's third beer.
Looks like scala to me - not so half baked.
Also it might be interesting to compare different time periods to see long-term effects.

Regardless, the conclusion of such a study would certainly be more complex than "taxes {good|bad}".
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I chatted with Rich Sutton recently and he said he was writing and update - not sure how far along in the process he is though.

Also Csaba Szepesvári (a colleague of Rich's at the U of A) has a free RL book you can download. http://www.ualberta.ca/~szepesva/RLBook.html
Hacker news, the bastion of things that are a productive use of our time.
Largely based on _A Man on the Moon_ by Andrew Chaikin. Excellent read.
If the car had not overheated [1], it might have done it in 9 min.... I am sure this was a P85, which means it's 100k+, roughly the same price as an M5. The current M5 can run the ring in less than 8 min [2], and in far better luxury [3]. I agree with Iain's comment, "the Model S is the future of the automobile. Maybe not this year or next or even in 10 years". I think we hackers love the story, the tech, the underdog, the CEO, it hits on every level of interest. That doesn't change the fact that the car is _very_ expensive for what you get and still has a lot of teething problems.

That said, I am on Tesla's side, and look forward to buying another one.. when the dreams catch up with reality.

[1] The title is not misleading, it likely did overheated. It just has a very slick system to deal with it. Even though it was the "hottest" day in Germany, he was routinely getting passed by IC cars. They had no problems with the heat or the abuse.

[2] 98:	BMW M5	7:55.00	(http://fastestlaps.com/tracks/nordschleife.html)

[3] I drove a Model S P85 for a week. I have owned a 2010 M5. Even the 5 year old M5 had better comfort and luxury then the Model S (minus the big glare producing screen). The current M5 is leaps beyond that.
for those who are not aware of it yet, there's a meetup group in NYC and SF called "papers we love" that meets to discuss a pre-assigned paper - similar to book clubs but a bit less rigid

NYC http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love/

SF http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-too/
Regardless of what he did say, Neil Armstrong meant to say, "that's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind".
Not a fine arts department, but rather a school for creative technologists: http://itp.nyu.edu.
Although I don't know exactly what the implications are just yet, I've created a category on one of my RLMObject subclasses which accepts an NSArray or NSDictionary property and in the getter/setter converts to and from the NSData backing property. The only thing is after [Venue creatInDefaultRealmWithObject:] I have to explicity set the value for it to propogate to the backing NSData property.

It's extra work, but it lets me manipulate Realm into doing what I want it to do to store data which doesn't conform to an explicit schema. (e.g. a Venue which has an array of address strings, where I don't want the headache of iterating through venue.address[i].string values:

(note: this doesn't look pretty, its doing some funky formatting!)

"venue" : {
"name":"Test Venue",
"address" : [
"address line 1",
"address line 2",
"address line 3 for rare instances"
]
}

@interface Venue : RLMObject
@property NSString name;
@property NSData addressData;
@end

@interface Venue (AddressToData)
@property NSArray address;
@end

+ (NSDictionary )defaultPropertyValues
{
return @{
@"addressData":[NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:@[] options:0 error:nil]
};
}

- (NSArray) address {
NSArray address = nil;

if (self.addressData) {
address = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:self.addressData options:0 error:nil];
} else {
address = @[];
}

return address;

}

- (void) setAddress:(NSArray )address {
if (!address) {
address = @[];
}

NSData *data = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:address options:0 error:nil];

self.addressData = data;
}
It's cool :-) I've also been working on a similar project [0]. A side project, started around an year ago. Initially it was focused primarily on Indian users, now, I'm adding support for other currencies as well.

[0] http://assembleyourpc.net
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No. Julia makes extensive use of garbage collection, and has potentially very spikey latency, because any time it runs code which it hasn't run before (or the same code with different types passed in) it runs the compiler. Oh yeah, so that also means it needs LLVM as part of the runtime system.

It is an amazing language for its intended use, which is algorithmic code. From a language perspective, I would chose it over Matlab, R, Numpy, etc any day. It is approachable for grizzled library writers (types, optimizations, introspection at many levels, macros, etc) and more "casual" untrained scientist types (who just want to punch in their algorithm and call it a day). But if you want systems programming, there are plenty of other languages which fill that niche better.
While i agree this is not productive, the primary stated goal for HN has nothing to do with productivity, but has to do with fulfilling one's curiosity and what hackers and makers find interesting.
Does is run on the Pilot?
Mirrorbits, the open-source CDN
Unless you argue that everyone should be taxed 100%, then there is some economically-optimal tax rate schedule. It follows that the current rates might exceed the optimal ones, and therefore a tax reduction may be entirely appropriate.

Calling every tax reduction for a higher bracket "trickle down" is simply name-calling. You can say that all the way up to 100%.
Not sure where GP or GGP is headed, but it's clear where tech companies are expanding jobs-- in the Bay Area.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNMbsvK8Q8Y
>I would bet that today's fresh-cooked lobster with drawn butter tastes a lot better than what the prisoners were eating.

There is still bad lobster in existence today. I grew up in Maine and at once point worked in the lobster-fishing industry. Later on, to my dismay, the Army used to feed us lobster that had been boiled until it was water flavored meat. Such a waste.
The problem for Apple is that doing that would then hold them back; they would be required to not break other people's code with new releases, and I feel they would like to be able to completely reqrite large parts of Xcode as often as they like without worrying about outcry when they break someone else's code.
Well I imagine you are lucky to work in an enterprise world where you get to pick skilled developers and are allowed to make proper use of C++.

I have seen quite a few projects with developers that could barely handle VB, being thrown to C++ projects.

Others where the style guide was making it, C compiled with a C++ compiler.
SCSI-3 Persistent Reservations on Fedora Core 20 with targetcli
I think the point being missed here is that without tax increases the job growth could have been even more higher.

Also marginal tax increase is not going to reduce job marginally but it will be a more drastic change down the line.
RLMRealm *realm = [RLMRealm defaultRealm];
[realm beginWriteTransaction];

for (NSDictionary *v in json[@"venues"]) {
Venue *venue = [Venue createInDefaultRealmWithObject:v];
NSArray *address = v[@"address"];
venue.address = address;
}

[realm commitWriteTransaction];
So let me see if I understand...
The author believes in conspiracies that have been proved otherwise he dismisses them as, well... wild conspiracies.

So how would one ever go about investigating a possible conspiracy to obtain proof as conspiracies that haven't been proved are dismissed out of hand?

Sure, many conspiracy theories are nonsense. Sometimes these nonsense conspiracy theories might themselves be the product of a conspiracy to make conspiracy theories look ridiculous. Wait.. is that another conspiracy theory?
All flights (including MH17) were being escorted by Ukrainian Su-27 jets
Nice straw man argument you got there. There is a difference between a tax reduction and a tax reduction with the intent that the tax decrease will propagate to the rest of the society. As in, sure decrease taxes but don't claim that said tax decrease for the wealthiest is in the interest of the poorest.
It is pretty much in scope. We old timers remember the days when compilers came with graphics libraries.

So why forcing everyone to jump through hurdles just to do some simple uses of 2D programming?
Moreover it only selects for immediate term survival - it does not choose long-term optimum solutions (see: Peacock feathers, where creating impressive plumage is pretty much orthogonal to actual fitness) nor does it brook short term deficits for long term gains.

It is an abhorrent moral compass.
> But it was never a great deal for employees. Security has a cost, and an employer who says they can take care of your forever is either lying or forced to dramatically underpay you in the present to account for future risks and costs.

Not a great deal for you. Or for me. But for most people? Probably a better deal than they'd have gotten otherwise.
I enjoyed reading this article, although I feel several experiments cited don't necessarily lead to the conclusions drawn from them.
In Economics nothing is ever "demonstrated to be false." There are just various schools of thoughts with their various detractors and supporters. Sure, some of those schools of thought are more popular at one time or another, but none are ever "demonstrated to be false." It is only in politics and news that claims will be made to that effect. There is evidence to support pretty much every school of thought, and evidence to contradict it. Liberals, in particular, like to make this claim--but the jury is still out, and likely will be for...well, ever.
Swift isn't stable yet.. You can't do big projects in it.. We did some stuff in Swift..but it's not something that can be scaled as of right now
You definitely had a bug. I shipped a single-threaded A* for 3GS and up with maps created from maps of approximately 500x500 locations.

It started out completely broken, storing waypoints in Core Data and was taking upwards of four minutes to calculate a path. Switching to prefetching Core Data paths brought it down to about 90 seconds, but that's as far as it could go with so many Core Data faults firing.

What made it really fly was the change the underlying data to direct bitmap access on maps prepared from the source maps (shopping centre levels actually) and applying simple filters to generate monochrome maps where one color was walkable and another not. Then source and destination locations were obtained through the original Core Data coordinates and a quick search algorithm found the closest walkable point to both. The A* calculation took perhaps a second or two.

Not content with that we went further and drew more complicated maps with what amounted to train tracks, a network of walkable paths one pixel wide connecting every store to every store to narrow down the solution space. The result was instant A* pathfinding and it was a very neat feature in the app.

You can definitely do A* in Objective C - just get to know Instruments inside out and keep tuning. On a 5S I expect you could get away with a lot of inefficiency.
California attracts lots of well-educated people from India and China, although it certainly does lose natives who seek cheaper areas.
http://wellaware1.com/artwork/large/kennedy1000.jpg

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."
– William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting, 1981)
http://goo.gl/LEp8kK wikidevi list
Ok, I guess I should have said 'have not been demonstrated to be true'. I'd like to see some recent peer-reviewed study that has shown that trickle down economics does work then. Of course it won't be conclusive.
Ok, that's a good and hopefully true point. Code and tools will both evolve, eventually you might not deal directly with code but with the abstraction offered by such tools.

Code itself won't likely disappear. It will be just buried behind more and more layers of abstractions.
Doesn't your skin already stop this radiation?
Is the Cloud Right for Your Business?Quiz to start you off on the right track
But time spent with a computer is time efficiently spent. You can't say that about books.
You can use the twitter sample data stream.
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/sample
I agree mostly with the article, but early stage employees are also investing in themselves.

Young product managers at Google or Microsoft don't get the opportunity to work on big problems. The few young people I've met tend to lack the macro thinking on what makes a product successful. Why talking to users is so important. Why defining a problem is so important. Why retention is more important than growth. Why cohorts are so important and why analytics can be misleading.

With young engineers, they tend to lack the understanding on why striving for simplicity is important. Why thinking in iterations is important. Why writing tests are important. Why the best engineering in the world can't save a product that doesn't solve real problems.

Big companies do teach you these things, but not at the pace of a real startup.
go-qml: QML support for the Go language
Mopidy 0.19 – Server which can play music from multiple sources
A Tough Corporate Job Asks One Question: Can You Hack It?
> I'd argue we haven't made such large, significant technology leaps in such a short span (...)

I can talk to and see someone in Japan (and she can see me too!) with the cellphone in my pocket.

I can find my position anywhere in the globe, down to an accuracy of 10 m, with a $ 100 gadget. It can also give me directions in realtime.

I can type something on Google and find more information about it than I could ever read/watch.

When I was a kid, just 20 years ago, those things weren't available neither affordable. I only had available to me payphones, maps and encyclopedias, inventions from the XVIII, XVI and I centuries, respectively. Now think about that.
openwrt still does not run on the very popular Asus RT N-66U.

So, no, not everything you could possibly want.
Recursive DNS queries have the crucial property of speed. Unless I'm running a (mostly) dedicated server to DNS, I'm not going to be able to cache any meaningful number of records.

Performing a recursive query to a server that has the well traveled internet in its cache, and likely located in a data centre close to other servers, is going to be faster than waiting (at minimum) 2 round trips to resolve it myself.

Fast page loads is something that some people go to great lengths for.
The median Tea Partier would have absolutely no idea how to follow an economic conversation.

EDIT: Come on, guys, you know it's true.
> The evidence given by the article (job growth numbers) is insufficient to prove whether the tax hike killed jobs or not. It's quite possible that the effect is negative, as claimed by taxpayers associations, but that it's small, so the larger positive effect of the current tech boom dominates the total.

Um, no, science doesn't work that way.

Anti-tax folks made predictions. Those predictions did not come to pass. That's a negative result. The anti-tax predictions have been falsified with some level of confidence.

It is NOT required for pro-tax position to be proven true in order for the anti-tax position to be proven false.

Let's be clear. The anti-tax people did not make a prediction of "might be too small to measure"; they made a prediction of doomsday which has proven to be false.

And, if your position is, this is sufficiently small that it got swamped, then your anti-tax hypothesis is STILL false.

Consequently, raising taxes is useful because A) the downsides appear quite limited (too small to measure) and B) the upsides are quite significant.
It seems like Elon Musk did exactly what you just described.. He sold his first 2 startups and now he's real passionate about things he loves: physics and anything that has to do with it (space, cars etc) . Once there's unlimited resource it's easy to do things you want
git or mercurial can be use to track content, furthermore libgit2 api also useful.
No Russian
It might also follow that a tax increase is appropriate. According to the economic indicators from California, there is some basis for this. Whereas you have not presented anything.
It's not that you have a disclaimer, it's that you're being hostile in it.

Ultimate is a weird expensive combined edition that doesn't even exist for Windows 8. I didn't think I had to specifically exclude it, but I definitely don't accept it as making BitLocker available for 'home versions'
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Growing up in the early 70's (1970's, that is) I got a small book as birthday present: 'Let's go to the moon'. It was about a bunch of racoons that build a lunar rocket, and a sly fox named Reynard up to no good. Wonderfully illustrated with racoons drawing up plans, wearing goggles, and welding away. Does anyone else remember this masterpiece?
The Apollo memory, which was rope core memory, was also known at LOL memory, or "little old lady" memory, since it was women, with their quilting, knitting and crocheting skills, who wove it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8148730.stm
the fact that he was doing it wrong may invalidate his claim that it's nigh impossible for adults to learn a new language (from what I remember, people are also more sceptical about some "language window" closing off one you hit 5 or so), but his other point about the attempt improving his general mental abilities is surely still valid.
Errant keystroke triggers decade-long aircrash conspiracy theory
Just a heads up, I saw no datepickers in Firefox 26. Here are the JS errors from the console:

Blocked loading mixed active content "http://jonthornton.github.io/jquery-timepicker/jquery.timepicker.js"[Learn More] Datepair.js
Blocked loading mixed active content "http://jonthornton.github.io/jquery-timepicker/jquery.timepicker.css"[Learn More] Datepair.js
Blocked loading mixed active content "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/themes/ui-lightness/jquery-ui.css"[Learn More] Datepair.js
TypeError: $(...).timepicker is not a function Datepair.js:95
TypeError: $(...).timepicker is not a function Datepair.js:153
TypeError: $(...).timepicker is not a function Datepair.js:205
TypeError: $(...).timepicker is not a function Datepair.js:248
TypeError: $(...).timepicker is not a function Datepair.js:403

It looks like HTTPS Everywhere is switching to https://, so you just need to change some http:// URLs to protocol-relative URLs (starting with "//").

Hope this helps.
do it while you're working..
Ask HN: Help me find a co-founder
Paul Graham lists a few ways to find a co-founder: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfaq.html.

I'm testing a new way of finding a co-founder.

Here's a list of my likes and dislikes: http://willwegetalong.site44.com/ (embarrassingly messy at this stage)

My hypothesis is this: two people who work well together have somewhat similar passions and peeves[1]. In the link above, I’ve not only included my likes and dislikes, but also how much I like or dislike each. +1 is roughly equivalent to one "Facebook Like”. +2 equivalent to two “Facebook likes” and so on. Yes, ill defined and arbitrary.

Have a look down my list of likes and dislikes, and if you think you know someone who shares the same passions and peeves, intro us. I will decide on a reward in conjunction with said new co-founder.

[1] Necessary but not sufficient.
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Ahem. ONE Japanese auto manufacturer's HQ and sales (not manufacturing) left California after Texas threw $40 million at them.

http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2014/04/texas-enterprise-f...

I wish Texas good luck, but I'm happy to see them leave California. All of the analyses show that business incentives are a suckers game--companies that move from incentives keep on moving every time an incentive pops up.
The humming noise in the background is drones flying overhead.
Clickables:

http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfaq.html
http://willwegetalong.site44.com/
how do you know that he only got $5?Maybe part of $19 goes to him as well
I got a kick out of this line on the first page, about argument from consequence:

> One should keep in mind that such arguments are fallacious only when they deal with propositions with objective truth values
Some supposed screenshots of some twitter messages as the proof can be sold to the readers of the Daily Mail but not used on HN. "I've read it on the Internet, therefore it must be true." Oh look, Elvis is also on Twitter.

> After all, civilian air traffic has overflown Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003 and 2001 respectively, even with long-running insurgencies in both nations. Where's the outrage about that?

Outrage? You suggest somebody should be outraged for no civilian planes being shot in 2003 and 2001? Actually Ukrainians shot the civilian Russian plane in 2001, 78 victims.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812

"shot down by the Ukrainian military over the Black Sea on 4 October 2001" "Ukraine eventually admitted that the disaster was probably caused by an errant missile fired by its armed forces.[1] Ukraine ended up paying $15 million to surviving family members of 78 victims ($200,000 per victim)."
That comment contained no ad hominem. There was no argument that attacked a person for cynical reasons, by making a judgement about their intention.
He's quoted as saying he said the A. Anything else is just us making up some rationalization to fit what we think it is.

And the whole time, there's this guy who was the FIRST GUY ON THE FUCKING MOON and we're not going to believe HIM? I mean, who can you believe if you can't believe him?
Truly I wish Swift was cross platform, then I would commit myself to learning it and doing cool things with it.

As it stands though, it's just another walled garden. Aren't developers tired of those yet? Even microsoft started opening up .NET a lot more. Who, in 2014, creates a new programming language and thinks it's a good idea to lock in the developers to Apple products?

Maybe the language will be a revelation and it'll be implemented by volunteers on Linux and what not. But until then, what's the point?

Tell me, iOS/OSX developers, why bother? I want to know why people think it's a good idea to learn Swift at this point (other than purely for technical curiosity which is great).
Nope, definitely not ad hominem. That sentence doesn't even contain an argument.
Weekly Webdev Recap #CW29 2014
That comment contained neither an ad hominem nor a straw man.
Nice. Fun to take a glimpse into the code. Random line:

TC	IBNKCALL	# FOR SATURN INTERFACE AND FDAI DISPLAY