skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess they all do to an extent although I've been mucking about with web2py partly because of their "We have not broken backward compatibility since version 1.0 in 2007, and we pledge not to break it in the future" stuff.
Now we just need those keyboard pants. you know, with half a keyboard on each thigh.
In the late 90s I had an app ported to multiple unixes. We were having intermittent problems with our HP/UX port which was caused by a mutex being unlocked by a different thread than which had locked it. In that case (which only happened under heavy worker contention) unlock happily returned an error and the mutex was left locked.

Be careful about "can't possibly fail".
Nice site! (But I was disappointed when I realized there wasn't actually tablature).
The color is normalized. Before normalization, it is gray :)
If you like to watch computer-controlled 2d fighting characters with actual decent AI (most of the time) squaring off against each other, check out http://www.saltybet.com/ .

There are over 5000 characters in the database, and it runs 24 hours a day. The matches can get really amusing sometimes.
>crazy ass longsoon unlocked bootloader laptop from china

He's upgrading to a Thinkpad X60 with Trisquel GNU/Linux and Libreboot.
It was true until 2003, so in this case reality has been retconned on you.
> It's just easier to point out the abuses when we have governing documents that explicitly say we shouldn't be doing the thing that we're doing.

Can you explain what part of it is unconstitutional? Because while I'm totally against it, I think it is pretty much entirely constitutional because airlines are a private business that no one is being forced to go through. But I clearly don't know much about this and would welcome an education.
I forgot to mention I'm using Camtasia to edit video in conjunction with the transcription, so this is a video that is cut into pieces. I'm doing a bunch of things at once including editing so the idea was to stay in Camtasia. I suppose I could just export the entire thing and do the transcription while having windows media player open and using it instead. Thanks.
I do. What's wrong with obtaining an insurance? It's my choice. You want an insured taxi service - get one and pay more. I want cheaper taxi and I don't want government to mess with my choices.

It seems to me, westerners became so helpless and dependent on third parties (and government), it amazes me. Especially in the US. It used to the land of self sufficient entrepreneurial people. Now it's just a nanny state.
Leaky Funnel? Things You Have to A/B Test to Improve Retention
You know that it can demonstrate respect for an institution that you're outside of, as well? Good luck testifying in court wearing sweat pants and a tank top.
Biting the Bullet and Actually Learning JavaScript
Actually this is not true.

fork() returns pid_t type which is usually mapped to int32_t. For this type there's no equivalent of Perl's "undef", the -1 is standardized as an error in all system calls that return an integer.

As for the argument why not send -2 instead, well guess what? Other negative values also have a meaning. Negative values in kill send signal to a process group instead of a process.

It's not libc responsibility to predict all possible things the programmer can do. Also unlike perl, C doesn't have exceptions so it can't exactly quickly terminate on error showing what went wrong.

Imagine C throwing SIGSEGV every single time a function failed.
This appears to be something that's solved with the Asian Squat. It's not fashionable in the West to do this so we don't build up the right flexibility and tendon strength to do it comfortably. But if you can train yourself to do it, you can do it for hours. It's basically human's default "sitting" position.

http://www.mykoreanhusband.com/asian-squatting/
>As I continue to read it, I start to wonder whether the author is just upset because they heard about SAP hiring Autistics and was disappointed that his/her skill set wasn't a good match for the role.

When OP said "I would be a disaster in the coding and software testing departments, but would be more successful in a technical writing, communications and PR role", I interpreted it as a concern about autistic people being typecast as techies. People are really excited to help autistic people join the work force, but most of the efforts I see are directed at technical jobs.

To be fair, quite a few autistic people are well-suited for technical roles. I myself happen to fit the stereotype.
Advice: research "ericksonian hypnosis"

Please forgive me if I'm brutal...

"I do not have hobbies": you're on HN... some call it a hobby!

"I don't really like anything": you probably like talking (you're here), software (who can write code without passion?), exercise (you do it every day!)...

"Trust me, I've tried quite a lot of things": the world has something for you. Find it.

"nothing seems enjoyable enough to stick with it": what would you do if... if you had that money, if you could do anything you want, if you could do something knowing you'll succeed anyway?
This is why we need checked exceptions.

Imagine if C/POSIX had a checked ChildProcessCloneException
In RGB, (127, 127, 0) is not a "pure" yellow, it is just the color you get when you mix red and green primaries. The human eye is actually rather poor at spectrophotometry, which is why colorimetry and spectrophotometry are distinct subjects.

However, when you say "pure white light"... there is no such thing! White light is a combination of different wavelengths of light. You can indeed make light that looks white (and therefore is white) by combining monochromatic yellow and monochromatic blue light sources. Amazing! Even though it will look white, objects illuminated by this unnatural light source will have unexpected colors. This is quantified by the CRI of a light source. Incandescent lights are defined to have a CRI of 100, but this is just a convention: the blackbody spectrum is quite common. If you grew up under fluorescent lamps, colors under the light of day might seem quite unusual.
Which was the GP's point as well.
I am stealing from William B. Irvine's book here... There are 3 categories of things:

1. Those over which we have control.

2. Those over which we have no control.

3. Those over which we have partial but not complete control.

It is foolish and detrimental to spend any effort thinking or worrying about things over which we have no control. These things include:

* The past

* The present

First, learn to accept the past, and internalize that it is fixed and not able to be altered. Therefore it is not worth fretting over. Then embrace the present-- love every moment as it happens to you. You might as well, because once it's here you can't change it. This is my definition of mindfulness. In practice, this will look like you noticing what's around you and feeling grateful for all of it. Your breath, your fingers, the daylight, that you have food to eat... look at this machine that lets you connect to anywhere in the world in an instant! (you get the idea). There are many techniques to aid in this, among which is mindfulness meditation. Another is called "negative visualization", in which you imagine life without something, and ideally accept the hypothetical situation as still liveable, in order to better appreciate whatever amazing luxury you happen to have. A common example is imagining yourself without vision.

The point of all of this is so that you no longer need to commit any of your precious energy just trying to make yourself happy with your life in the present. All of that energy expenditure is a distraction (and our culture is geared top to bottom toward trying to make you spend your time, money, and energy this way!). To be blunt, needing something specific to be content is a personal weakness. Once you really, truly embrace your present circumstances, you can focus all your energy on what you do have control over, which is actually quite a lot.

You have control over:

* Your goals and plans

* Your actions

* Your reactions to circumstances and other people

So what I think you're missing is that people who are successful "suck it up" but they don't push through years of hating life, because they don't hate their life. They love their life, and then proceed to make it even better. To put more a Buddhist spin, there are 2 ways to feel content: One is to satisfy every desire you ever have. This will never happen, because no matter what you get, it will never be enough. The other way is to eliminate the desire itself... and then achieve some of those things anyway, at which point they're pure gravy. You could think of it as a charity in which you're giving to a stranger: your future self.

Tl;dr: Right now you hate life unless you achieve X, Y and Z, at which point you'll feel satisfied (for a while). Instead, teach yourself to feel satisfied right now, and then throw yourself into whatever it is that you feel passionate about, as you are able.
Great idea, and it's pretty easy to do, X downloads max per file or X number of ips per file etc. This is really aimed at private 1-1 sharing.
> I am not aware of any game studio which even has a "secretary pool".

There doesn't have to be an actual secretary pool available for a manager to make a dismissive comment to a female engineering applicant that that's where they should instead be applying.

Just like Hell doesn't need to exist -- either in reality or even in the speaker's belief -- for someone to dismiss someone with "go to Hell".
>It is disappointing just how compliant people are with the stupid procedure

Well sure, but this above statement makes me think you want to see people do a more immediate demonstration against the system.
The name is not nearly enough. I could serve a jquery-1.11.1.js file that has my own proprietary modifications. A checksum could fix this. However, what about when minified JavaScript is served, as is often the case? What source code corresponds exactly to the "binary" (minified source)? People use different minifiers/uglifiers with different settings. And then there's the issue of minifying all of your source files and then concatenating them into a single file. It's a tough problem.
I always opt out for this reason, even when I'm risking missing my plane. Paying contractors a lot of taxpayer money for a public placebo is offensive, and this makes me feel true to myself, but I wish I knew a more effective method of protesting. Currently no one really wonders about the odd out-out.
Dat open-source again! ;)
Is this for something other than captioning? Because Camtasia has captioning support, and supports providing transcripts, or using speech recognition to help you create and edit it. http://blogs.techsmith.com/tips-how-tos/easy-methods-for-cre...
I see it happen quite often on boxes with limited memory and hungry processes.
> Perhaps, but this only works in a world in which our evaluation criteria and processes are sophisticated and mature enough to be fair to all applicants.

That problem is that "fair" is a subjective notion. Most people value being fair, but they will disagree on which decisions are fair.
Are you sure?

And what if $programmer forgets to check what's in err? What would pid contain in that case?

I mention this because I guess you quoted a kind of syntax that matches the one from Go.

So then I'm guessing that Go would simply ignore the error in this case.

However, having a proper exception mechanism, if you don't catch the problem, then it bubbles up, and the program doesn't continue with wrong data (which is a good thing => fail fast!).

This is the biggest downside of GoLang IMNSHO.
ALS ice bucket challenge co-founder drowns aged 27
Pretty Cool Stuff :)

Here are some observations & Questions :

1. Looks like you decide the number of chunks the file is divided into before you start uploading. How do you decide this ? (ie) the algorithm used ..is the chunk size a function of network's bandwidth & throughput . Or is it a standard chunk size ?

flowChunkNumber:6
flowChunkSize:512000 <<===== This one here
flowCurrentChunkSize:512000
flowTotalSize:5005687
flowIdentifier:5005687-emc_celera__Command_Reference_Manualpdf
flowFilename:emc_celera__Command_Reference_Manual.pdf
flowRelativePath:emc_celera__Command_Reference_Manual.pdf
flowTotalChunks:9

2. How do you generate the random file name ? I suppose this is one the standard algorithms. Curious

http://dropjar.com/#"3MaYQK4"

3.I suppose you are using statcounter & google analytics. What are some of the parameters you are looking at your end? (like #of files uploaded etc., )

4. Even if I change the name of the file (or) move the file to another location when the upload is inflight ; it still sucessfully continues to upload the originally intended file.Are you precaching this somewhere ? Is there a copy stored in the temp folder ?

5. What are you using to compress the files before they start upload ?
Or one Phil Fish fighting another (Abe Vigoda's Barney Miller character). Now that'd be hilarious.
Plants are actually pretty miserably inefficient at turning sunlight into stored energy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_efficiency (not only do they reflect away most of the light, but photosynthesis isn't linear at all graphed against light intensity: most of the noonday sun is wasted)

There's no real consensus on why. (There's some wild guessing that green photons might be too hot to handle: smashing fragile biomolecules apart rather than powering them... (http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=500) but then why does chlorophyll run fine on purple light?) You'd figure that there would be incredible selection pressure on increasing photosynthesis efficiency, but maybe they're stuck on a local maxima: it's not like a single mutation can turn a C3 plant into a C4 plant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4_photosynthesis
We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That’s lost. We know how to read every promise in faces — the latest stage of morphology. The poetry of the billboards lasted twenty years. We are bored in the city, we really have to strain to still discover mysteries on the sidewalk billboards, the latest state of humor and poetry:

Showerbath of the Patriarchs
Meat Cutting Machines
Notre Dame Zoo
Sports Pharmacy
Martyrs Provisions
Translucent Concrete
Golden Touch Sawmill
Center for Functional Recuperation
Saint Anne Ambulance
Café Fifth Avenue
Prolonged Volunteers Street
Family Boarding House in the Garden
Hotel of Strangers
Wild Street

And the swimming pool on the Street of Little Girls. And the police station on Rendezvous Street. The medical-surgical clinic and the free placement center on the Quai des Orfèvres. The artificial flowers on Sun Street. The Castle Cellars Hotel, the Ocean Bar and the Coming and Going Café. The Hotel of the Epoch.

And the strange statue of Dr. Philippe Pinel, benefactor of the insane, fading in the last evenings of summer. Exploring Paris.

And you, forgotten, your memories ravaged by all the consternations of two hemispheres, stranded in the Red Cellars of Pali-Kao, without music and without geography, no longer setting out for the hacienda where the roots think of the child and where the wine is finished off with fables from an old almanac. That’s all over. You’ll never see the hacienda. It doesn’t exist.

The hacienda must be built.

http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/Chtcheglov.htm
These pre-interview assignments actually end up saving everyone a lot of time in my experience, and go further to respect the candidate (letting them use their own editors, highlight their own strengths, etc.) Try-before-you-buy is actually the entire point of an interview, you're just not going to escape that unless you are already close with the interviewers.
http://www.biologydirect.com/content/9/1/14
Facebook will now pay you money to find bugs in the Oculus Rift
Analyzing the analysis: How not to get fooled by the Data Scientist and Big Data
The name reminds me of this SNL sketch: https://screen.yahoo.com/art-dealers-susan-greg-meet-0000008...
How to hide your guilty gossip-reading pleasures [TMZ to NYTimes]
Don't implement strumming patterns! I've watched my wife trying to learn guitar pursing her lips saying up-down-up-up-down to herself and it just sounds robotic. Once you can play the chords smoothly enough strumming just happens. Even better, everyone seems to strum their own way (i cant sing so i strum a lot to compensate, whereas i have a friend with a beautiful voice who barely touches the strings)
You might want to check out autohotkey. You could maybe create a keyboard macro that alt-tabs, pauses the video, then alt-tabs again. http://www.autohotkey.com/
I've opted out over 50 times (and I try to help collect data about screening methods on FlyerTalk, though I keep thinking this needs to be organized better -- there are so many people collecting it in separate places, including different FlyerTalk threads and different web sites). I think it's interesting that the attitudes of screeners, as well as the thoroughness of their pat-downs, has varied so much. (Some of them have tried to talk me out of opting out, others have been very matter-of-fact, others have fairly vocally criticized the body scanners or TSA itself.)

Three times there was another person opting out within my sight and at least twice I got to talk to a fellow opt-outer (opter-out?). As I recall, their concerns were always more health-related than privacy-related, unlike mine, so I had a bit less common ground with them than I first expected to.

On two consecutive flights (more than a week apart and from different airports) I alarmed the ETD and got detained and subjected to multiple pat-downs and a hand-search of my luggage. I still haven't figured out what caused it, but I put my shoes and backpack through the laundry and it's never happened again. One hypothesis is that I might have gotten a drop of plant food on my shoe, which has made me much more paranoid about touching fertilizers.
The universe's end game is to expand forever until it's eventual heat-death.

As far as science is aware, anyhow.
I'm sorry, but I'm just not buying into this business model. Trying to do everything at once and doing nothing well at all.

Just look at their services directory:

http://www.thumbtack.com/more-services

My friends who are DJ's and hair stylists hate these kinds of services with a passion. People like to deal with people directly and operate on referrals in most of these industries.
> Why not use a stool? Cheaper and might have some back support.

Look at what the guy is doing. A stool will probably only cover 30% (if that) of his work.

> What happens if you forget and lean backwards, even a bit ?

What happens if you are on a stool without a back and lean backwards?

> How much time does it take to put it on and take it off?

It sounds like you only put it on once per day and just leave it on disabled without significantly impacting your movement.
On a related topic, is there a reasonably priced option to actually get access to all of these journals (instead of subscribing to a single one or buying individual articles) .

Something like Factiva or EbscoHost, etc - but offering individual subscriptions (and not limited to just a single journal/publisher).
Thought-provoking TED talks
I kind of agree with you here, and as someone who has dysgraphia, and a few other learning disabilities I kind of always was uncomfortable about how people tried to make it a zero-sum game.

It always turned into things like: "Yeah son you can't write that well, and expressing complex ideas in a non-verbal form is really difficult, but heck it means you're really good at math!" to be kind of insulting, even as a kid. I wish I could get into into more detail, but I'll plead my learning disability and say that expressing a complex idea like this non verbally is a real bitch.

People are different, how people learn is just another dimension I guess. I don't need science to tell me i'm a special snowflake, I know I am because most people are.
I had my subconsciousness ping me I'd better buy something with that 500 Euro bill in the duty free shop when going to Europe last year :)
I have no intention of buying the money I was just curious specifically about the law surrounding the issue. If I did intend to buy it (for whatever reason) I certainly would check further. I just found the language on the page interesting I didn't expect it to discuss the issue in that way.
"Thankfully that case will never happen because you can't be a child if there was an error. :)"

Uh, no. If there is an error, there will be no child process but the parent process will think it is the child.

From the fork man page, emphasis mine: "On success, the PID of the child process is returned in the parent, and 0 is returned in the child."

"Also the check as presumably written would never miss an error, it would just potentially assume valid return values were also errors."

That was already discussed as a possibility; I was addressing the other. In the case you describe the software would never work at all, even when fork successfully forks, because the child will always think there was an error and presumably fall over rather than getting things done. That's probably the better case, in terms of development progress, because it would be spotted and fixed right away. But hopefully fixed correctly, and not converted to the broken-but-working-when-fork-succeeds other variant that also uses "<= 0".
Wouldn't it still be susceptible to replay attacks?
None of these are meaningful. BIND has a long and illustrious history of coughing up shells to attackers. Any nameserver written in C and not written by Bernstein has a high hurdle to clear.
Uber has been working on this for a long time. No chance the recent Concur / UberForBusiness integration inspired them to open up their API.
This is very very cool. How exactly are you getting the audio from youtube? I'm assuming you somehow pull the audio from youtube in your backend (how?), analyze it, use that analysis to build your display and then sync that with the playing youtube video?
You can research this a bit on FlyerTalk -- the term favored by body-scanner critics for this situation is "SDOO" (self-directed opt-out, when passengers have a choice of screening methods based on which line or checkpoint they choose). SDOO opportunities appear to be getting rarer in the U.S. over time.

TSA is also giving people an incentive to sign up for TSA Pre because (at airports that support it) the Pre line is always metal-detector-only. Right now they are "testing" Pre and randomly directing large numbers of passengers through the Pre line, but the theory is that it will be available only, or mainly, by subscription in the future, which includes some kind of background check. I'm not very comfortable signing up for one kind of government information collection to avoid a different kind, but people who don't like the scanners and don't have that objection might be interested in signing up for Pre.
Robot Cars With Adjustable Ethics Settings
Yes they learn, but the opportunity might be a one off for all we know.

Not the same, but similar:

According to the Nobel Prize-winning research from David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel in the 1960s, the brain may only have a short window of opportunity in which to develop binocular vision, in which both eyes are used together. Their studies in cats, and many other studies since, suggest that if the developing brain isn’t exposed to overlapping images from the two eyes, it will never form the connections it needs to process a three dimensional scene

See the entire article: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120719-awoken-from-a-2d-wo...
How to Measure Your Productivity