skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A person who can't live without constant, 24/7 supervision and is unable to communicate is in an entirely different category than a person who just has trouble maintaining eye contact in a conversation and is maybe a bit too passionate about some niche interest.

I live in Silicon Valley, and I have an autistic 9 year old son. He resembles the former, not the latter.

Thank you for actually understanding the difference. I am glad someone gets it. The spectrum is largely diluted to the point of needing to be broken up into smaller spectrums. It pains me every time to explain what "low functioning" autism is, or "classic autism".

My son was told he couldn't really join a Bay Area Autistic Minecraft group because he was "too autistic" and it was really for high functioning autists or "Aspies."

Maybe I should just start saying "mentally disabled". Easier.
China emerging from a very short industrial revolution analog

You could rephrase that as China rapidly refactoring the lion's share of global industrial production and doubling down the profits to realise the true potential of modern infrastructure with arguably greater accuracy and outlook. Arguably... but definitely there's some truth to it in areas such as energy sustainability.

That said, the economic challenges in China are real, but they do have the best possible toolset: centralized governance with a capable medium term planning capacity that is unencumbered by election terms, technical prowess, a population and capital base that make extremely large projects and investments feasible, and a population that has endured great hardship in living memory but emerged with concrete benefits such as mass literacy and for the most part improved material wealth. Those factors alone give them a tremendous degree of options.

I'm not an apologist: they certainly do put a foot wrong pretty often, and people do get sidelined and mistreated. Overall, however, the job they are doing is an extremely difficult one and the outcomes insanely impressive. It is a country that - at least to me - is in modern times one of the greatest wonders in human history.
Funny you should ask. I used kill -1 about two weeks ago. A for loop would not have worked.
You are kidding right? People's homes get raided all the time on just a phone call. They don't need a "case" and they will likely kill your dog just because they can.

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

https://www.google.com/search?q=police+kill+dog&gbv=1&prmd=i...

(in fact both are becoming a very serious problem)
I haven't been in years, so my opinion may be a bit out of date. But one of the things I loved was the way everybody was a maker, a performer, a contributor. I loved how whatever insane thing I saw, it was a bunch of passionate individuals doing the work. It was beautiful, and I loved the shared sense of triumph over obstacles. Hearing about this would make me second-guess everything: was the thing I was seeing an impressive personal achievement? Or just paid for?
Just to provide a counter anecdote.

I boot Gnome 3.12 in less than 9 seconds. Windows takes 30-45 seconds.

Linux has got driver support for days. My ethernet to usb adapter required a CD on windows, whereas linux recognized it instantly.

I do agree that applications perform better on Windows. My Firefox 31 has been seeing performance regressions on Arch. I'm not sure if its my problem or Firefox's but I occasionally have trouble refreshing localhost. Windows has more eyes and recieves more attention.

Don't miss out on Steam. It's available on Linux now so you no longer need to run Wine. There's about 500 games available today!
Cancel/OK or OK/Cancel?
That would be genuinely interesting.
From what I understand going from 2008-10 and talking to the more experienced that it was mostly over by about '95-'97 after someone died and they had to make a bunch of rules.
You might also like this clock built in Minecraft to (theoretically) outlast the heat-death of the universe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7221931
Maybe you could relate it to temperature? A simple quantity, but intuitively safe at some magnitudes and dangerous at others.
>> any research into getting away from text editors is positive.

Any research at all? I'm curious: what it is that's unworkable about text in your view?
Check out ToorCamp, it's a lot newer and smaller than Burning Man which are huge pluses in my mind. The last couple times it's been held in a beautiful part of Washington with perfect weather. The atmosphere and people that attend are what make it great--it's folks who actually want to make things and share experiences together, not people looking to buy status/culture. Next one is in 2016: http://toorcamp.toorcon.net/
Yeah, better than returning a tuple, it should return a sum type. Then you would need to deconstruct it, like how people suggest using a switch:

match fork() ->
| Error(errno) -> ...
| Pid(pid) -> ...

Or a general "Choice" sum, perhaps using phantom types so int<err> isn't compatible with int<pid>. But then all of a sudden, instead of a single word being returned, a tag and possibly variably-sized result has to be returned, and that's quite a hassle which doesn't fit well with C.
Technologist: A new magazine from a consortium of European universities
And the original French version is here:

http://debordiana.chez.com/francais/is1.htm#formulaire
>Lunt said more work is needed in order to improve its energy-producing efficiency. Currently it is able to produce a solar conversion efficiency close to 1 percent, but noted they aim to reach efficiencies beyond 5 percent when fully optimized. The best colored LSC has an efficiency of around 7 percent.

By contrast, conventional rooftop solar is about 18-23% efficient and you need a whole roof of those (often more) to power your house.

I don't think this would provide more than a tiny trickle of electricity, and probably at quite high cost.
I've been using Gnome long term. I find it incredibly useful and productive. It scales very well and is completely touch capable but, make no mistake, it is a desktop environment.

If you like to theme try to find a Gnome 3.10 distro, otherwise Gnome 3.12 is my favorite desktop environment ever. It is a work of art.
..or to moving towards $1 coins.
Reminds me of a simpler version of my Whisper app:

https://github.com/tlhunter/whisper

http://zyu.me:5000/
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
and even `git svn`

.. I'm never going back to that
The problem is solved, but consider the overhead of all this. You now need an extra byte somewhere (register, stack space, whatever) to track the tag. I would imagine that this, and lack of handy syntax, is why lower-level APIs don't offer better return values.
Announcing Scala.js 0.5.3
Sutro Tower: From Eyesore to Icon
So they have 100k free users? If we assume freemium model can convert 5% of customers, that's 5k customers paying $20/mo. That's only $100k monthly revenue. A bit low for a company with 46 employees.

Couldn't it be that CEO of Yesware just loves to employ people and the company is overstaffed?

And why does freemium company need sales people anyway? The whole point of freemium is that the product itself should be acting as a sales person and users should be naturally upgrading once they hit paywall (e.g. Mailchimp, Dropbox)
Whoah. I'm not asian, far from it (though I did spend 12 months in Busan, South Korea when I was 16) and I "sit" like that. I find it extremely comfortable; whenever my legs are feeling sore from standing or walking around, that's the position I will rest in. Didn't realise it was a thing, or tied to a culture! Neat.
I really don't mean to digress from the point of the article but honestly I expect a lot more from a UX expert than the current design of the website. Sooooo many basic and fundamental UI/UX mistakes!

Among the most annoying and easily remedied, 'mystery meat' navigation.

If you set yourself out as an "expert" at least know the ABC's of your field.
Who's going to live in the middle of the desert permanently?
Get work done music
Some (http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120212153603/quake/imag...) but not all (http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120215221555/quake/imag...) of the female characters in Q3A are scantily clad.

(Similarly unrealistically proportioned male character with armor missing on stomach: http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120215221956/quake/imag...)
We need to throw out the spray tan selfie outliers.
It feels in violation of the spirit of the event to have paid help in your camp, but otherwise Burning Man is for everybody.
I'm reminded of my favorite quote from Larry Harvey, "It wouldn't be a real community without assholes." :)
glad to see I'm not the only maradns fan around :-)
Candidate_Handbook_v1.0.pdf
This will be the first burn I've skipped in the last 7. Burning man has prominently featured the rich as long as I've been going. It was no more "for" the rich when I started going than it was last year. If you're wealthy, you can hang out on the cool toys you brought to the burn and people will be happy to ride on them with you.

That being said, burning man has never exactly been cheap, but it also has never exactly been expensive. You can spend as much or as little as you want each year. If all you get is a ticket, a used tent, and a weeks' worth of water & cheap food, it can easily run under $600 all told (last year our shared food budget for better than that was $150 each).

You make what you want of the burn.
Sound energy is unrelated to audio frequency. Intuitively, it's possible to have quiet, deep sounds and loud, high-pitched sounds.
A site to help cite things on the web
> The idea is that each note of the scale should fall on a successive line or space on the staff, and the "convention" of having keys be only sharps or flats falls out from that (hm, why? I've never thought about that).

The second part is really the same as the first. You want to be able to spell each diatonic alphabetically in order without skipping any letters of the alphabet. The B major scale is

B C# D# E F# G# A# B

If you tried spelling that with flats, you'd get

B Db Eb E Gb Ab Bb B

The skipped C and F, and the double E and B, is just nasty. The same would happen if you tried spelling the scale with a combination of flats and sharps.

As for diatonic scales that start on an accidental, as far as I know you can use either the flat or the sharp notation. They are enharmonic equivalents. I know there are often traditional preferences, simply to choose the spelling that leaves fewer accidentals in the key signature. For instance, I think that Db major is more common than the equivalent C# major because the former has 5 flats while the latter has 7 sharps.
Yes, I gave the talk this morning. I hope people found it useful! In case slideshare is quicker to load, the slides are also at: http://www.slideshare.net/brendangregg/linux-performance-too...
Burning Man has _always_ been for the rich. Poor people do not have that kind of spare time.
It is a simulation of Game of Life in Game of Life. They did loop the video though. Obviously it's not possible to fully simulate such a huge machine. You could do it with sufficiently clever optimization, but the result would be equivalent to video editing.
The International Jew
...it's not the prosecutors' fault that the evidence of what Swartz did was sufficient to cause a grand jury to indict...

...a ham sandwich.

Please, let's not pretend that anything happens in a grand jury that is not completely controlled by prosecutors.
You'd have to use absolute paths everywhere, but that probably doesn't hurt that much in programs or scripts. The CWD seems most useful in interactive shells, I guess. A fun thing is PowerShell on Windows where you have two CWDs, one from the process and another one from the shell which had is own VFS handling (e.g. the registry is a place that has no representation in the normal file system). Cmdlets use one of them and external commands and .NET APIs use the other. So in the latter case you always need Resolve-Path foo.bar instead of just foo.bar for things to work properly.
This article is looking at a small segment of burners and generalizing the entire bunch.
This kind of already exists with Slab City. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slab_City
I know a few train hopping hobos that have no money and plenty of spare time.
Really? Care to tell us why the okpl user is already hell banned after posting 2 comments in this thread criticizing Dropbox and Rice involment?
Radical inclusion includes people with paid help.
Author here, thanks for your feedback. Would really love to know what bothered you from UI/UX perspective. The 'mystery meat' navigation is good to keep distractions away from the reader. I prefer it over sprinkling links which are irrelevant to the content of an article.
How Google banned a 19 year old and took his $46,000
Isn't the local network block always at least a /64 or /80 or so? Thus even knowing which blocks are handed out means you still have an IPv4-Internet-sized task for each one.
5 Strategies to Get Your Users to Market Your Mobile App for You
Really, I thought he was referencing free love.
Ha! I'm impressed at its attempt at the early parts of Fuzz Universe. I think it can do really well when there's a clear bass note, and the bass is clear as a whistle on that album. When it has the bass note it seems to usually get the character of the chord (maj, min, dim, etc.).
Not actually true. Modifying arguments that were passed in is another. :)
Every single random number being generated will be rational, but that is much finer granularity than any fixed grid that you might be using.

Unless your fixed grid includes every single rational point that could be expressed by the (P)RNG.
Without a doubt for me as well. His brand new album is a little disappointing, but I don't really care for cover albums. Shredding to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is amusing though.
It's true of everything "cool". Google, Apple, ESPN, Rolling Stone, Pixar, MTV, Starbucks, and so on.

You can blame some of the rich guys for this, but for different reasons (trying to commercialize them). Even absent that, it's probably intrinsically impossible to be perpetually cool.

You can also blame some of the rich for what's happened to SXSW, Cannes, Burning Man, climbing Mt Everest.. but that is more the dynamic of trying to fill a feeling of emptiness with experiences without regard for the truly understanding why those experiences are important.
"but the tradeoff there is that when government agencies make a good-faith effort to stay within those restrictions (as even the Snowden leaks have indicated with regard to NSA) that you wouldn't expect heads to roll even if a court later disagrees."

We must live in parallel universes, only bridged by a single message thread. Since in my universe your account of the NSA is a bizarro-world inversion of what we have here, I am pretty jealous of you getting to live there.
You might be interested in our ongoing work to execute Linux binaries in a SmartOS zone.[1] It's still an area of very active development (one needs to unfortunately follow the source[2] to follow its progress), but we have a ton working -- and it's all being done in the open. (And it's certainly very nice to be able to "apt-get install" something and then be able to DTrace the resulting application!) We're close to having enough working to be able to document where we are and get others kicking the tires, so stay tuned to the SmartOS discussion list if this is something you're interested in!

[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.o...

[2] https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent
They appear to be doing hybrid high-touch low-touch, which is common in B2B SaaS. Try modeling it where 10% of customers are paying $Xk a month. Most of them will require sales attention to close.
Show HN: I've always wanted an Uber Android widget
I find it quite amusing they don't roll with SSL/TLS on their website.
The title got changed. OpenFDA just added data on devices going back to 1991.
It's nice that they have tests. Not enough tests to back up all their claims about standards compliance and interoperability, but more tests than most of these open source hacks have, which is none.
Interesting idea, but the code example used completely puts me off - it's literally the opposite of well-factored code, with HTML, Python and SQL all smeared together.
The trend as you move away from simple sequences, such as binary numbers, to state machines, toward trees and general graphs, is that problems become rapidly less tractable. The situation degrades strikingly fast: numbers have sophisticated algebras, regular languages are fairly comprehensible; but on the other end, graphs are replete with NP-complete (intractable) problems. Intractable problems aren't something you have to solve, obviously, because you won't get anywhere. But I think that not only are the hard problems in graphs intractable, the hardness of graphs carries over to the simple problems. Nothing is simple on graphs, actually, and trees are not far from graphs. So if unstructured text seems almost too simple, we should feel glad, because trees are already nettlesome even to write straightforward code for. I feel that hierarchies, as seductive as they seem, almost invariably bite; I think it's a good principle to rule out all flat solutions before considering hierarchies as solutions to any problem.
Ice Bucket Challenge Co-Founder Corey Griffin, 27, Drowns in Accident
Referred to as "Sherpas"!
Compute magazine and its glorious, tedious type-in code (2012)
I'm surprised not every startup does AB testing, testing of pricing cohorts, etc.

"In God we trust; all others must bring data." -- W. Edwards Deming
Counterculture has to some extent won, which means it has now merged with the system and is part of "the man".
I somehow doubt that GCHQ geeks read anti-modernist
manifestos.

Depending on the age of the name pickers, I'd say they either went to the Hacienda nightclub at Manchester or
saw 24 hours party people[1].

1: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274309/
I'm just happy to be keeping software written during the age of the Plantagenets alive. Who knew Daniel Bernstein had such longevity?
iPhone 6 May Include Lightning Cable with Reversible USB Plug
Wired is a very mixed bag for me. It's "business porn" but every now and again they still publish some long interesting piece that at least hints back to the "golden age" of articles like Neal Stephenson's Mother Earth Mother Board[1]. But it's the kind of magazine I only ever flick through these days, unless the front page is particularly compelling.

[1] http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html.
While it's certainly not for the least privileged amongst us, I've met quite a few people who saved up for months in order to afford the trip.
Maybe the OP is saying that at the big bang, there was our present universe, and it was small, maybe the size of our solar system, maybe a baseball, maybe smaller.

But, whatever, it was small, and, most important, that's all there was. There was nothing more. It was not a very dense, very hot chunk of matter-energy, whatever, inside some larger space. Instead, that's all the space there was.

Then the OP is saying that in that context, where the whole universe was just that ball, the old arguments on forming a black hole don't hold. Instead, what happened was, space itself, that is the whole universe itself, explosively expanded. And it's still expanding.

So, what was that universe 'inside' and what has it been expanding 'into'? Either these are poorly posed questions, or we don't know, or, for the question in the OP, it doesn't matter.

Maybe that's what was going on in the OP. Maybe.
Thomson Reuters: we’ll take your articles if you don’t tell us not to
Plenty of people already do. It's warm, dry, and usually low in population density. It also tends to draw people who are a little odd.
Well, yeah. I phrased that poorly. I'm just saying there is very little chance the designers foresaw the possibilities of people hacking into the lights when they were transitioned into computer controlled. I imagine it was done because it reduced the chance of a bug in the hardware creating an ambiguous signal.
I doubt you've actually been to burning man. If you have actually been, I don't think you spent enough time looking around or talking to people.

People that shouldn't be there (financially) still find a way to go; it's no different than many of the diversions we pursue in life.

How much do you think it costs exactly? Historically, as little as a few hundred could get you there. Less than the air fare many people spend to fly home for the holidays.
Hmm. Not for me it is..
Do you expect video of the presentation to be available any time in the near future?
I wonder if they picked that name ironically. Sherpas are probably best known for being porters and guides for Mt. Everest, a mountain that many in the mountaineering community consider to be, now, a playground for the rich.
If you have to buy tickets to experience it, counterculture hasn't really won.
Do you mind pointing to your PR's with the bugs you've found or at least mention what they were? It sound like you've found a hell of a bugs/problems in a system (and I am thinking about FreeBSD now) that me and huge number of other people are running without any issues, so it would be beneficial for everyone, if you'd share your problems with PR's - there is active community around it that can fix issues if you are unable to do it.
Its not free if you're flying it in for the week from New York.
That's not a pretty picture of the European economy.

I'm not an economist, so I may be totally wrong here. But I think the article omits a lot. For example, "creative destruction". Europe has committed to lifetime employment (yes I know that's not absolute). Which means that in a downturn companies can't easily cut overhead. Because they're carrying many superfluous people on payroll they have less money to invest in growing their business. And so GDP doesn't grow. And young people face 25% or 50% unemployment.

I'm not advocating simply firing people. I think there needs to be some sort of safety net. But even the USA, with very flexible labor laws and very accommodative monetary policy hasn't had much of a recovery from the Great Recession. So I'm not surprised that things are worse in the Euro countries.

BTW the article says "Europe" but I said "Euro" above. That's because the article doesn't make it clear, but I assume that places like the UK, Norway, Denmark, etc that don't use the Euro aren't as hostage to Draghi's ECB as the Euro countries are. But I'm not at all clear how that monetary policy stuff works there when multiple currencies are involved, so I could be completely wrong.
Sorry, like other talks at LinuxCon, it was not videoed. I think it would be a useful to have a video of it, so, much as I hate to give the same talk twice, I'll probably do it again at some point for the video.
Interesting fact: If ENIAC was tasked with calculating the current Bitcoin hashrate, it would have to mass as much as the world's oceans and would require an earth's surface worth of solar panels to power it.
With a nearly 11% CTR he was almost certainly enticing people to click on ads, explicitly or through trickery.
it would be cool if you could set a time in the future that you want an uber and it will alert you when one is really close
That percentage will probably be even worse than that, since windows aren't at the best angle or position for solar panels.
What nationality is a baby born mid-flight?
Note to mods: I accidentally linked to the second page. Hopefully you can change the URL to point to the first page.