skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder, could you create a closed form of the final solution by allowing only a portion of the nonrenewable resources to be consumed? At least, this should remove the sudden discontinuity in the slope of the nonrenewable resources function.
Signed wrapping behavior is well-defined in the machine language for every architecture that ever existed (or at least, that I've ever heard of). If the assembly code depends on the wrapping behavior and you translated that to C, you'd get C code that depends on the behavior of signed overflow, which the compiler is free to completely remove, no matter your target.

This is a somewhat extreme case, as code that depends on the behavior of signed overflow is rare, but there's a lot of things that are perfectly well specified by the architecture, but that C leaves undefined.
Right, but what if I work 10 hours a day from Monday to Thursday? I've put in my 40 hours but still have to wait until Friday afternoon. In that case they'd probably get paid 44 hours, but it's also possible that they're only getting paid for the 40 hours - which is why I ask if the half day is really necessary.
Crowd-control policing in the US is stuck in riot mode
I was told that I would side with defendant based on my answers, but to be honest. The fact that it is a 60 year old woman giving $200,000 to manage it makes me think I would be siding with plaintiff.

The most common scenario in this situation is that investment adviser did not make her aware with risks. Someone at that age generally would not want to risk everything they had.

Of course if it is obvious that she was aware of the risks associated with it and the adviser was honest then I would side with him.

I believe the point of jury is to rule in a way that seems most sensible (based on ethics and not necessarily having to agree with the law).
inaugerating?

A mere upvote is insufficient for this groundbreakingly clever pun. For reference:

auger
2. An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks,
for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the
rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining
water.
This links to a landing page with a big BUY NOW an ebook. No sample chapter, no explanation about what the book contains, nothing.
We though about that could be an issue, although this is an open source project without any comercial intention, it's intended to help developers to build a better web. She should be fine with it due the project essence.
6 reasons why large enterprises should move to AWS
Yep. When I go to my neighborhood grocery store in the SF bay area, half of the fruits and vegetables tend to be arriving from Mexico or elsewhere in Latin America or Washington state already. The percentage is even higher in the off-season. Put another way: Where do Maine or Texas or Hawaii get fruits and vegetables that aren't local? (And why are we growing rice in drought conditions?)

Also: desalination puts a floor on the cost of water for drinking purposes. Modern desalination techniques are very electricity-bound, though, in terms of cost.
There are 18,796 distinct Android devices, OpenSignal says
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Does it need to suck the entire database into memory to answer a query?
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/bio_sim/articles/metabolic_pa...

There's the known linkage.

This says nothing about the runtime dynamics or higher order interactions, which involve heavy calculus.

This says nothing about the biochemistry under anything but isolated laboratory conditions.

This also doesn't deal with anything above the cellular level. In fact, these are just chemicals in solution--none of the intracellular systems with their own local chemistries are modeled here, and those are maddeningly complicated in their own right. If you think our biological understanding has progressed to the point where gleaning simple information about single edges in this graph are elementary, think again.

Most people have heard about the genome, for which we now have punchcard-level technology to deal with. The methylome sits on top of that, annotating the genome with important dynamic state. Then there's the transcriptome--utilizing nucleic acids, it's just one instance of intracellular messaging. The RNA field is extremely complicated due to its chemistry, which makes it annoyingly difficult to study. (Also, RNA isn't just messaging.)

Want to get at some systems-level interactions? There are the metabolome, reactome, interactome... And we're still at the sub-cellular level. I didn't even mention proteins, which seem to be somewhat important to the study of cancer. (Actually, entire immunological systems are. Yet we're still discovering new immune cell types and guessing at roles...)

If it wasn't something you already had an appreciation for, you can now see that the biology state machine is beyond your wildest dreams complicated. And really, this is glossing over things. You have to take into account a metric ton of chemistry. Unlike programming, nothing ever gets abstracted away in biology.

Welcome to the defining problem of the human race--solving it, if we ever do, will likely be our grandest moment.

If I could make the bet, I'd wager we won't have a cure to cancer in 200 years.
"a Wesabe developer who consistently gets excited about developing things that Marc refuses to allow into the product should probably make sure their resume is up to date"

If you cannot read the mind of our CEO who changes the direction of the company every two weeks, you are fired?
"It is in Wikipedia" ⇏ "It is true"

SQLite files are not "flat files" by any definition commonly in use, including the "narrow" and "broader" definitions in that article. (Which, incidentally, is almost entirely unsourced fact claims, which violates Wikipedia's own quality standards.)
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> The SQL-esque syntax is optional. The primary interface is HTTP.

Then the introduction needs some work.

"DocumentDB enables complex ad hoc queries using the SQL dialect"

"Azure DocumentDB offers the following key capabilities and benefits: Ad hoc queries with familiar SQL syntax"

The "Query DocumentDB" article also seems to be focused on that SQL dialect.
Um, yes? It is bizarre how unaware some folks are of how human civilization has been organized for centuries.
The Majestic Nature Makes the Humans Feel Tiny
Hey! Thank you for letting me know. That's the first I've heard of that happening, were you able to send a report?

Yes, that is a good point... perhaps I should add a "report" feature to each post. What do you think? :)
Is it just the description you disagree with ?

I'll get it changed. I was thinking of something like "256bit encryption" or "AES256 encryption" but thought they were too techy
And how many opportunities do you have to provide to get a Linus?

How many other Linuses are there whose work and contributions simply haven't been appreciated yet?
Married filing separately doesn't change tax rates, it just splits the tax into two paper trails.
You can't infer that. This story would be reported the same whether the drives were encrypted or not. Kleiner is just covering its ass by reporting the theft to the relevant authorities and affected customers.

So far, it's not Kleiner raising concern - they're just doing due diligence. It's the media raising concern. It makes a better story.

Kleiner haven't spoken about this to the media yet.
On the other end of the scale: http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/14/165202/followup-u...
Anything you don’t say will be used against you
Beautiful. Thank you for the reminder that these books exist. I read some of these books years back, and I still treasure the experience. I had a terrible job that started at 6:30 a.m. where by some miracle people kept assigning me tasks that could be automated, so I was about a month ahead on all of my work. In the early mornings I would read from these books on a Dell Axim that was propped up above my keyboard, next to my propped-up reversed CD-ROM disc.

One book that's not part of the collection but that I would recommend to the people here on HN is "James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography": http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/476

Here's a bit from a "coding interview" that went well for him:

"I carefully unpacked my working model of the steam-engine at the carpenter's shop, and had it conveyed, together with my drawings, on a hand-cart to Mr. Maudslay's next morning at the appointed hour. I was allowed to place my work for his inspection in a room next his office and counting-house. I then called at his residence close by, where he kindly received me in his library. He asked me to wait until he and his partner, Joshua Field, had inspected my handiwork.

I waited anxiously. Twenty long minutes passed. At last he entered the room, and from a lively expression in his countenance I observed in a moment that the great object of my long cherished ambition had been attained! He expressed, in good round terms, his satisfaction at my practical ability as a workman engineer and mechanical draughtsman. Then, opening the door which led from his library into his beautiful private workshop, he said, "This is where I wish you to work, beside me, as my assistant workman. From what I have seen there is no need of an apprenticeship in your case."

He then proceeded to show me the collection of exquisite tools of all sorts with which his private workshop was stored. They mostly bore the impress of his own clearheadedness and common-sense. They were very simple, and quite free from mere traditional forms and arrangements. At the same time they were perfect for the special purposes for which they had been designed. The workshop was surrounded with cabinets and drawers, filled with evidences of the master's skill and industry. Every tool had a purpose. It had been invented for some special reason. Sometimes it struck the keynote, as it were, to many of the important contrivances which enable man to obtain a complete mastery over materials."

Anyway, a pretty fun, educational book for someone with that mindset.
But production of goods is on rails. And accelerating. We have small legions of Zero Marginal Product workers.

Some of these folks are people with whom I used to work. There, as they say but for the grace of $DEITY...

Can't shoot 'em. But it's a pretty safe bet they can't work, at least not in a manner that is an improvement over digging holes and filling them back up.
Open-Source Underwater Robots
Maude White, Who Transforms Paper to Incredibly Intricate Hand-Cut Paper Art
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DeLorean: Using Speculation to Enable Low-Latency Interaction for Cloud Gaming
My main problem with this is that a standard instance is $125/mo for anything beyond the free limits (10k documents, 50mB). It would be great to see pricing that followed, say, Azure Websites or SQL pricing... $20-40/mo for smaller instances (smaller by either search volume or index size).

I mean, after all, if SQL Azure supported Full Text Indexes, this wouldn't be critical either.
The real question is why someone would change something most people already getting used to. I don't see any compelling reason to change the link in this way, do you?
But I think there's more than what immediately meets the
eye, and just going into an unsexy business for the sake
of going into an unsexy business is not a sufficient
condition for financial success in one's business.

Warren Buffet built his fortune on top of Potato Chips, Dumpsters, and Trailer Parks.

I agree that there is "more" to this than just going into something unsexy. But a key part of business success is differentiating yourself from the competition.

If you have no competition, then you win by default. Finding unsexy jobs that need to be done (ie: Payroll) gets you customers.
but imagine if you paid 2.5 million dollars instead of $2500, you would lose at life.
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Also, needs video/audio chat integration, in case you want to do more than watch the board getting filled up.
The best way to demonstrate it is to write interesting software, not to flounder on some abstract explanation about the greatness of G's favorite language.
See here: http://www.livestrong.com/article/263656-dangers-of-wearing-...

Basically I wore them for the majority of the hours of the day (during sleep + while working) for over two years without any issues then I had a some pretty major impacted ear wax and started looking into it more. Apparently ear plugs are not really good for you. Which is unfortunate because there is really no substitute.
If you cannot read the mind of our CEO who changes the
direction of the company every two weeks, you are fired?

I've experienced this.

Pretty much. Whats even worse is if it's some guy between you and the CEO, who can then pretty much travel back in time and paint you in whatever picture he sees fit to put his interests above yours as a lower level developer.
I'm not sure why you see these claims as sensationalist. The lifetime risk of cancer is 1 in 2 (for men), and both the rate of incidence and the mortality rate are about the same today as they were in 1975. This despite the massive increase in our understanding of the phenomenon.

The claim that cancer probably never will be eradicated seems pretty defensible. Notice how it's the people who study it who are the least sanguine in their predictions. It's perfectly possible for us to have a complete understanding of cancer and find that we still can't eliminate it.
> The vast majority of the water consumption in the state is from agriculture

Well put. 80 percent of the developed water supply in California is used by agriculture. About 6 percent is industrial and commercial. That leaves 7 percent residential landscaping, and 7 percent residential non-landscaping (showers, washing machines, etc.). Source:
http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/commentary/where-we-...

Even if residential landscaping water usage dropped by a quarter immediately, which seems rather unlikely, that's close to a rounding error compared to the amount of water to turn our near-desert into an agricultural breadbasket. Put another way, more water is used for almond farming in California than all residential landscaping or residential non-landscaping:
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/0...

But instead of addressing the 80% problem, and the fact that some cities like Sacramento still don't have everyone on metered water* (it's unlimited! flat rate! use as much as you like!), we'll have hydrotheater restrictions on drinking water at restaurants. Hydrotheater is, of course, a cousin of TSA-style security theater, and approximately as effective.

* Water meters won't even be fully installed by 2025. http://portal.cityofsacramento.org/%20Utilities/Conservation...
It's funny that most of the jokes tend to revolve around becoming some sort of super hero. The stranger thing is that no one has pondered the potential cons having the ability to see beyond the spectrum. Or maybe I don't read enough comic books?
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Yup, I sent a report.

I have narrowed it down to being triggered by the go to gps coordinate icon. It happens on the only device I have tried it with thus far.

I sent a few messages and got a 'lol,' so the basic functionality of that works.

I also noticed that user locations appear to be intentionally generalized to the nearest town/neighborhood center. That's probably good thinking for now, though I relize it may be unintentional on your part.

When I tried to link a photo to my account, the gallery image I selected was not used. Instead, a photo that is not even in the category/folder I selected was used. No matter what image I select in any category/folder, it always uses that same pic.

Sadly, it looks awful on my 10" tablet.

Clearly, this is a 0.1 version.

Overall... even considering the few negatives, it's a really nice concept that should continue to be developed and polshed. You should be proud.
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For every act of production, there must be an equal and opposite act of consumption. Double entry accounting pretty much guarantees it. I don't see store shelves empty. I do see stores closing. I see negative effective interest rates on demand deposits and pitiful rates on CDs that are barely better than stuffing the money under a mattress.

Somehow, I fail to detect a massive shift towards underproduction. This website stands as testament to the difficulty in founding or expanding a business these days.

Trying to classify people into "productive" and "nonproductive" is very nearly impossible even within small groups who perform that same basic work in the same building.

The thing that makes your line of reasoning nearly impossible is that the economy is nowhere near a closed system. There is a rate of money printing which makes all the gummint largesse meaningless in the larger economy, and it does so without destroying the value of the currency.

As GDP growth ( remember that? Ah, the 1990s ) rises, the indebted funds decline in value relative to the rising economy. But if everybody sits on a box full of Benjamins as people do now, this doesn't happen. But people confuse low interest rates with "loose money" when it's not that at all.
I think you would be well served to look up the meaning of fungible.
Ask HN: What do you think of our programming tutorial platform?
We teach programming courses, and have recently released free, in-depth tutorials Skeleton, Swift, and now Webflow.

We're planning to write two new tutorials per month for the next three months. What do you think of the content so far? What do you think of the platform?

Here's what's inside the Swift tutorial: https://www.bloc.io/tutorials/swiftris-build-your-first-ios-game-with-swift#!/chapters/675
If I was arguing that it was reasonable, I'd have said that. I merely stated C allows it. Which it does.

As for the printf/fprintf flub, totally.
Do not take that personally. They were just sharing their opinion... okay, in a dickish way in hindsight to your reaction.

Duck's back. Water.
Is VR the new wasteland? [1993]
"VR today is like early TV: it suffers from the split personality of most start-up high-tech industries. At the one end is the top of the line research, carried out by institutions with no mandate to sell anything. At the other end, we have new hardware and software products whose developers are only too happy to demo them at a plethora of VR conferences, but where the differences in product are less important than the similarities. It’s like having a VCR and no movies to rent: who needs it? Virtual Reality will continue as the domain of media hype until its supporters and developers start to pay closer attention to the content of what they put out.”

From: http://vrtifacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Pix-Elation-Issue-Vol-11-No-11.pdf
If people want drone-based delivery, someone will make one that individuals can privately buy that will fly out to pick up packages. That's legal today. Any individual can do anything they want with a drone they own as long as it does not fly above 400 feet - it's the business owning it and using it for commercial purposes that makes it illegal under current rules.
That's something I just came up with. How the containers are setup for the management stack is incredibly complex. The wrapper was created to manage the insanity and hacks. Born out of those hacks was https://github.com/ibuildthecloud/systemd-docker which might be useful to others. It's a wrapper to manage Docker containers under systemd, which is currently quite difficult.
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/cancer-advances...

5-year survival rates has gone from 50% to 68%, other statistics are improving as well, although not particularly quickly.
Yeah brutal. Who up voted this?
I'm sorry, but this is insane. No local government is going to allow these things to be buzzing around everywhere for no good reason.

People may like it for a about a week ("neato, I can get my package lickity-split!") and then will say screw this, those things are making a racket and driving me batty.

It's not like they can be used to deliver groceries. And they presumably have to return to the base after each delivery, because they can't carry that much. That's just crazy inefficient.

I could see small electric rolling vehicles that make automated deliveries. But noisy little helicopter drones? Not going to happen.
Calm down. I am pretty aware of it.

I lived through it.

My only intention was related how IBM focused away into other areas like consulting, to stay relevant in the PC world.
Hopefully you notice that this data offers little insight independent of:

1. absolute income
2. income mobility
3. net migration

How does, for example, the middle tier in Poland compare to the bottom tier in the U.S.? If our goal is to minimize envy, we don't need to know this.

How do other countries compare to the U.S. in terms of net inflow of unskilled immigrants?

How many people in each country move at least one quintile in their lifetime? In the U.S. it's about 25%. What is it in France?
this is so logical that i cant believe amazon hasnt thought of it. they must know something we dont or its all just a joke.
Say you're foraging for food and you trip over a tree branch and break your ankle. What then?

The food chain shifts and shimmies a little bit as the opportunity presents itself, but nature pretty much carries on as is.
I think that the US may legislate it's self out of a really interesting industry, I would think it could be possible some smaller country with a good population density could become industry leaders here.
Very interesting. Could it be that the most successful investors have this in common? They never second guess themselves and they never sell. However, they are wary and picky of the company they dump their money in. Buying in when the market underprices a security and holding on to it. Only selling when you see fundamentals of a security as flawed and the market still thinks its overvalued.
Where is that legal today? Don't personal drones have to be manually operated by someone on the ground within line of sight among other restrictions in the US?
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instead of drones they should repurpose military aircraft to carpet bomb cities with peoples' packages.
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I don't get this guy's logic. Release a game, then pulls it because he read some comments where people exaggerated their level of engagement with the game?
Hundreds of Swing Copters clones are already littering Google Play
My theory has been that it is a joke but I'm not sure anymore.

You'd think they would have thought this through, but ya know, I'm not sure they thought the Fire Phone through.
This is the attitude from someone that was doing systems programming when C was still a UNIX only thing and had the pleasure to use better languages for such purpose.

But since those languages weren't married to UNIX, they lost.

EDIT:

Forgot to mention that actually my whole point was about the title " C as a portable assembly: ...".
Cancer is certainly not one disease, but it in not the symptom of multiple genetic regulatory failure modes - it the consequence of the failure of one regulatory system, the system that controls cell division. The complication comes about since there are multiple pathways involved in this one system.