skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's basic male entitlement to think that women should be receptive to their advances, at any time and in any place.

...Yeah, that's bullshit (and offensive misandrist bullshit at that). There's nothing gender-specific, and nothing to do with "entitlement".

It's more failure to recognize that someone who's busy with something they like, probably won't enjoy being interrupted (no matter how much the topic is something you like).
whisky + cats = the perfect internet story
Both bananas and peaches contain a negligible amount of protein.
I am amazed how some people think that with more facilities everyone will start cycling. It is fun but also quite impractical and sometimes very uncomfortable. It is only really feasible for most people if they live close to their work. Cars make people live much further.
Ten Stages of Technology Familiarity
Well, up top, I specifically endorsed the protected bike lanes as a good idea. I'm not sure if that counts as "separate" or not, but I'm on board with the idea.

I've spent months all over Europe, and in general, in cities cars are a liability, bikes work much better. In the countryside, the motorways I've been on are basically deathtraps for bikes and I've never seen one on them (likely due to it being illegal or some such but I wouldn't know).
I think that that may be too quick to infer group entitlement when the underlying issue is individual narcissism.
I liked it! You should convert it to clock.
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Help – hosted app company
Recently someone posted a platform that would let you build hosted apps. It included security, a spreadsheet, contacts, and an API to customize it. I thought it was cool at the time, but had no need. Now I have a need. Can anyone in the hive mind help me out?
who knew programmers were such a busy lot that desperately need to get to their next location that 15 seconds faster. cyclists have a legal right to be on the road, so you need to learn to deal with it. as it stands, it doesn't sound like you should be allowed behind the wheel at all.

also, maybe you should try cycling just to see what the buzz is, though one suspects you might find that difficult for a number of reasons
It's challenging to show HLOC when viewing data from multiple exchanges because there are three (or more) H, L, O, C on each bar and the view becomes very cluttered. A way to turn on and off the different exchanges could make this work. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll consider it.
This looks freaking solid. Good job. Love the chat!
There's also this one:

http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-g...

It seems to be a quite common phrase by now.
Please don't tell the boss! :)

"The beatings will continue until morale improves!"
> Having all your products share exactly the same brand accomplishes two things

Except they're not. "Windows" is the OS, "Lumia" is the phone.

I see it as unifying it under a common name. Windows from phone to PC to server, it's familiar. Hence why no more "Windows RT". It's all Windows. The only difference is in the server line, it's "Windows Server 2012", but that's a different market.
If every state of the USA declared war against each other, which would win?
Show HN: Virtual Reality Demo in WebGL with Proxied Input
Actually you just need 2 for creating an 8 if it's a closed spline. 3 If open.
And web archive indexes it's internal IP addresses and a... live printer: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://printer
I was a tiny bit disappointed when I saw that the article was a bit of a "spoiler" for the new film. Not sure what I thought this would be, maybe new photos of the originals.

I guess it's nearly impossible, but I prefer not to squeeze out every bit of information from trailers, leaks, and gossip before I go to see a movie. Especially big spectacle pieces like Star Wars. To me, that's the point of the spectacle: to be amazed by something you didn't think you would see.

I would have been totally fine not knowing that there would the Millennium Falcon and X-wings.

However, I totally understand this side of the fan-dom. Doing detective work and finding interesting nuggets of closely held information is certainly exciting.
Looks green for me too
Just use structs, unions and arrays of them:

http://dlang.org/struct.html

http://dlang.org/arrays.html

Preallocate them and don't increase their size one at the time. And in them use indexes to positions instead of pointers. Then GC won't make you problems anymore. It would be used but it won't be a bottleneck as it would simply get much less but bigger chunks of memory and much less pointers to worry about.
This was because concrete was cheap, more than anything.
Ah yes, civilization is based solely on mode of transportation. You should become an anthropologist with such great insight.
We don't eat bananas anymore in our house, largely for the reasons outlined in the article.

The thumbnail summary: bananas only started being widely consumed in the 1960s because of heavy marketing efforts by Central American railroad builders (they had to do something with the land along the sides of the newly built railroads, and bananas happened to fit).

They are heavily chemically treated, more than any other fruit. They've been a monoculture almost since Day 1.

Oh, another fun fact, those little stickers on bananas? They were one of the first examples of 'branding'

I didn't find this article all that well written or informative. I recommend Chapman's Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World

I also happened to read John McPhee's Oranges at the same time. The contrast between the orange (an ancient fruit, widely consumed, hardy, with a rich literary tradition) and the banana is stark.

Both books, by the way, are great little studies in technology business. Techno-optimism, marketing, PR, globalization, manic CEOs; it's all there.
data and co-data are kind of like the -X and +X modalities in Prolog programs. Most of the time, it doesn't matter which one you use, but sometimes you need to write it backwards.

Seeing the paper at http://www.jucs.org/jucs_10_7/total_functional_programming/j... it's more related to proofs, and indeed Idris seems somewhat similar to Coq (a "programming" language for writing proofs). Or maybe I'm just totally lost.
For-profit college fires woman whose husband died of cancer, then she dies too
Thanks for letting me discover the work of that man. Its approach to learning about something by actually doing it really shines in the video you linked.
I had a 3 minute look at the code in the github repo.

The parser uses ~= (D's array concatenation operator) a lot. This always copies and will lead to quadratic performance for parsing e.g. blocks of statements. Similarly, the switch parser uses code like this:

curStmts.length += 1;
(*curStmts)[curStmts.length-1] = parseStmt(input);

This is similarly quadratic - it incrementally grows the statement array.

Look at algorithm performance first.
If anyone hasn't seen this I highly recommend it, if not just because Weirich was a great guy and was very entertaining. RIP.
so, when do we see bananas in places like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1QXCnC-2h4
>Try it. You might be surprised that these bike lanes have dead ends or obstacles or just astonishingly crappy terrain.

So much this. We have some fantastic bike trails in my area, but one of the primary arteries just suddenly ends about two miles from the downtown core. The official, city-endorsed route the rest of the way runs on normal surface streets.

Coincidentally, the closest I've come to being involved in a serious accident on my bike was through that section when some jackass behind me decided I shouldn't be on the road and tried to force me into a gutter. The kicker being I had just pushed off from a red light and was actually moving faster than the car in the left lane beside me at that point.

Sometimes bikes don't have any choice but to be on the road, and sometimes they're even told to by the local government.
Building a resolution-independent iOS 8 app
Stop-as-yield for cyclists is a safe riding technique and is a law in Idaho: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop
Why don't you read the fucking law?

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc22400.htm

No person shall drive upon a highway at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, unless the reduced speed is necessary for safe operation, because of a grade, or in compliance with law.

http://www.carinsurance.com/Articles/driving-too-slow-ticket...

That's right. Every state has a law on the books that says something along the lines of: "A person shall not drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed so as to impede or block the normal and reasonable forward movement of traffic."

But does anyone ever actually get pulled over and ticketed? Absolutely -- and the ticket counts the same as any other violation against your driver's license and car insurance.

Let me know when bikes can travel at speed with the flow of traffic and I'll retract every unkind thing I've ever said about bicyclists.

>Wait, you have special roads? Dofferet from all those other roads? But not so special that bicycles were forbidden from using them? Not like all the roads that bicycles are forbidden from using?

Oh, so you've moved the goalpost from "built for bikes" to "bikes are permitted". Okay, I can play that game if you want.

Read the law above and let me know the last time you saw a bike getting a ticket for driving too slow and blocking traffic. Because that nonsense happens around where I live pretty much every day and I'm caught in it at least once a week. Yet, I've never once seen a cop pull over a bicyclist and issue a ticket for impeding the flow of traffic.

I will happily share the road with any non-impeding mode of transport anybody chooses to use. But once you start impeding the flow of traffic and then getting belligerent because people have the indignity to complain about it, well fuck you, I have zero patience for that.
Hey all, OP here.

We've noticed a number of posts (on HN and elsewhere) from iOS developers concerned about iOS8 - and more specifically the new iPhone screen sizes and their impact on the asset creation/delivery/storage problem.

This is our solution from @Craftsy. It's been working great for us for months now and has lots of benefits beyond not breaking on new screen sizes/resolutions. We'd love to hear from other teams who are doing it similar/differently/better. This is definitely not perfect but as we said in the post, solves a lot of the potential problems.
You can always try https://news.ycombinator.com/classic too
You could have been doing this for some time now. I have by using something like TalkATone or GrooveIp.
AFAIK Breeze doesn't support < IE9 which is why I can't use it for certain client projects.
This is something which doesn't make sense to me. Why are they assuming that you WERE a recruiter, why aren't they assuming you ARE a recruiter if this is due to sexism? Clearly they are assuming that you ARE a programmer, but used to be a recruiter.

Assuming a person USED to adhere to a gender/race/group stereotype is a weird thing.
This is a fluff piece.
Apple Pay Tries to Solve a Problem That Really Isn’t a Problem
Managing multiple versions of Java on OS X
Another entry in the "weird clocks" thread: http://sandbox.mikepurvis.com/js/clock/
And, if mixed and cured properly, impervious to just about everything.
Why Net Neutrality Matters for Your Business
Or not hired Elop. Whats he upto now anyways?
Texas is the biggest state with vast resources and self sufficient in food and oil. After securing their backs with Arizona, they need to mount a decisive offensive to annex the other southern states and create a buffer zone against any threat from the north.

Don't forget that with Texas occupied fighting other states, their resources to guard the border with Mexico would be stretched pretty thin. I'm sure the cartels would seize the opportunity to move north. You'd want to protect the border at the same time you're fighting a war, and that would be tough. The same would apply to California to a lesser extent because of a smaller border.
Interesting wording: "let the guys at FCC know we won't let them do this". What you're advocating, "Net Neutrality", essentially means giving the government complete control over the Internet. That is, the FCC itself will be deciding what web pages you may and may not see. The current US government is hardly "neutral", as the recent IRS scandals and EPA scandals and Operation Chokepoint scandals have revealed.

The free market is a lot more "neutral" than Net Neutrality would ever be.
Whether 10% is fair really depends on whether you're hoping the intern helps generate a few dollars or a few hundred dollars net profit per day worked, and whether you're expecting recurring revenue from those clients (if you are then 10% is very low, period)

There are a lot of salespeople on comfortable base salaries that get more than 10% of revenue they generate. Some of them have no real experience or qualifications.

Then again, there's also a depressing number of startups boasting about their funding and great new office location in adverts offering the opportunity to do a month or two of full time telesales for them with compensation only for top performance
Quote: "New smartphones purchased from T-Mobile will allow WiFi calling, the company announced Wednesday."

This is a cool feature, but it's not new. T-Mobile has offered this feature for some time now (at least two years). I think the reason they're making it sound like a new feature is because Apple has announced it as a feature of the iPhone 6.

Anyway, it's a very nice feature, especially if you live in a cellular blind spot as I do.
I think you mean Windows 8 or maybe I missed that phase of Windows 7 but I like it better than 8. I don't like it as much as OSX though.
Stop being that person please! Just follow the rules of the road.
I don't live in a city, and very little development where I live is older than 20 years old.

While cycles are legal on the roads, keeping with traffic is also a legal requirement in every state in the U.S. for any person on the road. But because bikes, they don't get ticketed and prosecuted for impeding the flow of traffic.
I cannot fathom the thought process that leads you to conclude that being inconvenienced by someone having equal rights to yourself is the same as committing an act of violence.

I don't think you should be permitted in public unsupervised, much less permitted to drive a car.
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> It's very hard to genetically modify a plant that doesn't produce any seeds!

Huh? Gene modification in plants is almost always done on individual cells that are then grown into fully-differentiated plants using tissue culture techniques. There are well established protocols for this. Bananas are routinely grown from tissue culture.

Here is an example of a genetically modified banana: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/here-come-the-super-bananas
http://g2m.me/ - GoToMeeting's new WebRTC Free product is decent.
This design radically reorients your attention to that which is in front of you thereby significantly reducing the chance that you will miss something or "not see" that ped/cyclist, etc.

In many intersections a big part of this includes clearly marking whom has the right of the way through an intersection negating the need for signals which leads to far less intersection congestion.

* As a pedestrian the ease of crossing at intersection is unmatched, no more walking halfway into the intersection to see around parked cars.

* As a cyclist it fundamentally transforms the experience. Every ride can be taken at ease and in comfort. No more fighting for your life.

* As a motorist you worry much less about hitting a cyclist or pedestrian because they are always in front of you where you can see them. NO more straining to check every blind spot 3 times before a turn.
React JSX via ECMAScript 6 template strings
Err... "fava" is a regional (but well-known) term for "penis" in italian. I bet you'll get some unexpected traffic and links from Italy.
I think Chrome on OSX hides scroll bars by default unless you're scrolling. Regardless, the box is tall enough that it doesn't fit in my viewport so I wouldn't see the bottom scrollbar anyway.
Well, I didn't specify what type of computer must be used. :-) It should be possible with a quantum computer, yea? Then it merely becomes rewriting one NP-hard problem in terms of another one (one being related to the refraction of light in glass and the other being whatever basis the quantum computer is built in terms of).

Also, are you sure that the Copenhagen interpretation is correct? Aren't 'local hidden variable theory' and 'consistent histories theory' also possible?
Well, we've got PNaCl to compare too, which is trying to accomplish similar things.

As an outsider, it sure doesn't seem to be getting as much traction as asm.js or have compelling advantages, though.

I think developers have a tendency to underestimate how important it is to integrate well with your environment, start up quickly, and have a good deployment story. asm.js nails these things.
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Not to mention bikers inflict 0 wear & tear on the road.
I wish I thought you were kidding, but many people seem to actually believe that these things are enough to pay for the construction and maintenance of roads. Not so. Much of the cost comes out of general taxes, which everyone pays. When you consider that cyclists contribute basically zero wear and tear to the roads, it starts to look like they're subsidizing your lifestyle.

That's ignoring externalities like reduced traffic and pollution, and reduced demand for oil.
The only people I know that are able to do a 6h/day are working in part-time.
Not really. With more people with iPads etc (and obviously just on normal desktops) they have less need to read physical magazines.
Devon Rexes leave less hair behind than humans, in my experience.
"Ben Moore, BBC South Today, Tatooine"
This is incorrect. D can move objects, although the current GC does not do so.
California protects the right to Yelp without penalty
Between roads, sidewalks and bike lanes, this provides a designated travel area for everybody regardless of the mode they choose to travel with.

I still have a pair of inline skates somewhere, that I used for transportation around campus when I was at university. That's about half-way between foot speed and bike speed.
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Please see the comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8298557
false advertising, discrimination, and misleading.

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A pointy fluff piece.
There is a dedicated thread for monitoring the socket so clients don't block trying to write. In case of transient load spike or slowness in Kafka, the bulk of the queueing should occur inside the daemon, where you can see queue lengths via web interface. God luck with your project :-)
Plus the fact that most bikers own cars too, they just don't happen to be driving it when you see them.
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Why Virtual Colonoscopies Are Better  and Why Your Doctor Won't Do Them
The Worst Governments in America Are Local
Curiously, the Watch is not an i product despite being among the smallest and lightest products.
AniJS, Declarative handling library for UI interactions
I guess I don't see this as such a big deal. My own experience is limited, but doing this kind of validation by iterating over the input space using e.g. perl to generate verilog is fairly straightforward. I've done exactly that with decent success; again it's a straightforward software problem, and I'm a software guy.

I think the problems I had is sort of the converse: hardware is hard. Reasoning about hardware is hard. And having the representation of your hardware about which you much reason be expressed in the actions of an interpreted program (where the synthesis is a side effect basically) makes things harder than it has to be. The RTL ends up being polluted with simulation constructs and hiding the meaning I'm trying to see. And if anything MyHDL is actually worse at this than Verilog or VHDL.
There's no content in this article whatsoever. They used to need mousers, but now they get max. 2 mice/year. So the distillery has a pet cat to keep tradition alive. That's it?
That makes sense. However if the classical computer were strategically directed to the corners of the [search] space that are interesting, maybe interesting results could arise. It would be hard to have any sort of confidence in those I suppose if it must ignore large swaths of the space, however. It may serve as a discovery process informing more refined experiments though.

Also, as I mentioned to another replier, I didn't say which type of computer must be used-- it should be possible with a quantum computer running software rewriting the NP-hard problem in terms most natural [i.e., native] to it. :-)
Actually jessaustin, powder coating does not chip if the pretreatment is done properly. Powder coating is far more durable than any liquid coating available. Far more superior in finish without the runs, fading and sagging. There are ways to test for adhesion, impact resistance and hardness. For more information check out the PCI.com or ccaiweb.com both have finishing handbooks to help novice coaters.
What ARE you talking about?? You completely misunderstood my comment.
Has the Y combinator been useful to anything? Has it been used in any software in a role other than pedagogic?

It's a beautiful way to make a recursive call without binding the function to an identifier, but has it actually proven useful? It would seem that languages that allow that make it easy to use the Y combinator also typically make it easy to use named recursion with a permanent or a temporary name.
That isn't a response to the question I asked; can you address the question?

And even the scenario you presented here is hardly the summary execution that you listed as a fact previously; can you address that discrepancy?
I agree with the general sentiment with VHDL. I't not a bad language beneath it all, but the syntax does not make it an enjoyable experience. Though I haven't touched it in years, I did at one point try to clean up the syntax very slightly using some rather dumb parsing/substitution. Once you're past the ada syntax and the bad tooling, it's not entirely bad.

http://log.fundamental-code.com/2011/06/11/vhdl-code-generat...
http://github.com/fundamental/modv

I don't have enough experience in the other HDL options out there to really say anything conclusive other than the space is a bit of a mess as a whole.
A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It in the Metal
> often in ways that have nothing to do with the housing style but became associated with it.

We had a similar problem in the UK, We uprooted and moved entire communities onto vast estates that had no real infrastructure (lack of shops, medical centers etc) and in the process destroyed community bonds.

It was an absolute mess often created with the best of intentions (and little thought).
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Nice, I'm glad to see they've got a new app out! The old one didn't really live up to expectations. Looking forward to giving this a try again.
The problem is that when a parent drops out of the workforce for 5 years-7 years (until the kid[s] are old enough for school), it's very difficult to just come right back in. This is why most people don't quit their jobs once they have kids.