skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One case that comes to mind is multiplayer games that rely on each participant running identical inputs on identical simulation code producing identical outputs. Doing so on floating point inputs is arguably madness, especially using vendor-provided functions or instructions as part of the process, but that doesn't mean it doesn't get done. Small differences can accumulate and desync the game rapidly.
Those look like a very polished product! In my case, I'm looking to take advantage of the availability of $15 for a 300 RGB LED strip, as well as for the challenge writing my own control logic with an arduino. The SAD wake-up alarm is more of a side-benefit.
I don't think any circuits will survive 110 / 230V.
That's why I would like a basic income, but it won't wash with most people. Perhaps I should have said 'individual rationale'. Look at it from a conservative point of view (becuase that's where the opposition will come from): why should my hard-earned taxes be used to give people money for doing nothing, just so that they can 'have fun with their lives'?

This isn't my personal outlook, but I'm playing devil's advocate here.
I mean really all you need to show is the picture:
http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/img/etherkiller.jpg

My favorite though is the etherkiller hub, which is just diabolical.
I still have a 3.5" floppy disk that a friend of mine made in middle school in which he replaced the magnetic medium with a sheet of black fine-grit sandpaper. I don't think anyone ever used it, fortunately.
That was kind of a joke, since we're built on top of Yelp. We made a conscious decision to not show reviews. Seems like that may be polarizing. Hopefully there are people on the other side who like that decision...
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Doesn't having to pick up a package defeat the purpose of delivery?

If I wanted to pick up packages, I'd go to stores and buy things. I don't want to go to the store though, so I pay Amazon to deliver it to me.
Interesting, but I think I'll withhold judgment until more verification appears (or fails to do so).
But doesn’t that already happen? Didn’t we see that when the Pentium flaw was discovered? In fact, I thought there was an Excel spreadsheet you could download and run to test whether you had the flaw or not.
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Seriously this is going to be charged by usage? A query builder? I am really starting to hate these new pricing models.
IMO what it was previously titled here (What Shakespeare can teach...) just sounded pompous and overly grandiose- coincidentally, another common sin of the BuzzFeed era. I prefer the actual albeit clickbaity headline
I would recommend learning to cook quiona. It's faster and healthier than rice.

1. Rinse the quiona off with water until there is no more foam.

2. Bring water (with a bouillon flavoring cube, or instead use vegetable broth) to a boil (about 4 parts water to 3 parts quiona)

3. add rinsed quiona to boiling water, lightly boil for about 7 minutes.

4. enjoy!
wow, 1993 - what domain?
To prevent it ever being spammy, which is my first concern with any anonymous group of people. Just a place where you know everyone is a hacker (in the coding sense) and you know who they are in real-life.

Vetting is the opposite of Twitter/Reddit et al.
> Though I liked how professionally you concluded the thread

Thanks!

> Selling to tough masters is the key part of business, isn't it?

So they say.

I'm operating under the assumption that people will like it, or they won't. People will either want a fast, visual, dead simple way to find what's around them, or they'll want to read reviews and look at menus. This will not be great for everyone, guaranteed.
http://prompt.ml/

Looks like it's not responding though.
Uhm... no, I don't think react-async is a good way to manage data flow in React applications. I wrote it when I started to work with React but now I consider React Async an anti-pattern.
Thank you for this reply. I would probably argue that Busybox isn't really the unix way, but I'm tempted to adopt your viewpoint of fixed defined protocols to talk internally and externally as my stance going forward.

Sadly, systemd still fails in this regard, whereas Busybox is a much better citizen.
Yeah I heard it originated in Korea, as a way of signifying a light hearted teasing / sarcasm (e.g. "see you at the finish line~")
I'm pretty sure that won't be true in 6 weeks time.
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Go on, un-locked user of proprietary system apps that do not run anywhere else.
I assume this will be more of a Kindle showroom with a bunch of Amazon lockers for product pickup. They're always trying to reduce shipping costs and having people pick stuff up is a good way to keep the shippers on their toes.
"but if it's dynamic, is it even valid for a compiler to transform sin(constant) into a hardcoded constant embedded into the executable?"

Yes.

I honestly don't remember all the rules here, but it does in fact do so, legally.
And if you're lucky it'll fry you too when you're handling the cable.
Yes, we're both talking about sin(pi) (hence why I claimed "sin(pi ± epsilon) better damn well return 0").

I take issue with this assertion:

It would be absolutely wrong to round a non-zero number to zero.

Why? I know IEEE floats have subnormals and subnormals can be VERY small, but if the error is less than half the minimum representable float, why should it be rounded away from zero?

Yes, zero is "special" because you can't divide by it, but for stability, my understanding is that you shouldn't be dividing by anything that can be so close to zero as to potentially round to it anyway.
I think the use case they are going for is projects in remote places where they have to build roads and truck in everything including all of the fuel needed to run an operation.
I find Yelp reviews to be worse than useless [1] so I appreciate your decision anyway.

[1] If I wanted to hear the opinions of self-entitled whiners, I'd talk to my ex (heyo)
You can run RoR in Cygwin

http://phaseshiftllc.com/articles/2008/10/02/setting-up-rail...
Why would the compiler substitute the broken value unless the compiler was broken?

Compilers generally don't use specialized local architecture instructions to compute their results, because they can't (It would break cross-compiling or targeting different platforms in a lot of cases)
In fact, it's more likely the other way around:

Compiler substitutes proper value. actual calls on sin(x) on the local platform give wrong answer.
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It puts 120 AC volts into a system that is designed for 5 DC volts. Unless your ethernet port has a fuse between it and the circuitry it will burn the traces off the board, blow capacitors and other components and possibly start a fire.
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Simplicity can be a virtue. Not that it's exactly analogous, but I think this is part of why apps like Tinder seem to be getting a lot more popular than significantly more complex apps like OkCupid, even if the latter offers far more information about matches and much more in-depth filters.
I think I'm a perfect fit here ! In my very early 30s, with a family and one kid, and yes, unfortunately my startup kind of failed. Or even worse, never really started.

I used to work in IT for trading, on the support / analysis part and last year decided to launch a startup to build a product with a friend of mine (same background). We did quit our jobs, worked hard on the product and yet... we never finished it. Too much distracted (we started developping several products at once), too much basic errors (leaving jobs too soon), not enough dev experience etc, long story.

To answer your question - you get back to normal job. I had 0 problems to find a job thanks to the reputation / experience I have acquired before. Also people do care, but in a positive way - yes you failed, but at least you have tried ! I frankly don't know any smart, hard working guy in the corporate jobs that isn't dreaming about launching his own stuff. It's just that most are too affraid to fail and / or give up the easy life for some months or years.

I was a bit surprised too by this positive attitude, especially that I'm living in France where the culture of failure is not exactly the same as it seems to be in the US. So overall, my only regret is to not trying earlier. And I will certainly try again, no matter if I'm in the 30s or 40s or whatever !
The default seems to be "inferred". That is, 1 + 1i will work, but 1 + 1 is ambiguous. I've just noticed this in use, and don't know what this is officially called. I don't think this will actually be a real annoyance in practice.
Congrats on shipping. I wanted to do something simple like this. I bought a domain for it, Radiyum.com (Radius + Food), but ended up shelving the idea for some of the reasons other folks have brought up. There's only so much time in the day!

Good luck with the app. Looks well designed.
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Exactly! 70% mortality if disease is let to follow its course, 30-40% if supportive care is provided.

I don't know guys. But anything that doubles my survival rate sounds like a big difference to me.
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On the subject of James Bond there's another scene in the same film where he's using a Sony Ericcson phone. Really, the suavest man in the world rocks a Sony phone? It's embarrassing to watch.
I'll let you in on a little secret, I didn't design it! I hired a very talented fellow[1] to do the design for me, because I suck so bad at it

[1] http://thomweerd.com/
I'm not so sure. I think the future of consumer durables is showrooms with very little inventory but a huge number of things on display. If you want it right now, you pay full price, but if you want it delivered tomorrow (from your local amazon warehouse) then it's 10% off.

In other words you no longer 'go to the store' because it's economically inefficient to store many units of the same thing on expensive prime real estate. Instead almost all the warehouse space of existing stores is turned into floor space and they only have 1 of each item, although they keep a small stock of consumables.
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This made me giggle pretty much uncontrollably: http://tilde.club/~david/imgs/top5big.gif

Via http://tilde.club/~jeffbonhag/index.shtml
Does anyone know what vine or Instagram or Shots used? Parse?
No it doesn't, you're not going to use some of the world's most expensive real estate for a pickup counter. That's the point of Amazon lockers in 7-11 stores and so on, you don't want to make people go outside of their neighborhood just to pick up a delivery. In a dense urban area that means within a few blocks.
Many of the things I buy on Amazon I buy because I can't find them at all in local stores. Sometimes they are just cheaper too, but that really is why I would use a local Amazon store. I wonder if this will also make some things like pet food which aren't really suited to ecommerce more viable for them. Maybe they wouldn't offer vastly cheaper shipping if you want any brand but would stock some staples like that too.
The whole point of 1.0 is that they won't experiment like this anymore. They're using the freedom to break things now with the promise to lock it down later. I'm sure there will still be some experimentation, but the core language should be stable.
Blue LEDs, and the more general Gallium Nitride film technologies have tremendous impact in our everyday world. Enormous, tangible energy savings in lighting. Enabling of zillion medical applications. Blu-Rays, high density DVDs, high mobility transistors...

And if there were a Nobel Prize in Engineering, I'd be on board with this.

seriously, what discovery do you have in mind?

I don't know. It's not my job to keep up with physics research, it's the Nobel committee's.
And even more important than current benchmark numbers is that the language is explicitly designed to be optimizable, and takes the idea of "zero-cost abstractions" seriously. I can count on two fingers the number of places where we impose dynamic checks by default in the name of safety, and one of those can be unsafely turned off and the other can be safely disabled with proper code structuring.

(Theoretically we can also leverage Rust's ownership rules to automatically generate aliasing information. When implemented this should be an across-the-board speed boost for all Rust code in existence, in a way that C and C++ compilers can only dream of.)
I love that very quickly my goal was to score a single point. And then I did and it showed my high score! Sweet, I got high score I can quit now...
> Why can't London subway be a traffic-immune taxi service ?

The system you purpose would not be traffic-immune. A large train full of people is incredibly efficient. You are describing autonomous cars, which will be great and given the the size and number of roads they don't need to match the efficiency or rail lines.
Nor do I, but I do feel there is a difference. More specifically, game programming seems to be more demanding in the "programming" part, while many other programming jobs emphasise the "domain knowledge" part.

If you're doing a business application for a small shop (payroll system, cash registry, invoices printer…), good accounting is probably more precious than good programming: you have plenty of computing resources to waste, your programs can be relatively small…

But when performance starts to be key (video encoders, AAA games, databases…), the effort devoted to programming becomes comparatively bigger.
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From the site:

> It appears that your browser is not supported!
We currently support Chrome and Firefox.

But I am using Chrome!
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Wonder how long it will be until we start seeing subdivisions built around Distribution Centers, with robots delivering the goods almost immediately after ordering. 20 years?
Kind of reminds me of "snarfing" stuff in Plan-9.
Need this as well - it's the main reason I use Yelp.
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Sweet! a good old fashioned hit counter where I can just reload and it goes up!
sin(pi+eps) is a quantity on the order of eps. Not only is it non-zero, it is also so far from zero that it can be represented quite accurately with a floating-point number (which is a separate concern from the accuracy with which it is computed).

The relative error introduced in rounding 1e-16 down to 0 is 100%, or approximately 1e16 ulp, which is why that would be unacceptable. Floating point arithmetic cares about relative errors much much more than absolute.

Also, while dividing by zero is a problem, dividing by 1e-16 should not be a problem, at all. 1e-16 is a perfectly ordinary representable number.
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I agree, but I found the content of the article actually quite interesting though!
Do you have a website, or can you provide any more info on your company?
My company actually makes them if interested let me know www.ndbproduction.com ndbproduction1@gmail.com
First off, I appreciate your response. Your points are very valid.

I don't think one should ever stop learning. I do believe however that one should take on projects as soon as they can. Adding that hands on experience is what puts the learning in context.

My point in this article is to get people to take their heads out of the courses, and actually take on projects. Yes, at first you may only do simple projects. However, as you keep learning and keep taking on more projects, the complexity will gradually increase.
It would be better to put them at the chimney output level instead, no? That heat is definitely useless, going into the sky. But the heat at wood stove level is useful- it's heating your cabin and cooking food.
I agree about the context here, and I thought over it before posting it. If you look at the previous statements which are also giving estimates, they have established dates. this led me to the conclusion that this statement about the year 2000 had some probabability of being written in the context of future estimate.
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now deal with responsive images/videos
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> It's not possible to implement a more precise fsin() without breaking apps?

It is, but it's A) slow as hell (it requires something like 384 bits of Pi to reduce properly) and B) nobody really cares.

Anybody who cares pulls out Cody and Waite and writes their own so that they know exactly what the errors and performance are. This is especially true for modern processors which have vector units and whose mainline performance is probably just as good as its microcode performance.

Anybody who doesn't care is really looking for an approximation anyway, so they're not going to use the transcendentals because they're too slow.
I prefer reviews 95% of the time, but I can see just wanting to find something that looks good and going for it, in the sense of adventure, rather than shifting through reviews that are somewhat swayed by popular opinion (new, unknown restaurants may never get their time in the spotlight if you're surfing for the best reviews).
I don't even think it should be used with Devs. For one, a good dev should know how to build queries, otherwise he/she is missing a good foundation, in which case shouldn't be working with the db. Just my personal take though
I'm not sure what you're getting at. What video codec would you pick, and what does it have to do with the SF bubble?

P.s. It is nice to live a sheltered life.
If IE chooses to use file extension over MIME type, then it is broken and should be ignored.

Yes, I'm aware that this is probably a workaround for broken web servers, or brain-dead server admins. This workaround should never have been deployed, as it breaks interactions with non-broken web servers.
Very neat! It's somewhat surprising just how old most of Manhattan is.

I do find it a little ironic that towards the bottom of the About page it quotes Le Corbusier:

> "New York is not a finished or completed city. It gushes up. On my next trip it will be different. Those of us who have visited it are asked this question: "When you were there in 1939, or in 1928, or in 1926, or in 1920, was such and such already there? Oh, really, you don't know then what an effect that makesl" Such is the rhythm of the city."

Considering that his Radiant City urban planning philosophy, along with Robert Moses, nearly disassembled this city, and some of the most infamous blights of NYC (and a cause of continued skepticism towards urban development) were executed under his design philosophies.
Contemplated as early as 1987: http://yarchive.net/risks/network_fry.html
Ok, we'll be adding vegan in the next release! Your wish is my command
I wonder what people think of this (and others like it)?
On the plus side, it makes automating tasks involving watching videos much easier. On the minus side, you skip out on the advertisements that the vendors use to justify making the content available in the first place.
Also, the site could change their "API" at anytime without warning causing it to break.
It makes sense to me too. I've never owned an Amazon device, or (I think) even touched one. I've heard middling things about them, but holding one in the hand could be enough to persuade me to pick one up.
Very cool, thanks for sharing.

I would like something similar for Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) to help with our local surveys

http://www.mndragonfly.org

There is a nice Odonata website/database, but it doesn't have API support like eBirds does

http://www.odonatacentral.org/index.php/PageAction.get/name/...

I've been meaning to build such an app but it hasn't made it to the top of my todo list yet.
I think you're right, and as someone else said the commanders, chiefs and detectives are promoted, not hired in, which makes limiting intelligent hires a terrible plan for longevity.
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It's just type inference. Rust doesn't do automatic integer coercion on arithmetic operations, so once it knows the type of any of the numbers it can deduce the types of all the rest.
Sorry to tell you that, at least as far as I can tell, that's a personal high score.
This was done by Disney Research http://www.disneyresearch.com/ . A lot of their work relates to robotics and display technology, as well as user input. I suppose the idea is that this kind of thing could be ultimately used for entertainment robots and exhibits like they have in the theme parks, or possibly movie special effects.
Thanks. I like the idea about offering a flat rate to get things off the ground. Did you ever do the blog post that you mentioned in the linked post?

After you got the basic knowledge, how did you progress to the design patterns - was it while working on apps or you devoted extra time to learn them?
I cringed when I read that phrase. What about smell? are you going to eat food that looks great but smells bad?

The visual aspect of food is highly overrated, it mostly stems from pretentious restaurants that emphasis the importance of presentation.

I agree that food is visual, but other senses such as smell, texture are equally, if not more important than the visual aspect.

The idea for this application is not new and it seems to be only available for iOS (I'm on Android) only so I don't have much to say about it. When I want to find a nice place to eat food, word of mouth from friends or colleagues is what I use.
They'd probably never close in some stations, like Victoria at rush hour :-)
That's an interesting perspective. I appreciate your response, however, that was not the case for me. Even the mistakes served as learning experiences.

When I learned code,I was told to do things in a certain way, sometimes not fully understanding why. By putting it into the real world context of actual projects, it solidified those concepts.
I don't make the assumption that linguistic background is static, only that it is possible that the way in which the language shapes perception can be the cause of disagreement. That is not to say that once this is resolved, linguistic background can't change. Linguistic background may change as a result of language creation disagreement.
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That's part of it, yes. But on what planet does it make sense to award the prize to the blue LED guys when the original developer of commercially-viable LEDs didn't receive it?
The lesson is actually "This was designed 35+ years ago in different constraints."

Memory and ROM were small and expensive and processors were in-order and slow. Putting the transcendental in microcode made sense, back then.

Now, memory is huge; processors are superscalar and speculative execution; vector units exist; and everybody ignores the built-in transcendentals, but Intel can't dump them for backwards compatibility.
What if you're too busy to bother reading the email in the first place? What if you signed up, and then instead of fishing out the confirm link, you got distracted and went off to do something else? Now someone's calling you and you don't know why.
I was hoping to look at some plan files remotely and tried finger. It connected but hung.