skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't multiple dispatch require run-time type analysis? If so wouldn't that go against Rust's philosophy of zero-cost abstractions?
Thanks for the link! Very sharp and cuts to the chase.
The 30" Cinema Display had 2 DVI connectors, which was nasty but necessary. So maybe Apple wouldn't be too disgusted by the thought of dual TB.

But if DP 1.3 is around the corner, and dual TB would be an ugly hack that is mutually exclusive with the new standard, I could see them steering clear from that.
Open Source Oculus Rift Optical Tracking Code
Your first mistake was writing a comment that didn't really add anything (if all you want is to express approval, click the upvote button) and your second mistake was complaining about it.
Investments work by building on top of something you earned in the past and so on.

If there is no incentive to get rich, or benefit by making money over a long term for you or your descendants the very motivation to contribute something valuable and make money along the way, goes away. So after a time you will be left wondering why a few capable people aren't sacrificing their lives making up for every body else.

Welcome to Soviet Russia!
Like lkrubner already points out, the cause and effect is probably the opposite of what a lot of people think.
We may think apprenticeship means business is treating its worker well, "investing" in them. But what did the workers really get? Here's a graph: http://www.businessinsider.com/core-unit-labor-costs-in-germ... Seems being a German worker is not that great?

I'll let Michael Pettis explain it: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/05/07/no_the_span...
If for some reason, you didn't move everything, you can see exactly what's taking so long. For me it was copying every NPM package on my machine.

https://twitter.com/kevinSuttle/status/513446291968651264
https://twitter.com/kevinSuttle/status/513447060499341313
I know it's hard to swallow, but it becomes less and less a problem the higher resolution the screen and the smaller the pixel.

I have one on my 15" rMBP, and I do not notice it unless I put my face within 6" of the screen.
Since over 60% of America's federal spending is aimed at improving people's living standards, I find your comment a bit hard to understand.
I'm curious, why should I delete /usr/local/Cellars?
The problem is the German model may be impossible to emulate. There's only going to be one top-end manufacturer in a given sector. Other countries can do what Germany is doing, but they're only going to be successful if the can displace the Germans.
Not that I know of. If you find a way to do that I'll add it to the post.
The "Synalyze It!" grammar format is XML, and the developer has some sample grammars for download:

https://www.synalysis.net/formats.xml

Having wanted a binary grammar format for a while, and just purchased the Pro version of "Synalyze It!" as a starting point, it would be interesting to hear a short non-specialist's summary of the relative merits of your approach to expressing grammars compared with an XML based approach like "Synalyze It!" ...

Overall, "Synalyze It!" seems mostly fairly stable and certainly a useful tool well worth the purchase price for the Pro version. However, it is closed source, by a small developer, on a single platform: would much prefer to rely on something with source code available ...
They used a forged certificate of ethics from a hospital

Pfizer didn't use forged certificates, the Nigerian doctor overseeing the trial forged the certificate.

I'm not saying Pfizer is without fault here, but it's a pretty complex situation.
Ask HN: How are you using vert.x?
I wanted to know how is the community using vert.x, what has been the experience if you are using it, suggestions/tips
That depends on what you use a VPN for. Tor will overlap, kind of, with some use cases (more anonymised exit points) but the two are not interchangeable. I believe from previous HN discussions (and am happy to be corrected by those more knowledgeable than I) that using both is probably your best bet for covering all use cases.
Then again, if you're not fairly careful, anyone with access to your google password can locate your phone, read your web history (Chrome), access backups of your photos, see a map of where you've been....

I support Google's decision here, but let's be honest, without being a hyper-vigilant user, the whole Google software ecosystem is an extraordinary piece of spyware itself.
I wonder how much it cost to be able to make the offering to the general public vs. under an exemption to institutional investors only. I'm not familiar with the rules around bond offerings vs. stock offerings. Apparently they have registered with the SEC and filed a prospectus: https://solarbonds.solarcity.com/assets/bond_document/4/?fil...

Also interesting they are selling direct through their own platform at https://solarbonds.solarcity.com. You can create an account, you have to give them your SSN, and then you transfer funds from a bank account and can start buying. I assume interest gets paid through the same platform. I wonder if it's actually a white label platform branded for them, or if it's a custom job.

So assuming they paid several million all told for the SEC registration, the platform, etc.... interesting to think how much cost you could wring out of the system with the right software.

Doesn't seem like it's all that popular just yet...

window.CA = {
VARS: {
CSRF_TOKEN: 'aieHa9QwqVQI557IUXQiJep7hD6yr3Ly',
STATIC_URL: '/static/',
user_id: '537',
is_admin: false
}
};
How does that square with existing taxpayer funded schools, then?
The horses beat the wagon to crap
It is fairly easy to swap out the sata HDD with a sata SSD, right?
Which I would argue that a persistent data structure allows you to go back in time to a snapshot. It doesn't actually attempt to mutate back to a previous state. But yes and yes.
Ask HN: Why is a 5K monitor exciting?
Ask HN: Why is a 5K monitor exciting? I don't see any huge benefits...
Schizophrenic recruitment pipelines
Instaparse ported to ClojureScript
well you get things like Google's Material design that have things like depth perception and strong color contrast.

It's not like we're abandoning everything, it's more about discovering new ways of doing things and then mix and matching until we get to something useful and coherent.
The initial height/weight/sex/race/ip address/browser is a pretty good combo and most likely the legit values.
You say "post-scarcity" like it's an inevitable scenario. Resources are finite. Energy is finite. Exponential growth doesn't last forever.
what I find crazy is machinists converting between fractions and decimal to work. i can't imagine how many mistakes must have been made because of that.
> There's only going to be one top-end manufacturer in a given sector.

What do you mean by sector? Germany and Japan (and the US) get along just fine as top-end manufacturers.
I used to have the same question, but having a remote tmux session that persists forever has turned out to be awesome.
The chart wasn't made for desktop monitors. It was made for TVs. It's from this article: http://www.cnet.com/news/why-ultra-hd-4k-tvs-are-still-stupi...
>I could be sitting in front of Android running on a 21-inch display using a normal keyboard and mouse.

Do you refer to some future possible Android or to the Android of today?

On a good day, how many people interact with Android with a mouse and without a touch screen to get real work -- programming or writing, say -- done? If your answer is more than a handful, then I'd like to ask you how you know that.
I'm 40. I create zero-day exploits at a government
contractor. People like me have tame lives and families,
so we don't live anywhere near San Francisco. We live in
places like Texas, Florida, Utah, and Nevada. In some of
these places you can get a suburban house for 5 digits.

P.S. you're pwned.
Protest at SF City Hall After Soccer Conflict with Dropbox, Airbnb Employees
In addition, the education system is in the hands of the states in Germany. So expect some regional differences.
nope, its all compile time.
its just that instead of deciding which impl to pick based upon information X, youre using a pair of pieces of information (X,Y)

Edit, also I think the "convertable" class idea is nearly expressible using associated types in rust today,but im not 100% certain about that
Yup. If I was to put together another HTPC, this would be the ideal product I think (something that runs XBMC). I spent about $800 (sigh..) on putting together something a lot bulkier and noisier about a year ago.
It's not. It's just another toy. Here's a picture of Thompson and Ritchie creating Unix: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix#History. I don't see any 5K monitors.
Couldn't you argue that 100% of federal spending is aimed at improving people's living standards (military, police, firefighters, global economic trade relations, etc)?

What specifically do you mean by the 60%?
Seems that new generation of apple's hardware comes with RAM welded, being un-upgradable after "bought".
Bluetooth is not a replacement for wifi audio.
perhaps the mirror doesn't need to be a monolithic one...If I were to do that, I would install many smaller mirrors around the earth -- then the burning process could go on around the clock 24 hours non-stop, and it would have higher availability (as the probability for all the area in the day time zone to be covered by clouds and storms is expected to be small)...

Some extra advantages for this distributed approach is modularity (you just need to design and create one mold and production of many would be easy), scalability (in case you find the current mirrors are not powerful enough), as well as re-configurability (in case you want to have a long conversation with the presumable Martians, and not just a single message)...

Then on the Martian side, if they could see our mirrors, then this might just look like a LCD monitor from far away...
It appears the 30% tax credit Solar City relies on is set to expire at the end of 2016.
I definitely agree with this. It represents an interesting power shift; before the core technology was your SIM, and your phone shifted around your carrier. Apple kind of wants to change this by making it so that the iPhone is at the center, with the carrier being subservient to the consumers' whims. I would think this is a step too far for most carriers, but then again, Apple got carriers to agree to it...
People should be able to install whatever software on their computers they want. "What if so-and-so grabs such-and-such's phone and installs it?" Well, the same thing applies to my PC. A lot of opsec goes out the window with physical access. Put a passcode on your phone.
What an aggressive response. :/

Thanks for the indirect pointer on how to correct the issue though. If you hard refresh you can zoom now.
Probably because they weren't fed very well, you see see their bones.
The screen has 4x more pixels, but the graphics subsystem isn't 4x faster.
Yes, and the value of out minus in correlating with the complainant's bandwidth experience.
Pretty sure OkCupid is worse for guys in the Bay Area because the influx of software engineers (who are both mostly male, and the kind of people to try online dating) skews the site's demographics.
Perhaps latency? Suppose it takes 0.5-1 second to switch between "Off" and "Lowest brightness" when turning On/Off the GPU, that could create a bad experience when every other brightness change is instantaneous. Though it is a great power optimization idea, if the (unknown to me) downsides aren't too bad!
Salesforce Wave
ElectronInks: A Pen That Draws Circuits
I've had serious performance issues with Yosemite. For one, dragging around windows became extremely janky; this appears to be caused by the transparency (and the limitations of my first-generation Retina MBP), as the option to disable it fixes the jank. For another, opening a new tab in Safari started lagging about a full second before I could start typing in the address bar, which is a ridiculous amount of time compared to the previous version or competition. I was able to fix this by disabling Top Sites, but while I don't actually use Top Sites much, I never had to disable it before, and most users won't know to do that, making it a serious regression. (Chrome actually takes quite a while to load its equivalent - I don't know whether it's for the same reason or not - but it does it asynchronously, so I can start typing in the address bar almost immediately.)

On top of that, there are serious performance issues with the built-in Japanese IME, although I'm not completely sure how much of this is new, and I experienced a bug where WindowServer would randomly start hogging CPU, which may or may not be related to said IME.

Given all these problems, I'm surprised that the general consensus seems to be that the performance is good. But maybe I'm somehow a special case. (The Safari issue is the most egregious - is it that many OS X users don't use Safari in the first place?)
Thanks. Got it working now.
Thanks, that was a surprisingly good read. In a similar vein, there's also the `Duales Studium', which gives vocational experience and a bachelor's degree.
Google removing an app for spying? Isn't that like the pot calling the kettle black?
The points raised by the parent don't need to be addressed because they are just innuendo.
Humbleness is an important quality of someone who is ready to learn: If someone is arrogant they've agreed that they're the best they can aspire to be. Fire accordingly.
Sidecar and SFO Reach Milestone Agreement
Chinese and Germans in the United States also do very well in the economy. Maybe there's some third factor that we're missing.

These kind of articles make the implicit assumption that countries are the same except for being located in different locations, and that successful institutions from one can be transplanted to another. But each is an organic entity, with different histories and cultures
Meh... I'm actually a fan of XP's design, although I can't tell how much of that is actual aesthetic appreciation and how much just nostalgia. Colors are nice, yet the interface as a whole was actually less flashy than its successors, as the last pre-GPU-compositing Windows, making for a solid whole. But I also liked Aero's glossiness, which I'm happy to see somewhat reflected in Yosemite - nor did I ever have an issue with OS X, although iOS 6 was a bit much for my taste. (On the other hand, I also like iOS 7. The only design I seriously don't like is Google's, for reasons I'll elaborate on the off-chance anyone cares.)
"The average person isn't as well equipped to deal with large problems as the elite are. "

I tend to disagree but I guess it depends on your definition of "Elite". If I define "Elite" as wealthy people than you are wrong. Most rich people, especially if the wealth is inherited, have little to no idea how to solve "large" problems and what are the problems in the world.

I give you two quotes to think about. Both quotes are not meant condescending but just shows how out of touch they were with the common people.

Finally I recalled the stopgap solution of a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread, and who responded: "Let them eat brioche." (Queen Marie Antoinette)

"An ancient Chinese emperor who, being told that his subjects didn't have enough rice to eat, replied, 'Why don't they eat meat?' (何不食肉糜？)Emperor Hui of Jin in Zizhi Tongjian.
Oh there's a lot of the states having their hands on education in the United States too.
"Diversity" is code for anti white discrimination. Whenever you hear the word "diversity" know that it very much means deliberate anti white racism. We destroy over 4% of GDP every year on "diversity."

http://vimeo.com/16078350
People should be able to install whatever software on their computers they want.

I absolutely agree, but Apple and Google certainly don't (and Microsoft appears to be joining them.) They'll all claim that the reason they're restraining you is "for your safety", which is easily accepted by most consumers but not the ones who value freedom more. Sadly, the latter category appears to be a gradually decreasing minority.
You just have to store the constraint in your VC or custom view. You still need to use frames sometimes though. I have found that scrollviews and AutoLayout are arch-nemesises.
I dunno but doesn't the FAA do a fairly good job? I suppose failures in air flight result in obvious, immediate, disasters so it's a bit easier to keep everyone accountable.

I am pretty surprised that this Indian company got away with so much and just kept going. What did the FDA have to lose? Was this big in the mainstream news?
Same here, plus brightness near zero with no flicker because no PWM

Many of these new monitors use PWM for brightness which gives headaches
Already been done. You can get Estimote Stickies (http://estimote.com). I go their larger Beacons when the first came out to play with there SDK. Works very nice :)
Coanda Effect: Understanding Why Wings Work
I would argue that producing the first 5k display that will be purchased by the 'masses' is the real innovation here.
non-malicious apps can distinguish themselves by following the google play guidelines on security and privacy - if you are monitoring the user, you have to have a persistent notification. you can't secretly monitor somebody's behaviour and then claim your app isn't a spying tool.
Having owned 3 BMWs and two VWs no, I dont. The Volkswagens were garbage, and the BMWs were fun, on the same level as Hoda, which I also enjoyed.
OS X isn't flat. There is still shading and drop shadows. They just turned down the gloss from 11 to something less overbearing. When the UI gets chromed to the hilt like iOS6 or older OS X versions, it becomes a distraction from the app/content.
I'm curious about Teva, they are the other large (and foreign-owned - Israel) generic manufacturer selling in the US.
And google plus can be installed and configured to share location with someone else. Yet it's a clearly just a social app, though it doesn't show a notification that it's sharing your location.

Just because something can be used maliciously doesn't make it malicious. When people take that idea to the next level, we get abuse like Microsoft shutting down no-ip.
What you're saying is basically boils down to maximizing the complexity (integrated information) of the system. That is possible by increasing differentiation and integration. It is better power to be divided in more fragments, each differentiated from the rest, and then integrated with each other so as to be forced to create a dynamic equilibrium. That's what our brains are doing too, on a scale much more complex.

As reference, the concept of integrated information was developed by Giulio Tononi but I applied it in a different field.
When we read text on a monitor, lots of tricks are needed to make it look acceptable given that the number of pixels involved are so few: anti aliasing, font hinting to remove display artifactsm and so on. These are only partially effective, and you can usually see the pixels in some way. For vectors it's even worse...no font hinting, sub pixel alignments are common, plenty of crappy artifacts. Compare to reading from a high ppi laser printer...everything looks so nice and smooth. Today, our displays are still dot matrix.

Basically, a 5K monitor gives you the experience of not being able to see the pixels...what you see looks more like a high quality printout and less like pixel art.
Chronicle: Replicate your Key Value Store across your network
not everyone owns an iphone, also here we are talking about another apple device
What blows my mind is that time and time again we call ourselves a developed nation and still allow companies like Ranbaxy to play around with the health of our and the world's citizens.

And Ranbaxy - how can people there sleep at night. How
There is no contradiction. You're assuming the American model. German workers and their unions work hard to ensure that they're always updating their skills. I worked in Germany for 8 years and I'd estimate that at least 10% of a workers time over a year is spent on training updates and cross training. They're dead serious about keeping workers for life.
...why...exactly would I bid for a video?

This smells an awful lot like someone just trying to get people to give them money.
What is it? I never heard of M#
As an engineer involved with recruiting: how would I stumble across your profile/resume, and how much time do you expect engineers to spend clicking through LinkedIn profiles? Would it be a positive or negative sign to you if the company that's recruiting you is having engineers filter out candidates instead of writing code?
Battery life ... I think the 30 days figure is the minimum spec, but in reality it can go on longer, depending on age of battery, i.e. when it was last replaced.
i agree considering what a dude the first Mini was. i'd imagine it's inventory clearance tactic. I'd be shocked if they actually build them.
True, but you can't sneak the Google ecosystem into someone's phone the way you can sneak conventional spyware into it. Or can you? Hmm...
>It's an unpopular opinion, but I don't think that everyone should have a roughly equal say in how things go. The average person isn't as well equipped to deal with large problems as the elite are. Everyone has different specialties, and different volumes of abilities. You wouldn't let an intern have an equal say as a senior engineer when designing the core infrastructure. You especially wouldn't let the janitor have an equal say - he's got no experience in desiging such things!

>I'm always very uneasy about equality talks because all people are not equally suited to make global policy decisions. Nor are they equally incentivized to make the most informed and rational decisions.

I completely agree with this, however I don't think the guiding principle behind having a democracy in the first place, is that you'll arrive at optimum (or even good) policy decisions, provided you give everyone a say. Rather, the franchise is supposed to serve as a check on the wealthy and the ruling class, so that they can not monopolize political power. If the disparity in wealth and power grows too great, they can circumvent even that, which is what we're seeing happen in the West now.
That's kind of the whole crux of the problem. It's all just culture. Some mathematicians like to act like math is a universal language that transcends culture, but ultimately it's impossible for a human to communicate anything without the basis of culture, so that dirty, ol' not-hard-science has to creep in somewhere. Or else what is the use of it, if you can't talk about it?

If we were more focused as a culture on a base-12 system, we'd be using a base-12 numbering system as well, in which case 12^4 would be written as "10000", leaving us to ask the crazy base-10 proponents just how easy they expect it would be to represent 10^4 ("5954" in base 12).

Base-2's popularity has nothing to do with 2^10 ~= 10^3, except where it serves hard drive manufacturers to sow uncertainty around the difference between Mibi- and Mega- bytes. Otherwise, it's just happy circumstance. Base-2 works because binary computers were ready for work before trinary computers were developed.

The numbers are only useful because we've decided as a culture that they should be so. There is nothing sacrosanct about the number 10 (or 12 for that matter). As all things, mathematics is only useful insofar as it is useful. We get to choose the way we abstract reality. It's kind of one of the things that makes us human.
You could also argue that it's much closer to 0%.
It actually has meaning, unlike most scroll captures.

I also like how (about 3/4 down the page) they capture the background iMac image on the left and keep it "sticky" during scroll, but not completely stationary -- it still responds and gives slight feedback, which makes it 99% less annoying. Nice.