skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This map shows the weird names Americans have given the night before Halloween
Lets all accept one undisputable fact: NOBODY CAN EXPLAIN HOW THE INCAS MADE THEIR SITES. If you accept this, you are on the right path.
It's not so much the question as the pattern (either noticing a new pattern, or the break of an existing pattern).
Everything operates in patterns, and some are more pleasing or more jarring than others. In either of these cases, it may spur you into investigating further, which may lead to an interesting discovery. Whether that discovery is useful or beautiful to other people or not is irrelevant.
http://www.shadowstats.com -- try that. See who opened that site. And no, they are not charging close to $200 / year and have the type of Customers they do because the US Gov stats are trustworthy. See which insitutions follow thesee stats vs. official stats, you will be surprised.

And just logically thinking, really: don't you think that the debtor with debt in USD that prints USD at the same time, doesn't have an incentive to under-report inflation? The situation is akin to you being able (as a debtor) to set APR on your own mortgage.

And then, the mystery of people complaining about raising prices of food, gas, housing, everything, and then believing in the official propaganda of "no inflation" in the past 7 years. Are you kidding me? Is your insurance cost the same as 7 years ago? Is the grocery bill the same? Cars cost the same? Maybe equities propped by inflationary policy have the same price?

I don't care if Nobel Price in Economics Krugman tells me I have no inflation for 7 years when I have been shopping for 7 years, watching equities and bond markets, just to know better. Sure, Keynsians are paid "economists" to peddle the idea of no inflation, they are all paid by Government. What do you expect them to do? Report 5-10% inflation y/y ?

And inflation is often hidden: $50k BMW 5-series is now 4-cylinder. Used to be 6. The can of coke in Germany for 1 euro used to be 330ml. Now it is 250ml. Price stays the same. So on, so forth. Isn't that inflation?
There is also less mobility due to increased taxes and regulations. What do you think would happen if we had all of the regulations and taxes people here on HN wanted in place?

Small businesses would go under, it would be increasingly difficult to start a business because of the regulations in place and the only entities left would be large corporations and the government. I guess this is the end goal?

you can still succeed if you are poor. Poor many times comes along with a mindset that will prevent you from succeeding. I grew up with little to no money and built a business from scratch, which can now support my family. Many people I know are still poor. I've tried to help them, but they just don't want to listen.

This used to be the American Dream, but now I just hear complaining by people that are putting little to no effort into bettering themselves. There are tons of jobs out there and houses are at an all-time low, yet many still complain bout both.
So you're saying that stifling political discourse by firing people (or forcing them to quit) - as long as you really, really, disagree with them - is acceptable. Got it. For the sake of yourself and your loved ones, I hope you never voice an unpopular opinion.
When I have plans to bike to work, I usually stage extra sets of work clothes/shoes at my office the day before(when I take mass transit), so I can carry a light load on my bike commute.

Luckily for me, my office provides showers and lockers, a laptop I can keep at home, and free lunch on the premises, so load is not much of an issue for me.

If you do need to carry some stuff, you can always get a pannier(a bag mounted to the side of your rear wheel), which is more comfortable than a bookbag filled with stuff.
You just listed how the Canadian policy lets the husband take time also (more time, if they want, such as in your case). That suggests that companies would be equally "punished" by hiring men who want families. Why would that policy only harm women's employment options?
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He "cheats" by putting multiple statements on one line:

noun(c){A z;if(c<'0'||c>'9')R 0;z=ga(0,0,0);z->p=c-'0';R z;}

would be

noun(c){
A z;
if(c<'0'||c>'9')
R 0;
z=ga(0,0,0);
*z->p=c-'0';
R z;
}

In this forms, it's still cryptic, but not quiet as inscrutable.
The key word in my sentence that I believe you overlooked is fear. Fear is often irrational.

I can guarantee, however, that there's some bully somewhere using the fact that some poor kid owns an iPod as today's premise for insinuating that his victim is [insert homophobic slur here]. More than likely, this is happening in my home town. (Fuck that place.)
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> video codecs, etc.) prefer the intrinsics.

Prefer assembly. Intrinsics usually make a disaster of register allocation and you lose much of your performance to needless load/stores.
A playback of that final game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwmIHnEHfr8
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Yes, but you don't typically replace the same domain with two totally different services. You create 2 new domains. I would never pay someone for a service when they've repeatedly shown that they're willing to throw out the system people have started depending on and replace it with something radically different. Not only can I not trust the stuff to stay around, I can't trust the developer to have enough of an attention span to care about the old stuff enough to even just leave it alone to keep working in maintenance mode.
Read through the comments of an indian news website. Makes me sad. We should love more. I hope people are better than that. A lot of sexuality based and religion based hate. I hope things improve. I hope people love more.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Being-gay-...
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If you're in SF, you have no excuse not to get out.

Companies that make you use PTO for sick days have given up on playing against the market and are now playing against their employees. Avoid, avoid, avoid.
There are incentives that come with working at startups like broader job ownership, stock options (long term investment), and agile development. Then there are incentives that are inherent in all Big Corps. like the large bonuses you mentioned, job security and generally acceptable work hours. Choosing between the two really boils down to your own ambitions and value of time off from work.

Personally, I am very happy at a Big Co. because my schedule is flexible and not insanely demanding (45hr/wk).
They're being a bit trite in bandying the word "psychopathy" about. I think a better term would be eccentricity. Genius does tend to come with psychological quirks (usually the filtering of mundane things in a way others consider odd), but most of them are usually harmless.
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The author doesn't claim ancient greeks did it (though one of his sources does.) Stone softening is an interesting idea and a heck of a lot less crazy than "aliens did it."
This is the main difference between Deism and Theism. Deists (like Thomas Jefferson), did not believe that god was still around, but had just started the whole shebang and then left.

Also, even in Theism you can have a pretty hands-off god. In modern Catholicism, evolution probably made him gay, but god created evolution. Pope John Paul II wrote an encyclical accepting evolution ages ago, so Catholicism doesn't require god to be involved with every single detail of creation.
Can we also accept that the "those ignorant savages could never have accomplished this" subtext is ludicrous?
Actually, I think the psychological weight of both notifications and infoglut in general is a very valid concern, but I think making crazy assumptions / rants is silly.

Case in point, what if I told you not only can you turn off the notifications completely (which we established earlier), and that no notification icons show up on the main screen (which is obvious from the video/screen shots - we're not talking about old-school LCD stencils, after all), but that you can further manage the tiles so even if you can't control yourself from actively swiping around you won't see anything?

Because now that I have the device on my wrist and the app on my phone, that's exactly what you can do.

I have very little skin in this game (it annoys me slightly to see rants w/o any basis necessarily in reality, but life's too short for arguing on the Internet), but maybe it can be better to be more reserved about a product critique until having seen how it actually works?
This is great news. It truly sets the bar and changes the paradigm in the crypto space.
> The current Pope has been very forward-thinking (in Catholic church scales) in 'relaxing' views about contraception, homosexuality, etc.

He's been very good at mood music. He's been completely useless at actual substantive change on those issues. He gets very good press for saying nice things, which is as good as the Catholic Church is going to get.

Meanwhile, he's meeting and blessing Museveni, the leader of Uganda. http://uganda.news24.com/National-News/President-Museveni-me...

And then there's the anti-gay Spanish cardinal he appointed. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-francis-...

With change like this...
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Jiminy Christmas, that's slow.

Disclaimer: I'm on an unreliable hotel internet connection.

On the other hand, most of the world is on bad internet connections all the time.

Loading the images on mouseover (or whatever) would avoid having to wait for that massive slug of data.

I sure don't want to be loading that much data every time I go to the site, especially not on expensive mobile bandwidth, and especially since (as others noted) the images appear to be uncacheable.

So: nice job on the look, not so great on the bandwidth. :-)
> It's not possible to do anything that needs interrupts, IO, or memory without an external library, which if you're that low you're gonna be writing yourself either way.

That external library is called a runtime in compiler design classes.

> Accessing individual registers is also a special behavior that doesn't really fall under using C, and regardless that totally possible without a runtime (the __asm__ keyword, thats all compiler driven).

The __asm__ keyword is not part of ANSI C, it is a language extension.

Not all C compilers offer support for inline assembly and in fact, a few commercial ones do not.

> If you're going to get so specific as to call the x86 processor a runtime, then there's no point in arguing.

Where did I mentioned anything like this?
the article uses the word "psychopathology" which is notably different from psychopathy. the form of pscyhopathology referred to here is psychosis, not psychopathy or anti-social personality disorder.
a lot of comments here suggested focusing on style (use a thesaurus, by the way), and that's all well and good, but good writing flows from thoughtful reflection. it's about digging deeper into the material you want to comment on and trying to weave a narrative with threads of experience that are unique to you. you don't need flowery language, really. you need interesting thoughts.

how do you get interesting thoughts? some people have suggested reading, and that's a good way. but also try to have life experiences outside the norm. spend time with people you don't feel entirely comfortable with. try to understand their lives. go places that feel slightly dangerous. ask 'why?' expose yourself to a diversity of ideas. study topics that really interest you.

let these things inform your viewpoint. pull such perspectives from the far reaches of your brain and mold them to fit the topic at hand. sometimes it turns into an engaging comment, and other times, not so much. don't worry about these latter cases.

and choose what you comment on based on how uniquely you can add to the discussion.
It's heart warming to see the world become a better place. I'm glad Tim did this; While it is a small article, it will be remembered and it will change some people's live. Just as others have done before him, and will after him, it will lead us to a more accepting culture that we need to continue to striving to be.
Or at the very least, for the love of $deity, turn show_dead off.
Don't hold your breath. http://www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/value-objects2
This is actually pretty cool. Crashed my FF once, but otherwise good concept.

EDIT: Works /flawlessly/ with google chrome.
"Suicide victims like painters Vincent Van Gogh ..."

Van Gogh very likely did not kill himself.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-15328583
I guess what I'm trying to point out is that psychopathy, genius, and eccentricity have the same semantic roots. They all indicate some offset from an average.
When I had a L920, I noticed the charging plate and phone would get really hot, even after the phone is charged to 100%. Through the wire, the heat is minimal like every other phone. So, base on heat dissipation, I would say yes.
I used to cycle with a backpack, and it would always make my back sweaty, no matter the weather or the exertion I put into my ride.

Then a couple of years ago I went on a bike tour, so I upgraded my bike and got some actual panniers to store stuff.

The change was amazing! Not only can you carry more, but you also avoid the strain and sweatiness of having a backpack.
They could have just said good luck. If it back fired he would have had a hard time saying he was taking a lower offer. it was a gamble and it paid off.
Sorry, if you are going to re-define 'hurting people' to mean 'making a modest political donation to a mainstream position that some argue is discriminatory' I don't know what to tell you. This hard line perspective stifles an open society. In this case, money is speech, and regardless of how wrong it is it's not the kind of speech I'd classify as harmful. ("Fire in a crowded theater.")
Comparing donating to an active hate group to a campaign doesn't make sense. The amount is irrelevant, I'll give you that but in my opinion something someone did six years ago isn't going to determine my opinion of something now.

In six years time Brendan could have gone through a lot of experiences that changed his opinion on marriage and based on his statement I would have given him the benefit of the doubt.
Kudos on the name thing!
>The many employers you're thinking of are typically in the STEM fields or highly unionized gov't, manufacturing, transportation industries.

Not trying to start an argument, but do you have any sources for this? I work for an independent school and my benefits are fantastic.
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What angel investors are really buying from you? Hint: it's not your company :)
It's a very nice 3d primitives collection, but I don't see how it is CAD (at least in context of mechanical engineering).
- First of all, as a mechanical engineer, you're not dealing with surfaces, you're dealing with 3D objects, created using sets of operations: extrusion, revolution, sweep, etc. (ideally you want to reproduce the manufacture process of a part; in some systems then you can export these operations into series of commands for CNC machine).
- Secondary, if the output is not CNC machine, it's usually paper. Then the end result of CAD 3D modelling is a series of sections, projections, tools to annotate dimenstions, put tolerances, etc.
The key is that Mozilla is betting hard on Emscripten/asm.js building marketshare/mindshare into the future, and being perceived as being exactly as performant and reliable as C/C++ running in a native process. SIMD.js should of course be able to run from non-asm.js code... but that's more of a bonus (since that's an almost-strict subset of the work required to get it to work on asm.js code, AFAIK).
The interesting thing about the Monte Carlo approach is that it depends on the property that a randomly chosen move (or branch) can be representative of a similar set of moves. In a game like Go this is true because there are many sequences of moves that end up in exactly the same game state, and slight variations of board position have the same utility. But in chess, slight variations in every board position will have huge impact on the outcome of the came. Raw calculation is a necessary component of strong play and intuition is much less useful.
Anyone who will unironically define themselves as a genius has issues with ego. Genius is something only history can bestow on people.
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Except this isn't him "cheating", this is his preferred coding style, for readability!
You mean like the bits about the "great gift" of holy matrimony and God's intention "man and wife" to be joined "as one flesh" that crop up at basically every single Christian wedding?
I am old enough that this was significantly more difficult in my time than it appears to be, now. Namely, lots of exposure.

Access to videos, even non-boring audio, not to mention to native speakers, was much more difficult and limited for the average language learner in the U.S. at that time.

For one foreign language, limited access to pop music that I rather enjoyed helped significantly. Listening to it repeatedly helped me absorb the sound of the language.

For another, a very early and successful foray into video taped lessons that had a running, dramatic and humorous story as a major component proved quite effective. SO much better than those dreadful, "repeter" audio cassettes. In addition to the language itself, the videos provided, without explicitly describing it all, a lot of cultural context.

Speaking and writing did, of course, also help. All the passive, listening and observing understanding does not fully form those neural pathways.

But when it did come to speaking and writing, I started off with a much better idea of how the language actually sounds, what the day-to-day idioms and colloquialisms are. I wasn't simply trying to translate my thoughts, word for word, into the other language -- something that often ends up sounding rather off and that, inadvertently, takes on different meanings from those intended.

When I arrived in one foreign city, acquaintances who eventually became friends told me that I sounded "like and old book". Because in my literature classes, that had been my primary exposure. With time in the "real", contemporary world of that language, this changed.

So, don't overdue or rely on "memorization". That conscious level activity has its limits. Take advantage of today's media-rich world to gain as much exposure as you can. And beware of the contexts of that media; just as in your native tongue, people speak differently in different contexts. Fortunately, e.g. in video, it's often easy to get some idea of what context is being portrayed.

Oh, and do read a lot, too. I have some exposure to a few languages orally, where I'd have a hard time writing down a few words much less complete sentences.

Nonetheless, you need the other exposure I describe to have a fuller sense of the language and to "sound right".
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I don't know what you mean. Please rephrase.
I think Norwegians make it from cod, while Swedes (and we Finns) use ling.
As a parent from Canada I feel so sorry for parents in the US.

That you consider only 12 weeks as "abuse" is even more depressing.
"The fundamental axiom here is that at any given moment, exactly one task is active on a CPU."

Maybe I missed it, and I did check the earlier post and I understand this is trying to be a simplification, but what was the argument for why I should take the above axiom? Was there one?

Or I am just being too literal and all the author is really trying to say is the current task pointer must always be valid, in Linux. Which is probably true enough (I don't know Linux well) but a much less powerful statement.

From the post contents I suspect the author is using OS as a synonym for Linux.
True. I didn't notice that.

The definition of psychopathology still indicates "disorder," though, which in the case of science in general indicates a departure from a generally observed and accepted order.
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>> What are the other views of how a diety may function?

Well, what makes a deity a deity? Surely 'creating the universe' is sufficient to qualify. Why assume that a creator has any interest in the universe? Every day I create a new configuration of a complex, thriving ecosystem in my bowels. I don't give a crap about all those little bacteria living their little bacteria lives. Last week I saw someone drop paint on the floor, and it splattered in a beautiful pattern. They didn't even notice the beauty they had created.

If God was truly powerful and awesome, why stop at one universe? Why assume that the creation of the universe was even worthy of their notice?

Most of the 'founding fathers' of the US were Deists. They believed in a God who created a universe, wound it up, and let it go on its own. For many reasons (including the supposed existence of free will), many people who believe this also believe that God had no idea how the universe would evolve over time. Some believe the opposite.

All of the scientists I've known, who also believe in God, also believe that God plays ZERO active role in anything that is happening in the universe. For some, God is the fully incomprehensible outside of all time and space. For others, God simply manages the afterlife, and leaves the universe to its own machinery.

There are so many views on God, and God's role. The important thing is to ask: Why do people assume that if God has quality X, then God must also have quality Y? Does it actually follow, or is it just an unjustified belief that it must be so?

I have trouble believing that someone smart enough to run the worlds richest company would think that his God intentionally, specifically, knowingly chooses individuals' sexual orientations - especially given what I believe he must know about the science behind orientation-related proclivities.

I could be wrong. Maybe Cook is brilliant at business and ignorant of science.

I just suspect that he was intentionally, perhaps a little dishonestly, saying that bit about God for some well considered reason related to the fact that fundamentalist christians in the US are the main source of homophobia in this country.

TL;DR - See "Deism", for example.
Of course I would stand for your freedom to believe what you want and to say what you want. But the freedom to criticize is equally important counterbalance. It so common to see any criticism of religion suppressed and treated as tantamount to racism.

By allowing certain ideas to remain immune from criticism, we risk throwing away all of the advances made since the Enlightenment, and paving the way to a world where bad, unsupported claims are allowed to flourish unchecked. No free and open society can exist for long if certain ideas become sacred cows. If the ideas of any religion are strong or true, then let them defend themselves in the open market place of ideas without the crutch of political correctness.
Dead trees (cellulose) keep the carbon pretty fine.

Build more wooded houses, etc. It's important to not let them rot, though, because this releases CO₂ back to the atmosphere.