skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll need to be more careful about what you're asking for, because 4 points in 3D always gives a convex tetrahedron, as there are no non-convex tetrahedra. The convex hull of four points (no three colinear) is a tetrahedron.
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dont torrent chunks show up out of order?
Mega-laffo if you think that the super-rich don't want to become ultra-rich.
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Your blog is answering so many young adult-hood questions I had about many things Atari, it's unbelievable.
I'm liking asciidoc but wondering if anyone has married it to high quality website "skins". I googled and found some websites done in asciidoc but they all look pretty basic. Has anyone done anything that looks more professional, like a marketing company did it? If it costs money that is fine.
This was just an MVP so didn't bother to put too much effort into tackling Information Cascading.[1]

I was hoping that because there are many answers above the folder, it might negate information cascading.

Lack of diversity will be definitely be a problem =D

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_cascade
I can see this in myself. I usually have about 48oz of coffee each day. Obviously less on some days and maybe more on others. On days that I don't drink coffee, I can't tell a difference in my alertness or energy. Honestly, I just really really love the taste, and knocking back a cup is a actually a great stress reliever for me.

Edit: Now that I think about it, my dad is the same way. I've watched him multiple times drink a cup or two before bed and have no problems sleeping. On the other hand, my mom can drink a 12oz cup and get a nice boost of energy.
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Well their competitors are free to charge even more if they want :)
No this is how you stream torrents.

Normally you request what ever chunk a seeder has available. But instead you request in order. This slows your speed (slightly), but a torrent likely will still finish before the movie has making the point moot.
I have a simple question:
Why are sites like Hipmunk, Kayak etc called "travel search" sites?
Travel is far more than booking flights, hotels, cars, cruises and vacation packages

At best sites like this are booking sites for xyz but I have a heard time reconciling the appropriateness of "travel search"

What am I missing?
Satire/commentary on the sharing economy
Can you explain more what you think is unfair about the test? I've only given it[1] a brief read and it certainly is a synthetic benchmark, but it doesn't seem absurdly artificial.

I've certainly written JS that builds trees, modifies them, tears them down, and builds new ones, all within the same event loop turn, and so would certainly benefit from incremental GC in the cases when the data it's working over is very large (or it's just a part of an app that's already been burning through a large number of allocations).

[1] https://code.google.com/p/octane-benchmark/source/browse/tru...
If cloud operators provided Fiber Channel networking, they would probably consume most of the flex capacity of those that need supercomputers. One example I know of (for weather simulations no less) has >100 tflops capacity, but their utilization is about 30% because they have little ability to level load for their customers.
Also worth seeing - http://armpit.sourceforge.net/
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DDG results have greatly improved over the last year. I tried switching from Google to DDG a couple years ago, but didn't last more than a week. DDG results are as good (and nicer looking) than Google for general searches, but I still rely on Google for needle in a haystack searches.
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Unless I'm missing something, the claim that becoming a taxi driver can become a well-salaried, middle-class job for a significant number of people is patent nonsense. There is a reason that taxis look the way they do and are driven by the people who currently drive them, and regulations and licensing is only a small part of that.

Uber might disrupt the taxi industry, maybe for the better, but once equilibrium is reached, incomes for drivers will have shifted to the right slightly, at best.

It's hard for me to understand what the long play is for Uber's investors. Given the sheer volume of demand for rides, the relative ease of copying this service, and the number of cars owned by Americans, I don't see how their large revenues can be anything other than temporary. I think the investors are playing the short game.
The current options are $80 development and $200 for production a month. I would like to see a $60 option for starter, but I would imagine the benefits of the mesosphere deployment are better seen on a higher number of instances.
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> Although Hipmunk has raised $40 million in venture capital funding — $20 million of it in May from Oak Investment Partners and others — it decided not to lavish it on television advertising like competitors “because that means going head-to-head against companies spending hundreds of millions a year.”

> Mr. Goldstein would not discuss specific financial terms of the company’s deals with Yahoo and Yelp, but said they would participate in the benefits Hipmunk received — commissions, usually — when one of its users booked a flight or hotel through a travel partner.

Hipmunk's position in such a competitive market is not enviable.

These types of revenue sharing deals often look very attractive on paper because they don't require much if any capital, but they can be disastrous and far more costly in the long run. In a good outcome, you frequently end up with a handful of partners who drive most of your business, effectively own many of the customers they send you, and have a permanent claim on a substantial portion of your margin.

Put simply, these deals tend to defer the hard costs associated with customer acquisition but also drive them up.
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Chrome has all those features too, it let's you add search engines via right-clicking a searchbox, ,you can change the search keyword, and "<search-keyword> <search-terms>" in the omnibar works as described by you.
Annoying as this game is, its simple game mechanic is far superior to Flappy Bird. It's genius. If some form of this doesn't go totally viral, then it's way underrated.
Yes, examples are critical. It is possible, however, to make the examples TOO simple. I've seen this a lot in the documentation for libraries in the programming language R. The examples are so stripped down and abstracted from what you would use in actual work that you can't see how to apply them in a useful situation.
What can legally be done to prevent something like this? It's worth noting that this is not nearly as bad as the kind of stuff that ISPs do in some other countries...
So this is a key check out service that hooks into google drive and drop box?
Lots of teenage boys in agricultural communities today seem to have plenty of time to hunt down and kill cats.
So the main Bitcoin network needs to be aware of and to be able to analyze the entire Sidecoin sidechain?

So if only a total of 5 Bitcoin were ever sent/frozen to the sidechain, then only 5 Bitcoin can ever be retrieved/unlocked?

So when the Sidecoin sidechain was first created each Sidecoin was worth 0.1 Bitcoin. So after three weeks there are now 10,000 Sidecoins, each worth 0.0005 Bitcoin? Is this a general rule for sidechains? Why did you say "likely"? Is that because none of the details of sidechains have been worked out?

Transactions on sidechains are mined in to blocks, right? So if someone mined 8,000 Sidecoins of those 10,000, they've now got 4 Bitcoin? If someone then sent/froze an additional 5 Bitcoin to the Sidecoin sidechain, then that would generate 10,000 new Sidechains?

So the incentives to mine Sidecoins would correspond to the total number of Bitcoin that has been sent to the sidechain? If 5 Bitcoin were only ever sent to Sidecoin, then all the mining in the world could only ever lead to a total of 5 Bitcoins?

So for Sidecoins to be economically viable and therefor functional, someone would need to be constantly injecting Bitcoin in to the sidechain, right?
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In addition to what others replied, you might be interested in this presentation by Benjamin Hindman (who co-created Mesos) to see how it all fits together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1-UEIG7u5g
You assume he is doing something wrong, but using torrents to stream video is probably amoral, not immoral.
please elaborate. what makes this superior to flappy bird?
It has the best developer tools. You just have to be careful to not use the es6 features that aren't in stable Chrome yet.
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I cast aside written French input. I still had to produce output. And I did learn, under supervision, how to write well during these years; using French as a target language but that knowledge has proven to be highly re-usable. I'm lost writing correct French without a spell checker.
That right there is a perfect example of wage slavery. You worry about taking action because you might lose your job and not be able to feed your kids. Just because you don't see or feel the chains doesn't mean they aren't there.

Pick up a book on contracting and negotiation. I suggest the "Examples & Explanations: Contracts" book by Brian Blum. This will prepare you to enter these conversations from a position of confidence. If you do this without ample preparation, expect to be labelled a poisonous person in the work environment, so make sure to prepare. Do not act rashly.
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This is really cool. Reading about jitting C code with graal on the jvm made me think cool but no real world use. Glad to be proven wrong about this! and see that it has real world use cases that are great.

It's also a nice idea for pypy to solve their issues with c extensions.

Graal has real potential to change the worlds ideas about jit and aot for high perf code.
I honestly haven't had anyone needing to reset their password yet. In my particular case it's not really the end of the world if someone gets locked out, but I should probably think what I'd do in that case...

Let's be real. Most users reuse their password for everything anyway. Those that don't likely use a password manager of some sort.

I doubt that any site needs a profile picture. Even Twitter gives you a default if you don't want to set it.

The alternative we have is what we did before social was a thing. The Internet existed before Twitter. The very site we're on doesn't require a social pairing to sign up for it!
the simple answer is that we publish our schematics and layout, just like software

More generally, this is a pretty simple circuit the whole thing fits on a page (and we have a bit by bit explanation of how it works) looking it over is a 5 minute job, the firmware is far more complex.
Just a lack of normal BS you have to deal with if you have Wells Fargo. Basically a well-run operation. Haven't used many of the benefits/features they offer other than banking.
You just made my week. The simplicity and purity of flappy bird was a huge inspiration for this project. At least half the time was spend getting the "wobble" mechanic just right.
You _can_ create an account to sync your key across devices but you don't need to (I didn't).

How it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jLpX...
Why would someone steal the world’s rarest water lily?
And who builds the sorting systems for the USPS? The largest defense contractor, Lockheed Martin: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08...

Dun dun dun...
This is great. The tools are still pretty buggy though.
http://google.com/fit isn't working either
Exercise is an amazing alternative.

I'll never cease to be amazed by how much more alert, focused and productive I feel when I take time away to get to the gym instead of grabbing another cup of coffee and keeping at it.
One week later, Google algorithm change hits streaming, torrent sites hard
Optimal blocks aren't really a priority for miners because the fact that you win the race is worth, ballpark, 250X (the coinbase transaction's segniorage award of 25 BTC) what the transaction fees for the transactions included in the block is. Optimizing for a few percent extra transaction fees doesn't meaningfully change the economics, and if it slows you appreciably, could potentially cost you that segniorage if someone else beats you to the punch.

Accoringly most miners appear to just use really cheap heuristics.
* Link-baity? An opinion piece in the NY Times? Laughable...that's what headlines are like. Always.

* Little to add to the conversation?

a) What conversation? Noone is having a conversation. There is people with incredible patience like Anita dissecting and interpreting patterns, and writing a personal piece about why it matters, and there is troglodytes threatening and screaming. That's not a conversation

b) Little to add? It's an opinion piece. It explains concisely why it matters to Anita Sarkeesian and why it matters to everyone. It's beautifully written, heartfelt, honest, inclusive and non-threatening piece.

* Grandstanding? "seek to attract applause or favorable attention from spectators or the media." Whenever Anita Sarkessian says anything, she gets harassed and threatened. To think that she just seeks attention instead of actually caring is grotesquely absurd.
So was that conversation even about work? It isn't clear from the two quotes if it was romantic/personal in nature or work-related.

For all we know (which isn't a lot, two quotes), the person could be talking about a women they met at the bar or similar.
You're suggesting that a scrappy startup in a field everybody else wrote off which eventually grew to be one of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley was actually just a front and not a real business the whole time? That strains credulity — really far.
Last I checked, it's actually a simple check-box in the settings to stop popcorn time from deleting the file afterwards. Really the only thing popcorn time did over the old-fashioned torrenting process was enable easy 'streaming' of torrents by downloading the bits in order instead of by least available first, as well as a nice UI to find them
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I wasn't complaining about lack of process isolation in firefox, I was complaining that process isolation in chrome caused more trouble than it was worth.

FWIW After re-reading my post I believe your mistaken impression was due to lack of clarity on my part, not laziness on your part.
Do dinosaur managers just talk slower?
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The NPAPI plugin is one binary blob. The Chrome extension is another. The Google Hangouts home page only offers the Chrome extension. To actually find the NPAPI installer, you have to know it exists and search for it.
Step through this with me...

I've got 5 Bitcoins. I transfer all of them to a brand new sidechain for an initial 50 Sidecoins. This Sidecoin sidechain has a different block reward. Let's say 3 weeks go by. Now there are 10,000 total Sidecoins. Let's say I've got 2,000 of those Sidecoins. How do I convert them back to Bitcoins? Can I only transfer 50 back? Can I transfer all 2,000 back? What are they worth in Bitcoin now?

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jdmichal's response:

You freeze your 2000 Sidecoins. That is then converted into some number of Bitcoins, the conversion of which is entirely dependent on how the Sidecoins work. (Likely the ratio of the number of Bitcoins dedicated to the sidechain to the number of existant Sidecoins.) A transaction is then submitted to the main chain, submitting the required proofs that you have frozen / destroyed the appropriate amount of Sidecoins to unfreeze a number of Bitcoins.

If the number of Bitcoins trying to be created exceeds the number committed to the sidechain, the transaction will fail. Otherwise, it will succeed.

---

So the main Bitcoin network needs to be aware of and to be able to analyze the entire Sidecoin sidechain?

So if only a total of 5 Bitcoin were ever sent/frozen to the sidechain, then only 5 Bitcoin can ever be retrieved/unlocked?

So when the Sidecoin sidechain was first created each Sidecoin was worth 0.1 Bitcoin. So after three weeks there are now 10,000 Sidecoins, each worth 0.0005 Bitcoin? Is this a general rule for sidechains? Why did you say "likely"? Is that because none of the details of sidechains have been worked out?

Transactions on sidechains are mined in to blocks, right? So if someone mined 8,000 Sidecoins of those 10,000, they've now got 4 Bitcoin? If someone then sent/froze an additional 5 Bitcoin to the Sidecoin sidechain, then that would generate 10,000 new Sidechains?

So the incentives to mine Sidecoins would correspond to the total number of Bitcoin that has been sent to the sidechain? If 5 Bitcoin were only ever sent to Sidecoin, then all the mining in the world could only ever lead to a total of 5 Bitcoins?

So for Sidecoins to be economically viable and therefor functional, someone would need to be constantly injecting Bitcoin in to the sidechain, right?
W3C declares HTML5 standard complete
Projecting confidence is an invaluable skill to have when you're trying to get people to charge up a heavily defended hill or take a building by force.

Anything else, not so much. I've witnessed many Marines try and fail to do something complex with ultimate confidence that brute force would solve the problem. The dedication is admirable but the range of situations in which it's sufficient for success is small.

In many non-military cases, doing nothing is a completely viable option that should always be considered. I'd venture to say that the most successful person is good at recognizing what deserves a Marine-level amount of effort and what can slide.
You can customize the cluster ... if you drop down to single core machines you could get a development cluster (1 master, 3 slaves) down to about $40/m I believe.
Why should I? It's unfair when I suffer and they don't.
Great point. That's probably the worst case, IMO, along with over-engineering and plain spaghetti. I should have mentioned it, but I think my PTSD from dealing with such engineers and projects is still overwhelming.
So Amazon's Kindle account creation process doesn't ask the user to verify their email prior to associating it with an account?

Sounds very sloppy. Could it be a regression, or was it always this way? I wonder if this could be used to spearphish or scam someone somehow?
It must be caching the more popular torrents. Inception loaded up within 1s for me, which means there probably was no communication between the trackers and the server. Other torrents didn't even load up for me.
HTML5 is now a “Recommendation”
The HTML Working Group today published HTML5 as W3C Recommendation. This specification defines the fifth major revision of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the format used to build Web pages and applications, and the cornerstone of the Open Web Platform.
You do realize that headlines usually are added by editors?!
ah I gotcha. thanks for the link.
...you can't downvote posts. I flagged it, which is similar. I came to the comments to see why it was posted, and responded to the comment I did to elucidate the viewpoint of people who don't like this being posted.

Why comment at all? Just downvote/upvote and move on.
I would like to see an option to avoid stopovers in countries you specify... as an agony avoidance option.
We are not talking about whether or not other search engines are probably, maybe now in a better place to compete with Google in terms of quality. Let's assume that they are, even. In fact, let's assume that they are, in fact, better. What we are talking about is this question:

Is the default search position in Firefox for sale to the highest bidder?

If Bing today is the better search engine, or if it's slightly inferior to Google, or if your perspective is that when Bing debuted it was terrible and it's even worse today--these are all absolutely immaterial. They have no bearing on the answer to this question.
Forth or Lisp(-ish) are still my "OS" of choice on embedded systems. So much more productive.
Very nice project! I like how it ties together many different devices running different protocols in a way that hides the details (and protocol complexity) from me.
Well, you also can always trade them directly for bitcoin, like anything else, at whatever rate you can find a counterparty to trade at.
> iPad Air 2 costs $275 to $358 to assemble, implied profit margin of <unknown>

Because developing a product isn't free.
I didn't think it that way, maybe a vertical launching tower to give the initial take of acceleration with linear induction ala Hyperloop. It's a good idea.
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Not compensating content creators for their work is immoral.
Is there somewhere I can read about new dev tool features that have not yet made it to Chrome?
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This guy doesn't seem to be willing to actually help you. I'd consider trying a new chat session with, hopefully, a new guy who's capable of doing his job.
"The idea that a creature that enjoys destroying your possessions, arbitrarily ignoring you for most of its life despite depending entirely upon you, expects total obedience despite no contribution or investment, has never earned a dollar in its life and has no concept of what a dollar is or why that might be important to it, intrinsically deserves anything so important as respect is ridiculous"

I bet you make a GREAT babysitter.
I had an Apple ][ and was disappointed when the Mac came out and left hobbyists stranded. Even though the Intel CPU in the IBM PC was horrible I much preferred IBM clones to Macs, which seemed expensive, closed and goofy. If there had been a 68K based continuation of the Apple ][, with a well documented and accessible design things might have turned out different for 68K.

Once the 386 came out things started looking up but the 8086 and 80286 years were painful.

Of course the 68K is still super popular in its Coldfire incarnation.
What other aspects of travel are you thinking of?
If fraud wasn't a thing we wouldn't. But since it is a massive PITA, having a middle-man who can help detect and combat it is useful.

Fraud costs everyone (merchants and customers alike), so every time a fraudulent transaction is blocked everyone except the fraudsters "wins."
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Very well written article. Very amusing commentary threads.

But let me suggest something that I have tried. In one of my most intense coding periods in my career, I kept a log of the bugs that I created and had to fix. My bug rate declined measurably. (This is one of the old notebooks that i dearly wish I kept--was left at that job when I moved on.)

There is a relevant quote that I can't locate from someone famous who said that he would keep a list of his mistakes in his wallet and refer to it from time to time. A boss of mine who was adventurous about experimenting with new technology said "I don't know very much about it, but I do know 50 ways that wont't work". This has led me to asking someone who claims to be an expert "Tell me three (or five) things that won't work" in their field of expertise.

The advice from the article For individuals, the trick is to be your own devil’s advocate: to think through how your favored conclusions might be misguided; to ask yourself how you might be wrong, or how things might turn out differently from what you expect seems spot on.
That's a Turkish name, and there are a couple of Facebook accounts that match the name and the photo.

Here's the US-Turkey extradition treaty:

http://www.mcnabbassociates.com/Turkey%20International%20Ext...