skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a problem between the UK and the rest of the EU that lasted something like 25 years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/764305.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/678141.stm

I don't have a "golden palette" but I think I can tell the difference. ("Dairy Milk" is gritty; Galaxy is either creamy or greasy (but my prefered cheap choc) and they have different mouthfeel).

Michel Cluizel is my prefered expensive chocolate, but that could just be because I like the box. I'm not sure I'd be able to tell the difference between that and other good chocolate if I was doing a blind taste test.
I don't find that quote to be really all that clever. No person is immune to discussing any of these things in any given conversation, no matter how great or small the mind. I think the original author of the quote was either misquoted or trying too hard to be pithy.
As the person that replied to your second point on the SO question there, I have to add something here.
There are other calculators made in Rebol. (Search rebol.org site scripts for those). Having this calculator adapted for the math operator precedence would be too farfetched, for the example merely shows how much can be done with so little code.
The other is that I do not have the ultimate say in what Rebol and or Red should do with math operator precedence, I have nothing to say about that to be exact ;-)
(I am free to express my opinion on the subject). What I state there still holds for me, the operator precendence is imho arbitrary, and not necessary at all, counterintuitive for kids, and (I am a mathematician) the world can do without these rules. With operator precendence I have no other choice then to use ellipses when I have 3 * 4 + 1 and I meant I wanted to add 1 to 4 before multiplying by 3: 3 * (4 + 1) in Rebol I can write 1 + 4 * 3 and I do NOT have to use "(" and ")" to achieve what I intended saving me four keystrokes.

Regards,

Arnold
Well, it's mentioned that they are working on getting the theory to be testable and you can't get more scientific than that. The fact that the theory implies things that many scientists are uncomfortable with does not diminish anything from the quality of science being done. I don't like it either and the implications go against my gut feeling, but if they are working on enabling it to be falsifiable then let's let reality decide once the experiments can be conducted.
It also neglects that efforts to alleviate the video broadcasting problem back before the commercial Internet really took off ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbone ) were held back by carriers.
Yeah, the fact that we Android users need to use apps like Better Battery Stats is pretty telling. They could at least stick it in the developer settings somewhere.
On why I built an iPhone App
You should check out gfycat, first to do gifs as html5 video.
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Do you have a link? It sounds interesting, but I think you might be confusing the Porsche short-squeeze of Volkswagen stock [1]. I'm thinking that if Kraft bought 90% of the world's chocolate, Hershey would also be in trouble. Besides, I would assume that these companies have delivery contracts already in place for several years.

According to everything I found, what happened was that Kraft's price was too low and they did not want to be part of Kraft's low-growth conglomerate strategy. Once they discovered Kraft was actually planning on abandoning that strategy, they they polled shareholders about what price they would be willing to accept, and Kraft offered slightly more than that. [2]

[1] http://radian.org/notebook/porsche

[2] http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/1cb06d30-332f-11e1-a51e-00144...
Not This. Cadbury's is just mud sold as chocolate, I can't even describe how bad it is.
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As a Chinese I translated the words in this report automatically into Chinese in my mind. I saw a dull report with little details of the man. Well, a typical report that hides those sad truth behind the scene. I'm always wondering if we could do more to have average people benefit more from the virtual world since there are fewer barriers physically. This is supposed to be a good story but, instead, made me sad. Best wishes to the man.
I've never used emacs- currently using XCode to do C++ development. While I find the demonstrations interesting, what would emacs buy me as a C++ developer?
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Several notes:

a) Why attempt to make judgements about how other people "feel" when you simply don't know. For example, in this case I feel neither "rightious" nor "validated" from what others post. Instead I _know_ from my own experiences over several decades how cook-unfriendly cast-iron cookware is.

b) It's "righteous", not "rightious". Perhaps you could enable a spell-checker. It is much easier to read posts with correct spelling (and grammar).
Of course there's a bloody brain drain. There's no affordable housing, and median salaries for most graduates are nowhere near commensurate with the cost of living in the Boston metro area. What do they expect, that already-indebted graduates should further impoverish ourselves for the privilege of living in a cold, dark, snobby city with a severe inferiority complex?
Well,why isnt D that popular? I wonder.

edit: genuine question.
The article mentioned Julia Roberts just as an example, Americans are obsessed with many actresses.

However, if you are looking for a discussion for the actual merits of the said actress, this may not be the right forum for that discussion.
The six-step SAT cheating operation in Asia
But when it would have been patented then by one of todays patent attorneys and the patent would still be valid, you could trash our modern life!
Maybe the NSA even managed to engineer the flood itself? Yes, that sounds about right.
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The internet, my fellow programmer. Don't just go around copy-pasting SO answers, that won't improve your skill, but rather learn from those questions... An entire field of knowledge is available at your fingertips, use it. There are online tutorials, books, guides, discussions, and even programming coaches if you're so inclined.

As I've come to learn, it's more about your attitude. It has to be one of wanting to constantly improve yourself, and to hold yourself up to higher standards than the ones around you, or close to the ones you admire / aspire to be.
I've seen a lot of startups which missed to think about founder vesting in the beginning. One year later the "co-founder" holding 50% decided to travel around the world because "this is way to stressful...". This can cause some serious trouble talking to potential investors.
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Crowdfunding science asks the 'Average Joe' to decide what's important in research, and as i shouldn't have to explain, research outcomes aren't as cut and dry as when you fund a video game or movie.

There are more than a few traditional means of obtaining money toward science. These methods aren't perfect, but are reviewed by a panel of peers in their field.

A professor asking for money on indiegogo circumvents this process, which acts as a validation of the authenticity and legitimacy of said research.

A student doing so is even worse in my opinion. Students are funded through the grants or independent scholarships. Their research tools are the responsibility of their advisor or the department. In this case the school and professor are well funded, so asking for 12k (which is about half of a single semester of tuition) is somewhat shoddy.
Reminds me of first Bush Treasury Secretary John O'Neill's emphasis on safety when he took over at Alcoa in the 80's. It was part of a broader strategy that he referred to as habitual excellence." I first came across it in Charles Duhigg's book, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, where he provides an interesting account of how it helped mend crippling mistrust between labor and management. Here's a newspaper article that quickly summarizes it:

http://www.post-gazette.com/business/businessnews/2012/05/13...

We've done something like this at my workplace by moving to scrum (with regular retrospectives) and, more importantly, by adopting stricter coding standards together with regular code reviews (weekly as a group and by using pull requests with continuous integration.)

I would have liked to see us extend this to something even more like O'Neill's approach with a greater focus on eliminating production bugs (especially with respect to our deployment practices where unexpected snags abound). But I haven't been able to get management support for that. (Our more critical business function is to keep existing infrastructure humming rather than develop new products so I feel it would make more sense for us than for, say, a startup, but I guess no one like admitting to themselves that their main reason-for-being is to maintain the status quo.)

Nevertheless, all together, the changes have made a world of difference.
I mean, a lot of indie game designers are into that:

retro graphics

simple mechanics

etc.
> Do you have any suggested alternatives for free email hosting with BYO domain?

I've been using hotmail/livemail/outlook.com with a custom domain (dns hosted elsewhere) for free for the past 10 years. I have enabled two factor authentication and also use this account as my primary Windows login. I'm not sure if this is still available (i consider it almost too nice to be true) but this has always worked very well for me. The place I set this up was https://domains.live.com

Edit: it is indeed not available anymore for free, I can continue using existing accounts, but cannot manage/add accounts using my domain unless I upgrade to Office 365.
I love Körner's book: it is amazing, interesting, accurate, his personality shines through . . . . I spent quite a bit of time with it when we had debates about some of the technical issues underlying the machine. This book likely isn't the place to start your study of fourier methods, but it is THE place to end!
i agree the idea is fleshed superficially, child pornography is pretty easy to get people to rally against where as drug issues enter grey areas of ethics and morality..

i am more interested in the idea of punishment for improper use of this and other vague laws as a method of deincentivising abuse

i also think the logic of 'there are too many instances to be able to regulate' is flawed and incentivises the offenders to be more aggressive

a possible solution to volume could be only deal in values less than a certain threshold and raise said threshold with each vote depending on number of instances until all instances are voted on

you could backlog previous periods of unvoted instances into later months with lower number of instances

the goal is to reduce the number of instances so this issue will hopefully solve itself

as for terse yet comprehensive descriptions of the events that led to the forfeiture there is room for a discussion on how best to handle that

the recent vote in my city carried with it a number of numbered and alphabetized bills that carried a sentence or two description on the ballot i figured something similar

imperfect but better than 'well, its out of control so let's hope it just rights itself'
If you have a local AFS install, it looks like you can clone from: /afs/andrew/usr2/apodolsk/repo/nalloc_nonbare

It looks like the public AFS/web gateways around don't seem to support .git directories (huh!). But, I have cloned it and mirrored a git bundle:

http://emarhavil.com/~joshua/nalloc.bdl

wget it, then 'git clone nalloc.bdl nalloc'.
Simple solution: use a GC'd language. The GC will find those references, even in registers of other threads.
I'd certainly be very interested in seeing how this could be made testable. I have to admit though that "throw away everything we know about the nature of the cosmos and start again with the assumption that humans are supernaturally special" is not a great start.

Also, it's from 2009 and I'm not aware of anything having come out of this.
Odd.. I had a similar project I worked on at work one day out of boredom. Except mine was called "HereC", I was trying to make C more Basic like. Visual Basic 6 was my first language, so sometimes it's fun to 'go back' to it. GAMBAS is a neat little language I play with now and then.
> Let the posts from the alleged hundreds of blissfully contented cast-iron skillet users now commence.

This line is pointless baiting and your post would have been better without it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you.

Your spelling lame in your follow-up post is just rude and again needlessly baiting.
It died. This still works for me:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
IC. I added the " -- " syntax because that's what it recommends when doing a "git status".
The video that goes with these slides is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cyd22kOqWc
The true lockfree allocators, NBMalloc, Streamflow, and the implementation of Maged Michael's alloc, all failed to compile on ALADDIN (2 failed to compile on my machine) and I don't think I should attempt to resolve that now.

I'm one of the Streamflow authors and implementors. What's ALADDIN? I may be able to help get it compile.
That's a question I'm interested in too, something I feel I missed the most... Not because I'm not working on improving, but because I often loose sights of my goal - or don't know how to reach them.
> Still reads as mostly anecdotes to me. I know enough women who are not subject to such abuse to know that it is a tiny minority that is.

That mindset, right there, is part of the problem, and is a large part of why you're getting downvoted.

> I wish oblivious (apparently) responses like mine would actually get valid feedback/criticism

Here you go:

1) You do not know anywhere close to a statistical sample.

2) You are unlikely to directly observe most abuse.

3) If and when you observe such abuse, you are unlikely to recognize all of it as such. (The most blatant of it, sure, that's obvious. The worst of it, though, is often more subtle and pervasive.)

4) People you know are not necessarily inclined to share their experiences with you. That holds doubly true if you are (or are perceived as being) in a position of authority.

See http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/I_asked_a_woman_and_she_s... for a variation on the theme; also see http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Lived_experience . If you're interested in more such issues, I'd recommend reading around on that wiki, particularly about silencing/derailing/etc tactics.

> I really wish people would concentrate on finding out what motivates people to harass and abuse

I understand this mindset; it'd be nice to root-cause and fix problems rater than having to work around them. However, sadly, often the motivation is "she's successful" or "people are listening to her". (And if you're looking for the underlying motivation below that, that makes people so broken that they'd harass others: who knows, but that seems unlikely to lead anywhere near a solution. There's no excuse for such harassment.)

> I have learned nothing today except to never ever participate in a discussion of these issues.

That was my initial reaction when I first started hearing about these issues. In any area where you don't have experience, it helps to listen first, and learn more, before jumping in. I spent a long time lurking on LKML before I started hacking on Linux. I spent a long time reading about FOSS licenses before I started dealing with licensing issues.

The reaction you're getting is a lot like the reaction you'd get if, in response to an intricate kernel patch, you asked questions (and made some incorrect assumptions) about basic C programming concepts. In general, the comments or discussion surrounding someone's experiences with harassment are not a good place to ask intro-level questions. There are a few places for such questions, as well as many resources where you can read about these issues. The Geek Feminism wiki is a great place to start.
Emacs is not only an editor, but a "computing environment" that can be readily customized and extended using the Emacs Lisp (elisp) language. In fact, much of Emacs itself is built with elisp. Some developers find that kind of flexibility in their tooling to be highly compelling, others not so much.

I'm not a C++ programmer, but I turned up the following guide with a Google search, which might you might find interesting:

C/C++ Development Environment for Emacs

http://tuhdo.github.io/c-ide.html
As a general rule, men are much more reluctant to get help with mental illnesses, largely as a direct result of toxic masculinity.
I'm aware of evil-mode. I'm attempting to try 'the Emacs way' first. I'm not attempting to just throw myself in. When I need to be proficient I'll fallback to Vim, but I want to gain access to things like org-mode, for instance.
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I just found my new emacs logo ;-)
On the good side, once you are used to the keys, the text editing part is pretty efficient.
Also, you have access to a lot of the other modes once you want to step out of the C++ tasks, to look at other files (makefiles, log files), keeping notes with org-mode, opening ftp windows, pretty-printing,....
Plus there's less behind the scene magic than in IDEs and you have access to everything to see where something breaks. It's not a black box the same way an IDE is.

On the bad side, you'll have to spend time tweaking packages and so on to get IDE-similar goodies like autocomplete. I can't remember if there's a similar thing as a background compilation that highlight errors as you type. But the thing with emacs is that if you wonder about a plugin, there'a good chance it exists already.
Starting Median pay in Boston: $50,500 - http://www.forbes.com/pictures/efkk45mhij/no-10-best-paying-...

Starting Median pay in San Fran: $57,200 - http://www.forbes.com/pictures/efkk45mhij/no-2-best-paying-c...

Average Rent in Boston (1 BR): ~$2000 - http://boston.jumpshell.com/how-to/where-to-live-in-boston/a...

Average Rent in San Fran (1 BR): $2873 - http://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-san-francisco-rent...

Rent / Salary in Boston: 0.0396

Rent / Salary in San Fran: 0.0502

"There's no affordable housing, and median salaries for most graduates are nowhere near commensurate with the cost of living in the Boston metro area." Certainly no worse than San Fran, at least. As to the rest of the comment, how has Boston hurt you?
I think it's fine to mention as "he" by mistake, but if she says "Don't mention me as 'he', I'm a 'she'.", people should say "oh sorry" and not "Are you a fucking trans?".
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Great read! Very similar ideas apply for image capture:

http://enthdegree.tumblr.com/post/102480374444/a-model-for-i...

Under this model, a pixel can be interpreted as both a point-sample and a square.
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In case someone is interested in the "eigenanalysis," the recursion formula is:

[1/2, 1/2, 0 ] [A^n] [A^n+1]
[1/8, 3/4, 1/8] [B^n] = [B^n+1]
[0, 1/2, 1/2] [C^n] [C^n+1]
\_____ _____/
M

And the question is, given [A^0,B^0,C^0], find [A^∞,B^∞,C^∞], which is equivalent to computing the infinite power of M. Waaaat? Enter the eigendecomposition.

The eigenvalues of M are 1/4, 1/2, and 1. If you compute M^∞, the 1/4 and 1/2 "eigenspaces" will disappear, so you're left with the subspace of the eigenvalue 1. http://bit.ly/eigenex001 M^∞ = QL^∞Q.inv(), hence the [1,4,1] appears... very cool.

Sometimes procrastinating by reading HN actually helps with your work---today I'm working on problem sets for book 2 http://gum.co/noBSLA
Verhuisdozen niet alleen om te verkassen maar ook om mee te bouwen. erhuisboxen
The paper says:

"""
We compute a mask for the object pixels, and use this mask
to inpaint the background using the PatchMatch algorithm [Barnes
et al. 2009]. For complex backgrounds, the user may touch up the
background image after inpainting.
"""

So they're not really claiming perfect object removal is part of their thing. What they are actually doing is quite interesting, but their pitch is making some rather extravagant claims IMO.
> Is there any place where I can find a programming coach ?

I think this is a very good one: https://pragprog.com/book/tpp/the-pragmatic-programmer
Your comment puts me in mind of my new favorite spectator sport, timed professional cooking competitions (specifically, Chopped on the Food Network -- there's a collection of 25 shows available on Netflix), where I find this dichotomy is often in play.

I like trying to guess who will win the competition based on their profiles at the beginning. One of my rules: always pick the older classically trained chef (especially if he's French). In my extremely limited edited-for-tv experience, it's been a successful betting strategy. (Well, except in the cases where the chef, refusing to suffer the least mediocrity, fails to plate anything at all in the appetizer round. But even then, he was brought back for a "redemption" show and took the prize.)
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I would recommend . . .
I would start with this progression . . .
HTML->CSS->Javascript then PHP/MySQL then once you have a handle on creating a simple web app with PHP/MySQL look at either Rails/Ruby or Laravel/PHP . . . it's tough to understand all the magic going on in Rails/Laravel till you've created a basic app from scratch Login/Logout/CRUD etc . . .

Railscasts.com and Laracasts.com are great tools for learning those. But get a decent foundation before moving to a framework . . . then you can add things like Angular on top of your app.
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