skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a fun game. I'll play... I'm fine with unicorns because I don't believe in them.

HIV and AI aren't analogous. HIV exists. We have lots of evidence for its existence. It's not speculative. AI (in the "sentient machine" singularity sense) doesn't exist, but it might in future. Consequently, right now, stating you don't believe AI will ever happen is fine. It's stupid, because pretty much every open-ended prediction is stupid, but it's not "wrong".
Someone should throw it up on RapGenius.
Updated - let me know what you think.
Basically, DPRK is claiming that they didn't do it and that they don't know who or where the GOP is.

Here are the only two statements that could be assumed to be a denial based on the broken English present in this:

> though it is not aware of their [GOP's] residence.

> Yet, we do not know who or where they are but we can surely say that they are supporters and sympathizers with the DPRK.

Even these two strongest denials are entirely consistent with the DPRK "hiring" the "GOP" to do this task for them.

Also, two broken images:

* file:///C:/images/kabe-0.gif

* file:///C:/images/02mm.gif
> If an anonymous hacker attacked a cause that you supported but you didn't know what they were going to do next, would you publicly support them?

I can't even begin to contemplate the lulz that would be had if GoP turned their attention to attacking North Korea.
"Sony Pictures Entertainment which directly sponsored its production and distribution hastily issued a statement on Dec. 25" - probably a typo
My McSweeny's subscription is paying off. Now shutup and enjoy the ride.
>It is said that the movie was conceived and produced according to the "guidelines" of the U.S. authorities who contended that such movies hurting the dignity of the DPRK supreme leadership and inciting terrorism against it would be used in an effective way as "propaganda against north Korea".

This is what I thought the first time I heard about this movie. I thought that it's either puerile and immature or crafted and malicious (while still being immature). Then again screenwriters have always been desperate for ideas...
> 3) They claim they have nothing to do with the Sony hack, although they approve it.

Nope, they just say that the US shouldn't jump to conclusions, that they've never performed a "cyber-attack" on "south Korea" (which is irrelevant here) and that they don't know who the "GOP" are or where they are. No denials apart from that.
Wait, you are going from 40 years ago to 150 years ago? Talk about moving goalposts.

Yes, everything follows from the fact that slaves didn;t own productive property and then were forced into a wage labor system where they still didn't. But the narrative of racial progress I don't think follows the nice slope we'd like to think so we can pat ourselves on the back and say how far we've come.

The fact is, prison labor is a new form of slavery in its dimensions and the fact that it is increasingly for corporate profit. We are headed right back to where we were 150 years ago if we aren't careful.
I'm happy to take the survey, it will be interesting to see what MSFT works out over the coming months.

Small pet peeve: It'd be nice if you didn't require input on all forms of the survey, especially the open response text fields. I understand if instant.ly doesn't give you an option.
That is a concept to which I've contributed not a few thought cycles to over the years.

Among the more substantial collections of those cycles is here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1t21cj/what_wou...

There are a number of old Usenetters on G+, including Peter da Silva, who at one point was the most prolific poster on Usenet. And, under another identity, the third.

Some recent additions (not on the link):

Why the hell isn't there a "collapsing thread" primitive in HTML? Which I suppose calls for a threaded primitive as well.

I'm pretty much at the point I'm ready to throw in the towel and create an Internet proxy which rewrites all Web pages to strip _all_ the fucking design off of them and deliver them styled pretty much as Readability / Pocket do now.
It's certainly an interesting flavor of English. Seems to be from a combination of run-on sentences, excessive political rhetoric, and bad grammar. Learn when to skip over those and you can get the gist of it.

On a technical note all styling is inline and the body background should be `file:///C:/images/kabe-0.gif`.
The article can also be found on http://www.kcna.kp, but the site is currently down, probably due to the attacks reported earlier today. Note: the IP addresses resolved is in the currently well-known block: 175.45.176.0/22.

>> www.kcna.kp.	5226	IN	A	175.45.177.74

>> www.kcna.kp.	5226	IN	A	175.45.176.71
Dump mod_perl and use nginx/Starman. I've never looked back. Also Perl Dancer is pretty sweet too.
Grew up in Boston and spent more nights in the stacks at the BU bookstore than I can remember (third floor). I never met him and wouldn't have recognized him if I had but I stumbled across IJ years later.

I think people tend to focus too much on the "gen X" factor when they put on their DFW hats, as if he were a precocious but emotionally fragile teenager who missed some key lessons in life. I think there was more vigor to DFW's vision of the world than that. He called it an "extrapolation" but it's an extrapolation that carries a lot of insight about the thing it's extrapolating from. Also he had too much humor, wit, and insight to be "gen-X" in the sense it's used in this interview. DFW was a once-in-a-generation writer. Maybe once in a lifetime. I would've loved to have seen what he could've produced by the time he turned 50.
Yep. I remember seeing a presentation by one of the graphics engine shops that indicates they did the same thing. (I'll see if I can dig it up...)

Edit: it was DICE, see http://www.slideshare.net/DICEStudio/executable-bloat-how-it... - skip to page 14.
Thread collapsing (I've got that plugin installed as well), and swapping the lighter / darker portions of the background colors for improved readability and contrast.

If you've got the Stylebot plugin, this CSS:

http://stylebot.me/styles/2945
There are no arrays in PHP.

There are only hash tables that are called "array" for simplicity.
What's the matter you never read Dadaist poetry? Jokes aside I found it interesting to read something you know is propaganda, the rhythm and efforts to influence were different.
Change that to that you try to oppose nonetheless and maybe I will agree with you ;-)
You're right, thanks for pointing that out.
This is becoming so common. There are 3D printers that only take their very own special cartridges of plastic filament. The Form I, which started as a Kickstarter project, requires a proprietary resin fluid which costs $149/liter. (It's gone up; it was $130/l a few months ago.) However, it doesn't have a DRM system to enforce that.
Another meme / idiom seems to be "Why use C/C++ when you can use Rust?"
I'm just tired of the Western view of North Korea as a joke. Yes, the Kims are ludicrous. They're also monsters, some of the worst in human history, who have crushed one of the world's most beautiful and functional cultures under their brutality and insanity.

Nobody considered Hitler or Stalin to be laughing matters during their purges. But somehow we can all ignore the horrific crimes of these bastards because the father was ridiculous and the son is fat. Nobody gives a damn if the Kims rape women, torture civilians, or murder innocent families so long as their victims are Korean. No, the first time we see even vaguely appropriate anger toward these dictators is when they might have hacked a goddamn MOVIE STUDIO.

MacArthur was right. Truman was horribly, horribly wrong. And innocent Koreans have paid for Truman's cowardice and vanity with half a century of utter brutality. The only thing wrong with The Interview movie was that it was a comedy rather than a true story.
The interesting part is that a lot of what he is talking about is already possible.

- You can use augmented reality or VR with something like Oculus to display things in 3D space.

- You can use Motion Capture technologies, plus maybe some convenient remote-control/keyboard-like devices to put a human in that virtual space and manipulate things.

Only 2 technologies(Oculus + Mocap) would be enough to accomplish something like this:
http://youtu.be/VzFpg271sm8

Give a bunch of people oculus rifts and put them in the same virtual reality - and we have the dynamic stage he is talking about.

They don't even have to be in the same room of course, we have 3D realtime MMORPGs and second-life that already solved that problem!! You could attend a virtual talk by sitting in your apartment with oculus rift on your head.

And of course "downloading a room" instead of a book is already very doable. We already have computer games and engines. That room is like a video game level. Downloading it is not a problem, to explore it all you need is oculus and a simple game controller or a keyboard/mouse.

And in terms of creating such content, the closest thing I can think of is 3D editors, like Maya or Houdini, especially houdini(http://www.sidefx.com), which is the brilliant combination of computer graphics and programming, that allows you to model and program dynamic things visually.
Simply hilarious. Each sentence is more ridiculous than the next. The only reason we (NATO) has not crushed them is because of humanitarian reasons, we feel bad for their people being enslaved and fear that engaging in war would starve their people and send their already weak army into a war they are not equipped to fight.
Let's try again, with a more C++14 like solution:

sort(v.begin(),v.end(),[](const auto x, const auto y) { return *x > *y; });

instead of your line 39:

sort(v.begin(),v.end(),[](const string *x, const string *y) { return *x > *y; });

Some results:

• g++ 4.9.2 with O3 qsort 545ms, sort 7289ms

• clang with O3 and libc++ qsort 551ms, sort 844ms

I've used:

clang++ -std=c++1y -stdlib=libc++ -O3 test.cpp

and

g++-4.9.2 -std=c++14 -O3 test.cpp
A few things that are particularly sad about it are:

1. We learned our lesson, given how we rebuilt Taiwan, Japan, and Germany.

2. We haven't learned out lesson given how the same rhetoric is trotted out by both parties today.

I swear... "creating jobs" is the single worst goal in American politics. Any time you hear it watch closely: both parties use it as an excuse to give rich people more money nad chain people to corporate employment....
> In that case, what should the Ventura supporter do? I believe you would say to vote for Humphrey.

Yes, vote for Humphrey. If Ventura then loses by one vote, you still made the best choice with the info you had. 9 times out of 10, or whatever high percentage, the 3rd place poller would've lost even with your vote, in which case you did the best by voting for the lesser of the top 2 evils.

Perhaps Ventura won because Ventura supporters felt that Coleman and Humphrey were equally worse, in which case voting for Ventura wasn't risky.
The main goal with propaganda like this is to subvert other messages so they align with your own intentions. IE: Guardians of Peace hacked Sony because the US is a bully, etc.
We're already seeing certain aspects of consciousness simulated using said algorithms. Nobody is claiming to be able to do the whole shebang as far as I know. It's black box reverse engineering at it's finest. I'm pretty sure that we'll never reach individualization though, as that implies something that not all agree has anything to do with the brain. And a computer is all about the mental level, logics, trying to model feelings will never work out. Close enough to the uncanny valley to make us uncomfortable, sure. Bot not the real thing as it has nothing to do with logics.
Not believing in something is not evidence for or against something. Saying you don't believe AI is possible for reasons X, Y or Z is of value, but saying you a fine with something just because you don't believe in it is meaningless.
In London I know a fair few people that earn over £100,000. None of them own cars. Aside from the fact that the tube or a bike is generally far faster for A-B the drinking culture means that people really don't want to be stuck having to drive a car home.
> MacArthur was right. Truman was horribly, horribly wrong

Could you expand on this?
The basic thing is:

If management is going to be realistic, they can't leave deadlines unadjusted and still expect rotations through other departments.

But if you want a good business, you need to cross-train, which means this sort of rotation. That's something Toyota learned, something Etsy has learned, and something Microsoft inadvertantly reinvented if by accident.
That's an interesting comparison, although I must confess that the absence of Akamai makes it feel like they left the "gold standard" out and just tested the middle of the pack. Of course, I only think that's the case – I was hoping to find out if that true or not.
The only reason NATO hasn't crushed them is the absence of oil in North Korea.
North Korea fascinates people in the US and Europe. (North Korea even knows that and uses that to its advantage. Just look at the tours they sell and how much those cost.)

In that context it seems like quite the leap to suspect some sort of conspiracy here to get this movie made.

Places that fascinate people and get their imagination going will get movies made about them and that’s that. The plot is also quite obvious. What do Americans do with tyrants? They kill them. Wow, what an outlandish trope no one ever thought of before …

Make that a comedy and you get this movie. No conspiracy needed at all.
Now I understand why the produce I get from the grocery store is always so bruised compared to the stuff I get out of my garden. Even the good product moves at quite a clip and is dropped quite harshly, too.
It seems like that statement was written and translated outside the usual channels. Other press releases from today were written in much better and coherent English[1][2]. It would be odd for the English to be so good in all the other releases but so terrible in this one -- it's like a higher-up wrote it and ran it through a computer translator, then demanded it be printed verbatim without editing by an English speaker.

[1] http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2014/201412/news21/20141221-01ee....
[2] http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2014/201412/news21/20141221-11ee....
I don't really HN want to be a place that companies think they can reach developers, whether for surveys or advertising. It's an extremely slippery slope to being a marketing channel, and then the gaming of the system begins.
You mean Genius
Are you saying that America should have gone there and spread freedom? Or that western views might have influenced China in the 1960s+ who closed their doors to the west? Or maybe Russia...who would then have helped DPRK open up?

I'm trying to think of this alternative scenario that Western cultural sensitivity would have helped , considering their propaganda for 70 years has been targeting America with unbridled hatred.

Even in modern times there are very few options other than China and recently South Korea's attempt to start collaborating on industry. Economics is the only way out for them. And the burden of which is on surrounding Asian countries. There is a zero chance war will result in any good. Or that being nice to them will win their hearts.

That being said I have called out comments this week where people said:

> Wouldnt it be awesome to watch NSA go all out on DPRK? Replying with:

> Yes, and more poverty and starvation for all too! /s
Then you must think pacifists like the Amish are immoral.

And somehow have a magic ball to say what the future brings, and what the alternative future might have been.

This seemingly reasonable argument (assuming that you do not reject violence as fundamentally immorally ) is how Augustine turned a religion of peace into one with soldiers, as Just War theory.

But it doesn't stop. It also twists a phrase like "imminent threat of violent attack" into "does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons will take place in the immediate future" and "enemy militant" into "all military-age males in a strike zone, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent."

The calculus of violence is very coarse, yet you want to hang us all on its balance scales of greater or lesser violence and harm.
Pretty sure they recently confirmed a great deal of WMD was found in Iraq...

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/uranium-shipped-to-montreal-fro...
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleea...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_Truman%27s_relief_of_...
I agree ...and I might get downvoted for this but what the heck. The story would've been different if North Korea was in the middle east or the Kims followed a certain religion that seems to be consistently demonized these days.
MacArthur publicly stated dropping nuclear weapons on the northern border of the Korean peninsula to prevent the Chinese hordes from invading was necessary to secure peace in the Korean peninsula. Truman fired him because the long-term strategy the US had with the Chinese had a threshold of military conflict that MacArthur was far surpassing. Truman and the strategists involved believed the conflict with the Chinese had to remain on the Korean peninsula. They believed MacArthur's plans to drop nuclear weapons on the Chinese side of the Korean border would escalate the conflict to a point of becoming an uncontrollable conflict in the region.
"The only reason we (NATO) has not crushed them is because of humanitarian reasons, we feel bad for their people being enslaved and fear that engaging in war would starve their people and send their already weak army into a war they are not equipped to fight."

There's also the fact that if we actually militarily threatened them there'd be thousands of missiles fired, and Seoul would be ashes. There's also a risk that they could use nuclear weapons or chemical weapons on S. Korea. N. Korea is a state that has sacrificed everything to prop up a military regime, and invests more in its military than any other part of society. S. Korea with the US as an ally would certainly win a conflict, but N. Korea could cause some seriously devastating carnage before it was over.
Surge pricing is not rent-seeking. If the surge pricing was not warranted by the situation, then it creates a trivial way for competitors to eat the business's lunch by offering the same service at a slightly lower price.

"Uber is surge pricing right now but Lyft is not, so I'll get my ride with Lyft"

Surge pricing is a legitimate function of a properly functioning market. When demand has skyrocketed, or supply is constrained, prices _should_ rise. This is the mechanism by which markets enable resources to be allocated efficiently. Whether someone is poor or rich, if they desire a thing more than other people do (for the sake of argument, other people of similar wealth), then they should have a mechanism by which to express that preference. That preference is the price they're willing to pay.

If the area is congested, and you _really_ want to go somewhere right now, then surge pricing gives you two ways to accomplish this. (1) To the extent that capacity is fixed, the ability to out-bid someone else means that you can take the capacity from someone else who doesn't desire it as much as you do. (2) The higher price incentivizes more supply. Uber drivers who see an exceptional surge price will make themselves available in order to take advantage of higher wages. A higher surge price is pure profit for the driver, if he can make himself available to drive right now versus some other time in the week

Lastly, no supply is fully constrained. If the price of parking in a city skyrockets, then this creates a strong incentive for parking businesses to find a way to make more parking available. This might mean buying existing buildings, demolishing them, and converting them into parking structures; or it might mean that in the routine course of building new structures, the high price of parking will make it economical to dig a few stories deeper and provide a few more levels' worth of parking. Price and incentives always influence the operation of the market.
That sounds plausible to me. Apparently, even things like exhaust from another car in cold weather can interact with the laser in a way such that the car can mistake it for a large object directly in front of the vehicle.

Source: tech talk at my university by a self-driving car engineer.
Somebody more knowledgeable than me can elaborate on this, but in a nutshell he was an american general during the Korean War, who had a sort of aggressive diplomatic and military stance (he wanted to nuke North Korea in 1951, too) and was relieved by Truman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur
The first is comparing pointers, not strings. I wouldn't call this a fair comparison.
Oops, you are correct and I was mistaken. std::sort does not need to determine the total order in order to sort.

I would amend my top-level comment but I don't seem able to.
Couldn't you order a car replete with everything you needed? There are lot's of parents on the roads, presumably there's a fair degree of overlap regarding what they'd want in the car?
The Korean war was a conflict just as substantial as the Vietnam conflict. Withdraw was wise considering that the US suffered major casualties and lost a number of key battles. What else were they to do? Keep throwing men into the breach? "The enemy gets a say, too".
"Two people briefed on the matter said that an N.S.A. special team will sometimes work with a corporate victim of hackers to ensure that no trap doors remain."

Well, no NSA backdoors, at least.
Those images are not unique to this article. They seem to be part of the site's template.
With unmodified code and the exact same compilation command, I get:

qsort: 5818 ms
std::sort: 4948 ms

Ubuntu 12.04 x86-64; g++ and clang++ give the same results.

EDIT: with clang and libc++, same compilation line otherwise:

qsort: 5822 ms
std::sort: 571 ms
Do he have "Planned torture clinics" where analogous said torture to one single gender may occur, where said gender may pay for said torture, then released.

Your analogy is literally brain dead.
MacArthur also repeatedly tried to goad China into intensifying the conflict, against the direct orders of Truman.

There's the escalation with China/nuke part of things, and there's the total rejection of civilian control of the military part of things.
What sources do you have to back that statement? Its quite bold of NATO to say they're not engaging them in war because we feed bad. Remember, there isn't really a good reason to attack. They're minding their own business for the most part, albeit not handling the country in the best regard, and not aligned with our views, but that really isn't reason enough to pursue in combat. If the U.S did, what support could they provide for the refugees? Its fairly common knowledge that the U.S isn't in the best position to be supplying support.
I sometimes feel like we're wasting time trying to create the next generation of Clippy, that the quest to reduce human consciousness to a series of yes- and no-questions is misguided. If there's anything we've been primed to for millions of years, it's complex social relations, to be able to tell someone who wants to kill you from someone who doesn't, someone who hates you from someone who loves you, telling the truth from lying, pure logics from a human response. Maybe we should focus more on the things that a computer excels at and accept that it will never be our secret friend but rather a tool? Get a dog for gods sake :-)
This is neat. Looking through it, looks like it makes regular numeric arrays faster as well via the flags.

I wonder if the ->pDataPtr vs ->pData confusion has been resolved.

I'm probably a few years behind, but a lot of my confusion working with hashes has been that pair of void* pointers.