skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An inverted switch macro with sweet.js
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Remarketing – does it work? (An experiment)
Approximately 400 bugs in the colony if you do the math. 180k bites, 8 years, fed weekly.
I can't get enough of the dancing Carlton loading images.
The packages don't state if the number of pages are per month, day or hour? We currently scrape well over 5 million pages an hour for a lot less (although, much like you we are geared up for such loads) but it would be interesting to see the cost per number of pages per hour you charge for odd-jobs/one-offs.
Is the game broken for anyone else? Playing the elevator pitch gives me two text balloons with pitches, clicking on one of them changes the text and the one I didn't click on always says "...". The LinkedIn profile pictures stay distorted and the only thing I can do is click "NEXT". Score is not showing up et cetera.

Any minimum browser requirement? I am on Chromium 39.
I know you mean well, but seriously, why should I hide where I'm from ?

Although they tend to be annoying in the long run, these kind of jokes usually are done without any malice.

I just think it's sad how stereotypes tend to be the only things that define a particular place, when there is so much more to be found.
It's likely GPUs are slower than CPUs for spatial data structures. Getting the data to GPU and results back takes just too long. Point in polygon is also very branchy in general case. GPUs are really bad with branchy code, so it's very unlikely you could even GPU accelerate such query, if it operates on point coordinates and a set of polygon vertexes. At least it would be very hard.

Edit: right, after thinking about it, the branches can be optimized out. It could be fast if there are a set of sorted segments, just parallel compares and some boolean logic.

Which leaves the problem of getting the data to GPU. Because you can definitely stream same comparisons on the CPU much faster (memory bandwidth limited) than you can stream the data to GPU over PCIe.

So 2 CPU socket system, such as Xeon E5, I'd bet on the CPU. PCIe 4.0, 16 lanes would give 30 GB/s (not sure if PCIe 4.0 is supported anywhere), vs. aggregate CPU bandwidth of up to 150-200 GB/s. Dual socket Xeon E5 supports at least 1 TB of RAM (16x 16 GB buffered DDR4). 32 GB DDR4 memory modules exist as well, I think, and larger DIMM banks than 16 slots can be supported. It's just the number of slots on typical 2 socket mainboards.

With more realistic setting, CPU would be even more ahead. All of this is ignoring GPU latency issues, which can be anywhere from microseconds to tens of milliseconds in pathological cases.

Unless the data was on the GPU in the first place... I think currently a single GPU can have up to 12 GB of RAM. Maybe larger GPUs exist too. That's just not much RAM compared to what is typical for CPUs. Currently smallest amount of RAM a dual socket Xeon E5v3 standard server can have is 64 GB, if all memory channels have at least one DIMM.
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The /#/guesses page made Chrome eat 100% CPU on one core :)
Might want to truncate it.
It mentions he is the first Western journalist permitted access but didn't Vice do an entire documentary from within IS earlier this year?
Yes I am. I'm wondering if any startups are using the game to refine their pitch. It sounds feasible that some are, and if so, I think it's a mistake.
does this work in firefox? I started changing values and nothing changed on the left panel.
doubles and SMis have been unboxed in arrays (the internal array that backs the integer key properties of an object) for a long time at least in V8.
Sounds more like phantomjs/casperjs.
Thanks! Will look into it :)
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This is a small side project I made after finding I could make hotel reservations far in advanced and then get price matches or resubmit new ones if the prices fell. Figured there must be others who would like to save money on their reservations and threw together this MVP.

Let me know what you think and any feedback you have.
The saphir-worph hypothesis is thoroughly discredited, i.e. psychophysics shows that your ability to discriminate colors does not depend on the words you use for them. Language is dynamic and adjusts to reality even if people use words as weapons (ex. Illegal aliens)

As for interpretations of quantum mechanics that is a topic for 1970s popular books by drugged out authors and for the marginal fringe of physics journals.
"islamic state" != "Islamic State" (capital letters matter)
There's 2 games :

a) Which pitch is better - no player scoring there, only scoring for the startups
b) Guess the startup - One slogan, 3 choices

You can switch between the games in the top navigation
It's the same, I commented there too :) Thanks!
How to evaluate personal growth
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Counting primitive bit strings
Since this looks to be a product targeting businesses, I would say you might want to dumb down your techie speak on the front page. Talk to more of the benefits and value that you will bring to your customers.
Countries like Malaysia and Indonesia have governments that exercise their own interpretation of the Quran. They are therefore, per definition, also Islamic states:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syariah_Court
Is secularism or religion more authoritarian?
An easy solution to this is to have your scrapers on one network and a fleet of squid proxies on another. As and when an IP gets banned you just cycle in another squid instance on a new VM with a fresh IP (which can be from a completely different netblock/geolocation if you want). You don't have to touch the rest of the scraping apparatus.
“it is undeniable that, collectively, human beings possess
the unique ability to bear legal responsibility.”

That's somewhat modern thinking... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_trial

Also, did you know you can put a corpse on trial? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod
If you consume lots of western media.
For example I don't own or watch TV and read much mainstream news .... Everytime I see this it takes me a second or two to realise, Ah, they don't mean all Islamic states, they mean "THE ISLAMIC STATE" thingi that has recently popped up.
Nobody did.
Study shows police body-worn-cameras can prevent unacceptable use-of-force
http://markpneyer.me/2014/03/05/the-rule-of-threes/
It`s actually 4 times average meal per day.
This is not a recommendation on my part, just quoting some evidence for scopolamine patches:

"TTS-S has proved to be significantly superior to placebo in reducing the incidence and severity of motion sickness by 60-80%. It was more effective than oral meclizine or cinnarizine, similar to oral scopolamine 0.6 mg or promethazine plus ephedrine, and the same as or superior to dimenhydrinate."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16719539
One of the interesting things that technology is doing is abstracting the concept of political group away from a certain geographic location. So Greens in Europe and Greens in North America can chat, share, and talk about strategies to change to world. Same goes for all sorts of other groups.

Here we have people with a common shared strong political/religious viewpoint assembling from around the world in one spot and declaring a new state. That's very unusual.

We see miniature versions of this in the states with "flash mobs", but the stronger the feelings involved, the more disruptive something like this can be.

I wonder if we're not going to see a lot more of this over the next few decades.
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Your profile says "SaaS growth hacking, conversion optimization rate consulting -> I help SaaS applications get more customers" so I understand your questions as advertising to feature your service? Like a car sales man asking "How old is your car?"
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Indeed:

http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/02/perl-7.html

http://www.slideshare.net/andy.sh/perl7-light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_8bjsimLsk
How America's Suburbs Are Engineered Against the Walking Poor
Turkey is a secular country where sharia is not practiced (and doesn't even have an official religion)
If in 1500 you dropped some European settlers in the Americas, there a high chance they'll survive. If in 2014 you drop some settlers in Mars, they would surely die.

Plenty of robots must be sent beforehand to build greenhouses, setup solar panel arrays, dig deep tunnels to provide shielding against cosmic radiation, etc.
Thanks. Pretty sure oral meclizine is what I would normally take so I'll have to check out scopolamine patches.
Ok that was fun.

var socket = new Firebase("https://pixelpals-server.firebaseio.com/public");
var w = 150;
var h = 120;
var randColor = function(){
return '#'+Math.floor(Math.random()*16777215).toString(16);
};
for(var i = 0 ; i < h; i++){
for(var j = 0 ; j < w ; j++){
socket.child(i*w + j).set(i%2 ? randColor() : '#000');
}
}

.. sorry
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If anyone is interested in the sate of legal thinking around "animal rights", I recommend this excellent book by Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum, which offers a nice overview of the field: http://smile.amazon.com/Animal-Rights-Current-Debates-Direct...

It includes leading proponents and opponents of legal protections for non-human animals.
This is pretty dishonest, Autism Speaks is not an "organisation dealing with autistic children". Rather they are a hostile group which sees autism as a disease which further speaks the already horrible reputation of autism. For those who are unaware of AS's past here is a few sources to read.[1][2] Not to mention, the intellectually dishonest class act CEO of AS Suzanne Wright, had the audacity of repeatedly and unapologetically refers to autistics as "missing", "tragedies" "cause of divorce" and compares autism to cancer and being kidnapped[3]. Yeah sure, that's exactly what a suicidal 20 year old wants to be referred to by a organization called 'Autism Speaks'. It's like AS thinks they speak for all autistic people while at the same time, refusing hire any autistic people. As if being systematically called broken by my culture, to be referred as a freak by my family gatherings and to be assaulted at school because I didn't 'fit in'. This is my life and I can't change who I am, and to have such a disgusting fucking organization to trivialize my identity for a quick buck is disgusting. Fuck AS, and fuck anyone who thinks AS is a positive organization that is worthy of sponsoring. Fuck life.

[1] http://www.wired.com/2010/10/exclusive-ari-neeman-qa/2/
[2] https://i.imgur.com/VPzlbHC.jpg
[3] http://www.autismspeaks.org/news/news-item/autism-speaks-was...
The packages are for a set number of pages, with no timeframe. I don't have prices yet for a load in the millions of pages per hour. What kind of system do you feed data into?
Both the US FBI (via, for example, their mole sabu) and the UK (via GCHQ's JTRIG) have previously conducted offensive operations under the cover of Anons. (Of course that doesn't make a lot of sense as an attribution, as Anonymous isn't really a group of any conventional kind.)

This looks like a small DoS against one router, as any random could do (and perhaps has done), but of course, .kp doesn't have much connection to the public internet, so that's about all it takes. And it isn't exactly a big impact on them as a country - yet it's still knocking a country off the internet.

I believe the attribution to DPRK is very probably false. I think the Sony hack was quite probably conducted by non-state actors, but there is far too little information to be sure. The US have unfortunately impeded honest forensic investigations.

And I believe that attacks on the internet, any part of it, are destructive and not constructive. The US would be extremely displeased if the same - cutting it off the internet - happened to it, so I dearly hope they are not stupid and short-sighted enough to be responsible! Whomever is behind this deserves condemnation.

Perhaps we need a treaty. Yet when a few determined individuals can do offensively essentially what a nation can, I'm not sure how that's possible. But focusing on offense will only make everything worse - the US probably has more to lose from so-called "cyber war" than any other nation on earth. It should be leading the charge against it. It isn't. And that's a huge mistake.
I just rewrote one of my parser functions using that, and it literally eliminated 90% of the code and improved error reporting at the same time. Very cool, thanks for the tip.
I love to solve interesting problems as much as any hacker, but software businesses are about helping people and when people are having trouble using their computer then that is part of the job. I think it's worth to spend 1% of your work time on customer support to gain an understanding of that on a deep, visceral level.
Why not just

if (i % 3 != 0 && i % 5 != 0)

this extra boolean variable out?
As I'm extremely uneducated in terms of all this western anti-whatever propaganda for me it actually took to google what exactly is the Islamic State, but anyway headline appears to be correct, as, according to Wikipedia "Since June 2014 it calls itself the Islamic State (IS), a name widely rejected by non-members". So indeed it would be incorrect to call it ISIS or ISIL or whatever else.
That was the guy however to be a great captain you need to be a bit more than a brilliant general in a one or two campaigns which rules peopel liek rommel, monty and patton out
Grant won that campaign. A campaign that had been attempted and lost by three of his predecessors. Tactically the guy was no genius, but strategically he was brilliant.
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It sounds a bit in a grey area, in-between legit use and something slightly dodgy (mentioning IP blacklisting and overriding CAPTCHAS...)

I'm curious to know what kind of companies / websites would need this kind of service. And wouldn't this put the provider (the website being scraped) and consumer (the people using this service) at an arms race? Can one build a solid business on this basis?

I'm genuinely curious about the use-case, not trying to criticize or form any judgment.
- I personally find this idea of "the closer your `intelligence` is to man the more rights you get" hard to understand.
If a chimp has "some human rights" then why not a dog, or a cow can get "some" too.

- Also, I find this whole thing distracting, if you have any energy to put into "rights", there are billions of humans in need of help for very basic things (including rights). Am I overlooking something?
Wow, the times are changing fast.
The Psychology of Web Design
You'd have been right if you had said "C actually supports generics thanks to #define", but `void*` is the equivalent of interface{}
In the case of git, C++ was actually evaluated (in a manner very natural to Linus) and not discarded due to some habit:

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus
I think some people may be checking wether your script works or not
Native German here, you should always take things said by Todenhöfer with a HUGE grain of salt. He always reports from a ultra-left, anti-western stance of view.
Also he is known for falsifying photographic evidence from Gaza to document israeli "crueltys".
In the last couple of years, he also is one of the leading figures of leftist anti-semitism.
I think this needs a tutorial or something - I couldn't work out how to use it or make anything much happen (I don't care greatly for Bootstrap, but I'm always interested in web-based editor type things).
Why do you have such a chip on your shoulder with regards to Tokyo? Have you had a bad experience living there yourself?
Much less so than the french who lived of the land - which means you cannot as easily concetrate force at the schwerpunkt (the key point of the battle field)
Hmm, looks interesting. Eye contact indeed is a big problem with children who has autism and while they seem efficient academically, inability to recognise people (as in, treat people as people) is major problem.

I wonder why they can't make the app available just on Google Play store though. 200 is a very small number and appears to be Canada only for now.
I disagree...the restaurant pictures show what I see people typically order...or darn close. Obviously, they have big menus and if you want, you can go to a fast food restaurant and order nothing but green salad, but I don't see many people doing that.
GPUs on servers are a growing submarket. It's big enough for Amazon to offer them: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using_clu...
where is reliable, easy internet connection sharing on linux?

i've built scripts that serve ics but only under shamanic preconditions that elude me

network manager is supposed to allow for it with their 'share this connection' but getting it to work has also eluded me

on a windows7 boot everything just works with ics, but then i'm booted into windows

gramm`err : /allude/elude/
No love for Zhukov and Ghengis Khan?
Thanks, we'll definitely do that.
Doesn't seem to work in Chromium. Change colors, nothing happens.
I think "Mad" Jack Chirchill who hit the beaches on D Day with Longbow and Broadsword wins that one.
I guess you have to excuse him for not pursuing the particular status jockeying of nerds, namely working on the absolute most hard, cutting edge and exciting problems/domains.
I should add: And then work to have any repercussions be a wrist slap. "Don't do that again, okay?" and a wink.

Just watch. Nothing will happen.

I wonder who the next intelligence committee lapdog is going to be?
Grammar nazi here: elude
The Sony Hack; Are Organizations Ready for Digital Combat?
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Often times the reason for overloading keywords is the reluctance to introduce new keywords, as this can cause backward compatibility problems. Instead of adding a new keyword and possibly breaking existing code that may use that keyword as a variable name or a function name, an existing keyword that sort-of fits is used for the new feature.

While maintaining backward compatibility is good, this does make the language confusing. Static is probably one of the worst offenders, but I think that C++ especially has quite a few of these cases now.
I'm replying as a follow-up after having used the service.

I ended up having to reschedule due to my internet connection going down an hour before my first scheduled call. It ended up coming back up (Comcast was working in the area) in time, but I didn't know if it would and decided to be safe rather than sorry. The reschedule process was flawless.

My boys are 7 and 8 and still "mostly" believe. They were the ones I did this for. My girls; 11 & 12 don't, so I didn't involve them.

The "Facetime" style live video option was, without a shred of doubt, worth every penny. The boys absolutely loved it. Santa was awesome, and him knowing their teacher's names was a convincing little tidbit of information. There were a couple of odd-placed "dings" during the call that I'm still not sure about (what they meant), but other than that, it was flawless. My older son was so excited he could barely sit still. He did throw Santa a curve ball at the end asking if Santa had anything for his sisters, but Santa was able to think on his feet and get through it without a hitch.

The only suggestion I can come up with is possibly providing some method of testing the live video feed 24-48 hours before the call. I had no issues on an iMac which has a good built-in webcam, but as a primary Windows user, I would have wanted to test things before the call to make sure it would work if I were using a Windows box.

Overall - great service, thank you for posting it, and if they still believe, I'll be doing it again next year!
Dogs do have more rights than other animals. If you take a dog to the zoo and feed it to a lion, you're going to have a problem. If you take a mouse to the zoo, and feed it to a snake, no problem.

Cows have no rights because they're tasty and boring.
> only a side effect of the standard hidden class optimization, not because there was intention of having a certain order

Do you have a reference for this? I clearly recall a Lars Bak interview in which he says that adding a property .x and then .y results in an object of different hidden class than adding .y and then .x exactly because people want to rely on iteration order.

(Might not apply to numeric keys, though.)
CAPTCHAs and IP blacklistings are things you encounter routinely in perfectly legitimate and legal web scraping projects. A typical example are businesses that want to monitor their competitors' prices or the second hand market for their products.

We have plans to actively prevent the use of our platform for illegitimate purposes (fraud, spam, etc.).
Maybe not everyone has the same motivation. Just like you might care more about football than I do, but I make up for it in passion about programming?
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I don't understand this either. What objectively makes an animal any less animal. I mean a mouse feels the pain of being eaten and so does a dog.
There are 492 billionares in the US and 1 is African American. So, we are a long way from parity. However, there are quite a few African Americans in the 100+Million club and the trend is vary much tward parity.
> Make hay while the sun shines.

Get in, while the gettin's good
I don't care how many apps it has. I can ask my android wear device what my calendar is like, or send a text, or ask to see the weather. I think a lot of people see more functionality out of android wear.
His point was:

x = [1]; x["test"] = 555; x.map(function (y) { return y; });
// [1]

That's [1], not [1, 555]. You can access the array from the map interface, but not the other way around.
It seems like it would be very fun to have a chat with Guy Consolmagno:

“One incarnation seems absurd but not inconsistent with the data,” he said by phone from Florida, where he was watching manatees.

There is no data, I pointed out.

“Exactly!” he responded, laughing.
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I agree, that C++11 is an improvement. I was actually quite excited when Stroustrup's updated book on the subject came out. But like I said, I still can't find a fit for C++ in any of my projects. My use cases however are far different from yours, so I'm naturally opinionated away from C++.
Addictive. A little on the difficult side but very fun. Great job!
What absolute nonsense.

Diminishing the meaning of 'rights' is great: if everyone and everything had appropriate rights, there would be no further need for the concept to be discussed. That's a good thing.
Given that at the end of the process they're both dead, the amount of pain felt ends up being irrelevant.

What matters is the amount of empathy we feel with the creature. With dogs, we often think of them as our friends and companions. With mice, we often think of them as vermin and a problem.

Though, I'm sure if you took George's mouse Milo and fed it to a snake George would be extremely upset.
Go (golang) package to easily provide a terminal spinner with options
My data point: test-driven development