skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not arguing against GC or the reliability thereof. I'm merely arguing that "GC is required for reliability" is a ridiculous straw man of a myth. I am in fact a fan of GC, but I also recognize that when lives are on the line, GC and indeed dynamic memory management of any type is usually out of the picture.
There's a saying among those who become familiar with Autism.

"If you've met one kid with Autism, you've met one kid with Autism"

There are certainly clear cases... but the trouble is identifying the non-traditional and less severe cases. These methods are great, but with early intervention being so critical it's doesn't help with diagnosing younger children (from what I read... seems patient would need more cognitive ability).

As a parent who has recently run the gauntlet of diagnosis the most frustrating part of the lack of awareness for younger children. Based on all my reading early intervention can have a tremendous impact of future outcome (before 3y/o is really the sweet spot).

There's so much stigma on classifying young children early that parents are often reluctant to seek out diagnosis and treatment. My daughter was diagnosed at 15 months and has since made amazing strides.

If there was one thing I wish I could pass on to every parent it's that there is absolutely no harm or shame in doing diligence if you feel something isn't right. Therapies are play based and are great for even nuerotypical kids. If you suspect a delay or risk... talk to a specialist ASAP.
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furyg3 knows that the book only has proper hyphens. Amazon took down the book because they thought it was full of line break hyphens. It wasn't, but that's what Amazon thought because they never actually looked.
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Just wondering: why the downvotes?
That isn't even an add-on. In order to get from current atmosphere to breathable atmosphere, you already have to overcome the stripping effect of the solar wind, plus an additional amount. All you have to do is throttle the system back to just the replacement rate. It would require a continual energy investment, but as long as the lights can stay on, everyone can still breathe.

In the extreme long term, Mars may be a good place to try a planet-wide artificial magnetosphere, using high-temperature superconducting materials. That's a rather hefty bit of engineering for a planet that currently has no humans on it.
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My main gripe is the mental overhead when compared with other languages and the bulkiness of the syntax.

Languages that contain lists and maps as first class types and the syntax to go with it are so much nicer.

It's no joke that large C++ applications contain a poorly defined subset of common lisp.

The standard library is small. Things that are included out of the box in other languages do not. Doing some simple things are not as simple as in some other languages.

When dealing with math, on the other hand, as systems languages go, C++ is not the worst alternative. Getting numeric stuff correct is about as difficult in all languages.

I would not use C++ anything that benefits from prototyping. Otoh, when the spec has been defined and it is fairly obvious what needs done there is no reason why it should not be banged together using C++.
You don't need to use the dropdown, you can open the bookmarks panel that shows a list and a search box.

In Firefox, you can even make it your homepage, just set it to: chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul
Awesome! Thanks..
> My point was that 3 of 4 uses of hyphens were wrong.

Wrong according to whom?

We're not talking about writers for a newspaper or magazine, where everyone is expected to adhere to a single style for the sake of uniformity.

James Joyce did a number of things "wrong" both grammatically and stylistically, but that was part of the artistic expression. It's weird, to say the least, for a bookstore to enforce style. When I walk into a physical bookstore, I expect that the bookstore has made some decisions around book placement[0] for the sake of optimizing sales, and books that have bad grammar may not be as attractive. But I don't expect that they have made decisions directly based on the grammar of the books ("we dislike the way you use punctuation, so we're going to put your book in the back of the store, or take it off the shelves altogether").

Amazon is now trying to eliminate the need for publishers, but in that process we should be clear not to conflate the role of the publishers (which includes editing) and the role of the marketplace.

[0] Incidentally, most brick & mortar bookstores are organized by genre and then either title or author name, so the extent to which they can even 'demote' books is generally limited to the ability to place books "cover out" instead of "spine out". With the exception of keeping adult-themed books in a special section and promoting certain books in a themed display (e.g. "Staff Picks for Summertime Reads"), bookstores don't really take heavy action against books based on content.
Spelling check... you aren't checking spells.

At least, this is what I've been told by a very picky guy...
One of the great quotes from Mad Men, and it does apply perfectly to this situation.
I think it's mostly the number of common homophones and the speed at which most English speakers think and type that causes the problem. Add that to obscure language rules and you can end up with something that looks completely wrong, but isn't.

A great example is "red-head scarf"; what you read is "(read head) scarf" what it means is "red (head scarf)". Granted, it makes the wording unnecessarily complicated, but it's probably grammatically correct.
Two-week is correct.
Nice combattive metaphors, but this is just too silly to engage with.

EDIT: Downvotes, but I'm sorry, I don't WANT to explain how it makes sense to expend more time and money on customers and suppliers that are a _million_ times more valuable to one's business.
Wow, this is so cool.
I wish there was a good book on GPU architecture and even micro-architecture. I just like reading about this stuff and how they work.
Maybe they should rename it?
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The writer is no James Joyce.
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> she has a

Btw, the author's name appears to be "Graeme", which seems to always be male:

http://www.behindthename.com/name/graeme
> I was going to argue freedom of speech and the ability to form ideas the way the author intended is what matters here, but the author himself doesn't seem to agree himself.

The example he gives is of auto-generated books uploaded for the purpose of gaming algorithms for profit. I'm as much a free-speech fundamentalist as the next guy, but that is no more a free speech issue than the Nigerian governor emailing me the unique opportunity to take a cut of $80,000,000 worth of penis enlargement pills.
>"What's different about France is that a few years ago the government tried to increase the cap, and cabs started grid locking Paris in protest. What did the government do? They caved. That type of thing would not happen in a place like NYC. Why did they cave?"

NYC with its taxi medallions is a really well known example of a taxi monopoly. So I'm not sure why you'd think that it's somehow better than in France and that they wouldn't "cave" to a cab strike.

In NYC, the taxi medallions have reduced in number since the start of the monopoly in 1937, and by 1996 (60 years later) it dwindled from an initial 16000 to a mere 11500. And since then they've added a paltry 2000 extra ones to bring the number somewhere above 13000.
People like this thing, so it must be bad!

Are we forgiven if we liked pinboard before it was cool?
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It is not a fully functioning clone of the piratebay, merely a mirror of the existing site content. There is no login facility, and as such no way to add more torrents, there are also none of the comments and of course no way to add any. The piratebay does not live on through it, but is merely represented in an incomplete historical fashion through it.
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Bioinformaticians are generally capable of writing truly awful code... that's why I like to call myself a Computational Biologist. I still write crap code, but no one's expecting any better from a biologist ...
Insane view.
It's offensive behavior, to be certain. But unless it's legislated otherwise, it's "okay", yes.

For the record, I'm 6'3" with rheumatoid arthritis, and I despise flying in coach. But I have to separate the irrationally perceived personal affront by the airlines from the reality of the situation: I am flying by choice. If I had a specific accessibility concern (and not a convenience or comfort one) the airline would accommodate me.
Hands down Node.js with Restify/Express.js. And this is coming from somebody who loves Python (Flask, Pyramid)
We have come full circle: implementing WSDL code generation with JSON definitions.
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> They have no understanding for the inherent and insurmountable limitations of science

Science is the discipline of publicly testing ideas via systematic observation, controlled experiment, and Bayesian inference.

Notice there is no limit on the nature of the ideas. Anyone who says "science only deals with matter" is saying "I don't understand science."

Science is a discipline, a practice, not a method or a specific body of knowledge. The practice of the discipline of science is our only means of producing new knowledge and discarding old knowledge.

So I'm not sure what these inherent limitations you're talking about are. If and idea can't be tested by systematic observation, controlled experiment or Bayesian inference then it must be an idea that has no consequences of any kind, which is to say: an idea that is boring. Otherwise, if it has consequences, it can be tested using the discipline of science, and some Bayesian statement made regarding its plausibility.
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I think you've taken a pretty narrow interpretation of "reliable software". It seems more reasonable to think that Bjarne was speaking at a general level, i.e., the idea that software written in non-garbage collected languages tends to be prone to memory management errors on the part of the programmer.

This has been a common meme for the past 15 to 20 years precisely because it is so easy to forget when a block of memory needs to be freed. However, the mechanisms of reference-counted smart pointers, RAII, and clearer ownership semantics in the language, go a long way to help mitigate the common manual memory management problems in C++.

The downside, of course, is that you have to know how to use these ideas to write "reliable software", and C++ does not make it easy. It's pretty much impossible to go from reading the standard to implementing correct and optimal C++ programs. There are so many gotchas, corner-cases, and features which require much study and experience to truly understand.
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Content can be shared and viewed in your mobile and web application.
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'tis a shame that whatever Starlite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlite) is is lost knowledge.
Ask HN: Can you offer a subscription service as an individual?
I am working on a simple SAAS product as side project, hence the Q. Also, if the answer yes what payment solution are you using ?
Woah, do you know if this works with the new retina display iMacs?
> UberX is a professional limousine service

That sounds like Uber/UberBlack to me. UberX is still citizen drivers in their own cars doing it in their own time. I highly doubt they are professionally licensed.
There's a difference between the regular lounge anyone can buy day passes/memberships to, and the premium-class lounges for international flights. Access to the former does not get you access to the latter; typically, only an actual premium-class international ticket for that day, or possessing top-tier frequent-flier status in the airline or alliance, gets you into those.
No problem. I'm using Nexus 5 with Lollipop :)
Yes, but there is a difference between intentionally using bad grammar to invoke ambiguity, and unintentionally getting in the way of a story because the writer doesn't know better.
So really the title of the post should be "Collateral damage when Amazon went to war against bad punctuation," which casts Amazon's motives in a different light.
This doesn't feel at all like IBM.

It feels like a modern design team trying to fit in, not realizing they work at IBM.
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One man's sarcastic dismissal of a concept is another man's brilliant opportunity at filling a need.
Blending Object and Aspect Oriented Design: A Look at Aspectroid
Sensitivity and specificity! That title is a bit misleading :)

I too could write a test that identifies autism 97% of the time:

return Random.Get(0, 100) < 97;
I am a consumer (of UberPop among other transport solutions) and I am (genuinely) not understanding: agreed it's not ride-shares, but why is there laws that make non-ride-shares so complicated? UberPop is simple, for the driver, the consumer and it drives the costs down, this sounds really nice to me.

If it's only about safety and consumer protection, well shouldn't it be a consumer choice anyway? (agreed it's easy for me, a male above 30 to tell this... and despite the bad experiences I also had in Paris with UberPop although my drivers had GPSes - one had 2 of them, was confused as hell and should certainly be looking more at the road) Just like I do when I choose real ride-shares (i.e. not UberPop. We have blablacar in France for example which is hitchhiking through the internet).

It seems that, in France, politics made a huge mistake coming up with horrendously expensive (apparently 200k to 300k EUR) taxi licenses and now some people are at risk to pay for those mistakes, namely people who have recently invested in one of this license. Cause even if UberPop is banned, VTC (Vehicule de Tourisme avec Chauffeur) are now legal and make those licenses quite useless (or at least the investment isn't nearly as justified as before).

It's obvious to me that the law have to go in the direction of new technology or the consequences will be quite disastrous. I agree that Uber's attitude seems a bit harsh but I would thanks them for any induced (political) changes in the direction of technology.

EDIT: didn't know the adverb "patently" was not referring to patents, thanks dminor for teaching me english :) (I'm french obviously :/)
s/when/if/

Graphene may yet be a pipe dream. If we manage to manufacture it in large and perfectly uniform quantities, it's a wonder-material. If we don't - it could make for slightly better carbon fibre composites.
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Now THOSE lounges are worth some self-righteous envy. I had the pleasure of using one a few years back. Did wonders for my feeling like a herd animal for my second leg.
I wonder if Amazon's automated system would flag something like "Riddley Walker" where, in the future, words have changed meaning and are spelled phonetically. (1) Maybe Amazon could have an editors community similar to Stackoverflow where they can influence and override the automated curating system.

1. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddley_Walker
Ah yes I forgot that. I remember Stroustrup explicitly stating that he avoided adding stuff like GUIs to the STL as people forget that C++ isn't just ran on desktops.

I use wxWidgets with a mix of STL (you can tell wxWidgets to use STL for its containers if you want) and all works well.

I had been happily using extra networking libraries and the ease of using libraries means I kind of forget that the STL doesn't have it - I just get into a habit of using the right library for the job, which is the way it should be I suppose.
Oh really? http://m.sciencemag.org/content/341/6144/387
I'm not the person you're replying to, but from a consumer point of view UberX feels like a limo service (in Paris, London..)

In London for example, if you didn't know anything about the company, you wouldn't know the UberX drivers were any different to more traditionally set-up private firms like Addison Lee. Whereas UberPop in Paris felt like getting a ride from an amateur.
Hi Jonathan!

I'm happy to see this set of regularly-scheduled music hackathons.

And I'd like to add that I will part of the first one on January 24th. I'll be leading a "Low-Fi Drum Circle."

The purpose of the drum circle is merge the traditional spirit of jamming and collaborative music-making into the new-wave tradition of low-fi instumentation and circuit-bending.

Go ahead and register here:
http://www.eventbrite.com/o/monthly-music-hackathon-nyc-2470...
There's actually a link on the front page now from a guy who offers his subscription service as a solopreneur:

https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/11/new_pricing_policy/
> a population who polls to the left of Cuba in terms of political opinions.

This no doubt accounts for the success of the extreme right wing.

> France is left with a few generations that have been force fed progressive propaganda from an early age.

Ah, yes. Like this fantastic law about the positive effects of colonialism? Clearly, conservatives would totally above any kind of revisionism...

Anyway, good luck in your country of adoption. Hope you don't get seriously sick.
I'm still not sure the bookstore is the best place to go for grammar enforcement, rather than suggesting he hire an editor. But Amazon's foray into supporting hands-off self-publishing is at war with their need to have a minimum quality level to avoid scaring off customers. An actual working rating system would help, if anyone had managed to invent such a thing.

I'm also of the opinion that if I'm reading a book with such egregiously awful editing, I'd stop reading it, rather than ask for corrections. If the editing is bad, are the ideas any better?
Discussion from last week when this appeared: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8733239
Well, you can weigh the apple yourself on the scales that occur all throughout the produce section... but yeah, I'd be surprised to see a flat rate for fruit by species no matter the size.

Fruit is sold by weight, not count, in China too.
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Sure. The X-51. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-51
Amazon is rather hard-headed about their Kindle formatting.

I suppose it stems from early issues with even well-known books being horribly mis-formatted for Kindle. Ok enough hyphens for now.

At least you English writers can count your lucky stars that it is possible to publish ebooks at all on Amazon.

If you have published a regular book on Amazon in a language not deemed to be worthy of Kindle support you are SOL: https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A9FDO0A3V0119

Rather a short list isn't it? And the list is not growing despite sideloaded books displaying perfectly fine on Kindle in the not supported languages.
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OK Guys After I installed and launched this MacOS app , it drastically slowed down my chrome and increased the chrome cpu usage. I am guessing something wrong with the duet app display driver.

so if anyone having the same problem like mine, please go to finder, search for "duetdisplay.kext" kernal extension, delete it and reboot your Mac. It should go back to normal.
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I have edited my comment to make it clearer that you weren't replying to anything I actually said. Hope that helps.
There is an excellent slide deck by Kayvon Fatahalian [0] that I consider to be the best high-level introduction into the topic (especially if you have a deeper understanding of how a CPU works). But I agree, more detailed insights would be great.

[0] http://s08.idav.ucdavis.edu/fatahalian-gpu-architecture.pdf
This has to be one the most pretentious comments I've ever read on Hacker News.
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personally i feel that your mission statement could benefit from some bespoke, artisanal, hand crafted attention to locally sourced details, which would enhance the user experience. for over five years.
Excuse my ignorance, but isn't this essentially a tight(er) coupling between the client and the server, something we have been trying to avoid with REST and, especially, HATEOAS? What happened to API “discoverability”? As I understood HATEOAS, the point was that the client just had to know how to work with particular data types (that's the point of an API, really), but was not expected to know or construct URLs beforehand, thus loosening the coupling to the server. Did I get it wrong? Did that path prove to be unrealistic?
So in the US Uber is what UberX is in France and UberX in the US is what UberPop is in France? Really weird, wonder why they would do that?
It's "no substitute". I read that as: it doesn't free you from thinking about memory. GC or not, you still need to care about it.
Really well done and feature-rich. Every web developer has thought about a product like this at some point. However, I don't understand who you're targeting: It's an incredibly feature-rich product, but no clear value proposition. Are you targeting backend developers that can't write HTML/CSS? Are you targeting HTML/CSS-devs that need a better IDE? Are you targeting website optimizers?

Your product seems like a combination of IDE, web-based WYSIYWIG (à la Weebly or Unbounce), SEO/Optimization (Optimizely or VWO), and Chrome Developer Tools. The integration is great from a technical perspective, but I don't see why I as a Web Dev should switch my entire tool chain to your service. The USP is kind of missing.

(I'm also from Germany, and the rendering is kind of slow, as hxseven has mentioned. Not sure if due to connection or client-side JS.)
I am not sure it does, but:

(7 + 2) * (2 + 5) in normal, infix notation

* + 7 2 + 2 5 in polish notation,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_notation

vs reverse polish which is:

7 2 + 2 5 + * (or 7 2 25 + + * ) which is easy to evaluate, but not necessarily to read)
According to reports, it scales 2560x1440 beautifully. 1920x1080 obviously works well, since that's an integer multiple.
Where did you get this idea that science only deals with matter?

Science is the discipline of publicly testing ideas by systematic observation, controlled experiment and Bayesian inference. Notice there is no mention of "matter" in that definition.

If an idea has any consequences it can be tested by practicing the discipline of science. If an idea is consequence-free it is boring. Ideas about consciousness that are fully decoupled from material consequences are boring: they entail that no human action is caused by consciousness. For example, my consciousness would have to be unrelated to the contents of this message, because it was generated by making various bits of matter move.

Material consequences are the most studied by science because they are the easiest to get at and they have the widest scope, but we use them to study immaterial and abstract causes all the time.