skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, suppose that you do pay for something and the seller gets your money but never delivers you the goods. Consider your feelings, thoughs, or whatever as an argument for "why it's wrong"
The challenge of the more accurate method you describe is balancing how much CPU is used to find the point in game time where a collision occurs because it is almost certainly at some point between your tick times. You have to perform the calculation at many units of time across the tick delta with the significance level you care about, with more calculations necessary as velocities of bodies increases.

Of course, this is what physics engines do, and why you should probably use one instead of reinventing the wheel.

In terms of showing how a game loop and really basic game physics works, however, this is a pretty clean and understandable example.
Is there an IMDB Top 250 list out there ranked by percentage of 10/10 ratings instead of average rating?
Occupy GPL the movement to rid the world of non-permissive open source licenses
The concern I have with all these OpenPGP based attempts to secure email is the lack of forward secrecy.
It is more the other way round. Asoftmurmur was pretty ugly https://web.archive.org/web/20141012204201/http://asoftmurmu... but has recently updated to look like noisli.com.

Don't get me wrong Asoftmurmur.com is also great, and I tend to use a combination of noisli and it.
Many people in Ubon, Mexico City and Lisbon probably think the US is unsafe after watching TV & movies set in inner-city LA and Detroit, Baltimore & Albuquerque, et cetera.
Open Data on financial relationships between health care industry, doctors
OnePlus Phones Now Available Every Tuesday Without Invitation
Just to inject a comment here that isn't complaining about the post, I found it an interesting read! It's pretty rare for anyone working in these sorts of situations to explain anything at all and I'm grateful the author bothers to write them up.

I inferred from context that "stackgap" was some sort of random memory space added to a process, but in case anyone else isn't familiar with it I found this presentation with a picture (the previous slide explains a bit more too):

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/auug04/mgp00005.html

From there it suggests it's normally a random gap in the ~256kb range. The change mentioned in the post increased the range to up to 2mb, which explains why that, coupled with a 2mb stack limit, caused such problems.

I'm a little surprised this didn't trigger problems earlier, since it would randomly causes processes to have half as much stack as they used to. I guess most processes don't use anywhere near 2mb (that's the 4mb limit - potential 2mb of gap) of stack?
Primarily, yes. Once autovacuum is marking dead tuple space as reusable (dead tuple space that was largely created by earlier iterations of the loop issuing your query), subsequent iterations can use that space for their new tuples, and the table should reach steady-state size, or at the very least, grow much more slowly. This is even more likely when you make autovacuum more aggressive on the table in question while you're doing this.

Additionally, however, if you're bulk rewriting the table in one query, autovacuum has no (or very limited) opportunity to mark dead tuples as truly dead — especially if there's any lock contention going on, so other, older xids are waiting for your bulk update to complete — so in the worst case your table is half dead tuples, and twice the size it needs to be.
With respect, are you assuming that criminal behavior is also necessarily immoral behavior?

I am glad to see services like Uber and AirBnB available.

How do you see it?
Not handling someone's legal obligations for them is borderline criminal?

Here in the US, that's very common. For instance, contractors are often paid in full and expected to handle their own taxes. Generally they do. This isn't considered borderline criminal.
I'm 32, and I have a younger brother who is 27 who has autism, and a pretty severe learning disability(not sure if they go hand-in-hand, but he's had it his whole life). My mother passed away a long time ago sometime after my 17th birthday, and my father and I have raised him as best we can since then. He graduated from high school quite some time back and has had a few jobs, but we haven't been able to find him any real work. We fear for the day that my father passes away and I'm not around to help take care of him :(
Tried to find it but the top google matches are just links to your comment =/
Marx was right, in the same way Malthus was right. Excessive growth can lead to collapse of individual companies or communities. Both failed to appreciate that in globally distributed, heterogenous, decentralized economies not everything collapses at the same time, and new things grow in the spaces left by the old.
Cafe Noise Generator
The only feature it has is file sharing, but I quite like Seafile: http://seafile.com/en/home/
Kickstarter:Django import-export.Tutorial:Processor API for different formats
Actually, the reason the therapist (and almost all therapists for young children) won't answer that question is because outcomes have so much variation. I'm privy to the stories of many kids with autism (because I have one, and we're networked with other families) and we hear of children losing their diagnosis (being 'mainstreamed') and others at the point of being institutionalized.

It would be unprofessional for the therapist to say anything to try and predict the outcome for your daughter at age 3, as that prediction might impact your treatment and planning. If the therapist tells you to prepare for the absolute worst, you could be less inclined to try therapies that might work wonders. If a therapist tells you she'll be fine, you might also change your tactic.

Please don't assume that the therapist is withholding bad news, as that may not be the case.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this true for all popular ARM boards today? Decent CPU, low power consumption, and terrible I/O performance?

I remember the PandaBoard as exceptionally bad, most are better but still pretty slow.
Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification [pdf]
DATEO – Grow your blog's audience – Service based on article by Nate Desmond
when I was in the job market in '00 I attended a Radio Shack job orientation. Here's what they were after, people who would work for very low pay but who made commission on cell phones. 95% cell phones in the orientation meeting, It was all cell phones for them and as I observed for many years after. Because it was all about commission and if you didn't sell mobile phones, you were not gonna make any money. Now keep in mind I went to the radio shack because I was interested in gadgets and building stuff. And when somebody needs a simple cable replacement and they see that it's 17.99 for an rca cable that is 2.99 on Amazon, the customer feels burned by the same store that supposedly America "trusted" for 70 years. Radio Shack could have merged with Monoprice 4 years ago and kicked butt on that instead of competing with Best Buy, Toys R Us, guitar center, batteries plus and Amazon all at the same time.

Now let's compare to say a home store. There are a lot of home stores, big and small. Some do better than others, many try really hard to compete with Lowes and HD by stocking really smartly. And they can keep people in through relationships. Hiring old experts who can tell you how something is done, and younger apprentice hands who can absorb a lot of info as well as lift 100 lbs into your car like nothing. (again service mindset). Also big box home stores do rentals and they also have classes. Camera shops also offer classes.

Radio Shack certainly sold *some cool stuff over the years but they never could be a place I could trust or rely upon to carry anything specific. I never felt like I got a good price on anything let alone a deal. The only time I ever felt I paid regular price was when they happened to have a little cable connector, it had no price and the manager was like eh just give me 1.99. He made up the price according to what he thought it was worth, the same price I thought it was probably worth. But you can bet had it had an active sku, it would have been 7.99.

Radio Shack had so many opportunities to be a provider of cool things. They could have even become a refurbish tech dealer selling lots of refurb game systems and controllers and probably done well. I mean you look at it like, what the hell were they even thinking for so long.
Big Data as statistical masturbation
I'm a systems admin/engineer, not hired specifically for software. However, I actually had that type of contract when I worked at Motorola ("Anything you conceive solely by you or jointly with others, at any time of the term of your employment..."). The company I work for now did not have that in any of their paperwork, at least not that I've signed directly. Unless it is hidden in the employee handbook, then I only signed a paper that says I've received the handbook. But still...
AeroFS Is Hiring (Senior|Front End|Customer Success) Engineers
Is SEO Easier Than You Might Imagine?
"But the real lesson is that the process for helping companies die is in dire need of study and executive education. There has to be a better way than the status quo."

Priceless.

Kodak's actions do indeed strike me as insane. I can't even fathom the reasoning that must have led to them. It must have emerged from some set of perverse incentives at the executive level, like pay based on sales numbers in the film business or some other kind of ham-fisted silly bonus structure.
Sounds like you have a new yc startup on your hands.
Just use any WebDAV share and sync with anything you want like rsync.
It is always risky to build a service based on something that is not yet standardized. SPDY was in progress to be standardized, but the process ended up with parts of it in HTTP2, making SPDY unnecessary, as I understand things.

It would be the right thing for Google to remove SPDY at this point, otherwise it would be running a nonstandard protocol that other browsers do not, which can lead to fragmentation - as we saw just recently with an API that sadly Google has not removed despite it being nonstandard (FileSystem in the WhatsApp "Web" app).

edit: To clarify, I mean what Google is doing with SPDY sounds like the right thing. I don't mean it should remove it right now, I meant it was the right thing to do, right now, to announce it would be removed after a reasonable delay (and 1 year sounds reasonable).
Using TDD with DnD in ReactJS
Why does ramdisk kernel have lower stack limit than regular kernel?
Too bad it's closed.
Hi HN,

Creator of Accelerat.io here. Just launched today and would love to get your feedback.

I built this site because when I was applying to accelerators some months ago I wasn't really sure which ones to apply to as there were so many of them but so little transparency about how valuable they really are. We all know Y Combinator is good, but how about all those others out there?

For the interested, the site's built in Python/Flask, custom design on top of Bootstrap (inspired by ProductHunt and NomadList), and makes heavy use of the DataTables.js plugin, which had been awesome so far.

Would love to answer any questions you may have and of course, if you've been through an accelerator first hand, I'd love to include your experience on our site.
This is a news article.

For the research itself, see http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.3093v3 (PDF link: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.3093v3.pdf)
Thank you for your feedback, appreciate your honesty.

Of course the text editor is not something for everybody. The users that do appreciate it want to write in a pleasant environment, without worrying to much on formatting.
Would love to understand more how Noisli could be more useful for you. Just write me at hello (at) noisli (dot) com
Interesting article but a completely hyperbolic title and paragraph headers. "The end of crowdsourcing?"
Uber for Drones: Consumer Drone Tech Future
Actually, it seems some site called "Hacker News" has a page on that stuff, but accessing it just led to a discussion about Autism in adults. Go figure...
There are fully functional coilgun prototypes out there that's (arguably) lethal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWeJsaCiGQ0

The fine print is that they're coilguns, not railguns; their operating principles are entirely different.
That would probably make sense, I didn't think of it at the time!

Perhaps one of the mods can edit it?
Uber’s Dodgy Drunk Driving Study
I completely agree. I use MIT wherever possible. I'm glad someone is stirring up the drama pot again.
You've probably already thought about this, but you might want to make sure clients understand the legal side of things. We've certainly had some cases at Mozilla where remote workers had to be "reminded" that we could only pay them if they maintained residency in their official company of employment, that they would be in violation of the tourist visa they had traveled to these other locations under if they worked there for 3 months, etc.

It's a bit of a minefield, and I only know the warnings that legal/HR tell managers :-)
I hear you, but isnt deposit interest an incentive for the depositor? Doesn't the interest partly reflect the risk the depositor takes? Theory aside, deciding between a bank with such precedent and one without and with equal interests, I don't think anyone would choose the 1st. This alone says something.
I recently gathered data for what I think is the best measurement of this: hours worked per year per working-age (15-64) person. It has risen modestly, from 1,046 in 1964 to 1,156 in 2013. Maxima were:

1964-1970 1,137
1971-1980 1,122
1981-1990 1,205
1991-2000 1,290
2001-2013 1,254
Some physics about covering the Earth with Internet access
I agree in a limited sort of way, in that I personally use BSD-alike licenses for my software, but I just can't get behind the idea that things I don't like shouldn't exist. That's too religious a standpoint for me to support.
Looks like Samsung TVs too have a trigger word that can be changed, (and the whole voice recognition can be turned off) see settings:

http://youtu.be/arsAs9pGrBk?t=52s

I don't know for sure that the tigger word is processed locally on SmartTVs too, but it's likely because Samsung said: 'voice data is provided to a third party during a requested voice command search', so you have to request it's happening probably with the trigger word. And technically it would not make too much sense to constantly stream audio from every SmartTV because the trigger word recognition is a simple enough task to do it locally and also the continuous stream would consume lot of bandwidth for the users and probably for the servers too.

But it's still very concerning that we have more and more devices with microphones and internet connections and in the case of SmartTVs proprietary OS with questionable security.
This is something I may create w/in the next decade. If I ever get enough $$ (don't need much, actually) to build several/a dozen tiny houses in a village somewhere, I'd do it in order to create what you describe.

On a side note, something I've been looking for for many years is a simple, no frills, cheap room rental service across the world's largest cities. Of course, now there's Airbnb, but I'd prefer one company that administers the living locations + design/look of the rooms, if that makes sense, rather than a network of regular people using a site to rent out their places. Basically, I want to know exactly what I'm getting (ie, same price, size, amenities, ease) no matter which city I go to. Like a hotel chain but for short, middle, and/or long term rentals.

Caravanserai looks like a promising start, though I'm also aware of the effort + price points from living abroad (I'm currently in Lisbon), and it's about 50-60% less than the lofty $1,600 mentioned (however, a co-working space here is around $220/mo, and I didn't include this factor in my estimate).

All that said, I am quite the stickler but surely most people won't mind paying the currently-set price.
This bug doesn't have security implications. The term 'stack overflow' is slightly ambiguous, as it could either mean buffer overrun in the stack (which can often lead to arbitrary code execution) or the program simply running out of stack space (like in the article).
> The GPL is not a free license. It restricts freedoms only to people it deems to be morally acceptable.

That's just completely false. It does not restrict who can use it. It restricts how you can use it, but not who can use it.
You sound like me 10+ years ago. I also have 2 children with autism, one high functioning and the other not. My lower functioning child, also happy, smiling and in his way affectionate, is now 18, 6'3 and about 240lbs. We went through some rough times when he first hit puberty, and he can still have some pretty scary tantrums, but mostly he's a giant gentle loveable boy. So far life has not taken his happiness and I don't see that changing anytime soon. Can't say it will work out the same for you, but I just wanted to say that it can happen.
Followup on this. To avoid the in/not-in <array> expansion, the trick is actually to use:

foo=any($1)

where $1 is an array instead of in ($1, $2, etc.). != any($1) is the same as 'not in'.
This is a really cool implementation! I'm wondering if it wouldn't be possible to handle optimistic updates by submitting a request to the server and then submitting an optimistic response from the client to itself. Then, when the server comes back, you hook into the already present optimistic response and just confirm or deny it based on the response from the server. That way you keep as little state on the client as possible.
Yes, but it does not save it's state between page reloads and not attached to my account. Also not sure what is the point of account. I would like to stop background and be able to stay anonymous.
^ I would also love to get a copy!

brennen dot peters at gmail.com
"When Children with Dyslexia Grow Up" or "When Gifted Children Grow Up" make perfect sense as article titles. In fact, a quick Google search yields a book for the second: http://www.amazon.com/Gifted-Lives-What-Happens-Children/dp/...

I think the title structure would work for any domain where most reporting/writing focuses on the condition in children, rather than their later development as adults.
Because bitcoin is no different. Virtual currency speculation is not the answer.
just keep a table of the vat rates and pay the relevant one.

It isn't even close to that simple. It should be, but because of the record-keeping and reporting requirements, tax thresholds (or lack of them), general overheads of being as familiar with 28 states' tax systems rather than just one, and failure to provide sensible systems and advice by governments on a scale that would bring most businesses to failure, it just isn't.

The EU's own web site about this specific issue -- which is widely cited by everyone up to and including national tax authorities in member states -- didn't even have correct VAT rates listed for all member states on 1 January 2015 when the new rules came in. I don't mean figuring out whether a business's particular digital product or service qualifies for a special rate in some states. I mean just the headline figures for the standard VAT rates in each state.
That's still very expensive, Cloudflare offers it for free, with a free certificate.
That's pretty standard for many scientists.
Yes, "ridding the world" of the GPL is a bit too strong of a stance to take. Almost like a knee-jerk reaction.

I think it would be better to catalog the licenses into categorical types so that we could then more intelligently decide which license to use, and also understand our own "chosen" licenses better.

In some cases, the GPL may be desired or even necessary to achieve the vision/goals of the authors of some software.
Thanks for the hint ;) Appreciated!
It took me a while to realize that I was supposed to scroll. I spent like 15 seconds trying to click something. Might want to make that more obvious.
Having written a bunch of Postgres functions in PL/pgSQL and JavaScript (V8 extension), I'm actually having trouble imagining what kinds of things you'd want to do with stored procedures that you can't already do with Postgres. Start a new subtransaction is one, but I've never needed that. Can you clarify what's different about SQL Server's?
Yhat (YC S15) Gives Data Science Teams a Head Start
> SPDY was in progress to be standardized, but the process ended up with parts of it in HTTP2, making SPDY unnecessary, as I understand things.

The "progress to be standardized" for SPDY was SPDY being chosen as the basis for HTTP/2; as I understand for a while SPDY has been being updated in parallel to the HTTP/2 development work to continue to reflect the state of HTTP/2 + new things the Google SPDY team wants to get into the standard, but its been clear for a long time that the intent was that SPDY as a separate protocol would be unnecessary once HTTP/2 was ready for use.
How an anonymous messaging app went troll-free
They do both. On the left you can see "milestones", which are general project goals. But at the bottom, some of the pledge levels have specific rewards to the backer.
Well, different, but perhaps not quite entirely. It's the same "big current makes big magnetic field" principle.
Cord-cutters rejoice: Sling TV starts up
Working on analytics app to visualize web server HTTP traffic across hosted web sites to discover "unhealthy" patterns and security attacks:

http://www.mensk.com/#prettyPhoto/0/

Next iteration will include ability to ban IP addresses.
Rust documentation on concurrency and shared mutable state might help: http://doc.rust-lang.org/book/concurrency.html#safe-shared-m... and http://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/intro.html#concurrency
How Integrating Technologies Can Change the Way Healthcare Is Delivered
"The GPL is not a free license. It does not grant freedom, it grants different restrictions."

sigh

Then why have a license at all?

You have to draw the line somewhere - we live in a complicated world full of complicated humans. The FSF chose to draw the line in a very particular way and they have perfectly good reasons for doing that. Other people or companies choose differently for different reasons[0]. This site tries to even landgrab the very particular phrasing of "Free" that the FSF uses. The guts of some people.

[0] The site mentions MIT, BSD or zlib as licenses but guess why Google chooses Apache? Because patents. Because the world is a complicated place full of complicated people.
I had an eight-port switch whose wall wart PSU had failed. I thought, "Hey, why not go over to Radio Shack and get a PSU, instead of pitching what was otherwise a perfectly good switch?"

Well, as it turned out, RS wanted as much for a suitable wall wart as it would cost to buy a complete new switch elsewhere.
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance alone will have significant impacts on development and operations processes.
All aspects of auditing get much worse/tedious.
To be fair Google did happily kill Gears when HTML5 became a viable [early draft] standard.
Love the coffee shop. Great job.
Sidecar: People + Packages: The Future of Same-Day Delivery
I've started using a semi-random method. I pick a category, take a random page, and then pick whatever book I want from the twenty books on that page. I've enjoyed it so far. It gets me to read books that I may have put off for a while, but because I'm picking the top one out of twenty they're books that I really want to read.
can you also add a frequency bar? I like the sound of the train, but not constantly. I'd like to adjust how often it happens.
Swift 1.2 and Xcode 6.3 beta
> It's still a bit ahead of launch, but we are preparing an open source alternative to OwnCloud

OwnCloud is licensed under the AGPLv3. Curious why you think it's not Open Source Software.
Everyone please applaud this cool new way to kill people.