skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't recall ever wearing a watch with buttons on the side that I could press without "squeezing" the watch
Great work!

I remember when Unladen Swallow project was active, they were encountering some issues with LLVM which slowed their progress down. They often had to stop to fix LLVM.

Wonder if Pyston team got a chance to look or learn from Unladen Swallow's idea or even use any of the code?
I think you are doing a favour to humanity. Keep up the good work.

Bug report: http://crowdmed.theresumator.com/apply account is disabled.
Atari Engineer Steve Bristow Passes Away
Facebook Employees can login as you without your credentials
162 games in 184 days, half of which are in not-your-home-city. Any particular game isn't too bad, but the cumulative stress of that many games and that much travel really adds up. That's also why the meta-game of baseball is important - e.g. sometimes it's better to play your weaker guys in the middle of the season, with the concomitant reduced chance of winning those relatively unimportant games, so you can have your stars rested for September/October. But don't rest them too much, or you won't even make the playoffs...
I've had this question for awhile ... What is the advantage to using DuckDuckGo, with respect to privacy? All I've found is that they say privacy is important and that they don't track users. But I see no way for them to prove that. So you still have to trust them not to spy on you. Perhaps on the whole that is better than alternatives. "Google is definitely spying on me" versus "DuckDuckGo might be spying on me". Is that the only difference, or am I missing something?

If that's the only difference, isn't Google-over-Tor a better option? Known privacy with world-class search results?
Google Say Chromebook Pixel 2 Will Go on Sale Soon
Reminds me a lot of OSX photo albums. Pretty cool idea! Curious about memory and performance constraints for larger gifs as presumably all frames must be cached.
Craft is not a personal conceit. You're thinking about art. And even then, most arts have a craft. Knowing your craft usually makes you a better artist, but is not strictly necessary.
Mmm, this looks awesome. Now, I'm just hoping for an update to Pebble Steel so that I can have a metal pebble with a color display and timeline. Would be awesome!

All the best,
Uber and Lyft Force Investors to Play Favorites
Those companies need only so much capital. In China, it's worked out since consumption was de emphasized anyways in favor of exports, but that has just led to a very lopsided economy. You need consumers to spend money, not just save it.

Money has to be lent to be saved, of course, someone has to spend it somewhere. If your country has an overly high savings rate because of a poor social security system, it's going to hurt one way or the other.
Then how could you possibly think I have "shifted the goalposts there from "has value" to "value for the economy as a whole""?
Obama is not a member of congress. He doesn't write laws or regulations.
I agree that one baseball game is less stress on an athlete's body than one soccer game. But soccer players play about 30-40 games a season; major league baseball players play 162 games a season.
Open source PowerPoint add-in for broadcasting presentations in a browser
Each compartment comprises interests, relationships and activities that you want observers to track and interrelate.

Excellent! There are a lot of historical precedents for technology enabling intermediation! Such intermediation comes with power, which does need to be tempered with some regulation. (The minimum possible, due to regulatory capture, of course.)
> Metal and sapphire crystal is much more robust and functional than these cheap materials.

The screen is Gorilla Glass and the bezel is stainless steel!
So the source is open, it’s just not free.

(I don’t want to sound like I agree with Stallman. I’m just trying to clarify definitions.)
One of the "medical detectives" on the front page, Daniel Auer, advertises himself as a homeopathic practitioner and naturopath. From his bio:

> ... Dr. Auer augmented his initial plans to attend medical school and pursued a doctor of chiropractic degree instead...

This sounds like hiring a psychic to do my taxes. Thanks, guys, but no thanks.

Full disclosure: I'm an MD, and I practice science-based medicine. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/about-science-based-medi...
I have nothing constructive to say, but ... what a cool question :)
A well-stated rant about the demise of the Zune
Chicago has an extrajudicial interrogation center
React v0.13 RC
Pebble's Insane Success Proves That Kickstarter Is Now a Marketing Tool – WIRED
.. you could just ask us freebsd developers which benchmarks you'd like us to run on the box we have. :)

-adrian
That being the case, it still has benefits of open source. For example if your game isn't working and you have the skills you may be able to find out exactly why and then have it requested to fix and verify the fix. I would credit them for that and I'm pretty sure that exact scenario has happened for a dev agency.
Performance on the Web isn't RAM-bound at this time, unless you're running on a Raspberry Pi or somethin. Network performance is a much stronger limiting factor, which is why protocols like HTTP/2 are being made in the first place.

I'm also skeptical that sprites must necessarily be significantly more demanding memory-wise than smaller images. Implementations may vary, but at least in current browsers, when you make an Image tag/object with the same source as one you've already loaded, the second one loads instantly. This at least makes it appear that both image tags are getting some kind of lightweight view into the same image data -maybe just a pointer to the same bucket of bits- as opposed to having to re-download and/or re-copy the image data for each instance.
Well, I guess it at least helps point your doctor in the right direction. I guess it wouldn't work for the mundane case then.
Why Bellevue instead of Seattle?
> What kind of journalism gets published with such little substantiation?

Uhh....so, so much of journalism today is exactly that; to the point that articles that are substantial are the exception.
William Rowan Hamilton, credited as the inventor of quaternions, died of a severe gout precipitated by excessive drinking and overeating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rowan_Hamilton
EaC is great. The Rice papers linked in Coopers' lectures, e.g. Simpson's thesis on value-numbering, are the basis for some of the book's original material, and are a great supplement.
Your chef doesn't have a large monetary incentive to poison your soup. Would you eat the food if he did?
What I like about Pebble- Display + Battery + Cross-platform support.
how is this different from the built-in feature PPT offers?
"Especially that the whole point of dictation should be that you're not actually looking at the screen"

I've noticed UIs always get "needier" over time. Call it VLM's Law. In the old days a dumbphone could be operated tactile in total darkness without looking at it at all. Then smartphones came along which needed occasional glances at the screen to verify the screen and touch screen position/orientation (portrait vs auto-rotated landscape). Now you need to stare continuously at the screen to watch mistakes in the speech to text dictation system as you slowly, tediously, agonizingly argue with a machine.

How clumsy of a UI, like going thru life wearing oven mitts. And VLMs Law is it always gets worse over time. It'll take a lot of work, but we'll find a way to make UIs even more painful.
On the Sentinel you can switch to the BOV in a second, unless you're an alpinist :-)
Indies have been using it a lot recently. Off the top of my head I can only recall Antichamber [1] as a successful UE-made indie game but there are also a ton of small games made with it. You should check out RockLeeSmile's videos [2] if you want to see some.

[1]: http://www.antichamber-game.com/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/user/RockLeeSmile/search?query=unrea...
Not anymore: as I posted last night[1], Mozilla could choose to give themselves access to your password, when you create your account or when you change its password. Anyone who is able to successfully MITM you & Mozilla (say, someone with a Komodia cert if you're infested with Superfish, or any of the CAs in the world, or anyone who can compel them to certify a MITM cert) can do the same.

Google do allow you to use your own passphrase, so conceivably at this point Chrome is at least somewhat more secure than Mozilla.

It's a crying shame.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9098459
That is essentially what the research is about. The "extortion" algorithm seems like it is playing nice, but cheats as much as it can get away with.
Note the words "first public release". Not to knock Chrome's achievements in this area, but it's an inescapable fact that they did not have any previous architecture to migrate from. Taking any nontrivial program that has had years to assume a single-process architecture, and updating it to work in a multiprocess manner, is hard. It takes time to do properly.
"Data calls extremely simplistic model no one ever would have thought fully explained the domain into question"
Perhaps it's just that we have two good and popular teams in the Bay Area, but I don't recognize the problem you're talking whenever I attend a baseball game.
Is this the referenced Amy Hoy cheatsheet?

https://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/ruby-on-rails-cheat-...
This is insane in 2015. I understand the difficulties of porting, but at the same time, I've had a 64-bit CPU since 2009 and I was late to the party :)
Yes, plus you can send the extracted articles directly to the kindle.
Not in asymtotic terms, at least.

There exists a stable sorting algorithm that's O(1) axillary space, and O(n log n) worst-case time - wikisort. As both of those are provable lower bounds, this seems false.
Question is why you'd use it over Go, Java, C#, or even Python or Ruby.

I picked it originally because there are lots of quickly-up-and-running plugins and similar things in the npm repository. Like I said the community is great. But the more I work with it, the more it hurts. Pain in a language should decrease with time as you work with it.
@tor_user, your comment is dead, but since I have showdead on:

I go beyond the .torrc config settings. I have a custom Python controller that uses Stem[0] to interface with the tor binary's control port to build my paths and circuits.

My tor binary has some customizations as well (stop sending 512 byte cells by default, random packet delays with large transfers, creative TLS and circuit multiplexing), and of course there's the standard use of obfsproxy[1], unlisted bridges[2], etc.

[0]https://stem.torproject.org/

[1]https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy.html.en

[2]https://bridges.torproject.org/
3 Reasons You'll Move to the Cloud
Also, more focus on the catchers. They take a beating too.
Lower cost of living probably, but still access to a big tech community
I don't think so.. If you implement quicksort the way I've normally seen it implemented (elements less than pivot to left, others to right), you could just give the array elements that are all the same value.

Then, you would easily get the O(n^2) runtime because your pivot would always be the left most element.
If you don't believe boys and girls have some fundamental differences in personality maybe you need to get away from your monitor and interact with a child.

You can find countless studies of gender distinction in just about every physiological/psychological aspect, just google it. (your point about handedness is very poor since humans have bilateral symmetry, unlike genders; although some asymmetric brain specialization actually seems to create some fundamental differences in the way left handed people think)

If you didn't get this after all this discussion I'm afraid you never will.

>PS. I didn't suggest women would prefer nursing to clinician work, but it's fairly obvious they would prefer nursing over truck driving.
I confirm that a high waiting time can be due to a damaged disk. I had a server that became slower over the time notwithstanding a constant number of requests. It took me a while to notice a 90% waiting time in top. A disk was dying, I got it replaced and the server got speedy again.
I strongly prefer the previous search bar UI, and thankfully it's still available through a setting.
about:config -> browser.search.showOneOffButtons = false.
Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Put Your Baby Photos Online
I'm not a religious patio11 reader (as of yet), so I haven't come across much of it.

Good to know he's written more about it.
The school does not exist anymore. There is no one to sue and the money is gone, regardless. And if you pin it on the banks then either loans will get more expensive to account for the added risk of potentially having to foot the bill for bad schools or will stop lending altogether, making it harder for students to go to school.
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Optimizing Python in the Real World: NumPy, Numba, and the NUFFT
Unification is not a substitute for semi unification.
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Whips, chains and capitalism: What ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ is really about
I used to do watershed modelling with Fortran back in the late 90s. There's definitely a lot of legacy Fortran software still in use, but more in research and science oriented fields. I think there are still interesting opportunities in which you interface modern web UIs with a legacy Fortran implementations that do some cool scientific modelling.

You are unlikely to make as good money as Cobol programmers, though.
For others the price isn't the important point, being along on the kickstarter is merely about being first in the queue for a new toy.
$19/month for the SDK + 5% of your sales.
You've just contradicted yourself. On the one hand you state critical thinking is key and on the other hand you dismiss questioning popular opinion as crazy.
In which category do you think the question of how privacy should be managed between websites and their customers, across all kind of business models, all types of customers, and all sorts of data fit? A complex situation that needs context aware distributed decision, or a problem simple enough that regulation can unambiguously help?
Breathtaking Design Strategy for Pepsi (2008) [pdf]
A crying shame indeed. Thanks for the update.
So, like Space-x...?
There is no sign-up (microsoft account or similar) necessary, the broadcast link is much shorter and easier to share, and it's open source :)
If you wish to prevent teen suicide, your task really isn't as difficult as you might think. You might be totally unwilling to do it, though.

How about making it so teens lives don't suck ass? How about helping them instead of actively trying to hurt them with good intentions? It's not like adolescence is some new thing that just popped up, but society has gotten progressively worse at dealing with it for a long time. We know that in cultures that empower adolescents and expect them to join the adult world, there is no such creature as the 'angsty teen'. We create that creature when we insist on treating them like children simply because we don't know what else to do with them with our current social structure - a structure derived from the needs of factory owners around the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and little-changed since.

Do you want to stop teen suicide if it means respecting them as human beings? What if you have to let them make the decisions that control their lives instead of you? Are you willing to admit that you have talked about adolescents the way racists used to talk about minorities, and the way men used to talk about women? Are you ready to admit that you've wronged a part of humanity, even though you had to pass through that class yourself? What you want and what needs to be done to accomplish it are not always things you can live with. Demanding that you should be able to have your desires met without having to pay the price is very immature. If you want teen suicide to go away but you still get to rob them of their autonomy and denigrate them, you are doing exactly this.
Really? It is just a drop down in the Chrome/Preferences on my Mac. I have it currently set to Bing.

See the bottom of this screen shot:

http://oi59.tinypic.com/nd0fuq.jpg
I would love to have some of those in my office, just to have a psychological change with a flip of a button.
Oh my. Yes, the raw untouched photos - with all safety equipment showing - activate a completely different part of my brain. Now I know these are real people, really leaning over the edge of a skyscraper.

It was a bit like seeing the Mission Impossible movie and admiring the great CGI that made it look like Tom Cruise was swinging from a rope off the side of the Burj Khalifa, and then seeing the "making of" video and realizing he was swinging from that rope.
Engine-supported scenes are a convenience, you don't need to use them if their cons outweigh their pros.
The default oh-my-zsh theme does something similar - first character in the PS1 is `➜`, in grey if the previous command returned 0, red otherwise. It just checks `$?`, I assume.
I only have one scene in my Unity games. I load and do everything I want with my own custom code. The feature to use scenes is there, but I don't bother to use it. Just like Minecraft clones built in Unity, the scene is empty, the code does all the work dynamically loading and displaying the level.
For anyone else looking for vanity domains : often used https://domainr.com/ to check for availability. gandi still usually cheaper for the reg.
I was thinking on making it all GPL, and sell services/support, so that enterprises could use it internally or externally on GPLed software, but when they needed to build closed source external software, they'd buy a license.

There is a problem with GPL though: we cannot sell licenses if we merge in other contributors code, because we wouldn't have the copyright to license that under another license other than GPL. That wouldn't be a problem if we never accept contributions.

We could also sell support, consulting, build up entire software solutions...
the problem then is time. At this moment there is only me and a friend in the project.
Yeah. What I loved about dumbphones and feature phones was not just keys - it was that they had firmware instead of a full-blown OS, and thus predictable timing. I could operate my K800i in total darkness without looking at it, because I knew that, say, "joy-click, wait for around half a second, left, joy-click, down, joy-click" would take me to my messages. If I tried something like that with my S4, I'd end up pretty much wherever, because the UI likes to hang for half a sec every now and then.

#nostalgia
Why is that an issue on iOS? Genuinely curious.
Average MLB Career is 5.6 years[1] * $3.8M/year = $21.28M

Divide that by 40 (assuming a career from 25-65) and you still have $532k/year.

[1] http://www.ramfg.com/RAM-Financial-Group-Solutions-Professio...
PHP used to be thinner than it is now. PHP/FI 2.0 was a really thin layer on top of the C standard library, and you could trivially add new functions to it (though this is still true to an extent for Zend).

PHP 3 and beyond have been more abstracted, thicker layers. They are platform-independent and have things like binary-safe strings and Unicode support.
Show HN: A set of scripts to analyze your emails
Interestingly, he didn't bother to measure the speed of a C program that does this. ;)
Too bad they didn't get the memo about the magic concept. The video is cute, but no way I'm installing this app without being able to try it first somehow.
Aussie startups should have mining sector's 'no liability' corporate structure
Why Prefer Potential?
> bankers got completely cut out of the "deal"

Seems to me that Kickstarter are the banker, taking 5% of the funds. And their payment processors are taking another 3%.
for f), There are lots of states where it's illegal to record someone in real life without their consent or their being aware they're recorded. If someone used Siri next to me while I was talking, they'd (or maybe Apple) be breaking the law in some states.
The Sharing Economy will continue to become more complex
Here's the definition the stated source used:

“individuals who have engaged in supplemental, temporary, or project- or contract-based work in the past 12 months.”

That's very vague and broad. I mean even restricting yourself to "real/full-time" self-employed, you'll find out that many truck drivers, most mechanics, most hair dressers, they're all 1099s...
This is pretty much what I'm doing right now. When I moved to Seattle for a new development job I found roommates on Craigslist instead of paying about twice as much to rent a 1 BR. I'm now saving way more money than I otherwise would have, and I don't fall into the high spending trap because the people I spend most of my time with have more reasonable incomes that encourage frugality.

I don't have a target net worth or age for when I'll call it quits but the way I see it, I'm buying flexibility for the future without sacrificing any happiness today.
Linus Torvalds' micro emacs
Still not seeing any G.T. connection. Mind taking off the foil hat and beaming the info to my mind or something?
like everything else it just seems that you have to be in the right place at the right time.

I am in the opposite situation and as you said there are a lot of stories on how to find a technical cofounder but its not as easy as it sounds..finding someone who believes what you believe and can stand with you to make it happen is the important part...or you can just hire them which seems to be the easy answer
Standardising coding style across the team with RuboCop – layer|twenty|two
To be fair, the point of the theory is that the gain could very well have been worth the investment.
Implementing std::tuple from the Ground Up: Part 7, tuple_cat Take 2
We've actually been working on improving relevancy for queries like your example ("vegetarian restaurant new york") -- check it out!

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=vegetarian+restaurant+new+york
This is bad-ass. Thanks for taking the time and investigating something that so many overlook yet use every day (myself included)
Everything can be overused. Microsoft pretty much invented the "flat" movement that has been happening but they're also guilty of making things so flat and undefined that you don't even know what to click on! The iPhone uses animation as filler to hide slow app loading in the first gen but it isn't necessary anymore. Even skeuomorphism is ok when it conveys meaning but most uses are garish effects that provide zero benefit.

Animations that are merely cool looking might be fun for the first dozen times but then it gets old.
A lot of the barriers that Unladen Swallow / Reid and friends ran into were fixed as part of their efforts (e.g. MB limits on emitted code, no gdb support, etc.). Building a dynamic language runtime on top of LLVM is much much easier today than it was when Unladen Swallow tried, and I'd say it's partly thanks to their initial effort.
The only way an H-1B can stay beyond six years is if they have applied for permanent residency.
One big difference seems to be that Oracle RAC uses a shared disk for each node. This means you need a fast disk. Oracle ships a lot of data between RAC nodes so you need a fast interconnect between your nodes (e.g. infiniband).
An interesting point was brought up about licensing Nintendo through Atari. How would the gaming world be different now had they gone with it?

> "In the early '80s, Atari debated whether to go with the internally developed successor to the 2600 or a new console that Nintendo wanted us to market," he told Wired. "Regrettably, it was my decision not to license the Nintendo system." Yes, if not for Bristow, Americans might have played Super Mario Bros. on the Atari Entertainment System decades ago.
I don't think the league needs to mandate anything. It's not like these are dropping dead. It is like a marathon, pacing yourself is just part of it.