skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another possibility is that the increasing complexity of the modern economy has made the biggest barrier to entry simply holding the attention of a consumer and getting them to remember your name. This would also explain why companies that hold consumers' attention (like Google or Facebook) get huge valuations while holding basically nothing in the form of tangible assets, and why advertising is an increasingly large sector of the economy. It'd also explain why trademarks, domain names, and brands are guarded so fiercely, and worth so much.

The ideal business is one where your consumers do the job of shutting out competition for you. That way, even if somebody were to copy you exactly, build a better product, and charge less, nobody would buy from them. We're pretty close to that point right now, and it lets the companies that are in companies' minds charge monopoly rents.
Because, you can slander everyone who discovers vulnerabilities in your software, and you can even lobby to make it illegal to disclose those vulnerabilities, and throw people in prison over it, and so on... and your software will go right on being vulnerable. You can put every security researcher and white hat in the world in prison on trumped-up charges and throw away the keys, and it will not make your software one bit more secure.

It's like, even if I convince every human being alive that I am not bound by the laws of gravity, if I jump off a cliff I will die all the same. To think otherwise is insane, but for some reason when it comes to software (and hardware) security we give people like Ian Brightwell a pass.
I think you're probably using an idiosyncratic meaning for "in," so we may be at an impasse for going further with this discussion.
Consider visualizing the data somehow, It's way to much data to be able to understand it
I think someone did the testing and it's lower than that.
It ends up changing the output of icu-based libraries, localizing stuff like number formatting. Otherwise you're re-implementing that in userland code, which is likely to be much slower.
Topkins was accused of conspiring with other poster sellers to use algorithms, for which he wrote computer code, to coordinate price changes, and then share information about poster prices and sales.

How is that not price fixing?
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More scientists doubt salt is as bad for you as the government says
It's been a problem often enough that I've had to learn how to just walk away. Say something like, "thanks, good bye" if you can't just walk away. They don't know the difference between polite chit-chat and real interest, and they don't know the difference between politely and rudely ending the conversation, which mostly works to your advantage. They might make a scene, but unfortunately you sometimes lose the little gambles of life.

I really like it when the events include a brief, round-circle intro period. Some general behavioral signs that I try to avoid:

1) bodily or facial ticks, like hand contortions.

2) obvious poor hygiene, like greasy, dandruffy hair or food stains around the mouth or on the shirt, very wrinkled clothing, shirt only half tucked.

3) very bad fashion sense, i.e. dirty sneakers with khaki pants (AKA The Ugliest Pants Known to Man) and a polo shirt (AKA The Ugliest Shirt Known to Man), or cargo shorts (pulled up too high) and conference swag t-shirt at an event where everyone else is wearing dress shirts and jeans.

3) lack of direct eye contact when speaking.

4) a sense of near-panic (different than garden-variety nervousness, you get the feeling this person is going to bolt at any second if someone says something wrong) when speaking.

5) either talks far too loudly or far too quietly for the situation.

6) (as previously mentioned) a project idea that verges on fantasy.

7) Near-complete lack of useful skills, or mentions attending "code bootcamp" to "get into programming". This applies to anyone, even normal people who pass all of the previous points, just to avoid a different type of time-burglar.

I know this sounds insensitive and discriminatory, but... yeah, it's discriminatory. That's the point. I'm trying to discriminate between people who will completely waste my time and those who won't.
Such matters? I thought we were talking about putting a statue in a park. Was this a secret statue? I guess it was, since nobody knew about it until it showed up.
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Origami from facebook is also very nice for prototyping, perhaps to nice as it allows you to easily to do things that would be difficult to code with the mobile ui frameworks we have currently.
Ah that's very unfortunate to hear. I certainly did have many lecturers who were not professors, and also professors who were not as great as other ones. Nevertheless, at my school at least there was never anything stopping me from just going into the office hours of a professor who wasn't teaching to talk about something. They always seemed very eager to help me with anything.

It's really unfortunate that this isn't the situation at all schools. I guess I really lucked out!
I appreciate the roadmaps on individual projects. I am more interested in the CoreOS roadmap.

So far the approach seems to be, work on a special project in secret for a couple months that aims to compete with existing solutions and then hype a partial release of the incomplete project on a Monday.
> Noone is willing to go through all the shell scripts [other people have written] in their system and rewrite them in the new language

Why is that a requirement at all?
Seems Dell is a mess in ACPI and will need firmware updates: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/34542.html
FWIW, PyPy has a hard time with this since Python's iterators are really heavyweight.
> they accept brides ... from anyone with a big wallet ;)

Tee hee.

But, seriously:

> [Government doesn't] offer or allow you a choice in Law Enforcement provider.

The rise in private security firms and private offender-rehabilitation firms [0] kinda act as defacto law enforcement for some of the lower class.

[0] http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/0...
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The PHP library is (surprise!) sort of a mess when it comes to things that use the libc locale (which tend to offer no other way of switching locale or encoding), things that use the locale settings from the intl extension, things that respect the default_charset setting (and/or the input_encoding setting, output_encoding setting, or internal_encoding setting), and things that actually take one or more of these settings as arguments.
Just curious. What branch like things do you mean, when you say that you need Mq to do it? If you mean things like rebase, cherry pick, folding commits etc, those can be done in better ways by bundled in extensions like rebase, graft and historyedit.

Even some of the Mercurial developers does not like Mq extension much...
Re IPs, you could just go with private IPv6 addresses, could you not?
For those looking to learn more, here is the history on it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging_Bull#History
This might be technicality, but at a university I studied in Czech Republic, it was sufficient if the bachelors thesis contained no original research, and was more or less just an overview of current developments in a subfield of what you study.

I think the reasoning was, that 2 semesters that it took to write is too little time to conduct any original research, and that showcasing ability to write a comprehensive scientific text and process current scientific papers is enough to varrant a bachelors thesis.

Master thesis had to have original research.

Maybe there are more differences between Denmark and Czech higher education.

For example, do you have just a thesis defense, or do you need to pass some sort of state examination as well?

I remember, that a fried of mine was contrasting mostly four week blocks of intense study on single topic in Denmark with for Czech more standard semester with 5-10 classes, each 1-5 hours a week.
Storage, bandwith, voice.

The problem, I think, is distributed accounting - in the presence of untrusted and malicious nodes. Micropayment transactions need to work faster than existing systems like BTC, to be able to support fast call set up, for example.
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This was actually reported a couple of weeks ago [1] in the some of the less populist Austrlaian press. Didn't seem to get much more media traction it seems.

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-23/ivote-security-hack-al...
The linked article does not provide details. However, Engadget has an article on this that offers this tidbit:

"The aluminum-ion cell isn't perfect (yet) as it can only produce about 2 volts, far less than the 3.6V that lithium-ion an muster. Plus aluminum cells only carry 40 watts of electricity per kilogram compared to lithium's 100 to 206 W/kg power density."

http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/06/stanfords-battery-charges...

Sidenote: I suspect that passage means W-hours per Kg vs. W per Kg because typical Li-ion does have an energy density in the 100-200 W-h/kg range. See the chart in this Nature article:

http://www.nature.com/news/the-rechargeable-revolution-a-bet...
Ding ding ding... all the uboot copyright owner needs is a desire to to sue and a lawyer that would take the case on a contingency basis. The company does about 600 million in revenue... so there's a lot of money there.
Yes, you do. :-) Alternative Java 8 solution:

int total = IntStream.rangeClosed(1, 10).map(x -> x*x).sum();
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We all know how clean breaks work out....
Then I think it will take a long time before we have self-hosting tablets, and we may never get self-hosting phones.
For novices like me, this site seems very useful. If there are some genuine problems, I hope you can take the time to report those issues on github.

Also, what's the final verdict on Fast InvSqrt()? Is the optimal magic number Q3's 0x5f3759df, Chris's 0x5f375a86, or your 0x5F375A7F?
Something I posted on Reddit:

"I would argue that this is very stupid advice and it enables people that really don't want to study hard.

An educated workforce is of crucial importance, be it an educated welder, lawyer or engineer. Educated people find it easier to adapt to new economic needs and it's far easier for an engineer to do a welder's work than a welder to do an engineer's work. And yes, I'm an engineer and wouldn't even blink if I had to get my hands dirty.

There's also the part where educated people have a more fulfilling life, grater freedom, more options, broader intellectual horizons.

I see a lot of people around me that decry the lack of good tradesmen.On the other hand, my dad is a great electrician and can't get a decent, comfortably paid job. You know why? Because the need isn't there, because brains are more productive than brawn."
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The Dow Jones data they site is way off. We calculated a lower bound of $2.36B from a compilation of 264 financings in 2014. You can access the (free) report here: http://agfunder.com/reports/agtech-investing-report-2014

AGERPoint was also one of the companies mentioned in the article. Their campaign is also currently listed on our site.
OpenGL certainly is a 3D library, but WebGL is based on OpenGL ES (the ES part being important here) and basically just provides facilities to transfer data to/from the GPU and run vertex and pixel shaders.

It is completely up to the user whether the position data for the triangles is given in 2D coordinates from the start or in 3D coordinates and then transformed to 2D coordinates in the vertex shader.

The fact that it makes it fast to do the math for 3D, does not make it a 3D API.
The Lebesgue measure could be a candidate for the measure you are asking for. Creating a bounding box around the convex set in question and then scaling, we get a probability measure (measure of the entire set is 1). Some sorts of random walks inside this bounding box will converge to this scaled Lebesgue measure. I think this is the main idea behind the convex volume estimation algorithms.

The oracle you mention is the indicator function of the convex set. Instead of integrating this indicator function directly over Lebesgue measure to get volume, we can use MCMC to get the "expectation" of the oracle.

It's not obvious if we can realize the Riemann zeta function as an integral over a finite measure space, but if we could, I think MCMC could be used to evaluate it.
It doesn't sound like they expect people to pick it up in a day...
I'm not trying to diminish the greatness of her gesture, but she really was shielded from the "You risk the mob turning on you as well" part by two very simple facts: her skin color and being a young woman... kind of hard to imagine a young afro-american woman as being pro-KKK and to mob linch her too :)
That this is prosecuted in a world where Comcast can say "oh, our service areas just happen to exactly not overlap" and "we'll install 2 gigabit service but only where it's absolutely required to undercut our newest competitor and nowhere else ever", is a travesty.
Great read! Now some git commands make much more sense.
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New policy: "Hello, you have reached my voicemail. Since today is April 1st, why don't you just leave a message and I'll call you back when I have time for pranks, and then we can both enjoy it? Until then, stop breaking my concentration, it takes an hour to rebuild." There are so many things wrong with that idea, but still.
> In fact giving extremists a voice somewhat counter-acts extremism as they feel like they have an outlet for their perceived issues.

That's debatable. The ridiculous amount of coverage they have had in France has certainly improved their popularity.

The only good thing about them getting more power is that they can clearly demonstrate that they are just as incompetent and corrupt as the other parties.
I really like yaml. Especially for writing config files. But I still wish there was a cut down version without the bells and whistles that aren't really useful/relevant to human read/written documents. Just a superset of json syntax, not semantics.
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> The National Front will be part of the government in France. Is that what we should strive for?

[Citation needed]. Sure, they have about 25% of the public now, but the next presidential elections are not before 2017, and two years is a long time in politics.
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Not sure you should have been down voted, but nevertheless, your question is addressed well elsewhere in this thread [0].

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9332157
What's the Weisman Score for this? :P
So you, engineer, could become a great welder at the drop of a hat, because you are educated and typical welders are not?

From paying visits to the department, my local community college's welding program is basically a 2-year education on metallurgy. I don't consider the people coming out of that program "uneducated" in the slightest.
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Then again, thanks to the wonders of the group voting ticket, the bar for getting a clearly ridiculous result is pretty high:

"In the New South Wales Legislative Council election of 1999, the Outdoor Recreation Party's Malcolm Jones was elected with a primary vote of 0.19%, or 0.042 of a quota."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_voting_ticket
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For JavaScript using Stream.js https://github.com/winterbe/streamjs

var total = Stream
.iterate(0, function (n) {
return n + 1;
})
.map(function (x) {
return x * x;
})
.limit(10)
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Thank you! The demos and the comment section below each page is great, I wished every API gets such a great documentation.

Good that it covers really WebGL. And not Three.js as do several "WebGL" books and tutorials. (as I wrote two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9320571 )
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I go to a lot of student hackathons and I really don't see that happening. And the large majority of organizers are heavily focused on creating a welcoming event for building, learning, and having fun.

Student hackathons are and always will be fundamentally different from corporate hackathons because the motivations of the organizers and attendees are different. Perhaps we should be careful about offering large prizes for the reason you state but the focus is very clearly on learning and building and that's not set to change.
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Laziness slows everything down by a constant factor. In this example, Haskell would perform about the same as C++, because of optimizations that turn operations on linked list cells into loops (arriving at a result much like the external iterators of Rust and the expression template based iterators of C++).
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>What happens with the branches that are forked from your branch?

Care to elaborate? Do you mean when removing a branch, what happens to forked/child branches? There is no ambiguity, a change set cannot exist without it's parent or cannot be moved to a different parent without changing its identity. (The revision hash is a function of its ancestors too). So if you remove a branch, the forks/child branches will be removed as well.

Anyway, that was just a made up example to show how naming can affect reasoning. I don't think Mercurial or Git allows you to delete branches directly....
Even with markup, shopping & delivery are expensive. They'll have the 1%ers but I doubt they can scale beyond when they have to compete with Google and Amazon. Google could spend $1b/year for 10-years preparing this market for driverless/drone-based delivery. And this would be a rounding error on their balance sheet. No one, not even Amazon has that muscle.
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That would be a problem if internet voting was the only option, but surely if the "normal" way of voting was still to come in to the polling place on the day and cast a paper vote, then online voting as an option for people who are unable to make it to the polling place on the day is not a bad idea?
Those compute the same value, but I think the point of the C++ stream version is to compute the value using a lazily evaluated infinite list.

The C++ equivalent of your Python would be something like:

typedef boost::counting_iterator<int> ci;
auto sum = std::accumulate(ci(0), ci(10), 0, [](auto x, auto y) { return x + (y*y); });

No special streaming library required.
Anonymous but verifiable/auditable online voting is a very hard problem that does not seem to be solved yet. How do you ensure that the remote voter gets one and only one vote while also being able to audit that the intended vote was recorded (it wasn't changed on the wire, in memory or on storage), without linking in any way the vote cast with the voter?

Ensuring that remote voting is not done under any form of duress or monitoring seems essentially unsolvable.

Incidentally, voting in state elections is compulsory in NSW so your example doesn't fit this case either way.
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You don't need an explicit penalty: if you violate the license, it terminates.

Here's the text of the relevant section of the GPLv3 (the GPLv2 only has an equivalent to the first paragraph):

You may not propagate or modify a covered work except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to propagate or modify it is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License (including any patent licenses granted under the third paragraph of section 11).

However, if you cease all violation of this License, then your license from a particular copyright holder is reinstated (a) provisionally, unless and until the copyright holder explicitly and finally terminates your license, and (b) permanently, if the copyright holder fails to notify you of the violation by some reasonable means prior to 60 days after the cessation.

Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is reinstated permanently if the copyright holder notifies you of the violation by some reasonable means, this is the first time you have received notice of violation of this License (for any work) from that copyright holder, and you cure the violation prior to 30 days after your receipt of the notice.

So, on a second violation of the GPLv3, or on a first violation if it takes longer than 30 days, the rightsholder can already say "You need to pay me if you want your rights reinstated."

Conservancy has been using a variant of this tactic: they get a friendly, clear rightsholder for something like Busybox (which has relatively few authors), inform a company that they're violating the GPL and revoking the Busybox license, and demand GPL compliance for all software, including stuff like Linux which has so many authors that getting a clear rightsholder involved is harder, before reinstating the Busybox license.
Yes. I had a couple of posts on 1up.com[1], IGN bought it and decided to shut it down.

It was only then that I decided to create my own website and write what I wanted to there. I am still sad 1up got shut down but I probably wouldn't have created my website if it didn't.

[1] Don't know if any one here read 1up? I was a big fan of their "retronauts" and "The grind" podcasts. I loved the analysis of games by Kat bailey and Jermy parish. Jermy has his own blog where he still writes and Kat posts on US gamer. 1up is still online though in read only mode. It seems like they have also disabled the user accounts.
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There's API for HN (https://github.com/HackerNews/API), it's not that hard to make one yourself. This is Hacker News after all.
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Is this related to China DDOS'ing the NY Times and Github a few days ago?
For all intents and purposes, as long as no other branch is pointing to that commit, that commit is 'lost'. It's not immediately removed from your hard drive, but it's no longer considered part of your history.

Note that the technical name for branches in git is refs or references, which more accurately describe their nature.
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Probably, and I hate knee-jerk reactions like this.
To be fair, Australia is not turning unwilling internet users into an attack force through their infrastructure. What they're doing in this case is weaselly - but hey, at least they've attached their names to their actions.

Less an illusion of accountability than a public intimidation tactic.