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I find it interesting how much analysis has been given to the tone of cperciva's comment. There is an awful lot of this going around lately.

What is the goal commenters in such threads are pursuing? To correct a wrong or misunderstanding? To show someone as biased or bigoted (or to advocate the other way)? Who are we training, and what is it we are teaching? Could it be done a better way?

Is the error cperciva may have made large or small? Does it have an impact? If insignificant, why does so much effort need to be expended? Otherwise, why are there not articles to reference on the issue? (Or are there?)

To be completely blunt, this all seems incredibly passive aggressive to me. I'm not talking about sexism--again, I'm simply referring to all of the meta analysis on communication and tone.

I am honestly curious, and my questions are not for dramatic effect. Could this all be short-circuited by a "I doubt the OP meant to trivialize XYZ, [...]" and be done with it?
It seems to be live. Data is changing without needing to refresh
My experience at a State School in the US sounds more like your European experiences than your US experience.
How MOOC Video Production Affects Student Engagement
Yes. It is live.
It is live, see the help link in the lower right corner.
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All software has bugs. Despite massive investment, space craft have bugs, passenger jets have bugs, fighter aircraft have bugs, nuclear power plant control systems have bugs.

If you're basing your system on "oh we'll just make the software bug-free!", you have already lost.
There are plenty of well documented cases of people who are innocent pleading guilty to lesser charges because regardless of innocence, there's still a good chance that they'll lose in front of a jury.

Say the prosecutor offers you 6 months for a plea, or 3 years in jail if it goes to court. Unless you can place odds of winning at 85%+, even the rational would take the plea.

Chances are, most of the people who face such deals are poor, probably not particularly clever and will have terrible lawyers. So the plea looks increasingly the best choice, even if they didn't do the crime, or even if only a few of the charges will be able to stick.
It looks like a bug indeed.

Rust is freeing the string when the function ends, since to_ptr doesn't extended its lifetime.

C seems to be getting freed memory.

AFAIK the right way is to use mem::forget to "leak" memory when giving it to C, and later have C free it by calling a Rust function that casts it back to the original type.
Seems like semantics over the use of the word "pirate". I'm not sure what that actually means.
On a similar but even more nuts note, Ricky Crompton (slopestyle rider) is planning to break the longest backflip world record in Belfast this year. He wants Guy Martin to tow him into the ramp at around 70mph. He will be doing this as part of his upcoming TV series "Selfmade".
The problem with this assertion is that it implies that cases go to trial. Most never do: the charges are used with the threat of extended imprisonment to secure plea bargains.

Since most never see trial, the Grand Jury is the closest to a "trial by peers" that most accused will ever face.
The OED's earliest attestations is 'cunte' (first in 'Gropecuntelane').
Why would it make sense to have a "Download from Github" button instead of a "View me on GitHub" button or something?

It of cause makes sense for closed source software, but being open source it invites in people who at the very least want to read the `README.md`, star the repo and most likely want to have a look at the source code.

I kind of panicked when the download button actually downloaded - I was like "hey stop! wait a sec! I want to check out the code first" - maybe it's just me ;)
Well, that's unfortunate. This page aggregates all the Center for Bits and Atoms papers, which can be cross-referenced by the titles in the submitted link: http://cba.mit.edu/docs/papers/

Here is the main RALA paper (PDF warning): http://cba.mit.edu/docs/papers/09.11.POPL.pdf
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Redis RPOP-LPUSH as a core.async channel
> I've never quite been able to explain waveform collapse to myself. Intuitively, it feels like the universe does lazy evaluation -- all variables are in flux until read?

There are many interpretation. This page could be relevant to your interest : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_mec...
Even the GitHub link in the footer doesn't lead me to a helpfull location. I'm just taken to a GitHub organization with 6 repos - which one is it?
financial services and payment processing - 28

web-based business productivity and collaboration - 21

devices/hardware/components (manufactured goods) - 20

search tech and messaging (contacts/email/sms/text) - 18

travel-related services - 18

employment resources - 16

games and game features - 16

analytics tools/data visualization/and big data - 15

video technology - 14

online music - 13

daily deals/coupons/and price comparison - 12

food discovery/catering/and restaurant technology - 12

photo sharing and social networks - 12

visual design - 12

fashion and clothing - 11

platform as a service - 10

e-tail infrastructure - 9

medical industry - 9

advertising/seo technology - 8

education - 8

event planning (real world) - 8

real estate infrastructure - 8

cloud storage - 7

database technology - 7

logistics/shipping/and warehousing - 7

nonprofit organization - 7

mobile-specific platforms and development tools - 6

parenting resources - 6

screen-sharing and collaborative real-time editors - 6

business communication infrastructure - 5

charity and philanthropy - 5

education/programming - 5

legal services - 5

news/reading/and publishing - 5

scientific research tools - 5

electronics design - 4

physical fitness - 4

programming tools - 4

business human resources - 3

gift card technology - 3

printing solutions - 3

psychometric tools - 3

surveys and forms - 3

user interfaces - 3

agriculture and farming - 2

biotechnology - 2

green energy technology - 2

home improvement - 2

memes and jokes - 2

proximity-based mobile apps - 2

food products - 1
I have the highest respect for sushi, and good sushi is some of the most delicious food I've ever eaten. At the same time, it's hard for me to justify the cost. Why does it cost $25 to loosely prepare a small amount of raw fish?! There is so much incredible food that I can get for $10 a pop, and it actually involves cooking. And for $25, I can get a full meal at a fancy sit-down restaurant. What accounts for the crazy price differential? Just the price of fish? Why?

Sure, there's people like Jiro, but it just ends up reminding me of the xkcd "photo conoisseur" comic: https://xkcd.com/915/
SimStructure had a C interpretor and could be used to test control systems.
Given the recent judicial president set for revenge porn cases, I feel we need a similarly harsh ruling for those found guilty of swatting. This is a crime that could easily result in the deaths of innocent victims, and the punishment needs to reflect that.

Doxing for the purposes of shaming wouldn't be bad to punish either. I don't want us to become a vengeful police state, but this kind of cowardly behavior makes me angry.

Aside from training the police, FBI, et al., how do we go about stopping this from happening more frequently?
Edit: [0]... -> [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9322278 (to give credit properly)

Also, since the rala.cba links return 404, here is the paper index for the Center for Bits and Atoms as a whole: http://cba.mit.edu/docs/papers/

This is the RALA paper which caught my eye (PDF warning): http://cba.mit.edu/docs/papers/09.11.POPL.pdf
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Clearly human well-being is intrinsically linked with planetary well-being. We are part of the system not separate from it. We are screwing ourselves by screwing the planet.
Describe events and places on map using information from different content sources
Let me link that for you: http://materializecss.com
For similar use cases, I get good mileage out of the bash built-ins `pushd' and `popd' (also available in bash derivatives like zsh). No need to install anything, any box with a bash prompt already has them.

HyperJump, z, autojump, etc., look nice for cases where your directory-hopping sequences are "random access", not amenable to being organized around a stack. Still, you can get pretty far with the `+N'/`-N' "rotation" arguments to `pushd' and `popd'.
Lunches tend to be less food than dinner, but that aside, lunches tend to be cheaper than dinner in the US as well--presumably because people tend to be more price sensitive at lunch. I'm not sure I can do a good job of articulating the reasons. It's partly as you say. I think it's also partly because the lunch specials in Chinatown or the sushi lunch are competing against sandwiches and other similar luncheon fare to a degree that they aren't for dinner.
Loved the game! Played it again just a few years ago in an emulator. P.s. Am I the only one who have trouble hearing the audio?
If you're looking for something modular and customizable, be sure to checkout http://getuikit.com/ as well.
I know it is a recursive acronym. I just want to know why they chose G, instead of A, B, C, ... etc.
Please assume good faith when it comes to subtleties of wording like this. Just because you feel the post could be interpreted as belittling doesn't imply that that was the author's intent.
"Labels are like teeth; modern man has more than he needs."
-me

I believe Peter is becoming an Abolitionist. It sounds like he is finally seeing the forest for the trees. Which is good, as niche is ultimately limiting.
Foods high in carbs – Lentils Experiment
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Or, more efficiently, at each level of the tree where there are an odd number of nodes, add another leaf node containing the empty byte array on the right side of the tree to make an even number of nodes.
Propaganda, know thyself.
Some people just like dressing up. Other's like to feel confident and they choose to take that confidence from their choice of clothing. Whether this is a good or a bad thing is another discussion.

So yes. "Most" people are superficial in the sense that, given that they look good, they are more likely to feel confident. I personally think that one shouldn't have external influences as a source of confidence (as that can be taken away) but that doesn't say that a lot of people don't feel that way.

Sometimes you just want to feel pretty, I figure.

On top of that, fashion is all about context. If I wear leather shoes I am dressed-up more than 99% of my peers. However, if I wear leather shoes in ... let's say Paris, I'm just one of many. Fashion is all about context. Imagine Steve Jobs going to a black turtleneck and dad-jeans con ... lol
I'm all the way out in Winder, which is technically within Metro Atlanta. Probably too far.
I don't want this to be seen as excusing this behavior or justifying it, so let's get that on the table right away.

In some cases, they may be well aware of the consequences & just not care. I went through a phase in my early teens where I might have done things like this if it was a possibility. I grew up in a home where rules were arbitrary and basically boiled down to one thing: whatever I did or didn't do was wrong. My friends were all bad people and I was forbidden from seeing them. Their parents were all irresponsible people and I was forbidden from sleeping over at their houses. Mom fell asleep on the couch and I turned the TV off; I was treating her like a child and disrespecting her. Mom fell asleep on the couch and I didn't turn the TV off; I was wasting electricity. If I fell asleep on the couch with the TV on I needed to learn some respect for other people who had to sleep in the same house with all that damn noise. You get the idea.

I acted out because nobody cared about how I felt, so why should I care about anyone else? I wish mandatory reporting was a thing back when I came to school with a red handprint on my face. As a pre-teen, I wanted to be the one making other people suffer for a change. Consequences didn't matter because I was already guilty of something, so why not have a real reason for it, have some fun along the way.

Again, this doesn't mean there shouldn't be consequences for this behavior. But we should consider that some of these misanthropes are themselves victims of abuse looking for some sense of power or control in life and find ways to get them help.
I blame subconscious denial. Seriously.
They happily fly on an airline named "Virgin". I think GIMP is quite ok – possibly better than the too-literal 'Photoshop'.

Now if GIMP were actually usable...
"Gnu" is a real word in the dictionary.

Edit: On my system it's the only ^.nu$ in the dictionary.
Sorry to hear about your father.

"I have approximate knowledge of many things."

"This too shall pass."
> there is a reason why somebody chooses to become a cop..

Raymond Chandler: "Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men."
There is some evidence that where you actually attend university doesn't matter. This paper in the Quarterly Journal of Economics suggests that what matters is where you apply, not where you actually end up going: http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/business/dalekru...
So "ruby" is not a play on "perl"? I don't believe it.
It is called a gold rush 2.0.

The second .com bubble is about making tools for startup to be efficient and then advertise how much these business models are successful to attract more startup to make tools for startups.

The same way during gold rush, the hardware reseller made the most money and were sending ads abouts the gold rush everywhere.

This time, there is just no gold.
I get the sense the author is complaining that "pirate" is also tied with a single issue viewpoint, i.e. copyright and free culture, which isn't enough to form a long-term political party.

I do not know enough to draw a conclusion about the effectiveness of the PP. What I read of Julia Reda's report on changes to copyright in the EU makes good sense, and would consider that a PP success should it go through.

BTW, and personally, I dislike people who appeal to the 'bigger picture'. I consider it a form of belittlement in the same vein as "wake up sheeple', though admittedly rather milder.
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That's a good point, and countess has a pretty early attestation. Thinking about French too, con is pretty close to comte, although I don't know the history, and con is not obscene like in English currently.

The Wikipedia page on "Earl"[1] has a quote with citation agreeing with the theory. I wonder if that book has any more evidence.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl#Etymology
I know first hand that Cachet has been under heavy development of late and James was having some issues with caching giving false positives so I wouldn't be surprised if he just needs to revisit caching in general now thy the code base is stable. I've been running it in docker containers and I can tell you it's very quick.
I don't think amenities are that big a factor in college choice. For people I know, price and prestige of the school are weighted way more than other factors such as location or quality of the school's buildings.
In terms of aesthetics, I think hard data is too bothersome for the unwashed masses to cope with anymore.

In terms of logistics, I blame the dismantling of The Fairness Doctrine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine

Thanks in equal measures to both Reagan and Obama, truth was defined as wholly subjective and the floodgates were quietly opened for money to dictate the fairness and balance of commercial media. Investigative journalists still exist (Abby Martin, for starters), but they are no longer welcome in platforms concerned entirely with revenue.
the Tech.Info button link is dead redirecting to wikis/display/COIN/Machine+Status+Pages
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That is so last yeah.
Worth noting is that this idea of quantum randomness has recently been all but proven wrong in an experiment involving water ripples[1].

Einstein had this idea of "hidden information" (i.e., just because we're not advanced enough yet to observe something doesn't mean it doesn't exist), but it has always been regarded as ludicrous.

In other words, the resolution of the universe may not be finite, but since the parts involved in infinity are impossible to comprehend or list in a peer reviewed paper, this drives mathematicians bananas.

In the end, the human ego might prove to be the real Strong Force in the universe.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2014/09/quantum-p...
(I'm not the grandparent's author, but:) Re-posting the site's contents without attribution may perhaps be a bit iffy, but this exact sorting is what I wanted to see when I was browsing http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies. The site has this list sorted alphabetically by category title, but it's hard to scan that list to get a feel for the "most popular" categories. It almost feels like clicking something there should make it do that, but instead it just links me to different parts of the huge raw list below (which is super-helpful for someone digging in and doing deeper research but not as useful for someone, such as myself, doing a more cursory glance).
i have been testing this tool for a few weeks now and we are deploying it in production now. the biggest problem that remains for us is the lack of integration with Twitter (on which we still need to do manual updates) and lack of caching which makes the application not as available as it could.

that said it's pretty much the only free alternative out there, so it's a welcome and refreshing change. props up to the devs too that have been very fast and responsive on github, fixing issues, bugs and suggestions on the same day sometimes. a rare breed.
As you know, we're working on notifications but it's taking a little bit of time whilst we switch to L5.

Thanks for your continued support :)
This is just one data point, but I served on a NY grand jury a few years back. 30 cases, 27/28 found for indictment. of the 2 or 3 we dismissed, the accused testified on their own behalf during the grand jury process. In only about 5 of the 30 cases, the accused testified on their own behalf.

I don't know why most accused don't testify during the grand jury process, but without their testimony the process is obviously a very one-sided affair. As a result, there are many indictments and many plea bargains.
Heh, sorry. I should change this, for sure.
I made what looked like to me as an obvious interpretation, and then others made the opposite interpretation and said theirs was the obvious one.

Some discussion about the words in the comment is thus nice, as it hopefully helps everyone to understand why both interpretations are valid (or in extreme cases, reach a consensus on a single interpretation). I find in particular jsnell comment interesting, as it let me know how much value I unconscious applied into the phrase "just another".
Or remove immunity from liability from prosecutors. Bond them, instead. That would price the most over-aggressive prosecutors out of the business.
Vodafone Hungary Abolishes Roaming Charges
Stallman liked GNU because it's unpronounceable. When Europeans first discovered the animal, Africans referred to the first sound in its name as a click, which the Europeans didn't use in their languages, so the "g" in the word essentially stands for "unpronounceable sound," and is usually omitted. He used it for fun but brought back the sound in the form of a hard "g."
Hey Sam, you're absolutely right here.

We've struggled a lot with caching under CloudFlare and have an open issue to fix the headers - something I'll be looking at very soon!
It's more convenient to be able to handle all dependencies through the same package manager.

Personally I prefer Scala and thus use SBT for most dependencies, requiring the user to use Bundler or NPM as well for just one dependency can get a bit annoying. In the case of SBT it actually does have some integration with NPM since it's used so much for client assets (and there is Trireme which is a pure-Java Node clone), but Ruby dependencies still mean adding one or two manual build steps.
Even Justin Bieber took a plea deal in his DUI case when it appears his BAC was .014 and the cops lied or exaggerated the facts during the arrest. Perhaps he was still guilty of reckless driving but there's no consequences for the cop who seems to have lied. He likely could had won the case or forced the prosecutor to drop the charges.

Beyond facing a greater sentence, to fight the most minor of misdemeanor charges will cost $2,000 to $5,000 for a lawyer or just pay $250 and get it reduced to an infraction like jaywalking. It makes a mockery of the idea of justice.
Partially, regulatory compliance.
Thanks :)

At the moment Cachet is open source. We'd accept donations but don't actively ask for them.

We're also selling stickers on StickerMules marketplace, but other than that no income.

I'm looking into this though.
I would personally start with Python. It's easy to learn and super practical. You can use it in software development, statistics, scientific computation, dev ops, and, of course, web development.

Once you learn Python, it's much easier to learn JavaScript and/or Ruby.

Note: I am co-founder of Real Python (https://realpython.com), which teaches the Python syntax and web development through real world examples.

I also teach at a full-stack JavaScript bootcamp - http://www.refactoru.com/ - and am a mentor through https://www.thinkful.com/ in Angular, Node, and Python.

Feel free to reach out with more questions - michael at realpython dot com.

Cheers!

P.S. - Curious about Python vs. Ruby? https://github.com/mjhea0/python-ruby
This is of course a major problem in and of itself. The (grand) jury system selects for people that are either too stupid or indifferent to getting out of duty.
There are sushi chains that offer two pieces for ¥108. I would much rather spend the ¥2500 to go to the shop mentioned in the article. It's like saying you can't justify the cost of a gourmet burger when McDonald's has a dollar menu.
This is why I originally added the Heroku Button, offsetting server management.

However I've since removed this feature in the Laravel 5 rewrite.
I have some issues with he pre-emptive enforcement that guy expects from all these different platforms. Just going around saying some other guy "put some bird sounds" over his song seems a very subjective judgment. Sure, in his case that might be the truth, but who is going to be the judge what is an original work and what not.

If the other guy really put just some bird sounds over his track and is now so massively successful - either the bird sounds were missing from making a so-so track into a successful song - or he should seriously review what is wrong with his way of promoting his music.
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Heh, we need to sort that out. Sorry :)
Ask HN: What are some creative ways to use/monetize an empty stadium parking lot
I work for a pro sports team planning a new stadium. The stadium plan calls for a large amount of surface parking, which is the team's requirement. Unfortunately, much of this space will sit idle on non-game days. We are trying to think of different ways to make this space productive year round. I believe tech could play a huge role in this.

I thought I'd ask the HN community as you all are one of the most impressive assemblages of creative, out-of-the-box thinking out there!

One idea we've had so far:

1) Project images onto the surface when the lot is empty? Seems like there might be a way to do this http://www.urbanscreen.com/ Could be used for advertising visible from a distance/in the air.

Let me know your ideas!
Documentation has so far been focused on the API side of Cachet, even that's incomplete though.

Once we're stable then we'll finish it off. Things change too often recently.