skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The end is the same result (no feature) but with a bit more comfort for both parties.

I don't think this is true.

Same result? Agreed. More comfortable for the developer? Okay, sure (if being dishonest/disingenuous is no discomfort). More comfortable for the requestor? It depends on the person. I would loathe this, for example, and it would evoke in me a far worse feeling than a flat out "no" would; these kinds of responses abound in plenty of other areas of life, and they're very much one of those things that contributes that kind-of-kills-me-a-little-on-the-inside feeling. I suspect that I'm not alone.

But then, I'm not the kind of person who's going to be harrassing anyone over feature requests. I also suspect, though, that the inference that lots of the intended targets will be placated by this kind of response is probably overstated.

EDIT:

To give an example, an acquaintance of mine listed a room for rent last year. He got about, I dunno, a little over a dozen responses of varying quality; some were from people who essentially put in the least effort possible, while others had both indicated that the author had actually put some thought into considering whether it would be a good match and provided relevant info about themselves for review. His response to almost all of them? To treat the best of them with the worst; they got no response. The result as I'm gazing over his inbox? That slightly-less-optimistic-about-humanity feeling.
Oh for sure. But if you were into MIDI, the ST was by far the better choice. The Amiga sold more the ST in the end. But neither really made a dent in the market % wise.

Both had a lot of potential and were let down by bad management. Commodore I think did a marginally better job than Atari did in growing their platform. Atari had a last gasp of inspiration with the TT and Falcon and MultiTOS that seemed like they were making up for 5 years of neglect. But then they packed it in.

I still turn my Falcon on occasionally. It is a really nice machine.
I guess Sony is interested in tech, not in keeping OnLive's (few) users happy. It wouldn't work for most games anyway (like ones that are not available on Steam or PSN), and be too much effort, so I'm not too surprised.
I can't tell what purpose your article serves. You are a contractor, you work your own hours, and if you don't like work with someone then you don't have to. I don't think there are any new information that is contained within your article that people don't already know.

I guess it could have gone differently, and you may not have had to "fire" your client if you had confronted him the first time he was out of line, instead of assuming that he was having a bad day. You waited and your irritation and anger grew inside until it boiled over and you snapped.

You could have told him right from the get-go that nature of a contractor's schedule is that there are no set hours. You have a timeframe of delivery you agreed upon (probably listed in the contract), and that's the deadline you'll honor. Also, that if he's having a bad day due to something else, the relationship between the two of you needs to stay professional. He may not have been aware that his behavior was out of line, and when you mention that to him at the first occurrence he'll know that you've noticed his behavior. When you waited so long, and then just went off at him over the phone, he probably thought you were the nutcase and continued the same behavior with others. You could have made him aware, professionally, and made a difference. You chose to be just as unprofessional as he was, and neither of you made money.

Biggest lesson in your article was that nothing changed, both of you have a story, you are still bothered about this years later, and you both wasted each others time.
Aboriginal legend backs up research findings on origins of Central AU palm trees
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Versal seems like a very good product, but also seems to be focusing on content authoring quite a bit. Classmill is a lot more focused on content curation.

Yes, adaptive/dynamic blocks are definitely in the pipeline as we improve the product!

Cheers!
A guy walks into a NoSQL bar and asks: how many servers to get 1Mil ops/second?
WebKit actually has quite a lot of fairly nice, simple easy-to-read C++, especially around the DOM. Or at least did a few years ago, and I believe it's still mostly the case.

I remember asking for advice years ago where to cut my teeth on C++ and getting suggested WebKit by several — and people who weren't trying to lead me massively into a pit of doom. (Admittedly, I've still practically never contributed to WebKit, and I ended up doing my first larger bits of C++ on Presto. But hey, I've still read plenty of WebKit code over the years.)
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Agreed, and I also don't see why it fooled anybody. Wouldn't it be common knowledge in the industry that the CBOT-traded wheat was unsuitable for use by Kraft in their products?
It's kind of sad when university press departments don't include a link to the actual research. The paper that this summarizes can be found at

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.04238v1.pdf

(I thought the summary was pretty clear and unusually technically accurate, although they don't talk about whether other people doing research on post-quantum crypto think that this method does or doesn't have promise or important tradeoffs compared to other methods. It's not as if this is the first-ever post-quantum cryptosystem to be proposed.)
3d printer at $179
this is the cheapest 3d printer of seemingly good quality i've seen so far.
How to integrate Winnower, blog posts and ResearchGate?
Thanks for that. By that I meant that a regular joe teacher is going to find it technically difficult to use. You can run an instance of open edx on your server, use xblock components and point them to a video/audio file and build a course - but that just seems like a bit too much for a teacher who just wants to assemble a bunch of content.

The best solution here will win or even coexist; all the different approaches/platforms here will ultimately help the students win.
An interesting idea, though I actually feel like Lua implements much of this concept already. Admittedly, there are plenty of differences, but Lua has no `class` or `new` keywords, but you can implement Object Orientation very simply with Tables.

Actually, that's one of many reasons I find Lua to be so elegant; but perhaps that's just me :P
I'd love to see a whole suckless OS someday.

That might be Plan 9--or Project Oberon. ;-)

I'm really looking forward to kOS: http://www.kparc.com/o.htm
I imagine you know from your previous sessions, but mindfulness can (and should, according to some) be practiced anywhere, anytime, while eating, walking, etc.

And not only in a perfectly tranquil environment--like other skills, a little resistance while practicing can lead to greater proficiency. I think even five minutes would be beneficial (for companies, too, who ultimately benefit from a calmer, more focused contributor).
I wonder how tiled GPUs will perform compared to "traditional" ones considering that resolution in mobile phones is increasing so much, so the size of the tile (in the case for PowerVR, 32x32) gets dwarfed by the total resolution and I guess on-chip memory is very expensive.

I mean, if the tile size was 1x1 we can see it wouldn't be efficient, so how the architecture will keep up with this trend?
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I'm glad you brought up the X68000 truly a remarkable machine that's forgotten when people talk fondly about the 68k machines.

I agree with the other comments here that other machines didn't quickly catch up to the Amiga. I remember growing up with a couple friends who had Amigas in the late 80s, early 90s. My parents ended up buying a PC for home because of work stuff sometime in 90-91 and it didn't hold a candle to the Amigas my friends had.

I had to add a Sound Blaster to even get audio (digital sounds were all computed by the CPU so 4ch sound and Amiga quality video almost brought it to its knees) and it really wasn't until I upgraded to an SB Pro and a decent graphics card (this was before 3dfx) that I could say audio and visuals were capable of what an Amiga could do out of the box. But then it took forever for the software ecosystem to catch up. There were popular games coming out at that time that were still EGA and quite a few with CGA and Mono graphics.

Even then, most of my friends had modded and hacked on the A500s to get them faster processors, more memory etc and they were easily as capable as my PC.

I don't think it was really until the mid90s where PCs started to comfortably pull ahead in both hardware and software. I remember getting a GUS MAX and maxing out the memory on it, and finally knowing for sure that I had audio that was clearly superior to anything the Amiga could pull off and it really wasn't until Doom that you could say that a PC could finally do something an Amiga couldn't. By then we were in 1993/1994, 486s were finally becoming consumer level chips, and high-end systems were running 486DX2s or DX4s and clock multipliers were finally putting the final nail in the Amiga's coffin.

But I was on my 3rd or 4th computer by then and my friend were still on their 5-6 year old A500s (though heavily modded by this point). One of my friends toyed around with getting an A4000, but stories of incompatibilities and other issues scared them away and eventually they just ended up with a PC like everybody else. I think the final nail was when Apple switched from Motorola to PowerPC and it became apparent to everybody that the 680x0 line was a technological dead-end and with it the Amiga.

But 5-6 years was an eternity in hardware in those days. If you use Moore's law (18 months) as a generational guide, the Amiga was 3 or 4 generations ahead of the rest of the PC market in terms of hardware and software capability. There's really nothing like that today that's comparable.
The idea of lawsuit-as-a-service is terrible.

Last year I was accused of copyright infringement. I knew was completely in the clear - I hadn't ever heard of this person or seen their creation before. After dismissing some typo-riddled communication I though was bluffing I found myself named in a lawsuit. Turns out that knowing I was right was a whole world away from proving it in court. I was told it would cost me tens of thousands to defend myself. And the best possible outcome was for me to win my fees back. In the end I paid the other person to go away. The entire process was expensive, time consuming and incredibly stressful. I lost days of sleep worrying about what could happen.

My case could have been resolved so much more easily without lawyers. I was actually interesting in monetizing and this person needed eyeballs on their product. I would have gladly sent them traffic if they agreed to an affiliate set up. The problem was that once lawyers start getting involved then the bills start adding up quickly. From then on it was classic sunk cost fallacy. Backing off means paying thousands of dollars for the privilege of being sued. No one wins but the lawyers.

Sure, this company is going to be stopping some people from stealing images. But their business model is built on profiting from uncertainty and fear from the people they accuse of theft. This guy is an artist, yet he's so flippant about supporting an industry that profits by making the world a slightly worse place. He'd rather line the pockets of some lawyers than have to go through sending "dozens" of emails a month.
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Agreed. Matt Levine is always entertaining and frequently informative (especially the footnotes). I get the sense that he reads lots of courthouse docs.
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Perfect. I thought that's what I remembered reading but couldn't even come close to finding it when I wrote that. That's the kind of research they've been intending to do with it for a while now and it's honestly huge enough that I won't be too surprised if Servo starts replacing Gecko on Firefox OS and the Firefox Mobile browsers. All it's going to take is to really get it working on 90% of websites and then I think it'll be a clear contender for replacing Gecko in a lot of places. I'd love to also see a JS engine in Rust but I know with a JIT and all you end up with none of the safety you get from Rust anyway. With the browser chrome being done in HTML with the mozbrowser extensions it looks like it might be possible to start doing a lot of the same things that XUL does in firefox which opens the door to a lot of stuff being ported to the new browser.
Oh. So it does. Under "How do you decide to enforce a case?". Thanks, sorry, I missed that.
Feel free to submit a Github issue for yapf
And what about performance? Not compared to popular browsers, but compared to performance with single core mode.
Indeed, it's just "Yet Another Python Formatter"
Are you sure this is not a shell artifact? Does the same problem happen when there's a \\ in a file? In any case, feel free to open a Github issue for yapf, we'll take a look
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One nice—and, I think, underappreciated—thing about Servo layout is that the parallelism forces you to organize your algorithms cleanly. Unlike every other engine, render objects in Servo are not responsible for laying out their children recursively; the higher-level parallel traversal driver does that. That means that you must write your layout code in such a way that the right information is available at the time the traversal invokes your layout method. You are also limited in what you can access: your render object can't access your parent (because that would be racy), nor can it access the DOM (because we can run layout off the main thread). This requires a fair bit of up-front thought, but once that's finished it's easy to read the resulting code, because the layout code is grouped into specific functions ("assign-inline-sizes", "assign-block-sizes", and so forth) that do just one thing. This goes a long way toward making layout easier to understand, especially when it comes to complex situations like tables.
It's usually voltage as the square factor for CMOS. The equation I remember from VLSI is:

Power = (Load Capacitance) * (Voltage)^2 * (Frequency)

In order to run at a faster speed you frequently have to increase your core voltage which causes a square increase.
yapf's approach is, philosiphically, different from autopep8. yapf doesn't just fix pep8 violations. It takes a look at your whole code, and reformats it to a canonical form. If you've ever used "go fmt" or "clang-format" (for C/C++), this is the same idea
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There are so many things about Plan9 that I deeply love. I need to install 9front and play with it sometime :)
yapf starts making tons of sense after you've used similar tools in other languages. The chief two examples are "go fmt" and clang-format. The former goes without saying - formatting is enforced in Go.

The latter is widely used to format C, C++ (and even JS and Java) code. Many projects these days require all code to be clang-format'ed and even enforce it in commit hooks and such.

After working on such projects for a while, you get so used to the convenience of an auto-formatting tool, that you want it in all languages you code in. It's extremely useful to be able to just type a bunch of code quickly into the editor, copy-pasting, renaming, and know that the tool will nicely format it for you. Another advantage is that the whole code in a projects starts being and looking very consistent, which is important. Holy wars about brace placement and indentation just disappear.

So yapf is essentially that, for Python.
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Isn't this exactly what the Self language is?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_%28programming_language%29
Still in the field of number theory,
I may not have only one problem to think about,

but a couple of problems, like the distribution
of the zeros of the zeta functions and the L-functions.

Interesting to hear that he seems to be working on the Riemann hypothesis.
Federal and state taxes are automatically withheld in the USA. Filing a return is usually an attempt to get some refunded, or in my case, getting screwed even more and writing a check. You can even be lucky enough to pay estimated taxes every quarter.
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I have talked with so many developers that have had very similar clients and they let them run all over them, even after they explained the terms of the contract.

He and I both went over the contract together, we both knew the details. He treated me like garbage and bullied me until I couldn't stand it any more.

I didn't let the bully win and he didn't get the satisfaction of bullying me any more. Not a bad deal, if you ask me.
Approximately 2x for 4 threads. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9313929.
I found the recent series by the Digital Antiquarian to be very interesting on this, weaving together Infocom's Trinity series and the atomic bomb history, including the Tsar Bomba.

http://www.filfre.net/2015/01/t-plus-3-edward-teller-and-his...
Ha, indeed! I had a 20 MB Hard Card in my 12 MHz 286.

Both those numbers are but a quaint memory.
It doesn't belong to me. I have no economic interest in it. :)

And thanks!
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Greece draws up drachma plans, prepares to miss IMF payment
boy I'd hate to have paid full sticker price to manipulate a streaming video on the screen than buy the actual game itself.
Sounds great, what's your email?
PKI.js
I filed a support ticket the other day because I was curious, and this was the response I got:

```
Right now there are no plans to add this ability to this feature but I'm sure it's something we would look at as we go along. We really weren't sure this was a viable feature but enough people made noise so we developed it to help companies be more efficient when sending and calling the people they need to connect with.
```
Reminds me of Milo Minderbinder and the Maltese eggs from "Catch 22" [1]

"But Yossarian still didn't understand either how Milo could buy eggs in Malta for seven cents apiece and sell them at a profit in Pianosa for five cents."

... later ...

"Milo chortled proudly. "I don't buy eggs from Malta," he confessed... "I buy them in Sicily at one cent apiece and transfer them to Malta secretly at four and a half cents apiece in order to get the price of eggs up to seven cents when people come to Malta looking for them."

"Then you do make a profit for yourself," Yossarian declared.

"Of course I do. But it all goes to the syndicate. And everybody has a share. Don't you understand? It's exactly what happens with those plum tomatoes I sell to Colonel Cathcart."

"Buy," Yossarian corrected him. "You don't sell plum tomatoes to Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn. You buy plum tomatoes from them."

"No, sell," Milo corrected Yossarian. "I distribute my plum tomatoes in markets all over Pianosa under an assumed name so that Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn can buy them up from me under their assumed names at four cents apiece and sell them back to me the next day at five cents apiece. They make a profit of one cent apiece, I make a profit of three and a half cents apiece, and everybody comes out ahead."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22
DHS renews quest for access to national license-plate tracking system
Congrats guys- I know for a fact you have a terrific DevOps team!
Now every company will think twice and come up with some weaselly reason why they can't have text files about Falun Gong or whatever.

You mean like Github did in this very case? Except wait, they didn't.

So who is this "every company" that will now "think twice"?
The evidence is: (1) Palm Trees in Central Australia are related to those from Northern Australia and arrived 30Kyr ago and (2) an Aboriginal tale of gods carrying the Palm Tree seeds from the North.

The quoted professor concludes from this that Aboriginal oral history has survived for 30,000 years.

The heck? Consider two explanations off the top of my head:

1. The Aborigines forgot the actual origin of the Palm seeds. Recently (<2Kyr), a tale was invented of the seed origin which happens to involve the seeds being carried from the same cardinal direction.

2. The Aborigines forgot the actual origin of the Palm seeds. Recently (<2Kyr), a visitor from the North recognized the Trees, and guessed they were carried from the North. This story was passed down as fact.

A tale that lasts 30,000 seems like Magic to me. Neither of my top-of-the-head explanations requires Magic. Do they teach Occam's Razor in Tasmanian Ecology school?
Incidentally 1 farad * 1 volt ^ 2 * 1/s is 1 watt. So this formula seems accurate :)
And the optimal way to do it? Just quote the actual figure that it would cost them for you to agree to it.
I gave OnLive a try and was bewildered that I could play cutting-edge games on my Macbook Air.

unfortunately Time Warner Cable disagreed…
The link is broken, but http://www.princeton.edu/~aloo/fermat.pdf works.
To my eye, HN has rendered them identically. You can preserve literal whitespace on HN by indenting by two spaces (and a newline to separate the code formatting from ordinary text).

it appears like this
Ah. Now all is clear.
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Can our own visual system be fooled in a similar way, or is the response of the neurons involved too non-linear?
Hi I am a second year cs student interested in the summer internship. May I get more information about your internship positions? I couldn't find anything on your website. You can reach me via tony.lee@berkeley.edu. Thank you.
GitHub has the protection of the US Government, which has a vested interest in fighting the precedent that Chinese attackers are setting here.

Why would the US Government be concerned about "chinese attackers" that apparently can't even take out a civilian top100 website?

Interestingly, this also gives China more bargaining power in its negotiations with the US about "cyber" issues

You mean they will offer to stop "pretend attacking" american companies, and the US will then make concessions out of gratitude?
> Depends on the load factor ( # of kilos/m2 ) that applies to the plane. You could increase the cabin size by 20% but only increase max load by 5% and then you'd have 15% more space into which to put passengers and luggage.

Actually what you'd need to do is increase 20% past the point at which the load factor starts to become about weight rather than volume. What I mean is that right now planes might be able to carry more weight, but don't because there's not enough room. I'm not an aerospace guy so I can't tell you where stuff lies on the spectrum right now. But it seems possible to me, which is why the airlines keep cramming more seats into planes; they've got the lift capacity for the increased weight.

> I myself would be happy with larger, lighter, slower and more fuel-efficient planes. But then I am also perennially hoping that dirigible passenger liners will make a comeback.

I wouldn't mind that much either. I'm headed to Scotland from Texas for a wedding in about 6 weeks and I'd much prefer 36 hours each way on a sofa to 12-14 hours each way crammed into a chair barely big enough for me. At 4500 miles the airship would only need to manage 125mph which is fast, but not crazy fast.

I'd also be a fan of big, ocean going ground effect airplanes. But when I say big, I mean big. It's going to be able to have ground effect at 20-30 feet up so that you can cut across most of the chop. I suspect that the wings would need to be an awful shape to get that high, but that's what it would take for comfort.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pelican-01.jpg
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