skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historically people drove stick. And clutches were hard. Like seriously hard. I remember driving a tractor when I was 10 and I had to use my whole body weight to move the clutch.

So people's left foots were not sensitive enough for the break. Whereas the right foot was trained on the soft accelerator.

As a stick shift driver, it took me years to learn left-foot braking without stomping on the break and coming to an immediate full stop. But left-foot braking comes in very very handy on snow and gravel. It's also a lot of fun.

PS: modern clutches are soft, but you still usually either depress it fully or leave it alone, which means your left foot isn't too well trained in applying varied degrees of pressure
Interesting, looking forward to reading them.

But certainly processors can do more than they do. For example, doesn't x86 offer a memcpy or memmove instruction and just decode it as the right "fast" way, versus making people update their stdlib with complicated code?

I don't really know what I'm talking about, but it seems I often run across long discussions where people are trying all sorts of instruction sequences and they're model-specific and it just seems like there should be a few more higher-level instructions exposed. (Well perhaps that's the point of all the SSE and AVX instructions.)
The non-js version has "As of [page load time]" and static numbers.

The JS version first removes the "As of" and updates the numbers dynamically.
I haven't tried it actually. I evaluated it a few years ago and I remember that the queue persistance was missing (though now I see it is supported), and it lacked handling retries out of the box (which Gearman does).

Now I've wrote my own wrapper to handle retries on the client side so I might give it a try.

Edit: Grammar
I did not read the article.

Is there a website to get popcorn time or the 'torrent' files for them?

This would be the place for ads.

Edit: I have now read the article in full. Question about financing below.
It seems a little weird that the fork Wired is promoting in this post is the fork alleged to have malware http://www.reddit.com/r/PopCornTime/comments/2lyxnm/time4pop... (also known as Time4Popcorn). I don't know why they didn't promote popcorntime.io instead which is the more popular and open fork ranking higher on Google etc.
I suspect that this will not be our last earthquake.
Ask HN: What is your infrastructure secret management solution?
I'm looking into following infra secret management solutions. Do you have folks have any recommendations and best practices? thanks.

https://www.vaultier.org/features/
https://square.github.io/keywhiz/
OP would need some sort of distributed hash table metadata that matched file hash to license.
I'm really looking forward to Triton[1] coming out of beta. This may be unpopular/wrong, but I don't think you should have to care about what machine your app is running on in any way.

[1]: https://www.joyent.com/developers/triton-faq
It targets 0.11 so building something while reading it causes a lot of pain!
Correct. You'd still need a VPN proxy to be anonymous.
Funny. The camera in my Macbook Pro (purchased a couple of weeks ago) isn't quite centred in its little porthole, and the edges of the keyboard aren't quite aligned with the edges of the screen. The difference is not substantial, but perfectly noticeable. The top bezel is shorter than the bottom one, too.

Another thing: the laptop is thin, which is nice, but if they'd left it literally 1mm thicker - maybe even 0.5mm? - its surface would be perfectly flush with the DisplayPort adapters. As it is, they stick up slightly.
I saw this back in 2007 - 2008. I was so excited about it, even if it could only push a few micronewtons.
I expect that the floor of the bin is elastic in the technical sense - it returns to its resting form when no force is applied. When the BANG goes off the base of the bin is compressed into the floor, hard. This lowers its center of gravity. Then it returns to its previous shape, the CoG rising as it does so. Once it has returned to its original position it discovers, rather to its surprise, that it's now travelling upwards, and so it continues to do so.
Sort of - YouTube started out as a Hot or Not with video.

"Chad and Steve agree that Karim deserves credit for the early idea that became, in Steve's words, "the original goal that we were working toward in the very beginning": a video version of HOTorNOT.com"

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1570795...
One of the incentives is ironically, the ability to actually pay and get access to the content - regardless of price.

If you're not in a prioritized market (Or maybe it's fairer to say "privileged market"?) - you can't even pay for the content and see it in a way you want. (Like, pay immediately and stream it).

"Sorry, this content is not available in your region :/"
I think that you'd want to choose a friend outside of your adversary's domain.
Screens are measured diagonally the vertical difference is:

>(- (* 15 (sin 10/16))
(* 13 (sin 10/16)))
1.17....
Should We Spend Time on That?
Here's an idea: read the article. If you still have questions after you've done that, then maybe ask them.
If I'm not wrong, we start to access that around 1y but I think we really spent 7-10m on it.

You can send metrics from Cassandra to graphite
http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/pluggable-metrics-reporting...

Since the streaming is similar to HTTP page flow, it's not that hard.

Ex: http://blazemeter.com/blog/how-load-test-http-live-media-str...
No, the fact that people haven't done it before is exactly why it's a good test. Many people have memorized things like count up by 3, 5, etc. so they're not good tests of cognition.

The point isn't to do it fast. It's to do it at all.

Another test for dementia is to draw an old-school analog clock with a specific time on it. Being unable to draw the time, or even the clock (it will look like Salvador Dali) is a sign something is wrong.
> This is the perfect example of someone who lives in
> separate reality from most people, and extrapolates his
> rare experiences to the world at large.

As someone who reads CVs/resumes for a living in the UK, all that putting a low-tier university on your CV tells me - unless you got a first, or an academic prize - is that you fucked up your A-Levels, and then got pushed in to doing a degree because everyone else does them.
Right. That block is unsafe because it's doing unsafe things. (ptr::read and alloc::heap::deallocate)

But the use of Rc is kind of a red herring; if mem::forget is marked safe, then you don't need safe_forget because you can forget things (fail to execute their destructors, specifically) safely anyway.

The problem is that destructors aren't guaranteed; the bugs in the thready thing (and potentially unbounded other things) are symptoms. Drop needs big, red warning signs.

The power of a notation, and a type system, is in what it lets you not think about. The fact that destructors may not be called is, unfortunately, something you have to think about.
Triangle Background generator
yes:

http://www.americaspace.com/?p=16783
This is true to the point where you can barely believe services release the products they do. The experience on Popcorn Time vs HBO GO isn't even comparable. HBO GO serves their content through a laggy flash player that you can't even force to play HD. Why would anyone watch non-HD content in a terrible browser player that wastes additional battery when they can open Popcorn Time in the time that it takes for the HBO player to load and start watching in HD immediately? Some services like Netflix get this and give the end user a better experience than Popcorn Time, but others only seem to exist for the hour before shows get uploaded as torrents.
Just the screen. I've never tried an external keyboard.
Many here talk about how Popcorn Time violates copyright law of the United States of Central North America. Please note, not all countries were already bullied into enforcing these laws. Also, there are people who just don't agree with this specific approach to copyright. If need be, development can go into the dark web.
>the absurdity of the idea to begin with

A false flag operation initiated by America is an absurd idea? What about all the documented and public comings and goings of when America has done just that?

How in the hell is the notion of America creating an enemy to rally against absurd when there is proof of it occurring in the past?

Operation Northwoods - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

Project TP-Ajax - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

Many people say the Gulf of Tonkin incident which initiated the Vietnam "conflict" was also one.

I'm astounded that you can make a statement like that when there is such black and white proof of such incidents occurring in the past. I'm not talking about 9/11, I'm just saying that it isn't out of the realm of possibility for a government to manufacture an enemy.

What I'm wondering is, are you just ignorant and you've never heard of these documented false flag operations? Or instead have you heard of these things and choose not to believe it?
Infringing the copyright implies that you want it, which is, at least to a certain degree, the opposite of boycott.
Being fat’s gf
...a legal boycott?
I'd be interested to know how the piracy of music compares to the piracy of video.

Which industry has better (legal) streaming options, and does this correlate with lower piracy?
[I'm not the dev] That's an incredibly small nit to pick, I don't really think SpaceXStats needs to go so far into the details there. Specifically, and especially because the decision to cut off OG2 was NASA's decision, not SpaceX's. While the initial SpaceX Falcon 9 engine failure led to the decision being made, the F9 could technically have delivered the payload to the desired orbit for Orbcomm.

I think it's more fair to call that a bureaucracy failure than a SpaceX failure.

Edit: Woah, okay, maybe I'm wrong. [Unable to reply below (no button)]
do you like a higher res? 15" retina scaled comes in at 1900x1200, which is perfect imo. i find less than 1200 vertical too short, but that's just me. 13" is 1600x1050, which is barely taller than a mba.
Legal Perspective in response to recent Wired piece on “ownership”
Tim Cook is masterfully using all of Apple's inertia to keep breaking revenue records. He's refining and improving existing products, but he's not leading a foray into a completely new category like Steve Jobs did over and over again.

It will work as long as improvements in its core markets occur on a linear curve. It won't withstand an competitor making the product obsolete (for example, a possible transition from mobile to wearables - not that I'd put my money there, but still).

Also, the Watch seems like it could have benefited from some Steve Jobs type of editing and distilling. That's the kind of product focused authority that such a company really needs.
This looks very neat. I haven't used SQL much and while I'm somewhat familiar with it I'll run through it to brush up a bit, thanks!

Also, it took me a minute to find the table of contents - I was looking for an "Index" link or something at the bottom of the page near the previous/next lesson links. For reference, you have to hover over the "Interactive Tutorial" tab at the top of the page.
Professionally, I've made the decision to burn bridges on multiple occasions. I'm never a fan of the act itself; but I also have yet to regret the choice in any of the instances.

As far as the outcome, it's always been the same: short-term loss of revenue, but in every case it's cleared way for more fruitful projects.
Possibly a naive question: Wouldn't hosts entries block this? i.e. informaction.com 127.0.0.1, etc.

If so, then one would only comment out the entries when specifically after updates, otherwise they run as-is, and no phone home problem.

Although this depends on a browser using the host system's specified DNS: I seem to have caught Chrome ignoring my entries in favor of Goggle's DNS (on Linux) whilst doing web design for a client. :(
As an aside, Winchester's books on the development of the Oxford English Dictionary are wonderful, especially "The Surgeon of Crowthorne".
We only implemented the dashboard (getting data from all kinds of source) on monitoring side, we relied on: logtash, graphite, elasticsearch...

The architecture up from what was described is almost purely to provide caching capabilities, aka bunch of edge servers caching content to final users.
Dynamic Avatar Background Blur
It's not clear if any of that is true:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PopCornTime/comments/2n3dht/time4po...
Are you using a computer? I think most people watch TV on a TV, where "legit" apps aren't based on Flash.
I wonder if studios cite piracy numbers when negotiating product placement rates.

If movie piracy became particularly common (I do not believe that it currently is, despite what the MPAA claims), I bet they would. Increased product placement to offset revenue lost in ticket sales.
> In part because throttle and ignition control are increasingly eschewing mechanical linkages in favor of electronics.

I would go further than this. I would guess that at least 50% of the cars on the road today have electronic-only throttles and that fully 99% of cars sold in the last year have had electronic-only throttles.

Drive-by-wire is basically the standard these days, even on very inexpensive cars. Emissions standards have basically forced it.
As a hobbyist adult mango artist, I have to agree, the internet has done wonders for sex. And, as a ME/CS engineer, I would really like to be able to be at the forefront of further advances in the field of robotics...

But all hype and optimism aside, why is there no medication for female sexual dysfunction? I'm trying to come up reason by looking at this from various perspectives, but nothing seems to make much sense. From a religious point of view, reproduction in a marriage is important, so it'd make sense if the female is sexually interested. From an economic point of view, developing a drug that solves a market need is worth tons of money (also no competition). From a feminist point of view, a woman's body, including her sex, should be her own and any dysfunctions she should be entitled to fix. From a misogynist's point of view, sex is one of the things a woman is good for, so it makes sense you can have it with her.

So why is there no drug for female sexual dysfunction? Is it really difficult technically or something?
The trouble is that the larger iPad will likely be more expensive, and iPads are already not cheap.
I sure as hell don't love that shit.
I should have done that. I played a bit at lunch and really, really didn't want to go back to work.
Your energy estimation makes no sense whatsoever. The figure you gave is for isobaric expansion, which is an entirely different beastie.

Also, he mentions ~100bar, not ~60 bar.

When I did a first approximation assuming adiabatic expansion, I got ~22KJ.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9449086
I don't agree with that at all. If you're providing statistics you should show both the good and the bad. What the reason for the failure was is ultimately technical, the decision to call it off was a bureaucratic one but spelled out quite explicitly prior to launch. If the rocket had worked flawlessly the loss would have been prevented.

I'm very much a fan of SpaceX but I dislike ignoring failure to paint a more positive picture than reality. The site has sections on 'number of people on Mars'. Stats are stats, both good ones and bad ones. SpaceX has an incredible record to date including that one loss so why be afraid to show it?

Anyway, it appears this is not really a stats site but more of a tribute, the 'countless hours' section shows that pretty clearly so feel free to ignore my comments.
In what cases does modern technology produce stronger, as opposed to more ordered, EMF than naturally occurs?
The British Empire also holds a similar tiny island in the Pacific: Pitcairn, population 67, inhabited by the descendants of the Mutiny on the Bounty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty

It is mainly notable for a contentious rape trial in 2004: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_sexual_assault_trial_o...

Long form Vanity Fair article, which is sufficiently similar to the OP that at first I thought I was rereading the same essay: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/01/pitcairn200801
I just did this.

It is not that ads are not possible, it is that ads are currently not shown.

So here's a question: do we expect that to continue in perpetuity? My expectation would be that of the root comment: the website will in the future support its traffic and hosting costs with ads and make huge margins. Is there some reason why this expectation is foolish?
I suspect a lot of this is due to the rise of tablet-phones. The iPad is now like the iPod was earlier, essentially an iPhone 6 Plus without the phone functionality.
Another relevant / extensive source is Unix Network Programming by W. Richard Stevens. Mostly relevant to Linux / Unix systems, but still worth a read.

Edit:

Matter of fact he lists it as the first reference under "More References"
At some time pirates will need to address the convenience of being free. I use amazon video, which has had a grand total of three films I wanted but could not find. These are extremely convenient, easy to use services. The argument that piracy is more convenient may still hold water, but less each year.
Yes, it's just a BitTorrent client at the end, nothing is changing on that. The improvements are mostly on the UI and the ease to find things.
in your situation it could be effected by the current relations between Russia and the west. getting a visa for a rusky in a NATO country might be tricky right now... approving visa or disapproving them is something these countries do to screw with each other at times of disagreement.

There are Russian tech companies, why do you not apply at those?
iOS as a general platform tends to blast API's more quickly than most platforms--take a look at all the top-line games that needed special versions for iOS 8.

In addition, Apple has it's own "private" API's that app developers aren't allowed to use which makes development more complicated than it has to be.

Finally, iPad's have way more screen size than iPhones. Little things that you might get away with on a 5 inch screen suddenly look really bad when blow up to 10 inches.
I completely agree re: the quality of streaming service apps. The Amazon Prime Video player is a joke. HBO GO is one of the buggiest apps I've ever used on Android. Netflix has gone a long way to improving their service and is probably the most satisfactory of them. Generally speaking, though, the experience of using these apps and the predictability/accessibility of content is not going to outcompete free & easy.
If you are hosting in-house, keep it on a box by itself, seperate from the rest of your network. Then lock down the permissions so that a web user can't write files. That should eliminate 98% of the security problems. If possible you may want to consider running it in a chroot as well
The lab I work for (http://lasp.colorado.edu/) has an instrument on board (MASCS). I worked on a 3D visualization tool for the data it produced.

As far as I know, it accomplished all its goals (and more!). Many of the findings, especially the ice in the polar craters, were completely unexpected, and that's the most exciting part of doing science!
The subsidization by networks is key in keeping people in a short upgrade cycle, and reducing the likelihood of switching to a cheaper Android phones. It's no doubt Apple people would upgrade much less often if they to shell out $600+ for unlocked phones every couple years.
Why is it more moral for the developers to lie about their motivations? Surely, all else being equal, the developers being honest is a more desirable personality trait.

They could claim that it isn't just for watching pirated hollywood movies, but that would be a blatantly transparent lie. If they do not fear retribution, why should they lie?
Thank you for your answer. Appreciate it and best wishes.
It's an expectation without proof. We have no evidence suggesting they will do that, nor any suggesting they won't. So it's a pretty academic conversation. They could turn Popcorn Time into a Bitcoin mining outfit without telling anyone, too.

With the advent of S3 storage and the like I would imagine their hosting costs are very small, and almost all at download time, not run time.
It's more like Karbonite, which you'd expect since the guy who did Karbonite (RoverDude) wrote that part. Though apparently they did add a Kethane-like resource overlay on the map view.
I think that further proves his point. It shouldn't matter what device I'm consuming the content on.
why do you look at US companies? Israel has lots of high-tech firms, as do other Arabian countries. Also, have you tried applying via their career pages in different countries? The US based internships are probably applied for 10x more then those offered in other locales.
I went for the 13", after buying a 15" MBP 6 years ago and a 14.7" System76 Pangolin in between. No regrets. I love the new 13" MBP.
As well as the shockwave mentioned elsewhere, you also have pressure effects.

The initial explosion drops the pressure in the bin below atmospheric pressure. Assuming there's enough kick to separate the bin from the floor, you've got a higher pressure pressing up on the bottom from below than down from inside the container, so the bin accelerates up.

I'm not sure if it'd be a significant effect, however.
Click through one of the images, it's way cooler and more useful to see the changes over time.
countdown has restarted!
You also have less pressure inside the bin than outside.
Amazon Instant and iTunes work pretty well and have almost anything that Popcorn Time has. I really doubt people are doing Popcorn time because it is easier.

Not paying anything is a huge feature.
'static if' can - it has full access to the language.
If you don't feel like reading the article, he was banned because he wrote a book exposing some private details of the lives of two residents.

He was OK with it because the details were publicly available, but not easy to access. The residents were not happy about it.

He feels bad about it, and won't fight it even though he would win.

He concludes by asking tourists to try to have a greater feeling for the people you visit.
Quest of a Technical Cofounder – what are you doing wrong?
Competitors tablets are getting better and better, the market is pretty much saturated and the large phones that even Apple has started to produce make them less interesting.
EBay down
The Micheal Barr Group did a very high-profile autopsy on the code. The upshot is not good for Toyota.
Huh? How is that a non-denial denial? The question is "How do I know that's all you collect?" and the answer is "You can verify it yourself by examining the source code."
Why would you ever have to?

(see also: The Internet is great, but I just can't trust the organizations running the backbone.)
The title could perhaps mislead people into believing that DNA is some kind of communication device for extraterrestrial beings rather than the intention of this article which is to point out that EM radiation like that from your cellphone in your pocket can cause cancer.
http://www.statista.com/statistics/269914/apples-global-reve...

as another comment says, this is now five straight quarters of YoY declines for ipad revenue. It's definitely in decline. I think it's wrong to say it's dying though - iPad has simply achieved saturation.
This humanity here is the power of Free Software. Thanks for all your involvement in any way as users and contributers.
Nice, but I was hoping for something like:

slice :: Int{1..} -> [a] -> [[a]]
slice n l =
splitAt n l & \(a, b) -> a : slice n b

I don't think this is possible in Haskell. Is there a language that supports this sort of syntax?

(Also, what's up with that &? It doesn't seem to be a Prelude operator.)