skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wouldn't be wise, because they will lose a truckload (several dozen truckloads) of money from doing so. MS doesn't make money from end users. MS licenses are resold. Either from OEM or ISV. Customers go to them and the reseller decides what they need. The reseller doesn't need simple licensing. The reseller has a floor of people whose only job is to know the licensing structures.

Why hire so many people to navigate the licensing? Because that's how you extract the maximum value (money) from the market. This is why I said chasing doesn't understand how money is made in such situations. He sees something and takes it at face value. "Derp-a-derp-a-derp, I'm a clueless consumer, don't overwhelm me with so many decisions... why Microsoft sucks so much at business?"

No, they don't suck at business. You do.
How is this any different than doing the same on a laptop that is accessing a VPN?
This just came out: https://www.scaleft.com/
Sure, strategically taking on technical debt is sometimes beneficial to the company – just like sometimes taking on personal debt can be beneficial, too.

I think that discussions around technical debt really lack any mention of technical _credit_, the opposite of debt. Just like how you can take on debt in your codebase, you can save up credit, too. In an ideal world, you would always have savings so that you don't have to take on debt.
Indeed, he fails to come to any point at all..
What's wrong with just quicksort? Even if not, you can simplify it to

prime n = notElem 0 $ map (mod n) [2..n-1]
primes n = filter prime [2..n]

which at least doesn't pretend to be something it's not. It's also easier to optimize (take the root of `n` in `prime`).
Right, but do the ants practice animal husbandry? Do predatory fish eat the lazy skunk shrimp to ween the herd?

I think the point they were trying to make is that there is no other sapient symbiotic relationships, but there are few sapient species so it's kind of moot.
There weren't three copies of my post. Maybe your browser puked on itself?

I wasn't talking about how great the nation is. I was discussing how it's a nice place to visit. It's like you read some other post, because I was simply saying the most interesting places to visit in the US may be the least populated.

Not in the mood to discuss various rankings and their issues. Completely unrelated to anything I wrote.

Have a good one.
non-sense...
Ask HN: Will the C programming language really die?
There is too much talking about Rust programming language and it's great that research on this topic is vibrant.

My question.

Will the C programming language really die? Meaning, stop being used as a System programming Language or in the Embedded Systems field.

It is still worth to invest some time digging these topics with the C programming language?

Newbie here, don't be rude.
Genetically engineer them so that they don't act as disease vectors (those ones will out-compete the unmodified strains) and stick in a set of genes that allows use to use a very specific poison that will only kill the rats and nothing else. Put the poison in or near the food sources we don't want them to get in to and then let them be our little garbage men for the rest of time.
but what if the human playing the game is not kill?
In Mac OS X Terminal:

say -v Trinoids "Failure: Disk 0491/sdag doesn’t contain a valid partition table. Pod0491: Replace sdag (Z252A34AS) with a new 3TB Toshiba DT01ACA300. Reboot Pod0491 and re-add new sdag to sync. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own"
Retailers tie price of consumables to convenience. Hence the bodegas that charge $1 or even $1.50 for a 1/2 liter bottle of water, while the big box store gives you 35 of them for $6. (PS I personally use a reusable water bottle, filled from a home filter)

When your city is transit-locked so no cars can get in, retailers will up their convenience charge, because they'll know that you have to spend 3 hours on the bus, and rent a ZipCar to get to Costco. And they'll also know you will only be able to bring home as much as you can fit in your fold up grocery cart. You really need to look no further than Manhattan, and one of the suburbs in Bergen County, NJ to see this effect in action.
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Because the very same Santa Monican NIMBYs that just passed that law have made it impossible to build more housing: http://www.santamonicanext.org/2015/05/santa-monica-city-cou...

As an aside, if anyone is looking to locate a startup in Los Angeles, do your future employees a favor and avoid Santa Monica. Downtown LA and Culver City are far more sensible options and allow for a reasonable commute and/or nearby housing at lower prices than Santa Monica.
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Still surprising how much time is devoted to formatting (ocaml or any language).
That's essentially a detail of the Windows sandbox implementation. Servo's sandboxing story is Rust's gaol library [1], which has no support for Windows yet, but any multiprocess deployment on Windows would want to be accompanied by a sandbox utilizing those kinds of features.

[1]: https://github.com/pcwalton/gaol
I live in Edmonton, Alberta. In the last 10 years the only rats I've seen are the ones used in the neuroscience labs at the University of Alberta.

In truth, my house got a infestation of the smaller deer mouse [1], 2 years ago. But they are indigenous to Alberta and much smaller and easier to catch than the brown rat. It was quite easy to get rid of them, a cleaning in the garage and some traps did it.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peromyscus
VRBO has been around for longer than AirBnB, and specializes in full-unit or whole-house short-term rentals. But I never see them mentioned in these sorts of articles, either as a company that is affected by these types of regulations, or as a company that has taken a public position for or against these types of regulations.

Why is that? On previous stories the issue has been bedroom rentals, or listing rented apartments (i.e. short-term subleasing). But this seems to target whole-unit short-term rentals, even if they're owned. That seems to be right in the VRBO wheelhouse. For example: 158 listings:

http://www.vrbo.com/vacation-rentals/usa/california/los-ange...
I think it's a personal thing that can't be applied generally. I find a lot of the death in video games very disturbing and not casual at all. I think all you have to do is look at the right things to see it.

With games being more complex and having higher budgets for things like special effects and voice acting, killing people isn't just making some pixels disappear. Take for example using a corrosive gun against a human in Borderlands, or shooting a bad guy with a fire arrow in Tomb Raider (the most recent one): Killing enemies this way usually involve them dying slowly as they are corroded away or burned alive. There are voice actors who act out horrible agonizing death rattles for that (in both instances, there is an initial painful scream, a second of panicked realization, then horrible screaming for seconds afterwards). Animators had to make people writhe around in agony as they slowly die. Game designers made a conscious choice about how they would proceed with the deaths of people - these things have costs and I would imagine they aren't small.

More obviously with Tomb Raider: there are some horribly gruesome death sequences for Lara if you mess up. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen her get impaled, or crushed, or shot and all of the deaths are horrible and disturbing. Every time, I've felt it, and thought about how horrible it must be to die that way. I don't think I can really ask for more from a video game when it comes to expressing death, while still making a game enjoyable to play.
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I'm over 40, and stopped having to urinate during the night once my CPAP enabled me to achieve phase 3 and 4 sleep.
I'm not a big fan of schools, so I don't think I'd like anything they did haha. But if I was forced to come up with something I'd probably just optimize for breadth. Just exposing people to as much information about coding, software, OSes, the industry, even CS/software history. If people like what they hear they'll figure everything out (I warned that I don't like schools :D ).
it's probably a discounted sub-let from someone who has a lease from 10+ years ago.

it's very common in santa monica.
>What's wrong with just quicksort?

The quicksort you're thinking of isn't a real quicksort and would bring on the same criticism.

>Even if not, you can simplify it to

Nah. I just wanted to get rid of the word sieve, not create more surface area for bikeshedding.
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This has already been thought of: http://thewildlife.wbur.org/2014/10/15/dehorning-rhinos-a-wh...
It's not the best solution -- rhino horns grow back slowly, poachers don't want to wait around for years with a flock of rhinos, and it makes the rhinos less able to do their thing in the wild.
i got the link in google via chrome, so maybe one of the url querystring params identifies the browser type and when it's not the same it reverts to paywall.
> but it's like stuffing everyone from the mediterranean to scandinavia into the same race

That's a perfectly reasonable thing to do almost any way you try to look at it.
Ask HN: Universal configuration language
Tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, etc, try to provide a common language to describe state but they barely excel at it. Recipes/playbooks start to get ugly pretty quickly.

Looking this problem from another angle, the multitude of systems and different configuration formats could be blamed for that. Plus, each system will have a different concept of what it means to exist, be this or that, disappear, etc (if we're considering things as objects). It's hard to hide all that in a consistent way.

If this problem was easy to solve, it would already be solved. So my question is: what area of Computer Science is relevant to tackle the problem of describing things in a consistent way? Any past experiments we can draw lessons from?
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I am an avid gamer and I think about death all the time. If you were to actually take anything from games, you would realize how fragile life really is.
Ditto for sales tax. In some countries, sales tax is expected or required to be included in the listed price. This makes cash transactions significantly simpler.
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You do a job. There is a reason you are there, and it's not to write code. It's to fulfill requests. Feel free to provide advice on how best to fulfill those requests, provide feedback, ask for clarification, etc. But at the end of the day, all you do is what you are told. It's not to anticipate what they will want in 6 months, because you'll be wrong just as often as right and you'll be in the same scenario. Just do your job.

So when you're told to cut corners today, then in 6 months you can't make magic happen to grant their every whim, you have to let it blow up. They want to be the leader. They are responsible for the failings of the team.

You have to play chicken with them. Because every time you capitulate, all they know is "I got what I wanted". They don't care how much you complained or how many hours off the clock you worked. And honestly, if you tell them it can't be done overnight, and then you do it overnight, you're a liar and they won't trust your judgement ever again. When you say, "can't do it", you have to not do it. Don't make magic happen.

Or just don't work at such places. I have thankfully been out of that bullshit for three years running now.
"FUD" is a totally loaded term. Unwarranted doubt is pretty much exactly what is meant.
No, that was me before I deleted them.
Thank you. That made my day. My son and I are going to have some fun with this one.
It seems like it doesn't work with illustrations (i.e cartoons, logos, etc). Also, lights seems to confuse the model; for instance, a picture of my son with candle on a birthday cake was identified as "instrumentation" and a picture of me with a light source in the back was tagged as light bulb.
Can you elaborate? I'm only a few episodes in, so perhaps it's obvious when you get there. Is it the Japanese that's wrong, or something else?
I disagree with the part you quoted too. First of all, games are art form, they're not purely money driven, and some are not even tech driven, but they drive tech.

Secondly, games were experimenting a lot with death. It used to be that your character just fell and disappeared. Then you could wound or chop off its limbs. It would die differently when shot than when falling, etc.

Heck, Dwarf Fortress actually does simulate arrows penetrating internal organs and its consequences in great detail.

The ultimate reason why games portray death in simplified, binary way is the same as reason why movies portray death in simplified, binary way - because if you went into gory details of last moments of a person with a lung punctured by a bullet, desperately trying to catch a breath while slowly bleeding out, calling out to his god or his family, your player would freak out and probably puke. That is assuming that you'd be allowed to sell the game in the first place.

Games and movies are meant to be enjoyable, not disturbing, so death is always simplified, unless there's a strong reason to go into details.
i don't think i was marginalizing it. if anyone, it was parent and article writer tried to make it look like assets forfeiture affects only some groups of people. It does not. And making it look like it is makes it only harder to fight against. As soon as you try to divide public into groups - you get less power to fight.

I am foreigner, so I can see it from different perspective than regular american person, who grew up with the notion "we, whites, are oppressing black men, and we should feel guilty". As soon as you guys realize that whites/blacks/asians/whatever word you come up with for arbitrary characteristic of a group of people, who live same life, live in the same country, has on a daily basis more or less similar issues, and, in case of assets forfeiture, all likely to get abused with it, may be then you understand that you need fight back, and not try to differentiate yourself from your neighbor.

Just a random overview from a guy without blurred picture of what is going on in your country.
I don't think they'll be able to hold off comodization of the handset market much longer. Then again: Apple is doing well on x86 (laptops). We'll see.
Even if "strange" it would be a good state of affairs, since Servo is definitely going to have better performance (and I expect security). Plus it might help Debian to avoid some concerns they had recently regarding KDE packaging.
Read this - http://blog.biicode.com/cpp-will-never-die/. And I think C will never die! But it's very interesting to known Linus Torvalds's opinion about Rust and the future of system programming languages.
Of course code quality is important, but some good points here, and I agree that 'technical debt' is quite different from financial debt. For example (beyond the points made in the post) maybe you have 'technical debt' on a bunch of code that becomes irrelevant and gets deleted (or reimplemented completely differently, or whatever) so that you never actually have to pay that 'debt'.
I quite often find myself doing a kind of 'just in time refactoring' at the point where it becomes clear that code quality issues actually make it difficult to think about what the code is doing, or implement necessary changes.
I think the author missed the most obvious point. Let me copy what I originally wrote in a subthread:

The ultimate reason why games portray death in simplified, binary way is the same as reason why movies portray death in simplified, binary way - because if you went into gory details of last moments of a person with a lung punctured by a bullet, desperately trying to catch a breath while slowly bleeding out, calling out to his god or his family, your player would freak out and probably puke. That is assuming that you'd be allowed to sell the game in the first place.

Games and movies are meant to be enjoyable, not disturbing, so death is always simplified, unless there's a strong reason to go into details.
A less condescending way to make that first statement would be, PMs learn from experience.
Yev from Backblaze here -> The drive manufacturer won't do it for us (at least not at our scale). We're currently chatting to some channel retailers that would be able to do it for us and allow us to scale a little bit. It was discouraging us from buying in larger quantities, but if the price of the drive + labeling works out, we'll try some larger orders.
I have tried with two images, one a book in Spanish entitle: Lo mejor de "Fantasy & Science Fiction", another with my watch. In the first one it classified as a machine or something like that, the second is a device. Nothing fancy and very far from what they say in the blog.
The author mentions that many games now treat death as comedic or at least have backed away from in-your-face player death. I would love to see their take on death in the Dead Space series, where you are frequently treated to the sight of your character's body being dismembered by your enemies.
Thanks. That issue only started with iOS 8.3, still trying to track down the cause. Very frustrating, since the app hasn't been updated since before 8.3.
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‘Sexist’ chicken cutlets are a thing in germany?
The smartwatch is a huge bust, when will the tech companies quit shoving them down the consumers' throat. They have been around for a few years now and still haven't taken off. Apple was stupid to release one thinking theirs was somehow going to kick off the product and people were going to flock to buy one just because of the brand. There will be no Snapchat or Uber apps in the near future for smartwatches.
Ah, sorry. The hypersensitive snark detector has been taken out back and flogged.
Playing in a PvP corp in a major alliance, I always related more to this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgcUwTmHY74
Interested in market/economics as in he's a professional (or extremely serious individual investor), or interested as in he's a hobbyist who likes reading finance news and occasionally making "cool" investments?
I'd happily pay taxes for a functioning government. That's what I ordered when I sat down. But I daresay that's not what I was served.
"Maybe you're using a library that is difficult to mock. Maybe most of your logic is happening at the db layer."

At this point, your design is already screwed and borderline-unmaintainable, so yeah, I guess unit tests won't help much. But when people talk about Doing it Right, usually they mean having a codebase that's loosely coupled enough that tests are relatively simple to write.
John, a resident of the Startup Castle (who declined to give his last name), told me in an interview that he didn’t consider these rules discriminatory, and that the housemates were just “trying to get away from people who were obsessed with themselves.”

I'm astounded anyone could look at that list of requirements and say this with a straight face.
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Yandex has Autopoet that writes poems using search queries as dictionary.

http://autopoet.yandex.ru/
It supports quite some poetic forms including limerick.

Unfortunately it only handles Russian. But poems are actually pretty awesome.
I cooked for a little over a decade all said and told. Eight of those ten years I made less then $10 bucks/hour. Food is a difficult thing to make money on in the USA. Without margin, wages cannot increase. Last time I checked margin in the food business was less then 3% of total revenue. let me say that again, 3%. It MAY be worse now. Mass production is the ONLY way to stay afloat for a food business. Thus employees that are not a part of the service portion of the business, feel the squeeze.

To fix the problem, look no further then COGS.

1. Smaller menus (less margin in the trash)

2. Aggressively seasonal selections (cheaper then any other food)

3. Be a part of the community you are serving (intangible but sticky customer base)

4. Pair down customer capacity (smaller team = more hours per employee)

5. Salaries instead of hourly (cheaper, longer term employees)

6. Add the frickin 5% to that $30 plate of food

7. Consider limited hours (staying open 16 hours is stupid and wasteful)
I wonder whether telegram could offer a bridge service to proxy WhatsApp accounts, meaning you could switch to WhatsApp without losing any contacts...
Alternatively, perhaps the API can be glued to WhatsApp somehow.
Have you seen the New York Times haikubot? (Maybe you wrote it?)
Because realistically it is.

There are some sci-fi ideas, as others mentioned, but they are long shots.
Ha! This is way cooler than Google translate!
Why? That would be boring. Plus, different generations have different needs.
> >What's wrong with just quicksort?
>
> The quicksort you're thinking of isn't a real quicksort and would bring on the same criticism.

If you're saying that because it's not in-place, I'll point you to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort#Space_complexity

If you're saying that for another reason, why?

> Nah. I just wanted to get rid of the word sieve, not create more surface area for bikeshedding.

I was pointing out something that fits your four points, which is what you asked for.
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As mentioned in that article, one big problem is that poachers really don't want to waste their time, and it's hard to tell if the horn is there from afar, so they're likely to kill the animal regardless just so that they don't waste time tracking it down again on their next poaching attempt.
i bet america has racism issues, but civil forfeiture is completely different issue. and trying to bring up racism problem into it makes it only more complicated - suddenly you get "racist cops" who probably, after reading this article will not think about "wow, forfeiture rules are stupid", but rather "huh, so they caught black guy, he probably was doing narcotics" or similar bs.

Fight one problem at a time.
> Most of the makers in the 3d printing scene are not exactly printing from cad files stolen from manufacturers, they're building the models themselves with Autodesk software and Solidworks and Blender and so on. So there isn't going to be any day in which a manufacturer sues little folks to get money like companies were and still are able to do, because the manufacturer didn't create it, or have any part in creating it.

New sensors coming down the pipeline will allow your smartphone camera to image objects down to micron resolutions from ~1 meter away.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2906232/camera-chip-could-tur...
In my experience, this is a huge problem with Haskell. Laziness, for all of its benefits, makes it difficult to reason correctly about performance in large code bases. I think non-strict evaluation by default probably was a mistake. Other than that, Haskell is great.
What are you talking about? H264 acceleration with Intel graphics on Linux has been around since 2010 with vaapi.