skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not arguing with the idea that we don't yet know all of the downsides from the leaks, I have to concede that point.

However, I would argue that the probability of his leaks causing more substantial damage to the US than the very organization perpetrating the act is vanishingly small.

There are different ways of measuring damage, but I'm not talking about destroyed vehicles or dead bodies.
Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example is a great "getting up to speed" book.
How Cash Sent the Portland Home Market Spinning
I get your point but (partly to play devil's advocate)...
How is this significantly different from traditional businesses?
- Good for people getting paid.
- Good (maybe) for people getting the service (which is often mediocre at best).
- Bad for competitors.
- Bad for people who invested in a competing service/product/related industry.
- Often bad for the environment, neighbourhood etc.
This game is really great! I think we have the next 2048 upon us. In my few tries I can't get past 15, which makes me keep wanting to do it one more time.

The increasing difficulty to get to higher numbers with the randomness of high-number drops makes the game exciting and the timer makes it frantic.

I look forward to trying two-player mode. Stealing blocks from the opponent is a great mechanic!

The one suggestion I can make is to give high-number blocks (15+?) something to make them stand out, similar to how 2048 indicated higher numbers. The sound effects throughout the game are great!
Can't edit this anymore apparently, but correction: PV will not outperform modern "PVHVM"
We don't do it because of the time constraints. Lets say it takes 30 seconds to do one individual drive.

But in your article you claim that the unlabeled Toshiba drives lengthen the maintenance time by "a few minutes" every time they fail.

Since all drives eventually fail, wouldn't it make sense to trade those "few minutes" at the end of the lifecycle for a constant 30 seconds at the beginning?
This is going to happen in most cities; it has to, because the pendulum has swung too far from "abusive regulation" to "abusive lack of regulation".

That is absolutely false in 2015 compared to the past, and since your premise is completely false its very sad that this is top rated comment....a sad commentary on the present bad state of HN.
I have tried looking on Airbnb in Europe, and there have always been cheap hotels that are a better deal.
I think (s)he's giving feedback about the wording of the description, not the gameplay itself.
https://www.usafreedom.fail/

This might be something I leave CloudFlare for.
All the Maths (2014)
Not very profound really. Someone really good in charge is most likely hiring really good developers as well.
Not sure whether disgusting or awesome
Great game! How did you do the cross platform? Xamarin, native or something else??
Here's a very interesting article about the Portland real estate market. It argues that all-cash investment purchases are distorting the market. Similar effects are happening in many cities.

http://www.invw.org/cash
The problem is not that there is not an enforced default case, but that it was not in the coding standards. I always have a default case, but this is in my coding standards.
No, these changes are not new. They are years old.

The small changes over time are someone imperceptible in tiny chunks as they become applied over time, this may be true. But to question their value? To the visual design and branding industry, that's like throwing down the gauntlet. There are teams of people dedicated to shaving milliseconds of latency off of page loads. They might speed up the entire site by 15-20ms in a year! That's amazing! But do Facebook users care?

The answer is probably actually "no" -- but it's not important that users notice or care. In fact, these kinds of changes are judged in their success by users actually not noticing and simply getting a better experience whether they know it or not.
Yes, and why should anyone be surprised that these "creatives" came up with a cool, self-aggrandizing, term for promoting themselves? That is after all their calling.
> The only people who do believe it are people who've read somewhere that other people believe it, and are ready and willing to believe anything they hear that they like the sound of.

Is there a name for this? Because it seems pretty widespread across almost every controversial topic. (e.g. "public outcry" against X, that never existed, can still get knee-jerk reactions from governments, people, etc.)
Democrats yield in Senate TPP trade deal
> In the real world there is always a discord between requirements and reality, skillsets and the problem space, change management and the need for rapid change, scope creep, and on and on.

We follow Agile. At the beginning of iteration planning, the dev-team, has to task-out the items and score the complexity, and then decide the cut-off point as to what can and cannot be achieved within the 2 week iteration.

It's taken us several years, but this ruthless cycle of feedback, and responsibility has led us to a point, where we scope it right about 75% of the time.

Having also been involved in projects that have overrun deliverable dates by years - I wouldn't have believed it possible for a software-management process to work so well.

Of course it helps, that there is genuine philosophical buy-in, and that our revenue is derived from our software (eg. we're not a cost-centre).
To be fair, you can replace EVE with HN in that sentence, and it still works for many people (myself included at various times, for both EVE and HN)

I like the charitable view, but I can feel for the sentiment in the parent comment as well. It's unlikely everyone is going to devote every minute of their life to charity. I can give plenty of money and time to charity, and still have time to play games sometimes.

Lots of people quite easily spend as much time watching tv as people like us play video games. I'd argue playing games is at the very least slightly less bad. We are engaging with other people (most of the time), working reflexes, strategy, hand eye coordination, etc. Everyone needs some relaxation and play time, and I suspect video games are a better use of time than a lot of competing alternatives.
I have come across Slanger[1] while researching for a good websocket server and it worked well for us. It's basically an open source version of Pusher backend. You may be interested in their code.

[1] https://github.com/stevegraham/slanger
Clever spin on 3's/2048/etc. Prepare to be cloned!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_firsts_in_aviation

> First dogfight: Dean Ivan Lamb and Phil Rader fired pistol shots at each other while airborne around November/December 1913 ...

Weirdly amusing.

And now for some poetry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%A9ment_Ader
https://www.usafreedom.fail/

headline/article misleading.
I dropped out of grad school (MIT EECS) when I got up one day and realized I was only in it because it had seemed like a good career path, not something I was fired up about. I was doing reasonably well but not killing it by any stretch, but definitely could have wrapped it up and put that on my resume. Instead I just... didn't. I did f--- all for a few weeks (aside from a copious amount of bar hopping). Had a really awkward call with my parents. Then I pounded the pavement for work and used it as my calling card.

Company (all fairly small / start up level): Tell us about yourself.

Me: Got into MIT for grad school. Decided I wanted to get going doing things, not learning theory. Took a chance on myself and walked out the door with more debt than I'd like to think about but excited to see where my talent and ambition would take me.

Had three offers in the first ~10 days, took one, loved it for about six months, moved on. Almost three years later I've landed in a great spot, make a nice living, don't regret it for an instant.
How History's Greatest Chess Players Reveal the Secret Formula Behind Fame
This is great! What's everyone's strategy?

I was able to get 20 by obsessively combining small tiles first, but just barely. The biggest problem is the rows that calcify and lock together if you don't actively try and break bonds.
> Maybe it's just hard to write about a new, interesting thing without most people getting the impression you think it's the way

Man, kind of resonates. Things like SOAP arguably trace back to a reasonable impulse followed with too much zeal.
Neither of these things actually fix the problem, which is in particular the content of the default case. default: ; break; would be just as buggy.
> Why does this require JS (to the point of giving a blank page!) for something that can be trivially done without?

This is a slide deck (not a blog post or article) hence its dependence on JS.

(though even blog posts I write usually depend on JS to provide proper syntax highlighting and diagrams)

> Can someone explain to me why it has to assume that arr.length could change? It states it does, but I don't see why.

If you don't know where `throwConcurrentModificationError(arr)` goes then you don't know what it does, e.g. it can do something like this:

H.throwConcurrentModificationError = function (arr) {
arr.push(10);
};

(contrary to its name - but JITs don't optimize based on names)

That's why JIT has to assume global side effects from the `throwConcurrentModificationError` call - unless of course it emits an unconditional deoptimization right before it which is what happens in the (0, o.f)() case.
Upvote despite the article being titled "Haskell programmers are liars". Great decision to use subtitle admins. +1 to bitemyapp for submitting a PR to change "sieve" to "primeFilter" and avoid this in the future.
A lot of fun.
In case you're not trolling: not really, not officially.

Unpopular features on less common architectures are frequently broken for large stretches of time, and go unnoticed until someone complains. Open source really exemplifies the squeaky wheel getting the grease, which is kind of sad.

Places where Linux is popular undoubtedly have their own internal private test suites, especially for features less popular on bleeding edge kernels (eg S390 arch support or Infiniband)

It would be hard to get any sort of good coverage with unit tests, too, but that shouldn't be a reason to avoid trying.
And this should also happen to Uber.
Kind of like marijuana laws?
According to some Diversity Consultants: Women don't like numbers
Good point on caring differently about the outcome, you reminds me that I might be caring too much on winning the conversation much of the time.

> it might not matter all that much if you can't get your ideas across to the other person this particular moment.

Yeah, I have always been eager to get my ideas through (because I want to get things done), with your words I see now I don't need to rush getting ideas through all at once, it should be done in a timely manner.

I guess this is why some people describe me as being too eager or impetuous, I see the reason now.

Socratic approach really seems to be a good suitable way around this, thanks a lot for the tip.
AI Is Getting Good Enough to Delegate the Work It Can’t Do
Wolfram has created a website that will identify any image you throw at it
Can we be sad about the time you are wasting on HN lecturing us about our game playing?

Everyone needn't be helping the poor 24/7. There's plenty of room for giving of time and money to better causes and also still having some time to relax, play games, and have fun.

working 24/7 is a recipe for burnout. No reason to be sad about people resting a bit from their work.

I understand your point. There have been times when I played "too much" EVE or other games. There have also been times when I worked too much. (In fact, I'm taking a break from work to read a bit of HN, right now at 10:45 local, which is stupid, lol).

In general playing games isn't wasted time for humanity though. We could easily feed and shelter everyone with our current prosperity, without making everyone spend every second of their free time working on the problem. Just needs a bit of money.
Awesome game.

But I would suggest renaming it "16". That way I can feel better about performance.
Memetic analysis would not undermine it, it would explain it ;) But I guess explanation kills the magic. In any case, I agree with you, 'deniers' of memetics tend to be more spiritual/religious. Again, memetics would explain the denial as well: making/breaking neural patterns is no easy task.
There's still nothing that can actually replace C. I think that's because of a combination of:

1) Being reasonably high level

2) Having asm() be usable at all. You can't drop into asm with Go, as far as I'm aware. You can with Rust and C++, but the next point...

3) The ABI as commonly implemented is dead simple. I know how to call C from asm, and vice versa, without screwing everything up, having bizarre initialization and destruction to worry about, etc. C++ can't claim that. I don't think Rust can either.

C will live on until there's an actually usable replacement. Right now, there isn't.
It's legal to produce a firearm for personal use (in the vast majority of the US).

I can personally 3D print one, turn one on a mill (CNC or not), drill-out an 80% AR lower with a drill press, purchase one, be gifted one.

A 3D printer is a poor, poor device among most of those options (and mostlikely more expensive).

You'll also notice that none of the above manufacturing devices are outlawed or regulated in any form.Why do 3D printers need to be called out?
This is why programmability is important. This is why being able to achieve performance of relaxed memory models with a more intuitive SC memory model should be a top objective for Intel and architecture researchers..
Experience a Virtual Reality Theme Park 4D
If everyone gave 10%, it would immediately be a solved problem. No need to spend every possible minute working. 10% would be so much more than is needed.
Broadband and wireless routers kinda killed this. It's now typical for every computer on your home network to be behind a NAT, so to enable direct connect, you need to manually punch a hole in your router's firewall. The spyware situation of the early 2000s (which caused Microsoft to bundle a personal firewall with WinXP) didn't help either. Most users are not willing to fiddle with their network connection just so someone on the Internet can directly connect to them.
"Are there any true peer to peer chat apps left"

Bittorrent recently released 'Bleep' which supports encrypted peer-to-peer chat including image transfer. It holds the message locally until a direct connection to the receiver is established.
it's alarming that your comment was buried.
I'm not a fan. It was a bad document.

It was a power grab by dukes and barons. What hideous crime had John committed? He started a court in which commoners could sue their lords for mistreatment and get heard by the king.

And another thing, the phrase "jury of your peers"? Yeah, that's from the magna carta (it's nowhere in the US Constitution, incidentally), and it was meant as a guarantee that only nobles could be on a jury of another noble. Wouldn't want those peasants having any say in it...
I always pronounce it as /līkm/, but I am not a native speaker so I can't be sure about correct pronunciation.
That really would make a fantastic gift for your friend, although you're right - they are rather expensive :-)

> That claim about wristwatches not being popular...

Agreed, it certainly seems obvious. I suspect at the time there may have been some advances that allowed smaller wrist watches, and that's what allowed them to take off - however that's just a guess. Women's watches at the time were quite large and elaborate, covered in jewels and such.

There's quite a good NYTimes article you might like, though it doesn't go into much detail about Santos-Dumont: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/fashion/wrist-watches-f...

There's also a bit more information on the Cartier Santos watch, including its modern variants, here: http://monochrome-watches.com/history-of-the-pilot-watch-par...
I'm also a Santa Monica resident/homeowner and I'm very disappointed by this legislation.

I have a lot of family out of state, and when they visit, it's great that they can rent an entire house on AirBNB/VRBO. We did this for my wedding (in Santa Monica) and it worked out fantastic.

When I travel, my house is basically empty. I don't see why I can't rent it out to another family.

I agree AirBNB should charge the hotel tax & all that, but the approach of outright banning whole unit rentals seems wrong.
Of course people choose to be gay. Having sex is an action, not a state of being. My nature is to want to have sex with every woman on the face of the planet. If I opt to do so, I become an adulterer, philanderer, womanizer, etc. Or, if I choose not to have sex with every woman I meet, I am not an adulterer, even though my nature is to be one.
That's an outline of the proof so mathematicians in the field don't need to explore other nonrelated methods to reach the proof for themselves.
1ms is high for a request, assuming that you touch only RAM in a pattern with high locality (which you can usually manage when routing chat messages). Take a look at the TechEmpower benchmarks: most of the Java and C++ frameworks can manage 1M req/sec for JSON serialization:

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r10&hw=...
From Public Relations to Pull Requests: My First 30 Days on an Engineering Team
I assume this was for an entry level position. Look at the OP github above and you would assume that as well.

They usually would LOVE to have the problem of all "private" repositories.

Of course github isn't everything, but quite important for your first gig.
I've never been unemployed during my 25-year career, so apparently enough.
I'll check in occasionally to see how it's doing in its ascent to sentience.

Turing Test: Pair it up with a chat-bot algorithm on Skype and see if it can start conversations with random users based on their home decor. "Nice red leather couch you've got there."
While I enjoy reading on my Kindle, I find that Kindle is not the best format for technical books with code samples, charts and tables. If you go electronic, it's much better to just produce a PDF. FWIW I have the PDF-only version of this book (a digital purchase from O'Reilly) and it's great
If you see this, sonoffett, please drop me a line (email in profile). I would love to chat with you about fundamental materialism.
Thanks so much, I can't tell you how good it is to hear nice things after spending so many evenings fine-tuning everything.

As to your suggestion, you make a good point. It was very hard to come up with 20 distinct colours (let alone 30, as one of the iOS-only modes requires!) and maybe something extra is required.
The bait drops are restricted to within park boundaries. Within those bounds there should be no mammals, save for humans who know better than to eat bait pellets, and perhaps the occasional muzzled dog ( with a permit ). There is a by-kill of native animals, but that pales in comparison to the amount that would be killed by unchecked predator growth. No human has been killed or harmed by DOC 1080 drops.

http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/saving-our-environment/nativ...

The main opponents to 1080 are hunters, nimbies and people that believe in chem-trails and threaten to poison milk formula.

Hunters I can empathize with to some degree, but in the end, they have a vested interest in preserving the populations of feral animals, not in the elimination of them.
I don't see any evidence that seeing a distribution between wealth and quality of life is unique to the first world.
That game also has a good soundtrack. Especially Stage A (Ryoukai Senshi Exchanger): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAxgarEVSc0
Update: actually, "17" might be a better name.

This game is addictive.
https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Design#overview-and-goal...
I can't believe people are downvoting this!

Everyone is OK with Windows running elevators? What's next, pacemakers?
However, once we have the turbo-charged MRI that can map memes (assuming memes are neural patterns), then we could also 'explain' faith; since it seems faith is also a meme, no?
I think you are looking for "Printing floating-point numbers quickly and accurately with integers (2010)".

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1806623

The title is play on "Printing floating-point numbers quickly and accurately (1996)", which in turn is play on "How to print floating-point numbers accurately (1990)".

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=231397
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=93559
When I consider that my phone has a 64 GB SD card smaller than my little fingernail, I feel the same way.
I think it goes beyond any sort of talent pinch. Any teacher who could teach a calc or pre-calc class certainly would be able to teach a beginning coding class to middle or high-schoolers. The real issue is that the people who come up with what should be in these courses today are far more concerned with how the course LOOKS than its actual substance.

If you think about math, for instance, or heck, even the AP Comp. Sci. curriculum, you learn A TON of really deep, important stuff... but you actually produce... well, nothing. Somehow with "coding," though, that's 100% not okay anymore; all of a sudden, the success of the kids and your program is judged largely on the projects that these kids do. Administrators (from superintendents to teachers and everyone in between) aggressively advertise that their kids "make apps" and "code websites" and everything else of the sort. That's what they are maximizing. What the students actually learned seems rather secondary.

Just look around at all the popular coding initiatives today: code.org, scratch, etc... the topic of assessment is notably absent.

What all of this ends up becoming is teachers pushing super elaborate projects in which kids do little more than copy the teacher and make minor alterations. But, the kids feel good 'cause they are told they can "code", the teachers feel good 'cause they see the projects come out the door, and the public-at-large is none the wiser. The truth, though, is that the kids learned precious little -- actually, worse: The one example in NYC that I mentioned, for instance, simply reinforced the idea that coding is a bunch of "magical incantations" that they can't understand but that somehow does things. That doesn't empower the student; it just reinforces in him the idea that he is powerless.
So I'm probably getting blinded by availability bias bc you said finance, but these T-shirts look solid. I can't really think of anything etsy-like that would fit. I'd assume he's a fairly cynical guy:

www.zazzle.com/financial_adviser_banker_investment_broker_gear_tshirt-235389425685067728

http://www.zazzle.com/rated_aaa_tshirt-235431658033842966

Alternatively, screw the finance part and just go for something cool. How does he feel about drones?
The problem is when you agree to give them $10,000 for a new car but get a bicycle instead. www.cloudbooksapp.com
Separation of believe(faith) and science is also a meme.
It's c++ with SDL and as little platform-specific code as I can get away with. eg. low latency audio on Android was impossible using stock SDL.

The web version was originally a straight recompile with emscripten but it was way too slow so it's a hybrid approach where the board engine is emscripten and the UI is rewritten with HTML/canvas.
Works on safari on iPad
God is a meme.
They mention seeing this bug appear on Haswell CPUs, and nothing about any other x86 - is it a Haswell-specific bug?
That's not a good name, sorry. I think "15" fits it much, much better!
Ah, okay, cool. Never visited the NY office. That's probably why I just remember the general idea that "JS execution was being worked on."
And the someone really good in charge needs to hire a team full of really good people, too. Good process and competent management does not mean you can slot in interchangeable cogs to do the work and expect good results.