skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just mega-novels, it seems like the long novel of 400-600 pages are more common too. Seems like back in the day you could get a good story in 150-200 pages. But now reading books is a bigger commitment. I think I'm going to start on the "novella" category of the Hugo winners =/
While that's technically correct, with only 1 year of data behind it, it's arguably a bigger risk assuming that the first year of data will continue into the second year.
Autolayout is very slow compared to manual layout on iOS. It limits the complexity of the UI you can build, especially if you need to update the layout at the display's refresh rate.
Yup, I'm actively using this architecture, in Python, with gevent (so that calls to external services don't stall your web server). I spawn long running computations in separate processes. I've described it here:

http://www.underengineering.com/2014/05/22/DIY-NoSql/

It really achieves 10k simple requests/transactions per second on a single core (or a $5/month VPS). The software support for it might have been better though. I should really release some code that helps with things like executing a function in another process, or verifying that some code executes atomically.
Their "concrete instantiation[s] of a micro virtual machine", their reference implementations, are in Java and Scala, which of course run on managed VMs, which makes me at first glance wonder what they think they've demonstrated with these implementations.
There's no way that page counts are a reflection of the size of the ideas in the book. You can huge ideas and absolutely marvellous worlds in under 200 pages. Maybe the book doesn't have 1000+ named characters. but why would that be an important metric?
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Well, counter mode is probably a better idea anyhow--but neither 16 bytes of padding per frame nor the same amount of MAC will be an actual bandwidth problem.
Thanks so much! You've reduced my suffering a bit.
What do YOU think the world is missing?
I get how both can cause an increase in stock price in practice.

Coming as I was immediately from the logic puzzle thread, I was primed to think differently about the statements.

A very literal (and a bit naive) reading of the article leads one to conclude that:
merger -> increased price
not merger -> increased price

This allows us to conclude that knowledge of (merger|not merger) gives us no extra information about whether price should increase.

Again, I am interpreting strictly as a pair of logical statements.
Who cares about money?
The Affordable Care Act
No. But also, I wouldn't assume that the only reason that you would conceivably give me 50e is because I cleaned your house.
Exactly, and this makes this purportedly logic problem a pyschologcial or sociological problem that is only tangentially related to the nominally pure logic of the question. Since we can with equal legitimacy infer either an exclusive or non-exclusive meaning to the "if", how we answer the question depends entirely on that choice.

Amongst undergraduates it is not implausible that when you tell them "this is a logic problem" they will tend to assume--based on the norms of undergraduate thought--that the researcher means "iff" when they say "if". I certainly would have as an undergrad.

To pretend that interpreting "if" as "iff" in an unusual situation is an error, is an error. The test subject is forced to guess what the researcher means, and for all kinds of reasons (not wanting to look stupid, etc) is unlikely to simply ask, "Do you mean if-and-only-if or not?"

Almost all supposed "logic problems" are in fact psychological problems of this kind. Any problem of the form, "What is the next number in this sequence..." for example, has an infinite number of valid answers, since no finite sequence deteremines its next element. Solving such problems requires making an informed guess about the state of mind of the person who designed the sequence, and infering which of the infinite number of possible patterns they thought was the obvious one.
ExitRound (http://exitround.com/)
What is your email address? (I don't see it in your profile)
Options gets hit by AMT tax when you strike them(assuming your total income puts you into AMT). You're going to be screwed either with RSUs or options by taxes just little less with AMT.
This is a great step forward! This will make a lot of scientific codes easier to use with LLVM. Once there is first class Fortran support maybe I can convince some crufty scientists to switch (never gonna happen, likely, oh well).
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Yeah, waiting til the series is complete and then reading them all in one go is the approach I've taken towards things. I'm making an exception for the new Brandon Sanderson series, but I think I'll regret that eventually!
Or have cabin air intakes that are separate from the engines.
It's not free if you become an employee and need to put in time to maintain it. Think of it like a fast food franchise - you're buying a job, not a passive income stream.
Show HN: H2Check – An HTTP/2 server checker
We created H2Check as a project to fill out some of the gaps in functionality with SPDYCheck. It supports NPN, ALPN, and IPv6. It's one of the first projects we've felt we can post on HN, so any constructive criticism is more than welcome!

It's designed to be simple, but also includes some extra content specifying how to deploy TLS effectively when enabling SPDY. We hope it will become useful, and we look forward to extending the functionality as HTTP/2 deployment progresses.
Didn't seem to work that well for the "Pure CSS" library that Yahoo made, which uses Flexbox.
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Out of curiosity, how do growth (and churn) factor into these valuations?
I got the quote from the same wikipedia article ;-) Plus HGST has always been quite vocal about the companies being separate. We stopped calling them Hitachi drives as a result, since the new entity is called HGST.
Why HOT Nicole Trunfio is trending today? –
Uh, yeah. We're not talking about their process. We're talking about how to improve it. AKA by making it not bullshit and by requiring real verification.
I do my own questions, and specify a format. Example secret question:
FirstElementaryTeacherLastName::First/Girlfriend/Name--moms_maiden

Example secret answer:
Kochoyan::Arev/Petrosyan--lusine_markosyan

Of course it doesn't have to be all human names, and formatting also adds a thin layer of security.
Sounds pretty cheap compared to South Bay homes! Like this 776 sqft "opportunity to do a remodel" which went for 1.75M: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/133-Coleridge-Ave-Palo-Alt...
That's a great idea, though I'm a little worried about being perceived as an astroturfer.
For those looking for the spec and early impl, see http://microvm.org. The paper says it can currently run simple RPython scripts.
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That's not accurate. US oil production is up 10% over this time last year. Most fracking expansion has come to a halt, not fracking itself. The vast fracking production gains have not been reversed. And above $60 to $65, expansion will pick up (which has already begun; along with EOG announcing it will pick up at about $65).

Production is currently running near recent record highs:

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=WC...
I am working on a tool to help growth stage startups manage their growth better. We do that by providing a simple app for tracking company wide expenditure and then providing insights highlighting opportunities for better manager of finances.

http://www.rubberstamp.io
> that big ideas and epic world-building require a lot of space.

That's not the same as requiring a mega-novel. You can have a series of stories set in one universe. Just look at Discworld. Or superhero comics, for that matter.
I doubt it. I'm guessing this won't bring in significant money for a while at least, and it'll lose users in the short term. Monetizing search, as with the Google now Yahoo deal, is where the money for developers comes from. This only makes sense if the goal is to shake things up. What its chances of success there are, and how positive that outcome would be, is still an unknown in my head. But Mozilla only exists to have an impact on the Web, so it kind of makes sense.

(I work for Mozilla, but have no special insight into this initiative.)
Show HN: ReddWall – An Automatic Reddit Wallpaper Changer
Better are books that can be read on their own...and are part of an expansive series

* Foundation
* Dune
* Discworld
* Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
* Hyperion

Even worse are 5 book sets (Belgarion and Eddings novels)
Uber grew its value by $120M per day
pretty cool that nsfw content is not allowed by default
Good call - that makes total sense! They get confirmation of the identity of the inquiry / lead before you can contact the owner directly.
"17th c Amsterdam traders were “very clever in inventing reasons” for a sudden rise or fall in stock prices.”

-- John Brooks, Business Adventures
One of the many tweaks it needs.
>large percentage of renters are not paying skyrocketing prices.

This only applies to those who are incumbent in their current residence.

Any NEW renters, or those looking to move from their current place are indeed paying a new heightened rent.

The costs for even small places is ridiculously high.
You're right, only laziness stops me. Thanks.
No clue where you're based, but in the EU, this is legal. You are allowed to replicate and reverse engineer systems, as long as you do not use the original source code.

APIs/functionality/data models/etc can't be copyrighted (again, in Europe). See http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-05-02/copyright-....
If you are a sole proprietor the EIN is your SSN. So you can still use Stripe and not worry about it.

You can also setup one llc and have multiple d/b/a's out there so you use one EIN and have multiple trade names but one company, one bank account etc. You need to do some accounting around it all, but its not a big deal.
He was hardly the only one thinking that way - I remember Gabe Newell being scathing about multicore/multiprocessing when the PS3 and Xbox 360 were released. All a fad, waste of time.
People who are less willing/able to pay high Bay Area real estate prices, such as people with modest incomes and children, are fleeing. Other people, who are more willing/able to pay high real estate prices, likely due to high wages and low demand for living space, are moving there.

Those of us in tech probably know more of the latter.
We are presented with an actual situation. 4 visible cards on a table in front of us. I am not going full Descartes and claiming we cannot trust anything we see.

We are told two things about the situation. You are assuming the first thing we are told can be trusted and the second can't.

I understand that the logic puzzle is only to verify the second thing we are told. I am not confused. The way that the puzzle is presented, though, allows for confusion, because we are presented with three things: 1) A physical setup which can be trusted (4 cards exist, we see 1 side of each card) 2) A statement that each card has one color and one number 3) Even -> blue on other side.

Given that one of the things we are expected to trust is a statement made to us and the thing we are expected to verify is a statement made to us, there is potential for confusion as to which statement(s) we are to verify. This potential is all that OP raised and all that I have been trying to explain.

Edit: To summarize in brief, as the problem is presented, it is not 100% clear that some statements told to you by the experimenter can/should be trusted.
The point remains that centering vertically with absolute positioning does not work with an element of variable height. Meanwhile, horizontally centering something of variable width is dead simple. Why the difference? It's a shortcoming of CSS.
Fafhrd and the Mouser are an interesting case: There are seven (pretty short) volumes of stories, written over nearly forty years, with the major anthologies halfway through.

Lots of those stories are just short vignettes, not more than a page or two long, that were nonetheless published individually. In the books, they seem like brief interludes, but they were originally written/published sometimes years apart from the longer stories.
http://panglott.blogspot.com/2010/08/for-re-reading-of-nehwo...
I'm going off a handful (~3-4) conversations with people in the industry, but my impression is that a large portion of the cost reductions come from economies of scale, particularly being driven by early-adopter industrial customers.

The big problem with solar is that you need a large up-front R&D and tooling/manufacturing investment before you can produce any working installations at all. Amortized over a small production run, this isn't cost effective enough to get any companies off the ground. But the tax subsidies that the government poured into the industry were enough to make it cost effective enough to bring on some early industrial companies like Google profitably. The profits from industrial customers can then be used to subsidize early-adopter consumer R&D, which at sufficient scale operates profitably on a unit-installation basis, which can then be used to fund mass-market adoption. Positive feedback cycle, where eventually a tipping point is reached and solar takes over.

As for getting it out to consumers: that's what financial arrangements are for. A friend of mine (in cloudy Massachusetts) has an interesting deal where he rents the solar panels from a company that basically charges him a flat fee < his electric bill, and guarantees a certain power output regardless of weather conditions (so they'll pay his electric bill if the panels don't generate what they say they'll generate). The company owns the panels, books any tax subsidies, pays for installation, and has the freedom to upgrade & reinstall as newer models come on the market. As a result, it's zero risk for him, and the company presumably has the industry knowledge and economies of scale to manage their risk appropriately. They could, for example, swap out his 1st gen panels as newer models come on the market and then send them to a sunnier location where they'd perform fine.
Reid Hoffman on the relationship between employers and employees
As a tabletop gamer, I want to see the disparity as an advantage rather than a disadvantage. If typical cost of living drives up wages by even just a 1.5-2x multiplier, you can min-max with lifehacks by, say, living in a van and making that into a disproportionate increase in savings retention, giving you a shorter runway to escape wage slavery.

Of course, if your desired end-game doesn't include escaping the paycheck cycle, it is really a wash anyway.. so you may as well go where the fun jobs are.
Thanks for correcting me. I've updated my post.

Also: "Half of U.S. Fracking Companies Will Be Dead or Sold This Year"

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-22/half-of-u-...
Microsoft offered to acquire Salesforce for $55B
If (1) must be verified, how can you know that the blue card has a number on the other side?

To verify (1) you must prove that each card has a color on one side and a number on the other. The only way to do this is to see both sides of each card.
https://github.com/sebinsua/ramda-debug

Debugger for functional programming code in JavaScript. Lets you observe and visualise data flows through your function pipelines.

https://github.com/sebinsua/jstruct

A declarative way of defining JSON transformations. Hoping to possibly create a JSON-first GraphQL with it later on by letting the client supply the definitions of the data structures it expects.

http://spokesapp.co

Networking for makers.
Im working on a image parser that reads dimensional markup symbols to convert pictures of hand drawn sketches to constraint resolved corrected cad files with automated g-code output, automated pattern nesting, and eventually 2D to 3D conversion. No public code yet. :/
the NorthEast is a big user of heating oil. Tell me what i can do to replace 800 gallons of oil a year.

Solar isn't going to work either. Not enough daylight.
Agreed... let someone try it out by themselves. A screencast of someone using it would also be useful (think laracasts style screencast or similar). Being a user of this product really appeals to me (aligns with some stuff I already do), but the marketing is a bit light to convert me.
But that's only in EE, right?
HOLY CRAP!

I think Realtors must be farking psychopaths to think that this should be valued at such...

However, anyone with a crap-ton of money who doesnt blink at a price like that for this, well -- they should jsut feel like lucky, fortunate people.

That's nuts.
In some sense yes. But parts of Oakland, San Leandro and East Palo Alto still offer bargains.
There's some interesting ideas in here (first Shadow war in particular, but others too).

I really like B5 since it had a beginning, middle, and end which was rare at the time (and still somewhat rare now, but improving slowly). Plus it didn't feel as "dumbed down" as Star Trek was, which isn't to say it is a hard show to watch, just that a lot of episodes were pure politics (e.g. Game of Thrones style). The action/space battles were frankly excellent, and only shows like the new Battlestar Galactica have come close to that kind of dynamic space combat (still, for me, nothing will top the Whitestar jumping into Mar's atmosphere to out-flank the earth fleet).

But B5 did have problems. The show was "cancelled" at the end of Season 4, so they combined S4 and S5's content into one season (which was both awesome in some sense, but disappointing in others). Then when the show got renewed for Season 5, they had no content since S4 "ended" many of the major plots. You also had the loss of Michael O'Hare at the end of Season 1 which made the show's overall story make a lot less sense. Bruce Boxleitner was wonderful, don't misunderstand, it just hurt the story's end when Michael O'Hare had to return to conclude things.
Nope. Check the numbers, the US production is up even with the slump in prices caused by all the extra supply. Rig counts are down, exploration is down, but production is up.

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21648622...
Ok, then turn off the embedded advertising. Your users are going to continue seeing ads all over the web no matter what browser they use, and in fact will be tracked by advertisers (less so if they take steps to avoid it, but that's up to them.)
Important point: they're talking about the clothing company, not the part of South America.
Well ... Moore's Law is not about speed, but the number of low cost transistors you can economically put on a single die. How that translates into "speed" is complicated, e.g. when you're first able to put all of a CPU on a single die you get a big speedup. After this was written raw clock speeds hit a wall, all that's left is microarchitecture improvements, including making things wider, making dies wider by putting more cores on them, and adding lots of cache.

Hmmm, and a whole lot of architecture work has by and large ended up on the garbage heap of history, or is no longer trying to compete in speed. Plus ARM has always prioritized power over speed.
This one can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGrWHlAm7zM (cartoon submarine character TV show) because it has large human like eyes.
Bingo, but (for the reasons given in the other reply, and probably an imbalance in members) that's expected for response rates to male--->female messages.
From http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2015/05/22/san_franciscos_medi...

Median rent is now $4,225 in San Francisco.
That's not true. A truly skilled fantasy or sci-fi author can hint at a huge and complex world with just a single, casually-delivered line of dialogue.
What I’m Teaching my Son about Money
The Economist touched on this last week, it's a good read:

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21648622...

Spending went way down, but so far US oil production is actually up.
Submissions to /r/wallpapers shouldn't be NSFW but it checks just in case!
Yes, but feel free to contribute Git LFS to CE :)
Tracing the life story of a Bronze Age female
They used up the devices they'd had manufactured, were saying they had no idea if and when they'd have more ... and I guess they've completely given up, now.
Some California Farmers to Cut Water Use to Ease Drought
I really wish someone built this - not just for fishing, for any activity, with the serious intention of forming long lasting friendships. Meetup is good for specific activities, it is fun during the said activities. But it rarely lasts beyond those times. The only other avenue to forming good friendships seems to be volunteering. It would be awesome to have a place where making friends is primary objective, and everything else is secondary.
that's the next big thing
It is almost all from cost of manufacturing. The one statistic that explains the solar boom and articles like this is that by 2017 solar panels should drop 40% in price per kw/hr. If they are at grid parity now, what will 40% do?

That is just in the next 2 years. In fact depending on where people live, at a certain point solar will make more sense than investing in the stock market (although of course this will even out at some point as electricity cost becomes essentially the cost of solar in the area around you).
Code that switches over a variable nominally declared to be of type BOOL and handles more than 2 distinct value cases is always such a joy to read; every enterprise grade code base should have at least one of these for entertainment purposes.
> the NorthEast is a big user of heating oil. Tell me what i can do to replace 800 gallons of oil a year.

Insulate your home properly.

> Solar isn't going to work either. Not enough daylight.

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/feds-largest-us-offshore-...
After reading the DC power travels better than AC power, I was skeptical. After a bit of googling I found this article:

http://theenergycollective.com/rogerrethinker/204396/ac-vers...

Its a really good read about how DC power does indeed travel a lot better, especially under sea or under ground. The problem with DC power is that DC/DC transformers are still expensive, and not as efficient as AC/AC transformers.
The Doublespeak of Parenting and the Double Blade of Ambition in Silicon Valley
Well. . . it isn't as clear as all that.

To protect a mark, you have to do more than file a registration and buy a domain. You have to actually use it "in commerce" which is a rather stringent legal standard that changes on a per industry basis.

It isn't clear that he is actually has been "using" the name in the manner required by trademark law, and you can't just have "token use" and keep a TM forever. It doesn't seem like any products are actually for sale under his mark, and it isn't being marketed, so it seems like he isn't using it "in commerce" in the way that TM law requires.

Second, if you search the TM database there are approximately 40 registered names with "Case" in it, in the area of legal software; ergo it is a very common term in the legal software field. The standard for TM infringement is "likelihood of confusion", in other words, is a typical consumer going to be confused about the origin of the software.

Even IF his marks were being used in a way which satisfied the "use in commerce" test, with all those Case* names out there there is no likelihood of confusion. In other words, if a consumer of legal software services is looking for his Case* mark, they are not going to be confused by the other 40 Case* marks, because consumers of legal services know that "Case" is a common term in the field and not all products named "Case*" are owned by the same person.
Find a job that pays relocation. A lot also have corp apartments that you can stay in for a few months as well.
My formal logic was never great. Years since I did one of these. My first try was 8, then 8+green. Probably need to brush up on my formal logic. Especially since I've been trying (painfully) to read formal verification papers.