skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think perhaps instead of saying "powerpoint should be banned" perhaps poorly built diagrams and powerpoint slides with too much data that are meant to be read should be banned. Slides and visuals as part of a presentation are used to focus the listener visually on the main point being discussed. People are (generally) visually oriented and enhancing a presentation with visuals using slides can make your presentation better.
It was already possible to correct a positive fraction of qubits as long as you accept a constant distance; consider the Hamiltonian:

H = <a_i1|X|a_i2> + <a_i2|Z|a_i3> + <a_i1|Z|a_(i+1)1> + <a_i3|X|a_(i+1)3> [i = 1..N]

This generates a [N, N/3, 2] code, with N/3 logical qubits per physical qubit. The trouble is that a no-go theorem states that for codes defined by operators which are local in any finite dimension, the code distance d = o(N); in particular, in two dimensions, d = O(√N).

(IIRC; haven't done this in a while...)
Ask me questions, I've had success building Qt from 5.0.2 to 5.3.2 for Windows - 32/64-bit with full debug info (in release too!).
Yet another case of C++ lagging behind superior languages.
My thoughts exactly. It sounds like the co-creator of Maglev thinks he created the ultimate transportation vehicle, and is completely unwilling to accept that while expensive, those problems can be overcome using new technology.
Yeah, I built (and later shut down) didlog http://www.didlog.com/ a while ago which I had hoped would eventually turn into something like this. Track code commits, calendar events, emails, files changing, etc to try to put together a map of everything you're working on.

I knew I'd be biting off more than I could chew if I tried to tackle time tracking from the start so I was hoping I could build something useful before moving into that area. Turns out, I couldn't (given my limited time and resources).
As long as there are 32-bit processors or 32-bit hardware accelerated VMs then: Yes.
Won't happen - there's little doubt that each person adding an upvote would be a real person. In order to police something like that you'd be effectively policing people's reasons for upvoting which is impossible.
A second dark age for C++
The headline is a bit like saying "Painters sells dried paint for 90k" or "Programmer sells series of characters for 90k" Technically it's accurate, but it misses the point entirely.

Richard Prince, whether you like him or not, is an artist and his medium is typically found/appropriated objects. We, as a society, have rewarded him in the past because there is something interesting in what he does. Oftentimes artists are misunderstood within their lifetimes and the scope of their interests become more apparent with time. So for now, these are super gimmicky and somewhat frustrating, but as the world changes in unexpected ways they will only take on more meaning .
It doesn't matter since your ISP/Browser/Mobile is tracking you anyway.
Outside of some stability/compatibility issues that I hope are ironed out before release, I've been pretty impressed with Windows 10 preview so far. I only use Windows for games these days, so I can't really speak to it from a productivity standpoint, but the interface is much more intuitive than Windows 8's while still keeping the handful of things I liked.

Ironically, there were a couple of Windows 8 behaviors I had to unlearn (for example, there's no longer the super strange "hot corners" that were the only way to access the shutdown menu). Definitely didn't take as long as initially learning how to navigate Windows 8, though :)
He never said he wanted other people to fund his basics. He just wants to work little for a little salary and lots of free time.
I wouldn't say "initially"; Flash is still notorious for severe performance issues. That said, so are most native media players nowadays.

With that said, I'd be more optimistic of a kind of "media plugin renaissance" like what's being discussed in this day and age than I would be back in the 90's, what with all the insistence on standards-compliance and all that jazz. Eventually, with platforms like the .NET CLR / Mono catching on and becoming increasingly popular for cross-platform "native" (not quite native, but much more native than web-based) development, the chance of successfully reaching the goal that Java tried (and - arguably - failed) to reach back in the 90's is much higher nowadays.
Agreed. Just because people can design ugly and confusing slides using powerpoint doesn't say much about the software itself. You can make ugly presentations using any similar software.
Huh, I have a reading a few books on the history of synths and I've never heard of this guy

_________

If anybody's interested, some of the better books are

- Synth Gods (Rideout)

- Electronic Music (Collins/Schedel

- Listening thru Noise (Demers

- Electronic/Experimental Music (Holmes

(there's a complete book listing in the back of Burkholder et al, History of Western Music)
Was part of a failing startup and knew what was coming. Still hurts to go through being laid off. They gave me a months severance.

Told a buddy what happened and had an interview lined up for the next day. Got the job and started the following week. In the end, I came out ahead. Consider myself lucky and fortunate that my skills are in such demand.
I just installed the latest Windows 10 build in a VM, and I'm remarkably impressed. Cortana is working much better than expected, and I'm loving the new start menu. I'm planning on switching to Win10 full time for at least 6 months or so after release; been on OS X for many years, but I much prefer the direction MS is going, these days. It looks like they're going to be the first folks to really get a universal ecosystem across desktops, tablets, and phones; frankly, I'm surprised it wasn't Google.
Minecraft free
The severance made the most sense because I already had a new job lined up to start in a few weeks.
Is it brigading if I post a permalink to a comment on slack?
Building a WebRTC Video Chat App Using PubNub and Parse
The chaps in the pub could be sailing with a ship as relief radio officer at a moment's notice so not quite the bunk bed thing.

Iain Sinclair has written about Trueman's Brewery round that time as well.

You won't agree with this but: is paying people to sleep in bunks any worse than subsidising low paid jobs using the benefit system as we do now? Typical commercial rents £600 to £750 a month and minimum wage £6.50 per hour.
How ASO boosted my app's downloads
I worked on Siemens' Xelibri (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xelibri) brand of phones.
The problem was the lack of usability studies or real technical innovation. We basically chopped up existing Siemens models and tried to squeeze them in a "cool" looking housing without causing to much retooling for the manufacturing people.

Many of the examples you listed did the same. Different for the sake of being different doesn't work out.
It's slightly tricky because people usually upvote what they are interested in. Therefore if a big bunch of people are interested in Win10, then it is just completely normal if they upvote these topics. Similarly, basically every new Apple hardware ends up on the top of HN. Same applies to many other things -- secure messaging, depression/burnout related articles, all Tesla news, etc.

It's very hard to run a news site and keep stuff out that actually interest people.

I very much doubt that these articles are upvoted by employees, etc.
Within two seconds? I'm calling BS on that. But I downvoted it as soon as I saw it. It's nonsensical FUD and added nothing to the conversation.
I refreshed the page as soon as I posted it and it had +3
? I tried linking to a comment …

EDIT: Oh, misunderstood. I know the RNN can do the parens-balancing, and that's why Goldberg said that parens-balancing was impressive, since with his method you'd need to add other hacks around it.
Every time I got laid off (never fired, so far), I got a new job that paid 25-40% more. Every freaking time. Half the time I even got severance pay. And COBRA.

So I learned to like being laid off. It's one of the best things that can happen to you. When they ask you [during the interview] what happened at your previous job, you simply say they went belly up, and everyone gets it - companies go out of business all the time.
In a programming language setting, this is usually called an AST (Abstract Syntax Tree), not a DOM. Though I see what you're getting at here with the AST query API. There are certainly parallels. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree)
looks like this article ripped off Don Watson https://vimeo.com/9369655
Not with Debian Jessie in VirtualBox: http://i.imgur.com/EGM8ESv.png
Yes, of course and too many lifeboats might scare the passengers. That's why one can find work in the deck chair arranging industry, attend deck chair arranging conferences, and engage in debates over whether it is best to arrange deck chairs using tabs or spaces.

Yet somehow, users manage to navigate the web despite Apple's app store gatekeepers not setting policy. And really the debate about emulating native exists because of app store policy, not because the native standards are inherently better than what someone might invent left to their own devices...or even that they are necessarily better than the command line.
You went on to list a bunch of niche app classes except for two:

1) Office suites --> Largely a legacy app suite... and web use is increasing for both Office and due to Google Apps.

2) Media Players -- Playing local media is done by native apps, but that is becoming an increasing niche scenario. I posit that Netflix, Pandora, and YouTube dominate other media players.

The most important native app that most people use is their web browser. :-)
Dividing the world into "shills" and "skeptics" doesn't seem like a pleasant way to live. At any rate, it's no way to participate in a community, and you should (again) stop doing it.
>Microsofties would receive these urls internally, and if only 20 or so of them immediately submitted them to HN, it would go to the top of the frontage.

>Although personally and knowing the extremes Microsoft goes to with marketing, I'd also not doubt if said Microsofties were 'informally encouraged' to share such links on social media as much as possible.

The blog was posted publicly around 6 hours ago, this post was made less than one hour ago.
Powerpoint is just an enabler for crap presentations. Maybe the trick is to make it harder to fill the canvas, so the pages become a bit sparser, and revert back to their original intended purpose, an aide memoire for the presenter to actually present, to use them as a reinforcement of the content, as a guide, and not, really not, something they just read verbatim from the slide!
Whenever I hear anyone talk about Soylent as a utilitarian product made for boring people it always makes me think of the Volkswagen Beetle. Everyone initially thought they were utilitarian cars and only boring people should buy them, until they realized that artists and trendsetters were buying them because a vast majority of people don't use their cars as their main source of artistic expression. There are a lot of people that don't use what they eat as their main artistic expression.
If their test has a station every X feet, then the track needs to follow that same rule. Granted, if they suggest you can build a test track station every X feet and the full scale model over 10x feet then that's an issue with their model. But, again it does not get worse due to the total number of stations just the ratio of stations to track.

Anyway, you don't need active dampening to keep the structure intact, but a 750mph vehicle suddenly needing to lift 10 feet in the air you’re going to need a lot of head room not to hit the top of the tube. Not to mention rapid left right displacement. Granted, cost/benifit let em die yada yada.
Both Android Studio and XCode will give you usable iOS and Android code from visual layouts. I've found that usually the easiest way to prototype an interface is just to build it for real - it's faster than Photoshop, even.

The hard part about X-platform mobile development is that oftentimes you need different product concepts on Android & iOS, because the idioms, best practices, device capabilities, and user expectations are different on each platform. So your client generally has to be ground-up development by an experienced expert in the platform, you can't just take the same layout and make it run on both.
He's asking about their Ergo Pro keyboard.
http://matias.ca/ergopro/pc/
PowerPoint should be banned because its interface encourages the creator to add distractions. It has almost no tools for making things simpler.
I was laid off in 2009. I was on the H1-B visa and I only had a month or so to find another job. It was tough and during the process of applying and interviewing for jobs, I went to my school to meet up with some professors and see if they had any projects or companies they could recommend me to apply for. One of the professors recommended me to apply for a position in a lab which was well funded. I met up with professor who still runs the lab. He convinced me to do a PhD. He sold me on it and that's exactly what I did.
Really?

CPr_b: function() {
var i = Z80._r.a; // Temp copy of A
i -= Z80._r.b; // Subtract B
Z80._r.f |= 0x40; // Set subtraction flag
if(!(i & 255)) Z80._r.f |= 0x80; // Check for zero
if(i < 0) Z80._r.f |= 0x10; // Check for underflow
Z80._r.m = 1; Z80._r.t = 4; // 1 M-time taken
}

Who anybody other than a machine will be able to make sense of that?
Linking to an HN post internally and saying "please upvote this" is wrong; multiple people independently deciding they want to post or upvote the article, even multiple people from the same company, seems completely fine.
I assume these same liberal hipsters would also be happy to bankrupt their friends in Monopoly. Because just like this study, it's a game.

The author is making the false assumption that the players would make the same decisions as CEOs in real life. Deciding to cut workers wages instead of laying some off or shutting down the business does not making someone a capitalist tyrant. That's like saying putting down a sick dog makes someone an animal abuser.
They should be able to see that a bunch of immediate up votes to this submission were from Redmond, WA IP blocks. There's no need to guess as to motivation then.
Regardless of what you think of this specific project, I'm encouraged that people are still 'Thinking Big'. Making the future happen is up to us!
This is assuming sufficiently elastic demand (i.e. there is unfulfilled demand at the old price).
>"I started 7.30AM in the office finishing up around 6-7PM."

Stopped reading there. Whoever is in charge of HR at that place needs to be taken around the back and shot by the shareholders. Even ignoring the labour issues, I seriously doubt they saw a significant advantage in productivity over a conventional 8-hour day, instead they lost what was probably a very valuable employee. Hope they're happy.
I was working at an early-stage startup, the core dev team was four people. I suffered a concussion and subsequently got fired because "my performance was inadequate". That "fired" changed to "laid off" once the illegality of the situation was pointed out.

I took a year off (I live in Quebeckistan, employment insurance here is pretty generous) and took the time to take care of my health, eventually continuing work on some personal projects. Did a lot of bike trips and learned to river surf - it ended up being a fantastic sabbatical.

Started looking for work about two months before my EI ran out - it was gruelling at first, revised the resume a few times, rebuilt my personal website.. After I bombed a couple of interviews I remembered how the game works, a few weeks later I had two offers. I chose luckily, and landed a comparable job at a much more stable startup.
Using flash to deliver video on web was a chore and nobody was doing it right.
I have to admit i had to look up "two's complement" to get the explanation.
is what you are working on so important? I guess it is something else than appscale.
How is time handled on a 32-bit JVM?
Chinese writing is pretty likely to have come from deviation (dropping turtle shells into fires and interpreting the cracks).

Not sure of the origin of mesoamerican writing.

Middle eastern writing's origin (motivation) is also unclear.
Hot Topic enters agreement to buy ThinkGeek parent company Geeknet Inc
Ok sure, and while we're at it, let's just start calling all birds ducks. Or all bipedal mammals humans.

The meaning of words is defined by consensus, which is not the same as unanimity. You can dig your heels in and call this a hoverboard, but the future won't remember it as one, because most people in the future will have the sense to see the differences between the hoverboard we were introduced to in Back to the Future and this multi-rotor-powered contraption.
I downvoted it as well, for the simple reason that you post has _nothing_ to do with this article, and because the whole thing about click/key logging is nonsense (at least in the RTM, yes I know they're gathering statistics for the previews, and they have been very open and honest about that).
One company I worked for stipulated in the separation letter that I will not ever be able to work for the company. If I did join the company and they found out, they would let me go.

Is that the came for other companies?
Some people with that kind of money seem to think so. It looks a lot like a bubble to me, though (and it might be related, since bubbles give money to the smart ones).
This video is begging for a remix.
How can I turn it off? This is completely off-putting and frankly, to me, no better than the nonsense amazon referral stuff in the Unity lens.
The web developer community is well known to have a massive Apple bias. I'm not surprised by Apple stuff going to the top quickly, usually.

But this post in particular is suspect because it is totally devoid of content. Look at the comments so far, the most discussion has been prompted by the lack of content resulting in wondering how on earth this got to the top so quickly.

I'd bet dollars to donuts there was coordinated voting by Microsoft employees. Lots of companies do it on reddit, it's much less common here at HN (I think), but it still does happen.
So the two people who agree with you upvoted early, and now the people who disagree are downvoting. It's crazy how opinions work.
You're missing the point. Any investment, ETFs or otherwise, work, when the market is going up or sideways.

It falls apart if you needed money in - oh say 2008 or 2009. Or at any of the other points in time when things were shit.

It also falls apart 200 years from now - so it's not like it's a law that this is a system that will remain in place.
Well, 32 bit might get relegated to microcontrollers soon, and other specialist stuff that doesnt run the JVM much. I cant see much mainstream 32 bit hardware being made in even 5 years.
This is a simple explanation: http://motls.blogspot.co.at/2008/11/why-can-anything-ever-fa...
Not true: http://motls.blogspot.co.at/2008/11/why-can-anything-ever-fa...
Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open source
I worked in Defense for a year. There were soldiers and staff getting close to a "10,000 hour powerpoint" badge.
happens with Apple, why not Microsoft?
I think we've agreed with one another, though perhaps I didn't word my version of it quite right the first time.
They can also look for people going straight to a story and upvoting there, upvotes clustered around MS domains, and other things. All of which are currently in the voting ring detection code.

HN has pretty advanced code to handle cases like what MS is being accused of right now, and none of it's been triggered (or this story would've gone up the front page then fallen back down).
I found http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2011/03/19/pratt-parsers-e... really useful as well.
I'll fully disclose my interactions with patio11.

I've met him once, at a hacker news meetup. I've exchanged 7 emails with him, regarding a phone call he wanted to have with me, about something that is in one of my areas of expertise. We had said phone call that lasted around 1 hour. He asked me questions, I answered them. No money was exchanged (nor expected) and no quid pro quo's expected. Originally, it was meant to be lunch, but that didn't fit in our schedules.

This happened in the last month. Prior to that I had no interactions with him outside of his blog and hacker news. I've been following his blog for a very long time (in fact his blog introduced me to hacker news, not vice versa). I still read his blog via RSS but do not listen to his podcast or subscribe to his newsletter as the topics covered are largely outside of my interests.

I believe Patrick, not because I've met him in the last month, but because his writing is compelling, the things I can verify are truthful, and the things I cannot match my other experiences.

If I had any complaint about his post about money its that he is assuming that his readership understand implicitly concepts such as fully-loaded employee costs, bill rate vs utilization rate and bill rate in comparison to costs of delivery. I think that is largely untrue and he would have been better served with a summary paragraph describing appropriate ways to compare bill rate to employee take home pay.

None of that has anything to do with this particular post, which as I've mentioned, only adds to Patrick's credibility as it is an outside entity stating that the numbers, at least with regard to BCC, are truthful.
On a car (at least an old one) the ridiculously robust lead-acid battery is used also to filter out spikes and to act as a voltage regulator. If you've ever wondered why the headlamps on a kick-start moped flicker while idling, that's what you get without using batteries as a filter. Li-ion wouldn't survive very long in this application AFAIK.
Google docs is a great example of an app that should not be web. Especially google sheets, brrhgh, i get shivers just thinking about it. Even Excel 98 on a pentium 3 has better performance.
I'm sorry to say, but your definitions of "niche" and "legacy" are extremely heterodox and I can't have much of an argument under these semantic constraints.
That's nice to know, thanks!
This is seriously one reason I've been looking at career-switching to being a machinist. A new technology can come along, but it has to establish itself, and then you can take time and get really proficient at it.

That, plus the more grey hairs a machinist has, the more they're respected (usually).
I'm willing to bet there were similar articles about the first commercial airliner, the first space vehicles, and many other difficult problems.

Just because it sounds hard and there are lots of challenges, don't give in to the nay sayers.
Isn't hyperloop not supposed to be efficient unless it runs over 1000 miles or something like that? It has to basically ride in the valley of a soundwave and to get up to speed and back to rest takes the majority of the time and a good amount of runway.