skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While all of that is correct, it's also the core of vim philosophy that using 2 key strokes instead of 3 is what speeds you up. That said I also haven't used too fancy configuration or mapping or plugins in vim yet because I fear I don't have them when I ssh into another system, which happens quite often. But I have to say that I use a few aliases in git and that speeds me up a lot, as long as I stay on my system.
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Fully dressed and preserved 350-year-old corpse of French noblewoman found
yes there are many technical aspect in game development

Game Engine Architecture(non affiliated)

http://www.amazon.com/Game-Engine-Architecture-Jason-Gregory...
He: Kentaro Toyama, Harvard physics PhD and Microsoft researcher.

What changed his mind: “I saw this sort of thing happen over and over and over where the technology worked as advertised, and we could even do research on it that showed in certain conditions it outperformed not having the technology,” Toyama said. “But those special conditions in which it worked, turned out to be exactly what was missing in those places that we wanted to roll it out in.”
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Watching the local news could make you racist
And the actual data is here - https://github.com/wealthbot-io/wealthbot/tree/master/src/We...

Here's some more info on working with Symfony's fixtures bundle - http://symfony.com/doc/current/bundles/DoctrineFixturesBundl...
The Block Size Debate: What You Need to Know About Bitcoin's Big Upgrade
I tried working on a beach for a few weeks in Thailand once. With the mosquitoes, bright glare on the screen, sunburn, and the lack of anywhere to get a decent cup of coffee, I found it to be not nearly as pleasant as I'd imagined it to be.

It sure is a nice dream to have during rainy winters when you're stuck in a cold office though.
Java Deathmatch
YouTube is worth $70bn
Try applying for a position at a large company with a reputation for a highly-engineered hiring process, eg. Google [0]. Rarely will you get specific feedback, but you can expect to get a notification when you are no longer under consideration.

[0] At Google's scale, some candidates fall through the cracks. But their recruiting process does mandate rejection notifications. It'd be great if a Google recruiter would back me up here :)
U.S. faces ship shortage for gas exports
No clue. Here's what happened to me.

I'm a 6'5" 300 lbs male. I was taking upwards of 7g a day of vitamin c. Past that, I would get heavy flatulence, explosive diarrhea, and general gastronomic distress. I felt no change on my inside for doing excessive C, nor did I have any size effects other than the ones I noted for going past that.

One case, when I got sick, I was taking C. I wanted the illness to quit quickly, because I didn't want to be sick. So I took 8g C, 2 tablets of echinacea, and a NSAID. What happens was worse than any cold ever thought about being.

I killed off all my flora and fauna in my intestines. With this brought massive burning diarrhea (from the unneutralized stomach acid). I had this situation for 5 days straight. I was on the toilet at least 20x a day, day and night. Finally, day 6 had the formation of stool, which I cheered at. Day 7 and I was somewhat back to normal.
a company did conduct clinical trials of a helminthic therapy for crohn's, it didn't do well: http://www.drugs.com/clinical_trials/coronado-biosciences-ha...
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I'd say the niche is "creatives". Designers, artists, musicians, hipsters, etc.
Many of my friends don't trust it and would rather use something like credit cards with the new secure chips.
>Show me some cutting edge company/startup in the IT sector that is using Microsoft products and is not a statistical error.

Stack Overflow

http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/7/21/stackoverflow-upda...

Newegg and a bunch of others like Plenty of fish

The real reason that you see comparatively fewer is they worry about license costs, not about the lack of technical functionality.
If what you care about is games for their own sake, that's as valid a perspective as any other.

My perspective is very different, because I care about games not for their own sake, but for their spin-off benefits: chips whose R&D was paid for by gamers, are being used to design aircraft, discover life-saving medicines, unravel the secrets of the universe.

From that perspective, abandoning the tech arms race in games abandons that which was valuable about the enterprise in the first place.
The Medtech Product Development Adventures of Eddy the Engineer
The "% of Green Cards" refers to percent of Green Card applications in database, not against population of the country.
> I think WikiLeaks has only ever seemed passive and neutral to people who agree with its agenda

No the idea has previously been that any information gets dumped onto wikileaks rather than wikileaks seeking specific pieces of information. This makes them passive.

You can dislike the idea of information being dumped and this would make you disagree with its agenda but it does not mean that wikileaks has (previously) been active rather than passive.
What's the difference between salary and prevailing wage?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevailing_wage
I was an Amiga gamer, I played Shadow of the Beast 2, I remember the graphics and audio fondly but I don't ever remember thinking it was a great game. The situation was similar for Shadow of the Beast, was an interesting setting but the gameplay never appealed.

The Amiga had a wide variety of games, and certainly didn't cater only for people who wanted graphics over gameplay, but yes good graphics were celebrated. I think part of the reason for that was the whole 'ahead of its time' idea, that a computer released in 1985 with a handful of underwhelming updates could still stand its ground into the 90s. Amiga was certainly not alone with this, applied just as well to the Neo Geo, and the Japanese got lucky with the Sharp X68000 too.

Another part of this was the game magazine culture, hard to talk about how a game plays, but easy to show off how a game looks. Game demos were a much more complementary medium than magazines for showing off the strength of games (though I had a sizeable collection of game magazines at one point, I'm not completely against them).
Sure it is. Everyone's exposed to the "average" person's top 10 or so results. With personalized results, potentially millions of different pages are exposed as the top 10 or so results depending on who's searching.

You get stuff that's a little more relevant to your usual interests, which places you in your own bubble, but IMO that's better than everyone in the world being in the same shared bubble.
The author did not factor in Condo fees or property taxes.
You might be also interested in https://myaccount.google.com, which offers full visibility and fine-grained control into everything in one place.

I wasn't personally involved in building it, but in my opinion it's really impressive. I wish other companies would do the same.
Ello's DAU is down from 6 months ago.

Do you have any sources on that?

I can attest to a lot of early-user attrition. But also lots of new users. Churn's part of the game.
> Myth 4: Renters throw cash away, at least owners build equity

It's no myth, because you have to live somewhere. (Well, you could put your money elsewhere, and go live in a cardboard box under a bridge, but let's be realistic.)

Owners are building equity with the money they would otherwise be completely throwing away on rent, and they got into that situation with just a little money down.

(Depending on area), current rents are in about the same ballpark as payments on a new mortgate, but: 1) mortgage payments stay approximately the same over the life of the mortgage, whereas rents just go up and up. 2) only the interest portion of a mortgage payment is thrown away, and it goes down over time.

For the cost of the opportunity loss on your down payment, you're fixing the amount of a significant living expense that would otherwise continue to inflate, and you're getting a slice of that expense to go into equity that would otherwise be thrown out, and that slice gets bigger.

The opportunity cost on the down payment is not bad, if the property appreciates! You have to think in terms of leverage: if the property goes up by 80K, and the down payment was 80K, that's a 100% growth! You put in 80K, and it doubled. And your rent expense was replaced by something better. If you compared the leveraged view to the stock market, the stock market doesn't look so good. You can use leverage in the stock market also ("margin"), but that's a heck of a lot of risk.

I just renewed a mortgage for another term and the payment was supposed to go down (probably due to all the acceleration). Moreover, I declined that and kept it at the same amount. No way will a renter face a declining payment in the same area---not to mention that it would be irrational to refuse it.
You might be interested to read this: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.3722v1.pdf

word2vec Explained: Deriving Mikolov et al.’s Negative-Sampling Word-Embedding Method.
Yoav Goldberg and Omer Levy. arXiv 2014. [pdf]

The word2vec software of Tomas Mikolov and colleagues has gained a lot of traction lately, and provides state-of-the-art word embeddings. The learning models behind the software are described in two research papers. We found the description of the models in these papers to be somewhat cryptic and hard to follow. While the motivations and presentation may be obvious to the neural-networks language-modeling crowd, we had to struggle quite a bit to ﬁgure out the rationale behind the equations.
[citation needed] because it was always possible with very little configuration.
Factoring in condo fees should also factor in reasonable estimates of condo repair levies.
I don't believe it will be exactly this good in everyday usage, if for no other reason than speed.

Even if the parsing is done locally, broad data queries will have to hit the cloud.
Access usually means obtain. For example, if i hand a person a calculus book, have i given them access to knowledge of calculus? If they can read, yes. If i hand another copy to a blind person, have i given them access to the knowledge of calculus? Not really, no. If my intention is access to knowledge of calculus, i need to take extra steps. Maybe a brail version, maybe just read to them.

I think you might be fuzzy because of login prompts. Technically you're using computer resources. clearly i have access to the machine in some way. Similarly, i have access to the Mayo clinic. I can walk in and talk to people. But, with the computer i can't get to the good parts, i can't open files. Also, with the hospital, i can't get to the good parts, i can't get healthcare without extra stuff.

This isn't a slight against the clinic, I know they do charitable work. I think they charge so much, in part, to offset the costs to those who can't pay.
Tracking aircrafts with Clojure and BeagleBone
Also: https://storify.com/jjwiseman/tracking-fbi-aerial-surveillan...
God damn it I just want to see that document, I want to know whether I have to watch my food for 31 oestrogenic insecticides that decrease my kid's fertility(1). Why do I have to f-ing pay some outlaw(!) to get information that concerns me! It pisses me off to no end. If raising this 100.000 is the only way, then so be it!
(1 http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/22/eu-droppe...)
That's what I had considered as well. Specifically, that the wear out failures are on the right hand of the curve, meaning that other issues would tend to dominate. What you said makes a lot of sense: failures due to thermal/electrical stress, manufacturing issues, and handling.

Also, there's the controllers, which tend to be a significant source for issues.

So yeah, maybe theoretically, the wear out would be a concern for raid. However, practically this is rarely an issue as other failures randomize the distribution enough to where this never causes a problem in-situ.
> Firebug's console is multiline which is handy for typing in short scripts. However that means that commands run only with CTRL-Enter. I prefer Firebug.

Like with most similar consoles the Firefox dev tools allow you to create newlines with Shift+Enter
Meta comment: I really dislike that this is on my HN frontpage.

If you're sharing/upvoting this because you think the web design is cool (or in this case, decidedely awful), then that's cool with me. This site is god awful. It required me to unblacklist 6 domains to merely load, and that's especially terrible because it ended up becoming just a wrapper for a youtube video. I wish web designers would stop assuming I want to run their javascript. Clearly there's some HN-relevant discussion to be had from this post.

I will say that if you're sharing it as an example of a terrible or great site, I wish that posters would indicate it in the title or in a comment. Because as it stands right now, my gut reaction is that was shared because you're a fan of the video game, and that makes it advertising. Now, I don't mind people advertising their own things on HN, I love to see what people are making. What I don't enjoy is seeing people plug multi-million dollar funded AAA games.

Probably the biggest reason I don't visit reddit anymore is because there is far too much native advertising. It makes me weary of give anyone the benefit of the doubt.
That's definitely a valid point.
That is a little idealistic, don't you think? The Occupy movement got crushed by the police. It is in the state's best interest to prevent social movements from reaching critical mass. As such, they use their massive enforcement arms to nip the troublemakers in the bud.
Triton: Pin-based concolic execution framework for automated reverse engineering
I keep complete control over my projects, and I'll make sure it won't happen.
I doubt this would ever happen. A large portion of Google's own ad revenue comes from companies distributing adware. I worked for a company that was in the adware distribution business and we funnelled millions to Google--to the point that we had dedicated account reps at Google who helped us to make sure we stayed compliant with Google's adwords policies so we could keep peddling our adware installers.
Is Your App Failing in the U.S.? Try the Other Side of the World
Exactly! And modern HR tech makes rejection en masse so ridiculously easy. So if your company has an ATS that doesn't make it ridiculously easy to reject en masse with a boilerplate message, then you badly need to upgrade your ATS.

(LEGO even sent me a nicely formatted, well-branded letter within 7 business days despite not even making it to the phone screen stage.)
Google Claims (Some) Progress on Diversity Hiring
I also wonder what happened to Indian applicants in 2012[0]. A 0.03% success rate.

[0] - http://data.jobsintech.io/green-cards/india/2012
So it's the opposite approach. Thank you, I'll try to remember it.
Cygwin doesn't have copy-on-write.
>But how do you tell people that they lack basic knowledge or experience in certain areas without sounding bitchy or attacking.

We would have liked to work with you, but unfortunately we do not feel your skills in $AREA_OF_CONCERN are as strong as we require.

Despite this rejection we wish you a happy job hunt and strongly encourage you to apply to $CORP in the future.

If somebody was better, you say that outright.

If the problem is culture fit? Well I really wouldn't write that in an email (too likely to make you come of as an ass, too likely to make you easy to sue if the person was a member of some minority).
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Agreed.

Also, I suspect that the release of mobile apps (supposedly this spring) will be a huge boost for them. I know that I would be checking in on activity there much more if I could do it on my phone.
If you use ssh-agent, you can do:

ssh-add -l

to list all your registered keys.
It is "my" business where I drive.

True enough. However, it is also the business of the people who are responsible for building and maintaining the roads to know how those roads are being used.

It is "my" business whom I call.

True again. However, it is also the business of the phone company who must provide the service you ordered and to which you will owe money based on the calls you make and, in some cases, who you are calling.

I do understand your concern about data being out there at all. However, the reality is that we interact with the world and the people around us all the time. Sometimes that will result in data that refers to us but also affects other people for legitimate and often unavoidable reasons. So I don't think an extremist position that no-one should ever be able to collect data about you without your explicit consent is ever going to work. As others have noted, that would mean you couldn't interact with almost anyone or anything in the modern world, and unless you're planning to live 100% off-grid as a hermit that's just not a viable possibility. Instead, we should consider issues like the retention and repurposing of data.

Licence plate readers that are automatically tracking cars through a congested area that has variable speed limits are potentially in everyone's interests: smoothing out the traffic flow makes everyone's journey faster and safer, and has basically no downside. However, once a vehicle has left that area, it is no longer necessary to keep any specific details about it for that purpose. The data can be discarded, or completely anonymised simply by turning each plate into a unique but otherwise meaningless number before it's recorded if it's useful to store aggregated data for more general traffic planning purposes. Similarly, if plate recognition is being used for enforcement of that speed limit, there is no need to record the details of anyone except those the system has determined to be exceeding the speed limit, where the evidence will be used for a subsequent prosecution. Once any resulting legal processes have run their course, the data can also then be completely discarded if no conviction resulted.

The risk in either case is not the scanning itself, it is the retention of the data and potentially use for other purposes and correlation with other data sets later. Given robust rules about keeping personal data no longer than necessary for its stated purpose, and probably about declaring its stated purpose in a meaningful and usefully specific way, this is not so much having a tail as having a driver in a car behind who happens to be following you for a while on the same road but then forgets they ever saw you within moments of going your separate ways. I doubt even the most privacy-conscious person would consider that an unreasonable risk in other contexts or expect to be able to prevent it.
It seems we are both entitled.

Me in expecting politeness from my fellow flyers and you in that you want to use every inch of space you have paid for.

I can't really say you are wrong - I think we just come at the question of how to get on with other people in public in different ways.
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A solution to that might be some unofficial group that can critique others without having control of their job and/or code review.
Everyone was happy to believe Google when they used to say their motto was, "Don't be evil," but not willing to believe the CEO of Apple, even though they've done a LOT to show they are working inline with his speech. I'm not saying Apple is a saintly corporation, but just assuming they are bad because they they COULD be bad comes off as paranoid more than insightful.

>Nobody can really tell what they are collecting, what they do with it and how much of it they share with third parties (including governments).

http://www.apple.com/apples-commitment-to-customer-privacy/

Yes, this could all be lies, but so could literally anything anyone says. Either you choose to live as a recluse in the woods with no technology, or you choose to trust at least some corporations. That might mean trusting your search engine, your cell phone company, your car manufacturer. Heck, you're trusting your ISP right now not to do a MITM attack on you. The natural conclusion is that you should use strong encryption in everything you do. At this point, there is one company spearheading this to get it into the hands of consumers who don't know any better.

Again, I realize Apple isn't blameless, but there's an awful lot about their recent actions to show they are making decisions based on what is best for the consumer. I think that's a good thing, and it's hard to imagine why someone would argue against it.
In a company view, can you add Browse LCAs by job title?
I would guess it would be very difficult for the leaker to remain anonymous to the government. I'm sure they have careful revisioning and at least some compartmentalization, so I think whoever blows the whistle has to do it with the assumption of it becoming public (and it may be in the interest of their safety to follow the Snowden route).
I sometimes wonder if cloud computing would exist as it exists today without relatively inefficient monoliths that had to scale. Once they'd scaled, the developers could afford to start peeling off the layers, thus only scaling pieces that needed to, leaving them with spare hardware.

"Hey, let's rent this crap," said some guy. And cloud computing was born.

Obviously I have no evidence of this at all, but I do still wonder, since at least two of the common vendors (Amazon and Google) were tech companies before they offered hosting.
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IBM buys Blue Box, adds OpenStack private cloud as a service
If there are so many exceptions (plus entire classes), is your observation that meaningful?

Many games are marketed and sold based on gimmicks and features, of which, great graphics is one of them and seems to work well. Unsurprisingly, much of the videogame industry has optimized for it. That doesn't mean that pretty 3D is necessary.
They're implying Basecamp is in the camp of To-Do List apps. Which is a little bit of a stretch, but that is a very core feature, so I get it.
The "debate" is whether the NSA has "direct access" via special backdoors, or just via law and/or espionage. For instance, people were going off on Google, til it turned out the way the NSA was accessing it was via tapping fiber lines- that doesn't scream "direct access" in a cooperative manner.

Anyone who thinks the NSA can't reach MS is unaware how easy it is to turn people. The KGB turned FBI/CIA agents for years, for paltry sums. Said spies claimed their only motivation was money. The USG would be incompetent if they didn't have agents working for all sorts of companies.

Between all their resources, it's possible the NSA has setup some way to copy all Skype messages.

But I would be very surprised if Skype was knowingly sending all data to them voluntarily. MS has denied this, and it'd require a lot of people to be in on it.
If this a tragedy of the commons type scenario?

Individual comfort is maximised if you recline, but the comfort of the cabin as a whole is better if only some people recline?
http://data.jobsintech.io/green-cards/united%20states%20of%2...