skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on ones definition of fairly divergent, that's not really true. It is a near-standard GeForce 3 chipset, just without some legacy stuff like a keyboard controller. Other than that it has a Celeron 733 MHz CPU, an Vidia GeForce 3MX, 64MB RAM, a 8GB hard disk, an (admittedly non-standard) DVD drive and an nForce Ethernet card. Controller ports are USB underneath.

So yeah, some hardware differs but it is mostly cosmetic and as a software developer it shouldn't matter to you.
See https://web.archive.org/web/20080209140715/http://www.xbox-l... for more information.
What a nice feeling of accomplishment this guy must have, while chilling on his yatch.

No seriously, this is an horrible story. I hope thy all end in jail. Karma will take care of the rest.
Does this places a reasonable selection pressure on the kinds of flying insects we can have?

Big enough to shrug off a raindrop hit, or small enough to surf along the surface tension until it can slide off?
This reminds me: I seem to recall that some years back, there was a research programming language announced here on hn. One of the distinctive features was that they used (unicode) symbols for the source. I wasn't aware of APL (and APL keyboards) at the time -- so didn't make the connection.

I think it was much newer, and more similar perhaps to haskell with latex for syntax, than APL. I remember the language was hosted in a trac[1] instance, and I believe it was a research project from a major US college, maybe Cornell?

Does anyone have any idea what I might be (almost) remembering?

I've tried searching, but I don't think it was a "show hn:", and either way, looking through all programming languages submitted to hn is a bit of a daunting task...

[1] trac.edgewall.org
Should've clicked the big link at the bottom of the modal which says "Continue to forums".
Co2 emissions are currently not priced in making energy severely underpriced, so cost is not a good signal.

Here's one study, http://www.environment.ucla.edu/media/files/BatteryElectricV... - look at Figure 1 and 2, battery & engine so dominate the manufacturing footprints that everything fades into insignificance.

Of course, if you make the car really light you can somewhat reduce the required engine & battery. But not drastically as weight has little impact at cruising speed & you have regenerative braking in city.
To me the poor suitability of Google docs to writing traditional technical documentation the most irritating aspect. Automatic table of figures, references, math editor, etc. that have been more or less mainstream in document editors for decades.
>Don't you use gmail, publish to the app store, and host with AWS? Do you use Stripe for payments? Google Maps? Facebook login?

Dear god no, no, no, no, no, no.
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> It’s also about boosting Adobe’s (ADBE -0.18%) stock price.

I know it's about the larger trend, but I couldn't help grinning.
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You have to take into account, that a trade deal is something your enter voluntarily between partners/allies in the hope it will be a win-win for both sides. If there is an information asymmetry, you don't negotiate as equal, but rather as dupe and knave.

Would you sit at a poker table if you knew the cards where marked ?

In regards of the revelation, even if there are a few years old, at the time of tense TIPP negotiation, it makes a bad impression.
Maybe you should look at RhodeCode, it has several different workflows for code-review. From very simple like just voting on each individual commit, to a fully blown server side mergable workflow that includes, voting, checks by CI, and integration to external services. We did a blog about it recently on how we use it internally: https://rhodecode.com/blog/increased-automation-at-rhodecode...

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From the page: "For employment lasting longer than three months, a residence permit is required."

I named their permit incorrectly: should be "residence permit" instead of "residency and work permit". The point remains that EU citizens generally need an official permit to work in Switzerland.
GTA 5 is the standard to which all console ports should be held. It's almost flawless. Not only a great game, but impressive from a technical standpoint.

Except for Rockstar Social Club...
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I'd say, if you like APL, if you grok APL, you will not like J, K or anything that does away with the beauty and power of notation as a tool for thought.
Yeah, you're right. We certainly had different problems when Joe came on board and he was a great fit to lead us through fixing them. And I'm glad him and Mat and others are working to fix similar problems with Uber.

I just commented because I wanted people to know that it wasn't like there was no software focus before Joe left--things weren't as binary as that. The software focus shift had been in progress for some time before he stepped down.

And yeah, feels good to talk about FB with no filter. :-)
> Not sure what people would have thought at the time if they could not send SMS to other mobile carriers.

Then you would have loved Japan before 2006. SMS was not a "thing" (although available hidden in the interface) and the phones would default to email.
>> Thank you for writing this. Start-up comp is effed. I'm 30 and have worked at a few start-ups that didn't make it, thus the cut I was taking in salary never turned into anything better. I had to cut my losses at this point in life and head to a public company that was able to pay me a lot more, plus signing bonus, plus stock options that had real value, plus restricted stocks. Maybe I just got lucky. But my expectations now are well above what I've been given in the past.

This.
There are a million instances of Demand Media, townnews.com and their ilk tho, so perhaps their mistake was in thinking there might be room for a premium option.
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Any application running under the user id has full access to his private data.

Add the capability to do network communication and suddenly the all wolrd has access to $ HOME.

This is why in the container model of mobile OS and Windows/Mac OS X sandboxes, applications only get to see file handles to files choosen by the user.
It is interesting that many NH posters have a negative view on immigration from eastern europe. However, the effect on the countries from which people emigrate (I am somewhat familiar with Baltics) is quite tough. Imagine having a large portion of hard working energetic people suddenly leave.
Well, one part of VSO, since that includes Bugs/Build/Test. I don't really know many private source-only hosting providers though.
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It is pretty sloppy, but if you assume that `pressure' is just meant as a synonym for `strain', which it is in normal English, it does make some sense. And velocity and acceleration aren't confused under a very charitable interpretation: they describe that the velocity changes `suddenly'. That's an acceleration.

The real problem is here:

> But because our mosquito is oh-so-light, the raindrop moves on, unimpeded, and hardly any force is transferred.

We have a transfer of momentum (force times time), but no dissipation of energy (force times path).
(old thread, sorry)

Python is designed to be human readable.

Here's an old blog post by me, which may be hard to jump into because its part of a longer conversation on proggit or something, but anyway: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/18319031919/progr...
People will hang shit on ESR, but The Art of Unix Programming is one of my all time favourite books. If you haven't read it, even if you're not a *nix developer, do yourself a favour and just skim the table of contents... something may pique your interest and you may learn a thing or two.

It's also free online:

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/
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I wasn't bothered by your comment actually, it was more that I was at -4 for what I believed to be at least a mildly interesting observation at its core.
Actually, now that you mention it, yes, SharePoint was one ingredient in the soup :) - I don't think SharePoint enabled collaboration was as friction free as through Google drive. Probably depends on the user and SharePoint version how well it works. But what I have observed - previously people would rather use the network drive or email docs than use sharepoint for distribution and now everyone just shares google docs links.
I don't think the two are comparable. LibreOffice is still a rather poor (in my view) 1990s office suite. Office 365 is a modern ecosystem that includes a more powerful suite of office programs with much better ease of use, a 50GB mailbox, 1TB of online storage, the great integration of email, OneDrive and online software, the ability to stream Office programs without installing local copies, plus the cross-platform tablet and smartphone apps (ie including Apple and Android).

Buy Office 365 Home and you get all that for five people, which could mean your family or flatmates.

You can't get all that stuff from LibreOffice. As a matter of fact, you can't get it from Google either.
Not really. They may not have "closed" their acquired Boston office, for example, but they massively downsized it. (Which is fair. They weren't doing well.)

Another poster mentioned Fireworks. That was moved to India and eventually cancelled. Lots of Adobe products that aren't doing well get moved to India, accompanied by U.S. layoffs.

I'm not saying it's a "bad" company, but it's definitely not the case that they keep offices alive when products are doing poorly, just because of employee loyalty.
Take a look at Phabricator:

http://phabricator.org/

It has it's own code review workflow which is, in my opinion, superior to Github's.

A nice summary:

http://cramer.io/2014/05/03/on-pull-requests/
I think theVirginian was commenting about mosquitoes getting smashed on a car's windshield, not about cars and humans.
"Karma will take care of the rest"

How ironic.

I have a batch of Positive Karma Inverter devices, do you want to buy some? It works on the nuclear quadrupole resonance principles.
A war is not the easiest way to steal money definitely, but an outcome is the biggest, due to huge budgets and secrecy of spendings. Only Iraq scheme costs taxpayers more than $ trillion.
If you'd be interested in using something like this as a paid API/service and have decent volume, feel free to contact me. I'm currently in pre-beta for API rollout of such a thing.

In summary, you need templates that map the field positions -> meaningful keys so that you can get back useful data as json/csv/xml. I have some tools that are still being polished that automate much of the template creation and do a lot of the pre-proc for you.

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I bet it was an executive decision. The game was already delayed. Twice. They probably decided to push out what they had for PC just so they wouldn't have to announce another delay. For the PC version only, of course. While simultaneously releasing the console versions.

My guess is, they thought even though it is buggy, they can fix it with patches and will only get minor flack for this from the PC users. And that this would be the better choice than to anger every PC gamer by announcing the third delay.

Well, now it is clear that this was the wrong decision. They both, underestimated just how broken the game was and how incomplete compared to the console version and they forgot about Valve's newly introduced refund system.

WBGames can claim that they suspended this game for PC but if I were to venture a guess, I'd say it was Valve that suspended this game because they were tired of processing so many refunds. They would have said "A game that gets this many negative reviews and all are claiming horrible performance and missing effects must clearly be broken and therefore we shouldn't continue to sell it as it will only lead to even more refund claims."

A couple of interesting things to note:
1. They removed the PC logo from all Arkham Knight pages.
2. The company itself tells people about how to request refunds
3. The company also asks for patience while this is being worked out

The last two are somewhat contradictory to me. When a company tells customers on their own free will how to get refunds sounds like an admittance to failure and that they do not believe this can be fixed in a timely manner.
And then they still ask for patience which sounds like they are working on a solution. Paired with them removing all PC logos from their promo pages for this game really seems weird.

While this announcement was leagues better than the marketing speak of the first announcement they did, I think customers still need more, clearer information what is going to happen. People who deal in software already know this but the average customer has no idea how long such things can take. Therefore they should explicitly announce what they are going to do. To me, it doesn't sound like patches will do the trick. From all accounts, this pc version sounds broken by design and the root causes are stuck deeeeeep in there. So, if they plan to fix this, then they should announce that an entire rewrite is needed and that this takes time. While at it, they should also tell us who will do this rewrite. I am sure no one wants Iron Galaxy at this again. We want Rocksteady to do it. Because we know they actually can make a Batman game. As evidenced by the ps4 version of this one and the first two games in general. Both ran fine on pc.
I already heard speculation that they might try and release this in the fall when they scheduled the SteamOS and Mac version of the game. One can only hope for the sake of the windows version that Rocksteady will not be busy writing these versions and continue to outsource the windows version to the same cracksquad that arsed up this time.
Objective-C was strongly influenced by smalltalk. I think Java is more influenced by smalltalk than by Objective-C. The whole concept of compilation toward bytecode that may be interpreted or compiled to native is very similar to smalltalk. I think the influence of objective-C and C++ was mainly to avoid reproducing mistakes, in particular the tricky syntax. The syntax of smalltalk is very clean and simple which is not the case of C++ or objective-C.
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Not sure what I can do, but I am a designer, not in northern California yet, but I'd like to go one day. Email to chat.
To be honest, I think it has always been sucky in many ways. They change it quite frequently, but it doesn't actually seem to be changes that improve the UI. It only makes it frustratingly different than before.

I often wonder if the projects my team works on ends up that way. We A/B test a lot of changes and often find that it makes absolutely no difference in conversion. In the end we often don't change things that seem to be "obvious" improvements for fear that we'll just frustrate our customers by changing things in ways they don't care about.

UI design is hard :-)
The chart in the results section is interesting. I don't remember reading Raymond Chen's post on branch prediction before, so thanks for that:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/06/13/10533...

I especially liked Raymond's comment: "Compiler optimizations may have been carefully selected for expository purposes." Counterintuitive, and interesting that the Swift program demonstrates the effect as clearly as the C program.
Watching it several times, it looks like only the left most mozzie came out unscathed. The other two took it hard and went down... definitely didn't 'walk off the bus' :\
I believe that electric cars are much better in this regard. Not being powered by tiny explosions helps longevity. I'd guess refitting old cars with newer generations of batteries and motors would be easier too when the time comes for that.
Exercise, diet (avoid excess oils/fats, sugars, processed foods), loose leaf teas (+honey) instead of coffee, side projects that motivate you. Following through with improving these habits for at least 3 months.

Standing desks help some people as well but not nearly as much as the former combined.
Harassing people and subreddits whose moderators encouraged and supported harassment go well beyond just "politically incorrect".
(Formal) differentiation also makes sense for grammars, and in particular gives rise to an interesting way to match regular expressions.
Do you remember any of the the names of method calls that were created by converting the objective-c libs into java?
I'm not sure how much Brad Cox[1] would like the characterization:

> Objective-C is an object-oriented mutant of C

But Java (the language) has little in common with C++ aside from the token-level commonality both share with B.

As for Java's interfaces, those (as "zak_mc_kraken" mentions) have strong ties to Objective-C's protocols, though I disagree with the subsequent statement of them being "a simplification of C++'s multiple inheritance". IMHO, they are far closer to C++'s class/function declarations.

I'd say Java had a similar influence as C++ did from Simula, introducing superficial similarities with C++ due to its dominance at the time[2], but incorporated more of the dynamics provided by Smalltalk-like languages (such as Objective-C). Note the use of "super" for calling parent methods and the lack of multiple inheritance in both.

1 - http://www.virtualschool.edu/objectivec/

2 - Fun bit of trivia: when Java hit the scene in the late 90's, you could globally replace the word "reference" with "pointer" and the documentation would read just the same. See section 2.2.9 of http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/simple-142616.html for a prime example.
Oh God. This is sounds like the cruelest prank in the world.

From the wikipedia article is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651

" It requires no battery or other power source; its manufacturer claimed that it is powered solely by the user's static electricity. To use the device, the operator must walk for a few moments to "charge" it before holding it at right angles to the body... According to Husam Muhammad, an Iraqi police officer and user of the ADE 651, using the device properly is more of an art than a science: 'If we are tense, the device doesn't work correctly. I start slow, and relax my body, and I try to clear my mind.' In one promotional video McCormick claimed that the device could detect elephants from 48 kilometres (30 mi) away."

They should be charging this guy with murder. Not fraud.
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That's because the options for mandatory pensions are:

1. High risk fund backed pension. Probably will decline in value due to fund saturation.

2. Low risk fund backed pension. You pay more in yearly fees and decline in value.

I killed mine dead. Stupid idea.

If base rate was higher, perhaps but its a stupid stupid idea now.
I was actually looking in to Tesseract yesterday, so this post coincides nicely.

I have a hobby project where I scrape instagram photos, and I actually only want to end up with photos with actual people in them. There are a lot of images being posted with motivational texts etc that I want to automatically filter out.

So far I've already built a binary that scans images and spits out the dominant color percentage, if 1 color is over a certain percentage (so black background white text for example), I can be pretty sure it's not something I want to keep.

I've also tried OpenCV with facial recognition but I had a lot of false positives with faces being recognized in text and random looking objects, and I've tried out 4 of the haarcascades, all with different, but not 'perfect' end results.

OCR was my next step to check out, maybe I can combine all the steps to get something nice. I was getting weird texts back from images with no text, so the pre-processing hints in this thread are gold and I can't wait to check those out.

This thread is giving me so much ideas and actual names of algorithms to check out, I love it. But I would really appreciate it if anyone else has more thoughts about how to filter out images that do not contain people :-)
If you read the article, you'd see he was sentenced to 10 years in jail (and some of his 'colleagues' also received custodial sentences) and they're beginning the slow process of clawing back some of his assets.

The real issue is that "officials in Baghdad continue to defend the A.D.E. 651" - either through embarrassment at being conned, or simply because they believe in it.
security and privacy are two sides of the same coin
Thanks. This looks really interesting. I may well borrow some ideas ; )
Yes, and that systemic problem is completely unrelated to global food production. We could double production or half the population and people would still starve to death and be undernourished because we are incapable of distributing the food we have to all the people who need it.
There are plenty of teen programmers around (self included), but I haven't seen or heard of one who does something "amazing" - although I'm sure there must be.
I didn't thought seeing one, as I feel perfectly fine until 16 or something. Especially when I'm starting the day I feel pretty good and rested.
Definitely agree there.

I worry about the distribution/generation costs however.

I think the main idea should be necessary travel only. In 2015 the idea that most of us need to commute tens of miles shouldn't even be a thought; a big chunk of us can and should work from home or locally.

Case in point, everyone I know works in London in the city. None of them have a job that requires their presence.
Except where legally necessary, or when someone is in imminent danger. What happens if someone posts the details of someone's address and asks people to go to their house and heckle them / hurt them / kill them? Do you leave that up?

If that information is deleted, the difference between frizbee and reddit becomes so extremely marginal that one really wonders whether this really is a rationalization for allowing people to organize around threatening and stalking people online.

If that information is not removed, does such a site deserve to exist? It may pass some legal standard, but is that a site that differentiates itself in any way except in its support of systematic and continued online stalking??
could've added NSFW in title, super speed alt + f4 right there..
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Ask HN: Where/How to test user's perception about e.g. your logo?
I have been using me logo for quite some time and just yesterday one of my friends told what he sees in the logo and it wasn't nice. I did not see it, neither anyone from my team nor anyone I handed my business card to.
What's in question is the letter F. What do you guys see?
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That's a good point. I pretty much wrote this in an evening or two so haven't had time to refine it much. But yeah error messages will definitely be improved. It's because of the way URLs are handled in the underlying web app. Will be an easy fix.
Yep, and Slack supports it, along with IRC.
The drawings in this article tend to be absurdly large, with the outcome that the document is, transferred, around 23MB, for no good reason. Sigh.
If the game is terrible you won't play those DLCs anyway. If the game is good you will have reason to purchase the DLCs when they are released.

Pre-ordering is designed to specifically work around bad reviews a.k.a. releasing poor quality games and getting away with it. The publisher is screwing you and you are paying them to.

Big publishers have no other reason to implement pre-orders. It is a shit-game risk mitigation strategy.
Yup can't even browse with JS turned off unlike HN/reddit.
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