skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual code seems to be from here [0]

on line 588 is the comparison

var rightWrong = (inputData[0] < inputData[1]) & (inputData[1] < inputData[2]) ? right : wrong;

With a variable declaration on line 545 being

var inputData = [NaN, NaN, NaN],
revealed = false,
right = "<p class = 'g-answer g-yes'>Yes!</p>",
wrong = "<p class = 'g-answer g-no'>No.</p>";

And `inputData` is changed on text input on line 662

$("#g-input input").each(function(i) {
var val = $(this).val();
inputData[i] = $.isNumeric(val) ? Number(val) : NaN;
});

It uses the `Number()` function to convert from the input text to an actual number, so it can convert any number format defined by ES5[1] or ES6[2]. So in ES6 you can use binary (0b, 0B) and octal (0o, 0O) formatting along with exponential (1e-2) and hex (0x, 0X). Binary and octal works for me currently on Chrome 43 OS X.

[0] http://graphics8.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2015/06/16/puzzle/...

[1] http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-9.3.1

[2] http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/#sec-7.1.3.1
I'm not sure why you'd call that "pales", those specs are widely different...
.htc files were a performance nightmare. They were (mis)used for pre IE8 polyfills - often delivered by ad-networks - and of course downloaded and executed in a synchronous blocking way. .htc maybe were a sane idea, but horribly executed.
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It's not hard to save the data. What I don't see yet is a good interface for it. We're not going to pile on links for each new feature—that's obviously wrong for HN.

Edit: I have an idea. We could add a 'save' link, but only at the top of a story or comment's individual /item page. To save a story or comment, you'd click on its timestamp to go to its individual page, then click 'save'. This is exactly how comment flagging works now. It would add no complexity to story pages and very little to thread pages.
Feel free to add your own definitions to the site. Each word can have multiple definitions attached to it.
Why the ad hominem?

I understood the scope of the OP's suggestion. I just thought it could've been presented more clearly. The fact that tons of the comments here are directed at the idea of this notation as a replacement would seem to bear this out.

For my thoughts on the notation itself, see this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9831337
Regarding remembering flats and sharps... That may be easy for beginners, but it's actually not good. You do have to remember the sharps and flats because you have to know in which key you are playing to see where is the music going. And when you're playing you end up not needing the flats in each note because they're always there. They end up being redundant, so by removing them you gain simplicity and you can see more clearly the flats and sharps that actually matter and change how the music sounds.
One of the things it provides is that it is like Usenet in that you can find an area of interest (or passion), or two or three, and not really have much to do with the rest of the site.

Unlike Usenet, though, it provides simple editing, pictures, video, and some other things people want.

But search sucks.
The challenge you face with your analogy to Snoop Dogg is that Snoop isn't dependent upon his fans (analogous to user base) to produce his music, only to consume.

What value does Reddit provide as a server by offering a forum where users volunteer to create, rank, and moderate their content for them? What about that value isn't dependent on the community that creates content? What about Reddit prevents voat or frizbee from acquiring its community?
Associated with IRVA (International Remote Viewing Association)

http://www.irva.org/conferences/speakers/hoffman.html

and Deepak Chopra

http://www.choprafoundation.org/speakers/donald-hoffman/

So why not go the whole hog, and listen to Rupert Sheldrake explain to you why materialism is bunk?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR1SLQwHDog
Got me to search for NES overclocking and surprisingly people did swap clocks to pump the cpu faster:

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=nes+cpu+overclock

I already fried my old SNES so I won't touch my NES but still worth reading.
If you want to contribute, write why you disagree instead of attacking the author as a person.
I'm not sure considering the consumer a victim is merely a marketing ploy.

There are very real, persistent, and hugely negative repercussions suffered by a consumer in identity theft. Destroyed credit, unknown debt tied to their identity, etc.
At the same time this might be not be that different, i.e., customers of a company interfering with the internal decisions. If firing a certain employee is that bad for the company, investors would be a lot more upset than the customers. (and TBH, the likelihood that one single individual is that integral to the company is practically zero; not saying it was a good decision; I don't think enough details have been made public).

Even though I admit reddit is a strange place, somewhat halfway between a company and a governing body with democracy-like structure. Still, given the sheer amount of userbase, it's unlikely that the activism of the mods and a chuck of active users (who are upvoting the boycott related posts) would seriously affect it (i.e., bring the website down in the long term). Probably such internal decisions would change the flavor/nature of the website.
Starting an impossible fight to sanitize the thoughts of the 3.5 million people who log in everyday guarantees an endless supply of controversy. It's also a controversy Pao wants them to be talking about, she gets to control the conversations of millions of people.

It will also make the site even more toxic as everybody takes sides and starts the same fights over and over again.
YC Alums Club Together for Crystal Towers, $100M Fund for Promising YC Startups
Even if you're not invested in reddit's fate (I'm a fairweather user myself), this whole debacle has been a fascinating example of how to screw up community management, and how that in turn ruins public relations. Good community management is all about managing expectations and cultivating your userbase so that they'll support you during rough patches. Likewise, good public relations is all about controlling and influencing the narrative. Reddit-the-company, has apparently failed on both fronts. First, they shut out their core of dedicated, free volunteers, giving them literally no reason to be loyal to the company. As a direct result, reddit lost out on one of their best tools for managing the narrative. So when Reddit co. undermined their most prominent, productive volunteers by firing their staff liaison with no warning, it's no damned wonder that the moderators turned on their "bosses". Result? Instant PR nightmare, with next to zero available leverage for controlling it.

The whole thing is a failure of management, pure and simple. Reddit's board should be looking for blood.
What do you mean by "don't do proof of work validation".

They don't verify the has in the header is the hash of the previous block's header? They don't that the hash is sufficiently small? They don't calculate the difficulty correctly?
Monthly cost is $21.67 under Next 24.
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Oh yes, for me it was best money spent for a video game ever. I've clocked almost 400 hours and I still really didn't get into making planes - I'm launching rockets, building space stations and (with help of a bunch of cool mods) setting up colonies on moons.

This game has it all - you need to learn being precise (targeted landings if you want to build a structure somewhere or picked up kerbonauts you crashed the previous time), you need to plan and do logistics (hello fuel shipments), and you need patience (rendezvous and docking). And, as OP said, you quickly end up learning a lot about orbital mechanics, rocketry and space exploration. You don't need to know the maths, but you'll end up learning it anyway, because formulas are the easiest way to compress your intuition about "why bigger ships need helluva bigger rockets" or "why when I go faster I go slower".

Oh, and a fun thing I observed watching the community - because KSP runs on Unity 4, which has an unusable 64bit version for Windows, and the game itself starts quickly eating your RAM when you go for installing part or visual mods to the point of crashing the 32bit version, a lot of people install Linux for the first time in their lives just to play a working 64bit version of KSP. Yay for more education :).
Doesn't seem sensationalist to me. As you say, the majority of wallets were vulnerable. The only problem is that the warning is far too late to protect anyone.

I doubt any potential F2Pool miner loss is enough to persuade them to not do SPV mining. Just look at how many blocks they've mined overall and consider how much extra they've earned over time thanks to this 1% boost...
Thanks and good reference, greenyoda! It seems they just show diffs between the old and updated page, which has lots of false positive (e.g., change of some ad text or date, etc) and is user-unfriendly. If I could create a cleaner app that detects and notifies not "any changes", but "any new records", would that be a good step forward and help lots of people? Wish I know who are using such services so I could possibly get an idea about potential customers...
I wonder if anyone ever asked whether playing with blocks is addictive?
3) synchronize correctly, which is fraught in nearly all languages. Rust has some very nice facilities for this, however, that make shared mutable state very usable indeed.
They aren't. That's exactly the point I was conceding when I mentioned that they are my personal beliefs.

(But it's worth mentioning that when a lot of people share the same beliefs, it does matter from a business perspective. Microsoft isn't open sourcing stuff out of the goodness of their hearts.)

(And furthermore, this belief doesn't entail that I should use GPL. But the combination of this belief and the realization that people conflate ethical conduct with legality causes me to use GPL. I have a feeling lots of other people are in the same boat.)
Regarding the other branch of this subthread, consider banning "attack definitions", which exist solely to attack a specific named person.

Also, in addition to downvoting, you need some way to flag effectively identical definitions for merging. And to avoid more such definitions, you should tie search to addition, so that if it looks like there's an existing definition for a term (or close to the suggested term), you show that and confirm that the user meant to submit a new definition.
Also "The Smash Brothers"[1] is a ~4 hour episodal documentary about the competitive history of Super Smash Brothers Melee, which evolved out of what was originally thought to be a gimmicky party game. I do feel like it could have been plausibly edited to half the length or so, but its impressive how much material they managed to gather.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX9hbbA-WP4
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Most of the consequences are inflicted upon them by the bank. If the banks didn't open fraudulent accounts, they wouldn't put incorrect information on credit reports and there wouldn't be any unknown debt.
> They don't calculate the difficulty correctly?

Yes. It's possible to create a long chain at low difficulty and the original bitcoin client protects against that by computing the total "work" that has gone in a chain. However, Electrum just assumes that the longest chain will be the one which has most "work" in it which is wrong.
You didn't notice you were a full iOS version behind? :D
Man, this brings back memories of lying on my loft in college, listening to industrial music while reading William Gibson. Studying CS, playing with 3D on the Amiga, reading 2600, Wired, Mondo, etc., etc. It doesn't matter if it was tongue in cheek or half joking, for some of us, it was describing the world you wanted to live in, or hoped was the future since Max freaking Headroom :-) It was fun!
I've been to plenty of countries where that is not the cultural norm.

Tech is not the only hammer to use to fix the problem and I'm much more in favor of fixing the problem upstream.
It's worse than tone-deaf. It's a trueism. A platitude.

Without a "vocal minority" she's got no content. Does AOL have a "vocal minority?" Yahoo? They'd give their right arm for a "vocal minority."

This is what the vocal minority wanted to talk about: https://www.reddit.com/r/undelete/comments/38q8ew/reddit_int...
It's a misreading of the situation to suggest that the uproar is over Victoria's firing per se. It was simply the spark that set off dissatisfaction that already existed about the (perceived) extractive relation that the company has towards its "volunteer" labor.

To use a clear topical analogy, people weren't upset about Michael Brown per se to the point of rioting in the streets. His case was just a rallying point for frustrations over perceived systemic police abuse of power.
Hey that IS awesome. I had no idea Firebase had a websocket API. Sweet!
1. See how others have solved the problem.
2. sketch, sketch, sketch - it easier to throw the paper then to rewrite the system.
When I travel to Brasil it is always a relief to return to the US because driving in Brasil is very dangerous and nerve racking. The drivers are very aggressive, non-cooperative and there are almost no traffics officers to make sure people follow traffic regulations.
I think you're just trying to intellectualize your preference. You want downstream derivers to contribute back. That's all you have to say. I, for instance, don't care, so I choose licenses that match my POV. People who make a proprietary fork of my code are ethically as clean as anyone who gives me a PR, and they are also as ethically clean as you, in this specific sort of scenario.
The license your describing is exactly the LGPL - you can link to it as you please from proprietary software, but modifications to the code itself need to be distributed in their code form.
> Also, can someone define what "side effects" are, please. I am studying Scheme now and I don't understand the relevance of "side effects" to Scheme or anything else.

Something done by code that isn't represented by the return value of that code. For instance, if you define a function that changes a global variable and then returns double its argument, the change to the global variable is a "side effect". See also "pure functional" (code which doesn't have side effects).

That's not the kind of definition this dictionary is going for, though; that's tech jargon, not startup jargon.
This SoC has notoriously bad kernel and firmware support. I'm expecting similar devices with much better support to hit the market by the end of the year.
I don't know how long you think this malaise has been going on but the roads were already crap 20+ years ago.

PS. I find it ironic that Michigan was voted best state to live in.
> with 32-bit 260MHz CPU

The Chip has a 1 GHz CPU and 1/2 GiB RAM. The Gonkai has 8 MiB RAM...

Apples are way better than oranges!
Exactly this. I both enjoyed video games and did a lot of programming in secondary/high school and all that time did in fact interfere with my school performance quite a bit. And I'm really thankful for my parents to not push me too hard back then, because things I learned let me end up in a great university and have a career in programming. And the games were both what taught me English and what made me interested in programming in the first place.

A younger friend of mine gained his first digital electronics knowledge building 8-segment displays in Minecraft, and the time spent on setting up and managing Minecraft servers gave him skills he now directly uses every day, for money and for fun.

The point is, school is bullshit (and kids smell it, they're incredibly good bullshit detectors). Pretty much anything a kid does on a computer that isn't literally browsing 9gag all day teaches them more than the same time spent doing homework. Parents need to be very careful here. School-related tasks are very inefficient way of spending time, but are easy for parents to focus on because they're quantified. You just have to look at the test scores and grades (and their first derivatives). The fact that they're totally unrelated to any education taking place is too much to think about.

So if you see your kid spends a lot of time building, creating and exploring stuff on the computer, do him/her a favour and don't mind too much if they occasionally forget about their homework. And most important of all - don't introduce insane time limits like "1 hour of computer time a day, every other day". With such strict limits, there's literally nothing a kid can do except of watching funny pictures of cats on-line or playing games. Exploration and learning takes time, and is something you don't even start if you know you are on strict deadlines (note: this also applies to adults at and after work).
"You said it - they stink on ice." [1]

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

[1] https://youtu.be/sztf4hcGrB4?t=1m30s
It's no different than using reading incorrectly and getting them addicted to that. Anything can become an addiction, gaming isn't any more or less prone to becoming addictive than shopping, playing outside, reading or eating. Many drugs are inherently addiction forming, taking them will cause an abnormal chemical response in the brain that forms an addiction, that's what the term addictive should mean when describing something. Gaming does not create an abnormal response in the brain.

But again, the point the author makes, and he tries to be nice about it, is that it's not Minecraft or any other games fault, it's parents using it incorrectly. Poor parenting can create bad habits, which yes can eventually become addictions. But that doesn't make the focus of the addiction the culprit, that makes the parents the culprit.
My take:

* App performance / design is phenomenal. Great job.

* Show comments/point counts on the stories in the list views

You have an interesting monetization model... Personally, I would get rid of all the tiers and just have your default free + 3.99 full unlock. I don't imagine many people reading hackernews will fall in between and want to pay money while still seeing ads. Your pricing is fine though I think for the full version.
I've been waiting forever for someone to write the ultimate eloquent screed on medium irrelevancy, so I could link it in response to a thousand conversations including this one. It would cover things like:

• How toy blocks are toy blocks, whether they're made of wood or abstract vertices;

• how a novel is a novel, whether it has a battle engine or not;

• how a war simulation is a war simulation, whether the bullets are made of plastic and paint or network packets;

• further, how talking to friends is talking to friends, whether it's on a playground or on Facebook;

• and that talking to strangers is talking to strangers, whether it's on a playground or on Facebook;

• but also how there are also structured leagues that kick out creepy people, both for soccer and Starcraft;

• and, most importantly, that "playing on the computer" isn't an activity. The simplest and most useful metaphor is that the computer is a place, like "school" or "the park" or "a friend's house", where your child goes and all sorts of activities happen. Those activities are not better or worse for happening on a computer; they're exactly as they were when they weren't happening on a computer.

Ideally, parents would treat the computer, the medium, as an irrelevant distraction to finding out what their child is up to. One is not "chatting on Facebook"; one is just chatting with friends, or with a kid in my class, or perhaps with some random person who started talking to me. That information, the important information, gets buried under the medium.
I am on board with the goals of the article, and I've actually been working on an iOS app to pick away at this problem[1] (albeit in a different way — mine is more fluid and is intended to be used interactively, not to be printed). Sheet music is a great format to represent classical music, but the fact that it doesn't allow you to easily notate one of the most common elements of modern music — syncopation — points to the fact that it's out of date for today's needs by about a century. Modern music does not fit into a rigid meter. It goes off-beat; features arbitrary note lengths and overlapping meters; pitch bends without a second thought; ties performance and production together with the notation. If you want to write down popular music on staff paper, you'll be using a lot of awkward dotted notes and rests.

In my app, I figured I'd try to distill written music down to its basic elements — pitch and time — and allow users to draw on notes arbitrarily, with the equal temperament pitch grid as a guide and pitch/time snapping available as an option. (As an aside: the pitch axis is basically a logarithmic graph of tone frequnency — cents from A440. Because of this, I can swap out the equal temperament scale with basically any arbitrary scale. I've implemented *.scl file import and have been playing around with odd non-equal tunings from huygens-fokker.org's archive[2], though I don't know if this will end up in the final user-facing product.)

[1]: Early demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra8OvnoxKQw

[2]: http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/scales.zip
Wrong.

The federal goverment is from a different political party, they are NOT the same people that are running the local city goverment. The police that raided this guy's house was the metropolitan police (BA city police), not the federal police.
Fair enough. In that case, yeah, GraphQL is about the server communication and doesn't specify a particular application architecture. There's usually some data you want saved locally and not persisted to the server, though that's not very common in facebook, since eg preferences are meant to work across devices.
So someone tried it once and got a score higher than the next two combined? I am calling shenanigans. And I got the 280.
"bank fraud" is a subset, as not all uses of someone's identity are for banking. Consider tax returns filed with someone's name and identity, with refunds deposited or mailed elsewhere, not discovered until the real person files a "duplicate" return. Likewise credit card fraud.

You could generalize most of those to "financial fraud", though. Although there are some cases of identities being used for non-financial (or not directly financial) purposes.

> In a signature based authentication system, the banks suggest YOU are the victim of identity theft if someone gets your credit card number when it's their authentication system that was 'hacked.'

And yet you're the one who has to go to the trouble and possible expense of dealing with it. Describing you as the victim seems more relevant.

Now, who and what you're the victim of is a different question. When yet another break-in turns up millions of plaintext passwords, we don't just blame those who obtained them illicitly; we also blame the company that stored them in plaintext.

So, I don't think it's reasonable to describe a bank as a victim in "identity theft". On the contrary, I think it's reasonable to describe them as negligent in protecting your account and personal information.
For me projects like this is where OLPC has found its new home. The poorest of the world are still at huge disadvantage- but that their children could be gifted a working Linux box for a day to a weeks wages, with the access and education that potentially opens, means an end run around needing governments to get their acts together.

It does not fix clean water, immunisation or physical security I know - but sub 20usd computers are a boon to the next two generations. Probably more so than our kids generations unable to reach past the retina display.