skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The History of Video Games, by the Numbers
Thanks for the link to the pull request. The benefit you stated was "I find this most useful since I can quickly jump back to a namespace, or search etc.". I think that 7.12 allows this by always showing the namespace and search on top. Please let me know if I misunderstand.
Just to add a little factoid that doesn't disagree with your comment, but which some folks might find interesting: while heroin is an extremely bad thing you shouldn't get into and goes hand in hand with a lot of other bad things, it has a frighteningly minimal impact to the body/organs on its own. Physical dependence + tolerance and no small level of constipation in the short term, but not much else.
If you can, it's easy. I wish everyone to work in environments where it's that simple ;)
You should probably thank his parents then.
This story had 7 points and was #3 on HN 7 minutes ago, then it dropped 20 spots. Are people flagging it?

Anyway, the Kickstarter project looks impressive. There's an entire company built around it? If it's a fraud, it ends at 8am EST.
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But in the worst case you'll be able to see that it is plaintext.
How Do You Optimize Graphics Performance of Android Games
Support Greek tech startups blocked from paying their bills
I believe in supporting those in distress who you have some comradery or affinity with, so bringing this to the attention of anyone interested.

Greek small businesses are currently unable to make international payments, and all Greek credit cards are blocked. Therefore if e.g. your hosting bill needs imminent payment, you're in trouble.

Some Greek guys in America have a temporary solution to proxy payments from contributors outside Greece to the suppliers that Greek small business needs to keep them running.

There's a story here: http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/07/technology/greek-crisis-zerofund/index.html

You can submit financial support via prepaid cards https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1UVyiVk6N1haFIPZTkuUrlyo4EbY06rjRT70Aodnw3Bk/viewform

And the link for Greek small businesses to request help is here https://zerofund.org

The people behind it are https://twitter.com/PanosJee and https://twitter.com/jonromero
It's a "shitty book"? Oh well, all the parts where she discusses the methodology flaws in studies are completely bogus then, because you think the book is shitty. Good argument.

Still, you clearly know more than the Economist, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and the BMJ who all gave it good reviews. We're totally lucky to have you here to enlighten us.
The hash32 implementation in Java 7 was not intended to fix the case where the actual hash value was zero, nor did it have an impact on that case as the hash32 value was stored in a separate field.

It was made to decrease the number of hash value collisions in large data structures (hash maps and such). Its replacement is described here: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/180 . Given that most Strings never end up in a large collection, allocating an extra 4 bytes for every one of them was a waste.

This post has been edited once for factual correctness.
I don't understand why anyone would need Google Glass for that when you can get something like this for a fraction of the cost ($50):

http://www.amazon.com/Forestfish-Pixels-Recorder-Polarized-S...

Or just stick a GoPro on your head, or any number of other solutions. If you just want a wearable camera, there are tons of ways to do it. What does Glass add?
Starting to look very similar to Triton, which isn't surprising considering they are similar bodies: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/P353171.jpg

It'll be interesting to see if Pluto also has Cryovolcanism.
CSS3 animation vs. CSS3 transition
The OnePlus 2 will be smaller than its predecessor
It's still an interesting proposition for new development... front end published to S3/Cloudfront, with the backend running in Lambda responders, and an API layer using this for a communication bridge... full scale flexibility with very low administrative overhead...

At a larger size, it may be more expensive than a roll your own, but for an independent idea that you just want to build something as a software/service and if successful be able to scale and handle extra load, it isn't a bad idea.

This is really the missing piece to Lambda in my mind... though being able to act as a bridge for legacy SOAP/WS-* services is pretty nice too. I've written a lot of pretty small node service that act as a bridge to SOAP based services the past few years... though most of those have been for internal use, and not sure how well that translates here.
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Pretty much all of the first part of the book is footnoted, chapter length disections of poor science in nutrional studies.
The article is an example of using an anecdote ("During our course, the customer remarked that they had a real issue with this new Java 7 and 8 approach to substrings") and a skewed microbenchmark to extrapolate to general advice.

The substring change was done to address common real scenarios, as the author of the change described here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qw73v/til_orac...
Search for debian's "trivial archive". It replaces release/component elements with explicit path. It's deprecated now, but I believe still works.
Someday we'll find it
The K-hole connection
The ravers, the Chinese, and me.
that's not how the Play store (or Android) works. Moxie signs the APK, phones will only install updates that are signed with the same certificate as the version they already have. Google cannot modify apps.

Edit: In contrast, the F-Droid builds were built and signed by F-Droid, so they could at any time include any code they wanted. Whom do you trust more, the developer or some alternate app store?
What happens inside google does not matter, what happens is when they release it next time and if they do as bad a job at this as they did with the previous roll-out then it might as well be dead. I'm curious how big a percentage of those who bought 'glass' the first time around are going to spend their money on the next round given what they know today.
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I suck at note taking, can't do it effectively, but of people who are good note takers I think the ones who do visual note-taking seem to get the most out of it http://austinkleon.com/category/visual-note-taking/
http://www.core77.com/posts/19678/sketchnotes-101-the-basics...
Himawari-8 is now operational over the western Pacific
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That's because your cell phone at the time didn't come with a camera that faced the people you were talking to in real life (rather than on the other end of the phone or just facing your way).

I do remember being weirded out the first time someone walking parallel to me was talking to an ear-piece (out of sight) and I thought he was addressing me, hilarity ensued and he showed me his cell phone which I thought was absolutely wonderful (Motorola flip phone).
Even a poorly financed actor could crash Bitcoin with spam. The network was jammed to unusability for a couple of days just now for a few hundred to a few thousand dollars' worth of Bitcoin. That's enough that if you had old Bitcoins you didn't care about, you could do it for teh lulz.
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Looking at the code, it's clear the strings are merely tests, and not used when a proper string is defined. However, the fact that their tests and examples use these strings, makes it clear what they thought a good application of their product was.
How to use Autowire with Qualifiers?
It's obviously a bubble. How are people not seeing this? Thanks to the current economic climate investors are literally throwing money at startups with no real business plan or income. Valuations have no correlation with reality, but the best indicator imho is that the people investing now don't really understand the companies/markets they're investing in.

Ignorance + Overvaluation + Greed = Artificial Evaluations. This leads to a vicious cycle which eventually leads to a bubble.

It amazes me that the 20 somethings who work in silicon valley and are supposed to be so smart don't have an iota of common sense and are so blind to the obvious.
> This makes me cynically think that the source of all this recent noise about the issue is hardball political tactics

Above attitude is pretty poor. There are many reasons why Uber(Pop) is not acceptable from a European perspective. In various countries in Europe the attitude is more about employees and social security. E.g. if I read the article I just arguments for customers and companies. But who is going to pay taxes? Who is protecting the employees?

With UberPop Uber actively tries to either break laws or skirt them. E.g. they're contractors, but they won't work with the government to ensure that the employees/contractors pay their taxes. Social security requires taxes to be paid. Ensuring that this happens requires cooperation and cross checks.

Airbnb is similar. Assume it is not their responsibility.

Such attitudes totally conflict. I work in an international company, following local laws is standard business practice. It's not a "OMG difficult". If it is too difficult, do it anyway.

In most articles I see Uber described as a "ride-sharing" company, while it is a taxi company. IMO there's a heavy pro Uber bias including the usual assumptions that the taxi situation is the same all over the world.
Thanks for your remark. I just discussed it with Dmitriy (CTO) to understand what you mean with the "contextual" sidebar. Compared to GitHub we don't see how the contextual part is more confusing. On GitHub the sidebar is to the right instead of to the left, but it is also contextual.
> #2 don't do that

I wish everyone to have easy deployments where environments, OS versions and everything else are always consistent. :)

> #3 monitor other software components for security updates -- you need to do this anyway in any of these systems.

Sure. But having multiple virtualenvs means you need to monitor all of them on all of deployed hosts. Having everything packaged separately means you can do audits much easier and without location-specific checks.
Also from the Guardian... Resistance is futile.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/09/monkey-brain-...
Real-time image from Himawari-8: http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/mscweb/data/himawari/sat_img.php?ar...
Kickstarter will promote anything that has the chance to make it big. Their only goal is to make sure most pledged dollars go towards ultimately funded projects, and that hype and funding grow in them to the maximum extent possible.

Documentaries and so on, that's another story, I guess their cash cow are non-art projects while what they enjoy are art projects. So don't expect a tech project to undergo minimally rigorous analysis if it looks like it will make it big. They only question your project to the extent it could be a waste of real estate in their website for not getting funded.
It really is not ride-sharing. Blablacar you share the ride and part of the costs. Uber and similar are taxi companies.
Speculation on /r/buttcoin is that this is either someone dumping coins and hiding it in the chaff, or a DNM exit scam and someone hiding it in the chaff.

The other interesting thing is that the price went up even though the network was literally unusable. The spam demonstrated that the price of Bitcoin is literally detached from any form of utility whatsoever. The exchange price appears to be dictated by day traders only.
California needs this as snow though right? Flash floods and the water ends up in the sea. Snow and the water is available as it melts over the year.
This simply isn't true. You can package .so or .dll (or anything else) with your wheel. An example of doing it with a dll or so is here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24071491/how-can-i-make-a...
One thing that might be confusing is that our sidebar is separated more from the page content (different color, out of the way). Maybe that is why you expect it to be static instead of contextual?

Edit: Discussing this gave us an idea to improve it, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/1958 for the idea of adding back links to make it more understandable like folder navigation.
> The standard library has lists and dictionaries, which are not thread-safe to access from two threads simultaneously, and are not in any way locked.

Locking lists and dicts, etc would not be a reasonable thing to do. There must be some granularity in synchronization, it's clearly not a good idea to attempt to allow mutating any object from multiple threads without explicit locking.

Things like readline are issues that programmers have to deal with when writing multi threaded code in any language. There are libs which are not thread safe or which have global state or need special handling with threads (e.g. OpenGL). That's no reason to disallow threading completely.

However, this might be a big culture shock issue if Python were to suddenly start supporting proper concurrency without GIL. None of the libraries document whether they are thread safe or not, so there would be surprises ahead.
Basically: yes. The effect would be the same if the subjects had to work together for reward by moving 3 objects into te same position (similar exepriments have been conducted). However the fact this is using some kind of indirect mind control, channelled together by software, of imaginary targets does give this an extra interesting dimension over 'just teamwork' I'd say. The amount of math/algorytms/control software and harware needed to get to this should not be underestimated as well. And it is again a step in the brain-machine interfacing world. Which, like a lot of other tech, might be used for good and bad in the future.
this halves the number of values. doing if (hashcode == 0) hashcode = 1; removes only one value.
You can fork the book on github, so you can make the changes and then send him a pull request :)
As an interim step, you could always put a small/micro ec2 using whatever you like as a gateway to your lambda services.

I'm not sure about the costs involved with the caching options... just the same, I think this option is pretty cool.
ARC actually has some interesting advantages over smart pointers. For one, there is a large amount of static analysis done at compile time that allows the system to avoid unnecessary increment/decrements of the reference counter - this can have significant performance improvements in tight inner loops, and can't be achieved using smart pointers.
This is ridiculous. Their home page has a 'Staff Picks' section currently showing 15 projects, 7 of them have that badge visible in their image there. It's stupidly misleading not to expect people to make that connection.
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I thought this, it's widely known in the UK to be used on paediatrics. It's also something the BBC has publicised before... Weird
It's unclear how it handles event listening, but even so, they should fork React and replace the rendering target with their library, then use that to benchmark. It'd just be for the sake of benchmarking (e.g. not something they should maintain or encourage people to use).

It's one thing to say "this is better than virtual DOM". It's another thing to show it with numbers across common browsers.
It also works out pretty well for Uber's customers, compared with how things were before Uber.
>However, this is true with garbage collected languages as well.

In theory - in practice trying to avoid GC in managed languages is like putting on a straightjacket, eg. JVM doesn't even have value types, and higher level languages - just forget about it :D

The closest I realistically got to this is C# and even then there are all sort of caveats because even if your code doesn't allocate it's a standard pattern to not care about allocation and stuff allocates all over the place and there are no tools to figure out what allocates and what doesn't from code so you just have to assume everything does unless you wrote it or read/profiled it.
See the NFA Act.

Each grenade is legally a separate destructive device. Some States outlaw destructive devices, but they are legal under Federal law (with appropriate permits).

You don't see people with them because there are not many transferable grenades left in circulation. If you want to shoot a bunch out of a m203 launcher it's cheaper to go to Cambodia than exhaust US civilian stocks.
The Attic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollhouse_(TV_series)
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But then the commentary says "most don't carry a gun" which is true but false. There are guns in a locked box in police cars, and the closest car isn't far away.

It makes a difference though. Talking to someone who carries a gun is different from talking to someone who has keys to a locked box in the car parked outside.
+[Cryptography generateRandomBytes] should possibly return NSData rather than NSMutableData.
Ask HN: Should I use disqus for my start up?
I'm going to be starting something that's like giphy/imgur/gfycat etc. Is using disqus fine? Or would that negatively impact the 'value' of my start up? I'd like to hear ideas/thoughts/opinions on this as I googled and googled but not one seems to be able to answer this question.
Stop being so dismissive of this being a problem. I've had lots of problems with runaway allocation rates in parsers due to this issue. They could at least have introduced an alternative method which returns a view into the original String IMO. Not everyone is silly enough to not read the doc and get confused when memory blows up.
Hi, I like it, but not so much in the browser - I am expecting you will be making some sort of library app or make it possible to export directly to iBooks / epub at some point? If so I think it's great in the browser then exists as a fallback / place to check out the book before you actually put it on your device. In the browser itself the whole book metaphor has always seemed cumbersome - is the code for that modular enough that it could be easily switched out with other interfaces? I am envisioning it as sort of theming the 'book'
That's not worse than not caching at al. Hashing implementation usually is a black box. Actually simple if (h == 0) h = 0xdeadbeef would probably prevent that issue from happening (if that should be considered a real issue at all).
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Thanks for an interesting post. I'm impressed by the fact that the developers kept going for ten years, when their first estimate was a lot shorter.
Ubuntu Web Browser convergence demo
No No No No! Or maybe?

Do people really do that? Git pull their own projects into the production servers? I spent a lot of time to put all my code in versioned wheels when I deploy, even if I'm the only coder and the only user. Application and development are and should be two different worlds.
Glass seems like it's far away from becoming a HUD. From my understanding, it's essentially just a mini-screen in your peripheral vision.

(This is also a big complaint I have of Google Glass. I don't think I've ever actually seen a single image from Google talking about how it looks from a wearer's point of view.)

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/d-y3bEjEVV8/maxresdefault.jpg

Is the type of pictures I typically see. This is portion of your vision blocked by a semi-transparent area so it can reflect the very small and basic text projection.

When I think of HUD, I think of something that is able to overlay my vision like so:

http://www.niemanlab.org/images/behavio_hud.png (Just first image in google search)

Since neural manipulation or a screen being able to be on a contact lens are probably far away technology wise, that essentially leaves us with having to create something that can either draw or project a screen on a normal pair of glasses.

Once you can wear a prescription or prescription-less pair of fairly normal looking glasses that can draw/display image/shapes/text/color anywhere on the lens, then I think the actual "revolution" will take place and everyone will quickly buy and use them constantly.
That's very odd. Searching for "Kickstarter Staff Pick" seems to indicate that it actually is what it says it is. On the search page, https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/recommended , Staff Picks is a search criteria and has considerably less projects than "Everything".

If their position is that anyone can use the image, why not take it a step further? Make a new badge, like "Kickstarter Verified Technology" or worse.
I guarantee you that for at least the next 10, possibly 20 years, there will not be a consumer product that involves sticking a camera/tiny monitor on your face.

Google killed that product space completely with their initial incredibly flawed roll out. The number of news reports of people being beaten down in bars for being glassholes, and the picture of scoble in a shower wearing his google-glass burned into all nerds brains has scorched that product space for the forseeable future.

Which is unfortunate, because the concept of a HUD always available, and always recording, I think would be a really excellent technological innovation that I would totally take advantage of - if only I could avoid the extreme social outcast component.