skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed and please don't forget that our ants may very well have implemented a working planetary scale communications network with an overlaid sentient intelligence (can't really call it an AI) operating on that distributed computational network based on inter-nest chemical pheromone exchange operating continuously for several million years of uptime ... but ... "Hey man they're just ants, sure we don't understand them much better than dolphins or monkeys but I'm sure they're not implementing anything as important as one of our roads"

Its quite likely the beings from planet X understand omnidirectional broadcast electromagnetic waves as an interstellar communications network technology about as well as your average software developer understands arcnet or 10base5 ethernet or flint-knapping.
I'm not actually comparing anything to anything; that was the only information on "rickety tilt-up warehouses" that I could find.
SSL display in Microsoft Edge
The Apple Watch is the first true mobile device
Yes, but you are free to disregard the suggestion and do something else, so UI still has to be built for that case.
My best advise is to think of it almost procedural. Start off making something and test it yourself and you'll start smelling all the things off about it. Ideas to get to a good understanding incorporate a MLS into a search and try to pull off the simplest search (less form elements) you can getting the queried data you want.
PG doesn't seem to say "upvote 'thanks!' posts", but "don't downvote 'thanks!' posts".
Something I've long been curious about:

Mel finally gave in and wrote the code,
but he got the test backwards,
and, when the sense switch was turned on,
the program would cheat, winning every time.

This doesn't sound like the sort of bug that occurs because you get a test backwards. Making a blackjack program that wins every time, and one that loses every time, seem like very different beasts. So what mistake did Mel make?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propu...

You could potentially replace fission with fusion and speed things up. And yes they were high level designs because of the supposedly immense expense.
I believe that's referring to Xamarin and Cordova, which are now built into VS2015. Xamarin still requires a Xamarin subscription to compile and deploy the apps, though.

On the other hand, they might also be talking about the new Universal Windows Platform bridges [1], which let you port your Android, iOS, Win32 and Web apps to native Windows apps.

[1]: https://dev.windows.com/en-us/uwp-bridges
Not every region of the world is as green energy progressive as the UK.

In the US, states make their own regulations on energy - and it is reflected in the state of Florida.
FL only has 5 utility companies, but Duke (the largest utility in the country) and FPL (the 3rd largest in the county) control most of the state (the other 3 utility companies purchase power from Duke and FPL, essentially making them the only 2 providers in the state).
FPL's parent company NextEra is the largest supplier of Solar Energy in North America.
Duke is a top 5 provider of solar energy in North America.

Yet it is illegal for me to power my home on solar panels that I buy. If I do buy the panels, I still have to pay my utility for every kWh I use even if I didn't get it from the utility (negating any financial benefits).

Two of the top providers of solar energy on the continent control the utilities in FL and their lobbying is what keeps us from getting any solar benefits.

OUR NICKNAME IS THE SUNSHINE STATE!!!

Hopefully, companies such as Yeloha can show our legislators and their constituents the power of home owner solar and it's sharing capacity. They could provide a lot of data to empower change.
> To summarize, Mel enabled the index register bit (despite not using the index register) to cause an integer overflow, and because the instruction was at the very top of memory, it had the side-effect of also incrementing the instruction’s opcode, modifying the instruction to change into a JUMP command, in order to exit an infinite loop.

Reading this made me thing of some of the crazy tricks I've pulled in TIS-100. And while it worked well in a game, it would be a nightmare for that to be my day job.
Looking at what Flos and Artemide lamps go for, there's definitely a market at that price point. Whether it's worth it to you or me, well, probably not. But hey, you can cover a lifetime or three of petrol for the cost of a Tesla, and folks are forking over the cash left and right.
If I had had the chance to both win mathstackexchange AND the Internet.. The resultant joy would be so profoundly overwhelming that I would probably have to leave the grid and start a sustainable kale juicing company.
Except for neutrinos dark matter is NOT part of the current standard model. There has never been a single measurement of a dark matter particle in the lab. E.g. LHCb specifically build to find SUSY particles, so far has found ZERO events. Also a very big amount of the "evidence" for Dark Matter can be parametrized with corrections to the Gravitational force. Since Gravity is the only force which not quantized yet changes are going to be made there anyway. E.g. It is very plausible that the MOND potential is a parametrized correction for quantum gravity effects.
For me the best explanation is the size of the Universe. No other assumptions needed.
Same. Running Arch, my display driver had some kind of attack of the vapours and I had to reboot the box blind. Fun!
The creator of toki pona seems to be a fan of the Finnish language. Several of the words are loaned directly (although without umlauts) and keep their original Finnish meaning.

At a glance: älä, kala, -kin, nenä, nimi, sama, sinä are exact Finnish words and "pimeja" is a slight alteration of "pimeä". Kiwen, lipu, linja and walo are probably Finnish inspired as well.

Another common trend seems to be using a simplified and shortened forms of the phonetic spelling of English words such as "ale" (all), "en" (and), "insa" (inside), "jaki" (yucky), "jelo" (yellow), "kama" (come), "ken" (can), "kule" (color), "lukin" (looking), "mani" (money), "mi" (me), "mun" (moon), "nanpa" (number), "pata" (brother), "suwi" (sweet), "tawa" (towards), "toki" (talking), "tu" (two), "wan" (one) and "wile" (will).

Slightly distorted, but still close: "anpa" (under), "kulupu" (sounds like a Japanese transliteration of group, グループ), "pilin" (feeling), "sewi" (ceiling) and "sike" (circle).

This actually helps a lot in memorizing the vocabulary. :)
I paid almost double that ($700 US), and it is still definitely worth it. The product does much better than any other I've used, it's easy to clean, and it takes all manner of abuse. It's one of my favorite household tools by a long stretch.
It looks kick-ass. That’s plenty. All the rest doesn’t matter. If you like the way this looks you gotta pay the price. (And what exactly is wrong with looking kick-ass?) I’m sure you will be able to buy some cheap imitation soon enough. If you are lucky this might even be picked up by some talented designer at Ikea and you might get a really honest and well-made imitation, not something that doesn’t even get the point of this design.

I also don’t think you ever bought an upscale lamp like this. $600 for a desk lamp is a completely middle of the road price for the category this lamp is competing in. It’s not even extraordinary. The competitors in this market segment have the same or higher prices.

For example, Elane from Serien costs roughly the same or even more and doesn’t even have any fancy heat pipes: http://serien.com/en/produkte/elane/table/

(I mean, look around the products of this brand and you will also find these technological innovations and unique materials and all that jazz that doesn’t amount to much in the end. It’s a justification game for the prices – but in the end it’s all about the looks, really. The drama of home furniture is that you can often get something decent but not very special for an ok price, but then … then you see this really cool looking thing right next to it that would add that little bit extra … but costs an order of magnitude more. I’m not sure why prices are so weird when it comes to that. I mean, someone like Ikea is sort of attacking that market and those prices in some weird way, but those upscale places still exist. And you definitely lose the uniqueness with Ikea – because their well-designed stuff will soon be everywhere.)
Thanks, we updated the link from the MSDN subscriber's page.
The math is the same whether you have a company going through $500 a month in marketing or $5 million a month.

Yes, if your conversion rate doesn't make sense for you, don't do it.

I'm not going to go arguing how to make $500 into 10 sales. It depends on what you are selling, what the competition is bidding for ads, your lifetime value of a customer, etc.

But you asked how you can go to $500 -> 10 sales?

2500/30 = ~83.3 clicks/day

$.20 * 2500 = $500 :: 2500 clicks

2500 * .004 = 10 :: 10 sales @ .4% conversion rate

This is really not a strange/weird/unusual scenario for a combination of 20+ low competition CPC ads on Bing, Google, etc. Given small budgets, that is what you'd aim for as you don't have the money to compete with the high cost keyword bidders.

I'm confused why you think that is hard to achieve?

These numbers aren't particularly optimistic given most people aim/expect a ~1% conversion rate, so if it was .8%, you could double your CPC, etc.
Installing the enterprise version now. Hopefully it works fine side by side with 2013.
Thanks...how does one do that with paywalled articles. I've tried to get archive.is to do this in the past but it just captures the paywalled article summary/
"It's not giving up, it's disengagement."

If you set out to do something and stop doing it before you've succeeded, even though you could carry on with at least some possibility of further and future success, calling it anything other than "giving up" is just sugar-coating it.

I'm sure it's sensible and wise to give up in many circumstances, but giving it a fancy name really shouldn't be part of the process of justifying that decision.
Author here. Let me know if you'd like any other testing done. I'll also re-check if anything changes in the stable build, which should be out in 10 days time.
I agree with andy_ppp on the combo html/javascript/css. There are plenty of places to experiment online with this stack, and it can be used for both back-end and front-end. And with node-webkit or similar is can also be used for desktop applications. And javascript is flexible enough that you can use different programming paradigm, depending on your own preferences.
This makes perfect sense. The reason why debt/fixed income products were stable in the past is because of the lack of liquidity. But now with the advent of structured product and ETFs, a lot of bonds are behaving more like publicly traded equity and being speculated upon, thus increasing their volatility.
Maybe in generation 2 or 3, but right now as I understand it the most amount of features come from it being paired with the iPhone right next to it in your pocket.

With their running example, I was under the impression for any actual run tracking you still needed your phone on you.
How skeptical? How much BTC will you, or anyone, be willing put down on either of these:

1) Just bet me that it's not real, and I'll give you some very strong evidence.

2) How about I write a web-app that exposes HN's rank-banning - who's getting rank-banned and what for. You'd be surprised at how it's being used. I found a way of proving it that I'm sure you'll agree is quite accurate, for cases where this approach can be used.

:)

Edit:

Re: lucb1e, the reason is that I'm far from being the only person who's rank-banned / dead here. Sometimes several comment in the same thread.

Re: scott_s, Hey man, no need to insult me. If you don't want to see the hard evidence, then I won't show it to you. Don't worry.
> There's also not really a lot of benefit to doing something like this

If you have any kind of multiplayer game: It would make cheating harder, and make some kind of cheats impossible.
See discussion a few hours back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9914024
Microsoft Launches Visual Studio 2015
Basically, exactly what happens with compounds like <black> + <bird> => <blackbird> -- blackbirds are a specific sub-category of "black birds", not just any bird with black feathers.

Compound words are words too.
Rank-banning is a thing. I'm not sure about the cause in this user's case.
Well, the nearest star is the Sun, so…
Reasons to employ Service Worker
Make sure you have the latest driver for your video card.
Why Netflix and HBO don't care if they lose $500M a year to password sharing
Chicago fires investigator who found cops at fault in shootings
The problem with all ET intelligence analogies is that we don't have much to work with. Ants can't understand highways. Can dogs or chimpanzees? What does it even mean for a chimpanzee to understand a highway? You might get one to understand that it is for cars and you can get from place to place on it. Maybe she'll understand that we make them for this purpose. Would she understand why this is a big deal? How about a swing? Does a chimpanzee understand a swing? I have never personally known one, but I imagine that if a close friend of a chimpanzee was wont to occasionally come by with a rope and tire and construct a swing, she would eventually understand these can be sued to make swing. Is the difference between swing because the highway is more advanced or because it is more remotely related to fun?

We've got questions to answer before we make these analogies. What does intelligence mean, in the context of ability to understand such things? Is it a hurdle that we are over or a continuous scale from slug to alien? From our (admittedly biased) perspective, it seems to be.

Following from that, all these analogies about advanced civilizations destroying themselves, their planets, living in cerebra-utopian VR. These are all analogies to us, the only "intelligent" creatures we know. They're also based on a very brief period of civilization where we have been able to even conceive of our impact on the planet. Until people went to the moon, how strongly lodged in people's minds was the idea that we are on a planet?

We are not even good about extrapolating 100 years into our own future. People thought factories and technologies would lead to 2 hour workdays and a pleasure society now. How good could we be at making analogies to creatures we don't know exist.
Good point. I will say, though, that disabled zoom is a for more prevalent, annoying, and chronic problem than dropdowns.

It's orders of magnitude difference. Like, years to days. As in, maybe once or twice a year I get annoyed by a misplaced dropdown, whereas every couple of days I get annoyed by disabled zoom. One can make a solid critique of the wine at dinner but it's not irrelevant to point out the restaurant is on fire.
Flock shutting down
Smuggling good practices
> I'm not looking for a language battle here, but is inventing your own language based on your favorite language to bring common features from other language really such a good idea?

It worked wonders for C++.
It feels like desktop is taking a hit for the team because a less sophisticated member is tagging along. I watch all these websites convert over to responsive designs and very few of them are a step forward. It's like they've gone from tools aimed at adults to toys for children.
I think they drew their inspiration from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_term#Basic_color_terms

Once you get past the basic colors, there's only referential colors... So instead of <single word for a specific type of pink> you would say 'salmon'. In the Latin languages (French), pink is just 'rose'. You could also glue different concepts. For example, in (unofficial) Dutch, a word for cyan/turquoise is 'appelblauwzeegroen', or 'apple-blue-sea-green'.
There are more details about the .NET 4.6 release on the .NET blog [1]

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2015/07/20/announcing...
Most of the time, I don't think you do. I think innovation is still going to happen anyway. For example, I think companies would have still made mobile phones and furthermore I think they would be better without patents because one maker wouldn't be arbitrarily restricted from using some idea-that-was-going-to-happen-anyway-because-the-time-was-right because another patented it. What is lost in monopolies is more than made up for in reduced overhead and ability to move quicker and come up with superior solutions because you are allowed to build on more ideas than you otherwise would. In some instances perhaps patents do act to expedite innovation (instances where time/cost to market is very high), but I think these are in the minority and that there is probably a better legal / tax / grant / political solution to that than granting of monopolies on ideas.
Yea, I was only sort of aware of AshleyMadison, but I assumed facilitating a high degree of anonymity was basically the main service they provided. I guess that's not the case.

Giving your real name/address/DOB/credit card to a site specifically set up for cheating seems like basically asking to get blackmailed.
I don't know of any good books that specifically contrasts the advantages of the AmigaOS design with modern designs, unfortunately. A lot of these things won't have been spelled out in books at the time because it seemed obvious once you'd used an Amiga for a while.

Some of them certainly expect single-user. I think Linux etc. loses out quite a bit by not differentiating between single user (in terms of "person in front of the machine is most important, regardless of uid) and multi-user systems.

Some of it could be emulated by tweaking priorities. But others require a large change in how you think about applications. E.g. the widget ("gadget" in Amiga-speak) responsiveness largely comes from the OS threads carrying out updates of them. To do the same in an X app for example, you'd need your app to explicitly start a separate thread to forward events to your main thread, and have a mechanism for giving it higher priority. It's not that hard to do, but without libraries providing wrappers for it, it won't happen often.

Other things, like the assigns could be implemented easily enough with a filesystem driver. Coupled with namespaces you certainly can do this transparently in a multi-user system.

Memory protection helped reducing the cost of context switches, and certainly there has been a variety of sins carried out as a result of it being possible to pass data all over the place without paying much attention to it. But it's not that integral to the things that make AmigaOS unique.

With respect to ARM systems, AROS runs on ARM (and x86, PPC, m68k) and AROS is relatively close to parity with the lastest AmigaOS releases (including features from the 4.x series for PPC). I think at least one AROS distribution has images for Raspberry Pi for example. If nothing else it's a good place to get a feel for how some of it works.
Yes. My interpretation of the title completely threw me off in how to interpret the email, and how to interpret why it was posted here.
Fair enough. And I totally agree with you that it is tougher on the freelancer or self employed and can be quite frustrating.

To your point, in my experience, when a bank evaluates your tax returns for proof of income, they use the net income, so after all deductions, to calculate your debt ratio. Yet if you were an employee they would use your gross income on the pay stub and then calculate your debt to income ratio. A lesson I learned at the wrong time, it all worked out but what a pain.
Dwarf Fortress hasn't gone to such a view because of the huge complexity with the UI. You can have 3d isometric views today if you want.
Startups – What Color Is Your Parachute?
The cleaner isn't horrible, it just suffers from a very opinionated design. Price wise, he'd half to cut his prices to 2/3rds what they are to make them even remotely worth it.

OTOH, Miele makes the best damned vacuums available, and doesn't bother with that whirly vortex shit. Their canisters without the optional HEPA filter meet or beat the filtration power in the Dyson Animal models; with the HEPA filter, there isn't any other brand on the market that can come close.

Disclaimer: I have a Miele, it has lasted me over ten years, and has yet to give me problems, and is the best cleaning vacuum I've ever had.
Elon Musk disagrees with that statement. He believes once intelligence gets beyond a certain threshold (which humans have), there are no such things that are beyond understanding. Most people don't know how to write complex math equations, but that doesn't mean they can't understand what mathematics is.
Can I ask the reason you want to go with Ionic? Rather than truly native?
With attitude like this we'd never have neither stadiums nor jet fighters.
And ignoring how it looks for a second, the Dyson Air Multiplier is kind of mediocre anyway (and VERY mediocre for the price point).

The rest of the electric fan market has shifted over the last ten-ish years to noise-efficiency. Meaning the most air movement for the least amount of noise. So we've seen new blade shapes, smarter motor designs, enclosures that attempt to dampen the noise, and so on. And Dyson's Air Multiplier could, in theory, have done well in that competition but they care more about form than function, so they stuck this tiny little motor with a higher RPM in the thing which has made it extremely loud for the amount of air that it can move.

In terms of noise-efficiency, it sounds as loud as fans from the 1990s and before.
The original reply is actually correct. From Wikipedia:
"For a subtractive combination of colors, as in mixing of pigments or dyes, such as in printing, the primaries normally used are magenta, yellow, and cyan,[1] though the set of red, yellow, and blue is popular among artists."

I also learned the RYB colors as primary colors, and find it much easier to reason about than CMY. That's probably also the reason why artists use it.

For the 'simple' language, I agree that RYB + white and black are enough.
> The product does much better than any other I've used, it's easy to clean, and it takes all manor of abuse.

Dyson! It takes on all manors. It'll take on yours. ;)
The quoted sentence is the summation of an article trying to distinguish between quitting because you can't do it, and quitting because you no longer care. Focusing on the renaming aspect is taking it too literally; that's just a rhetorical device.
Roosevelt seized Japanese assets and most Allies did the same.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/united-states-fre...
At what point does a product last "too long"? It seems that designing an expensive lamp and marketing the fact that it lasts 37 years seems kinda...dumb.

First there is the issue at the business level. Returning customers are the easiest and cheapest sells...but if your customer only buys a product every 30+ years...not great for business.

Then there is the technology. Why make something last that long with current technology when in 10 years or less, something more efficient and "better" will come along.

I'm not sure many people can even keep track of a lamp over that long. Between moving, things breaking, etc.