skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I thought the resurrection of christ was the whole point of anything describable as Christianity?

Yes: "But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith." 1 Corinthians 15:12-14
Accurate but irrelevant. The point is not to adapt to the "new normal", but to reject it and demand a higher standard.
I'm no expert, but isn't that what typically happens with gentrification? Make the neighborhood more desirable by whatever means, more middle/upper-class people want to live there, local landlords raise the rent on existing units despite no actual change in their quality?

I've read about folks who worked for years to clean up their low-end neighborhoods, organize a neighborhood watch, drive out the dealers, etc, and as things improve the landlord jacks the rent up until they have to move to a slum area again. That's not about "luxury apartments" specifically, just about how manifestly screwed you are if you're not at least middle-class.
I don't really understand what you're saying.

'const' in C and C++ is broken. Not only is it like a Chinese word that varies wildly in meaning depending on where you use it and how it is inflected, but in C-family languages, 'const' modifies type, making objects that benefit from the compiler hints 'const' implies type-incompatible with objects that do not.

They're not type-incompatible in any way that doesn't violate those compiler hints in the first place - C and C++ fully support sensible coercion between const and non-const types. What more do you want?

This results in the problem of some know-it-all deciding that a core API needs to be const-correct, and checks in changes making it so, only to find that the entire fucking code base is now broken

Would you rather it compiled and silently broke? If some dingus breaks the build by changing an API without checking in the corresponding code using the API, how is that C/C++'s fault?

By contrast, languages such as Ada have explicit and implicit constantness restrictions ('in' parameters, for instance, cannot be modified), but these do not modify the type of the object, allowing objects with these restrictions to be type-compatible with objects without them.

This is bizarre. Can you take that 'in' parameter and then pass it on to another function as an 'in/out' parameter? If so, then either

1. Ada just made you a copy silently (bad)

2. Ada is broken and 'in' means nothing (worse).

If neither of those are true and an 'in' can't be transitively passed on as an 'in/out', then that's a type - however you want to refer to it, 'in' is then a type with all of the 'broken' type restrictions you're railing against in C/C++.
Scuttling a ship doesn't get you the millions of dollars that you get from selling it to a scrapyard.
I don't believe this for a second. Sparring is VERY different from fighting and those guys are taking it easy on her. This kind of thing is great for marketing to fans who don't know the sport but it's a fantasy.
We hereby dig you dude/dudeness
A Sony patent for mid-videogame advertising:

http://www.google.com/patents/US8246454

It's really quite a gem.
It uses Reddit's API, Algolia's HN API, and the Google News Api. Any of these services can be toggled individually in settings.

[0] - Reddit - https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/API
[1] - HN - https://hn.algolia.com/api
[2] - https://developers.google.com/news-search/v1/devguide#gettin...

Also, it can be set to search a-la-carte by toggling Research Mode.
If I made the code better you know what will happen? My job will get shipped to India. It has happened to many of my peers.
So much of the internet is bland and corporatised. Stuff like this adds the humanity back into the net.
Add Touch ID Authentication to Your Ionic Framework App
The idea that she can 'definitely submit top guys' is a total fantasy.
Dave what is the patent landscape like for circular RNA? I hope it is better than RNAi or antisense?
I'm tired of working for years on hobbies that ultimately get big and I think can turn into businesses only to find I have built this huge unmaintainable edifice of untested spaghetti that I have to shelve.

So now, whether it's on the job or on my home project time, I get the git repo and build scripts squared away with some awesome testing framework that constantly watches the file system and rebuilds and running my test suite as I'm working on the code. This way I can do TDD and get higher quality code more consistently.
Playing with grandchildren has a purpose other than simply pleasure, the pleasure is a nice side effect. Besides, rather than play with relatives, I prefer to join with them working on a task that accomplishes something. Like working together to fix a car, help move, lend a hand, whatever.

Many useful tasks are pleasurable, why not take advantage of that?
Fermat Little Theorem is one of my favorite results. Here is a short proof by Lionel Levine it is only 2 pages http://www.math.cornell.edu/~levine/fermat.pdf

He also get formulas like: pq divides a^pq - a^p - a^q + a
The State of Accessibility in PHP Tools, by Parham Doustdar
hmmm....you shouldn´t have to do that. Thanks for the heads up. What kind of browser etc?
Oh, I see: you're thinking from the perspective of the person competing to obtain the likes (an attention-seeker), but I'm thinking from the perspective of the person deciding whether to give one. Thank you for clarifying that. I see where you're coming from now.
SWJ does not refer to most feminists, or social justice advocated. The term originated from, and is most associated with a vocal sub-culture of anti-male feminists largely on tumblr, though somewhat in the larger blog-o-sphere.

It's classical puritan pearl clutching with the sacred cows of the left instead of the right, totally annoying, and totally completely normal and well within the tradition of American moral panics.
> Given you are so unhappy about this would you use your tax dollars so that others could live and not have high rent?

Yes! I'd be happy to.

I don't understand why people keep trying this "gotcha" thing when someone suggests tax dollars be used to benefit the needy. Don't assume that everyone is secretly selfish just because you are.
Who are people "like me" and people "like you?"

Your entire comment is completely nonsensical and frankly insulting. Being a musician was an unprofitable pursuit long before digitalization.
From my part, I believe the very concept of exclusive intellectual property with respect to recorded music has come to a natural end, or something like an end. Technology has brought to a head a need to embrace the meaning of the word “release”, as in bird or fart. It is no longer possible to maintain control over digitised material and I don’t believe the public good is served by trying to.

It is with this paragraph the Steve's ignorance to the societal and legal foundations around intellectual property and exclusive copyright are brought to full attention.

It technically became "no longer possible to maintain control" over intellectual property hundreds of years ago with the invention of the printing press.

The idea that the decreasing marginal cost of making copies is somehow a new concept and unique to the digital world is completely absurd.

The fact that the copyright system has been abused by corporate interests doesn't mean we should blindly throw out one of the cornerstones of the Western world.
I hate meetings. But even I think this article is ridiculous. I like the idea of asynchronous collaboration, but I'm bothered by the other 80% of this article.

The main thesis, buried in the paper, is that meetings steal the spotlight away from the one individual who's smarter than everyone else.

Or in my experience, the one individual who thinks he's smarter than everyone else - everyone else is beneath him and doesn't know "software engineering." He is The Architect, who sits in his office all day doodling and thinking of just the perfect architecture. He hates meetings because they pull him out of his theory sessions with himself.

The article mentions Einstein creating his theories alone. Einstein is the exception, not the rule. It's just like all the people who idolize Steve Jobs and try to run their business like him, only to fail because of an inflated ego with nothing to back it up.
Of course my point is that as a musician it's annoying at best to hear people talk about musicians like a) as a cog in the broader free-market disruptive strategy blah blah and b) as though they should be grateful that there are all these cool whiz-bang ways to be heard.

Secondarily, I'm just reiterating how much more helpful it is to the musician to take the extra effort to buy from them directly. The penalty in ones convenience is greatly outweighed by the benefit to the indie/DIY artist.
A real manual has better tactile feedback so you can know when it's safe to hit keys without getting a jam, I think that's a lot of what was going on here.
Much obliged fellow human :)
There's no way the industry would be willing to employ 10,000 musicians full-time. Even on a near-poverty wage of $30k that would be $300m a year just for wages, without counting equipment, recording, and other costs.

It's not just about the artists. There's a huge support industry of recording engineers, studio owners, mix engineers, producers, tour managers, festivals, session musicians, electronic designers, software developers, web developers, app developers, and old-style physical instrument makers - among others.

Global music revenue alone is around $15bn. When you include all the support services, that number gets a lot bigger.

So supply/demand is not a very insightful way to look at this. With more investment in better content at every level, there's huge potential for revenue growth.

Nickel and diming the artists kills that for a short term hit of profit that isn't sustainable.
It is really fascinating how many people take seriously the idea that Rousey would be remotely competitive with ANY decently trained MMA fighter. She wouldn't stand a chance. Period. End of story. Don't go there. This is nothing to do with how skilled she is, how motivated she is, or her track record. She is a fantastic highly trained mentally strong athlete. But she's not remotely strong enough to fight a trained man. Could she kick my ass? Absolutely. Could she kick your ass? Probably. But a trained guy? No! Emphatically not. With the best will in the world there are very real differences between the sexes that can't be glossed over. It may be great marketing to present her as someone who could beat guys at MMA but it isn't real.
I think it's only a small (though vocal) minority of Americans who care about that. It certainly doesn't affect the majority of the Supreme Court.
Looks like someone who does not even understand C++ in the first place...
Actually, if you don't mind I'd love to write a post about the project. If you're up to answering a couple of questions drop me a line at ola@chickenorpasta.com.br. :)
Gentrification often comes down to increasing demand without increasing supply. If supply weren't artificially restricted, it would be profitable to expand the housing stock instead of completely displacing existing residents.
That sounds completely wrong, unless the function takes a reference to the unsigned int.
What you have to take into account when guesstimating this is, that while Facebook has a lock-in, many of the obstacles it had are fading away. I am thinking of mainly these two:

1. The typical mom in twenty years will be much easier to get on a new web-/app-platform than the current typical mom.

2. Internationalization beyond the US and Western Europe is becoming easier.
> The point is not to adapt to the "new normal", but to reject it and demand a higher standard

Most people don't care. Features are more important than FOSS when consumer software is concerned.
Agree, it should be improved on mobile. I would love to hear more about your desktop experience, what would be the improvement you would love to see?
Holacracy (Zappos organization structure) talk and Q/A
Unwillingness to increase supply is a far bigger problem in the bay area housing market than foreign money. The California Legislative Analyst's Office calculated that to maintain the 1980 level of housing affordability(and housing was already expensive in many California of it then) would have required building 100,000 more homes per year, almost all of it in the coastal regions. A few wealthy foreign property owners are a drop in the bucket compared to a structural deficit of 3.5 million homes.
> With more investment in better content at every level, there's huge potential for revenue growth.

How so? Fundamentally: why do you think we need more music or more professional musicians?

10,000 was chosen as an arbitrary number. I actually suspect the demand for professional musicians is far lower than that.

The fundamental fact is that there are way more people who want to be a musician than people who are willing to pay for random music from indie artists.
What aspersions? Let's start with your "Mozilla disliked Dart", full of personalizing words that obfuscate the objective arguments. Just the "dislike" usage is subjective and vague -- and inaccurate when applied to my comments on HN about Dart.

DartVM never had a chance, I told 'em so and gave concrete reasons why it didn't. Worse, the leaked DASH memo was arrogant and wrong in declaring that JS "cannot be fixed by evolving the language". Anders Hejlsberg gently pushed back against that bogus assertion in 2012:

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Anders-Hejlsberg-...

and events have proven him correct.

Read the leaked DASH memo if you haven't yet:

http://pastebin.com/NUMTTrKj

via

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4355

(Note that Mark Miller did not write this memo, he just accidentally posted it to a public Google Group thinking that group was private to Google employees.)

A lot of water under the bridge since 2010, and some of it had good effects for Dart users for sure, even with Dart now only a compile-to-JS language. But a lot was wasted. Dart could have used bignums (Dart `int` support) in ES6, for example, and this would have helped JS users too. The lack of it is a direct cost of focusing on DartVM at the expense of dart2js; see

https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/1533

You are right that I disliked the stinky politics and enormous question-begging on display in the DASH memo. (That's me disliking a set of bad arguments, not me disliking Dart.) It was a statement of intent, to fund a project because some people of note wanted to do that project, even if it wouldn't work cross-browser, and even if it imposed high opportunity cost to JS both in Chrome (the whole V8 team had to be reconstituted in Munich) and in Ecma TC39 (no one showed up to argue for better cross-compiling support in general).

WebAssembly should grow dynamic language support for Dart and languages like it, but that's years out. In the mean time, only JS as compile-from-Dart target is available. ES6 could have used the help.

It's fine for well-funded entities to waste money on boondoggles (well, not really, but I was not a shareholder, and Google is free to "experiment" for any reason it pleases). But I'm not obligated to praise a bogus justification when it leaks, or honor the two-faced way that JS was dealt with in the memo, and evident from the direct and opportunity costs of DartVM.
Well, back in highschool I used to use a similar idea to run SSH to my home PC via port 80 -- the network restrictions meant a VPN wouldn't work, and it was the only way to get access to run compilers I wanted to play with without relying on exploits to get around the system's restrictions.
First off, I don't think it's actually about some sort of disruption.

Being a musician has never been a very good career path.

Why should I buy music from you at a much higher price than paying Spotify $10/m? I have no ethical obligation to ensure that you can make a living off your music, especially considering that I'm pretty ambivalent about whether you make music at all.
From Philly and I go to college in the city. Not really shocked that it happened with how bad the city is in certain areas. A block from Temple Uni a girl was hit in the head by a brick from a group of kids 7-13. If they didn't care about her, the robot did not stand a chance.
Ask HN: Web developer, (newly) single dad, need advice
So I moved to SF a few months ago to start a new job - was engaged, and have a 2-year-old son. I just flew back to surprise my fiancee, and found out she's been cheating on me and doing drugs since I left.

I have some time before I confront her about it (she doesn't know I know), but I'd like to get my son out of that environment ASAP. I want things to go as smoothly as they can, and I'd like to end up with full custody of my son.

I'm only 22 and have 0 experience dealing with this kind of thing, so I figured I'd reach out to HN and see if you guys have any advice re: legal process, conflict resolution, etc. I'm also not really prepared mentally for the whole single parent thing, so any advice in that department would be appreciated as well.
… write down the features of some extremely restricted version of an MVP and finish that first, applying YAGNI as strict as I can.
First post here. I've been lurking for a few months. So, hello.

I'm ashamed of myself for exactly this reason. It's no better than smoking. I know it's not good for me but I keep doing it out of apathy and convenience. I know my way around a Linux machine well and have a few production nodes under my command but they never make it to the desktop. There's always some proprietary protocol in the way be it a VPN, remote desktop connection or product I have to integrate with. I'd really love to just shake it tomorrow.

It's harder to walk away than not to get into this situation in the first place. Now it's a burden.
Is there a checklist available on the settings people might perceive as privacy violation, their operational implication, and howto disable it?
Race is an illusion: a very powerful one, often fatally so
Still, the problem inherent to the concept is that it leaks the users' history to third-parties.
How New York City’s subway technologies are being modernized
> Actual wrestling has long held 'sexual' overtones likely due to what it looks like to observers

That's a tautology. dilap's point was that our views in society have changed, and acceptable physical contact between males has narrowed in modern history.
What the author there is calling "infecting" and "mangling" seems to be const doing exactly what it's intended to do.

You can't just declare something a constant then cast it out of being constant later? Of course not, that's the entire point!
Windows is not really open, has never has been and never will be. In fact it is getting worse. There's always a black box at the bottom of every stack trace, a secret in every corner and a cost to every solution be it time or money.

Users, myself included, use it because we're stuck.
oh gosh, the kick-forward...
I had an "ohh wow" moment when I realized that the keyword typedef is a storage class. This means it can go anywhere static can go. It just means no variable is introduced, only a type name, otherwise it is the same syntax as declarations.
Hi Daniel,

We've filed patents on our work.

Is there any biotech patent landscape as bad as RNAi? :)
But there's a bit more to it than that.
The marketplace has apparently decided privacy is not worth paying for.
Microsoft is conceding this point.
Perhaps what the market values can be adjusted by creeping people out on a personal level by demonstrating just how much information they are giving away?

Or perhaps the market is revealing that privacy in general has very little value?

(Same issue with open computing vs. closed devices)
From his bio, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Battista_Alberti

"Alberti (1404 – 1472) was an Italian humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer; he epitomised the Renaissance Man .... Cryptography historian David Kahn titles him the "Father of Western Cryptography" .. "the earliest Western exposition of cryptanalysis, the invention of polyalphabetic substitution, and the invention of enciphered code."

From the article:

"..his treatise on painting and his later magnum opus on architecture .. have proved his most enduring works .. this revolution ''radically changed both the social structures that created buildings and works of art and the products that resulted.'' ... Alberti expounded a methodology for artists akin to the preparation of an oration and thereby laid the foundations for what became the academic tradition in art down to the 19th century..

..Alberti determined to become an engineer like Brunelleschi and observes that the word engineer derives from the Latin ingenium, or brilliance of intellect, as well as ingenia, the weapons or devices that an engineer created..

..The picture that emerges here is of a scholar-actor, subtle and labile, who marshalled his knowledge of antiquity and his creative talents to forge a new role for himself as adviser to artists and power brokers alike."
The term SJW is almost entirely used by misogynistic idiots.

Can you point to any "SJWs" who think fathers should not show affection to their daughters? So far the only suggestions it might not be okay have come from people railing against SJWs.
It gets worse. The RBI Act, 1934, was proposed by the British as a ‘temporary measure’ [1]. This Act oversees 1 Trillion dollars of foreign exchange in India.
The problem is that these acts cannot just be repealed - drafting a new financial code for the world's second fastest growing and seventh largest economy in the world... at a time when the growth rate is racing to touch 9% is a giant clusterfuck [2].

[1] http://www.bu.edu/bucflp/files/2012/01/Reserve-Bank-of-India...

And whereas in the present disorganization of the monetary systems of the world it is not possible to determine what will be suitable as a permanent basis for the Indian monetary system;

But whereas it is expedient to make temporary provision on the basis of the existing monetary system, and to leave the question of the monetary standard best suited to India to be considered when the international monetary position has become sufficiently clear and stable to make it possible to frame permanent measures

[2] http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/finance/the...
IMSAI – The Computer from War Games
> Because...sync storage in Chrome is not sandboxed or encrypted, the blocked list would be "in the open" to other extensions.

Unless things have changed from a couple of years ago (highly doubt it), I don't think this is the case.
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-exte...
Its default usage does. The idea is that it returns enough value in exchange to be worth it. It also has a "Custom Search" feature that is useful without sharing your history.
That library might have been coded assuming invariance and a mutable implementation might not have been possible with the same time/space behaviour.

If I wrote a library and made something const, I did that for a reason. I didn't do that just to piss you off.