skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like the concept. I know there are other sites that do it too, but I like the simplicity of your site. One comment, the white text can be hard to read with the background image you're using — I like it as a textural element, but maybe it doesn't need to underlay the story.
Indeed, the idea of the proof of Burnside's lemma is essentially the same as what is often called the necklace-counting proof of Fermat's little theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofs_of_Fermat%27s_little_th... .
Great idea! I immediately thought "Why didn't I think of that!?"

With regards to the privacy concerns of Research mode, there may be a way solution. For sites like Reddit, it should be possible to build a bloom filter. Have the metafruit server actively spidering Reddit for new, popular threads and add them to a bloom filter. The plugin would download the bloom filter from the metafruit server at some regular interval. That way checking whether any particular URL has an associated conversation is just a local operation. Plus, it's faster than pinging an API, and burns less of the target API's resources.

That would also provide a way to monetize, by giving out the metafruit bloom filter to subscribers only. Or perhaps the free plugin can update its bloom filter once a day, but subscribers can update once per hour.
Can someone explain to me why on earth Uber would need this cash, and, why MSFT would give them such a small amount at that valuation (.002%)
There was a higher bar to access back then. Today devices are made for and used by almost everyone. People haven't become less concerned in total, it's just that there are more people that never cared in the first place using technology.
Sure, they aren't actually sending anyone, but they are pretending they are, and gullible people believe them. Accepting applicants who are married and screwing with their spouses' minds is incredibly ugly, even if it's just messing with people's heads and not actually separating families.
I love how you don't cite your first statement but then request a citation for the rebuttal.

I'm going to cite me. I work on graphics engines for all the major consoles and PC. Have been looking at DX12 on xbone for over a month already.
It's an optional toolbar that shows a number of new items. Nobody is required to install it and the description and screenshots are clear. I don't see how that is spam.
No no no lol.

If it literally ran Windows, it would mean that GPU work is actually scheduled between applications and we'd have TDRs and all sorts of things.
It's an insult, and you didn't bother to hide it in your parent post.

If you're surprised that the people being insulted don't take kindly to it, life is going to be very frustrating for you.
It's the fastest way for us to get this powerful diagnosis technology on the market and helping people.

We believe that our RNA test can become a routine part of a doctor's visit, both as an early indicator of disease and — if there is disease — as a means to monitor the effectiveness of treatment.
You did what, and someone did what, and you knew they were a feminist because?
ITT Tech is another company that only cares about money.
Some modern values, when applied universally, facilitate division. Churches reject these values and so have better natural survival rates. Those values are free inquiry and inclusion. In churches, there are large sets of beliefs that are axiomatic. If you don't believe them, you're not allowed in. If you openly question them, you are expelled.

You can arrange a secular org around any set of beliefs you want, but it's accepted what might serve the needs of the group could change, and at any rate you have a right to question it. Questioning is easier, and the inclusionary imperative is stronger.
Yep, this is what I meant to allude to, and you've worded it much better than I could have.

Perhaps a nice way to say it is that the mathematical objects necessary for physics that I can think of are separable (such as the real numbers). Basically, whenever you have uncountable sets, they come along with some topological structure which must be handled continuously.
This is actually not the first mention of that character -- that would be this comic[0] -- but seeing as that comic doesn't mention an engine and the rest doesn't really fit either, presumably the one you link is the one he actually meant.

[0] http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/07/11
Another area hugely lacking in open source is image manipulation. People who think GIMP is a 1:1 replacement for Photoshop have never used Photoshop.
If it was good enough for the original (12 V!) Dodge car...
That's a great insight. I had to read it a couple times to realize that the comment extended until it found `*/`. This would not pass my code review.
LHC Computing [video]
I didn't really understand that problem. They couldn't fix this?? Like, they didn't know how to escape/replace percent signs or print differently? Maybe I am missing something but it does not look like a particularly elusive problem.
Finally a topic on hackernews that I am getting my PhD in..! Anyway, do you have any data indicating what percentage of circRNA is "free" in the plasma versus inside of other entities like platelets or extracellular vesicles (exosomes)?
Circular RNAs are really "hot" these days. But, one should keep in mind that the amount of virtually all circular RNAs is lower in cancer (compared to non-cancerous adjacent normal tissue), thus they are not very promising as biomarkers. Also, their biological role is unclear. We did comprehensive literature review on this topic and found nothing truly convincing.
In the DOS days the operating system was mostly just a boot loader and a set of tools. Whichever program happened to be running at any given time would have complete control over the system. So a program could simply find out where any other program was in memory and modify it, which for something like changing a string was fairly easy.
...and you can always send an email to the mods to ask them to do this - hn@ycombinator.com

They tend to reply quickly and are very helpful, in my experience!
I'm no C nor Ada expert, but I think he means in C `const` is a data type modifier, whereas in Ada it's a function modifier, making the concerns orthogonal. I'm never happy when I see warning about `const` being lifted by some function in C. I think that's what parent is referring to.
Nicholas Vining was referring to the first ever appearance of the character, not its first mention. The Lithtech comic is the first appearance, and the one you've linked is its first mention.
I've seen this posted before, though I can't vouch for its quality:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/3f38ed/guide_how...
Environmentalism is one belief which could power future communities.

It is something we can all agree is important, something families can get plenty of enjoyment out of, something we can get together on a Sunday morning to work towards, provides a place for music, discussion, a good place for group holiday getaways, a unanimously good cause which is becoming more and more important as world population increases and the environment comes under more and more threat.

It doesn't require any faith or belief in made up deities. It doesn't make false promises of a wonderful afterlife but instead focuses on preservation of the earth for your own ancestors - something which could be considered a more motivating goal than eternal afterlife.
In my extension (thinkcontext) to get around leaking browsing behavior to 3rd party sites I download the complete data set. That way all queries are local which has the added benefit of low latency.
Yeah sure, I know, so I suppose they could have modified the string in memory. But he specifically says that he "hex edited the error in the memory manager itself", which makes it sound like he modified an executable. A programmer wouldn't say he hex edited a string in memory when what he meant was he wrote some code to replace the string in memory.
> typical

I think the issue is that it's hard to nail down what is "typical". I think you are certainly right, but there is "typical" (i.e. majority of feminists/people think this way) and there is "socially visible" (e.g. SRS/Tumblr, etc). When a person uses the SJW acronym they are definitely talking about the latter, but it's unfortunate if they conflate that with mainstream feminism: that men should be more affectionate and involved in parenting and not emotionally repressed in Western society, as opposed to the tripe that you find on the dumber parts of the web.
Why focus on TkAgg support? Just write graphics to a user-specified file.
Facebook's weakness is China and Russia.

Sorry guys, but it's true.

Facebook aligned itself too much with one particular nation state and not that there is anything wrong with that ( hell it may even be "morally right" ), it is just that it doesn't work for business.

Businesses right now can be truly global phenomena, much like harking back to the imperial days or Spanish or British companies ( like Swire's and P&O ) companies that had broad interests all around the world.

The most important trait of a global venture ?

Work with everybody.

When companies align themselves politically, they fail to truly engage a global marketplace.

Companies actual political aspect is to be like a reconciling diplomat between disputing parties, it does not behoove them to engage the same disputes as nation states and politics do, they can do a great benefit to themselves, to nations and to people by simply being truly global, rather than narrowly nation state.

Oh, and in 50 - 100 years, it's all going to be "giant corporations" anyway. The period now is just a period of transition, as government's projection of power is shifting toward being executed by corporations.

Companies that hold fast to the past -- nations and borders and such, and refuse to work with everybody for political reasons, are not going to make out. Dying breed.

Of course the insane fake lefty moralists will pretend moral righteousness and champion google's to block itself in China. "So righteous" -- yet really, the best way to serve human rights is to actually serve the people, wherever they are. Had Google been less political and more open to working with the Chinese they could have been a force there.

Same for FB. China is never going to go, "Come in come in, your intelligence agencies are welcome to the comings and goings of our citizens, we therefore embrace your FB"

The Chinese are practical. FB could have worked with them, had it been less political. So could have Google.

Now they missed their chances, swapping results for the fake payoff of a misguided sense of righteousness.

Well ... dying breed. That's what dying breeds do...make choices that don't work, and lead to their extinction.

The best way to create a global harmony is to create global companies.

Of course the fake lefties will pretend no one is allowed to do that, and pretend that they're right by saying others are wrong. Yet this just leads to morally bad outcomes that belie the very causes the fake lefties pretend to support, a contradiction that cuts to the core of the fake left paradox.

If you want more info about the fake left, go read Zizek's piece on the morally corrupt fake left championing of Islamist criminal apologism.

Companies are unavoidably political. It's just that it works for them, and for their customers, and for governments, when they choose to exercise that politics in a way that "works with everybody."
Quit, get a job at a real company. Not sure how you can go 4 years and 25 employees and no product/market fit, failing to pay people on time, and yourself as employee #1 having no processes in place. (You're to blame for the last one.) What are the other 22 people doing?
Yeah I thought that one was weird too. Also I wouldn't really call it much of a dirty coding trick if it was just something that was hacked in during development! Many times I've #ifndef <someplatform> because something or other didn't work on that platform. Then later before shipping you fix/implement it!
Effective communication is more than just words
All you need to do is simply take the 20 part video course http://flexbox.io/. Couldn't be easier !
But Flexbox?
I wonder if these anecdotes would be a good litmus test for developers. They make me cringe, but I work on business software, not games.

I really don't like the idea of papering over the bugs so that your testers can't find them anymore, I'd much rather find the underlying issue. On the other hand, the described changes were often very practical, solved a customer need, and were manageable to implement. So that sounds like a win!
Does anyone know if Uber is currently profitable? I heard they weren't and I'm wondering how they will cope with jacking up prices later on.
This would be a great idea. CC verification could secure identity, and a "civil society" like system could spring up and effect real civil penalties for misbehaviour. Reddit's "moral code" is impotent without the means to effect meaningful enforcements. So, Reddit is going to continue to be a den of iniquity and sin until people pay to use it, and pay more to use it badly.

I'd recharge every now and then so I could keep commenting and voting. ( 1 cent per vote, 2 cents to comment, 5 cents to down vote ( and downvotee gets it ) ), and penalties ranging in 10s - 1000s of dollars based on severity of misbehaviour. Some kind of judicial review system would also work to establish consistency.
Then there has to be a whole backend infrastructure, though. Lots more time/effort/money involved in that solution. Right now there's no recurring cost for the developer.
Is Technology killing your childs' creativity?
Why isn't there a MS Word for creating HTML?
I don't think it's impossible. Can't you intercept the traffic via a router or something to see what's in it?

"...what they'll say..."
They already said that in their privacy policy. I was wondering if they had released more details. Like "We record your voice commands and add them to a database of millions of other people making the same command so Cortana can understand people better." And, "Our voice interpretation service is provided by a trusted partner. They signed a contract that requires they take this step and this step to keep your data secure."
> They pioneered sending back all your search terms (to Amazon).

You don't have to use Unity to use Ubuntu. There is an abundant choice of WMs on Linux. And besides, even if you had this turned on, it's about nothing compared to what Microsoft does.
For societal equality 2 things I feel are really important are;

1) Death taxes. This limits dynastic wealth if a decent % is being taken back every generation. And it creates a desire to make opportunity for the next generation as it's not so easy to buy this directly. Assuming there is a minimum threshold so people don't lose their family home this should be looked at quite positively. You can see it as deferred taxation obligations. Given the government needs a certain amount, I'd much prefer to pay less tax while living if I can delay contributions til death.

2) Keeping necessities in life equal access. As soon as the elite can segregate them-self from public systems like schools and hospitals the desire to fund and ensure top service levels across these for the masses goes down. If people making the funding decisions have to use the same schools, hospitals, pensions, roads etc as the rest of the masses they will ensure these are funded and functioning well.
You're right, of course. One can be like-minded on one axis, but totally different from me on another axis.
Looks like a good guide, but some UI issues detract from it. The mobile menu doesn't close when you tap the menu icon again (or tap outside the menu) and it could really use a next page button :)

Great job otherwise!
My favorite way to visualize the bijection is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern%E2%80%93Brocot_tree.
How I understand is that they had printf(x) somewhere and some values of x included the '%' character. If this has been inside the UE and the x itself was a hash value then both replacing with printf("%s",x) and changing the x's value could be problematic.
Just use flex-box. And by "use", I mean get ready to study it, change the way you write CSS, give it all of your worldly possessions, and eventually collect money for it at the airport.
That some circRNAs are lower in cancer than in normal tissue is a reliably detectable difference and is precisely what makes them an excellent biomarker.

There's additional evidence shown here: "Using circular RNA as a novel type of biomarker in the screening of gastric cancer".
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cca.2015.02.018
A lot of people will miss this since it's posted on a weekend. If this doesn't make the Monday morning HN front page, I recommend waiting a week or so and reposting as a Show HN some weekday morning.
At that valuation, Microsoft owns 0.2%.
Unions? Function pointers? Typedefs? While it might be bad for karma to point out, intro to C certainly isn't what I expect to be news to "hackers", as per the site's namesake.
Thanks! Sadly I'm not a designer. The mobile is definitely far from perfect, and will continue iterating on it. If you're especially design inclined I'll welcome any PRs to improve that experience - https://github.com/craigkerstiens/postgresguide.com
Check all the news I can find.

And when I'm not procrastinating, I write up a kind of spec, which I then revise into code sketches, and what I would like APIs to look like.

And then I fill it in. Rinse and repeat.
Yep. Sadly, the only way to be one hundred percent sure your data is private is to keep it in your head. Even building your own chipsets and other components doesn't protect from physical access. So we have to choose who to trust. Currently, that's not Microsoft. If they open sourced, or at least made the code visible, Windows, I'd be a lot happier. 'Course, then I'd have to trust that the people reviewing the code knew what they were doing. Since I'd not spend the time to review the code myself....
Which is why many suggest that congress should only get health care through medicare.
For one, you probably want to add some kind of background to the text -- the large text for the story bits is readable -- but eg: http://www.storystak.com/about is unreadable.

Perhaps something along the lines of:

#content {
color: white;
margin: 0.5%;
padding-top: 2.5%;
padding-bottom: 2.5%;

border-radius:10px;
background: #fff; /* fallback for browsers that don't understand rgba */
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.4)/* transparent white */
}

See also eg: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4855348/how-can-i-make-di...
http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/en/publications#AR1PUBENG
There were full replacements for Compuserve, Prodigy, The Well, TheGlobe, AOL, geocities, friendster, myspace and yes facebook too. They're no Google. They are a walled garden like AOL but won't be around as long as AOL, which, unbelieveably is still kicking -> http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=aol&ql=1 after their $165 billion dollar deal -> http://fortune.com/2015/01/10/15-years-later-lessons-from-th...
This is great! Do you want to make a Conda package for this or shall I?
I think they have enough users that they don't have to worry too much about a replacement. Instagram is pretty close conceptually to Facebook, but most people don't use it as a direct substitute. One thing way in the future I could see hurting them is when my generation --the first generation of users that used Facebook regularly start dying. If I'm an old man and I'm on Facebook seeing daily updates on people I used to know dying, I will probably stop using Facebook altogether to avoid terminal depression, but might just be me. However, if they can keep on-boarding the younger generations, they could probably survive that, assuming their isn't a hipper substitute by then offering users immortality.
I'd pay $10 to $20+ / month for high volume, high bandwidth, cheap image hosting outsourcing with a great API. To be used for offloading image hosting for web services. Aka industrial scale image hosting as a service.

The current solutions are comically expensive compared to doing it yourself. I'd like to see a Digital Ocean-like solution cost wise.

Take for example Cloudinary, which basically offers this type of service. Their $49 / month package offers 15gb of storage and 50gb of transfer. It's so expensive as to be silly if you want scale. By contrast the $40 Digital Ocean package offers 60gb of storage and 4tb of transfer. Cloudinary's $149 (!) package offers 50gb of storage, and 200gb of transfer.

Why not leverage AWS or similar? Their bandwidth costs are obscene, at least 20 times higher than what you can get with a cheap dedicated server.

Someone should be able to do this service for $10 / month, with a minimum of 20gb of storage, and maybe 500gb of transfer. And scale packages up from there.
Does one need an estate tax if there's either a tax on wealth or a land value tax?
Cell phones at the table are now a way of life; deal with it
Go out with the person on a personal basis. Get to know them ( only so that what you will eventually say will have more impact ), and then hit them with the following,

"Your anger and blaming doesn't work. It's actually giving away your power to others by pretending they are responsible for what is not working with your company. It looks more and it is more powerful if you own all of this mess, and take responsibility for all of it. Also, the anger stuff is unnecessary, it just makes you look frustrated and weak, because you seem to be saying you are so dependent on these other people that their choices so greatly vex you. Well...what kind of powerful person would do that? Look, I may not be the kind of entrepreneur you are, nor have the same technical or social skills. And I do know what I am talking about. Sure you can choose to believe that I'm just some person who doesn't have a clue what they are talking about, or you can choose to believe I know it when I see it. And believe me, I see it with you. I see your potential, and I see how these things are in your way. I want this company to be great, and I want you to be great. I know you are, there's just your lack of clarity on these issues which is missing."
It may have started out that way, but now is used to describe social progressives who tend towards shaming tactics and thought policing.

Which unfortunately is the most vocal type of social progressive.
A polite term used to describe a dong that is long, floppy, and blood-filled, but dose not stand out and proud like a normal erection
If you know the height of your centered box, it's not that hard. Create a wrapper div whose top is set 50% down the page but has a negative offset which is 50% the height of the box:

.vertically-centered {
position: absolute
top: 50%;
height: 200px;
margin-top: -100px; /* minus half of `height` */
}

If you have trouble, try setting `height` to 100% on the <body> tag and any parents
Actually Duff's device is very likely to be a performance hit most of the time. It will have bad branch predictor behavior and it creates unstructured code, making it harder for the compiler to reason about and optimize.

Although it should be noted that the original person to use Duff's device did admit that he tried everything else to optimize it and only that worked, and he never advocated that people should use it as a general optimization technique.
It's called Dreamweaver.
I think I found you. Are you the white figure?
Learn to be less competitive, "go through the big gate around the side nobody seems to notice, instead of trying to squeeze through the small door everyone is vying for."

Be different. Watch Peter Thiel. Competition is for losers, don't you know?
I would love help making a conda package. I've never done that before. I didn't spend a lot of time looking, but I didn't find conda packages for some of the dependencies (e.g. gatspy). If you now how to work around that, I'd welcome the help.