skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what is to fear from new physics. Sounds like something new and exciting to work on. Aren't physicists tired of perpetually iterating over string theory and making no new discoveries?
How well did it go, for those of us who aren't experts on land mine manufacturing and policy since 1997?
Is there any legitimate way to use Apple's new system font, San Francisco, in non-Apple systems? Do other platforms support a generic "system" font family?
Top-level comments are sorted randomly. Scores are hidden from non-mods.

It's best used for voting contests (hence the name), which this basically is considering the replies come at a later date.
Wait why would you call this `React-Context`? this sounds like it is replacing core functionality when in reality it just adds some useful values inside the existing functionality.

To me this is analogous of calling something `react-props` or `react-render` but all those libraries do are add values inside of your props or render but not actually change the behavior of props or render.

Does this make sense?
Google "free microsoft ebooks" (no quotes) and you will see a bunch of links for official Microsoft sites - not pirated ones. Several years ago Microsoft started giving them away free to, I assume, encourage platform adoption.

Dig around and I'm sure you'll find a few that are useful.
You'd probably enjoy this documentary about the evolution of videogame music in Japan over the last 3 decades (and how it's influenced a bunch of contemporary musicians):

http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/19/7244859/rbma-diggin-in-th...

Stuff like Pac-Man, Sonic, Street Fighter, & Streets of Rage really is a nostalgia bomb.
Good point. Is there a list of such issues somewhere so readers can compare baggage to baggage? I predict Intel's baggage will come out worse but it's worth noting any problems in SPARC. Future SPARC implementations or other RISC ISA's might be sure to avoid them.

Remember, though, that one of best reasons to ditch stack-based architecture like Intel is more flexibility in what you can efficiently run on the RISC chips. The reason is they don't enforce many structural decisions. Academics in 2010 merely trying to implement a reverse stack, immune to worst overflows, on x86 immediately hit a 10+% performance penalty due to fighting against the ISA. I doubt a register-driven architecture would've had a similar penalty for changing its stack implementation.
http://superuser.com/questions/419070/transatlantic-ping-fas...
That's why I keep everything in JavaScript, including HTML and inline styles.
G+ actively enforced this policy in a way that made people angry. When FB does similar things [1][2] people are similarly upset, but when they were going through early adoption they didn't force this.

[1] http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/07/04/3676529/truth-be...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/chris.cox/posts/10101301777354543
I like the idea of the 2 part AMA. The way these things always go for me, is I see a link to one i'm interested in. However its 4 hours too late, and I missed being a part of it.
I'm way more worried that society will fall apart for reasons not very related to technology.
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There were a handful of breaking changes in C++11, but nothing that takes any meaningful amount of time to resolve. IME the only source of porting pain is libraries which conditionally use C++11 features where the C++03 and C++11 versions aren't semantically equivalent.
Idk, perhaps that is true, but you can't just cherry-pick blackberries.
Lots of things are still not in the Play framework. Stuff like this, for instance.
The Sound of Paris in the Eighteenth Century
The json export plugin works well for simple geometries but it'll only export one mesh at a time - scenes and linked meshes aren't supported. For more complex things I export as Collada and use the colladaLoader that's in the examples in three.js's github repo.
No one is suggesting that all grants be replaced by prizes. Even research projects which are ultimately unsuccessful are valuable and need to be paid for. But does it really seem like a bad idea to pay the research team a bonus at the end if they manage to actually _solve the problem_ definitively? And if we're already doing that, then why not also offer the bonus to everyone else who can solve the problem, regardless of whether we gave them a grant in the first place? This is a tiny fraction of the budget, and it seems to me like it's worth doing some experimentation to see what works.
I get it that 69% people leave the website, but what about revenue? Corporate sharks can still claim that we didn't care about most of those 69% who weren't going to be customers anyway. The remaining 9% who installed the app may be the target, make revenue, are easier to track, are exposed several times a day to invasive push notifications, provide they contact details and dozen photos, and maybe even end up purchasing a subscription to said newspaper.

I'd be a big fan of the HTTP Header "X-I-Dont-Want-Your-Goddamn-Iphone-App: true", I'm just trying to understand better the economics of annoying customers with an app.

Now that I think about it, Facebook should claim copyrigts on all photos you give it access to on your phone.
Many entrepreneurs should find this outcome encouraging. No, Google can't just steal your idea even with the full working product before them. Ironically, android was the best heist job from Apple, but it's success is arguably due to market factors, not product competition (they filled the market void Apple refused to sell to, and when directly competing they seem to still lose, like in China).
I liked their mobile app UI. It was fluid and snazzy. The only issue was content and users.
Ensembling Kaggle for Charity, experiment and call to action
Buzz, thanks for playing, see my response :)

We aren't "ardently anti AGPL", we just don't use it or care.
Certainly, I personally think it's a bad license for a bunch of reasons (related to my response, etc). But Google as whole simply doesn't publicly care one way or the other (IE isn't strongly AGPL).
If you want to use it, great.
We are fine not using it, and we tend not to contribute to AGPL software.

Certainly you realize that with the amount of AGPL source code being so small and not really growing at any real rate, Google simply doesn't have to care?

Why would we run around trying to stop the AGPL?
I have an `official' facebook account with my real names and everyone I know or wanted my facebook. I never post or look at it, everything is locked down.

And I have an `active' facebook account with a fake name and people I really want to `follow' or people I let in.
> Why do people think that this has been successful for DARPA? DARPA has spent billions on all kinds of ideas that don't work, including prize competitions.

Some people regard the DARPA prizes as successful because, in some cases, the technology to win the prize was developed.

> DARPA is also known (notoriously, one could say) for operating a good-old-boys system, where you have to butter up the DARPA program managers to get any funding.

Can you explain this a bit more in the context of the prize program? It looks like a criticism of their grant program, but you follow it with:

> So no, I don't agree that prizes have been successful for DARPA.
Yes, it's limited. The average soda consumption of an American teenager is over 3 cans a day.
The Goons is an atmospheric physics puzzler game.It has got innovative game mechanics which is new to gaming industry.Stuffed with nice graphics and soothing soundtracks the levels are pretty challenging and fun to play.
I think not.

If you have the impulse to go fast, think about prototyping whatever it is you are trying to do, if you can. You should agree with yourself to dispose of the prototype completely. By the time you've gone through debugging the prototype you'll know much of what is needed to do the real thing.

Obviously, this doesn't always work. In those cases, whiteboards, pen and paper, even a text document can help.
I only wish that there'd be a way to flash a custom ROM on an Android phone... hmmm....
It seems NES was made by multiple manufacturers in Brazil: http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/nes/brazil/brazil.html
One has to consider the amount. 5 micro cans is equal to 1 standard 20 oz. (at least in US sizes). Both of these pale in comparison to having it once a week at a restaurant where you get refills and likely lose count.
If you're on a Windows OS (newer than WinME) then you can just enable IIS and start using it on your PC.

If you have Server 2003 or 2003 R2, you have IIS 6.0.
If you have Windows Vista or Server 2008, you have IIS 7.0.
If you have Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2, you have IIS 7.5.
If you have Windows 8 or Server 2012, you have IIS 8.0.
If you have Windows 8.1 or Server 2012 R2, you have IIS 8.5.

You'll have to open firewall ports and do other network things to let internet users get to it, but it's great for local development.

Also check out http://www.iis.net/
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If the OP is also going to be using ASP.NET MVC, two additional recommended courses on Microsoft Virtual Academy are:

Introduction to ASP.NET MVC
https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/en-US/training-cours...

Implementing Entity Framework with MVC
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/impl...
We tend to see it as there are many more people in the world who aren't developers that get some valuable data as opposed to guessing or using their gut. For developers, we still have a manual way to do this.
Don't want to bring politics here. I just could not believe why in the world why Congress/Sonia wouldn't give him second term and brought in Pratibha Patil who abused her privilege as a President ( In news for changing her portrait picture N times because she didn't liked how she looked, Taking her whole extended family > 30+ to all foreign trips, and making Rashtrapati Bhavan a guest house/extended vacation place for them). Abdul Kalam inspired the children and young people of India. He was an icon. She did zilch. How could they disgrace Adbul Kalam and India like this? What were they thinking?
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The standard Microeconomics¹ analysis is clear:

If an employee is paid $10/h and produces $12/h of value for the employer, the employer makes a profit of $2/h and will want to keep the employee. If they must pay $15/h this becomes a $3/h loss, and the employee will be fired.

It's hard to see where the size of the country would enter into this.

Of course, if a raised minimum wage causes higher unemployment etc, this will have macro economic effects, but that's secondary effects.

¹ A more descriptive name for this branch of Economics would be "Price Theory", but we're stuck with the name.
Why was the fact that he was the president removed from the title?

Please update to: "Nuclear scientist and former president of India, Abdul Kalam, has died"
You can buy old Itanium hardware super-cheap now on eBay. I got an HP Integrity RX2620 for £58 which included tax and delivery.

As hardware goes it's .. interesting. It's fast. But it uses huge amounts of power and requires massive cooling (if you disable any of the 4 or 5 fans in my 2U machine, it overheats in 5 minutes). It has early EFI which should be quite familiar if you've used UEFI on the command line. And it has excellent iLO / remote / serial support so it's great practice for learning about enterprise ops.

It's getting hard to find software that runs on it. The last Debian (Wheezy) runs, but current Debian has dropped ia64 support. RHEL dropped support years ago. You'll find there are lots of strange bugs because people no longer test their software on this platform.

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2015/05/03/raise-the-itanic-part-...

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2014/09/08/raise-the-itanic/#cont...
Wouldn't bringing food from home fix the diet issue, as you're presumably cooking your own food?
UX Triage; What I have learned performing UX Audits around the globe
I've been flying RC for over 30 years. I learned the hard way. When it was time to learn to fly my first heli (TRex 500) I got both Real Flight and Phoenix. I probably logged over 100 hours on both.

I like Phoenix better for heli. Once I got past the basics it felt like Real Flight had just enough control latency to make it more difficult. The context for this is comparing actually flying the real heli against training on the sim.

Because of the approach I took I had exactly zero crashes with the TRex 500. Which is good 'cause I have somewhere between $1,500 to $2,000 into it with all the upgrades.

Today, when I teach someone to fly, I follow a progression on a sim from a pure glider to various powered planes. It works like a charm.
Algorithms.js by felipernb
Meteor: Using Synchronous Libraries – WrapAsync and BindEnvironment
Talked to a infosec savvy friend about this issue, and he responded that with a private repo via github, and directory listing disabled, the risk of information being retrieved from a .Git directory is low. However, looking through the responses here, I don't see any mention of this.

Without directory browsing, is it exorbitantly difficult to rebuild the contents of a .git folder from the known parts of a repo, eg, .Git/config, .Git/HEAD? I'm a novice when it comes to git, been relying on the github GUI, so I don't really know where to start.

Thank you for any insight!
Ask HN: Reduce database operations and development complexity and cost
Developers today are combining multiple databases to meet the performance and reliability requirements of their apps.
This increases the cost and complexity of building apps. To solve this problem, we have combined memcached, lucene and PostgreSQL
into a fully managed service for developers.

Your feedback on the architecture and also interests are welcomed.

More details here: http://www.amisalabs.com/
> It's incredible how lightly they have thrown away the Google+ Account For Everything stance given how merciless they were in imposing it at the time.

Good example of Strong opinions, Weakly-held.
They have a collection of resources including recommended readings: http://rationality.org/videos/
Great comment. Who now is liable for the damage caused by hacking Android phones with this vulnerability — Google, manufacturer, carrier, or the user?

Perhaps as we get more physical hacking events that are easy for the media to cover, companies will start taking this seriously. If so, I'll guess that Google will assume that responsibility in exchange for more Apple-like control over the update process. There's no other sane way.
Google is dropping its Google+ requirement across all products
Why stop with the implementors? Why not also blame the janitors that clean the office they work in? Why not blame the project managers to oversee the project? Or the politicians who approved funding for the technology? Or the voters who voted the politicians into office?

The human need to assign blame to a single source is an evolutionary remnant that we should be aware of and try to correct for, rather than embracing it. Just because something is terrible doesn't mean you can put all the blame for it on one person or group of people.
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Buyers of a stock know that a restriction on short selling is most likely temporary. So if they buy now, as soon as the restriction is lifted, they can guess that the stock price will go down. So why not wait until things have returned to normal?
Are you from Europe, out of curiosity? Anecdotally that seems to be way more common there than in the U.S., for some reason.
Well, limited compared to a national average, sure, but the national average is terrifying.

Is it better? Well, yeah.

But it's still a daily habit, which still doesn't seem great, particularly as it sets the tone for the kids that soda every day is a perfectly fine and normal thing.
> we need a way for engineers and scientists to feel accountable for the outcomes of their work, and to straight out refuse working on such projects.

One difficulty, not just here but with pacifism in general, is the asymmetry of violence. For your scheme to work, we would need close to 100% cooperation from engineers. For war hawk politicians to get their weapons, they need just a handful of engineers.

"Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always." — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing
Anti-abortion hackers claim to have breached Planned Parenthood
Too true, fruit juice and smoothies can be very bad for you. If you tried to eat the same fruit that was juiced into your drink you would struggle. There is a lot of fibre and other things which limit sugar consumption from unprocessed fruit.
Here's the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqHrTtvFFIs
Feedly probably isn't claiming those numbers with any basis in reality. In particular, many people made Feedly accounts in a hurry out of panic when the shutdown was announced. Having used both, I highly doubt users of Reader are still regular users of Feedly.
Kids in India Are Sparking Urban Planning Changes by Mapping Slums
Ask HN: STEM partners for middle school in Lakebay, Washington
Hey, I am Jeri Goebel, principal at Key Peninsula Middle School. For 11 years, we have been a NASA Explorer school, offering students, staff, parents and the community many aerospace experiences, events, staff development, and student trips. Over the past three years, our school has become a STEM school offering interesting classes such as CAD, Forensics, Multi-Media Productions, Robotics, and Intro to Manufacturing.

My problem is that I am looking for new partners and ideas to help work with and guide our teachers in offering more rigorous and interesting projects. Currently we offer your typical egg drop exercise and other programs I find are limited in rigor and provided limited in-depth scientific experiences.

Could the Y-Combinatory community please help with directing me toward more interesting group activities? Also, are any of you in the area willing to help direct some of these activities?
How often is that how it is run?
There is a lot of evidence that even the sugars naturally present in fruit are not good for you in large amounts either, e.g. in fruit juices. Oranges are best consumed as oranges, not as orange juice, which contains all of the sugar and none of the good stuff like fiber. Also drinking a single glass of orange juice equates to eating a whole bunch of oranges at once, which just doesn't sound healthy.
The interdependency of Stanford and Silicon valley
Here is a good write up on the trade offs between the two: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/237762
More info is available at Polygon:

http://www.polygon.com/features/2015/7/27/9046895/razer-ouya...
> if you disable any of the 4 or 5 fans in my 2U machine, it overheats in 5 minutes

Huh, I would have expected better redundancy given how expensive the hardware must have been at the time.
Even more - such job can be perfectly handled by a Makefile.
Coca Cola company:

Revenue: US$ 46.854 billion (2013)
Operating income: US$ 10.228 billion (2013)
Net income: US$ 8.584 billion (2013)

Not sure that's going to happen any time soon :(
There are successful precedents with biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. Of course no treaty is perfect, but I'd argue that they've helped.

As for punishments, isn't the standard punishment trade sanctions? They seem to be reasonably effective.
Well, we can emulate an x86 PC: http://win95.ajf.me
This is pretty awful code. I saw "buffer[size] = 0" and assumed immediately that was a past-the-end write, but they actually allocate size + 1 bytes. Urgh.

Next they introduced a check for strings shorter than 6 bytes because that's the shortest possible valid string. Why not just check for a valid encoding in the first place? There are too many implicit assumptions about the data going on here and not enough actual validation.

This entire module needs scrapping and rewriting with a proper FSM/parser generator.

And why is an MPEG4 metadata decoder directly handling UTF anyway?
I find it incredibly amusing and also very frustrating that all the top comments to this article are simply G+ re-shares that add absolutely no value to the comments section and simply more garbage the reader has to sift through in order to view legit comments.

>>"Google has been doing some rethinking"
thanks I already read that

>>"#googleplusupdate #youtube "
thank you that was valuable

>>[another summary of the article I just read]

This is also one of my major complaints with youtube. I find it hard enough just to follow a single youtube comment thread because:

1. Everyone appears to be speaking a dialect of english that is understandable seemingly to everyone but myself - some sort of strange mixture of 90's IRC speak with some klingon thrown in.

2. People are replying to users but the reply username doesn't match the display username.

John Smith: That was a great video

> Jane Smith: +Bubba I agree

me: "who the heck is Jane talking to?"

3. Then finally there're all of those G+ reshares:

John Smith: Look at this video: http://www.youtube.com/asdf83289

> John Smith's friend: I enjoyed that video

</rant>
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No, you misunderstand that. Strong opinions, Weakly held refers to dropping your misguided opinion when the first evidence against it appears. Google held their strong opinion until their product was just about dead.
Yes, that's certainly possible too.
Why would one expect the usefulness of their Ouya console to change and be anything other than useless? (this is a joke at Ouya's expense, I am pointing it out because based on my past experience making jokes here someone will take this seriously and get all defensive about how great Ouya is)

Seriously though in 12 months Ouya will be 3 years old, I don't think expecting a company to actively support a piece of cheap (affordable for those that find the word cheap insulting) hardware for more than 3 years is a reasonable expectation. Ouya had already added the play store I thought (as pointed out below, I thought wrong), and so discontinuing support will probably amount to the Ouya store ceasing to exist and a lack of future patches. I mean its a device to play games mainly in a local manner, it will continue to be able to do that as well as it can now.
> "too full of certainties"

This is one of the worst possible qualities to have in finance... well, unless you're on the sell-side.
All the time if you use libvirt. Also libvirt adds SELinux protection on platforms that support SELinux.
They did, however, seed the community of initial users with real names by literally cherrypicking individuals at colleges from face books. So Facebook was always a place where it felt like one should be using one's real name, not "+X+ babyjoe23 +X+"

Keep in mind, Google already had experience with two social networks they owned. The Real Names policy probably didn't fall from the sky as an idea without merit; they might have had reason to believe that without enforcing real-world names, the resulting social network wouldn't get Facebook traction.
It seems that the author of the program himself isn't proud anymore, omitting the accomplishment of making and naming it from his CV.
There is definitely a use-case for being able to play wherever without being tied to a location even when at home. Plus the fact that you don't need to install anything on the client machines.