skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously? They expect pre-orders based on a test video in an aquarium tank? I love the idea but this is very early. I'm excited to see where it goes.

edit: I see the pre-order link just takes you to a 'sign up for updates' form.
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Germany Says Taking Photos of Food Infringes the Chef's Copyright
Another useful brief overview - http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/han...
In NZ we use GIANT orange felt pens to mark our ballots, good luck hiding one anywhere.

I've heard that pencils are sometimes used to prevent an attacker from substituting pens at the polling booth, with modified pens containing disappearing ink, but that seems like a problem better controlled by using new, easily identifiable pens each election.

As for serialising the ballot-sheets, that enables a third party to check that a person they coerced into voting a certain way actually did as instructed, which undermines the value of a secret ballot.
Here is a link that doesn't 404 :

https://www.google.com/get/sunroof/about/
Jason, You continue to make me feel awesome about humanity. Say hello to socks for me.
Refactoring Fat Models with DCI
Its already set up as a software-as-a-service for $29 a month.
It's ironic how there's a strain of progressives that want nothing to do with human progress.
This is really needed! I'm on a renal diet and I have to watch every number like protein, sodium, phosphorus, potassium, fat, etc. I struggle day by day cobbling things in google docs online because the tools online don't suffice.
Why didn't they just fall back to paper and pencil, and manual counting? We've been doing that in the Netherlands since election machines were discredited after a successful campaign by hackers. Haven't had any real problems with it.
Good point. Too bad it remains the most viable open-source mobile OS around.
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Try http://www.mapdwell.com/en/boston . The City of Boston has already done a solar survey with the MIT spinoff MapDwell.
The fate of the manuals are not known to be heading to the Internet Archive just yet. It's quite likely they'll end up there though. At least for digitalizing and scanning them in.

I however join you in applauding Manuals Plus in letting these go. It must be hard for them.
If you move the clocks together physically, and synchronize them, this removes a large degree of the concern about instantaneous communication (this probably makes communication faster than your tolerances)
Yes, I want to include that. There are a couple problems — incomplete nutrition profiles for certain foods, and slightly different foods having very different micronutrients (vitamins and minerals). For example, while a homemade cheeseburger and a cheeseburger from McDonald's have very similar macronutrients, they may have completely different micronutrients.

That said, general guidelines can still be given. It's important to remember that, in general, the amount of calories consumed matters the most. Other information is important too, though.
Disclosure: I work for Iron.io

If you're open to a hosted solution, check out IronWorker: http://www.iron.io/worker

It's an async task processing service with a built-in job scheduler. You can upload your python scripts to Iron.io, then set schedules and other triggers to execute on-demand. We have a dashboard to manage tasks and schedules, see what ran and what failed, and you can visualize the characteristics you're looking for. We do distribute the workloads for you, but sounds like it could be a good fit.
To interject, to me it seems that it is actually a counter-example, and I do not follow your reasoning. (A)'s argument is that murderers are criminals, but thieves are not murderers, and therefore cannot be criminals. The lack of logical validity of that argument aside, (B) refutes it instead by providing (quite literally) a counter-example: (A) is both a thief and a criminal. Therefore, if (B)'s assertion is true, (A)'s argument cannot be correct, for if it were correct, then (A) could be a thief or a criminal, but never both.

Since this is a logical argument, it prejudges the matter to conclude that the standard of evidence required for (B)'s assertion should be any different than that for (A)'s assertion. We know (A)'s assertion to be false without any extra information. If there were external details of evidence that could be introduced, then (A)'s assertion would still be false. (B)'s assertion, however, might then still be either true or false, depending on the extra lemmas. As the example does not make additional information necessary and does not mention additional information, it is an error to arrive at an interpretation in which additional information is required to make sense of the matter. (One can always arbitrarily arrive at such an interpretation.)
I have no idea what is going on over there. People had to have been throwing money hand over fist to allow them to fail so badly and keep going.

Reports have indicated that Magic Online is around 17% of Magic's revenue ($43 million out of $250 million).
Another app & site pricing resource also from a designer/developer-for-hire service is http://howmuchtomakeanapp.com/
Upon cursory use their estimates seem to be much higher than Gigster's, which could be a valuable thing to show potential clients come quoting time.
Which is no longer a useful assumption when pages can be independently displayed and linked, and then disseminated. I had to look at these comments to even understand that my guess was somewhat true.
Steve didn't understand OO at the time. Not in the least. Steve was completely non-technical, and he knew that UNIX was standard and didn't want us putting something new and untested in it. I can't tell you how many times I tried to explain OO concepts to him (lots of us tried, over and over.) So, to him, an OO toolkit was something that would make us too complex for developers looking for an easily understood UNIX system. He told us that he was relying on people's existing understanding of UNIX - that would allow them to adopt our system.
Münster’s iconic ‘waste of space’ photo keeps on giving
I suppose you could write a grunt or gulp task to parse all of the files after jekyll has generated them and run them through typeset. It might be slightly challenging to ensure that only the actual article content gets ran through typeset and not any other content.

Unfortunately, I use Github pages so this wouldn't work for that from what I can tell.
How is this better than going the Cloudformation route? (genuinely curios)

Seen Cloudformation coupled with Chef or Puppet. I don't see why Ansible would not work in the later stages of bringing up the machines, but personally think it's overkill to do everything via an Ansible playbook.
Can you? When we're talking about N machines per each voting point, even volume pricing of MS Access may be larger than a dedicated box. Of course the price of designing a dedicated box is non-zero. But if you can reduce the dedicated box spec to <=$100 and reduce the scope of any review (you're not reviewing the whole OS anymore), I'm not sure laptops would be cheaper.
Not necessarily. Even if we successfully developed a room temperature superconductor, there would still be huge commercial hurdles. Cost, mechanical stability, thermal stability, manufacturability, transportability, sensitivity to heat waves, reliability, critical field (which limits current), density, tensile strength, etc. Also, while $22 billion in annual savings sounds big, the grid is extremely capital intensive, and would take decades and trillions of dollars to upgrade.
This is great! I've had a hard time finding examples of pro-grade ansible playbooks that deploy entire products across multiple environments. I've had to assemble dozens of randomly obtained ideas piece by piece over the years, but it'd be fantastic if there were more full projects for reference out there. Any idea where one could find more complete examples for best practice reference?
Wow, really impressive. Hopefully there's no downsides because that's quite the renewable energy source! Even if its relatively minor, if its even 1% of a metropolis's power then why not go for it if its also treating the sewage at the same time!
Some spreadsheet users discover programming and take to it, which is great. Others have the opposite reaction—writing scripts doesn't fit how they like to think or work. It sounds like you are the first kind of user; the ones I was thinking of are the latter.
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If it is him its great to see that he's still alive.

What does he mean when he says "I will declare this project failed?" Is that just his opinion or can he shut down bitcoin?
This is not new. Orianna bretschger has process scale microbial fuel cells cleaning sewage and generating power, in operation for example at whitelabs brewers yeast repository in California
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> I am sure they would never fall for this.

I hope that is sarcasm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupon#Business_model
> Consider for a moment the possibilities of Wi-Fi-fitted lampposts, each with its own IP address

I hope they're talking about IPv6, not IPv4.
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We stock over 400,000 manuals

The original estimate[1] was only(!) 25k, so that explains the need to order more boxes.

[1] http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4683
If you can trace a vote to a person, through force or otherwise, then you can coerce said person to vote however you like.

"Vote for this guy or you're fired" type stuff
Freelancer.com isn't "former VWorker".

VWorker.com (which was formerly rentacoder.com) has been bought up by Freelancer.com, which co-existed for some time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VWorker
I guess it depends on what you count as government support.

For example if you pay $50k for your installation, you could depreciate it within 5 years or so by 85%, which reduces your tax payments in total, at a 35% tax rate, by $15k.

That's $15k saved, whether you call that government support depends on whether you think that's 'normal business depreciation' or 'solar specific fiscal policy' I guess.

Same with RECs, they're government support in the sense the government sets requirements on companies to buy them, thus creating a market for solar producers to sell them. This isn't energy being sold, it's more like a carbon tax thingy. You could see that purely as a tax on non-renewables (which imo it is), or as government support to renewables (which it's technically structured as).

So the federal tax benefit, while large, is far from the only incentive.
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I remember those days, and I remember Steve saying many of those things. Steve didn't have any deep understanding of what he was saying, and he spent a lot of time working on the wording of those sentences - practicing them over and over with a few of us in Engineering and Product Management. He created those sentences based on what engineers were telling him - reformulating them into his personal style. Really, Steve would often say that he couldn't do what we were doing, but he could help sell it. He described himself as a marketing guy - and that is what he was.
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Yes - a recommended read. In a similar vein: http://www.jordanmechner.com/backstage/journals/
What an amazing effort. In case someone local wants to join in:

The warehouse is located in Finksburg, MD, about 30 miles northwest of Baltimore.

[taken from the original post of the issue: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4683]
I originally wrote cookingspace because I need to track how much vitamin K is in my diet.
Can I ask for more detail explaining your aversion to homebrew? Just curious…
Analysis of a piece of ransomware in development: the story of ‘CryptoApp’
Take a look at loglan, lojban out of curiosity if you want to.

If you want to spend effort and learn them, reconsider learning "normal" foreign language that comes from another language family. Even if potentially using Loglan/Lojban you might be able to phrase relationships in ways that your native language does not allow, chances are, that you are merely transpiling your native language into loglan.

If you learn a foreign language, you will be confronted with material and native speakers of that language, eventually this means that you are faced to learn their concepts and perception of the world. Think about learning a language that is not from the same language family as yours, or at least try to find a language that conceptionally has differences.

For all speakers of european languages (English, Romance languages, Welsh/gaelic, Slavic languages), I highly recommend learning Turkish for that matter. It is kind of a logical language in the sense that it has a strong emphasis on grammar and regularity. It is spoken by a whole bunch of Turkish expats all over the world.
OK, one of my titles was Global Head of Freemium Channel, so here is my take:

1)I've never seen a freemium business reach above 15% paid users from total active base - if your economics cannot support this for a long time, get out right away. Most freemium business are roaches surviving on 1-5% conversions.

2) Freemium works best when:

- User has to urgently do something now that is limited (faster=paid, free= slow, those annoying download places that make you wait 1 min for each download or sign up to download now do make money of this simple fact)

- User finds content worth paying for in the sea of free content (NYT)

- User has low barriers to start, but would be hard to leave (e.g. upload photos) service

- User uses service, then gets to bill usage to others (e.g. malware software, document delivery, b2b stuff)

- User base can easily reach limits of free service and will require more eventually (e.g. data storage)

- User base can clearly be defined as amateur vs. professionals, and the professionals will need more features and pay (e.g. Wordpress plugins, Salesforce API apps, etc...)

- User base will be so large the business can be sustained with advertising (what most people want to build but ends up failing all the time - cant get done properly without a miracle)

My advice is start with the paid, always. It will give you a realistic conversion result + you can always go lower/free later. If some people already want to pay you, take their money!
You might want to bill first, offer the freemium solution later via email to 'grow' truly interested users that would convert at some point. Freemium 'fools' a lot of business who do NOT track everything religiously.

The freemium business is fragile like a soufle, so when everything is perfect it works but when not, its an epic fail. Proceed with caution.
Threaten to file a complaint to the FTC, as previously mentioned.

In general there is always someone you can complain to.

Also often times there are local mom&pop places that are resellers and pay to piggyback on the line. Except they tend to actually provide the advertised speeds. Only problem is they also tend to be a bit more expensive. Although if you only have the one provider, I don't know if the resellers are even a thing...
Solid Electrolyte Paves the Way for Batteries with Almost Indefinite Lifetimes
Warning people isn't the issue. Apple is without question in a position to distribute a patch more rapidly and more widely than anyone else. It has nothing to do with trusting them because they are a 'corp'.

There is nothing 'entitled' about the opinion that it's wrong to distribute information about malware publicly where it can be used by bad actors, without first giving vendors a chance to distribute a fix.
I truly believe that calorie counting is just a big waste of time. sure you can pin point all the macros your eating, but unless your training for a competition or are a pro bodybuilder, than I believe just eating healthy and eating a lot each day would help you gain muscle. some good information on proper dieting is on this website I recently check out called http://bodyweightburnreviews.com/ See for yourself If your interested...
The Guy Who Lives in a Boeing Airplane in the Forest
There’s a scene in the third Jurassic Park movie, which if you are unfortunate enough to remember- involves a young man living in an abandoned research facility as he hides from badly CG’d dinosaurs. http://www.aviationfigure.com/the-guy-who-lives-in-a-boeing-airplane-in-the-forest/
It doesn't function as a detector for both, it functions as a detector for either. I'm not being pedantic, there is a subtle difference. ALARM -> EARTHQUAKE is false: the correct theorem is ALARM -> (EARTHQUAKE | BURGLAR). If the alarm goes off then you have no certain knowledge about which one caused it, only probabilities.
Completely useless; mildly entertaining. . . De ja vu ?
> There's a big chunk of the sports year that is a complete waste-land, between the end of the NBA/NHL finals and the start of NFL preseason

That's about two months or so, and while regular season baseball and Major League Soccer may not be interesting to you personally, they still draw bigger crowds than the NBA or NHL and, at least on a regional level, get significantly more support.
Sometimes I am a bit too subtle :)

I suspect the real business model for most of these high-growth-without-a-plan-to-make-a-profit businesses is really eyeball exhaustion. The big players like google and facebook can monetize eyeballs, but they can only do this if they have people on their platforms. A loss making business can grab enough eyeballs that they will significantly affect the bottom line of the large players. The large players have to respond by buying up these startups and shutting them down.

As long as the VCs don’t back too many of these types of startups then it should be quite an effective way to shakedown the large players.
Worked for a few items I tested, but failed for "soylent 1.5". That gave me "1.5 pouches Soylent", but what I wanted was "1 pouch Soylent v1.5". But otherwise, I enjoy the simplicity and interface.

I currently use My Fitness Pal on my phone to track calories during bulking and cutting. For the most part, the app is great, especially its database, but it has several quirks that make using it more difficult than it has to be. Putting the Add Food button directly over the advertisements, for example... But more importantly, inputting certain food items can be tedious. For example, logging "204 grams of milk" is difficult, but spe.lt handled that gracefully.

I feel like spe.lt combined with My Fitness Pal's database and a speech-to-text interface would be splendid.
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Luasynth: Audio framework in Lua
I love his work and I honestly recommend it to you guys! :)
This is bad advice based on emotive arguments. Components that were designed in the 1970s aren't a priori bad. E.g. 78xx and LM317 regulators are at least that old, almost as cheap as the sand from which they are made and very reliable.

Instead of throwing perfectly good parts away, better advice would be to properly understand their behaviour and to choose the right part for the job.
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I don't have a good mental model of solids at very high pressures. Temperature is a measure of kinetic energy, but because the atoms are squeezed closer together the stiffness of the lattice is higher, therefore the displacement due thermal vibrations at a given temperature is less.

I wonder if the displacement at 203K and 1.5M atm is similar to the displacement at which conventional BCS superconductors operate.
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What's an example of the C++ conventions you're referring to? I'm looking at the source now trying to identify them. I don't see them. Looks javascripty to me.
I'm yet to come across a data layer for JS that plays nicely with Flow. Even Facebook's Flux struggles with it. I've been trying to work on my own implementation of the "Flux" architecture (unidirectional data flow), but I'm curious whether you know any decent "model" layers that work nicely in the weird statically-typed "JS" world?
Not sure Siri (Wolfram) has Soylent, but you can ask her about "calories in a slice of pizza" or "calories in a cheeseburger" :)

Does anyone know if there is a js-lib where you can subtract units and <subject> from written text like this does?

I have my own database of values I want to try this on.
Searching "Red Wine" -> "1 serving Vinegar"... how dare you, Sir
I understand those arguments, but it doesn't addresses the issue for a very specific reason. What if the problem is the way internally the team works?

When measuring end-to-end, any part of that may influence the final outcome. If, and I am not saying this is true, if there is a tendency to have a few more errors (especially grammatical with it's its) in a non-native tongue, success outcomes MAY point to a bias in interviewing, or in how people interact internally.

Or not. It is just something I wondered, and something it doesn't seem like you've looked at specifically, and understandably as well, because who wants to open themselves to accusations of bias with their own data?
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Tentacles that think
Nice, I even found a dutch entry (Boterham ham en kaa (trailing s is missing?)), which makes me wonder, where do you get the info? Is it reliable?
There is a bit outdated tutorial in https://github.com/combinatorylogic/mbase/tree/master/misc/d...

Also, CLike project was supposed to be a sort of a tutorial.

For a more thoroughly documented, production-ready language workbench you can also try Racket alongside with Nanopass framework.
Thank you for the useful links.
For me its less than 7%. Here are my numbers for last month excluding china: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q9yj8k4cac8xaqb/Screenshot%202015-...
You can use your existing Slack account to login to ScreenHero as well.

If you don't have one, just try registering a free account with Slack, that might work as well.
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Ah, I wasn't picking up on the subtlety; thanks for adding clarity.
Whilst I don't buy into the TDD fad, Testing should not be an advanced topic.
That kind of worked, 1 was HipChat, 1 was somewhat relevant, 2 were social networking products and the last was "Free XXX Webcam Chat, Sex Cams and live swingers"
Ancient underwater plant 'could be world's first flower'
OK, but as an individual homeowner, I can not take depreciation, nor can I sell REC's. I'm just buying solar panels and putting them on my roof ...

... And again, to compare apples to apples, you'd have to tease apart the tax benefits given to existing energy companies over the years to get a real accounting.
​The Race to Save the Vaquita, the World’s Most Endangered Marine Mammal
I'd assume it's a private network, why would they need public IPs?
I've had a glance at MtG and my first thought was that this thing must be a nightmare to code with all the cards that change rules of the game. Anybody care to comment whether that's the case and how well did they cope with the complexity?
really interesting!
question I have is: are there other areas with high losses that this could change the game for? For instance, large induction furnaces, or a space elevator?
I can't convey how I grateful I am to you. I haven't been so excited by any service in a long time. This is awesome!
On my case, was a ZX Spectrum +3 and a custom made (build by my father) PC with a AMD 80386 and an early SVGA card .

Really I had good memories of these little machine and of the few games that I had on it.