skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing you can do to make this use-case work better is to combine the spreadsheet as API with a static site generator.

I made this very basic plugin for Jekyll:

https://github.com/netlify/jekyll-gdrive

That'll let you use a Google spreadsheet as a datasource and expose the data to your liquid templates.

Combine it with something like https://www.netlify.com that'll run the builds for you and let you trigger builds via webhooks, and you have a Google spreadsheet based publishing engine where the final sites are completely static and live straight on a CDN.

Used it for one site where we used the scripting options of Google spreadsheets to add a "Publish Now" image button to the sheet, so in the end user could edit the the sheet, and then press "Publish" to trigger a build+deploy.

If the users are already used to spredsheets, it can be a really handy little anti CMS :)

[disclaimer: I'm a founder of netlify]
Fwiw, a deep-learning startup that's doing some pretty cool satellite imagery analysis is Orbital Insight http://orbitalinsight.com/. So deep nets are all over deep space...

(I'm aware of them because I work on another deep learning project, http://deeplearning4j.org)
Welp, I don't think I'll ever read anything from Wired again.
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If this was done slowly, it could be an extremely effective strategy. Not too different from what Berkshire did with See's Candies.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/07/13/warren-buff...
It should be noted, (although I may be alone here on this) I'm not seeing any ads on the Apple News story. My guess, is the story is to gauge traffic and _ad potential_.
History has proven that when?
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I think I was clear in that I wasn't talking about isolated incidents. comrh wrote "the beginning of the GG movement was mainly a force to harass people", and Karunamon - who has also been defending GG on this thread - agreed.

If a civil rights movement had started for the purpose of doing unacceptable acts, I would definitively judge the people who chose to associate with it. (Of course, I'd excuse a lot from a civil rights movement that I wouldn't excuse from a movement dedicated to fighting bad gaming journalism - regardless of the merits of their claims.)
We import all kinds of stuff from all over the world and enforce quality standards very well. The current situation is more like protectionism than consumer protection in many cases.
Seems to me a number of the highly visited communities are going down this path.
How would this proposal solve any problems? The executives of the firm are the ones who, ahem, actually decided to break the law. Why should they keep their freedom, to say nothing of their jobs? The various index funds and pension plans that you want to penalize were never informed of the scheme.
Assuming an advanced alien civilization can detect and interact with neutrinos in some way, neutrino communications could be very cost effective. They need only focus a beam from the flood of neutrinos coming from their parent star.

Lacking that, I can't imagine sending matter would be very cost effective relative to radio.
When I do it it's networking and growth hacking.

When she does it she's a dirty whore, cheating on her partner and exploiting and manipulating men. (and whether actually did this or not is irrelevant, we're going to keep saying she did and supporting that with total bullshit).
I find that comment amusing. Wasn't it Tomcat or some other high profile Java project that exhibited behaviour with security implications identical with Heartbleed, shortly after?
> How usable is Servo currently?

... Ish. Works good enough for browsing (i.e. googling stuff and reading), but sites with complex interaction (eg Gmail) don't work too well.

No, security is not fully implemented.

> Has anyone in the team switched to using it for all their browsing?

Last semester I used it for all my web-based studying.

I'm also getting us close to be able to use it for Github things. Reddit shouldn't be hard either.
You might also check out Syncany if you're interested in client-side encryption or Syncthing if you're looking for something more Bittorrent Sync like.
Someone wrote an implementation of COMEFROM (a joke response to the Dijkstra article) along with GOTO in Python for an April fools' day joke as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM
URL changed from http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/3409/a-history-of-bootst..., which points to this.
Who cares why they're doing it--the point is that their money-making endeavors have the effect of saving lives, while other companies spend tons of capital on things that do not have the effect of saving lives.

And who is out there willing to spend billions developing new drugs while giving them away for free? The patent system certainly isn't stopping those people.
OK, forget about the visa things. It's another story.
Many people here give an advice that just find a company in the US that has office in our hometown, or do a remote work with US companies.
For me, I did it. And now I'm working in the US. There are many huge different.
The most important thing is the developer's culture, since developers here in the SV keep asking something like: "What's that company building?", the developers in outsourcing countries just ask: "How many (outsource) projects does this company having?"
Just a simple thing like that enough to see the big different about the environment. That's why I think we should choose SV instead of remote work.
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Only kind of. If someone hasn't seen fit to write the code for a 240 hz morse code filter, you don't get one. Or a very advanced AGC filter. Those are "easy" because you could modify an existing set of code, assuming open source application. GNUradio has a compile/run architecture although you can build rather highly configurable real time systems so it's "close" to programming in real time.

Harder is something like "digital radio monodiale" which aside from having an unfortunate acronym is a digital shortwave voice modulation scheme... without having the specs in front it would be very hard to decide where to start. There are military intelligence people who do exactly this stuff with captured enemy signals, given an enormous head start of knowing the rough technology level of the other side and maybe some stolen documents. Still its not easy for them. A good analogy would be imagine a radio intelligence officer in WWII heard some 8VSB over the air broadcast TV from 2015... honestly I think you'd end up with question marks for at least 50 years trying to figure that signal out in 1940.

Right now, perhaps we are getting a 40 dB below the noise digital data signal from space aliens. Without any idea how to build the specific demod, we're going to get nowhere, and a level that low below the noise floor will not show up on any normal waterfall so we'd likely miss it.

Existing modes tend to reflect hardware ability. So some gear some of the time is stable enough to use WSPR modulation which is an ultra low bandwidth digital mode for HF (shortwave)... some gear drifts in frequency too much to use it, today. Oscillator stability can be improved to make it work, but replacing the IF stages with A/D converters won't do it, takes more than just doing demodulation in software with SDR instead of in hardware to fix the root frequency stability problem. Its possible space aliens modulation method would assume close in phase noise or IMD performance beyond 2015 capabilities, because for them its trivial star trek dilithium crystal stuff or whatever, but we're not going to invent the noise free monochromatic oscillator for another 150 years or whatever, so the front end performance of our radios wouldn't be good enough even with a preprogrammed SDR on the back end to demodulate. Another example, we don't have the technology today or the legal framework to do "real" beyond ultra wide band RF work, but there's no reason to think space aliens wouldn't.
This is Volkswagen we're talking about...
I built a business strategy robot. Answer a handful of yes/no questions, get actionable advice for free. http://taprun.com/robot/
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I use similar solution: my own shell script with inotify + timeout + unison over ssh. Unison is much better suited for two-way synchronization than rsync.
moot stated that his reasons for leaving 4chan this year have to do with the personal stress of managing such a volatile community, especially with the vitriol of the gamergaters holing up on the boards. For the previous 12 years he wasn't making very much money and at one point he took on tens of thousands of dollars of debt to keep the site operational.

Whether or not he's making money with the sale now is beyond the point; he clearly wasn't running 4chan as a monetary venture.
pdf2htmlEX (https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX) would be another route if you aren't concerned about preserving the semantics of the markup. Obviously you would to go LaTeX -> PDF -> HTML5. It maintains the paginated style and looks good for scientific papers (example: http://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/demo.html)
How to make large 2-D sheets
Well Apple could simply be holding up Job's legacy by doing their damn best to control advertising content/revenue simply to damage Google.

There are a serious number of iOS devices out there, considering Apple's history with books, movies, and even music, who isn't to say they simply see this market as a win win, win in there is more money to be had, win in that it damages google; whom Jobs didn't like one bit for copying so much of what the iPhone brought to the table
> Now the movie, that was definitely meant to be satire. Which is why so many fans of the book hate it.

Ironically, many people hated the movie because they didn't recognize that it was satirizing the (apparently) pro-military book.
There was a massive loss in wealth across most asset classes during the last crash without any significant price deflation, so I feel like this is empirically not true.

Yes, if you held cash in 2007, you beat the market, but you weren't wealthier than you were the year before.
Wired have now joined apple on my list of companies to boycott for life. Personally I'll be adding any company to the list that joins in with this kind of crap - deliberately creating an online 'second class' is unacceptable. Don't let these bastards win.
The internet is run by an unaccountable private company. This is a problem
Timed exclusives are already frustrating in video games, I don't need them creeping into my reading :(
> focus on how much value you can bring to the company

That's the companies view point. You're selling them something and

they want the biggest bang for the buck.

You want the biggest buck for the bang.

Most sums paid in this industry aren't based on working skills, but on negotiation skills.

If there are loopholes in the negotiation that enable some of the parties to make false claims to increase their chances, they will use them.
It seems unlikely that the DOJ will continue this into the next administration, it has become increasingly politicized throughout this one (and arguably over the last 40 years or even longer). Perhaps every agency faces an unavoidable politicization if it survives long enough, and since they are never abolished or fundamentally restructured, they will all eventually fall victim to it.
Death and rape threats are not 'valid criticism'.
True but you could spawn rsync with a different tool that uses inotify, for example: http://git.quitesimple.org/adhocify/tree/README
It is not a coincidence, /pol/ is flypaper to keep those people out of the other boards.
I don't really agree, at least when it comes to photography. Photographers care more about low light performance than they do about megapixels, for example, but there's a simple reason for build quality taking a back seat to features:

Fifty years ago, next year's camera would be 3% better. Nowadays, next year's camera will be 100% better. Why would you spend money on build quality for a camera that will be de facto obsolete in two or three years?
While broadly true, this is an area where counterfeiting is easier, detection is difficult, enforcement is harder, and legitimate manufacturing is often expensive.

In other words, exactly the conditions to encourage all kinds of abuses.
Imagine all the for-profit stuff on the internet went away. The remainder would still be one of the most useful things ever created by humanity.
It's almost never pointed out that Adam Smith, in his free market theory, was arguing for the efficacy of "enlightened" self-interest. I encourage readers to research this aspect of his theory, and how it contrasts with "unenlightened" self-interest. I think most reasonable people would agree that Adam Smith would categorize this CEO's behavior as unenlightened.
> he wasn't actually alive in the 70's

According to Wikipedia, he was born on October 11, 1967.
Why not use the existing rsync over ssh and ssh-copy-id?

I think newline is valid in filenames in most *nix filesystems, so the possibility to use an alternative RS would be nice.
If your definition of "networking and growth hacking" means writing positive coverage for people you are friends with and/or financially contribute to while not telling people that, your definitions are broken.

It's not okay. It might even be against FTC rules. Full stop, end of story.

By the way, why are we talking about whether if you do it is okay or not when just one post ago you were calling the (sourced, verified) accusations outright lies?

As to who Zoe did or did not sleep with- kind of irrelevant in the long run, but if you're going to bring up any mention of it as perpetuating a lie, I'm obligated to address that.

Eron, her ex, posted a ton of chatlogs on the original post that started this whole thing (including that stupid "five guys burgers" meme).

It doesn't look like a lie to me. If is, it's the most exhaustively fabricated and backed plot I've seen this side of a crazy soap opera.

I'm not asking you to agree with me, here. I'm asking you to exercise the same dispassionate, critical analysis you'd use on any other topic.
Because we've agreed that the public can't hunt these people down and kill them for this kind of nonsense.
That's probably true. But chances are, the better jobs with those savvy HR people might not even have noticed his resume otherwise.
check out "the gervais principle"
Tox-im is peer to peer, and calls work rather well (voice + video).
For anyone in the Vancouver area, Joe is a Guest of Honor at VCON (http://vcon.ca), in the first weekend of October. It's a smallish convention, so GoH are usually easy to find and chat with.

Full disclosure, I am helping put on the convention, but it's a non-profit convention put on by volunteers.
Then I guess I, and Heinlein, read it pretty shallowly, since he's has been quoted as saying his novel glorifies the military. I still really enjoyed the book, but I don't know how you could possibly read it as not a pro military sort of novel. Obviously the point isn't to glorify violence for violence's sake, he attempts to morally justify the use of force in the same as has been customary for generations.
> People who actually harass people are now loudly shouted down wherever they're seen doing it.

This is frequently claimed but there's little evidence of it.

If you even dare to talk about gamergate publicly, you will be dogpiled. If you criticise them, you will receive rape and death threats.
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According to the National Parks Service website, only 41 wolves were released into Yellowstone and it had -major- impacts on fixing the ecosystem there.(Source: http://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/wolves.htm )

It doesn't have to be " a lot" to keep an ecosystem in balance. A species that is there, even in low numbers(near extinction) could be the thread that ecosystem balance is hanging on by.

The issue with extinction is while it's natural for a few species to go extinct, due to human influence we are losing between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than the natural extinction rate. (Source: http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/biodiversity/biodiversi...)

We are part of the ecosystem we are damaging. You may take it for granted that animals continue to pollinate the plants you eat at dinner time. You make take it for granted that vultures cleaning up the dead prevent the spread of disease. There are many other cases of how the ecosystem is all tied together in a way that is integral to the human race's survival.
No, there is polynomial growth, for example.

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Here's an example: If you have a theoretical country that uses an average of 1MW of electricity, and it grows by 5% per year, that's exponential growth. If its usage grows by 50kW per year, then that would be linear growth (one type of polynomial growth). Note that in the first year of this, they both grow by 50kW of usage, but they rapidly diverge:

The difference is that 70 years later, the former will be require about 29MW while the latter will require about 4.5MW
Whether it's "logical" depends on your goals.

If you value public health more than fuel efficiency, then yes, emissions controls are a logical choice.
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It's computationally distinguishable from noise iff you have the decryption key.

The key word here is "computationally". A signal encrypted with a non-OTP symmetric key can be distinguished from noise without the key — unfortunately, for modern key sizes (128, 196, or 256 bits), the cost of doing so is prohibitively expensive for even arbitrarily advanced civilizations, unless (as Brice Schneier put it) they are building computers out of something other than matter that occupy something other than space.
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Yet in your previous comment you were urging people to look at the data... perhaps you should follow your own advice?
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Cloudstitch is another service that gives you a RESTful interface over a Google Sheet. http://www.cloudstitch.com/

I made a video showing how to send a Raspberry Pi's temperature sensor data to a Google Sheet using Cloudstitch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqa9Zkm7pCU
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> Loaded question. This assumes they are doing it to save lives instead of doing it to make money.

Not really. It assumes that the drugs save lives. If you pay $X for drug that was developed to save your live or $X for an identical drug that was developed to do a job and turn a profit, it's the same $X and the same drug.

Why people are doing things is generally less important than that they are. This is one of those cases. Demanding a particular mindset when all other things are equal is a little bit silly.
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If you're interested in this sort of thing, you might also check out https://github.com/llllllllll/codetransformer, which is a general-purpose library for doing these sorts of shenanigans in an almost-sane way. (Disclaimer: I'm one of the library authors).

As an example, I've got a PR open right now that lets you do things like:

@mutable_locals
def f():
out = []
x = 1
out.append(x)
locals().update({'x': 2, 'y': 3})
out.append(x)
out.append(y)
return out

assert f() == [1, 2, 3]

which works using a combination of ctypes hackery and replacing all LOAD_FAST instructions with appropriately-resolved LOAD_NAME instructions.
> Everybody knows that a modern car does not consume so much less fuel than a car of then comparable standard 20 years ago.

Actually a modern car does consume a lot less fuel than models from 20 years ago. CAFE standards have had a great effect.

http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub...

For a new passenger car the average MPG in 1995 was 28.6 and in 2013 (latest available data for that report) was 36 MPG. That's a 25% increase which when multiplied across millions of vehicles is an enormous amount of fuel.
On the contrary, the claim is the truth, and the idea that gamergate is not a harassment campaign is a lie. The original creators of the movement explicitly stated that it was intended to be such, and that 'ethics in game journalism' is a cover story.

Of course, most members of gamergate do not believe they are in a harassment campaign, but why would they? The leaders of the movement will indulge them and tell them what they are doing is just.
I'm very aware of that.

For brevity's sake, I talked about IBM PC hardware because that's what our current x86 hardware is directly descended from.

(If you typed your post on some crazy descendant of the 6502 and/or the Apple II's architecture... then I stand corrected, and please share details of your setup!)
rsync can however take a file list, and inotifywait can produce a file list with the help of awk or sed. Which means you can achieve continuous synchronisation with ~5 lines of shell script. A bit more care if you want to sync two ways.

I've found that my file syncing needs tends to be so varied that most of the dedicated tools I've looked at have almost always been just wrong enough not to be worth it compared to just composing something with rsync and inotifywait.

Of course your mileage will vary.
Quantity has a quality all its own.
It might not be that negligible--in the US alone there are were half million or so diesel VWs sold since 2009--if they are really spewing 40x the limit, then we're talking emissions equivalent to almost 20 million cars that do meet the limit. This is around 1 to 2 years of total new cars sales, or roughly 10% of the active light-duty vehicle fleet in the US.
That is absolutely true, and is also true of clean drinking water, sewage treatment and security of the person. We can choose to make these things available by our common efforts.
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Yes, I absolutely love this book! It is pretty high-level though which is better than nothing and necessary to condense a lot of knowledge into a small-ish book, but less desirable than more technical book with drawings, schematics, precise chemical recipes etc.

Books like that must be created for the same reason insurances exist: you hope you never use it, but when and if (and over long horizons it is more a question of "when") disaster strikes, they are indispensable.
A lot of people joined GG because there is/was no alternative for people who held views opposed to those in the mainstream. It's one of the only groups fighting for unmitigated free speech on the internet. It's made for some strange bedfellows but in the end it's an anti-censorship campaign (that happens to have identified the group pushing for censorship).
A number of malicious apps found in Apple's app store