skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a historical anecdote, this sort of simplified phonetic spelling was championed in the early 1900s by Andrew Carnegie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Spelling_Board
CakePHP. I'm not a big fan but when I was working on a project their chat room was the most supportive helpful I've ever seen.
Because it gets more clicks than "towns in dire economic straits struggle to deal with debt collectors." Zeitgeist etc etc.
That's a great point. I wonder if anybody has curated a list of projects that are good for learning how to work on software. As opposed to perhaps a broader list of projects that are simply good communities.
I didn't watch the video yet, what DB backend does Nubank uses for Datomic?
Purchase is not required to play these games. You can walk into a McDonald's and ask for a game piece and they have to give you one.
Announcement of Visual Studio 2015 Projects to Build GTKmm and GTK+
Droid shot
One cannot accept the parts of established theory that say black holes of a certain size might exist without also accepting the remaining parts that say what a black hole of that size can and cannot do. It's like accepting science enough to believe in cosmological constants, but not accepting science's measurements of those constants.
> people will assume that you are stupid if you can't speak their language fluently

Yep, and this is an unconscious process, as well. If someone doesn't speak any of the languages I know, I find myself thinking "wow they're stupid" even if they're the sage of the mountain, and I hate my brain for it.
> I wonder why the selections and big money squares were not randomized, could it had been a computing limitation?

Keep in mind that this happened in 1984. The board squares were physical panels, and the panel selection software was analog.

In gaming, a random outcome is one the player can't accurately predict or influence. The Press Your Luck board at the time fit that definition, but Larson proved that was not a safe assumption.
And vice versa, you read the word or you have no idea how to write it.
No, that from your own story, avoiding debt doesn't necessarily mean you avoid debt collectors.
From TFA:

>The disparity was not merely because black families earn less than white families. Our analysis of five years of court judgments from three metropolitan areas — St. Louis, Chicago and Newark — showed that even accounting for income, the rate of judgments was twice as high in mostly black neighborhoods as it was in mostly white ones.
This sounds to me like a disappearing problem. Increasingly, people do not need an employer to be useful. Technology enables an individual to accomplish amazing things of great value with minimal cost. When a software engineer retires, what would prevent him from continuing to be a useful member of a software team? A software team is only handicapped by the presence of a centralized corporate structure that requires the team to live in the same geographic area, to be productive enough and lowly paid enough to compensate for the monumental inefficiency of maintaining an office building, multiple layers of management, open floor plan offices in spite of mountains of research showing how detrimental it is to productivity, retention of a 40 hour work week even when 40 hours of productive knowledge work is neither possible nor necessary, etc.
Many of the complaints against debt collection practices are coming from people who aren't debtors, but are being harrassed because they have a phone number that's changed hands or have been misidentified. That's not something one can avoid by not buying things, and for people who've been the victim of this sort of harrassment, it's a big deal and a reason to hate the industry.
Text only should be doable. All of Reddit is less than a terabyte.
I'm less concerned with screw ups than malicious applications. The technology is just getting better and cheaper, controlling access to it ultimately won't be possible.

Natural pathogens have caused an awful lot of suffering, it won't be long before people start designing even more awful variations, if they aren't already.
You can't in good conscience link to the Wiki page on Scots without linking to version in Scots. :)

https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_leid
A possible place to start is Agile Ventures.

http://www.agileventures.org/

If nothing else it may help determine what you content to do.

Good luck.
David Brin's novel Earth posits this very situation where a black hole falls into orbit around the core slowly accumulating mass until mayhem breaks out. Also has a prescient prediction of glassholes.
According to http://www.dhs.gov/real-id-enforcement-brief most states are noncompliant and have received extensions to their deadlines to comply, including 7 of the 10 largest.
That sounds like little more than a theoretical loophole. Almost no one will pay the time and fuel cost to go to a McDonald's if they aren't going to eat anything, and McDonald's knows this.
OnePlus One, although I'll remark that it was a long time ago.
Oh man, don't get me started. I'm trying to learn Spanish, and if I watch a movie from Spain, there's no "v" sound, everything is "b". If I watch a movie from Mexico, it's the other way around! Trying to get the accent right on my trips to Spain are pretty frustrating to me, although it's a pretty minor difference, so it ends up fine.
If you're interested in code review / project management platforms, the ex-facebookers behind the long-running tool, Phabricator, are awesome.
Accounting for income, but not accounting for indebtedness and more crucially, debt delinquency.

It'd be one thing if these lenders were disproportionately targeting black borrowers and letting white borrowers slide. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Tesla wants to make fully self-driving cars happen way ahead of schedule
Product Management: key responsibility areas
> It's impossible to optimize CSS, for example.

That's a bold claim, and it does not square with my experience optimizing CSS implementations. In fact, CSS at its core is well suited for parallel implementations, saturating all CPUs on typical workloads, and its declarative rendering structure maps more naturally to hardware-accelerated graphics APIs than traditional vector graphics APIs do.

Why, specifically, do you think CSS is unoptimizable?
Am I the only one who finds the photo of the spillway intake off-putting?
Retirement is the state of discontinuing employment and living off one's investments/Social Security instead. What's to stop him is that if he continues to be productive towards the ends of some business he is by definition not retired.
I wouldn't be scared to contact a lawyer. The professionals I've contacted (tax people, finance managers, lawyers) have always been upfront if it's not worth their time and about how much things might cost. They'll also usually give you free advice.

Also, lawyers have different payment structures (a percentage instead of hourly) and won't always charge for a consultation. Maybe writing a nasty letter on lawyer letterhead is enough--they might do it for free or bill you 1/4 hour. See if your workplace has free legal council as a benefit.

F*ck you. Pay me. is a really good video I see posted on here periodically: https://vimeo.com/22053820 Lawyers are there to make you money--not take your money.
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As you say, they found a racial, not socioeconomic, difference in debt lifecycles. That's why it's racial.
I think for the average person it's easier to be an employee than an independent worker. Working independently requires much more skills (e.g. permanent negotiation).
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Open Plan Alternatives: Ask Your People
Trivially, there are tremendous numbers of people who, by dint of their normal day-to-day, need expend no effort to get to McDonalds. Have you other objections that can be addressed?
Club de Cuervos looks nice, I've been looking for a Spanish comedy, thanks!
Some survival tips to protect you from this  vulnerable world
I noticed emacs and CLISP both open in CDE about 20s into it.
Odd and also somewhat unrelated, Peter Tomarken is the brother of my next door neighbor growing up. I used to go over to their house and have tea. I knew his brother was a game show host, but didn't know what show or anything... weird to see that pop up.
The "gravity well" of the hole is the same whether it's surrounded by vacuum or matter. The only difference is what can possibly fall in.

That's exactly it -- if the gravity well is a vacuum, then by definition there is nothing to fall into it, and thus nothing to increase the mass, and so the black hole would not grow.
There are modes of living other than just employment and idleness. Entrepreneurship is one, but even if you consider that employment by another name, it's not the only one.
What? "Have got" is used all the damn time! What do you think "gotta" is short for? Most of the time you say "got", there's a "have" in front, especially in things like "I've gotten older".
Thanks for your insight! I definitely agree the environment of uni can be great and don't doubt it will be valuable for me, but I do wonder if the opportunity cost of uni is worth it for me personally.

I suppose I like self-learning more and have been coding, either as a hobby, freelancing, or on my own startup, for 5 years. My experience at this unicorn and elsewhere has made me question just how much I'll get out of a Comp Sci degree. I'm someone who spent most of high school classes coding, and my spare time hacking with embedded devices or mitigating DDoS attacks.

Even disregarding that the value of bachelors of comp sci may be substantially less for me personally, I don't know if software engineering is something I want to build a career in anyway.

Doing Comp Sci commits me to this track to some extent. 4 years of full time work, very frugally saved and invested in an index fund, can become very considerable amount. I can afford to save the vast majority of income for the next few years -- so why not optimise for it?

P.S: Are you Brain Armstrong of Coinbase? Love what you're doing!
You have to send off a handwritten letter with a SASE, actually: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/16/mcdonalds-monopoly-...
This is a fantastic comment, thanks. :)
I've been meaning to add this live cljs experience to http://hiccup.space A site to show how easy hiccup is to use.

Sadly not having paredit (or parinfer) support hurts the experience, so that's 2 features to add now!
Not questioning whether innovation can and will occur. Question is whether the innovations to be developed can compete with what is the present reality which is ~10cents/kWh price that we currently pay for power.

All things considered that is pretty cheap and even a minor improvement on price won't change the sunk costs of current infrastructure. The service of getting electricity is pretty cheap around the country and any replacement will have to be substantially cheaper. 'Better' doesn't count for much here because its just electricity and without government mandates people generally don't really care where it comes from.

Idealists like to say that we 'should' be getting power from somewhere else or in a different way. These idealists tend to ignore the market reality that our current situation isn't that bad for almost everyone.
Just be careful if you don't share their political views. They just might go digging through everything you've ever said and every cause you've ever donated to and start a witch hunt. Even if you invented Javascript.
THOR-CD is a breakthrough even if it never makes it to the market (1988)
Spent too many hours with drupal over the years and I will stick with it, D8 has similar interfaces with D7 though the framework is totally revamped.

I also failed to find a good alternative, tried many but always came back to Drupal
Ask HN: Which is the first site that autocompletes your browser for each letter?
Mine is:

A: http://archlinux.org/
B: http://backup.company.com/
C: http://cms.dm.uba.ar/ -- My University website
D: http://dolarblue.net/ -- Argentina, heh
E: http://ebay.com/
F: http://fastmail.com/
G: http://github.com/
H: http://habitantesdebsas.com.ar/
I: http://irssi.org/
J: http://jenkins-ci.org/
K: http://k{company}.com
L: http://littlealchemy.com/
M: http://mercadolibre.com.ar/ -- Local eBay
N: http://news.ycombinator.com/ -- Obviouly
O: http://omdistro.org/
P: http://projects.company.com/
Q: http://questionablecontent.net/
R: http://reddit.com/
S: http://subdivx.com/
T: http://timeanddate.com/
U: -
V: http://vagrantup.com/
W: http://wiki.archlinux.org/
X: http://xkcd.com/
Y: http://youtube.com/
Z: -

Yours?
Assuming they have to walk anywhere. People have tried rigging games like this by sending thousands of letters to the address to request entry.
For those unfamiliar I'll just share an short pithy example of simple vs linear logic I first heard from my brother:

classic:

if $5 then pizza
if $5 then beer
$5!
therefor: pizza AND beer

linear:

if $5 then pizza
if $5 then beer
$5!
therefor: pizza OR beer

There are other aspects, but this key difference lets linear logic model resource consumption.
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> If you include the hash of application.js in its filename, I don't see the problem.

Then, and I'm not meaning to sound harsh here, but you don't understand how to generate permanently cachable URLs, and that's what's required here.

If dependencies aren't included in calculating that hash then some users may run several different versions of the application at once (with all the errors that entails).
CodeAnywhere: A free cloud based IDE in the browser
It's perfectly fine to put strychnine in the guacamole, as long as you document it.
correct, debian really should be on the top here.
Adrian Kennard's (said boss) blog is always worth a read: http://www.revk.uk/
The hyphen actually goes the other way:

* They are building a 500-seat auditorium

* We'll put a 10,000-piece order in on Monday

* We walked a ten kilometer long trail. No hyphen here, the trail was just ten kilometers long. "We walked a ten-kilometer trail" is what you were looking for.

Non-native English speaker here, btw.
Blood from Embryonic Stem Cells? Trials Still Years Away
I disagree. That's like saying we don't need to do experiments, because everything follows from a few axioms. The reason we refine theories is because they sometimes fail when pushed to their limits. Additionally, parts of a theory may be valid only certain contexts.

Newton's laws work wonderfully at human scales, but not at extremes. Similarly, the Standard Model works wonderfully on the familiar things we've tested.. but maybe the Standard Model doesn't work the same way at high energies and it doesn't explain dark matter/energy anyway..

We just don't much about what black holes are like below the Schwarzschild Radius. We haven't even detected Hawking Radiation yet.
Is there a parinfer package for emacs ?
Medical debts show up on your credit report just like any others once they go into collection.

The newest version of the FICO credit score[1] does differentiate between medical and non-medical debts, though, where previous ones did not, and it weights the former less severely.

1: http://www.fico.com/en/node/8140?file=7786
That song's language is like Italian and Romanian had a child.
That's cool man, I'm sure you're friend was stoked. Props on the write up. I've got an old monitor I want to connect to the Pi, just not sure what info is worth displaying yet.
Are your TV shows dubbed or subtitled?
It seems like he got a fair punishment for this. I guess for me its more along the lines of victimless crime. If you gobbling down burgers to try and win money knowing the odds, you clearly aren't that bright to begin with.
Seems like an innocuous question. Why is it being downvoted?
You don't even have to know where. Given enough samples all you need to know is that they weren't in certain places (for instance, at home). Eventually the constraints will line up in such a way that only one car matches the pattern, and then you know all the other places and times too. A sort of reverse sodoku.
I had a Sidekick II, I which I liked a lot for the time. And, I miss my G1 for the same reason. I had two of them; the original G1 and the original Google Devel phone. Loved them both, but sold the G1 when I got the dev phone for free, and gave away the dev phone when I got a Nexus One. Have missed having a keyboard ever since. I've finally found that a 8"+ tablet has a large enough soft keyboard for me to be able to type at a reasonable speed without ridiculous numbers of typos.

If the platform itself were more hackable, I'd just go grab an old Droid or similar. I don't really need modern for this particular task (though building Android apps has only recently gotten nice on a level comparable to building for Linux). But, running an unmodified Linux is non-trivial, and running an old Android version is also challenging. But, maybe I shouldn't worry so much about it, and just pick up and old Android phone that's known to be root-able and can run CM, disable the radio, and build the stuff I want to play with for Android. Unfortunately, there aren't any competent existing music trackers written in Java that I'm aware of.
That was what I was getting at ;). I had an old boss who used to call hydrocarbons 'Mother Nature's Battery'. Its almost a miracle when you think of it. Millions of years of solar energy stored in solid, liquid, and gas forms, available for the ingenuity of man to extract and use to power the marvels of the modern world.

For all the hate that hydrocarbons get they are probably the main reason most of us aren't still living a very primitive existence.
Is this program any good on OS X? I am curious if it truly is as useful as Photoshop. Thanks.
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I've been using it the past two days, and it's really just...not good. The idea is fine: introduce people to FirefoxOS without having them cut Android apps cold turkey. The implementation isn't, however, which probably has something to do with the entire "run an entire other graphics frontend powered by a web browser as your home screen".

Graphical glitches with the icons, being unable to use any of the bundled apps (Browser, Music, Gallery, etc.) because it just results in an instant crash, likely due to being out-of-memory killed, unresponsive gesture support (dragging from the side of the screen takes multiple tries, even after you figure out that's a feature and only way to go back).

The most important issue is definitely that if the home screen is unloaded, pressing the home button results in a 10 second long FirefoxOS booting process before you can launch any other app. If someone wants to start up Snapchat by pressing the home button and launching the app, but has to wait 10 seconds for your home screen to reload, you're dead in the water. This is entirely possible to be due to me using a fairly low-spec phone...but that's the entire market for FirefoxOS...
Not necessarily. For example, OP might figure effectiveness is easy to judge from a quick Google search and it's the other things that benefit more from asking about personal experiences.
A litmus test of a great community is how they deal with people who are technically useful but socially reprehensible.
FreeBSD has a kind, international team of developers. It may be a scary project to contribute to for beginners to open source because it is an operating system, and people have some apprehension about improving operating systems.
XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix
I've contributed to a few Python projects, and the experience I had with the IPython and beets groups both stand out in my mind as very friendly. The patch I contributed to IPython was vanishingly trivial. It removed an unnecessary function call in a code path that wasn't even performance-sensitive (I just stumbled on it when looking into a more complex issue). I would have understood if the patch just lingered without being looked at for ages. It didn't address an existing issue, didn't impact the correctness of the code, and barely had any consequence to performance. But, it was quickly reviewed and accepted and the maintainers were thankful to have my contribution. I was very pleasantly surprised, and will certainly consider contributing to their project again when I have time. Likewise, I ran into a bug in the beets MP3 tagging/collection manager and was able to report the issue, discuss it with the author and other contributors to determine the preferred way to handle the situation, create a new unit test and fix, and get it accepted all within a couple of days. Everyone I spoke with was very inviting and helpful. I hope to be able to help them again in the future as well!
It's Business Insider, the K-Mart of news. Not sure what the British equivalent is...
The JuliaOpt / JuMP (Julia for Mathematical Programming) team has been responsive and supportive. When I file a Github issue at a random hour, they respond in minutes. The quality of code and testing is outstanding, and frankly for a project started in academia that's rare. In the dynamic world of pre-1.0 Julia, they've set the standard for 3rd party libraries, accommodated deprecations from the language immediately as versions change, and overall driven the advancement of scientific computing.

https://github.com/juliaopt/jump.jl

Edit: Here's a great example of the JuMP team debugging somebody's particular script, running it, and benchmarking it - all because somebody filed a Github issue. https://github.com/JuliaOpt/JuMP.jl/issues/614
I get that for any URL it doesn't serve
Are you sure that the total momentum would be reduced?

The mass would increase (unless the hawking radiation is fast enough to counteract the mass it is absorbing, which I don't know), so unless something had other forces on it, it would slow down somewhat... but unless some stuff outside of it has momentum significantly changed, I would think that the momentum would stay the same?

(assume a frame of reference where the matter it is passing through has roughly no momentum to start with)
The homescreen replacement thing really doesn't do it justice, comparing it to my short experience playing with a phone running it natively.

And the abilities to customize things are an awesome vision, although it is a bit early to judge if it actually works out. (I'm somewhat skeptical, but I dislike all other mobile OSes as well, so even a not-perfect improvement would be welcome)
> and getting the patterns/timing correct

As a kid, I was banned from an arcade in my home town for being a bit too good on a certain ticket giving arcade machine (probably around 1995)

The manager was having to reload the machine with tickets too often when I was on it, it actually got to the point where she was standing behind me, watching me win the jackpot probably 2 out of 3 games... after winning several hundred dollars worth of prizes/tickets, I was awarded my tickets and asked not to return.

I actually did my Christmas shopping that year at the prize counter with tickets.
Haha, "Minions" and "scaled back" in the same sentence. They infected dozens of brands, in the US at least. See https://medium.com/@hassanisms/the-minions-marketing-team-co... for some links and a satirical take on opportunities they missed.
You're 18. You've got plenty of time to do whatever the crap you want and change your mind about it if you don't like it. Don't let silly terminology like 'unicorn' and absurd unanswerable questions like 'Where do you see yourself in 5 to 10 years' distract you from trying things
Curious what you think the response should be.
Honestly, in the grand scheme of things aren't most people pretty useless? I'm comfortable being pretty much useless. I go to work, come home, spend money, eat, sleep, repeat.

I have no illusions that I'm particularly useful or contributing anything to the world and just plan on passing the time until I die.

I think it's funny that more people can't accept the truth about themselves. It's not a bad thing being useless, it's just reality for a huge number of people, myself included.