skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government has proven solutions to that. Just force them to provide the documents by fining them until they've delivered.
This is exactly the information I was looking for. Thank you.
It is a partially correct argument. If you apply a method to something small and it has an x% effect then your compensation will always be limited by that upside. Applying that same method (or knowledge) to a larger entity potentially has a larger upside and so your room for negotiation expands. Whether or not the difference in percentage is the same is of course debatable but if there is an upside in both cases then the upside is likely to be larger in absolute terms when applied to the larger company. And so those large companies will be able to pay higher compensation for the same skill levels.

That's not at all the same as playing roulette and it does not mean this argument is not correct. It's correct in principle, you may want to argue about the degree to which it transfers from smaller companies to larger companies.
Makes me feel instant boredom and close the page.

(Most video makes me feel that, voice or not. Text is the king.)
Cassini was launched in 1997 and weighed over two and a half times what Galileo did (5712kg vs 2223kg). Still several orders of magnitude less than an asteroid.
"The t0 platform is built utilizing colored coin technology, which allows for fractions of bitcoin to be used to track ownership of many assets besides bitcoin. For example, a colored coin could be used as a token to prove that an individual owns shares of Overstock. This technology is built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain and is secured by the distributed public ledger."

Sorry, I don't understand a thing about bitcoin*, but doesn't this mean that the company is free-riding on the distributed structure? Yeah, I get that anyone who trades bitcoins consumes a share of the network's processing power (and pays for it), so is overstock's system just a variant of this process? And how can a developer independently change how the blockchain works?
e.g. RazorLab: http://www.razorlab.co.uk/ - also do card and felt.

They have a particularly nice page of reference photos of all the available materials, so you can see what it might look like: http://www.razorlab.co.uk/materials/info/?id=181
http://starringthecomputer.com/snapshots/independence_day_po...
A few years back there was a lot of talk about a coming digital dark age. Due to not a lack of information, but an overabundance of information and an inability to discern truth from fiction. I think we are arriving at that moment now.
How Corporations Profit from Black Teens' Viral Content
In the days of Turbo Pascal even the editor was part of the whole. Compiler, build system, editor all tied together as a single executable. Package management wasn't on the horizon yet for that environment so it wasn't included. But there is definitely a precedent for this and this kind of convergence is hardly a new thing.

Personally I don't like it much. I prefer my tools to be separate and composable.
Yes, I often I judge the journalistic source by the links to other articles. Here, I judge that the source is very interested in the word "dirty". That makes a ham radio article all the more .. unexpected.
Stackoverflow returns HTTP 418 (I'm a teapot)
Moreover, note that in the SERP, you can find some pages with the good title but with the wrong description, cf. the 2 first results for example here http://imgur.com/cOV85UJ.

BTW, if you don't want every app to be indexed, I would recommend you the tag <meta name="bots" content="noindex"> in the app pages. Alternatively, you could define the canonical URL as the URL of the original content.
Fathers May Pass Down More Than Just Genes
Have you tried accessing the site through Google DNS? 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_302

Most browsers mis-implement 302; hence 303 (must change to GET) and 307 (must persist request method) were added to make the options explicit.

Of course, just because a standard now exists....
> the fact that you can today type on a keyboard posting on the internet

Perhaps you have heard of 'algebra', 'algorithm', 'algorism', 'positional system', etc. perhaps not., Perhaps you will comprehend the connection, then again perhaps not.

BTW are leftists primarily christian ? Otherwise the 'self hatred' part would require some out of body experience.

EDIT: Apologies HN for feeding the troll, hadn't checked his/her comment history before.
centrical.com is blocked where i work by mcafee web gateway due to GTI reputation identifing it as malicious and high risk
I'm pretty sure the most common scenario is 1 on 1, or 1 on a few you're not willing to abandon, like SO or family, or multiple assailants, a small criminal "gang", on 1 or a few. The lone nutcase assault is very rare in comparison to normal crime.

If it's a few on your side you're not willing to abandon, it's entirely another matter and beyond the scope of our discussion.

If there's only one target, yourself, then if the one or more assailants are already within "critical distance" I personally don't think the difference between edged weapons and guns is "night and day", but I agree it's still quite big.
There may be no such thing as a fake reader - but most books bought aren't read. And the ratio of how many are read is different between "genre" and "literary" fiction.

Mitchell may always have written genre but he wasn't marketed that way. Likewise e.g. Margaret Atwood writes science fiction but feels the need to pretend it isn't. I'm partway through The Chimes, which was nominated for the Booker prize - and again it's science fiction in literary drag (not even literary-influenced; it's straight up classic SF). But I doubt it would have got the nomination if it had worn its genre affiliation openly. If authors who have the choice overwhelmingly prefer to position their works as "literary" rather than "genre" when they could fit into either category, doesn't that say there's something asymmetric about how we treat the two?

Honestly the Hugos were never about popularity. But they were a celebration of something deeply unliterary, and I'd like them to continue to represent that tradition, whether or not that means nominating books with higher or lower sales figures.
Why Percentiles Don’t Work the Way We Think
I can't think of any teenager friend who uses Facebook, Instagram, Vine, or Snapchat as a substitute for google search. What type of info are you referring to? I'm not sure I understand how you can even use most of those for getting info that one would normally google search for.
Kind of useless without other data to compare to. I bet there would be similar numbers for every age group.

It's just better for traffic/interest to make your study/article along the lines of "OMG you won't believe what kids theses days..."
N1: The next generation of email client
Well from a client library point of view:

* Make request
* Has error status code?
* Error

* Make request
* Has error string message?
* Error

Fairly similar code-paths. If there was a very consistent implementation of REST API's and how they worked/responded this argument might have more legs; because client libraries could have a shared base libraries which handled this logic. As it is, API specific libraries have to implement error handling logic so it doesn't really matter.
Documentation for Pi's SoC on paper would probably be the size of Elliott.
That's mostly a factor of disjoint cultural spheres. I don't know the first, I vaguely associate the second with music but I wouldn't recognize her voice or any of her music (assuming she sings). They could both be movie stars I really have no clue, they're both in a bin labeled 'celebrity, safe to ignore' together with a whole pile of other names that I do know but refuse to further invest in because there is limited time in a life and if you waste it on the celebrity pages then you end up with a less interesting life.

Someone published a plug-in a while ago to remove a certain group of celebrities from your life, I've been toying with the idea to extend that to a more general solution to ban news about people from an extensible list from your life.
The post author writes:

> So, very soon, the days of pre-rendering PhantomJs snapshots and serving shadow content to spiders will be over.

To be clear: webmasters of sites with dynamic content should not celebrate yet. There are still influential spiders other than Google's that do not parse JavaScript (for example, Facebook[1] and Twitter[2]).

[1] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/craw...

[2] Can't find an official statement on this, but https://twittercommunity.com/search?q=javascript%20crawl
Finally, it is fixed https://hg.python.org/peps/rev/b93d501ba313
My sister is a teacher and tells me the same. The kids are actually pretty clueless these days, when me and my peers were teenagers, we were much more tech-savvy than the teens today.
If we raise a generation of kids who don't understand why recognising an advert and it's implications for privacy might be important, then we can look forward to an era where tracking is even more pervasive than it is now because they're the entrepreneurs and politicians who'll be in charge when we're old. This is a bigger problem than it might first appear.
Writing software that scales quickly
Your post confuses me. The first screenshot is pretty much exactly how I would translate the Chinese string as well.
A review of latter South Park episodes. :D
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Colossus goes live 8th December 1943
So did Bill Gates. When will these people learn that though they can create products and sell them, they can not fix complex systems.
Perhaps you work at Google, if you think that a proponent of innovation and advanced manufacturing is a neo-luddite. :)

The latest trends in IT tend to do very little in the way of advancing science, technology or society. Usually it seems to be the opposite. For instance Google Apps does poorly what native office suites did much better 20 years ago, not to mention touch screen vs. keyboard + mouse for productive work.
Roll your own toy Unix clone OS (2008)
>(in the UK?)

Correct. I live near Bude, north Cornwall, UK and can confirm this.

Local attractions include GCHQ Bude[1], TAT-3[2], TAT-14[3], CANTAT-1[4], Apollo[5], TAT-8[6], AC-2[7], EIG[8] and GLO-1[9].

Unrelated but relevant: Henry Bottinger, former AT&T big cheese and author of possibly the finest book I've read on getting your point across to an audience[10], lives a few hundred metres up the road from me. Nice guy, too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCHQ_Bude

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAT-3

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAT-14

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANTAT-1

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_(submarine_communicatio...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAT-8

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC-2_(cable_system)

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIG_(cable_system)

[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLO-1_(cable_system)

[10] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moving-Mountains-Letting-Others-Thin...
Or may be people are getting dumber?
Reflex generates the bindings for us. That's why we chose it instead of hand-wrapping the C API ourselves.
I think they've gone beyond tech-savvy to tech-trusting; so comfortable with the notion that the Internet is the source of wisdom that they don't apply their critical thinking to that domain.

At work it was common to see even university graduates pasting-in code from the first search result.
It seems a case of "I didn't understand this engine's documentation, so I'm making my own engine to do this exact same thing".
No, I haven't. Just chrome for the one and gmail for the other.

The way it works is simple, I made a random url, stuck a script in there that sends an email with the url as the subject header. The first script I visited using chrome, the second script I mailed myself a link to from another email account to a gmail account. Both scripts fired when chrome activated the links so I know they work, then I simply let it rest.

I guess the gmail one would require re-crawling of all gmail for it to fire, the chrome only one would be dependent on the version of chrome that I ran the test on phoning home with the link, and I did not re-try this for every version of chrome (or on every platform). So it's not a perfect method but it definitely puts the lie to chrome or gmail data being directly used to power google search results that people would expect to remain confidential because only they have the urls. Score one for obscurity and nice of google to ignore these paths.

I could set up another url for a test using the DNS but you're free to do so yourself as well of course, it is definitely an interesting idea.

And if either of those scripts ever does fire I'll rip google a new one, that would be the sort of abuse of trust that gets my temperature up. But for now I'll take the fact that it hasn't happened as proof that google can be trusted with data to some extent.
This is for more advanced players:

When I played chess I liked Chessbase's products. They have their fingers in many pies, including engines, interactive trainings, game databases etc. Most of the content is created by IMs/GMs and is very good quality.

Unfortunately everything they do is Windows-only. Playchess, their online chess portal is on iOS and it's absolute crap compared to the Windows client.
The question is if this research will look different if done across 'older' people :)
Its high time that humanity moved past the notion that sending meatbags into space is a good idea. Pampering to Star Trek fans has squandered trillions of dollars pursuing the "meatbags in space" chimera and all they have to show for is a crammed toilet in LEO (soon to be decommissioned since all the "bubbles in space" experiments than 10 year-olds can conceive have been carried out) and the abominable space shuttle. Had robotic exploration being pursued instead we would have had thriving Lunar and perhaps asteroid belt mining by now. What's more, at this point it would have made economic sense and it would create wealth rather than destroy it. Some grandiose ideas are fun but they get you nowhere, and leave you worse off as they represent a gigantic misallocation of capital. The Pyramids for instance, did not propel humanity in an era of skyscraper building.
I'm pretty sure in the past, the colour of the ads were quite different and you could differentiate the blocks much more easily. It just became whiter and whiter over time it seems.
> Is there a more arrogant profession (collectively) than medicine?

Surgery?
Call Me a Plumber, Not COO: GrabTaxi Co-Founder Hooi Ling Tan
Both brothers are JAXA astronauts. But yes, double recommend. It is a prime time anime so do not expect something as adult-like as what you watched in University. Over all a great show with good characters.
In my opinion it's the finest rum in the world. A heavy drinker I know told me it isn't - it's only the finest rum under $100.

(In the US I can get it at a few places for about $15 - either Indian St in Jersey City or Curry Hill in NY - and most liquor stores in India sell it for a similar price.)
I use Facebook for social marketing. Facebook rewards me for quality content. The more people treat my advertisements that show up on their news stream like they might have been posted by one of their friends meaning they comment on it, like it, click through, and share it, the more often Facebook will show the ad and most importantly the cheaper is costs me.
Google is worth a bazillion dollars and it's customers are paying for chimpanzees to click on ads?
Greenpeace's analysis suggests that China's coal consumption has dropped 4% this year:

http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/11/09/2015-the-year-gl...

The discrepancy is mentioned in Greenpeace's report: "China is still building lots of new coal capacity — it’s just not using it."
Article says "Despite the fact that these topmost search results were outlined in an orange box and labelled with the word "Ad,""

which is odd because I can't remember the last time I saw ads outlined in a box. They used to have a different background color. It was quite clear that the ad results were something different. Now all you get is this tiny little box that says "Ad". It's quite easy to miss.
Dear Mark,

Please pay your corporate tax instead.

thanks,
Planet Earth
chardet gets it right, but may be confused by others

http://chardet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/usage.html

import chardet

print chardet.detect('Bush hid the facts')

>>> {'confidence': 1.0, 'encoding': 'ascii'}

It might be fun to run Hypothesis on this to see what if any minimal ASCII set is guessed wrong by chardet.
I didn't become obsessed, but I agree that it takes sustained effort to get to and maintain an average skill level (1500-1700 ELO).

There's always interesting books to read, developments to follow. It's a time-expensive hobby to have, I stopped playing years ago.
V0.4 desk and App android of Facebook killer ;) tlenter is now out
Li-Fi ain't a Wi-Fi killer just yet
Not everyone agrees. Greenpeace's analysis suggests that the new coal capability isn't being used (yet), which has lead to a 4% drop in actual coal consumption this year:

http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/11/09/2015-the-year-gl...

Their analysts are working on the ground in China, whereas many other Western agencies just look at official numbers... So the truth may be somewhere in between, but Greenpeace's analysis can't be summarily discounted.
Temporal Coupling Between Method Calls
Oh ok. Looking up what you told me i learnt that what I thought was 1 concept called conciousness, could be defined as 2 separate but related concepts - Qualia and self-awareness.

Looking up the wiki article, it seems most animals don't pass the mirror test of self-awareness although few have (such as primates, dolphins, magpies).The mirror-test has been criticized by some as human-centric approach which could give false negatives meaning possibly more animals could be self-aware.

Your connecting of awareness and language is interesting. Do you have any sources to look at (articles, books ,etc)? Quite interesting field really.

Thanks.
This attack has been continuing for over 24h.
It looks like a sustained co-ordinated attack.

They are possibly monitoring JANET response team tweets to adjust their actions: https://twitter.com/jiscmi/status/673835355683057664

This directly affects ALL UK University networks: both outgoing from their networks and incoming traffic.

The economic impact must be fairly large.
This makes me think this is not just a random attack but a state or large non-state actor.
In a middle of a desert, in an open ocean, in a taiga, on a spacecraft light seconds away from the Earth?

I'm sure there'll be edge cases where it won't work and we'll need other options. That's fine. It doesn't detract from the point that having a connected device that can access a cloud computing platform is exceptionally useful in 99.99% of cases. I'm not suggesting that means we can stop all mobile device innovation.
That's great news on the front of "classic" rogue-likes. On the flipside, I'm really enjoying how Cogmind is evolving the interface and pushing ASCII graphics:

http://www.gridsagegames.com/cogmind/

It's a great year for Rogue-likes in general, it seems!
MD here. I agree with this completely. I will also add that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is unlikely one disease although we are not smart enough yet to know to divide them more specifically.

I've "fixed" cases like this by diagnosing and treating rare rheumatological and sleep disorders. However, most patients clearly have psych or personality disorders. Is the mental illness a cause or effect?

It's my job not to give up and blow off patients. Just realize that there is a ton about medicine that is unknown still--we are scientists searching for answers too.
I'm pretty confident that isn't the case.
2015: The year global coal consumption fell off a cliff
You can get the exact same increase in profits by investing 10 million a year in a talented group of developers and having them produce mobile games. Or a fleet of truck drivers. Or anything, really. 10mil/yr is enough to finance a small enterprise, so you can realistically branch out into anything that makes money.
July 1st 1492: It's high time that humanity moved past the notion that sending meatbags onto the oceans is a good idea. Pampering to fans of stories about shorter routes to Asia has squandered a great many dubloons pursuing the 'meatbags on the waves' chimera and all we have to show for it is a severe case of scurvy and a bunch of rotten timber. We already know how to get to Asia overland, why on earth would we bother finding a longer, more dangerous and probably slower route around the other side. Besides, everybody knows the Earth is flat.

Some grandiose ideas are fun but they get you nowhere and leave you worse off as they represent a gigantic mis-allocation of capital.
Nope. The whole point of a "static site generator" should be for it to be SIMPLE. If it takes me more than 15 min to understand almost everything about it, I consider the said generator a failure. This is why I never bothered with Jekill or Pelican after trying to get them to do what I wanted and couldn't in less than 30min.

...and I fall back to my script which does "php + php -S to temporarily serve + wget to generate the actual static site".

sssgen seems like a breath of fresh air to me and I will actually use it. Thanks OP!!!

Also, thanks again for the sound decision of using Mako so I can actually have python code in my templates instead of wrestling with another "crippled" template language. And for jumping off the maddening "convention over configuration" wagon... I love configuration and explicitness for anything non-obvious
Are you aware of just how little we actually spend on space?
Ouch - look at the markup! http://bharattraders.com.au/index.php?main_page=product_info...

May have to wait til I'm back in NA.
A tiny arcade cabinet
They just lost a great candidate because of the citizenship requirements... ;-)
Perhaps. Meanwhile, I'm waiting for the NoHTML, NoCSS and NoJS equivalents :)
I found it very slow and dull. My group gave up when we accidentally skipped an episode and didn't realize.
For me, an invaluable companion for learning openings has been http://www.eudesign.com/chessops/. The design of the site is unchanged since ca. 1995, but it works well.
This has always been the case for the majority of "normal" people, teens or not.
Smart financial news aggregator based on machine learning crawler
Thanks! Finally a static site generator that you can actually fully understand in 5min!

And the whole Mako + yaml + tree variables is so sweat and simple.
As any SaaS product, you could develop your own. Here, your own subscription flow.
I think the question is: do you want to allocate resources to this task rather than your real product?
The same could be said for any other employees. Programmers, warehouse workers or whatever.

Some programmers, maybe, but very few could move large company's revenue by 10%. And almost certainly no one moving physical stuff around in a warehouse could.
A point made at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6360232 is that it suffices to use an older compiler and system, assuming that the newer one was developed independently.
What Makes Geeks Tick? A Study of Stack Overflow Careers [pdf]
Sourcegraph doesn't require a sourcegraph.com account anymore