skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lease may require the lessee to return the land to the original state. Unless the money to do so is escrowed, there's significant likelihood that it will not happen at their expense. Businesses fold. They go bankrupt. Industrial sites go on the Superfund list. Power generation no matter how green is still industrial.

A great deal of real-estate development happens via limited partnerships. These are specifically designed to be easy to terminate. Real estate development projects are often designed to be sold on and then the LP folds.

Suppose the lessee doesn't restore the landscape at the end of the lease. Is your organization willing to lawyer up?

Will your organization necessarily benefit from returning the land to its original condition? The value of the land with the lessee's improvements may be higher than in the original condition.

Finally, is leasing the land for an industrial process really consistent with the long term vision and mission? The feel good of green energy promises shouldn't outweigh those values. A project that requires a subsidy to be feasible is less likely to be viable over the long run. By which I mean, if your organization doesn't lease the land, the developer should still be able to make a go of their project via an ordinary real-estate transaction. If the developer cannot, it's a red flag on their pro forma.
Great to know this now instead of having to wait until next WWDC.
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> I can't tell if you are talking about actual Buddhism or "Western Buddhism".

This article doesn't have anything to do with Western Buddhism. It's about how what people currently believe/practice as Buddhism in Asia comes from the west.

The point is that before 150 years ago there was no core set of ideas that could really be distilled into what we think of as Buddhism today. Rather there were just different peoples worshipping different local gods. Westerners then went to Asia and translated a smattering of ancient texts and then went around and told the local people that they were practicing their religion wrong, and what they should actually do/believe instead is X, Y, Z. That's what modern buddhism is, and then Western Buddhism is an offshoot of that which was designed to appeal to Americans as a practice. (As opposed to being designed to appeal to westerners as a reason not to genocide various Asian populations.)
And jtwebman at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10671532 points out that 'Swift's first commits were in Jul 17, 2010', with a link to https://github.com/apple/swift/commits/master?page=821 .
Email older PhD students at your local university, assuming you have a strong local university. Describe your problem in a few sentences to get them interested, and offer competitive compensation ($100-$200/hr depending on location) in exchange for a few hours per week of their time.
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I think this is fairly revisionist. This narrative undersells the influence that Buddhist thought had on enlightenment philosophers[0].

IANAHistorian, and am likely well out of my depth here, but I'd venture a guess that the influence worked in both directions, due to overlap in philosophical positions. For example, from the Dalai Lama:

Both Buddhism and science prefer to account for the evolution and emergence of the cosmos and life in terms of the complex interrelations of the natural laws of cause and effect. From the methodological perspective, both traditions emphasize the role of empiricism. For example, in the Buddhist investigative tradition, between the three recognized sources of knowledge - experience, reason and testimony - it is the evidence of the experience that takes precedence, with reason coming second and testimony last.[1]

[0]http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/how-davi...
[1]http://www.dalailama.com/messages/buddhism/science-at-the-cr...
GCC doesn't support the full language anymore, since the stuff that Apple added after finishing the migration to Clang hasn't been ported to GCC (e.g. generics and array/dictionary literals) and there doesn't appear to be anyone interested in doing so.
> its a shame they don't get more credit.

What do you mean? Is there any company whose marketing department you would rate higher?
People with that kind of money tend to have financial good sense. Even if you don't want to wait 10 years, for 17% returns you can sell it today for much more than $2m to someone who will.
It's only from Napoleon, that there are names you are familiar with: and only in territories he occupied (much like SI, house numbering etc.).

The places he didn't invade would keep names like "Bush House, London", or names like "Richardson" ...son of Richard. Zoltan Istvan is for Zoltan's son Istvan and he presumably would be from somewhere like Transylvania, where Napoleon (~ administration) never got a foothold.
A popular website for calculating strength standards is:
http://www.strengthstandards.co/
This site is intended for people serious about strength training. Somebody who does "regular exercise" without specifically focusing on strength is unlikely to be stronger than the "Novice" level.

According to Wikipedia, the average US male weighs 88.3kg and the average US female weighs 74.7kg.

The big three (squat/bench/deadlift) 1RM total for an average untrained male is 186kg. For an average novice female, 175kg. This suggests that ordinary exercise is not sufficient to make up for the difference in body size and testosterone levels, and only those rare few females who are serious about strength training will be stronger than the average male.
i don't think this article is a joke. i think it's serious and makes some good points in an original and humorous manner.

it also does it with an original (or at least not cliche'd) perspective, and is refreshingly honest about money.
My view of what the industry was like 5 years ago, is that content creators only wanted to deal with small companies that they could control and that didn't have the bankroll to take it to the FCC. All of them were terrified of Google getting into the space and all of the contracts I saw could be canceled on a change of control. One of our counter parties explicitly mentioned concerns that we would get bought by Amazon or Google.
You're not quite correct. In most cases, yes, but for JQuery specifically, your users will get better performance by continuing to use the Google CDN.

The reason being that most likely they've already got it in their cache and won't make a new call to Google (or you) at all.
I don't think representative government was the issue, I think it was the nature of the state's power and influence. It is possible to have a majority opinion that is wrong, and a majority decided policy that is unjust. Surely arguing against the majority that has a policy of punishing dissent is a bad thing if you want to survive, but fortunately the majority still sort of values civil discourse, so we can talk like people solving problems instead of being partisans.
While I tend to agree with you, your position implies we possess an inherent right to that information. Do we inherently have the right to review all your private information, even after death?
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In my experience, the techniques can be quite different.

Flat-pack furniture needs to buildable by just about anyone, using tools that they can be expected to have (screwdriver and hammer only, in practice) or you are willing to include (allen wrench). On top of that, it's usually also designed to be disassembled as well to a degree, since otherwise mistakes and can be permanent and costly. Also, and perhaps most importantly, flat pack furniture almost never uses glue, which is often a very important component of factory assembled furniture.
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Such as with BT Sport in the UK, who outbid Sky for football rights.
That's still the same thing; if the public is deciding where the funding is going then it isn't a private foundation anymore.

Now, if the public is deciding by choosing where to put their own funding, in the form of donations, that makes more sense. But in that sense, the millionaires and billionaires creating or donating to charitable foundations are doing the same thing: deciding where to put their own funding.
Nice, I am excited.

And probably I am more excited not about the open-sourcing of it, but that there will be a package manager [0].

[0] https://swift.org/package-manager/#conceptual-overview
For who can't open the link it basically says: "China tells Dalai Lama again to respect reincarnation, but the next Dalai Lama has to be born in China"
Probably because they will want to use radar for bugs and general discussion might be done like Linux mailing lists.

Edit yeah. that's basically how they are handling it but with the exception that they are using a public jira instance for language bugs, radar for xcode and nda bound bugs and a mailing list for general discussion.
Java Dev SimplyTapp (Austin, TX)
Sr. Full-Stack Java Developer

Company:
SimplyTapp Inc. creators of HCE (host card emulation) provide cloud based mobile payment solutions for banks, payment card issuers, transit authorities and retailers. SimplyTapp Inc. was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Newly created position responsible for working closely with the developers and infrastructure.

Qualifications
5+ years experience creating robust Java applications and server side software
Takes pride in writing clean code that is easy to maintain
Familiarity with tools: Git, Gradle (or Maven)
Web knowledge: REST API Design, HTML, CSS, Javascript
Frameworks: Spring, Hibernate, JPA, JUnit
Databases: MySQL, Oracle
General Linux server (CentOS/RHEL) admin experience and knowledge
Experience writing unit and functional tests

Pluses
Experience with AngularJS and Boostrap frameworks
Knowledge of JavaCard and payment industry EMV specifications
Android software development
JVM performance tuning
Experience with AWS
Github account with samples of your source code

What we offer:
Work on bleeding edge of payment industry
Competitive wages/compensation
Medical, Dental, 401k
Highly collaborative team with dynamic work environment

This is a full-time position in Austin, Texas Principals only. Recruiters, please do not contact this job poster.

Please email inquiries to Jobs@SimplyTapp.com
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Here are my results on a Debian jessie box:

If you just want to play with the REPL (usr/bin/swift in the Ubuntu 14.04 snapshot), all you have to do is:

apt-get install python-dev

If you want to actually compile swift files (usr/bin/swiftc in the Ubuntu 14.04 snapshot), it appears extremely basic programs will compile with jessie's clang-3.5, so all you have to do is:

apt-get install clang

Note that the swift.org instructions claim you need clang-3.6, and you probably do for more complex programs. For that, you'll need to temporarily add a sid/unstable source and upgrade clang:

echo 'deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get install clang

(don't forget to remove the unstable line afterwards).
I remember the local village library books only had dates on the borrowing slips.

My library card was a 5x5cm card sleeve. If I borrowed something, the return date was stamped in the book, and on the book's removable 5x15cm slip. That slip was put inside my card, and probably ordered by due date in the librarian's index file.

This was early 1990s in Britain.
You want to know that the block that has OriginStamp's proof in it has been built upon, otherwise they could (at cost of the singular block) produce false blocks. This would obviously hurt their reputation, but it's not out of the question.
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It doesn't look like they've opened any of the existing Foundation framework we all know and love and that's written in Objective-C. The swift-corelib-foundation repo contains a bunch of .swift files, and those contain lots of calls to NSUnimplemented().

The Core Foundation stuff (included in swift-corelib-foundation) has been open for a while: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/CF/
Japanese librarians at that.

Seriously, I am married to a librarian. Since it's a service sector job (and often a government one at that), they tend to be in uproar in private.

That they are in public is good policy in this regard; lest they lose patronage as confidence in the confidentiality of their patrons knowledge exploration is diminished.
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Ask HN: What is your favorite FTP client?
The latest news about FileZilla [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10668546] pushed me to look for new FTP client. What do you use?
Do you have any idea of the size of the conspiracy that would be necessary to pull this off.

Here are three things you need to explain just for starters:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borobudur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Arun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West
> #1 piece of advise should be to not run a systemic calorie excess.

Sure, but that specific advice you quibble over is just a suggestion on how to achieve that result. A quote in the article from one of the professors expressly says:

> So if you ask how much weight you need to lose to make your diabetes go away, the answer is one gram. But that gram needs to be fat from the pancreas. At present the only way we have to achieve this is by calorie restriction by any means, whether by diet or an operation.

It's worth emphasising the last bit: surgery is a much more effective way to restrict caloric intake than lifestyle changes alone. A very low percentage of people with obesity are able to lose weight and then maintain a healthy body composition without surgery, and the risks of gastric bypass seem completely justified in cases where it allows a patient to be "cured" of Type 2 Diabetes.
Tried to log-in:

{"code": 400, "error_type": "OAuthException", "error_message": "Invalid scope field(s): follower_list"}
Goethe and Twain are dead. Murakami is still alive.
A transfer of wealth from the upper class to the lower class is the price we pay for civilization. No welfare to the poor means they have no incentive not to kill you.
It also requires the openssl executable in your path.
Full Stack Java with iOS Exp. SimplyTapp
Full Stack Java with iOS exp

Company:
SimplyTapp Inc. was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. SimplyTapp are the creators of Host Card Emulation (HCE) which provides cloud based mobile payment solutions for banks, payment card issuers, transit authorities, and retailers.

Newly created position responsible for leading iOS development.

Qualifications

5+ years experience creating robust Java applications and server side software
Takes pride in writing clean code that is easy to maintain
Familiarity with tools: Git, Gradle (or Maven)
Web knowledge: REST API Design, HTML, CSS, Javascript
Frameworks: Spring, Hibernate, JPA, JUnit
Databases: MySQL, Oracle
General Linux server (CentOS/RHEL) admin experience and knowledge
Experience writing unit and functional tests

Ability to lead iOS development effort and work independently.
You have previously built applications that have been published in the Apple AppStore.
Strong coding abilities and experience with Objective-C/C++/C, Cocoa Touch, Swift and iOS SDK.
Experience interfacing with REST APIs.
management and caching mechanisms specific to mobile devices.
Passion for analyzing and improving run-time efficiency and memory footprint.
Knowledge of software development best practices including continuous integration, development of high quality code, reusable toolkits and libraries.

Pluses
Experience with mobile SDK development.
Good understanding of how web application backends are built.
Source project/repository in GitHub
Android software development
Payments industry experience.

What we offer:
Work on bleeding edge of payment industry
Competitive wages/compensation
100% paid Medical & Dental
401k program
Highly collaborative team with dynamic work environment
Cell Phone reimbursement

This is a full-time position in Austin, Texas. Principals only, please no recruiters
Please email inquiries to Jobs@SimplyTapp.com
> How well does that representation actually fulfill the wishes of their constituency as a whole, let alone any individual voter?

Varies considerably between things which get lumped together as representative democracies, from very poorly in systems like the US's which feature a strong duopoly, to very well in many modern multiparty systems. (More detail in, among other places, Lijphart's Patterns of Democracy.)
They come with a 5 year warranty and 2.5M hours MTBF rating, which says something about the manufacturer's opinion of their reliability.
Decentralized no, but free and scriptable yes

E.g. https://startssl.com/?app=25#61

Decentralized not usable in a legal context in any jurisdiction I can think of, and why do you timestamp if not to cover your ass?
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Rumors say that Dalai Lama has been bargaining with Beijing for his returning home, but has not reached a deal yet, apparently.
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He avoided to be robbed by the tax man.

This slave mentality of thinking someone owes the state due to their wealth is ridiculous.

Stealing is crime. It doesn't matter if by the tax man or by a pocket picker. In any case if you decide not to abide by their violent demands they might kill you (and it doesn't make a difference if it is by thugs with badges).

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>> Which is not a fault of the Java language: trainwrecks (this->getThat()->getThose()-foreach(){ do stuff } is a general antipattern.

While I agree with you, isn't that what the new streams in Java does? The map reduce complex?
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(who actually owns the infrastructure)
Hipster

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No, I think it's related to Facebook being a PRISM company and having a deplorable privacy policy, and generally giving no shits about privacy or security. Also, Mark's internet.org wasn't going to support HTTPS.
>I mean you want to spend time going here to write you stopped reading instead of reading a little further?

Sure, there may be a point to discuss with others, or you may just want to warn them.
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I'd strongly recommend against using ftp in 2015.
sftp [1] should do everything that ftp did in with a good level of security (encryption, server authentication and key based user auth).
It uses ssh as transport protocol which means that if you have an ssh server set up, you don't need anything else.

To answer your question, lftp [2] on the command line, cyberduck [3] on osx. Both of these tools are capable of connecting to sftp servers, too.

Also, sshfs (+ osxfuse for osx) [4] is definitely worth a try.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-13

[2] http://lftp.yar.ru/

[3] https://cyberduck.io/

[4] https://osxfuse.github.io/
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Your comment and the parent comment hits close to home.

The anti trust investigation killed Microsoft's mojo. They never under estimated any one in the past. They were paranoid and always responded to "potential threats" with crappy solution but they responded nonetheless.

In my opinion, Google and the iPhone owe their dominance to time granted them by the anti trust suit.

The same tactics that got Microsoft in trouble is being used my Google and Apple today.

Google services is bundled in Android. There is no alternative browser in chrome OS by design. The default browser can't be changed in IOS(not sure if that's still the case).

It's difficult to take risks when everything you do is under a microscope.
"When mental rotation ability was factored out of the analysis, there was still a sex difference in time taken to construct the furniture, but the sex difference in the accuracy of the construction disappeared, which certainly suggests that one reason the male participants may have outperformed their female peers is because they tended to have superior mental rotation abilities, likely making them less dependent on the visuals in the instructions."

How would a researcher factor out mental rotation ability after the fact?
Offer HN: I want to invest in your project (with pixels)
Was thinking of helping hackers through investments, but since I don't have a $500m fund at my disposal, I want to try to invest with pixels.

I can do mobile app design, web app design, logos, branding etc. I run fairpixels.co and astronaut.design and this idea is to test scalability of agency projects

Here's how it works.
1. Go to http://fairpixels.co
2. Click request a logo (dont worry if u dont need a logo just use the form)
3. Describe what you need design help with and what you can pay minimally plus the equity you can fill the gap with.

Example: instead of getting a $8k quote for redesigning your entire app. You could spend $500 plus equity. Or $200 plus more equity. Name a fair deal if interested we eant to help design and grow your project.
If you liked the Stanford Prison Experiment, you may also enjoy:

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I might also test these hypotheses:

People improve (or degrade) their performance at objectively measured tasks when told they should be better (or worse) at doing them than others.

The magnitude of the above effect differs between men and women.

In other words, repeat the experiment, this time (falsely) telling the test subjects that, according to prior experimental results, female assemblers should be able to complete the task faster and more accurately than males. See what happens.

If tested and confirmed, the effect would be similar to the placebo effect in medical trials.
That wasn't obvious from first use and at any rate the resulting diagram for anything above a trivial number of labels is incomprehensible. So magucally arranging labels is not really scalable. You need a differemt visualization model. That should be stated and made clear up front.
The Ten Amendments are not there to give power to the people, there are there to emphasize powers that the government DOES NOT HAVE. The thought was (and a very good one), that if something was not explicitly forbidden the government would find a way to wrangle definitions so it was included (ACA as a 'tax', anyone?).

ANY powers not mentioned explicitly in the Constitution are supposed to be reserved for the people.
Really, they do that now!? No way am I giving Google my phone number, goddamn. I have gradually drifted away from using any Google services - I guess I won't be creating any new Google accounts in the future, then.
It lets the police track down murderers, at least according to the plot of Se7en...
Added a license file (PostgreSQL license).