skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>As long as taxation is practiced the way it is here in the US (eg, enforced at the end of a gun barrel) it's theft

How so? The government is collecting the money you owe them. And you owe them money because every single day you use and benefit from things the government has funded, such as as infrastructure, police protection, fire protection, military protection and much, much more. It's true that there is no way to "opt-out" of those things but that's simply because it would be impossible to create a system where people can do so that is not massively and incredibly complex.

Besides, do you really want to live in a world where your house burns down because your neighbor has "opted out" of fire protection and their house fire spread to yours?
A foolproof method that I have used to great success:

Use the 6 by 6 rule: keep your slides to a maximum of 6 words per line, and 6 lines per slide.

Budget about 30 seconds per slide, and then talk about the things that your slides outline; don't just read what's on the slide.

You can add notes to the slides that don't show up in the presentation but I prefer to use a piece of paper as it lets you walk around.
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> And people say emacs causes RSI ;)

A couple of years back, I actually developed a mild case of emacs pinky. I used to think that was just a joke.

Then I found out how to remap Caps Lock to be a Ctrl key. Never looked back. ;-)
The MLB service is pretty good, except for the blackouts. I think the issue is that they sell exclusive broadcast rights in team home markets. They need to find a way to fix that and if it means the service is $150 instead of $120, fine.
@dilemma's suggestion is the right one. The best way to use powerpoint is DON'T USE POWERPOINT to create your presentation. For example, if you use PPT shapes and text objects on a slide, and somebody tries to view it on a different version of PPT (mac v. PC for example), the layout may change. Yesterday, I presented in a webinar. I sent my slides to the sponsor in PPT format. The webinar presentation software wanted 4:3 aspect slides and mine were 16:9 so they mangled the format.

Use another tool to create each slide. Photoshop if that's your thing. I use omnigraffle on my mac a lot. Each slide should consist of a single jpg or png.

So you don't have to learn anything about PPT, which is a worthless tool, but unfortunately ubiquitous. Make your content and use PPT only to share and present.
You're only focusing on the alimony part, but anyway, if the court says you owe alimony, then you do. If you later find out your ex isn't trying to find gainful employment, you can always have your lawyer try and get you out of alimony.

Almost nobody should complain about paying child support[0] and 1/2 the house. Those are still responsibilities that need to be taken care of.

[0] I left this open ended because there are (very rare) exceptions.
Not sure why the downvotes. He doesn't seems to be excited about it, when you will have 50 different presentstions and you need to do minor change in it, you just run the generator and it's done in few seconds. You can diff the changes with VCS. You will have consistent style in every presentation, if you change color of title it will change in every slide of every presentation.
I don't even remap. I think my hands ended up morphing into an emacs stockholm syndrom. Or maybe music did it before that. Still I was surprised that Eclipse would revive such painful sensations.
I have a fitbit charge HR and I've had it for some time now.. it is kind of good but since they updated the software about a year ago it has been really buggy. For example, if the battery runs out I have to reset my fitbit and reinstall it.

It wouldn't sync at all for a couple of months (loads of people had this problem) so neither me or my gf used it for that period of time.

The app isn't that good and I STILL have syncing issues. For example, I cannot set a new timer on my fitbit which sucks.

Next time I will probably buy stuff from Withings or something else.
I'm not sure, but I think the Colin Kaepernick national anthem controversy may be partly to blame.

Edit: Not sure why I'm being downvoted because I'm not making it up:

http://www.breitbart.com/sports/2016/10/29/espn-loses-621000...

FWIW, I have no problem with Kaepernick's protest and frankly I think singing the national anthem at sporting events is a little silly.
The trains communicate wirelessly. The system is entirely underground, do theoretically interference shouldn't have been an issue.

They shut off the mobile networks for a while to try and isolate the issue. It's interesting to read what was going on, though.
There are particular circumstances you can actually use 'async' though. Load order is usually important.
It would also be interesting to see how the nature of the cause can explain the one statistical surprise that remains: PV46 is no outlier at all in figure 3, "frequency by train ID". According to the preliminary explanation, PV46 should either be so massively overrepresented there that the bughunt would be over before it really started (it is always close to itself), or it should only be affected by the estimated 5% of outages not related to PV46 which it clearly isn't.
agreed, nephew got his pebble steel replaced no questions for serious screen issues. I have minor screen issues occasionally though have had mine for a couple of years. Might try for a replacement. Might they send me a fitbit now instead..?
My term for stuff like this is "software that suffers from overly-clever syndrome".
What about save as PDF?
Emacs-Lisp is dynamically scoped. That's precisely the kind of mistake (yes, mistake), that hinders large scale anything.

And who cares Scheme is not Lisp? It's close, and it's reputedly cleaner. Besides, there are many Lisp dialects, some of them just as different from one another than Scheme is from them.
I thought FPGA are programmed using low level languages like C
Impressive amount raised. But this is a terrible kickstarter campaigns + amateur video.

Your blog post is also hard to read.

I assume you have a great product with a strong community of users. But imagine how much you could have raised if your marketing didn't suck!
What does 20GW means? If they install 40GW for the next 10 years, is that enough? That's about 1 nuclear power plant:

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=104&t=3
they're absolutely inaccurate for the reason you mentioned, but they're also relatively inaccurate because not all of the program's execution is syscalls. regular program code runs at the same speed (more or less), but syscalls are made much slower so appear to take more time than they really do.
How a little decision cost one company millions
Uses case:

- you are often in different places from night to nigh (have a lot of friends, a scattered familly, a job on the move, etc).

- you have no brain and forget often to charge your stuff

- you are fed up (or too lazy, or both) to have a 6th stuff to put on your night stand every freaking day

- you want it to be still usable after the battery wears off, and not just half a day like most smart phones after 2 years

- you have a busy party night life

- you work night shifts, or several days in a row without going back home

- you want to put you watch in a drawer, forget about it, and get it back 2 days later, still usable.

You can manage all that with a little preparation, but the point is, you should not have to.
Nice write up.

As a side note, I find alarming the fact that the blog of the Data Science Division of a government (any gov) is hosted on a third party provider.

These guys look like they know what they're doing though, so I guess it was a weighted decision.
>Is this proper English?

No, but his slang is deliberate wordplay.

Take note of the author's page: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/about-derek-lowe

The author is from Arkansas (the South). Even though he has an advanced degree from a prestigious university and knows what "proper English" is, it seems he likes to play with Southern dialect.

The journal he's writing for ('A'AAS) is 'A'merican so native readers (even those outside of the South) will understand the slang.

It looks like 99% of his hundreds of blog articles have straightforward serious titles but a few have cutesy irreverent ones. A few more examples of Southern colloquialisms such as "gosh", "darn", and "dang":

>Gosh, Fellows, There’s a Better Way
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/08/26/gos...

>The Papers In This Journal Are Just So Darn Relevant
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2012/07/03/the...

>Biosimilars: Not So Dang Easy
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/05/18/bio...
Serious question: why on Earth would someone want to produce such compounds? Are there any actual applications of this work?
Bitcoin service ordered to hand over two years of user records to IRS
Webgl particles morph experiment
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Dude, this video is nowhere near Sandwich Video quality.
it would also be helpful if you could send newbie guides and resources
Using TopoJSON's new toolset to convert Esri Shapefiles
Hardly a Linode or DO killer yet but could become interesting if/when they:

1). support more linux distros (hint: Debian)

2). let you place instances in other AWS regions

3). let you pool bandwidth quotas across instances

4). improve the cpu/memory competitiveness of their $20+ plans

Also, don't like the firewall being configured via the dashboard (reminds me of the same crappy approach used by scaleway). Alarming too that their SSH console auto logs you in (even if you started an instance with your own public key rather than Amazon's).
Thanks, that helped. GNU Taler will be something to look forward to now.
30 seconds per slide? are you mad?
I still haven't beaten it, because I suck :-(.

Speaking of which, anybody know any good resources for learning algorithms and datastructures, so I can actually know this stuff?
A curated list of lists of technical interview questions
Here are some tools that meet the open-source criteria.

* Taiga.io || https://taiga.io/

* The Trac Project || https://trac.edgewall.org/

* Overview - Redmine || http://www.redmine.org/

* Mantis Bug Tracker || https://mantisbt.org/index.php

* Home :: Bugzilla :: bugzilla.org || https://www.bugzilla.org/

But you have to make the call on what's more valuable: the cost of having tools that just work as expected, or your time dinking around with open-source knockoffs of those establishd tools. While I think highly of the above tools, I don't think any of them are "the best" tool out there. I get frustrated when I have to use them for different clients because the truth is good software takes dedication and teamwork. Open-source projects seldom have the resources to provide for great functionality, UX, visual design, integrations... etc.

A lot of small businesses are like, "I'm so smart, and GitHub Enterprise is such a ripoff at $21 a month per user... I'll just roll my own. This is so easy, why would any one pay?" Until you have an outage, or until you get stuck writing custom code to hook your time tracking software to the API, or you name it. You have to decide how to spend your dev hours. Are you a company that makes product management tools? If not, my advice is to use a service that that comes with an SLA.

I like GitHub. Relatively cheap, well designed, well maintained, easy integrations with everything. I hook in ZenHub for a Kanban Board, I hook in Marker for easy bug reporting, I hook in Harvest for time tracking, I hook in Sentry for application monitoring... hook in CircleCI or CodeShip... you get the idea. You don't get that level of integration with the self-hosted tools.

* ZenHub - Agile GitHub Project Management Software || https://www.zenhub.com/

* Marker - Annotated Screenshots Sent to any Bug Tracking Tool || https://getmarker.io/

* Introducing Harvest for GitHub: Track Time on Issues and Pull Requests - Harvest || https://www.getharvest.com/blog/2015/07/introducing-harvest-...
Someone did a quick testing and apparently the bandwidth speed is capped at 100mbps, and even less for overseas traffic: https://ayesh.me/amazon-lightsail-review
Is it 10%? 90%? Would be good to know.

It would be good to know, and it would be very good to know whilst the effect is still reversible.

It would be a great shame to discover that our fears about man-made climate change were correct, but it's too late for any changes to have a meaningful effect.
I'm sure there are other reasons why App Engine didn't catch on, but the deal breaker for me was support.

They had an issue where outgoing emails just disappeared, without errors, and no way to debug what was happening. Support denied the issue for quite some time. Wasn't fixed for 2 or 3 weeks.
This is exactly what the OP didn't ask for. He wants to learn the software. He doesn't want to learn how to present.
Ask HN: Recommend a simple (& free) solution for tracking feature request votes?
I just want a SIMPLE tool/service/solution that lets my users vote for and submit feature requests. There are tons of overly complicated and overly priced solutions for this. I just want something simple and free. Does it exist?

The closest I've found is wantoo.io, but their admin dashboard broke after 5 minutes of me using it, and they said "it will not be fixed very soon"... great... Any suggestions? Otherwise I guess I'll have to roll my own.
Maybe I'm missing something crucial, but why not just host the content on your own server? I.e., just download that Google font, jquery.js or FontAwesome and serve it directly instead of using an external CDN.

The post seems to say "I don't like where some content is coming from, so I re-created said content by myself".
According to the German BSD scandal they still observe the 10% rule. Don't dragnet more than 10% - for their American friends. Whilst most others just take all.
That seems about right for me, assuming it's being used in a presentation.
I think he literally meant unknowingly taking so much that it overwhelms you.
Polldaddy.com?

Create a poll, add option to allow custom answers, and you can promote any suggestions to poll options
The OP clearly stated:

> I don't pick the format, I am aware of all the disadvantages, I have read Tufte, Powerpoint is the tool I will be using for this.

And still there are people that go on telling him not to use PowerPoint and the reasons why.
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Doesn't mean the paper was out of touch though with the popular voters of the nation and in their regions?
There's a word for it - hubris.
This is great. I never finished last year's (because I suck), but I learned a lot. They say premature optimization is the root of all evil, but it doesn't really sink in until you optimize for two days, only to realize the naive solution works fine, and you just wasted a lot of time.
SOme oif the best times in my life have been on LSD.
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I'm not so sure, if Amazon develops it's own logistics solutions I would say that those are a bit more complicated than Chrome.
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> For me it's because it ruins the search results. Just because I looked at a comic doesn't mean I want them ranked higher in search results. I've found the less google knows about me the better the search works.

Isn't that what clicking the Globe icon next to the Cog icon does?
Blackouts in Europe don't happen because most right-holders are national.

But basically, a particular sports event shown on one channel will not be broadcasted because another channel holds the rights in that juridiction.

It happens a lot on Sattelite TV in Africa...

TF1, the biggest French Channel is broadcasted on Canal Sat Africa.
TF1 shows Formula One events.
But they only hold the rights for France.

Since Canal Plus (the channel) or SuperSports (South African Channel) hold the rights for Africa, TF1 is blacked out during Formula One events.
What page? I didn't point to any page. The Fenix 3 came out in March 2015 so I'm not sure what you're saying.

Regarding square vs round, if you look at the high-end watch market it's a ratio of maybe 1-10 in favor of the round watch. Why the makers of smart watches thought they could ignore this, I don't know.
My understanding is that no one really raises money on kickstarter. It's more of a marketing platform than a fundraising platform.

Assumption is:
"All of this money is a write-off but I'll get a ton of VERY committed users/customers who will become advocates for my product."
"this here" is a US colloquialism which is being used as a character joke. Imagine a cowboy voice while reading it.

You can ignore the "here".
Wow Clifford is that you ? I hope this, exciting as it may be, won't make you leave open fpga efforts for the dark side (saw your talk last Fosdem, was very exciting)
Setapp aims to solve the App problem for Macs
https://www.gregariousmammal.com/setapp-aims-to-solve-the-app-problem-for-macs

I wrote this roundup after testing Setapp from Macpaw. It was quite a cool service, but I wonder how the business model will work for apps you use less frequently and if the monthly fee will be worth it.
I'm confused by your statement. Do you think that 30s/slide is too fast or too slow?
My windows phone is unique (though was reported as android) I suspect mostly because I'm the only visitor in this timezone with windows phone 8.1
This makes me excited about data science
Furthermore, in the US, local channels pay for exclusive rights to broadcast sports events for local teams.

So while your New York-Chicago may be available on MLB or NBA's streaming service, it will be blacked out in Chicago and New York because a TV channel has paid for the exclusive rights.
NO! Get out! That context and subject actually matter? NO WAY. /sarcasm
Generally it is refineries that stink.
Nice idea, I'll try to implement it.
> I'm not old enough to have seen it, but I've heard some people say half the point of paying for cable way back in the day was so you _didn't_ get ads. That seems to be the case for newer, streaming services.

And just yesterday I discovered my first "supported by product placement" disclaimer overlay in a Netflix show. Not a big deal, probably just them getting in line with local regulations, but it might be a harbinger of things to come. Not cutting up the goose that lays golden eggs might just happen to be something that high stakes capitalism is not particularly good at.
OP did ask for "best practices"
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Don't underestimate greed. She wanted to have the money at all costs. The article says that she didn't have any issues taking money from other people. What's disclosed in the article is already shady, I wouldn't be surprised if she also knew of more severe business practices.
Visual Studio Code: Shipping One of the Largest Microsoft JavaScript Apps
Actually Black outs happen in Europe.

If I'm not mistaken, all of the Bundesliga games are available for free on Bundesliga's streaming service if watched outside of Germany.
Nokia name will be licensed to another Finnish company, HMD global. If they can turn out the quality of the Lumia line in an android phone, it'll be on my Christmas list for next year
Maybe they are using GPS as a compass?
I was a Fitbit user for 1 year: good functionalities but terrible hardware, the Fitbit Charge HR breaks in a matter of months. They replace it, and it breaks again. So switched to Pebble 2, pre-ordering it: for the same price point it's waterproof, has an always on display and notifications. However I've still to receive it... while it's already on Amazon: lame. Btw... I'm a bit concerned that what was good about Pebble could go away in this fusion between the companies. Sure Pebble could make Fitbit hardware better, but there are also issues in the way the company (Fitbit) presents itself and the kind of software/UI it presents. A random things: export of your data is limited.
> If you are willing to accept a bit more advice: Don't rely on that.

We aren't entirely. But we've had 15 million folks on Font Awesome in the past year. Not all of them have seen the Kickstarter, so we're hoping some of them will buy. Other plans too. Definitely not relying solely on this, but we're going to take Font Awesome Pro everywhere we can.

I remember reading somewhere that 8% of what the Kickstarter made per month is somewhat normal. Time will tell though. But it's a good lead for us to try and see what happens.

> So don't rely on that, add something new.

Agreed.

> Thanks. I hope you don't feel like I was insulting you, because that was not my intent (although it seems some people thought it was).

I'll be honest, it came off a bit gruff. But I've learned that often goes along with folks that know what they're talking about. (And the 20k karma here helps you out too.)

Again, thanks. I take the livelihoods of 4 families seriously. We'll do what we can to keep making things better.
Nice concept. Would love to see how it can manifest into all forms of content/commerce.
To first thought, there may be licenses in place preventing you from self-hosting the content.
Per the old Cave Johnson quote, "Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT."

As for applications - military, civil engineering, maybe even rocketry.
> Many Web CDNs include frameworks that combine CSS, JS etc. resources to speed up page loading. Add to that SVG inlining and image optimization and you're good speedwise.

I thought that's what HTTP/2 was for? I'd rather solve this at the connection level than have some third party amalgamate my content and thus silently break it in maybe 5% of cases.
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That leaves AddThis and Gravatar
I am a professional presentation designer and the founder of a PowerPoint alternative: www.slidemagic.com.

Of course, I am biased and encourage you to try my app, but failing that, feel free to browse through blog posts I have written over the past 8 years that include a lot of PowerPoint advice: http://www.slidemagic.com/search-the-presentation-design-blo...

My book (free) also provides useful pointers: http://www.slidemagic.com/book#free-presentation-design-book
People may notice if you start renting a large vault at your local bank. And flying it out will be hard, he'd have to justify why he has to rent a private jet to some small island nation.
The AWS free tier is useless imho.
If the thing you want to test fits into the AWS free tier then a AWS or GCloud solution would be overkill anyway.
I think this goes for a lot of niche hobbies; a bike nerd might not be able to casually converse about that time his gears stopped working properly in the middle of a race, but to another bike nerd it would be a hilarious story! The same for us programmers, it's hard to relate to for non-programmers. Perhaps also why it's important that your friends share your interests.
You kinda sounds like a jerk, to be honest.
1. Use you organisation's template. It should have 30+ slides of different layout options. 'Text on left, 2 graphics vertically stacked on right', 'Text on right, 1 graphic on left' etc, and a few pages of widgets. And your organisation's colour palette with adjusted shading, etc.

If you can't find it, ask someone in marketing, as they'll probably have something similar if not official.

2. Use the keyboard to move things around. It is much more effective than using a mouse.
Then you pay the bandwidth bill.

I know I would rather save a few bucks over make a site work for China. Many sites don't need to work in China.