skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you want to do that with your own billions, have at it. But I wouldn't want to locate a business there, do business with you, or even go to work for you, an employer from whom I could have no possible legal recourse in the event of a dispute.

It sounds like you are risk averse and probably don't share the goals, wouldn't be swayed by the value proposition - so you wouldn't move there. It's true that there would have to be trust in the person doing this, but I'm assuming the billions didn't drop from the sky and I have done something to earn them, the process of getting them should provide plenty of material to evaluate my trustworthiness. Trusted third party insurance is also an option.
Where is the wind over the water? Who cares about what the is on land? As a sailor, I find this map frustrating and upsetting for showing me beautiful wind everywhere I can't sail a boat.
The lack of microtype support in XeTeX is a deal breaker. That's the main reason why I continue to use pdflatex.
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Well, yes and no, but mostly no.

Looking at the collection of things that people refer to as "Agile", some of the practices work for certain teams at certain times. Saying "its all a sham" is as much bullshit as calling Agile a silver bullet that will solve all your woes. (Just because it's not one extreme, doesn't put it at the other).

The OP calls out two practices, Scrum and TDD. I've tried "Scrum" at 3 different places, where by "Scrum" they meant "have a stand up meeting". Never worked. For that project!

However, TDD has actually been a silver bullet for some tasks. And on other tasks it killed my productivity.

Basically, stop thinking there are silver bullets, and figure out what works for your team and project.
I think its a good model though.
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Sometime instaed of typing "reddit" my hand still types "memepool". Today was such a day! imagine my shock!
Looking at your idea from a different angle: I guess it could be useful for an opposing group to make the threat, in order to make Anonymous look impotent if it's not carried out, while the opposing group takes credit for "stopping" it.

Who knows... -We- surely don't. I feel like I'm outlining a plot for a Tom Clancy novel.
I got lost for quite awhile looking at all the wind and how it moves around the area I'm pretty sure is my mountainous home. Kudos to the maker(s).
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Another version that downloads coursera videos, and also optionally downloads slides and subtitles:

https://github.com/LoganDing/Coursera.org-Downloader
See other comments on this thread about fair-use image bots, which have caused considerable anguish on Wikipedia. They run fast, and template many people. Fair use is important, and there are many images without a compliant licence, but most people have no idea what counts for fair use.

EG: I have some toys. I take a nice photograph of those toys. Can I release that under a completely free licence and upload it to wiki? There's a famous statue in my home town. I take a nice photo of it, and release it under a free licence. Can I upload that to wiki? What about a building? etc etc etc.
You're right, I should have mentioned that. I admit to only having learned about that recently, but it didn't sound quite right to me. You really like it better? As I understand it, the US International keymap makes any character that might be used as a deadkey always act as a deadkey, right? Because that sounds a little annoying for programming. In a Ruby program, even a French or Spanish one, probably most of the ` and ~ characters are going to be syntax, not diacritics. (But like I said, I haven't gotten to try it, so I might have gotten the wrong impression.)
I'm not sure that helps.

If the comparison is between my reaction to some behavior in a frat house I just walked into versus my reaction to some behavior at my company, then my reaction/decision process falls out of the equation. Then the plausible comparisons I can see are: A) frat house party <-> workplace, B) some random place <-> place I am committed to, or C) private club <-> place of employment.

I'm pretty sure he meant A, as B and C don't make much sense for his argument.
"a drive on a carefully programmed route" - given careful enough programming, this appears to allow for an indefinite amount of smoke and mirrors specific to this demo.
there's quite a lively discussion on the driving prowess of middle aged Asian women going on there
You could at least attack some of the major ASes.

http://www.routeviews.org/
> The point is that Google isn't self-motivated enough to get an Open-PNaCl-Whatever in shape to be standardizable on their own. They need Moz and Opera to push them, not rebuke them.

Opera, Mozilla, Microsoft and Apple can't help Google push a standard that doesn't make sense for the web. I don't understand what you want them to do. Help from the other browser vendors can't magically fix the problems already mentioned with NaCl.

The only thing they can do, is ignore the principles of standardization and what is good for the web, and just drop NaCl into their browsers. That would be terrible though.

> Meanwhile, Alchemy and NaCl can deliver a better-than-iPad3 user experience (zero install + sandboxed, etc) comparable to http://infinitybladegame.com/ to the browser today.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6873971/data/cube2/index.html

And again, this is before actually optimizing for that kind of code. In a few months that will improve even more.

> When I speak of deeply-optimized native, I'm talking about large volumes of tuned double-precision SSE vs tuned double-precision math in JS.

That's true, for that kind of code JS is slow currently. Things like RiverTrail should help, but they are not close to ready yet.
As cynical as this point sounds, you may be on to something. We know that the FBI infiltrated LulzSec...so who knows if this may be something they are doing.
So what did happen to memepool anyway? You guys just got tired of it?
Other toxins:

- Bad faith - not being talked to straight up
- Resentment and blame - creates more of the same like prions
- Disrespect - the subtle kind is more insidious
- Being second guessed/distrusted
- Political gamesmanship - have to defeat other departments, then competitors?
- Overwork
- Underwork

All of this is human nature, just not the part of human nature that's going to help your team win.
I applaud your efforts at education!

I observe however that their is an emergent definition of 'racism' which is quite a bit more broad than yours.

Basically it is this "Assuming specific or stereotypical attributes about an an individual or group, based on that individual or group's membership in a definable group."

This removes the typical restriction that it involve 'race specific traits' so things like 'Bankers are greedy criminals' or 'Christians are fascists' get reflected back as variations on the 'racist' meme. When ever that group membership nominally includes race it's considered racist by people who share that racial attribute.

Even the discussion we're having (and as an operations guy I see a lot of bad actors whose IPs originate in countries that were former parts of the USSR) we have to be careful to disentangle accusations of people of a region being bad, and regions which host infrastructure which is available to everyone, being used for bad. The Internet does many things and one of those things is create 'telecommuting criminals' who may easily be living in New Hampshire but hosting their C&C servers at a friendly ISP or EC2 equivalent in the Ukraine.

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I love this i think it is really cool. Where is Alaska and the rest of the united states?
You are assuming that:

a: There is life there.

b: That the life has some kind of economic value.

c: That there is a world wide government that could enforce this.

d: That it's morally OK to patent life.
The (La)TeX ecosystem is still evolving. For instance, see:

LuaTeX - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuaTeX

ConTeXt - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConTeXt

LaTeX3 - http://www.latex-project.org/latex3.html
Perhaps one of the causes, but in times past I've definitely started to get burned out on projects I did not resent- that were simply truckloads of work, with limited time for sleep/food/unwinding.

On the bright side, that was much easier to recover from than the soul-crushing burnout I associate with resentment.
Wind power, baby.
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Yeah, I had a mental image of Jackie Chan being chased around a restaurant by a Google car.
What's the difference between this and the sandiego.js meetups?

Also, it would be nice if the times for the workshops were on the first page. Thanks!
Simple base wordpress theme.
Well of course. Be serious for a second, they want you to foot the bill but they bloody well don't want you to have the control.
I'm an Adobe Flash fanboy, but even I'm starting to become pro HTML5 for rich media. I can't understand why Adobe is making these decisions when they're competing with an upcoming technology that has a such large & growing fanbase.

This 9% completely changes the distribution model. Previously when you made a swf, it's yours to keep and do as you want. You paid for the tools to make it, in the same way you pay for a hammer. Now you're being charged for running the swf in certain ways, which will make policing it hard, scare off new developers and cause pointless lawsuits.
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actually yes, that would be really good. I've wondered about using Bootstrap and how much work is involved to turn it into something useful. I currently am using a Wordpress template for a website with a blog attached, but it still feels very much like a Blog, rather than a website, and I feel Bootstrap may be an easy way to alter the Look and Feel.
I am glad that we have in this world at least a few rich people with uncontrollable curiosity. It seems like wealth is wasted on some.
There are so many reasons that looking at an item doesn't mean you're interested in buying it (or, a least not buying it for yourself) that I'm surprised that such minor signals like that still radically alter your recommendations. The system doesn't seem particularly smart.
Since I was a kid, space has always been a deep source of curiosity and wonder for me. With events like James Cameron's dive last week, Elon Musk's work, and this, it heartens me that private citizens are attempting rekindle the wonders they felt when they were younger for a new generation. All in reaction to the governments budget cuts and the limited ambitions of today's industry titans.

The longer term solution maybe showing tax payers scientific/statistical evidence that these sorts of 'stunts' really do yield an impressive ROI. It's a tough thing to do, but might be our way back to places like Mars.
Flash is also anywhere from 2 to 3 times faster then html5+javascript for high performance games.
Biodigital Human, a successor to Google body
There is only a windless spot on earth if you take wind to mean air moving horizontal to the earth's surface. Otherwise imagine that we have wind that points north along the ground, with wind pointing up at the north pole and down at the south pole (and higher up wind comes back south).
Seth - I totally agree - I don't think we realized how important music in video was until we started to play around with beta versions of this release
I get that, but I don't think you see the distinction I'm making, and it's pretty important.

The defining characteristic of privilege is not necessarily that you are judged more favorably, but that you are judged on the basis of your behavior, rather than on the basis of your group membership.

The situations you point out are about mocking behavior, not groups. Your friend said something about a young girl, so you make fun of him for being a pedophile. Your girlfriend happens to have a black eye, so you get jokingly accused of abusing her. The humor is rooted in your specific circumstance rather than in prejudice. Yes, they are only funny because the stereotypes exist, but they are still jokes about the individual rather than the stereotype.

Contrast this with a "joke" like, just off the top of my head:

Q: What do you call a man who hasn't raped anyone?
A: A virgin.

...which is more the sort of thing I'm talking about.
I like the idea of an overall, single-value "raveld" score.

I've seen alot of these types of services popping up lately. How does your service differentiate itself from competitors such as Cloudyn or UptimeCloud?
Linux is generally considered the go-to OS for under powered computers

"Under-powered" is a moving target. It seems to apply best to computers that don't quite meet the specs of the current Windows, or perform very poorly with it. Anything without a prayer of running WinXP is much worse than under-powered, and modern Linux is a poor choice. An old linux2.4 distro would be a good option, or my personal favorite for truly pathetic hardware, OpenBSD.

[Dmitry] threw an antique 30-pin RAM SIMM at the problem. It’s wired up directly to the microcontroller...

Whoa. You can do that? I mean, it makes complete sense, but it never occurred to me... suddenly I might have a use for all those old free RAM sticks.
There's also Zygote Body, which looks to be based on the original GB software (but shows an adult human, not a zygote - terrible name). I put the BD link in the title because it's a more advanced project and thus probably of greater interest to HN readers.

http://www.zygotebody.com/
There is an interesting scheme called 'firstbits', which uses the blockchain (global, public, immutable) to determine the shortest prefix which uniquely identifies an address. At this point in time, an address can usually be identified with 5-6 hex digits.

Your 19HcFgnnJseANJAHUjFifVwz68AGYrHc7v address for example, firstbits down to 19HcFgn: http://firstbits.com/
Because QR codes are a stop-gap and won't exist in a few years?

Seems like low-power Bluetooth will replace QR codes in the not-so-distant future.
The interface design problem here is that people are trying to express two things with one button: A) I disagree strongly, and B) that is a poor contribution to the discussion.

Personally, I'm going with both A and B for Batista. Some people come to a sexism discussion like fundies come to an evolution discussion. The point isn't to learn something and perhaps come away with a new view. It's to argue until the other people go find something better to do, so that the arguer can feel victorious and avoid having their bubble punctured.

When Batista jumped in with a standard technique for derailing the discussion, I suspected he was not interested in actual discussion. From his further replies, I'm sure of it. Life's too short to waste time talking with people like that. And if he's not at a discussion site to have an actual discussion, downvoting seems entirely reasonable to me.
Probably, but like I said I'm still learning all about this, I have no idea how to do that.
I was thinking a desktop background version.
Please do. If it ends up as copy on your site somewhere, would you mind I mentioned that in job interviews and the like? If that's cool, would you mind shooting me an email with your contact info just in case someone asks for confirmation? You should be able to find my email in my profile.
Just the animations are being rendered on the device (to save bandwidth). The forecast data is being computed on the server.
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"Remember when we would mock Soviet-style 'show me your papers' societies?"
http://www.economist.com/debate/days/view/822
When in doubt, A/B test. Be sure to track the whole funnel, not just the initial signup rate.

My guesses:

- asking for a CC up front might make sense if the trial customers are burdensome and you want to focus your efforts on customers more likely to pay.

- if you are an unknown entity, or the pain level of your customers is low, the CC prompt may dramatically reduce signups.

But forget my guesses. When in doubt, just try it out.
Here you go:

http://www.tak2000.com/data/Satellite_TC.pdf
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I hereby move that all further article submissions focused on gender roles or "sexism" be banned from HN. They aren't intellectually interesting, they aren't productive, they tend to bring out the worst in terms of quality of discussion. Yes, I know some of you may disagree with me, but that does not make me evil or less enlightened than you are, so spare me the downvotes. For those of you that do agree with me, I recommend we all start flagging any such articles we do see. Since we're not allowed to downvote articles directly. Sound good? Let's act.
What about XeTeX-generated PDFs makes them incompatible?
Ads on TV are unbearable! I can't watch TV anymore, it just makes me annoyed.
The Canadian version of the system will need to replace the horn with "Excuse me!" and "Sorry!" :)
> None of this is any different than basic capitalism.

Completely agree. I'm not sure I see anything wrong with what the spammer is doing. He may be polluting the Pinterest 'stream' with affiliate links, but it's not like the people on Pinterest aren't on there just to look at random stuff they may never see anyways. Obviously he must be showing people stuff they want if he's making money on it.

It shouldn't even be called spam since every link on Pinterest is technically solicited. Every user on there wants to see new stuff, that's the point of the site. It's nothing like email spam that I didn't ask for, or junk mail that was sent to my house just because they grabbed my info from somewhere.
Is WIPO “Advising” Complainants?
I'm currently on two missions. In one of these, we kick ass. Deliver on schedule or even in advance. It's scrum, we simply work as a team of four and ship, ship, ship, ship, feature after feature and fix after fix. We have our hands free, management is trusting our cell with the strategic future of their Tech tree, and we deliver.

In the other mission, I am not making this up, I spend 1hour/day on poor excuses of stand up meetings, 3 hours/day in various meetings, 1hour/day on various administrative tasks and 3 hours/day preparing powerpoint plannings for the meetings of the next day, and I'm a dev. I work with equally awesome devs in either mission, but in this one the customer is absolutely crazy inefficient and a control freak, and the best example of what NOT to do with scrum I've ever seen.

So who is more competent? The me that's killing it with scrum in the first mission or the me that can't do anything because of scrum in the second mission?
Not actually a good representation for wind energy potential, because wind power is cubic in wind speed (v^2 for kinetic energy per unit volume, times v^1 for volume/(cross sectional area * unit time)). So energy potential is concentrated in the "long tail", infrequent high winds. (E.g. 30 mph is 8x more powerful than 15 mph, 27x more than 10 mph). The distribution looks much more "uneven" -- both in space (clustered) and time (fluctuating) -- than a linear-in-windspeed map shows.

Off topic: if anyone's looking for a slightly gigantic weather history dataset ("oodles of terabytes"), look at [1]. It has accumulated "a few thousand" weather stations, at 5 minute intervals, going back "a few" years (I forget the numbers).

[1] http://madis.noaa.gov/
> I can edit in an efficient plain text editor

... which is probably the real reason I don't use LyX either. Emacs + Latex are second nature to me.
> If anyone is interested in this stuff, just ask and I'll write a post describing what I did to take boot time from 2.5 minutes to 10 seconds.

Yes please. Optimisation war stories are always interesting.
We recently started using the Unity3D plugin in addition to Flash. We considered packaging Unity in Flash, but there are some missing features so we went straight for the plugin.

Our site is for 8-12 year old kids, so it's not the most technical audience. The Unity plugin installs in a few seconds without requiring admin rights--even most computers under corporate lockdown can install it. We've had a total of one customer service complaint, which was resolved with a little explanation.

In conclusion, just for 3D content just forget flash and go straight to the Unity plugin.
I like where he says "I imagine that NASA would decide to make it available to the Smithsonian for all to see." - creating enough publicity around it's eventual public display that NASA will have no choice but to do just that.
This is the last of a 3 part debate between Bruce Schneier and Kip Hawley on the effectiveness of post-9/11 airport security. Links to the previous two parts are on the page and well worth reading as well.

By part 3, it's clear that Hawley doesn't have much ammunition to defend his viewpoint other than anecdotes and the "trust us to keep you safe" mantra. And he used to run the TSA.
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I'm not seeing it yet. I think "most abusers of women are men" is very different than "most men are abusers of women".
What are the average work hours per week and days' holiday a year taken by a (US) Googler?
I'm not trying to put words in Paul Vixie's mouth by the way, so "explanation" is too strong a word. It's just my interpretation. I'd agree that the article could go into more detail on why this is a bad thing long term; I'm sure there's more to it.
Unity had better audio support than Flash (3D positioned audio right out of the box).

HTML5 may get there someday, but Unity is already there now.
It does make sense - the Apollo 11 command module is already on display in the Air and Space Museum, as is one of the Saturn 5 rockets.
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Driving seems to be the only daily activity in which a large population of people need to abide by a set of logic and rules to not die and not get hit by a big financial burden in the case of an accident or ticket. Recently I've found myself wondering if society would degrade if we lost our dependance on this sort of necessary logic in our daily lives.
You must be the change you want to see in the world...
Is Posterous video conversion broken?
Is anyone else having trouble getting Posterous to successfully convert their application video? We've tried uploading .m4v, .mp4, .mov (h264) and .wmv with no luck (we've waited over a day for the conversion to happen, and all have either failed or are still "in progress").

Obviously, the video is still playable if you click the download link, but it feels like that's a pretty bad experience and I'd love to have it in the flash player like the example videos (for example: http://dsiroker-private.posterous.com/private/FCAGetIemw).
The funny thing is that Adobe does charge for the tools. Flash Professional retails for $700!
So if I understand your argument correctly, you're saying that a bot posting feminist quotes is as offensive to guys as a bot posting sexist jokes is to women?
Some editors went through and deleted a massive number of useful Mac/Windows screenshots several years ago, but I don't think there's ever been an actual policy stating these screenshots were a legal issue.

Also, the GPL only covers code, not program output (under normal circumstances), so I don't see how it applies to screenshots anyway.
Airbnb Talk Tonight: Run all your apps on a dynamically shared pool of nodes
We're having Ben Hindman, one of the creators of Mesos, in to the Airbnb office for a tech talk at 6pm tonight. We're now using Mesos for cluster management, and think it could be valuable for a lot of other companies out there as well.

Open to the public, details here:
http://www.airbnb.com/meetups/mfdkwr349-tech-talk-ben-hindman-on-mesos

Hope to see you there!