skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for that, that was fun.

Who here coded a solver into the game that used the quadratic formula? I tied it to a particular key and it would momentarily, almost imperceptibly flash a correct solution on the page after I selected an angle. heh heh.
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Agreed. I wish manufactures would at least support one distro of Linux. Maybe Vizio went with hardware that is easy to support...
I've always thought the pump is not for me. It seems to be pretty big and you always have to carry around it with you. My life is still pretty fast paced and sometimes that kind of machinery is just an annoyance to get along with. The shots are not the problem, the everyday need of full control of your life is.
I find most scientists I know startlingly bad at philosophy, and startlingly arrogant about how much science actually tells us. If only more people read philosophy instead of Popular Science.
If a comment like that can discourage you, you are not ready. It's like starting to train for a marathon and quickly forgetting the idea because you don't like your shoes, or something equally trivial.

If you think I exaggerate, try staying focused on your startup after months of investor rejection (which is the norm, by the way).
Thanks for the feedback. I did strip comments across languages, both block and single-line.

And, yes, it's certainly possible that this isn't a useful metric. I just found it an interesting line of inquisition.
In most states, as I'm fairly sure is the case with California, you would register as a foreign entity in California, and would pay taxes in California relative to the income produced in California. Which, if you were a Delware Corporation with all of your resources in California, would be 100%.

Edit: Here's your California SOS FAQ on the subject: http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/be/faqs.htm#form-question7
I use the USB port as well and connect a USB drive to it. But I am a bit more paranoid, and I do a bit-by-bit comparison of every file that I copy, after I do the backup.
Am I the only one having trouble reading the font of the post?
On a 24 inch monitor running at 1920x1080 W7 Chrome its not exactly easy to read.
It would be great if there were popular philosophy books not written by the lunatics of the philosophy world. Focus on a question the mainstream philosophers have answered and lay out the answer step-by-step, like a popular science book that goes through how we know what goes on inside the Sun, for example, and how we found out.
Hackers gonna hate
Indeed can't you just user Paypal, Fastpring, Saasy and so on? If accepting payments is the only reason to ask I don't think you need US company
What do I do when I can't find my iPhone?

Snark aside, this looks great. The beauty is that it's not necessarily for your keys, its for anything you lose often, if you can figure out a way to attached this to said object.
> Android 1.0 was released just shy of four years ago, in September of 2008.

Well, two+ years then, although it seemed much longer in my mind. I remember having an Android phone back in the day, I've had 3 versions of iOS and 2 iOS devices since then.

According to Wikipedia, 20% still use Froyo (mid 2010) and 65% use Gingerbread (late 2010).

>Meanwhile ICS is fast becoming the norm for new devices.

With only 7% using it as of now, despite it being 8 months out already, I wouldn't hold my breath. And even if it catches one 6 months from now, the next version will also be similarly stalled, and so on.
Bad SSL configuration on this server. Looks like it's missing an intermediate certificate.

Instructions for the site owner are here: http://www.alphassl.com/support/install-root-certificate.htm...

I'm not adding an exception to view it, and non-SSL redirects to SSL.
I'm not as fond of the language as some, primarily because it is unnecessarily hard to debug errors and unnecessarily hard to read code and data.

For example the interpreter can basically say "there's a syntax error somewhere in this giant block of yours" and not have any idea where.

A related issue is that a single delimiter (the brace) is bad for readability, even if it's easy to parse. Just try reading a gigantic dictionary; it isn't anywhere near as clear as Python/JSON-style can be (where there are obvious commas, colons, quoted strings and more to show you exactly what you're looking at).

Another headache for debugging is that commands frequently accept the names of variables. In unfamiliar code you can't even answer simple questions like "where are all the places 'xyz' is used?" because a reference to 'xyz' could be hiding almost anywhere. You can change something and not fully understand the effects that your change could have. While I'm sure this allows for very clever code to be quickly written, it fails the more-important test of producing code that is easy to read.

It is even possible for commands to silently accept mistakes and seem correct, with major consequences. Suppose "x" just happens to be a one-element list containing a number, '{0}'. With this input, "lindex 0 $x" is legal (even though "lindex $x 0" is the correct argument order). Worse, the wrong form returns something that seems reasonable without error. In this case what it actually does is grab the index that it found by magically looking inside the list ($x) and return one of the values from the implicit list containing "0" that was given on the command line; it returns a "0" but not the "0" that you'd think it does!

While one can argue that each language has "best practices" and intended usage, the examples above are largely pulled directly from built-in commands and data types. These are things that people encounter all the time, they are not caused by any particular TCL programming practice.
Works fine in Chrome on my Mac.
Nice! I've been looking for something to give me a better feel for what's going on.
>A handful of people making money does make it not a novelty activity. It's still a niche, but it's not a novelty.

How so? A handful of people make money out of ANY novelty. A handful of people making money of it, is actually, the very characteristic of a novelty.

A handful of people made money off of hula-hups, the rubik cube, and yo-yos...
I think you will appreciate Alain de Botton's work, that if you don't know him already.
Works fine on Chrome 19 with Windows 7
One thing I'd like to investigate is how compressibility correlates to the author's age or experience. Also how it changes as a project matures.
The Auction House takes all the skill element out of the game on normal mode. Anybody even moderately interested in playing the game with a bit of risk (which also implies you are playing hard-core-die-once-and-your-character-is-dead) - avoids the Auction House like the plague when playing Normal Level.

I understand the Auction House is essential to completing the game on Inferno level, but good players can complete on Nightmare without using it. I don't know about Hell level - that's probably where there is a judgement call required.
I'll definitely give it a shot, thanks. Does anyone know what btrfs lacks compared to zfs, other than stability?
I always run the latest Firefox and the only extensions I have are Xmarks, 1password, Firebug and Webdeveloper.
Can you give an example of one interesting question that philosophers have answered?
Question: is zapier.com profitable?

(I'm asking because if zapier is profitable then blog post has some merit. If not then... oh well)
http://www.echotx.com/symphony-tcgm-system.shtml Wireless cgm and non-invasive. Passing every clinical trial with excellent accuracy too. "Coming soon" though.
Oops, didn't pick up on this - it works fine on my machine (without adding exception). I've removed the non-ssl redirect while I get it sorted. Thanks for the heads up :)
Playboy: If life is so purposeless, do you feel its worth living?

Kubrick: Yes, for those who manage somehow to cope with our mortality. The very meaninglessness of life forces a man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as the greenness of a leaf; but as they grow older, the awareness of death and decay begins to impinge on their consciousness and subtly erode their joie de vivre (a keen enjoyment of living), their idealism - and their assumption of immortality.

As a child matures, he sees death and pain everywhere about him, and begins to lose faith in the ultimate goodness of man. But if he’s reasonably strong - and lucky - he can emerge from this twilight of the soul into a rebirth of life’s élan (enthusiastic and assured vigour and liveliness).

Both because of and in spite of his awareness of the meaninglessness of life, he can forge a fresh sense of purpose and affirmation. He may not recapture the same pure sense of wonder he was born with, but he can shape something far more enduring and sustaining.

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death - however mutable man may be able to make them - our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfilment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
— Stanley Kubrick in interview for Playboy
You could just rip the RTMP stream itself, or whatever the source data is. Decompile the swf and check it out for yourself, or the source url for the video feed is probably provided in some lame xml config file. No need to write software around an entire browser to get your ocean feed.
The documents have actually been up on Orrick's site for awhile: http://www.orrick.com/practices/corporate/emergingCompanies/...

I used these docs in 2010 to form my company.

What's new here is Docracy, a "Github for Law", where you can version and branch legal docs. It's a cool concept, and I hope they succeed.

Some thoughts:
- A huge value-added would be turning the document variables into a questionnaire. Just answer the questions (CEO name, address, etc.) and it will populate the doc. That'd be awesome.

- Even though I used Orrick to create these docs, I did not hire them when it was time for a lawyer. Can open sourced legal docs really be used for law firm lead generation, and if so, how? I suspect "brand awareness" is not sufficient. For instance, if I branch an Orrick doc, I'd say that they should have the right to add me to their mailing lists. What I'm getting at is that I think it'll be important to take the idea of making-law-firm-lead-generation-happen-through-open-sourced-docs really seriously and build in real hooks to make it happen. Otherwise, quality content will be hard to come by.

- I wonder if e-sign is out of scope for where they are now. I suspect that they're doing it because it will help get distribution for the docs, but it's the most sloppy part of their site right now. They know better than I do, but if I were them, I would focus 100% on getting the content and making the content shine.
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It's smaller than the phone you already carry around. It's mathmatically and demonstrably superior to shots. They have integrated CGMs now. Ask around, the folks with the fastest paced lives (diabetic Olympians, marathoners, world travelers, etc) ALL have pumps.

Unless you have a 6% HA1C on shots, get a pump and live decades longer.
sorry for not just digging through the source, but what are you using for the charts?

Are you storing metric data? or is it all in the browser? (e.g. do you get the full screen you just showed when you first open it up, or is it like a process mon where it's all 0 until you look at it)?
The two linked articles

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/a-universe-fr... being David Alpert's review of Lawrence Kraus's book, and

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/has-ph... being an interview in which Kraus responds to the charges,

are far more interesting than this piece of borderline-blogspam, which claims to settle the question merely by overstating what Kraus originally said (I don't think he ever claimed that physics subsumes all of philosophy, only some areas).
See also, Betteridge's Law of Headlines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
I find it amazing that the government was able to think and legislate a specific feature of online gameplay (though one may not agree with it, I find it surprising that they even understood gaming sufficiently to try and control just one aspect of it -- most countries would have simply made online gameplay illegal!)
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This is very interesting stuff. I’m a native English speaker but also grew up learning French and other languages; to me, colour categories seem to be pretty much an arbitrary matter of convenience. There is no inherent distinction between light blue and dark blue in English, just as there is no distinction between pure and impure code in C++. You can introduce it artificially, it’s just that the language puts them in the same category.

Also, English may have only 11 “basic” colour categories, but there are loads more colour words than that, and you can get basically as specific as you like.

I also have a suspicion that I’m a tetrachromat, because I distinguish various red-orange colours that no one else seems to. Since I’m male, though, that would only be possible if I had two X chromosomes and the right mutations on both sides of my family—possible, but unlikely.
We have a lot of in house expertise in ElasticSearch and choose it for a few reasons: 1) It's easier than Lucence/Sphinx to setup. 2) It's clustering support works out of the box and is so easy to configure it's not funny.

ES is basically a usability wrapper around Lucene. I've heard that Sphinx is better for a single node configuration, it's faster and uses less resources, but clustering with Sphinx is apparently tricky.

The other competitor, which I have no experience with is Solr, but this write-up http://karussell.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/elasticsearch-vs-s... gives an overview of the ES advantages over Solr.

I'm not a Full-Text Search expert, but a number of really smart people at my company evaluated a number of them for one of the most critical pieces of our production site and they chose ElasticSearch.
I DO work at YouTube, and for some time I've been working on CMS, YouTube's frontend to ContentID that allows copyright owners to claim their content, set automatic policies, etc. I can confirm that what Slapshot wrote was essentially correct.

This case was an automatic audio match. Somebody from BMF has looked at it, and the claim has been released. Note that this happened around 5 hours after the dispute, and less than 8 hours after the automatic claim was created, which I believe is a pretty great turnaround time on a weekend.
https://statuscoder.com/418

Thanks you made me smile. :) Can I ask you what your motivation for this project is?
But he does not say "the ultimate goal for all life." He says,

"... the ultimate goal of all living organisms."

"Life" is vague and philosophically interesting; "living organism" is less so, and if philosophically interesting, it's interesting for different reasons.
+1 - Kind of the reason I started this blog post.. Besides reporting (which I know my setup lacks), from a techie perspective, what would this setup lack that Splunk provides.

Follow-up, is it _honestly_ worth the licensing to get those features?
Actually founding a sustainable business is much harder than getting famous.

Getting famous (at least for hackers) requires that your are very good at one thing and you publish that on github or something. Hard but achievable.

Founding a sustainable business requires that you know customer acquisition, marketing, management, etc.
Kanazawa's reasoning is not based on 'which traits came first' but 'which traits were adaptive for the long periods at which evolutionary selection works'. A darker skin tone is (and was) adaptive at certain latitudes and climates; a lighter skin tone is (and was) adaptive in other places.

Neither is more adaptive globally on evolutionary time scales, so your strawman doesn't seem a fair generalization of his theorizing.
I don't know which one scares me more: the fact that there are My Little Pony references on HN, or that I actually got the reference.
Intermediate certificates are easy to mess up, and they don't always show up for everyone as a problem.

Just thought I'd help out!

Test with `curl' is where I noticed it broken -- seems to work in Chrome, possibly because they cache intermediate certificates or something?

~% curl 'https://statuscoder.com/
curl: (60) SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details:
error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed
Tim: that's our #1 FAQ entry! You can definitely use Hone for anything, we just wanted to focus on keys because it's the clearest use case.
Thanks everybody, I'll talk with my doctor tomorrow when I have an appointment.
Well, USA has ESRB - the mother of all monkey face builders.
Actually, from looking at the generated image, I was only able to tell that the font looked vaguely "wrong". I found out it was specifically Aktiv Grotesk only by going through many steps on Identifont: http://www.identifont.com/identify?22+%20+9J+39+1R6+26RB+4PW....

But still, I agree that most people would probably not notice the font being off at all. And the font smoothing difference jumps out at me the most; if the use of Aktiv Grotesk was the only difference from real Safari, I might not have noticed anything.
At least they took the time to write it in English. Considering how much effort the inventors and maintainers of the DNS put into supporting non-ASCII languages like Chinese I think that's pretty good, even if they missed a few articles.
That's not really as bad as philosophers who, when the reality disagrees with them, just make shit up and form a tautological argument for it.
That would significantly increase its value: a button on the unit to cause the phone to buzz, so that one can always be used to find the other.
I'm not sure who you're referring to as "the lunatics of the philosophy world", but I'm skeptical of the idea that philosophers have "answered" any question in the way science answers questions.

There is certainly a debate to be had about what constitutes science, but we can agree on at least a rough framework: testability, induction, the scientific method, etc.

You can't say the same about philosophy. A debate between two neo-Aristotelians about final cause and teleology might be scoffed at by a Humean empiricist. In the larger sense, there are few if any things that the philosophical world would agree to.

There is, however, an interesting popular philosophy book series that I (as a philosophy grad student) really appreciate: "X and Philosophy".

There are dozens of these. "House and Philosophy", "Game of Thrones and Philosophy", "The Hunger Games and Philosophy", etc.

They do a tremendous job of introducing the philosophical debates underpinning the themes of shows, books, movies, etc. They don't attempt to make some kind of grandiose conclusion, but they break down complex thought in a way ost people could understand and take something away from.
why vaporized?

also, why faster? does bittorrent duplicate some traffic?
Thats why I use "could" in my post.

As mentioned by another poster, you can switch jobs if the EB category stays the same.
In that sense, you do have to wait for the "right-enough" job, where they employer is willing to agree to you categorize you in EB2 or EB1 if you have a PHd.

In addition, companies/lawyers take their sweet time preparing paperwork. Which means:

PERM application in process? Can't switch jobs from 3 months to a year or more. My PERM took > 1 year to be approved. Others I know took more time.

A H1 transfer or PERM can also be autited for no good reason, and waste time for people. An audit will discourage people from switching.

I140 in process? Should I switch and waste time invested in PERM?

You can technically switch, but there is plenty of FUD to give people second thoughts.
I've found Plac[1] to be a suitably terse and DRY method of building command-line interfaces. Basically, you write a Python function where each argument to the function becomes either an option, flag, or positional argument on the command line. It's one "line" to define the function's arguments (which might be split on multiple lines due to length, but it's just the function's argument list), plus one "line" to annotate each argument with a type, single-letter abbreviation, docstring, etc. (which might be longer than one line if the docstring is extra long). The "type" of an argument is any function that takes a string and returns anything, so you can for example have a function that parses and returns a comma-separated list of numbers as a Python list of floats. I think Plac supports subcommands, but I haven't used it that way.

If you want to see some examples of real-world usage of Plac, here are some examples from my own projects:

https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/intemp/blob/master/inte...

https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/mergesam/blob/master/me...

https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/splitloci/blob/master/s...

https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/fastqident/blob/master/...

[1] http://plac.googlecode.com/hg/doc/plac.html
Americans also think that ASCII should be good enough for anybody.
Two years is a short life span. My 2001 ThinkPad is under-powered, but now used by a four-year-old who otherwise wouldn't have access to a computer.

Two year product life cycles are incredibly brief for people who aren't circuit-heads like us.
If you can refer to outside "roots" by appending some kind of suffix, it's not really a root.
Questions that can be answered aren't the domain of philosophy, and if these questions ever do get answered the question gets retrospectively moved out of the philosophers' domain. Often philosophers do answer questions -- e.g. Russell answered a whole bunch, but we call the bits where he actually got definite answers "mathematics".

Philosophy, done right, isn't about answering questions but it is about refining them. Consider a difficult question, consider the logical consequences of a bunch of possible answers, and hopefully pop out at the other end with a better question. A question like "What is the right way to behave?" might not ever get answered definitively, but at least we can put labels on various possible schools of thought and distinguish between them in a bunch of rather contrived situations involving lifeboats and runaway trains.
I was not passing judgement on either you or your country's laws ... And I think the ability to try a book out before you buy it is important to the market. I think there are a lot of us who spend time in bookstores simply for this reason.

"Private sharing" and especially recommendations are also my favorite ways to find worthwhile books.
guaranteed-identical non-shared configurations... including small groups of machines with uncontended, identical cross-connects.

That's called EC2 cluster compute.
Awesome, I've just backed it.

One question: What happens when there are multiple devices around?
how does this differ from phone halo?
http://www.phonehalo.com/products-2/
>"I've been diabetic for almost two decades"

I'd say that is more compelling evidence that the state of technology is good. Lack of bluetooth may be somewhat inconvenient, but it is not life threatening...and the lack of bluetooth is less inconvenient than dialysis several times a week.

I'm not unsympathetic toward the author's medical condition, but proprietary interfaces are even part and parcel of devices as successful as the iPhone, and it's hard to see a strong medical case for adding bluetooth to a medical device...sometimes hardwiring is just a better solution for life critical applications.