skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The struggle in such a society won't be for food, clothing, shelter and medicine.

Just imagine if every guy in the world gets to eat, wear, live and heal himself without work, then humans will have better work to do. We will have more productive work.

May be space colonization, advanced research etc will be the aims of such a human race.
Yeah sorta. There's a lot of details to be worked out. The main political party in the Scottish Parliament wants independence. But in the UK/Westminster Parliament (of which Scotland is a part), the Conservative ("Tory") government isn't so keen on the idea.

There's going to be a lot of horsetrading and politicing over what the referendum will actually say, e.g. if there was 2 questions "Do you want independence? Yes/No If not, do you want Scotland to have more power Yes/No", then the Scottish independence people can almost win either way, if 50.00001% vote for independence, they can claim it, if not, but a majority say "more power", then they can claim more power for Scottish Parliament
No welfare net??

There most definitely is one. Both government run and private.

In fact the very link you posted comes from exactly such a welfare net! Those numbers you post? Those are the numbers of people served by the net!
If only compensation to Google for Oracle's frivolous litigation were substantial instead of negligible.
Ubisoft abandons always-on DRM
If you want to expand the left margin, try setting the `numberwidth` property. You may also need to change the color of number column (` LineNr`) to match the background.
It's art with big pixels (appeal to the gameboy-generation) on it.
Heh, I've lost count of how many times I've written "document.onkeydown = function(e) { console.log(e.keyCode); }" to deal with this. This is probably easier, if I can remember it when I need it :)
I think they have been hired back, not in the same places but elsewhere.
Monokai is popular choice for many initially, it looks good but hurts eyes. Solarized on the other hand seems to lack contrasts at times.

After spending a great amount of time in 'Merbivore Soft', then 'Made of Code' last year, I've fallen in love with 'Tomorrow' - ST2 & XCode. Mostly for the vibrant colors and pleasant contrast. Clojure too looks very nice in this.

Coal Graal is another nice theme - http://goo.gl/fH9rP http://goo.gl/4nCHk
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Sure you can. The notes look different anyway, so you could just peg the new Scottish pound at 1:1 with the UK pound.

No reason you can't use the same currency as another country. Some non-EU countries (Montenegro and Kosovo) use the Euro and aren't in EU.
Nice, but fails for me with non-English characters on my keyboard, ğüşöçĞÜŞÖÇ, and can't differentiate i and ı.
Food insecurity is not starvation -- it is a metric created to justify ongoing concern, because starvation went up against science/capitalism/etc and lost, badly. I literally count as food insecure unless I attempt to defeat that conclusion by lying to the survey. You don't have to worry too much about me, and if you knew my situation when I was a kid (and squarely within the intention of the definition, in those days), you could be excused for not worrying all that much.

I'm about to say something which is indelicate, but probably true.

Poor Somalis look like poor Chinese look like poor Brazilians look like poor peasants from the Middle Ages, because human physiology reacts to starvation in predictable ways. Poor Americans do not resemble any of the above, because to the extent they have a problem with food, it is that they consume far too much of it. You can measure the nutritional consumption of poor Americans. We have. It is statistically virtually indistinguishable from that of rich Americans. Poor American kids? Same story.

(Some people might phrase poor folks' food problems as "too much of the wrong food", but I think this conflates the problem with a moral judgment about food-as-values-signaling. One of the reasons we stigmatize e.g. Coke over e.g. fresh squeezed orange juice is precisely because poor people drink Coke and rich people drink fresh squeezed orange juice. Both would be better off with switching more of their beverage consumption to tap water.)

See generally :

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/1990/09/how-poor-ar...

or you can make anecdotal observations by going to any high-poverty region of America and, well, looking.
Nathan, I almost completely missed this. I woke up to it on HN. Yes, I did get your email yesterday around 8:30am but when I read it on my iPhone, I skimmed right to the center section, with the 4 icons, which is now my routine after getting it for months. Your book has been coming for a while so didn't actually notice that it shipped.

Anyway, I'd suggest a more prominent headline in your next newsletter, or even include the different versions. Heck, why not just dedicate half an issue to discussing it?
YouTube Flags Democrats’ Convention Video on Copyright Grounds
Probably relevant to the discussion, the mousetrap library:
http://craig.is/killing/mice
Here is Oracle's corresponding disclosure: http://www.scribd.com/doc/103156565/12-08-17-Oracle-Disclosu...

I appreciate that it probably wasn't yourself who chose to include the term 'shill' in the Google document name, but your referring to 'the Google bloggers' is a bit misleading. To quote from Google's disclosure:

"Neither Google nor its counsel has paid an author, journalist, commentator, or blogger to report or comment on any issues in this case. And neither Google nor its counsel have been involved in any quid pro quo in exchange for coverage or articles about the issues in this case."

Contrast this to Oracle's retaining Florian Mueller as a paid consultant when he was backing their case on his blog.

(Edit: Clarified Oracle/Mueller relationship)
It's kind of ironic that you can't bookmark it in Chrome using the ctrl+d shortcut when this is one of those perfect bookmark tools.
Is JavaScript Tragically Important?
There is still a lot to admire. A few days back i pulled all of my email to Thunderbird only to discover a few differences between g vs hot mail.

No pop account in hotmail, effectively every read message still appears unread in the online email client.
By default hotmail had an option checked to "leaving only 14 days of email online". All the rest was virtually deleted and therefore existed only on my computer.
There was an insane plugin to submit those all back to inbox without disturbing dates or subjects.
However, that only resulted in hotmail access being revoked after 150 or so emails since there is some sort of cap on pushing emails at once to your account.
The gmail contacts and email search resembles that of google as a search engine. No other comes near.

Still there is a lot of opportunity to improve this. PG wrote a list of top ten products in which search was first and email was second. Sparrow might have been a good effort. Let's see when it evolves further.
A quote from the article: "Install this bad boy with the simple command sudo apt-get install python ..."

Two things:

1. Fedora and related distribution users will want to say "yum -y install python" instead.

2. But it's hard to imagine a distribution that doesn't have Python installed by default, because so many Linux system utilities are written in Python.

Another quote: "Alternatively, you can just start hacking away and use StackOverflow to fill in any of the gaps in your knowledge."

Yes, good suggestion, but there's always the searchable online Python documentation:

http://www.python.org/doc/

And if you're offline for any amount of time, the documentation can be downloaded:

http://docs.python.org/download.html (2.x)

http://docs.python.org/py3k/download.html (3.x)

Python has some amazing libraries -- even symbolic algebra (what Mathematica does):

from sympy import *
x,a,b,c = var('x a b c')

pprint(solve(a * x**2 + b * x + c,x), use_unicode=False)

The result:

_____________ / _____________\
/ 2 | / 2 |
-b + \/ -4*a*c + b -\b + \/ -4*a*c + b /
[---------------------, -----------------------]
2*a 2*a

The Unicode output is, of course, much nicer:

http://i.imgur.com/fR7qO.png
Great advice thanks for sharing your experience!!
One thing I'd like to add/contradict. For system-wide Python packages, avoid pip, use your system package manager, else you will eventually end up with conflicts when something you install requires the library you have pip installed, and your package manager wants to install it. Install virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper with your system package manager! Then use virtualenv for any actual projects you are working on. If your repository version of virtualenv/virtualenvwrapper is outdated, use better repos/PPAs/AUR.

Basically, you should never ever find yourself typing sudo pip. If you refuse to use a virtualenv for some reason, use pip --user.

The other benefit of this approach is that your system package manager will keep your system packages up to date and the required versions for any software on your system.

Honestly, I think the best solution in the long term would be for pip, by default, to install to a user environment (installing in ~/.local using the --user flag) if it is run unprivileged and not in a virtualenv.
Jury nullifcation is applicable in criminal cases, this was a civil case.

In civil cases the jury can ignore the judges instructions but if the judge feels that in doing so they've rendered an unreasonable verdict, he or she can issue a judgement notwithstanding verdict which essentially amends or entirely over rules the jury's decision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_notwithstanding_verdi...
Apple's wireless killswitch for your phone patent
yeah, just tested with German keyboard. I guess a localization would be needed?

Anyway, upvoting because the guys behind it are awesome.
You've probably heard the following parable:

Little Bull: "Let's run down the hill and make sweet love to a couple of cows."

Big Bull: "I got a better idea, let's walk down and make sweet love to them all."

When you have content of a transient nature, you got to get the going while the going is good. An ebook launch like this will get the job done.

However, if you write a book that will blow people's minds and change a culture or an industry forever, you don't need the big launch. The name of your book will be whispered into the ears of others for a long time. You will get your sales.

The latter is a lot harder to do, but I'm hoping I can do just that.

Watch this space.
Killing Cancer Cells: Chemo or Radiotherapy for Lymphoma?
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I kind of want to agree with most of the points but I think there also has to be a level of realism as to what kind of business Scotland can accommodate. For example, it's very unlikely that companies on the scale of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc, could ever grow to their current levels within Scotland. I think this for a few reasons.

The first is that the VC funding is just not at the same levels as in the US. Secondly, the talent pool is way to small. As much as we like to think the presence of 4 universities in Glasgow alone must mean we are overflowing with people this just isn't the case, you are lucky if you have 40 final year students in a CS course, and maybe around 15% of them are actually "excellent", and the numbers have been decreasing over the years. I have at least 4 friends that were looking to recruit in the last month or so and each one has been despondent about the quality of the candidates. Then finally you are going to be in a dog fight with the large financial institutions that dominate the hiring of new grads. Graduates here are still relatively conservative in what kind of job they want.

However, where I do think we can excel is in creating tech startups that don't focus so much on the consumer side of things. There are plenty of hard problems out there that don't necessarily need 300 million active users to make some money.
This needs integrating into Etherpad. I'm sure the sketchpad guys might be interested.
Thank you, this was the best I could do atm.

https://gist.github.com/3634373

UPDATE: Off's link looks a lot better than my gist, I'm gonna give it a try.
Another interesting solution:
http://paulrouget.com/e/vimdarkroom/
Brushart
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Ireland is a bit more expensive (salaries + living expenses) than Scotland though, isn't it? I am just basing this on what I remember from being in Ireland a few years back, and on being from Scotland.
The economies are inter connected. So you don't really need to export to lower the price abroad. A lower demand for a food item in a big consumer country like US is enough to reduce the food price around the globe.

The surplus thrown away food if saved could be money that could have funded another venture or at the very least spent on holiday shopping in the US. So this is a loss to the American economy.

In general, wasting is a loss to the economy, loss the environment and to mankind.
Congrats! I love it when money making geeks share revenue numbers.
How An Object-Oriented Programmer See The World?
Yeah, I agree that it's the communit that makes the forum, but I have talked to quite a few members on different forums serving different niche areas and a lot of them have agreed that a reddit-esque way of presenting discussions would be better. Also, it was mostly the people who spent a lot of time on the forums that usually supported this idea.

Also, shouldn't cleaning up the presentation and making it easy to follow discussion threads heirarchically increase user engagement?
Sorry about the obvious and slightly more controversial question, but are there any startups that you regret having funded?

In particular from the non-economic perspective.
No it doesn't. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4469092
Thanks. This is still just an idea in my head. I'm just in the 'gauging interest' phase now. I'll let you know if/when something is available for testing.
So what is it that makes the tailoring impenetrable to automation? For example why couldn't pieces be cut with a laser cutter? Why can Chinese workers create a suit in 30 minutes and US workers only in 10 hours?

I wonder if modern machines wouldn't be able to do completely different things, too. Why does cloth have to come in flat sheets? Maybe modern machines could produce cloth that already has shapes (like knitting machines, only more fine grained?). No more sewing required?
How to Wireframe a Well-Converting Landing Page
CUDA 5 Multi-GPU Cluster via Amazon EC2 and StarCluster
This moron doesn't know a word about how serious a disease insomnia is. Meh. Downvoted.
Would have to disagree with you about the divide. To a lot of people (such as yourself) it's a non-issue however the majority are averse to travelling across the country (people in both cities). I can understand cost being a factor with it costing >£25 peak time to travel across the central belt.

The number of people from the capital who have attended RookieOven meetup at least once over the past year is appalling. I get the feeling it's the same for TechMeetup, Refresh, Popup Hack and more.
Love this, always great to see creative agencies pioneering new methods of building engagement for their own brand... I doubt it will be long until this kind of interactive encouragement will be seen a lot more.
It's an interesting approach to the problem, which doesn't hurt the customer. After all, the burden of marketing has always been on the seller's side. Indeed, $100 may seem too high a fee, but the mechanism isn't set in stone either. If Valve realise that it's too difficult for indies to get in, maybe they'll reduce the entry fee, or create a secondary market with a lower one. Anyway, the customer is the winner here, and that's good.
Cobol for Lisp developers (and other X for Y books)
1. I haven't given it much thought, but MVP should be a barebones forum much without any communities, user pages, private messaging etc. basically an MVP would look like the Ask HN page.

2. The average customer would be the same as that for any other hosted forum i.e. someone without the technical chops to run a forum software themselves, but having the passion to run the community.
Those fees also pay the salaries for a large number of full-time app reviewers.
(Pidgin's) SSL support appears to have been written by a lobotomy victim
Another great benefit is deep-fried Mars Bars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar
Sweden tops TBL's web index
If speed is what you're after then you can't beat a standalone, desktop, mail client.
It is never pointless to conserve. If anything it benefits you.

As for businesses, giving away expired or unused food has liability and tax concerns. The liability is probably the primary reason for not doing so. Having worked in a bakery over twenty years ago they used to give expired bread to a local charity until they were blocked by county health officials. Mind you, nothing was wrong with the bread, it was merely too old for them to sell.

Then you top it off with the fact many charities want money, not old food - even canned food that is not expired is not wanted except by select charities or at certain times of the year.
yes, it just installed itself on my computer
How a bedroom developer's 'ugly little game' became an App Store hit
Bingo. So many genetic/evolutionary algorithms assume you need a large population with crossover to avoid these supposed 'local minima'.

Very often, the most efficient evolutionary search algorithm involves a population of one (or two, depending how you count them): generate a mutation, compare it to the current best. If it's worse, throw it away; if it's better or the same, keep it and throw the original away. Rinse and repeat.

Search for "neutral networks" for more information about research into determining the "shape" of the fitness landscape. (Unfortunately, Google throws in plenty of search results about neural networks and network neutrality).
White House wants entrepreneurs to copy iTriage medical apps use of open data
The Republic of Ireland broke parity with the pound sterling in either 1973 or 1976, I forget which. So there was either a 51 or 53 year long period in which you could take Irish currency to the Central Bank on dame Street and exchange it at par. It can be done without the actve co-operation of the country whose currency you're pegging.

On a more mundane note the SNP currently seems to be aiming for devo-max, (devolution maximum) where Foreign and Defence policy stay with Westminster and in other matters Scotland is for practical purposes independent. Devil's in the details of course.
This is very useful. You can combine this with another good practice by writing down the first task that you're going to tackle in the morning once you've woken up - e. g. that painful email you've been postponing for the last couple of weeks. This carries the additional benefit of having a clear cut productive start in the day.
This doesn't necessarily work for me. I will start going down the rabbit hole of fleshing out ideas and going down corridors of thought, and I'll soon have filled up four or five pages of a legal pad only to have amplified the circus in my head to a deafening level.

I find a glass of scotch and putting on an old TV episode that I've seen 100 times before to personally be the best cure for insomnia.
A History Lesson on the Rise and Fall of Adobe Flash
This needs fixing. Would love to have this in my bookmarks, otherwise I'd just forget about it.
I want a green one!
[EDIT - Fix unintentional italics]

Another ~5% off by getting rid of the branch inside the str_compare() loop. Here was your original:-

static inline int str_compare( const char *a, const char *b )
{
for(;*a == *b; ++a, ++b)
{
if (*a == '\0' || *b == '\0')
{
return( 0 );
}
}
return( *a - *b );
}

Inside the loop, if *a is a NUL then so will *b, so you don't need to test for both to be NUL. Also, if *a is NUL and *b is NUL then ( *a - *b ) will be 0. You can just iterate through the string when *a are equal and non-NUL, and then return the difference between the two characters so:-

static inline int str_compare( const char *a, const char *b )
{
for(; (*a == *b) && *a; ++a, ++b);
return( *a - *b );
}

[ C-Holy-War ] Personal style preferences; I prefer while loops, so much so that it has been years since I've purposely written a for loop in C and writing C is what I do for my job. For loops likes that end up looking like line noise, I'd find the following much easier on the eye and, more importantly, more immediately obvious to anyone else reading the code as to what it does:-

static inline int str_compare( const char *a, const char *b )
{
while( ( *a == *b ) && *a )
{
a++; b++;
}
return( *a - *b );
}

But, as I said, that's my own style preference. There's nothing wrong about using for loops, perfect acceptable implementation.
Pg Gurgaon
What If I told you you can click the star button on search bar to bookmark it?
Penalize Google
A taller but not slightly wider iPhone is less appealing to me
On an unrelated note, is there way to forbid sites to override ctrl+w? I hate it when a web page is not closed with a short cut.

edit: I am using firefox
He lies!!! The weather is crap, the minimal acceptable standard of food is lower than anywhere else in Western Europe except Britain (on a par) and it's quite expensive to live anywhere considering what you get out of it, whether in the West (where the weather is bad from even an Irish POV) or in Dublin (the capital and Ireland's only credible claim on a city).

If I ever move back to Europe I'm heading to Berlin. Ireland's weather is awful and it's depressing as hell to be in a country where everyone is leaving.
One of the things I like about Foundation is their nested column syntax. I don't have to worry about how many columns I have to work with.

In Neat I have to write something like:
@include span-columns(4 of 8);
If I'm in a div with @include span-columns(8);

In Foundation I always just allocate 12 (default) columns no matter where I am.
Shown here:
https://gist.github.com/3009035

This makes the css much more reusable.

Neat looks like a nice, lighter weight alternative to Foundation, but I can't switch for this reason.
Caveat: failing to read the notes on the next day makes this stop working. Your mind will only rest if it trusts you to read the notes soon.
it would be nice if it can simultaneously display appropriate JS code to bind for a particular key. Also, if it can recognize key combos like ctrl-alt-s
I'm hoping he regretted funding 9GAG. It's one of the most unethical companies I've ever come across. This post on /r/4chan details some of their misdeeds:

http://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/zacju/9gag_repost_mac...
tl;dr the only way to catch them all is to fund them all
Do you have any evidence that Oracle payed Florian Mueller to promote their case?
Here's another advice - do honest day's labour and have a slow beer after it. Do not get drunk unless you've killed a deadline that today.

Works like a charm for me.
Given that unemployment is higher than when the economic downturn began - many have not been hired back. In the US, it's important to realize that the 'official' U3 unemployment rate does not paint the whole picture. The U6 rate considers those worker who have stopped looking for work because there's no work to be had and includes part-time workers. Furthermore, there's a large difference in unemployment between college educated workers and high-school educated workers. In addition, those that have been hired elsewhere are generally hired back for lower wages or less secure positions.
I'm not sure how much sway that would hold, considering he explicitly set out to teach Samsung a lesson using the verdict.
Regarding the scaling issue, location is irrelevant nowadays. Anyone can create a massively scalable system using a laptop and an internet connection thanks to services like AWS.

I'm sure if a startup looked as if it was becoming a global hist then it would relocate to the U.S. if it wasn't bought by an existing company there first.