skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean to pile on, but this comment reminds me of Eric Schmidt's comment that "if you don't have anything to hide, you have nothing to fear". There are at least a couple of things wrong with this sentiment:

(1) if you really believe that, then you would have no problem with a group of strangers searching your house, your bank records, safety deposit boxes, all your digital assets, etc. And by "etc" I mean also strip searching your family members or loved ones if "necessary". Did I go too far there? If so why? Because after all, "if you don't have anything to hide, you have nothing to fear". Who gets to decide how far is too far?

(2) And you might respond, "but these aren't strangers searching my stuff and family, these are duly authorized government officials." Well, duly authorized government officials are flawed human beings like all of us, and the ones doing the searching are most likely not elected by anyone.

And also, these people in power at the moment, whose motives you trust, will most definitely not be in power forever. One day, there will be authorities in power whose motives you don't trust at all, maybe for very good reasons. What then?

That's why the erosion of privacy rights is worth fighting.
Love this: "He later served as mayor and prefect of police of Copenhagen and ultimately as head of the State Council."

A real renaissance (or post-renaissance) man! I love imagining a scientist heading up a bunch if police!
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There is a "board game cafe" in my neighborhood:

http://www.thebrooklynstrategist.com/

They seem to be doing quite well.
Dustin Curtis' idea of "quality" is not the same as yours.
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My buddy in 4th yr Software Engineering just got a fulltime job there.
From reading the other comments here I get the impression it very much depends whether someone has used JS MVC frameworks before.

Having not tried any JS MVC framework before, I also have the problem of thinking backbone js doesn't seem to be so good as everybody is saying. Although I have to admit that I did not spend enough time yet. But from the examples (in particular the famous Todo example), I got the impression backbone js only works fine for apps with low complexity.

But who am I to judge, having it not used yet seriously...
I'm always amazed when I see companies make the mistake of giving facebook control over their business, pushing facebook's brand over their own, and driving people away from their own site instead of towards it. What is so special about facebook that makes marketing people forget everything they learned about marketing?
I find it embarrassing that you don't have corporate sponsors that give you guys carte blanche at this point. Not only do you guys deserve it, but your efforts are on a piece of software with an incredibly liberal and corporate friendly license.

I mean how doesn't Apple/Sony benefit from keeping FreeBSD incredibly healthy?
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You would come to discover new things that others are working on either from your friends or from categories.

We would also have a more editorial section where we would keeps tabs on the projects you invested in.

For a user/investor/project backer the value proposition is:
- you'd post your investments (and we're thinking of the most seamless way this can be done so there is no friction) so they can seen by others to help project succeed
- you would follow people you know to see the projects they invest in and maybe get interested in those as well.
- you can search by category, location, project type... to find interesting projects from across many crowdfunding plaforms (of which each is tailored to a certain niche)
OK - so can we start something?

https://github.com/lifeisstillgood/importantexperiments4kids

I think I can get support for something like this from STEMAmbassadors of the UK. I shall see.

Comments?
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You might want to look at grid systems - there's a lot available and they're generally quite small, but also add a lot of value. If you really want to make from scratch you could make your own :)
Hey simvla - looks good, but to actually be open source you need a license. Right now the source doesn't have a license, so it defaults to "All Rights Reserved". If you intended this to be open source as the title claims, can you add a license please? Thanks!
"I finished my second meeting of the day in Jackson Square and needed to get over to the Financial District. So I pressed the button on my phone and the app informed me it would be six minutes. Just then, I got a text from my wife asking where we were meeting for our date night. Argggh! This critical fact had escaped my mind, and I needed to immediately book a restaurant reservation. I pulled up my Open Table app, booked a table for 6:45 pm at a great spot in the Mission called Range. I matter-of-factly returned her text with our plans for the night. Just then my ride pulled up.

We are increasingly living in a last-second economy."

Well, he is. Having to keep track of that kind of dynamic activity would drive me nuts. Which is why I'm in my current circumstances and not his. Still, it's not necessarily "we."
I am not yet 100% comfortable giving up our office. But we have some extra desks and we are located in a very nice part of town. I think offering these to interesting local entrepreneurs might achieve a similar goal.

If you are en entrepreneur interesting in a space in Old Montreal, leave your contact info here and I'll contact you.
I'm talking about "legal procedures" here, and the claim that ordinary people couldn't hope to follow them. They are pretty streamlined and easy to follow for a framework that must scale from small controversies to enormous ones. I think it's totally possible for an ordinary intelligent person (say an engineer) to pick up a couple of books and navigate that process. The judiciary goes to great lengths to ensure that, because it is very sensitive to the fact that a lawyer should not be necessary to defend yourself in court.

Now, would I recommend taking on a patent troll yourself? No, but that doesn't mean you couldn't do it, and even have a good chance if winning if the case is indeed totally meritless.
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Yes, if most of your friends are dudes, most female friends I have don't know/care about video games. However that changes when it comes to board games.
It's fine if you don't like sports, though I think you're giving sports a pretty bad rep. Sure there maybe a few crazy Texas high schools but overall sports are doing a whole lot more good (team collaboration, weight loss, fun, etc..) for society and the people who play them then bad. Physical forms of entertainment have and will always be around, it's human nature; better football than the arena.
Double exception faults come to mind; C++11 did not even attempt to solve this problem, and just sort of brushed it under the rug. The solution to double exception faults is pretty straightforward: the stack should not be unwound until either the end of the exception handler or if the exception handler explicitly unwinds the stack. The downside is that it adds complexity to code generation and some overhead to functions with exception handlers, but the upside is that you have a far more robust exceptions system, and you have an opportunity to add a very nice feature that can help a lot with encapsulation: restarts.

Since you asked for examples, I'll point to the Common Lisp "conditions" system, which includes restarts:

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/beyond-exception-handling-co...

(I'll be honest here and point out that "handler-case," while simpler and more convenient, can still have a double exception fault; this is resolved similar to how Java resolves such things, which is to "forget" one of the exceptions. "handler-bind" is slightly less convenient but is much more robust, and does not have this problem.)
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That's how I also started. After too many unshowered days eating cereal, I decided I needed to get an office :)
When I read the title I was totally prepared to read why geeks should exercise more. At least two and may be even all of the arguments in the OP work even better if you do sports yourself, as you see the world of sports from inside.

I am not against pro sports as an entertainment, but doing it yourself, as opposed to sitting on the couch or stadium seat is so much better for your health.
That makes sense.

Suggestion: maybe it can also have a calendar of my rewards and project completion dates and it can send notifications.
if it is too good to be true...
I think he's speaking more to the way the system is setup in the US.

I believe every country has a system such as you describe. In my country, everyone has an ID number, much like a social security number. It is tied to everything, and is printed on everything, attached to every legal form I sign, and anyone can look my number up. If you call some place for service, it will be the first thing they ask for.

There is no-reason to keep this number a secret, and just by having this number, no-one can steal my identity. In fact I have never even heard of a single case of identity theft in the country, but that's not to say that it's not possible.

Anyway, I think aardwolf is commenting on the "trust" put in the fact that nobody else is going to use your number, whereas in other places, nobody is going to give you that same trust, which is why we use our identifiers more freely and rely on other methods to combat crimes like identity theft.
The trend appears to be starting out on .io and then when you get enough traction / money, buying the .com which would previously have been too expensive. I don't think many of the .io companies would consider their original domain a mistake.
"calculated to influence and affect the US government by intimidation and coercion".

So we just make shit up now, to make things look as bad as possible and as worth prosecution as possible?
Maybe he relied on time charts for the sun, stars, or moon.
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>if you really believe that, then you would have no problem with a group of strangers searching your house etc etc

Your point made here is nothing but a pure combination of reduction to the absurd and the slippery slope fallacy...
Sounds like a strikingly similar situation to mine: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4905386
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I'd say not useless, but pointless, since we don't have information about that.
This is so true.

After 20 years, I've recently switched from csh to bash (so I can use rvm), and I've been applying this neuro-hack to less-used command. When you copy-and-paste, there's a kind of finger-learning that you miss out on.
Also, the input box inside the Drafts div, where you are supposed to enter the Post title (which is not very clear/intuitive) - the input box continues expanding overflowing the bounds of the containing div and all that. Need a max-length, word-wrapping solution there.
finally found it: http://youasked.it/

I really liked the timed aspect... great urgency
I pair program with a couple other devs on a Google Hangout all the time and it literally is no different than being in the same room together. In fact, it's often much better because we can easily switch between presenters.
The author missed one of the other huge advantages of Tcl: it is extremely easy to add Tcl to a C++ project as a scripting language. It took me about half an hour, and I had never done it before. Once added, it makes interactive debugging of big projects almost pleasant.
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It's good that China does this, because it motivates people to find out how to circumvent it.
While I am not a big sports fan (except for one particular sport) I want to chime on on what I thought this article would be about, but wasn't:

Sports are valuable to know about, because so many peers, especially in other functions, value them. It's not that you need to even devote time to sports, or to know anything. It's that posturing that shows you respect others' interests in sports, is valuable.

In fact this applies to any set of interets, however mainstream, nerdy, alpha, or etc: whether sports, videogames, brewing, or bee-keeping. Always show interest and genuine respect for others' interests, instead of dismissing them.

I'll never forget a guy in high school who overheard me talking about a computer game... he said "Oh... you're still playing games? I stopped in middle school!". I've thought of him as an ass hole ever since. And it wasn't that he didn't play games (or enjoy sports, or etc): it was that he was arrogant and dismissive of my interest and put me down indirectly as a result.

Never be arrogant and dismissive of others' interests: show appreciation and respect... sometimes it helps to just genuinely look for what others enjoy. If you can't find it: pretend! You'll find enormous benefit in terms of how much others like you as a result: and this is important in any group. Especially for something as massively popular as sports, don't fall into the trap.
Actually, no, I'd really like for you to address this in public. You offered to answer any/all questions, right? The highest voted comment in this thread is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4918790, which is the one that is accusing you of spam. That guy received the Aston Kutcher spam despite having opted out of everything (as did I); can you respond to him, please?

[BTW, you might want to be careful with the celebrity endorsement. I can't think of a celebrity I find more noxious than Kutcher, so attaching his name to Fab makes me much much less likely to buy anything from you again. Especially when you're forcing that association into my inbox. Blech.]
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You have it totally wrong. We shouldn't let US to push TPP on the rest. Surely we shouldn't let any ITU backed by Russia, Iran and the rest to do that either.

My point was about apparent hypocrisy. When it comes to taking away control over Internet from US to others, US objects. But when it comes to adding more control in the interest of US lobby groups (which push TPP), US government is silent. We, as Internet users should worry about both of these problems the same way.
So I stand up and hold it in front of me ... how does it know how far back the light should be bent? It could be bent in front of me ... the same goes for lying on the ground.

Also, if it is dark under the blanket then it must be one way ... if it is one way it would be dark underneath so it would show darkness even if it could detect the level it should be showing between the person lying down and the earth beneath them.
"Belltown has become worse and worse for crime"

It really hasn't. I'd be more worried about living in the U-District than Belltown or even the International District.
If costs are burning a hole in your pocket, I'd suggest you revisit your WP hosting solution. I think one of the shared hosting providers would suit your needs just fine if you enable caching on your site.
Why do I feel that the fonts and colours folks at MS won this round of "Welcome to Redmond, Let's Make a Change!". From a developer/admin viewpoint, my workflow is jacked in Windows 8.
(the photo is a public one, thus no blurring)

I am not sure this is a new feature. It has still not rolled out on all photos/comments. Anyone can find the announcement?
It's definitely a market opportunity (see: the movie Moneyball), but I wouldn't say programmers should just go into sports unless they actually love sports (and programming). While this type of person is rare, they exist, and it's their market to own, basically.
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I wholeheartedly agree. I spent my first few years doing this, and it helped expand my framework vocabulary faster than my co-workers at the same level.
I agree with this.

I have a separate dev user on my machine that has no email or any other distraction and I keep my browser clean and purged.

This means it's a pain in the a*se to login to sites I visit in normal life.
It depends what kind of investors are participating.
I am not sure if my concerns are valid but as a developer, I would hate if I have to deal with annoying investors who instead of helping and promoting the start up are bossing around to get updates on work and wanting to double their money as quick as they can.
Pretty much. The US were kinda embarrassed by this guy. From what I've read, the $800K of damages was actually just him logging in with a VNC client using a blank password, then clicking around. I wouldn't be surprised if they spent $800K securing the systems he accessed and then claimed that was the 'damage'.
If you're always measuring from the same longitude, you don't need to rely on a clock. You can take measurements of the stars and get a very precise local time.
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Are there any cheaper alternatives to unbounce? I don't mind their all-in-one approach. Price point seems a bit high.
You appear to have reduced "sports" to "American football". There are a lot of sports out there. Most of them do not come with risks of debilitating head injuries. Participating in sports is a great way for people to stay healthy, build confidence, be part of a team, etc. By and large they are a great thing for kids. I can't imagine how one would find data for this, but I imagine that the percentage of sports-loving parents who push their kids to be pro athletes is about zero.
Funny you should mention the board game cafe concept. In Toronto we have Snakes and Lattes, it's very popular and constantly expanding into adjacent buildings/floors. Fun place to go and hang out, have a beer play with friends. I think that somehow in last several years board games begun to be perceived not as a nerdy thing to do but something cool. I have seen people go on dates to SnL.
Every business wants cheap and fast. And responsible professionals insist on doing things correctly anyways. You don't blame the business when someone builds a bridge that collapses when it gets windy, you blame the person who designed it wrong. Same thing with code, nobody is forcing us to do it wrong, and doing it right doesn't take significantly longer. Programmers just need to be educated and learn how to write code.
Google just straight up embeds a <form> tag for those messages. Works if your recipient uses gmail (usually), but not such a great idea in general.

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/will-it-work/forms/
I agree with this article, typing the code out (as long as you are focusing on it and not just typing absentmindedly) really forces you to read all of the code, which should help you understand what is happening. Just as in the article I have also found myself unable to write my own code at times due to working off of other programs or snippets. When I type it out though I gain a much more thorough knowledge of the api or language.
Today's update to their Quantum Stealth page adds some credibility:

http://www.hyperstealth.com/Quantum-Stealth/index.html

"With close to 5,000 worldwide news stories on our Invisibility Cloak over the last 4 days, we want to show one of the best stories so far. The reporter contacted the Canadian Military for confirmation that we had met them (CANSOFCOM) and demonstrated the technology. He also contacted Colin Worth, CEO of Cornerstone Protection Agency (Mr. Worth is a recently retired 26 year RCMP Officer) who accompanied Guy Cramer, President/CEO of Hyperstealth to the Canadian Military and RCMP meetings and William (Bill) Jarvis, Principle of the 132 Group (Mr. Jarvis is a recently retired 19 year Navy SEAL) who accompanied Guy to the U.S. military command meetings. Both Mr. Worth and Mr. Jarvis confirm the meetings and claims about the technology. Maple Ridge News: Is there an invisible cloak?"

http://www.mapleridgenews.com/news/183440961.html

Also, according to their site, Hyperstealth has their camouflage on 2M military uniforms and 3K military vehicles. If they have an ongoing business and reputation is important in military procurement, why would they risk fraud?
Amazon are also able to grow by moving from market to market under cutting local bricks and motar stores by not paying local taxes.

They really compete only with other internationals who are also able to "offshore" they're taxes. (That's meant as an observation rather than a political comment).
I found this to be true as well, though I feel old that I learned HTML at a time that "Google" wasn't an option...
For a while TCL was also the state of the art in web applications development:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOLserver
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I also agree strongly with this statement.

When I was in school, I found that the most important part of the notetaking process was manually writing the notes during lectures. Reading them afterwards rarely helped me remember or learn more. Reading notes written by someone else was next to useless.
Having taught C++ to novices, I can assure you that the "dark corners" are not hard to find. You need to be taught what is wrong in C++, and you need to learn "folklore" e.g. always use -Wall, before you can really program effectively in C++.
Would it lessen the pain to know that this doesn't just afflict TCL? Say, if your vendor (who is charging you $30k in licensing) forgot to close an 'extern "C" {' in one of their system headers? Something that could have been caught by a simple "include all the headers (twice) and compile" unit test. And this in a supposed "real-time" OS.
As a program manager in Development Tools and Languages, she was instrumental in several releases of Visual C++ for 32-bit operating systems and led the development of Microsoft's first customizable integrated development environment for Windows.

This impressed most about her resume and makes me hopeful about the future of Windows. Visual Studio is one of the few products were Microsoft was truly innovative and she was a key factor. I just hope Ballmer will stay out of her way.
What have you done to try to get CPA lower? Do you have a FAQ? An overview page? With the current setup on the page, you are definitely going to get low conversion rates, because even after watching the video I still am not that sure what it does, but dont want to sign up to find out. Is this for management? renters? owners? who are you targeting and why should they care? The more questions people ask that dont get answered, the less likely they are to sign up
That's only true after the early 1980s. I was born in the early eighties, but my SSN was assigned several years later in a different state from which I was born.
You shouldn't dismiss him/her out of hand. This is the way the vast majority of people feel. Until we overcome that, those of us who do care will never succeed in changing anything.
I've only become interested in team sports since my son started playing rugby at his school nere in the UK and actually I've been rather impressed at the positive impact it can have - he's learned a lot about self-discipline, confidence and teamwork that has definitely helped with his academic work.

So I've actually completely changed my views of what team sports can do - at the moment my son believes he can go to Harvard and play rugby for Scotland, both of are his ideas, why would I want to stop him? Indeed, the QC that my wife trained with as a devil did play for Scotland - so crazy career combinations are certainly possible!
Betrayal at House on the Hill (Avalon Hill) comes to mind as one we play often.
That and the rain.
Couldn't agree more. Never download the resources that books put online (code samples and such) - it's tedious writing out a load of code but you learn a hell of a lot faster.
The phrase "SQL Injection" was coined in 2000. There was just about no understanding of the threat of these attacks in the 90s
The curious case of the rotated images (reading EXIF data with Python)