skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And those redshirt freshmen would be dealing with experienced professors of lobbying. I don't think term limits would do much (if anything) to lessen the influence of corporate interests and could easily make the problem worse.
The article is spot on re: poor placement resulting in worthless clicks. I've clicked on several useless advertisements, particularly on newspaper sites due to floating banners, banners stuck next to the site navigation, etc. The irrelevance of newspaper-site ads is always striking -- particularly when Ghostery shows something like 18 tracking cookies on my local paper's site.

My son (11 mos) racks up some significant clicks on a few apps that we play with (a virtual bongo drum, etc) because he lacks the motor skills, and the ad is placed adjacent to the playing surface.

Everyone these days seems to forget the core value proposition of AdWords back in the day -- they offered relevant, unobtrusive text based ads in the heyday of flash-based "punch the money" and pop-under "x10 camera" ad campaigns. Google always gave a hoot about the desktop user experience early on.
Sure dude, and where are you going to get the development budget for a show like Firefly? Kickstarter?
The problem with `self` is that it is already a predefined global variable in the browser pointing to the global object :)

And btw, the `this` situation with javascript is not that bad :) use bind - either the Ecmascript 5 version or shimmed and you will be fine. Not much drama.
http://news.ycombinator.com/newest
http://www.wired.com/
Look at me! I'm a ghost! Oooooooooh.
Can't tell if you're trolling, but are you suggesting that riding a bike requires more effort than having a deep relationship with God? I suspect your local religious leader would disagree.

Exercise is good for your body and your mental health. Any sane religion would not discourage it.
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Most people don't value anything unless they pay for it, and they don't pay for it unless they absolutely have to. That's an Iron Law of Humans.
Yahoo Bids Farewell to South Korea, Completes Exit
I agree that 4clojure.com seems an easier way to get started. However, if you're already setup with Clojure on your machine, using clojurekoans.com has the advantage of allowing you to work in your editor of choice.
> it raised the price overnight, to more than $23,000 a vial, from $1,650, bringing the cost of a typical course of treatment for infantile spasms to above $100,000.

> we only have about 800 patients a year

> Sales ... totaled nearly $350 million in the first nine months this year, up 145 percent from the period a year earlier

The counter-intuitive lesson is that charging vastly higher prices don't necessarily hurt sales.
A massive win. More developers building on the OS could ultimately result in more developers contributing & honing the OS -- in addition to whatever they open source while building on it.

It's a win win :)
This article doesn't say anything about where the content will come from. Possibly Intel hasn't got that resolved, unless they will front for the content providers as an independent initiative (you bring the hardware, we bring the content).

Apple is just toying around the market. It's obvious for everyone that:
a. People would love having a huge Apple display in their livingroom, playing nicely with their mobile stuff and Apple-ized life
b. When Apple goes into this market, it will go with an entire TV set and not just a set top box; this TV will not be bound to the low margins of mass market TVs, either

As for Google, they are the long term winner. You WILL need to feature Google services if you want your product to be more than just a dumb streamer. Now they are doing their little fiber experiment which, in my eyes, is just a precursor to a massive rollout of infrastructure fast enough to support high quality IPTV.

I'm sure we will see Youtube stuff coming to our livingroom in few years.

In my eyes, Intel got nothing to bring to the table here. The problem was never hardware, that exists for many years now. The problem is content first, software second, hardware in a very distant third.
Because it makes very little business sense to do so. The upside of selling is near zero because it would not make a dent in their bottom line or their future outlook, while there are many downsides to selling, some of which you have mentioned.
FYI, it took Facebook 2.5 years to release the first version of their API.
"let's not forget that Objective-C is simply C with Smalltalk bolted on. I'm having a hard time imagining a plane of reality in which either is not "half decent"."

One can always mix first rate components badly to create abominations. Not saying Objective C is an abomination, but pointing to the coherence of the underlying languages is not much of a defence of the clarity of Objective C.
That's nice from the human interest angle, but when it comes down to it Zynga is a publicly traded company now. I don't recall if they're profitable or not at the moment, but they are hemorrhaging shareholder trust.

They could either spend more time (and money) on letting people port their virtual corn to a local machine.. or they could cut the product and immediately start moving toward profitability.

When your stock price is $2.33... it really isn't much of a choice.
I found the same thing, but lion's mane mushroom did come up

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18758067

I took an extract for a while and thought it might be doing something, but I didn't collect any data so it's hard to draw conclusions.
But we have computers! This would be final step of proposing a project; check that a negative, peer-reviewed version hasn't been published. Putting them in separate journals actually solves a lot of the complaints in this thread
Agree on Sheldon Brown's site. Amazing old internet site.

I can't get into clipless riding though. I tried toe clips and found it incredibly dangerous riding in the city (New York City). I don't feel safe unless I can bail off the bike in an instant. It also seems the clips discourage cyclists from stopping at red lights.

Maybe it's a good idea for more rural riding, but I pretty much never do that.
Generally, I think ubiquitous, cheap, personal manufacturing is a good thing. If we have a number of Open Source products we can print out. That will substantially lower the cost of living for everyone. Hopefully, the vast majority of retailers will turn into service providers.

There may still be folks who want to license designs out.

Nobody trusts a corporation to enforce their DRM mechanism because they get to be the final arbiter of what is "fair". What is fair is always good for the corporation, never mind the user. They may die and kill off access to those goods. The other extreme is hypocritical, simply because we run our digital goods through hardware -- all resting on the notion of allocation of resources. Besides, content creators want to eat, too.

A reasonable compromise is to have the DRM enforced by someone other than the seller. An escrow service is an improvement, but is not much better. And no one wants to depend on the government to host DRM servers. A peer-to-peer DRM might work. Bitcoin is an example of a technology that can be modified for this: http://codinginmysleep.com/exotic-transaction-types-with-bit...

The mediation is done peer-to-peer. You can, for example, sign a bitcoin contract saying you are lending an ebook to a friend, and have it published elsewhere. Granted, this would all be on an honor system -- if you can play back media, then you have access to the content, no amount of clever algorithms or coding can change that -- but so is much of the enforcement for civilized interaction. A small group will "cheat", the same way there are breakage in a retail store. If the voluntary participation of such a scheme benefits everyone involved and is not too inconvenient (centralized DRM servers that crash or gets taken down when the company dies, or requires a constant internet connection), I think most people will go for it.

It's best we experiment this kind of transaction with digital products, before 3D technologies get good enough that people start buying design licenses for goods.

Better yet, we make sure we have Open Source versions of products that people can download and print out.
Pixar Animator Dreams Up a New Superhero — For Each Day of the Year
You seem to think that any law is enforceable and with that basis, your arguments make more sense. But if I successfully lobbied and passed a law saying that anyone who swore, in public or in private, owed me a nickel, that law wouldn't last long. People wouldn't obey it, and sufficient application of force and surveillance to successfully enforce would only result in riots in the streets. There is more to lawmaking than desire.

The problem is that technology has changed our reality. Making the artifact of media used to be difficult, hence profitable, centralized, and regulatable. In that context, protection is easy and acceptable. If a rogue publisher bucked the system, you could march in, trash his equipment and send the other publishers a signal. Now the equipment is in the pocket of hundreds of millions of people, for completely different reasons that are more important than movies.

This TPB article is about one form of online sharing that is actually pretty easy to track. What you need to consider is offline sharing, which is next to impossible to track. Today's desktop hard drive can store roughly 2,000 movies, which with proper curation is basically every movie that matters. In five years, hard drives should be able to store 16 times that - certainly every movie and song that matters. Families will keep an encrypted heirloom drive of every piece of media they value, and share it when no one is looking. If searched, they would present a different file listing.

What will you do then? How can you regulate something that you cannot see? You can try to burn a couple of offenders at the stake, but that's only going to make you look like a monster. I wish that I had an answer for you, but I don't yet, and neither is it my responsibility to have one. I can only tell you that times are changing. This constant refrain of finding a new business model is not to throw you out of the castle, but to warn you of the coming storm.

The truth is that as much as we would like to help, as profitable as it would be to help, we can't figure out how to prevent copying. As far as we can tell, no one can prevent copying without outlawing computers entirely. So no, we are not an ignorant mob storming the vineyard. We are an intelligent mob trying to save those old vines from the coming eternal frost, and hoping that someone figures out how to grow them somewhere else. The destruction is out of our control. Apple and Amazon are doing the best jobs with the iTunes and Kindle stores, but even those look like passing fads when you could have a local copy of every movie, song, and book that has ever been notable.

I hope that you realize that I would love to help you, WE would love to help you, if we had any idea how. Every VC would fund someone who could make this happen. All that we know right now is that legislation will not work, and will have vicious unintended consequences.
I think the way go handles unicode is very sane- of course two of the three primary creators of Go, Ken Thompson and Rob Pike, are the same two co-creator's of UTF-8, so that is probably unsurprising.

Take a look at the Go spec: https://golang.org/ref/spec
And std libs: https://golang.org/pkg/
In my experience, this usually happens with high-demand cars that are hard for the dealer to get or brands with a limited area presence.

VW has 2 dealers in my region. Want a TDI Jetta with a manual transmission? Let the games begin -- they get 3 a month and the sales manager won't let it out the door for a good price.

Toyota used to have supply constraints for certain Camry models (some trims were made in Japan exclusively a few years ago). Want one of those? Good luck -- my dad had the guy demand a deposit to be on a waiting list, or take a lousy deal on one of the other trims.

Another thing that happens is that dealers need to trade with other dealers for specific cars. Sometimes these deals fall through, and the dealer who promised you a car is actually being honest -- he doesn't have it for reasons out of his control.
My organizational behavior professor used this process when he last bought his car.
I am not surprised
Nailed it.

I'd add in "Use Rapportive Gmail plugin to determine email address of relevant contacts"
A few years ago, I found a simple one on the apple.com store. No bounty, but they said thanks in an email! :)
As a huge GH (but really Rock Band 1/2, which hit the sweet spot for me) fan, thanks! If your open to answering questions, I want to know (in your opinion) why the genre's appeal has more or less worn off now?
I too can vouch for the changing power of cycling (and long distance running, which I discovered around the same time). It replaced a nicotine addiction for me, alleviated mood problems and continues to help me think clearly. I'm the sort of person who requires regular solitude--long runs or bike rides give me that (they can be deeply meditative) and force me to get some fresh air.

Arranging their life in such a way that regular commutes can be accomplished on a bicycle or by foot is one of the most valuable lifestyle changes anyone with a desk job can make.
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Gene therapy is inevitable and is the future. Performing genetic engineering on new human offspring is different, and is a debate perhaps best left to ethicists.
I really do think Gandalf has a lot to offer the business community as an astute and personable negotiator.

"Wait, no, I have a better idea, how about this. You sell me the gray Prius for 2.5% under factory invoice with the 2% APR financing we talked about earlier, or I summon the great worm Catyrpelius from his resting place in the Abyss to digest your entrails over a thousand years. What? Sure, I'll wait here while you run it by the sales manager."
As a somewhat recent practicer of tdd, I find that the koans + tdd approach is more rounded: I'm forced to learn/use a function/aspect that I might have glossed over. And occasionally a particularly nice usage of syntax jumps out and gets adopted.
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Judging by your profile and blog you seem to be politically interested enough to be able to motivate that comment.

Or I'm I just a victim of your "Trolling hard on HN" bullet-point?
Toe clips are way scarier than clipless once you get used to clipless.

With toeclips there is something physical that is stopping your feet from moving and you have to get your foot completely clear of the strap before it is safe to put it down.

With clipless on the other hand, if you have your pedals set right (spring tension) it becomes an automatic reaction when you know you are about to stop or about to go down. You also get much more freedom of foot movement without destabilising the bike. I got into a few hairy situations riding some technical trails but ejecting feet from pedals was never an issue.

Nowadays I actually find it more hairy riding with flats since I have to worry about my feet falling off the pedals accidently if I hit something too hard.
Benefit of Pomegranate
Well, it's been reported that he has tear ducts and occasionally uses them.
Awesome app for framing screenshots on mobile & tablets in real environments.
Buddhism does not really fit the (Western) context of a "religion" anyways - probably that's why. That is especially true for the more ancient forms of Buddhism - which the author of this book subscribes to.
You can still bail off the bike in an instant if the pedals are properly adjusted--see, for example, professional mountain bike riders. If cyclists aren't stopping at red lights, it has nothing to do with their pedals.

Clipless pedals (the terminology is a bit confusing; "clipless" are the pedals that can be "clipped into" using special cleats, as opposed to the toe-cage style "clips") do take a bit of getting used to, but they are no less safe once the transition has been made (should only take a week) and the benefits are enormous.
You really don't see anything wrong with making money a top priority? Forgoing all other responsibilities. Do you believe a company should be responsible for more than just profits?
I am speaking of Boggle, where the scoring is based on unique words.
I definitely agree that mobility constraints are common and usually affect decisions on where to live. And, as I stated before, sometimes you do need a car.

But my point was not really related to cost, but to "freedom" in some sense. After the money saving, then no longer wanting to spend money on unnecessary things (but travelling), then moving around, I feel I no longer want to have a car.

Mainly for two reasons:

- I don't miss being stuck in traffic on the drivers seat, or trying to find parking spots. If I'm on a bus, and there is traffic, I don't mind as much as I can read, or browse the Internet, or game or whatever.

- If I don't have a car, I don't need to worry what to do with it if I want to move. No worries about trying to sell it, or wondering if it is worth it to take the car to the new place, what's the traffic legislation on the new place, etc.

Yet another part of my PoV is that, even if a car is necessary, I no longer want a new/expensive car. For example, before moving to the city where I currently live, I had to have a car (as there wasn't much of public transportation there). But at that point all I wanted was a used car that's good enough for the daily needs; and that I wouldn't mind getting rid off later.
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I negotiated my last truck purchase by text message. I drove the salesman nuts by not responding quickly. I was at a happy hour in a pub, so I would only respond once per beverage. I got the price I wanted with no hassle. I avoided going to the dealer, they delivered. I avoided the dreaded Finance and Insurance guy that always tries to upsell, and I got them to buy the interest rate down too. The best part was the lack of stress for me.
I don't think this is quite the sort of answer you want:

My sibling (using Debian Testing) had wrist RSI this summer and we tried to set up Simon Listens (the previous version; 0.4 looks from the release notes like it's improving). We are both Linux nerds. We were not able to get it to do anything useful after a few days of work, and I estimated a 50-50 chance that working harder on it would help[1]. I did not find any other FOSS speech-to-text that I could get working either. (FOSS Linux text-to-speech is much better; e.g. Orca is good.) We did not try any commercial products; Dragon Naturally Speaking is the only one I know of having a good reputation but it is Windows-based. Also, it's hard to integrate well into the Linux stack without being FOSS. A list of products we looked at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition_in_Linux

[1] Issues with compiling, dependencies, figuring out the conceptual model Simon Listens uses, trying to figure out whether Simon-not-doing-anything was because we miscompiled it, or audio input, or incompatible dep versions or misconfigured deps, or us just doing the wrong thing because the English documentation wasn't super thorough... Imagine setting up Apache, MySQL and PHP if there weren't a billion tutorials online, you'd never used Apache, and MySQL wasn't compatible with your GCC unless you pulled the git version and hoped you didn't get confused by dev-version-only bugs.
> If someone is hooked on the game, they won't care much for new updates.

Eh, no. It's specifically the new updates that people get hooked on. The new updates are what drive people to do the microtransactions. Without such updates, I'd expect income to drop by a few orders of magnitude: well below profitability.
Here's the link

https://plus.google.com/communities/104388679763490357266
Facebook Stories privacy flaw allows anyone to view and delete New Year messages
woa, that was a nicely done application. congrats.
Trying to be the one true social graph is like trying to hold water in your fist
In no particular order

http://www.news.ycombinator.com

http://www.economist.com

http://thedailywtf.com/

Reddit - todayilearned, science, politics, askreddit

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/
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Where and how do I apply this to my own browser? (userChrome.css or about:config?)

Thanks.
>> appears jagged in Chrome 23 on my Windows 7 machine, with ClearType configured.

Same here.

I have a Stylish script configured to render "safe" fonts every time I am "forced" to use Chrome. Chrome is also very memory intensive on my machine (4GB RAM anyway!)

This font rendering bug is really such a long running joke on Chrome that it might just end up being elevated into some kind of "this is no bug, this one is a Chrome feature!" /frustrated
Hey. Really nice story. I have a similar story; one time in high school I really got into curb-jumping and essentially had the same thing happen to me where I wasn't orthogonal enough and hurt myself badly.

Anyway, just wanted to say, definitely give a nice road-bike a try. They are really amazing, wonderful machines. I have a feeling you'll never want to ride anything on road ever again :)
I was envisioning exactly this scenario.
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Being on the thanks page looks great on your Résumé, which can land you a nice, high-paying job.
Wow, this is really strange. When you say jagged do you mean normally or when you zoom in on the text?
OP here.

Agree fully with you on clipless pedals, after proper training though :)

Once I got used to clipless pedals, I realized how little control over the pedals you have without them; I feel like my shoes are going to slip all the time.
How to separate luck and skill
Used to be around 185lbs at 5 8. Now I'm at 150ish, probably could go down to 145 or so.
I wrote the post. Curious on feedback. What do you guys think?
Yes, and geeks are circus freaks, computers are people who make calculations, and manufacturing means "made by hand".

Language is constantly evolving, especially as it pertains to words taken from other languages.
If you do get a road bike, don't curb hob on it or you will destroy the wheels in no time!

If you are not totally confident in bike handling you might be better off with a hybrid model where you still have some of the comfort and control of a mountain bike but with slightly skinnier and slicker tyres.

Road bikes go faster and destabilise much more suddenly ,especially in the wet.
Places to learn Linux online
Why your paycheck is getting smaller, no matter what
If we're being nitpicky, "hammered" means to work something out laboriously. Nothing was worked out. A stock's value moved in a negative direction.
I've spent a good bit of time trying to get CMUSphinx to transcribe audio with any amount of reasonable accuracy. I never was very successful. Resorted to using paid third party APIs.

I really wish there were better options out there. Hopefully Simon will help improve the landscape. The automatic contributions to Voxforge should help.
I completely agree with you. My point was more along the lines of: don't look at Tokyo as an example of building upwards in an earthquake-prone zone to combat housing shortages. Tokyo has sprawled, and built said public transportation network to deal with it.
Merge Multiple Presentations by Passing List of All Files in .NET Apps
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