skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i have recently done the 10 day course and it was one of the best things i have ever experienced. have continued meditating (near) every day because it keeps me returning to a sense of deep calm and focus and enjoyment – feelings prior far more rare even tho i would have described myself as happy and digging life. the new digging is at a deeper level and much of what i used to perseverate upon seems reduced in import by orders of magnitude. practically the whole notion of "intellect figuring out and resolving issues", seems now completely a misguided process. returning to the state of calm fertilizes better thought which crowds out the worries. worry process becomes reduced and unmasked when it arises. the whole physical reaction cycle different. awareness that how we feel (and happiness) is in our bodies – we know the value of physical exercise. this is similar. a rigorous training that just starts doing what it's advertised to do. veritably mind blowing, yep.
It's always interesting seeing authors weigh in on this topic. My favorite take is from Stross, who frequently runs "near/medium/far future" thought experiments on his blog. Here's what he had to say about the singularity back in 2011: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/06/reality-...
The dialog only shows up when that xattr is set, the sqlite db has nothing to do with this security prompt. In fact all the prompt does is unset the xattr if you deem it ok.
Good point. But some people are just assholes, and thats OK. Realize that people are different and come in quite an array of colors, personalities, backgrounds, etc. Some of them will be assholes to you. Plus you can't just let people push your buttons. People will say mean things. Hell, I'm a big-eared latino nerd who wears black plastic glasses. I was never great at sports and was very shy. All of my life has been about people telling me mean things and names. But it doesnt matter to me now. Why? Becuase those who say mean things are just a reflection of the things they say. I know you are a good person, and shit, we all have bad moments like this. Do realize that you have to face the mistake and make things rights. Your busines is about customer service, and this is a great opportunity to show what you really are made of.
JMLR is an amazing success -- a great example of a very high quality open access journal that doesn't ask authors to pay any article charges.
nice move... I`m curious how these things will effect their reputation.
Language is systematic communication, and while it's imperfect, it has basic logical underpinnings. The fact that some sentences and words work and others don't is proof enough of that. It's arbitrary, yes, like any artificial system, but it's a system nevertheless. Deviations from the system as we understand it ("effective" but not "right," as suggested above) help further define it. This is all just my personal ideas about it, though, not like I've made a study of it my whole life.
An international purchase that doesn't ask for the name on your card though? (I know most check as my CC has a weird format, if it's put in wrong it doesn't validate.)
This is amazing, whoever feels comfortable about it should band together and see what files are in common, or domains. I want to delete this yet I don't. This contains all (most?) of the files I have ever downloaded, those I thought I lost when clearing browsing data from 2008.

My first few files

* Symantec_Antivirus_Mac.dmg

* http://msdn01.e-academy.com|http://download.e-academy.com/do... (MSDN Alliance: Free Microsoft Software for Students)

* http://download2.vmware.com/software/fusion/VMware-Fusion-1....

* http://download.skype.com/macosx/Skype_2.7.0.330.dmg

Scary yes (The torrent files) but so much history to look at.

sqlite3 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEvents 'SELECT datetime(LSQuarantineTimeStamp + 978307200, "unixepoch") as LSQuarantineTimeStamp, LSQuarantineAgentName, LSQuarantineOriginURLString, LSQuarantineDataURLString from LSQuarantineEvent' | sort

Ordered by date
You call it "the next evolution in education." Could you elaborate on the evolutionary aspects of the app?
Most likely they'll just ignore it.

Do you like random people offering help when you are doing something?
Rule #1: Show Up
Yes that's true. And OCD, ASD, etc. But ADD is supposed to be a diagnosis of elimination. If you haven't found something else to account for the symptoms, after all else has been looked at, you classify them ADD. In contrast, professionals with little to no experience with gifted or twice exceptional kids frequently leap to conclusions. ADD is one of those conclusions. You can be both gifted and ADD. You can also just be bright, bored to tears and annoying the fool out of the adults around you.
Hmm. Thanks for the tip! So, I'm setting:

data-panel-label="Begin Free Trial"

But on the button I'm still seeing:

Begin Free Trial $20.00

Not sure if this is the intended behavior, but I just can't see how it makes sense for a free trial.
Hmm... it seems to me that whenever any article is posted that claims "X is faster than C", there are immediately 40 replies saying "Well, the author's C is horrible. If I wrote that, it would be much different."

Okay, as someone who has NOT been programming in C 8 hours a day for years on end, I would actually like to see somebody do this -- to show me what GOOD C looks like.

So if someone wouldn't mind, could you take his C code and show me the improved version? This would really help me understand. (And I don't just mean an example where one line could be improved; I'm talking abou the whole thing.)
> My 5-yo son has a hard time behaving at pre-school. I think it has a lot to do with being bored, since he is far ahead of the other students.

Trust your instincts. Maybe this environment isn't right for him? How would you want him to behave in this kind of environment?
The point is that it's comparable to C in speed, which is almost always good enough.
Well, that's just because the economy is predicated on the need to expand. One of those huge faulty premises that'll eventually need to change. (If we remove the requirement that an economy must expand, then the whole meaning of recession and depression changes, for instance.)
Video: The Psychology of Testing
Sorry, what I described doesn't jibe with my comparison to ActiveMerchant as you pointed out. However it would still be badass to get a dropin solution for using Stripe in more complicated applications. And I know Stripe has a better API than alternatives but that doesn't mean it isn't still tricky.

I'm not sure I agree that a higher level gem would be of limited use or only of use to a few applications. I think it can definitely be done in a way that would have helped me big time in all three applications I've integrated with Stripe despite their unique needs.
Facebook will now start acting more and more like Twitter: "If you are building anything on our platform that we might want to build in the future, then you'll get thrown off the platform eventually."
Fair enough.

My complaint is that the C code isn't given the same chance. He even calls out that reading data with getc is a known performance problem, but then does it anyway. Any book on learning C will point out that getc is slow for reading lots of data, and fscanf or fread should be used instead.
Crazy New Magnesium wallet..
In other words, can exceptions to rules be rules themselves?
"the transaction is severed from the familial unit and carried out in the market."

And this is one of the good things about a capitalist free market, it reaches certain efficiencies and spreads the risk (and rewards) across the whole economy (and all its participants).
It's an accurate label. Those ads they show seem to carry whatever payload they please. Google is right to warn people away from there.
Facebook completely changed their database infrastructure a few times since its beginning. So has Twitter, Google, Foursquare and many others.

While you may disagree with this, there are many living examples.
Not sure if this article is correct. I always thought the 787 used a generator connected to the APU to start the main engines. Wouldn't the normal start up procedure be fire up APU> connect generator to APU> start main engines using current from APU Generator. You aren't starting a big ass turbine using the battery packs buried under the passenger seats.
Yeah, it's sad that the article mentions "Tandoori" and anything having to do with South India on the same page.
$550/month after rent is totally doable. That's a good bit more than what my wife and I live on (per-person). This is possible, in that we do it, so how?

March through February of last year my wife and I were living with another couple (who we met via craigslist, both couples hoping to save money) in a three bedroom apartment in Somerville MA. Food was communal, and we took turns cooking. All numbers I'm giving are per person per month.

utilities+food+household goods: $110. This included heat, hot water, internet, electricity. AC only in one room, and only on a few very hot days. By cooking our own food and not eating out we saved a lot of money.

clothing+other optionals: $150. My wife and I each give ourselves an 'allowance' for discretionary spending. Clothing, eating out, cell phones, entertainment. Clothing we mostly buy at the local thrift store. They have good clothing quite cheap. I'd go down once a month or so to look through things for an hour maybe. My phone now is $30/month and has unlimited texts and data (via t-mobile) but at the time I didn't have a phone (preferred to spend the money on other things).

transportation: $60. Unlimited public transit pass. (This is now $70.)

laundry: We did our laundry with a hand-crank machine at the apartment. Not worth it; too much work. When we used to use a coin-op washer that was about $20/month for two people ($2/load, 2 loads a week) so $10. We would hang clothes to dry, which also makes them last longer.

renters insurance: not worth it. Better to have savings. If our apartment had burned down we wouldn't have lost much of replacement value anyway.

credit card: if we couldn't afford it we didn't get it. Credit cards are a trap.

medical: paid for by my work. If we were buying it on our own that would cost about $150.

This comes to $480 (counting the health insurance costs and laundry).

(We're still spending a similar amount, somewhat less now, but I don't have the data as well organized.)

Why are we living so frugally? So we have more money to donate to effective charities.
Stripe is pretty cool. We've been using it on http://www.IslamicEventFinder.com and was the best library experience to integrate. A few things we noticed, the CVC check is not as impressive, it charges the card even if the CVC is not correct, at least we've seen in a few instances. Other than that it looks solid.

Would prefer some sort of a seal or something on the popup to indicate that their payments are safe, a few clients asked. At least an option to customize displaying that seal would be great and also may be the type of credit cards Stripe accepts.

Is this Checkout thing same as Stripe.js? I didn't get a chance to checkout (lol) this fully yet!
Ok, I pledge to re-write this properly and to benchmark the current implementation vs a nice one. I'll post the results. I need something to get my mind off things and this is as good as any. It will take at least until Monday (it is my sons birthday tomorrow).
What is hard about using PostgreSQL?
It is more complicated than that. And I did not say it was a "cure".
I hate to be blunt, but when people claim that almost everyone around them is <fill-in-the-blank>, it's usually more of a reflection on that person rather than the people around them.
Just "Something Else", of course. The function of elections is to blame all that went wrong on whomever got elected last time (and how they got elected - mostly the perceived supporters), while simultaneously converting that ever-present negativity into hope for a new leader and thus tacit support for the overall system. Since the election mechanics of 2000 added ambiguity to the outcome, some of the ongoing blame gets directed there as well.
I think you've just hit the nail on the head of what's wrong with the world today.

Is it impossible to think a billionaire would offer to help another company because he's a nice person?

Because he loves tech and wants to see modern, efficient designs like the 787 succeed?

Why do you automatically assume there is something in it for him?

Next time you have the chance, do a favor for someone, just because.
... & move fast fixing things
User code built against POSIX should never use the _t suffix; POSIX explicitly puts *_t into the reserved namespace (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/xsh...), meaning that future revisions may add arbitrary type names of that form, which will break your code if you use the same name and include POSIX headers.
Very important point being made here. If you are pro-active with your customer service policies you will disarm most angry customers. But dont just offer a refund. Do more than that. Listen to them. Fix the issue (if possible), and offer a gift or refund. Very few businesses do this, and people will be blown away by your friendly attitude.

Why does my wife keep shopping at walmart.com even though their prices are not that great? Because if the item is not the coreect one (clothing size, defective gadgets, etc) she can just take it to the store and receive a refund. No questions asked. What does she do with the refund? She spends it in the store.
I've been playing around with this page constantly for the past 12 hours and gave you you my email address via the signup box this morning :) great stuff!
Holy pricey car Original Batmobile to hit auction block - Entertainment
RIM didn't have a specific "failed model" that led to a collapse in margin. They were a case of slow death, with warning signs beginning even in 2007 with market share instability as the global market for smartphones exploded. Actually you could point to the failure of the Storm in 2008 as their inability to adapt to a touchscreen-centric device, though that didn't directly lead to a margin collapse - just part of an overall slow market share whithering. A lot of these failures were hidden due to RIM's internal explosive growth through 2010, keeping their eyes off how much more Apple and Samsung were growing.

So for Apple, the two areas to watch out for will be: market and profit share losses (so far Android has not been growing at Apple's expense- that may change), and whether they fail with a major "me too" feature that another carrier brings to market and has big success with. The latter I havent seen any real sign of. The former, there's a question mark if Android can successfully kill margins in the mobile phone space through their market share to a point that hurts everyone (Samsung, Apple, etc) but mostly Apple. On the other hand, Android is buying its market share from being a fully Google-subsidized set of software with no licensing fees. Is that sustainable?

As for lock-in, surely the success of iTunes and the integration of AirPlay across all devices has caused significant lock in? I mean, media options in the Android world pale in comparison, only Microsoft Xbox Live really has a comparable selection of movies and tv shows. Similarly, the App Store selection have been a huge advantage to Apple with strong equivalents being slow to appear on Play.

So of course, to your last point, if Apple doesn't keep making compelling upgrades, their fortunes will decline. but that goes for EVERY manufacturer that wishes to make a profit. if the Samsung Galaxy S4 isn't compelling, wouldn't that benefit Nokia and HTC and Apple? Samsung's profit growth too is almost exclusively driven from Smartphones - their other product lines aren't as profitable.

Ultimately I think Apple has many risks ahead but I don't think they're as fragile as you seem to believe.
It's worth noting that Cornyn, though not an official PIPA co-sponsor, wasn't someone who was much against it either (until after the blackout)
http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/C001056
I came, I saw, I conquered.

Those words are powerful, but not because they form a comma splice. That is, their power does not derive from failing the model's rules. Rather, the model's rules fail to capture that those words are powerful. (Or even allowed.)

Again, grammar is a model. A model that people don't actually use to communicate with one another. Nobody hears words and constructs a parse tree to figure out what they mean. So what's encoded in the model (or not) has little effect on the effect that the words actually have.

Change the model all you want. Nobody will hear any differently.

EDIT: P.S. When I wrote that rhetoric was "breaking grammar for effect," I didn't mean to imply that the effect of rhetoric came from breaking grammar. Rather, I meant that the focus in rhetoric is on the effect and, because grammar fails to admit many effective phrasings, rhetoric necessarily "breaks grammar" from the outset.
I commented about this in one of the other threads, but didn't really get to the important point, so I'll throw it out here.

Basically every new airliner design suffers delays and problems entering commercial service. That's not new, but the level of media saturation (aided by this "internet" thing) probably is.

The other thing that's new... is that the planes aren't crashing and killing people. New airliners of yore had a tendency to do that (as with the DC-10's cargo door, for example). The last two to enter service -- the A380 and the 787 -- have both had problems that resulted in voluntary or involuntary grounding, but the planes have stayed in the air, landed safely when in-flight problems occurred, and everybody's survived those problems.

Which, given how vastly more complex modern airliners are, is really a hell of an accomplishment.
I believe it has been polled at times. I was curious to see "names", not numbers.
Sure...I call it evolutionary because what we are trying to replace is the workbook. I have personally tutored plenty of kids and see them struggle with a workbook consistently was a pain. Kiddom makes learning fun while making sure that parents are always in sync with what their kids are learning.

Everytime your child starts a game on kiddom, we monitor what, how and when he is doing it, and try to use those analytics to provide actionable insights to parents.
It's not execution, it's the next 500 ideas you have
As always talking about performance differences and optimization without thoroughly profiling and pointing out bottlenecks should be frowned upon big time.

I would really love to see the generated assembly code and see what makes the difference in performance. Anyone up to analyzing?
> I'm saving an enormous amount of my paycheck and will "retire" before I'm 35.

I see a lot of <35-year-olds who say this, but no >35-year-olds who say "I retired at 35 by saving a lot and things are working out great!"
The difference is, you disconnect emotionally for the purpose of saving lives.

Participants in the overzealous legal system, however, disconnect emotionally in order to ruin lives. While there are some violent psychos that need to be put away, and occasionally a low-level criminal straightens their life out as an accidental side effect, a huge number of punishments are cruelly disproportionate to the actual harm to society, all for the benefit of the prosecutor's career. (And indirectly to prison guard unions, police, etc.)

Ortiz only carries a small part of the blame for this. She is only able to do it because it is normalized and systemic, in the legal system and in society at large. I guarantee that if she herself spent "only" six months in concrete cage, after 2+ years of the fear and stress of prosecution, followed by a lifetime of being stigmatized as a felon, she would feel differently.
Windows will warn you about files downloaded from the internet, too. It uses "Alternate Data Streams" feature of NTFS to mark the file. I suppose once you delete the file, the alternate data stream is gone as well. From what I read, alternate data streams were made for compatibility with a Mac filesystem!
The difference between this and the Southwest Airlines example is that the latter comes off as touching loyalty to one's employees, which is nice pr if the anecdote becomes public. If the team member handling the abuse takes it upon him or herself to politely snub the client in the same way, it makes the entire organization seem a little snooty. Whether or not this is justified is, of course, besides the point.
Government purchasing history database
I'm actually kinda interested in this as well. I wonder if a http://www.quora.com/ question or even a StackOverflow question would be a better place for it, though.

Any thoughts?
Not sure I like this move, seems very opportunistic. If Elon has any concrete tips he knows how to give them for free, or even sell to Boeing. Taking to twitter seems cheesy. Imagine Google doing it to Amazon when AWS goes down.

Things happen even to the brightest so Elon and others should keep that in mind.
Well, given context, they could use any word at all, even the opposite of the correct one, and could be understood. The problem is that it seems foolish to allow that the person is correct in using the incorrect word, or that the word in question now means the same as the correct word. Effectiveness is a continuum, too - would they have communicated more effectively by using the correct word? Then that word is preferable, though not necessary to impart the meaning in the greater context.
Ah; right, we should change that/add an option to override. Can you email me? patrick@stripe.com.
That's actually how I felt about the iPhone coordinates database (also in SQLite I believe)...I saved a copy of it before upgrading to the iOS that didn't have that "feature"
It is, and oddly enough they both use "4242 4242 4242 4242" as the test card number.
Praised, but Fire Prone, Battery Fails Test in 787
OK, so the elephant in the room here is this: you cannot confirm a null hypothesis (in this case: "Ritalin does not work in the long term") by failing to falsify it. This study is simply not designed such that it can provide strong evidence that ritalin is ineffective in the long term. It can only fail to provide strong evidence that it is effective in the long term.

Furthermore, the author refers to it as a "well-controlled study". It's not. The original 14-month study was controlled, and it showed short-term improvement. This study is a prospective follow-up. It's not a controlled trial. It's not trying to be a controlled trial.

Finally, looking at the full text, they appear to have used linear modeling. That's also a red flag. Obviously, sometimes a linear model is the right choice. But most often it is used because it is the convenient choice.
> it charges the card even if the CVC is not correct

Some users want that behavior. But we're rolling out tools that give you the option to decline charges if the CVC fails.
HBase looks bad in some of these benchmarks, because it is hard to setup and has many tuning knobs to be tuned correctly for the workload in question.

Due to its strictly consistent nature you have to think about key design, hotspotting of servers, etc, etc. In return you get correct atomic operations, row transactions, range scans by default (Cassandra uses a random partitioner by default not allowing range scans), etc, etc.

Some of the largest installations on this planet run on HBase. For example, FaceBooks HBase stats at HBaseCon (May 2012): Billions of msgs/day, 75Bn ops/day, 1.5M ops/sec peak. 250TB new data/mo and growing.
(Facebook also created Cassandra, but is not using it)

As usual you use the right tool for the job and isolated benchmarks usually do not bear this out.