skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an interesting project, but since it depends on the data it is being fed, its reliability is questionable. All media corporations have a large amount of media at their disposal (tv, radio, newspapers, etc) which is used to support the desired view on every piece of news, depending on the bias of the media. All of the media are either way biased, and are both used to influence and manipulate the consumers of these media to their line of thought, and as a product to be consumed by the niche that is aligned with that line of thought.

If that project was fed with crowdsourced, objective, verified data, then it would really be useful, but if it is fed with the databases of particular media, it can only be trusted as much as that media can be trusted.

And I'm not for or against The Washington Post, since I'm not from USA, and thus I don't really know the political stance or line of thought of The Washington Post. I'm just talking in a general case.
"Writers don't write because they can write. They write because they can't not write."

Writing is an incredibly important communication skill, and it is a forcing function for understanding a topic. But still, writing a book is rarely the best use of your time nor the best way to learn to communicate or analyze.

Blog posts might be a better form of writing than a book. Preparing and delivering a talk might be a better way to improve your communication (and "brand," for that matter).

However, if after thinking it through you still have an itch to write a book, it could be that you simply can't not write a book. In which case, go for it and do it well, and don't worry about justifying it.

It could be that the reason you should write is that you can't not write.
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If you have children, take them out of school for a day and go skiing.
The reason people use JavaScript for scripting in the browser is because there is no other option. The biggest reason I see to use it outside the browser is because you're already using it inside the browser. There are plenty of things to dislike about JS, but the ability to use it both in and out of the browser is a pretty big upside.
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Bar Pass is a mobile (iPhone and Android) drinks list, ordering and payments platform with the aim of bridging the gap between bars and their customers.

Patrons skip the queues. Bars begin to know their customers all while achieving greater efficiency and 0% credit card transaction fees.

Bar Pass is funded, under development and has had a warm reception regarding a trial in some of London's busiest, coolest bars. A commercially savvy Co-Founder with the ability to build a business is required to build out and manage these venue relations. A track record of success in your field is required combined with strong ambition to build a business.

You Co-Founder has a strong network in the industry which will prove valuable and will be primarily responsible for building out the system, streamlining payment processing and continuing to raise funding as required.

Competitive salary and generous share options available for the right Co Founder.

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Very nice. Though it doesn't apply the font for me on Firefox 19, Ubuntu Linux. Chromium works though.

Checking out Google Web Fonts for appropriate hand writing fonts I noticed that all the good/suitable ones seems to be by the same person, Kimberly Geswein. I can't seem to link to all her fonts via a URL but searching for "Kimberly" brings them all up.
I think that's applicable to any kind of work, really.

I can't find any examples (my Google-fu is failing me), but I think a generally accepted practice that leads to productivity is having a space that you only work in. When you're in that space, all your brain is used to is doing work, and so it becomes much more difficult to be distracted. It's sort of the spatial equivalent of a routine you do every day.

This is often why people have an office or study at their home.

As for a schedule, that's a no-brainer (not discrediting you at all). Obviously if I say "I will work on this project from 7-10 every night, 5 days a week", then I get 15 hours of work in every week. This also factors into the whole space-routine thing, but I think far less-so, because the trickier part, I think, is figuring out that time in your schedule when you are least likely to be distracted.
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I see that you are getting downvoted, it may be beacuse you don't add to the discussion, but to be fair the article doesn't offer more than the above line.
I think it very much depends on the language and platform/environment.

I've been programming professionally for nearly 20 years, in languages ranging from Perl to C/C++ to Javascript, and the only times I've used GDB in the last 15 years have been when C/C++ code is segfaulting and I want a stack trace. The rest of the time I use print/printf statements. I've built some pretty successful software this way, some of which you've probably heard of or used.

On the other hand if I were coding exclusively in C/C++, or Java, or using an IDE for my work, I might use a debugger more.
Anyone know how they turn the html of the cv to a pdf so well?
I agree with you. I am now living in Canada, having moved from the UK. Facebook makes it much more practical for me to keep in touch with friends and family across the globe. Sure there is skype or email, or I could start a blog or whatever. But latter 2 just take too much time, and the last one is a one way process. People get to spend small amounts of time, or nearly nothing if they are just uploading a picture from their phone. Some/most of the time, these pictures would most likely not get shared, it may just be my nieces playing in the park, hardly breaking news worth emailing me about.

With this in mind, the only benefit of the group I can think of was that it helped gather “background information.”

The problem I see with a lot of people, esp in North America (or this may just be my personal experience) is they add EVERYBODY to Facebook. Just met you, "hey, you on Facebook?" whereas I only have people that I know: family, friends, ex-collegues, old school friends. If you have 800 "friends" on Facebook then you're going to be inundated with garbage. You also have the option of "spring cleaning" your friends list. Haven't spoken to you in a long time, unfriend. I don't understand this thing where you add strangers to your social circle, there's a lot of personal information on there.
Does it though?

One could argue that even without making the copy I am depriving artists from income. Perhaps one or two of those CDs you would actually have bought yourself had you not received them from me for free.

Follow that line of thought and pretty soon no gifts could ever be exchanged as it could potentially be considered theft.

Now, what if there were a website that you could post something like: "Man, I'd really love to have that latest Rihanna CD. Here's my address." And some do-gooder would be able to send you his copy, since he doesn't want it any longer.

No copies made. No money exchanged hands. Just a gift from one fan to another.

Yet you are still depriving Rihanna her 2cts. Someone is still stealing. I mean, Rihanna is still a few cents short, isn't she?

I don't know, man. This whole thing is too grey. Far too grey to simply say that TPB is depriving income simply by providing a platform for downloading .torrent files that could potentially be used to download copyrighted materials, which could possibly sometimes deprive some artist of some income.
Google donates 15,000 Raspberry Pis to UK schools to get kids coding
Google Giving Will Provide 15,000 Raspberry Pi's to UK Schools
Do you have something more substantive to say on this subject? I haven't tried programming for it and am curious to know why it's "not fun".
Where do you live?

I can't do that. The 'unknown' parts of my city are unknown for a reason...
Git plug&play? Git-in-a-box
Just because it's open source doesn't mean the community gets to directly decide features for the official release. The original developer would almost certainly be a Benevolent Dictator for Life. If some other people wanted to fork it and do stuff that you disagreed with, then you could respond simply by not using their fork.
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Here's my copy-pasta:

MBTI is braindead pop-science which is based on the rantings of Jung. It was good for the time (when measuring people's skulls to determine their personality was popular) but has no place in modern science.

The biggest problem is, it's deliberately polarising. Jung thought there were fundamental personality types, and that everyone would fall into a specific box. That's good if you want to write a "what career is best for you" article for Cosmo, or for school kids. But it's bad science. Most personality traits are normally distributed, not categorial.

Most people are ambiverts, not introverts or extrovert. There's plenty of people who are heavily introverted, and plenty of people who are heavily extroverted, and it's useful to have a word for it, but most people aren't.

The other problem is, the traits it measures aren't important. Big 5 (Introversion, Openness to experience (i.e. culture / intelligence), Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism) is better. It uses more interesting traits, and puts them on a scale (rather than using categories). It's not perfect (there's no real model, it's just common factors in personalities - psychologists often say it's overrated) but it's much better than MBTI.
Hey, sounds good. I'd like to visit that region - especially love the food.

On other other hand - I guess sports is a distraction from politics and disagreement - a proxy war if you will. But watching others play is entirely different than getting out on the field.
Ruby is not a significant indentation language. do not comprehend how Indentation is not visually distinctive.
Elon Musk offers Boeing SpaceX batteries for the 787 Dreamliner
I believe that in some future time the password of a social network will be one of the most important passwords a person can have.

You can change banks easier than you can migrate all your contacts to another social network.
The stench of entitlement is so thick you can cut it. Be glad you graduated at a time when interest rates are low. Some of us graduated when rates were over 15%. Do you know what we did? We got jobs and paid them off. Do you know what we didn't do? Whine about the decisions we made after the fact. Don't expect the people who made the loan to forgive it. Don't expect anyone else to throw you a pity party. Man up and pay off your debt or defer payment and "follow your dreams" but stop whining.
I have a hard time believing that you use this system everywhere in your company. Wouldn't any employee then be able to guess the password to any company service? I'd be able to guess the company PayPal account, the company Stripe account, the company bank account, etc. I just don't believe that a real, legitimate company that is able to have enough success to have hired employees would've done something like this across the board.
You may be right, I can't say for sure - I guess time will tell?
You are right, there's nothing more to it. It's really simple :)
"Subtle" is a relative term here: I'm Italian, not particularly trained in languages, and I can easily tell NZ and Aussies apart. NZ vowels are even crazier than the already-bonkers Australian ones.
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One at a time, and I have to set a very rigid schedule and stick to it, otherwise it ends up being too stressful. Sometimes the hardest part is stopping once I've worked the 2hrs I scheduled for Project X, when it's 10pm and there's nothing else going on, but too many nights of not stopping and I get tense and difficult to live with. Down time is important, too.
It will be interesting to find out if most of the people buying the 128GB models will either be affluent assholes or those who do a shit ton of photo/video(/music?) editing on their iPads.
Great social justice only tend to pop up after some sad horrendous event has occurred. Sadly, History has a tendency to be forgotten so event has to repeat itself.

Most of swedish laws protecting civilians rights was created around 1935-1940 after the 1931 event in Ådalen. The laws protecting journalists was invented after a large number issues around censorship and prosecution against sources during the WW2 (mostly regarding criticism against Germany). The time during the cold war also had some prominent abuses cases, which resulting outcry pushed for more protection.
I don't know about KickStarter specifically, but the general concept has been used several times. Blender is probably the most notable example http://www.blender.org/blenderorg/blender-foundation/history...

In July 2002, Ton managed to get the NaN investors to agree on a unique Blender Foundation plan to attempt to open source Blender. The "Free Blender" campaign sought to raise 100,000 EUR, as a one-time fee so that the NaN investors would agree on open sourcing Blender. To everyone's shock and surprise the campaign reached the 100,000 EUR goal in only seven short weeks. On Sunday Oct 13, 2002, Blender was released to the world under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
There is almost no value at all in the kind of static checking either of them does.

OK that's just ridiculous. If nothing else (and there really is a lot else), they catch undefined variable usage and such.
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Any other options on an iGoogle replacement?
Well, it is, but it's still exact. Think of it a while, in base-10 (if it makes it easier for you).

Let's say you save numbers in format a * 10^b. B has enough range to not to be a problem, but a can only hold 3 digits. What integers can you represent exactly?

1 = 1.00 * 10^0. 2 = 2.00 * 10^1, trough to 999 = 9.99*10^2.

Or in other words, so long as mantissa has less bits than the number you are converting, it can be represented perfectly in floating point. So, 4 is always 4, not some number very close to 4. If it ends up as something else, you're the one who has messed it up.
Which python cousins?
Thank you. I am in my 30s and I read blog posts by many super intelligent but perhaps sheltered younger individuals that seem to just be discovering life's insights .... that are second nature to me. My family has always gone camping, for instance.
Please tell me this magical place where people aren't obsessed with watching sports

Soccer is a religion in Europe (and most of the rest of the world) but no one gets into a university in Europe only thanks to their soccer skills.
You can already get it without paying for it, it just bugs you to buy a license every now and again.
I'd argue that the Mercator projection is not the right projection if you want to show the entire world. The distortion introduced over large areas is fairly extreme, and I think relative geographical sizes are fairly important for displaying that kind of graphic.
College as Country Club?
I actually don't mind this problem much, although that might be my "functional programming" bias.

You only really need a "canonical" way to do things if you will be wanting to use features that depend on your classes being implemented in a predictable way. For example, class inheritance or implementing "super" method functionality.

> I haven't even dared to touch trying to use it for polymorphism.

Its not at hard as it sounds, since you have first class functions and closures. You can often handle functions directly instead of needing to create objects for everything.
Diaspora? I don't remember if you could share a post of not. I tried to use it. A social network where you know exactly one person isn't so social.
When I can run xcode, matlab, microsoft word, endnote, spss, sas and every other software product that make me somewhat productive, then I'll buy the post-PC garbage. And I'm not even a developer.
I'm kind of curious about the timing of it all. The satellite views and now these maps didn't pop online until just after Schmidt's visit.

You have to wonder if there were some real non-tourist motives to the meeting that we'll never hear about first-hand.
This article aside, I find it crazy how many HN posters immediately supported GS as if at their beck and call.

As a lawyer, we have detailed guidelines about who we can and cannot take on as a client because of conflict of interest. On rare occasions lawyers can represent a client where there is a conflict of interest provided it is spelled out in writing and signed by both the lawyer and client. On the other hand GS lives off of conflicts of interest and exploiting them.

For example, just before the real estate bubble, GS owned a bunch of "toxic" real estate backed assets. GS sent internal emails throughout the firm to sell these assets to clients before they became worthless, and even offered additional incentive compensation for dumping these toxic assets off on their own clients. When certain GS clients lost everything and these emails were leaked a congressional hearing was held, see here: www.c-spanvideo.org/program/293196-3

When asked about the GS conflict of interest and dumping self-owned toxic assets on their clients that GS acknowledged would become worthless, the CEO responded by saying just because those assets were no longer in GS's best interest, does not mean they were not great deals for their clients, nor did GS have any duty to disclose that GS itself was dumping the same asset it was trying to sell to its own client.

Be warned: This can and will happen again, despite the passing of The Wall Street and Financial Reform Act to make sure the 2008 financial crisis will not repeat itself, GS and other special interest groups made sure that prohibitions/disclosures of this type of conflict of interest were not included in the reform.
Not saying this is the case. But there is such a thing as a vertical monopoly. Anticompetitive and illegal.
Seems we killed the site. And it doesn't seem like very cacheable content either.
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Let's add it up:

128GB (not GiB) = 119GiB of actual space.

System requirement to install Microsoft Office = 3.0 GiB of space

System requirement to install Windows 8 Pro = 20.0 GiB of space

(119GiB - 3.0GiB - 20GiB) = 96GiB of usable space.

Now what programs or files could explain that difference of 13GiB?
Quick conference calls
Stumbled upon this service which lets you quickly create a conference call for people to dial in.
Quite cool
The point is that comparisons between things of different types should be errors. Implicit coercion is never sensible.
Amazon already offers warehousing and shipping as a service, even if you don't sell your products on Amazon: https://developer.amazonservices.com/gp/mws/api.html/180-311...

You ship them a pallet of stuff, and then use a web API to ask items to be delivered to addresses.
It's more a publicity stunt than anything else, but it's a brilliant publicity stunt.
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I guess I'm too old school. I want my stuff with me, on my device. And I worry about public WiFi and the threat of my stuff being hacked if I'm accessing it that way -- and not having WiFi to access it too.
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No need to build it - Zencoder already does it.

--

Edit: looks like they only support these audio codecs: aac, ac3, amr, eac3, mp3, vorbis, and wma

https://app.zencoder.com/docs/api/encoding/format-and-codecs...
Darpa wants electronics that can dissolve or burst apart after use
If you have a function which returns an integer or false.
It will not be surprising that in fact Amazon Elastic Transcoder is in fact what Netflix with Amazon's help may have work on in the past few years. Netflix is well known to use Amazon web services not only for the streaming part but even for doing all the movies encoding for all different devices they need to support.
So I will not be surprise that it has now become a mature project that Amazon is now opening up, similar to the other service for S3 where you can ship your hard drive to upload directly on S3 without wasting bandwidth: from what I recall that service was in fact created initially for Netflix but later on open to third party.
Yeah, but he is now serving his 1 year prison sentence.
That wasn't nkozyra's point at all.
Note: I said PHP 5.0 for a reason. I wouldn't consider PHP 5.4 particularly worse than JavaScript. It has namespaces, a somewhat decent module system (at least compared to JS), closures, and an inconsistent standard library. With JS having virtually no standard library at all, I'm not convinced that PHP's is necessarily worse.

Ecosystem-wise, I guess PHP's is a bit larger, and JS's is a bit smarter, currently. The amount of absolutely horrible JQuery plugins is already paralleling the amount of horrible Joomla extensions; I'm curious to see whether the NodeJS'ers can keep that culture from creeping into their side of the wall.

All in all, pretty comparable.
No, but the availability of 128GB modules (and devices) was a long time coming (the first modules were announced ~30 months ago, it's the first storage update since the iPad's original release, and further back for iOS since the 3rd generation Touch added a 64GB option back in 2009)
Add in SQLite and I'm right there with you. Base.app is pretty good, but another option would be great.
The most common `==` problem is `0 == ""`, IMO
I think you need to provide a little blurb about what the site actually does.

Also, use the placeholder attribute of the textbox to say what the purpose of the textbox is. Am I entering an email, a username, a password?
I'm a sports-climber my-self (around 5'10" and average I guess). What people forget is that as length increases in two dimensions, weight increases in three. Also the top climbers tends to be sub 5'10", but idk, it's all about having fun and compete against yourself!
Maybe it sounded harsh, it's not, your sibling comment explains it better. I'm also (almost) in my 30s ;)
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Hi. I think I saw this here in the summer of 2011. I'd appreciate it if someone remembers what it was called.
Facebook is a tool. And like all tools, its value is defined by how you choose to use it.

Two years ago it was a worthless, annoying site with news feed full of mommies talking about their kids' snot.

So I engaged with the site to make it my own.

Today, because of relationships sustained and informed by Facebook, I'm doing Crossfit, visiting old friends in person more frequently, sending packages to new and old friends who are deployed to Afghanistan, and joining events like Tough Mudder and GoRuck Challenges.

I think often about the privacy issues, the time suck that it can be, but I also have to think about positive changes that have come about because of the way I've used this particular tool. For me FB it's a bigtime net positive.
Wow that's pretty condescending.

Yes, it is a convenience... Much like email is a convenience over snail mail and Face Time is a convenience over meeting in person. Arguably the car is a "convenience" over the horse.

Discounting the breakthrough in technology that spawned the term "social networking" doesn't really help your position.

AOL may be a defunct company but in their hey day they brought millions of people online. They deserve more than your mockery.
I was looking for this!

People took the time to "review" the place too. There are two comments there which have useful information, the others are people trying to be funny.

What's interesting though, is that the date stamps go back about two months. Evidently this information has been up for at least that long.
Does this mean we will see Zencoder and all of the other competitors in the cloud transcoding space start to lower their prices to match amazon?