skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly politics is so corrupt at this point that is rather vote for an honest politician who I disagree with than a corrupt politician who "supposedly" agrees with me.

And I'm not just saying platitudes. I live in Kent County, MI and voted straight democrat in 2012, except for Amash.
Stuff like that has been in Python for a long time. (Werkzeug)
A Schizoeffective beginning a protest
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Exactly how has my opinion been swayed, here? Seems like you're making up your facts.
Oh? How can something like this happen then? Did some people just loose track of the mission of helping everybody out and whatnot?

http://www.eurolabour.org.uk/Call_for_EU_action_to_stop_fina...

2011-09-15

The European Parliament has called for changes to EU law to stop food price speculation that has been linked to the famine that has claimed tens of thousands of lives in East Africa.

A hard-hitting resolution adopted by Euro-MPs on Thursday 15 September calls for changes to EU directives on market abuse and financial trading to stop "abusive speculation" which has been identified as a contributing factor to the current famine in the Horn of Africa.

While it is widely accepted that the humanitarian emergency in the region was triggered by drought, a recent World Bank report identified high food prices as a key contributing factor.

Academics and international development charities working in the sector believe that food price volatility caused by speculation in agricultural derivatives on the financial markets are exacerbating the situation.
I prefer to use Emacs in daemon mode and then connect using emacsclient.
I think Dolphin is noticeably faster than Chrome and I appreciate the fact that it supports plugins. However, I recently noticed that it auto plays HTML5 videos which is quite annoying, whereas Chrome requires a manual "start" (at least on USA Today's mobile site).
Who you know and who you are friends with means a lot and can make your life much easier in many respects. That's one reason I see so many playing that social game at work. It really turns me off, even though I know it's important, I'd rather produce more and socialize less (at work).
That is because I don't have a web site to deploy to yet. I wanted to test it on my Ubuntu box on Apache first before deploying. Why do I have to create an account on some other web site just so I can send email on my local Ubuntu machine?
almost exactly like my experience, I agree with most of the things you pointed out. my transition only happened after i learned to accept that mac indeed has a lot of pitfalls, only then was i able to appreciate the other things mac had to offer.
I have plenty of respect for Berklee, have been friends with, worked with (musically and not) many of their students or affiliates. But just so there's no misconceptions of elitism, their acceptance rate is roughly 50%. It is joked among musicians that you can go if you can pay. But maybe money is the initial barrier you intended to allude to.
You would need to add a new user account for the database from the dba who is in another department. Something like that would require communicating with your manager who, as retric says, is non technical and probably won't buy in.
You are revealing the security flaws of Windows. Cancel or Allow?
Already happened. Amash tried to oust Boehner from his position as speaker of the House.

Source: http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2013/01/rep...

Since then he has been removed from the house budget committee and several Republican panels.

Source: http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/12/jus...
When I was in my early 20s I came across a charity auction for "Lunch with Woz".

As a "top ramen entrepreneur" at the time, I had no chance of winning but I contacted Woz's assistant via the website.

I said if there's any chance, anytime & anywhere of taking Woz out to lunch for a young tech entrepreneur to pick his brain please hit me back.

That's all it took - I found myself treating Woz to lunch at a greasy-spoon by his house. Gracious, awesome guy - huge presence and a transformative moment for me.

I'm glad I had an excuse to tell that story, because honestly there's not much more to add to Siver's excellent article - the plan he lays to engineering your own "who you know" is just that simple.

So now go do it.
There are apps that handle different parts of this, e.g. Aisle411 for product location, AisleFinder, etc.

But, in our early tests, what we found is that shoppers quickly move from "where is x?" to "what do I need for y?"

Our general hypothesis is that you need both machine learning / automation + human agent to create enough value for the shopper that they want to come back
This exactly. Tim Berners Lee and Roy Fielding both conceived of the web as a giant Lisp machine oriented around the URL / Hypermedia concept. HTML and the subsequent XML is a crippled form of an s-expression. If you change the tags into parens, map the functions into visual structure, you have a Lisp. TBL's first web browser in 1991 was a two-way client: you could edit the page and submit it back to the server and it would publish it. ReST is how distributed computing was meant to work in a homoiconic language. And JSON? C'mon, change the colon, bang, it's a Lisp. Lisp is fundamental; the AST is the avatar of all languages.
And Freecell would like to have a word with both of you...
"all because I went to school in Boston and bought a guy a pizza."

There is probably more to your story then even you know. As there always is because so many things come into play.

I knew Morris of Diskmakers before he reinvented that company and was still located in Philly in a run down building north of Old City. DM morphed around the time that the changeover to CD's happened in the mid 80's and became quite successful and of course later bought your company CD Baby. Part of the reinvention was based on things that he learned from doing business with me - he actually had wanted to become partners with me and when I turned him down him simply figured it out on his own.
I don't understand what you've said here.
I'm not sure what the issue is here. I bet checking and scoring based on a combination of grammar, spelling, and a rough relationship to the topic at hand would produce pretty good results. Further, if you feel you were graded unfairly, the professor specifically said he will review it personally.

He's probably already overworked and underpaid. Why not help him and the college implement technology that could prove to be very helpful.
Do you think they ran security outside the door?
I was talking DC to NYC. It can be $250, but there are $150 Acela trains spaced throughout the day. There is a 10 am Acela for $150 that gets you there into DC in time for a late lunch or afternoon meeting. The best part is: you can actually schedule that lunch and count on probably being able to make it.
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"Yehuda Katz has done amazing work on Rails 3 and Bundler. When he tells me that he’s not going to abandon Ember.JS, I believe him, because he has a track record proving so"

Uhhh nothing against Yehuda but I strongly object to this as someone who got burned badly with Merb. I've also seen his Rails.app Kickstarter project languishing and how many versions of SproutCore/Amber/Ember have there been that are now completely obsolete? I love a lot of his work but to say he has a track record of not abandoning projects goes against the facts.
Too bad this doesn't work in IE since it loads JS from github:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7180099/including-js-from...

At least in IE 10, it would work if it wasn't for this.
One of the problems we're running into is that this problem (need for location and advice) does not seem to be an acute problem for users. In other words, most people are bothered by it, but not bothered so much that they pull out their phone to download an app.

What's HN's thoughts on this?

Should we keep searching for users for whom this is "a hair on fire" problem? or, try to find a different related problem that's more painful (for more people)?
Could it have possibly been:
http://catfan.me/
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Those are general tools. I want to know what tools people use for debugging Javascript that are similar to Chrome Developer tools or Firefox's Firebug.
Kinda late and maybe no one will ever read it, but I can answer this one of two ways:

What gives you the right to live the good life just because you were born within some semi-arbitrary boundary? Why do they have to live the life of poverty when they have nearly the same skill set as you?

It is inevitable. The only reason that the overseas programmers havent taken all our jobs already is that there is still too big a communication gap (language, culture, remote enviroments, etc). Once that barrier is reduced, web/mobile programming will go overseas.
Wow. Its so easy to meet successful people and become their friends. Just drop them an email and a phone call and wham, they will give you a job.

I wish I realized that before. I will just write some emails tonight. Tomorrow I will be successful.

I can't stand this guy's smug face. He was just lucky.
Hacking the English Language: Part Two
User input validation in Apache Wicket
I think thirsteh was talking about the big models that operate at the spreadsheet layer, without VBA. VBA is imperative, but when you chain worksheet functions together, you have a more explicit, more visible way of manipulating data the way you might with a functional programming language.
It probably wouldn't. Copyright in this situation isnt bad per se, but we've all seen how much its been abused in practice, so clearly the moral/ethical issues would be astounding.
What exactly are these large, illiquid, unhedged assets? Bad mortgages?

Who would shift trading from assets to derivatives? It's my impression that HFT traders make money from HFT; that is there is no "core" business that would continue without HFT. I'm also not clear how they're supposed to HFT the derivatives from another country when apparently every foot of cable counts.
"Not everything needs to be engineered".

This is true. However, in a professional environment, it is reasonable to expect that a professional level of attention and diligence is being applied to most tasks. With a half-billion dollar spreadsheet, it's not going to take much of a rounding error to make that software engineer's salary look insignificant.

You draw a distinction between "professionals" and people who make spreadsheets. Why is that a good distinction? Shouldn't those people have some professional standards too? What are you doing if you don't have time to do a good job on something? Heck, why is it okay for you Excel programmers to not have the same set of standards that the rest of us follow?

Following all these rules of procedure and specs and change requests isn't any more fun from the other side of the table. The point of that stuff is, if the product does not conform substantially to those specifications, the person coding it is (usually) liable. Reimagine your spreadsheet-writing life with the idea that you could be sued into oblivion for any losses incurred by your code, and you might develop an all-new appreciation for testing and specifications.

But you know, maybe it's your money on those spreadsheets.
Just to be a contrarian, it looks like you can use Gmail labels with mailbox.
The Tea Party has nothing to do with civil libertarianism.
Google's version: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2371516
It would be, in learning tools. As a designer, it took even me a while to see the design as a separate concept from the means to invoke it—it's a very easy mistake to make, and it renders you completely blind to the slant of the particular proverbial hammer you're using. One way to get over this is to use many tools, the other, experience in many mediums; but neither can be gained without time spent. The only way to get better at design is to design, preferably in many projects, in many disciplines.
name disclosure is optional, not mandatory..

http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/vulnerability...
Me too, but I was surprised to see a cogent reasoning for voting against the No Budget No Pay act that changed my mind about it. It is refreshing to see an elected official explain his votes in a way that isn't simply national talking points.
It's all about metacognition. You need to look at the designed things in your life and understand WHY you like or dislike them. Look at the spacing of text, the font choices, the color choices, the contrast between fonts/colors/etc, the shape of things. Design is also how things work, not just how they look.
"Plain-speaking" and sincere don't have to make sense.
Strictly speaking, native clients have nothing to do with app stores or speed. I just mentioned mobile apps and some software available in the Mac App Store as success cases because native clients backed by HTTP APIs seem to be a much saner development environment than shoehorning an app to run inside a browser, which is limited to one language, crappy APIs, broken interaction models and lack of standards.

> On the web, where the user must constantly accept and run code from unknown and untrusted developers, code must run in a sandbox to minimize risk of unwanted access to the user's computer.

First, sandboxed environments are not limited to browsers (e.g., OS X 10.8). Second, browsers are often the attack vector, because they were never meant to run applications, and have broken security models (e.g., no application signing). So you end up in a sandboxed environment with terribly limited APIs in the name of security, and on the other hand have hard to trace security holes, like XSS.
Yeah, you missed the "at least" part.
Right-click on the cell and select Insert Comment.
Hey Ryan, I'm a big fan of your work on Cydia. Thanks for responding about NoCoverFLow.

Hope you understand my gripe wasn't with NoCoverFlow itself, I was referring to a larger problem I've found with jailbreaking since around iOS 2.
Having self-taught myself a lot about design, let me give you a few pointers.

The number one rule is that you have to start paying attention to the design of everything. Don Norman's "The Design of Everyday Things" is a good start on developing this, and you really shouldn't miss it. But this applies to everything: when something's nice, figure out why. Notice typefaces, and form a mental library so you can identify them.

It's a bit of an odd path, but I'll also suggest, since you're interested in interactive systems, reading several great Human Interface Guidelines. Apple's OS X ones are my favorite (You might even want to get an older version, because they're a bit more general), but the Nokia Meego ones are worth a look too. Most others are too mediocre to teach you anything though.

Some other books I have to suggest:
Bringhurtst's "The Elements of Typographic Style." Definately read some kind of lighter treatment of type first, so you know humanists from geometrics, serifs from sans, high and low contrast, and so forth, but if you want to really get it, this is the book. If you go in knowing that some of what he's saying is opinion, this is the book you need to read.

The Universal Principles of Design: It's really not the best book, and there's some things, like the readability research, that's actually just complete crap, but it's an alright, quick overview of a few dozen concepts. If you understand the concepts in it, skip it, but as a first intro, you could do worse.

The Humane Interface: Other than Raskin's whining about the Canon Cat not being a hit for slightly too long, it's got some interesting concepts that all designers should understand.

Thoughtful Interaction Design: This one's very theoretical, and very heavy reading; it's really about a way to view the design process, and how it proceeds, more than it is about how to design. Don't read it until you've done a few projects.

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information: This is a great book on presenting information. Just ignore the ridiculous stuff about minimizing ink, and think of it as minimizing the cognitive load.

For a quick overview of a couple interesting concepts, you might try method.ac, reading the wikipedia pages on Fitt's Law and http://worrydream.com/#!/MagicInk and trolling through http://informationarchitects.net/blog/.

Stay away from ux.stackexchange.com, news.layervault.com, PSDtuts, et. c. It's almost all crap, about tools rather than actual designing. In general (very much in general), if a blog post on design is short, it's crap, 95% of the time.
No Cut&Paste. Column mode is brain dead and doesn't auto-size columns even when I have ample screen space. I have to fix the columns by hand. Difficult to compute the total size of the selected files and folders.

A drawback that I have with Mac OS in general is that in some dialogue boxes it's impossible to keyboard navigate from OK to Cancel, you have to select by mouse. At least in the default setting.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Meteor yet. As far as I understand, developing for Meteor means having a single codebase that erases the distinction between server and client.

Your web pages become live views of the underlying controllers. Modifying state in one client automatically modifies it in another. And I'm pretty sure it supports hot-swapping.

http://meteor.com/
Android Share Intent Example
Pretty thin. I don't think the jury convicted the son on the absence of this theory, and this article really doesn't get into what evidence of guilt there actually was.
I mean no offense here, but this isn't design. This is parroting visual effects.
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Beyond "reasonable doubt".
As someone currently in HFT, I think a financial transaction tax would be very good for me/my firm.
I'd have recognized the beauty of mathematics earlier so that I could be doing cooler stuff now.
This makes me happy.

Did you know at least one other corporation had a trademark for the name iPhone before Apple announced their choice of product name in 2007?

Considering what patent trolls Apple is, and considering Brazil is a sizable market for smartphones and computer equipment, this is a tiny bit of karma, as far as I'm concerned.

BTW, Xerox has yet to see money for inventing the OS GUI and the modern mouse.
A second thought that occurs to me is why it is so important for business software to be flexible, is that it is important for the business to be flexible. If there is no way for a trader or an analyst to create a new model, or a new process, the current models and processes ossify. Once you go to SAP, your process starts to flow like sap.
Interestingly, Apple's Numbers tries to break people of this (perhaps unsuccessfully) by decoupling the 'sheet' with the column/row/cells grids. You can have multiple cell tables on a single page.

When I first saw this functionality I was really excited by it as a way to keep data consistent and independent of the layout. In reality I think the tooling around creating/moving/linking the cell groups is a bit awkward to use. Perhaps some day it will get there, or someone else will pick up the idea and run with it some more.
Scroll down to January 4th on Rep. Amash's Facebook page. This was the day that the House voted on $9.7 billion in Sandy aid, which was pretty much just to replenish FEMA's flood insurance fund. The entire bill is one page. (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr41/text)

Rep. Amash voted no, and there is no explanation of his vote on this date. He couldn't have objected to "pork and garbage," because there was none. Perhaps he objected to the $9.7 billion not being offset with cuts in other federal spending, but then I'm surprised he didn't explain that on his Facebook page.

I'm aware that most legislation has pork and other garbage attached. But if you continuously vote against any legislation with pork and garbage, without attempting to amend or propose alternative solutions without pork and garbage, and even vote against bills without pork and garbage that have historically been previously uncontroversial, (in this case, disaster relief assistance) then my opinion is that you are just refusing to govern.
How does what happen? A drought led to reduced supply and higher food prices. That's exactly what you'd expect in an efficient market. People blame the traders because they're the mechanism through which the market incorporates the fact of the drought.

You see the same crap-throwing with traders in oil. People blame the traders for "bidding up" oil prices. The traders are just helping the markets reach a price--it's the market that's bidding up oil prices. And that's exactly what you'd expect when India and China are guzzling up the stuff but production has been flat since 2005 (and we hit peak discovery in 1965...)
HFT is not just a risk of synthetic crashes, it's essentially a tax collected by private companies. I say I want to buy XYZ, you run in front of me and buy the last XYZ at that price and kindly offer to sell it to me for just a trifle more. Why thank you for providing me such a fantastic service.

I've never seen anyone else in the markets proclaiming how great it is that we have HFT providing liquidity, not like the bad old days 5 years ago or so, when it was so very difficult to push a market order through. It's always the HFT companies themselves insisting how vital they are.
"These people shaped the way I see the world. The people you surround yourself with don't just open doors. They change the way you think, and change your self-image of your capabilities."

Truth right here. And one of the things people ignore when they bash MBA programs. One of the most important things I'll take away from my program is the self realization and the change in the way I see the world. And of course, the people I've met.
Doesn't work for me... Strange.

I tried tweaking a few flags (such as much longer timeout: -w 30), still no luck.

$ traceroute -m 100 -e -w 30 obiwan.scrye.net

(...all normal here...)

8 core2-te0-0-0-4.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.249.45) 6.795 ms
core1-te0-0-0-5.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.249.43) 11.500 ms
core1-te0-0-0-4.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.249.41) 13.669 ms

9 host213-121-193-129.ukcore.bt.net (213.121.193.129) 5.964 ms 6.068 ms
host213-121-193-137.ukcore.bt.net (213.121.193.137) 7.362 ms

10 * * *

11 * * *

12 * * *

(...and so on...)
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Yes, so excellent that it lets me add a date to USD and format it as a percentage, as I copy and paste that one formula into every row of data.
I don't believe that they strive to be, nor is the common belief that they are, free and open.
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So maybe once Apple releases their thing, she'll ditch the iphone and get a watch ... :]

[Personally I hate pulling out my phone just to look at the time; a watch is much more convenient.]
It took me a while to find the original link, it was burried in the fourth paragraph and linked from a single word.

So you can't accuse them of not linking, they just do the bare minimum to credit the original reporting.

I'd suggest the mods update the link to the Reuters story, please.
This really isn't the place, but: You are confusing the composition and the actual rendering. When you use CG you are composing in the cpu but the actual result is always rendered by the gpu, there is no such thing as rendering by cpu in ios devices. When using opengl the composition and rendering will happen in the gpu. But this is not really important for static objects like buttons, they are built once, unless use force changes, it wont touch the cpu (written on a phone, sorry about typos)

For instance, this is 100% gpu: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/ipad/#documentation/G...
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