skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What Makes Haitian Coffee Unique
Haitian Coffee is known to be one of a kind. In fact, it is a world-class, award-winning coffee. There are many factors that make Haiti's coffee so special. The short documentary below does a great job at outlinging these factors. If you are a coffee lover, it is a MUST WATCH.

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California Sheriff Faces Loud Privacy Protests Against Drone Plans
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This is silly. People who take the NYT article as valid after everything that has been shown will not be convinced because 7 people make the same trip successfully. They will not be convinced if 70000 people make the trip successfully. At some point you have to realize you have made something great and you no longer need the approval of everyone to continue what your doing.

Stop the bickering and just expand your company and supercharger network.
Unfortunately, "Troll" has turned into a political term to prevent "undesirables" the government or society does not want to fund from starting businesses from the "Trolls" intellectual property which the "Troll" spent years of his or her life developing.
Taleo. As bad as it can get.
It's a nice thought, but when you observe me being lazy, it is indeed due to my laziness. (Let us not forget that it is right and good to call a spade a spade.)
By classifying people we do not like (mannerisms, personality, misfits) as trolls, we can practice socialism and transfer their ideas and intellectual property to people we like better, people who have nicer smiles.
This talk I gave last year describes some of the problems that Ember attempts to address that libraries like Backbone don't: http://vimeo.com/49434697
| Banks are not in charge of policing the world.

I never claimed that they were. If HSBC wants to transfer money between (e.g.) Turkey and Iran, then the US has no say, even if they don't like it.

| If the US wants to stop funds/goods from
| leaving/ending up in Iran they should stop those
| funds/goods from entering/leaving the US in the
| first place.

This is a straw-man. I'm not talking about attempting to prevent every possible thing that ever leaves the US from ever entering Iran under all possible circumstances. That's obviously impossible.

The article paints a picture that HSBC provided the service of routing money around so that people in Iran could transfer money to the US and vice versa. The entire purpose of this service would be to obfuscate the origin or destination of the transfer from the US government.

I wouldn't say that requiring HSBC to not do this would be requiring them to 'police the world,' but if they want to be chartered as a bank in the US, it certainly makes sense that they should 'play by the rules.' If they were specifically offering/advertising a service to clients where-by they would actively skirt those rules, it doesn't seem like there is an issue with (at the least) revoking their charter.
Yes, I didn't take the Automata Theory course, but I learned essentially the same thing in Discrete Mathematics, Control Systems, and Digital Design (albeit with an eye towards Electrical Engineering applications). I remember looking through the courses, as you did, and the only gap I remember noticing was Operating Systems (and maybe graph theory, now that you mention it). It would have been nice to be introduced to machine learning while in school, but that's fine, I ended up learning it on my own.

There could easily be a bias error, but I said what I said simply because everything covered in the CS curriculum seems to also be present in the CE curriculum, but in the CE curriculum more is added. So I see the CE degree as a CS degree plus the essentials of an Electrical Engineering degree.

The advantages, if there are any, can definitely fade away after a few years of real experience, assuming everyone continues to better their knowledge, and those years aren't spent, as is typically the case, repeatedly re-implementing the same solution.
The Tropeless Tale
Thanks. I don't have time to watch the talk right now, but skimming through it, it sounds like a view layer like you describe could perceivably be bolted on top of Backbone, at least if one added support for attribute-level bindings?
The socialists insist that everyone has a label, a "place in life" and will transfer the "Troll's" ideas and intellectual property to people who are better politically and socially well positioned. This is a ploy that will ruin our society.
I suppose people groups who have had hundreds of years of experience of being oppressed with excuses from the Bible, Social Darwinism or the like might care.

As a species we have considerably more experience with racial/ethnic judgement leading to suffering than leading to something beneficial.

Not to say that it's impossible, but it strikes me as very reasonable for us to argue very thoroughly about the potential implications of this kind of research. I hope we can find a way to improve life for all people. When vaccines first became available there were probably jerks like me moaning about imagined terrible consequences. But that doesn't mean every change made possible by science would necessarily be as equally beneficial.

If we find out that people from East Whateveria have a mean IQ 25 lower than the global target, does that mean we have a right or obligation to "fix" them? What if they don't want to be fixed? I'll attempt stop short of pulling a Godwin, but note that this sort of 'fix defective populations for the benefit of the whole human populations' has a mixed record.
>Even if your dad's skills are in a specific dying industry, he probably has some transferable skills which others want to learn.

My dad is in a similar predicament being, well, a shady dealer in a troubled part of the world. Unfortunately for both him and myself, he doesn't want to leave his "industry" despite the diminishing returns and the risk or prison (he has never been in prison). Even if he wanted to his industry probably wouldn't let him leave.

Posing this from a throwaway account for obvious reasons.
Another happy gnucash user!

I have a few reports that I keep open (last month's expenses, this month's expenses, etc), so my usage is generally 1) download transaction history in OFX from Natwest, 2) import into gnucash, 3) put the unrecognized transactions in the correct accounts (rarely if ever have to do that these days - the bayesian matching works rather well) 4) inspect the reports.

I couldn't be happier!
> if they want to be chartered as a bank in the US, it certainly makes sense that they should 'play by the rules.'

It appears they are not doing that and it appears their charter won't be revoked.

The point I tried to make was that no matter what you do to restrict such transactions from happening, they will happen. The only people that suffer from sanctions are the poor, the rest will continue underground.

If you want to play global policeman and if you want to limit access to goods/funds for some country you have but one option, to close your borders. Once stuff leaves your sphere of influence anything can happen, and making it illegal to do something typically has only one effect, it will drive up prices.

HSBC saw an opportunity to make money, and being a bank they acted on it and did not care about the consequences. If you want to make a principled stand then yes, by all means have their US banking charter revoked and jail their execs. But if you don't do that then this will simply repeat, different names, different labels same principle.

Having principles costs, sometimes it costs a lot.
> Bottom-posting, due to its falling out of favor in the mainstream, has become a shibboleth that signifies a certain degree of competence with technology and Internet communication in general.

I don't find this true at all. I get quite the mix of response styles from people of all walks of 'techno competency' -- sometimes a MUA defaults, especially mobile ones. As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, in business settings (often with engineers) top-posting is also very common. Not everyone uses Mutt. I think attempting to label people who don't follow your preference as less technical competent is a bit myopic.

Further, it could even be considered rude to start bottom posting in a chain of existing top-posting-only.

That said, I do prefer bottom posting when it makes sense, and practice it when it is convenient or the social norm of the community I am conversing within.
Great post and completely agree. In general, I think more of us need to look at problems that "real people" have and how to solve them.
Exactly, being morally superior gets you no where, and being morally inferior doesn't hurt you either. You said yourself that users only care about "how fast a tab loads." Well, if Google ships a browser that's terrible, people will switch to something else. That's why competition still exists! Firefox was in a position to dominate the desktop browser market, but then Chrome came alone and ate their lunch! There's nothing stopping Mozilla from regaining that market share, but they're going to have to ship a better browser!
> Edit: The only place bottom-posting still works is on technical mailing lists.

And Hacker News.
So, if these decryption modules are already in the OS, what's to stop people from straight up ripping the streams?
You're 19. A lot is going to change in the next 3, 6, 10 years. And you're going to learn a lot along the way.

Enjoy where you are right now and every moment as it happens.
I've been using ledger for quite a long time too and have written quite a bit, both prose and code, around it.

http://bugsplat.info/ledger.html
Your "rock-solid logic" makes at least one incorrect assumption about local inertial frames in curved spacetime.
Whats to "figure out"? People like pleasure, and enjoy "getting off", and will pursue any avenue to obtain an electro-chemical rush(love).
> a technology that is decidedly against the public interest.

Hey, not all of us believe that. I'm perfectly fine with putting DRM on streaming video; I certainly don't expect to be able to download all of netflix to my computer for one month's subscription. It's much more of an issue when I pay full price for a movie (after pressing the "Purchase" button) and I find I don't actually own it.
> it's also fairly convenient to glance at an email message and immediately be able to infer with reasonable confidence what level of expertise to expect from the stranger on the other end

You are confusing "level of expertise" with "number of years on the Internet".

Knowing the Internet seniority of the person you are responding to is an unremarkable data point in all but arcane conversations about the Internet itself (and even then, it's still of dubious value).

I used to be on your side (old Usenet dog here) but these days, I am convinced that top posting is actually a more productive way of communicating for a bunch of reasons:

- Most of the time, you know the context of the conversation so reading the new content at the top of the message saves you time.

- Most old Internet dogs suck at quoting either because they've never learned how to summarize or because they are cutting out the parts of the message they don't want you to see (either intentionally or accidentally). Some will cut too much text, other will quote twenty lines to add one, but either way, you end up visually hunting the new content interleaved with several levels of previous quoting, which is tiresome and entirely avoided by top posting.
Nope, 1 year full warranty including just walking into an Apple Store where they will usually offer you a replacement free of charge.
I think today's web developers are just a lot younger. I'm 21 and I came to start developing when IE6 was still relevant. (Around my age 15). The generation after me came to developing in a completely different post-IE6 world. I don't think most of them realize the historical context or even the relevance. It's a vicious cycle. I'm not sure if there will ever be a cure for young naivety.

These literal kids just want to build cool stuff and they have more power/freedom/resources than ever before. Give them time and the good ones will learn from their mistakes.
Python Software Foundation: Asking for civility during our trademark dispute
Can you provide more detail about the "outrageous claims about CISPA" made by the EFF? (That's a strong accusation without details.)
Git your game on
You're basically saying there should only be one web browser and no one should try alternate approaches to common problems unless they're starting with the same codebase.

Being open source doesn't change the fact that it's the same codebase.

Why should there only be one browser engine? I'm a web developer and I hate cross-browser testing/compatibility, I prefer to use Chrome for it's devtools. I would hate for there to only be one browser in the world.

Duplication is not equivalent to standardization.
I also created a Userscript for non-Chrome users: https://github.com/sindresorhus/quora-unblocker-userscript
Ask HN: What is the best city for a Technical Support operation in the US?
Based on the following parameters:

1. Low cost of living
2. Lots of experienced staff technical support agents
There's another reason bottom- (or interspersed) posting does not work well in corporate email chains: Outlook flatly doesn't support it. Quoted text in a reply is not indented by default. The replier has to do extra work to put their reply in a different font or color so it's clear what's quoted text and what's new text.
Connections don't build things
> anshargal, you're shadow banned. His comment is:

[unrelated to topic]

Always wondered, if someone is hellbanned, how come anyone can see it? In other how did you see it and how did you know he was shadow banned?
Seriously?

I have come to associate this particular style as meaning the emailer/poster is going to be an unhelpful, holier than thou, pedantic ass-hole.

It's a shibboleth without doubt, but not for the clique you think.

> I was walking down the street

Better known as a sidewalk

> when I had a revelation

Oh what pray tell?

>that not many people actually use NoSQL

There's a distinction between idiots and people you fail to comprehend.

> And so I no longer worried that I used relational databases

What the poster here fails to understand because of his miniscule brain is that NoSQL is so fundamentally superior to relational databases that only an idiot would use any other thing. It's not even worth saying. Though I took the trouble just now to enlighten this poorly educated OP who obviously shouldn't ever touch a computer again.
I'm liking Mozilla more and more these days. I'm seriously considering thinking about trying out this wacky browser of theirs. ;)
You can enable showdead in your preferences. You can look a the user's history to figure out why the post might be dead.
People have to understand this is a career for many. Inventors spend months even years developing their ideas into inventions. We need strong IP in this country. Obama has forsaken us and has used false logic that non-inventors can get behind to destroy the incentive system for innovation in this country. He is taking baby steps, warming us up to pure socialism. Without strong IP, the United States of America will crumble and Obama will get his way - utter destruction of the potential for greatness we all strive for. Obama does not have the capacity to invent and does not understand invention. Use empathy and realize how important our inventors are and how important IP is to the future of this nation. IP is all that sets us apart from Greece.
Plus they should allow as early as possible to connect existing domain names with their service. I wouldn't want to know everybody that I'm sailing under an offshore pirate flag. Primary users would probably come from the grey'er corner of the Internet, so it will most likely lead to some flagging/spam/etc issues.
I guess I'm thinking netflix with music videos.
Blackberry too, and I suspect a few webmail clients.
I wonder if shareholders would ever sue for the company being "irresponsible" by leaving so much money on the table.
Yes, but false advertising may still be a claim, even if there is no concrete agreement. And the legal standard there doesn't even require overt lies. That is, even statements that are technically true but misleading such that a reasonable person would conclude something untrue can meet the test.

And, in this case, documentation regarding the way their system works, as well other of their materials was overtly untrue. Beyond that, customers would merely need to show damages and also that Heroku profited from its untrue statements.

Whether it intended to mislead or not, Heroku could have a real problem on its hands.
Facebook employees hit by Java 0day attack
Is anyone at all concerned with a Chinese eugenics program? We already know the extent to which China has gone to produce high-caliber athletes, especially for the Olympics. (Yao Ming is basically their Kwisatz Haderach[1]) Let's say for the sake of argument that there is an identifiable genetic component to genius/IQ/intellectual achievement. Is the following sequence of events particularly outlandish?

1) This study and others like it discover genetic components to intelligence.

2) China conducts large scale genetic analysis of the intelligentsia / upper classes etc. to find carriers

3) Strong incentives provided for couples to use IVF/embryo selection/whatever to produce children with the maximum number of these intelligence genes

4) 25+ years from now China all of a sudden has a lot more smart people than anywhere else does

[1] http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1126765,00....
I think all this drama is a great opportunity for Heroku to bring out a new stack for non-concurrent apps with an intelligent routing mesh (v2.0a, perhaps). If I were you I'd go for another beer with the Heroku engineers and design/prototype it.
eq == ==

This is true in both infix notation and in prefix notation.
well, this is seriously awesome - especially if you intend to carry on with it. would you consider a gittip or similar, so I can buy you a coffee?
I feel like we're at an interesting tipping point here: I've seen about an equal number of articles in favour of a Webkit monoculture and opposed to it.

The general pattern seems to be that, if you're interested in building a better X (browser, compiler, operating system), then a monoculture is bad. If you're interested in building on top of X (websites, code, applications), then a monoculture is great, so long as the dominant entity is good enough.

In lots of cases, I think the people building on the platform tend to get their way, both because they're more numerous and because the technology in X eventually stabilises, so fewer people want 'a better X'. If a truly better X does later emerge, it then needs a Herculean effort to break the monoculture (e.g. Firefox in the bad old days, clang, the Linux desktop). Then there's an interesting transition period before, perhaps, a new dominant force emerges.

Maybe Mozilla can maintain a mixture of rendering engines by being the determined underdog. It would probably make it easier for a new rendering engine to emerge, but the open web may seem less inviting than more uniform technologies. For all its faults, one of the reasons Flash did so well for so long was that developers didn't have to deal with multiple competing implementations.
No, I'm saying that open-source solves most of the issues with a monoculture, while also being more effecient than vendor standardization when it comes to pushing forward innovation.
> switching costs are high

Why? switching to private school is expensive. Switching from is not. In the public system, schools change every 3-5 years anyway.

" and it strikes me that private schools may be less likely to change drastically over the course of 8-12 years than a public school."

Why? public schools change slow and ploddingly, after long tedious debates.
Because a blog post is different from an email discussion.
W.R.T. HSBC not being punished, you're preaching to the choir here.
You do know that with the license you currently have in there anyone can just sell it, right? You don't have an issue with that?
Open-source doesn't make the problem go away, but it does make the problem surmountable.
eugenics and the military/economic impact down the road was my first thought.
ahem.

https://www.google.com/search?q=being+the+averagest

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/being-the-averages...
> XMLHttpRequest... made the web of today suck significantly less.

I would argue the exact opposite.
Awesome. Using some lovely client side tech: backbone, browserify. Going to have to really spend some time looking through the code. Cheers!
Namecheap's claim seems overly definitive, but after a quick skim I think one area of concern might be the proposed new Section 1104(b)(4)(B), granting everyone involved civil and criminal immunity "for decisions made based on cyber threat information identified, obtained, or shared under this section."

That's a vague and broad grant that might enable many abuses: essentially, a government agent might say, "we'll share cyber threat info with you if you promptly turn off the threats we point out, and you'll be safe from any liability... or you can refuse to coordinate with us, and risk prosecution without this immunity". I would welcome more clarification from a legal expert with CISPA concerns.
with most of those examples, there's a huge sunk infrastructure cost that creates a kind of inertia that's hard to move away from...automobiles for example, with finite funding, do we maintain the highway system or do we let it crumble and build robust public transit?

with fax in Japan, yeah there's the fax machines, but we're really talking about a fairly minimal dollar amount vs. a scanner and email, maybe $130 dollars (in a very rich country). And for the receiving parties there's probably no additional cost since they already can receive email. But I bet they're prevented from handling scanned documents due to established business procedures (read, established social ceremony)...

One thing that's striking to most Westerners if they ever have a chance to visit a working office environment in a modern 1st world Asian nation is the tremendous amount of physical paper that gets pushed around. The amount of clutter in a Japanese office is simply mind boggling to the average Westerner [1]. In this milieu, a fax is just yet another piece of paper among thousands. There's no pressure to eliminate yet another source of office clutter. The concept of Japanese minimalism simply doesn't apply.

It seems contradictory, but hey, that's Asia.

[1] - http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotopakismo/1182625591/
UK readers:

You might want to register your opposition with the BBC here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/complain-online/

Takes less than 3 min.
Yep, their startup / idea / solution was worth less then the team they had grown. It's a better end to a startup then laying everyone off no doubt.
Two cameras in the same unit. It's pointed at both.
Yes clientsfromhell.net sorry about that
Another answer I've seen to the irrational^irrational question is sqrt(10)^log(4)=2, where log is the common logarithm. This avoids upsetting the constructivists.
I disagree that operating a fax line is cheap.

Up until the mid 2000s, we still had a fax machine in our office. By that time, because our fax number was listed, we received about 10 spam messages a day – some of them were complete product catalogs that took 30-40 pages. It cost us hundreds of dollars a month in toner and paper.

In 2008, we switched to fax software, which cut costs dramatically, but we still had to pay for the dedicated fax line. We shut it down in 2011, because no relevant faxes had come in for over a year.