skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very fascinating stuff here. I'm a huge fan of natural light. I tend to feel less stressed out and work better with natural light than artificial light. I wonder if anyone feels opposite.
"Average Joe" is not making a commute from NYC to Boston. "Average Joe" is also not buying a Model S.
So does this work in the UK? I don't see anything in the Help & Support which limits the service to the USA/Canada.
What I do on the 1st and 15th of every month:

1) Calculate payout totals for each organization for the prior 2 weeks.

2) Write a check to each organization.

3) Mail the checks.

So when I tell my customers that you're paid on the 1st and 15th of every month, what it really means is that I'll put checks in the mail on those days. Then you have to wait 1-2 days for mail, then 1-2 days for deposits to clear. It gets worse when the 1st or 15th land or national holidays when the mail doesn't run or banks are closed.

These fluctuations in cash flow can kill an organization. Enter Balanced Payouts.

Now it's as simple as running a query that calculates the totals and deposits those amounts to each respective organization. A half day process I did twice a month, now turned into a cron job that runs in < 1 minute.

Thanks Balanced!! (star twinkle on tooth)
Good points. Likely C would be as fast, but a lot longer to code it. What I mean by custom is that every user gets a unique page. Unlike, say, Reddit, where concurrent users potentially see the same front page by default.
That's probably just me.
I was surprised to see how it seamlessly fit into our business process. Keep it up guys!
ICE/STUN (which is used by WebRTC and thus PeerJS) support NAT traversal in all cases but a pair of symmetric NATs, which means some single digit percentage of connections will not work. For those cases, WebRTC/PeerJS support using a TURN server which proxies the data, not ideal but it allows the library to work.
The link to the original and original discussion is below.
I wish there were zoom ins of the major metro areas.
Found this:

http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/10/taste-test-the-best-ketch...
http://lenpenzo.com/blog/id1481-ketchup-taste-test.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/13/the-best-ketchup_n_...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387285/Red-faced-He...

and many more taste tests. Not to say that not many people honestly prefer Heinz ketchup, but there seem to be no empirical evidence proving that Heinz would be the "best" ketchup.
Blockbuster, Zappos, and AOL have all been burned by having language in their ToSes to that effect. It's a bad idea if you want any legal cover from your TOS. IANAL, but this guy is and he says

STOP PUTTING CLAUSES INTO YOUR CONTRACTS THAT SAY YOU CAN AMEND THE
CONTRACT AT ANY TIME IN YOUR SOLE DISCRETION BY POSTING THE REVISED
TERMS TO THE WEBSITE

http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2009/06/stop_saying_we_...
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we're not going to let people suffer and die in the street

It's funny how people are going to die in the street when they're arguing for nationalized healthcare, but the healthcare laws somehow need to cover free contraception, abortions, and breast pumps.

When taxes need to be raised, it's because children are starving in poverty, cops are being fired, and single mothers are being turned out into the streets. Yet, we're wasting billions in foreign aid, sponsoring an Indian reality show for hundreds of millions[1], and wasting billions on obvious avoidable failures like Solyndra.

How can we have an honest dialogue about where we've been, where we are, and how we should proceed when this kind of extreme rhetoric/propaganda is so commonplace?

[1] http://blog.heritage.org/2012/10/16/top-10-examples-of-waste...
This is actually pretty fascinating - I would have never thought to ask. Thanks!
Also, there is already a strong sentiment in all non-Chicago parts of Illinois that Chicago should be it's own state, because it dominates all statewide politics, gets the lion's share of resources, and has a tendency to mess up calculations for needed rural aid for the rest of the state.

Calling the State "Chicago" would certainly add fuel to that fire.
:) I don't mind eating horse as long as it has a good taste.

Having grown in a place with very good beef, I am very picky for beef. When I buy a steak I prefer to pay a little more. It is not that expensive considering I am only one person.
And at $25 for some injection-molded plastic, it's no doubt hugely profitable if/when they recoup the initial tooling costs.
I agree with you about the grating self-satisfaction of a certain vocal set of commenters, and have argued in the past myself that there is no "magic" in Rails, but I think what people really mean when they say "magic" as related to a chunk of software, is that it has so many layers of abstraction that its function is obscured.

All software deals in layers of abstraction, which makes it easier to reason about general function, but obscures specific function. All users of all software must make a constant trade-off between assuming abstractions are functioning properly and personally verifying their function, and all software must decide where the line between too little abstraction and too much obscurity should be drawn. When people talk about the "magic" in Rails, they mean that Rails has drawn that line quite far toward the abstraction side, which is true.

There are some abstractions that are a net positive for security, and some that hinder it. While I don't agree with the condescending attitude of your parent and the many similar commenters, who seem to think no software they've ever written or integrated with has ever had a security issue, I think it is fair at this point to say that the level of abstraction in Rails' handling of user data has been a hindrance to its security. I think that is probably also a fair thing to say about most pieces of software that have ever handled potentially-malicious user data.
"The thing is we're all using the service for free and on top of it they're willing to share revenue with users. I mean we can't just expect every free service to never monetize. "

This is one of the problems with some, and mostly the ad based, modern startups, and it seems like most are taking the lead from Facebook here, but the problem is basically that companies create a product that provides value, as Disqus does. As they build it, they know if they do something like put in ads, you wont use it, so they don't put in ads. However, after they have a bunch of users, they realize they need to make money, and therefore change the product to provide less value and put ads in. I feel like a lot of what I see lately seems to imply that we "owe" these companies something(people seem to do the same thing with adblock). I feel no allegiance here, Disqus made a product that people would like, people started using it, and then they took some value away in a fairly shady way. Frankly I wish stuff like this was called out more often. The last thing it needs is defending.
We switched from Campfire to HipChat about 6 months ago and it's been awesome - apart from the Adobe Air client crashes whenever someone posts a GIF. Hopefully this'll fix it :D
Not a new thing - Tesla not the first automotive to do this.
It would relieve some of the rural areas of the overwhelming urban bias. Most of New York is rural, suffering from being out-populated by New York City; "upstate" NY would like to secede from NYC and get their freedom/liberty back. I left NY per its political oppression; returning to the same homes now in Adirondack state would be marvelous.

Some states are ripe for "redistricting".
Agreed. Still it seems hard to beat Go's combination of performance & development speed.
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Musk certainly didn't explain the drop in mileage. As I understand it, that drop results from temperature management of the battery. When stopped in very cold weather, the car uses power to generate heat in order to maintain the battery within safe operating temperatures. In addition, when the battery is at the low end of that range, it under-reports the available mileage. That's what generated the Tesla tech's suggestion that it might regain some mileage while driven that morning. (You can see this in the graph. The slope of the graph in the little section from miles 400-411 is less than at any other point, and the section after the Norwich charge is also lower, although speeds were also lower here) However, after some time of driving or charging, the batteries will have risen to optimal operating temperature, and the range projection is correct. Mr. Broder may have assumed that he was going to recover all of the energy lost overnight, not just the little bit of error in projection. That may be why he convinced himself to leave with insufficient range to reach his destination. However, that argument fails Occam's razor in light of his earlier attempts to drive the car to failure and his departure expressly against the advice of the Tesla tech he talked to at that time.
This is waaay better than an Air App. #ThingsThatDidntNeedSaying
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Honestly, this is not an issue for me at least. I've got several disqus' and disqus does a tremendous job in handling comments. It's a lot better than paying $999 for VIP disqus for sites that don't even make a dime.
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http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2013/jan/15/bitt...
Its own, you can see an orange fringe if you zoom in.
as long as we're imagining scenarios, let's imagine he DID get the car to go completely dead in the parking lot. How do you think he would have reported it?

Would he have said "I decided to drive around in circles for a little while, and eventually, after a while it died, and I pushed it to the charger"?

Or would he have said "I was barely able to coast off the highway into the parking lot, and I had to push two-and-a-half-tons of dead batteries the last quarter-mile to the charger head"?
Ha, that would be great. And even if they didn't record it, I wonder if they'll start recording those conversations now.
Most frequent users start off as infrequent users. By discouraging infrequent users, you prevent formation of frequent users. That's the business argument.

Personally, I just hate it when I click a google link and land on a blurred page. It's deceptive to promise an answer and then make me jump through the hoops before telling me what it is, all of which happens before I even know if the answer was good.
I feel myself more productive when moderate cold and dry air around. Natural light is much better than artificial, no any doubt on it.
OK, that seems reasonable. Viva la market! :-)
In what way are they not acceptable? They are totally acceptable to me. They provide a great service for free and now they want to monetize it with ads, shocking! I think it's extremely generous and quite remarkable of them to offer both a cut and an option to opt-out. They should be rewarded for that, not blamed. I think the sense of entitlement you have knowing that disqus offered you a great and free service for years and now a way to opt-out or even make money is really disgraceful.
The lobbyists are going to be the death of the United States.

I can't blame Amazon though, just looking out for themselves which is the same as the rest of us do.
Here's his LinkedIn profile by the way: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonjeffrey It looks like he's pretty sure of his connection with Chrome OS.
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Right now, we're limited to the US, but we're actively looking into options for international payouts: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/44
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This is a public education issue for Tesla, instead they left to a journalist to educate the public instead: EV's work differently. Job done. Frankly I think Tesla slipped up.
BTW. Plenty of ICE cars run more efficiently at higher speeds due to long gearing/overdrive, increased drag or not.
Is it true that they wanted to give weight to geographic regions?

I'm curious because the way I heard the story it went something like, "they needed the House to get the big states to agree to the Constitution, and they needed the Senate to get the small states to agree". That also has the effect you're talking about, but I never heard that it was deliberate. I would be interested in why they set it up that way.
The process of meditation is just that, a process. It's not that hard. You're focusing on experiencing things at the base sensational level.

So for example, you have a web of thoughts associated with meditation and things like "You don't get it, until you get it".

There are feelings underneath that. Perhaps a bit of anxiety, frustration. Curiosity. Etc. Your mind interprets those feelings into thoughts.

Each feeling then, radiates from parts of your body. For example, anxiety may be a tension that you feel in the chest. It has shape, it has texture. It has pressure. Whenever you get those sensations, your mind automatically interprets that as "anxiety". So you focus in on the sensations instead.

So now, you're paying attention to the actual sensations. You notice that it isn't a solid thing. That it moves. And if you start zooming into it, it isn't a solid sensation so much as made up of tiny bits of sensations that come in and out very fast, and your mind interpolates the sensation to give an illusion of a single, solid sensation.

So now you're there, at the "bare-metal", bare sensation level. This is where you are, observing those sensations and not attaching to any one of them.

A similar practice is called "Noting". You pick a concentration object, and pay attention to it. Things will come up. First will be thoughts. You Note the thought, and then you go back to to the concentration object. Eventually, something will shift and emotions will come up. You Note each as they come up and then go back to the concentration object. Then you get to the bare sensate levels, and you Note each of the things that come up. Then you go back to the concentration object.

That is it.

There really is not much more than that. The insights some of the other folks have mentioned here, that will come on its own. Your "job" while meditating is to Note each and every thing that comes up, let it go, and then go back to the concentration object.
FYI native spell check, notification center ( http://www.fngtps.com/2012/how-to-add-notification-center-no... ) and "crystal clear Retina support" are all supported from web.
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Two words:

Jayson Blair.
Actively working in the Windows server and desktop support world, I can tell you that rootkits are very definitely still an issue.

Older XP clients where every process an admin user runs is elevated or newer Windows versions where a "professional" user with administrative rights willy nilly clicks every UAC dialog for escalation without a thought (especially in regards to installers from questionable sources with malicious payload) - or, worse yet, they've disabled UAC altogether (because the dialogs annoy them) and EVERY process is escalated.

Products like TDSSkiller are still being actively updated and developed - and appreciated by folks like myself.

You can install anti-viral solutions, you can lock down machines with group policy, you can stay 100% on your patching coverage, but as soon as one manager says "my user needs admin rights" - now you've got something you can't lock down.
Right. It's offensive to me that this is happening and I'd be concerned that my colleagues would be resentful that I had it easier than their male counterparts in getting through the door.
That is cool. However paying 20$/month just to turn off the java updater popups is a bit overkill for me :)
With Lit Motors C1, cars have become 'unnecessary evil'. http://litmotors.com/c-1/
I am not a paid blogger or something like that for Lit Motors, I just hope to see a faster adoption of these and other bikes like them.
This will make my five mile commute to work take less than 10 minutes rather than the usual 20-45 minutes.
MPG is just one benefit of these bikes, reduction in congestion, denser communities due to less parking space etc are some of the numerous other benefits. Cars may improve their mpg in the future, but with their size, they can never have the other benefits. Car should never be the vehicle to use for a single passenger!
A quick test by one of my coworkers confirms that it does fix the GIF crash.
Same. Manhattan and the surrounding buroughs are sure to be effectively dots on this map. Would love to see how many states are represented in the New England cluster.
just take trains instead of flying. amtrak sucks but not as bad as airports
Looks really nice

honorable mention to other nice animation frameworks:

Move.js (http://visionmedia.github.com/move.js/)
Transit.js (http://ricostacruz.com/jquery.transit/)
"99% of users were not affected.". Unfortunately I'm in the the 1% group that were affected... I lost a lot of stuff that worth many hours of work. =P
Your article is very well worded. I like the idea, but I am not sure if it is reasonable for people "on the inside" to spend time fulfilling requests.

Could there be a js solution to this?
A volunteer inside the paywall could leave a tab open which periodically goes to get requests from the main paperbay queue and tries to fulfill them (you would need some robot-like functionality like find the PDF link).
If success, it uploads the PDF. If fail (no subsc?), it can notify paperbay to put the request back in the queue.

With one requests every 10 minutes and 1000 volunteers you could have a 6000 paper/ hour rate of exodus.

BTW? Where are you hosted? How long do you think before they come for you if it gets big?

________________

PS: The protocol could be extended a bit it we need to handle captchas' as well. These really piss me off because I can't get the paper via ssh to campus + elinks!

R: requestor
F: friend (inside paywall)

R-->tpb.com doi:10000x200 PLZ
tpb.com: resolve doi:10000x200, prepare scrape recipe.
tpb.com-->F could you get jrnl.com/yr/issue/33131/
F-->jrnl.com GET ...
F<--jrnl.com CAPTCHA.jpg + form el
R<--tpb.com<--F solve plz ( CAPTCHA.jpg , form el )
R-->tpb.com-->F form ans
F-->jrnl.com captcha form submit
R<--tpb.com<--F<--jrnl.com PAPER.pdf
the point isn't to get it to work without secure boot enabled, it's to have the benefits of secure boot as well as your own choice of OS.

Moving goalposts at their finest.
Meglomania. Intent manifesting. And lots of stuff related to shadow-side stuff.

The basics of Noting (vipassana) is still going to be the same.
> enjoy crystal clear display with Retina support.

I'd enjoy it a lot more if it were true. Still no Retina support for any of their icons or images. Sure, the text finally looks right, but doesn't Cocoa handle that for you?
See Wendel Berry "Why I am NOT going to buy a computer" from 1987, especially his standards for technological innovation at the end.

http://home.btconnect.com/tipiglen/berrynot.html
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For the record, I think the CL haters are a bunch of whiners, too. I draw a line between users demanding a site change to accommodate their whims and users expecting a site to not change.

Stasis is good. Let some other site be the one to "innovate".
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In what ways would it be worse?
>This is pointing to a feature and calling it a bug.

That depends on if you are a democrat of republican.

Democrats would probably prefer to have every state have equal population and make representation equal for all.

Republicans would probably prefer to keep the old system in place which gives land mass credit over individual people.

I'm not arguing for either one, but saying it is definitely a feature is in the eye of the beholder.

EDIT: I made a bad assumption about who would favor what system. In any event, the basic point stands that one group will think its a bug, while the other group will think it is a feature.
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Virgin seem to be turning on IPv6
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Downvoted for generalizing from one blog post to a slam against 300 million individuals. Ironically, you appear to be doing exactly the same thing that you're criticizing.
"Rule of the urban majority mob would be a lot worse than the current structure."

That's pretty clearly only your opinion and not an obvious fact. Urban centres tend to vote for more progressive policies in the US, so all you're saying is that would be too progressive for your liking.
It's a shame that comments like this one repudiating several of the details in the original article can't be viewed at the location of the originating post.

Instead, everyone who reads the article in the future will have an one-sided impression of the situation (unless the author edits the post based on the points brought up in this thread) due to the lack of comments.
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