skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are interpreting 'democratic' in a western sense, and then take it further by claiming they have no pride in communism. It's really not a mystery/contradictory.. you just need to pick up a few books by Lenin, Marx, Mao, et al.

A "people's democracy" is a country in transition from bourgeois democracy to socialism. In this stage there is more than one class, the largest being the proletariat, led by the Communist Party, which is therefore the dominant power.

The other common country name includes "people's republic." In both cases, it's important to understand the definition of "people". People are communists. Look up "People's dictatorship" for more information on this. Essentially, a "People's republic" is a country that is ruled by a communist party.
You know, there was a time when browsing the web did not entail constant violations of your privacy. The web has always been open and has always been giving people easy access to information, since its very inception; the assault on privacy came later, when greedy advertisers showed up and took advantage of security problems and user ignorance.

While Tor is fairly annoying for most people (even myself), other privacy-protecting systems are less annoying. I have yet to hear someone complain about using ABP, which I would classify as privacy protecting (it blocks a large number of common tracking systems). I suspect nobody would complain about Firefox blocking tracking cookies by default either.

Really, we can live in a world where privacy is respected if we are willing to do so and willing to deploy the necessary technologies. One of my side projects is to develop a system that allows targeted ads to be delivered in a privacy-preserving fashion, so that advertisers can know which ads are successful without knowing whether any individual person actually viewed or clicked on their ads (using cryptographic techniques). My point is that there is no need to violate privacy and that better technologies can be developed and deployed.
I don't know much about Solyndra. But you are right that people getting the money for research need to be honest and motivated. In my opinion, this applies to most people working in science. It is just that research is hard (and possibly getting even harder [1],[2]) and motivation alone is not enough. If you have a "serious problem" to solve, you will most probably need to throw tons of money and people at it.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/02/07/the-difficulty-...

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/6694932/Have-we-discovere...
The reason this product doesn't exist "already" is because it's not the type of searching airline's preferred customer need.

Airlines prefer business class customers (routine flights, willing to upgrade to expensive business class tickets) and those customers typically search for small 1-2 day windows.
The adverse side-effects do not magically go away; however, the benefits are (supposedly) much greater for a person diagnosed with AD(H)D than recreational users. Thus the net gain (benefits - costs) is positive for some people.
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same here, maybe this might help out debugging
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property '36,20' of undefined on line 272 of level.js
I'm going to guess you haven't used pulseaudio in the last 3-4 years?
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I took adderall (under the direction of my doctor, naturally) as an adult for around two years. Getting off it had zero side effects or withdrawal symptoms for me, other than the fact that extraordinary focus and concentration were suddenly difficult again.
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It's unfortunate the author was not able to manage the drug properly. Adderall is a potent substance that, when used in the correct fashion, can be an effective aid for those who need it. It's also highly addictive so must be combined with a healthy lifestyle and coupled to good habits in order to be kept in check. I would highly recommend that anyone who feels themselves falling into a routine similar to that described seek a therapist as well as focus hard on improving their sleep, diet, and exercise routine.
Very good for developers, no more default style for bootstrap.
I work at the Wikimedia Foundation (as an engineer, but on a different team). Because we're often putting out fires, we don't always do an amazing job of communicating well the kind of work we do. The Parsoid project is (in my opinion) probably the most technically ambitious and, if successful, its impact on Wikipedia could be massive. We're recruiting engineers for that team and we're not having an easy time finding them. There is a lot that we could do better with respect to publicizing our work, but nevertheless I am surprised that we are not stampeded by interested applicants, because the impact-per-engineer ratio at the Foundation is off the charts, and within the Parsoid team (which numbers two or three engineers, IIRC) doubly so.
Anyone can make their machine emit any packets they want it to. That's the fundamental principle in play here.

How it works is simple: ICMP ping, which is what most traceroute implementations work on, just works based on computers sending packets with their address information in response to a ping request.

If a computer that's really at IP address 10.0.5.23, for example, sends ping responses saying they're from IP address 10.2.0.93, a traceroute program will keep pinging that computer until it either gets a reply that says it's from the correct IP address or it decides the trace is futile.

A computer can lie as many times as it wants and create an arbitrarily long path that has no basis whatsoever in reality. Anyone who wants to do a good job of the lie would simply look at the Internet's routing information, which is (by definition) publicly available, and figure out which sequence of IP addresses they'd have to fake replies from. That's what's been done here, and almost a full month before April Fool's Day, no less.

Doing a better job would involve programming the computer to handle all network traffic with varying speeds, to fake the increased travel time the laws of physics would impose on the progressively longer paths it's faking. The Pirate Bay people apparently didn't bother with this part.
I'd imagine Google cares a lot more about your raw abilities rather then your proficiency in Python/C++. As long as you can solve comp sci problems in those languages, then you should be fine.

Demonstrating that you have performed exceptionally during your career means more to most high end employers than how much of a code library you have memorized. Most people stand out as exceptional by going to Stanford, doing well at other large tech companies, contributing to open source, etc. Try to find ways to make yourself stand out and show that you have made consistent progress over your career.

Also, why not quit your job to perform a more demanding, stressful, and growth encouraging job like joining a startup?
Someone close to me has severe ADD and stopped taking Adderall recently. This person is more productive and organized and even coherent on it. But this has turned out not to be worth A) the way if affects their mood/social interactions, and B) the inevitable Flowers For Algernon "mush-brain" feeling when it wears off in the evening.
Blech, I'm so tired of hearing people complain about Apple's "closed ecosystem." Seriously, we get it; you don't like buying a device you don't have absolute control over. Though, you do realize that a lot of people LOVE buying closed systems and breaking into them, right?

This website is called Hacker News, not "So simple your mom can do it News." The fact that someone class dumped the ATV's private headers, provided the tools to create 3rd party apps for it, and even lists POI for the API is amazing! That's hacking. That's fun. Telling someone to buy an $80 Android box just to be done with it is curmudgeonry and is, well, boring.
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Well they're describing the sensor, not optics, so that part is forgivable.

Also, they're describing a 35mm sensor. This thing will work with existing 35mm film optics, and (apart from physical properties) that's a big part of why the sensor size is interesting.

Would be nice if there were more technical details, but I guess that's press releases for you.
Old people care. Because, as you point out, we really need it.

How many old people are stuck in a job because of health insurance. There's a lot of old people.
You're making the classic nerd error of assuming that natural languages should be as precisely defined as mathematics or computer languages. You're going to tell me that there's no such thing as deceleration next!

(To be fair, "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo." isn't exactly a "natural" sentence.)

And in any case, the sentence is still syntactically valid, which is all I'm really concerned about here.
In this case both are true, no? :)
yes but if we manage to do everything (including unwarping the earth's reflection in the image) we would only see how our planet looked like 6 light years ago (3 for the light to arrive to the black hole and 3 to go back) and we won't be able to discern anything but the earth's surface, is that right?
> Standards exist in the GNU/Linux world for reason.

That reason being that they grew out organically. And the landscape isn't even unified as it is! Mist distros come with Gnome, but you can run KDE if you are a bit more leet, or if you want something more lightweight you have xfce. Unless...

I'm happy Ubuntu is showing some vision for what their OS can become and work towards that goal.
Just to follow up - Alaska did contact me today and apologized. That's good, but I still think they are focused to their own detriment on penny pinching.
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Am I the only one bothered by the extremely oversized xml snippets? Or is it just me?

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Check out "Monadic Design Patterns for the Web"[1]. I haven't read it yet, but the description sounds like exactly what you're looking for.

I don't think you're going to find an escape from the theory, though... the abstractions that are necessary to adapt functional programming to something like a CRUD app are going to be mind-bending, one way or another. It might be easy to write something simple up in Yesod or Snap, but that's only because the framework authors are doing most of the abstraction-herding for you. From what I can tell, that book goes into the messy details.

[1]: http://www.artima.com/shop/monadic_design_patterns
Same here. I've had ADHD for my entire life, but I seem to be able to just go on and off of it whenever I want and the only side effects is that I no longer have the benefits. In fact, I regularly do just stop taking it for time to time when I need to be more creative rather than more focused.
Even if this was true, it hasn't stopped many/most airlines being financial disasters.

We know airlines want this as much as consumers do, if it gives them a better ability to manage their capacity and market their products more efficiently.

We also hear it's a myth that airlines prefer business-class customers; on a dollars-per-square-metre basis they do better out of coach.

EDIT: Also note, most of the newest/fastest-growing/most profitable airlines in the world are low-cost and don't have business-class.
Its a good article and I am glad she feels better however what do expect when you abuse a powerful medication and drink every night.

"The mix of whiskey rocks and a pocket of pills was a potent one. I was now getting high seven nights a week, every night a delicate balancing act".

Since she kicked the "pills" she now should kick the whiskey before that gets out of control. The title should probably read "Substance Addiction:The Last All-Nighter".
oh -- yeah seeing what people are doing on Earth via a black hole is totally out of the question technologically. that's pretty much the conclusion of the article.
You should be able to say
"New york to southeast asia for three weeks"
instead of
"New york to southeast asia for 3 weeks"
Great blog post and great perseverance.

But I prefer Skyscanner's 'whole month' search. I can see flight prices for the whole month to a whole country on a single screen. With yours I see seven days at a time. And it takes an age to see the next seven!

I'm sure it's a difficult problem getting accurate 'fuzzy' flight info fast, but Skyscanner have it cracked and have done for some time.

I like the idea of your somewhere warm search, but again it's dead in the water if it takes 30 seconds to start returning results. Just because you offer powerful search doesn't mean you can sacrifice speed. You've still lost my attention in spite of the novelty.
> What I like about the GNU/Linux ecosystem is that a lot of distros share a lot of common underpinnings, and everyone benefits from a large community fixing bugs and improving those underpinnings.

Mir is FOSS too.
Cool!

If you're thinking about buying one of the paid packs, I've purchased some of the earlier design elements kits from Designmodo and found them to be super high quality.
> Embraced by both content leasers (I refuse to say "content owners", because copyright is a finite monopoly, not ownership.) and internet companies, but not by the general public.

The way politicians see it (not without merit): embraced by 'job creators', ignored by the public, opposed by a tiny minority of people who wouldn't vote for them anyway.
This isn't compiling Haskell down to C. It's using a DSL to generate C. The DSL just happens to be embedded in Haskell.

Haskell is just an environment, a language factory. Haskell is used for creating the abstractions and meta-programming. You can also piggy back on Haskell's type system to enforce certain invariants.

But ultimately the semantics of the DSL--what actually gets turned into C--are not necessarily related to Haskell at all. Instead, the semantics are tailored for your particular application. In the particular case of atom, this application is hard real-time programming.

Another example is something one of my friends worked on in OCaml. He essentially created a little algebraic system which provided all the operations for a field (with maybe a couple other ones). This is enough to implement a bunch of variations on a Kalman filter. He could then iterate quickly and test the code locally; when he was content, he could use the same code to output abstraction-free C which he could then compile and deploy on ARM.

The point being that the host language is not related to C; it's the embedded DSL that plays the role of CoffeeScript. (Although any reasonable DSL would be quite a larger departure from C than CoffeeScript is from JavaScript.) You just use Haskell/OCaml/Scala/whatever to save having to implement a parser, type system and so on.
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Anybody have any idea on what eCPM Amazon can offer on it's mobile ads?
There are two kinds of solutions. Solutions that solve known problems, and solutions that solve unforeseen problems.

Plenty of technological innovation has come from the latter. Google Glass is precisely the kind of thing that has the potential to solve unforeseen problems.
scored 196 :) , sometimes it is difficult to guess when you just have foliage and just roads with no markings
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Sure we can do that pretty easily, but why would you want to type four more characters?
This is what happens when you build a business on top of free users then attempt to make money later - not that there is anything wrong with that.
> you can set up PulseAudio for LAN audio streaming with padevchooser (GUI). Could you do this with ESD?

Considering that was pretty much the point of it, of course.
There was a Wired article[1] I saw here a while back about some of the tech being developed to do this (and much much more) dynamically for sailboat racing, filmed live from helicopter(s).

The technical challenges, as well as potential for live info-graphics in sport make this a pretty interesting area, and it's nice to see relatively modest setups capable of producing what were, until recently, digustingly complex and expensive video effects/compositing tasks.

[1] http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/08/ff_americascup_ellison...
A few years ago, my doctor encouraged me to stop taking Adderall based on the conventional wisdom that it was likely to cause heart disease. I'll always remember what he said, I only prescribe Adderall for depression in my terminal cancer patients, because I'm not worried as much about their long-term heart health

OK, Doc. Let's not refill that prescription, then.

This conventional wisdom has recently been challenged, but I think there is no great consensus on this issue yet.

http://www.dailyrx.com/adhd-medicines-were-not-linked-seriou...
Exactly.

The tone of the article made it seem like the Author was a victim here, when in reality I think this comment sums it up:

>The writer tells us she was "23" when all this happened, as if to say, "Really, I was just a kid." But, really, she wasn't a kid. The brain is quite mature at age 23, but she didn't explore, evidently, the possibility that she was making a mistake.
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>you do realize that a lot of people LOVE buying closed systems and breaking into them, right?

Yeah, that's probably the common starting point for me just "not getting it".

>Telling someone to buy an $80 Android box just to be done with it is curmudgeonry and is, well, boring.

Yeah, how dare I recommend a cheaper solution that already has an open development platform for it without having to rely on Private Headers that are likely to break and forcing me to kowtow to Apple. It's "cool", but I don't know why ANYONE would want to expend any effort to create an app usable by almost no-one. That's why my comment is relevant to "hackers" who want to build something useful for other people to use.

There is some really special irony that allows you to mock me for wanting control of my device and then turning around and acting like I'm an idiot for not wanting a locked down device JUST so that I can jailbreak and use private headers to develop for that almost no one will be able to use.

Also, if you're paying $80 for the cheap Linux/XBMC set top boxes, you're paying way too much.
I feel you have different perspective, maybe that of a younger man. IMO people who are 35+ and support families will be more conscious about not having healthcare that a younger person. And the image of the entrepreneur predominately being a young man dropping out of college to form a company is not accurate. The reality is a large proportion of successful entrepreneurs are people exiting the corporate world mid career. And I would argue for them healthcare is a significant consideration.

As for America valuing businessmen/entrepreneurs/property more than other countries, how do you get to this conclusion? Have you worked with people from abroad before? From Western Europe to India, China or Africa I have seen businessmen/entrepreneurs/property being held in very high esteem. I'm not sure how I would index how society values them but I would be hesitant to say the US values theirs more than other countries.
I'm still using the 'yellow' version, it's flaky but I love it. What a shame. Any other good multiple column/facebook-integrated desktop apps worth looking at?
Thanks for the kind comments.
Regarding speed/performance - did you see the part of the post where we explain this?
I believe you were mugged. By the mugger! He was wandering around outside the castle with the dog. I found 3 gold spots, but interacted with the mugger twice and finished with 1 gold, so I'm betting I got pick pocketed or something.
"Don't pipe a cat." is an evocative way to think of this...
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So you can basically start telling the internet "I AM THIS IP" and eventually the internet will go "YOU ARE THIS IP" ?
I read your "http://homonculus.net/blog/2012/11/11/what-shell-should-i-us... post. I wanted to comment though you may or may not be interested. I use ash (Almquist Sh) for my 'non-interactive' script executions. For interactive flow I use zsh. For root on my BSD boxes I use tcsh and bash on my Funtoo boxes simply because I don't care to alter or customize the root account. I would be interested in what your inferring to with reference to `grody cruft`.
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