skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Also, this tool seems to be more about raising questions about context rather than a litmus test for plagiarism. As the author wrote, "Although such quotations are not examples of churnalism per se, Devine says that that information will be helpful to readers too, showing them the context a quote appeared in, and giving them the chance to think about why a reporter selected a particular passage from all of the others."
Then go ahead and make that argument, if you believe it. But it has little to do with the status quo, which is that sales tax exists but is only collected from offline businesses. In other words, arguing for the continuance of the status quo isn't arguing that sales tax is immoral, it's arguing that online businesses somehow deserve a free ride offline ones don't.
I disagree. This surely depends on the type of crud application you're trying to build. We have a few in house business apps here, REST API and a JS frontend in the browser. Works fine, and since all our operations are atomic everything that doesn't come back with a 200 OK is fairly easy and generic to handle. The system also wouldn't be really usefull if the data weren't always up to date.

I get the point OP is trying to make but it really depends on what you are trying to build.
Even buying something off the shelf, that's not an absurdly expensive 'toy' (<$2k, certainly... so, not 'cheap' but certainly well within the 'hobby' range for a lot of folks). The camera is a few hundred more, but it's amazing how cheap HD-capable cameras have gotten recently.

If you build it yourself, you could put together a video platform like that for under $1k (including the gyro stabilized camera gimbal).
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Maybe, but Quill is the law of the land today.
Although I largely agree with your point that gettin hung up on notation is missing the forest for the trees, you should not entirely dismiss the art of good notation. For example, Leibniz differentials make the chain rule seem "obvious" due to its analogy with standard fractions.

But, I agree that people who get hung up on the same symbol having different unrelated meanings or different symbols having the same meaning will have a hard time learning the physics beneath the symbols.
No national sales tax currently exists, to my knowledge. So this is a new precedent. And to answer your question, we could finance such things by avoiding wars, shutting down needless agencies, and so on.

People are already struggling, burdening them with a tax that will generate revenue that is peanuts compared to what we're spending on our wars. Doesn't make sense to me.
2013-01-01-invoice.pdf sorts better for my purposes.
They were excellent. The Code Prize does feel very nice in the hand. It feels solid, and the inner parts don't move at all as you'd expect looking at it. The Gyroid is remarkably small and delicate, and my son (the gamer) liked the Mario Mobious.
Not the OP, but thanks for the link. As a guy I was a little bit saddened by the "choose a husband very carefully"-part, I see that the Last Psychiatrist addresses that in a very compelling way.
I was thinking of buying one for exactly this reason, too.
What about the articles that teach you how to make moonshine? Or a shiv?

I'm only half-joking, I'm sure the prison authorities would be very concerned with this stuff.
Seriously. I've used AJAX libraries that won't POST data if the OPTIONS call fails.
Actually, it's infrastructure that makes deliveries efficient. State funding is only one avenue for creating it. Many would argue state funding is inefficient.
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Best VPN for Chromebook?
I recently got rid of the internet in my home to help increase productivity. I am looking for a good VPN service that is compatible with a Chromebook (and possibly Android) that will be used in public areas.
Just subscribe to the data that you care about. For example, Meteor.js does exactly this by giving each client a slice of the production db locally, but only the part that they subscribe to.
Tinfoil hat, condescension and faux intellectualism. Impressive. You should get some kind of award.
Tracking aircraft is not practical unless you're going to use a phased array, and the problem you'll run into then is how large the cells are when you're pointing towards the sky, reducing spectrum separation.
The "Get it now" page immediately redirects to a 404 for me. https://trace.gl/undefined/getitnow.html

Firefox 20/Mac
Because sometimes the full versions are nigh unreadable, split into multiple pages (which don't interact properly with the back button), with popups and share buttons and a bunch of CPU-sucking flash ads in the middle of the text.

I'm not exaggerating: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-women-should-embr...
> "generationally, [men] seem to have (quietly) decided that we don't want to be like our absent fathers -- that we want to be home for dinner and available on weekends."

Maybe we're not as physically absent, but I'm having a hard time seeing the younger generation of fathers as being any more present in a practical sense, given the "online and accessible" work-culture we've pioneered.

Whereas Boomer fathers sometimes worked nights and weekends, at least when they showed up for the big game, they were more-likely-than-not watching it. X-ers are barely watching even when we're recording it. And I think it's open question as to whether "sometimes dad has to go in to work" is necessarily worse than "whenever I'm with dad our time is likely to be interrupted by his having to deal with work".

Maybe by raising a generation of compulsive messengers this will just seem normal to them and not like a plague on family time. But for me? I don't see it as an improvement at all. It looks like a step backwards.

(And truly, not every X-er gave into this culture but -- generationally -- always-on is certainly the trend and looks to be the norm from where I'm sitting.)
> “The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry,” Mr. Bloomberg said during a press conference in Midtown. “But we live in a complex word where you’re going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.”

Poe's law for politics.
My experience is quite contrary. I've worked from home the entire time I've had kids (10 years now). Wouldn't have it any other way. No, I didn't have a big exit, just made a commitment to a daily life optimized for happiness.
Why does Google Chrome crash when searching for political terms? 
Currently, I am unable to search for these terms.

Ismal - Crashes

Isreal - Crashes

Imam - Crashes

Palestine - Crashes

I will update this with the latest terms that Google is blocking

http://i.imgur.com/GcvzrZm.png
It's just a formating issue. Nothing prevent you to reformat them: http://pretty-rfc.herokuapp.com/RFC2616
I'm looking for some articles about how to do syncing 101 by the way , i heard it's kind of hard. If anyone has good links about the subject ( on HTML5 offline/online sync <=> db server ) , it would be great.
GoGo uses their own equipment on ~400 AT&T towers across the US, networked together using AT&T's MPLS network.

Disclaimer: I interviewed at Aircell at one point.
I believe the "small navy" was a political and technological requirement and not something you'd need today. A single ship ought to do now.

Political, because it was the Space Race, and a lot of it was about shows of force. And hey, why not? You have a bunch of carrier battle groups just waiting around for a hot war, and you need to have them out training anyway, so why not use them to pick up spacecraft from time to time?

Technological, because guidance wasn't necessarily very accurate. It's interesting to look at the miss distances here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splashdown_(spacecraft_landing)...

Some of these landed hundreds of miles from their target. However, by the time Apollo came around, they were all very close. You definitely want a big recovery fleet to cover a lot of area when you can't be sure it'll land on target, but that's not so much of an issue these days.
Agreed. Any utility functions should go into a different service.

Using $rootScope feels like a hack.
I'm not sure if any of them have nice JSON interfaces yet, but there are certainly 3rd-party services where you can query geographically detailed information on sales taxes, down to exactly which SKUs are taxed at which rates (e.g. what qualifies for a "grocery" exemption).

Example: http://tax.cchgroup.com/sales-tax-data/default.htm?cookie_te...
I have been doing that actually, and will probably keep pressing on doing that. Only issue is I work in public accounting which takes a ton of time.

I have a prototype of one working but, at the end of the day, I need to be coding all day to really learn iOS development.
Dropcam CEO's beef with brogramming, late nights, and free dinners
Did they have another cowboy? It makes me think it's the same test from a few months ago.
HP making calculators again
Here is the raw data,

https://docs.google.com/a/mavitunasecurity.com/spreadsheet/c...

We'll update the blog with link to this as well.

> Also, how is their scanner false positive free?

Because it exploits the identified vulnerabilities and if a vulnerability is exploited it can't be a false positive. That's how a human confirms a vulnerability as well. If you like, there is more information on the website:

http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/blog/false-positives-the-dir...

http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/blog/false-positive-free-sca...

P.S. in case that it's not obvious I'm the founder and OP.
This is the person who subscribes to the nudge politics of micromanaging people's soft drink sizes.[1] Which comes from the same type of political theorists (Cass Sunstein chief among them) who believe it is a reasonable proposition to have a US version of China's paid political propagandists.[2][3] Only to be used for good though, obviously. So one can easily imagine when people get their hands on all this data, only to protect you from the terrorists at first, the argument will be swiftly made that it should be used for nudge purposes as well, seeing as we have the data now..

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Nudge-Improving-Decisions-Health-Happi...

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Sunstein#.22Conspiracy_The...

[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public
This appeals to me because I love anything dealing with aviation, you might love something else that I find to be an absolute bore and vice-versa. Is there any point discussing why we like and dislike what we like and dislike?
This is great advice.

One point I like to make to early founders is eating cheap doesnt mean eating poorly. Learn to make a few meals & just stock up. Chili, pasta, egg salad, etc. are all healthy choices that reheat well & can be made in large quantities for the week.
This is really awesome. It's definitely a step in the right direction, anyway.

If the tool really catches on, though, there's an easy loophole that spammers have been using to trick Google for the last ten years. You simply load the content into a "spinner" and have it generate synonyms. Articles for human consumption used to require manual editing, but the programs are getting better.

Spammers have been known to use a similar trick to re-use company "news" by sending journalists re-written releases as "exclusives."

This is why real journalists call, verify, and investigate. Publications like the NYT or WSJ are never fooled by the tricks above, though they may use some AP or PR copy to save time.
Warning: I have no experience with parenting.

In my opinion you need someone who has lot of experiencing taking care of a 2 month old and have them with you for few days so that you and your wife can connect with each other and realize the beautiful phase you guys are going through.

My guess is that both of you are overwhelmed right now which can always make things seem worse than they are.
Try the calculator in this blog to see how easily one can be fooled by random data: http://www.priceactionlab.com/Blog/2012/06/fooled-by-randomn...
You should keep it simple: blog via email, or something like that. I also agree that people would want their own username in the URL and the URL itself needs to be descriptive. Unless you're building a throw-away type of blogging system where people can blog anonymously, I think it makes sense to give users the ability to have easy-to-read blog setup.
There are companies that manufacture and sell everything else that people use to make or earn money, so I don't see why this would be any different.
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Great points. I've never used a bastion host before. Totally agree that documentation is critical.
It's a piece about a woman's experiences with feminist movments, its impact on her career and how it's worked out for her.

Does everything have to be about you?
At the present time, Zumero doesn't allow sync of a partial table. If we sync only part of a table down to a device, then SQLite doesn't have the ability to enforce a UNIQUE constraint.

SQLite does have excellent support for using multiple database files together (using ATTACH), so there is plenty of opportunity for setting things up to ensure that each device only syncs the data it needs.
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Keys are additional credentials, so they don't add any security by themselves. You have remove a password from an account (set unusable password).

However, there are rare cases where you need to access the server from some remote location, when you don't have your SSH private key at hand, and the only credentials you can use, are the those you keep in your head.

Obviously, the most important requirement is a strong password, but protecting against brute-force won't hurt.
So, it American companies are imposed sales tax burdens no matter which state they're selling to, wouldn't that just encourage companies like Amazon to move outside of the United States? They could avoid collecting sales taxes altogether, coming in lower than the competition, and that would also deprive the US of collecting revenue taxes on income, etc.

If the economy is moving to the internet, what incentive is there for these companies to stay in the US, especially if doing business in the US becomes disadvantageous for their gross sales?
>If the amount of profit from using these machines was greater than the profit from selling the machines.. then the company selling the machines wouldn't sell them to you

Unless they couldn't make the machine without you paying for it first. Or they don't want to break the system by reaching >51% of the network (after which the value of btc plummets down immediately, thus making the machines worthless).
SpaceX’s Grasshopper Altitudes Graphed: SpaceX to Mars in 2018?
I agree that "it's akin to buying lottery tickets".It is more of a protection than a strategy.
The latter. If you are a SaaS business in a state that taxes services, you only have to collect sales tax for customers in your state today. Under the new legislation, all SaaS businesses in the US would have to collect sales tax for any jurisdiction that taxes services.

The simplest way around this would be to set up your SaaS business in Canada.
Because I run a physical item e-commerce store, I am against this because I do not trust the states to come up with a reasonable solution. Handling the issue in our home state and city requires two accountants. I shudder at the thought of 50 state compliance.
tl;dr : leaning in is not for everyone
Are you unmarried? Are you in your early 20s? Definitely do it.

Are you unmarried? Are you under 30? Probably do it.

I never regretted those kinds of crazy decisions I made when I was young.
The "Get it now page" is https://trace.gl/getitnow.html for me, which works fine.
It seems like you think of women as "them" as well. Have you tried listening to what women are trying to tell you, rather than assuming that half the population is so fundamentally irrational that you need to avoid them in public?

Some advice from John Scalzi: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/09/06/shut-up-and-listen/
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Exactly. There are a shocking number of comments making the same point as this comment. Seems like they had missed the context of the article and started pointing at the gender specificity of it... but why?
"Good managers are not people who want to be bosses, and the people who've wanted to be tech managers since age 19 are huge fucking douchebags."

Dead on. Worse, in my experience, is that the only people who become managers are the people who want it the most. It's a system that seems almost purpose-built to promote douchebaggery.
Yes I think so. It's a long period you take to do stuff that's important to you, and know you have a job to come back to, but they don't pay you. That's the idea I have anyway.

The company I worked for let you do it for a period of 2 months-2 years, after you'd worked for them a minimum of two years, and at most every ... 5(?) years, something like that. All at management discretion, of course. I think if you wanted to disappear for two years every 5 then you'd have to be very good at your job to keep it. For me it was 6 months after ~5 years.

Interestingly, in Australia, there is statutory long service leave that accrues over 10 years in addition to ordinary leave, so if you work somewhere for 10 years you get about 8 weeks paid time off, which people usually take in one lump to go travelling.
Model files in angularJS are often basic wrappers around either $ressource or $http. From that you can add default values, collection-like functions, etc.
Yup.

I'm reading through the Wired back catalog. While it's occasionally amazing how much was correctly predicted, there are just as many misses like this one. Most of all, I find it interesting that some things never change.
I've run production sites with thousands of users on a $20 VPS, but it very much depends on your app and what it does. There is no simple answer to this. I think the easiest way you can get some idea is a load test - ab for a simple test, and then perhaps httpperf or jmeter for simulated user tests. I wouldn't spend too long on it unless you are expecting very high traffic initially, but it can help you understand where your site bottlenecks are and what you will need to keep an eye on.

Also, since you are running RoR, make sure you have New Relic up and running to get early warning of issues!
Memory Locality and Python Objects
Nanex ~ 22-Apr-2013 ~ Google Flash Crash
>very large contracts which result in absolutely nothing

That's a moderately ironic statement, given the fact that SpaceX wouldn't be doing anything remotely close to what they're doing today without the very large contract they got from NASA.
Hey JshWright, I recently got very interested in creating one of these and you seem to be pretty knowledgeable about this. Can you please give me advice on where a newbie can start with this? I would like to learn how to build one on my own from scratch.

Thank you.
Really useful app Quicklytics is 60% off today
Sockets, log parsing, text file manipulation, processes, etc.
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I wonder if Chris Hadfield would be willing, he seems to be pretty engaged with us on the ground: http://twitter.com/cmdr_hadfield
I was lucky enough to catch this at Revision. Phenomenal work, the 64k compos have been absurdly tough competition the past few years.
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It depends on the timeframe. Trend-following anomalies may take years to go away but HFT anomalies disappear every day.
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Even if we set out to build an entirely consistent set of notation for use in all of physics, maths and engineering today, we would face obvious problems, mostly that there are only about 100 different symbols (Latin + Greek + some extras) with maybe a handful of modifiers (primes, dots, tildes…and no, combining them is not good) and typefaces (difficult to replicate in handwriting).

So if we wanted to name every quantity and every concept possibly encountered by physics/maths/engineering today consistently, we already would have a hard time fitting everything in. Add to this that you also need a ‘working space’ of free, unencumbered symbols, a space of symbols free to use in the future[0] and the possibility that seemingly unrelated concepts today might well be linked in a few years time, and you will come to the conclusion that there is no way we could possibly build a consistent set of notation.

Really, be happy with what we have at the moment, choose a convention suitable to your current field of work[1] and everything will be fine.

[0] Some people started using Arab letters for new mathematical functions. Try googling for that.

[1] Or even invent the n-th one if you work at the edge of two existing fields or recognise that you can get stuff done more easily if you choose other symbols.
Developers used to be afraid of automatic merging and conflict resolution in version control tools. We evolved.

Many of those techniques also apply to merging and conflict resolution of database stuff. In fact, from a certain perspective, the screw cases are a bit easier.

http://zumero.com/docs/zumero_core.html#chapter_conflicts
> random intuition numbers

Are you talking about intuition numbers, or random numbers? They are fundamentally different things.

Empirical research is not the only kind of rational evidence. See http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Evidence
>I also think that emphasizing - and encouraging people to think in terms of - a divide between the "business side" and the "tech side" is a bad thing.

Exactly. If done right, a traditional "tech co-founder, business co-founder" relationship involves both people overlapping a bit, Venn diagram style.

I'm the grandparents co-founder. Stella can do basic coding, but that's not her forte. She has a business mind, while I have a more logical, technical mind. We're like Captain Planet in that sense. We feed off each other's unique skillsets, but we have a solid understanding of each others complimentary skillsets so that we're not divided and disrespectful of our unique contributions.

Is one of us better than the other when it comes to our company? Of course not. The company needs both of us, or it would die.
So why do you suggest ? dropping any offline/online sync feature because the implications (for crud apps)? i guess you could have a system checking what resource has been updated since last connection and explicitly alerting the user the commit has failed due to an update that happened between the offline edit and the connection, or keep track of all the versions ( which is hard to manage if resources have relationships and depend on other resources ) Anyway that's a subject i'm really into so any resource on the matter is welcomed , i'm really looking for the holy grail of data syncing.
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My favorite was Rocket Espresso Cup : http://www.shapeways.com/model/577677/rocket-espresso-cup.ht... .
Too bad it can't be ship outside USA.
It only matters if you're trying to disguise the fact that you're using PHP, as the article suggests.
I think that _was_ something, saying congrats is a perfectly valid sentiment to pass on such a momentous occasion.
Hi i'll do a quick test in firefox, i haven't seen that one yet
The point is (at least in terms of detecting submarines), that they send the same press release to many different "journalists", making it easy to cross-correlate different stories to see that they all are based on the same internal document.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_Noam_Ch...
Lightweight integration of Knockout with Backbone.js
The test few months ago was a 40 feet climb I think
Its a GL javascript tracer :) plus there is the domain.