skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a way to choose non-USA type of meals? I mean, in South America, Spain and other parts of the world breakfast means coffee and cereal, or toast with jam, cookies, fruits or croissants. And it's a light meal. Lunch is a strong one course meal, "tea" is a meal (usually with no tea involved), and dinner is the usual.
To be honest, I don't remember... I think I was using a Linux command-line LP solver.
My understanding is: Chrome splits popups into two categories: ones triggered by anchor elements, and ones triggered by other JS. The ones triggered by anchor elements are assumed to be useful and are not blocked. The ones triggered by other JS are hidden and placed in the titlebar.

So the theory is that advertising popups would fall into the latter category, and functional ones into the former - but it seems in practice, sites which want to show popups actually just have them be created every time you click a link and don't bother with creating ones without clicks, since they are always blocked. So you still end up getting a lot of popups getting through the blocker.

My proposal is to eliminate distinction between the categories, and just block all popups. It's rare to come across a site which uses popups legitimately, and even in that case most of them are not triggering the popup on click so the popup is being blocked by the current policy anyway.

EDIT: Although, someone just pointed out a very common legitimate usage - Oauth / facebook login. Guess this is a tricky policy area.
Some of the recipes call for 0.13 cups or 0.06 cups, etc. I assume you can convert that to other units like tablespoons / teaspoons for the non-metric inclined?
It is a fingerprint of the file then, right?
Canon unveils EOS T5i and Rebel SL1, the world's smallest DSLR (hands-on)
Hmmm, I wonder if you could somehow plot bitcoin mining rates against location and temperature/climate? I wonder if there are people who selectively turn on their mining boxen to use as room heaters, effectively getting the computation (and bitcoins) "for free" since they'd be consuming the power for heating anyway?
Unfortunately, that wasn't my experience. I even tried the Better Popup Blocker extension, and I would still get them (especially from Netflix).
Hi guy! I'm the one who made that pattern.

You are correct that it is not optimal play. What it is is a lot more interesting than what it isn't: it's a clear demonstration that survival is trivialized with the "7-bag" random generator. Tetris games used to be enjoyable to play for survival, and that is lost in recent games.

Regarding extreme speeds, you make a good observation. This pattern cannot cope with pieces spawning on the floor. That said, I 100% believe it is possible to construct such a solution.

But the existing pattern stands as something to remind people that Tetris used to be fun without extreme speeds or awareness of scoring gimmicks.
If you take shower once a day (and after sport), you do not stink so much compared to a smoker.
Wow....Just the first few minutes alone is like a nerdgasm.

I love the way these guys think and express themselves.
My main annoyance is that a lot of sites now (knowing that if they create a popup the old way it'll be blocked), now just wait till you click or mouse over something and create the popup then, which chrome then allows (it's not blocked at all). So this means the majority of advertising pop ups on the web are actually not blocked by chrome.
Ah yeah, interesting feedback, maybe there's some tweaking to be done to take satiety into account.
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Well, your best has to be good enough to get good results. I just did not get the vibe "you must be a top 1% astronaut rockstar" from that slide that the GP seemed to.
In LP, you can tell it that your variables must be greater than or less than certain values, so my intention was to keep each nutrient between the recommended minimums and maximums.
A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie
Transcript please.
The mac trillian is pretty ugly and history browsing is terrible, but I use it. I use it for one single reason: it's the only chat client I've found that can sync between multiple devices. I fire it up on my mac and on my android phone, and not only does it give me the same chats on both, but it's also really good at figuring at which device I'm at and sending notifications there (for example, if I'm working at my desk it does not notify me of new chats on the phone, only on the desktop).

To me this is the killer feature. I would, however, switch in a heartbeat if there was a more featured and attractive app that could do this.
For the nutrition component at least, the USDA has a very messy, difficult to navigate, but still quite useful database of nutritional information for almost every possible ingredient. And there are several sources of structured recipe data available online. The tricky part is mapping recipe line items and preparation instructions onto the USDA data set, but once you figure that out you can get a pretty decent approximation of the caloric breakdown and nutrient contents of any given recipe.
The key feature I used Astrid for was the ability to have recurring tasks based on the date of last completion instead of fixed intervals. Does anything else out there do that?
I already said 10 for the MVP. But I will pay more for a more robust product. I know a thousand people would. That's a hundred grand without any VC drama. Under the radar.
Guess I'm picking a new to-do program, then. Honestly I don't spend as much time with Astrid since I switched to iOS, I really got used to its geofencing capabilities on Android.

Anyone got any suggestions for an iOS/Mac to-do program that can do geofencing for entire lists, instead of single todos like Apple's Reminders?
Yelp Cuts Losses In Q1 To $4.8M, Sees Revenue Jump 68% To $46M
Yeah, true, each time that happens, it'll be 450ms of your life you'll never get back.
You are essentially sacrificing your product's value for word of mouth.

He very clearly mentioned that the response has been more warm and positive than negative. So it seems obvious to me that they are not sacrificing their product's value at all.
I wonder how many breach-of-trust lawsuits Graham Martin would face if he did that today.
Could this be a source of income for indie game developers? While users play the (free/cheap/torrented) game, the users graphics card spends its spare cycles on mining for the game developers. No obnoxious ads, no paying $60 for a game you only play a few times.
tl;dr: just play this modified tetris game: http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1dh6np/diy_lazy_eye...
Meh. If someone was doing this around me I'd sure as hell want them removed from the environment. This is the exact same chemical that melted this woman's face off:

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/health/carmen-tarleton-attack...

The MSDS specifically says never to mix lye and aluminum in a closed bottle. In fact, you're never supposed to go anywhere near lye without goggles and a dust mask. Kids will be kids and if they want to do this stuff in their garage then whatever, but doing this in a public place where no one has any safety gear on is wildly irresponsible and puts everyone at risk.

Permanently expelling the student and pressing felony charges might be overkill, but anything less than suspending them for a couple weeks would probably be similarly inappropriate.
Code Share: Source Censoring, Part 2
I might try to make one, which would involve buying parts. But I get the impression buying one is expensive. Also less fun!
Are those scammy popups actually netflix, or people using the affiliate program?
For what it's worth, a similar pattern could be made without Hold, but it would be far more complicated. The singularly important gameplay element that allows patterns like this is the "bag" style randomizer.
Yes, that's what I also felt. I think in that case, it actually works? Because you are putting the effort of hand-writing the card - just not on the actual paper that is sent out.
World's Largest Infrared Space Telescope Shuts Down Forever
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What you are suggesting seems awefully hard to do though. Its pobably easier to just get a ready-made gene from some other bacteria and insert it into the bacteria you care about.
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Looks pretty neat!

Do you do international posting?

Sine you haven't mentioned any separate pricing, I guess the answer is 'no' ?

Would be nice if this was mentioned somewhere.
It would be nice if there were a few more things I could filter out. Like pork and bacon I feel like should be separate categories, I have no interest in using Whey protein powder, and I hate cilantro, but none of these are options to add or remove. Would it be possible to include these in the list?
Companies will soon require that workers use their own smartphone on the job
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I wouldn't say we use lisp. We do test lisp apps every so often.
Sorry I just found the whey powder option, but it just replaced it with a different protein powder. Can I remove protein powder all together?
MATLink -- package for seamlessly calling Matlab from Mathematica
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Come on, you lack imagination. Do you really not see that a simple change of units would solve the pb? It is a mere convention change, not even a technical change! Call 0.001 bitcoin 1 millibitcoin, or 1 mBTC, or 1 "new bitcoin". Done! They do this all the time in countries with inflation/deflation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_franc#New_franc
This works oddly well in that the amount you 'pay' for the game is directly proportional to how long you play it.
The first thing I thought of was how oxymoronic the title was. Spot on.
I think you rightly point out that there is a lot of value that is under appreciated. Controlled schedules, steady pay, and being around people that build your skill set. Good article.
> I don't want to buy ink or parts or worry about it or have it obsoleted in 2 years time.

I've heard that with a 3d printer you can print another 3d printer, so maybe it can upgrade itself?
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I'd tend to agree on a general sense - yeah when faced with failure in a WAN environment, it makes sense to attempt to continue when at all possible.

However, banks are one of the biggest purchasers of ACID systems... They still bet heavily on oracle, and when they want their accounting systems to run, and balance transactions, they dont rely on "BASE" systems. Banks are also heavily dependent on business cycle and batch processing. Daily batches are common in credit card processing (end of business day settlement for example), and also in general bank systems.

Also eventual consistency means different thing. Some systems have a "eventually inconsistent" property to them (eg: Cassandra/Dynamo), and I'm pretty sure banks would NOT be ok with that.

I respect Brewer, he is a smart guy, but he is extrapolating too much from a small fact that is ATMs will sometimes dispense cash (of what amounts? $200? $1000? or maybe just $20?) when remote communications are interrupted or broken.
It's actually terrible about it, an addon is required and even those aren't fool-proof.
I agree. I left Yahoo during the Scott Thompson time, but see the value in Mayer.

I love Yahoo, always have, but I'm hoping that Mayer cuts out 2-3 layers of management. When I was there, it was embarrassing to talk to my boss, who clearly didn't give a shit about my team or our department.

The dude did nothing but suck up to Sunnyvale. Hopefully they fire folks like him.
Congratulations Jon Paris and team. Good to see someone you graduated high school with having good luck. Super nice guy and good product.
That seems like a waste. What's wrong with it?
>adults in charge are the ones that should be punished for this. //

She's 16, she's not a child.
Thanks, I didn't know it had its own window

Update: Use the link below instead. Even better.
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It's not able to print all the necessary parts for a 3D printer, but one of the main goals of the RepRap project was to design a printer that could print most of its parts.

http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page
Perhaps it's 2-fold:

1. if the site requires pop-ups to function, then wouldn't it be handy to have it in front of you? Few apps run this model anymore, but it used to be very prevalent.

2. to highlight the sites that use pop-ups in an underhanded way; by forcing them onto the tab that caused them, hopefully you'd realize the source of the problem. then, complain or quit using that site, indirectly discouraging the use of pop-ups. (although according to a guy above, users actually blamed the ads on Chrome instead).
Nintendo's Difficult Path Forward
692 examples, 0 failures, on both 1.9.3 and 2.0.

This was the smoothest major upgrade yet, with very helpful deprecation notices. Thanks for all the hard work.
I don't think Brewer is stating an opinion, rather a fact. Nor is it very surprising. I'm sure banks have huge IT operations where parts rely on ACID or BASE depending on need. But any massive distributed system can't really expect ACID to work very well.

I'm pretty sure "eventual consistency" doesn't mean "eventual inconsistency" under any reasonable interpretation.
The Gorilla toolkit [http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/] adds several more useful libraries for writing web apps.
no-one has mentioned the obvious - tax. the UK gives cash to the BBC via a compulsory television licence fee. say what you will about the beeb, it comes up with some excellent stuff. someone more eloquent than me could surely make the argument that a functioning democracy needs an accurate and neutral repository of history as it happens. think of it as a news API and let others figure out how to make it local etc. tax in the US? YMMV...
Like pushing ads to the phones.
The big problem for me (and maybe Piriform?) is that now I don't have any of their products on my systems because I can't get them through Ninite. I used to religiously install their CCleaner, their defrag and system information tools. They're all very good, but I'm not going to walk through three separate installers for something that Ninite used to do in seconds.

When I bring up a new system, I just go to Ninite, check some stuff and I'm done. For most machines, there is nothing else to do.

I suppose this is sort of a cautionary tale... "Don't try to take your installer back from Ninite after they've showed everyone how it can be so much better."
Once ASICs become mainstream, GPU mining will no longer be profitable.
Never ever write your code to the taste of some random other person who wouldn't contribute anyway, that's my motto...
PlayHaven’s developer partners make over 10 billion API calls a month
Seriously awesome. I have to say though, you're not charging enough! Find a reason to add another tier!
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We don't right now. And, agreed! We're adding it to our FAQ.
Yeah, sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm looking for a service that will do HTML2PDF from an API call.

HTML2PDFAAS, as I like to call it :)
Nvidia hires new chief to replace outgoing Tegra leader
"Trello trello trello"
- Sung to the tune of Rihanna's Umbrella
Not for long. Once the 50gHash ASIC monsters come online, using anything else to mine will be unprofitable.
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-107publ155/html/PLAW-107pu...

The infamous McCain-Feingold Act made it unlawful to, among other things, publicly criticize a politician within months of an election, unless you were on a list of exceptions that did not include ordinary corporations. It was the law for nearly a decade until recently being declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

It's a little ambiguous if a mere webpage would count because the rules for internet communications are even less clear than those for traditional media.
Here's an essay on that subject: http://tag.hexagram.ca/blog/tchotchke-theory-and-3d-printing...
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Possession of "weapons" charges are in the jurisdiction I reside in strict liability, no intent to use them needs to be shown just the actus rea of possession is sufficient. [Claimed] Ignorance of the nature of the weapon is not a valid defence.

I know practically nothing of the charges or pertinent laws here mind you.
The best thing is that they don't jump versions numbers for PR reasons.
Think about it this way: no matter how low you put the dividing line between A-level and B-level performers, you will always have people that fall below the line.

So, set your line appropriately, but fire people below the line, no matter how "hard" they work / how much time they spend "ass-in-chair".
This is awesome. It needs a "vegetarian" or "broke" feature.
The "rogue employee" is actually one of the cofounders. When people caught him, he lied about it and said it only ran for two days and only got 2BTC. Once people dug deeper, he admitted that it actually went on for 14 days and was for 30BTC. He's making it seem like no big deal and treating it as a joke. He's talking down to anyone who says otherwise.
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... the liberation of east Germany ....

You will find that "collapse of the East German state (DDR) after the wall was brought down" is more inline with history.

... and prevent them for going Nazi again ..... ?

Sorry but this is wrong on at least two level:

1. Nazism is a political movement (regardless of your political inclination). And thus not directly impacted by having a currency or another.
2. Nazism is way too present, still, in the memories for it to make a come back in Germany as a legitimate political endeavour.

The creation and adoption of the Euro currency was a natural political continuation of the ECSC (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Coal_and_Steel_Communi...) and extension of the European Union. Now yes the initial intend is to prevent future Pan European war through economical cooperation, but not solely to prevent Germany "to go Nazi again" (despite the comment one can read about French President Mitterrand and British Prime Minister Thatcher regarding the future of Germany in Europe, neither of which should be regarded as anything but power hungry political leaders).
Apple could do this. They already have 400 million credit cards linked to iTunes accounts. Instead of subscribing to an individual newspaper/magazine in their shitty Newsstand app, you could instead subscribe to the news and have access to all of the news. You pay Apple a monthly fee, and Apple distributes micropayments to publishers based on pageviews or whatever. They could have a premium section - kinda like cable companies offer high end channels separately (e.g. HBO) – where you could subscribe to specialized market/business news (e.g. market portions of WSJ and FT and Bloomberg, etc).

The only way to make it work would be for all their web content to be firewalled, and force people to get it through iTunes Store instead. And also to get basically all the major newspapers and magazines to sign on to the scheme. It would probably be more difficult to achieve than negotiating with the music labels for their catalogs. But the longer they keep bleeding cash, the easier the negotiations will get.
Here's my attempt in JavaScript: https://gist.github.com/tlrobinson/b991855433de688bf4e5
If the best developer for the job happens to be in Manhattan or SF, s/he won't take a job paying Detroit or Wichita salaries.
Have you ever HAD sweet tea? Real, authentic, Southern sweet tea? The sugar is added while the water is near the boiling point, so it supersaturates.

If the answer is "no", then you have no goddamned idea what you're missing.
I wish the web version of Keep was...faster. It takes too long to do some things, like deleting the tasks. And you can't even "wipe" a list. Well you can delete one, but what if it wasn't your last list? You can't even rearrange the lists in the order you want, which I find very frustrating.
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They point to HumbleBundle as a potential replacement model, but that one has already stagnated. So many repeated games in the humblebundle offerings makes each new one less desirable. Recently they started with 'humble-bundle-of-the-week'... which gave me two weeks of things they'd already offered... which means that they've effectively turned into a traditional online retailer: "Hello, here's our inventory".

The uniqueness and freshness was lost and the unsubscribe button was struck - without that je ne sais quoi, there is less forgiveness when regarding their foibles - the spammy emails of the same content, the "Every game has a linux version (but actually may not!)", the lack of a mechanism for patches and updates, some games shipping in a broken state. It was fun while it lasted, but as they transition to a quirky-but-regular online retailer, their original business model is not proved robust.
Other than teaching English abroad, how else can recent grads find work abroad? The article really drops the ball on that one and the meager links provided are useless.

I spent nearly two years abroad in undergrad interning abroad, but even then, finding a relevant (not teaching English) full time job in Asia or Europe when you're in North America is extremely hard.
This is a little misleading. Transactions are used primarily to prevent inconsistent data, not global data consistency.

The ATM network is distributed and eventually consistent, and financial transactions in general are not real time.

Within an ATM or within a bank you can be damn sure transactions are used widely to prevent inconsistent data.
I was there, probably one of the best sessions at the event. I especially liked the part about building a very strong roof if flying cars come to fruition.
Is the distribution of ability levels really a bell curve? I would expect it to be roughly trimodal, with a large group at "generally competent", a small but sizable group at "incompetent and painful to work with", and another small group at "creative innovator that raises the productivity of everyone around them".

I'd also expect that everybody wants to think of themselves as being in the last group, and so the companies all advertise for that. But realistically, very few people actually want to hire creative innovators and even fewer still will listen to them once they do, so companies are really gunning for that middle group. It's quite possible to parcel out that middle group into 5% chunks.
I dont think anyone would claim a massively distributed system should be fully consistent or ACID.

As for the eventual inconsistency remark, this is from the original authors of Cassandra at Facebook. They did not extend the use of Cassandra because node flaps and packet losses caused nodes to be inconsistent and have old data. Bringing that data back up to date was very difficult, since the anti-entropy algorithms were too expensive to run frequently. They also found that the R=W=2 was too costly in terms of performance, and well you know the rest :-)
For years.
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I was wondering how long it would take for someone to do this! Beware of people deleting all your stuff; use read only secrets.