skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many poor are content with their condition, unwilling to take even basic steps to improve. Harsh as this sounds, and downvote-bait it seems, I've worked at helping the poor and found (to my dismay) most of them are in that condition because they refuse to choose to do better. Yes, they don't want it badly enough.
'Star Trek Into Darkness' Will Be Released Early. Here's why.
Strange that the auto-assigned values start at one.
WiiU gamepad reverse engineered - WiiU gamepad simulated from a PC
Interesting notion. You want her to profit but not to get rich. It's amazing how being rich has been demonized by society of late.

Profit for the sake of profit works as signalling just as well as any other profit.
On CPAN, you can be added as a co-maintainer if there is a long-standing bug with inactive maintenance, you've fixed it in a way that's eminently usable by the maintainer, and you can demonstrate long-term fruitless attempts to contact the maintainer.

In the Github context, since pull requests are obvious demonstrations of the first two criteria, it seems to me the most logical solution would be simply to move existing forks over to a new maintenance fork owned by a popular fork maintainer with an explicit governance mechanism. Then the original owner isn't interfered with, but the new forked community king can go ahead with centralized management of the overall project if the community agrees with that.
Indeed. I think Python 3 is very explicit with that distinction as well. You can have either text, which is in Unicode, or you have data which are arbitrary bytes. Sure, those bytes can represent text by interpreting them with a specific encoding, but you have to convert between one and the other explicitly to make it work. A very nice thing after the debacle in Python 2 where bytestrings in UTF-8 locales on Unix-likes happen to almost work in many cases, just to break horribly in other environments.

That being said, there are a lot of inaccuracies and even wrong things in that article, which saddens me.
Introduction to Format String Exploits
I truly wasn't being pedantic. Pretty much every project I've worked on has required me to learn some new layer of technology that I never even knew existed. Sometimes it's just too much for one person and you have to rely on the strengths your team as a whole. The idea that a single developer can rapidly learn all of the layers/technologies affecting his/her project is a fallacy at best.

[Edit: However, in the spirit of the OP it's perfectly reasonable to expect your devs to know or be able to learn SQL.]
A proposal for an always-releasable Debian
Usually, posts like this make me gag a little on the cheesiness, but this was well done. There's some really good advice in here. I especially like:

"Let people leave your life when they need to. Leave a light on for them in case they ever decide to return. Collect those lights and regularly remember why you keep them lit."
Oh, they have paid, just not in full. As to suing them, no - the industry we work in is stupidly tight knit, and regardless of the truth, any agency that sues their clients looks like crap.

We have leverage over them in terms of "whoops, looks like your sole revenue stream just got turned off", they have leverage over us in terms of reputational damage.

Were this some sole trader on the far side of the planet, there'd be nil compunction. But they're not.
How to Attract Money Using Law of Attraction?
Indeed :-) I use

brew install watch
watch -n10 'screencapture `date +%s`.png'
Never regret something you did; at one point its what you wanted.

At times in my life I've behaved like a completely immoral asshole. Are you seriously suggesting that I shouldn't regret these times, just because I wanted to be an immoral asshole at the time?

If you act like an evil bastard, you most certainly should regret it. You were bad, and you should feel bad. That feeling bad is part of what keeps you from doing it again.
I can confirm that the map-reduce thing does not hold up to any performance-wise expectations.
Car accidents kill orders of magnitude more people than terrorists do. I think even if the number of car bombings jumped to 10 times its current level with autonomous cars society would still likely come out ahead.
I can't tell if you're serious. Wouldn't the world be a better place if people just drank what they wanted to drink?
If he sued for the profits the guy made then I would still see him as awesome. Take down however is not awesome.
Odd that you would leave pumping gas out of your comment.
I'll try that trick of scooping off the froth.

I'm probably going to avoid buying a pressure cooker for a while since I'm in Boston though.
I didn't say they don't exist, what I am saying is that unfortunately very few have achieved broad adoption or brand recognition, so the revenue first mindset may not be serving them as well as the first commenter would lead you to believe. It is likely my index will give more non Silicon Valley companies credit for building value, even pre-revenue.
If you think of a string as a sequence of code points (integers) you get a correct but inefficient model (UTF-32).

Character is a context in which we read integers and currently we don't use more than a couple hundred thousand of those.

UTF-8 is a data-compression technique taking advantage of the fact that smaller code points are used more often, and the largest ones (which require 5+ bytes, because any compression algorithm expands some inputs) are, currently, not standardized and effectively never used.
That depends too. I suspect at this time of year it's true - during the holidays I wouldn't bank on it. When people are gift shopping downtime easily means the difference between a sale and the customer jumping in their car and running down to the Toys 'R Us.

Downtime is a Big Deal during the high retail season, and not really a big deal outside of it.
I take serious issue with this: "Placing a ripe, soft avocado in a refrigerator will extend its life by two days, give or take." I've actually found that it can extend the life of an avocado for a week or more, depending on the avocado and when it is placed in the fridge :)
Half up front is a bad model. A better model is 25% staged throughout a project, with 25% post completion. This means that they don't get live unless you've at least 75% of the balance paid, and you then operate a one month warranty period at the end of which they pay the balance.

With these particular goons, we have our 75%, and a never-ending stream of "we've re-interpreted the specification and believe that X means Y, Z, Q, R, P and M, which we require before we will sign off", much as we'd anticipated.

This is why we charge a minimum of 75% prior to go-live. Means that even if they do decline to pay the remainder, we aren't left out of pocket, and can play silly buggers for as long as it takes for them to get bored and go away.
Yes. It's much better to think of strings as a sequence of Unicode code points.
I'm not sure if you are just naive or intentionally contrary.

Please, explain to me how a family that can barely afford rent and meals can move 1000 miles away and find work. It's not really that easy to find a new job in a town you've never been to.

Or a couple in which one is handicapped or seriously ill can 'change the arrangement'

You made your situation better. Congratulations. I mean that. But assuming everyone can do it because you did is borderline arrogant.

There is no silver bullet solution and saying that anyone can do it if they want to bad enough is just stupid and ignorant.
Keep telling yourself that. I'm sure that will help you sleep at night. Meanwhile, this "successful" woman will keep verbally/mentally/emotionally abusing her children, and nice people like you will look the other way.
Since Enums are mostly unmagical (apart from the member wrapping), you can use a compact syntax:

class Colors(Enum):
red, green, blue = range(3)
Shouldn't the user have their email address in their commit messages? That's how I've found their email address – clone the repo and do a `git log`
The government isn't pondering some philosophical question about 3D guns.

Defense Distributed has an active federal license to manufacture and distribute firearms. By posting blueprints online, it's very likely they've violated the conditions of that license.

From ITAR, what qualifies as sensitive:

Technical data directly related to the manufacture or
production of any defense articles enumerated elsewhere
in this category that are designated as Significant
Military Equipment (SME) shall itself be designated SME.

Further clarification:

Information .... which is required for the design
development, production, manufacture, assembly, operation,
repair, testing, maintenance or modification of defense
articles. This includes information in the form of
blueprints, drawings, photographs, plans, instructions
and documentation.

How it can be in violation of law:

An agreement whereby a U.S. person grants a foreign
person an authorization to manufacture defense articles
abroad and which involves or contemplates .... The
export of technical data or defense articles ...
without first obtaining the required license or
written approval from the ODTC.

Possible punishment entails:

Any person who willfully ... Violates any provision ... of
the Arms Export Control Act ... or ... any rule or regulation
issued under either section ... shall upon conviction be
fined for each violation not more than $1,000,000 or
imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.

Their blueprints clearly qualify as sensitive, any download traffic from overseas is enough to prove they distributed to 'foreign persons'. The political calculus could save them since it would appear like Obama is trying to ban guns even though Distributed Defense is clearly in violation of federal law.

I hope for their sake, there was no download activity from Iran, Cuba, North Korea, etc...
In git every commit contains the authors email.
It took me a little reading to figure out the agenda, but some key phrases like "obesity is a growth disorder" tipped me off. This is a Gary Taubes project. He is a writer of books in favor of low-carbohydrate diets, and he often badly misinterprets the scientific literature. He has a selection bias about which studies he thinks are worth talking about, so as to make it appear that low-carbohydrate diets are the answer to everything. No actual nutritional scientists think his "alternate hypothesis" is credible.
Rant about Github pull-request workflow implementation
I don't know about this questionnaire(and I don't have enough time to check right now), but similar ones are quite reliable tools for self-assessment. They are _designed_ to be used without presence of mental health professional, and they work. Most of your criticism is valid though, and scores may be distorted, but I am quite skeptical that this effects leads to many false positives.

Also, I am not saying that criticising yourself is not normal, I'm saying that spending all time criticising and blaming is not normal.

By the way, if your score actually more than 10, try other tools, Beck Depression Inventory for example. And try reading the book, you may find it useful even if you aren't clinically depressed. BTW, there is a chapter on perfectionism(which is quite common attitude in depressed individuals).
Dart: a New Web Programming Experience
All of us are born incredibly dependent on others.

"Others" as you use it is far too imprecise. A person is born dependent on his parents, who have an obligation to raise him once they've chosen to carry a child to term. That obligation does not extend to people that didn't make the choice to bring the child into the world.

Also, you're attacking a straw man. I'm not an anarchist.

Sustaining a rich and complicated society requires that people act as traders. That entails producing things that are valuable to others, in exchange for things that are valuable to you, quid pro quo. And that requires a government, whose sole duty is to retaliate against people that try to bypass that process by force or fraud. A market cannot exist without an objective arbiter that keeps the peace (which can only be accomplished by having a monopoly on force - private armies, courts, police forces would lead to war) and enforces laws.
In that case you “only” have to know what you're actually after: Either a grapheme (a character in the human sense) or a code point (a character in the Unicode sense) – well, and then there is the code unit which can be a “character” in the programming language sense but it's best not to go there, lest you want to fall into plenty of traps.

As long as you only wander around one of those levels (grapheme, code point, code unit, byte) all is (fairly) easy, but once you deal with multiple levels mistakes almost invariably creep in and you start treating code points as graphemes or code units as code points, etc. Fun source of all kinds of bugs :-)

So yes, text in general is hard. And Han, Hangul and the Japanese scripts are probably among the easiest scripts to support in software :-)
The only group I don't see this working for is designers- pretty much every designer I've seen has made their own portfolio site and it's a great idea to- it's the one place you can show exactly how you'd make something if you had the freedom.

For coders and writers, etc., though- I love it.
To be fair, he never said the US supplied a majority of weapons in Mexico. Only that we were a 'prime source' of weapons, which if the range is 20 - 40%, would be completely accurate.
that's not a problem with this proposal. All pull requests approved by the community end up in a non-master branch. The officially sanctioned version (master ) would remain untouched until the maintainer merged in the community changes.
I don't think the OP ever said it was a mistake. He said he wouldn't make that choice, but that doesn't mean he thought it was wrong for the company.

Instead he contrasted it to what you can do today as a startup.
As your parent already noted, thinking of it as a sequence of code points goes wrong when you need to truncate a string in between a base and a combining character.
And then they'll sue you after the work is done to get it back. I don't think it's worth it.
The 16 Startups in Dreamit Ventures NYC 2013 summer accelerator
It's physically impossible to keep someone from
barreing their car at 80mph down the wring side of
the highway

Not really. Government mandated speed governor in every car, limited to 55 mph.
Another for custom domains. Perhaps that's a non-scummy way of generating some income. Charge a small fee for the ability to use a custom domain.
PRINCE2, baby. It's heavy-handed, produces mountains of paperwork that you hope to never have to look at again, and allows both parties complete clarity as to what is, and what isn't, in scope. You want to change the scope? Needs a change-request, a re-quote, a re-scope, and it all trickles back into the project plan.

The only problem with this process is that it actively encourages the client to find any shred of loosely worded anything in any specification, and interpret the hell out of it, rather than having to go through change control.
Do people work harder for meaning than for money? Find out. [video & review]
> The diet illustrated in the article, it's indeed healthy, it's cheap, and it's absolutely depressing.

Of course it is, but try finding a diet that costs £1 a day that isn't absolutely depressing.

I think this overemphasis on £1 or $1 a day is way too low.

The real question is how much are people who "can't afford" or "don't have time" to eat healthily spending on food per day? I would guess at least £5.

With £5 a day you could actually make an enjoyable, healthy and varied diet.
> but there's no real cohesion or interaction between all these isolated forks.

Isn't this the real issue that should be fixed then? Some way when you form a repo, you get notice of all the forks and PR's of the original repo, giving you the possibility to merge everyone's work and become the defacto upstream.
Most of your points are great, but I just want to point out that it is not true that your phone can be tracked when it is turned off. That's a misconception that is propagated by a few very poorly written articles that misinterpreted some comments in a court case. No power = no tracking.
Do they use the same raw material?
LYAEFN4PPWHW taken, thanks
Thanks for reposting this. I have been living with the "gray beast" on and off for more than a decade. First signs go back to early teens and it's getting more intense and persistent over the years. Or maybe it has always been the same but I've been slowly shifting away from the denial and bargaining stage and closer to acceptance.

Although depression has been one of the several hypotheses
I've come across, the popular image of it typically focuses on the "black beast", which hasn't really been a problem for me, not more than a random "normal" person at any rate. That's why I haven't sought professional help so far. Perhaps this article will be the proverbial kick in the butt to do so.
I agree, but 11,000 people dying a year sounds like an actual threat/risk to me. Your list can be modified to: heart disease, cancer, public debt, guns, etc.
Marketing your Mobile App with Video
How to self-publish an audiobook
In addition to

> Every photograph and video you take at a concert or other live event will probably be terrible. Just enjoy the moments, don’t feel pressured to document them.

I would also add that while singing along at concerts certainly has its time and place, actually listening to the artist singing is better.
That's $7,000 per hour, plus they have to provide the french maid costume, and I get to keep it after.
What causes suicide is that at the point where depression lifts a bit, you suddenly are able to take action, but not necessarily any happier. In fact, did you not that part about "hate" in the OP? That's when people kill themselves. It happens with medication, it happens with CBT, it is an essential inherent risk of depression therapy — the first few months are dangerous.
They could poison the well, put nearly identical plans out there with a fatal-kill-the-shooter flaw in them.
How Gmail loads JavaScripts?
The biggest bank robbery in history, Hackers stole $45 million
The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge
A few years ago I was in hospital, I eat breakfast, dinner, evening meal and late night snacks and had seconds on every occasion. I was not overly active and bordering on totaly inactive. I slept lots as well.

A few years ago I was in hospital, and they didn't let me eat at all for two weeks. No, not even [whatever gotcha you want to insert here]. Lost 10 pounds I didn't need anyway, and otherwise felt fine. Wasn't particularly hungry during that time. Did watch a ridiculous number of cooking shows though.

Sufficient calories are easy to come by. A 50 pound sack of rice or bread flour is $18, enough calories to keep a large male operating a normal schedule for over a month. Spend your limited money on nutrients.
Whois is one of the easiest things to implement...this is a kludge. Just use threads and native whois lookups :). Here is a quick example - could use some error handling though - http://pastebin.com/haXNQ55W
Great UI/UX - nice to see flat ui being adopted by more and more upcoming sites/apps.

- Custom domains would be nice to have.

- Connecting and pulling info from social presence (twitter, linkedin, etc.) would be a great addition (something like coderwall does?).

- Choose the header image/background from some settings area with a list of stock options. Currently it shows some default one that can't be changed.

With these many of us wouldn't mind paying $x/month, yeah :)

http://hoverboard.io/rishabhp
At my credit union, every ATM has a camera built in right above the screen. Same with the Chase ATMs I used when I banked with Chase. Perhaps I am used to this because I only use branded ATMs (aka, Chase ATMs or 5/3 ATMS etc).
Well that's insightful. At least I realize the problem I have is perhaps not the problem that I thought I had.

It may just be a strong bias against PHP.

But even if we did choose to rewrite at some point, how do you choose?

Java is "enterprise-y" and people generally hate it.

As you mention, Ruby has fallen out of fashion, and it's always had a reputation for being a resource hog.

Python is a great language overall, but was never really meant for web programming so ends up being a bit kludgy.

Node is super popular with the bleeding edge crowd, but it's only been around for 3 years and speaking of wooden bullets -- Javascript has more language pitfalls than PHP! And there's still no clear winner in terms of framework stack.

Meanwhile, Google has invented its own proprietary languages , which seems like a real Microsoft in the 1990s kind of move.

So even if we started over, it's pretty unclear what we'd choose to build with.
AppEngine SDK points to PHP runtime
As a person who can't drive and refuses to learn, I can't wait for the coming driverless future. All hail Google!
> Honest question - did you give up counting,
> or give up finishing the comic at all?

Honest answer: I gave up finishing the comic. It became tiring to stomach.

I truly felt that the piece actually insults and undermines clinical depression.

That's of course my opinion.
Oh, I never said I would forget about it. The government is quite able to make everyones live miserable (check the stupid sale tax law).
Font Awesome 3.1 Released – 54 new icons, stacked, rotated, and flipped styles
I have to wonder, why are these kind of solutions driven by outside players instead of local communities? Is there some kind of informational advantage the locals don't have? Elephants scares bees seems so simple that I'm not sure why locals weren't already doing it.
I read this and was a little surprised that this wasn't an exploration into his own depression, but more the experience of it and how frustrating and isolating it felt to explain it to others.

An important thing to understand about depression is that, for most (certainly not all) people, it's the outcome of having anger and a retaliatory impulse turned inward. Exploring what you may be angry at can be helpful in reengaging with your life. It is not the path to happiness, but engaging with your anger is certainly a way to make you feel more alive and present in your life.

EDIT: In expressing my surprise about not reading about an exploration in depression, I forgot to mention that I'm glad the author found a forum to speak out about his frustration and isolation while feeling depressed.
Meetup CEO: I Want To Punch Anyone Wearing Google Glass In The Face
I'd like to see the relationship of income to infringement.

It's hard to hoard digital downloads when your primary access to the Internet comes via a feature phone on a metered plan and you pay $5 each for bootleg DVDs sold at the barber shop.

It's a bit easier when you have a high-speed Internet connection and a few TB of storage.

If the 'worst', who make up 3.2% of the respondents, are also part of a top income segment it would change the perspective quite a bit.

Also, I wonder how honest the 'worst' and 'honest' are actually being.

"However, the relationship between infringement and spend is complex and the claims people make when asked questions about their likely future behaviour given changes to their options do not always closely reflect their real-life behaviour." [0] Pg. 5

0: http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/telecoms-...
Why Facebook's Partner Categories could be huge
Really nice. I would love to have the possibility to upload a few different screenshots (e.g. <4) for each project...