skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say the worst referral is actually the IRS one. The IRS does not play "innocent until proven guilty" it is "pay up first, then prove you are innocent if you can". The referral for a possible RICO case isn't very nice either.

Informing all other courts about this is going to kill their other lawsuits and bring some interesting new lawsuits / appeals.
It's discussed elsewhere in this thread, and bitcointalk assumed incorrectly.
Sorry, really didn't mean to duplicate. Didn't realize I had posted it before, and someone else just put it up on Reddit today so I wanted to post here too. Will delete.
"We have to figure out why our solar system turned out different from all the others."

Not entirely—we have to understand statistics and the anthropic principle, which states "observations of the physical Universe must be compatible with the conscious life that observes it." (Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle). In other words, our situation appears "perfect" because it was one of the many random combinations available which produced an observer able to look at it. In other words, the fact that our solar system is so stable might just be a random anomaly, but the fact that it was so stable resulted in our existence, and therefore our contemplation of the fact.

As an analogy, winning the lottery is extremely rare—if you go and interview the person who won the lottery, they must think themselves very lucky. But on the grand scale, the probability of someone winning the lottery in the entire pool is exactly one. We know that a winner necessarily exists—just as we know that we, as winners of the cosmic lottery, necessarily exist. But that just tells us that someone won the lottery—something we already knew.

It may be that the lottery is rigged, and that there are some characteristics of our particular solar system which are amenable to life, and those things are definitely valuable to study and find out, so that we might be able to recognize other solar systems capable of supporting life in some way.

But by no means is our solar system special in any light: it's only special in that its particular conditions produced lifeforms able to observe it.

"We are a way for the cosmos to understand itself." - Carl Sagan

Another random question: are the planetary systems we've discovered similar to each other? If ours is significantly deviant from a significant clustering that would be pretty interesting. And of course, that's surely what the original findings were probably about.
It's actually not about having "earned" it; it's not meant to be a token of having completed the degree, or having been stupendously good at some technical piece of work.

It's meant as a reminder to the obligation you have to society not to cut corners on safety, and that your responsibilities to your employer do not outweigh those you have to Canadians generally.
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Software Engineers get them too! Sadly, Computer Science students won't get them.
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That is what made me disregard Go, after my initial interest on the language, but then again I am a CS guy that feels at home with FP and similar stuff.

Nowadays I rather play with D and Rust, but I wish success to the Go team anyway, as choice is always good.
They are more commonly called rouge planets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_planet
Referring to difficulties many users have had with mastering the software, she added: “The learning curve is definitely real.”

Who are the users this article is referring to? If it's older users who are sun-setting, then isn't Windows 8 skating to where the puck has been (instead of where it's going)?

Edited to fix typo - thanks!
Francis Cricks 1953 letter to his 12 year old son Michael
"After scientist Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA, he penned a letter to his 12-year-old son describing what he and James Watson found."

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They didn't utilize the access to go after Linode. They intended to utilize it to go after SwiftIRC, which nobody gives a shit about. That's where my comments came from. Linode just happened to be a nice prize on the way.
You have no right to privacy on a public street. Nor is your tag non-public information.
Quoting Elon here: "Am a fan of Larry, Sergey & Google in general, but self-driving cars comments to Bloomberg were just off-the-cuff. No big announcement here"

http://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/331797405840338944
Writing an article on a complex mathematical subject that is sufficiently rigorous, with citations and references, but also sufficiently simple for a layman to understand is hard. In fact, one might even suggest that you may need a very large number of attempts at articles until you find one that meets your exacting needs.

On the plus side, however, I'm sure when you see such an article you'll know straight away that it's the article for you being neither hot nor cold, as it were.

Interestingly, your apparent frustration at not seeing such an article in the (relatively) few that you have read would lead me to suspect that you think that it is quite easy to write such an article. Maybe even as easy as it would be for you to be sure you have found it?

Who knows? Maybe that assertion is correct. Fortunately, it has been noticed that there are a number of similar types of problems i.e. that appear hard to perform but easy to verify. There is also a great deal of interest in the mathematical and computing communities in knowing whether, what many of us consider are hard, are in fact, easy. I would attach a link but I have a feeling you've already seen it.

BTW on the subject of logical fallacies, may I suggest that dismissing all the articles on Wikipedia because of one article in an English daily newspaper, even though it may well have been correct, is a tad rash? There are definitely fallacies and inaccuracies in Wikipedia but there are in English newspapers too. Often remarkably similar fallacies and inaccuracies but I digress.
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If they don't confirm the email address then it's spam.

If they default to opt-in, instead of default to opt-out, then it's spam.
I think he was over-reacting. Titles describe what we do, and to a certain degree, there can be a number of titles that can describe the work we do.
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after having made a website for playlists made by friends of mine and seeing how many visitors stayed on the website for over 50 minutes average I decided to give people the tool to create their own incredibly easily :)
Not publicly, as far as I know. They claim to have deleted them, but I don't think it's exactly possible to prove you've deleted every copy of digital data. You should probably assume they're compromised.
By not commenting.
I have to admit I’ve never used a Nintendo DS. I was referring to an entire class of devices of that time that had resistive touchscreens. Before the iPhone, I used all kinds of smartphones and PDAs. In my experience, they all had crummy resistive screens. I’m surprised to learn that the quality of the DS screen was that much better than far more expensive devices like the SonyEricsson P910[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P910
A friend of mine made a ring out of little transistors for his girlfriend. They're married now, she even wore it during the wedding.
"Is the Yahoo! database really built by people?

It is indeed. All suggested sites are visited and evaluated by Yahoo! Surfers who decide where the sites best belong. This ensures that Yahoo! is organized in the best possible way, making the directory easy to use, intuitive, helpful, and fair to everyone."
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Microsoft is pointing the finger on everything but the actual product. The bigger issue is the poor usability of the product and the benefit of this product is poorly understood by both consumers and microsoft. What's interesting is the Windows 8 overall concept is pretty much the same as a year before Windows 8 was released. You had the metro interface, the desktop app, the lack of a start button... How could they not figure out solution to these issues after having ALL THAT TIME.

"Reller reportedly admitted that Microsoft hadn’t done enough to close the knowledge gap by training staff in outlets selling Windows 8 machines or by educating customers in the run-up to last October's launch."

"There also seems to be a hint Microsoft recognizes it slipped up by not doing enough to persuade PC makers to build hardware actually capable of using Metro’s UI, which is largely irrelevant on machines lacking touch screens."
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I wish Coursera followed the Udacity model. I always find out about these classes after they're already weeks in progress or over.
Step 1) Gouge out eyes

Seriously, Wordpress development is a stain on an already dirty PHP community. Glad that there is some semblance of order with the wordpress package via Fetch.
a) Hollywood does, why doesn't Silicon Valley?
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I hate to break it to the guy, but if you architect software systems, you are indeed a Software Architect. You're not "an architect," you did not call yourself "an architect," but it's the word that fits the job.

Now, if the World of Academia could attempt to catch up with technology (I know, it's a mad mad world that travels at high velocity and may even continue to accelerate, but a guy can dream) and start offering detailed courses of study for Computer Engineers & Architects, Data Engineers & Architects, Software Engineers & Architects, etc ... will the physical engineering world still have a problem with sharing their title?
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Including those as part of the Americas is certainly reasonably standard, but so is not including them (i.e. restricting the Americas to the mainland). I continue to see nothing problematic about the page title.
This is just a throwaway account.

I actually work on a system like this, including creating and training specialty neural networks for a state I will not name. Although it sounds like California's DB is a lot more sophisticated in the amount of data it captures and the amount of data mining that they plan to happen, it's hard to imagine that more states aren't doing things like we're doing. My department works directly with law enforcement as basically an R&D arm of state/local police. The extent of our work on this particular domain is mostly limited to running automated NCIC checks on the licenses (reveals warrants and stolen cars) - not really tracking total location and piecing together where this car has been in the past (though that probably could be gleaned with a few well-defined db queries).
What? I didn't say under age young, just young.

And this has nothing to do with the law, at all, it has to do with my sympathy. It's perfectly legal to hump and dump a third world girl who nearly could be your daughter, and perfectly shitty. That doesn't mean this is what happened here, but we are simply not told WHAT actually did - just that "they separated", as if they did that as a single entity. She's just a psycho ex, that's all you lot here care about; who needs details, who ever saw men take advantage of young girls without technically doing anything wrong, right? Bah, weak, next.
This depends on the university. At UofT, for example, "software engineering" is actually taught outside of the engineering faculty, and is not CEAB approved... and therefore doesn't qualify.
Do-it-yourself invisibility with 3D printing?
My opinion on what should be a part of what is irrelevant.

My post was regarding the fact that people blame Linux when the real problem is their own lack of understanding.

A good answer to the original question would be: "Sound is not a problem in Linux. However, compared to other operating systems, it might require additional understanding of the way things work, especially if you want to customize your system. This requirement of knowledge is a problem in distributions like Ubuntu - where the user base is 'everyday people'."
Precisely my thoughts. Has this notion been refuted? I would think this is common thought among the community of exoplanet hunters.
Thanks!! Yes, I'll make all of these happen in upcoming updates. =)
You're mixing up safety with idempotency. What you call "idempotent communications" are only possible on a read-only server: if the state of a server can change, then the communications must change to reflect that. HTTP doesn't assume a read-only server: three of the common verbs (GET, PUT, and DELETE) are idempotent, but only one (GET) is safe.
How would you fix this for OP? If you ran a web business, what would you do to replace email as a channel for onboarding new customers, telling current customers about a new feature, or reactivating lapsed ones?
Other terms are "orphan planets" and "rogue planets". Naturally, since they don't orbit a star and are usually pretty dark, they're hard to find, though there are candidates:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49823152/ns/technology_and_science...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_planet#Known_or_possible_...

One could argue that these are proto-stars, or brown dwarves, I guess - but to me, no fusion == planet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_planet
His research specifically mentions the classification of n-grams as a future area of work. (I have been working on implementing his work in python, so I have been diving into this over the past few weeks.)
Attributing the lack of response to an implied lack of humor in the HN crowd is one way of interpreting it.

Another is that we got the point and didn't want to encourage it.

A third is to refrain from negative characterizations of others.

A fourth is to making an annoyingly meta followups.

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UBC '10 here, mine is stainless and I don't recall a iron option.

The ring (and ritual) is a great idea for the community and the idea behind it. I strive to include in my professional and non-professional life.

It also makes for good barstool chat since fewer people have heard of it compared to say the Hippocratic Oath.
The client perspective isn't relevant, because the server has no control over what the client does. That's why idempotency is restricted to the server. You're thinking of safety.
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As a non-Australian, big spiders don't bother me. Cockroaches on the other hand...
Ah, gotchya.

(I'm also an emacs user/addict, but I would say "slow" is often a word I associate with it, alas...)
That I got downmodded within minutes by some clown who didn't feel it necessary to, you know, peruse the keyboard. Couldn't help to notice how pathetic that is.

And no, I simply think context and chronology matters. If I break into a house, does that justify the house owner strapping me down and torturing me for weeks? No, but it's a crucial detail. If you hurt someone who you think can't fight back, and then they do, that's a different story than a random attack out of nowhere.
Why's that? I've used that technique in places from which I've received offers (from small non-profits to large multi-billion corps). I think it's a realistic thing to do. If they want me to code the naive way, they can just say so. If they want a better solution, and I sketch out verbally the naive solution and they're happy, why magnify into it?

The non-agreeable part is the difficulty with finding a better solution, and spending inordinate amounts of time searching for one.
If they give me something approximating the ui of win7 combined with all the "backend" optimizations they made in win8, I'd be ecstatic. Perhaps it works better on a tablet, but the few hours I spent with win8 were enough to convince me that I want nothing to do with the current desktop version of win8.
Seconded. I'm curious to hear your reasoning, and your actual arguments will sway me much more than your credentials anyway.
Probably not, assuming our current theories about how these systems form are correct. Our best guess is that hot jupiters form about where our jupiter or saturn is and their initial orbit decays inward. If so, that would tend to destroy the orbit of anything vaguely earth-sized on the way in.
Well the Chartered Engineer title awarded by the IET was always held high in regard at my uni (which, in theory at least, is focused on Engineering). Unfortunately for me though, there is little point spending time, energy and money to acquire one as a Software Engineer, as it applies to Mech/Civil etc schools more.
That doesn't make any sense. The line was already drawn, in the HTTP spec. Follow it. Returning 200 OK for everything and then putting an error in the the body is completely useless. The whole point is that there are common, well defined errors which HTTP specifies codes for. Clients can properly handle those errors regardless of what the backend is like. Nobody wants to have to write millions of different solutions to parse your JSON error responses and figure out what they mean and what to do with them.
I believe in a mix of the two. Rapid and original content creation takes resources. Whereas, only curation implies that your only value-add is as an aggregator.
Map of American english dialects
The music has actually has been mostly banned in NYC.
Show HN: Horcrux, a Mac app to back up or move your IMAP emails
Hi,

Creator here. I'm sort of reposting the same thing from about 208 days ago. The first version kinda sucked. I guess this is my first lean not-really-a startup experience.
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I really like the simplicity. Finnish versions are kind a lame. ( http://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/multimedia/archive/00059/sormu... )
How can you skate to where the puck has been AND where it's going? Typo?

Older users may sunset eventually, but people generally have a 45 year working life. So how many of them are likely to sunset within the time frame of one Windows UI refresh? It's not like a whole generation will grow old and die before Windows 9 (or whatever it gets called) comes out. Well at least we can hope not, but after Win XP -> Vista who knows?
Was pretty confused at first about why this would have a Backbone dependency until I looked through the source and saw they they're just pulling Backbone.Events.

I think it says a lot about Backbone that people are doing things like that. Modularity is nice.

Oh, and thumbs up for Two.js. Well done.
Ooops, I apologize pal, I guess I hurt your feelings, I didn’t mean that. But here is another example:

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/07/30/montreal-tunnel-coll...

BTW, I don’t need to sound smart and still I like you.
Being a long time fan of 4x games, well of space games in general, this article makes me smile. I remember reading game forums where one subject that always arose was galaxy and system formations. So many of our concepts are strictly based on the very little observable data we have. Its great to live in a time when many assumptions are proven to be just that.

Now the question that remains is, which configurations are more favorable to life, not just as we know it.
It doesn't look arrogant to me. And it doesn't matter how clean the code looks like if it uses trillions of mutable states, lots of inconsistent interfaces, occasional pointer arithmetics, manual memory management, gotos all over the place and no module tests whatsoever. I'd say nginx is a pretty error prone piece of software, just like most of the software written in C.
Allegedly no, the deleted the breached data on the condition that Linode mention them in the security release (from the article).
Hi,

Creator here. I'm sort of reposting the same thing from about 208 days ago. The first version kinda sucked. I guess this is my first lean not-really-a startup experience.
The new version is much better. http://thehorcrux.com/why-i-built-horcrux-app/

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Well, in that case you'd need to include Belize and Guyana.

My comment was just a reply to the mention of there being only two English speaking countries in America/Americas. Not about the page title.
tocomment is right. Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JTneTI82nE from 5:00 to 7:00.

Yes, scientists may have been quoted in this article, but I have seen how most journalists mangle, ignore, or sensationalize things that were said.
All of the above is fine with me. It doesn't have to be a whiteboard, it's just the term that I use to coding on the spot, which admittedly probably isn't accurate. When I interviewed at my current company, I did everything on a pad of paper.
This man has a wife and kids and even though I feel for him you can't just quit your job when you have a family that relies on you. I wish him luck but there are people much worse off than this individual.
BTW compiling a custom nginx take all of 1 minute, it's a very very fast build, not like apache or php.

I just wish it had a make test
Unlike a cash lottery for which we intend there to be a winner, winners of a cosmic lottery do not "necessarily" exist--a winner like us is not guaranteed, I mean.
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I think the author has the "frost zone" theory backwards. It's not that it's too cold for rocky planets to form outside the frost zone (after all, there are some planet-sized moons out there) but rather that inside the frost zone it is too hot for planets to hold on to hydrogen, so you don't get gas giants.

I would think that a gassy planet close to a star would have to have a really big solid or liquid core of heavy elements.
The boilerplate was exactly why I went with Tasty-Pie recently, but seeing some of the updates, I might have to revisit that decision. Your documentation is great, btw.

Side note -- the updated urls.py example in the README.md references "views.UserViewSet" but in the context of the example should just be "UserViewSet"... I think. I sent a pull request - ignore if I had it all wrong.
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How do you monitor and analyze the things that are being said about your company, brand or product on various social media channels?
I believe it is possible to qualify as a CEng through the BCS - though not sure why anyone would do this.
Hmm...I don't mean to be a skeptic, but I do not see any new theories here. Neural networking has been around for a long time, as have an abundance of theories and implementations around it...some people have gone so far as to build an actual brain replica (a digital version of the bio/analog thing). Neural networking is extremely powerful, but to be of any use, you need a lot of computing power. As it turns out, our brains are really good at massively parallel tasks like image and motion processing; these things can be done explicitly on a computer with some ease, but having a computer learn on its own from scratch how to do them is not easy.
Wouldn’t a rubber ring be more suitable for a software engineer? It also wouldn’t break that easily :)
> But by no means is our solar system special in any light: it's only special in that its particular conditions produced lifeforms able to observe it.

sorry, but i don't understand what's the logic here? it's not special, but it's only very special in sustaining/producing life? isn't that more than enough to call it special? :-)