skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, I had no idea I had access to these books until now.
If the live server has side effects when making the call (send an email, charge a card, etc) and you just want to test against the response headers/body, it can be very useful. A local mocking library is also good for that, but for quicker tests this is nice.
Where parts of San Francisco are jammed with houses, every nook occupied, not unlike parts of Manhattan or Boston, there are large swaths of the Valley with nothing but parking lots.

San Francisco is not unique in this regard. Every urban area in America is like this, including Boston and NYC.

San Francisco has a number very tall buildings with a few even built on the side of a literal mountain, and all of these have survived several significant quakes, so I doubt this is the actual reason.

The buildings on the hills are the ones that survive the quake. The buildings built on sand, like in the Marina or Mission Bay, are the ones that are vulnerable to earthquakes.
Maybe, but I would hope that's not what s/he meant, because that kind of entropy is basically irrelevant to password strength.
> San Francisco has a number very tall buildings with a few even built on the side of a literal mountain, and all of these have survived several significant quakes

Also, Japan (after they set up seismic building codes, which was a decade or 2 before the Great Hanshin Earthquake, the number of older non-code buildings explaining the differences in destruction and life loss between the fairly similar Great Hanshin and Northridge quakes)
As usual, the answer to a question headline is No.
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> it seats 5 adults + 2 kids comfortably.

It can seat 7 at once???
Food fraud in America: What are you really eating?
So how long until we see that kind of graphics in games? 5? 10 years?
This feels like clickbait to get people to fill out the details about your job at the bottom.
You could have said something similar about using smartphones too, less than 10 years ago.
Those who want to experience NeXTSTEP without the hurdle of installing a VM should try GNUstep. This project aims to faithfully recreate the NeXT's software environment, with the omission of Mach and its IPC mechanisms.

http://www.gnustep.org/

You can easily install it in major GNU/Linux distributions through the package manager, look for wmaker and gworkspace.app packages.
I like metalanguages more than I like languages, and I guess that fits nicely with me having a schizoid personality disconnected from reality, as my mental health specialist says. So yes, there could be a link.
There are only 2 text links on the title page that result in download - both links are labeled "Try" and download the demo version. Do you have these in mind?
Not if, like OP, you define "political" as, "different than my preference."
New JavaScript Syntax Styles
I've been experimenting with some new formatting of my JavaScript syntax. I like to be able to abstract the normal 2 or 4 spaces and utilize code as art. I think it's visually appealing and would be something non-developers could enjoy as well. Thoughts?
Ebay didn't use frame breakers, so much I know ;)
In defence of ColinWright, it was partly due to his quick comment, upvote and crosslink that got this story onto the front page. Otherwise it might have floundered and never reached the front page, which would possibly have meant a whole flood of posts asking the same question, until one gained traction.

Having said that, I too found the logic of pointing out an email address for support, while posting a submission, somewhat contradictory - but certainly nothing to get aggressive about.
Because, you know, the entire point of the post is how they did it for their own product.
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Or, in the end, NeXT succeeded in being bought by Apple, morphing into XNU, Darwin, and thus OSX and iOS, and doing quite well?
I actually have a Safari books online membership, and it gives me "tokens" to download books. The ironic thing is that the safari downloaded books are of poorer quality and in fewer formats than the Oreilly.com books.

Sometimes I cheat and pay $5 for the pristine and versatile oreilly book. My rationalization is that I'm entitled to the highest quality reading experience because I'm paying them $50/mo for the subscription.
Exactly. Or put another way, freeloaders gonna freeload.

Netflix won't make money locking out the guy who bums a password to save a measly $8/month, because as soon as that guy gets locked out he's headed to BitTorrent, not the Netflix sign up page.
Payment isn't compulsory. You could have a number of mechanisms to clear mailing lists, white-lists would be easiest. Since joining a mailing list should be by user decision, provided the user interface is simple and painless you should be able to include adding to the whitelist as part of that process.
5 Reasons Dots is so Addictive
Can I buy more Bitcoins with Bitcoins?
I don't understand why people think that Glass will only be effective if you're wearing it all the time. Sunglasses are not appropriate to wear all the time, and it's incredibly douchey to do so, and people adjust their habits accordingly. If you want to make sure you don't break any social norms, then just prop Glass up on the top of your head or hang them off your shirt colar when it's not appropriate to be wearing them.

And Glass isn't upheaving social norms any more than the iPhone did. It wasn't acceptable to be staring at a phone all the time but now everybody does it. I think people's reaction to Glass' is more a commentary on the current state of smartphone use and social etiquette than Glass being any more intrusive and conspicuous.
Weinstein Declares War on Google
That's actually not an easy problem to solve. When I'm creating some (desktop) UI that has multiple controls one being a text box, it always destroys the workflow (tab - next, tab - next, tab - indent.. crap..). I did not find a good solution for this so far.

Edit: Thinking about it.. maybe I'll try big G's version.
This reminds me a lot of a Large iPod touch type device everyone was hating on 3 years ago.

The fact that i now own (and LOVE) an iPad is why i will never again make early judgements and conclusions like this one.
I'm referring to your discussion point, not the thread-at-large.

But even with that in mind, the idea of blowing up a 3L bottle is that you as that pyromaniac teenager probably at least ensured no one else was nearby.

That's a difficult guarantee to make in a school setting, and it's important to realize that it's a separate issue. Blowing things up might even be OK at school, in a controlled setting, people kept a safe distance away, and some idea of what to expect from the reaction. It's all fun and games until it's lye in your friend's eyes.

I have no clue at all whether the student took these precautions as the original article just says it happened on school grounds. That could mean a bathroom or in the middle of an empty field, I have no way to tell, so I won't try to talk to specifics on that.

But in general "I had nowhere else to do activities plausibly harmful to the safety of those around me" is not justification for performing activities plausibly harmful to those around you. So the question to whether she has a backyard or even a home is completely irrelevant.
I got 22 out of 48, but I think that's because I almost never use "Strongly" levels, at least not on general statements like that.

That apparently puts me in the 9th decile. Weird, because I usually come up as neutral or chaotic good on alignment tests.
I have a check for 1,000 shares, grand total $14.99 :) issued to me on January 2002. So yeah, 1.4 cents a share.

I still have the check somewhere, I never cashed it, I've always been meaning to frame it.
Firefox is the first browser to pass the Acid2 MathML test
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." -- Slashdot on the original iPod.

http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...

Wonder how that turned out.
To all the people complaining about text formatting in Gmail, I strongly recommend Markdown Here: https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here. It lets you write emails as markdown and compile them to HTML in the email composition form. (I have mine bound to CTRL-ALT-Q). It works extremely well, I can easily store my emails in plain-text if I need to, I write emails in my text editor, and the Markdown utilities there make formatting much faster. It's great.

Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/markdown-here/elif...
FF/Thunderbird extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/markdown-here...

As for the UI complaints, I haven't hit too many of them, but those that I have have been very irritating. I don't use an email signature ATM, but I have run into the hard-to-change-sending-address quite a bit (I use <email>+<category>@gmail.com quite a bit), and didn't even know you could do it until just now. I only started using Gmail recently, so I can't say if it's worse, though it seems to be from what I've heard.
The obvious use case is for military-type applications. Relay photos to an overhead drone to give commanders a situational awareness of what is happening. Designate targets. Provide video-game like HUD.

For consumers, I'd say the recording stuff is an uncanny valley. I'd love a HUD for navigation.
Some guys with an app paid for all food orders during a 4 hour block (10pm-2am) at a popular foodtruck at SXSW. All you had to do to get a free ~$7 burrito (some people got a bunch of stuff) was to download their app and create a photo album.

While this boosted downloads during that time period I have not looked at the app (I don't even remember what it was called) since. It would have been more memorable if they had discussed the app with me for the free burrito.
smartphones 10 yrs ago = nerdy

google glasses = dorky
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Sounds fun! My email is ben at dansby dot org
A reference to Don Johnson's terrible "Hearbeat" song from the 80s?
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Exactly what I was thinking.

Who the hell reads this garbage and why are we posting it on HN? Flag this.
I believe he is saying it becomes less plug and play. By saying "it becomes more than plug and play at that point," he means it becomes more effort than plug and play.

That's my read on it, anyway. It always gets dicey interpreting the intent of others :)
Everybody should be aware of this.

This fact makes the current debate about assault weapons seem even more convoluted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koSSNwTpaRM

UPDATE:: Jeez guys you are sensitive. No I'm not against guns at all. In fact I wouldn't care if you could buy machine guns at sears.

I was pointing out that with all the current "debate" over universal background checks, including mental fitness in background checks, 'assault clips' etc, can't be anything else than demagoguery if anybody can go buy a drill press and order anonymously any if the parts for an AR-15 online legally.
OK, does this mean the time is right for a YCaaS site? ("For just $X/month we will poke and prod you along a simulated YC path. Start anytime!")
Is this similar to what Wowza (wowzamedia.com) does?

In terms of licensing, it is $55/mo/instance or $995 for a one-time license.

There are also EC2 instances that start at 15 cents per hour.

Much less expensive than FMS
I've sent a pull request to add portuguese brazilian translation. I hope it helps! Scala is really cool :)
Remember me something... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz_BGezNE2Y Nice work!
braking.
Notice Google said "In this case, we are following the lead of the UN, Icann, ISO and other international organisations."

Not only does the UN recognize Palestine as a state. But ICANN, ISO, and other international standards organizations do too.
Except that it's not a choice of 'salary' or 'stock options' it is 'salary' or 'salary + stock options'. I can say pretty confidently that I've earned more with salary + options than I would have as a consultant with just salary.

To date I have made at least as much money with Sun options as I made in salary (I worked there 10 years). At some level, some of my current savings can be traced back to those options so they are in principle (pun intended :-) still earning me money.
My biggest gripe is not being to reply all with a single click!
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Interested in hearing more about this. Taking care of this would help with the adoption (and priority) of this project. If you have any tips, please feel free to drop a line at jherrick at gmail. Thanks!
i did this. i'll do it again for Arrested Development. Good content is worth it - the back catalog is not.
Ballsy to lead with an article about porn. I'm glad you did because I know they must face scaling challenges that only a handful of services have to deal with, but rarely do I see articles about how they overcome the challenges. Thanks.
> If you're willing to be bold, walk right up to people and ask, you don't need to offer free coffee or gift cards.

If many people did this, it would quickly become an incredible annoyance. Have some respect for the commons!
Google may be able to improve on most of these problems, but they won't be able to eliminate the headaches unless they fundamentally alter the design. The problem is that this type of display requires the wearer to change focus when using it. Enough of that activity is going to become literally nauseating after a while.

For AR to really work the display needs to remain in focus no matter what the wearer is looking at, and that means an Eyetap-like design.
Actually, those are relavant data points. Assuming you can get racism rates for the population "white people in suburban florida", you can set a base probability of the specific person from that population being racist. This would affect the sample sizes of data needed to determine if that person was racist.
> "In this case, we are following the lead of the UN, Icann, ISO and other international organisations."

Maybe corporations will start to recognize Quebec as free when the UN, ICANN, ISO, and a handful of other apolitical organizations do too, as is the case with the officially recognized state of Palestine.
>the scroll buttons are at the same end of the scroll bar.

Which was also the case in OS X, up through 10.3.
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A few years back I was tangentially involved in a very clever study involving the executive ethics that was designed to address this concern.

Some of the questions were routine business questions, others were general questions about the material they read, and, the meat of the questions were ones on the moral consequences of executive decisions. It was expected that executives would answer all the questions correctly. Instead, the study scored based on how long it took them to answer the moral questions as opposed to the general questions. These scores were then compared against respondents from a control group of non-executives.

EDIT:
Gosh! I hope I'm representing her study accurately... "Business Experience and Moral Awareness: When Less May be More", Jennifer Jordan (2005)
I cannot disagree more emphatically.

It's not a hoarding of cash. It's living on a proper financial diet and it is crucial that you learn it early and abide by it because, when the money does start coming in, you don't get fat and slow, you stay lean and strong.

Also, it isn't all about interest rates. It's about opportunity. Having 100k and being able to borrow 100k are 2 completely different things and the first lends oneself to be much more flexible, opportunistic, and comfortable. (Also, if someone's paying you 3% or whatever, you can bet that their making more than that elsewhere.)

I completely understand what you're saying and there are many people pushing the "rice and beans" stuff. I think that's fine for getting out of a bad spot but not sustainable.

It may seem like an awful way to live, but I wouldn't have it any other way and, so far, it's paid off several times, both financially and through incredible opportunities I couldn't have otherwise taken.
More non-evil ones than evil ones. My last company (financial firm) wasn't evil. Just had two evil ones (following a failed startup) in a row.
> 3. You're more likely to get critical negative feedback if you dont put the users in the position of owing you for the coffee.

I'd be interested to see if there's any research on this.
From memory (read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tannenbaum for a start, http://www.amazon.com/Target-Switzerland-Swiss-Armed-Neutral... and http://www.amazon.com/SWISS-NAZIS-Alpine-Republic-Survived/d... for details), the General Staff figured taking Switzerland would break 80 divisions, a cost the Nazis simply couldn't afford.

Are the Swiss of French and Italian stock preponderantly "blond-haired blue-eyed"? If not, that argument tends to fail, although I suppose the Nazis did prefer killing Slavs et. al. in the east to Western Europeans. (ADDED: see the above Wikipedia link for how Hitler viewed the German Swiss who preferred their French, Italian and Romansh citizens over the greater German volk.)

"It's to the point where the word "militia" is associated with racists and kooks."

That has a lot more to do with demagogic politicians, including one in particular who had a dicey re-election coming up, than anything real. Amplified of course by a media who see all gun owners as the Other.

"Not "well-regulated" at all."

It's a nice ideal, perhaps, certainly a necessity if you live in a bad neighborhood like the Swiss, but history, going right back to our revolutionary war, tells us it's profoundly not in the American character, with exceptions here and there.
Selling the stocks is the one-time operation, right? So you get paid once...

Is there any other scenario, when you get % of revenue constantly, e.g. on a monthly basis for the rest of your life? i.e. even if you leave the company (maybe after some vesting period).

Here, I say "revenue", because in case of "profit" the company can reinvest it, leaving you with nothing.

EDIT: So basically, is there a way to transform your employment into a passive income?
Correct, it "becomes more complicated" is what I meant.
ah yes, that makes sense.

thanks.
> Most of the things that gmail makes hard (and when the author says hard he means an extra click)

You have to memorize where to do the extra click.

For example I tried to unsubscribe from a G+ community today and didn't find the unsubscribe button without a google search. I had to appeal to other websites to learn where the unsubscribe was buried. Same thing happened when I tried to cancel an automated monthly payment in PayPal - they fucking buried the page. Sometimes I have this problem when I try to help someone change a setting on his feature phone. Some essential items are under 5 levels of selection deep.

The main problem is that people don't know which one of the button hides what they seek. I liked the old interface much more. I'd like to have the option to remain with the old one.
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ISTR Next ads in Byte, and it being targeted at the high-end of the PC market. I had one at Chicago and loved it, but only because I didn't have to try to live with the WORM as my only storage. Great computer, great, great OS.
How a player with a “useless” item almost took down EVE Online’s entire economy
I did read your post, and I don't agree that any formal reprimand was necessary. What did she do that deserves punishment? She found chemistry so interesting that she went beyond her classes and came up with her own experiment, which taught her something she hadn't expected. Cool! Give her extra credit, put her in AP classes, sign her up for community college - this is exactly the kind of curiosity and independent initiative we need to encourage, not punish.
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Oh, please. The article uses the word porn exactly three times in the introductory paragraphs. Four if you count the title.

The comments here have double that, including your own use. If you were genuinely that paranoid about being "logged" for having visited a page that used the word porn (really?!) I doubt you'd be using it yourself.
Yes. And the War on Drugs can be seen just as easily as evidence that the government is racially biased against white people, because it decides to protect blacks from the decimation of drugs in their own community while letting white teenagers smoking pot run wild in their own.
They don't mention ubiquitous EPA superfund sites?
I agree. The domain name is already in political territory. Maybe if domain names were by language instead of location...
Every lot within 500m of a rail station should automatically be zoned to allow for 6-story buildings and ground-level retail. And, building to the max height should earn lots a lower property tax rate. Manifest density!
Why is that (sand vs hill)?
On programmers getting better with age
I absolutely agree. I think we need to try to innovate how large scale complex software can be written.

One of the approaches I'm currently investigating and have high hopes for composition, pure functions, and explicit two-way dependency tracking. I'm trying to put this to the test in my work. The idea is that I hope even huge software can be decomposed into smaller independent (meaning all the dependencies are explicit) chunks with pre- and post-conditions. So fixing many bugs could boil down to navigating to the code responsible and fixing it there. It's too early for me to say how it'll work in reality, but I will find out with time.
Before I ever did a science experiment, I had to write a lab report and detail (1) what I was going to do, (2) how I was going to do it, and (3) what I expected the results to be.

If you aren't following the scientific method[1] and are just skipping straight to the "lets see what happens" step, are you really doing science? or are you just blowing things up?

What happens when a student does one of these "science experiments" and actually blows up a classroom (or bathroom or playground) and kills a bunch of kids?

Does it matter if he did it on purpose? Was he just doing science? Kids being kids? Was the teacher to blame? Were the parents to blame? If it was your kid that was maimed/killed in the explosion, would you even care if it was a "science experiment"?

On the flip side, is it worth worrying about the rare case of a rogue-science-experiment-gone-wrong?

Is it worth worrying about the signal sent to aspiring "school massacre-ists" by saying "You can get away with blowing stuff up at school as long as you say it's for science."

Maybe not.

I hope my kids are responsible with science. I hope the people around my kids are responsible with science.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
I also wonder, since if there is a "next Hitler" he's almost assuredly going to be produced by anti-government, anti-"banker" gun culture.
What's nonsense is buying visions instead of products. Just because glass has what seems like easily fixed problems doesn't mean it will ever - or anything like it - will be a viable product. We do not know it will be awesome if executed properly. It might be useful in some contexts, like driving. But I question the entire premise.
The hills in SF are made of rock.
Very glad you like those illustrations, first we have created couple of the sketches on the paper and then recreated that in the Photoshop.
The URL scheme you're using makes it really easy to view everyone else's mocks.