skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The short answer is it doesn't make money right now, but there are possible alternatives for the future like adding a job board. Hosting is so insanely cheap that the cost of running Hoverboard is incredibly small. And thanks for the UI comment!
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The Pull Request Hack

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5357417
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I'm leaning towards "both," but I just got lectured by an MBA that the "correct" answer is disruptive.
Re Shopstream, seems like a terrific idea. How are you planning to market it? Suggest you integrate with the Shopify platform first, as they really care about and market the apps in their app store: http://apps.shopify.com
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It says in the article she was given an environmental prize. It's $100,000:

http://www.thestandrewsprize.com/lists/2013.htm
The piece was intriguing. And while I can't prove it, non-existence is probably overrated.
many of these methods will only work for very unique names (or domains). just because an email exists, doesnt mean it's the person you're looking for.

ironically, john.doe@common-domain.com will never reach a person actually named john doe.

i remember http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol which was open for business on many servers in the 90s, could get a person's info by their email, etc.
I'm an American and none of those even begin to put me aghast. We're not all right-wing, war-monging cowboys with gun racks. Conversely, we're not all Occupy protestors carrying protest signs 24/7. Don't pay attention to the media.
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> the Government explains that it wants to review whether the designs are in compliance with arms export control laws.

I don't understand why this is so reactionary. People have been (very publicly) attempting to make a working 3D printable gun for years, and only now that it's finally happened the appropriate government agency has decided to explore the legal implications?
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Is there a significance to 57 there?
Would love to see functionality here similar to the iota keyword in Go.
I've lived more of my life on the other side (the side of light) compared to Allie. Perhaps that's why one of her segments screamed out at me above the rest.

> but I somehow managed to convince myself that everything was still under my control right up until I noticed myself wishing that nothing loved me so I wouldn't feel obligated to keep existing.

So as an old guy (GOML) who's had a couple of good friends suicide: If you have a friend that might be having some trouble? Err on the side of butting-in, in the kindest way possible. If it turns out that nothing was really wrong and you feel embarrassed, you will feel nowhere near as bad as if you did nothing and something was actually wrong.
And that's how the State Department learned there is no delete button on the internet.
Even better. The many levels of skimming on display.
"We just hope they don't use WINE" <- YES!
The idea that everyone has time to do 'X' if they only wanted it bad enough is complete BS.

For people that work two jobs, have a family to take care of, commute several hours, have a sick spouse and sleep there is no more time in the day. No matter how badly you want it.

Unless you or the author of Rework know of a magical formula to make the day longer than 24 hours or how to operate on little to no sleep.
In a small company, "the boss" is the owner and there is no HR. If you don't get along with him, you leave.

In a large company, HR's job isn't to help you but to keep the company from getting sued. They will almost always side with management. You might make a dent in a manager's reputation and, if 5 or 6 people come forward with the same complaint about him, he might be "promoted away" into a role with less direct people management... but you're fired by that point, so it means nothing to you.

HR is not your friend.

Your best move if you have a bad boss is to work out a transfer behind his back, and leave on good terms. Find someone with more clout who will request sponsor you. Don't "apply for" transfer. Get requested. Never say anything bad about your boss in the process, just that you're looking for work that's more relevant to your skill set.
Correct, but you actually can sell them as long as they are not manufactured with the intent to sell. So you can't make a lower, take it to the range for a day and immediately sell it, but if you have one that is several years old it's probably fine to sell it or give it as a gift.

And my understanding is that it is generally considered a good idea to add a serial number, even if it's not legally required. It can make interactions with law enforcement easier if they're not aware of all these details.
I'm pretty sure a $2000 printer isn't necessary to print it. Printrbots are relatively cheap < $500, but you have to assemble it yourself.

PrintrBot+ printing + superfine resolutions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyrP4LWc0yk
Yes, strict laws on private behavior certainly keeps authoritarianism at bay. Personally, between free speech and a two year warranty, I go for the former.
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It's basically a fancy zip gun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_firearm), something people have been making ever since there were cartridges to put in them.

Like a home-made zip gun it's quite dangerous to use, and liable to malfunction in all kinds of ways harmful to the user.
I think if people have to start paying their money, they will not tolerate that kind of behavior from doctors. Think about when you take your car to the auto mechanic. Generally you pay some money for diagnosis. Then if the mechanic recommends a fix that is cheap, you let him just go ahead. But if the fix is very expensive, you might call around several places to make sure the price is reasonable. Of course, you'd never call around if the price was a $20 co-pay no matter which mechanic you went to.

Certainly, not the perfect analogy, but I think it points to the ridiculous nature of our current system and how such a ridiculous system will of course lead to costly behavior.

This analogy is for more predictable things like shots, checkups, bad colds, etc. For catastrophic illness and trauma, that's why you have insurance.
I really like this. Well done! It is a very crowded space, especially as of late. Goodluck!
Sporadically.
And more the the point, Python is strongly typed in the sense that it has very few automatic conversions between types, in contrast to, say, Perl. As the PEP says, this means that you can't accidentally compare an enum value of one type to an enum value of another without a runtime error occurring, instead of an infuriatingly subtle bug.

Python may defer its type checking to run time, but it still has it.
Clearly impossible to stop the spread of this information, and any attempts to make it possible would be extremely objectionable, but anyone found actually producing or using these weapons should face extreme prison terms. Mass proliferation of handguns is responsible for thousands of deaths each year in this country alone, and we should be taking all feasible steps to reign it in.
Jigsaw (https://www.jigsaw.com) can be a useful tool to confirm email addresses and also get direct phone numbers. An easy way to bypass their credit payment system is to click "Update All" on the contact screen and then unlock all of the fields by guessing their email address. Enter the common variations listed in this article and once you have the email format for the company you can quickly unlock their co-workers.
What about an email saying something like

Looks like you haven't been very active on project <foo> lately, <bar>. Would you like to hand your baby over to <baz> or <quux> perhaps?

where baz and quux are people who have been ranked as being most active in the given repo.

EDIT: With a click here to hand over your repo to someone else (and lift that heavy burden off your shoulder), obviously.
I disagree here. While it is a testing component, part of any valid test is that it be replicable. If you are running down to 'Home Depot' and picking up some random screws with who knows what specifications, how exactly are you going to replicate the design here? Perhaps they will never need to do it and it is a genuine one-off design, but putting on the line a potential multi-million (billion?) dollar project? In the grand scope then, spending $2000 (which I doubt WAS the real cost here) on some screws just gets a shrug out of me.
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Always?

I think originally it was something to do with having land and privilege, or being a free citizen and not a slave. And definitely male... Then you could have a say.

And naive? Sure is, I like the naive view of democracy - that we all ought to have equal say in the way things are run, regardless of monetary or time contributions to a campaign.
For most people, I imagine a decent-sized subset of appealing meals can be very satiating at the same time.

p.s. wtvanhest: Not sure what you have against blue cheese. Hopefully not "dietary fat makes you fat because it's calorie dense" because that would again be anomalous 80s thinking that ignores satiety effects and runs with a 1-dimensional model for something as complex as nutrition and aggregate consumption behaviour.
This is a perfect example. Even though you have worded this eloquently, your claim ("everyone is right, except in mathematics") is mutually exclusive to mine ("in some cases, two people speaking against each other cannot both be right"). Personally, I don't find your metaphor convincing. There are plenty of cases where not all parties are right.
You know Woz was in an airplane accident in the 80s as I recall, so it may have changed his perspective. In fact he organized a rock concert (the Us Festival) to try and recapture Woodstock in the 80s and I think did some elementary school teaching for a while. But technology for him was fun, it was never really about the ambition. In fact he had to be lured away from HP by friends to co-found Apple, so he didn't have dreams of conquering the world.
57 isn't a prime number. 3 * 19 = 57
Interesting article. I'm assuming this increased spending is simply because they're also the people who enjoy this kind of media the most. If they pirate films, for example, it's because they love watching tons of films, so they also pay for more than the average joe.

I wonder, though, if this stat is misleading. If they were paying for content, would they be spending 1000% more or 2000% more than 'honest' consumers?
In my experience Google employee emails are harder to find.
Thanks for the feedback. I made the icon in Illustrator and then used photoshop to create the various icon sizes. Scaling down to the very small sizes (16x16, 32x32) didn't seem to produce great results. If the app ever turns a profit my first step will be to pay an actual graphics person to redo the logo and icons.
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Im not sure if clone works as expected though. He has a laser beam and it listens for a 'shoot' broadcast. When it hears it, a clone of 'myself' is made, it is placed behind the ship, and a loop moves it to the left. However, if 'shoot' is broadcasted multiple times, new clones are not made and the same laser beam is placed behind the ship. Maybe we'll put the clone logic on the broadcast portion and not on the laser itself. Programming is fun, I can't wait to nudge him to try that approach
So get the driverless car that isn't run by Google. I get that there are privacy issues, but I still think this article is overly alarmist.

As an aside, I expect autonomous driving to be phased in gradually - I'd wager freeways first, then city centers, and rural areas only at the very end. However, once there's a sufficient installed base of autonomous vehicles, I expect it will be illegal to drive manually in those areas, because it kind of defeats the point.
There's no problem sending encrypted data internationally. The "munition" is the code/program that does the encryption.

Export controls on crypto were relaxed in the late 90s (I'd have to look up the exact dates), and before then there were "export" versions of Netscape Navigator that only supported 40 bit keys.
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Not 24 hours ago the #1 post on HN was that gun crime has been downright plummeting for the past 20 years, despite the fact that more and more guns are being manufactured and sold.

I know it's a tired old saying, but the honest truth is that guns do not kill people, people kill people. Once you realize that, you realize that 3D printable guns are not a danger justifying "extreme prison terms".
Yes, it isn't prime, that's the joke (I guess).
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It's going to take a long time to get people comfortable with driverless cars. In the meantime, can the technology be immediately converted to "assisted" driving to help avoid collisions, crossing the center line, etc.? Make it a lot harder for people to "bump" into each other. We might be able to get some of the benefits of driverless cars sooner.
Well, he's right about /one/ thing...
> if this stat is misleading. If they were paying for content, would they be spending 1000% more or 2000% more than 'honest' consumers?

I wouldn't say so, the stat is what they are actually spending.
Actually it's interesting to look at what people in developing countries (who typically only have £1/day or about that) eat: http://imgur.com/a/mN8Zs
You should try HL1, most of the bugs are just visuals and don't affect gameplay. I've played the game and it never crashed.
I'd say impossible. Are there any similar cases where a government or a company succeeded?
> There are several hard problems in one domain that are trivial in another domain, for example.

Certainly, and this is pretty much what OP did, invent a new domain to solve a problem – Hamilton aka Lord Kelvin merely reformulated the problem slightly, and while I personally love Hamiltonian mechanics, I don’t think it is comparable to ‘inter-universal geometry’ or replacing first order logic with something else.

So, yes, a different field may provide a different perspective and hence easier solution, but if you want to replace first order logic, you’re not looking at a different/new field in maths, you’re looking at rebuilding maths.
An alarmist article in Reason, you say? How intriguing.
Why was the example Brighton? Geolocation stuff or are you a skiffmate/werker/something else around here?

As a side note, been looking for something like this to start writing about things.
OMG love this post. "Fish are always deadest before dawn!"
I don't think you know what "aghast" means.
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"Common sense advice has not changed particularly much over the past twenty years. ...There are some things - dietary cholesterol isn't seen as evil (but the foods it's in are)."

No, definitely false. Dietary cholesterol has definitely been considered a bad thing and for the last 30 years people were told to avoid it, by heart doctors, in the form of avoiding cholesterol in your diet, in that specific terminology. It wasn't just that cholesterol was in "bad" things, the things were bad because they had cholesterol.

"But other stuff - replacing fat for sugar (replacing a real salad dressing with a low fat (but high sugar) dressing) has always been seen as bad advice."

Also complete tripe. Low fat diets have been advocated for decades now without a word given to what the fat was replaced with, because the fat was considered So Obviously Bad it didn't matter, anything was better.

The dietary consensus is in fact undergoing significant change (still in the early phases of penetrating the consensus but I'm pretty sure its inevitable at this point), but this is exactly how I expect the authorities to wiggle out from under the fact they were giving fatally-inaccurate advice for decades... straight-up historical revisionism. We never said cholesterol was bad for you, we never were universally against salt (just for certain at-risk people), we always said many fats were good for you, we certainly NEVER EVER EVER advocated transfats as a healthy alternative to fats how dare you even suggest that we did such a thing, and we have always been at war with Eurasia.

I will not forget.
I think if somebody is saying, "I fundamentally disagree with the foundation of our society", then "try someplace else" is a reasonable answer.

In this case, though, I'm not expecting anybody to move to Somalia. I'm pointing out that places with no effective social contract or taxation system are hellholes. It's not a literal recommendation; it's a reductio ad absurdum to show that the poster's views aren't thought through.
> extreme prison terms

How about reasonable prison terms?

That could end up being no time at all.
You are absolutely, without a doubt, incorrect. Making up random guesses about your caloric intake is exactly why people think all sorts of crazy nonsense about metabolism like you do. You were eating less than your recommended intake, not double it. You just suck at estimating. Most people do. There is no way you were eating 5000 kcal in the hospital, they won't even let you.
or your head :(
Do you have any thoughts about open sourcing it at some point, or charging money? Either way, I'd feel more confident putting my data in there. Otherwise, it looks awesome.
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If people want to kill each other, I guess, a 3d model of a gun being available on the internet would make no difference.
I think he meant, if they couldn't pirate, would they buy even more content than they do now.
The externalities (noise, pollution, horrendous city planning, ...) are carried by everyone, though. And while people may not be forced, there are certainly places where living without a car ranges from inconvenient over hard to impossible.
Brilliant! I'm a little confused by this line though:

>> If an elephant makes contact with one of the hives or the connecting wires, the beehives all along the fence will swing and release the bees.

The first part made it sound like elephants would stay away from this perimeter just because there was an active beehive, so it's unlikely the elephant would get close to the fence anyway. But then if it does, wouldn't the sudden release of all bees drive the elephant into a panic precisely when it's choices are to run into the field or away from the fence? Or am I just misunderstanding something?
I still think there should be one maintainer with absolute control. Otherwise, "citizens" could take away someone's open source project with "democracy" or mob rule.

Imagine building something you are incredibly proud of to grow legs and walk away before you wanted it to.
Hey. ShopStream is not my own application. It's the app I did for one of my clients. BTW, it's integrated has Shopify integration and is listed here. http://apps.shopify.com/shopstream
"Real" anti-depressants have been found to cause suicide, and are part of why the suicide rate has been increasing in recent years. There are thousands of articles about this, starting over 10 years ago.

However, it's obvious neither of you are qualified to talk about addiction, so both of you should either provide sources or shut up about it.

Some of these articles talk about the potential suicide risk created by antidepressants:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/18/national/18depress.html?_r...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-peter-breggin/antidepressan...

These articles talk about what we know about antidepressants and their risks:

http://www.helpguide.org/mental/medications_depression.htm

http://www.drugwatch.com/ssri/suicide/

This person rails against the first few articles, but also acknowledges the risks:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/ashleymiller/2013/01/18/antidepr...

Some Google Scholar searches:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=antidepressant+cause+su...
Apparently, all I know about strings is correct.
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There is the possibility of manufacturing caseless ammo.

An exotic replacement for the firing pin isn't strictly necessary. A firing pin is too small to activate a metal detector. At least, the government thinks so, because guns are required to contain a minimum amount of metal for this purpose.

The current stories are neglecting to mention this, but an earlier Forbes article reported that the Liberator contains a 6 ounce piece of steel to remain compliant with the law on undetectable firearms.
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I think it's too early to make these conclusions. The self driving cars are produced by Google X, and have nothing to do (yet) with the data-collecting Ads division. I would be very surprised if the cars send personally-identifying data back to Google, and I think there would be a considerable public backlash.
This is very common on remote work sites like Elance. Elance calls their version WorkView. It's not strange at all and actually beneficial for both sides of the interaction. This is because if you accept an hourly job with WorkView, Elance guarantees you'll get paid for your hours. For the employer it is obviously beneficial as well because you have more piece of mind the worker is actually spending their time working.
That gun crime has been falling does not mean that proliferation of guns is a neutral proposition, it only means that other trends have been stronger.

More handguns = more dead people, period. The only people rooting for a society awash in easily obtainable handguns are criminals and delusional libertarians with adolescent Minute Man fantasies.
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With $50k on the line, you collect upfront.
First time I've seen him sit like that
I think that British family might be on the run, having escaped (barely) from the late 80s/early 90s.

They even have a VHS machine!

(Also I like that the german family have put everything in very neat rows)
> distinguish truth from fiction > read a lot

> distinguish truth from fiction = difficult to learn from reading

Sorry but you are plain wrong here, it seems.

Distinguish truth from fiction can only happen if you have good eyes, so you see the thruth, and at the same time have access to good fiction, which you should get primarily from books or movies.

Everyone has eyes to see: only those reading a lot will be able to tell the true from the invented.
It's far more important to tell the client "no", because a client will expect that you have no boundaries. The set-the-bill-rate-massively-high approach is a passive-aggressive way of telling a client "no", and it doesn't work well -- it can backfire.

Having been independent for 5+ years, saying "no" is a learned skill.
Whoa, totally misunderstood. This isn't a client you install anymore? Bonkers.
Gun crime has plummeted in the USA nowhere near as much as in Australia where guns are banned. Gun crime hasn't plummeted in Mexico, with the USA being a prime source of weapons.

Crime in general has plummeted across the West, the increase in firearms in the USA is not a causative factor.

Keynes made the point that it is better to be austere in a time of plenty.
The time to introduce gun control is when crime is falling, not try and introduce it when crime is rising and people feel like they might want to have weapons for self defence.
Theft implies unwillingness. So sure, in the sense that paying your share of a group meal you ordered is theft, yes.
Ahaha, no - the example is Brighton for everyone. I used to live there (although I'm temporarily living in Liverpool at the moment while my girlfriend works on a masters).
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Requires an "always on" Internet connection.

Coupled with the Flash front end, that doesn't make me hugely happy.