skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a few more features to discard and Nautilus will finally reach feature parity with dfm.
Hey, just so you know -- I used to work from EFF from 2005-2009, and recently rejoined them. I wasn't around during the suspension of bitcoin, but ensuring that we weren't 'part of the story' is a deliberate policy from far further back than that. Our work is primarily legal in nature, and conflicts of interest in that environment can prevent us from defending key players.

We have one person in DC, and he works there because he likes the city, not because of lobbying or thinktank activities (he's David Sobel, and leads our FOIA work). The rest of us work in San Francisco, and continue the primary role of EFF, which is to act as a legal firm and conduct public impact litigation.
Here's a nice chewy review:
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/02/review-a-week-in-a-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5730002
Wow, it is also wrong - the tesla does have many of those features.
Every time my aunt's back hurts the Dow Jones average drops 3.7 points! Is she a stock genius?
well it's not 400 but it's in the 400 range.

I know there are no excuses, and I've been irresponsible. However sometimes bad things happen to good people, and it's been a rough year.

Before that score I used to have a score in the range of 700.

Living at home is not an option. I have had bad luck with roommates they all turned out to be drug addicts or extremely loud.

Cable TV is included with rent, I do not even have a cellphone because I don't want to be spending $70/mo on that.

Then again, I'm not making excuses for that, I already have a plan to repay all my debt, and I'm starting next paycheck whether I'm moving forward with new company or I stay with my current employer.
I've been scanning my (several thousand books) for over a year now. Using a flatbed scanner is completely impractical at 1 minute per page. I:

1. Use a stack slicer to cut the spine off
2. Feed it through a sheet feeding scanner
3. Check results
4. Do any necessary rescans and stitch the result together with pdftk
5. Chuck the (now destroyed) book into the recycling bin

I have around 60Gb of books now, and have emptied many, many shelves and boxes. It's nice that I can now put my entire library onto my laptop.

It doesn't take that long per book, maybe 5 minutes. The main time-wasters are when a book has damaged pages so the hopper feeder doesn't work right on it, or when the bookbinding glue has spread too far and pages are stuck together beyond where the spine cut was made.

The hopper scanner will scan both sides at once in a couple seconds.

I run the scanner at 400dpi, which is far better than any of the current ereaders will display them. But I figure it's future proofing them. My current ereader of choice is the Kobo Aura that has the retina e-ink display. It's well suited to reading scanned books because:

1. the retina display eliminates the jaggies
2. the glow screen works well in low light conditions
3. the larger screen size is suited to scanned book pages
4. the 32Gb microsd slot enables me to carry around at least half of my library :-)
The sports car thing must be a phase. I can't wait for the day I walk in to a dealer and drive out with an Audi R8 Spyder. And I am very non-luxurious with the rest of my expenses.
I wonder how many of those people use it for uploading. It's so-so for just browsing (the images in the feed are - very - downsampled).
Yes of course, but theres a very big difference between a direct subsidy with hard cash (or a loan guarantee) and an open-to-all incentive system, not last in public perception.

Your wording simply suggested to me that you thought these were somehow backed with government money. I'm sorry if I misinterpreted here.

Musk has said in conference calls that their 25% margin target is not predicated (at all) on credit revenue, but he can't magically make money appear, so that remains to be seen.

There is a very worthwhile recap of the regulatory credits systems here:

http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/16357-Regulato...
As a non-artist, I can never even hope to understand the complex design choices that the GNOME developers make. http://i.imgur.com/VXwiUdU.png
http://wap.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/science/eleanor-r-adair-mi...

Dr. Adair was indisputably an innovator in studying microwave radiation, work she began in the mid-1970s while a fellow at the John B. Pierce Laboratory in New Haven. First with squirrel monkeys and then with human volunteers, she placed subjects in a chamber into which she released relatively high levels of microwaves for about 45 minutes, followed by a cool-down period. She focused on what impact the heat generated by microwaves might have — and she said she never found much more than perspiration. She said the monkeys and the people mostly enjoyed the experience.

“Particularly if the environment is cool, they love it when the field comes on,” she told The Times. She said: “It is very easy to sense it and it feels good. If they are in a warm environment, and the field is strong they may start to sweat and they may feel quite uncomfortable. They always have an option of getting out of the chamber at any time, saying, ‘I’ve had enough.’ ”
It doesn't sound like that's the case, and there is NEVER a reason for an employed person to allow a simple speeding ticket to turn into a bench warrant. I've struggled with these kinds issues in the past and the way out is to step up and take responsibility for your financial decisions.
"Go and find out any physics student/graduate and ask about his/her stranger laboratory "result"."

As a high school junior, I conclusively proved the strength of Earth's gravity field was ~6.1m/s^2, give or take .2m/s^2. Or at least, if you're willing to take this story and the experiments of high school students at face value, I conclusively proved it.

This isn't a science story. It's a human interest story with delusions of being a science story.
Minimizing the pain of others is never right. It is, in fact, one of the underlying problems here.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21799142
Oh, I meant just to share the site on fb or something... There's sharing for each one of the posts, but I also just mean in general for the site
Images are loading very slowly for me,maybe try a cache plugin to speed this up.
That's totally awful.

The company that offered me the job offer told me that they will not be doing any reference check on me.
I don't own a store, so this is only my take as an observant, prospective customer:

The JPGs are poor quality. In addition to using higher quality images, how about an actual photograph of the poster at an angle? That will show the quality of the posters.

Also, what are the dimensions of these posters? Do you have any info on the paper they are printed on, or the ink?

The only thing I see, is a sparse storefront, with a low-quality image, and a price. Nothing is instilling any confidence in the product or the store. There is nothing that makes it seem "real". No actual photographs or original branding. The store uses a generic name. Nothing is wrong with using a generic name, but without any branding, it seems like some dictionary words that are just thrown together.

You've taken the first step to build a business, which is a lot more than what other people have done that just have ideas but never act on them. I wish you the best.
As Nautilus has been horribly slow for a long time, I switched to PCManFM, the file manager of LXDE. It integrates well with GNOME, and is pretty much full-featured. There's also a status bar ;-) The only weird thing is that in the "detailed list view", the sort order cannot be changed by clicking the column headers.
That appears to be the Unity desktop in Ubuntu. The full Gnome 3 experience is different and does not have the duplication from the global menu.
Expanding on this:

I think mainstream media (reaching billions) should only publicize replicated scientific experiments. HN (reaching tens to hundreds of thousands) is not exactly mainstream though, at least not yet.
I too had a copy.

I remember when the album came out I immediately recognized the image, but I had no idea they had lifted it directly from the book itself. Now I wish I hadn't cut the picture out and taped it to the wall. :)
[Redacted by author / uncivil]. How the fuck do you know that he's living beyond his means? Or that he lives in South Texas?

I agree that unless he's in dire circumstances, he should pay off the ticket. And yes, a credit score in the 400s is pretty awful. From a strategic perspective, he should do it in order to have one less thing to worry about. However, I don't know the OP and have no idea what his financial constraints are. I do know that life is very (and unfairly) difficult for some people, and moralizing as if it were all their fault is ridiculous.
You were trying to link that automakers might not be scared because Tesla might "only" become the Apple of cars (I guess implying that less marketshare is not scary). But Apple's "small" marketshare enables it to reap most of the industry's profits which is far scarier to competitors.
You're right.

I could have done community service instead, but I didn't.

I didn't take responsibility for the ticket, and I just let it go. There's no excuse.
Surprised it took them this long! Ignoring the most popular language for webdev must have left many scratching their heads.
Well, I don't think that's completely true.

I like the majority of the changes they've made in recent years. I think Gnome Shell is the best desktop around. It's not perfect, and the GNOME people do make the occasional UI blunder, but I'm not sure what else you're expecting. It's basically impossible to have a widely used project like this move forward because every change brings loud angry people who were totally using that.

I think the reason why GNOME is still dominant is because they're willing to ignore their users and make hard choices, not in spite of it.
Is there something special about this frequency, or would it have similar effect on 5Ghz?
Very.

I pay more than three times this for developers that work through Odesk, elance etc.
Vim fireplace is fantastic, kudos to tpope for putting that together. I haven't tried debugging with it yet, but it sounds like it should be pretty doable.
[Binary] PhantomJS with WebFonts support
"This allows to create really nice, but properly scoped pseudosyntax."

OK, I can think of some chunks of code I've written where that would make modest sense.

While my benefit/cost threshold for adding a syntax feature is generally much higher than the Perl team's (... much, much higher...), this does seem to fit in with their other additions then. Thanks.
http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/ROX-Filer
"The lesson may be that a broad focus on innovation and solving big problems leads to resiliency."

That would be an interesting conclusion if there was a good reason to believe it, but the article didn't make much of a case. How many of Google's off-the-wall projects are contributing to their 30% year-over-year quarterly revenue growth? Most of the projects mentioned were either market failures or haven't been released yet. Android was clearly a success, but it wasn't a great example of innovation: it was basically a clone of a successful existing product.

There's probably a more prosaic explanation for Google's success relative to Facebook. Both companies make most of their revenue from advertising, but Google developed AdWords, which leveraged Google's search infrastructure to became an essential piece of infrastructure for the buying and selling of ads. It's hard to name any other company that got rich off of web ads besides Google. Google is entrenched in the fabric of the internet, while Facebook is an upstart that's primarily just a website, like Yahoo was 15 years ago. At that time, Microsoft was the giant that owned the critical infrastructure, and they were doing very similar things as Google is now: Microsoft created MSN to compete with AOL and Yahoo; Microsoft leveraged its infrastructure to crush a threat from an upstart competitor -- Netscape. Building out, as much and as fast as you can, seems to be the winning strategy when you are in a position of overwhelming dominance as a result of owning essential infrastructure.

The "Luxury of Failure" is the actual lesson here. You get the luxury of failure when you own a revenue stream that's big and entrenched enough that you have the luxury to do essentially anything you want, even lose money. It's hard to compete against that.
Thanks for the feedback. I am currently working on the branding, this is definitely something which needs to be done. Good point about the photo of the poster from an angle. Will take the above on board. Thanks again!
Interactive light show using multiple Internet devices
People were so uncomfortable with the mentally ill that they made their social system to accept and reason inhumane and horrible "cures".

It's not unique, happens to drug addicts, for example, in various places.
You make some very good points esp. wrt verbosity. However, I don't care about portability or not using experimental features for personal or exploratory projects: stability is silver, conciseness is gold. The "state" subs are a consequent extension of the variable declaration keywords "my", "state", and "our". I can see myself using "my subs" in the future, the other possibilities have less practical use. "my subs" are proper closures, so they are not shared.

But, somebody will probably write a "lexsub" pragma that does away with the "no warnings ...", and portability becomes less of an issue over the course of time, much like I can nowadays treat the features of v5.10 as given.

Perl had nested functions since v5, just with akward syntax. Does Python have proper <del>variable declarations</del> closures? That is more of a dealbraker than non-experimental nested function syntax for me ;-)
Server access log analyzers (awstats, webalizer, etc)? Those are free, and get you most of the same basic reports. I don't know of any SaaS analytics that aren't out of your price range at 30M+ data points per month.
He must've stalked his comment history. At one point he says:

> South Texas (Rio Grande Valley)

Yes, wondering how he knew that confused me enough to pull up his comment history.

But to be fair, I don't think everyone reacts as negatively to this type of criticism as you do. At least, I don't immediately think of it as moralizing and unnecessary. If I was in the situation of the OP, having someone reply harshly would probably inspire me to get things together. But then again, I'm not sure most people are this way.
Is python 3 the new perl 6?
Also, build up the product. Say something in the descriptions like: "This poster is made to original specifications, just like the posters made 60 years ago when they changed the course of history." These posters are a niche product. They don't fill a need, they fill an emotional desire to connect with history. Build on those emotions. Some posters will sell themselves, for the rest, you have to sell them.
Which scanner are you using, if I may ask?
>variables, like $_. Which you don't use in real programs

Oh really? What's wrong with $_ and since when it is?
So, serious question - what language is better for small limited-scope web coding right now?

I don't mean major, fully-fledged app stuff, I mean simple CMSes, on-page loops / conditionals, <? echo $_GET["foo"] ?>, etcetera.

I'm no hardcore uber-coder, but I know enough to know there are languages I prefer to use than PHP. Personally, I like Ruby. But for a bit of quick glue or a relatively simple bit of web coding, I simply can't figure out what you'd use instead of PHP - and I assume from the number of "PHP sucks" comments that there must be such simple options?
We agree. I am all for "lots and lots of experimental products".

Calibration scores (secret performance reviews that happen in the Perf Room-- yes, Google has a physical place for "calibration" that is actually called "The Perf Room") are not experimental technology or product. They're an experiment (and a failed one) on people. Different rules together.
Accelerators can pimp up startups to look like a boy racer’s wet dream.
Well, you can say this either way. It also packs 362 hp, which makes the other cars look like matchboxes in comparison.

Where I agree with you, though, is that it is crystal clear that they don't target the same customers, and in this regard, the comparison is indeed disingenuous, one way or the other. If it were traditional gasoline cars, you'd never see this (say, a Mustang alongside the Yaris, because, you know, they both use gasoline!).
I like local for two big uses: One, in unit testing, it's a cheap way to completely mock out a function within some scope. I know there's various test methods for that, but frankly local'ing a glob is so easy both to use and to make do exactly what I need that it's often still easier than even invoking the library.

Second, I love it for security-related stuff where I really don't want something to escape a scope. I have a value that represents the current user I am processing a request for, which is used for security checks, and by local'ing the variable in the context of the handler, I can be very confident that it absolutely, positively will not escape into the next request.

It also turns out to mean that if you're in a code base that has some unfortunate "global" variables, that local lets you turn them into much less "global" variables, as you can local them with confidence about how it won't escape out of scope. Of course, the better solution is to not do that, or to fix it, but we don't live in a perfect world....
It's called a covered call position. If it was that risk-free and easy, then every hedge fund would be already on top of this and quickly bring prices back into parity.

Unfortunately, you still expose yourself to the risk of holding the stock, while putting a hard cap on the upside.

You have to hold 100 shares to cover 1 option. A decline in the price can quickly add up to a significant loss, not to mention when you actually have to sell your position when the calls are exercised.
Most PHP flaws that people moan about are shallow. Inconsistent naming of functions and parameter order, syntax warts — those are annoying, but ultimately don't matter.

What matters is that PHP has got big things right. Deployment is trivial. One process per request happens to mitigate leaks and (over)shared state. Failures affect one client at most, and scalability bottleneck is pushed down to the database.
NSA was already ready to pay billions of dollars for a Skype eavesdropping solution [1]. One could wonder if that's one way Microsoft wanted to recover some of the cost of their investment, and why they were so willing to pay twice as much as Google wanted to pay. I mean what company outbids another by 2x/$4 billion for a company with not that much revenue and profit?

[1] - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_...
The reason microwaves use 2.4 GHz is that water and fat molecules begin to resonate at that frequency, absorbing energy from the waves.

It's also one reason why 2.4GHz systems can have problems outdoors.

During rainstorms, the range drops to nothing as the water grabs all the energy.

Also any foliage (leaves w/ moisture inside) blocks the signals more than at other frequencies.
Did she get a settlement for it?

Even companies that don't do severance will pay out when they rescind an offer, because it makes them look horrible. Since it sounds like there's nothing embarrassing on her (it was just a case of a random hit) she could easily get $75,000. (Most bad reference/rescinded offer cases make plaintiff look somewhat bad and come in around the $20-50k range; but in her case, they don't have anything on her.)
I'd love to see what percentage of linux desktop users actually use gnome anymore. It would be especially interesting to see a graph of how that has changed over time.

My intuition is that they went from almost total dominance a few years ago to total irrelevance now (< 2%).
Interesting. I'd heard that the "Justin Bailey" password referred specifically to Samus' swimsuit, since "Bailey" is an Australian term for swimsuit, and the password could actually be read "Just In Bailey."

So... weird coincidence? Or Aussies on the dev team? :)`
Because accessing an "uninitialized" variable is a crash, rather than an implicit value, Python's need for "proper" variable declarations is much less than in a language that will happily just fill in a value. It may not be quite as good as proper Perl "use strict", but it's much closer to that level of goodness than Perl without "use strict". Python has seen fit to introduce a "use strict" for that very reason; Perl was in a world of hurt before it, Python is manifestly not.

I scare-quote "uninitialized" because what it really is is nonexistant, which isn't the same thing.
A minor nit about your ad copy is that you have misspelled Calvin Klein. I would encourage you to remove this whole sentence since it is irrelevant to the business of building a high-end hosting service. Hope this doesn't come across as negative, I'm just trying to help.
PayPal connected to a bank account.
I understand why you see it that way. +1 to the "learning curve is not the only factor". But a few remarks:

> There's a nice little ding against git here for actually listing its options in the synopsis, which is standard behavior for unix utilities, unlike hg which just says `[OPTION]...`. Sorry Robert, but git definitely wins that one.

I'm not so sure about that. I think i have seen both pretty often. Example: man sed. I understood his point there: The git-way of the presentation makes it harder to understand the basic structure of the command, which is an issue given the multiple forms they can have.

> The actual summary of both commands, which is the very first real line of text you see in the help on both, is as follows: ...

True with the first line, not necessarily true with what is the real description/summary here. Gits placement is ambiguous (that line is called name).

> But he doesn't mind terminology used in `hg update`, such as "working directory" or "changeset

Well, both words are used in other places than mercurial, they are the basic words for what they are...
That's odd, I'm on a netbook running Lubuntu right now and I can do that. Have you tried filing a bug?
this made me remember when I was a kid and cheated to my sibilings in MAME emulators, editing the high socores files with notepad. Many times I turn games unusable after that.. now I know why you shouldn't open binary fles as text, edit and save them.
I was lead to believe that Larry Page was Google's CEO. How does this get sent to print?
I think that he was able to gain access to hex-level memory and instructions through a GameShark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameShark) playing on the N64, though he doesn't mention this directly.
In all seriousness, I find it much nicer to use a lightweight WM and install/configure exactly what I need, than have something generic that I don't understand as well (i.e., "desktop environment").
I used to run GNOME on my workstations and XCFE on my first netbook (Asus Eee 701) before switching everything over to openbox... the latter has gotten me so used to right-click-for-everything that using GNOME or Windows requires a minute of concerted effort to remember how most of the rest of the world does things.

[edit: However, I still use Nautilus, and thanks to the article this thread discusses I'll likely now have to switch that out... oh well. I was switching from barebones Ubuntu to Debian anyway thanks to Canonical's growing nuttery.]
OTOH, Elon Musk buying $100 million worth of shares is a very strong signal that the shares are under valued.

It's probably not a coincidence that those two countering signals are being sent at the same time.
There are some modules that don't support Perl 5.8, like Data::Show. RHEL's policy about Perl versions is just horrible.
The universe is telling you to stop playing games and do something useful.