skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think of it the other way around.

The top brick can be placed so that its centre of mass is positioned over the edge of the brick below. This two block system is stable.

The two block system can be placed on a third block so that the centre of mass of the two blocks is positioned over the edge of the third block. This three block system is then stable.

From there, it's turtles all the way down
The Monster made me a Platonist. Group classification is damn alien stuff. It's like discovering Moby Dick except a million times larger and scarier, buried in the dark depths between science and philosophy.
I can't find it on the net, but in Umberto Eco's 'Foucault's Pendulum' the final monologue by the wife illustrates that really well.
Those who remember this family of Software might see some similarity ;-) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Userland_Software#Frontier
Just look at the article for protocols that they introduced and popularised.

There's lots of other cool stuff under the hood that you probably won't notice at first, like:

- It's a not just an outliner but it's also a outlined chat/collaboration tool.
- It's not just an outliner but it's also a Javascript programming environment. i.e. you can execute functions that that you write in the outlines.
- It's not just an outliner, it's a front end to your blogging platform.

Also, don't worry about connecting it to Dropbox. It sandboxes all it's activities under the Apps/Fargo folder so won't go crazy with your files.

Already there is a lot to try out and hopefully this will be the new frontier that we have been waiting for.
The mere fact that Obama, who bashed Bush for doing these same things, has gone further than Bush...

When did Obama do that?

Obama criticized Bush for Iraq. (Rightly so IMO.) However the war on terror was something he was always supportive of. For example he was one of the relatively few Democrats who voted to give the telecoms retroactive immunity for handing over illegal wiretaps.

Now lots of other liberals criticized Bush on those grounds. But I don't remember Obama doing so. (And if he did, it was probably to throw some red meat. In 2007 when I researched him, Obama was clearly conservative for a Democrat.
It's hard to tell, AI has reached the level of intelligence of crazy people and trolls. It could just be a sentient tree.

What's interesting is that there have been at least a dozen revisions, and nobody's bothered to change the ampersands to D's.
I couldn't figure out how to delete an item. Also kept getting "you have 1 synced document" growl notifications on Mac. Other than those issues, this looks to be really useful!
This seems like it's just plain XSS - it doesn't take advantage of a user's serverside session to forge an action on their behalf.
It's true that non-founder equity has a trivial chance of becoming life-changing money. But working at a fast-growing company has benefits. For inexperienced by ambitious people, the work-to-employee ratio makes it possible to take on projects that would normally go to someone more senior, prove your talent, learn quickly, and earn further options grants as a bonus. Even if you never get a windfall from that company, when you leave you'll have skipped a few years in job growth and be able to enter the next company in a better position.

To make a lot of money joining a startup, you probably have to be better at evaluating startups than VCs are, which is pretty difficult. Luckily, picking a startup where you can develop your skills, work with smart people, and have a lot of fun is easier than that. But it's still not automatic--you need to evaluate the founders and other employees to find out if you'll fit.
I'll hunt those textbooks and try to find it, but "domain expert in finance" sounds cryptic.

What's the actual job title for the $400+/h job?

Oh, I once got an invite by McKinsey, but I declined the job offer. I believed that they won't support me learning more skills and that I can earn more as Software-Engineer. I don't know I was wrong now.

A quant is a Sofware-Engineer who knows a lot about "Finance". http://quantstart.com/articles/Self-Study-Plan-for-Becoming-...

I first heard it here on HN that one can earn $400+/h with a legal job!

And I'm deeply deeply impressed by that. I thought that only the dark-side (botnets/silkroad) allows one to reach or even top that amount.
No rule regarding a counterbalance?
I'm not sure. I think that when you are running a business, time and money are much more exchangeable than they are otherwise. I mean, outsourcing housekeeping duties is likely the least Mustachian thing I can think of, but I think it makes a lot of sense if you can easily work a few more hours for significantly more after tax dollars than what the housekeeper charges.

Or cooking. Man, what a time sink, and that one is actually kinda hard to solve; restaurants are sub-optimal, unless you can schedule meetings during the wait time, simply 'cause they are so slow. I mostly eat frozen food and salads, which is suboptimal, 'cause frozen food is crap. I guess learning how to cook quick and easy stuff would be one solution. So would having someone come and cook for me, but I suspect that'd be significantly more expensive than just eating out every day.

But yeah, I'm trying to say that when you are running a business? you have a whole lot more power to increase your revenue (vs. when you are working for other people) - often it makes more sense to spend limited time on increasing revenue than it does to spend that time on decreasing expenses.

Which isn't to say decreasing expenses isn't good. I've started my company by living off 1/3rd to 1/2 what my job role is usually paid, contracting, and putting the difference into capital goods for my business. There's no way I could have started a capital intensive business if I wasn't able to earn like the upper middle class while I lived like the lower middle class, So cutting costs was pretty essential. But at this point? my food budget is about a grand a month, while my co-lo/bandwidth budget is closer to ten grand a month. (fifteen, if you count all the temporary stuff that I need to move out of) - the thing is, I can get a lot more mileage out of putting effort into making that $10K number smaller than I can out of making that $1K number smaller.
"Fargo is the only idea organizer that runs in the browser, cross-operating system with entirely cloud-based storage."

I'm actually quite fond of another one, Workflowy.
Click on the wedge in front of the item to be sure you're in structure mode. Then hit Backspace, or Cmd-X to cut.

This kind of stuff is explained in the Outliner Howto.

http://smallpicture.com/outlinerHowto.html

Glad you like it -- it is really useful. ;-)
Yes, but how much of that is due to factors outside of the candidate's control?
Privacy Challenges of Wearable Computing
Freegemas cloned in Google Play... 4 times
Well, my approach to politics is in no particular order learning the issues and people, advocating for or against the former, donating money where I think it will do good, sometimes volunteering time, and of course voting. All of them have paid off enough times that I see no reason not to continue, and they hardly strike me as insane.

WRT to donations, I made 5 sets of political donations in the last year or so, and 3 of the 5 were "successful" in that the politician or cause succeeded, and in the case of the politicians they're doing exactly what I want ... aside from asking me for more money this calendar year ^_^.
What you're referring to is more about social injustice as a result of a fiercely meritocratic, free market capitalist society. Yes, I think that healthcare and education should be free (I come from Australia where they both are, and my family was "poor" and I had access to a University education - there's a debt there but it's not as bad as what you guys call student loans).

Incidentally I wonder how many of your college buddies would vote in favour of healthcare or education funding reform? (My guess is very very few but that's beside the point).

This is a completely different problem from what the original article is discussing. The original article is talking about the fact that in areas where the poverty is so absolute, giving people things like access to schools or social programs has virtually no impact, but giving them access to a tractor and a herd of cows generates a huge economic benefit, and creates a position from which they can later do things like build schools and run their own social programs. In other words the people have skills, are willing to work and have a plan to make money and feed themselves predictably and reliably. Giving them cash makes sense.

Now I agree that giving this guy free access to education and not having a double standard for students who pay versus those who don't (which has, incidentally, crept into the Australian system too since Howard fucked everything up) is a good idea. But giving him cash isn't.

First world poverty can and should be solved institutionally, because it is an institutional problem.
But the extension mechanism has nothing to do with placing the top brick. It seems like a mistake in the writeup.
So...reading through the OP and the New Republic link it refers to, there is almost no mention of Al-Qaeda at all. This is the sole mention I could find (besides in the headline of the New Republic story):

> This vision of a philosophical, scientific Islam means little to the Al Qaeda–linked Islamist group Ansar Dine, which for most of last year ruled Timbuktu through terror, cutting off the hands of thieves, flogging women judged to be dressed immodestly, and destroying centuries-old tombs of local saints. In the summer, the militants commandeered Ahmed Baba, using it as a headquarters and barracks. Then, in January, French forces closed in on Timbuktu. As the Islamists fled, they trashed the library, burning as many of the manuscripts as they could find. The mayor of Timbuktu, Hallé Ousmani Cissé, told The Guardian that all of Ahmed Baba’s texts had been lost. “It’s true,” he said. “They have burned the manuscripts.”

There's quite a difference between "Al-Qaeda" and "Al-Qaeda-linked"...in that a linked-to group may think of Al-Qaeda as the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" but most certainly have different philosophical aims. Don't get me wrong: destroying a library is bad no matter who is doing it. But if there's anything we've learned in the last decade of international politics, it's that these kinds of distinctions matter, and have, on occasion, been exploited for propaganda purposes.

Edit: oh, and after doing a cursory Wikipedia lookup, it appears there may be no association at all:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansar_Dine

Ansar Dine has its main base among the Ifora tribe from the southern part of the Tuaregs' homeland.[8] It has been linked with Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) because its leader Iyad Ag Ghaly is the cousin of AQIM commander Hamada Ag Hama.[4] In April 2012, Salma Belaala, a professor at Warwick University who does research on jihadism in North Africa said that this association was false, claiming that Ansar Dine was opposed to Al Qaeda.[9] Ag Ghaly was also previously associated with the 1990 Tuareg rebellion.[4] The group's members are reported to be from Mali, Algeria, and Nigeria.[10] Omar Ould Hamaha, who served as Ansar Dine's spokesman after April 2012, became the military leader of the AQIM-affiliated Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) in August 2012.[11]
Four Business Lessons I Learned from the Bluths
I use org-mode, with links between files as necessary and some helper functions to quickly create new files in an organized manner with a single key combination. That particular set of org-mode files looks a lot like a wiki, and I can use the agenda view to quickly see all to-do items without having to necessarily hunt through all of the various files for them.
Even such an obvious litmus test as this is imperfect.

According to polling data, over 20% of Republicans self-identify as pro-choice and 34% of Democrats as pro-life.

There are plenty of Republicans who support gay rights. In fact did you know that the end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell stems from a lawsuit about the matter filed by gay Republicans? Yes, I know that Obama publicly takes all of the credit for that one, but the bill that he pushed for took effect on September 20, 2011 while Log Cabin Republicans v. United States forced an end to enforcement on July 6, 2011.

There is no simple litmus test. Each party is a coalition of people with enough common interests that they prefer one tent over the other.
Thin on details, but it just sounds like traffic analysis applied to the cell network and/or Internet, which would obviously require multiple taps into the networks (for wired communication) and multiple listenting posts (for wireless communication).

Note, I'm not commenting on the legality or wisdom of this, just that the underlying analysis technique isn't anything new.
But Twitter is a protocol owned by a private company. That's even rarer.

They had an opportunity to be a free and open platform that spurns innovation instead they stifle it and impose ridiculous restrictions upon those who can only make the service better. In the beginning Twitter was a great platform to build on, but no doubt due to growing pressure to make money, Twitter have driven away a large number of developers, maybe Twitter will be fine without them but for how long?
Also, would it even be applicable to minors working from outside the U.S?
I just did git init about 5 minutes ago. With me luck!
I really appreciate the enthusiasm, as co-founder of the company and one of two developers of the product.

However, you can't at this time edit full JavaScript apps in Fargo, you can run single lines of code using Cmd-/.

We do plan to make it a JS development tool, we use it that way ourselves, but first we want to release the server-side component.

It is today a very good workgroup tool. Here's a doc that explains how to set it up for a workgroup.

http://smallpicture.com/fargoWorkgroup.html

Dave
If you do this so that the top brick is overhanging by half it's length and then place another brick on it, the first brick is no longer the top brick so this no longer applies.
Impact spherules suggest cosmic impact 12,800 years ago
FYI, the keyboard shortcuts on http://littleoutliner.com/ seem to prevent me from using cmd+opt+I or cmd+opt+U when the window has focus. cmd+opt+J works though.
Without going anywhere near how "absurd" or "dangerous" treating phone traffic metadata differently than the phone traffic itself may or may not be, it's certainly not new. In the US, at least, who you called, when, and for how long is subject to much less legal safeguard than the content of the conversation had, and has been for a very long time.

Of all the things to take from this article, to my mind, that's not the first.
1. LISP is an ideal language for code generation.

For example, producing high quality C code (e.g., arthur whitney or djb's, imo); this is difficult or tedious when done "by hand" but can be made easier by using code generation. There is a beautiful conciseness and consistency to the "model" C code I prefer (e.g. by the above authors). It is well-suited to being generated by a "custom interpreters" and a "DSL". Next to Flex, LISP is my personal favorite for constructing such a code generation system.

Python devotees already follow a similar path when they use Cython. But what do you think the quality of the generated C code is like? Have a look at it.

2. LISP is also a great prototyping language. The final application may not be written in LISP. Or at least parts of it might be in other languages.

Selecting from a limited collection of libraries written (perhaps poorly) by others, as is done with many popular languages, strikes me as a "top-down" approach, not building from the ground up. The collection of libraries defines what you can and cannot do. Now, if you just want to do what everyone else is already doing, this is perfectly acceptable. However if you want to break new ground, you will likely have to write some functions yourself. And, personally, I'd rather do this in LISP.

Maybe it's better to learn to use SWIG or a similar codegen tool and wrap any C library function of your choosing for use in LISP, or Lua, or another language that lacks "batteries"?
It's encouraging to me when I see programmers express dislike for LISP in online forums. Because I take it as a sign that this is a worthwhile language to master. I've seen similar expressed distaste for what I know to be good quality C code. It goes something like this: Programmer at large in online forum can't understand [insert code/language], therefore [said code/language] is somehow defective.
You can most definitely read about it before installing.

We have two buttons, one takes you to a product backgrounder and the other takes you to Dropbox. No one forces you to go one way or the other.
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Change copyrights to my name (woo, dodged a bullet there!).

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Change variable names.

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Import Nigel's code.
China has built 5km road inside Indian territory
The Fair Labor Standards Act places no limitations on the work of 16 and 17 year olds in non-hazardous jobs, and in any case does not concern itself with non-employment relationships like the one Paypal would have had with this 17-year-old.

There is a reason that you read about minors running their own businesses all the time. The laws are targeted at employment that is exploitative or interferes with a child's education. Not at things like this.
Scientists find woman who sees 99 million more colors than others (2012)
it's also the Jackie Robinson number
Its not new. Metadata (e.g. addresses on the outside of envelopes sent in the mail) have never been considered private.
I wonder - Im speaking from a German perspective :)
Yep. I don't know if that's what is actually being used here, but that is pretty much how they did it with the same system:

"We applied the feature learning method to the
task of recognizing objects in the ImageNet
dataset (Deng et al., 2009). After unsupervised
training on YouTube and ImageNet images, we added
one-versus-all logistic classiﬁers on top of the highest
layer. We ﬁrst trained the logistic classiﬁers and
then ﬁne-tuned the network. Regularization was not
employed in the logistic classiﬁers. The entire training
was carried out on 2,000 machines for one week."[1]

Basically you learn features in unlabeled data, then identify the features your trained net is recognizing with labeled data. When you run over g+ images, you then only tag with features you're sure of past some threshold of certainty.

[1] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub38115.html
spurs?
So who is watching the watchers?
The French approach to psychiatry is very different to that in the Anglophone world.

I gather so. There are a few parts of the United States where psychoanalysis is still in vogue, but fewer and fewer year by year, as patients usually like to become well through the treatments they seek. I just did some Web searching about the approach you kindly mentioned. Is there replicable evidence that the Lacanian psychoanalysis is working for a large number of French patients?
It’s my hope that under these conditions, apps that are genuinely growing will rise to the top, and those attempting to engineering their own virality will dissipate into irrelevance.

Unfortunately, when the current paradigm is to create and flip startups in the short-term, it's almost encourage to get rapid growth, long-term health be damned.
Having never particularly enjoyed working with JavaScript, this gave me a chuckle:

"‘JavaScript: The Good Parts‘ ... the book is thin".
i was a drupal core developer for almost 10 years. I had a falling out with the underlying premise of Drupal, which led me to question a lot of it's base assumptions. In the end, what made me leave was that I realised it was far far simpler to build up, than break down.

The amount of code and resulting complexity of building something to be completely generalised / abstracted, was not in any way justified by the supposed benefits. Even when developed to make as few assumptions as possible, you end up running afoul of the assumptions there are. This then requires you to spend considerable time and effort, using increasingly byzantine and labyrinthine API's (some of which I even invented), trying to trick the underlying system to work the way you want.

The entire thing becomes an exercise in the [1] Inner-platform effect, and won't stop until you have had to re-invent an entire turing-complete programming language driven by multi-dimensional arrays and subsequently serialised and cached into a database.

My time with Drupal was definitely some of the best times of my life, and I will remember it fondly till the day I die. The people in the community are also amazing, but i do think there is a lack of critical questioning going on sometimes.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect
If everything fades into the background, you may have a high IQ
"DC-based author Tim Shorrock revealed ThinThread was sent to New Zealand for testing in 2000-2001"

This is news? It happened 12 years ago.

I would also note to whoever posts these NZHerald links, they are basically like the Fox News of New Zealand.
None of the reports have a clue what the talking about when it comes to technology subjects, and they are known for writing about complete garbage which half the time isn't true at all.

Stuff.co.nz (Fairfax Media) is a more credible news source IMO.
Nobody, that's not how modern governments work. They play every once on a while in the theater called "democracy" and later on they do as they, their friends and their sponsors please.
I think it was meant to be in jest.
Rails: Rollback ActiveRecord Model in after_save
That an event was used as propaganda does not make it less real.

It's shocking how someone is able to disrespect someone else's religion and still demand respect for his or her own.
That is good news. Too bad about the "delay of several minutes in some cases between updating a package and having it be installable" though; just last month I was testing some changes to a Python package of a friend of mine sitting next to me, with him uploading to PyPI and me re-installing via pip every time. Total abuse of the system but I did appreciate how easily it worked :-P
Thank you for saying that.
Much more nicer tone than I would have had.
This is better than good news, this is GREAT NEWS!
I'm disappointed that DNS prefetching does not specify the record type (A, MX, TLSA etc), thus limiting utility solely to protocols that use nothing but A records.

Oversights like these subsequently constrain other developments, such as the case for basing HTTP 2 on SRV records, using DANE to authenticate certificates and so forth.
Patent US20130054471 - Bit Currency: Transactional Trust Tools
Clunky at best, especially via Smartphone.

No clue why I would use this over Evernote - which has Android, iPhone, Web Browser, and Windows Apps - all pointing to the same dataset in the cloud.

This app keeps forcing me to allow Dropbox.

Might be cool after a few revisions - right now seems like Alpha stage work.
I think we should jail people who say that abuse in the US is fine because we're still better than Saudi Arabia. It's seriously harmful to say nonsense like that, so it's fine to jail people who say it, right?