skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Bad cars at times but on a whole if the system was so bad then how would you explain sales?

How else does one get around the US than with a car? The car manufacturers made sure light rail sucks in the US and instead we have massive funding for highways. How would I buy a car without going through a dealer?

> Even as I wrote this I was at a loss trying to think of even anyone I know who had a bad time.

You are the first person I've ever heard that didn't have a bad experience. Hordes of comedians have made jokes about the car dealership experience that it isn't even funny any more. Every sitcom usually has an episode about it at some point when material is running out. For example: Bill Cosby wearing ragged clothing to buy a car for Theo before a friend calls him "Doctor" in front of the sales guy.
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> When the user goes to install the app they are supposed to review that long list

No, the user is supposed to see the first 2, ignore the hidden "show more" button, and then just hit Accept.

This is one of Android's more obnoxious user-security flaws.
"And at the same time, we can de-emphasize the branch switcher since it’s so rarely used."

WRONG. This is why designers shouldn't be "redesigning" stuff they don't use.

Branching and merging with ease is what makes distributed scm's so much better than the previous generation. Why would one want to de-emphasize this?

And let's talk about what really used. Github is great for viewing code easily and making comments. So what did they do to the code view div in the latest redesign? They made it smaller! Unbelievable!

So now I have to use a Chrome plugin to fix it:
https://github.com/sauravc/github_wideload

These "designers" aren't entirely to blame though. A lot of what the author suggested makes things better. Unfortunately, coders are a tough crowd to please.
Congratulations !

Please remember to put some of that nice money aside for the month without income that will inevitably occur sfter contract ends (and tax!)

How will you raise your profile amoungst the users of that proprietary package (perhaps a technical blog focused on things you innovate or fix at work, useful mini script's, spending time being helpful on forums or LinkedIn groups)

Trust me, if you have just landed that first gig, now is the time to start laying the groundwork for the next one - take each lunch hour to a llocal park or cafe and write thise scriots or blog posts. One hour of your time a day will add up in 6 months (I guess thats the cconract length)

Ps new android phone horribke to type on
America isn't a Capitalist nation and hasn't been for decades.

America is between a mixed economy and Socialism, with the world's largest welfare system, and 'social safety net.' 3/4 of the massive Federal budget goes to social welfare programs. From 1930 to perhaps the early 1980s, the US was a mixed economy.

Every aspect of the US economy is completely under regulation and Federal control. The number of Federal regulations has doubled since 1975. There are now over 170,000 pages of Federal regulations in total, governing every aspect of ... well, everything. Obama's Administration alone added over 11,000 new regulations in just his first two years in office. America is the ultimate regulation state (aka the opposite of a low regulation free market).

America is heavily taxed, and has a total government system that eats 40% of the economy, and at $6.4 trillion is larger than the economy of Japan. Those facts alone disqualify the US as being Capitalistic.

It's quite easy to demonstrate that America is in fact not Capitalistic any longer. A very short historical comparison of the economic structures (spending, taxes, welfare, regulations, etc) of the US economy in, say, 1820, 1890, 1910, 1930, 1975, 2013 - more than demonstrates the progression from highly unregulated Capitalism toward Socialism.

Capitalism requires an unregulated free market based economy. America is almost as far away from that as you can get before becoming a full blown Socialist nation. Even worse, America's variation of Socialism is going to be Fascism, and is rapidly trending that direction.
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He might be referring to this: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0811.3171v3.pdf

So, if the question you want to ask is "what is some property of the solution of the (sparse) set of linear equations" rather than wanting to know the (inherently O(n)) solution itself, you can get exponential speedup.
No love for pi/4? It has (IMHO) the most beautiful infinite series:

pi/4 = 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9 - ...
I really like using tau as a time constant, too, and I'm sorry to lose it when there are pi's in the picture. It's tough picking good notation, though, and unfortunately no choice is conflict-free.

Before writing The Tau Manifesto, I tried several other candidates before settling on tau. After using it for a while, tau started to "feel right" in ways that other choices didn't. Then, as noted in the manifesto, I found out that I wasn't alone:

Since the original launch of The Tau Manifesto, I have learned that Peter Harremoës independently proposed using τ to “π Is Wrong!” author Bob Palais in 2010, John Fisher proposed τ in a Usenet post in 2004, and Joseph Lindenberg anticipated both the argument and the symbol more than twenty years before!
There are solutions to some of those things using other tools, e.g. use http://searchpath.io to add indexing.

I haven't tried with this system but you can probably use dropbox, and a shared directory to manage multi-user content editing.
The Google Nexus One had Facebook force-installed; (I think) it came with one of the OS upgrades, which is even worse than pre-installed, because I really had no choice.
I'm very impressed by the result. His refactor looks great.
Many people use conditional comments, but I wouldn’t go as far as saying most use them. There are tons of browser sniffing scripts out there on the web. I used to have to deal with them all the time when doing web site compatibility for Opera. They wouldn’t have made this change if they didn’t need to.

It is the same situation with hiding support for things like document.all, so they avoid the sniffers that do: if (document.all) { ie = true; } then use the ie variable to give those browsers the legacy IE code path.
I don't think so, that might just be intent to assault and assault and battery, they probably have a lot of discretion to choose when to charge someone with terrorism. Basically another tool in the DA's arsenal to get people under his thumb.
National Security Act of 1947 explicitly forbid the CIA from conducting domestic surveillance

To me, this is actually a little confusing. My assumption has always been that the CIA was the intelligence agency which...gathers intelligence. If the government itself is forbidding them from domestic surveillance, it makes me question their tactics and methods that would be unconstitutional...I guess it could be that this is suppose to be the work of the DHS and NSA.
Also, there is this: https://vimeo.com/32877616

Perhaps I've just seen this in different formats? Good advice nonetheless.
>Except I don't think they're inconsequential at all, but rather key to understanding why this story is a crock. You started out in this thread with a pre-emptive finger-wagging rant; my suggestion is that you shouldn't dish out criticism if you can't take it.

Excuse me, I'm the one that can't take criticism? You came with guns blazing against everyone with an opposite opinion (ignorants, etc), focusing on the technicalities but never addressing the larger picture. You even invoked reasons about why the piece should never even be posted (the news outlet violates HN quality criteria, and such), and you even wrote that I should not even be allowed to make an initial comment (in your words, a "pre-emptive rant"). Perhaps you think your criticism is the only valid one, and everything else is the ramblings of idiots.

>As for your example of Hastings, the possibility of a conspiracy isn't evidence of a conspiracy. You don't appear to understand the difference.

I never said it was "evidence". I just said it was an indication -- instead of openly mocking everyone even considering it.

How about the constraint not to put things in my mouth?

I'm also of the opinion that in real life (as opposed to government issued statements), the context, motive and feasibility (not to mention past track record), are good enough to seriously consider the possibility. People expecting "evidence" of such things are naive in the way governments work -- a study in anti-activist and anti-dissident history will give them tons of examples of shameless power abuse by such agencies, from dealing drugs to support Contras, to openly killing dissidents.
Does pi/4 equal to tau/8?
Stanford dropouts are missing the boat on changing the world
Great new post from Dorm Room Fund member Neal Khosla on the merits of taking the time to learn fundamentals in school
Don't worry, I use it: https://github.com/ianstormtaylor
"But the fact is, the differences between the USA and USSR are only on a matter of scale."

I can still buy bread, reliably, at a corner market. I can still open a business on a whim without too much fear of bureaucrats making my life completely miserable. I don't have to worry about leaving the country.

There are very real issues with the United States, but this kind of rubbish comparison does nothing to help spur the debate onwards in a useful fashion.
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My project is in that position. We have access to an Oracle site license so we use it. However, we're considering move to a "competing" db, probably postgresql or mysql.

I'm not a certified DBA so take this with a grain of salt, but it seems that any non-trivial use of Oracle systems ramp up in cost very quickly. Both in terms of hard cash and time in education/training.
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In the 70s Nixon was impeached for spying on the democrats, will Obama get impeached for spying on all americans?
Would it make sense for courts to sign off on regulations before they're enacted? This is like an engineer throwing code into production only to test it after enough customers complain.
I actually felt the same way, but I think it was used as quoting his justification for the NSA law forbidding him to be involved in domestic surveillance.
"Learn X in 30 Days" has gone to "Learn X in Minutes"

I am waiting for "Learn X While You Sleep--wake up as an expert!"
There are plenty of free and full yet simple CMSes that also fully integrate these features, for no monthly fee.
Laptops and Free Software
Why Gov't That Collects Private Data Won't Let Employees Access Public Info
> you're not allowed to talk with others

> the people are great

?
You might be confusing this with "Productizing Twilio Applications", which was about the engineering challenges of moving from Twilio code samples to reliable ways to test, architecture, and deploy Twilio applications. This is rather unlike the current email, which was written today and is (to the extent I'm capable of talking about new things after eight years of writing a metric effton about this industry) all new, and focused on how to get consulting companies to turn their buy-our-time-in-discrete-chunks model into a productized buy-our-value-without-necessarily-our-time model.
V8's GC is both generational and incremental.

Generational can be actually viewed as a variation of incremental GC.
They both stem from the same disease that's killing America: the increasingly absolute power of the state, and the obvious outcomes from that.
In my misspent youth I very nearly ran afoul of zero-tolerance policies at school, in a somewhat small suburban town. This is a bullshit case, but par for the course.
The white house released the recipe for their honey ale in response to a petition:

http://m.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/09/01/ale-chief-white-hous...
After 9/11, the CIA were tapped to help the NYPD set up an anti-terrorism intelligence wing. This is a pretty good book about it:

http://www.amazon.com/Securing-City-Americas-Counterterror-F...
Identity verification and marketplaces: Why true anonymity is not an option
Not everything has to be a cost/value calculation. Sometimes you can just do things because you enjoy them.
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I know that Glucochrome eg is more powerful than its generic knockoffs. Also, this article http://isteve.blogspot.com/2013/05/red-pill-indian-generic-d... talks about how the FDA operates on trust, to the point that foreign generics makers (at least the example given) can and do drive trucks through it.
AIS is for traffic control mostly. What you are really looking for is an EPIRB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distress_radiobeacon#EPIRBs_.28...

It is standard equipment on an oceangoing boat.
Yes it would. This was mentioned earlier on the site on a similar thread.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_court
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Thanks for the check. I was actually looking at the online version, and checking the prominent stories. I agree that the where-is-Snowden story is getting some coverage, but even there the selection and tone of the materials support the administration.

Does the lack of new information from the US government mean that there are no new "material developments" in the story? Considering the damaging revelations in these leaks (misleading congressional testimony? private contractors with access to dragnet surveillance systems?), it is not plausible to claim there is no investigative journalism to do. That it has taken two outsiders to write a piece sensibly critical of the administration and unconstitutionality of data-vacuuming is utterly damning.
> $25 million jackpot, apparently the "largest seed funding in Silicon Valley history."

So, winning is getting investment funding, not building a profitable business?
Communication via high-frequency sound? That seems more like a graduate thesis than a million dollar startup idea. What exactly is the point? I mean, it's cool and all, but how is it any better than the RF communications we have already?
> Hard to see without latex typing...

MathJax to the rescue:

\[\alpha^{n-2}(\alpha^2-6\alpha-2)=0=\alpha^{n}-6\alpha^{n-1}-2\alpha^{n-2}\]

To render with MathJax, use the bookmarklet available here: http://checkmyworking.com/misc/mathjax-bookmarklet/
Probably not, but it sure is more efficient than bartering and if you don't barter then you will have to have some kind of currency.
This comes to mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byEkJ3zRTcY
int, boolean, float etc. are not _primitive_ data types in python. If you say that, you really have no idea, what you are talking about. They are objects like everything else. You can inherit from them and do all the good OO stuff.

Sorry for the nitpicking, but calling them primitive types, is just plain wrong.
Great to see Tesla changing the industry.

It's disappointing to see New York (whom I view as a progressively similar to California) attempting to block Tesla though[0].

[0] http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/21/autos/tesla-new-york/index.h...
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Alright, to each his own.

Your focus on Waco is making my point that you are only focusing on very high-profile subset of the negative. Waco was terrible but not as innocent as you are portraying it as. If you would've said Ruby Ridge I think you might get some agreement.

If you want to live in the middle of nowhere in the US, have at it. The government won't bother you unless you do something really messed up, like manufacture drugs for sale, murder people, or don't pay your taxes. You can milk your own cows, grow chickens for eggs, be a subsistence farmer if you want - there's no one to stop you from doing that. I'm not sure what you want to do that you'd think the feds would bother you.
"If I wanted to live in Ohio on a farm and work at Google or Facebook or some startup, why should that be a problem?"

That's fine depending on the circumstances and what you are doing.

But keep in mind that by working in the home office you also would generally make a longer lasting impression in theory and also make more contacts that could come in handy in the future [1]. Also it's easier to fire someone out in the field than it is if they are at the office (where they interact and everybody is generally more aware of "what's up".) Now of course none of this might matter today and with what anybodys job is in particular but it could matter.

[1] People who know you by face and personality not just by name or by video chat. It's not the same experience or "connection".
Yes I'm pretty sure selective receive is not supported.
"In the space below draw three circles, one inside (engulfed by) the other."

Hm... how?
Best argument for 𝛕 – when we meet aliens, they'll laugh at us if we're still using C/d.

"No no, we were transmitting on hydrogen * 𝛕!"
> 3/4 of the massive Federal budget goes to social welfare programs

Is there anywhere that this is broken down by program, it is not obvious from looking at the wikipedia simple pie graph that this is the case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Federal_Spending_-_FY...

>Capitalism requires an unregulated free market based economy.

It is not clear what you mean here. Adam Smith seems to have been a proponent for the government paying for some public goods and regulation

> It was the role of the government to provide goods "of such a nature that the profit could never repay the expense to any individual"

> provide public goods such as infrastructure, provide national defense and regulate banking.

ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith

Which agrees with what I have read and been told elsewhere through the years.
Thanks for the update! I've replaced one confusion with another... b^)
If any MySQL bug needs a cake it's this whopper I just ran into: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=1341
And, cross-commenting from the Tau Manifesto post, "tau" means "for you" in lithuanian, so go ahead and have a delicious slice of HN homepage for your birthday.
Math, biology, and civil engineering are all on the high end of graduate pay.
From what I can tell, JavaScriptCore has had typed array support since at least as far back as December 2011 (http://trac.webkit.org/r103637, a random change in JavaScriptCore involving typed arrays).
I received a similar email from a company years ago but it was a bit different and not so aggressive. Their legal dept was curious as to why I bought the domain.I explained my purpose for using the domain, and did so in a nice, polite (even friendly) way. She wrote back and said that was fine. That was in 2005 and I never heard from them again. I had a legitimate use of the domain name that helped both parties and I guess it "passed" whatever criteria they had at the time. Maybe you could try the same approach. IANAL and all that...
Nope, they work just fine from the `jsc` shell.
FBI handles that internally in the US, CIA externally to the US. NSA handles both in terms of gathering and intelligence mainly for both. DHS is primarily Coast Guard, Border Patrol, specific police/fire personnel etc.

It is smart to divide them up really, the idea is they communicate with one another and provide some checks on each other. There is also the DIA primarily intelligence for the military. There have been some CIA and DIA butting heads after 9/11.
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In my experience Vipassana is the version that isn't "strong-arm-y". Your anecdote actually does a good job of illustrating the difference between Vipassana and many other forms of meditation contemporary and historical.

Here is a synopsis of a story that is told on retreat:

A man goes to see the Buddha and says,
"Oh, Buddha I have heard that you are an all knowing sage, I have traveled far to see you. In my village the holy men can't seem to come to an agreement. Some say that after we die we are reborn here or in another realm, they believe that the soul is eternal. Others believe that there is no soul, and that after we die there is nothing. Can you please put this issue to rest, we have agreed that whatever you tell us is the truth and we will stop our ceaseless argument."

The Buddha smiling responded gently,

"Endless are the arguments of the mystics. Do you see the leaves in the forest? They represent the sum total of my knowledge."

The Buddha paused and picked up a handful of leaves from the forest floor.

"These leaves... They represent the knowledge that is relevant to the cessation of suffering in this lifetime. This is the knowledge I teach."

The Buddha as described in Theravada Buddhism was not particularly interested in specific beliefs but rather in providing practices that help humans to suffer less.

The Buddha spent a lot of time criticizing the establishment, and was distrusting of practices that left people with unprovable conclusions (i.e. the knowledge that, "when we die, our energy lives on.")

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmajala_Sutta_%28Theravada%2...
Yea, the thing about a circle constant (whether pi or tau) is that it's so ubiquitous you can't use the symbol for anything else. It's pretty rare to use lower case pi for anything in physics and math, and most of the exceptions including something like boldface or a vector hat to distinguish it.

There are no available symbols. The only option is to introduce a new one, like ת suggested by samatman, or possibly by using a weird typeface (like \mathfrak in LaTeX).

Incidentally, my friend has pointed out to me that sigma is a much better choice than tau if we're going with existing symbols. Who cares about tau sounding like a "t" for "turn", when sigma actually looks like someone trying to measure the circumference of a circle with the radius of the circle: σ.
I like the final refactor much better, I wish they just do it :)
I like to use Google Login for Google services. I don't like FB login due to privacy issues. I would prefer a login solution that doesn't need to use passwords.
Every time you see a proposal that suggests increasing the power of the courts, remember that federal judges aren't elected, and we're not a nation governed by a panel of philosopher-kings. The courts are already very powerful.
As per our recent submission, we've been working on a Google Reader alternative. It's designed to be a lightweight high performance system that doesn't clutter your screen with useless garbage.

There are a number of known bugs, and we'll be adding in a number of new features over the next few days - but we'd love to hear your feedback. You can create an account in just a few seconds at the above URL.

Edit: The overview page is currently blank, this is a known issue.
I would be interested to see how far people manage to stretch what can be done in 10megs. I bet it would surprise many.
What kind of shirts are you printing on? I have more than 100 brand new American Apparel tees left from the T-shirt company I am winding down, Ill let them go for .50c less than wholesale + shipping, if you are interested my email is in my profile.
Edawrd Tufte's teardown on iPhone design is also very good: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...