skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly enough, this is how some coffee shops operate in Tokyo. It costs $21 to rent a small private room with Internet access, computer and unlimited supply of coffee and soft drinks. According to article, these rooms are mainly used by unemployed people who can't afford to rent their own place.

Source: http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/japan-disposable-workers...
That photos tab shows you photos from anywhere in your Dropbox account, so these photos may be from shared folders you're a member of. (Likewise, other people can only see your photos if you shared them with them.) Another thing that may happen is someone "camera uploaded" their photos to your account (e.g., by plugging into your computer and choosing to import photos when Dropbox asked.) If you're still not sure where they're coming from, you should open a ticket: https://www.dropbox.com/support/s/92/3201098/c/2
...there's a very simple non-technical solution to this, but I won't tell you (read: "everyone" instead of "you" as we're on a public forum) what the solution is because after knowing it you may be more tempted to flee from an accident scene (you can probably figure out the solution by yourself if you have a brain and an opsec oriented mind) and I'd feel morally responsive for it :P
He'd be charged with manslaughter probably.
Language is a man-made construct; words only carry as much meaning/importance/value/derision as they are given by society. If we don't like a word, sure we can try (futilely) banning/censoring it, but it'll only add more credence to the very meaning the pro-censorship camp is trying to censor it for, resulting in a Streisand Effect scenario [0]. If you let a word you don't like continue to evolve organically on the other hand, chances are that society will get bored with it (or it's old meaning), and eventually move on from it. So why not just let language take its course?

The purpose of language is communication, and clearly the OP saw the word "shit" as a bit of a tongue-in-cheek synonym for "thing", so should we be annoyed at the concept of cheeky "things" as well? Here's a good rule to live by: "Context is just as important as Connotation in Communication". Clearly the context trumps whatever other connotations this 'naughty' word might have, so treat it as such. Who are we to judge another person's vernacular?

It shouldn't be the case that we are held hostage by our own creations. So don't let language control you; use it in the best way you can so as to empower yourself instead. If you still have a problem with certain words, think of it like dealing with a bully: if you ignore him long enough, he will get bored and go away.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
I've loved Bootstrap since 2011 - it's well established, it fulfills it's purpose and adds some extra niceties on top. Lately though; I've started to appreciate semantic HTML.

I'm not a purist, but I definitely don't want to be seeing '.grid-x' style class names in my markup. Markup is meant to explain the content, not the presentation. That's one reason.

Here's another: While it is presumably simple to just use their LESS mixins to achieve a more semantic and customized site, Bootstrap's main target market is not those who use preprocessors - their call to action is a download button for the .zip of the compiled CSS, so that developers who don't necessarily use CSS preprocessors still have access to the tools.

This gives Bootstrap a competitive edge of some sort, as more developers can easily get started using it. As a result of this decision, though - those developers have to resort to overwriting the actual CSS to customize anything, and even then, there are still traces of the Bootstrap default styles left over, making it very easy to spot a Bootstrap website. Due to the project's popularity - a lot of these websites end up looking remarkably similar to each other.

If I'm working on a huge project, I will use a different kind of CSS framework (my favourite one at the moment is http://roots.cx/axis in combination with http://jeetframework.com). If it's a quick hackathon project, a mockup/wireframe or simply just a weekend project for fun or learning, then I'd use Bootstrap.
Don't forget ChromeOS, where literally the only user-facing application is Google Chrome. This OS ships on thousands of devices every day and takes browser-OS coupling to the furthest conceivable extreme.
$34,901.1 is nothing to Google.
Wow, I wonder why that is? It's almost as if tempestn is referring to a time before the situation we currently find ourselves in that brought about the high level of regulation, inconsistent taxation, and 50% of care being provided via government purchasing.

It's almost as if somewhere in the middle between over-regulation and no regulation at all might be prudent...
If the team is reading this thread: we cannot find a transcoding service that will output to intermediary codecs (non interframe codecs). We need to take 4k video in photojpeg, red, and prores and at least turn that into different resolutions of photojpeg. The output videos need to be of sufficient quality to use to produce commercial video, though not necessarily at the full 4k (or higher) res.
It is perfectly reasonable to maybe make one comment saying "I think congress should just abolish this abomination, and be done with it" would be a measured response to this side-issue. Spending a lot of energy arguing about the acceptability of the FISA spying on foreigners or not having any adversarial component just probably riles up people who are understandably very upset at the larger situation. I guess what I'm saying is having a long argument about all this is like being the political version of a grammar nazi.
I occasionally go to a local Starbucks and work (especially if I'm out and about and can't make it back home between errands). Wifi is usually pretty bad, and I prefer to tether 99% of the time.
>That didn't change, native apps still rule supreme in capability and usability. And yet the average person is using web apps the majority of the time

Those web apps most people use are trivial compared to the stuff we do on Desktop and Mobile. And the main reason people use them "the majority of time" is because they are huge time-sinks.

E.g: Social apps like FB and Twitter, that translate to posting and reading text and images.

Web mail, which translates to working with lists of text articles.

Nothing much CPU intensive, in the way desktop/mobile apps are.

As for the CPU intensive stuff, it's really still a novelty on the web. Nobody (== few people, less than 1% is the numbers I show), use Google Docs (and that's not even a full featured office suite anyway -- not to mention the spreadsheet for example takes lot of time even on my 2010 iMac/Chrome to apply stuff like conditional formatting). Even less people use something like online image editors and such.

The only thing people really use on the web, and is CPU intensive are web games. And even those are more like 1995 quality desktop games.
The great thing about this is that could enable me to be my own insurance company. If I know how much things cost, then I can budget appropriately and invest in an index fund to store my health fun. If bad things happen, then I'm covered. If they don't happen, then I get a boat.
So now app developers have a choice: they can use iCloud or Dropbox to manage distributed app state. Any iOS app developers (I'm not one) care to compare & contrast the two options?

It looks like Dropbox may be using Operational Transformation [0] to merge changes to lists:

Lists are special field values. They contain an ordered list of other values, though not other lists. Lists can be manipulated via four list operations: put (i.e. replace), move, insert, and delete. These list operations allow Dropbox to handle merging changes to the structure of the list automatically. [1]

iCloud, on the other hand, uses the coarser, state-centric approach of whole document versioning. [2] (Edit: okay, key-value property versioning is also available.)

But iCloud lets the app control conflict resolution, while the Dropbox Datastore API only lets you choose from a predefined set of conflict resolution strategies. [3]

Which approach provides greater value to the app developer? Has Dropbox realized here that developers are just not comfortable implementing a custom merge strategy for entire documents, and not having to worry about this is worth some loss of control?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/developers/datastore/tutorial/ios#re...

[2] http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/DataMa...

[3] https://www.dropbox.com/developers/datastore/tutorial/ios#co...
FreedomCP - Manage your servers and web apps
> I agree, but at that point aren't we talking about a federal criminal case held before a normal federal court?

But at that point the surveillance generally can't be effectively challenged, since information obtained illegally in violation of someone else's rights isn't excluded from criminal cases.

> If the only way the FISC can enforce orders and warrants is through its contempt powers,

The FISC doesn't enforce warrants at all, as we've already discussed. The contempt answer was specifically about 702 orders. Please stop trying to rewrite the discussion.

> can't the subjects of those orders, ie a corporation held in civil contempt by FISC, appeal that?

Sure, they can appeal from FISC to the higher FISA court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, and from there to the Supreme Court.

> I'm trying to engage with the notion that the FISC is a black hole that moves the entire question of domestic surveillance coerced from US companies to a parallel court system.

It'd probably be more effective to engage with that idea by responding to someone embracing it.
The French Parliament votes a legislation that gives priority to Free Software
Maybe I like shaking my penis. Maybe I'm marking my territory. Did you ever think of that?
Firebird Transaction Simulator
Thank you. I saw that when I did a google but skipped it as I was so sure it was The Economist.
Scala doesn't really provide much of what is mentioned in the article.

It still has nullable types, side-effects aren't tracked in the type-system (so any function can potentially do anything) and the presence of sub-typing has several unpleasant consequences, for example: lack of full type-inference, generally more complex type signatures than in Haskell and having to deal with covariance vs contravariance.
Most likely no:

"Although stress can cause a number of physical health problems, the evidence that it can cause cancer is weak. Some studies have indicated a link between various psychological factors and an increased risk of developing cancer, but others have not."

From http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/stress
That's an interesting idea but not foolproof. If you have a data plan you can just tether your phone to your laptop.
Congress froze the number of Medicare-supported residency slots at 100,000 under the Balanced Budget act of 1997 [1]. The cap remains in place to this day, despite a massive shortage of physicians.

The AMA's official position in 1996:

"To decrease the rate of physician supply, limits must be placed on the number of medical school graduates entering GME [graduate medical education]. Since the federal government currently plays a major role in financing GME and is responsible for establishing immigration laws that affect IMG participation in GME in this country, it is imperative that the federal government partner with the medical education community to achieve this goal." [2]

The AMA worked closely with then Speaker of the House Newt Gringich to overhaul Medicare's relationship with physicians. [3]

The AMA is typically the biggest spender among lobbying groups in the health care sector.

[1] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/News/health/2005-03-02-doctor...

[2] http://www.ama-assn.org/resources/doc/PolicyFinder/policyfil...

[3] http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/assets/storage/Research%20-%20...
The IPv6 transition is not going that much better than SCTP. So many people have v4-only home routers that they have no plans to ever upgrade.
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>Well, Android does it.

And that's why it has subpar apps compared to iOS when it comes to anything CPU intensive, high latency that makes it unsuitable for realtime audio/video apps, and you can see core Android engineers debating about why it's slow and such. And for games, devs have to fight the GC and implement stuff manually without allocations to work around it.

So sure, it can run twitter clients and all kinds of everyday apps and web front-end apps quite OK. But for heavy CPU / realtime stuff that get us forward to novel use cases, not so much.
"Vacuum" and "fuck you" are essentially the exact same phrase when pronounced phonetically. Why is one banned from TV and one not? Why do we make a big deal about one or the other? It upsets me that I have to censor the words I say based on the age of people around me (people under 12 or over 60 tend to require extra thought). Personally I started to swear around 6th grade or age 12, so it clearly isn't a particularly advanced linguistic skill. I'd just love if people got over "bad words" and let words be words so we didn't have to worry about it.
FISA redefined the word "reasonable". Bill Clinton redefined the word "is". It would seem anything is fair game.
great concept, horrible product design!

...the sink should be above but somewhat connected to the urinal, as not to gross some people out by having them use a sink that's "in one block" with the bottom piece. It's the kind of very functional design that stays totally oblivious tot he psychology of users.
Regarding "none of the fisa court judges are vetted by congress" ... weren't they vetted when they were appointed as federal judges (since all fisa judges are also federal court judges)?

Not that I agree with there even being a FISA court... just curious on that point.
>NOTE: Moore's law is concerned with number of transistors on a chip. That number has climbed, it's just split into several cores.

We don't care about the pedantic interpretation of Moore law.

We care about the mis-interpreation, that was a corellary of having single-core chips: that every 18 months computers got roughly twice as fast.

This -- and this was the important attribute of Moore's law -- has stopped.
Maybe an update issue? I haven't updated since Maps (stubborn) but my phone has some issues with sites with which others don't.
Temporary Appreciation
What is Temporary Appreciation?

To answer that, we must realize these:
1) We people just appreciate things more when we acquire it. It may be something you have been dreaming of, job, toy, boyfriend, or food even..it doesn't matter...you get the point.
2) We only appreciate things that we dont get usually in our everyday lives. And when we do those few times, we seem to have built up enough patience and interest that we are able to not only appreciate or enjoy 'it' or 'him' or 'her', we realize it instantly and therefore show appreciation, and as much as possible.

So what IS temporary appreciation?

Certain people take things for granted...Heck we all do at something)s) or someone(s) at some points in our lives. To always have it makes you appreciate less...once you have it and get used to it, there are times (few times) when you appreciate what or who you have while the rest of the 97-99% of the time, you may just take it for granted.

Temporary appreciation = happens not so often and happens..or you should be able to appreciate the things you have and those who are around you.

We all go through a lot in life, and while you or I may have it worse, others have even a harder time.

I guess its just not that easy to be in the mindset of 'permanent appreciation'.

And so exists 'Temporary Appreciation'.
"I'd very much like to know what led Mr Obama to change his mind"

He didn't change his mind. He lied to get elected. His team knew exactly what message to hit, riding the wave of anti-Republican / anti-George W. Bush sentiment, to win the election. Obama is a politician above all else, and a scoundrel; but then I repeat myself [hat tip Mr Twain].

Normal people get confused by how a politician's brain works. Typically a person holds a set of beliefs, and attempts to follow those whenever they reasonably can. They have a code of morality, knowingly chosen or absorbed by default, and they try to be good, most of the time. Politicians do not function that way professionally. Work life Obama is not private life Obama. A voter sees what they think is a normal person when they vote; there's nothing normal about the business life of a politician. The really talented ones hold every belief simultaneously, and switch when it's required. With the only restriction being the party ideology; and the only variable within that being the strictness of adherence (it's the same game of ideological flexibility, just played within the party's limits).

In this day and age, to aspire to the Presidency, you're either a psychotic power luster capable of any lies and misdeeds necessary to win the office, or you're an ideologue willing to fall on the sword. The former usually wins.
I was being sarcastic, perhaps poorly. I know people who work at Google, and I can assure you that they don't like listening to music. Or soaking in hot tubs. Ever. I'm not sure about jaywalking though. I'll have to ask.
Of course they would be concerned if people switched to Firefox.

It's a business risk. Because what happens if Microsoft outbids Google and suddenly 1/3 of all browsers switch overnight to Bing.
Just recently snagged a mint Apple IIGS "Woz Edition" and can't wait to get it set up. Need to figure out how to do this solid-state conversion though, that would be really helpful. Any guides you can point to?
The one thing that still fascinates me is the thought that somehow lack of wifi and electric outlets will drive people away. Sure, it might work for a short while if there are suitable alternatives near by, but once those alternatives follow suit, people that rely on coffee shops for a place to work will simply resort to air cards/phone tethering.

A typical MacBook Pro will last you 6-7 hours with screen at low brightness. Newer Airs do even better. Ditto for iPads, etc. Plus many of tablets/netbooks come with a built-in LTE service.

A more sustainable solution would seem to be better equipped spaces. Someone kept going off on people taking tables that would seat two-four others. While the comments themselves illicit no sympathy from me (especially about spending 10x), there is a good point made that if we developed etiquete of providing and using laptop-specific seating, it would ease some of the congestion. Just a thought...
Tiny New Species Named after Big Name in Quantum Theory, Max Planck
No. Google wants people to view and click their ads. That's how they make their money.

The only reason Chrome exists is because they know that most people just search using the text field in the top right corner of the browser.
link is dead, but idea sounds interesting. Did you mean:
http://blog.kiind.me/wasted-gifts-or-gifts-without-waste/
Study: Space-time is not the same for everyone
> That's a cute argument, but Microsoft never held a gun to a developer's head and said "use this feature or else!" Neither will Google.

I'd rather not go back to websites that have to specifically say which browser you have to run them in on the homepage. The web needs to be based on standards, not proprietary code.
All-optical transistor could be a big leap for quantum computing
Ah, but the people who receive free drinks won't get WiFi! :)
>My biggest "issue" with this generally rather decent article is that CPU-bound applications are rare. For the plethora of social, productivity and novelty apps it doesn't matter at all.

He addresses that in the very first paragraphs: if your mobile app is basicaly a "web page with some buttons" then you are OK.

But the apps that takes us forward are more CPU bound than BS clients and novelty apps. The spreadsheet. The word processor. The image editor. The video editor. Realtime stuff. Voice processing. Etc. We have those on the desktop and we want them on the mobile.

>And that whole talk about GCs sound awefully familiar. Didn't we have the very same conversation in the mid-90s when Java came out?

Yes. And notice how Java never got anywhere in the Desktop space? How SUN failed to create a web browser in Java because the thing was dog slow? And how, even today, users curse Eclipse for it's long GC pauses?

And that the Java (well, Dalvik) GC is behind many of the things that plague Android devs in the mobile space (a lot of examples of which are in the article)?
The Global Corruption Barometer 2013
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Either you got the description wrong or I'm especially rusty - in that case, f''(x) = e^(-x), which is positive even when x is negative, so it doesn't always have the same sign.
Right, and no software will ever migrate to the Web, because its 5-10 times slower than native. Who's gonna use it, right? Case closed.

Except its not.
I'm on a Macbook Air 2013 and have no issue. Currently using Chrome.
Short term gains for long term reputation losses as an acceptable mode of business?

Serving both cucumber and capers with their lox bagels is not much of a defensible competitive advantage, but I guess the owner just needs to ride out customer churn until they hit their ipo and can punch their exit strategy... well...
That's reparations for slavery. It's designed to make the white man remember the shame of his forefathers.
I was curios about it too. Straight googling was fruitless but guessing at the solution (Something within the common functionality of a truck and which would be "obvious" in hindsight and thus work for a riddle.) The google string that worked brought this up: http://rawksoup.com/neighborhood/pg/blog/read/1987/brain-tea...
For a second I misread it as Bling and thought that was Microsoft's search engine.... lol. [I just woke up]
Not the case. And we are all gone. None of the original team remains.
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do you prefer this?

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2013/07/tale-re-routed...
One thing I haven't noticed in any discussion is how the Founding Fathers of the U.S. turned to France (then a monarchy, and one less free than Britain) for help during the Revolutionary War. That Snowden might need to flee to one of these Latin American countries may be ironic, but it is the best practical option, just as accepting French aid was the best option back then.
The lack of integrated testing was by far the most impressive thing about the Curiosity Rover/MSL landing to me. Most people who followed the news had no idea that the skycrane deployment setup was never actually tested in full. They validated components, like the hydrazine engines, radar, and bridle release mechanism, but not the combination of all.

Software and circuits scale through abstraction and the static discipline. But combining atoms just gets harder and harder.

(This sort of thing also happens when constructing buildings or bridges, but there's usually not a million different points for potential catastrophic failure.)
Valve's flat management structure 'like high school'
I work in an office where I frequently lose internet (thanks Comcast!) during the middle of time sensitive projects, so I have definitely camped out for several hours in a Starbucks while crashing on some issue or another. However, given that I buy more than 1 coffee per hour, I don't see the damage. Also, last time I had to crash land at the Starbucks I went to the restroom to find my seat snagged by an actual hobo (title reminded me), so I went to the bar that offered free wifi instead.
What's the vacancy rate in San Jose? I would not have expected offhand that they could find an apartment complex with enough vacant units to house 400 interns. Even if they are putting 4 interns per apartment, that would be 100 units.