skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like it. It's about time someone do something about it or I was planning to do something like that myself. It would be awesome one could customize the color and fonts and stuffs like that.

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As a learning experience is excellent. Lisp family languages are great for this since they are turing complete and with a pretty simple syntax.
Looks really interesting for doing mockups that can be easily tweaks in the browser or add low level features by editing the code.
"On your own" is not an accredited institute of higher learning that you can put on your resume.

Note: GREAT employers won't care whether you learned material on your own, or in an accredited degree program. Merely Good employers can be forgiven for thinking there's a difference. HR personnel who often get to screen resumes simply cannot be expected to understand that someone with a Masters is not inherently any more qualified than someone without a Masters.

So, the question becomes, does an Online Masters add $6,000 or more to your lifetime earning potential?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
Dreamweaver's output was clean in the demos as well. It didn't stop a veritable rats nest of code appearing on anything marginally complicated.

It's not an easy problem to solve without human intelligence.
Looks like a huge step forward for RM - it shows that the team is ready to drop everything to address pressing issues and reassure everyone.

Not too happy about the way the change came about, though: when the blocks bug was first reported, the HipByte team all but dismissed it saying it was a well known and understood problem with a clear workaround. It's only after the public caused a ruckus that they stopped developing new features and got around to fixing it.

This may have been the right choice - delay fixing things until there was an explosion of public pressure - but it also worries me. Why wait so long to fix something that was so fundamental? Not properly supporting blocks broke a fundamental contract; that you could write Ruby and it would Just Work(TM). The lack of support was undocumented and ignored until HN got all riled up and swore to boycott RubyMotion because of it. Then HipByte put their hero helmets on and got to work.

What happened to fixing bugs before you develop new features?
You would handle that by looking at looking at a user's location settings and choosing the appropriate one. For example, if we detect your IP is in Germany, we would prompt "Would you like to see this site in German and change the currency to Euros?" If you say yes, then we would also localize the date formats.
Flexible dates are a nice thing to have but I wonder how much they would actually be used? I cannot think of a time where I was booking a flight for business and not only were the departure and return dates non-optional but I was looking for pretty specific times as well (i.e. within a few hours time range).

Even when traveling for pleasure I generally want specific dates so as to maximize my time at my destination.
Front-End Dev's should work cross-browser
Nimrod is also a good option: http://nimrod-code.org
Skyscanner and Momondo offer that to some extent. You can choose departure/comeback time as "whole month" and airports as sth like "London (all)". But you can't select say two different outbound airports from different cities.
You could always use that excess electricity to run energy-intensive processes to store the power chemically. For example, split water.
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I didn't say Go was designed to replace or complete with functional languages. I said it would be good if Go's designers understood functional languages, but whatever their history or how internet-famous they are, they don't.
It's a work in progress. We have not hit 1.0 yet.

Regarding the semicolon rules, you won't like this observation, but in my 3 years of writing Rust the semicolon rule has literally has never led to a single bug.
The $600 vs. $830 funding levels seem like a really bad move. It gave their most enthusiastic supporters a chance to give them less money, which is the opposite of what you'd typically want. And for the next month, everyone who visits the project will feel like they're getting screwed out of $230 by not having been one of the early funders.
> First, the Constitution itself doesn't say that only U.S. citizens in U.S. territory enjoy its protections.

The Constitution itself doesn't say a lot about hardly anything. I just looked at it (the real thing) the other day, it's even shorter than it seems at first from looking at it online.

In the event, the courts have consistently ruled that Constitutional protections are not completely binding everywhere in the world, even protections included in the Bill of Rights. The Fourth Amendment specifically does not apply outside U.S. borders, for example, even though it does apply to anyone in U.S. borders (not just U.S. citizens).

> And the Declaration of Independence (which is not legally binding the way the Constitution is, but should give an idea of the mindset of the time) states all men are created equal.

I don't think this really helps your argument. The mindset of the time were the Negroes were not even men, for example, and they certainly had no 'right' to privacy according to those who issued the Declaration.

So I'm sympathetic to the point. I think we need to change something to bring our law in accordance with norms we'd expect for the Internet. But just pointing to the 'Charters of Freedom' will not help your argument (others have tried and failed), and they don't mean today what you think they mean.
All that I can find at the moment is a "developer preview" which I tried on my Nexus 7 not long ago and found it to be definitely not ready for prime time. Presumably, you would be releasing a consumer ready version of the OS with these Nexus 4s (or whatever phone from a proven manufacturer). I'm reluctant to flash a "developer preview" on my every day phone.
Thanks for the great explanation! Would you be willing to write up your summary of this paper in the form of a gist? http://sciencegist.com/arxiv/gr-qc/0009013
Don't rely on Facebook as a communications channel.

If a friend dies and you only found out about via a personal Facebook message, fault your other friends for attending the funeral without you, or stop pretending this person was a valued friend.

Job openings should be emailed to you directly if you're a good fit. If it's via Facebook, it's probably a copy/pasted recruiter message, you're not special.

Mostly, if you're using a service every day, don't complain when you suddenly realize you don't know how it works.
This is already thought about. You are hardly the first one to realize that funds can be spent on things other than what they were appropriated for. Look up the Anti-Deficiency Act.
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Terrible idea for selling airline tickets [1], but perhaps less terrible for selling design consulting.

[1] The airlines believe that, overwhelmingly, their customers know where they're going and when, and care mostly about how much. "Enticing maps" and "impressive photography" are unlikely to increase conversion/task success rates versus typing in "LAX"/"NGO."

The silky smooth transitions are nice, but unfortunately no amount of front-end UX work will make the backend not take several seconds to look for possible routes/pricing for you. The multi-page workflows for e.g. Delta.com (which actually don't suck) partly help to obscure how dog slow the backend is relative to Internet Speed (TM). A successful rework which made the app feel much more responsive could have many customers offer the feedback "THE SITE IS MUCH SLOWER. WTF." and the fact that this feedback is objectively untrue would not prevent it from costing the airline hundreds of millions of dollars.
Uniqul - "World's first face recognition payment system"
I think they provide a structure, and some people really benefit from it. If you are paying -- even if it's a few hundred instead of thousands of dollars per month -- and have a clear schedule, you are much more likely to stick with it and actually make the effort to learn the subject.
I think by math he means the actual lessons, not the cost. Calculus is the same everywhere, but you meet different people.
It sounds so surreal that I'm having to type this out this way, but: If you're on U.S. soil the 4th Amendment applies to you, no matter what your citizenship is.
Best sum up of the language i've ever seen (plus it seems completely coherent with what i've supposed so far about that language, both pros and cons).

About the "no generic / you have to cast ,recast / the make issue" , could anyone here with a bit of experience gives an example of what that would look like in real code ?
The unprofitable SaaS business model trap
very cool

could you up the amount of albums that show up per page?

or have an endless page option?
Big Data Analysis Adds to Guest Worker Debate
The language itself is still evolving, I'm sure the stdlib is currently not a priority for them and that it will improve.

However, I hate semi colons so I agree with you there. You should check out the nimrod programming language.
Because I, as a voting US Citizen, believe we should extend a great deal of rights to non-citizens. Fourth amendment and due process in particular.
Hey Salomon - is this a good news?
Just to be clear, I think RubyMotion is awesome. I use a license at work and I'm about buy a personal one (here in India it's a very significant cost - I'm decently paid and I make only USD 1100 a month). But I do dislike the way they've handled issues with the platform.
That web page summarises how we package golang libraries so far, and it's (a) fragile and (b) doesn't let people install their own development copies of libraries, as I said in the gp post.
Mother Jones had a great article about the poor working conditions in these warehouses: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f...
From what I've seen around here, some progressives are starting to move past the idea of minimum wage. Basic income is gaining traction now and with good reason; it's a more economically sound policy (because it doesn't distort market prices).
I would call it "Soft Bootstrapping". It is a very important distinction to make.

I used to work for a company which was growing like crazy and were signing customers left and right. The company hadn't taken any external investment. I was amazed at their "perceived" organic growth rate and very proud of working there. Then, the bubble popped. One day, I found out that one of the founders who actually plugging in the difference every month from his own pocket. Frankly, I was little disappointed.

I think its important to take into account the financial positions of the founders or their investments in their own companies.
For a minute I thought this was in relation to the NSA thing and it was, literally, for all Americans. It's actually just a bunch of activists, which is bad enough, but not quite the same as handing over the NSA databases to Chevron.
This is stereotypical "point spread" moral relativism. The standards with which American citizens hold their government to should of course be quite high, but by no means should we take failure to meet those standards to be in remotely the same league as the sorts of activities the Iranian regime undertakes.
In addition to all the other UI flaws this site has, I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that the site itself is about 15 "pages" long. I gave up scrolling after 30 seconds. I'm also very surprised that whoever designed the site thought that was a good idea-- I feel like that's a pretty obvious design no-no.
I guess we're talking about different things - you're talking about the high end positions, I'm talking about the average case. To get my analogies even further muddled up, you're talking about musicians signed with a major label, I'm talking about all musicians, from rockstars to people busking in subway stations. The expected value is going to be very different if you're only taking the top N percentile.

(not particularly relevant, but I have friends with similar qualifications and experience as you who work / worked in the industry at... shall we say more mediocre studios. I suspect their perspective on this topic is somewhat different from yours.)
My government has not once engaged in violence to me or my family.

The one possible exception is my sister (I wasn't there when she was arrested), but you steal $10,000 worth of silver from an in-law to feed your drug habit and I can't say I'd be surprised that the government gets involved.

P.S. On that note, how does anarchy account for thieves?
High contrast! Let me see the website not squint and guess!
Since this piece mentions burglary in specific, I found it thriving in Southern California (OC), but in a very specific fashion. Very careful criminals are using the following M.O.:

- Parking garages with no cameras

- Security is part time, and they wait until they're gone

- They hit only cars that are unlocked, so no breaking, just entering

- Occasionally, if they see a big score like a laptop, they will break a window, but probably as their last act before getaway.

- They hit a building only once every few months, when people have let down their guard again.

I'd never heard of this until I was a victim, and the police told me the were aware of it but couldn't catch them. Then I asked around and they've hit buildings in several cities. Simply remembering to lock your door and leave nothing obvious on your seats will protect you.

I bring this up because although the crimes are reported to the police, I wonder how much they are reflected in statistics like these.
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They've all moved to Spokane, Wa and become real estate agents or car thieves
the department right next to mine had literally no other tasks right then except to be testing software on this server

Testing is so easy to fluff over. I did a mobile banking project (Project A) for my current employer and the business area said they needed 3 weeks to test it. The person assigned to test it was also assigned to test another project simultaneously (Project B). She would tell me she didn't have time to test Project A because she was testing Project B, and she would tell the Project B people she didn't have time to test because she was testing Project A.

In the end, I looked at the usage logs on the test site... she logged in on the last day of the three week period, futzed around for 5 minutes and then signed off on the project as "fully tested - no issues".
I just bit the bullet on an MBA myself. I would have preferred to be able to wait until the Pros get Haswell, but I can't really wait any longer due to the decrepitude of my current laptop. If OP can wait, though, the Pro might satisfy him/her.
Of course the details are very tricky :)
"behaves like C" means that you construct a first-order theory that all the properties of C that you want, plus the conjecture.

I don't know much about this, but I think that there is no conjugation in the language of exponential fields, and if you try to add it everything becomes intractable (for one, every proof would first require to prove Schanuel's conjecture).

The Wikipedia has a few references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schanuel%27s_conjecture#Zilber...
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The big difference between games then and games today is the rise of multiplayer games. Gaming today is a much more social activity. I suspect that this is the primary reason why it's more mainstream and more addicting.
That is not true. Success in a job is not always defined by thinking outside the box and being creative. Often it is much simpler - show up to work on time, produce, add value as depicted in your job description. The people that do these things are the people at get the full time job at Amazon, become shift supervisors, etc. I have worked with people who started out at Amazon on the floor and are now high level managers of warehouses and software teams.

I've been to a couple of the Amazon warehouses in the US and it's hardly a sweatshop. You work a normal shift, you get a lunch break, at least minimum wage, etc. It is certainly a job far removed from what I am used to now as a software developer. It was more reminiscent of my time in the Navy but still not a bad job to have and an opportunity for those who take advantage of it.
"Hey, guys!" in reference to a mixed group is perfectly acceptable. "That guy" in reference to someone you do not know the gender of is also perfectly acceptable. Directly referring to a known female as "guy" is less so.
i feel that 600 is a good deal but 830 is way to steep.
So this would mean that a lot of crime is the result of boredom right? That kind of makes a lot of sense.

I don't think most people want to commit crimes and hurt others. They do it out of necessity. That necessity might be hunger, money or boredom coupled with a bad environment.

So next up is definitely hunger. I'd say in the end people who wish to steal for money when they're well fed, entertained and not homeless are just bad batch of humans we need to deal with.
Macbook Air 13" has basically everything you need. Upgrade to 256GB SSD and 8GB ram and just do without the possibility of upgrading to 16GB ram. The Haswell more than makes up for it. Been using one for a month and loving it.
Not sure if this is good idea.

Their database may be worth too much on a commercial market, and what if they may be tempted to become self-funding.
The headline and article both accurately report that 9 years worth of meta data of american citizens is to be handed over to Chevron.

You don't appear to be disputing this so what are you struggling to "reconcile" and what is so "egregious"?
SUGGESTION: please show the rate at which the total is growing, e.g., in dollars/minute, and compare that to the rate necessary to reach the fundraising goal. Otherwise, it's hard to see whether the total is growing at a sufficiently fast rate just by looking at that chart.

For example, as I write this, the campaign must raise an additional $28.5 million over the next 30 days, equal to under $40,000/hour or around $660/minute. So right now it would be helpful to see if the total is growing by at least $660/minute.
Wait, you intend to take away my right to defend myself too? Fuck that, me being defenseless ended circa high school. Never again.
On the other hand, you could probably make a lot selling on Craigslist.

I've been selling my family's old phones and computers for years, and the market is robust. Not $500 robust, but two-year-old iPhones go for about $200 (which, probably not coincidentally, is the upgrade price for a new phone).
It's meant as a playground for people who want to learn to write those programs.
> The solar heat gain is close to 1kw per square meter.

Where, for how long and when? Certainly not when you need to regularly use a wood stove for heating, at least not around here in northern Europe. :)
Nice walk through on your side.

The color search mechanism is one that I am wanting to rehash. When the album update script is started, each album's color info is parsed and stored in the database. During the update, they are also assigned a color group which aligns with the color selection in the UI. In my implementation the nearest neighbor was trying to be determined when each album is parsed. Its an area that needs improved upon but that's basically how its setup.

During the research phase, I referenced a php class for the color parsing, but ultimately modified it heavily for my use. http://www.phpclasses.org/package/5577-PHP-Get-the-most-used...
> I remember how ubiquitous the SNES, Sega Genesis and PS1 were in the 90s

They weren't "ubiquitous" for poor kids. For those kids, there was no way they would get their parents to buy us anything for (the 1991 equivalent of) $350 and $85/game.

Nobody assumed that upper middle class kids were normally carrying out burglaries...
Did you get your drug folklore/knowledge from "Reefer Madness"? Can you cite any credible evidence that pot use is even remotely associated with violent behavior?
I think, in theory, this is really neat. One of the things I struggle with when learning something new (especially something more involved), is finding a way to put it into practice.

With that said, I think there could be a bit more description, or perhaps some examples of what I'd actually be signing up for, and how it works.

As a bit of trivium, on Chrome on OSX, auto-fill for the email doesn't work properly, and while small, it might help get a tiny bit higher conversion if that was addressed.
Probably a reason why VC funded companies have a higher probability of failing...
Went through the whole video, looks superbly promising even at it's beta stage. It is obvious the authors get best front-end development practices as well as design principles. Definitely will follow up.
Preference-based display of flights (I'm thinking).

Once upon a time, AA owned SABRE and all the flight information was in the one GDS (Global Distribution System). Then somebody at SABRE got the bright idea to preference the order so AA flights were always on the first page and all other airlines were on the second page. Most bookings were made from the first page.

This was then made illegal and they said some gobbledy-gook like: "you can't preference the display, you have to show a reasonable number of flights, all in the same format, and sorted by time, price or duration".

Or something. I can't find a reference to it, but it had to do with SABRE's virtual monopoly on global travel distribution (inventory, agents, etc) and regulation / de-regulation of the travel industry.
You're right about the first part, but they've removed the $600 level from the page since it's over, so people coming for the first time won't be able to compare it like that. $830 is still steep for a phone though, even a nice one.
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They are two different implementations of the standard library.
This is a quite interesting case from a legal standpoint.
IANAL but my 5 cents are:

* If it's true that Samsung distributed this driver as part of the Linux kernel source code tree then it is arguably a derivative work of the Linux kernel.

* If so then these two sections of the GPL seem relevant:

> 4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance.

> 6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to this License.

* I'm not absolutely sure what that means for rxrz. Section 6 seems to imply that rxrz may have a license to the driver, and that that license is indeed the GPL. On the other hand section 4 seems to imply that the redistribution to rxrz was "void". Does that mean rxrz does not have the rights under section 6?

If I where rxrz I would at least toy with this idea: a) wait for the DMCA take down notice, b) challenge it claiming to have a license under section 6 of the GPL and c) hope that Samsung does not have the nerve to go to court and risk a decision that would clarify that their license to the Linux kernel has been irreversibly revoked. :)

But where does that leave us concerning legality? Is it clear that what rxrz has done is illegal?