skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree completely. If you have been successful freelancing (or consulting) in the past, chances are you are comfortable with running your own show and selling yourself. As such, an experienced freelancer won't be intimidated by the prospect of having to build a new client base. It will require work, but it's not new territory.

The person who has always been an employee, on the other hand, is far more likely to find the transition from employee to freelancer to be a challenge. Beyond relationship building and sales, there are a number of skills and traits that one needs to have to be successful as a freelancer and many people who try their hand at it find that they don't have those skills or traits.
is there any value in having buffer size selectable for advanced users so they can play with it and see where the sweet spot is on their hardware?
...or you need to use it on the road, in which case a helmet will protect you if you get buzzed by a car (or worse).
Don't Get Lost in Big Data
Searchengine Blippex releases Firehose API, Livestream of indexed Pages
Bit confused with the difference between this versus something like an Amex pre-paid card. Why would someone use True Link over one of the existing pre-paid card options? A web interface?
The link to the issue you mention is broken because the bootstrap repository moved from twitter to twbs. The new link is https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/3057.

Also note, that ultimately regardless of personal semicolon preference, this was an issue because of a parsing bug in JSMin. It was fixed in JSMin with this commit[0]. Other minifiers such as Closure and YUI did not exhibit any issues with the code as it had been written.

[0] https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSMin/commit/5ca277ea452...
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How To Pitch An Idea
I am talking about what's happening in reality. "Morality" and "ethics" are creations of our minds, not something we find lying around. When these abstractions are used to justify violence, then I come and expose it.

I'm not the one who teaches you what's good and what's bad. I'm just pointing out grave contradictions in other people's justifications that lead to all sorts of things that many consider "evil".

In other words: I'm not the one who will violently oppose your lifestyle, nor will I support those who will violently intervene in your life. Believe in what you want, live with people you like. I'd only like the same respect from you towards me. And in case we have some conflict, I'm all for peaceful non-violent solution. E.g. dialog, public debate, "defamation", boycott, economic ostracism etc. But no guns and ass-kicking (unless someone pulls out knifes and forks, in which case I'd have to run away and/or fight back, but I still don't justify violence).
Maybe it was notable enough by the way they came to their conclusions, and that it was an interdisciplinary team that worked on it? I'm not in the field but found the post interesting and from a new angle.

But yes, it's not radically new idea. In cash game poker (in situations where you that much better than your opponent), you don't necessary want to win a regular's money consistently all the time. Better to keep your customer returning by showing some vulnerability.
I don't see how it's "dangerous". If terrorism were a leading cause of death, I'd advocate for fighting it with many resources. However, it's an insignificant cause of death, so I advocate for dedicating very few resources to it.

My attitude toward the NSA leaks is, "they should not be doing this." If terrorism killed millions, it would be, "they should be doing a better job of this." Numbers matter.
He has been on a computer the whole time...
There were well-defined legal channels available to Snowden to communicate any concerns he had about the existing programs. By all accounts, he did not take advantage of any of them.
Even better, most of the demos work fine in IE10! It's like everyone is converging on some kind of central specification on how web pages can animate...
BTW, for short-length city transportation (5-10km) folding kick scooter is better, than bike. You can always fold it and bring it inside. And you are still 2-3 times faster, than pedestrian.

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So if you keep peacefully not paying your taxes, you will be subjected to violence, yes? A person grabbing you and throwing you out of your house is violence, is it not?
You're talking about the sum total of all auto accidents over 12 years

I'm talking about the sum total of all auto accidents over 12 years an the sum of all terrorist attacks over 12 years.

Even 12 years of auto accidents don't add up to one major terrorism event.

How so? 420,000 people died in car accidents. 2,700 people died in the biggest terrorism event to ever hit the U.S. So that's deaths. Economic impact - no brainer, car accidents have bigger economic impact. By any measure, car accidents have a bigger impact in aggregate than terrorist attacks in aggregate.

If there was another 9/11 or a Boston bombing happened every year, the country's economy would be massively screwed.

I don't even know what to say to someone that writes this.
You're assuming that they see having false positives as an issue. You don't worry over such things when there's no problem with tossing suspects into a hole with no due process.
There are forms of clever marketing; this is not one of them. Ugh.
My favorite trick along those lines:

var cache = SomeClass.prototype.someMethod;
SomeClass.prototype.someMethod = function () {
debugger; // or `throw "stacktrace"`
cache.apply(this, arguments)
}

Inserts a stack trace right in the middle of executing someone else's code, which is nice for tracking down why/when that function gets called if documentation is poor, without changing functionality.
“Dependency Injection” does not exist in JavaScript.
This is why I was fired from Balanced Payments:

I understood exactly what the Federal judge eventually concluded -- that payments processing is becoming like a commodity (think web hosting), and that interchange fees have been unnecessarily bloated for a long time. There is no reason that any financial entity that processes a payment can justify 21 cents per swipe for the processing swipe alone. The swipe is the recording of the

- cc #
- day/time/place of swipe or "submit payment"
- expiration date
- cvc code

which when put together all add up to one little thing called an "auth" code. Maybe. . . 200 - 999 bytes for the swipe data alone.

Even though the Fed had initially proposed a cap of about 12 cents, the final rule was expanded to cover more items, including the cost of equipment and fraud-prevention technology (after an extensive lobbying campaign by the banking industry). That was improper, the court ruled.

All the other stuff -- the fraud detection items and whatnot are what companies should be competing (based on price) on.

The only way that this change could have been done was from the inside out: some high-tech "startup" from Silicon Valley could have been the first mover and propogated this change without any Federal intervention. But no: YC guys like the ones at Balanced we want to believe are "good" just are not; try to get them stand up for what's right and get fired and have your career damaged in a bad way.

The court decision could result in debit fees being cut by more than 50 percent, Guggenheim Partners said in a note to investors. Fees probably will revert to the 7 cents to 12 cents per transaction that the Fed had initially proposed, the note said.

But the sad thing is it probably won't matter. The merchants / marketplaces will get the windfall, or the banks processing payments will either way -- The average consumer will be none the wiser, and the cost savings will never get passed on to the end consumer -- always up in the chain.

More info about what exactly happened is here: http://intuitiveink.tumblr.com/
The problem the previous poster was descrbibing wasn ot when you act as an ISP, but when someone manages to log into your wifi (either because it's unprotected or unintentionally vulnerable), and performs criminal activity. The US legal system has reliably shown itself willing to pursue the owner of an IP address, without going to the trouble of showing the owner was in fact the one using the IP for that purpose.
1. Foreign means not from a country, Greenwald was born in Queens, NY - just because he lives abroad, that doesn't make him foreign.

2. He works for Guardian US, a US company based in New York.

3. According to the editor, it's actually easier for the Guardian to publish stories on this topic through their US subsidiary, rather than the UK, because free speech protections are stronger in the US, so the US connection is very important to them and they view themselves as a global media operation now (just moved to a .com domain for example).
It's interesting the direction that corporate giving is taking. Here's a neat interactive from the Chronicle of Philanthropy showing the shift away from cash donations to products and volunteerism:

http://philanthropy.com/article/How-America-s-Biggest/140269...
No, I have not indicated it at all. You misread me. No one likes obeying rules they don't like. You're trying to present it as if I'm some kind of an outcast, which I'm not.
Show HN: Jaunt - Java Web Automation (Headless Browser) API
Who needs servers anyways? It's all about all front-end apps built on Parse and Firebase.
Playing around with the Leap Motion Controller on the web [video]
I agree. That is hell. There's good automation and bad automation. Bad automation is just automating the creation of more busy work for people. Good automation does the boring, tedious things for people -- so they can relax and go back to focusing on the things that make them happy.
I highly recommend the book. His persistence is inspiring. So inspiring to me that I borrowed "H4" when I decided to create a "company" to build my mobile apps: http://www.h4labs.com

I've been plugging away (part-time) for three years. Sometimes it feels like a long time, but when you consider that Harrison spent decades on a much harder and worthwhile problem... Anyway, if anyone wants to help me with my "sea trials", I'd appreciate it. Here's an overview of my next release:

http://www.h4labs.com/design1.html
Maybe it has to do with what the local college CS department standardizes on.
Well to be honest, I don't know what to say to you, either.
sorry about your poor experience with GRE Prep :( what didn't you like about it? my team doesn't do the GRE products but I will certainly pass along your thoughts.
I'm the developer of a small but "better than current offerings" product. Everywhere my product gets mention two or three shills jump in to recommend theirs. Wecome to WebSpam 2.0
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I'm one of those "none of this is new" types. The fact is, we ALL very much should have known. Do the words "Echelon" and "Total Information Awareness" ring any bells? These were terms being used pre-9/11. There is no excuse for someone technological and with a small inkling of understanding of human nature to not have seen all of this coming. There really isn't.

If you're waiting for someone like Snowden to come along and spoon-feed you all the ways the government can screw you, you're doing things completely wrong. Oversight requires foresight.
Do you have evidence for that? I've not personally seen any polling, so maybe you're right, but my impression is that a lot of people of all ages strongly approve of government anti-terror efforts in general.
I wonder how well Fat Cow BBQ, (local joint in Lewisville), ships...
So if terrorism was killing some people, you'd justify someone forcing me to pay taxes to fund NSA? Or you'd prefer some non-violent, voluntary way to organise protection against terrorism? Would you kick ass of your neighbour if he disagrees on your terrorist-fighting methods, or would you try to argue with him peacefully and let him live his life if he still disagrees with you? Would you like to be able to peacefully disagree with people, or are you okay if someone is forcing you to comply?
They aren't just stopping identity theft but allowing care givers to control spending habits. Or being taken advantage of by (legitimate) organizations taking advantage of the elderly.
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Researchers Use iPhone Charger As Hacking Tool
That's basically the "at least we're better than North Korea" argument which has never ceased to be utterly stupid.
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We also explore some pretty awesome ways to escape from getting crushed under the heel of complexity, and we're all excited to start toying around with ideas like http://clojure.com/blog/2013/06/28/clojure-core-async-channe... for the frontend.

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I hope his links are rel=nofollow otherwise he might be penalized by Google (sarcasm)
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Rein in Your Application Permissions
We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
California Tries to Regulate Rampant Ride-Sharing
The morality question may not be so black and white, though. If it's ok to accept goodies to monetize a Klout score, why not for StackExchange?

By "monetize a Klout score," you mean spam your followers on social networks sites, right? That seems pretty morally clear to me.
Those of us building real apps in javascript are using angular, which certainly does have dependency injection.

(DI doesn't and never has meant reams of XML, JNDI and consultants. It's just a pattern for how you write your applications, and you can implement it just fine with ordinary code. That's always been true)
My apologies, I misread that as "work with you to help you relocate".

It's great to see a site dedicated to WFH. I wish you every success with it!
All this discussion is doing is illustrating your rescue-dog mentality. Don't worry, I won't waste another second on Perl. Enjoy your Detroit, you guys have earned it.
True, but you could also say he ran a campaign to crowdfund his education and offered rewards in the form of pixels.

The lines between crowdfunding, accepting preorders, and just running a business are fairly blurry.
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It's been fun watching the shills from Redmond squirm this year after all the stumbles...
Jackie Chan’s Death Hoax Continues on Facebook
It started back in June and a Facebook account that seems to have initiated the hoax is still available. How can users protect themselves while Facebook figures a way to sort things out...
Having a negative attitude about whether new ideas/people can be helpful? Sounds like a recipe for not improving.
How does anything said there contradict that?

That's several examples of CEOs that are obviously at least superficially familiar with the products their respective companies make.
I'm just checking, you have sorted out a work visa yeah or already applied to jobs? As from what I remember you can only get a 6 month visitor visa, which means you have that much time to try and get a job and get a work permit sorted before you'd have to leave the country. It's doable but I would probably do a lot more research on the subject before moving my family over.
Yes, I would justify someone forcing you to pay taxes to fund the NSA in that case, just like I currently justify someone forcing you, and me, to pay taxes to build roads, pay teachers and policemen and firefighters, fund the military, etc. I strongly disapprove of some activities of government, but not of the concept overall.
If you do a timeout polling like this, it might be a good idea to bump up the timout to several minutes (not every 20 seconds like in the example code).

Peridically waking up an idle CPU just to check the time has a surprisingly big effect on power consumption. This might be a real issue if you have this page open in your smartphone browser but the phone is idle but not sleeping in your pocket.
You've rumbled him. The only reason he's bashing Samsung is because Apple came back with a better counter offer.
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I agree with you, but there is no such thing as gun violence. A gun is just a tool. The violence in most cases that hurts blacks is caused by the insane, racist, never-ending war on drugs specifically designed to put brown people behind bars.

The overall level of crime and violence in the USA has dropped dramatically over the past few decades despite the prevalence of guns. End the war on drugs in America and the place would be one of the most peaceful places on the planet.
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Foursquare Selling Its Location Data Through Ad Targeting Firm Turn
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Parallelizing core.logic