skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You bought the same bill of goods that Obama was selling. The only difference is that you didn't like it.

Truth be told, I have reverted to my unhealthy political cynicism post-first term Obama. Unlike you, however, I acknowledge the transformational atmosphere of 2008 that virtually anyone in the country would recognize.

I mentioned the Tea Party and Bush for reasons that I thought I had made clear, but you apparently still miss the point. Has nothing to do with blaming them for him not being transformational, but I don't want to keep repeating myself.

Finally, I hope that you realize how ridiculous it is that you are pointing to some ex-classmate or ex-colleague gossip on The Daily Caller. That is very "Fox News Viewer" of you. This is why Swift-boating works. Just drudge up some old people that knew the target in a past life but don't agree with his politics, and let them spout off what detractors want to hear. Then, canonize that into the truth and its attendant panoply of talking points.

Of course we can dig up plenty of people who say the exact opposite. This is not evidence of anything. What did he do or not do that supports the conclusions you have drawn about him? You are suggesting that people were foolish to believe he was different because there's no evidence that he would be. Yet, you offer no evidence that he would not be. It's just these declarations that he is not who he says because you, Fox News, and (now) some guys/gals he knew years ago say so.
It's easy for product and marketing to convince engineers by demonstrating results. Usually they come up with some stupid idea, engineers waste time building it, and then it fails. But instead of letting it die, they add yet more sub-features to their stupid fucking feature no one wants.
Glitzy eye-candy does not inspire confidence in a scientific expedition. Planes shooting across the screen... and everything boiled down into talking points just detract from what might be a serious scientific study. The total effect left me feeling uneasy and not trusting the project. Science should be about the steak, not the sizzle.

Even the name, Dark Snow, sounds like a bad Hollywood horror movie. Maybe they really are really on a mission to discover frozen aliens beneath the Greenland ice sheet. There is nothing sexy or cool about Greenland, it's a bleak desolate place, which is why it's called Greenland, to trick people into settling there. I guess Dark Snow is trying the same trick.
Here is the relevant part of the artists webpage: http://deweyhagborg.com/projects.html
We have neither Huxley's world nor Orwell's. In Huxley's version we would exile free thinkers; the US government never exiles people (with so much invested in the prison industry, how could we?). In Orwell's version, free thinkers would be tortured until they either die or learn to love the system. The US government just marginalizes free thinkers, allowing them to continue to live and work in our society (with the exception of whistleblowers) but ensuring that they never find themselves in a position to change anything.

The common theme in dystopia is that free thinkers are ignored by the rest of society, which is either apathetic or too brainwashed. We are certainly at that point, but neither Brave New World nor 1984 accurately describe what America is becoming.
Not knowing anything about Apple leadership in the first place I was struck by the male homogenity on that page.
True. But PM needs to pick its head up and think more broadly. A "one in one out" queue is contrary to delivering winning product.
No, you are missing the point. Take a page full of intense mathematical notation or an orchestral score and translate it into either full words (i.e.: "integral" in place of the integral symbol) or one, two or three character ASCII mnemonics. You should realize that the original is far more powerful a tool for communicating thoughts, ideas and the subject at hand than a seemingly random dump of ASCII on paper.

You did mention that you did not bother to learn APL. That's the reason you don't get it. I am trying to use mathematical and musical notation to illustrate the value of notation. It is obvious I am not doing a good job.

Let's just disagree and move on.
Ah! I missed a point. The way I do, helps me pick and choose only the modules that I need to use from the vendor frameworks.

For instance, for a simpler website which would be OK with just a grid but not all the other modules of Foundation, I can just pick up the grid. btw, Foundation's new medium grid, "grid-5.scss" is nice one.
A lot of people in SF don't know they can use Safeway online for groceries:

https://shop.safeway.com/ecom/home
I wonder if the same day delivery is just a way to get people in, but the real value is being able to shop at a bunch of local retailers from one place.
I honestly don't care if google knows I like lesbian chick flicks.
Okay, so they own a patent... It takes $ to enforce, protect, and win a litigation for. Once won, they then have to collect... Taken voice - "Good Luck"
That the order isn't guaranteed is a feature, not a bug. It frees the implementation to collect records in the most efficient fashion and from having to maintain ordering.

> Where's the cost of just giving every result row a running index, which some operations can rely on / change, and most ignore?

The cost is that you need to keep an index updated. A trite observation, but there it is. Sometimes that cost is worth paying, sometimes it isn't. SQL doesn't forcefully extract that cost, it lets the database programmer or administrator decide, based on local conditions, what is best.
This is a sure sign of a broken PM group (and product dev team in general). Great teams are made of equal parts PM, Eng, Design and a group of folks who can actually position and sell a product.
I don't really agree with this view point that engineering should know less then PM. In a good team, Engineering knows what features are there, why are they there and what sales / customers are hankering for, and also how they where implemented.
Sales is generally aware of what is more valuable to a given customer
Marketing has an overall idea of how the market is behaving.
PM is the crucible where all these information comes in and they need to define how product will be built.
But please note, each subteam should have a strong idea of the market. If not, then people are not effectively communicating.
Lack of communication is a sure sign of dysfunctional team, which results in each teams working on their pet projects, but no one knows when what will come out of the whole process.
This is somewhat the point. Engineering managers have started to reach for Kanban -- and it does not fit.
2. if something doesn't make sense in the claims, you can refer to the description for clarification of what the scope of terms encompass within their scope.

Also, as an ademdum to 1., specifically read the independant claims (the ones which don't mention other claims) for the definition of the broadest scope they're seeking to claim.
As I see, there are at least 3 projects for Bootstrap 3 SASS:

* https://github.com/vwall/compass-twitter-bootstrap/tree/3.0....

* https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass/tree/3

* https://github.com/zakelfassi/bootsrap3-sass-scss
For sure, which is the fundamental reason why kanban doesn't work.

If you have good teams basically all you need is a thin layer of process that prevents total chaos, kanban is a good fit for that, but most teams implement kanban in a cargo cult manner.

I've worked on sales driven teams where I fundamentally trusted the sales guy because when he said if you make feature X I can sell it for $Y dollars and we made bank doing that.

Conversely I've worked on teams where everyone was trying to avoid being fired and would only make decisions that were defensible, eg. company X is doing Y so lets do Y, resulting in the usual follow the leader failure.
Yandex co-founder Ilya Segalovich dies after cancer
So, disk writes are necessary, after all?

Yes, there are lots of tricks, like placing that append-only physical transaction log on a different controller with a distinct storage device, etc. Data partitioning is the another big idea. Having indexes in memory to avoid unnecessary reads, using collected statistics in a query optimizer, etc. But nothing could beat the partitioning based on actual workloads and separation of tablespaces on distinct hardware, including decoupling indexes from the tables - this is what DBAs were for.

I used to be Informix DBA in old good days, so I can't help but smile when I look at MySQL (well, they added lots of partitioning options in recent InnoDB - the things Informix could do out of box 12 years ago) leave alone modern NoFsync "databases".)

Btw, not all NoSQL guys are insane.) Riak with LevelDB storage backend is very sane approach, which cares about and counts writes.
someone should setup a list of isps that oppose the filter and then get people to Email the isps that do NOT oppose the filter and tell them that u will cancel your service with them if they do not change their stance
I don't see why it really matters most of the time, especially in one-off javascript scripts.
Neither of which has a dynamically generated price, and thus neither of which would be subject to this patent.
From what I learned from a WIPO course a decade ago, every country that signed the Paris Convention[1] (like the Berne Convention, but for patents) must treat patents filed in another signing country as valid in their own.

when an applicant files an application for a patent or a trademark
in a foreign country [...] the owner benefits from the same protection
and the same legal remedy against any infringement as if the owner was
a national owner of this right

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Convention_for_the_Prote...
Thanks. I appreciate the thought. It's rare on HN to have someone write something nice.
> not asking you or anyone else to pay for it

Sure you are. The moment you're out of your financial depth you'll scream like a little girl and recant.

You presume that a private system yields some kind of low-cost alternative to single-payer systems. That's not the case, and it's so far from true in the US that it's laughable.

You are the one who needs to look into his kids eyes and explain why they can't have critically needed health care. It should start with "Daddy can't do math", and end with "and so my beliefs were more important than your well-being".
There's an unstated assumption that could be clarified:

- our culture is superior to some others

- our culture is superior to most others

- our culture is superior to all others

My answer would change depending on which of these I thought the question was asking. Would a native French speaker make a different assumption from a native English speaker? Would linguistic differences make all three equally possible in Spanish but only one possible in German? In other words, is it possible that language difference is significantly distorting our ability to spot attitude difference on this question?
Happens every time. I have learned to expect it. It does make me spend a little more time though thinking through the counter arguments that are likely to be fired like spears.
Apple SVP Bob Mansfield's bio disappears from official leadership webpage
As I have said below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6119175) You need to delink engineering releases from marketing releases. Where is it written that when the engineering releases a feature you need to make a marketing push? When you have a collection of features ready which as a whole makes sense for marketing, then you make a marketing release with all the related PR, hype cycle, etc ...
I thought that filter was called a web browser.
Novelty requires proof through a single disclosue (read document) which discloses all the features of the claim. It is not, as with most things in the law, left up to a weak oppinion or a feeling of "Hmm, I'm sure someone must've done that before!"
I agree that it might not work, but it is a far better alternative that inaction or to leave it solely up to the bullied to deal with the issue alone.

Also, the point is not to completely quell the criticisms towards Fish. In fact, legitimate criticisms are fine. It's the illogical bullying (negative comments for the sake of being negative) that needs to be reduced. Additionally, the goal should be to lower the levels of bullying to a degree where they bullied can actually handle the situation.

As I mentioned earlier, people can grow thicker skin but if the level of bullying is high and constant, that skin will be worn off. What bystanders should be doing is helping enough of a helping hand that Fish can recover and regrow some of that "thicker skin" that has been eroded away.

Since this point seems to be missed, "grow thicker skin" only for specific situations. In this case, which is very similar to long term bullying, it is advice that will not work because it has already failed as evidenced by Fish calling out for help (asking people to stop). As mentioned already, people need to take a look at reality and give advice that is applicable to the situation.
"Why shouldn't money have meaning in the political realm?"

America is, in theory, a representative democracy and not some kind of plutocracy or aristocracy. That is your answer.
I found it an engaging read with little clutter after I started scrolling...
Comments like mine are why I always answer "please no" in those hypotheticals about meeting yourself.
Dad of the Year Builds Functional 737 Cockpit in Kids’ Bedroom
What's with the "nothing to hide" meme? Has there been any research on it? Is it a product of meritrocratic naïveté, Facebook signalling, consumerism, media or another combination? It seems like a great way to have a compliant, feeble populace dependent on others for protection.
Google services problem with just one user profile
Just to be clear: northwest is for the repeal of the 1st amendment.

OK, so candidates can only use one site. Then "Friends of Candidate" will set up a site, or some random blogger with a million followers will set up a website. There is no stopping the message, or the money. The voting system needs to change, among other things. the government should also do less, so there is less power to be had at the top.
This was announced publicly back in March, if I recall correctly:

http://googlecommerce.blogspot.com/2013/03/calling-all-sf-ba...

I'm a fan. We use it several times a week.
Life as a US drone operator: 'It's like playing a video game for four years'
Your ISP wanting money to install caching servers for Netflix and YouTube is not something which has been covered ny net neutrality in the past. It would be great if there was a fixed colo fee for caching servers.

That said, I pay my ISP for bandwidth and service. It's bullshit if they refuse free installation of caching servers which improves my service and frees up upstream bandwidth for others.
Almost never.
I think that we would actually agree. I don't really care how Eng gets to a major milestone and delivers a good portion of the required features. The issue is that when the teams lose focus of the bigger picture and stop thinking about key dates and what collection of features are needed to win. When any dev methodology becomes the goal and not the means to an end -- companies and their customers suffer.
Congressmen on select committees have clearance, but cannot tell you what they know.

Basically, the Congress had ceded it's ability to approve/disapprove warlike action to the executive. They retain the power of the purse, but it is difficult to be in a position politically where you are "cutting off support" for "the troops".

That's also a key reason why we had the "support the troops" propaganda. Even if you were against the war, how can you be against your neighbor's sons and daughters?
Ah, I see. That's an interesting idea. Sounds impractical - if you're going to do all that engineering work, might as well just get rid of the air in the first place - but cool concept.
...who is rallying an increasingly unified Democratic caucus to his side, as well as 61 House Democrats who voted no on Wednesday but are now publicly signaling their discontent.

That's HUGE. Does anyone have any more details on this?

The tone of the whole article seems to indicate that change is inevitable. We need to stay vigilant and make sure the changes aren't just window-dressing.
How to Rip Blu-ray for Google Nexus 7 on Mac
Amazon has successfully opened a huge market for consumer electronics in June 2013, paving way for its own branded tablet Kindle Fire (HD) to gain more market share in the world’s largest populated land. How about Google? Google also has its own tablet Nexus 7, which is as excellent as Kindle Fire, both in terms of hardware and software. Its 7 inch HD backlit IPS display with a resolution of 1200*800 and a ppi of 216 seems even superior to Kindle’s. It will be at least equally good when you watch HD movies on this screen. There is a way for you to test that, Mac Blu-ray Ripper software is a piece of video converting tool which helps you rip any Blu-ray to Google Nexus 7 compatible video files, and DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper for Mac is such a kind of software tool.
I wonder if there is room in the market to disrupt polling then. I have never been part of a poll but have heard similar bad things about their structure, so I wonder if anyone is out there trying to make it more accurate.
> It is little surprise then that Western liberals no longer breed above replacement rates. Denigrating motherhood is not the way for a people to last the aeons of time. I believe the future of the West is profoundly more conservative than the present, because Darwin. Liberalism is a suicidal ideology.

It doesn't really work like that. India has over 1 billion people, and I'm sure "traditional" lower caste women there "breed above replacement rates" as you put it.

On the other side you might have an upper middle class, white, historically mainline Protestant couple living in the US. Both have a sibling, both have advanced degrees, both have parents who went to college. Their families have slowly been acquiring wealth for generations. The couple will have two "replacement rate" kids.

On the other hand, the lower caste Indian woman has more than one child die in infancy. The family does not always have enough food to eat every day.

Yet in your mind, the Indian family is a winner because of "Darwin", because the western liberals have a "suicidal ideology". But who would doubt the upper middle class American son would not want to trade places with the Indian kid, and there's a much more significant chance that the Indian kid would trade places with the white kid.

You seem to see some "contempt" and a "misogynist" tone in the parent which I do not. You're advocating a way of life and morality and such that belongs to history, and to rural farmers in that history. The US is losing its industrial jobs never mind its agricultural jobs. Traditional life in the US is Michael Moore's "Roger & Me" vision of 1950s blue collar unionized industrial workers driving their cars back to the suburbs. A way of life going away with Detroit's bankruptcy. Your vision of women only raising kids, and more than two as you say, is not traditional, it's almost ancient tradition. It's like, Pennsylvania farmers circa late 17th century. The Amish and Mennonites in Pennyslvania live like you're talking. But most of America considers it rather antiquated.
no. but they should function in every browser.
There is some interesting research on personality differences between the sexes[1]. Also, there is solid biological reasons for believing a species like ours with modest amounts of sexual dimorphism will have substantial behavioral differences between sexes. I have severe doubts about the perfect equality hypothesis, which seems to be the default assumption of liberals. Roughly, women are evolved to care and men are evolved to kill.

Of course, we are talking about distributions of traits and there are outliers in both sexes[2], and everyone ought to be judged individually on their own characteristics. But we need to recognize that the average woman and the average man are substantially different, and we should expect their behavior to diverge.

[1] http://bsb-lab.org/site/wp-content/uploads/DelGiudice_etal_2...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristiane_Santos
This is not equivalent to a newspaper advertisment because a newspaper isn't online content (though it's close enough that an argument could be made on the inventive step). However, there is definitely potential that this is novel.

I was going to say that there is also no method of changing a user comment on a newspaper after it has been created, but on a second inspection of the claim, there's no requirement for this within the claim. And based on that, I think you may well be right that there is a good chance of invalidation, because the system boils down to a system where one can place advertisments on specific parts of a piece of online content and being able to pay more for a better looking ad.
This is a confusing argument.

Kanban/lean is a pretty simple idea (not always easy to execute): eliminate waste in your work by smoothing the flow of requirements/changes. This treats your end-to-end delivery capability as a syatem and one that should not be overburdened.

The clearest sign of being overburdened is when you have a lot of work in progress but nothing to show for it. So instead of a genius PM/business analyst/product owner handling out a tome of requirwments from on high with a thud, you break the work down into a minimally useful / marketable chunks, minimize work in progress, deliver according to some priority, and iterate and learn from the results.

This is the philsophical foundation of lean Startups (customer development), lean development, and much of the work on Devops.

So the article rails against Kanban ... And almost seems like its advocating for the same thing with its goal-driven approach to delivery (?).

Any methodology or process framework is subject to misinterpretation or abuse. This is why "agile" and "scrum" are dirty words to many - it's hard to tell what you're getting, as the term has been twisted to suit vested interests. It looks like it is Lean and Kanban's turn to be trashed due to ersatz versions being forced on teams.

But articles like this aren't helpful unless they explain what they mean Kanban, and what aspects are ineffective - clichés like "software is different" don't illuminate.
No, because that's not paid per comment.
Seconded; these have had a permanent place in my iTunes library.
I hadn't heard about that before, but I googled it and this interesting link came up.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s...

TL;DR

The small number of predictions of an ice age appeared to be much more interesting than those of global warming, so it was those sensational 'Ice Age' stories in the press that so many people tend to remember.
I've been using this for a few months. It's super convenient for buying common items sold from places like Target and Staples.

If it wasn't free shipping I don't think I would use it over amazon prime though. There is no comparing the selection from Amazon to what is currently available from express shopping.
I've never been a fan of JS and this is why I have it disabled by default in Chromium. Just whitelist the domains you make use of and the rest of the internet is smooth sailing.
Melting pot... fuck that noise.
Also remember that most people don't study culture and might think that means along the lines of "well my friends / people in my area are generally nice but I heard people in other countries are raping and killing each other".

What I'm trying to say is that as part of the study, asking people who responded what they thought culture meant might be really valuable to gauging the value of this question.