skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well clearly bringing in 'the fam' as opposed to ' the wife' would be whole other story.

Buy I would think a company such as Microsoft could figure out basic common courtesy for guests that they invited.
Structure is irrelevant while the electorate refuse any responsibility for their voting. Problem is people who have political bias and stick to it in a bigoted prejudiced way. On top of that, we have political apathy. Numbers wise, the majority is a non vote.

A change I would make is to make voting a legal requirement, but there must be a none of the above option. If "none of the above" wins, we vote again. Tedious, but hopefully it would force thought. Under no circumstances should a forced vote not include none of the above. I would personally freak if I were forced to vote for what we have now. I would be a NotA people.

Over all though, its down to us. The system is there for us to use. Information to base decisions on is out there like never before. Even in the US where both parties spend 100s of millions of $s lying and trashing, Americans could get to the truth, ignore the BS, and vote accordingly. But like every one else in a democratic country, the vast majority just dumbly vote for their usual party with out any thought what so ever. So, its hardly surprising that the politicians rig it all accordingly, and take very little notice of any one but their core vote, and their prejudices.

Tangent:
If you want a real leap, this why I partly understand (and please, not condone, justify, excuse, support, or anything else) terrorists attacking civilians. No point attacking military or politicians as they are enforcing our democratic will. Logically it makes sense, especially from afar. They think that if they change our votes, things will change for them. We are responsible for the actions of our democratic governments, because we validate them with votes. On the flip side, in a dictatorship, there is no point attacking civilians as they have no power and the government doesn't really care since it doesn't need votes. Its like my mum used to say to me, "Don't hate or fear the Soviet people, they don't get to vote" But of course, there is an implication there.
I think this is a good fodder for some really inquisitive investigative journalism as I doubt very much that defenders do not receive perks and kickbacks from establishment that disperses 550BILLION dollars to private contractors from taxpayers coffers to break laws, destroy constitution and make to orwellian state.

Being more paranoid than less I have a inkling that this system is being installed and police is being armed because it is known that if economy collapses, these will be instruments to quell dissent and literally destroy (imprison and/or execute) opposition - of those who might well lead the revolution.

Economy is doing good, but the external debt is mindboggling those who are in the place of power might know what we don't.
Fixed indentation:

git merge master -s <strategy>

git merge master -s recursive -Xpatience

git merge master -s octopus

git merge master -s ours

git diff stash{0}

git --no-pager diff

git stripspace < file

git diff --check

git diff --cached

git merge --abort

git merge -m "message"

git merge --no-commit

git status --ignored

git update-index --assume-unchanged path_to_file

git update-index --no-assume-unchanged path_to_file
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Silicon Alley is now on LinkedIn Connect with us
People who have invested their life in excellence in a discipline other than politics are going to be beaten at politics by the power-hungry sociopaths who want to be politicians. So we always end up with unskilled, unethical people in government.
Informative writing and good structure.
If this theory is correct, we may live in a web of alternate timelines
seems to load ok for me.
Ministers are (mostly) appointed from the pool of voted-for politicians, who are nearly all lawyers or politics graduates.
Quantum Physics Leads To Perfect Mirror
Does anyone want to buy one for me and ship it to the UK? I'll make it worth your while...

Email me: leetreveil@gmail.com
After reading multiple comments criticising Emacs for wearing down the hands, there's some more stuff (apart from viper-mode) that makes Emacs use less damaging:

* ergo-emacs key bindings (http://ergoemacs.org/features.html)

* partial-completion-mode

* auto-completion (e.g. binding dabbrev-expand to an easy reachable key/combo)

* put window/buffer navigation onto easier reachable keys (for me F7, F11 work well)

* Make buffer switching smarter by using ido-switch-buffer and ido-find-file instead of the normal switch-buffer and find-file functions (see documentation for ido-mode)

* desktop-save-mode so you don't have to repeatedly re-open files after restarting emacs

* Using auto-generated boilerplate when creating new files (see Emacs manual for define-auto-insert and friends)

* using a Kinesis Advantage keyboard helps with emacs key combos as Ctrl/Alt can be reached via the thumbs without moving the hands.

...
Well, there are hardly likely to do themselves out of a prime job, are they? But in a way they sort of do, they appoint advisers....

We could have a whole new official layer of experts, but that would be shot down by cries of bureaucracy.

Initially I like the idea of expert opinion being mandatory. So, like with the drugs advice, I would like to see government forced to adopt their proposals. But would I be happy with police experts forcing legislation? Doctors, probably, but army?

In the end, I have to come back to general population ignorance an prejudice. "We" have to smarten up, and vote accordingly. Its the only way I see.
I dislike Nathan Myhrvold as a whole, and that's what I think that guy meant too: with the information we have, we can only hate Myhrvold.

And I, for one, do not excuse Bill Gates for all the bad he's done to the world of software, among others, just because of his charity. But that's my personal opinion.
Yeah, but there are way more annoying things in here that are not in the guidelines (nor downvoted). The mechanism just seems broken.
Conferência Internacional de Gestão de Projetos de Construção em Pequim
What are you talking about, there is clearly ongoing agricultural activities on both sides of the border!

Ukraine/Russia (farmland): https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!1m4!1m3!1d4036!2d...

Belarus/Russia (nothing):
https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!1m4!1m3!1d3707!2d...

So lets recap: You are unable to produce any proof. Nothing can be seen on satellite imagery. There is no mention of minefields and fences on Wikipedia or any other credible source.
Wouldnt removing modules affect performance because some modules might be loaded for performance or memory purposes. Can there be adverse effects as well of doing this. If lightweight is only need, why not use the lightweight distributions like Tinycore linux.
I agree that the question format is often a poor fit, and the questions often seem forced.

How about a "FRI" - Frequently Requested Information, with useful content on a simple, well-organized page.
My feeling on this:

There is no effective science for this. Determining a more effective structure, for such a horribly non-linear dynamical system, requires mathematics which we do not have. I suspect that we are operating within a conceptual framework which is poorly serving our purposes. I think that a good number of problems that we currently face are rooted in this poor framing. How do you effectively parallelise code? How do you create systems that effectively satisfy objectives within dynamic environments? How do you build general AI? What is the mechanism that underlies the function of the brain? Where does life come from, what is it's driver? What is computation? What precisely is complexity? And... how do you construct a society which is, in the ways that we prescribe, optimal?

I would wager that there is a single big fish out there that recasts these problems into a framework which renders them at least partially tractable. We are in limbo waiting for a genius to find us a way out of this mess.
I'm sure there's a name for it, but I fight quite hard to not necessarily round values to pleasing numbers. Sometimes that's just the right value.
It's worth bearing in mind that FAQs originated in places where people go to ask questions (usenet, mailing lists, forums) to avoid the same quesions being asked over and over again, and in that context they still make a lot of sense. The blog post is talking about FAQs on web sites, which I'd accept as being a different context.
University launches $2.5B Kickstarter campaign
Quantum Entanglement Made Visible
Sounds reasonable. But I think I would have to know a hell of a lot more about it and how it works in practice.

Who set that up anyway? HK used to be British run. Don't tell me we gave them a better government than we have !!!!!
Raytheon's JLENS Missle Defense blimps to depoly in Washington in 2014
They say it was to be released "in coming weeks" (whatever that means) in UK, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Japan and Korea.
I absolutely loved your talk; not only is it pretty informative but also entertaining, and found myself rewatching it just because. I think your talk gave me enough knowledge of crypto to take another go at Stanford's "Cryptography I" class. So thanks and I'll look out for your book.
> we voted for this

Not really. Claire Perry was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament for the constituency of Devizes in Wiltshire. Devizes has elected a Conservative candidate in every single election since 1924, so running for election there as a Conservative is kind of a formality.

She was then appointed to the position of Parliamentary Private Secretary to Philip Hammond, the Secretary of Defence. My understanding is she has no official position, qualifications, expertise, or mandate with regards to technology, the internet, or children's welfare.
You can apparently blame C for the belief that a programmer should have to optimize code themselves.

Though I'm waiting for the itanium/ILP optimized haskell compiler. It's one of the few languages that tracks side effects enough that it seems possible to actually build the "sufficiently smart compiler" that Intel always claimed would materialize to make itanium a good idea.
>> Problem is people who have political bias and stick to it in a bigoted prejudiced way.

This annoys the crap out of me.

I know people who are vehemently anti-Tory, who will take the slightest word of anything from the current government and twist it so they can paint it in the most evil light imaginable, and cast the current politicians as real actual demons.

Tell them you have no faith in the other side either and you'll get a lecture about the party of workers, rights for the poor etc.

Mention to these people that the legacy of the last labour government (war, prohibition, surveillance-state) isn't exactly shining and didn't actually help the downtrodden either and you'll get a grudging comment about how Blair was possibly a mistake but the 'toffs' in power now are only there to screw everyone.

Not "the whole Labour party was and still is in on this sh*t and are just as bad as anyone else, let's have some real choice", which is the only rational position I can think of. No, just hate.

I don't actually know anyone that admits to voting conservative so I haven't seen the other side. I'm sure its much the same.

My mother admits to voting for the best looking party leader.

I just despair of the whole thing.
Inside Facebook's Globe-Trotting Quest To Improve Its Feature Phone Experience
New shrew has spine of steel
So as this is DOM manipulation, it's a competitor to jQuery, right? If so, what are the advantages over jQuery, and would it make jQuery redundant now (for new projects)?
The scary part is that they're developing capabilities and organizing in such a way that they will be able to stop dissidents and protests before they even go out to protest, thanks to the NSA mass spying and the so called "fusion centers" with the DHS and police. They were already used against Occupy protests. At the next protest they will be much more organized and have much better capabilities to track who intends to go to protests or even who's "inciting" protests online.

Think that case with the German who said on Facebook that they should visit the new NSA center in Germany, and the police visited him before he got a chance to do it. That's what we're really talking about here. If you think that developing such capabilities to stop protests is a little too paranoid for you to digest, do you really think they wouldn't do this if there was another massive protest against the banks, with the excuse that they're protecting the nation against an economic crash or whatever? The last time around, they arrested people for trying to close their bank accounts, and they weren't even that many. Let's just say that if this was an Intrade bet, I would be in favor of it happening.
I wish there was something like this near me, I'd do it in a heartbeat
Such an incredible person. I've met him a couple of times, and he was always smiling, inquisitive and much nicer than you would ever expect. The good go early.
Whilst I agree with you, one should point out that no politicians have the expertise or mandate with regards to technology, the internet, or children's welfare!
Oh how I wish you had written that 6 mons ago. Learned those same lessons in a painfully slow way.

I've been using knockout for the last 3 years, mostly for small projects but the last one has been a big one. Growing pains but its working out great.

Knockout needs more love.
It seems that FAQ often stands for Frequently _Anticipated_ Questions. For example, this question from http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/messaging-internet/media-e...

"What content will I find browsing with att.net?
att.net allows you to access the real Web by searching keywords or ..."

I just can't imagine anybody asking that question. Perhaps I lack empathy.
> Did you agree to such micromanagement in your contract?

No, funny thing with TechEd - there's a million different people involved in running it, none of whom appear to know anything about the others. So you sign the contract, which is fairly innocuous, and then the crazy emails start trickling in, one at a time.

When I talked to my MS track leader about it, even he didn't know about all these meetings and the departments that we're requiring them.

At one TechEd, just after the Surfaces had been released but no technical details were out yet, I found myself in yet another mandatory speaker meeting. We were told that we weren't allowed to answer any questions about the Surface, and that instead we were to just say, "I'm very excited about what's coming."

I'm a SQL Server community guy, not an MS employee, not a Surface advocate, but that meeting was mandatory. That was the last straw.
If a (software) FAQ is well-written, I like to read them. They answer the problems I'm likely to find when I use the software, while providing interesting information on corner-cases.

Me too. I wonder if geeks (or their cousins "infovores") are more likely to read FAQs, and read them carefully, than the general public; if so, geeks might also be inclined to overestimate the importance of FAQs, or the willingness of non-geeks to read them.
Very insightful opinion.I wish the government in my country had the same rational in their digital(and not only) services. At one time I was thinking about forming a company in UK and I was blown away with the clarity and conciseness of their requirements. I truly had my questions answered and didn't need and FAQ.

Still, I am not sure if you really can apply the same logic in a deeply technical document. I have yet to find something that validates that assertion but it is an interesting premise and it will be a welcome surprise.
Chips that mimic the brain in real time
Meh. While they sure could have been more accomodating, 30 minutes before a talk is not the right time bring up your deal breaking demands.
They can't expel members, but they can certainly kick them out of caucus. That's effectively the same immediate power parties have in a parliament: when someone is removed from caucus they sit as an independent.

The biggest direct difference is that in many parliamentary systems the party has control over who will run under their banner in the next election. In the US, the only power they have is indirect via fundraising.

Really the difference is one of expectation: in the parliamentary system party discipline is just a ground rule that's understood by everybody. If your MP votes for something you don't like they can say "Yeah I didn't like that bill either and I brought up my concerns during our caucus meeting. Ultimately the party decided to support it though" and you don't really think less of them.

That expectation cuts the other way too. If a US Representative got kicked out of caucus over a controversial vote it would be considered shockingly petty. It'd be the major political story for weeks and would tarnish the whole party. In parliament that's just what happens and nobody would expect any different. A semi-recent Canadian that comes to mind:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2007/06/05/b...

As you mention, they can (and do) withhold committee assignments. Usually this is done more on the sly though rather than as an obvious retaliation. Members that have a reputation for toeing the party line get the nice assignments, the pork project for their district, etc. The "guy none of us can stand but keeps getting elected without our help" just gets to posture for the cameras.
Every package maintainer needs to make some decisions when packaging software. Debian has very specific guidelines about packing, so if you don't like it may be Debian is the wrong distribution _for you_.

Recently a workmate installed nginx from the upstream repo and... surprise: nginx packages things different to Debian. You may like it more or less, but there are different solutions for the same problem.
Google Pays $600K To Give Free Wi-Fi To 31 San Francisco Parks
Very very sad. A good reminder to do what you love. In the wise words of the modern day poet, Nas: "'cause you never know when ya gonna go"

RIP mate.
This is somewhat true, but good FAQs often answer questions that I don't have sufficient knowledge to formulate. In this respect they are like books.

To search, one needs some level of initial knowledge or inquiry, and in many realms people lack that initial seed of knowledge.
I wouldn't be so sure it's superior:

Google: "But he left behind a whole new generation of programmers, an entire school. And it sets the level of ethical standards for all of us." vs Yandex: "But he left behind a whole new generation of programmers, a whole school. And its ethical standards specified the level of all of us."

Google: "Tonight, he was gone." vs Yandex "Tonight he was not."

And RIP Ilya. Many people who knew him said he was a very good person. He didn't spoke in public often, did his work, supported charity and also had an active political stance. What a loss.
Not sure I agree with that concept. There are a number of companies/industries websites where I navigate directly to the FAQ in order to get a straight answer to my question without having to give a second thought to searching for appropriate phrases, keywords, etc.

The likelihood of building a site designed in such a way that my answer is immediately obvious within one or two clicks is a far reaching concept.

A recent example is the FAQ on the UK's Bike to Work Scheme website - http://www.bike2workscheme.co.uk/index.php/faqs

Rather than click through the site to find answers to specific questions I went directly to the FAQ and instantly spotted the questions I needed answered.

I get the whole concept of "if you've left questions unanswered from your users then you haven't done a good enough job" however I don't see how an FAQ page could be considered a lazy or ineffectual solution.
I intend to give all these a go by buying a self winding watch and hopping to work everyday and remembering to take a moment to wish everyone I pass a good day and good health.
I work for an online retailer, and every once in a while, we get an email from a customer asking if we could add a feature on the website to notify them when prices drop on items.

Maybe we should start trial runs of this feature..
Places where the codec could be adopted:

- Computers (just new software)

- Phones/tablets (new chip, unless you want to degrade the battery life)

- Cameras (new chip, because we need real time encoding)
- TV (new chip)

- TV Signal (new chip, thankfully you don't need new signal equipment since it's digital)

- TV Cameras (these probably use RAW signal anyway, I hope)
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It all depends on what you use it for. For the Gov.uk site, they don't need an FAQ, their design works great to categorize most of their information in a consistent pattern and I agree, they don't need one, it worked great for me.

However, dealing with complex datasets that can't be categorized well (like some data can exist in multiple categories), or dealing with multiple apps and multiple platforms, things goes chaos and the Gov.uk's design may not work at all.

As for folks who mentioned search, search technologies are not by default accurate like Google. They require a LOT of work to get it right and more likely to fail than work the more complex your datasets get.
Schrödinger's Kittens Made in the Lab from Photons
Didn't Crick advocate Eugenics?
Relevant to the discussion about targeting LLVM vs. C in another thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6096965), Section 2 says they compile via C, but through an intermediate language, Pillar, that adds support for second-class continuations, precise garbage collection, and a few other things. Here's an older paper on Pillar: http://www.leafpetersen.com/leaf/publications/lcpc2007/pilla...
Interactive visualization of UbuntuEdge funding over time
> The site shows a big banner "Please enable javascript to view this site." that is overlaying the content, but disabling CSS also helps - an other example of js-failure.

Simple workaround (in most browsers). Right click on the offending div -> Inspect Element -> Press the delete button.
Quora have (like many websites) a terrible privacy policy, saying they will share your private data with anyone they like at all.

Edit: Just in case anyone wonders what I mean:

Personally Identifiable Information: Quora may share your personally identifiable information with third parties for the purpose of providing the Service to you or with third parties offering combined services with Quora. For example, we may share your personally identifiable information with third-party partners that display Quora questions and answers through their services so that such partners can tailor content and advertising to you. If we do this, such third parties' use of your information will be bound by this Privacy Policy. We may store personal information in locations outside the direct control of Quora (for instance, on servers or databases co-located with hosting providers).

As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings. Customer, email, and visitor information is generally one of the transferred business assets in these types of transactions. We may also transfer or assign such information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or dissolution.
Can't you generate a public key from a private one easily?
This wasn't the case during the most of the modern history.
Good point, I guess tickets would be "infungible commodities"... But the fact that you can take market bets on them doesn't change
Yet LISP has much less traction in the real world than it does in academia.
In that case, what the hell is going on with their pictures of the arm in a box full of mosquitoes not moving towards the skin? Looks really really shady to me.