skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An eye opener for me was Junior Achievement (www.juniorachievement.org). I volunteered until recently for two years in a public school in a low-income neighbourhood. It's a program where volunteers go to primary and secondary/high schools to "...foster work-readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy skills, and use experiential learning to inspire students to dream big and reach their potential."

I had done volunteer work before, initiatives organised by my past employers, but these where one-day "lets paint an entire community centre/chapel/etc" initiatives, with no real exposure to people and issues. This was the first time I volunteered by my own initiative and the experience was nothing what I expected, for good and bad.

All I can say is go for it.
Don't forget 'Successful Lisp' by David Lamkins (http://psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/) - in printed-book or HTML versions.

Chapter 3 is an excellent 'nutshell' introduction to Common Lisp. The rest of the book, aside from covering various details of CL, provides a wide-ranging overview of the modern Lisp ecosystem, from editors to UIs.

I found it a valuable complement to the other books noted here, but somehow it doesn't get much mention!
My prediction: if it becomes clear that it won't make it, Mark Shuttleworth will cover the rest from his own pocket. What do you think?
Because most people would go to their local home-center to get what they need.
> Use Python

It may be a good fit for Dropbox, but that doesn't mean it's going to be a good fit for your company. You're probably best off using what's suitable to the task and that you have a team that's familiar with. If your programmers are all, 'let's use C' and they've got a good argument for that suiting a particular problem domain, (and you're not somehow tied down to using another language by need to work with what another company is doing...) then it may be a good idea to use C. Same with Lisp or Python or....

There are going to be trade-offs there; (what library support is available, what sort of community of programmers you're buying into when you choose that language, how the semantics let you fit it into a particular production/design paradigm, are the really major ones to me.) So, it's not quite free choice. But those are discussions that ought to happen if you're going to sit down and choose a language.
aka the last mile problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_mile
What's up with the ridiculous target amount?
I wonder the extend to which we can trust performance benchmark results about other closed source software like web browsers, operating systems, servers etc.
No, but one of the advantages of being rich is being able to do it when you want it.
Whenever I used to say I was hungry my Dutch grandfather would say, "No, you'd like to eat something. Hunger is something we had during the war".

("Je hebt trek, honger hadden we tijdens de oorlog")
Pass the address of the block of memory to the constructor along with your other arguments and perhaps the length of the memory block (to assert that sizeof(block) >= sizeof(object)). Then use a C-style cast to cast the block of memory to your class. Construct the object like normal and return the address.
If something can be made at home on a 3d printer, surely it can be made in a factory for less money with a better 3d printer. It could reduce the price of factory made parts, but it is hard to believe it would eliminate them.

I would love it if the affect of this was to make companies focus on better materials that can't be made at home. The price doesn't change but the product gets better. A lot of cyclists would prefer a $30 carbon fiber bottle cage to a home made plastic one for $10.
It's not. Have you heard of any other escrow service for bitcoins?
If you're interested in a real-world example, Purdue University did exactly that, at least for a large portion of the systems they ran, back from 1995 to at least 2000. It was ok.

Here's a page explaining the "entomb" system they had.

http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/unix/upt/ch23_09.htm
One could create a line of "open-source appliances", that had ease of maintenance as its main selling point, although catering to a part of the market that prefers fixing rather than buying stuff can be a little tough.
Pretty sure he just means documents that you have stored on dropbox.
Canadian Mental Health Association, because I had so much in common with the people there, and the local food bank, because a year later I ended up needing the service myself. It saved my life.
> No, my computer, my browser, my roof, my rules.

I think of websites like private properties. You are given conditional access on the assumption that you can behave (T&C / AUP), otherwise it's like trespassing. So, I don't think that people should expect excessive rights of freedom that they might have on their own property or even in public. It's a balancing act.
Bitcoin actually uses a stack-based language in each transaction to specify what a spender has to do to spend funds. Typically, it's that the spender must has a private key matching the receiving address (public key). However, you can always specify something that is impossible for anyone to ever to validate.
Wow, how have I not heard I'd dash before? That looks fantastic. Thanks!
GEO5 - Interactive maps using HTML5 data tags, no coding
There's a large effective difference between "do not track" as it is outlined in the bug, and how many people see it (see, for example, comment 16 in the report, and then comment 25)

Specifically, it's to do with third party cookies, not any particular site.

If I visit someone's website, I'm usually perfectly happy for them to record my visit and my actions. If, on the other hand, I visit their website and some invisible actor (say, an advertiser) also tracks me, then it becomes insidious, especially if that other invisible actor is active on multiple sites.

This gets a bit blurred when you've got large vendors with multiple presences. For example, years ago when you logged into Hotmail, you'd be briefly redirected via passport.com (then live.com), and then directed back to Hotmail. Similarly, going to Microsoft's web page, or MSN's, or Technet, or any other site in the Microsoft stable, would redirect via the same site. This gave them single-sign-on, but also allowed them to "track" your activity across the entire network. That behaviour is used by many other large organisations such as Google.

However, it's also made its way into other large sites like Facebook and Twitter, because sites like that have "social media buttons" appearning on sites that aren't served by those sites but are served by Facebook and Twitter, so becoming third-party objects, and doing the same sort of pervasive insidious tracking across multiple domains and web properties.

The thing is, Google Analytics (as mentioned in the article) is such a pervasive ubiquitous invisible actor, but it's damn useful, so lots of people want to use it. The problem is that it's a third party object, and it's of massive benefit to Google too, not just the site owner.

So, where "do not track" fails is in distinguishing between "tracking" that's acceptable to many people, and "tracking" that's somewhat more invisible and pervasive. Switching it all off is harmful to the internet, but until it's sold correctly, it won't be acceptable otherwise.
1. If this awesome performance mode is turned on automatically when the app needs it. Then it must have turn on automatically for the benchmark without actually checking the application name, right?

2. Otherwise, if it require the application to be aware to utilize this feature, then why hasn't Samsung announce this "mode" to developer to utilize it yet?
Anyone bookmaking? My money's on $15 million (linear + mirror flip at the end).

The key thing here is that phone-like devices replacing desktops is inevitable. It's straightforward historically-supported Christensen + Moore. Phones are already powerful enough for almost all desktop purposes, just connect keyboard/mouse/monitor.

The question is, who will "lead" this revolution? Maybe Canonical.
Played with the web version for a bit. Nice looking app, but doesn't really do anything I need that I can't do with Google Docs, which my company uses for a lot of collaborative writing. We still eventually publish the docs out to Word and PDF because that's how they get consumed, but for the collaborative writing part it's Google Docs all the way, so I see value in refining the collaborative writing market.

Having offline mobile is "nice" but not totally necessary for my use case, mostly because the number of people I know who car write decent sentences on their mobile devices are few.
3D printing is rather useful in the research lab. For example, most biological research labs will have a piece of kit called an electrophoresis chamber. This is essentially a plastic, watertight box with two wire electrodes inside. These chambers will cost upwards of 800 dollars.

I drew up plans for my own electrophoresis chamber in Sketchup, uploaded it to Shapeways (https://www.shapeways.com/model/1240729/sds-page-tank-v6.htm...), and got it printed and sent to me for less than 70 bucks. Wiring it up cost less than a dollar.

By the way, does anybody know of similar services that are even less expensive? Shapeways seem to specialize in making little trinkets and gadgets, so I suspect my rather large, bulky box cost even more than it needed to.
I've got to concur with him about the commercial.

It does nothing to explain what the product is, let alone why you'd want one. It doesn't offer any abstract brand associations for people to connect to Microsoft. It's just a short video of bunch of people dancing frenetically around a courtyard, and if you blink, you could miss that it's got anything to do with MS at all.

The only thing it seems to actually tell you about the product, if you're paying very close attention, is that there's a flip-up stand built into the back of it. They were using that stand clicking into place as the source of the percussion for the music track. That's it - if you pay close attention and consciously look for the product they're selling, you discover that it's a commercial for a plastic stand.
Identify Bugs in Trac easier
Now I have to make sure both sides of the photo look good before taking one.
What is meant by true/enforced privacy is that the only way to access something is to modify the original source. This is not the default anywhere else, as you know, but is encouraged by some (Crockford for example) in Javascript.

Enforced/True privacy is very bad, and the badness is multiplied by the fact that in Javascript it cannot be fine-tuned so when you are making it private for random application code, you are also making it private for other internal classes.

Those warnings are not part of the language, and can be done with underscore prefixed Javascript too in your build step, a fine example of programming into one's language.
I eat one normal meal and 2 cups of tea daily for past 7 years. I do moderate exercise thrice a week. I am healthy rather fat. My BMI is 27.

I have never fasted but am planning to soon.

I can say for myself that body doesn't even need as much as I eat.
> It isn't in equilibrium though unless each party knows how much that 1BTC is worth to the other party.

Strictly speaking, one can never possibly know other person's "real" valuation. People can always lie to themselves and change their mind. The only way we can know how much 1 BTC is worth is by seeing a successful 1 BTC transaction.

> Also, the whole thing is a bit odd anyway as it is using a currency to facilitate a direct barter.

There's nothing odd. If I want to exchange my bike for an iPhone, I have to be very lucky to find someone who wants my bike and does not want his iPhone. That's why we all use money, it's the most marketable product — you can sell it to anyone.

> Bob's worst scenario is no item and no money, with Alice getting both items and no money and Bob has no idea beyond Alice's say-so whether Alice values both items more than the money.

This is fixed easily by having insurance deposit 1.5x or higher that of the price. So Alice is motivated to pay the bill to release higher amount.
What I want to know is how much Canonical is kicking in. I mean, this isn't an indie game, this is a company that while different compared to say Apple or someone in that they deal with FOSS, they DO make money.

They haven't mentioned it, but I hope they're not just relying on the Indiegogo to pay for it all, considering they stand to gain a Lot from it going forward.

Of course, they probably are. I'm guessing it takes more than 32mil to make a new phone and OS.
What is estimation multiplier between full-time and part-time developing?
Opinions/thoughts here are welcome too.
thank you for taking your time to read this post my friends. I wouldn't be surprised if it was him, making that throwaway account just to post a negative comment.
But anyway, I think I have the need to see a psychiatrist, I've never felt this low/depressed in my life, I'm feeling extremely stressed emotionally and physically. There are a million "what if i have done xxx instead"s going around my head, unstopping feeling of guilt and regrets floating around. I'm afraid I might end up having depression myself.
Regarding his unemployment, I tried to show him job posts before, told him companies that I know. But after all, I'm not like him. I'm just another average 20 y/o going through college, I don't nearly have as much connections in the field as he does.
Yes loving a suicidal person is frustrating, yet I can't pull myself out of it. I can't even talk about the problems to friends in real life, all because I made a promise to him I won't be telling others his secrets. If any other of you reading this feel that I'm "airing my dirty laundry", I'm sorry for taking up this space, I have nowhere else to go.
That's really not how I think, nor does it really reflect reality, IMHO. They are on my property, it's all rendered and running in my browser on my device. All that's happened is I've requested some data from the server and they've given it to me, from then on how I display it and what gets run is entirely up to me.

If we want to attach terms and conditions to it (i.e. to use this site you must accept analytics/tracking/advertising) then lets make a framework to automate this stuff. I'm perfectly happy for my browser to say, up-front, that it won't be displaying graphical ads and it won't be running any known trackers or analytic suites, it won't be providing you any location data, nor will it be loading any social media buttons or widgets. You can then decide if you want to give me your data. That would be fine.

But I'm not buying into some idea of an implied social contract to let website owners do what the hell they want with my device.
Yes.

If you choose to send an e-mail newsletter to your users, you should (at least) be obliged to provide an unsubscribe option - providing two different experiences.

If you choose to track your users, you should (at least) be obliged to assume that DNT users have opted-out of this tracking and be responsible for not tracking them.
So they've "proved" that the Space Shuttle is impossible, good thing it's been retired!
#This #might #be #a #joke #but #there's #actually #a #lot #of #fun #work #to #be #had #in #building #systems #that #can #auto-tag #text #(or #"auto #classification" #in #the #pre-hashtag #era #;-)).
The problem isn't NSA. It's the President(s) and Congress who define the scope. Call me naive, but I think that most of the folks at NSA, even many of the leaders, are patriots who believe that they are protecting their country.
lmao @ woodrank
Of course they leave off the cost of the print in that $18 estimate.
> As far as I understand, the approach outlined in the exchange's MAD option requires the exchange to prove that they have destroyed the funds.

They explain in the FAQ: http://nashx.com/FAQ

They create a special address (hash of a public key) which would take thousands of years to generate from some private key. So by seeing that funds moved to such address, people can be sure the money is destroyed and not moved to a "long-term retirement fund". Their example: "1nashx1username11username22Wd4keb"
Man reunites with family after 12 years, thanks to Facebook
Pune: It seems to be a script straight from a Bollywood movie.

Beaten up by his mother for not studying, 12-year-old Ankush Domale had run away from home in February 2002. Now, exactly 12 years later, he has been reunited with his family, thanks to Facebook.

Upset with his mother, Ankush had run away to Nanded, over 400 kilometres away from his Pune home. There he started serving the devotees at a Gurudwara. Impressed by his dedication and hard work, the guru there took him to Ludhiana where Ankush started living at the Reru Saheb Gurudwara. He donned a turban and was given the name Gurban Singh.

While living life as a Sikh now, Ankush kept searching for his family. His only means of contact was the telephone number of his uncle which he remembered - but it never got connected as the family had changed their house.

Ankush's family - his mother, Hemlata and brother Santosh who is two years younger to him - also kept searching for him, but to no avail.

It was just two weeks ago that Ankush tried searching for his younger brother on Facebook. With many profiles by the name Santosh, he was able to identify his brother due to similar looks.

Ankush says he was able to convince his mother and brother by telling them about a scar on his face, which he had got as a child while playing near his house.

His guru in Ludhiana immediately made arrangements for him to travel to Pune from Ludhiana.

On seeing him in a Sikh avatar, neighbours and relatives did not believe the person in front of them to be Ankush. But for the Domale family, it was indeed a happy reunion.

Ankush's mother was quick to recognise him from his style of walking and from the scar on his face. Excited, Ankush is now with his family in Pune. But just as his mother and brother don't want him to leave, Ankush too doesn't want to leave his guru who stood with him in his bad days and took him in his stride, leading him to a right path.
I think the broader point is to use a single language over as many of your system's as possible. Rather than just "Python is the answer to everything."

Obviously there are benefits and drawbacks to such an idea. Benefit is every programmer you hire can be a Python developer. Should make meetings fairly simple. You need to worry less about ensuring you have an adequate number of x developers to maintain the system which relies on language x.

Obviously the drawback is that Python, like any other language, isn't the best choice for everything. To get round such inefficiencies Dropbox choose to buy larger machines.
It is always easy to shit on someone else's product. But it's still a net benefit, in a pile of shit they may find a gold nugget of a comment or a suggestion.
More encryption is not the best solution I agree.

However, given the situation, it is the only one available to us.
Yeah sometimes the "overtly polite" and very smiley and friendly attitude I get from (the small amount of interaction) with American service staff just seems so fake and saccarine at times.
Tablets for Schools – But Who Pays?
Agreed, though I imagine you need to have a response handy when the CEO mentions that part of the trade-off was that you brought home twice the salary he did during the high-risk "will this go anywhere?" times. If he was also the primary investor to begin with, I don't imagine getting too far with the negotiation, although you certainly have significant wiggle room.
Dared to suggest? The words 'oh, I see you helped yourselves to my logo' are the unhelpful ones in my opinion. Also, the fact that this post was here, in a public forum, rather than directly attempting to contact the TOX authors on their IRC channel.

Even so, demanding that a FOSS project (with extremely limited resources) scraps a perfectly fine logo and starts from scratch just because a similar logo exists is simply not a reasonable demand.
I think the main point of the site is the list of hashtag suggestions below your freshly hashtag-prefxed content. Mildly interesting idea, however the suggestions I got with a few tests weren't that awe-inspiring.
Finger snapping would be viewed as rude in Ireland & UK as well.
Federal Court: Cell Phone Tracking Without a Warrant is A-OK
> No, my computer, my browser, my roof, my rules

His website.

Seriously, people should be warned that they are tracked, the purpose for which they are tracked and what exactly is tracked. Google Search for example is giving warnings lately, that you have to manually dismiss (probably because of EU laws) and I view that as being progress.

On the other hand demanding of publishers to not track you while you're on their property is unreasonable. Of course, you can complain about it, you can stop using such services or websites and so on. Voting with your wallet (or eyeballs) still works, even on the web.

I also view the "Do Not Track" header as a good thing, because it's an automated way for publishers to respect your wishes, should they choose to do that. But customers must also understand that this header represents a kind request, nothing else and we shouldn't make it something else, as that's a slippery slope.
Years ago I did a comparison of how Word uses screen real estate compated to Pages (their feature sets are remarkably similar). Pages simply wastes fat less screen real estate that Word does giving you more room to see your actual document, and this is a recurring issue with Microsoft's UI design. The contrast is particularly marked with the iPad, where you get more pixels for your document on the iPad's 10" screen than in Microsoft Word on a 15" laptop screen.

Just look at the ribbon, toolbar, status bar, etc. Not only does this waste screen real estate, it wastes vertical space which is at a premium on widescreen displays. On a widescreen monitor, Pages minimizes this cruft or puts it in palettes and sidebars.
If the experience in question involves the tracking of users in some way, then I think it's pretty clear that there should be a different experience for users with the header set, versus those without it. Those who provide that header should, as the name of this functionality very clearly states, not be tracked.
Despite hating the use of css for this kind of stuff, that was very well done.
Nokia have always made very good hardware. So in a sense I hoped it is not.
Just like Manish, I too do not agree with what Andrew is saying. It is ridiculous to compare DropBox, Linkedin, Quora, pinterest to the home page of some unknown startup. I am also not convinced you can do any kind of testing for homepages for startups which have very low volume traffic.

IMO, I think you should just stick to your gut feeling, do what looks and feels right for home page, if this mean putting more content, so be it.
Crowdfunding a New Strategy Card Game
If you like the idea of CoreOS but don't like the idea of using Docker containers, check out bedrocklinux.org.
Sure, and shooting yourself in the foot is also possible by pointing the gun down at the floor ... doesn't mean it is a good idea.

Generally the same statement can be built using internal SQLAlchemy...

But if you want to do your own, you can in sqlalchemy while still being as safe:

http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_5/sqlexpression.html#usi...
The owner of the pub/bar.
What? They estimate that the information content is bounded below by about 2x10^42. Then they say that at a data transfer rate of 30 gigahertz, the time taken would be about 4,850,000,000,000,000 years.

How does that show that the space shuttle is impossible?
Yes, you should tip if you're at a restaurant or something. Not in a bar. You shouldn't tip if you're unhappy with the food/service.
> If we want to attach terms and conditions to it (i.e. to use this site you must accept analytics/tracking/advertising) then lets make a framework to automate this stuff.

This has already been done years ago, and failed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P