skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for others but in my case, consuming services of the Windows Azure platform takes care of licensing (there's not additional license costs). There is a degree of lock-in but there are also many benefits. As I said, it's my personal opinion and experience, based on the kind of applications I usually develop and the kind of market I work for (enterprise).
If this is not a joke, Zed is paranoid.
A torn speaker was responsible for the rocking sound in Rocket 88, recorded in 1951.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_88
POWER != PowerPC, although they are related.

There are/were plenty of PowerPC-based microcontrollers. Freescale, among other vendors, had a few families. It's all ARM now though as far as I know.
I wonder if he'll have to serve the full sentence.
Oh, come on. This kind of joke is supposed to fall into the "so bad, it's good" category, which all three of these do in spades. Especially the bad sectors one.
Maybe you didn't see this: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/11/28/twitter...
The central problem is any entity that is allowed to raise revenue by force. Which is the definition of a State.

> the possibility of an unjust justice system due to commercial interests.

There's no such thing as a non-commercial interest. Money is not the only thing that is directly in demand. Power is valuable. Regardless of how the government labels its activities, it has things people want; labeling those things non-commercial is just marketing. Trying to plug the holes with regulations and endless "reforms" is a distraction meant to saturate your time.

> ensuring financial independence of judges; eliminating the role of parties who benefit

"Oversight" is a hand-wavy solution to a never-ending problem. The feedback loop is too long.

> how decentralizing decision making reduces this risk

Competition provides alternatives. Lack of competition reduces incentives for providing great service. The state has no competition, and it raises revenue by force, it's silly to expect a good outcome from that.
Cringely called this a few months ago:
http://www.cringely.com/2013/06/20/ibm-to-customers-your-han...
why not just join profitable companies that are no longer startups?

This is important, as people seem to forget that startup is a subset of small business and not vice versa. There are a lot of incredibly profitable businesses with head counts less than two dozen that don't optimize for growth. These are generally companies that have been around for longer than the majority of startups, which means you sacrifice youth for maturity.

(A lot of them aren't in Silicon Valley.)
I see no use of vala code in geany source. Am I missing something?

Vala is not suitable for anything production ready because of its half assed memory management semantics. I believe it is better to invest in C++11 at this point than vala. At least, it would be a little bit easier to use libraries which don't have a binding.
What's for dinner? "Whale"

Worried about endangered species? "enough stars"

War is "servicemen competing". "military is being wasted in unemployment."

God says...

s
the Gentoo religion does not permit its followers to light a fire,
nor consequently to dress any victuals, upon the water, it, in effect,
prohibits them from all distant sea voyages. Both the Egyptians and
Indians must have depended almost altogether upon the navigation of
other nations for the exportation of their surplus produce; and this
dependency, as it must have confined the market, so it must have
discouraged the increase of this surplus produce. It must have
discouraged, too, the increase

----

celebrated here_now you_see_the_light foreshowed rare Eternity
resurrection clasp character groaning else demanding OTHERWISE
neighbour feast frequently pupils endeavor likely sinner's
ouch abound
You can also retrieve the password from your system keyring[1]

import keyring

pass_is = keyring.get_password('gmail', 'whatever@gmail.com')

you set it with

set_password(servicename, username, password)

so

set_password('gmail', 'whatever@gmail.com', 'one of those per app passwords if you use 2factor for example')

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/keyring
I find that people who can do both; See how they are under performing and share it with others, do better than those who try to put on a brave 'face'.

The reality is that we all suck in our own way and we have strengths that we may or may not recognize. But the only way forward is to let go of your ego, embrace the fail, and learn as fast and as durably as you can.

A common observation people make about founders of successful companies are that they are really "down to earth" and "approachable." I have come to understand that it is their ability to not let their own ego interfere with listening and learning that makes it possible for them to be successful.
Source data and tile mill project for Burning Man map
Excellent link, thanks. I can't wait to see these old pictures get reused as new LOLcats. There must be a steampunk hovercat in there somewhere.
Disturbingly some of my most frustratingly, restrictively simple password requirements for account registration have been banks and credit cards. If I recall, at one point American Express required I choose a password 4-6 alphanumerics.

I can say that every bank and credit card site I've used have vastly, vastly improved their security model in the past 5-7 years or so.
The F-22 uses PowerPC processors in the upgraded Common Integrated Processor(CIP) avionics, partly for compatibility with the F-35 Integrated Core Processor (ICP) avionics.

F/A-18s also use PowerPC processors in the Advanced Mission Computer (AMC) avionics.
Triggit - San Francisco - Full time (http://triggit.com/careers)

Backend Ruby Engineer

What you'll do all day:
Help grow the Triggit's customer platform
Create and build scalable applications using Ruby on Rails
Tinker with projects done in Coffeescript
Work with infrastructure components (ZeroMQ, Postgres, Cassandra)
A mix of new feature developments and bug fixes
Work with a dynamic team on a variety of projects and new product features
Contribute business logic to big data projects

Requirements:
2-5 professional work experience using Ruby
Elegant programming style and ability to be an individual contributor
Very solid understanding of RDBMS (we use Postgres), SQL, and database normalization
Experience with jQuery, AJAX, HAML/SLIM, and SASS preferred
Strong Unix fundamentals and thorough understanding of HTTP and all its intricacies
A detail-oriented approach to development and an interest in developing new skills
Able to work in our San Francisco HQ

Either apply here or feel free to email Joanne(at)triggit.com with your resume and any past projects/open source stuff that you feel is a good representation of your work.
yeah, same here. all i'm getting is a "new login request" notification on the phone when trying to login on the desktop browser. but when opening the notification it says "no new login requests", and the website on the desktop jumps to "We're sorry, there were was an error. Please try logging in again.".
Now with ASP.NET Web API, developing REST/JSON endpoints got even better.
Can you provide arguments to your assertions that Google is #1? Any points, details to support your claims?
Oh, man. How long I gotta spend level-grinding at the gym? (whah! :-))
You can hit the tile server to make web maps too: http://com.gaiagps.iburn.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/
When 2.7 stops getting bug/security fixes? Current plan is 2015: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373.
"When we all get started we have no idea what we're doing"
Im pretty sure the sun is bigger than 1 Australia.

Sorry had to, for the confused: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit
I took a look at F# but for the kind of applications I write, I prefer to follow mainstream, for the bigger ecosystem and less surprises, and C# is powerful enough for me.
Interesting that so many people are saying, "startups are risky, end of story." What pops out for me is this: "The numbers that were shared were not entirely true. It was kind of half-truth and part of the marketing pitch to VCs."

Just because a company hasn't found product-market fit doesn't mean it's okay to lie when recruiting.
On Day of Terror Alert: US Drones Roam Skies of Yemen Capital For First Time
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This position is full-time and is based in our main offices in downtown Burlingame, CA (15 mins South of San Francisco, 20 mins North of Palo Alto, close to the CalTrain stations). We welcome applications from people anywhere in the United States, plus we help with moving expenses.

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* You can design tests, user stories, wireframes, flows, and awesome finished comps.

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Working at CarWoo!

You’ll get to work in a small, very smart, no BS kind of team. We’re smart, funny, and driven. Experience what a growing, well-funded, and successful start-up environment is like. Along with working hard, we have a lot of fun too! Ping pong, foosball, company parties, Nerf guns... you get the idea. Free lunch Fridays and unlimited supply of free snacks, drinks, alcohol, fruit, etc. Not seeing something you want in the treasure trove of goodies? We’ll order it from Costco.

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trading one kind of death for another
> JRuby is of course incompatible with C extensions to Rails

The fact that old-style native extensions are tied to MRI is one of the motivations for Ruby FFI, which provides a common mechanism for interfacing to native libraries on MRI, JRuby, and Rubinius (and maybe some other implementations, as well.)
When I learned about this case some time ago, back when people were appalled by the inital plea bargains offered to the judges, he and the other guy on that side claimed it was a shakedown, the judges were extorting them. Which evidently the authorities believed at the time.

Echoing x0x0's general point, it's pretty clear the county's political machine knew what was happening and looked the other way.

ADDED: It's telling it took the Feds to bring them to justice; the county and state level officials just don't seem interested in this atrocity.
I think the Ten Commandments should be read everytime
the board of directors sit down! Before the
Stanford MBA pontificates on how to screw the existing
customer base?
Johnny "Football" Manziel scandal, autographs: targeted? - Stabley Times
I'm interested on data about that. Can you share what you have? I've been able to find these datapoints[1] and they show ASP.NET MVC to be the fastest full-stack web framework they tested on Windows.

[1] http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6&hw=wi...
How about the prison owners?
What is anything but an "idea in our heads?"
Even physical sensations are just ideas of tactility.

It seems silly, as someone who isn't omniscient, to claim that our universe being a 'simulation' has no bearing upon experience. For all you know, light's speed is based on the clock-speed of a higher-dimensional crystal. It's interesting to think about, and there actually are consequences to this even if they aren't immediately discoverable.

For a guy with a username like RiveriaKid..you sure have a closed mind unlike a child.
Yes, that makes sense. And besides it is not a problem in a development environment, it would be better to just share the container file.

But I can't find another way to share containers between host restarts (there is also -volumes-from option for sharing volumes between containers)
> ...you have to have a phone...

And that's a problem if you live in some cities of the so called third world where phones are stolen at the same rate bananas are picked from trees in Congo by monkeys. I don't feel comfortable at all about the "having a phone" part of my authentication process simply because the device can be stolen at any moment. My attorney had 16 phones stolen in the past 5 years. Virtually all the people I know had their phone stolen at least once. And if the idea of regaining access to your account without the phone is "hard" as claimed by Twitter's sec guys... ufff, I won't even bother to install the app thing. I think biometrics is the only security measure that will work in our violent cities here, not only for web services access, but for device usage itself.
I wonder if the diff will apply cleanly to Futty/PuTTYTray - they're still based on a 2012 build of 0.62.

Edit: Blergh, SVN.
I find this move greatly entertaining. Its like a Hollywood remake, "AIM Alliance II"[1] Many of the things that make ARM successful IBM has dismissed in the past as pandering to special interests. And, like Sun with its failed attempt to make SPARC a thing, IBM has shown it can be a bit schizophrenic when it comes to sharing enough that folks can compete. ARM, not having a fab, and not having any products for sale, has very little to discourage it from agreeing to things. IBM on the other hand has other interests that are often in tension with the goal of making a processor architecture ubiquitous.

Glad they are trying again, not sure if they will be any more successful this time, but will be pleasantly surprised if we get a credible third horse in the 'mass market instruction set architecture' race.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM_alliance
Having Fun with Webhooks: PagerDuty Incidents Spoken in an Irish Lilt
Sovereign immunity ("the King can do no wrong") is a very strange doctrine. One would have thought that notion would have gone out of the window when they beheaded Charles I, but somehow it has a strong foothold in the US. In most civilized countries it does not.
Children Given Gag Order In Pennsylvania Fracking Suit Settlement
also we need a reflector with 'value="' in the beginning https://twitter.com/homakov/status/364872768921165824/photo/...
Would the prison company be punished for this?
It seems to me that if anyone deserves the death penalty, it's people like this judge.

Ordinary citizens don't have the power to deprive citizens of their civil rights at such a scale, it requires the extraordinary power of the state. The trust we need to have in judges makes such corruption not only more likely, but much more dangerous. So for cases like this, the punishment ought to be as extraordinary as the power needed for the crime.

I personally oppose the death penalty, so the suggestion is only half-serious, but I find the reasoning for reserving executions for egregious political corruption to be more compelling than for more common crimes.
operate PaaS and use a PaaS is very different...
Imitation as Flattery( Facebook to imitate Twitter-Style Feed)
They might have said "we are looking into raising a Series A in the following months" or "Guy X is in contact with some of the top VCs in the valley", "we have a lot of interest from VCs", "we are in talks with xxx", etc. None is an affirmative, but they paint a clear scenario in your head.
The response is definitely worthwhile, and a bit of it seems to be that the use case is different. It would be a bit expensive to replace a majority of one's diet with Ensure Complete. A 16-pack of 8oz Ensure Complete is 5600 Calories for $42, so eating for a day costs $15. The preorder price of 1 week of soylent is $9.29/day, but worryingly we don't know how many Calories that is...

A quote from Vice on the crowdfunding page indicates that it should be about 700 Calories/day[1] (making it several times as expensive as Ensure), while Rob Rhinehart's blog indicated that he was consuming a reasonable number of calories earlier this year (2629 C/day)[2].

[1] https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body

[2] http://robrhinehart.com/?p=474
US Citizens Evacuated as Drones Move In, Yemenis Faced With Death From Above
Awesome book, actually!
The concern isn't the privatization[1], it is the profit motive of the contract does not align with the a just system. If the contract was based on potential cells as opposed to the actual number[2], then bribing to get more profit couldn't happen. The minute any groups profit incentive doesn't match your goal is going to give you problems.

1) do some reading on prison worker unions and you'll see the perversity isn't restricted to private enterprise

2) we will pay you a fixed X for your Y number of cell facility
Where can one find a list of ingredients in Soylent?
He misses a key point: References

You should speak to former coworkers, friends, customers and investors before joining an early stage startup. Don't ask the company for references, but rather use your own network to find these people via mutual contacts and talk to them about the founders and the company.
Do you believe generally that Big Food makes healthier products than independents? I believe the reverse is usually true in the US.

You can trust Big Food to pump their products full of sugar because testing shows it makes consumers buy more. Sugar is second on Ensure's ingredient list (http://ensure.com/products/ensure-complete-shakes) while Soylent is not sweet.
With that many kids, at those impressionable ages, I'd say there's a limited but real chance they may have created a "Joker" level villian somewhere in that bunch.
Infochimps Acquired By CSC
"The quality of the people were much lower vs my previous company"

#1 reason to not join an early stage startup. either found one yourself, or go learn from a place that pays top dollar for actual experts so you can learn how to be one.
Keeping in mind 80-92% of it is spam, depending on studies (wikipedia numbers from 2010 apparently, if anyone has a more up-to-date source that'd be grand).
https://twitter.com/nickducoff/status/364861776363388929
IMHO - it has the best windowing system. Trivial perhaps, but it's the one huge thing that continuously bothers me about Ubuntu and OSX.
I'm using deutsche-factoring.de because its located in Bremen, my home town. A factoring bank buys the invoice, pays me immediate, and bills the customer. They will file a Schufa record. The schufa record will tell every bank and and everybody else who wants to know it, that the customer has the habit of paying late. Thats something no company wants on file.

This of course only works, if you have a real contract with the customer. So getting the paperwork right is always the zero step.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schufa
I agree with it mostly being marketing, though this could gain a regular group of consumers, assuming the product ends up being good enough.
Kind of an entertaining coincidence that the other post from inc.com on the front page right now is called 'Never be a customers doormat'.[http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/never-be-a-customers-doorm...]
$2 CPM seems high these days, I'd assume $0.50 for a transactional website and $0.10 for a social one.
PPC is still incredibly common in industrial embedded systems.
Because I find meaningless three letter acronyms much more palatable than five letter contrived ones.

The contrivedness of an acronym increases exponentially with its length.

EDIT: OK, I give in. I had too much fun hanging out with the password cracking guys at the awesome Passwords 13 conference last week.
> The forum they run is pretty angry.

I don't think I've ever seen a web service community forum that wasn't angry.
1. Show you how open standards are important. This might be an argument for Bitcoin vs. Banks.

Eh? Speaking for the US, the Federal Reserve Bank is the US equivalent of a standard protocol. Before a central bank existed, states and colonies had their own currencies which created many problems, which makes your argument for open standards quite good.

Which is why I don't think any paid service will ever beat a protocol for communication. Email may eventually diminish (I see no evidence of this forthcoming anytime soon, though), but I don't think it will be replaced by anything other than a better protocol on top of which independent services will be built.
I'm seeing a lot of comments playing devil's advocate by claiming that happiness is a choice. That's true! But it doesn't contradict the article.

What we call 'happiness' or 'sadness' is just some combination of the thousands of automatic judgements we've made about the world recently. All of these judgments (choices) are themselves composed of smaller judgements (this is good, this is bad). We try not to be 'judgemental', and I know what people mean when they say that, but I'd say it is in fact probably all we can do. I mean, technically speaking.

You can zoom in to examine the tiny choices (to some extent), and you can zoom out so that sometimes happiness looks for all the world like a single big ol' choice. I think this is what people call 'clarity', and I think I've experienced it once or twice.

But actually, for most of us, most of the time, happiness is the result of all these tiny, composable, semi-automatic judgements about the world, and we have to keep on making these choices, over and over and over again as we think. And exercising, meditating, getting enough sleep, spending quality time with other humans, etc. - this stuff really will help us improve our semi-automatic judgements so that we are saying "this is good...this is good..." slightly more often than before.

[slight edits for clarity]
I suspect that the interest comes from the radical branding. "Ensure" is associated with hospitals and the aging population, whereas "Soylent" is historically associated with dystopia and recently with some ambitious kids. One exit would be to create an energy drink-like (young target market) product that's just a re-branded Ensure.

But if you're currently using Ensure, perhaps you know of other ways to improve on it? They're both basically ramen for the well-off.

(And +1 to tlb: simply removing sugar is an improvement in my eyes.)