skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like you haven't read the article at all. The people involved in GiveDirectly never claim that their grants will "solve all their recipients' problems". Besides, the Kenyans that are getting those grants aren't at all like your average homeless person living in a developed country. These are completely different use cases.
I find this beautiful and pleasant to use, at least for a few nodes. At first it feels odd not to be in control of the exact location of some nodes, very much like when using Graphviz, but once you let go it becomes quite comfortable.

I wonder how well it scales for large numbers of nodes, for example when they need to be grouped, or hiding certain types of connections in order to simplify the graph in display. I am not familiar about d3.js, perhaps it already provides support for doing that?
Hey, The link they pointed is
https://itunes.apple.com/js/app/xpressive/id665817114?mt=12

They should have pointed it to global link
https://itunes.apple.com/app/xpressive/id665817114
This type of initiative, open source platform, disintermediation, and innovation is what makes me think that a very large part of traditional retail will disappear in the next 10-15 years.
Yes. The first slide basically guaranteed that I will never look into this project.

The risk of touching anything Oracle-related is not worth the potential benefit.
> However, each tab I open I need to cd into the same directory.

As of tmux 1.7, this should be unnecessary. Every tab and split will open in the working directory of the current pane, and the behavior can be changed with the `default-path` option.
"unless production increases somehow, but why would it?"

Personally, I think that one of the best things you could do to increase production is to ensure that people are not living hand to mouth. The personal strategies of the desperate are not conducive to a working economy.

"What incentives would people have to put in more work to produce more?"

Boredom and curiousity. That's all you ever need. Hunger only inspires people to get fed. Satiation inspires them to design new houses.
Andy included that number in his original revenge communiqué, so again, not really a doxing.
"of course they didn't use their authority to view sarah’s privacy posts as Sarah share her timeline posts with her friends only."
Where/How to find resources on how to do marketing in a Bootstrapped company?
Why is that there no proper guide, books, blogs, case studies on how to do marketing in a Bootstrapped company ?
Also the link to Paranoia (which is an entertaining game) should probably be

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/rpgs/paranoia.html

Or just the wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game)

this works too

http://www.paranoia-live.net/news.php

If you read the wikipedia you'll see that since '04 there's been a bankruptcy sale followed by two release cycles. The lifecycle of the paranoia franchise is almost as interesting as the ancient political article. For example Microsoft gave then a C/D (or sued them?) for the release of "Paranoia XP" which you'd think would be covered under some kind of satire provision... It is possibly true in that how you only get as many rights as you can afford, they simply couldn't afford to keep their rights, I donno the details.
I fail to see the difference between this and LLVM. Oh yes LLVM is BSD license!
Here are some interesting things. The majority of the piano sales are imports from overseas. Boston and Essex brands. When you subtract the pianos sold to schools, sales of expensive American pianos are not so good. If its a private company you can hide that.
Just looks nice, unless there's some tangible benefit to the separation of parts by contrast. I think it also cleans it up a bit, though you could do that yourself or with diminish.
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To be fair they rejected it because his "report" consisted of a link to a profile where he claimed to have exploited the bug, without any explanation of what he actually did. If he had at least given a rough indication of what the exploit was I am sure they would have reacted differently.
Funny thing about mechanical watches, the technology hasn't changed in 150 years. The technology around tooling has changed substantially, which in turn allows us to produce more accurate and cheaper watch components and movements, but we're still producing the same old watch design that we (Americans) stole from the Swiss and started mass-production of.

The book I used in school was "Theorie de l'horologie" [1], which is a fairly modern book. I supplemented this with "The Bulova Watch Repair Training Manual" [2] and "Practical Benchwork for Horologists" [3]. I would argue that the most useful book for practice was "Practical Benchwork", which was originally released in 1938, it's latest edition being from 1988.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Theory-Horology-Charles-Andre-Reym...

[2] http://www.esslinger.com/the-joseph-bulova-school-of-watchma...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Benchwork-Horologists-Louis-...
From the doc (I'd probably double those cost estimate though):

"Transporting 7.4 million people each way every year and
amortizing the co
st of $6 billion over 20 years gives a ticket price of $20 for a
one
-
way trip for the passenger version of Hyperloop. "

$20-$40 doesn't seem terribly expensive.
You continue to underestimate the importance of the original work as a product, and overestimate the importance of the license of the original work.

The GPL doesn't guarantee that a potential derivative work would be open source. The developer that might have based their work on open source might choose not to use the code of the original work in their project so as to avoid having to make their own work open source as well. This is a loss to the world, as the quality of their work would most likely not be as good, either because the code wouldn't be community reviewed or simply because time was spent writing code with functionality that already exists as open source taking away time from other features.

GPL or BSD, somewhere along the line, the developer has to willingly make their work open source. The only case the GPL can force someone to make their work open source is if someone has used GPL code with the intention of violating the license, but are later exposed to have used GPL code and are shamed into open sourcing it.

At the end of the day, the user only has freedoms to the code that the developer chooses to grant. Whether this is by choosing to use GPL code in their project and making it GPL as well, using BSD code in their project and making it BSD as well, or not using GPL code (but possibly BSD code) and not making their work open source.
Look at another example ( http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/1062288 ) showing a tree layout with the possibility to collapse nodes. You can add a ton of nodes in the JSON to test how D3 handles a large number of nodes. In this example things are getting slower, but probably because of the physics involved.

I think D3 is impressive and is the best pure Javascript lib for these use cases, mainly because of the features included and because it's well supported. This is the first time that I will use D3 for a project so I don't have experience except as a lurker.
Was there a reason for posting this particular repo for a version that hasn't been updated in 6 months? Milkypostman has maintained a different version[1] (which is what you get from MELPA if you use it) which just so happens to need a new maintainer[2] as of several days ago.

[1] https://github.com/milkypostman/powerline
[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1kc2jk/powerline_need...
Even wierder, the tree in their presentation seems to represent:

-b + (Math.sqrt(b**2 - 4*a*c)) / (2*a)

Which is neither the formula we'd expect nor the formula they show.
I remember when the iPad first came out and I (along with many others) were concerned that it was a device for consumption and not creation: the first step in the "war" on general-purpose computation. However, with the continual improvements in web browsers and JavaScript runtimes (as well as things like Emscriptrn) I'm far less concerned. Nowadays even a locked down phone can run any JavaScript, which may provide the user with an IDE or a secure messaging system. I still think there's a war but I think it's more at the network level rather than device level.
I'm all for welcoming more people to the Don't Trust Obama club, but let's be honest here. Many of us saw his flaws long before this NSA scandal, which he and his minions now lump in with the set of "phony scandals".

Voting for someone because of their race is every damned bit as bad as voting against someone because of their race.

Maybe you folks who are surprised by the recent change in your attitude toward our President should stop voting for candidates who consistently hold positions against individual liberty?
I think what I find most disappointing is the stunning amount of apathy when it comes to politicians lying. But then what can we do to stop them? It has become farcical how every time the government makes a statement on this it's almost immediately shown they are directly lying to the people.

These lies bring into question the truthfulness of a lot of other government statements.
Agreed, he was bought and paid for like nearly all the politicians that came before him.

It's kind of amusing on some level because the trope goes: Let's demand xyz be done about xyz, but let's not do/think of what we can to work on xyz ourselves within our own local communities before we are given permission by the establishment, who made xyz possible, to impose it on everyone else.
LLVM isn't focused on JIT compilation or GC. Obviously you can implement both using LLVM, and I think there is still a rudimentary JIT built in, but if your language wants to support cross-platform binary distribution, runtime optimization or world-class GC, you will have a lot more work ahead of you with LLVM.
Good points. I wasn't thinking extortion in return, I was thinking, "Give them a chance to fix it before going public." I'd always like to fix a problem before a client goes public. And this would put the onus on the company to make sure that any bad reviews get taken down, rather than having to work through Yelp.
You're fucked up, since you've written that you're "planning to move to US.", if you try to put foot there, you'll be rejected and flown back right away.

All you can do now, is the queue at the nearest US ambassy to try to get a green card. Without that, don't by a flight ticket to the US, it'll be lost money and time.

Speaking from personnal experience.

My advice: keep working remotely. Use Skype for meetings.
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Well if people are really worried about the bathroom issue, they can just wear the specially designed, pneumatically sealed "HyperDiaper". Damned if I can't find the link to the appendix of Musk's document where he discussed those specs...

Anyway, what's likely more of an issue than either pod or bodily evacuation, is the possibility of motion sickness owing to the lack of a visible steady horizon from inside the capsule (no windows, no transparent aluminum pipes).

I suspect this is one of the reasons Musk mentions something about landscape images being displayed on the pod interiors. Some kind of projected artificial horizon, always steady no matter what the orientation of the pod, would likely keep people from getting too loopy.

Similarly, the very first subway in NYC (pneumatic, no less) [1] had cars without windows, but the line was only a few hundred feet long, so it's doubtful motion sickness was an issue.

[1] http://freetoursbyfoot-nyc.blogspot.com/2013/02/today-in-187...
For a long while I thought FIFA wasn't a 'big' game at all, not worth my time. Turns out I was pretty wrong. If not already, FIFA is close to a billion dollar per year franchise.

"For this first game EA had to go without [licensing]. And so the dev team decided to put themselves in the game. Matt Webster went upfront for England. Joey Della-Savia was in the Italian squad. Assistant producer Marc Aubanel became a striker for French team."

Humble beginnings, indeed.
"----Original Message to Facebook-----
From: kha@hotmail.com
To:
Subject: post to facebook users wall .

Name: Ḱhalil
E-Mail: khal@hotmail.com
Type: privacy
Scope: www
Description: dear facebook team .

my name is khalil shreateh.
i finished school with B.A degree in Infromation Systems .

i would like to report a bug in your main site (www.facebook.com) which i discovered it .

repro:
the bug allow facebook users to share links to other facebook users , i tested it on sarah.goodin wall and i got success post
link - > https://www.facebook.com/10151857333098885
-----End Original Message to Facebook-----
"
> Which specifically of their assumptions are outdated?

Methodologies. Languages. Practices. Tools.

You'd have to assume that nothing has changed in the last 20-30+ years in the world of programming to combat errors and defects, which is decidedly not the case.

This isn't at all to say that programmers before us didn't understand as much. Just they had different limitations.

I'll admit, I've been doing far more reading on the subject because of this thread. I still stand by the concept that a function should do one thing, and only one thing. The size of the function isn't important, but the nature of a function doing one thing generally leads to smaller functions.

I also think duplication should be removed. This also tends to remove excessive code.

On that note, and interesting discussion can be found here:

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LongFunctionsDiscussion
Having no experience with US immigration on this matter I don't know how likely it is that they'll see it, but it's probably a very good idea for the OP to nuke this topic if they can.

Meetings are fine, but if it can be proven that you intend to work illegally (which AFAIK,IANAL anything more than meetings would be) you can potentially run into serious trouble.
Cached page:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...

Its down for me
The site is 404 for me... Is there a repo? Google didn't find anything useful.

Needs an ecosystem not just free downloads. If you want free downloads the competition already has that. Woodsmith Shop is a PBS network show with free plans downloads, some of which look pretty nice, although I've not tried to actually build anything from those plans.

As an amateur wood butcher I don't need to download someone else's design to make a very basic boring desk. (whoops edited to make clear I'm not implying their desk is boring, just my simple ones are) What I would benefit from is a simple script that given some criteria such as desired tabletop height, or load limit, or wood thickness, or whatever, out squirts a file with artistic proportions and stylish artistic design and reasonable engineering that I could then cut.

Or squirts out an error message. "warning: 5/8 plywood for a 8 foot wide desk? That exceeds wobbly limitation. Use --force option if you are crazy"

I want to run a script "opendesk --height '40 inch' --toplong '48 inch' --topshort '24 inch' --woodtype '5/8 plywood' and pipe the output into a laser cutter file. Or, frankly, just output a PDF for me to cut manually.
It used to be that there was REALLY good stuff posted there. A lot of the initial content there was really helpful, quite insightful. I used to hang out there everyday. The writing experience was clean; you always required a photo and the comment sys was new. It was easily cataloged and a lot of amazing writers hung out there.

That was quite recent; this June, I think.

Then it became popular. Turns out anyone who could write properly, using correct grammar, make it seem like they were thinking differently than the herd, and/or were an entrepreneur. Or want to post some fluffy pseudo-intellectual stuff.

You really have to wade through a lot of bad stuff, to get to the good ones. It started out well. But the section "Editor's Picks" already has like 2900 articles or something.

Nowadays it's more like you select the best from the week's best or the month's best.
I guess he can always go back to the Claremont Country Club.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andy-johnston/41/81/119
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Er yes, that applies to absolutely everything. He's expressing an opinion.
So would you say a carwash type business also make money off it? Cause they have inventory costs but also they are more service oriented?
OT: Wtf "black customers" Kind of discriminating... (I get it's not about black people but still keeps the mindset going where non-caucasian are thought of as lesser persons)

Is that how american people phrase things? (On the bright side I now know that my native language isn't alone having very deep rooted problems when you try to be equally friendly -- its a lot easier to equally offend everyone...)
Yes.

1. They're in power and "but the government lied first" is not going to hold up in court if you're accused of perjury, lying to a police officer, etc.
2. There's something to be said for taking the higher ground. Long after people forget who started it, having a culture that doesn't value honesty hurts everyone.
I disabled the disk and memory cache in Firefox a couple of years ago. Don't knock it until you've tried it. It has much less of a performance impact than you would imagine. I have an 8Mbit internet connection, YMMV.
There is an official "Who is hiring?"/"Freelance?" monthly post the first day of each month. They usually get to the first page. You should post there. Wait until September 1st.

To get an idea of how it works, see the August editions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6139927 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6139937
btw I forgot to mention, this is awesome, I'm loving it, and it actually sounds good already.

By which I mean, I've heard/experienced a couple of other data sonification / generative art installations with a similar concept, and they didn't sound "right", in some sense. Maybe part of it is that the github events seem more "useful" or "natural" than whatever it was (I forgot) those other installations were um sonificating.

But an important part of it is, I think you already chose a couple of really nice and varying sounds. Ones that stand out in the spectrum, and sound good both on their own as well as when they're repeated in quick succession (though for that last situation, some kind of real time synthesis using oscillators would maybe provide a smoother sound)

anyway, well done!
It does reduce the faith in the hope and change that was promised by our president. After all he does not walk the talk. He is the do as I say president not as I do. After all he does send his children to private school while preaching the virtues of public education. He is no different than any other politician in that regard, a hypocrite.

Past performance or lack there of is an indicator of future performance. Obama has not been able to deliver on most of his promises from closing Gitmo to bringing this nation together. Does anyone believe he is capable of doing the right thing? Just talking about it does not count.
In my opinion..I think they should compensate him.They said he violated their terms...Their terms on the whitehat page is not even localised for other Languages. Too Bad.
It was also manufactured with much more resources than any terrorist group could hope to muster. This is a problem in discussions of this topic - al-qaeda is not some james bond villain like goldfinger.
How can they name their mostly visual customizations of the existing projects "OS" and be accepted as serious? Such things were called skins and themes.

What is really original there apart from the visual design elements and the UI customizations to allow them calling their contribution an "OS"? Just that they actually write some code? Where are their own kernel and their own drivers? Aren't they just one more derivative GNU/Linux distro?
Is there any experience using Computer Games to display GIS data?
Your point being? He doesn't explain the exploit at all, he just gives them a link to some profile he claims to have exploited (which already violated their ToS).
A lot of potential, but saltwater would still be a harsh mistress.
No wonder they ignored the bug report. It looks like a spam e-mail. Why no proper capitalization? Why is your education relevant?
"Yes, not using cache at all would make everything very slow"

That suggests you've not tried it. I have. I've been running with disk and memory cache disabled in Firefox for a couple of years now on my laptop, and it's not anywhere near as slow as you think it would be. It's barely noticable at all.

On my work machine I have the cache enabled, so I even have something to compare against. My laptop is usually sat on an 8Mbit Internet connection. If you're on a much slower Internet connection it would make a bigger difference, but I don't think 8Mbit is particularly fast nowadays.
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When the war on drugs will inevitably be over in US, within a decade or so (the trend towards it is growing), by then there will already be two new wars started to "replace" the war on drug for anyone who benefitted from it (such as the police, private prisons [1], etc): the War on Pirates, and the War on Child Porn. If not both, they'll just use whichever works best. The real agenda behind it will be the same either way.

Then you can start expecting SWAT teams raiding people's homes for downloading songs illegitimately (and yes, you'll even see more dogs and even innocent people shot in the process - just like in that "parody" video where the SWAT team shoots the kid who was downloading songs in the head at the end, which I can't find right now).

Some of these are not felonies yet, but they're working hard [2] to "fix" that "problem". Current and future surveillance technologies, used by either NSA, FBI, DHS, or even the police will make that ever easier and more "tempting" to do.

[1] http://www.republicreport.org/2012/marijuana-lobby-illegal/

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/07/unauthorized-stream...
It is one of the safest substances for humans to ingest on the planet.... (long term smoking effects not included).

That is a pretty big exception.
The dangers of dirty bombs should not be ignored. They surely aren't as destructive as a explosion but nevertheless their possible effects financially and morally are potentially devastating.
Just look at the historical results of the Sarin gas attack in Tokyo (sort of a dirty bomb) and the unintentional spread of radioactive material in Goiania/Brazil caused by metal scavengers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6181011)
You're wrong. That line of code is just to create something random, he could have used rand() if he wanted to, but it's not as "random".

And if you take a look in the .htaccess file, you'll notice that the images request also goes to index.php.
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Sad to say the old joke "How do you know if a politician is lying? Their lips are moving" is no longer funny. The even sadder thing is none of them seems to remembers the story of the boy who cried wolf. You know someday the president might tell us the truth but we won't be able to tell.
You seem to be shifting the goalposts here. Before, you were talking about "rural and urban issues". Now you're talking about process and rules, which is completely different.

Absolute number of people is not the determining factor in any of this, but with no major cities in Arkansas, I reject the notion that Bill Clinton's governorship gave him experience with urban issues.
what do people with kids do on existing methods of public transit that can take 30+ minutes where there is no toilet on board?
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I am looking for latest trend data for Twitter user base growth. Also data for smart-phone user growth. Thanks in advance.