skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually have Origin installed on my laptop that my SO uses. She loves The Sims 3 that I had bought a retail copy of. I later bought a Steam copy on a sale just for convenience sake of not needing the disc. The problem came in when I wanted to play a Steam game but she wanted to play The Sims 3 on the laptop. Since I had a retail copy, I just activated the key on Origin (something I could not do on Steam) and now she can play with all the convenience of digital delivery but not impact my gaming time by making me log out of Steam.

That's a perfect use case for Origin, in my mind :)
Too much technology for a simple problem. Add a foot pedal controller (think of the ddr pad) and the problem is solved.
You said the US was getting overcrowded. Overwhelming evidence says this is hardly the case. Statistics cannot tell you a city is overcrowded, that is a judgement call. And as far as density no city in the US rates even in the top 20.
I think the 2 hours is the rush-hour driving time to get from the more populous station of the proposed HSR to the less-populous station for they hyperloop.
When you click on a link here you never know if booze will mean alcohol or some node.js/go framework you've never heard of.
I wish more web developers would come to this conclusion. It's so frustrating to see people trying to save 50ms by optimising slow SQL queries or fixing slow code paths. Meanwhile the user is waiting over 5 seconds to load a page with a bloated DOM, inefficient CSS, synchronous JavaScript, etc.

If your back-end is slow, just cache it and forget about it. Front-end is almost always the bottleneck (the exceptions to this rule being near-real-time dynamic sites like New Relic or GoSquared).
Is your app ready for iOS 7?
I couldn't imagine not fitting into a company - it would be miserable past a certain point and when you get to that point everyone knows your work and effort start to diminish and most of the time it's definitely noticeable.
Using value semantics for arrays is lovely in concept but ends up being really annoying and impractical for writing really high-performance array code. This is one of the most common complaints of library authors attempting to write fast, efficient code in Matlab and is one of the many reasons why one ends up having to write all performance-critical code in C using Matlab data structures.

Clojure is reputed to get remarkable performance on a broad variety of data structures, but I've had a hard time finding benchmarks comparing Clojure's purely functional arrays with normal linearly indexed arrays – if you have some references to such comparisons, I'd love to see them. In my experience, nothing beats a plain old linearly indexed, mutable array when that's what you need. Making that basic structure unavailable in a language intended for high-performance numerical computing strikes me as utterly perverse.
$3,750 in 3 months is not bad at all. It is super difficult to get something off the ground. Once you're in motion, it can grow pretty fast.
What is the public health impact of genomewide association studies?
Meteor 0.6.5: namespacing, modularity, new build system, source maps
I didn't think he sounded like an addict at all just a person that is more like a light switch than a dimmer... as in he is either in-or-out and when he is out he is able to clearly spot the environment around him... like a fish that can finally see that they live in water. I really related to this piece.
As employee number 1 ask for 2-5%. Or more.
Why do that versus:

http.HandleFunc("/route_to_url", handlerWrapper(handler))
http.HandleFunc("/route_to_url2", handlerWrapper(handler2))

Is the map used elsewhere?
Have you tried precompiling with -O2? IIRC runhaskell runs code like GHCi: interpreted bytecode by default (for source .hs files).
On Chinese Writing: Birth
How many downloads to expect from a TechCrunch article?
We are about to get some press (yay!). I am trying to guess what to expect and if possible, gage how many Heroku Web Dynos I should add.<p>At this point things are in good shape, server average response about 200ms and highest during most days is around 400ms. There was one instance where an AppStore upgrade caused things to slowdown. I have adjusted things accordingly and since then upgrades have not been issue.<p>So the question is how many hits/downloads should one expect from a something like a TechCrunch article or similar size press event?<p>Please share your experiences and/or recommendations.
I actually disagree with the advice. Well, I'll walk that back: the advice is sound but too specific. I think it's more like, "Don't say things unless it's hard for your competitors to disagree." If your competitor is insisting on the opposite it would of course be hard for them to disagree, but I think that obscures what's really going on.

Take Volvo, for example, a brand strongly associated with safety. They'd never croon about how slow their cars were, of course. It's more like they've chosen a third route -- in the "fast vs. slow" game they've decided to not play.

In a world where Volvo was the only car brand, there is an opportunity for a competitor to differentiate themselves from Volvo by focusing on speed over safety, even though Volvo isn't claiming "the opposite." In fact, this works really well because the type of people who are attracted to raw speed will probably be turned on by the idea of their car being a little more dangerous. I don't need the same protection my grandmother does -- I want something exciting! You see how even though in some sense being "less safe" is objectively worse, it might nevertheless resonate with the customer psychologically?

Once consumers reflexively think "Volvo" when one says "safety," however, you're never going to out-safety them. It's better to compete in a different game than compete in the game they've won.

That's what folks mean when they say "Being different is more important than being better."

I think engineers have a hard time with branding because they imagine building a brand or a product involves maximizing some utility function. People don't work like that, though. They operate in terms of narratives and stories and identity. Who am I? What does using this product say about me? They generalize their utilitarian temperament to everyone else, when in fact that temperament is just one of many.

If you tried to out-safety Volvo you wouldn't be known as the "safer brand," you'd risk being known as "the brand that claims it's more safe than Volvo." But is it really? I don't know, man, I'm scared of buying a car that might not be safe. I'm going to stick with Volvo.
That seems like a far more useful introduction than the one in the article. I mean, I'm sure the plivo vision for telephony is interesting, but I'd rather learn more about what the changes mean to me.
http://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com/
I solved the cognitive overhead problem by developing everything via progressive enhancement. This way JavaScript has a clearly defined role and place in the process and I don't have to think in multiple languages. Of course, a lot of developers these days don't want to do progressive enhancement and dismiss it as "impossible".
Well before Gmail or indeed Google, it was already known that email is not, by its design, a secure medium of communication (unless, perhaps, both parties use an adequate encryption scheme).
I don't have the links handy, but it's well know that mail has been photographed for years and it seems likely that PRISM or some gov database is already ingesting this information. Seems like an easy step to upgrade the camera to something that attempts to scan contents.
Actually, I think it makes a solid point, even if it is concise. Pithy is the word that comes to mind. And I appreciated the pun.

We constantly hear the mantra about iterating quickly, changing/breaking things, not worrying about initial quality, etc.

But, there's something to be said for investing in quality and striving for excellence every time out of the gate. And from the outside, it's certainly inspirational.

Ok, so guess I just signed up to absorb some of the downvotes. Whatevs.
My Mom called me out…
You could run your own with libravatar: https://www.libravatar.org/
It seems quite bizarre that the introductory chemistry about elements is taught without the prerequisite knowledge of Schrödinger equation and special relativity in college.
MBA all the way. The new model shouldn't need much explaining. Considering my 7 hour battery lasts 5 now, your 9 should expect ~8 for the first year.
I don't think so. Depends how you define addict.

If I started drinking milk every day, I would experience a variety of (mostly negative) physical symptoms. Doesn't mean I would be addicted to it.
Though modern cruisers and destroyers aren't that much smaller than the dreadnoughts that fought at Jutland, 14,000 tons vs 18,000 tons.
I applaud you for not drinking around her - but you should have seen how long you could go without a drink. She knows she cannot and ultimately has forced will power behind her decision, but you should have seen if you could have done the same. It's so easy after a stressful day to have 1 beer or to wind down with something stronger - but I do believe it shows a lot of character for someone who's willing to 'suffer' with their significant other to show support.
Online Textbook Rental Firm Chegg Files For $150 Million IPO
Yeah I just contributed to the indiegogo but before hand I send them an email on price here is the response I got to paraphrase.

"It is 15 dollars including shipping and in terms of quantity it is 10 oz" Pretty good deal considering that they are doing interesting things with content that directly connect you to the farm and culture...
Basically, it's for efficiency reasons. Some of our sites have well over 40 pageviews per second and updating the numbers that frequently would put a huge amount of load on our servers and also crash the browser or make it go incredibly slow.

We also like to use the very same API that's available to our users in the Now and Trends dashboards as it encourages us to ensure response times are quick and that everything we track and display can be used programatically in custom integrations (such as the trending section on http://carthrottle.com).

Hope that answers things :)
How much did ET3 inspire Elon Musk's hyperloop?
I wonder how it is legal for a bank to view data obtained by monitoring the Internet on the scale that only the NSA would be able:

A Palantir user at a bank can, in seconds, see connections between a Nigerian
Internet protocol address, a proxy server somewhere within the U.S. and
payments flowing out from a hijacked home equity line of credit, just as
military customers piece together fingerprints on artillery shell fragments,
location data, anonymous tips and social media to track down Afghani
bombmakers.
Well, the Flash plugin has become less popular because many developers disliked it and decided to bet on the open web instead. IMO that was for shortsighted ideological reasons. As far as I know, browser plugins are the only way to have truly decentralized innovation on the Web. Anyone can make a plugin and offer it to users. If plugins are discouraged, then a handful of browser makers become gatekeepers of all new functionality. It may seem okay now because some browser makers are seen as good guys, like Mozilla and Google, but we all remember the time when the biggest browser maker wasn't seen as a good guy, and that can happen again.

What are your arguments against plugins? I'm curious.
10. That's all we have, not twelve, and definitely not the 15 we had at the height of the Cold War. The problem is that we don't have twelve carriers that can function all at once. Some are being refueled, some are returning from a deployment, some are doing training workups prior to deployment, and there's a lot of ocean out there. That's why talk of cutting the # of CVNs to under the current totals is extremely dangerous. The way to look at it is for each carrier you have deployed, you need two more. So we currently have four carriers deployed, for ready to surge if needed, and three unavailable for maintenance reasons. And it's not as if a carrier can transit from its homeport to the far side of the ocean quickly...
Not if the information is already out there
Send a snail mail to me and my wife will probably read it. Send an email to me and my secretary will probably read it.

Are surprised if email you send me is scanned for spam? Or scanned for automatic filtering? Or for full-text search? I don't see why scanning it to serve me ads is any worse.
This article is very biased. The F-35 is being compared to a clean (no external stores) F-16, not a F-16 with same combat radius and weapons as internally carried on the F-35.

The F-35 also has significantly better avionics than the F-16C Block 50.

For a more balanced opinion go to http://www.f-16.net
"This is the same reason why the Chinese haven't put much into carriers, but have a ton of ballistic missile ships."

This is changing...
Certainly he has justification. Also, clever use of a Princess Bride quote.

Inconceivable!
I've travelled extensively with a variety of laptops, I would suggest getting an ultrabook or an Air, I've been using Airs for a few years now. The most important things to me are:

1) Small so it fits in a discrete looking backpack, this is important because anything that looks like it was made to carry a laptop is an invitation to be robbed in many places.

2) Light because you're going to walk miles with it
If you are willing to quit anyway, it's a good opportunity to practice negotiation. Tell them that either they give you a good percentage or you leave, but make sure you leave if they refuse.
I quit drinking for three 30 days stints last year (not back to back though). I can relate to most of what he says - I did feel a lot better, I didnt lose that much weight though (oh well). In the end, I think this experiment is really great but one also needs to consider where you live - I live in lower manhattan where I cant walk 5 feet without passing a cool looking bar / happy hour. I am glad I quit drinking for three months last year but am I having more fun drinking now - definitely.
Title 18 Section 2709 (c) of the US Code:

> ...no wire or electronic communications service provider, or officer, employee, or agent thereof, shall disclose to any person (other than those to whom such disclosure is necessary to comply with the request or an attorney to obtain legal advice or legal assistance with respect to the request) that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has sought or obtained access to information or records under this section. The request shall notify the person or entity to whom the request is directed of the nondisclosure requirement...

How you disclose is irrelevant. If you tell everyone in advance "I will throw rotten eggs from my roof if I receive an NSL", receive an NSL, then start throwing rotten eggs from your roof, you're going to be sanctioned.

Let's boil it down to this: would a reasonable judge think you are complying with the spirit of the nondisclosure agreement? He's not going to compute a mathematical proof about information transfer to answer that question.
I remember when Humble Bundle meant DRM free and cross-platform. Man, did they ruin that brand.
you might want to take a look at https://github.com/rpflorence/ember-tools
Is simply pointing out a mistake "making a big thing out of nothing"?

I don't understand why you claim I'm "making a big thing" and write a paragraph explaining yourself instead of just saying "Oops! So it is!"
Actually, Boyd's breakthrough in allowing designers to quantify a plane's ability to gain and lose energy is pretty much what led to the F16 and F15 being so good at it. It's true that it doesn't boil down easily to a single number, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-Maneuverability_theory
You missed that the vast majority of Google's workers, and an even higher percentage of those on the buses, are not paying SF payroll tax because they are not based in SF. (SF payroll tax cannot be levied on an employee in Mountain View, no matter where they live.)

Also, it doesn't make sense that Googlers would pay 2x property tax. Property tax does not scale with salary. You can make a ton of money but if you rent you pay (indirectly) the same property tax as your neighbor and the same as the tenant five years ago paying 1/2 the rent (since the same landlord has held the building the whole time and you can't re-appraise under prop 13).

If you buy, meanwhile, Googlers pay extra only to the extent property values rise. While they have gone up (~25% in a year), we have not seen anything close to a doubling. (And it's not clear that Googlers "own more property" as you suggest. While they tend to be wealthier, they also tend to be younger and more geographically mobile, which would encourage renting.)

As for sales tax, think about where that comes from. It doesn't apply to groceries or rent. We're talking about restaurants, bars, car dealerships, and discretionary retail. We're also talking about a population who can eat dinner and lunch and breakfast at work, and get free haircuts and laundry, who tend to order discretionary retail products online, and who live in SF and take a bus to work. Do we really expect them to spend 2-3x buying cars, patronizing local retail, and going out restaurants, and bars?

I do realize Googlers go out and spend big locally from time to time. My point is that the office perks, use of transit, and use of online retail are going to mitigate their contribution to the local sales tax base. They might still spend more on sales tax-able items than the typical San Franciscan, but 2x-3x?
I wouldn't consider one of the best fighter programs we've seen a "disaster." Perhaps you're confusing it with the F-111 (TFX) program?
Not that interesting. Origin uses DRM, and the EFF is quite vocal in opposing DRM, software patents, threats to P2P software, and overly-extensive copyright. They have a long history of standing in opposition to groups like the RIAA/MPAA.
If I remember correctly, if they used a maximum burn right before impact they would only need about 1 tonne of fuel to take the first stage from orbit to the ground. Of course, that would require some crazy control systems, but it's a useful lower bound.
You could send them an email signed with the private key that you originally paid with (Bitcoin has a message signature feature in the GUI).

Edit: see here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=223713.0
Contrary to the article, the AMA on Reddit has not been deleted

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1fwi48/im_the_ceo_of_a...
"Om nom noooo!"
Maybe life extension will progress as well? :P
Great writeup. As someone who never drinks, and never has, it continues to sound like a drug to me and I want no part of it. That said, I still get questioned about my decision like I have 2 heads.
5 pounds of coffee, when was it roasted? And will you be drinking it within 7 days of then? This relationship is at least as important as the quality of the original bean.
>The Leaf is a superb vehicle in every aspect, except for range and price.

It's the most affordable electric car out there.

In other words, they released 1 gen too early!
True enough... but I wonder (has anyone actually done this?) if you polled 1,000 "average americans" how many would be surprised and/or upset to find out that email is 100% not private, and it's not supposed to be. I bet a high, high proportion.

I guess the problem with an aggressive public campaign to educate consumers, is that there is no obvious alternative.
How "Big Data" Protects the Enterprise Against Social Threats
The public claim is that the quality control and reliability on the WS-10 production lines is poor, but there's evidence that there's more to it than just that. The WS-10 is produced mostly natively, but its design is largely reverse engineered from the AL-31F. In fact, its turbine blades are imported from Russia. This corroborates reports that the Chinese lack the design expertise at present to design a fighter engine from scratch.

Also, keep in mind that the WS-10A is derived from the AL-31F, which was first flown on the Su-27, but has since been replaced in Russia by modernized AL-31FM1 and 2 or the new 117 family engines. The FM and 117 series engines have generally better performance than the older F/FN parts, and likely are more efficient. Thus, we can see that the Chinese are working off an old design.
I wasn't scoffing at the number, I was clarifying the honesty of the number.
Exactly. For that matter, the "Mercury 7" and the "New Nine" agree too; the Redstone/Atlas/Titan II's used for the Mercury and Gemini missions were ICBMs (edit: actually, was the Redstone technically an ICBM? I think as weapons they were short-range actually), originally meant to deliver nuclear bombs to Russia. (They were modified in several ways before being used for human flight of course, mostly for reliability). The Redstone in particular was a direct descendant of the V-2.
There were considerable challenges to overcome in Vietnam having to do with disadvantages in maneuverability, lack of guns, and missile reliability.
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When he mentioned not waking up early anymore I started thinking the same.. If he is having that happen, he's having more than just a glass of wine to end the day.
The last time I used Origin, I think it summoned a demon.
I didn't think he sounded like much of an addict at all. Certainly less of an addict than someone who's already had 2 glasses of wine by 1:30pm PST.
But i'm guessing you are in a different timezone :-)
When I read "in this case, we do not do that" it instantly makes me wonder in which cases they do.
Should I use Twitter Bootstrap 3 or Foundation 4?
I'm vexed trying to add a program to the Windows 8 taskbar
And don't miss this paragraph from the article:

"We’ve now approved over $700k worth of projects in the last
five months and our rate of accepted projects has been growing
at an average of almost 30 percent monthly."

Booked commission revenue is over $100K for those five months. Given that growth is ramping up, they're likely booking over $30K in commissions per month now. Actual commission revenue is undoubtedly less due to abandoned projects, non-payments, refunds, and so on. However that's a healthy business and huge kudos to them for a great MVP example.
Yeah, that's pretty cool as well - I've used ember-tools. The scaffolding is quite good.
It may be the case that he does have (/had) a physical addiction to alcohol, but it looks like his drinking behavior isn't (/wasn't) harmful.
But Vietnam? Don't you think that the US might not eventually have problems when missiles get jammed and drones stolen?
EFF and EA aren't exactly best buds.
If you start having negative physical symptoms but keep drinking then you'd start to fall into that category. I don't know if addict is the right word but I'd say he has a higher intake than the mean.
Judging from Steam forums it seems that they are mostly Origin-free and do not chain DRM schemes like it was the case with U-play.
Not every game has a steam key on there (even ones that happen to be on Steam already, such as Sims 3).

http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/the-humble-bundle-tea...
You spend too long in the beginning talking about your shirt... I have to spend the first 45 seconds before you start posing problems that I may have that buying your shirt will solve. Your video is good, and you narrating and talking is good- but having a shirt that is soft isn't a big concern for me... you hit on some great points about wearing it multiple times.. want to know why I buy smart wool socks because they tell me that my feet won't stink if I wear them a couple of times in fact as far as I am concerned it is the only reason that wool is smart- because it fixes a problem of stinky feet. Good luck!