skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beyond the sports metaphor, it seems you're really getting at the metaphor of an ecosystem. The ecosystem-like view really deserves to be more the status quo in this world than a refreshing aberration.
I'm curious how well this thing can "maintain distance between the capsule and tube walls". It seems like this is a much tougher problem than simply levitating the whole thing off the ground where the forces are relatively stationary. It also doesn't look like any of the artist renderings address this, and only consider the airflow lifting the thing off the ground.
Isn't that more or less the same as what it already does? That is by telling frak which words you want to match you're implying you don't want to match anything else.

Of course, you could generate two patterns; one with the words you do want to match and the other with words you don't. Then simply handle the logic in your program.
your write

[[apologies to original poster in /. years ago]]
Or luvit (libuv + Lua)
I always get a rewards card the first time I'm there as long as I get a discount for even using it once. 90%+ of the things I buy at stores I usually have discounts on.
I'm curious as to why HTML.ify is necessary. Shouldn't HTML itself be a function? If passed a string it then that's HTML.find and if passed a dom node or one of the weird collections of DOM nodes the native APIs provide then it HTML.ify's them.

I like the idea if not so much the execution. It needs a partner for smoothing over event handling.
Google Maps Has An Incredible Doctor Who Easter Egg
Unless Musk has found a way to make the cars weightless, the tube must support the weight of the cars. Further, the pylons must support the weight of the tube and the cars, over a smaller footprint.
You don't have to spend a ton of money. Many of the top shows such as Breaking Bad are not that expensive, and after the pilot you can always walk away and cut your losses if it's an obvious failure. There are many stakeholders in the show to share your risk too. Every show is basically a little startup. People check out the script, say fine, and then do whatever is needed. They can own shares, they can get external funding, they can even finance it themselves (it's always sunny in philadelphia).
I'm not advocating that people move now. The value of Gmail definitely outweighs current costs for many people so it makes sense to keep using it. But to buy a domain and forward email to a Gmail address does not require a VPS or maintaining it.

Other services may be harder to migrate, but they usually don't have the same cost of notification. If I change where my calendar is hosted, I don't need to inform all my contacts.
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This is an apples to orchards comparison and a very misleading title. The Google Play Store includes purchases of movies, TV shows, books, magazines, etc. You can compare it to the iTunes Store in its entirety, but certainly not to the "Apple App Store".
Virtual environments are optional though, right? You could have one big virtualenv for all projects, or simply install things into the system path (although I wouldn't recommend either)
The problem (as I'm sure many others have stated before) is that airport security doesn't really solve the problem of being able to crash a plane into a skyscraper. However, reinforced cockpit doors, armed pilots, and a belief that a hijacker will use a plane to commit suicide instead of as hostage do effectively solve this problem.
How did TJ Holowaychuk learn to program
It is surprising that a temperature sensor is reading the temperature?
Xslty: XSLT 2.0 from the command line with PhantomJS and node
The biggest problem I have with not A/B testing is that it breeds a culture where people assume they really know what's going on.

Common sense is often only common sense in retrospect!
You're talking about what has been called a "negative income tax"; the idea has a long history, but was popularized in the USA by Milton Friedman. A form of this was implemented as the "earned income tax credit", but only as a supplement to traditional welfare programs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax
Well actually, it isn't.

It's the same UI, but you're just limited in your actions.

Metro is totally different from Windows 7 UI. I didn't said anywhere that there should be a graphical difference in the standard application.

I just said that you're not able to change all the things in simple mode, while "normal" mode isn't as limited. Perhaps even disabling Widgets in the simple mode and only allowing HOLO apps in the store (developers could be rushed this way to update their apps, it's an added bonus for Google then)

Every no-experienced user would understand "simple" mode perfectly, but in Windows. Metro is just used to search apps... (at least i use it that way)
Android is catching up really fast. The things you can do with it and some of the design choices can be quite clever. For example, the new Gmail app has pull-to-refresh, but they didn't want to look like a direct rip of lorenb/Twitter so they redesigned the visual concept completely.
Lack of skills required by employers, lack of ability to work, lack of ability to get to work.

In another comment, you mentioned that lacking education won't prevent you from getting a job washing dishes. This is true. However, I bet there are a fair number of people out there who simply can't or don't know how to wash dishes. It's almost inconceivable, but many of the skills that we take for granted, like knowing how to wash dishes, or knowing how to apply for a job, or knowing how to take a bus, are learned things that not everyone gets educated about.
Yes, unchecked sharing of untouched smartphone pictures is a privacy risk. But a little sanity about your friend lists on social media, and your privacy and sharing settings, and then even if you don't know how to strip geolocation data out of an image you can feel relatively safe. Especially if images of your kids go in an album with closely restriced visibility settings.

Further, is it really that hard to strip out geolocation data? I'm pretty sure both Android and iOS make it possible to not include that data in the photo to begin with. Yep, a quick search reveals easily a dozen or more sites explaining how to do it, and how to strip those geotags back out if you've already got photos that include them.

The real headline sounds more like "Willful ignorance poses health, safety, and privacy risks". This isn't worth panicking about.
Pramiracetam every other day. Brainwave Entrainment (search for Neuro-Programmer 3) with affirmations.
Unfortunately, I think advertising is far too lucrative for this to ever happen. Where there is space, there will be ads, whether it's print, screen, virtual or what-have-you. I don't see the world getting any less cluttered in the next 15-20 years. Granted I live in a city and have for the last ~10 years, so my views my be skewed.
So callbacks are annoying enough that they have to mention its a non-fixable in the mailing list.

Awesome.
Interesting, but I don't see Americans emigrating to Saudi Arabia to be part of a "Middle Eastern Silicon Valley." There are just too many obstacles culturally and politically. Here are some examples that came to my attention recently:

-Saudi Arabia is one of the least welcoming countries in the world for foreigners.[1]

-Saudi Arabians are on average far less racially tolerant. Don't expect to see a SF-style mixing pot without conflict.[2]

-The religious laws conflict sharply with US culture and belief, and that goes twice for SF. Homosexual acts, for example, are punishable by the death penalty.[3] Non-muslims cannot worship in public, etc.

-Women cannothold certain jobs, including engineering jobs.[4]

Saudi Arabia may be the next Silicon Valley, but only for people near the Arabian peninsula who will have an easier time adapting. Westerners will continue to avoid working there until conditions improve from their perspective.

[1]2http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_TT_Competitiveness_Report_2...

[2]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15...

[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia

[4]http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/viewFile/183/309
They wanted to send a message. Just like mobsters tripping on power do.
Petition to fund the hyperloop
On a prayer, the link is attached. It would be amazing to give the hyperloop a shot. Elon Musk does incredible things every day of his life. It would be cool if the world helped him out for a change.
At very least, it is in society's best interest to socially reward people working on solving big problems instead of doing lucrative things that just exploit people.
The E language http://erights.org/ works that way. It's unfortunately been inactive for years; its BDFL moved on to the Javascript committee.
Must just be me. How about:

I'll trade 7 1/2 months of the NSA annual budget for one hyperloop.
But if “multi-tasking” with a screen and interaction with my child bothers me so much because I’m worried about the lesson she’ll take away from it, why do I find it perfectly acceptable to behave this way around my wife, family, co-workers, and friends?
I always wonder how much of this feeling is due to culture-shift (there wasn't much screen distraction when our parents were our age so when we do this, there is a feeling of guilt) and how much of this is a real concern. For example, when our parents turned on the radio or tape, was that audio distraction? Were we parked in front of the radio and did it have a bad effect on the society?
Interesting, but the temperature reading is unusably inaccurate from my location. 3 degrees C can matter a lot when it's around the 20 C mark.

Cool graphs though.
These days virtually every language can be compiled to JavaScript in a very usable manner. For example, I've had a lot of success with js_of_ocaml[1], not really running into any of the problems people like to harp about regarding compiled-to-JS languages.

[1]: ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/

The argument for developer time--as well as decreased maintenance cost--is exactly why I went with OCaml over pure JavaScript. And so far it's certainly paid off!
I thought the original point was that it is JavaScript that can do stuff.
I see your point, but really, what he said about CoffeeScript doesn't make any sense. It doesn't have any 'default behaviour of including a module' because it's just syntax sugar, you use the same require() and libraries.
Maybe my understanding of a "Startup" is wrong, can someone explain to me how a company founded in 2007 is still considered a startup?
Is it in America?
does is cost cheaper to run this on a dedicated box (e.g medium instance) instead of using Amazon's sns ?

I had previously implemented push notifications manually but the challenge is sending a lot of messages when you have over 1M devices.
The article mentions subscription revenue is substantially larger than advertising revenue.
This is still growing on me - Not sure how I feel about the change
Check out Mailgun: http://www.mailgun.com/ . It's a service rather than a library, but it handles incoming emails and has wrapper libraries in a number of languages.
QuickCheck (and SimpleCheck) have the ability to narrow the data being tested to attempt to find a problem. So where test.generative will say "This function failed when passed 42", QuickCheck will say "This function failed, we've narrowed down the range of unacceptable inputs to 40, 41-43 and 45".
Oh wow. I never thought of this, haha.
I might give this a try :3.
Thanks!
Willing to accept a low enough wage? There's a hard floor on that in most countries. Even ignoring minimum wage, there's a minimum amount of management overhead involved in having an employee, especially a low-wage, low-skill employee, and the value produced by a worker must at least overcome that even if he is to be worth hiring for free.

Willing to relocate? How about able to relocate? Moving to a distant land is a non-trivial exercise.

I seriously don't get your attitude in this thread. You're basically declaring that various serious problems in society are not, in fact, problems at all. According to you, as best I can tell, every single poor or homeless person out there has no obstacles to getting out of their predicament if they just did some obvious things like find employment. This leads me to ask: why do these people exist at all, then? Nobody wants to be poor, so if they can get out of it so easily, why are they still poor?

This is one of those instances where the mere existence of a problem indicates that it's hard to solve, while you're blithely proclaiming it to be trivial.
How much have they raised so far? According Crunchbase, around 96 million. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/fitbit

This means they need to exit at a 'cool billion' or IPO in order to provide the return their investors are seeking.

I think Fitbit is cool, but 1b for a product that has no demonstrable uniqueness would scare the hell out of me as a founder.

I'd love to know why they went for so much.
Apple never removed apps. They stopped accepting updates.
1. Computers can be easily found, seized, searched, backdoored, confiscated, etc. How is that any different than the situation you face with cash?

2. Free trade does not make welfare unnecessary. The point of welfare is not to lift people out of poverty, it is to ensure that people are not starving to death and that they have a place to live. If everyone had to depend on the free market to make enough money to eat, there would always be people who starve to death -- just like there will always be businesses that go bankrupt. In countries with dysfunctional or non-existence welfare systems people do starve to death when they cannot find enough money to pay for their food.

3. Governments do not need to criminalize Bitcoin to stop it from becoming popular. As long as businesses are required to pay taxes those businesses will need to get the money the government accepts tax payments in. Either those businesses will demand the money up front, or they will accept Bitcoin payments and then run to the nearest exchange when the tax collectors come. Either way Bitcoin is only going to be used as long as people have access to Bitcoin exchanges.

Of course, it is possible that the government is so corrupt and so dysfunctional that it is unable to even enforce the tax code. Such governments tend to not last long.
Hands in Google Books
No, it's a fabrication. Amazon used to a/b test prices (but don't anymore), so people would see a lower/higher price when they deleted their cookies (thus putting them into the opposite a/b class). There is no evidence that Amazon has ever increased prices for older customers. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com_controversies#Differ... for more details.
I totally agree with what you have written - but thinking this way also has one significant caveat: If you become available to the child whenever she seeks eye contact, she might get used to that (spoiled) and even extort you for interaction later on (loud crying/screaming). Firsthand experience :)
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If I didn't take this land my house is on from someone else by force or coercion, then you have no such right. Land is no one's product of labor. What's on it - my house - is. It was built on my money and I have all the right in the world to protect it. Communists go against nature when they declare there's no property. It simply doesn't work this way.
I agree that good code self-documents what the code is doing. Good comments document what the code should be doing.

It's important to have both pieces of information in the same place, to minimize the overhead of fixing some subtlety someone might incidentally notice as a side effect of glancing at the code while working on related code.

I can't count the number of times I've run into a complex bit of poorly commented code that looked like it mishandled a subtle corner case, politely emailed the author(s) asking what the intended logic is before claiming I found a bug, gotten the "read the code, dude" response, come back to them with "is the intention really to <insert description of corner case behavior>", and gotten back "my bad, broseph".

There have also been a few times that I've incidentally noticed something looked like it didn't handle a corner case properly in poorly commented code (but not so wrong to obviously be a bug), but failed to follow up with the author due to time pressure on the things I was supposed to be working on, and later had that corner case behavior bite us.
Agreed - I once worked for a startup that had been around for 9 years - definitely defeats the purpose. I can't figure out how they raised that much with all the other competitors in the market with much bigger brand awareness - i.e. Nike's fuelband - yes the products differ but in theory do the same.
This made me wonder what fathers would write about their children when I was young (1970),
Automation of Customer Setup with Zapier & IFTTT
Wireless devices go battery-free with new communication technique
Thanks Matt. I'm pretty set on Linode though. Great service and reliability. Also, I don't have the free time right now to completely rebuild a server instance and do migrations.
Write as a way to kill yourself. They say kill your darlings, I say kill yourself. Be so clear it hurts. If that cuts your essay down to two sentences, wonderful. Make sentences that feel weird at first. Surprise us. So much writing is just blah blah blah. Read skilled writers. Eat them, assimilate their strength. Learn words. Write short sentences. Write long sentences. Read aloud. Don't hide, come forward. Grab my shoulders and say are you even fucking listening. Listen to yourself. Write for someone. Admit your stupidity. No, don't do that, be reckless. Punch me. Don't worry, I'll punch back. We're on this planet together. Words are missiles.
How does android and ios support work? What is the process for compiling and using it from an objective C (ios) or java (android)?
Gruber was quite happy arguing that Apple was "winning" back in the days of Mac OS 9, he's not going to quit any time soon (though it's amusing to contrast all his triumphalist claims e.g. the only true metric of success is profit, against what he was saying back then).
...But it is being defined. Right here:

Your Google Fiber account is for your use and the reasonable use of your guests. Unless you have a written agreement with Google Fiber permitting you do so, you should not host any type of server using your Google Fiber connection, use your Google Fiber account to provide a large number of people with Internet access, or use your Google Fiber account to provide commercial services to third parties (including, but not limited to, selling Internet access to third parties).

If that isn't good enough for you I guess either buy business class and be happy you are in compliance, or don't.
Yeah, back when they launched this tech was much more cutting edge. Now more and more devices can offer the same types of features.
It's difficult to escape that sort of situation, but it doesn't get easier. It gets harder, and faster-paced. And that's a good thing.

Adversity is a force that not only pushes us back when we feel fear, but also pushes us forward when we feel determination. How much you want a thing will determine which way you move.
Again, a Google Apps account for a single user now costs $5/month ($50 if you pay annually). I made an account (with multiple users so I could have different emails for certain services and needs) when it was still free. If I were to sign up now, I'd need at least 4 users, so it'd cost me $20/month.

There are better and cheaper alternatives, but I just wanted to point out that you can't get free Google Apps accounts anymore.
One definition of a startup is a company (person or business) that is still looking for product/market fit. I'd argue that you're a startup until you've found product/market fit and have found a verifiable profit generation mechanism in which you can put $10 in and get $10+ dollars out reliably.
That figure is meaningless considering Australia is a large piece of largely uninhabited land, with two or three metropolitan areas on the coasts.

Unless you can take a train into the center of Australia, in which case I apologize.
I know more people with Fitbit's than Nike Fuelbands. Obviously anecdotal, but definitely surprising for me.
Why? At this day and age, it's hard enough to watch one movie , with a cell phone in hand. Why would you want to watch two movies at the same time? This makes no sense.
> because you can only use one version of module C

This is not strictly true in Java. You can set up your own classloaders that allow you to load multiple different versions of the same class and hand out the right instances on demand. (This requires some work of our own since by themselves classes are not versioned. But you can evolve simple versioning schemes on (say) Jar files to solve this)

Obviously not trivial, especially if you are rolling one on your own. But you can use an OSGI implementation to do most of this for you in a standard way. JSR 277, if and when it is implemented, should provide another solution in "standard" Java.

Not really sure about python and ruby.
Such a comparision makes not much sense to me. A smartphone screen takes pretty much all your focus, the amount of distraction is of totally different levels than what a radio provides.

For example, try at same time reading (and properly understanding) a mail and have a conversation with somebody. Then try having a conversation with somebody while music is playing, no matter how loud. Ok it gets harder if you actively try to follow spoken words on the radio, but you get my point.
Unfortunately yeah, San Francisco
Viewing 3D Models directly on GitHub
Some thought has definitely been put into this problem:

https://gist.github.com/domenic/4748675

https://gist.github.com/wycats/51c96e3adcdb3a68cbc3#importin...

(both of those are slightly out of date, syntax-wise, but are still conceptually current, IIRC)
Even the US government is abandoning Blackberry.
Provincialism is like a massive invisible wall. The people on either side of it generally can't even fathom what it's like to be on the other side of that wall, but they don't even know it's there.

I spent several years growing up in small-town Wisconsin. The idea of moving to another place is just unfathomable to a lot of people who live in a place like that. Not just hard, like, oh, that would cost a lot of money and be a lot of work, but unfathomable, the way buying a house on Mars would be.

So much of our outlook is driven by our experience and we don't even realize it unless we encounter the right circumstances. If you grew up in one little area and that's all you know and that's all anybody you know has ever known, then leaving it is a big deal. Some people will pull it off, but many others simply won't be capable.
It's articles like this that keep me reading HN. Kernel bugs, POSIX thread details, code disassembly, binary patching, and I get to learn about a new signal. What's not to love?
Yes, it might take some getting used to.

It's a new word processor, that's a mix between an outliner and index cards. (think of it as "Workflowy + Evernote").

If you're still confused, maybe this (<90 sec) video can clarify things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egCKZHsICm8

- Adriano (founder, CEO)
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Apparently, the highest trending ruby project for the last month is a Python project? https://github.com/trending?l=ruby&since=monthly
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Great margins … what was your business?