skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From reading the details it looks like the reason the administrators gave was a history of unreliability in taking his medication and showing up for doctor's appointments, which is something they consider before letting somebody onto a transplant list, due to the severely limited amount of transplants available. That may seem incomprehensibly harsh, but from what I gather that's standard consideration.

The family is saying that it has to do with his criminal record, but they don't really provide any evidence to support that, and they don't anywhere deny that he has sometimes not taken his medication / missed appointments in the past.
Yes, the NSA created sboxes that were resistant to differential cryptanalysis. I was asking for a citation in regard to the claim that:

>The small key size was later discovered to be right around the actual security level the cipher provides (larger key sizes would not have improved security by much).

I have never heard this claim before and without any source backing it up I am liable to doubt it.
We wanted to do a quick introduction to Go ideas so that those of us "not in the know" would know the why, what and additional context.
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Funky. Might be a compatibility issue with Three.js.
Ok, enough with the foreignpolicy.com links. That is now a blacklisted domain for me.
This is so outrageous that I can't even laugh at it...
Snowden can say something if he's being misquoted. This is just FUD.
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Suppose that's what they did with HTML5. What would happen then?

Nobody would use it. Proprietary solutions to do what WebGL and other HTML5 features do would pop up, and people would use those.

Instead, what we've got is a situation where you can actually turn off Flash and use the majority of websites without any degradation.
Something similar to the described software has already been made by a group of artists ~ The transborder immigrant tool: http://www.vice.com/read/follow-the-gps-225-v16n11
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For those who want to setup a similar service on their own server: http://github.com/uniqush/uniqush-push It is free and open source, written in Go and It can run on most major platform.
Any suggestions on how such a license system can look like? We spent 2 months developing this, I would not like to give away it for free / open source.
Not in this case, even the CEO would have walked away empty-handed. Too many funding rounds had transpired with ever-increasing multipliers on the liquidation preferences.

Still, I think there's an argument that had he taken the buyout, he personally could have argued that he delivered for the investors and that would have gotten him to round 2.
>Subpixel rendering only works for contours.

That's simply not true. It works for any non-horizontal edge.
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Yes, obviously you're doing an introduction to Go. But you may want to re-evaluate your description of quick.
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I agree and we do this too on our site. We target our marketing efforts, we don't just throw money out without thinking about it.
Some more screenshots from Servo: http://about-rust.blogspot.de/2013/08/some-pages-in-servo-as...
I think the issue here is with the marketing costs necessary to actually get people into theaters. It's so difficult to actually convince folks to get out of their homes for filmed entertainment that it generally takes a $50-$80 MM marketing budget for a film to do _any_ kind of business at the box office.

This ruins the economics of the 'mid-sized' film, since if you have to tack on $60 MM of marketing onto the production budget anyway, even the smaller films generally have a high level of risk. Thus the whole market has bifurcated between enormous $200 MM behemoths and $2 MM indie movies with limited theatrical distribution trying to promote themselves virally.
SVG is fine for assets that can easily be described in vector form, but it's not the best choice for all image types. For example, photographs (where you might have an ultra high resolution original that you're scaling down) are not easily representable in SVG other than to embed the bitmap.
Another WebGL example for my class server at

http://ezekiel.vancouver.wsu.edu

Seems fine under Safari (enable Web GL), and FireFox.
Loops endlessly in Chrome (will hopefully fix soon).
Please feel free to make fun of -- its just distracting eye candy I know.
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I'm also happy to spend $1.87 per episode for Breaking Bad

Compared to what they earn from regular viewers - subscription fees and commercials - that pricing is nuts.
I know. It's pretty easy to crash browsers these days with WebGL. I'm not sure if the hover effect contains invalid WebGL code. (My browser plays the Epic Citadel HTML5 demo well).
Speaking personally, I don't think the existence of a coupon field ever makes me abandon a purchase entirely. However, it does affect how I feel about checking out: if I find a coupon code and save some amount of money, I feel good about it; if I can't find one that works, I feel like I'm "missing out" and paying more than I have to.
OK, fixed.

I use an Optimus laptop (yeah, bad decision) which Chromium doesn't support. The solution is to tell it to support it anyway:

$ optirun chromium-browser --ignore-gpu-blacklist

Now it works fine.

Edit: fixing the problem on firefox:

$ optirun firefox
Actually, an airliner can usually descend and land within 10-15 minutes in an emergency, assuming a suitable runway is close by. There are more smaller airports with 5000 ft runways that don't typically handle 737s or larger.

The problem with emergencies at major airports is that between EMTs and fire services inspecting the jet, that runway is out of service for at least 30 minutes.

On a normal flight a 737 flies an approach at under 180kts but the approach limit is a lot faster. In a cardiac arrest type situation, the pilot may decide to fly a faster approach into an airport with medical services available. They would still touch down at the normal speed.
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Last year, I gave a talk to a group of online marketers, ecom specialists and site owners. I asked them if they ever - when shopping on sites that weren't their own - opened a new tab and searched Google for "[brand name] voucher code" whenever they hit a checkout page and saw the promo box. Literally everyone put their hand up.

I'm not sure why this thread has so many people saying that it's a complaint that has no merit. Do you open a new tab and search, or do you just ignore it and carry on with the purchase?
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http://phys.org/news167925273.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek_materials
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Nor has jim-greer.
The DMCA does not create any obligations to take down anything. It provides that IF a service provider CHOOSES to take down material in response to a notice, it gains liability protection for any copyright infringement it was committing by hosting that material. If WordPress believes the notice is being used for censorship reasons, and there was no infringement occurring, and thus no actual risk of being liable for hosting it, then ignoring the notice is both perfectly legal and there's zero benefit to complying with the request.
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1. In less developed countries, unfair taxes and harassment and are one of the reasons for poverty. Bitcoin reduces the risks of outsiders interfering.

2. Irrelevant (edit: and slightly disturbing that you think the condition of poor people can only be improved by the welfare system. There is some evidence that the inverse is true.)

3. Poor people in Africa are already using M-Pesa and other electronic currencies. Bitcoin is a less costly alternative to those payment systems.

4. Many guest workers in rich countries are transferring a part of their income to their relatives in their home country, often for large fees. These fees are much smaller when using Bitcoin.
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I'll have to let all my friends making $150k+ a year in the recruiting industry know that they've been going to an imaginary job and making imaginary money.
Very nice, as a demo, I just hope that no webpage ever uses WebGL this way.

(Didn't work on OS X for me, though.)
> Notably AMC makes a lot of money by bundling 48 hours of unwanted programming alongside its flagship station.

How does "unwanted programming" make money?

> to get AMC on your network, you also have to accept some of AMC Networks other products, such as WeTV and IFC. They can lose a little money on AMC itself as long as advertising on their other channels makes it.

If WeTV and IFC are "unwanted channels" by viewers, how would they make money on advertising?
"If you first discover that coupons exist at the cashier, you must be an alien going to a store for the first time.'

I guess the risk of using an analogy is they eventually break down if you go too crazy on them. I made it a "real world" example to look at the online experience another way so that people could perhaps relate to the original's author pet peeve. I think if the author of this original article felt like he understood how to get a coupon for the site he was on and decided not to anyway he wouldn't have written the article. Subtle but important point here.
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I really love delorean. I've come to use it in more or less all of my projects, and it's always a pleasure to integrate: really simple, painless, etc.

Great stuff. Would highly recommend it to any fellow pythonistas.
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They have done an amazing job with this. You can assign cards to people and even label cards through email. Sweet!
The success of evolution by natural selection tells us that one can optimize one's response to an environment whose properties aren't understood, by simply trying everything and noticing what works, what prevails. Genetic programming is the computer-science version of natural selection. And A/B testing is a simple version of genetic programming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_programming

> This article appears to push people to consider beyond that: new things.

Yes, but the issue isn't new things, it's which new things. For that, you need testing. If people were either rational or predictable, this argument would fall apart. But they aren't.
2 more thoughts :)

1 - you cannot be sure that return types will not change in the future (e.g. markup changes in maintenance phase), especially in large projects with lots of devs, hence my comment about brittleness.

2 - each() is verbose and encourages procedural style, which can cause redraw performance hits (i.e. someElements.readDOM().writeDOM() redraws much faster than someElements.each(function(el) {el.readDOM().writeDOM()}) since the browser's engine doesn't need to recalculate layout at every iteration

re: closest() - I've seen people do things like

$("li ul").closest("li").addClass("has-children")

for things like dynamic expandable tree initialization. Granted, it's not a very common use case though.
Hi Michael, congratulation first and thanks for your prompt reply. It is amazing how you can be so attentive to the community.

For (c), I think you misunderstood my point, I am not saying to make modules re-usable by exposing the function/method directly, instead, I against them as it will make the module common very bulky. I am saying to have a way to launch a sub-task within a custom module (task) in order to reuse the existing goodness, e.g. I want to put a file to S3 in my module, why I need to use low level api such as boto when I can re-use the existing s3 task - just one line!

For (d), I am reasoning using common sense only, e.g. 10gen distribute the mongodb playbook, declared the default port of 27017 in the playbook, and I am using group_vars to manage mongodb replica sets at different datacenters, either I am satisfying with the default in the playbook, or otherwise, I can simply override them in my group_vars. I don't want to modify the playbook and 10gen can't access my group_vars, to me or people in the mailing list, it make a lot of sense to have the defaults in the playbook. To keep things minimal, honestly, you don't need to introduce new stuff for this, just revert it by changing the priority in the next major release and give people enough warnings and people will understand.
You can always push "emergency break, quickly depresurize tube and open doors" button. No such luck in plane, and planes are still safer than cars.
I would really appreciate comments on this because i dont know how to distinguish my app from others and i dont want to squander away the work i have been doing all this while .
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The Asylum sort of does this. They don't make good movies though, they mostly just make crappy ripoffs of blockbusters.

It's a similar model though. Make lots of cheap movies and make money off of all of them.
That's a fair point, but I think it's more dangerous to look at them as anything more than a lottery ticket. Since startups are more likely to fail than to succeed (no matter how hard you work), don't set yourself up to be disappointed. It's great to be excited that on paper you could be worth $10m, but when you get acquired and the money you thought you had is suddenly worth only $50k and after windfall taxes you walk away with $30k, it can be disappointing. Especially if you take that $30k and divide it over, say, 4 years -- $7500/yr. You probably gave up more than that in salary.

Anyways, I guess my point is not to view the stock as being worth anything--it's too easy to get attached to the "paper value" (or even potential value) of the stock. Focus on the learning & networking aspects of the job, not the payouts.
I'm really curious about turns and switches. The latter more about loading and unloading. If you have a platform to carry 300 people / hr to or from the other city how do you load them and keep them organized.

The failure scenarios are interesting too. Lets say a tube breaks, if the linear motors are spaced out, how do they brake? Turn off the air lift? Does that then destroy the tube they are in? What is the emergency exit like?
My background is BS Mechanical Engineering, minor CS, primarily focused on robotics. Grew up programming and building robots. Worked at Bug Labs which bridged the gap pretty well, then went to General Dynamics for 100% mechanical engineering, now at getlua.com for 100% software. There are some mechanical startups around NYC (MakerBot is the obvious one) but I really liked the team and the product at Lua and I'm quite happy here.
Wait, what? You didn't take AMT into account? Because I have colleagues that AMT has nearly bankrupted, and who spent years having their wages garnished by the IRS because of it.

Feel free to edit your post so as not to send people to the poor house.
He is also a spy in the sense he spied information from NSA for the public. In some sense he is people's spy.
And, usually, I shrug those coupons off because they are $.60 off of a product I wasn't going to buy in the first place, so I don't care.

On the other hand, if I buy something at Bed, Bath and Beyond or almost any clothing retailer without a 20% off coupon, I do indeed feel like a chump. If the cashier in a store I've never been in before asks 'do you have any coupons?' after ringing me up, I definetly feel like I've screwed up, but I'll still finish my purchase because, well, instant gratification and societal expectations and all that. But I'm not going to go back to that store until I DO have coupon.

So maybe it depends. If your shtick is 'Never pay full price and find ridiculous discounts,' coupon fields might be the way to go, as long as you always have coupons available. But if you expect even some customers to pay full price, having your cashiers ask everyone for coupons is probably not the best practice.
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> PingFS is a set of python scripts ...
> Each file ... sent over the wire in an ICMP echo request, and promptly erased from memory.

can you actually reliably erase anything from memory in python?
>I can't possibly buy from a site that has all it's prices upmarked by at least 25% to begin with.

I guess you don't buy much, then.
Seems like the BackboneConf folks are aware and are looking into it:

https://twitter.com/jorydotcom/status/367328492787994625
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I'd also like to point out that having a base-line level of functionality often allows for domain-specific extensions to be written, either as adjunct libraries (c.f., libcloud and rackspace-monitoring libraries for Python), or as integrated extensions in succeeding versions (how Emacs evolved over time).

You're right to think it's impossible to keep up; even getting this far, I've heard rumors and tremors about up-coming V3 APIs in several areas. I'm sure by the time V3 support is contributed, V4 will be on the drawing board. Thankfully, the general availability of a V3 API does not usually preclude the continuing support for V2.

All we can do is deliver value to our users in a consumable format while trying to remain aware of any changes in our ecosystem.
actually, no, although that's an interesting place to do it. as a few others have commented, merchants like Newegg and Gap use something like a HelloBar to highlight their coupons in the header nav.
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Where do I disagree? He is too extreme. Things are never that black and white. He, nor you or I have all of the information surrounding the events of the last fifty or one-hundred years of international politics and conflict be able to hold such extreme positions.

Have people behaved badly? Absolutely. You can go back a thousand years and still make that claim. You can go back three thousand years and still make that claim. The problem isn't a specific people, the problem is the human proclivity for devolving into behaving badly. I don't quite understand how we are going to fix that.

Chomsky himself says very clearly that none of this is abnormal. Any power has historically behaved this way. If the arab world was as powerful as the US they'd most-certainly behave worst. Look at how they treat half their population, in the form of women. Not justifying any of it. Simply stating that this is about the human condition. Ultimately that is what needs to be addressed.

The US might be irrelevant in another hundred years, maybe even less. The next super power (China?) will, with time, probably behave in an equivalent fashion. Chomsky says that this always happens, and he is right. If China where in our position and they had been attacked 9/11-style there's no doubt in my mind that they would have nuked half the arab world out of existence. At least Bush had enough self-restraint not to do that. Not that I'm a fan.
Only if you keep testing variations on the same thing. There's nothing about A/B testing that says (or drives you toward) doing that, per se.
Yeah I agree as well. To me, that's the most important thing. If you don't enjoy what you're doing, then what's the point?!
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http://www.feedsapi.org is an alternative, paid alternative and also has a json & xml API
Can't see your email on your page, but I've been interested in getting my hands on one since hacked.io. Want to see what webapps I can hack together for it. My email is orestmayski@yandex.com if you offer still stands.

Thanks :)
These guys really need a good affiliate manager. On most networks you are allowed to specify the rules - no coupon code sites if you so wish, and all affiliates using it can have their commissions revoked and get banned.

Affiliate marketing can be a great way to make sales - think about it this way: you pay the network, which in turn pays the affiliates say 20%. These affiliates then use their own methods (their own sites, Facebook ads, AdWords, forum posts, a lot of stuff that you'd normally never think of) to drive traffic. They do all the marketing and you make sales - the only thing they don't do is manage your brand, if you are worried about that you're better off without affiliates online.
Interesting metaphor :) thanks for sharing!
What would it take to convince you? A peer reviewed study? Just take a look around at what unions have been up to in this country.

Look at the union-born gigantic pension issues in California and Illinois. http://www.illinoispolicy.org/blog/blog.asp?ArticleSource=60... or http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-01-29/news/ct-met-su...

Check out what unions did/do to convention centers in Chicago and Las Vegas. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-01-17/business/chi-0...

Look at the pay of BART employees. http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/bay-area?Entity=Bay%20Ar...

Or is that all just anecdotal as well? I could go on.
Here's some recent (very promising) work on open source dictation: http://grasch.net/node/23
Most of these frameworks remind me of JSS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_Style_Sheets
I use NoScript too and 99 times out of 100 when I do enable javascript for a particular site it is just froofroo crap that adds noise not signal. But I've been using the web since before java, much less javascript, was invented so maybe I am old.
How many websites with coupons do you have to go to before you realize that websites have coupons?

The article doesn't even suggest getting rid of coupons, it suggests putting them in a different spot.
People tagged me on their photos. From there, facial recognition I guess.

I wouldn't really know how else it would happen.
Oxford doesn't recognize the phrase "Sandwich Artist". You aren't abiding by the rules you hold others to. That's not even touching the fact that dictionaries do not define words; they record their usage. As such, they will always be out of date.

In short, everything you've said is completely wrong.
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The universal reply to "get over it" is "if it's a problem for me, then it's a problem". Are you sure there's no grain of truth in the complaints about today's dynamic Web? How about this critique, which is hopefully more articulate? http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-Nov...
The link points to the same as yours. That site points to the middle of a stream of articles, when you point to a single article.
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