skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if it is a large leak, the smell should make it obvious when it is a really bad idea, and you'll have no trouble hearing such a leak. If you're trying to find a tiny leak this actually seems to work well and is relatively safe due to the speed at which natural gas dissipates. IMO it is somewhat less safe when using LP gas, since LP gas is heavier than air, and can pool near the floor. Remember, until recently, gas water heaters, and other appliances had a partially exposed pilot light, so any significant leak could potentially find that, but rarely did.

source: I've somewhat nervously watched old-timers do this. I've also accidentally discovered leaky welding torches this way.
You also can't trust the low level components of your computer. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheKenThompsonHack
The visualization for complex product is amazing!
I did some research on this recently because my son just turned 1 year old. It seems as though the recommendation not to give honey to an infant comes from some scientific research done a few decades ago, which found a slightly increased risk of illness. However, if I remember correctly, pasturization was thought to be an effective counter-measure. Apparently, no body has done any research to prove that pasturized honey is safe for infants, so the recomendation has continued to not feed any honey to infants.
When I know the connection already and interested in job what's the point of hiding it. I can always ask the connection that they have any opening for me. May be I am missing something here or the page is not explaining it enough. Good luck!
>The set of irrational numbers which can be defined algorithmically are programable

You mean "computable".
Where do you draw the line of malicious? I guess somewhere between selling your usage patterns vs selling your passwords as you type them into websites.
I also wonder what the units are, because I don't know what they mean by a "communication". 56,000... packets? sessions? accounts? physical connections? edit: emails?
But the alphas did get us to the moon, right?
When people who are in the majority, politically or ethnically, say they aren't in a police state it's usually because they aren't yet being targeted.
Please throw it at the vast majority of mobile (smartphone) browser developers while you're at it.
Interesting. Here's the link to the Asterank Discover page: http://asterank.com/discover

I've gone through a handful or two of images now. Although he says "The app occasionally serves control images to get a sense of whose responses are trustworthy," I have yet to see anything move. It'd be nice to have a higher number of catch trials with a game-like interface. "Congrats, you found the moving dot! This is asteroid xxxx" or: "Oops, you missed it, try again" or: "Hey, this is a new one! We'll check on it and get back to you."

I think that'd help train and reward those who look through all these images.

Edit: after a few dozen, I think I found one. But I don't know if it was a catch trial or not.
The vast majority of projects on github also do not pay. The two major features you pay for on github are larger repositories, and private repositories. The free offering is good enough for almost all open source projects.
Did MS miss social? They are a huge investor in Facebook.
Not sure what you mean. South has something called a "data migration". However, the only difference between "data migrations" and "schema migrations" is that data migrations do not include a dry run. Dry runs require transaction support. Not all databases have it (MySQL).

Other than that, what is your definition of a "data migration"?
I kept reading and reading through poetic descriptions of how valuable the method is, hoping to get to at least a short description of what the method actually is. Excitedly I clicked on "the company published FBP as a technical disclosure bulletin", only to get to the Wikipedia entry for "IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin". Reluctantly I must conclude that the article is pure and content-less bullshit instead.
Thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only one who was distracted by that sentence. I barely skimmed the rest of the article.
In the same way that an NSA surveillance state built to defend the democratic way of life is the opposite of totalitarian.
I was acquired by IBM and not sure I would want to work for either by choice.
Now NoFlo works on both Node.js and browsers... But when I started it, I targeted only the former. So, Node.js Flow -> NoFlo
Apple does have better hardware, yes, but the difference in speed out of the box is stunning when bloatware is involved

Aside from the odd "Apple has better hardware" bit (they use the same binned devices that other OEMs like Dell do, so not sure where that comes from), you've benchmarked this purported speed difference?

Because most of the crapware that companies like Dell, HP, and others put on, while irritating, consumes exactly 0% of processor or I/O time, and has zero impact on performance of the device, beyond the hysterical, easily-convinced responses of the placebo effect. The vast majority is nothing more than trials. It's irritating, and wastes users time if you want to clean up your desktop and app lists, but the commonly stated impact is just not at all supported.

And then there's the issue of what exactly is crapware and what isn't. Buy a pure Windows device and you'll be pestered endlessly for Skydrive, Hotmail, Bing, photo backups, Xbox coupling, active your Office trial, etc (just as if you buy an xbox 360 and then pay for the privilege of using it online, in return you get ads and sponsored placements on your dashboard).

Apple is predominately a hardware vendor that has made enormous bank on that (pivoting their MP3 player market into a smartphone market into a tablet market into a bonafide desktop market). Microsoft is predominately a software vendor.

Everyone told Microsoft that they should mirror Apple: it got them a billion dollar+ write down so far, and offended all of their prior allies to start grouping behind alternatives. This "Microsoft should be like Apple" plan isn't really paying dividends.
Really? I find it makes it incredibly hard to follow a conversation. With no layering visuals or collapsing feature, large threads with multiple replies become very confusing.

I'm glad somebody pointed to the greasemonkey script to add collapsing. I expect it will make my use of HN much more pleasant.
Insanely detailed maps of "Koana Islands" made by Australian train driver
I agree with you if you are speaking about VB 6.
Today there is MicroXML. http://www.w3.org/community/microxml/
I've been using LabVIEW and I agree with you. LabVIEW has great hardware support which makes it really easy to get up and running collecting data.

But like you said, I've looked over some previous LV projects that have multiple copy and pasted sections, terrible design, etc.

As a software engineer, LV holds you back in my opinion. I don't doubt for a second that some really amazing things can be created with LV but ultimately it is extremely tiring/annoying to reinvent the wheel to accomplish things that would be extremely simple in almost any other programming language. This seems to come into play when you move past the simple act of collecting data and doing primitive processing.

Edit: The other thing I forgot to touch on was the presentation of the "code". With wires running all over the place and ambiguous function blocks you quickly find yourself wishing you could cozy up with a text editor instead. The main reason I don't think data flow programming will "take over" all programming is because ultimately I think its a inferior presentation for professionals.
Here's one example of reimplementing Jekyll (static site generation) using NoFlo: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/noflo-jekyll/
A little Yamaha or Honda generator will run the tiniest AC units in a pinch. You won't be running much else, though.
Everyone can't be a doctor, but everyone should have a basic grasp of how their body works in order to live well.

Same with programming, if everybody had some base level of algorithmic literacy, they could at least have some idea if a mind-numbing repetitive task could be done with a simple script.

IFTTT does a great job of making it easy to glue web services together. NoFlo could be a powerful step up from that.
Yeah, like those idiots at ebay who started out as a pez dispenser collection.

Anybody who trusts THOSE idiots with their money deserves to lose it.

Howabout those dorks that started out as a school project and went on to become google.

You'd be double, double stupid to work for, trust money to, advertise on that stupid dorky company that started off as a hott or not clone.
Clearly misleading title. What does it have to do with Ramadan/Muslims. You are just trying to create a bad effect. I think clearly this is a publicity stunt. What did you get from writing this? Happiness? Stop hurting other's sentiments.
I understand the libertarian view: that governmental power is illegitimate because it is derived from force.

This is incorrect. Certainly some strains of libertarianism wrongly think that, but certainly not all. The word "libertarian" is a very loose idea, not some specific ideology. And besides, you were the one who claimed I was "libertarian", I never made the claim myself. What I'd say is that I'm pro-individual consent. "Classical liberal" is a fine word.

I also completely reject that view: I believe that governmental power is derived from a civil society and that power is society's way of imposing an agreed set of behaviour in the face of bad actors. I see nothing immoral or wrong in this - indeed, it is the very principle of democracy.

The question you're ignoring is: what are the proper limits of government power? You claim I'm ignoring questions, but this is the only question of importance. I only bring up the drugs example to highlight an obvious abuse. Nuclear power is a more complex issue. When you're confused about arithmetic, we don't discuss calculus. Likewise, when you're confused about rights, we don't discuss nuclear power. We stick with simpler issues.
Saw an example of this in Homer, AK
Also "How to Win Friends and Influence People" and:

http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/advisor/6-habits-of-remarkabl...
The market tries to be forward looking. It seems to think the future got brighter (or at least not as dark).
I won't touch the value of exposing people to diverse views, but such a system would limit the views to only what's vetted by people and institutions regulating that system. The conspiracy theorists of Sunstein's paper have a term for this: controlled opposition.

So you have a website espousing a political view. You'd have to put a section listing other views... but what views do you put in that section? How would you go about deciding what views are opposite to yours? What about less known views?

Soon you'd get something like an AdSense For Opinions; an ad area with three views, each with a short description. "DRUGS FOR A BETTER LIFE. We believe every human should use more drugs and medicines daily. betterlifethroughdrugs.org", "US DOLLAR: ROOT OF ALL EVIL. US Dollar proven root of all evil, Bible proof inside. See our proposed alternative currencies. dollar-evil-get-saved.com", "EVERYTHING IS NICE. Life is pretty much swell, man. Chill out. whatareyouevenworriedabout.net"

Every possible political position and opinion would have to be considered if you want to show diverse views.
Yahoo overtakes Google in web traffic
That reminds me, I wonder how the CoinLab vs Mt Gox lawsuit is getting along. As I understand it, Mt. Gox entered into a contract with CoinLab to do the US transaction processing that was previously being done by their subsidary, in part because CoinLab were able to follow the various legal requirements, then breached that contract. Mt. Gox then had the sheer balls to argue that they weren't getting anything worthwhile from the contract in question.
For people looking for something more substantial, you might enjoy this c2 page about FBP vs. Actors:

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ActorsAndFlowBasedProgrammingDiscussi...

The basic idea with FBP is that you have multiple processes that communicate over channels (kind of like actors, but the communication is unidirectional across those channels).

I'm not a fan of GUIs like this generally, but the idea of FBP is interesting in the same way that the actor model is interesting.
Good tip! I was aware there were some options along this line but unfortunately using LV(more specifically, "G") was a project requirement.

You briefly touch on another point that is worth repeating. Source control with LV is terrible.
Startup Founder Goes Through With Promise To Buy A Homeless Guy A Laptop
...According to Rocco Pendola.
I think programmers are always thinking about the flow of programs. Jumping through blocks of statements, following the chains of function calls and analysing their definitions when needed.
The _flow_ is there, but it's not visual. We are always imagining what would the compiler or interpreter do with our code.

On the other hand, we must be able to quickly navigate in the source tree. That's why text editors like Vim, that understand the contents of the programs (buffers, text objects, definitions), are so powerful. The same happens with Xcode, for example. The Interface Builder is a graphical tool that defines the code components as visually manageable objects.

Maybe the proposed paradigm could extend this ideas of representing the code in flows, as graphs of objects. I'm really curious to try it. Mainly because it seems to feet really well with handheld devices.
For me it's the fact that I've seen this whole spiel a lot of times already, in EVERY DETAIL. Visual programming will save us all. Nonprogrammers should be able to program. Suppressed, blah blah blah. For something so revolutionary, it sure is some awfully-well-trodden ground. And I don't just mean that this is an old paradigm, I mean this spiel is well-trodden ground.

In a nutshell, it doesn't work. Using Fred Brook's venerable terminology, the essential complexity of programming is too difficult for nonprogrammers. Even if you entirely get rid of the accidental complexity... and visual layout does not do that, it's full of incidental complexity involved in the layout itself... you still can't get non-programmers into a programming situation, and trying to get them into a concurrent programming situation is just sheer insanity.

And we know it doesn't work because it has been tried. Over and over. Ad naseum, as in, yeah, I'm sick of hearing these ideas as The Answer as if nobody has ever heard of these before. Tell me what's different about your solution and all the other people who have tried this.
These guys should talk to the creators of VNOS 1.1 and ask how that went.

Visual programming does have its place. My mom was able to make a website using Weebly without any help. However, as things get complex I personally can visualize (in my mind) the interconnects. In my opinion, we need easier to use libraries, not visual tools. But I genuinely want to be corrected.
> They get fat, or pot-bellies at least, their hair falls out (probably just genetic but still)

What "but still"? What is it about that that still supports your point, even if it is entirely out of ones hands if your hair falls out? If it is indeed mostly/totally genetic, why continue to look at it as a symptom of "letting oneself go"? That's just a stigmatizing attitude to hold on too (if it is indeed mostly genetical).
Arabica is a species of coffee; coffee changes from place to place depending on where it's grown.

I'm currently working my way through a perennial favorite, Tanzanian Peaberry, with occasional changes to Ethiopian Yirgacheffe and sometimes Kenyan.

Yeah, I like East African coffees. Although I'm less thrilled by a bag of Rwandan I picked up -- it's not great hot, but it does reasonably well cold-brewed.
It's done differently in Go because someone else wrote it, and I found it to be faster than the version I wrote using a worker pool of 4 tasks. If you look closely you'll see it doesn't actually ever run more than 4 goroutines simultaneously.
Maybe the independent should drop the 'in' from it's name.
"By this we do not mean 1960s-style infiltration with a view to surveillance and collecting information, possibly for use in future prosecutions."

To paraphrase James Clapper, "Such information will not be collected (under this program.)"
The architecture student bought an old bus to convert it into an apt on wheels
Yeah, that's an important point. Tool rental exists now, but they use tools so powerful and rugged that they cost an order of magnitude or two more than your consumer-grade tool. And because of their high cost and the normal overhead of running any rental business, they end up offering rental for the same price as you can own a lower-quality lighter tool. And the lower-quality tools are still pretty good. They're a little light on power, and they will break after a lot of usage... but if you had a lot of usage planned you wouldn't be looking to rent either.
Because intelligence is detrimental to survival: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16297-intelligent-sold...
This is why a tool sharing service could work. Users would only be paying for the inventory management (an automated system, an app that keeps track of which tool is in which users' home), and - optional delivery - via an uber like service. They would willingly contribute tools they already own to the library of available tools. The capital used to buy the tools will have already been contributed by the users who own the tools they share. In exchange for sharing, they get to borrow tools they don't have. Those who have no tools to offer to the pool would have to pay a little more, and the service could use collected money from those who don't have any "credits" for contributing tools to purchase the most requested but unavailable tools to add to the sharing pool. There would be no central place where the tools are stored, they will just be stored in the homes of subscribers to the service.
Thanks! It's my first serious wood project.

I used red oak for everything but the legs, which are cedar. I didn't know this until now, but untreated 4x4s are hard to find, much less made of oak. I finally found some at the local specialty lumber factory, but they only had cedar and redwood, and cedar was cheaper. It stains so differently, but I think I got it come out ok. A benefit is that it's a soft wood and much lighter, so the overall weight isn't too bad.

I used General Finish's oil-based stains. First coat is Mahogany (where most of the color comes from), and the second coat American Walnut. When wiping off the second coat, it seemed to remove some of the first coat color sometimes, which was weird (I let the first coat dry for 24 hours). But it's mostly the Mahogany color.

I finished it with 4 coats of Waterlox Tung Oil Finish. That stuff is amazing. It's so easy to apply without any errors, and the tung oil really gives it a rich depth. It's also waterproof. The downside is you have to apply several coats.
I love how he felt compelled to excuse his omission of castling and en passant moves by explaining that they were added to chess "later" (14th and 15th century)... maybe he started working on this project before those rules were added? :)
That would make passing through customs interesting.
I believe songzme is saying that the mindset behind the project is of the type that results in world-changing things. Not the project itself.
I think the major issue with this concept is that people are going to want a discount. "Why would I rent when I could just buy for that price", even if we won't get any more (or heck even less) utility by buying, we think that is a better option, just in case.

Given how cheap a lot of this stuff is, it isn't surprising a proper sharing system hasn't shown up yet.
As a beekeeper and an interested party:

CCD: I believe that CCD is primarily caused by increased pesticide usage, glyphosate being the most common.

Are bees treated ethically by big farms: I believe the better question is, "Is our philosophy of farming unethical for any participant?" If the answer is yes (for even one identifiable participant), then I find that it will be unethical for every participant. Answer: optimize for sustainability, not for production alone.

Does the ethical treatment q relate to bees? Absolutely. See these movies... they are pretty one sided, but should be of interest: Queen of the Sun & More Than Honey
Not bad. Agreed on fresh-roasted beans being the most important factor. The smell of stale preground coffee drip brewed can ruin my day, but fresh ground brewed the same way isn't so bad.

Still, I prefer the pourover/Aeropress style and if given the option will the standard drip machine as a pourover conversion. Just swing open the filter basket, put the coffee in a standard filter, and pour over hot water, letting it drop down into the carafe or a mug. Make it concentrated and top off with water.
Without following more links, it's completely unclear to me what this project does, who you are, or why I should give you money.

Maybe it's just inside-baseball that I don't understand, but I think you need rework your pitch page.
60 Minutes From Our Store to Your Door (India)
A significant portion of that grammar is for parsing DTDs, which isn't really a fair inclusion.
They claim that they've made around $9M in fees this year, so in theory they can probably swallow a $5M loss.
No, the gold/silver colloids would have been made chemically. I suspect the use of "ground down" in the article was either a metaphor or the author taking a wild guess as to the technique.
-Yes the fastest person to person messaging.
-Build from the ground up with security in mind. Should be a key selling point with the NSA bringing the public's attention to privacy
Thank you, this makes sense
Don't hackerspaces[0] solve this issue? I mean, with hackerspaces, the emphasis is more on building stuff in the space, instead of taking the tools home. But the idea is the same, and it's been around for a while.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace
The OP is a kind of shallow summation of the details here...first of all, the study was published in June. Second, it's not the "first step" in determining the link between fracking in the Marcellus Shale and water contamination...a previous study by Duke, which the OP references later, documented "systematic evidence" of such a link.

2013: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/06/19/1221635110.full...

2011: http://biology.duke.edu/jackson/pnas2011.html

I bring this up not to be pedantic, but to point out that the OP comes off as that this is new conclusive evidence...it is not. Opponents of fracking would argue that there are several other studies showing similar data, and they'd argue that politics/industry has shelved other planned studies. In other words, it's not just amount or existence of evidence that comes into play in this debate.
I'd say communes are small scale, and the dynamics of efficiently sharing among a larger number of people are fundamentally different.
Well, you don't need to reenter your payment details if you want to buy an Amazon book or a Google book. They also already have them
Three reasons.

1) Apple has more active credit cards than Amazon.

2) If someone were to purchase a book on an iOS device it is more likely they have an active credit card on their account than an Amazon account with an active credit card.

3) One payment system is easier for customers to understand and trust.

Steve's wording here may have indicated better technology in his mind, but I doubt that is true, given amazons incredible focus on taking credit card payments accurately and quickly. Reasonably though the reasons outlined above would be good reasons it was better overall, even if it really wasn't consumer friendly in the end because of the lock-in.