skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your sentiment. I found datatables initially easy to set up and use, but I soon found the documentation to be sorely lacking. Searches for the most basic customizations led to SO answers outlining ugly workarounds when all I really needed to know was the name of the right flag.

The examples on the site aren't general or plentiful enough, and they assume more prior knowledge of the plugin than would seem reasonable. I couldn't even find a list of initialization options anywhere.
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If you'd like to read more of Dennett's (newer) understandings in a more cohesive form, check out The Intuition Pump. He talks less about his mistakes but more about how his new ideas really mesh with science and real ethics.
> TL; DR - The earth's rotation drags the tidal bulge faster than the moon's orbit slowing the earth and giving more energy to the moon which moves it into a higher orbit.

Is there no way that this is a misinterpretation of the facts? Couldn't the answer be that the Earth is losing mass through its atmosphere (into space), and due to having less mass, the moon has less gravitational pull with the Earth, and the orbit becomes larger?
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Rats in a spherical trap
Reducing spammy advertising could easily turn out to be worth more than $150 million to Google if it keeps more people on Android.
I could not agree with you more had I said those words myself.

A year ago I had a great job as a sysadmin, then I got laid off. Shit happens. I got a job doing landscaping for $10 an hour til I could find something better, and when winter came I worked in a restaurant serving people in the city.

What did I do? I stopped eating out and put my cooking skills to use saving money by eating in. I cut out cable, lowered my Internet speed and got Netflix. Got more conscientious about power usage.

What did I learn? At that job I both cooked and took orders in a 24/7 setting in a large city. I saw wealthy executives and immigrant Somalians alike buy food. The one thing I took away from that is that poor people stay poor by making poor decisions. Pun. Intended. When you walk around buying lottery tickets and junk food, wearing bling bling, smoking a pack a day, and clubbing every night, of course you're going to hit a financial hurdle.

My advice? Exercise that section of your mind we call common sense. Shop smarter. Do some math. Skip the club. Stop smoking. Put that on a 4x6.
Alternatives such as?
They use Hungarian Notation[0]; not random, but dated.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
You are thinking of BSD's securelevel:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/security.html
Artists are not society as a whole: they're a special interest. Monopolies effect the entire market, both sellers and buyers. Monopolies have bad effects mostly on those who don't own the monopoly. Artists signing with major labels become part-owners (in a way) of the monopoly good. Of course artists will continue to sign with major labels.

That's a simplistic economic analysis: major lables mostly screw the artists as well, but still, I think my analysis holds a little truth.

But let's get back to the real question: are the market distortions, etc arising from the copyright monopoly worth enough to society in general (not merely some particular set of special interests) to justify it?
You begin to think about the normal well-tempered mind, in effect, the well-organized mind, as an achievement, not as the base state

As an aside,

Almost no one ever really analyzes sanity. Somehow, despite not understanding why exactly we exist, what our purpose is, and that at any given moment we could die and cease to exist, we don't go insane. Do you have any idea how crazy that is? Even "insane" people are just experiencing delusions ontop of reality - the constructs from their mind are mundane in a sense because while they aren't real, they are sane. Real insanity would be realizing how large the universe is, that philosophers cant even prove anything besides solipsism exists, or how meaningless life is. I've come to the conclusion that I must be insane, since sane people don't notice any of this - clearly all the completely sane people don't give it a second thought.

And of course I'm sure plenty of you will say sure life has purpose, or solipsism is too narrow because it isn't useful to use as a worldview. Because you're all sane. ;)
One thing that actually concerns me is how satisfied I am with a few kickstarter games and humble bundles...

I mean Guns of Icarus is no AAA, but it's pretty fun. So is Awesomenauts (I wish it would allow local 2v2 splitscreen!). Not to mention my backlog of fairly fun timewasters. And upcoming Project Eternity and Torment games. I'm seriously pretty much set for games. And at this point odds are if AAA games came to Linux, I'd probably just skip them and wait for the next interesting Kickstarter or Humble Bundle.

If other people are like me (Linux or not, I suppose) the AAA game could be dead in short order.
Whoa, we're gonna need a source for that kind of fact.
There needs to be a cheaper way to challenge patents and force the USPTO to do a thorough job of it. If the obvious option is always, "nope, challenge", and the usual outcome is, "hm on second thought it doesn't take a rocket scientist to come up with scan-to-email"; patent trolls would find some copyrights to troll or move into a related field like blackmail.
I've wondered for a long time if that's exactly why George Lucas intentionally created separate companies while he made all his movies (e.g. ILM, Lucasfilm, LucasArts, THX, Pixar). I wonder if there's either a good book that goes into detail about that, or if anyone on HN knows him close enough to ask him directly. :-)
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If it is the case that you are going to move money around between funds then would the 401K would provide a benefit?Because you wouldn't have to pay capital gains tax every time you switch and have made money?
thank you for posting this. i am currently starting my own startup. this is a really good resources.
Not quite. <...snip...>Bir_Tawil

I found elsewhere: "this is pretty much just 2,000 km2 of sand and rocks", and "consisting mainly of sand and rocks ... 2069 sq km (795 sq mil) and is shaped like a trapezoid."
, and checked it out on satellite. The nearest road appears to be 250km away. Definitely no chance of internet. But even this place I suppose could be made habitable with long term effort. Solar would be a good bet for power, and long distance radio or perhaps microwave or satellite would be viable for internet. Semi-subterranean dwellings could be ideal and even support crops, once constructed. But investment would be significant. I wonder if you could fly in/out hardware, junk and supplies via solar-powered drone?
I like MV more than SF office. I did the same thing: there is a constant pressure that I can't always bother people because people might say "it's on the wiki". It's still a hard decision to make.

More Mozilla intern blog posts should come... let's bomb HN.
I know this isn't what you asked for, but I'll provide my perspective, being an American teenager.

(not that this is not necessarily true for all segments of the teenage population- it only reflects my firsthand observations of upper-class, suburban, well-educated teens)

Social Media:

-Facebook: It's not like teens are in-mass deleting their Facebook accounts, however most are visiting the site less and less often. When they do visit, it is usually to post/look at photos or chat. Status messages and non-birthday wall posts basically are no longer used. Many younger teens are not creating Facebook accounts in the first place, this Freshman class is the first time I've seen many students without accounts

-Twitter: Twitter has become very popular, but there is still a large segment of the teen population that doesn't "get" it and has no interest in using it. I feel like it is very unlikely that Twitter will be able to win over these people.

-Instagram: A year ago, I would have said that Instagram is the most popular social network, however it seems to be getting less use in recent months. It's still very popular. The impending addition of ads have the potential to significantly turn-off Instagram's user base.

-Snapchat: I personally don't "get" Snapchat, however it is incredibly popular, and, contrary to popular belief, it is used more for selfies than sexting.

-Vine: Some people love it, some people hate it. Reposting "funny Vines" is popular, but I don't think too many teens are actually using the service itself.

-Tumblr: Used by a younger audience, and used mainly for porn.

-Tinder: Very popular on certain college campuses, but not at High Schools.

Devices:

-Smartphones: like any other affluent population, iPhones are the most popular, but Android phones are preferred by people who consider themselves more "geeky." The few teens I know who have gotten Windows phones have hated them, mostly because of the app ecosystem (or lack there of). There is a very, very minute segment of the teenage population that still swears by their Blackberry keyboards.

-Cameras: DSLRs (Canon or Nikon) are very prevent. Very few people have MILCs.
The best darn mortgage v. rent calculator I've ever seen:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calcula...

It all depends on your circumstances.
Human beings are not perfectly rational automatons. Sometimes they want brand new stuff.

I have a friend who is 15 years older than me and very financially savvy. He grew up in India in a poor family and his father spent all his free time repairing their ancient clunker that kept breaking down. That memory is enough that he only buys new cars.
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Yes, true, but isn't this project meant to populate a Website's pages with equations?

There are any number of easy ways to create equation images solely for export to an image site, example http://arachnoid.com/latex . But populating Web pages for display is a different issue, and the fact that modern browsers allow zooming in and out, essentially ruins the appearance of graphic equations.
You're right. I would just guess that most people are there there to learn and do research. And TA'ing takes away from that. But plenty of people do from PhD to teaching positions - in which case a TA'ship is perfect and gets your feet in the water.
I don't think you're weighing the "English-as-a-second" language factor nearly strongly enough. While grammar can be a great proxy measure of quality for works by native speakers, it's completely inappropriate for non-native speakers -- the amount of effort required to reach native-level fluency and polish (i.e., at the level of your critique, above) is herculean.

To cite just one example, redis is widely considered excellent software, but much of its documentation is written in a very imperfect English.
http://www.sunrisedomes.com/

I talked to them once and it sounded like they can ship the materials in a fairly compact way. I helped put up a fairly large one - not so hard, but we needed scaffolding.
I don't. I live on the 2nd floor.
it uses geo-bootstrap, so: most likely.

http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/
Actually it does not, or at least does not when institutions like the Federal Reserve Bank are operating as they were designed to.

The purpose of the Federal Reserve is to set inflation in a way that is optimal for the economy. That does not mean providing the government with cheap loans. In fact, one reason the Fed is independent from the government is so that it cannot be used for this purpose.

At the end of the day, people are able to borrow only because people are willing to lend to them. There is no magical trick the federal government can use to get around this constraint.

That said, I don't believe that the analogy is useful, but for different reasons: the federal government has completely different responsibilities from the city government. Each issue should be judged on its merits not by some crude analogy.
> Calling someone's work "pointless and outdated" when they were looking forward to featuring it on HN is just brutal.

Yes, like reality. Maybe the OP will use his natural gifts to think of a way to answer brutality with creativity. That will prepare him for a more direct experience of reality, the kind where people pay you for your work, not because they're compelled to do so, but because they have no choice -- they want what you have, and you deserve to be compensated.
I'm glad Linus and many others are reviewing Kernel changes still, but how long will it be before there is nothing stopping massive corporations from deciding what can be changed?

And even with all of the experienced eyes, there have to be changes that have crept in that they didn't realize could be misused, and may still not know.

I appreciate that corporations are the biggest donators, and that is extremely important, but is there any point in which we say, "Get your own project?"
Borrowing money for current consumption and for investment are very different things.

Furthermore, borrowing money for investment and selling equity in a business to investors are two very different things.
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The programming language trolling in the article is building a language with strong static types controlled entirely by naming convention, specifically hungarian notation, rather than normal type declaration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
>> It's simple probability.

> No it's not.

Of course it is.

> It's hype, buyout rumors, etc.

And that isn't probability?

> The stock price will fall hard.

That's how reverse pump and dump works -- short a stock, then bad-mouth it to exploit the ignorance of the average investor. Their money ends up in your pocket.
As another, upper middle class white suburban teenager, I agree with practically all of these observations. I do disagree slightly on Facebook, as I find that it is the least common denominator for getting in touch with people. I also find that tumblr is used heavily for fandom-types who mostly post gifs about Sherlock or animae related things.
2nd time in one week that Dennett has popped up on HN (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374470)

Philosophy of mind is a very interesting topic as computers become more and more 'human' like. Dug up an essay I wrote freshman year on one of his books called Consciousness Explained - funny to look back at old writings:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g3t7ntwy782m005/Dennett%20Paper%20...
Datatables is a nice, but very old set of tools. There are many more precise solutions out there. Datatables is whole cow when most people just want a piece of steak.
>>Interesting article. I read it, and then saw the footnote.

I have to disagree. It was meandering and had little to offer in terms of evidence, facts or actual policy prescriptions and was instead filled with anecdotes that somehow ended up supporting policy positions already supported by the Manhattan Institute. The author jumps from charter schools to federally funded highways in a span of a sentence right at the end. Not a lot of evidence is offered that local regulation is somehow strangling entrepreneurship nor is his idea of denying federally supported bonds to over regulated entities ever elucidated in any fashion. (Maybe because sticking local communities with higher taxes is rather counterproductive in the first place). So basically he spends most of piece talking about the 'entrepreneur' as a mythical entity that deserves to be supported by a verifiable buffet of policies that aren't really explained. So the Think of the Children!! argument rehashed.

The article reads exactly like a lot of cookie cutter political writing these days that say absolutely nothing about anything of concrete importance but are just couched to ideological compatriots that enjoy light reading from authors who will appeal to their political vanity while safely holding all the 'bad' ideas at arms length by appealing to the most simplistic possible explanations of problems; while you the reader are serenaded for easily understanding what your political 'enemies' cannot.
> If you're so confident, why not short it?

What? He should tell you his investment strategy? These things are secret for a reason. As William Goldman famously said, no one knows anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_in_the_Screen_Trade
All models are out of stock, and unlikely to be replenished as a new Nexus 5 (whatever that's going to be) will likely drop some time in October. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nexus-5-Key-Lime-Pie-Snapdr...
I never understood why real estate would be such a good investment. If one house is good, why not 100 as part of an REIT?
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Typically fee based advisors charge a percentage of assets under management. The is opposed to traditional brokers who charge trade commissions. There are few who aren't paid based on AUM.
If we figure that the engineer count scales linearly to the user count (which I don't actually think is true), then you've just justified twitter having 2,600 engineers. That is, if Instagram had 13 engineers for 1 million users. (they likely had less engineers but more users though).
Thanks! I've added two technical articles with reasonings why Wayland and some technical reasoning to back that up.
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What a wonderful story and presentation - thanks for telling it.
Somehow, despite not understanding why exactly we exist, what our purpose is, and that at any given moment we could die and cease to exist, we don't go insane. Do you have any idea how crazy that is?

If you have ever run into a Christian who just assumed you were lying when you told them that you were an atheist, this is why they thought that. You don't seem insane, so they are left with the assumption that you must be a liar. When in truth, you just choose to think about something else instead: politics, your job, some video game, whatever.
I'm not sure how you have such an old account and have never read the HN guidelines, but please don't sign your posts.
Ask HN: CTO- what to look for 
What do you look for in a CTO? Skills? Background work? Any good recommendations for resources to help us discover that key role for a mobile-first software startup? Thanks in advance! Cheers
> He would have to be head-and-shoulder above the competition, yes, but he could run.

More to the point, he would have to be 5% more popular each time he ran. That's not likely. And eventually he would have to win more than 100% of the vote.
> Documentation is often not the best way to understand code.

I hope they teach that in college now. As much code as possible should be self-documenting. It can be short and/or efficient (one-liners ok), but it should be clear to someone with experience, so have good method names, variable names, decent formatting, organization, etc.

It took me about 8 years of professional coding experience before I truly appreciated this, so hammering it in in college is key.
What alternatives have you found to be better? I'd be interested in checking them out.
That's not being poor.

Try earning federal minimum wage and providing for 2-3 people. You cut the crap out early. But your car that you need to get to work still breaks down. Your SNAP (don't know what they are? you've never been poor) benefits still run out too soon. And you and your kids still get sick.
Exaggeration. FUD.

People say how bad the city is, and yet there's a brand new Whole Foods. There's a lot of new construction happening. Rolling down Woodward, you'll see new restaurants and new stores.

There's no weird vibe in Motor City Casino - maybe it's just you. It's very nice in there and everybody is having a good time. The dealers are all very nice. The vibe there was much better than Atlantic City - now that's a sad place.

How the heck is Motor City the 'true Detroit experience'? The 'true Detroit experience' is staying with friends that are Detroit natives. 1515 Broadway, Green Dot Stables, Centaur, Circa - plenty of gems.

My friends ride their bike up and down Woodward and John R many nights. I rode with them multiple times after DEMF. There are street lights for miles.

Detroit has a lot of run-down areas, but it's not 'dystopian'. My first visit there I walked down the Cass Corridor - that's bad, but not as bad as areas I've been in cities like Atlanta or the Bronx or even Brooklyn.

And, the electronic music scene is very much still vibrant. The people of Detroit have such a love for the music.
Ahh ok. Thanks.
Can you name a few of the alternatives you found? The ability to sort on more than one column ruled out a lot of them for us.
We're evolved not to think about all that too much.
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Why do you think it is a bold move? Since you have a handful of customers in the beginning, things can never get out of control. Even if your customers don't like the service/product, you can still do something about it - you cannot do it if there are hundreds.
"You [use a highlighter and] break the whole article down into two or three or four or thirty-two sub articles that are basically ideas...and this looks like a regress, but it's only a finite regress, because you this gigantic article and you break it down into a group of simpler, more obvious points, and you keep going until you arrive at the end, and that's a great way of reading about cognitive science without wanting to stab yourself."
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