skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
he chose to live a meaningful life instead of being another sheep. Can you say the same for your own life?

Yeah, I can. Most of us can. 'Sheep' is such an over-used term that covers so much. Getting a full time job for a company doesn't make your a 'sheep', you can still leave a happy and meaningful life. People say (though I have no personal experience) that having children is the most meaningful thing you can do in your life. If you do, maybe nothing else matters?

The point is, it's ironic to me that you're deriding all the "BS in modern society". To me, the biggest load of BS in modern society is this first world preoccupation with "meaning", "purpose" and all that other junk.

The vast majority of people out there don't even have the time to stop and think about these things. None of us can judge what McCandless did with his life because none of us are him and know how he felt as he was dying. But if I was him, I would have regrets.
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As noted, this doesn't change the substantive tax treatment of tips. It just moves automatic tips into automatic reporting and up-front witholding instead of individual reporting and payment-on-filing (potentially with penalties for underpayment in advance.)

Unless you are planning on cheating on your taxes, this doesn't do any harm.

> Restaurants are already threatening to end automatic gratuities because it would be an administrative nightmare to do what the IRS now wants.

This is a thin excuse; if they are charging automatic tips in the first place, they are probably already tracking the information and would have minimal difficulty reporting it as wages and doing withholding from it (since they are already reporting and withholding from base wages.)

More likely, its being used as an excuse to present to tipped staff (who bear the cost of the change of restaurant policy) to justify stopping including gratuities for large parties, when the real reason is to increase the appeal of the restaurant to such parties, but where without an external party to redirect blame for the policy on, management feels that the staff morale drain and resulting reduction in performance/retention/etc. would hurt more than the removal of the policy would help.
Because those people are there to fulfil a role.

So there's looking at boobs and there's looking at boobs. There's looking at the boobs of someone who wants you to look at their boobs, either they are an adult model or a consenting adult who's thought "Hey, this guy/gal is alright, I'm okay with them seeing my boobs". In that situation all is well with the world, they're either fulfilling a role for cash purpose or they've decided to extend a level of intimacy.

(sidenote: not a puritan, I think sex and sexuality is a big part of our society and we ignore at far too often, and discuss it even less)
Additionally a scientific discovery made by people investigating his death. If he had not died we probably would still not know about this.
>"Controller" is one of those terms that has meant a lot of different things at different times and in different systems

It has a very specific meaning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model–view–controller

>At the same time, I also don't think such a rule belongs in your model layer.

I'm not talking personal preference, I am talking how MVC works. If your application were MVC, then yes it absolutely would be in the model.
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I'm not in the field but would like to expand my knowledge in this field. I'd be in to meet up at a designated location.
I like to think of adventure as good planning combined with inherently difficult circumstances. The first treks to the poles were quite the adventure, yet they were also highly methodical and carefully planned.
You're right, they did decide it's an ad - the div all the text in has the id "intelliTXT", who do that annoying thing were individual words become advertisements if you mouse over them.
Because hiring is hard (and a time suck) and a degree from a good college happens to be a pretty good filter for whatever attribute makes a decent employee?
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It's assuming a lot to say that that was racism killing, it's more a guy killing - who in your own words was "in danger". Justified or not.
I think I understand how this could be useful (and, if I do, I'll love it), but I don't understand:

(i) Where do I start, where do I download/install this lit thing. Do I also need RequireJS?

(ii) lit calls fo reusing existing code isn't intended for production use, so I have to manually copy the code from corslit.com/user/module to my codebase, or is it?

(iii) If I'm going to use this lit to reuse existing code various times in one page, I must call it various times and do everything inside its various callbacks?

(iv) Why can't we see a directory with all the code shared via lit? Do I need a specific url for each project?

(v) Is this for javascript code only? Why stop here?
I created reports that needed to be presented every time a public finance analyst went to visit a client. I built tools in R that sped up the analysis process, but putting everything together took a few hours.

The reason why I said the analysts knew they needed the reports before 5 o'clock is because they were the once who set those meetings up weeks in advance (they are institutional clients, it doesn't just happen last minute), they just forgot to share it with our team.

I actually liked working on deals that needed to be analyzed quickly, it was usually something new and I got to be more creative.
So it's got the same functionality as the industry accepted standard, same concision as the industry accepted standard, only the syntax is different. Why not just use the industry accepted standard syntax, then? Why isn't Spark a JAX-RS implementation?
FB, Google, Amazon etc aren't humanitarian organizations or charity. They are in the business of providing a product, and making money while doing it.
If I recall correctly, they added a watermark to the ROM. The concern was that as adversary could modify the code to make it difficult to prove that it was actually a copy. The watermark was a hidden section of the code which could be executed to demonstrate that the code did in fact originate from Apple.

If anyone can confirm/deny this, please do.
This restauranteur thinks that tipping makes it harder to reward staff fairly, and that this is a direct cause of acrimony in the kitchen. Some of his arguments are dependent on CA state law, though:

(part 1) http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-...

(part 2) http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-...
I can swear I saw pictures of this years ago. I a series of lectures by different speakers. This can't be a new finding.
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In other words, we, human beings, are just reinventing natural occurring (or may have been extinct) mechanics and are putting patents on it.

Okay if you own a patent and sued someone for it, it's time to hand back the money!
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Bruce Schneier has changed his PGP key to 4096 bits
He decided to change his 16-years old 2048-bit key on the same day he let the world know he was working on Snowden files. Possible reasons:

- he forgot his password

- he lost his private key

- he knows more than he can tell us

http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=schneier&op=index

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance
Statistically, it is very likely that at any given point in time there will be only one species with the trait that humans consider significant.
sometimes the easiest way to see your own flaws is to not look in the mirror, but to look at others. this also applies to companies.
Random thought dump incoming.

There are a lot of issues in the public education system. In fact, one might ask whether the compulsory Prussian-based system is still relevant and effective these days.

One thing's for sure: you're not going to fix these problems by pumping in consumer electronics into the curriculum. You'll temporarily mask it, maybe please the parents and students a little (especially the poorer ones), but ultimately you'll have accomplished nothing.

For one thing, you're offering them locked down, DRM-packed, proprietary tracking devices that give an abstracted user interface but won't give you much potential to tinker with its inner workings or hack around. Most districts go with Apple products, so even things like app development are significantly more closed.

There is no doubt that education needs to catch up with the technological world and the Web of Things that lies ahead, but it's being done in the most careless and ineffective way imaginable. To the point where it might even be hampering education.

If your objective is to make a subservient class of automatons who lack critical thinking skills, then sure, stuffing them with iPads is the way to go.

Public education should be online-integrated and technologically conscious, but in my mind what we need is a radical paradigm shift: a higher acceptance of autodidacticism and alternative education as viable learning paths. A lot of public schools teach at a very slow pace, one that more savvy kids can be ahead of with the global repository of information online (of course, most prefer social networking, but I digress).

Who knows? MOOCs might make a lot of schools obsolete soon.

What's worth noting is that the private schools which the children of the elite and the wealthy attend tend to be educated in highly selective institutions that for the most part do not utilize contemporary technology and rely on more traditional approaches to education. Perhaps there is something to be noted here.
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Amazing Diabolo tricks
> If there are "many jumping" insects, how does it come to be that only a single specie (that we know of, granted) that has evolved this feature, and why have we not observed others undergoing the evolutionary process that could/would yield them in others?

Because evolution isn't planned, it involves selection from randomly[1]-occuring variations each of which has a extremely low probability. Certainly, we see some some traits that arise independently in different populations in different places with similar traits and are preserved and develop in similar ways, but the fact that a feature that contributes to fitness arises uniquely in one place is far from surprising.

[1] well, really, many of the processes are highly-chaotic more than random, but that's beside the point here.
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Insane Diabolo tricks
What the article didn't touch on, is that the problem he faced was crossing out of the river, after the river rose - he couldn't simply ford across it, as he had done getting there.

"Oh well", he said, "I'll just hang back here". His original plan was to travel through Alaska - which is a weird thing to want to do, by foot, in anything but the wintertime - Alaska turns into a giant swamp. It's one of the reasons why locals thought McCandles a little dim.

What could have saved him, was this: there was an old cable basket system a little ways up river that he could have used to cross. He never knew about it. It seems he didn't even wander that way, to stumble upon it.

"A basket-pulley system built and left by the U.S. Geological survey high above the River, the basket has been chained to a pole on McCandless’ side by locals to stop people from hunting in the area. Had McCandless found the basket and broken the chain, he would’ve been able to cross even with the river at its higest point. " (Into The Wild)
They also have it (somewhat) tied to the hardware, which reduces the threat of piracy in the first place.
Because mutations are random. Evolution doesn't result in the ideal designs for everything, just the best (or good enough) of the random mutations that happen. OTOH, if we were designed by something, why would the designer not use the optimal leg designs for all the jumping bugs?
It was interesting to learn that people still eat the grass pea, which was the plant containing ODAP used in the concentration camp.

Apparently what causes most deaths by ODAP poisoning is that it survives droughts better than most crops making starving people eat it. The very group most susceptible to the poisoning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lathyrus_sativus
We need to separate instruction from assessment, allowing an ecology of assessment companies to filter potential employees through whatever gauntlet they chose. So many start-ups are focused on instruction. What we need is evidence-based, independent and affordable assessment.
Not sure if anyone here had the pleasure of playing "Glitch", but the copy done by Chris Shorrock is wonderfully crafted and reminiscent of the game.
It would be bigger news if they confirmed that they weren't filing for an IPO!

Seriously, all this hush-hush and efforts to keep it low-key are actually producing opposite results.
Can this all be done at some later point in time?

edit: I just feel like there's a deeper, darker, emotional issue that needs to be addressed. My dad feels like it's my duty to include him because I've been spoiled all my life. I just see this as unfair.
Also, I kind of want to do something on my own for once without having my father hovering above me.
You'll have trouble getting outside investors later if you mix it up with the other company.
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> A larger number of accusations of racism might indicate a problem, but there is no way to get there from just the data available on yelp.

Is it sample size you're concerned with or do you have some sort of existential problem with relying on the veracity of these sorts of reviews?

I don't actually know how many negative reviews of this sort it would take to keep me out of a place. I'm not a habitual yelp user (and I'm white, although I would happily boycott a place where this sort of thing takes place) and so I've never had to consider this. It wouldn't take more than one such report from a real-life acquaintance, however.
Well as long as you have a copy of Arora that links to a current Qt you will have a recent WebKit. I have put Arora as a project on ice, but it is still useful for that purpose.
Awesome. Good luck to them, and can't wait to see with how much they raise and what they do with the money.
Those who subscribe to the "startup CEOs shouldn't debate with or mentor others" mantra will miss out on working with some of the greatest CEOs in the world.
Twitter makes IPO plans official: expected value is about $14B
This is awesome! If you'd like, you should share this with the Firebase + AngularJS Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/firebase-angular

-Sara (Firebase Community Manager)
I'll go further and state that the only reason this ignorance was dangerous to him was because he stupidly put himself in a situation where it could be. Everyone should know that the wilderness can be dangerous for countless reasons, that isn't really something you can be ignorant of. Not making an effort to eliminate ignorance before putting yourself in the path of danger is stupid.

Put it this way, scuba diving is dangerous, everybody knows that. Furthermore, I am ignorant about diving gases and equipment; that stuff simply isn't something I know much about. This ignorance is not dangerous to me, because I have no intention of diving. If I did intend on diving, I would have to be stupid to not rectify my ignorance first.
When I'm talking about "blurry" categorizations, I'm talking about how connotation has blurred what was once a very clear denotation. As in, the literal meanings of words like "organic" and "mechanical" -- which, as you've put it, are not ambiguous in the least -- are being challenged by modern associations of these words outside their original definitions. (A good case in point would be the grandparent comment, which used these words in connotative form to make a point about their denotative meaning).

"It may be that his choice of words conflicts with his meaning, or at least conflicts with your interpretation of his meaning, but doesn't make his original word choices less specific in their inherent meaning."

Not sure I understand what you're saying here. My point is that the words he used were used to frame a false dichotomy, and that the use of more precise words for what (I interpret) he was trying to get at would have improved his thought experiment. As I mentioned, I think he raised some good points, regardless of word choice.

As I also mentioned, "mechanical" (literal) and "organic" (literal) do not form a dichotomy; they are not mutually exclusive categories. Surely you would agree here, as you seem to be saying as much.

"Maybe I'm too far down the rabbit hole, but the Industrial Revolution hadn't even occured to me. There is plenty of mechanical action in the human body, and those have certainly been solids long before Latin came around."

Again, see my point about connotation vs. denotation. The IR is roughly when connotations about the word "mechanical" started muddying the waters. (We should note that the ancient Greeks, from whom the word 'mechanics' descends, were certainly prolific engineers in their own right -- but they were careful not to blur the lines the way English has).

At any rate, I brought up this point simply to give the OP some credit, i.e., that I can see how it's easy to use the word "mechanical" to refer to "artificial," given that modern-day connotation is heading in that direction. This was a side point at best, though, and not the focus of my post.

I apologize to you, and to the OP, and to any unfortunate readers of this discussion, for dragging us down what is indeed a rabbit hole.
I think that's unfair given that there are 3 cities (Dallas, San Antonio, Austin), that didn't show the same frequency of using the term.
(I upvoted you but I might have clicked the downarrow instead).

On your site this phrase:

"We used to have a problem with fraudulent orders."

My suggestion is that the following is much clearer:

"We no longer have a problem with fraudulent orders."

Also the other info I would present in a less negative way. People tend to respond better (imho and experience) to a message presented in a positive way rather than negatively.

So for example rather than:

"Fraud can kill your business" I would say:

"Reduce Fraud and Make more money".

Instead of "Stop the cycle of worry" I would say:

"Sleep at night and make more money"

etc.

Obv. there are many twists to this that's just two examples.
So for something like "fraudsters don't use capital letters," does your system discover a fact like this automatically, or do I have to think up these indicators myself and hope they are relevant?
Updates to python-Twitter
The developers of python-twitter, a wrapper for the twitter api, have furiously been updating the library to replace urllib2 with requests. Here are some of the new features:
-Posting Media
-Access to random sample streaming
Probably cause isn't hard to manufacture, though. I believe there was a court decision recently that said that a state's drug sniffing dogs still provided valid probably cause even though they would bark whenever their owner wanted them to bark.
School teaches a valuable skill: can you sit your ass down consistently, day after day, week after week, year after year and become proficient in subject matters you don't find remotely interesting at first?

People who are too inconsistent to attend class, or too undisciplined to learn a subject they dislike will probably suffer in many jobs, as if everyone did a job they loved, most work would never get done.
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I'm sure it's just the perfectly legal NSA browsing through your files. No need to worry.
Because there's absolutely no intersection between having drinks and partying and discussing relevant conference topics.

Some of you need to loosen your britches around here, seriously.
I was alway fond of googles attempt to thin the heard

{ the first 10-digit prime in consecutive digits of e }.com

Someday I hope to use something like that for my startup.
The author of the article calls entrepreneurs who haven't graduated from college "children".

No, seriously.

plonk, as we used to say on Usenet.
I gotta respect the Tent.io crew. After trying their Twitter clone last year (made HN front page a couple times around July/Aug 2012), I was ready to write off the whole thing as a failure — didn't think they were building things anyone really needed. But they keep iterating and making new stuff. Who knows, maybe I was wrong. And Sigil looks legitimately cool regardless of how the projects that spawned it work out.
When I saw this, my 1st thought was how useful these would be in refugee camps: much more humane housing than tents!
Wait, a computer is still needed to write your program, right? Or is everything done on the Pi?
I think the bigger question is why does Houston look so different when you compare to other cities? Yes, I can't tie it to incidents of racism, but something must be driving the fact that the term occurs dramatically higher than any of the large cities.

Disclaimer: I was born and raised in Houston.
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One man started a movement to have peace all over the world and wanted to solve problems without bloodshed in the path of Ahimsa.

This was the stupidest! idea in the whole history of mankind.

I think everyone guessed who it is.

Humans don't need aliens or space creatures to get killed. they will kill themselves.

Long live war! Long live humans!
Assuming it wasn't all deliberate. Building up hype is no bad thing for Twitter. Or at least the majority owners of it.
There's only one reason for Netflix to buy AMC - if they can reduce content cost by firing a bunch of dead wood in AMC management.
"Confidentially" may not be the correct word.
Personally, I think there should be more focus on when he did it rather than the fact he did it. If he was at the office doing this, then I'd agree with you. If the workday was done, then I can see an hour of his personal time being fine.
Yes, MongoDB really is that bad. Never use it.
42floors is a marketplace for office space - so startups are an important demographic among its customers.
Ok, in the hall of fame everyone have a college degree. But for the millions of anonymous workers, college is really convenient?
I don't believe sheep is overused when a huge population of people are pursuing material gains for people who don't care. The short list of what this leads to: depression, hopelessness, addiction, dietary diseases, and other first world problems. All trying to keep up with the Joneses. There are more meaningful pursuits.
> I thought "organic" was restricted to carbon chemistry.

"Organic" has an older and still more widely encountered use, roughly, "relating to or derived from living organisms".

"organic" as pertaining to carbon chemistry is chemistry jargon that derived from the general use because of carbon's key role in biology.
The irony of your post is that his death is a vivid demonstration of one reason why humans engage in flock behavior: to develop social memory of what's safe to eat. Those who stayed with the flock lived meaningful lives--they got jobs they had kids, they propagated their genes. He didn't live a meaningful life--he died painfully in his 20's in the woods because he ate a lethal dose of neurotoxins.
Hint: It's something to do with the ability to focus on what is important at the right moment in time.