skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's about both of those things. Luckily, I don't think corporations and lobbyists are boogeymen. Why shouldn't they be allowed to work in convenient locations? The most successful, established firms already do work in those convenient locations, but since supply is so restricted, smaller firms can't afford it.

When you restrict supply, the folks with money win.
Wow, I'm in awe. I have seen a lot of wonderful mash-ups but this really tickles my fancy. Great job.
Not quite. I'm generalising over all sorts of IP. See the Dan Bricklin post from earlier today.
Don't forget that in poor areas, there aren't many banks. When you're in the suburbs there's a bank on every corner. Even trying to find an ATM in the part of town I work in can be a challenge. They recently built one and it has so many lights an mirrors around it, it seems a bit silly.

I'm not sure what the banks use to determine whether they open/close a certain branch. Everyone jokes that 'The First National on MLK Boulevard got robbed twice a month so they shut it down', but I'm sure there's some real process with population density and more importantly, income density.

When you cash your check at a liquor store, two things happen - you end up buying things like food for your family (as well as beer + cigarettes + lotto) and they take a % cut. The bank doesn't have anything for you to buy and they don't take a cut.

This also means the poor can't pay their bills online. Again, in the bad side of town on Fridays and on the 1st and 14th of the month, there are massive lines outside the power company, city water department, and cable company. Everyone's standing there waiting to pay their bill in cash. While the rest of us pay everything from our smartphone or have it directly taken out of our accounts, they're spending two hours in line during the day.
This article adds nothing except sensationalism to the original article by MIT Technology Review http://www.technologyreview.com/news/519411/facebook-launche...
Yes. Apple designs should be inspired from other fields (Russian cosmonaut style, 1950s minimalism, etc.) rather than being derivative of another phone's style.

If iOS 7 is not so derivative, they should speak to that so every article doesn't pin it as "Much [of] iOS 7 design inspiration came from others"
Check your sarcasm detector.
Too much socialism is not a good thing. Same for the capitalism.
If you are interested in the hardware side, look at Hardware-Assisted and Target-Directed Evaluation of Functional Programs, by Matthew Francis Naylor.
There was a good thread on the /r/flying subreddit discussing this procedure yesterday. Specifically, poster /u/veritasiness outlined the entire procedure step by step [1] which I'll cut and paste here:

0:02 ground power turned on. The plane is basically "plugged in" to an outlet. This
turns on the electric systems from that power source.
0:03 cabin / utilities on
0:05 voice recorder check
0:06 turning on (aligning) IRS
0:10 Fire checks (Bell, loop, fault)
0:12 Extinguisher checks (3 bottles)
0:13 Cargo extinguisher checks
0:15 Oxygen mask check (demand only / emergency)
0:20 Audio Selector Panel setup. Buttons on the top are the options for transmitting.
Knobs on second row are options for listening.
0:30 FMS setup (also part of aligning IRS Navs)
0:34 Manual route entry. Left side are the airways (roads) and right side are the
fixes (intersections)
0:40 Arrival Setup. Left side are the STandard ARivals. (STARS) Right side are the
actual runways approaches.
0:44 Fuel pumps on.
0:45 engine driven and electric hydraulic pumps on. Note: several operators leave
the A side off for push back because nose wheel steering is commanded by
A-Side hydraulics. There is also a bypass on the gear as an alternative to
shutting off the A-Side.
0:48 overspeed warning test. (clacker is what goes off if you overspeed the plane
and is an indication of a good check)
0:50 window heat on (1 for each window)
0:52 AC setup
0:54 setting cruise altitude on the pressurization panel
0:55 setting landing altitude
0:58 Flight director on. ("MA" is master. It's the copilot's leg to fly)
1:01 Autobrake to RTO (Rejected Take Off)
1:06 cockpit light check
1:10 transponder to 2 (It's the copilot's leg)
1:19 GPWS check
1:30 Hyd pumps off (see above)
1:31 AC packs off
1:33 beacon on
1:35 pilot cooling fan #2
1:58 ignition switches to ground (starts the engine turning)
2:02 fuel switch on (introduces fuel to the engine). Also how you shut the engine
down.
2:06 N2 rotation - speed at which the engine is turning. Fuel is typically
introduced at 25% N2. Too early / slow and you might get a hung start.
Or a hot start.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/1mrw7g/how_to_start_...
When I read an article like this, I'm always amazed that more people haven't discovered credit unions. Most of the objections that the article raises about "banks" are objections that I have too, except that they're really about "big (multi-)national banks". My experiences with credit unions have been much more in line with what the author describes about the check-cashers. On one occasion there was an incident involving a mis-typed amount in an online transfer, basically all my fault, but everybody was on my side and it got resolved quickly and easily---and all over the phone, as I was several thousand miles away from home at the time!
Play is an interesting option if 1. you need async request handling (most people don't), 2. are comfortable with Scala, and 3. don't mind maintaining your own branch of the framework (or can pay for commercial support).

Otherwise there are better options, given the hard to configure and slow build process, bloated artifacts, infrequent releases, missing features (in the Java version) and incomplete/outdated documentation.
Oracle Is Going 'All In' On the Cloud
No, the caller is saying that the callee isn't permitted to change the value! That's what const means. No promise is made about the actual object itself. There's no general way to specify that in C++.

This isn't so much an issue for functions, where the caller is stopped while the callee runs, but it needs to be borne in mind for longer-lived objects that take const references - or, indeed, const pointers - to objects that have longer lifetimes again. (I don't think multithreading need be introduced for this to be an issue.)

There's quite a difference between an object that could change and one that won't, if you're considering caching values across method calls, or setting up the referring object based on the referred object's current state, etc.
You know, nearly everything is a "proxy". Kitchen thermometers use bending metal as a "proxy" for temperature. All that matters is accuracy and precision. This is how science works, at its base. There's no such thing as "sense data".

True, the signals from tree rings (etc.) are noisier than those from kitchen thermometers. Let's consider, for a moment, how you could verify the precision and come to a conclusion as to the accuracy of those signals: well, when you get the same information coming from multiple seemingly independent sources, it greatly increases your confidence in that information. Hence, if you're doing your modeling right, if you get tree ring data from all over the world, and soil samples from all over the world, and find that, sure enough, there is a common signal visible across all of them, then you say "well, the only thing that can explain this global correlation is the modulation of some global parameters". And you present your data and conclusions to a bunch of people whose job it is to poke holes in it and prove you wrong, and after a bunch of time eventually people whose job it is to prove each other wrong end up roughly agreeing on a small sliver of information that lies at the intersection of all their understandings of the world.

Signals in physics can be noisy too (fortunately, in physics you can take millions of samples). But to say "well, these error bars are too big, so therefore we shouldn't pay any attention to the trend at all -- we can decide to do something when we have much higher confidence in the precise figures. In the meantime, I'm going to oppose tighter fuel economy standards for vehicles, and revenue-neutral carbon taxation, and aggressive subsidization of alternative energy R+D, ... " because god forbid we should all drive around in smaller cars, or that we should stop subsidizing air travel, or that we should too quickly improve solar cell efficiency.
Here's a 10:55 video going through the process of starting up a A-10 in the DCS A-10 simulator, with the guy actually explaining what each step does unlike OP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9xWYLlhFwg
I too liked the technique, but noticed that if you photoshop in actual building looking buildings instead of beige monoliths it actually looks fine. That makes me wonder if they started there and switched to the monoliths when they didn't get the right impact for the story.
Apparent explanation here, in more depth than "price controls => shortage":

"This Is Why There Is No Toilet Paper in Venezuela"

http://transitions.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/06/17/this_i...

The problems of the local toilet paper industry are illustrative. Typical of the global supply chain, many inputs that manufacturers need to produce toilet paper are also imported. But since Venezuela has extensive currency exchange controls to regulate the flow of foreign currency (which can either be bought/sold or obtained through trade), the government must approve all imports -- and the red tape involved is legendary.

In theory, the way the Venezuelan system should work is the following: The government authorizes imports by selling dollars that businesses buy to make international purchases at a heavily-subsidized price -- discounted at a much lower price than what the black market sells it for. After the imports have arrived and have cleared customs (lines at ill-equipped Venezuelan ports can last weeks), local manufacturers produce their goods, and then sell their products at tightly-controlled prices.

[...]

In reality, the government's ineffective regulation not only discourages investment, but creates incentives for people in the chain of production to take advantage of access to cheap dollars and sell them in the highly profitable black market. With "import dollars" reallocated to currency arbitrage, there is little money left to import the raw materials needed to make things that Venezuelans need.
Yet another site that requires Facebook login to use. Makes me sad...
Thanks, that sounds really promising, will give it a try!
Doesn't this already exist in the form of CAcert?
There was this discussion the other day about how to make a message spread throughout a "social network" efficiently (where to start spreading the message).

This article here shows how this kind of sophisticated research would actually not even really be needed to control what the public thinks.
One thing to note with respect to SVG and Canvas is that these APIs are not nearly as optimized in browsers as HTML is.

Since the web is predominantly HTML, Chrome and other browser devs have focused all their efforts on optimizing it (and JS).

SVG and Canvas rendering has not gotten that kind of attention. However it sounds like they are working on it now.

The upshot is that even if it doesn't seem like it would work today doesn't mean it's dead in the water and we need yet another drawing API. Give it time.

It also means -- and I know this sounds crazy -- that you could try drawing your dots with absolutely positioned 1px by 1px DIVs. I know this sounds absurd but I once worked on a scrolling + scaling timeline widget that performed 10x better when implemented with absolutely positioned HTML DIVs than in SVG.

(And like gruesom noted, it is probably best to blast all your DIVs the DOM in one shot.)
Introduction to Web Components, the Next Generation Markup
That may be a rational response, but you need better support for the suggestion that no other possible response is rational.
Speaking of games, that's exactly what the humble games tester spends a good chunk of time doing: uncovering bugs by coming up with weird things to try, like spamming input at unexpected moments.
"Too much" makes it rather tautological.
Another alternative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_(SSL)

See Moxie Marlinspike’s talk from DEFCON 19 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDmj_xe7EIQ
How does this proposal compare to TACK: http://tack.io ?
How do you read this as a hit piece...? Nowhere that I saw do they even allude to the various proposals being bad ideas.

Also, DC has a decently sized tech community and industry, a lot of which is not related to the federal government. I'd venture to say it's the largest in the country after SF, NYC and Chicago.
Make a list of things to do?
Libertarian Summer Camp
Link to the study:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3682130/

> Three types of musical excerpts of approximately 30 s each were used.

> Forty-four people (25 females and 19 males) participated in our experiment (mean age of 25.3 years; SD = 6.6). Seventeen of these individuals were professional musicians or college students who were majoring in music (the “musician group”; n = 17). The other 27 participants were working people or college students who were not majoring in music (the “non-musician group”; n = 27).

> The participants evaluated both perceived emotion and felt emotion by responding to 62 descriptive words and phrases on a scale ranging from 0 (not at all) to 4 (very much) using the numerical keypad.
Canvas is ok, i also first tought on GL to solve that sort of problem..

But speaking of it, canvas has a sort of a bad api design
and its not very optimized for GPU, you know..

beginRender()

...

swapBuffers()

endRender()

Since Adobe is now on the HTML side of things,
I wonder if they could propose a good api, or at least try to make a optimized api version of the canvas.. as this is definetly their domain..

Also i remember to see a proposal for a more mature path api from that guy behind Gallium, Years ago .. Zac Riusin(or something) that looked promissing..
BitTorrent Admins Face Six Years in Jail After Spanish Govt. Approves New Bill
You might like to try http://devdocs.io/
Readability.com + kindle
Amazon does have an iOS app as well as Android and PC.
I once was attempting to receive a wire transfer from a company for some consulting work I did. After failing to complete the transaction a few times, I found out that the credit union I'd kept my checking account at for years didn't even have the ability to accept the kind of wire transfer that was being sent. I had to create a one-off savings account at a bank to handle the transaction.

Perhaps that has something to do with it.
Height restrictions or not the new development in DC is mostly garbage. Planners do not seem to understand the formula for making pleasant urban neighborhoods with multistory residential buildings is that the ground floor must be retail. The building facade and retail must be flush with the sidewalk.

I don't understand why this formula is so hard for urban planners to accept. You see it in every thriving city. It simply should not be allowed to make a 5+ story building that is purely housing and is recessed from the sidewalk. When it is allowed you get the alienating Corbusier style housing project vibe. This crap has been thrown up all over the DC area in recent years.
For one thing, evolution can sometimes work by going through several stages, of which the intermediate are not particularly useful but not harmful either. By mere chance, they happen to last long enough for the actually useful changes to build on top of them. For example, see Lenski's long term evolution experiment with e. coli.[1] He's spent 25 years breeding several populations of e. coli, and freezing samples every 500 generations or so (every 75 days). After about 20 years, he discovered that one of the strains had evolved the ability to metabolize citrate in an aerobic environment, which e. coli normally can't do. Going back to the historical record, unfreezing some of the past samples and repeating the experiment, he found that sample from after generation 20,000 could re-evolve this trait, but clones from before that time could not, indicating that there was a potentiating mutation that that particular strain had had shortly before generation 20,000, which the other samples did not have. Further evidence has shown that it may have actually been two separate potentiation mutations.

Beyond that, however, proto feathers would have probably been useful for insulation. They seem fairly similar to down feathers, which are great insulators. Given the the feathers were also colorful, they may also have been decorative, and used for catching the eye of potential mates.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli_long-term_evo...
This may be true, but iTunes gift cards can often be had at a discount—I just picked up $100 in GC for $80. I've not seen the same for Amazon GCs, although there used to be small-dollar promotions back when Amazon was ramping up the business.
I had issues with precomputed alpha when I played with storing data in the alpha channel of images in the browser. In the end, since I didn't really need to 'hide' the data, I just wrote a few pixels at the top of the image, but even then, I found some services (i.e. gravatar) was modifying the pixel values slightly. I had to just use a bunch of the most significant bits from each pixel.

If you're interested why I was playing with all this, it was for storing public keys in gravatar images: http://kybernetikos.github.io/VisualSecrecy/
The headline amuses me. Of course they want to know even more about their users! What data-driven company wouldn't? This is like saying "Apple wants to make even more money" or "GM wants to sell even more cars."
Because morality is a poor man's companion.

If you look trough a lenses where everything is a business decision (whether ingrained or just habit acquired after doing it for 8 hours per day as a job) it will wrap your worldview that way.

The savvy business decision is to take as much as possible.

That reminded me of something I read a few month ago - maybe even here on HN - gamers don't have as scary nightmares. We are so used to killing weird stuff in weird worlds that when something nightmarish happens we take control in our dream and fight back. http://kotaku.com/5547398/video-gamers-have-power-over-their...

It is the same with the businessmen - after learning to ignore morality in the office - you cannot turn it on for the small stuff.
I don't think they're boogeymen either, but this will not lead to affordable or convenient housing and anyone who believes otherwise is a just a fool. This is from the experience of living in the city for 5 years.

If there was actual demand for denser housing or office space you'd see it sprouting up across the river in Virginia or outside the southeast of the city where land is dirt cheap. Remember the city itself is tiny and the areas outside the city do not have these restrictions.
Finishing Up CD
Ganssle's book The Art of Programming Embedded Systems (Academic Press, 1991) is an eye opener for software writers. Highly recommended.
When you say the "warmers won't produce any graphs covering the same periods", I think you are wrong. They do.

Here's an example.

http://www.whrc.org/resources/primer_fundamentals.html
This is an astoundingly good response. Kudos.
I want to play devils advocate here.

Whenever anyone offers "some" amount of anything, candy in this case, is it wrong to take all but one? They're rationally maximizing their holdings within the bounds specified. Therefore, if they follow this lifestyle for every decision that comes about, they'll be in some sense richer, or more optimal, than people who don't take all but one.

In other words, anytime the rules are ambiguous, why not test them?

I'm curious if anyone thinks this is neither right nor wrong?
Hunh, seems pretty close to what I remember watching from the sidelines.

(I used to tease Gates late at night in the computer room about playing with hobbyist computers, when there were so many powerful mainframes on the early ARPAnet (about 20 machines total) available to anyone who could telnet in, and so many interesting research projects going on around the net. My favorite was Englebart's NLS system, which was sorta barely useable on a remote terminal but still fascinating.)

Also, there weren't several PDP-1's, there was only one, which was used routinely as a display terminal for the PDP-10 (HARV-1 and HARV-10 by name in NCP (pre-TCP) days).
Basic bank accounts, i.e. the sort without credit, are very under publicised - and the bank staff don't, last I checked, have to tell you they exist.
Actually, the parent was arguing that we can't trust the one figure that is in TFA. It's a picture of a warming trend.

Surprisingly enough, the fear, uncertainty, and doubt about anthropogenic warming claims have come from people who receive money from carbon-intensive industry groups. It's these people who keep on claiming that it "hasn't been accomplished". And since FUD is easy to do, the FUD-purveyors are winning in the public sphere.

What kind of evidence would convince you, exactly?
How long do the checklists normally take for airliners? I was actually surprised how short this was.
Most of these inventory-financing deals for physical products seem like they would be much better dealt with via loans, unless the equity stake is really more of a quid-pro-quo for whatever connections the sharks have.
It's not W3S's fault, it's Google's fault for misjudging the value of sites they put on top.
Essentially you're on a quest to win the attention of Google, and this often is not correlated with the value you trying to built.
COW is prohibited in C++11 Standard implementations of std::basic_string
I love verbose writing, but only if it's purposeful and spare:)

If there's a reason to tell me the color of her shoes, I'd love to hear about the color of her shoes. I don't want to hear about the color of everything in the room, though.
But AFAIK nobody really believes you'll find readable DNA in there. It just doesn't last more than a couple of million years no matter how carefully you preserve it.
Because the city itself is tiny. It's only 60 sq miles. According to Wikipedia the urban area of Paris is 2000 sq miles.
Ha, unfortunately:

- I'm not American

- I'd rather make stuff that improves people's lives in any way, and not subvert their freedoms.

ML is fascinating to me because what can be done with it.
I wouldn't say that all dinosaurs had features, but a fair number did (and fairly large taxonomical groups!).

Where the breakthrough is here is that we have evidence of the sorts of colors. In the past all of our speculation has been that of "artists impressions" but now we have something more tangible to work with.
Writing simple chat application with Weber MVC and Elixir
On initial blush I am so far impressed. Sync pulled over all my add-ons and Firefox info and it is definitely quicker at rendering large tables (my one notable speed complaint with Firefox vs. Chrome). With everything working via Sync I'm going to give it a fair shot.
Reading this, I found myself wondering what the other panelists had to say. I understand Linus attracts the clicks (he got mine), but surely they said some interesting things too.
Paris is also ~2000 sq miles while DC is only 60 sq miles.
CodePupil would be interested in helping out with this initiative and doing so in an open source/free manner.

We feel strongly too that w3Schools is outdated.

here's our interactive width & height exercise for newbies
http://codepupil.com/ex1.html
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