skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree.

I've always said that RSpec is about documentation, not testing (hence the name - it's a specification for your code).

However, recently, I've been using Minitest-spec; not quite as readable but less magic and it feels faster.
I see "Django CMS" only in the title of the front page[1], the text itself doesn't have it.

[1]: http://mezzanine.jupo.org/
> Too many "scientists" are in it for the holidays, money

Yeah no. Prestige within the profession yes, these two you probably get more of (and less politics and having to fight for grants) piloting garbage trucks.

And talking about grants, that's a big part of what "prestige" is about. There is also an ego-stroking component but the scrap-fighting of obtaining grants (and keeping them) requires publication and forces many into "prestige-seeking" not because they want to do it but because without it they get no grants and without grants they get to do no science.

> I'm afraid it's not "understandable", it's nasty, selfish, and contrary to scientific advancement.

Fix science funding and 90% of the "prestige" issues will be fixed.
I don't think anyone disagrees that the raw data should be eventually made public, and preferably sooner rather than later. But initially it's all about the message: you need time to properly analyse the data and release the results responsibly. If you just released the raw data first, how long do you think it'd be before all manner of crackpot headlines popped up? There'd be a race to be the first publication to get something interesting (and likely wildly incorrect) from the data. The fact is, most people aren't qualified to interpret the data.

As for the prestige? That's important too. Not because people care about the prestige in and of itself, but because it enables further scientific research by helping to acquire funding. It's a very principled view to take that scientific research, in theory, should be separate from ego, but in the real world the fact is that reputation matters because not everyone has time to independently verify everything. Ask any practicing scientist and they'll tell you that they're far more willing to trust certain research groups than others, and that's ultimately what the "prestige" is all about.
It's definitely far from being an easy attack. But it raises an interesting question in that the current smartphone security models don't require special permissions for accelerometer access whereas they do for cameras and other things.

With this kind of stuff and other advances in activity recognition, allowing any app to record anything using the accelerometer might become a privacy threat.
Google Turns 15: Next Year They Can Google Drive (Birthday Reflection)
It'd be ace if I could 3d print the moon at some sensible scale. Or Mars.
It was "unequivocal" in the previous IPCC report too. The interesting part is that the likelihood of humans being the dominant influence causing the observed warming has increased since the previous report. Previously it was considered "very likely" and now it is considered "extremely likely." The report defines "very likely" as 90-100% and "extremely likely" as 95-100%.

Both the headline here and the BCC article seem a little sensational to me. I recommend reading the reports yourself. They're not very long nor are they difficult to read.
>>where he worked/interviewed expected him to work 12 hour days, 6 days a week (sometimes 6.5 days - those employers thought someone only working 6 hours on the 7th day was being treated well).
And bear in mind people like him are working these very long hours under time-pressure, with people barking orders at them; they are using sharp knives, boiling water, boiling fat.

Okay, good for him. But I stand firmly by what I said, that should be illegal.

>>the kind of working hours that everyone else takes for granted.

I assume you mean 40hrs/week. When I hear someone say "take for granted" to describe something, I believe they consider that something a luxury. If 40hrs/week is a luxury, then what do we consider normal? I'm not accepting some 3rd-world sweatshop, or even 1st-world Amazon shipping facilities as normal... or even what your husband went through as normal. Nobody should have to live like that.
You're being disingenuous. I don't think it was at all obvious, and it took me at least 10 seconds to fully realize where these extra charges were described, and that's only because I knew it was there somewhere. It took another 5 seconds to find the link to the place where you can buy it as a "regular" member.

This is automatic and opt-in, and non-obvious opt-out recurring membership fee. It's scummy and the default should be to purchase as a normal member, then try to genuinely upsell me in the sidebar. It's the equivalent of being automatically enrolled in amazon prime when I go to buy anything from amazon, and having to click a tiny link to the right that says "don't enroll me in amazon prime, just let me buy this" if I don't want amazon prime.

The entire shopping cart is an example of a dark pattern. http://darkpatterns.org/ and I personally wouldn't use a site whose entire business model clearly hinges on tricking or ensnaring its customers.
Same here. The work has to get done, but nothing is so critical that it can't wait a few days. If it is, we'll get someone else to do it.
You could train it with a similar setup and then use the training data to target another.
I wouldn't submit such thing without checking how the accuracy changes when the phone is relocated, when the desk is changed or even when a different specimen of the same keyboard type is used. But I strongly agree that the sensor access privilege is deeply underrated -- Android doesn't even mention it!
no links...

Remember the days when people used to make links on the web because they weren't greedy with their pagerank?

At least Google left us some machine learning data sets after they took all the links. You just can't find them because nobody links to them.
Thanks for the nice comment.

To answer your question:
1) Yes, they do. But by measuring the moisture in the soil, you will get an alarm when a certain amount of water is extracted from the soil, being caused by heat, sun or a thirsty plant. After quite a bit of experimentation, we found a threshold value that works for most plants. Not cactuses ;)
2) Indeed we check more often than needed. But if the plant is getting dry, we want to briefly signal every five minutes and before we do that, we do a quick soil check.
RTS games have to make compromises in scale in order to fit the various elements on the screen in size large-enough to preserver recognition. Look at StarCraft, with its puny carriers and battlecruisers - I mean, the buildings in that game look about the size of a cube van.
Removing all whitespace, converting everything to lowercase and removing special chars should to the job. I hope they build it in.
Chuck Moore's Creations
I'm not sure I understand why you think rebase destroys those things.

1. You rollback exactly to the same point as you would without the rebase - one commit before the merge point.

2. This is also obvious - it was brought up to date one commit before the merge point (by definition of this workflow).
Well, I'd argue that if people recognize it as something that is happening, you need to provide some evidence that they are wrong. Why would they 'lie' about this?

My personal experience is that this video is quite accurate. I'm both fascinated and annoyed to an increasing degree to constantly see everyone around me either 'not present' because they're busy with their phone, or 'half-present' because they're putting the phone between them and their experience (taking photos, recording video, etc.).

I'm relatively lucky that I'm in the age bracket that is sort of between these things, where many of my close friends have 'dumb' phones and less of the incessant need to record everything for posterity.

But it still bothers me when, at least four times in a two-hour span, one particular friend of mine checks his phone and interrupts a conversation to answer a text message that is not time-sensitive. I don't really see the point, and it breaks up something nice.

It's even worse when I observe my sixteen year-old sister. She's constantly 'whatsapping' with friends, chatting on facebook, playing games on her iphone. My mother worries because she spends so much time doing homework, and she gets stressed out as well, but somehow nobody realizes that it's the constant interruption of meaningless chatter that probably slows her down significantly. I can only imagine what the situation is like for her at school.
Actually, no. Your chart, by omitting the prediction range for each of those, does not speak to the original claim that "global warming is well below predicted temperatures".

It is not.

(And you should perhaps read that chart again if you think it is showing you that the "IPCC has been lowering predictions".)

It is just incredibly embarrassing that global warming deniers can't even read the reports which they so vehemently believe to be false.
how many of these would actually not break apart at 30.000 km/h?
FAA to weigh easing limits on electronic devices use on airplanes
Let's not whitewash it though. That's a scam.
Do you know how high 7 meters is? It means that all sea dikes in my country need to be increased 7 meters in height (and a lot more than that in width and mass). Or else most of the country will have to be evacuated. Many coastal area (where most of the world's population lives) will be in trouble.

Fortunately, 1000 years is a long time. I've read that Netherland will be able to adapt to a sea level rise of 1 meter in the next century (or maybe two centuries, which would already be a problem), but if it continues to rise at that speed, we'll have to figure out better solutions. In any case, it's going to cost a lot of money. Some minor investment now could prevent a lot of trouble in the future.

But "apres moi le deluge" seems to be the reigning attitude.
PullReview: Reach your Ruby Code Skill Walhalla
No, seriously, if your business model is based on tricking people into paying for something they don’t want and didn’t realize they’re getting charged for (no meeting of the minds), your company is a scam company. It’s simple as that.
I, for one, think you should do it. But you've got to realize, up front, this will be thrown away, will only work for 1 use case, will be slow, etc. Don't build anything general, or anything reusable. Write in Go. Put everything in one big textfile. Start with O(slow) code. Use a simple 'schema', like tsv/csv/json. It will work.

Production-ready, simple, written by you: pick 2. The 'correct' thing to do is choose the first two. Have at it.
Actually, stuff like the headers and so on, are integrated in the parser, so it generates specific types while data is arrived.

For example, https://github.com/spray/spray/blob/master/spray-http/src/ma...
This is really nice, I wanted to get a version of Nordkapp for my father, but I feel that $100 is a bit to pricey for a 10cmx10cm version.

Nice project, and very nice with their partnership with Shapeways.

Exporting their model, and uploading it on Shapeways gives me a price of 42.65 EUR ($57.59) including shipping.
The reduction in quantities (actually, 16 over the counter, 32 from a pharmacist unless you argue and you can get 100, or whatever your prescription says) did decrease suicide numbers initially, but they have since crept back up.

Preventing sales of loose tablets (everything in blister packs) was more successful.

(I agree with everything else you say)
Just as important as the charge-back rate is the backlog of unused entitlements. Oh, and the median entitlement to age of account ratio.
Yes, it's HTTPS, but it's not EV HTTPS. There's no green bar, just the lock icon that anyone with a $7/year SSL gets.
When does it stop counting as a ship? If mobility is a requirement would not the Death Star be allowed? In Andromeda they had bad guys who used a captured Star as the central point of their ship.

B5, could not find the Vorlon planet killer
That's not correct. At its level systemd is just a component, it's not linked against anything that would cause it to be incompatible and all communication with systemd and its parts are through process-level interfaces (like D-Bus and signals). OpenSolaris, and certainly its derivatives, ship with many GPL and LGPL'd components as far as I'm aware. At this level it falls under GPL's "mere aggregation" clause.
TLS Channel IDs: Cookies cryptographically tied to a Channel ID
All About The New Google “Hummingbird” Algorithm
IOS 7 Javascript Speech Synthesis Demo
This feels like the working with SVN/P4 again.

Main difference here is having your work in progress visible to others in a feature branch.
Also rebase -i being less of a pain than svn update.
TechJam, Stephen Hawking and Self-Identified Geek Personas
JavaScript Data Transformations
Of course, but I think they could have made the cube slightly bigger (or in fact, much bigger) without any problems. It was the largest ship IIRC, and the game had a pan-zoom so you could see things close by or from slightly afar, so it wouldn't have been that troublesome.
I'm sorry for not making it more obvious, but each bullet point in the list ends with a link.
At least, these scams would ship you something! It would remind you they decided to scam you by sending you an overprice item. Justfab got the genius idea that it is much more profitable to have apparently nicely priced items that you won't order or receive but still be charged for.
The Death Star was called a battle station in the movies so I would not count it as a ship.
Here's your screenshot, with the bottom part cut off. The part below the shopping cart. This is important, because the shopping cart is also the Order Summary.

http://i.imgur.com/dmxIwHr.png

So, it's obvious that the intent is to hide the fact that membership is $39.95 a month. The goal is to trick the person into getting the membership. I guarantee that's intentional.

Porn sites don't even go this far.

Edit: I should also note that you are fabricating a story here.

"By asking members to commit to come back to the site once a month..."

You aren't asking. You are including the person automatically, and requiring them to opt-out. And you are keeping that as hidden as possible by including this important information "in the same font size as everything else on the page."
At this rate, 50cm is not going to be enough. And you don't slap it just on top, you have to widen the entire dike to make it stronger.

No, we won't be the first place to go; that'll be the Maldives. And we probably can afford the extreme expenditure necessary to increase those dikes. But wouldn't it have been better to prevent that extreme expenditure in the first place?
While it is not an exact match, both cases are deceiving the user into getting something they don't want while pretending it's for their benefit.
"Denialists"? You couldn't have found a more polarizing term for people with differing opinions? I mean we have to get the hate mongering up to a higher level, "denialists" just seem way to soft for these sub-people.
Retrotechtacular: Fundamentals of AM and FM Radio Communication
That would be an incredibly dumb decision, considering they sell audiobooks in the iTunes store.
In his article, the OP mentions "$2.5 billion taxpayer dollars that made it possible". Sorry you don't get paid as much as you'd like -- that doesn't give you the moral high ground. Doing it for "prestige" still isn't a good reason.

At a cost of 2.5 billion, I don't think it's too harsh to expect a small budget for releasing the data publicly.
So, Mr. Investor, you believe that this is normal, acceptable business practice, and you can't imagine why anybody would put a stop to these guys.

And I bet you wonder why VCs get a bad name!
Good article. I know of a startup who had revenue as a KPI but did not include ad-spend or margin.

As a result they hit their quarterly revenue target (and got their quarterly bonuses) by amplifying their ad-spend to hundreds of thousands a month and buying customers for 110% of what they made from them.

This might seem like madness but when people's salaries and jobs depend on it, the line "what gets measured, gets done" is as true as true can be.
Would this be a template attack? (pdf: http://saluc.engr.uconn.edu/refs/sidechannel/chari02template...)
> to be able to go back to a previous state whenever I need to

as I've said, old commits are backed up.

> This works great with Git's reflog.

except git reflog is cleaned on git gc

Not mentioning http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangesetEvolution feature is being in development.

> there was some command that left .orig files lying around

Only way .orig files may pop up is failure to replay rebased commit(s). No way these are backups — their purpose is to make user able to fix things and continue.
I'd be interested to see what happens if the keyboard is put on rubber grommets or a sponge mousepad.

It'd be tricky to get enough damping without making the typing action horrible, I think.
If your making minimum wage in the US they are required by law to pay you 1.5x overtime after 40 hours. Which is why many low wage jobs push people out the door at 40 hours. Granted, recovering that money can be a pain but it's vary doable.

http://www.dol.gov/compliance/guide/minwage.htm : http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs23.pdf

Unless specifically exempted, employees covered by the Act must receive overtime pay for hours worked in excess of 40 in a workweek at a rate not less than time and one-half their regular rates of pay.
That is something where I'll be needing to take care. Real-world usage will be very important. At present, for performance, it doesn't preserve the header value as it is reading it and so an invalid value is entirely lost. (Performance meaning you don't need to do an extra heap allocation for each header.) Providing the raw value of the header when parsing fails is something I may need to do; I'm not yet sure. I already know that "invalid" values for the Expire header (especially -1, as noted in RFC 2616) are normal (and so the Expires header has been switched back from being a Tm to being a ~str for the moment).

As I get further along, I intend to use the data from the Common Crawl, which fortuitously includes response headers, to see how my validation goes. Of course, that's only a small set of the real-world headers (cache ones in particular will be scarcely stressed by that at all). Validating request headers will be harder; I've still got to figure out what to do about that.

In the end, though, I'm determined that it will work and work well. Servo using it (and thus demanding robust HTTP support) will help with that goal.

Something I discovered a few hours ago, reading the specs: I believe this header should be valid, with the value being interpreted as the weak entity tag ``Super Encoding™``. I wonder how many clients or servers would support it? No idea yet.

etag: w/"=?US-ASCII?B?U3VwZXIg?= =?UTF-8?Q?Encoding=E2=84=A2?="
It doesn't need to be an official exchange rate, it's what I guess would be best translated as a "fair market value". If there appears to be no fair market value for the virtual currency, one would need to be agreed upon by the parties. (I base this on the accounting rules listed for the receiver of the virtual currency).

What I find curious is the asymmetric handling of realized exchange rate profits vs. losses. Profits are taxed as capital gains, but unlike with e.g. shares, you can't use realized losses to offset the profits.
Ah, we have a liar.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/graphics/Escalator_2012_500....
Top right. Somehow I thought the Galaxy class was bigger..

Maybe you can help me find the Cygnus from "The Black Hole"
Larry Ellison takes Oracle employees on a three hour tour
The Potholes of Business Partnerships
It works well if you keep changes small. Basically if you're making a change that integrates with some other place that someone else needs to update, that looks like two separate changes to me. Of course you can do big feature branches that change a lot of things at the same time, but you're right - that won't work here.

Regarding big projects -> gerrit works pretty much the same way (but also forces you to squash changes into a single commit). This is used successfully by cyanogen and openstack people at least. Those are fairly big teams.
Ask a Dev: How Do I Make Games for iOS and Android?
Come and join us and be fast!
Nothing special, he said something like:

"I don't know what you're all upset about. I only mentioned 2 things: 1)work 2)forty hours a week"

So I replied "3)more than", referring to the original comment he made that was linked[1] in this thread.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6454520
Anatomy of a start-up sales deal (as told through animated gifs)
In Klingon Academy especially with NGA or other mods which add new ships. They were pretty good with scaling of the different ships. Pretty fun game though.
Safari 7.0 on OS X 10.9 - I can't add a pre order to my cart! The green circle flies up but the cart remains at 0. Works fine in Chrome.

Edit: Also can't check out in Chrome… just sits in 'Completeing Order'
woah! are the yusing the "i accept the terms" checkbox to ask if the user wants subscription? NO WAY! How much more deceitful can you get? What frequent user of the internet would even stop to consider that this is NOT the usaul "i accept" but a SPECIAL one?
The User Experience Guide Book (free ebook) by author of UX Design For Startups
> Venice/Santa Monica

I bet you have a few surfers there! I'd kill to work next to the beach. Nothing beats a good early morning surf session. (Figuratively, of course)
Not a bad service, if you don't make your own this is a way to go. The fact is before I bring a service or app into my company this is one of the primary things I look for. If you can't communicate with me when things are broken then I can't rely on you.
Thank you for saying what I had came here to say. Just for context, here is a part of the check out page on JustFab:

http://imagesup.net/?di=15138026329215

This was provided by a Series A investor in JustFab† and was used to help suggest that it's "pretty clear" that you are joining a membership for $39.95 a month.

Compare this to a slightly different crop, where we only include the portion of the page that contains the "Order Summary", the thing you are ordering. Nothing suggests or hints at a $39.95 membership.

I worked for 10 years in the credit card processing industry handling adult sites. Even we never did anything this bad.

I mean, even the investor flat out admits that it's not called out in any way:

"in the same font size as everything else on the page"

Anyways, really just wanted to thank you for posting what you did.

† https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6455575
Elixir For Rubyists Part 1
I've always felt that scale was too "sci-fi" ish for the fantasy-esque Star Wars universe. Star Wars planets don't really feel like planets, more like islands in an ocean. They're "planetville" planets.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Planetville

The "small moon" being the size of an actual small moon feels... weird.

Everything about Star Wars is modelled after pulp era stories transplanted into a space setting. A man-made ship that could comfortably house billions of people is firmly into the realm of "true" SF and doesn't fit into a pseudo-1930's setting. Putting such a huge number onto the Death Star (and the SSDs, which are each the size of Manhattan) feels like a midichlorians moment.
What a mother fucker. Go to hell.

EDIT: haha founder of betfair and eHow. Delicious.
This comment is a perfect example of how people who are involved in evil business practices justify it to themselves.
Have you figured out how to scrub through an individual chapter? It seems the time scrubber goes across the entire book for me, which is pretty unacceptable behavior for an audiobook.
مايوهات للسيدات والفتيات لعام 2014 | تمساح مصر
I'm sure I'm not being clear enough so please let me know where I can make improvements and let me know what questions you have for part 2.