skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly what I was talking about.

When asked "Do you teach the poor to endure their lot?" Mother Teresa replied "I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people."

She was, until the end of her life anyway, a very devout Christian but her order was a bit fringe. She didn't really provide medical care, she referred to her facilities as "houses of the dying" and their suffering was a good thing as it brought them closer to God so pain management was basically non existent. There are reams of statements from medical professionals, Indian and Western, that visited her facilities and the general consensus was that they were "horrifying" and lacked even the most basic attention to cleanliness.

She did feed a lot of people, but not many compared to other charities operating in the same places that had smaller budgets.

I also can't dismiss the fact that she used her reputation to support war criminals like the Duvalier family, although in other comments you do dismiss this so ... sure, I'll just concentrate on the rest.

If you do believe in the christian afterlife then perhaps she is a great person as she probably did convert a lot of sick people in India as they suffered and became more likely to accept Jesus as their saviour. If you don't then she let poor people die unnecessarily and intentionally heaped unnecessary suffering on the poor.

So like I said, definitely, unequivocally, based on her own statements alone, she is not a good canonical example of selfless altruism since a good canonical example would not be judged only by a fringe sect of Christianity that looks to enhance the suffering of the poor.
Why would you expect [Expected Value of the amount of liability per unit time] to be anything but linear in the rate of attempted operations (within the envelope where each operation is routine, non-interfering, statistically independent event)
For real mobile phone innovation, someone needs to smash AT&T and Verizon
[More than] 100 Groups supporting a rally requesting $30,000 factors out to $300 per group.

Why are you asking me to contribute, even if I support your idea? Yes, perhaps I can't be there ... but I'd rather spend my money by being there to support the rally. Don't we contribute to these groups so that they can promote their causes? ... and subsidizing travel for folks who live nearby? ... like organizing ACORN carpools from one polling station to another? (Vote often kids!)
I think referring to hex RGB values as "hex codes" confuses those of us who tend to think of hex in non-web contexts: ASCII, opcodes, network packets, etc.
Why Your Consumer-Oriented Hyperlocal Start-up Will Fail
Screenhero has been a fantastic tool for me to help my parents with their computers. Simple. Useful. Currently free. I hope there is a pricing structure that would allow me to pay for it and still be able to help my parents without requiring them to pay for copies also.
While it's lacking the menu, there is at least opera://flags/#activation-order-tab-cycling now.
I know that most people just look at the stars and make a decision.

Other people read the good reviews and determine to make their decision from that.

I read the bad reviews. 1 to 3 star reviews. I'd rather go to a place with a bifrication of bad and good reviews where the bad reviews are stuff I don't care about...

My theory is that if a place sucks it will definitely have bad reviews. A place that is great will still have a few, but they will be over stupid stuff (i.e. I expected something different etc.)
Hey @bpm11,
How does this differ from the consumer's perspective from BrightScope?

Best,
David
They do, and have since at least the mid 90s. But most users don't know how to set this preference, so Google assumes GeoIP is the One Source Of Truth(TM) for language (apart from hl= and being signed in).
Jemm, speaking for Screenhero, we take your concerns seriously (many certainly share them), so don't freak out just yet! We're trying to think of the right pricing scheme that doesn't scare off our individual users, and we are certainly open to feedback and suggestions on this front.
The design seems fundamentally unscalable due to the rails. I've been to farming areas and fields can go on for miles.

They could have come up with something far more powerful just by sticking it on the front of a tractor and having some tanks/bins for consumables.

Heck, they could have even started from common irrigation systems where you can have 400m of pipe on wheels you roll across the whole field.

I have to wonder how much farmer experience anyone behind this has and if they even looked at current farming equipment before just scaling up a computer printer and sticking a different end on the head.
This is going to be not good news for SEO people that just have affiliate ads and used to do things like Celebrity Net Worth bc now the user does not have to click on their site as Google will give them the answer they need.
Wrong platform to seek UX innovation.
Also, that quote can't possibly be accurate. Are they really claiming that there is nothing we could be doing to improve patients' odds (however slightly) that are foregone because they're prohibitively expensive? Because that's the implication.

I understand that the value of a human life is both high and difficult to measure. But throwing your hands up and going with $Infinity is not a valid solution.
A bit of a tangent, but this is the reason why there are no real high-rise buildings in Europe (The tallest building in the EU is only 1004 ft high). There are laws that determine the minimum amount of natural light an office should have. Since taller buildings have a larger footprint, at some point the interior offices no longer get the required amount of natural light, meaning they can no longer be used as a work-area, thus making the building uneconomical.
"20% of Yelp reviews are fake" is what is being presented by the author as 'real news'.

If he wanted to go your way as the 'real news' he would have headlined it sometime like:
"NY state starts prosecuting fake Yelp reviews" or something along those lines.
This has been out for a while.

I was consulting it back in March 2013 for details I could use for my http://gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns so I know it goes at least that far back.

But you can also punch it into the Internet Archive (http://web.archive.org/web/20120401000000*/http://www.google...) and see that it goes back at least to March 2012. As it happens, as part of the previous research I know that a lot of Google content moves around various URLs without redirects, so between that and how the first IA version is comprehensive, I strongly suspected that it was much older than March 2012; one useful trick for finding the original URL is to look for quotes of the page on other websites which point at a different URL. In this case, if you quote the bit starting with "Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford...." (the first entry) and you search in Google with a date-limit of 1995-2010 (in the 'Search Tools' option), you can see hits dated from 2005, 2008, & 2009. The 2005 would be best, but it's some sort of spammy junk, so I try another hit, and it links to 'http://www.google.com/corporate/timeline/#start' which is quite different. That takes me back to August 2008: http://web.archive.org/web/20080401000000*/http://www.google... We can't search for this because it's broken but it tells us that we can narrow our timerange even more, to early 2008. Another hit includes a 'trackback' link to another Google URL, which I duly load up: http://web.archive.org/web/20020223143331/http://www.google.... Useless, since it's not the timeline - but notice the sidebar! 'Timline', bingo. Now we can go all the way back to December 2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20011213165211/http://www.google....

So, this page was started at least as early as December 2001.
What does this provide that isn't already provided by the official AWS CLI?

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/index.htm...
Meet the Machines that Steal Your Phones Data
I was expecting to see an article on defeating traffic enforcement cameras to evade tickets. This was still cool.
Who stays in one place enough to have "one" 401(k)? When I switch jobs I roll over. I have rollover, traditional, Roth and SEP IRAs at E-Trade Does your service work for me?
New York Neighborhoods in the 40s
Is that different from using a capital "AND"?
Does your mobile firefox give different sizes to every comment on HN because it thinks longer sentences need bigger fonts? Mine does.
I'll contact you. But if you want to skip the first step, just reply to the update, and tell me:

- What tech you'd like to work during the retreat (or book to go through, or project to work on).

- Do you have a github/bitbucket?

- Do you want to do the fulltime or extended weekend version?
If people use your product all day, everyday, and you release the biggest overhaul of your product in 4 years, and nobody notices, is that a good thing, or a bad thing?

It makes me wonder if Google has become so "good enough" that more and more engineering effort will be spent for smaller and smaller returns.
Well, the article says it's in place for a longer period of time - we see a major organic traffic growth from Google on https://usersnap.com and many search result entries popped from page 2 to page 1 (and thus leading to clicks).
Your robot anesthesiologist
>People stayed to 11 PM hashing over issues of the week. One day, the beancounters decided to put a 3-slice quota on the pizza

For the price of a meal the company got up to six hours of overtime from staff members at the beginning of the weekend and they decided to cut it to a third of a meal?!
Google is becoming the portals they railed against in early 2000. Their problem is that natural growth has all but stopped so Google is trying to keep as many people as possible in their properties hoping the click on an ad eventually. King Larry cannot face Wall Street and admit that Google needs to be treated as a money making giant but not as wildly growing one, so he's riding Google to the ground.

What's wrong with answering questions and offering everything under the sun? Because another site might have better answers and offering but Google's MBAs will make sure that page is buried down below--unless they advertise.

"Best for the users" has been replaced with "best for this quarter's earnings," and it's just a matter of time before it catches up with Google. Google criticism was barely existent just 2-3 years ago, now it's widespread. What else will they do to prop up their earnings??? On what can you trust them?
You can do a lot by varying the shape of a building. The office building that I work in is a giant H. I'm next to a window pretty much anywhere I go.
Fine, how about this:

function testCase() {
// do some stuff
assert(a>=b, 'less pictures than participants', a, b);
// do some stuff
assert(cool.length, 'cool is empty');
}

output:

"testCase: less pictures than participants (3, 4)"
"testCase: cool is empty"

easy, no?
according to the techcrunch article [1] the announcement was pretty light on details. Google invited reporters to a little birthday party and said "oh, yeah, we totally overhauled our search algo the other day".

[1]http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/google-recently-made-a-sile...
Google Street View of LHC
https://www.google.com/maps/views/streetview/cern
The nice thing about having a native client is that we (Screenhero) have full control over latency (well, outside of network issues of course!) and responsiveness, as well as those deep hooks into the hardware to make the multi-mouse magic happen. Our goal is to make /any/ app collaborative, without requiring developers hook into our API. I am curious what kind of apps you have in mind that might need to give hints to Screenhero? Give it a try, we think you'll find our active-cursor algorithm quite good—and if you don't, we want to hear your feedback!
Just one evidence. Can you give me?
I bet you thought about the bacteria, uh?
:)
The acquisition won't hurt Stripe. It does sound like a solid move for Paypal if they don't mess Braintree up. Both Stripe and Braintree are good.
senior vice president
They've been messing with operators so much, I've lost track what works and what doesn't.

Apparently the double-quote still works. Well, that's good.
IOS 7 Development Tips, Tricks & Hacks
Good thought. Thanks for the feedback! Does this mean you up-voted this post? :-P
I think x-y scalability would be easier/more versatile/easier to locate than an ever-enlarging circumference.
We use it inside the Screenhero office quite a lot too—Aside from eating our own dogfood, it lets us point without physically jabbing our fingers at the screen, which is actually pretty powerful!
It notices that origin has commits that you don't have and rejects your push. Then you pull the change that happened in the meantime, merge/rebase your change again on top of that, and push again.

If we're recommending books on Git, I recommend Pro Git. It's free online. http://git-scm.com/book
And I am just the opposite. Every time I get a new job I pray to be in a windowless place, specially if it's a small room in a corner.

There's no price for the peace it brings.
I recall debugging a monstrous web system (it woudl require more that one entry in the daily WTF to do it justice) by borrowing a large conference room and laying out the code over about 20 feet linear length of table
I did pack my stuff and go home... But something to remember, having a problem with the American Government doesn't mean having a problem with the american people. Too many people confuses that.
The UI is honestly hard on my eyes. Its nothing horrible but I can feel myself strain more - it does matter to me though because, as most of us do, I look at screens a lot.

I think if they could tone down the colors a bit I would feel differently. Overall, for my tastes I think it looks worse but will likely stick with iOS.
It sounds like the "expected" return on litigation may be positive for small legitimate startups, so that over the long run, it might be expected to work our well for small startups. However, each individual small company may not want to risk their survival on hard-to-predict judicial idiosyncrasies.
Are you using gitflow?
https://github.com/nvie/gitflow

So yes, if you try to push without pulling down changes, then you will get an error about the histories having diverged. Sometimes you don't care about wiping out history, and can just push with the -f parameter, but most of the time that's your cue to rebase.

Branches are cheap in git, and there's no real advantage to doing dev work in the master branch. You should create a branch at least as often as you develop a new feature. In git, history isn't necessarily a static thing. Sometimes you need to mangle it to achieve your goals, and sometimes you fat-finger the merge and do time in History Hell. In either case it's only a huge flaming deal if you're working on master. Ditto with the problem you describe.

I recommend the O'Reilly book on Git. The simple explanations are nice in theory, but this is a complicated subject and deserves a full explanation. There are very sound reasons for the how and why of git, and they should be within the grasp of any aspiring programmer.
Facebook shares up %30 since IPO
The PC keyboard wasn't the only keyboard. Apple computers didn't have F-keys, AS/400 keyboards had 20+ F-keys and another cluster of specific keys to the left of where the Tab/Caps/Shift keys are today.
Anyone have thoughts on whether this is accurate or not?
Remote administration at a hardware level isn't new. Not hardly. This is trash journalism at its worst. Pulling together a list of technologies and outlining a shallow examination of how they could be abused isn't much use to anyone. If we wanted to play that game, we could fill encyclopedias with lists of ways computers could be used to spy on us.
Facebook Inc (FB): Why The Stock Is Surging
In this case it is likely mostly about this being Qualcomms first version of the gles 3 driver and updating a driver for a mobile phone isn't as straight forwards as updatung mesa. It is likely to get better.
>for some reason people's ears are not a health issue.

You appear to be in Vancouver or thereabouts. Worksafe BC absolutely does cover hearing loss. Here's the claim form:

http://www.worksafebc.com/forms/assets/PDF/4.pdf
In my experience, as a rule, site search engines generally suck. And the exceptions to the rule often turn out to be farming the search out to Google one way or another.[1][2]

I often simply ignore site search boxes in favor of using the "site:" operator.

[1]https://www.google.com/cse/

[2]http://www.google.com/enterprise/search/products/gsa.html
I only recall it being ignored when the string in quotes returns no hits
"Try adding ?hl=en to the URL"

How about suing a new fucking search engine, DDG or Bing?!!! Do this for that, that for that and we'll need a college degree on Google searching. I travel so my searches used to automatically transfer to google.cctld. No thanks!
Thank you. Does this support IAM Roles?
HTTPS for Reddit.
Google in a box
Isn't the same true of most of the Oculuses out there? :)
>> Big open floor plan with conference rooms (although not enough)

My last boss drew the office up with ONE conference room. Big mistake. You need at least 3 for the size of our office. One for actual conferences and a phone call room and a 'war room'.

The lunchroom was sized too big, and was only used for lunch from 11:30 to 1:00, so it became the second conference room or place to take a phone call.
As your competitor I wish you the best! More innovation in this space is needed.
Google Celebrates Its Own 15th Birthday With Piñata Game Doodle
To be fair,that's the proper behavior the tab key on a desktop, and breaking from that is breaking the standard behavior. Offering a hotkey makes sense, but tab isn't it.
The big clue is in the last paragraph.

And yes, I'm extrapolating a bit, but given the rest of the SCP-universe (inasmuch as there is a such a thing), it's a pretty reasonable conclusion. If it's wrong to you, well, it's right to me, Hail Fanon, All Hail Discordia.
Left hand: ring on ctrl, pointer on alt. Right: pointer on delete.
I'm starting to think it's a cultural thing. Why do you and other people think that not having natural light is depressing? When I see people from US or some other countries talking about lighting, they seem to almost worship natural light.
Yeah, I know there's more going on.

I still think it's important to reiterate as much as possible why a service was shut off, both for a customer understanding viewpoint, AND from a "cover your ass" viewpoint.

It can't hurt to say "As stated in the past email, your server was shut off due to YYYYY", rather than just "Game over, man. Stop emailing us." equivalents.
As someone who does farming (part time), I don't see these being practical. For low value bulk crops (corn, wheat, soybeans) the robot is too expensive and existing mechanization is too good. Even for high value stuff (grapes and other fruit) it will be too expensive. Maybe inside a highly controlled greenhouse this will be practical, but there are no food crops that are economical to grow inside a greenhouse. (It is getting there as high-tunnel becomes cheaper to install.)

As an aside, mechanical harvesters for grapes are hilarious. You still need people to run them. One person's job is to find and remove possums from the fruit bin before the critter is buried by a thousand pounds of fruit.

It is a distraction to talk about the gantry, XY or radial. Any gantry based system is going to be a headache from the start because you've got those rails cluttering up the space. Eventually you'll find something the robot cannot do and then you'll be trying to figure out how to get your general purpose tractor around without crushing the gantry.

The radial system is cute, except now your installation and operating costs scale linearly with the amount of crops. With an XY system, one can plant more and extend the rails and have the existing robots do more work. Not possible with the radial system, unless you are going to physically pick up and move the units between circles few times each day. If time is tight (plague of locusts coming in tomorrow, need more robots to squish them) you can increase the robot density by sliding more robots onto the XY gantry. Not possible with radial.

Ultimately it will be about the vision processing and manipulators. And then you might as well mount the vision/manipulator unit on a tractor and have a robot-tractor drive up and down the fields, just like any other piece of equipment. Vastly cheaper and more flexible than gantries.

Eventually we will get there, but it probably won't be until vision processing and lidar gets a whole lot cheaper. We might be on the cusp though, based on the computer vision advances in video gaming.

User roryaronson, I've done a lot with robotics and outdoor electronics too. If you want I can give you a fairly lengthy piece of constructive critism about your whitepaper. You've got a lot of good ideas in there, but just as much misinformation.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+did+walt+disney+die
Completely different. It's a unitary literal operator, so if you put +shelf you would only get pages that had the word "shelf" and not shelved, shelving, bookcase, etc like you get normally.
I think the intention isn't for searching for literally that sequence of words, though, just something approximate-ish question-ish.
The Pursuit Of Social Media Value & Measurement
There are many many many more recent discussions on this topic. Since the community likes it so much I post this every day now. ;)
This is cool, hope it get's merged back to whirr soon
Just a heads up: was reading the article when all of a sudden some trojan took over the whole site. The background faded to black and something requesting information from me popped up.

I closed the tab and put "firstround.com" on the company blacklist.
That, and they also have the Verbatim option under Search Tools, but using it seems to conflict with other Tools, such as date filtering, and also applies to the whole query, not just one or two terms.
Really, I think the same. Comparing just a browser bookmark which doesn't always come in your way with an ever intrusive app and loving crapware just because it's from their loved company? I mean, I knew Apple fans are dense, but this is excessive.
This is why I basically use DuckDuckGo for any search where I know exactly what terms I want to be super weighted, and Google for things like: "What is the weather in Amsterdam?"

It's worked out really well. That plus the !g operator in ddg means I get the best of both worlds, I'd suggest you try it for a day or so and see how it goes.
Agreed. I saw it was just colors and kinda questioned why they'd name it simply "hex invaders", instead of including something about color in the name.
If you want to write a good fake review, make sure you trash the place on small things first.

small bar...lighting was too low...but great food and service

;-)
And IMMEDIATELY the fandroids come out and pretend that we should be talking about how bad Apple is. +1 for the comment somewhere about how dense Android fans appear to be.

However bad you think Apple might be, Samsung is far, far worse, just much less successful and slick about it. I had thought the old adage about "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" was only believed by halfwits, apparently I was wrong.
Searal better than Google
I can hear the sounds in my head. If you watched 'The Six Million Dollar Man' or 'The Bionic Woman' in the 70's, you probably hear the same sounds.