skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just wish OwnCloud wasn't a slow PHP script. Can FastMail sync with any cardDAV server? Because I might just write on of those or something.
Stealing was good for the majority of people in the financial services business who didn't get caught and go to jail.

Your grasp on the use of statistics seems tenuous. It is not to prove possibility but likelihood. I could give one random person a million dollars and that would prove that people can escape poverty? Yes, they "can" but not at a rate or in a way that is meaningful for those stuck there or concerned about the problem.
I feel lucky all the time. You can change your search settings so that this doesn't happen. Kind of strange that they even show the Feeling Lucky button when this feature is enabled though. You can also use I'm Feeling Lucky via the URL by adding the query parameter btnI

ie. for the query "How Many People Are In Space Right Now"

google.com/search?q=How+Many+People+Are+In+Space+Right+Now&btnI
Though I'm glad to see more intro material for quantitative economics, I am a bit perplexed by the scope/emphasis of this text.

For instance, here's how many times the following words appear in it:

Money : 0 mentions
Incentive(s) : 1 mention
Market(s) : 0 mentions

I'm no quantatative Economist, but in what way is this an economics text, as opposed to just an algorithms/modeling text?

(I'm not saying it ISN'T an economics text... I'm just hoping someone can genuinely answer my newbie question :-)
I do, but I still don't like their approach on iOS, don't like the idea of them doing the same thing with OS X (which they might or might not do), and would rather give my money to some different company.

This is rather hard, though, we'll see how Haswell Zenbooks will fare. Or maybe XPS 13's
https://www.globetrotter.de/outdoor-kueche/sturmkocher-spiri...

well the Biolite seems to be a top notch stove plus it charges your devices. The link above are comments of buyers, nearly all positive. For a stove you prefer gas?
Haha...sorry, no I didn't mean to lump you in with the hn-stereotyped non-co-founder masses (and I don't even agree with it, in most cases, but it's easy to use it as an explanatory tool). Java, for sure, is a fine tool for the job, technically speaking; I was referring more to the business/social aspect of having to sell the stack to a developer, and convincing them to work on it. This also may be developer bullshit too? who knows. I do think that the results will speak for themselves, if you can find a great java dev, that wants to work on it, etc, etc, than my theory is probably BS. If you haven't found anyone, than I would seriously consider letting a dev run with the new stack.
The website referenced in the post, FounderDating, is unusable, unfortunately. They got in trouble recently for using dark patterns to spam the linkedin contacts of potential users' references, and when called out on it the CEO tried to debate the use of the word "spam" when referring to their behavior:

http://ilikestuffblog.com/2013/04/26/do-you-want-to-spam-you...

That you have to get approved and give references is also the biggest "f* you" to potential users. Why would any sensible person waste their references' time and goodwill with this nonsense?

Hopefully someone will make a worthwhile "founder dating" service that just lets users find others who want to work on something and gives them a way to make contact. Don't make users jump through hoops, and don't abuse users.
Codeine isn't OTC in the US, even when mixed with acetaminophen. Though, from what I understand, a pharmacist technically has the ability to dispense codeine-containing cough syrup without prescription.

Also, Hydrocodone (derived from codeine) is a Schedule 2 drug in the US. But, when combined with another substance (most often with acetaminophen, like Percocet) the drug is reduced to Schedule 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocodone

As far as addicts misusing OTC codeine/acetaminophen, it's apparently pretty easy to filter most of the adulterant in a basic kitchen.
Yes, and it's undeniably nice to be able to buy books and CDs at what are effectively wholesale prices. I'm less convinced that kindle and e-ink e-readers in general are the future. Trends suggest that more and more people are reading on tablet, as opposed to specialist reading devices, the usage of which has plateaued. And I would definitely worry about what will happen to books should the day come when they are primarily read on a platform on which they must compete with other, noisier content (I'm looking at you, Angry Birds).
Deja vu anyone? http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/05/google-android-sms-bug/

Good going Google.
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Of course there is, if he can't find someone to work on it for equity, but can convince someone to write it in PHP for equity.
> Then again, he's not the one saying Al Gore's (manbearpig! hurr hurr hurr) finances prove or disprove climate change

No one said this. Are you interested in actual discussion or snide comments?
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Can you describe how that is a benefit?
I experience this. But my addiction is for information, technical articles, scientific papers in mathematics, physics, machine learning, biology. Now I can do it all on my phone anywhere, anytime. Texting and social media are of little interest to me... Do you think this is still something I should worry about?
It's amazing that on a place like HN it seems like most people just don't get this.

The vast majority of communication happens on products that:
1. Don't even have a desktop component
2. Have no "status" indication (oh noes!!!)
3. Are completely closed ecosystems

And yet you never see posts about how WhatsApp, iMessage, SnapChat, etc are horrible because of the above reasons.
It depends on your use case.

Where I work, we use google apps, and so everyone has each other on Gtalk. We use the status line to indicate whether somebody is WFH or OOO, which works great. But with hangouts, I lose that information. Worse yet, it doesn't show my contacts that I don't talk to, which is bad because I care about their online status. Even worse yet, if I "revert to old chat", but reply to somebody using my phone where I don't have that option, that conversation get sucked into the hangout side and I don't get it in my email anymore.

So hangouts is now hiding information I need and unreliable at delivering messages. That makes it worse than useless: If it wasn't there, I would at least use some alternative. It would be better for it not to exist.
Also Please, Release Opera 16 for Linux already. As a long time Opera user I feel completely abandoned.
> is the antarctic icecap not rapidly getting larger?

To the best of our knowledge the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is gaining mass[1] due to increased precipitation and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is losing mass[2] due to acceleration of glaciers. I believe there is also an increase in Antarctic sea ice extent [3]. As far as I know these increases are not enough to offset the reduction in mass in the Arctic but I don't have a comparison to hand. Wait a few days and the IPCC report will probably have a decent summary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Antarctic_Ice_Sheet#Ice_m...
[2] http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/12/the-he...
[3] http://tamino.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/antarctic-sea-ice-gai...
I don't quite grasp how you can purposefully ignore the general bias on the possession of wealth currently in the common mind, much less the mind of a Berkley student. This is where people got pepper sprayed for Occupy. They're going to have a bias...
He's referring to the fact that the URL is in spoken question form. So people going to Google and querying "How Many People Are In Space Right Now" and using the I'm Feeling Lucky search will be brought directly to the site.
Most of my friends switched to gtalk from our previously most popular messenger (it was gg in Poland). From I see around they also made a dent in Skype usage. as chat client. Maybe it's alrtenative universe but that's how things look from my perspective.
this little article is pernicious. please do not start thinking this is proper testing. what he shows is a lame replacement for some manual browser testing.

theres no talk about clean states between tests. no concern about emulating data sources. etc.

this is what should be called half assed functional tests. not even unit tests as everyone here says.

man tests really are black magic around those parts...
Sure, so this is a company with a paltry 20% gross margins.
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Also also, their "are you human" checks tend to show up more often than they should for legitimate users at the default security settings.
Projection-mapping onto moving surfaces
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Giving the links to the articles which present the views of denialists as facts aren't proof of anything but that there are journalist and media that distort what the most scientist believe.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6451344
It is on purpose, the last slide of the carousel reads: "frustrated? use a carousel and your users will be too"
I own a Galaxy Note 2 and decided quite soon after I would never buy Samsung again even though I think it is a great piece of hardware. The issue is they promised to release sources for certain drivers and never actually did, CyanogenMod said they would not officially support the device[1]. Samsung feel like an anti-consumer company, them pulling a stunt like this would not surprise me[2].

[1] Thankfully they did just recently release a stable version.

[2] I also made the same decision about Sony years ago when they released rootkits on their CD's.
You should also factor in time to get paid. If in your new venture you are going to be invoicing people directly then you should allow at least a couple of months to be paid.

i.e. you say 30 day payment terms on your invoice, but nobody will pay until that 30 days has elapsed, some people will pay you in the 4 weeks after that, and sometimes even with aggressively chasing you will have invoices which are 2 months overdue (i.e. no money for 3 months after they received the invoice)
> Not everyone has a useful function in society. It's a total fallacy that jobs are available for all and that it's a good metric for the success of a society.

Ah right, I misunderstood your comment. You're taking the position that it's always been like this and the wall marts and amazons of this world are not part of the reason things are like this, and moreover you're saying that societies can be considered successful even with high or rising unemployment.

It seemed to me like you were acknowledging that unemployment was rising and saying that people just had to get used to being jobless.

Have I now understood your position correctly?
Word. I have a theory that while git has completely taken over the software industry and most users can "get shit done" with it, very few of them actually understand what the fuck is going on. All those "simple explanations" are really nice theoretical pieces about the merits and design of git itself and most of the time tend to completely ignore (or dodge) the clusterfuck that every day git can be, especially for people starting up with it.

I'm talking about the botched merges, the hour-long rebases with 156 git rebase --skip, the "your branches have diverged" mysteries, the subtle differences between fetch and pull, the fact that all the GUI I've seen so far, far from being a tool, are actually complicating the task with their own little syntax.

If the underlying data structure is so beautiful, then how come there's no UI where I can simply drag branches around, have an actual "OOPS, MISTAKE, LET ME UNDO" button, reorder my commits with the mouse, something that holds my hand and actually cares about ALL git users, not the 1% connoisseur elite?

Don't get me wrong, I have zero doubt that git is in fact an absolutely great tool with a very intelligent design and that the users are to blame for not understanding it, I'm just thinking that if after more than 5 years of git-as-a-dominant-dvcs I keep seeing the same puzzled faces looking at a series of SHA-1 like it's the answer to the universe over and over again, there's something that's not quite right.

That being said, this is indeed one of the most comprehensive articles I've ever read about git.
I believe the current "0" is because the json file is having problems being served.
$10k liquid + $15k in withheld taxes the government owes me.

At least 5-8x that in an HSA, 401k, SEP, IRAs, Roth IRAs and tax-advantaged government bonds paying 7.5% that I bought a few months after I cashed out of the Janus fund in Dec 1999. (My broker fired me for that)

I'm going to hold on to those bonds as long as I can, and I'd much rather borrow against the equity of the "home" I own at a lower rate. (I bought the home in cash, so this is my "first" mortgage -- I opened the account when I wanted some capital to take a chance at buying an adjoining property at a tax auction.)

One of the first things I did when I quit was write a check from the heloc to the HSA so I wouldn't have to think about making contributions for it.

It's a little more complex than that because I have two houses on one large lot and my wife's riding academy and the rental income creates a financial situation that's so sweet it's almost a scam. I think last year I got $16k of rent, experienced a positive cashflow of around $14k from it, but the IRS says we made $4.5k of income because of depreciation on our property.

(I have no idea why anybody buys a single family house; as much as muggles make a big deal of the mortgage interest deduction, owning a duplex means you can write off half the principal plus you get a cash flow to help w/ the mortgage and property taxes. Maybe you even get a cool neighbor.)

One key to making this work is that I can get a high deductible health insurance plan through COBRA for $500 a month and that will tide me through until Obamacare comes unless the Republicans defund it. That's important because there really isn't any such thing as individual health insurance in NY. (I'd better write that letter to my Republican congressman before I forget.)

Anyhow, it isn't all roses. I pay $4k a year in taxes for a "persistently dangerous" school that my son goes to where probably 1/2 of the parents w/ college educations don't send their kids to because they homeschool. They haven't had a principal last more than two years so long as I know.

The internet sucks out here too. Github works OK, but it took 30 seconds to create a trouble ticket with the off-brand project management software at my last job, which was one of the reasons I quit. Netflix and Amazon instant video work, but I can't really watch Youtube. I used to use Flickr a lot, but with the latest update it is so slow I can't even use my own photographs when I make a presentation because it takes 1 minute+ to load.
I just met with one of the people behind this and I can heartily recommend it, very impressive and extremely nice. If you're in or around Berlin be sure to make contact with them, you won't regret it.
That should be the least of your concerns. Finding a co-founder is hard enough without expecting him to know Java. Pick based on other criteria, then let him rebuild it as he sees fit. There's a good chance that even a Java guy would end up refactoring it beyond recognition. It's exactly what I would do.
More directly he got railed by his own employer -- the once highly respected San Jose Mercury News -- who was getting railed by conservative punditocracy (which at the time included the Reagan administration as a proper subset).
I eagerly await your evidence.
I agree. The new PayPal wallet app that just launched recently is fitting for an older generation and could be improved 100x with Venmo. It will be interesting to see how they will fold Venmo into the current PayPal app, or would it make more sense to keep them as separate apps? I think the latter makes more sense.
oh shit this is dope. going to donate... now.
Interesting. The end of the NetBook Agreement in the UK (1995) which opened up the era of chain book stores and the discount supermarket book has definitely had a massive, often overlooked impact. The book industry don't like or get Amazon and that's why they grumble about it so much. But there are so many other reasons as to why it's changing so rapidly.
It's a natural psychological process for people to attribute to themselves good outcomes and to attribute to others bad outcomes. This seems to twist that to same something about ethics. Also, the playacting by undergraduates some of whom may have been pepper sprayed by agents of the 1% (in their view) seems not exactly unbiased.
yeah - did you read the blog post (mine) I linked to?: http://wannabevc.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/founderdating-nice...

Not good.
From my perspective, the reason they didn't catch on was because they took forever to load and most did gimmicky things like the cheezy water effect. If they had used it to make a YouTube-alike back in the day, it might have caught on.
Great job! Looking forward to other similar tools that people will be posting here - My FED skills are just horrendous, even with Bootstrap. Thanks for sharing!
Looks like the Chinese have their own docking mechanism, of unknown compatibility with an older Russian design. I think it'd be a good idea if they collaborated with NASA and Roscosmos on a design.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docking_and_berthing_of_spacecr...
Basic logic proves AGW to be false. If the planet is not warming in the first place, then humans cannot be responsible for causing it to warm. Scientists now openly admit that the planet is not warming. It would have been better for everyone if they had admitted it a decade ago instead of trying to "hide the decline". We can all thank frauds like Michael Mann for wasting everyone's time and money.

The problem is that, because the argument is easily proven by elementary school level critical thinking skills, the people disproving it don't seem as smart. It's a lot more impressive when people dress up in lab coats, point at charts, and tell you that you're too stupid to understand the details. "But trust us. Everyone knows the boogeyman is real. Now hand over your wallets so we can make him go away."
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Seems pretty cool - one thing I've been really wanting is a way to build up forms from within JavaScript (perhaps cached? Who knows...)

Basically I'm currently serving AngularJS partials using Django's templating, simply because django-crispy-forms (with some patches) can generate perfect bootstrap/foundation forms for me. It would be nice to move to perfectly flat templates, but having to copy/paste form elements just seems ludicrous.

There's also the added benefit that Django's forms (and Django REST's serializers) greatly simplify dealing with data gotten from HTTP requests, but still.

How do other people work with forms in their client-side apps?
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OK, I think this will have to be the subject of another blog post as I have never seen tech guys to polarised between "pick based on other criteria" versus "you've built something solid in Java, you'd be mad to change". It's almost a 50:50 split, and not much middle-ground.
Why I won't be using Microsoft.Bcl.Immutable (despite much anticipation)
Oh okay then, the main bike lane in my area has regular curves and vicious intersections, with people/kids walking by. I don't stare at girls anymore since I don't like kissing trees that much.
The problem is that with SVN, you can get in gradually. To start, the branchless approach still gets you a great service - obviously an incomplete one, but better than not having source control at all. And you can have leaders who are the only people who have to think about branching and merging and have people very gradually move into that role.

Git seems to force you to dive straight into the deep-end, since everything is a branch, even your own local working folder.
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The "60% increase" story is mis-reporting regression towards the mean. Long story short is, 2012 was a particularly bad year for arctic sea ice, 2013 was significantly better, but still on the thirty year trend line.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/...
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> Just because you're too dim to understand the science here doesn't give you an excuse to mock it.

This is "effective" advocacy at its finest. Write an otherwise useful response, then sneak in a personal attack to ensure the other person will not bother listening to you or particularly thinking about what you said.

I will save all of us a bit of time by pointing out in advance the hypocrisy of statements like: "well, if they're going to get emotional instead of being reasonable, piss on them".
Difference is, most models can be validated against reality. I might model a car crash impact in LS-DYNA, then I eventually crash the real thing and compare. Unless you have a spare Earth lying around and a few centuries, then climate modellers can't do that. Instead they have maybe 80 years of reliable temperature data at best (which is just one variable), on a planet 4 billion years old.

The radiative physics can tell us a lot about basic climate sensitivity, but modelling the feedbacks inherent in such a complex system must be near impossible. Saying that climate change is "simple radiative physics" is very misleading, it is a little bit like saying that if I kick a ball it will accelerate away from me and that is "basic Newtonian physics". Well yes, but I may be standing at the bottom of a steep valley, in which case the larger system exerts a negative feedback, and the ball rolls back to my feet.
> it squeezes the wealth out of those companies and transfers it to the people who shop there

That's very neat. But aren't the people who shop there themselves getting lower wages, so the purchase power remains the same as before?

i.e. my grocery shop is 20% cheaper, but my wages are 20% lower.
No matter how many "missing links" are found, the die-hard fundamentalists will find a way to ask for more. I've grown up in that environment. There are discrete jumps in fossils; unless you can find a complete lineage from "a rock to a walking-talking human", no True Christian will even waver for a minute.

Nope. instead it will cement his beliefs that there is a sinister plot to weave a web of lies concealing the fact that Gawhd the Awlmighty created heaven and earth in seven literal twenty-four hour days.

I remember seeing a lecture by a Creationist "biologist" who said that in the late 1970s he looked at the old edition of an "evolution textbook" and the brand-new edition. In the old edition it said they didn't know what the link between modern cetaceans and their land-based ancestors was; the new edition claimed to have found such a link. And this was PROOF that they were lying.

I went onto Wikipedia and looked up when the fossils of early flippered cetaceans were discovered. Sure enough, it was 1979, in Pakistan.

In short, because Christian "knowledge" is circumscribed and explains everything, it is obviously correct. Because science is incomplete and has gaps that haven't yet been empirically filled in, it's obviously Satan's lies.
Ansible has been taking off in the DevOps world and this newsletter curates the latest news from the community.

Just launched the first issue today, which you can see here:

http://devopsu.com/newsletters/ansible-weekly/1.html

If you're not familiar with Ansible, check out my earlier blog post on it: "Shell Scripts vs Ansible: Fight!"

http://devopsu.com/blog/ansible-vs-shell-scripts/