skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do it over email. Or even text. Or voice even. It works just fine.

Really, it is entirely possible to schedule events without Facebook. It was possible to do so when FB was not there, and it is possible to do it now :)
That is great stuff! :-)
I don't get this header. Wouldn't the man-in-the-middle that is using something like sslstrip also be able to strip out any header they choose to?
Is all European real estate ridiculously expensive?
How inane are we talking about here?

I'm thinking of a script that grabs a random YouTube comment more than N characters long and posts it someplace else completely out of context.

I'd expect the results to be like @Horse_ebooks, where "horse" refers to heroin.
> For a lot of OSS communities, if it didn't happen on the list, it didn't happen.

Yeah, well, maybe that's a bad idea?

There is another big FOSS project I know which has its own bug tracker from way back when (horribly outdated, frequently malfunctioning, terrible usability) and then they have their new GitHub tracker. The result? If you want to file anything, you have to file it in both systems.

What I'm trying to say is: You have to make a choice at some point. Either you move forward and solve problems, or you stay where you are. But don't blame the move forward for not allowing you to stay where you are.
That was $230k in today's dollars. Also, incomes were generally lower then, even accounting for inflation, your girlfriend's grandparents (who must be 60 or 70 to have grandparents from that era) were pretty well off. Her family most also still be well off to pay the property taxes on such an appreciation.
Yes, this is the case, but only in the first request. As soon as an HTTP user agent gets such an HSTS header, it will only communicate via HTTPS until max-age expires.
> detecting the interval
between decay events

How do you do that?
Facebook won't let you use characters from multiple alphabets, so you'd have to change all the letters in your name to their Cyrillic equivalents.
Using a definition that simple, most people in the world are deeply sexist.
I was thinking the same... the source code for the portal is in fact open source:
https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov

But the code for the marketplace isn't.

I think if the marketplace was open bug fixing would be faster.
I don't have a facebook account. My friends that do generally just send me (and a few others without facebook accounts) an email when they are hosting an event. Is it really that much of an effort to remember to invite people who aren't on facebook?
True. However if we're looking for very brief landings followed by periods of flight you might see that in the pressure data.

You'd expect some flat "flight level" pressure over a day, with V pressure changes to correlate with landings (or swoops in mid-air). You would need to correlate these with other sensors for it to mean anything concrete but it could corroborate or disprove other theories.
Show HN: Social QR Code Generator
Scala is a great alternative. The Java interop is great and the tooling is good, certainly good enough. It's statically typed, but much more expressive and productive than Java.
There isn't a whole lot you can do with it, you are basically getting a rock. You can show it is radioactive by running a geiger counter across it. Interestingly enough the old rare earth mine in Nevada, back when it was closed and essentially "abandoned" had a variety of radioactive materials in its tailings (the most common being Thorium) we did a science trip once to grab some and figure out the various isotopes in it.

If you put it in an air tight container you can collect Radon.
Thats amazing. Imagine also when we get good graphene super-capacitors that are smallish and light-ish and we can fill the wings with them. Trickle charge them with solar power and have each one large enough for a burst of that laser - and it can charge over time and then have a battery of burst avaialable to it.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/hardware3.html

HotBits already has implemented the idea
SWEET!! Corona SDK is the only way to do it that fast.
Yes. Most people rent flats also, and it works fairly well.
Netbooks worked until Microsoft intentionally killed them.
I agree. Do you think anyone would contribute?
If enough of your friends did this and you had to block all of them, you'd have no use for a facebook account.
I just love how it's categorized under "Occupational Health & Safety Products."

Does this mean I can list my chloroform under the "Cosmetics" category too?
Great article! Very inspiring.
I was thinking more like random sentences from a gutenberg book... and of course cat pictures.
If you're an older native Texan, you might remember the days when the majority of the residents were actually born in the state and also had parents born in the state. Fast forward a couple of score of years and if you're not a farmer and don't live in the sticks, odds are that you are surrounded by people from the surrounding states, from the coasts and around the world.

So culturally and demographically the state has changed tremendously over the last two censuses. The urban sprawl and traffic is starting to remind people of California. And the people from California remind people constantly they are from California. And the neighborhoods could be from California. (Sans the climate since we have earthquakes here now, too...)

Plus the growth is fueled by short-sighted policies of the modern slick version of the good-ole-boy, fake Christian, supposedly conservative state government. (Don't blame me, I didn't vote for them...) In the long run, lack of water resources, too many damn people and a stupid government will crash the state hard. The area around Austin is as flammable as SoCal, the traffic is DFW is becoming a monster and the social net is non-existent except for federal money.

But hey, my house would be worth 9 times as much if it were in San Francisco. :)
He was talking about FAT8 not FAT32.
I just... What? Do people really consent to share that kind of their information? I'm just surprised that people would use Facebook as such an "everything" platform for all the bits of data in their lives.

I guess I've always kept relatively tight control over my data, at least whether I want aspects of data about me to be public. I say that even though I make a tremendous amount of information about me very accessible (name, age, address, family, phone number, email address, etc). However, for other people who don't have that luxury, I wonder why in the world they're using Facebook?
Very cool insights, thanks!
Agree completely. It would be possible to abstract away all of these services into a common dialect (so that grouping and filtering works across multiple services) and then let the user "build" different UX approaches by allowing one to group and filter different sources into specific view: ex, group tweets and irc messages and have that group display only some UI stuff, group rss/fb posts and have the UI display some other stuff.
I live in Schaumburg and work in the west loop in Chicago. I have no problems whatsoever with T-Mobile reception or data speed wise anywhere in the Chicago area, and I'm on a Galaxy Nexus.
How Your Beliefs as a Leader Determine the Performance of Your Entire Team
Video of the soft-landing engines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2X2kaqYatI
Thanks! Seems to be a problem for a lot of people. Here's an invite code for you: same.io/i/544484
The usual form of quid-pro-quo between government agents and private contractors is the implied offer of a cushy "consulting" job with the company once they retire from public service. This happens with regularity and it's not clear that anyone ever gets penalized, except the taxpayers being fleeced.
When I started my programming career, my first boss did not know how to use a text editor. He could perform a randomizing routine in his head but he trembled at using a text editor -- he still used punched cards and/or a mainframe utility that emulated a punch card. And lots of programmers coded first on columnar grid paper (shades of green and white, demarcations at 8, 12, 16 to help you indent properly.
That is true of immutability languages like Clojure, O don't see how that is possible for a mutable dynamically typed language like CommonLisp
Vim on VS
I've had a party balloon on my ceiling for the past month. Clearly there are some holes in this "gravity" theory of yours.
Exactly. "It's like a fucking spacepen" is a phrase I've heard more than once in my career.
Right, but you couldn't distinguish a V that was a brief landing from a V that was a dive and climb, nor could you distinguish a flat line that was cruising from a flat line that was sitting on the ground.

I don't doubt that pressure data would be useful, it just doesn't give you altitude data.
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You can't control how other people schedule events.
Non-software projects can go horribly badly too.

I live in Perth, Australia. Almost every civil project there is blowing out like a balloon. Opera houses, hospitals, fancy developments. All going over budget and schedule.

I was in Toronto a few days ago. What's on the cover of the newspaper? A civil project. A subway station running way over cost and time.

Industrial and civil megaprojects routinely go way off course. Bad project management is universal, good project management is hard, any project of any serious size will require owner-commissioner organisations to not be useless idiots.
I'm not sure I follow this logic. She fessed up to pushing a sexist hiring policy and then tried to justify it by explaining it's just because she enjoys working with other females more?

Well, I enjoy a good laugh... and sexist jokes often make me laugh. Should I apologize?... I feel like I should.
I'm not Jason but I'll jump in here. I differ a little from Jason with answers/philosophy on this, but we match up pretty closely overall & I've written & spoken tons on cold showers:

1) Over time, you'll find it takes less will power to do it & you'll recognize it gets easy. In other words, you get stronger and you'll find yourself spending less time worrying about whether or not you can do something & more time just doing it. Over time, you'll find yourself taking the same attitude towards other difficult or uncomfortable things in life[1].

2) This sounds like something different than cold showers, but I'll take a crack at it. When you start CST - and do it for a few days - you start to realize that it's not really as bad as you thought it would be after all[2] and every single reason why people don't take cold showers comes down to one of two different "reasons." [3]

3) I've actually had some of my best idea time while taking a cold shower. You can either choose to freak out or become really zen & when you do it's crazy the ideas you can come up with.

4) There's always the health benefits (I don't get into this a ton, but it helps with quite a few things physically from circulation to healthy hair[5].

[1] http://impossiblehq.com/cold-shower-therapy-guide

[2] http://impossiblehq.com/cold-showers-india

[3] http://impossiblehq.com/cold-showers-excuses

[4] http://impossiblehq.com/cold-shower-health-benefits

Sorry for all links - thought it was better than leaving a block of text.
I used my middle name as my last name.

My name became incredibly generic when I did this, so bonus points for unsearchability.
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How is this detrimental to those with an unusual name? I ask because I have an unusual name (I've never met another "Leland") and I never set my name to be unsearchable, and I've not had any problems because of this. What bad things are going to happen?
Historically, programming was low-prestige as well.
No viable market for open source consumer desktop software (2005)
Using violence to counter violence is still violence. Using sexism to counter sexism is still sexism. Simply put, An eye for an eye will always leave two blind people no matter how justified one feels it is.
Anybody using Rust?
That's interesting, I recently had a friend change his name to something analagous to "SunBurned".

I thought it was bizarre, and maybe just temporary, but it's there, and since I have my contacts merged in my phone, I have to remember to search for SunBurned rather than his name when I want to text him.
France's rights of way were in no small part established by Napoleon simply building roads where he wanted them to go.

The USA, like many countries, has rules about simply seizing land that are of the form "well, OK, if it's for a good cause, but you better pay for it".
Rules for working life
But just keep in mind that neural networks beyond 4 layers are often not better. and most work can be done with 3 layers total.. (so that is one hidden one), having two hidden ones can just do some things that a 3layer cant.

But more then 4 is more often a bad design and usually overkill of layers for most practical usages.

Although theoretical there no math limit to the amount of layers in practical terms its more often calculation time that explodes to unless its a simple FANN based network
but then still 3 or 4 layers is 95% of the time enough
It doesn't matter what the percentage of population is at those numbers.
Exactly. The idea is that contractors can be fired for a poor job, but the reality is that it rarely happens. Federal employees are rarely held accountable for their failures so in turn they rarely hold contractors accountable. Maybe that contractor doesn't get to stay on for option years, but many times they do for a myriad of reasons.

Then there's the incestual revolving door between government and contracting companies. Government lead retires, then goes to work for the contractor they used to oversee. The biggest contractors use that as a prime mechanism for earning new business. In some companies the best path to get into senior management positions is by being a former Fed.
As requested, polished this up and posted it:

http://blog.jle.vi/post/63676559515/how-your-beliefs-as-a-le...
Nice one ;)
Nope, this is a front-end interface for getting your files from the user to the browser and then to your Rails app.

Paperclip and Carrierwave (I highly recommend Carrierwave) manage the actual storage of the file data (ie on S3) and the incorporation of the file into your ActiveRecord model (I'm glossing over a lot but hopefully you get the idea).

Basically, Dropzone would be a companion to your Rails-based file storage mechanism.
Show HN: Ranking mainstream News on Twitter in real-time, an experiment.
http://newspo.st/dev-preview.html

I'd like to hear some feedback about this App I've been working on lately.

It's exactly what everyone tells you not to do: a "news app", but I strongly believe this one is different: News are ranked by real-time Twitter popularity, you can see what people says on Twitter about a specific topic and you can download full articles as well.
I think personalization narrows the scope of articles you can come across, while sometimes it's good to read about stuff that matters to everyone.
The first raw version of the app is now available on iTunes.
If you need further infos you can check the landing page at: http://newspo.st
Very interesting. If this is true someone got some nice pocket money from Microsoft for this one.
Clickable: http://newspo.st/dev-preview.html
I did a little research in London a while back:

assume that the Rich dad poor dad idea of 2.5x income is the value of an affordable house, and the average median UK income is 25k that leaves houses at ~70k. Do you know how many houses are for sale in London at less than 70k, in this city of 8million? 6. just six.

ridiculous
> I remember I was helping out a friend with a side project after work one day. We sat down and spent the night writing code together. It was just so...easy. To get along, to get on the same page, our arguments were productive and from the minute we sat down together there was an immediate sense that we respected each other.

She get's along better with a person that has more in common with her. The outcome of this is kind of ironic, if you think that the purpose of these initiatives is 'diversity'.
Something something Betteridge's Law of Headlines something something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

That said, I largely agree.
Very clear, and some great advice!
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"pen or paper", not "pen xor paper" ;).
I am not arguing I am just curious why teredo is more efficient than most tunnel brokers. I thought 6to4 and/or 6in4 had a lower protocol overhead?

Efficiency aside for any site that I have tested HE's peering agreements seem to produce lower latencies and better throughput than the IPv4 network paths provided by TWC. But this might be unique to my situation due to how close I am to the HE pop in chicago.
I certainly support the argument that this type of option should be the users' choice, but I'm curious by how many people seem to want to subvert this so that they remain unsearchable.

I use Facebook so that I can connect with people I meet. If I don't exchange contact info with someone I meet, but they know my name, it's great for them to search and find me on Facebook. I don't want my Facebook connections to solely be people I choose to friend.

I guess it boils down to how people use the service.

Real Question: Why do you have an account, but not want people to be able to find you?

EDIT: Thanks for the responses, some of them make a lot of sense that I didn't think of initially.
Two weeks is a lifetime compared to vaporware.

It's interesting engineering that should keep improving as photovoltaics and batteries improve. A fleet of these sun chasing giant satellites that don't need to come down(but can if necessary)? It's like a Dyson swarm, except on a lot more manageable altitude.
But then you have to live in Ohio.
Rapid Application Development indeed. Great to see how things like this get done fast, and to a high quality as well.
Unfortunately, although there's no particular reason for it, you're not allowed to write a method that takes only variadic arguments. This doesn't work:

- (NSString *)format: ...;

It would be oh-so convenient, meaning you could write formatting operations like this:

newstr = [@"%d %@ %s" format: 42, @"blah", "yep"];

Given the constraints we have to work with, I'd say your best bet would be to simply write a function:

newstr = fmt(@"%d %@ %s", 42, @"blah", "yep");
It's kind of funny that the closest thing to Smalltalk images in wide use are the world most popular object oriented programs: spreadsheet documents (and to an extent ms word documents).
I don't think it is sexist, but I think its misguided. Maybe I lack the data, but it seems to me that forcibly encouraging companies to hire more women only seems to mask the real problem. Is the problem really top-down or is it bottom up?

For example, a couple months ago I read this report on bitcoin adoption that said bitcoin users were 92% male. If we assume this report is correct, then why? If bitcoin, (pretend with me here), is going to be the next driver in the global economy, why is it so heavily male dominated? Bitcoin is fairly anonymous and low entry. Now in our world where Bitcoin rules, if our bitcoin overlords were 92% male, who do we blame for this gender homogeneity?

Now, I may be ignorant in the latest innovations of public schooling, but is the problem that "Brogrammers" are refusing to hire women, or are women just not entering into CS/STEM tracks, and if the problem is the latter, wouldn't it be more sustainable to force our efforts into public schooling rather than constantly remind HN that if our company doesn't have a female mixer we are doing it wrong?

I really hope I'm right with this, and I'm really excited for BlackGirlsCode (http://www.blackgirlscode.com/). With this organization's efforts I hope in the next 10-15 years we see a growth of talented female/black developers leading to a more concentrated effort on the source of this problem.
Dell really need to pull their finger out and ship that laptop in .au (and upgrade it to haswell already.)
Sorry but the savvier religious strategists do this stuff all the time: a friendly message about how the medieval Church "wasn't all that bad," a little chuckle about how modern science isn't as epistemologically pure as it wants to be - the basic message is hey, we're not all that different after all...

It's not that I think they have any real chance of success with these tactics, but I do find this behaviour insulting. No good historian thinks such simplistic nonsense about the Galilean episode. Any good historian is well aware of the progressive simplification of the past. It's not that these specific points aren't all true, it's way they're used, the subtle insinuations, that I find slimy.

As for Feyeraband, well, again he's a favourite of the religious pundits - doesn't matter that none of his critiques of science really had an impact - again the suggestion is that hey, knowledge is limited, so all these scientists who like to think they're purveying ultimate truth are so silly, and maybe hey this religious stuff isn't all bad? Again it's insulting - any good scientist is highly aware of the limits of reliable knowledge - and anyway, just because there are some limits on the reliability of knowledge, doesn't mean we can't at least try and distinguish between more and less reliable knowledge. The religious pundits don't want us to do so, of course, they would rather that we get shocked over the hubris of prideful scientists, and walk around "knowing" that everything is relative, nothing is really knowable... Helps them out.

This is all textbook religious propaganda to me, the more so because it's so benignly packaged.
That depends on what you mean by countering sexism. Telling your co-workers that they should treat the women they work with with the same respect they show to their male co-workers isn't sexist. Saying that you need to recruit more women is.
> Can you even make a 'lean startup' type organization based on editorial content?

I think that one issue here is that the news reader apps focus on user experience while most of the content providers focus on content (and frankly, provide a relatively awful user experience). I think that to have a successful news product, you have to provide both. If you look at the classic periodic news/opinion model, the magazine, you had a strong marriage of both aspects of the overall product. The confounding issue for content providers right now is that they all give the milk away for free, and so it's trivial for aggregaters to both focus on user experience AND have more quality content than any particular content provider. But if there was a shift in the content industry away from allowing aggregaters to use their content, then perhaps individual content providers could compete. However, I expect that to succeed in such an environment that the content providers would have to become desirable destinations in their own right.
I totally agree..
"Only supported on the desktop version of Google Chrome"
Bummer.
I guess, but what is this loss? It seems like being non-searchable is effectively "security through obscurity", not any kind of actual information restriction (like not giving data you don't want known to FB in the first place). What's the tangible badness in this?
It's been years, but I've been in one of those meetings where someone uses this as an example.
Pen and paper works just fine on a plane and I'm old enough to know that back in those days lots of coding was done that way.

At one work place, I spent most of the day away from the computer (terminal) waiting for the operational boys to get their stuff done.

I would spend most of my coding day scribbling out code changes onto the fanfold printout.
Then, as the OP said, delete you flipping account.
It seems that GTAV's parody of Facebook as "LifeInvader" was even more spot-on than Rockstar Games realized.

(I wasn't among those that objected to the "Friend Request" mission. After all, who hasn't wanted to blow Zuck's head off at one time or another? :-) )