skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no effing idea, but the designer praised those three qualities. Maybe no pre-conception?
It can't be cheating if they pass inspections. Developing an advantage is not something to be punished for. This is racing after all.
Nice! Where is this?
It is good that you have a narrow focus. What specific problem do university students have that is solved by your product? Also, have you thought about how you want to iterate with a small group of users?
Yeah but it's actually a lot of fun to design in Illustrator. I don't think the creators of this icon set would have wanted to do all of this stuff while not in Illustrator - or at least I can't imagine me wanting to do that.

This is coming from an iOS engineer too.
It says he is in Lomé, which is the capital of Togo.
Do you really want /r/frugal as customers?
Another free pictogram icon set, and which I find more attractive:

http://www.entypo.com/
"I don’t use ANY soapy substances"
"Time to spend ... chasing girls"
Not sure why you need to chase them.
No, the article is clearly about Gladwell's work.
More like in what way is it passive aggressive?

I swear nobody knows what passive aggressive actually means. They asked not to have their picture taken (presumably politely) and the request was complied with. End of story.

I'm just going to leave this here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive-aggressive_behavior

In psychology, passive-aggressive behavior is characterised by a habitual pattern of passive resistance to expected work requirements, opposition, stubbornness, and negativistic attitudes in response to requirements for normal performance levels expected of others. Most frequently it occurs in the workplace where resistance is exhibited by such indirect behaviors as procrastination, forgetfulness, and purposeful inefficiency, especially in reaction to demands by authority figures, but it can also occur in interpersonal contexts.

or...

http://psychology.about.com/od/pindex/g/what-is-passive-aggr...

The phrase passive-aggressive is used to describe behavior or a personality trait that involves acting indirectly aggressive rather than directly aggressive. Passive-aggressive people regularly exhibit resistance to requests or demands from family and other individuals often by procrastinating, expressing sullenness, or acting stubborn.

Passive-aggressive behavior may manifest itself in a number of different ways. For example, a person might repeatedly make excuses to avoid certain people as a way of expressing their dislike or anger towards those individuals.

They were direct in their request (not passive) and not aggressive either (no negative behaviors).

One more...

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/passive-aggressive-behavior...

Passive-aggressive behavior is a pattern of indirectly expressing negative feelings instead of openly addressing them. There's a disconnect between what a passive-aggressive person says and what he or she does.

For example, a passive-aggressive person might appear to agree — perhaps even enthusiastically — with another person's request. Rather than complying with the request, however, he or she might express anger or resentment by failing to follow through or missing deadlines.

Specific signs of passive-aggressive behavior include:

Resentment and opposition to the demands of others

Procrastination and intentional mistakes in response to others' demands

Cynical, sullen or hostile attitude

Frequent complaints about feeling underappreciated or cheated
Happy to oblige. There's no built-in convention for it, but you can do something like this:

parse: function(attrs) {
this.friends = new PeopleCollection(attrs.friends);
delete attrs.friends;
return attrs;
}

... assuming that friends is an array of JSON objects suitable to be transformed into Person models.
The Chinese government should try and switch the Chinese faster to the new national OS, Ubuntu.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/ubuntu-to-become-the-offi...
So how does this work? From the search its cheat sheet:

"@defunkt	Get all repositories from the user defunkt."

Seeing as there _is_ a user called "a: (http://github.com/a) but he doesn't have a single line of code, no repositories and no active issues either; the search breaks somehow and returns the repository, issue and code (LOC?) count of ALL people.

For example trying it with "@b" (or any existing user after the at-sign) does yield the correct results (the respective counts for user b: http://github.com/b). Trying it with someone with no repositories, code and issues OR a user which does not exist (@thisuserdoesnotexist) results in the same behavior.
This tracks with other government contracts I've heard about. Although it's usually 2-3 guys with a couple yachts.

And I'm not kidding about the yachts. Actual confirmed yacht purchases.
I hear ya!

I work for a big bank, and I tried pushing the idea around a bit, but to no avail.

It really comes down to "business need" - the department responsible for the online services would need to be convinced that there is a desire and a benefit to providing an API key. I imagine they would see it negative for two ways - added risk by having sites/programs connect to their application, and they won't see the added benefit to customers, and vice-versa - customers wouldn't really know what to do with the key.

It would take a player like Mint to make that case - they could do branding with a major bank such that they are the first to safely share data, but then recommend products, etc.
When 2 and 3 are battling for position 1 can just drive, using clean air, to build their advantage. Red Bull have particularly good pit crew, and that also helps their drivers.
There are sticks out there that have hardware write-enable switches (I keep my medical records on one), so that you can at least control when writes occur.
Rather than savage cuts, Switzerland considers “Star Trek” economics
http://backbonejs.org/#changelog
Both the book and the movie are fantastic on their own, but I also think the movie is the best film adaptation of a book (in terms of effectiveness and fidelity).
Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not) - The Oatmeal
Good by french intern standards, so... if you're getting more than minimum wage (1400) you're _very_ (very) lucky.
And I'm still wondering which french startups offer an OK compensation.
Had interviews at two of them 5 months ago, one is going very big (and was part of Le Camping incubator), the other one has more than 1 million users as of today. Both offered 600e/month.
The minimum weight is stop ultra light wight bikes catastrophically failing imagine a frame collapsing in a bunch 100kph descent.

Though tease rules where implemented when steal was the only frame material you can build strong and safe bikes well under the UCI minimum nowadays
Guardian's leaks publication a 'public service' says senior UK politician
Well of course. Just because the presence of something can cause unhappiness why would you assume the absence of it causes happiness?
Thanks. The #pigeons did hurt a lot last year, and after a few months in SF and in Boston I've been amazed how many beliefs foreign observers have about the French startup ecosystem. You're probably right about France (vs) Europe. Would be happy to have some comments from European folks here.
That's meaningless since costs vary along different axes. I just mean objectively software engineers have not traditionally been valued the same in Europe as they have been in the US.
I'm a C++ dev. For me it's:

- C++11 is good enough (and a little better than that)

- The eco system. Yes, I can use C libs from dlang but managing extra bridges/headers is too much overhead if the alternative is just to throw them into my C++ project and use them without writing any glue code.

- The garbage collector. (RAII fan here)

- Tooling. Are there any good dlang IDEs with mature refactoring support and code completion?

For the tasks I'm using C++ for, C++11 is more than sufficient. For more abstract/high level stuff where I don't particularly care about top performance/memory layout I don't need another C++ contender but can use higher level languages/scripting languages.

D would look more tempting if there was no C++11 but for now for me I'm perfectly happy with C++.
No its human nature. Risk makes things more exciting to watch.
Never heard of it, but per your recommendation I watched the intro video. A bit off-topic but... I never have seen such a horrible product video. I couldn't hear most what she said, not only because of the bad presentation but also because of the unnerving background music that makes the speech even more inaudible.

Now it looks like im totally grumpy, but the concept seems nice. Just a reminder to beeminder to delete that awfull video clip.
Had this problem recently and solved it by creating a Google Drive form connected to a spreadsheet, saving what expense and how much it was. Then bookmarked the form on my iPhone homescreen. Nice to have a secret url for collecting data without having to authenticate or anything. Something similar could probably be useful here too.
This sounds better than French government propaganda. Don't listen to this guy. France has great food, wine and architecture, I know that, I live here in Paris. But it's a hell hole if you're an entrepreneur, taxes are killing (+60%), investors get most of their money taken away, the State is bordering on insanity, social security doesn't reimburse much anymore and yet you're forced to pay for it+a private insurance and firing people is extremely costly, you can end up paying someone for years even though he's not doing anything anymore. And you can get sued for firing someone and the judge will side by default with the employee, most judges here are communists/far left to begin with or at least socialist if you wish.

Also, here, 99% of people are statists. Every political debates revolve around this: "how can the state fix our problems and pay our bills". Depressing. Recently, many entrepreneurs decided to go on strike and stop paying some of their unfair taxes, Atlas Shrugged is literally happening here, all the richest have left, many entrepreneurs have left, many who stayed are going on strike. You know something is wrong with a country when Ayn Rand's exaggerated prophecies are becoming a reality. Anyway. Just my two cents.

Edit: Dear fellow French. Please argue, don't just downvote and call BS.
Right turn: right suspension compressed, left wheels on the outside have further to travel, if both spinning at the same speed then you will break traction on one side or the other. Not sure what type of differentials are legal in F1, but the technology in the article is plausible in the absence of some fancy limited slip diffs.
America's cup comes to mind too
Google X Display Head: Smartphones, Tablets, Apps are “Mind-Numbing”
1. That's only half if you compare with Silicon Valley, not the US average

2. For the employer: there's more taxes to pay than in US, so the cost is not half

3. For the employee: you a lot of "social benefits" like health care, free education for your kids, etc. so a lower salary in France doesn't necessarily mean lower life standard

There is however a problem in French startup is that most of them pay much lower than the average job an engineer can get (i.e. B2B service industry). That's a consequence of not being able to raise as much as in Silicon Valley.
Mostly I agree except for the statement "Privacy advocates are beginning to sound like copyright advocates, demanding that the universe continue providing for them in the manner to which they have grown accustomed".

Some copyright defenders are like that, because their fortunes depend on interfering in other people's lives and devices, or getting the government to police people for them - because that is inherently the only way copyright restrictions can be maintained.

Privacy requires just the opposite - only a freedom from interference. It does require state enforcement, particularly a ban on companies requiring personal data as a condition of business. But people can still stay off Facebook, without thereby causing any harm to anyone else.

And we can have private communications, if only government allows people to set up secure digital systems. The only things preventing privacy are government snooping and laissez-faire economics; with real democracy and regulation of exploitive business practices we'd have a better balance. (But copyright would be unenforceable.)
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I believe he's implying that he doesn't have to try to motivate himself, because motivation just comes naturally and effortlessly to him.
I have got to say that I don't tend to place a lot of faith in an article that cites The Daily Mail as a source and I'm inclined to agree with you about the tone. Even the Mail article referenced paints a much more balanced story and the headline is ironically "Vettel did not cheat! Horner defiant..."

As a non-F1 fan though it certainly made for interesting reading.
What's 2012 got to do with anything? It's a national pastime in some corners of the world...
All available D compilers generate native code directly, there is no JIT involved.

Sometimes I wonder how computing would look like if the default implementations of Java and C#[1] were available from the start as native compilers, instead of VM environments.

[1] Funny enough, the precursor of .NET was native and COM based, similar to what is now WinRT, more info here,

http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-co...
> It would be interesting to see a series that used self driving cars

how exactly would that be interesting?
EME has a proprietary part, the CDM (content decryption module).

In order for the browser (its compositor etc.) to work, the browser needs access to the plain (unencrypted) content, to do things like layering (alpha blending) elements on top of each other, CSS transformations, CSS shading and putting things into WebGL.

If the CDM would give the browser access to the plain content, then the browser (or any program) could just dump the plain content to disk, exactly what EME/CDM is designed to prevent. In that scenario only proprietary browsers would be able to implement EME.

In above scenario, if EME was adopted across major web properties (like netflix, amazon, youtube, vimeo, dailymotion, bbc, facebook etc.) then it would mean that Open Source/community browsers would be regarded as "the browsers that don't work" and would loose substantial market share and couldn't gain traction. This would be very bad for the Web as it would revert the Web back to a browser monoculture (of the kind we already had with IE6). Innovation would stall.

I suspect that the existing EME/CDM implementation in IE11 and Chromebooks is based on the CDM sharing plain content with the browser (for reasons I'll get to below).

If the CDM does not share the plain content with the browser, and the browser just gets to instruct the CDM to "draw there", then that means that: You cannot layer stuff on top of the content (customized playback controls, user annotations, closed captions, advertising, other informational/navigational elements, branding etc.). You couldn't CSS transform the container with the content. You couldn't CSS shade/filter the content. You couldn't control its CSS opacity and you can't put the content into WebGL. You couldn't easily implement tab-switching (or alternative schemes of tabbing).

This would be a serious drawback for EME, and it would make it practically unusable on most web properties that might want to use it (every web property adds its own social features, playback, branding and advertising to the content it serves up).

That means that the only two choices to make EME work are either seriously crippling the Web altogether by remaking it into a proprietary monoculture, or crippling EME so much that nobody would want to use it.

It's a very bad standard.
For those that enjoy bicycle racing, check out motorcycle racing. For those that like gocart racing, check out NASCAR (seriously, check it out if you haven't).

The number of fans that want to see the top technology vastly outnumber the number of fans that want to see the more limited tech.

At this point, most of the limitations are for safety. It seems like a good idea to allow innovation if it is available to all athletes. I don't for example want one F-1 team to have a patent on traction control and restrict all others from using it.
Google Earth and drones help save Kenya’s elephants
Exactly. They can program the KERS to increase its resistance under given situations, and then tune the suspension to better respond to it. I can speculate about how this might seem less upsetting to the chassis, because it is not using force in the braking system (in the corners of the chassis). Having the resistance generated in the powertrain means that the tires do not have to deal with anything other than normal breaking, and acceleration.
Surprised that he decided to use Windows.
There seems to be something different about, say, Rand vs. Gladwell.

With Rand, you kind of know these are her opinions. They are ideology. Much like listening to the Right vs. the Left in ideological debates.

But, with Gladwell, he delivers his conclusions as fact, based on "scientific" research. He observes very specific phenomena and draws concrete conclusions, then generalizes to a broader point. But, he doesn't say "here's what I think". He says, "here's what the data says".

With Rand too, you also know that she has a personal belief system/agenda. Gladwell writes as an objective reporter, just delivering the "facts".
Yeah, the most judges here are communists/far left to begin with was where I got on the train.
All available D compilers generate native code directly, there is no JIT involved.

I think that's why the GP has the JIT in parentheses (to account for Julia's implementation, which does use a JIT-compiler, as opposed to D and Nimrod)
I can already edit EPS pretty well in inkscape and scribus but many developer still won't do it. To collaborate in graphics isn't easy.

No, even if Illustrator was open sources I would prefer to see real source code for icons. IMO Illustrator is over kill for something so (relatively) simple. Image a project on github that contains a very descriptive syntax, a hierarchy of re-usable shapes and which can be plugged together to generate custom icons. Then everybody can contribute to it with a pull request and we have true collaborative open sourced icon fonts.
I think that stopped being true of F1 20+ years ago when people could actually overtake and stuff.
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Including all SD cards.
Like the use of carbon fiber, active dynamic suspensions, aerodynamics that improve fuel consumption, stronger alloys, etc.
Are you sure? How much more difficult would it be for an intelligence agency to get an open source hacker to "accidentally" inject a vulnerability disguised as a bug, than to pressure MS to write a backdoor? (or to get MS to hire a mole)
3. Safety
Indeed. If he picked Linux or a Mac he'd have the advantage of being able to read most MS proprietary formats without the disadvantage of embedded code executing.
They are still linked to you on Facebook's servers.
"It can't be cheating if they pass inspections."

Same goes for Lance Armstrong, right?
Seems to me the only reason to choose Windows for this would be to use Microsoft Office to read the NSA documents and he's stated that he's using OpenOffice, so...
The biggest proponent of EME/DRM is microsoft. And they are the first who have put it into their desktop browser (IE11).

Microsoft was also the party most eager to stiffle dissent in the encrypted media working group by the likes of me, EFF, etc. and who aggressively boxed this "standard" trough with almost daily telephone conferences they held with apple, google, bbc, netflix etc.

DRM is designed to put up barriers against competitors. It's designed to stiffle innovation and to vendor-lock in users and authors.

Why do you think Microsoft is all over EME like flies over cowdung? Microsoft has lost tremendous amounts of browser market share, and here comes EME/DRM, and they finally see a credible chance to lock "the web" back into their platform.
Dude mails himself in FedEx box to steal start-up's source code
Why I think hosting can improve your e-commerce turnover
I find it somewhat amazing that a few months ago, I'd have read an article like this and thought "Man, talk about paranoid."

But today, after all that I've read and learned recently, it makes perfect sense.
Build a better data center than Facebook on the cheap
For the avg user that only needs internet, office, and music/movies Windows XP is good enough. What does Vista/7/8 offer a person using a Pentium 4 level computer? Nothing really worth paying for.

I am surprised MS doesn't get more credit for XP which could be seen as a relativity dependable workhorse. Problem is for MS of course they ended the need for the users to upgrade.
Skype under investigation in Luxembourg over link to NSA
I think it was Singapore where a safety car blew out Vettel's advantage and the pack caught up. Obviously tyre wear was very low in that period, so the team told him to put his foot down, at which point he again managed to increase the gap by about 2s per lap to the point where he had gained back an entire pit stop. Even with a favourable track, I'm sure those in the paddock can't help thinking of the similarities with the 1994 season.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Formula_One_cheating_contr...
Well, obviously you two are French statists who believe in their system.
US Nuclear Weapons Laboratory Discovers How to Suppress the Casimir Force
Chinese Factory Workers & the Toys They Make
If you assume your connected machine is going to get p0wnd, and you rely on the air gap to prevent your secure machine from being penetrated, you could run any OS you like, no matter your opinion of how much the vendor cooperates with the NSA.
> Normally unapproved bio pics based on a living person at least change the name

They do? Jobs? The Social Network?