skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Primarily the ability to load data straight from Mongo DB without writing any APIs. Don't get me wrong, you can certainly implement the same things with other tools, but Meteor already bundles a lot of building. We pretty much "watch" live data on the server and display it as it comes. Front end JS helps us do calculations and apply labels as we see fit. The best part, we just change the front end and Meteor takes care of watching and updating the data.
we still have wikipedia, that alone justifies the cost of the internet. as a data scientist, I am particularly thankful for wikipedia and it's brethren like freebase as a real, up to date corpus and to some extend ontology.
I suspect that if the P2P client ran google's ads they wouldn't be opposed.

Google is pretty savvy to P2P, but it does remove their ability to push ads at you. The latter is what would bother them.
Not really. Basically of this info was transmitted in the clear and easily visible in packet captures.

Admittedly it is quite a bit more convenient to look back in source code history rather than dig up and test old versions of the compiled code directly.
I spent some time in a different part of Russia, 10 days in Volgograd. The best and brightest do try to leave for the big city, not much different than many stories of people going to NYC or California in the 40s and 50s.
Brilliant! I could never get started implementing a similar idea, so I'm glad to see someone else did it.
FTA: I think many who extol Android’s flexibility fall into the tinkerer category, including some tech bloggers. [...] That’s fun for them; but they’ve made the mistake of not understanding how their motivation differs from the rest of us.

The problem with usability nuts and Apple nuts is that they fall into the "one perfect solution exists" category. That's fun for them, as they like their uniform devices just fine and get to write whiny blog posts about how all the other phones are Just Wrong. But they've made the mistake of not understanding how their motivation differs from the rest of us who like to have a deeper connection with our tools.

Yawn. Take all the fancy verbiage away and this is just another platform flame. Use what you like. Don't tell me how to use my phone.
Feedly's android client is fine piece of crap.
>I'm not ignoring what he said. I am responding specifically to it. You are telling people to ignore the objectionable sections of his comment to talk about the bit you want to.

Obviously, you are not ignoring "what he said". That's a given, since you're talking about his post. But you're not addressing the point (that was the sense used, and I'm shocked you lack the common sense to understand this). Rather, you're engaging in gossip about whether he hates women. You even went as far as digging up another comment he made at another time to gossip about his attitude. You are the "Thought Police" this guy is talking about.

>Sorry, but I'm not having a conversation about activism right now - I'm talking about how inappropriate this guys comment was.

And so the backpedaling begins. Now you're concerned about how "inappropriate" it was. Note the misdirection, where suddenly you dial down the heavyweight accusations of "misogyny" and Internet detective work to look more reasonable at a tactically opportune moment. It's all about how "appropriate" the comment was. Unfortunately for you he is the administrator of the group in question and he (and Facebook and any other administrators) get to decide what is "appropriate" there. What you are really doing (ignoring your little tactical retreat) is trying to tie the essential point of the post to a hatred of women. Which note is not the same thing as whether the poster himself hates women.

>If my manager stands up on the conference table peeing while presenting the annual sales figures, it is not a 'defense mechanism' for me to respond by objecting to his pee instead of talking about the sales figures.

Bad analogy. The forum on which the post was made isn't yours to police, and his actions aren't equivalent to pissing on the table, which is a health hazard and a far more egregious social violation than saying some mean things on the Internet. Further, you have employed the same tactics against me by bringing my tendencies and background into question.

>I am curious, if my theory was wrong, why you tend to believe that people are joking about being bigoted when it is so likely that they are not.

A more interesting question is how you know how I "tend" from a sample of one. Just think how this power could be used for the good of mankind!
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You mean one particular percolation problem, I assume.

Just to clarify because one might interpret your statement to mean that percolation problems in general don't have exact formulas for their solution but the "exact formula" section in your link would say otherwise.
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That's my experience.

When I was first trying to raise money on Broadway the number of times I failed was astronomical.

Being consistent and just going out there and continuing to ask and learn from my experiences is what got me through.

I can't stress this enough: Consistent effort creates data that you can use to improve and can help you find what works.
I disagree. Questions like how the human brain works and how we can think abstractly, and how/why humans are so much more intelligent than other animals. There isn't really anything philosophical about it.
Considering how many people are "choosing" Android, I'd say a good many of us like choice....
I believe tptacek's comment to be historically accurate.

Disclosure: I work for Microsoft.
This is kinda against the REST architecture, so I'll stick stick with my customized org-mode script.
Also, resizing the "Notes panel" also moves the Adsense panel for some reason?
I have three monitors. I mostly do backend development so I generally have one monitor dedicated to terminals, one to vim and one for browser windows, HipChat, mail, etc.
Perhaps you're right. Let's chalk that up to misunderstanding, shall we?
Build the tide to rise all ships
"Growth" doesn't need the population to output more total work than last year, it just needs the population to output more work than the population consumes this year. The difference is growth.

Growing the population actually doesn't necessarily help GDP per capita growth (the best measure of economic growth). If the country isn't managing population well, then increasing population actually hurts growth.

Of course, the value of "work" is entirely abstract. You can value anything at any price you want. Society haggles "work" to within certain bounds but there's no basis in the non-abstract world for these bounds.
How do I keep up? How does someone who only reads the front page keep up? Think of all the stuff on new that they never even see. They're behind by definition! :)

I don't treat HN as only programming or only startups, I treat it as the most interesting and eclectic news source on earth. And I'm pretty good at ignoring whatever doesn't interest me.

During the week I read front, then the first page of new, sometimes the second, rarely past that. If I'm between tasks during the day I might check new, and if I see something on the first or second page of new I'll tab it up. I don't try to keep up, so most things probably disappear.

On a Saturday or Sunday morning it's my Sunday paper with coffee.
Google search bar please? I need to replace iGoogle!
Delivery By Drones
A few hundred feet up, and you won't hear it and you probably won't see it.
StoryCorps Interview with Rene Pinnell and Ross Ulbricht
How do you decide which points to connect?
He's been doing this post since 2005, so I don't think much has changed.

Plus you can buy the entirety of his 'useless bling' for $35, and it seems pretty obvious to me that he actually uses these tools on a daily basis.

The only thing I didn't really like were the affiliate links without disclaimer... but it's not that big a deal.
Fair question :-)
If you actually read the thread, he's asserting the same thing you are asserting. What he's disputing is the idea that one of the chief reasons poverty is hard to get out of is that, once there, the mind is too fixated on survival for higher intellectual achievements.
I have been forced to abandon our rpi for our 'information radiator'. Too many card corruptions (several different cards) makes me think I just had a faulty one. But really, it struggled and wasn't particularly smooth. I've just ordered one of these, though they won't be shipping for another month or two: http://www.solid-run.com/cubox
Not a problem. Multicopters ascend and descend entirely vertically, so programming them to climb straight up to around 500 meters, go to the designated drop point and descend straight down would eliminate all obstacle concerns. It's probably low enough for avoiding fixed wing air traffic too, unless you are around an airport.

Finding a clear drop point is easy (lawns, for example), and the drone can sound some alarm to let pedestrians know its landing.
Singapore's post codes are 6 digits because they're granular enough to specify exact buildings -- it's possible to receive mail addressed to "John Tan, S(123456)".

Australia's post codes, on the other hand, are really wide. The entirety of central Sydney is all "2000" and mine covers around 6 city suburbs.
keep in mind that Lenin was in his late teens when Tucker wrote this, so Leninism couldn't have existed as a commonly accepted political philosophy. For convenience, I've only taken the end of the Tuckerian analysis, so there are a few steps from Marxism to get to this point. This was a direct extrapolation and direct criticism of Marxism, and unless Tucker was a time traveller, it could not have been anything else (much less Stalinism).

It would be valid to invoke some sort of mechanism that prevents Marxism from getting to the point of state socialism where this quote takes off; but of course, empirically, Tucker's model seems to have been shown true in a few cases, so I would suggest there would need to be a heavier burden on describing exactly what needs to be different, and why.
That's a network utilization issue for Google, and a zoning law issue for the local government.

Delineating allowed usage of network infrastructure you pay for based on whethet its commercial or not is a pretty clear net neutrality violation to me.
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Note that I didn't say "grow infinitely", I said "grow indefinitely" – as in continuous, steady growth (historically, about 2-5% per annum). Basically, if you can keep working productively while the sun shines, this is growth.

Physicists deal with real objects (virtual particles and string theorists notwithstanding). Wealth isn't real – it's abstract.

As for abstract wealth... here, I'll give you an "I owe you" for $5. You now have an asset. You can trade that asset with other people since I'm a respected individual that others trust. I'll fulfil the value in future (maybe) but for now – the value came from absolutely nothing. It's entirely abstract.

You want an infinite amount of them? Here you go.
Wow you're good at missing the point.

We (Americans) are "leeching" off everyone else, and they're leeching off us. Who invented gunpowder, the crossbow, stirrups, the printing press, noodles? The Chinese. Who invented radio, quantum mechanics, the computer, programming languages, symbolic logic? Hint: not Americans.

This leeching is pretty much how humans make progress.
Drone delivery can be done entirely autonomously, with drones receiving packages from an automated feeder and landing on charge pods between delivery rounds. The drones themselves are quite cheap and the only wear item is the battery.
If by "leaking hints" you mean "screaming at the top of their lungs in public protocol design discussions not to do it this way until they got sick of being nibbled to death by committees of ducks and gave up" you might be interested in looking into the papers of one Ex-NSA P. Rogaway.
Wow. I would absolutely love this setup. Where/how did you find that guy?

I've been consulting for a while as well, I hate dealing with all the negotiations and legal crap. Would be great to just be handed a reasonable contract and not have to constantly "sell" all the stuff they want but don't want to pay for...
No wonder they are in a economic CRISIS
Crazy Sht that goes down on the party island's of Greece.
This is just one giant amazon affiliate link.
Re: deriving state from first digit of post code, that's true 90% of the time but the exceptions -- some of which are pretty big, eg. the entire Australian Capital Territory -- will kill you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_Australia#Austral...
Not really, eventually you run out of people to execute laws that can't be executed. Eventually the government becomes a laughing stock and folds.
Very much so. That was only for referencing that group of domains--not specifically .io but the other country TLDs.

Worth a look.
> [] were always better and more interesting in the old days

Replace [] with your favorite magazine, newspaper, website, music genre...

Was it really any better, or are you just wiser to the bullshit now?
I think it is a very important question that may actually impact our survival in the planet beyond the other questions that are more to satisfy our own curiosity.

So I am not sure if you think the question is already solved or is it not actually a problem.
Every time I see someone explaining the Angular API I cringe because it seems like an API that has no respect for the user actually forced to learn it. Everything seems so hostile. For example:

restrict: 'E'

Good luck knowing what that does at first glance. Instead why couldn't it have been simply called:

type: 'element'

Or another one, surely the default for creating new custom elements would be to always replace the element, so we shouldn't have to manually set:

replace: true

But we do because not all directives default to replacement, so maybe they thought it would get confusing if some defaulted to it. Instead they probably should have realized that the problem wasn't with the default for replacement, it was that everything was shoe-horned into a "directive". Why not have an easy shortcut for create elements vs. creating events or attributes...

app.element('button', ...

app.attribute('toggle', ...

app.event('scroll', ...

And then you can have sensible defaults for each one without the user getting extremely confused. I would absolutely expect elements to replace by default.

I'm sure this is an oversimplification, but surely there have to be less implementor-hostile ways to write these features. For example, even after reading the article I still have no idea what setting this on an attribute does:

scope: {
toggle: '='
}

That's ridiculous. I don't think there are enough designers on the Angular team.
The marriage in the article would be legal in California.
It may be just an engineering problem, but it is a huge engineering problem
The observer becomes entangled with the quantum system.
Unfortunately this is the sad truth about Russia, everybody who thinks otherwise hasn't been to these places or Russia at all.

It's really hard to think of anything positive, except for the unbelievable ability of (some) Russians to daily cope with this reality and stay sane and positive.
Plus, it's also pure C whenever you want.
Are you solving your own problem?

What is the quantum of utility over other dating apps?

Why would you foremost like to discuss the app and only then "eventually build it" - why not jump right in and see if your future customers find it "cool and love..(it)"?
Is the only alternative to using software that the NSA may have infiltrated to use FOSS? Seems like there has to be other options. Can anyone suggest any?
I would guess that propellers and motors are wear items as well.
Definitely an important observation, but I am very intrigued as to how this will progress in the future. If the level of accuracy can be determined by gamification of known protein structures, then I would love to see some metrics.

I would certainly love to see a world where complex problems are solved with the aid of the collective pursuit of very skilled and bright laymen/gamers. There are a lot of very clever and talented people in the world who, due to varying circumstances, are not in a position to put their problem-solving savvy to good use.
and they have IPv6 across their entire network. As someone who does research in this space, and advocates for it as a matter of religion^W principle, this alone makes me want to give them money.
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Thanks for the share, great read; this alone deserves it's own HN submission.
NYC has unprecedentedly low crime for its density and size [1]. There might be places in the US that allow you to draw parallels with Russia, but NYC is a pretty awful example.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_New_York_City
Do fellow programmers tend to back away slowly? :)

Both words seem to be used to describe people that like specific categories of things but are unpopular or awkward. I refuse to be labeled with either regardless of any fine distinction in meaning. To me, what you are describing is like, "no I'm a douche, not an asshole." (I think you are neither, just an analogy.)
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Tucker was way ahead of his time. He was (to what degree of animosity I don't know, but I imagine friendly rivalry) a competitor of the more well-known Lysander Spooner. I think they largely agreed on a lot of things, but there was a major wedge between them; Spooner was for a strong Intellectual Property regime, and Tucker rejected IP altogether. A lot of the open culture/proprietary culture arguments that we see now that have cropped up as extensions of the Open Source movement are basically rehashings of the Tucker-Spooner dialogs.

Plus ca change...
I would go about it by setting a realistic market salary for my skill set, and then share with you 50/50 any salary over that number. Curious to hear your thoughts on that model.
> Russia is a very big place, and the government cannot afford to spend its money everywhere and anywhere.

Is that how you justify pumping 50 billion in olympics that they shouldn't have in the first place?
What they're proposing is illegal in Australia too. There's really strong regulation about what you can and can't do with a drone and this falls strongly into the "can't" category. I know this because I've tried.

All drones have to be human piloted under our current regulations. So the autonomous thing is illegal for a start. Secondly flying aircraft of that size at low altitudes over populated areas is also illegal. And flying them at high altitudes without a transponder is illegal, and they're too small to carry a transponder.

I bet someone from CASA (our FAA equivalent) sees this article and gives them a nice little visit.
FYI

FOSS stands for "Free and Open Source Software"

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software)
I have, and I grew up downwind from it. Parts of it are nice (e.g. Boone and Asheville where I grew up in NC), but off the beaten track are villages that look like they haven't progressed in the last hundred years. I've been to the rural parts of Pakistan too and it's frankly surprising how similar parts of Appalachia can be to it.
Directives are a DSL for creating new behavior using HTML. Once you learn the language, the symbols make sense and directives are easy to read. I think you are confusing "intuitive" with "familiar". Since you are not familiar with directives, you do not find them intuitive.
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With the revelation that the NSA collects email addresses by the millions, you'd think they could offer a service where they validation the existence of addresses.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-co...
And so begins years of copy/paste of cipher lists without knowing what they mean or do.

Your cipher list should be far more paired down than their list.

And unless you need IE6 support for SSL, you can disable SSLv3 (v2 should always be disabled)
Lavabit allowing users to download an archive of their stored emails
"Can science help us comprehend what makes us human?". Now that's a strictly philosophical question.
Well I'd think that Russia is rather unique in that their power structure semi-collapsed during the 90's and during the chaos of America trying to turn the country to capitalism there were some who were able to jump into the power vacuum and rise to the top.

Most of them have since been disposed (like the guy you linked to) or brought into the fold of the new power structure that arose around Putin.
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That's a good point, and p = 1/256 is definitely good enough to convince a judge or jury.
That's what I thought, until I started carrying one. Now I use it all the time for mundane tasks such as finding something that dropped under my car seat, plugging in an ethernet cable under my desk, rummaging around in the back of a closet, and so on. It really makes life easier, especially as I find my night vision isn't as good as it used to be. LED lights and Li-ion batteries last for ages, so it's hardly an inconvenience.
Well in that case, I am eagerly waiting for when this is generally available to deliver my order from the local Indian or Vietnamese restaurant. I will even build a landing platform for it and register its coordinates for efficient and fast delivery of my rogan josh or pork rice noodle soup.
Your two points are related: because the password is masked and you can't see what you're typing to spell-check, it's worth asking the user to type the password again to make sure they spelled it correctly the first time.

That being said, I completely agree with you – I don't think there's much validity in masking the password field except maybe when it's auto-filled by the browser.

We have tested turning off the masking on various sites we've developed and in general users tend to freak out and think the site is insecure as a result.
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A single element cannot have more than once isolated scope. It only makes sense to use an isolated scope when a directive has a template associated with it. Otherwise, one should rely on the $parse + the "attrs" object + $scope.$watch to correctly handle expressions.
Thank you, Bill (for bringing me home today)
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CyanogenMod merged a "fix" into the repo earlier today:

http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/51771/

... only to revert it later:

http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/51794/

The revert noted "TLS v1.0 + AES is a bad combo, and entirely possible to happen with these priority lists".

In other words, the proposed "quick fix" was dangerous. There's some reading material on BEAST attacks here:

https://blogs.akamai.com/2012/05/what-you-need-to-know-about...
That, or the NSA, or any other govt agency comes in and says: "Hand over the data, or we'll fuck you up."
think many who extol Android’s flexibility fall into the tinkerer category, including some tech bloggers. They love all the ways they can customize their phones, not because they’re seeking some perfect setup, but because they can swap in a new launcher every week. That’s fun for them; but they’ve made the mistake of not understanding how their motivation differs from the rest of us.

Everytime I hear this argument, I can only think that these people have developed a bad taste of Android and haven't used a stock experience for enough time. You don't need to tinker anything. The stock Android experience is a good experience* by itself... but the option to tinker is there if you want it. If Apple made a car, the option to tinker wouldn't exist.
Why do you own the most expensive cell phone there is if you "desperately need money?"