skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks promising :)

Would be good to get some unit tests written for the "seed" app itself.

Asset versioning is one of the big pain points at the moment when setting up an application eg /js/main.min.v2.js. Will you be looking at addressing this in your seed app?

I generally use Symfony2 for my applications but it can take quite a while to configure/setup at the start of each project. There are a number of skeleton projects I've used in the past which have included a lot of the fruit I'd need in a new app, reducing startup time.

If the PHP community adopted your "web-seed" and started asking for other components to be baked in, such as Grunt, Assetic, authentication/authorisation, do you think your web-seed could stay lean compared to Zend, Symfony etc?

Do you see this app optionally supporting Sass instead of Less, or Handlebars instead of Mustache?
Reasons to Develop a Unique Brand Presence
I guess so. I think it disappeared after I flagged a lot of comments in one thread, but I'm not really sure (and it happened a few years ago).
I initially interpreted it the way I think you have. I think it might be intended more along the lines of "never underestimate/write-off teams ..."
You all missed out when they were handing out decency and common sense.

[Someone who has spent a stint at awesome ISRO.]
Mike: i'd look into http://www.careerleader.com/ for some inspiration, their career assessment approach and scoring system is quite comprehensive and effective. the goal behind the assessment report is to rank - align someone's interest & core activities. then putting all together for you to take actions ...
This Walking Dead course would fit in nicely.

https://www.canvas.net/courses/the-walking-dead
Are there thresholds to see post and comment scores?
Monumental Land Art
Clarisse is like a cut-down version of Katana with a built-in renderer.

It's also got limited layer-based compositing functionality.

It's cool in itself, but it's a bit like a "poor man's" Katana in terms of what you can do with it from a high-end pipeline perspective, and Katana can scale to huge scenes which I'm not convinced Clarisse can (this isn't including replicators or instances, which are cheap and easy to do and both cope with this) - I'm talking unique geometry in the billions of polygons.

Generally the big studios will connect Katana to PRMan or Arnold to do the heavy lifting at render time.

They are both procedural applications for describing and editing scene descriptions, which allows for very powerful workflows, in terms of overridable attributes which propagate down the scene graph, and they both allow lazy evaluation, meaning you don't open the source asset files until you need to.

But Katana's got awesome recursive procedural support, which linked to PRMan and Arnold, allows literally rendering of infinite scenes, as well as the CEL language which lets you script nodes in terms of behaviour and modification down the scene graph, basically allowing you to do almost anything in terms of defining nodes, or attributes, items in the scene graph.

Basically, Katana's a huge toolbox that the big VFX studios are using to fit (some of) their pipelines around and write their own tools for.
Clarisse is more like an off-the-shelf out-the-box tool which can do some cool stuff which is useful to small teams and maybe independent artists, but pales in comparison to Katana in terms of capabilities.
Or of the US or UK governments ...
a wise man once said: "when evaluating a language examine its primitives, its means of combination and its means of abstraction".

By these metrics I find graphics woefully inferior!
I did include a condition in my statement :)
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Why would you not? Too much brainwashing TV maybe ...
Baumgartner’s Jump More Load Test than Leap-of-Faith (2012)
Thanks so much for posting this. There are so many MOOCs that I want to take but can't due to other stuff which have precedence (like university) and even though this is completely out of my field of study it looks interesting and at the same time the workload seems light.
>There's a reason that even in most IDE's very little additional information beyond syntax highlighting have "stuck".

We are working on it; e.g. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/smcdirm/liveprogr...
And still people ask "but why?", in wonderment, when they hear some of us surf the web with javascript generally disabled...
There are two options:

1) He is using Windows and is not using Burp or ZAP proxy for modifying http requests. With Windows you can't use <>"= in a filename.

2) Gmail is handling emails from Google Analytics a bit different. (I don't think so)
Yes, because applying for private insurance is so easy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql9RVy6FWkg

> "Avik Roy is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of the Forbes blog The Apothecary. He has stated he is an "outside adviser to the Romney campaign on health care issues." He is a contributor to National Review Online, where he was described as a member of Mitt Romney's Health Care Policy Advisory Group."

Hmm, I wonder if this author has an axe to grind.

> "The answer is that Obamacare wasn’t designed to help healthy people with average incomes get health insurance. It was designed to force those people to pay more for coverage, in order to subsidize insurance for people with incomes near the poverty line, and those with chronic or costly medical conditions."

Um, isn't that literally the function of all insurance?
"balance" (which too is subjective), its better to look for truth, transparency & engaging storytelling.

That's what I mean by balance, we probably substantially agree there, but perhaps the misuse of the word 'balance' in US media to mean presentation of false dichotomies has distorted the term in this context. I don't think allowing opinions means you disclaim all responsibility to objectivity. Just because you can't achieve objectivity doesn't mean you shouldn't strive for it. A search for truth involves striving to rise above parochial and partial concerns, particularly in reporting on wars or nations in conflict.

Naturally, their writing will tend to have that bias.

As editors and journalists, they should strive to rise above it, that's their job, not the readers'. That's not to say they shouldn't have an opinion, but that it should be informed, clearly stated and not an attempt to distort the truth as they see it or insert their own narrative. Personally I think it's time for a new global journalism, without attempts to filter the truth and pick a side amongst often unpalatable narratives presented by national governments.
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Given that most people in this thread complaining about their upvotes not registering seem to have a karma below 500 it might well be that. If that's the case I'm surprised they didn't make it explicit by removing the arrow altogether (like the down arrow is not displayed when you don't have enough karma for it). Seems a bit deceitful.

That being said it might just be a bug somewhere.
I lost my flag privileges for posts a long time ago. Is there a separate one for comments, ie. a different action than downvoting?
Google Fiber Is Off-Limits for Businesses — For Now
Hereby I report that it started working on that post! Yeeha.

Edit: it seems to work in general.
This kind of story is incompatible with the ideology of meritocracy, so it's no surprise that it only got a handful of upvotes.
The principal issue appears to be broadcast power. The smallest one linked below (weighing ~400g without a power supply) has a burst power output of 130W (compared to a cellphone which might have an output power of ~2W). The actual amplifier itself wouldn't be huge (although heat dissapation could be), but there's a lot of capacitors and power supply circuitry needed to deal with that sort of power output. The size of all the components basically depends on what the duty ratio is - if it's a few uS every second, then it would be much easier to shrink than if it has to broadcast ten or hundreds of times a second.
Strangely enough I can flag posts but not comments.
Only a massive study would show cause and effect.

Barring occupations like professional sports, though, common sense would tend to suggest that that a higher IQ would tend to lead to a higher salary in the majority of cases.
I would love to see some Dart discussion with Lars Bak.
its because fascism comes in many forms, some are visible, and some are hidden.
hah. Touche.
Does JavaScript not have something like "bool(value)"?
This works well for us:

obj = [obj].flatten
I upvoted you and was able to tell by checking your karma score before and after; aren't those visible to everyone?
Talking shit about people's rarely a good idea. Even if you're right people are going to be wondering what you're saying behind their backs. A lot of political advice just boils down to what your mum probably told you in primary school: If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. Just trying to be a nice person to everyone will take you miles.
I wasn't referring to Lamarckian evolution at all. Just plain ol' Natural Selection.
Great stuff. Thanks a ton!
> Um, isn't that literally the function of all insurance?

It used to be about spreading risk. Now, I'm not so sure. The reason the ACA exists is that instead of spreading risk into pools, insurance companies have been denying coverage to reduce risk. This seems like the opposite of what they once were.
> The general purpose ciphersuite at the time of this writing is:

ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-RC4-SHA:RC4-SHA:HIGH:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!3DES:!MD5:!PSK

Whoa! I'd like to see some reasoning behind allowing that many. How many user agents allow 128-bit aes and not 256? Why would you need to allow both? If 128 is enough, you don't need 256. If you need 256 you should block 128.

It's not a very big deal, but given the choice between complexity and simplicity in encryption -- I'd always prefer simplicity...

Not just "fewer cipher suites", but also what follows from that: "We allow X bit symmetric keys only", we guarantee forward secrecy (or not) etc.

But still, a lot better than leaving things at their default, I guess :-)
I can't upvote either but I suspect that has something to do with my karma/seniority.
I know what you're saying, but that isn't the question. The question is "what makes us human" or some similar ridiculousness.

//

Having said that, come on. There is a correlation between brain size (i.e. number of neurons) and intelligence. It may not be 1:1 or linear (though how do you know the Neanderthals were not more more intelligent, or we aren't twice as intelligent as elephants?) but there is most certainly a strong strong correlation.
I too have lost the ability to upvote.
Technical executor will probably become a thing in the coming years.

If you want your family to get the revenue after you pass, then it would take a very rare and altruistic outsider to keep that going for little to no return.

Bring someone in your family into your project. Teach them. They don't have to start on code, they could help you with administration of your app store account, or documentation. Eventually they should learn how to code, or at least to maintain your app. But they should learn where everything is and how it all fits together as soon as possible.
I am sure that if you add all the costs you mentioned together, it is still less than the cost of running the Bitcoin network. You need half the computing resources on the planet to be devoted to Bitcoin for it to be secure. We do not devote anything close to that to maintaining or securing paper money, even if you include the entire government (which would not be any smaller in a world of Bitcoin rather than paper money).
It seems like the article only talks about the MOM probe. What rocket are they going to fly on? Very cool though, especially on the budget constraints! Ad astra per aspera.

One day I look forward to seeing my American, Indian, Chinese, African, etc... brothers and sisters on Mars toasting humanity and it's achievements. What a glorious day that will be!
Thank you toumhi for fixing this :)
Try to upvote then refresh the page. You will see (or not) that the upvote icon re-appears and the vote count decrements by one.
>Humans certainly are "at the top of evolution".

I'd say bacteria and viruses (if you define those as living) have us beat by almost any metric.

>How I came to exist doesn't change any of my goals.

As a side note, it probably should. If you're certain of life after death and the existence of God, it should probably color your experience in a way that's different than if you take the material view of: most likely no God, and one life to live.
Actually it's quite a surprise to me. They are one of the most profitable entertainment companies ever. I'm not sure what they need the money for, they had hundreds of millions coming in each month from revenue on a team of under a 100 people.
I agree, no one deserves having to go to Stanford.

Go Berkeley!
Post scores are visible to all. PG removed the comment scores a while back. Only the person who posted the comment can see its score.
The rationale for preferring 128-bit AES over 256-bit AES is given later in the doc.
Just run a little experiment in Excel to see what I mean. Plug in 100 numbers representing wealth in a normal distribution. Then fast forward these over say, 25 years. But the key here is that the top ~20% grow at 15%, the bottom 20% grow at 0%, and everyone in between grows at inflation so about 3%. This is generally what happens in the real world, for the most part. Watch how skewed that normal distribution becomes over 25 years.

It's not a conspiracy, it's just algebra.
A secondhand anecdote about ISRO: Was out drinking with friends a few years ago when we saw the news about (or was it Leno joking about?) the moon impact probe successfully crashing into the moon.

Turns out one of my friends had done his Bachelor's engineering project (kind of like the BS Senior Design project in US colleges) at ISRO, and he was working on something that would be part of the probe project. He was there when the goverment pulled off Pokhran.

He tells me that because of the diplomatic fallout, all international technology transfer deals ISRO had with various Western organizations instantly were unilaterally canceled by the foreign parties. (Even in the commercial arena, I know of international collaboration projects that were abruptly canceled. I think Pokhran was a very stupid, shortsighted move by the government to score brownie points with the population just to confirm what the world already knew.)

My friend estimated the Pokhran fallout set them back at least 4 years, because suddenly a bunch of technology they were expecting to get ready-made, they had to start researching and developing themselves from scratch.

And yet when the Moon Impact Probe finally happened, it was right on schedule.
Thanks for your comment Kamaal.

I think most of us realize the intangible value that ISRO creates.

Space Tech is here to stay. The cooperation between NASA and ISRO is commendable and shows the weight ISRO carries in the current Space Tech world.

We might have many many problems in India but we have to remember that we are human beings too. We also carry a sense of adventure. We also strive for the unknown.

Space Tech is an art, more so in case of ISRO given there small budget. Here are a bunch of people who want to ride to the frontiers of space from whatever meagre resources they have and they deserve a standing ovation for that. Not only for achieving what they have, but also for trying it.

For every naysayer, there would be hundreds who would stand in awe of every step anyone with a heart filled with dreams takes. For there is a little child in everyone of us who still hasn't given into the negativity of this modern day life and somehow believes in the most daring challenges. For that is what makes us human and our evolutionary history is an indisputable proof of that.

Godspeed ISRO.
AFAIK there's no "flag" on comments, just stories (conversely, there's no downvotes for stories, just comments). Or maybe I just don't have enough karma to see it (or I lost it long ago).

An other weird thing about HN: sometimes I can't see the "reply" link on a comment for a while, even if I reload.

Like, I wanted to reply to your post earlier but I couldn't even though ch0wn had already posted his own. I don't understand what triggers that behaviour.
reading through that article, there are clear similarities between the direction Burberry took after she took charge, and what Steve did at Apple, what with shoring up the cloning situation and public perception of its products. This will be interesting...
Tubes aren't all that terribly different from transistors; the characteristic curves are slightly different but the circuit topologies are basically the same as those of transistor circuits.
Show HN: 13 Bizarre Things We Learned About Twitter's Jack Dorsey.
"We're both expressible as the sum of two cubes!"
Inflation encourages investment. If I can get a return sticking my money under a (literal or metaphorical) matress why would I take a risk with investing it? Funding your startup would be more expensive and more difficult in a deflationary world.
You can use Boolean(value) but it will return an 'object' of a 'boolean' type, rather than a primitive boolean (it's one of JS's flaws so is generally avoided).

Note: their example of a similar piece of code is not identical, as it won't cast values like null to false. I think the best example of a clear equivalent would be:

value = value ? true : false;
I guess that 1 upvote does not always equal 1.0 karma.

It definitely doesn't when it comes to posts. I believe it does for comments however.

PG's always been exceptionally protective and elusive when it comes to how karma is handled. I assume it's to deter people/organisations from gaming the system.

I've been on HN for years and I still have absolutely no clue how upvotes are handled for posts.
> Students who are financially disadvantaged get help, both from the universities and the government.

I hate to add any more cynicism to this, but student aid is often higher ed's version of price segmentation. Out of state people pay the top prices, in state pay the middle, and low income pay a bit less (but often more over the long run due to loans). I know many people who will be paying interest on their student debt long after they would have paid back the entire principle. I was lucky and had parents who encouraged me to pace myself and go without much debt, but the system pretty much is stacked to rope in low info 18 year olds and extract as much from them as possible.
I have tested voting ring: I have upvoted a friend who has upvoted me also. Result: both of us have lost karma :-<
Hey, sorry about that.

I'm using a wordpress theme that probably does a bit too much of this and I hadn't realized (I just launched the blog a couple of days ago). I've tracked down and removed the scrolling effect already and will look into other unintended hijacking.
The fact that not all students will make it is not the point of the article.

It's designed to address the underlying sense of entitlement students at the World's best universities can have. As these places can be so hard to get into, successful applicants can adopt a defensive "I'm here because I'm the cleverest and deserve it" mentality. For somewhere like Stanford, having a lot of (daddy's) money is, for most students, also a pre-requisite to attending. The Author is exactly right, being born into a family with money does not mean you deserve to be there, even if you did work really hard during grade school and college. The Freshman's are enormously lucky to have been given the chance to study at Stanford and it is up to them to earn their place, retrospectively. Society will be the judge based on their future work.

The message is not so much "don't get comfortable because 50% will be gone by the end of the year" but rather more of "Welcome to Stanford. Understand that you are here though very little of your own merit. You have the opportunity to change that if you work hard and focus on the bigger picture of society and not just furthering your own wealth".
And? A million dollar trust fund means that he inherited 0.001% of his 100B quoted wealth.

If a million dollar net worth person inherits $10, does that mean that his wealth is inherited? The proportion is the same.
Oh, on posts/polls I can see scores. I cannot see any scores on comments.
Basically came to say this. As an enduser, it "feels" very scummy (I 'know' for a fact you're just doing this in the hopes that I forget and you get to ding me for a month or two, moreso when there's some crap about how you don't 'want' to interrupt my service..), and I usually think twice about any service using this pattern.

Why not just let me use it for the trial period and then interrupt service until payment is received?
>Are we really being politically correct for the sake of animals?

Are you for real? We are animals, through and through.
You have to admire the psychology of this particular post. It reminds me of the infamous reddit post "Test post. Please ignore."

No doubt the exceptionally high score for this post is primarily down to folk upvoting to check if they have the same problem.
How do you decide which points are neighboring?
Everything I work on is open sourced. Most projects are maintained by me only, one of them gathered a small team around me.

When I die, anyone will fork my one-man projects, and I expect my "team" project to be taken over by one of them. If not, again, anyone will be able to fork it.
Maybe because it's hard to imagine an organisation being outside of the reach of the MPAA?
Apparently addressing a quasi-free-rider issue with health insurance (those folks who pay almost nothing but still get coverage) is a bad thing. I mean, yeah, it's a bad thing for them, in the same way that it's bad whenever someone has to contribute to society to any meaningful degree.

These complaints about an individual's premium going up massively (e.g. 100%) under ACA appear to be mostly the result of extremely limited plans being phased out and replaced with more comprehensive ones. That is, the old cheap plan barely covered anything but technically qualified as insurance. The new, more expensive plan that's the minimum includes much more broad coverage. Part of tackling extremely high costs for health care is having more things covered so providers don't have to write them off; currently people with little or no insurance coverage get care and stick the rest of us with the costs. The idea here is to expand the coverage so those folks who used to have pseudo-insurance that didn't actually cover much would have proper coverage (which costs more than the skimpy plan they previously had).

It is a pain and a burden for some people? Sure, just like everything else in life. Policies change all the time and there are always winners and losers; the best policy in the world ends up impacting someone negatively. Discussing issues like adults means understanding this and not simply ignoring the good and the sensible so we can shriek and moan about the bad bits.
I would take a different interpretation in that for those who are failing, no need to take a long walk off a short pier or test their gliding skills off the roof of the dorm, its OK, no need to do something drastic if whats happening (failing) is occasionally a perfectly normal and expected part of life. Someone seems to do that about every semester, its always a downer for everyone else.