skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mechanical systems fail too. Cables can snap, gears can shear off, pedals can bend. As long as you require an appropriate level of redundancy, there's no reason an all-electronic plane should be any less safe.
This article is a scaled-down version of the original one in Bitcoin Magazine by Vitalik Buterin. You can find it here:

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/7050/bootstrapping-a-decentralize...
Subsidisation is a large part of the Canadian economy, primarily in provinces where the economy is a disaster area. They're not disaster areas that will be fixed by subsidisation; they're maintained and made worse by market distortions of this kind.

I'm angry because Canada would be far better off as a whole without this, and the parasitic bureaucracy that sucks the life out of the non-subsidised parts of the system.
Schools Aren’t Teaching Kids To Code
It brings a new meaning to paying your monthly bills when failure to do so brings death.
This has potential, have you ever seriously thought of the logistics?
Ask HN: Are the new gTLDs the future of Internet domains?
TL;DR: I may or may not have contributed to a point on that curve and I am not sure how to feel about it.

I began filling out the form on the day the application window was announced. Halfway through, I realized the answers I had to some of the questions on the form, were either unconvincing or simply non-existent. As I progressed, I realized that me and my idea both sounded increasingly half-assed, so I promptly stopped, saved the form, quietly went back to the drawing board and started attempting to figure out the answers.

It has been roughly two months since that day, I guess. I still don't have all the answers but I can at least tell myself now that the idea is worth a shot...
I actually worked on this exact solution a few months ago.

I translated excel into a javascript data structure, translating the formulas into javascript functions. The data structure could be saved to json, and them reloaded back into javascript. The cool thing is that changing a value (a2 = 3) automatically updates dependent values in the rest of the data structure. The data structure can be referenced much like the spreadsheet - it is a tree with branches for pages, rows, columns. There is a simple faster csv like API that makes it easy to go page by page, row by row. Also, cells can be looked up explicitly.

The code is proprietary, which is a shame. It was written as a library to quickly reverse engineer large, complex xlsx files. The trick in making it work is just having the right data structure.

Sorry if I am rambling or any misspellings. I am very sick right now, drowsy from medication, and trying to type thus on my phone.
Some language versions have higher requirements for notability. It's hard to set a clear cutoff point for example in sports, entertainment and companies. When does something become wiki-notable? Everyone has their own admins, deletion policies and arbitration mechanisms, which have and will influence content.

Statistics show clearly that some have opted to include as many stubs as possible via the use of bots (for example Swedish wikipedia). Tens of thousands almost worthless stubs (like all US townships and communities) could be machine-added at any time, but most wikis have steered clear of this kind of doping. German wikipedia is quite the opposite in regards to pictures. They don't allow any fair use / citation pictures, which leads to de.wiki articles having considerably less photos than other languages.
I'm speaking of the new upcoming gTLDs like for example: .business, .fashion, .mortage, .baseball, .movie, .coffee, .pizza, .fitness, .porn, .shopping, .dating, .academy, .club, .forum to name a few.

* ICANN Blog
http://blog.icann.org/

* ICANN FAQ
http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/faq...
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Did you edit your quote and remove the word "they"?
With the current trend of simplifying your interface graphics about 90% of this could be made in MS Paint. Also applies to Windows 8 and to some extend to desktops like GNOME.
Definitely have a catastrophic plan and the new options are essentially the same as well. Here are some more details:

Old plan: Regence Evolve HSA Plan - Premium: $149, Deductible: $3,500, Coinsurance: 20%, Out-of-pocket max: $5,000

New plan: Regence Direct Silver - Premium: $252, Deductible: $3,000, Coinsurance: 20%, Out-of-pocket max: $4,900

I would lose the HSA benefits from the new plan, which I could keep if I wanted to accept significantly worse terms (with a premium increase of only 33%!):

Regence Direct Bronze HSA - Premium: $198, Deductible: $5,000, Coinsurance: 30%, Out-of-pocket max: $6,250

I don't see how I can come out ahead on this one, once I was able to finally get quotes on the exchange, no other plan was comparable in terms of value and cost. :(
The ultimate post on Startup School 2013
The 5 Archetypes of the Entrepreneur-Programmer
If you are hiring for start up, you do not care why they are dumb. Potentially you can save money by hiring non traditional candidates and paying them less, but any advantage you get this way will be short lived. Unfortunately diamonds in a rough are rare and finding them cost more than their value.
I'm not sure if they were trying to say iOS 7 looks so basic that "even Word can do it", but my real takeaway here was that this guy is a beast with Microsoft Word's drawing tools
I know Google is, because they have open sourced it for so long, competitors have taken and used it... Now they are trying to reap some rewards. But it won't matter since it has been open sourced the way it has... How many different ROMS are there now based off of AOSP? Hundreds

Samsung is not a victim, they are battling just as hard as Apple, but Apple, because of how vehemently they have attached Google and Samsung, they are the bad guys. People defend them because they are blinded by some infatuation that makes no sense to me and most other, level headed people.

And before you say I am an Apple hater, I have purchased multiple Apple products (mostly to evaluate compared to other products). I have owned every type of iPhone except for the new 5 series. I have had a mac, I have had iPods, etc etc... I was never satisfied with their price point for what I got. But, as a company, they disgust me. Anyone who wants to defend them can go for it.
There was a free one, I'm pretty sure.

Not remember exactly which years but I remember my parents having to wait to get one (vs. paying and getting it immediately).
It's entirely accurate. I never claimed Facebook had an automatic right to stop you using its name. Also, your source doesn't even mention 'fair use.' That's because it's a defense to copyright infringement, not to trademark infringement.
For me it is just a huge cash grab for icann and others. Gosh, look at the pricing.
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It's not the TUN/TAP device that gets you; it's tunneling TCP over TCP, which wrecks havoc with TCP's retransmission algorithm[1]. I've personally done measurements and the bandwidth of a TCP connection over a UDP OpenVPN tunnel is just as good as the bandwidth without using a tunnel. In contrast, the bandwidth of a TCP connection over a TCP OpenVPN tunnel is significantly worse.

You may theoretically have worse performance with a TUN/TAP tunnel compared to an IPSEC tunnel because the packets have to travel into and out of userspace whereas IPSEC stays in the kernel, but I've never noticed this in practice. In contrast, the TCP performance degradation is very noticeable in practice.

[1] http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html
Wireless capability disabled in Vice President Cheney's implanted defibrillator
The part of the article I wanted to point out is this:

In 2007, when Cheney needed his implanted defibrillator replaced, Dr. Reiner ordered the manufacturer to disable the wireless feature - fearing a terrorist could assassinate the vice president by sending a signal to the device, telling it to shock his heart into cardiac arrest.

Jonathan Reiner: And it seemed to me to be a bad idea for the vice president to have a device that maybe somebody on a rope line or in the next hotel room or downstairs might be able to get into-- hack into. And I worried that someone could kill you.

It might sound farfetched, but years later this scene from the SHOWTIME drama "Homeland" showed just how it could be done to the fictional vice president.

Sanjay Gupta: What did you think when you watched that?

Dick Cheney: Well, I was aware of the danger, if you will, that existed but I found it credible. Because I know from the experience we had and the necessity for adjusting my own device that it was an accurate portrayal of what was possible.
> I also have small random, rarely-used things that I know I'll need in the future, but don't know where to store them so I'll find them in the future.

As a guy who personally sleeps on the floor, owns one pair of pants, rents a family car and a family bedroom, and has no photographs or books, I'm genuinely curious - what are some of things that need to be stored?
ICANN is not a government agency. It's a California-based nonprofit corporation. http://www.icann.org/en/about/governance/articles
Does reduced noise necessarily mean increased efficiency? Short of using heavy sound deadening material, I'd imagine that reducing the noise in an aircraft means saving a lot of that previously noisy energy for useful work.
I'm applying for residency in Radiology now. I completely agree with your observations. Hopefully, we will make #1 happen.
It actually isn't all that surprising, we've hit similar bottlenecks where JPEG decompression on the iPhone ends up choking feeds that are scrolled through quickly.

We didn't go the route of caching the uncompressed data on disk, though, we just keep the images in a maintained in-memory cache.
Can't this be done with a Freedom of Information Act request?
Commenting only on the Appendix:

Web design is subjective. What looks "ugly" to one person or one culture, works in another. Is it just happenstance that East Asian web design (Chinese and Japanese web design have a lot of parallels) looks quite different from Western web design? Could it be that it has something to do with the information density of East Asian languages?

WRT the gwern's comments regarding Japan and software, I do think that this is largely correct (with the exception of the gaming industry where Nintendo, Sony, Sega, etc. have made globally popular software.) I should note that Asia overall (not just Japan) does not have a track record of developing globally popular consumer-facing software aside from game software. Korea is largely reliant on Windows on the desktop and Android on mobile. Same is true for Mainland China. So wrt software I think the critique is Asia-wide, not just Japan.

As an aside, I'd ask anyone to list European-developed globally popular software. My list: Skype, Rovio, Spotify...

A bunch of the links in the appendix are many years old and not that accurate any more. Japan has many billion-dollar Internet/IT companies today. It is a market that both is large enough for domestic Japanese firms as well as foreign firms.
Doesn't implementing a kernel in LISP really just move the interesting bits into the LISP GC, compiler, and runtime?
What do you mean when you "if Boeing or Airbus gained a monopoly"? A duopoly isn't bad enough?
The part of the article that's interesting is the concerns about security of embedded devices:

In 2007, when Cheney needed his implanted defibrillator replaced, Dr. Reiner ordered the manufacturer to disable the wireless feature - fearing a terrorist could assassinate the vice president by sending a signal to the device, telling it to shock his heart into cardiac arrest.

Jonathan Reiner: And it seemed to me to be a bad idea for the vice president to have a device that maybe somebody on a rope line or in the next hotel room or downstairs might be able to get into-- hack into. And I worried that someone could kill you.

It might sound farfetched, but years later this scene from the SHOWTIME drama "Homeland" showed just how it could be done to the fictional vice president.

Sanjay Gupta: What did you think when you watched that?

Dick Cheney: Well, I was aware of the danger, if you will, that existed but I found it credible. Because I know from the experience we had and the necessity for adjusting my own device that it was an accurate portrayal of what was possible.
Whats the difference between this and SDWebImage, if any?? I cant see a ton of different API differences. Looks like this probably wont support ARC, though.
Still not standalone: “You should be aware that Cloud Datastore has a serving component that runs on Google App Engine, so there will be instance hour costs.”

https://cloud.google.com/pricing/datastore
Why the downvote? This solution requires an app recompile, no?
Starvation and suffering 
Jamaican living conditions terms
And more
* It's possible that something happened between Jill and the managers/co-founders that the rest of the group is unaware of, and she felt that it was best that she leave.
* It's possible that her health issue flared up again and she decided to leave. She may have been quite appreciative of what the group in her previous absence but didn't want to/couldn't go through having you all pick the slack - either her choice or management's. And she didn't know how to gracefully exit, so she abruptly left.
* Maybe she got ill again and the goodwill "debt" she incurred had nothing to with it - she just needed to leave again to tend to her health - and was unfortunately, not gracious in her departure.
* Maybe she was forced out and has been prohibited from saying anything - or simply chose not to.
TLDR: Yes, for some roles.

Some of our projects have us on site, side-by-side with a client's staff programmers. These projects involve millions of dollars, hundreds of stakeholders, and years of existing code. The programmers have a wide range of skill levels.

The work in these projects involves figuring out the project's objectives, goal decomposition, some agile/lean PoCs, then developing the BDD, MVC, DCI, API, CQRS, SQA, etc. Much of this can happen in pseudocode.

We also do pair programming, code reviews, brown bag demos, cross-training, and the like. I believe all these can help with developers getting up to speed with language syntax.

That said, choose the right person for the job. YMMV.
If you have any ideas (I have little experience in building libs like this, but will definitely learn): currently I need a streaming JSON decoder (which handles base64-encoded blobs as some values, so values need to be stream-decoded too, possibly with another custom step). So far this lib (and nearly every other) seems to assume a pre-defined set of classes, and/or that you want the full response before acting on it (no streaming access).

Before you ask, I don't control the response, so I can't do something more sane :) And it's on Android, so memory can be quite restrictive, and GC hurts a lot with so much allocation.

I don't see an easy way to plug those requirements into this library. Superficially it seems I can modify/add something inherited from BaseRequest and add my own HttpClientHelper.requestAsync-style method to do this, but it's yet another library that doesn't quite allow this kind of thing natively.

But by the time I've understood and made those changes, I might as well just do it all by hand in that particular request. This is especially true since my code has to be read and understood by others I work with, and it makes updating the Unirest library a much more error-prone event that might leave people in the lurch since they didn't write the extension. There's no real happy solution.

--

Not that I really think it should easily handle my case - it looks really nice to use, and it's probably not worth it to you / most people, and my case is weird and might ruin everything to properly support. But it's a minor thing that annoys me a bit and makes me want to make my own (minor annoyances are a major motivator for my personal projects). Before I can make anything decent though I need to see a few more ways to do things, try a few crazy architectures, etc. This has helped remind me what it can look like at least, and the code looks surprisingly clean underneath. Definitely a worthwhile read :)
In Montana, depending on the season, looking out the window can be a really lousy way to gauge the temperature. When the temperature can swing more than 20 degrees Fahrenheit in a day, it can easily mean the difference between needing a jacket or not.
Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities
Duplicate here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6588825
That's the kind of graph you like to see on demo day.
Fascinating concept. It would need a very specific kind of product for such a cooperation to be able to withstand human competition though. The OP mentions a storage service & autonomous cars, but I'm thinking that a good candidate would be a product with such thin margins, supporting human labor could not be feasible.
Million-Year Data Storage Disk Unveiled
Just as an aside, if you have a project that you're not sure is going to take off, there is no reason to shell out $29/month for it. Shared hosting will do the job for $5 - $10 a month. No its not super reliable, but if you have no users, who cares? And if you do get popular, my experience has been that they can handle bursts of traffic surprisingly well, until you can move to proper hosting.
EDIT: Aaaaaaaand this article is already well on its way to the third page.

>The two presidents agreed that we should continue to discuss these issues in diplomatic channels.

Because those channels are safe (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/21/mexico-condemns...).

>According to the paper, the documents show that the NSA was allegedly targeting not only terrorist suspects but also politicians, businesspeople and members of the administration under a programme codenamed US-985D. The paper said "French interests" were "targeted on a daily basis".

>Le Monde said the unpublished Snowden documents it had seen showed "intrusion, on a vast scale, both into the private space of French citizens as well as into the secrets of major national firms".

I'd like to see one of the members of the EU institute an embargo with the USA for a few weeks, just for kicks.
Each container has a single process. Each Individual part is deterministic, so the entire system is composable deterministically.
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Yeah, only a few people have come to this realization:

1. It's IMPOSSIBLE to have a corporation without money
2. So far it's been impossible to receive money online anonymously

Therefore:

3. Corporations can't be anonymous

Bitcoin finally gets rid of this barrier and makes anonymous corporations possible (whether autonomous or human-operated)
I think we can do better, and are far pretty from optimal. This optimum may be unreachable without technological, edcuational, and cultural advances. But I see no point in settling.
Self storage often has to be in prime real estate locations(commercial next to an intersection). Amazon can put a warehouse in Iowa and save a ton on physical infrastructure. That said, there are those pods things, but something tells me those are a rip-off.
Three Ways Up to Celestial Realms
Fair enough--I'm just saying I actually wouldn't mind if the actual eventual solution in Go were a bit gotgo-like (though I'd like it to be standard, not require an extra build step, etc.). Making adaptable containers without extending the type system might even be the Go-y way to do it, though it probably wouldn't win many converts from other languages.

(Or, from the other end entirely, I could see polymorphic functions happening--they'd complicate the Go compilers more than macro-like generics would, but using them would feel familiar for Go's many refugees from duck-typed dynamic langs.)

Anyhow, I'm fairly aimlessly spec'latin' here, don't listen too much to me.
Then why does Moscow report at -2? Russia's gotten so cold it's below absolute zero..

The comma edit does the trick.
Cyber defence unit ‘may use convicted hackers’
Had exact same question.
Cstross has an interesting take on autonomous corporations in his novel Accelerando.
Depends on timelines. The big places will keep you on for at least a year, possibly forever. Most small places can't afford to do more than a month on someone they don't like.
I don't believe the OP is suggesting the company doesn't make money, rather there's no specific group of people who partake in the profits.

Why does the money received need to be anonymous?
Is there more documentation than what's listed when a language is clicked?
But what happens when the foundation that let us construct the existing (non-perfect) social harmony disappears?
Hungry and Obese: Food and America's Well-Being
Yeah, that'll fix it - derp
There can be a bitter price to pay for having a child genius in the family
Guns? Are you kidding me? You think it is more reasonanble forming militias to hold the government in line, if voting and protesting are ineffective?
Direct democracy
Curious if you've speculated about the reason for the high volume of late applications, especially since you're pretty clear that early apps have a better chance to get accepted.
New, Improved Obamacare Program Released On 35 Floppy Disks
If you have already added some contrast then please add some more (else ignore comment)

Looks great otherwise!
Anonymity is not really a feature of Bitcoin, and in fact the design of Bitcoin makes anonymity difficult.
Ok, so how exactly could the US do this without French government access to circuits? Of course this was probably done with the French government's permission. And no one is asking to what extent the French government itself is engaged in this kind of activity.
Australian (and many other) mobile providers seem to break most OpenVPN based VPNs - there's no public IPv4 address provided anymore and the OpenVPN server doesn't seem to know how to route traffic back to the client.
How exactly does the US have access to French phone records, to the extent they can record conversations, and full content of SMS messages?

I would presume all those systems would reside in France, or the EU at the very least? So who is providing them this information, or given them unfettered access to them? And why has nobody noticed until now?
Linux doesn't solve the problem either, with the ability to replace open files. It just means you run into potential compatibility issues if you modify a shared lib and then two processes try to perform IPC that might rely on false assumptions (I believe this is exceedingly rare in practice) and to update kernel components, long-lived services you still need to restart them.

You can perform hot updates to a system but it can be complex and there are a number of restrictions on the types of updates that can be done.
OECD Skills Outlook 2013: First Results From The Study of Adult Skills [pdf]
Presumably to avoid prosecution for tax evasion.
Large airliners are a big-money duopoly with a US incumbent. A single deal can make or break a project, or a company. I wonder how worried the Canadians are about industrial espionage by the NSA, as may have happened in Brazil and Germany.
What makes you think that those bits cannot be written in Lisp? Keep in mind that entire OSes were written in Lisp in the 70s and 80s.
Reminds me of Charles Stross "Accelerando", where autonomous corporations take over the world and humans are driven away from it because we can't understand Economics 2.0.
A better solution then dealing with 60fps scrolling : Don't scroll, Flip!
As they should. Google doesn't have to pay a premium to get people to work there.
this website /changed my life/
one of the members of the EU institute an embargo with the USA for a few weeks

I don't think that would affect the US materially; can the same be said for the would-be embargoer?