skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can recommend Nick Robinson's excellent book "Live from Downing Street" - this reminded me just how unpopular the BBC was with the Conservative government in the 1980s and the Labour government after '97.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Live-From-Downing-Street-Robinson/dp...

Edit: At home we've been getting free Guardians from Waitrose - this has actually resulted in us buying some "right wing" newspapers to try and get a bit of perspective, my wife liked the Daily Telegraph but did concede she had gone too far by buying a Daily Mail (the Scottish edition) - which she described as "utter trash".
Why would deduplicating the metadata be important for this use case? Static amount of available inodes on some filesystems is the only reason I can think of.
This ruling grants class status to the employees, allowing them to sue as a class instead of individually. While class actions usually have the deck stacked against them, in this case the DOJ already got a settlement out of the companies, which tends to have a halo affect on any corresponding civil suit.
"Eh, no need to call in the Grammar Squad."

Obviously, as this is in the purview of the Lexicology Squad, not the Grammar Squad.

"Hacker News did bring something about as a result."

Except that Hacker News did not bring about the existence of the linked site, which would be the actual meaning of "effected the site".
This looks very cool, however I was able to get lots of false positives using the first few letters of the alphabet as test data. Could you reduce these by using k hashes and k bit vectors with m bits, i.e. one bit vector for each hash algorithm, at the expense of a little extra computation?
Can I suggest that the loss of signal during the impact caused an issue with the encoder but because of the encoding of video if the disrupted frame was an i-frame or a b-frame then it might cause effects on p-frames?
Ruby library for interacting with Stack overflow API.
I firmly believe that, in knowledge industries like software and VFX, unions can do more harm than good. It's better to have options like moving to another company or country (like I just did) or even easily starting your own company than fighting for keeping the status quo.
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> A pure EV will be better in every respect...

All that you say is true, but will the charging time cripple them for longer distances for the next 20 years at least?
> But "the government" is people.

The way matter is subatomic particles. The same thing at very different scales exhibit very different properties, and although technically true, it's misleading to consider governments as sets of people. They lack some essential features exhibited by individuals and small groups, features which we aptly call _humanity_.

The parent's proposal is to delegate stuff which require humanity to much smaller groups, which operate at scales where humanity still exists. It's a good idea, albeit not a new one: decentralization. It's very difficult to execute properly. Moreover, humanity isn't only composed of positive qualities: poorly executed decentralization easily turns into tribal clientelism.
I quite often leave my code broken so that next time I open the solution I know exactly where I left off. I will often leave a comment there or throw("get X to do Y now")
Perhaps a bit naive of me, but can't ANY email sender just include html/css of this type in their spam or regular mail to me?

Can't any email sender spoof the sender identity in various ways, e.g., from name, signature, and sure this picture badge thing?
When (if) Netflix adds live sports, (and channel-like functions), it'll be the nail in the coffin for cable tv.
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Any chance this is related to the relevant biological/neurological/robotics terminology?
I am working on Notegraphy (http://notegraphy.com) it's a writing app for iOS and Web.

It's cool because:

The idea is simple: write stuff, short or long, multipage and then style it as you want. Then you can either publish to your own gallery of notes or, share it on your favorites social networks.

You can download it from here https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notegraphy/id669094298?ls=1&... any comment will be appreciate it.

On the first two weeks we've got around 100k users and we're growing like crazy.
Oh!Ok. Even in that case, its around the same. I would say

Digital:65%

Non-Digital:35%
Is this the one we are talking about?
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Nexus_10_16GB?...
No, that's the current model.
I work as an iOS engineer, and got my job 2 months after graduating with an Art degree and a minor in advertising. Your degree really doesn't matter - just get one and become really good (work at a professional level) at something at the same time.
Everything surrounding the De Mohrenschildt persona is most peculiar. His brother founder of Radio Free Europe, his close connection to Jackie Kennedy, his correspondence with H.W.Bush

oh and let's not forget Hoovers 29.11.63 memo on "information furnished by George Bush of Central Intelligence Agency"
or rsync into (optionally LUKS-encrypted) btrfs filesystem with snapshots.
Pssst! Try to keep it a little more secret that you joined the LessWrong Cabal for Taking Over the World! And it's your turn to bring snacks to the next meeting. The password will be, "My birthday is on Schelling Day."

Don't worry, you'll learn to speak Normal again someday.
G+ is less intrusive but most of the G+ users don't produce much (publicly)
Caveat: this is info based on a quick chat with a BT WiFi engineer, backed up with random internet reading.

It's set up in the router and BRAS, but it will only take that bandwidth away if you're watching IPTV. I should have used the word "allocated" :-)

Something important to note - even if you see sync speeds on your DSL modem of 34.95Mbit down, you're likely to have a DSLAM profile set to something like 31Mbit. Most providers use profiles in the DSLAM to give you a consistent speed, rather than trying to squeeze the last little bits out of what is often quite a lossy line.

So in reality your 20Mbit sync speed might result in an 18Mbit profile, of which 2Mbit is allocated for IP TV traffic.
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Alibaba link has a minimum order of 5000 FWIW (but I expect it was post simply to show the type).
Thanks :)
I'll see if the SSH solution is feasible..
The good thing is, that we have very little server code at the moment (as much is done on client-side), I hope we are not that bad at application code right now ;)
Google Chrome not only uses bloom filters for malicious URL filtering but also as a part of the CSS selector matching process. I'm not sure how exactly, but allegedly, it gives them a nice speed bump in majority of the cases without compromising on generality.
Ruby >= 1.9 also has a built in libffi wrapper, "Fiddle"[1], which can replicate basic Ruby-FFI functionality with some glue code[2]. There aren't many examples, but I've successfully used it to call Windows API (GDI+) functions.

[1] http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0.0/libdoc/fiddle/rdoc/Fiddle.h...

[2] http://www.slideshare.net/tenderlove/hidden-gems-of-ruby-19/...
Debian sid on my desktop, stable on my laptop. I'm thinking about switching to Arch though.

When it comes to the software I use:

- window manager - i3

- editor - vim

- terminal emulator - urxvt

- web browser - Firefox

- e-mail client - Thunderbird

- suckless tools

- office suite - LibreOffice
A post that expresses little thought should be down-voted. The post in question is of value since the original link 503'd, but that value is obfuscated to some by the lack of a quick "Here's a mirror" explanation.

Is this really a big deal?
Exactly. I ordered mine in a pack of ten at ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?Led+lens+60+degree&_nkw=Led+l...
Hey,
Manthan seems like a great platform.
For your discussion platform you could check out http://www.appyoda.io/
We are a Pune based startup in the Backend as a Service arena. Appyoda is an application we built on our platform.
Do give it a try.
Dropbox support several OSes though, which is still better than any one OS providing a similar capability natively. In general, the OS should just do what it NEEDS to do, and let applications fill out the rest.
Well isn't that sort of like saying you should keep your documents on your harddrive instead of in RAM? Writing/drawing is fine but the actual processing can only take place in the head :-)
Submission title should be changed. At time of writing (11:22am GMT), it makes no indication the article is referring to a new model.
Group thinking is not bad, as long as we're defining group : (small) set of people with lot of common characteristics, goals (if applicable).
The opposite of the "mass" which usually is a large set of people whom highest common denominator is to be human.

The question is whether HN can be considered a group or a small mass =)

Plus you have to keep in mind the average pov will be biased in a different way than let's say marketing101.net.
I think a lot of the antagonism you see from certain open source communities comes from Twitter nowadays. (That is, angry debates exist everywhere, but it leaks out of Twitter better than someone going crazy in an IRC channel.)

Ten years ago, you had to write a blog post and hit publish.. and that gave you a chance to reflect and retract. But now you can tap out a gut reaction to the latest drama and keep the feedback loop going.

This is all just based on personal observation and therefore unscientific, but I suspect most communities have similar levels of antagonism between members and topics up for internal conflict. Those communities whose members are communicating more on Twitter, however, have dramas that rumble on for longer and get more external coverage than those sheltered away on private mailing lists and IRC channels.
By you and people who must have some form of bias in their view of the world.

A PhD is easily judged on the work itself, not who or where it came from. Thats the great thing about research, it can be really transparent.
Thanks, that made me actually LOL and create a HN account just to upvote.
Salesforce: Accessing List Views Without Tabs
... Because it is basically the same concept but worse because you just gave up the privacy of your inbox to be data mined and sold. All for some minor conveniences masquerading as a "cool hack".

My father's a B2B salesman who spends a lot of time using LinkedIn for lead acquisition. He's thrilled for this thing because he spends "way too much time fiddling with the iPhone browser to try and get this info."

I'm not saying the underlying security issues aren't valid, but to say it's a "minor convenience" is a failure of perspective.
Which actually (and thankfully!) I think is the problem with DropBox's business model.

Most apps I use, will happily use SkyDrive, DropBox or Google Drive. As a business, why would you ever tie yourself to the fait of one. The 'key risk' is simply to great to be tied entirely to one vendor or platform. It is one of the best arguments for making AppStore Apps multi-platform.

Which brings me back to my original point. SkyDrive has some better features, even if you only use OSX. Both Google Drive and Sky Drive are working on converging the web-app space. When people are just in a browser the word / excel / ppt / etc document editing ability (all free) is considerably better than google docs.

For sharing simple photo album, its much better, especially if you want to share with someone who can edit. It also blurs into almost facebook territory with the comment system too, but has better privacy.

I can't think of one feature in fact that would make think Hmm DropBox is the best for this. As I don't have a mac to compare, combined with my deep loathing of the UX/Design Language of OSX, I have only glanced over the feature sheet. Can't see anything SkyDrive is missing on OSX that dropbox offers.
Back when I first tried opening the page it 503ed and there was just one page of comments, one of them was this image link. Its purpose was fairly clear, actually. And helpful.
"A problem well stated is a problem half solved"
With 300k files and symlinks, you are probably not considered a typical Dropbox customer.
The implication here is that tech people are inherently more moral than business people, which I find more worthy of attack than any derivation from that premise.
Nice! Yes there is in fact ... the small-satellite sector. My background is in Aerospace Engineering so I have quite a good grip on the state of technology and of the market. Last year I spoke to various interested parties in Bangalore, including ISRO, DRDO, and Mahindra Aerospace. I also gave a talk at PESIT in Bangalore at a SpaceUp conference [1], organized by a space startup called DhruvaSpace (who I had advanced talks with to partner with) [2].

The main problem was that although everyone was very excited, to the point of telling me that I'd be crazy not to enter this space (double-meaning intended) in India right now, they also told me to be ready to rip my hair out and scream, not because the startup ecosystem isn't ready for it, but because government regulations are opening things up VERY slowly. People were telling me that nothing will happen within 5 years, possibly 10, so it's a BIG time investment and effort to tussle with government.

I'm still really excited at the ideas I have, because I think they can promote commercial and social use of satellite technology in India to tackle a wide range of problems that my market research indicated are current and real.

[1] http://spaceupindia.org/?page_id=115
[2] http://dhruvaspace.com/
The ups and downs of the economic cycle especially in the valley where they are somewhat amplified do not directly correspond to your employment prospects as a Software Engineer. Here are just a couple things that will likely happen over the course of your career as software engineer:

- Most consumer and commercial vehicles to be driven completely by machines

- Machines will become better than doctors at diagnosing patients

- Telepresence software will allow you to travel to any country in the world within minutes

- Everyone will be able to print almost any object they would want in their home

- Virtual reality will become indistinguishable from reality

- Humans will travel to mars

The development of new software will obviously be required for all of the above and this list doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the ways in which software algorithms will change the world. I can't think of many majors that you could study that will give you the skill-set that you need to create more value over your career than computer science.

PS. Don't call yourself a programmer http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro... (By patio11)
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YCombinator!!! We have made some sweet node.js improvements specifically to our EU, AU, and USA users ~ Check it out if you are a Linux or tech guru.
Also see the Kepner-Tregoe method. Doing the "is, is-not" step really helps narrow it down.
That image looks really fake... look how blurry the the soft buttons down the bottom are. The Chrome icon is also cut off a little on the left, and the app list button looks like it was made in MS Paint.

The store description in image #4 is also far too short.

If you look at the default wallpaper for the Nexus 7, you can see it makes a "7" shape. Same for the leaked photos of the Nexus 5, except with a "5" shape. However, the background in this photo doesn't show a "10", it shows something similar to the Nexus 5's "5" background.

So I'm fairly certain this is fake.
It's the same with any modern Apple products too. People called iPads and iPhones stupid.
Europe should be grateful for NSA spying, Rogers says
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Like all other sectors, scientific research can get inbred and peer review corrupted as a mechanism. It's similar to a character/job/performance reference: "We want to hear what other people say about you," can be problematic when the folks talking are untrustworthy--yet they wield credentials imparting trustworthiness. Peer review only worked when the majority of peers were rock-solid good scientists. (when there were fewer scientists, with personal reputations and the discoveries to back up their reputations) Wouldn't it be great if Pierre Curie, Darwin or Tesla were doing peer reviews? (or men/women of similar caliber)

At leading research schools (they aren't all universities), falsification of data exists at the student and professorial level.

Funding is definitely cut at NASA, whereas "sexy" research funding is increasing. We need excellent researchers across all areas of expertise. And we need increased accountability and transparency. And more funding.

I argue that what is most needed is increased scientific literacy at the level of political leadership and the general population so that findings can be accessible/understood/evaluated on a more concrete level by all.

Coming pathogen shifts associated with climate change, and extreme weather events, etc. alarm people. And people want to be able to trust science and to trust science reporting.
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Is there a good way to declare a REST API and automatically have a cli created from it? Having a simple GUI would also be great but that seems like a much less likely chance.
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As I said, very easy to achieve as a developer (I hadn't done anything crazy), and the symlinks were working up to that point.

Even as a non-typical dropbox user (a developer, then), I think there should have been some kind of a warning a, some ability to recover from the situation b (I was left for nearly a month with a completely non-functional dropbox), and not suddenly getting dropped without warning by support c.

If I'd known up front that a deployment of not that unusual amounts of code (especially if you use git) would have led dropbox to irrecoverably fail for me, I wouldn't have used them in the first instance.

I don't think even as a 'non-typical' user the very poor, typically big co, experience I had was justified, esp. given that I am a member of the group of people who first started using dropbox.
I've always wondered about the relation of inflation and innovation. As long as a society is sufficiently innovative inflation is not a big deal because innovation tends to outpace it. This is especially interesting if you measure inflation in relation to some basket of goods that contain a good chunk of "hightech" items. But it's also relevant for more traditional items like bread due to improvements in agriculture tech etc.
The interesting question is of course if a policy that tends to favour inflation also tends to favour innovation. It should because (artificially) low interest rates should c.p. lead to more long term R&D type projects being funded.
(all imo, I'm not an economist)

I am aware that the Austrian School gets a pretty bad rep these days but as a curious citizen of the world I have read a couple of Austrian books (Human Action, Competition and Entrepreneurship) and even if you disagree on the content I find them very pleasant...aesthetically if that makes any sense.
I was hoping this would be a Monty Python reference.
> So if you think an organization is broken, programming can often-times fix it.

Believing this fallacy will bring you nothing but suffering.

If an organization is limited - if the will is there to do the right thing but the workload is more than the people involved can handle - then programming can indeed help, by amplifying productivity.

But a broken organization is not merely one where means are insufficient. It's one where you are forbidden to do the right thing. That's not a technical problem, it's a political one, and no amount of programming can fix it. You have to either get into a political fight - which probably isn't your area of comparative advantage, but best of luck if you do take that approach - or get out and find a job somewhere less dysfunctional.
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> So it's only partially true that the poor benefit from inflation. They'll benefit from cheaper debt payments and possibly higher employment. But they're unlikely to see much of the added money supply in wages, and they're going to take it in the chin on prices.

Maybe in the short run, but over the long-run historical numbers don't support this assertion. Even at the lower income levels wages have historically tracked inflation, or even slightly outpaced it...

Economics is an inexact science (since markets are such fluid, dynamic things - and I don't mean stock markets), and it never assumes that individuals and firms will always make the correct decisions to take advantage of economic policy. However it is able to measure the overall benefits and downsides that economic policy has on a population at large, over the long run...
With SPF and DKIM you cannot spoof the envelope address and the “From:” header email address. If SPF would actually be required instead of optional (or even ignored), we could be free of 99% of SPAM and phising emails maybe as soon as 2009!

Anyway the point of the post is that if you just add the badge thing you will end up with two different badges, which the user would obviously find suspicious. Instead, the way LinkedIn rewrites messages is exploited to get only a single badge but manipulate its content (and/or the message content). Since the message looks authentic (it’s been filtered by LinkedIn) it gives the user a false sense of security, which makes a naïve phising attempt into a very effective one. After all the point of the message rewriting was to give the impression that LinkedIn Intro is an extension to the actual email client.
And Prince of Persia too...
I'd suggest any unwillingness to make specific mathematically testable predictions is correct acknowledgement that the field is too complicated to do so. As I've said, you can make a model and tweak it by picking and choosing inputs until you can make it successfully back test with historic data, but any comprehensive correctness is likely tenuous if not specious.

Having a complex model that appears correct but is actually wrong is quite dangerous. Observe long term charts (debt, debt to gdp, etc) in various countries throughout the world. We're told by economists and the federal reserve in very serious tones using large words and complex models that everything is all figured out, but the charts continue to get worse. Even during the glorious Clinton years of supposed robust surpluses, debt increased every year. Hindsight being 20/20, we now know we were just in a bubble.

Austrians speak in broad principles rather than specific mathematical formulas, and in my opinion, their broad (vague) predictions of what will happen if you do <x> are far closer to honest reality than any other camp.
I think this is it. You hear the stories about the 15 year olds with successful internet businesses because it's pretty rare, but they are really not the norm at all. Most 15 year olds are just mindless consumers of the internet, in the form of Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc.

30 years ago the same kid would have worked out a way to have 10 neighborhood newspaper routes and subcontract the actual delivery work to other kids, keeping a commission.
As someone who spent years working out of coffee shops nearly every day, I can say it is definitely not equivalent to the level of engagement and concentration provided by a proper workspace.

Oh, you can get a lot done there. But it's no office or home office. And the home office is monotonous and lonely.