skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1423081/json-left-out-inf...

In short, this is because JS does not treat NaN and Infinity as numerical constants but as pre-defined, mutable variables; this way backward-compatible parsing of hypothetical sane JSON with eval would be vulnerable to injection.
Nevertheless, many JSON codecs have their own idea what to do with it, so this stuff can get really nasty.
Encryption foils coup
There is a small open source Linux distro called Fedora that has the same "xenophobic" and "offensive" notice.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Export
The ember docs have improved immensely over the past few months - they're currently significantly better than the angular docs.
Funny how your first and last negative points are my positive points about Firefox.

1) I really want to like Chrome, but I find the UI pretty bad. Yes, it's fine when you have 5/10 tabs open, but try to open more and you'll see (Firefox without addons is just slightly better than Chrome here, but at least I can customize Firefox).
That said, there's a planned restyling of the Firefox UI (which you might already know), called Australis, which might fit more your liking (but I'm not sure when it will land).

2) I'm going to admit that I've never had this problem with Firefox. Firefox is a pretty reliable browser (for what is worth, check the Tom's HW Browser GP), and should render pages just fine.
The only time I see problems is when developers use webkit- specific features, without including the moz- too (some times it's something not supported by Firefox, but many times it's just lazy developers that test their sites only with Chrome/Safari)

3) I'm in love with the Firefox mobile UI, and I find mobile Chrome just terrible. I'm not sure what do you mean by "plays very nicely", you mean tab sync?

To be clear, I'm not trying to say that Firefox is better/worse/equal/similar to Chrome, and I'm not trying to convince you to switch back. I just wanted to reply to your points.
Facebook is Doomed: Forrester Says Ads Tell a Sad Story
> Then I'm sure you don't buy any products that contain Samsung NAND NVRAM, nor do you purchase anything with Qualcomm chips, as a significant portion of their revenue comes from aggressive patent licensing, right?

Definitely adding them to my list of companies to not buy, thanks for the tips.
The Rise of the Small Networks
I think the sweet spot is when you realize that MongoDB has lost your data.
That depends entirely on the direction you're observing from.
Thanks for letting us know. Will fix it right away .
Using R and ggplot2 in iPython Notebooks
> The fact that the human brain is limited to fitting through the birth canal is a great example. With c-sections that isn't particularly relevant

A bright future for mankind, but less great for womankind. We may need to figure out how to use elephants as surrogate mothers.
Can't I upvote this twice? (It's the sort of comment that makes wading through a morass of negativity worthwhile.)
A) Our cognitive structure is not actually that stupid. Note that many-layered neural networks are at the forefront of modern Machine Learning, a discipline carried out by educated, technology-using sapients who will immediately switch to some better technique the instant they find one. Indeed, there is active research into better learning techniques. Neural networks may not be the peak, but they're Pretty Good enough that they didn't evolve "by mistake" in nature.

B) We are still evolving. The big overwhelming FACT of civilization didn't halt our evolution, it just changed the nature of the selection pressures. Whereas raw, physical survivability was once the prime selection factor, civilization has made reproductive desirability, social cooperation, and parenting ability (all inter-related but nonidentical) the larger selection pressures on human genomes.

C) The big new adaptation that made us humans what we are was only maybe intelligence. It was probably extelligence: the ability to store knowledge in the social group rather than the individual. That way, you can build your collective knowledge over time.

D) You would have to be a stupidly, suicidally cancerous civilization to go around converting whole planets into tools.
Annika Jimenez on Disruptive Data Science at the Strata Conference
Another one eh? I've been happy with FF ever since the big mem fix around FF 16 or so. Surprised there is still room for another massive fix.
Hacking a counterfeit money detector for fun and non-profit
Your loss, it is a good read. Tumblr can't possibly be the only place you're exposed to uncomfortable opinions on the interwebs, can it?
Thursday, October 31 – 194th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Is Asia Ready for a Sharing Economy?
A fantastic video along the same lines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs
It's entirely standard for large employers -- places like IBM, Microsoft, Sony, JPMorgan -- to at a minimum restrict it or require permission. If by 'market' though you mean venture backed start-ups and the like, then I have no idea.

Keep in mind that, even in the context of non-compete, California isn't the be-all-and-end-all of the subject. It is the state where the prior employment took place that matters. (Usually, choice of law questions can get complicated.)
Tree Style Tab? Now I'm curious.
Elites Stick together against Us (NSA vs Merkel)
There are a litany of reasons to oppose the PPACA. Opposing it doesn't make anyone dimwitted. If you were one of the 47% of republicans who thought that the bill included death panels, you unfortunately are dimwitted. It's an insane premise that becomes even more absurd when thought about for a microsecond.

Why can't the Democrats win them over with better messaging?

That's a great question, and a huge problem in politics. How do you prevent obvious lies and bullshit distractions from impacting elections? Remember Howard Dean's scream [1]? Or John Kerry's swiftboat exaggerations [2]? Or how 47% of people don't pay income taxes[3]? Or how much larger the government is under Obama[4]?

[1] - http://washingtonexaminer.com/howard-deans-scream-tv-screwed...
[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry_military_service_con...
[3] - http://www.marketplace.org/topics/elections/campaign-trail/n...
[4a] - http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=nQE
[4b] - http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=nQF
Interesting application of what I call the 'Top Gear Effect.'

Top Gear UK is produced for BBC. They aren't beholden to sponsors and therefore their reviews come across as being less biased than sponsored shows (so long as the product is not British). Because they have the largest viewership on the planet, companies continue to give them cars regardless of the outcome of the review.

If Top Gear US tried doing some of the reviews that UK does, they would lose sponsorships or even access to entire product lines. This has lead to a dramatic restructuring of the show that ONLY does reviews when they can be positive.
Insurance companies typically pay out 100% of the money that comes in and they make money on the float. There is always this assumption that they are against higher prices of healthcare and that they battle the hospitals or the doctors. They don't, they just raise their premiums to match higher costs. More float equals more money for the insurance company.
It's 'a FAQ', 'an FAQ' is... wrong.
Those providers are not PaaS providers, though -- they're IaaS providers. I don't want something where step 1 is "install an OS" or "configure iptables". I want something where deployment looks more like "git push origin/master --app production".
If you're a participant of social media, namely Twitter or Facebook, reciprocating with people on the Internet, you run a popular blog, and you're the guy on this page by the same name: https://getclef.com/company

You're not alone. You're privileged. You probably don't even know what real loneliness is. You're just a hipster who thinks they're alone, so you can write a blog post about it and get views. I doubt there are any actual lonely people in San Francisco or Oakland who work at a start up. After all, isn't that why you moved there despite how expensive it is? It's a glorious hub of youth and social activity, that's why you moved there. Don't bullshit with real loneliness.
> > > You can have a polygamous marriage all you want

> > No, you can't. It's illegal in most states (see how the "Big Love" family had to move due to pending prosecution in Utah).

> Yes you can, you can not however have more than one legal wife. You can marry wife #1 (marriage certificate) and this person will be the only wife the law cares about.

Whether this is true or not depends on the details of the state law, but its certainly not true in, e.g., Utah, where the relevant statute [1] looks at cohabitation as well:

(1) A person is guilty of bigamy when, knowing he has a husband or wife or knowing the other person has a husband or wife, the person purports to marry another person or cohabits with another person.

(2) Bigamy is a felony of the third degree.

(3) It shall be a defense to bigamy that the accused reasonably believed he and the other person were legally eligible to remarry.

[1] Utah Code, tit. 76, chap. 7, sec. 101; http://le.utah.gov/code/TITLE76/htm/76_07_010100.htm
Ask the local ad agencies to display ad banners at your place of meetup or get the food sponsored by them or so.
http://www.yelp.com/static?country_=US&p=tos

> You alone are responsible for Your Content, and once published, it cannot always be withdrawn.

> We may use Your Content in a number of different ways, including publicly displaying it, reformatting it, incorporating it into advertisements and other works, creating derivative works from it, promoting it, distributing it, and allowing others to do the same in connection with their own websites and media platforms ("Other Media"). As such, you hereby irrevocably grant us world-wide, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, assignable, sublicensable, transferable rights to use Your Content for any purpose. Please note that you also irrevocably grant the users of the Site and any Other Media the right to access Your Content in connection with their use of the Site and any Other Media. Finally, you irrevocably waive, and cause to be waived, against Yelp and its users any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to Your Content. By "use" we mean use, copy, publicly perform and display, reproduce, distribute, modify, translate, remove, analyze, commercialize, and prepare derivative works of Your Content.

They follow that with

> As between you and Yelp, you own Your Content. We own the Yelp Content, including but not limited to visual interfaces, interactive features, graphics, design, compilation, including, but not limited to, our compilation of User Content and other Site Content, computer code, products, software, aggregate user review ratings, and all other elements and components of the Site excluding Your Content, User Content and Third Party Content. We also own the copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade names, and other intellectual and proprietary rights throughout the world ("IP Rights") associated with the Yelp Content and the Site, which are protected by copyright, trade dress, patent, trademark laws and all other applicable intellectual and proprietary rights and laws. As such, you may not modify, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works or adaptations of, publicly display or in any way exploit any of the Yelp Content in whole or in part except as expressly authorized by us. Except as expressly and unambiguously provided herein, we do not grant you any express or implied rights, and all rights in and to the Site and the Yelp Content are retained by us.

Which is, I think, an effort to distance themselves if someone posts "I totally saw the chef drop the steak on a dirty floor and put it on a plate" type lies.
That doesn't change the fact they use the JavaScript runtime, which was the question the parent was trying to address.
No, Apple's Not Trying to "Bust Your Phone"
Sure thing:

- Mozcon talk 2012: Persona Modeling Unhinged: the Zen of Whole Customer http://teamtreehouse.com/library/mozcon-2012/persona-modelin...

- His blog is great for daily inspiration: http://www.aimclearblog.com/

- Killer Facebook Ads (his book): http://www.amazon.com/Killer-Facebook-Ads-Cutting-Edge-Adver... (might be an affiliate link, but not mine—copied it from his site)
I use it for unstructured document storage in json format. Then couple it with a liberal search schema that allows me to search on like every element. Need to test with the new riak search more but it looks good so far.
For what it's worth, the official explanation from its namer is this [1]:

"Jeff [Bezos, the CEO] wanted to talk about
the future of reading, but in a small, not
braggadocio way. We didn't want it to be
'techie' or trite, and we wanted it to be
memorable, and meaningful in many ways of
expression, from 'I love curling up with
my Kindle to read a new book' to 'When I'm
stuck in the airport or on line, I can
Kindle my newspaper, favorite blogs or
half a dozen books I'm reading.'" ...
Kindle means to set alight or start to
burn, to arouse or be aroused, to make or
become bright. The word’s roots are from
the Old Norse word kyndill, meaning
Candle. “I verified that it had deep roots
in literature,” adds Hibma. “From
Voltaire: ‘The instruction we find in
books is like fire. We fetch it from our
neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate
it to others and it becomes the property
of all.’”

[1] http://www.printmag.com/article/who-named-the-kindle-and-why...
Configuration Flags: A Love Story
Motorola announces Ara, a new modular phone concept
Who, precisely, should decide who shouldn't get the same rights as the rest of us?

Maybe we should have some sort of system to decide this on a case-by-case basis.
Picking the winner of the battlefield startup competition should be free of any influence of non-editorial people and judges.

I'd argue it's rather hypocritical of Michael to talk about 'influence' when his venture capital fund had invested in the previous three Disrupt SF winners -- for which he was a judge -- prior to their victories.
Thanks. I didn't realize they don't allow content to be withdrawn, that's interesting, but doesn't affect the contents of the lawsuit as far as I can tell, in fact, two of the primary complaints were that their content was removed after they were banned.
The CPC's on LinkedIn are really high (for self serve anyway) which make ROI really hard except for high LTV products/services. I can get clicks on Facebook similarly targeted for <$0.10 for what LI charged $4.
I have no problem with people trying to defend themselves. And Google can obviously block such people if they want.
You are wrong, that depends on how you pronounce FAQ.
"I'm a white guy, I am so more privileged than most black guys"
"I'm a guy, I am so more privileged than most girls"
"I'm a white guy, I am so more privileged than most asian guys"
"I'm a straight guy, I am so more privileged than most gay guys"

How do these make you feel?

Also how about someone went up to an old man and said, "You are an old man in your sixties, and I'm a college kid in my twenties. You will die much earlier than me. That's pretty much close to fact. Do you disagree?"
Touch Board: Interactivity Everywhere by Bare Conductive — Kickstarter
If you hadn't had insurance, that's what you would have been charged, but not what you'd have ended up paying. Their numbers are fake in the first place and you can usually negotiate things down a lot closer to the (still insane) insurance price.

Our deductible sucks so we do this all the time. If you have cash in the bank, ask what they'd be willing to do if you pay 100% today (money now is worth more than the same amount in the future, and a lot more than money discharged in bankruptcy).

Challenge every line item. Every $600 bandaid and sleeping pill. It really helps here if you have evidence of what someone else paid for the same or similar procedure.

If they won't budge, take a payment plan with the absolute lowest possible monthly payment you can get them to accept.
> However, in practice, I haven't seen this happening, I'm not an economist but I see there are [worse] agency problems, regulatory capture problems, etc..

Socialized medicine certainly has its problems, but I suspect that you might have dismissed the possibility on principle (as opposed to giving it a thorough look) because we actually do have a basis for comparison, the international community, and the overall trend doesn't agree with your supposition.

Single-payer systems in other countries manage to provide comparable care (in terms of outcomes) at half the cost [1], without leaving 15% of the population completely in the lurch [2], and without increasing barriers-to-entry for aspiring entrepreneurs. If our care providers matched that level of efficiency (cost per GDP per capita), the medicare and medicaid budgets would suffice to cover universal health care. Say what you will about theoretical waste and efficiency, but keep in mind that the experiment has already been run and the results are in: single-payer systems are more efficient. Not by 5% or 10% or a standard deviation, but by a factor of 2.

I like to compare free market health care to the GNU Hurd. It's a great idea in theory because it applies a solid, generalizable principle to an important problem but in practice devolves into a rat's nest of practical issues that frustrate the vision (I can talk about these at great length if anyone is interested: the problems are concrete and intuitive, but complicated). In this analogy, single-payer health insurance plays the role of Linux: a perfectly workable, well-tested alternative that performs better and with fewer bugs, even if it doesn't hold the same alluring promise of eventual simplicity and possible eventual superiority.

The US is like the hacker that sacrifices his career in order to stick exclusively with the Hurd. Except when it comes to health care the cost for "sticking with it" is ~$1.3T (50% of 2.7T) and 45,000 lives per year [3].

I'd rather cut our losses and go with single-payer.

EDIT: [2] is an excellent compilation of work on the subject ("work" as in "papers that include actual numbers and well-reasoned arguments as opposed to philosophical musings")

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_heal...

[2] http://www.pnhp.org/facts/single-payer-resources

[3] http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-find...
Like all things in this town, there's the finance side of the fence, and then there's everyone else's side. My experience in NYC is directly opposite to yours - I rarely meet people in finance, but that's probably because I work at a consumer tech startup and my network is mostly consumer web and media.

There are lots of us out here.
Hey folks, thanks for all the constructive criticism and death wishes. Will do my best to respond in detail - but for now I've removed the fixed footer. Deployment from the train FTW.
With the third point, I'm referring to the fact that I can use the Chrome web store to install apps for both my browser and my phone. If I switch to Firefox, I lose half of that equation. I'm not even talking about mobile Chrome here; I mean the actual Android apps.

Firefox's rendering issues have been largely, I imagine, the case of developers designing only for Chrome, or only for IE. It's not Firefox's fault, in that case, but it's still a reason for me to be wary of Firefox.

As for tabs in Chrome... I never have more than eight open at a time. I'm religious about closing tabs I haven't looked at in over five minutes. My own personal quirk, that!
Haha, yes, that may well be true.
Im going to comment on the model for Facebook and how it seems unnatural and forced. With Google, the user has indicated intent via a search or visiting some site of interest. Google associates ads based on the content which is based on the users intent to find information.

Facebook for their newsfeed and ads on the right seemed to inject ads right into content and force some portion of its users to see them. The user likely never wanted or had any intent on seeing anything but friends posts. Thus its not surprising many users may not participate with clicks. Its interesting from the article on bus insider that the click thru rate is high for news feeds. I suspect that forcing ads in the middle of a friend to friend conversation gets the users attention and some clicks. However, is it what a user really wanted to do in the news feed. The user wants friend-to-friend information. Facebook for the news feed ad inclusion reminds me of TV infomercial or tv ads but on a channel that the user themselves value. A bad experience overall.

What can drive real conversions is user intent. A user wants to find information or opts in to an ad channel, then you'll get very good click thrus and conversions. Thats why i like Google's model so much. However, google suffers from a hit or miss approach on actual content and its value. however, as we know, the page rank/etc... tries to make computers get a good match.

i think if we can have a social fabric that is truely social and valuable and not polluted by injected ads that may be very very valuable. I think Facebook could suffer a demise more and more for this ad strategy they have. Ads, promotions, attractions should be a fun and willing experience not a forced one. Perhaps this is an idealist view. comments ?
The venerable George Carlin just told you to shut up from beyond the grave. And yet you continue. We're all tired of hearing you say the same thing over and over again in this thread.

Listen to George.
Why not? If an IMAP client issues a "SEARCH TEXT foobar" command, why shouldn't Gmail answer as fast and as well as it does online? Nothing in IMAP precludes good efficient search.

Reference: RFC 1730@6.4.4
For some reason my brain read this as "Finally Redis collections are terrible"
I'm just speaking to the increased frequency of c-sections in the US, not the price.
Basically, they didn't believe that early intervention was a priority. You can search for Autism problems in Quebec, specifically Montreal, and read lots of stories regarding that.

As for moving to the US, two reasons. 1) Wait times in other provinces were much longer than we wanted to wait. Even going the private route in Quebec would have mean a year and a half (that was on top of the year we had already been waiting). In the PA, we got more help for my son's Autism in the first 2 weeks than we had the entire time up in Quebec. 2) I'm American, and because of that, my sons are also American.

Note, I don't pretend that this means the US health care system as a whole is better, or that Canadian health care is worse. However, my experience with a child with Autism in Quebec is not unusual, and my recommendation to parents with Autistic children in Quebec is to leave.
Definitely. I only parsed through the names, ratings, and years. Going back to parse more stuff such as the number of votes, genre, etc. is going to be the most painful part of this project.
"The star is 2500 light years away from Earth."

Found that on google. Doesn't seem so far away :P
Are we speculating? They are going to announce their floating things another Nation. Think about it: no taxes, no patent laws, no NSA crap.
Guess what happens if you have a MongoDB ObjectId (as string)

But that's a matter of semantics, not static typing. You're going to have to do type conversion on the string regardless, because "MongoDB Objectid" isn't a native type for the compiler. But with static typing, you need to tell the compiler the type of the variable in addition to telling it how to do the type conversion: for example, in C++, you might have to say...

var MongoObjectid id = new MongoObjectid("somestring");

..whereas in Python, for example, you could just say...

id = MongoObjectid("somestring")