skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Gently" just means that you are sensitive to the feelings of the person you aren't going to continue sending work to. That doesn't mean you can't tell them why. I often do tell them why - it really depends on how they took feedback earlier in the contract. If they are defensive and don't take feedback well, then I generally don't give them final feedback since they've made it clear they don't like it. However, if they've taken feedback well during the contract, then I give them final feedback that will help them improve and win future contracts.

The feedback I give is also gentle. Well, I guess everything is done gently. These are all good human beings your dealing with, so why not be gentle? Gentleness doesn't mean you aren't honest with them. It just means that you are considerate of their feelings when working with them.
Austrians distinguish between theory and "history" and Hayek has argued that you can at best make "trend predictions" due to the uncertainty of the world.

I do not understand why there seem to be no Austrian quantitative models and the like as part of the "history" (bad name as it includes both application of theory towards historical periods and predictions).
Predicting the future is an entrepreneurial act in the Austrian sense and if the Austrian model is good/better one would expect better predictions from someone working from these foundations.

I agree that there's quite a few laymen and not all that many pure Austrian theorists (and the few that exist seem to be working in management science and the like not in economics).

I'm not sure what defines a proper science in the science theoretical sense these days but if you take something like Lakatos (which is basically what I'm roughly comfortable with don't know about newer developments) I'm not sure mainstream and Austrian economics would differ all that much (probably both non-science by his criteria)

The most tilting thing about Austrians in general (and I'd certainly say I sympathize with their core ideas alas I don't have enough time to investigate properly) is that they attack "mainstream economics" based on a view that is pretty far removed from current mainstream economics. Most are stuck at thinking "ZOMG Keynes" at least I haven't met all that many that knew what a DSGE model is for example.
I like it! And thanks for putting the code on GitHub too.
I think we spend too much time trying to craft beautiful, descriptive URLs, where we should be spending our time crafting beautiful, descriptive responses. We try to make the URL describe to the developer what is being returned, when in reality, this should be dictated by media types and link relations.

Take for instance the example above. Whether the URL is /images/10/view or /images/10.png, the developer has no idea what kind of resource that is without any media types or relations (the file extension != to the media type). In other words, you could use both URLs to return the same exact resource, and the client shouldn't care. You could even change back and forth between those URLs and the client should never flinch.

This is actually a good example. Say you are serving a static PNG file at /images/10.png, linked in your server response (i.e. in some href like above). Say you want to change things up to do some type of logging on how many times the image has been viewed, so you write some code, create a response at /images/10/view, log views, and return the image with an image/png media type. You just did a really big API change and the client didn't have to be changed.

Now if your client was dumber, and was crafting URLs as /images/{id}.png, you would break all of your clients if you did the above changes. This of course is really just the tip of the iceberg of what flexibility HATEOAS can bring.
Yes, let's grab a cigarette... or a coke, or a coffee. But all these circuit breakers are bad for health. The best I found out for now is to add hot water to my tea mug.
We use for almost all representation mutations. When representations have automatically updating fields (for example: timestamps), it makes a lot of sense to use PATCH.
We(brazilians) have a good amount of people on github that are rails-core or maintain very big and successful projects(I do maintain some 4k+ starred projects, for example). This happened probably because the CEO or somebody got emotional from a bad hire and think all brazilians are bad.

I want to get my H1B soon in order to work in a better environment(and a more liberal economy) and I'm sure this kind of comment won't make anyone's mind as everyone I've worked with in open source with treated me with equal respect.
This is why programmers (and everyone doing deep analysis/critical thinking) get a huge benefit from taking notes.
Start with the old ones, and then stop.
regarding a) magic bullet, it wasn't pristine; it was deformed but not longitudinally but sideways, also they have fired the same bullets/rifle and it doesn't deform if it doesn't touch a bone
Maybe it's to do with Brazilian labor laws.

They are very pro-employee.

It's very difficult to sack somebody etc.

Perhaps someone from Brazil could enlighten us further?
The story behind "import this"
For those who are pointing to the "magic bullet" theory, it's all a matter of understanding how both Kennedy and Connally were seated in the limo. No "magic" bullet required:

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/sbt.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_bullet_theory#Theorized...

I grew up with a steady diet of conspiracy theories. My mom could be considered a guru on JFK. But after venturing out on my own and reading actual source materials, like many of the interviews in the Warren report, such as the doctors, Marina Oswald, and even the bus driver that picked Oswald up after the murder, makes it clear that Oswald did it.

I'll admit that there are still some weird parts to the story, like Oswald's visit to the Cuban embassy in Mexico city, but I'm willing to bet that Oswald was some sort of CIA source or contact and that fact needed to be covered up. It would have been supremely embarrassing. But I don't think that there's any wider conspiracy.

Edit: For those that are interested, I think the McAdams site is the best "anti-conspiracy" site out there, despite its 1990 internet look: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm
I wasn't aware of that! Thanks! (And thanks for everything you folks do, as well!)
The only Programming book in Coventry City library (where I'm from) was a 10 year old COBOL book.

I now know COBOL.

I've always known COBOL; before I knew linux, I knew COBOL.

not sure how that effects my mentality be, but, I would say that it's lack of structurability has rubbed off on me largely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Hubbard_(economist)#Insid...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaXNqGgIc-g

It's also worth noting that economics is arguably a pseudo-science, as the theories themselves cannot be reproduced independently by external parties. So it's really hard to argue whether Austrian economics is "right" or "wrong".
In a standard CRUD application, PATCH should be used for "U"pdates. So you should be able to change attributes of a resource without having to send all parameters to it. It gets a little confusing when you think that most people use POST to create resources, and PUT to do updates (partial or not) and leave PATCH without too much practical use.

So, if you want HTTP purity, think of PATCH as "the verb to use for partial updates without having to send all parameters in the form".
I was more thinking about the opening of "Rendezvous with Rama":

"Sooner or later, it was bound to happen. On 30 June 1908, Moscow escaped destruction by three hours and four thousand kilometres - a margin invisibly small by the standards of the universe. Again, on 12 February 1947, yet another Russian city had a still narrower escape, when the second great meteorite of the twentieth century detonated less than four hundred kilometres from Vladivostok, with an explosion rivalling that of the newly invented uranium bomb.

In those days, there was nothing that men could do to protect themselves against the lst random shots in the cosmic bombardment that had once scarred the face of the Moon. The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness; but by the end of the twety-first century there was no region left on Earth that could be safely used for celestial target practice. The human race had spread from pole to pole and so, inevitably, at 09.46 GMT on the morning of 11 September, in the exceptionally beautiful summer fo the year 2077, most of the inhabitants of Europe saw a dazzling fireball appear in the eastern sky. Within seconds it was brighter than the sun, and as it moved across the heavens - at first in utter silence - it left behind it a churning column of dust and smoke.

Somewhere above Austria it began to disintegrate, producing a series of concussion so violent that more than a million people had their hearing permanently damaged. They were the lucky ones."
Fish shell 2.1
This is a bit ridiculous, knowing that the UN is already mostly incapable of dealing with any kind of serious humanity threat such as conflicts killing tons of unarmed civilians, now who seriously expects them to have anything robust in place to protect the whole planet?

Besides, it does not matter if "NASA has not been appointed" to deal with this - the day we notice a large object, it's pretty obvious one country or organization, somewhere, is going to try something about it if it means human race survival. There's no need for the UN at that level.

Moreover, the article mentions colliding a spacecraft with an asteroid to deflect is orbit, but this is actually not very efficient. There has already been other propositions such as orbiting a small spacecraft around a large asteroid to deflect its orbit in a much more effective way over time.
Solar switch forces utilities to shift priorities
Specifically, a place where DBs use bloom filters is distributed joins. This isn't a common scenario IMHO. Found a good description here:

http://www.coolsnap.net/kevin/?p=19

P.S. Loved the tutorial.
What if we will reach a time when robots have sex better than people... then what will happen?
Dyn - Office Tour [Slideshow]
Ok, so just pop up a warning in this situation. It's been a year and a half at least they've acknowledged this problem, so prevent somebody from having a non-functioning product - wouldn't take much effort.

The problem is they hide this problem away and in no way warn you, I fully accept that they might not want to prioritise fixing this, I just ask for common courtesy - I had a month with dropbox basically not working at all. Popping up a warning isn't bending over backwards.

I wonder what would happen if this occurred on gmail - you have too many emails so suddenly it stops working without warning, completely, irrecoverably. Would you still make the 99.92% vs. 0.08% argument? Or would you find it a bit off? At least warn + give a way out...
The key here is to take a pragmatic approach.

If the consumer will likely just need id's, then the first approach is good

If the consumer will need data in addition to id's, then the second approach is good

If both of the above options are used heavily, then implement the second approach and implement field filtering[1] on top

[1] - http://www.vinaysahni.com/best-practices-for-a-pragmatic-res...
Huh, pretty cool. Unfortunately, most of my microscopy involves confocal of some sort so this wouldn't do much for me.
Jekyll is nice for running a local blog that you can upload to a server as static HTML - http://jekyllrb.com/
I would say that the strength of XML is XPath - forget the rest of XSL (XSLT and XSL-FO) - and I would still avoid it unless there was a real requirement for "document like" content.
I thought there was a consensus in this community on how the leading traders just squeeze money out of all other wannabe sharks. The skills I find most relevant are low ethics and networking (not the technological type of networking).
sort of the equivalent of rubber duck programming? I've been known to do that a few times.
Wow, I was surprised by the content of the website. I think this is how a website should be.

First they are talking about the problem and then they present the solution.

I also like the words that are marked bold.

This is how interaction design should be done (imho).
Please use Continuum's Anaconda (multiplatform), Python(x,y) or WinPython (Windows only) if you want to have a full scientific distribution that also comes with Spdyer. I you're on Mac, you can also download our dmg [1], which has the most important scientific libs preinstalled. At the moment we don't provide a way to install packages with Spyder but I'm thinking to build one on top of conda (Anaconda's package manager).

I agree with your complaint about our docs, they are very minimal indeed. What we have tried to do is to make our interface as easy to understand as possible to compensate that fact. But I'll try to improve them.

If you find elements of our UI not polished enough, please post a message in our mailing list with a detailed explanation, this is very important to us. For example, I fixed most of the complaints on this blog post [2], which helped us to improve a lot our UI.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/downloads/list

[2] http://xcorr.net/2013/04/17/evaluating-ides-for-scientific-p...
Look at the plaza in google maps, if there was a shooter in front of the car and slightly to the right, that would be on the curb in plain sight (grassy knoll is perpendicular to car in deadly shot); there's "nothing" in front of the car (buildings etc to hide), it's ramp to a highway.
I never hear the same criticism of Facebook or Twitter here, even though their privacy policies are just as bad, or worse in many cases, and they also send bulk email.

Intercepting email and inserting content is quantitatively different from sending bulk email. I think this programme is being criticised because it intercepts people's mail and inserts content - that's very different from receiving mail and leads to insecurity on several levels (they see your mail, sharing passwords, getting used to inserted content which can then be imitated for phishing).

Also people do criticise FB and Twitter here too, but the objection is not spamming.
Bitcoin Is Showing It Can Survive The Attack Of US Regulators
Meetings' Thursday might be even more productive. (Ie nobody is allowed to schedule anything on any of the other days.)
There's a lot of this that I agree with, but there's also a lot of it that is limited by personal experience. I for one have never had a fight on Twitter - the closest thing being when I complained about my poor Comcast service - so I can't say I resonate with all of these things.

However, something that should be pointed out: brevity is not inherently the cause for misunderstanding. Brevity is a constraint. Don't try to say hard things in fewer words if you don't understand wit. And, perhaps as importantly, don't say witty things who don't understand them. This is a lesson every good marketing class will teach you, and Ogilvy preached:

"Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon."

But, I suppose when you force the masses to be brief, they won't think of Ogilvy.
What makes you think they aren't getting faster?
Professor Manuel Blum has this to say:

STUDYING:
You are all computer scientists.
You know what FINITE AUTOMATA can do.
You know what TURING MACHINES can do.
For example, Finite Automata can add but not multiply.
Turing Machines can compute any computable function.
Turing machines are incredibly more powerful than Finite Automata.
Yet the only difference between a FA and a TM is that
the TM, unlike the FA, has paper and pencil.
Think about it.
It tells you something about the power of writing.
Without writing, you are reduced to a finite automaton.
With writing you have the extraordinary power of a Turing machine.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mblum/research/pdf/grad.html
Nice way to allocate money extracted from taxpayers. Asteroids almost never visibly hit Earth, it's impossible to seriously protect yourself when it hits you or your neighbor, and it will sure take hundreds of billions of dollars to build some space equipment to "deflect" asteroids. It's way more profitable than the war with mythical terror.

Suggestion for UN, Obama or pretty much any government: go with your awesome idea on Kickstarter and spend your donations on presentation, video, blueprints, prototypes etc. If people like it, they'll send you money to implement it. If they don't, then please shove your rifles down your totalitarian ass instead of pointing them at the peaceful citizens.

Edit: downvoters are invited to explain how exactly UN earns money. Who has the freedom to give or not give money to UN based on its performance and where does this money come from?
I'm Brazilian. It's not difficult at all to fire someone from a company. You just have to give him a 30-days notice or, if you really want the employee out of the company RIGHT NOW, pay for one more month of work as if the employee was still there for those 30 days.

Also there's a small fine to pay, relative to the time the employee worked in your company. It's not really expensive. For every year the guy worked there, you pay him for almost 2 weeks of work (our law says 40% of a month's salary, I'm just rounding it to "almost two weeks of work"). It's like the compensation that some US companies give when firing someone, but in here there's a law enforcing it (in a low value).

But the main thing is: working for a company outside Brazil he loses almost all of the protection of the law. Not because it's illegal, it's just that our standard employment laws are for Brazilian companies. When working for companies outside Brazil we usually start our own company and just sign a service contract.
For fewer layers (and faster playing) you can use Parchment: http://iplayif.com/?story=http://www.batmantis.com/zorks/zor...

Though the status line doesn't work... I should fix that.

And if you like Zork, try these modern classics:

Lost pig: http://iplayif.com/?story=http://mirror.ifarchive.org/if-arc...

Spider and Web: http://iplayif.com/?story=http://mirror.ifarchive.org/if-arc...
That only proves that their analysis is right. It doesn't rule out the possibility that their results are caused by a quirk of their implementation.

To really validate a paper you have to be able to recreate their code from a high-level description, then check that.
So you set out to create a device that would ensnare normal, rational people and turn them into ranting lunatics.

You mean like a mosque or a church? ducks
Look up writer's discipline. `Creativity' is not too different from coding.

> - get enough sleep, clear away overhanging stress clouds (like "taxes are due soon"), eat well, break tasks down, get the smallest possible thing working, iterate, and so on).

That's great for writing a novel, too.
Dropbox doesn't replace USB drives for me. I still use them for sneakernet. Installing the newest version of Ubuntu or OS X. Copying a 2GB file to another computer because downloading it again, even over local wifi, would take too long.

What Dropbox replaced for me is the 'My Documents' folder. It allows me to access my files on my work PC, my laptop, my iPad, my iPhone, or anyone else's computer that has an internet connection.
Slippery slope. Assuming, for the moment that it is a good idea to fund the highway system primarily or exclusively with taxes that approximate user fees, that does not imply that it necessarily makes sense to pay for education the same way.

Nearly everyone who derives benefit from the highway system, directly or indirectly helps pay the tax, directly or indirectly. Higher fuel taxes would translate directly to higher prices for goods and services that use the highway system. Other things supported by taxation may be different - education, for example. There's reason to believe that having a well educated population is good for everyone who lives in the society, even people who are not, at that time receiving education. User fees are contrary to the goal of educating as many people to a certain level as possible, so a different model probably works better.

it makes supporting the less popular elements of government spending harder

Well, in a government that's more or less democratic, implementing less popular policies should be harder than implementing popular ones. That's kind of the point.
FWIW, it didn't for me. And that's fine too.

What I use dropbox for: Lazy backup system (all my important code is symlinked there, sharing small files (<20mb) over the net

What I use USB drives for: Sharing large files (>100mb) between local computers, liveUSBs
Why maybe to David?
Major new release yesterday night. Check out the link :)
Used to! But it was quite a while ago that I noticed that they had changed it, I don't remember any longer.
Apparently, a few reporters were able to lay their hands on some early sketches of what the system may look like, which had previously been under wraps due to the obvious potential for offensive warfare, rather than just asteroid defense:

http://bit.ly/VmUtoj

Edit: I guess you had to be born before 1980 to get it.
The most easy way to pay a Brazilian freelancer is using Paypal because just transferring some money for an account has so many bureaucracy, due the brazilian laws. And get money from paypal isn't a good idea from my experience... So i think that the reason is really the difficulty to get fit in brazil labor laws ..
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

This is what I think is wrong with an attempt to choose a side - reporting should attempt to get to the truth on every topic, consulting experts in the domain (i.e. not politicians), going to sources, not an attempt to reflect the party political position or editorial line - that leads to distortion, and to people trying to somehow even out their news by getting two equally invalid opinions. The Guardian should be applauded for what it gets right (say the NSA reporting), but sometimes it's as distorted as RussiaToday when it comes to certain topics, and on some topics (Britain at war) it is just as parochial as its counterparts.
Fire Near Tiananmen Square
Pro tip: you can safely ignore whole classes of applicants, that way you don't come off as a douche. I probably won't ever work in a non-functional language, but my resume doesn't say "no javashops, please". Most javashops don't consider themselves to be javashops anyway.
While the author of that post is advocating a level 3 API, you could still have unguessable URLs without any hypermedia involved. If the client and server shared a secret key, or if you used random UUIDs as resource IDs, then you could achieve the same thing.
Wasn't the latter inspired by kids?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJlV49RDlLE
Before too long you'll hit some pretty terrible times in American democracy. McCarthyism, internment camps, slavery, trail of tears, witch burnings, and on and on all the way back to the beginning.
Show HN: How to access my personal API
Here is my guess: 2/3 of cancer is from smoke, 1/3 is from nicotine. E-cigs are 66% safer/better than analog cigs.
Yep, sorry about that. You can kill those trailing spaces though by setting

Automatically remove trailing spaces when saving files

in

Tools > Preferences > Editor > Advanced Settings > Source code
Indeed, smartphones can do a lot of things, but not one thing particularly well. My original goal with this design was to replace the 'card wallet' apps for phones, as the barcodes never seemed to scan very well through the glass screens. I've narrowed it down since then to be more for toying around with Arduino/e-paper development, at least for this iteration.