skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where did I say "complex"? And what the fuck are you talking about? I have a two year old. We're working on sharing and not hitting other children. Is that complex?

Go on. Tell me what should the scientifically minded parent do.
I don't see this as anywhere near the same argument as abortion and I think trying to tie it into the abortion debate will not be helpful or truthful for anyone.
Interesting, but this still has the classic issue where the "printer has to be larger than the object printed." A few weeks back I got a tour of MIT's media lab, where they have a robot arm they're strapping to a bucket truck, in which case they have a mobile, 3D printer with a 100 foot wingspan.

This arm has an attachment for a polyurethane foam sprayer, a milling device, and a paint sprayer. In which case they can spray out a concrete form, mill it to get more precise (urethane foam is a bit imprecise), and paint it.

Then they want to get a series of these trucks to work together in a "hive" format... crazy kids.
they will automatically buy any and all TLD as a matter of policy
Technically, Scala's for comprehensions don't let you mix monads either, but implicit conversions make it work in some cases. For example, there's an implicit conversion from Option to Iterable so the Option (Maybe) and List monads can be mixed. It's really more a matter of Scala's type system allowing it. The Scala compiler just re-writes comprehensions into equivalent higher-order function application.
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"The job is to write code"

Eh, this is kind of what I was getting at. This view is insanely simplistic. Outside of writing code I feel like people make contributions to the product in discussions, train their more junior peers, interview prospective new team members, do a code review for someone else, etc. The job is not to just write code. This is my point. If you see it that way, you're looking at it the wrong way.
That'd work better for me.
> So maybe, then, it’s time for you and I to leave this cult...The cheap, plastic junk that surrounds us probably isn’t worth what we paid – not just in cash (or, more likely, credit) to get it, but in freedom, time, and tears.

This strikes a chord with me at a very deep level.

A few years back I was completely disillusioned with living and working in a big city, basically just to buy more stuff. It still boggles my mind we all go to work 40 hours a week then come up with more and more creative ways to waste that excess of money, rather than just work less and have more time.

I sold everything, quit my job, and spent 2 years driving from Alaska to Argentina, living in my tent and cooking on my little travel stove.

My perspective on the world has changed immensely, and I now live in the very far north, grow and hunt/fish my own food, and only go to work enough to have the quality of life I want. That's usually around 2-3 days a week, depending if I want a new toy that month (rifle/camera/etc.)

I highly, highly recommend people take a break from consumerism for an extended period of time and see how fulfilling your life can be without all that stuff. Some of the happiest people I've ever met in my life have nothing by North American standards.
I work on this Mozilla project. If you have any questions, please ask!

Mozilla's network "stumbler" client is installable from GitHub: https://github.com/dougt/MozStumbler/releases. The client code is at https://github.com/dougt/MozStumbler/ and the server code is at https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/.
Looking at the repo now, it seems to include both the LGPL and BSD header on those files mentioned in the diff.

Just a guess, but maybe someone was initially confused, and removed the BSD license rather than simply adding the LGPL license?
dang! eie.io is taken.
> Then they want to get a series of these trucks to work together in a "hive" format... crazy kids.

The crazy bit is sending that hive to Mars to build accommodation units for settlers.
How exactly could you "transfer" files that way? You could just upload something to Dropbox and share your logon credentials and any form of dedup or DMCA won't help.
Speculation:

1. Heavy, relative weight difference is negligible.
2. Has power
3. Easy to open up and work with
4. Plenty of extra space inside
5. Travels into a diverse selection of households
6. (most important) the person has a day job in an iron factory.

I also like the theory this is just a PR stunt for someone like a local iron retailer, or it was a local mod done to the irons after they arrived in Russia.
"cheap housing for the masses"

I think they may be aiming for something like Katrina homes. Or any other refugee situation. See some more refugees crossing the border, squirt a few extra refugee houses where they fit. Prefab is probably still cheaper.
This is a rather incoherent rant. Growth = Bad.

What's bad is if growth is achieved by irrevocable destruction of the environment, or deterioration of the human condition. It's not growth itself that is the problem, for there are many kinds of growth.

Growth in physical inputs? Energy use? Labor? Outputs? Value (GDP)? Some of these counter-balance the other.

If efficiency goes up (productivity), there is less need for labor, but it could also mean less physical inputs required, less energy, etc, so good for the environment. Also, the increased surplus means that labor can enjoy more fruits of its produce (in theory).

And growth in value is another thing entirely, because it is a human value assigned by our minds, not an objective physical quantity. Just take virtual/digital goods, someone can make one awesome piece of software, or a game, that the whole of humanity values tremendously high, but which has O(1) marginal costs to produce for each person, and which took relatively few inputs. If I suddenly uploaded the entirety of humanity into the Matrix, all of a sudden, value can continue to increase, without continued use of environmental resources beyond the energy needed to run it. Today, if I make a piano, I have to cut down trees and use tons of energy, so for everyone on the planet to own a piano would be very bad. But if I make a virtual piano, everyone on the planet can have one at relatively low cost, and then the question simply falls to how good the simulation can be.

I'd analogize Capitalism to evolution in an ecosystem. The entities within the system can grow, change form, multiply, and die. If they grow too much too fast, they can deplete their resources too quickly to sustain their population. They must have wild swings between mass die-offs and mass growth, or they might have a relatively stable pattern with low volatility, but while growth is slowed, they still have competition, they have not "switched off" evolution.

I don't think growth is bad if it comes from increasing efficiency, or an increase in value because of completely new inventions. Perhaps same physical inputs that could produce a device in 1950, produces something in 2010 that I value a lot more. It is the organization of matter, it's pattern, the information content of it, that can grow with infinite variation and which we can continue to demand.
OK, we're arguing two different things. My one and only point is HFTs shut-shop at the slightest sign of risk, leaving you to trade at massive losses - precisely because there are no HFT like counterparties ready to buy/sell inventory.

IIUC Your position seems to be that HFTs amongst themselves can allow for an order execution strategy of breaking up the order into chunks to discount for the price change that occurs when you increase supply of a security while selling it. If that is your position then I withdraw my protest because I agree with it.
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> I'm not convinced that medical science is there yet

Agreed, but I think it's a matter of if, not when. As our knowledge of gene expression, epigenetics, protein folding, and the like increases, the set of things we can't do will shrink.

>Perhaps we produce a whole generation of intelligent children who develop Alzheimer's when they're 25

It's certainly possible that we'll leap before we look, but I'd hope not. We've had examples of that in the past, but the result of those tragedies is that research processes have improved. They're far from perfect, but they've certainly gotten better.

>So if everyone is given the genes to be massively intelligent, is that a good thing?

I'd say so, yes.

>choosing a fully-sighted embryo over a partially-sighted one implicitly says "partially-sighted people are likely to have lower quality of life than fully-sighted ones", and that sounds wrong both ethically and practically.

I think, on average, it's simply an objective fact that "full-sighted people have a better quality of life than partially-sighted people". I can't think of any way that astigmatism has improved my life, and it's something I plan on rectifying permanently once my finances allow it.

As for being ethically wrong, I don't see it. Just because someone is perfectly capable of living a happy and fulfilled life with a birth defect doesn't mean the lack thereof wouldn't be preferable.

>I'd rather not have to make the choice to begin with.

Keep in mind, not choosing is itself a choice. Just as you'd feel guilty if the procedure caused a birth defect, I think you'd also feel guilty if your child was born with a birth defect that you chose not to screen for or take steps to select against. That said, there we finally find an ethical quandary: the nature of the procedure would mean choosing to select against that defect would mean choosing not to have your child, and that's not something most parents would care to think about when looking at their kid. There's a big difference between choosing which fertilized egg to implant and looking at your kid and wishing you had chose not to have them. I think most people would be okay with the former, but would likely (and rightly) recoil in horror at the latter.
The client UI a little geeky now, but we have some gamification ideas akin to Google's Ingress or Nintendo's Treasure World games:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress_%28game%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_World
As a woman with a pretty common name, this line of thought is terrifying. IIRC there's another woman with my name who's a sex offender, so can I be arrested for breaking her parole? (I probably don't have to worry about deportation, since I'm white with a white name. Funny how that works out.)
That makes me really happy. I hope the new wave of gTLDs further devastates domain squatters/brokers.
If you pay attention to the video, the door and window lentil's are prefab picked up and placed where they need to be and then printed over with additional cement.
Agreed - see my edit, above.
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Will this only work for apps installed from the Marketplace or will it also work for self-hosted manifests?
I've not heard about the Ukrainian chocolate war before (have now googled and read about it, oddly enough in Russia Today), but I've read about and seen the Georgian and Moldovan wine ban in action. Pretty brutal for such small countries to be honest. Luckily the best Georgian + Moldovan wine will get exported to the EU anyway, but for your average winery times must get tough.
Mildly better, at least I don't have to use a workaround to get transparent PNGs to work anymore. It would be alright supporting just IE11, but you're not, you're supporting IE7, IE8, IE9, IE10, and they all have their own weird bugs.
Skiing is expensive, I agree. But less so if you own the equipment. The same goes for a range of other activities.

Mountain biking is probably one of the best value-for-money winter sports I can think of in the UK (where I live) and NZ (where I'm from). One reasonably large expense up-front followed by low-cost or free access to various trails in various parks, and reasonably low equipment maintenance costs.

Hiking is another alternative. Though it's not really something to look forward to in winter specifically; and if you can't enjoy it in summer, you probably won't in winter. Slightly lower up-front costs (some microfleece clothes and a good waterproof coat and hiking boots) but even lower transport costs.

Of course both of those still come with a transport cost. If you need to avoid that as well, you should consider photography. I've found that since I've started developing some photography skills I'm never too sad about the climate- there's always something outside to try and capture nicely. And if you're able to throw in some hiking (or even walks in parks nearby) it becomes much nicer. The current season is especially fun in the UK where most of the trees (those that I've seen) are deciduous, unlike NZ.

In any case, you may have to put some effort into any of these things; I didn't really enjoy winter hiking to begin with, but I've learned to really enjoy it. And, to be clear: not begrudgingly. Very enthusiastically.
This is so bad it makes my brain hurt trying to respond to it. We should be upset that our society has managed to put in our pockets supercomputers connected wirelessly to the world's knowledge? Ah, I see, they'll turn us into "fat miserable drooling zombies".

Luckily, in this world of "skyrocketing" poverty, surely only the top 1% can afford such indulgences, right? It's not as if innovation and a growing economy have put them in the hands of more than a hundred million Americans. Oh dear, I guess the zombie apocalypse is nigh.

This guy's Twitter feed[1] is more or less a constant stream of invective directed at "billionaires", like this:

The billionaires believe the greatest threat to freedom is society. But a free society's great threat is billionaires.

Let's say you had THREE BILLION DOLLARS in the bank. Would you really give a fuck if it was...2.75? That's like counting toilet paper!

He's a clown, and it's embarrassing that HBR thinks he's valuable as a contributor.

[1] https://twitter.com/umairh

EDIT: And in case there was any question about where he actually stands on capitalism, from a whole three days ago:

So now the fashion establishment calls designers with real vision, like Westwood, "eccentric". Ah, capitalism. Fuck you so much.
There's other structural issues beyond just legal obligations of corporations (which are a problem). A debt-based economy, especially a debt-based currency, requires a constant level of growth to stave off economic catastrophe.

Of course, these are really one and the same: The unifying principle is that if inflation is to be maintained, we must provide an easy avenue for average joe to feel secure against the rolling treadmill, so we create legal entities like 401ks and mutual funds and IRAs and the like - which, in order to maintain a return, require the government to create legal obligations on the corporations, and when they DO fail, pump up the corporations whose stocks, and so on and so forth (and this pumping is financed through inflation), and so we have unsustainable spirals and the periodic retrenchments which, of course, hurt the poor harder.
80/20 rule. You have to do the least work that would bring the most value to the busienss. It doesn't make sense that they allocate that time to fix an issue for the 1% instead of 99%. I think this is just a logical business decision.
YMMV, depending on country... and how much the hotel cares about Wifi access.

Italy has strong controls related to terrorism, IIRC. The which has meant the last few times I stayed in hotels there you had to hand over your passport for photocopying to be issued Wifi passwords.

France & Germany have been a mixed bag – smaller hotels handed out per-device, per-use passes but a few nicer / chain hotels I stayed at have the standard "Open hotspot, enter your room # and name to bill to room" setup as I'd find here in the States. The UK For the most part has been fairly normalised ala US Style for me.

On the other hand, there are apparently controls over mobile internet access in France, including a (? 48 hour ?) delay in activating prepaid Data, and IIRC your passport also gets entered in the DB. Generally, I'm a prepaid-data-in-country type traveller (I have a bag of about 25 sims from various countries)... France has been a no go for that.
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This is mostly orthogonal to the article's point, but the motivating example ignores the actual syntax that already exists in C++(11) to initialize classes:

std::map<std::string, int> m1 =
{
{"one", 1},
{"two", 2},
{"three", 3}
};

It may be relevant to mention IntelLib [1] here, which is one of many (ab)uses of C++ to enact DSLs.

[1] http://www.intelib.org/intro.html
Dear god no. I have a Nest thermostat and it drives me nuts with its inappropriate learning behaviour. I can just imagine the toaster learning, incorrectly, to what degree I wish my bread to be toasted and thus giving me levels of crispiness that I did not expect or want.

I really think there's a problem with over-engineered products these days. Not every appliance needs a motor or batteries, let alone a computer. I'm still very happy with my manual can-opener (the most reliable ones are the most basic, in my experience, like this one: http://meridianvale.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/can_opener.j...) and my analog meat thermometer.
> It seems that the devs available to build these projects for the government aren't the best ones. The best ones must be at Facebook refactoring the Poke code.

There are lots of companies on Silicon Valley writing great code that are doing things a lot more important than Facebook pokes.
The horrifying part of this behaviour of using conspiracy theories and blaming external enemies, is that it is so like the world's worst dicatorships, in e.g. the Middle East. Where will this end? :-(
Yes. Downloading offline data sets also means you can geolocate without network connectivity, so it's faster and saves power too.
TastyTrip
Tasty Trip is the perfect app to use when you are travelling and you want to experience traditional food of a foreign country.

How this app helps you:
+ Experience Top 20 traditional food and local flavors in foreign countries
+ Before you order explore how the food looks and how it's cooked.
+ Detailed ingredients information available.
+ See calories and chef recommendations for each menu
+ Share your experience with your friends
+ Offline access – app data is kept on your device and can be used without internet connection.

How it works:
1. Select country
2. Slide and choose what traditional food you want to experience.
3. See details for the food you are interested in before you order
4. Share your tasty experience with your friends.
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My FizzBuzz in CSS: http://codepen.io/lelf/pen/jCwdq
Yes, as the story points out, searching the entire database for a face probably won't work, but if you can prefilter based on other criteria such as location, employer, etc., it might become more feasible.
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Findominos (www.findominos.com) is a financial networking website where investors, entrepreneurs and business owners can connect and collaborate for funding opportunities. It is an online platform where entrepreneurs can showcase their projects and ideas in a very structured and secure way, indicate their capital needs, and connect with investors who have complimentary preferences. Investors, on the other hand, can search for projects based on their industry, capital and role preferences, connect with such entrepreneurs and evaluate which projects they would like to invest in.
I don't think the article makes the claim you think it does. Growth is not the same as growthism.
I've been thinking about using scalaz for a while now. My main concern about the above pattern is the type complexity that will arise. I would love to learn more about monad transformers and how they help out with that issue.
They also have a PPA now[1]. I'm pretty sure I looked a few months ago, when 2.0 hit, and it wasn't available.

[1] http://fishshell.com/files/2.1.0/linux/index.html#dl-ubuntu1...
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Capitalism is an economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and capital goods, and the production of goods and services for profit in a market economy.

Not sure where you got this idea on "constant growth," considering that production is dependent on raw resources, and raw resources are finite, and this fact itself is within the system of capitalism, which increases prices practically in a mechanism you may know as the supply/demand curve. As price increases, demand decreases, thus slowing growth inline with diminishing supply.

If you want to discuss any other elementary-level economics in a condescending tone that treats the reader like a misbehaving child, just reply with a comment that ignores everything about the article or the thread's content, and continue building up the conceptual walls to buttress your ego, preferably with sweeping, general statements spoken as if indisputable fact.
Actually, I think he is currently focusing on Castlevania 64.
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The original Doom was under 50,000 lines of code.
Apparently, people have been doing this with Eldritch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83fJI3JOdf8&noredirect=1
> Instead of worrying about the rich/poor divide, we could instead try to improve conditions for those on the bottom (food/shelter/health are all good starting points).

As robots and computers take over more of what humans once did, we'll have to deal with this problem (see various articles by Kevin Drum). Unless you're fine with a "Mad Max" scenario, some kind of welfare state or minimum guaranteed income is probably the least-worst option.
My first thought when I saw the article title was "I bet this is by Umair Haque," and I was right. This is sort of what he does. How to fix the world is interesting, though http://howtofixtheworld.org/
I'm thinking hotel rooms could be a target. Irons that are used frequently and in close proximity to people connected to (or sharing) wireless connections.
I think the demand is there. I don't think a goodly chunk of religious folks[1] will object to removing certain problems from their children. It might get dicy the farther you go, but there are some many things parents struggle with that removing birth defects and future problems would be pretty popular. Sex selection is going to be a problem though.

I think the problem will be on the supplier side. I look back at the cloned cats that don't look like the original (different hair color) and think that genetic selection will be very interesting from a Tort point of view.

1) ok, Christians in US - cannot really speak for the others
You're changing the subject.

The basic issue is that a U.S. citizen (and a minor) was not only denied due process, but treated in a way that defies general standards of decency, as well as basic common sense. It also smacks of racism and xenophobia.

Whether this young woman actually shoplifted or not, whether she told a fib or not afterwards and what she had to do in Colombia to fricken survive after such an ordeal are all of secondary importance, in comparison.
A computerized Dualit [1] would be awesome especially if all it did was impersonate Talkie Toaster [2]

[1] http://www.dualit.com/products/classic-toasters
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
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There's nothing about the logo by itself that makes me question the startup's validity. Could the logo be better? Maybe. But that's not the point. Design/logos are generally secondary maybe even tertiary considerations when building most startups. Get something up and keep moving.

I will say this though: the landing page tells me nothing about what the startup does, which IMO, is the bigger issue.
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