skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something very similar happened to me a couple of months ago. My hands started shaking all day, my heart was beating really strong (so strong I could hear it). After wasting tons of money by visiting multiple doctors, the diagnosis always came back the same: anxiety.

I never understood what anxiety was exactly until it happened to me. It's definitely an easy trap to fall into if you're a sedentary, overworked programmer. Taking walks in the middle of the day really helped me a lot. Also taking a step back and looking at what you're putting yourself through puts things into a good perspective, and the symptoms tend to naturally fade away after that.
Nope, the 360 runs big-endian.
The caveat is middle class living. If all those jobs were easily done or trainable, thereby removing the tendency towards credentialism, then by and large those workers should be interchangeable. That lowers the pay and forces the would-be middle class to specialize further in yet something else.
Same here. I am committed, though. Not gonna change it.
That would be one powerful data center if it has 5.1 times the hashing power of the bitcoin network.
Is this really any different then the T&C that governs your cryptic https://plus.google.com/107350252619396782277/ url?

Whatever the current T&Cs says, google can certainly reclaim or start charging for your current plus url, and heck even your google account. Google can do whatever the heck they want, and you really have no recourse.
Indeed, you rarely see the same improvements on the same hardware for PCs.
Large-scale Automated Forecasting using Fractals
This is awesome. BTW, there are ways to automatically extract normals from 2D [1]. I wonder if it would be possible to use it for this purpose.

[1] http://make3d.cs.cornell.edu
Why having no goals in our lives might make us happier and more successful
Do better. I'm serious. Do better so that you don't have to make money from ads.
So they use Amazon as an ad space?
I maintain a reasonably complex web app in production that uses stored procedures extensively. I am running it in production with both MariaDB 5.5.x and MySQL 5.5.x.

I have not experienced any compatibility issues with MariaDB vs. MySQL.
This had my hopes up for a web analytics competitor to Google. Has anyone found a free service (or relatively cheap) that outperforms Google's offering for web?
Cuba has a longer life expectancy, lower infant mortality, and more gender equality than the US. It also has a much better educational system.

So yes, I would actually love to live in Cuba, so I will take you up on your offer to buy me a ticket.

You can email me at quinnchrzan@gmail.com to make arrangements.

Thanks!
Can't believe that employees would actually complain about their work by posting "on an internal message board for anonymous feedback".

If it's anonymous, I have a bridge to sell you!
The claim-page I saw says that at some point they may charge for it. I expect they will, if they ever think people have come to rely on it.

I took my name URL but have no plans to publicize it. I don't own it.
Well, then you're put in the bubble of people who don't use the offending service.

And ... this may be news to you, but every once in a while a large bubbling company may actually buy some upstart service where their own attempts at NIH entry into a niche fail.

You know, like Google buying YouTube in the first place.
Good old political correctness. I'd say the need to be PC is part of the reason why companies use the excuse of cultural fit as a reason to axe someone.

"We have these other prejudices but we can't tell you what those are because if we do, you have grounds to sue us, so instead, we're going to simply chalk it up to a poor cultural fit."
That's why I never agree to anyone's terms and conditions online.
No BMW in 94404 area code left? :)
carOrder.com spent ~$100m trying to bust the regulations that prevent this from happening. Spoiler: it failed.

http://wardsauto.com/news-amp-analysis/carordercom-calls-it-...
I have a mobile number but have opted out of texting (they are blocked so I don't get charged) and instead use a free texting app which also assigns me a virtual number. Unfortunately the verification text from Google does not make it through. I tried two texting apps, and even tried my normal cell number hoping that Google had some agreement with my carrier to pass the code along.

Seems odd that Google would risk turning me away from Plus simply because I cannot receive texts. Get over it Google, I'm not giving you my cell number. Find another way to verify my identity, I only use practically all of your services and have given you pretty much all of my personal information at one point over the last dozen years.
I am currently on a trip to Miami where I am actively working every day. For me the worst part about being away from home is finding a decent workspace where I can really concentrate and get in the zone to program.

The chairs are usually terrible and anything more than a few hours seated makes me want to move somewhere else. Even when working standing (using a kitchen counter for instance) is bad: the height is sub optimal.

I would love to hear suggestions if anyone has insights or good tips for what you do in cases like this.
You're absolutely right. Hosting content on the web does not automagically entitle a person to revenue.

What it does entitle a person to, however, is the ability to dictate the rules of the continued use of that website, and if, as part of the rules of the continued use of that website, viewing the ads is a requirement of viewing the content, a consumer is not entitled to the content without viewing the ads as well.

Stealing, theft, banana-hammocking - it doesn't matter what we call it. It's detrimental to the website and detrimental to the health of the web.

People need to be able to make money off of content on websites, or else they won't be able to specialize in the making of that content. If people can't specialize, society suffers from its inability to support the growth of skill. People can't get very good at things, and growth is limited.

Frankly, you're not murdering any kittens, but you're not exactly petting them either.
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Not that ridiculous. Too often, I'm faced in a shop with a choice between a large doohickey and a small doohickey and I really want a medium doohickey, and have to drive/phone/search a lot for it.
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I got curious and checked c.gg and I see it is for sale.

Are you selling your own shortener domain you used to create your own short URL's ?
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Yeah, it really is some extremely valuable data. I've always imagined what a goldmine the data Alexa/Compete gather is on up-and-coming websites.
I wrote up why I think Dart is not the language you think it is here: http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/05/dart-is-not-the-langu...

[disclaimer: I work on the Dart team]
"This commit introduces the notion of "private" properties (properties whose names begin and/or end with an underscore) on the scope chain. These properties will not be available to Angular expressions."

I wish they'd discuss stuff like this and I wish that MongoDB did not store primary keys on _id field.

I blame myself though.
Looks like it. You can't even leave reviews or anything on the page. I'd be surprised if customers find it useful.
YouTube co-founder wonders 'why the fuck' comments require a Google+ account
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Have something you are so passionate about that you'll eagerly spend the rest of your life tirelessly honing your skill in it.
With language barriers, the people we initially had to deal with had no real capability to determine fault. I think the security people who took down the incident report weren't even the same security who had to deal with the actual incident. I'd have to imagine their practices are standard and are along the lines of "don't admit fault; make sure passenger signs what we want her to sign". They acted as investigators and signing coercers and little more. Any decisions that were made were made later on.

I was more upset with them trying to bill us three months later. We had filed a formal complaint on our last day of the trip over the poor response and had spoken with one of the guest services managers for close to 30 minutes. So when a letter from the cruise line came three months later, I was expecting an apology, not a bill.

When this happened, my wife was in the final year of law school, so our response to the bill was probably atypical of a normal customer response, but even when they told us we wouldn't be responsible for the money and that they'd give us a credit for a future cruise, they still made sure to dismiss their liability and deny that they breached any duties.

One of the gross things with the incident was that another passenger started cleaning up the blood because no crew was doing it. Another passenger was a doctor and stepped in to help stop the bleeding while we waited for a wheelchair to take us to the doctor.
One of these is actually scanned successfully by RedLaser:

1. Spray painted code. Does it scan? (author says NO)
Ad supported content won't be compensated by the advertiser if you block the ads. Web advertising is not analogous to any other kind of advertisement, because every user is counted.
I used to use Gentoo, but I figured Arch follows the build-your-own philosophy and has the added benefit of not having to wait for everything to build all the time.

I like both distros, but would you say there's any significant reason to switch back? Noticeable speed/stability difference?

Gentoo did fork udev, but I'm honestly fine with systemd for my desktop.
Also, if you want to provide any evidence for any of your claims, that'd be great!
Let's not forget that US corporations are also obligated to maximize shareholder value. Reconciling these oftentimes conflicting edicts is hardly a trivial matter and this illustrates how black and white simplifications do not capture the underlying complexity of the issue.
>If you have a degree of means testing you can afford to provide for these people because they are a relatively small % of the population.

The problem is that they're not, because you're just picking some subset of the population and saying they're more needy than everyone else without actually providing any proof of that. Why aren't the victims of automobile collisions just as needy of that money so that they can buy more expensive safer vehicles? Why don't indigent cancer patients "need" the same level of care that Steve Jobs got?

You can pick some arbitrary subset of the population and say that we can afford to provide for them because they're a small percentage, but you can't pick that population in any just or rational way because everybody needs something -- everybody dies and would benefit if the government had given them more resources to fight the thing that killed them.

> Relying on charity will favor those who can best play that game, which will by definition make things harder for people with certain disabilities, particularly mental disabilities of less "popular" ones.

Charity is exactly as much a "game" as applying for government benefits is. If you feel for the plight of the mentally ill, by all means donate money to the charities that help those people, and join together with everyone who thinks the government should be helping them out of proportion to the rest of the population to do likewise.
I said Snowden wasn't a good guy and got hellbanned. It was an upsetting experience. I'll survive, sorry for saying it was your fault.
If you were otherwise already going to buy a Nissan Versa, you can now get a $1000 Amazon gift card thrown in for free. You're still buying from the same local dealer, you're still negotiating the price yourself, you just get this bonus for starting the transaction through Amazon.
They're a funding platform. They should handle funding errors.
Almost all the interesting games being made nowadays are indie games, and as you say most indie game makers don't have the budget for 3D modelers. Not all of them necessarily want this effect, but I'd still say that this could have a pretty big impact.
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It wouldn't take but a few thousand wafers of 65nm ASICs to overpower the rest of the network. With direct access to chip manufacturing facilities this can be pulled off fairly easily.
Mostly front-end and design. We started on Big Cartel, then switched to Shopify. Original site wasn't responsive because it was from 2010. Built the first responsive version, badly, in January 2012 then re-design and re-built it in September 2012 to make better use of the space on big screens and improve performance.

Here's a thing from when we launched on Big Cartel: http://www.fullstopinteractive.com/blog/2010/05/big-cartel-r...

Here's a thing from when we switched to Shopify: http://blog.unitedpixelworkers.com/2012/03/13/why-shopify

Here's a thing from when we tried to make amends for some of our initial responsive sins: http://blog.unitedpixelworkers.com/2012/09/19/introducing-un...

Unfortunately that's about all I've written regarding the technical changes to the site over the years. It might have been a bit clearer if I had said re-designed and re-engineered the front-end if slightly less pithy. Hope that makes more sense.
I was there when they did this a long time ago (circa 2000), I believe in conjunction with Greenlight.com - at the time it was a "cars" tab which was basically just third party storefront space. It didn't last as Greenlight (pardon the pun) ran out of gas.

But this certainly seems viable. Costco has a carbuying program that includes baked in discounts and single price point. It is an obvious disintermediation play with nearly-as-obvious existing regulatory complications and entrenched interests.
No I'm not tired of it at all. I think it is more than cool and flashy, as it does a great job of showing how changes move between each part of the repo. This is great for beginners. The man page and google is good enough, but this is a great addition.
If you're a manager in a stack-ranking organization like this, in this market, why not take a stand? Refuse to classify team members who are not actually "occasionally misses" as such. If it's straight-up stack ranking, give everyone a tie for 3rd place or something.

What's the worst thing that happens? You get let go? What a great way to get let go from a dysfunctional company.
Exactly. Pixelworkers was always a playground for us. Cotton Bureau was explicitly started with the intention of it becoming a business.
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Has anyone had any experience with the service? It sounds almost too good to be true, and much simpler than having a high paid employee running around coordinating Chinese food orders.
Thanks! We use exclusively American Apparel right now, but there are obvious reasons why we don't want to do that forever. We're planning to add additional (high-quality only) shirt styles and manufacturers.
I like USE flags and disabling at compile time code I don't want. Keeps dependencies way down. Fewer packages, leaner system. I don't mind compiling. Hell, on my Ivy Bridge, compiling/emerging most packages is faster than apt-get in Ubuntu!
is there a hidden meaning ?

http://imgur.com/34ui71g
I'm interested in what and how quick the development/testing cycle is. How quickly can you spin up, populate, and destroy a test instance for integration testing? How do you iterate on feature development against it?
If I'm a writer, I measure how well I do by the number of people who read my work, or more specifically, by the number of people who draw meaning from my work.

If I can't be compensated for giving people new insight, then I can't do it exclusively, which means I'll do it less. If I do it less, I'll be less skilled at it, which means I won't contribute to the collective knowledge as much as I potentially could if I didn't have to, for example, grow my own food.

By putting ads in my writings, I'm able to write more, and get better. I can do better only if I get paid to do it. So when you say, "Do better", you're saying, "make money from what you write", which on the web means, "put advertisements on your writings".
I'm not sure of the implication you're making there, and it confuses me.

Defined 'frontend' in that context? Also, are you referring to the HipHop compiled PHP as the 'backend', or are there some fancy Go/Erlang/Lisp/whatever tricks acting as MQ layers, shuttling data around that I'm not aware of?
I recognize your point about farming and its difficulties, but you are running the farm. Starting and running a business in any field is difficult and requires immense domain knowledge.

My point about occupational mobility is more about as an employee. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it easier to obtain work as a farmhand than as a software engineer, in terms of credentials and experience required?

There will be a definite decrease in occupational mobility if everyone had to train for years, paying for an education or not, just to be considered entry level.

There will be a definite decrease in social mobility if this kind of training is required for even mediocre paying jobs. At least as an engineer I can work for a few years, save money, and try to break out later.
Whoa what? “Mayer, in fact, tried to address the issue yesterday morning in a Q&A, which she began by quoting her favorite children’s book about the value of experience.”

How do you start addressing concerns of working professionals by quoting a children's book?
Doesn't the dealer know you've got a $1k gift card on the line? Don't they factor that into the negotiation? Normally, the dealer has to compete on an even playing field against every other dealer within 40 miles.
Sex House is the pinnacle of entertainment.
Your interpretation is really nice, but I'm afraid it isn't true for many companies. IMHO "we've got top talent" is nowadays just another form of marketing bullshit that replaced "we are the leader" or "we are number 1" phrases which were mindlessly repeated by everybody for last 30 yrs. And in fact "we've got the smartest people" is even much worse because companies don't (and never will) have any metric to support this claim. It's just like yelling "we are the best". Pointless and kind of pathetic.
Wow, this made the search a _lot_ faster. Thanks!
Tesla has managed to get around these laws.
How did Google not realise when they launched Google+ that URLs that end in ridiculously long strings of numbers (107350252619396782277) was a poor idea? Now it feels like they're adding a sticking plaster to fix their initial design decision.

Google+ on the whole seems quite poorly designed from a UX perspective. Most people seem to use Google+ like a blog, but the two column card layout on the desktop (three columns on some Google+ sites) makes it impossible to read posts in chronological order. This is so blazingly obvious, one can only wonder why Google went ahead with this pattern. If the site is optimised for mobile (which seems to be the case), why do they push the same design to desktop?

The way comments open up in a small scrollable panel also makes for a pretty miserable experience on the desktop. As does clicking a tag and having to explore everying from within the constricted space of a card (again why do they push this pattern to desktop users if it's intended for mobile users?)

Can you actually add titles for Google+ posts? It doesn't seem so. This means you redundantly repeat the name of the blog author as the title of every single card/post.

And what's with the bizarre gigantic image at the top of the page that only reveals itself when you scroll to the top? Was this meant to be a delightful surprise feature? It just feels odd.

Finally, there is a button on the left-hand side of the page in the header. It looks like a button, it's shaped like a button. But when you move your mouse pointer over the button, a menu appears automatically (on rollover). If it's meant to be a rollover drop-down menu, then don't make it look like a clickable button. As always with Google and their UX, it's one step forward, two steps back (IMO).
Also worth noting is that you cannot change the url once assigned. So, better hope you don't get married - or that a serial killer has the same name as you. http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/10/googles-broken-name-policy-a...
I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but I'm replying anyway.

If there's a sudden gust of wind, say, there's a possibility you might draw a different tile than you would have otherwise. But, this wouldn't make individual tiles any more or less likely. As long as we can agree that wind has a purely random effect, it does not need to be part of the probability model.

Putting tiles into the bag and redrawing them may, however, result in particular patterns. For example, it would be reasonable to believe that LIFO has some influence: last in, first out. This would depend on the individuals involved in shuffling and drawing the tiles, but some patterns common to human players could be identified with some study.

I would suggest that word combinations could be more likely to appear than the given random model predicts (and non-word combinations less likely), as the groups of tiles may hang over from previous games.
We're currently doing one. It's been relatively painless, most of the difficulty being simultaneously moving off old myisam tables to innodb -> xtradb
Why I won't get a Custom URL:

> Many people have the same name. Add a few extra letters or numbers to this URL to get one that is unique for you.

Why would I want yet another "MyName<randomcrap>" identifier? How does that help friends and family remember or identify me? What purpose does it serve?

I'm yet another person with a nickname that identifies me all over and has for years, I too own the domain. But Google+ keeps insisting I have my "real name" ... except it's not my real name because I have to add random crap to be unique.

I have no idea why they cling to this.
Years ago, I tried to calculate how many opening positions there are in Scrabble with two players. I didn't get very far...
> When shading, the artist will just have to be very conscious of the angle of incidence from the light source.

The artist should be doing this already!
There's 4 BMW dealerships within 20 miles of 94404: http://api.edmunds.com/v1/api/dealer?zipcode=94404&makeName=... (check the URL and add your own key).

Note: register for a free key here (http://developer.edmunds.com/) and then input it into the URL above.
The ABS in my car lost a sensor a few years ago and shut itself off. I see it as a feature :)

There's a way to disable the traction control, but figuring it out wasn't what I had in mind while stuck at a 4-way stop.
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They made it possible to request a different URL for maybe 12 hours after launching custom URLs, but quickly stopped offering it. Probably got inundated with requests. By the time I got my invite (about a day after they started sending them), there was no such link.

Also, they weren't just allowing people to register any old nickname or brand name. It was probably more about letting people make minor corrections.
Well, if you are a consultant or freelancer, you can do this one week trial run in case it's paid. You can always decline job offer afterwards if it doesn't meet your rates for a long term project.
i'll believe "amazon is actually selling cars" when i can get:
free 2-day delivery of a car at a firm, non-negotiable price that is well below MSRP.
Are you sure Children of Men is the movie you meant to reference? Seems like an odd future to aspire to...