skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The image shows sulfuric acid right up front. I can't imagine why they no longer sell those to kids.

However, if you think about it then as long as you provide the proper MSDS data-sheets and get the right waivers signed, providing a one-stop-shop chemistry set for educators/parents makes perfect sense.
The perils of mixing open source and money
If you have repeated crashes, please report them to JetBrains.

I had a problem with intelliJ crashing on some Scala code, sent them the logs and they said they were aware of the problem and that a fix was almost ready for deployment. I've never had a bad customer experience from the company.
>Why is it so hard to try to understand someone when they feel offended, instead of telling them they are being hypersensitive?

It might be hard for you to imagine, but some people are, in fact, hypersensitive. Some people make a hobby out of finding things offensive; society should generally laugh at these people and ignore them.

That being said, there are also plenty of situations where someone can be legitimately offended by something.

>1. Misogyny. Why? Flight attendants are women. Rich CEO's are men. A CEO that loses a bet and has to work as a flight attendant, also has to wear a skirt, stockings and lipstick. To clarify: It's a stereotype, and stereotypes can be found offensive. Imagine if he had painted his face black instead.

This is just plain silly. Textbook hypersensitivity. Anyone who would be offended for this reason is an idiot.

>2. Transphobia. Why? Men dressing up as women are supposed to be silly. However, "body image distress" is real and it even drives people to suicide [1]. Violence against transgender people is very common as well. Homosexuality used to be listed as mental disorders in DSM I and II, but was removed in 1974. "Gender identity disorder" was finally removed in DSM V last year [2]. In august, a 21 year-old transgendered woman was beaten to death in New York, to just mention one of the many victims of hate crimes against these people.

This one, on the other hand, makes a little more sense. That being said, people still shouldn't care when other people make fun of the things they like doing in a generalized way.
Him giving to the poor doesn't achieve the same goal as a government providing a basic wage to all. Yes, you can help some people, but this is a change in the very fabric of society. In how people choose to live, to strive or to squander.

This is a remarkable piece of legislation and truly exciting to observe.
They are technically mergeable because they're text based, but they're not super easy to comprehend. I've found that .unity scene files seem to develop dramatic changes between check-ins that make it difficult to isolate problems (ie. giant blocks of text removed from one part of the file, then put in another part of the file untouched).

In general I feel like the best practice is to touch these .unity scenes as little as possible, and spend most of your time iterating on prefab files, which are easier to read.

Haven't tried git with unity so I dunno if there are any special case issues there.
I don't think it does. Just remember that an artist came up with this. The rotary engine was great in theory, too.
Very cool. Another option for working with shaders directly in the browser is Shadertoy, a kind of jsfiddle for shaders: https://www.shadertoy.com/
Yes I Saw Your Text, But Don’t Expect Me to Respond Instantly
Whereas boutique shops have a lot more freedom because they're selling to self selecting audiences, which (generally) understand they're taking on additional risks with the increased benefits.

They may take advantage of having the same freedoms that larger companies just don't exercise, but the idea that their audience is "self-selecting" likely won't hold up or protect them from the kind of litigation that means this is (in practice) a bad idea (from a business survival standpoint).

I see the set as a good thing, but I don't think saying they're protected in any way or that the concerns of larger companies don't apply is accurate.
Have you looked at JRebel?
actually, finding product-market fit is adding value to society.

Imagine a world where there is all of this wonderful technology, but no one knows it exists or it is not applied to their problems.

I think both companies are valuable and great companies should strive to do both well (tech and market development)
They are pretty git friendly. There's instructions floating around for how to do it but it basically works as you'd expect once you get your .gitignore file set up properly.

The Editor loads assemblies dynamically as well so you can branch/checkout and the Editor will automatically recompile everything without a restart.

Only problem I've had is with scene objects but I think I recently fixed that once with a tweak to my .gitignore.
That's not just a soundbite, it's a measurable fact.

Even when we include the horrors of the world wars, the 20th century had fewer per-capita battle deaths (both civilian and military) than the centuries before it.

The same trend is detectable at decade timescales, and shows that we are still improving since the world wars.

Stephen Pinker's book "The Better Angels of our Nature" goes into the underlying statistics to support these assertions.
That's what he says on his LinkedIn page - www.linkedin.com/pub/mike-howard/1/305/342
Can someone explain to me how HFT is different than front running? I fail to see the difference.
About half of the Newegg reviews are 3-eggs or lower. And even some of the 5-egg reviews mention dead drives! They only got 5 eggs because of Newegg's easy return policy. The drives are clearly unreliable.
In a functioning democracy, a parliament of whores A/B tests slogans and suits until they find a winning combination, then do whatever they want.
So, all the hundreds of thousands of people here in America who donate their time to charitable work are wasting their time because it's not "mandated"? The billions of dollars Americans (and, no doubt, Europeans as well) donate voluntarily to charitable causes should instead be confiscated by a tax collector and redistributed systematically to all citizens according to some bureaucratic process which determines eligibility?
Treating every instance of giving money as equal is like failing to distinguish between packing popcorn from real popcorn. The motives and effects are not the same for every exchange of money. There is no way that swombat could provide a basic income for everyone, which is the idea under discussion here.
If one weren't going for nostalgia, what chemicals would one put in a modern chemistry kit?
I tried this and run startx.

What i get is only a black screen.
Even though i restarted my laptop, still black screen.

How can i return back to Unity?
Canada considered establishing a guaranteed income in the 1980s after the MacDonald Commission Report recommended it in 1985. It would have replaced most social welfare programs, which turned much of the left against it. Ironically, social welfare in Canada has since been stalled, stagnated, cut back and means-tested to the point where the guaranteed income proposal seems impossibly generous rather than parsimonious. As it happens, the Mulroney Government that received the MacDonald Commission report embraced the recommendation to pursue a free trade agreement with the USA and ignored the guaranteed income proposal. The idea has bounced around a bit since then but gained no political traction.
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> When everyone, even poor people, have an extra (say) $10k, basic cost of living could go up $10k because that's what the market will bear.

If you assume a totally monopolistic marketplace (so that there is no competition to drive down prices but instead there is unlimited capacity to extract monopoly rents), sure. In a marketplace with any kind of competition you'd expect some increase in each the market clearing price and the market clearing quantity of each of the goods that would be purchased by the people who end up with a greater net income after the policy change.
>unfettered access to contraception

This definitely seems the most obvious route to improving the world.
> With this editor, after you make the changes, do you have to copy-paste that back into your source to save it?

Currently yes. However, we have plans to make this better soon. (we call them Project Maps, and they're on the roadmap)
Another reason they are so expensive, is because there are other frame manufacturers that actually make them by hand in the US, which must have high prices. eg. like the little guys: www.somnoir.com
Not a luxxotica fan, but glasses items let you see, and they frame your face, (pretty valuable and aesthetically paramount) As a designer its not easy to combine form and function that operate perfectly and beautifully within the parameters of a humans face.
The tough sell for me is -- I don't see the source code. 10 whitepapers and 15 blog posts comparing to Google doesn't add to credibility. That works for investors and for fun recreational reading. Show me how you do write locking, let's see your cluster membership module.

Perhaps, they want to be Oracle or DB2, that's fine, and I understand that, different market perhaps. But they don't have the credibility those companies do. Even Google's F1 has more credibility because well, because of brand name recognition.

Look at these other DB products I might want to choose, all with available source code: RethinkDB, PostreSQL, Riak, CouchDB, SQLite, MariaDB, MongoDB, Couchbase, Cassandra.

At this point, databases are a bit like operating system, there is no way I am picking a closed source operating system if I have a choice. It is just too critical of a component to be closed under a sealed lid.

Yes they all have different features and maybe FoundationDB does something better, I will still put it last in whatever category, just because I want to be able to look at how it works.
Actually, just making sure the people getting the checks are alive will constitute some overhead, no?
You'd be throwing out the differentiating strength of Unity though. The whole point is that non technical designers can put stuff together incredibly quickly.

It feels at times a bit dirty to give up control and do things "The Unity Way" but the payoff in productivity from non-programmers on the team makes it worth it.
Why Time Off is Less Important Than You Think
Is software deskilling programmers?
You won't be able to do this if the prison are privately run, they need their profits!
This is only for people that are earning less than $2800. In Switzerland that's basically only unemployed people. The unemployment rate when I was there was ~3.5%, so it's roughly $10B / year, which looks acceptable for a country as wealthy as Switzerland.
Unity has probably one of the best UIs I've seen. I also use Blender, so I know how complex UI can get. But with Unity, they encapsulate everything into game objects and components. That's it. It really can't get much easier. Even their animation system is sensible and fits nicely with the overall architecture. I was up and running within a few days. In a week I had what could arguably be considered a working game. Watch a few youtube videos and you'll have working cloth, triggers, and particles.

As a programmer, I still have not reached the point of feeling that I lacked control over the game and engine. And I doubt that easily happens with indie developers, as Unity is incredibly well-equipped to deal with small-to-medium sized games.
Content Compression in Rails apps via Rack::Deflater
Did not expect this to show up so soon. This is far from production quality. As this is all open source, I would deeply appreciate any help in the form of bad data files or code
The age of heroes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_Uni...
Many great generals who've won hundereds of battles never fired a shot in the battles they've won.(After the medieval times maybe. Don't quote me Alexander leading the charge amongst cavalries)

I am not a big fan of Jobs, but even to me the correct way to sell the book is probably not to discredit Jobs, but to credit Ives. Designing iPhone, iPad, iPod and etc. is by itself an incredible feat; discrediting Jobs is simply uncalled for.
All it takes is for one enterprising programmer to write and sell) a snapchat recorder, which would automatically saves all the snapchat photos, while bypassing whatever mechanism snapchat uses to detect picture saving.
Swedes develop invisible bike helmet
For more than a decade, Lotus123 was probably more dominate in the spreadsheet business than Excel is today.

The thing about Excel is it's good enough to compete with free, e.g. Google Docs and OpenOffice/OfficeLibre. That's perhaps why Microsoft Excel buried less expensive competitors with approximately equivalent functionality for a typical user, not only Lotus123 but also Quattro Pro.
You are right. But even with NaCl, the original question remained: would a game dev compile an NaCl app for Linux (even though code changes weren't required.)

PNaCl eliminates a dev's actions to recompile.
... I totally read "Carbon Tetrafluoride" and was really confused for a second since CF4 is awesome.
Branches are just bookmarks to a given spot in your DAG. A clone is an entirely separate DAG. They are nothing alike in concept or practice.
As a professional game developer, I can tell you that using Unity was the least pleasant experience I have had (to put it mildly). I don't see it being a tolerable experience for anything more than simplistic games (like a typical casual game). If you were thinking of something like NFS or Unreal or Dues Ex for mobile, it is very painful and you are better off using a decent engine in its place.
Only tangentially related if that, but I re-read Neuromancer recently and realized with some sadness that its very evocative opening line [1] will quite quickly cease to have meaning for generations who grew up without analog TVs. We tend to think of literature as timeless, but there's a very real, if small, slice of it washed out by the tide of shifting metaphors.

[1] "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel"
do you have sources that verify the disproportional "mis-spending" of welfare money.

i would doubt it is such a critical issue. and if usually related to problems/illness that could have been tackled earlier (alcoholism, depression eg)
Do we really need server side javascript at all?
Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt
Lessons learned from my time at Pulse
Agree with Swift. Having a rebase strategy keeps history linear and MUCH easier to read.
India's Mars mission recovers from glitch.
NaCl -- even the non-portable form -- doesn't require recompiling for different OS's. It only requires recompilation for different machine architecture (x86 vs. ARM.)

PNaCl removes the need to compile different x86 vs. ARM binaries for NaCl.
Amazing work. Go Firefox Developer Tools team!
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In the absence of insurance, you might try a large retailer like Target or Walmart. The Target store nearest me charges $65 for a complete eye exam, which includes an un-dilated retinal exam and vision test.

I have insurance with a vision plan, however when I bought glasses from Zenni I used an old prescription from 8 years ago. My vision hasn't changed significantly in my adult life. I do still go for an eye exam every couple of years, mainly to keep an eye out for glaucoma, which may run in my family a bit.
Also i would assume that the costs infrastructure for "proofing" and managing are high enough to put in as a factor.
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So how are you solving the problem of connecting desktop app to web app? Are you writing an Excel add-in to propagate and receive changes? Or making changes to OpenOffice?

P.S. You complained about the selected-cell animation in the web app. This animation is not limited to the web app -- exists in Excel 2013 as well. It's just an animation -- there is no functional effect. If you don't want to get slowed down, ignore the animation and start typing.

It's just like unminimizing a window in the Windows taskbar. The animation is just eye candy -- the window is actually fully-active as soon as you click on the taskbar button.
Now if someone would write something similar for desktop OpenGL that supported multiple platforms, I'd go back to doing this :-)
If you support a real free market economy, please, first, untangle banking and industry from overt and covert government involvement before you insist that the poor schlubs at the bottom of the economy be the experimental subjects for economic purity.
WebGL & WebSocket: from Chrome desktop to mobile
I'm very much enjoying this discussion and I hope you guys can find a definitive statement about what the bill entails. (I find the language you have both quoted from the bill to be too vague to my uncertified ear to make a decision.)

Is your claim that the postal service must pre-fund unvested benefits at the day the employee is hired? That is, is that how you think "future benefits payable" is being interpretted? Because what's definitely not true is that the postal service is being required to fund un-hired (or unborn) employees. See this article, which has quotes from the Congressional Research Service.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/45018432
I actually think it's time for object databases (e.g. ZopeDB) to make a comeback.

Sometimes it's useful to persist a mass of crap, without thinking through the format at all. Webscraping is a good example offered by the project author.
I think this is the most important vote we will get to cast in a long time, not just for us here in Switzerland, but for the world at large.

By and large, capitalism (as a political system) has failed the world. Capitalism is a very efficient, even beautiful, distributed algorithm that is very good at allocating resources in a reasonably close to optimal fashion, more efficient than central control in many aspects. It doesn't automatically make social justice happen, however. Its efficiency is at the same time its heartlessness. Too many people ignore this blatantly obvious fact (see prisoner's dilemma, tragedy of the commons, etc) because that realization is painful and requires a deep honest look at our own position in society.

If we want to see significant social change in the world within the next 100 years, experiments like unconditional basic income need to happen at a large scale. Switzerland is one of the few places in the world (if not the only) with the wealth an political freedom to make that possible.

Personally, I believe that voting for this proposal is a moral imperative rather than a choice. This is the first time in my life I feel compelled to campaign for a cause, so I'm brainstorming about how to get the message out. Any help would be appreciated!
Are there any plans by Unity to improve the documentation outlining this?
Okay, cynic. Just kidding, I totally agree with your appraisal here. I think the real revelation, if you can call it that, is that there are certain sorts of projects that governments are inherently bad at. All you have to do is look at an indy project like: http://www.thehealthsherpa.com/ to realize that $600 million is not needed ot build a highly functional site.

On the flip side of that, I don't think HealthSherpa, or any small indy sites adhere to all the draconian government-mandated access requirements that an official blessed project does.
Why Business Travelers Should Think Twice about TSA PreCheck
is mercury included?
Am I the only person who opened the link expecting something about Canonical's desktop?
Why would you say you quit right off the bat? So you can brag about being accepted but not staying? I don't really understand
I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is the most ridiculous idea that will have disastrous and unintended consequences across the board, leading to more poverty and crime and economic stagnation than ever, at least here in the U.S.

Once such a program is implemented, charities will dry up as the average giver realizes that the recipient already gets plenty. The more dedicated givers, the idealistic volunteers, will still be out there providing free meals and helping in shelters, but the vast majority of working people with some disposable income to share will no longer give; they'll just shrug and say, "I gave at the office" or, more literally, "My money was confiscated at the office".

Furthermore, this will provide a disincentive to find work, and we'll see a surge of immigration from Latin America to fill all those low end jobs that our comfortable native populace no longer feels a need to bother themselves over.

The Clinton/Gingrich welfare reform efforts were intended to move families off of public dependency and to a large extent they met with success. It's rather "out of the box" these days to propose the diametric opposite, but by all means, Switzerland, please use yourself as a laboratory so we can observe the results. According to Swiss friends, that country has to import guest workers to perform menial labor; will this mean that these guest workers will be shipped home, or will they also receive a stipend? And if they do, will they still have an incentive to mop floors and wash dishes?
>This is only for people that are earning less than $2800

Are you sure about that? From the article:

>Every month, every Swiss person would receive a check from the government, no matter how rich or poor, how hardworking or lazy, how old or young.
people lack education and possibilities for long-term planning.

if you provide the second the first will follow. if you provide the first your other mentioned problems will go down.
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> More people is a good thing

A sustainable population is better. There are many indications that the current world population is unsustainable. With the oceans being quickly depleted of fish, for one small example, I doubt that even 2 billion people can survive in the long run. Everyone eating Solyent is not a solution in my book.
> Even if they are beneficial to the affected populations, can we call that philanthropy?

This is just silly zero-sum thinking. Obviously ending world poverty is hugely beneficial to anyone who can sell things to those newly enriched people. But that doesn't make it "not philanthropy".

Even if he's really thinking "let's save 10 million children from dying of malaria so some of them will buy Windows phones" (which is silly), that's still fine by me. What matters are outcomes, not motives.
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Ugh. Backblaze is one of those companies with an extraordinarily poor design that they flout and "open source" as if anyone would follow their lead. Take a look at the physical design of their system and combine that with the published data. Consider that to remove any harddrive from their setup requires physically removing a 4u rackmount storage pod from the rack. http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v...

Also, no hardware raid, battery, or cap.

Source: worked at Eye-Fi, built 2PB storage
This could also be a fertile pasture for distributed computing on the fly. Suppose you have a website that attracts 1k visitors per day on chrome, how many MIPS could you harvest? Could you let them mine bitcoins or fold proteins in the background without attracting attention?
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His name is Hector the Inspector.
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If people waste their basic income on alcohol, well, so what? I don't know the tax situation in Switzerland, but in the US, that means a big chunk of that money is immediately reclaimed as taxes. The rest goes back into the economy, and the person is not really in any worse of a situation than they would have been without basic income.

It's one situation where basic income doesn't really help, but it doesn't really hurt either.
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Precisely. See this SO post for examples on how you can end up with leaking Java code. Happens every day.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6470651/creating-a-memory...