skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article doesn't seem to cover much but I'd be curious to know the implications of this. Is this very common? How long do people stay? Are these people making trips or living there? I've heard a lot about crime occurring in Walmart parking lots, does this have any effect?
Bad Christian also seems acceptable.
I've been looking for more geeky art to put up in my home office (like their version on CafePress with the code in the image - http://www.cafepress.com/preshing.571735472).

Does anyone know others like that?
Indeed, but apparently, it doesn't have multiple return values, and I don't know if there is an equivalent to metamethods.
Shadow QR codes
http://boingboing.net/2012/05/23/shadow-qr-codes-that-only-w...
Huh, where did I say my preferred version of templates were C# generics?

As of C++ templates being extremely powerful - I agree. But this is a similar kind of "powerfulness" as C macros are, only little safer. Technically they are still just a fancy macrogenerator working at the AST level instead of lexer level, knowing nothing about the types (you even have to tell it which symbols are the types, because it cannot reason it out from syntax). IMHO it is years behind true generic typesystems like in Haskell, OCaml or Scala and calling it a "type system" is an exaggeration.
Actually that was pretty important advice and a huge part of the picture/story. You can learn through non-traditional pathways just fine, but if you want to turn that learning into a career you're going to have to know a lot more about marketing and put it into practice than someone who has taken the traditional route, with a familiar story, and traditional access to employment opportunities.

This could have easily been a story about someone who spent a year learning to code and reporting how it was a waste of time because no one wanted to hire them. I bet a lot of folks run into that and just don't bother to write about it or make it to the top of Hacker News. Marketing matters, and if you're going to put in 20 hours a week as an investment in yourself you better be thinking about how to get a return.
The HackerNews effect: Hitting #2 on HN
I really do not like these articles that say "science says not to worry, you must be a very stupid and uneducated person to be worried about this." Any honest scientist will tell you that science does not know exactly how the human body processes food and there is no model which will exactly predict the effects of the human body ingesting a certain food.

Saying that the experimental results are mixed does not make me feel better. Experimenting with humans is very difficult, and certain types of experiments are downright impossible. Thus, effects of foods that do are not immediate and drastic are very hard to determine in human experiments.

Think about a food that we now know is very dangerous: trans fats. Humans had been eating trans fats for about 80 years when they were definitely found to cause heart attacks. Only then there was enough data to make a definite connection. And while there were some scientific articles that suggested a connection in the 60's someone could always say "there is no definite proof." Many people died of heart attacks before the statistics became such that a connection was obvious.

Then there is the tendency of people to wrongly assume that compounds that are kind of similar will have the identical effect on the body. Thus, for a long time carbohydrates were all bunched together because they were very similar molecules. People would often say that carbohydrates cannot be bad for you because humans have been eating rice and wheat for centuries without negative effects. But it turned out that fructose is a little different than other carbohydrates and it can be bad for you.

And then there is the fact that the same thing can be benign or very dangerous depending on what form it is in. Thus, fructose is absolutely benign when eaten as part of a fruit or vegetable, but quite harmful when eaten in a refined sugar or high fructose corn syrup form.

So I am very very suspicious of any food additives. The only rational decision for a human being is to eat the type of foods humans have eaten for tens of thousands of years before and for which our bodies have evolved. Maybe MSG is benign. Or maybe it is actually bad for you. I would prefer not to become one of those statistics that allows scientists to prove many years from now that MSG is indeed bad for you.

MSG is especially worrying because there are some studies that show negative effects of MSG and the fact that other studies show no effects does not quite negate these. Furthermore, I myself feel negative effects when eating certain foods that I suspect of containing MSG.
I think "absurdly" is a bit too strong, but the problem comes down to 4 things:

1. Only small percentage of people was afflicted with physical symptoms.

2. These symptoms were vague and so variable that they had to refer to as "syndrome", rather than "symptom".

3. Ultimately, MSG allergy proved to be largely false.

4. MSG is found everywhere.

"Jewish Deli Syndrome" could be considered racist depending on the surrounding circumstance.

However, if there is set of ingredients that are unique to Jewish deli meat scientifically proven to cause problems for non-trivial percentage of population, then I would agree with you that it wouldn't (and shouldn't) be racist to call "Jewsih Deli Syndrome".
I run a < 10 man company. Still looking for Nirvana with...

1. What is my balance if I shut the business down today and paid off all creditors and pulled in all debts? What does the business look like if I hire someone new? I need financial planning and forecasting that goes way beyond excel. Which is lighting fast to work with.

2. Where are my projects really at? I'm a service business. I have to sell our deliverables. Need agile planning, rich documentation and project costing. The bastard child of Google Docs, Excel and Pivotal Tracker.
I have no idea what the offer would be like but I'm sure if they were to acquire me then they'll force me to work there for 3-4 years before anything vests. If it is just team acquisition then maybe it's just pay back seed investors and give us some bonus / equity options but I find that hard to believe as the outcome (if it happens) because why the hell would I ever take that deal considering that I can probably raise some angel funding to see it through and if it doesn't work out then I'll go to them and plead my case...

I have lots of cool startup ideas but this is my baby and I'm a specialist in it. Not a super viral idea though like a Snapchat or anything; it would take time to scale but just a big market if penetrated.
Maybe she's getting ready to apply to be CEO of Microsoft...
How does one work effectively as a coder without doing so?
Because I live in a western liberal democracy and have been indoctrinated to believe that differences between cultures have no qualitative bearing, they are merely choices among equal values, and as such I cannot possibly comprehend such blatant facts.

Please tell me you knew I was being sarcastic...
yes, this is good. I can relate. what worries me is how tired you are to that opportunity... unless you are the absolute best
Cool, now do image stabilization so it works with handheld video.
> "Do you use presentational CSS classes in markup, or do you fully utilize LESS/SASS?"

Are those even exclusive?

One of the projects I work with uses Ace “responsive admin template” (paid theme from Wrapbootstrap). In its styles, declared variables and nesting are used unpredictably, as is indentation and other whitespace, which leads to awful readability and flexibility. It does utilize LESS, but it also uses presentational classes (least of its problems).

Pure well-structured CSS can be much better. LESS offers some useful possibilities, but also a lot of new ways to shoot yourself in the foot.

My point is—what OP wants (I guess it's readable, elegant, maintainable code) depends more on coding standards than tools used.
Do a little Googling for "3D printed Mandelbulb"
I've known about github for a long time, but I have no desire to share my code, and thus have not created a profile.

If one day, in the far flung future, I decide to release my source code on github, that will be the day I create a profile.

The recent creation date of a user profile might cause a silly person to jump to the conclusion that I am inexperienced and naive. But why should I care what silly people think?
I think it is two sides of the same coin:

Cheap location = nothing there, so nothing to do.

Expensive location = too expensive to do anything, so nothing to do.
Personal Preference: Vienna, Austria

I'm from there, but part of the reason why I keep coming back is cause its affordable to rent, even in the hip districts (600-700 EUR for 1br) + a great city to live + good bunch of startups + cheap for flying in/out. Prague is similar.

Also heard great things about Sofia, but haven't lived there (yet). And Berlin is of course a good option as well.
But catholics are barely tolerated.
Us feeble-brained humans are uncomfortable with path-dependent outcomes. We don't want Bitcoin, or anything, to have an arbitrary price determined merely by marginal bid and ask, let alone a multiple equilibrium - we want it to have an underlying value. Which is a physical property, like weight or orangeness.

It's very sadly ironic that the author who mentions Menger forgets that value is intangible and subjective. Value isn't physical. People value things for different reasons be they physical characteristics or not. (e.g. sentimental value)

The BTM asserts that money and a bubble are the same thing. Both are anomalously overvalued assets. Both obtain their anomalous value from the fact that many people have bought the asset, without any intention to use it, but only to exchange it for some other asset at a later date.

It's not anomalous. People value it because they can use it as a medium of exchange. That's how they value it. The notion that value is a physical characteristic of something is what causes one to believe that valuing money is irrational. There is no such thing as "underlying" economic or material value. There is only subjective value.

Prices arise by the auction mechanism; people bidding on things, which causes commodities to converge somewhere between the bit-ask spread. This is the price, (objective) which is not to be confused with value. (subjective)
> You however seemed to be espousing cheating the system.

Doesn't that sound similar to hacking the system? We are using a website called hacker news. Not only was collaboration on homework encouraged, but the class actually had its own discussion forum for people to use. However, everyone disliked the forum because it was cumbersome and slow. So I built my own. At the end of the semester I had many people thank me for the website and asked to have it expanded to cover more classes. Using this forum I personally helped many students understand concepts and taught concepts that the professors couldn't teach properly. There were a few subjects I didn't understand and other students stepped in to help. You were not in my class and did not use this forum so I don't think you should rush to judgement about what was/wasn't cheating.

By definition, hackers do things that push boundaries. There will always be disagreement but you don't have to downvote just because you disagree. Voice your opinion, certainly, but please be careful with those downvotes.
You can move to some low-tax or no-tax country. I can recommend Andorra, 0% income tax and reasonable prices for pretty much anything , rent, food, alcohol etc :) I also heard Belarus has almost no tax and its very cheap to live there, but there will be lots of bureaucracy :)
An extraordinary inventor
"since there will only ever be a limited number of BitCoins"

While it's true that there is a limited number of bitcoins, it's a misleading claim since they can continue to add decimal points. According to FAQ on the bitcoin website, they can do this as needed, infinitely.
I didn't think it was relevant, as my assertion was just that it was easier on your body than salt, but thanks for pulling that out if you think it will help.
Nintendo's entire business was built on hyper-strict intellectual property constraints.
Oh, give it a rest. The topic of the submission is "Hövding – Airbag for cyclists," and if the title attribute on the linked site says "girls," then who cares. Using 'girls' instead of 'women' is similar to using 'guys' instead of 'men.' Stop feigning offense to feed into your fictional-worldview of social-righteous superiority.
I argued that the US govt. can deploy its force to protect the dollar (as has done in the past even to the point of going to war) and the assurance of such a powerful guardian undergirds the trust in US dollar. Other have already answered as to how it can deploy force against Bitcoin (although not part of my argument). Governments can also act in concert. Invoking images of pedophiles or drug dealers using BTC would be more than enough to secure public support for such measures as blocking BTC port numbers, Deep Packet Inspection for BTC protocol content and ensuring that no legitimate retailer wants to be seen associating its name with the "pedophiles currency".
Since people only want to live and food and shelter are a means to this, then they too are in a bubble.

Bubble everything!
I am in one of those universities in India which are prone to Brain Drain. I feel a lot of people tend to go out of India for starting their careers etc since they feel it builds their status/prestige in India. But again, career prospects there are better too.
Interesting. I'd like more technical details to be more up front - right now it seems like more of a high-end "this coat looks awesome and has awesome abstract technology built in to make you feel awesome" thing.

From what I can gather: it's a decent looking coat with a Karma wifi hotspot and battery backup in the pocket.

How much will wifi cost per month? Does it operate under the standard Karma deal where you get 100MB free when other people use it?

Is the coat washable? Do I have to go through a complicated process to get the electronics out before I wash it?

Is there an advantage to having this built into a coat vs. carrying a Karma hotspot in my pocket or laptop bag? Does the coat solar charge the battery?
There are companies doing HFT with reatlime Java and custom hardware. Sure, C++ has its place there, too, but again: not the only viable option.
we start as a lump of quickly dividing cell, a tumor of a kind. We progress though fish-stage, reptile, etc... Different people have different decency standards wrt. killing and torture of living organisms. As we know the society-wide the standard is pretty low - everything, except humans in majority of situation, can be killed and everything, except (thanks God for animal rights people) majority of mammals in majority of situations, tortured. My personal standard as of now is that killing of insects/fish ok, reptiles and birds - don't like it, yet still somewhat ok, and no killing for mammals, and no torture for anybody (at least what i can perceive as a torture). Thus i personally think the abortion is ok up to about week 6-7.
Once, there was a peaceful anarchic village, where everybody was perfectly equal and there were no laws or rules. People shared everything freely and never fought. Then, one day, the neighboring village invaded, killed all the men, raped all the women, and enslaved all the children. That was the end of that.

Even if somehow the whole world were to switch instantaneously to the state of anarchy, it would be a very short matter of time before someone internally decided to take over and enforce rules with the threat of violence. This person would then be the "government."

As for Communism, Armenian radio listener calls in and says, "We are told that true Communism is just on the horizon now. I ask, what is horizon?" We reply, "Horizon is imaginary line that always recedes as you approach it."

The fundamental misapprehension at work here is confusing two meanings of the word "system." There are systems created by humans, such as "the justice system of Japan." We can change those, since they derive entirely from human control. Then, there are emergent or natural systems, such as gravity. These cannot be changed simply because people decide they don't like them.

Capitalism is of the latter category. It is not a human-created system; it did not emerge from colonialism. It is merely the natural emergent behavior of actors under resource scarcity. As long as there are not enough resources for everyone to have what they want, there will be some variant of a market and capitalistic trade. It is not possible to alter this scenario simply because it doesn't seem pleasant; that's wishful thinking. All that can be done is to make the market more or less efficient.

The Soviet Union and North Korea, for example, have always had internal capitalist black markets, despite massive penalties. Prisons have internal black markets. Countries that try to control their currency's value have massive internal black markets for hard currency. Cocaine is readily available for a price almost everywhere in the world, despite massive and coordinated efforts to suppress that market.

The reverse also applies; in the absence of actual scarcity, it is impossible to enforce a market, since that is an emergent property of scarcity rather than a human-chosen system. Illegal music and movie trading online, for example, continue to grow despite massive efforts to prop up the market, because there is no actual scarcity.
I live in the UK and we use Pounds Sterling. When I travel to any country using the Euro prices are always relatively higher so I would recommend against a country using the Euro. I found this list showing Euro/Non-euro countries: http://www.aph.com/news/knowbeforeyougo/euro_countries.shtml
Depends on what you are looking for really. Are you a freelancer? Do you want to join a startup? Want to create one? Do you have clients already or are you on the hunt for some? Do you like big cities or prefer the countryside? Do you want a warm climate or want to stay in during cold nights?
Exactly how I currently handle it. I do not understand people who post this stuff publicly. Either change your security settings or don't do it at all.

I choose not to do it at all and assume everything I post can be seen by people who are closest to me: family, friends, employers, people in the same city, etc. It works well. And heck, if you don't do it, it may even change the way you think about people in general (so there isn't so much need for expletives.
I think it can be used as a relative scale of toxicity though, but I'm not a chemist, so if anyone with a background in it knows better, I'd like to know.
There's only a 31km difference between the "lowest" and "highest" surface point on earth so I doubt that's what's going on here. More likely is its orbit eccentric and while it seems to go up it continually loses speed due to the atmosphere slowing it down and its average altitude keeps going down continually (although obviously more when it's close to the periapsis, the point of closest approach).
Lines really aren't much of a thing: they are a single keypress, which generates a newline character and some autogenerated indentation from your editor. There's no real difficulty in breaking things up across two lines versus typing any other extra character (this touches on another issue, which is that I am of the opinion that the concept of code brevity estimation by line count comparison is fundamentally flawed, as code with fewer wider lines is often just cumbersome to type as code with more narrower lines).

That said, please consider the following:

data Color = Red | Black

data Color { Red; Black }

data Color = Red | Black | Green

data Color { Red; Black; Green }

I think the brace + semicolon-newline style actually compares pretty favorably on single-line width (it wins out on line width to an increasing degree as the line gets longer, which is important). However, it is visually more complex, which matters a lot for shorter lines. For this reason, I think that allowing both syntaxes would be ideal. The pipe-based syntax could be encouraged for single lines (newline-termination would sidestep block-end inference issues), with the curly brace based syntax being encouraged for multi-line definitions. There is a slight disadvantage in that now a user would have to know both syntaxes, of course.

edit:

Of course, since Pyret's syntax requires that ADT parameters be specified in parentheses, you can actually omit the pipes in single-line mode, too, and opt to use space-juxtaposition.
What innovative things has Nintendo been doing besides the Wii? Nintendo is the opposite of innovative when compared to Valve.

EDIT: Hmm, I've touched a nerve. Good. When proponents of Nintendo need to resort to "They invented the thumbstick" as an example of their innovation, it becomes obvious that they're not innovating in modern times, else it would be easy to give examples. Nintendo has no recent innovations when compared to other game companies. (The Wii isn't recent, and the WiiU is dead.)
> Puppet works so well, Ansible seems like a typical "not invented here" tragedy that frequently occurs in open source.

That is a bit kind of what I get from Ansible.

Ok at first the best thing it had going for it was 'it works over plain SSH and uses YAML'. Basically for those who did everything via SSH and shell scripting. This was an upgrade.

Now once they get into complicated playbooks and transitive dependencies, 0mq daemons, yes it looks like it is just another Puppet but newer (some kids just like newer things because they want to feel like they are at the cutting edge of technology).

There is also Salt. That had the "look really fast and responsive configuration" because it has the 0mq based distribution mechanism. But then Ansible added that too as a feature. Salt looked at and said "ok fine, we'll add SSH only option too". So now they are both basically solving a similar problem along with the older tools (Puppet, Chef etc)
I'd look at Ogden, UT or Portland, ME.
You know anything about the tech/startup scene in Bozeman?
how do you know that fact?
Was curious how the Super Soaker worked, and came across this great summary from How Stuff Works:

http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/water-blaster3.htm
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/water-blaster4.htm
YC's advice around these kind of talks is that they're a colossal waste of time. If you're interested in an acquihire situation then there may be some value in meeting, but otherwise the chances of something meaningful coming from this is very low.

Remember, for these M&A guys, meeting people like you is there job. For them having these meetings is a productive use of their time. It costs them nothing, and they only gain more insight into the marketplace.

What do you get out of these meetings? They're not going to tell you anything special/secret about their product/market.

What I've seen some people do is have an initial call/meeting (don't travel for it) for about an hour to feel things out. If it seems like there's genuine interest then have there be a "break up" penalty. i.e. if things don't work out they pay you $5-10K.

That way you get something for your time if it doesn't work out, and if they're not serious they won't agree to it.
Is there an easy way to rehost Github repos outside of Github?
Live Animals Are Sold As Key-Rings In China
So if I understand, they had a huge website traffic and made lots of money (donations) thanks to stealing the product (Mario character) from another company (Nintendo), who invested lots of money and hard work into it, and they are still complaining about it?
Some mobile users can't read your pointers because you're using source code formatting instead of italicizing with asterisks, fyi.