skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you get the

> if other people travelling with you [forward] their confirmation emails

part?
His point isn't just abandonment. His point is that what if tmrw they introduce some new restrictions (like the g+ profile needed), that would mess things up. He doesn't want a situation where he has to comply with google's whims or be forced to leave the tech he loves. Not to mention all the effort put into training that tech. So he wants the data google collected on him to be portable. So that if tmrw he decides to use some other service in place of google now, he can just take out his data, and plug it into the new assistant. Now wouldn't that be cool?

PS: i understand google has absolutely ZERO incentive to do something like this. But hey, just explaining GP's point
I have an issue with that particular scenario. What if your three hairs secretly hate you and just agree to declare you dead?

But I can see it working with some adjustments: make your contractually obliged lawyer part of the transaction and include his fees. This way he can't grab all the money for himself and your usurpers can't get to your money that easy.

I know, I'm pessimistic.
Alongside the platform is a railway tunnel. If you walk down it to the left you will find a bundle of disconnected wiring and a sign reading; "We are sorry to announce that due to unforseen circumstances and the state of the economy, the light at the end of the tunnel has now been switched off". If you were to walk in the other direction however there is brilliant illumination, but that is just the lights of an oncoming train.
1. Inrtoduction

I stopped reading there...
Even the most oppressive governments can't monitor or trace payments made with physical cash. But tracing Bitcoins is easy, thanks to the blockchain.

I wouldn't be surprised if there is a sudden crackdown, in which BTC China's records are seized and used to identify individuals who are using Bitcoin to shift money overseas. In fact, who's to say it's not happening already?
Umm, i suppose u are using an API for this, well why not use a series of API calls? Is there someway to detect some sort of accomplishment? (like piece captured, or check?)
Yes and no. This subject somewhat angers me.

Yes people like Walmart and Amazon workers need protection form maltreatment. Definitely. This should be built into the law though, not into unions.

And no because the existing unions don't really protect people. If you look at RMT, Unison and NUT they regularly pop up just to cause trouble. From a perspective of people having to consume services offered by their staff regularly, they want masses of additional pay and do not improve standards along the way at all. They are simply allowing the incompetent to be propped up by the good staff. Also, the professional minority who agree that this is the case are forced to be dragged into union ballots and vote with other staff in favour of strike action regularly in fear of retaliation from their colleagues.

Also let us not forget a much greater threat of exploitation: being forced to work with no pay under the guise of "training". This is happening a lot in the UK a the moment as the Job Centre has been pushing for people to do this by threatening to cut their benefits if they don't do it. The result is people being forced to work for no compensation and having to pay for travel expenses out of their own (literally destitute) pocket. The employers don't have to pay the staff either. The result of this is a dangled carrot of "if you do this, after 6-12 months we'll give you a permanent paid position". This inevitably results in being laid off as not needed immediately when they agreed to take you on.

There are even posters going up in Job Centres telling people "try staff for free":

http://imgur.com/SdWpgvx

Edit: Also I've spoken to some business associates (the sort who worship the fully paid up Lord Fuckwit Sugar himself) and are applauding this as a great way of building their businesses. This is simply unethical. I've been pretty much excluded for mentioning the inevitable "abhorrent slavery" point, not that I care.
Nice post, was looking for this!
What about those "Learn code the hard way" tutorials? anyone tried em?
> Kerning is about the spacing of all letters.

That's tracking (also called letter-spacing). Kerning is indeed about the adjustment of space between individual letters.
An Alternative Theory of Unions [2007]
How we taught 6,000 students to program in Python
That's a pretty clever solution - move the shelving to the picker, rather than the picker wandering about.
In Germany the major problem with on-demand and streaming services is that a lot of content is only available in dubbed versions, of course you don't have the problem with Hollywood content in the UK.

If you're like me and don't like dubbed content and have already phased out physical media, there often really is no way of getting the content legally in at least a semi-comfortable way.
You can't identify everyone in the world that way though. There are people with the exact same name living in the same house, and there are people who don't have a postal address.
Writing like pg.
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>In desktop, resize your browser window. Fully customizable, and no worry for layout break.

It's better for the user if a site has good readability without them having to do anything.
- The social network

- The startup kids

- Jobs
It costs 5x more to attract a new customer than to retain an existing customer.
Hopefully this becomes more and more automated over time and eventually people won't have to do it at all.
While I agree with you on all parts, a cynical side of me tells me that assuming that a majority of your users doesn't really know what they want (or less condescendingly: make assumptions they are not fully aware of) is a viable strategy.
Your intention is still clear, but I think you meant to write "horrific". Otherwise I'm a bit confused. :)
> But in this business, being early is effectively the same thing as being wrong. The market doesn't give out points for foresight.

Unless you manage to survive and keep at it until the time turns out to be ripe. NeXT kinda-sorta did, 20 years down the road. It's an exception though, graveyards are full of great OS who didn't have the time to wait.
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Be that as it may, it doesn't have to be like that.

Notably, neither pro-PRC nor anti-PRC camps are helped by that discourse.
You should have kept reading --it's every other word. I liked the "Reopened on Novebmer 6th 2013".

The rigorousness of the argument and research is comparable to that of the proofreading.
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> It serves as a monument to how wrong they where.

Except it doesn't, for two reasons:

People who are inclined to sympathise with them have no way of seeing any "failure". They left their bodies behind, sure. Wannabe believers will assume they've left with the aliens and are now happily enjoying the fruits of their belief.

Secondly, cults does not work the way you'd expect them to: Failure does not diminish the belief of true believers.

On the contrary, what we see time and time again is that while failure may drive away some people, for many cults failure serves as a "do or die" trigger: These people are so incredibly invested already, that they have a deep need to find a way of explaining the failure that can justify their belief to themselves, that many cults after a temporary lull experiences an increase in activity following a failure. E.g. the cult may decide the explanation for the failure of whatever event they are waiting for is that they have not been devout enough, or that more believers are needed, and redouble their efforts to bring about their goal.

Now, I don't think the Heavens Gate site should be taken offline, mostly because there's plenty of worse material online, and unlike most extant cults Heavens Gate is pretty much entirely extinct, so they are not much of a danger to anyone.

But don't assume a "failure" in predictions mean anything to these cults, even if a failure can be objectively proven.
Whitfield Diffie looks a lot like Keanu Reeves.

Also weren't most of the questions that the TQP lawyer asked ad hominem? I understand that he asked those to discredit Diffie, but they still seemed very disrespectful. Almost anyone in the crypto field would back up Diffie's reputation, so that was a rather stupid move on the part of the TQP lawyer IMO.
Not really. The stats have not been thoroughly calculated (to my knowledge) but here is an attempt: http://www.isna.org/faq/frequency

Not XX and not XY: one in 1,666 births

Klinefelter XXY: one in 1,000 births

There are other relevant cases, not necessarily measured here, like mosaicisms and chimerism.

"Do you self-identify as female?" is a more answerable question.
Started jogging. Its helping me stay active the whole day and sleep better.
Do you think that, if there is a tool that scans all channels through looking for something good to watch, things could be better?
See my point in a sibling post. The government want to keep unemployment statistics down so they will end up forcing people into training placements and unpaid internships without a job at the end instead. This is already happening.
i think so too. like it says in the docs: "Regardless of the system you’re running on, you can instantiate all of these classes, since they don’t provide any operation that does system calls." http://docs.python.org/3.4/library/pathlib.html#pure-paths
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Yeah, it's not impossible. It would be less devastating, but it'd still hurt. What he did is a gross violation no matter how enlightened your culture is.
Ask HN: Planning an Admin Panel boilerplate, what should I include and focus on?
Hey guys.

I'm a junior frontend dev and I'm currently planning/building a Admin Panel boilerplate for situations where there's not enough time/resources to create a custom one for your client.

It's html, css and basic javascript for now, and I'd like to keep it like that since environments and skills will differ when it's implemented.

Currently planned features:
Fully Responsive Grid + navigation,
Chart integration,
Base CSS styles for form inputs, pre, buttons and text

What I want to know is what you'd expect from a boilerplate such as this one, and what kind of features you'd wish for. If you have any advise or insights to share, please do. As I said, I'm a junior so I've still got loads to learn.

Also, if you feel like helping out it's available over here: https://github.com/cupofjoakim/SecretAdminPanel

Please keep your hate to a minimum, I know that there's going to be debates of the necessity of a project like this.
Thanks for the input.

I only did a bit of AS/400 administration back in 1994's Summer, just logged into the system and started the backup procedure.

I was actually doing Clipper development and the company where I had a Summer job used AS/400 systems for accounting.

Most of I know about OS/400 bytecode system was found looking for compiler technologies a couple of years later.
Haven't read that one for a few years, but it always seems more and more spot-on.

The 'Australia Project' part is fanciful sci-fi, but the point is clear - the work that all humans have put in for generations is being co-opted by the few in the ownership classes. Ordinary people find themselves treated more and more as replaceable machines then are finally optimised out of the process and disenfranchised entirely.

OTOH when you look at much of the non-western world, thinking about problems with concentrated ownership in a post-scarcity society seems a million miles away from the people who still need a clean water supply and a reliable source of food.
Low Wage workers need to fight for their rights and working conditions. Nobody is going to do that for them. That's class warfare, and it has never been more important than today.
On the problem of grasping, can you please comment on this video [1]? Instead of making a robot "hand", they have filled a balloon with ground coffee beans. "Grasping" and "ungrasping" then simply becomes sucking air out of, and pushing air into the balloon.

Is there some downside to this that I'm not seeing?

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKOI_lVDPpw
This is not a trial or Wikipedia, one doesn't have to display evidence to share thoughts.

Please retort, provide counter-arguments or share your point.

The fact that one effect of social networks is to entertain people, and the fact that TV shows also have the effect of entertaining people, does not imply social networks are therefore bound to the rules/generalizations of TV shows.

You are arguing over the logic of an analogy, but what about sharing your point of view?
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> Electricity doesn't inherently do that.

No, but for the moment it does actually do that. And you can change what sort of light bulbs people use faster than you can change your large-scale power generation technology.

(I do agree that making environmentally-better energy cheaper is likely a more powerful way of reducing the environmental cost of electricity use than telling everyone to stop using incandescent bulbs. But "X is better than Y" is a reason for doing X, not necessarily a reason for not doing Y.)

> a law against powering incandescent bulbs on coal power

Enforcing that one would be an interesting challenge. A law that says "no selling incandescent bulbs" is rather easier to enforce.
Show HN: A simple (but the first) semi circle chart for iOS
In other words, what the osx default fsync() semantics is useful for? I had the same discussion on Twitter a few days ago...
This is happening a lot in the UK a the moment as the Job Centre has been pushing for people to do this by threatening to cut their benefits if they don't do it. The result is people being forced to work for no compensation and having to pay for travel expenses out of their own (literally destitute) pocket.

From the perspective of the employee/trainee, the only difference I see between this situation and actual employment is that the name on the check is different from the name of the employer. So what's the big deal?
Does anyone knows some case where patents were used for the good of humankind?
A lot of people would still consider this extremely embarassing. It wouldn't be as devastating in most of Europe as it would be in the US, but it'd still hurt.

But no matter what the cultural mores are, it still needs to be very illegal, and these psychos need to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. And if the law doesn't extend far enough to put them behind bars, the law needs to be changed to stop this.
They have to pay their own travel expenses, if you do the calculations then they get less than minimum wage and they are threatened with having even that withdrawn.

And the taxpayer foots the bill instead of the business, which as a societal meme can just go f*ck itself.
Exactly, far better off to have the unemployed doing something rather than sitting round watching daytime TV.

[Note that I say that as someone who actually has signed on for a bit when I was a daft kid and done some pretty ghastly manual laboring jobs in agriculture and fishing].

Mind you I think having to pay their own travelling expenses is a bit harsh (mind you the first employment I had was for 12-15 hour shifts and I had to cycle 45 minutes to get there and back.)
Sports are ridiculously sensitive to lag, though. In my former office we tried once to stream the World Cup in our internal network, and it worked fairly well... except for a 1-2 second delay.

The result? You'd hear the screams from the neighboring offices (and it was very easy to differentiate whether the team scored or missed based on those), but in your version the ball was still in play, so the emotion was gone.
Yes, the Amiga had proper honest multitasking. A normal boot of an Amiga system would typically result in over twenty processes running in the background. In fact, its particular style of multitasking (static absolute priorities) was well-suited to real-time operation. Back in the days when CD writers could create coasters from buffer under-runs, I had more success writing CDs using my 25MHz Amiga than my 400MHz PC. Also, it was a microkernel system with things like device drivers and filesystems as separate processes, which had some fairly nifty consequences. For instance, it took Linux ages to lose its single kernel spinlock, which was a problem because of the huge amount of stuff done in kernel space. The thing the Amiga didn't have (mostly because of lack of hardware capability) was memory protection.
That's the sort of ignorance that is promoted.

The big deal is that JSA which is the only paid amount is £56.80 a week. For a 40 hour standard week that is £1.42 an hour.

The national minimum wage is £6.31 an hour.

Not only that, the jobs in question can be literally 20-30 miles from your residential address so travelling is not even possible.

Also, we end up paying the JSA for the business. The business sees this as another expense avoided rather than an investment in the business. This should not be promoted!!
HUChart is a simple chart library for iOS to draw semi-circle/half pie chart for some cases which has a LITTLE SPACE to make a full circle chart. This is my first iOS open source. If it is useful, please give a share and don't forget to leave a star. Thanks for reading!
I especially like

52.	Ctrl+X: Cut
53.	Ctrl+C: Copy
54.	Ctrl+V: Paste

Got it memorized, sir. I'm also very glad someone shed light on the mystery of Shift+Up, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Left or, Lord help us, Insert ("switch between overwrite and insert mode") ;)
I agree. When Shamir wrote the first Bitcoin paper over a year ago, we in the Bitcoin community eagerly awaited the paper, looking forward to the revelation of some obscure new security flaw, or other issue.

Imagine our surprise when we realized that not only did the paper not reveal anything new (Satoshi mined many of the early coins -- Eureka!), but that in order to do their analysis, they scraped the entire blockchain explorer web site to access Bitcoin's transaction history, and then commented on how difficult it was to access that history.

So little was their research and understanding of how Bitcoin works, that they misunderstood its most fundamental property: the shared public ledger that sits on the desktop of anyone running the reference Bitcoin client.

Unfortunately, it looks like they're after publicity, and not new knowledge. A big disappointment.
Given the username and the domain, I'm thinking not.
The Amiga 1000 first came out with 256KB of RAM. It didn't have much space left after the OS had booted up though. It was the Amiga 500 that came out a little later that had 512KB.
(Hal Finney is the creator of RPOW, and Hashcash was a creation of Adam Back)
Disagree:

1. The business should foot the wage.

2. The wage should be fair.

Doing something isn't actually necessarily possible. We've automated a big chunk of people's jobs away. There isn't necessarily a place for everyone to work now. Not only that, we're living longer. Provisions need to be made for these facts.
These look pretty useful, but I can't find the uninstall shortcut in that list. :(
Umm.... isn't this a REPOST??
Looks like a site with an Agenda (with a capital A) rather than something more neutral/academic/created to inform. I'm always wary of those kinds of groups if I'm trying to learn about something.
you should read:
Micro ISV From Vision to Reality,
Erick Sink on the Business of Software,
With respect to their research, see my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6793410

And their first paper was also full of typos.
Isn't that why it's all the more important to insist on what parent is saying?
The article says that the Mac OS was the only OS to ship that ran on PowerPC CPUs. This is not true - later versions of the Amiga OS ran on PowerPC.
Is there a shortcut to install IntelliJ? ;)
You take the left path.

Your inventory contains: flashlight with unknown amount of battery power, shovel, binoculars, old brass ring, matchbox, notebook, pencil.

1. Inspect the wiring.

2. Continue in the dark.

3. Turn back.
You could argue as the loaded cost of employing anyone is a good bit more than their salary that any employer is making a contribution. (Usual rule of thumb is ~50% of salary for fully loaded costs - and that's without any thing fancy).
> When someone asks an obvious question, the interpreter of the question has two paths to choose.

> (a) Assume the author is very stupid and then tell him the very stupid and obvious answer.

> (b) Interpret the question as rhetorical.

> People who take (a) are the type of people who think they're smarter than everyone else, but who are actually, in fact, dumber. Usually they lack empathy, are undersocialized, and probably show on the autism spectrum.

> People who take (b) are the type of people who correctly interpret the statement.

It's funny; people have been telling me my whole life that observing when other people ask obvious questions makes me a huge jerk, and I should patiently give them the obvious answers they ask for.
Right. I don't believe in using intuition to reason about complex social systems.
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You seem to have the wrong site. Try posting to http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/
You could, but it would be disingenuous.

Some of the cost of employment in the UK is employers national insurance (effectively a kind o tax that gets paid by the company before the employee even sees the pay check). This is not present here. Neither is there any question of employee rights, or employer responsibilities because there's no employment.
Thanks for this, I finally succumbed to the 20th Century and bought the CD off of Amazon.co.uk. Just need to dig out a cd player to rip it.

I remain surprised there isn't anyone offering these as paid for MP3 downloads. Seems like the right audience for that.
I'm a business owner and have owned several businesses. I have employed over the years ~50 people.

Your point is total bollocks. Sorry for the language but that's the sort of detached non-holistic thinking that allows slavery to exist.

They like being whipped. After all what would they do if we weren't whipping them?

It's simply exploitation although capitalism has worked out how to call it training and internship to shrug off the social and moral responsibility.

Not only that, who pays the NI and employee tax contributions? Oh wait, that gets sucked from everyone else's income tax.
Google "Scid vs Mac"
I'd love to see a correlation between this data and the advent of reality TV. I wouldn't even be surprised if part of this decline is due to the incredibly amount of garbage, Kardashian sisters and Honey Boo Boos on air.
I completely agree, i do not know why you think this is the devil's advocate position. The murders were imaginary as far as they only existed in his mind. But he probably believed he was really killing people.

This is what makes this whole situation funny in a horrible way.
By the way, matches are currently ongoing to determine if Stockfish should be ranked #1 or not.

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I've read some totally crazy stories about people losing their kids in the US. Photos of breastfeeding or bathing (child porn!), playing outside (irresponsible!), and who knows what else. And that was without existing divorce and custody issues.
Truly great books, but not for beginners. If you're ambitious rated 1700 or so, these are the best.

Beginners should look at the workbooks from "Chess Steps". Cheap and very good too. After Step 5 you can switch to Yusupov.
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I understand why GP is being downvoted. He presents his anecdote as a general trend, dismissing python3 and its features as play without providing proofs.
Aw man. I only got 87/100. And I thought I was a decent kemer!