skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried it myself and was surprised that I had to input my credit card as well...so I know where you are coming from but I'm afraid there's nothing in place to support bypassing mashape but in the future I'd have a way to sign up directly on my site.

You won't get charged if you stay under the freemium limit. you'd request something like this:

curl --include --request GET 'https://scrapeit.p.mashape.com/scrape/http://www.yellowpages.ca/search/si/1/Car+Alarm+Systems/Airdrie+AB' \
--header "X-Mashape-Authorization: your_mashape_key"

and get back a JSON response like (too long so pasted a portion):

[
8,
[
[
"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t1\n\t\t\t\t\t",
"Auto Dream",
"403-248-1566",
"159-5120 47 St NE, Calgary, AB T3J\u00a04K3",
"",
"",
"Map & directions",
"Website",
"Email",
"Be the first to review",
"Category:",
"Car Alarm Systems",
"",
""
],
[
"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t2\n\t\t\t\t\t",
"Advance Auto Security Mobile Ltd",
"403-701-4388",
"507-3208 8 Ave NE, Calgary, AB T2A\u00a07V8",
"",
"",
"Map & directions",
"Website",
"Email",
"Be the first to review",
"Category:",
"Car Alarm Systems",
"",
""
],
[
"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t3\n\t\t\t\t\t",
"Autotemp Air & Sound",
"403-287-2585",
"Multiple locations\u00a0",
"view addresses",
"903 42 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G\u00a01Z1",
"Map & directions",
"Website",
"Email",
"Be the first to review",
"Category:",
"Car Alarm Systems",
", ",
"Car Radios & Stereo Systems"
],
[
"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t4\n\t\t\t\t\t",
"Autotemp Air & Sound",
"403-343-1415",
"Multiple locations\u00a0",
"view addresses",
"15-7667 50 Ave, Red Deer, AB T4P\u00a01M6",
"Map & directions",
"Website",
"Email",
"(1 review)",
"Category:",
"Car Alarm Systems",
"",
""
], etc....
Charles Bukovski. Don't do it. Beautiful Poem.
Well, the Martian atmosphere is apparently around 25 teratonnes, so I would be surprised if a warming effect from the addition of 14,000kg of any known gas at martian air pressure and temperature would be either measurable or in any sane way even calculable.
Probably time to give individuals similar sovereignty to nations. Likely what will occur, similar to nuclear proliferation, is that individuals will probably realize that the only way to achieve sovereignty similar to nations is by developing these sorts of technologies.

Congrats to the prepressive nations who are incentivizing the development of these technologies by being opressive.
It's not really accurate to call it a racial slur. The concept of race was extremely weak before the 1800s, when eugenics took off, and slackened after WW2 (because Hitler). There were geographical prejudices (you come from a Slavic country) and "civilized" prejudices (you silly barbarians with your shaggy hair), but skin color was rarely, if ever, a factor.

Because, keep in mind: Slavic peoples were and are white.

In this sense, it's more accurate to compare it to jokes about how Polish people are stupid, how the British are always stuffy, how the French don't know how to shower, how Americans only care about money, how women are emotional, etc. A germ of truth, but mainly the kind of overgeneralization we call "stereotype" today.
UK Supreme Court says Scientology is a religion, allows wedding
(I didn't downvote you)

I agree that the exercise from week 2 (the epidemy simulation) was a mess. It was barely about reactive programming though. The mess was introduced mostly because the exercise has lots of mutable state. That the tests cheated, bypassed the API and mutated the internal state of the simulation didn't help either. But I assumed one of the aims of this exercise was to show how mutable state can mess things up, even though this wasn't officially acknowledged by the staff.

Your observation about Scala is unwarranted though. Nothing about the exercise's difficulty has to do with Scala. It's also not "too complex" or "academic". It's an extremely simplistic discrete event simulation of a disease, almost like a cellular automaton... How can this be "too complex"?

A lot of the head scratching was caused because the course is open to anyone. This is a good thing, but it also means a lot of people taking the course barely have the fundamentals of programming down. If you read the forums, a lot of people don't know how to write test cases or debug code, for example. These people would have found almost any non-trivial exercise in any language difficult.
So basically, if a planet has no dominant/intelligent species capable of protecting itself; not only nature resets that planet; it scatters the building blocks of life to other planets as well in the process.

Billions of years forward. Intelligent life on multiple planets from same building blocks. They fight for dominance in a new natural selection. This time to see which planet was conducive for creating better lifeforms.
I wonder if this is an experiment to bring all Amazon shipping in house? This would fit with their huge distribution system build out across the globe. In the meantime Amazon's relationship with UPS and FedEx is not disturbed.
A gigabit VPN?
Obvious follow up question: who implemented rdrand for haswell? The identification of ivy bridge seems oddly specific if they're not referring to the erratum.
I've never used SQLAlchemy. Do you have an example of how they use them?
In general the USPS pushes for rules that mandate the use of community boxes for new developments, for example: http://www.cnweekly.com/articles/2013/07/30/news/doc51f7da7c...

Where I live, the primary determinant of whether you get home delivery is the age of your community.
No, by "sitting in one's own filth", I meant "sitting in one's own filth", i.e., neglecting hygiene in a particularly revolting fashion, but not bothering to do anything about it because one's ability to experience revulsion has been artificially suppressed. Such inaction also, of course, will if protracted enough certainly lead to various skin conditions, verminous infestations, &c. -- but our notional lotus eater won't be bothered by those, either, any more than by the conditions which produce them.
> Based on current data, you are about 35,000 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack.

With that kind of logic we can get anywhere. For example it is way more likely to die after breathing air than after 'breathing' water. It just takes, say, 75 years on average.

Comparing this with other non-natural death causes, such as murder, would be much more fair.
Austin actually isn't part of Texas.
The only way to confirm it is once the asteroid minimg begins. Then it's a matter of time to find an asteroid from earth. Maybe it'll tale long but eventually they'll be able to analize what's left there.
Why would a perfect happiness drug make one lazy and less engaged ?

I guess it depends on how we define happiness.

In my view the perfect happiness drug would have the exact opposite effect, i.e. make people more functional, less prone to stress and anxiety.

Realizing happiness that is independent of conditions, would result in may result in diminished drive from activities that are driving by the seemingly insatiable ambition for greater perceived social status that is currently the normative state of the human race.

But that would be compensated because a greater portion of our drive coming from compassion and curiosity.

So more curiosity, and more solving of useful problems.

Some evidence of this can be had from contemplative activity can dismantle the mechanism in the brain the inhibits happiness without the aid of drugs*.

This sort of expertise is difficult and requires extended practice, so it can be confused with disengagement. Many often later go on to have considerable impact on human culture and values.

This is both subjectively verifiable, and objectively via brain scans one example outlined below.
http://brainimaging.waisman.wisc.edu/press/NCCAMOct08.pdf
you'll need yahoo ids to see the images ? will it be shut down, like flickr ?
Evolution meats nihilism!

There is a reason we appear to be physicaly unable to experiment that kind of happiness this thread is talking about. The only question is what we'll choose once we are able to change our own brains to make it possible, but then, that's a completely unkown context, so we'll probably choose some option that we can't even imagine today.
> It would basically need to be a Bond villain.

Exactly. We're not talking about rational agents anymore, it's about lowering the barrier of entry both financially and technologically so ordinary (arguably insane) people can become Bond villains on a shoestring budget. There are a lot of possible motivations why a person might do this, for example being a religious nutjob, or because date night took a turn for the worse.
hey elwell!

thanks for the heads up, this has been noted and it's my fault. I use tabs constantly because I find it easier to read and I haven't been converting back or tidying up correctly so jslint will kick up a fuss as will coffee linting I would imagine.

I am certainly going to look into this and see if there is some preprocessing tool that can help me and my hard coded ways haha

Thanks again! I'll look to sort this out.
The iOS and Android part is privative. There are open source approaches to do the same, but they don't share code, and use different technology, as far as I remember, the Open source one uses Dalvik while the other not in Android for example.
Timing Attacks Against File Systems
Yeah, legally impossible indeed. It's always helpful to check the practicality of one's thought experiments by asking, "Will legislative change X help or hinder the unearned incomes of the upper class?" In this case, probably it would hinder, by de-motivating their cheap labor. And presto, we've discovered one of the major reasons for the drug war.
The problem is that when the batshit-crazy people are crazy, they're really batshit, and the official story is a more comfortable option for anyone. Most people do not utilize true, rational thought, so to them the world is a false dichotomy: either the government is telling the truth, or the first person to formulate a new, completely-unproven conspiracy is correct. It's really just herd-like behaviour. Many of those assholes on Usenet you're referencing were really just spewing mindless garbage with no evidence, just like the lovely pro-Government trolls that infest this site do now.
hey erict19!

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated
At my last job I used Outlook and was very frustrated by the speed of searching my mail. Outlook seemed to take ages; Gmail on the other hand excels at searching.

Disclaimer: I don't have as much experience with Outlook as I do with Gmail. And it could very likely have been the backend at my last place.
Freshly built: Mesos 0.15.0-rc4 packages
Mesosphere just built and uploaded Mesos 0.15.0-rc4 packages.
You know.. I can imaging her getting some coins. Some dudes just enjoy being abused.

Personally I think it's lame, but if it works, congrats!
Stock the fridge with tons of beer, pay young 20 something engineers tons of money, then remove accountability. Also, the "non-boss" founders should just walk around talking to who they like the best. This will drive the company towards a better product.
I've gotten 1,052 unique hits in the past 1 hour.
I'm aware of the Trainee program but little short on details as nobody I know has done it. Do you know if the requirements differ much or if there's any restrictions? Happy to update the article, I'm also adding a mention about Two Year Rule (212e) as it can affect future visas.
I still use Amazon Fresh in Seattle, but I wish there was an acceptable alternative. I'm seeing the same thing - prices, delivery fees, minimum orders going up, selection constantly decreasing. I can walk to small local groceries and farmer's markets for fresh stuff, but Amazon's still my best option for getting the boring stuff without getting in the car.
Almost all of them committing these atrocities for religious reasons. The Chinese government has treated Tibetan Buddhists horribly for decades, but you don't see any Tibetan Buddhist suicide bombers. There have been some sects of Buddhism in the past that have done horrible things, but in general it's harder to become a Buddhist suicide bomber than it is to become a Muslim suicide bomber. Some religions condemn violence of any kind. For example, I doubt anyone could be a Jainist suicide bomber.

If you don't believe me, hear it from the horse's mouth. Here is a video from a Muslim peace conference in Norway:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV710c1dgpU#t=45s It will take five minutes of your time, but I think it shows best how sincere these people are.
Google Drive for iOS adds sorting, searching
hey wehadfun!

Thanks forthe feedback, much appreciated!
That could definitely be part of it. Outlook isn't dumbed down because it's not primarily aimed at home users. Maybe Gmail makes sense for few people in the office the way Outlook makes sense for few people at home. That doesn't change the fact that the bandwidth/latency profiles are different going to the server room in the building than going out to the internet. But I might see a big improvement over what Gmail is now if Google was being designed for business users.
Wow. Yeah, if you pick arbitrary timespans from different charts you will find matches.
Companies with high capitalization? What do you mean by that?

Some corporations support raising the minimum wage only in the sense that it would bankrupt their competitors business models. (cf Costco vs Wal-Mart). Although as someone in support of a higher minimum wage I don't see that necessarily as a bad thing.

Unions are less than 7% of the private sector workforce and shrinking, their influence has been quashed, for the most part ever since Reagan dismantled PATCO in 81.

Economically, a minimum wage sets a price floor for labor. At higher levels it also can induce demand by increasing the velocity of money through the bottom rungs of the labor force. Especially since the poor spend a much higher % of their income than the wealthy do.

And with respect to your [2], I counter with [0]. Minimum wage actually has very little if any empirical affect on unemployment.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Funnel_Graph_of_Estimated_...
If you really had lived in DFW you would know we're more dignified here. JimBob and BillyBob are far to informal, it's JimRobert and BillyRobert if you please.
I appreciate that but I guess I am a little more biased perhaps because of my history.
Spotify's patent for "peer-to-peer streaming of media content"
A Gentle Introduction to Data Mining with Twitter's API and IPython Notebook
Thanks!! I'll look to make that change :)

Good stuff!
If you don't want the occasional O(n) copy on growth, use an stl list with a custom allocator.
I have a spot on there but someone hijacked my domain when I let it expire. I guess I should deal with that eventually...
well we are trying to stack the deck in the drug's favor. A few things:

1) it's a "natural product derivative". These compounds do way way better than most other drug classes.

2) it has single-digit nanomolar activity in the dish. This is on-par and competitive with currently used chemotherapeutics, a prerequisite for any sort of chemotherapy.

3) there is another compound in the same family called SJG-136 which has passed phase II.

4) phase I trials for SJG-136 apparently showed extremely mild side effects. I still need to double-check clinicaltrials.gov on this, this was a personal communication from the developer of SJG-136. Because SJG-136 and 9DS broadly share the same mechanism it's very likely that 9DS will also have mild side effects.

To answer ThomPete's question, I'm not sure how I can verify this besides "trust me" to the layperson (especially #4). However, there is literature on #1 and #2, although, again I'm not sure how useful this is to the lay person.

#1: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1751-7915.2010....

#2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22390171
So you mean "overestimate" in the second paragraph right? Because the rest of it reads that way.
Simply sitting in your own filth while being unconditionally happy will kill you from dehydration or infection unless someone else (who is not 'happily sitting') helps you.

The 'negative' emotions are very important for the functioning of any animal or mind - they are the drivers that motivate us to do stuff instead of happily dying.

I could write a long essay on how pain, fear, frustration, boredom and burnout are totally neccessary to implement even for a simple non-human artificial autonomous agent, in order to prevent it to be stuck on 'broken' loops forever - TL;DR is pain is needed to ensure that the 'mind' avoids damage; fear is needed to ensure that the 'mind' avoids serious risk of damage; frustration is needed to ensure that the brain doesn't try the same thing over and over again if it doesn't achieve the goal; boredom is needed to ensure that the brain isn't stuck in repetitive loops unless they bring great rewards; and burnout is needed to ensure that the brain at least tries takes a chance at escaping poor conditions, instead of happily suffering through them to death.

Put a brain in unconditional happiness - and it will be so useless and vulnerable, that you'll soon find out why evolution (or designer, if you so fancy) implemented the conditions on happiness.
Exactly. So if you want to avoid an evil maid attack, you're basically going to have to lug around your own safe, or keep your laptop with you at all times.
Agreed. I grew up in Saskatchewan, and a lot of people live in houses even if they rent, all of whom have home delivery. It's the norm in any area where houses were also the norm, but where acre lots weren't.
Works fine for me using Firefox 26 on Debian Jessie
Why Google's Driverless Car is Evil
Royal Bank (Canada) Launches P2P Money Transfers via Facebook Messenger
Can you try again? I think I just fixed this issue that some people was reporting.
Sifting through the bullshit - How the digital ad business is perfect as it is.
More interesting... They bought Kiva Systems for $775 million from Mick Mountz, a former Webvan employee who identified warehouse fulfillment as a prohibitive cost in delivering groceries.

http://www.kivasystems.com/about-us-the-kiva-approach/manage...

It's unclear if Amazon has actually started using Kiva, though. Does anyone know? That 60 minutes special didn't show them using it.

Edit: Changed from "the prohibitive cost" to "a prohibitive cost."
I agree. I just find it interesting that the base idea has been around so long -- longer in fact than the "asteroid killed the dinosaurs" theory.
MMgc
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Sure, but if you're looking at systems running the latest RHEL, there's a lot of stuff you don't get. RHEL5, when it shipped at least, didn't have memcached.

RHEL has always appealed to IT departments and server staff who value stability over functionality, much like corporate IT at the hospital where I worked finally approved Windows XP SP1 for test deploys, well after SP3 had been released. They don't want to risk the headache, so they stick with what works rather than providing functionality (or compatibility) that others could need.

There's definitely value in that, don't get me wrong, but my point is that the types of environments where RHEL5 are the norm wouldn't be rolling out Docker instances even if they could, and I don't feel as if they should be counted against the impact of progress.
Amazon brings EC2 auto scaling to the graphical console
There are some differences how the Department of State define both types of J1 Visa. More information can be found here: http://www.cci-exchange.com/work-programs-j1/career-advancem....
The Two Year Rule is mostly for 3rd world countries, the list can be found here:
http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_4514.html
In practice, containers are process groups with access restrictions.

In theory, though, containers are simply an optimization of virtual machines, and are best understood that way. If you can use virtual machines to solve a problem--and your virtual machines are all generally based on a recent Linux--then you can achieve the same thing, using far fewer resources, by using containers.
It's probably a back channel into existing evil ad networks.

Maybe like retargeting (just using existing ad space to show the same at 500 times a day), except all your private information will be logged at your ISP then sent to the ad platform without your intervention.

The ad platform will end up with a mapping of: Your IP => {Your Search Terms, Your Website Visits, Your Social Media Cohorts, Your Unencrypted Site Cookies, ...}
Hate to burst your bubble, but even the premium GA uses samples. They don't give you a firehose of real data.
Impressively they are accepting VISA, MasterCard, and Flooz
We don't know the economics of super boxes versus home delivery, and it would be perilously naive to assume that a move to it demonstrates that it is fiscally prudent. Money goes from one person's pocket to another person's pocket.

Superboxes are significant structures that have to be built and maintained to withstand literally unending vandalism and attempts at theft. They are urban blight, and most quickly become an eyesore that are, by federally forced mandate, pushed onto a community and then maintained at Canada Post's leisure and low level of standards. If any other business wanted to build such ominous structures throughout a neighborhood the barriers and costs would be enormous, and you talk about home delivery being subsidized? [In that self-destructive, race-to-the-bottom, worst-outcome-for-all way that is so disheartening].

Give me a break.

Where a mail carrier once walked briskly through a neighborhood (doubling as a set of eyes and ears in the community, for what that's worth), now they park their truck and sit at the superbox for half an hour while they sort mail into boxes.

I cannot, for the life of me, comprehend how it has made anything more efficient. And of course the grossly inefficient Canada Post of today, with sky-high postal rates and terrible service standards, already is horribly inefficient, so shouldn't the superbox thing have been proven by now?

And it's curious that you note their security given that most have keys that endure for years (from owner to owner to owner), and they are -- right now -- very common target for thieves: Why bother suspiciously going door to door (where the residents would be more likely to quickly retrieve their mail anyways, instead of some common box down the street) when you can pry open a superbox and steal the mail of dozens of people at once.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/locked-canada-post-...

Canada Post has always been a derelict, massively dysfunctional corporation. Their parcel delivery service is only profitable because they don't deliver parcels: They give you a delivery notice and force you to drive to a depot n miles away in the most grotesquely inefficient delivery scheme devised by man.
The next big bitcoin startups
YES, great trilogy, some of my favorite SF books, I also highly recommend it.