skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To be fair, he did found the armed wing of the ANC, was offered a release from prison conditional on renouncing violence which he refused to do, and afterward his group went on to carry out a number of IRA-style bombings.

So he didn't turn out to be a meek cow...that is your complaint?
There would certainly be a change of leadership due to the change in the business that shutting down gmail would cause. The PR hit would be huge, and I'd WAG that majority rule would not be enough to keep them in place.
But as far as I can see, you wouldn't have bought the car without deflation (or a sale, as it were), because you couldn't afford it. So in this case it causes you to spend money that you wouldn't have spent otherwise.
He's saying forget about your goals or work-life balance. Focus on the people. If you spend 5 yrs with them, you'll become more like them.
Just don't stop at 132 when people are around!
Might be good to note that this was made up as a joke back when people were arguing about what to call these style of games and just kind of stuck around.
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Original post author here. Thanks -- your comment pretty much nails the answer to my question.

Edit: A problem with this is that it would be necessary for a naysayer to exhibit the other transaction (proof of double spending). But they couldn't forge such a transaction, since they don't have the private key necessary to generate the signature. So I'm still a bit puzzled by this.

Edit 2: And it appears that bcoates is making the same point.
Which I can poor into a blender and make and consume as a meal in less then 5 min? Is it cheap? Does it require minimal consideration on my part? Then you are pushing something totally different and irrelevant.
Why are drones supposed to be cheap?
How do they get it back?
Ironic because the headline isn't even <

It's FULLWIDTH LESS-THAN SIGN: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/ff1c/index.htm
my only gripe with the article is the meaningless title (if you are going for the cool title, at least add a descriptive subtitle) and the videos are now too standards compliant.
PHP may have some rather serious flaws but it is far from a failure and runs on a huge majority of the web.
The article outlines how the company asymetrically broke its own terms of service. So there was no consent under (1). I don't disagree withou you that its better to pay and avoid giving consent in the firstplace, but even then what would be the difference? That's the deeper issue...
I agree with this. What is my problem and how are you solving it? OP has to connect to the pain that I assume they are removing with the product.
This is probably the central issue:

I wasn't convinved he'd have the clarity of thought to put
a coherent big picture together and gave up reading...

I found the style very entertaining, I thought the video clips were relevant and interesting as well. I think the big difference is that I decided to trust the author and take for granted that it would all make sense by the end.

I also had as much time as I wanted to read the piece, if I was more pressed for time I may have had to abandon it as well. I think it's unfair to accuse people who distrust the author as having some sort of attention problem. Perhaps they have another heuristic for deciding if a longer article is worth it and this one simply didn't meet those requirements.
Ask HN: Finding a way to make programming fun again.
I've been working as a software engineer for the past 8 years or so. Part of that was a large company working on os level stuff, part a successful company post series-B to further growth, part at my own startup. The last two were web based products.

One thing I keep returning to is how tedious software development is. I'm trying to understand if this is a function of my own lack of innate passion for it, or if others feel the same way. It's exciting to spend a few minutes, hours, or days thinking about the solution to a problem, but the following days, weeks, months, years building it are so dull. Most of it boils down to wrangling poorly implemented libraries, poorly specified API's, poorly documented language constructs or poorly implemented platforms.

Isn't it just all so sickening? What do I do with myself now? I can't see myself doing anything besides software engineering, but building things is really just wearing me down.

How do you get through this? I thought using a different language would help, using a different platform would help, but haven't really spent too much time on it. As far as I can tell, iOS is sort of a panacea, but that's probably because I haven't spent that much time trying to develop and maintain a project on it. Is it really this bad for everyone? College was so much more fun, short term assignments, lots of brain work, perfect environments.
Why I cancelled my Amazon Prime subscription and maybe you should too
It's amazing the most crucial applications in our day to day lives are absolutely awful. Why is there not a great messenger application available, that's simple, well designed, and secures our data? Why is there not a proper alternative to Skype, offering free group video calling, while protecting our privacy? Why does e-mail feel so dated and sloppy? I sent out a handful of e-mails last week, my mail server said they were sent, but none of the recipients received them. I sent another message to a friend the other month, and she missed it because it went to her spam folder. Why do I even receive spam? I know you can setup a whitelist only, but why isn't this more of a standard, where I build a contact list with friends, and we can leave messages back and forth, receive proper confirmation they're received, read, etc. It would be nice if I could login to my e-mail, and see I have 20 friends, 10 sites that are able to message me, and then manage that list by adding or removing.

We have some incredible apps and software out there, but the most important ones are those lacking the most.
Many people in the DotA scene have been calling for players unions, as many of the teams' contracts are not well thought-out and leave room for a lot of exploitation of players (citation: /r/DotA2 has like one posted every other week).
https://github.com/lowe/zxcvbn does a pretty good job of the same thing.
> If there was empirical data showing zero correlation between Autism rates, and Thimerosal, I think we'd see more people accepting vaccines.

There is, and they're not. People trust random myths on the internet over the CDC.
It is sensible to have regulation.

But his suggestion is so completely asinine, it even directly hurts Google!

If this ever gains any traction, the question will arise why drones in the sky should be unavailable to private individuals but drones moving on the ground should be available.

You know.

Drones on the ground, aka self-driving cars.
Bitcoin developer gmaxwell disagrees: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6798997

> In PoW when you attempt to mine you must expend energy and so you should only mine on a consensus which is likely to be the surviving one if you want your work to not be wasted. In PoS the same is not true, and an optimally rational PoS miner will attempt to concurrently mine all forks which he does not hate.

> Originally the signed blocks in PPC were supposed to be a bootstrap mechanism until most of the mining was PoS based, but then some clever miner started mining many possible histories and finding ones where he magically got lucky and his coins were the selected stake for all the blocks.
“This six-year effort represents the best in collaboration of a Navy laboratory and industry to produce a technology that meets the needs of the special operations community"

And the endless defense spending continues.

http://nation.time.com/2012/09/25/comparing-defense-budgets-...
Seems like they have plenty of people willing to give it a try already. If you wanna try it now you can. If you wanna wait a few years to see if it is safe, you can do that too.
You're right, you didn't. But, would you use rails again for your next project? The tone of your comment sounds like you'd like nothing to do with it next time around.

I didn't mean for my comment to come off as snobby, I just hope you don't discard rails/ruby (or branching out from php) because you feel it's not the easiest to work with out of the box (even if only for non-technical people).
Well, since GNOME has gone to shits and Unity is pretty much a joke, there has been quite a bit of ranting in Linux community and switching distros is not going to solve one's problems. Actually, that's not true, I've recently switched to XUbuntu. :)
How does that 50% stack up against how much power they use compared to all other countries that have nuclear power available to them? Wikipedia has China's power usage in 2008 as just below the US's, but growing much faster. It also has much more of their power coming from coal in 2011 (46%, to 13%). It makes sense to me that China would be expanding their nuclear power faster than anybody else right now. Of course it would be nice if we would pick up the pace too...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption
I've been using Pelican for over a year and have been pleased. It's mature, but still has active development and a strong community. A few major features:

* markup languages (reStructuredText, Markdown, etc.),
* code highlighting via pygments
* themeable
* simple to use
* support for automated deployment

http://blog.getpelican.com/
it only has the possibility to brick the phone because they went the extra mile to try to deny access to doing it.
A term only "wins" when you let it. I don't like the breadth of the term "MOBA;" I think ASSFAGGOTS better describes the specific subgenre that includes LoL, Dota, HoN, and Smite. To me, the separation is similar to using the term "backstroke" over the term "swimming."
There's no reason to attach sigma to discussing the beliefs, of people who aren't taking the vaccines.
> Requiring a professional is a flaw, not a virtue.

Don't you think that depends mostly on whether there are professionals available?
That depends, if you have a portfolio of many companies and you expect that most of them will fail but one will bring huge returns -- and then the one that should bring huge returns turns out to merely repay you 10%, then yes, it's worse.
It's one of their main competitive advantages. If a drone launch starts costing millions of dollars, the benefit it has over a traditional aircraft fly-over starts to diminish.
So is gardening. And running. And napping.

And a million other things that people enjoy but whose importance is entirely opinion based.
I've discovered exploitable holes "in-the-wild" due to SIP using the same inane parsing rules. Proxy A asserts security and billing. Server B processes the message but instead of reading Proxy A's assertions, it reads "cutely formed" data directly from the client.

Fixing is a royal pain, because some systems require the behaviour to be one way or another.

"Fortunately" security in VoIP is such a joke that tricks like this aren't the biggest issue and so far, I've not seen any such attempts in any attacks.
If anyone's interested, the likelihood of a string with a length between 100 and 1000 characters which contains characters randomly selected from digits, lowercase letters, spaces and the following characters: \n,[](){}'."=+-*/%: is valid python is something like 0.015% (determined empirically)
Ask HN: I have to decide between Facebook and Google internship. Please help.
I'm an international student with one summer left before graduation. I cannot work at both places because I can only work summers.

Some potential criteria:

I really don't care about pay. They are also very similar pay wise.

1. Where can I learn more?

2. Where can I have more impact?

3. Where can I grow more as an engineer?

4. Where can I get better at product etc, if I want to have my own venture or join a venture later on in my career?

5. What other factors do you think I should consider?

I know these questions are hard and dependent on what team I am on etc, but what factors do you think I should consider?
Wow, where to start. You are seriously repeating the protein combining myth? In 2013? Protein is measured by scaling its amino acid profile compared to the ideal for a human. 100g of rice protein provides 100g of usable protein for a human, the same as 100g of beef protein does. That 100g of rice protein is just significantly more than 100g of raw ingredient, as there's a bunch of "wasted" amino acids.

We have little to no evidence to support the paleo fad. Human beings have consumed grains for at least 100,000 years.

A physician is not a dietitian or a nutritionist. They are far more qualified. A dietitian requires simply a bachelor's degree in pretty much anything (social sciences is fine) and then a short internship where you learn to repeat what the book says. Nutritionist is just something anyone can call themselves with absolutely no qualifications whatsoever. Picking a doctor over those options is not a red flag.
down voted?...internet forums just get new names but the character remains the same:)
I actually narrow the definition to include a broad set of these games. Here are the qualities I use to define it:

2 Teams of a set number of players on each side (5 on 5, 3v3, 10v10)
A commitment by the players to play a full round of the game, start to finish. A full match, if you will.
Players choose from a variety of playable character or customizations, which rely on player skill.
Extreme emphasis on team work.

By these definitions, World of Tanks is a MOBA, but WoW and Starcraft are not.
ELDERLY LADY: How old are you, little boy?
YOU: (middle finger)
ELDERLY LADY: WHAT?!?
YOU: It's 4 in binary.
ELDERLY LADY: Oh, for a second, I thought you ...
YOU: (two middle fingers)
ELDERLY LADY: WHAT?!?
YOU: Oh, sorry, I was just guessing your age.
Show HN: The ultimate designer & developer wishlist.
I'd like to see this done with some kind of climbing ivy or moss and trellises since the air scrubbing ability does not interest me much at all, and the loss of working space/increased footprint seems non-negligible.

EDIT: After searching around for a while, I discovered a few promising leads to make this happen. The first option is more of a wall mounted solution, but could be repurposed for separating a workspace: http://www.dirtt.net/public/products/breathe_2013.php It is also apparently very easy to train Ivy to climb up wires, assuming you have a lot of natural light, it seems like it would be possible to replicate something like this indoors: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/look-modern-ivy-8702
Pwake - Wake up call pairing
This could amuse me, but it saddens me, of course. The reason this could almost amuse me is that I remember a conversation in 1982 in Taipei, soon after my first visit to China, with a student from France. He too had just been to China, and he thought China was a wonderful place, "Because it has no air pollution." (Compared to 1982 Taiwan, yeah, the P.R.C. had very little pollution because it had very little industrial production. I have never been to France, so I don't know if he was also making a comparison to 1982 France by that comment.) I wish that China (and, for that matter, India) had made it a national development goal to grow in an environmentally friendly way. Once, we didn't know technologies for producing industrial output and raising prosperity without producing quite a bit of pollution along the way, but China (and, again, India) could have learned from the mistakes of other countries and the new technologies they developed to build up output without adding so much to pollution.

Today, Taipei is remarkably clean. I was stunned in 2001, when I last lived there as a permanent resident, by a visitor from Ukraine who arrived in Taiwan after visiting Hong Kong. He commented that he liked Taiwan better than Hong Kong because it was cleaner. I was stunned by that comment because the last time I visited Hong Kong (before retrocession to China), no one would have said so. Hong Kong is downwind of China, and maybe is not as cleaned up anymore now that it is under Chinese rule. Taiwan under democratization has become very clean indeed (although it too is downwind of China). Politicial pluralization through a free press and free elections (an advantage India already has) and effective rule by law (an advantage India is developing) seem all over the world to help countries prosper in a more environmentally sustainable manner. I wish China well in developing democracy and rule by law, and in any event to enjoy clean air sooner rather than later.
That isn't brown air; it's a brown print. That's a sepia print of a black and white photo of white steam coming out of chimneys artificially crowded together by a long telephoto lens, taken at sunset, and excluding the sky as much as possible. Imagine another photo taken from the same spot, with a wide-angle lens that shows mostly sky and a bridge going off for miles, even the distant cars clearly visible through clear air shining in the mid-day sun as if on their way to the beach, printed blue-and-white instead of brown-and-white. Dramatically different emotional impact from the same scene. It's almost as if The Atlantic had some sort of agenda.

Those images of Shanghai (and London 1952, and Beijing and Hong Kong and, occasionally, Singapore) are the real thing, looking like scenes from a forest fire but downtown in a major city.
But the security does exist I think; they're just not yet traded on a public/liquid market. I've received ISOs in two different companies that were privately held. Those were definitely options, definitely on securities that existed, and those became publicly valued and liquid only after a purchase by a public company (in one case) and an IPO (in the other).

It's entirely possible that I'm missing a subtlety, and I'll follow the discussion to learn what that is.
I collect contact info from individuals who want a wake up call at the same time and pair them by geographic region so they can phone each other.

This service not automated, complicated or scalable. It uses a Google form to collect information, which is appended to a Google spreadsheet that I have access to. It is hosted on neocities.org, in case I wish to add informational pages in addition to the sign-up form. I manually verify, pair and contact participants.

My goals are modest, 100-300 users, so that the chances of finding people who match are good. If there were more than 300 users I would not be able to administer it manually.

Are there any changes I could make to speed adoption or increase usefulness?
"but if it hadn't been for gplv3 do you really maintain that apple wouldn't have stuck with it as a frontend for longer? "

Yes. Absolutely. It's been mentioned numerous times at conferences and other in-person meetings.

Apple did not write clang because of GPLv3.
They wrote clang because they needed something that was

1. Faster than GCC
2. Offered better diagnostics
3. Could offer code completion and indexing for XCode.
Strictly speaking this should increase the common value relative to common under the equivalent convertible note because, as designed, the terms of the Safe are more favorable to common than a convertible note.

However, like a convertible note, the Safe does not place a valuation on the company at the time of its issuance, merely a cap; and almost always it will be used only when no prior preferred round has established such.

So for 409a appraisals, which, for seed-stage companies, rely heavily upon expectations about a future round, there will be relatively little impact. Namely the preference of the projected future financing will be slightly smaller relative to the note scenario, for the reasons detailed in this thread. This will increase the common value a bit, but not much.

An exception might be if the appraiser bases his conclusions on a balance sheet metric that comes out differently without the liability you mention, which is not as common.
tl;dr; PHP is not that shitty nowadays thanks to the community, just Web Dev is too fad driven those days. I am writing something a bit against the current fad therefore I expect to find this post at the bottom when come back after dinner.

When it comes to PHP, I always remember that when it comes to the tools, you can do almost anything with almost any other tool. And the flamewars are just waste of time.

Many people say PHP is not elegant. Yeah, it's far from perfect. But have you written any PHP app recently? The answer is almost always no. The fact is that normally, you heavily use a framework and your interaction with 'naked' language is minimal. I mean, the shitty naming conventions (or lack of) and etc has minimal effect.

Just here comes another problem, there are just a LOT of half-assed frameworks. And for some reason many devs like to roll out their own one. Usually not the good devs.

But on the other hand, some frameworks are around for many years (well, in Web 5+ is many) so probably 99% of the issues you will have were faced by someone else already, and the solution will be in the first google result.

In conclusion, no it's not perfect in some ways (nothing is perfect, anyway), but it lets you get the shit done very easily.

I am just not one of the people who get religious about the languages. You use PHP? Cool. You prefer Ruby? No worries, that's fine for me!
Xamarin tools let Windows developers create Google Glass apps
This is the flipside of Riot's agreement: Riot can be reasonably expected to hold up their end of the deal. The details on how pro-esports teams are supposed to make a living and pay their bills are still up in the air, but generally teams that get "sponsored" end up getting raw deals.

But Twitch revenue can help offset the lack of funds. Ex-Brood War player AngryTestie was able to live comfortably streaming whatever game he wanted, from HoN to a bit of SC2 to Dota.
Fortunately, bombing an embassy is already against the law. No shortage of ways to prosecute.
> He's probably comparing it to central bank currencies that can be pegged to a stable interest rate.

What does that mean exactly? Interest rates haven't been stable for the past 100 years, and the USD isn't pegged to anything (nor is the Euro for that matter).

In fact, the interest rate volatility increased after going off the gold standard: http://static.safehaven.com/authors/weiner/30046_b.png
Tracy Chou wrote a wonderful response to this on Quora that should address most of the questions you had - http://www.quora.com/Which-internship-is-better-for-a-CS-maj...
You were proven wrong in the 70s. Your understanding of protein is effectively nonexistent. Rice protein contains all essential amino acids. You do not need to combine it with anything. You simply need to eat enough of it so that you get enough of the amino acid it contains the least of. Protein labeling requirements already account for amino acid profiles, and as such 10g of protein in a food is going to be at least 10g of usable protein for a human being, regardless of the source of protein.
I heard from a friend at BofA it's legit. So, there is that...