skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with that is that you see property rights as part of "mother nature". So if one side controls all the resources and can coerce the other to w/e they please you see it as "mother nature" on the other hand when I put a gun to your head it's no longer mother nature it's "abusing rights".
If you have ever worked on or run an ecommerce site with digital goods, you might understand more easily how this could happen by accident.
Are night trains relevant? No-one builds a railway to run night trains, but once you have the route built for the daytime services, running an extra train at night on an otherwise-empty track must be very low cost business.

Some UK train franchises even lay on so-called 'ghost trains' [1], services that are on useless routes and useless timetables, simply so that they can make up the numbers to hit their service agreements (and so not lose their franchises). This strongly implies that the cost of rolling an extra train along the tracks is relatively small.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-hunt-f...
Wikipedia Random is the best name generator ever:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

Naming that special machine that...: Rolling... "Troisdorf"

Naming that web project project...: Rolling... "Mimeresia cellularis"

Works like a charm (sometimes I just roll three times for one name).
He is right though, FF 0day is probably not expensive regardless of O/S. A life on the run or using multiple safe houses is also a shitty lifestyle when you could just avoid all tracking cookies and executable 3rd party code with a terminal script and not have to wear a fake beard at a different starbucks everday
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Unfortunately the 'best-guess calculation' is also the 'I really, really need this to be true' calculation.

HS1 also had a promising ROI, but the calculation failed to account for the explosion in cheap flights happening over the same period of time.

The bottom line is that it's really, really difficult to predict the future.
Facebook set to finally launch auto-play video ads in news feeds
You've still got the spike in network activity, and if you're running a relay, you've still got the spike in outgoing activity minus incoming activity.
> Banks do not lend out deposits in any possible interpretation of those words, and they do not require deposits prior to making loans. This is apparent because banks create deposits in the act of giving a loan.

I know that the Fed is allowed to create money out of thin air, and I do understand that fractional reserve banking allows banks to pyramid loans.

But ostensibly I can't start a bank today, deposit no money into it and tomorrow make a loan for $10mm. The money has to come from somewhere does it not?

Or are you saying that's exactly how a bank works?
Disney didn't pull the product from existing customers. That was caused by an Amazon issue which has already been fixed.
It's a hideous UI, all I want is a text list of top searches for the year, and to be able to filter by category.

Stealing my touch scroll isn't that nice either. I struggled to read beyond the fold.
Mozilla also recently helped Eloquent JavaScript 2nd edition reach its funding goal: https://eloquentjavascript.net/2nd_edition/donors.html
I still think that you're a little confused. The reflog is a "history of where this branch has pointed since the repository was created/cloned." If I clone a repository with a history of 100 commits on the 'master' branch, the reflog for the 'master' branch will only have one entry. You can completely delete the `.git/logs` and still run `git log` successfully.

Here's an example:

$ git clone blah

DAG:

A - B - C - D - E
\
Z - X - Y

Branches:

master => E
topic/new-feature => Y

reflog:

master
E - clone from blah

topic/new-feature
Y - clone from blah

Notice how cloning a repository with an existing DAG doesn't populate the reflog. It just give it a single entry saying that the branch was updated from 'nothing' to whatever commit it was pointing to remotely.

Now let's change where 'master' is pointing:

$ git reset master C

DAG:

A - B - C - D - E
\
Z - X - Y

Branches:

master => C
topic/new-feature => Y

reflog:

master
E - clone from blah
C - reset to C

topic/new-feature
Y - clone from blah

Notice how the reflog is a history of the values that the branch was referencing, but is not the history as what you get when you run 'git log'. After the reset, 'git log master' would show you commits A, B and C, but A and B are nowhere in the reflog.
A possible reason is the inverse Peter effect. Some people cannot get promoted as there is no one to fill the gap they leave behind.
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The train does have a huge speed advantage though. That Leeds-London train takes a tad over 2 hours, while the bus is more like 4.

The entire "privatised" monopoly train system is ridiculous though. I'm dreading the day I turn 26, because it will basically mean that I can no longer afford to travel by train.
>and yet they're demanding take-down notices of such pre-prints hosted on 3rd party machines.
In the contract you sign, it's clearly stated you can't upload your manuscript to 3rd party distribution sites, other than arxiv. Don't get me wrong here, I'm not keen on what they're doing, but they're staying within their contracts.
Thanks for giving us a shot xur17. In 15 hrs, if yours is still the top post, we'll get it done :)
Google Zeitgeist: Here's to 2013
http://www.accountkiller.com/en/ is another great site.
You seriously mean to tell me that the most popular search on Google for 2013 is 'Paul Walker' followed by 'iPhone 5s'? What? Surely 'Weather' would be higher. I simply don't know what I'm looking at here.
Part of the issue with posts like these is that they don't mention specific numbers or events, just make general statements like:

> Since then, I’ve been hired for dream projects at my own price.
There's an old phrase that the bad workman blames his tools and it seen to apply here too. It's really not difficult and why complain about it being obtuse? If you understand the fundamentals then it makes sense. As for the last sentence well the list he provided is only for people that need to look it up (like you) - that's like me saying to my car mechanic that I should have to look up where the fuses are in the car. If you don't know something you have to look it up (taking what? .4 seconds on google?) - if you knew it you'd obviously not have to look it up. Stop whining and learn this stuff.
It's Christmas time - Which locations are traditionally Santa's home?
When I studied Go I found that searching for "golang" instead worked well.
I think both nostalgia and going mainstream contributed for the quality (at least seem) to go down.
So, DS2 is basically built around the trial by death design of Limbo. That's great, and it will certainly appeal to a population of gamers, myself included. However, I just can't help but recall a comment by Lum when talking about bosses in MMOs - that what people really want the illusion of challenge. At any rate, I'm hoping this one pops up on Steam, it will give a nice break for WoD and RoS.
> As I recall, the entire reason for having a Bill of Rights was the fear -- to the point of considering this a certainty -- that the government would encroach on individual rights and continue encroaching unless it was specifically forbidden to do so. Now perhaps from a civil unrest viewpoint it's better to have the plebians thinking they have a shot at changing the great ship of state by the traditional democratic process, but I doubt the founders would have believed it.

This "rights-centric" view of the founding is a bit of historical revisionism that seems to be in vogue as of late. The framers saw republicanism, federalism, democratic accountability, and separation of powers as the key bulwarks against excess government power, not the Bill of Rights. That's why the Constitution is almost wholly preoccupied by defining a blueprint for these things.

Only one of the 85 Federalist Papers is primarily concerned with individual rights, and it's an argument for why a Bill of Rights is unnecessary: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_84.html. In Federalist 84, Hamilton makes the argument that a Bill of Rights is unnecessary in a democratic republic. In the context of the freedom of the press, he writes:

"What signifies a declaration, that 'the liberty of the press shall be inviolably preserved'? What is the liberty of the press? Who can give it any definition which would not leave the utmost latitude for evasion? I hold it to be impracticable; and from this I infer, that its security, whatever fine declarations may be inserted in any constitution respecting it, must altogether depend on public opinion, and on the general spirit of the people and of the government. [3] And here, after all, as is intimated upon another occasion, must we seek for the only solid basis of all our rights." (emphasis added).

> This, along with changing up the figureheads at the top of the corrupt political system regularly, has kept a lid on social unrest for a good long time. Here's hoping that continues along unimpeded.

Well obviously we don't see eye-to-eye on whether its worthwhile to fix the spying issue, because we apparently disagree about whether it's a defect in an otherwise fairly sound system, or a symptom of irreparable corruption. I will say this, however: revolutions are rarely democratic processes. They are, more often than not, a way for radicals and other ideological minorities to impose their viewpoints on the majority. I don't think they're something to look forward to.
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This is pretty trivial - of course we can encode anything we want in DNA - people have done cool things with this since synthesis was first invented. And assuming DNA synthesis technology continues to improve rapidly we might even be able to synthesise bacterial genomes routinely in the next 10 years.

So you can write a computer program to a bacterium. Then you can sequence it and the code goes back to being stored on a computer.

But it ends there - the code never gets executed again. FASTA files are just text files that would rarely have executable permissions and never actually be executed by a user. Most boring and uneventful outbreak ever.
I was really excited about the coach bus lines - until I took a trip with one. Did you take a (longer) trip with one yet?

In an IC(E), I can open my 13" Laptop and work fine, even if the person in front of me lowers their seat. On the particular bus I was riding, the table was just too small. Plus, the bus has much more unexpected movements than a train, I couldn't even look on a tablet screen for too long without feeling some travel-sickness. It was a very long, very boring ride.

The WiFi, btw, was a joke on the autobahn. It was working a bit in the cities...

Also, the trip took more than an hour longer than was planned, and the traffic on the autobahn was absolutely fine (I did the same trip with a car a couple of times). Driving into the cities took lots of time, but again the traffic probably would have looked the same any other average day.

It definitely is cheaper though...
I disagree. The storyline and themes may be different from the first series, but like its predecessor it's a show that both parents and children (both boys and girls) can enjoy.
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what a horrible, horrible browsing experience on desktop. this is a complete new kind of swipeware/pseudo-metro crap...
Bam: fast, simple TSV key-value server
Could you explain what you mean?

What I meant was that while I believe equality and guaranteed access to basic needs as the goal of humanity and necessary for future growth at some point, I also believe that it's impossible to achieve these goals through institutions and governments.

My moral change from being a left leaning anarchists to a right leaning anarchist was because I was swayed by Stefan Molyneux's Philosophical arguments for Individualist Anarchy. The only sticking point I still have is the question of wage labour, which I am opposed to. But then it's hard to imagine a society where you can't work for a wage...

I think there's a saying about how cows in the slaughterhouse can't truly argue about what's outside. They both have no experience.
This is why I love microcontroller programming (but not Arduino, which loses the magic to "high level"). I wrote some PIC24 code where I needed some very fast deterministic interrupt handler[1], so I dropped down to assembly and cycle-counted my way to success. It was nothing nearly as fancy as the article describes. It was really just the ability to accurately count cycles.

[1] I was basically sharing buffers between SPI send/recv interrupts and the code that used them, so I needed a way to lock buffers. I later replaced the code with much simpler, much slower synchronous code.. :-/
1. you don't have to upgrade
2. fork it and "fix" it

If you opt for #2 submit it here.
Origins of Common UI Symbols
This would be possible but not a good data storage strategy - high mutation rates would lead to very rapid data degradation. A workaround would be to design a highly redundant encoding so the probability of sequence modifications altering the encoded information was low.
“Working only in Firefox”
comments I haven't verified state that the people had a welfare state income keeping them alive, and that by merely extending an offer of work - at any salary - Amazon causes that to be revoked.

This isn't literally "initiating force" but if it is true then it is very similar in effect to the mugging scenario, and having the mugger use unseen but still present power to "make an offer you can't refuse" is still not a fair and ethical way to egg people to voluntarily enter into contracts.
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It's just something they did for this one press release, not for all of them. Writing eight versions of the copy isn't too bad if it's a one-time thing.
http://i.imgur.com/aYHte9Y.jpg
I think the article is really complaining about the difference between high-speed and normal trains, rather than the train<->plane comparison.

In your own example, you could be catching a slower train and still get there faster than the plane. It's not really the 'high speed' bit of the train that matters much.

You can also argue that nowdays it matters even less. With WIFI/3G, as you say, you can get useful work done on a train journey, so even if it takes a bit longer, the travel is not dead/wasted time for business. This weakens the case for high speed trains even more.

I agree with your points though, I've commuted London<->Paris by plane and train, and the train is so much nicer.
I've been pretty happy with the Acela service between Boston and NYC, but it is considerably more expensive than the buses. Sometimes it's even more expensive than some of the planes, though they're more comfortable and quicker when you account for airport traffic/parking and TSA nonsense.

I've also tried four of the bus lines. They're generally cool, but there are significant differences in terms of convenience of the pick-up and drop-off points at both ends. They don't all go right to the door of Penn Station. ;) Still, for someone on a budget, they just whip the alternatives. The only way either trains or planes could win would be to offer a significant reduction in total door-to-door travel time with prices no worse than double. I don't see any way they'll be able to do that.

If people want to improve the long-distance transportation infrastructure, I think high speed rail is the wrong place to look. There are surely better ways to take advantage of the train right-of-way and station infrastructure, probably some variant on electric buses traveling at the same speed as today.
"Accidental"? Classic!
It's not so much that no one notices these details of composition. If that were the case, who could justify the disproportionate effort applied to engineering every shot? These elements of composition are about emphasizing the storytelling. It's an act of support that takes real craftsmanship and will always serve to make the final product better quality, especially to those who know nothing about composition in a formal sense.
The text-to-speech system in use at my local GP's surgery (that announces to patients which which rooms they need to go to) pronounces 'Dr' as 'Drive', rather than 'Doctor'. I thought someone would have tested that!
It would be extremely surprising if any exploit could be triggered by a particular valid DNA sequence (which it would have to be to be able to be sequenced/synthesised).
What the fuck are you going on about? WildFly is now included as an _available package for install in the repositories_. This is why it is in the release notes.

This is like complaining that any disto is "bloatware" because their repositories include software that you happen to dislike and think is "bloat". $distro is bloated because KDE/GNOME/whatever is an option, right?

Get a grip.
I forgot to mention Adventure Time since we're talking about Cartoon Network. Since both boys and girls enjoy it, I guess that's another exception to the rule. I guess this is why no one will take Bee and Puppycat. They mentioned the same obstacles in their kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/frederator/bee-and-puppy...
Looking on Amazon I can see action figures (not just the Barbie ones), stationary sets, board games, card games, jewelry (including some leather stuff which boys might like), bookmarks and if someone isn't doing a bow and arrow then the merchandising people are idiots.

Plus there are books and DVDs. Sure, some of it is going to be bought by girls but if you look at the action figures, they don't look like they're being marketed at girls.

Anecdotally, the kids down the road from me love Hunger Games and chief among them is the 14 year old boy. (He and I talk a lot about books and films - he's my cover for going to see rubbish superhero movies).
Sleep works wonders. Sometimes dozing off for 20 minutes after lunch feels like a whole night of sleep to me. It's like a hardware reset.
I was hoping to read something relevant. Instead I got a promotional article with some generic rants.
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The issue isn't whether privacy should exist in the digital age. The fact is that it doesn't, or at least not as we have understood it for all of these years. Something that dozens of sysadmins at Google can read is simply not private within traditional definitions. The real issue is whether we can create a practical pretense of privacy: treating data that isn't private, as a matter of fact, as private as a matter of law.
For a fuller explanation: https://github.com/agl/critbit/blob/master/critbit.pdf?raw=t...

(Note: self promotion.)
IE?

(scnr)
I believe that the plan is to run both as the current line is over capacity.

As an avid UK train user, but not frequently on that route I support high speed rail plans in general.

I'd like them to build the phases in the opposite order - first the links in the North, then down to London.

A sad fact of the rail privatization, and the rail in general is that governments seem to prefer the large infrastructure projects rather than ongoing subsidy. From an environmental standpoint commuting by train should be much cheaper than by car, but for many places in the UK it is far more expensive.
I assure you that it was NOT accidental.

This is nothing more than yet another case of legal treason by congress.

In my opinion, ALL loopholes for the super-wealthy and companies (Double Irish) should be closed.

Reducing taxes should not be an option. If you make huge amounts of money or want to transfer huge amounts of money in the United States then you should pay tax on it to the United States government. There shouldn't be the option to hire people to find sneaky ways to "legally" (but unethically) reduce that tax without any consequences.
Yet the punitive AMT still exists and ensnares basically everyone making between 150-400K and who lives in a high-tax state (which, conveniently, are where most of the jobs paying that amount are.)

But don't worry, as usual, if you're rich enough, you play by a different set of rules and can hide your money in shell trusts and schemes and pay nothing. Disgusting - give us the FairTax already.
In Italy, you can arrive at the station without a ticket, and go to a machine. The machine supports multiple languages. You can buy a ticket in multiple classes on multiple speeds of service (roughly "regular", "fast", "high-speed"). These trains are frequent, well-connected to regional buses, and clean. The high-speed ones are fairly expensive, but the regular ones are fairly cheap.

This is the way to do train service. And it's heavily used.

P.S.: if you really want a slow night train for cheap, visit Zimbabwe. A "first class" sleeper cabin is about $10 from Bulawayo to Victoria Falls, and it's beautiful. But every part of the 1970's British train has long since been stolen--the lights, the faucets, the toilets, etc. Still, $10, and it goes to interesting places.
80% of everything is crap.

And yet the original 2007 Gapminder talk[1] still surprised and educates people today

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w
I've always consumed TED talks much in the same way I might a movie trailer. The talks are normally just enough to give me an idea of whether I want to dig in deeper, but never really satisfying in themselves. If you look at TED this way, I see nothing abhorrent about it.
I haven't been to Europe yet, but after living in Japan for a year and then returning to the US, there's nothing I miss more than trains that go fast and go everywhere. I could wake up, walk down the street, hop on the train, and be 350 miles away before getting bored of staring at the back of the seat. They've managed to get by without much cannibalization of other services (you can still get to anywhere on normal-speed trains) and it seems that revenue ends up being at least more than operating costs. They obviously make a great deal of sense in Japan, and perhaps less so in Europe and the US, at least for cross-country service. Regional services would be fantastic for key areas, and I don't see why we couldn't make it work. Unless we just skip right to Hyperloop?
Reminds me of that great flow chart for determining whether a toy is meant for boys or girls:

Q1: Is the toy operated using the child's genitals:

Yes - it is suitable for neither boys nor girls.

No - it is suitable for either boys or girls.
People would have answered the same way about the NSA ayear ago.

Just sayin.
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The fact that it can happen, at all, ever, means something is very, very wrong.
I once made a somewhat similar error. Many years ago, when I was just learning PHP, I attempted to write a function to delete all the contents of a directory, including subdirectories.

I don't remember the exact code, but it was something like:

function clear_dir($dir) {
$contents = scandir($dir); // returns array of directory contents

foreach($dir => $file) {
if(is_dir($file)) {
clear_dir($file);
}
else {
unlink($file);
}
}
}

The function names may not all be correct, been a while since I PHP'd

Anyway, so the code looks like it should work. The problem is the scandir function result includes . and ..

So my little function would see .., recognise it as a directory, and recursively call itself on the parent of the directory I wanted to empty. I lost a fair few files before I realised what was happening. Luckily I had back ups, as this was before I started using SCMs.
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