skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The latter. There's plenty of sensible criticism to be made of the current project plan, but it's really hard to get away from the fact that we're out of capacity. The quickest, cheapest and least disruptive way of fixing that is to build a new railway line. At the moment, we just have some ridiculously rabid partisan public 'debate' where you are either in favour of the HS2 in its current entirety, or you think we shouldn't be doing it at all. There's a huge spectrum of insight that's being lost, and that's what makes me a sad panda.
Whatever you decide to get I recommend buying used equipment. There is a huge market of equipment from people who got all excited about getting in shape, got the equipment, used it a couple of times and then moved on. Maybe even more so than pool tables.
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Give him 3 more years ...
The Neuroon promotional copy is a huge turn-off: it sells polyphasic sleep ("it's good enough for Da Vinci") and spends much more time talking about how awesome the Neuroon startup is than what the specific product does.
The problem is the opportunity cost of time. If a talented technical founder could make $200K per year working somewhere else, then the opportunity cost of building that company (after 2.5 years and with 3 founders) is $1.5M.

It may not be a failure from the ecosystem / societal perspective because a new idea was tested and discovered to have some value to the world, but the company ended up being worth $0. The founders are now saddled with a bunch of debt.

It's like you go all-in on a poker hand, and then lose to a better hand. Did you lose? Yes. What if you had fun playing? It's still a loss.
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A lisp.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
-- William Faulkner
> But I am certain that the NSA has been lying about the scope of their collection and it's legality.

IF they are in bed with President and DOJ, if they are continuously doing favors to NSA, FBI, CIA and other three-letter agencies + black ops, then who is there to enforce some hundred years old document titled "we the people".

Further, even Obama himself was directly blackmailed by NSA. As you remember after Snowden revelations first thing before even denying or confirming his revelation, was that they remember getting request to spy on Obama. Since he has so much trouble with his own past, no wonder Obama will do whetever NSA wants.

Russell Tice, has said that he was aware while at the NSA, that the agency, back in 2004, was spying on Barack Obama, then just a Democratic Senate candidate from Chicago.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/01/is-nsa-spying-really-...

I also find this news disgusting:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/13/1230832/-Obama-appo...
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At the risk of ruining the joke...it's a joke.
No, they do not. They provide access to the user preferences, likes and interests but they never ever sell user data to third parties without user authorization.

Cite your sources if you have any proof of your claim.
Yes, and I expect you (anigbrowl) understand this, but it wouldn't even necessarily require that copyright be transferred to make a promise to publish enforceable. One view of contracts is that a contract is merely a set of legally enforceable promises. E.g., On December 1, 2013, Author and Publisher reach an agreement: Author promises that on January 1, 2014 he/she will transfer copyright to Publisher in exchange for Publisher's promise to publish sometime in 2014. Each promise serves as consideration for the other and Author becomes legally bound to transfer the copyright on January 1 as soon as the agreement is made on December 1.

All of this goes far beyond main theme of the thread, but I initially raised the point because there seemed to be some confusion on whether Elsevier could rightfully claim ownership of copyrights. . . .
I was joking, yes.
Joe Lieberman lost the Democratic Party's support in his 2006 senatorial race by not being a Democrat. He ran as an independent and won.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lieberman#2006_Senate_elect...
I agree that what you prefer would be ideal, however a lot of things that happen on the Web isn't conducive to a real "true current state of progress" loader. Actually, a lot of things that happen even on local machines are not possible to be determined in an absolute sense. That's why most progress bars seem to progress in fits and spurts, not in smooth consistent amount over time... I think this is due to some tasks just take an indeterminate amounts of time. In those cases, a progress bar isn't much better than a numbered list of things shown as "to do" and "done." In the case like client server request response, which may be asynchronous, where responses are only received when it's "done" then it makes sense why these cannot show progress... Just that it's "still waiting." Not ideal, but I can't see a better solution that doesn't require sending multiple updates back saying "still not really sure when we'll get to your request" or "just fetched stuff from the dB, 2 more tasks to do."
This theme keeps repeating, and there is no evidence to support it. Just for the start, how can I buy your or any other person's browsing history?
This is great advice. Paying severance also helps assuage the guilt many managers have about firing an employee within a few weeks/months after they were hired. ("But he just relocated here", "It will look bad on his resume", etc).

By the way, do you know if it is possible for the employee to refuse severance, and therefore retain the rights to litigate? What happens in that case?
NO, they do not "tend" to sell data. Their internal systems deliver advertising to selected audiences but personal data doesn't leave Google or Facebook servers.
Did you read this far?

> "So, chances that a Mongo fan can engage only his hind-brain, react with "LOL, tl;dr, fixed in v2.2 with a one-liner as described in Mongo manual" and actually have something meaningful to contribute are absolutely nil."
Poor people take cabs? I think this is only true for a broad definition of "poor".

If Uber's proposition is that you can always get a car at some price then this seems like a good way to ensure availability. Not everyone values availability above all else. A lot of people are price-sensitive. At least Uber is transparent about it. And this isn't exactly food or healthcare where somebody is going to die for lack of a cab. Different markets require different amounts of regulation.

Also, per a comment further down the thread, cabs already discriminate against the poor by simply not going to those parts of town. Presumably you can get an Uber pickup in the shittiest section of NYC.
If we have to move Silicon Valley somewhere, my vote would go to Rochester, NY: http://rocwiki.org/
Absolutely agree. How am I suppose to take things like this (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-49KvfGbTdbA/ULJiQ4gTNDI/AAAAAAAAbu...) seriously?

Okay yeah, if you draw those lines, you get a triangle. But why did the author exclude the one guy? Why is this an example of some triangle-y thing, and not an example of an quadrilateral whatever?

The author is just massaging and manipulating the data to make whatever points he wants.
> It's not a MOOC, and it's not a book, and it's not a documentary.

It's YouTube for conferences.
> He wasted valuable city resources

I don't think it was a waste, I think the information we all have received is more valuable to New York than the resources used to prosecute him. I think prosecuting acts of civil disobedience is an extraordinarily important and valuable function that the city performs. Dollars spent as intended.
Is it really consensus that tech workers in San Francisco have that kind of contempt for folks who make less money? The article assumes that premise based on a few data points, but I don't buy it.

And anyway, tech hubs are created based on a very specific set of circumstances that are basically impossible to simulate. What company is going to be the Fairchild Semiconductor of Cleveland?
How can you even legally combine wordpress (GPL 2.0) with bootstrap (Apache License 2.0)?
Second on this question. Extra points if you've done any development with Gemini. I'm really curious: in every category it was the highest-scoring full-stack framework, which is especially surprising given its apparent obscurity.

Edit: every category but the plaintext benchmark.
Nice work Ryan! You're an inspiration to those of us who want to produce great work and enjoy high quality of life.
Cleveland? SLC has more of an argument. I'd still go with Austin if we had to move it, though.
Can this also be used for monophasic nocturnal sleep? Will the final product be arduino programable? I'd love to be able to add LEDs to it (for lucid dreaming) or add other new functionality and sensors.
No ocean.

In all the world, the richest and most sought after cities to live in are those with ocean views.
California is a very strange place to consider for rail, especially an LA<->SF line. LA is a car focused mess with useless public transport and huge sprawling connected cities and SF, though better downtown, has a huge Bay Area with similarly craptastic public transport (though not quite as bad as LA).
Any designer that knows what they are doing makes things easier to use, not more difficult.

I think it would be better to say 'Amateurs have taken the reigns'.
What's the deal with Japanese names for gems, considering Ruby was created by a Japanese programmer, and for most of its existence was most popular in Japan? And considering what Nokogiri does, 'Saw' or a tool name is pretty appropriate.
People - this is from a satire show on CBC radio here in Canada.
Who do you think waste most money?

The author of this article or the police department for wasting taxpayers money incarcerating people left and right, giving the sentences way out of proportion with what they did and so on.
'This is That' is a wonderful satire show on the CBC.
The article is misleading. Longer telomeres don't mean longer life. Telomeres in mice are 4 times as long as those found in humans and they are particularly susceptible to damage from oxidative stress.
This is completely made up legal theory. Please don't push it as anything approaching truth. Not only is Google not being "indicted" (it's a civil suit), it has nothing to do with NSA reform (it's about the Safari third-party cookies workaround), and jurisdictional challenges, even wrong ones, are as old as the hills.
In addition, Las Vegas still has tons of homes left over from their last boom and bust, and were caught holding the bag after the housing bubble -- this means there are tons of homes sitting vacant (at least, last I looked).

The problem with moving a large community is that, basically, you're just as likely to break the place you move to as not. Vegas has a degree of "keep doing what we're doing" that probably isn't very shakeable, but Texas has ... interesting thoughts on things like gay marriage, reproductive rights, etc., that are likely at odds with the average Valley resident, that aren't necessarily going to make feeling welcome the easiest of tasks.

Of course, expatriation is at an all time high, at least partly due to progressive taxation, so I think we should be wary of encouraging movement, as the destination might not necessarily end up being in the US.
Gemini is our internal Java web framework; it has no relation to the Eclipse project (other than I use Eclipse when I work on Gemini) ^_^
Of course. Nesting is just a tool that helps organize your classes. I've found the most maintainable code comes from a well-defined combination of nesting and prefixes (but I tend to use nesting as a default, and prefixes only when necessary) -- they both have their strengths and weaknesses.

But CSS precedence is always a problem, if it's not specificity then it's ordering instead, the problem doesn't go away by using prefixes. But using the order that rules are defined in can often be more difficult to track/maintain than using specificity to do the same. Good commenting practice is key in both cases. Nesting with mixins certainly isn't always the answer, but it often provides a much cleaner, more maintainable, more intuitive approach to resolving occasional "specificity wars" than not using them.
Traditionally it would be the Republicans who would help big business like this, wouldn't it? Democrats are more in bed with Hollywood. Unfortunately, the Republicans aren't going to cross the NSA.
I'd rather watch christian tele-evangelism than most TED talks.
Have you tried to use source maps to help debugging? Plenty of compile-to-JavaScript languages support source maps, and even some CSS frameworks. Building complex/large apps without a compiler and tools is really difficult. GWT, Closure, TypeScript, Dart are all efforts to help developers build more interesting apps that scale. Building/compiling is just a natural step in the process, and source maps are a natural output of that process.
The exoneration of Kash Register and the problem of false eyewitness testimony.
I wish there were a revolt against W3C. They have consistently made a mess of everything they touch (and take forever to do it). Why reinvent the wheel yet again with another fuglier syntax? We already have Sass and LESS which are widely used and quite beloved. Just adopt the best of those and save us from yet another "XSL-FO". Please! For God's sake, man!
quick google shows that non-competes are enforceable in OH. Not-starter for hi-tech. TX pretty much the same.

For illustration, as another poster mentioned Fairchild - with enforceable non-competes you'll never have the "Fairchild Semiconductor of Cleveland"
I mean, of course they're against this law because it's hurting their bottom line. But sometimes business interests and personal freedom align. I would say that data collection is bad for both the businesses and the people whose data is being collected, so a challenge by the companies is good for the people. After all, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Whilst thanks to lack of choice JavaScript is so important on the browser side, I would hope the Node infatuation would eventually pass where you do have a choice. Async calls in Node are done via explicit passing of closures. Callbacks, Promises etc all look bad compared to simple sequential instructions like:

credentials := NewCredentials(token)
User.findByName(credentials.userName)

The above is in Go, and it is just as fast if not more. Whilst all requests are on their own goroutines, the runtime will schedule them using the same efficient async io that does not need to be made visible as in JavaScript.
No but there are reasons why these numbers are high for them and they are as much to do with how society treats them and what their prospects with regards to making it are.
>He wasted valuable city resources

He provided a priceless civic service, that had significant personal and presumably financial costs to himself.

He is heroic.
We have been having trouble with Erlang frameworks since before Round 7. Unfortunately, I was still getting up to speed and improving the suite mostly for Round 7/8 and did not get to fix this yet. I do have it topping my todo list for round 9, with the hope being to get them all back in and working soon.
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The problem here being that "normal" bananas have seeds in them, and the Cavendish and Gros Michel are specific hybrids that don't - so the only way to propagate is essentially cloning them (take a cutting and grow it) - lots and lots of identical plants.

Going back to a more "natural" system would involve a lot of variation in fruit crops, which means handling and processing costs would go up tremendously, likely leading to the same result: no bananas for most people.

One of the more sustainable solutions is to eat local - food that is locally grown, thus suited for your environment. However, this means that all those in temperate climates will (eventually) need to forgo tropical fruits... or grow them in glasshouses.

Not sure what the best approach would be here, but I'm fortunate enough to be in an area where you can grow bananas - so I'm trying my luck (Auckland, New Zealand)
Why do people work so hard for getting a candidate elected? Does it personally benefit you or your family? I am not talking of idealistic 20-somethings but of people in 35+ age group? Why do they work hard to get a candidate elected?

In a country like India, where I come from, this is totally understandable...if your candidate wins, you stand to make a lot of (corrupt) money.
Best part from the post:

> I know that the brogrammers out there are constantly getting texts from their buddies to plan the weekend's broactivities, trying to decide in whose mancave they'll be setting up their lan party, and are thoroughly distracted in between futzing with their smart phones and writing a few lines of code per day by cutting and pasting it from stackoverflow.

I love that!
Bill Gate's book shelf looks interesting. http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Books
We looked at the data. WE LOOKED AT THE DATA.
I think the web was a big success on desktop (modulo some pretty big apps like Photoshop, and we should ask ourselves why apps like Photoshop never landed in the browser, and then fix those issues).

As for mobile, it's clear a lot of companies have no problem building their app twice (for both iOS and Android).
I'm probably biased, but I think the Denver/Boulder area would be a good candidate
Looks like Meteor is becoming more like the Q platform.

http://qbixstaging.com/QP

http://github.com/EGreg/Q

(Not yet released though :)
Also Valve's handbook: http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...
I just posted another response to this - we had some trouble with the package manager for Erlang after round 6. Additionally, I had been working on improvements for the suite specifically (better logging/reporting, etc) and did not get a chance to resolve the Erlang problems.

Rest assured, "get erlang running again" tops my 'todo' list for round 9.
I would have put "Sandman" on my list, but might have deleted it for its non-novel status. Thanks for bucking the trend with Watchmen. ;-)
The author of the article is obviously schilling for Cleveland and other rust belt cities that no longer have the manufacturing jobs that they used to.

Cleveland is one of the most heavily regulated and wasteful cities, as is Detroit. I would say that big companies aren't wanted there any more than they are in SF.
Sure, if you get caught, you compensate / reimburse the victim. If you don't get caught... well, sometimes you get lucky. But that's no different than how we do things now. Not everybody gets caught. It sucks, but it's reality.

But the idea that we're going to "extra punish" a handful of people here and there to "make an example out of them" is totally incompatible with any reasonable notion of "justice" .
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Not the parent, but we pay between $1,000-$1,500 per month per employee (annually $12,000 - $18,000) for medical. We do pay 100% for great coverage for their whole families, so I'm sure many companies are paying less, but it adds up fast. That's not including other loaded headcount numbers like 401k matching, FSA pre-loading, training budget, travel, cell phone + plan, and so on.

Our office costs are generally pretty low, although if you factor in desks, chairs, monitors, laptops, iPads, kitchen stuff, etc... it does add up fast.
>>but Texas has ... interesting thoughts on things like gay marriage, reproductive rights, etc., that are likely at odds with the average Valley resident

Texas as a whole may have those thoughts, but Austin is significantly more liberal. Heck, I live in LA right now and whenever I visit Austin it feels a lot more liberal than LA -- and more interesting.
hey i would like to test it before buying it. are there plans to release a trial version?
I'm surprised I've seen no mention of Tampa/Orlando/Palm Beach. No income tax, pro business government, the locals would not get bent out of shape about "outsiders". Good weather and recreation. Also, the whole gateway to Latin America thing. Orlando might have the best flight connectivity of anywhere in the USA; that's a big reason why all the PGA players live there.
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It has happened four times (Franklin Pierce, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, and Chester A. Arthur), but three of them weren't elected president in the first place (got there via deaths) and all of them happened before party primaries were decided by voters.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Has_an_incumbent_president_ever_lo...
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> planned metropolis, built on the principles of maximum security and maximum density

this is exactly what new york is. it was a military base in a protected harbor, that turned into a planned city after several changes of ownership (some would say over-planned). that perfect grid system didn't spring forth organically.

i would recommend 'new york', the ric burns documentary.
Planned metropolises tend to break: cities are complex, emergent structures. Brasilia gets more shit than it deserves, but the planning that went behind it certainly wasn't good for it. Maybe "planning better" or "planning for better things" could work, but its hyper-modern conceit to not consider how it has failed in the past.

Or is failing in the present: see the grand, empty cities that the PRC has been building.
I've been there too, though I found I was much more spread out. During my last unemployment stint I would send out 20+ applications per day. This was just to make sure that people out there knew that I was looking. At the same time I would do the more focused approach of researching 1 or 2 firms at a time, asking friends for introductions, meeting people and all that.

3 applications a week seems like a very odd number. It's too small to be a wide shotgun approach, and too big to be focused.
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I think this article is poorly written and researched; when you read it's apparent that the actual complaint are about samples/library music (the equivalent of stock photos) and sequencing, rather than synthesis per se. Synthesizers qua electronic instruments can be enormously expressive and the contributors acknowledge this. However that takes significant work in sound programming and sequence composition, and in the vast majority of cases people find it easier to just use a sample instead. This is true even in electronic music; there are genres where people obsess slavishly overgetting a uniquely and distinctive kick drum sound and then repeat it on every beat with some 'unretouched' riff from a Vengeance sample library laid over the top as melodic decoration. Someone recently did an amusing mash-up demonstrating that 20 different tracks in the dance music 'top 50' chart were using the exact same sound from a popular sample library.

As someone who prefers making every sound from scratch with synthesizers I find this just as irritating as these 'old school' composers, so I don't think this is a case of buggy whip nostalgia. Rather, I posted this because it neatly illustrates the economic pressures on many artists resulting from the content cornucopia mindset that has accompanied the rise of the internet.
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Usually a revenue run rate means "we extrapolated our previous short term over the next year." It's useful for rapidly-growing companies where your next three quarters are much more likely to look like your current one than the previous three.

So that would mean they're still being very economical with per-employee expenses. My guess is that a lot of those employees aren't developers, they're in other roles where the average pay is lower (support, film and video editing, administration, even some sales roles).
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Maryland or Virginia. Yeah, some taxes, but the living costs and wage expectations make up for the taxes.