skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Government spending across California could be prioritized differently.

Central California farm communities would get more money diverted to waterways and agricultural projects. Northern Californians could finally get the school and public transportation spending up to the level that they're craving for. Southern California would probably build more highways and give more incentives to tourism and entertainment industries.

Status quo is nobody being quite happy with the status quo because those jerks from <insert region where you don't live> lobbied enough for <some cause you don't care much about>.
This is quite scary when you think about the fact that so most economies are ultimately tied to their oil prices (except Greenland). Because peak refers to production, as the world goes, we have some more time to prepare, but price will increase in the meantime. What's interesting is that I'm more hopeful that the oil companies will find a common ground solution than the governments of the world will, because at least the companies are motivated by their collective wallets.
http://www.dogecasino.com/ is still up.
Don't get it.
Hey. One of the authors here. Our data set for this experiment is not the set of numbers owned by people willing to download the app, but the set of numbers that they have called and received calls from. This means that a large amount of the data set is things like spam numbers, voicemail numbers, and customer service numbers. Its not too hard to figure out that you bank with Bank X if you are receiving Two Factor Authentication texts from them, for example.

There are potential biases in the data set, but we don't think that they dramatically affect the results that we are seeing. Your mother probably receives spam phone calls and reminder texts from airlines just like I do.
I'm curious how much agriculture propped up the California economy during the last few tech busts. As a California native, the divisions are naive bordering on idiotic. A state of Silicon Valley that were to have a tech downturn would have serious problems with a lack of diversity in industry.

But, hey, Tim Draper has way more money than I do and California has a history of letting those with lots of money float silly ideas.
Did you seriously, in the process of calling out rapgenius for making rape jokes, just use the terms "swagtard" and "aspergered"?
Moar US oil subsidies please.
Sersiouly dude, you didnt get it. I said that pushing in general is bad. Not bad, its stupid.
I dont know where the hell you got the idea that I meant some manager pushing people to pair program. I didnt say that.

Working habits could be personal but there is something called as team work. You should also make sure the person is capable of collaborating. Collaboration does not always means attending meetings.
Dogecoin.com is the official site, registered in Australia (the home of founder Jackson Palmer) on 12/4/13. Dogecoin.org was an unofficial community site registered in Panama on 12/5/13.

Either way, I'd expect this to spark news coverage and interest in Dogecoin. There was already a lot of momentum today, this won't hurt.
Initially I was surprised, then disappointed, and now just disgusted by how rare your position actually is.
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There is a reason Washington, D.C. Does not have voting rights or substantive representation in congress and that is that republicans don't want to give more votes to democrats. Republicans would never let something like this happen
Of course the Chinese embassy was videotaping you. The American embassy in Dublin does it, and Ireland is a political irrelevance from a US perspective.
Yes, Yes I do.

And as for backward compatibility, they already did. I love the myth that java never broke backwards compatibility. Bytecode maybe (), they definitely broke syntax compatiblity.

: The various xml parsers and other library thrash really do break backwards bytecode compatiblity.
Founder of Dogecoin here. http://dogecoin.com is the official site.

dogecoin.org was owned by a third party, who sold the domain to the highest bidder today and they threw up that stupid seizure message. Entirely a ploy by another altcoin to try and derail Dogecoin. Funny they're taking it all so seriously haha.

Settle down people, it's a doge on a coin and it's Christmas :)
I was just at the grenade store the other day...

You can't actually buy active grenades in the US, and SMG's and up require special licensing from the ATF to possess.
They'll probably make him a felon, won't they? (Can you vote for felons in the US?)
> I look at this from the other side as well. I've worked with brilliant people with ivy league CS degrees who wrote much messier and less maintainable code than me, an autodidact designer/js dev with 1.5 years of experience. Maybe I'm wrong, and there was something in their code that I wasn't seeing, but I don't think so.

I would have ignored your comment were it not for you mentioning that you write javascript. I started learning it on and off a few weeks ago, and yesterday I installed spidermonkey as a standalone shell. What I have noticed is that a lot of the syntax that controls flow is very similar to C, which is notorious for being gibberish. I'm guessing the same will apply to js. I do not have a CS degree, but would you say that this is readable? This is a function for extraction of nodes in a double linked list that I am currently kicking into shape.

/*
*	extract *p__ from p__.
*	but original *p__ is shifted left or right \
*	if there is still space.
*	extracted ndi* is returned, but the remainder of the list \
*	is sewn back up.
*/

ndi *extract_ndi(ndi **p__, const int dec) {
ndi *q_=*p__;
if(dec>=_PREV_) {
*p__=*(q_->lnk+dec); /* the shift */
if(*((*p__)->lnk+!dec)=*(q_->lnk+!dec)) { /* sew up */
*((*(q_->lnk+!dec))->lnk+dec)=*p__;
*(q_->lnk+!dec)=NULL; /* burn ends of extraction */
}
*(q_->lnk+dec)=NULL;
} else if(dec==_LONE_) /* final possibility is that *p__==NULL */
*p__=NULL; /* ie. dec==_DEAD_, no which ain't it not worth man */
return q_;
}

What the hell was I smoking when I wrote this? I can't even read it myself.

Writing convoluted code is more to do with a certain state of mind. You should ask your coworkers where they obtain LSD, not where they got their degree. I haven't come across any acid for about a dozen years, I think it has gone out of fashion.

Of course if this was Perl it would be even worse.
This is a self-selected sample. People who read the article and thought "meh, whatever" did not bother to leave a comment.
Because it's a third or less of the cost of an Android.
Or you know a bit of thermite on the breech block works well.
Everyone loves illegal shit.
the troll will work in our favour.
http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/1tl618/dogecoin_we...
Like many things in programming, it all boils down to the samn damn arguments that musicians have. Sure, you don't need a music degree to be a musician. But I'm damned proud that I have one, because it's helped me advance the one thing in life that I love doing more than anything else further past most people my age. I have a B.M. in Jazz Studies with a concentration in Vocal Performance.

The only way you can reasonably believe that college was "a rip off" is if you didn't have ANY fun that whole time. If you can honestly say that, then I am sorry. You allowed a part of your adolescence become robbed by people who told you what to do. But if you had even an ounce of enjoyment throughout college, if the idea of learning computer science made you smile even one bit, then it was absolutely not a rip-off or a waste of time.

"Your time was not wasted if you were happy" - John Lennon
What they say may seem clear, and yet not reflect what they really believe.

I give blood every two months. As I recall the questionnaire, you can do almost anything imaginable (sex with prostitutes, accidental needle stick, receiving blood transfusion, etc.) and get a one year deferral. But if you are a man who had oral sex with a man one time twenty years ago, that's a permanent "deferral." No science behind this.
Or just plug your USB key in with PuTTY Portable and FileZilla installed on it. If the static site generator tools run on Windows, we could probably make those portable, too.
Depends on whether he wants to take on more than civic duty.
Computerizing people may be next step in tech
george, you are amazing.
Yup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States#...
Reading through the post, one of the link[1] says something along the line of "Java has 'multiple inheritance' from day 1". How is this the case?

[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2013-March...
Perhaps, but Dogecoin is all about fun and generosity. Not sure who'd want to undermine that :)
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As someone who's seen a lot of animated features, Fantastic Mr. Fox was fascinating. It made me realize just how much dogma I'd picked up about what animated features are "supposed" to be, pretty much entirely inherited from the choices Disney made in the 50s, which have been relentlessly copied by pretty much every animated feature ever since. FMF was from a very different place, and I found it incredibly strong because of that.
Federally I am pretty sure the answer yes, everything else would depend on the states I guess. In fact you can even be in prison I am pretty sure.
The technologist in me screams "Deus Ex!", while the realist in me worries about its implications for security and privacy.
So you never told us what you were smoking.
Sorry I replied to this one late. I was waiting til I had a bit more free time to reply to this one seriously.

You have a ton of great suggestions in here, all taken into consideration and this will definitely help the repo be much better by tomorrow. I will get on it. Thank you.

Most helpful post in the thread vs. "lel it's already been done xD links to wiki site"

>On the other hand, this could become the repository to check for a weird "2x faster with smaller memory usage" implementation of a red-black tree, or a clever general number sieve, etc.

Precisely my aim. Thanks for understanding this!! Apparently other people think I'm trying to make it a primary learning resource or something...
it's been reverted back to the original website.
correlation doesn't mean causation --> I think you mean "guilt by association"
You basically split it up in a similar way that you'd use in an OO language, except you don't have inheritance and only have composition. Specifically, you break apart the logically distinct portions of your structs and you make them structs themselves. E.g. compare (trivial examples, but you get the idea).

/* okay */
struct monster {
unsigned id;
int x, y, hp;
/* etc. */
};
/* better */
struct point { int x, y; };
struct monster {
unsigned id;
struct point pos;
int hp;
};

This also allows a form of inheritance. For example if you have

struct bad_monster {
struct monster base;
int badness; /* your imagination is the limit. */
};

/* this is safe */
struct bad_monster bad;
struct monster *some_monster = (struct monster *)&bad; /* equivalently &bad.base */
some_function_expecting_a_monster(some_monster);
/* only safe if it was originally a struct bad_monster */
struct bad_monster *bad_ptr = (struct bad_monster *)some_monster;

Those are the ways I tend to break up structs when writing C code. Basically by using lots of composition.
3D-printing BioPen "draws" with living cells to repair damaged bones
First of all, that's clearly refuted by the article itself. If nobody sold cars at 30k, they wouldn't have data for that mileage range.

Secondly, you can see that it is untrue by going to any used car site and filtering by mileage. There are tons of cars available right at 30k miles.
Title exaggerates to my mind. Peak oil is here; it was reached in 2008 apparently but 'break economies' is doom mongering. It seems depressingly plausible that the decline in liquid petrocarbons will lead to a lower growth rate absent large technological changes.

I just hope nuclear or the unproven renewables come on line smoothly, otherwise coal might come back. There's 200 years supply for North America at current energy usage, in North America. But coal is awful. Just the radiation released into the air by burning it kills more people every year than Chernobyl and that's without considering "normal" air pollution.
> This is quite scary when you think about the fact that so most economies are ultimately tied to their oil prices (except Greenland).

Oil can only get so expensive. We have lots of alternative sources of energy that put a lid on the oil price. Just to give some examples, at some point, making artificial oil out of coal will become viable on a large scale (just like Germany did during WWII), and there's always nuclear power.

And there's also lots of oil at sea that we have barely started to explore.
Now a days re-marketing campaign are getting more popularity to target audiences bases on their habits and previous browser experiences.

Tools like this can really help us to prevent such things. I personally found that, search engine like duckduckgo getting more attention these days.
> [...] showed that conventional oil had most likely peaked around 2008.

Oh, so it's "conventional peak oil" and not "peak oil".
A post by Greenwald on the subject of "dump it all" vs. "vet and dribble":

http://utdocuments.blogspot.com.br/2013/12/questionsresponse...
a high tech solution, to where a low tech solution would work equally as well is just inefficient. A simple solution would be to not put your wallet in your back pocket, or to just not bring your wallet, put your phones around your neck, or heck, put everything in a pouch around your neck. perfect.

But a high tech solution is a good backup, don't get me wrong here.
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This is definitely tinfoil hat territory. Some very high level people in the intelligence community may lose their jobs or (if things go very well) face charges in the next year or two. If the whole Snowden affair is an inside job then those high level people must have been ignorant of it since they would never accept the personal risk of the shitstorm that has resulted.
I finally got tired of the pain of hosting my own Wordpress-backed blog a few months back and made the switch to Pelican. Here's a post detailing my overwhelmingly positive experience so far:

http://jimter.net/switching-the-jimternet-from-wordpress-to-...
we work in km here in South africa. what is the service schedules in the states? every 10000? also curious if this will apply here since most new cars come with a 3-5 year service plan.
I always use Uber when arriving at SFO now. I know the pricing ahead of time (Uber does flat-rate between SF and SFO). I don't have to worry about having cash on me or getting a disapproving glare when I ask about using a credit card. I don't have to even think about calculating a tip. If my driver is rude or unsafe or anything negative, I have an easy avenue to report that without having to make a phone call, wait on hold for who knows how long, and then push my complaint into the black hole. If I'm especially tired and want to treat myself, I can order an Uber Black instead of an UberX. Hell, most UberX cars are nicer than most cabs I've seen.

The only downside is that there's a short wait if I don't time the ride request just right. Since there are tons of taxis at the airport, I wouldn't have to wait taking a taxi. But the above more than makes up for this point.
I agree with this very much. Check out http://uva.onlinejudge.org for some example problems with automatic judging of contest problems.
Ah yes, surprised I forgot to include this classic. Adding it in.
> The relevant technological shift isn't that it's become easier to produce content that people want.

Isn't it though? The studios are now having to compete for viewer attention with everything from lolcats to Open Courseware lectures to porn. It isn't that there is nothing on YouTube worth watching, it's that in order to find the videos worth watching you have to wade through an ocean of diarrhea. Those are two quite separate things, and a proper solution to the second would probably put Hollywood out of business.

And your two markets (content creation and distribution) are not so unrelated. The copyright monopoly only applies to the work, not to fungible replacement works in the market for e.g. two hours of video entertainment. In a competitive market we would expect low profits because high profits would encourage new entrants until competition reduces profits to only just cover costs. The studios have historically claimed much higher profits than this primarily by cartelizing content distribution. It didn't matter in 1985 if you and your buddies could make a better movie with a camcorder than Disney had in theaters, it was still Disney's movies that would appear on the screens.

Which is the real trouble from Hollywood's perspective about a service like MegaUpload: They're distributing Hollywood content in the same channels as content made by the proles. If Hollywood came to MegaUpload and said "you are distributing our content on your site, kindly raise prices a bit and cut us in," the result would be for everyone involved to make a lot of money. But Hollywood won't have any of that anywhere -- there are no lolcats permitted on Hulu or Netflix, and far be it for the latest blockbuster or TV episode to be available on YouTube. Because they're trying to preserve their control over the distribution channels as much as possible for as long as possible.

In the end it's going to bite them too. What they need is an open distribution system that will prevent someone from doing to them what Apple did to the recording industry. A free market for video content, where the market itself is (like the internet) not owned or controlled by anybody in particular and anybody can show up with content to sell and anybody can buy it for any device. The only difference between that and the collection of "piracy sites" the likes of MegaUpload -- the only difference you actually want -- is for people who download to pay money to the creators of the things they downloaded. But Hollywood won't allow that sort of competition in content distribution, because it requires giving up the attempt to monopolize distribution for themselves, the exclusive contracts with specific distributors, etc.
No, it's been more of an observation than an annoyance. But it seems like (nominal) Christians are too self-conscious about that. I mean, if I were in China or Taiwan and one of their countryfolk thought that I'd be offended at them wishing me well for one of their holidays, etc., I'd feel offended that they'd think I were so sensitive or plain square.
The government could have used Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) to keep the Snowden documents out of the papers in the USA, sending the Secret Service round to collect any 'inappropriate' documents.

With a 'D-Notice' to effect the same in the UK and coupled with the usual soft measures - threaten to take away press passes from journalists (and their papers) - the whole lot could have been kept out of the papers.

The fact that these measures have not been used means that this was a limited hang out - or - that the Obama administration just does not know how to use the law as well as the Bush administration.
+ reinstall the plug-ins
Are there specific examples of problems that splitting CA would fix?

Electoral politics. It cuts both ways, though: many in CA would love to see TX split into several weaker states.
This. If you're judging Computer Science by coding, you are making a huge mistake. Computer Science does not teach you how to code. I remember the only time my university teach me how to code is during our introductory course. Computer Programming 1. And that's it. You're on your own in your coding.

Computer Science is more than just coding. It involves graphs, complexity, math, theories, and much more. Which is a lot. And is hard.

Like math, anyone can do math. But not anyone can be a mathematician. Anyone can code, but not anyone can be a computer scientist.
Those are the Ecotopia borders I believe.

It would not be a bad idea to hand over an area east of Sacramento to be joined with Nevada.

As far as naming goes, Silicon Valley sucks. Silicon Valley is too small to be a viable state economically. A state needs some diversity in it. A coastal chunk from Monterrey Bay north up to and including Napa would be more realistic but that is not Silicon Valley.
> and I see value in the second amendment as a tool for the preservation of freedom.

I hear that often. How do you see that happening? What is the reasoning? I wasn't born here and I keep hearing this point touted often. Maybe it is something obvious, I haven't learnt yet. They way I see it presented is "we have guns so we can preserve our Freedom". Freedom from who? Some seem to think it is from criminals taking our possessions, some think it is from government. Which one do you think of when you think "freedom".

If it is the later (and probably the more common interpretation), doesn't seem unreasonable that for guns to be a viable threat or worry-some thing for the government to fear, it would have to match the parity guns had in, oh I don't know, early 1800s? A group of 1000 militia men armed with guns vs 1000 government soldiers armed with guns. I can see that play out well. 1000 men armed with AR-15s vs a nuclear arsenal, tanks, helicopters, machine guns, an intelligence apparatus, total media and public transportation control, satellites, 100s and 100s of billions of dollars in budget. Why are guns even mentioned as a "protection of freedom" when Government is that one freedom is protected? Seems rather like a joke to me (but again maybe I am missing an obvious argument here).

Counter-arguments I can think of and heard before -- "oh but this would be a guerrilla warfare that is why AR-15 and hunting rifles and pistols would be effective", so "need a nuclear arsenal" doesn't apply here. My response to that is "how would guns help". Wouldn't it then be more about guerrilla tactics (or maybe terrorist tactics, depending which side is talking about it). IEDs, poisoning water supplies, sabotage, home-made rockets etc. And again there having or not having legal guns seems to make little difference. What am I missing?
Yep, honestly no idea what they're doing over there. Let's just spread the word that dogecoin.com is the real site.
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Any chance us Cascadians can get a piece?
Perhaps folks are terrified of speaking out about the matter?

One specific concern I have: I wonder if members of congress feel threatened by the power of intelligence insiders to end a politician's career?
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