skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Hey grandpaw, what kind of dog did you have?", David inquired, his eyes pointing to the gilded picture above the fireplace. At the bottom of the ornate frame was an out of place comic sans font that read "to the moon". Grandpaw reached for his glasses. Looking closer, David noticed the background of the painting was filled with smaller phrases. "such amaze" read one of the vague, but positive half thoughts--another was simply "wow". David recalled this was same way his parents talked to grandpaw, as it if was some dialect of a bygone era.
Finally fixing his spectacles, Grandpaw mustered, "Oh, I never had a dog...". While turning gingerly in his favorite green chair to face the painting, his eyes raised in kind remembrance. "That's a _doge_, my child.", he proclaimed, with emphasis on the peculiar pronunciation. "That's how grandpa made his millions."
It's amazing what things have come to. They have disclaimer footnotes for 3 of their 4 headline claims and the remaining one is conditional on being a T-Mobile customer.

And there are so many fees, especially for people that don't have a T-Mobile phone.

I guess when/if interest rates go up these things won't be very popular.
This sort of looks like Faker.js and I remember we used it to populate a table with fake data so we could fill it up and demonstrate the app. It was very useful.
Im liking the series of tubes
> Doctrines can't be changed because they're inherently immutable.

If doctrines couldn't change, we wouldn't need to have dogmas (which are doctrines which have been infallibly proclaimed and which, therefore, are, in principle, immutable.)

More importantly than the theoretical questions, church teachings do change, even if that means retrospectively reinterpreting doctrine to change how it is taught while maintaining the pretense of consistency, or reinterpreting something that was previously viewed as doctrinal as something other than doctrine.

This is particularly visible in the area of, say, "when a morally cognizable human exists in pregnancy", a relatively important matter on which Church teaching has changed radically over its history.
okay @dogeprice and @dogeboost are now active with price tweeted every 30mins and 6h respectively, both D and USD.

Logos from http://dogecoinlogo.com/

I ended up using a background image I originally designed to promote cryptos and litecoin, but tweaked it to appeal to 15 yr olds and dogecoin. http://imgur.com/gallery/XpwIWM0
Let us suppose that there is an organized group of Bitcoin enthusiasts with a combined amount of Bitcoin holdings of around 100,000BTC. Would an article "App.net begins accepting Bitcoin" increase the BTC/USD exchange rate by more than 0.01%?

To me it seems that a continued stream of press is good for Bitcoin, and I am genuinely curious is there is such a group of enthusiasts that strategically spend Bitcoins for PR.
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give it a shot. Thanks for giving in advance
In this case, they put in extra work to port the UI from their iOS app. Doesn't exactly scream "MVP" to me.
Small world: It's been awhile since I've last saw that name :) That MUD borrowed almost a decade of my life, and, enjoyed every minute of it.
How was I being accusatory or hostile by asking that a HNer of over 2,000 days smarten up after posting a meme related comment on HN?
The protestors complaints are justified. Google has made surveillance easier and privacy a distant wish. The tech elite have by-and-large ignored the poor. Rooftop gardening is a fun leisure activity and not a solution to obesity, global warming, or world hunger.

But however well intentioned, the protestors are hurting their own cause by resorting to ruthless tactics. The problem of rising surveillance, income inequality, and food shortages are not the fault of one man, or one company. We are all complicit. We all thrive off of an exploitative, unsustainable system. Finding scapegoats gets us no where. Be more productive - Propose solutions. Get the attention of people who can make a difference. Lead people in making a difference.

Still, this is a reminder that we've all failed to create a better world with technology.
"the 'principles' being stuck too are tactical judgments about how to best acheive strategic aims, and they are being stuck too even when they are operating against the strategic aims -- which is, precisely, the charge ESR is levelling against the anti-plugin policy vis-a-vis the stated goals of the FSF with regard to GCC."

I believe ESR is wrong.

In years past, there was BSD unix, a modified version of the unix shipped from Bell Labs. The BSD changes were theoretically "free", in that if you had a license from AT&T (which were easy to get, since at the time AT&T couldn't sell software), you could do anything you wanted with them.

What people did was to fork BSD, take their modifications proprietary, and create Solaris (well, SunOS), HP-UX, AIX, Irix, and a fair-sized stack of others that did even worse in the marketplace. The end result of that was fragmentation in the Unix ecosystem, which was bad on many levels. (One example: Don't like autoconf/automake/libtool? Guess where the necessity of those came from?)

Or, how about Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso's response to ESR:

"The FSF sure can prevent it, and proprietary compilers still thrive. Here is one that particularly bugs me as an Octave developer: we routinely see people being lured to use Nvidia's non-free nvcc for GPU computing, which they gleefully admit is based on clang and LLVM. And there is Xcode, of course, completely non-free and completely based on clang and LLVM.

"The fact that these non-free tools are not based on gcc are a testament to how proprietary software developers cannot plug into gcc, and how clang is fostering non-free software.

"The nvidia situation is particularly dire becuase today, free GPU computing is almost nonexistent. It's almost all based on CUDA and nvidia's massive pro-CUDA marketing campaign. Even most OpenCL implementations are non-free, and the scant few free implementations of OpenCL that exist are not fully functional."

So we have several examples of ESR's approaches failing. On the other hand, the GPL does a pretty successful job of preventing the kind of fragmentation that damages ESR's "hacker community". And part of the reason it does is the FSF's dogmatic stance.
awesome! public utility :)
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> Is it possible to hyperfocus the way Feynman did when you have ADD though?

I wouldn't say everyone with ADD can come up with the same results Feynman did, but I would say they can generally focus effectively on "the right topic," if it really interests them. The problem is they can't choose what this will be: in other words, their mind still gets set on tasks, but they can't set their minds to tasks.
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I don't think anyone is going to keep bitcoin out of Argentina.

I just don't see how enough of them can get in for it to matter all that much.
> The church does now support family planning by using a woman's cycle, which in doing so immediately counters the general idea that sex should "always be about procreation". action renders the position on contraception completely illogical.

The position on contraception is not based on the idea that "sex should 'always be about procreation'."

Whether it is logical or not may be debatable, but claiming that an element contradicts a proposition that is outside of the position to start with isn't a way of showing that.
"These protesters are skirting the real issue which is that they cannot afford prime SF real estate anymore. When these protesters, themselves, were uprooting the original inhabitants they did not really care but now that they are being uprooted, they suddenly are crying foul."

I cannot up vote or emphasize this enough. They do not want the Meatpacking District of the early 20th Century. They want the bohemian eclecticism that -they- created in the 80s and 90s when they evicted -those- families.

And now it's happening to them, and it's the most evil thing that needs to be stopped by any means necessary.
I doubt the protesters are going to be logging into HN to answer your reasonable questions.

If I lived in SF- i would be concerned that something major has changed. Your response describes reasonable questions in a level playing field where people have hope that the system works.

I don't think these people have hope in the system anymore. They're trying fundamentally different approaches rather than just giving up.

If they are willing to go after specific employees like this in spite of perception damages that come with the approach, they probably aren't averse to the perception damages that violence cultivates either.
Doesn't it make more sense to scale based on New Relic response times? Why are you guys using # of users? Depending on the page they are requesting and how the requests are clustered that could produce vastly inferior results.
yes something like embedcurl
Massive gaming already has a few vids where they run around 7 strong and handcuff/kill every other player to loot them. The griefing reward was recording it for a bunch of youtube comedy vids
Should you get paid for using Facebook?
Ask HN: How to take time off for interviews without raising any suspicions?
I work at a small iOS startup (15 people) and things are getting worse (losing customers, new management that tries to change everything, etc.), it's nowhere as fun as it used to be, and it's time for me to get out. I was the 4th employee and have been there for a bit under 2 years.

I've been working in startups for a while now, and am getting tired of the environment in general. I think my next step would be better at a larger company.

For shorter phone interviews, I can just step out during lunchtime or "go grab coffee with a friend".
The problem is that larger companies typically ask you to come on site for a full day for the last stage of the interview; and given the small size of my company, I can't just take a "personal day" without people asking questions. There's also a culture of "we're in crunch mode, don't take unnecessary vacation" and no remote work which makes it hard.

I already faked being sick 2 weeks ago, for a role that unfortunately didn't work out; I'm not sure I can be sick every 2-3 weeks.

How can I take a day off here and there to interview in those circumstances?

PS: for financial reasons, I can't really afford to quit my job in order to look for a new one.
PS2: my CEO would probably take it really personally if I told him I was leaving, as I am an early employee, so I can't really be honest about it.
Yes, on local markets (forums) and on eBay with paypal.
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This is amazing, if not a little bit unfortunate for the guy.

Unaffordable housing and personal automated transit for the wealthy? It's like something out of a Sci-Fi novel. While some people may benefit, a lot of people will get thrown under the bus. What happens when regular driving cars are illegal, in the same way manufacturing a car without ABS is illegal?

What does this mean for cities and sustainable living?

What happens when your car is disabled because you didn't pay a parking fine?

We're seeing the birth of a new social movement that will probably dominate this generation.
HireFire uses New Relic. I would think that's more responsive than GA.
I'm pretty sure he meant "email" and misspoke. The overall point that the people regulating things often don't know as much about them as a specialist would, but it seems rude to laugh at a small mistake like that.
Pretty interesting tool, especially if it opens to other platforms and browsers. It leads some of one network's traffic to the other, which FB and LI could potentially see as a threat, or a way to indirectly help each other without having to admit it. Thoughts?
Nor in NY but it happens. A breakdown in location X salaries would be interesting to see. Is this just in the U.S?
No, you should stay in your beautiful world of powerful machines and pure data :)
> because it allowed you to cache videos,

Youtube has to pay for that bandwidth usage even if you dont watch the cached video later.
If you tell someone and their family that you are going to stop them from leaving their home, and there is a not unreasonable expectation of assault and or battery in that, you are going beyond the right of peaceable assembly and into the realm of false imprisonment, or kidnap.
I wanted to check this out for UConn Women's Basketball games (which are the most popular sport in this state) and got this bizarre search result back:

http://seatgeek.com/university-of-connecticut-vollyball-at-b...
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Not sure about 3D artists, 3D scanning should be quite good by then.
Just imagine how much more time could be devoted to discussion about how many iPhones does the founder of Path really have.
That's not a very helpful reply, really, as a lot of the first hits on Google are kind of vague, and I have no idea whether the whole thing really applies to what I do in any case.
Basically just this part is relevant: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0517149257/.
Which seems to be the ISBN-10. I don't think this crazy to keep working, they probably have some other ways of looking up a book based on the ISBN.
It is possible to see banding at 8bit with a final product. Imagine a flat gradient across the screen from black to white. 255 levels over say 2000 pixels (close enough) on a screen like... 6 feet across. Unless the gradient is dithered (either in the TV, or at the source...), you get ~8 pixel wide bands, which works out to 1/4th inch bands, which is definitely visible in certain situations.

Dithering is certainly a solution, but higher bit depths also works, and in a way that's much cleaner.

EDIT: This implies of course that the final display is also capable of high bit-depth display. Obviously, if the display is limited to 8bit, then it's kinda useless. I think the author's point was that HDMI 2.0 -should- be kinda future proof, and -should- anticipate widespread adoption of high bit-depth displays.
I believe the fundamental difference is that the time to get to null-sec in EVE (the actual interesting component of the game that generates strong narratives) takes a significant time investment from the player. Leveling up skills, purchasing ships, and developing knowledge of the game are fairly tedious.

In comparison, you can get thrown into interesting situations from the get-go in DayZ. Basic FPS skills and a little knowledge of the clunky interface are all you need to generate strong player narratives. Whereas you make need several weeks to months to motivate an interesting experience in EvE, DayZ only requires a time investment of a couple hours (maybe).
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Well, strictly speaking, neither one of us can be sure what would happen. It’s just what I think would happen. Is it “FUD” if I still really believe it? I don’t know.

And speaking of closing; just look at Android with its complete anti-GPL, purged system. Only Linux remains there.

Of course, I (or you) can’t prove anything either way, but I have the feeling of Google, Apple, and the rest of the permissive license promulgators all the time going “Relax, it’s fine now, the war is over, you can all go home! You won!” And if we turn our backs, if we relax in our supposed victory, we will slowly find that all the contributors to these better (completely coincidentally non-GPL) projects are mostly employees of these same companies, and they all have CLAs. And one fine day they will turn off the freedom and turn it all proprietary. We then cannot hope of competing with the current project owners, since they have all the experience and infrastructure.
That is because the ads are cached since a lot of people are going to watch that ad.
It's true that advancements in science have led to a more fuller understanding of when a human life begins. But that doesn't mean there was ever a change in the doctrine that human life cannot be aborted during pregnancy. They're unrelated concepts.
His demonstration video is suspect: he hides a popup of the same domain authorized to access the mic behind the main chrome window, which is convenient because in real life popup windows usually appear in the foreground and are quite noticeable, if they weren't blocked by chrome’s popup blocker all together.

He is misrepresenting his personal disagreements about UI/UX decisions as exploits or bugs in chrome which is disingenuous, especially as he edits his video to hide the safeguards (mainly the popup blocker).

Also the speech API does not send audio to authorized site only machine transcription of the audio which is not as pertinent, which also speaks to the misrepresentation of the author.
The answer is yes. period.
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> Do not underestimate this.

Absolutely. But don't overestimate it either! Most serious bugs compile perfectly well -- and so you're trading quick detection of simple errors for more difficulty dealing with the hard stuff.
Bitcoin is the first practical solution to a longstanding problem in computer science called the "How do I get cheap PR for my company" problem.
That's actually what I wanted answered. While I do believe that study of math improves the ability to analyze problems that have an underlying logical framework, I also think it can be a hindrance in some cases.

Something like Foreign Policy involves so much nuance and understanding of History, human and organizational behavior that I think attempting to take a purely analytical approach to solving those problems will fail.

You reminded me of something an English professor said to my class decades ago when one of us complained about the amount of Liberal Arts classes we were required to take. As best I can remember it was, "as engineers, your job will be to solve problems, but you need to understand that not all problems can be solved logically. There probably is no better way to learn that than by studying Literature."
Why can you not see the possibility of Google collaborating with Apple to take LLVM proprietary?
If you're bad at math as it is taught in elementary/secondary school in the US, that doesn't necessarily mean you'll be bad at actual math either. And if you're bad at actual math, you're almost definitely going to suck at writing good software I'm afraid.
> it turned out that their CDN works by using DNS to direct you to local servers

Are these servers' IPs static? Can they be hardcoded in your hosts file?
I'm all for free speech, and let these people have their voices heard; that being said, here's my free speech: fuck these protestors. They aren't being constructive. They aren't being original. They aren't addressing problems that aren't already known about and definitely aren't caused by any one person. What they should be doing is working on more pro-active, productive solutions, you know, like eliminating the most dangerous factor in driving. I look forward to a day when I don't have to worry about losing both my feet below my knees, as one of my cousins did, because of a drunk driver. And while I don't look forward to the privacy implications of only Google offering driverless cars, I do look forward to a world replete with driverless cars. And I might add, this is one of the very few cases in which technology can honestly solve a societal problem.
Thanks for explaining more. I didn't respond because I realized that we didn't agree on terms, and dictionary arguments are boring. I was using "decoupling" in the sense of "what happens to an overfit model after it stops working", and hadn't really noticed that your reddit post was also using the term to argue against something I don't claim (or particularly care about), "reduction in power accompanied by increases in GDP".

I'll admit that my post was more a general reaction to Prof. Murphy's chronic abuse of statistical modelling, visible in the post you linked to "The Real Population Problem" where he applies a rather incoherent statistical model ("Population growth is exponential, but the exponential rate keeps changing", which is another way of saying "Population growth is not exponential"), while ignoring the real story on population, flat or slightly declining total births per year.... and his even more baffling and famous post, http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/04/economist-meets-... where he plops down a tight exponential fit that clearly applies to the 'Industrial Manufacturing' era and visibly and extremely fails to model after that (it's a log plot, that post-1970-ish curve indicates a massive, model-falsifying difference between model and observation).

Economic modelling is hard enough for the world we live in, a world where we're mining 0.02% Uranium from the ground instead of 10+% is so unlike anything we know that making predictions about it is hubris.

I generally don't find peakery interesting because I don't accept the fundamental premise (that you can model future resource availability at all using historical consumption volumes), so I'm not even at the point where more production (=consumption) data, however well sourced, is compelling.
> go back in the video whenever you wanted without reloading

That's even more bandwidth that they have to pay for unnecessarily.
I was going to downvote you based on your first sentence. But then the rest of your comment brought you back to earth.

Now that last sentence though:

>>Still, this is a reminder that we've all failed to create a better world with technology.

You cannot[1] say tech has given the world a net negative. This is all pedantic though because the bottom line is the protesters are upset and emotions have boiled over striking anyone that happens to be nearby. Right now, that's Google. Please Google and its employees, don't respond in a way that'll make this whole thing blow up more than it already has. The protesters do have a point; they're just not venting their anger in the best way possible. Their focus on Google will makes tech-people forget the bigger picture and start thing about "Why Google?" "Why this G-employee?"... and then we start down the path of crazy-town where there is no positive-outcome.

1. I do realize this is potentially debatable given the invention of stuff like the atomic-bomb. But let's not go there. As long as we haven't blown ourselves up and out of existence, tech is a net positive.
I'm pulling an empty repo for level1.

Isn't it supposed to start with a TXT file and a sample?
Thank you for this feedback. You have most likely saved me a lot of angst. :)
Harassing him at home? what about those who vandalized the bus were they apprehended?
Honestly I like that things are always clearly labeled "HDMI". No digging around to see, "Is it VGA? DVI? S-Video?". I can see how it might upset some people's delicate design sensibilities to have letters on the corner, but that's never mattered to me.

(That said I use DP whenever possible)
FYI, there is a certain branch of thought that believes that passion and anger increase validity of argument.
No need to raise taxes - we are already spending the money. All I propose is that we get something in return.

This solves the perverse incentives created by a Basic Income and costs a lot less (you only give it to some people instead of giving to everyone).
Heh. Compared to some things I've seen in a number of codebases I've poked at, it's positively tame and cheerful. I've learned a huge number of creative insults from code.

In any case, removed.
What I don't get is the intersection between "take a picture of a check with smartphone" and "for people who can't get a checking account". I'm going to assume that T-Mobile believes there is a sizable market of people with $600 phones who can't get a checking account, but really?