skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If instagram decided to create a couple of features more.. that would be a real threat to facebook as the #1 social network..

With a lot of money to spend.. this was a good move.

Acquisitions can also serve to kill the competition
Gilt pawned
This touches reputation, authority, credibility. Quantifying the corpus of individuals, across sources, is a tremendous undertaking. Very cool concept and I'll be checking out your execution following this comment. I'll post feedback here or via dm if I don't see another preferred mechanism in your app.
Well, when you scratch the surface, it's not really any better defined than heaven. You're gonna have to spec out 'copy', 'you' and 'living'.
I don't see an up-arrow, but I do see a giant arrow pointing right.
The reddit comments[1] on this article are very interesting as well. In particular, /u/driftingdev suggested it would be better to use concurrent.futures. To quote him/her:

In the last example:

pool = Pool()
pool.map(create_thumbnail, images)
pool.close()
pool.join()

would be 2 fewer lines with concurrent.futures:

with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=4) as executor:
executor.map(create_thumbnail, images)

[1] https://pay.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1tyzw3/parallelism_...
SENIOR NODE.JS DEVELOPER (female) for a scalable platform
No facts about the company's work, but Yann LeCun says 3 of his former students + postdocs work at this company:

https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10151812982157143?...

If they're hiring his students, they probably have a high level of talent (speaking as a former -- and present, starting tomorrow -- student).
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But you seem to be unhappy with the current system of the hundred or more big firms and are advocating disbanding these current governments and switching from this to even smaller firms. I'm confused because I believe this will naturally lead to these firms growing into larger firms with no oversight by the public at large and thus eventually give you even fewer options.

As to what it's called; the extortion would be called a compulsory service fee, war would be called large scale protective operations. What people call it privately isn't a problem until the point at which the extortion is costing them more than they think they can save by revolting.

As to why would the business do this? Because they can make more money doing this and it's not illegal because they are the law. They do not care about the good will of the customer, because the extra cost to the customer is not enough for the customer to act on. Prices are set to what the market will pay, in this case it's as close to revolt as the business can get away with.

I would also like to point out that I don't disagree with your assertion that their are negatives with a government controlled monopoly on law enforcement, I disagree with the idea that a free market system for it would not be subject to worse corruption/abuse.

Well, ask yourself, these days, how many people can you convince that bullying is a good idea? Just because an idea is not something that you would choose if you're enlightened, does not mean that people will not backslide into it.
Citibank is singled out as a weak performer in China then eh? Weak to the point of bringing up the specter of default at least. Then again ZH didn't exactly link to China Compass as far as I can see, and ZH has a really shit track record overall so I give no benefit of the doubt for quotes.
I prefer simple HTML pages over JavaScripty type pages. And it seems these js UIs keep replacing perfectly good HTML UIs. The Hadoop web admin UI did this going from 1 to 2. I think the new google groups did the same.
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Really interesting experiences --- using a WYSIWYG must have been terrible. LaTeX to the rescue? ;)

Here is a link to some shell scripts for "automatic" checking of word duplicates, passive voice, and weasel word removal.
https://github.com/ivanistheone/writing_scripts
NSA 'engaged in industrial espionage' – Snowden
State of the art ML + thermostats ... I smell synergy ...
Big win for Google. Access to IP in all sorts of markets they've yet to explore.
Once upon a time in a small village a man appeared who announced to all the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10. The villagers knew that the jungle held countless monkeys, easily caught. The man bought 2 thousand.

As the supply diminished, they become difficult to catch, and villagers returned to their farms. The man announced that he would pay $20. The villagers renewed their efforts and caught 1,000 more monkeys.

The supply quickly diminished, but before they returned to their farms the man increased his offer to $40 each. Monkeys became so rare that it was difficult to even see a monkey let alone catch it. But they caught 500.

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $100 each! However, since he had to go to the city on some business his assistant would now buy for the man. The man departed.

Then the assistant told the villagers, “Look at all these monkeys the man has in that big cage. I will sell them to you at $50 each. When the man comes back you can sell the monkey’s back to him for $100.”

The villagers gathered up all their saving to buy the monkeys. The assistant took their money. They never saw either the man or his assistant again.
How to make clouds indoors: The art of Berndnaut Smilde
Wow. This is against the law.
Racism alive in India: Story of an African-American Professional
Your intuition is correct, but unfortunately, it doesn't actually work that way, because on a per-employee basis, big business is ~4x more efficient.

That is, for every $1 in revenue an SMB brings in, big business brings in $4. (These numbers are averages, but the basic relationship holds across industries.)

I personally do not see how SMBs can compete when they are paying 4x more for labor.

The reason big business is so efficient is IT investment, and the problem with IT investment is that you need to be big in order to really take advantage of it. The amount of improvement SMBs get for a proportional amount of investment is low. You have to spend a lot to get anything, really, and SMBs just can't afford that.

So, to recap: big business profits stay high because SMBs actually can't force prices downward, due to the huge imbalance in labor costs between SMBs and big business.

If we could get the same IT advantage to SMBs at a cost that is proportional to their revenue, then the dynamic you expect to be occurring would, in fact, happen.
The pi constant didn't work for me
Apple will never, ever assign copyright to the FSF out of fears the code will go GPLv3--or even to support an organization that advocates GPLv3.
The field of Human-Computer Interaction has been around for decades but the larger design community has not always paid much attention to the literature or embraced the scientific approach to design.
This is description of every Lisp dialect I've ever heard of.
It's pretty clear that the superiority metric is going on what the site's intention is: conversion.

So while you're right it's not superior in every metric, it's superior in the only metric that the people creating the sites care about.
The interface for making/entering cards is not so hot. If I were even minimally competent at scripting or not bone lazy I would learn to use a proper text editor and get it to spit out cards from a text file.

All that said, I agree. Anki is one of the most useful pieces I software I have ever encountered.

To anyone who is on the edge about using SRS I recommend downloading it onto computer and phone and getting a good shared deck to build the habit. Building your own decks is superior but really, just start.
consider also that it's not only Google's opinion that affects the price tag.
For myself I think paper might work better at remembering the task. Because I've always remembered things better if I write them down with my own hand.
Common Lisp with SBCL:

(defun double (x)
(+ x x)) ; BigInts (or floats, for that matter)

(defun double (x)
(declare (type fixnum x))
(+ x x)) ; will emit an error if X is more than a long

(defun double (x)
(declare (type fixnum x)
(optimize speed (safety 0)))
(the fixnum (+ x x))) ; trusts that everything is a long - basically like C
I agree, I think what the author was trying to say that even Climate Change deniers don't actually believe that Climate Change isn't real, only that it doesn't match their beliefs or would hurt their profits, and therefore ignore the reality and therefore would be committing fraud in perpetrating the denial.

Either way, it's a pretty poor connection.
Jade Rabbit moon rover may be beyond repair, state media hints
Check out the combo of sys.exc_info and traceback.format_tb, I've used these two functions to generate stack traces for failed worker jobs in the past with pretty good success.

edit: I guess I didn't really answer the segfault issue. Beyond checking the return code of the child process to see if it segfault'ed (so you can log it or retry it) I'm not sure of how you could get more informative failing info.
Stallman consistently ignores the free market when writing about software freedom. What users want, the free market will provide. If they want customizable software, the market will give it to them. If they only want feature X, the market will give it to them. If they want interop., they will get that too. If they don't care about modifying the source code, well, people won't offer it.

The GPL is not what allows users to get what they need from software or technology. It's the market. As long as you have a free market, with able competitors, you don't need the GPL, and the whole discussion of "free software" is a red-herring. As far as mainstream users are concerned, you don't need the source when you have the dollar.

Stallman's initial experience with closed software was not in a free market, so I can see how he's grown up with a colored view. The world has changed, however, and he has not.

Stallman's original problem was essentially, "I had a broken car once and I couldn't get the part I needed to repair it. That sucked, so all manufacturers should provide everyone with all the information needed make any replacement part, or turn my Beetle into a Porsche."

In today's world that problem really doesn't exist anymore. Software is a mass market product, and the software that is produced already conforms to what people want pretty well. Sure, I'll take cheaper parts for my car, and I love getting something for nothing, but on the list of humanity's problems, non-GPL software is very, very low.
That was an extremely non-simple webpage to say that.
Google is your friend --

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/11/...
You mean, like this? http://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html
Someone run this through a compressor, or advise him to stop with the sudden shouts... hurts to listen to...
Why when a shell is focused? Better to wait until the keyboard has been idle for some time, then send the keystrokes to open a shell, execute the needed commands, and close it afterward.
Your Assumptions About Reading Are Wrong
I guess DeepMind's AI Wikipedia bot works pretty well.
Please elaborate your Godwin accusation, and explain, in what way you believe that I lack a complete picture. I am fully aware, FYI, that there exists a 30-50% Russian minority in Ukraine (with exact percentage depending on whether you count by ethnicity or by native language).

In addition, please explain how it is that the "friends and family" whose opinions you so adamantly declare are irrelevant are also living in bubbles. Are millions of people living in bubbles? Thousands? Dozens? Just me? How many exactly? I would like to hear your answer.

Or is it, perhaps, only people you don't agree with who live in "bubbles"?
Advantages of Mobile Applications for Your Business
tl;dr: if you run operations in parallel, they go faster, and if you put this code in a library, you can parallelize stuff in one line of code.
I've been doing this, working on the OS part now, eventually I'd like to write a small vi clone, a c compiler, x86 assembler and then maybe do an x86 clone in verilog/x86 emulator.
FluentAutomation v2.3 Released
If you want an oil without any taste, how about canola oil? Canola oil is high in omega-3 and the mafia is not adulterating it with who-knows-what.

If you want actual olive oil, Trader Joe's Kalamata oil is probably the easiest to get ahold of. I haven't tried the California Estate oils, but I hear they are also good (if fresh)
I don't really think that they're trying to break Tor like this. More of a thought experiment - to figure out the likelihood that this is part of an attempt to break Tor, run through the details of exactly how this would be part of such an attempt. It doesn't sound all that practical when you run though how it would work if it was. If they wanted to do it, you'd think they have better ways then a rather sloppy attempt to intercept a laptop keyboard shipment, if that's actually what this was, instead of an ordinary shipment screw-up.
The Telkelakh (Syria) Truce of 2013
The strength of Mazda rotary engines, high horsepower at very high RPMs, doesn't translate all that well to normal driving behavior compared to 4-strokes, and the low torque makes them less fun to those who just want to blast out a quick 0-70.
AngularJS Paginated Resource
> I prefer simple HTML pages over JavaScripty type pages

How can you compare html and javascript? It's like comparing apples to oranges!
In all of the houses I've lived in here in the USA, its worse. Electricians literally don't care what order the switches are wired. The just grab wires and start adding switches. This results in the switch for the light you want to use often being farthest from the light on the panel. Mostly, its just random. It usually dives me nuts until I reorder them.
Just yesterday I was thinking about how to solve this exact problem, this is a great solution. However it takes a lot of effort to get switched like that made.
Exactly, thanks for checking us out. While we avoided grandiose statements like "we quantify you," a person's performance and engagements overtime if carefully quantified add tremendous value to depicting the essence of the person. For example, I read and write significantly on science related issues but have no hard science background. Without quantifying my online discussions, that aspect of me is essentially lost when creating a resume or profile.

Make sure to check out your webprofile (via Thoughtly signature), as it supports data visualization, which is coming very soon to iOS.

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To my knowledge, it is generally true that sexual contact between an inmate and a prison guard is legally rape no matter whether consensual or not.

This is a kludge in the law; obviously, female guards falling in love with inmates and sleeping with them are not being "raped" in any conventional sense, and neither are the prisoners (who are the notional victims).

However... we definitely do want to criminalize that conduct, and should be punishing it much more than we actually do; those guards are not on our side; they are on the criminal's side and routinely compromise the security of the prison.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/baltimore-jail-case-depi...
I think you're missing my point. I wasn't trying to say that the ROI would be better on Facebook with a bigger budget (though, I guess anything is greater than 0%). I'm saying that your budget is too small to make the numbers you're seeing anything else than statistically insignificant luck.

Imagine taking a coin toss and trying to figure out whether heads or tails came up more often, but only tossing the coin three times. Imagine you get HHT, and conclude that head is a better bet than tails.

This is essentially what you're doing, by concluding that one option is better than the other, based on a single-digit install sample size.

Now, I'm not saying you should be spending massive ad budgets, and spending a lot of time tweaking your campaigns, I'm merely pointing out that you don't have enough raw data to make conclusive judgements about the effectiveness of these two networks.

Being a major player in this industry, I can tell you that the numbers I'm seeing seem to indicate that Facebook (and Chartboost) are in fact much more effective ways to buy installs for mobile games than AdMob, with a properly set up campaign. Feel free to contact me directly if you'd like more insight regarding this.
In diplomacy this is to be viewed as a reminder that Assad and his regime is really rubbish at upholding reforms or truces.

In hackeracy this is to be viewed in the light of the BlueCoat[1] surveillance log leaks from hardware the regime was using at ISP level to monitor sexual, religious, political users during what was now considered relatively peaceful times. Street level gestures matter little to the surveillance state or it's monitoring of you and your family.

[1] http://bluesmote.com/
Fair point. I guess it's a bit like a self-sacrifice.
deactivated FB account. Not much in youtube.
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The complexity difference between HTTP1 and HTTP2 is pretty huge. Not sure if they're even remotely the same protocol anymore.
Atmospheric Effects in Games
No, it stands for "General Termination of Future Operations."
Google cache link:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0rftZaF...
>Even though this was part of a bigger growth strategy, the results are still impressive, over a million new users have been added since June, when the new logo was first debuted.

No, the results are meaningless because they're confounded by a big whopping set of hidden variables.

This is like extolling the virtues of vitamin C by pointing to a cancer patient that was put on chemo and also given supplements to keep them healthy, and saying "Even though it was part of a bigger treatment plan, the results are still impressive; the cancer has been in full remission since June, when the doctor first started administering vitamin C."
but it's gone up right? Why hasn't that been enough? Last year as a (relatively poor) postdoc, I made 40k/year. But if my grandfather had made 40k at age 31 he'd have been a happy camper.

remember, macroeconomics says that because of the phillips curve, inflation is a way to goose employment (because of sticky wages) in other words, the purpose of the policy of inflation is to screw laborers out of the real value of their labor.
Page is currently down, so here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Indeed, but my OP he was replying to was that true Free Software matters, because the whole buy-out of the plugins wouldn't even happen like this then.
> Why not arrange the switches on a floor plan of the space, so it would be easy to determine which switch worked which light?

Because our current binary model of "flip this switch, this light comes on" is dumb. We want lighting "scenarios", not control of individual bulbs/small clusters of bulbs.

What you should be solving for is these lighting scenarios, for example "I walk to walk from my bedroom to the kitchen and I want the pathway lit" (this is called pathway lighting). Or "I want ambient light in the living room appropriate for movie watching", or "I want the nightlights turned on."

Believe it or not this is already (kind of) solved with what's called Lighting Control Systems [0]. They're complicated, expensive, and I've only seen them on very, very expensive homes.

Supposedly the price is coming down, who knows. I think affordable consumer-grade is going to be an internet-of-things kind of solution.

[0] http://www.lutron.com/en-US/Residential-Commercial-Solutions...
Agreed. I know of a forum that has barely changed its design since 1997-1999. It loads fast and has many members. The focus is on content over appearance.

These javascript-heavy UIs feel heavy, almost syrupy, by comparison.
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There's two things that jump out at me as worth mentioning:

1) Estonians can imagine losing a war over their territory. It's happened within recent memory. They have contingency plans. Contrast with the United States, where such a thing is the stuff of fantasy, mostly to do with China's military, and our contingency plans seem to involve cutting our leaders off from the world and waiting it out.

2) Americans wouldn't stand for a unified identification system. The moment you propose it, you'd have the Moral Majority breathing down your neck about giving in to the UN and taking a step towards a One World Government. This kind of religiosity permeates our entire civic culture. The very idea of modifying the Constitution horrifies even intelligent commentators, because it was written 200 years ago so it must obviously work well. This is the exact same logic you see from Bible-thumpers.

I really appreciate both the notion of the "boring European state" and the "start-up mindset" that Tamkivi brings up, though they're somewhat at odds. A boring government is a good objective; you don't want the government to be interesting: you want it to work. It makes little sense to me to think of growth as an end rather than a means, but I admit I'm not good at economics; I can see its need when you need a buffer zone for experimentation, but I don't see why it's any kind of measure of success.
Re-read your statement and replace "staff-inmate" with "adult-child" or "fratboy-unconsciousgirl" and see how it sounds.

Taking this charitably, I would agree with you that in general, sex might still be consensual even if there is some degree of subjective power imbalance between two people. rockstar-fan. politician-staffmember.

However, this does not mean that all power-imbalanced sex is consensual. teacher-underagestudent. undertaker-corpse.

(Strange things can happen when you mix up "there exists" and "for all"...)
Everyone worried about this agreement somehow being used offensively against other companies should chill. Samsung has similar agreement with IBM and Sony, which I believe have been in #1 and #3 spot in US patents granted for last decade or so.

Samsung+Sony cross-license in 2004
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press_Archive/200412/04-12...

Samsung+IBM cross-license in 2011
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/33588.wss

Apple broke into top 50 in the ranking starting about 2 - 3 years ago.